InsertWittyName said:
Mana Fiend said:
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Oh, and when cars don't indicate coming off/onto a main road. I mean, if I'm trying to cross, I'd like to know that I can instead of having to wait for them to decide to turn.
Im pretty sure if you just walked and they hit you without their indicator on you could just sue the shit out of them.
Try to collect when you're dead. Even if you're not killed, no settlement will cure paralysis, unless you donate it to medical research (which means you've broken even).
As for the topic at hand, I really can't stand it when special editions of DVDs get released AFTER the 'vanilla' version. It doesn't seem to happen much now, but when I saw the Collector's Edition of Advent Children in a bookstore, I was simultaneously excited and furious. I thought, "Yes! Hell Yes!" then, "I wish I hadn't spent my money on that other version a few weeks back."
Speaking of media, I also have this insatiable pet peeve where I'll hand a DVD of my short films over to someone, they'll turn it over, and say something along the lines of, "Oh, it's just a DVD-R." WHAT THE HELL DO YOU EXPECT? I'M NOT A HOLLYWOOD DIRECTOR, I'M AN INDEPENDENT VIDEO ARTIST, OF COURSE I DON'T HAVE PROFESSIONAL DISTRIBUTION. I mean, Buckethead puts out a boxed set with a hand-drawn stick figure of himself on the cover and it's declared an act of marketing and artistic genius, but my efforts get declared 'lesser' for it? Granted, I'm not Buckethead (and I'm even among those declaring his homebrew albums works of genius), but if he can garner respect from hand-made discs, how unreasonable am I being for wanting more than a nose thumbed at me? THE MEDIUM IS NOT THE MESSAGE.