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Title: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Sinfire Titan on December 14, 2012, 01:43:09 AM
To start this one off, I've managed not to stub my still-recovering toe at all (a miracle in and of itself), but I've nearly run out of gauze and medical tape for it.


And I still don't have any income.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on December 14, 2012, 01:55:51 AM
we need a hugs emoticon
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on December 14, 2012, 07:56:49 AM
I dreamed I got all my best friends together before the 21st here at hoime.

But it was only a dream...
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Nanshork on December 14, 2012, 09:08:08 AM
Women in my life keep dropping out of my life.   :shakefist
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on December 14, 2012, 09:24:07 AM
Look on the bright side, at least you're meeting women.

On my side? Decent "women" are a rare breed. I've got all style and no substance, or some substance and no style, or occasionally some substance and some style in an underage package I can't touch with a ten-foot-pole.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Nanshork on December 14, 2012, 09:57:17 AM
Look on the bright side, at least you're meeting women.

On my side? Decent "women" are a rare breed. I've got all style and no substance, or some substance and no style, or occasionally some substance and some style in an underage package I can't touch with a ten-foot-pole.

I never said they were decent.  If they were decent they wouldn't be dropping out of my life. :p
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on December 14, 2012, 10:19:30 AM
They're just clearing space for better ones to come along.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on December 14, 2012, 11:01:10 AM
I have to get at least a 94 (I think) on my final in Linear Algebra to get a B- in the course.

I got a 54 on the last test, and a 51 on the test before.

I have to get at least an 80 to pass the course, pretty much.

This really sucks, and is an indication that taking a 300-level course in the first semester of Freshman year is a bad idea.

I have 6 days to study, though! During which time I also have a final project for Computer Science. Shit.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: awaken_D_M_golem on December 14, 2012, 12:31:24 PM
Ouch ... I was on the other end of things with Freshman Physics.
I was taking it time # 4 , when the T.A. took me aside and said:
"This class has a very big curve."  I got a B-minus.


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Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Nanshork on December 14, 2012, 12:35:28 PM
They're just clearing space for better ones to come along.

You're a bit more positive about it than I am.   :P
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on December 14, 2012, 12:43:17 PM
I have to be, dude... I have to be.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: altpersona on December 14, 2012, 12:57:48 PM
iv got a 4 day weekend, and im broke :(

iv gotta drive to columbus sunday for a memorial service for an uncle, he had a big stroke about a month ago and subsequently starved himself to death.

i hate driving to columbus.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: InnaBinder on December 14, 2012, 04:14:24 PM
Root canal and crown: total cost? $2600, because the pain of the procedure itself wasn't sufficient.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: ShadowViper on December 14, 2012, 07:10:42 PM
Root canals are a waste of money, it's better just to pull the tooth and likely get a partial.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Agita on December 14, 2012, 07:51:41 PM
Hug Smileys :
I like that fifth one. :hug
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: 123456789blaaa on December 15, 2012, 01:31:22 AM
Just got to India yesterday *sigh* (Me and my parents went for my cousin's wedding). I really don't like it here (WARNING: horribly whiny list ahead). 

The place we're staying in has no bathtub in the bathroom and  bugs are constantly getting in. It's also sort of dirty (actually that applies to the general area were staying in too). Even though it's December the heat is just as bad as I remember it being the last time I was here (though everything else isn't as bad, I suspect it's because I knew what to expect this time around). I hate having to eat with my hands since I'm horrible at it. Most people here speak either broken English or none at all (not that it really matters since me and my relatives have nothing in common). All of this on top of the fact that I'm behind on my work and could've finished it up if I wasn't here in India. The nice things here are the animals my relatives keep and a sporadic internet connection (which just reminds me that I could be having better internet at home!).

All of this is really small potatoes though. I can take having a bad vacation. The absolute worst part of being here is that I'm ruining things for everyone else  :(.  Instead of talking to my (extremely nice and generous) relatives I stay stuck in my room until the internet goes out (at which point I walk around like a zombie). I just feel no connection to any of them since I see them once every two years (if that). There's nothing to talk about and the act of talking to them itself is painful. I feel like an entitled jerk.  Not to mention my dislike of India shows (though I try my best to mask it) and everyone can feel it. My dad reacts by getting depressed and my mom reacts by yelling and nagging at me. I think my relatives are too polite to comment.

Does anyone have any suggestions for cool things to do or places to go?  If I can get genuinely interested going somewhere or doing something this vacation would be a lot less painful for everyone.  Also, does anyone have any tips for talking to people who have nothing in common with you and who either don't know your language or only know a little?

God I feel whiny right now. How many people would love to come to India on a vacation?

EDIT: I also like the fifth one.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on December 15, 2012, 03:48:05 AM
My brother is having some issues right now.

So my mom and I are going to be visiting him for Christmas!

So, this is my Christmas schedule:

1. Get home! Stay there for maybe a night!
2. Drive up to Maine to visit for a bit!
3. Drive back down to home! Spend a few days there!
4. Hop on a plane to Germany! My first solo plane ride.
5. Spend about a week with my grandmother, aunt, and father; I haven't seen my grandmother or aunt for about 4-5 years, and my grandmother at the very least is very manners conscious.
6. Fly back! Go back to college!

As you can tell, I'm just going to be hopping all over the place.

I hope I don't have a bad seatmate for the 7+ flight to Germany...
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: altpersona on December 15, 2012, 10:19:51 AM
blaaa is your name carl? do you have a film crew following you?   :P
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: awaken_D_M_golem on December 15, 2012, 02:28:41 PM
<snip>

Peace Corps pre-game.

Sit down with the youngest and have them show
you the games they play.  Then try to get good at
them while still intentionally losing.
Don't worry about work.  I doubt your bosses have
the stones (!) to go so far away on vacation, let
alone a working vay-kay.  You could say: 
The goat ate my work, except it's not really a goat.
Practice saying it with a straight face.
(yes I know you're on the interwebs, "goats" eat wires)
 :)
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on December 15, 2012, 05:54:13 PM
blaaa is your name carl? do you have a film crew following you?   :P

Nope. And I hope I don't have a film crew following me.

Of course, when I heard Carl, I though of this. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-vsynsE8RQ)
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: 123456789blaaa on December 15, 2012, 06:17:02 PM
blaaa is your name carl? do you have a film crew following you?   :P

Nope. And I hope I don't have a film crew following me.

Of course, when I heard Carl, I though of this. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-vsynsE8RQ)

Unless you've recently become known as blaaa in these parts I think that post was addressed to me  :p.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on December 15, 2012, 06:20:19 PM
Oh. Right.

Sorry.

Still, good on yeah. Hope someone can give you actual advice, because I can't.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: altpersona on December 15, 2012, 06:25:20 PM
 :clap   :lol
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: brujon on December 17, 2012, 11:32:08 AM
Just got to India yesterday *sigh* (Me and my parents went for my cousin's wedding). I really don't like it here (WARNING: horribly whiny list ahead). 

The place we're staying in has no bathtub in the bathroom and  bugs are constantly getting in. It's also sort of dirty (actually that applies to the general area were staying in too). Even though it's December the heat is just as bad as I remember it being the last time I was here (though everything else isn't as bad, I suspect it's because I knew what to expect this time around). I hate having to eat with my hands since I'm horrible at it. Most people here speak either broken English or none at all (not that it really matters since me and my relatives have nothing in common). All of this on top of the fact that I'm behind on my work and could've finished it up if I wasn't here in India. The nice things here are the animals my relatives keep and a sporadic internet connection (which just reminds me that I could be having better internet at home!).

All of this is really small potatoes though. I can take having a bad vacation. The absolute worst part of being here is that I'm ruining things for everyone else  :(.  Instead of talking to my (extremely nice and generous) relatives I stay stuck in my room until the internet goes out (at which point I walk around like a zombie). I just feel no connection to any of them since I see them once every two years (if that). There's nothing to talk about and the act of talking to them itself is painful. I feel like an entitled jerk.  Not to mention my dislike of India shows (though I try my best to mask it) and everyone can feel it. My dad reacts by getting depressed and my mom reacts by yelling and nagging at me. I think my relatives are too polite to comment.

Does anyone have any suggestions for cool things to do or places to go?  If I can get genuinely interested going somewhere or doing something this vacation would be a lot less painful for everyone.  Also, does anyone have any tips for talking to people who have nothing in common with you and who either don't know your language or only know a little?

God I feel whiny right now. How many people would love to come to India on a vacation?

EDIT: I also like the fifth one.

My best friends sister lived on India for 2 years, because her husband is a consul for Brazil...

She didn't have anything good to say about India. In fact, she almost snapped. She actually cried, for real, when he was going to be moved to Switzerland. She was staying at Mumbai.

Where are you staying?

I'm sorry for your troubles, seeing how she was after living there for two years, i don't have to imagine that much...
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: InnaBinder on December 17, 2012, 02:37:49 PM
What the hell is wrong with me?  Opening presents early, without preset expectations, and the best I can muster is "Oh, nice," and hope I don't sound terribly disappointed.   :banghead
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on December 17, 2012, 08:19:22 PM
Our shower is very, very clogged.  The process to fix it...  Will be interesting.

Got it fixed now after about two hours.  Lots of lovely black sludge!
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on December 18, 2012, 10:53:10 AM
I'm going to convene a tribunal to get some friends of mine to stop badmouthing Blazblue.

We'll make it an episode of Law & Order: Special Videogames Unit.

"In the videogame world, there are people who win and people who lose.
Those who lose usually claim that the game is bad because they suck at it,
and these crimes are especially heinous.
The dedicated men who investigate and prosecute these vicious
felonies are known as the Special Videogames Unit.
These are their stories."
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on December 18, 2012, 11:09:28 AM
My partner for the final project for CS thought the project that's due in a bit under 2 hours was due on Friday.

So we've been up all night, and we're hopeful we can get the thing halfway presentable.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Sinfire Titan on December 18, 2012, 01:10:33 PM
I'm going to convene a tribunal to get some friends of mine to stop badmouthing Blazblue.

I'll actually have a legit complaint about the series if they don't put CP on the 360, but your friends need to stop playing Street Fighter and learn some real combos.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: dman11235 on December 18, 2012, 02:31:20 PM
I'm sick, and this means I can't see my friend who's in town from Chicago and leaves tomorrow.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on December 19, 2012, 10:18:51 AM
I'm going to convene a tribunal to get some friends of mine to stop badmouthing Blazblue.

I'll actually have a legit complaint about the series if they don't put CP on the 360, but your friends need to stop playing Street Fighter and learn some real combos.

This isn't even the issue.

They hated Calamity Trigger because of the easy mode attacks, the burst system screwing you over for the round, and the fact the characters were so different it was almost like learning a whole different game with each of them.

And then they went like "LOL BLAZBLUE SUX" towards the rest of the franchise, as in, forever.

Now, this past week they came over and brought P4 Arena to play - which is ALSO made by Aksys, has a feature they absolutely hate (one-button-mash-easy-combo) and they're like "LOL BLAZBLUE SUX" even though IT USES THE SAME FUCKING SYSTEM, MINUS THE FEATURE THEY HATE!!

 :banghead :banghead :banghead
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: 123456789blaaa on December 19, 2012, 10:00:38 PM
<snip>
My best friends sister lived on India for 2 years, because her husband is a consul for Brazil...

She didn't have anything good to say about India. In fact, she almost snapped. She actually cried, for real, when he was going to be moved to Switzerland. She was staying at Mumbai.

Where are you staying?

I'm sorry for your troubles, seeing how she was after living there for two years, i don't have to imagine that much...

Thank you.

Currently staying in the state of Kerala at my aunts house. Just got back from a 3 day trip from the state of Goa (which was actually not bad. I got to go parasailing  :D ).

Unrelated to that, I've found a new thing to rant about (geez I've been on a roll recently with these  :huh).

Have you guys ever been walking along (or going whatever) enjoying you day (more or less) when you suddenly see something that reminds you of a humiliating moment you had and then you have to concentrate really hard to get it out of your mind? Because this has been happening to me constantly ever since I can remember. It's just gotten so freakin annoying since over the years I've built up more and more humiliating moments. I usually don't go though a day without at least 3. They make me feel terrible  :shakefist .

On that note, I've been thinking of making a sort of "opposite" thread to this one in the Off Topic section wherein people talk about good things that have happened to them. It would be a nice way to counteract the negativity that assaults me when I come here (don't get me wrong, I really like the BLYHT board but coming here makes me a little depressed sometimes). Would there be too much overlap between the Awesome Things thread?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on December 19, 2012, 10:03:41 PM
We've already got that, it's the Happy Happy Joy Joy thread.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: brujon on December 19, 2012, 10:56:27 PM
<snip>
My best friends sister lived on India for 2 years, because her husband is a consul for Brazil...

She didn't have anything good to say about India. In fact, she almost snapped. She actually cried, for real, when he was going to be moved to Switzerland. She was staying at Mumbai.

Where are you staying?

I'm sorry for your troubles, seeing how she was after living there for two years, i don't have to imagine that much...

Thank you.

Currently staying in the state of Kerala at my aunts house. Just got back from a 3 day trip from the state of Goa (which was actually not bad. I got to go parasailing  :D ).

Unrelated to that, I've found a new thing to rant about (geez I've been on a roll recently with these  :huh).

Have you guys ever been walking along (or going whatever) enjoying you day (more or less) when you suddenly see something that reminds you of a humiliating moment you had and then you have to concentrate really hard to get it out of your mind? Because this has been happening to me constantly ever since I can remember. It's just gotten so freakin annoying since over the years I've built up more and more humiliating moments. I usually don't go though a day without at least 3. They make me feel terrible  :shakefist .

On that note, I've been thinking of making a sort of "opposite" thread to this one in the Off Topic section wherein people talk about good things that have happened to them. It would be a nice way to counteract the negativity that assaults me when I come here (don't get me wrong, I really like the BLYHT board but coming here makes me a little depressed sometimes). Would there be too much overlap between the Awesome Things thread?

Hmm... Goa is really nice if you want to go to hardcore raves and party like there's no tomorrow. From what i gather from friend's experience, Goa is *the* place the Indian youth go to flee from the family expectations and go wild.

Don't know to what degree your boredom is taking you, but Goa is *the* place on India if you're feeling daring. Just... You know, take it easy.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on December 20, 2012, 06:50:25 PM
Our phones are back online after ten fucking days.  Seriously you boneheads, can't you at least get to it the same week?!
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Wrex on December 21, 2012, 12:40:29 AM
The 5th edition thread on Bay12 makes me want to tear my eyes out.


I'll quote: "Yeah, broken classes... ugh, I had a player build a dusk blade from phb 2 with a mighty whip dagger... the gimmick of a dusk blade is that they can cast touch spells through their weapon... and the whip has a 15 foot reach. Fortunately complete warrior was closed or he would have been able to threaten attacks of opportunity with a whip too. Even so, he gets to make a free trip attempt on a hit with the whip, so he can do damage with the spell as he makes a trip instead of just damaging or tripping. Combine that with a horizon walker dimension door ability (completely broken) and, well, fuck."

  :banghead does not sum it up
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: awaken_D_M_golem on December 21, 2012, 05:02:33 PM
Our shower is very, very clogged.  The process to fix it...  Will be interesting.

Got it fixed now after about two hours.  Lots of lovely black sludge!

Oh that's just a reminder to your roommates
to go back to using the sink when you drink.
 :drunk
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: awaken_D_M_golem on December 21, 2012, 05:07:53 PM
<snip>
My best friends sister lived on India for 2 years, because her husband is a consul for Brazil...

She didn't have anything good to say about India. In fact, she almost snapped. She actually cried, for real, when he was going to be moved to Switzerland. She was staying at Mumbai.

Where are you staying?

I'm sorry for your troubles, seeing how she was after living there for two years, i don't have to imagine that much...

Thank you.

Currently staying in the state of Kerala at my aunts house. Just got back from a 3 day trip from the state of Goa (which was actually not bad. I got to go parasailing  :D ).

Sounds like capital "F"  FUN.


Quote
Unrelated to that, I've found a new thing to rant about (geez I've been on a roll recently with these  :huh).

Have you guys ever been walking along (or going whatever) enjoying you day (more or less) when you suddenly see something that reminds you of a humiliating moment you had and then you have to concentrate really hard to get it out of your mind? Because this has been happening to me constantly ever since I can remember. It's just gotten so freakin annoying since over the years I've built up more and more humiliating moments. I usually don't go though a day without at least 3. They make me feel terrible  :shakefist .

Seriously, and non judgmentally, read this:
http://www.webmd.com/anxiety-panic/tc/post-traumatic-stress-disorder--symptoms

Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on December 22, 2012, 11:17:24 AM
Our shower is very, very clogged.  The process to fix it...  Will be interesting.

Got it fixed now after about two hours.  Lots of lovely black sludge!

Oh that's just a reminder to your roommates
to go back to using the sink when you drink.
 :drunk

Funny you should mention that since the 2nd floor sink is connected to the same pipe that our ground floor shower is.  Though I don't have roommates considering I live with my grandparents, dad, and aunt.  No worries about anyone drinking though since my grandparents don't allow anything but medical alcohol on the property.

Seriously, and non judgmentally, read this:
http://www.webmd.com/anxiety-panic/tc/post-traumatic-stress-disorder--symptoms

Hmm...  I get the same stuff going.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: awaken_D_M_golem on December 22, 2012, 04:28:21 PM


... No worries about anyone drinking though since my grandparents don't allow anything but "medical" alcohol on the property ...

Uh-huh, and the good kind of Eggnog too, right?
 :D


RANT --- we don't have a Santa Smiley Face  :(
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on December 22, 2012, 05:28:12 PM
So I'm at the bank this morning, and they're moving in more money. Which means armed security on the scene, which is cool since I'm used to it.

...until I get closer.

Let me start by saying I haven't had military training. Most of my observations are based on things I read about somewhere.

Anyway, because of the sheer amount of people present, I have to use the ATM closest to one of the guards. He's wearing sunglasses INSIDE a building and brandishing this large-ass shotgun, finger on the trigger - essentially an armed douchebag. I idly comment to myself that I had never seen a shotgun that close.

To which he tenses up and responds there's no need for me to get any closer, either, and reaches for his pistol.

Which I could see had the hammer cocked and safety off, just WAITING for a misfire. And this guy was trying to use it to intimidate a freakin' civillian, someone who was obviously unarmed and not up to hurting anyone. I later noticed pretty much every last of them had their weapons in similar position and conditions. There must have been on the upwards of 30 people in that bank including myself. Imagine what kind of shit could have gone down if someone got pissed at an ATM for whatever reason, considering how high-strung they were.

Something tells me that kind of fucker hasn't exactly had extensive training. I didn't feel threatened by the possibility that they'd pull a gun on me. I felt, however, that if someone actually attacked the place, they would probably shoot themselves in the foot, TWICE, before they actually managed to clip an assailant.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on December 22, 2012, 05:45:48 PM
He's afraid. That reaction is pretty normal among people who are experiencing pants shitting fear.  WHich means, yes he definitely hasn't had much training.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Halinn on December 22, 2012, 05:56:22 PM
Anyway, because of the sheer amount of people present, I have to use the ATM closest to one of the guards. He's wearing sunglasses INSIDE a building and brandishing this large-ass shotgun, finger on the trigger
I haven't had any firearms training, but even I cringed at that.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Nanshork on December 22, 2012, 06:34:56 PM
I'm trying to figure out why he was reaching for a pistol when he was already holding a shotgun...
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on December 22, 2012, 07:00:48 PM
I'm trying to figure out why he was reaching for a pistol when he was already holding a shotgun...
Perhaps he figured that in the event that I actually attacked him, trying to get the shotgun in proper firing position would've required more maneuvering space than he had available.

Never mind that even if he had drawn the pistol instead, he would've probably needed just about as much space otherwise to get an accurate shot at me - centering the pistol's aim would've required him to bring his arm up.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Bozwevial on December 22, 2012, 07:03:08 PM
Probably not terribly well trained. Usually trigger discipline is one of the first things they drill into trainees.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: dman11235 on December 22, 2012, 09:32:45 PM
Uh.....did we add an ad search bar to the bottom of the site?  And ad links to random words?  because.....DAMMIT
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on December 22, 2012, 09:54:30 PM
No, dman, that's something infecting your computer.

Though Kaspersky is coughing up a fit every time I open a page, due to the banner having a malicious link (or something.)

Can't we have a forum for at least 2 years before the script kiddies ruin it again?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: dman11235 on December 22, 2012, 10:13:15 PM
Oh, I know it is.  I realize now I didn't make my intent clear.  I have something, but thankfully I'm catching it now, and it's not the boards.  Actually already got the file detected, just waiting on clean up.

EDIT: uh....okay, so I was infected by something, but it wasn't what was causing the ad stuff.  No, that was a pluggin that I accidentally installed.  I thought I got rid of everything from that incident last Thursday, but apparently I didn't.  Well!  I caught something else before I even noticed it!  So because of a misdiagnosis I caught a bunch of bad files that I otherwise would not have reason to suspect were there!
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on December 23, 2012, 11:55:13 PM
How the fuck is it possible to spell someone's name wrong in a facebook reply?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: ShadowViper on December 24, 2012, 04:04:29 AM
How the fuck is it possible to spell someone's name wrong in a facebook reply?

Never underestimate the stupidity of other people.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on December 24, 2012, 10:18:32 AM
I'm going to have a root canal operation done on the 21st of January; which is pretty much when I'm getting back into the country...

Mmm...

Jet-lag and surgery, anyone?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: sirpercival on December 24, 2012, 12:04:13 PM
It's my wife's birthday today.

My son woke up mad-ass early, screwing up my breakfast-in-bed plans...
Then he broke the present he gave her (though I was able to exchange it via "it was broken in the box")...
Then I had to return the present from me, since she doesn't want it...

Right.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on December 24, 2012, 03:20:25 PM
hugs fo percival
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Quillwraith on December 24, 2012, 06:29:28 PM
Jet-lag and surgery, anyone?
Then he broke the present he gave her (though I was able to exchange it via "it was broken in the box")...
Then I had to return the present from me, since she doesn't want it...
*wince*

Smaller problems than yours, but:
Broken string on my instrument, but at least I got a replacement.
All kinds of bad luck with making a pie. Got it done anyhow, but Phaedrus, would you ask Loptr what's up? How can the fates disapprove of pie?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: phaedrusxy on December 24, 2012, 07:57:05 PM
Jet-lag and surgery, anyone?
Then he broke the present he gave her (though I was able to exchange it via "it was broken in the box")...
Then I had to return the present from me, since she doesn't want it...
*wince*

Smaller problems than yours, but:
Broken string on my instrument, but at least I got a replacement.
All kinds of bad luck with making a pie. Got it done anyhow, but Phaedrus, would you ask Loptr what's up? How can the fates fate disapprove of pie?
:lmao
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: ariasderros on December 24, 2012, 08:43:58 PM
Oh, I know it is.  I realize now I didn't make my intent clear.  I have something, but thankfully I'm catching it now, and it's not the boards.  Actually already got the file detected, just waiting on clean up.

EDIT: uh....okay, so I was infected by something, but it wasn't what was causing the ad stuff.  No, that was a pluggin that I accidentally installed.  I thought I got rid of everything from that incident last Thursday, but apparently I didn't.  Well!  I caught something else before I even noticed it!  So because of a misdiagnosis I caught a bunch of bad files that I otherwise would not have reason to suspect were there!

Can you please tell me exactly how you got rid of it? With me it came in with a Java auto-update (I knew I'd been clicking "no" for a reason).
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: sirpercival on December 24, 2012, 09:48:13 PM
I am a disaster.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: dman11235 on December 24, 2012, 10:03:29 PM
Oh, I know it is.  I realize now I didn't make my intent clear.  I have something, but thankfully I'm catching it now, and it's not the boards.  Actually already got the file detected, just waiting on clean up.

EDIT: uh....okay, so I was infected by something, but it wasn't what was causing the ad stuff.  No, that was a pluggin that I accidentally installed.  I thought I got rid of everything from that incident last Thursday, but apparently I didn't.  Well!  I caught something else before I even noticed it!  So because of a misdiagnosis I caught a bunch of bad files that I otherwise would not have reason to suspect were there!

Can you please tell me exactly how you got rid of it? With me it came in with a Java auto-update (I knew I'd been clicking "no" for a reason).

In Firefox, go to the Firefox menu, select add-ons, and mine was....yontoo.  Click "remove".  That's about it.  It might be in "extensions", I believe?  Also the add/remove programs feature in your computer's control panel (assuming Windows) to fully remove the programs.  If you aren't using Firefox, someone else might be able to help.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: ariasderros on December 24, 2012, 10:23:07 PM
Also the add/remove programs feature in your computer's control panel (assuming Windows) to fully remove the programs.  If you aren't using Firefox, someone else might be able to help.

Chrome= Settings > Extensions.

Well, that was easy. TYVM.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: phaedrusxy on December 24, 2012, 10:34:08 PM
I am a disaster.
:???
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on December 26, 2012, 01:14:36 PM
I am a disaster.

Hurricane Percival!
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on December 30, 2012, 03:08:54 PM
Never sleep when your mother is in a cleaning mood lest the goddamn ignorant fool decide to clean your wireless mouse with toothpaste.   :shakefist :shakefist
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on December 30, 2012, 05:41:12 PM
Never sleep when your mother is in a cleaning mood lest the goddamn ignorant fool decide to clean your wireless mouse with toothpaste.   :shakefist :shakefist

... That's just nauseatingly stupid of her.  Hopefully your mouse still functions?

Speaking of computers though, yesterday my computer decided it would pause every second or so.  I'd be at the desktop with nothing running and would twiddle the pointer around and it would pause.  So of course I do an antivirus sweep and find nothing, I use CCcleaner and such...  Nothing worked.  So I reformatted my C drive and reinstalled the OS.  New problem: It now has a greyish loading bar as the second screen when it turns on.

One of these days I need to get my body and mind working well enough to get a job or else I'm fucked.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on December 30, 2012, 06:19:14 PM
Never sleep when your mother is in a cleaning mood lest the goddamn ignorant fool decide to clean your wireless mouse with toothpaste.   :shakefist :shakefist

... That's just nauseatingly stupid of her.  Hopefully your mouse still functions?


She thought the toothpaste was 'gentler' than soap and wouldnt hurt anything.  Using new mouse now...
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on December 30, 2012, 06:31:50 PM
I have the head cold from fucking Baator right now.

I'm starting to get over it, but man, I have a migraine like you wouldn't believe...
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: ShadowViper on December 30, 2012, 07:07:55 PM
I have the head cold from fucking Baator right now.

I'm starting to get over it, but man, I have a migraine like you wouldn't believe...

Me too
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on January 29, 2013, 02:48:42 AM
For those who didn't come over to rule of cool during the downtime: My hard drive appears to be dying but i can get a new one installed i think.  Please be patient and the homebrew will flow once again.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on January 29, 2013, 12:24:52 PM
I have a sinus infection.  I also have a feeling it's going to get worse because I have to help move stuff out of my cousin's former house since he's now a "citizen of the state."

Edit:  Damn, the infection has spread to my right ear.  At lest I don't have to help move stuff though because my grandma said she wouldn't let me go out when I'm sick like this.  lol
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: brujon on January 29, 2013, 04:50:10 PM
For those who didn't come over to rule of cool during the downtime: My hard drive appears to be dying but i can get a new one installed i think.  Please be patient and the homebrew will flow once again.

What seems to be the problem with your hard drive? If you back up all your data you could try DBAN to wipe it clean and see if it lasts a little while longer;
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on January 29, 2013, 05:02:30 PM
Ive had the occasional blue screen for a while now.  Event ID always suggests it's bad ram.  Well they're starting to happen more often, so I checked again and sure enough the same error.  But then i notice 3 from earlier in the day, which was about the same time I ran defrag: Event ID 7, bad sectors.  So I run chkdsk.  I knew I had 3kb in bad sectors, but now I have 24.  WORD files are tending to give me corruption errors.  Occasionally an application fails (like when I try to shut off the pc), or open tabs in my browser just shut off.  The SMART data says it's ok, but the uncorrectable sector count and write error rate are iffy and they're getting worse.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on January 29, 2013, 06:21:45 PM
And apparently I'll need to get Windows as well.  The copy my sisters freaked out ex-husband gave me may not be a legal one...
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: awaken_D_M_golem on January 29, 2013, 06:29:06 PM
I swear I was not playing: "Everyone Is John"

... at the exact moment these boards went down.

I swear  :bigeyes
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Nanshork on January 29, 2013, 06:44:34 PM
I have strep.   :(
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on January 29, 2013, 07:30:37 PM
mass hugs for Nanshork!
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: dman11235 on January 30, 2013, 12:04:42 AM
Bad idea bhu.....
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on January 30, 2013, 12:19:17 AM
Bad idea bhu.....

Because of strep?  Internet kitty is immune.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Sinfire Titan on January 30, 2013, 12:50:58 AM
I have strep.   :(
That makes two of us.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on January 30, 2013, 01:22:48 AM
immune kitteh hugs for SiFir too :D
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on January 30, 2013, 09:14:40 AM
*Still needs to figure out a way to lend IHS to people*
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Sinfire Titan on January 30, 2013, 10:26:56 AM
*Still needs to figure out a way to lend IHS to people*

I believe you would need to multiclass into Psion for that...
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: dman11235 on January 30, 2013, 10:45:42 AM
But it's affecting you!  You're in emotional distress because these people don't have IHS, so you should be able to IHS away the fact that these people don't have IHS.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on January 30, 2013, 11:07:36 AM
I'm immune to morale penalties but not the cause itself.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Nanshork on January 30, 2013, 01:25:31 PM
But it's affecting you!  You're in emotional distress because these people don't have IHS, so you should be able to IHS away the fact that these people don't have IHS.

Or, you know, just IHS our strep away.  I'd be fine with that. 

I'm just happy I have insurance so I could actually afford going to a doctor to get a prescription.  Of course the antibiotics take forever to actually go into effect and I'm using all of my precious paid-time off because my job doesn't have sick leave.   :shakefist
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Concerned Ninja Citizen on February 01, 2013, 05:11:41 AM
So, a couple of weeks into last semester (that is, about 6 months ago) my university's Tae Kwon Do club ordered some uniforms. There ensued an epic drama involving invoices without checks, checks without invoices, man eating bureaucrats, and email accounts that were seemingly checked once a month or so. Suffice it to say that something that ought to have taken a week or two took half a year.

They arrived this past afternoon and at the end of training that evening we opened up the box to distribute them. Now, part of the reason the whole thing was so bloody difficult was that we wanted the club logo screen printed on the back of the jacket. People start taking the uniforms out to look at them and we realize they printed them with THE WRONG FUCKING IMAGE.

So after waiting this long we have a box full of uniforms with someone elses logo on them and it's the trademarked logo of a for profit TKD school so we wouldn't be allowed to use them if we wanted to.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on February 01, 2013, 04:25:09 PM
Would the university frown on your beating their ass?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on February 01, 2013, 07:45:34 PM
I agree, someone's ass has to be kicked.  Or at least make someone else pay because you got a product you can't use.

Shame your club isn't Tae Kwon Leap or else you could do Boot to the Head, but that's a different matter.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Concerned Ninja Citizen on February 01, 2013, 09:36:29 PM
The current plan is to send the uniforms back, demand a refund, and find someone else to buy from who won't bollocks it up quite as badly.

I did suggest tweaking the plan with the inclusion of deadly bacteria or possibly scorpions (one of the club members is an ecology professor so that's more feasible that it might sound) in the returned package but it got voted down.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: dman11235 on February 07, 2013, 11:25:55 AM
My car died.....It's more than I'm willing to repair (1,000), so I need to get a new one.  I require a car for school, so it's going to be a major pain the next couple weeks until I actually buy a car.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on February 07, 2013, 03:00:38 PM
Gotta hate it when things you depend on go caput...  Hope it works out well for you.

As for me:  :banghead  I've just spent over an hour trying to explain how a Savage Species progression would work in gestalt with fractional BAB and saves, etc.  The best I can tell is that he thinks the LA from, say, an astral deva, should be a dead level on the other side of the gestalt.  No, that's not how gestalt works.  If the character acquires a LA then it obviously doesn't have HD or BAB for that level, so it defaults to the other side but doesn't replace the other side because that's not how LA works in gestalt.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on February 07, 2013, 03:14:16 PM
The solution is punching them in the face.

I've had middling stomach cramps since yesterday morning; it sucks.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on February 07, 2013, 03:25:17 PM
Oh how I'd love to use that solution.  That particular person doesn't seem to have good reading comprehension since I specifically said everything that was needed to understand the interaction before his latest PM asking how it interacted.   :banghead

Stomach cramps?  The thing that gives me that problem is too-tight pants usually.  Hence my preference for sweat pants lately.  Sometimes sitting down in the bathroom can encourage one's system to actually get whatever it is out if it's a digestion problem.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on February 08, 2013, 03:57:11 AM
Has anyone's car horn stopped working?

Mine just did. It's been really annoying for the last 6 months, being hard to find the right spot to get it to honk. But I got an oil change today and they mentioned it didn't work at all. When I tried and it didn't... What the hell? :P
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: awaken_D_M_golem on February 08, 2013, 03:48:15 PM
My car died.....It's more than I'm willing to repair (1,000), so I need to get a new one.  I require a car for school, so it's going to be a major pain the next couple weeks until I actually buy a car.

Pizza delivery car strategy, was first buy a sub< $1000 junker and run it til it dies.  Second buy a 2nd junker so while the 1st is in the shop - and it's gonna be sooner or later - you still have wheels.  After the Cash4Clunkers program, the ultra cheaps disappeared.  Costs about double to run at the bottom feeder level, these days.  I bought a ~wrecked car from out-of-state, and put $3k into it over 2.5 years.  I feel ahead of schedule but not by much.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on February 08, 2013, 05:29:28 PM
It's a prolonged holiday and everyone I know is gonna be out of town.

This is gonna SUCK.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on February 08, 2013, 08:14:43 PM
Note to stores: if you place signs about saying "if you have questions ask an associate", please train the associate to be able to answer the questions so he isn't embarrassed by coming across as a complete fucking muppet.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on February 08, 2013, 08:42:55 PM
Lol... What was the question?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on February 09, 2013, 12:15:11 AM
"Do you sell desktops?'
It went downhill from there.

He was the night manager for electronics.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on February 09, 2013, 12:28:30 AM
That should be pretty damn easy :P
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on February 09, 2013, 12:38:14 AM
Once we found the desktops (he had only a vague idea of where they might be, apparently he doesn't do stocking), I found a possible one.  I than asked if he could tell me what kind of monitor connection it had.  he then spent several minutes scrutinizing the box which is exactly what I had just finished doing.

He then decided to check it on the stores website and couldn't get it to come up, went to fetch the pc so he could try typing in the name from something other than memory, and then had to pause while i showed him how to use the company website because he blew right past every option that would've led us to the product he was looking for. 
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on February 09, 2013, 03:30:21 AM
Let's see, a manager who is supposed to oversee operations and was apparently on his own can't work with his own company's site much less identify basic computer hardware?  Bullshit.

Here are some pics for you:

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Most recently-made computers will have a DVI output, but there are some that still use the old VGA.  I'd be surprised if one of those desktops had an HDMI or other kind of output like DisplayPort, but I suppose it's possible.


As for my own rant:  Rolled a nat 1 on attack, max damage on arrow and SS (http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/3915317/), and I had the character spend a use of his Ki Pool to go invisible.  *sigh*

Speaking of invisible, apparently invisiblecastle is having problems with their login server or something because when I got to log in, it takes several tries for it to go through.  What the hell?

And lastly, for this day anyway: Getting tired of people who think RAW is king.  As said before, it's not always so much "Read As Written" as "Read as I interpret it and you can't tell me I'm wrong, so nyeh!"  Really wish people would be comfortable saying "Here are a few ways I know of to interpret it.  Chat with your DM about it and hopefully you'll both come to an agreement."
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: awaken_D_M_golem on February 09, 2013, 04:02:17 PM
Here are some pics for you:

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Clueless older guy says:  "Those are stylish Belt Buckles."
 ;)
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on February 09, 2013, 09:37:52 PM
Sad thing is if I complain, management will probably just punish or belittle him as opposed to training him properly.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: RedWarlock on February 09, 2013, 09:52:48 PM
Very small rant: The new mouse I just bought a couple weeks ago, the mousewheel has as-of-today died. It catches and actually rolls maybe one time out of twenty. I don't even use this computer very often any more except on weekends.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Sinfire Titan on February 10, 2013, 09:17:25 PM
The frame of my MAC book is breaking slowly. It may hold up another few months, but it will eventually break open and reveal the internal hardware, which could seriously damage a piece of equipment that I desperately need to stay intact.

It's been cracked for a while now, but I don't know if anyone can repair it (and I certainly can't afford such repairs in any case).
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: brujon on February 10, 2013, 09:33:57 PM
The frame of my MAC book is breaking slowly. It may hold up another few months, but it will eventually break open and reveal the internal hardware, which could seriously damage a piece of equipment that I desperately need to stay intact.

It's been cracked for a while now, but I don't know if anyone can repair it (and I certainly can't afford such repairs in any case).

You can try using silicon to reinforce the cracks. There are some tubes they sell in hardware stores, it hardens after application. Non-conductiv, so it's not an issue for the hardware.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Nanshork on February 10, 2013, 10:07:12 PM
The middle click on my wireless mouse just stopped working.   :banghead
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: veekie on February 10, 2013, 11:54:42 PM
The frame of my MAC book is breaking slowly. It may hold up another few months, but it will eventually break open and reveal the internal hardware, which could seriously damage a piece of equipment that I desperately need to stay intact.

It's been cracked for a while now, but I don't know if anyone can repair it (and I certainly can't afford such repairs in any case).

You can try using silicon to reinforce the cracks. There are some tubes they sell in hardware stores, it hardens after application. Non-conductiv, so it's not an issue for the hardware.
Depends on where it blew. For me the hinges stiffened(and I don't know how it's secured, so getting lubricant in is impossible), which caused it to shatter the screw mountings(to pieces too small to glue back up), and then start prying the corner apart. It's already cracked in 3 places on the external casing, so I just superglued it up until I can afford to replace the case.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Sinfire Titan on February 11, 2013, 10:31:08 AM
The frame of my MAC book is breaking slowly. It may hold up another few months, but it will eventually break open and reveal the internal hardware, which could seriously damage a piece of equipment that I desperately need to stay intact.

It's been cracked for a while now, but I don't know if anyone can repair it (and I certainly can't afford such repairs in any case).

You can try using silicon to reinforce the cracks. There are some tubes they sell in hardware stores, it hardens after application. Non-conductiv, so it's not an issue for the hardware.

Hmm, I might do that. The cracking is around the edges, save for one point near the touchpad.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on February 11, 2013, 11:04:21 AM
I can't find a stupid four-year-old comic series for download.  :banghead
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on February 11, 2013, 11:16:46 AM
Which one you looking for? I have an uncanny proclivity for locating things. (Or at least I think I do.)
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on February 11, 2013, 11:37:34 AM
Marvel Comics' Thor's Ragnarok Saga. I keep running into dead torrents.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Libertad on February 11, 2013, 01:49:37 PM
And lastly, for this day anyway: Getting tired of people who think RAW is king.  As said before, it's not always so much "Read As Written" as "Read as I interpret it and you can't tell me I'm wrong, so nyeh!"  Really wish people would be comfortable saying "Here are a few ways I know of to interpret it.  Chat with your DM about it and hopefully you'll both come to an agreement."
Compromise with your DM by throwing unclear rules out the window?!  You  Magical Tea Party babby! :tongue
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on February 12, 2013, 01:13:47 PM
the olympics dropped wrasslin'  :shakefist
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on February 12, 2013, 06:34:26 PM
Well, so far they intend to for the 2020 games but the vote might be overturned in May.  It's a bit of a shame that the professional wrestling scene here in the US (and in some other places I imagine) is just staged stuff and not real sport since everything is planned out.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on February 12, 2013, 10:26:01 PM
I wish they'd show other sports mainstream... They show some shitty ones
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on February 13, 2013, 12:10:52 AM
Trying to give advice to my cousin who is pregnant and a junior in high school and the guy seems to have dumped her...   :banghead :banghead

Pretty much told her lots of guys get turned off by the girl being clingy (and hormonal during pregnancy doesn't help that), so she'll have to work on that if she wants him back, assuming he's even open to the idea of getting back together which I sort of doubt.

My head hurts, needless to say.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: brujon on February 13, 2013, 12:48:04 AM
Trying to give advice to my cousin who is pregnant and a junior in high school and the guy seems to have dumped her...   :banghead :banghead

Pretty much told her lots of guys get turned off by the girl being clingy (and hormonal during pregnancy doesn't help that), so she'll have to work on that if she wants him back, assuming he's even open to the idea of getting back together which I sort of doubt.

My head hurts, needless to say.

Tough stuff. Being a guy who just went through a very difficult and unexpected pregnancy, i'd  say to your cousin not to worry about it too much. It may be difficult for her to understand, not being a man and all, but despite it seeming like it's easy on the man because it's the woman that's carrying the child, in fact, it's not like that. It takes a while for you to get used to the idea, and since you're not the one carrying the child, you don't feel the immediate connection that the woman feels. A lot of pressure is put on you, especially since you're the one that's going to pay the kids pension... There's a lot of pressure for you to work, graduate soon. It's not that easy on the guy, especially that age.

Tell her that when the baby is born he'll probably change his mind instantly, and start to become more responsible, and that in the meantime she should be more worried about taking care of herself and the baby, and not worry about being together and shit. Tell her that if she REALLY wants to be with him she shouldn't put anymore pressure on him, since his family and friends will already give him plenty, and she should just try and convey to him what it feels like, get him to feel the baby in the belly, go with her to the doctor, etc... But not to force him on anything. He'll like that, and it will work out for the best in the long run.

When the baby is born and you feel it in your arms for the first time, it changes everything.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on February 13, 2013, 02:34:22 AM
That reminds me... Brujon, how's your baby doing? Things going better between you and your SO?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: brujon on February 13, 2013, 05:28:51 AM
That reminds me... Brujon, how's your baby doing? Things going better between you and your SO?

The baby is awesome.
This is him 2 weeks ago. He was about 2,8kg in this picture, and he's now at 4 something.
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He's got some massive cheeks now, just a bundle of cute.

About his mom... I could write a book about our discussions. Things are most definitely not well. She's not reasonable. She's totally unreasonable, about everything. About what she expects, about how she goes about demanding what she expects, about the way she acts, about everything.

She got into some massive fight with her father, and called me at 22:30 to come pick the baby up and give her a lift to her apartment (which is vacant because she's staying at her father's... Because she doesn't get enough from her job + pension to actually live on her own, and she gets help there). Well, wouldn't be a problem, except he's NOT well enough to go about strolling in a car at 22:30, he didn't finish taking his vaccines. Hell, in NORMAL conditions, i HAVE to visit him there because he CAN'T come here as would be normal in such situations.

I tell her exactly that. He's not big enough to be transported like that, he needs to rest, and he can't be exposed to cold. Moreover, nothing here is ready for him yet, because i bought everything for her house, and she didn't even have his things packed... I tell her to sit tight and sleep it off in her room, because her father wouldn't kick her out anyway, and that tomorrow if things were still bad i would pick him up.

Well. She totally FLIPPED on me, start calling me things, said she can never count on me, etc...I tell her, OK, if it's THAT bad, i'll go now. I'll just talk to my father and we'll both go, since everything doesn't fit in my car. She FLIPS EVEN MORE. "Don't involve your family! This is just between you and me! You always do that!" and blah blah blah. And then hangs up on me.

I'm like. WTF. And then i call her father. I ask him WTF is going on, and if i do need to come over and pick him up. He's pretty pissed, so he's rather rude, and say that it's family business and that he doesn't need to explain to me, but will do it anyway. I interrupt him, and say that i ABSOLUTELY do not want to meddle in how he runs his family, and that i JUST want to know if i need to come over, he says that i don't, and we hang up.

She starts texting me, even more pissed that i called her father. And then just announced she wouldn't have anything to do with me, changed her facebook status and didn't call me again. Which got pretty awkward when i went there the day before yesterday.

On the plus side, her father liked that i called him. A LOT. Which is good, because things were strained between him and me, because of all the discussions and a lot of shit.

Situation is pretty complicated. This covers barely one day and a half. Like i said, if i were to really rant about this, i'd need a book, not a single post ;(
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on February 13, 2013, 07:44:27 AM
@Jack: I think brujon pretty much hit the nail on the head... and besides, she probably wouldn't want a guy that irresponsible bossing her around about her child. She may have to face the fact she'll have to raise the kid alone.

@brujon: If it helps any, when things cool down I think you should have a good, long chat with her father. And then her. It's really important to realize that your little boy is the lynchpin that put your two families together, and like it or not, you're not two separate families now, you're one big family. And family must stick together.

For what it's worth, I think you're doing a good job of being a dad. What you asked of her was the reasonable and responsible thing to ask - your child's safety comes first. So don't feel bad about it.

It's probably empty advice coming from me - I'm not a father and I'm nowhere near the same situation you are. Just telling you what I think.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: ariasderros on February 13, 2013, 11:44:14 AM
@ Bru
1st: Cute kid.
2nd: I agree with Kuroimaken. Which makes the ranting of both her and her father inane. She complains that you involve your family, when both she and her kid are your family now, whether she likes it or not. And family, ideally, is supposed to help each other is another point there, but you already know that. Then her dad saying it is a family matter? Duh, and you're family too, and it concerns your kid, thus it concerns you.

I kind of hoped things would have cleared up for you by now man. That sucks.

I hope it gets easier for you soon, you're a good guy to all of those people, and are making a much better father than many out there who have been in your position. Especially in this age-group.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on February 13, 2013, 12:24:20 PM
Brujon, you are officially going on my list of "people with beyond mortal amounts of patience." Seriously.

I know I personally wouldn't be able to be half as patient as you are being.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: brujon on February 13, 2013, 01:02:36 PM
Brujon, you are officially going on my list of "people with beyond mortal amounts of patience." Seriously.

I know I personally wouldn't be able to be half as patient as you are being.

I don't know if i really am, though. Sometimes i still flip my shit when she comes up with those kinds of things, and i get pretty confrontational. I'm also absolutely insufferable when i'm in a bad mood. It's just that i'm trying *really* hard since she got pregnant to get better, and even more since he was born. By the way, today he's 2 months old :)

@ariasderros & kuro

Her family and mine are vastly different, her father is strict. He's been pressuring her a lot to get into the public service, which here requires you to pass an exam that's designed to be as hard as possible, and has an ungodly amount of competition. He's not even going to pay her college tuition anymore until she gets to pass. He does this because he thinks it's the best thing for her, but my parents think differently. They think that it's better for me to graduate as soon as possible, and get a college-level job, that pays more than twice or triple of what i could get with just highschool education, rather than enter now and delay my college graduation. And she completely agrees with her father, and that created a major gap between us, because she thinks i'm being overly lazy and relying too much on my parents support, and not doing what i can do right now. Her whole family thinks that way, and criticizes everything me or my parents do.

There have been major discussions, and indeed at one point when he was still in hospital, her father tried to bar my mother and father from visiting their grandson. There's a LOT of bad blood between families, and it's mostly because of her poisoning her father with her view on things. That's why i say she's so unreasonable... She's not understanding at all, and she seems unable to accomodate anything that doesn't conform to her already established worldview.

At this point, i think it's impossible for me and her to be together as a couple. The well is already too poisoned to drink from it, for both me and her. Every time we fight we dig stuff from the past up to accuse the other, and it's only going to get worse... Which is why i'm insisting on splitting up the time with him 50/50 between me and her. One week with me, and one week with her, alternating holidays. One year he spends christmas & new years eve with me, the other with her, yadda yadda... Standard child custody procedure.

The problem is that it's probably only going to happen if we do it out of court, because the jurisprudence is highly biased towards the mother, and it's rare for a judge to award the father with this custody set up. Much more common, is the father getting one full weekend, from friday to sunday, every 15 days, plus all the alternating holidays stuff.

For now, she seems willing to accept just such a setup, although not right now because he's still too little, but in a month, month and a half, it's probably what is going to happen... IF she doesn't change her mind, that is.

There's also the question of breastfeeding... She's not breastfeeding him. This is a major point of contention between us. She has milk, but because he had difficulties early on, being premature and not being able to suckle properly, she started relying on the artificial milk too much, and simply GAVE UP on trying to breastfeed him anymore. "Because he's gaining weight and is healthy anyway". The worst part? She WON'T admit she's doing this for selfish reasons. If she only tried hard, he'd be able to suckle properly in two weeks flat. But breastfeeding takes more time than preparing a bottle and giving it to him. If you're breastfeeding it's harder for you to not be with him, to get someone else to take care of him. You can't drink, can't party.

Like i said... I can't even scratch the surface without writing up a LOT. I'm sad, really sad about the way things turned out, and even sadder that he's not getting breastfeed despite being a premature baby. Really worried he'll not immunize properly, worried he'll catch a bug and develop lifelong problems, worried his development isn't as good as it could be... And i can't do anything, i feel totally impotent, on the sidelines, really, with this whole stuff. And believe me when i say i tried until i couldn't, because i can't even say the world breastfeed without getting into a huge fight. This is how much i insisted on the matter. I came with statistics, studies, testimonies from other mothers, and *nothing* changed her mind.

I don't think she wanted to be a mother. In fact i think she still hasn't come to terms with it yet. She sees him as a burden she has to carry, dead weight in her life. She struggles not to, but deep down it's what she feels, and her actions reflect that. She's really not acting as a mother, and while i try to act as a father, she feels right in criticize me and say i'm not doing nearly enough. This kind of lack of appreciation for anything i do is old, and was there even before she got pregnant... I was stupid not to realize this and GTFO before having a kid with her and being stuck with this lifelong relationship.

But i'm glad he's here, i always wanted to be a father. He's cute, carries my name, and will give me joys beyond my wildest expectations. I just wanted her to feel the same way, and not fake it.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on February 13, 2013, 01:38:47 PM
Brujon,

Last time I snapped under stress, I tried to kill someone with my bare-hands (I was in 4th grade; I'm a proper little berserker when I get pissed off). I'm lucky I'm not Kuroi, but there were still stories going around that I hospitalized the kid (he gave as good as he got, really.)

