Every Mlp argument ever. Same with gun control, sexism, etc. With some topics, people just don't want to calmly discuss, they want to get mad and show how smarter they are than everybody else.
That point when you just gave up.
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My home business: the day Etsy shut my shop down because I had a button that said "That's what she said". Apparently NBC has a trade mark on that phrase and they combed through Etsy looking for it and had all shops using it in any way shut down.
I had such grand dreams of living off my home business. I'd spent three years building it up and, God damn it, I was almost there. Just to have it all torn away from me because I believed trade mark law when it said you can't trade mark commonly used phrases.
Now I know the check the trademark database whenever I want to do anything with any sort of text on it. But all those years, wasted.... I spent the next month in bed. Literally. I was so depressed my chest hurt and I barely showed up for my crappy job enough to keep from getting fired.
I had such grand dreams of living off my home business. I'd spent three years building it up and, God damn it, I was almost there. Just to have it all torn away from me because I believed trade mark law when it said you can't trade mark commonly used phrases.
Now I know the check the trademark database whenever I want to do anything with any sort of text on it. But all those years, wasted.... I spent the next month in bed. Literally. I was so depressed my chest hurt and I barely showed up for my crappy job enough to keep from getting fired.
Yeah, I put it up here on the Bioware Social Network.RyQ_TMC said:
Get it from the 'files' tab.
Link: http://social.bioware.com/project/8242/#details
In Gaming:
I used to be a hardcore Call of Duty fan right up until Modern Warfare 2, which aggravated me in so many different ways that I just gave up on the whole series.
In Life:
I gave up on ever finding a girlfriend a few years ago. It is extremely rare if a woman even acknowledges my existence, so hoping for something far beyond that is kind of silly.
I used to be a hardcore Call of Duty fan right up until Modern Warfare 2, which aggravated me in so many different ways that I just gave up on the whole series.
In Life:
I gave up on ever finding a girlfriend a few years ago. It is extremely rare if a woman even acknowledges my existence, so hoping for something far beyond that is kind of silly.
LOST: Loved it at first. The whole backstory-thing was interesting... but everything went too far and long-winded. The mysteries promised an amazing resolution that never really came, same with all the cliffhangers, same with the plot. When I was already losing track, a summer break ruined it again, and I forgot about it. It was already running when I remembered, and there was no way following the plot anymore.
Pokemon: As a kid, I was a huge Pokemon fan since the tv series started. Everyone had those overprized cards and toys that broke in minutes. My cousins came over and tried to play some cards off me, but I refused. One cousin later broke into my room to get them, got caught... but either he or someone else had already taken the cards. And nearby money I had saved up for months.
After that, this whole Pokemon craze seemed so idiotic to me, even things I used to love. I painfully realized for the first time what marketing meant. All I loved about Pokemon was tailored to make me love it, and now felt fake. Once you know something is fake, you can never look at it the same way.
Devil may Cry (what's up with that acronym anyway?): You want to make it your own brand, alright. But if you don't want to answer to "bitchy fans" and don't give a rat's ass about expectations, change names and title! Worked for 50 shades of grey.
Don't make it a reboot for all the wrong reasons. It's not awful by itself, and it should have been by itself, instead of ruining every chance of a faithful sequel. I liked Nero AND DMC2, btw.
Haruhi Suzumiya: Ever wondered how to wreck a riveting series with just one episode? Turn that episode into nine. If "Endless Eight" tells you anything, you know all about the following ramble.
Season 2 started meh. One episode was them having summer vacation, nothing plot-relevant happening. Yes, it's slice of life, but that didn't stop Season 1. Fair enough, the brainfuck is just warming up. When you watch the next episode, you'll be confused wheter you played the same episode again, or if they put the same one twice on the DVDs by accident. It seems to be the same, but the scenes are partially shot from different angles, or minor details changed.
