So, what was the last thing that made you die a bit inside?

[Neurotic Void Melody]

I die inside every day. Wait...cheerful, remain cheerful, tearful! There is a certain cover of a certain popular Tracy Chapman song written about her life experience and possibly references a speedy four-wheeled vehicle, that plays on the radio everytime i visit particular acquaintances and it is absolutely horrifying. They doubled the tempo, got a vocalist who sings like they're disinterestedly speed-reading a book out loud in english class and replaced the acoustic riff with a monotonous synth that refuses to sound like more than one note. I like many forms of crazy electronic music and daring covers, but this particular half-arsed... nay, quarter-arsed syphoning of any meaningful emotion to regurgitate back to the mindless masses is downright insulting on many levels. I want to know how something like that gets ok'd in the mainstream publishing circle. At no point did anybody put a hand on their shoulder and say "just leave it alone, music is not for you. Here is a nice 12th storey window i left open for you to journey through at high speed, head first."
I would say that they phoned it in, but even that requires at least some effort and a pinch of self-awareness. This ear-paste is more like grunting lazily at the phone from bed, except it is somehow popular!
...Garghhh!!

And breathe...

Every time i open the daily news to find Trump and Hilary winning another state. What the hell is wrong with people? They don't have a fucking clue what's good for them at all.

Every time another American citizen misunderstands socialism through the corrupted conditioning that their media has relentlessly pursued. It really really is not what most US humans appear to blindly believe it is.

Every time i read that the Tories snuck another damaging policy through when people were too busy being distracted by the luke warm, shiny guffs of a Kardashian. Must. Remain. Cheerful, damnit!

 

[Cowabungaa]

Watching people sincerely defend Donald Trump.

I got sort of over that. Or so I thought. Until I read this article. [http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-realistic-ways-donald-trump-can-accomplish-his-crazy-goals/]

Yeah, I know. It's Cracked. That doesn't mean that it's not an insightful, relatively well-researched article. The thought alone that Trump has both a workable strategy and has more of the law on his side than anything would ever hope would be the case is truly frightening.

What it makes clear about the American electorate also kills me as much as that does.

 

[Silverbeard]

An incident at work.
I'm a clinical microbiologist by trade and the other day I got a blood sample from an ICU patient who had endocarditis (basically a bacterial infection of the blood valves in the heart). Should have been pretty straightforward, right? Make a gram stain, ID the organisms, do an antibiotic sensitivity test and then release the result. So I did my thing and found two different strains of E. coli infecting the patient with different antibiotic sensitivities. That's a bit more complicated because the hospital would need to use at least two different antibiotics but still fairly workable. So I released the result and went on with my day. A few hours later, the head nurse at the hospital calls my lab and demands to speak with my supervisor while insisting that she's never heard of such a preposterous thing as two different strains of the same organism infecting the same patient! My supervisor spent an hour arguing with the moron and when he told me the story, I died a bit inside at the level of incompetency exhibited by that nurse.

When I was told that in the new Battletech video game, you wouldn't have the ability to pick stuff up to use as improvised clubs, I died a lot.

What's to die about this? Battletech is not Gundam. Mechs don't have hands with fingers. They don't 'hold' guns. The guns are just a part of the machine. They don't have anything with which to pick up stuff.

 

[Smooth Operator]

Well I frequent quite a few technical forums and enjoy reading about peoples crazy new inventions even if they aren't within the realm of doable/usable.
But there is always a very strong presence of stupid, people who only remember half their physics lessons and imagine the rest, and it just kills me when half of every discussion is legitimate engineers being required to dispel the random fantasies some people have come up with in the absence of knowledge.
Look none of us knows everything, just for the love of christ don't pretend your BS is legitimate when real knowledge is passed around.

Then again you also have super skilled people who only run a one track mind, to them shit either works the way they learned it 30+ years ago or it can't work at all... that is just a shameful waste of a brilliant mind.

 

[DefunctTheory]

When I was told that in the new Battletech video game, you wouldn't have the ability to pick stuff up to use as improvised clubs, I died a lot.

What's to die about this? Battletech is not Gundam. Mechs don't have hands with fingers. They don't 'hold' guns. The guns are just a part of the machine. They don't have anything with which to pick up stuff.

...Not a Battletech fan, I take it?

Many of them to have hands. Melee combat is common. Hatchets and swords are equipable weapons, and the table top rules allow for mechs to use improvised clubs, which range from trees, to girders, to even picking up their own blown off limbs. One mech, the Atlas, even has fluff claiming its possible for one mech to pick up another and throw it (Though it's never been observed and isn't represented in the rules).

I guess it's not surprising to not know this. The Mechwarrior series is more popular then the Battletech games, and there is no melee combat or hands in that series.

