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Do your thing, bitches.

Bloodworth :  Seriously, pay some fucking attention.

I have no Grievances towards any of you this year -- I love you all! Even the regulars I banned :awesome_for_real:

Wait, it's Christmas already?

Festivus is celebrated on December 23rd.

Festivus, Christmas, is there really a difference?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festivus

I thought it was 2009....

Ironwood and Haemish:  Ironwood's recent showings in the LotR nerdgasm aside, your customary spewings of vitriol and profanity have lately felt lacking in fire, brimstone, and inappropriateness for mixed company.

This is not a charade.  We need total concentration.  Try again, with feeling.

Plus, my flask is empty and I've still got three hours of work left (not that I blame you for that, unless you've somehow obtained access to my desk drawer.)

I don't have the time or inclination to list specific people here, but basically I'm disappointed in anyone here who continues to spend more time in Politics than they do discussing games.  Whereas some of you might actually have something insightful to say about video games from time to time, few if any of you have posted one damn thing worth reading in politics.

Gryeyes, because he is a know-nothing weaboo asshat. That bit of "next one to get denned gets banned" mod-brinksmanship I played in the Avatar thread that led to him getting a week's vacation was delicious. DELICIOUSSSS.

Also MahrinSkel for being the very epitome of that guy who posts more in Politics than everywhere else combined, and should remember that this is primarily a website about videogames and shut the fuck up. The fact that he has his tinfoil hat surgically grafted to his skull doesn't help.

The Warhammer guys at Mythic. As far as I can tell they got most of the UO team fired by making their uber-expensive new MMO such a shitbag flop that it dragged down the entire studio. I don't even play UO right now, but until they pull the plug my going back is always just a matter of time, so fuck you.

Whatever fag I imagine* must have caused f13 to quit handing out blue names. Not that I really wanted one, and that's the point. I wrote a 30,000 word story that got frontpaged and turned into books (which was awesome by the way) and anyone who knows can tell you I didn't make two peeps about what color my name was. Whatever dipshit pitched enough of a fit to make them go "Oh fuck the whole thing!" because his three-paragraph review of Gremlins 2 (or whatever) didn't make him a "contributor" should kill himself in the face of that.

Blizzard for adding that new LFG system to WoW and sucking me back in again. Damn it, my account was mere days from expiring. I was almost out. I don't even LIKE this type of game. Now if you don't mind, I have to go. I need to queue up and try to farm myself a new sword. SHINY.

Edit: Do we usually spew our wrath at people who don't even post here in these threads? I seem to remember having done so in the past. Oh well, I did anyway. Fuck it.

(* I am not in the f13 cool kids club, I don't know what goes on behind the scenes here, I don't want to know, and it's entirely possible that nothing such as this has ever taken place. But it seems logical and who gives a fuck?)

yeah WUA all that.  The stuff about Politics particularly.  And the WAR starfuckers.  Although entertaining it got a bit much.  Chargerich and others ragequitting, cripes. 

All the people who keep whinging about the politics forum: It helps people get banned, doesn't it?

In no particular order-

The GOP for continuing to prove that is has no interest in serving the country, only their corporate and religious masters. Also, the dimwits who keep voting for them against their own best interests.

The Dems for being utterly incapable of getting out of their own way and actually unfucking this country, or at least slowing it circling of the drain.

Infinity Ward for pissing in the face of all their PC customers and telling them it was rain.

GRRM for wasting another fucking year editing shitty books and watching football, and not finishing ADwdD and the rest of the series. What a cockgoblin.

Amazon, Dell, and the rest of the shitty online companies who promise delivery times when orders are placed, and promptly update the delivery time to days or weeks later without so much as an email. FUCK YOU.

Any and all game companies that release PC games with shitty UIs and features copied over from the console versions. Either get it right or don't bother.

The asshats who destroyed the economy and made it impossible to refinance my house  :oh_i_see: Technically happened in 2008, but didn't really affect me until 2009.

The media for abdicating their responsibilities to inform in favor of entertaining and placating the masses. This country is getting stupider and less informed by the day.

I got a lot of problems with you people, but that that is all that springs to mind at the moment. I reserve the right to add to my remarks in the future. Until that time, on with the feats of strength, and happy Festivus!

People who are obsessed with my posting stats (http://forums.f13.net/index.php?action=profile;u=481;sa=statPanel).  Not my fault that every discussion worth having about MMO's has already been done to fucking death.  I should include more "If Developer X had done what I told them, they wouldn't have fucked their own game in the ass" posts?

Developers that don't follow the advice I offer them at the 2 or 3 conferences I actually make it to a year.

Developers that do follow my advice, but never acknowledge it came from me.

Development studios that repost the same job opening over and over again, with qualifications that could have been reverse-engineered from my resume, but never call (or even email) me in response to my resume submissions.  Why not just post "We want somebody like Dave, but without his attitude"?

Development studios that wait until I've told them I'll take the job before getting around to telling me the job requires I renew my passport (meaning: The job is in another country, where my wife's law degree is something less than useful).

People that think that being cynical means being against everything positive.

Flaming douchebags that think they're better than me because they're just as willing to spout their drivel in a game forum as in a political forum.  Me, I like keeping my shit somewhere that already stinks.

Looks like you lured him out of the politics forum. Bad WUA. Very bad.

Borderlands guys for fucking up a great game by tarderizing the coop process.

Chevy for not giving me a new Camaro.

This was the least fun year of f13 in the X years Ive been here.  For once Im going to actually take this thread seriously.  There are many users that I would post backhanded or plain complements towards.  But thats not what this is about according to my understanding (I didnt read the wiki link).

Politics That was my favorite board, ever, until the 2008 election lead up.  Until whoever cried to the mods about whatever abortion thread or somesuch and that led to the new moderated politics.  Ill be honest Ive assumed it was the LGBT brigade due to the timing of events but there is a reason I would never want to read the cool kids club posts so whoever caused it a big fuck you from me.  I prefer watching Mahrin and Morat get trolled for pages then just having it be reduced to a pointless echo chamber like it is now for the most part.  That was politics, for the vast majority of posters it seemed to work just fine.

That said, the current version of politics is what we have and frankly it sucks.  I feel like we have less threads about less issues and the threads we have are pretty much a waste of time.