The fact that you are able to be the rational one in the situation says a lot about you. A lot.

Is there any chance that you could convince the courts that she is emotionally incapable of being a parent? I mean, if that is the case.

EDIT: I thought you were saying "I'm not sure I am, though" to my assertion that you are far more patient than I am. I'm still filing you under "good person who deserves better out of life", though.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: brujon on February 13, 2013, 02:11:29 PM
Yeah, i don't think myself of being too patient. I'm also like a Berserker when i get mad, but i don't get physical unless i am striked first. My last fight was when i was 13~14. The kid threw a basketball in my face. It took 4 people to get me off of him, and he couldn't walk without crutches for a week... His dad almost filed charges, but the principal intervened in my behalf since i was such a good student and have never gotten into trouble before, whereas the guy i beat up was a known offender.

I've come long ways since then, but i still got a temper. I just try to be more patient because of the baby, and it works most of the time, sometimes it doesn't... I WISH i could be more patient, maybe i could've dealt with a lot of things waaaaaaay better...
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: altpersona on February 13, 2013, 03:03:32 PM
they never admit they wont breast feed for selfish reasons.

108 billion people have ever been born, all but about 6 mothers could do it, but 'she' cant  :banghead
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: awaken_D_M_golem on February 13, 2013, 05:29:09 PM
Hey Brujon, 4 KG = ~9 pounds = very very small.
Was the baby a little premature?
Health and "needs" of the Baby >>>>>>> "wants" of the Mom.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on February 13, 2013, 05:52:10 PM
I'm all for honesty, but this time I feel like some subterfuge may be in order.

Go to a pediatrician, preferrably one who specializes in babies. Explain the situation to him/her and ask him/her to convince the girl in your stead, IN PRIVATE. Arrange for some doctor to call in about recent baby test results (possibly vaccination-related) and point you to said pediatrician. Take her to the consult both to show you care and to deflect suspicion.

Watch the pediatrician convince her.

ADMG put it better than myself: baby comes first, his is the most fragile life between the three of you, or anyone else in said family. There's an ENORMOUS chance that she isn't listening to you about this because you're the one talking and she's resolute about it. I've seen it happen thousands of times.

Also... speaking as someone whose parents divorced at age 6, your kid's going to need therapy if you do plan on sharing custody and whatnot. ESPECIALLY if things are as bad between the two of you as you say - children are suggestionable and prone to paying attention to the wrong things. Given the circunstances it's entirely possible that either or neither of you is ready for a relationship like this one. And it's something only experience will be able to improve upon.

For what it's worth, again, you're doing the responsible thing and looking out for your little one, trying to protect him. At this point you've done your fair share. But you can't shoulder the responsibility alone. And you definitely can't take his mother's place.

I was breastfed up until I was two and a half years old, and my health is nothing short of steely now. Possibly related?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: brujon on February 13, 2013, 06:43:05 PM
No amount of convincing will suffice. Thank you for all the suggestions, but as it is, it's impossible to do anything. She's blind to anything that doesn't support her opinion, and even if she were to start breastfeeding him now, she's starting to dry out because she's not milking.

So yeah, can't do anything about it right now, unfortunately.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on February 13, 2013, 07:59:23 PM
Okay, plan B: BEFORE she dries out, try breast pumps. Or heck, consider surrogate mother's milk.

I'm not entirely sure whether there are hospitals in your area that take donations from lactating women, but I understand there's a demand for breast milk and many women either have conditions wherein they freely lactate or a mother has a miscarriage and continues to produce milk - either way, I know there are volunteers for that kind of thing. Check the local hospital, maybe?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on February 14, 2013, 06:11:25 PM
I can no longer roll the divers side window up and down in my car.  Oh and as an extra special bonus the alternator died.   :banghead
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: altpersona on February 14, 2013, 06:20:10 PM
my trucks driver side window died a couple years ago. i silicone it in place.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: dman11235 on February 14, 2013, 08:56:21 PM
For some reason I have a very slow connection to YouTube right now.  Videos, even on lowest quality setting (as in, so low you can't see anything...) stop every 5 seconds to buffer for 30 seconds.  I don't know if it's just me or not.  Other sites seem to load just fine, except this one had an issue a couple minutes ago.  Any ideas?  I already tried restarting my browser, connection, and router....currently scanning for malware.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: brujon on February 14, 2013, 09:02:24 PM
For some reason I have a very slow connection to YouTube right now.  Videos, even on lowest quality setting (as in, so low you can't see anything...) stop every 5 seconds to buffer for 30 seconds.  I don't know if it's just me or not.  Other sites seem to load just fine, except this one had an issue a couple minutes ago.  Any ideas?  I already tried restarting my browser, connection, and router....currently scanning for malware.

It's mostly likely Youtube's fault. I have had the same problem while managing to download/upload at full speed. It sometimes happen, and i don't have an answer. Sometimes videos on Youtube won't load at all, sometimes the video buffers faster at 1080p than it does at 720p or even 480p, and sometimes the only way to watch a video is to put it on 240p...

Try enabling HTML5 on youtube to see if it works for you. Note that not every video is available through HTML5, but for the videos that do (most new uploaded ones), HTML5 seems to work much better than Flash.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: dman11235 on February 14, 2013, 09:16:59 PM
Question: how do I do that?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: phaedrusxy on February 14, 2013, 09:28:31 PM
No amount of convincing will suffice. Thank you for all the suggestions, but as it is, it's impossible to do anything. She's blind to anything that doesn't support her opinion, and even if she were to start breastfeeding him now, she's starting to dry out because she's not milking.

So yeah, can't do anything about it right now, unfortunately.
Digested Formula, but Not Breast Milk, Is Toxic to Cells, in Vitro Study Finds (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/12/121210124616.htm)
Quote
Free fatty acids created during the digestion of infant formula cause cellular death that may contribute to necrotizing enterocolitis, a severe intestinal condition that is often fatal and occurs most commonly in premature infants, according to a study by University of California, San Diego bioengineers.

<snip>

Scientists have long known that premature infants fed formula are more likely to develop necrotizing enterocolitis than those fed breast milk. The condition is the leading cause of death from gastrointestinal diseases in premature infants, but the underlying mechanism has not been understood.

Tell her to buck up. It's only for a few months. It drives me nuts to hear about mothers unwilling to breast feed.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on February 14, 2013, 11:01:12 PM
I fucking hate Valentine's Day.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on February 14, 2013, 11:09:04 PM
It is an annoyance.

I just pretend that everyone is commemorating the Valentine's Day Massacre; it makes the day a lot more surreal and pleasant.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on February 15, 2013, 04:09:04 PM
Apparently my 93 hyundai still had it's original alternator  :o
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on February 15, 2013, 06:59:38 PM
20 years for an alternator is pretty decent.  Glad it worked for you so long.

Reminds me a bit of my dad's Geo's timing belt.  Car had quarter of a million miles on it and still had the original timing belt in good condition when it got totaled.  The total happened when my uncle backed up and knocked the driver's side mirror off.

In other news, we've been clearing out my cousin's former house.  I say former since he plead guilty to a felony and is now in prison.  Still, he had months to take care of all the stuff, but didn't do it until the two months leading up to his incarceration.

The amount of stuff he had makes me nauseous.  His wife had thousands of care bears and other similar items.  It's mind-blowing how box after box after box of all that came out of the house.  Plus there's papers and a massive amount of computer equipment since he was a security expert who worked for the likes of Rio Tinto at one time and even had an offer from Goldman Sachs before all this crap went down.  Now our house and garage are getting filled out with his stuff.  Some of it has been alright (I got his Wii for instance and might get a decent desktop too), but a lot of it is probably sentimental stuff and I simply can't understand how one can let himself keep that many boxes of pretty much the same stuff just for sentimental purposes.

Here's hoping his years in prison will get him thinking about how to deal with all this stuff.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: ariasderros on February 15, 2013, 10:32:48 PM
I fucking hate Valentine's Day.

And, yet, the day after:
(click to show/hide)
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on February 15, 2013, 10:43:10 PM
I'm... trying to diet.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: ariasderros on February 15, 2013, 10:52:29 PM
I'm... trying to diet.

Well, fine, then I'll just have to go down 20 entries in my webcomic folder:
(http://v.cdn.cad-comic.com/comics/sillies-20130214-8a85e.gif)

Do that. Totally do that.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: dman11235 on February 16, 2013, 01:32:41 PM
For some reason I have a very slow connection to YouTube right now.  Videos, even on lowest quality setting (as in, so low you can't see anything...) stop every 5 seconds to buffer for 30 seconds.  I don't know if it's just me or not.  Other sites seem to load just fine, except this one had an issue a couple minutes ago.  Any ideas?  I already tried restarting my browser, connection, and router....currently scanning for malware.

It's mostly likely Youtube's fault. I have had the same problem while managing to download/upload at full speed. It sometimes happen, and i don't have an answer. Sometimes videos on Youtube won't load at all, sometimes the video buffers faster at 1080p than it does at 720p or even 480p, and sometimes the only way to watch a video is to put it on 240p...

Try enabling HTML5 on youtube to see if it works for you. Note that not every video is available through HTML5, but for the videos that do (most new uploaded ones), HTML5 seems to work much better than Flash.

Yeah, so either way, HTML5 doesn't work for videos with ads.....that's pretty much all of their videos, right?  At least all the good ones....I apparently have to suffer trough a 90% speed reduction until it just gets fixed.  And not for just flash players, only YouTube.  I'm going to keep running diagnostics, see if I can't figure something else out.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: awaken_D_M_golem on February 16, 2013, 03:15:14 PM
I'm... trying to diet.

Sure, so lowfat Fish + Piles Of Chocolate + a little bit of Fiberous veggies.
It's a decent enough meal, without having Jillian Michaels yell at you.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: dman11235 on February 16, 2013, 03:22:33 PM
Chocolate has almost no energy in its pure form, so get some 100% cocoa.  It's like eating bitter powder.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on February 16, 2013, 06:51:35 PM
My mom has tongue cancer.

Long time in the coming, she's been smoking since she was 14. Considering it's her, and she practically shrugged off anheurysm surgery, I believe she'll be fine. The upside is that this, of all things, has convinced her to quit. Still early to tell, though.

What's worrying me most is that my family has a really rotten history with that disease. Lots of relatives dead from it. So as warning signs go, this is a big one, even if it's a "lesser" form of cancer.

I just KNOW my sister's going to do backwards triple flips over this...
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on February 16, 2013, 07:55:38 PM
Ouch! Sorry to hear that.

Which stage?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on February 16, 2013, 08:07:47 PM
Early from the looks of it, but the info is sparse at this point. I'll know more tomorrow.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: awaken_D_M_golem on February 17, 2013, 03:35:02 PM

My mom has tongue cancer. ...

http://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/tongue.html

USA data works through the goofy pre-obamacare system(s).
I'd guess that Brazil's data wouldn't be that far off.

Your Mom should come through it OK, and get a solid
decade+ in.  But confronting Mortality is tough business.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on February 17, 2013, 04:09:22 PM
Apparently my white blood cell count is high, but I have to wait for Monday or later to hear what teh doc wants me to do.  :(
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on February 17, 2013, 04:18:30 PM

My mom has tongue cancer. ...

http://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/tongue.html

USA data works through the goofy pre-obamacare system(s).
I'd guess that Brazil's data wouldn't be that far off.

Your Mom should come through it OK, and get a solid
decade+ in.  But confronting Mortality is tough business.

I don't doubt she's got what it takes to pull it off. It came as barely a dent to me, like I'd been expecting it to happen and thus all the surprise is gone.

My sister took it awfully hard though. Mom's never been a very subtle person and though people figure I'm the most sensitive out of us brothers, she figured I could handle it best, so she told me first.

And this is going to wreak hell on my sister, I just know it.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on February 17, 2013, 04:23:19 PM
Hugs for Kuro <3
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on February 17, 2013, 05:26:49 PM
Thanks Unca Kitteh.

Say, you running a fever or anything lately?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on February 17, 2013, 05:41:08 PM
No fever, no chills.  Day after the tests I was a little hoarse.  Now I just feel like crap.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on February 18, 2013, 02:47:08 PM
Good news at least: seems mom's cancer is not the aggressive kind, she should be fine with surgery plus chemo or just plain surgery.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on February 18, 2013, 03:18:27 PM
Glad to hear
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on February 18, 2013, 03:36:08 PM
yays!
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Nanshork on February 18, 2013, 03:44:16 PM
Glad to hear it!
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: awaken_D_M_golem on February 18, 2013, 06:21:20 PM
 :) ... good deal ... now could you RL Warlord Buff the rest of us ?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on February 18, 2013, 07:26:57 PM
Don't you need to be within hearing range for that?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on February 20, 2013, 01:03:31 PM
The cancer's metastasizing. Mom's surgery isn't scheduled yet but it shouldn't be long now.

No idea on the prospects yet, but...

GOD FUCKING DAMMIT!!

I HATE feeling this powerless!
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: ariasderros on February 20, 2013, 02:54:01 PM
Sooo... after 90 minutes on the phone calling a bunch of dentists in my insurance coverage network, the earliest any dentist can get me in is next wednesday. 1145 On 2/27.

Bitch A: My bottom left rearmost molar has no 'tooth', it is nothing but the pulp and the root.
Bitch B: The work another dentist did on the tooth above, giving it a 'spike' (really crappy filling job, long story, and not a small bitch, but this is not an intentional spike), still lets the point touch the pulp. This feels great.
Bitch C: It has only gotten this bad because immediately after having had the work done that caused the problem, I got canned, and thus have had neither the insurance nor the money until now.
Bitch D: The pain is now excruciating, and will be for the next week. Sucking down asprin only helps a little. Alcohol helped this weekend, but I can't work like that, and I can't mix it with asprin, so can't even use that when I'm home right now.
Bitch E: 2/27 is my birthday. Happy birthday to fucking me.

Notice: I don't need to hear any advice on A-C. Any advice on point D... PLEASE, GOD, YES  :sobbing.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on February 20, 2013, 02:57:39 PM
Have you tried Orajel?  There are some other painkillers specifically for teeth and such, but that's the one that came to mind first.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: sirpercival on February 20, 2013, 03:01:17 PM
I had a broken tooth for a weekend in Cali at my sister-in-law's wedding... that was fun.  I made it through by shotgunning Aleve two at a time (with the occasional Vicodin bummed off someone).
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: ariasderros on February 20, 2013, 03:27:02 PM
(with the occasional Vicodin bummed off someone).

Heavy Equipment operator.

Have you tried Orajel?

Am I an idiot if I say "no"?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on February 20, 2013, 04:17:24 PM
http://www.makingawesomesmiles.com/tooth-care/tooth-pain-spokane.html

all i could find for suggestions besides orajel that didnt sound iffy


Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on February 20, 2013, 04:38:26 PM
Have you tried Orajel?

Am I an idiot if I say "no"?

Nah, we'll just chalk it up to the pain affecting your brain.  Or perhaps that you just haven't had the ability to get any yet.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: ShadowViper on February 20, 2013, 06:11:51 PM
In my experience Origel(sp) doesn't really work all that well, but it's still worth a try.

Also in my experience, Aleve works better than asparin.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: betrayor on February 20, 2013, 06:13:59 PM
While I don't know the american names of the drugs,you could try something containing Nimesulide,it is used in these cases I think....
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on February 20, 2013, 07:21:03 PM
In my experience Origel(sp) doesn't really work all that well, but it's still worth a try.

Also in my experience, Aleve works better than asparin.

It's Orajel, hence why I spelled it that way earlier.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Halinn on February 20, 2013, 07:51:24 PM
Aspirin isn't a very strong painkiller. You could perhaps try ibuprofen or paracetamol (acetaminophen) instead.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on February 20, 2013, 10:40:54 PM
One of moms bridges came loose.  The dental cement isnt holding it in even temporarily, and she refuses to even think of speaking to a dentist until she gets her monthly social security check.

Her current plan is super glue  :banghead
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on February 20, 2013, 10:42:32 PM
The cancer's metastasizing. Mom's surgery isn't scheduled yet but it shouldn't be long now.

No idea on the prospects yet, but...

GOD FUCKING DAMMIT!!

I HATE feeling this powerless!

That sucks bad!

Where else did they find it? :(

@arias
Vicodin helped my now wife when she broke her tooth on a business trip and couldn't see her dentist for 2-3 days. They were several years old, but still helped.

Also, we use Aleve more than the others, since it lasts longer and can be combined if needed with some other drugs.

@bhu
Are you serious? :$
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on February 21, 2013, 12:08:14 AM
Yeah I'm entirely serious.  She won't go out in public without the bridge because she considers it humiliating, and she refuses to become a shutin.  I'm hoping she'll hold off I'm going to call a bunch of dentists tomorrow.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on February 21, 2013, 12:38:25 AM
The cancer's metastasizing. Mom's surgery isn't scheduled yet but it shouldn't be long now.

No idea on the prospects yet, but...

GOD FUCKING DAMMIT!!

I HATE feeling this powerless!

That sucks bad!

Where else did they find it? :(

@arias
Vicodin helped my now wife when she broke her tooth on a business trip and couldn't see her dentist for 2-3 days. They were several years old, but still helped.

Also, we use Aleve more than the others, since it lasts longer and can be combined if needed with some other drugs.

@bhu
Are you serious? :$

For the most part it's grown bigger. Some nodules were found close to her airways, and some old ones within her lungs proper (though those have long since healed).

She'll be going into surgery next Tuesday. It's likely she won't be able to eat or speak for several days.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on February 21, 2013, 01:06:00 AM
*nods* there could be worse places. But still not good
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on February 21, 2013, 10:16:49 AM
Not much that can be done about that. I'll have to trust the doctors and hope they know what they're doing.

Like I said before, the worst part is knowing there's nothing I can really do.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Nanshork on February 21, 2013, 12:04:53 PM
I wish your family luck.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on February 21, 2013, 03:26:18 PM
I wish your family luck as well.

Ugh, 2 appointments down for getting a crown, 2 more to go. (Everyone else has rants about dentistry; thought I'd join in!)
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: ariasderros on February 21, 2013, 03:31:36 PM
Everyone else has rants about dentistry; thought I'd join in!

Not true. Kuroi's is about the tongue, and now airways and such.
Oral rants. Like the rash of hand-related injuries that hit here and webcomic artists all around the same time.

... is this like how movies come out in theme-packs? like how one summer will have a bunch of high-budget disaster-movies, and the next will be heroes?

Do injuries / complications 'trend'?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Nanshork on February 21, 2013, 03:34:04 PM
Haha, all of you people are cursed.   :P
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: dman11235 on February 21, 2013, 03:54:00 PM
You know, I did finally get my bridge put in.  I had a gap in my teeth caused by botched braces, and it took forever (and a pain(ful surgery) to get it fixed.  Not only that, but last week my teeth really hurt on the left side of my mouth.  For those who have had braces, it felt like those bands they put to space your teeth out, except nothing was there.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Agita on February 21, 2013, 04:10:39 PM
I hope all this luck with teeth is being drained towards me, because I have an appointment on the 26th where I'll find out if that spot I can see on my teeth is actually a cavity or something else.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: ShadowViper on February 21, 2013, 05:25:42 PM
I wish everyone the best of luck and good health!  :D
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on February 21, 2013, 06:34:11 PM
Alas, my problems lately have been on the other end of the digestive tract.  I hope I'm just overdoing it in my head, but seeing red is not a good sign.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Halinn on February 21, 2013, 07:34:27 PM
I keep ruining headphones by running my chair over the cords. I have had three pairs lose all sound in one ear, and one just now lost all sound. I need to get some wireless headphones, I guess.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: SneeR on February 21, 2013, 07:39:14 PM
I keep ruining headphones by running my chair over the cords. I have had three pairs lose all sound in one ear, and one just now lost all sound. I need to get some wireless headphones, I guess.
I can only hear in one ear! You should totally send those puppies my way!  :flutter
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on February 21, 2013, 07:44:52 PM
Alas, my problems lately have been on the other end of the digestive tract.  I hope I'm just overdoing it in my head, but seeing red is not a good sign.

black is really the color you want to worry about
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: SneeR on February 21, 2013, 07:48:30 PM
Sooo... after 90 minutes on the phone calling a bunch of dentists in my insurance coverage network, the earliest any dentist can get me in is next wednesday. 1145 On 2/27.

Bitch A: My bottom left rearmost molar has no 'tooth', it is nothing but the pulp and the root.
Bitch B: The work another dentist did on the tooth above, giving it a 'spike' (really crappy filling job, long story, and not a small bitch, but this is not an intentional spike), still lets the point touch the pulp. This feels great.
Bitch C: It has only gotten this bad because immediately after having had the work done that caused the problem, I got canned, and thus have had neither the insurance nor the money until now.
Bitch D: The pain is now excruciating, and will be for the next week. Sucking down asprin only helps a little. Alcohol helped this weekend, but I can't work like that, and I can't mix it with asprin, so can't even use that when I'm home right now.
Bitch E: 2/27 is my birthday. Happy birthday to fucking me.

Notice: I don't need to hear any advice on A-C. Any advice on point D... PLEASE, GOD, YES  :sobbing.
Aspirin won't do much for the pain because it's just a blood thinner. Try acetaminophen (1000 mg every 8 hours) for pain (DO NOT OD for your liver's sake) and mix it with ibuprofen (800 mg every 8 hours) to prevent swelling and soreness. You can add in aspirin if this combo doesn't quite cut it, but it's a pretty potent 1-2 on its own.

But, bumming prescription drugs off of a friend is an okay idea if you must. Just don't take any over-the-counter stuff at the same time!
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Halinn on February 21, 2013, 07:55:14 PM
I keep ruining headphones by running my chair over the cords. I have had three pairs lose all sound in one ear, and one just now lost all sound. I need to get some wireless headphones, I guess.
I can only hear in one ear! You should totally send those puppies my way!  :flutter
I would, I really would, but you see, they've all lost the sound in the ear you can hear with.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on February 21, 2013, 08:53:03 PM
Alas, my problems lately have been on the other end of the digestive tract.  I hope I'm just overdoing it in my head, but seeing red is not a good sign.

black is really the color you want to worry about

Yeah, black is upper digestive troubles typically while red is lower down.  Luckily my last WC visit was uneventful, but I'm taking things easy just in case.  Good time to play Metroid Prime 2 to catch up on my character idea for the Nintendo Worlds game.

Update:  The good news is I'm not seeing any more red.  The bad news is my abdomen still feels really funky and occasionally gets some pain.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on February 22, 2013, 01:12:16 AM
I hate having bruxism (clenching version). I've destroyed ~20 fillings and now need a second crown :(


Other bads?
- We fucking hate Comcast... They bumped our billed up $15 from last month to $168, which is now up $30 from Nov. Wtf? $170 for cable and internet?
- My car horn no workie.
- My mp3 player's headphone connection is dying.
- Figured out my throat issue is probably 'nutcracker esophagus'. It's not fun.
- Got fucked on a used router on Amazon. Tried lots of things to get it to work. It just will not connent to the internet! Tried too long to get it working, now cant return the damn thing.

The good things?
- Married life is going pretty well.
- We're buying our first house.
- I'm going back on Lamictal XR, which I had less problems with.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: dman11235 on February 22, 2013, 01:15:51 AM
You hate Comcast?  I'm strongly considering convincing my dad to switch us to it away from ATT.  We have been getting better service after they redid the wiring like they should have two years ago though....
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on February 22, 2013, 01:21:19 AM
I think I'm going through my yearly "bad at handling life" phase.

Luckily, this year it is manifesting as apathy and insomnia, and not depression and poor self control like it has in the past!

(Note: I don't actually have any reason that this happens; I just have noticed that, about once a year, all of my coping mechanisms become ineffective for about a week. It's annoying.)
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: ariasderros on February 22, 2013, 01:28:14 AM
(Note: I don't actually have any reason that this happens; I just have noticed that, about once a year, all of my coping mechanisms become ineffective for about a week. It's annoying.)

Two points:
A) "Winter Blues" is a thing.
B) Men have 'cycles' too. It is much more subdued, and is not monthly, but even men have their hormones cycle. Could be part of that.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on February 22, 2013, 02:35:10 AM
I actually prefer winter; the sun has a tendency of causing shooting, burning pain in my eyes when I so much as look out a window, so it being overcast is a beautiful thing.

It also usually happens in the spring; it's come a bit earlier this year...
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on February 22, 2013, 03:51:43 AM
You hate Comcast?  I'm strongly considering convincing my dad to switch us to it away from ATT.  We have been getting better service after they redid the wiring like they should have two years ago though....

*rant*
They do have great internet and decent customer service. But the rape you for being with them a long time. It's $136 for just the combined cable/internet. Not including random costs for equipment and taxes, which brings it up to $168.

But when we move, we can go back on the 'new customer' discount price lock. It'll drop us to $70 for 6 months and $80 for 6 more months FOR THE EXACT SAME DAMN SERVICES! After the year is up, then they can fuck with your rates. And that means we'll prob go with directTV or something, when they do.

They should have some loyalty discount, since we've had them for 3+ years at this condo and I've had them in an apt for a year, and my parents have them.

In the morning, I'm going to the nice girl at the Best Buy booth and let her know, that unless they reduce the rates back down a bunch, we're cancelling the cable until we get our house in a month (if it goes smoothly) because ~$100 for JUST tv is bullshit!

*rant*
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on February 22, 2013, 06:39:45 AM
We're getting a law project that allows low-income individual easier access to sources of culture such as books, magazines and films.

IT DOESN'T INCLUDE VIDEOGAMES, because the minister in charge does not believe games are cultural in nature. This is said with a straight face while gossip magazines are on their "to-do" list.  :banghead :banghead

Relevant article, it's in Portuguese though. (http://cyberkao.geek.com.br/posts/20620-para-ministra-game-nao-e-cultura-sim-ele-e)

brujon, I need your help to deliver lead to politicianface.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Halinn on February 22, 2013, 07:14:38 AM
- I'm going back on Lamictal XR, which I had less problems with.
Epilepsy? Not a fun thing to have. My medication (levetiracetam) against it has fortunately been working, so it's been around 2 and a half years without a seizure.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Sinfire Titan on February 22, 2013, 08:35:06 AM
My classes got canceled today, due to a meeting, and I didn't find out until I had ridden the bus for an hour to get on campus. Now I have to wait another 2 hours to catch the bus back to town, ride my bike for another hour to get home, and go back to bed because I woke up at 5:00AM to catch the bus here in the first place!
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Nanshork on February 22, 2013, 04:10:05 PM
Guh, women problems.   :shakefist
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Libertad on February 22, 2013, 04:52:39 PM
First, Republicans were saying downright insane things about rape.  Now conservatives on Twitter are making rape jokes. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2013/02/20/congratulations-joe-salazar-and-the-liberaltips2avoidrape-hashtag/)

Yeah, that'll show those Democrats!
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on February 22, 2013, 05:35:38 PM
Ugh. I hate the whole gun control debate. You can't really win no matter what, since gun control does not address illegal guns.

Guess what, you disarm an honest citizen, and some random asshole will STILL have a gun! On the other hand, you give guns out nilly-willy and people are going to do stupid things eventually.

I prefer the idea of balanced gun control. You know, give guns to everyone who are inarguably NOT nutcases. It's not that hard. Are some people going to fall through the cracks? Absolutely. But guess what, there are ALREADY people with guns who should NOT be carrying them!

I intend to get started on a gun safety and marksmanship course. Doesn't mean I intend to bring a gun home or EVER train one on a human being if I have an option not to. How hard is it to be a little sensible about these things?! Seriously!
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on February 22, 2013, 08:05:05 PM
I've made a doctor appointment for Monday due to my bleeding and abdominal, and the doc of course said that if the pain or the bleeding increased significantly I should go to the ER.  Here's hoping I don't have to make an ER trip.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on February 22, 2013, 11:13:07 PM
You'd think bleeding alone would be enough to warrant a trip! What happened?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on February 22, 2013, 11:38:34 PM
What happened to cause me to bleed out of my butt?  No idea.  But the Mayo Clinic (http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/rectal-bleeding/MY00573/DSECTION=causes) page has likely candidates.  My grandma has Crohn's, so it's possible I have it too.  And I know my mom has bowel problems.  Personally I'm just hoping it's something easily treated.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on February 22, 2013, 11:41:07 PM
Unless your gushing the stuff I wouldnt worry yet.  I had intestinal flu once and i shit blood for  weeks.  It sounds scary I know but you'll be ok.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on February 22, 2013, 11:52:18 PM
Nope, not gushing.  It's just a few teaspoons here and there I think (not like I'd try to measure).
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on February 23, 2013, 02:32:48 AM
- I'm going back on Lamictal XR, which I had less problems with.
Epilepsy? Not a fun thing to have. My medication (levetiracetam) against it has fortunately been working, so it's been around 2 and a half years without a seizure.

Yeah, complex partial and absence.

Had only one "grand mal" which was actually a complex partial that crossed over. That's the only we know of, that's how I was diagnosed. I was previously diagnosed with syncopy, but I strongly suspect its just epilepsy.

But I can think of a couple other suspicious times. I've bitten my tongue really badly in my sleep and "fallen asleep" behind the wheel and totaled a car in the early evening. I fainted at worked after feeling an aura.

In 2011, my neurologist's ex-nurse mislabeled my prescription for double the dose of levetiracetam, which I took that way for 2-3 days. Well I ended up od'ing for 2 days, and having seizure-like symptoms: aura, tunnel vision, weakness, loss of balance, uncontrollable muscle twitch in my right arm, slurred speech, and impaired cognition.

We figured out quickly what the problem was and I went back to the right dose the next day.


I tried the generic non-XR Lamictal for like a week, but it gave me the worst stomach ache. I think it was the lack of a coating.

I am titrating off generic zonigran, which worked ok. I was worried about the increased chance of kidney stones.


U?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: dman11235 on February 23, 2013, 12:05:00 PM
My computer is having issues (desktop, not laptop).  I hear a fan being off in someway (unbalanced, loose, whatever), and I can probably fix that easy, but I didn't think it was loose enough to cause problem for the rest of the machine.  So I was going to use the computer, bearing the obnoxious noise of that fan, for an hour or so until I could get the tools to fix it and: no more output visually.  Audio output still there, no visual.  Time to check cords, maybe the vibration loosened them.  If not, this could be bad....
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: brujon on February 23, 2013, 02:37:57 PM
This just in... Grandfather in hospital, in a few hours going into emergency surgery to get a pacemaker, because his heart rate is getting into the 20's...

For months now it's been fluctuating below 50, getting to 30 and back up, but now his blood pressure took a hit as well and he was going to enter cardiac arrest if nothing was done...

Shit sux :(

He's only even ever seen my son once.... :|
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on February 23, 2013, 02:53:11 PM
I hope your grandpa gets better Brujon!  How old is he?

And that sounds really funky Dman.  Does your video card have a fan on it?  That might explain the visual output loss if the fan went wonky.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: dman11235 on February 23, 2013, 03:33:09 PM
And it's not the cords.  Hooray!  Something is wrong and I don't have any idea what!  My only hope now is that it is indeed connected to the loose fan and fixing the fan will fix the video output.  This is turning out to be a wonderful day.

I hope your grandpa gets better Brujon!  How old is he?

And that sounds really funky Dman.  Does your video card have a fan on it?  That might explain the visual output loss if the fan went wonky.

You know, it might be that, because if I remember correctly I do have a fan there.  I just hope the fan hasn't scraped the card or something and has just been letting it overheat.  The one thing that might indicate it's not that however, is that the visual loss is not just a black screen, it's literally no input.  My monitor has been getting no signal at all, not a corrupted or blank one.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on February 23, 2013, 03:38:32 PM
Check your card.  If you have some canned air, spray it into the fan and see how it handles.  If it makes the same noise that you keep hearing then you've got your culprit.  Check all your fans that way come to think of it, and if none of them make the noise then it's the electric motor for one of the fans that went wonky.  It might be wise to reseat the card too, and spray some of the canned air on the card's motherboard connector on the bottom to make sure dust isn't hampering the data connection.

Also, do you have another monitor you can try?  If so, try it instead of your current monitor.  If it works, your current monitor might be junk.  Alternately, if there's another computer around, hook up your monitor to that and see if it works.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: awaken_D_M_golem on February 23, 2013, 04:04:26 PM

Guh, women problems.   :shakefist

womEn as in plural ... oh, this could get quite interesting.  :flutter
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: oslecamo on February 23, 2013, 04:24:06 PM
Ugh. I hate the whole gun control debate. You can't really win no matter what, since gun control does not address illegal guns.

Guess what, you disarm an honest citizen, and some random asshole will STILL have a gun! On the other hand, you give guns out nilly-willy and people are going to do stupid things eventually.

Alas, those two are more related than you give them credit for. It's a lot easier for the criminal to get his hands on a gun if they're on the sloppy hands of someone irresponsible.

Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on February 23, 2013, 04:27:54 PM
Ugh. I hate the whole gun control debate. You can't really win no matter what, since gun control does not address illegal guns.

Guess what, you disarm an honest citizen, and some random asshole will STILL have a gun! On the other hand, you give guns out nilly-willy and people are going to do stupid things eventually.

Alas, those two are more related than you give them credit for. It's a lot easier for the criminal to get his hands on a gun if they're on the sloppy hands of someone irresponsible.



I'll give you that osle, but keep in mind that the average citizen is by far not the only kind of person with sloppy hands and irresponsibility about.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Halinn on February 23, 2013, 04:28:28 PM
- I'm going back on Lamictal XR, which I had less problems with.
Epilepsy? Not a fun thing to have. My medication (levetiracetam) against it has fortunately been working, so it's been around 2 and a half years without a seizure.

Yeah, complex partial and absence.

Had only one "grand mal" which was actually a complex partial that crossed over. That's the only we know of, that's how I was diagnosed. I was previously diagnosed with syncopy, but I strongly suspect its just epilepsy.

But I can think of a couple other suspicious times. I've bitten my tongue really badly in my sleep and "fallen asleep" behind the wheel and totaled a car in the early evening. I fainted at worked after feeling an aura.

In 2011, my neurologist's ex-nurse mislabeled my prescription for double the dose of levetiracetam, which I took that way for 2-3 days. Well I ended up od'ing for 2 days, and having seizure-like symptoms: aura, tunnel vision, weakness, loss of balance, uncontrollable muscle twitch in my right arm, slurred speech, and impaired cognition.

We figured out quickly what the problem was and I went back to the right dose the next day.


I tried the generic non-XR Lamictal for like a week, but it gave me the worst stomach ache. I think it was the lack of a coating.

I am titrating off generic zonigran, which worked ok. I was worried about the increased chance of kidney stones.


U?
Not really sure on the technical stuff. I've had nothing exceptionally dangerous, a couple of seizures in my sleep and one disconcerting time when I woke up in an ambulance without knowing how I got there (and being told that I actually walked down the stairs and in there by myself). Some myoclonic stuff that's also stopped.
Used to take deprakine (valproic acid, according to wikipedia), but that resulted in weight gain (gained something like 30 kg over the course of a year), so I asked for something else, and that's been effective so far.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Nanshork on February 23, 2013, 04:46:33 PM

Guh, women problems.   :shakefist

womEn as in plural ... oh, this could get quite interesting.  :flutter

Yes, women, as in plural.   :P
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on February 23, 2013, 04:50:24 PM
Yeah it took me awhile to learn the stuff. Wikipedia became my best friend. I sat up late at night reading stuff about what I was told happened to me.

Absence seizure- staring off into space for a brief period of time and no memory of it happening.
Aura- mine are kind of this odd feeling of something really wrong, like impending doom or something.
Grand mal- the old term for tonic-clonic seizures.
Syncopy- unrelated to epilepsy, but they are often mistaken for each other, is randomly losing consciousness. Mine was related to electrolites, the think.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: brujon on February 23, 2013, 05:05:30 PM
Grandpa is in the ICU, surgery was cancelled because the doctors arrived at the conclusion that doing the emergency surgery and putting a temporary pacemaker would in the end be worse, because it would require another surgery to put the permanent one in place.

He's going to stay under observation until the surgery is scheduled, but is stable for the moment. He's 83, but the worse part is that he already has 6 bypasses in his heart. And they're already almost 30 years old, so his heart is all sorts of whack.

Thanks for the support :)
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: dman11235 on February 23, 2013, 06:24:23 PM
Check your card.  If you have some canned air, spray it into the fan and see how it handles.  If it makes the same noise that you keep hearing then you've got your culprit.  Check all your fans that way come to think of it, and if none of them make the noise then it's the electric motor for one of the fans that went wonky.  It might be wise to reseat the card too, and spray some of the canned air on the card's motherboard connector on the bottom to make sure dust isn't hampering the data connection.

Also, do you have another monitor you can try?  If so, try it instead of your current monitor.  If it works, your current monitor might be junk.  Alternately, if there's another computer around, hook up your monitor to that and see if it works.

Coincidentally, I do have a new monitor that I'm installing tomorrow.  My old one has in fact been having problems (the power plug doesn't fit right or something, if you touch it at all you lose power, simply stomping on the floor was sometimes enough to lose power).  However, I'm 99% certain that this one is with my tower and not monitor, as the problem is not getting signal at the monitor, and the problem seems to coincide with the fan problem.  The air will be done regardless because I haven't done it in way too long...
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on February 23, 2013, 06:28:47 PM
Grandpa is in the ICU, surgery was cancelled because the doctors arrived at the conclusion that doing the emergency surgery and putting a temporary pacemaker would in the end be worse, because it would require another surgery to put the permanent one in place.

He's going to stay under observation until the surgery is scheduled, but is stable for the moment. He's 83, but the worse part is that he already has 6 bypasses in his heart. And they're already almost 30 years old, so his heart is all sorts of whack.

Thanks for the support :)

I feel for you, man. Hope everything turns out alright.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on February 25, 2013, 04:31:08 PM
Going to the doctor's here shortly to hopefully find out what's been causing my bleeding and abdominal pains.  Wish me luck!
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: SneeR on February 25, 2013, 04:43:20 PM
Going to the doctor's here shortly to hopefully find out what's been causing my bleeding and abdominal pains.  Wish me luck!
Luck to you, lad.



On a rant of my own, I have strained my rhomboid, meaning that my left arm is virtually useless and I can't stand up straight unless I am drugged up the wazoo. So, I have to be high for my first date tomorrow night...
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on February 25, 2013, 05:39:00 PM
good luck jack!
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Libertad on February 25, 2013, 05:48:06 PM
"I donate to charity" is not a Get Out of Jail Free card.  Doubly so if it you continue to do bad behavior and use your philanthropy as an excuse to shield yourself from criticism, or if the donation is so small that if requires no real sacrifice or effort on your part.  If you're a contract killer or talk radio bigot or whatever, you could do a lot of good if you stopped making people miserable, but why do that when you can give up a little bit of your blood money and make no real changes upon yourself?

I see this happen in both real life and fiction, and it pisses me off when people react with "well that changes everything!"
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on February 25, 2013, 07:54:45 PM
On a rant of my own, I have strained my rhomboid, meaning that my left arm is virtually useless and I can't stand up straight unless I am drugged up the wazoo. So, I have to be high for my first date tomorrow night...

Yikes, straining those can definitely be difficult.  I hope both your muscles and your date turn out alright!

As for me, I'm back from the doc.  He said it's probably a hemorrhoid or anal fissure and thus prescribed a cream that will hopefully stimulate the area to heal.  As for my cramps and pain, he put me on an antibiotic for a few days to see if that might clear it up.  If things don't clear up in a week I'm to call back and do more stuff.  Total cost of prescriptions: $8.  Doc visit is at least $89.

Thankfully things have been getting better, so I'm not worried about having to make another appointment.  yay

And the cream feels really, really weird.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: brujon on February 25, 2013, 08:01:23 PM
On a rant of my own, I have strained my rhomboid, meaning that my left arm is virtually useless and I can't stand up straight unless I am drugged up the wazoo. So, I have to be high for my first date tomorrow night...

Yikes, straining those can definitely be difficult.  I hope both your muscles and your date turn out alright!

As for me, I'm back from the doc.  He said it's probably a hemorrhoid or anal fissure and thus prescribed a cream that will hopefully stimulate the area to heal.  As for my cramps and pain, he put me on an antibiotic for a few days to see if that might clear it up.  If things don't clear up in a week I'm to call back and do more stuff.  Total cost of prescriptions: $8.  Doc visit is at least $89.

Thankfully things have been getting better, so I'm not worried about having to make another appointment.  yay

And the cream feels really, really weird.

I had to chuckle at that last part.

feels weird...
hahahah
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: dman11235 on February 26, 2013, 12:15:20 AM
Check your card.  If you have some canned air, spray it into the fan and see how it handles.  If it makes the same noise that you keep hearing then you've got your culprit.  Check all your fans that way come to think of it, and if none of them make the noise then it's the electric motor for one of the fans that went wonky.  It might be wise to reseat the card too, and spray some of the canned air on the card's motherboard connector on the bottom to make sure dust isn't hampering the data connection.

Also, do you have another monitor you can try?  If so, try it instead of your current monitor.  If it works, your current monitor might be junk.  Alternately, if there's another computer around, hook up your monitor to that and see if it works.

Coincidentally, I do have a new monitor that I'm installing tomorrow.  My old one has in fact been having problems (the power plug doesn't fit right or something, if you touch it at all you lose power, simply stomping on the floor was sometimes enough to lose power).  However, I'm 99% certain that this one is with my tower and not monitor, as the problem is not getting signal at the monitor, and the problem seems to coincide with the fan problem.  The air will be done regardless because I haven't done it in way too long...

So apparently having my computer off for two days was enough time for a spider to make a nice little nest in there....at least the fan causing the noise was just dust build up.  My computer got a nice cleaning and is working well now.  Also, the new monitor is about 10000000 times better than my old one.  Being able to move my hand on the table without losing picture is great!
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on February 26, 2013, 01:57:34 AM
 :clap :clap Glad it all worked out for you Dman!

And yes, dust can cause all kinds of funky things with computers.  Hence why my dad has a dozen or so cans of the pressurized air cleaner.

Speaking of, I think it's time I blew some dust out of this laptop.

Different rant:  Cousin is in prison, and while I have this inkling I should at least contribute to a letter to him, I have no idea what to say.  I suppose wondering what to say in a letter to an inmate isn't a first world problem at least.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on February 26, 2013, 02:47:39 AM
how do you prevent dust from clogging up or getting into components when spraying a pc?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on February 26, 2013, 03:13:06 AM
Usually if the canned air blew the dust in, it can blow the dust out with careful placement.  But, if it's something like a video card with a fan sucking the air out then spraying on the fan can make it go backwards and thus push the gunk in more, so you might have to take off the fan cover or something and spray that way.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: altpersona on February 26, 2013, 11:22:06 AM
the only way to prevent pc dust is to isolate the pc from the environment. most pc's are not ok with this.

cell phones are the common exception.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: dman11235 on February 26, 2013, 01:35:59 PM
the only way to prevent pc dust is to isolate the pc from the environment. most pc's are not ok with this.

cell phones are the common exception.

I know there are some PCs that use liquid cooling.  They use mineral oil usually, and flood the components with it.  No dust in there!  Related note, I had a dream last night (my dreams are usually boring, this one was no exception save for this coincidence) that somehow I was using my laptop near a salty body of water (without waves), and it got splashed because of stupid kids or stupid animals.  It was fine, somehow.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: brujon on February 26, 2013, 02:16:03 PM
the only way to prevent pc dust is to isolate the pc from the environment. most pc's are not ok with this.

cell phones are the common exception.

You can never be completely free of dust, but depending on your fan setup, you can reduce it considerably. Look into Positive Pressure fan setup.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: veekie on February 26, 2013, 02:21:43 PM
Flooding is actually pretty inefficient for cooling, though it looks cool as hell. It gets the heat out of the components, but is terrible at getting the heated coolant out of the CASING. so internally the heat will pool via convection.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: dman11235 on February 26, 2013, 02:37:03 PM
I didn't say it was good, I just said it kept dust out.  Also, you can use a compressor to actually cool the fluid.  Pump it out of the casing, and when it's out there use the compressor to pull heat out and pump to the atmosphere.  Two ways: have a separate refrigerant pumped through the fluid, and two, use a refrigerant as the fluid.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: altpersona on February 26, 2013, 02:56:53 PM
never completely dust free, true, but hermetically sealing it can cut down a whole lot.

liquid cooling only really address the cpu and such. the power supply fan will still coat everything in that fine special pc dust.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on February 26, 2013, 08:21:29 PM
The feral kitty is limping on his front paw and it seems to  be getting worse  :bigeyes

We don't have the money to take him to the vet, and worse I have the suspicion Mom may be responsible because she thinks feeding him is too expensive. 

I may have to have him put down  :bigeyes
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on February 26, 2013, 09:03:53 PM
Sorry to hear that, bhu.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: 123456789blaaa on February 26, 2013, 09:16:50 PM
The feral kitty is limping on his front paw and it seems to  be getting worse  :bigeyes

We don't have the money to take him to the vet, and worse I have the suspicion Mom may be responsible because she thinks feeding him is too expensive. 

I may have to have him put down  :bigeyes

Um...I may be misinterpreting this but it sounds like you're saying your mother damaged the cats paw so you'd be forced to put him down  :o.

Am I misunderstanding?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on February 26, 2013, 11:04:03 PM
Mom decided at some point I needed a pet to cheer me up despite my long and obvious protestations to the contrary.  We have no money and no way of paying for vet bills.  I can't even pay for my own medical care.  Despite my objections she started feeding the local ferals and one adopted her, and she convinced him to come inside.

I should also mention my mother is either a sociopath or has problems with narcissistic personality disorder.  She has no real emotions other than pretty shallow ones, no concept of others pain.  She is a shallow, self-centered, controlling bitch, and I wouldn't trust her alone in the room with anyone or anything vulnerable (children, the elderly, small animals, etc).  She lives with me because my other option is dying in the street until I either get a job or disability.  And because it lets me keep an eye on her. 

The cats been pissing her off lately, and she's run into money trouble.  She complains constantly about the cost of feeding him, and while I have no proof she did anything, the cat seems a little iffy around her suddenly.  I hope it's just my imagination.

The point is, I can't afford to get him treatment and Mom refuses to.  She needs her money for other things, which she claims are debts she owes but never seems to pay on.  He was in a fight recently and got injured, or he broke a bone in his leg/paw, I have no hope of getting the funds necessary to have him treated, and he's still mostly feral.  He won't attack me or mom but everyone else is fair game.  He isn't even housebroken he meows when he needs to be let out to do his business.  So if he gets an infection, he'll die slow and painfully.  If his limb is broken instead of sprained, it'll be broken forever.  And if it requires any form of time, effort, or money to help him, mom won't be able to deal with that.  I wouldn't put it past her to simply do something bad to him while I was gone one day.  I don't want him put to sleep, but I can't take care of him, no one wants a feral cat (especially one that will require large medical bills), and if I don't find a way to get him out of Mom's way she may simply off him because he's suddenly inconvenient.  She'll do it the same way she does everything she knows I object to, by waiting until I'm not here.  She's not above simply driving him into the country and flinging him from her van, she's done it to pets before.  If he's put to sleep at least  it's quick and hopefully painless. 

I'll be calling vets tomorrow to see what options I can pursue.  I'm hoping one of them gives me good news. 
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Nanshork on February 26, 2013, 11:09:59 PM
bhu, I would have given up on your mom by now.  I don't understand how you have the patience that you do.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: InnaBinder on February 26, 2013, 11:18:31 PM
Mom decided at some point I needed a pet to cheer me up despite my long and obvious protestations to the contrary.  We have no money and no way of paying for vet bills.  I can't even pay for my own medical care.  Despite my objections she started feeding the local ferals and one adopted her, and she convinced him to come inside.

I should also mention my mother is either a sociopath or has problems with narcissistic personality disorder.  She has no real emotions other than pretty shallow ones, no concept of others pain.  She is a shallow, self-centered, controlling bitch, and I wouldn't trust her alone in the room with anyone or anything vulnerable (children, the elderly, small animals, etc).  She lives with me because my other option is dying in the street until I either get a job or disability.  And because it lets me keep an eye on her. 

The cats been pissing her off lately, and she's run into money trouble.  She complains constantly about the cost of feeding him, and while I have no proof she did anything, the cat seems a little iffy around her suddenly.  I hope it's just my imagination.

The point is, I can't afford to get him treatment and Mom refuses to.  She needs her money for other things, which she claims are debts she owes but never seems to pay on.  He was in a fight recently and got injured, or he broke a bone in his leg/paw, I have no hope of getting the funds necessary to have him treated, and he's still mostly feral.  He won't attack me or mom but everyone else is fair game.  He isn't even housebroken he meows when he needs to be let out to do his business.  So if he gets an infection, he'll die slow and painfully.  If his limb is broken instead of sprained, it'll be broken forever.  And if it requires any form of time, effort, or money to help him, mom won't be able to deal with that.  I wouldn't put it past her to simply do something bad to him while I was gone one day.  I don't want him put to sleep, but I can't take care of him, no one wants a feral cat (especially one that will require large medical bills), and if I don't find a way to get him out of Mom's way she may simply off him because he's suddenly inconvenient.  She'll do it the same way she does everything she knows I object to, by waiting until I'm not here.  She's not above simply driving him into the country and flinging him from her van, she's done it to pets before.  If he's put to sleep at least  it's quick and hopefully painless. 

I'll be calling vets tomorrow to see what options I can pursue.  I'm hoping one of them gives me good news.
Hugs for bhu.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on February 26, 2013, 11:19:28 PM
bhu, I would have given up on your mom by now.  I don't understand how you have the patience that you do.

It's not patience, it's desperation.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on February 26, 2013, 11:19:46 PM
Ever had that urge to violently murder something because of stories you've seen or watched?  That's me right now.  I think it's time I installed a first person shooter right now and went nuts with it.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: brujon on February 26, 2013, 11:28:12 PM
Ever had that urge to violently murder something because of stories you've seen or watched?  That's me right now.  I think it's time I installed a first person shooter right now and went nuts with it.

