Lycan_Jedi said:
The Tagme tag. Why do I have to cover for people who are too lazy to even type 4 freaking tags?

If there's less than four, you should be reporting them.

treos said:
my curerent gamefly queue

gamefly, what is so darn special about those first 3 games in my queue that you WILL NOT let me have them? i've got darksiders 2: the deathinitive edition now and just checked and they've shipped watchdogs 2 but this is like 4 returns now and they still keep skipping those 3 games.

i didn't think "medium availablity" meant "unavailable". this is really getting me wondering why exactly, they keep skipping those 3 games and sending things further down my queue instead.

Maybe there are just a lot of people who are renting those ones, or have had them in their queues longer.

enough with this heat! *turns fan on high* turning this one across the room on high and switching the one i keep by the ps4 to medium.

loud as heck but if it keeps it even a bit cooler then who cares!

apparently it's so hot that the compressor in the window unit we still have in the living room keeps going off so my aunt & uncle are leaving it off for now which means...it is currently 88°F in there.

stupid summer heat is unbearable.

it (the temperature) doesn't even begin to drop until 8PM or later and by midnight it's STILL usually around 75°F!

When the air conditioner breaks down and it's over 100°F outside.

When the only way to cool down the house is to make it winter temperature. I get four days by myself and I'm starting to consider just spending all four with nothing on just to keep from having to decide between "hot as a desert" and "freezing as a desert at night".

I'm the kind of guy who freaks out if someone sees me only missing a shirt. That, and I kind of don't like the lack of weight. So if I decide to do that of my own free will, it's fucking hot.

I've been in 120 degree weather. Literally the hottest day in that state's history. I was fine. And this is still too much.

kamimatsu said:
When the only way to cool down the house is to make it winter temperature. I get four days by myself and I'm starting to consider just spending all four with nothing on just to keep from having to decide between "hot as a desert" and "freezing as a desert at night".

give me freezing unless it's cold enough for snow outside. then i need my space heater. that's why ~70 is my preferred temp. not too hot, not too cold.

I'm the kind of guy who freaks out if someone sees me only missing a shirt. That, and I kind of don't like the lack of weight. So if I decide to do that of my own free will, it's fucking hot.

same here, though i do that my room when i need to let my clothes dry...

i sometimes like to just get up and walk around for a bit (or use that dumbbell i still have) and uh...well, at least i wasn't dripping with sweat today since i didn't get up and walk around much and as a result i didn't need to put the clothes aside to dry. >.>

...or for uh...certain other activities.

anyway, thankfully it wasn't too bad for me today after i went and cranked both fans to high. hot but not unbearably so.

I've been in 120 degree weather. Literally the hottest day in that state's history. I was fine. And this is still too much.

my aunts little weather man device that shows the temp outside and other stuff said 91 today but she keeps the sensor part in the shade so you know it's MUCH hotter in the sunlight.

and to think, at some point in time (probably when i was little) i might've found summer to be fun. now? now it's just miserable heat and...post #950055 remove the collar and you have summer.

edit: sounds like we're gonna have thunderstorms tonight. which means, possible lightning (a lot if so), loud thunder which can and will vibrate and shake the trailer (sound is a powerful and impressive force. lol but yeah, that really does happen. even my uncle mowing the lawn can make things vibrate.), and sweet merciful rain with, hopefully, a nice temperature drop!

well, as long as there's no sounds like a cannon being fired i know everything's alright. that usually happens with a lightning strike i think and those are invredibly loud noises. can't really cover your ears for those either cause of how fast it happens so... yikes!

Wow. What a cunt. https://i.redd.it/jw7lxjs6webz.jpg

All Foreigners Will LEAVE China - China Bans VPNS?!

pretty bad news for china.

JoeX said:
Wow. What a cunt. https://i.redd.it/jw7lxjs6webz.jpg

I know, right? That blatant disregard of proper grammar is completely unacceptable.

treos said:
All Foreigners Will LEAVE China - China Bans VPNS?!

pretty bad news for china.

