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Killingyouguy! posted:The local arcade uses a card you load a balance onto, which to its credit, is way more reliable and accessible than requiring coins. The last arcade I went to had cards and no bullshit points system but you could only add credit in increments of $7.
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DrBouvenstein posted:Reminds me of how a lot of online services used to (some still do?) work where you could only load up your account in, say, increments of $5 but no purchase would ever be divisible by $5, so you always had unused amounts. Bioware points 
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Brawnfire posted:There's been this non-stop high-pitched whine in my neighborhood and I can't figure out where it is or what to do about it. It's like an emergency test signal is just on somewhere. I know it's been going since it was cold out, but now with the windows open I can hear it inside. The hum.
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People pulling the "But they're your FAMILY" nonsense I know, doesn't mean I have to spend any time/effort/etc. on them when they're a piece of poo poo and I have long since told you my feelings "But FAMILY~" 
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Brawnfire posted:There's been this non-stop high-pitched whine in my neighborhood and I can't figure out where it is or what to do about it. It's like an emergency test signal is just on somewhere. I know it's been going since it was cold out, but now with the windows open I can hear it inside. The earth is crying https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR1FOY5Vhi8
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Negostrike posted:The earth is crying Wtf Brawnfire posted:Sound like a tuba 
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At an industry symposium and have two of them A. Why the gently caress is this hotel so cold? The minute it gets above 70 out every business in the city cranks their AC to maximum power. I'm taking walks after every other talk just to warm up B. Don't stand in the loving presentation room if you're just going to talk to your friend the whole time. How these people have the balls to clap at the end of a talk I don't know! What are they even clapping for, it's not like they were listening.
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Not sure why the truck that empties the dumpsters across the street feels compelled to try to dislodge a sticker from the bottom using only the force of the truck, or whatever the gently caress he's doing One time I saw several guys standing around watching this dude shake the dumpster back and forth, trying to shake loose a single plastic bag that was dangling. Meanwhile, it's filling a residential neighborhood with the sound of Transformers fighting. Either grab a long stick or just let it loving go, man.
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Apr 12, 2023 16:07
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The first day that it's nice enough outside to open the windows, and every motherfucker with a lawnmower or a leaf blower is out there all loving day.
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People hunger at the chance to make noise. It's really hard to get something to truly carry when the windows are all closed. Now's your chance to make everyone hear your activities. If you've got a massive chain in your pick-up truck bed, why not drag it around a bit? Any arrhythmic hammering you've been meaning to do? Perhaps an unlikely number of boards to cut with a huge power saw? If you're too busy or at work, you can always get giant dogs that think every human being on the block is an intruding murderapist and they'll take on the brunt of noisemaking for you
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As if the dogs and leaf blower dipshits weren't enough, several of my neighbors have installed fake home security systems with a motion sensor and speaker that screams "YOU ARE BEING RECORDED" at any activity as minor as a bird taking a poo poo 50 meters away. So now I get to listen to those going off at least once a minute, 24/7.
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Dip Viscous posted:As if the dogs and leaf blower dipshits weren't enough, several of my neighbors have installed fake home security systems with a motion sensor and speaker that screams "YOU ARE BEING RECORDED" at any activity as minor as a bird taking a poo poo 50 meters away. So now I get to listen to those going off at least once a minute, 24/7. My neighbor two doors down had one of these, but it was a blaring siren. Thank God he moved.
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Dip Viscous posted:As if the dogs and leaf blower dipshits weren't enough, several of my neighbors have installed fake home security systems with a motion sensor and speaker that screams "YOU ARE BEING RECORDED" at any activity as minor as a bird taking a poo poo 50 meters away. So now I get to listen to those going off at least once a minute, 24/7. Holy poo poo, really? That reminds me of someone who had a car near my house when I was a teenager. It had an alarm that was a woman's voice saying "help! Help! Please, help! Help! Help! Please, help!" Over and over. Comically loud, electronic-sounding, like an anguished Alexa wandered into the street imploring passers-by for assistance.
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Also who are these chucklefucks who find themselves pulling onto a street lined with houses and children playing in the yards, and think "ah, must be the freeway"
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When banks and companies send out incredibly loving generic warnings so that you're forced to log in on their site to see what the deal is. Bank: We have an important message for you in your inbox! What, did I forget a payment or something? Important message: We're changing one of our account numbers, this only matters for you if you have a fixed regular transfer set up, if you use electronic billing you'll get the correct one automatically. When there's no confidential info or anything, just send it out in the notification email you already sent me, loving hell. Few things fill me with more dread than economic institutions sending out messages about 'important information'. So much poo poo nowadays feels like it's designed around gating info just to force a couple extra logins and bump up their analytics.
