Ranting Thread

[Parasondox]

Some would rather want a division in society, unite among us all. It's always "Us vs Them" and the debates and outrage are endless. I have been called stupid and foolish for wanting more respect and love in the world and I find that funny and a sad to be honest.

Make love and not war. Fear should never win.

I'll just shut my mouth now.

 

[ecoho]

ok two things
1. if you cant read or speak English BRING A FUCKING TRANSLATOR WITH YOU WHEN YOU GO OUT! I swear I get yelled at in Spanish, hindu, several different dialects of Russian, and Arabic at least twice a day because they cant read a sign that say shit is still cooking or it has pork in it.

2. if someone asks you nicely to move your car because its a traffic hazard don't wait for you fucking food at the fast-food place before moving it! I mean seriously people are really stupid about parking in front of no parking signs were semi's go through at high speeds, at this point im just waiting for one of them to get hit and spattered all over the pavement.

 

[Zen Bard]

Okay, I'm goin' in!

This is to all the people in the good ol' U.S. of A who have that "Liberal vs. Conservative" mentality.

You are part of the problem!

The country's divided enough as it is along racial and class lines without you idiots creating yet another split along artificial political lines.

Three things:

One: There is NO SUCH THING as a "Liberal" or "Conservative" in this context. Those words are adjectives meant to be used in conjunction with other ideologies. A conservative view means one adheres more strictly with the principles of said ideology whereas liberal means one interprets it a bit more loosely. As such, it is possible to be a "Conservative Democrat" or a "Liberal Republican".

Two: The Democrat and Republican Parties DO NOT STAND for anything! Their ideologies are strictly dictated by which ever special interest groups contributed to the politicians election funds. This isn't tin-foil hat conspiracy theory. This is the way Washington works. A group of people finances a candidates election campaign and in exchange, that candidate votes a certain way on specific issues. For example, the reason the Republicans are so anti-Climate change and Pro-guns is that their biggest backers are the Koch Brothers (big oil) and the NRA.

Three: Your politicians DO NOT GIVE A SHIT about you! So stop acting as if once "your guy" gets elected Congressman/Senator/President everything is going to miraculously improve. The only thing the politicians care about is maintaining power. They don't care about the country. They only care about how many of their people they can get to occupy all the Big Chairs on Capitol Hill.

Aaaah. Thanks! That felt good!

Tell you what, I'll stop thinking like that the day that one of those sides stops actively trying to rob me and my LGBT brethren of our rights.

Sound good to you?

Why do you think that is? Because the so called "religious right" has as much sway as the NRA. And let's face it...their ignorance knows no bounds.

But I stand by my statement. There are no "NeoCons" or "Libutards"...just assholes with influence and an agenda.

 

[FPLOON]

Oh glob... I just realized that Ronald Reagan was the first televised presidential nominee to say "We can make America great again"...

My mom, my grandmother, and I had an in-dept discussion about the current state of black mentality... Before I could tell you that we are all black as an "necessary" asterisk to the potential mindset that usually would come from a blatant statement like that, we clearly were approaching this conversation from our respected generations, thus leading to some rant-feeling statements without any side really learning anything new, let alone anything that could be consider "old" in or out of context...

I REALLY should have seen the movie Spice World sooner in my life!

My friend thinks I'm only making money so that I can save up and buy more video games or anime DVDs/Blu-Rays when I'm actually saving money so that by the time my health insurance expires alongside my back account "level", I'll be ready for that shit...

Ever since I started meditating, I've been getting twice as horny... and not only do I not like that, but it kinda scares me when it happens...

Other than that, I did not cry at the funeral!!

 

[Leg End]

Tell you what, I'll stop thinking like that the day that one of those sides stops actively trying to rob me and my LGBT brethren of our rights.

Sound good to you?

Both sides do that. One wants to labelled as freaks, the other wants you disarmed and be their trophy to flaunt.

