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New rant: People who refer to themselves in the third person.
There is nothing more annoying than this. I mean, how self-important can you possibly be? Is your ego that huge? Or are you allergic to personal pronouns? Or maybe you're as bright as the Hulk: "Hulk Smash!"
Whatever the reason for it, those who do it sound ridiculous and drive me nutso. I just don't get it.
Saern sympathizes.
You mean like a certain poster on Paizo brandishing a highly over-used "ninja" name?
I agree.
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In defence of the Koga, he's the funniest person here hands down. It's a part of his act, I think, and his posts usually floor me.
Yeah, at first I kinda disliked the whole "I am evil and desperate for attention, WOTC kicked me off their board so deal with me!"-type of attitude but as he allowed the layers to peal off a bit I find that he is a fairly interesting add to the boards. His picture looks like an ad for prozac but hey, we can't all have the rugged good looks of Fakey over here.
FH(oozing machismo, and applying the needed cream 3X daily as prescribed)
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Count me in the pro-Koga camp. Everyone adopts a messageboard persona (I'm an even bigger dick in real life), he's just more over the top about it.
The best message board persona I encountered though was over on ENWorld a few years back when someone posted under the name Redgar. He always referred to himself in the third person and started out always posting in character (the username was a secondary for some other poster, I believe). Unfortunately, after a while, he became just another poster.
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Everyone adopts a messageboard persona (I'm an even bigger dick in real life),
I don't believe it. ;)
I recently had a patient tell me I have to lighten up and get a sense of humor and quit being such a stick. I told her that she couldn't be more wrong about me and I had to earnestly endeaver to learn to affect a state of utmost seriousness since practically everybody I come in contact with as a customer is fairly ill and often not in a joking mood.
I thanked her, though, for the vote of confidence that my roleplaying efforts were not wasted.
Believe it or not, my messageboards persona is that I'm simply a human being. In real life, I'm actually 27 ducks in a James suit. Throw us breadcrumbs. Do it now.
Saern wishes to express that Saern doesn't really have a problem with The Koga. Saern simply wished to jokingly bug Larry Lichman. Saern apologizes for any confusion.
I hate the past two weeks or so of my existence, and wish that whomever decided that they were a good idea step forward so that I can shoot the offending individual in the head.
With a piano.
My coworkers have been abrasive, absent, tardy, or incompetent. The number of obnoxious customers has increased exponentially. We have run out of (or are low on) approximately half of the things we need to stay in business on a day to day basis, and apparently we are in default on rent due to an office SNAFU. I've had near-constant migraines for the duration, and my back is tweaked out enough that you could very nearly use my lower back as a cutting board. On a daily basis, I find myself burning every ounce of willpower I have just to walk into the back away from customers and keep working, rather than committing atrocious acts of violence that would make the policemen flustered and stern; I am not, by nature, an angry and violent person. At the end of this month, three out of eight employees will be leaving for a variety of reasons (myself included) with one more to leave about a month later, and I've seen a grand total of one new applicant thus far.
And then I go play D&D and in the entire five hour session my actions (in character) fall into one of three categories: dealing with traps, running away from a perceived threat, and being beaten into unconsciousness because real threats don't give you a chance to run away. Out of character, I got to sit about listening to a ridiculous number of "adult" jokes or lewd commentary which (while some of it was amusing) was neither what I was there for nor conducive to roleplaying or for that matter keeping the game going at all. And due to the nature of my character, I got weird looks anytime I joined into the banter.
I mean, I don't mind being knocked unconscious once, because I rolled abysmally on a saving throw. That's fair game. Twice in one session, without getting to even make an attack roll, let alone a successful attack (and gods forbid that I get to make an actual Sneak Attack, but the massive pile of suck that is Sneak Attack is another rant of its own), when both are in reaction to me trying to do something that is integral to my character, is going to piss me off. And then when the fourth attack hits my 8 hp in one full attack and I get up to go start working on my character sheet, I'M the one being a jerk.
Yep. I've got my piano right here.
