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Off-Topic / Re: Dumb things that annoy you

2014 Nov 07, 15:34:48

My stomach's ability to hit me with a stomach ache randomly sometimes no matter what I eat...   

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Off-Topic / Re: Dumb things that annoy you

2014 Nov 06, 18:10:38

I just had to force my laptop to shut down because the System was using 100% of Disk and lagging everything horribly.
ONE HUNDRED PERCENT.
The System was using one hundred percent of Disk. Why? Why?!

This is probably why. I think Windows 7/8 automatically defrags the HDD on Wednesday nights at 1AM. That would use a large amount of your disk.
Even more so on slower HDD"s. You can change the schedule, but by default it's Wednesday if I'm not mistaken. If it's interrupted it'll probably try again at a later hour. So if it does it again just leave your laptop on until it's done and it should be fine.

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Off-Topic / Re: Dumb things that annoy you

2014 Nov 02, 15:59:04

When you want to play the mage role in a RPG. But the AI sucks so bad at healing that you're always forced to play the healer. Doesn't help that you have to learn the ability to use items on other characters. Tales of Vesperia is a great game but I hate the AI and the fact that you need item throw to even use items on other characters. It pretty much forces me into a healer role instead of the character I want to play as. Even with the complex strategy settings they give you for the AI it still seems to do something stupid like wait too long to react or simply walk around for a little first then cast the healing spell. So in the tales of games the only time I get to play a melee or mage role is if I have a friend to play with me. 

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Video Games Archive / Re: Dark Souls

2014 Nov 01, 15:45:39

I would say that Dark Souls is a game that is about as difficult as you make it to be. If you are careful, read your surroundings and learn how enemies fight you and strike back accordingly, then you are bound to not have such a hard time when playing it. Try to hardball through the enemies, however, and you'll die like a dog and the game will laugh at you.

-Insert name here has invaded with super OP gear somehow-
-YOU HAVE DIED-   

Seriously though playing online in DS you never know what's going to happen. There are many strategies you can use but so can a enemy player. Unless you play in offline mode. Then your boss fights are harder because few bosses have NPC summons. Still I love the game and have 5+ characters in DS1 and DS2 for PC.

I have an archer named Octavia in DS1 I actually drove red phantoms insane with her.  I have the ring of the fog hornet ring and eagle ring combined with mail breaker and a Electric Bow. I lured the red phantom who had really good armor, and a giant flipping sword to the bridge, ran behind him and threw him off the cliff. Reason being he invaded my world for 30 minutes straight getting hit by arrows then healing then getting hit again I really got tired of his healing. 

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Off-Topic / Re: Today's Smile

2014 Oct 26, 13:17:43

Went driving on a bunch of different roads today even in traffic and on 2 highways. It's nice to finally be making progress on my driving. My uncle was having me drive to multiple places. 

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Off-Topic / Re: Dumb things that annoy you

2014 Oct 25, 09:57:44

People are furious with an 11-year-old for hunting a deer. So furious, in fact, that they have threatened him.
For hunting
a deer.

As a southerner who belongs to a family that eats deer for breakfast every Thanksgiving, I find this truly ridiculous and horrible.

I understand that there are people who're against hunting, but
1. Don't go yelling at a child and frightening him for going on a hunting trip.
2. In some places, people have to hunt deer. That's right, I said have to.

I wouldn't expect northerners to understand, but in some areas here in the south, hunting deer is a necessity.
Every deer season, only a certain limited number of hunting permits are given out and those with permits are only allowed to hunt a certain limited number of deer.

You know why we do this?
So the deer population doesn't grow so out of control that it spills over into towns and cities. And believe me, it will. One way or another, people are going to hunt deer in order to keep them from causing problems within towns and cities, so might as well make a sport out of it. Even better if you take it home and eat it. And like I said, you're only allowed to hunt a limited number of deer, which keeps people from overhunting.

So don't act like the only reason we hunt deer is for sick barbaric reasons. And don't scare a poor 11-year-old child for it, either.

Not only that but deer contains more iron and protein than beef does and deer is also leaner and healthier for you if prepared properly. Also based on an article I was reading the deer population is estimated at over 15 million in the US alone and that's only white tailed deer there's other types as well that are also vastly populated. Some towns had deer wondering into Restaurants/shops randomly when the automatic doors opened. 

