Increasingly uninhabitable? Oh, I absolutely agree! I went to Target the other week, and the whole time I was walking around the store, I kept thinking how all these assholes should just be dropped in a pitt of acid.
Look people, it’s real fucking simple. Don’t stop and talk to your neighbor while your carts are side by side blocking the entrance to the aisle.
Don’t walk so slow 90 year old women with a walker can pass you.
Don’t stop and stare at the mustard section, as if you’ve never seen mustard before in your life. Meanwhile blocking the whole damn mustard section for everybody else.
If your kid starts yelling and screaming, smack em. If they cry, smack em again.
There is never a time your cell phone conversation about hemroid cream needs to be on speakerphone. This doesn’t just apply to stores. This is a 100% of the time rule.
Speaking of speakers, you do not get to bring your bluetooth shitty $5 from 5below speaker thats clearly blown out, and blast it full volume as it rattles like an infant baby.
If you park in 2 spaces, I’m keying your car, asshole!
Small talk with the cashier extends for the time they’re ringing you up. Once your shit has been rung up, and placed in bags, pay and get out asshole! Go make friends in the park. I PROMISE you, the cashier doesn’t give a shit about whatever home improvement projects you’re working on, that she’ll never see.
Don’t argue that some 16 year old making min wage stocking shelves didn’t smile at you enough. Humans are allowed to feel however they feel. If they don’t feel like smiling, maybe YOU should go jump off a pier.
Yes I’m angry. I’m angry because all of YOU
motions to all of society
All of YOU were apperently never taught the rules for being in spaces with other people. Then you wonder why a movie theater or a shopping mall gets shot up.
“Nobody could have seen it coming. There was nothing we could have done.”
Yeah, there IS a lot you could have done. Why don’t you go ahead and show me the last 10 public shootings in Japan, or Ireland, or Austrailia, or China, or Canada.
Some countries you’ll need 20 years worth of time, others may need centuries. Others may not have 10 yet.
Meanwhile I could pull the last 10 American shootings from google in the past 2 weeks.
The best way to prevent shootings has nothing to do with actual gun control. It would help, but it doesn’t address the core issue. The core issue is that people are out of their god damn minds over here feeling like everyone is attacking them. And that has EVERYTHING to do with how considerate people are to other people these days. Do you even care that you just cut in line? Do you even care that you just farted in that elevator? No. The world revolves around you, doesn’t it?
I swear. Everette True needs to become a religion.
Am I just out of touch here? I feel like the more and more you destroy your middle class with get rich quick schemes, the more you fuck things up for everybody. Even yourself.
Let’s say I make $32,000 per year. Great! I’m going to eat some dorritos. But uh-oh! Now you’ve just been swept up in a mass lay-off wave.
And now, I can’t buy dorritos. And now multiply this times millions of other people. All not buying dorritos. Does the dorritos CEO not see a massive drop in sales? As people lose more and more spending power, with bills getting tighter and tighter, won’t the very concept of industry collapse, because all we’re doing is paying rent, paying electric, paying water, and struggling to do so? Don’t all other industries become luxuries? Movies? Can’t afford it. Video games? Can’t afford it. Socks? Ok…but just the one.
And then as WE collapse, don’t they collapse too? Or do they not give a shit, as long as this months quartly numbers look better?
I’ve been saying this for 30+ years. Piracy is by large NOT a group of people looking to avoid paying for a product.
Piracy is often the result of your product being either unavailable to purchase at a reasonable price, or difficult to comply with the law.
I saw an NFL schedule for my local team at a bar recently. Every week it’s a different time, different network, some aren’t even airing over OTA, it’s on Amazon Prime…for 1 game. Nobody is going to pay $120 for a year for amazon prime, to watch 1 game for 3 hours.
That shit is what led to piracy.
Metalica loved to bitch and complain, about Napster giving away their songs. It’s not THEIR fault per se, so I do see them as also the victims, but the whole industry was fucked back then.
You’d pay $20 for a CD of some band, and find out 16 songs, and you like 3 of them. $20 in 1999 would be like $35-$45 today.
Then you’d find out Napster exists, and you can download JUST those 3 songs. You were willing to pay a reasonable price for those 3 songs, but the record labels wouldn’t take your money. Not unless you wanted to buy either the full album, or a singles disc which only had their radio releases that THEY picked.
Then after napster died, Apple says “hey, what if we charged $0.99 for 1 song, as picked by the user? A full album in this way would still be close to $20, but we don’t have a physical good to ship and pay labor on.”
And THATS when digital music really took off. Because they made a buttload that year. Record labels FINALLY realized people will pay if you offer a product, easily available at a reasonable price. Suddenly profits in the music industry which had been declining for a decade, were booming. Piracy was on the decline.
And yet the video industry never learned this lesson. Netflix came in, boom, all this money to be made from subscribers. It was cheap, it was all in one place, and it was easy.
Then over 10 years every channel has a video service.
And prices are increasing.
And account sharing is being cracked down on.
So it’s no longer easy, it’s no longer cheap. It’s no longer…oh hey, piracy is on the rise.
Welp. I’m sorry. I’m going to have to steal your dog.
