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Thin Privilege posted:I'm really tired of games where the person is 200% Smaller than the objects in the game, like s/he's a small person. I thought they were done with this. Here's my drawing. The blue represents what they use as a stand in (it's a bubble) when they program the game and the blue cone is the line of vision. It annoys me when a game gives their character creator concrete measurements and then still messes this up. My first character on City of Heroes was meant to be a fairly imposing lady, so I set her height at a little over 6 foot; not huge, but enough height to have a commanding presence in a room, I thought. It turned out that '6 foot' was actually a fair amount below what average NPC height was, and the game was scaled according to them, so she was quite short compared to them.
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The Snoo posted:as mentioned, the apartment below is being renovated and it's vacant. it's a saturday night. why are there people down there right now, talking and laughing? what the gently caress?? I'm really starting to feel your pain. The people 2 floors above me have been HAMMER drilling at the most bizarre hours for like 3 months, but only for 30 seconds at a time I guess 'to be quiet.' It still wakes me up. Currently they are sanding. It's close to midnight. You should not be sanding. Or Hammer drilling at 3am. I don't care what your work schedule is. Hire a contractor who works during the day. I feel bad for the guys above me/below the drilling sanding guys.
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Mu Zeta posted:What is this? Never seen those? Like This  Or this 
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Magnusth posted:Never seen those? Like This Perfect for the aspiring TVTropes writer.
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I heart bacon posted:gently caress that noise. Where the hell did you grow up? A bus station? It's a family thing. We always have spirited conversations that upset others that don't track like we do. A bus station is probably the best way to describe a Thanksgiving in my family. There will be blood and tears, but it's fun.
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sounds italian to me
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Noctone posted:sounds italian to me 
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mostlygray posted:A bus station is probably the best way to describe a Thanksgiving in my family. Awkwardly silent?
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Magic Hate Ball posted:Awkwardly silent? More like the last place I'd want to be on Thanksgiving.
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Thin Privilege posted:I'm really starting to feel your pain. The people 2 floors above me have been HAMMER drilling at the most bizarre hours for like 3 months, but only for 30 seconds at a time I guess 'to be quiet.' It still wakes me up. Currently they are sanding. It's close to midnight. You should not be sanding. Or Hammer drilling at 3am. I don't care what your work schedule is. Hire a contractor who works during the day.  that's awful. what are they even doing??? at least in the US, they're not supposed to do construction work outside of 7am - 8pm, I believe. I would probably die if they violated that.
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Bill Dungsroman posted:what the gently caress is this
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Noctone posted:sounds italian to me Italians that like polka?
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My ongoing pet peeve is how the Awful app interacts with imgur. A lot of the time I have to play the game of 'refresh the page a dozen times because all the imgur posts come up broken, sometimes even showing up briefly before breaking'. I don't blame the app - I've kvetched about it so often that I'm reasonably sure it's on imgur's end - but drat is it annoying.'
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when someone tells you something, you acknowledge it, and then they proceed to go on a 15 minute ramble about the thing you just acknowledged. As an example, this is a common conversation with my sister. Sister:"hey can you do thing?" Me:"Sure." Sister:"I need you to do thing because blah blah blah blah blah." Me: "Yeah I said I'd go do thing now." Sister: "Well I really need thing done because blah blah blah" repeat over and over again, sometimes even after the thing's been finished and over with for a while. drives me nuts.
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Sociopastry posted:when someone tells you something, you acknowledge it, and then they proceed to go on a 15 minute ramble about the thing you just acknowledged. As an example, this is a common conversation with my sister. This is almost certainly a response she's developed having to deal with someone in her life who's response to simple requests is "sure, I'll do it soon," but only actually does it after constantly being annoyed into action or many hours later.
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Jaramin posted:This is almost certainly a response she's developed having to deal with someone in her life who's response to simple requests is "sure, I'll do it soon," but only actually does it after constantly being annoyed into action or many hours later.
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Sociopastry posted:Except not, because I tend to just do things when asked so I don't forget. But nice vaguepost there my dude If you did the thing the second she asked about it, you wouldn't have to hear the blah blah blahs. Just say "sure" and then walk away. After the thing is done, if she's still trying to talk about it, change the subject and just go "It's done."
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I literally said that's what I do. Like bruh
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Sociopastry posted:I literally said that's what I do. Like Well either you are lying or your sister is mentally challenged, because who would stand there saying "I need this done" while you are actively in the process of doing it?
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My sister does indeed do that. She'll follow me to it, watch me while I'm doing it, and explain THE ENTIRE TIME I AM DOING IT why she needs it done. also why do you seem to have a hard-on for trying to see if I'm lying about a pet peeve I have, my dude? Chill out. FluxFaun has a new favorite as of 22:46 on Dec 6, 2016 |
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Well that's quite a peeve. Maybe you should post about it and then have goons not believe you.Sociopastry posted:also why do you seem to have a hard-on for trying to see if I'm lying about a pet peeve I have, my dude? Chill out. Your story made little sense if you assume your sister is not mentally challenged. I am truly sorry for your lots.
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I have had a manager who would hear me say "I'm going to go close up and turn the lights off in the lobby," watch me walk out there, do all the usual closing tasks that we did every single day (which included turning the lights off), and then-- as I was approaching the light switch, steps away-- call out "Oh, make sure you turn the lights off." More than once. So I believe it.
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WampaLord posted:Well that's quite a peeve. Maybe you should post about it and then have goons not believe you. my pet peeve is your bad posting
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Troposphere posted:my pet peeve is your bad posting Sorry. I was primarily a D&D poster until the election happened, so it's taking me time to adjust to more casual and less argumentative posting. I'll try to be chiller.
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Sociopastry posted:when someone tells you something, you acknowledge it, and then they proceed to go on a 15 minute ramble about the thing you just acknowledged. As an example, this is a common conversation with my sister. My dad's like that. Even if it's a small thing, he'll immediately launch into reasons it needs to be done, before I can even take a step. I've also caught myself doing it. Apple doesn't fall far from the tree I guess.
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People who say "oval office" isn't offensive in Australia. It's not even close to true, it's still one of the most offensive words you could use in most situations, stop telling foreigners otherwise.
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Tiggum posted:People who say "oval office" isn't offensive in Australia. It's not even close to true, it's still one of the most offensive words you could use in most situations, stop telling foreigners otherwise. It's used to the point of merely being punctuation in their speech. oval office tossed in casually isn't shocking to me the way it can be if used exclusively as an expletive. Like the N-bomb. When used in context between people of color it doesn't have the same shock value as someone using it to try and provoke someone. That said, if it bothers you I certainly can't do anything to change that, and I'm sorry it does bother you. But the odds of oval office being removed from the Australian lexicon is all but nil.
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Indolent Bastard posted:It's used to the point of merely being punctuation in their speech. Indolent Bastard posted:That said, if it bothers you I certainly can't do anything to change that, and I'm sorry it does bother you. But the odds of oval office being removed from the Australian lexicon is all but nil.
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Yeah I don't know about all that, but it sounds kind of like how the rest of the english speaking world uses "gently caress." Most people will probably use it at some point in their lives, some nearly every day, but only the truly stupid and crass would use it in a job interview or other polite conversation.
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jfc why do turn lanes with 2 lanes break people's brains? like loving clockwork, everytime I'm turning at one of these lights, a dipshit in front or behind me will inevitably turn from either lane, THEN MERGE INTO THE OTHER LANE AFTER THE TURN. This is loving why there are 2 turn lanes you idiots. Use the right lane to turn into the right lane, use the left lane to turn into the left lane. Why is it so loving hard 
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bradzilla posted:jfc why do turn lanes with 2 lanes break people's brains? like loving clockwork, everytime I'm turning at one of these lights, a dipshit in front or behind me will inevitably turn from either lane, THEN MERGE INTO THE OTHER LANE AFTER THE TURN. This is loving why there are 2 turn lanes you idiots. Use the right lane to turn into the right lane, use the left lane to turn into the left lane. Why is it so loving hard It's even worse with triple turn lanes, and even worse on top of that when you're dealing with florida drivers. Being in the center turn lane is like being in a death trap because inevitably one of the SUVs flanking you is going to edge into your lane. The dashed lines guiding you through the turn are there for a reason, they aren't a polite suggestion.
