This. I mean it's fine that you didn't call/text/email/send smoke signals to invite me to your birthday/engagement/whatever the fuck. But when we bump into each other in the street don't give me passive aggressive bullshit when I express complete ignorance of the entire event because I'm not on Facebook. Because FUCK facebook.carlsberg export said:Facebook!!
why oh why do we HAVE to have it?
I ditched it years ago and I can't BELIVE how some people react to that! all of a sudden I'm "unreachable"
sorry guys did you suddenly forget where I live? my number? my HOUSE number!?
can you even remember what it was like at school before Facebook and even mobile phones!!?
we used to just go knock on each others door and say "hey are you coming out?" but now for some reason everything has to be pre arranged and have the full consent of everyone via Facebook. oh yeah then we have to take photos of everything as evidence said meeting happend.
oh and the social dramas!! my god!! If you do feel the need to catalogue your life and entertain the fantasy that your some kind of celebrity and everyone is DYING to know what you've gotten up too today and what's on your mind, please just think before you click update.
Uh, Twilight is popular. That doesn't mean it's good. Same goes for other derivative garbage shoveled out in every medium under the sun. The general public latching onto something doesn't mean it's suddenly well crafted or innovative. It could mean the public just happened to latch onto it or that the general public aren't the most discerning bunch. To say "just because it's popular doesn't mean it's good" is a very fair statement. It's certainly more fair than calling someone "stupid" for just drawing that conclusion.Kerboom said:This is a good thread. I've needed a nice rant for a while.
Dear regular Windows users. STOP TELLING ME YOUR OPERATING SYSTEM IS BETTER THAN ARCH LINUX, IT'S FUCKING NOT.
I mean, seriously, how fucking incompetent can you be? Windows 7 is only good for ONE thing, and that's playing games. That's it. Nothing else. It's NOT good for web browsing, it's NOT good for text editing, and it's NOT good for being fast. Stop trying to be so high and mighty, you're talking to someone who is studying for a computer degree.
And another thing, people who say "Just because it's popular doesn't mean it's good", I disagree, you stupid, hipster fuck. If it's popular, it's appealing to the masses, and your supposedly "better" thing ISN'T, and maybe that's for a REASON. STOP BEING A TWAT, DICKHEAD.
That was fun.
When I'm in power there will be a manadatory speed limit and everyone will be taught the simplest of facts - "always walk on the left side of the pavement". Seriously it's not that hard.SeeIn2D said:I live in New York and have to take the train to school every day (well not anymore since I just graduated but you get the idea), and I take the train with a friend, and the source of our morning anger besides having to get up at 6:30am to go to school is people that don't know how to walk. We've said that there should be like a seminar dedicated to teaching basically everyone how to walk properly. And it doesn't end in the morning!Rawne1980 said:Irritating muppets that stop for a chat in the middle of an aisle in a super market. Keep moving and talk when you get outside twit. I dislike shopping at the best of times and people like that don't make it any more enjoyable.
People that walk into me "accidentally". I'm 6 foot 2 inches tall and built like an outhouse. I'm a pretty noticeable guy. The worst part is, they walk into me and end up sat on their arse and all of a sudden it's my fault they weren't paying attention.
My school is essentially one hallway that loops around a courtyard so its about 6 feet wide and everyone walks through the same area every day after classes and these idiots will line up side by side and basically block off the whole hallway and walk ridiculously slowly. The worst is when it's these bitches who think they can do no evil and when you try to get past them they ***** and moan about how "rude" you are and how you need to learn some manners, and if you say "Can you please move?" then you get ignored because they're too wrapped up in their own stupid conversation.
Hmm... im going to take a crack at itAyreonMaiden said:This one is about Avatar and The Legend of Korra. I'll add this as a preamble: Somebody please discuss this with me. I want to know that I missed something while watching the shows and it's making me unreasonably indignant...
On that note, I'll begin my incensed rant by asking why, why, why, why...