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I have just experienced true gamer hell - someone has stolen my D&D books. A sneak thief crept in and stole the hold-all with my books in it while the front door was unlocked. Fortunately, it wasn't too bad - the three core books, two published modules and my dice, but they also got the character sheets (though they are level 1 and created the day before, so I can probably remember the salient details). I didn't have my campaign notes in there (that really would have been a disaster - 18 months of work lost) nor any of the expansion books. But it is nevertheless upsetting, inconvenient and highly annoying. What also galls is that the drug-addled loser who stole it won't know what to do with it and will probably sling the lot in the canal. Hanging is really too good for them.
PS This isn't an appeal for Paizo charity, though it has been offered to others in the past - I am not poor, and the loss was not great and fairly replaceable. I'm just currying sympathy. Thank you.
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I recently had a patient tell me I have to lighten up and get a sense of humor and quit being such a stick. I told her that she couldn't be more wrong about me and I had to earnestly endeaver to learn to affect a state of utmost seriousness since practically everybody I come in contact with as a customer is fairly ill and often not in a joking mood.
I thanked her, though, for the vote of confidence that my roleplaying efforts were not wasted.
Heathanson - the furry Prince of Darkness.
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SO here is osmething of a positive rant. I recently misplaced my sunglasses. It didn't bother me too much, because I had stopped buying expensive ones after dropping an $80 pair over the side of a Navy Destroyer. Still, I needed new sunglasses. This always bugs me a little, because I can never find the kind I like - perfectly round frames. I had orginally bought a pair like that in highschool, and had them for years before they fell apart.
So there we were (the chick and I) in the mall looking around, when what to my wondering eyes does appear, but exact duplicates of the aforementioned original pair - in the dollar store. So I bought them. next time I'm in the mall, I may go back and buy 3 or 4 more pair, just because I can.
So there is my positive rant. Although it wasn't really a rant, more like a story.
Oh yeah, hoorah for the COLTS!
I hate the past two weeks or so of my existence, and wish that whomever decided that they were a good idea step forward so that I can shoot the offending individual in the head.
With a piano.
My coworkers have been abrasive, absent, tardy, or incompetent. The number of obnoxious customers has increased exponentially. We have run out of (or are low on) approximately half of the things we need to stay in business on a day to day basis, and apparently we are in default on rent due to an office SNAFU. I've had near-constant migraines for the duration, and my back is tweaked out enough that you could very nearly use my lower back as a cutting board. On a daily basis, I find myself burning every ounce of willpower I have just to walk into the back away from customers and keep working, rather than committing atrocious acts of violence that would make the policemen flustered and stern; I am not, by nature, an angry and violent person. At the end of this month, three out of eight employees will be leaving for a variety of reasons (myself included) with one more to leave about a month later, and I've seen a grand total of one new applicant thus far.
Hmmm... Migraines, back aches, low-energy, short temper... I'm no doctor, but I have been working in office spaces for a long time. These are the symptoms of stress my friend. And by the tone of your post, I'd say your not far from what is known as a 'burn-out'.
You're saying that you're leaving that work area at the end of the month... Well, my suggestion is to focus on that. Tell yourself that all these frustrations will become futile in a few weeks. So no matter what happens in the comming days, no matter how crappy, it won't matter soon.
Start unloading the weight on your back... You'll be surprised what a change of attitude can do for you (I usually laugh out loud when my boss gives me an impossible deadline). And best of all, rant away on this thread when you feel the need.
This community has a pretty big shoulder for you to lean on!
Ultradan
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Saern wishes to express that Saern doesn't really have a problem with The Koga. Saern simply wished to jokingly bug Larry Lichman. Saern apologizes for any confusion.
Who's The Koga? My rant was a general rant, not meant to single out a poster. I'll have to look out for him.
And Saern, I got a good laugh after reading your response...
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My coworkers have been abrasive, absent, tardy, or incompetent. The number of obnoxious customers has increased exponentially. We have run out of (or are low on) approximately half of the things we need to stay in business on a day to day basis, and apparently we are in default on rent due to an office SNAFU. I've had near-constant migraines for the duration, and my back is tweaked out enough that you could very nearly use my lower back as a cutting board. On a daily basis, I find myself burning every ounce of willpower I have just to walk into the back away from customers and keep working, rather than committing atrocious acts of violence that would make the policemen flustered and stern; I am not, by nature, an angry and violent person. At the end of this month, three out of eight employees will be leaving for a variety of reasons (myself included) with one more to leave about a month later, and I've seen a grand total of one new applicant thus far.
