And the "time left" always fluctuates or is completely wrong!
I enjoyed the The Force Awakens (having finally got to see it), but... big finale is to destroy a weapon inside what looks like a Death Star (albeit a bigger version) - AGAIN?!?!? I mean, really? Could they not have thought of something else?
There was a lot I liked about the movie, but it did all just feel a little too derivative.
I enjoyed the The Force Awakens (having finally got to see it), but... big finale is to destroy a weapon inside what looks like a Death Star (albeit a bigger version) - AGAIN?!?!? I mean, really? Could they not have thought of something else?
There was a lot I liked about the movie, but it did all just feel a little too derivative.
SPOILERS:
How about when you pay for a DVD or cinema ticket, then they force you to watch a video on how piracy is evil and supports terrorism. I'm obviously not supporting piracy when I've PAID for the pissing thing!
Well, to be fair: You could potentially be watching a pirated copy of the DVD including the "No piracy" video, and theoretically the video could make you feel guilty and you might stop watching...
The former President first announced last August that a deadly form of skin cancer, melanoma, which was first found in his liver, had spread to his brain. Carter initially said he thought he had only weeks to live when he first learned of the diagnosis. He left his fate "in the hands of God, whom I worship."
Carter was treated via surgery, radiation and a relatively new form of immunotherapy.
It grinds my gears when movies end with the hero, being a hero, tries to save the villain, only for the villain to try to back-stab the hero immediately after
Toy Story 3 pulled it off thoughYes, a few movies did manage to do this in a good way that didn't feel like an obvious cliché. I think tropes are to movies what pig-guts are to hot dogs, and integral part for the structure, but you shouldn't constantly remind the consumer of their presence.
I really hate it when I microwave something for many minutes, have to wait a minute for the plate to cool down enough to touch it, I sit down to eat and get a mouthful of cold food.
My children when they don't listen for the 1000000th time Grind my gears !!
Civ is such a timesink! And there is a civ6 coming out in october, so you're safe until then... somehow...
Civ is such a timesink! And there is a civ6 coming out in october, so you're safe until then... somehow...Wait, another one already? 8-0
People who step of the escalator and then decide to stand still, despite the fact there is a MOVING STAIRCASE FULL OF PEOPLE COMING UP BEHING YOU, OLD FARTS!That's why in London you stand on the right, walk on the left. I thought it was silly when I first moved here; now I realise it's such a time saver.
For me it will always be Bridget Jones' Diary
Ok, this is starting to sound a bit like someone with a lisp now.
Blondbraid...
Don't you know that other kids are starving in Japan?
:-D
A personal favorite of mine was a friend's father that (loosely translated) used to say:Yeah, the "Others have it worse" argument is an old one, and it isn't limited to African kids. Some old people also invoke the "You don't understand how much worse it was when I was your age!" card.
"Shame on you! Meanwhile there are children in Africa that go to bed barefoot"
Some old people also invoke the "You don't understand how much worse it was when I was your age!" card.
"Shame on you! Meanwhile there are children in Africa that go to bed barefoot"
Yeah, the "Others have it worse" argument is an old one, and it isn't limited to African kids. Some old people also invoke the "You don't understand how much worse it was when I was your age!" card.
Blondbraid...
Don't you know that other kids are starving in Japan?
:-D
Along the same lines, the whole 'First world problems' thing is starting to get old.
Annoyed at Internet meme. #FWP
I hate it when people act childish and start deleting their posts! >:(
I hate it when I'm really close to the completion of a big project, really REALLY REALLY close, almost there, close enough to touch it, and then somehow... I'm not quite as nearly there as I thought I was. >:( 8-0
IT GRINDS MY GEARS WHEN:Wow, I've definitely been there.
I go back to try and complete an AGS project from months ago and I fix all the problems, only to break everything, and then I have to revert to an earlier version where things worked pretty much, and then have to remember how I "fixed" everything, and then I break several things, and then...
I realise that all my gear grinding is totally my own fault for not being more organised in the first place...
IT GRINDS MY GEARS WHEN:
I go back to try and complete an AGS project from months ago and I fix all the problems, only to break everything, and then I have to revert to an earlier version where things worked pretty much, and then have to remember how I "fixed" everything, and then I break several things, and then...
I realise that all my gear grinding is totally my own fault for not being more organised in the first place...
IT GRINDS MY GEARS WHEN:Wow, I've definitely been there.
I go back to try and complete an AGS project from months ago and I fix all the problems, only to break everything, and then I have to revert to an earlier version where things worked pretty much, and then have to remember how I "fixed" everything, and then I break several things, and then...
I realise that all my gear grinding is totally my own fault for not being more organised in the first place...
Thankfully I've got a good memory, and can usually recall what I fixed and how I fixed everything. But there's always that niggling doubt in the back of my mind that I've forgotten something, and there's a rare bug just lurking about.
When a game you looked forward to for a long time ends up sucking. Money spent on crap. That really grinds my gears. :-D
When a game you looked forward to for a long time ends up
It grinds my gears knowing that there are countless unemployed but talented artists out there, yet Rob Liefield somehow got rich and famous drawing things like this:
There are comic artists out there that are much worse.Gerg Land by any chance? (roll)
I can't remember his name, but there's one guy who traces all of his work. He constantly traces his own work, which was usually traced from porn films. No joke.
I can't for the life of me remember his name though. ???
Gerg Land by any chance? (roll)Based on those images, it looks like it. (nod)
What grinds my gears is crap like this CNN article. (http://edition.cnn.com/2016/08/31/europe/seti-signal-hd-164595-not-alien-civilization/index.html)I was actually surprised that he didn't add (Not Kardashian) when it said Kardashev scale :D
Seriously?! What's with all the unwanted and unfunny "humour" in this "science" piece?!
Is CNN accepting articles from high 16-year-olds now?!
(And, yeah, I know CNN is a crap news channel. I only go there for news because they have the resources to get breaking news stories up fast.)
I was actually surprised that he didn't add (Not Kardashian) when it said Kardashev scale :D
Is CNN accepting articles from high 16-year-olds now?!
Jokes has no place in science!!!! :D haha no but I agree, it was hard to take that serious.
It's a bit like most of our first attempts at an AGS game where we think we need to put a funny gag in every interaction.
If you tried using the fish on the sun the character said: "No, that could cause nuclear fish-sun and I've heard that's very dangerous!":-\ I don't get it.
Ever heard of Nuclear Fission Danvzare?OH! 8-0
I think it's a funny joke, one of those so bad it's good jokes. (laugh)
I think it's a funny joke, one of those so bad it's good jokes. (laugh)
People who say "The US is a republic, not a democracy." ONE DOES NOT PRECLUDE THE OTHER! THE US IS CLEARLY BOTH!I thought to be a democracy, you needed a republic? ???
The only time a republic and a democracy should preclude each other, however, is in a game of Civ 2 :P
If this otherwise perfect game could be rereleased by a fan/hacker which fixed all the AI bugs, made the opponents smarter instead of just giving them impossible buffs per difficultly level, and fixed the travesty of air units not being able to overfly enemy units without attacking them...Isn't that what Freeciv is?
It could be the greatest simulation game ever made...
It grinds my gears that animated movies still are considered dumb kiddie entertainment by the large masses.I can't agree with this enough!
Never mind that there are several good animated films out there which tackle difficult subjects in a more mature and artful way than most live-action movies,
the notion that animated is automatically kid-friendly have most likely made innocent kids suffer as well.
I have already read about traumatized kids being dragged out of theaters showing Sausage Party (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlzAJo16eww)... 8-0
most (if not all) parents with small children left! 8-0
In case you haven't seen the movie... the first few minutes, involves a battle with swords... and lot's of arms, legs, heads and other body parts being sliced and flying through the air... including the blood. :-\ Am pretty sure if they had seen it, they would have realized that kids needed to be a bit older for this.
In case you haven't seen the movie... the first few minutes, involves a battle with swords... and lot's of arms, legs, heads and other body parts being sliced and flying through the air... including the blood. :-\ Am pretty sure if they had seen it, they would have realized that kids needed to be a bit older for this.
I think the ppl rating looked at it and said "Cartoon movie... it's for kids!"... but they never even saw 5 minutes of it! >:(That annoys me so much. I mean, no one would look at South Park and say that!
And if you look at some really old cartoons, like the original Felix the Cat shorts, they're more adult themed than even South Park!Yes, I do feel that cartoons were indeed much, much darker before, because the cinemas often used to show short cartoons before
I get a bit annoyed at myself when I hear certain songs so awfully terrible (not even a so bad it's good song), and it sticks in your head and you catch yourself singing it!
I get a bit annoyed at myself when I hear certain songs so awfully terrible (not even a so bad it's good song), and it sticks in your head and you catch yourself singing it!
Let it go! Let it go! Let it go! :=
I didn't know this until recently, but this change was probably brought on by the motion picture production code (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Production_Code), which was instituted by hollywood on 1930. This resulted in a collection of "pre-code" films which addressed race relations, drug use and sexuality with a freedom we have been slowly re-acquiring in recent decades.I've read about the Hayes Code before, though I doubt that it's solely to blame since it applied to cartoons and live-action alike.
And speaking of cartoons, while I have to admit that I liked "Let it go", it grinds my gears that I still see stupid Frozen merchandise pushed in my face everywhere. People simply refuse to let it go!I get a bit annoyed at myself when I hear certain songs so awfully terrible (not even a so bad it's good song), and it sticks in your head and you catch yourself singing it!
Let it go! Let it go! Let it go! :=
I'm not sure though if "Let It Go" fits the description of a terrible song...I would say it's one of Disney's best (The Lion King still rules supreme for the songs though in my book)
I've read about the Hayes Code before, though I doubt that it's solely to blame since it applied to cartoons and live-action alike.
I'd say this also has a lot to do with media technology as well, since the introduction of daytime TV created a huge demand for family-friendly content, and the loosened restrictions of recent times goes hand in hand with internet becoming big and many people being able to share content without relying on studios and tv-companys.
What grinds my gears is that Frozen got ridiculously popular, yet almost no one ever mentions Wreck-It Ralph, despite the latter being a much better film in my opinion. So much better in fact, that it's actually getting a sequel! >:(
Still haven't seen Wreck It Ralph (it's on my To Do list though!).
The death of cinematic cartoon shorts came about largely because a Supreme Court antitrust ruling (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Paramount_Pictures,_Inc.) forced the separation of cinema chains from movie studios. In the old days, studios like Warner, MGM, Paramount, etc. owned the movie theaters and controlled the programming (so a particular cinema would show only films from a particular studio). The ruling meant they had to sell them off, and that there had to be an open market in deciding what each cinema would show. The court also started to enforce an earlier decision that it was illegal to "block-book" short films along with feature-length films (i.e. sell them as a package). This made them much harder to sell, since people didn't usually buy movie tickets for short films but for main features, so they were an obvious target for cinema chain cost-cutting (the movie business went into a major decline around this time). Within a few years they were all but gone.Most interesting, thanks for the read! (nod)
I thought Frozen was good, not necessarily outstanding. It was phenomenally popular because it hit all the right social consciousness buttons at the right time.That is also something which baffles me, since I can't really think of anything that Frozen did that other Disney/Pixar movies haven't done before. Compared with previous Disney movies, such as this scene from Pocahontas (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2av9SQsMIi8) or The hunchback from Notre Dame (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3NoDEu7kpg),
I think any Pixar film is worth watching!
The focus on sisterhood and rejection of Prince Charming are also firsts in a Disney movie, I believe.
Lilo and Stitch did the sister dynamic before, and Brave was also about the relation between two female family members, albeit a mother and daughter.The focus on sisterhood and rejection of Prince Charming are also firsts in a Disney movie, I believe.
Okay, possibly being a tad unfair with earlier comments - as mentioned I did enjoy the movie, just didn't think about it too hard maybe!
The feisty heroine bit had certainly been done before in Mulan, but I guess she in a way had a "Prince Charming". I haven't seen all of them. Nothing beats The Jungle Book for me!
My main beef with current Disney movies is simply that I wish they would go back to 2D animation, or at least animation with more of a 2D look. Ever since Tarzan and its Deep Canvas system, and then later with the Meander system used in "Paperman", they've had tools to do really nice painterly stuff that allows them to put hand-painted/drawn things into a 3D scene (though I didn't think "Feast" worked very well: basically just looked like cel-shaded 3D), but all feature movies have this cheap videogamey 3D look. I had hoped Moana would be 2D, since the Polynesian setting lends itself beautifully to more loosely painted backgrounds. Ah well.Yes, it's a real shame you don't see many 2D movies being produced anymore, I remember growing up watching Disney and Don Bluth movies over and over again, I felt they looked like picture-books given life and they inspired me to draw things myself.
