Great topic. I LOVE to complain! In no particular order:
-People who are constantly late. What is their problem? They should be murdered.
-Bad sound and picture quality in movie theaters (this pretty much means all AMC theaters, most Carmikes and Cinemarks, lots of Regal' s. etc)
-People who think they know more than they do. It really pisses me off because I know more than they do, but they refuse to accept logic and change their flawed opinions. It drives me nuts talking with someone who just got a new computer and suddenly thinks they know everything about editing a movie or authoring a DVD or even building a web page. My dad can be like this. He recently got a Mac and told me that " iDVD is only if you want to burn a DVD that will play on a Mac computer, not a DVD player" . I said " No, iDVD can be used to make real DVDs, though of course DVD Studio Pro is better" . He replies with " No, it says in the little tutorial on the Mac that iDVD can only be used to make Mac DVDs, and if you want a DVD that will play in anything, you must use the Finder" . OK. No. But OK, just stop talking.
-TV commercials with singing or dancing or retarded people in them. That' s basically ALL TV commercials I guess.
-People who insist on stretching their 4:3 image to fill their 16:9 TV screen. It looks so wrong. I guess when you' re retarded it doesn' t matter if the onscreen image looks distorted or not.
-Best Buy employees. They are all morons. They push Monster Cable like there is no tomorrow. Sorry guys, Monster makes a decent cable, but I don' t feel like getting raped in the ass to pay for them. They don' t make a world of difference. In fact in most cases the difference will be negligible. And they always try to push the warranties on you. They insist that whatever you happen to be buying WILL break. Then why are they selling shoddy merchandise? I have even known people who have bought the plans and when something actually did happen, Best Buy gave them the runaround.
-Wal*Mart. They used to be OK, but now they suck ass. They outsource everything they can and don' t pay their workers much. In some cases I hear they don' t even let their employees work full time just so they don' t have to pay benefits.
-Incompetance. I also have a very low tolerance for stupidity, and I have to deal with it quite often.
-Traffic, especially during the holidays. Where are all these people during the rest of the year? Why are they not at work? It' s 10:30am on a Thursday, everyone should be at school or work. Why are they all on the road and at the mall? I think that there should be a human hunting season to thin out the population.
-Compression artifacts in video or audio. I just can' t stand it. If I can see or hear that it is compressed, then that codec is a complete failure in my opinion. Sometimes I make an exception, like with internet-based video. But for HDTV I don' t like seeing things turn into giant pixels when the motion starts getting fast. For JPEG images on the web, I do not make exceptions. Have you seen the picture files people e-mail around and/or post on their moronic websites (usually humor-related nonsense)? I have actually tried and I cannot even make JPEG images look that bad with all of those nasty artifacts. There is no reason to compress it THAT MUCH! I' d say most people have broadband nowadays, and it' s getting cheaper. Quit compressing! Don' t go below " 7" when compressing your JPEGs, please!
-When I' m taking a nice, long, warm piss or a huge man-sized dump or maybe some soothing diarrhea, and the phone rings and it is a call I was expecting or the doorbell rings and it is someone who I was expecting, like Fed Ex with an overnighted package that I HAVE to sign for right now or else!
-People who actually think that the SNK Neo Geo was a 24-bit machine when, in fact, it is a 16-bit machine just like the Genesis. The Neo Geo had a 16-bit main CPU and an 8-bit CPU that was in charge of the sound. That does not equal 24-bits, people. if it does, then the Genesis is also 24-bit, because it has the same 16-bit CPU as the Neo Geo (albeit at a slower Mhz) and the exact same 8-bit Z-80 to run the sound.
-Electronic' s Boutique employees. They are dumbasses, and so is the whole EB corporation. I don' t care if EB is my home for reserving Halo 2, you don' t need to tell me that every time I call, asswipes! All EB and former EB employees should be murdered, with the exception of... umm... I forget his name but he worked there a long time ago and he was a great guy.
More later, maybe.
< Message edited by Joe Redifer -- 12/2/2004 9:42:35 PM >