Poll: The Vent Section!

[Spider RedNight]

I can vent about people come to this thread to not vent but that'd be pointless. I don't get it; it's a thread made for expressing anger and ironically this is the ONE place where people are like "I'm gonna comment even though I have nothing to vent about"? Seriously?

In other news, self-diagnosed pricks on Tumblr can lick lick lick my balls because they're pissing me the fuck off. They're fuckin' EVERYWHERE and they're trying to suck the fun out of every little aspect of life with their stupid pretentious "oh poor me" routine (which, to be fair, I see all the time on HERE so maybe it's not just Tumblr). And the fandoms with their stupid pairings and I wanna slap all of them with a cricket bat and say "NO you dickweed, Handsome Jack and Rhys are not EVER going to end up together!" Lastly followed by their constitutional incapability to shut the fuck up. Maybe I should give serial killing a whirl; the world might become my oyster.

I'm pissed off that I don't have another working car yet and I can't DO anything with my life UNTIL I have a car. No doctor visits (which I admit I might really need soon, and I mean this from an objective point of view, not a self-piteous one(though I CAN be a hypocrite sometimes)), no job, no semblance of wanting to have SOMEWHAT of my own life (though I ain't gonna lie, I do rather enjoy my mothers company). It's just feeling stuck with your life on pause.

And I'm soooo tired of being the only one of my friends to not have a next-gen console - everyone else is going on about Fallout and Far Cry and shit and I'm like "I played Spider-man Shattered Dimensions on my 360 today" and they just look at me condescendingly and are like "Okay that's cool Spider BUT OMG I DID BLAH BLAH BLAH IN MY NEXT-GEN GAME LOOK".

Fuck. I'm gonna go kill a party clown.

Edit: Wow. I just realised that I referenced four different things in the one post. I'd say "my bad" but I kinda like it.

 

[Nazulu]

Of course I love to vent. It's a freedom we should all respect.

That said, Fuck Youtube and it's inconsistent rules and regulations! Punishing great content creators and then either ignoring or literally helping constant rules breakers! It's so fucking absurd the whole Youtube staff should go to prison. And I bet it's because they're trying to push the automater they so believe in to regulate everything, but will never do it well because it just can't manage complex issues! They need people with real brains (not the fake shit EA and Microsoft hire) to look over and solve these basic problems and bring Youtube back to something competent at least. Fuck!

 

[Sniper Team 4]

The fact that Donald Trump is doing so well has moved me beyond anger, rage, and fury to just downright disbelief. I'm actually frightened now, something that I've never felt about any election before, if he wins. Could you IMAGINE the outrage in the U.S. if some other country demanded the U.S. pay for something they wanted to build in their country? And all the racist remarks, the sexism, and the fact that the Constitution just seems to not exist in his world is mind-boggling, and yet people are cheering him on at every turn. I just...it's like I don't recognize my country anymore.


On a personal level, I write reviews on Amazon. I go into detail, so my reviews tend to be a few paragraphs, not those "This is great! I love it!!!!" reviews. Today, some woman commented and said, "Maybe next time make it shorter. I couldn't read the whole thing. I fell asleep. I'm really tired." She then went on to quote something about writing being one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent elimination.
Oh, I'm SORRY. How the Hell is that my problem?! You're tired, so you down vote my review because you couldn't stay awake? The vast majority of people love my reviews. Most of mine are the top rated, or in the top three. And not be slim margins either. They crush all the other reviews. The idea that this woman, who has only two helpful votes, thinks that I should change my ENTIRE STYLE because she was tired--something I have nothing to do with--just irks me.
Look, I'm sorry you're tired, but that's your own fault. My reviews are written for fans, filled with jokes and insights about the product--this one being a MLP book--and I think it helps gain trust when you show that you're familiar with the stuff you're reviewing.
You don't like my rating? Fine. You don't like the jokes I make? Fine. Think it's too long? Fine. But to say my review was too long and you fell asleep BECAUSE YOU WERE ALREADY TIRED is bad form.

