People who use the "It's just a word" excuse to use offensive language.
White dude: "Oh, but the n-word is just offensive if I mean offense..."
It makes me tilt.
Why on earth do you want to use words like that!?
Guess what else is just a word? Cephalothorax. It just means what we assign it to mean.
Still don't see you using it.
Maybe that got away from me a little..
Point: If its just a word, lose it from your vocabulary and stop pestering the groups of people hurt by it that you really, really want to use it.
Preach. It's like I told someone who misused the word "retarded": "You might not mean it in an offensive way, but you know what the word means and you still chose to use it."
Someone I know and actually like said that "that is just the world we live in now" when I brought up a person who was jailed for making comments protected by the first amendment. I actually thought he was being sarcastic but got kind of sad when I realized he wasn't. He also supports the NSA spying except he is dyed in the wool liberal. Go figure.
You know that kind of person, the kind who's always really eager to be the one that tells the story. The kind who always wants to believe that you were completely ignorant of what they are telling you, until they've told it, entirely incorrectly.
I'll give an example
Friend: Have you seen that new Twilight movie?
Me: The one where it's all a dream?
Friend: No, the latest one where........
Me: So the one where it's all a dream
Friend: No, the latest one where.....
Me: Yeah, the one where it's all a dream
Friend: No, it's....
Me: THE ONE WHERE IT'S ALL A DREAM, WHAT YOU MEAN IS "YES, THE LATEST ONE WHERE...." NOT "NO, THE LATEST ONE WHERE....."
A counterpoint to this one is that you know, you could just let them finish talking.
On topic: Haven't read all these, so I may be throwing in a repeat, but "I'm not sexist/racist/homophobic, but..." is usually a good indicator that my blood pressure will be skyrocketing shortly.
that depends on what you call a computer. for all intents and purposes Macs right now are nothing but smart tvs gone extreme. I mean if we call that a computer, we may as well call our phones PCs, consoles PCs and so on. I understand that when you have PC with OSX its a PC. but a MAC is hardly a PC.
Chemical123 said:
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.
Its a myth that comes from not understanding what is 5% of your brain.
You dont use 5% of your brain land area. you yse 100% of it. however, on average it is operating at 10% of its maximum theoretical activity. if your whole brain would be operating on maximum theoretical limit cpacity you would probably process stuff way faster (and be dead in seconds)
krazykidd said:
You do really guys get harrassed too right? Have you ever played any kind of multiplayer game ? The online community is just plain nasty .
Well, the internet is particullary nasty with people like this:
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Esotera said:
I believe that clip is from the excellent documentary Gaslands, and that quite a few people decided to break their NDA just because their water supply was that badly contaminated. I'd say a lot of the bad aspects of fracking are due to poor regulation in the US, it will be essential to transition to a green economy (I just hope we do that faster than we currently are).
Well, technically, they could just use European fracking methods, which use different chemicals and do not result in the same thing. problem is, europe is now allowing Chevron (american company) to do it here, which means that we are going to use the worse methods because fuck logic.
Duol said:
That video was proved to be 'fake' multiple times.
There are many rational reasons for that occuring that have nothing to do with fracking.
It's because of people like you that we can't have nice things...
Also those people who claim they saw a plot twist coming, even if it wasn't foreshadowed in anyway, they act like it makes them smart but it doesn't because any reason they would have for predicting such a plot twist would be stupid and would make them stupid by extent. I think we have all met those type of people.
well, to be honest, i was watching Breaking Bad with a cousin that has seen it before. I guessed out loud 90% of the twists before they happened. simple reason is i saw over 3000 titles (per my IMDB voting history) and pretty much automatically guess the standart twist that every standart story shows. its not about being smart, its about being bored by the same thing over and over again.
lacktheknack said:
"If we want to save the planet, we have to leave all the remaining oil in the ground."
No we do not. The planet is not something sacred, if we screw it up, it'll adapt and change. Furthermore, we are SO dependent on that oil that suddenly stopping all drilling would RUIN MODERN CIVILIZATION. Plus, my province would suddenly have an unemployment rate of about 85% (or higher, since the government wouldn't be able to afford any of its workers anymore), and I know that's the case for a lot of other places.