XBL bros Get the fuck off my internet.  Any of you fuckwads from the MW2 thread?  Talking about how kb+mouse is debatably a superior control scheme?  FUCK OFF.  Go back to your terrible no server having games.  Yeah you are the majority, so are American Idol viewers and a host of other groups that can only be described as pathetically stupid.  Im too lazy to look you up to name and shame but I wish I could from memory.

MMO players Im talking to people like Threash, Falconeer and you lot who bought Aion and spewed fanboi bullshit all over f13 for months + any of you idiots who bought ChampO.  What the fuck is wrong with you people?  One look at the ui tells me this combat is going to feel like 1999 and suck dick.  Holy hell you would have taken the clueless crown this year if not for...

You people giving SWOTORTOREREOR a fucking chance who would have been the biggest losers if not for...

Anyone who bumps that goddamn Star Trek thread and its not to laugh at what a pile of shit it is!!!  Anyone who pre ordered Star Trek Online you suck and I hate you.  Id like to see the servers underpopulated at fucking launch that game is such an obvious turd.

People who have never once posted a photo in the T&A thread but reply to it all the time?  Burn in a fucking tire fire bitches.  People like ookii who post 90% awful photos of fugly bitches?  You suck too but at least you are trying.

Paelos, Snakecharmer and any other SEC fanboi bitch racist southern hick pig fuckers.  I love to hate you guys.  Thank your stars that ESPN will make sure that you stay too overrated to not get 2+ bcs bids.  See you next year.

That idiot who is a big Penguins fan and makes it so I dont read the hockey threads anymore?  Fuck you too guy.

Happy 2009.

 

The funny part is, I started my post and then got distracted, and ended up not coming back to finish it until like an hour later. The fact that Velorath was bitching about the exact same thing one post earlier is sheer coincidence.


Would it have been too hard to just put "WUA" at the beginning of that and not sound like a giant pussy? It's not about being a douchebag or spouting drivel. I do both those things, as do lots of other people here, and damn if it isn't fun. It's about being the sort of douchebag who spouts drivel almost exclusively about politics, and if you don't understand the difference then nobody is ever going to be able to explain it to you. Just go on being That Guy.

Festivus thread is NOT for arguing.

Anyone who posts non-picture posts in any of the picture threads.  Is this really that hard to figure out?  If you really must comment, find some appropriate picture to add to the thread also, don't go pages ranting about something trite and meaningless.  There are perfectly other good threads to do that in.

Thread nazis.

Happy Festivus.  My Grievances:

My employer, for not giving raises even though they made a billion in profits.

The over the top posters in the Politics forum.  Just chill, none of our opinions actually count for anything.

Me, for selling a TimeCard in Eve.

The 14 100 foot+ pine tress in my yard that I'm paying $4,200 to get rid of.

My knees for not allowing me to run on them anymore.

You haven't exceeded Broughden's ratio yet, but you are close  :why_so_serious:

I'm just happy this year is over, 2009 has been a rather lacklustre year.

All of 2009, for bringing me one year closer to death without providing anything to look forward to.  2010 better be all sparkles and rainbows shooting out assholes.

Fuck you, TV execs pulling good shows, and not recognizing the internet has already over taken their domain.  Page hits and users on hulu are easier to track than Nielsen ratings.
Fuck you, game developers constantly pushing out 10 hour games and expecting people to pay 60+ bucks for it.
Fuck you, game developers raping consumers with DLC content.  It's not that I have to pay for it that is at issue.  It's the fact that the purchase price of the original game isn't reflective of an incomplete game.
Fuck you, iPhones, iPhone apps, and Apple in general.
Fuck you, Bob Goldwater and other bottom feeders like you that give the lawyer profession its reputation as a bunch of ambulance chasing fuckwits.
Fuck you, stimulus package for costing somewhere in the neighborhood of 270,000 bucks per job 'created' or 'saved'.
Fuck you, Mississippi State Troopers.
Fuck you, anyone that can't argue a point without using one curse word or insulting the other - i.e. being incapable of arguing the point, and not the person.
Fuck you, Boeing, for being whiny ass bitches and complained to the Air Force about the air tanker contact being 'unfair' to Boeing.
Fuck you, Air Force, for caving to Boeing.
Fuck you, anyone that feels compelled to race ahead of me, then pull in front of me, and slam on their brakes to make a turn.
Fuck you, pulling guard from Arkansas that chop blocked Dont'a Hightower, blowing out his knee in the process.
Fuck you, USC / ND / OSU ass lickers just for being USC / ND / OSU ass lickers.
Fuck you, ALFA for raising my homeowners insurance AGAIN, despite the fact that I've never ever filed a claim.
Fuck you, to ANYONE that whines about the big bad GOP or conservatives or the religous right, when your own party is just as bad or worse on every occasion - or are STILL whining about the big bad GOP despite the fact you have overwhelming control.  Quit posting like impotents and get out and actually doing something rather than bitching about it.
Fuck you, GOP for regressing so badly over the last...7 years...that you positively got your stool pushed in so far your toothbrush is brown by a bunch of granola eating tree hugging communist wannabes.  Seriously.  You fucking suck.
Fuck you, anyone that blames their current situation - whether health, money, or whatever - on anyone but themselves and expecting someone else to take care of it for them.


Fuck you, and have a Merry Christmas and a prosperous and Happy New Year.

Your mom, for not swallowing.

Eat a bullet, die in a fire, etc.

Cut it out you two.

*Insert Cynical comment here*

Happy Christmas everyone :)

I thought F13 was Festivus. 

Righ, for having such cultured, excellent, erudite taste in shitty music.

Sky, for taking an offhand joke entirely too far

To my ex-company.  Thanks for the bonus and award for an on-time delivery of a new power supply and charger system that I designed, implemented, and tested under terrible circumstances a few years back that now runs your entire generation of latest products, yet you still found it in your heart to fire (I'm sorry, "reduction in force") me and 120 others since we were not considered "core team members" that you can now outsource (after "reducing force" 250 other people right before Christmas last year).  Now that I had to relocate my soon to be ex-wife used it as an excuse to dump me for not having a job and wanting a better life elsewhere without me.  Fuck you very much and I hope your Japanese competitor eats your shit for lunch and you go out of business.

And ditto what other people said ;-)

I'm making an offhand joke right now!

(All the kids who got upset with the fapping daffy)

Wait, people were upset with the fapping daffy?

Ok, yeah, fuck them and everyone else who actively look for shit to be offended by in order to get attention.

