[Rant] Minor Rant III: For a Few Hollers More

PatrThom

PatrThom

LittleKagsin said:
What I hate is when people have an aggressive dog, but let it roam around their yard leash-less. So, when I walk by with my dog I have to do a crazy dance to keep their dog away from mine. Like, c'mon people, if you know your dog is aggressive at the very least leash it. One of the most frustrating things ever.
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We have neighbors with an aggressive dog. Their yard is fenced. Our yard is not. They keep the gate closed but there are times when the yardwork people come over when it doesn't always get secured. We keep a 2ft, 3lb branch up on the porch in case the dog gets it into his fool head to get out and chase after our 2yr-old. So far, the rod of Righteous Wrath has yet to descend upon his doggy noggin, but should it ever come to pass, I will 100% blame the neighbors for whatever happens.

--Patrick
 
AshburnerX

AshburnerX

Shegokigo said:
Pretty much this. I have a hand-fan that points at my mouse at all times. A ceiling fan on 4ft away. Two rotating fans next to me when in bed and the AC set to 70 degrees 24/7.
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This is my life all summer long, except I live with people who won't let me turn the air down past 75. It probably wouldn't be so bad if I didn't need to close my door for privacy when I game, turning my room into a hotbox of misery and discord.
 
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makare

GasBandit said:
It's referring to your assertion that cheapness is all that is cared about, demonstrating it's incorrectness by extrapolating to its logical terminus.

But I can tell it's already changing. The next type of support? Community-based support. I shit you not. My company pays thousands to the company that licenses us the use of our broadcast traffic software. But when we have problems with it, the first step is always their "community support system" which is fancy talk for "private internet webforum with a prominent SEARCH field with access restricted to customers where somebody has already asked your question and some other CUSTOMER has posted the answer/solution." Their customers... take care of their other customers for them. This has replaced their "first tier" of support techs. If you get a problem that isn't answered by another customer, we have a number that goes directly to someone who would be considered at least 2nd tier. No queues, no webforms. Heck, I even have direct numbers to two 3rd tier specialty techs. But I rarely have to call them... because 9 times out of 10... the community answered my question months ago.
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I said call centers will exist because they are cheap. You took it to mean if cheapness was all that mattered then they wouldn't have existed in the first place which is still a big wtf. We are talking about call centers and how they do exist and why.
That's like having a conversation about hybrids being good for the environment and then saying that if being good for the environment mattered cars wouldnt have existed in the first place.

The main issue may be cheapness but it isn't the only issue.

The people who call into redbox fuck up REDBOX. They are never going to make it through an online forum type thing.
 
Yoshimickster

Yoshimickster

And don't get me started on my other neighbours. Not just their dogs, but my next-door neighbour is one of the most obnoxious jerks EVER!He has this RC boat that he plays with on the lake that just makes THE MOST ANNOYING SOUND IN THE WORLD! And they have THREE dogs, even worse than my other neighbours. And-they-bark-all-the-TIME! And sure the other dog was aggressive but they just got her, my next door neighbours have had these damn dogs for 5 years! It's not hard to believe them being so aggro, since the owners NEVER seem to play with their animals. I may not be a dog owner, but I do know that dogs need the proper atention or else they get vicious.
 
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fade

Staff member
Ever had a movie idea and then see one with EXACTLY the plot you had in mind? I just saw Insidious (which I'll review in the latest movie thread), and it was EXACTLY the same as a story my brother and I plotted out a few years ago. Even down to the voice on the baby monitor, which is actually where the story started. We were looking at my daughter's monitor while she was napping, and I said, wow it'd be creepy if you heard a voice on that monitor right now.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

fade said:
Ever had a movie idea and then see one with EXACTLY the plot you had in mind?
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Yes. What's more annoying is when I see million-dollar inventions go that way. Sometimes they're even things I thought up when I was still a pre-teen.

--Patrick
 
Hylian

Hylian

I sneezed really hard and but my tongue and if that wasn't bad enough since it was a bit swollen I accidentally bit it at almost the same exact spot when I was eating lunch.
 