Pick neither and tell both to eat shit.

Before I could tell you that we are all black as an "necessary" asterisk to the potential mindset that usually would come from a blatant statement like that, we clearly were approaching this conversation from our respected generations, thus leading to some rant-feeling statements without any side really learning anything new, let alone anything that could be consider "old" in or out of context...

I'm replying solely to say, you're black? Not a Wii U Controller?

 

[Saltyk]

Snip

Tell you what, I'll stop thinking like that the day that one of those sides stops actively trying to rob me and my LGBT brethren of our rights.

Sound good to you?

So I take it you're not voting for Hillary? She was against Gay Marriage when her party was for it. There's really only two explanations for that. She is against it personally or she was pandering to popular opinion. Niether is really that good.

And I know more Republican voters who support gay marriage than oppose it (literally one guy I know may oppose it). And those people have always supported it, even when Hillary was against it.

The world isn't black and white, or red and blue in this case. It's purple.

 

[Samtemdo8_v1legacy]

I hate everyone for hating the Warcraft movie. I want it to succeed for the hopes of a better sequals since Warcraft lore and stories got way better later on than the beginnings of the First War.

But I hate the movie itself for having such a mediocre team of people making the movie.

Duncan Jones? A unproven unknown who made only 2 small indie movies that only film geeks care about.

The actors playing the humans are so uncaring and miscast they needed popular and proven actors to ACT these charcaters, and oh everyone points to the guy in Vikings even though that is all he made, we don't know how wide his acting range is. And most of them were so silent liek they were whispering I could not here what they are saying.

The Screenwriter that wrote with Duncan, Charles Leavitt, has only made a handful of mediocre films:

Sunchaser (1996)
The Mighty (1998)
K-PAX (2001)
Blood Diamond (2006)
The Express (2008)
Seventh Son (2014)
In the Heart of the Sea (2015)


The composer Ramin Djawadi of Game of Thrones has made a soundtrack that no way lives up to the great soundtrack of the actual games:


Compared to the actual games:



Funnily enough the Editor of this movie is Paul Hirsch who made everyone's favorite Star Wars film, the Empire Strikes Back so that explains the climax of the movie cutting between 2 epic climaxs, "The Human/Orc Battle and the 2 main humans dealing with Medivh"

It's not a BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD movie, But the problem is that it could have been so much better and it just does not live up to Warcraft enough, it needed to be 4 hours long Lord of the Rings extended cut style, it needed better actors for the Humans I mean fuck the World of Warcraft games had a human character that was voiced by the actor that played Theoden from Lord of the Rings.

I just hope either Blizzard themselves takes the helm to make a better movie or they learn from their mistakes to make it better, because they better not fuck up the Lich King story if the end up making more sequals.

 

[Neurotic Void Melody]

I have a lot to rant about. A whole hell of a lot. But I'm tired now and just want it all to go away. For people to be understanding and not fearful. I just watched Spotlight also, that certainly isn't the greatest faith builder in humanity. The real horror in life is the greed and selfishness and downright sociopathic behaviour of so many humans. It's getting real tiring and whatever the hell is going to happen with the US now that Hilary is pretty much garunteed to lose to the passionate mob mentality of trump's cult following. A conservative leadership election in the UK that is like being presented with a selection of stale, rancid turds to go with your ice-cream while there are perfectly good chocolate flakes in sight. Why can't we have the chocolate flakes? I can see them right there! But no...rancid stale turds we must endure. Except you don't even get to pick, though it hardly matters. I couldn't pick one, unless they were in the crosshairs of my high-powered sniper rifle. Argh, no...violence bad. But these people are worse. There are just not enough kittens to overcome this despair. Must focus on smaller things. Argh! No...they're even worse! Such a bad situation. Must find humour before it all collapses inward again.

Some would rather want a division in society, unite among us all. It's always "Us vs Them" and the debates and outrage are endless. I have been called stupid and foolish for wanting more respect and love in the world and I find that funny and a sad to be honest.

