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I hate that someone will think this thread is about Nintendo.

Well, on that note, my first grievance in game play experience is that marking a forum read still doesn't kick you back to the root of that forum, like it used to be! Working as intended!? Hah!

Sorry, was this about grievances outside of f13?

Yeah, that still bugs me.  Also I post and every so often, randomly, my post is not posted.  Just started last month or so.

Most certainly not.

Festivus 04. (http://forums.f13.net/index.php?topic=1767.0)
Festivus 05. (http://forums.f13.net/index.php?topic=5458.0)

I can't believe this is f13's third Festivus already.  Someone has to put up the aluminum pole gif.

I hate that the FBI cannot read a fingerprint card.  Twice.  I would think this is one area they could excel at.  :x

Damn Sony.  And funerals, especially two in a row.  Health problems are also on my list.  I'm pretty ticked at a particular spa manufacturer, as well.

Festivus' Airing of Grievances is, of course, really about telling off your loved ones.  In that vein, I don't really have anything of substance to complain about this year.  Far fewer examples of shitcockery, or perhaps I have been too busy to care this year.

I don't seem to have any grievances.  Well, except maybe my crappy memory and how I can't seem to figure out what to do with two pointy sticks and a ball of fuzzy string.   :oops:

Pole now. Grievances to come.

(http://forums.f13.net/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=8901.0;attach=2252)

I have a grievance with software companies that make crappy ports of their games with low res texture straight from a console. I have a 1 meg video card. USE IT!

Please tell me that isn't R6:LV. I will weep.

Also, I hope you have more than 1 MB on your vid card  :-D

gig, meg - blah.

You need some links to getting knitting books?  I'd give you some of my wife's old starter books, but she's in Tazmanian Devil mode right now.

I might give up on knitting.  Chocolate teapots seem more my style.  Anyway, the fuzzy string makes me itch.

I'm going to hold out until we have the "Feats of Strength".

I have an issue with people that hold out until the feats of strenght. They lack...direction.

I don't know what a chocolate teapot is, but I have a strong urge to put it in double-quotes.  For the children.

I was trying to think of some other hobby my wife has taken up that you might like, but they all seem to involve things that can hurt you.  Scrapbooking might be OK.  Right now, she is making jewelry, even making her own beads with a torch and Italian glass... not sure you want something involving fire and metalworking tools.

Somewhat related to a Grievance... she's pretty mad at me right now so I guess I will need to go ahead and buy her that kiln.

What did you do?  Whatever it was, I want to put it in my scrapbook.

We didn't even do this last year. It was supposed to be some UT2k4 on the F13 servers, but everyone always ran away whenever I popped in to play.  :evil:

I also don't like that you were all no help in finding my son a name.

(Well - I'm sure someone had a decent suggestion, but I'm lumping you all together.)

And no - he still has no name. I only have 28 days left....

I thought you decided on Schild.

Ask Schild about my UT2k5 prowess.  I can build the ego of even the worst player. 

I hate that I keep forgetting about the ut2k4 server even with more ram in the ded.

I am annoyed that every gadget I bought this year seems to be just little defective, not completely dead but with some annoying little error that can drive someone nuts.

New LCD TV: Component Input is defective, people on the hotline won't admit that it is a defect.
New Laptop: makes a high pitched noise when running (coils in the power converter that hum, drives me crazy), was in repair, came back and still hums.
New Wii: W-Lan doesn't work.

But apart from that it has been an OK year

Add me to the gadget hate. Have had 3 Ipods go out in my family. Bring the head of Steve Jobs on a platter!

Ok, I do have a grievance.  I don't have an actual picture but down the road from us, several people are having a Christmas light battle.  They're doing stuff like this.  Seriously. 

(http://www.jaunted.com/files/1865/rulers.jpg)

 :cry:

You guys aren't very convincing. Let me try.

I hate how my company is doing some really cool shit, but keeps getting overshadowed by the fucking media darling that is G**gle. I hate that we are owned by people that don't understand our business, that we can't get anything done unless the execs get a fucking bug up their ass about something assanine and make it looks like it's our fuckup for not getting something done - when they pulled our resources to begin with.

I hate that every single product is becoming commoditized and turned into Every Man's Toy. Everyone is making everything, no one is specializing so we all get crap (with exceptions, of course). I hate how the fucking console companies think it's cute that releasing limited amounts of product produces some kind of over inflated demand.. well fuck you, I don't want to be your customer.

I hate the commercialization and capitalism of holidays, turning the whole season around with one goal: buying the latest toy for your fucking spoiled brat no matter who you inconvenience.

Fuckers.

Can't believe I forgot about this...

* ATI - WTF, two cards from them I have used this year have had fans go dead. One card was about a year old, the second card was less than 2 months old. RAGE.

* Cellphone culture. People, in public, get on the phone and become totally oblivious to their surroundings. Driving a big H2? Who cares, Kathy needs to yack about the shoes she got. Going to a register? Fuck the person working it, I can't be bothered to actually listen to them as they try to perform their job. And people with wireless headsets? Freaks me out, makes me think they're talking to themselves if I'm observing from the wrong side. And they all talk way too fucking loud - the receiver is Right There, bring it down a notch.