For a country that censors everything it doesn't agree with and refuses to stop funding those NK government goons, is anyone surprised?

treos said:
All Foreigners Will LEAVE China - China Bans VPNS?!

pretty bad news for china.

VPNs located in China or used by someone in China? They won't be able to enforce the latter without shutting down everything, and even then, people can just use Freenet, which if set up correctly is basically peer to peer and doesn't need to connect to the Internet.

kamimatsu said:
VPNs located in China or used by someone in China? They won't be able to enforce the latter without shutting down everything, and even then, people can just use Freenet, which if set up correctly is basically peer to peer and doesn't need to connect to the Internet.

the latter of the 2 i think.

never heard of this "freenet" before.

which if set up correctly is basically peer to peer and doesn't need to connect to the Internet.

o_O how can one use the internet while not connected to the internet?

hmmm... *reading wikipedia* well it certainly sounds interesting. i wonder if it has that slow connection speed problem TOR has though. cause depending on the website and how many connections it goes through, TOR can be pretty slow.

treos said:
i wonder if it has that slow connection speed problem TOR has though. cause depending on the website and how many connections it goes through, TOR can be pretty slow.

There are some issues. Server-side scripting, custom urls, and search engines that weren't set up manually are impossible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZC5TN3-kNI

So who wants to take bets on whether this rapist succeeds in suing her victim for defamation?

BlueDingo said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZC5TN3-kNI

So who wants to take bets on whether this rapist succeeds in suing her victim for defamation?

Related, #15: 7th grade special-ed student was expelled for defamation, and forced her to write an apology letter to the perpetrator, among other things.

Yeeeeeeah, people in the US are retarded, I could see this going either way.

Azula_Arktandr said:
Related, #15: 7th grade special-ed student was expelled for defamation, and forced her to write an apology letter to the perpetrator, among other things.

Yeeeeeeah, people in the US are retarded, I could see this going either way.

sad but true given how biased the legal system is in favor of girls.

makes me wonder sometimes. should that phrase "never stick it in crazy" be changed to "never stick it in women"? cause of all the baggage and trouble it seems to lead to in the latter case these days.

these days, a guy doesn't even have to do anything. a girl just has to make an accusation, regardless of whether or not it's false, and the poor guys life is ruined the instant the legal system comes into play. maybe even before the legal system part. all thanks to how such things seem to be a case of "guilty regardless of whether or not you're found/proven to be innocent of the accusation" these days.

hopefully, in this case, they punish the woman though...given her rather light punishment for rape i rather doubt she'll be getting any real punishment or anything. heck, there are probably some people out there cheering for her in this defamation case.

Hooooooooly fuck. http://www.skepticalob.com/2017/07/autism-bleach-and-pre-rational-beliefs-about-illness.html?

JoeX said:
Hooooooooly fuck. http://www.skepticalob.com/2017/07/autism-bleach-and-pre-rational-beliefs-about-illness.html?

That grammar suggests either the parent is more mentally damaged than the child she's supposedly treating or this is a poe.

ಠ_ಠ what. the. FUCK?!

gamefly did it AGAIN! they skipped the first 3 games in my queue AGAIN!

thankfully, gamespot has nice tech support so... maybe an email asking about this will yield an answer. if not, i have 3 other games in my queue after this and if these in the first 3 slots don't ship after that, it'll start looking quite suspicious.

well, more than it already does.

BlueDingo said:
That grammar suggests either the parent is more mentally damaged than the child she's supposedly treating or this is a poe.

it's real. i used to know a few victims of this. it was very common in the 90s here. those kids are all dead. none of them made it to adolescence.

JoeX said:
Hooooooooly fuck. http://www.skepticalob.com/2017/07/autism-bleach-and-pre-rational-beliefs-about-illness.html?

can they get the quack doctor and/or parents on murder when the child eventually dies of bleach poisoning?

treos said:
can they get the quack doctor and/or parents on murder when the child eventually dies of bleach poisoning?