I never realized we worked together!
In all seriousness, I feel your pain. My office fired three of its 12 or so staff members the day after Christmas. To date no replacements have started work here. And because I'm the only one who really knows what I'm doing around here, that leaves me to pick up most of the slack.
I also had stepped down to a lower position to fill one of the vacancies, and then they proceeded to promote someone into my old position and told me I would be in the lower position indefinitely.
Well, they think it's indefinite. I know that, depending on how my interview at another company works out tomorrow, it will be over very soon.
OK, four 1st level PCs walk into a dungeon after being payed by some villagers to deal with some monsters that have been attacking them from a nearby ruin. Pretty straight forward right? Then once we're inside the building and we have just finished combat with one of the creatures inside it occurs to me to ask how much we are being paid. The DM considers for a moment (clearly making this up as she goes along) and then quite calmly says "a 100,000gp" thats not total either thats for each of us. I am now sitting quitley apalled trying to figure out how I can make our DM understand that a 100,000gp is completley unreasonable for a 1st level character. We have dealt with this issue before. We (actually I and one other player are the only ones that see the problem) have always had a problem with her giving out extravagant treasure just because its "too cool not use". I don't want this character to be munchkinized, I like him fine as a normal 1st level PC. Then after one of the party dies and we get a powerful curse put upon us. One of the other players (who doesn't see this extravagant treasure as a bad thing) decides to use her ring of one wish (something the same DM gave out in a previous campaign) to remove the curse. The DM says that the only way to remove the curse is to get to the treasure at the center of the building so we got there, got our curse removed and then went back to the village to claim our payment. After the session I tried to explain to the DM that the treasure she had given out was too much but she didn't really listen (and never does when I bring this issue to her). This presents me with a new problem; I like her campaigns for the most part but this obscene amout makes it a lot less fun for me. I am probably going to just play a character I don't really care about in her campaigns now. Plus I have a very unpleasant head cold that is making life a lot less enjoyable.
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100,000gp at 1st level
Here's my suggestion:
Use that cash to buy something OBSCENE. Something that will utterly annihilate the challenges she presents you with at your levels. Maybe a Staff of Power or something. Make her campaign SUFFER this imbalance. Maybe when she sees level 2 and 3 characters obliterating CR 5+ monsters without breaking a sweat, she'll realize her error. If she doesn't and starts overcompensating with CR 12+ monsters, she'll wipe the party and then find herself without a campaign to run.
Repeat this process as necessary until lesson is learned. If she doesn't ever get the point, at least you'll have fun ruining campaigns disasterously. :D
I want to rant about art school, but I've already said it all. I look forward to getting my useless degree in May so that I can flounder about further trying to find employment and fill in the educational gaps that I've been left with.
I find it very annoying when people stand still on the escalator. The idea of an escalator is to add speed to the average human gait, thus getting you to where you are going faster. When you get there and stand like a bump on a log, leaning against the railing, it looks like an evolutionary chart. "The Humans On Display!", as Henry Rollins put it. Why are you so tired, middle aged man on the escalator? Walking under your own power is too taxing? At least if you're way up on the side, I can climb past you. But standing directly in the center of the apparatus, arms at the side so that none can pass... You're just taunting me. And the ironic thing is, security has to drag ME away kicking and screaming when I kick you in the ass to reboot your admittedly primitive software.
Even worse is taking the elevator from the first floor to the second. My god. If you're old or in any way not fully operational from the waste-down, I have no beef. But seeing healthy college students in their late teens and early twenties, staunchly refusing to walk down a flight of stairs fills me with rage. How lazy can you get? If your legs work and you have to go anywhere below the fourth floor, take the damn stairs. The exercise is good for you.
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Heh heh...on that note, people about to walk all over WalMart, who need to sit there 10 minutes while some little old lady puts 25 bags of crap in her ride so they can park 3 spots away from the front, when there's an open space 10 spots away from the front. What's a car spot, 8 feet wide? Walk 56 more feet, doofus!
