The Complaining and Bitching Thread

According to legend, Final Fantasy was so named because the company that made it was staring down bankruptcy at the time. It was meant to be sort of a last hurrah in video game development before closing the doors for good.

Clearly this is not how it played out.

 

Who's the nitwit at Tropicana that decided to replace a perfectly good, functional, intuitive, twist cap/lid on their orange juice bottle with a stiff flip-top cap that broke my thumb-nail?

 

Hopefully not the same person who shrink it down from 64oz to 58oz. Seriously, wtf was that shit???

 

Y'know...I'm not a conspiracy buff...I like facts, truth and transparency. (In fact, I need it)
Rational to the core...even my party side is always has got a check (I was always the designated driver...)

I've always found that conspiracies are typically a cover up CYA after the fact...not Machiavellian plans beforehand. Asshats just saving face or their rep.
I've only seen & known about one that was the M-plan beforehand...and it was surreal...like Hollywood wrote up it. (it sounds mad just describing to people...and I lived it, caught in the middle...even went to court for it as a witness)

But this Russia shit with the election and the new administration is freaking me out.
I'm seeing obvious trends and pattern building I've never ever noted before.
How come there are SO many things and people associated with Russia?? (just in the past few months...and increasing in the past few weeks)

I feel like I'm in some type of weird Hollywood Cold War plot.
And everyone is being polite, complacent and moving too slow to stop the bad guys...
Where's John McClane when you need him?
Friggin' Harrison Ford as prez in Air Force One.

But Hollywood can't save US...it's going to take those with REAL authority acting. (like make laws, put your ass in jail authority)
And I don't know if they have the spines and speed to do it.
Back in the 80's and before...we were paranoid enough, we'd nix this shit....now we're caught with our pants down. (even the FBI is questionable???)
Like we've been shifted back to McCarthy...but he's WITH the commies instead this time.

I hope I'm wrong.
I hope I'm temporarily crazy.
But my spider sense it going off...and I'm seeing some serious weirdness.
Just damned Alice down the rabbit hole weird.
Wizard of Oz "don't look at the man behind the curtain" fantasy

Hell, I'm even paranoid enough to think they may track this post down after the new administration takes over...
And that is just NOT me...I don't do this.
I do NOT think this shit.

I've been in this twice before...and it was REAL (no bullshit...proven after the fact)
But that was just localized, to corporations fighting for money and power...this is national/global scale.
Me...I'm afraid.

I hope it gets better quick...I just want to live life. (find a woman, have kids, finish my degree, put my ideas out there, party and explore a bit)
But I guess reality sometime *does* goto Godwin level
This is what they write history books about...

I hope we aren't living in "interesting" times...

 

Agreed. It makes it way harder to chug out of the jug too.

 

It is awesome when people make a commitment weeks out and say "remind me at X point, but yes, I'll take care of that". Then, when "X point" rolls around, and you remind them, they say "oh, I am already committed then, sorry, can't do it!"

Yeah, you were already committed.

 

I had a huge amount of motivation this morning. And now I don't. It's frustrating. Oh well.

 

Check subtitle and language settings for each video. Most of them have an optional English dubbing.

 

It's amazing how many people confuse themselves...
Like they're caught up in one big "Who's On First" routine.

Everything depends on how you define it
and how everyone agrees on it

But if you happen to use the same word and sound...they start mixing things up.

Even the most intelligent people can confuse it up.

Personally, I tend to start changing my words so there is none.
Like when I found our platforms ended with D, T & P ...for Dev, Test and Prod)
I actually changed the names, because we had professionals screwing it up...yes, you can get into trouble if you put something into P not D or T.

It can be very dangerous even.
Or you might be finding yourself taking a spoonful of the wrong "Skinny & Sweet" (9 to 5 ref)

Hell, I think we've screwed up decades of science because they're confusing things just because of the name.
Force vs. force (A real type of thing compared to a math concept)
And don't get me started on "dimension"...

Problem is...people aren't aware they're screwing it up...until they "get it"
But how much time, effort and damage has been created by then??

Just change the damned term...geez.

 

I dropped my phone today. It's a very rare occurrence for me. Some people drop their phones, throw them around, bang them up. Not me. I'm very gentle with it. People who bang their phones up tend to have serviceable if somewhat banged up phones. So I drop mine once and you'd think I'd get away with that, right? Nope! Screen's all cracked to hell.

I never liked the G4 anyway so I'm not too broken up about the phone itself, but the timing sucks. I can go back to my Nexus 5 which has a non-functional microphone or I can try to get by with a display that's badly damaged. I was already considering getting a Pixel since I don't like the G4 in the first place, but shelling out a grand for a phone while I'm on leave just isn't going to happen, so I'll have to figure out some way of getting by until February.

 

I'm not putting money into a phone I hate. The G4 was a free upgrade when the mic went on my N5. It was a compromise from the start and we've never gotten along. There's no reason to fix it if I'm just going to hate it and want to get rid of it anyway. I could probably replace the microphone on the Nexus 5 but at this point it's a three year old phone, so fixing that doesn't really make a lot of sense either.

I was already on the fence about upgrading so this has basically just sealed the deal. When I'm back on the job and making actual money again laying out for a nice phone that I actually like won't be a big deal. Just have to get through the reduced income period of the parental leave before I'm comfortable making that kind of a purchase.