I don't know, but they can get him for malpractice.

My roommate, people who compare memes to real-life rape, drama, excessive negativity, people who think they're nice by exaggerating things, people who try to censor my controversial beliefs if I'm not purposely being offensive, and people who constantly call things 'cringe' or 'cancer', like sheesh shut the heck up, not everything in the world is amazing, we all have some types of issues and you're only making things harder for your own amusement dude.

There are many other things that annoy me, but these things mainly are what piss me off. I just want to have fun and be an edgy dork. I don't want guilt tripping hounds taking everything way too seriously. I don't want teenagers bringing everybody down with insults or rude shit. If you're 'normal', fine, don't force me to be normal ya dickwad. Thanks!

JoeX said:
Hooooooooly fuck. http://www.skepticalob.com/2017/07/autism-bleach-and-pre-rational-beliefs-about-illness.html?

I guess autisim runs in the family. Those kids need to be placed into protective custody and the parents should be thrown in prison so they can get the shit kicked out of them by inmates.

ThoughtCrime said:
I guess autisim runs in the family. Those kids need to be placed into protective custody and the parents should be thrown in prison so they can get the shit kicked out of them by inmates.

I think the punishment should fit the crime. They should be slowly poisoned the same way.

hmmm... huh, i never noticed that before now.

looks like you can click this little "shipping preferences" thing on gamefly and have them hold your queue for up to 3 or 7 days until the highest ranked items in your queue get shipped.

yeah, that might work. sure, i can wait up to a week after sending back these 2 games (not going to jst do that as soon as they come in of course. that'd be dumb).

ThoughtCrime said:
I guess autisim runs in the family. Those kids need to be placed into protective custody and the parents should be thrown in prison so they can get the shit kicked out of them by inmates.

It actually does run in the family. It's genetic.

Windows 10 Creators Update Problems, Privacy Invasion & Petition for Change

3 month old video but it looks like windows 10 is still the spyware OS.

on the one hand, it's good that they're now telling people a lot of the different info they're gathering on you but on the other hand that's probably even more reason to avoid the spyware OS.

kamimatsu said:
It actually does run in the family. It's genetic.

B-but this picture on Facebook told me it's caused by vaccines!!!11!

treos said:
Windows 10 Creators Update Problems, Privacy Invasion & Petition for Change

3 month old video but it looks like windows 10 is still the spyware OS.

on the one hand, it's good that they're now telling people a lot of the different info they're gathering on you but on the other hand that's probably even more reason to avoid the spyware OS.

Windows 10 doesn't "spy" on you any more than Apple and Google's OS's do.

Read this article.

BlackLicorice said:
B-but this picture on Facebook told me it's caused by vaccines!!!11!

The first one got it from vaccines. The others inherit it.

BlackLicorice said:
Windows 10 doesn't "spy" on you any more than Apple and Google's OS's do.

Read this article.

read what, some BS article that tries to make it sound as if this is all some big conspiracy theory despite the piles of evidence that can be found with a few simple google searches? actually, i'll save you some time.

forum #165894 the fun starts with ∑asyZ's imgur link on page 2 then my first post on the same page and it just keeps on going from there. read through all of that thread and then tell me if it's still a conspiracy theory.

Azula_Arktandr said:
Related, #15: 7th grade special-ed student was expelled for defamation, and forced her to write an apology letter to the perpetrator, among other things.

Yeeeeeeah, people in the US are retarded, I could see this going either way.

That's some Grade A bullshit right there. I hope those twunts that run that school suffer the same fate in a dark alley.

Azula_Arktandr said:
Related, #15: 7th grade special-ed student was expelled for defamation, and forced her to write an apology letter to the perpetrator, among other things.

Yeeeeeeah, people in the US are retarded, I could see this going either way.

