Lurker > Solid_Sonic

Sorry.

Ah...the ever-present reminder why this fucking board is horseshit.

Please, someone, revoke my goddamn CE access.

You're free to stop posting anytime.

SHUT THE HELL UP.

thronedfire2 posted...

other: probably get divorced

That doesn't seem mutually exclusive to any of these outcomes.

...for the drama and stories surrounding its participants than the actual sport itself?

F1 is like this.

Exactly. It's randomly targeting the car that happened to be behind the tow truck.

You're actually going to attempt this? In an age where EVERYONE has a cell phone and a call to 911 that "this guy towed my car while I was stopped at a stoplight" is going to result from it? Talk about putting a target on your back.

Honestly I think part of the reason this is renting space in my head is also due to the lack of incredulity that the news reports I've seen on it have given this story. If I was trying to explain this to a television audience I'd want to convey how ludicrous the whole thing is.

Jen0125 posted...

Tow truck companies are just really operating in bad faith 90% of the time. That's not an exaggeration. If you Google this specific video you'll find this tow company was banned from operating in San Francisco and situations like this show why.

This goes one step beyond, though. Being duplicitous and towing cars that they have no business towing is one thing but the sheer brazenness of trying to tow a car that is being actively driven in full view of everyone defies all sensibility.

Like crime should have a point, shouldn't it? Even seemingly random acts have meaning to the person committing them, if nothing else. I cannot comprehend how anyone could possibly think trying to do this in any way serves a purpose.

The only thing that even kind of makes sense is if this was done out of...spite? For being banned (like "they won't let me tow in their fucking city, I'll show them" - that still doesn't make a lot of sense, though)? I found the full details of this tow company after this video first landed on my YouTube feed but even just knowing they were banned doesn't explain why anyone would try to do something like this.

To put it succinctly: why would someone do something that, if they actually go through with it and "succeed", has a 100% chance of being caught and brings no upside?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qWJndKmou4

???

I can't figure out what they were trying to accomplish.

For instance if I were to visit Melbourne, Australia as a resident of Melbourne, Florida.

Like only the tiniest fraction of time that made the difference between safety and catastrophe.

DeltaBladeX posted...

I haven't banned or kicked anyone, not yet anyway. Hoping I don't need to. Unless you mean the server Jen is talking about?

Well your link is broken. Or am I already in the server...?

Was I banned? I don't remember.

It keeps Frank Welker working. *Shrug*

Sorry, I was trying to be witty (even I didn't like that much).

Sufferedphoenix posted...

I've given my autograph to a ton who didn't want it

Yeah, that affidavit really screwed over the defendant and his lawyer got plenty pissed about it.

BTW Smash still isn't a fighting game.

hmnut7 posted...

A friend you made at work is a real friend.

A work colleague who you are friendly with is not necessarily a real friend

I get that but I feel like the whole "work friends are not real friends" statement is meant to be taken as a black-and-white categorization.

Like never expect anything to go beyond "hey, how was your weekend," if it's a coworker saying it sort of thing. As if it's an encouragement to put energy into fostering relationships that aren't tied down to your workplace.

I got one of my coworkers a PS3 as a Christmas gift. To me that's a lot more than a simple token gesture of amicability that supposedly comes from being in a workplace.

kirbymuncher posted...

a certain amount of gatekeeping is good, actually

Even if it is the counterargument would be that no one knows where the line should be drawn between maintaining community standards and being arbitrarily exclusive.

If you can't trust people to be fair-minded then they shouldn't get a say in who is "good enough" to be in the conversation at all.

Not saying I feel this way myself, I'm just looking at it from the other side.

crayola555 posted...

Nothing against casuals, but some are just awful with their opinions. I once had an argument with a guy who thinks the iphone is a better gaming system than the DS cause the games are cheaper and he thinks they have "quality"

Well in all fairness that last point is kind of ambiguous. If he can give thoughtful and considered reasons as to why that's not an invalid thing to say.

But if it's just "I had more fun," and can't explain what actual value he took away from the experience then, yeah, screw that noise.

Prestoff posted...

Depending on your job and position, of course. I'm not trying to bag on you or anything, but have you ever had to grow up in a collectivist environment before? If not, than I can understand why you don't get the concept.

I'm just tired of thinking that I'm always under scrutiny and that maintaining civility trumps how I actually feel.

Even now I'm coping with that sensation one feels the following morning when they went to bed with the weight of something pissing them off. I'm interacting with everyone around me in a calm and adult manner yet I feel like something inside is teetering on the verge of being rude and agitated.

This isn't about her specifically, it's about the fact I always have to keep considering what the ramifications of my actions will be if I encounter someone out in the world who pushes me to the point of a raised volume tongue lashing.

Prestoff posted...

It's just another version of gatekeeping.

