Davidskiwan said:
Clever and witty, as always, Davidskiwan. Heh.
For me it is not so much an internet pet peeve, but this thing that happens on Xbox live all the time. Pretty much anyone who gets Live, has the Hard Drive version of the Xbox...which means they have a wireless controller and a headset.
It infuriates me to no end when people don't wear their headsets at all.
When I play Gears or Rainbow 6, that is a VERY severe handicap--calls for help go unanswered, plans get executed completely wrong, people split off from the group or snatch a weapon that another person's asked for, etc. Very frustrating, because you know they have it. Sometimes the entire match has yelled to people to put their mics on between maps just to get the point across.
Also--at the risk of sounding rude--this forum aggravates me immensely as of late. I joined a new forum, you see, it revolves around a rather expensive game I play...so all of the people there are very mature and fair and there is no fighting even when there are disagreements. There are no dumb threads, and also pretty much ZERO moderation (due to it being unnecessary). When Moderation is done it's done in sweeping genocidal strikes that destroy the problem thread completely, and the users are admonished only behind the scenes, and not directly disciplined in the threads. The mods use a technique I've always liked the idea of, where they have separate anonymous logins for mod accounts and pass the mantle to new people as time goes on. Because of this their personal issues don't even become part of a given situation, and no personal bias is apparent in their undertakings. Going there has really spoiled me, and coming back here sometimes can be a bizarre adjustment afterward.
Beyond all things, however...the most major internet thing that angers and infuriates me with the burning rage of a thousand suns...are Mac fans.
I had a list of almost 200 things that occured on Macs to me (yes, even the new ones), versus things that NEVER ONCE happened to me on a PC ever. Things like freezing when shutting down, whole programs just vanishing with no notable error message, that sort of thing...I have a lot of odd ones that most folks wouldn't get just because they're rooted in the newspaper business, but still. In my newest job I use state-of-the-art macs and have seen the full scope of Apple computing at long last...and I'm completely not impressed. It still sucks. It still chokes and crashes. It still has a crap interface. It still isn't supportable by 80% of software. It still has **** upgrade capability. It's still a COMPLETELY SUCKY PIECE OF ****.
As an example I took home a photo file from work to do a sports replate. In work, my computer would not finish a simple crop operation in Photoshop CS2. 515px by 360px at 72 dpi. Child's play, I thought! Nope. Got a quarter of the way and froze every time. The original file was a 20-inch-by-25-inch vertical photo at 200dpi. The computer struggled to even open it.
At home, my PC opened photoshop and the picture in less time than it took me to zoom out on the mac. I completed the crop operation in 4.7 seconds--I timed it. And why, you ask?
I timed it so I have a big huge sign on my wall at work that says "4.7" so people say "What's this about?" and I say "That's how long it took un outdated PC with 1/4 the RAM to do something this 4000 dollar ipod couldn't even try to."
It's made worse for me because I am surrounded by boneheaded designophiles who swear by Macintrash. The IT guy comes in and we have a server problem, and the problem is simply that we have a bunch of Macintrashes hooked up to a PC server. Not usually that big of a deal, except our lame macs keep losing track of files (because the ****ING MAC HAS NO FILE SYSTEM INFRASTRUCTURE AND IGNORES FILE HEADERS). So sometimes a file goes out onto the server and then we can't find it anymore, even though it's actually still there.
This is ENTIRELY a fault of the macs, because it ignores file headers from normal files and instead catalogs them itself according to its highly errant standards.
But of course every person in the room blames the PC server--which, incidentally, gives no trouble to any other department in the company, only the one that uses macs. Hmm, interesting.
Even the IT guy is like "Yeah it's that PC server, they never work as good as macs."
The whole thing is an unwieldy mess and an insult to true computing. $4000 ipod? No thanks, go **** yourself Jobs.
GOD I hate macophiles.
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