[spoiler:"On a problem with TLA's ending that rears its ugly head in LOK..."]
...Why is your show "adult" in all the places where it hardly counts, but completely toddler childish where it does?!
The Avatar State is a bullshit deus ex machina, and it makes me sick to my ass.
I trace it back to The Last Airbender's ending. You couldn't make Aang deal with a lose-lose moral dilemma, so you got a magic turtle to give him the It's-A-Nick-Show-Therefore-Kids power to take bending away from people. Fine. All right. It was the very back half of the finale. I can deal with that. Not the best solution, but I can deal. Kids won't like a sad or bittersweet finale. I'm okay with this...
...Until Korra. Until your bullshit plot device completely nullified the drama and poignancy of the episodes that came before. Not to mention approach a wonderful spiritual lesson in the wrong way.
You used some seriously dark imagery beforehand. Taking one's bending as a parallel to literal execution? My god. How dramatic. Imagine being a bender all your life and losing your powers to Amon. That's worse than death for many. Those are serious stakes for Korra and her friends...Lin Bei Fong, badass that she is, knowingly sacrifices her powers to protect Tenzin. Korra herself loses all but her airbending to him. Oh my god, the Avatar will never bend the other elements again. How is she gonna get out of that one...
...just fucking kidding. Korra got her bending back because her dead grandpa's ghost touched her once on a cliff while she cried a bit into the sea.
After uttering the wonderful line: "Only when we're at our lowest do we open ourselves to the greatest change..." YOU GIVE KORRA THE BENDING SHE LOST TO AMON BACK?!
THAT SPIRITUAL LESSON DOES NOT MEAN "I SEE YOU'RE SAD SO HERE YOU GO HAVE YOUR POWERS BACK THE WAY THEY WERE BEFORE."
IT MEANS "WHAT'S DONE IS DONE. YOU'VE NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE, SO THERE'S NOWHERE TO GO BUT UP FROM HERE. NOW, REALIZE THE STRENGTH IN YOURSELF, AND RISE."
How in the world can I allow myself to feel the drama of future seasons if the Avatar can just magic herself out of anything as long as she's sad enough? What's next, she can bring back the dead?! The Avatar State should have stayed as it was in the season finale of Book 2 of TLA: A super-saiyan-esque state that, while formidable, has a weak spot exploitable by an uncanny bender.
And, I'm sorry, "psychic bloodbending" is the cause of Amon's power?! Could you be any more vague? Reminds me of fucking Trigun and Midvalley the Hornfreak's stupid ass saxophone that "synchronizes the frequency of the notes with the physical sensation of pain." I mean, what the hell does that mean?!
Korra, Korra, Korra...You're so childish where it absolutely counts. It wouldn't matter as much if you weren't so mature in all the other superficial aspects. And you have even less of an excuse; Avatar is known for being a mature show and is super popular, so this should mean that you can comfortably push the boundaries and really go all the way with your tragedies.
It's the opposite of Adventure Time and Regular Show: Those two are strengthened by the network and limitations they're on, and push shit under the radar all the time. Korra (and TLA, to a lesser extent) feels like it's a far more adult story that's held back by its network because kids. How else can such a well-written show feature such an egregious deus ex machina that fashions such sickeningly happy endings in a matter of moments?
And by the way, from a non-shipper, fuck Mako and Korra together. It was so jilted and strange that the only explanation I can muster is that they're were apologizing to the psychotic Zuko/Katara shippers.
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And done. Let's discuss this. I really want someone to tell me off on my indignations and point to me what I missed. I really don't wanna feel embittered towards Korra, but I'm beginning to understand what it means for an ending to affect everything that came before.
what kind of shop are you running?!Chairman Miaow said:Somebody came into the shop I work in today and pissed on the counter. Beat that. Our shop is situated not far from an old folks home for the not so stable, so we get things like that a lot. Not as bad as a friend of mine though, who had an old lady pull her shit out of her knickers and slam it on the counter.