There were 6 more. Rremember Wreck-It Ralph? :)
I can't really think of anything that Frozen did that other Disney/Pixar movies haven't done before.It demonstrated that family love, is another form of love. That's all it did differently. And even I'll admit I enjoyed that. :-D
I'll take your word for it, but I'm still not watching Cars 2 (or Cars)Speaking of Cars, I really wish that they would make a prequel Cars movie. I want to see a rusty Lightning McQueen trying to get his start as a racing car!
Speaking of Zootopia - which I also enjoyed - did anyone feel it seemed more about sexism than racism, despite there being many obvious opportunities to deal with racism?I enjoyed Zootopia too. Great film. Personally, I didn't feel as though it was a perfect analog for racism either. Especially with the predators which were not only the minority, but also the leaders and ones who get all the opportunities. And it seemed both predators and prey were equally speciesist to each other. So personally, I think they just wanted to create a realistic world of anthropomorphic animals.
Nothing beats The Jungle Book for me!
Lilo and Stitch did the sister dynamic before, and Brave was also about the relation between two female family members, albeit a mother and daughter.
Even the rejection of Prince Charming and critique of Love at first sight was done before in Enchanted (Just compare this clip to Elsa/Hans meeting!) (https://youtu.be/tDutMRSmKVE?t=195).
Was "The Princess and the Frog" in 2009 the last 2D animated movie Disney did? (That one was very good, but I can't remember any others since then.)
That's one of my least favorite Disney animated features! I hate how it completely ditches all the coolest bits from the Jungle Book stories, how it's all just a long sequence of "and then Mowgli runs into some other wacky characters", the utterly underwhelming ending (with Shere Khan just running away after a short squabble) and the lazy recycling of the same animation over and over within the film (particularly egregious with Kaa and the elephants).
There was a Winnie the Pooh movie after that. It flew under the radar for some reason.
I think any Pixar film is worth watching!
I'll take your word for it, but I'm still not watching Cars 2 (or Cars)
It's hard to rationalise sometimes why you love a movie that you have loved since you were a kid - also whether you have read the book before or after seeing the movie makes a big difference. I've always loved Phil Harris' voicing, Louis Prima's singing, the songs in general and the personality clash of Baloo and Bagheera. Perhaps not the best if you look at it analytically, but it will always have a special place in my heart.
I think any Pixar film is worth watching!
I'll take your word for it, but I'm still not watching Cars 2 (or Cars)
Just remembered, stay away from Planes! That's the only Pixar film I thought was naff.
Although Planes (2013) is a spin-off of the Pixar Animation Studios film, Cars (2006) and its sequel Cars 2 (2011), it was not produced by Pixar Animation Studios. It was produced by the DisneyToon Studios production company, known mostly for making direct-to-video spin-offs and sequels of Walt Disney Animation Studios films. However, John Lasseter (writer and director of both Cars movies) served as an executive producer.
Speaking of cars some more, it grinds my gears that some people have their headlights on when it's a bright and sunny morning...Are they Volvos, by any chance? I'm sure I'll be corrected but I heard Volvos always have their headlights in because they are from Sweden, where the sun don't shine.
Speaking of cars some more, it grinds my gears that some people have their headlights on when it's a bright and sunny morning...Are they Volvos, by any chance? I'm sure I'll be corrected but I heard Volvos always have their headlights in because they are from Sweden, where the sun don't shine.
the full headlight (not sure what the name for that is in english. Driving beam?)
it grinds my gears that some people have their headlights on when it's a bright and sunny morning,
Well we do have sun here and volvo is no longer owned by swedes :-D but i totally understand your way of thinking haha
Speaking of cars again. It really grinds my gears when a car is closing in on you at night and don't switch off the full headlight (not sure what the name for that is in english. Driving beam?) removes your vision completely!
Speaking of cars some more, it grinds my gears that some people have their headlights on when it's a bright and sunny morning...Are they Volvos, by any chance? I'm sure I'll be corrected but I heard Volvos always have their headlights in because they are from Sweden, where the sun don't shine.
(CNN) News that Angelina Jolie is filing for divorce from Brad Pitt is causing rumbles -- and not just on social media.
The US Geological Survey detected a small earthquake Tuesday near Los Angeles just minutes after news broke that the power couple were splitting up.
CNN has confirmed the two incidents are unrelated.
Just from the screenshots alone, I see this is a good game. May be a while till I decide to play it myself, but I know this'll be a hit with Quest for Glory fans--one might say this is kind of "Quest for Glory--The Dark Side edition".
2016-09-30 14:53:03 by
I'm making a new project. It's super secret so I can't give any details or screenshots, but I would need:
An artist to do backgrounds and characters for free.
A musician to make some music.
A dev with lots of AGS experience.
A writer to help me with the dialogue and the details of the story.
It's an indie project, so all positions are not payed.
If you're going to make an indie game you either need to be the artist or programmer yourself. If you're not one of those then you best have the funds.
That bothers me too! I think if you're going to make an indie game you either need to be the artist or programmer yourself. If you're not one of those then you best have the funds.
That bothers me too! I think if you're going to make an indie game you either need to be the artist or programmer yourself. If you're not one of those then you best have the funds.
"Walt Disney was great at making animated movies. Except that he didn't make the animations. And he took the stories from old fairytales. Basically, he put his signature on the movies, but he had someone else design the signature for him.
So I don't know what Walt Disney actually did, but he was good at it."
In my opinion, choosing good artists and writers and being a good leader of a team as well as acting as a vision-bearer can also be very valuable skills.
However, there is a difference between working hard to manage a group project and just look for others to do all the hard work for you.
It seems that you're talking about an individual who gathers people to do his / her bidding instead of someone who forms a genuine team. If that's the case then I agree with you. However most indie game teams are formed to pool various talents - if one person can do a good job at every single element of creating a game, they often go ahead and do it as a solo dev. Not many people can do that.
A lot of these sort of posts tend to be made by people who just registered, or have no proof of their abilities.
Who thought such a thing was a good idea is an absolute mystery to me. ???
I also installed AdBlock to stop the forced adds on youtube... the popups and all other crap, I had already stopped by using NoScript, Flash block and Stop Autoplay (yes, I'm paranoid! Also have the Self-Destruting cookies" add-on).... (roll)*takes notes and prepares to install suggested add-ons*
It really grinds my gears when two legged animals throw their trash out the window.Yeah, damn those ostriches that litter!
It could be a bus or a porsche SUV, they still do it.
It really grinds my gears when two legged animals throw their trash out the window.
This year is about to end, and many celebrate with fireworks.
There's one thing that grinds my gears, and I thought it might be worth pointing out today.
This year is about to end, and many celebrate with fireworks. One problem however, is that
some people start way before midnight, and continue with the fireworks for hours afterwards too.
All the noise and racket is annoying for me, but an absolutely terrifying experience for all dogs
in the area, so I hope anyone reading this send a thought to the poor animals and wait until midnight
with the fireworks, and then don't keep at it for too long.
What do you mean by "aerial firing?" 8-0
How about when you see a game with beautiful pixel art, there's always one guy in the comments that says something along the lines of: "Pfft looks like a NES game, why doesn't the lazy developer make the effort to make some real graphics!".
How about when you see a game with beautiful pixel art, there's always one guy in the comments that says something along the lines of: "Pfft looks like a NES game, why doesn't the lazy developer make the effort to make some real graphics!".On a related note, they always call pixel art "8-bit graphics" even when that pixel art looks nothing like something you'd find on an 8-bit system, and isn't even remotely 8-bit in colour depth. 8-bit is not synonymous with pixel art! >:(
How about when you see a game with beautiful pixel art, there's always one guy in the comments that says something along the lines of: "Pfft looks like a NES game, why doesn't the lazy developer make the effort to make some real graphics!".
More like annoying than making me angry, Google thinks I'm a Muslim. There's always an advert for Muslim brides or some religious event. A few years ago Adeel was talking about Ramadan, so I googled it out of curiosity. Did it a few times when he mentioned stuff. I do have Ad-blocker, but only on my laptop.(laugh)(laugh)
I keep getting adverts for the company I bloody work for!
I keep getting adverts for the company I bloody work for!I was getting adverts for company my company has produced software for :).
More like annoying than making me angry, Google thinks I'm a Muslim. There's always an advert for Muslim brides or some religious event. A few years ago Adeel was talking about Ramadan, so I googled it out of curiosity. Did it a few times when he mentioned stuff. I do have Ad-blocker, but only on my laptop.I can relate, but for me it was adverts from dating sites for russian import wives... (wtf) I have no idea on how they made the connection -> reads a lot about videogames and spend way too much time on browsing TVtropes (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage) = I'm a middle-aged buissnessman looking for a russian girlfriend! ??? One other reason to use Ad block.
I have no idea on how they made the connection -> reads a lot about videogamesThat seems like a pretty cut and dry connection to me. Everyone knows that anyone who likes videogames is a lonely basement dwelling virgin. Who else would be a better candidate for a Russian girlfriend. (laugh)
That seems like a pretty cut and dry connection to me. Everyone knows that anyone who likes videogames is a lonely basement dwelling virgin. Who else would be a better candidate for a Russian girlfriend. (laugh)Donald Trump? :)
/me wonders what are those "adverts" ppl talk about... (wtf)
There's a functional door bell on my front door, when someone presses it I can hear it throughout the house. Half the people who come to my door give it a gentle knock so I have no idea they're there until they've been stood there ages.
I've been thinking of adding such a sign too lately, specially our postman doesn't seem to know how it works. (wrong)
"The postman never rings once, much less twice"
Knock knock.
Who's there?
Isabelle.
Isabelle who?
Isabelle really necessary when I can just knock?
It grinds my gears whenever people making games/comics/movies promoting a "strong female character"
I think Nina is far from the worst example, but yeah, so many of her lines are pretty cringe-worthy, especially the jokes on housecleaning, they felt recycled from the 1950's. (wrong)It grinds my gears whenever people making games/comics/movies promoting a "strong female character"
You could stop right there if you wanted, because it shouldn't be exceptional to have one.
I like your analysis. I remember thinking this about Nina in the Secret Files games. She gives so much sass all game that she just seems like a rude person. There's a point in one game where she gives sass to a SWAT crew in her underwear. She's strong, independent, but she needs Max because... ? Also, they end up getting married, so she really is the archetype you're talking about.
It grinds my gears whenever people making games/comics/movies promoting a "strong female character"
You could stop right there if you wanted, because it shouldn't be exceptional to have one.
And let's not forget almost every single movie about witches, where Salem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_witch_trials) and the witch hunts are mentioned, but in the movie, witches are real and can do magic. All the people who were executed in the witch trials were innocent, because you can't kill people with magic spells in the real world, so it kind of grinds my gears when people make up stories about witch hunters hunting real and dangerous witches, and are totally justified in doing so.Someone should see about making a witch movie where all of the witch trials killed innocent non-witches because the real witches were too smart to get themselves caught. (laugh)
Totally agree with the witches point though. I was quite shocked at the incredible bad-taste of that Nicholas Cage movie. I expected the whole way through that he would find the witch and discover that she was an innocent victim. But nope, she was actually a powerful and evil witch. Horrible!Hey, I remember that film. I was thinking the exact same thing throughout it. That was the film with Robert Sheehan in it right?
@Dan That used to wind me up too. In general conversation I say "a gen" and anyone who says "a gain" really grinds my gears. But, as you correctly point out. If you're trying to rhyme with "rain" then only a moron would use "a gen"I am so glad I'm not the only one. For a moment there, I thought I was alone in my pettiness. (laugh)
It grinds my gears when someone sings Incy Wincy Spider, and pronounces "Again" as "Ahgen".
It doesn't even rhyme when you pronounce it like that! "Rain" only rhymes with "Again" when you pronounce it properly. If you pronounce it as "Ahgen" then you should be rhyming it with "Ben" or "Then".
It grinds my gears when people pluralise 'LEGO' as 'LEGOs'. I realise that it's an acceptable form as enough people use it (although LEGO themselves don't like it) but I grew up with LEGO as an uncountable noun so the s sounds genuinely weird to me. If I want to count them I use 'pieces' or 'bricks'.Absolutely agree!
Haha yeah that was the subject I began this thread with. I totally agree with that!!! :D
I'm a coeliac, which means I can't have wheat or gluten.Here the Region (Tuscany and others, but not all) gives to coeliac people monthly vouchers to get gluten-free food.
And it REALLY grinds my gears that gluten-free food is 3 or 4 times the price, for a SMALLER portion of the gluten equivalent. :angry:
Thanks for listening and please don't mine.
What grinds my gears is when people on the bus ring the bell to get off LONG before they're anywhere near their stop. :angry:Why is that bad?
As soon as I have completely passed the stop before the one I want, I press the button.
Jaws is still the best shark movie around and people have had 40 years trying to beat it!Jaws is a classic, and a truly great film. But 47 Meters Down is the best shark movie for my money.