Politicians for being preening asshats that value the opinion of one crank who called their office over the professional opinions of their staff.

The public for being either quiescent drones or uninformed douchebags that talk out of their asses.

Attorneys that think that being bellicose somehow convinces me that their client's shitty position suddenly got better.

Ideologues that overlook pragmatic solutions to problems in favor of bitching and moaning.

I hate nothing and am filled with pure love for you all!

Except for my former Japanese boss, who decided to fire my fiance yesterday because we told him we are engaged.  I'm glad your firm is steadily falling apart and your top partners/associates keep deserting you.  Enjoy the feeling when your remaining lawyers are finally swallowed by your former number 2's (who you treated like an errand boy) firm.   

Actually, it was Sky desperately attempting to be funny and turning every opportunity to make a wank joke into one.

In other words, they weren't offended by Daffy. No one here was. No one here would even be offended by dead baby Jesus (except Sir T, but he'd just post incoherently about it). They were offended by bad, stupid, not-even-funny-to-old-people jokes.

On that note:

Sky. He's my big complaint for the year. He up and went retard.

Oh, and Q4 gaming.

There ARE people that don't play Modern Warfare 2, think of the children, o industry of mine.

People Person who needs way too many reasons to see the merit of Valkyria Chronicles, yet has made a dozen posts to inform us he's enjoying Wolverine.

My beater guitar for never staying in tune. Damnit, you can suck in every other way. Just not that.

Lack of games with distinctive art styles. Too many try too hard at realistic graphics/faces. Just stylize things assholes. We are not ready for realism. Only a handful of realistic looking games might age well, and that's still because of a distinctive art style.

That jeweler who was upset that the economy knocked him down from 160k to half of that.

Me for not knocking on him his ass right there.

Fuck you to Dave Grohl for joining Them Dirty Vultures.  Worst album of the year!

Got a gripe with Turbine for totally forgetting what MIRKwood should look like.  I can see for miles!

My yearly gripe at Mythic for fucking up WAR

A new target!  Fuck you Cryptic for becoming the company that specializes in MMO shovelware.

Fuck you to the SEC officials and their terrible play calling. 

Fuck you to Tim Tebow for running up the score on clearly outmatched teams and then crying like a cunt when you get beat.

Fuck you to my body for making me go to the ER and then later having to have outpatient surgery.  Exercise is for losers!

Fuck you to the Republicians, the party of NO. 

Fuck you to Ben Nelson for screwing the Democratic Party just to take care of your shitty, unimportant state.

This year I have issue with Fox News and all the fucktards in this world than hang on their every word.  That includes you too, mother-in-law. 

The State of Ohio can suck a dick for cutting budget to libraries so I was forced to quit and fuck Ohio again for proposing more cuts to libraries before the year is out. 

Fuck you, other guy, for almost breaking up my marriage.  If I see you in person I'm going to knock your fucking teeth out. 

Also with Schild, screw Q4 for being sparse and shitty and screw 2010 Q1 for being too abundant for my wallet. 

Lastly, Jesus.  Keep your followers in check, please.  You've got some crazies out there. 

People who can't like anything and don't understand how anyone else can.

Everyone who complains about the postings in Politics. It's a good aggregation service of parroting from around the net.

Screw anyone who thinks "things were better" before masses/group A/company X showed up. Insular exclusive geek dens do not a trend make.

Anyone who bitches about an MMO to the point of frothing rage but buys it anyway. Fanbois don't annoy me. It's fine to be excited about something, and most around here balance excitement with acceptance of the warts.

People who hate an MMO, didn't buy it, but post in threads about it anyway.

Everyone who didn't actually make a good alternative to WoW.

Everyone who bitches about being "done" with "crappy/stupid" WoW after having invested nigh on 15-20% of their whole life in a single game. Wildly stupid expectations for the duration of fun.

IW.

Anyone who resorts to mother jokes/godwinning/one-liner crap because they're too scared to actually say what's on their mind. In a fucking anonymous non-accountable forum. Wimps. Have an opinion and state it or gtfo.

The public, for thinking Obama was coming in on a white horse wielding a flaming sword that was going to wipe away the other two branches of guvmint so he could be coronated into single-handedly undoing decades of fuckups. Starfuckers.

Anyone who starts arguments in the Airing of Greivances thread. I dare you!  :grin:

Trippy, for being so serious.

I love a good story...


Darniaq, what's IW ?  I'm getting hurt feelings over here.

Shild, for thinking I'd be offended at Dead Baby Jesus  :grin:

Heh. Sorry man. Infinity Ward.

Didn't we do an alternate thread last year for things we were grateful for? Cause I really have nothing bad to say this year.

Canadians. For having nothing bad to say.

Deutsche Bank for taking three weeks to send me a new bank card and I'm still waiting for the PIN that will render it usable.
Deutsche Bank again for being closed this morning even though their website said they'd be open so I couldn't withdraw cash over the counter.
IKEA for not including fittings in their hardware.
The weapons-balancing guy at work for giving me the death-lurgi over Christmas.

WoW for releasing an awesome patch and dragging me back after I had finally managed to unsub for a month.

The game industry for not giving us a single good next gen JRPG this year.

Quick Time Events.

PC gamers who don't realize that they are no longer a core demographic. No one care how many Xbox noobs you would pwn.

FPS Games that only using matchmaking instead of letting you host your own custom games.

Do you not own any portables?

Other than that.. Demon's Souls, although it's kind got a western vibe. Still a good game anyhow.

[edit] Err,wait. Portable doesn't exactly qualify as next gen. My bad.

Well, more will be here next year (soon)  :grin:

That was my point, really: that if I want to play a good JRPG I have to do it on a tiny screen or an ancient console. I love both my DS and my PSP, don't get me wrong; I just miss the veritable flood of JRPGs the PS2 was blessed with, while neither the PS3 nor Xbox360 recieves more than a trickle. Hell, the last traditional JRPG released was what, Persona 4? A year ago, and on PS2 no less.

And yes, Demon's Souls is good.


Edit: Fuck online gamers who are racist homophobic assholes, especially to their own teammates. No one is going to improve by being called a gay nigger.

The US patent system, and software patents in particular for being completely fucked.

Silicon vendors who can't be bothered to tell me about errata until after we burn weeks hunting an inexplicable bug ("oh that's a known issue with the <peripheral>" "thanks for waiting until NOW to tell us").

