Random BS people say that you get fed up with.

[HHammond]

Also, what gets me is when people complain about an emotional outburst from a character. I've never understood the mindset that sates when someone close to a character dies, or when a traumatic event occurs, they can't show any emotion at all. Seems dumb, and completely lacking in empathy, which is pretty much needed when speaking for a character.

Yes! This annoys me. It seems that it's almost impossible to have a "depressed" character who isn't just a grizzle jawed veteran who's stupidly stoic. As soon as you try to show someone reacting realistically to trauma they are deemed "whiny". An example of this that really annoys me is Hope from Final Fantasy XIII, admittedly, yes, perhaps he is a tad too whiny but he's 14! In the space of about 3 hours he is exiled from his home, watches his mum die and is branded a terrorist, I think the resultant freak out is quite understandable!

Its kind of funny, but that isn't a new attitude, it goes back at least as far as Shakespeare's time. There's a scene in Macbeth where a character finds out his entire family's been murdered and begins freaking out. One of his lieutenants tells him to man up and be stoic about it causing the character to round on him and say (paraphrased for simplicity) "Of course I'm freaking out about this! I wouldn't be human if I wasn't!".

I suppose it originates in older gender stereotypes where it was considered masculine to never allow oneself to be emotional and its just been flanderized into being tough (male or female) means showing as little emotion as possible (besides rage).

Yeah, Shakespeare was quite good at allowing his characters to have a good old freak out when it was needed. As you say, I think modern society has got to this point where real emotion is seen as weak, which is quite ridiculous. It's a shame that very few video games explore trauma any other way than tough, shell shocked veteran,

 

[Austin Manning]

I'm annoyed by the old piracy defense of "It's okay because I'm not depriving them of a physical copy. It's like taking a car, but the car is still there in the morning!"

It's true, they're not taking a physical copy, but that's not the point. Loss of physical copies is not what upsets publishers the most. Think of it this way: If someone actually did steal a car from a dealership, what do you think the dealership would be most upset about?

A.) The loss of the car.

B.) The loss of the money that would have been gained if the car had been bought legally.

It's the loss of money that publishers care about, and pirating a game that you would have otherwise had to pay for still deprives them of that. There are certain circumstances under which I think piracy can be justified (it's an old game that you can no longer buy a new copy of, you already own the game but want to get around intrusive DRM, or you already bought the game, but the disc broke, etc.), but the "I'm not taking a physical copy" excuse just seems weak to me.

The problem with that logic though is that it can easily be applied to borrowing a game from a friend or borrowing a game/book/movie from a public library. In each of those cases you are experiencing content without directly paying the publisher/developer/creator.

However, you have to give those back. And there's no previous copy still in existence for your loaning friend to play while you do.

Piracy is more like photocopying that library book, putting that book back and taking the photocopy. And - shock and awe - that's illegal according to copyright (for that exact reason).

Even if you give them back the publisher (and occasionally developer) would still consider it a lost sale as you played without paying them. This is were the anti-used games stance comes from. When it comes to returning, well there is an analogy for that: deletion. I get the feeling that most pirates will delete their torrents after a while. The reason being that (especially in this age of blu-ray and limit-pushing tech) games and movies take up a lot of hard drive space. So most will delete their torrents to avoid spending hundreds on storage.

I wasn't talking about giving back to the publisher/dev... I meant giving the game back to whoever you "borrowed" it from.

Also, you're not accounting for how libraries work. My library only has so many copies of each book. I've tried to borrow books before only to find out that they were all taken out, allowing for some form of demand to remain in place. Plus, everything I take out from the library MUST be returned within two weeks, or I get charged.

That's where the "piracy = borrowing" thread falls apart.

I know what you meant and I was saying that even if you give the game back to the person you borrowed it from, the publisher/developer would still consider it a lost sale, this is part of the reason why many publishers and developers are against used games.

A form of demand does still exist when torrenting. A download can only occur if there are a number of people "seeding" the torrent, meaning they are allowing the data transfer to occur. If a piece of material is not being seeded it cannot be downloaded and only a few seeds can mean a long download. Furthermore, downloading any random torrent with the name you're searching for is a quick route to malware poisoning, so most people only download torrents from groups of known quality or one's with multiple comments indicating exactly what's in the torrent. Just because you want something doesn't mean you can instantly get it by going to p-... specific torrenting sites.

OK, so what's the analogue for "you have to pay if you borrow a library book for too long"?

There isn't an exact one, but it ties into my earlier point about storage. Keeping torrented material for to long means that a person would have to start spending lots of money (or fines if you will) on external hard drives, so they eventually delete the data.