Wow it really must've been a horrible ending then XD
Remember the old days. A black screen and "Thank you for playing" talk about putting energy into that ending :-D
Maybe I suck but that was one of the hardest games ever IMO :-DIf you completed that game, trust me, you don't suck.
what grinds my gears like hell right now is how the people i've employed says no the same or a few days before they're supposed to begin after accepting the job grrrrr
she tried to sound smart with "I understand that you understood it like that"
Ghost 'n' goblins ending: You must play through the game again..yeah because that game was soooo easy to beat the first time. Maybe I suck but that was one of the hardest games ever IMO :-D
How can you turn down a job where a big bonus is that you can eat as much ice cream you want for free?!?! :-D
Oh man, blast from the past. Now I have to go and play that. Been ages since I tried, don't think I ever finished it. Wish me luck (laugh)
My boss is a great guy though, he even allowed the guy I replaced to come whenever he wants to pick up free ice cream. That was a very generous parting gift I must say :)
Kids don't have perfect mouse control"Kids", right... (roll) Come on, admit that you are still sore after losing your record at that Frozen game! ;)
Kids don't have perfect mouse control"Kids", right... (roll) Come on, admit that you are still sore after losing your record at that Frozen game! ;)
What grinds my gears is websites with flash games...
What grinds my gears: You're finally gonna get your first good paycheck in quite some time...and at the same time...the f*****g bill for the car tax is sent, 375$ gone immediately. GRRRRRR it's way too high IMO :D
Ohhh government procedures...how I love them XD Haha I was thinking the same thing just a little while ago. When I need something from an office there's a 2 month waiting time. When they want something I should've done it yesterday
People who plead poverty and say they struggle to get by and yet have numerous cats and dogs...
I would be confused by someone saying "Oh my golliwogs", and take it to be as random as saying "oh my Rice Crispies!"
Using the word ‘Gollywog' as an exclamation of surprise, is something that those people shouldn't get really upset about.
One of the best ways to hurt an artistic person is to wait until right after they finish a long project and then ask them "so what's next?"
Stuart Forbes @StuartForbes
May 10
I dabble in creative attempts, but no I guess I can't presume to call myself an artist. I've clearly demonstrated that I lack the imagination to turn a simple question into a beautiful work of abstract expressionism.
Yeah, that's when she blocked me. Haha.
She is bowing down to this SJW (who is white of course)It grinds my gears when people use the word SJW. People use it too much to dismiss others. I've heard people who certainty are NOT an SJW being called an SJW, just because they say things that other people disagree with. The world is starting to become overrun with SJWJWs who call everyone SJWs!
It grinds my gears when people use the word SJW. People use it too much to dismiss others. I've heard people who certainty are NOT an SJW being called an SJW, just because they say things that other people disagree with. The world is starting to become overrun with SJWJWs who call everyone SJWs!I couldn't agree more! SJW is so broadly applied that it's practically a meaningless term.
These are the same people who claim everything is becoming offensive, and I hate it when people are easily offended about other people apparently being easily offended! And Facebook is full of people who are trying to find every excuse to be offended about easily offended people!
What's worse, is that I've not seen a single person notice this meta trend! :~(
There's too damn much pc now in the world and it makes me sick. We will have generations who will be afraid of everything. I read about a woman who wanted to ban that book/story...which one is it. The sleeping beauty? The one where she wakes up by a kiss from a prince. The woman thought that the message frpm that story is that it's ok to take advantage of passed out women...come on...really?!? I am so sick of that stuff. People who do bad stuff will do it no matter what book you ban.Unless that woman is a high up political leader with a huge following, I don't see how she could possibly ban that book, and I don't think random opinions of a random person alone will never be a threat to free speech.
It's lamentable that competitive trash talk in a competitive environment becomes harassment when someone of feminine sensibilities is thrown into the mix.This is what I meant when I say I'm weary of complaints about pc culture. Most women can tell the difference between harassment and mere trash talk, and not all men feel comfortable hearing racist or homophobic slurs, and it's tiresome to see people dismissed as oversensitive when they have legitimate grievances. I know plenty of women who have not only faced severe harassment and bullying, but also stalking, rape threats and threats of severe violence, and many men who have faced homophobic insults and similar threats just for standing up to women or speaking up against racist comments. It might be easy for somebody who have never experienced any such threats to dismiss it as mere words, but people who are born as women, as LGBTQ or as an ethnic minority have been made to learn early on that they risk facing violence just for who they are, that others like them have become victims of horrible crimes for letting their guard down, and there is too often little in the way of telling if a bigoted joke is just going to stay a joke or if if the person behind it have something more sinister in mind. So while to some, it's just mean jokes, to others it's a stark reminder that there are people out there who sees them as less than human.
It really grinds my gears when every work day in a week is a beautiful sunny day (because I can't fully enjoy it) and every day off is bleak and rainy (because then I'll just stay home).
It also grinds my gears when every work day in a week is bleak and rainy (because I have to go out in it) and every day off is a beautiful sunny day (because then I have no excuse to just stay home).
A game maker's best friend is rain :-DThis is why Sweden has such a strong game industry. :)
What grinds my gears, is when shops only have 1 till open when there's a big queue, and keep the other 10 tills closed. :angry:It's because they're understaffed, and the staff are struggling just to keep the shelves stocked and the prices up to date.
What's the point in having multiple tills, when they don't get used?
Every time I use a self service checkout, something goes wrong and a member of staff has to fix it.You ever had it give you the wrong change? Or none at all?
These companies want you to use the self service, so they can hire less people, which is exactly what has happened. I guess having more tills is useful for breakdowns and Christmas time when they hire temps, but I absolutely refuse to use self service, and in the case of some shops I've been in where NO tills were open, I made the on hand staff member scan everything through, and if they start trying to teach me how to use it I'd tell them not to bother.I prefer self check-out actually. I can handle my own items. I just hate long lines.
Oh don't even get me started on traffic stuff. Not much can piss me off faster than morons in trafficSame here!
I much prefer a human cashier to serve me... and I don't even like people.
oh god yeah. Don't get me started on the cashiers here. They'll ask a question and then don't even listen to my answer before moving onto the next step of the transaction. Or they'll tell me the total price of the shopping before I've had a chance to tell them I want to buy a coffee and pay some bills when I'm clearly waving a handful of utility bills and looking at the coffee menu going 'ummmm'I much prefer a human cashier to serve me... and I don't even like people.
Also you live in a country where cashiers almost never deviate from the script.
I would go mental if I worked in “Bicu bicu bicu Bic Camera”
How about Windows 10 reverting settings every time it updates! Some games are impossible to play if the laptop's trackpad is disabled when a keyboard key is pressed. You can't do the old WASD and mouse! I keep having to switch it off! WHY?!Budget cuts. Low quality programming.
Maybe I'm sensitive now but what really grinds my gears is when someone has written a really long post in a forum (that can also grind my gears if the point they want to make could've been done in the last 2 sentences or so) and people must quote the entire post only to say "I totally agree" not even adding something to the post...ooooh how it grinds my gears. :-DI totally agree
Maybe I'm sensitive now but what really grinds my gears is when someone has written a really long post in a forum (that can also grind my gears if the point they want to make could've been done in the last 2 sentences or so) and people must quote the entire post only to say "I totally agree" not even adding something to the post...ooooh how it grinds my gears. :-DI totally agree
Haha I knew that was gonna happen when I wrote that. "Someone WILL quote this" it was a short post though so nothing to worry about :D
It grinds my gears when I have to endure "creative" DVD menus in order to watch a movie.
You'd think not making the default text white and the text on the option you've chosen highlighted in pale yellow would be an easy thing to do, but I've seen it in far too many menus, alongside nearly unreadable fonts and blaring music looping in an annoying 15 second loop repeating endlessly until you've found the right language option. And far too many DVD also have irritating animations swishing by whenever you pick an option.
And what about all these ridiculous "challenges" that keep popping up?! Our youth is just brainwashed. They will try anything for attention even if it can be fatal! Hoping their video will go "viral" SMH! :angry:
This pretty much settles it! I'm from another planet and nobody told me! (wtf)
LOLI always figured guys did that sort of things to impress other guys, trying to prove who's the toughest etcetera. (roll)
Notice? I never heard of such idiocy before internet! (roll)
PS - And most of my good friends from childhood were males! As I was never much interested in "girl games/play time"... (roll)
I always figured guys did that sort of things to impress other guys, trying to prove who's the toughest etcetera. (roll)
some owners treat their pets as humans... I don't like dogs in the house...they should be cared for outside.
What grinds my gears is dogs on those extendable leads, getting in everyone's way and tripping everyone up.
I think they thaw a little and shift during transport. But either way, it has always ground my gears as well...
You should have seen/tasted the UK's first commercial frozen pizza's....From my travels in Scotland, I've found most of the UK's food in general to be kind of greasy and not having much taste. :-\
Beyond words... YUK springs to mind with the taste of cardboard...(laugh)
Fair enough.I think they thaw a little and shift during transport. But either way, it has always ground my gears as well...
I doubt that... They would be stored flat and therefore any bump in the road wouldn't do much. Also, frozen goods are usually not allowed to thaw majorly at any point during transport by existing companies.
By which I mean: Any company that lets its frozen goods thaw out to a major degree before reaching the consumer probably doesn't exist anymore.
I'd say the original post is spot on saying that the initial prep is at fault.
I prefer doing it from scratch dough
Continuing with this ratings convo:
It really grinds my gears that Finding Dory has something like a 94% rating on Rotten Tomatoes (and about an 85% viewer rating) when it was just as much an insult to the original movie as Cars II was to Cars I...Worse actually because the original Cars was only alright, but Finding Nemo was one of the greatest modern animated films.
I know I'm probably late to the party here but I only watched Finding Dory yesterday for the first time and ...wow ... It was crap!
Haha, funny that you mention that. Finding Nemo is one of my fav. animated films since The Lion King. I've had Finding Dory on my "to watch list" for the past 2 years, every time I think about wanting to watch it I always have something else I want to watch instead. Seems that has been a good thing, lol!
josiah, I saw that animation quite a while back. Thought it was funny that the very last scene looks like a limp penis laying on the desk.I don't usually see that much blood around a limp penis. Am I doing something wrong?
I just go if they aren't physically handicapped then they must be mentally handicapped, but still pisses me off.That's always my reaction, too!
they get one for a elderly parent and then use it when the parent is not with them.
We have hard benches. No comfy chairs with cushions. :cool:I believe that's deliberate, to deter people from hanging out there too long and also so as not to attract homeless people to sleep on them
(https://i.redd.it/f8y2jpywxzl11.jpg)
Being told that the expensive brand is by far the better... not in all cases, and supermarkets grind my gears...
Don't buy that for 99p buy this one, it's better at £1.50 >:(
Being told that the expensive brand is by far the better... not in all cases, and supermarkets grind my gears...
Don't buy that for 99p buy this one, it's better at £1.50 >:(
I'd rather have this other one at 75p. :cool:
I don't think that Disney-thing is aiming to nostalgic, more to who don't like to watch an 20 years old cartoon. There are people that if a black and white movie runs on tv think it's broken! (laugh)Well, then it's their fault for missing out on some truly great films just because they are in a different format than what they're used to.
If you're lamenting CG, the ballroom sequence of Beauty and the Beast (1991) is a strange choice. The backdrop is pretty famously CG:That's true, but the CGI is well integrated with the 2D animation, and more importantly, it's a good example
https://www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film/25-years-ago-cg-secrets-ballroom-sequence-beauty-beast-145174.html
I never cared much for Disney anyway but I agree it's rather pointless to remake all their old back-catalogue in live action. I guess they don't have to pay any writers.I really didn't like the teaser I saw for the Aladdin remake, it looked like it had all the same problems as the other remakes. For example, compare this shot in the trailer:
One Disney film I did like was Aladdin. I know they're remaking that, too. I'll definitely be interested to see how they do it but I won't be rushing out to watch it on the first night.
Interesting example Blondbraid. And just gave me a thought:But the problem is that most the backgrounds in the remake is CGI anyway, so it would still take time and money to animate, and there is no way to justify that terrible blue light that take away all depth and contrast from the image.
Perhaps one extra reason why they show the treasure trove in the background in the live action version is because it's an actual set they spent money on and want to show it off as much as possible to justify that. Whereas in the animated version it would have cost extra money to show it in the scene where it wasn't needed so, wisely, they did not.
As for the original shot, it's still Disney. If they wanted more background detail, they could have afforded it. Making the background empty was a deliberate artistic choice.
What Grinds My Gears (GMG) is when people use an expression and then put the acronym of that expression in brackets after it but then never refer to that thing again for the rest of the text.
Ohh it really grinds my gears when people write should of/would of. I may have already vented my frustration about this earlier in the thread but when I read the above posts, it all came back to me. That's how bad it grinds my gears :-D
It's always bothered me when people overuse acronyms while taking it for granted that everybody knows what they mean.Oh my goodness, this is the worst!
