Things that tick me off
 

Things that tick me off:

-The song All I want for Christmas is my Two Front Teeth
-The birthday song.
-When someone suddenly stops talking to you with no explanation.
-When someone writes a character completely wrong, like in a really stupid way
-When people make stupid mistakes in the thier writing, like completely off canon.
-ect.

I really hate it when those automatic flushing toilets flush while you're still sitting on it. AWFUL! :weirded:

No comment. :frankiemad:

There's really no way I can pursue this topic without sending myself a warning. 8D


Personal privacy takes another hit:

http://news.yahoo.com/lifelogging-ca...204950170.html

Swell. I think it's time that people start investing in countermeasures to deal with invasive crap like this. :P

Oh, joy, look what the airlines are doing now:

http://news.yahoo.com/seats-let-airl...070134424.html

Enough is enough with these idiots. Next time I head out West, I'm calling Amtrak. :frankiemad:

My :censored: health insurance just went up a hundred :censored: dollars per month. This is legal robbery, nothing more. :terrence:

Later this year I should get very sick just to be spiteful. :terrence:

Thanks to Obamacare I went from very expensive high-risk insurance to even more expensive "regular" insurance. (Being self-employed I don't get insurance through work.) I thought that would mean more coverage but so far its been nothing but trouble with my prescriptions. :P And I know my doctor's office copays are higher now, too.

http://shine.yahoo.com/parenting/pow...230000768.html

Nothing is sacred. I hate CN. :frankiemad:

Nuthin' new. I don't care anymore...

http://news.yahoo.com/1-4-americans-...2398.html?vp=1

I weep for America. :P

https://www.yahoo.com/movies/sexual-...048198212.html

Makes me sad that this is an issue at the Con.

This. This actually ticks me off so much. It's so prevalent outside of the Con too.

Though I'm not being bullied at work like I was a few years ago (remember Mr. Ditzy, Ms. Moody, Ms. Two-Face, DD, and Miss P?), work is ticking me off again. I not only do my best, but also know I do better than most others. Yet everyone else is getting recognized and promoted just because... I don't know why exactly. Because they talk more? They follow orders blindly instead of thinking for themselves and find better ways to do things? It's probably a combination of things. And it's so frustrating and I'm feeling so underappreciated and worthless. And the only time all my hard work is noticed is when it's neglected for a week or two due to it being too busy that I can't keep up with everything or I've been on vacation for a week or two.

On a bright side, I've found an awesome website where one can unload all such emotional stress anonymously via a chat setting. It really does help. My sister (GreenEyesandHam for those who remember her) uses it too.

EA Games, Origin, and Sims 4

I hardly know where to begin with this.

I recently uninstalled Sims 3 from my computer. I didn't want to but I just couldn't take another inexplicable, gut-wrenching crash. EA should be ashamed of the game's instability. In any case I finally hit my breaking point, enough is enough, and it's out. To fill the void I reinstalled Sims 2, which I'd been getting nostalgic for these past few months. Installed, ran a test, worked fine. Ran a second test, worked fine. Went to do some actual playing, game crashed on launch with a message about incompatibility with DirectX 11. WTF??? I got little help from MTS, over than one person telling me that other people are playing it fine on Windows 7 with DX11. I may pursue asking for help there at some point but I doubt it'll do much good. That left me with the Sims Medieval game for my nightly Sims fix. It's very different than other Sims games but it fills the void, is very enjoyable, and doesn't crash.

A few weeks later the Sims 4 Create-A-Sim demo was released to the general public, mostly as part of EA's Sims 4 damage control. More on that later. The catch was that you couldn't simply download it and start experimenting with it, no; you could only download it through Origin, EA's download service, but all you have to do is download Origin and the demo is all yours. Sounds simple, right? It was, actually. I'd heard various horror stories about Origin since the day EA launched it but eh, I figured it was worth a shot. Both it and the demo installed without a hitch. I didn't want to try out the demo right then, however, so I did some other stuff online, logged out and went to Walgreens, had dinner, my usual routine. A few hours later I ran Sims Medieval, or should I say, I tried to run Sims Medieval, but the game wouldn't start. Seems that my shortcut was no longer pointing to the exe file. I investigated and discovered that the exe file no longer existed. A bunch of other files in the installation folder were gone, too. Somehow, Origin had managed to destroy the files, for reason I can only guess at. Needless to say, Origin was IMMEDIATELY uninstalled, and it will never be allowed on any computer I own ever gain. Of course, this meant that I couldn't play with the CAS4 demo, either, but that was no longer a relevant point. Fortunately my Sims Medieval save files were untouched, so after a full manual uninstall and reinstall the game was saved. I don't know why Origin did this but it's the last straw. EA cannot and should not be trusted by anyone, Sims player or not.