Whoever decided you need to remap PSX/PS2/PS3 controls when localizing for the US.  Dammit, leave X as cancel and O as confirm like God (or at least the Japanese) intended.

The goddamm US real estate industry.  What moron decided some kind of blind auction where the buyer has no visibility into the bidding process is good?

All US Senators and Representatives.  You guys all suck.  Thanks for making sure nothing useful ever happens in government, no matter which stupid party is in power.

People who say "the pinch gesture is intuitive", or hell that *any* modern UI is "intuitive".

Whoever moved the LOTR Nerdfight out of the Star Trek thread.  Come on it, it was hilarious there.

I'm not feeling jolly enough yet to kick that thread off.

Anyone that can't put aside whatever odd issue drives their own particular brand of insanity.  If I know what sort of reaction you're going to have the second someone posts something, perhaps you should just type out your typical response and then DON'T hit post. 

People that are only here to annoy the board or annoy a single poster.  This also goes for the "HEY IT'S F13" crowd.  Yes, we can be mean to idiots, that doesn't mean you get to be an asshole for no reason.

Stop making the same damn joke. It was funny the first time. It wasn't funny the second time or any other time after that.

Anyone that thinks airing out their particular brand of hate here is acceptable.  No, you're not a special or enlightened snowflake because you hate gays and Mexicans. It doesn't make your traditional or conservative, it just makes you an asshole.  Stop worshipping morons while you're at it.

Stop buying crappy games.  Stop buying the same game every year. They just stuck a new number on it, it's the same fucking game, moron.  You're killing your father, Larry.  This can also be extended to people that won't play great games or try great games for stupid reasons.  Yes, art style is a stupid reason. 

Use the search function.  If I see one more person ask for advice on what PS3 games to buy...  :angryfist:

Day 1 DLC.  Fuck you, soulless game company.  I paid for the whole game; give me the whole game.  Polish should be on the game, not your revenue stream.

Modern Warfare franchise.  Killing gaming.  5 hour tunnel shooter.  Anyone that thinks this sort of gaming release is good for the industry can do me a favor and swallow a cutlery set.

Jay Cutler.  Fantasy Football poison. 

AT&T wireless coverage.  Dead zones everywhere.

 :awesome_for_real: :heart:

I want to second Rasix with the whole jokes that have just been made 4 times in the thread probably aren't going to continue being funny.

My former employer.  Thanks for the layoff there guys, even though I was fully utilized and assisting on a profitable project.  It's not my fault you bought up another company who's PMs were overpaid, didn't work as hard as yours did and are experiencing corporate culture shock.  Oh yeah, thanks for not counting those 4 years I was a contract employee when considering my seniority, even though in every other way I was considered a full time employee.  At least you were nice enough to set a minimum for severance that exceeded the three years you did count.

My former manager, for being a dickwad in general.  Fucking micromanager BS who couldn't give me the time of day usually but got upset that I wasn't communicating with him enough.  And for picking me to get the axe over someone else simply because I didn't have my PMP certification.  Oh, we have too many PMs not fully utilized?  Well then, let's pick a PM that is putting in 100% billable time and cut her instead!

Me - for being stupid and not using my own personal time (because doing it on work time was frowned on, gotta keep that billing utilization up!) to take advantage of the free training my former company offered and working to get that PMP certification that would have helped me keep my job.  Now I'm sitting around hoping I can get WIA funds instead and get the training that way.  Way to go, idiot.

People who take hatred or dislike for something to extremes and get overly vehement about it.  Not liking kids doesn't mean that encountering one in public is an end-of-the-world-defcon-9000-WTF-were-the-parents-thinking!!! situation.  And I refuse to believe seeing a pregnant woman is that traumatizing, no matter how much you don't like the idea of being pregnant.

My mother-in-law for having the gall to tell my husband that she's sorry the check they sent for Christmas this year (same as they send every year) wasn't more than usual despite the fact that I'm unemployed and not having any luck finding a new job yet.  Oh, but she has no problems sending the same amount to the bro-in-law and his wife, plus whatever she spends on the precious grand-daughters.  Fuck you, my dog does too count as my kid.  At least my mom considers him her grand-dog and doesn't treat us any differently for not having spawned.  Oh, and she's willing to help us out financially even though she can't afford it like you can.

My neighbors.  The ones that don't keep the outside of their house straightened up (what's the use of having a 2 car garage in this area if all you're going to do is store junk in it instead of your cars?  Enjoy cleaning snow off the car, dumbasses.  Oh, and your garbage can and recycling bins can be brought back in now.  Trash pickup was 2 days ago.  And guess what?  If you'd just tossed down some cheap grass seed 2 years ago, your backyard wouldn't still be a weedy, muddy mess most of the time, although I'm sure the random containers and bits of junk lying around might still be there.

Our other neighbors across the street - would it really kill you to be .. neighborly.. and acknowledge that other people live around you?  Sorry if waving as we pass on the street is too much for you or something.

And this turned out longer than I'd planned. 

People who respond to criticism of America with "If you don't like it, then go to China." I practically am from China. And I may just take you up on that actually!  :oh_i_see: The sad irony is that it would actually be an improvement to be in China and many similar places at the moment.

Fuck you, people posting cute baby pics.  My wife is trying to talk me into having a third, and I'm too old for this shit...but it's working!  Down with cute babies!

Fuck you, time.  Thanks for not having enough of yourself.  I have so much shit I want to do (okay, games I want to play) and not enough time to do it all.

Fuck you, Chicago winter.  I like a bit of cold and snow as much as the next guy, but I don't need it for the next four fucking months. 

Fuck you, new guitar, for being so hard to learn to play.  I won't let you win, you stupid inanimate object.

Fuck you, mods, for banning all most some of the idiots.  It's more fun around here when there are a couple of Broughdens and Chargerriches.

Fuck you, all the people who pick on Bloodworth and actually mean it.  Don't take shit so seriously.

Fuck you, people taking shit so seriously.

Fuck you, al the people so quick to hop on the Barack Bandwagon only to hop off just as quickly.  He was never as good as you thought he'd be, nor is he nearly as bad as you think he is now.  It's only been a fucking year!

Fuck you, every fantasy football player on both of my teams.  How can you so constantly under-perform, except of course for that magical period immediately following getting benched?

Fuck you, F13, for sucking up so much of my work time.  You're going to get me fucking fired!

