What Ticks You Off?

Hehe, quite a few of the Japanese bands I listen to do that, I find it quite funny actually :smile:

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Yeah, i've noticed. And now they (the japanese) are celebrating St.Patrick...irish -style. I mean, FFS.

....just one big happy world community... :heee:

Doc B... :dodgy:

DOWN WITH GLOBALIZATION!!!! IT'S STEALING OUR NATIONAL IDENTITIES!

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Seconded.

Guys creepier than me who try to move in on my ladies and expect me to not know what they're up to.

Writing 25-35 pages of finals for tomorrow.

Downloading more music than I can listen to, even though I've got 56k.

24-hour days (on this planet).

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nickel we live in america

our nation already stole everyone's identities

FatStrings said:
nickel we live in america
our nation already stole everyone's identities

Yeah, i know. That's one thing that ticks me off and just sucks so bad. In germany, they have stopped using the "Scharfe S" or b and they have changed it to a "ss" in spelling words. likewise in other countries there has been a push to get rid of ? ? ? [size=13]and in some former soviet countries, they have switched from thier original Cyrillic alphabet to the Latin alphabet. They do this all to make it more "commerce friendly with other countries" but we all know they do it to make it more "america friendly." Trust me guys, americans are dummies who don't even finish high school. we're going down soon and you don't want to strip yourselves of your identities for our sake. keep the umlauts, keep the essets keep that kooky little O with a line through it (norway) and the a with a circle over it (swedes). It pisses me off that they are taking away what makes them... them.

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-Anyone who says Half-Life is a mod a Cstrike (Gawd!)
-When my mom calls up to me to do something.
-Maps such as fy_iceworld.
-Win-A-Free-Ipod adds.
-People who have no taste in games. They can play some utter crap and think it is cool because there are excess amount of spraying blood and extra loud sounds, but they can never see quality and effort.

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But excess amount of blood and extra loud sounds are cool...

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Pvt.Scythe said:
But excess amount of blood and extra loud sounds are cool...

quoted for truth.

And hence the sarcasm text.

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What ticks me off is that there are people out there that spout things
like "you must have hundreds of people in order to make a good
game." That is a lie. You can make a great game with as
little as twelve. Now when only one person makes a game, it does
tend to suffer, only because you don't have a "council" of game
developers voting and what seems good and bad and to help create design
shortcuts.

And just now, I saw a commercial for Collins Collage that said the same
thing, "you must have hundreds of people to make a game." My
anger increases with every commercial.

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Well, to create a commercially viable game, particularly for next gen systems, you DO need sizeable teams. Hundreds is still a bit of an exaggeration (not that games DON'T use such sized teams, but most are still under 100 people), but 12 is very few for a commercial game. You CAN make a good game on your own, or with a team of 4, or whatever. But if you want to make a game with next-gen quality graphics, presentation, sound effects, music, and the like, you are gonna have to have a significantly sized team.

Also, designing games by council is generally regarded as a bad idea - the vision becomes less coherent and more diluted. Obviously you want the others on the team to have input on the project, but the decisions shouldn't come down to votes - it should be the lead designer's decision that is final. Unless the lead designer is an idiot :smile:

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What I was refering to as "council" was the idea that the developers
share their ideas and end up creating a game that is more than what the
origanal creator imagined. For instance, they have brainstorming
sessions in which they go about determining the best way to pull off a
scene or figure out which weapons would be the best suited for the
style of game. One or two people would have to rely on the
criticism of others who may not know what the engine is capable of or
what the whole point of the game is. Not to mention spend possibly several years on it. Behind every game, there is
that group of people who esentually are the game, because in truth its
majority rule, with the origanal creator inspiring the most
influence. I'm just saying, I'm tired of people not doing any
research before they start pushing wring accusations. There are
so many game dev forums out there with people looking for a little help
with making their first game, when all of a sudden, people start
blowing them off with "you have to have over a hundred people on a team
to create a game." Look at some of the stuff universities pull
off with award winning indie games.

I should have metioned this first, this was a remark toward indie and
commercial in generl. I know that comercial games use a large
team while indie games tend to use anywhere from 12 to 25.

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New thing to add to the list, I hate it when I'm too vague with my
thread topics and the thread inadvertantly slowly evolves into an illeagal blocked thead. If only
I could turn back time, I really wanted to see those poll results. Oh well, damage done.