 

[shootthebandit]

Im surprised that noone has mentioned yet about the idiots that say "youve had four pints of strong lager/cider at 6% (ish) and ive had one shot at 30%. 6 x 4 is only 24 so ive had more than you

Its remarkable how many fucking imbeciles have said things like this and tried adding the percentages. When i was at school i tried explaining to a class mate that their is more alcohol in beer than there is in spirits purely because the standard measure is a pint whereas a spirit is about 30ml. He then proceeded to tell me that if you had a pint of vodka it would have more alcohol than a pint of beer (obviously he wasnt wrong) but i replied by saying "try drinking half a bottle of smirnoff" needless to say it shut him up. My maths teacher even worked out the percent of alcohol in each glass and he still didnt believe me

Anyway to cut a long story short percentages on alcohol do not add up you thick fucks

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A small part of my brain died while reading this post.

Although it does remind me of Gambler's Fallacy. Apparently, some people think that, if a coin flips heads five times in a row, the chance of it flipping tails somehow increases. Uh.

Combine that with Pessimist's Bias (you notice things much more if they go badly) and you have the average thread on XCOM.

Honestly its remarkable how many people ive come across that think this is how alcohol works

Yeah gamblers fallacy is a common one winnning/losing streaks mean nothing. Funny story about gamblers fallacies. We took our friend to casino for his stag do (bachelor party if youre from yankistan). It was his first time and he had quite a bit of money and obviously he was drunk so he phoned his wife to be and said pick a number she said 14. So he put £20 ($30)on 14 and he left with £740 (roughly $1000) from that one bet.

 

[rasputin0009]

"Today's society is extremely difficult for the straight white male!"

Nobody plays life on easy mode except for a straight white male. And as soon as you say a different demographic has it easier, then you just admitted to being an idiot. Except for cats. Cats have it easy.

 

[kickyourass]

I have a couple, for one the excuses "It's just an action movie/it's made for kids/ it wasn't trying to be award winning" and similar lines to try and excuse shitty movies. I don't care who your audience is, what genre your making, or if you care about awards, if you are asking for my time and money, you have no excuse for not putting every effort into it and making it worth that time and money.

I'm not saying you should make something everyone enjoys that'd be crazy, I'm saying that you should make what you're making well. If you're putting genuine effort into you product, even if it fails most people can recognize it even if they themselves do not enjoy it. If you don't care or don't really try, people will notice and your movie will be all the worse for it. I don't understand why more people aren't insulted when movies like that come out.




Another thing is people who interrupt when others are trying to tell a story, yes you might know exactly what they're talking about and yes they might be wrong, but people interrupting mid-sentence drives me up the goddamn wall. If you cannot wait for a person to at least finish their sentence before jumping up and showing why they're wrong, unless what they're wrong about will have some kind of severe consequences, you will only ever come across as a jerkass know-it-all with no patience. I know because I used to be that jerkass know-it-all so I am well aware of how much a shit head that kind of thing makes you look like.

People only used 5% of their brains and geniuses are people who can tap into all of 100%. In that case, why are headshots so damn deadly? If we are only using a small percentage of our brains then we can lose most of it and be perfectly fine.

I always figured that the original intent of that particular phrase, that started around the 1890's, was supposed to be either figurative or mean that we only actively used 10-20 percent of our brain, you know moving, talking, active thoughts, that's only about 10% while running internal organs, the immune system, and other such things are the other 90% of our brain.

 

[kickyourass]

"Today's society is extremely difficult for the straight white male!"

Nobody plays life on easy mode except for a straight white male. And as soon as you say a different demographic has it easier, then you just admitted to being an idiot. Except for cats. Cats have it easy.

I have literally never heard that phrase used seriously, if you have, you have all of my sympathy because I cannot imagine encountering someone that stupid.

 

[shootthebandit]

"Today's society is extremely difficult for the straight white male!"

Nobody plays life on easy mode except for a straight white male. And as soon as you say a different demographic has it easier, then you just admitted to being an idiot. Except for cats. Cats have it easy.

I have literally never heard that phrase used seriously, if you have, you have all of my sympathy because I cannot imagine encountering someone that stupid.

Enjoy

 

[shootthebandit]

"Easy listening" seriously why do people say this? Of course listening is easy we do it without even trying. Most of the time we do it when we dont want to

 

[Relish in Chaos]

I hate it when someone is opposed to a certain subject, like bestiality or incest, for the simplistic reason of ?It?s just wrong? or ?It?s weird?. Seriously, actually try and think beyond your gut reaction to see why it is you think it?s wrong, or if it?s wrong at all.

