What Really Grinds My Gears

[Chaosengine]

That's some impressive anger there, son, I'm proud of you! It's a shame you couldn't be more specific, but then I kinda have an idea, so I'll leave it at that.

Curmudgeon Man, Away!
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The bars are temples, but the pearls ain't free...
You'll find a god in every golden cloister,
And if you're lucky then the god's a she..."

[Chaosengine]

Gears to Grind...

Yeah...

The 2012 Mayan Calendar Doomsday Bullshit!!

I'd like to know where this crack-head theory started. When it comes to the Mayan's, most of the modern world could give less than a shit. Architecture, culture, craftwork... who cares about that shit when you can over-exaggerate horseshit apocolypse theories and make money! That's right, book sales, convention appearances and talk show and radio spots. Every whack nut and his brother-in-law is cashing in on the "spooky calendar" shit.

Ya know what else the Mayan's did? Human sacrifice!! You don't see anybody digging up that little gem, do ya? Course not! Even the Mayan descendants are sayin', "What doomsday? What are you talking about?" Shit, what do they know about their own culture, anyway? Not when we've got Dr. B. Ullshit to tell all about solar flares and Planet X.

Well, shit, here's my prophecy for the future!! In the year 2012, a bunch of people will get sick, Mother Nature will whup up on some poor people and it will all be the president's fault.

So sayeth Curmudgeon Man!!
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The bars are temples, but the pearls ain't free...
You'll find a god in every golden cloister,
And if you're lucky then the god's a she..."

[xivk]

Wouldnt jynx it just in case chaos.

>_>

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[Evan_Himmel]

I agree with you. Im tired of constantly hearing about it from the nut cases that make me want to say, "sit down, and shut up!"

[Samuel Blackwing]

Do you know why the Mayan calendar stops at what was essentially New Year's Eve for them in 2012? Because they'd plotted out ~2000 years into the future, and the guys making the calender said "fuck it, that's far enough. We'll make more once we get that far."
Well, that, and that technically was the end of a "world", which was a term they used to denote a specific period of time. 2012 was what the fifth "world" ended and the sixth began. Which is where all the doomsday theories come from. Mistranslations and idiocy.

[Leaf]

Indeed... I'm skeptical about the 2012 thing, especially since that Y2K fiasco.

Moving on, though. I found something else that ticks me off:

Terrible Internet Service!

Because of where I live, there are only two ways to access the internet: 1. Through a phone line (Dial-Up) 2. Via Sattelite (HughesNet or WildBlue).

The problem with dial-up is that it is too f****** slow! I tried to register online for my college classes in the spring. It took me twenty minutes just to get on the webpage. By the time I was there, some of the classes I wanted were already full! I was so angry I wanted to toss my computer right out a window.

And it's not just accessing webpages either! If I want to get a large file, I have to wait hours or days just for the stupid thing to finish. Sometimes, it quits right in the middle of the process and I have to do it all over again. That drives me nut!

I tried to get the satellite service once, but the bloody thing was just too much of a hassle to get, so I'm practically stuck with dial-up service. All I have to say is f*** dial-up and whoever came up with the idea!
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[Chaosengine]

Next on the Grinding List...

Lack of Violence in Pro Sports!!

No fighting, no swearing, none of that shit! You can get fined or even tossed out of the game. What a load of Bull!! These are highly paid, big, strong guys with a lotta pressure on 'em to succeed. Let them slug it out!! I love fights in sports!! It's supposed to be entertainment, right? Well, BOXING is a sport and it's nothing BUT FIGHTING!! Where do we draw the line?! If you're wearing trunks and gloves, beating the shit out of a guy is fine, but if your in football pads, that's right out!!

Ya know what I really love? Baseball brawls!! Bench clearing fights with everybody on both teams!! FUN SHIT!! It's a sign of passion, so why bottle it up? Baseball is fuck-ass boring without drama!! Bring on the fisticuffs!! The last thing I wanna see is some guy who looks like he works at Foot Locker tossing little napkins and flags around. Who does he think he is, Rip Taylor?? Let 'em fight!! Fans included! If some asshat out in the stands gets too mouthy or throws shit, let the players fuck him up! Serves him right for bein' an asshole!

Stop Molly-Coddling these guys and turn 'em loose. It's better than lettin' 'em get all worked up and then settin' 'em loose out in the streets with the rest of us!!
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The bars are temples, but the pearls ain't free...
You'll find a god in every golden cloister,
And if you're lucky then the god's a she..."

[Samuel Blackwing]

Soccer and Rugby may be relevant to your interests, Chaos.