* NJ drivers. OMFG, pay attention Asshat - you're hurtling down the road at high speed in a metallic cage of death. Have some fucking consideration you piece of shit. I want to LIVE.

* People who bitch and moan about taxes. Seriously, how do you expect anything to get paid for? Do you like running water? Sewers? Smooth roads? How about schools for your children, asshats. Fucking A, think about something bigger than yourself just one time. Geez.

ah fuck, this time of year again?

Having spent a week in NJ, I agree with strazos. Watch the fucking road, people! While we're at it, to VA, raise the speed limits, I feel like I've got training wheels on my car when I came back tonight.

Insurance, taxes, too much of my money magically goes away for shit that isn't likely at all to happen, ever, and I never see any of it again.

I live in VA, and I completely concur.  It is a fucking trap meant to sucker people into paying money to the "common wealth."  Besides the fact that NO ONE PAYS ATTENTION TO THE SPEED LIMITS ANYHOW.  Except around Emporia and any other border city!  Then its 2 miles under (until you are 10 miles outta the city limits).

I hate what the Politics forum stands for. (But I love how what happens in politics, stays in Politics. Mostly.)

I hate overly affectionate couples on the morning train. For the love of fuck, at least wait until after 9 AM. I haven't even fucking had my morning tea or coffee yet. Assholes.

I hate each and every telecoms company I've dealt with. You're all worthless, monopolistic morasses of red tape and horse shit. Run fiber to my fucking apartment already. Pakistan has better internet access than this, and the majority of their economy is tied up in goatfucking. I hope every one of your executives and major stockholders gets herpes this holiday season.

I hate LCD manufacturers. Y'all need to get your shit together and stop selling LCDs with dead pixels all over the goddamn place. I do not enjoy making some poor call center dude's life hell because you shipped me a piece of shit screen with flashing pixels all over it and severe light bleed, but none of that is covered in your warranty, because you have a 10 pixel policy, no exceptions, no returns. At least, no returns until I start escalating up the call-center chain of command. Seriously. 10 dead pixels is bullshit. 1 dead pixel, maybe. Maybe. Except the rest of the world has zero-dead-pixel policies. Start that shit in the US; we're not a dumping ground for your defective product.

I hate Day One Patches. Get your shit together, game developers. This is yet another reason why people are flocking to consoles.

I hate DRM in all its multifarious forms. Especially the commercial disc-locking mechanisms. You should all be dumped in a cement mixer filled with syrup and fire ants. Yet another reason people love consoles - their legitimately-purchased products mostly work. Most of yours hate my DVD drive and nosh on infant brains. Pull your heads out of your asses, game publishers. Now.

I hate microtransaction add-on content. I'm looking at you, Bethesda. And EA, but I don't buy your games anyway.

EA. 'Nuff said. Hope your firstborns all get crib death.

I hate Sony apologists who claim that every major and minor problem with the PS3 will be fixed any day now with a firmware update.  Fucking enablers.

In a related note, I also hate how console makers have taken the PC industry's "ship software before it's done and patch it later" approach and applied it to fucking hardware.  I can't wait for other industries to pick up this trend, and look forward to the day I can buy a new car and have the speedometer downloaded a few months later when it's ready.

I hate TV.  It's rare when I watch television, because I'm tired of shows I like getting canceled.  There's no sort of commitment on the part of the networks to make sure viewers actually get a complete story.  I also hate people talking about how great Lost is when I'm fairly sure the show is going to drag on, not giving any real answers (that don't just bring up more questions) up until the point where people get sick of the show, word comes down that it's getting canceled, and the writers rush to throw some crap ending together.

I hate whoever is buying Jay-Z albums.  I've never heard this guy do a song that wasn't about how great a rapper he is.  It's the musical equivalent of watching a guy suck his own dick.  I'm not sure why his music has such mass-appeal, or maybe I'm just more comfortable not understanding why.

I also don't like that SirBruce still hasn't been allowed to come back to this site, if only because it would give Schild better and more entertaining reasons to get pissed off than his random WoW and Wii hate.

I wasn't going to post in this thread;  too much has looked like it was going to go suicidally wrong this year and then, at the last moment, worked out for the wonderful.


However, Jay-z is talentless and reminds me of something I must say :

I don't know what it's called - I know it's not nepotism - but I cannot stand when talentless, talentless people put themselves into the spotlight due to having famous/hardworking/talented acquaintances.

Jay-Z needs to die in a car fire.  I'm sure he's a successful person in other aspects of his life and, well, much respect for being a drug-dealer and STILL managing to convince Beyonce that he's a worthwhile human being, but you have ZERO musical talent and you need to fucking stop little man.


Fucking coat-tail riding motherfuckers.

I wish I hated something.  Maybe I hate that I don't hate anything.  I made a conscious effort,this year, to hate emo and Paisley, but MCR released an album to kill for and Paisley, while a revolting place, just provokes pity.

I used to be better at working up a sense of righteous hatred.  Give me time.  I promise, next year I'll do better.

On the Lay-Z tip: http://youtube.com/watch?v=V7e5QsEjhks

I have to admit I like the new MCR stuff and Fallout Boy despite not wanting to, as well.

