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We adopted my wife's cousin so he could draft dodge and go to college here and found out my wife is pregnant like a week later. The 17-year-old speedrun kid is prolly giving me false hopes for the human slug that will spend a few months just screaming and pooping. No regrets though. No peeves either. Dude builds lego, rock climbs, and teaches me kazakh. It was shockingly smooth getting a third member into our tiny apartment. Koyanshyk.
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Dip Viscous posted:Similarly, when people put things into a high cabinet and then act super concerned for my safety when I have to stand on the counter to get things down. What the gently caress is the alternative here? Do you want me to knock things down with a slingshot? As a fellow short person, get a stepstool wtf.
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Organza Quiz posted:As a fellow short person, get a stepstool wtf. Those things are deathtraps. Just get good at climbing and do skull exercises. Our risk of dying from a fall is balanced out by the lower cancer risk. Peeve: HLN news being on the breakroom. It's about 20 minutes of bullshit (current headline: COACH SAVES CHOKING STUDENT AT LUNCH) stretched into 4 hours. Then they do what they are good at, endless true crime shows from 11am to 5am. You've got your Forensic Files, your Forensic Files II, your Sex and Murder, your How It Really Happened. Typing this I actually think I like HLN more than the real "news" channels. CNN and Fox are the alternatives and they're going to pretend they are serious. Also one of them is Outright Nazi Channel. HLN knows what it is. Thank you, HLN and whoever put them on the break TV. At bare minimum Robin Meade and the former football player sports dude always have fantastic outfits.
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Apr 29, 2022 12:58
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Updates that nobody asked for. Like on reddit, they had an annoying but serviceable notification system when you get replied to or a recommendation gets sent to you. They just replaced it with a "messages" thing and now i have suddenly 400 "unread" (didn't care) notifications to clear for this menu to be useful at all. Thanks, I love this new "functionality" that will make me never click on the button again. On the note of Reddit, I will never use Reddit beyond looking at the occasional link. I won’t browse any further because I feel like something sketchy is happening because of how drat aggressive they are with wanting me to download their app. Open a link to the website and it screams “GET THE APP, YOU SHOULD REALLY GET THE APP. WHAT IF I MAKE BUTTONS IN THIS ADD NOT WORK SO YOU CAN’T CLOSE THIS NOTIFICATION WOULDN’T HAPPEN IF YOU HAD THE APP” No thanks. I’ll just not browse your hellsite.
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Apr 29, 2022 13:46
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I get frustrated by the drat nested tree style of commenting anyhow so I only read the top ones because following a thread is such a pain
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Apr 29, 2022 13:47
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If you aren't a classic forums supremacist you can't really call yourself a goon. I post on a two-decade-old piece of poo poo and I drat well like it that way. I will never read a Reddit.
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Apr 29, 2022 13:54
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Yeah I've never seen anything but BBS format work well. It's most of the reason I glommed onto SA during the heyday of forums, was everyone else suddenly loving around with format. Nothing was wrong! Don't "fix" anything!
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:If you aren't a classic forums supremacist you can't really call yourself a goon. I post on a two-decade-old piece of poo poo and I drat well like it that way. I will never read a Reddit. Hi yes and don't even get me started on Twitter.  Goddamn kids these days!
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Apr 29, 2022 14:28
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Brawnfire posted:I get frustrated by the drat nested tree style of commenting anyhow so I only read the top ones because following a thread is such a pain Reddit system works only for things that are naturally vote ranked. Like if you ask for software recommendations or movies or whatever and then you get answers sorted by upvotes. But any free form comment sections just end up with the same jokes and puns on top every time thanks to the voting.
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The Black Stones posted:On the note of Reddit, I will never use Reddit beyond looking at the occasional link. I won’t browse any further because I feel like something sketchy is happening because of how drat aggressive they are with wanting me to download their app. Open a link to the website and it screams “GET THE APP, YOU SHOULD REALLY GET THE APP. WHAT IF I MAKE BUTTONS IN THIS ADD NOT WORK SO YOU CAN’T CLOSE THIS NOTIFICATION WOULDN’T HAPPEN IF YOU HAD THE APP” Nobody uses the app, and enough people have complained that there's a setting to make it nag you much less. If you open a porn link it will sometimes still ask you to try the app, implying that the app is more secure (it's not).