I wouldn't even pay $200. Not for something whose literal purpose is to be repeatedly pumped into a filthy pavement on a daily basis.Maybe not the case with sneakers, but when you buy more expensive clothes where you don't pay for the brand name but for the craftsmanship, this will save you lots of money in the long run. Cheap shoes have to be replaced more often.
I'm not entirely convinced. The people who spend that kind of money on sneakers, they generally want to be seen wearing them.At a certain point, yes, you're right. I have purchased $20 shoes, and they wore out quickly and needed to be replaced. I have purchased $100 shoes and they have had a much better lifespan. They lasted easily as long as 5 pairs of the other shoes. But craftsmanship can only be so good, and materials will wear out and break down. I'm not sure I believe $200 shoes would last as long as 2 pairs of $100 shoes, etc.
Let me grind something related: I'm tall and left-handed, so tools and clothes for me are both rare AND expensive.There are similar problems when shopping women's clothes. No pockets, shirts and cardigans that can't be buttoned all the way up, and weird tailored sleeves that doesn't let you raise your arms comfortably.
And if you'r taller than 1.50 nine out of ten times clothes your size will be already sold out.
Exactly, but every single time I try shopping for clothes nearly all the larger sizes have been picked off and maybe if you're lucky there's one left behind the pile of S and XS sized clothes.And if you'r taller than 1.50 nine out of ten times clothes your size will be already sold out.
150cm? That's pretty short.
Let me grind something related: I'm tall and left-handed, so tools and clothes for me are both rare AND expensive.
Let me grind something related: I'm tall and left-handed, so tools and clothes for me are both rare AND expensive.
I'm short and left handed, so I definitely feel your pain!
Let me grind something related: I'm tall and left-handed, so tools and clothes for me are both rare AND expensive.
I'm short and left handed, so I definitely feel your pain!
I've been left short-handed so I maybe feel your pain kind of...?
IT REALLY, REALLY GRINDS MY GEARS THAT SOMETHING AS GLORIOUS AS THIS (http://www.math.toronto.edu/beni/bERNARDO_nOT_fOUND/fUNNY_sTUFF/Entries/2007/11/27_cookies.html?fbclid=IwAR1x6lIg9MaO_mS2nLnGEalmERlNeKbXIMy5ZFps9BQ5rQwSxGsXPt4BJX0) IS TURNED INTO SOMETHING AS TRITE AS THIS (https://www.facebook.com/JayShettyIW/videos/256522031874958/UzpfSTE0OTgzMjIyNjk6MTAyMTc5MTU2MzQ5MTEzNDY/) FOR THE SAKE OF LAMETARDS WHO NEED THEIR DAILY DOSE OF WARM-FUZZIES TO COPE.That story has already been retold at least a hundred times before, but with different treats, the oldest version came from a 1912 short story where a lady misstakenly takes 5£ from another woman on a bus, beliving that she had stolen it from her. It's basically an urban legend at this point, and being annoyed at one version is basically like being annoyed at a Robin Hood movie. No bother, they'll just make a new version to replace it next season.
The thing that bugs me about it is how he has to spell out the subtext. Subtext shouldn't need to be made a part of the telling of the story.Yeah it's really basic “we shouldn't judge people by the colour of their skin” stuff that while I admit some people seem like they need reminding. But if you're old enough to have a Facebook account and still have to be reminded about that then you are beyond help.
The thing that bugs me about it is how he has to spell out the subtext. Subtext shouldn't need to be made a part of the telling of the story.Yeah it's really basic “we shouldn't judge people by the colour of their skin” stuff that while I admit some people seem like they need reminding. But if you're old enough to have a Facebook account and still have to be reminded about that then you are beyond help.
Introducing skin colour into a joke or a story, when it doesn't need to be there, almost always ruins the joke or story.The thing that bugs me about it is how he has to spell out the subtext. Subtext shouldn't need to be made a part of the telling of the story.Yeah it's really basic “we shouldn't judge people by the colour of their skin” stuff that while I admit some people seem like they need reminding. But if you're old enough to have a Facebook account and still have to be reminded about that then you are beyond help.
It's kind of funny that we've been telling the same jokes for hundreds of years though. (laugh)
@Dan. What's the title of the Joke book you mentioned?I think it's called "Make Them Laugh".
I had one from the 70s that I found in my attic when I was 12. It must've belonged to my father. Only good thing I ever inherited from him.
What grinds my gears are those dainty little click tabs holding plastic appliance covers together. Most of them are so thin they just break when opening, not to mention the marks almost always left by the opener.
But hey, it's cheap, and yet another thing motivating consumers to just buy a new appliance. Assholes.
I tried a few times to visualize what it is you are talking about but failed.
Can you show a picture? I'm curious now.
What really grinds my gears is the increasing trend of AAA games
What happened?
They wrecked their entire site, so it doesn't work properly any more. It's a complete nightmare trying to navigate through it now.That's weird, I just checked their site and had none of those problems. I'm guessing it's an issue with your browser, cookies, and/or permissions.
- There's an empty black banner taking up half the screen.
- Username at the top, linking to your account has gone.
- The Search feature \ magnifying glass doesn't work (nothing happens when you click on it), so you can't search for any games.
- Huge empty space under 'Now On Sale'. I think it's supposed to show some games they have for sale... but it's just a blank space.
- No News anywhere in site, so you don't know what's new to the store.
- Go to any of the game pages, and there's a big empty space where there SHOULD be screenshots showing what the game is like.
- Also on the game pages, it doesn't say if you already own that game - it used to, but not anymore.
They wrecked their entire site, so it doesn't work properly any more. It's a complete nightmare trying to navigate through it now.That's weird, I just checked their site and had none of those problems. I'm guessing it's an issue with your browser, cookies, and/or permissions.
- There's an empty black banner taking up half the screen.
- Username at the top, linking to your account has gone.
- The Search feature \ magnifying glass doesn't work (nothing happens when you click on it), so you can't search for any games.
- Huge empty space under 'Now On Sale'. I think it's supposed to show some games they have for sale... but it's just a blank space.
- No News anywhere in site, so you don't know what's new to the store.
- Go to any of the game pages, and there's a big empty space where there SHOULD be screenshots showing what the game is like.
- Also on the game pages, it doesn't say if you already own that game - it used to, but not anymore.
I'm using Chrome on Ubuntu.
It's a good browserNo, it is not. It is old, outdated and has a lot of weird bugs. It's a pain to create websites that also support IE11. Companies start to evaluate what is cheaper: continue supporting IE11 or loosing IE11 users as customers. It seems that many start to think that supporting IE11 is not worth the effort.
It's a good browserNo, it is not. It is old, outdated and has a lot of weird bugs. It's a pain to create websites that also support IE11. Companies start to evaluate what is cheaper: continue supporting IE11 or loosing IE11 users as customers. It seems that many start to think that supporting IE11 is not worth the effort.
Switch to Edge or any other modern browser.
Internet Explorer is meant for Exploring the Internet. It's in the name.Strawberries aren't berries and Coconuts aren't nuts. Just because it's in the name, doesn't mean anything.
I am sorry for my crazy rant.Don't be sorry. That's what this thread is here for!
Also, I couldn't post this on Chrome for some reason. I'm having to use Internet Explorer. I guess Frodo was right. (laugh)
I also forgot to mention along with windows taking ages to scan hd finding nothing when files clearly exists it was asked to find, other times windows search literally dose not even bother to search.You might want to try this: https://superuser.com/questions/98958/clear-search-cache-on-windows-7/99059#99059
Here's how you get around those annoying things.
Just keep pressing an invalid number. Eventually you'll be put through to a real person.
This is especially useful for when the dialog tree for those pre-recorded answerphone messages ends with "Get lost and go online." Which I've had.
Just go to any pathway that leads to any human and then tell them what you want. Either they'll patch you through to the correct department or sometimes they can still help you. I've never worked in a call center so I might be talking rubbish but I'm pretty sure that sometimes the calls go to the same people anyway. It's just that they can put the right hat on before answering your call.
Christmas crackers are mostly just very bad puns, atleast in my experience. Here's an example:
What does Santa suffer from if he gets stuck in a chimney? Claustrophobia!
I know absolutely no christmas cracker joke, please tell a christmas cracker joke TMA, then I can at least pretend to find it funny ;)What do you get when you cross a snowman with a crocodile? Frostbite!
It really is. (laugh) I've never heard that one before.Christmas crackers are mostly just very bad puns, atleast in my experience. Here's an example:
What does Santa suffer from if he gets stuck in a chimney? Claustrophobia!
That is an awesome joke!
What do you get when you cross a snowman with a crocodile? Frostbite!That was actually my Christmas cracker joke this year.
I said that it appeared in every pack of Christmas crackers. (laugh)What do you get when you cross a snowman with a crocodile? Frostbite!That was actually my Christmas cracker joke this year.
Personally, with how bad Christmas cracker jokes are, I kind of wish they'd go all the way and make them anti-jokes. It would actually make them funnier in my opinion, because you wouldn't expect it.No, that doesn't work. It goes beyond anguished groans and into uncomfortable silence broken by dry coughs...
What do you get when you cross a snowman with a crocodile? A snow crocodile!
How do you stop a skunk from smelling? Spray it with perfume!
hehe interesting, but there is no convincing people otherwise who actually believe this stuff , it almost becomes pointless to try persuade them away from such theories. In fact i might go as far to say you have more chance in convincing an orthodox religious believer of the possibility of no god, then a flat earther of the possibility the earth is spherical in nature . The fundamental issue is, above all evidence and facts they desperately want to believe in what they want to believe in. There is no changing that stance no matter what evidence is presented.
Don't worry, there's the "Pac-Man effect"! (that's their absurd explanation of why if you fly straight then return at the same place)
That's why I never take long haul flights, in case the plane fell off the earth (laugh)
It's hard to believe that there are people seriously thinking the earth is flat. Where do they expect to be the edge of the world?
People who won't change their views/opinions no matter how hard they are proven wrong really grinds my gears. It really p####s me the hell off when you know you are 100% correct about something but the moron in front of you still says "No you are wrong" or "I must check this up"
THE FLAT-EARTH MOVEMENT!!!Fun fact, that whole thing started as a joke. I remember convincing one of my sister's friends into believing that I believed the world was flat, a good ten years or so before this whole flat-earther thing took off.
People who won't change their views/opinions no matter how hard they are proven wrong really grinds my gears. It really p####s me the hell off when you know you are 100% correct about something but the moron in front of you still says "No you are wrong" or "I must check this up"
Flying blue's contact form grinds my gears! >:(What... the.. 8-0
I've been a member for a long time, never used the damn miles for anything yet, since I just don't fly that much. But even if I wanted to use my miles I couldn't! They added password to log on to the site... I always logged on with pin, so I didn't had a password. Last time I tried to logged on with pin cause I didn't had a password, I did... only to be meet with a second login "now please enter your password"... 8-0 ??? >:( So... I want to email them and get them to send me my password to my email, cause apparently I can't do that either on my own even though they have no problem in sending me "spam" mails, that they can do... So there I click "email flying blue" and what do I get? A login asking me for username and password! :O >:( Only way to contact them? Seems to be by phone and I hate phone! >:(
Yes, companies sometimes do put toxic chemicals in it and don't care about the results,
which above certain levelsIs undoubtedly critical though. We certainly don't need another wave of 'vaccines cause autism' scares to bring back yet more deaths by preventable diseases.
which above certain levels causes autism and psychiatric disordersPsychiatric disorders, maybe. Heck, probably. I don't know much about that part, but it sounds plausible.
Ah, now THAT sounds reasonable.Quotewhich above certain levelsIs undoubtedly critical though. We certainly don't need another wave of 'vaccines cause autism' scares to bring back yet more deaths by preventable diseases.
I think I'll go get a T-shirt made:
"Vaccination causes adults."
It grinds my gears when people don't adhere to the age restrictions in movie theaters and sneak in kids too young to see the film.
Case in point, som time ago I was seeing the new Aquaman movie with a friend, and while it was a fun enough superhero movie, much of my experience was
brought down by an idiot dad who brought a toddler into the theater. Aquaman is a PG-13 movie, and for a good reason, there is lots of violence and both humans and animals get killed on screen,
and even if it wasn't for the violence, the movie is 2.5 hours long and everything was in English with Swedish text and there was zero chance that a toddler would follow the plot or be able to sit still
for that amount of time, and much as I predicted, the toddler spent most of the time blabbing, wanting to be carried out, crying and ruining the experience for the rest of the moviegoers.
I genuinely think small children shouldn't be allowed into movie theatres showing movies above their age limit and any parent bringing them in anyway is doing bad parenting. I get being a parent is hard work, but it shouldn't be an excuse for ruining the day of other people who've paid for their tickets (and the toddler forced to sit in a dark room and watch a film they couldn't comprehend), and anyone becoming a parent should either accept that the next five years of their lives will consist of doing activities suitable for babies or find a babysitter.
Then again, when I saw the Last Jedi in the theater, a grown adult ruined a key moment (the silent moment) by yelling out "Oh snap!" and making others laugh. That grinds my gears.Solution: Stay away from people.
