I wonder how many people open this thread, type up a long rant, and decide not to post it after all.

If they're anything like me, then three times so far.

I'm like Custard.

I like apples.

Pineapple
I like apples.

That's quite the dilemma you have there…

Arashi_san
I'm like Custard.

Uh, duh. Everyone's like me, because I'm just that great of a fellow.

Anyway, rant! Yes.

I finally went to see Indiana Jones and the Crystal Whatsit with my brother. It was fucking terrible! It wasn't a bad night out though, it's been a while since my brother and I actually did something together.

Oh, and I finally got to play with my new printer! Or so I thought. I couldn't get the cartridges in at all, and when I finally figured out how to do it properly, the printer just plain rejected them. I even checked in the manual, and I was doing it correctly.

Then I finally got to sit down and return to my usual sitting on my fat arse routine, at which point my computer told me my shitty wireless adapter had conked out again. It. Fucking. Lied. It still says I'm not connected, but here I am. I don't like it when this sort of thing happens, because each time, it's a step towards robot overlords.

Custard Trout

Arashi_san
I'm like Custard.

That was a rant, by the way.

NO TO NORTH AMERICAN UNION!!!
NO TO GLOBALISTS!!!

kyupol

NO TO NORTH AMERICAN UNION!!!
NO TO GLOBALISTS!!!

NO TO BROKEN LIGHTBULBS!!!
NO TO GREEN ORANGES!!!
NO TO PANTS WITH A HOLE IN THE BUTT! though they can be convenient at times…

everyone always told me I as crazy when I said that apple was offering the same product as everyone else. well they are, only with less selection, higher prices, andless software.

at one point they were a superior machine. but hat was nearly a decade ago. the government, corporations and scools dropped them for a reason. the pc was gaining speed and becoming a snowball of power. cheaper, just as if not more efficient, and selection. I mean selection alone could sell in todays markets.

also im sick of vegas and miss my wife and dog.

seventy2
also im sick of vegas and miss my wife and dog.

you're still in Vegas? how long have you been there.

rant: I miss seventy2. I wish he would post more. :( Stupid Vegas!

It is really annoying when people “oh well” me when I make valid critiques. The least they can do is lie that they'll make changes.

Stubborn.

i'm back from vegas bishes. right into a 7 tornado producing storm. less than an hour from when we landed.

i miss you to arashi\

Dan
It is really annoying when people “oh well” me when I make valid critiques. The least they can do is lie that they'll make changes.

Stubborn.

It's even more annoying when they get all huffy or make a bunch of excuses :)

But you can't expect someone to take every suggestion you say for gold, and the people getting huffy and making excuses don't deserve help really.


I wish the comic review would actually move on…maybe after 20 days of no reply move it out of the sticky and just get on with others.
That would be more interesting too, like a gamble.

I have a full-time job, a full-time comic and a part-time design business. If I damn well take time off of work to help you with something to spend time with you, DO NOT GODDAMN FUCKING BAIL OUT AT THE LAST MINUTE!

Urgh, it really pisses me off when I take a day off work in which I could be making a couple hundred dollars to do something and they tell me the morning of, that they've changed their mind. :mad:

Dan
It is really annoying when people “oh well” me when I make valid critiques. The least they can do is lie that they'll make changes.

Stubborn.

You should totally come my way. I'm slowly getting some of my commenters to finally tell me when something is “off” on a page. I like being told I do good, but man, if I screw up I need to know. I may be too stupid or blind to see it myself. I hate repeating mistakes.

75% of the improvements in my comic are by criticisms challenging me to do better.

Excuses don't always mean a author didn't consider the feedback either. Sometimes they may have a legit reason (to them) for continuing what another person considers an error.

Skullbie
It's even more annoying when they get all huffy or make a bunch of excuses :)

But you can't expect someone to take every suggestion you say for gold, and the people getting huffy and making excuses don't deserve help really.

JustNoPoint
Excuses don't always mean a author didn't consider the feedback either. Sometimes they may have a legit reason (to them) for continuing what another person considers an error.

I do see the difference between valid excuses (Which I find rare) and unreasonable excuses. It just grinds my teeth (Which I'm not supposed to do) when they say that they like it when clearly there's just something horribly wrong, and I do let minor errors slide unless it's repeated constantly. It's worse when others “encourage” them to not listen.

And as a side note, three of my recent critiques were responded with “oh well”, right down to capitalization.

JustNoPoint
You should totally come my way. I'm slowly getting some of my commenters to finally tell me when something is “off” on a page. I like being told I do good, but man, if I screw up I need to know. I may be too stupid or blind to see it myself. I hate repeating mistakes.

75% of the improvements in my comic are by criticisms challenging me to do better.

That's good to hear. I wish this would happen more often. Things just aren't the way they used to be before.

neh. I have a 3000 word asignment due on Monday. I've done about 2000 (but a heap of that are quotes)and now my head is getting all mushy and I DON'T WANNA!
I'm running out of topics to talk about but I'm also getting to the point where I'm just getting sick of it and I don't want to do any more.

