Festivus '06 Airing of Grievances

[schild]

I fear that next year I will be bitching that Nintendo didn't bring out a mustard yellow revolution in America.

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

[Engels]

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?

[Cheddar]

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!

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

[Miasma]

Sorry, was this about grievances outside of f13?

Most certainly not.

Festivus 04.
Festivus 05.

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

[Lantyssa]

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

[Yegolev]

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.

[Signe]

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.   

[Yoru]

Pole now. Grievances to come.

[Furiously]

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!

[WayAbvPar]

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

[Furiously]

gig, meg - blah.

[Yegolev]

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.   

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.

[Signe]

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

[Nebu]

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

[Furiously]

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

[Yegolev]

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

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.

[Signe]

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

[Strazos]

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

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. 

[Furiously]

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....

[Signe]

I thought you decided on Schild.

[Nebu]

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. 

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

[schild]

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

[Jeff Kelly]

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

[WayAbvPar]

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

[Signe]

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. 



 

[Viin]

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.

[Strazos]

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.

[bhodi]

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.

[Cheddar]

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.

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).

[Yoru]

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.

[Velorath]

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.

[Ironwood]

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.

[Endie]

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.

[Sky]

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.

[Yegolev]

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

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.