People that blame everything on society or corporations without elaborating on it. Like, you know that society is us? And that we fund corporations? ?Supply and demand?? I?m reminded of Quagmire?s rant to Brian in Family Guy, about how he doesn?t like big business crushing small ones but he?s never seen down at the soup kitchen. Something like that.

People that insist, without a sliver of doubt in their mind, that homosexuality is a choice. No offence to any gay people here, but why would anyone in their right mind choose to be gay, when there are so many people that hate them for simply existing? You don?t need to be a scientist to understand that sexuality is primarily governed by hormones. Or sex drive, or whatever?well, my point is, you can?t just make yourself attracted to something.

People conflating paedophiles with child molesters. The media is the biggest offender with this one. Yes, I am going to say I feel sorry for paedophiles, rather than going on a massive witch-hunt for one guy who happens to like looking at naked cartoon girls on the internet. It?s only when they cross the boundary into child molestation, something that is illegal, that I lose sympathy for them.

People whining about Jon leaving Game Grumps and being replaced by Danny. It happened, he?s not coming back, GET OVER IT.

People complaining about whiny teenage protagonists in anime, while seemingly forgetting the fact that they?re teenagers and a lot of them are known for doing that. Like, how people say ?Edward is so emo in the 2003 FMA anime?. I?d like to see how you react if your father abandoned you for reasons unknown, your mother died, you lost two limbs and your brother?s body in an attempt to resurrect her, people are constantly trying to kill you, you were forced to kill another human being for the first time in your life...and all before you turned 16. And I?m saying this as a person who doesn?t even like the first anime.

Basically, most of the BS that I get fed up with is something called ?thought-terminating cliché?. You can search that on Wikipedia; I can?t be arsed to link it here.

"Watchmen is the best superhero comic ever." Riiiiiiight because Dark Knight Returns, Year One and Bendis' Daredevil never happened. If you don't like those, there's plenty of other examples of better stories. Watchmen wasn't that great as a story and it certainly isn't as fucking essential as people say it is. I know that's opinion but to ignore other great works in such away is stupid. It's not even a problem that's exclusive to comics.

That's not really BS, though. It's just an opinion.

Oh, and I personally think The Dark Knight Returns is overrated as hell (Year One is far better as a tightly constructed story), has terrible artwork, and loses some cultural significance now that everyone's used to "grimdark Batman". But the themes that Watchmen explores still feel relevant and original to this day.

 

[lionsprey]

"Easy listening" seriously why do people say this? Of course listening is easy we do it without even trying. Most of the time we do it when we dont want to

well not really. we HEAR stuff all the time listening is actually paying attention to what we hear.

 

[ninjaRiv]

"Watchmen is the best superhero comic ever." Riiiiiiight because Dark Knight Returns, Year One and Bendis' Daredevil never happened. If you don't like those, there's plenty of other examples of better stories. Watchmen wasn't that great as a story and it certainly isn't as fucking essential as people say it is. I know that's opinion but to ignore other great works in such away is stupid. It's not even a problem that's exclusive to comics.

That's not really BS, though. It's just an opinion.

Oh, and I personally think The Dark Knight Returns is overrated as hell (Year One is far better as a tightly constructed story), has terrible artwork, and loses some cultural significance now that everyone's used to "grimdark Batman". But the themes that Watchmen explores still feel relevant and original to this day.

To be honest, I don't think Watchmen is relevant at all now... But this is something we can chat about elsewhere, if at all.

But you're right, perhaps it is opinion. But, I dunno seems like a lot of better comics are dismissed.

I have to agree with your point, though; it does piss me off when people hate something "just because."

EDIT: "It's unnatural" is a terrible phrase.

 

[MarsProbe]

There are many things, but I'm not going to list them all...in a single post.

One thing that gets me is when people say an acronym, but also say the word that the last letter stands for. I've heard of a lot of OS systems in my time. You wouldn't talk about an Operating System System would you, so why an OS system? Seriously, take just a second to think about what it is you are actually saying....

 

[kickyourass]

"Today's society is extremely difficult for the straight white male!"

Nobody plays life on easy mode except for a straight white male. And as soon as you say a different demographic has it easier, then you just admitted to being an idiot. Except for cats. Cats have it easy.

I have literally never heard that phrase used seriously, if you have, you have all of my sympathy because I cannot imagine encountering someone that stupid.

Enjoy

He spent basically that entire thing going on about how awesome it is to be a white male, how is that meant to be a retort?