My Brother's former fiancee: For acting with such base vanity and superficial behaviour that you've tossed aside a very good man simply because you're an attractive 24 year old. You behaved with maturity and level-hotheadedness that was beyond your years.. until you started hanging out with those single & vapid friends from High School again.  There's a reason they didn't have boyfriends, too bad you didn't realize it.

My brother: (who I'll air this grievance to tomorrow)  Stop falling for the 'fluffy' ex-cheerleader types. You'd think after the first two burned you that you'd learn your lesson.  Nice to look at and play with, bad to keep.  They'll ALL behave that way until their looks are gone, so I fail to see why you're always surprised.  You're 31, this shouldn't be news.

Most of you all here at F13. You're getting old and crotchety. It's less amusing than it was when you were in your 20's and it's turning into bitterness and general anger.  Lighten the fuck up already.  If something ANYONE here posts bothers you enough it actually gets under your skin, perhaps you need to take a break from the board.  Real people are still more annoying than the lousiest fucker here, Douchematic.

Bioware: Quit recycling the same goddamn story as if we don't notice.  We do. Your games are still good, but you're treading a thin line.

Ed: Oh forgot one:

Lego:  Your little plastic people aren't gold plated so how the hell do you justify charing $14 for fucking four of them and 20 little LEGO pieces.  Goddamn your prices and my need to buy creative/ educational toys for my kids.

Shit yeah, been bitching about Legos myself lately. How the hell is a kid going to ever get a "Big Bucket of Legos" experience that way. It costs a fortune to just build one up now.

Fuck you, you rotting bag of flea-bitten orangutan ovaries. My Festivus wish is that you become the plaything of inbred, closeted BDSM conservatives with syphilitic testicles and a withered penis, are locked in the basement of some sailor wanna-hump-hump bar for six weeks before being fed a steady diet of evangelical Jesus-laced brainwashing by six-year old neo-Nazis. Is that vitriolic enough for you, motherfucker?

Fuck you, Mythic and in particular Mark Jacobs. Not for foisting a horribly incomplete, incompetently-designed devolution of your better game, though you certainly deserve to be raped by rabid furries in pink ferret costumers for that. No, fuck you for continually letting that cow's bladder Paul Barnett talk in public and on-camera. Oh, and Paul Barnett for living up to Voltaire's other maxim, "I douche, therefore I am."

Fuck you, investment bankers, stock market traders, and anyone and everyone involved in the financial industry that isn't involved with direct consumer financial services (and some of you that are). You are worthless, parasitic leeches feeding on the taint-blood of our entire fucking economy, and you are too much of a gaggle of rancid pussies to take the medicine of failure like a human being and go bankrupt, dive out of your 50th story office window or live on the fucking streets when your inevitable failures cause companies like mine to get rid of almost 1/4 of their workforce and consider that number A GOOD THING. Do me a favor the next time you think that selling little pieces of a lot of other people's debt is the greatest idea since paper - eat the barrel of your fucking gun, you self-righteous rectum stain.

Fuck you, Congress. All of you. After the debacle that is healthcare reform, not a fucking one of you deserves to be considered a part of the human race. Only a completely useless bunch of cunts could possibly take the good idea that is single-payer healthcare, that works everywhere else in the world, including countries where they think putting lead in toothpaste is a good idea, and turn it into one gigantic welfare check to the insurance industry.

Fuck all of you who can't take political discussion, with all its heated passion, insulting talk and differing opinions and actually learn something from it. In all the years I've been reading and writing on this site, I have learned more about shit I knew less about in politics than I have in all the other time I spent talking about video games. Clean out your sandy vaginas and get over yourselves, geeks.

Fuck Nintendo in the goat ass for signing off on the largest heaping pile of useless shit that barely deserve to be called video games, both from internal devs and 3rd party devs. Yes, your console has sold a metric fuckton and more. Yes, it has ostensibly expanded the video game industry to an audience that wouldn't have otherwise been interested. But goddamn, couldn't you have at least forced your 3rd party devs to some standard of worthiness? For a system I championed, there aren't 30 great games on the goddamn thing - and I'd be hard-pressed to find 30 GOOD games on it either. FUCK YOU and fuck me for believing you would give a shit.

Fuck you, Sony and Microsoft for making your consoles and the games for them $60-fucking-dollars. That's way too much fucking money per game.

Fuck you, mainstream media for ignoring self-publishing, or books in general unless they are about faggy, angsty daywalking vampires who glow in sunshine, the exploits of some celebrity's overstretched vagina or a pre-pubescent wizard with mommy and daddy issues.

But most of all, fuck every one of you cocksuckers that didn't buy my book.

Useless convo remined me of another:

Fuck you assholes who think that turning on your high beams to overcome the one dead headlight is acceptable because "it's a recession."  No, asshole, you're blinding me on the highway with that shit, and it's worse on the normal roads.  Fucking stop it.

Related:  If you don't know how to adjust your lights, don't fucking install them yourself.  No, pointing those "clear white brights" higher on the road isn't helping anyone.  Least of all your fellows on the road in whose mirrors your lights now shine.  If I have to put my mirror to the "dim" position at dawn or twilight because you're an idiot, you've made me just as dangerous when I have to go to change lanes to get away from your stupid ass.

Yes, but the price of PS3/360 games drops to fairly reasonable numbers. Not just used ones either. Some of the best games sell new in the 40 and under range (SFIV, Valkyria, Disgaea, RE5, SCIV, Burnout Paradise, Saints Row, MGS4, Uncharted, Prince of Persia). The list goes on, my friend. None of these have even been out long. And the kicker is, only one of those are 40. The rest are 30 or even 20 and under. Hell, some even get bundled as double features (God of War collection, Bioshock/Oblivion).

Anyhow, if you were ever depending on games constantly being $60, then you were wrong. Feel free to add "Fuck you Stray for rubbing it in" to your lists of grievances.

[edit] Oh, and Merry Christmas! Make yourself happy and buy a 360/PS3 before the stores close fool. :why_so_serious:

Ok, I'll bite

Fuck you Irish Public for electing likable crooks and then being surprised that they are dishonest scumbags that are using the public purse as a piggy bank. And then buying the guy that fucked the Irish Economy Sideways' autobiography by the bucketload even when its full of lies. That contradict his other spoken lies. I mean he won 200,000 pounds on a horse that he cant remember the name of. Really.

