The I Miss the Old Days Complaint Thread
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70% off of one figure. Could use it on a $15 pack of pencils and pens, or on the $120 Outpost Bundle. I picked the bundle.
Joking aside, there were a few bundles I was seriously looking at, but eventually opted for the outpost stuff :>
Non-complaint: A mini-adventure.
Friend picked me up and drove me uptown to the laundromat. Yay, clothes washing time again.
Weather was rainy and coldy.
But laundromat was uncrowded and warm.
While waiting for clothes to finish, I toddled over to the CVS drugstore, picked up some needed things and was able to use this month's $10 coupon! Yay.
My ride had arranged to call me at 12:30PM to let me know her schedule. I was done with laundry 10 minutes earlier and I never got a call, so I tried to call her and no answer there either.
So, at 1:15PM I ordered an Uber. And immediately after confirming my ride on the Uber app, my friend drove up and I had to scramble to cancel the Uber. Well, I guess $5.75 to cancel is better than $20 for the Uber home. But in the end, my clothes are clean again, I have some essential items from the drugstore, and I had a half-day mini-adventure. Wheee...
Cabin fever banished for another month.
Complaint: I hate waiting for people who aren't punctual or considerate of my time.
15 minutes is usually the limit.
Complaint:
- I'm against self driving cars because the idea of turning a car completely into an appliance you don't actually own or have any consumer rights to, which when it fails because of software glitch or mechanical defect will inevitably be the consumer's burden because of some devious EULA disclaimer is an abomination to me...
But... Some people need a friggin' robot to drive them around... Get out of my damned lane and stop drifting into oncoming traffic because you are engaged in some non-driving related activity, stop driving your damned grey, silver or black car in the pouring rain without the damned headlights on, stop smoking pot and driving (seriously, if I can smell it with my windows down and the air set to recycle interior air, you are overtokin' bro), Stop turning right from the left lane (like literally getting in the left lane to make a right turn into shopping center or at the corner, stop turning the corner at a 45° angle so you are driving into oncoming traffic for the first 20-50 feet, Stop picking your damned nose at the red light so that when the light does turn green maybe three cars at best make it though because the first four were picking their noses or other orifices when the light changed, TURN YOUR HIGH-BEAMS OFF (seriously, I've noticed that at least 40% of the idiots are driving with the high-beams on, and it's not high intensity bulbs, it's actual high beams), Unless your damned dog is the designated driver, please get Fido out of your lap... especially if it's a deluxe full sized dog (it's not cute, it's lethal to the dog in an accident and it makes you drive worse than you already do), Signaling as you turn is useless- don't even bother at that point, stop waiting for other cars to be 10ft from you before pulling into traffic (seriously WTF, you wait a full minute with nobody coming down the road, I can see you a mile away and you just sit there, but then when I'm a car length away, you pull onto the road)... there are lots of other complaints, but these are common issues I see every day, but today I'm really fed up with other people in cars...
Also...
- Can't upload images on any device or browser still... very annoying.
- People who write instructions who obviously never tried what they wrote.
...nice, was able to get an item off the whishlist.
...attachment test:
[5 min later]
Tried both .[png and .jpg] but looks like a "no-go" here as well.
YES, and also: Please stop driving cars that are way too big for you to handle or even peer out of properly! They're not protecting you, they're endangering everyone else because you aren't on top of them.
Oh, and an interesting point to ponder for city dwellers driving on country roads: If there are signs cautioning you of wildlife in the area, it's because there actually IS wildlife there, even if you can't see it at the moment because inconsiderately, wild animals don't wave torches after dark. Trying to rush locals with your flashing headlights into the next oncoming deer is not going to get yourself anywhere much faster, except maybe all of us to places where no one really wants to go.
Thank you. That helped.
The result of being home last week = 375 files/62.6GB
Can't afford to do that again anytime soon...
My home internet is down but I can't do anything about it. I think the landlord hasn't paid for it.
I got rid of all the services that were sending me bills every month, Internet is now with a prepaid mobile provider (4G), and if I don't pay it just doesn't work, but there are no other concequences and I can easily get it working by just going to the ATM and putting more money on the account. It costs me some 25 eur/month and the connection speeds is pretty good (download up to 2MB's/second) If I need a faster connection, the one we have at work gives me download speeds up to 15MB's/second.
Got a gift card for Christmas, still not sure what to use it on. Steam? DAZ3D? ArtStation? Unity Asset Store? PixelLab maybe? They just got some really cool new things recently...