It's explained at half point. The characters realize they're caught in a time loop, which caused them to lose most of their memories. They decide to keep playing along. The entire reason for those random variations is to show these loops are changeable, so if you know the cause (and that's obvious), you can break free.
When the time comes at the end of the episode, nobody has the balls to even try ANYTHING. It ends, and the next episode IS A FULL COPY OF THIS ONE. Including the ending where nothing happens. So the time loop stays up, meaning the next episode IS MORE OF THE SAME. And the next. They repeated this EIGHT TIMES until Kyon finally does the most obvious thing during the last 5 minutes. Good god, I used to like Kyon, now I hate him.
Imagine how mindnumbingly boring and frustrating this is. You don't know when this will stop or change, and you don't want to believe they'd repeat it again after the 5th time. Season 2 had 14 weak episodes, 9 of them were this. Just watch this for 3 hours: http://z0r.de/?id=2038
Though it was the only time I really felt connected to Nagato. She remembers every repetition (of ten thousands), but could only watch helplessly. Although being an android, she was dying of boredom. When watching this, you're in one boat with her. If THAT was their intent... Good job.
This. Boy, did they get sidetracked. After the first summer break, I thought "they'll sure get back to it and solve it now". After the second summer break, they were as far as last year. I guess. No idea if it was near half point of their goal.uchytjes said:
Pokemon: As a kid, I was a huge Pokemon fan since the tv series started. Everyone had those overprized cards and toys that broke in minutes. My cousins came over and tried to play some cards off me, but I refused. One cousin later broke into my room to get them, got caught... but either he or someone else had already taken the cards. And nearby money I had saved up for months.
After that, this whole Pokemon craze seemed so idiotic to me, even things I used to love. I painfully realized for the first time what marketing meant. All I loved about Pokemon was tailored to make me love it, and now felt fake. Once you know something is fake, you can never look at it the same way.
Devil may Cry (what's up with that acronym anyway?): You want to make it your own brand, alright. But if you don't want to answer to "bitchy fans" and don't give a rat's ass about expectations, change names and title! Worked for 50 shades of grey.
Don't make it a reboot for all the wrong reasons. It's not awful by itself, and it should have been by itself, instead of ruining every chance of a faithful sequel. I liked Nero AND DMC2, btw.
Haruhi Suzumiya: Ever wondered how to wreck a riveting series with just one episode? Turn that episode into nine. If "Endless Eight" tells you anything, you know all about the following ramble.
Season 2 started meh. One episode was them having summer vacation, nothing plot-relevant happening. Yes, it's slice of life, but that didn't stop Season 1. Fair enough, the brainfuck is just warming up. When you watch the next episode, you'll be confused wheter you played the same episode again, or if they put the same one twice on the DVDs by accident. It seems to be the same, but the scenes are partially shot from different angles, or minor details changed.
It's explained at half point. The characters realize they're caught in a time loop, which caused them to lose most of their memories. They decide to keep playing along. The entire reason for those random variations is to show these loops are changeable, so if you know the cause (and that's obvious), you can break free.
When the time comes at the end of the episode, nobody has the balls to even try ANYTHING. It ends, and the next episode IS A FULL COPY OF THIS ONE. Including the ending where nothing happens. So the time loop stays up, meaning the next episode IS MORE OF THE SAME. And the next. They repeated this EIGHT TIMES until Kyon finally does the most obvious thing during the last 5 minutes. Good god, I used to like Kyon, now I hate him.
Imagine how mindnumbingly boring and frustrating this is. You don't know when this will stop or change, and you don't want to believe they'd repeat it again after the 5th time. Season 2 had 14 weak episodes, 9 of them were this. Just watch this for 3 hours: http://z0r.de/?id=2038
Though it was the only time I really felt connected to Nagato. She remembers every repetition (of ten thousands), but could only watch helplessly. Although being an android, she was dying of boredom. When watching this, you're in one boat with her. If THAT was their intent... Good job.