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Brawnfire posted:I get frustrated by the drat nested tree style of commenting anyhow so I only read the top ones because following a thread is such a pain Plus all the top replies are hivemind upvoted bullshit like dumb puns or references or /r/unexpected_letterkenny !!!! Hurrr I'm so funny guys Ugh. No actual meaningful discussion until you scroll past all that horseshit.
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I remember the earliest days of this style of forum. Back before vBulletin, it was um... VBB and even before that it was UBB. I don't remember what those acronyms mean, but I remember them because I hated that the somethingawful forums were using UBB instead of branching tree-style forums. I hated the quote button, in particular. I felt like it was lazy, like, if you want to reply to a person, then reply to them; lay out your message, don't just cram an ugly block of text we've already read into your message! gently caress I had a real boomer rear end attitude about progress as a 14 year-old. Arrath posted:Plus all the top replies are hivemind upvoted bullshit like dumb puns or references or /r/unexpected_letterkenny !!!! Hurrr I'm so funny guys I still believe that "upvoting" or whatever it's called is not very well implemented for reasons like that; the top votes are just going to be recycled jokes, old references, and stealing other peoples' material. But if you sort by "new" then you're inundated with extremely low effort responses that just say "lol" or "gently caress u", and maybe thirty posts by bots trying to share YouTube videos. credburn has a new favorite as of 19:02 on Apr 29, 2022 |
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Minor nerd pet peeve. I hate how GIF now means any short video. Why can't people just call them MP4 because that's what they all are. Imgur even disguises them with a gifv extension and people start thinking that's an actual file format. It's really rare to see an actual animated gif anymore because the format sucks for modern needs. And if you upload a still GIF to many services (like Discord) it is tagged with a GIF symbol as if it was a video.
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Puppy: walk? Hell yeahhhhhhhhhh! We sitting now? Cool as gently caress. Standing? Sounds good. Building a lego? I'll chill and watch. This rules boss! You're my best friend! Want a snuggle? Cat: I acknowledge you want to pet me but nah, I'm going to walk in a circle and scream. Kitties I just want to love on you 
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Arrath posted:Plus all the top replies are hivemind upvoted bullshit like dumb puns or references or /r/unexpected_letterkenny !!!! Hurrr I'm so funny guys I only use Reddit for the personal finance section and the top rated comments are usually very helpful. And the mods are pretty good about deleting unhelpful or legally dubious suggestions right away. But yeah I still can't understand how the nested conversation thing works so I just gave up on it. Just read the top voted thing and move on. Mu Zeta has a new favorite as of 09:16 on Apr 30, 2022 |
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Puppy: walk? Hell yeahhhhhhhhhh! We sitting now? Cool as gently caress. Standing? Sounds good. Building a lego? I'll chill and watch. This rules boss! You're my best friend! Want a snuggle? When I'm watching TV or on my computer: I'm gonna go lie down in the other room. When I'm doing anything in the kitchen: Sorry, I need to check, right now, if anyone dropped any food in here, so if you could just get out of the way... When I'm moving from room to room, doing multiple tasks: I need to be right next to you for the next few hours, OK? So if you could sit down and give me attention that would be great. Otherwise I'm just going to have to get in your way constantly. You understand, right? No other option.
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lobsterminator posted:Reddit system works only for things that are naturally vote ranked. Like if you ask for software recommendations or movies or whatever and then you get answers sorted by upvotes. That's not even the worst of it imo--if you're asking for factual information a serious answer will usually get voted up above the dumb jokes, but not necessarily the correct answer, just the earliest and most emphatic.
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When my 18 year old daughter calls me for something across the house her "mum!" high pitch call of drama and blind panic is no different no matter what it's about. This morning we had "Mum! the freezer!" (possibly broken, wasn't) and "Mum! the dog!" (had jumped in an out of the bath) like mate, chill out, not every tiny thing is as bad as if you are watching a murder in progress.
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FreudianSlippers posted:"Mum! Your posting!" who the gently caress is scraeming "MUM! LOG OFF" across my house. show yourself, coward. i will never log off
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learnincurve posted:When my 18 year old daughter calls me for something across the house her "mum!" high pitch call of drama and blind panic is no different no matter what it's about. This morning we had "Mum! the freezer!" (possibly broken, wasn't) and "Mum! the dog!" (had jumped in an out of the bath) like mate, chill out, not every tiny thing is as bad as if you are watching a murder in progress. 
