Malcolm
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Post by Malcolm on Apr 23, 2009 1:14:36 GMT -5
Oh, I've got a good one. Every fanboy on earth calling Mario Galaxy innovative.
OMG the game can manipulate gravity. So innovative. Gravity manipulation in video games was done in the freakin' 90's for pete's sake.
And speaking of Mario, another thing ticks me off is how people give his ames free pass for problems other games would be chastised for.
The camera on Galaxy for example is a frickin pain the ass, but you'll NEVER hear anyone complain about it. A game will get derided for being to linear, yet Mario Galaxy is called perfect for doing the exact same thing!
Also, I hate how people hate Luigi's Mansion simply because it wasn't a Mario game.
If you people want to know why I have a problem with Mario? This is why!
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The_ripoff_artist
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Post by The_ripoff_artist on Apr 23, 2009 2:41:49 GMT -5
I liked Luigi's Mansion.........................
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Post by thesam07 on Apr 23, 2009 3:13:00 GMT -5
You know what grinds my gears? People who drive 5 to 10 kilometers slower than what the sign says.
IF THE SIGN SAYS 60! DRIVE 60! Don't think "Oh gee whiz, that sign says 60, i'm going to drive 55 because I like arriving to my destination later than usual." And then there is the people on the highway, which is 100 km/h, who not only drive at 90 km/h. But when you go through a "taking over lane" they speed up or drive into the overtaking lane so you can't overtake them. ANd once the overtaking lane has passed they go back to 90 k/ph. What reason is there to not drive the speed limit? Remember folks, 100 = 100. Not 90. Not 110. But 100.
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Post by Ash Kingston on Apr 23, 2009 3:38:07 GMT -5
YouTube comments, mainly for the a) concentrated idiocy, b) concentrated fanboyism, or c) concentrated sexism that seems to pervade most of them.
I'm also gonna second Strotha on "Writer's block" being downright infuriating at times.
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Post by Alexander The So-so on Apr 23, 2009 3:55:17 GMT -5
-Guys who passionately call themselves feminists, usually out of a subconscious desperate attempt to get any kind of positive attention from any female that they wouldn't get otherwise
-The New Yorker magazine
-College students who believe that they are the most intelligent, politically-aware studs on Earth because they have subsriptions to The New Yorker, The Economist, and The New York Times
-Women who jerk men around and play with them emotionally without any concern for his feelings
-My old high school friend's pretentious, Holden Caulfield-esque, trying-too-hard-to-look-intellectual, wannabe-bohemian personality, and people who are similar; as a sample for you guys, let me cut-and-paste his Info from his Facebook page:
Religious Views: none Activities:passively defying authority, thinking Favorite Music: Dylan Blur Bowie Mr. Scruff Murder City Devils The Briefs Burning Spear Sonic Youth Brian Eno/ Roxy Music Black Sabbath Public Image Ltd. Nick Drake Radiohead Favorite Movies:Hang 'Em High. State of Grace. Coffee and Cigarettes. Mystic River. Royal Tennenbaums. Paris Je T'aime. Garden State. Bon Vacances. L'Auberge Espagnole. Raise The Red Lantern. Favorite Books:Hemingway, Sartre Favorite Quotations:'If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company' - j.p.s.
'Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained' - w.b.