Hunters are only allowed to hunt 1 doe and 2 buck per year if I recall. My oldest sister's husband often hunts deer yearly and shares it with the rest of the family and that's really helpful when some of us are low on funds for food on a weekly basis during the bad years. So they need to lay off that kid and let him hunt in peace.

Hunting is also a necessity for some people up north as well. Especially in areas that get heavy snowfall making vehicle travel non ideal. My aunt and Uncle up north survive off basically hunting deer and freezing the meat.

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Off-Topic Archive / Re: What Will You Be for Halloween?

2014 Oct 16, 10:42:10

Next year I'll probably be a Ringwraith, though last time I did that to help with my aunt's Halloween thing some kids were too scared to even approach the house. One kid was crying. So I kinda felt bad.

Spoiler: Nazgul • show

Sadly we aren't doing anything this year so next year it is.

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MLP: FiM SD Archive / Re: Is King Sombra the intended ruler of Equestria?

2014 Oct 08, 20:27:00

Well we know queens are not all evil in Equestria the crystal empire episode mentions that The Crystal Empire used to be ruled by a queen before Sombra basically took over. If I recall she was the original Crystal heart pony who helped the others power the heart and Cadence is likely her daughter or distant relative. Twilight mentions the old queen in the season 3 premiere. Also the journal of the two sisters covers a lot of your questions, and I'm pretty sure it's canon considering  Amy Keating Rogers wrote it and it doesn't conflict with the show in any way from what I can tell.

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Off-Topic / Re: Today's Smile

2014 Oct 08, 07:03:25

Saw the blood moon 30 minutes or so ago it was interesting me and my uncle were taking pictures of it. The next one is happening in 2015 so this was the last blood moon of 2014.

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Off-Topic / Re: Today's Smile

2014 Oct 07, 02:11:01

So my aunt bought me professional driving lessons. I'm actually glad she did as my parents have been too busy lately to teach me and my sister, and if I complete all 3 lessons I apparently get an insurance discount which is nice considering that insurance companies like charging more  for guys when it comes to cars which is annoying.  They assume we're all prone to wrecking more.

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Off-Topic / Re: Today's Smile

2014 Oct 04, 21:41:51

My aunt and uncle have agreed to take me with them when they visit Florida again in 2015 so I'll actually get to see the ocean irl instead of just on a screen. I can't wait! I've actually never seen the ocean before irl.

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Off-Topic / Re: Dumb things that annoy you

2014 Oct 04, 15:06:19

me: I don't like apple pie because I don't like warm fruit.

Have you ever tried cold apple pie with vanilla ice cream? It's pretty good.
In fact we rarely ever eat hot apple pie usually we make it then we put it in the fridge so it's cold when we eat it, with all those apples our neighbor gave us we have no shortage of pies he gave us over 50 apples off his trees so they wouldn't go to waste.


Cheaters in video games.... So in Dark Souls 2 I was summoned to help a host defeat a boss. Well someone finally broke their cheat detection system and invaded as a red phantom with infinite HP and basically killed me and the host right before the boss door and no matter what we hit him with it neither stunned nor damaged him and the lifebar wouldn't even read his HP it just showed an empty bar.

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Off-Topic / Re: Dumb things that annoy you

2014 Oct 03, 20:58:58

Trying to get summoned at the Duke's Dear Freja in Dark Souls 2... And or trying to find a summon that isn't a NPC who will walk right into the laser attack.

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Off-Topic / Re: Dumb things that annoy you

2014 Oct 02, 18:29:50

This is more upsetting rather than annoying, but my dog ended up twisting her claw while jumping on a bed because the metal frame somehow caught it. I had to catch her and get a cold rag and apply direct pressure to it to stop it from bleeding. Then me and my sister had to wash her paw off with water and apply a bandage after cleaning the wound. It made me a bit upset because Angel was crying while I was applying the pressure to her wound. If we didn't do that though it would have gotten worse given the state of the claw...

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Off-Topic / Re: Today's Smile

2014 Sep 29, 04:37:13

Watched the new Rainbow Rocks movie. It was so much better than the first movie I really enjoyed it. I'll probably buy it on DVD when that eventually comes out. It may even be my favorite animated movie currently. There's a lot I wish I could say about it but curse you spoilers!

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Off-Topic / Re: Dumb things that annoy you

2014 Sep 28, 19:19:23

I don't have much to say on the matter given that Chishio did a pretty good job on it, but I do have a bit of advice. You really shouldn't stereotype an entire gender Starsong. Not all men act the same just like not all women do either. And on your whole clothes thing in your last post there are many things wrong with what you just said and those wrong things don't belong to any one gender. It may be your body but the world doesn't belong to any one person and we need to respect each other.

