Reply With QuoteNous ne pas avons besoin de quelqu'un qui ne peux pas parler francais.Originally Posted by Demon G Sides
People who play FPSes with gamepads! :P
Nous ne pas avons besoin de quelqu'un qui ne peux pas parler francais.
You've been watching History Channel, haven't you?
Top posting!
Work-related: Calling all large-format printers "plotters".
1) When my parents, not-very-savvy co-workers or anyone else uses Google instead of the address bar to get to web sites. They don't appear to know the difference. They would have been dead meat before Google and other search engines came along.
2) My much-smarter-than-me partner, who is looking over my shoulder right now, adds this: people who believe Google is synonymous with "the Internet." I know people (my parents included) who believe the Web is "the Internet" and that e-mail exists, I dunno, outside it, I guess.
3) I get really pissed when someone wants to send me a PDF of a document they're working on, and instead of using the PDF printer that's probably installed in their system, they print the fucker out and then scan it into Adobe. It's especially annoying when Large Federal Housing Agencies do it, because it creates a document that's not even remotely accessible to blind people.
4) People who think that they are web designers simply because they can operate Microsoft Front Page (or its current incarnation, Expression Web).
5) "Designers" of online college courses who spend no time on the Internet (or the WWW, or Google - whatever you want to call it) and thus do not understand the conventions, like navigation. (Contributed by my above-referenced partner)
That's all for now. We're ashamed that we can muster only about one-third of Brian Seiler's nerd rage.
I get all nerd-rage-y about copyright protection, and why you shouldn't illegally download movies/games/music/etc.
Naturally, this makes me quite the hit at parties.
Swine flu.
I especially like people who, every time they want to check their email, go to Google and type in Hotmail.
Not recently. I was thinking specifically of AMC HD.
It takes 15 FUCKING MINUTES to fly from Darnassus to ANYWHERE.
I really really get bent out of shape when people confuse Star-Wars with Star-Trek.
If that's not nerd rage, nothing is.
I get bent out of shape when people hyphenate unnecessarily.
People who post questions about girls and relationships on gaming forums, or comment extensively about their incredibly meaningless, boring lives, or who look for sympathy from strangers by posting sad sap stories that most people roll their eyes at but 20% of the population feels the need to chime in about because they've got that "there there, things will be ok" impulse.
IT'S A FUCKING GAME FORUM. Going to a game forum for serious life advice makes as much sense as going to a cooking forum and asking them how to fix a ruined hard drive/CPU (depending on your region). You're pre-selecting a subset of humanity who overall has shitty fucking social skills and asking them for advice on social situations? Seriously? A collection of introverts, weirdos, socially awkward types, pompous douchebags with delusions of grandeur, and people who READ INTERNET FORUMS TO LEARN HOW TO INTERACT SOCIALLY? Seriously?!
I imagine going to ANY forum to learn how to behave or to get social sympathy is sorta ridiculous, but it seems especially out of place on gaming forums.
Son of a bitch, I don't even know why Sci Fi and TBS bother with HD channels. On TBS they seem to think that stretching SD content makes it HD and on Sci Fi they'll take a widescreen show and show it in SD with black bars on the top and bottom on their HD channel. Nothing makes me happier than watching something on my HDTV that has black bars on every fucking side. Sure, I could zoom in on it, but it's already a shitty SD signal, so zooming in is just going to make it a super shitty SD channel.
Oh, also my current peeve is purebreed fanatics who use the term 'mutt' as a perjorative. Fuck you, you inbreeding, deformity-fetishizing shits. You insist that your breeders are better than backyard breeders because they 'care about improving the breed', but they still care about bullshit like conformation and breed characteristics that serve no purpose but to appeal to a specific human athstetic, even when those characteristics lead to animals that can't breathe, can't support their size or have bones that eventually fail. The best things for dogs as a species would be is if they made intentional breeding illegal for two years, allowed it for one, then made it illegal for another two. Dissolving the AKC couldn't hurt, either.
People who give a shit about what other people are playing their games on.
Thieves.
When game journalists and enthusiasts who clearly do not have a technical background muse about the the technical aspects of how software/games are developed.
Nothing else makes me skip a podcast faster than this type of discussion :)
Oh, XS, that sort of thing is trivial to implement these days. Just trivial.
I guess these are just grammar nerd rage really, but they're more common in game writing/forums than anywhere else: "a good value" and "addicting".
Sets my teeth on edge.
if you point out something is wrong you're expert on (whether amateur hobbist or you study professional), people who say it doesn't matter or roll their eyes. (a bradley ifv is NOT a tank)
alternately, when know-it-alls point out some meaningless error and get annoyed when you roll your eyes and point out it doesn't matter. (yes, it's HORRIBLE that the street sign font in the background of this movie that takes place in the 1930s is wrong)
Writers and Directors who sacrifice proper character development for "THIS IS COOL!!" moments, especially on characters with depth and story to them already.
Anything and everything having to do with Twitter.
Like I said - true nerd rage :)
(I do se a lot of "businesses" using Hotmail, too - that is entirely wrong, and not even allowed by the EULA)
The person who once asked me, "Does this use the AOL Internet or the Big Blue 'E' Internet," and all similarly basic questions ESPECIALLY when asked by my family.
When films take liberties with the geography of a city I know. Such as when they're speeding across a bridge in a car chase and then end up on the wrong side of the river in the next shot, or whatever.
The word "oftentimes".
I have a colleague who constantly uses the word 'methinks' in correspondance. Drives me fucking insane. The same bloke also *insists* that a server with a GigE interface should be connected to a GigE switch port even when said server never exceeds 10Mbps of network traffic.
And I second the wifey criticism earlier in the thread. I have absolutely no issue with my wife watching One Tree Hill or America's Next Top Model or any of the other awful awful shows that she loves; I get that they entertain her and that it's her way of unwinding after a stressful day at work and so on but it annoys me when she accuses me of wasting time on the internet or playing Xbox.
Nerd rage works both ways though. I very deliberately say 'mute point' in certain company because I *know* that it will bother someone.
People who refer to videogames as "tapes." It made some sense when they were a cartridge but they have been on disks for 16+ years!
People who start email threads on touchy subjects, generate tons of replies, and then bitch about the thread and pray that it will die so they can get back to work.
Oh, and "methinks". Fuck off, already.
Here's one. Attempts to create philosophical arguments to justify vegetarianism/veganism. It was becoming a pretty popular subject at the undergrad philosophy conference I attended three strait years before graduating last May. I took great pleasure in going to those sessions each year and playing whack-a-mole with with their bad ideas.
I sometimes counter-argue that my steak/jacket/shoes/etc won't be any less dead if I don't buy them, so my eating/wearing it, I'm honoring the source creature's sacrifice and ensuring it did not die in vain. Better for a bit of its protein to live on in me than to wind up in a landfill.
But then, I don't eat that much meat (or wear that much leather), and when I do, I try to get it from a humane source.
I read that as 'human'. Puts a slightly different spin on it.
My usual reasoning in this type of situation is that if nobody ate meat, we'd have to turn *all* of the land over to crop production to be able to produce anywhere near enough food to feed everybody; there'd be no economic imperative to retain *any* of the animals that veggies and vegans are so enamoured of and even creatures as common and mundane as cows would be rarely seen outside of petting zoos. "So you see [takes a bite of rare steak before continuing to speak as a small dribble of blood runs down his chin] really I'm eating them for their own good".
I thought of something that's more along the lines of raging *at* nerds: when people try to explain away every plothole or WTF moment in Star Wars by referring to some shitty book that offers an explanation.
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