 

[shootthebandit]

"Today's society is extremely difficult for the straight white male!"

Nobody plays life on easy mode except for a straight white male. And as soon as you say a different demographic has it easier, then you just admitted to being an idiot. Except for cats. Cats have it easy.

I have literally never heard that phrase used seriously, if you have, you have all of my sympathy because I cannot imagine encountering someone that stupid.

Enjoy

He spent basically that entire thing going on about how awesome it is to be a white male, how is that meant to be a retort?

I was agreeing with you. Because you were on about the subject i thought the video was relevant

 

[kickyourass]

"Today's society is extremely difficult for the straight white male!"

Nobody plays life on easy mode except for a straight white male. And as soon as you say a different demographic has it easier, then you just admitted to being an idiot. Except for cats. Cats have it easy.

I have literally never heard that phrase used seriously, if you have, you have all of my sympathy because I cannot imagine encountering someone that stupid.

Enjoy

He spent basically that entire thing going on about how awesome it is to be a white male, how is that meant to be a retort?

I was agreeing with you. Because you were on about the subject i thought the video was relevant

Ohh ok I misinterpreted your intentions, that was my bad. But yeah he does kinda prove my point, thank you for that.

 

[Tayh]

People buying an apple product and suddenly the words "phone", "pc" and "computer" are deleted from their vocabulary.
"Hey, I can't find my iPhone. Can you iPhone my iPhone so I can find it?"
"Is there an iMac/Mac store nearby? My iMac/Mac is broken, and I kinda need an iMac/Mac to finish my homework."

 

[Quiet Stranger]

Please read this.

What I'm about to copy and paste is a FB status I put on about a film I watched in class called "The Secret" and the comments that follows are from my stupid ass friends who believe in that crock of shit book. So I guess what I'm saying is, what pisses me off is people who fall for such shit.I will also put a star next to my posts just so you know, and also not all the comments are from the same person and I will label them as such:

**Oh man, not sure whether to laugh or cry, just watched the dumbest movie I've ever seen. It's called "The Secret" which is based off the book of the same name.

It's all about thinking positively and that's great but what it talks about is how "If you think positive, you can regrow your kidneys and cure your cancer" and that "If you think negatively, negative things will happen." Oh... so I guess my aunt died of cancer because she had negative thoughts or that ANYONE who has died in a hurricane or any other natural disaster brought it upon themselves.

I sincerely hope no one in my class actually believes that crock of shit.

FRIEND 1: I do. And the mind is a very powerful tool. To each there own tho !

FRIEND 2: That's not what the secret is saying. Its saying that the power of the mind can be beneficial. And that positive thinking equals positive results.

**: And that everything we know is wrong and how to control your weight... don't look at overweight people! It might not say it but it sure as fuck implies it.

Friend 3: (THIS IS THE ONLY ONE WITH RATIONAL THOUGHT): Did u guys watch that in class that movie was dumb

Friend 2: Lmao you can do all those things! Negative people havr terrible lives. Truth. (Just as a side note, I hate people who fucking end their sentences with truth, what fucking morons)

**: Most People who are "negative" become "negative" because of "negative" things in their lives. Look at kids with leukemia, they're almost always positive but that doesn't stop them from dying.

Friend 2: Attitude it a choice. Not cause and effect friend.

Friend 1: Narrow minded people will have narrow minded results Too each there own like I mentioned before !

**: "To each their own" only works when "their own" doesn't effect yours.


I think I need to find better and smarter friends.


Wow captcha got it spot on: just friends

 

[lacktheknack]

Please read this.

snip

You seem to think that this was some sort of event horizon of stupid, seeing how you wrote "Please read this", but it's really not. Careless and thoughtless, yes, but it's not even the stupidest thing I've heard in the last hour.

Besides, extolling the virtues of positive thinking, even if they claim false benefits, is still not a bad thing.

Now, if your friends were waxing eloquent of the benefits of blood diamonds (true story), THEN we'd have something to properly facepalm at.

 

[Quiet Stranger]

Please read this.

snip

You seem to think that this was some sort of event horizon of stupid, seeing how you wrote "Please read this", but it's really not. Careless and thoughtless, yes, but it's not even the stupidest thing I've heard in the last hour.

Besides, extolling the virtues of positive thinking, even if they claim false benefits, is still not a bad thing.

Now, if your friends were waxing eloquent of the benefits of blood diamonds (true story), THEN we'd have something to properly facepalm at.

oooohhh my class mates have said worse things than that, that was just the dumbest thing I heard today and I wanted to share it with you smart people.