I think I'll go get a T-shirt made:
"Vaccination causes adults."
Love that!
the film is much more enjoyable when there is almost an element of interaction between the audience and the screen.
To be fair, the cinema isn't library. You're not trying to read a book. You've paid to watch a movie in the company of hundreds of other people. You might not necessarily talk to the people next to you but it's still very much a social experience. Sometimes (especially here in Japan) the silence during funny bits is even more gear-grinding. You need someone with a well-timed ‘oh snap' to break the tension and give the audience permission to react to the film in a way that the filmmaker almost certainly intended.
I'm not saying people should chat and eat loudly and bring young children into the room (I agree with Blondbraid in this) but for me the film is much more enjoyable when there is almost an element of interaction between the audience and the screen.
I do understand, though, that you're basing your position on your current Japanese location and cultural factors. I think I might enjoy watching a movie in Japan!
Not really, like dactylopus said, you get to watch it on a huge screen in much better detail than your TV at home, plus it's not just the movie, it's everything around the movie. I usually go out and watch movies at the cinema together with friends, and we go out and eat dinner and walk around in the city beforehand and it's all about having a nice evening out together rather than just sitting and watching a movie.I do understand, though, that you're basing your position on your current Japanese location and cultural factors. I think I might enjoy watching a movie in Japan!
It's really not much different to watching a movie alone.
A movie experience I did enjoy, that others might not, was back when the Scream movies were popular. During build up scenes that would have you on the edge of your seat a member of the staff dressed up in the Scream outfit would burst into the theater and run down the isle. People would literally jump out of their seats. lol.Was this a special screening for fans where people might have expected such behaviour or did everyone think they were just going to a normal screening?
A movie experience I did enjoy, that others might not, was back when the Scream movies were popular. During build up scenes that would have you on the edge of your seat a member of the staff dressed up in the Scream outfit would burst into the theater and run down the isle. People would literally jump out of their seats. lol.Was this a special screening for fans where people might have expected such behaviour or did everyone think they were just going to a normal screening?
That's the sort of thing that sounds funny on paper, but would get decidedly less funny once someone inevitably gets a heart attack.A movie experience I did enjoy, that others might not, was back when the Scream movies were popular. During build up scenes that would have you on the edge of your seat a member of the staff dressed up in the Scream outfit would burst into the theater and run down the isle. People would literally jump out of their seats. lol.Was this a special screening for fans where people might have expected such behaviour or did everyone think they were just going to a normal screening?
It was a normal screening and started out as a joke but ended up becoming popular. Once the word got out people would come expecting it or come again to see the unexpectedvictim'speople's reactions. I was in my late teens at the time so I enjoyed it and found it quite funny. I'm not so sure I would enjoy such shenanigans now though, lol.
That's the sort of thing that sounds funny on paper, but would get decidedly less funny once someone inevitably gets a heart attack.Well it is a horror movie... not a particularly scary horror movie, but you get my point. (laugh)
Yes, but people tend to have far more intense reactions to real people jumping at them compared to just seeing things on a screen.That's the sort of thing that sounds funny on paper, but would get decidedly less funny once someone inevitably gets a heart attack.Well it is a horror movie... not a particularly scary horror movie, but you get my point. (laugh)
Hahaha, damn. That would get you shot in America.
The comedian Richard Herring spends the whole of International Women's Day trolling everyone on Twitter asking “When's International Men's Day?” (which is a lot of people), and in the process manages to raise thousands of pounds for Refuge.I'm glad at least one person could turn that mess into something positive!
Here's his Twitter account:
https://twitter.com/Herring1967
Happy get over it (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-8l8v3h1Bg) day, everyone!I'll admit it's a catchy song, it's just too bad too many people ask others to just get over things whilst lingering and complaining about everything themselves.
I remember (I think) that there was a museum who let women go in for free or half price on that day and men had to pay the normal fee and of course there was whining and complaints. That really pissed me off. It's men's day the rest of the f#####g year so why the hell can't we let our females enjoy something just for them? And I can't understand why a man should have a higher salory than a female if they do exactly the same job. I"m all for equalityIndeed, it reminds me of a guy who was so angry at the woman-only screening of Wonder Woman so he decided to have a man-only screening of the movie Rock of Ages, and nobody stopped him or even expressed any real outrage over him doing so.
My past self!Yeah, it's so frustrating that a tiny mistake or forgotten leftover can really mess up a whole game, and most of the time you don't even learn from your mistakes because it's always the same mistake; you forgot to delete something or made a typo.
I've just spent an hour trying to figure out why text wasn't showing up on a GUI, only to find I'd made an if statement earlier for test reasons that I was supposed to delete...
Well, the EU wants to get rid of it (https://www.dw.com/en/european-parliament-set-to-end-eu-wide-daylight-saving/a-47775317), so there's good news for you.It grinds my gears that despite the EU wanting to get rid of it, Britain is fighting to keep it. Despite the majority (if not all) British citizens agreeing with the EU and wanting rid of it!
Reading that, you'd think Britain had a bit of an awkward relationship with the EU or something.Well, the EU wants to get rid of it (https://www.dw.com/en/european-parliament-set-to-end-eu-wide-daylight-saving/a-47775317), so there's good news for you.It grinds my gears that despite the EU wanting to get rid of it, Britain is fighting to keep it. Despite the majority (if not all) British citizens agreeing with the EU and wanting rid of it!
I've seen a lot of complaints about the darkness. I didn't have that issue. It looked great, and the darkness was fitting for the story. Then again, I watched it in complete darkness in the middle of the night. The previous episode I watched in the daytime and it reminded me that I need to get more blackout curtains.Yeah, I'm sure it looked better in the middle of the night, but I still think it's a problem when something only looks good under optimal circumstances, because not everyone can stay up late or have good blackout curtains (especially not in Sweden, where the daylight lasts practically forever in summer-time). For comparison, I re-watched a clip from the Battle of Helm's Deep from the LOTR movies, which also depicts a big fantasy battle at night-time, but there I could tell everything going on even on an old laptop screen with full daylight pouring onto it, and the scene still looked good and dramatic:
Great episode, though. One of my favorites of the entire series.
This is British politics. They have to keep up the appearances of opposing the EU at every opportunity regardless of the sanity of it all (and while voting in favour of almost all EU laws and regulations).Well, the EU wants to get rid of it (https://www.dw.com/en/european-parliament-set-to-end-eu-wide-daylight-saving/a-47775317), so there's good news for you.It grinds my gears that despite the EU wanting to get rid of it, Britain is fighting to keep it. Despite the majority (if not all) British citizens agreeing with the EU and wanting rid of it!
I always get excited when a game tells me to do that. That means it's probably going to scare the hell out of me (or at least try).
If your game needs such restrictive conditions to be enjoyable, it probably isn't too good to begin with.
If your game needs such restrictive conditions to be enjoyable, it probably isn't too good to begin with.
You do not talk shit about Cyan. YOU. DO. NOT. TALK. SHIT. ABOUT. CYAN.
(The entire Myst series had a monitor calibration screen)
Every single crappy horrorOh I could tell you a thing or two about those crappy horror "games" on itch.io.asset flipgame on itch.io says that though. At this point it doesn't really mean anything except maybe a couple of VERY LOUD JUMPSCARES! :-D
Every single crappy horrorOh I could tell you a thing or two about those crappy horror "games" on itch.io.asset flipgame on itch.io says that though. At this point it doesn't really mean anything except maybe a couple of VERY LOUD JUMPSCARES! :-D
I've already boiled it down to a formula.
Always a flashlight (sometimes one which runs out of battery power, so you can't see anything).
Always a room that's illuminated red, somewhere in the game.
Always notes littered about the place, because apprently people write down their thoughts on random pieces of paper and leave them lying around.
Almost always a basement that you have go into to attempt to turn the power on.
ALWAYS literal key-door puzzles. Find a locked door, find another locked door, find a key, open locked door, find another key, open the other locked door, ect.
And then there's the fact that it's either a "monster maze" game, where you're wandering around and a monster is too, and that monster can usually run faster than you, with no way of avoiding it once you see it. Or it's a "haunted house" game, where you wander around and there's literally nothing that can hurt you. The walls may bleed, and the corridors may change layout behind you, but nothing will actually hurt you. You may get to a point where you're being "chased" by a monster, but in that case you merely have to wander around slightly faster, otherwise you'll have to retry the scripted chase sequence.
Throw in a few loud jumpscares, which by this point no one is startled by anymore, and there you go. Your very own "horror game". :-X
Many people no longer have the grit, drive and the determination we had in this once great country (UK)..
It grinds my gears that the UK nation has turned some people into gutless wimps..
I hate to say this and I feel sad about it.... but where has their backbone gone and why has it turned yellow?
We were once a nation of solid rock but now it's more like soft jelly...
It grinds my gears (laugh)
That's what all old people have always done, just look at this quote by Socrates, born 469 BC:
Many people no longer have the grit, drive and the determination we had in this once great country (UK)..
It grinds my gears that the UK nation has turned some people into gutless wimps..
I hate to say this and I feel sad about it.... but where has their backbone gone and why has it turned yellow?
We were once a nation of solid rock but now it's more like soft jelly...
It grinds my gears (laugh)
I think it's the same thing that every old people say in every country... :-D
The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room.(roll)
Yep, we are all just a bunch of idiots! (laugh)
I think I'll go get a T-shirt made:
"Vaccination causes adults."
I think I'll go get a T-shirt made:
"Vaccination causes adults."
Was that you, Mandle? https://www.qwertee.com/last-chance (https://www.qwertee.com/last-chance)
It grinds my gears, that when a huge controversy pops up out of nowhere, and a bunch of people are suddenly knee-deep in outrage. You sometimes can't find out why because everyone either completely avoids the details of the topic at hand (for example: "I can't believe he did that! I'm never buying Fez 2 from that asshole!"), or there's two sides that both hate each other without explaining the difference between the sides (for example: "Anyone who is pro-gamergate is dead to me!").I don't find the outrage funny or hard to understand.
To this day, I have no idea what gamergate was about. And when I made a comic about it, asking people. Everyone commented saying that they also didn't know! (laugh)
To this day, I have no idea what gamergate was about.
If suggesting via a sarcastic google link that there are ways out there to find out literally anything about any subject you want is "virtue signaling", then I'll take it anytime over posting a single source from, wait for it, no less than knowyourmeme, that highly reputable news site.
Funny thing is you proved my point that the previous poster was too lazy to look for information on his own, and just to get back at dem dumm wimmen you went and did all the work for him. Congratulations! Now you can pat each other on the back and hopefully release some of that testosterone you keep bottled up :-*
I got a post deleted there for not having the correct opinion on something. Didn't swear, didn't attack any posters. The link I posted which had a lot of info on gamergate was quite unbiased. This is the problem. The opinion was not on the extreme left.This grinds my gears.
Snarky, you're a clown. Whoever put you in charge of anything screwed up bigtime.
I got a post deleted there for not having the correct opinion on something. Didn't swear, didn't attack any posters. The link I posted which had a lot of info on gamergate was quite unbiased. This is the problem. The opinion was not on the extreme left.
Snarky, you're a clown. Whoever put you in charge of anything screwed up bigtime.
People who sit behind you on the bus and cough/sneeze on the back of your head.
And then I sit there and don't move because you don't want to wipe your head and get another person's spittle on your hand, and also don't want to acknowledge that it happened...
I'm paying several hundred USD$ a month
It is rare that I turn a movie off even half-way through but this is the first time that, after 20 minutes watching, I've had to fumble for the control, pray I found the stop button fast enough, and then pop the screen the finger and say, our loud, "Fuck you!".I had the exact same problem with Napoleon Dynamite.
I present to you: Holmes And Watson. May it be played endlessly on repeat to child-molesters in Hell.
It is rare that I turn a movie off even half-way through but this is the first time that, after 20 minutes watching, I've had to fumble for the control, pray I found the stop button fast enough, and then pop the screen the finger and say, our loud, "Fuck you!".I had the exact same problem with Napoleon Dynamite.
I present to you: Holmes And Watson. May it be played endlessly on repeat to child-molesters in Hell.
If you think Holmes and Watson was bad, then you've not watched people literally saying "duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh" for half an hour.
I thought "surely this can't be the entire film" but after half an hour, I realized it was.
Just from the poster alone I knew I was never going to watch it.
the show seemed to confuse nonsensical randomness with comedy.
To each their own. I find Ferrel funny in a lot of things, but it can be a bit much at times. As for Adam Sandler, Billy Madison is one of my all time favorite movies but I don't care much for anything post-Wedding Singer.Yeah, pretty much all his later movies only exist because they were a form of paid vacation for Sandler and his friends, no one put any effort into anything and everything is financed by enough
Seriously, it's insane how many kid's movies featuring the sinking of Titanic there are!