I somehow missed paying one credit card bill twice in a row.  Honest mistake, I have no excuse for not seeing it.  I think I am going to have to see if I can slip an extra Zoloft into her food.

I don't know who Jay-Z is.

I hate people who glare at me while I hump my lady on the morning train.

When you forget a bill and they send you a late fee and raise the interest, call them.  I did it twice when we moved and both times the company reimbursed the fee, fixed any interest change (actually, it was a promotional interest and they gave it back) and none of it affected my rating. 

You're the only thing in my scrap book now.  Well, it's not actually a book... it's really just the start of a heap on the floor.  I guess I'm really scrap heaping.  I expect this hobby to last me hours.

My usual tactic is to cancel the card.  They will offer me some ridiculous deal in order to avoid that.  Now my wife has taken over the bill-paying, so despite the wanton destruction I feel like I came out a winner.  Sort of.

If regular scrapbooking gets boring, you can switch to digital scrapbooking.  It somehow manages to cost just as much, but there are fewer piles of shit.

All you fuckers who keep pm'ing me about getting into x game but neglect to TELL ME YOUR E-MAIL address.

I am not that upset, but I cannot do anything without some sorta electronic mail.

Sting Rays.

Yup.  That's exactly what I'm talking about.

The Festivus Airing of Grievances is not about hate, it's about telling the people in your life how much they disappoint you and logging your complaints.  You people get this wrong every year and it bugs the snot out of me.

I could copy paste last years since most are still relevant, but it's healthier to type this out as I go.  Priorities change.

Enough blatant trolling.  STOP IT.  Quit making posts saying it's the norm around here. That doesn't help anything.

No more Den-me-please song lyrics.  You aren't the boss of me, Talking Heads.

Religion board wars. Cut that out. Some people need to grow thicker skin, and some need to stop being pricks.

Beef.  Yes, beef, I have issues with you.  Stop being prominent in menus and stop looking so goddamn tasty.  The last burger I ate had me in the bathroom for an entire night.

Tucson drivers. It is not acceptable to drive 10mph under the speed limit.  It's not even tollerable to drive 5 under.  Go 5-10 over, damnit or I'm going to go buy an El Camino and tailgate you bastards dangerously close.  Another thing, if you're senile, perhaps you shouldn't be driving.  I don't like being hit by someone while at a complete stop at a light waiting to turn.

This is to some of you in particular.  Drop the hangups and quit being so predictable.

EB Games, stop trying to sell me the fucking strategy guide.  I know these things exist, if I want one, I'LL ASK.

Rap music, stop sucking.  You bastards are making me pine for the days of NWA.

Fox, you're just permanently on the list.  Damn you bastards for killing shows I like.   

Posting of hobbit, boy wizard, fur, or otherwise stomach turning porn.  This needs to stop.

Myself, for not contributing enough  to the site.  I should have done at least 1 more review and a general article.  Laziness.

The AGC contingent on night 1.  Why did you let me drink that much?  The contents of my stomach that night were something out of a Lovecraftian tale.

Schild, for not letting people borrow console games.  Your PS2 library makes me weep.

Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan.  Die.  Preferribly not slowly.  I want you gone with all haste.

</faux angry Rasix> That's all for now.  Really, this has been a good year.

Back to the holiday spirit.  I love this time of year, except that it might be too cold tonight for tennis.  It looks like it's going to dip below freezing. That reminds me.. weather.. ohhh, I got issues with you.

Sometimes if you cancel credit cards it goes on your credit report as if the company had cancelled you.  It can lower your score.  Be careful doing that.  Merging cards (like Bank of America with all the crap they've bought lately) doesn't affect it as it has a specific value attached to it. 

Also - you got some of this grievance airing wrong, too, Rasix.  Cranky old tosser!   :-P

I did?  ><  I'm not cranky, just getting into the festivus spirit. 

I had my credit card number stolen once, it wasn't fun. Luckily all they got away with charging a couple hundred bucks to a florist in Peru.

Yes, weather isn't a person in your life!  Mostly.  AND I did notice the hobbit pr0n thingy which, I'm sure, you directed at me.  If you don't show the weiners, it's not really pr0n.

I'm right, right?

(I'm being pedantic because I'm embarrassed to have disappointed you)

Beef isn't a person either, but I suppose it was alive at some point.  Fox has people working for it.. I should have added some wiggle room to my opening statement.  Expand it to enclude all entities.

Don't feel embarrassed, you're one of my favorite posters.  Most things I dislike that people do here, you do the exact opposite. But yah.. I don't need to see Frodo and Sam make out any more.  Or Harry and Draco.  /shiver

Ok, back to the airing.

I had an edit button, once.

Wow Devs, stop giving and taking away. Nobody bitches nearly as much if you make a statement and actually follow through, catasses be damned.

Schild, just block the politics forum from my access. I don't want to know it's there.

Larry Fitzgerald, you should be shot like an injured horse. Second round draft pick and you finished 27th in receivers for total points. Marty Booker in Miami had more points than you. Do you know who Marty Booker is? BECAUSE I SURE AS HELL DON'T!

LOST producers, don't ever put out six new episodes and then cut us off for 3 months again. That's bullshit. You're on very thin ice with your viewers as it is since there are glaciers moving faster than your plot developments. One more idiotic decision like that, and I'm gone.