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It's even worse when you have two left-turn lanes, and the intersection allows left-turners to U-turn from the left-most turn lane, and an idiot in the other left-turn lane makes a U-turn and nearly hits the car in the left-most lane who is simply turning left. That's as clearly as I could write that sentence, so here's an equally bad drawing  
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bradzilla posted:jfc why do turn lanes with 2 lanes break people's brains? like loving clockwork, everytime I'm turning at one of these lights, a dipshit in front or behind me will inevitably turn from either lane, THEN MERGE INTO THE OTHER LANE AFTER THE TURN. This is loving why there are 2 turn lanes you idiots. Use the right lane to turn into the right lane, use the left lane to turn into the left lane. Why is it so loving hard To be fair, at least some of these situations come up because Google Maps doesn't tell you which of the two turn lanes you need to use.
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Rabbit Hill posted:It's even worse when you have two left-turn lanes, and the intersection allows left-turners to U-turn from the left-most turn lane, and an idiot in the other left-turn lane makes a U-turn and nearly hits the car in the left-most lane who is simply turning left. Since were in lovely traffic pattern talk let me show you the bane of my existence. Ok so the red dot is the entry/exit to the community where I live, green is daycare. Come with me on my twice daily journey wont you. So let's go left (purple). Ok not too bad there's a protected left, but it's only for southbound traffic literally all the light does is get you into a void between north and southbound traffic. Now comes the fun part, you have about 500 feet to get into the far right lane, the only one that can turn right onto SR-54! Ok so gently caress that right, that's crazy so lets go the other way (orange). Ok there's still a left turn but after that you have a protected merge, except (and this will sound familiar) the light only stops southbound traffic so Northbound keeps going at speed. But at least this way you get almost 800 feet to cross four lanes of traffic instead of 500, and this isn't even taking into consideration coming back the other way which I have to do to go to work. It literally takes me 7-10 minutes each way, not including drop-off/pickup time just to get back to where I left home every morning. 
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Something that bothers me are people who are rude to their parents or say terrible things about them. Makes me feel very uncomfortable...
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Shayu posted:Something that bothers me are people who are rude to their parents or say terrible things about them. Makes me feel very uncomfortable... A large percentage of the women I've gone out with have had an adversarial relationship with one or both of their parents. This in itself doesn't bother me - I appreciate I had a pretty damned good upbringing and am lucky my parents are such good people - but every one of the aforementioned women seem to view it as some kind of defect that I like my parents and enjoy their company. The highlight being a dope fiend NEET I went out with for a while who went on an hour long tirade every time I took my mum out to lunch. Like, I wanna see how my parents are getting on and have lunch, and somehow this made me a fuckin' sissy nancy boy who should cut the apron strings and grow a set and it's so weiiiiird to be friendly with your parents et cetera et cetera. Because I bought my mum lunch once a fortnight and occasionally went round to help my dad tinker with classic cars and plant his garden. In conclusion:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkj_MlByXW0 Anyway - poker people. I do not give one solitary poo poo what you would've hit had you stayed in the hand. It's not a gross injustice that someone forced you off the pot and you missed your ridiculous one-outer, it's a core part of the game. And stop throwing loving temper tantrums when the seven on the turn of a hand you folded would've given you a full house - it's information to those still in the hand, and it's some bullshit. gently caress YEAH. Also I will never ever stop check-reraising, so shush.
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People who put up a barrier of ownership or experience before you can 'really' criticize something. Very recently the thing that hit me on that was an assertion that I can't call the Final Fantasy game with no female characters in its main party the worst in the series for female representation, because if you PLAYED it you'd know that ACTUALLY it really respects women. And I know that's a pretty nerdy and pedantic version of it, but I've hit it so hard elsewhere. I've dug deep into political volunteering over the past year, and to so many people you're just not allowed to have political opinions until you've got a child and/or a house. It's one thing to note that something is different once you've experienced it, and so outside criticism might not land right. But it's quite another to refuse any and all criticism of something, even on simple levels, until someone has experienced as much of it as you have.
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Shayu posted:Something that bothers me are people who are rude to their parents or say terrible things about them. Makes me feel very uncomfortable... My parents are toxic, abusive, garbage human beings and my pet peeve is all the loving morality plays that happen over Christmas that seem to emphasize that "family matters most" when the reality is that sometimes people are pieces of poo poo that should be cut out of your life.
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