Ehh, depending on your personality, an FPS game may enrage you more than bring you release. To really relax, i think the best way to go about it is to download some environmental sounds, such as waves, rain, singing birds, etc... Hook up to a headphone or a sound system, and just lay down with your eyes close and try to focus as best as you can on all the nuances of the sound. It should be able to relieve you of your stress.

Then you can build it up again by repeatedly getting killed by the same damn sniper over and over again and not figuring out where he is so you can counter snipe  :banghead
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on February 26, 2013, 11:35:29 PM
Ever had that urge to violently murder something because of stories you've seen or watched?  That's me right now.  I think it's time I installed a first person shooter right now and went nuts with it.

Ehh, depending on your personality, an FPS game may enrage you more than bring you release. To really relax, i think the best way to go about it is to download some environmental sounds, such as waves, rain, singing birds, etc... Hook up to a headphone or a sound system, and just lay down with your eyes close and try to focus as best as you can on all the nuances of the sound. It should be able to relieve you of your stress.

Then you can build it up again by repeatedly getting killed by the same damn sniper over and over again and not figuring out where he is so you can counter snipe  :banghead

Shooters don't normally do that to me, hence why I know it's an option.  And I don't play those military shooters because they're so linear it's meaningless to me.  TotalBiscuit did a video where he was playing one and the game would literally kill the character if you had him go down some stairs instead of shooting a sniper in a window to "continue."  Nah, I play stuff like Quake and Unreal Tournament.

And I'm not so much stressed out as incensed at the injustice of certain things.  My main outlet for that kind of thing right now is video games since I sure as hell ain't running in freezing weather, especially since I'm still recovering from whatever abdominal problems I got earlier.

In a strange way I suppose shooters can also be meditative.  Perhaps something similar to the Combat Awareness feat would be a good analog.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: SneeR on February 26, 2013, 11:38:08 PM
Ever had that urge to violently murder something because of stories you've seen or watched?  That's me right now.  I think it's time I installed a first person shooter right now and went nuts with it.
Ehh, depending on your personality, an FPS game may enrage you more than bring you release. To really relax, i think the best way to go about it is to download some environmental sounds, such as waves, rain, singing birds, etc... Hook up to a headphone or a sound system, and just lay down with your eyes close and try to focus as best as you can on all the nuances of the sound. It should be able to relieve you of your stress.
"Weightless" by Marconic Union (http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/listen-to-the-most-relaxing-song-ever-170097) has been deigned the most relaxing song in existence by scientists. Listen to it on Youtube! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CySNhHVAokQ)
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on February 27, 2013, 11:54:25 AM
Well it isn't broken.  I was told what to look for in case of an abscess which he doesn't seem to have, so it looks likes somehow he strained himself.  He's still hobbling but he's moving better
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on February 27, 2013, 12:29:05 PM
What are you ultimately planning to do with the kitty?

Is there a local SPCA that you can drop the cat off at, if you can't take care of it? Or would it be too old/too feral to be adopted?

Actually, how feral is the cat?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on February 27, 2013, 12:57:44 PM
Mom and I can pet him as long as he wants to be petted, and we aren't too rough.  Anyone else he'll run from/hiss at, and if we're wearing bulky clothes that are unfamiliar or appear around a corner too suddenly he hisses at us too.    He was fairly young (though not a kitten) when mom started feeding him.  He meows if he's hungry, or if he needs outside to do his business, but is otherwise pretty quiet.  He even lets mom rub his belly.


I intend to keep him if I feasibly can.  SPCA I'll have to check into.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Bozwevial on February 27, 2013, 06:50:04 PM
As of right now, it looks like my flatmates have gone ahead and applied for housing while I'm abroad without so much as a cursory nod in my direction. I had to find out third-hand, and I suspect that either they deliberately excluded me or they collectively managed to forget me. Given that a) I'm not the one who regularly had fights with other flatmates and b) they only have accommodations for everyone right now because I agreed to use my lottery number on a townhouse last year, I'm kind of surprised by this whole thing. Surprised, and more than a little irritated.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on February 27, 2013, 07:06:09 PM
Irritated hell, I'd be out for blood...
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: sirpercival on February 27, 2013, 07:09:36 PM
As of right now, it looks like my flatmates have gone ahead and applied for housing while I'm abroad without so much as a cursory nod in my direction. I had to find out third-hand, and I suspect that either they deliberately excluded me or they collectively managed to forget me. Given that a) I'm not the one who regularly had fights with other flatmates and b) they only have accommodations for everyone right now because I agreed to use my lottery number on a townhouse last year, I'm kind of surprised by this whole thing. Surprised, and more than a little irritated.
That's extremely dickish...
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on February 27, 2013, 09:22:31 PM
I goddamn fucking hate hospitals.

Here's a hint medicine people, bleach is not strong enough to hide the scent of death and white uniforms are not enough to get through the intense atmosphere of fear that haunts your workplace.

Not from me anyway.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on February 27, 2013, 10:39:12 PM
What kinda hospitals do they have in Brazil  :twitch
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: brujon on February 27, 2013, 10:42:16 PM
IDK what kind of hospitals in Kuro's town, but over here, pretty good. It's mostly public hospitals that suck. Even then, more so around the slums.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: altpersona on February 27, 2013, 10:50:29 PM
same as we will have here when bamacare kicks in  :P
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on February 28, 2013, 09:02:49 AM
What kinda hospitals do they have in Brazil  :twitch

The hospitals themselves are fine. It's just that I can't stand them. There's a huge effort put in to prevent people from remembering it's a place where death and loss of dignity occur on a daily basis.

Kinda like how some people hate small spaces or tall places without actually being afraid of them (as in, not phobic).
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Wrex on March 01, 2013, 12:53:13 AM
So.... A game I play in (3.5) has the unfortunate of reciving a chaotic stupid player that the DM refuses to kick. We're talking "I use Baleful utterance on the treasure because that's what my character would do" or "I use blaeful utterance on the ice bridge, dropping 3 PC's to their death, because my character would be that reckless". We were going to PK him, when the PLOTIMPORTANTNPC shows up to save his life and send him to jail. The DM let him roll a new character. This guy jumps off an airship, to follow the boss the swordsage had previously flung off the edge. He then desprately tries to justify falling 100 miles not killing him. (Of course he didn't pack feather fall). His newest Character is a Paladin/Bard. Let that sink in for a minute. His excuse is "I'm building him for FLAVOUR STOP MUNCHINKING". I....I know the DM really well, and I really don't want to hurt him, because honestly? I respect the guy, but there is no excuse to permit this kind of idiodicy. He isn't even a grognard.

/firstworldproblems
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: kitep on March 01, 2013, 08:03:21 AM
This guy jumps off an airship, ... He then desprately tries to justify falling 100 miles not killing him.

I remember playing DDO (D&D Online) and jumping over the side of an airship, just to see what would happen.  I expected to go splat and respawn in the tavern, but I actually landed in the ocean and got to swim to shore.  I was lost, but alive :)

In d&d, surviving a 100 mile fall is easy.  Falling maxes out at 20d6 damage, which is an average of 70.

But overall, I feel your pain.  Some people can ruin an otherwise great game.  Hopefully, he'll find a group that enjoys his style.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on March 01, 2013, 08:21:30 AM
I'm currently in a game with an entitled asshole. The DM doesn't want to boot him, even though he's blatantly cheating (in the last fight we had, he took over 250 damage in a fight. He has 132 HP), is a domineering jerk, and he's a munchkin.

If I were DMing, he would be out of the door long ago. However, my current DM, while he recognizes that the guy is an asshole, who actively saps the fun from at least 1 player other than myself (with another guy getting rather ticked off), is really bad at saying no to people.

I mean, he wasn't able to say no when the guy recruited two other players without asking him...

If I could get away with it, I'd punch the douchebag in the face until he cried blood (because I'm at the stage where I'm past being an adult, and I want some damn BLOOD for this); however, he's from a family of rich lawyers (which is why he's an entitled asshole), so I'd probably just get my rather poor ass sued and arrested for my troubles.

If it gets any worse, I'm going to walk. Or someone is getting hurt.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on March 01, 2013, 09:15:37 AM
If the issue is not that the DM refuses to kick him, but rather that he has a hard time saying so, why don't you put the rest of the group together and, if everyone reaches a consensus, you guys tell him he's out rather than the DM?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: ariasderros on March 01, 2013, 10:16:59 AM
His newest Character is a Paladin/Bard.
I've played that. He was pretty good, actually. I had to min/max every little bit, but he was a really good melee character with a decent amount of versatility from Bard.
At the time he was retired, he was a Star Elf, Bard 14, Paladin 2, with Devoted Performer. Bard was all focused on maxing out IC, and I took the Subsonic feat so that I could maintain it all day, only switching out for Healing Hymn.

If the issue is not that the DM refuses to kick him, but rather that he has a hard time saying so, why don't you put the rest of the group together and, if everyone reaches a consensus, you guys tell him he's out rather than the DM?

This.

I have been the DM with a bad player before. One of my biggest peeves was that none of the other players were saying anything to him. Yes, I am the DM, but I'm really just another player with more responsibilities. You have one character, I have a world of characters, that's the only real difference. Gentleman's Agreement, we're all here to have fun.

So, yeah, don't put it all on just the DM. It's everyone's table.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on March 01, 2013, 11:45:51 AM
The thing is that there is at least one player that doesn't see a problem with it, at least two players that don't want to make waves, a DM that doesn't want to boot him (the fact that he mooches off the guy might be a contributing factor), and one other guy who means well, but...

Quite frankly, this is one of those situations where reaching a consensus is not something that is going to happen, and my walking out may be the most mature way for me to save my sanity.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Wrex on March 01, 2013, 02:58:22 PM
The thing is that there is at least one player that doesn't see a problem with it, at least two players that don't want to make waves, a DM that doesn't want to boot him (the fact that he mooches off the guy might be a contributing factor), and one other guy who means well, but...

Quite frankly, this is one of those situations where reaching a consensus is not something that is going to happen, and my walking out may be the most mature way for me to save my sanity.


I'm with Amechra here on this one. Leaving seems the best plan.

On the bright side, someone used Physics to see how far underwater a 100 mile fall would put him. The answer was 460~ Feet, at which point pressure gibbed him.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: brujon on March 01, 2013, 06:03:38 PM
Seriously? oO

I'd imagine it would work out more or less the same as when a bullet hits water, and you'd only go a couple of feet in, and get nearly all the energy transferred to your body instantly.

I mean, if a .50 BMG can't penetrate more than 2 or 3 meters in water travelling as fast as it is, and being as lean as it is, i'd imagine a person would work out more or less the same, at 500km/h which is roughly the terminal velocity.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on March 01, 2013, 06:33:33 PM
One of these days I'll always remember to take up my dishes instead of letting them stack on my desk.  Today I remembered thankfully, but I need to get into a habit that'll work even when I feel sick.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on March 01, 2013, 07:03:07 PM
The thing is that there is at least one player that doesn't see a problem with it, at least two players that don't want to make waves, a DM that doesn't want to boot him (the fact that he mooches off the guy might be a contributing factor), and one other guy who means well, but...

Quite frankly, this is one of those situations where reaching a consensus is not something that is going to happen, and my walking out may be the most mature way for me to save my sanity.

Get the people who don't like him to pee on him when the DM isn't looking.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on March 01, 2013, 11:25:15 PM
The game actually just died because two of us walked.

We're starting up a new campaign without the problem guy, so I hope it works out better.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on March 01, 2013, 11:49:55 PM
Damn.  Sorry u lost your DM Amechra.  Kinda feel guilty about the joke now...
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: altpersona on March 02, 2013, 12:56:47 AM
if im so smart, why aren't i rich? // i must not be that smart.     :-\
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on March 02, 2013, 01:58:05 AM
Damn.  Sorry u lost your DM Amechra.  Kinda feel guilty about the joke now...

He's running the next campaign; it really is what amounts to his last hurrah with running a game, since he's going into Law school soon, and he doesn't think he'll have the time.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: ariasderros on March 02, 2013, 08:01:08 AM
Damn.  Sorry u lost your DM Amechra.  Kinda feel guilty about the joke now...

What joke? I read your posts. Didn't see a joke.

Wait, do you mean peeing on someone you don't like was said as a joke? I thought that would work quite well.

Edit:
Seriously? oO

I'd imagine it would work out more or less the same as when a bullet hits water, and you'd only go a couple of feet in, and get nearly all the energy transferred to your body instantly.

I mean, if a .50 BMG can't penetrate more than 2 or 3 meters in water travelling as fast as it is, and being as lean as it is, i'd imagine a person would work out more or less the same, at 500km/h which is roughly the terminal velocity.
A bullet has force of its mass and its speed, when the force form the speed starts being taken away and returned, that's it.
When a person hit the water at that speed, you have a lot more mass, and gravity helps pull you further.
Kind of like hitting a person really quickly can hurt a lot, but so can having the strength to follow in with your momentum and continue the impact.
I'm not explaining well...  :shrug
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: dman11235 on March 02, 2013, 05:06:31 PM
No, brujon is right.  You aren't going to go very far into the water from the force of the impact.  It's different than solid matter, but for the most part you don't go more than a couple meters.  You tend to go further simply because you'll start sinking after the force splatters you apart.  Remember, speed is the most important part of the equation.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: SneeR on March 02, 2013, 11:07:13 PM
Injured my back last week at the gym.

Had a great date last night. Did celebratory pull-ups. Re-injured back.

Died in ignominy.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: InnaBinder on March 03, 2013, 02:21:08 PM
One person showed up to D&D this week.

ONE. PERSON.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on March 03, 2013, 02:46:03 PM
That's more than I can put together for a game every six months or so.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: awaken_D_M_golem on March 03, 2013, 04:14:21 PM
if im so smart, why aren't i rich? // i must not be that smart.     :-\

SEE NO Ee-VUL
HEAR NO Ee-VUL
SPEAK NO Ee-VUL
 :fu
my kitty avatar points at me and says life ain't fair kid get over it -- meow
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on March 04, 2013, 12:17:39 AM
Th cat was acting sad and listless to day, and for a few hours seemed too weak to get off the couch.  He's suddenly rebounded to acting almost normal but for one exception: he won't let my mother touch him.  He hisses at her if she tries.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on March 04, 2013, 12:49:06 AM
Th cat was acting sad and listless to day, and for a few hours seemed too weak to get off the couch.  He's suddenly rebounded to acting almost normal but for one exception: he won't let my mother touch him.  He hisses at her if she tries.

Sounds like she tried something the cat didn't like and won't forgive her for anytime soon.  Poor little thing...
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on March 04, 2013, 01:01:21 AM
I need to figure something out.  I don't know if i can get a former feral adopted out by anyone, and while I have no proof mom has done anything, she has a pretty sketchy past.  If I can't find someone to adopt him (which isn't likely because he doesn't trust people) I'm back to having him put to sleep to avoid having him suffer.  He's suddenly drinking lots of water too.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on March 04, 2013, 02:39:16 AM
 :banghead  :banghead

Been going back and forth with a guy who thinks the Deck of Illusion and Dust of Disappearance have saving throws.  No save is listed for the items, and none was given in the errata.  There is no saving throw on them!
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: SneeR on March 04, 2013, 02:55:43 AM
:banghead  :banghead
Been going back and forth with a guy who thinks the Deck of Illusion and Dust of Disappearance have saving throws.  No save is listed for the items, and none was given in the errata.  There is no saving throw on them!
What does he think the DC is?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on March 04, 2013, 03:05:10 AM
:banghead  :banghead
Been going back and forth with a guy who thinks the Deck of Illusion and Dust of Disappearance have saving throws.  No save is listed for the items, and none was given in the errata.  There is no saving throw on them!
What does he think the DC is?

Hasn't said anything about the DCs, only that they should have saving throws according to the magic item saving throw rules on DMG page 214.  I calculated that the Dust of Disappearance would be DC 16, and the Deck would be DC 14.  But no saves are listed, so they don't have them.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: ShadowViper on March 04, 2013, 03:09:27 AM
Could be just trying to troll
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on March 04, 2013, 03:16:29 AM
Whether the poster is a troll is iffy.  It's true he has used demeaning comments to describe other posters (me and one other mainly, and of course I haven't responded to them.)  But I think it's more that he's so confident in himself that he can't even think that he's wrong, especially when the opposing side makes a few minor errors like I did.  He's tried to chink away at me and I've only responded with more analysis of the situation, which is pretty much repeating myself because I've covered the topic in what some might call such painful detail that there's really nothing else to say.

I suppose one good thing to say about it is I received an experience point for my analyses.  It's on ENworld in the long thread "You're doing what? Surprising the DM."
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: ariasderros on March 04, 2013, 06:36:08 AM
He's suddenly drinking lots of water too.

Combined with him acting more normal, that's good. Animals know when to flush out their system.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on March 04, 2013, 01:53:21 PM
Still can't tell if the guy is a troll, but his responses to my posts really piss me off now and I think it's best I get the hell away from him because I can't think properly when I'm enraged.  And if I can't think, I'm going to post something that he'll just tear apart again and I'll just get even more infuriated.  Yes, I screw up every now and then, but I think he's dumber than a bunch of chickens.  The chickens at least are smart enough to take the wheat and leave the chaff.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Libertad on March 04, 2013, 03:55:18 PM
Still can't tell if the guy is a troll, but his responses to my posts really piss me off now and I think it's best I get the hell away from him because I can't think properly when I'm enraged.  And if I can't think, I'm going to post something that he'll just tear apart again and I'll just get even more infuriated.  Yes, I screw up every now and then, but I think he's dumber than a bunch of chickens.  The chickens at least are smart enough to take the wheat and leave the chaff.

I think a Bill Clinton quote is appropriate:  "Don't interfere when your opponent is shooting himself in the foot."

If he's been proven wrong, and he still doggedly sticks to his point, he's hurting his own argument.  No further interference necessary.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on March 04, 2013, 07:35:30 PM
I think a Bill Clinton quote is appropriate:  "Don't interfere when your opponent is shooting himself in the foot."

If he's been proven wrong, and he still doggedly sticks to his point, he's hurting his own argument.  No further interference necessary.

I like that quote.

And yeah, I decided not to post anything further.  I was rewarded by finding out he's apparently been temp banned for three days for being an asshole, and has been infracted.  I got no infractions of course because I didn't insult him or anyone else.

Alas, it's probable that he hasn't been truly proven wrong since the rules are still iffy and I mucked up a couple points, but my supporter that posted did say he felt my reasoning was pretty darn strong and made sense.  So yeah, I'm definitely less pissy after seeing that.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on March 04, 2013, 09:56:52 PM
And now all of a sudden kitty is back to normal.  I'd actually describe him as chipper.

Can animals be bipolar?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: veekie on March 04, 2013, 10:02:51 PM
Sounds more like he ate something nasty and just got it out of his system.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on March 04, 2013, 10:09:29 PM
And now all of a sudden kitty is back to normal.  I'd actually describe him as chipper.

Can animals be bipolar?
Animals can and do get many of the same psychological disorders humans get.  I've heard of at least one parrot being treated for depression for example.

But based on my own bipolar experience, I'd be iffy on suddenly saying he has bipolar-like symptoms.  Like Veekie said, it's entirely possible he simply got something out of his system and is now a content kitty.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: veekie on March 04, 2013, 10:25:52 PM
Well, what bhu described sounds like some kind of low level poisoning.

Maybe he got fed something cats can't eat?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: InnaBinder on March 04, 2013, 10:32:12 PM
Well, what bhu described sounds like some kind of low level poisoning.

Maybe he got fed something cats can't eat?
Someone gave kitty a chocolate?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on March 04, 2013, 10:35:30 PM
Well, what bhu described sounds like some kind of low level poisoning.

Maybe he got fed something cats can't eat?
Someone gave kitty a chocolate?
Not just toxic for dogs, in case anyone was wondering.  http://www.petmd.com/cat/conditions/digestive/c_ct_chocolate_toxicity#.UTVn3zeyKMQ
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on March 04, 2013, 10:50:34 PM
Mom is stupid enough to feed him stuff he shouldn't prolly eat...

I'm still looking for a way to wean him off tuna.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: altpersona on March 04, 2013, 10:57:29 PM

I'm still looking for a way to wean him off tuna.
   said every cat owner ever   :P
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: InnaBinder on March 04, 2013, 11:01:10 PM

I'm still looking for a way to wean him off tuna.
   said every cat owner ever   :P
Mine vastly prefers chicken, and has turned his nose up to tuna when given the option.

Then again, he prefers dry food over actual meat, so is clearly abnormal in this regard.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on March 04, 2013, 11:12:33 PM

I'm still looking for a way to wean him off tuna.
   said every cat owner ever   :P

You aren't sposed to give cats tuna, it's bad for them.  I told her not to start now it's all he wants to eat.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on March 05, 2013, 12:17:33 AM
Our cats definitely don't eat much when we're gone, as if they'll never get anymore food ever again
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Yirrare on March 05, 2013, 03:44:03 AM

I'm still looking for a way to wean him off tuna.
   said every cat owner ever   :P

You aren't sposed to give cats tuna, it's bad for them.  I told her not to start now it's all he wants to eat.
I know quite little about cats, since I am terribly allergic to them... So this is just a question to you catpeople, since your knowledge vastly greater than mine in this field. It is only out of curiosity.

Can't you just stop feeding them tuna, and only give them catfood? I mean, even if they go on a hungerstrike, they will eat the catfood eventually, right?
I realize some people might consider it cruel to only give them catfood if they refuse to eat. But does it endanger them in any way? I mean, they still get food. Just not their preferential food.

Best Regards
Yirrare
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on March 05, 2013, 04:26:12 AM
We never give them tuna, always 2-1/2 scoops of dry food. Plus one LOVES milk, so my wife gives her a tiny bit every morning. Occasionally, they get kitty treats, the ones made from mostly catnip and also wet food after a doctor visit
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on March 05, 2013, 04:27:54 PM
The abdominal pains are back, plus I think I spotted a few drops of blood in one of my last visits.  Keeping track of my bathroom trips and what I have eaten again.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on March 05, 2013, 05:52:29 PM
I think someone's given me Anthrax.

My bathroom looks like I just shat half the Ganges, because it smells like dead people.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Raineh Daze on March 05, 2013, 05:54:54 PM
Well, crap.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: awaken_D_M_golem on March 05, 2013, 07:02:59 PM
lol ... cat avatars talking about cats, from a point of (oh shuddap aDMg)

To coin a word, it's Meta-Feline-ical.
(which oughta be a psionic discipline, yes?)

Tuna is the #2 slide ---> http://pets.webmd.com/cats/ss/slideshow-foods-your-cat-should-never-eat
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on March 05, 2013, 07:27:43 PM
Took Kitty to vet:

Bad news: His urethra is blocked.  They gave him a shot.

Good news: His bladder let go after they gave him the shot and he peed everywhere, so they say he has a better than average chance to make it through the next 24 hours. 


Worse news: It may reblock in which case bloodwork is 90 bucks, and fixing him may be 400 (700-800 if they have to do surgery).  Which we can't afford.  If it does reblock he basically has 24 hours or so to live.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: awaken_D_M_golem on March 05, 2013, 08:19:52 PM
 :(


meta-kitty-hugz
 :hug
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on March 05, 2013, 08:36:13 PM
THanks adg  :hug
omg why didnt i notice we had a hug smiley?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on March 05, 2013, 08:38:37 PM
THanks adg  :hug
omg why didnt i notice we had a hug smiley?

Probably because you haven't looked too much at the full emote list?

And here's hoping the kitty's urethra doesn't reblock...  That's got to be one of the worst ways to die.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on March 06, 2013, 02:54:32 AM
Thanks for the great link, adg.
my wife only gives the cat ~1/2 teaspoon of milk, and has for years. but the other cat loves eating strings, and will do anything to do so. One time he ripped a cloth rubberband thing from a new pair of sandals that was like a foot long. He tried to eat it, but threw up. I freaked out, thinking I nearly killed the cat!

@bhu best of luck  :bigeyes
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Agita on March 06, 2013, 03:32:50 AM
THanks adg  :hug
omg why didnt i notice we had a hug smiley?
I'm not sure It got added a while ago (http://www.minmaxboards.com/index.php?topic=8409.msg134086#msg134086), but fairly surreptitiously, so it's excusable. I didn't put it on the main displayed list, either.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on March 06, 2013, 01:51:41 PM
Went to login to my work site and it keeps saying 'username or password dont match, error code 75'.

Has been 24 hours or more since tech support was alerted and no change.  Am beginning to panic a little.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: awaken_D_M_golem on March 06, 2013, 06:03:14 PM
Blocked urethra + Hugz smiley face = coincidence ?!


I don't think so  :cool
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on March 07, 2013, 03:26:03 AM
Ever had a toilet visit that just felt so weird and wrong, despite looking fine, that you had to shower after?  That was my experience a little while ago.  I suppose my stuff lately is a bit TMI, but let's face it, I don't think I'm the only one who felt like I lost ten pounds of body heat after a toilet visit and needed a shower to actually feel like normal.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on March 07, 2013, 03:51:54 AM
I hate the feeling 10 minutes after you go, that your bowels are still not empty (not like diarrhea)
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on March 07, 2013, 08:56:08 AM
Why does everything easy demand you be a motherfucking legal resident in the US?

A friend of mine told me about e-rewards and I figured I might give it a shot... unfortunately, I soon found out I wasn't eligible for it.

And google is failing to return me to a proper survey-for-rewards site that isn't credit card-use-related.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on March 07, 2013, 04:06:57 PM
After two days of pestering found out our it department deleted my account during the last update and need to recreate it.  wtf...
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on March 07, 2013, 04:19:23 PM
WTF is right.  They must really be incompetent if they deleted an account during an update.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Nanshork on March 07, 2013, 04:20:06 PM
After two days of pestering found out our it department deleted my account during the last update and need to recreate it.  wtf...

As a System Administrator I can definitively say that your IT Department is a piece of shit.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on March 07, 2013, 04:21:27 PM
At least it isn't as bad as getting laid off without anyone telling you.

For two weeks.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on March 07, 2013, 04:34:02 PM
Jeez, I guess my mom's successful surgery must be draining luck from EVERYBODY.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Nanshork on March 07, 2013, 05:17:53 PM
At least it isn't as bad as getting laid off without anyone telling you.

For two weeks.

That doesn't even make sense...
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on March 07, 2013, 05:22:08 PM
WTF is right.  They must really be incompetent if they deleted an account during an update.

Apparently they deleted any account that hadn't logged in in a while.

In my case 'a while' meant 2 days.  They said it was a mistake.  This is why i get pissed about work farming stuff out to the lowest bidder.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on March 07, 2013, 05:28:19 PM
At least it isn't as bad as getting laid off without anyone telling you.

For two weeks.

That doesn't even make sense...

Oh, this happened a few summers ago.

My direct employer decided to lay me off. Instead of going through the normal channels, she decided to simply stop scheduling me to work.

Those two weeks? That was me finally managing to catch her in her office; I had tried calling my coworkers and, of course, HR, who knew nothing of this.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: phaedrusxy on March 07, 2013, 05:33:39 PM
At least it isn't as bad as getting laid off without anyone telling you.

For two weeks.
I was laid off 2 weeks before my daughter was born.  :shakefist

They also laid of a pregnant lady who worked at my lab who was due in less than a month. What a bunch of bastards. (To be fair, though, they did eventually lay off like 80% of their workforce, so it wasn't like they were singling out expectant parents...)
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Nanshork on March 07, 2013, 05:43:00 PM
At least it isn't as bad as getting laid off without anyone telling you.

For two weeks.
I was laid off 2 weeks before my daughter was born.  :shakefist

They also laid of a pregnant lady who worked at my lab who was due in less than a month. What a bunch of bastards. (To be fair, though, they did eventually lay off like 80% of their workforce, so it wasn't like they were singling out expectant parents...)

I can see it now, the evil CEO who hates children and fires anyone who might end up having one.   :P
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on March 07, 2013, 08:19:54 PM
Laid off the day after buying the engagement ring
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Sinfire Titan on March 07, 2013, 09:14:47 PM
My dad got laid off for fuck-ups that weren't even his fault (literally, someone else fucked up and he got blamed for it despite being on sick leave the entire time it happened).
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on March 07, 2013, 09:53:25 PM
Mine was for following what I was taught  :fu
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: brujon on March 07, 2013, 10:13:20 PM
Mother of my son was laid off not more than a week after she found out she was pregnant... Of course, labor laws protected her against being fired, and she remained employed. She's not coming towards the end of her "pregnancy vacation". I don't know the name in english for it, sadly :(

Have to start up on those legal english courses...
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on March 07, 2013, 10:13:59 PM
And now Im told were down all weekend and an hour a day every day for the next week or so.  I'm beginning to think IT made a serious clusterfuck and they're trying to cover.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on March 07, 2013, 10:14:24 PM
Mother of my son was laid off not more than a week after she found out she was pregnant... Of course, labor laws protected her against being fired, and she remained employed. She's not coming towards the end of her "pregnancy vacation". I don't know the name in english for it, sadly :(

Have to start up on those legal english courses...

maternity leave?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: brujon on March 07, 2013, 10:16:27 PM
Yeah. Exactly. How the hell did i forget something like that?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on March 08, 2013, 06:40:42 AM
Mother of my son was laid off not more than a week after she found out she was pregnant... Of course, labor laws protected her against being fired, and she remained employed. She's not coming towards the end of her "pregnancy vacation". I don't know the name in english for it, sadly :(

Have to start up on those legal english courses...
The expression you're looking for is "maternity leave".

EDIT: Ninja'd by my lack of sleep. Darn it.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Yirrare on March 08, 2013, 07:56:52 AM
Sometimes I just hate people. Especially the ones who, when disagreeing with the decision of the work group they are in instead try to go over everyone's head. The ones who make  plans with no estimation of time needed for a project, and hand waves any critique or question about the time frame. 

"It was a 6:1 majority decision to do it like this."
"Well I still think that..." :blah
:witsend

Best Regards
Yirrare
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: brujon on March 08, 2013, 02:11:28 PM
i feel my depression coming back, full force. A lot of shit happening recently in my life... I severed contact with the mother of my son due to all of the shit, she's adamant in not letting me take him out of her house, basically forcing me to go there if i want to see him, which basically is the trigger for the legal battle about to take place in order to discuss custody. Yeah, bad stuff. I have nervous gastritis, so i haven't eaten properly, everything kind of churns in my belly and it's very very uncomfortable. I just got back to college after 6 months of doing jack shit and now am thrown in the midst of totally unknown people, forced to readapt to the routine, which is proving harder because of all the parallel shit going on...

Mostly, i miss my son. It's three weeks since i last seen him, and i'm feeling awful about it. But i can't just bow down to her demands and go visit him there as it could hurt us legally later. So i'm left with this awful feeling like i'm being a terrible father, and selfish, at the same time knowing it's the only way we can get a fair deal out of all this.

It's been killing me, along with dreaded anticipation of what's to come, and being ill adapted to the full routine of a law student...

Dark thoughts abound, and i'm feeling really lonely as well, but don't want to hunt chicks down, because it makes me feel weird every time i go out, yet i have to because it's worse if i'm home alone. Drinking lots, not helping.

When will this hell on earth finally end?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on March 08, 2013, 03:39:29 PM
 :hug
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on March 08, 2013, 04:48:49 PM
I can only wish you the best and hope everything turns out alright in the end, brujon. =/
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on March 08, 2013, 04:58:18 PM
I'm reminded of what my dad said about my mom and her mom.  Both were alright before they got pregnant, but after the pregnancies they both went batshit crazy.

I hope it works out for you Brujon.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Libertad on March 08, 2013, 09:24:00 PM
So I've been hanging out on Giant ITP today, and I saw this thread. (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=275079)

There were only 2 posts at the time, and I thought "this sounds like a recipe for disaster."  I checked back in, and lo and behold, flame war!

Ever get the feeling that the OP is looking for trouble?  I mean, I want to report him in light of the ensuing fracas, but I don't think that the mods will go for an "I have a hunch" explanation.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on March 09, 2013, 12:20:00 AM
So I've been hanging out on Giant ITP today, and I saw this thread. (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=275079)

There were only 2 posts at the time, and I thought "this sounds like a recipe for disaster."  I checked back in, and lo and behold, flame war!

Ever get the feeling that the OP is looking for trouble?  I mean, I want to report him in light of the ensuing fracas, but I don't think that the mods will go for an "I have a hunch" explanation.

I had the "fortune" of seeing some threads on ENWorld about the differences between the sexes, and I think at one time they had a posted rule saying to the effect of "Don't post anything about gender/sex differences.  We've had so much flaming going on that we're fed up with it and won't allow it anymore."
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: veekie on March 09, 2013, 12:51:12 AM
It seems like a civilized discussion topic...if you had an audience of civilized people.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on March 09, 2013, 01:22:38 AM
If I didn't have friends on gitP i would be so tempted to have fun with this.

"I think women make better warriors than men, cause they fling their own poop.  They're like giant hairless super monkeys.  With Boobs."
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: ariasderros on March 09, 2013, 06:49:09 AM
I got as far as the first post response, and wondered why there was anything below it.
Then again, I've known Marines of both genders, PSC employees of both genders. And I've known each of those female Marines to be pissed that they weren't allowed to even try for Special Forces, or even see front line combat. They wanted to fight, dammit.

So, yeah, the attitudes of professionals are the attitudes of professionals. Gender is less relevant to that than that.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: InnaBinder on March 09, 2013, 07:30:59 AM
So I've been hanging out on Giant ITP today, and I saw this thread. (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=275079)

There were only 2 posts at the time, and I thought "this sounds like a recipe for disaster."  I checked back in, and lo and behold, flame war!

Ever get the feeling that the OP is looking for trouble?  I mean, I want to report him in light of the ensuing fracas, but I don't think that the mods will go for an "I have a hunch" explanation.
If anything (and with no dog in the fight), I'd say the poster called "Robs" was the most guilty of instigation within that thread, based on his "I'm offended that you find a difference of opinion offensive" recursive-loop reasoning.  "Most guilty of instigation" isn't intended to indicate a report-able offense, though I do know GitP's standards for that are different than here.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on March 09, 2013, 09:59:59 AM
Oh god, not the war of the sexes again.

I thought the Hancock Treaty had taken care of that.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Raineh Daze on March 09, 2013, 10:05:58 AM
I wonder if I can track down this 'Robs' person and set them on fire? It would benefit the world, I'm sure.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on March 09, 2013, 10:59:44 AM
So would me punching half the stupid people in the world, but ain't nobody got the time for that...
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Raineh Daze on March 09, 2013, 11:11:38 AM
Yeah, punching three and a half billion people would take ages.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on March 09, 2013, 11:28:35 AM
Yeah, punching three and a half billion people would take ages.

Maybe if I lined them up and went with a Tankou Kouhou...
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: ariasderros on March 09, 2013, 11:38:27 AM
Yeah, punching three and a half billion people would take ages.

Nonsense. Step 1: Polymorph into a scaled one of toril. Step 2: Manipulate Form.

Step 9,001: punch everything, everywhere, everywhen.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on March 09, 2013, 11:44:25 AM
arias, if I could polymorph, don't you think I'd have more interesting stuff to do than punch out the stupid people in this planet?  :p
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: ariasderros on March 09, 2013, 12:15:47 PM
arias, if I could polymorph, don't you think I'd have more interesting stuff to do than punch out the stupid people in this planet?  :p

If you finish reading my suggestion, you would be able to do whatever you want.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on March 09, 2013, 12:22:08 PM
But then I'd be a kobold.  :bigeyes
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: ariasderros on March 09, 2013, 12:25:23 PM
But then I'd be a kobold.  :bigeyes

Umm, anyone can do it.
That's what Polymorph is there for in the way I used. But there are countless ways for anyone to pull off pun-pun. (Okay, it is countable, I guess I need to clarify that this isn't an infinite, just that there's a lot.)
Anywho... [/off-topic]
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on March 09, 2013, 02:35:29 PM
Well, the antibiotic isn't as effective this time as I thought it was the first go around.  Hopefully it and continued cream use will fix my problems though.  If I'm still in noticeable pain at the end of the seven day antibiotic treatment I think another doctor trip is in order.  At least I'm not bleeding anymore.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: veekie on March 09, 2013, 02:39:28 PM
But then I'd be a kobold.  :bigeyes
Go to Exalted, be a Solar and use the Creation-Slaying Oblivion Kick combo.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on March 09, 2013, 03:27:54 PM
Isn't Kuroi already a Solar?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on March 09, 2013, 07:40:47 PM
Just read the description of that human centipede movie...  Absolutely disgusting.  I'm going to watch an episode of My Little Pony to balance things out.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on March 09, 2013, 11:50:43 PM
Don't read the synopsis of the sequel then...
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on March 10, 2013, 03:19:43 AM
Don't read the synopsis of the sequel then...
Definitely wasn't going to.

And in other news, apparently sitting at my desk can lead to my abdominal pains.  Standing at my desk is working better.  Damn I wish I had a variable height desk.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: altpersona on March 10, 2013, 12:49:08 PM
Don't read the synopsis of the sequel then...
Definitely wasn't going to.

And in other news, apparently sitting at my desk can lead to my abdominal pains.  Standing at my desk is working better.  Damn I wish I had a variable height desk.

(http://ny-image3.etsy.com/il_570xN.213604779.jpg)
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: SorO_Lost on March 10, 2013, 07:13:39 PM
Minecraft. Fuck them.

Seriously. The only way to get a hold of Mojong is to fill out their forum on an Account or Payment related issue and even then you need your bill of sale number and original email used. Oh sure you could try their official forums, but your first post isn't visible till approved and then you have twenty four hours to make ten more additional posts or some stupid shit like that. Want to be cleaver and use their IRC? Talking is disabled until you register your nickname, but the bot won't tell you how or "normal" commands won't work. Trying their Facebook? Comments are disabled. F*ck Twitter.

So why am I trying to get a hold of them? As you may know they are releasing a Redstone focused update called 1.5. And it was the most horrendous peace of shit a free modder has ever made. If you set a block of sand on top of another block of sand and had a Sticky Piston under that, it'll break one of the Sand blocks and drop if to the world. They broke the functionality of one tick powered Stick Pistons pick up and drop a block thereby breaking thousands of RS creations since you can no longer use a Piston to toggle stuff. And yet, if you had a Sticky on top of another and turned them both on, then the one on top off, then the one on bottom while the top on is retracting the block that was at the top doesn't move at all. So that's two double piston designs broken. I've got a third design, its one of those the pistons are technically bugged designs that break if the block is updated. In 1.5? Totally fucking random. Flipping the lever back and forth may leave the top piston extended or the bottom and if you put a dozen of this side by side this erratic behavior can be seen in full. Which is a good thing I guess. Seeing how Dispensers now delete Buckets of Water, which renders any Randomizer broken and unfixable.

Every since Beta through 1.2.5, 1.3.2, even 1.4.7 RS has functioned the same and there are a lot of Youtube channels devoted to it, thousands of threads covering RS designs. Mojong is about to take a shit on every single one of them with their Redstone "Expansion" and they have already preemptively prevented you from reporting their bugs, because they never gave a fuck about you either.

Can someone just code a Minecraft alternative in like C++ and release it's source? If you model the code after a real project rather than Minecraft's current omgwtfnoob style, I'd be happy to write a 1.5 Update that doesn't fuck everything over.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Raineh Daze on March 10, 2013, 07:21:10 PM
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Oh sure you could try their official forums, but your first post isn't visible till approved and then you have twenty four hours to make ten more additional posts or some stupid shit like that.

It's been a while since I looked, but I think that's more a limit so that you can only make X amount of posts in a day, and once you've hit a limit above that (which can't be done in a single day) it gets removed.

Basically, spam prevention: you can't even make one post and then go wild, and spammers aren't infamous for patience.

I could never work out how to use redstone anyway, so I'm not really sure what's going on. ^^;
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: brujon on March 10, 2013, 08:56:56 PM
Minecraft. Fuck them.

Seriously. The only way to get a hold of Mojong is to fill out their forum on an Account or Payment related issue and even then you need your bill of sale number and original email used. Oh sure you could try their official forums, but your first post isn't visible till approved and then you have twenty four hours to make ten more additional posts or some stupid shit like that. Want to be cleaver and use their IRC? Talking is disabled until you register your nickname, but the bot won't tell you how or "normal" commands won't work. Trying their Facebook? Comments are disabled. F*ck Twitter.

So why am I trying to get a hold of them? As you may know they are releasing a Redstone focused update called 1.5. And it was the most horrendous peace of shit a free modder has ever made. If you set a block of sand on top of another block of sand and had a Sticky Piston under that, it'll break one of the Sand blocks and drop if to the world. They broke the functionality of one tick powered Stick Pistons pick up and drop a block thereby breaking thousands of RS creations since you can no longer use a Piston to toggle stuff. And yet, if you had a Sticky on top of another and turned them both on, then the one on top off, then the one on bottom while the top on is retracting the block that was at the top doesn't move at all. So that's two double piston designs broken. I've got a third design, its one of those the pistons are technically bugged designs that break if the block is updated. In 1.5? Totally fucking random. Flipping the lever back and forth may leave the top piston extended or the bottom and if you put a dozen of this side by side this erratic behavior can be seen in full. Which is a good thing I guess. Seeing how Dispensers now delete Buckets of Water, which renders any Randomizer broken and unfixable.

Every since Beta through 1.2.5, 1.3.2, even 1.4.7 RS has functioned the same and there are a lot of Youtube channels devoted to it, thousands of threads covering RS designs. Mojong is about to take a shit on every single one of them with their Redstone "Expansion" and they have already preemptively prevented you from reporting their bugs, because they never gave a fuck about you either.

Can someone just code a Minecraft alternative in like C++ and release it's source? If you model the code after a real project rather than Minecraft's current omgwtfnoob style, I'd be happy to write a 1.5 Update that doesn't fuck everything over.

Are you telling me you've never heard of Minetest?

http://minetest.net/

It's basically minecraft in C++, and it's open source.

Not much exists currently in the way of modding and support, despite it being developed since 2010, but it exists.

I've never actually tried it myself, seeing as minecraft has infinitely more support...

If minecraft continues to break stuff and drive away it's userbase, we *might* see some growth there, but i'd wager not. What will most likely happen, is that servers will just continue using old versions of minecraft, until Mojang decides to pull a big fuck you and stop supporting logins for old versions. And then we'd depend on modders to fix stuff, etc...

But not all is lost. If the redstone breakage is as widespread as you're saying it is, then it will most likely be fixed sometime soon, because like you said, thousands of servers and single player worlds use redstone mechanics in order to make things work as intended, and the wrath of a thousand angry nerds is a fearsome thing.

That said, i liked piston designs a lot, so i'm sad things are turning out to be like that.

--------------------------------

As for my own rant... Mother of my child now deleted me from her facebook, after presumably hiding out a lot of shit so i don't see what her posts were. I can't see new pictures of my son, shit sux... I'm really not feeling well. I feel this churning in my stomach... And i'm starting to question a lot of my decisions recently.

I stood my ground, because i didn't want to cave in to anymore of the shit coming from her family, wanted for the visits to happen here in my house... And i tried to do it peacefully, i tried to back away and keep it friendly, now i don't know. I'm really lost. All the shit that's been going on... I can't begin to say, i'm really down. I simply don't know what to do. I can't turn back the wheel of time, and i don't know if things could've gone differently. Shit i don't even know what to do. I don't have motivation for anything right now.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on March 10, 2013, 11:15:35 PM
What about Minesweeper? :P
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: dman11235 on March 11, 2013, 01:47:18 AM
Minecraft. Fuck them.

Seriously. The only way to get a hold of Mojong is to fill out their forum on an Account or Payment related issue and even then you need your bill of sale number and original email used. Oh sure you could try their official forums, but your first post isn't visible till approved and then you have twenty four hours to make ten more additional posts or some stupid shit like that. Want to be cleaver and use their IRC? Talking is disabled until you register your nickname, but the bot won't tell you how or "normal" commands won't work. Trying their Facebook? Comments are disabled. F*ck Twitter.

So why am I trying to get a hold of them? As you may know they are releasing a Redstone focused update called 1.5. And it was the most horrendous peace of shit a free modder has ever made. If you set a block of sand on top of another block of sand and had a Sticky Piston under that, it'll break one of the Sand blocks and drop if to the world. They broke the functionality of one tick powered Stick Pistons pick up and drop a block thereby breaking thousands of RS creations since you can no longer use a Piston to toggle stuff. And yet, if you had a Sticky on top of another and turned them both on, then the one on top off, then the one on bottom while the top on is retracting the block that was at the top doesn't move at all. So that's two double piston designs broken. I've got a third design, its one of those the pistons are technically bugged designs that break if the block is updated. In 1.5? Totally fucking random. Flipping the lever back and forth may leave the top piston extended or the bottom and if you put a dozen of this side by side this erratic behavior can be seen in full. Which is a good thing I guess. Seeing how Dispensers now delete Buckets of Water, which renders any Randomizer broken and unfixable.

Every since Beta through 1.2.5, 1.3.2, even 1.4.7 RS has functioned the same and there are a lot of Youtube channels devoted to it, thousands of threads covering RS designs. Mojong is about to take a shit on every single one of them with their Redstone "Expansion" and they have already preemptively prevented you from reporting their bugs, because they never gave a fuck about you either.

Can someone just code a Minecraft alternative in like C++ and release it's source? If you model the code after a real project rather than Minecraft's current omgwtfnoob style, I'd be happy to write a 1.5 Update that doesn't fuck everything over.

Well, it is called the Redstone Update....I haven't been downloading the snapshots so I have no idea what's changed and all, but I think one would expect all the old redstone creations and tutorials to be made obsolete and out of date by this update.  I know in past version changes the old redstone creations at least needed tweaking, and some just stopped working altogether.  This update includes a bunch of new blocks, not just changes to the physics, so maybe they want to make new blocks that duplicate the functionality of the old piston designs?  It would certainly cut down on lag a LOT.

As far as Mojang not caring about their customers, well, I know you're mad right now, but I cannot see that at all.  They made a game that was free if you were in the alpha/beta, and 20 bucks if you weren't, are releasing free updates all the time, have more mod support than most developers, don't complain when you run old versions, have mod support coming, AND they constantly do fan outreach stuff.  I've gotten more than my money's worth from this game and feel like they're still making it better with each update.  Heck, most 60 dollar games are 3 months at best before I get tired of them, this one's on 2 years and still going strong.  Your issue with the forums is a spam protection thing, and as far as customer support, I cannot comment as I have not gone there before.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: SneeR on March 11, 2013, 02:50:29 AM
Nobody but my roommate ever seeks me out anymore. I wish I felt more wanted, you know? When I lived back in Long Beach before college, my friends would constantly call me up to hang out, but once I moved to San Diego and made my ex-gf the center of my life, I lost most of my deep relationships.

And my roommate is a great guy, but he isn't a nerd OR a creative type. We can only really connect on the most superficial level since he's more of a natural socialite. Making friends is so hard for me.

I've been trying to go out with this girl, but she constantly reschedules. I wish she would put more effort into this because both of us say we really connected. It doesn't make me feel particularly desirable.

Even my own parents don't call me anymore. I call them at least every week, but they don't return the favor of I forget.

I just... wish I could make a Diplomacy check in one fell conversation and make someone my bestest buddy. I am a good conversationalist! I just feel like I have to hold up the entirety of any relationship, calling them, asking them to hang out, whatever, because no one ever follow up or follows through! I guess I'm just forgettable?

I am keeping an upbeat attitude, but I don't have time to seek out friends. How does one make friends?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: SorO_Lost on March 11, 2013, 07:51:11 AM
I could never work out how to use redstone anyway, so I'm not really sure what's going on. ^^;
Surely you've made a piston door before right? I'd show you, but 1.5 broke them...

Are you telling me you've never heard of Minetest?
Nope, going to read about it later.

Well, it is called the Redstone Update....I haven't been downloading the snapshots so I have no idea what's changed and all, but I think one would expect all the old redstone creations and tutorials to be made obsolete and out of date by this update.
Actually update never mean fuck the older version until Sony became a company. Mojong is on record saying they wanted RS behavior to be more consistent (it's worse), saying BUDs will be broken but will eventually re-added because they want BUDs to be a feature not a bug (containers now send RS signals).

Dumbjong could have coded an official piston feature that worked exactly like 1-tick pistons. Did they? Fuck no. Easier to break things. Crapjong could have coded consistency in RS that broke BUDs. Did they? Yeah but only because they randomly update them selves now. Mydong is not impressed.


SneeR if you're a female, send pics and I'll be your friend :D
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: SneeR on March 11, 2013, 08:08:56 AM
SneeR if you're a female, send pics and I'll be your friend :D
You only get pics of my hairy pecs if you promise to fly to San Diego and cuddle afterwards.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: dman11235 on March 11, 2013, 09:09:29 AM
Aaaaand, now there's a gunman on campus.  At least so far he's been non-aggressive and he only was seen with a handgun, but it still means class was canceled, there's a guy with a gun on campus walking around, and the library is on lockdown.  That last part is important, because it means I can't go there to kill this time during the canceled class and before the next one.  My other haunt is the basement lounge thing in that building, since that's where my next class is.  I can't be there either because there's a giant box that smells REALLY bad next to the power outlet.  And I mean really bad.  Smells like compost mixed with furniture polish.

EDIT: all clear given now, so at least I'll get my other classes.  Not that the other classes would have been affected since he was on the other side of campus, the teacher that canceled was the only one in the building to cancel hers.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on March 11, 2013, 10:14:05 AM

As for my own rant... Mother of my child now deleted me from her facebook, after presumably hiding out a lot of shit so i don't see what her posts were. I can't see new pictures of my son, shit sux... I'm really not feeling well. I feel this churning in my stomach... And i'm starting to question a lot of my decisions recently.

I stood my ground, because i didn't want to cave in to anymore of the shit coming from her family, wanted for the visits to happen here in my house... And i tried to do it peacefully, i tried to back away and keep it friendly, now i don't know. I'm really lost. All the shit that's been going on... I can't begin to say, i'm really down. I simply don't know what to do. I can't turn back the wheel of time, and i don't know if things could've gone differently. Shit i don't even know what to do. I don't have motivation for anything right now.