It's still just sitting there on my desk because I still can't decide
Shh, don't tell the Americans about how little we pay for this stuff. (seriously, no joke. Mobile and internet prices in the US should come with a canister of vaseline to make it hurt less)
Some days I am full of ideas. Other times I see all these props and figures and stuff and wonder what to even do with them. But usually, once I get started the rest just comes naturally. It's getting started that's the hard part most often.
...+1
Along with power bills.
Speaking of power bills, I was looking at GPU's on amazon a while ago and one of them had a 1-star review. Curious I took a look at it and it was from some dude complaining that runing it 24/7 for weeks on end to do the whole mining thing ended up making his power bill go through the roof, and that it needed extra cooling because of how it'd overheat by pushing it so hard for such a duration. Like what do you expect to happen pushing electronics like that - of course your bill's going to go up and things will be overheating xD
Forever my beloved
Yeah, that really should have been a 1-star rating for crypto.
Among other things, but I still found it so amusing the guy was so terribly uneducated on the matter and decided to Never My Fault it onto the GPU instead of admitting he did a dumb.
Meow! I want a friend who thinks meow is a great word! Meow!
@KK how's the weather?
Still above water out there on the left coast?
I'm only a few hours north of KK, and it's surprisingly warm and dry here, if that helps.
...not too bad today a bit wet with a high in the low 50s. Was somewhat nasty yesterday with strong winds and rain but the wet stuff tapered off by evening. Going to be drippy for the next several days but rather mild and nothing too extreme. Pretty much a "normal" winter here in the Northwest.
California has been getting the worst of it as the flow moved more to the south.
Mmm, our area's been getting a lot of rain the past coupla weeks - but our little valley's been welcoming it since the last some years have either been minimal rain or droughts. On the flip side though, my friend 'relatively' nearby has had mild flooding in his town. So "Depends on who you ask" seems to be case here.
"Meow" has a lot of meanings... it depends on what part of it you stress or emphasize... it can mean "aye there!" or "Ur mama!" depending on how you say it or pronounce it... Cats named a whole planet and their civilization using it... well, cats from the future... that traveled to the past and then messed around with the timeline a little... or a lot... it depends on which particular timeline variant you are in... Megh... it's complicated and nothing to be concerned with at the moment.
Meow.
I put stuff on my wishlist because it looks cool, but then later on I ask myself what I'll even use it for. So a lot of non-creature things tend to just stay on my wishlist. Humm....
I could stand to be a little more judicious about my wishlist as well. For me, basically the only stuff that doesn't go in my wishlist is stuff that I know for sure that I don't want.
...for those concerned about the weather out here on the "Left Coast" was actually a nice day here in Portland Started out partly sunny clouded up a bit but stayed mild (low 50s again) and dry for most of the day. Seems that "Pineapple Express" as they are called (a strong warm wet flow form the Hawai'ian Islands area) has maintained it's sights on Northern California instead of the Northwest. We are pretty much on the fringe of it getting light rain and drizzle instead of the strong storms and heavy rain that is hitting to the south.
It's lightly raining up in Tacoma, and has been pretty temperate.
Ewww... sounds disgusting.
Either that, or you have a team of racing worms and it's a term used to describe a winning movement technique.
All the above, and fie upon those who creep across, or even stop completely across, the crosswalk. And equally fied upon should be the people who don't understand parallax and assume that once the crosswalk line is obscured by the hood of the car, that it's time to stop a whole car's length back from the line.
(This becomes ludicrous, when the driver is 4 foot tall, driving a 1970s Lincoln Continental or similar American "land yacht" and can't even see the horizon.
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"Crosswalk?... What's a crosswalk?... Ooooh... it's those weird stripie things next to the red hexsnogagon sign thing on a pole?... I thought that was all some street art..."
Yeah... but creep across?... around here people just drive past them as far into the intersection as possible before stopping... lots of fun when it's a side street and every other cross street is a stop sign with some moron who believes the stop line only exists in your heart if you believe in it, and maybe six feet past the curb line... so they drive past the stop sign and come to a stop(ish) jutting out into the intersection in a fashion that appears as if they are about to blow through it... extra points in heavy snow when the corners of the streets have huge six foot piles of snow that obscure one's vision, so instead of coming to a stop and then cautiously rolling forward, they come to an abrupt stop(ish) sticking out in the intersection... then they look all insulted and pissed off if you slam on the brakes or dodge out of the way, when literally if you were to maintain your heading you'd take off the front of their car.