Maybe it is but wouldn't the idea be to get people to not try to buck the trend with their untempered views on a subject?

Someone being narked upon hearing Unreal's graphics be called "ugly" by a person who only got into gaming in 2015 is perfectly fair, I think. What the hell do they know? Even I admit they didn't exactly age gracefully and the impressiveness of them is lost on me in the here and now but I would never begrudge a game of the era for my modern sensibilities.

NoMeLx22x posted...

Do you wanna explain what this is actually about or are you gonna just make us guess?

Uh...inferred context from a news story I never actually watched but decided to get upset about because I have a problem with society holding me responsible for my actions outside of the immediate relation to what I did.

https://youtu.be/5Qzz6m5HIwI?si=plWuU_WEj1dmGP4C

I feel like school is an easier place to breed friendships because everyone's there because they have to be.

"Misery loves company," and all that. But in the working world people are trying to get ahead and have their talents be recognized so it's easy to see the people you encounter as just transient as you and they work their way up to through the ladder.

Umbreon posted...

Knowing you?

Yes.

Excuse me but I have never been arrested for causing a scene in public.

At some point I expect it will happen, though.

I've got a lot of reasons, mostly due to lack of self-awareness (or even their defiance when confronted about the things that they're saying).

Don't close yourself off but don't be surprised if it's what ends up happening either.

If I lose my temper in public and start ranting and someone captures it on video and puts it on YouTube it's PERFECTLY FINE if my job decides to suspend me in response.

...would you grow sick of your signature?

adjl posted...

There's plenty of feedback. He's outright said they're ignoring it.

How much are the ignoring?

s0nicfan posted...

Could you be a bit more specific? If you're talking something like an artist that works for an advertisement company that makes and sells billboard space that's one thing. If you're talking about someone on social media who is constantly posting videos that are effectively product advertisements for the free things they get shipped to their house that's another. Or are you talking about people in a sales position that more or less only make money on commissions?

I just think people equate the advertising industry as on par with being a lawyer whose only role in society is to offer a function that no one actually likes.

Is it a legitimate field in which to make money?

OhhhJa posted...

At the end of the day who cares really? Every member of GnR is obscenely overrated in regard to their technical ability. Slash is an average guitarist who is treated like some kind of guitar god. Axl rose is a complete hack like many of the singers of that era. Duff mckagan is nothing special. Steven adler is the best member but still nothing amazing

Sounds like someone is harboring resentment towards success through mediocrity...

Charged151 posted...

Did you mine it or just buy it?

I just buy it. I use it as actual currency. That's just what's leftover from the last time I spent some.

Am I part of the problem?

Like you try to hold your tongue but people keep praising this thing that you think has got glaring flaws that only you seem to notice and eventually it hits a point where you can't keep hearing it without speaking your peace.

I feel like being able to swear openly on GameFAQs cost me the last vestige of my compunction towards swearing in general.

Aressar posted...

I bet the people who actually tell themselves they get 'upset' at hornyposting are the same kind of people who make a fuss of nothingburgers like 'necrobumping'. Touch grass already, friend. There's actually a lot of stuff in the world to get upset about, but those two things are objectively not among them.

I don't care for posts that try to compare a specific microcosm to the "great many injustices of our broken society" and try to render the debate irrelevant.

It's a relevant subject for the place we are in right now. Getting uppity about how ineffectual the debate is misses the point. It's about what goes on here, not out there.

I don't exactly...care because I felt like I wasn't really that interested in it myself.

But it just feels bothersome that I don't feel like anything that I as a user would want for this place matters. That all this is serving some other end that doesn't factor in the userbase. What else could cause issues that would make them be like "that's gotta go too" and not tell anyone that's what's going on.

Maybe it's the lack of transparency and consideration?

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Seems pretty terminally online in here.

Brb, heading to Staples.

Sounds to me like the couple that was divorced was already getting divorced but the error triggered it prematurely and the court refused to reverse it when they brought it to their attention.

Every purchase comes with a mostly-nonrefundable "processing fee" that's a percentage of the purchase price.

:/

Uh...

I...don't really know. I feel like the first one I owned was Nigel Mansell's World Championship.

Like if they lose their opponent kicks them out of their home?

Strider102 posted...

In it's place will be a giant video ad that is immune to ad block and you can't get rid of it.

That's how it is on IMFDB. There's an autoplay video at the top of every page that follows you down as you scroll and I've never been able to block it.

At least pausing it causes it to leave my screen as I scroll.

Corporations are great, they do the stuff that makes my life function.

DirtBasedSoap posted...

destroying someone elses mail is a felony

Yeah, well, so is insider trading and I think we all want to do that in some capacity...

They used to be known as "Wikia", that site full of various subject wikis.

???

I mean I live a pretty hygienic lifestyle as is so I don't consider it a chore to stay clean.