Things That Really !&$%2 You Off

Quite a few things

1. The other day I went to look at a car, not that expensive in terms of car's at £2500 but the garage mainly deals with cars around that price. So it wasn't like it was stuck in the corner or something, I went looked at it and a few others they had.

About 15mins later maybe longer still no one has come over to see if, I maybe want to buy a car and it wasn't like there wasn't anyone else there or lack of staff as about 6 guys were basically playing musical chairs with some of the cars, instead of actually dealing with a customer.

2. I gave up and went into town which was a beach town as that was the nearest place, a great day but the new retro game shop there also bugged me. I know you've got to make a living and all that but charging a extra £10-20 on a game over eBay yeah you got to wait for it to arrive and pay postage on eBay and the shop over heads, that I don't mind paying more money but not £20 more on a copy of Guardian Heroes on Saturn or Odama on GameCube.

3. A Gintendo related one about my 360 piece which a few people have said about that it's great people are "reading" it, this it what bugs me now especially with the review score talk and people not reading things.

I've had three people ask me where Red Dead Redemption is on the Top 10, if you had read the piece you would have read that it was 360 exclusives. Games that made the 360 special which the reply I get from most is I didn't play most of them, I played RDR, Mass Effect, Fifa, Cod etc on my 360. Yeah there great games but you could also play them on PS3 maybe even Wii, it wasn't a Top 10 games of the last generation piece and it wasn't really about that it was about the great times I had with the 360 over it's 10 years.  

4. I thought you were a serious gamer, someone said to me after looking at my Top 10 as it has Viva Pinata in it which is a great exclusive but as it's a kids game, it's not a serious game and at the time was on lunch which Warren added to it Pengles plays these weird hipster games.

It shouldn't matter if the games for kids or not, is it good the answer is Yes then why not have it a Top 10 and enjoy playing it. I wouldn't be surprised if these people that say that watch likes of a Pixar movie yet there for kids.

What does that even mean about playing hipster games, does that make me not a serious gamer as I'm playing Oxenfree (it's coming soon to PS4 ) instead of something like DOOM or they saying as I like weird games that my opinion on what's good or bad is strange as I may like a game where you date pigeons (Hatoful Boyfriend) or does this make me more of a serious gamer as I play the weird stuff instead of just COD, FIFA and the odd big blockbuster game

Rant's over.

Picking up on one of your points there, describing things as "Kids"

Ridiculously fed up of people describing things as kids instead of family or family friendly, there may be some things that really are for kids, I don't think the Teletubbies are aimed at adults really, but Disney films & colourful games aren't just for kids, they may be accessible but they're to be enjoyed by anyone.

Exactly my point about Viva Pinata.

Yeah I agree, was just expanding that I hated the use of it in general innit.

I haven't come across that for ages (probably because my current friends mostly come from my writing group, so they're all nerds with an unhealthy love of Harry Potter), and when I do I'm able to ignore it pretty easily. Growing up as a Nintendo fan with a large collection of soft toys helps with that.

People at the airport security check who once through will hold everyone else up by taking their time putting their stuff back together and not moving on.

My order worth over 200 dollars possibly going missing.

I don't blame auspost for it though, last order I got from madman the box's tape was coming apart on the bottom, that one remained as it was because it was light as heck. This order would be at least two kilos, if the bottom was taped up in similarly terrible fashion the contents could very easily just cave out of the bottom during transit.

Suffice to say my days of bothering with manga are on indefinite hold unless this arrives. If this has gone missing I go from having caught up with several series to being over a hundred dollars out of pocket and facing paying more than double that to replace the items, given how tightly I have to budget just to spend that money to begin with I'm not replacing any of this if it's gone. If it's gone I'm tossing everything, cheaper than blowing more money and it gives my searing rage an outlet.

Not even sure I feel like asking the post to see if they can track it down. I'm fed up with feeling miserable and angry over this. Can't even get a refund even if something has happened because this stuff is (very stupidly) never sent via insured mail, so if it's gone it's gone. Along with my hundred dollars. Even if a portion of the order is recovered, what's the point? A collection is literally worthless unless it's complete.


Whing done. Feels good to get that off the chest, keeping this sort of festering anger and depression in oneself is never healthy and is always best offloaded as soon as possible. Now to get back to gaming!

People that don't think modernly tend to piss me off a lot: particularly those who are against the LGBT community, more than likely because I'm bi, and also considering changing gender in few years (I'm male BTW but don't really act or seem like it all that much nor want to be).

Another thing that pisses me off is that my next door neighbour constantly puts her nose into others' business, is probably the queen of bullshit and also has CCTV to spy on our garden.

(Also, I know someone who said "Hitler was good for killing all the gays" I was going to kill the person who said that but I have no strength - I can feel my bones from just gently pushing on my arm)

Some people are horrible and I'm sorry that you are experiencing this prejudice. And your CCTV neighbour! That's the kind of thing you see on the telly. No good.

Also, can confirm - Hitler was a jerk.

I'm not Hitler's biggest fan myself, now that you mention it.

He was kinda terrible in several ways.

That hair, for starters.

Indeed, he was a charismatic politician with odd hair who pushed a racist agenda.

Don't worry, that was nothing like today. There was an economic crisis making people desperate and a religious group it was easy to blame events on.

On a more serious note I find people talking about American politics in my school, annoying, as if they know:

• anything about politics
  
• they live in America
  

When our election was on last year, no one seemed to give a care in the world about it, except the occasional joke about UKIP (who by the way are wrongly presented in the media).

In fairness, the president of America will have a huge effect on us over here, more so than a lot of positions in the UK.

I love losing over 220 dollars worth of items in the mail!  

Ah well, it was about time I had another of my glorious rants.  Honestly I'm not even angry any more, burned all that away last week.  Now waiting on Madman to see if they still have the tracking number, since it might still be traceable with it, I don't hold out much hope but it's worth a shot.  Certainly a better use of energy than having a dummy spit!

Still won't be continuing collecting the series if it stays lost of course.  Gotta know when it's time to cut your losses, I'd say losing 106 dollars and facing paying more than 220 dollars to replace the items is a good sign that time is now!  I don't have the money to afford replacing it even if I wanted to anyway, that package was two weeks of hard budgeting down the drain  


As for politics, Australia is going to hell in a handbasket. In seven weeks we get to choose between a union lackey whose idea of plugging a budget black hole is spending millions teaching people to swim and a lacky for the big end of town who has naff all idea what it's like to live week to week on laughably small amounts of money.

Screwed tomorrow by one side or screwed in ten years far worse, pick your poison this june 2nd!

"Butthurt".  (Yes I know, "butthurt about butthurt LOLOL", get it out of your system before reading on.)  

For one, it's an ugly-sounding word.  "Bitter" works equally well in almost all applicable situations without making the user sound like a 4channer.  For two, I've seen it used much more to shut down sensible arguments than I have criticise somebody who actually overreacts.  It's the Internet's version of "calm down dear", a verbal extension of the trollface graphic.  Horrendous.

With apologies to Athrun, who used it today, albeit accompanied by a knowing wink. The term's just a horrible one, both in sound, meaning, origins, and (more often than not) what it says about the user.

Correct.

I switched on the computer, walked away, came back and found Microsoft had set my computer to install Windows 10 in 15 minutes. There was a big button to install it now, and a small link saying asking for more time. Clicking this link gave me an option to wait up to a few hours, again with only a small link to reschedule for another time. Only in that link, which gave me a drop-down box of up to next Tuesday, was a cancel upgrade option.

That is beyond poor.

I don't have a massive grudge against Windows 10 - it's infinitely preferable to 8 and 8.1, but I've got Windows 7, and all of the software I have works on that. Some things still don't work on Windows 10 (and some things don't - and therefore never will - work on Windows 8 ). When I get a new computer, I won't mind it having Windows 10. But don't ever automatically start a fundamental change to my operating system again. As someone who works in IT and knows how the less computer-literate may cope with this, I'm actually considering formal complaints and possibly legal action.

My creaky old laptop - on which this very missive is being written - would never be able to cope with the pressures of Windows 10... and yet Microsoft are still insisting on thrusting it open the poor old dear.

tl;dr

DIGRESSION ALERT: If that was tl;dr, you need to lay off the caffeine!

I agree with you, Jimbob.

When you realise that the shoes you bought in January are not suitable for walking on surfaces.

Laptop issues suck, I sometimes have to give my laptop a few taps to get the headphones to project audio in both ears and it's worrying me that I might have to send it off for repairs in the not too distant future.

Haven't run in to the windows ten prompt personally which strikes me as a bit strange (maybe it's because I turned off auto-updates? Dunno), although someone I know constantly gets it and, as a user very happy with the superior Windows 7, gets annoyed by it.

Sorry if this is hella patronising, but have you tried changing the headphones? Every pair I buy, I eventually end up losing sound in one ear. I guess I need to change my adventurous lifestyle.

They're working fine with everything else, and the laptop did the same thing with some cheapies I had lying round