And, speaking of Sims, the Sims 4 game is being released this coming September 2nd. As much as I love the Sims games, I'm not buying Sims 4. Why, you ask? Because it's a gigantic step backwards from Sims 2 and 3. It started off being developed as an online-only game, with results that even the designers weren't too happy with, but Management was sure people would love it. And then came the disaster known as SimsCity 2013. The backlash was enormous. Virtually nobody liked the "must be online to play" idea, the game was - and still is - riddled with bugs, there were server crashes galore, etc. Realizing their error, Sims 4 was hastily retooled as a single-player, offline game, which it should have been to begin with. Of course, this is EA we're talking about, so rather than start from scratch and create what could have been an amazing game, they took what they had, retooled it, and vowed to stay on target for their launch date. This meant removing and tweaking a few things. Like what? Here's the list:

http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/disc...se-features/p1

Real nice, EA, real nice. Congratulations on creating the lowest point in the history of the Sims series. What a sad, sad joke this game is. Sims 4 could have been something truly extraordinary, had EA listened to it's fans and not been blinded by their greed, thinking that the future must be online. Sims isn't an online type of game. Now we're stuck with a mere shell of a game, and a hope that EA takes a huge hit in their collective wallets, does some serious soul-searching, and does everything they can to make it up to us in the Sims 5... assuming Sims 4 doesn't kill the series entirely. Oh, and to add insult to injury, Sims 4 requires that you have Origin installed on your computer to activate it. Not going to happen.

Damn you, EA. Just... damn you.


A related petition; signing it probably won't accomplish much, but it is appreciated:

http://www.change.org/p/the-sims-tea...ms-4-base-game


(This will be reprinted in my dA journal, so those of you who watch me can ignore it.)

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Well said, Cass. I knew there was a reason to keep The Sims 2. Also, I'm not getting rid of SimCity 4 anytime soon! :frankiesmile:

To quote Zero Punctuation from his SimCity 'review':
8D

Sorry to hear you're having issues with EA, Cass...I really hate what they've become. It makes me wish we could just go back to the days when games weren't as huge and hyped up as blockbuster games, and when they were all about the gameplay rather than the graphics. I feel like too many things nowadays are just all style and no substance.

From what I've seen, Sims 4's "style" is cartoony, with overly bright colors and excessive bloom. :P

You've probably all read/heard that Joan Rivers is in a medically-induced coma following a botched throat operation. As her comedy style involved insulting people its natural that some people would be more than a little ticked off with her, but the level of hate that I've been reading in the comments on Yahoo has been appalling. Yes, she's said some awful things in the past couple of years, even as recently as a few days before the surgery, but she certainly doesn't deserve what I've been reading (which I can't repeat here). So much hate... it really doesn't speak well of the human race. :bloosad:

For once, I'm actually going to post here:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/0...n_5591483.html
Okay, I have NOTHING against same sex marriage and people who are not straight, but seriously, this really annoys me. Can't you just let a TV show just be what it is and not let something as small as this 'ruin your life?' :frankiemad:

Having said that, I've never read the comic books, so I didn't know that the main character was bisexual.

First I've heard of him. In any case, the only person who gets to decide his sexual orientation is whoever created him. Not the network, certainly not the fans, and not the writers. What we'll actually see depends on the network and how they deal with various lunatic pressure groups, of course, but the true canon is in the words and writings of the character's creator.

He was previously made into a 2005 film starring Keanu Reeves, and it wasn't a great film, but it certainly wasn't a bad one either. The TV series and movie are both based on the DC/Vertigo comic book/graphic novel series Hellblazer, and while I haven't read them, I'm still interested in seeing the TV series, regardless of what everyone thinks.

http://dontneedfeminism.tumblr.com/p...he-emma-watson

That's right, not only was the whole thing a hoax, but IT'S USED AS AN EXCUSE TO CENSOR THE INTERNET!!!!!!

:frankiemad::frankiemad::frankiemad: Words cannot express how much I hate hoaxes and hackers right now!!