Make love and not war. Fear should never win.

I'll just shut my mouth now.

I agree, but they keep arresting me every time I try. Fuckers. No, bad bear! Must stay with luurve!

 

[Thaluikhain]

Snip

Tell you what, I'll stop thinking like that the day that one of those sides stops actively trying to rob me and my LGBT brethren of our rights.

Sound good to you?

So I take it you're not voting for Hillary? She was against Gay Marriage when her party was for it. There's really only two explanations for that. She is against it personally or she was pandering to popular opinion. Niether is really that good.

And I know more Republican voters who support gay marriage than oppose it (literally one guy I know may oppose it). And those people have always supported it, even when Hillary was against it.

The world isn't black and white, or red and blue in this case. It's purple.

That doesn't stop one side from currently actively attempting to harm LGBT people, and the other making some vague attempts to prevent this, though. Whether this is due to conviction or from self-interest doesn't affect the results of this.

 

[Saelune]

Snip

Tell you what, I'll stop thinking like that the day that one of those sides stops actively trying to rob me and my LGBT brethren of our rights.

Sound good to you?

So I take it you're not voting for Hillary? She was against Gay Marriage when her party was for it. There's really only two explanations for that. She is against it personally or she was pandering to popular opinion. Niether is really that good.

And I know more Republican voters who support gay marriage than oppose it (literally one guy I know may oppose it). And those people have always supported it, even when Hillary was against it.

The world isn't black and white, or red and blue in this case. It's purple.

Hillary isn't going to try to repeal the Supreme Court's ruling for federal gay marriage. Do I like that she wasn't pro-LGBT from the start? Sure. But there is a difference between someone saying it just so people like her, versus people who adamantly believe it and fight tooth and nail to discriminate against LGBT people.

 

[Saltyk]

Snip

Tell you what, I'll stop thinking like that the day that one of those sides stops actively trying to rob me and my LGBT brethren of our rights.

Sound good to you?

So I take it you're not voting for Hillary? She was against Gay Marriage when her party was for it. There's really only two explanations for that. She is against it personally or she was pandering to popular opinion. Niether is really that good.

And I know more Republican voters who support gay marriage than oppose it (literally one guy I know may oppose it). And those people have always supported it, even when Hillary was against it.

The world isn't black and white, or red and blue in this case. It's purple.

That doesn't stop one side from currently actively attempting to harm LGBT people, and the other making some vague attempts to prevent this, though. Whether this is due to conviction or from self-interest doesn't affect the results of this.

Fair enough. However, that doesn't mean EVERYONE that belongs to a group feels that same way. Plenty of people support those people for other reasons while opposing some things those people do. I highly doubt you agree 100% with any politician that you support. More likely you agree with 60-70% of the things they do/say.

Snip

Tell you what, I'll stop thinking like that the day that one of those sides stops actively trying to rob me and my LGBT brethren of our rights.

Sound good to you?

So I take it you're not voting for Hillary? She was against Gay Marriage when her party was for it. There's really only two explanations for that. She is against it personally or she was pandering to popular opinion. Niether is really that good.

And I know more Republican voters who support gay marriage than oppose it (literally one guy I know may oppose it). And those people have always supported it, even when Hillary was against it.

The world isn't black and white, or red and blue in this case. It's purple.

Hillary isn't going to try to repeal the Supreme Court's ruling for federal gay marriage. Do I like that she wasn't pro-LGBT from the start? Sure. But there is a difference between someone saying it just so people like her, versus people who adamantly believe it and fight tooth and nail to discriminate against LGBT people.