[The Adept]

[Shadow_Twisted]

[The Adept]

hey where i live in houston the whole city can get it
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[Shadow_Twisted]

I know my grandmother can't get cable because she lives in a secluded part of Pennsylvania. Essentially anywhere without a population density to support profits, cable won't touch.

[The Adept]

[Shadow_Twisted]

Look, a town with a population of 2000 is on say, 4 square miles of land, that's still 500 people per square mile. Now lets say you have 500 people on an area of 50 square miles, now you only have 10 people per square mile.

My point is that cable company's don't want to spend money on supplies to get cable to 2-3 people if it'll cost more to put in than they get from the monthly bills. Believe it or not, cable isn't everywhere.

[The Adept]

Then the people in the cable companys are freakin stupid becouse most people who live in small towns make the most money then people in large towns let say the average amount of maoney made by each working person in houston is roughley lets say 40 000 a year while people who live in small towns usually work for coal mines and oil fields and they make between 60,000 and 100,000 a year so its perfectly simple that cable can make more money if the go to theses small towns whitch they do
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[Shadow_Twisted]

You know what's cute? The fact that you don't pay attention. You're basically trying to tell me that everyone, everywhere can get cable. The fact of the matter is that is complete and total horseshit and you know it. If you would pay attention to my posts, you'd see that I've explained that small towns get cable, because they still have a relatively high population density. What you fail to see is that I'm talking about the places that can't even be called towns because they're so small. A "town" with a population of, oh, say 20 should get cable, according to you. Let's say that those 20 people make up 5 households, and they all want cable. 5 households, $50/month each would earn the cable company $250/month. Now it will cost the cable company $10,000 to get the cable to the "town", which means after a year, there's still $7000 left to be paid off on the initial fees to install the cable to the "town". That seems like good economic strategy, doesn't it? I wish I could lose $7000 in a year like that.

[Caroline]

((I've got half-a-mind to go off on a rant about bishoujo anime.))

[Chaosengine]

Do it!! Do it!!


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The bars are temples, but the pearls ain't free...
You'll find a god in every golden cloister,
And if you're lucky then the god's a she..."

[Chaosengine]

Fine, I'll do an anime one...

Gears... Blah,blah,blah!!

Anime Cliche's!!!

Back in the day, nobody knew what anime was! It was all fan-subbing, cheap VHS tapes of poor quality and NO distribution! Back then, it seemed like a breath of fresh air, new ideas wrapped in an exotic package. Now it's mainstream and the airwaves are saturated with it! As a result, old ideas are gonna ger re-used over and over...

So here are a few of the ones I hate the MOST!!

1) Teenagers!! - The world is gonna get fucked and only a few 15 year olds can save us! Damn, am I supposed to believe this? Being a teenager sucked!! Ya didn't know who you were, what you wanted, or what the HELL was going on!

2) Empires and Corporations - Yeah, if the show has one, you can bet it's evil and up to no good. The leader is always the same too, some old, creepy guy with a raspy voice who is in league with satan. What, are the animators in Green Peace??

3) Hidden Talent - The hero, when things get bad, ALWAYS has some hidden super attack nobody knew about... including THEM!! Ya just know, when it all goes to hell, the jerk is gonna burst into flames or start glowing or some shit!

4) Tournaments - Yeah, especially in manga, they feel the need to gather all the protagonists together just to have a big, POINTLESS slap fight!! How many series are gonna pull this shit? Just cuz Dragon Ball did it doesn't mean everyone else has to as well!!!

5) Monsters... - All monsters, demons, ghosts, robots, etc... are horny, covered with tentacles and loves thems some school girls!! WHAT?! Are you fukkin' kiddin' me?! This is just BEYOND retarded!! Sounds to me like some creators have some SEVERE psycho sexual disorders!! By the way, why is it that 90% of all hentai is molestation??? WHY?!? That's not sex, do these guys need a reintroduction to sex ed?? I hate it, personally. If anybody ever brings a copy of Overfiend or La Blue girl into my house, I'm gonna cover it with peanut butter and feed it to a fukkin' goat!!
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[dragonfly]

U have a goat chaos.
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[Caroline]

You're lucky I like you chaos. Else you'd get the harsh side of my tongue. If my pc works, once I get back from work I'll post my thoughts.

[Caroline]

Alright, as promised here is my long-winded, probably going to be derailed, diatrabe on bishoujo anime.