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I remember the original company that made quake and doom (IE or something)
only had about 3 programmers, a few graphics artists and sound engineers and a mapper (Or 2)

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id ... id is the only people who've ever made Doom. And they only contracted out Quake IV to Raven, which, I'm sorry, it's a cool game, but how the hell does it make 6/10 for the best games of 2005 exactly!?

That pissed me off ... :razz:

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People who lack the ability to reason, people who don't try hard enough
at the gym and most of all people who take take take, but won't give
back.

So in other words: "Americans?" $loth? They sue schools because thier kids are fat and get hit by the ball when we play dodgeball in american gym class. They don't reason out that thier kids are fat because they have banned physical activity in gym class and they have the TV babysit thier kids. They sue everyone to get easy money for stupid reasons and they never give back until they themselves are sued for a stupid reason.

I love being who i am and where I am, but gosh darn it, I'm REALLY starting to get ticked off at my fellow americans.

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Haha, if the shoe fits....

I don't have a clue if that's the right saying but hey...

[size=13]You're actually being serious that P.E has been 'banned'
or that american kids can get out of it easily? *hugs gym membership
card*

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Well, american public schools cannot play dodgeball anymore because a bunch of fat kids "were getting hit by the ball." Their parents sued the schools and now they can't play it. They said it was "too competitive."

P.E. itself has not been banned, but since fat people are not pushing to be counted as "disabled" i think the future looks bleak for a class that DEFINITELY does not cater to the fatties.

IMHO, half the fun of dodgeball when I was in school was to hit the fat guy.

PS. the saying is "If the shoe fits, wear it." :biggrin:

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I can't believe they banned dodgeball....

wtf.

Do you think they'll eventually get rid of Phys Ed too?

Well, I work for a public school district in the bible belt. I have not heard anything about the banning of phys ed itself, but I know even here, we don't play "good ol' fashioned dodgeball." Since we're such a conservative area, we're about the last to change "traditional" things like this.

I think that some time in the next 10 years, there will be enough behind the people who want obesity to be a disability that ti will be passed and fat kids won't have to participate because they will be "disabled" or "handicapable."

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They said it was "too competitive."

Haha! Thanks for that, I almost spurted water all over my screen!

I think they should up the shock value of being fat, show people what
can happen if they are overweight, how they will live and how they will
die.

If I think about it there weren't that many fat people down here, and
most of the people I know who were fat have lost weight, like my
brother all he did was change his diet and he lost 4 stone :smile:

Whereas in England, obesity is just starting to become a problem, in America it is a big uncontrollable problem. 67% of males in the USA are obese. Can you BELIEVE that crap?! gosh dang it! I just went and looked it up, and frankly, I'm appalled. I guess more than two-thirds of the US male population is "disabled" eh?

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They should start putting those cigarette type warning labels on candy bars :razz:

I have a real problem believing the stats they come up with for that. When I was in high school, there was one obese person in my year. Just one, out of hundreds of people, and I'm being serious. Others were a bit chunky, but not obese. Now I hear all these stats like "a third of school children are obese". Really now? So where the hell are you hiding them all? I barely see any fat kids, but apparently they are taking over the country. WHERE ARE THEY?

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I'm not sure about this but I feel like the medical definition they use for obese isn't really that tight. Someone we would call fat would probably fall under the definition of obese, hense pumping that stat.

My highschool of 850 kids only had about 2 or 3 people who could be considered obese.

Come visit America ReNo, they're everywhere! I'm not sure if it's really a third, but the mental impact of the ones I see has the effect of making me think it is!

As for adults, don't even get me started. There are so few fit adult men in this country, I always take the time to mentally congratulate those I see.

I used to lifeguard at a private club in Greenwich, Connecticut and there were quite a few middle aged men who were legitimately ripped. I feel like if you're rich you have more time to really work on getting a Men's Health cover-type body, although that could be completely wrong.

if there's anybody that knows men's bodies, it's morpine.

.. =D

btw yea i lifeguard for a while now as well.. the thing is that middle-aged men that are overwight and not RIPPED aren't as quick to disrobe and show it off. ..though some do. oh god, some do.

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I tihnk the definition of obese is if your BMI (body mass index) is over 30.