So, that's my venting. Sorry for dragging politics into it, but this thread is for venting.

 

[JaKandDaxter]

So Konami decided to shut down MGSV servers for maintenance without warning. And because of the online inventory crap in single player that holds 95% of your money and resources. Are only accessible when the servers are online. I had to make a difficult choice, because I was now -700,000 in the red.

Either drop mother base morale tremendously by advancing to the next checkpoint, and keep the two S rank soldiers I captured. Or quit/return to the ACC. I chosed the latter, and even then. My game session is over because I can't operate almost 1 million in the red with the game's stiff penalties for being in debt. And you can't do anything without money in this game. Thanks a lot Konami for sucking. Was only trying to enjoy the game I brought knowing I'll be busy tommorrow. Now I have an idea of how much an always online DRM sucks.

So, that's my venting. Sorry for dragging politics into it, but this thread is for venting.

Better to vent it here than take your anger out on someone.

 

[Spider RedNight]

The fact that Donald Trump is doing so well has moved me beyond anger, rage, and fury to just downright disbelief. I'm actually frightened now, something that I've never felt about any election before, if he wins. Could you IMAGINE the outrage in the U.S. if some other country demanded the U.S. pay for something they wanted to build in their country? And all the racist remarks, the sexism, and the fact that the Constitution just seems to not exist in his world is mind-boggling, and yet people are cheering him on at every turn. I just...it's like I don't recognize my country anymore.

So, that's my venting. Sorry for dragging politics into it, but this thread is for venting.

Yeah, I'm.... starting to worry more about this, too and I never have before. I'm not sure if this is part of being an adult but I reeeeeally don't like it. And I worry for my friends who would be even more negatively affected by his becoming President (and I live in Texas so it's LITERALLY everywhere I turn).

 

[Fijiman]

Well I haven't played World of Tanks recently enough to really be mad at anything at the moment, though I've already bitched about some of my experiences with that game in various places around the site several times.

 

[Sleepy Sol]

I'm not a fan of venting. Just not comfortable with imposing my own problems upon others all that often.

It might also help that I don't tend to get especially angry at anything these days. Just mildly irritated at most.

I have a problem at this point because I don't know what I want. I don't know what makes me happy. In a certain respect... I mean I'm okay, I'm not depressed, but I'm not happy. I don't feel alive. I just feel numb. I don't know what it is that thing that's missing from my life. That hobby or job that'll do it for me. I'm seeking out new things, I've taken up bowling of all things. I can't say it actually makes me happy, it's more something to just focus my energy on.

I just... want to feel like I'm alive damn it. Instead of just existing.

This describes what I'd like to vent about pretty well, if anything. Except I haven't done so well at seeking new things or attempting to improve myself.

 

[The Almighty Aardvark]

I've been getting more and more disillusioned with the people in my computer science program. I have always been a little bit more on the reclusive side (Which is hardly an oddity among computer science) but in the last couple years I've been doing a lot more group work and have a lot more friends in the program. With that has come the realization that...

Most of these people don't have the slightest idea what they're doing. In my last three groups:
- The first had one person who did almost nothing, and whatever she did do, we ended up having to redo

- In the second one, my partner contributed about 80 lines of code to a 3000 line project. The 80 lines did work, and he asked me to fix it. I found the bug, as well as the fact that 75% of those lines actually didn't do anything (He just copied every equation he could find from a paper and didn't bother figuring out what was actually being used)

- For the final project, one of my group members just has no idea what he's doing. This is a graduate level course, and I had to explain bitwise arithmetic to him. This was after I found out that he was copying tutorial code straight into our project without having the slightest idea what it did. Unsurprisingly, it didn't work. To make things worse, we already had code to in our project to handle the problem he was looking at, he just wasn't familiar enough with it to know that. And this is in his own section of the project

This gets down to what I think is the biggest problem plaguing our computer science department. It is absolutely full of people who get into it solely because they want to be a video game designer (A nebulous title that apparently gives you full creative control over a project but only achievable after you've worked ~10 years as a programmer). They have no interest in programming or math (the backbones of computer science), and lots of them have no aptitude for them either.