And his notes:
Poetry is Floetry no. 2 and 3
This is just a little bit of poetry. Poetry is Floetry #2 Rush flows thru my blood mildly quickly smoothly Questions in my head remain unanswered Confusion is something benign and salty Sweet summer trees and breeze fills emptiness
Memories of you are vivid visions of us IN fantasy and reality But those days died a long time ago along with us Old friend
With pride and style we move through a paranoid city OF people who don't understand each other or want to A broken land full of broken promises With dark clouds of politics and corruption above us And bright flashes of love is shelter from this ever-storm
Poetry is Floetry #3 In a car listening to old rock n roll music Once was a man named James Dean who screamed Shrouded in a rebellious mystique at the people On the sidewalk in L.A. amidst lots of mad buildings And in '50's generation you could belong to something
What can you belong to now? my bored friends Some hokey environmental or grassroots social group Should I sit there among overly assured bookworms Discussing the flaws of McCain and Obama with intimate detail No, Lord it's not my calling its too stale We are all here but we are not together There is nothing to belong to we are all at rest And there is just so much to protest
philosophy
Hey all, I wanted to get some of my 'philosophy' on facebook. I wanna start by saying that these are just my beliefs and if you're interested, read, if you're not, I understand. I don't care about what effect this has on you and thats why I didnt tag nobody. Ok. Here's how I see the world! We have souls and we have minds. Our souls are everything we feel, including our senses but much further beyond. The body is the soul's temporary home. Our soul lives on for all eternity, so we've always been existing and always will be. I don't know what happens when we die, and neither do you. Our minds are in us to help us survive and they are connected to the soul but not entirely and I dont dare say more on that topic. All humans just want what's best for themselves. When anybody claims to want what's best for another, they're not being truly honest because morality or religion tells us we are "good people" if we put others before ourselves. So basically people just want to be considered "good" by others around them so they can evade people who may hate them and so they can get what they want from other people. We all want people to like us so we can have good standing and not end up alone. People who reject these traditional moral and religious beliefs are seen as morbid, selfish, and evil. But those people are more honest than most since they are not afraid to be chastised by the 'moral majority' for accepting their emotions. That is, people who accept their emotions and don't believe that we must do what's good for the whole are independent and bold. Why should humans do whats good for the whole when life is a constant struggle to be who you truly are, to realize the depth of our real selves and cultivate new passions, live our own way, create things. What about murderers and corrupt rulers? Theyre doing whats best for themselves? No, those people lost something, arent in touch with themselves. Righteousness is opening your real self (part 2 coming soon)
my thoughts
I'm angry at the world. I'm pissed off to the point of doing something. Nobody is doing anything these days. Nobody is doing anything about ANYTHING. This country is so *snorked* up and nobody cares. So people are recycling now. OMG I hope you feel good about yourself... Young adults of America..... Use this website to SAY SOMETHiNG. I'm doing it right now! First of all...where is our culture? Dylan, Andy Warhol and Marlon Brando do NOT put out anymore. There's nothing going for white Americans. Unless you're happy living a nice quiet life and waking up to the same office *excratory matter* everyday and raising kids in this boring society for the rest of your life. I'm not happy with that and I think it's time we turn the tables... STOP and think about it. Life today isn't worth the trouble. We need people to stand up against corporations of hate and the plastic dreams that y'all are having.
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Post by Loki on Apr 23, 2009 5:00:06 GMT -5
- Preach political/religious enthusiasts. Believe in what you want, but please don't treat those who don't like they're worthless crap
- "My opinion = fact" people
- People who don't give you a chance
- Those who are always late and don't even bother to tell you "I'll be there in _____ minutes, sorry"
- Happy couples who live "couples life", doing everything with other couples, totally ignoring their single friends
- Happily engaged friends who don't even make the gesture of bringing a "courtesy date" when are going out with singles friends... I mean, even a dude is ok, as far as I can TALK with someone instead of awkwardly sitting in silence while there's a tongue-wrestling session going on.
- Female friends who judge who I should/could date and who I shouldn't. Aka the "naah, she's too _____ for you" girls. Dammit, it's my life (and my wang), can't I choose for myself?
- Jealous yet not-interested female friends. Confusing... you don't like me "that way", then you go apecrap if I'm flirting with that other girl? Go figure...
- People who judge me, and people who compliment me in a semi-ironic way
- People who subtly hint they feel sorry for me
- People who asks for advice, then will ignore it and come back for more of the same advice.
- "Friends" who call just when THEY need something, but will disappear once their life is fine again.
- Me me me people
- The Facebook Generation, aka "Me+You= <3 4ever" teens and adultescents.
- Fanboys
- Internet fads
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Post by Ash Kingston on Apr 23, 2009 5:08:18 GMT -5
Oh, oh, I got another one!
People who wouldn't know continuity if it bit them on the ass. Be it in video games, novels, TV shows, or comic books...I would like storylines that are connected together to actually make goddamn sense and not cause my head to throb painfully.
Oh, and Mary Sues kinda irk me, too.