So please... stop acting as though oil is the root of all that's evil. Kill society's dependence on it, THEN we'll talk. Not before.
If it tales leaving oil in the ground to stop us from burning it, then so be it. if we are too stupid to find another use for the black gold them we shouldnt dig it out.
yes, the planet will adopt. remember what happened when planed adopted to a meteor crash? dinosaurs went extinct.
AnarchistFish said:
And of course, the people who denounce fracking because they jump the second someone mentions earthquakes or a few instances of this fire trick, which doesn't seem to be that much of a problem anyway.
that depends on what you call a computer. for all intents and purposes Macs right now are nothing but smart tvs gone extreme. I mean if we call that a computer, we may as well call our phones PCs, consoles PCs and so on. I understand that when you have PC with OSX its a PC. but a MAC is hardly a PC.
I am not a fan of Apple computers but a Macintosh branded computer is a "personal computer". There is no disputing that fact. Once you strip away the OS and the shiny shell they have all the same components any Windows based machine has. I don't know why you would try to dispute that.
While we are at it smart phones are personal computers as well. Not as powerful sure, but they are computers "A computer is a general purpose device that can be programmed to carry out a finite set of arithmetic or logical operations." and owned by individuals not businesses or universitys like super computers or old mainframes.
people saying "i lied." when they were wrong. lying is worse than being wrong, why is it so hard for people to just admit they were wrong? why do they prefer to claim they were lying? i don't understand this practice.
that way they retain the moral highground of "i knew it all along i jsut lied to you since you obviuosly are bellow me".
not much of a mountain but enough for an egoistic person to sleep at night.
shootthebandit said:
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
well, if you drank 1 liter botles of lager, and he drank 1 liter of 30% stuff, then yes, the amoutn of aocohol consumed would be more for him.
that being said, shots are usually 50ml, so you have to divide that by 20.
Amir Kondori said:
Strazdas said:
Evil Smurf said:
I find it frustrating that some people don't call computers with OSX PCs. a PC is a personal computer, the operating system has no bearing on that.
that depends on what you call a computer. for all intents and purposes Macs right now are nothing but smart tvs gone extreme. I mean if we call that a computer, we may as well call our phones PCs, consoles PCs and so on. I understand that when you have PC with OSX its a PC. but a MAC is hardly a PC.
I am not a fan of Apple computers but a Macintosh branded computer is a "personal computer". There is no disputing that fact. Once you strip away the OS and the shiny shell they have all the same components any Windows based machine has. I don't know why you would try to dispute that.
While we are at it smart phones are personal computers as well. Not as powerful sure, but they are computers "A computer is a general purpose device that can be programmed to carry out a finite set of arithmetic or logical operations." and owned by individuals not businesses or universitys like super computers or old mainframes.
Its all depending on what definition you are using. you are using the broad one (your smartphone comment). fair enough, then Macs are indeed PCs. By that definition, your fridge has a personal computer inside it as well as your stove (if you use the leectrical one) though. so the term itself is kinda meaningless to decribe anything other than "this does stuff".
two things:
1. I am not talking about any plot twist I am talking about the once which come right the fuck out of nowhere, e.g. lets say you were watching aliens and just at the climax of the film she used the power loader not to push the queen out of the air lock but instead used it to do a bitching tap dance that caused the alien queen to explode because that was her weakness all along, and then you say 'I saw that coming, it was really kinda obvious' that's where I would get annoyed because there is no reason you should have seen that coming, no for shadowing, no following a predictable plot, just right out of the blue plot twist.
2. If you out loud predict it before it happens fine, its when you claim to have predicted it after it happened.
People using the world "troll" incorrectly, as though trolling someone is something worth applauding. No, if you're telling me you're going to go "troll the YouTube comments" it means you're going to be a dick, and I don't LIKE dicks.
"Get a job". I've got a job right now, but living in Spain, where youth unemployment is above 50%, this is the most stupid and frustrating piece of advice that you can give someone of my age. The rest of the world may be in better condition, but I'm fairly certain that "getting a job" is pretty tough right about now anywhere you may be.
Also, not necessarily "say", but "type", "i". Please, it's not that hard to press the shift key. Show some self-respect, some respect for me, and some respect for the rules of grammar. If there's one person who deserves capitalization, it's you, right?