What you said reminded me about what happened in France on the news. But I won't mention that here.

[Spoiler:]

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Video Games / Re: Most annoying things in video games

2014 Sep 25, 05:28:18

Being forced to be evil or sacrifice countless goodies and treasures. Seems in RPGs evil is rewarded at every turn. Being evil will net you some of the most awesome gear and trophies available. Being good gets you...what? A warm fuzzy feeling?

Yes, I'm looking at you Skyrim.  Why does the most evil guild, the dark brotherhood, have to have dozens of the best rewards in the game? Feels like I'm selling myself short by doing the noble thing and wiping them out. Heck, some quests cannot be completed at all without committing some unspeakable crime against nature. And for completionists like me, walking away and leaving a quest unfinished is just not an option since it will bug me to death. In the ended up:

Spoiler: show

Siding with the cannibals just so I could sacrifice Eola to Boethiah, since she's the only blatantly evil follower in the game. I didn't lose a single wink of sleep for killing Eola, but eating that innocent priest was a big blow to my conscience. For roleplay I used the excuse that my character was being controlled by Namira and couldn't resist her influence.

This, this right here. A lot of games today are going that whole reward wrong actions route more so than older games have done. It used to be in oblivion just exploring old caves and ruins netted you awesome gear if you survive the horde of evil monsters. You could then use that gear to take on the oblivion gates I  remember getting glass gear from ancient ruins when I first played the game. I was actually really happy just because I liked the way the glass armor looked. Though it was still better than my old gear. Megaman Legends was really great in that you could get all of the cool gear simply by staying good until the whole shining laser issue in Megaman Legends 2 which required you to turn evil to get a glass eye from a shady salesmen, if my memory serves me correctly. I could be mistaken though it's been a few years. Man now I wanna play oblivion again...

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Off-Topic / Re: Dumb things that annoy you

2014 Sep 25, 05:07:27

When I sleep I wake up every 2 hours now, I'm not sure why. So a night's sleep for me is sleep 2 hours wake up then sleep 2 hours again then the cycle repeats until daylight.

[Spoiler:]

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Off-Topic / Re: Dumb things that annoy you

2014 Sep 24, 19:38:06

Spoiler: show

People who insist on backing into parking spaces. People who insist on holding up traffic for this bizarre little theatrical stunt wear at my sanity like nobodies business. When asked why they insist on doing this they usually reply with "It's so much easier to just pull out of the space."

Well, yeah. I don't dispute for a second that driving forward out of a space is easier than backing out, but that's not what we should be comparing. Either way you have to back either in or out. So we should be comparing the difficulty and time consumption of backing in vs backing out.

Now, for the sake of maintaining my demeanor I'm going to explain this scenario using an analogy that's very near and dear to my heart: an ice cold can of Diet Coke. Imagine cracking open that delicious can of sweet nectar and letting it flow from the small hole in the can into the much larger hole that is your mouth. Easy and satisfying, right? No then - try imagining spitting that mouthful of coke back into the small hole in the can. That was much less easy and much less satisfying, right? Harder to aim, probably some spillage, not very neat. Not to mention you now have a can full of spittle, but I digress...

Where am I going with this? Simple. When you back out of space into the big, open area behind you you are letting your car flow out into the street's wide open mouth. But when you are backing in? You are trying to spit a mouthful of car into that tiny parking space can. It's just not worth it bro. Especially considering that spitting that coke back into the can is probably going to annoy and gross out those who see you doing it. Particularly if they wanted a sip of that coke.

Now don't get me wrong, I'm a reasonable person, and as such I realize there are some times when it would be logical to back in:

- You are loading a bunch of junk into your trunk.

- You are unloading a bunch of junk out of your trunk.

- Redacted

- You are a getaway driver for a robbery. Backing in would certainly be advantageous here, however you may want to consider and change of career.

Now, if none of the above apply to your current situation. Then please save everyone's time and simply pull into the space. The 2 or 3 cars behind you in lot don't want to sit and wait a minute or more while you awkwardly maneuver your car back and forth, back and forth, back and forth...trying to get into that spot backwards.





.........Also, yes, I suck at parallel parking.