Fuck you Blizzard for making just ok games that sell because you are blizzard, that stifle everyone else attempts because they are forced to copy you. And then kill off all innovation in the MMO industry because no-one cant compete with you as you are using dollar bills as toilet paper.

Microsoft and Bungie. For Halo 3. And all the jackasses that bought it. Its the same game as halo, fucktards and is just an ok game, fucktards. AND all the sellout reviewers that gave it 10/10.

The shitheel gamers that demand science fiction games yet wont buy them when good ones come on the market. Because you can't put tits on a spaceship.

Games workshop. Overpriced models for an underwhelming system. And no other game can get going because the gaming public has no money left after buying workshops shit. And Games workshop "fine detail" brushes that I used for drybrushing. And that idiot workshop rep that rewarded people winning a painting competition with a book on how to paint the workshop way.

The Irish radio laws that demand you have to fill 20% of your broadcast with current affairs and talk. Laws which exist nowhere else in Europe.

Television in general. AND news as entertainment, with the utter refusal to give good news. I mean whats the point in making people feel better.

Thats it from me. Happy new year.

Meanwhile, Twilight Princess, Mario Galaxy, Mario Kart, Punch-Out, Smash Bros., etc... still remain only a few dollars off their full retail price.  Some of those games came out 2-3 years ago.

My memory for forgetting to do all sorts of things I keep intending to do.

My procrastination for contributing (which I finally did a while ago for this past year) to F13 and buying Haemish's book even after I saw it on his wall thingy and so many things you just wouldn't believe me.  I WILL DO IT SOON I SWEAR!!!

My uncontrollable teasing.  I very nearly never mean it.  Even Mr Bloodworth.

The fact that my excuses are so outlandish that no one believes them even when they're not complete lies.

All sorts of other stuff.

My brother, for buying Modern Warfare 2. And wanting to kick me off the PC to play it.

Harmonix, for making me buy a full game for songs.

Everyone who finds too much too complain about and too little too be happy about.

Merry Christmas all!

So, what you're saying is, I was right on day 1?

Yea, fuck all of you for thinking otherwise.

Yeah, I'll give you all of that, except about Red Steel. 'Cos that game still kicks ass. And fuck you all who don't think so.

I only got a few things...

Fuck you, the development team for .NET Framework at Microsoft for never deciding on which leg you're going to stand, and fuck your trend-whoring. Also, fuck C# 4.0 and its lame fucking feature list. Fuck "dynamic" typing.

And fuck you, Infinity Ward. You know why.

There are more than a few things worth playing on it. It just doesn't have the edge it was thought to have.

I will try not to derail further though!

And yet in spite of that, *I* was right from day -1, the PS3 got pushed into third place (fourth if you count post-PS3 PS2 sales, fifth if you count the DS).  Wii Fit and its spinoffs may not quite have been what I was hoping for when I said it would lead to "Genre Founding" titles, but what can you do?  So fuck you for doubting me.

--Dave

Fuck Trammel
Fuck Wow
Fuck You

I didn't doubt you.

I was right.

There are no genres left to found. ^_^

Fuck all the people hating on Blizzard for their success, and saying WoW somehow stifles the creativity of the MMO genre.  These games are, by and large, shit, and would continue to be so with, or without, WoW.
Conversely, fuck all the retards taking an inch, and going a mile with WoW merchandising.  It's a fucking video game, not a lifestyle choice.
Fuck people that are so bitter that they have to shit all over peoples parades, to make themselves feel better, be it their choice in music, movies, games, etc.
Furthermore, fuck people that can't just shut off their damn brain for 120 minutes, and enjoy a movie without nitpicking every little fucking detail.  
Fuck Paul Barnett for talking a good game, and delivering a wet pile of regurgitated shit.  And fuck Vigil/THQ in advance for fucking up Warhammer 40k.
Fuck your mom.
Fuck Florida.
Fuck cranky octogenarians for calling me at work, and bitching because some little piddly thing gets changed on our web site.
And lastly, fuck Haemish for making me buy his book.

[edit] Eh, nevermind.

Better, but you forgot the economy-sized red type.

Fuck you guys for making me think of an ICP song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5DfKFDCRPI

Speaking of WUA, fuck all yall who didn't buy the book of the baldening. That shit is money.

Fuck Middle America and anyone that votes based on "rah-rah, my team is better than your team" lines of thinking.

Fuck California for being a state truly controlled by the mob. Also, fuck it for taking my baby from me for three weeks out of every holiday season.

Fuck New York for being the only place I can live for any length of time without getting stabby.

Fuck anyone that uses the terms "socialist" and "fascist" in the same breath and thinks they're synonymous.

Fuck the American right for either not realizing how far beyond the pale they've gone, or if they do realize it, embracing the crazy/stupid fully and running with it.

Fuck anyone that makes excuses for that shit.

Fuck the American left for not having the message discipline and the cohesion that the right does when it comes to getting important shit done.

Fuck Sarah Palin in particular and the fucking news media that gives credence to an attention-whoring twat that has essentially reduced political discourse to facebook and twitter posts.

Speaking of which, FUCK. TWITTER. Fuck it and all the twats that use it. It's not a fucking revolution in communication, it's a goddamn regression. 148 characters is just enough to let us all know how fucking insipid you are, you fucking self-involved douchenozzles.

Fuck anybody and everybody that espouses the attitude of "I got mine, fuck you". We all live on the same goddamn planet and we all live with each other. Keep getting yours without looking out for the less fortunate and sooner or later, the poor will gather the balls to rise up and fucking kill you.

Fuck anyone that thinks being poor is simply a matter of not applying oneself.

Fuck anyone that bitches about paying too much in taxes. You don't want to pay taxes? Move to fucking Zimbabwe.

Fuck Infinity Ward for not dancing with the ones that brung ya.

Fuck anybody and everybody on this board that takes themselves too seriously, including me.

Fuck all this nothing to do with f13 airing of grievances bullshit.  I'm so disappointed with this thread so far.

EDIT:  Fuck myself for posting in the wrong thread.

Fuck you Hoax. And your little dog too.

This.

If one more person sanctimoniously "airs their grievance" with "mean Republicans" even my lefty heathen ass is going to hork. They're bad, we know. STFU. SnakeCharmer, the fucking stimulus package "for costing blah blah per blah" or whatever you said? Really? That isn't a fucking grievance, that's you fagging up the Festivus thread.

