Little things that annoy you?

[shrekfan246]

People who hate on things that they haven't experienced first-hand.

For instance, people who hate Modern Warfare 3 because "ololol, it's a brown shooter that's just a map pack of Modern Warfare!!!!11!!" No. Shut it. I've played the campaign (I know, right?) and it's not just "a map pack". They (GASP!) put some thought into the story! Yes, it's essentially the game version of a Hollywood summer action flick. Yeah, the game-play isn't that much different because seriously, how much can you change in the game-play mechanics of a modern military shooter? But it's got way more colors than brown-gray, it put effort into incorporating single-player elements, and it's a very tight and well-designed shooter. Though I can't speak for the multi-player because I don't are about multi-player. (Plus, they overhauled the sound of the gunfire so shooting in Modern Warfare 3 felt immensely more satisfying than shooting in Modern Warfare 2.)

Also people who act superior for liking something you don't like, or for not liking something a lot of other people like.

Oh, and tied in with that Call of Duty paragraph, people who won't buy a game if it doesn't have multi-player. Come on. You have
Killzone
Gears of War
Halo
Call of Duty
Battlefield
TF2
Resistance (I'd argue that one shouldn't have had it either, but all three installments have had multi-player).

Are you really going to care about the multi-player in Bioshock, Dead Space, Bulletstorm, Crysis, Red Faction, F.E.A.R., Call of Juarez, Warhammer 40k, Dead Island, RAGE, Uncharted, Saints Row, Serious Sam, Mass Effect, Syndicate (which most fans of the original don't care about anyway), Max Payne, Aliens: Colonial Marines, SOCOM 4, Metro: Last Light, Section 8, Splinter Cell, Rainbow Six, Metal Gear Solid, Ghost Recon, Lost Planet, and Singularity?

EDIT: I encourage co-op campaign multi-player though. Bonus points if it includes local co-op.

Extra EDIT: Oh, I also hate it when NPCs in video games are unkillable.

 

[DoomyMcDoom]

people who seem incapable of eating with their mouth shut, I mean a little piece of food that fits on the end of a fork is NOT TOO BIG TO CLOSE YOUR LIPS AROUND! Umm, also the sound of people filing their nails, dunno how else to describe it but it gives me goosbumps and makes my teeth hurt.

Indeed, my family does that and my mom doesn't file her nails. She bites them off. While talking to people.

Also annoying... then again the sound of somoene scraping their finger nails on cement makes me cringe I have an immagination that is intensely connected to pain, I remember painful things vividly, and fingernails coming off on concrete during a bad fall is never a fun thing to remember with the pain and everything flooding back into your head...

 

[The Funslinger]

I've wondered for a long time now why exactly Jewellery annoys me, to the point where if a girl wears too much jewellery, tacky jewellery or maybe even just a ring... I probably won't date them and it annoys me when guys wear jewellery too.

For example, two friends of mine both wear chains around their necks and for some strange reason, the chains annoy me. I don't even know why I dislike jewellery so much either, its really strange... I'm fine with the smallest amount possible like just two studs in a girls ear or something and maybe, one ring but... jewellery really irks me.

As you can guess, I wear none at all and don't have tattoo's either... this sort of thing relates to people having tattoo's aswell.

I'm beginning to wonder if this is some sort of personality thing I have with neatness or something, since i'm pretty sure i'm a tiny bit OCD but i'm not sure. If you share this annoyance please tell and if anyone has any reasons why it may be like this for me i'd be glad to hear it.

As a discussion, what little things annoy you?

About the chain thing: What if there's something on the chain? Like a nice charm or something. What about if someone served in the army and has their tags? (but sweet jesus, I hate people who wear dog tags without having seen military service)

 

[MetaKnight19]

When people have their dog, which they obviously can't control, unleashed.

You mean like this chap.


OT: Talking with your mouth full. I don't really want to talk to someone when they are halfway through eating some Monster Munch. I always finish eating then talk, but apparently some people don't know how to do that.

 

[Aiedail256]

Awesome songs that are too short. In a perfect world, all my favorite songs are at least 4 minutes long. And I don't mean 3 minutes of content and another 3 minutes of fluff and filler. Pink Floyd is great, but it's hard for me to listen to them for this very reason.