"#8: Texting in class"

I don't see anything wrong with tha-

"then she was arrested"

Wait, what?

BlackLicorice said:
Windows 10 doesn't "spy" on you any more than Apple and Google's OS's do.

Read this article.

apple is too.

kamimatsu said:
apple is too.

And Nintendo for Switch.

Some Switch Telemetry-logged values in Crash Reports

This entire YouTube channel is rage-inducing. https://youtu.be/NuAK4de83A4
Judging from the titles, you can tell that this guy is unreasonably stupid.

JoeX said:
This entire YouTube channel is rage-inducing. https://youtu.be/NuAK4de83A4
Judging from the titles, you can tell that this guy is unreasonably stupid.

Typical attention whore, acting like a cunt just to start drama. Best thing you can do is not acknowledge his existence.

LOL, the approval rating on just about every video is <20%.

Azula_Arktandr said:
Related, #15: 7th grade special-ed student was expelled for defamation, and forced her to write an apology letter to the perpetrator, among other things.

Yeeeeeeah, people in the US are retarded, I could see this going either way.

yes, yes they are...and i live in the US.

actually, people here are so stupid that they're attacking trump for saying "illegal aliens" instead of "undocumented immigrants" when talking about people crossing our borders illegally.

those people and those that support sanctuary cities are largely defending criminals (of course, #notallX are criminals obviously but a whole lot of them are.) who come here from other countries! i can't begin to comprehend the sheer stupidity it takes for this kind of stuff to happen.

JoeX said:
This entire YouTube channel is rage-inducing. https://youtu.be/NuAK4de83A4
Judging from the titles, you can tell that this guy is unreasonably stupid.

......wtf? "boonk flexed army vet out of $1000 and rolex"

flexed? has the word "flexed" been transformed into a retard slang term now? or am i being confused by the uh...scam?

treos said:
......wtf? "boonk flexed army vet out of $1000 and rolex"

flexed? has the word "flexed" been transformed into a retard slang term now? or am i being confused by the uh...scam?

Probably. A lot of ebonics involves using english words in entirely different ways to everyone else which can get quite confusing.

YouTube's New Censorship Will Creep You Out

so...censorship and now we can expect our search results to be manipulated... seriously, is there a good alternative to youtube yet? if not, we need one NOW.

and since google now owns youtube (or has that changed?), we can likely expect to see the search result manipulation happen on google too.

yeah...sorry, thought police but i like knowing the truth and seeing what I want to see, not what someone else decides i should see. since it's pretty easy to guess what they would consider "violent or extremist". >.> right, bluedingo?

i guess with these changes being made, we can now expect to see even more ACTUAL violent and extremist and/or indoctrination content popping up.

treos said:
YouTube's New Censorship Will Creep You Out

so...censorship and now we can expect our search results to be manipulated... seriously, is there a good alternative to youtube yet? if not, we need one NOW.

and since google now owns youtube (or has that changed?), we can likely expect to see the search result manipulation happen on google too.

yeah...sorry, thought police but i like knowing the truth and seeing what I want to see, not what someone else decides i should see. since it's pretty easy to guess what they would consider "violent or extremist". >.> right, bluedingo?

i guess with these changes being made, we can now expect to see even more ACTUAL violent and extremist and/or indoctrination content popping up.

This is why I always said that the term PC means "pussy censorship" for people who are nothing but pantywaist SJWs; the need to be asked "so fucking what?" when they get offended. Censorship is for over-sensitive pussies. There, I said it, sorry not sorry.

fox_whisper85 said:
This is why I always said that the term PC means "pussy censorship" for people who are nothing but pantywaist SJWs; the need to be asked "so fucking what?" when they get offended. Censorship is for over-sensitive pussies. There, I said it, sorry not sorry.

Meanwhile, film and cable television have a history of 'indecency' censorship to cater to conservative parents that demand the rest of the world become a safe haven for their children, regardless of whether or not that involves actively censoring entertainment designed from the ground up for adults.

