Ranting Thread

[Thaluikhain]

Two songs come to mind:

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Firstly, a song about a women telling her rival that her BF will remain faithful. This doesn't work when sung by a girl band, he can't be in a monogamous relationship with all 4 of you at once.

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Secondly a song about a woman being lonely. Only, in the clip, there are four dancers, and the dancer lip-synching has a fellow dancer really in her personal space there. She's not particularly alone there.

 

[MetalDooley]

I work in a call center so I could fill this thread with rants about the morons I deal with on a daily basis but I'll hold off as I don't really want to be thinking about work on my day off

Something that has been bothering me lately is people claiming they speak for others.Just last week I was watching the news and there was an item about a "pro life" rally.They interviewed one of the organisers who claimed "the people of Ireland have spoken"....

....I'm sorry but did I miss when you were appointed spokesperson for the entire country.Do not fucking presume to speak for me lady.Several thousand people who share your views do not represent the whole population.Given that polls consistently show a high level of support for changes to the abortion laws I think it's pretty clear that the people haven't spoken yet

 

[CrazyGirl17]

Oh man, if I ranted about everything that pisses me off I'd be here all day. So I'll just limit myself to a few things that get under my skin:

-People who never learn from history and keep repeating the same mistakes over and over again without any self-awareness.
-People who use religion and their culture as an excuse to be assholes to other people.
-Rabid fans or anything who make the rest of the fandom look bad.

And that's just for starters! But if I go any further I'd probably start swearing like mad...

 

[shrekfan246]

I'm sick and tired of the stupid rhetoric that surrounds political discussions shit-flinging contests online. I'm sick and tired of people being completely okay with casual discrimination because they're completely blind to the issues of others. I'm sick and tired of all of the outright bigotry that has been showing itself in America over the past few months, and the fact that every forum or social media website has been completely overrun by people who have no worries about referring to black people as all sorts of denigrating things and saying that they all deserve to be killed. I'm sick and tired of people who lash out when they're called out on their casual sexism or racism to call their accuser the "REAL" racist/sexist. I'm sick and tired of people who fundamentally don't understand the things they're actually talking about, who try using them as "gotcha!" moments against their ideological opponents. I'm sick and tired of the paranoia that surrounds the idea of gun control and addressing police brutality in the US, when over 600 people have been killed by the police this year alone.

Finally, I'm sick and tired of the fact that I can't come here to have intelligent debates about video games anymore, because every topic has to inevitably tie back to "SJWs" somehow and the population of users here has dropped so significantly that threads which actually interest me die off almost immediately, and every time I look in the forum again I see the same five-ten threads at the top that were there the day before, and the day before that.

EDIT: And yes, I realize that I'm not entirely helping by making my whole post be about political bullshit, but that's the point of ranting. I'm not interested in debating any of these points with anyone who feels personally affronted by anything I've said.

 

[Epyc Wynn]

I'll argue anyone who has the balls to hate on this post. Otherwise, that's pretty much all I have to rant on the matter.

 

[davidmc1158_v1legacy]

Pushy salespeople. I really hate being pressured and my instinctive reaction to being pressured is to dig in my heels and say "No". Unfortunately, it seems that the salesperson either is unable/unwilling to read the customer and take the hint that the sales pitch isn't working or (and this does seem to be the case waaaaaaay too often) they are under insane pressure from higher-ups to MAKE THE GADDAMN SALE NO MATTER WHAT! DO YOU HEAR ME?!? YOUR JOB IS ON THE LINE AND I WILL RUIN YOUR LIFE IF YOU DON'T MAKE THIS DAMN SALE!!!!!!

In the first instance: Dear salesperson, no means no and you need to shut up now and go away.
In the second instance: Dear boss of the salesperson, FUCK OFF AND DIE YOU SCUM-SUCKING BASTARD!!!!!!!!

Edit: Full disclaimer: Why yes, I was in a position where I was put under insane pressure from my boss to make upsells and regular sales while working in a call center. And, yes, I still bear a *mild* grudge about it.

 

[BrawlMan]

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Speaking of defending horrible action, I am sick and tired of people doing this for celebrities or certain AAA companies. I don't care how good the movie, game, or the album was, it does not excuse shitty behavior. It's reason why I can't stand Kanye West, nor the people who support him. He's an egoistical assholes who never shuts up, and deludes himself or foolish others in to thinking he's a good person. His material ain't special either, because it always has to be about him. There are plenty of rappers that have surpassed him before or after he showed up: Mike Shinoda, Shing 02, Nujabes (RIP), J Dilla (RIP), Ox, Doujah Raze; I could go on all night.

Side note: Mainstream rap for the most part has gone so far up its ass that the genre thinks it's the hot shit in a non-existent pocket dimension.

Lazy titles in games or movies. Can we stop this now? Hollywood, AAA VG industry, get off your asses and keep away from the remake, reboots, or remakes disguising themselves as rebootsPlus it makes looking for the orginal titles more confusing or bringing it in to conversation.. Especially when your reboot is a franchise that was barely 5 years old at the time. I am looking at you Capcom! That goes triple for EA as well. Rebooting the Need for Speed franchise for some $60 DRM paper weight is the dumbest thing they have ever done. All the more ironic was that spoke person for EA said the reason for the reboot was due to the series "stagnating" and beginning to lose brand recognition. Now not all the of the NFS games were hits, but most were fun or enjoyable. I liked NFS: Rivals (PC version is a travesty though). No, the series is stagnated now by limiting your player base to dumb-asses with too much money or time on their hands. Fuck, pointless reboots!

No more quick cuts or shaky cameras in cinema or straight to video in general. Just because you use this style of camera work does not make your scenes more real or immediate, it makes your film look more rubbish. Remember the days when people kept the camera still for a reason. We are seeing less of the shaky cam nowadays, but it still crops up every now and then. Marvel Studios is guilty of this practice too; see Captain America: Winter Solider & Civil War for proof.

Cartoon Network, make actual cartoons. Not just brainless comedies that insult the target audiences minds (*cough* TeenTitansGo!). Kids are smarter than what you think. Toons with not only humor, but engaging plots and action. We are sorely missing cartoons with decent action these days. Yeah, Disney XD has some, but most of them are either Marvel or Star Wars related. How about some original IP action shows? Where are those? After Legend of Korra's series finale, and the cancellation of Ben 10: Omniverse (thank Christ), the genre just bellied upped and died.