I'm annoyed by the more general case of a book/game/song/whatever that is almost awesome except for one tiny little thing. The example that first comes to mind is, ironically, a song whose failing is too much filler: Metallica's "Nothing Else Matters." Almost everything else about it is fantastic, but dammit there's only 3 verses and they're each sung 2-3 times!

Edit: also, linguistic nonsense. Not the misspelling of homonyms (to/too, etc.) as much as stuff like saying "could care less" when you mean "couldn't care less", or pronouncing "nuclear" "nuke-you-lar". Stuff that anyone would recognize as obviously wrong if they just paid more attention to what they were saying.

 

[blaqknoise]

When people use high and low metaphors for EVERYTHING

I'm not quite sure what you mean by this...

OT: People with a snobby attitude annoy me.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

It irritates me when people say the same phrases over and over and over and over again. My friend always says "Basically" and "First off" and it irritates the fuck outta me.

Or when someone asks a question that they don't even bother waiting for you to answer. Questions like "Guess what" or "You know what happened" or whatever else.

 

[Vicarious Reality]

When people use high and low metaphors for EVERYTHING

I'm not quite sure what you mean by this...

OT: People with a snobby attitude annoy me.

Exactly, that's the problem. Everyone has adopted high and low as descriptive measures for any property.

 

[Casual Shinji]

When people have their dog, which they obviously can't control, unleashed.

You mean like this chap.

Yeah, like that.

Except the dog in particular would be coming after my dog which I do have leashed, resulting in a shitstorm around my legs.

 

[Flamezdudes]

I've wondered for a long time now why exactly Jewellery annoys me, to the point where if a girl wears too much jewellery, tacky jewellery or maybe even just a ring... I probably won't date them and it annoys me when guys wear jewellery too.

For example, two friends of mine both wear chains around their necks and for some strange reason, the chains annoy me. I don't even know why I dislike jewellery so much either, its really strange... I'm fine with the smallest amount possible like just two studs in a girls ear or something and maybe, one ring but... jewellery really irks me.

As you can guess, I wear none at all and don't have tattoo's either... this sort of thing relates to people having tattoo's aswell.

I'm beginning to wonder if this is some sort of personality thing I have with neatness or something, since i'm pretty sure i'm a tiny bit OCD but i'm not sure. If you share this annoyance please tell and if anyone has any reasons why it may be like this for me i'd be glad to hear it.

As a discussion, what little things annoy you?

About the chain thing: What if there's something on the chain? Like a nice charm or something. What about if someone served in the army and has their tags? (but sweet jesus, I hate people who wear dog tags without having seen military service)

Dogtags only a little. If there's something on the chain then yes even then it annoys me... it seems tacky especially when its a heart or something. My friend has the Virgin mary on his chain I think... I really don't understand why jewellery annoys me so much.

 

[Galletea]

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Ironically my pet hate is hypocrisy. Hating console wars and bragging about pcs? That's hypocracy, gaming platform wars, and PC fanboyism all in one.

People who go on about stuff they know about and ridicule you for not knowing. I, for instance, am confident enough with a computer to get along. I don't need your talk about graphics cards, RAM or how many gigs you have. I don't care. If I say something erroneous about it, then you can correct me, but don't be a dick about it. I'm sure I could babble on about something you don't care about, but I'm a bit less of a asshole than that.

 

[Badong]

Douchebags not withstanding (that would be hypocritical), childish people in particular piss me off. Since when is a freshman in a High School supposed to act like fourth grader while the rest of the org work their arses off trying to publish a magazine. Sure, there are those types who, while childish, are incredibly smart and fun to talk to (if you're a bit of a nerd), but the buggers that piss me off are the ones that are just difficult to talk to.

 

[Lawbringer]

The sound of tearing paper by hand irks me to no end. Its like torture to my ears

How peculiar. I actually like the sound of tearing paper. There's a sort of 'job done' finality about it. Possibly I just equate it with a project being finished and excess paper is torn and thrown. Either way, one of us is weird

OT, however...poor grammar/spelling. The odd missed capital letter or little mistakes are fine, I might add - I'd be somewhat hypocritical to say otherwise. What I can't bear is a letter devoid of a single capital letter or punctuation mark. Where your/you're is thrown around willy nilly with no thought to logic or even consistency. This is especially bad on TYPED job application forms. just use the SPELLCHECKER!

**The rest of the post descends into incomprehensible babble as Oliver stomps about the room ranting and raving to himself**

 

[Lawbringer]

For example must people say "Fuh-ree" instead of "Thruh-ee"?

