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| Tweet Topic Started: 17 Sep 2011, 07:42 PM (505 Views) | |
| Paw | 17 Sep 2011, 07:42 PM Post #1 |
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So, I've ranted to Drake, I've ranted in the shoutbox, and now I intend to rant here. Basically my big fear of FFXIII-2 was confirmed. The game is 95% Serah and Noel. Serah, the annoying prissy bitch and Noel the irritating generic hero (and both are poorly designed) Lightning is controllable in the very beginning, and then you're stuck with Tweedlee and Tweedledum. I think you do get guest party members, but that's teasing and all around just disappointing. Of course part of this is me wanting Hope to be playable, but I also do want Snow or ANYBODY to make the Noel and Serah combination not suck as much. THEN THERE'S THE WASTED 3rd PARTY SLOT. Monsters? Seriously? Wtf is this shit? Whose fucking brainless idea was that and how was it they decided that was a good idea? "Hey I got this great idea! Let's exchange fun and interesting characters with MONSTERS!!!" Doesn't make any sense, even, to a reasonable storyline. In fact, I'd be willing to wait two or three more years if it meant being rid of this shit. I've lost 90% of my hype, and the rest is draining. I'm not one of those people that looks for something to hate, so this is legitimate. I'm FFXIII's biggest defender. No towns? That's okay. Annoying, but at least we have a nice interesting story. It's all for the story. No backtracking? Aw shit. Oh well, it's for the story. Oh wait, the story actually wasn't THAT great? That's fine. Every character in this game is well-developed and interesting and move it along well like a great actor might make a mediocre movie seem great. SO THIS TIME LET'S GET RID OF THE ONLY THING HOLDING THIS GAME TOGETHER! CHARACTERS! I just don't believe it. It's absurd. I have a minor (and really unlikely) hope that the DLC will be the ability to play a good version of the game that doesn't have this idiotic pokemon system and replace cute little animals with some good characters. But you know what it's gonna be? It's obvious. It's gonna be MORE MONSTERS. Because 150 useless and annoying monsters just aren't enough. Or they'll REALLY cheap out and make it one monster. I guess there's always Ni no kuni... |
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| Seffoo | 5 Oct 2011, 11:39 PM Post #2 |
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Stupid shit. I have a shit computer which is only barely functional. At the same time, somewhere in the country, some little eight year old bitch brat has a $3,000 laptop and does nothing but surf some shit like Neopets with it. Fuckign spoiled kids. Fucking unfair universe. But that's how things are. Gotta deal with it, just accept it and press on. YOU PEOPLE WITH GOOD COMPUTERS HAVE NO IDEA HOW GOOD YOU HAVE IT, YOU UNGRATEFUL BASTARDS. WELL I'VE TAKEN ENOUGH OF YOUR SHIT, UNIVERSE. WHY CAN'T YOU JUST GIVE US A FUCKING BREAK THROW THESE GUTTER-DOGS A TINY PIECE OF BONE JUST ONCE WHAT IS THE POINT OF THIS IT BETTER ALL WORK OUT IN THE END. The stress is killing me. The pressure. All I can do to relieve it is distract myself with games and art, and whatever the hell else I do online. It's not enough anymore, though. My interest in the PC is dropping drastically. Like this: It started at 100%. Death of SA: -20% Lack of Untitled RPing: -75% Various things the computer is fucking up on: -10% That leaves me at a total of -%5.. IT'S IN THE NEGATIVE. Of course, it waxes and wanes, but right now the only reason I'm still around online is my commitment to dA, my like of chatting with the gang here, and the prospect of RPing again sometime in the (near?) future. If not for those three things (in addition to the various online banking and/or orders things I do), I wouldn't be around at all. I hate it, but that's how it is. My favourite part of the day is now lying in bed daydreaming. It's like I don't even know how to care about anything anymore. Been beaten down too many times. AND PISSED. WAY PISSED. I'm very highly-strung. The slightest thing can send me into thralls of stress (which I get aggressive during, or just plain ignore people). When my computer started messing up following the Flash update I foolishly did, I got so stressed I'm pretty sure my face went white. I also hit the keyboard tray so hard I knocked it off its rails. The other day, I was looking for the scissors so I could open my rice. I checked the four spots they usually are and couldn't find them. At that point something flipped a switch and the stress-aggression kicked in. Eventually I gave up and decided to go without until dinner, nine hours later. So, being highly-strung as I am, and not liking unauthorised sudden change (not as much as that Orlesian woman from DA2, hah), having all this pressing down is suffocating. Result? Nothing's getting through. Nothing's setting in. I can't get any important work done. AT LEAST WE FUCKING HAVE A CAR NOW. Mother's driving it