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Post by "Hollywood" Cactus Matt on Apr 23, 2009 5:46:38 GMT -5
You know what grinds my gears? People who drive 5 to 10 kilometers slower than what the sign says. IF THE SIGN SAYS 60! DRIVE 60! Don't think "Oh gee whiz, that sign says 60, i'm going to drive 55 because I like arriving to my destination later than usual." And then there is the people on the highway, which is 100 km/h, who not only drive at 90 km/h. But when you go through a "taking over lane" they speed up or drive into the overtaking lane so you can't overtake them. ANd once the overtaking lane has passed they go back to 90 k/ph. What reason is there to not drive the speed limit? Remember folks, 100 = 100. Not 90. Not 110. But 100. [/CornetteRage] Because it's a limit, not a mandate. If I limit myself to five chocolate chip cookies per day, and I only eat three, is there something wrong with that? Don't get me wrong; there are times when I'm in a hurry and this sort of thing pisses me off, too. But you know what I do then? Leave earlier. Maybe it's because my brakes are going bad and it's been raining here the past few days so the roads are wet so I have to drive more slowly, but I see nothing wrong with erring on the side of caution.
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Post by Mr. Nice on Apr 23, 2009 6:36:20 GMT -5
I don't like girls who act like they want it but when you make an approach, they are like "What the hell dude?!", I just be like "hey, it's easy being sleazy."
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Post by taylorandborland on Apr 23, 2009 7:44:47 GMT -5
-there's NOTHING worse than people who refer to themselves as "nerds" and live the "nerd subculture". Nothing. -People who bring up random tangents in their arguments. They can't actually think of anything to defend themselves, so they decide to talk about something else without telling you. -Idiots who actually believe that hip hop is a fad. You'd think after over 2 decades in the mainstream, they'd actually get it, but no, they don't... -Usage of the term "douche", "douchebag", "douche-nozzle", anything that sounds like it was coined by a committee of fratboys. -Usage of the term "gamer'. Don't ask me why. -People who get pissy whenever you bring up skin color. You could just be describing a particular white person and they'd go "OMG whutz hiz raise got 2 do with it!!! ![???](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/huh.png) ?? UR a biggot!" Edit: Here's another one: I payed for large fries, not a medium, not a sort of large, but LARGE fries. I swear, it seems to happen to me like every other day. It's "paid". P-A-I-D. There is no "y". The word has never been spelled with a "y". The word will never be spelled with a "y". You never "payed" anything but a rope. And yet, many people accept this as the proper spelling of "paid". I'm no grammar snob, but this needs to be stopped...
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Post by Ash Kingston on Apr 23, 2009 8:09:18 GMT -5
When I'm writing something, I tend to have a bad habit of having my brain get ahead of my fingers, so I end up skipping one or two words that are relatively important in the greater scheme of things, which I usually don't notice until after I've posted it somewhere. This also applies to general spelling/grammar mishaps and the dreaded "completely different word than what I know I typed" error.
Oh, and idiots who ruin awesome flavors of pop/soda and/or chips by being complete and utter retards. Dammit, I miss Pepsi Blue!
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Post by "Hollywood" Cactus Matt on Apr 23, 2009 9:08:45 GMT -5
People who are really easily offended. I've been guilty of this before too. Alot of people need to learn to take a joke. It might be my biased opinion as a former stand up comedian, but I believe there are no limits to comedy. either everything should be okay or nothing should be. For example, I'm in a wheelchair and I deal with cripple jokes all the time. That's okay, apparently, but when I made a joke about a friend's condition, like twelve people jumped down my throat about it. I don't get why one thing is okay, but another isn't. It's bullexcretory matter. You were what kind of comedian? (Is that too much? I'm not easily offended either, but I know that sometimes I cross the line; I hope I didn't do so that time. For the record, my aunt has been in a wheelchair since she was 10 years old, so I have the utmost respect for so-called "cripples.")
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Post by sloride on Apr 23, 2009 9:35:11 GMT -5
What things piss me off? Lets see.
-People loudly crunching right next to you. I know it cant be helped but it gets right under my skin. -The person who bumped into my car scraping the paint off and not leaving a note apologising. -When I was flying back from New York and the security guard making me throw away my contact lens solution as it was over the liquid amount at the time. Its freaking contact lens solution-its expensive and I need it. -Drivers that go 10-15 mph under the speed limit. Its a 60mph road-go freaking 60mph. -Still being unemployed and the lack of jobs out there. -A friend of mine who is unemployed being told at the job centre that she needs to go on a course to learn how to spell or have her benefits taken away. Wouldn't be so bad had she hadn't had a 2:1 degree in English.