For any of you who don't know me. I love anime. I find it awesome. I think it's because anime does what movies can do... bring me to fantastic locations, introduce me to wonderous people, and generally give me a good story about what's going on. I've spent a lot of money, and a lot of time on my collection. I have some impressive crown jewels, such as ADVs DVD of Battle Angel, and Laser Disks of Wedding Peach. But... why can't I buy bishoujo anime and not have people ask me, "Oh, is that for your boyfriend?"

First, it's not "Hentai", you uneducated, knuckle dragging, window licking, mouth breathing, clouts! It's bishoujo! BISHOUJO! For those of you who need a bit of illumination, bishoujo means, "Pretty Girl!" And that girl can be pretty for any number of reasons... hair, hourglass figure, girl-next-door, intellegent, glasses, whatever. The word "Hentai" is actually a vulgar word on the level of "sukebe." And, if you don't know what sukebe means, then... you really need to brush up on your japanese. You don't hear me calling "NASCAR" a chariot race. It's stock car racing. And, while I think UFC is as homoerotic as it can get on television, I don't call that wrasslin' either. So don't call my bishoujo anime freaking hentai.

Now, getting back on track, why can't I buy bishoujo anime without having one of two things happen... 1) I'm asked if it's for my boyfriend, or 2) having them leer at me lecherously. I hate that! What? I can't buy something that has T & A in it for my own personal enjoyment? Being a girl I can't enjoy seeing some beautiful girls and some ruggedly handsome men? Are you people retarded? If that were the case, Harliquen Romance Novels, and LitErotica would be completely out of business. OH! Thinking of that, if I hear one more 20+ something woman fawing over the great idocy that is "Twilight", I'm going to punch her... IN THE FACE! You're old enough to buy the stupid adult magazine that has naked men it. All those characters in "Twilight" are freaking creepy, or utterly insulting. GAH! I can't stand whatever-her-name is... stupid, helpless, pathetic, girl. "Oh, woe is me... if only a strong man could save me from myself, because I'm so indecisive and Emo it hurts." If I ever met her, I'd punch her... IN THE FACE! Twice for good measure.

Back on track, same goes for adult movies too. You'd think some of these people cognitate that girls do nothing but twirl around in fields of flowers waiting for Prince Charming, and being pure as new driven snow. Or, worse, they think I'm some kinda sexual deviant. That I spend all day with my hand down my pants, thinking about having a zillion guys on me at once. Now, yes, I do have daydreams of Prince Charming. No harm in that. Guys have daydreams about being with the girl next door. What's the difference? Nothing, that's what. But, a girl can't get some sassy, sexy, thoughts now and again without having to be a lecherous degenerate? Have these people never seen the femme fatales of freaking film noir? Or some of the sexual icons of the 40s, 50s, and 60s? Freaking Betty Page was an absolute beautiful genious! Now, yes, if you don't know me, my tastes are... on the alternative side. Not toonaxe alternative, but alternative none-the-less. Yes, I like playing games. Yes, I like being in charge. Yes, I get a sadistic glee out of watching a 200-pound gorilla of a man beg for mercy. So, what's the big deal about me purchasing something that shows penises and vaginas? What? I can only spend my money on fluffy, fuzzy, stuffed animals, and frilly, pink clothing?

It's stupid! I like my bishoujo anime. And, you know what, in honor of chaosengine, I actually pulled out my DVD footlocker of it, since he seems to think all bishoujo anime is tentical sex and just short of [word censored]. I'm not going to drag out my VHS footlocker, and shelves of Laser Disks. Yes, I have Laser Disks. They're awesome. And, yes, I have a footlocker of this stuff... from Kitty Media, Pink Pineapple, Soft Cel, and others... not to mention some region 2 DVDs that were as expensive as hell for me to obtain. But, for this, I'm just going to focus on the DVDs I have. (Because apparently you all haven't heard of such greats as U-Jin, Utatane, or shows like Countdown, Five Card, Kisaku, Doukyusei, Kakyusei, Vicious, Luv Wave, Parade Parade, Yu No, Words Worth, Fencer of Minerva, Angel, Beat Angel Escalation, E L, Gloria, Magical Twilight, Teacher's Pet, Cream Lemon, F3, Fivecard... just to name a few... and I'm not even getting started on my adult-anime-computer games.) On a side note, chaos, have you ever gone to an adult site? Seen the links for "Girlfriend Training" or "18 and Abused"? So... it's okay for those things to occur to real women, but drawn women are off limits? For that matter, why on earth is it okay for guys to spooge all over a girl's face. You know how disgustingly filthy and degrading that is? Guys don't like to cream in their own shorts, getting all that semen all over their pubic hair. Why on earth, would you guys think it is okay then to release that entire load all over some girl's face and my hair? I tell you what. Spooge on your own face first, and then I'll think about letting you daydream about spooging on mine!