I'd say the people who jump in every time there is a discussion about religion and immediately post something along the lines of laughing at people for believing the religion without adding any discussion value to support or contradict it.
while i do not excuse these people, plenty of them do have good arguments for their opinions, but when the same couple "Believers" completely ignore everything and repeat their stuff like a broken record people just sink down to their level....
DugMachine said:
"Sheep" or "Sheeple". I only bring this up now because I saw it in the latest ZP thread. It's the most annoying and pretentious thing you can possibly say. You'd have to be pretty god damn full of yourself to think you're some unique snowflake out of the billions of people on earth.
I liked the old ZP for the way they expressed "you are all dumb. and if you think your not the one im talking about your double dumb". That was really an intresting (and back then rare) look at the sheeple concept.
Jamieson 90 said:
"Young people are what's wrong with the world," news flash Cato the Elder was decrying the youth of Rome over 2000 years ago and blamed them for the decline of the Republic, hence I've started to realize that it's just old people in general moaning and complaining.
"All people on benefits are scroungers," err no they're not in fact the number of people committing benefit fraud to the people on benefits is miniscule, in fact if I remember correctly it's like 5% - I bet the real term figures for tax avoidance and evasion is much higher and substantially more costly.
where is your rome empire now? oh, thats right, it fell.
im joking of course, but you picked a pretty poor example. especially when many historians thing that 2000 years ago was the time when the empire actually did start to decline.
as for benefit fraud, i am very glad that the number is so low in your country. here we have recently introduced the law where you have to work few hours of communal service if you want to get the benefits. over a third of benefit recievers refused their benefits because they are "already busy whole day". most of them either work in shadow industry (illegal) or at their own farms (farmers were recieving benefits because they werent officialy emplyed). Not everyone on benefits are stealing, but plenty are.
And thansk to them people liek me dont get any. when i had no job i was simply told "till 24 we are not giving you anything, go ask your parents" and it does not matter that they are in another city and i have to live here ech. I did find work eventually (1.5 months) but if i wouldnt i probably wouldnt have internet to type this with
Ryan Minns said:
"OH that's just a vocal minority and you should ignore them!"
I hate this one for multiple reasons. One being usually those who say it have often shown themselves to be no better than the apparent vocal minority they claim are stupid.
Two being the fact that challenging that so called vocal minority and calling them out on their bullshit would greatly improve how your views are seen by others and not just ignore the people who say stupid shit also in your 'group'.
Three being one of the worst reasons. "I will instantly dismiss all evidence you've put forward about my group having an issue by claiming it to be a vocal near non existent minority but I shall point out that I got called a jerk randomly while in town thus proving you have a severe overwhelmingly large problem within your group!"
you know what here at statistics call a "Vocal minorities"? statistically irrelevant.
seriuosly, while the minorities do deserve to be heard and their opinions taken into account, no more than the rest. they are not somehow above everyone else just because they speak louder. in the end what matter is the majority, thats how democracy works. if you sell a game and you have 1% unhappy costumers while this decision makes 99% happy, youll go with it even if only that 1% will be the ones speaking. since you will still sell for 99%. Peopel cry about how games are "Trying to appeal to the broaden audience" but whenever a game doesnt they start internet rampages of "how dare they make a game i dont like".
Amir Kondori said:
That's nothing, there are still a lot of people that call a desktop computer a "cpu" or a "hard drive".
I havent ment one calling it a hard drive, but ive seen plenty of people who though their monitor is thier whole computer. like they totalyl forget they have to press the power buttom every day, no, only take the monitor and you can ahve computer at location X, no need for the box. and then, when your 200KM away, you find out the guy only packed a monitor. FUUUUU
Still, the best one has to be the guy that brought a keyboard and mouse to a repair shop and asked to reinstall windows. "the otherp arts were too heavy" was his excuse.
lacktheknack said:
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 wasnt going to get into the piracy debate, nto the right thread, but it seems its not gettign let go. libraries do not stock many books usually because noone uses libraries anymore. over my whole life i have met such situation once, and it was becuasel ibrary had only 1 book of this and it was overdue in return. I got it in 3 days when the gal returned it. I was overdue many times but i never got charged, just ranted on.