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I want to rant about art school, but I've already said it all. I look forward to getting my useless degree in May so that I can flounder about further trying to find employment and fill in the educational gaps that I've been left with.
Saw your work on the thread you posted....quite impressed, reminds me of some of the old time war posters and an old edition of Alice in Wonderland that had similar art. I know you hate it but they are giving you the time to develope into an amazing artist.
Even worse is taking the elevator from the first floor to the second. My god. If you're old or in any way not fully operational from the waste-down, I have no beef. But seeing healthy college students in their late teens and early twenties, staunchly refusing to walk down a flight of stairs fills me with rage. How lazy can you get? If your legs work and you have to go anywhere below the fourth floor, take the damn stairs. The exercise is good for you.
I am guessing that you had to wait in line for the elevator behind Mr. Kettle, eh, Mr. Pot! ;P
FH
I want to rant about art school, but I've already said it all. I look forward to getting my useless degree in May so that I can flounder about further trying to find employment and fill in the educational gaps that I've been left with.Saw your work on the thread you posted....quite impressed, reminds me of some of the old time war posters and an old edition of Alice in Wonderland that had similar art. I know you hate it but they are giving you the time to develope into an amazing artist.
Even worse is taking the elevator from the first floor to the second. My god. If you're old or in any way not fully operational from the waste-down, I have no beef. But seeing healthy college students in their late teens and early twenties, staunchly refusing to walk down a flight of stairs fills me with rage. How lazy can you get? If your legs work and you have to go anywhere below the fourth floor, take the damn stairs. The exercise is good for you.I am guessing that you had to wait in line for the elevator behind Mr. Kettle, eh, Mr. Pot! ;P
FH
Thank you for the compliments...and for pointing out my hypocrisy.
Even worse is taking the elevator from the first floor to the second. My god. If you're old or in any way not fully operational from the waste-down, I have no beef. But seeing healthy college students in their late teens and early twenties, staunchly refusing to walk down a flight of stairs fills me with rage. How lazy can you get? If your legs work and you have to go anywhere below the fourth floor, take the damn stairs. The exercise is good for you.
I hate it after a long day at work when I am sitting on the bus for my 45 minute bus ride home, and school kids get on from their school in a huge clump, then get off at McDonalds at the very next stop.
Seriously, you can SEE the next stop from where you get on in my city, it's never more than about 300 metres away, and usually closer to 100. They space them so that they are at walking distance from one another.
These kids spend ages piling on the bus, chatting, one after another, and then get off ONE measly minute later. They're teenagers, and they're too lazy to walk 300 metres. Just because they have unlimited ride school term bus passes.
I curse them to be fat adults, which honestly doesn't seem all that unlikely considering that they'll ride the bus for one minute to get a Big Mac.
Fatespinner, I might take your idea. Unfortunatley everyone else does by obscene items like this but mabye I'll save up and buy something that really hurts the campaigns. And on another topic I mabye anyone who doesn't use their legs out of sheer laziness could have them ampuntated.
This is a kickass thread! Here's my rant:
I hate my DM when he's a player! I can't say it to his face, but I absolutely hate hate HATE it when he's playing in my groups. He's a fine DM, but when he lets me or anyone else play, he always makes a horribly overpowered (yet legit) character.
When told that he was playing in a core only game, he made a straight wizard that was somehow so optimized that he absolutely devestated my campaign.
I'm trying to get as much DMing experience as I can, and yet he always does crazy stuff! He'll show me a rule that allows one guy in my Eberron campaign play a warforged based off of a thri-kreen. I liked the idea until I found out that his character is able to haste the warforged and give it 5 attacks per round doing 2d6 plus strength each thanks to some magic item that he found in an official Wizards sourcebook.
Did he ask me about this item? No!
That's another thing that grinds my gears. I hate players who think that it's their god-given right to use any material they own. I have a player who has Tome of Magic and will be damned if he doesn't use it. And then after a session or two, he decides he'd rather not play one of the new spellcasters from the book and asks to make a new character.
I subscribe to Dragon magazine. I buy sourcebooks on a nearly regular basis. But do I whine when he says that he doesn't like to use races from Dragon? Do I b+&%+ and moan if he doesn't want classes from Tome of Battle (awesome book, btw) in the current campaign? Hell no!