Brujon, first of all, stop beating yourself up about it. Wondering "what if" is just going to drive you insane. You did the right thing for your kid - it's not your fault that it didn't work.

You need to get your mind off this. Depression is about inertia - the longer you stay still, the longer you're going to remain still, and the more effort it will take to get back up. Go out and get physical - take a long walk, go running, do anything it takes to get your blood pumping no matter what. If you don't feel like, force yourself up and off that chair. But whatever you do, DO NOT. STAND. STILL.

Nobody but my roommate ever seeks me out anymore. I wish I felt more wanted, you know? When I lived back in Long Beach before college, my friends would constantly call me up to hang out, but once I moved to San Diego and made my ex-gf the center of my life, I lost most of my deep relationships.

And my roommate is a great guy, but he isn't a nerd OR a creative type. We can only really connect on the most superficial level since he's more of a natural socialite. Making friends is so hard for me.

I've been trying to go out with this girl, but she constantly reschedules. I wish she would put more effort into this because both of us say we really connected. It doesn't make me feel particularly desirable.

Even my own parents don't call me anymore. I call them at least every week, but they don't return the favor of I forget.

I just... wish I could make a Diplomacy check in one fell conversation and make someone my bestest buddy. I am a good conversationalist! I just feel like I have to hold up the entirety of any relationship, calling them, asking them to hang out, whatever, because no one ever follow up or follows through! I guess I'm just forgettable?

I am keeping an upbeat attitude, but I don't have time to seek out friends. How does one make friends?

I wish I knew, because the only place where I made any friends outside of the internet was high school, and that was over a decade ago.

Sometimes friends just vanish for whatever reason. It's common to assume it's your fault somehow, but a lot of the time it isn't. Some of my best friends were acting like that in the past few months - and then I discovered one of them was swamped with work and post-grad, the other was in a complicated relationship, and the third (whom is an English teacher) had just gotten a new job with a schedule that demanded work on Saturdays.

I just kept calling them until, eventually, their lives fell into place long enough for them to come by.

Outside of that, I'm up for a chat if you like. Send me a PM. If you've got a PS3 we can arrange a couple of games with voice chat, too. Sadly, I can't teleport as far as San Diego yet (and my mom's still in recovery, so I wouldn't even if I could).

Speaking of my mom, she's doing better. Out of the hospital and buzzing about the house. She's still gotta eat through a tube, which pisses her off immensely since each "meal" takes about one hour to do. Hopefully, once the swelling from the surgery goes down, she should be able to eat normally again.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: brujon on March 11, 2013, 11:01:14 AM
I could never work out how to use redstone anyway, so I'm not really sure what's going on. ^^;
Surely you've made a piston door before right? I'd show you, but 1.5 broke them...

Are you telling me you've never heard of Minetest?
Nope, going to read about it later.

Well, it is called the Redstone Update....I haven't been downloading the snapshots so I have no idea what's changed and all, but I think one would expect all the old redstone creations and tutorials to be made obsolete and out of date by this update.
Actually update never mean fuck the older version until Sony became a company. Mojong is on record saying they wanted RS behavior to be more consistent (it's worse), saying BUDs will be broken but will eventually re-added because they want BUDs to be a feature not a bug (containers now send RS signals).

Dumbjong could have coded an official piston feature that worked exactly like 1-tick pistons. Did they? Fuck no. Easier to break things. Crapjong could have coded consistency in RS that broke BUDs. Did they? Yeah but only because they randomly update them selves now. Mydong is not impressed.


SneeR if you're a female, send pics and I'll be your friend :D


They're also delaying a lot the promised new modding API, even though they are basing it off of bukkit. It's been over a year in the making now. As far as redstone goes, i'd say Redpower is the way to go. You still have to contend with broken pistons, but then you have frames and frame motors and whatnot, so it balances out.

One thing that makes me pretty sad, though, is that they keep stealing ideas from other mods. Ender Chest? The mod came out months before the vanilla Ender Chest was added. Hopper? Only added now in 1.5, and it existed in mods a long time ago, with a much better texture and interface, i might add. A lot of other things existed in mods before being added to Vanilla too, and i'm just not remembering it...

Now, you might make a case that the game is being made to be played stand alone, and that adding items that existed in mods adds to that experience, but... It's still making a profit on someone else's idea and portraying it as your own. And i'd bet that if you went down and looked at the hard code, you'd find at least half a dozen copy & pastes that went straight from mods into the vanilla game itself. They could at least give credit to the original mod author's for the idea. Wouldn't cost them anything.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: ariasderros on March 11, 2013, 11:03:06 AM
You need to get your mind off this. Depression is about inertia - the longer you stay still, the longer you're going to remain still, and the more effort it will take to get back up. Go out and get physical - take a long walk, go running, do anything it takes to get your blood pumping no matter what. If you don't feel like, force yourself up and off that chair. But whatever you do, DO NOT. STAND. STILL.

This.

Voice of experience from the guy who stood still, don't let that happen. If you force your depression into determination right away, it is a hard fight to maintain that mentality, but it's worth it. The longer you go without starting that fight, the harder it will be. And the worse you manage to make your own life in the meantime.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on March 11, 2013, 08:12:29 PM
 :hug for sneer and brujon
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on March 12, 2013, 06:05:50 PM
I've had the PC less than a day and moms already gotten a virus on it  :flame
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Raineh Daze on March 12, 2013, 06:07:05 PM
... the hell? How do people get viruses so easily?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on March 12, 2013, 06:11:09 PM
DOing google searches for free mahjong and then turning off noscript when it wont let her play...
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on March 12, 2013, 06:12:12 PM
... the hell? How do people get viruses so easily?

One statistic I found amusing was that religious sites are three times more likely to have a virus than porn sites.  Of course, since there are far more than three times as many porn sites as religious sites, it's not as noticeable.

Doesn't seem to be the case here though.  lol
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: InnaBinder on March 12, 2013, 07:05:22 PM
... the hell? How do people get viruses so easily?
Searching for Emma Watson pics, apparently.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on March 12, 2013, 10:39:48 PM
... the hell? How do people get viruses so easily?
Searching for Emma Watson pics, apparently.

As with any attractive female celeb, there will be fakes out there.  Unlike some I'm quite sure Emma's very careful about something "getting out."  She's said she doesn't want that kind of image.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: betrayor on March 12, 2013, 10:50:45 PM
... the hell? How do people get viruses so easily?
Searching for Emma Watson pics, apparently.

As with any attractive female celeb, there will be fakes out there.  Unlike some I'm quite sure Emma's very careful about something "getting out."  She's said she doesn't want that kind of image.
I think that he was referring to the fact that the number 1 reason for cathcing viruses in 2012 was by searching for her naked photos....
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on March 13, 2013, 12:46:54 AM
But they used to practically be ubiquitous.  Hell you didn't need to search for them fakes were everywhere.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: InnaBinder on March 13, 2013, 08:22:50 AM
... the hell? How do people get viruses so easily?
Searching for Emma Watson pics, apparently.

As with any attractive female celeb, there will be fakes out there.  Unlike some I'm quite sure Emma's very careful about something "getting out."  She's said she doesn't want that kind of image.
I think that he was referring to the fact that the number 1 reason for cathcing viruses in 2012 was by searching for her naked photos....
Ding-ding!  Tell him what he's won, Johnny!
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: SorO_Lost on March 13, 2013, 12:35:06 PM
Three words that'll save your comp: "Google Image Search"
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: brujon on March 13, 2013, 03:02:41 PM
Three words that'll save your comp: "Google Image Search"

Also, google reverse image search for sauce, or if that fails, tineye and others...

And yeah, "sauce", 4chan, i know.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on March 13, 2013, 04:22:42 PM
To people who friend me on facebook because it's advantageous to know me for playing one of the free 'games', and who subsequently go on lengthy diatribes about how evil I am for simply not agreeing with you in lockstep on religion, politics, society:  You are the most uninformed, ignorant, willfully blind pigfuckers it has ever been my misfortune to meet.  Do yourself the favor of not posting conspiracy theorist articles that agree with your own paranoid delusions and then having the gall to be surprised when people post multiple sources (although its usually snopes) to refute you because you didn't take the 50 seconds necessary to research something a 10 year old with google could easily debunk.  If you truly want to make society a better place put the gun barrel in your mouth and pull the fucking trigger.  Better yet make sure the hellspawn you've reproduced are put down first before killing yourself.  Good night, go fuck yourself, die in a fire you worthless imitations of what human beings are supposed to be.

Not that any of you are actually here to read this...
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on March 13, 2013, 04:34:51 PM
To people who friend me on facebook because it's advantageous to know me for playing one of the free 'games', and who subsequently go on lengthy diatribes about how evil I am for simply not agreeing with you in lockstep on religion, politics, society:  You are the most uninformed, ignorant, willfully blind pigfuckers it has ever been my misfortune to meet.  Do yourself the favor of not posting conspiracy theorist articles that agree with your own paranoid delusions and then having the gall to be surprised when people post multiple sources (although its usually snopes) to refute you because you didn't take the 50 seconds necessary to research something a 10 year old with google could easily debunk.  If you truly want to make society a better place put the gun barrel in your mouth and pull the fucking trigger.  Better yet make sure the hellspawn you've reproduced are put down first before killing yourself.  Good night, go fuck yourself, die in a fire you worthless imitations of what human beings are supposed to be.

Not that any of you are actually here to read this...

On that note, fuck the digital inclusion of the masses. The internet's bad enough as it is, we don't need MORE stupid people hanging out here.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Halinn on March 13, 2013, 06:17:58 PM
To people who friend me on facebook because it's advantageous to know me for playing one of the free 'games', and who subsequently go on lengthy diatribes about how evil I am for simply not agreeing with you in lockstep on religion, politics, society:  You are the most uninformed, ignorant, willfully blind pigfuckers it has ever been my misfortune to meet.  Do yourself the favor of not posting conspiracy theorist articles that agree with your own paranoid delusions and then having the gall to be surprised when people post multiple sources (although its usually snopes) to refute you because you didn't take the 50 seconds necessary to research something a 10 year old with google could easily debunk.  If you truly want to make society a better place put the gun barrel in your mouth and pull the fucking trigger.  Better yet make sure the hellspawn you've reproduced are put down first before killing yourself.  Good night, go fuck yourself, die in a fire you worthless imitations of what human beings are supposed to be.

Not that any of you are actually here to read this...

On that note, fuck the digital inclusion of the masses. The internet's bad enough as it is, we don't need MORE stupid people hanging out here.

On the positive side, more people means more room for niche markets.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Raineh Daze on March 13, 2013, 06:19:25 PM
To people who friend me on facebook because it's advantageous to know me for playing one of the free 'games', and who subsequently go on lengthy diatribes about how evil I am for simply not agreeing with you in lockstep on religion, politics, society:  You are the most uninformed, ignorant, willfully blind pigfuckers it has ever been my misfortune to meet.  Do yourself the favor of not posting conspiracy theorist articles that agree with your own paranoid delusions and then having the gall to be surprised when people post multiple sources (although its usually snopes) to refute you because you didn't take the 50 seconds necessary to research something a 10 year old with google could easily debunk.  If you truly want to make society a better place put the gun barrel in your mouth and pull the fucking trigger.  Better yet make sure the hellspawn you've reproduced are put down first before killing yourself.  Good night, go fuck yourself, die in a fire you worthless imitations of what human beings are supposed to be.

Not that any of you are actually here to read this...

On that note, fuck the digital inclusion of the masses. The internet's bad enough as it is, we don't need MORE stupid people hanging out here.

On the positive side, more people means more room for niche markets.

An additional positive side, more people means more investment, which means better infrastructure (eventually).
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on March 13, 2013, 07:36:59 PM
My abdominal pains eased up in the sense that I don't think I have digestive issues anymore.  However, they have gotten worse in general stabbing pain every now and then.  I have a feeling I'll be going to the doctor this week or next.

Edit:  Yup.  Appointment tomorrow.  Blah.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: brujon on March 13, 2013, 09:26:44 PM
To people who friend me on facebook because it's advantageous to know me for playing one of the free 'games', and who subsequently go on lengthy diatribes about how evil I am for simply not agreeing with you in lockstep on religion, politics, society:  You are the most uninformed, ignorant, willfully blind pigfuckers it has ever been my misfortune to meet.  Do yourself the favor of not posting conspiracy theorist articles that agree with your own paranoid delusions and then having the gall to be surprised when people post multiple sources (although its usually snopes) to refute you because you didn't take the 50 seconds necessary to research something a 10 year old with google could easily debunk.  If you truly want to make society a better place put the gun barrel in your mouth and pull the fucking trigger.  Better yet make sure the hellspawn you've reproduced are put down first before killing yourself.  Good night, go fuck yourself, die in a fire you worthless imitations of what human beings are supposed to be.

Not that any of you are actually here to read this...

On that note, fuck the digital inclusion of the masses. The internet's bad enough as it is, we don't need MORE stupid people hanging out here.

On the positive side, more people means more room for niche markets.

An additional positive side, more people means more investment, which means better infrastructure (eventually).

Even another positive side, means computers are now cheaper and still more powerful than ever.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on March 13, 2013, 10:15:40 PM
To people who friend me on facebook because it's advantageous to know me for playing one of the free 'games', and who subsequently go on lengthy diatribes about how evil I am for simply not agreeing with you in lockstep on religion, politics, society:  You are the most uninformed, ignorant, willfully blind pigfuckers it has ever been my misfortune to meet.  Do yourself the favor of not posting conspiracy theorist articles that agree with your own paranoid delusions and then having the gall to be surprised when people post multiple sources (although its usually snopes) to refute you because you didn't take the 50 seconds necessary to research something a 10 year old with google could easily debunk.  If you truly want to make society a better place put the gun barrel in your mouth and pull the fucking trigger.  Better yet make sure the hellspawn you've reproduced are put down first before killing yourself.  Good night, go fuck yourself, die in a fire you worthless imitations of what human beings are supposed to be.

Not that any of you are actually here to read this...

On that note, fuck the digital inclusion of the masses. The internet's bad enough as it is, we don't need MORE stupid people hanging out here.

On the positive side, more people means more room for niche markets.

An additional positive side, more people means more investment, which means better infrastructure (eventually).

Even another positive side, means computers are now cheaper and still more powerful than ever.

The reason I hate mass digital inclusion is the same reason I think democracy doesn't work - too many idiots demanding shit they don't know about having a public forum to vent their idiocy and demanding they be taken seriously.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: 123456789blaaa on March 13, 2013, 10:38:36 PM
To people who friend me on facebook because it's advantageous to know me for playing one of the free 'games', and who subsequently go on lengthy diatribes about how evil I am for simply not agreeing with you in lockstep on religion, politics, society:  You are the most uninformed, ignorant, willfully blind pigfuckers it has ever been my misfortune to meet.  Do yourself the favor of not posting conspiracy theorist articles that agree with your own paranoid delusions and then having the gall to be surprised when people post multiple sources (although its usually snopes) to refute you because you didn't take the 50 seconds necessary to research something a 10 year old with google could easily debunk.  If you truly want to make society a better place put the gun barrel in your mouth and pull the fucking trigger.  Better yet make sure the hellspawn you've reproduced are put down first before killing yourself.  Good night, go fuck yourself, die in a fire you worthless imitations of what human beings are supposed to be.

Not that any of you are actually here to read this...

On that note, fuck the digital inclusion of the masses. The internet's bad enough as it is, we don't need MORE stupid people hanging out here.

On the positive side, more people means more room for niche markets.

An additional positive side, more people means more investment, which means better infrastructure (eventually).

Even another positive side, means computers are now cheaper and still more powerful than ever.

The reason I hate mass digital inclusion is the same reason I think democracy doesn't work - too many idiots demanding shit they don't know about having a public forum to vent their idiocy and demanding they be taken seriously.

What's stopping people from ignoring them?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Halinn on March 14, 2013, 12:00:29 AM
The reason I hate mass digital inclusion is the same reason I think democracy doesn't work - too many idiots demanding shit they don't know about having a public forum to vent their idiocy and demanding they be taken seriously.

What's stopping people from ignoring them?
Indeed. While the real world has institutionalized making idiots have some measure of influence, there's nothing inherent in the internet that gives them that, except for what they're willing to spend money on. While the masses are willing to spend money on lots of dumb things, every once in a while they'll spend it on something you like, which can improve your total experience of things. Don't consider the potentially good things that they've ruined, because those would most likely never have been made if not for them in the first place.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on March 14, 2013, 08:17:45 AM
The reason I hate mass digital inclusion is the same reason I think democracy doesn't work - too many idiots demanding shit they don't know about having a public forum to vent their idiocy and demanding they be taken seriously.

What's stopping people from ignoring them?
Indeed. While the real world has institutionalized making idiots have some measure of influence, there's nothing inherent in the internet that gives them that, except for what they're willing to spend money on. While the masses are willing to spend money on lots of dumb things, every once in a while they'll spend it on something you like, which can improve your total experience of things. Don't consider the potentially good things that they've ruined, because those would most likely never have been made if not for them in the first place.

The internet gives them a place to rally their idiocy as one! You put enough dumb fucks together in one place and you end up with the Brazillian Congress, man!

Seriously, never underestimate the FUBAR potential of a mob of stupid people!
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on March 14, 2013, 04:00:07 PM
Yeah especially now that I've attracted one idiot she believes my mind will be changed by peer pressure so she keeps summoning more idiots i have to ban from my page
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Libertad on March 14, 2013, 04:38:24 PM
Yeah especially now that I've attracted one idiot she believes my mind will be changed by peer pressure so she keeps summoning more idiots i have to ban from my page

There's anti-harassment policies for Facebook, I presume?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on March 14, 2013, 06:24:56 PM
Yeah especially now that I've attracted one idiot she believes my mind will be changed by peer pressure so she keeps summoning more idiots i have to ban from my page

There's anti-harassment policies for Facebook, I presume?

Yeah.  You complain to them and they ban that person or do nothing.  If she gets banned all her friends complain about you until you get banned, and it follows in a vicious circle
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Wrex on March 14, 2013, 06:30:31 PM
I found GM Control Issues: The Game.


I want my sanity back.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on March 14, 2013, 06:40:46 PM
Half-rant, half happy:  Went to the doc again and he said I most likely have acid reflex leading into irritable bowel.  So I get to take pills for the rest of my life, but hopefully they'll keep me comfortable.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on March 14, 2013, 08:40:42 PM
I don't know much about ibs but I do know a bit about acid reflux.  There are ways around it.  Dropping weight sometimes makes it go away, and it doesnt have to be a lot of weight.  You'll also wanna give up alcohol and cigarettes and sleep on your side (preferably your left).  SOme herbs help too.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on March 14, 2013, 11:40:22 PM
I don't drink regularly (just social stuff on occasion) and I sure as Mordor don't smoke.  Already been sleeping on my left side, and I mentioned losing weight to the PA and he nodded his agreement that it'd work.  He also said don't eat after 5 or 6, and try to stay away from spicy or otherwise pungent foods.  I have no idea about which herbs might help, though I wouldn't be surprised if some did.

No more late night visits to Cafe Rio, or the fridge.  lol
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on March 15, 2013, 12:43:18 AM
I generally dont eat anything after 3 hours before bed.  Spicy foods don't bother me so much as acidic ones: peppers, tomatoes, citrus fruits, vinegar, etc.  Those I quit much earlier, and I try to avoid too much processed stuff.   A lot of people recommend licorice root but that will jack up your blood pressure unless its been deglycyrrhizinated.  I've also been recommended fennel, veggie juice, apple cider vinegar, aloe vera juice, turmeric, etc but havent tried them yet.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: sirpercival on March 15, 2013, 12:46:53 AM
Papaya extract.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on March 15, 2013, 01:02:06 AM
That actually make mine worse believe it or not
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on March 15, 2013, 02:16:16 AM
I can't stand licorice, so I guess that's off the table.  Regular red tomatoes will probably be something I should watch out for, yes.  We've had some low acid yellow ones in the past that my grandma said she rather enjoyed.  Veggie juice might work if it's low acid, but V8 might be an interesting case with that.  I'll try it later and see how it works out.  I'll also look at the other stuff, and all the aloe vera uses make me wonder if there are farms for that plant or something.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: brujon on March 15, 2013, 03:39:39 AM
I have a problem with acid reflux. Big one actually, and it's mostly connected to emotional issues. I smoke, and i drink, and i can definitely say it's not a fun combination for when you have reflux... I'm constantly chugging up antiacids, and i believe i'm developing a resistance to them.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: altpersona on March 15, 2013, 06:43:26 AM
about 5 years ago, i developed an an ulcer   :bigeyes

doc gave me Zegrid. its omeprazole (Prilosec) / sodium bicarbonate, works wonders but its a horse pill.

its like 40mg of ome and 1g of bicarb. i think the otc version is 20mg of ome

of course, when my ulcer was acting up, before i went to the doc i tried doing bicarb by myself...  :shakefist a table spoonful is tooooo much.  :D
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on March 15, 2013, 11:51:16 AM
Yup, doc recommended I get omeprazole 20 mg otc.  And that's where I'm going today.  lol
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: brujon on March 15, 2013, 12:08:17 PM
I took omeprazole for half a year, but then my prescription ended and i somehow forgot to make another appointment and... yeah. Milk of Magnesia is what has been making me go along my way, but take too much and... Hello Mr. Toilet, i see we are becoming more than just friends.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: awaken_D_M_golem on March 15, 2013, 05:41:01 PM

... deglycyrrhizinated ...


gesundheit !!
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on March 15, 2013, 06:02:50 PM
I have a problem with acid reflux. Big one actually, and it's mostly connected to emotional issues. I smoke, and i drink, and i can definitely say it's not a fun combination for when you have reflux... I'm constantly chugging up antiacids, and i believe i'm developing a resistance to them.

Be careful with that.  Antacids are kind of bad for you.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Halinn on March 15, 2013, 06:18:52 PM
You know, one would think that formic acid was an antacid...
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Raineh Daze on March 15, 2013, 06:39:09 PM
You know, one would think that formic acid was an antacid...

:lmao
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Yirrare on March 15, 2013, 07:32:39 PM
You know, one would think that formic acid was an antacid...
Good one, I do say.

Best Regards
Yirrare
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Bozwevial on March 15, 2013, 08:34:52 PM
Would have had time to finish a base class for a contest entry, but I got word from a friend that the place where I'm hoping to work this summer has hired 13 out of the 15 interns they're taking this year, so I had to rush my application and finish that today instead. Pretty much no chance now I'm going to make the deadline...ah well. I'll polish it up more sedately and wait for the next contest instead.

On the bright side, I had quite a nice 21st birthday!
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: sirpercival on March 15, 2013, 10:13:03 PM
Would have had time to finish a base class for a contest entry, but I got word from a friend that the place where I'm hoping to work this summer has hired 13 out of the 15 interns they're taking this year, so I had to rush my application and finish that today instead. Pretty much no chance now I'm going to make the deadline...ah well. I'll polish it up more sedately and wait for the next contest instead.
  :shakefist Manialleurge!

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On the bright side, I had quite a nice 21st birthday!
  :birthday :cake
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: InnaBinder on March 15, 2013, 10:17:08 PM
Would have had time to finish a base class for a contest entry, but I got word from a friend that the place where I'm hoping to work this summer has hired 13 out of the 15 interns they're taking this year, so I had to rush my application and finish that today instead. Pretty much no chance now I'm going to make the deadline...ah well. I'll polish it up more sedately and wait for the next contest instead.

On the bright side, I had quite a nice 21st birthday!
You can remember your 21st birthday?   :smirk
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: RedWarlock on March 15, 2013, 10:20:11 PM
So, I lost my job today.

They said it was only due to lack of work, and since I'm an hourly contract worker, they had to cut my time in the budget. Especially since the new CFO is making things run a lot tighter. If they get more, they said, they'd gladly bring me back, they loved my work.

I still have two more days to go, but I'm pretty sure it's just file drop-off, cleaning up loose ends on my projects, and turning in the work laptop.

Damn, and I was making a sweet paycheck here too.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Bozwevial on March 15, 2013, 10:26:12 PM
:shakefist Manialleurge!
Bad timing on that one...Still, now I can add that cheese divination theorem you wanted.

You can remember your 21st birthday?   :smirk
I'm studying abroad in Wales this semester. I've been able to drink legally since I got here. :P 21 isn't a major milestone here, as it turns out.

But don't worry, I had my fair share of memory-impairment juice.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on March 16, 2013, 12:15:08 AM
So I spend all day listening to mom repeat "when are you going to rehook up the printer to the new PC" like some endless fucking mantra when I do so.  The download from disc fails mightily.  So I download from the net.  It asks me to run update. whcih asks me to install IE10.  My site doesnt work with IE10 so I say no.  It downloads the fucking thing anyway.  So I downgrade to IE9.  Now when I try going back to the worksite it asks to download some sort of browser object.  WHich java refuses to do.  My browser actually shuts off everytime I try, and I peek at teh event log and notice a shitload of errors including the dread event id 7: disc has a bad block.  Plus a bunch of errors involving specific .dll files.  So I run chkdsk and after a few hours it tells me im fine.  i go back to the event viewer and the error messages are gone.  So I try to log onto work and it keeps fucking up and eventually I get these error messages:


error occured during installation

java.security.AccessControlException: access denied (\"java.util.PropertyPermission\" \"java.io.tmpdir\" \"read\")


error occured during installation


java.io.IOException: Cannot run program \"C:\\Users\\Keith\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\f51363404600971\\setup.exe\": CreateProcess error=740, The requested operation requires elevation


So obviously java is fucking up somehow.  Uninstalled and reinstalled and nothings changed.   :banghead

Edit: My mistake the errors are still there, source is cdrom0.  Any chance thats my optical drive?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Nanshork on March 16, 2013, 01:01:45 PM
I hate being in love, my emotions get all irrational and out of control.  Especially when it is with a woman that I'm not in a relationship with.  :banghead
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on March 16, 2013, 02:04:00 PM
I hate being in love, my emotions get all irrational and out of control.  Especially when it is with a woman that I'm not in a relationship with.  :banghead

*pats* We've all been there, Nans.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: VennDygrem on March 16, 2013, 02:24:28 PM
I hate being in love, my emotions get all irrational and out of control.  Especially when it is with a woman that I'm not in a relationship with.  :banghead

*pats* We've all been there, Nans.

Ain't that the truth.  :shakefist

Hang in there, Nanshork.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on March 16, 2013, 03:31:36 PM
Hugs for nan
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on March 16, 2013, 03:50:26 PM
I hate being in love, my emotions get all irrational and out of control.  Especially when it is with a woman that I'm not in a relationship with.  :banghead

*hug*

is it lust or love? ♡.♡
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Nanshork on March 16, 2013, 03:58:27 PM
Thanks for the support. 

I hate being in love, my emotions get all irrational and out of control.  Especially when it is with a woman that I'm not in a relationship with.  :banghead

*hug*

is it lust or love? ♡.♡

I'm sure you didn't mean it that way but I find your question to be somewhat offensive.  If it wasn't love I wouldn't talk about being in love...
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on March 16, 2013, 03:59:33 PM
Don't underestimate the guy, zook. A real man can tell the difference.

Even I know it, even though I can be almost absolutely sure I never truly fell in love.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on March 16, 2013, 04:08:15 PM
I'm sorry I didn't mean it to sound/be offensive.

I see 'lust' in this context is more like the typical early stages of a new relationship, as you're exploring the new everything.

I see 'love' in this context is the typical long term relationship feelings.

I'm not saying you don't know what/how you feel. I'm just trying to understand what you feel, and maybe give advice accordingly.

@kuroimaken... As I mentioned, I'm just trying to get a feel for things. But I tend to say things the wrong way
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on March 16, 2013, 04:18:23 PM
I don't think there's been any harm done.

I too, tend to get my point across the wrong way. (More often in my native language than not, ironically.)

I just find that you never joke about love. It's just a plain bad idea.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Nanshork on March 16, 2013, 04:18:44 PM
@zook: Don't worry about it.  It really bothers me when people question my interpretation of my feelings, it isn't you or what/how you said it.  I'd say that all is forgiven but there's nothing to forgive.

Lust in that context makes sense (though that isn't the word I would use), but I know that isn't what's going on.  My situation with this woman is.....complicated.  Extremely complicated. 

I can go into if people want me to but I was just making a small rant in the small rants thread.  I wasn't expecting this much attention.   :p
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on March 16, 2013, 04:20:19 PM
You should know better than that, Nan. We geeks are all extremely supportive when it comes to love, particularly the unrequited kind.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: ariasderros on March 16, 2013, 04:27:36 PM
You should know better than that, Nan. We geeks are all extremely supportive when it comes to love, depression, anxiety, medical woes, financial woes, or pretty much anything else.
FTFY.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on March 16, 2013, 04:31:25 PM
You should know better than that, Nan. We geeks are all extremely supportive when it comes to love, depression, anxiety, medical woes, financial woes, or pretty much anything else.
FTFY.

'S why we play heroes, amirite?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Nanshork on March 16, 2013, 04:33:18 PM
You should know better than that, Nan. We geeks are all extremely supportive when it comes to love, depression, anxiety, medical woes, financial woes, or pretty much anything else.
FTFY.

'S why we play heroes, amirite?

Not exactly.   :P
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Quillwraith on March 16, 2013, 05:26:46 PM
Some of us play antiheroes, though.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on March 16, 2013, 06:05:16 PM
And some of us play hardcore murdering bastards  :D

Today was eventful.  Spent 4 hours with three different people on tech support.  Got up to try to see if I could get to the website in safe mode, and found out IE refused to work.  Took tech support an hour, but apparently microsoft update switched the settings last night and it crippled IE.

Still couldn't get into work site.  After 2 more people, finally figured out that when I updated printer not only did it change me to IE10, but it changed me to the 64 bit version of windows which the sites plugin wont work with.  So I had to remove it from taskbar and pin the 32 bit version of windows.  Event ID 7 9bad blocks came from my putting a disc that couldn't be read into the HD.


Anyone know who runs microsoft now that gates stepped down?  I need to mail him a bag of my own pee in protest.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on March 16, 2013, 07:00:31 PM
I've been on edge since Tuesday; it's gotten to the point where I'm jumping at shadows, everyone looks like they want me dead, and I'm getting distracted by my own voice whenever I try to speak in class

If this continues to Monday, I'm going to have to see someone, because food is starting to loose its taste and appeal (the fucking dining room is far too loud.)

None of my normal methods of relaxing seem to be working; and that's the really bad bit.

I mean, back in my room, I'm just shaky and distracted, but in public I'm a wreck.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Raineh Daze on March 16, 2013, 07:04:41 PM
Do you have any idea why that might be the case? It sounds unpleasant.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on March 16, 2013, 07:14:03 PM
I think I haven't had enough time away from people; I'm hypersensitive to sound and light at the best of times, and stress sharpens the senses (thank you so very much, evolution).

And, any way you cut it, people are noisy and smelly.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Raineh Daze on March 16, 2013, 07:19:27 PM
Smelly? :huh

Well... hoping that it is something so simple, since at least then there's a clear solution. :)
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on March 16, 2013, 07:24:50 PM
Stress heightens my sense of smell so much that I can pinpoint the direction of stronger smells and I can smell sweat through perfume and cologne. It smells awful. And wrong.

And the solution is UTTER ISOLATION (I think...)
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Raineh Daze on March 16, 2013, 07:37:22 PM
Want to share? I seem to have negligible sense of smell ever. We could even things out. :D

That is a nice solution.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Quillwraith on March 16, 2013, 08:15:46 PM
And some of us play hardcore murdering bastards  :D
My antiheroes are hardcore murdering bastards, though.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Halinn on March 16, 2013, 08:54:57 PM
And some of us play hardcore murdering bastards  :D
My antiheroes are hardcore murdering bastards, though.
So are most of the heroes...
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: littha on March 17, 2013, 09:11:25 AM
I really, really, really suck at actually doing things I say I am going to do. I have hundreds of half finished projects that were really interesting for a couple of days but I eventually grew bored of and forgot about.

I have like £3,000 of unpainted/half painted warhammer, tonnes of homebrew on here and a whole slew of other stuff I should finish but am far too fucking lazy to do so. I feel like a waste of space...
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on March 17, 2013, 10:49:05 AM
I know this isn't going to sound like much in terms of advice littha, but if you feel that way, the best way to get that out of your system is to force yourself to do it. I'd begin with the minis.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: littha on March 17, 2013, 11:01:28 AM
I know this isn't going to sound like much in terms of advice littha, but if you feel that way, the best way to get that out of your system is to force yourself to do it. I'd begin with the minis.

There are literally thousands of the things... just thinking about the sheer quantity of skeleton warriors I would have to paint puts me off...
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on March 17, 2013, 11:40:58 AM
It's about inertia, Littha. I should know, it's one of the forces of the universe that lets me punch things effectively.

Don't think. Just get up, pick up your tools and start doing it even if you don't feel like it. The energy will come to you, eventually.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on March 17, 2013, 11:52:09 AM
I'm ticked off; for whatever reason, about a minute ago, my alt key was locked in the "on" position, meaning that I couldn't type anything.

It was fucking annoying; it went away when I opened notepad, though.

Does anyone know what it could be? I'm going to be scanning for viruses in a bit, because I'm a bit worried...
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on March 17, 2013, 12:06:50 PM
At least on my netbook, there's a 'sticky keys' thing that pops up
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on March 17, 2013, 03:19:32 PM
I know this isn't going to sound like much in terms of advice littha, but if you feel that way, the best way to get that out of your system is to force yourself to do it. I'd begin with the minis.

There are literally thousands of the things... just thinking about the sheer quantity of skeleton warriors I would have to paint puts me off...

I get the same feeling when I'm working on essays and such.  The trick I've found that works for me is to only give myself enough screen room for a paragraph or so, which forces my mind into "What do I want to say in this paragraph?"  The paragraph is so much easier for me to do that it happens in a few minutes, and at that point I've built up enough momentum that I can cruise on through.  Perhaps you could try something similar.  Divvy it up into pieces that you can give your entire focus, and once you've done some of it you can get in the zone and crank out all of what you want to do.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHxhjDPKfbY might help.  I'm still working on getting my stuff written down, but I know that I have at least one project that I need to finish before really getting to the other stuff I want.

Cataloging all my software and game CDs is turning out to be quite the experience.  Sadly I've lost at least one CD that I thought I had, but it's not too terribly big and I might just find it later.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Halinn on March 17, 2013, 08:27:05 PM
I have a cold. I haven't had a full night's sleep for, like, a week now, nor have I gotten enough to eat, because whenever I swallow, my left ear hurts. I feel like shit right now :(
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Raineh Daze on March 17, 2013, 08:28:10 PM
Just your left ear? O_o
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Halinn on March 17, 2013, 08:42:17 PM
On/off with the right ear, never very much in that one. It isn't something new when I'm sick that ear pains make eating something difficult.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: SneeR on March 17, 2013, 08:57:06 PM
I'm deaf in my right ear. You definitely don't want to play around with ear pain. Mix half white vinegar, half rubbing alcohol together and pour it into your ear, letting it sit for a bit. That should dry out the ear and kill any foreign body that could get trapped and fuck up the workings.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: altpersona on March 17, 2013, 09:06:02 PM
just priced my comic collection

with the exception of maybe 4 books the three foot stack of books is worth nearly face value.  :shakefist

each of the exception books might be worth about the same as the rest of the collection, if they were near mint of better.  :shakefist
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: brujon on March 17, 2013, 10:59:17 PM
just priced my comic collection

with the exception of maybe 4 books the three foot stack of books is worth nearly face value.  :shakefist

each of the exception books might be worth about the same as the rest of the collection, if they were near mint of better.  :shakefist

It happens... My father appraised his Conan comics a while back, some guy offered him a thousand dollars for it(2000 Reais), but he ended up not selling it, and in an insane move, donated all of it to a local library.

So yeaaaaaaaaaaaah.

He regrets it to this day. This was like, 15 years ago.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Sinfire Titan on March 17, 2013, 11:27:05 PM
I have a cold. I haven't had a full night's sleep for, like, a week now, nor have I gotten enough to eat, because whenever I swallow, my left ear hurts. I feel like shit right now :(

I'm having a similar problem. No pain in the ear, but everything is muffled. I may have a blockage that needs flushing, but my attempts at doing so have failed.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on March 18, 2013, 12:06:10 AM
I remember one time my hearing in my left ear had been going funny, so I stuck my DS's stylus in to see if I could pull something out.  Lo and behold, I managed to get the edge of an earwax buildup the size of a small pea and from there was able to pull the whole thing out.  I kept it for a while then looked at it one day and thought "Why the fuck am I keeping this thing? Ew." and in the trash it went.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: SneeR on March 18, 2013, 12:14:20 AM
I have a cold. I haven't had a full night's sleep for, like, a week now, nor have I gotten enough to eat, because whenever I swallow, my left ear hurts. I feel like shit right now :(
I'm having a similar problem. No pain in the ear, but everything is muffled. I may have a blockage that needs flushing, but my attempts at doing so have failed.
Pouring hydrogen peroxide into the ear for a few minutes should clear out any earwax blockages.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Elevevated Beat on March 18, 2013, 12:20:55 AM
I remember one time my hearing in my left ear had been going funny, so I stuck my DS's stylus in to see if I could pull something out.  Lo and behold, I managed to get the edge of an earwax buildup the size of a small pea and from there was able to pull the whole thing out.  I kept it for a while then looked at it one day and thought "Why the fuck am I keeping this thing? Ew." and in the trash it went.
:lmao
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on March 18, 2013, 01:29:52 AM
just priced my comic collection

with the exception of maybe 4 books the three foot stack of books is worth nearly face value.  :shakefist

each of the exception books might be worth about the same as the rest of the collection, if they were near mint of better.  :shakefist

Comics are not really an investment.  The market fluctuates too much, and most books need to be damn near mint.  Depending on what you have you might hold onto them.  If they become popular again the value might increase.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on March 18, 2013, 02:21:50 AM
10 days before the big move!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Garryl on March 18, 2013, 03:31:11 AM
I don't know why some typos really bug me. Most don't, I just spend a moment to figure out what the author meant. But some make me want to reach across the internet and slap them.

For fuck's sake, it's "morale", not "moral"! There are no "moral" bonuses in D&D. Inspire Courage does not give bonuses by knowing the difference between right and wrong. Gah!

(1st world problems are fun...)
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: littha on March 18, 2013, 03:58:29 AM
For fuck's sake, it's "morale", not "moral"! There are no "moral" bonuses in D&D.

There are arguably Profane and Sacred. :D
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: ariasderros on March 18, 2013, 04:21:49 AM
For fuck's sake, it's "morale", not "moral"! There are no "moral" bonuses in D&D. Inspire Courage does not give bonuses by knowing the difference between right and wrong. Gah!

Fixed.

It wasn't a typo. I suck at spelling. Kind of like how most people anymore are transposing the uses of "Than" and "Then" isn't a typo, it is ignorant grammar usage. Mine is ignorant word formation.

(Assuming the rant was caused by the fact that I had just made a post wherein I typed that twice.)
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: altpersona on March 18, 2013, 06:51:38 AM
just priced my comic collection

with the exception of maybe 4 books the three foot stack of books is worth nearly face value.  :shakefist

each of the exception books might be worth about the same as the rest of the collection, if they were near mint of better.  :shakefist

Comics are not really an investment.  The market fluctuates too much, and most books need to be damn near mint.  Depending on what you have you might hold onto them.  If they become popular again the value might increase.

i have mostly comics from the NOW company, all have a cover value of like 1.75, NM is about 2 - 3 $

my xmen books are about the same, i think the cover is 1.50. 2 - 3 each on those also..

i have a couple 60s books that are pricey, but just a couple.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Garryl on March 18, 2013, 12:49:14 PM
For fuck's sake, it's "morale", not "moral"! There are no "moral" bonuses in D&D. Inspire Courage does not give bonuses by knowing the difference between right and wrong. Gah!

Fixed.

It wasn't a typo. I suck at spelling. Kind of like how most people anymore are transposing the uses of "Than" and "Then" isn't a typo, it is ignorant grammar usage. Mine is ignorant word formation.

(Assuming the rant was caused by the fact that I had just made a post wherein I typed that twice.)

Don't worry, it's not you. There are, however, certain posters here and on GitP who do so regularly.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on March 18, 2013, 01:04:33 PM
I misspell lots but its because my hands are going numb.  Unless I'm paying attention I miss it sometimes.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on March 18, 2013, 01:07:22 PM
I'm just going to say that I've just about had it with poor grammar and spelling in homebrew; I know my grammar and spelling is not the best, but this is a game where a lot can hinge on wording.

Please, people, stop it. If I see one more instance of extremely poor, ambiguous wording (or, you know, a class where everything is just one big block without formatting to make it legible), I will cry tears of manly rage.

First world problems, indeed; I also dropped my sandwich on the way back from the lunch-room, and woke up with a splitting headache, so this day has not been my friend.

Carry on with your actual grievances!

EDIT: None of what I said about poor spelling applies to bhu. Because he has an excuse.

You're awesome, bhu.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: sirpercival on March 18, 2013, 02:19:55 PM
Some fucker just nearly blindsided me by blowing through a very clear Yield sign.  Asshole.

Plus I fell down the stairs the other day, and my thigh muscle is sporting a deep bruise.  Hurts to walk a lot.

AND the detector on the telescope, the one my advisor paid to ship to Chile because it's supposed to produce the bulk of my thesis work, refuses to work reliably.  The damn computer crashes and reboots every time you try to take an image.

 :banghead
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: dman11235 on March 18, 2013, 02:21:16 PM
I'm just going to say that I've just about had it with poor grammar and spelling in homebrew; I know my grammar and spelling is not the best, but this is a game where a lot can hinge on wording.

Please, people, stop it. If I see one more instance of extremely poor, ambiguous wording (or, you know, a class where everything is just one big block without formatting to make it legible), I will cry tears of manly rage.

And that's why I made the Guide to Homebrewing.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Garryl on March 18, 2013, 02:23:08 PM
Some fucker just nearly blindsided me by blowing through a very clear Yield sign.  Asshole.

Plus I fell down the stairs the other day, and my thigh muscle is sporting a deep bruise.  Hurts to walk a lot.

AND the detector on the telescope, the one my advisor paid to ship to Chile because it's supposed to produce the bulk of my thesis work, refuses to work reliably.  The damn computer crashes and reboots every time you try to take an image.

 :banghead

Your post count is over nine thousand! Maybe that's what's making the scouterdetector crash?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on March 18, 2013, 02:29:07 PM
Some fucker just nearly blindsided me by blowing through a very clear Yield sign.  Asshole.

Plus I fell down the stairs the other day, and my thigh muscle is sporting a deep bruise.  Hurts to walk a lot.

AND the detector on the telescope, the one my advisor paid to ship to Chile because it's supposed to produce the bulk of my thesis work, refuses to work reliably.  The damn computer crashes and reboots every time you try to take an image.

 :banghead

Your post count is over nine thousand! Maybe that's what's making the scouterdetector crash?

Upvoted because it's so true.

Also, we need to hold a party for Perce now that he's over 9000!
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: awaken_D_M_golem on March 18, 2013, 04:54:13 PM
rant ... not enough interwebs time.
boo RL ... boo
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: VennDygrem on March 18, 2013, 07:55:21 PM
As I was getting ready to leave work today, people decided to make plans to go out for food and drinks. I was getting excited, as being fairly new to the area, I really don't have any friends here to hang out with. I've gone out for drinks a couple times with a few of my coworkers, but this would have been the first time we had a large group together. Not to mention, the first time we'd have one of my coworkers along, a girl I get along with and who seems to go out of her way to lift my spirits and make me feel included and all that good stuff. I don't have any illusions of dating her, as she's in a relationship, but she would make a great friend and I enjoy talking with her.

So I went home because we were planning on meeting up around 7pm and I got out of work at 3:45pm, so plenty of time to change and relax before going out. I left my phone in my coat pocket without thinking about it, got ready when the time came, and went out. Shortly after leaving my home, I thought to check my phone for messages in case plans had changed. Two text messages and a voicemail from a coworker. Uh-oh. Turns out the plans were cancelled. Not long after I left, even. It had started snowing a bit as I was leaving, but it was over by the time we were to meet up and it didn't seem all the bad anyway. No word on the cause, but I expect it'll be blamed on the weather.

It's a mild inconvenience, all things considered, but ever since moving here I've been fucking bored out of my skull. Partly due to depression and other issues, but things like Netflix and video games rarely catch my interest most days, and I just end up repetitively refreshing my most common websites (such as the PbP and Homebrew forums here). I'm craving human interaction, because I have no real friends here. My younger brother runs a D&D game every so often but I get kind of tired of some of those people pretty quickly. Most of them he knows from school, playing Magic, and anytime discussion veers toward I start retreating to my laptop because I don't play and I have no interest in it.

And I have no idea when an opportunity like this will come up again.  :banghead
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on March 18, 2013, 07:55:56 PM
Some fucker just nearly blindsided me by blowing through a very clear Yield sign.  Asshole.

Plus I fell down the stairs the other day, and my thigh muscle is sporting a deep bruise.  Hurts to walk a lot.

AND the detector on the telescope, the one my advisor paid to ship to Chile because it's supposed to produce the bulk of my thesis work, refuses to work reliably.  The damn computer crashes and reboots every time you try to take an image.

 :banghead

Is it a windows system?  Mine seems to fuck up every time theres a new update for windows.  It completely crippled my browser last time.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on March 18, 2013, 07:57:32 PM
Hugs for Venn ans SirP  :hug
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: sirpercival on March 18, 2013, 08:49:53 PM
Some fucker just nearly blindsided me by blowing through a very clear Yield sign.  Asshole.

Plus I fell down the stairs the other day, and my thigh muscle is sporting a deep bruise.  Hurts to walk a lot.

AND the detector on the telescope, the one my advisor paid to ship to Chile because it's supposed to produce the bulk of my thesis work, refuses to work reliably.  The damn computer crashes and reboots every time you try to take an image.

 :banghead

Is it a windows system?  Mine seems to fuck up every time theres a new update for windows.  It completely crippled my browser last time.
Actually no - it's running SunOS on a Solaris.  Yeah.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on March 18, 2013, 08:58:39 PM
Some fucker just nearly blindsided me by blowing through a very clear Yield sign.  Asshole.

Plus I fell down the stairs the other day, and my thigh muscle is sporting a deep bruise.  Hurts to walk a lot.

AND the detector on the telescope, the one my advisor paid to ship to Chile because it's supposed to produce the bulk of my thesis work, refuses to work reliably.  The damn computer crashes and reboots every time you try to take an image.

 :banghead

Is it a windows system?  Mine seems to fuck up every time theres a new update for windows.  It completely crippled my browser last time.
Actually no - it's running SunOS on a Solaris.  Yeah.

Professionals know that if you want something to keep working right, then it's not going to be a Windows system.  Though in this case something has gone wrong anyway...  Hope it gets fixed soon!
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Nanshork on March 18, 2013, 10:52:31 PM
Some fucker just nearly blindsided me by blowing through a very clear Yield sign.  Asshole.

Plus I fell down the stairs the other day, and my thigh muscle is sporting a deep bruise.  Hurts to walk a lot.

AND the detector on the telescope, the one my advisor paid to ship to Chile because it's supposed to produce the bulk of my thesis work, refuses to work reliably.  The damn computer crashes and reboots every time you try to take an image.

 :banghead

Is it a windows system?  Mine seems to fuck up every time theres a new update for windows.  It completely crippled my browser last time.
Actually no - it's running SunOS on a Solaris.  Yeah.

I could make so many puns.....
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on March 18, 2013, 11:02:48 PM
Some fucker tried to tase me and my mom the other day.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on March 18, 2013, 11:37:56 PM
Are you sure you should keep living in Brazil? 
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on March 19, 2013, 12:10:16 AM
Some fucker tried to tase me and my mom the other day.

crap!
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on March 19, 2013, 01:11:09 AM
Some fucker tried to tase me and my mom the other day.

First thought: "Dang, that does suck."

Second thought: "At least it wasn't a taser trying to fuck you and your mom."

Some weird things happen when you add a bit of dyslexia to the mix.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: littha on March 19, 2013, 07:45:56 AM
Some fucker tried to tase me and my mom the other day.

For some reason I read that as "taste", it put a completely different spin on things.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: InnaBinder on March 19, 2013, 08:08:43 AM
Some fucker tried to tase me and my mom the other day.
Any report on when the dude will be able to eat solid food again?   :smirk
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on March 19, 2013, 10:21:04 AM
Some fucker tried to tase me and my mom the other day.
Any report on when the dude will be able to eat solid food again?   :smirk

Don't know, I don't think he's out of his coma yet.

EDIT: More to the point, I think I found out my jacket is damn near shockproof. I only felt a mild tingle.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on March 19, 2013, 11:32:05 AM
Wow I guess I didn't realize how close he got to fully zapping you!

glad to hear you we wearing protection ;)
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on March 19, 2013, 11:55:02 AM
I was lucky he didn't get me in the torso. Unlike a stungun, a taser works better the closer to the heart (incapacitation by arrhythmia). If you get tased in the arm, you can use shock reflex in your favor to counter. It's not very effective, but...
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: RedWarlock on March 19, 2013, 11:57:54 AM
I was lucky he didn't get me in the torso. Unlike a stungun, a taser works better the closer to the heart (incapacitation by arrhythmia). If you get tased in the arm, you can use shock reflex in your favor to counter. It's not very effective, but...

Assailant used TASER SHOCK! It's not very effective...

Kuroimaken use COUNTER! It's not very effective...

Assailant fainted!

Sorry, couldn't help it.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on March 19, 2013, 12:01:02 PM
I was lucky he didn't get me in the torso. Unlike a stungun, a taser works better the closer to the heart (incapacitation by arrhythmia). If you get tased in the arm, you can use shock reflex in your favor to counter. It's not very effective, but...

Assailant used TASER SHOCK! It's not very effective...