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

Remembering my brother passed away and never got to enjoy Deadpool or see that there was life beyond the Star Wars Prequels... then getting a personal message from Otep Shamaya that made me cheer the fuck up right away. It was like the real life equivalent of someone tossing me a Phoenix Down after being KO'd

 

[Rastrelly]

Every single time I hear Diablo, or Skyrim, or Fallout 4, or Borderlands, or Torchlight, or whatever alike called RPG - this is what happens to me. RPG all right they all are!

 

[Souplex]

I shouldn't have been listening to Asgores theme while reading it all, that's for sure.

I die a little when people post the inferior version of a song.
As a Democrat, I work under the belief that most people are good, but a lot of people are stupid.
Seeing all the support for Trump threatens half of that belief, with all the support that a man running a hate-campaign can receive.

 

[CrazyGirl17]

Watching "What the Fuck is Wrong With You" on Channel Awesome is a bit of a soul-shattering experience at times. The worst story in the most recent episode? The parents of a terminally ill child stole laptops from a hospital meant to let terminally ill children contact their families and tried to sell them on Facebook! The worst part? They tried to blame their terminally ill son for it!

I... I don't... what?!?! Even Nash and Tara couldn't believe it, even calling this a "You're Going to Hell" moment.

Don't believe me? Here's the link, if you don't mind sitting through a few other dumb stories... and cute kitties!
http://channelawesome.com/the-runaway-unicorn-wtfiwwy-live/

 

[shrekfan246]

Any post on any internet forum ever. Including my own.

Okay, I sort of jest.

This is where we are now, eh? Final Fantasy franchise. The name that always meant maybe not the best, but beautiful stories, with the most memorable characters and soundtrack... It's games are now judged by graphics.

Let's be fair, a lot of people have been judging Final Fantasy on its graphics for a very long time. In fact, our very own Yahtzee regularly states that he lost interest in Final Fantasy "when it became more about flash than substance" (probably loosely paraphrased, sorry) all the way back with VII.

And considering how hard Square/Squeenix has pushed the graphics engines for their games since the move to the Playstation twenty years ago, it's not difficult to understand why people think that way. VIII and IX are some of the best-looking OG Playstation games, X was astounding for how early it launched in the PS2's lifespan (and how shortly after IX), Kingdom Hearts still stands as a great looker even with its weird cardboard cutscene mouths, and XII? It's got some bad texturing, sure, but the thing looks better than quite a few PS3 games did, with a scale that dwarfs even other games in its own franchise.

And to be honest, people who've had little exposure to Final Fantasy are far less likely to be upset by XIII than those of us who grew up on so many of the games. The story of XIII wasn't really significantly more dumb than any of the other games, even if it was a bit more convoluted and much worse told (though I'll say that the bloat they added on to it with XIII-2 and Lightning Returns did diminish the already-middling quality of the original; I do maintain that the gameplay of XIII-2 was at least better by enough to justify its existence). At least to me, the worst thing about Final Fantasy XIII is that it easily feels like it doesn't have any use for that "Final Fantasy" in the title. It could've been called literally anything else and nobody would've known the difference, because the only previous game it even vaguely resembled was X.

...

What just happened? I always black out whenever somebody starts talking about Final Fantasy XIII.

Er. As for a non-cynical, non-snarky response to the topic at hand, a kidney stone. I got one shortly after my birthday a little over a month ago, and just had it taken out on Wednesday and I've had to live with a stent inside of me since, which I'll likely have for another week. Saying that it's been "uncomfortable" would probably be a massive understatement, and it's pretty much overridden how much I actually care about anything else I've been exposed to over the past month.

 

[Battenberg]

Seeing people treating retail workers like crap always make feel a bit worse about the world. Especially when you get those people who have an issue with something like a price or a store policy and then take it out on someone who clearly had no say in it and gets payed less than whatever exec who actually made the choice. Then having effectively laid blame with that assistant they ask to see a manager as though the assistant is bullshitting them and they just need to complain to someone in a nicer outfit to get what they want. Pick one, either they assistant has no power over this problem and therefore it isn't their fault or it is their fault and there's no reason to waste a manager's time.

Having worked in retail myself I know how crappy it can be so it always pisses me off seeing people act that way.

 

[Silverbeard]

When I was told that in the new Battletech video game, you wouldn't have the ability to pick stuff up to use as improvised clubs, I died a lot.

What's to die about this? Battletech is not Gundam. Mechs don't have hands with fingers. They don't 'hold' guns. The guns are just a part of the machine. They don't have anything with which to pick up stuff.

...Not a Battletech fan, I take it?

Many of them to have hands. Melee combat is common. Hatchets and swords are equipable weapons, and the table top rules allow for mechs to use improvised clubs, which range from trees, to girders, to even picking up their own blown off limbs. One mech, the Atlas, even has fluff claiming its possible for one mech to pick up another and throw it (Though it's never been observed and isn't represented in the rules).

I guess it's not surprising to not know this. The Mechwarrior series is more popular then the Battletech games, and there is no melee combat or hands in that series.

