Shit that pisses you off, part II

[Jave]

I remember this dude walked up to us in a bar this one time and sat down. I guess he knew someone, but he took a shine to me cause I had an Alice in Chains t-shirt on at the time. He moved his chair beside mine, and blocked my only means of leaving the table, then pulled a corked liquor bottle out of his pocket, then he started rambling loud enough for everyone in the bar to hear him about how everyone should be put on a plane and sent back to their ethnic/genetic country of origin (I'm paraphrasing), and then he started about how Hitler had "at least some good ideas, eh?" (not paraphrasing)

My biggest fear was that he'd end up picking a racism-inspired fight with someone and we'd all get implicated, but he eventually grumbled about something else and wandered out to "go get laid," (which I can only hope didn't happen) and the other patrons were thankfully sympathetic to our situation.

[camanchi]

May 14, 2010 16:49:41 GMT -5 TheChosen said:

Today I met this drunken guy on a bus. After bit of gibberish, he introduced himself and I introduced myself (and shaked hands. Thats automatic for me). Then he started blabbing something about "fighting for ten years" and asking who I was. I said I consider myself a normal human and then he told that I'd soon find out. Then I asked has he found the answers and he said "Yes. Want to know them?" to which I answered "Naw. I'll find out myself." Then he got off to bus, mumbled something to me which I said "Take care" to which he answered "Keep on fighting. Sieg Heil". Thats when it all hit me and I understood what he meant.

So yeah. I regret even looking at him, let alone that I shaked his damn hand.

I took my dog for a walk in a nearby park today. On a plaque sign outside of it, someone had spray painted a swastika on the sign. Then later down the cemented pathway, there was another spray-painted swastika. Then further down the path they spray-painted "No Imagrents", SPELLED LIKE THAT. No immigrants? At least some of them can spell.

I wanted to sprat paint something underneath it in response.

[ryochan]

My Mom letting the 16 year-old head out tonight, despite the fact what he did today in school was inappropriate, and irresponsible.

The short form, from what I could pick up during the yelling, screaming and temper tantrum throwing (by the 16 year-old by the way), was that he'd asked to go to the bathroom. The teacher told him he needed to wait. So the 16 year-old got up to try to leave class. The teacher blocked him, then it sounds like shoved him back or something, and the 16 year-old gets himself out of class, and LEAVES SCHOOL.

So Mom initially was going to ground him for the weekend, to which he throws this huge fit about how the teach shoved (or hit, depending on what variation he was using) him, and how Mom obviously doesn't care about that, and that he did the right thing, because what else was he supposed to do, go and call her and say he was angry and felt like hitting the teacher? Because, as he said, then he'd get in trouble for threatening a teacher.

But instead of getting the point that ditching school is still an inappropriate response, and he should have gone to the principal or a counsellor and talked to them, or called Mom, he left campus and that's is wrong. And when Mom points out he has a temper, he just says he knows he does and that's why he left. So she points out he needs to control it and he doesn't see why, and he still doesn't believe that he'll get fired for this sort of behavior.

So after all this, with him bashing things (I swear something broke), kicking/punching the walls, yelling and screaming, and basically threatening to run away again, Mom LETS HIM GO OUT?!!

Argh! And she wonders why they don't learn.

[Jave]

I get the impression that the people who designed my correspondence course were getting a little burned out by the end of it. My most recent test has the same question, word for word, twice, and the questions themselves have been getting really sloppy. People... I'm not that smart, it doesn't give me much confidence when I'm able to spot such glaring deficiencies in the quality of my paid-for-out-my-own-gdam-pocket education.

I feel for the course's creators, in a way, because it can be pretty exhausting. At the same time, they got paid to do it, and I don't think the course has changed all that much in the past decade. I wonder if I'm learning what I would in a real classroom, or in a theoretical classroom where ideal circumstances are observed at all times.

[Smithee of Zur-En-Arrh]

Woah, Ryo, that's nuts. I mean, I'm sixteen, I don't do that shit anymore.

I was ashamed of things like that when I was 11... So I quit it.

[Ryu the Grappler]

I'm not sure how much this is still done nowadays, but back when I used to buy a lots of games from eBay I hated how certain sellers would misuse the word "mint" when they were auctioning their obviously loose NES cartridges. People, it only counts as "mint condition" if it's still unopened in its original box.

[Deleted]

May 15, 2010 3:11:28 GMT -5 ryochan said:

My Mom letting the 16 year-old head out tonight, despite the fact what he did today in school was inappropriate, and irresponsible.

The short form, from what I could pick up during the yelling, screaming and temper tantrum throwing (by the 16 year-old by the way), was that he'd asked to go to the bathroom. The teacher told him he needed to wait. So the 16 year-old got up to try to leave class. The teacher blocked him, then it sounds like shoved him back or something, and the 16 year-old gets himself out of class, and LEAVES SCHOOL.