Then again a good portion of people believe a tap of the brakes is actually "stopping".
Not far from my house there is a major roadway with a highway overpass... on one side (north bound) you have three lanes, two lanes turning left on the other side of the intersection/underpass (clearly marked with big arrows bent to the left) (you can't miss them) and one that is for right turns and going straight (also marked with an arrow, but the straight arrow with a branching secondary arrow pointing right)... nothing abnormal or confusing there... this isn't some sort of complex puzzle or M.C. Escher roundabout you need to interpret the meaning of... it's two friggin left turn lanes and one straightway/right turn lane...
Yet every few days there is at least a fender bender there if not a full blow collision... the base of the overpass abutment at the bottom (a multi ton block of concrete) is dislodged and broken in several places from cars that have been deflected into it... the dirt in the grass a few feet from the curb is mostly red, orange and silver plastic bits and assorted small pieces of auto parts.
The reason... people going South assume the northbound right lane is a "right turn only" lane and turn into oncoming traffic going straight, assuming it's supposed to turn right.
The fender benders are usually when the oncoming northbound vehicle has time to react somewhat, the bad ones are when the southbound vehicle is trying to beat the light and thinks they are only going to cut off the car they believe is turning right... surprise, surprise when they wake up upside down being cut out of their precious ride by the local volunteer firefighters.
I've had to slam on the brakes numerous times while crossing that intersection, despite being alert and knowing this is a problem, because randomly a stopped car will floor it and go right out into traffic... and the best part is at least half the time the idiots are spitting, frothing at the mouth furious, screaming at the other driver for their own incompetence.
It's all very clear and obvious, but all the bad stuff is due to blind assumption, lack of patience, entitlement and failure to pay the slightest bit of attention to their surroundings.
Back to that opening crosswalk joke... that's actually not completely a joke...
The company that my wife used work for would host a "defensive driving course", which for those not familiar with the practice, is a usually a several hour class you go to where you are academically refreshed in basic driving skills... mostly stuff you have no business being in a motor vehicle unsupervised, if you are not familiar with... there is no "failing" this class, its just a refresher and if you attend one, usually your insurance gives you a tiny discount or keeps your rates lower (at least in NYS).
I'd go every year and the instructor was always the same guy, a little funny, a good speaker and good at explaining things... he even would give a little quiz halfway through he'd go around asking people random basic questions and ask them to elaborate on their answers...
A great idea, but it was f***ing terrifying to hear some answers because you'd realize this imbecile probably drove there...
That crosswalk comment was based on one guy not understanding the crosswalk and the sidewalk were two different things... this wasn't a guy wearing a filthy clown costume holding a freshly severed puppy's head... this was one of my wife's coworkers (not someone she knew thankfully)... totally normal looking fellow you'd assume knew basic human stuff like what toilet paper is for or the difference between "crosswalk" and "sidewalk"... and yes, he was an person born locally not someone from a distant sidewalk-less planet.
Many of the answers were deeply troubling... one of my favorites was the young lady, who when asked "what do you do if your car loses control and starts to slide and spin".... to which she very confidently answered "jump out".
The instructor and several others chuckled and then realized she was completely serious... so he asked her, "what?... out of the car? why?... where did you come up with that?"... To which she proudly replied "My dad told me that."..."he taught me to drive".
The instructor's response was a baffled "Does he not like you?... Has he taken out a very large life insurance policy on you?"... he then went on to very humorously explain the correct process not involving being run over by your own vehicle.
But yeah... That's the problem.
Peoples iz dumb.
If it was up to me I'd make it mandatory that chronic bad drivers wear bright orange dunce caps that look like traffic cones on their head, when they drive... maybe even in public in general, because they probably walk bad too.
I personally think this crap with you get a license and you keep it until either you die of old age or repeatedly kill people is moronic... something akin to defensive driving classes should be mandatory to keep a license... maybe just a yearly refresher quiz or an actual in-person class with a small quiz every couple years... whatever works best, but... you fail, you get a restricted license until you pass... after three subsequent failures your license is suspended and have to take a road test again to get it back.
Period.
You fail that, you have to take a mandatory driver's education course and pass a road test to get your license back with a probation period.
This idea that "no fault" insurance will solve everything and if you screw up you'll just pay a slightly higher rate is a huge chunk of the problem.
But anyway... yes... crosswalks...
And thusly with my lengthy comment/story arc complete I bid thee all a good day.
Sorry for the insanely long collection of words.