NCAA top brass, 32 bowls? Are you kidding me? If you're going to force us to deal with that many money-grubbing-whorefests, at least stop taking away the real names of the bowls. It is NOT the Capital One bowl you douchebags, it's the Citrus bowl. Call it the Capital One Citrus Bowl if you have to, but naming bowls specifically after corporations is beyond ridiculous. The MPC Computers bowl? Fuck you very much. Oh and playoff, bitches.

Georgia CPA board, you suck for changing the educational requirements the year after I left college. Now if I ever want a decent 9 to 5 job, I have to head back to school in my late-20s just to finish something that was totally unnecessary and never promoted when I graduated. My wallet hates you. Five years in college isn't necessary to learn how to crunch numbers, change it back.

To publishers, how about reading one page of someone's work before totally dismissing it. I'm sure there is a ton of crap out there, but you'll never know the good ones if you never even look. I hate your processes.

I hate 2006. No year has disappointed me quite as much as this one.

I hate liars. Bald-faced, tell you what you want to hear, talk shit about themselves to the heavens all while producing not one actual iota of what they claim liars. You know who you fuckers are.

I hate people who disappear for no reason.

I hate MMOG's. Not just the developers, but the whole fucking thing. You are quite literally UNLIMITED in genre, lore, gameplay and design, and the best you can fucking produce is GODDAMNED WORLD OF WARCRAFT? A cartoony refinement of Everquest? Are you fucking high? Do you just masturbate to pr0n 99% of the day and spend the other 1% pontificating in interviews about abstract shit no one could give a rat's testicles about while completely ignoring all the other styles of game play and genres there are available to use? Do you intentionally hire the most lazy, braindead mongrel munchkin-raping coders on the planet? Can you not conceive of a world that doesn't contain fucking elves, medieval overtones or fucking magic? Is Romans in Space and licensed worlds the best you can fucking do?

I hate corporations that think Christmas bonuses, pensions, and actual health benefits to be wastes of money. I hate that you filthy, cocksucking pedophiles in executive positions think your ideas are what produced that best-selling widget as if it appeared magically from the foam of your mind's ejaculate. I hate that you make up words to keep people from realizing you are truly full of shit. I hate that stock price has become your measure of success instead of actual fucking profit. I hate that you award yourselves all the benefits you think are too good for you employees. I hate that you can sleep at night with multi-million dollar bonuses, severance packages and the like for doing a shit shit shitty job. Ho ho bitches.

I hate Christmas shopping, especially with the vomit-inducing mobs of ignorant, shambling retards shopping at the same time.

I hate that the week before Christmas is when all my fucking assheaded clients have decided is the time to actually move on all those projects they have been letting lie fallow for the last two months. Try milking your prostate less and paying attention to the fucking emails we've sent you, cuntburger.

I hate Stalin for turning a potentially successful political system in socialism and forever equated it with brutal authoritarian oppression. Thanks, Stalin!

Fuck you, ABC for cancelling Day Break. Eat a fat bag of cocks.

I hate you, Dallas Cowboys, for signing Terrell Owens and treating us to yet one more fucking year of Mongoloid Circus Hour.

I hate you, Chicago Cubs, for not hiring Joe Girardi. Have fun spending millions on the next 4 years of Lou Piniella mediocrity.

Fuck you, Christians, for taking a perfectly good winter festival and turning it into you personal crusade to honor Jesus. I'm sure he loves that you all grow ulcers trying to shop for the right gift while hating the rest of humanity for getting the last kung-fu grip GI Joe before you. I'm sure he's tickled pink that you cunts have connected sheer, naked greed with the celebration of his birth. I got a War on Christmas in my pants, Bill O'Reilly, and it's got deer antlers on it.

Fuck you, Wal-Mart for being so cheap I have no choice but shop there and for driving businesses out of business all across America. I hope a zombie Sam Walton comes back to life to assrape every one of you executives in a Wal-Mart Christmas Carol as the Ghost of Christmas Cock Past, Present and Future, then leaves your empty carcasses on the front lawn for all to see as a reminder that some things come with too high a price.

Fuck you, Neocons. You know why.

Fuck you, pacemakers, for existing to give Dick Cheney the last 5 years. If you didn't also keep my wife's grandmother kicking for the same amount of time, you'd be completely dead to me.

Fuck you, Powerpoint. You continue to take the opportunity to be a kickass presentation package for the working man and turn it into tinkertoys for MBA's.

Fuck you, High-Definition Television, for being pretty, but not pretty enough for what you charge.

Fuck you, cellphones.

I'm sure there'll be more. 2006 has it coming.

This goes in the other thread.

Beef ?


I don't get it.

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Crass commercial plug for my wife's little sideline:  www.knitfoundry.com

My bitch: I'd really like to see a snowplow soon. What is this, freaking Buffalo? It's Denver. We don't get snow like this! One snowplow? Please? Maybe a little John Deer lawn tractor?

*goes back to hibernating until the new year, since I sure as hell can't go anywhere*

You meant to put that in Green, right?

This thing has to many buttons. How the fuck do you set the clock anyway? Time to drink some more danmit.