Fuck my current school for dragging ass on sending my transcripts out, and fuck UTA for having a better application system.

Fuck the possibility of having to take a semester off.

Fuck all you bitches who don't want to play Eve, I need more cannon fodder!

And fuck Zales.com for sitting on an order for six fucking days without shipping it.

Fuck you fags whining about fagging up a thread that by definition is fagged from go.

Fuck WUA for being WUA.

Fuck Nerf for being a gun-crazy fucknut, yet funny as shit when it comes to all things EVE. You confuse me with your depth.

Fuck Triforcer for going to Japan and hooking up with one of the local women. They're ours, roundeye, OURS.

Fuck Rendakor for not updating his stupid fucking zombie story for like, ever.

Fuck Gutboy Barrelhouse because, seriously, what the fuck? Do you even read the shit you post? Or is your body possessed by the spirit of inanity and it forces you to type fucktardery of the highest order?

Of course, most of my ire is only half-hearted, because well, it's 5AM and I'm tired.

That's more like it!  :drill:

Yeah, but I'm sure it won't be easy for him. I actually... wish him luck!  :awesome_for_real: If she's hasn't made him her bitch yet she will. Anyone who believes in the "geisha" subservient stereotype has hell coming for them. For fuck's sake, run away now. The stereotype is more akin to the landlady in Kung Fu Hustle. Only thing worse than an Asian woman is an Asian woman from Asia. Except my mom, of course. ^_^

True. But hey, she'll turn him out and it'll be awesome. He's already a bit of a bitch anyway.

I don't want to beat him up too much though. No doubt he lost job solely because of simple race issues. Japanese are shamelessly xenophobic. But that's hilarious that he didn't even know that. A chick at a workplace no less, right in front of everyone. lol

I wasn't fired- I had already left when I was scheduled to leave (one year job, new person just graduated from my law school replaces me, etc. etc.).  And to be fair, they gave her quite a generous leaving bonus package- more than if she'd worked for the next five months and then left as we had planned anyway.

Our particular boss had celebrated a different lawyer/secretary marriage in his firm- we think he reacted negatively to ours because my fiance was his personal secretary and we dated secretly for a year before telling him.

Oh, and fuck everyone who thinks our relationship won't work!!   :heart:

Did we say it wouldn't last? You're just gonna be her bitch.

It will be awesome.

That's the very definition of a working relationship by Asian standards.

Fuck all you guys in working relationships  :drill:

It's almost time to wrestle schild to the ground. You'd better hurry.

Actually, I hope it does. There's lots to problems that can arise, but good luck. There needs to be more hapas like me and surlyboi. :awesome_for_real:

You will be her bitch though, either way.

What the hell is wrong with you people?

SOE: What the hell were you thinking with the Odus thing. The hints of Velius lit a fire in the game and there was more enthusiasm than I'd seen for years and your actual announcement sucked all the oxygen out.

Riot Games: Thanks bunches for making a game I absolutely love, can't stop playing, and absolutely completely suck at. (Seriously, if you pug and see me on your team, just DC. I'm that bad and I can't stop myself.)

The US Government: Just resign all of you. The best of you is useless, the rest are worse than useless.

The media: just once I want you to look at the person you're interviewing and state that they're lying. You know it. We know it. Why do you continue to go along with the DC business as usual nonsense. Do your jobs.

Old people at work: Get off my LAN! We offer wonderful retirement benefits. Please God, take advantage of them.

The airlines: I kept my shoes on, was escorted to a nice roomy comfortable seat and spent two wonderful days watching the country go by on a train. I am so so done with you and your

Fuck criticism.

Fuck negative thoughts.

I don't have many complaints other than that last night some Northwest employees were having trouble finding a seat for a black woman and refused to put her in an open first class seat because she "wasn't eligible," then solved the problem by having a randomly chosen white guy move to first class and giving her his seat. Then called security when she complained to try to get her thrown off the plane because of her "attitude."

Fuck Northwest.

Fuck whoever banned Broughden, I liked him.

Fuck Dante's Inferno, for being an insulting joke on every level. And Fuck IW and in particular their catering to the mouthbreather XBL crowd with their "FAGS" video.

Other than that Merry Christmas you old savings and loan.

rofl

Fuck Merusk for complaining about his brother's fiance. I only say this because it caused me to type on a relative's laptop and girl's/women who are 24 years old shouldn't be marrying. At least not now, it never ends well. The only time I know it to survive a few years has been when it involves uber christians and honestly few of them have relationships I'd write home about however long they lasted. Girls who are under 30 and you've been going out with for less than 2 years should not be married. If he didn't break that rule he had a lucky escape I'm not really an expert but I'm an enthusiastic amateur[/size=2pt]. In conclusion fuck you you for something.

Also Damn Sir T for believing in politicians ever. The only ones in Ireland who ever were even near truthful were the ones who were screaming about how the whole world was going to end/were very funny about it before it happened but noone believed them. Irish politicians were a pack of jackals  and being angry about anything but them not being held accountable is unrealistic.

Fuck 2009, with a handful of exceptions, it was a terrible year for gaming.

Fuck Apple. That is all.

Right.  Clearly people are screwing up this whole 'I have problems with Board People' Aspect of this, so I'm adding a late addition.

DVDs without Subtitles.

Seriously.  There are deaf people in the world.  There are people who have kids that JUST WON'T SHUT UP.

And, just to pick a random example, a show like House or, indeed, any show with big words and subtle subtext should have this.  There hasn't been a season of House yet with a single fucking word titled subbly.

Fucking Clownshoes.

Reading the loot thread reminded me of one.

Fuck the US healthcare system for costing us $5k to get my wife's chest infection cleared up this summer, putting us behind with pretty much everything meaning that we decided not to do anything for Christmas this year as we simply didn't have the cash.

Fuck Apple haters.

I saved mine from childhood, so my daughter has a head start in this regard.

In the spirit of the thread:

I hate snow. It's great to look at, but I am forced to go out in it today, and there's a shitload.

Fuck lazy attorneys. While I have fun tearing up people's motions for mis-stating the law and generally making shit up, it pisses me off that some douche at a huge firm, making 3x what I make, can't be bothered to do it the right fucking way.

Also, fuck all of my relatives in the earhole for giving my daughter loud toys for Xmas. Also, enough with the baby dolls.  My almost 4-year-old doesn't need to learn to care for infants.

