Things That Annoy You

[chitoryu12]

The Something Awful forum's been down for over a day now.

Not excellent! I'm involved in two play-by-post games there!

[The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist]

When people from other countries think they know more about how things are in your own country than you do.

[Witchyjoshy]

The Something Awful forum's been down for over a day now.

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Not excellent! I'm involved in two play-by-post games there!

Yeah, but I'm a biased bastard because I hate that site and most people on it, so nyeeeeeeeh!

(Don't take me too seriously)

[lord gibbon]

HOLY SHIT, THIS IS THE BIGGEST FUCKING HAILSTORM I'VE EVER BEEN IN AND I'M FUCKING TERRIFIED!

[Witchyjoshy]

My cat climbed up on my bed earlier.

Using my bare foot.

[Kat S.]

When people from other countries think they know more about how things are in your own country than you do.

Kind of going off a tangent, it annoys me when people assume I'm some dumb conservative because I'm from Texas.  I am not, and so are millions of other Texans here.

HOLY SHIT, THIS IS THE BIGGEST FUCKING HAILSTORM I'VE EVER BEEN IN AND I'M FUCKING TERRIFIED!

I hope nothing was damaged where you live, lord gibbon.  I hope the hail wasn't that huge.  I've seen hail as big as tennis balls.  One time, when I was a kid, hail the size of baseballs to softballs fell one night, but it was during the night and when I woke up, they were all gone.

My cat climbed up on my bed earlier.

Using my bare foot.

When I had cats, they would like to sit on my lap.  That was fine until they would start doing that clawing and kneading thing on my pants, and their claws would dig into my skin.  Ouch.

[lord gibbon]

Well, I'm ok. The hail was only about Ping-Pong ball sized. What made it scary was sheer quantity. We're talking veils of ice constantly falling, it sounded like a drummers convention. Ad to that strong winds and near constant lightning, and you have one hell of a storm. No one died, but my mom's garden was utterly shredded, the trees around town have lost a lot of branches, and I've seen more than one dead bird.

[RavynousHunter]

I literally have a headache from trying to work out how damage from convection (from lava) will work in my game.  I've gotten what appears to be a reasonable, in game terms (that is to say likely not realistic in the slightest), formula for how far the heat can spread thru air and how it interacts with solid barriers (the spread is halved for each meter of solid barrier between the lava and the next available air block), but I'm having a bitch of a time figuring out how to say, in mathematical terms, "you'll take X damage per second per meter away from the lava you're near, depending on how hot the lava is and how far its heat can spread."  Breaking things down to numbers is fun, but it can be a bear, lemme tell ya.

[Zygarde]

So a few days ago I applied for a job at Barns & Nobel seeing as my household is going through some financial problems, I got rejected... so it's back to square fucking one. Hopefully the coffee shop I applied to hires me.

[Igor]

Lately I've been getting really annoyed at this attitude of perceiving isolated inappropriate comments as something horrible that the person should be condemned forever. I'm getting sick of people acting like x actor or y comedian is irredeemable because they said something in poor taste once - especially in the case of comedians, since it's kind of their job to say things that would be offensive in most non-comedic situations. I mean yes, sometimes people go way over the line, and yes, they should be called out on it, but that line seems to be moving closer and closer to "what personally offends me, regardless of context", and context... is important. There are still enough people out there constantly spewing horrible racist, sexist, anti-LGBT and the like comments that I don't think we need to resort to a witch-hunt.

..also the idea that a person doing or saying one bad thing invalidates everything good that they've done and said in the past. I'm noticing this more and more, and it's starting to bother me...

[Random Gal]

I literally have a headache from trying to work out how damage from convection (from lava) will work in my game.  I've gotten what appears to be a reasonable, in game terms (that is to say likely not realistic in the slightest), formula for how far the heat can spread thru air and how it interacts with solid barriers (the spread is halved for each meter of solid barrier between the lava and the next available air block), but I'm having a bitch of a time figuring out how to say, in mathematical terms, "you'll take X damage per second per meter away from the lava you're near, depending on how hot the lava is and how far its heat can spread."  Breaking things down to numbers is fun, but it can be a bear, lemme tell ya.

D&D generally uses 1d6 damage if you're in close proximity to lava, and 20d6 if you're actually in it. A good idea might be to increase the type of die used depending on distance (use 1d12 if you're within 5 feet, 1d4 if you're on the other side of the room, etc.)

[niam2023]

I heard rumours that Marvel might be interested in making a Sentry movie - just for reference, Sentry is essentially blond pretty boy Superman but struggling against psychotic illness and a split personality and with more Jungian Psychology and Angelic motifs. And the Marvel fanboys are already leaping out to call this idea a travesty, and if it happens "I am done with this company!"

Their main argument seems to be that he was badly handled in the main comics, and thus, he should not ever be on the big screen. And this whopper of an unfortunate implications argument delivered by one fanbrat I encountered; "The mentally ill belong in asylums - they have no right to be heroes!"

I brought up Deadpool, and his retort was "but Deadpool's a fun kind of crazy - Reynolds isn't." Newsflash, fanbrats, having psychoses is not a joyride.

[ironbite]

Deadpool's not insane.  He's just aware of the 4th wall.

Ironbite-Sentry is legit insane.

[TheUnknown]

Why the hell did Chrome ever take away the 'set as desktop wallpaper' option?  And furthermore, why the hell has only one person ever made an extension that puts it in?  Nevermind that that one extension hasn't been in the Web Store for forever and has seemed to have recently stopped working altogether (I downloaded it before it got removed).  And I can't find any userscripts that add it.

It's just really tedious having to save the image, open up Pictures, find the image, set it as the wallpaper, then open up Control Panel because Vista is a piece of shit that won't let me set 'Stretch' as the default wallpaper setting.

[Veras]

I have the same problem, except I can't change the wallpaper through Control Panel.  I have to use Firefox to do it.