Kuroimaken use COUNTER! It's not very effective...

Assailant fainted!

Sorry, couldn't help it.

That's okay, I couldn't help but laugh.  :lmao

EDIT: Makes me wonder what kinda pokémon I am, though.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Raineh Daze on March 19, 2013, 12:06:27 PM
Fighting/Steel, I'm guessing. :p
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on March 19, 2013, 12:25:34 PM
Actually, that has me thinking...

I've been jokingly designing a game where, instead of you getting Pokemon, you walk around, beating up Pokemon with your fists.

So, Kuroi, wanna be the main character? Or one of the possible evolutions, at least?

Also, I convulsed a little last night; my heart felt like someone was grabbing it and everything.

It only lasted about a minute and I only noticed because the entire bed was vibrating.

At least I think I convulsed; not exactly sure...

Don't think it is anything major enough to bother a doctor about (unless it starts happening again.)
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on March 19, 2013, 12:37:31 PM
I'd be honored.  :)

It could have been a minor or complex seizure. Those are not as dangerous as full-blown seizures generally, but you should get yourself checked just in case.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Halinn on March 19, 2013, 12:45:11 PM
If it's not something you have to pay for yourself, bother that doctor. Seizures can be signs of bad stuff.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on March 19, 2013, 01:31:59 PM
The problem is that the local clinic is literally only open while I have class. I'll go tomorrow early in the morning.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Nanshork on March 19, 2013, 07:42:16 PM
I hate it when I depress myself.  I was on the old bg board looking at a pbp game and wishing that it had gotten moved over because it was awesome (afaik the dm never even made the transition).  Then I clicked a link I made and started reading the thread I made back when my house burned down.   :(
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Garryl on March 19, 2013, 07:50:32 PM
Ouch, man. Retroactive hugs.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: InnaBinder on March 19, 2013, 07:54:51 PM
I hate it when I depress myself.  I was on the old bg board looking at a pbp game and wishing that it had gotten moved over because it was awesome (afaik the dm never even made the transition).  Then I clicked a link I made and started reading the thread I made back when my house burned down.   :(
But. . . then you had a bunch of folks from the internet do their best to restock the things that got lost in the fire, right?    :bigeyes
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on March 19, 2013, 07:58:14 PM
Just remember, you're awesome and everybody loves ya.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Nanshork on March 19, 2013, 08:01:16 PM
I hate it when I depress myself.  I was on the old bg board looking at a pbp game and wishing that it had gotten moved over because it was awesome (afaik the dm never even made the transition).  Then I clicked a link I made and started reading the thread I made back when my house burned down.   :(
But. . . then you had a bunch of folks from the internet do their best to restock the things that got lost in the fire, right?    :bigeyes

I had a bunch of people from the internet be really supportive.  Hell, both Solo and SorO were being nice supportive people.  That should say something. :p

Very little trickled my way from the community but on the flip side I made it very clear that nothing was needed and people should take care of themselves before sending me something they might not be able to afford.  It all worked out, I bounced back very well considering it was only a year and a half ago.  I just haven't thought deeply about the fire in a long time and it is hitting me harder than I was expecting.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on March 19, 2013, 08:13:04 PM
Just remember that one classic saying, you can't change the past, and you can't predict the future, all you've got is now and that's why it's called present.

You've lost a lot, true. But you didn't lose anything that couldn't be replaced: friends and family were okay, as I recall. You've still got your memories of everything, right?

Not saying it didn't suck, but in hindsight, you weren't too badly off. Love counts for a lot, I'd think.

And again, Nans, you're an awesome guy. I don't think I can name anyone in this forum who thinks ill of you.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on March 19, 2013, 08:33:18 PM
Amechra if it felt like something was grabbing at your heart you should be visiting a hospital maybe.  Make sure you visit that place tomorrow.  :(
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Libertad on March 19, 2013, 08:38:29 PM
Let's all send good vibes Amechra's way and wish him the best.  Vibe harder, people!
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on March 19, 2013, 08:40:12 PM
It wasn't a steely grip; more of a light squeeze.

And yeah, I'm going tomorrow.

Also, I'm filling out an app for an internship, and god-damn it people, if your application wipes all progress from it when you navigate away from it, at least have the decency to have one of those pop-ups that stop people from navigating away!

I accidentally hit the back button. I'm redoing the stinking application.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on March 19, 2013, 08:54:38 PM
If it's not something you have to pay for yourself, bother that doctor. Seizures can be signs of bad stuff.

they're bad, but when I had my complex partial that crossed to the other lobe, that got me diagnosed with epilepsy.
they said the REALLY bad thing is multiple seizures within a very short time. This indicates poisoning or some other really horrible thing wrong w you. And its considered a medical emergency

but yeah, still get it checked out. Better safe than sorry
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on March 19, 2013, 09:07:55 PM
I'm just going to say this.

There is a certain kind of shame when, come time to list your work experiences in chronological order, you are given three slots.

And you end with a food service job that is completely unrelated to your actual competencies.

(I haven't worked at enough jobs. Also, I checked out RateMyProfessor.com for the laughs. I saw a bunch of people basically spam the ratings for one of my favorite professors, oftentimes with blatant lies. It's a bit demoralizing to think that people are actually using that service to help select their courses.)
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on March 19, 2013, 09:19:41 PM
Level of squeezing is not something you should dismiss.  That  you feel squeezing at all is a problem.  There's a 22 year old kid I used to work with who had a combination stroke/heart failure once.

Granted he was also taking three grams of coke a day and chasing it with aderall, then munching Lithium so he could sleep at night.  So it wasn't a surprise in his case, but his initial symptoms weren't bad either.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on March 20, 2013, 07:22:47 AM
Burning abdominal pain has kept me up all night.  Damn stuff still hasn't stopped.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kasz on March 20, 2013, 11:12:49 AM
There is a certain kind of shame when, come time to list your work experiences in chronological order, you are given three slots.

Yeah... it's even worse when you have to put like:

1. 2 years of relevant experience
2. 3 years of soulcrushing retail to get any sort of experience whatsoever
3. nothing.... because I left higher education and couldn't get a job for a year

Amecha, stop annoying those cultists...Clutch of Orcus (http://dndtools.eu/spells/book-of-vile-darkness--37/clutch-of-orcus--202/) is a solid deterrent... see your local healer immediately... I'm sure your professors/teachers/lecturers would understand "I'm late because doctor"

Jack, if it lasts longer than a day see a doctor... I'm not trying to quote Viagra here.

TL:DR Everyone on the boards is dying.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Halinn on March 20, 2013, 11:42:25 AM
TL:DR Everyone on the boards is dying.

So is everyone not on the boards.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Nytemare3701 on March 20, 2013, 11:51:19 AM
TL:DR Everyone on the boards is dying.

*raises hand* I've got till about 30. (I'm 23)
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Nanshork on March 20, 2013, 02:43:24 PM
First world problem, the PbP games I'm in don't update often enough and I have too many character ideas that I want to play that I don't have a chance to.   :shakefist

I doesn't help that I've spent the past couple of days dredging through homebrew and found some stuff I'm really excited about.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: altpersona on March 20, 2013, 02:50:36 PM
#firstworldproblems

bitcoins are difficult to get.

 :banghead
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Concerned Ninja Citizen on March 20, 2013, 02:55:25 PM
First world problem, the PbP games I'm in don't update often enough and I have too many character ideas that I want to play that I don't have a chance to.   :shakefist

I doesn't help that I've spent the past couple of days dredging through homebrew and found some stuff I'm really excited about.

Find a way to shoehorn the stuff you're excited about into a nintendo reference somehow?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Nanshork on March 20, 2013, 02:58:06 PM
First world problem, the PbP games I'm in don't update often enough and I have too many character ideas that I want to play that I don't have a chance to.   :shakefist

I doesn't help that I've spent the past couple of days dredging through homebrew and found some stuff I'm really excited about.

Find a way to shoehorn the stuff you're excited about into a nintendo reference somehow?

None of it works, I tried.   :-\
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on March 20, 2013, 03:24:51 PM
Jack, if it lasts longer than a day see a doctor... I'm not trying to quote Viagra here.

It lasted all night, and then I took my morning pill that's supposed to lower the acid production, and lo and behold it did and I was able to sleep from 7 to 12.  My PA "prescribed" it, since it's an over the counter drug, but it's nice for about twelve hours after I take it.  Since I was told to take it in the morning though, I find it wears off by evening sometimes.  And I suppose last night's dinner didn't help since my grandma made sweet and sour pork.

Gonna call the PA and ask if I should take it at a different time, or perhaps if I should take one pill in the morning and one at night.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: awaken_D_M_golem on March 20, 2013, 07:10:44 PM

TL:DR Everyone on the boards is dying.

So is everyone not on the boards.

But is your rate of dying increasing (=bad) or decreasing (=good)  :???
As in:  I am dying at a slower rate, than I was in '04 or '05.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on March 21, 2013, 12:22:14 AM
First world problem, the PbP games I'm in don't update often enough and I have too many character ideas that I want to play that I don't have a chance to.   :shakefist

I doesn't help that I've spent the past couple of days dredging through homebrew and found some stuff I'm really excited about.

is it a certain one I'm in too?

if so, I agree. I ended up with like 2-3 posts in a row, without major updates
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Nanshork on March 21, 2013, 08:52:27 AM
First world problem, the PbP games I'm in don't update often enough and I have too many character ideas that I want to play that I don't have a chance to.   :shakefist

I doesn't help that I've spent the past couple of days dredging through homebrew and found some stuff I'm really excited about.

is it a certain one I'm in too?

if so, I agree. I ended up with like 2-3 posts in a row, without major updates

It's pretty much every PbP I'm in, so probably.   :p
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on March 21, 2013, 12:08:57 PM
Ha.. Its so not fun... You get ancy because you want to do things, but nothing will let you.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Nanshork on March 21, 2013, 04:46:29 PM
Well if you ever feel like I should contribute more just nudge me.  Sometimes I don't post as often as I should...
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on March 21, 2013, 07:52:20 PM
Either my mother is deliberately trying to drive me to suicide, or her problems are far worse than i thought.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on March 21, 2013, 07:53:25 PM
On medication for the acid reflux, and thankfully it helps but I still get random twitches in my stomach area that bother me.  Makes me want to punch my stomach and tell it "Work like normal you little bastard!"
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: SneeR on March 21, 2013, 09:02:55 PM
On medication for the acid reflux, and thankfully it helps but I still get random twitches in my stomach area that bother me.  Makes me want to punch my stomach and tell it "Work like normal you little bastard!"
I want to do this to about half of my body parts. I could make a long list of things that are wrong with me.
UUGGGHHH
 :banghead
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: brujon on March 21, 2013, 10:54:08 PM
Court in 12 hours...

I'm ready, but i'm not.

Not feeling well.. Damn... Some heavy shit

=/
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Nanshork on March 21, 2013, 10:55:05 PM
Court in 12 hours...

I'm ready, but i'm not.

Not feeling well.. Damn... Some heavy shit

=/

I hope things go well for you.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on March 22, 2013, 12:24:43 AM
Court in 12 hours...

I'm ready, but i'm not.

Not feeling well.. Damn... Some heavy shit

=/
Try to get some sleep. I know it's gonna be hard, but the last thing you want is to look as if you've been awake all night.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on March 22, 2013, 12:52:42 AM
 :hug for brujon
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on March 22, 2013, 02:44:13 AM
@nanshork
Unfortunately, you're not on my team Θ_Θ

@brujon
best of luck
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Nanshork on March 22, 2013, 09:06:31 AM
@nanshork
Unfortunately, you're not on my team Θ_Θ

Ahh, yeah, there is that.  You guys need another teammate?   :P

(Kidding, I think percival has too much on his plate as it is.)
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on March 22, 2013, 10:12:06 AM
We did have bobthe6th drop out... So if you want, you can contact the others too

yeah, it seems so, but the game is still good :)
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Dictum Mortuum on March 22, 2013, 10:52:48 AM
I ... need a job :p
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on March 22, 2013, 10:57:32 AM
So do I.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on March 22, 2013, 11:04:48 AM
After we get settled at the new house, I need a part time job, otherwise I'm gonna go crazy
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: betrayor on March 22, 2013, 01:51:11 PM
I recently started teaching physics to 14 years old.....
Yesterday I thought I would have an aneurysm......
3 or four kids made the classroom hell and unbearable for all the others....

It was my first time facing something like this so I didn't know hot to discipline them......
Things escalated when the well-behaving kids started complaining that they were here to learn and not just sitting around and listen to the mayhem.....
I have the same class next week and I am not sure what I will do if it happens again.....

At least ranting about it here may help my frustration.....
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: littha on March 22, 2013, 02:27:47 PM
My job is super hard and has me working 62 hour weeks...
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Nanshork on March 22, 2013, 02:45:35 PM
I ... need a job :p

And where have you been hiding?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on March 22, 2013, 02:52:21 PM
they just threw a curveball at us....
we close on the house in 5 days and just NOW they say they need an extra $1800 for the down payment!

WTF???
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Dictum Mortuum on March 22, 2013, 02:59:46 PM
I ... need a job :p

And where have you been hiding?

~1 year of mandatory military service and after that I managed to finish my thesis (just last week) for my M.Sc.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: betrayor on March 22, 2013, 03:10:06 PM
I ... need a job :p

And where have you been hiding?

~1 year of mandatory military service and after that I managed to finish my thesis (just last week) for my M.Sc.

Mandatory military service sucks,these 8 months of my life I will never get back......
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: awaken_D_M_golem on March 22, 2013, 03:56:50 PM
The alternative to mandatory military
is the US stays in Iraq for (like) ever.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Raineh Daze on March 22, 2013, 04:25:55 PM
The alternative to mandatory military
is the US stays in Iraq for (like) ever.


... there are several things wrong with this statement, and I have no idea where to start.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Nytemare3701 on March 22, 2013, 04:33:52 PM
The alternative to mandatory military
is the US stays in Iraq for (like) ever.


... there are several things wrong with this statement, and I have no idea where to start.

Allow me.

1: The US does not have mandatory military service.
2: Our time spent in the middle east has nothing to do with manpower. In fact, we have an EXCESS of troops.
3: More troops do not speed up resolution in most cases. In fact, it generally causes the country with the excess of troops to spend more money and burn out.
4: Mandatory service is generally not combat service. You don't send people to their deaths unless they have a reason to die for you, or you have absolutely no interest in the safety or effectiveness of those troops.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: awaken_D_M_golem on March 22, 2013, 04:38:59 PM
I take it the conventional wisdom,
that the Draft made more family
members involved in what the
serviceman (because it was just men back then)
was doing = come home soon
... is "conventional wisdom" you don't agree with.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Raineh Daze on March 22, 2013, 04:48:02 PM
It leads to taking people away from doing something productive, and forcing them to put their life at risk doing something they don't want to do. Not a situation that breeds high morale or effectiveness.

So no, all it does is increase number of casualties (until you reach the point where 'throw more people at it' is the only option, and I don't think that's applicable to the situation in question).
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Nanshork on March 22, 2013, 05:03:07 PM
I ... need a job :p

And where have you been hiding?

~1 year of mandatory military service and after that I managed to finish my thesis (just last week) for my M.Sc.

Well welcome back!


The rest of you people go argue about military service somewhere else, that isn't a small rant.   :p
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on March 22, 2013, 06:33:44 PM
After attacking the cat, and then threatening to burn everything i own and leave yesterday, mom is acting like nothing happened.


wtf...
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on March 22, 2013, 06:42:17 PM
After attacking the cat, and then threatening to burn everything i own and leave yesterday, mom is acting like nothing happened.


wtf...
It may be WTF-worthy, but after so much you've told us about how your mom generally behaves, I doubt you should be surprised.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Dictum Mortuum on March 22, 2013, 07:17:46 PM
I ... need a job :p

And where have you been hiding?

~1 year of mandatory military service and after that I managed to finish my thesis (just last week) for my M.Sc.

Well welcome back!


The rest of you people go argue about military service somewhere else, that isn't a small rant.   :p

Thanks! Did I miss anything important?

After attacking the cat, and then threatening to burn everything i own and leave yesterday, mom is acting like nothing happened.


wtf...

 :bigeyes
I think we need a hug emoticon  :flutter

Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Nanshork on March 22, 2013, 07:25:04 PM
We have a hug emoticon! :hug

You've probably missed a lot but I'm bad at keeping track of other people's lives...
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: RedWarlock on March 22, 2013, 07:27:09 PM

I think we need a hug emoticon  :flutter
We have one:
:hug

We also have this, which is a little more disturbing...
 :lovefirefox
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Dictum Mortuum on March 22, 2013, 07:30:59 PM
Oh man, my english are getting a bit rusty. I should've thrown a 'that' in there or something :p

Meh
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on March 22, 2013, 10:40:55 PM

I think we need a hug emoticon  :flutter
We have one:
:hug

We also have this, which is a little more disturbing...
 :lovefirefox

Disturbing but factual.  ie sucks
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: ariasderros on March 22, 2013, 11:11:01 PM
Disturbing but factual.  ie sucks

Nonsense. IE is the number one browser... for downloading other browsers.

Anywho:
Either my mother is deliberately trying to drive me to suicide, or her problems are far worse than i thought.
I would venture, based on what you've said, that it is the latter. To a great degree.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on March 23, 2013, 01:12:11 AM
Were you here for the giant board crash?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: ariasderros on March 23, 2013, 01:16:15 AM
Were you here for the giant board crash?

You might want to specify whom you are asking.
Many of us were over on RoC.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on March 23, 2013, 01:17:19 AM
Dictum Mortuum was asking what he missed
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Dictum Mortuum on March 23, 2013, 04:11:25 AM
Dictum Mortuum was asking what he missed

Yes I was, although at that time I would check the boards once a week, so, no, I wasn't really 'here'.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on March 23, 2013, 11:32:38 AM
Just checking ;)
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: awaken_D_M_golem on March 23, 2013, 04:29:16 PM
Attacking the cat = grrr ....  :shakefist
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Libertad on March 24, 2013, 01:52:58 AM
I don't like ego-boosting signatures.

On forums, it's when a user quotes another's post saying "[Username] is awesome!"

It really smacks of arrogance, especially when it gives no context as to why said user is so cool.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Garryl on March 24, 2013, 02:03:23 AM
I don't like ego-boosting signatures.

On forums, it's when a user quotes another's post saying "[Username] is awesome!"

It really smacks of arrogance, especially when it gives no context as to why said user is so cool.

Libertad is awesome!

(Oh, wait, I'm supposed to give a context? Crap.) Umm... because... pizza? (Dang it!)
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on March 24, 2013, 02:43:32 AM
I'm getting tired of friends taking obstinate positions in politics and hiding behind an "I'm always right, you're always wrong' wall of ignorance.  From now on I'm telling people "Don't embarrass me by referring to yourself as intelligent when all you do is parrot what celebrities say, and I won't embarrass you by coming to your house naked on bridge night and jacking it to amputee porn in front of your relatives."

A man can only take so much bullshit...
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Agita on March 24, 2013, 10:14:04 AM
easter break:
desktop hdd seems to have died yet again. 2.5 months after coming out of repair.
sleepy despite having slept enough. stomachache. typing with one hand because i'm in bed and lying on the other.
everything is horrible.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Halinn on March 24, 2013, 10:35:30 AM
easter break:
desktop hdd seems to have died yet again. 2.5 months after coming out of repair.
sleepy despite having slept enough. stomachache. typing with one hand because i'm in bed and lying on the other.
everything is horrible.
:hug

Stomach aches suck so bad when trying to sleep.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: brujon on March 24, 2013, 12:11:45 PM
I have to sift through 8 months of conversation between my ex and myself on Facebook. That's not cool, man, not cool at all.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Dictum Mortuum on March 24, 2013, 12:29:00 PM
I have to sift through 8 months of conversation between my ex and myself on Facebook. That's not cool, man, not cool at all.

wow, why do that to yourself :S
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: brujon on March 24, 2013, 12:35:28 PM
It's not only that. It's about 12 thousand lines of conversation on Facebook, plus about 400 or more SMS that i have to sift through, and then i have to select the bits that prove that she was alienating me from my son, or at least planning to.

It's because of the legal battle i'm in now for my son. And let me tell you, that's a LOT. Word is not even being able to keep up, it's been close to 8 minutes and it's still non-responsive. I've already saved a backup in notepad, since it appears to cope better with massive amounts of text.

Not happy about it either.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Nytemare3701 on March 24, 2013, 12:37:55 PM
It's not only that. It's about 12 thousand lines of conversation on Facebook, plus about 400 or more SMS that i have to sift through, and then i have to select the bits that prove that she was alienating me from my son, or at least planning to.

It's because of the legal battle i'm in now for my son. And let me tell you, that's a LOT. Word is not even being able to keep up, it's been close to 8 minutes and it's still non-responsive. I've already saved a backup in notepad, since it appears to cope better with massive amounts of text.

Not happy about it either.

Notepad++ seems to handle it pretty well, as it lets me open entire 10+gb data files as text.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: brujon on March 24, 2013, 12:41:29 PM
Word finished, after close to 10 minutes. It's 1310 pages on Word. Holy fucking shit. I'm doomed.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on March 24, 2013, 02:01:16 PM
easter break:
desktop hdd seems to have died yet again. 2.5 months after coming out of repair.
sleepy despite having slept enough. stomachache. typing with one hand because i'm in bed and lying on the other.
everything is horrible.
:hug

Stomach aches suck so bad when trying to sleep.

Stomach aches are little evil bastards while trying to sleep.  :hug  Hope it gets better!  And how old is the HDD?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: awaken_D_M_golem on March 24, 2013, 02:17:31 PM

I think we need a hug emoticon  :flutter
We have one:
:hug

We also have this, which is a little more disturbing...
 :lovefirefox

Disturbing but factual.  ie sucks

C'mon people LUV their interwebs.

But yeah hugs around.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Agita on March 25, 2013, 04:12:45 AM
easter break:
desktop hdd seems to have died yet again. 2.5 months after coming out of repair.
sleepy despite having slept enough. stomachache. typing with one hand because i'm in bed and lying on the other.
everything is horrible.
:hug

Stomach aches suck so bad when trying to sleep.

Stomach aches are little evil bastards while trying to sleep.  :hug  Hope it gets better!  And how old is the HDD?
Thanks, guys. After having a three-hour nap and sleeping for another 10-11 hours straight, I'm feeling better. If nothing else, I can be bothered to type full sentences and capitalize properly.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: SneeR on March 25, 2013, 04:55:58 PM
Had to pay $150 to reconnect to my college's Internet after they caught me pirating.
I guess I'll be eating lightly for the next month or two. Potatoes and ramen for every meal.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: brujon on March 25, 2013, 05:02:03 PM
Had to pay $150 to reconnect to my college's Internet after they caught me pirating.
I guess I'll be eating lightly for the next month or two. Potatoes and ramen for every meal.

Damn. That sucks... Maybe bittorrent via TOR next time to avoid that?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Garryl on March 25, 2013, 05:20:58 PM
Had to pay $150 to reconnect to my college's Internet after they caught me pirating.
I guess I'll be eating lightly for the next month or two. Potatoes and ramen for every meal.

Damn. That sucks... Maybe bittorrent via TOR next time to avoid that?

Or don't go around pirating, maybe?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: SneeR on March 25, 2013, 06:15:16 PM
Had to pay $150 to reconnect to my college's Internet after they caught me pirating.
I guess I'll be eating lightly for the next month or two. Potatoes and ramen for every meal.
Damn. That sucks... Maybe bittorrent via TOR next time to avoid that?
Or don't go around pirating, maybe?
That was the plan.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on March 25, 2013, 07:15:57 PM
Had to pay $150 to reconnect to my college's Internet after they caught me pirating.
I guess I'll be eating lightly for the next month or two. Potatoes and ramen for every meal.
Who, exactly, caught you pirating?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Wrex on March 25, 2013, 07:35:20 PM
The people watching the college's internet for things like that, presumeably.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: SneeR on March 25, 2013, 08:02:50 PM
Had to pay $150 to reconnect to my college's Internet after they caught me pirating.
I guess I'll be eating lightly for the next month or two. Potatoes and ramen for every meal.
Who, exactly, caught you pirating?
They cut off your IP when a copyright holder sends them a message complaining about infringing. Apparently Dreamworks squealed.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on March 25, 2013, 08:24:27 PM
Had to pay $150 to reconnect to my college's Internet after they caught me pirating.
I guess I'll be eating lightly for the next month or two. Potatoes and ramen for every meal.
Who, exactly, caught you pirating?
They cut off your IP when a copyright holder sends them a message complaining about infringing. Apparently Dreamworks squealed.
I hope you guys don't have any Dreamworks film you're hoping to see...

*cracks knuckles*
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on March 25, 2013, 08:49:29 PM
Most of the films I watch are R or higher if they even have a rating.  Have at it...
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on March 25, 2013, 09:02:24 PM
@sneer

that sucks!!!
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: altpersona on March 25, 2013, 11:12:14 PM
wifi is your friend or rather your friends wifi is yours, however you wanna look at it.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: ariasderros on March 27, 2013, 10:48:11 AM
Yeah... I used to use Bittorrent to download a bunch of stuff. Mediacom cut me off when they got a letter.
Apparently, Hustler is real protective of Faye Reagan's les scenes. Just sayin.



Being a grown up sucks. Bills and work and surprise bills. Running errands and such. Last week I got real busy. This week is shaping up to not let me have much free time either. Looks like next week might be the same.
On the one hand, at least stuff is getting done (by saturday my car will be in the best repair its been in since I've had it); On the other hand, gorram life, I just want to play games with people, not all of this other crap.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: altpersona on March 27, 2013, 11:07:06 AM
two wifis

one wifi router loaded with ddwrt setup as a scanning repeater.

the second you use to connect to the first.

less than a hundred buck should have you online and immune to most of those concerns.

Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: brujon on March 27, 2013, 11:20:06 AM
Costs a bit of money, but there's always the option of getting a seedbox. Downloading porn full scenes though, i don't know why you would do that :( there are soooo many streaming sites with full movies available in FULL HD... And you have none of that nonsense about receiving letters.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: ariasderros on March 27, 2013, 11:32:35 AM
Costs a bit of money, but there's always the option of getting a seedbox. Downloading porn full scenes though, i don't know why you would do that :( there are soooo many streaming sites with full movies available in FULL HD... And you have none of that nonsense about receiving letters.

At the time, the ethernet cable was somewhere where others would have seen what I was watching, so that would have been prohibitive to porn. But if I put it on the computer, then I could watch it whenever / wherever.
Also, believe it or not, I didn't know about most of those sites until quite recently.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: dman11235 on March 27, 2013, 12:09:57 PM
Freaking jesuits....I didn't see their badges until after I stopped, so I couldn't pull away without not being polite until they actually started talking about religion.  And it was on campus so I couldn't pull a bhu and strip naked and start throwing feces or something.

EDIT: Also, I want to punch whoever chose this station in this RH.  It's a country station.  And not a good one that plays, say, Cash or someone as good.  No, this is the kind of station that will regularly play the Star Spangled Banner.  Yeah, that kind.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: ariasderros on March 27, 2013, 12:21:57 PM
EDIT: Also, I want to punch whoever chose this station in this RH.  It's a country station.  And not a good one that plays, say, Cash or someone as good.  No, this is the kind of station that will regularly play the Star Spangled Banner.  Yeah, that kind.

At work, someone turned it to a country station I had never tuned to before. In 3 days, not one Taylor Swift song. That makes me happy.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: dman11235 on March 27, 2013, 01:47:25 PM
Did it play real country of the fake country that's all about guns and 'MURICA and punching minorities and generally being a stereotypical Republican?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Bozwevial on March 27, 2013, 02:13:55 PM
And it was on campus so I couldn't pull a bhu and strip naked and start throwing feces or something.
Can we stop for a moment and appreciate how bhu is now everyone's role model in this regard?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Nanshork on March 27, 2013, 03:18:59 PM
And it was on campus so I couldn't pull a bhu and strip naked and start throwing feces or something.
Can we stop for a moment and appreciate how bhu is now everyone's role model in this regard?

Done.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on March 27, 2013, 08:09:54 PM
 :lol

Just smile and tell them "God is a black man.  Anyone who disagrees is a racist."

It'll do you just fine.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: ariasderros on March 27, 2013, 10:39:24 PM
Did it play real country of the fake country that's all about guns and 'MURICA and punching minorities and generally being a stereotypical Republican?

Mostly modern "country" (Miranda Lambert, Dierks Bentley, etc.), with some of the older ''country" like Cash. They played Sunday Morning Coming Down, on Sunday Morning.  :smirk
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on March 27, 2013, 11:24:15 PM
:lol

Just smile and tell them "God is a black man.  Anyone who disagrees is a racist."

It'll do you just fine.
But I disagree! I think God is not a man at all.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on March 28, 2013, 01:59:43 AM
:lol

Just smile and tell them "God is a black man.  Anyone who disagrees is a racist."

It'll do you just fine.
But I disagree! I think God is not a man at all.

Then in your case just lean close and whisper "I spend my weekends killing cave bears with my penis."  should send them straight off...
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on March 28, 2013, 02:05:26 AM
Freaking jesuits....I didn't see their badges until after I stopped, so I couldn't pull away without not being polite until they actually started talking about religion.  And it was on campus so I couldn't pull a bhu and strip naked and start throwing feces or something.

I absolutely cannot stand evangelists or soap box preachers. Back in Ann Arbor, MI, I actually flipped off a soap box'er and shouted "boo" as I drove by. I hate when people push their religion on others, in any form.

I'm proud to be an atheist, and wish people would chill out about pushing Christianity on me or others.

I'd probably be not polite, but not mean to get away from them. And prob mutter "fuckers" or something several times, under my breath as soon as I'm out of hearing distance.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on March 28, 2013, 02:25:47 AM
Earlier today I was chatting with my dad and when I asked him a computer question he went, "No idea.  I'm not into computers anymore."  And I go, "Really?"  And he replies, "Yup.  I pretty much wasted ten years of my life on them."

I could feel some of the pain he felt admitting that.  And of course I gave him a hug because I know he's not doing as well as he's letting on.  And I wish I could ease his burden by getting a job and such, but I can't keep the motivation to follow through on things.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: brujon on March 28, 2013, 05:36:18 AM
Freaking jesuits....I didn't see their badges until after I stopped, so I couldn't pull away without not being polite until they actually started talking about religion.  And it was on campus so I couldn't pull a bhu and strip naked and start throwing feces or something.

I absolutely cannot stand evangelists or soap box preachers. Back in Ann Arbor, MI, I actually flipped off a soap box'er and shouted "boo" as I drove by. I hate when people push their religion on others, in any form.

I'm proud to be an atheist, and wish people would chill out about pushing Christianity on me or others.

I'd probably be not polite, but not mean to get away from them. And prob mutter "fuckers" or something several times, under my breath as soon as I'm out of hearing distance.

The answer, as always, in these kinds of situations, is full blast death/black metal on extremely large speakers.

Good suggestions include:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-eXwfxfcsE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVlcVpDaSJc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9NESceABdA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj3AqJL5WlM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrjxppJsmx8


-------------

For some reason, this always seems to aggravate the preaching type of Christians.  :P
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Raineh Daze on March 28, 2013, 06:25:56 AM
Freaking jesuits....I didn't see their badges until after I stopped, so I couldn't pull away without not being polite until they actually started talking about religion.  And it was on campus so I couldn't pull a bhu and strip naked and start throwing feces or something.

I absolutely cannot stand evangelists or soap box preachers. Back in Ann Arbor, MI, I actually flipped off a soap box'er and shouted "boo" as I drove by. I hate when people push their religion on others, in any form.

I'm proud to be an atheist, and wish people would chill out about pushing Christianity on me or others.

I'd probably be not polite, but not mean to get away from them. And prob mutter "fuckers" or something several times, under my breath as soon as I'm out of hearing distance.

Eh, politeness costs nothing. Why antagonise people just because you disagree with them on something? :/

Now, if it's the fire-and-brimstone you're-going-to-hell type, then feel free. But those who're being perfectly civil? :huh
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: SneeR on March 28, 2013, 06:53:10 AM
I don’t understand the simultaneous rejection of gay marriage and patriotic support of America in the same person. Isn’t America founded upon principles of all men created equally? Not letting people do things based upon their creed is NOT treating them equally, no matter if they chose it, or if it’s unnatural, or if you think it’s icky. This is a civil rights issue, and any American who would deny a person some right based on their behavior that is not illegal should be ashamed in themselves
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Raineh Daze on March 28, 2013, 06:57:08 AM
I don’t understand the simultaneous rejection of gay marriage and patriotic support of America in the same person. Isn’t America founded upon principles of all men created equally? Not letting people do things based upon their creed is NOT treating them equally, no matter if they chose it, or if it’s unnatural, or if you think it’s icky. This is a civil rights issue, and any American who would deny a person some right based on their behavior that is not illegal should be ashamed in themselves

It also wasn't founded as a Christian nation. That seems to get conveniently forgotten a lot, as well, so religion is strictly speaking an invalid argument for lawmaking. People seem really good at messing up their own patriotism by getting things wrong. :eh
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Halinn on March 28, 2013, 08:01:50 AM
:lol

Just smile and tell them "God is a black man.  Anyone who disagrees is a racist."

It'll do you just fine.
But I disagree! I think God is not a man at all.
Then it's just "God is a black woman. Anyone who disagrees is a misogynist racist."
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Raineh Daze on March 28, 2013, 08:06:21 AM
:lol

Just smile and tell them "God is a black man.  Anyone who disagrees is a racist."

It'll do you just fine.
But I disagree! I think God is not a man at all.
Then it's just "God is a black woman. Anyone who disagrees is a misogynist racist."

"God is a gay black woman. Anyone who disagrees is a homophobic misogynist racist."

After all, there's then Jesus to explain. Sure, it's less likely bother them much to be declared homophobic, but their reaction to the first part would be priceless. :D
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: ariasderros on March 28, 2013, 10:32:18 AM
"God is a gay black woman. Anyone who disagrees is a homophobic misogynist racist."
I will be using this. Will.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Garryl on March 28, 2013, 01:43:04 PM
There is someone I've been running into. It seems like more frequently recently, but that's just skewed perception and stress talking. It's actually a bit less than normal, but now I have other stresses in my life going on so this person gets to me even more. He is hypocritical, argumentative, and does sloppy work. Sometimes I just want to yell at him (not that it would help anything). Instead, I shall anonymously inform the internet community in which I participate that I wish to do so, thus relieving my stress in a conflict-free manner.

FWP
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on March 28, 2013, 03:14:42 PM
"God is a gay black woman. Anyone who disagrees is a homophobic misogynist racist."
I will be using this. Will.

Why can't God be a transgendered nazi eskimo?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on March 28, 2013, 09:02:10 PM
So lately guys claiming to be from Ohio Edison keep trying to aggressively get into my apartment to see my electric bill claiming they can get me a discount if I switch providers.  Ohio Edison/First Energy is my provider.  I tell him to piss off.  The next day they come back claiming to be from First Energy.  I call both companies and as expected they dont send people out door to door and they say call the cops next time.  Today the vendor of choice was Dayton Power and Light, and they got mighty hostile when I told them no.  So I call the cops and they say their busy and they'll send someone as soon they can, which turns out to be a half hour after the bad guys leave.

When they inevitable return I'm thinking about what to do to them.  My current train of thought is to open the door, scream 'chocolate frosted nigger hearts' while throwing a glass of water on them, and then slam said door shut. 
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: altpersona on March 28, 2013, 09:03:14 PM
naked w/ a shotgun
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: sirpercival on March 28, 2013, 09:05:37 PM
Tell them you won't talk to them unless they're jehovah's witnesses.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on March 28, 2013, 09:26:08 PM
naked w/ a shotgun

Naked with a shotgun screaming "chocolate frosted nigger hearts" while throwing a glass of water.

Hmm, perhaps something more effective...  Bhu, would it be possible to sic your mom on them?  I have a feeling she's the type who could send them home crying.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on March 28, 2013, 09:57:50 PM
People can be trained to deal with pushy, aggressive bitches. Chocolate frosted nigger hearts, so far as I know, isnt covered by anyone.  You can almost see the stunned expression on his face.  Either that or go with the following:

"Look we saw on the news you just try to bluff your way in to rob people.  Eat their food.  Rape the old relatives.  Izzat what you're here for?  Rapin' old people?  Bet that old wrinkled ass feels might nice squeezin' round yore pecker boy.  How do you sleep at night?  Unwashed I bet.  Savin' the stank for the next victim.  You disgust me."


and then start screaming rape
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on March 29, 2013, 01:47:23 AM
Freaking jesuits....I didn't see their badges until after I stopped, so I couldn't pull away without not being polite until they actually started talking about religion.  And it was on campus so I couldn't pull a bhu and strip naked and start throwing feces or something.

I absolutely cannot stand evangelists or soap box preachers. Back in Ann Arbor, MI, I actually flipped off a soap box'er and shouted "boo" as I drove by. I hate when people push their religion on others, in any form.

I'm proud to be an atheist, and wish people would chill out about pushing Christianity on me or others.

I'd probably be not polite, but not mean to get away from them. And prob mutter "fuckers" or something several times, under my breath as soon as I'm out of hearing distance.

The answer, as always, in these kinds of situations, is full blast death/black metal on extremely large speakers.

Good suggestions include:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-eXwfxfcsE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVlcVpDaSJc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9NESceABdA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj3AqJL5WlM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrjxppJsmx8


-------------

For some reason, this always seems to aggravate the preaching type of Christians.  :P
I'm more of a NIN kind of guy, with previously listening to Marilyn Manson, Black Sabboth, Korn, and System of a down, until I started on NIN.

@bhu... Seems like you've got some great selections.

at least you're not in Detroit. The wait was ~1 hour, if the cops even show up at all :-o

maybe pull out a old-style cap gun (that looks kind of real) and wave it around while you're shouting at them. You could fire it at them to scare them. But if they're more gangsta, you might have a REAL gun waved at you instead.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on March 29, 2013, 02:14:24 AM
Don't have a capgun.  I do however have the short barreled police model version of one of these : 
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remington_Model_870

Edit: Optionally if death metal/industrial dont scare the religious away try blasting this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Spiqpvpuas
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on March 29, 2013, 02:39:16 AM
Don't have a capgun.  I do however have the short barreled police model version of one of these : 
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remington_Model_870

Edit: Optionally if death metal/industrial dont scare the religious away try blasting this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Spiqpvpuas
nice gun :)

that video... Is interesting and hilarious

or Cee-lo's Fuck You (unedited one) ?
or the Dwarves' Motherfucker?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on March 31, 2013, 04:26:01 AM
Greetings everyone!

I am back from the Grand Canyon/Vegas.

The canyon was fun. The fact that I was hiking it with racist/sexist fucks was not.

Also, the first sign you'll get of me becoming a supervillain will be Las Vegas' absolute destruction. If I can manage it, it will be conceptually impossible to build a city on that site ever again.

Go on, ask me how the strip was. I dare you.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on March 31, 2013, 06:41:30 AM
How was it?  :P
no I'm kidding.


I fucking hate fucking Comcast!

On Friday, I spent 3 hrs on the phone over the course of 10 hrs, trying to get our cable working since we just bought the house. A half-dozen people couldn't fix it nor the machines. Talked to the woman at the Best Buy Comcast office, she told us what the initial problem was, that didn't help yhose half-dozen dumbasses. And the soonest tech available in the area is today at 1-3pm slot. So now my wife missed a whole weekend of march madness, and is pissed. I missed the first new game of thrones (it'll hopefully be on again), but I wanted to see it 'live' for the first time >_<
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Nanshork on March 31, 2013, 11:35:57 AM
Greetings everyone!

I am back from the Grand Canyon/Vegas.

The canyon was fun. The fact that I was hiking it with racist/sexist fucks was not.

Also, the first sign you'll get of me becoming a supervillain will be Las Vegas' absolute destruction. If I can manage it, it will be conceptually impossible to build a city on that site ever again.

Go on, ask me how the strip was. I dare you.

Given your..distaste for being near other people I can imagine...
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on March 31, 2013, 12:46:31 PM
Haha... Isn't that at least half the people here?

we're buying a 55" LG led tv later... WOO HOO!
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on April 02, 2013, 02:27:22 AM
Dear Microsoft,

The change of format for your email service is horrible. Also, why in the name of unknowable tentacle sex did you get the notion in your coke-addled brains that people want to automatically have their Facebook profile photo as their avatar for their emails?

The only time I ever set up a Facebook page was for a fictional character for a school project. Two years ago.

The key difference is that I'm male, and THE FUCKING PICTURE IS OF A WOMAN!

Signed,

Someone who thinks you all need to be punched in the face by a shark.

Can anyone help me with the steps of deleting an account you have forgotten the password for? I mean, I set up the Facebook account using an email under an assumed name, so...
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on April 02, 2013, 12:07:11 PM
No clue, but the new Yahoo mail is half as bad as that (no Facebook pics).

my netbook can't even use the old one for some reason
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Nanshork on April 02, 2013, 12:17:03 PM
Gmail just changed its interface and I hate it.   :shakefist
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Sinfire Titan on April 02, 2013, 12:29:40 PM
Gmail just changed its interface and I hate it.   :shakefist

Yeah, that threw me for a loop too.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: awaken_D_M_golem on April 02, 2013, 04:54:19 PM

... jesuits ...

Heh
:tongue ... it occurs to me, that the new Pope
is from the Jesuit order.  That whole group
might be feeling a little amped up right now.

I presume you didn't have your: "Convert Me"
sign blazing on your forehead.
 ;)
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Sinfire Titan on April 02, 2013, 05:34:38 PM
Fuck me. I lost my 3DS, and with it a 4GB SD card and a copy of BBCS2.


I went to McDonalds today to meet a friend, sat down and starting playing it. After dicking around in Training mode I set up my laptop and starting browsing the net. Afore-mentioned friend calls me and tells me he's sick, so I pack up and forgot to put it back in the case. Two hours later I'm unpacking my backpack and discover the case was lighter than it should have been. Lo and behold, the DS isn't in it. I panic, call the McDonalds and ask if anyone has turned it in, and the manager tells me no one has handed anything in today.


So now I'm down $250 and I have no income to replace it.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Nanshork on April 02, 2013, 05:35:54 PM
That really really sucks!
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Sinfire Titan on April 02, 2013, 05:44:14 PM
Scratch my earlier post, I had actually put it in the wrong bag (my laptop case, instead of it's proper case).


So my day just took another 180.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on April 02, 2013, 05:46:13 PM
I'm glad to hear it, SiFir.

(Cool, my Sending spell actually works.)
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Nanshork on April 02, 2013, 05:51:49 PM
I'm glad to hear it as well.   :)
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on April 02, 2013, 06:05:24 PM
Scratch my earlier post, I had actually put it in the wrong bag (my laptop case, instead of it's proper case).


So my day just took another 180.

I'm not following?

I'm assuming that this is good news, though.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on April 02, 2013, 06:06:24 PM
Scratch my earlier post, I had actually put it in the wrong bag (my laptop case, instead of it's proper case).


So my day just took another 180.

I'm not following?

I'm assuming that this is good news, though.

180 degrees, as in SinFir's day has turned around once again.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Sinfire Titan on April 02, 2013, 06:07:18 PM
I'm not following?

I'm assuming that this is good news, though.

I have 3 bags: Book, 3DS, and Laptop. I actually put it in the laptop's bag when I was setting up the laptop, and forgot about it. So I found my 3DS and I'm a moron for thinking I left it in McDonalds.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on April 02, 2013, 06:09:36 PM
I misread that as "my dad took another 180". I feel like an idiot.

Maybe the fact that I've been sleep deprived for a bit is to blame, though I've got some things left to do before I get to sleep...

Sometimes, I wish the day was longer. Then I'd have time.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Garryl on April 02, 2013, 08:29:32 PM
I misread that as "my dad took another 180". I feel like an idiot.

Maybe the fact that I've been sleep deprived for a bit is to blame, though I've got some things left to do before I get to sleep...

Sometimes, I wish the day was longer. Then I'd have time.

Are you in my head or am I in yours? I, too, misread it the same way, am short on sleep, and still have several hours of work day left for me.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on April 02, 2013, 08:32:46 PM
Distributed consciousness, my friend!

Join the Hive Mind! I've been lonely!
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Sinfire Titan on April 02, 2013, 10:09:17 PM
Distributed consciousness, my friend!

Join the Hive Mind! We've been lonely!

Fixed.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: RedWarlock on April 03, 2013, 12:52:08 AM
Distributed consciousness, my friend!

Join the Hive Mind! We've been lonely!

Fixed.
My thought exactly.

...or should we say, our thoughts exactly? *x-files theme plays*
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on April 03, 2013, 03:45:00 PM
Despite being a veteran truck drivers of 30+ years my mother is apparently too fucking incompetent to use a gas can..
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: awaken_D_M_golem on April 03, 2013, 05:57:43 PM
Regular older guy 60-ish I run in to,
regales me with his multiple posts
back and forth, with "hot babe" from
Russia that needs him to send her
$1000 ... and he's gonna do it.

I say scam, he says no of course not.
I say scam another way, he says:
"I treat it like Tuition ; you've got to pay to learn."
I say hey Consumer Reports had an issue
devoted to scams, and it's right over here.

 :shrug
(side bar: he can't operate a Gas can either)
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on April 06, 2013, 02:23:46 AM
Grr... I wish I started reading "A Nation of Sheep" sooner
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on April 06, 2013, 06:58:48 PM
People who want an 'honest answer' to their questions should have the mental fortitude to be able to deal with the answer.  Especially if they're gonna ask on a public place.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on April 06, 2013, 07:36:31 PM
I take it you've been answering questions lately?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on April 07, 2013, 12:00:05 AM
Someone on a site which will remain nameless told everyone to message them the most offensive question they'd ever been asked.  My reply was "Do you think Jesus can suck his own dick."

You can pretty much imagine the response i got...

The worst part is I was fibbing, by my way of thinking it's far from the most offensive thing I've been asked.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on April 07, 2013, 12:12:24 AM
(*_*) what thread?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on April 07, 2013, 01:12:18 AM
Please, link to the thread! It might be entertaining...

The answer to that is "it depends on whether or not he is incarnated at the time."

Now, the REAL offensive question was *pulled away by <REDACTED> to prevent massive causal errors.*
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on April 07, 2013, 01:30:10 AM
Someone on a site which will remain nameless
  :p

No the actual most offensive question I've been asked was due to the local Steubenville incident when some asshat made the comment "How can anyone define rape?  If it's just women not wanting to at the time that's pretty much all marriages or relationships everywhere.  How is that a crime?"

The worst part is he was completely serious.  And I couldn't hurt him because there were people who could act as witnesses...
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on April 07, 2013, 02:04:06 AM
Wouldn't they have been witnesses to the fact that it was justified and required?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Nytemare3701 on April 07, 2013, 04:18:59 AM
Wouldn't they have been witnesses to the fact that it was justified and required?

Texas has laws for that...they call it the "Needed a killing" law. If you catch your wife in bed with another man, he needed a killin'
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on April 07, 2013, 06:31:28 AM
Stomach decided it's not going to play nice tonight, even after pills.  I guess I have to wait for it to finish whatever the heck it's doing before I can go to bed.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on April 07, 2013, 10:05:29 AM
I think my carpal tunnel might be coming back.

And seeing that I'm a CS major, who needs to spend a shit-ton of time typing every day...

I'm going to see someone Monday.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on April 07, 2013, 10:39:51 AM
I think my carpal tunnel might be coming back.

And seeing that I'm a CS major, who needs to spend a shit-ton of time typing every day...

I'm going to see someone Monday.

Well, I've got good and bad news about that...

The good news: my mom used to have the same thing. Acupuncture actually healed it right up.

The bad news: acupuncturists are fucking expensive...
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: brujon on April 07, 2013, 10:41:32 AM
Amechra, try getting those exercise balls, and do some every now and then on breaks. Strenghtens your tendons, avoids this altogether.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on April 07, 2013, 12:29:50 PM
Thanks for the advice. I've been giving that arm a break, so it should be healing on up (I'm an ambidextrous typist, pretty much.)

I have no money for acupuncture. However, a stress ball can be arranged.

Re acupuncture: How hard can it be?  ;)
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Nytemare3701 on April 07, 2013, 12:59:55 PM
Re acupuncture: How hard can it be?  ;)

Come here and I'll show you  :devil
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: dman11235 on April 07, 2013, 02:19:01 PM
I'm sure someone has said this before, but frankly it's just stupid to have to watch an ad on YouTube in order to watch an ad of YouTube.  I was trying to find a commercial for the NHL Playoffs for something for the "things that make you LOL" and yeah, I had to skip an ad to WATCH THE AD.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: awaken_D_M_golem on April 07, 2013, 02:57:58 PM

... exercise balls ...

Don't always help carpal tunnel.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on April 07, 2013, 03:29:24 PM
Wouldn't they have been witnesses to the fact that it was justified and required?

Texas has laws for that...they call it the "Needed a killing" law. If you catch your wife in bed with another man, he needed a killin'

This ain't texas.  Ohio is a very litigious society.  He could be pissing on a homeless man and if i whack him he can still sue me for assault.  If he breaks into my house and i shoot him (which I can do under Ohio law), I'm better off if he dies because if he lives he can sue me.

ALso we have lots of conservatives here, many of whom agree with him.  It's why steubenville is such a clusterfuck.  Everyone here blames the victim and assumes that women require trickery, drugs or alcohol to convince them to have sex with you, or promises of money or marriage (which is another form of prostitution).  If a woman actually wants sex she's somehow mentally deficient, and it's entirely her fault if she gets raped.  If you don't believe something similar to that bullshit you are in a clear minority where I live.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on April 07, 2013, 03:42:51 PM
I once dated a girl from Ohio (online).  Started out alright, but of course I realized she was ignorant and whiny (attention whore type) and so I said fuck it.  I want a girl who I can have a scientific conversation with!  And who won't continually pester me about how I'm going to Hell if I don't accept Jesus as my savior.   :rolleyes
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: brujon on April 07, 2013, 03:50:14 PM

... exercise balls ...

Don't always help carpal tunnel.