It took me a solid minute to realised you were phoenetically writing 'three'.

I was sitting in my chair, repeating "Threr-ee....throughee...thruh-ee....FREE, I- I mean THREE!"

 

[Jedamethis]

People singing along to songs which do not fit their voice. Please...Stop. I know you love that song, but please don't sing it. Or I will bludgeon you to death a golf club.

 

[Dectomax]

For example must people say "Fuh-ree" instead of "Thruh-ee"?

It took me a solid minute to realised you were phoenetically writing 'three'.

I was sitting in my chair, repeating "Threr-ee....throughee...thruh-ee....FREE, I- I mean THREE!"

That made my day. Thank you good sir! :')

 

[kijebe]

People that will harp on someone's bad spelling without addressing any of the points they make

People that have absolutely atrocious spelling and grammar, and then when attacked they say "oh well SUE ME for not being ABSOLUTELY PERFECT"

Streets with names like "deer park", "meadow springs", "pine hills" - just stupid vague gated-community white-people bullshit

Gangster-types that wear crosses and/or have tattoos about God and/or honor and/or the Virgin Mary and/or love

Religious people that force their bullshit on you

People whose religions have been irrefutably proven to be full of shit (scientologists, mormons), but still participate in the religion

People that argue whether Macs or PCs are better - the two types of users want totally different things from their computers and the argument is therefore pointless

People who ignore every bad thing a celebrity has ever done as soon as that celebrity dies

People who don't realize the difference between "bad" and "objectively bad". Nacho cheese is awesome, but I am well aware it is objectively absolute trash. People should be smart enough to do the same with bad food, movies, pop music, etc. Nothing wrong with liking it, but admit that it's bad (I'm looking at you, Twilight fans).

People who think they're dropping a bomb on you by pointing out really obvious subtext

People who think they can teach you how to do something that they've personally never been able to do well

People who think their age, title, income, degree, or positive reviews makes them good at something. The only thing that makes you good at something is BEING GOOD AT THAT THING.

People that don't think rap is music. By every technical definition, opinions of professional musicians in the industry, conservatories/music schools, dictionary definitions, and even in historical context, it absolutely inarguably IS music. It's fine if you don't like it, you're still wrong, it's music.

Turn-based combat in games. If anyone is ever able to explain to me what's good about it, I might change my mind. No one has ever been able to explain why it's good.

People that think unintelligent people should be elected to public office. You don't want stupid people to EVER be handling anything else that affects your life, why do you want a stupid mayor/president/governor?

People who are removed from a position and/or publicly criticized for being involved in a scandal that in no way affects their ability to do their job well. Tiger Woods is a fucking golfer, who cares if he cheats on his wife. We never admired him because of his morals, we admired him because of his golfing.

People who make the same mistakes over and over again, and complain when they don't see different results.

oy thats alot

i agree, but i more so notice them than they bother me

 

[Lawbringer]

For example must people say "Fuh-ree" instead of "Thruh-ee"?

It took me a solid minute to realised you were phoenetically writing 'three'.

I was sitting in my chair, repeating "Threr-ee....throughee...thruh-ee....FREE, I- I mean THREE!"

That made my day. Thank you good sir! :')

Just glad to be of service. *salutes smartly*

 

[AVATAR_RAGE]

The main little things are the really pathetic elitist gamers. You know the ones that hold them selves above others because they feel entitled.

Here are a few examples:
"My chosne console is better than yours" (an vice versa)
"PC's are better than consoles"
"My generic shooter is better than your generic shooter"
"You don't play the game like I do so that makes you a noob"
"You are not as good at a game than I am so that also makes you a noob"

and my new pet peev:
"I got this MMO before it went free to play so that means I am better than F2P people. Yep that's right it was me who kept this game going now bow before me"

None gaming things involve:

People like justin beiber & lady gaga, the UK current prime minister (I don't specify because for as long as I can remember I have not liked em), people who feel the need to correct every single grammatical error on the internet, people who think that they can gain internet fame.

 

[blaqknoise]

When people use high and low metaphors for EVERYTHING

I'm not quite sure what you mean by this...

OT: People with a snobby attitude annoy me.

Exactly, that's the problem. Everyone has adopted high and low as descriptive measures for any property.

That didn't help. I still don't get it.