Just because I can't play a cactacae warblade (or something to that effect) doesn't mean that I tell my DM that he's making me waste money on these things. Either I'll use them in my campaigns when I DM or another DM will let me use it.
Once again, great thread ya'll.
Oooh! Cool! Love the censors, Paizo! I don't mind when certain words I use get censored (in fact, I expect it sometimes), but it bugs me when a site just turns b$$@~ into *****. Awesome!
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Hey, Arctaris!!!
I've got a book called "Under the Black Flag" by David Cordingly about the golden age of pirates. It describes a certain history of Jamaica by Charles Leslie published in 1740 about the "prodigality" of pirates:
"Wine and women drained their wealth to such a degree that, in a little time, some of them became reduced to beggary."
According to Leslie, they would spend 2 to 3,000 pieces of eight in a night; one pirate gave a strumpet 500 to see her au naturale. They'd buy a pipe of wine, roll it in the street, and oblige any and all they encountered to drink.
That's like 2,000 g.p. a night times 4 p.c.'s? You guys can blow THAT in a fortnight. Man, see how fast you guys can blow 100,000 g.p. on frivolous bullcrap. THAT'S fantasy....
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Hey, Arctaris!!!
I've got a book called "Under the Black Flag" by David Cordingly about the golden age of pirates. It describes a certain history of Jamaica by Charles Leslie published in 1740 about the "prodigality" of pirates:"Wine and women drained their wealth to such a degree that, in a little time, some of them became reduced to beggary."
According to Leslie, they would spend 2 to 3,000 pieces of eight in a night; one pirate gave a strumpet 500 to see her au naturale. They'd buy a pipe of wine, roll it in the street, and oblige any and all they encountered to drink.
That's like 2,000 g.p. a night times 4 p.c.'s? You guys can blow THAT in a fortnight. Man, see how fast you guys can blow 100,000 g.p. on frivolous bullcrap. THAT'S fantasy....
Gods, to be a pirate! Another reason why pirates are so much more rockin' than ninjas! Is that book a good read? I may get it.
FH
Fakey, it's definitely one of the better historical pirate books out there.
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Fakey, it's definitely one of the better historical pirate books out there.
That's all the endorsement I need.
Rant on! I hate that the only place in my area to buy books is at Borders! They never have what I want even though the place is the size of a small Wal-mart. I hate having to order online! Shipping sucks for books!
On a cool note, I picked up The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Mythology by Arthur Cotterell and Rachel Storm at Borders on clearance for $10. Hardback, 500+ pages, 12"x9", and so far it seems to be pretty well organized and well researched (not that I am an expert). Great pics of carvings, engraving, statuary, painting, jewelry, etc. Good stuff.
FH
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I have just experienced true gamer hell - someone has stolen my D&D books. A sneak thief crept in and stole the hold-all with my books in it while the front door was unlocked. Fortunately, it wasn't too bad - the three core books, two published modules and my dice, but they also got the character sheets (though they are level 1 and created the day before, so I can probably remember the salient details). I didn't have my campaign notes in there (that really would have been a disaster - 18 months of work lost) nor any of the expansion books. But it is nevertheless upsetting, inconvenient and highly annoying. What also galls is that the drug-addled loser who stole it won't know what to do with it and will probably sling the lot in the canal. Hanging is really too good for them.
PS This isn't an appeal for Paizo charity, though it has been offered to others in the past - I am not poor, and the loss was not great and fairly replaceable. I'm just currying sympathy. Thank you.
Oh man, thats really horrible - I feel for you. I once left a backpack full of all my D&D stuff on a train - somehow - and only realised once I had gotten off. Thankfully I managed to jump back on before the doors closed, and my bag was still there under my seat, but still ... I (almost) feel your pain.
Thank the gods you didn't have your campaign notes or any more books in there.
I hate the cold today New York today. I took my hat off for a second and a gust of chilled wind turned my head into a block of ice cube.
Set myself up for an insult with that wording, eh?
That said, I'm actually happy that winter made an appearance. The world's weather has me more afraid than I could possibly detail, and not because of recent media... the coming eventualities have always paralyzed me.
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Fakey, it's definitely one of the better historical pirate books out there.That's all the endorsement I need.