Piracy is illegal, but it is not ammoral. if you consider it ammoral then you are doing ammoral things every day. this guy expressed it much better than i did so heres the quote.
bastardofmelbourne said:
I think it's morally wrong on the same level that jaywalking is morally wrong. As in, not very.
The problem with talking about piracy as a moral question is that it opens up a whole bag of moral quandaries that you don't really need to address. Let's say copyright infringement is morally wrong in the basis that you are deriving the benefit of a creator's work without paying for it. Under that framework, I can think of a number of equally wrong but socially acceptable activities, such as;
- borrowing a book from a friend
- buying a used video game
- accepting a hand-me-down iPhone from a sibling
- reading a comic book or a magazine in the store
- watching a DVD of the Avengers at a friend's house
- listening to music played on your friend's music player
- watching a clip of a comedian's stand-up routine on Youtube
You can keep going. Under the moral framework for copyright infringement, literally any scenario where you obtain the benefit of a work - reading it, watching it, listening to it - without paying money to the artist is morally wrong. That's unworkable. There isn't a single human being in the first world who hasn't done one of those items on the list at some point in their lives. They're all about as malicious as eating the last slice of cake, or telling your girlfriend she doesn't look fat in those jeans.
Add that to the fact that, as I said, if you take a moral view of copyright law it's morally wrong to pay anyone other than the creator. How much of the money made from music and films goes to the creators and how much goes to the lobbyists and industry powerbrokers behind the MPAA and the RIAA? How much of the money made by sales of Batman comics goes to Bill Finger? If I buy a copy of the Hobbit, does the deceased Tolkien get the money? His descendants get the money - people who are passively deriving a benefit from their grandfather's achievements.
Once you apply a classical moral framework to copyright law, the whole structure collapses. If the point of copyright is to benefit the author, why does it persist past the author's death? Why is it possible to sell your copyright in a work?
So how do you answer those questions? You don't. Copyright infringement isn't illegal because it's morally wrong - it's illegal because the law says so. This might seem unjust, but it's what happens when powerful lobbyists use a shallow appeal to morality to justify expanding the scope and length of copyright far past the point of absurdity. Better to think of it as a legal question concerning legal rights and governed by legal principles. That way, at least it makes sense.
When you get down to it, the only time anyone is going to care about copyright infringement is when you're being sued for it. And when you get put in front of a judge, talking about morality isn't going to get you very far. The judge is sitting in front of a big book called The Law, and he wants to find out if what you did was illegal, not if it was wrong.
never in human history governments used communism.
SillyBear said:
Most dictionaries today don't define miracle to exclusively mean divine intervention.
2. A highly improbable or extraordinary event, development, or accomplishment.
Ok, im at a loss for words here.
When you start defining miracle as an improbably acomplishment it completely loses its previuos meaning and confuses everyone. just why do you have to keep making up new meanings for old words?
Crystalite said:
People who use the "It's just a word" excuse to use offensive language.
It is just a word. a word that certain people may take offense, but still just a word. In fact Escpaist is one of those rare sites that do not attempt to censor our speech fo freedom and dont automatically remove words like "fuck". Ive seen sites that autoblock as much as "Fart" becuase someone may take offence.
YOu know the saying, words are not stones....
Karadalis said:
" I am X " "I worked/have been in the industry for X years " "I have worked in software engineering "
Seriously? The internet stopped believing these stories before it was born. Especialy since there never is any proof following those claims.
Also any kind or form of elitism derived from any kind of statistics be it number of forum posts, K/D ratios etc etc.
No your opinion about game balance is not worth more then that of any other forum user... no, your win ratio does not allow you to decide who should or should not be able to post on a games forum.
well, to be honest, a 10 year surgeon probably knows more about surgery than me and i woudl trust him more than me had it come to surgery. Of course not everyone claiming to be surgeon on the internet is if thats what your saying.
I think most people dont even udnerstand what elitism is. Elite is somone who is superior. Most people use it as an insult when its really a compliment.
ANd to be honest i think a person who has played 1000 matches with character X knows more about it than a person who just got it and starts crying after 2 matches because it is not what he expected. Winrate has nothing to do with it, altrough peopel with very lwo winrates probablyu dont like certain chracters because well they simply are poor players.