The thing is that I don't think she is pro gay marriage at all. Even now. I think she is against it personally, but supports it publicly because that is the party line and the majority of Americans support it. Considering she was against it before, despite Democrats in general supporting it, I think that means she was saying how she truly feels. Maybe I'm wrong, but there really are plenty of other reasons to dislike her. That would just be one more thing on the pile.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Fair enough. However, that doesn't mean EVERYONE that belongs to a group feels that same way. Plenty of people support those people for other reasons while opposing some things those people do. I highly doubt you agree 100% with any politician that you support. More likely you agree with 60-70% of the things they do/say.

Certainly, yes.

OTOH, I have the advantage of giving qualified support to politicians, I can say I like them better than the alternative, or that they are correct on certain issues. If I was a member of a political party I sorta have to play follow the leader and hope they are somewhat palatable.

 

[Saltyk]

Fair enough. However, that doesn't mean EVERYONE that belongs to a group feels that same way. Plenty of people support those people for other reasons while opposing some things those people do. I highly doubt you agree 100% with any politician that you support. More likely you agree with 60-70% of the things they do/say.

Certainly, yes.

OTOH, I have the advantage of giving qualified support to politicians, I can say I like them better than the alternative, or that they are correct on certain issues. If I was a member of a political party I sorta have to play follow the leader and hope they are somewhat palatable.

Then it seems we agree. Good to have a reasonable conversation on this sort of subject.

 

[Saelune]

Snip

Tell you what, I'll stop thinking like that the day that one of those sides stops actively trying to rob me and my LGBT brethren of our rights.

Sound good to you?

So I take it you're not voting for Hillary? She was against Gay Marriage when her party was for it. There's really only two explanations for that. She is against it personally or she was pandering to popular opinion. Niether is really that good.

And I know more Republican voters who support gay marriage than oppose it (literally one guy I know may oppose it). And those people have always supported it, even when Hillary was against it.

The world isn't black and white, or red and blue in this case. It's purple.

Hillary isn't going to try to repeal the Supreme Court's ruling for federal gay marriage. Do I like that she wasn't pro-LGBT from the start? Sure. But there is a difference between someone saying it just so people like her, versus people who adamantly believe it and fight tooth and nail to discriminate against LGBT people.

The thing is that I don't think she is pro gay marriage at all. Even now. I think she is against it personally, but supports it publicly because that is the party line and the majority of Americans support it. Considering she was against it before, despite Democrats in general supporting it, I think that means she was saying how she truly feels. Maybe I'm wrong, but there really are plenty of other reasons to dislike her. That would just be one more thing on the pile.

Again, its what she does and intend to do that is my concern (same with Trump). Id rather be around someone who simply wishes my life sucked, versus someone who actively tries to make me miserable. Id love a better choice than Hillary, but we don't have one right now, atleast not within realistic, in-system methods. The alternatives are either unrealistic (third party victory) or cost a lot more blood-shed than I am comfortable with.

I will take Hillary who, while clearly someone who panders for votes instead of following her personal beliefs, is atleast pandering in my direction.

People who criticize Hillary, and in fact every president/potential president forget the context of this or that. On her own Hillary is pretty scummy, but compared to the alternatives, not so much. Same when people criticize Obama for things he did in office, that I'm pretty damn sure anyone elected would have done. For good or ill, most presidents don't immediately over-turn everything the previous one did.

 

[Hawki]

Fine, I'll let it out...

Rant 1

Screw politics. I'm done, I'm out. We've had yet another hung parliment in Australia. We've had one of the longest, yet most boring election campaigns. We've got the rise of the far right here again, and Pauline "xenophobic twat" Hanson is back in the Senate. The "Nick Xenophon Team" might as well be the new Palmer United, a cult of politicians based more around their leader than actual policy. The Greens are well on their way to irrelevancy. All this in the midst of under-employment, inaction on climate change, and horrendous treatment of refuges on Manus and Nauru. And I wouldn't mind so much if voting wasn't compulsory here - that way I wouldn't have to stand in line for over 10 minutes, watching people give out flyers, and thinking "damn, those sausages smell good."

Australia! Our political system is screwed, but god damn we make a good sausage!