Back on track, I'm not saying I cream my pants over tentical sex, or forced humiliation, but apparently the adult industry as a whole gets a lot of requests for it, because they sell it. A lot. If it didn't sell, the adult movie industry wouldn't produce it. And yes, I do understand that there are a number of people who do get an erotic thrill off being humiliated, and there are people who daydream about being [word censored] by total strangers.

Anyway, I digress. Back on topic. So... what is the big deal about me buying adult anime? How come it's perfectly fine for you boys to buy it by the truckload, but if I buy one DVD I'm suppossed to feel like a total and utter sexual miscreant who should seek psychological therapy? I like freaking adult stuff. I'm an adult! So, the only anime I can buy is stuff like Sailor Moon or Ai Yori Aoshi?

What, I can't enjoy a good bishoujo anime? One that, not only has some sexy, erotic, sassy, sensual scenes, but also tells a story? I liked Kisaku. Some of them even have actually "in-your-face" endings. Gah, I can't think of it right now, but one of them at the end breaks the fourth wall and pretty much says, "Go outside and meet people." The Cream Lemon serious has huge technical marks, and has some deeply moving stories as well. Now, I'm not saying all my bishoujo anime has to have stories, or be high-quality, sometimes I just like watching the fun of people having a good time... just that a good amount of it does.

Anyway, to you movie-store, cash-register operators, if I'm buying my adult anime, just let me freaking buy it, and don't give me the blasted third degree!

[Rune174]

To put it simply, because I lack the.... intellectual integrity to actually post a response, I will put it bluntly. No, its not wrong for a girl to actually own bishoujo games (I have a few myself). Its like people when they say that women are incapable to play video games, when I have seen more than my fair share who kick so much [word censored].
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[Chaosengine]

Despite all of the hostility, you're right about something. I don't get it. I use to, believe it or not. I have fond memories of watching Laputa, Castle in the Sky at the Smithsonian and Grave of the Fireflies at one of my first conventions. The first Tenchi Muyo OVA was the first series I collected. During my ride on the anime train, something happened...

My childhood is awash with nostalgic memories of giant monster and robot shows, concepts that are practically extinct. They make appearances every now and then, but they're not the same. As I grew, I stayed abreast of the industry. Every year that I attended Otacon, things changed. I got older. I was no longer the target audience, I was little more than a fossil from a generation past. I lost touch and gave up.

You still get it. That's awesome. You know the good from the chum. I don't anymore. The cliche's are all I see, floating to the surface like scum on a lake. Only the intrepid who are willing to dive in can find the real treasures. I'm some cranky old guy in a beach chair shouting obcenities at the obvious. I'm out of the game.

It's not an excuse, not by any means. It's just the way it is. You can hate me all you like, but it seems unlikely I'll ever be able to go back. Anime to me is like a past relationship. When we see each other, fond memories of wonderful times pop in my head. Those times are gone and I can't get them back. So I simply walk past, pretending not to care.

Oh, the thing about a load to the face.

I have tried it. That's all I'm gonna say.
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The bars are temples, but the pearls ain't free...
You'll find a god in every golden cloister,
And if you're lucky then the god's a she..."

[Caroline]

((Hey Chaosengine... sorry to have called you out like that. No real excuse for it. You just kinda got sucked up into my rant. So... sorry ))

((And... as for you having "fun" thrown in your face, I have decided to still not let you daydream about throwing your "fun" in my face.))

[Chaosengine]

Caroline, you never have to apologize for standing up for what you believe. I'm not so hypocritical to think that I can rant all I want, but no one else can.

You're really cool, don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

I'm still gonna fantasize about having sex with your fursona, but no "facials"... I promise.


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The bars are temples, but the pearls ain't free...
You'll find a god in every golden cloister,
And if you're lucky then the god's a she..."

[Leaf]

Longest...rant...ever!

I found something else that ticked me off:

Rapper Wannabes!

I speak, of course, young men who wear baggy clothes with their pants all the way down to their kneecaps. These are the white, middle-class suburban young men who listened to a few too many rap and hip-hop albums.

As a result, they have a diluted sense of being "from the street". They speak with the most backward-ass dialect with "yo" and "dawg" as every other word in their sentences. And that's not the worst part! These jackasses, who still live with their parents, ride around in their mom's car and have it "pimped out" with useless junk, like spinning rims and gold trims.