One of my favorite Dungeons & Dragons fansites is gone, and not for a good reason:

http://dndtools.eu/

I got a lot out of this site, and now it's gone because of short-sighted corporate stupidity. Thanks a lot, Wizards of the Coast. :frankiemad:

"Elf on the Shelf":

http://news.yahoo.com/elf-shelf-grea...140002837.html

This is stupid. :P

Agreed. :P Though I think the doll itself it cute, the whole idea of the thing creeps the daylights out of me.

Actually I think the doll is creepy too. :) BUT, what really gets me is that, if you read the comments on the article, people 40+ are saying they grew up with elf dolls that were moved around each day etc - the idea behind the wildly-popular book and dolls isn't new. It irritates me that these two ladies are raking in the cash recycling an old tradition they had no hand in creating. I mean, there's no law that says they can't do it, it just annoys me that other people have to have actual creativity to make money.

(I know, I'm a bitter old lady. 8D)

https://www.yahoo.com/health/people-...914416747.html

Don't want to vaccinate? Then DON'T BREED. Idiots. :frankiemad:

DeviantArt's annual April Fool's Day stupidity
 

DISNEY ACQUIRES RIGHTS TO STAR TREK:

http://techgnotic.deviantart.com/jou...Trek-492977809

Nice try, losers. ANSWER SOME :censored: HELP TICKETS YOU :censored: MORONS!!! ::) :P

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/s/hackers...9--sector.html

I have absolutely no sympathy for any of the parties on either side of this mess. Not the hackers, not the company, not the clients. What a sad, sad state the human race has sunk to. :frankiemad:

Everything - I just choose to blow it off.:herriman:

NOT ACCEPTABLE!!!
 

A Foster's-themed iphone case I found on eBay:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Fosters-Home.../171925041837?

Please take a good look at this item. Note which major character is missing, and which miserable one-shot character the manufacturer added in her place.

:eek: :o :P

Man, this really burns me up. :terrence: :madbloo: :frankiemad:

Woman spends all her money on Powerball, creates GoFundMe page to recover losses:

http://news.yahoo.com/gofundme-shut-...234853552.html

What nerve. I have absolutely no sympathy for her. Glad it was shut down. :frankiemad:

Why would someone stoop so low? I don't even know anymore. *shakes head*

On another note, it's always so great when you spend ages on drawing a cartoon character or a comic, and you always get one person who says "This character reminds me of... <insert famous character here>", like they're accusing you of being a rip-off. :edmad:

https://www.yahoo.com/movies/three-s...542604854.html

No. Just... NO. :P

Ticks, they suck out your blood... *shudders*
oh and the letter W, It's obviously a double 'v'

I wanted to buy a Scooby-Doo bobble-head but, too pricey right now.:P:o:blooconf:

Taylor Swift. 'Nuff said. :frankiemad: :thumbdown:

It is my unhappy duty to inform you all that Seaport Village, one of the most enchanting and picturesque areas in all of San Diego, is going to be destroyed:

http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/...obs-san-diego/

http://www.costar.com/News/Article/S...Village/183557

I first heard about this on Monday from my cab driver, a very knowledgeable gentleman whom I used repeatedly during my stay in the city last week. I found it a little hard to believe but unfortunately a quick Google search shows that he was right. I am not happy about this; Seaport Village was one of my favorite places to visit in the city, loaded with fine restaurants and interesting places to shop. It will be missed. :bloosad:

If anyone was thinking about attending Comic-Con or visiting the city for any other reason, now is the time to do it... before the bulldozers roll in. :bloosad:

A man ran out of my local Walgreens yesterday evening as I was approaching the store on my nightly supply run, carrying a hand cart full of stolen merchandise. One of the workers chased him but she's in her mid 60's and had no hope of catching him even before he jumped into his car and drove off. Had I gotten there even thirty frikkin' seconds earlier I could have and would have taken the SOB down but such was not to be. This ticks me off no end; people like this loser cause nothing but problems - and higher prices - for the rest of us. In any case a policeman arrived soon after the incident, and I hope the store's security cameras got a good pic of the perp. He belongs in a cage. :frankiemad:

Update - The worker who gave chase got the perp's license plate number; the police caught him 20 minutes later. Turns out he and his girlfriend have a history of this kind of behavior. Here's hoping that they get put away for quite awhile.

People that drag their feet on sand or something. I hate that scrapy noise.:'(

Kyrie Irving does not believe that the Earth is round:

http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nba/...cid=spartandhp

The stupidity this man displays is beyond pathetic. ::) :P

What an ultra maroon! Was this guy always stupid - or did he have to work at it.:madbloo: