What's your pet peeve in RL?

[Aksannyi]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

That happened to me a while back, I think it ended up being the version of Firefox or Flash that I was using. It was really annoying.

[cidbahamut]

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That doesn't seem applicable in my case. Chrome has Flash directly integrated and the issue comes up in IE as well. All the other flash stuff works normally from what I can tell, it's just YouTube that's all fucked up.

[Aksannyi]

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Ah, that sucks. It has been working fine for me.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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Not gonna copypasta it, but I hate people that say stuff like:

"I put 300 hours into this game, completed all paths, found everything and I'm thoroughly disappointed in this game."

300 hours, found everything. Disappointed. One wouldn't need 300 hours to arrive at disappointment, much less feel the need to keep going just to make sure after the first 20 hours or so.

Basically, if you pour two full weeks of your life into something you find disappointing, you really need a job.

[cidbahamut]

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Or just better judgement in general. I can't imagine putting 300 hours into a game I didn't enjoy. Who does that?

[Melody]

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Or just better judgement in general. I can't imagine putting 300 hours into a game I didn't enjoy. Who does that?

>_>; (Snarky comment here)

[Ketaru]

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Ugh, got into a heated moment with a coworker and now she's pissed at me. I was speechless and at a loss for a rebuttal to her argument at the time. The peeve: Getting into an argument, then seemingly being beaten. Counterargument thought up......4 hour later.

[Aksannyi]

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Now that I work 9 miles away from my apartment instead of 4, I've regained my desire to shoot people in the face for being fucking retarded while driving.

I am going to need to tweak my routes before I go on a rampage.

[Ketaru]

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Speaking of driving, I go for walks all the time in the evening and I've just gotta give props to this individual I noticed:

Keep up the good work you young, idealistic, ticket-dispensing policeman bastard.

[cidbahamut]

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Speaking of driving, I go for walks all the time in the evening and I've just gotta give props to this individual I noticed:

Keep up the good work you young, idealistic, ticket-dispensing policeman bastard.

Now if we could just get them to start dispensing tickets to all the damn cyclists who ride in the shoulder rather than in the lane...

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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Every time I hear someone utter the term "social justice warrior" I have the urge to want to choke them. Seems they have a problem with activists, but the problems they pay attention to them when its actually really easy to ignore them. Just seems like you're frustrating yourself at that point and needlessly sharing it with others.

People who rage over Anita Sarkeesian are a fairly good example of this. While she puts up some well-reasoned arguements, she's also someone that glosses over or hand=waves facts that are inconvenient to other arguments she makes. I got that from a few old videos. Once she did her second Tropes Vs. Women in Video Games video, I stopped watching because she just droned over the same points, only cited problems and generally didn't celebrate the games that get things right. It wasn't offensive - just boring.

I can't really get offended. I think she has some valid points, but not enough of them to warrant a view on her videos anymore. I just don't care.

It is kind of funny to see people flip out over it, though. Espeially when the Men's Rights activists turn up.

[Aksannyi]

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Can we bitch about Syria? I'm gonna bitch about Syria.

First of all, LOL at all of the Dems and Obama himself wanting to go into Syria when they all criticized Bush for a similar action. Not saying circumstances were the same and yes let's not go into the WMD thing (because at the time I believe that everyone, including good ol GW believed they were there). But I find it really funny how they all criticized the hell out of Bush for threatening military action against another sovereign nation and are now poised to do the same.

And second of all, good job reducing the military, Obama, bet that's working out really well right about now, huh?

Don't claim to know everything and I'm sure this is going to spark a debate (and I'm so terrible at debating because I'm not really passionate enough to fight with the fervor that serious debaters have) but those are just the two things that stand out to me. Clearly I am not a fan of Obama. I didn't mind Bush that much but I'm not really a fan of any politician at this point. At the very least, I'm amused by these developments. I shouldn't be amused by the prospect of war, but I am. And I think that's my big peeve about this whole situation, that the politics these days have made it impossible for me to take anything seriously anymore. Or maybe that's the internet. Or both. Who knows.

[Yellow Mage]

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IIRC, politics is the one thing that gives DiV an upset stomach (as opposed to sex and religion, which have been handled well in the past).

Personally, I'd tread lightly.

That being said, something something "the war isn't meant to end" something something George Orwell something disappointment in own country something.

[Firewind]

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Sorry if this post seems a but chopped up, most of it is pulled fro ma Facebook debate.

The time for action was three years ago and I remember being laughed at when I posted about it on the forums for "wanting the UN to police the world". Now the main issue isn't that one side is better than the other, both Assad's Regime, the FSA and the various sectarian factions that the media seems to love lumping in with the rebels, all are full of some pretty shitty people. If I had to pick a "side" on the debate it would be the side of the innocent people that are being slaughtered by all of these factions.

What a lot of people, especially the media do not understand, I need to point this out again, is that we have allowed this to go on for long enough for a lot of different factions to become involved. This civil war is between Shias and Sunnis and Alawytes all of whom seek to destroy the others and will use whatever means necessary to achieve that regardless of which side of the conflict we in the west choose to put them on, and who in the middle gets caught up in it. Add in Hezbollah, Israel, Iran, the US and Turkey all throwing in more weapons into the mix and/or bringing in people to add even more factions to the clusterfuck.

It's one of the reasons why "The Rebels" are allegedly deploying chemical weapons. We have put all of the anti-Assad factions, including people like the FSA, Hezbollah and Al Qaeda (another group that is made up of a lot of different groups that the media lumps together which is one of the reasons why it seems like they never go away) into the faction "The Rebels" without even bothering to learn who these people are and why they all want to murder each other with Sarin gas.

I completely agree the the killing needs to stop but there is no easy answer thanks to people dragging their feet and assuming things will sort themselves out. What I'm trying to say is that any intervention is basically coming three years too late. Enough time has been left for all manner of different factions to get involved on the Rebel side and my main worry is they Syria will turn into another Iraq or Vietnam if we do go in there to kick Assad out. These rival factions, especially the sectarian factions WILL stop at nothing to exterminate each other and creating a power vacuum will just destabilise the regime more.

Basically any forces committed to Syria will be locked there for a very long time. Sectarian violence does not just go away due to a huge military presence.

That said I do think the "oh but give peace a chance!" kids are too naive to live in the real world. What peace? It's a civil war and none of the factions will back down until everyone is dead.

There's no easy answer to Syria, the time to take action was three years ago, not today.

[Aksannyi]

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I'm surprised at the lack of shitstorm my post brought on. I guess no one wanted to really touch it. Probably not a bad thing.

And I agree Firewind, laissez-faire with things like this isn't working. International politics are always tricky. My guy has been working on his PhD and I can't remember what his dissertation is about, something with regards to terrorism and the Middle East, I'd have to ask him again because it's a really fucking long title. He's an expert on this sort of thing, and when he talks about it I have to admit my eyes glaze over because I'm simply not all that political but I try to understand at least a little, for his sake.

And my peeves of the day:
1. The fact that it's raining and storming on the first day of a three-day weekend.
2. The fact that I'm probably going to be stuck inside for the next few days doing nothing but homework.