back now. Bought it off her sister's ex for $900. It's a '93 Swift. Dumb. But we need a car. What is it, October now? Yeah. It's been about 15 months we've been without one. FUCKING RICH ASSHOLES WITH CARS. EVERYONE WITH A CAR IS A RICH ASSHOLE WHO TAKES THEIR BLESSING FOR GRANTED. STUPID WANKERS. YOU HAVE NO FUCKING IDEA. Scraping by, that's what we're doing. We never did ANYTHING to deserve this. Hell, with all we have been doing, our luck should be turning. It isn't. Over the past three months we've donated waaaaaay more than we could afford to the RSPCA, who are critically short on food and bedding. Meanwhile, wealthy whores get $100 haircuts. FUCKING HATE IT. ALL OF IT. ... Wait, we've got a car. We're rich! We can go to the mall! We've hired a couple of cars over the past half-year. I was thoroughly amazed by the cupholders, electric windows and CD player. One of them even had an LCD screen in the dashboard. I completely forgot cars had any of those things. Every time we get in a taxi I'm shocked how smooth the ride is. So, this rant is getting friggin' long, and it hasn't made me feel any better. If anything, it's made me feel worse. Time to end it. Edited by Seffoo, 5 Oct 2011, 11:40 PM.
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| Padraic | 23 Apr 2012, 12:32 PM Post #3 |
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No, mom, you're not right. Stop turning everything on me. It's been this way since I was fucking little. Nothing is ever your fault. It's everyone else's. Husband left you? He's an asshole in his midlife crisis. (Oh wait, you tried divorcing him before you got sick. But then when he stuck around to help you out, you loved him again.) Son turns to drugs? It's a phase, and he's not street smart. (Wasn't he always told he wouldn't amount to anything and was blamed for everything?) Other son becomes depressed? He's just a lazy shit who just wants to lay down all day. (Getting sick of your shit and being stuck to deal with you alone since both dad and brother left.) Now you come in and tell me that you're mad at me because you can't get a word in with me? LOOK WHO THE FUCK IS TALKING? In all the conversations we've have, there have been so few times I've been right, or been able to say my opinion. We have an argument where you blame me for something you did (big surprise.) and so I go to my room. You come up, and then accuse me of the aforementioned problem of being unable to get a word in with me. I just laugh at the hypocrisy, speechless at the fact you had the guts to say that. Doesn't stop there, though! You come back, another five minutes expecting me to want to talk to you, when again, I can't say anything. So I get tired and stop listening, just nodding along, pretending. Then you realise and get mad at me for it. Well, obviously I'm still ticked, I don't want to talk to you about this. Fuck, I mean, who would want to be accused of those sort of things when you did both, then be told that I'm doing so many other things wrong and how we don't have dinner together anymore (we do). I'm sick of your bullshit accusations. |
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| Paw | 22 May 2012, 11:26 PM Post #4 |
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So, today I've experienced a string of horribly annoying discoveries. I thought today would be nice. This morning I found an old memory card for PS2 I've been looking for for a long time. I had an okay day hanging out with a friend at the harbor. But much to my horror, the Gamestop there was closed -- replaced by some fucking magazine store. Oh well, I figured, there's always Best Buy. Nope, that was closed, too. So I come home and decide to put that memory card to use. I get out the PS2 and put in FFX. It didn't work. The game was one of the very first I ever owned and endured my early phase of not taking care of discs. It was covered in scratches that had never before caused a problem but were doing so now. I tried DQVIII, a game I got later and has very few scratches on it. It didn't work either. It is now not a matter of re-buying a game, which in hindsight would not be nearly as annoying as the reality of the situation. Instead, I have a broken PS2 and an urge to play PS2 games. Well, of course my PS3 doesn't play PS2 games. No, that would be convenient and we can't have that. Those fucking halfwit imbeciles at Sony had the genius idea of REMOVING a useful and nifty feature from their piece of shit console. Their shitty reason was that their studies showed that most people who were buying PS3s were buying them to mostly play PS3. Well, that would make sense; however, what eventually happens - PS2s go out of production, eventually people's PS2 systems get old and die, and then you have very few options. It fucking makes no sense to me. They do have "PS2 Classics" on PSN, but there are two problems with that -- 1) they have a VERY limited selection and there's no telling what and when something will come next. And 2) they take up a good amount of space on the PS3's HDD. I don't want to clog that up with full games when I COULD just pop in a disc and store save data only. So...I guess I need to buy a new PS2. Last time I had one that died, I tried to fix it myself. Made a mess of things. Dumb to ask here since nobody reads this shit, but does anyone know if you can get your PS2 repaired anywhere for a price that isn't outrageous? |