Rant 2

People at the library! If you want to return books, put them in the return chute! The one marked returns! I'm trying to process loans, renewals, fines, and everything else! If you want to renew specific books, just bring those books! Don't just dump the whole pile and force me to put them in the returns area when there's a bloody chute!

(Actually, that doesn't happen nearly as often as I make it out to be, but yes, it does get irritating)

Rant 3

So, Neil Blokamp's Alien fanfiction film is set to supersede Alien 3. And even if I didn't like Alien 3 and consider it an underrated, solid film, I'd still go...no. Just no. Regardless of how well you like something or not, it's pretentious at best, and insulting at worst to just say "I'm going to do it my way, and better this time!" Y'know, at least Colonial Marines brought Hicks back in a way that actually worked in the context of the universe. Not a move I approve of, but this? Far as I can tell, Blokamp's view is "nup, never happened, now come see my fanfiction." This being from someone who writes fanfic, true, but I'm not demanding money from people to read it.

Rant 4

The Ghostbusters reboot. Please...stop...whining. I get it, you don't like it. I get it, your childhood's been "ruined" (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7eO-HO7GLI) I get it, the question of whether the reaction is sexist or not has overshadowed (and likely will overshadow) any critical debate of whether the film actually works on its own merits. But please...stop...whining. I'm just so tired of it. There's a reason why this is "rant 4" rather than "rant 1," because this kind of thing is barely worth ranting about.

 

[freaper]

I wish some plastic packaging without special ziplocks or adhesive strips was easier to tear open by hand.

 

[FPLOON]

Before I could tell you that we are all black as an "necessary" asterisk to the potential mindset that usually would come from a blatant statement like that, we clearly were approaching this conversation from our respected generations, thus leading to some rant-feeling statements without any side really learning anything new, let alone anything that could be consider "old" in or out of context...

I'm replying solely to say, you're black? Not a Wii U Controller?

Yeah and my actual Wii U is black... but, only because it was cheaper than the white Wii U... True story...

(I regret nothing...)

 

[zelda2fanboy]

...Gay Sulu. When the original actor and the guy who you're doing it as a 'homage' to says himself that he's uncomfortable with making an established character gay instead of making a new one, you've done fucked up. The most annoying part is the defense of the move, being Pegg (which is REALLY disappointing to me, I LIKE Pegg) saying 'We're all LGBT somewhere' (referring to multiverse theory) which... really misses the point. Shit, by Multiverse theory we've all got a counterpart in the Robot Gorilla Dimension, it's still a ham-fisted move to make a character gay after two movies DESPITE the protests of Takei himself.

Also, the worst part is now I'm going to have to listen to FAAAAAAAR too many people talk about how amazing and awesome this is and how if you don't like it you're homophobic and it's just... fuckin', god dammit. Yes, great, a gay character in a mainstream movie, fantastic, it's still a shitty go at it given they're just slapping homosexuality on him like a fresh coat of paint instead of putting some thought into it and making a new character (heh, 'putting thought' into the new Star Trek. I need to stop having such high hopes for the impossible), that again, the dude they're paying homage to himself disagrees with.

Ah well, not the first time I'm going to be told by straight people what to think about a gay character written by straight people, certainly not the last.

On that same note, I get really annoyed that when you don't like an artistic choice about an existing character, then that means you must be labeled a racist, misogynist, or crybaby. Not liking new Ghostbusters doesn't make you a misogynist. Not liking gay Sulu doesn't make George Takei a homophobe. Playing Grand Theft Auto doesn't make you a psychopath. I once had a professor in school argue that playing a game where you have the option to murder hookers suggests that I have will have problems with women and relationships in life. I was 20. I had never even been on a date and like a lot of young guys, really had no solid ideas about sex whatsoever. (I'm very happily married now, by the way.) My choices and opinions about media don't define me as a person. For example, there's a new Iron Man in the comics: a fifteen year old black girl. That's fine, I guess. Seems weird that she's a teenager, as Iron Man seems like a more world weary, smartest guy in the room type and - what's wrong with you, you racist agist misogynist pig! It's fine, it's fine, I don't even read the comics, I SO don't care. SO YOU DON'T LIKE COMICS. COMICS AREN'T VALID TO YOU?!!! No, I read comics, just not Marvel right now and - DC FANBOY!!!!!