That behavior comes from both ends of the political spectrum: from left-leaning groups who demand content be PC and inoffensive to an overly restrictive degree, to right-leaning groups who want everything to be Christian and sanitized to the point of losing any potential edge. I'd definitely recommend brushing up on the history of censorship in media in the US and understanding that it's nothing new; to the contrary, it's been a thorn in the side of all media for a while now, and it's unlikely to go away until we have more aggressively coarse and direct figures like Carlin showing the general public that cursing's not a crime.

Strongbird said:
Meanwhile, film and cable television have a history of 'indecency' censorship to cater to conservative parents that demand the rest of the world become a safe haven for their children, regardless of whether or not that involves actively censoring entertainment designed from the ground up for adults.

That behavior comes from both ends of the political spectrum: from left-leaning groups who demand content be PC and inoffensive to an overly restrictive degree, to right-leaning groups who want everything to be Christian and sanitized to the point of losing any potential edge. I'd definitely recommend brushing up on the history of censorship in media in the US and understanding that it's nothing new; to the contrary, it's been a thorn in the side of all media for a while now, and it's unlikely to go away until we have more aggressively coarse and direct figures like Carlin showing the general public that cursing's not a crime.

I just think either political extreme's view is asinine and convoluted, there has to be a compromise somewhere. People need to grow thicker skin and stop hiding behind their mother's skirt fro a change.

The best instance of censorship I've seen is the sex scene in Crank: High Voltage. Apparently, having a giant horse's penis fully erect, zoomed in and gliding across the screen in slow motion for about 10 seconds uncensored is a-ok but showing a human penis zoomed out so far that you probably can't see it for about one second is so indecent and offensive that it requires half the guy's body to be censored out. Double standards, much?

Wait, maybe that's what we have to do: Give all naked guys horse dicks and we won't have to censor them.

WTF?! http://m.imgur.com/aNctwh6?r

JoeX said:
WTF?! http://m.imgur.com/aNctwh6?r

"This toolbar keeps the product free for everyone." Suggests that Bing is sponsoring them well enough that encouraging the installation of their product is worthwhile to whoever the devs of that product are.

Furrin_Gok said:
"This toolbar keeps the product free for everyone." Suggests that Bing is sponsoring them well enough that encouraging the installation of their product is worthwhile to whoever the devs of that product are.

On the other hand, you'll often see these kinds of product promotions added to installers if they're hosted on skeevier websites like Sourcefourge, which are known to modify installation files without the consent of the original developer(s). Shady, yes, but unfortunately there's nothing stopping them from making a couple more dollars while tarnishing free software devs' reputation.

GAMING at 16K RESOLUTION?? – HOLY $H!T

this obsession with ever higher resolutions and video quality needs to DIE!

hey, bluedingo, want a nightmare? this here video can be viewed in 2160p quality at max. that makes the highest quality version of this video... 1.70GB!

how long would it take your internet connection to buffer all of that? cause i'd be waiting at least a week for half of it.

and the way the people running that channel show off all that fancy hardware leads me to believe that they are the type of people with more $$$ than brains.

treos said:
GAMING at 16K RESOLUTION?? – HOLY $H!T

this obsession with ever higher resolutions and video quality needs to DIE!

hey, bluedingo, want a nightmare? this here video can be viewed in 2160p quality at max. that makes the highest quality version of this video... 1.70GB!

how long would it take your internet connection to buffer all of that? cause i'd be waiting at least a week for half of it.

I'm not dumb enough to try, but it would likely take me many hours to download.

treos said:
and the way the people running that channel show off all that fancy hardware leads me to believe that they are the type of people with more $$$ than brains.

Someone really should get around to making an ascii remake of Skyrim or something just to trigger the graphic snobs. They're striving for insanely high graphic quality while I'm playing something that looks like this and laughing at all the HD space they're wasting on fancy graphics.