Finally, fuck retail employment. Having escaped that trap, I cannot believe that I put up with dickbag customers for that long while waiting for my big break into my actual career path.

Fuck online poker for treating me like it's little bitch for the latter part of this year.

2009 for being the year I was supposed to figure out some direction in my life and instead ending up worse than where I started.

My hometown sports team for putting together one of the most pathetic lifeless groups I've seen on a basketball court.

Borderlands and it's atrocious PC port.

Gaming in general.  Except for Star Control 2 and Torchlight and watching Gabriel Knight let's play.   Maybe I'm just too old to have fun anymore (at 25, wat).  Oh, and I thought Braid was awesome, God help me.

Avatar and Modern Warfare and whatever other blockbusters that are bullshit.

Music for being worthless these days.  Especially metal.  

Women.

Money.

Myself.

:awesome_for_real:

Last but not least: Myself. For having OCD tendencies that made me think I was going bald -- and then shaving my head "just to get closer to the scalp and be sure", thus actually making myself closer to bald than I really was.  :uhrr: And now I have a grievance on hair in general, for not growing back fast enough. Fuck you, hair!

OK, that isn't right. A man shouldn't complain about hair...

Foreign girls who don't understand humor or sarcasm.

I spy an extra two words.

Irony? Cynicism? Eh, everything? Lost in translation..

There you go.

Ah...

Hmm  :oh_i_see:

I have issues with the arrogance on this board from time to time. The cynicism can be ridiculous. The lack of acceptance of different opinions or ideas. The unwritten rules of how to post that took me a while to understand but even now get wrong.

But really? I don't have a problem with this board or anyone on it. Not enough to call out, anyways. f13 is what it is and so are the people. I've taken it off my bookmarks and left for a while just to come back and bookmark it again. This board is a challenge and I have to admit to relishing it.

So whatever it is you fuckers do, I guess keep it up.

I'm late.  Fuck off.


Dude.  You are my 2009 Grievance.  Get off the drugs.

The rest of you, mostly you're fine if you haven't been banned or otherwise threatened with such.  No one leaps to mind, anyway.

As usual, people (purposely) misunderstand the true meaning of the Airing so that they can just bitch more.  I figure I can also, with that disclaimer, and be rather angry with my current and future employers for being disorganized douchebags.  Also for telling us all how much money they make and how they beat the street projections right before they say "we are outsourcing you" and "we don't expect anyone will get a raise in 2010", respectively.

Of course, I still have a job so I should not be complaining, even if I don't know what the fuck is going on with it.  It is very annoying and stressful anyway, which is contributing to my needing to go in for <MEDICAL PROCEDURE> this Wednesday, which makes me worry more because I will be changing insurance and I expect asshattery if I have to pay for anything in the first couple weeks of January.

Eh, and The Sims 3 for not running on my wife's computer for some yet-unknown reason.  This is the computer which I built from scratch specifically to run TS3, and as such I am annoyed.

Also I'm off the coffee.  Being off the coffee seems to have affected my eyesight negatively.  So, fuck you, me.

Out of all the things you experienced in 2009, I'm your grievance?

I make fun of myself more than most people. So it's a real shame if you take me too seriously. People deserve some quality problems to complain about, y'know? I sure as hell shouldn't be one of them. :awesome_for_real:

I'm about a week late, but everyone has covered anything I would of said anyway.

You can't borrow grievances. -_-

Or underwear.

My grievance is you using "of" instead of "have" there.

Now you can air a grievance about grammar nazis who try to get you to speak goddamn English.

Fuck those goddamn worthless fuckers at engadget who are too busy kissing Steve's ass to even pretend to do an informed review.  Yeah let's ignore everything the product does that your precious iphone doesn't and whine about multitouch.  Let me know when those dipshits in Cupertino get around to inventing multitasking or fucking basic telephony that actually works, thanks.

And fuck whichever one of my worthless coworkers gave those fuckers an unreleased product to review.  Thank you, you worthless asshole, I'm glad we wasted the money to give you a fucking free phone for the holidays.

There, I feel better now.

Insanity: Initiating Contact with Gawker Media and expecting a different result each time.

Edit: I forgot Engadget was owned by weblogs which is owned by AOL. Not that it changes much of anything.

I honestly expect pretty much nothing from the "tech press", and this kind of "exclusive" total crap review is almost more hilarious than anything -- they got a hold of a device before it shipped, with a bunch of shiny new features, and basically ignored all of them so they could rush out their "exclusive" disdainful "oh well it's not an iphone" "review".

I just felt like venting a bit, and the festivus airing of the grievances thread seemed like a good place to vent ^^

Gonna be a fun day.

Is it too late for grievances? The hell with it, posting em anyway:

To Gearbox and 2K for overhyping a piss-poor console port no matter what your PR people say, then adding DRM on your DLC. EABOD and DIAF

To Infinity Ward and Activision for letting greed get in the way of quality and fucking your PC users with that lust dildo from Seven.  P2P hosting?  REALLY?  this was a good idea HOW again?

A toast to Warhammer, the best train wreck of 2009.

To remote offices who cant reply in a timely fashion, causing my work to back up while I sit twiddling my thumbs, FUCK YOU.

To users who request absurd shit, the fuck you i give you is in the form of setting your ring tone to be GIR's doom song.

And lastly, one to my GF for making me wonder if she adds enough to my life to make it less attractive to say fuck it and just go back to being by myself.  P.S. - you don't get to criticize my food habits when you eat pre-processed crap, drink regular soda, eat dessert every night, and call yourself a vegetarian when you dont eat any vegetables.

Whew, I feel better.

If it makes you feel any better, after the first paragraph I realized what was going on.

I'm seriously kinda sad I missed this year's Festivus. :(

Zombie!

do0d - Zombieeeeeeeees <3

I don't know why your company or anybody else's would give Engadget anything. They're one of the most useless and dishonest sites on the Internet. I haven't been there often enough recently to know if they improved, but they used to do scrappy rewrites of other sites' articles, excising the original references so that you wouldn't be able to easily tell where they were stolen from. Not one story was originally written by them, including the fucking editorial commentary. Fortunately they are thick as pig shit, so they even stole articles that were exclusive reports on other sites, making it painfully obvious what they were doing. I've already picked out which bit of the wall they're going up against come the revolution.