So Mom initially was going to ground him for the weekend, to which he throws this huge fit about how the teach shoved (or hit, depending on what variation he was using) him, and how Mom obviously doesn't care about that, and that he did the right thing, because what else was he supposed to do, go and call her and say he was angry and felt like hitting the teacher? Because, as he said, then he'd get in trouble for threatening a teacher.

But instead of getting the point that ditching school is still an inappropriate response, and he should have gone to the principal or a counsellor and talked to them, or called Mom, he left campus and that's is wrong. And when Mom points out he has a temper, he just says he knows he does and that's why he left. So she points out he needs to control it and he doesn't see why, and he still doesn't believe that he'll get fired for this sort of behavior.

So after all this, with him bashing things (I swear something broke), kicking/punching the walls, yelling and screaming, and basically threatening to run away again, Mom LETS HIM GO OUT?!!

Argh! And she wonders why they don't learn.

So you aren't at your dad's anymore?

[ryochan]

Nope. Came back a few weeks ago I guess, just been plodding along and nothing big happened till yesterday. I'll be heading back to Dad's to house-sit in June. Around July or so we'll know if he's getting a second surgery, or if the first worked or not.

[kimimi]

May 16, 2010 11:59:59 GMT -5 Ryu the Grappler said:

I'm not sure how much this is still done nowadays, but back when I used to buy a lots of games from eBay I hated how certain sellers would misuse the word "mint" when they were auctioning their obviously loose NES cartridges. People, it only counts as "mint condition" if it's still unopened in its original box.

I'd call that "factory sealed" condition. I've always taken "mint" to mean "It looks new, and if it wasn't opened you would think it was".

[Jave]

The sun

Damn that thing. It's all bright, and warm, and pleasant, and causes birds to sing and flowers to grow. Someone ought to turn that thing down, it's distracting. Doesn't anyone realize I've got two more chemistry lessons to work through?

Excuse me while I go cry whilst wistfully looking out the window...

[Snarboo]

Insufferable online communities.

This review of Heroes of Newerth, a Defense of the Ancients clone, seems to be a fair assessment of the community behind the game. This assessment is only backed up by the terrible comments from the peanut gallery. I've been meaning to get into a DotA game because the mechanics sound interesting to me, but if this is the sort of community such a game harbors, I don't feel the need to bother anymore. I have no idea why games attract communities like this, especially niche titles.

[Strider]

I want to say in defense of DotA and the DotA-alkes that they're tremendously fun if you're playing with a good group. Every week, I get together with three other IRL friends to play games- DotA has been a perennial favorite. That being said, I wouldn't get within 50 feet of most of the DotA community.

Heroes of Newerth is perhaps my least favorite of the DotA-alikes; it is essentially a carbon copy of the Warcraft 3 implementation with better graphics and a slightly improved interface. Most of the HoN heroes are duplicates of the DotA ones, or duplicates with a minor change. Personally, I prefer Leauge of Legends (even if it do expect that shelling out some money for microtransactions is necessary to be competitive at a high level); it's obviously inspired by DotA, but it's less directly lifted from DotA. They've also made the graphics more stylized rather than more bumpmapped, and it has signiicantly better preformance on my PC. LoL also supports bots.

Last I played it, Demigod had a better community vibe than the others, but that information is old and may no longer be accurate. Demigod also has seen a lot less post-release support than I was hoping for (the devs promised new heroes- Demigods, in the game's parlance- every couple months... At this point, none have yet been released)... I really wish the game had done better, but it seems to be slowly dying.

- HC

[Deleted]

I hate the autosave in Mass Effect 1. Whoever designed it should be stoned to death in public.

I guess it's my own damn fault for not learning that the autosave is useless and actually saving, but shit...it's terrible. That, and the fact you can't skip cinemas really makes replaying the game a drag.

[thethird]

When someone I know is a total hypocrite.

I know this girl, and we've been good friends for a while now. This guy asked her out on a date and she declined. Later, she told me that she doesn't want to be in a relationship for a while and we have a conversation about this and I take her pretty seriously because, hey, even though she's dramatic as hell she's still a friend. Cue something like two days later, and she's going out with the dude and being all bubbly about it too. Cool, whatever.

Before, whenever our conversations involved drinking or parties and drinking or whatever she'd always be like "Hey, drinking is bad" because of some shady family stuff in her past and I never held it against her. She'd harp on it for a while sometimes but we'd just laugh. Now she's going to parties and getting drunk and then we're talking and she's laughing and going "Man, I have a total hangover, hahaha, the drinks I had last night were HARDCORE". I just...man, did I ever even know you? What the hell?

[Deleted]

I find that the qualities I hate most in other people are the ones that I hate the most about myself. Hypocrisy would be right up there at the top.