What? Are you kidding? It very rarely snows like this Denver (as in, there has only been one storm even remotely like this in the 10 years I've lived here). The idea that Denver is some arctic wonderland is a myth promoted by the ski industry.

Oh hell. Um..

I probably won't be posting again for a while because I believe that is the Colorado Internal Secret Department of Tourism at the door....

Yeah I am in the process of moving to Colorado and thats all I hear from people.  OMG teh snowz!  It's a very dry state without being hot as hell, which is a major reason for the move.  I am tired of soupy summers and wet winters in NJ and IL. 

It's just the wind.  The CISDoT is snowed in, too.  Don't you hate when your mind plays tricks on you?

Good buddy of mine and his grilfriend headed down to Seattle yesterday to catch a flight to Denver to visit her dad for the hollidays. I just got off the phone with him - he's driving back home on the I5 from Seattle. They might be able to catch a flight on the 23rd if they are lucky.

On a related note, it's been a weird year for snow here as well - we had a good foot of it in November. Vancouver usually gets a couple inches a year, and usually never before late January.

Fuck you, Humidity, for making my sinuses feel like a phlegm baby's diaper, and for making my entire body ache. Fuck you for making 40 degrees feel like 20 and 18 degrees feel like the goddamn Arctic.

Fuck you, The South, for being 20 degrees for two days and 60 degrees for a week straight before plunging down below freezing again.

Fuck you, Chelsea players for being whiny bitches every time the ref stops play. We get it, you're big shots. Shut the fuck up, you nancies.

Screw you lack of anything to be overly-angsty about.

Oh, and fuck you too, apathy.

I'd agree with Merusk, but that would make me not quite so apathetic, wouldn't it?  :wink:

I hate that this thread is so much longer than the Goodwill thread.

I hate that our society (the Western one, that is) has become so greedy, so bloated, so ego-centric that we complain endlessly about things that are so trivial that it is offensive.  If you can even read this rant, it is because you are enormously privileged to live in a place where your biggest worry is the price of gasoline, or something equally irrelevant.  I imagine that, during the time it took me to write this, some little kid may have starved to death somewhere in the world.  Some little kid not unlike one of my own.  That is fucked up.  I hate that we are not doing more about that, that I am not doing more about that.

I hate that this Christmas season has, once again, been all about increasing the pile of toys under the tree and in the stockings for my two kids.  God knows I love them, but they have enough.  10 times more than enough.  Holy fuck, we sure missed the point somewhere.  Next year things are going to be different.

On the lighter side...

I hate that I cannot post in the Den.

I hate that Ironwood hasn't put a Santa hat on Zod.

I hate New Year's Eve.   We'll be 6 adults, and five small children (all under the age of five).  Fucking party time.  It'll be like running a daycare, only where all the adults are drunk and trying to ignore the kids.  I'm hoping to come down with a case of explosive diahrrea on the 31st.

I hate that I lack the ability to do that for myself from work and make it look in any way good.

 :wink:

So like, years ago I bought this game called Superpower.  It was basically a buggy piece of shit with terrible production values, but it was a modern-era turn-based strategy game that let you play any real-world country you wanted.  You wanted take on the world as fucking Togo, the game would let you.  And after four official patches, a mod, and some of my own tinkering via the built-in editor, the game sort of worked.  I played it on and off for quite some time.

Then I get back into it for some reason these last couple days, and the motherfucking thing must crash to desktop every fifteen minutes or less.  With no auto-save.  Keeping the game running and playable became this byzantine nightmareof tip-toeing around some bugs while exploiting others.

Never send another country you've conquered tanks and planes on the same turn, because when they arrive the game will think the planes carry tanks instead of missiles and the whole game will crash as soon as you try to delete them and put the missiles back, unless you save and exit then come back before trying, which you'll want to do since for some reason every save/load cycle boosts your GNP just enough to keep ahead of the equally mysterious expansion of your budget despite the fact that you're not doing anything to increase it!

So yeah, tonight I had an attack of sanity and uninstalled.  Then I broke the disc in half and threw it away for good measure.  I really wish someone would do this game over again, but do it professionally.  Turning Madagascar into an evil little maritime tinpot empire was fun when the game wasn't crashing.

(http://endie.net/images/blog/misc/zod.jpg)


Oh, wait a sec, you said "make it look good".  I imagine you already had Microsoft Paint available to you...

Nonsense, that is completely awesome.   It is made better by the fact that it is so crappy looking.

It is a lovely Santa Zod.

I hate Neocons
I hate Bush for being so stupid and ignorant
I hate extremists on any side of a debate, political or religious, unless you're against Bush, then I'm with you!
I hate that my company wants to pay back money into my flexible spending account because I don't have a receipt for a doctor bill I paid over the phone. A bill which shows up as <doctor's name> MD on the invoice. I hate that I'm expected to pay back an account that was created by taking money out of my own fucking paycheck!
I hate that because we're understaffed at my company, I am expected to handle things well outside of my job responsibility, and if anything goes wrong my boss gives me the evil eye.
I hate that I have good ideas and thoughts but can't often express them well on these forums and have to hope one of you translates my gibberish into a coherent posting.
I hate that I sometimes get emotional in my posting and let loose with a flameblast that I usually regret later.