…ok, fine, I’ll bring him back after spoiling him for the day. But I’ll probably just steal him next week too.
Also, I’m going to steal money from you.
What? If I’m going to be a theif, I may as well make some cash!
Ooooooo, I should steal dogs from banks!
Oh, ok. I thought you were being sarcastic, and I was getting miffed, but didn’t want to be negative until I confirmed. See? This is why I wait, and double check before I go off on someone for being a Wii hater. I might just make an ass out of myself.
I love boom blox, and mercury meltdown revolution.
Also, can we get some WiiU love? Everyone loves the switch, but act like half the games aren’t just WiiU games with a bit of DLC.
This is the reason I don’t get PS+.
I see the cheapest option, and think “oh…but I don’t go online much, and thats too little value for that high price.”
Then for a little more money you get a little more value.
Then for a little MORE value, you get the retro games from PS1 and PS2.
And then I realize that’s DOUBLE the cheapest option, to play games that are 20-30 years old.
So I put 2 and 2 together, and decide this whole thing is pissing me off. Fuck it, I’ll just emulate the damn things…
…so, this isn’t even a thing anymore.
Edit: upon a quick google search, I come to find out it was only ever a thing for about a week, and only ever in the NYC area.
So it seems this wasn’t ever intended to be a serious concept/service. It was just some CEO fucking around, and spending corporate money on his own personal inside joke. Complete with a whole list of disclaimers saying it’s not legally obligated to even reach the hiring manager.
And ya know what? I can respect that. I wish MY fucking around at work had this kind of budget and logistics.
You slow blink. This is you telling the cat “I don’t see you as a threat. I feel comfortable around you.”
Or you could show them your belly. Tracy Morgan style. Just show your belly. It says to the cat “This is my most vunerable part of my body. And unlike you, I only have TWO nipples. Which means I am less vunerable then you! Six nipples is more weak points than two nipples! Now bow before me, god of the Egyptian roman times empire! I can crush you like a bug with my belly, which as we’re established is the most vunerable part of the body!”
And they slow blink back to you!!!
Oh! Oh you wanna go??? I’ll slow blink right back, bitch!!! I’ll have a slow blink war!!! We’ll see who’s not a threat!!! I even invade your privacy, and steal the poops you burried in that box!!! I’m taking them awwwaaayyyyy…
I hate how news reporters are expected to be robots. And not human.
I saw one weather report where it’s just a boring day, boring weather, but there was a golden retriever in the studio.
He came running over to the weatherman, and got excited to see him. Weatherman is petting the dog, still doing the weather, and laughing while doing it. Calm sunny day, mild weather, nobodys getting hurt because he’s sitting on the floor, rubbing and hugging a dog. He still does the weather report, just with a dog.
He got fired. They aren’t allowed to feel human.
So now you’ve got this, a very real, and very bad hurricane coming through, and this weather feels the need to apologize for feeling empathy, because of the way the entire industry acts. Can’t laugh at a funny story. Can’t mispronounce a word, or say the wrong word, or have human error.
No, you’re a robot, who says the words. Any emotion is penalized. I think that sucks.
This looks like it could be a movie poster for a disney movie from the 90s about 3 animals who somehow telepathically talk to each other. And their adventures out into the world when they escape from the house.
Somebody with photoshop skills do something with that. Maybe call it something like “Big Day Out”. And have it star Bill Murray, Adam Sandler, and Kate Micucci.
I got it working. I wasn’t expecting it to be as simple as pasting 2 lines of code into a config file. Still not sure why emulationstation doesn’t see them, but at least retroarch does now.
Plus I fixed my issue of emulators not saving. I am SO excited with what I’m building. Every game from my childhood on one machine. Arcade, NES, SNES, Master System, Genesis, N64, PS1, Dreamcast.
It’s all here. I turn on one machine, and it’s all here! 14 year old me is screaming into a pillow. 41 year old me wants to scream into a pillow, but is responsible enough to not want to wake up the neighbors.
No, seriously…I am legit screaming at what this is.
This is why I’m stubborn.
I had a kidney stone. Went to the ER. They told me that department was closed for the day. I told them I wasn’t leaving because the bus ride over was absolute hell. They could either put me in a hospital room until they could treat me, or they could call the experts back into work.
Turns out the person I was talking to was an idiot. The department wasn’t even closed. There was NO way I could have rode that bus again. Every bump was like being stabbed in the testicles by shards of glass that were INSIDE the testicles. Noooooooope. Fuck it. I’ll wait in that hospital room for 4 months before I get back on that bus!
Me being stubborn allowed other nurses to overhear the situation, as I braced myself using the counter top. The other nurses brought me in for this thing that basically shakes your insides with soundwaves. That didn’t work, so they got the specialist in. They were able to squeeze me into their busy schedule. Then they shoved a lazor jp my urethra, and turned my insides into star wars. Pew pew pew. They used the lazor to carve the kidney stone into smaller pieces that were small enough to pass.
And if I’d have just accepted the receptionists word, I’d have had to get on a bus again for an hour of bouncing up and down in agony.
I have SOOOOOO many stories where me being a stubborn asshole turned out to be the right move, but that story is the only one where people shoved things up my penis.