Stuff you hate

[Mr Bekkler]

I hate my fish. He's a real dick.

[Trebuchet]

I meant modern, petty politics that seem to exist only to make people bitch and separate friends.

[utunnels]

Well, I've been a firefox user for years until today.
Guess the fox ate too much and became unbearable slow.

[tushantin]

Just came back from Mumbai. Seen good things, bad things and downright disgusting things. Lots of places to see, lots to get and enjoy, yet lots of traffic and bribery; havaldars, traffic police and security guards just can't live without bribes. Hell, even most "affordable" hotels were the most unhygienic and inconvenient at best, making middle-class folks like me feel pretty good about our own small apartments back home.

But if there was one thing I despised most is the people stalking most tourist places in the hopes of earning money or getting laid (with foreigners). Was taking pictures of the family at a small beach, until I saw an Indian dude talking to a pretty and young blonde lady and her mother. Now normally that's not a problem; the tourists knew the place was friendly, the man was funny and charming, and they probably had a great companion. Things didn't seem out of the ordinary...

...which was the problem. The man wasn't really an ordinary mumbai citizen, from an Indian's point of view, and it was obvious he didn't even know the tourists from the looks of things, but just met them. Albeit he was funny and friendly he wasn't alone. Just behind him, sitting on the mats, were his buddies looking at him and the woman either lustfully, amused, or a few with opened jaws. The dude himself kept moving towards them and touching the girl inappropriately in front of her mother, neither of them minding this for some strange reason.

Some might think that this is ordinarily the case when you want to socialize with other races, and true, half of us guys would like to have affairs with women outside our races, but through an Indian's point of view the situation was worse than you could imagine. The man wasn't trying to socialize with the tourists, but actually getting into the pants of almost every beautiful foreign woman he saw, with his buddies backing him up (buddies with knives with connections in the Mumbai slums) just out of you-know-what. They were basically rabid stray wolves in mating-season stalking the places crowded with tourists.

I wanted to warn the women about them. Wanted to caution them to stay clear of trouble, but I doubt those guys would leave their eyes off for a second. Plus, I was with my family and cousins; didn't want them involved in anything dangerous.

Bleh, survival of the fittest, I suppose. Just wish tourists would be more prepared than this.

[tushantin]

Excerpt from my Facebook...

Just sold my old CRT while watching this video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8VfcmKDLiw
I dunno if it's the music in that video, or selling off a fragment of my childhood for just 500 bucks that makes me feel uncomfortable somehow, which is ironic since it's just manufactured product.

Yeah, that was my first ever monitor I purchased... as a kid, who was eager to play games on it. Ah, the good old days. XD

[Lavodox]

I hate FFXIV, but love seeing its prices fall. Take that, SE. Serves you right for C&Ding our fan projects. Hah!

[GenesisOne]

I hate how gamers out there look at FFVII and see it as the paragon of FF games.

I personally find it to be over-rated as a game.

IMHO, FFIX was way better.

[Manly Man]

Me too. From what it looks like, the game was made to spur the fangirls, and I'd thought they'd done that enough with Kain from FFIV and Locke from FFVI.

Speaking of which, I hate it when something is done completely as fanservice, whether it's plotline or character design or whatever, but especially character design. Ivy's costumes get skimpier and skimpier, and it pisses me off whenever people start comparing Soul Calibur to Dead or Alive, and I hate to say it, but it's getting closer as they continue.

[FaustWolf]

Manly Man, I'm curious: do you feel that example of "fanservice" was actually demanded by the Soul Caliber fanbase? Or could it have been a mere assumption on the developers' part? Sometimes I really wonder about the...directionality of these things.

[Lady Marle]

I hate American Politics, as I am apart of the country. I hate the health care system here, and don't get me started on the judicial system...

On a lighter note, I thing the Final Fantasy series as a whole is overrated. I can appreciate some of the games as I love them just as much as the next gamer... but I want to see either a new series that sparks passion in the fans or a continuation of another series to quench their fans now... *cough* the Chrono series *cough*

[Manly Man]

Manly Man, I'm curious: do you feel that example of "fanservice" was actually demanded by the Soul Caliber fanbase? Or could it have been a mere assumption on the developers' part? Sometimes I really wonder about the...directionality of these things.

Personally, I think it was a bit of both. When they started her off, they made the 'obligatory' slutty-dressed character. Once it was found that she attracted buyers, they continued to emphasize the concept with all of them and see how far they could push it to draw more people in with the sexual appeal. Now, it's gotten to the point of the entire female cast being considered a joke.

I love the game, and I even love the characters, but the way that they're portrayed, looking like pornstars, really gets to me. I don't even get as angry at it as I do disappointed. They could give a try to using their imaginations a bit more and make something creative that will have people take them seriously again.

[Sajainta]

Shallow "love".  D and I watched Sweet November earlier today (don't ask...we wanted to watch a chick flick and make fun of it) and the ending is just obnoxious.

(Um, spoiler alert ahead?  Can't imagine this would be a big deal on here, but ya never know.)

The female protagonist essentially tells Mr. I-Never-Have-Any-Facial-Expressions-Ever protagonist (aka Keanu Reeves) that she's leaving him (after a month) to go die of cancer because she wants him to only remember the good stuff about her, that what they had was perfect, and she wants that image of her burned forever into his mind so she can still attain some kind of "immortality" or some shit.

What.The.Fuck.

What kind of idiot thinks love is all about rainbows and sunshine and remembering all the good things?  That's not love.  That's fluffy idiocy.  If you love someone, you take the good with the bad.  You love them as flawed, real human beings who make mistakes and piss you off.  Not some kind of perfect concept.  Essentially, the main character wants to be remembered as a flat, one-dimensional person.  Sounds like the worst kind of immortality to me.

D and I fight sometimes.  We get into heated debates that make both of us mad.  We say things we don't mean to each other on occasion.  We've gone through hell together.  There is absolute truth in the statement "I love you, but I don't like you right now."

And I wouldn't have it any other way.  Because that's human.  It's realistic.  Life isn't some damn bowl of perfect happiness.  Neither is love.  It is amazing and beautiful and wonderful, yes.  I can't even explain what it's like to be in love.  But it's hard.  And it can be very frustrating and annoying.  Because if you truly, truly love someone, you take them for what they are.  You take them and love them as an imperfect person with whom you will most certainly fight with and dislike at some point.

And those who agree with the movie's message about love are incredibly naive, and I feel sorry for them because they've obviously never experienced real love.

I'm not even going to go into that whole "the two characters knew each other for about three weeks and fell head over heels in love" fairytale bullshit.

[Trebuchet]

I absolutely despise the textbook industry. I just payed 63 dollars for a book that wasn't even bound, I had to buy a binder to put it in. Disgusting.

[Thought]

Saj, that reminded me of the following line that you might find interesting: "When you're a kid, they tell you it's all 'grow up. Get a job. Get married. Get a house. Have a kid, and that's it.' But the truth is, the world is so much stranger than that. It's so much darker. And so much madder. And so much better."

[FaustWolf]

Incredibly well said, Sajainta.