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I think the worst example of that might be something like DOTA 2, where (IIRC) characters are frequently referred to by fans according to the names those characters had in the original DOTA, and things like an item called Guinsoo’s Scythe of Vyse being called the "sheep stick" even though it turns enemies into pigs, because the DOTA 1 version of that item turned them into sheep. I also hate how much marketing lingo has made its way into normal discourse e.g. "SKU", "colorway", "drop ship" and similar retail terms.
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Hearthstone picked up some lingo and jargon from other card games. Some of it is fairly generic stuff. "Value" and "tempo" have some specific connotations beyond the normal usage but they are close enough that you can work it out. Some is more specialised; you might not know what a "zoo" deck is but you could make a decent guess and you'd be close enough (it's a deck with lots of creatures). Then there's stuff like "Exodia" which you will never ever guess unless you know the specific yu-gi-oh reference . Doctor Spaceman has a new favorite as of 03:22 on Feb 3, 2022 |
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Like 80 years ago. Hello, yes, I would like to know where to find Lord of the Rings stuff scored for euphonium. Thankyou.
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Roommate, I know you like your fruit cups cold, but you do not need to put them all in the refrigerator at the same time. Also, please remove the packages when you're down to one or two, I do not enjoy having fruit cups falling all over the place when I'm trying to put the milk back. Thank you, - IC
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Silver Falcon posted:I picked up a brand new peeve: fan jargon. I hate it. I ran into it when I looked up a guide to a Civilization mod I used to play years ago. Walls of incomprehensible gibberish, and constant acronyms that nobody every bothers to define or explain. I've played this mod A LOT and I still don't understand half of what these nerds are saying! Imagine what it must be like if a new player somehow wanders in. The worst is when people are assholes because you don’t know the jargon. When FFXIV 2.0 came out I started playing it. This was my first MMO. I played FFXI for all about a month before dropping it. Well back when this first came out some bosses were tough and in one dungeon a boss required a strategy where someone needed to “kite” the additional monsters that came in and the other party members told me to do it. I said “Sorry I don’t know what that means” they then typed out laughing at me and calling me an idiot, with me having to explain this is my very first MMO and how the heck was I supposed to know what MMO terms meant. I still remember it because it’s one of the weirdest FFXIV moments I had where people were just outright dicks to no reason. I’ve seen people blow up for poor play, or for some other perceived slight. Just “this guy doesn’t know a term, let’s drag his rear end” was incredibly baffling to me.
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When people tailgate you despite the passing lane being open. The weather is poo poo and the roads are super icy, I’m not in a rush to slide off the road like the dozen other cars I’ve seen on my drive.
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bobjr posted:When people tailgate you despite the passing lane being open. The weather is poo poo and the roads are super icy, I’m not in a rush to slide off the road like the dozen other cars I’ve seen on my drive. People that drive like idiots in the snow/ice in general are the worst. Last night I was briefly following a guy in a big truck fishtailing and sliding all over the place every turn. Slow down, dipshit. And remove the snow from your other windows so you have some peripheral vision.
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Tree Bucket posted:Hello, yes, I would like to know where to find Lord of the Rings stuff scored for euphonium. Thankyou. Most euph stuff I didn't get in high school band I just have to use trombone stuff. Peeve: my alcoholism. I joke but dang yall withdrawal sucks!
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Spalec posted:People that drive like idiots in the snow/ice in general are the worst. Last night I was briefly following a guy in a big truck fishtailing and sliding all over the place every turn. Slow down, dipshit. And remove the snow from your other windows so you have some peripheral vision. Snow drivers all seem to have two speeds, recklessly stupidly fast or overly timidly slow. Sure you need to be aware braking is a dubious thing in the weather, but you need to have some momentum to work with or you’ll get stuck or slide anyway. Also a pain in the neck driving behind somebody who keeps randomly slowing their already slow progress because they’re terrified suddenly. Some days I wonder if the real problem is that snow driving requires awareness and planning in advance, and most people drive without ever doing any of that, it’s all reacting in the moment which doesn’t work when conditions preclude sudden changes in driving.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Peeve: my alcoholism. I joke but dang yall withdrawal sucks!  Four days out I'll still have a headache and all my bones hurt.
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PizzaProwler posted:
Sounds like a reason to celebrate!