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Malcolm
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Post by Malcolm on Apr 23, 2009 10:00:03 GMT -5
I liked Luigi's Mansion......................... Me too, but it's very underappreciated simply because it wasn't "Mario" enough for some people.
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Strotha
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Post by Strotha on Apr 23, 2009 10:40:50 GMT -5
People who are really easily offended. I've been guilty of this before too. Alot of people need to learn to take a joke. It might be my biased opinion as a former stand up comedian, but I believe there are no limits to comedy. either everything should be okay or nothing should be. For example, I'm in a wheelchair and I deal with cripple jokes all the time. That's okay, apparently, but when I made a joke about a friend's condition, like twelve people jumped down my throat about it. I don't get why one thing is okay, but another isn't. It's bullexcretory matter. You were what kind of comedian? (Is that too much? I'm not easily offended either, but I know that sometimes I cross the line; I hope I didn't do so that time. For the record, my aunt has been in a wheelchair since she was 10 years old, so I have the utmost respect for so-called "cripples.") Actually, that was my opening joke. "I know, you were expecting to see a stand up comedian..."
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Post by darthalexander on Apr 23, 2009 11:18:57 GMT -5
One very big one I forgot to add was people who say "Lucas RAPED my childhood!!!" or "X RAPED my childhood!!!"
Nice way to make light of a horrible thing. I know people don't mean it that way, but it still gets me every time.
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Post by "Hollywood" Cactus Matt on Apr 23, 2009 11:27:51 GMT -5
Since some people have gone ahead and opened up that can of worms known as "The Grammar Police," allow me to add my two cents. Misplaced apostrophes. If William owns multiple wooden structures meant for sitting, they are Bill's chairs, not Bill's chair's. It pained me to type that.... Apostrophes indicate possession, not pluralization, and do not need to go in font of every 's' you type. I literally almost threw my laptop across the room a week or so ago when I saw someone refer to "Shawn Michael's." You're/Your, to/too/two, their/there/they're .... just take five minutes to study, and get back to me. And finally ... the terms are "could have," "should have," and "would have," not "could of," "should of," and "would of." Thank you. ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png)
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Post by Shy Guy on Apr 23, 2009 11:37:28 GMT -5
ticking sounds.
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Post by Bobeddy on Apr 23, 2009 11:56:43 GMT -5
There's stuff that really makes me angry, but it's far too personal and requires far too much backstory to get into here. So I'll go for something lightheated and trivial ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) .... One till open in a store, say ten people in line. They open up another till and say 'next, and the person at the back of the line move up to the new till followed by the next to last, and so on.... WHY!? Clearly the person 2nd in line is next, so logic should be that they move to the new till, with the next person being served at whichever till becomes available soonest.
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Post by Red 'n' Black Reggie on Apr 23, 2009 12:02:01 GMT -5
Football fans who can dish it out when a team loses but can't take it when their team loses. Well, you can apply this to any sport really. People who go on about someone being "screwed" when they don't win an Oscar but haven't seen the performance or film that won the Oscar. People who type "end thread" when they post their opinion in a "What is your favourite...." thread. That in the US the price on the sticker says one price but when you take it to the counter, it costs more. How hard would it be to include tax on the sticker? sounds like Gator fans. Just remembered some more to add to the list: People who talk on cell phones and drive at the same time...pull over you jerk. People who rant about how they HATE a movie but give no reasons as to WHY they hate the movie. Illegal Immigrants---Not that much trouble to go through legal channels pal, quit being so DAMNED lazy and prove that you deserve to live in this country because you earned it. Instead of just stealing it. i know this is about people expressing their individual views and all, but i gotta take issue with the last one. i'm not looking for a political debate, but i would like you to clarify your logic. what exactly did you do to "earn" your place in your country? that's not a direct attack on you, what did any american citizen do to "earn" their right to live in the country of their choice. think of it this way: two people are born, either side of the mexican border. they can act exactly the same, but by your logic one is born with the right to live in america, and the other has to earn it. have you ever actually spoken to any immigrants, legal or non? getting into america, britain and most western countries is far from easy. the vast majority of illegal immigrants are leaving poverty, escaping persecution or pursuing work. if you haven't even got a school in your tin shack village, are you gonna fill out forms? if you're a month away from being stoned to death because of your sexuality, are you gonna wait for the white house to get back to you about your application? if you can't afford to feed your family, are you gonna fork out the cash to order a greencard? "laziness" is not the word i'd use.
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