BlueDingo said:
Someone really should get around to making an ascii remake of Skyrim or something just to trigger the graphic snobs. They're striving for insanely high graphic quality while I'm playing something that looks like this and laughing at all the HD space they're wasting on fancy graphics.

o_O Xom? what game is that and who is this dark lord you are serving? also, does it have a version with...real graphics?

treos said:
o_O Xom? what game is that and who is this dark lord you are serving? also, does it have a version with...real graphics?

Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup. And yes, there is a version with 'real' graphics.

When I go into the bathroom and I see a small cockroach in the toilet and it crawls up beneath the rim in a place where the flushing water can't get to it for some reason.

That irrationally pisses me off.

BlueDingo said:
Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup. And yes, there is a version with 'real' graphics.

oh, ok. yeah, i haven't played that in quite a while.

Great. Just fucking great. We have an ant infestation! We had one last year, and I was hoping to avoid another one, but nope. The little fuckers are invading my home. Thankfully, we have ant spray. I hope it works!

BlueDingo said:
Someone really should get around to making an ascii remake of Skyrim or something just to trigger the graphic snobs. They're striving for insanely high graphic quality while I'm playing something that looks like this and laughing at all the HD space they're wasting on fancy graphics.

You mean Dwarf Fortress?

JoeX said:
Great. Just fucking great. We have an ant infestation! We had one last year, and I was hoping to avoid another one, but nope. The little fuckers are invading my home. Thankfully, we have ant spray. I hope it works!

Eeeps. Happened to me twice so far.

JoeX said:
Great. Just fucking great. We have an ant infestation! We had one last year, and I was hoping to avoid another one, but nope. The little fuckers are invading my home. Thankfully, we have ant spray. I hope it works!

If you find where they're entering at, smear a circle of chemical around it. The chemical will upset their pheromone senses and they'll mark it as a bad direction to go.

Furrin_Gok said:
If you find where they're entering at, smear a circle of chemical around it. The chemical will upset their pheromone senses and they'll mark it as a bad direction to go.

or spray some of that home defense stuff around where they're coming in from. that oughta stop 'em.

Furrin_Gok said:
If you find where they're entering at, smear a circle of chemical around it.

Yep. If you use sprays, it'll just keep happening every year.

Baking soda works fine for emergencies, and isn't terribly messy. But it's easiest to just track down where they come from, and fill the holes with something like silicon sealant. They hate that stuff.

Genjar said:
Yep. If you use sprays, it'll just keep happening every year.

Baking soda works fine for emergencies, and isn't terribly messy. But it's easiest to just track down where they come from, and fill the holes with something like silicon sealant. They hate that stuff.

Furrin_Gok said:
If you find where they're entering at, smear a circle of chemical around it. The chemical will upset their pheromone senses and they'll mark it as a bad direction to go.

Actually, I have some good news! I haven't seen any ants in a few hours. I think the spray put a stop to their invasion. What I thought was an infestation turned out to be a small group of scouts.
It's been raining here lately and it sometimes forces them inside.

bad voice acting in RPG Let's Plays.

the commentary is fine and is a normal part of Let's Plays but can we lose the bad voice acting attempts please?

and this mainly happens with older games that don't already have voice acting to go with the text. some people are good at it, like tyrannicon, but others...or rather most let's players... please, just stop already. you're nowhere near as good as you might think you are.

all the bad voice acting does is make me want to mute the video and/or just go look for a different Let's Play of the game in question where the person playing it doesn't do the voice over for the text. at least that would be less cringy if nothing else.

edit: Michelle Carter 2.5 Year Prison Sentence For Manslaughter

well, feminists wanted equality. too bad that equality meant superiority and apparently FAR less severe punishments for crimes compared to males.

Another man forced to pay child support for kid that isn't his

And people wonder why MGTOWs exist.

BlueDingo said:
Another man forced to pay child support for kid that isn't his

And people wonder why MGTOWs exist.