Uni would be awesome if I didn't have to do any work :(

Pineapple
neh. I have a 3000 word asignment due on Monday. I've done about 2000 (but a heap of that are quotes)and now my head is getting all mushy and I DON'T WANNA!
I'm running out of topics to talk about but I'm also getting to the point where I'm just getting sick of it and I don't want to do any more.

Uni would be awesome if I didn't have to do any work :(

You should be as effusive with the word count as it is possible to be in this writing assignment. You should put in a great deal of unneccessary analysis and endevour to explain items in your text using as many words as humanly possible to make your points as clear as you can possibly make them to the reader of your paper.

Notice how densely the paragraph above is worded? It is striving for maximum word count when half as many words would say the same thing.(some 60 words for something that could be conveyed in 35 or even 30) Be as specific as possible in all you say. (notice three words for one there? I could have said “everything”) Include the descriptions of everything every time it is mentioned. Use a qualifier all over the place for anything and everything. Add lots of unneccessary subordinate clauses. Never begin a statement with a conjuction, repeat everything all over again. Use concluding sentences in every paragraph which are merely a restatement of the topic sentence.

In other words write like Charles Dickens (or so many other 18th-19th century writers) :)

I had my last peer tutoring session last week, and I was tutoring some kid who would not listen to me at all! Every time I pointed out any error(oh, you can actually reduce that fraction, see?) he would respond with “Oh well,” and carry on doing it wrong. He did an entire page wrong because he didn't listen to the instructions both me and the teacher gave him. But whatever, I'm sure the school will do something nice for me in return for all my hard work, right? Then just today I found out that I missed the day when they gave the peer tutors donuts. Stupid kids and teachers.

For all that I'm jaded about Macs and the artificial hype that surrounds them, Apple were the only ones that made a keyboard in the shape I wanted- with nice flat keys and none of that dam plastic useless guff surrounding the outside of it! I've looked and looked over endless varsities trying to find something good at a reasonable price and in the end the Apple's were by far the most inexpensive of that type.

I'll just have to learn to live without all the separate sound function keys and such that were on my more expensive fancy silver and black Dell keyboard… This Mac one uses the F keys for that and I don't yet know how to change their functions in Vista… And no screenshot key. :(
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Whoop, fixed the keys! Thankyou Sharpkeys ^^
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Still, it's worth it to have a nice slim metal keyboard.
Now if I could only find a nice looking mouse… Apple doesn't have any candidates I'd consider there.
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Ug, I trekked all over the city looking for a funky mouse and nice headphones. all they had were ugly things in back or silver plastic. Hideous, Even in the groovy record shops- NO cool headphones. I'll have to look online.
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Shopping is always a pain… Went to the DVD and record shops and the variety of music and movies is too overwhelming. Online for that as well I'm afraid.
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Oh, the street was blocked by a weird protest of some sort. They were anarchists or Scientologists or something… I didn't stick around to find out, those things have a tendency to catch you up and make you part of them. Anoying.

somebody called my phone this morning. at like….11….they didnt even speak english, and the phone number id was 5200000000….asking for devo is what i understood….

also i tried to uninstall norton antivirus, and it froze up my interwebz. i mean norton sucks, and i have AVG. which is twice as fast, catches more items, and doesnt lock up my interwebz. also now every time my computer starts up, i get an error about norton not being able to initialize. and the download tool from norton doesnt help. because that locks up my interwebz when i try to download it. stupid norton.
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HAZAAH! i went to a non norton related site, downloaded the program, and completely removed norton with that. which is kinda stupid. who makes a program where you have to download something to remove a program. oh god. i just realized, what if i have to download a program to remove the removal program…..oh no….AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH….oh…oh wait…it looks like the program either removed itself, or hid itself very well…..

I had this really awesome rant, but the stupid internet won't let me vent.

:/

400 Bad Request error, what?

I like that. Ranting that you can't rant.

I set up my new computer yesterday.

I was so happy that I german suplex'd myself. Talk about 6x more RAM.

How much ram have you got now?

ozoneocean
How much ram have you got now?

my guess is two or three gig.

I got 3GB RAM now compared to 512MB on my last one.

Big difference, though I was expecting more out from my video card when I started playing HL Episode 2 again.

I really… REALLY hate parents who don't know how to control or watch their kids. Was at work today and some like 4 year old decided to pull the fire alarm. We had to clear out 12 theaters of angry people whom just had their movie interrupted. Then we had to deal with a double rush, because it took a half hour- 40 minutes just to make sure everything checked out ok. So the second group was mad because their movie was starting late…… all because of stupid parents who couldn't watch their darned 4 year old… ARGH!!!!!

on a brighter note… we were so awesome we caught up and got back on schedule.

Continuing the theme of idiot parents, today me and my mum were walking to a place to do something (I forget what exactly, something to do with a dog), when we heard this woman behind us say ‘wait until they’re further away' to her kid. Then a few seconds later the kid shouts ‘fanny’ at the top of his voice.