Ever Felt Cheated Out Of Something?

[RJ 17]

Like...really, REALLY cheated out of something? Something you really wanted/need stripped away from you because of some utter BS? Well I bet this kid sure does:


Read the story about that kid who added an extra "t" to the word "emancipation" and got robbed for $3K, and I felt like coming up with an excuse to share that video with you all. The excuse - that is, discussion - for this topic will simply be what the topic says: have you ever felt cheated out of something? Ever been robbed due to a technicality, or had something that was otherwise rightfully within your grasp only to have it taken away due to the tiniest little thing? Here's your chance to vent.

 

[Marter]

At one of the movie screenings I went to they did a trivia thing. Of course, I was at the back and we were just yelling out the answers. I got the answer right, but someone else had stood up in front of me and then got my prize.

I'm not bitter, though, because it was just a shirt advertising The Purge, which isn't something I'd want to do.

 

[RJ 17]

Just one. One person on this forum has felt cheated out of something in their life. Wow...I really fucking suck at making topics.

Oh well, not that anyone cares (apparently), but I'll go ahead and post a little story of my own, I'll make it simple though since this is evidently a waste of time. Played a game of Magic the Gathering the other day. It was a fairly close game and was coming down to the wire. I was down to 2 life and had just gotten out 3 5/5 flying tokens. The guy had 6 life left and no cards in his hand do he was top-decking with a 3/3 on the board. There was one card...exactly one card in his deck that could save him: a Maelstrom Pulse. and that's exactly what he drew.

 

[The Apple BOOM]

So many stories to choose from. I don't know what to pick.

 

[Ratties]

I noticed that a girl had locked her keys in her car. She lived across the street from me. I called a lock smith to come help her. Then she started digging threw her purse, looking for money to pay him. I ended up giving the guy 60 bucks. The ***** didn't even say thank you. She just nodded her head and drove off. What the fuck. I wasn't expecting to date her or anything like that, but a fucking thank you would be nice. She never came over and said it either.

 

[aba1]

Just one. One person on this forum has felt cheated out of something in their life. Wow...I really fucking suck at making topics.

Oh well, not that anyone cares (apparently), but I'll go ahead and post a little story of my own, I'll make it simple though since this is evidently a waste of time. Played a game of Magic the Gathering the other day. It was a fairly close game and was coming down to the wire. I was down to 2 life and had just gotten out 3 5/5 flying tokens. The guy had 6 life left and no cards in his hand do he was top-decking with a 3/3 on the board. There was one card...exactly one card in his deck that could save him: a Maelstrom Pulse. and that's exactly what he drew.

Don't worry man it is actually a interesting topic I am surprised isn't getting more attention. Must be all those hot button topics stealing all the attention . I have had people top deck into wins against me too it sucks but happens. I am a very unlucky person so if luck is involved in a game it usually screws me over. I am the kinda guy who gets land screwed all the time playing a deck where the highest mana cost is 3 and I have 22 lands. I remember once I was playing Fzero GX all day long just the same level on hard over and over for 6 hours straight and eventually my car made it to the end without crashing (the doors close when the time runs out) and got through the doors but I still lost cause apparently I still was not fast enough. Thats one of the hardest games of all time and it deserves that title cause it is ridiculously hard.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

When I was graduated from middle school my principal wanted a couple of students to make speeches at the graduation, but obviously no one wanted to do it since it meant having to do public speaking in front of 700 or 800 people. So my English teacher decided that she would give 50 extra credit points to anyone who submitted a speech, and another 50 extra credit points if your speech got chosen (100 extra credit points total). Well, I had a C in the class, and the extra 50 points would have gotten me to a B, so I figured I'd write a speech and get the points. Turns out I have really bad luck, and my speech was actually chosen, and I ended up having to make it in front of 800 people. I hated every minute of it. Worst part is, I never saw a single point of extra credit from that ****, and ended the semester with a C, and by the time I found out that I'd been cheated out of points it was too late to do anything about it.

It's been 10 years, and that still pisses me off to this day.

 

[Jolly Co-operator]

Just one. One person on this forum has felt cheated out of something in their life. Wow...I really fucking suck at making topics.

Oh well, not that anyone cares (apparently), but I'll go ahead and post a little story of my own, I'll make it simple though since this is evidently a waste of time. Played a game of Magic the Gathering the other day. It was a fairly close game and was coming down to the wire. I was down to 2 life and had just gotten out 3 5/5 flying tokens. The guy had 6 life left and no cards in his hand do he was top-decking with a 3/3 on the board. There was one card...exactly one card in his deck that could save him: a Maelstrom Pulse. and that's exactly what he drew.

My story is also Magic: the Gathering related, although it was my friend who was probably feeling cheated, not me.

We were playing a three-man game, and he was dominating, as he usually does. He was using a deck that specialized in the devour ability, and he had a ton of powerful creature tokens out. He had been focusing on the third friend at our table, rather than me, so I had managed to actually get a decent amount of creatures on the field. After taking out the other guy, my friend was very slow about finishing me off. Infuriatingly, he's the type of player who will draw the game out another ten turns at the very least when he knows he's about to win, and then gets mad at you if you forfeit.

Anyway, while he was toying with me, I played Cyclonic Rift for its overload cost, sending all of his non-land permanents back to his hand. I was free to attack him with my creatures, and I won (because I'm not arrogant enough to drag the game out).

 

[ShipofFools]

You guys ever play Warhammer 40K? Well I was playing against my friend's Necrons, and he shot this lightning gun at me.
After firing, he had to roll dice for every unit, friend or foe, within range of the first target. On a 6, this unit gets hit by the lightning as well.
So he rolls for all my units first and nothing happens, then he roll for his own guys that were in range, it's a 6!
But he hastily grabs the dice and claims that, no, it wasn't a 6.
I said it totally was, and he admits defeat.

But then when my other friends come over and ask what all the commotion is about, he suddenly lies again.
Good thing everybody knows that guy has a tendency to cheat.

I also cheated someone once, in a magic game.
We were playing Archenemy, and everybody but the archenemy was pretty stoned that night. The guy we played against always wins, because he is insane enough to buy 25 euro cards or more.
So anyway, as he was beating us down as usual, I just grabbed the entire deck and put it in my hand. It wasn't until the game was almost over that I showed him what I was doing.

And we all laughed, except for the arch enemy player.

 

[RJ 17]

Don't worry man it is actually a interesting topic I am surprised isn't getting more attention. Must be all those hot button topics stealing all the attention . I have had people top deck into wins against me too it sucks but happens. I am a very unlucky person so if luck is involved in a game it usually screws me over. I am the kinda guy who gets land screwed all the time playing a deck where the highest mana cost is 3 and I have 22 lands. I remember once I was playing Fzero GX all day long just the same level on hard over and over for 6 hours straight and eventually my car made it to the end without crashing (the doors close when the time runs out) and got through the doors but I still lost cause apparently I still was not fast enough. Thats one of the hardest games of all time and it deserves that title cause it is ridiculously hard.

Yeah, I would have thought the Jeopardy video alone would be worth some comments...evidently I was wrong.

And yeah, there's nothing more frustrating than the dirty mana-screw. I used to have a lot of fun playing on Magic Online until I was in a draft tournament and screwed up my mana tapping for a fireball that would have won me the game, but instead I lost the next turn. Game 2 of the match starts up and I get 7 land. Mulligan. No land. Mulligan 5 land. Rage-Quit. Haven't played Magic Online since.

When I was graduated from middle school my principal wanted a couple of students to make speeches at the graduation, but obviously no one wanted to do it since it meant having to do public speaking in front of 700 or 800 people. So my English teacher decided that she would give 50 extra credit points to anyone who submitted a speech, and another 50 extra credit points if your speech got chosen (100 extra credit points total). Well, I had a C in the class, and the extra 50 points would have gotten me to a B, so I figured I'd write a speech and get the points. Turns out I have really bad luck, and my speech was actually chosen, and I ended up having to make it in front of 800 people. I hated every minute of it. Worst part is, I never saw a single point of extra credit from that ****, and ended the semester with a C, and by the time I found out that I'd been cheated out of points it was too late to do anything about it.

It's been 10 years, and that still pisses me off to this day.

Yeah...gotta say I'd be pretty god damn pissed off about that too. There's nothing worse in school than when a teacher lies about extra credit...AND you had to give a speech in front of everyone? Damn.

My story is also Magic: the Gathering related, although it was my friend who was probably feeling cheated, not me.

We were playing a three-man game, and he was dominating, as he usually does. He was using a deck that specialized in the devour ability, and he had a ton of powerful creature tokens out. He had been focusing on the third friend at our table, rather than me, so I had managed to actually get a decent amount of creatures on the field. After taking out the other guy, my friend was very slow about finishing me off. Infuriatingly, he's the type of player who will draw the game out another ten turns at the very least when he knows he's about to win, and then gets mad at you if you forfeit.

Anyway, while he was toying with me, I played Cyclonic Rift for its overload cost, sending all of his non-land permanents back to his hand. I was free to attack him with my creatures, and I won (because I'm not arrogant enough to drag the game out).

I've gotta say I'm surprised that out of everything, this topic attracted Magic the Gathering stories. But then again, I'd imagine for those of us that play it, there are COUNTLESS war-stories about how we've been cheated out of a win. Mostly by someone getting a lucky-as-all-hell top-deck. You do bring up a good lesson though: don't toy with your enemies. Just go for the win, because you never know what card they'll be busting out next.

Hehehe, I once actually won a draft tournament purely because the card Sorin's Vengence (deal 10 damage to target player, you gain 10 life). I had built a quick little deck meant specifically just to knock people down to 10 or less life before busting out that card for the coup d' grace. People REALLY hate it when you deal 10 damage straight to their face with a single card. :3

 

[Callie]

He did technically get it wrong via the rules, and let's face it, he started out with nothing before the show, he didn't exactly 'lose 3k'. He should be happy he was even on the show to get anything at all.

I never feel cheated out of anything, especially something I never had to begin with, because I have technically lost nothing. I think that anything you gain is gain, and anything you lose is lost, nothing is cheated..

 

[Robot Number V]

Not sure if this is the kind of thing you're looking for, but when someone broke into my house and stole a couple of my games (and a few consoles from my roommates) I felt pretty damn cheated.

 

[Zack Alklazaris]

Yes, I spent most of my life denying the fact that I'm not just open minded I'm bi open minded... I missed some grand opportunities. I seem to cheat myself more than anything else.

 

[sunthaiduc]

I was cheated out of a lot of the beauty in the world for the mistakes and antics of a fool. sadly he missed more. all the magic I never for to show him...

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

I held a door open for a girl and she didn't want to be my girlfriend.

Fucking friendzone, I'm just a nice guy who isn't a douche who expects all women to love me for doing menial tasks for them and then have sex with me. Why are girls so judgemental and blind?

im so lonly someone date me

...

Another Jeopardy one was when the category was "Fifteen letters or more", where the answer was, obviously, longer. The answer to a question was photoluminescence, someone put photoluminescent and lost $1600.

Nah, can't really think of anything else.

 

[username sucks]

A couple of months ago I got a job from a neighbor to clear weeds and garbage from a nearby 3 acre field they just bought (I have no idea why, they still haven't done anything to the field), and we settled on $250 dollars. I knew her for years and she was always a good neighbor, so I didn't think I would need a written contract.

So two weeks later, almost done with the job, and she called me and said that She didn't need my help anymore but that she would give me $30 for what I did already (I did about 90% by now! With nothing but a push lawnmower and a wheelbarrow!). After a half hour of arguing she brought up the number to $45.

The best part is that she came back a week ago from now with another job for me, and after I disrespectfully declined with heavy use of expletives, that ***** told my parents that I "disrespected" her, so they "disrespected" her right back. Yeah, gooood times.

 

[Vausch]

*Saves for months to finally buy a wacom cintiq*

"Hey, this cintiq has a dead pixel and a scratch on the screen! I'm not accepting that as I paid over $2000 for it!"

*returns, company saying they'll replace it with a new one*

*waits 2 months*

*gets new cintiq. It's the same one, no fix applied.*

"You bloody cheating c*nts".