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The Black Stones posted:The worst is when people are assholes because you don’t know the jargon. Ugh. YES. That's gatekeeping, and that is a whole separate- and massive pet peeve of mine. gently caress people who do that! I'm sorry those people were such dicks to you. There's no excuse for that kind of behavior.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I suppose this is why they don't call you YeahTrumpetMike. Imagine me giving you the warrior's nod here. Actually, Tuba Mike is a reference to someone other than myself, although I do happen to play tuba as well. quote:But also reminding you that a marching baritone is way harder to carry than a tuba. I never said it wasn't. Being able to use my shoulder helped so much, despite the fact that it was so heavy. quote:Having a large piece of metal around you that gets way too rapidly and close to the ambient temperature is way worse than having to sprint around with a baritone. Ugh, yeah, sousaphone was awful. Another thing that sucked: having to adjust the bell so that it pointed in the exact right direction at the exact right angle. The Black Stones posted:The worst is when people are assholes because you don’t know the jargon. Gatekeepers can go gently caress themselves for all eternity.
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Food packages where I can't tell if the little arrow is pointing to where to start opening or the direction of opening. Not that it matters, neither work correctly
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Brawnfire posted:Food packages where I can't tell if the little arrow is pointing to where to start opening or the direction of opening. Not that it matters, neither work correctly you should invest in a pair of scissors.
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Feb 3, 2022 19:43
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That most definitely doesn't cover all packaging cases
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Like 80 years ago. It's because new build (and even really builds in the past decade or so) are built cheap as poo poo. It's just drywall over studs with no insulation and sound carries like crazy. Every rental I've had has been an old building with brick walls or concrete walls and it's been great.
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In our Volkswagen, this button might as well be labeled the 'make the heat/AC actually work' button. If it's on, the climate control works great, and rapidly. If it's off, it doesn't. But even if it's on when you turn off the car, you always have to turn it back on again the next time. If you're me, that's usually after driving for ten minutes before wondering, "Why the hell is it still so hot/cold?" Why would you ever want to use the AC without this button on?  If it's so nice outside that all you need is the fan to circulate air, why would you have pressed the AC button? Why doesn't it remember the way you had it last time? Superior German engineering! (Don't tell me what it actually does. I know what it actually does.)
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When I had a convertible, it was pretty nice in colder weather to run heat to the floor (without AC on)
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I guess it's that it seems like to me the most common use cases would require the button to be on, so that should be the default, and once on it should stay on until you turn it off manually. I can imagine edge cases like that where you would want it off, but you don't design the default functionality to accommodate edge cases imho.
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Feb 3, 2022 23:12
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I'm 99% sure that all of my cars turned on recirculation automatically when I turned the A/C on, or at least when I turned it up to the highest setting.
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It fogs up the cabin. My car has a timer option so recirc doesn't run long enough for that to happen.
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Growing up I was led to believe that leaving the AC on recirculate could lead to carbon monoxide etc building up in the car. Doubt that's super valid outside of edge cases, though
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Brawnfire posted:Food packages where I can't tell if the little arrow is pointing to where to start opening or the direction of opening. Not that it matters, neither work correctly Get some teeth, n00b
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Worst of both worlds design. Why have something do 1 thing well, when it instead can do 2 things poorly. The dishwasher in the apartment I moved into has an unusually low top-drawer. Enough there's a ton of wasted space in the top one, while the bottom one can't actually fit most of my larger plates, and can't fit my kitchen-mixer bowl without things knocking into the rotating showerhead thing. It's especially annoying because I'd only need like 2-3cm for everything to fit properly.
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Looking at the .gif thread, here's a pet peeve: slow motion in clips. Like, when you see a cool trick, what I want to see is in this order: 1) See cool trick at normal speed 2) See cool trick again but slowed down What I don't like seeing is: 1) Most of the video at normal speed 2) Slick stylized slow motion at parts in the video like it's fuckin 300 2.5) Intermittent slow motion! 3) Zoom in on the slowed down stunt so you can instead see it blurry and awful 4) Maybe some circles and arrows so I know where to look 5) Music added for... comedy, usually?
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SubNat posted:Worst of both worlds design. Why have something do 1 thing well, when it instead can do 2 things poorly. The top drawer in our dishwasher is adjustable. No idea if you've looked, but there could a locking mechanism towards the back on each side of the drawer.