Yep, though the worst depiction of Titanic in a kid's movie I've ever seen wasn't even reviewed by him!Seriously, it's insane how many kid's movies featuring the sinking of Titanic there are!
Nostalgia Critic fan?
Seriously, anyone else thinking that movie was messed up?
I would draw the line at making the same kind of humor based on victims of intentional, human-made atrocities, but accidents that happened over 100 years ago...That is a good point, though the problem with the movie is that it also features a "humorous" depiction of the ghosts of the trans atlantic slave trade
"Downsizing" is one of the most touching and wonderful films I have seen in years, with unforgettable characters, a unique but perfectly-done story structure, and deeply philosophical while never being preachy. It presents several moral choices and shows the choices the characters make but never suggests these were the right ones, leaving a lot of room for thought and discussion afterwards.Wait... you liked Downsizing?
+1 on Will Ferrel. No idea what everyone was on about.Same here. I can't think of one film he's been in, that I've liked.
Danzare,I'll hide this part, so as to not spoil it for anyone who wants to watch the film.
MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD
which is completely different from the first impression I got from the marketing, which was basically just Matt Damon messing around with giant props.
I hate it when I'm bidding for something on Ebay... and I'm winning.You also kind of need to snipe on eBay, to avoid the sellers from outbidding you. You see, in my experience, the seller will want a minimum amount, but won't put in that minimum amount so as to attract people to bid. As soon as someone does though, they'll outbid them with an alternate account until they reach the minimum that they want.
But then someone scoops in at the very last second, so no-one else has a chance to bid again.
If you're interested in an item, just bid on it! Don't wait for the last second. That's a low move! :undecided:
Some people use a program and set it to bid few seconds from end of auction..Where can I find this program?
And this is why I only use buy now on Ebay...Same.
BidnapperLooking at it, it looks like a website you pay money to snipe for you.
https://www.bidnapper.com/?refuser=ggle11-others-auction%20sniper&gclid=Cj0KCQjwzozsBRCNARIsAEM9kBPBzpnv8CyxB9ewMNk-Y_IGQxdk826YXKe8Ckkl4BCcyV_egTgxZWkaAhAWEALw_wcB
What grinds my gears to dust is television.
What grinds my gears to dust is television.It's even more gear grinding in Britain if you ask me.
What grinds my gears to dust is television.It's even more gear grinding in Britain if you ask me.
Damn TV license!
And what's worse, even if you don't pay for one, because hey, there's nothing on TV worth watching anyway. They hound you like there's no tomorrow! 8-0
Urgh, I hate reality TV, and the worst part of all is that for probably 90% of the run time they aren't even showing the cooking/dancing/car remodeling or whatever the audience is actually there to see, it's just the worst kind of filler with the hosts nattering endlessly about random nonsense or spending several minutes in a row asking the participants again and again weather they feel pumped doing whatever they came to do on tv, which is just plain stupid considering they probably wouldn't beg to be doing it on TV if they weren't. (wrong)Actually, I find that 90% of the content to be nothing but recaps.
Here in Japan probably about 50% of TV is unscripted "Reality TV" and always has beenOnly 50% of TV content is Reality TV! :-D
No reality-show about gamemakers? (laugh)_
now we're getting somewhere :-D
No reality-show about gamemakers? (laugh)
_
I'd watch it. (nod)now we're getting somewhere :-D
No reality-show about gamemakers? (laugh)
_
It's a great idea, but I'm afraid reality-TV people would just find a way to muck it up with a ton of the aforementioned filler and recaps, lazy stereotypes of game developers asI'd watch it. (nod)now we're getting somewhere :-D
No reality-show about gamemakers? (laugh)
_
It grinds my gears, these armchair activists that are ready to get extra passionate about whatever the media put in their heads this week. This vaping frenzy is the perfect example.
The media deluges them with the7,8, 9 deaths that have now been associated with vaping. Not even with vaping itself, but with tainted cartridges. "But did you hear? 10 people who use vapes have now died! When will someone stop this madness?!"
Never mind cigarettes probably kill more people than that in a day. No thought is given to where those nicotine addicts will go for their fix once vapes are banned. These people are just ever ready to repeat exactly what they have been told, and nothing more. ("ANTIFREEZUH")
Exactly. It reminds me of just how many clickbaity headlines that gets pumped out about "millenials be crazy" and anything gets painted as a worldwide youth frenzy even when the only people recorded doing it were a handful of people as a joke or bet, or in case of all alarmist stories of teens eating tide pods, not even that. Like, I've yet to see one single verified news story of a real teenager eating one, yet there were tons of clickbait articles on it for a while.It grinds my gears, these armchair activists that are ready to get extra passionate about whatever the media put in their heads this week. This vaping frenzy is the perfect example.
The media deluges them with the7,8, 9 deaths that have now been associated with vaping. Not even with vaping itself, but with tainted cartridges. "But did you hear? 10 people who use vapes have now died! When will someone stop this madness?!"
Never mind cigarettes probably kill more people than that in a day. No thought is given to where those nicotine addicts will go for their fix once vapes are banned. These people are just ever ready to repeat exactly what they have been told, and nothing more. ("ANTIFREEZUH")
"SHOCK vaping DEATHS you won't BELIEVE" I'd rather smell unicorn fart smelling vapes than cigarette smoke any day of the week. What grinds my gears is these clickbait headlines that seem to be written by a bot. I get recommended articles come up on my phone, there's one website that has "SHOCK" in capitals every single article. Then if you do actually click it it's nowhere near as "SHOCKING", in fact it's an article about "NOTHING".
"Do you have a moment to jump on a quick call?"
No. Learn reading comprehension and don't waste my time.
"Do you have a moment to jump on a quick call?"
No. Learn reading comprehension and don't waste my time.
The quick, brown Laura jumped on the lazy call.
DRM grinds my gears, and today is the International Day Against DRM (https://www.defectivebydesign.org/blog/help_defend_right_read_stand_against_drm_october_12th).DRM is exactly why I prefer to play my big budget games on a console.
DRM is exactly why I prefer to play my big budget games on a console.
"Do you have a moment to jump on a quick call?"
No. Learn reading comprehension and don't waste my time.
I'll always be a PC gamer at heart. But because of DRM alone, I'll always play so called "AAA" games on a console. And if you need me to prove it, just look up Assassin's Creed Origins. (Not that I'd play such a terrible game anyway.)Assassin's Creed Origins is the only Assassin's Creed game that I've started but never finished, and I didn't even bother with Odyssey due to the obnoxious trend of all AAA games turning into the same RPG/Sandbox blaha where you have to spend ages travelling giant maps with nothing worthwhile in them and all the fun abilities are arbitrarily locked behind a skill tree forcing you to do a bunch of pointless busywork and repetitive sidequests instead of just being able to do all the cool stuff you came for from the start.
Seriously, why cant modern AAA devs just make a well-paced game that prioritizes fun and unique gameplay instead of this ubiquitous mess of aimless open-world grinding?
It's gotten so bad some games are even offering boost packages as dlc just so players can skip the grind, which defeats the entire purpose of games for entertainment.
Seriously, why cant modern AAA devs just make a well-paced game that prioritizes fun and unique gameplay instead of this ubiquitous mess of aimless open-world grinding?
Seriously, why cant modern AAA devs just make a well-paced game that prioritizes fun and unique gameplay instead of this ubiquitous mess of aimless open-world grinding?That right there, is exactly WHY they now make all of their games aimless open-world grindfests.
It's gotten so bad some games are even offering boost packages as dlc just so players can skip the grind, which defeats the entire purpose of games for entertainment.
What grinds my gears is the AGS Translation system...As someone who has never really used the AGS Translation system, could you please tell me why it's so terrible.
It can go fuck itself.
As someone who has never really used the AGS Translation system, could you please tell me why it's so terrible.
It always looked "good enough" to me.
harder to find than a Jeff Goldblum movie where he doesn't go "Uhhm" in every scene he's in.
From Laura's List of Office Pet Peeves: people who smash their keyboards when they type as if they were releasing all their childhood frustrations on the poor thing.
From Laura's List of Office Pet Peeves: people who smash their keyboards when they type as if they were releasing all their childhood frustrations on the poor thing.
And people who poke their monitors with their finger when showing you something.
Because my YouTube name is "ManDevil" I attract a lot of religious nuts trying to save my soul I guess.What?!? You're the guy behind ManDevil?! That's my favourite devil-worshipping channel on Youtube! I always go there, when I need instruction on how to summon demons and so on. The flat earth stuff is pretty decent as well. ;)
What does
Are you doing a "bit"?
mean?
Because my YouTube name is "ManDevil" I attract a lot of religious nuts trying to save my soul I guess.What?!? You're the guy behind ManDevil?! That's my favourite devil-worshipping channel on Youtube! I always go there, when I need instruction on how to summon demons and so on. The flat earth stuff is pretty decent as well. ;)
Keep up the good work, mate!
Also, I'm totally stealing "WHO in thee ALL flying FUCK" for myself (laugh)
Guys, your meme game is weak https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-saw-flying-lotus-in-a-grocery-store-copypasta?full=1
I just use my adblocker to block those elements, so I can click past them.For me, those numbers are the opposite, and that's not even counting all the sites that don't let you use adblockers.
It surprisingly works about 75% of the time.
I've actually managed to use adblocker to block the elements that stop me using the sites that don't let me use adblockers. :-DI just use my adblocker to block those elements, so I can click past them.For me, those numbers are the opposite, and that's not even counting all the sites that don't let you use adblockers.
It surprisingly works about 75% of the time.
Uhm, frankly if the site doesn't work with adblockers or needs javascript, then I just don't use it, unless it's a site I trust/need to use.
I'm currently working on a German translation and of course had problems with Umlauts (while they worked for a previous translation). I was already preparing a post on the technical board, when I rechecked the character encoding of the trs file and realized, it was UTF8 instead of ANSI (roll)
Maybe whoever translated the title wanted to hide the importance of the wardrobe? Or was just lazy...
Loud typers. There's few things that get more on my nerves than some idiot hammering at their keyboard like a 3-year old banging on a toy laptop. I hope there's a special place in hell for them where they will go no matter what else they did in life.The funniest I've noticed (with multiple people, so I suspect it is a thing) is Enter-slammers. Their typing is going all normally, and then suddenly...WHAM!
As for what grinds my gears, because I just saw it in "Lost in Space" (a show someone recommended to me as great), is scientist people, intelligent people, smart people, getting to a new planet or new piece of rock in space, and then immediately (or in the first few moments possible), taking off their helmets, and having one guy be all "Oh no, why did you do that!", and the reply being "Oh, the air is safe!".A big reason I didn't like Prometheus.
Very often, even in the same episode, everyone later comes down with a "mysterious" illness, and they're all stupefied as to how that could have happened, and yet they do it again in a later episode.
I have spent probably days of my life complaining about Prometheus. Truly one of those "don't get me started" topics.
Posting that Galaxy Quest clip just reminded me of another thing that grinds my gears:
there are no good spoof/parody movies made anymore. Instead you get serious franchises becoming ridiculous and garbage like the Scary movie sequels,
which are nothing but toilet humor and pointless references that only serves to remind you that better movies exist.
there are no good spoof/parody movies made anymore. Instead you get serious franchises becoming ridiculous and garbage like the Scary movie sequels,
Space Balls II, based on the new trilogy!They wouldn't even need to do much. Just take the script for The Last Jedi, and have none of the actors take it seriously. Boom, perfect parody! :-D
uhm... it grind my gears when people discuss movies outside of it's own thread and don't use spoiler tags. :PSorry about that!
I can imagine there is some kind of cancel clique out there though just waiting for swear words to mass report.
Exactly, most millennials couldn't care less if a YouTuber says the F-word, but advertisers are terrified they'd get associated with something that could get the Midwestern US christian moms into a moral panic,I can imagine there is some kind of cancel clique out there though just waiting for swear words to mass report.
Or an algorithm.
Exactly, most millennials couldn't care less if a YouTuber says the F-word, but advertisers are terrified they'd get associated with something that could get the Midwestern US christian moms into a moral panicI can imagine there is some kind of cancel clique out there though just waiting for swear words to mass report.
Or an algorithm.
"Haha look at these silly Americans getting all riled up over (*looks around, whispers*)... the f-word."Good point, though I was unsure of the forum rules on profanity and felt it was easier than read the entire rules page all over again. :)
Just say FUCK ffs.
"Haha look at these silly Americans getting all riled up over (*looks around, whispers*)... the f-word."Good point, though I was unsure of the forum rules on profanity and felt it was easier than read the entire rules page all over again. :)
Just say FUCK ffs.
Still, it's insane that the word "fuck" is more likely to get banned than a video instructing kids to soak their food in bleach.
They did actually film two versions.[/youtube]
and large media platforms absolutely refuse to take responsibility in a sane way, like say, having living human beings vet videos, and instead use cheap but stupid algorithms to do the job instead.I can imagine there is some kind of cancel clique out there though just waiting for swear words to mass report.