Listen up: YOU ARE NOT FROM THE STREET! You are nothing but an idiot with your head inflated by your ego! Just because you listened to artists like Tupac and Eminem, that doesn't mean you're a rapper! If you tried to pull that crap at a rough neighborhood, you'd be crying like a pansy or be dead within several minutes!

Now I don't have a problem with anyone who listens to rap or hip-hop. That's their tastes and I respect that. I'm just irritated at the kids who act gangster after listening to it when the only hard thing they ever did in life was a math test! Pull up your pants, take that garbage off your car, and quit acting like a moron!
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[Shadow_Twisted]

What Grinds My Gears...

RuneScape Noobs

I am of course using the actual derogatory version of noob, and not incorrectly referring to new players.

For those unfamiliar with Runescape, it's a pretty long-term sort of game, with 24 different skills for members that can be maxed out at 99, a feat that can take months, even focusing only on that skill for the whole time. It's considered such an achievement that they made special capes to wear to show off the mastery. These capes get trimmed when you get a second 99 and all capes from that point on are automatically trimmed. The only exception to that is a cape given for completing every quest. The cape I have, but at the moment cannot wear. Every time a new quest is released, a quest cape owner must complete it before being able to wear the cape again. Some of the skills are easier to get to 99, either by being easier, cheaper (if buying), or both. This is where the noobs come in.

There are people in the game that get one of the easiest skills to 99 and think that it gives them the right to smack-talk people who are overall better, but may not have any 99s. I'm one of the people with a higher total level for not having a skill at 99, so these people piss me off to no end.

What's worse is that about half the people that get these capes pay someone to do it for them because they're too damn lazy to do it themselves. It really belittles several of the skillcapes since so many little noobs think that it gives them a right to talk shit. If you go off and get a "real" skill to 99, I might acknowledge your claims of excellence, but since you are a pathetic worthless little piece of scum, I don't think it's worth the time to type a response to anything that comes out of your stupid little head.

The other thing that will piss me off to no end are the people that believe being a part of a game gives them a full blown excuse to leave manners at the logon screen. If I'm in the middle of working on a skill, the last thing I need is someone to just randomly come up to me and ask my level. If you can't at least say "hi" to me first, I ignore you.

The funny thing about that is one little girl decided to ask me mining lvl without a hello. So I ignored her as I always do to people without manners. So she asked about 3 or 4 more times before going to find a player moderator, telling them that I was "autoing" or using a bot program to mine for me. The mod comes over and says hello, so I say hello in return. When asked why I didn't answer her question, I simply replied that I don't answer people that ask me questions without saying hello first, and that satisfied the mod's standards to eliminate the possibility of me being a bot, and the girl was pissed that I had gotten away with ignoring her.

The only gripe I have with the game itself is their rules on death. If you die, you lose all but your 3 "most valuable" items, 4 if you use a prayer that protects 1 additional item. Too bad the value is determined by a High Level Alchemy amount, the amount of gold you get for casting the High Lvl Alchemy spell on the item, not the amount you might actually pay for the item. This worries me in some situation because I have a helm worth 5 mil in gold in trade value, but it's one of the first items I lose if I die. It definitely forces you to exercise caution when doing dangerous activities, but it seems a little harsh if you keep something you paid 200k for, but lose something you paid 5m for.

I'm a pretty well rounded player, and fairly rich, but it seems that if I waste my money on pointless skills, I'm supposed to get more respect, which really isn't the case for most of the serious players I know. One of my friends even got worried when I complained to him about the mouthy noobs, as he has several skillcapes. But when I mentioned it was in reference to the arrogant noobs that didn't actually "earn" the cape, he agreed completely. It really isn't fair to the legitimate players that they have to face being taunted or ridiculed because some punks that have the same cape can't stop yapping about how they are "teh 1337 1"

Which also leads to the damn annoying "leet speak". Use your words, damn it. How fucking old are you that you can't use proper punctuation and spelling, no wonder Americans struggle with English class. I can understand abbreviations, the chat box doesn't offer a whole lot of room, but trying to ask for free st00f pl0x, is just a vulgar display of stupidity. Go to school, fail English, get a job flipping burgers for the rest of your life, or "accidentally stick your head in the deep frier and remove your worthless self from existence you lazy, stupid, ignorant piece of shit!

[kommy]

Oh, wow, Caroline. I think I am temporarily in love with you after glancing over that rant. Too busy grinning now, after having been inspired to rant a moment ago. Just can't anymore. Guess that's a good thing.
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