Little things that annoy the hell out of you

[Sinful]

Forums that bitch about "necrobumping."
If you really didn't want people to post in an old thread, there's board software with the feature to auto-lock threads after a certain time elapsed/after they get pushed down a few pages, you don't need to jump down some guy's throat for asking for help when he probably was looking for info on google and found a thread from like three years ago and it described his exact problem but it didn't have a solution/the links with the solution were dead.

It's nice that this isn't one of those boards, even if it's actually kind of silly seeing a thread with a very literal ten year gap between posts.

Yeah, I can't stand forums that bitch about necrobumping either.

[soprano1]

It's funny, every place but this forum raises a shitstorm when someone posts in a topic from 2005 or so.

[Pixel_Outlaw]

Mobile devices being carefully marketed to avoid selling them as multi purpose micro computers (which they are).
I wish Google would have just ported all the normal GNU/Linux software development tools and server admin tools from day 1 on Android.

The exciting new features like multi user support and multiple programs running at once were actually omissions not innovations as far as I'm concerned.
I want to sit down and have 5 or 6 things all plugged into exposed USB slots and mini HDMI ports of a mobile device.

I want to plug a phone into a tv and shove a joystick, mouse, and keyboard into it for a portable computer. (Because really that is what they are, regardless of advertising)
I want to develop software for them without having to resort to Java or languages that run on the JVM.

They're not smart devices.
They're gimped multi purpose computers that only work with a handful of programming languages and libraries.
The JVM is not a universal solution any more either. Programs still will refuse to run depending on CPU type.
Fragmentation is happening anyway.

Sorry, dismounting my soapbox now. Sermon over.

[atheistgod1999]

Biology quiz on Monday, Third-unit test in US History and Huckleberry Finn essay due in English on Tuesday, and Math and Biology tests the week after that . That's what sucks about school vacations: all the classes end units right before them.
At least I'll finally get my PSAT results on Monday.

[Pixel_Outlaw]

That's what sucks about school vacations: all the classes end units right before them.

Thankfully system11 keeps our shmup education rather light. Psyvariar for example, has been reduced to a bite sized -Medium Unit-

[null1024]

ECM files are obnoxious, stop it.
Anyone who uses .ape should be slowly burned at the stake, don't do it. Use FLAC or something, fuck.
If an image has a .cue file, make sure it's fucking correct.

I may or may not have complained about all of these already.

[soprano1]

Anyone who uses .ape should be slowly burned at the stake, don't do it. Use FLAC or something, fuck.

On the lossy side, fuck OGG. What is wrong with v0 or 320kbps MP3's?

[null1024]

Anyone who uses .ape should be slowly burned at the stake, don't do it. Use FLAC or something, fuck.

On the lossy side, fuck OGG. What is wrong with v0 or 320kbps MP3's?

I like OGG, but I also have foobar2000 on my phone so playing it isn't an issue.
OGG has less [and better] artifacting at lower bitrates, smaller size, and it's not [supposed to be] patent encumbered [unlike MP3].

biggest issue is that a lot of shit doesn't support OGG, especially not out of the box
and it's awful if you get files that are only in OGG and have to transcode them so they play on your device

[atheistgod1999]

Filling in the wrong circles despite knowing the right answers getting me a lot lower PSAT score.

EDIT: Actually, as it turns out, most of them just had to do with me being tired and having a cold at the time I took it; I remember putting down most of the wrong answers as the ones I actually thought were right, and not due to filling the wrong bubble.

Still, even with only 2 hours of sleep and a cold:

I hope you realize this alone constitutes enough reason for people here to chase you off the boards whenever they see you shitposting.

[tomwhite2004]

Jesus AG1999, how long do you plan to keep clogging up this forum with posts about your sodding tests and general school triviality? It was bad enough reading about this shit on the main shmups chat amongst genuine questions an hour ago.

Remember after your god awful "im depressed" thread where you said you werent going to post so often? Would love to know when thats going to take effect, seriously.

[atheistgod1999]

Starting now. I'll STFU about school until I get my real SAT results back. Sorry about getting carried away.

[Sinful]

Well back to annoying things... rats. Really dislike rats. I think the world would be a better place without rats.

[Pixel_Outlaw]

Well back to annoying things... rats. Really dislike rats. I think the world would be a better place without rats.

Unfortunately people who consider the animals cute keep perpetuating them. I don't like pocket pets in general. Nothing like going to a friend's house and them having a square glass animal toilet barfing out turdsmell in their living room.

Actually dirty pet people in general annoy me. Not all pet people but dirty pet people. I don't mind if a person has a dog and keeps it clean but the pooping in the house type animals annoy the hell out of me.

[konmai]

I used to hang out at my friend's place until they got a dog and reserved the entire living room as its shitting and pissing ground, I shit you not. On top of that, it has a habit of playing with its shit and dragging them all over the place at night, then humping and licking people's body parts the next day.

Now I don't know a lot about pocket pets, but at least they should only shit an amount proportional to their size. Should.

[Specineff]

Customer service agents whose only qualifications are reading from guides that don't work, and giving their "I'm sorry for the inconvenience" canned speech, and can't get anything done.

On the lossy side, fuck OGG. What is wrong with v0 or 320kbps MP3's?

Probably due to the way it encodes audio, MP3 will pad the beginning or end of a track I edited to loop, thus inserting a gap. OGG loops perfectly.

[Sumez]

Unfortunately people who consider the animals cute keep perpetuating them. I don't like pocket pets in general. Nothing like going to a friend's house and them having a square glass animal toilet barfing out turdsmell in their living room.