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Brawnfire posted:who the gently caress is scraeming "MUM! LOG OFF" across my house. show yourself, coward. i will never log off lol Tiggum posted:My mother does this. You'll hear this despair-filled "oh, no!" and everyone rushes to see what's wrong and she's like "oh, I just spilled some water." It makes it even worse when there is something genuine right? At this point "Mum! There is water on the floor!" is going to make me assume water has been spilled, and then have me casually walk in to a burst main.
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Tiggum posted:My mother does this. You'll hear this despair-filled "oh, no!" and everyone rushes to see what's wrong and she's like "oh, I just spilled some water." Oh god. My mother does this all the time, except it's a dismayed/panicked "OOH! as if she's just fallen down and broken a hip. And she does it for the least little thing. Drop something on the floor? OOH! Spill some of your tea? OOH! She's super clumsy so she does it ALL THE TIME. When I visited her for Christmas a few years ago, it was exhausting listening to the constant stream of OOH! Followed by the sound of something falling on the floor. Full disclosure I'm super clumsy and drop stuff all the time too, but the worst I will say when it happens is "Oops." Makes me glad she lives 3,000 miles away. Being in close proximity to that woman is bad for my blood pressure.
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A Very Stupid Peeve: I'm sick of people dunking on the Card Game Academy and Card Games on Motorcycles runs of Yugioh instead of the original. Everyone remembers the original for ten hours of static shots of characters looking at their trading cards for a single duel. But the latter half was beautiful. The card game battle city arc ended up with lethal duels on a card game hologram blimp, then halfway through it got interrupted with weeks upon weeks of the Kaiba Corp virtual reality arc, then everyone just jumped straight back to the split personality ancient egyptian card games on a death tower. The arc ends with Seto Kaiba literally exploding the city full of Japan's top duelists and flying away on his dragon jet. THEN there is a whole dumbass fourth arc where the entire gang goes to California and gets in a card game war with a motorcycle gang. Not just the main crew, every single gimmick side character with names like "Mako Tsunami" and "Mai Valentine" and "Weevil Underwood" and "Rex Raptor" shows back up to fight in the card game wars. And remember, these people are all japanese except for Pegasus and Bandit Keith. They just happened to all be vacationing in the californian desert. In conclusion the original run was perfectly silly and deserves to get dunked on for card game motorcycle gang fights too. Another Yugioh peeve: why did half the characters keep their japanese names, half get puns for their card game decks, and then Pegasus. His japanese name was Pegasus J. Crawford, and then in the US dub he's called Maximillian Pegasus. And that dude is explicitly american. Cmon, Pegasus J. Crawford is a fantastic US rich fop name.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:A Very Stupid Peeve: I'm sick of people dunking on the Card Game Academy and Card Games on Motorcycles runs of Yugioh instead of the original. Everyone remembers the original for ten hours of static shots of characters looking at their trading cards for a single duel. But the latter half was beautiful. The card game battle city arc ended up with lethal duels on a card game hologram blimp, then halfway through it got interrupted with weeks upon weeks of the Kaiba Corp virtual reality arc, then everyone just jumped straight back to the split personality ancient egyptian card games on a death tower. The arc ends with Seto Kaiba literally exploding the city full of Japan's top duelists and flying away on his dragon jet. THEN there is a whole dumbass fourth arc where the entire gang goes to California and gets in a card game war with a motorcycle gang. Not just the main crew, every single gimmick side character with names like "Mako Tsunami" and "Mai Valentine" and "Weevil Underwood" and "Rex Raptor" shows back up to fight in the card game wars. And remember, these people are all japanese except for Pegasus and Bandit Keith. They just happened to all be vacationing in the californian desert. I somehow managed to break my leg shortly after making this post. lovely desk chair had a screw fall out. For lack of a dedicated "PYF injuries sustained while posting" thread I feel the need to post that somewhere. Thankfully I was pretty stoned so it didn't hurt too bad.
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What an incredible story, genuinely, thank you for sharing
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I somehow managed to break my leg shortly after making this post. lovely desk chair had a screw fall out. For lack of a dedicated "PYF injuries sustained while posting" thread I feel the need to post that somewhere.