Gold digging without benefits.

One thing not mentioned in the video is the effect it had on the man's current wife or kids. Probably angry at him at first and now angry for him and facing a decrease in net worth.

BlueDingo said:
Another man forced to pay child support for kid that isn't his

And people wonder why MGTOWs exist.

MGTOW and...

Lance_Armstrong said:
One thing not mentioned in the video is the effect it had on the man's current wife or kids.

feminism leading to the increased lack of care about what happens to men and their kids.

quite the delightful end result that combination leads to, huh?

and yet feminists complain about misogyny... is it any wonder why so many people hate feminists these days? they are their own worst enemy and at the same time turn everyone against them. though that applies to pretty much any major movement these days.

between this and that woman getting 2.5 years for talking her boyfriend into committing suicide, i think it's plain to see that the US legal system is fucked in a good number of ways.

oh and i just remembered something else uh...where was that video again... ah here it is.

ZombieGoBoom is suing youtube as a result of the Adpocalypse (googles fail algorithm shit or something. i don't remember at the moment.) affecting theirs and many others ad revenue and livelihoods (for those who rely on youtube for their main source of income. probably not the smartest move but whatever.).

> We Support Equal Rights™

> M*n are PIGS! KILL ALL M*N!

Feminists make me angry. Especially TERFs.

The sheer amount of misogyny in this thread triggers me.

Why can't the stupid men understand that women are strong, indepent and don't need men but at the same time they're poor, helpless victims who need men to save them from other men?

BlackLicorice said:
> M*n are PIGS! KILL ALL M*N!

Yeah, masterisken are the worst.

You guys need to chill out with the political talk.

I just got a call from one of those IRS scammers. It was an automated call telling me the IRS put out a lawsuit against me. They said it was the final notice. The caller ID even said Washington, D.C. They were expecting my mother to pick up, expecting her to be gullible, but she saw right through their bullshit. It makes me so angry that these fuckwits prey on innocent people in an attempt to get money from them. It's a federal crime, and I hope these bastards are found and thrown in prison. It's absolutely disgusting.

JoeX said:
I just got a call from one of those IRS scammers. It was an automated call telling me the IRS put out a lawsuit against me. They said it was the final notice. The caller ID even said Washington, D.C. They were expecting my mother to pick up, expecting her to be gullible, but she saw right through their bullshit. It makes me so angry that these fuckwits prey on innocent people in an attempt to get money from them. It's a federal crime, and I hope these bastards are found and thrown in prison. It's absolutely disgusting.

Completely agree. Lack of empathy in it is sad

Fishing minigames. I'm talking about those mind-numbingly dull ones where you have to wait for the fish to nibble, then quickly reel it in.

It feels like these are mandatory for modern RPGs and life simulators. I'm too old for this kind of reflex-based nonsense. Thanks for ruining an otherwise good game, devs.

Genjar said:
Fishing minigames. I'm talking about those mind-numbingly dull ones where you have to wait for the fish to nibble, then quickly reel it in.

It feels like these are mandatory for modern RPGs and life simulators. Thanks for ruining an otherwise good game, devs.

It's not so bad when they're completely optional and don't really have anything worth getting, but yeah, they are annoying.

Eg. You don't need the Golden Scale in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time at all unless you want every single heart piece, so why bother fishing for it?

Genjar said:
Fishing minigames. I'm talking about those mind-numbingly dull ones where you have to wait for the fish to nibble, then quickly reel it in.

It feels like these are mandatory for modern RPGs and life simulators. I'm too old for this kind of reflex-based nonsense. Thanks for ruining an otherwise good game, devs.

I kind of like them in the breath of fire minigames, where you actually have shadows to aim for, and have to reel it in at the right rate (represented by the bar). They're also optional for the most part (3 has a part where you need a specific fish to make sushi for a fish-hater), so if you don't want to sit around casually fishing, you can run around fighting monsters instead.