I miss NJ driving. Even though DE and VA driving is a step up. PA drivers are the worst. Not bad like an overcrowded city in Europe full of exuberant youths - that's just unnerving. Blind as a fucking bat, driving on self-entitlement on your side of the fucking road, get out of my way you motherfucking road rash, this is my sacred highway bad. People in PA are complete and utter cunts when they get in cars, and all cars here should involve car fires.

I'm also pretty pissed off that you lot haven't all gone out and bought an album by Porcupine Tree. There's phenomenal music out there and you fuckers are still complaining about Jay-Z or something.

I remember that game. I liked starting as the US or Russia and targeting every single nuke I had at random places on the map. Took over half an hour. Then pressing The Button and watching the world go to hell in an instant.

It was like ghetto-Defcon, but it sucked way way more and wasn't as fun after the first half-dozen times or so.

SP was a lot deeper and more ambitious than Defcon, but at least Defcon worked.  For example, in SP you could design/upgrade every model of ship and airplane and missile in your entire military.  (There was something fun about taking a WW2-era Sherman tank from the inventory of some Third World country, boosting it's tech ratings up to a ludicrously high level, and then building it by the thousands.)  But the thing is, you really didn't need to.

Aircraft were, for some inane reason, perfectly capable of capturing territory and could only be hit by other aircraft, AA artillery, AA missiles, and warships.  If there was nothing left that could hit them, then auto-resolve would give them an instant win.  So if a city held by a thousand high-tech tanks and a million uber infantry were attacked with one shitty airplane, the airplane would get a "Defender Could Not Hit" victory and capture the city.  There was literally zero reason for your military to consist of anything but hordes of high-level attack helicopters armed with a couple of torpedoes for catching the occasional submarine.

And the game just had no idea how to handle multiple alliances.  Like to simulate NATO, every country in it has a Strategic Alliance treaty with every other country.  So what you do is attack French Guiana with a Covert Strike, and when you capture it, give it to some other NATO power.  Let's say Spain, for example.  On the very next turn, Spain would start attacking France for some reason, and within a few turns all of North America and Western Europe would turn into a general melee with everyone fighting everyone else.  Then go do a Covert Strike on some Chinese city and give it to Russia.  Bam, 90% of the world's military capacity is burned up in a pointless war while you sit back and laugh.

If all the fighting didn't make the game crash.  Which it usually did.

My new grievance is people who have the balls to try to derail a Festivus thread with mindless yammering about some broken PC game from years back.

A hearty Christmas "Fuck You" to the following:

-Seinfeld. Thanks for using some sort of demon magic to make a fucking unfunny train wreck of a show that other people find funny for some reason.

-Fox News. Thanks for reinforcing the mindset of the midwestern retard and generally being an example of bad and unethical journalism. If there is one, you all have a special place in hell for helping to make America more ignorant, racist, and fascist than before.

-Midwestern retards. Why do you ruin this area of the country I inhabit? Why do you ACTUALLY TRY TO STAY UNINFORMED? Why can't you understand basic logic? Why do you let your flipperbaby kids ruin our image academically to the rest of the world?

-The current administration. You have done more to ruin the image and safety of this country in 6 years than any administration before you. I don't know if our country will EVER recover from your racist, fascist, freedom-hating, war-loving, industry-cocksucking policies. If this country is to eventually be replaced by another as history dictates it must, it started with YOU. My only consolation is that Bush will go down in history as a failure and possibly as one of our worst presidents ever.

-Nintendo, for making an underpowered gimmick of a machine and attempting to prop it up with a Gamecube title. If Smash Brothers wasn't coming out for it, I would state right now that I would never own a Wii. May this be your last console, you fucking hacks.

-Sony, for not understanding very elementary supply/demand or production procedures. Didn't you guys have a reputation for putting out quality merchandise in lots of numbers a long time ago? Is there anything you just don't completely fail at anymore? You're lucky every 4th person on earth owns a PS2 or you would have already lost this generation.

-Microsoft, for attempting to buy into and subsequentially ruin a whole industry. I don't know what you plan on doing, but I can bet money it won't be good for gamers should you claim the top spot in the industry. I imagine we'll all have to pay you hourly rates for the privilege of playing games we STILL buy in physical form for $80 when the next Box thing rolls around if you win this time.

-Myspace, Xanga, LiveJournal, Blogger, etc. Thanks for clogging the internet with more self-important horseshit from people who should die in obscurity.

-Anyone who talks about "interactive worlds" and similar horseshit.  Just shut up. Second Life is an anomaly and still proves Sturgeons Theory that 99% of everything is crap. They created a brand new world of opportunities for furries to have virtual sex, and for companies to have "hip" online advertisement. You are never going to get the general public to give a shit about being able to craft 5000 varieties of table-legs or make online waffles just they way they like them without having to fight monsters, or have elaborate online politics in a world that isn't "just a game". People just want to play a goddamn videogame online with the novelty of there being thousands of other people around them to interact/argue with or angrily spurn.

.hack is never happening in real life. Never. Not in a million fucking years. Not ever.

- Anyone who necessarily thinks virtuals worlds entails Second Life.