Not to mention whatever skills they could be building are being left untouched. The go to solution to programming assignments, as I have been discovering over the past couple years, is to directly copy paste other people's code into your project without understanding how any of it works and massage it until it does what you want. It is either flat out, or coming really close to plagiarism. It is depressing just how little actual problem solving ability these people exercise, if they have the slightest problem they'll google search for some code that implements what they want. In a graduate level graphics class I had to sit down with someone and tell them how to make a sphere, because they didn't have the slightest clue where to start. One year I watched a TA trying to help a student with an assignment he couldn't get to work. The TA asked him to explain how his code works. The guy just stared blankly without speaking. He barely wrote any of it himself, he just couldn't get other people's code to work

I can understand why people are tempted to do this. Computer science has very demanding assignments, and if I can finish an assignment in 10 hours I'm shocked with how short it is. For a 2 week assignment I expect to put around 20 hours in. And assignments are so often an all or nothing thing. 90% of the work goes into getting 30% of the marks. That being said, Frankensteining together code is completely robbing you the opportunity of coming out of your degree having learned anything.

For the record, I don't want to sound smug. I don't think I'm exceptional, there's people in this program who make me feel like an idiot. It's just that there are so many people taking advanced courses who've glided through without learning the most basic skills a programmer should have. We've never once met our graduation quota in the computer science department, and it's not because the classes are too hard, it's because of the people taking it.

[sub]Warning - the above contains trace amounts of hyperbole. Reader discretion is advised[/sub]

Better to vent it here than take your anger out on someone.

I don't see why this has to be an either or.

 

[Darthpathfinder]

Of course I love to vent. It's a freedom we should all respect.

That said, Fuck Youtube and it's inconsistent rules and regulations! Punishing great content creators and then either ignoring or literally helping constant rules breakers! It's so fucking absurd the whole Youtube staff should go to prison. And I bet it's because they're trying to push the automater they so believe in to regulate everything, but will never do it well because it just can't manage complex issues! They need people with real brains (not the fake shit EA and Microsoft hire) to look over and solve these basic problems and bring Youtube back to something competent at least. Fuck!

Yeah it has been crazy what they have done if you ask me....

 

[The Almighty Aardvark]

I have a problem at this point because I don't know what I want. I don't know what makes me happy. In a certain respect... I mean I'm okay, I'm not depressed, but I'm not happy. I don't feel alive. I just feel numb. I don't know what it is that thing that's missing from my life. That hobby or job that'll do it for me. I'm seeking out new things, I've taken up bowling of all things. I can't say it actually makes me happy, it's more something to just focus my energy on.

I just... want to feel like I'm alive damn it. Instead of just existing.

Sounds like Buffy knows how you feel

Spoiler

I can kind of relate to this too. I don't think I've ever really been depressed, but I've spent a good portion of my life just not really feeling attached to it. The kind of feeling that you could die the next day and you wouldn't feel like you're missing out on much (For the record, I'm not suicidal, I'm far too ambivalent about it for that). You really just need to seek out those things that make you feel something more than content. Climbing and D&D are two things that I've found that break me out of it.

I've also found that just having some sort of project can work wonders. Something to engage you, and feel like you're working towards something, no matter how small it may be

 

[Darthpathfinder]

Well... I'm on the verge of getting my credit card debt paid off. So that's pretty badass.

And none to soon. I worked a dead end job until the place went bankrupt in November. The new job I work is paying the bills, easy enough, but not exactly fullfilling.

I have a problem at this point because I don't know what I want. I don't know what makes me happy. In a certain respect... I mean I'm okay, I'm not depressed, but I'm not happy. I don't feel alive. I just feel numb. I don't know what it is that thing that's missing from my life. That hobby or job that'll do it for me. I'm seeking out new things, I've taken up bowling of all things. I can't say it actually makes me happy, it's more something to just focus my energy on.

I just... want to feel like I'm alive damn it. Instead of just existing.