The main reason people tend to back into parking places is it's safer and less likely to end up in a wreck from your end or the other person's end if they're being crazy in a parking lot and I have seen crazy people drive stupidly fast in parking lots. For some people it's not about difficulty it's more about safety. You're more likely to make a mistake when pulling out backwards looking at a mirror than having the full range vision of the front of your vehicle.



How expensive food has gotten lately, and that we can't make a budget for food due to circumstances going on right now. So a few times we have to buy ramen and such instead of food that actually has required nutrition.

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Off-Topic Archive / Re: HELP SAVE DeviantART!

2014 Sep 24, 17:07:53

You need to read something like this carefully before jumping to conclusions. I'm going to be quoting some parts in the link the deviant art poster listed.

First of all here's what he linked to.

Dear Federal Communications Commission:

The D.C. Circuit's decision in the Verizon case dealt a huge blow to the open Internet.

Right now there is no one protecting Internet users from ISPs that block or discriminate against websites, applications or services. Companies like Verizon will now be able to block or slow down any website, application or service they like. And they'll be able to create tiered pricing structures with fast lanes for those who can afford the tolls and slow lanes for everyone else.

It's time for the new FCC leadership to correct the agency's past mistakes and to reassert the agency's clear authority over our nation's communications infrastructure. To preserve the open Internet, the FCC must reclassify broadband Internet access as a telecommunications service.

Use your authority to establish a solid legal footing for the vital policies and protections this court decision threatens.

"Right now there is no one protecting Internet users from ISPs that block or discriminate against websites, applications or services. Companies like Verizon will now be able to block or slow down any website, application or service they like. And they'll be able to create tiered pricing structures with fast lanes for those who can afford the tolls and slow lanes for everyone else"

I'm mainly looking at tiered pricing right now, tiered pricing already exists and it's not based on websites you visit. It's based on the internet speed you're paying for. This was a scare tactic that's been used for awhile and I'm still unsure of where they're going with this and I honestly don't like letting government bodies like the FCC or other institutes have more control over things than they need. I myself have been on multiple ISP's and have never experienced traffic bias based on websites I go to such as netflix or youtube. Now I won't completely bash the FCC they have helped get broadband out to rural areas. But it's still a matter of reading everything they want to do just in case they try to sneak something in.

Now on the whole congress thing they neither have the power nor the technology to control the internet in such a way. The internet isn't just in the US it's nearly everywhere in the world. Now I don't know where congress stands in this whole situation as those links have not provided the adequate information and this is kind of a rushed post. Yes there are some ISP's holding monopoly's in areas but that's slowly becoming less of a problem since the FCC recently started getting companies to provide more services in different areas. Like we used to be ruled by whatever dial up ISP was out here and Hughes Net Both which sucked very badly now they did not have website bias or anything like that, rather their whole service itself sucked for anything you tried to do gaming or otherwise. Then a company like CenturyLink came along and provided DSL to our rural area and are actually increasing coverage to multiple rural areas in Missouri. I don't believe we should be imposing regulations on ISP's Because not all ISP's are doing this. What we need is more push for other ISP's to expand so it'll force the monopoly ISP's to provide better service rather than regulating existing ISP's.

But I do agree that ISP's shouldn't be allowed to be biased towards websites. Though I'm also for people having the freedom to run their business the way they want as long as it isn't inhumane to their employees and if you regulate them it's going to cause more problems than it'll solve with our current damaged economy, and if you make any economy remarks I really hope it's detailed as it's nice to have a debate now and then.

TL/DR
Better ISP's are slowly moving in to monopoly areas and I don't think we should regulate them as the bad ones will eventually be weeded out. It's also impossible for them to affect your pricing based on which websites you visit. Because people would know in their bill they would complain and the ISP would lose customers and money and if they're truly stupid enough to do so let them destroy themselves and be done with it as the people will not go for that.
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On another side note. I heard soon a few ISP's are bringing Gigabit DSL to some areas using new technology for their lines. Sprint is also one of the ISP's that recently got bought by a Japanese company who's trying to redesign their interface to support higher speeds. Though I have no idea if this will amount to much yet. Guess we'll see.

There's other things I'd like to say actually a lot of things but it'd go off topic and is about the general costs of broadband in the US and how these monthly download limits are scams and that we have the technology to do without them but what we need is people to complain rather than setting any laws which affect good and bad ISPs.

edit : Scratch off the 1 gigabit dsl it's actually still pretty worthless in it's current state. Still a few ISP's are increasing their service speed slowly.