Or an algorithm.
I know. That's what makes it even more hilarious / mind-boggling.Maybe they go by the logic that no sane person would try murder and cannibalism at home, but if cool people on TV swear kids might start doing that too?
"Safe" version: cannibalism, mutilation, murder.
"Mature" version: cannibalism, mutilation, murder, one swear word.
Still dosen't explain why PG-13 movies are allowed to have somebody drop an f-bomb once, but twice makes it an R-rated movie. :-\
Still dosen't explain why PG-13 movies are allowed to have somebody drop an f-bomb once, but twice makes it an R-rated movie. :-\
And 400 times makes it X-Rated. One of the stupidest rules I have ever heard. The South Park creators obviously thought so too as the South Park movie has 399 hard swear words.
Really? So rating is based on the numbers of f-words? It means that even a movie about the Mathama Gandhi sharing peace for the world become a X-rated if a british soldier says "*rap" 400 times?
What gets me is that I could understand the logic that a video containing one swear word gets the age rating bumped up on the basis that impressionable kids might learn to swear from watching it,Really? So rating is based on the numbers of f-words? It means that even a movie about the Mathama Gandhi sharing peace for the world become a X-rated if a british soldier says "*rap" 400 times?
Why should it matter what the movie is about? If you make a video with kittens and add lots of swearing on the background, should it be considered okay for small kids to watch?
The thing is that the ratings for movies in the US isn't standardized. There are some rough guidelines, but at the end of the day the rating depends on what a select group of people think. So, movie ratings are less a reflection of how Americans feel, but more how a small group of Americans feel.
The thing is that the ratings for movies in the US isn't standardized. There are some rough guidelines, but at the end of the day the rating depends on what a select group of people think. So, movie ratings are less a reflection of how Americans feel, but more how a small group of Americans feel.I remember seeing a dive into just how weird the US rating system was in This movie is not yet rated, yet while it showed it was some pretty randomly selected and biased little group of middle-aged conservative Christians rating all major movies, they were still human beings and you'd expect them to follow some kind of human logic, but I still can't say that I can see human logic in judging the severity of a movie based on the number of swears rather than the context of them.
By the way, how rating works for AGS games?
Exactly, most millennials couldn't care less if a YouTuber says the F-word, but advertisers are terrified they'd get associated with something that could get the Midwestern US christian moms into a moral panic
The no swastikas in WW2 games thing is due to the law not keeping up with the times and recognizing video games as an art form, and at least in Germany, those laws were made decades ago where games were seen by the public as kid's toys rather than mass media equal to books and films, but there has been a few recent games where nazi symbols were allowed in Germany, so things seems to be changing in that regard. (https://time.com/5364254/germany-nazi-symbols-video-games-history/) As for bans on nazi symbols on stuff like toys and merchandise, I think Germany is right on banning such symbols there, and far as I know, they're still way more lenient on swearing and sexual content in their films and TV-series than the US has ever been.QuoteExactly, most millennials couldn't care less if a YouTuber says the F-word, but advertisers are terrified they'd get associated with something that could get the Midwestern US christian moms into a moral panic
Sometimes, the creators themselves resort to self-censorship out of fear.
Apparently, that's what's happening with Commandos 2 HD remastered. I find it sad when a company claiming to make a game set in World War II (https://store.steampowered.com/app/1100410/Commandos_2__HD_Remaster/) decides to remove any symbols, portraits, speeches or other assets that could break the law in many countries (https://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2020/01/24/commando-2-hd-remaster-will-contain-no-nazi-symbols/) - namely anything that connects it to reality.
Since no law could force them to remove the japanese flags, they seem to be more royalist than the king.
The movie "Crawl" REALLY ground my gears.
Especially because it has an 83% critics rating and 75% audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes...
Here is what I wrote on their audience critic section (SPOILERS)
The movie "Crawl" REALLY ground my gears.
Especially because it has an 83% critics rating and 75% audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes...
Here is what I wrote on their audience critic section (SPOILERS)
It
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Haha, I agree.
It reminds me of those great offers: "Pre-order our game now at a higher price and before the reviews are out to access the beta, and beta-test the game for us! What a bargain!"
So *I* am supposed give *you* money for the privilege of testing your game so you can save yourself the cost of hiring beta testers? Did you go to the Tom Sawyer Business School?Well in their defence, they probably need the money just to be able to complete the game, and probably don't have anything spare to hire proper beta testers.
Am I the only one who finds this mind-boggling (and gear-grinding)?
(Disclaimer: I don't think the dev in question is identifiable from this, but in any case this is meant to be an example of a tendency I'm seeing all over the place, and not me pointing my finger at any specific individual. In fact I actually like their games a lot.)
So *I* am supposed give *you* money for the privilege of testing your game so you can save yourself the cost of hiring beta testers? Did you go to the Tom Sawyer Business School?Well in their defence, they probably need the money just to be able to complete the game, and probably don't have anything spare to hire proper beta testers.
Am I the only one who finds this mind-boggling (and gear-grinding)?
(Disclaimer: I don't think the dev in question is identifiable from this, but in any case this is meant to be an example of a tendency I'm seeing all over the place, and not me pointing my finger at any specific individual. In fact I actually like their games a lot.)
Besides, if it's a game you're really looking forward to, and you're going to buy it anyway, wouldn't you want to help in its creation?
That is the weirdest thing, to be honest. I often offer to Beta test if I have the time free, both for free and commercial games. I consider my "pay" the knowing that I helped making a game better and with less bugs, and if it's a commercial game, then I got to play a game I would likely not play, since in my current financial situation I can't afford the money.
But paying to be a beta tester? 8-0 8-0 8-0 8-0 8-0
IT'S THE SAME STUFF!!! If people are so desperate, why isn't the other soap also sold out?
But the ability to play the game or games early IS the reward. I know it's hard to believe, but a lot of people for some weird reason, like to play games early (even though they're incomplete buggy messes).So *I* am supposed give *you* money for the privilege of testing your game so you can save yourself the cost of hiring beta testers? Did you go to the Tom Sawyer Business School?Well in their defence, they probably need the money just to be able to complete the game, and probably don't have anything spare to hire proper beta testers.
Am I the only one who finds this mind-boggling (and gear-grinding)?
(Disclaimer: I don't think the dev in question is identifiable from this, but in any case this is meant to be an example of a tendency I'm seeing all over the place, and not me pointing my finger at any specific individual. In fact I actually like their games a lot.)
Then offer some actual reward to backers, which is kind of the point of Kickstarter and Patreon, and with that money, hire beta testers. Simple. But don't make them pay for the "privilege" jfc.
Ok, assuming you somehow still don't understand the concept. Let me reframe it, so maybe you can.
Sorry about that.Ok, assuming you somehow still don't understand the concept. Let me reframe it, so maybe you can.
I stopped reading right here and I don't care what comes afterwards. Next time you might want to keep the condescendence in check if you want people to care about anything you might have to say.
You have to ask how many of those backers/subscribers actually end up helping with testing and how many just wanted to see an early version of the game because it makes them feel special.That's a very good question.
Panic-buying really grinds my gears... People should NOT be going out and hoarding shit they are not going to use within the year. Other people need that stuff too.
The toilet roll thing is absolutely ridiculous. Why specifically that? It’s an interesting phenomenon really. There’s probably some weird psychology behind it. My worry is that, if this is how people are behaving when the virus is only just starting to get going, what is it going to be like when the shit, indeed, does hit the fan?
Sudden rush to buy things and chaos... That's part of the plan ;)The toilet roll thing is absolutely ridiculous. Why specifically that? It’s an interesting phenomenon really. There’s probably some weird psychology behind it. My worry is that, if this is how people are behaving when the virus is only just starting to get going, what is it going to be like when the shit, indeed, does hit the fan?
People are hoarding all kinds of stuff: toilet paper, yes, but also frozen food, canned goods, desinfectant, etc. It's just that toilet paper makes for the most "omg wtf" headlines.
Sudden rush to buy things and chaos... That's part of the plan ;)The toilet roll thing is absolutely ridiculous. Why specifically that? It’s an interesting phenomenon really. There’s probably some weird psychology behind it. My worry is that, if this is how people are behaving when the virus is only just starting to get going, what is it going to be like when the shit, indeed, does hit the fan?
People are hoarding all kinds of stuff: toilet paper, yes, but also frozen food, canned goods, desinfectant, etc. It's just that toilet paper makes for the most "omg wtf" headlines.
Is that Italy? What happened to social distancing? Why are all those people hugging?
Here's something that grinds my gears.
Very high-pitched devices, used for scaring away cats or sometimes used in shops to "detract" youths.
Because I can hear those things, and they're nauseating!
Here's something that grinds my gears.
Very high-pitched devices, used for scaring away cats or sometimes used in shops to "detract" youths.
Because I can hear those things, and they're nauseating!
Here's something that grinds my gears.
Very high-pitched devices, used for scaring away cats or sometimes used in shops to "detract" youths.
Because I can hear those things, and they're nauseating!
Ohhh yes! I can relate so much :-D Our neighboor has one of these torture devices and I get the feeling that cats don´t care about it at all. But I care! It has become a running gag in our family since we tried to talk to him about it and he said he can not hear it, so we shouldn´t too. He even upgraded it to something that makes a bright light when you get to close, but he had to take that down, because we were not the only ones bothered by it..
What do they sound like?
Jesus, how many unwanted cats do you guys have running around your area? I've never heard of these devices.
Have you ever heard the high pitched squealing of an old tube television?Here's something that grinds my gears.
Very high-pitched devices, used for scaring away cats or sometimes used in shops to "detract" youths.
Because I can hear those things, and they're nauseating!
What do they sound like?
Have you ever heard the high pitched squealing of an old tube television?Here's something that grinds my gears.
Very high-pitched devices, used for scaring away cats or sometimes used in shops to "detract" youths.
Because I can hear those things, and they're nauseating!
What do they sound like?
Just make it twenty times louder and have it rapidly turn on and off.
Exactly, plus that's gotta violate age-based discrimination laws.Have you ever heard the high pitched squealing of an old tube television?Here's something that grinds my gears.
Very high-pitched devices, used for scaring away cats or sometimes used in shops to "detract" youths.
Because I can hear those things, and they're nauseating!
What do they sound like?
Just make it twenty times louder and have it rapidly turn on and off.
How could these not violate noise laws? That's crazy. I hope I never live around anyone with such little consideration for others.
Easy. The majority of people don't hear it, so it doesn't violate any noise laws.Have you ever heard the high pitched squealing of an old tube television?
Just make it twenty times louder and have it rapidly turn on and off.
How could these not violate noise laws? That's crazy. I hope I never live around anyone with such little consideration for others.
Exactly, plus that's gotta violate age-based discrimination laws.I hope so. But I'm not sure if there are any such laws in my country. ???
Easy. The majority of people don't hear it, so it doesn't violate any noise laws.
I was with a mate of mine, a few years younger, walking around Ginza. We had to move several times because he kept hearing this highly-pitched noise that the rest of us couldn’t hear. I think officially they’re to deter rats but I’ve since heard that they also stop groups of teens hanging around in front of the upmarket shops.
I’ve also heard that they sometimes play a mosquito noise to stop homeless people sleeping in doorways, but I don’t know how true that is.
I am rather convinced that it is simply a legislative gap. The manufacturers of those wretched things must have found it, and decided to make the most of it, while it lasts. It is terribly stupid, and I would delight in kicking them over if I found any. I dare say hardly anyone can see micro-waves, so why, I ask you, lawyer from Racket-o-Matic Ltd., why cannot I use them to discourage burglars?I wonder what they do on Sunday mass...
My own gear-grinding annecdote, meanwhile, is similar if opposite.
Now, a while ago, I was at a burial. It was quite alright, truly, gently reassuring as they are meant to be. However, I noticed that as it was time to toll the bells, they sounded rather tinny and muffled. It emerged that it was not the bells at all, but a recording, fed through the PA speakers. It was very vexing.
It emerged, however, that the church had been the recipient of quite a few noise complaints, on account of the bells. The bells! And they were thus rather limited as to when they could ring them. I am not particularly difficult about noise, ordinarily. Life is inescapably noisy, and it is reasonable to long for some peace and quiet. But this made me quite wild to hear.
Who are these utter dimplecups, I wonder, that move into a nice (and up-market, lest we forget) house right next to a church when they cannot abide the sound of bells? It is not as if it was a difficult building to spot, crouched between a hedge and a gas holder. They cannot possibly have missed it, if they have ever been in the area before they bought the house. It is not some little secret the estate agent can keep under wraps until it is too late. It stands radiant on the landscape, and what is more, I very much doubt it is tolling day and night. I simply cannot see the disruption, or the nerve to shut up a service you have decided to live next doors to.
I wonder sometimes if the neighbours are, in fact, trolls and giants that have come down the hills and moved into town. After buying the houses, there was evidently gold left for a good lawyer...