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SubNat posted:When banks and companies send out incredibly loving generic warnings so that you're forced to log in on their site to see what the deal is. https://twitter.com/steph_mcca/status/1466840223686430724?s=20
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My next door neighbour is a Spurs fan, and whenever they play I can hear him screaming and roaring through the walls, while his wife cleans and tidies around him and his kids play outside. I love football too, but being such a huge obnoxious man baby about it is really pathetic, and must set a terrible example to his children.
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Apr 15, 2023 20:22
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Top tier trolling, friend. Great job.
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SubNat posted:When banks and companies send out incredibly loving generic warnings so that you're forced to log in on their site to see what the deal is. The government services website here adds a level to this. All items in the inbox are PDFs of physical letters so you have to download it to get to read the pointless drivel.
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Brawnfire posted:There's been this non-stop high-pitched whine in my neighborhood and I can't figure out where it is or what to do about it. It's like an emergency test signal is just on somewhere. I know it's been going since it was cold out, but now with the windows open I can hear it inside. I used to live in a neighborhood that was all rental duplexes and this was always the low battery alert in the smoke alarm of an empty unit.
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Our working theory is an alarmed security door on the highschool that someone keeps busting through.
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All this time I thought the title was “The Portrait of Dorian Grey”
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The Perfect Element posted:My next door neighbour is a Spurs fan, and whenever they play I can hear him screaming and roaring through the walls, while his wife cleans and tidies around him and his kids play outside. oldpainless posted:Top tier trolling, friend. Great job. A while back I could hear a rhythmic slapping sound coming from a roommate's room and I was like "okay whatever I'm not going to judge how you jerk it." Then he stopped and I could hear the baseball game he was clapping to. Alone. Like a psychopath.
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SubNat posted:When banks and companies send out incredibly loving generic warnings so that you're forced to log in on their site to see what the deal is. Had my bank do this to me a few weeks ago. "URGENT message waiting in your account inbox! Please read immediately!" ...it was confirmation they had received a piece of paperwork I had sent them
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It peeves me that I can throw my back out by... sitting at my desk. A thing I do, and have done, every day without incident for years. Aging. Aging is my pet peeve.
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Love 2 lay on the floor until it sort of feels 98% better. A foam roller has become my best friend. loving lumbar's jacked.
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how does one cat take up more room on a bed than two people and a dog howwww
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:how does one cat take up more room on a bed than two people and a dog Because cats fuckin rule thats how.
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Brawnfire posted:Love 2 lay on the floor until it sort of feels 98% better. Yeah the plan is to retrieve my roller from the garage as soon as I can move further than bed-toilet-bed. The week had started off so well, too.
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The tendency of many modern TV shows (especially sci-fi but others probably do it as well) that feel the need to provide badly written over-explanations of everything. For example: It's not enough to say that budgeting explains the discrepancies between OG Star Trek Klingons and more modern ones; instead, let's write  about Augments and double secret probation diseases that magically changed Klingon's appearances for reasons! When they're not doing that, they're making Section 31 the cause of everything vaguely mysterious in Star Trek history.I know it's probably not just Star Trek either; the sequel trilogy of Star Wars has this same tendency and it robs franchises of their mystique. Writers who do this are not nearly as clever as they seem to think they are.
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It’s a studio mandate because the people who run studios and give money think the audience are idiots because they themselves are idiots. If you ever hear what it’s like to talk to a studio exec it’s baffling. They’re all dim as hell, and have not a creative bone in their entire body but yet they dictate our entertainment
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It's nice to have something that helps explain the science, if it's super simple. I always thought of "inertia dampeners" from Star Trek as being a perfect way of explaining something. Inertia dampener, sure, my brain can figure out what that means, and I don't need any more explanation than that.
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The reason I'll never watch 2010: The Year We Made Contact is that it spoils everything beautiful about 2001 by explaining away a lot of its mysteries. 2001 is not everyone's cup of tea but it's one of my favorites in part because it's so enigmatic.
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Studio execs correctly assume everyone is as dumb as they are.
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Prime Video gives you literally three or four seconds after an episode of something ends before it auto plays the next one. Even if you want to keep on watching, that's still weirdly rushed.
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The Perfect Element posted:Prime Video gives you literally three or four seconds after an episode of something ends before it auto plays the next one. Even if you want to keep on watching, that's still weirdly rushed. Except for when it randomly has a 20 second countdown, instead.
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