Anyway, any self-respecting game designer will balance game from actual game statistics and not forum whiners so this is irrelevant.
tsb247 said:
When people don't use plastic bags to, "Save a plastic tree." I hear people say this all the time, and you know what?
Wait what? Plastic tree" never heard this one. how the hell does one even come up with this?
Queen Michael said:
Preach. It's like I told someone who misused the word "retarded": "You might not mean it in an offensive way, but you know what the word means and you still chose to use it."
Retardation [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_retardation] is a medical term.
Rariow said:
People using the world "troll" incorrectly, as though trolling someone is something worth applauding. No, if you're telling me you're going to go "troll the YouTube comments" it means you're going to be a dick, and I don't LIKE dicks.
Also, not necessarily "say", but "type", "i". Please, it's not that hard to press the shift key. Show some self-respect, some respect for me, and some respect for the rules of grammar. If there's one person who deserves capitalization, it's you, right?
Most people, heck, msot dictionaries does not know what trolling is. it is quite sad really when people think trolling is insults and libel. a real troll will troll you and you will not even know you are being trolled till after its over. it takes quite a cunning personality and intelligence to actually troll somone. its sad the amount of mentally retarded people have bastardized the term to mean "insult people".
As for capitalization, this is mostly from non-english cultures i assume. here in lithuanian we do not capitalize the word and i found it completely stupid of why should i capitalize "I" alone and not "he". Are you really that much ego-centristic to need to capitalize "I"?
Not that i capitalize much to begin with, half of my sentences arent captialized.
Also i found it strange but good that you got the inanimate version. what i mean is "he" "she" "it". here we only got he and she. and all inanimates are either he or she. and thus i will use he and she on inanimates a lot and get ranted on for it. also confuses me a lot of why would people call a ship "Her", when "ship" is "he" obviuosly.
Bah, i hate language barriers, i wish all world spoke smae language.....
I am honestly not sure where it came from, but it drives me crazy! I work retail to pay my tuition, and I hear people say this all the time. I'm not sure where it started, but it always leaves me wondering whether or not people actually know where plastic comes from. It's not like it's a big deal or anything, but it's one of those little things that makes me wonder if someday Idiocracy will become a documentary. :/
I am honestly not sure where it came from, but it drives me crazy! I work retail to pay my tuition, and I hear people say this all the time. I'm not sure where it started, but it always leaves me wondering whether or not people actually know where plastic comes from. It's not like it's a big deal or anything, but it's one of those little things that makes me wonder if someday Idiocracy will become a documentary. :/
i cmae up with a theory. you know when you dont use paper you "save trees". some idiot probably asociated this with dont use plastic save plastic trees.
as for Idiocracy, watch the intro 5 minutes. you will know how and why it will become a documentary.
I absolutely can't stand it when someone begins a sentence with "welp" It's not a word, stop saying it, it isn't funny you moron.
Also "could of", you meant to say "could've" or "could have" learn English you idiots!
People who announce of facebook how little they care about something. There are many things I don't care about, to give an example from today I don't care about "the royal baby" this is manifest in the absence of facebook posts about it!
Just to clarify my example doesn't undermine my point it illustrates it.
Preach. It's like I told someone who misused the word "retarded": "You might not mean it in an offensive way, but you know what the word means and you still chose to use it."
True. I should ahev clarified that the person in question was using it incorrectly and offensively, like "This computer's retarded interface," like a general slur rather than an actual thing that happens to humans.
"No! It'll be different this time! He's changed!".
No, no he hasn't, he didn't change the last time you said that, or the time before that. You're just deluding yourself because you're afraid of admitting fault in anything.
When someone uses "FAIL!" to express criticism of something or someone I feel like bludgeoning them with a lead pipe.
People who are overly obsessed with political correctness are also highly irritating. It is one thing to show respect to others, it is another thing to sanitize society into a bunch of vapid idiots who are unable to articulate anything meaningful or thought-provoking.
'Like', as in "I, like, like that" (and yes, living in California means I have actually heard people say this).
People not understanding how to use reflexive pronouns, but using them in sentences anyway because they think it makes them sound smarter. For example, "I'm going to arrange a meeting between Finance and myself...", or "will it just be yourself that's attending?". It makes me very angry, but it's becoming extremely common. Grrrr...!
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