Rant on! I hate that the only place in my area to buy books is at Borders! They never have what I want even though the place is the size of a small Wal-mart. I hate having to order online! Shipping sucks for books!
On a cool note, I picked up The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Mythology by Arthur Cotterell and Rachel Storm at Borders on clearance for $10. Hardback, 500+ pages, 12"x9", and so far it seems to be pretty well organized and well researched (not that I am an expert). Great pics of carvings, engraving, statuary, painting, jewelry, etc. Good stuff.FH
FH, that Mythology Encyclopedia is awesome! Lots of great info to be found in one location. It saves you from having to access multiple books to compare information. Mine has about 25 sticky notes marking pages so I can reference entries when I need to for my games and research.
Also, if you like books about historical pirates, I strongly recommend "The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd" by Richard Zacks. It's a good read that really clarifies a lot of the myths and falsehoods about Captain Kidd's life.
As for a rant: American Idol. MAKE IT STOP!!!
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FH, that Mythology Encyclopedia is awesome! Lots of great info to be found in one location. It saves you from having to access multiple books to compare information. Mine has about 25 sticky notes marking pages so I can reference entries when I need to for my games and research.Also, if you like books about historical pirates, I strongly recommend "The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd" by Richard Zacks. It's a good read that really clarifies a lot of the myths and falsehoods about Captain Kidd's life.
As for a rant: American Idol. MAKE IT STOP!!!
Yeah, as I slowly and methodically absorb the Encyclopedia I am becoming more impressed. I will have to look into the Captain Kidd book. Thanks.
I also hate American Idol and the others like it. I also hate most "reality" shows, but for some reason get all giddy when Big Brother starts another season. And DAMN YOU SURVIVOR!!! I hate that you have 1 good season then 1 horrible season, rinse, repeat!!
I hate that a promo for a CSI:Somewhere had a killer posting his crime on the web, it becoming the most watched clip, and the line used by the investigaters....."Murder as entertainment, what is the world coming to..." A$$HOLES! Your stupid little "dramas" are nothing but "Murder as entertainment"!!! What happened to good TV that wasn't bloody and gory! You appeal to the lowest common denoninator and keep trying to up the shock value and all you do is desensitize the general population to the horrors that are rapidly becoming prevalent in our world!! As much as I hate the government running our lives, I wish they would step in and get this crap toned down.
You wanna make murder, slasher, Saw-type movies? Fine, they should be sold in adult book stores. Shown at adult theatres. You wanna make exploitive disgusting music that denigrates women and talks about how your gonna "smack that @ss"? Great, sell it in an adult themed store. Now you have to show the ID, the people who pander to the lowest common denoninator are finding it less profitable, and maybe decency and morality could make a bit of a come-back. I don't want a 12 year old buying Fiddy Cents' CD or the hundreds of them like it out there. They shouldn't be learning those types of lyrics. I don't want a 12 year old walking into Best Buy and picking up Saw or Texas Chainsaw Massacre. They shouldn't be exposed to those types of images.
Yeah, I know, "parents should regulate what their kids do" and I will. Most don't, and get mad at people who suggest they should. I can't even watch TV after 8:30 at night without seeing horrible advertisements for the latest 8 slasher movies! Stuff that, if I was a kid, would haunt my nightmares for years.
Come on! And stop using children in these things! I don't wanna think about the horror that kid had to go through to end up like the monster you are showing on screen! Why is this entertaining?
Wake up people. We're not alright.
FH
well, I think this rant thread is a big success; am glad it got started; was a bit timid of it at first, but I think it has turned out to be a really positive thing. It really helps me keep some perpective on life instead of drownding in the swill of my own problems - that of my life being ground under the heal of my wife and our seemingly long term separtation which is really wierd, been like 8 months now but have ranted about that before, but wow; peoples whose workplace sucks or games that suck. Wow I feel for you guys, I dont think I could go to a job that sucked and roleplaying games are my weekly catharsis, if that sucked I would be sunk.