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Elissimpark posted:The top drawer in our dishwasher is adjustable. No idea if you've looked, but there could a locking mechanism towards the back on each side of the drawer. Thanks for the tip, but unfortunately no. This is a builtin one, so it's probably one of the cheapest possible options. Which reminds me of a different peeve: the 'everything is builtin' kitchen design, where even the fridge has to be invisible. (So that the store selling the kitchen can also force people to get their store brand fridge, dishwasher, and other stuff.) The fridge is way way worse and noisier than my old, cheapo fridge, because the moment you put a fridge inside a closet it unsurprisingly gets way louder and has to spend a lot more work cooling itself down. I don't even want to think about how fuckin' dirty the area behind/under the fridge is, because it's impossible to clean back there without disassembling half the kitchen.
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When my parents remodeled, they just made the fridge inset into the "pantry," so the fridge looks built in, but you have full access to the back once you're in the pantry. One of the least questionable design choices during their remodel.
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People who use acronyms without ever saying what they stand for
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Gort posted:People who use acronyms without ever saying what they stand for Ikr, itw, tsbs.
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Gort posted:People who use acronyms without ever saying what they stand for ODS, uSR, amirite?
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Gort posted:People who use acronyms without ever saying what they stand for This annoys me too, but it's also like when someone says a catchphrase or a meme thing without context. Everyone around me seems to know what is going on but I'm the rear end in a top hat for asking what the gently caress a pickle rick is or whatever
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Imagined posted:In our Volkswagen, this button might as well be labeled the 'make the heat/AC actually work' button. If it's on, the climate control works great, and rapidly. If it's off, it doesn't. But even if it's on when you turn off the car, you always have to turn it back on again the next time. If you're me, that's usually after driving for ten minutes before wondering, "Why the hell is it still so hot/cold?" Do you have your A/C set to point at your windscreen? It took me a long time to work this out, but in my car if the A/C is pointed that direction it defaults to that button being off when you start the car, but if you have it pointing at your body then it defaults to on every time. I don't understand why because in my experience having it off when the car starts and it's cold out just fogs up the windscreen instantly, and actually I want it on so that it can blow warm air and defog, but that's how it works for my car anyway. Also it is useful to have the outside intake option on when it's a nice temperature outside because then it does just act as a fan for the outside air.
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Cold air is better for defogging if you're above freezing temperatures. Maybe even for below freezing but that'd suck to sit in.
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A couple years ago I kinda stopped listening to music altogether, and only listened to noise machines because vocals were just too distracting and frustrating for me to deal with. I've been picking it up again now, digging out my old collection, finding stuff I like and tagging out stuff I don't want to hear when trying to focus/work etc. But it's so frustrating how often it's impossible to get songs without the vocals, especially since a lot of my library is smaller artists from bandcamp and the like. It's all too common that songs either have some vocal samples and etc that are part of the song, or where there are lyrics and you can't ever get a lyric-less/instrumental version of the song. I'm all too aware that my brain is just wired weird, but I really wish I could get some of these songs without the vocal tracks/aspects so that I could get more enjoyment out of them.
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Girlfriend made yummy waffles but it has smelled like syrup in here all day. I'm scared there is like, a missed syrup spill that will pop back up and be disgusting and uncleanable in six months. e: that's just a complaint, the peeve is that this happens every goddam time and I suspect she's hurling syrup behind the fridge or some poo poo. SubNat posted:A couple years ago I kinda stopped listening to music altogether, and only listened to noise machines because vocals were just too distracting and frustrating for me to deal with. I don't understand how anyone can focus on work/study/etc with lyrical music. Even in languages I cannot understand, my brain taps into the HOOMAN TALK lobe, and abandons everything else. Edgar Allen Ho has a new favorite as of 20:15 on Feb 6, 2022 |
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I tend to fall into the musical cadence of the voices and sometimes I don't even know what the lyrics to my favorite songs are, just the shapes of the words. Which is frustrating when I'm like, trying to find a song I like and all I can remember is wheemem ooo anana AY
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"oh I'm not the kind of person who can eat the same thing every day" How the gently caress do you think the majority of humanity has lived and is currently living? You absolutely can eat the same thing two days in a row. Eat your goddamn leftovers
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If I lived on my own I'd absolutely eat brown rice for 95% of meals
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