I always like this quote from the show Bojack Horseman:

The universe is a cruel, uncaring void. The key to being happy isn't a search for meaning. It's to just keep yourself busy with unimportant nonsense, and eventually, you'll be dead.

As for my vent. I got dumped by text on Sunday. Then yesterday pictures of her and her new boyfriend together came up on my newsfeed on facebook... Pictures from Saturday night. Hadn't had the chance to remove her from my friends, it was literally the first thing I saw when I logged in. But it's okay, I drank a lot last night.

So she cheated on you?

 

[JaKandDaxter]

Better to vent it here than take your anger out on someone.

I don't see why this has to be an either or.

It was just my way of saying there was no need to apologize for venting on politics. As venting is essentially what this thread is about.

 

[Parasondox]

Yeah. Yeah, I think it's time to now vent and the reason why I didn't because was because once I leave work, it's blocked from my mind until the nest shift.

So, I've been working for this company for nearly a year now. I've been promoted, demoted, thrown under the bus, praised, ignored, the mix. That's part of normal working life. So all good there. What isn't good? Is when said company's distribution center messes up orders and who get's the blame? Not them. When hours are cut BUT still hire more staff. When colleagues can't be asked too... you know what, fuck it!!

Doing 10 times more work than those in other stores and then being told to "hurry up" as you are being kept track of. Having targets that are unrealistic because we are either in the middle of nowhere or, our hours are cut so bad that you don't get to do your job fully. Doing everything and gaining... what am I gaining. Cleaning up certain work colleagues mess every time I get back to work. Seriously!! I clean up the mess, make sure things are easier for others, I go home, come back the next day and low and behold, back to square fucking one. I say something about it but no one bats an eye lid or cares. It's the same damn thing, "Oh, I forgot". Not a single apology. I get it. The money is shit, the hours are pointless and fuck me travel is expensive for someone on UK minimum wage (?6.70 p/h), but don't make things harder than they already are. Worse is that they often get all the praise for the little thing while the ones who still give a damn gets no appreciation. HOW!!!

Lets add more to that. I can't my remaining holiday before the end of the financial year. Why? Short staff, not enough people to cover and need to make cut backs, by can still waste money on "new" systems that do not work and getting rid of the old one that was perfectly fine and had things organised better, and holiday request ignored while others gets theirs approved. Will I get my holiday pay back date. Nope. Tough luck.

Last due to a take over, smaller stores will be closing and most likely end of this year. I work in those stores and maybe transferred to somewhere more further than where I currently work. I know retail is bad but fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck you.

Now let's add this all up to... FUCK. THIS. FUCKING. SHIT!!!!

And now breathe, Para. I must progress. Keeping my head up and crawling through the shit to finally rest on the freshly cut grass. As I also will be sticking of shit. Fun times.

 

[Souplex]

I like ventilation fine.
The ventilation in my room is sub-par, it gets really stuffy.

 

[e033x]

I like ventilation fine.
The ventilation in my room is sub-par, it gets really stuffy.

I feel your pain. Especially bad in winter, when I have to choose between breathable air or tolerable temperature. Not to mention the humidity when drying clothes. Venting about the vent, yo.

Also, STRESS STRESS STRESS GOD DAMN STRESS ARGH! Over soon, though, thankfully.

 

[Darthpathfinder]

I like ventilation fine.
The ventilation in my room is sub-par, it gets really stuffy.

I like what you did there.....

 

[Glongpre]

I work in retail so I must say...

If you are going to take something off a rack, for the love of god, put it back where it fucking belongs. Are you that fucking lazy? Get your head outta your ass. Also, you don't need to open every fucking box to see what it looks like, there is a reason why there is a picture on the front. And if you do open the box, have the decency to put the product back in the damn box!!! Christ.

Also, put your damn weights away when you are done with them in the gym. But also do it right!!!!!!!! I don't want to have to take off a god damn 45 just to get a 10 lb plate, fucking people.

Like people just astound me, in both a negative and positive way, but it seems like 80% of the time it is negative. You know who you are, give your heads a shake.