 

[kenu12345]

I really shouldn't go on bout this and just focus on moving on but its late night and these feelings are starting to come to head. Where to begin, this will be a long one. Well sunday of last week, my best friend left me and unadded me from skype which sent me into a huge suicidal depression that put even my stomach in constant pain. During that time, I talked to other friends about how I was feeling and others bout my plans to end it. The worst part is that who I thought to be my best friend seemed to be having so much fun after they left me and it pushed me and further cause I just couldn't understand especially since her boyfriend, who is also supposed to be my friend but guilt tripped me while I was suicidal, treats her like shit and manipulates her anytime things don't go his way yet I am the disposable one. The one friend who was helping me the most during it encouraged me to try to move on from my lost friend and not beg my former best friend back or anything like that. Well the other day, they come back saying they will come back a few months and talk if I would still be willing and being the loser I am, I begged and begged and eventually me and her reconnected and started talking again. It wasn't as much as before but it made me beyond happy again. We talk occasionally every few days for a lil while and it feels good but the time in between can make me anxious and scared as fuck about going back into that one mood which is what I am feeling as of this moment of writing this. They can go days without talking to me and I just don't know where I stand with them since they still haven't re added me on skype so I am scared. I also feel guilty cause I didn't take the advice of the one helping me the most but I couldn't stand that mood anymore and I just wanted her back. So yeah thats me right now. Stuck in this limbo of being happy for a bit and then heavily anxious and afraid after a while of no one talking or not hearing from her

 

[Trunkage]

Mild swearing? Da ****!! What is this, an early Netflix Original? Can I at least flash a nip for 2 secs in a non erotic shower scene?

That aside. Bad Customers who commit fraud. *sigh* You know, working in retail you get all sorts of customers. The good, the bad, the picky, the moody, the rude, the sweet, the high, the drunk, the adorable and many many more. The ones I dislike the most? Fraudsters and thieves.

But wait wait wait. I can't accuse them of that, even though they are seen on CCTV stealing a memory card, batteries and a Dyson. Nope, can't confront them. They do it every month and worse is that they return the stolen items with a fake receipt, fake email and demand a cash refund for said stolen items. They even get defensive if we ask to see said receipt in the first place. Once again, we cant accuse them, we can't confront them, we just have to act nice and polite and carry on as normal so trouble isn't caused.

I just do not understand this obsession of lying, stealing and thirst for money that these people didn't earn and aren't theirs. Is it a power thing? Not knowing or seeing the line between right and wrong? Heck, my other anger is I bust my balls and back off working long hours in the early dead morning each day, even a weekend, on minimum wage just so I can be mugged off by fraudsters, who don't just effect the store but my job too. **** them!! Greedy *****!!

Retail is not for me.

Bad customers and fraud is something that I've been worried about. But I've been looking at a possible cause of this behaviour, but I don't have a timeline. US bankruptcy laws stipulate that creditors cant go after a stockholders capital that isn't invested in a company if the initial investment doesn't cover the loss (almost 50% of bankruptcies cover their loss through fire sales and most of the creditors money is recovered so it doesn't happen as much as you think.) If you take most countries in Europe, if the CEO makes a mistake, creditors can go after his stocks and house. In the US, you cant. Both have negative and positive implications, but the most important is that reckless is incentivised in the US because it doesn't cost you anything. You place the risk onto others

I feel that ideal of making others pay is similar to bad customers, taking what they want and not paying its worth (also things like blood diamonds and sweat shops are like this)