It does, but depends on whether it's already advanced or if it's still developing. If it's advanced, inflamation has already set in and therefore strengthening your tendons can only ever do so much to help you, but if it's still in development and not full blown yet, exercise can and will mitigate it's effects and even completely heal it depending on the severity of the injury. Of course, there are a lot of very expensive treatment options such as ultrassound therapy and such that is used by professional athletes that suffer from similar injuries from over straining the tendons.

A lot of the stuff about carpal tunnel is also about the position your hands are in when you type, so getting a wrist support so that you type with your wrists more or less level with your fingers help mitigate a lot of the problem as well. Ergonomic Keyboards and such are all available options that aren't very expensive, and there have been claims that mechanical keyboards help somewhat if you get one with increased mechanical pressure needed for each keypress.

All in all, there are several ways of dealing with it, one of which is the exercise ball and regular breaks. Better preventing it than treating it later! For some time i was losing grip power, until i started doing some exercises and getting wrist support for my keyboard, now i'm OK again. Broke some glasses when that was going on...
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on April 07, 2013, 05:19:55 PM
Wouldn't they have been witnesses to the fact that it was justified and required?

Texas has laws for that...they call it the "Needed a killing" law. If you catch your wife in bed with another man, he needed a killin'

This ain't texas.  Ohio is a very litigious society.  He could be pissing on a homeless man and if i whack him he can still sue me for assault.  If he breaks into my house and i shoot him (which I can do under Ohio law), I'm better off if he dies because if he lives he can sue me.

ALso we have lots of conservatives here, many of whom agree with him.  It's why steubenville is such a clusterfuck.  Everyone here blames the victim and assumes that women require trickery, drugs or alcohol to convince them to have sex with you, or promises of money or marriage (which is another form of prostitution).  If a woman actually wants sex she's somehow mentally deficient, and it's entirely her fault if she gets raped.  If you don't believe something similar to that bullshit you are in a clear minority where I live.

And you haven't murdered all of them why?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on April 07, 2013, 05:41:30 PM
Because they're so goddamn afraid of Obama banning guns they're buying up all the ammo.  Seriously if you want any popular (cheap) ammo type, you have to be at the walmart when the delivery truck comes in, and queue up and hope they don't run out before they get to you. 
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Nanshork on April 07, 2013, 06:08:22 PM
Why is my love life so god damned complicated?   :banghead
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on April 07, 2013, 06:12:19 PM
Because they're so goddamn afraid of Obama banning guns they're buying up all the ammo.  Seriously if you want any popular (cheap) ammo type, you have to be at the walmart when the delivery truck comes in, and queue up and hope they don't run out before they get to you.

You don't have to be near someone to remove them from the genepool...

Tell me, are there any faultlines near where you live?

If there are, I need you to get explosives and a megaphone. And a willingness to yell "WHERE'S YOUR GOD NOW?" at the top of your lungs.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on April 07, 2013, 06:26:21 PM
No chance of that till they allow fracking here.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: brujon on April 07, 2013, 09:19:37 PM
Because they're so goddamn afraid of Obama banning guns they're buying up all the ammo.  Seriously if you want any popular (cheap) ammo type, you have to be at the walmart when the delivery truck comes in, and queue up and hope they don't run out before they get to you.

You don't have to be near someone to remove them from the genepool...

Tell me, are there any faultlines near where you live?

If there are, I need you to get explosives and a megaphone. And a willingness to yell "WHERE'S YOUR GOD NOW?" at the top of your lungs.

I think you would need at least a nuke to set off a cascading faultline fracture...
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on April 07, 2013, 09:36:26 PM
So I'm at this anime event, right? There's a karaoke contest and shit. Heck, it's pretty much the whole reason I went there.

Anyhoo, competition is pretty good, so I don't really mind if I end up not placing among the finalists because hey, I had fun, and some of those guys were really good.

However, their choice of first place simply IRKED me. It was some guy singing a Gackt rip-off, I can't even remember his name now. There was nothing special about his singing, other than he ended the song on his knees, his crotch pretty much level with the (all-male) judges.

On the upside, I did get THESE two pictures taken.

(click to show/hide)
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on April 08, 2013, 12:37:15 AM
So, I was just helping out a friend with one of his first homebrew works ever; he had gone to two other local players, one of which, as he puts it "don't math good", and the other of which is pretty much unknown.

It basically was them pressuring him into accepting their class feature suggestions.

Thing is, neither of them is good with actual mechanical writing. The class ended up with the potential to get, on average, 11 full attacks as a swift action.

Of which it got 3.

And it was based off 3-weapon fighting.

I calculated it out, and that is about 330 attacks. Before they get to the fact that they could get an extra full attack every time they take a move action.

Yeah.

That didn't come from the guy writing the thing. That came from the guys who were pretty much just shouting suggestions at him, talking about how their ideas were awesome.

The capstone was literally just "copy another guy's action as an immediate action. With an unspecified range."

So, yeah, I helped him out. With my actual experience. I also sent him to GitP to post his Homebrew, mostly so that he attracts more feedback, and because he already has an account over there.

His user name is 'Covok', if you see anything by him. Please, help me help him out.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on April 08, 2013, 12:38:37 AM
@Kuroimaken what's the first? I can't really tell.

I hope the dressed up in the second is a female :P
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on April 08, 2013, 12:41:45 AM
I think I still have the pictures of complete strangers coming up and giving me a hug.

How is that for irresistable?

 :p
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: dman11235 on April 08, 2013, 02:58:55 AM
Because they're so goddamn afraid of Obama banning guns they're buying up all the ammo.  Seriously if you want any popular (cheap) ammo type, you have to be at the walmart when the delivery truck comes in, and queue up and hope they don't run out before they get to you.

You don't have to be near someone to remove them from the genepool...

Tell me, are there any faultlines near where you live?

If there are, I need you to get explosives and a megaphone. And a willingness to yell "WHERE'S YOUR GOD NOW?" at the top of your lungs.

I think you would need at least a nuke to set off a cascading faultline fracture...

Probably at least a Tsar Bomba, if anything will work.  And then you'd still have to get pretty lucky.  Nukes just don't have the energy  to cause a fault line to break.  Faults are basically springs made of rock.  And rock has a spring constant of ridiculous, and the distance the spring is stretched is a lot for how high the constant is.  On top of that, that's not the only stored energy in the system.  So you'd need a LOT of force to make it budge.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on April 08, 2013, 05:41:56 AM
Because they're so goddamn afraid of Obama banning guns they're buying up all the ammo.  Seriously if you want any popular (cheap) ammo type, you have to be at the walmart when the delivery truck comes in, and queue up and hope they don't run out before they get to you.

You don't have to be near someone to remove them from the genepool...

Tell me, are there any faultlines near where you live?

If there are, I need you to get explosives and a megaphone. And a willingness to yell "WHERE'S YOUR GOD NOW?" at the top of your lungs.

I think you would need at least a nuke to set off a cascading faultline fracture...

Probably at least a Tsar Bomba, if anything will work.  And then you'd still have to get pretty lucky.  Nukes just don't have the energy  to cause a fault line to break.  Faults are basically springs made of rock.  And rock has a spring constant of ridiculous, and the distance the spring is stretched is a lot for how high the constant is.  On top of that, that's not the only stored energy in the system.  So you'd need a LOT of force to make it budge.

A lot of force, or a lot of chipping away at it.  Some of the fracking operations in Oklahoma have destabilized the area a bit and resulted in more frequent earthquakes.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on April 08, 2013, 09:04:02 AM
@Kuroimaken what's the first? I can't really tell.

I hope the dressed up in the second is a female :P

Sorry, lighting was horrible on that one. It's me jamming the barrel of a BFG with my pinky, Bugs Bunny style.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Nanshork on April 10, 2013, 10:54:52 AM
 :banghead

That is all.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on April 10, 2013, 12:09:37 PM
:banghead

That is all.

Seems like the day was an epic clusterfuck.

*pours generic alcoholic beverage*

Tell Uncle Kuro all about it.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Nanshork on April 10, 2013, 12:28:45 PM
:banghead

That is all.

Seems like the day was an epic clusterfuck.

*pours generic alcoholic beverage*

Tell Uncle Kuro all about it.

Eh, nothing worth going into depth about.

I've just got a situation going on where the is absolutely nothing I can do to try and fix it or influence how it will end up in any sort of positive manner.  I hate feeling helpless.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on April 10, 2013, 12:35:43 PM
:banghead

That is all.

Seems like the day was an epic clusterfuck.

*pours generic alcoholic beverage*

Tell Uncle Kuro all about it.

Eh, nothing worth going into depth about.

I've just got a situation going on where the is absolutely nothing I can do to try and fix it or influence how it will end up in any sort of positive manner.  I hate feeling helpless.

Powerlessness be a female dog.

Hang in there.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on April 10, 2013, 04:37:23 PM
:banghead

That is all.

 :hug
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on April 11, 2013, 07:51:39 PM
I have been emailed, facebook'd, messaged, etc a billion times about the governments non existent killer mosquito bot.  Go to Snopes:

http://www.snopes.com/photos/technology/insectdrone.asp

Seriously despite whatever Alex Jones tells you it isn't a massive liberal conspiracy.   Also if the government wants to fuck you over or keep track of you they have far cheaper and more practical ways than MAKING MOSQUITO ROBOTS YOU FUCKING IDIOTS!!!!

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST IS CRITICAL THINKING COMPLETELY GONE IN ANYONE OVER THE AGE OF 40!!!


 :banghead :banghead :banghead :banghead :banghead :banghead :banghead :banghead :banghead :banghead :banghead
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: ShadowViper on April 11, 2013, 08:54:56 PM
The sad fact is that, simply, most people really can't be bothered to use common sense. (Especially when on the internet).

A few Examples:

Forums: Maybe you should read the entire post before replying?

Gaming: Hey, that enemy vehicle is pretty much raping the team, don't you think it's a good idea to help take it out?

Play By Post: If you don't have the time(or can't be bothered) to post at least every other day, then it's probably not a good idea to join/create a campaign.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on April 11, 2013, 09:22:33 PM
I get that people are goofy on the internet, I know that common sense is sometimes is in short supply.  But the response to this email/post about the skeeter bot is over the top.  I'm getting "We need to kill them before they kill us, whose side are you on, and by the way whats your address?" messages.  These aren't even the usual people I expect to be dumbasses.  These are otherwise seemingly reasonable people who fall apart the minute the government is mentioned in any context because somehow the fact a feeble old white man didn't win the last election is so earth shattering to them they're on the verge of throwing away everything they've worked for all their lives.  On just about any subject they can discuss things ok.  But bring up the feds and suddenly you can say anything as long as its negative and it's truth isn't at all questioned.  Obama is a mind controlled puppet by alien lizard people who've taken over the secret service? No problem.  Mosquito bots tagging people with microchips? No problem.  Obama isn't white so his being a nazi is an impossibility? Fuck you, you haven't studied history like I have, you're one of them, how did they get to you, what are they paying you to talk nice about them, I'M UNFRIENDING YOU TO SAVE JESUS AND AMERICA!

I'm just venting a little because today I am disappointed in a great deal of people who seem to be having some midlife crisis over meaningless crap.  The guy you wanted to win the presidency failed, I get it.  Relax.  It goes in cycles and your side will come around again eventually.  This isn't something you suddenly isolate yourself over while screaming the cops are coming to get you while simultaneously  giving them an ever increasing reason to do so because they become afraid you're a danger to everyone else.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on April 12, 2013, 01:19:03 AM
Apparently the mods at GitP are angry over a conversation I'd already forgotten that took place several days ago.  Scrubbed most of a 2 page thread. 
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Libertad on April 12, 2013, 01:49:58 AM
Apparently the mods at GitP are angry over a conversation I'd already forgotten that took place several days ago.  Scrubbed most of a 2 page thread.

Link?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Sinfire Titan on April 12, 2013, 08:15:30 AM
Fuck me. I lost my 3DS, and with it a 4GB SD card and a copy of BBCS2.


I went to McDonalds today to meet a friend, sat down and starting playing it. After dicking around in Training mode I set up my laptop and starting browsing the net. Afore-mentioned friend calls me and tells me he's sick, so I pack up and forgot to put it back in the case. Two hours later I'm unpacking my backpack and discover the case was lighter than it should have been. Lo and behold, the DS isn't in it. I panic, call the McDonalds and ask if anyone has turned it in, and the manager tells me no one has handed anything in today.


So now I'm down $250 and I have no income to replace it.

Remember this? Did it again. And it wasn't in my bookbag this time.


 :banghead :banghead :banghead :banghead :banghead :banghead
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on April 12, 2013, 08:24:29 AM
So... I have class in an hour and twenty minutes, and I'm still typing up my annotated bibliography for my research paper.

On the other hand, I get to write a paper on the psychology of the tabletop rpg community (I was told that that was too narrow of a topic by someone. I had to restrain myself from laughing at their naivete.)

On the other other hand, it can't exceed 10 pages. And the abstract (we're still in proposal stage) was a pain to keep under 250 words...
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Nanshork on April 12, 2013, 10:04:45 AM
So... I have class in an hour and twenty minutes, and I'm still typing up my annotated bibliography for my research paper.

On the other hand, I get to write a paper on the psychology of the tabletop rpg community (I was told that that was too narrow of a topic by someone. I had to restrain myself from laughing at their naivete.)

On the other other hand, it can't exceed 10 pages. And the abstract (we're still in proposal stage) was a pain to keep under 250 words...

I think that means you should probably wait to get on the boards until you're done.   :P
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on April 12, 2013, 02:44:08 PM
Apparently the mods at GitP are angry over a conversation I'd already forgotten that took place several days ago.  Scrubbed most of a 2 page thread.

Link?

http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=278890

The op started over asking what happened and someone said it ';looked like the thread had become some sort of ungodly flame war' simply because they edited out anything that looked like politics.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on April 12, 2013, 05:32:11 PM
Fuck me. I lost my 3DS, and with it a 4GB SD card and a copy of BBCS2.


I went to McDonalds today to meet a friend, sat down and starting playing it. After dicking around in Training mode I set up my laptop and starting browsing the net. Afore-mentioned friend calls me and tells me he's sick, so I pack up and forgot to put it back in the case. Two hours later I'm unpacking my backpack and discover the case was lighter than it should have been. Lo and behold, the DS isn't in it. I panic, call the McDonalds and ask if anyone has turned it in, and the manager tells me no one has handed anything in today.


So now I'm down $250 and I have no income to replace it.

Remember this? Did it again. And it wasn't in my bookbag this time.


 :banghead :banghead :banghead :banghead :banghead :banghead

Well fuck. Anyone turn it up?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on April 12, 2013, 05:45:01 PM
 :hug for SiFir
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Sinfire Titan on April 12, 2013, 06:52:11 PM
Honestly today's been a really sour day for me. I lost my DS, no one turned it in. I'm going to Photoshop a poster and see if the MCDS managers will let me post it. That's the worst of it. The rest of my day has been plain-old annoying.

Case and point: I hate my History class. The instructor assigned us a take-home essay for Spring Break, and I got my grade on it today. The bitch knocked 15 points off of my paper for 3 typos, one of which was listed as a typo because she didn't know I actually meant the word I typed (I had used "Wont" in appropriate context, and she thought I meant "Want" or "Won't"). If I wanted my spelling and grammar graded I would have signed up for another English course.


Seriously, 20 typos and your paper gets marked as a 0. In a History course.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on April 12, 2013, 07:39:37 PM
re  :hug for SiFir!  :twitch
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on April 13, 2013, 12:09:59 AM
That's stupid!! At least you're not leaving out several words. I could see no ' a couple times as no big deal or hte randomly getting in a couple times.

but 3 minor typos and its knocked down a grade or two in a History class, that's just wrong.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on April 13, 2013, 10:22:33 PM
So, I'm going through the archived Ask Red Mage stuff, trying to save them all in a nicer archival format, when you know what?

I find out that there are multiple versions of some pages. Which makes me feel paranoid about the whole thing.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on April 15, 2013, 06:02:55 PM
Accidentally overdosed on my meds today.  Really need to be more careful.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on April 15, 2013, 08:34:16 PM
What kind :(

I know the feeling of meds OD
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on April 15, 2013, 09:15:26 PM
mistook the statin for my glimepiride
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: linklord231 on April 16, 2013, 12:49:43 AM
When I was driving home from my weekly d&d game, my truck suddenly died on the side of the road.  I took it in to have it looked at, and it turns out the engine seized up from lack of oil.  I've known about a slow leak for the last year or so, and have been good about topping off the oil every month, but I must've hit a bump or something to cause a catastrophic leak like this.  Anyway, I just dropped two grand on a "new" engine, and that's not counting paying someone to put it in for me.  Thankfully, my grandpa is a retired mechanic and volunteered to help if I decide to put it in myself (which I'll probably take him up on, since it'll save me about 6k), but that'll have to wait til summer. 
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on April 16, 2013, 01:14:54 AM
You found an engine for 2 grand  :o
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on April 16, 2013, 01:37:21 AM
mistook the statin for my glimepiride

what sort of effects did it have on you?

mine was seizure-like aura symptoms, dizziness, tunnel vision, uncontrollable twitching in my right arm, the feeling of helplessness (due to my knowledge of what is going to happen)
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: linklord231 on April 16, 2013, 02:08:45 AM
You found an engine for 2 grand  :o

Used, from a 15 year old car.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on April 16, 2013, 02:33:59 AM
You found an engine for 2 grand  :o

Used, from a 15 year old car.

I'm reminded of a build my dad did back in the 80's.  His brother, upon driving the newly-engined car, made the comment "It runs like a raped ape."

One of these days I want to get a hold of an older engine (and car) and work on it.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: linklord231 on April 16, 2013, 03:07:00 AM
I'm reminded of a build my dad did back in the 80's.  His brother, upon driving the newly-engined car, made the comment "It runs like a raped ape."

One of these days I want to get a hold of an older engine (and car) and work on it.

You're welcome to come over  :D  It's only a what, 8 hour drive (assuming you live near Salt Lake (Don't worry, I just clicked on your profile.  Not a stalker))?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: brujon on April 16, 2013, 11:54:00 AM
I'm reminded of a build my dad did back in the 80's.  His brother, upon driving the newly-engined car, made the comment "It runs like a raped ape."

One of these days I want to get a hold of an older engine (and car) and work on it.

You're welcome to come over  :D  It's only a what, 8 hour drive (assuming you live near Salt Lake (Don't worry, I just clicked on your profile.  Not a stalker))?

I find it extremely amusing that for people that live in Brazil, the US, Russia and China, an 8 hour drive is "close enough", whereas in europe, an 8 hour drive means passing through at least 2 countries, sometimes 3 or 4, lol.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on April 16, 2013, 03:09:44 PM
mistook the statin for my glimepiride

what sort of effects did it have on you?

mine was seizure-like aura symptoms, dizziness, tunnel vision, uncontrollable twitching in my right arm, the feeling of helplessness (due to my knowledge of what is going to happen)

Extreme fatigue, and disorientation, light headedness, and a feeling of being 'off' somehow
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on April 16, 2013, 04:11:23 PM
Not fun
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on April 16, 2013, 05:52:17 PM
I may have also sprained my ankle without realizing it because it hurts like hell today and doesn't wanna support my full weight.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on April 16, 2013, 05:58:24 PM
I'm reminded of a build my dad did back in the 80's.  His brother, upon driving the newly-engined car, made the comment "It runs like a raped ape."

One of these days I want to get a hold of an older engine (and car) and work on it.

You're welcome to come over  :D  It's only a what, 8 hour drive (assuming you live near Salt Lake (Don't worry, I just clicked on your profile.  Not a stalker))?

lol, I think I'd go nuts driving by myself for 8 hours.  Though I would like to visit Colorado one of these days.  I'm guessing you're in the Denver area?  Yeah, Salt Lake to Denver could be about 8 hours.

@Brujon: Yeah, the sheer sizes of countries like the US, Canada, and Russia are sometimes lost on people, especially Europeans.  Reminds me of a discussion my cousin had when he was in Europe where one guy said "Those Americans have no culture and don't learn foreign languages."  To which my cousin replied "You know how big the US is, right?  Drive around for 12 hours and you'll still be in the US pretty much.  Drive around for 12 hours in Europe and you can go to so many different countries."

I'm guessing you've had some interesting chats about distances in Brazil too?

@Bhu:  Hugs for Bhu!  Sprained anythings suck, but ankles are among the worst since walking is kinda necessary for most people.

And in my own news:  I just had a can of V8.  My stomach is replying with a big "fuck you" right now.  Lots of acid in tomatoes, but I wanted to make sure it was the V8 juice that would definitely cause problems so I know to avoid it in the future unless I have an antacid.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: brujon on April 16, 2013, 06:05:29 PM
I'm reminded of a build my dad did back in the 80's.  His brother, upon driving the newly-engined car, made the comment "It runs like a raped ape."

One of these days I want to get a hold of an older engine (and car) and work on it.

You're welcome to come over  :D  It's only a what, 8 hour drive (assuming you live near Salt Lake (Don't worry, I just clicked on your profile.  Not a stalker))?

lol, I think I'd go nuts driving by myself for 8 hours.  Though I would like to visit Colorado one of these days.  I'm guessing you're in the Denver area?  Yeah, Salt Lake to Denver could be about 8 hours.

@Brujon: Yeah, the sheer sizes of countries like the US, Canada, and Russia are sometimes lost on people, especially Europeans.  I'm guessing you've had some interesting chats about distances in Brazil too?

@Bhu:  Hugs for Bhu!  Sprained anythings suck, but ankles are among the worst since walking is kinda necessary for most people.

Yeah, the US is a little bigger than Brazil, but over here the distances are pretty massive as well. I live in Brasília, the capital, and it's smack in the middle of the country, and it's at *least* 800km to the nearest shore, whereas it's over 2500km to Argentina, for instance, and a little less than that to reach Uruguay. But, long roadtrips are FUN. My father did one with his motorcycle club, since he's got a custom ;D
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on April 16, 2013, 07:32:41 PM
I've never done a long roadtrip really.  My dad and I went out for a weekend a few years ago in the hopes of fishing and camping, but we forgot the tent poles so the whole thing was cut short.

Totally unrelated:  Apparently there are no uniquely lawful or chaotic soulmelds in MoI.  A bit annoying it is when trying to get a feel for what the alignment powers are supposed to go along with, but at least there's the universal melds and the Incarnate class features to work with.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: littha on April 16, 2013, 08:20:54 PM
Totally unrelated:  Apparently there are no uniquely lawful or chaotic soulmelds in MoI.  A bit annoying it is when trying to get a feel for what the alignment powers are supposed to go along with, but at least there's the universal melds and the Incarnate class features to work with.

That depends how you view Incarnate Avatar I suppose. It is essentially four different melds
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Sinfire Titan on April 16, 2013, 09:50:15 PM
Totally unrelated:  Apparently there are no uniquely lawful or chaotic soulmelds in MoI.  A bit annoying it is when trying to get a feel for what the alignment powers are supposed to go along with, but at least there's the universal melds and the Incarnate class features to work with.

Good and Evil got all of the attention because the Devs don't know how to do Law VS Chaos. And Chaotic Incarnates got shafted something fierce.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on April 16, 2013, 09:57:21 PM
Colorado is pretty fun, despite having only a couple friends after 3-1/2yrs.

we just got ~18-24 inches of snow today and yesterday, ~12 inches after the fluffiness condensed.

prob more snow these two days vs. the whole winter here in the front range.

these last 3 years have been extremely dry, we've had several of the worst wildfires in Colorado history.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on April 16, 2013, 11:52:47 PM
Totally unrelated:  Apparently there are no uniquely lawful or chaotic soulmelds in MoI.  A bit annoying it is when trying to get a feel for what the alignment powers are supposed to go along with, but at least there's the universal melds and the Incarnate class features to work with.

Good and Evil got all of the attention because the Devs don't know how to do Law VS Chaos. And Chaotic Incarnates got shafted something fierce.

Yeah, chaotic definitely got some sort of shaft.  The bonuses are all over the place.  Incarnate Avatar's Soul bind for Chaotic is +30 feet to movement speed instead of getting wings and fly speed (good and evil) or becoming immune to daze, paralysis, petrification, and stun as well as any magical effects that slow the Incarnate (law)?  :fu is quite applicable to that.  There's also the fact that for some reason Incarnate Avatar gets a boost to ranged attack rolls, but Incarnate Weapon only grants melee weapons.  Radiance is just another speed boost too, but the class doesn't seem to actually have much of anything that leverages the extra speed.  Been looking through the other soulmelds and nothing pops up to benefit from the extra speed.

At least I'm being amused by the idea of an Anthro Cheetah taking the class and proceeding to charge from over 1000 feet away.  That's almost 114 miles per hour.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on April 17, 2013, 01:31:28 AM
a were-paragon cheetah incarnate can move ~3000ft with sprint

or just combine it w circular charging ;)
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on April 17, 2013, 02:09:12 AM
a were-paragon cheetah incarnate can move ~3000ft with sprint

or just combine it w circular charging ;)
I just picture Road Runner on an ubercharging pounce build.

Hmmm. Is there a way to turn all that movement speed into actual damage bonuses or bonus dice? I know there's the Tornado Throw, but...
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: littha on April 17, 2013, 02:17:13 AM
a were-paragon cheetah incarnate can move ~3000ft with sprint

or just combine it w circular charging ;)
I just picture Road Runner on an ubercharging pounce build.

Hmmm. Is there a way to turn all that movement speed into actual damage bonuses or bonus dice? I know there's the Tornado Throw, but...

I am sure there was some way of turning a jump roll into damage and your high speed would give an enormous bonus to jump. 3000 ft comes out at a +1188 bonus to your jump check.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on April 17, 2013, 02:21:00 AM
Meep meep!!!

check out this for the info
http://www.minmaxboards.com/index.php?topic=7580.0

just need drunken master + half-fiend (devil version)


on a tangent, there's a custom martial discipline based off Wylie E. Coyote
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: linklord231 on April 17, 2013, 02:22:01 AM
a were-paragon cheetah incarnate can move ~3000ft with sprint

or just combine it w circular charging ;)
I just picture Road Runner on an ubercharging pounce build.

Hmmm. Is there a way to turn all that movement speed into actual damage bonuses or bonus dice? I know there's the Tornado Throw, but...

Run in a really big circle with Ring of Fire (Desert Wind 6) and do 12d6 damage to a small town?
Edit:  We seem to have gone more than a little off topic...
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on April 17, 2013, 02:23:06 AM
Haha!

you could always spiral inwards covering more area ;)

I prefer Ring of Fire spell, but that doesn't help the Roadrunner build
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: brujon on April 17, 2013, 12:52:08 PM
i'm turning into a zombie. I honestly don't know how long i'm going to be able to keep this up... Constantly occupied doing stuff from 7:20 AM to 00:00, barely enough time to breathe. I don't know if there is really something wrong with me or not, but i can't function at 100% if i don't sleep at least 10 hours, and right now i'm only getting 6 to 7 hours of real sleep. Shit...
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on April 17, 2013, 01:13:37 PM
I'd say "let's trade sleep schedules" except that I've gotten to the point where I haven't slept at all (except for naps) since Sunday.

And I'm fine! Migraine headache, but I'm fine!
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on April 17, 2013, 06:58:58 PM
i'm turning into a zombie. I honestly don't know how long i'm going to be able to keep this up... Constantly occupied doing stuff from 7:20 AM to 00:00, barely enough time to breathe. I don't know if there is really something wrong with me or not, but i can't function at 100% if i don't sleep at least 10 hours, and right now i'm only getting 6 to 7 hours of real sleep. Shit...
Here's a hint: sexual activity can be extremely demanding on your metabolism even when you're the one on your back.

Also, stimulants can really fuck up your sleep schedule. And finally, you'll get used to it. Your brain just needs to let go of the belief that sleep is a necessity.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on April 17, 2013, 07:21:30 PM
Fun fact: I remember seeing somewhere that people who are more imaginative can go longer without REM sleep before problems come up. Because daydreams and the like fulfill some of the same functions as REM sleep.

Also, sleep really is not entirely necessary for your body; you just use up less energy and heal faster when you sleep. Going without sleep just causes a risk of temporary insanity. Or potentially starring in Fight Club.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: brujon on April 17, 2013, 09:17:36 PM
Well, i'm not getting laid often enough to have an impact on my metabolism, i think... More like sporadic bursts of intense activity in that regard rather than any degree of certainty or regularity, lol. Which isn't bad, definitely better than going two years without a girlfriend, as has happened in the past. Not very much into stimulants... Some coffe at the internship, because i can't function properly early in the morning if i don't drink at least a few cups. Normally, i NEVER drink coffee.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on April 17, 2013, 09:18:31 PM
It's not always temporary.  I have severe insomnia and I've been warned constantly the more often one experiences sleep deprivation psychosis the less likely you are to come back from it.  There are other problems such as an increased risk of diabetes and other conditions as well.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: linklord231 on April 17, 2013, 09:20:05 PM
"As far as I know,” he answered, “the only reason we need to sleep that is really, really solid is because we get sleepy.”
- William Dement, co-founder of the Stanford Sleep Medicine Center
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Elevevated Beat on April 17, 2013, 11:16:42 PM
"As far as I know,” he answered, “the only reason we need to sleep that is really, really solid is because we get sleepy.”
- William Dement, co-founder of the Stanford Sleep Medicine Center

Maybe not (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2928622). And Fatal familial Insomnia isn't terribly nice either.
Though, as always, there are people who just delight in break the rules, like Thai Ngoc.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: brujon on April 18, 2013, 07:05:48 AM
Surely he was making a jest, about how we don't know nearly enough about how the brain operates, in order to understand all the functions that sleep perform, and don't even know precisely the mechanisms that govern sleep, and all it's phases... It's a lot going on, we can't interpret all the data yet, so, a jest :D
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on April 18, 2013, 09:55:27 AM
Anyway...

From my experience, after a while of getting 6-7 hours of sleep at a time, you get used to it. You don't actually need much more than that - as long as it's restful sleep, your body will eventually get to the point where you won't need an alarm clock. (I was freaked out at one point when I needed to take corticosteroids to heal up a knee injury and I was getting by fine and dandy on 4 hours of sleep at a time. I'd kill for the ability to do that naturally.)

Don't bemoan lack of sleep. Remember, you'll have plenty of time to sleep when you're dead.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Bozwevial on April 18, 2013, 10:49:07 AM
But when I'm dead, sleeping will take up valuable time I could be using to overthrow the underworld.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: ariasderros on April 18, 2013, 11:34:39 AM
Westboro Baptist. How far will they not go just to be dickheads?
Is there any church more deserving of being burnt down with the congregation locked inside a la the church in "The Patriot"?

For those who haven't heard, they are going to picket the services for the people in Boston. For reasons that are bullshit even for this group. (http://www.usnews.com/news/newsgram/articles/2013/04/16/boston-bombing-funerals-will-be-picketed-westboro-baptist-church-says)
I... I can't say enough, and that is partially just being left in want for the words to say.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on April 18, 2013, 11:40:51 AM
Yeah, that's one group that deserves being bombed.  :shakefist

They cause so much hurt and pain that even the KKK thinks they're too extreme.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on April 18, 2013, 11:53:51 AM
But when I'm dead, sleeping will take up valuable time I could be using to overthrow the underworld.

You assume you'll need sleep by then.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Halinn on April 18, 2013, 12:31:22 PM
But when I'm dead, sleeping will take up valuable time I could be using to overthrow the underworld.
You're assuming that Kuroi hasn't already assumed the position of God-Emperor of all that exists at that point, in which case you won't have a chance of overthrowing anything.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Bozwevial on April 18, 2013, 01:10:24 PM
But when I'm dead, sleeping will take up valuable time I could be using to overthrow the underworld.
You're assuming that Kuroi hasn't already assumed the position of God-Emperor of all that exists at that point, in which case you won't have a chance of overthrowing anything.
We're friends. Surely he'll have better things to do than micromanage Hell when he could delegate that task to me.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Nanshork on April 18, 2013, 03:36:06 PM
But when I'm dead, sleeping will take up valuable time I could be using to overthrow the underworld.
You're assuming that Kuroi hasn't already assumed the position of God-Emperor of all that exists at that point, in which case you won't have a chance of overthrowing anything.
We're friends. Surely he'll have better things to do than micromanage Hell when he could delegate that task to me.

I've heard that the easiest way to rule hell is to remove the bones of everyone in it.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on April 18, 2013, 08:33:38 PM
Westboro Baptist. How far will they not go just to be dickheads?
Is there any church more deserving of being burnt down with the congregation locked inside a la the church in "The Patriot"?

For those who haven't heard, they are going to picket the services for the people in Boston. For reasons that are bullshit even for this group. (http://www.usnews.com/news/newsgram/articles/2013/04/16/boston-bombing-funerals-will-be-picketed-westboro-baptist-church-says)
I... I can't say enough, and that is partially just being left in want for the words to say.

A note on revenge: You don't kill people.  Regardless of whatever they do or say, killing them is pointless.  If you kill them they can't change, they can't learn, and most importantly they can't be made to  suffer.  Dead people can't feel pain, emotional or otherwise.  So don't kill them.  Blind them, cut out their tongue, and amputate all 4 limbs ensuring that if they continue living it's by the sufferance of others.  Being at the mercy of others for your own survival is  the world's best lesson teacher.


On a side note: Don't mention this too often in public, cause people give you some damn weird looks...
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on April 19, 2013, 08:19:47 AM
But when I'm dead, sleeping will take up valuable time I could be using to overthrow the underworld.
You're assuming that Kuroi hasn't already assumed the position of God-Emperor of all that exists at that point, in which case you won't have a chance of overthrowing anything.
We're friends. Surely he'll have better things to do than micromanage Hell when he could delegate that task to me.
Well Boz, I'm sure you can run Hell just fine, but I'm leaving bhu in charge of the ironic punishment department.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on April 19, 2013, 11:17:42 AM
Do I get anything?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Bozwevial on April 19, 2013, 11:21:36 AM
But when I'm dead, sleeping will take up valuable time I could be using to overthrow the underworld.
You're assuming that Kuroi hasn't already assumed the position of God-Emperor of all that exists at that point, in which case you won't have a chance of overthrowing anything.
We're friends. Surely he'll have better things to do than micromanage Hell when he could delegate that task to me.
Well Boz, I'm sure you can run Hell just fine, but I'm leaving bhu in charge of the ironic punishment department.
I think you found the right kitteh for the job there.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on April 19, 2013, 11:32:25 AM
Do I get anything?
Well that depends on what you want, really! I could put you in charge of Earth, provided you erradicate douchebags.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on April 19, 2013, 11:50:00 AM
The pressing concern is whether or not I'm allowed to wear douchebags as flesh puppets.

If so, Earth sounds like something fun to micromanage.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: sirpercival on April 19, 2013, 12:39:07 PM
Can I be Assistant Deputy in charge of Science and Music?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Nanshork on April 19, 2013, 12:42:33 PM
I'll take a job, I'm a Systems Administrator so I could help out with your IT infrastructure.  I'm also good with people.

Or, you know, you could just give me a country.   :P
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: ariasderros on April 19, 2013, 12:44:29 PM
A note on revenge: You don't kill people.  Regardless of whatever they do or say, killing them is pointless.  If you kill them they can't change, they can't learn, and most importantly they can't be made to  suffer.  Dead people can't feel pain, emotional or otherwise.  So don't kill them.  Blind them, cut out their tongue, and amputate all 4 limbs ensuring that if they continue living it's by the sufferance of others.  Being at the mercy of others for your own survival is  the world's best lesson teacher.


On a side note: Don't mention this too often in public, cause people give you some damn weird looks...

Under normal circumstances, you'd only be partially right. It isn't about teaching that person, because by getting you to that point, they have proved beyond the reach of the lesson. It is about ensuing that others know that the behavior that is being punished isn't worth it. People can justify sacrificing their lives, but when the punishment is a lifetime of suffering well beyond any normal scope, people tend to re-think what is / isn't worth it.

Vengeance is about punishing people for what they've done, and is futile and naive. You accomplish nothing, not even your own catharsis.
Justice, however, is about preventing further harm to your charges. It isn't about punishing the person for what they did, it is about taking the necessary steps to make sure that that person does not repeat the act, and that no-one else repeats it either.

However, in the case of ending the nuisance of Westboro, death is more effective. That's just so that they stop bothering people. As long as they're alive, anything you do to them, they are going to use to justify their beliefs and actions. But if they are dead, the number of people who are / would be willing to follow after them are nigh-non-existent. Yes, there are other extremists who agree with them, but none that would take it so far any time soon. In the mean time, people wouldn't have to deal with dipshit bastards of this caliber being this vocal.

On a side note: People already are used to me commenting "Don't kill them! Make them Suffer!", so I don't think the looks would get much worse if I detailed out my opinions further.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on April 19, 2013, 12:51:47 PM
If only there was a way to echo chamber them. Like forcing them to picket the funerals of their own children.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on April 19, 2013, 01:17:06 PM
@ariasderros... What about times when the governmental justice system fails to stop them?

aka Law Abiding Citizen with Gerard Butler and Jamie Foxx
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Nytemare3701 on April 19, 2013, 01:47:47 PM
@ariasderros... What about times when the governmental justice system fails to stop them?

aka Law Abiding Citizen with Gerard Butler and Jamie Foxx

I loved that movie.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on April 19, 2013, 03:08:27 PM
I love it too, but my wife hates it :P
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on April 19, 2013, 04:27:31 PM

Under normal circumstances, you'd only be partially right. It isn't about teaching that person, because by getting you to that point, they have proved beyond the reach of the lesson. It is about ensuing that others know that the behavior that is being punished isn't worth it. People can justify sacrificing their lives, but when the punishment is a lifetime of suffering well beyond any normal scope, people tend to re-think what is / isn't worth it.

Vengeance is about punishing people for what they've done, and is futile and naive. You accomplish nothing, not even your own catharsis.
Justice, however, is about preventing further harm to your charges. It isn't about punishing the person for what they did, it is about taking the necessary steps to make sure that that person does not repeat the act, and that no-one else repeats it either.

However, in the case of ending the nuisance of Westboro, death is more effective. That's just so that they stop bothering people. As long as they're alive, anything you do to them, they are going to use to justify their beliefs and actions. But if they are dead, the number of people who are / would be willing to follow after them are nigh-non-existent. Yes, there are other extremists who agree with them, but none that would take it so far any time soon. In the mean time, people wouldn't have to deal with dipshit bastards of this caliber being this vocal.

On a side note: People already are used to me commenting "Don't kill them! Make them Suffer!", so I don't think the looks would get much worse if I detailed out my opinions further.

Justice tends to be a polite euphemism in American society for "I want revenge, but I'm calling it something else so people don't think less of me".  The need for revenge is a fairly normal and acceptable human emotion, so long as it doesn't turn you into as much of a monster as the person you want revenge on.  And death is far from being a deterrent, if it were people would have stopped killing some time ago.  Ohio has the death penalty and as deterrents go it's a small speed bump.  On the other hand a lifetime of being a blind cripple who can't communicate and who needs someone else to feed and wipe you is enough to make some people at least say "oh fuck that noise...".  It also fits the prerequisite of rendering them harmless.

But if you want the Church to shut up there's an easy enough way.   Round up a few hundred convicted Tier 3 sex offenders and tell them "Okay society is off limits, but you can do what you want to the Westboro members without fear of repercussion.  As a matter of fact we'll be bussing you to and from all of their events.  Touch anyone else and we shoot you, but as far as the Church members go indulge yourselves at will."
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: awaken_D_M_golem on April 19, 2013, 05:06:58 PM
(imagery aside)

Those @sh*les have a knowable recidivism rate of >100%.


Part of the accidental effectiveness of prison
is the untreated PTSD lingering long after.
Or worse being in isolation too much = break with reality.

They should be bustable for Causing a Riot ... should.
(yeah yeah free speech)
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on April 19, 2013, 06:08:24 PM
They should be but they tend to be very litigous so people are afraid to do anything to them.  Of course some sort of fuckup is inevitable, but it hasn't happened yet.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: ariasderros on April 19, 2013, 06:57:40 PM
@ Amchera
They're fanatics, most wouldn't bat an eye over disowning a family member, even their own child.

@Zook
My viewpoints presented were ideals separate from any analysis of existing "justice systems". My views on the ethics and morals of things pertaining to this concept in any further depth are between myself and psychiatrists.

@Bhu
The BS meaning is because people have forgotten what the systems purpose is, and everyone wants to make it into their version of things, which often has nothing to do with what the system is supposed to do.
And death is far from being a deterrent, if it were people would have stopped killing some time ago.  Ohio has the death penalty and as deterrents go it's a small speed bump.  On the other hand a lifetime of being a blind cripple who can't communicate and who needs someone else to feed and wipe you is enough to make some people at least say "oh fuck that noise...".  It also fits the prerequisite of rendering them harmless.
I could not agree more. In other news, do you know what a magnesium flare can do to a rapists genitals? A Lot.

But if you want the Church to shut up there's an easy enough way.   Round up a few hundred convicted Tier 3 sex offenders and tell them "Okay society is off limits, but you can do what you want to the Westboro members without fear of repercussion.  As a matter of fact we'll be bussing you to and from all of their events.  Touch anyone else and we shoot you, but as far as the Church members go indulge yourselves at will."
Reasons that wouldn't work (in reality):
First, you are telling the sex offenders to get in even more trouble, in a setting that they will get caught. Few would be willing to take the risks for the sake of whatever benefit they'd get out of it.
Second, any of the offenders that do agree to this plan would know that you wouldn't actually be able to do much, what with them outnumbering you, and the fact that there would be greater risk to you of heavier punishment.
Third, as mentioned, the church members would use their victimization as a validation for their actions. I would challenge them to not mention Job.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on April 19, 2013, 07:15:05 PM
The answer, of course, is lobotomies. A lot of them.

Administered via rusty icepick.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on April 19, 2013, 07:23:06 PM

Reasons that wouldn't work (in reality):
First, you are telling the sex offenders to get in even more trouble, in a setting that they will get caught. Few would be willing to take the risks for the sake of whatever benefit they'd get out of it.
Second, any of the offenders that do agree to this plan would know that you wouldn't actually be able to do much, what with them outnumbering you, and the fact that there would be greater risk to you of heavier punishment.
Third, as mentioned, the church members would use their victimization as a validation for their actions. I would challenge them to not mention Job.

I was being facetious  :p

Also you'll note it said 'without fear of repercussion', as in 'what you will be doing is legal as long as you restrict yourselves to them'. 
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: altpersona on April 19, 2013, 08:16:04 PM

Under normal circumstances, you'd only be partially right. It isn't about teaching that person, because by getting you to that point, they have proved beyond the reach of the lesson. It is about ensuing that others know that the behavior that is being punished isn't worth it. People can justify sacrificing their lives, but when the punishment is a lifetime of suffering well beyond any normal scope, people tend to re-think what is / isn't worth it.

Vengeance is about punishing people for what they've done, and is futile and naive. You accomplish nothing, not even your own catharsis.
Justice, however, is about preventing further harm to your charges. It isn't about punishing the person for what they did, it is about taking the necessary steps to make sure that that person does not repeat the act, and that no-one else repeats it either.

However, in the case of ending the nuisance of Westboro, death is more effective. That's just so that they stop bothering people. As long as they're alive, anything you do to them, they are going to use to justify their beliefs and actions. But if they are dead, the number of people who are / would be willing to follow after them are nigh-non-existent. Yes, there are other extremists who agree with them, but none that would take it so far any time soon. In the mean time, people wouldn't have to deal with dipshit bastards of this caliber being this vocal.

On a side note: People already are used to me commenting "Don't kill them! Make them Suffer!", so I don't think the looks would get much worse if I detailed out my opinions further.


Justice tends to be a polite euphemism in American society for "I want revenge, but I'm calling it something else so people don't think less of me".  The need for revenge is a fairly normal and acceptable human emotion, so long as it doesn't turn you into as much of a monster as the person you want revenge on.  And death is far from being a deterrent, if it were people would have stopped killing some time ago.  Ohio has the death penalty and as deterrents go it's a small speed bump.  On the other hand a lifetime of being a blind cripple who can't communicate and who needs someone else to feed and wipe you is enough to make some people at least say "oh fuck that noise...".  It also fits the prerequisite of rendering them harmless.

But if you want the Church to shut up there's an easy enough way.   Round up a few hundred convicted Tier 3 sex offenders and tell them "Okay society is off limits, but you can do what you want to the Westboro members without fear of repercussion.  As a matter of fact we'll be bussing you to and from all of their events.  Touch anyone else and we shoot you, but as far as the Church members go indulge yourselves at will."


iv been slowly tossing the concepts around in my head the last few months.

iv concluded that i have no idea what justice is. aside from merely revenge.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on April 19, 2013, 10:33:21 PM
I had a hilarious joke played on me about 5 minutes ago.

Or, at least, what passes as a joke amongst the stoned/drunk.

Luckily, I've had to clean up dog shit out of a carpet with tissues before, so I have no issues with faeces.

I still scrubbed my hands; after all, it could have been human shit, and that stuff has some nasty parasites.

I hate people sometimes.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on April 19, 2013, 10:49:18 PM
Are these drunks friends? 

If not I has some suggestions  :D
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on April 19, 2013, 11:00:43 PM
Hide cheese and milk in some bags in some really obscure locations in their place. Good places are behind major appliances, like fridge or washer.

there was an episode of Viva La Bam, on a road trip, they made baggies of a combination of a bunch of horrible condiments (mayonnaise, mustard, old milk, etc). They then put one in the microwave and turned it on high. They then started a 'snowball' fight with these horrible food grenades.

the downside of this? You might get some of that crap on your clothing
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on April 19, 2013, 11:08:48 PM
These are complete and utter strangers, who left a dollar stuck together with crap in the middle of a sidewalk.

EDIT: The fact that I didn't immediately run across the street to try to kill them with the dollar is a sign of my improving self restraint! It would have been a hilarious news report, though.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on April 19, 2013, 11:23:22 PM
Damn :(
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: dman11235 on April 20, 2013, 09:21:43 PM
I went out today to the local butcher to try and get a custom ground meat.  Turns out they don't do it for less than 5 lbs of meat.  However, Meijer (big super-store, think Walmart but less corporate greed for those who aren't familiar) does do it.  Why does the big chain have a butcher that does this and not the local place (with better quality meats)?  I have no idea.  And then, on my way home I come to an intersection with a left turn, straight, and right turn lanes at a stop light.  In the right hand turn lane there's a car with its flashers on and no one inside.  Again, what?  Oh well, I'm going straight.  No big deal, someone else will call it in.  My parents are both shopping down in Indianapolis at that point, and should be home in an hour or so so I can start making the poutine (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99V5AO63FtM), although unfortunately with straight up pork (and beef, because I don't think I got enough pork).  Oh, no, my mom calls two hours later and says "Were in Anderson [30 minutes away], and this reckless driver kicked up a blown big rig tire in to our car.  My guess is 3k worth of damage.  Headlight knocked out, side-view mirror just gone.  Significant body damage."  One of those stories is more significant than the others.

AND I posted this in the wrong thread.  What's more is I went through all that trouble to make some poutine specifically so we can watch the Blackhawks while eating it.  But noooooo, they have to be showing the Bulls instead on the Chicago sports station, and the Cubs on the alt Chicago sports station, and they BLACKED THE GAMES OUT HERE.  So we're stuck watching Montreal and Washington.  At least Washington's winning by a lot.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: RedWarlock on April 20, 2013, 11:31:52 PM
Ouch, general sucky situations. Good luck with the fallout.

Meijer (big super-store, think Walmart but less corporate greed for those who aren't familiar)
I'm from Michigan, and when you said Meijer (in the other thread), I didn't even think twice about it. I forget about how spread-out some stuff is. (I live in the Detroit metro area, Meijer has *always* been here, WalMart is only a recent invasion, in the last 15-20 yrs that I'm familiar with.)
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: dman11235 on April 20, 2013, 11:50:12 PM
Meijer is non-existent out east, and out west.  It's pretty much just in the midwest.  Much like you would have no idea what I was talking about when I say "Shop n' Save" or "Hyvee".  You're more likely to have heard of Hyvee, but I would be surprised if you've been to a Shopn'Save.  For the record: Hyvee is Iowa, and Shop n' Save is Maine/northeast.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on April 21, 2013, 04:49:09 AM
Oh how I've missed thee, stomach pains!  [/sarcasm]

Let's see how well I sleep tonight, if I can manage it.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on April 21, 2013, 12:03:12 PM
I just went to a Shop N Save yesterday. This one was basically a Hispanic supermarket.

I go there for some really tasty drink mixes, called Klass. Then I browse around for just random interesting snacks. Found 2 coupons there for $1 off 2 of those new Mountain Dew products... That were only $0.99 each :)

Meijer was huge back in Michigan, I went there all the time. Here in Colorado, the closest thing is Wal-Mart *gags*

@dman... Yeah those recklessly aggressive drivers are horrible! A couple months ago, right before our wedding, we phoned on in that was driving ~10ft behind us in a 65mph. Then has the balls to blow past us over a double yellow through an intersection and kicked up a ton of rocks, to then be stuck behind another car and did pretty much the same. We got a partial to help, when we called it in.

another really bad one was when we were going home from Estes Park. A guy and a girl were ~10ft behind us going through that super windey pass for 3+ miles. We we doing right above the speed limit. It was soo nerve racking, cause there's no room for mistakes. One way is a wall of rock and the other is a raging river and trees. They finally blew past us over a double yellow around a blind turn, flipping us off.

this one we regret not calling in.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Quillwraith on April 21, 2013, 05:25:25 PM
ES: HOMESTUCK.
ES: AWESOME.
ES: THAT'S REALLY ALL THERE IS TO SAY ON THE MATTER .
-- etherealScribe [ES] changed his mood to RANCOROUS  :flame --
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on April 21, 2013, 06:23:05 PM
I have to say...

I think Homestuck is rather over-rated; Hussie is not very good at juggling a large cast (hence the dying of many characters), and the writing style just isn't to my taste.

I honestly see no reason why it is so loved. Please, explain it to me.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on April 21, 2013, 06:55:39 PM
We can't clean up our patio (or indeed much of our property in general) because my grandpa refuses to throw anything away.  He's becoming something in between a crotchety old fart and a crotchety old fuck.  He still has some bark and bite, but it's waning as he gets older.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Libertad on April 21, 2013, 07:49:18 PM
I have to say...

I think Homestuck is rather over-rated; Hussie is not very good at juggling a large cast (hence the dying of many characters), and the writing style just isn't to my taste.

On a similar note, I don't understand why so many adult gamers thought that Wreck-It Ralph was a fantastic movie.  The humor was literally geared towards pre-teens, too juvenile, and too predictable.  And that time the King of Races actually explained the fungeon/dungeon joke, I don't understand the praise.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Nytemare3701 on April 21, 2013, 07:57:44 PM
I have to say...

I think Homestuck is rather over-rated; Hussie is not very good at juggling a large cast (hence the dying of many characters), and the writing style just isn't to my taste.

On a similar note, I don't understand why so many adult gamers thought that Wreck-It Ralph was a fantastic movie.  The humor was literally geared towards pre-teens, too juvenile, and too predictable.  And that time the King of Races actually explained the fungeon/dungeon joke, I don't understand the praise.

I'm with you on this. On the other hand, it had PHENOMENAL production quality, even among similarly animated movies. I watched it last night with a friend, and while it wasn't exactly mentally stimulating, it's definitely a pretty high benchmark for "mindless entertainment".
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Nanshork on April 21, 2013, 08:40:13 PM
I have to say...

I think Homestuck is rather over-rated; Hussie is not very good at juggling a large cast (hence the dying of many characters), and the writing style just isn't to my taste.

On a similar note, I don't understand why so many adult gamers thought that Wreck-It Ralph was a fantastic movie.  The humor was literally geared towards pre-teens, too juvenile, and too predictable.  And that time the King of Races actually explained the fungeon/dungeon joke, I don't understand the praise.

I'm with you on this. On the other hand, it had PHENOMENAL production quality, even among similarly animated movies. I watched it last night with a friend, and while it wasn't exactly mentally stimulating, it's definitely a pretty high benchmark for "mindless entertainment".

I like both, and like most things that are opinion based there's no way I can explain it in a way that is logical/would make sense.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on April 22, 2013, 02:30:20 AM
My stomach and other abdominal pains over the past couple days are accompanied by dark stool...  Yeah, definitely gonna call the doc.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Raineh Daze on April 22, 2013, 02:43:09 AM
My stomach and other abdominal pains over the past couple days are accompanied by dark stool...  Yeah, definitely gonna call the doc.

Well... that's shitty luck.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Nytemare3701 on April 22, 2013, 06:15:21 AM
My stomach and other abdominal pains over the past couple days are accompanied by dark stool...  Yeah, definitely gonna call the doc.

Well... that's shitty luck.

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Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Bozwevial on April 22, 2013, 10:14:07 AM
I have to say...

I think Homestuck is rather over-rated; Hussie is not very good at juggling a large cast (hence the dying of many characters), and the writing style just isn't to my taste.

On a similar note, I don't understand why so many adult gamers thought that Wreck-It Ralph was a fantastic movie.  The humor was literally geared towards pre-teens, too juvenile, and too predictable.  And that time the King of Races actually explained the fungeon/dungeon joke, I don't understand the praise.

I'm with you on this. On the other hand, it had PHENOMENAL production quality, even among similarly animated movies. I watched it last night with a friend, and while it wasn't exactly mentally stimulating, it's definitely a pretty high benchmark for "mindless entertainment".

I like both, and like most things that are opinion based there's no way I can explain it in a way that is logical/would make sense.
Which is actually a fairly common feeling among fans - it's difficult to explain why you're fond of something in a 'rational' manner that would be an acceptable academic argument, which in turn creates a bit of a rift between academics and fans.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on April 22, 2013, 10:13:53 PM
Darn, I feel bad.

A biker crashed into me today. Bent the axle on his bicycle and busted his noggin on the sidewalk.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: brujon on April 22, 2013, 10:59:20 PM
I have to say...

I think Homestuck is rather over-rated; Hussie is not very good at juggling a large cast (hence the dying of many characters), and the writing style just isn't to my taste.

On a similar note, I don't understand why so many adult gamers thought that Wreck-It Ralph was a fantastic movie.  The humor was literally geared towards pre-teens, too juvenile, and too predictable.  And that time the King of Races actually explained the fungeon/dungeon joke, I don't understand the praise.

I'm with you on this. On the other hand, it had PHENOMENAL production quality, even among similarly animated movies. I watched it last night with a friend, and while it wasn't exactly mentally stimulating, it's definitely a pretty high benchmark for "mindless entertainment".

I like both, and like most things that are opinion based there's no way I can explain it in a way that is logical/would make sense.
Which is actually a fairly common feeling among fans - it's difficult to explain why you're fond of something in a 'rational' manner that would be an acceptable academic argument, which in turn creates a bit of a rift between academics and fans.

Rant incoming:

I HATE the way art "academics" describe movies. They try to make you believe that their subjective classification of a movie is in fact an objective classification in order to try and validate their opinion. It's a circlejerk. THE ultimate circlejerk, in fact.

When i hear things like "This movie is paradigmatic. It transcends the postmodern genre, and ventures into uncharted territory, by fusing the bla bla with the blablabla, it has managed to blend in the characteristics of blablableh as defined most clearly in the movie Y, with the characteristics of blelhrablah as first explored in movie Z... The photography is phenomenal, with incredible vistas of infinite melancholy blended in with the fake and plastic glee of modern metropolis, make a mockery of the modern bourgeouis renaiscence brought in by..."

Know what i mean? PSEUDOINTELLECTUALBABBLE. Seriously, if you have read enough, and know enough adjectives to toss into inane comments interspersed with actual technical words used in filmography, you can spout the same bullshit the so called critics do on a daily basis.

Do you know when this aggravates me the most? When it's applied to modern art. Yes, i'm talking about the chimpanzee paintings and shit. I simply *CANNOT* believe, i REFUSE, in fact, to believe, that humanity has fallen to such a degree, where you have people spending MILLIONS to buy the doodles a primitive primate intelligence made with no second thought about what he was doing.

I started hanging out with some folks some way back when, and i had to stop hanging out with them because of exactly this kind of shit. I'm not a genius, i'm not someone who is extremely talented or artistically inclined or anything, but i've read a bit of this and a bit of that, and i find myself having a not inconsiderable body of general knowledge. This means, i have what you can call a good bullshit detector. My bullshit detector is always flashing danger-red whenever i start hanging out with any of the "artsy" types. These folks i hanged out with, they liked going into art galleries, museums, and stuff, and they always started flaunting pieces of wisdom they thought were infinitely clever, but were, more often than not, flat out wrong. Stuff you read on covers of books, things you misinterpret because it's second or third hand knowledge, but they always talked as if they were experts on the matter.

That's what aggravates me more. Talking out of your ass, like you know something when, in fact, you really don't, and trying to impress friends who also don't know about what you're talking about, but pretend that they do anyway, and then start talking and doing the same thing... And damn. Did they LOVE critics. Over half of the bullshit they spouted, i could nearly pinpoint which newspaper critic they were parroting, or which website, using fancy words they didn't even know the meaning of in improper context.

And i can't forget to mention, never admit they're wrong. Always come up with some bullshit excuse when caught red-handed in order to maintain the appearances. I don't believe i've EVER seen any "serious" discussion about art. It always devolves into who knows more well-known critics that like movie X versus who knows more well-known critics that ABSOLUTELY LOATHE movie X. And they can't even seem to agree on what the TERMS they use to describe aspects of the movie means. It always devolves into a completely meaningless and pointless discussion into aspects that are extremely subjective, but are given the aspect of being objective by the excessive use of technical words and exaggerated embellishment of speech. Anyone with a smattering of knowledge of the common fallacies would raise not one, but two eyebrows when witnessing any such discussion taking place.

This makes me so mad, i even forgot the reason i was mad before getting mad. But now i remembered. 5 hours before i could get out of the fucking hospital today. Line after line after line, wait after wait after wait. It's getting to a point where the only option is NOT getting sick, because trying to get treatment is harder on your health than sucking it up.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on April 23, 2013, 12:52:15 AM
The guys I work for tell us to review films from the point of view of a fan of whatever genre the film is (i.e. they actively try to steer us towards films we like and understand and know about).  It's worked out ok, although in my case I have been known to be pretty damn sarcastic.  I sometimes ask my boss on occasion if I'm overstepping things I'm so sarcastic.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: SneeR on April 23, 2013, 01:01:55 AM
My PS3 is utterloy dead. It was long past warranty, so I took it apart and cleaned it really well, but that did nothing.
I wouldn't even mind if Sony wasn't doing its absolute best to make my 50 or so PS2 game disks utterly obsolete. Now I will probably have to buy a PS2 for my PS2 games and a PS3 Slim for my PS3 games, because they don't make the PS3 Fat anymore with the backwards compatibility. I laugh at the notion of PS4 having backwards compatibility--not those money-grubbing whores!

And, naturally, it died with my Metal Gear Solid 3 disk inside of it. Gotta figure out how to get that back.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on April 23, 2013, 01:07:09 AM
Grab a screwdriver and a hammer?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on April 23, 2013, 01:19:40 AM
Getting it out might only require a paper clip if there's the usual pinhole to manually eject a disk.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: dman11235 on April 23, 2013, 05:00:46 AM
stuff

I can't even begin to tell you how much I agree with you.  For me, however, it's science stuff.  I hear people quoting all of the BS about science/health problems all the time and it irks me so much.  No people, sodium benzoate does not cause cancer.  Organic does not mean "health tonic".  Non-organic does not mean "will kill you instantly".  It doesn't even mean "will give you cancer".  But I see sites and arguments about how the levels of formaldehyde in our food supply is at dangerous levels and I'm just smacking my head because when they reveal the dirty chemicals that are turning in to formaldehyde or benzene or isoananitroglycerethynolomethyl or whatever they want to rag on it turns out that the chemical not only doesn't turn in to the "dangerous" chemical, but actively STOPS that chemical from forming from another chemical.  Or is actually a cancer killer.  Or utterly benign.  Some of those may be exaggerations.  I've been helping a friend get ready for a baby by vetting products for harmful chemicals.  She's given me links to sites that claim dangerous things about the chemicals, but the sites are either incredibly biased against any and all "chemicals" (here meaning anything that sounds scary...which means it has a name you might not be able to pronounce...like stearic acid, sound scary, is cow fat essentially) or are written by a moron who doesn't know a hydrogen from a hydroxyl.  And it's almost always cancer.  If the site is talking about how it's a cancer causer (not carcinogen, cancer causer), it's probably safe to ignore the thing.  If it's talking about toxicity levels and what exactly the toxin effects are, it's a little more likely that they know what they're talking about.  But if they, in the same paragraph, mention how the same chemical is fine if you get it from nature and not a lab, run far away.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: brujon on April 23, 2013, 09:02:17 AM
Oh, that might be interesting for me, since i've got a little guy too. What products would you recommend, what would you recommend tossing out the door like a dirty chinese immigrant?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on April 23, 2013, 01:38:30 PM
My stomach and other abdominal pains over the past couple days are accompanied by dark stool...  Yeah, definitely gonna call the doc.

Well... that's shitty luck.

I ended up going to the hospital this morning around 1:45 because the pain suddenly became severe and stabbing and I knew that if it was something serious, I'd better GTFI.  So they did some tests and told me my stool didn't have any blood in it and my blood work and such was normal.  What isn't normal is how I don't feel like I've completely swallowed and still have something in the esophagus, especially if I lay down.  So I'll be seeing a specialist... Whenever they decide to send me some paperwork about one.  In the mean time, at least I have a couple prescriptions to suck on.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: linklord231 on April 23, 2013, 04:31:58 PM
stuff

I can't even begin to tell you how much I agree with you.  For me, however, it's science stuff.  I hear people quoting all of the BS about science/health problems all the time and it irks me so much.  No people, sodium benzoate does not cause cancer.  Organic does not mean "health tonic".  Non-organic does not mean "will kill you instantly".  It doesn't even mean "will give you cancer".  But I see sites and arguments about how the levels of formaldehyde in our food supply is at dangerous levels and I'm just smacking my head because when they reveal the dirty chemicals that are turning in to formaldehyde or benzene or isoananitroglycerethynolomethyl or whatever they want to rag on it turns out that the chemical not only doesn't turn in to the "dangerous" chemical, but actively STOPS that chemical from forming from another chemical.  Or is actually a cancer killer.  Or utterly benign.  Some of those may be exaggerations.  I've been helping a friend get ready for a baby by vetting products for harmful chemicals.  She's given me links to sites that claim dangerous things about the chemicals, but the sites are either incredibly biased against any and all "chemicals" (here meaning anything that sounds scary...which means it has a name you might not be able to pronounce...like stearic acid, sound scary, is cow fat essentially) or are written by a moron who doesn't know a hydrogen from a hydroxyl.  And it's almost always cancer.  If the site is talking about how it's a cancer causer (not carcinogen, cancer causer), it's probably safe to ignore the thing.  If it's talking about toxicity levels and what exactly the toxin effects are, it's a little more likely that they know what they're talking about.  But if they, in the same paragraph, mention how the same chemical is fine if you get it from nature and not a lab, run far away.
'

Oh God This.

I've gotten in to several arguments with my girlfriend about organic "chemical-free" cleaning products, artificial sweeteners and preservatives, and the rest.  At least by now we've gotten to the "agree to disagree" point.  If she wants to piss her money away on inefficient laundry detergent and beef from cows who were sick because they never got any antibiotics, I guess that's her right.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on April 23, 2013, 04:39:09 PM
I have to avoid artifical sweeteners.  They seem to set off my asthma pretty badly.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on April 23, 2013, 04:54:56 PM
On a tangential note, I LOATHE the vegan argument about how human consumption of meat is a "social construct". As in speciesism. As in "we eat meat because we hate animals".  :rolleyes For fuck's sake, we're omnivores. If nature hadn't INTENDED for us to BE omnivores, we WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO DIGEST MEAT, it's that simple!
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: ShadowViper on April 23, 2013, 07:18:38 PM
GITP forums seems to be down, can't access a thread with some helpful info I need.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Quillwraith on April 23, 2013, 07:38:45 PM
GITP forums seems to be down, can't access a thread with some helpful info I need.
Rich Burlew says:
Quote

GiantITP server is down, don't know why. If you read this, don't refresh it for about an hour, please. Thanks.

Hosting now says it's an intentional DDoS. So, the server will be down until it's not anymore.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Slaughterhouserock on April 23, 2013, 08:13:52 PM
My boot drive is failing.  I have a spare HDD that I had intended to use for storage, but I guess I'll have to use it to backup the dying drive.  Fuckin' thing is only two years old.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on April 23, 2013, 09:37:58 PM
That sucks!

I had to backup my whole computer, because it was making a really weird noise, and I was really worried it'd die :(
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Elevevated Beat on April 23, 2013, 11:07:52 PM
science stuff
art stuff
Both of these. Except my gripe is with music.
I dislike that people hate on today's music (Nicki Minaj and dusbtep artist's spring to mind). I really dislike how much they do it and the reasons they sometimes come up with for hating it. Because, to be honest, it comes down to two things (IMO): they're a sheep regurgitating crap they've heard from a "music aficionado" - which I find laughable as music is a personal taste; or they actually dislike the style of music.
There's a lot more to today's music than what is played on the radio. Just like there's a lot more to 80s music than the favourites that everyone knows and loves - there is a lot of rubbish too. And, funnily enough, the music being played on the radio must be liked by a lot of people as it is still there.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on April 23, 2013, 11:24:22 PM
There's always going to be crap, and there's always going to be good stuff with music.  And art.  And a bit with science too.

Currently listening to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbOqbrqWNOQ
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: altpersona on April 24, 2013, 12:20:48 AM
just finished watching Zero Dark Thirty.

well made/good move; fucking embarrassing...
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: RedWarlock on April 24, 2013, 01:06:21 AM
GITP forums seems to be down, can't access a thread with some helpful info I need.
Yeah, they've apparently been under a DDOS for the last day or so. Rich has been keeping us updated via twitter and the Kickstarter backers blog.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on April 24, 2013, 10:44:11 AM
science stuff
art stuff
Both of these. Except my gripe is with music.
I dislike that people hate on today's music (Nicki Minaj and dusbtep artist's spring to mind). I really dislike how much they do it and the reasons they sometimes come up with for hating it. Because, to be honest, it comes down to two things (IMO): they're a sheep regurgitating crap they've heard from a "music aficionado" - which I find laughable as music is a personal taste; or they actually dislike the style of music.
There's a lot more to today's music than what is played on the radio. Just like there's a lot more to 80s music than the favourites that everyone knows and loves - there is a lot of rubbish too. And, funnily enough, the music being played on the radio must be liked by a lot of people as it is still there.

I don't doubt that there's good music nowadays. What really irks me is the amount of attention that some so-called "musicians" get when their work is trash at best. As a rule, I've found that if you want to look into good music, you can't look at the radio - they play what works, what the masses want to hear, and the masses are usually tonedeaf.

This goes double for me because of the blight on music that is funk carioca. I seriously fucking hate it with all my heart, first because it besmirches the name of a perfectly legitimate music style, second because it is absolutely viral in Brazil (with no good reason), and third because those who actually defend it typically do so in an exceedingly moronic fashion.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: SneeR on April 24, 2013, 01:37:54 PM
I don't doubt that there's good music nowadays. What really irks me is the amount of attention that some so-called "musicians" get when their work is trash at best. As a rule, I've found that if you want to look into good music, you can't look at the radio - they play what works, what the masses want to hear, and the masses are usually tonedeaf.
As a medically tonedeaf person, I resent being associated with people who habitually consume pop music.
I'll take my symphonic metal and techno any day over Rihanna's tame garbage.

I do not hate generally, I hate specifically. Rihanna has a song I like called Unfaithful, and I like Lady Gaga's Poker Face and Bad Romance. Ke$ha has an occasional guilty pleasure. My roommate blasts pop music all day long from Pandora, so I get exposed to enough of it to know that most of it is drek. In fact, when I hear one I like I make sure to ask for its info so I can get it myself. That happens about once a week.
PER WEEK.  :banghead
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on April 24, 2013, 03:38:58 PM
funk carioca???
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: awaken_D_M_golem on April 24, 2013, 05:22:41 PM
 :??? ... and Help!

My sister-in-law just accused me of not
getting my niece a Christmas present,
but I did and there were/are witnesses, including pictures.
wtf

I figure step 1 is wait until the emotion-storm blows over.

Otherwise I'm at a loss  :-\
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: 123456789blaaa on April 24, 2013, 05:34:38 PM
:??? ... and Help!

My sister-in-law just accused me of not
getting my niece a Christmas present,
but I did and there were/are witnesses, including pictures.
wtf

I figure step 1 is wait until the emotion-storm blows over.

Otherwise I'm at a loss  :-\

Do other relatives think you didn't give a present or is it just your sister-in-law?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: awaken_D_M_golem on April 24, 2013, 05:49:23 PM
Nope, they were the witnesses. 

She's on a weird island here.
I figure there's more drama happening
in the background, that doesn't involve
me at all.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on April 24, 2013, 06:57:52 PM
I don't doubt that there's good music nowadays. What really irks me is the amount of attention that some so-called "musicians" get when their work is trash at best. As a rule, I've found that if you want to look into good music, you can't look at the radio - they play what works, what the masses want to hear, and the masses are usually tonedeaf.
As a medically tonedeaf person, I resent being associated with people who habitually consume pop music.
I'll take my symphonic metal and techno any day over Rihanna's tame garbage.

I do not hate generally, I hate specifically. Rihanna has a song I like called Unfaithful, and I like Lady Gaga's Poker Face and Bad Romance. Ke$ha has an occasional guilty pleasure. My roommate blasts pop music all day long from Pandora, so I get exposed to enough of it to know that most of it is drek. In fact, when I hear one I like I make sure to ask for its info so I can get it myself. That happens about once a week.
PER WEEK.  :banghead
Let me ammend that to "qualitative tonedeaf", then.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on April 24, 2013, 07:22:37 PM
How does one go about figuring out whether they're medically tone deaf anyway?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: dman11235 on April 25, 2013, 04:29:00 AM
Oh, that might be interesting for me, since i've got a little guy too. What products would you recommend, what would you recommend tossing out the door like a dirty chinese immigrant?

Unfortunately I won't be of much help, as different countries bring different manufacturing techniques and recipes for just about everything.  However, a hew general tips would be to make sure to check out the labels for chemicals, don't believe them if they say it's "all natural", and don't believe the people who say that all natural is the only way to be safe.  Keep in mind that allergic reactions happen, and look out for them, but don't blame "bad chemicals", blame biology.  Just change products.  Some common things that are relatively safe: alcohols, fatty acids, and ionic compounds.  But if you have a specific chemical in question, just look it up online or ask someone who would know (I may know, but most of the time I find a chemical database with info online).

On some specifics: alcohols are almost always safe with an asterisk.  They dry out skin and have a slightly higher chance to have a reaction than other stuff, but usually they are not long term harmful.  The worst is a rash.  And if you lotion, or it has lotion in it as well (stuff like fats and fatty acids help) you reduce the drying out thing.  Parabens have some studies that show they are harmful, but also many that show it's metabolized quickly and can't really harm much of anything (the harm it may have a link to is cancer, but it's not at all a sure thing).  Stuff that has "stearate" or a derivative of it is probably fine, as are things with "oleic".  And finally, if it's "sodium whatever", it's probably fine and will flush out of the system even if it is mildly toxic, as long as you don't use too much.  These are tentative and exceptions exist.  Especially on the "sodium" thing, because I'm ignoring a bunch of things it can be paired with that are extremely toxic, it's just that you probably won't find it in any product because they're toxic.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: awaken_D_M_golem on April 25, 2013, 05:38:15 PM
Music ... my 2 cents.
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Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: altpersona on April 26, 2013, 05:48:31 PM
it seems ohio is seeing record numbers of over dose deaths. [not the rant]

the news is advertising an anti od program like its a good thing.  :shakefist

Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on April 26, 2013, 07:55:58 PM
Oxycontin and heroin will be the death of this state.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: altpersona on April 26, 2013, 08:22:36 PM
Oxycontin and heroin will be the death of this state.

same here...
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on April 26, 2013, 10:10:35 PM
Got blocked by my first facebook psycho.  Woo!
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on April 26, 2013, 10:16:12 PM
So you were more crazy than them? :P
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Sinfire Titan on April 26, 2013, 10:23:28 PM
Got blocked by my first facebook psycho.  Woo!

Yay!

I actually now have a genuine reason to never get a Facebook profile (at least not for a few more months): THis guy in my Creative Writing class. He friended everyone in the class, knowing full well that they wouldn't refuse the guy's request, and forwarded his story to everyone asking them to "help" him edit it.

No one did. The story is garbage (MST3K-worthy, almost), and we weren't allowed to flat-out say it to his face.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Nanshork on April 26, 2013, 10:47:30 PM
Got blocked by my first facebook psycho.  Woo!

Yay!

I actually now have a genuine reason to never get a Facebook profile (at least not for a few more months): THis guy in my Creative Writing class. He friended everyone in the class, knowing full well that they wouldn't refuse the guy's request, and forwarded his story to everyone asking them to "help" him edit it.

No one did. The story is garbage (MST3K-worthy, almost), and we weren't allowed to flat-out say it to his face.

I would (and have) refused Facebook friend requests from people that were in my classes back in college.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on April 26, 2013, 11:00:56 PM
No Zook I can say with absolute dead certainty she is  crazier than me.  She's always been a bit conspiracy theoristy, but she's gone off the deep end since the re-election.  It started simple but has progressed to obama being a puppet of reptilian aliens posing as his security guard to mosquito robots injecting people with RFID tags.  I finally got tired of reading the shit and attempted logic and reason (i.e. I showed her on Snopes and several other pages where it's just a photoshop of concept art) and explained why it's technologically impossible, and was immediately told that Snopes is a part of the liberal/jew/alien/Soros/fascist agenda.  Then she blocked me.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Libertad on April 26, 2013, 11:39:08 PM
No Nan I can say with absolute dead certainty she is  crazier than me.  She's always been a bit conspiracy theoristy, but she's gone off the deep end since the re-election.  It started simple but has progressed to obama being a puppet of reptilian aliens posing as his security guard to mosquito robots injecting people with RFID tags.  I finally got tired of reading the shit and attempted logic and reason (i.e. I showed her on Snopes and several other pages where it's just a photoshop of concept art) and explained why it's technologically impossible, and was immediately told that Snopes is a part of the liberal/jew/alien/Soros/fascist agenda.  Then she blocked me.

And nothing of value was lost.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Sinfire Titan on April 27, 2013, 12:57:41 PM
Got blocked by my first facebook psycho.  Woo!

Yay!

I actually now have a genuine reason to never get a Facebook profile (at least not for a few more months): This guy in my Creative Writing class. He friended everyone in the class, knowing full well that they wouldn't refuse the guy's request, and forwarded his story to everyone asking them to "help" him edit it.

No one did. The story is garbage (MST3K-worthy, almost), and we weren't allowed to flat-out say it to his face.

I would (and have) refused Facebook friend requests from people that were in my classes back in college.

They would have if not for the fact that we have to review his stories as part of the class.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Raineh Daze on April 27, 2013, 01:35:36 PM
Got blocked by my first facebook psycho.  Woo!

Yay!

I actually now have a genuine reason to never get a Facebook profile (at least not for a few more months): This guy in my Creative Writing class. He friended everyone in the class, knowing full well that they wouldn't refuse the guy's request, and forwarded his story to everyone asking them to "help" him edit it.

No one did. The story is garbage (MST3K-worthy, almost), and we weren't allowed to flat-out say it to his face.

I would (and have) refused Facebook friend requests from people that were in my classes back in college.

They would have if not for the fact that we have to review his stories as part of the class.

How does that equal 'you aren't entitled to determine who gets to be part of your social life'?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on April 27, 2013, 01:39:46 PM
I hate the Sun. So. Damn. Much.

We're having "good" weather round here, so I'm starting to feel stress from it; on top of that, I've got final projects and shit (I completely forgot that I have a major fear of my own writing vis a vis essays. Guess who has 18+ pages of papers that I have to turn in as a portfolio in a week or two...)
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: awaken_D_M_golem on April 27, 2013, 01:48:45 PM
No Nan I can say with absolute dead certainty she is  crazier than me.  She's always been a bit conspiracy theoristy, but she's gone off the deep end since the re-election.  It started simple but has progressed to obama being a puppet of reptilian aliens posing as his security guard to mosquito robots injecting people with RFID tags.  I finally got tired of reading the shit and attempted logic and reason (i.e. I showed her on Snopes and several other pages where it's just a photoshop of concept art) and explained why it's technologically impossible, and was immediately told that Snopes is a part of the liberal/jew/alien/Soros/fascist agenda.  Then she blocked me.

And nothing of value was lost.

 :D ... Bhu you know the most interesting people.  How do you do it?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Nanshork on April 27, 2013, 02:24:14 PM
Got blocked by my first facebook psycho.  Woo!

Yay!

I actually now have a genuine reason to never get a Facebook profile (at least not for a few more months): This guy in my Creative Writing class. He friended everyone in the class, knowing full well that they wouldn't refuse the guy's request, and forwarded his story to everyone asking them to "help" him edit it.

No one did. The story is garbage (MST3K-worthy, almost), and we weren't allowed to flat-out say it to his face.

I would (and have) refused Facebook friend requests from people that were in my classes back in college.

They would have if not for the fact that we have to review his stories as part of the class.

How does that equal 'you aren't entitled to determine who gets to be part of your social life'?

+1.  Just because you have to review his stories doesn't mean you have to do it on Facebook.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on April 27, 2013, 03:05:27 PM
Got blocked by my first facebook psycho.  Woo!

Yay!

I actually now have a genuine reason to never get a Facebook profile (at least not for a few more months): This guy in my Creative Writing class. He friended everyone in the class, knowing full well that they wouldn't refuse the guy's request, and forwarded his story to everyone asking them to "help" him edit it.

No one did. The story is garbage (MST3K-worthy, almost), and we weren't allowed to flat-out say it to his face.

I would (and have) refused Facebook friend requests from people that were in my classes back in college.

They would have if not for the fact that we have to review his stories as part of the class.

You have to review the story but you're not allowed to say it's bad?  That is some bullshit right there...  I'd almost say it would be worth the grade to be blunt and open.

 "Student X's new story, 'Benji Saves the Universe,' has brought the word 'BAD' to new levels of badness. Bad writing. Bad grammar. Bad everything. This story just oozed rottenness from every bad scene...Simply bad beyond all infinite dimensions of possible badness."

 "Well maybe not that bad, but Lord, it wasn't good."
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on April 27, 2013, 03:15:56 PM


 :D ... Bhu you know the most interesting people.  How do you do it?

I live in a state of rampant drug addiction and political weirdness.

ALso, initially I made a facebook account so I could chat with my boss.  Occasionally I need to ask questions and his workplace uses it as a chat function so I could pop on and rest assured of access to answers.  But I made the mistake of saying hi to some people I knew.  People who are apparently calm and level head in rl, but not on fb as  their reaction was "OMG OMG OMG THANK GOD YOUR HERE!!  I NEED GOATS CAN YOU SEND ME A GOAT!! ILL HAVE ALL MY FRIENDS AND THEIR FRIENDS FRIENDS FRIEND YOU AND YOU CAN BE LEVEL 35 IN MAFIA WARS IN A FEW DAYS!!! OOOMMMGGG!!"

So suddenly I have 800 friends most of whom I dont know of various political and religious persuasions.  On the one hand it's been cool because I've met lots of people who've enriched my life that I wouldn't have met otherwise.  On the other hand I've met lots of delusionary scizophrenics who wouldn't have made me stare in disbelief nearly so much.   One actually thinks a secret service agent is a mind controlling alien reptile.  Her evidence?  He's bald, his head looks funny, and he's always seen near the president.

I'll pause to let you read that last sentence a second time.  Not getting any better is it?

Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on April 27, 2013, 03:24:12 PM
I now kinda want to see this shitty story. Because awful things bring me perverse joy.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Sinfire Titan on April 27, 2013, 03:56:04 PM
How does that equal 'you aren't entitled to determine who gets to be part of your social life'?

Because the other students are't ballsy enough to tell him to fuck off. He friended them early on in the story, then started asking people who didn't have an account to sign up so they could comment on his page.

Even if we didn't, we still had to read it. The instructor required us to email each other our stories (or use Facebook if it was easier).


You have to review the story but you're not allowed to say it's bad?  That is some bullshit right there...  I'd almost say it would be worth the grade to be blunt and open.

 "Student X's new story, 'Benji Saves the Universe,' has brought the word 'BAD' to new levels of badness. Bad writing. Bad grammar. Bad everything. This story just oozed rottenness from every bad scene...Simply bad beyond all infinite dimensions of possible badness."

 "Well maybe not that bad, but Lord, it wasn't good."

We aren't allowed to tear him a new ass, we're allowed to tell him we didn't like it. He's one of those guys that doesn't listen to criticism. At all. Any advice we gave to help improve the story was ignored. I'll be honest: the story would have been entertaining as a Monty Python sketch. If he re-wrote it as a comedy it would be actually good. He's dead-set on it being a serious story though, and doesn't realize why we can't take it seriously.

I didn't want to tank my grade because I need to improve my GPA so I can get financial aid again. Some of the stories were genuinely good, most of them were average, and his was really the only bad one. Gmail's down right now, so I can't forward it to anyone just yet. But I'd be willing to PM you guys the chapters he submitted.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Raineh Daze on April 27, 2013, 04:01:15 PM
How long are these chapters? Might be interested. XD
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Sinfire Titan on April 27, 2013, 04:04:33 PM
How long are these chapters? Might be interested. XD

Each chapter we had to submit was required to be Times New Roman font, size 12, double spaced, and a minimum of 3 pages (max 10). His were 10 pages every time.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Raineh Daze on April 27, 2013, 04:06:21 PM
Ouch. That's a bit much to intentionally subject myself to.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Sinfire Titan on April 27, 2013, 04:09:02 PM
Ouch. That's a bit much to intentionally subject myself to.

Yeah. I put up with about 3 chapters before I couldn't force myself any more. For the record, he submitted a total of 8 "chapters" (each chapter was actually broken up into 2 or 3 parts, save Chapters 1 and 3).

You want the short version?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: SorO_Lost on April 27, 2013, 04:12:19 PM
My part-time job's co-workers.

Apparently they don't like showing up to work. Two peaks this month, one it was being demanded of me to pull an 8 hour shift there after 12 else where. And the other is I'm sick today, been sick since Thursday. I was called at 1am this morning to come in four hours early to my part-time job. Why?
Someone called off sick.  :shakefist

Fucking pansy.
So I'm doing a 12 today, just like yesterday.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Raineh Daze on April 27, 2013, 04:13:39 PM
Ouch. That's a bit much to intentionally subject myself to.

Yeah. I put up with about 3 chapters before I couldn't force myself any more. For the record, he submitted a total of 8 "chapters" (each chapter was actually broken up into 2 or 3 parts, save Chapters 1 and 3).

You want the short version?

What's the short version?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Sinfire Titan on April 27, 2013, 04:21:33 PM
What's the short version?

Bad editing
Story makes no fucking sense
Black Hole Sue main character (just short of being a self-insert)
Monty Python-level competence from the antagonists (the Mafia, no less)
Literal Deus Ex Machina, even though the main character didn't need it (Main character's mom sold her soul to God [???] in exchange for the main character being protected by a literal guardian angel, despite the fact that he was having no trouble in dealing with the antagonists).

That's the quick and dirty. I could write up a longer version if needed.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on April 27, 2013, 05:40:01 PM
My part-time job's co-workers.

Apparently they don't like showing up to work. Two peaks this month, one it was being demanded of me to pull an 8 hour shift there after 12 else where. And the other is I'm sick today, been sick since Thursday. I was called at 1am this morning to come in four hours early to my part-time job. Why?
Someone called off sick.  :shakefist

Fucking pansy.
So I'm doing a 12 today, just like yesterday.

You don't by any chance work in the restaurant industry do you?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on April 28, 2013, 12:02:11 AM
My cousin recently went to prison, and when he did we looked for someone to take care of his two dogs.  Another cousin said she would give it a go, and unfortunately her kids have been rough with the poor things (house cat-sized poodles) so they're all stressed out and have been destroying some of the furniture as well as urinating and defecating in the house.  Earlier today we picked up the dogs because they just can't be there any longer, especially if the landlord comes in and sees the messes they've made.  So the dogs are staying here at my grandparents' house until Monday when they'll be put down unless we miraculously find someone to take care of them before then.

Additional: Why the hell are people shooting off fireworks around here?  April 27th isn't really notable for anything...
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on April 28, 2013, 03:21:36 AM
I know people in pet adoption networks whta state/city do you live in?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on April 28, 2013, 12:04:34 PM
Salt Lake City, Utah.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: awaken_D_M_golem on April 28, 2013, 03:05:23 PM


 :D ... Bhu you know the most interesting people.  How do you do it?

I live in a state of rampant drug addiction and political weirdness.

ALso, initially I made a facebook account so I could chat with my boss.  Occasionally I need to ask questions and his workplace uses it as a chat function so I could pop on and rest assured of access to answers.  But I made the mistake of saying hi to some people I knew.  People who are apparently calm and level head in rl, but not on fb as  their reaction was "OMG OMG OMG THANK GOD YOUR HERE!!  I NEED GOATS CAN YOU SEND ME A GOAT!! ILL HAVE ALL MY FRIENDS AND THEIR FRIENDS FRIENDS FRIEND YOU AND YOU CAN BE LEVEL 35 IN MAFIA WARS IN A FEW DAYS!!! OOOMMMGGG!!"

So suddenly I have 800 friends most of whom I dont know of various political and religious persuasions.  On the one hand it's been cool because I've met lots of people who've enriched my life that I wouldn't have met otherwise.  On the other hand I've met lots of delusionary scizophrenics who wouldn't have made me stare in disbelief nearly so much.   One actually thinks a secret service agent is a mind controlling alien reptile.  Her evidence?  He's bald, his head looks funny, and he's always seen near the president.

I'll pause to let you read that last sentence a second time.  Not getting any better is it?

No yeah, me and Goats go back a loonnngggg way ...  :tongue
 ;)
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on April 28, 2013, 03:33:37 PM
Salt Lake City, Utah.

I messaged a few friends.  Hopefully they reply soon.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on April 28, 2013, 03:51:55 PM
Wow that was quick...

If you have a pic of them please email it to me

bhaalor@yahoo.com

She's looking for a place now.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on April 28, 2013, 06:04:08 PM
I have been asked if you know details like sex, weight, age, etc
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on April 28, 2013, 06:08:59 PM
Both are male, about 8 to 10 pounds, 14 years old.  They're in need of grooming since the last owner wasn't able to take care of that, and one of them seems to have been having diarrhea but that might be attributable to too many Greenies.  And they have to be taken together since they've always been that way.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on April 28, 2013, 06:31:17 PM
I let her know

Hopefully I hear something in time
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on April 28, 2013, 06:42:38 PM
Thanks, Bhu.  Hopefully they'll find a good home.  They're good dogs, but considering their age and how they were suddenly given to a family with four kids, it's no wonder that they became too much to handle.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on April 28, 2013, 08:01:28 PM
She's put up begging posts on some places.  She suggested in the meantime you could try talking to these people:

Utah Animal Adoption Center, Salt Lake City, UT
801-355-PETS (7387)

http://poodle.rescueme.org/Utah

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Wasatch-Animal-Rescue/180606129379
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: SneeR on April 29, 2013, 05:28:55 PM
I have a crush on a lady, and I want to tell her in person, but she is busy for two whole days GAhaghghgahghjkshfdlsa ferl
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on April 29, 2013, 06:31:58 PM
I'm still coming to peace with the fact that I have no apparent ability to conceive of romantic love in any way other than conceptually. It just doesn't click for me.

Same for sex and the like; I don't associate it with people, really.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on April 29, 2013, 07:03:29 PM
I'm still coming to peace with the fact that I have no apparent ability to conceive of romantic love in any way other than conceptually. It just doesn't click for me.

Same for sex and the like; I don't associate it with people, really.

If love were something you could rationalize it wouldn't be an emotion.

Sex is a completely different beast, though...
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: ariasderros on April 29, 2013, 07:07:41 PM
Same for sex and the like; I don't associate it with people, really.

Somewhat NSFW comic discussion on the subject:
(For those unfamiliar, the girl in the jesters motley is basically a bard / master thrower gestalt who's just had magic gear taken away, the other thing is a severely demented SCM.)
Quote
(click to show/hide)

I like that discussion, though, because it rings so very true to my ears.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on April 29, 2013, 07:21:13 PM
Same for sex and the like; I don't associate it with people, really.

Somewhat NSFW comic discussion on the subject:
(For those unfamiliar, the girl in the jesters motley is basically a bard / master thrower gestalt who's just had magic gear taken away, the other thing is a severely demented SCM.)
Quote
(click to show/hide)

I like that discussion, though, because it rings so very true to my ears.

Another thing on my to-read list, yep.

I agree with a lot of that. Though clothes are also to keep us out of harm's way vis a vis the weather, so...

My "real" problem is that, since I find the idea of sex to be rather funny/amusing, I get into awkward situations like "oh yeah, I have a friend whose a real Yaoi fan, so I'm thinking of buying Hot Guys Making Out (http://readysetgamepdx.wordpress.com/tag/hot-guys-making-out/), because it looks hilarious."

People are so touchy about it.

On a different subject, I am massively pissed off at my final project group for my CS class; namely, the rest of the group wants to get together to work on an assignment.

I'm fine with that; the problem is, they want to meet in one of the computer labs to do it.

Those things are loud, mainly because people are assholes who don't respect other people's aural privacy unless there is a sign telling them to shut the fuck up.

There is a reason I count the minutes until the end of lab, rather than get any work done. Because I can't work if I'm being assaulted.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Sinfire Titan on April 29, 2013, 07:26:22 PM
Gmail's back up, if anyone wants to read that story I mentioned earlier.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on April 29, 2013, 07:29:40 PM
Please, send it.

If I have time, I may read it in a funny voice or something.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on April 29, 2013, 09:02:57 PM
I am having difficulty coming to terms with the fact that I am not allowed to hit people.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on April 29, 2013, 09:10:51 PM
Me too
orcus_02@yahoo.com
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Sinfire Titan on April 29, 2013, 09:29:57 PM
All right, I'll send it once I've edited his name from the actual files.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: dman11235 on April 29, 2013, 09:37:30 PM
Good news/bad news time.  bad news: I still can't use my computer for more than a few minutes at a time or the graphics wimps out.  Good news is I've isolated the problem fan!  Bad news is I don't know how to fix it or what's wrong, good news is...I know which fan's the problem?  Oh, I guess I can temporarily fix it by blowing on the fan to realign it.  So I know somewhere along the axle is the problem.  Either on the fan end or the motor end.  Don't know which one.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on April 29, 2013, 11:37:45 PM
couldnt you replace it? fans are cheap
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Elevevated Beat on April 30, 2013, 01:11:32 AM
I am having difficulty coming to terms with the fact that I am not allowed to hit people.
I struggle daily with the amazing amount of stupidity people can manifest. Not brain farts or temporary bouts of idiocy, but full blown lolwut?omghe'sserious!killitwithfire! stupidity.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: dman11235 on April 30, 2013, 01:15:52 AM
couldnt you replace it? fans are cheap

Yes, but that requires taking my computer somewhere because it's a built in fan, so I need to make time to go do it.  Luckily I'm done for the semester.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Sinfire Titan on April 30, 2013, 05:04:40 PM
Please, send it.

If I have time, I may read it in a funny voice or something.
Me too
orcus_02@yahoo.com

Sent. I shall now commence deleting the copies from my laptop's hard drive.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on April 30, 2013, 05:07:57 PM
Where did you send mine, out of curiosity? (If you need my email, use apotheosis@live.com)
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Sinfire Titan on April 30, 2013, 05:27:34 PM
Where did you send mine, out of curiosity? (If you need my email, use apotheosis@live.com)

The email address listed in your profile (mdirr@live.com). If that isn't right, I'll resend it to the address you just posted.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on April 30, 2013, 05:41:48 PM
No, that one works.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on April 30, 2013, 08:04:35 PM
Thanks I'll try to read it :P
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on May 01, 2013, 02:47:04 AM
To whomever was asking what some of the Star Wars changes were for the DVD and Blu-Ray releases of the first trilogy, here's a quick once-over and a bit of bitching about them:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xezn-0xottw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGYuz4qBTUM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkDO2UxX4Lo  < Skip to about 3:18 for this one.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Libertad on May 01, 2013, 03:12:39 AM
To whomever was asking what some of the Star Wars changes were for the DVD and Blu-Ray releases of the first trilogy, here's a quick once-over and a bit of bitching about them:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32itsA81Ouw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGYuz4qBTUM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkDO2UxX4Lo  < Skip to about 3:18 for this one.

That was me; I'll check out the changes soon.  Also, +1 Respect for you.

Edit: I think you meant to link to this in the first one. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xezn-0xottw)
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: dman11235 on May 01, 2013, 04:41:05 AM
And he didn't even cover all of them.  Just a few significant ones and a couple minor ones, not even all the major changes.  I have the original trilogy on VHS, and I am keeping it safe in a cupboard...out of sight...only bringing it out when I show someone new the series....so when I have kids I guess.  I should convert them, shouldn't I?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on May 01, 2013, 12:38:04 PM
And he didn't even cover all of them.  Just a few significant ones and a couple minor ones, not even all the major changes.  I have the original trilogy on VHS, and I am keeping it safe in a cupboard...out of sight...only bringing it out when I show someone new the series....so when I have kids I guess.  I should convert them, shouldn't I?

Yes, definitely convert them.

@Libertad:  Yeah, I'll fix the link.  I was watching that Porkins guy before I stumbled into the Star Wars changes.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on May 01, 2013, 01:42:16 PM
The work site is down.  Again.  No expected date for coming back up.

I swear whoever farmed this out to the lowest bidder deserves a knife in his taint.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on May 01, 2013, 08:45:21 PM
I am bummed, to say the least.

About several things.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on May 01, 2013, 09:18:21 PM
I am bummed, to say the least.

About several things.

 :hug  anything I can do to cheer u up?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on May 01, 2013, 09:21:01 PM
Also, does anyone know why Rule of Cool is displaying a 503 error?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on May 01, 2013, 09:27:16 PM
The full description is:

Service Temporarily Unavailable

The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.

Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/2.2.22 Server at www.ruleofcool.com Port 80


Hopefully they'll be back up soon.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on May 01, 2013, 10:22:07 PM
I am bummed, to say the least.

About several things.

 :hug  anything I can do to cheer u up?

Well, I read a bit of the shitty story Sinfire spread around, and it cheered me up; it is absolutely terrible.

"Well, your cat scratched me. Guess I better go to the hospital immediately to make sure I won't die of plague. You get to keep it, though; we'll just tell the other police officers to stay away from it."

Also, the sense of place is... odd. It also boasts one of the most incompetent police pursuits ever.

"Oh no, they turned down this one-way road; I now have no idea where they could be."

Other than that, the main reason is that I'm kicking myself for buying into something free-to-play. Namely, Conceptis Puzzles offers 1 free puzzle of each type each week, with any earlier puzzle requiring that you pay cash to play it.

Need I mention that the puzzles take maybe 10 minutes max if you've gotten good at them?

Yeah, they don't mention this shit before you sign up... (luckily, you don't have to pay to get an account. I guess I'll just enjoy my 1 puzzle/week...)
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: sirpercival on May 01, 2013, 10:54:09 PM
Just play Candy Box.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on May 01, 2013, 11:07:40 PM
I have tried.

It confuses and frightens me, especially after I peeked at the source code, which whispers hushed phrases of a greater game concealed within.

It is, quite frankly, a horror written of mark-up.

Also, I have this game (http://andrewmorrish.net/?page_id=313) for my addiction needs.  :D

Oh, and sirpercival, be warned of absolutely stupid questions; I'll be taking an Astronomy course next semester  :lmao.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: sirpercival on May 01, 2013, 11:28:36 PM
I have tried.

It confuses and frightens me, especially after I peeked at the source code, which whispers hushed phrases of a greater game concealed within.

It is, quite frankly, a horror written of mark-up.

Also, I have this game (http://andrewmorrish.net/?page_id=313) for my addiction needs.  :D

Oh, and sirpercival, be warned of absolutely stupid questions; I'll be taking an Astronomy course next semester  :lmao.
Ooh... I welcome them! I like teaching astronomy :D
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Sinfire Titan on May 02, 2013, 01:09:13 AM
I am bummed, to say the least.

About several things.

 :hug  anything I can do to cheer u up?

Well, I read a bit of the shitty story Sinfire spread around, and it cheered me up; it is absolutely terrible.

"Well, your cat scratched me. Guess I better go to the hospital immediately to make sure I won't die of plague. You get to keep it, though; we'll just tell the other police officers to stay away from it."

Also, the sense of place is... odd. It also boasts one of the most incompetent police pursuits ever.

"Oh no, they turned down this one-way road; I now have no idea where they could be."

It's just going to get worse. For the record, the guy handled critiques about as well as Chief Circle does in this thread (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=275152): He completely fucking ignores it.

There was a really funny fuck up though: He made bows that fire other bows instead of arrows (look closely at CH 2&3, you'll see it).
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on May 02, 2013, 01:42:21 AM
Hah that reminds me of that tarrasque nunchuck :D
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on May 02, 2013, 01:54:19 AM
I have tried.

It confuses and frightens me, especially after I peeked at the source code, which whispers hushed phrases of a greater game concealed within.

It is, quite frankly, a horror written of mark-up.

Also, I have this game (http://andrewmorrish.net/?page_id=313) for my addiction needs.  :D

Oh, and sirpercival, be warned of absolutely stupid questions; I'll be taking an Astronomy course next semester  :lmao.

http://armorgames.com/author/nerdook  deadly neighbors 2 or the clue game may distract you for an hour or two
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on May 02, 2013, 09:48:56 AM
My Firefox just crashed, taking 50+ tabs of things I was working on with it. Including Candy Box.

Note: This hasn't happened before with this build. I am immensely saddened (most of those were webcomics.)
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: brujon on May 02, 2013, 12:27:42 PM
My Firefox just crashed, taking 50+ tabs of things I was working on with it. Including Candy Box.

Note: This hasn't happened before with this build. I am immensely saddened (most of those were webcomics.)

Best strategy i've found for Candy Box so far is spam Health Potions after you get the Chocolate Sword. The diminishing returns you get by eating candy to get more HP are pretty harsh. 300k+ candy eaten and i haven't gone past 400 HP yet.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on May 02, 2013, 12:48:29 PM
I actually wasn't aware that eating candy gave you HP...

So, now my HP just jumped by 91. Whoops.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on May 02, 2013, 01:12:36 PM
If you guys want more info for Candy Box, take a look at http://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=231360.150

And yeah, the candy > HP equation is harsh.  I found it in the thread and it's 100+(C^0.4)*2.1, where C is the number of candies put into health.

I decided to stop playing it (for now) because I have other stuff to work on.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: brujon on May 02, 2013, 01:52:04 PM
If you guys want more info for Candy Box, take a look at http://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=231360.150

And yeah, the candy > HP equation is harsh.  I found it in the thread and it's 100+(C^0.4)*2.1, where C is the number of candies put into health.

I decided to stop playing it (for now) because I have other stuff to work on.

I just AFK it when i'm not doing anything... I kind of want to beat the dragon. It's been said that the best way to do so is just do Teleport + Invulnerability potion. Use Invuln, beat the crap out of the dragon, when it runs out, use teleport, you go back to start, cooldown runs down, repeat.