And I shall bet that these same dimplecups would merrily install those blasted high-pitch screamers if they had half a chance, too.
I wonder what they do on Sunday mass...
Throw pillows.Ah, yes, the sofa parasites.
Throw pillows.
Throw pillows.
Good advice!
Throw pillows. Useless junk that make it impossible to actually use a bed or sofa for its intended purpose. The best you can do is just move them off whenever the furniture is in use, either taking up storage space somewhere or making a pile on a chair, or dropped on the floor (tracking dirt back into the bed/sofa when they're put back). They are the coronavirus of home decoration. If I see that someone has a bunch of throw pillows in their house, it instantly makes me think less of them.They do have two uses though.
It was my understanding that throw pillows go on beds, while cushions go on sofas.I suppose it's like Magma and Lava. They're the same thing, just in different places.
“Track and Trace”
NO! It’s not called Track-and-Bloody-Trace! It’s “Test and Trace”! A different thing entirely. If one more IDIOT calls it Track and Trace, unless you’ve just entered a 12-digit string into a box on the Royal Mail website, I swear I’m going to go postal.
Test and trace is what they (‘they’ being the NHS and UK authorities) call the system in place for “testing” for positive cases of covid-19 and “tracing” people who they might have been in contact with. Nobody is “tracking” anybody. Yet last night #TrackandTrace was trending on Twitter because nobody stops to check that they are using the right terminology.
The new Windows calculator icon. It is just so ugly - what were they thinking?
Or maybe it was "Bob, go get drunk and then finish the damn thing"
I think you answered your own question...I bet this is why nail polish never comes with a brush that reaches all the way to the bottom of the bottle too, it grinds my gears not being able to get the last nail polish out
If they only provide you with the pre-cut, then if you have no other choice, and they sell more paper, cause you don't optimally use it.
I have the same problem. I can understand that they don't fit our mini-oven, but they should roughly fit the standard oven of 60x60 cm... :-\
I don’t wear nail polish, but yeah that would be frustrating.It's a big reason I stopped wearing it, you'll just end up with several half-filled bottles if you do.
ARGH!!! I just had to vent somewhere!
A Covidiot in the chat of a livestream was spamming how the CDC has released data showing that most people who have tested positive for Covid-19 in the USA are mask-wearers, proving that mask-wearing is bad.
I tried to explain to him that mask-wearers are people who are worried about the virus so they GET TESTED. Non-maskers are not worried so they DON'T GET TESTED.
He couldn't get it. Just kept saying that is was legit CDC data so I was wrong and masks are bad.
AAAARRRRGGGHHH!!!
Lol was he possibly trolling you? If not, he’s just opened up a new bottom tier of stupidity. (laugh)
your nose can’t block a sneeze.
Lol was he possibly trolling you? If not, he’s just opened up a new bottom tier of stupidity. (laugh)He was on the flat earth side.
+1Quoteyour nose can’t block a sneeze.
Actually, I have a success rate of about 80% sneeze blocking, if I close my mouth and nose... And 10% of those that I can't block, end up being an "inside" sneeze, cause my nose and mouth are still closed. (laugh) The rest are those that just come way too fast for me to react and do anything about it. (roll)
How is it that the western world is even back to entertaining these opinions at all? Mind blowing.
I agree with you that it’s silly to wear a mask when there’s literally no one else about. I wait until I’m near the station before putting mine on.
But regarding breathing through your nose around people. That’s not gonna solve anything. You can’t cough through your nose and your nose can’t block a sneeze. You r nose is literally there to let sneezes out. Those 5-8 families a day would ask you to wear a mask around people.
I honestly believe that flat earthers started from someone trolling, and it just got so out of hand that some people actually started believing the trolls.How is it that the western world is even back to entertaining these opinions at all? Mind blowing.
I KNOW!!! To think that, in 2020, there are still people who believe that the Earth is a globe!
True, I've even heard it started as somebody coming up with "the flat earth theory" on the spot as a ridiculous example when discussing how unrealistic most conspiracy theories are.I honestly believe that flat earthers started from someone trolling, and it just got so out of hand that some people actually started believing the trolls.How is it that the western world is even back to entertaining these opinions at all? Mind blowing.
I KNOW!!! To think that, in 2020, there are still people who believe that the Earth is a globe!
I honestly believe that flat earthers started from someone trolling, and it just got so out of hand that some people actually started believing the trolls.
Grinds my gears when people say the moon is not made of cheese.. It is, a man down the pub told me so it must be true (laugh)I honestly believe that flat earthers started from someone trolling, and it just got so out of hand that some people actually started believing the trolls.
The guy that started it on
YouTube claims that he was doing it as a comedy bit, and then Eric Dubay stole the idea and ran with it and made millions of dollars.
Grinds my gears when people say the moon is not made of cheese.. It is, a man down the pub told me so it must be true (laugh)I can verify that claim. I've had some moon cheese before. It almost tastes like Wensleydale. :-D
What grinds my gears?
Movies like Charm City Kings makes thugs and jerks look like cool and dashing rouges with a code of honor and ethic when in real life they are horrible, horrible little nerds who are cold blooded and don't care who they hurt.
No joke, just a short while before making this post I was taking my mom's dog out, on the sidewalk when these two bike gang bangers go roaring around the block, and came all around the corner causing me to grab my dog, practically pushed my mom out of the way and saw a few other people across the street run like us off the sidewalk because again these jokers in real life are horrible, horrible people and don't care who gets hurt.
I actually saw one ride up Liberty height near the Walgreens right behind an active ambulance, popping a wheelie and almost touching the ambulance's bumper doing so.
Where are you? That sounds awful.
Get over it: you need to upgrade your phone every year now (https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2020/10/24/get-over-it-you-need-upgrade-your-phone-every-year-now-prove/3735464001/)+1
Although you know what grinds my gears even more. It was considered normal to upgrade your phone every year back when we were all using tiny flip phones. At least people have a reason to do it now. Who knows what the logic was for it back then?
Something that grinds my gears is when you come up with a well thought out theory to piece together a game's lore, making sure to point out all of the evidence and reasoning for how you came to this conclusion.
Only to have someone say "No, you're wrong." and that's it. No rebuttals, no other comments. Just that. All because your theory flies in the face of everyone's already pre-established head-canon. >:(
Something that grinds my gears is when you come up with a [...] thought [...], making sure to point out all of the evidence and reasoning for how you came to this conclusion.
Only to have someone say "No, you're wrong." and that's it. No rebuttals, no other comments. Just that. All because [people are assholes].
Nose hair.No, I think it’s more that you just haven’t got used to it. Nose hair is actually there to help protect you.
Nose hair.No, I think it’s more that you just haven’t got used to it. Nose hair is actually there to help protect you.
Lakeview Cabin actually. But it applies to every fandom really.Something that grinds my gears is when you come up with a well thought out theory to piece together a game's lore, making sure to point out all of the evidence and reasoning for how you came to this conclusion.
Only to have someone say "No, you're wrong." and that's it. No rebuttals, no other comments. Just that. All because your theory flies in the face of everyone's already pre-established head-canon. >:(
Undertale?
Nose hair.To add to that: plucking nose hairs. Why does it make your eyes water?
Nose hair.To add to that: plucking nose hairs. Why does it make your eyes water?
You guys plucking your nose hairs doesn't make my eyes water or make me sneeze. What are you talking about?!
You guys pluck your nose hairs? Doesn't that hurt?
What grinds my gears right now is how prevalent innumeracy is. Or rather, people confidently and loudly spreading nonsense while also not understanding extremely basic math.
What grinds my gears right now is how prevalent innumeracy is. Or rather, people confidently and loudly spreading nonsense while also not understanding extremely basic math.
Like a prominent flat-earther who constantly tells his cultish followers that the 10^-17 Torr (pressure) of space is a negative number, meaning that space supposedly has a "negative pressure" and that the vacuum of space should suck the Earth's atmosphere right off it. Not only is the math and science misunderstood, but also they think that "vacuum" means like a Dyson.
What grinds my gears right now is how prevalent innumeracy is. Or rather, people confidently and loudly spreading nonsense while also not understanding extremely basic math.
Like a prominent flat-earther who constantly tells his cultish followers that the 10^-17 Torr (pressure) of space is a negative number, meaning that space supposedly has a "negative pressure" and that the vacuum of space should suck the Earth's atmosphere right off it. Not only is the math and science misunderstood, but also they think that "vacuum" means like a Dyson.
Oh wow, really? By that same logic, we should all be dead. ???
You'd think the obvious fact that space doesn't suck all of Earth's atmosphere right off of it, would tip him off that his logic is flawed. (Not to mention all of the other things he clearly forgot to take into account, including gravity, magnetic fields, ect).
It's like those people who come up with a design for a perpetual motion machine, and honestly believe it works. You'd think the fact that it doesn't work, would be enough to convince them that it doesn't work. But it isn't. (laugh)
"Of course a coconut is a nut, why else would it have nut in the name?"
It grinds my gears when people can't see past the name of something,
It's a real shame that your friend can't see past those titles though.
It grinds my gears that I keep seeing the same Cyberpunk 2077 ad everywhere.Caption for the ad: "The hairdresser deserves this!" (laugh)
(if you've missed it, see it at your own risk (https://venturebeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/cyberpunk-2077.jpg?fit=1820%2C1024&strip=all))
standing in front of a neon-yellow single-color background so garish that it literally hurts my eyes watching it.
Amazon is grinding my gears right now. I don't know if this is the same everywhere, but here you always get the option to tick a box so that your order gets sent in as few packets as possible. I always tick this box and Amazon still manages to send my order with 7 items in 5 parcels. Are you f... kidding me? (And before you ask, all articles were in stock and are all supposed to arrive on the same day.) And it seems to happen more and more often. Two years ago or so, the max number of parcels from one order was two and my orders are always around 7 to 10 articles.Maybe they expect all their customers to make unboxing videos?
I mean, I know this is probably due to the things being send from different warehouses, but it's still annoying.
It grinds my gears that there are so many nature "documentaries" that are all about painting nature as some kind of giant gladiator arena that's all about animals killing each other,
often just helping spread misconceptions of animals like White sharks, wolves, hyenas, and others being mindless killing machines rather than bringing any real education to the table.
it's so frustrating because firstly, most research has revealed that the majority of all animals have far more intricate social interactions than previously thought, a far cry from the "endless fight for dominance" narrative,
and secondly, very few wild animals pose an active danger to humans and about 90% of the cases of people being killed have been people actively running up and provoking them, trying to pick them up or chase them.
More or less. It doesn't help that several nature channels have stuff like "big cat week" or "shark month", meaning nearly all the documentaries will be the same species, sometimes even the same animal trashing some critter over and over.It grinds my gears that there are so many nature "documentaries" that are all about painting nature as some kind of giant gladiator arena that's all about animals killing each other,
often just helping spread misconceptions of animals like White sharks, wolves, hyenas, and others being mindless killing machines rather than bringing any real education to the table.
it's so frustrating because firstly, most research has revealed that the majority of all animals have far more intricate social interactions than previously thought, a far cry from the "endless fight for dominance" narrative,
and secondly, very few wild animals pose an active danger to humans and about 90% of the cases of people being killed have been people actively running up and provoking them, trying to pick them up or chase them.
I'm guessing you watched some of the ones with the narrator saying "The fierce beast lurks in the undergrowth, while its unsuspecting prey graze peacefully, never suspecting that anything was amiss... UNTIL!!!!"
My wife was watching a nature documentary that seems to be aware of our human tendency to demonize predators as the bad guys:Does she know deer and bovines sometimes also eat small birds for calcium? Let's just say they're not exactly Bambi out in the wild.
She watched in horror as a fox slaughtered a nest of baby birds while the mother was out foraging for them.
And then the film showed the mother fox bringing the dead baby birds back to her lair to feed to the cute-as-hell baby fox litter she was raising.
Even though she knows about how all this works, she still had the gut-reaction to watching the killing of the baby birds of "that fox is evil!" but then the next scene so contradicts that view that she was a bit shocked at herself for getting manipulated like that.
I wish I knew the name of the film because that is subversive genius!
It grinds my gears that there are so many nature "documentaries" that are all about painting nature as some kind of giant gladiator arena that's all about animals killing each other,It was only a few years ago that I learnt that documentaries aren't supposed to teach you stuff. They're just there to be entertaining. So with that in mind, things such as "facts" usually don't matter.
The huge problem is that there are documentaries that genuinely do try to teach people facts, and entertainment masking as documentaries, tricking people into thinking their sensationalism is true to life.It grinds my gears that there are so many nature "documentaries" that are all about painting nature as some kind of giant gladiator arena that's all about animals killing each other,It was only a few years ago that I learnt that documentaries aren't supposed to teach you stuff. They're just there to be entertaining. So with that in mind, things such as "facts" usually don't matter.
I know that I sound dumb for having not realized that sooner. But you can't blame me for not realizing that something as boring as documentaries, were being made as entertainment. 8-0