How the fuck can you not find rats cute? It's like one of the cutest animals in the world. There's no debating this, but I'll gladly fight you.

[Sinful]

I wasn't talking about vermin. But I deliberately left this part out to see if anybody was on my track on thinking.

[Sumez]

I'm pretty sure Pixel_Outlaw was specifically referring to them as pets though. Which is sad considering rats are some of the best pets you can get, with very little maintainence or dedication needed, too.

[Pixel_Outlaw]

Clearly a classy diversion is needed to mask my grand escape.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-LtvVHzvsQ

[soprano1]

Customer service agents whose only qualifications are reading from guides that don't work, and giving their "I'm sorry for the inconvenience" canned speech, and can't get anything done.

On the lossy side, fuck OGG. What is wrong with v0 or 320kbps MP3's?

Probably due to the way it encodes audio, MP3 will pad the beginning or end of a track I edited to loop, thus inserting a gap. OGG loops perfectly.

Now i feel ignorant. Thanks for the info.

[atheistgod1999]

Remember after your god awful "im depressed" thread where you said you werent going to post so often?

A. That was after my 3-week hiatus in September.
B. Can you seriously delete that part? I'm actually starting to make friends IRL, and I don't want you people mentioning past stuff in case anyone finds this forum, because then they might look for them, which would open like a googolplex Pandora's boxes. If you delete it, I'll delete this.

[TransatlanticFoe]

Googling aliases and trawling through forum posts. Right up there at the top of every new friend's list of things to do.

No-one cares, seriously.

[Durandal]

There is this quirk in Marathon where killed enemies will first be sent flying in a direction before finally crumpling into a heap of gore (enemies which explode on death will first fly around when killed before they explode), however depending on the surface they land on, they might not have enough space to lie down in, and as a result their corpse will be permanently suspended in the air, frozen in time and space, yet it does not count as a real death. This is more likely to happen in Pfhor levels which feature weaker gravity as enemies can be literally juggled just by shooting them.
Enter Marathon Eternal, whose level Hysteric Womb wants you to kill every single Pfhor bastard in the level (rather than just killing the three cyborg controllers as one would expect) before letting you leave, some of which are placed in places easy to miss or unreachable without running around a lot or grenadehopping up there at the expense of your health. Overall this level is kinda boring with 3x rechargers everywhere and the only truly lethal parts of the level being the large rooms housing the cyborg controllers where Enforcers shoot at you from angles you can't even counter without proceeding slowly due to the limited vertical view in Marathon, and now I gotta redo it because one fucking Hunter decided to chill out in the air after I killed him which prevented Tycho from teleporting me to the next level because these kill 'em all objectives in non-arena levels are fucking shite. Marathon Eternal is just getting on my nerves.

[Mischief Maker]

Remember after your god awful "im depressed" thread where you said you werent going to post so often?

A. That was after my 3-week hiatus in September.
B. Can you seriously delete that part? I'm actually starting to make friends IRL, and I don't want you people mentioning past stuff in case anyone finds this forum, because then they might look for them, which would open like a googolplex Pandora's boxes. If you delete it, I'll delete this.

Long since backed up by Google archive and the NSA, son.

You will forever live in the psychological hell knowing someday someone will find out that *gasp* you said some awkward things as a teenager!

[atheistgod1999]

Dude, people finding out about the time I got freaked out over Final fucking Destination is what I'm really concerned about.

[Shoryukev]

Googling aliases and trawling through forum posts. Right up there at the top of every new friend's list of things to do.

No-one cares, seriously.

Long since backed up by Google archive and the NSA, son.

You will forever live in the psychological hell knowing someday someone will find out that *gasp* you said some awkward things as a teenager!

LOL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuBWbpTJRqk

[WelshMegalodon]

As someone who's bitched about AG in the past more often than was warranted, I think he has gotten better about keeping his social life to himself. He does still make mind-blowingly idiotic posts from time to time, but I don't mind as long as he confines them to that toxic Obama thread.

Dude, people finding out about the time I got freaked out over Final fucking Destination is what I'm really concerned about.

From what you've told us of your social life, I'd say the chance of anyone you know from real life finding this site is very, very small.

[atheistgod1999]

From what you've told us of your social life, I'd say the chance of anyone you know from real life finding this site is very, very small.

There's this kid I met recently who's legitimately interested in retro gaming (played them on emulators before), and I even brought over my NES and a 13" CRT TV (he lives down the sidewalk from me) and he was able to get up to the world circuit in Punch-Out!! without getting KO'd on his first try. He wants me to bring over my SNES, which for that I'd like to bring over my 13" PVM and show him the awesomeness of RGB, but I'm afraid if I do that he'll google PVMs, and this forum will be one of the top search results.

[Mero]

No coils at my local shop again

[Shoryukev]

There's this kid I met recently who's legitimately interested in retro gaming (played them on emulators before), and I even brought over my NES and a 13" CRT TV (he lives down the sidewalk from me) and he was able to get up to the world circuit in Punch-Out!! without getting KO'd on his first try. He wants me to bring over my SNES, which for that I'd like to bring over my 13" PVM and show him the awesomeness of RGB, but I'm afraid if I do that he'll google PVMs, and this forum will be one of the top search results.

You're overthinking it, I really don't think anyone is going to care about your internet presence. Besides there is both good and bad posts, you did help me answer an important question that helped me score a deal on my PVM after all.