...You got me. MechWarrior/Commander first, Battletech second.
Although can you blame me (or others like me)? When's the last time tabletop Battletech had a new release? Or any sort of update? I don't even know who owns the rights to that property anymore.
But I'll admit, seeing an Atlas toss a Timber Wolf at something would make me giggle like a schoolgirl.

 

[DefunctTheory]

...You got me. MechWarrior/Commander first, Battletech second.
Although can you blame me (or others like me)? When's the last time tabletop Battletech had a new release? Or any sort of update? I don't even know who owns the rights to that property anymore.
But I'll admit, seeing an Atlas toss a Timber Wolf at something would make me giggle like a schoolgirl.

Nah, no blames. 90% of people who know what Battletech/Mechwarrior are only know the video games, which don't have melee combat for several obvious reasons.

Topps and Microsoft own the core IP. PGI currently has exclusive video game rights, granted to them on a 10 year (If I remember the time frame correctly) basis from Microsoft. HBS got PGI to let them make a video game as well. Catalyst Games currently has contracted the table top rights, and has been releasing new rules/box sets, as well as new stories and novels. Ironwind Metals has a contract for Battletech minis (Though Catalyst produces some as well with their box set).

Battletech/Mechwarrior... it's a god damn mess out there, really.

Also, here's an Atlas punching out a Mad Dog (Vulture).

 

[Phasmal]

Ehhhhhhhhh, well...

This is pretty fuckin' stupid.

http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/su...y/news-story/2218734e3d51a0e456afe74d7cf312d0

Oh, and I recorded `The Other Boleyn Girl` because it sounded good and I'm always interested in historical films but I couldn't get all the way through it because it's just fucking wrong. About pretty much everything. Ugh.
So, all in all I guess life is pretty good right now because those are just petty things, but still. Still.

 

[Something Amyss]

Well, I was recently told to go get raped while dying in a fire by someone who claims to oppose online harassment...but I gather this is supposed to be a fun thread?

Ghost...vomit.

 

[stormtrooper9091]

Hillary Clinton. What won't someone kill that slimy snake with fire

 

[DudeistBelieve]

Saw on CNN.com a few days ago, an article with the headline: "Donald Trump Defends Penis Size"

There's a very clear cultural line we just all crossed and we can never go back. It's like we hit the high water mark of humanity and now well just start rolling back.

 

[Mister K]

a kidney stone

I feel your pain. I had one too. I am a rather durable guy, but when it started going out of the kidney I screamed for painkillers. For about 24 hours I couldn't eat, I couldn't sleep and the only thing that kept me sane was sniffing chocolate cookies I had nearby (weird, right?). All because it had a spike and was holding to, um, tubes with it.

Luckily, it soon left on it's own. Although not after it was crumbled by ultrasound.

 

[shrekfan246]

a kidney stone

I feel your pain. I had one too. I am a rather durable guy, but when it started going out of the kidney I screamed for painkillers. For about 24 hours I couldn't eat, I couldn't sleep and the only thing that kept me sane was sniffing chocolate cookies I had nearby (weird, right?). All because it had a spike and was holding to, um, tubes with it.

Luckily, it soon left on it's own. Although not after it was crumbled by ultrasound.

This was my second one, actually. I got the first one three years ago; that one was small enough to pass on its own, and relatively quickly. It started causing me issues using the restroom during an evening, then the next morning I woke up around 6 AM feeling an increasing pain in my side, so I got brought up to the ER. Took probably about an hour and a half or so before I finally got seen and could get some painkillers, and I always like to point out that the pain I felt during that time was such that it's the only time in my life I've ever thrown up due to how much I was hurting.

They pumped me up with some morphine, I believe, and after that I was pretty okay. Brought me in for an ultrasound, told me by then the stone had already mostly finished passing, then they sent me on my way and honest to goodness I never actually noticed if the stone ever actually came out.

This one, apparently, decided it wanted to be much larger and just got stuck right outside my kidney. On the one hand, it didn't hurt nearly as badly. On the other, it severely limited the things I could do with regards to physical exertion and was generally just uncomfortable and liked to give me random sharp pain. So the two options were to either have it surgically removed or blast it with sonic waves to break it up and then have it go through my system. I elected for the removal and, to be honest, I'm kind of regretting that decision.

Spoiler: TMI stuff

The stent they have to put in to keep everything working well is kinda more uncomfortable than the resting stone was, and it leaves me in an excessive amount of pain every time I use the bathroom. It means they have the stone to analyze right away and I don't need to worry about any pieces still being large enough to really hurt as they move, or worry about collecting them as they pass to bring in for the doctor, but that silver lining doesn't seem to shine so brightly in retrospect.

 

[Ryallen]

Well... The french word for orgasm is Petite Mort, which means Little Death. So, if I'm going to be completely honest about what I do when I'm alone, I would say that.