I have never been as happy at work as when I got out of retail; I work in a factory that makes wafers for microprocessors and while a bit monotonous; it is great; most peeps are educateded and reasonable and works toward making things work better. For me, I kinda dread going home to an empty house...guess I would rather have the sucky job or roleplaying game :(
I am with you FH in a big way; those reality shows are horrible, most tv really bites. And I especially hate commercial programing; like I am watching a g rated kids show for 4 year old with my kids and a commercial comes on about some show or movie that is so graphic and violent that it scares the crap out of them; sheesh, stupid networks; give a guy a chance and stop playing that crap during Dora the Explorer and stuff like that; sheesh it is hard enough being a parent without dealing with scarey nightmares from some jerk who thought it was a good idea to show Hannible or Ghost Rider adverts during a little kids show.
I now welcome global warming with open arms. I never want to crawl into the crawlspace under my bathroom with a blowtorch again. Misserable, 9 degree weather and frozen pipes! I am happy I did not set anything on fire./Counting the years to retirement in some southern state.
I hear you, Bill, the cold does suck the shell off an egg, but it's really not going to be a permanent summer vacation. The consequences will redefine disastrous. About this, I'm afraid I've no humor left. I'm sorry to be downer. :(
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I hate the cold today New York today. I took my hat off for a second and a gust of chilled wind turned my head into a block of ice cube.
Set myself up for an insult with that wording, eh?
That said, I'm actually happy that winter made an appearance. The world's weather has me more afraid than I could possibly detail, and not because of recent media... the coming eventualities have always paralyzed me.
I now welcome global warming with open arms. I never want to crawl into the crawlspace under my bathroom with a blowtorch again. Misserable, 9 degree weather and frozen pipes! I am happy I did not set anything on fire.
/Counting the years to retirement in some southern state.
You anywhere near Delaware? That temp was exactly what we had yesterday. Just wondering.
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I hate the cold today New York today. I took my hat off for a second and a gust of chilled wind turned my head into a block of ice cube.
Set myself up for an insult with that wording, eh?
That said, I'm actually happy that winter made an appearance. The world's weather has me more afraid than I could possibly detail, and not because of recent media... the coming eventualities have always paralyzed me.
I now welcome global warming with open arms. I never want to crawl into the crawlspace under my bathroom with a blowtorch again. Misserable, 9 degree weather and frozen pipes! I am happy I did not set anything on fire.
/Counting the years to retirement in some southern state.
You anywhere near Delaware? That temp was exactly what we had yesterday. Just wondering.
FH
I'd love 9 degrees. It was -4 degrees this morning in Ohio...Stupid weather...
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I think it was in the 80's yesterday. Gorgeous really. But I still hate San Diego's monotonous weather. The great thing about a real climate is that just when you get sick of a particular weather type, it changes. Spring is particularly great that way. You go several months in snow, freezing your ass off, then bam, it all melts, and there's sunshine and it's terrific. And, when it snows again later that week, you'll appreciate the warm weather again next time it comes around.
Instead, I get day in and day out of the sun beating down, draining the color from everything.
Also, I hate cell phones. And not in the a$~*~&~s drive them while talking way (that's me, after all), but in the could they be any less reliable way. I also love that as they become more like real computers they also crash just like real computers. I have to reboot my stupid blackberry at least 5 times a day. And half the time when I try and make a call, it decides it can't make the connection.
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Bella Sara Charter Superscriber
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Where's my violin? 80 degrees..."sob"...
Bah. It's a g*+#!+n desert. Humans were not meant to live here. I'm sure it sounds nice when you are in the cold miserable weather, but seriously, it gets old.
Yeh...I heard in New York you can't drive around blathering on your cell phone.
Question: can you talk on the phone while following what's on the television? No? Why then do so many people think they can drive? and talk on the phone?
Uh...because talking on the phone and watching tv both require you to process language. Stop and go traffic requires you to respond to stimuli (take foot off break, put foot on gas, put foot on break, take foot off break, put foot on gas, put foot on break).
My experience is that people that b~%@% about talking on the cell phone and driving are those that actually get to drive during their commute. Spend a half hour to hour each day basically parked and see if you can't multi-task that time. If you are driving on city streets or some other dynamic environment, a higher level of concentration is required, and I generally don't talk on the phone in such situations.
Why is it that you can't listen to music and follow what's going on the television? Doesn't that mean you shouldn't listen to the radio while driving too?