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In TV shows, when one person can see ghosts and they get caught apparently talking to no one or doing something else weird, they never do the extremely simple and obvious things that would prove the ghost was real. Like, have the ghost stand on the opposite side of the room and get the sceptic to show them a card. The ghost tells the medium which card, the medium tells the sceptic. You can do it in any location or under any conditions the sceptic likes. Proof, at least, of something supernatural even if you still have your doubts about ghosts in particular. Instead they either keep the ghost a secret for no reason or claim they're talking to ghosts while offering no real evidence, and it's frustrating to watch.
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Tiggum posted:In TV shows, when one person can see ghosts and they get caught apparently talking to no one or doing something else weird, they never do the extremely simple and obvious things that would prove the ghost was real. Like, have the ghost stand on the opposite side of the room and get the sceptic to show them a card. The ghost tells the medium which card, the medium tells the sceptic. You can do it in any location or under any conditions the sceptic likes. Proof, at least, of something supernatural even if you still have your doubts about ghosts in particular. Because then there would be no movie
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Or a very different movie, about falsifiable testing, which could be fun in a serious Ghostbusters way
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Tiggum posted:In TV shows, when one person can see ghosts and they get caught apparently talking to no one or doing something else weird, they never do the extremely simple and obvious things that would prove the ghost was real. Like, have the ghost stand on the opposite side of the room and get the sceptic to show them a card. The ghost tells the medium which card, the medium tells the sceptic. You can do it in any location or under any conditions the sceptic likes. Proof, at least, of something supernatural even if you still have your doubts about ghosts in particular. Even easier, just say the ghost's name three times and let them gently caress up that rude eavesdropper before returning to your conversation.
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Brawnfire posted:Or a very different movie, about falsifiable testing, which could be fun in a serious Ghostbusters way It annoys me in horror movies when there's no legal fallout. There's ten people dead, and the cops just accepts a ghost did it? They're cops, movie.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:It annoys me in horror movies when there's no legal fallout. There's ten people dead, and the cops just accepts a ghost did it? They're cops, movie. That just means that the survivors are white
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02:30 officer responds to reports of screaming and women running in high heels through forest 02:35 officer radios in describing the scene as "creepy, but quiet" 02:36 officer's radio report interrupted by throaty screaming and gurgling blood 02:36 unidentified voice speaks over officer's radio frequency: "na na na na boo boo" CASE CLOSED, DO NOT SEND ANY MORE RESPONDING OFFICERS [CODE: gently caress THAT poo poo]
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:It annoys me in horror movies when there's no legal fallout. There's ten people dead, and the cops just accepts a ghost did it? They're cops, movie. For added verisimilitude the cops should look around, jot a few notes down, and tell everyone "sounds like a civil issue to me, good luck with that."
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Friend of mine is a producer/writer on those "real life" ghost hunter shows, and it's kept her in the money for 20 years now and she goes around the world. What you do is find an abandoned location, write your story and fake the evidence for it. Step 2 is to run a "as seen on TV" ghost hunting event members of the general public can buy tickets for and film it. The Venn diagram of people who genuinely believe in ghosts, and people who will sign a release form so they can pay for themselves to be on the telly is a perfect circle.
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Brawnfire posted:02:30 officer responds to reports of screaming and women running in high heels through forest FTFY
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lol gently caress, that is better
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I purchased a new dresser and bedroom night stands last week, and they arrived Friday. They are all still "flat pack" style furniture, but it's a little bit better quality than the average IKEA or Wayfair piece...in theory. Put the end tables together on Saturday, and all was well. Went to put the dresser together yesterday, and...I can't. It looks like they packed in the wrong size cam screw. I checked, double checked, triple checked. Every hole on a board/drawer/other piece of the dresser that the "screw" side of the cam screw is supposed to go in is too large. And not just like "a little bit too large so when the cam lock is tightened it pulls the screw out." No. They're all too large in the sense of "the hole is large than the widest part of the screw." They have NOTHING to bite/screw into at ALL. Emailed them, and maybe also try to call if I don't get a response soon. I could PROBABLY just go and buy a bunch of larger sized cam screws myself, but I shouldn't have to. But I'm half worried they'll just send a new batch of the same too-small sized screws. There's also the possibility that the holes were made too large, but...how? I haven't checked ALL of them, but I'd say close to 50% and all are too large so it seems more likely the hardware bag I got was just for a different piece of furniture.
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