Sparhawk

Sparhawk

Hylian said:
I sneezed really hard and but my tongue and if that wasn't bad enough since it was a bit swollen I accidentally bit it at almost the same exact spot when I was eating lunch.
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I'm sorry you bit your tongue, but the typo makes it funny. "...and but my tongue...".
 
David

David

An artist friend of mine has had me twice now share her paintings on Facebook to try to help her sell them. I hate using my feed as an advertising ground, particularly if it's something I have nothing to do with, but I couldn't find the courage to just say "No." I've tried encouraging her to spread her work more on her own. I've even tried showing her Halforums hoping she'd set up shop in the art forums. She wants to be taken as a serious professional, but doesn't want to sell to or advertise to complete strangers on the internet yet, because she's "old fashioned." What the f***ity hell does that even mean?

All I can think is that she's acting more like an "Arteest" than she has either the experience or skill to back up any right to.
 
Yoshimickster

Yoshimickster

How is selling things to strangers "Old fashioned"? Selling things to complete strangers is the corner-stone of any capitalistic venture.
 
Gusto

Gusto

Tell her it's kind of hard to sell stuff to people if they don't know you have something to sell.

This is one of the reasons I hate calling myself an artist.:fu:
 
LittleSin

LittleSin

David said:
An artist friend of mine has had me twice now share her paintings on Facebook to try to help her sell them. I hate using my feed as an advertising ground, particularly if it's something I have nothing to do with, but I couldn't find the courage to just say "No." I've tried encouraging her to spread her work more on her own. I've even tried showing her Halforums hoping she'd set up shop in the art forums. She wants to be taken as a serious professional, but doesn't want to sell to or advertise to complete strangers on the internet yet, because she's "old fashioned." What the f***ity hell does that even mean?

All I can think is that she's acting more like an "Arteest" than she has either the experience or skill to back up any right to.
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Tell her to grow the fuck up.

After the show is done I have to sell stuff in order to recoup my costs.

If she isn't trying to get in galleries, be seen and advertise herself she needs to whore out on etsy. Otherwise it is just a hobby.
 
David

David

I didn't press for clarification because I honestly stopped giving her any serious consideration by that point, but my guess is she views the internet itself as a newfangled thingy used by amateurs, the way the newspaper industry did for years. No REAL arteest would be caught dead using the internet as their primary mode of business.
 
Gusto

Gusto

Meanwhile my paintings have their own Facebook page. Oh well. This reminds me, I should get off my ass and paint again...
 
LittleSin

LittleSin

I'm feeling kinda cranky.

Your friend sounds too closed minded to be in art, let alone business.

Grrr...cranky crank crank.
 
Gusto

Gusto

Couldn't hurt. Allows people to share it for you pretty easily too. I'm sure if David's friend made a Facebook page and asked him to, he'd Like it and share a link no problem.
 
David

David

Gusto, I linked her your page as an example and asked if she'd consider doing something like that for herself. Her response was that she's not that great.
 
Gusto

Gusto

I'm doing my best to take that as a compliment but jeez, it takes like 5 minutes to set up a page like that and I can think of no possible downsides to trying.
 
Adam

Adam

Don't know what demons have been lurking in my subconcious but I had a super sexy-time dream last night about a Halforumite. Kind of casts a strange colour over the rest of the site afterwards, like "Good lord, I must be spending too much time here."
 
Docseverin

Docseverin

Going in for surgery on my shoulder on wednesday, I won't be able to jump for 3-6 months....*le sigh*. On the bright side, after getting back from the bridge, I came home and linked up with some of my friends and jumped my first antenna...280 ft.
 
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SeraRelm

Adammon said:
Don't know what demons have been lurking in my subconcious but I had a super sexy-time dream last night about a Halforumite. Kind of casts a strange colour over the rest of the site afterwards, like "Good lord, I must be spending too much time here."
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Was it GasBandit? I bet it was GasBandit.
 
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fade

Staff member
Hey, that's not GasBandit. Only the finest American made steel glasses crafted by unregulated child laborers, with lenses ground from their childhood dreams.
 
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SeraRelm

Also, that sucks Doc. I know how much jumping means to you.


Wait, didn't we say base jumping was a suicidal hobby or something before? I see no pics with a look of pure terror.:cry:
 
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