Festivus 2009: TO FUCKED HEALTH CARE REFORM AND BEYOND

[NowhereMan]

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.

[Falwell]

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

[Pennilenko]

Fuck Apple. That is all.

[Ironwood]

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.

[IainC]

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.

[Surlyboi]

Fuck Apple haters.

[CmdrSlack]

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.

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.

[trias_e]

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.

[stray]

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.   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.

[schild]

Foreign girls who don't understand humor or sarcasm.

I spy an extra two words.

[dusematic]

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?)



lol

[stray]

Foreign girls who don't understand humor or sarcasm.

I spy an extra two words.

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

[IainC]

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.

[stray]

Ah...

Hmm 

[Brogarn]

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.

[Yegolev]

I'm late.  Fuck off.

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.   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.

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.

[stray]

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.

[Draegan]

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

[stray]

You can't borrow grievances. -_-

[Signe]

Or underwear.

[Samwise]

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

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.

[Quinton]

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.

[schild]

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.

[Quinton]

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.

[Demonix]

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.

[NiX]

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.

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

[SuperPopTart]

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

[NiX]

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

Zombie!

[SuperPopTart]

do0d - Zombieeeeeeeees <3

[Righ]

And fuck whichever one of my worthless coworkers gave those fuckers an unreleased product to review. 

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.