You can calculate your BMI here! http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/bmi/calc-bmi.htm

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i actually know a family who the parents are so fat, that they live off
of medical coverage from the government, they are so obese that they
are terminally ill

it's disgusting

i also lifeguard and i was witness to a kid who was so wide(fat) that he could float effortlessly upright

also disgusting

i might admit that he was the only person who came and swam when the pool's temp dropped to 62 degrees F

Now I'm not making fun of this lady, and I don't mean anything bad against her: I'm just illustrating that this is the size of people I see at Wal*Mart. Her leg is seriously as big as her husband's body and it makes me sad.

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<div><div>[quote=Nickelplate]I tihnk the definition of obese is if your BMI (body mass index) is over 30.
You can calculate your BMI here! http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/bmi/calc-bmi.htm[/quote]

My BMI is 21.4 so that puts me right smack dab in the middle of the "Normal Weight" category. Hooray.

I slid right past 10,000 and... I never noticed.

cries

That was a f**king milestone.

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BMI measures your mass, hence body mass index. You can be super-ripped and be obese, though, just 'cause your weight's above the "average." I'm like 30 pounds underweight... people say I look 160 and look shocked when I say 130 even though they call me skinny the whole time. Makes no sense but you know kids these days, always with their tomfooleries... r-right CJ?

There was this female where I worked once. The topic switched to over-weight one day. She Merrily exclaimed that she was only 30%.

We all looked at her and you could read our expressions. They ranged from confusion to sageliness. Most of us admitted later thinking.. "30% of what? An Elephant?"

Anyway.. I weigh in at 200 lbs. I am 5' 9 1/2"

Most who see me now, think that I am preoccupied with my weight because to them, I do not appear to be that overweight.. Those who knew me at my average lifetime weight of 150 lbs. think I am huge.

My 200lbs. is spread over a wide area (no pun intended) so my extra 50 lbs. goes relatively unnoticed.

I think.. I am a fat whale.

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I'm 6'0, 130. Apparently manliness, sexiness, AND testosterone don't weigh much... 'cause, um, I don't weigh much, and I'm hella manly/sexy/testosterone-enriched.

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Hugh said:
I'm 6'0, 130. Apparently manliness, sexiness, AND testosterone don't weigh much... 'cause, um, I don't weigh much, and I'm hella manly/sexy/testosterone-enriched.

Nah, you're prolly just a young adult who thinks they are.

Somewhere it must be written.

If your 6 feet and 130 lbs.. you're rail think and sickly.

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I'm 150 and 5' 11". What's that mean.

French Toast said:
I'm 150 and 5' 11". What's that mean.

They stack breakfast food really high in Canada?

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DINOSAURS. THEY ARE SUCH ATTENTION WHORES. THEY'RE ALL, "OH, LOOK, WE'RE EXTINCT, TALK ABOUT US, TALK ABOUT US, TALK ABOUT US!". WHY, IF ONE OF THEM CAME TO MY HOUSE, I'D PROBABLY PUNCH THEM IN THEIR PREHISTORIC FACE. THEN I'D BE ALL "WHY YOU CRYING T-REX, HUH?"

Hugh said:
people say I look 160 and look shocked when I say 130 even though they call me skinny the whole time.

I go through the EXACT same thing, except I weigh a little bit more.

Orpheus said:

French Toast said:
I'm 150 and 5' 11". What's that mean.

They stack breakfast food really high in Canada?

I think that's the funniest thing I've heard you say yet Orpheus. :smile:

Yeah, vash. dinosaurs think they need sooo much attention because they're extict... but at least they arent making all of our asteroids pay them reparations!!

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THEY SNEAK IN TO OUR COUNTRY, TAKE OUR JOBS, AND THEN WANT EQUAL RIGHTS. GOD DAMN DINOSAURS

THEY TUK AR JARBS!

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LOLZ teh dinasorz tke BY FUCIG FEWD AND LIK EET IT ALL TEH PIGZ SO I ALSO need leik jarbs AND STEEEL ALL TEH RAM TO GAMZ SSO I CANZ!

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Addicted to Morphine said:


I think that's the funniest thing I've heard you say yet Orpheus. :smile:

Do you have any idea how depressing that is? :heee:

You don't know how hard it is to make jokes around here... No one has a sense of humor. Well, except Crono. He says that I keep him in stitches.

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'EY TUK AR JAAAARBS!!!!

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