A good virtual world is a space/container with many games (as opposed to the typical approach of one overarching game formula). A virtual world is not a bunch of random perverted activities. Or at least, it doesn't have to be.

- People who've provoked me enough to derail this wonderful grievance thread.  :wink:

My new grievance is people who think a grievance thread can really be derailed.

Yeah, I'm aware. I was referring to the nuke-the-world game I made out of it, not the "real game".


We're bitching about a game. It's valid. :)


Kind of.

I still hold a grievance against you for punching me in the neck.

And yet, Superpower is still being talked about.

Oh the irony.

All I'll say is that SP is a tragedy of brilliant concept married to amateur execution.  Forget endless WW2 rehashes, guys with swords, and "Julius Caesar has nukes!" Civ-style nonsense.  A deep and properly executed modern-era TBS that did everything from let you decide whether the US should invade Iraq, to just play around trying to clean up Sudan, or anything in between would be sheerest motherfucking win.

There, I'm done now.

EDIT:  Also I hate teh president becuase he's a nutsack!!1!

Better?

Heh.

I don't mind/care about Fabricated's opinion, but I'd like to know what he would consider a good sitcom. In every one of the dozen times he's bitched about Seinfeld, he has never mentioned that.


Superpower was a budget strategy title for the Deer Hunter crowd. Mentioning it is almost as funny as that Gremlins 2 review you made awhile back.

I tend to not like sitcoms in general. I can't really think of the last one I liked to be honest. I never regularly watch any sitcom. The only show I tend to remind myself to watch is House M.D., which to be honest does the same stuff nearly every other hour-long drama does (what with the 48th minute reveal, and how House always ends up having to make a binary decision regarding treatment which either results in a cure or death).

I just dislike Seinfeld intensely since it has never made me laugh. Not once. I've tried and tried to like the show after having people online and offline treat me like I'm out of my mind for not finding it funny. I've made myself sit through at least 20 episodes of the thing, and it was so awful I can't remember the general plot of a single one. I actually watched the last episode when it aired and the one event I remember is all of them ending up in jail at the end of it. I don't recall anything in the 20-something minutes before that, but I'm pretty sure it ended with them all being in jail.

You're not alone. I couldn't stand Seinfeld either. There wasn't a single character in it that I didn't actively despise.

I can.  Spaced (http://www.spaced-out.org.uk/).  Hopefully, there will be another along in another ten years.  Woot.  Way to go, scriptwriters.

I have a grievance with myself for only realizing this year that Festivus is a Seinfeld thing.  Until now I never gave it much thought, and assumed it was some shit Schild made up or a particularly obscure Hunter S. Thompson reference.  Hey, I never watched Seinfeld due to the fact that it sucked, so this was the only place I'd ever heard of Festivus.

With that out of the way I can go back to flogging the Tangent That Will Not Die.


Yeah, because if there's one thing the Deer Hunter crowd is known for, it's a love of esoteric turn-based strategy games, right?  No, this was a simple case of an inexperienced team biting off more than it could chew and pushing out an alpha-quality product because they were out of money.


That wasn't me.  Two years ago I posted a couple paragraphs on some Godzilla fighting game I was digging at the time, and you came along to compare that to the Gremlins 2 review, which had been posted the previous April by some random guy.  One can only speculate upon why that particular thread seems to have a permanent place in your mind.

And I daresay the fact that we're talking about some newb's five-sentence review of a shit movie that was posted over two and a half years ago to be far more strange than talking about an (admittedly out of date) example of how PC game developers are dumbasses.  So there.

Yup.  My views on 'Smug Unfunny Jewish Guy' are also on record.  It's a shit show.  However, to be fair, I don't think it would ever appeal to me.

See Fabricated for my views on the matter.

It's just one of the most absurd and hilarious things that I've ever seen at this site. Along with Harrison Ford and Ukraine Girl. Somehow I want to associate you with that level of absurdity.

My bad though. You will only be granted the absurdity you are due from now on.

My entire family is eccentric odd crazy different.   :cry:

I hate work, or more importantly the fact that your hosting on an IP that my work has determined is best blocked.

BLAH

I hate rising gas prices, means my travel is costing more.  I would like to official log a protest at my inability to post when I am at home.

If the opportunity arrises from the sea in all fury, I hope I have the opportunity to be eaten first you glorious bastards.

Festivus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festivus) isn't really an invention of the Seinfeld writers, they just promoted it.  I generally prefer it to the various religion-based holidays.

EDIT:  Oh, yeah, almost forgot to remind you pagans:

I hate that some people cannot be bothered to post the intended purpose at the begining of the thread then get all bent out of shape when we fail to follow it up to that point.

Better?

You should mention specifically who you are aggrieved by.  Otherwise, that was better.

I don't want to be the Linus of Festivus.

I hate that this year everyone is too polite to name names. I wanted to see that someone hates me this year. But I realize I've been too absent to be hated. I hate that too.

None of you are mean enough to hate.  You shoulld be meaner.  Way more meaner.  Or lamer.  Mean or lame.  er.  Not lameer.  Lamer.  Or meaner.

Shouldn't you be slaving over a hot stove to get my caramels made?  :evil:

Mindee made some chocolate almond caramels (with just a touch of coffee) that were SPECTACULAR.