Silent Hill: Seeing footage of the recently-released Silent Hill V:
"Pyramid head... But but but... screw it, I have no faith in the new devs."
Yeah, I know, stereotypical and obvious, but it still was the limit. ;__;
"Pyramid head... But but but... screw it, I have no faith in the new devs."
Yeah, I know, stereotypical and obvious, but it still was the limit. ;__;
Naruto - the filler was just killing me.
Nintendo - never could warm up to motion controls
Kingdom Hearts - Constantly kept coming out with games on handheld instead of consoles
An active pursuit of women - how many times do you have to touch the stove before you realize you'll just get burned.
Nintendo - never could warm up to motion controls
Kingdom Hearts - Constantly kept coming out with games on handheld instead of consoles
An active pursuit of women - how many times do you have to touch the stove before you realize you'll just get burned.
Vampire Rain. There's a part where you go 'round stabbing vampires with a knife. Apparently the knife has ammunition or degradation and you have to pick up more ammo/knives. I seem to have missed that particular bit of information and couldn't kill the ONLY vampire that was required to progress though the game.
Seriously, the game, while not terrible, is designed incredibly bad.
Seriously, the game, while not terrible, is designed incredibly bad.
A good meat and potato one would be great.TheKasp said:
And I'm sorry that happened to you. It's a truly ironic situation that there's a very small subsection of the atheist community that are as zealously religious about their convictions as the "religious nutcases" they are supposedly against. Though, on the flip side, that Christian you ran into was one of the rare ones who don't see people as notches on a spiritual belt for conversion. So you were hit with both good fortune and bad fortune in the same day!
Oh god the filler @_@The_Echo said:
One Piece I can take the filler, because it's usually just a crazy adventure on some crazy island, and to be honest thats what the main story is for the most part. I do skip any crossover shit it does though.
Naruto I can safely say after watching the filler arcs in the first series I@m glad I stopped watching the anime and started reading the manga instead, just to get around all the non-canon garbage that goes down in those filler arcs.
OT: Ratchet & Clank. After 3, it just wasn't the same anymore. It felt like the series was taking itself to seriously and it lost the silliness and tongue in cheek japery that made it so delightful for me.
Battlefield for me was killed by Battlefield 3, my opinions on this are well documented but here are some bullet points:
+ Unbalanced classes
+ Months to patch horrible abuses
+ Dat fucking USAS-Frag.
+ Terrible unlock order for Recon
+ Scope sway up the ass, making sniping a ball ache until you stick with 1 gun long enough to get a friggin bipod
+ Camping
+ Flying to unreachable places and proceeding to abuse
+ Jets are broken
+ Helicopters controlled like arse
+ There's more but fuck it.
I suppose I too gave up on the Pokemon anime, I made it a bit further than that myself, but when they removed Brock AGAIN! I just was having none of it.Johnny Novgorod said:
Still enjoy the games to this day though, event hough I hope X and Y do some interesting things to shake it up. A new type or two, a bunch of new type combos, a difficulty curve that doesn't spike and demand that I stop and grind.
I just read the stories, so to me, Endless Eight was just a fifty-page story. Ar you telling me that they made the exact same episode again and again? You're saying "Next one, exact copy." Was it an exat copy?Malkav said:
"Exact copy" isn't quite right, wasn't being clear.Queen Michael said:
The first episode is them having their summer vacation and Haruhi being unsatisfied. The second repeats this halfway, but they realize what's up about at half point, and decide to play along. So the episode repeats until the end, until their last chance to stop the loop, but nobody does anything and Kyon can't be assed to try. So the loop goes on. The next six episodes have the exact same pattern with no meaningful changes, only very few things that don't get repeated every time. Like talking to random kids, or not going swimming, or different clothes. It just means that stuff can change. The camera angles are different sometimes, but for no purpose other than to show they're not being lazy animators. The scenes still play almost entirely the same, word for word.
I heard the manga did it different, nobody complained about that.