I really wish i knew beforehand that the lollipop maximum was 100/sec. Wasted a good amount of Lollipops doing that. Also kind of wondering if it is even worth it to put more than enough for 500 health worth of candies in health. For real. It doesn't even *matter* anymore after a while. Also, sword of summoning is awesome. Meatshields for the win, brah.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on May 02, 2013, 02:21:55 PM
RoC is back online for now.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: sirpercival on May 02, 2013, 03:57:20 PM
If you beat the Cow King it invisibly increases to 300/sec.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: ShadowViper on May 02, 2013, 04:58:34 PM
What is Candybox?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on May 02, 2013, 05:06:23 PM
What is Candybox?

Holy crap this game is awesome (http://candies.aniwey.net/)
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Quillwraith on May 02, 2013, 06:13:09 PM
Bah. Dental problems. Anyone know about sealants?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: dman11235 on May 02, 2013, 09:14:24 PM
If you guys want more info for Candy Box, take a look at http://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=231360.150

And yeah, the candy > HP equation is harsh.  I found it in the thread and it's 100+(C^0.4)*2.1, where C is the number of candies put into health.

I decided to stop playing it (for now) because I have other stuff to work on.

I just AFK it when i'm not doing anything... I kind of want to beat the dragon. It's been said that the best way to do so is just do Teleport + Invulnerability potion. Use Invuln, beat the crap out of the dragon, when it runs out, use teleport, you go back to start, cooldown runs down, repeat.

I really wish i knew beforehand that the lollipop maximum was 100/sec. Wasted a good amount of Lollipops doing that. Also kind of wondering if it is even worth it to put more than enough for 500 health worth of candies in health. For real. It doesn't even *matter* anymore after a while. Also, sword of summoning is awesome. Meatshields for the win, brah.

Wait, you can get something other than life and fire swords?  How?  And which one is best?  I honestly can't see any difference between any scrolls that boost attack, the imp is useless, and I don't know if the scrolls do anything....

Well, I now have two open.  One I just started and am going to do the fire sword to see if it's any good.  The other is at 2Mlp.  Saving up for faster candies, then more faster candies, then somehow better sword and stuff.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: brujon on May 02, 2013, 11:08:46 PM
If you guys want more info for Candy Box, take a look at http://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=231360.150

And yeah, the candy > HP equation is harsh.  I found it in the thread and it's 100+(C^0.4)*2.1, where C is the number of candies put into health.

I decided to stop playing it (for now) because I have other stuff to work on.

I just AFK it when i'm not doing anything... I kind of want to beat the dragon. It's been said that the best way to do so is just do Teleport + Invulnerability potion. Use Invuln, beat the crap out of the dragon, when it runs out, use teleport, you go back to start, cooldown runs down, repeat.

I really wish i knew beforehand that the lollipop maximum was 100/sec. Wasted a good amount of Lollipops doing that. Also kind of wondering if it is even worth it to put more than enough for 500 health worth of candies in health. For real. It doesn't even *matter* anymore after a while. Also, sword of summoning is awesome. Meatshields for the win, brah.

Wait, you can get something other than life and fire swords?  How?  And which one is best?  I honestly can't see any difference between any scrolls that boost attack, the imp is useless, and I don't know if the scrolls do anything....

Well, I now have two open.  One I just started and am going to do the fire sword to see if it's any good.  The other is at 2Mlp.  Saving up for faster candies, then more faster candies, then somehow better sword and stuff.

Imp is MOST DEFINITELY not useless. Try one scroll at the Castle Stairs. Sword of Summoning you get by upgrading the Sharp Chocolate Sword with an Imp Scroll, and it's IMHO the best sword. Each enemy you kill has a chance of rising from the grave as a summon, higher level swords give better summons. This has a huge impact as they are pretty effective meat shields. My two cents...
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Nanshork on May 02, 2013, 11:35:08 PM
If you guys want more info for Candy Box, take a look at http://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=231360.150

And yeah, the candy > HP equation is harsh.  I found it in the thread and it's 100+(C^0.4)*2.1, where C is the number of candies put into health.

I decided to stop playing it (for now) because I have other stuff to work on.

I just AFK it when i'm not doing anything... I kind of want to beat the dragon. It's been said that the best way to do so is just do Teleport + Invulnerability potion. Use Invuln, beat the crap out of the dragon, when it runs out, use teleport, you go back to start, cooldown runs down, repeat.

I really wish i knew beforehand that the lollipop maximum was 100/sec. Wasted a good amount of Lollipops doing that. Also kind of wondering if it is even worth it to put more than enough for 500 health worth of candies in health. For real. It doesn't even *matter* anymore after a while. Also, sword of summoning is awesome. Meatshields for the win, brah.

Wait, you can get something other than life and fire swords?  How?  And which one is best?  I honestly can't see any difference between any scrolls that boost attack, the imp is useless, and I don't know if the scrolls do anything....

Well, I now have two open.  One I just started and am going to do the fire sword to see if it's any good.  The other is at 2Mlp.  Saving up for faster candies, then more faster candies, then somehow better sword and stuff.

Imp is MOST DEFINITELY not useless. Try one scroll at the Castle Stairs. Sword of Summoning you get by upgrading the Sharp Chocolate Sword with an Imp Scroll, and it's IMHO the best sword. Each enemy you kill has a chance of rising from the grave as a summon, higher level swords give better summons. This has a huge impact as they are pretty effective meat shields. My two cents...

My sword is currently summoning dragons.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on May 03, 2013, 12:36:27 AM
So... what am I supposed to do when I literally frighten myself?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Elevevated Beat on May 03, 2013, 12:41:28 AM
So... what am I supposed to do when I literally frighten myself?

Laugh. That's what I do.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on May 03, 2013, 01:31:34 AM
What did you do?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on May 03, 2013, 02:06:40 AM
I wrote a spell where you erase someone's memories and the memories of everyone that they ever loved over the course of a minute.

I think I may have left out the note that some spellcasters bring in the victim's family so that they can see the final light of recognition fade from their eyes.

It was in a set of spells (for sirpercival's epic spell remake) that includes another spell that, as a natural consequence, leads to total sensory deprivation for everyone affected at night. Within a 100 square mile area. And, as you get stronger, starts choking out the light of day...
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Elevevated Beat on May 03, 2013, 02:11:22 AM
*snip*

I'm not trying to be obtuse, but I don't see the problem.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on May 03, 2013, 02:34:12 AM
I have a very... odd relation with my imagination.

You know that note I don't think I put in? In my head, I was imagining everyone in that scene simultaneously.

Plus, sensory deprivation is a major fear of mine.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on May 03, 2013, 06:56:05 PM
If it helps any, that ain't gonna happen in the foreseeable future, methinks.

Something weird happened today. A tree fell on the yard of the hospital I was at with my mom for radiotherapy.

I was next to the window overlooking said yard when it happened, and it didn't make a sound.

From the looks of it the whole thing just crumbled under its own weight - no saw marks, no sawdust, the trunk was whole at the base. It's like the land underneath simply gave way and the tree tumbled down.

Some people say that no one got hurt, others say there was an employee that got flattened by it. I didn't see any blood at the scene, so I figure no one got hurt.

But the freakiest part was definitely the lack of sound...
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: ariasderros on May 03, 2013, 11:44:19 PM
A tree fell on the yard of the hospital I was at with my mom for radiotherapy.

I was next to the window overlooking said yard when it happened, and it didn't make a sound.

It didn't fall. It realized you were watching it and it decided to bow. It also knew better than to speak up against you.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on May 04, 2013, 01:44:36 AM
The incompetency level at my online jobs IT staff makes me wish murder were legal...
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on May 04, 2013, 02:21:34 AM
I got through a page of that crap story  :fu

that was soo painful. The cat part was dumb, and I love cats.

'still as a stick' wtf?
most kids that age don't know what species of python they want, they just know its big.
why would the mom bring home half a dozen animals?

what's up with all the exact times... 2 minutes, 5 minutes... Why not say several or a couple or a few?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on May 04, 2013, 03:13:41 AM
You want to know the funny thing?

A. I have read worse. And I mean stuff that is published by non-vanity press.
B. It turns out that cops don't actually know how to do their job. Pretty much.

EDIT: Also, I just almost choked myself laughing. Because someone wrote in their homebrew, as an upgrade to a permanent Tongues effect, a feat that forces you to speak every language simultaneously.

Let's put aside the fact that no-one would be able to understand you; what I want to know is how you manage to speak in Sign Language. You know, using your tongue.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: SneeR on May 04, 2013, 03:51:28 AM
EDIT: Also, I just almost choked myself laughing. Because someone wrote in their homebrew, as an upgrade to a permanent Tongues effect, a feat that forces you to speak every language simultaneously.

Let's put aside the fact that no-one would be able to understand you; what I want to know is how you manage to speak in Sign Language. You know, using your tongue.
Not to mention that you could never speak covertly amongst friends. Like how Mexicans speak in Spanish to insult nearby gringos.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on May 04, 2013, 11:12:23 AM
A tree fell on the yard of the hospital I was at with my mom for radiotherapy.

I was next to the window overlooking said yard when it happened, and it didn't make a sound.

It didn't fall. It realized you were watching it and it decided to bow. It also knew better than to speak up against you.

It was still freaky.  :lmao
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Sinfire Titan on May 04, 2013, 11:22:33 AM
I got through a page of that crap story  :fu

that was soo painful. The cat part was dumb, and I love cats.

'still as a stick' wtf?
most kids that age don't know what species of python they want, they just know its big.
why would the mom bring home half a dozen animals?

what's up with all the exact times... 2 minutes, 5 minutes... Why not say several or a couple or a few?

He just sent me an email yesterday asking me if I could help him edit the story. I refused. Not reading that trash again.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: awaken_D_M_golem on May 04, 2013, 03:10:12 PM

I wrote a spell where you erase someone's memories and the memories of everyone that they ever loved over the course of a minute ...

(narrator) :  an 18 year old comes to, and wonders about his hand ...  :???
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on May 04, 2013, 03:38:58 PM
Fuck, I think I may have blinded someone today.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: dman11235 on May 04, 2013, 03:45:40 PM
So does anyone want to guess where I was earlier today?  I'll give you a hint: it involved hooting and hollering at names, party noises, college party style cheering, and formal attire.  That's right!  A college graduation.  Apparently "hold your applause until the end" means "act like you're at a kegger any time someone you know is being called on".  And it was the college of fine arts.  As in, the same people who will be doing things like orchestra, ballet, and opera.  And other theater and music stuff, but you'd think they would understand the whole "formal event" thing, what with having done them before frequently.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: awaken_D_M_golem on May 04, 2013, 03:53:03 PM
 :plotting ... well then, golf clap.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: 123456789blaaa on May 04, 2013, 04:06:03 PM
Fuck, I think I may have blinded someone today.

Details?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: linklord231 on May 04, 2013, 04:07:11 PM
Fuck, I think I may have blinded someone today.

Details?

He smiled at them after taking off his shirt.  Obviously. 
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on May 04, 2013, 04:10:41 PM
Fuck, I think I may have blinded someone today.

Details?

He smiled at them after taking off his shirt.  Obviously.

I wish. I actually kicked this guy in the temple and his eye came off its socket...
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: 123456789blaaa on May 04, 2013, 04:36:45 PM
Fuck, I think I may have blinded someone today.

Details?


He smiled at them after taking off his shirt.  Obviously.

I wish. I actually kicked this guy in the temple and his eye came off its socket...

...ow

Do you think he deserved it? Are you going to get into trouble?  :(
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on May 04, 2013, 04:43:48 PM
Fuck, I think I may have blinded someone today.

Details?


He smiled at them after taking off his shirt.  Obviously.

I wish. I actually kicked this guy in the temple and his eye came off its socket...

...ow

Do you think he deserved it? Are you going to get into trouble?  :(
He tried to knife me, so the jury's out on the deserving front.

I called an ambulance from a nearby payphone and tied him to a lamppost with his own shirt. His buddies ran off when they saw his eye a-dangle.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on May 04, 2013, 07:54:48 PM
I think I threw in my mouth a little  :o ~~~~~
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on May 04, 2013, 08:11:24 PM
I've got an appointment with a gastrointestinal specialist on the 14th.  It can't come soon enough because the pain has been getting progressively worse.  Not even the usual antacids and such are affecting it now it seems.  A few days ago I had tarry stool again, but I think I can chalk that up to the fajitas.  I'm steering clear of anything spicy now until I can see the doc to figure out exactly what's going on and how to deal with it.  Hell, a part of me is hoping for a gastric bypass or something if it's definitely a stomach problem.  That'll teach the bastard to mess around.

The ER last week said the tests they did came back normal, but of course they didn't do some tests they probably should have...  At least one of those tests will be done on the 14th, which is an endoscopy. 
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on May 04, 2013, 09:38:05 PM
I think I threw in my mouth a little  :o ~~~~~

Sorry.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on May 05, 2013, 02:56:24 AM
Its ok... That was like some Hollywood shit, yo :D
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on May 05, 2013, 02:10:58 PM
I am WAY too nice a guy for my own good. /unrelated
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on May 07, 2013, 10:26:48 AM
My fucking monitor went kaput. I'm getting by using my TV as an auxiliary, but it's a major pain in the ass...
 :banghead
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on May 08, 2013, 07:22:07 PM
I am beginning to feel justified in my phobias regarding traffic.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Sinfire Titan on May 08, 2013, 08:23:16 PM
My fucking monitor went kaput. I'm getting by using my TV as an auxiliary, but it's a major pain in the ass...
 :banghead
Have you tried punching it? That seems to solve a lot of your problems...

I am beginning to feel justified in my phobias regarding traffic.

Speaking of, guess who has two thumbs and was in a hit-and-run this morning? The guy was driving a sports car at 5:30am, sitting in the right turn lane and waiting for his opportunity to go. The left turn lane's light went green, no one in that lane heading his way. He had a full 60 seconds to turn before the crosswalk light gave me the go-ahead. He turned right as I got halfway across, clipped the basket on the back of my bike with enough force to physically drag me along side of him for about 50ft then took off.


There are three good things for this:



I hate Florida.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on May 08, 2013, 08:45:09 PM
My fucking monitor went kaput. I'm getting by using my TV as an auxiliary, but it's a major pain in the ass...
 :banghead

this might help
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTWRkNefM-8
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: linklord231 on May 08, 2013, 09:06:17 PM
My fucking monitor went kaput. I'm getting by using my TV as an auxiliary, but it's a major pain in the ass...
 :banghead

this might help
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTWRkNefM-8

I love how the woman in the background doesn't even care.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Elevevated Beat on May 08, 2013, 09:48:58 PM
Speaking of, guess who has two thumbs and was in a hit-and-run this morning?

Bob Kelso?
I love Scrubs. I've been smashing through the episodes lately. I've start doing the look off to the side while I have strange daydreams...

There are three good things for this:

  • The basket on that bike is incredibly durable (solid steel, and not made in China).
  • I'm completely unharmed.
  • The entire left side of his car, from headlight to taillight, now has this gigantic scratch mark on it about 12 inches wide (from my basket scraping against his sports car). The car was easily a mid-life crisis vehicle, and he completely didn't notice that my bike was damaging his vehicle.

Good times. Love it when things work out like that.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on May 08, 2013, 09:56:23 PM
My fucking monitor went kaput. I'm getting by using my TV as an auxiliary, but it's a major pain in the ass...
 :banghead
Have you tried punching it? That seems to solve a lot of your problems...


Sadly, much as I treat it otherwise, my computer is not a person.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on May 09, 2013, 12:12:55 AM
One of the guys in my real life gaming group was informed earlier today an idiot in a semi was responsible for killing his wife and at least one other person.  Hit them from behind and sandwiched them into another semi. 

Pretty much how the three car wrecks I've been in have went.  I'm waiting peacefully for traffic to go or for a light to change and whammo.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Elevevated Beat on May 09, 2013, 12:15:09 AM
One of the guys in my real life gaming group was informed earlier today an idiot in a semi was responsible for killing his wife and at least one other person.  Hit them from behind and sandwiched them into another semi. 

Pretty much how the three car wrecks I've been in have went.  I'm waiting peacefully for traffic to go or for a light to change and whammo.

:( That's fucked.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on May 09, 2013, 12:32:54 AM
They have three kids too.  She has two from a former relationship (one in college and one in high school) and they have a little kid together who i think is 5 or 6 maybe :(
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Elevevated Beat on May 09, 2013, 01:00:58 AM
They have three kids too.  She has two from a former relationship (one in college and one in high school) and they have a little kid together who i think is 5 or 6 maybe :(

:bigeyes

Goddamn you world :shakefist
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Nanshork on May 09, 2013, 10:05:53 AM
Wow, damn...
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on May 09, 2013, 10:34:01 AM
They have three kids too.  She has two from a former relationship (one in college and one in high school) and they have a little kid together who i think is 5 or 6 maybe :(
Murphy needs a lesson in manners.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on May 11, 2013, 03:28:28 PM
I didn't get into the internship I applied to.

At least they sent me a letter!
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on May 11, 2013, 03:41:04 PM
I seriously need to learn to write code....

Our IT staff being farmed to the lowest bidder is beginning to drive me insane...


Along with everyone else who contracts there.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on May 11, 2013, 03:53:41 PM
What language?

I might be able to give you pointers...
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Dictum Mortuum on May 11, 2013, 04:47:04 PM
What language?

I might be able to give you pointers...

0x1fa23f44
0xaabbcc12
0xfabc1239
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on May 11, 2013, 04:54:37 PM
Right.

To translate that to something man can understand...

one billek fim hundrek leventek two millek three thousek fim hundrek fourtek four.
eleven billek eleven hundrek twelftek twelve millek draze thousek draze hundrek onetek two.
fim billek eleven hundrek twelftek draze millek one thousek two hundrek thirtek nine.

http://www.intuitor.com/hex/words.html (http://www.intuitor.com/hex/words.html)

If you can't pronounce that, I'll upload a pronunciation guide.  :P
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Dictum Mortuum on May 11, 2013, 05:17:14 PM
Sorry, I couldn't resist the urge  :D
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on May 11, 2013, 05:54:48 PM
I wouldn't have if I were in your place.

EDIT: Resisted, that is.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on May 11, 2013, 07:20:39 PM
What language?

I might be able to give you pointers...

I'd have to ask.  We're somehow connected to a second worksite because we all use the same databases, and everytime one of the sites needs work the other two have to go down as  well.  Which means I wait all day for the heads up to go in, only to find out whatever changes they made have slowed it to a crawl or make it time out, and then it just shuts off and it's down again for hours.  I can't make any plans or even hold conversations well in forums now because when the sites up I need to hurry back to do work before the damn thing craters again.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: 123456789blaaa on May 12, 2013, 02:43:17 PM
So I am a bit angry about a conversation with a poster on another board and it'd be nice to vent (and get opinions on whether I was in the wrong). Is that okay though? I've seen in some other threads that complaining about specific posters on other forums is frowned upon by the Mods...I won't be insulting the person, instead I plan to just lay out what happened and get opinions.

Also, is it rude to post specific quotes from the argument here? I haven't asked the other poster for permission.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on May 12, 2013, 02:49:15 PM
So I am a bit angry about a conversation with a poster on another board and it'd be nice to vent (and get opinions on whether I was in the wrong). Is that okay though? I've seen in some other threads that complaining about specific posters on other forums is frowned upon by the Mods...I won't be insulting the person, instead I plan to just lay out what happened and get opinions.

Also, is it rude to post specific quotes from the argument here? I haven't asked the other poster for permission.

I think it is okay to vent without posting specifics (names, quotes, etc.), but otherwise you should probably take issues with someone to PM.

I know how it gets on occasion. Even here, at first, I wasn't exactly beloved, but I ended up growing on people, like a fungus. Or mold.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: 123456789blaaa on May 12, 2013, 03:53:48 PM
So I am a bit angry about a conversation with a poster on another board and it'd be nice to vent (and get opinions on whether I was in the wrong). Is that okay though? I've seen in some other threads that complaining about specific posters on other forums is frowned upon by the Mods...I won't be insulting the person, instead I plan to just lay out what happened and get opinions.

Also, is it rude to post specific quotes from the argument here? I haven't asked the other poster for permission.

I think it is okay to vent without posting specifics (names, quotes, etc.), but otherwise you should probably take issues with someone to PM.

I know how it gets on occasion. Even here, at first, I wasn't exactly beloved, but I ended up growing on people, like a fungus. Or mold.

Understood (and really? why did people not like you at first?)

Anyways, what happened was that I made a pretty big post on a handbook giving suggestions for improvement. The poster of the handbook didn't reply to my post so I wasn't sure if he didn't see it or forgot to reply to it or if he was just ignoring me. Since he didn't say anything (not even a "your questions are stupid so I won't bother to answer them) I wasn't really sure what I should do.

A long time before I had sent him a single feat suggestion for the handbook by pm. He didn't answer. I didn't want to bug him so I didn't follow up with more pms. Then some time after that I asked to transfer one of his posts to this board. He replied this time and in a perfectly civil manner gave the go-ahead. I transferred the post and sent another pm to him saying how much I appreciated his contributions to the optimization community (this poster is a fairly good optimizer with some unique discoveries). Then a long time after that I made the post in the paragraph above (this was about a year after I had made the original handbook post). After  I made the post I waited a few months and sent him a pm telling him that I had made a big post in his handbook and that he may want to check it out. He didn't reply (also, I include this paragraph to give context to this whole mess).

By this time I was unsure and a little angry. I didn't know if he was ignoring me or if he simply hadn't gotten the pms or if he had meant to answer them but forgot about them or some combination of all of those. While making a post on another thread I noticed he had posted right above me so I made a little note at the bottom saying "off topic: I sent you a few pms regarding my post on a handbook of yours. Did you not get them?". I put this in just in case he really had not gotten or forgot to answer my pms. He didn't answer. I gave up.

Then I remembered something:when giving me the go-ahead to transfer his post in the previous pm exchange he had said that it was his final post for 3.5 and that  was basically not going to play the system anymore. He said that Legend was his system now. Could this be why he hadn't replied to my pms and posts?

I really liked his handbook and thought it would be a real shame for it to be un updated and eventually lost. Because of this I made a post on the handbook asking if he was not updating the handbook anymore. I said in the post that I would be happy to continue it if he didn't have the time or inclination anymore. If he didn't answer this than my plan was to copy to handbook and make a new thread on it so that it could be updated again (with full credit to him as the creator and all my contributions in purple of course). If he posted on the new thread than I would happily transfer the handbook back to him or follow what he wanted for the handbook. Anyways, he replied to my post!

Before I go further I will say that I know the above sounds obsessive. In my defense I will say that I try to assume the best in everyone. Ignoring people is extremely rude and it was possible-though unlikely-that maybe he wasn't ignoring me. If he had told me to stop than I would have immediately no matter how rudely he said so. It's just not knowing that drives me nuts. Also keep in mind that there were large gaps in between the posts and pms and that this took place over the course of more than a year.

Back to topic: he replied. He said that he had tried to be patient but apparently that wasn't working. He said he assumed from my username that I was a troll account and so hadn't bothered to reply (this confused me since as I said before he had replied in a civil manner to one of the previous pms I had sent. He also replied when I had asked a different question in the thread when the handbook was just starting). He said that he also haldn't repleied because of the obvious lack of forethought in my questions and suggestions and that they had already been answered multiple times before. Then he said that if I absolutely insisted he would answer them. He then proceeded to rely to about half of them. IMO he did not breezed over them and did not actually respond to any of my points. I then replied in a short and clipped manner (this is how I usually post when I am angry) that I didn't really know what he meant in his first sentence since he had not replied to me so how should I know he was "trying to be patient". I also said that I had tried to be polite and that he had responded with rudeness. I then bid him good day.

And that's everything (it's a lot bigger than I thought it would be  :blah  :tongue). I know I probably sound horribly biased. This is why I had wanted to post the quotes and pms.

Thoughts?

Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on May 12, 2013, 04:42:08 PM
I know how it gets on occasion. Even here, at first, I wasn't exactly beloved, but I ended up growing on people, like a fungus. Or mold.

More like a really good cancer. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Da4V5vKcGl8&t=4m30s)
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on May 12, 2013, 05:12:44 PM
I can be abrasive and a bit TOO outspoken, at times. It sometimes feels a little intimidating, or puts people off in some fashion, but people tend to get the feeling that even the harsher things I speak are at least partially in jest.

So after a while, they stop being bothered by it. It's something I've learned to control a bit too, though not perfectly.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on May 12, 2013, 05:37:47 PM
I don't see you as having done anything wrong. He gave you permission to transfer the post. He them chose not to answer any of your attempts to communicate.

He can't then, years later, basically call you a troll and stfu. Like I said, he CHOSE not to reply even with any kind of 'you're annoying me' pm.

I too hate being held in limbo about things, it gnaws on your consciousness like a murderous beaver.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on May 12, 2013, 07:37:02 PM
It's called passive-aggressiveness type bitchin' and its practitioners should be dragged out on the street and shot in the dick.

By which I mean the poster, and not Count. Ignoring people and assuming they are meant to understand something from a complete lack of response is asinine (and trust me, I've tried my best to control my anxiety regarding such things. I have not always been successful, true, though try I did). I also understand that this tends to spark an unnecessary amount of drama.

Honestly, I think you've been polite about the whole thing. (Admittedly, the first time I saw your nick I assumed you were just too lazy to pick an username, or were indeed meant to troll, but I know now it is not the case.)

I remember at one point I was participating on a collaborative PbP RP where, eventually, people picked me as one of their choices for "who gets to give the final word on things when things get heated". There were five such people. (To this day I'm not exactly sure why they picked me. But anyway...)

Anyhoo, there was this one guy who had a major character participation. He contributed a good deal to the setting, and his character was a pretty important mofo. The only problem was, he was unnecessarily aggressive and refused to play ball when people told him he couldn't force other people's characters into certain situations (big no-no in such environments). He basically vanished on the whole thing for a long while, then returned trying to be active and stuff. Except he still had the same problem. And he really liked to rub noses in it.

Long story short. At one point his character did something that was unconscionable for him to be able to do. At all. Big discussion about writing freedom versus consent ensues. He leaves in a huff and, as one final act of dickery, he basically writes his character off with a one-liner in the stupidest fashion possible, then erases each and every post he made up to a certain point (that being PbP we simply couldn't alter).

So I said no. Fuck this. Everyone ignore what has happened up to point X. Get those posts back from Google cache or whatever. Someone plays his character from now on, the story goes on. And I said in no uncertain words that one person shouldn't ruin the fun for everybody. Even if that meant that from that point onward, we were taking over his creation, consent be bent over a table and sodomized by the Tarrasque.

In a different way, that was kinda what happened to you. Seriously, it was dickery, pure and simple, and your choice to deal with it was actually a lot more tame than mine would have probably been.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: 123456789blaaa on May 12, 2013, 11:13:42 PM
Thanks guys, you really make me feel happy :cloud9. I don't really have anyone to vent to RL so this is quite nice  :D.   
 
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Elevevated Beat on May 13, 2013, 01:25:56 AM
Ignoring people is extremely rude

110% agreement here.

It's just not knowing that drives me nuts.

And here.

People like that guy in your story make me rage :shakefist
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Dictum Mortuum on May 13, 2013, 02:01:23 PM
At least you asked him before transferring his work :D Most people don't even bother asking me (not that I mind my work being posted somewhere else, as long as they mention my name).
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on May 13, 2013, 02:24:01 PM
You were MIA for a while, though. That's my excuse.

So, if book royalties start coming your way... That wasn't me.

On a less light note, I fear that I am an awful DM.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Dictum Mortuum on May 13, 2013, 03:00:58 PM
You were MIA for a while, though. That's my excuse.

So, if book royalties start coming your way... That wasn't me.

On a less light note, I fear that I am an awful DM.

It's ok, really. I'm happy that the guides are up there and people are still using them.

On the book royalties thing - I've thought about creating a pdf, but the job is just too much for me to handle on a casual basis.

I've set google adsense adds on my blog, to cover expenses, but the earnings are pitiful (like, it's been close to 2 years now and I've maybe gathered $50 :p).
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on May 13, 2013, 03:34:28 PM
You were MIA for a while, though. That's my excuse.

So, if book royalties start coming your way... That wasn't me.

On a less light note, I fear that I am an awful DM.

And that fear stems from what exactly?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on May 13, 2013, 04:42:02 PM
I think I handled my last campaign badly.

I forgot how to deal with problem players, really.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Quillwraith on May 13, 2013, 05:46:03 PM
You're not the only one.

Maybe someone could make a DMing handbook? Though there's only so much that sort of thing can help.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: awaken_D_M_golem on May 13, 2013, 07:16:32 PM
Speaking of, guess who has two thumbs and was in a hit-and-run this morning?

Bob Kelso?
I love Scrubs. I've been smashing through the episodes lately. I've start doing the look off to the side while I have strange daydreams...

There are three good things for this:

  • The basket on that bike is incredibly durable (solid steel, and not made in China).
  • I'm completely unharmed.
  • The entire left side of his car, from headlight to taillight, now has this gigantic scratch mark on it about 12 inches wide (from my basket scraping against his sports car). The car was easily a mid-life crisis vehicle, and he completely didn't notice that my bike was damaging his vehicle.

Good times. Love it when things work out like that.

Hey you should report that ... hit and run is no joke.
Paint scrapings are legit evidence.  Jail for him.
Money for you.  Do you remember what kind of car ??

Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: veekie on May 13, 2013, 10:03:38 PM
You're not the only one.

Maybe someone could make a DMing handbook? Though there's only so much that sort of thing can help.
The worst of it is reading motives and desires in your players and then formulating a useful approach to dealing with that. Not exactly a skill you can convey in a handbook. Though you could break down creating usefully challenging conflicts(especially how to gauge group and individual competency), handling playstyle differences and maintaining tension into a handbook.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: brujon on May 13, 2013, 11:26:29 PM
DM'ing 101:

1 - Know your shit. You're DM'ing, you're expected to know the rules. Players will come up with questions and you should be able to answer them.

2 - Set up the groundrules BEFOREHAND. Are there any houserules, tweaks, fixes, caveats? Be open about it. Before character creation.

3 - Do not change how stuff works mid-game, unless it is absolutely necessary for the game to continue functioning. This irks players to no end.

4 - Let your players talk. A good game is one where everyone has fun and contributes, not one where the DM is the only one to talk.

5 - Be considerate of your players level of expertise and roleplaying ability. Try to include all in the game, do hack n' slash, do roleplaying, do questing, be varied.

6 - Story hooks are good, but don't railroad. Railroading is often necessary, but overdoing it makes the game a chore and not fun.

7 - Be consistent, but flexible. Don't change your whole story because one player didn't like it, but be prepared to tweak it to make it fun for all.

8 - Don't abuse your DM powers. Don't retaliate in-game. This is bad and will make players leave your table. If you have a problem, deal with it as a person, not as a DM.

9 - Enforce game session attendance. Many games die because DM's don't do this. If you start making concessions at every turn, suddenly you'll end up with a dropped game. Be strict, but not a jerk about it.

10 - The quintessential rule: have fun.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on May 13, 2013, 11:58:45 PM
I called up the endoscopy center since the pamphlets said to call to verify instructions and make sure I'm preregistered.  So I did, and the lady on the end said "Hang on, let me transfer you to the girl who does that stuff.  You'll be on hold for a bit and might need to make a message, but she'll get right back to you."

So I left a message and waited a while.  Nope, no reply despite me very clearly giving my name and phone number.  Turns out I waited too long because their hours are 8 AM to 4 PM, and by the time I realized I should call again, it was past 4.   :shakefist

I can only hope things turn out okay tomorrow.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on May 14, 2013, 12:24:23 AM
Speaking of, guess who has two thumbs and was in a hit-and-run this morning?

Bob Kelso?
I love Scrubs. I've been smashing through the episodes lately. I've start doing the look off to the side while I have strange daydreams...

There are three good things for this:

  • The basket on that bike is incredibly durable (solid steel, and not made in China).
  • I'm completely unharmed.
  • The entire left side of his car, from headlight to taillight, now has this gigantic scratch mark on it about 12 inches wide (from my basket scraping against his sports car). The car was easily a mid-life crisis vehicle, and he completely didn't notice that my bike was damaging his vehicle.

Good times. Love it when things work out like that.

Hey you should report that ... hit and run is no joke.
Paint scrapings are legit evidence.  Jail for him.
Money for you.  Do you remember what kind of car ??

+1000000!!!!!

what if it happens again to someone and they get seriously injured, we're all happy it wasn't you! But that guy needs to be stopped. :shakefist
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Nanshork on May 14, 2013, 09:57:23 AM
I'm allergic to over the counter cough medicine.   :shakefist
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: altpersona on May 14, 2013, 12:47:36 PM
two years;


spring 2011, i bought a nice cheap starter motorcycle. the biggest engine for the least $$ with a good title.

i knew going in this was a project bike, it cost less than $1 / cc.

i rode it most of the way around the block and back, something popped... i pushed it back the last 200ft. (up hill, ky is cool like that)

bike needed a lot of work, basically got a frame up restoration, not including paint.

i got it back from the shop 12 days ago.

parked it in my driveway thursday night. rolled it into the garage friday. went out of town friday. havent seen the key since.

i have a spare ignition switch that i ripped the guts out of, starting it is no problem,


but i cant open the gas tank  :banghead
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: brujon on May 14, 2013, 02:35:27 PM
two years;


spring 2011, i bought a nice cheap starter motorcycle. the biggest engine for the least $$ with a good title.

i knew going in this was a project bike, it cost less than $1 / cc.

i rode it most of the way around the block and back, something popped... i pushed it back the last 200ft. (up hill, ky is cool like that)

bike needed a lot of work, basically got a frame up restoration, not including paint.

i got it back from the shop 12 days ago.

parked it in my driveway thursday night. rolled it into the garage friday. went out of town friday. havent seen the key since.

i have a spare ignition switch that i ripped the guts out of, starting it is no problem,


but i cant open the gas tank  :banghead

Locksmith is your friend :) Just gotta show him the papers so he's sure the bike is yours, then you get a new key. Shouldn't be overly expensive. You can always try your luck picking the lock, i hear learning it is actually all kinds of fun. Multiple tutorials on youtube. Good tools cost a lot however.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: altpersona on May 14, 2013, 03:06:01 PM
if i knew for sure what model the ignition came off of, i could order key blanks and cut it my self... but i dont. so im not gonna order 10 different sets of blanks...

i took the ignition to a smith yesterday, im waiting on the call to come get it...

im really paranoid that he is gonna rekey it instead of making a key for it. i was as explicit as possible, but...

im not real slick at lock picking.. iv watched tons of lock/key videos, im a mild enthusiast.. im just not good at picking.

if the key making fails miserably, im just gonna break the tank lock and be done with it.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on May 14, 2013, 03:58:53 PM
Some people just have to be total dicks at funerals.   :flame
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Libertad on May 14, 2013, 04:26:58 PM
Ever heard the term Social Justice Warriors?  They're total dicks who ruin things for the rest of the legitimate Social Justice advocates.  The fact that they operate under the guise of fighting bigotry and oppression only makes things worse.

Radical Feminists (Andrea Dworkin fans and the like) who make life hell for transgender people by outing them on Facebook for the whole world to see?  Check.

Idiots who sent death and rape threats to Laci Green while cyberstalking her, and defendents who downplay her painful experience "because others have it worse?"  All because she once used the word 'tranny' 4 years ago and apologized for being insensitive?  Check.

People who misuse the term"cultural appropriation" to argue that you shouldn't enjoy artwork and film from other cultures, and that you should stick to your own?  Isn't this just another form of ethnic nationalism? ("You better not be reading books written by THOSE people!")

Stop "helping" us!  You're giving us a bad name and turning away more people who'd otherwise be joining us!
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Raineh Daze on May 14, 2013, 04:29:57 PM
Radical Feminists (Andrea Dworkin fans and the like) who make life hell for transgender people by outing them on Facebook for the whole world to see?  Check.

Idiots who sent death and rape threats to Laci Green while cyberstalking her, and defendents who downplay her painful experience "because others have it worse?"  All because she once used the word 'tranny' 4 years ago and apologized for being insensitive?  Check.

Please excuse me, I have murders to plan.


Well, not really, killing idiots is never productive. It just makes more of them. Seriously, are they those blob things from Zelda?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on May 14, 2013, 04:48:12 PM
Some people just have to be total dicks at funerals.   :flame

Seriously? That's gotta be a new level of asshattery...
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Libertad on May 14, 2013, 04:53:52 PM
Some people just have to be total dicks at funerals.   :flame

Seriously? That's gotta be a new level of asshattery...

And here I thought only the Westboro Baptist Church stooped that low.  Wait, is this about them?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on May 14, 2013, 05:34:04 PM
No.  Someone at the funeral felt butthurt over not getting his way and decided to vent by bringing it to a crashing halt.  It's happened a lot.  Family grows apart, son or daughter escapes their families asshatery via marriage, son or daughter passes on after years of parents not talking to them, said parents suddenly get pissed that they weren't talked to about the funeral arrangements for input on said progeny despite having spent the last few decades disavowing them and not having a clue as to what they wanted to begin with let alone now.  Typical Jerry Springer stuff. 

Fortunately as im almost 6' tall and weigh well over 200 pounds I have a certain calming presence. 

And by calming presence I mean I politely asked him to have some respect and save it for after the funeral or we would be attending his shortly.

To my surprise it worked...
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: awaken_D_M_golem on May 14, 2013, 06:17:04 PM
Some people just get weird at Funerals. 
Maybe its not enough practice or thought.

My Grandmom made it to 100, and was
considered a saint ... but that didn't stop a
few drama"queens" from unusual behavior.

On my Moms side, a broken toy at the age of 8
= two cousins with no contact for 70+ years.
Oh! it's that toy ... yeah makes sense.  Right.
They both intentionally plan to be disruptive
at each others funeral, whoever goes first.
The rest of the family is like, we hate you idiots.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on May 14, 2013, 06:45:49 PM
The good news:  Endoscopy doc said my esophagus, stomach, and duodenum are perfectly normal.

The bad news:  I still have no fucking idea what's causing my problems, other than my doc's initial assessment of acid reflux.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: brujon on May 14, 2013, 08:18:32 PM
Some people just get weird at Funerals. 
Maybe its not enough practice or thought.

My Grandmom made it to 100, and was
considered a saint ... but that didn't stop a
few drama"queens" from unusual behavior.

On my Moms side, a broken toy at the age of 8
= two cousins with no contact for 70+ years.

Oh! it's that toy ... yeah makes sense.  Right.
They both intentionally plan to be disruptive
at each others funeral, whoever goes first.
The rest of the family is like, we hate you idiots.

bolded part

WHAT. IN. THE. ACTUAL. FUCK?

And, i'm a dumbass. I literally SMASHED my finger with the car door today. 15+min of not feeling anything in my finger, i'm starting to wonder if that's a good or a bad thing.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: awaken_D_M_golem on May 14, 2013, 08:31:30 PM
True story.


I figure I've got ~6% genetic similarity of the two of them.
Well I mean real life, not my kitty avatar.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: dman11235 on May 14, 2013, 10:44:50 PM
Some people just get weird at Funerals. 
Maybe its not enough practice or thought.

My Grandmom made it to 100, and was
considered a saint ... but that didn't stop a
few drama"queens" from unusual behavior.

On my Moms side, a broken toy at the age of 8
= two cousins with no contact for 70+ years.

Oh! it's that toy ... yeah makes sense.  Right.
They both intentionally plan to be disruptive
at each others funeral, whoever goes first.
The rest of the family is like, we hate you idiots.

bolded part

WHAT. IN. THE. ACTUAL. FUCK?

And, i'm a dumbass. I literally SMASHED my finger with the car door today. 15+min of not feeling anything in my finger, i'm starting to wonder if that's a good or a bad thing.

Bad thing.  Major injuries tend to not hurt after a short while, thanks to endorphins.  Does it hurt to move it?  Can yo move it?  Is it flatter than normal?  Is it as flat as paper?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on May 14, 2013, 11:11:07 PM
The good news:  Endoscopy doc said my esophagus, stomach, and duodenum are perfectly normal.

The bad news:  I still have no fucking idea what's causing my problems, other than my doc's initial assessment of acid reflux.

Do you by chance smoke or have asthma or drink alcohol?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: veekie on May 15, 2013, 02:07:36 AM
So my hard drive is toast(but on the bright side the data seems recoverable), and somebody drenched my sister's car in paint thinner, completely wrecking the paint.

The worst part is we just redid the paint 3 weeks ago.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Sinfire Titan on May 15, 2013, 08:22:17 AM
Hey you should report that ... hit and run is no joke.
Paint scrapings are legit evidence.  Jail for him.
Money for you.  Do you remember what kind of car ??

Unfortunately my knowledge of cars extends to how to drive one, and that's it. I couldn't tell you the make or model of a car any more than a random person on the street knows quantum physics.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: brujon on May 15, 2013, 09:16:31 AM
Some people just get weird at Funerals. 
Maybe its not enough practice or thought.

My Grandmom made it to 100, and was
considered a saint ... but that didn't stop a
few drama"queens" from unusual behavior.

On my Moms side, a broken toy at the age of 8
= two cousins with no contact for 70+ years.

Oh! it's that toy ... yeah makes sense.  Right.
They both intentionally plan to be disruptive
at each others funeral, whoever goes first.
The rest of the family is like, we hate you idiots.

bolded part

WHAT. IN. THE. ACTUAL. FUCK?

And, i'm a dumbass. I literally SMASHED my finger with the car door today. 15+min of not feeling anything in my finger, i'm starting to wonder if that's a good or a bad thing.

Bad thing.  Major injuries tend to not hurt after a short while, thanks to endorphins.  Does it hurt to move it?  Can yo move it?  Is it flatter than normal?  Is it as flat as paper?

Good news, finger bones didn't break. But a night later, sensitivity hasn't come back yet. The doctor told me it's because the nerve endings in the fingers and hands are very superficial, and the car door must have smashed into them, so i'll probably not feel anything in the finger for some days. He said i'll get better, though. I hope so. It's fucking weird having no sensation on your finger you smashed a door into.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: zook1shoe on May 15, 2013, 11:53:24 AM
Kind of like your leg falling asleep (before the painful tingling hits) ?
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: veekie on May 15, 2013, 11:55:37 AM
If he's lucky it'd heal the damage before the nerves reboot then.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on May 15, 2013, 01:24:20 PM
Good news, finger bones didn't break. But a night later, sensitivity hasn't come back yet. The doctor told me it's because the nerve endings in the fingers and hands are very superficial, and the car door must have smashed into them, so i'll probably not feel anything in the finger for some days. He said i'll get better, though. I hope so. It's fucking weird having no sensation on your finger you smashed a door into.

I was the same way when my finger got cut open to the bone when I was working on my dad's car's brakes in high school.  Didn't have feeling in it for a month or so, but it came back.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: brujon on May 15, 2013, 03:38:24 PM
Good news, finger bones didn't break. But a night later, sensitivity hasn't come back yet. The doctor told me it's because the nerve endings in the fingers and hands are very superficial, and the car door must have smashed into them, so i'll probably not feel anything in the finger for some days. He said i'll get better, though. I hope so. It's fucking weird having no sensation on your finger you smashed a door into.

I was the same way when my finger got cut open to the bone when I was working on my dad's car's brakes in high school.  Didn't have feeling in it for a month or so, but it came back.

Mine wasn't quite as bad. Still, it should be hurting like hell, but it isn't. Which, ya know, is not all that bad considering. Probably going to be healed in 5 or 6 days tops.

But damn, a lot of blood came out when it happened...
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: altpersona on May 15, 2013, 05:05:18 PM
two years;


spring 2011, i bought a nice cheap starter motorcycle. the biggest engine for the least $$ with a good title.

i knew going in this was a project bike, it cost less than $1 / cc.

i rode it most of the way around the block and back, something popped... i pushed it back the last 200ft. (up hill, ky is cool like that)

bike needed a lot of work, basically got a frame up restoration, not including paint.

i got it back from the shop 12 days ago.

parked it in my driveway thursday night. rolled it into the garage friday. went out of town friday. havent seen the key since.

i have a spare ignition switch that i ripped the guts out of, starting it is no problem,


but i cant open the gas tank  :banghead

and it continues...

got my keys today. they work on all three locks.

got the ignition and instrument cluster put back together.

got my parts bike picked up from the mechanics, so i can recoup some of my costs when i resell it.

bike wont start.  :shakefist

started fine two or three days ago.  :banghead

#imtocheaptobuyanewone problems

and it turns out i may have trouble registering it, a signed / notarized title may not be enough any more.  :rolleyes
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Jackinthegreen on May 15, 2013, 05:36:21 PM
Mine wasn't quite as bad. Still, it should be hurting like hell, but it isn't. Which, ya know, is not all that bad considering. Probably going to be healed in 5 or 6 days tops.

But damn, a lot of blood came out when it happened...

Mine thankfully didn't bleed much, but I had to wrap it up with a greasy towel and finish doing the brakes before we could go anywhere.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on May 15, 2013, 06:37:20 PM
You're gonna be fine, don't sweat it. The human body is surprisingly competent at knitting itself back together.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: brujon on May 15, 2013, 08:29:29 PM
You're gonna be fine, don't sweat it. The human body is surprisingly competent at knitting itself back together.

I know, i had a pretty active childhood/adolescence. I broke both my legs 2 times each, sprained my ankles and wrists countless times, and had fissures and fractures in most of my finger bones.

No, it didn't happen all at once, lol. It was always one thing at a time. I climbed trees a lot, i did vertical rollerblading, a little bit of parkour, and generally awesomeness all around. Until i didn't, and became a sedentary basement dweller.

I should get back to doing stuff, but you know when you get way too comfortable for your own good? yeah...
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Libertad on May 15, 2013, 09:55:30 PM
'Transethnic' is a thing.  Basically it's a subgroup of folks on tumblr who are basically like "I'm a black man in a white man's body because I love fried chicken and rap music!" and similar racist stereotypes.  Oh, and they appropriate slogans and terms from the transgender community, people who suffer from real prejudice and are a recognized identity in the scientific and medical community.  Even though most of the world recognizes the 'transethnic' as a joke, these shenanigans can potentially do real damage to people with legitimate struggles in gender identity, who are already getting grouped in with these nuts in certain Internet forums!

Same for otherkin, but for animals and mythical beasts.

And they all adopt the Social Justice label.

Yeah, I'm pretty much taking a break from Tumblr aside from a few blogs.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Nanshork on May 15, 2013, 09:56:21 PM
My drivers license is missing.   :banghead
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: altpersona on May 15, 2013, 10:29:22 PM
im a black man in a white mans body, but thats just cause my dna says so  :P
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Kuroimaken on May 15, 2013, 11:02:39 PM
'Transethnic' is a thing.  Basically it's a subgroup of folks on tumblr who are basically like "I'm a black man in a white man's body because I love fried chicken and rap music!" and similar racist stereotypes.  Oh, and they appropriate slogans and terms from the transgender community, people who suffer from real prejudice and are a recognized identity in the scientific and medical community.  Even though most of the world recognizes the 'transethnic' as a joke, these shenanigans can do real damage to people with legitimate struggles in gender identity, who are already getting grouped in with these nuts!

Same for otherkin, but for animals and mythical beasts.

And they all adopt the Social Justice label.

Yeah, I'm pretty much taking a break from Tumblr aside from a few blogs.

If I were in your shoes I'd take a break from social activism altogether.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Amechra on May 15, 2013, 11:27:15 PM
So... I just got done with all my tests and projects for class this semester.

I only realized how much stress I had been under right after my final CS test (which I hadn't had a chance to study for; stupid, stupid Java audio playback; I had to teach myself recursion at the test.); I got such a massive burst of endorphins and adrenaline after that was done that I wanted to, in no particular order:

1. Run 10 miles, fighting ninjas the entire way.

2. Get into a fist-fight with Kuroi.

3. Break several laws of physics.

So... yeah. Apparently my response to adrenaline is a temporary fugue state; I got back to my room, and collapsed into bed.

So if anyone here has gotten random calls/PMs from someone that sounds like they have been hyped up on cocaine, that would be me.

Go up and look at 2 again. Keep in mind that the last time I got into a fight was in middle school, and have no experience in fist-fighting. Yeah.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Libertad on May 15, 2013, 11:31:22 PM
If I were in your shoes I'd take a break from social activism altogether.

Eh, there's several good activists and groups out there, Tumblr's just a gathering for the worst of them.  They're to Social Justice what The Gaming Den is to min-maxers, or The RPG Site to old-school players.

Ironically, the legitimate social justice groups operate in the political arena and are getting change done.  Most Social Justice Warriors are armchair bloggers who harass nerd fandom sites and facebook pages.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on May 16, 2013, 12:03:56 AM
You're gonna be fine, don't sweat it. The human body is surprisingly competent at knitting itself back together.

I know, i had a pretty active childhood/adolescence. I broke both my legs 2 times each, sprained my ankles and wrists countless times, and had fissures and fractures in most of my finger bones.

No, it didn't happen all at once, lol. It was always one thing at a time. I climbed trees a lot, i did vertical rollerblading, a little bit of parkour, and generally awesomeness all around. Until i didn't, and became a sedentary basement dweller.

I should get back to doing stuff, but you know when you get way too comfortable for your own good? yeah...

Jeeze you guys had a much more active childhood than me.  I was electrocuted once in my teens and knocked off a roof but that's about it.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: bhu on May 16, 2013, 12:04:56 AM


Yeah, I'm pretty much taking a break from Tumblr aside from a few blogs.

People use tumblr for things other than porn?  :psyduck
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Libertad on May 16, 2013, 12:08:49 AM
People use tumblr for things other than porn?  :psyduck

Wait, Tumblr has porn?!  Be right back!

No, no, I'm not going back into that scum den.  I'll make do with Google Image Search on Incognito Mode, like I always do.
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: brujon on May 16, 2013, 12:16:40 AM
Annnnd i think we need 5.0...
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: altpersona on May 16, 2013, 09:58:46 AM


Yeah, I'm pretty much taking a break from Tumblr aside from a few blogs.

People use tumblr for things other than porn?  :psyduck

im as surprised as you are
Title: Re: The Small Rant Thread 4.0
Post by: Sinfire Titan on May 16, 2013, 10:21:40 AM
Annnnd i think we need 5.0...

Yep.