Back to the hating-

I hate Deion Branch for being paid millions of dollars to DROP FUCKING PASSES, and Michael Boulware for getting beat deep with less than a minute to go. AGAIN.

Higher?  Way more higheeer?  Stoned?

Not stoned.  Just making sure I'm understood.  I am, right?  Understood, that is.

Here, I'll just make myself a huge target with this one.

I hate VDL. Yeah, that's right, I said it. She's such a damn hippy; "I have to keep talking [in the woods], to scare away the bears!" WTF, wandering around in the woods in the middle of nowhere is work? Pfft. Oh, and you have a tattoo...on your arm....of "Science" in a DNA ring. Oooo, you're both hardcore AND nerdy, how novel.  :roll:

The entirety of the above statement should be assumed to be in Sarcastic Green....hey, she Asked for it. Who am I to deny her wish?  :evil:

I understand very, very much.  Very well?  Very much.

Thanks, Straz. I feel better now.  :evil:

Apparently, now Gamestop is going to be stocking, and I am not kidding you....Jinx t-shirts.

What. The. Fuck.

Lets put aside for a moment the problem of finding a fucking place to put a bunch of fucking shirts....in a game store...

Fuck Jinx. They latch onto anything "trendy" or any kind of fucking meme and make it into a shirt. Fucking stupid shit. Thanks for making my hobbies look even MORE stupid, cliched, childish, uncreative... did I say stupid already?

World of Warcraft? "More Dots"? Come the fuck on.

 What, no Leeroy Jenkins or NEDM shirts? Or EVE-Online or Vanguard? Only a matter of time, I suppose.

FACK, stabby stab stab stabby stab you in the fucking face assholes. If only I could. With my penis into your skull, you fuckers at Jinx.

Also, I can't wait for idiots to walk into Gamestop and ask me to fucking explain these shirts. And why not? They already ask me how to get online with the Wii or 360. Even if they don't subscribe to an ISP (RTFM bitches, or Google FFS).

GameStop: The Hot Topic of the future!

And you wonder why pc gamers buy our shit online.

If they don't subscribe to an ISP, Google isn't going to help, you blonde tiny dancer. Go on, explain some of the shirts now, I could do with a chuckle.

Obviously, but that particular problem has only come up once.

In a crappy mood today, bored, no fricken MMO's out right now that I want to play and if I did, my pink alienware went boom so now I get to use a slow ugly gray dell.  I also want snow damit!  It seems like everyone else in the US has it right now, so why can't Austin.  Where are all the Wii's (I was supposed to find one for Xmas but they are nowhere). 

I know.  The weather has gone loopy everywhere.  It's been a terrible, terrible, terrible awful couple of days, too.  I'm trying to force myself to look forward to the New Year but it'll be starting off with a funeral.   :cry:  BUT!!!  I've slit the fat of a lamb and stuffed it with garlic and rosemary and we'll have a nice day tomorrow if I manage to turn my mind off. 

Ever hopeful!   :-)

It's nice here.

I am very sorry for your loss. 

Although off to a difficult start, I hope the New Year brings you peace and happiness!   :)

Thanks, Mi!  :-)  My New Year wish for you is that you find the time to play and have fun for yourself... and a good game to go with that!  I'm looking forward to us all playing together again, too.

That sounds like fun.  Downloading Wow again, getting ready for the expansion.  Hopefully we can play together sooner than later!

At least Austin gets snow every few years.  Along the coast we get an inch every couple of decades.  (And I was out of town for one of those...)

Give me snow!  I'm talking to you Doctor Neil Frank Billingsly Brandon!

Every few years? I haven't seen snow in south Texas since I was like 8 (1985). Other than a few (literally) snowflakes.

I have a Grievance with Adult Swim. They have horrible taste. I mean, wtf, where do they get their ideas from as to what good anime is, Shonen Jump? That mag is like prepackaged shit. They use to have stuff that was actually cool, like (arguably) Eva, Trigun, Cowboy Bebop....now wtf do they have, Naruto, Bleach, One Piece? Give me a fucking break. At least the Ghost in the Shell stuff is...not so completely shitty. And they still have run Full Metal Alchemist, which was a series I simply didn't care for; little Alphonse has got to be one of the most annoying characters I have ever come across. He's such a little bitch...

And now, what's on from 12:30 am to 2 am (and repeats later)? Full Metal Alchemist (still), and TWO fucking episodes of Inuyasha. How fucking long are they going to run That turd? And then, they still open with an hour of Futurama, which is a show I actually like, but enough is enough. WTB New Stuff PLZKTHX

At least they're taking FMA down in late February...maybe. I guess for now, I'll just have to keep my TV tuned in to Discovery at night.

That heavy metal cartoon is pretty funny. Metalpocalypse? Death-something? Funny.

Yeah, it sure is. But the Crap to Gold ratio is totally out of whack.

HRose is a dick.

Yeah, I was about to IM you about that. I usually just ignore him, but he is pretty much pissing everyone off at this point.

You guys are a bunch of whiners and I have proof: The Grievance thread is 4 pages and the Goodwill thread only 1. 

Show some good will, damnit!

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It's not like you didn't ask for it.