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| Padraic | 7 Jun 2012, 05:16 PM Post #5 |
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Copy paste from somewhere else and it's morr of a ramble than a rant, but whatever.. I did write it though. And now that i've written it, i'm going to escape to somewhere no one can do anything to me, but myself, which seems fitting; my dreams. Just had a rather emotional day. Last improv team gathering picnic, last drama class of highschool, and there's still another day. Before I was so excited to be done, and don't get me wrong, I still am, but now there's another feeling, not sadness or wishing it wasn't ending. No, it's envy. I look around, and I know all my friends are graduating... But I won't be. I have to take French next yearbefore I can carry on to cegep/college... It's bad, I know I shouldn't feel this way because it's my fault for dropping the class, because I knew I was going to fail it... But still... I don't even know why i'm posting this here... Maybe I want my voice to just be out there, to know I said it rather than kept it bottled up. Anyway, just disregard this. |
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| Paw | 25 Jun 2012, 03:32 PM Post #6 |
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Graaargghhhh So, I was summoned to go to jury duty on the 21st of June. I had it in my head all month until that day when it just slipped my mind. So after being scared of being imprisoned or something, I calmed down and looked some stuff up. I figured I had to call. My horrible morning/afternoon: These places need to work out a new way of communication. I spent hours sitting around calling them just to get a busy signal. Finally, I received a recorded message with all sorts of options, none of which exactly pertained to my situation. While I tried to figure out what to do, it hung up on me because I was taking too long. I decided my jury number was too high, and since I hadn't gotten a notice of failure to report, I figured I didn't need to come in and all was good. However, I eventually found out I did. So, back to calling the damn place. After many more busy signals (and the interruption of my annoying neighbor wanting me to do shit for her), I got the message again. This time I knew what to press, but my finger hit 'hang up' instead. I think I burst a lung swearing so loud :\ Tied a third time. Took forever to get anything but a busy signal. And finally I got to talk t someone who was very helpful. Now I have to go down there early in the morning tomorrow and if I'm late, I'll probably be fined $1000. So...I guess this ends happily. Hopefully it will. With my luck, I'll be empaneled :( |
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| Seffoo | 21 Nov 2012, 07:18 PM Post #7 |
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The household earns around $600 a week. It's tight, but we manage. $280 goes to rent, and the rest is generally for bills and the groceries -- there's very little left over. And now, for reasons beyond control, that's dropping in January. By $65. That has to come out of the groceries, which we already run short on half the time. It's a damn good thing I'm starting a new course -- we're going to need the extra money. And no one ever listens to me. Don't care what I've got to say, regardless of the value. Apparently, that piece of fascinating archaeology news has about the same importance as who gets the last cup of soda. It's starting to really piss me off. I'm probably the most intellectual person in the entire household (sounds like an exaggeration, but it's not -- these people think it's too hard to read a 300-page novel) and all I say is taken for granted. Recently, I've just taken to not talking for the entire day. It's easier, and gives a sense of satisfaction when someone tries to ask me something and gets nothing. Oh, you need help fixing that Paypal dispute? I'm not doing it this time, nope. You can just have my silence. What's that? You can't figure out what's wrong with the router? No, I'm not helping you. I'm just going to let you fumble around for the next hour and a half until you figure it out. Disregard the fact that the problem is the power cord is pulled out a few mm, turning it off, because you put the power board on the ground after I explicitly told you that the cord's too short for it to be there. Twice. Speaking of which. I'm sick of repeating myself. If I have to ask you something more than twice, I'm going to yell it at you the third time and you have no right to complain. Especially if you're less than twenty feet away from me. If I'm trying to tell you something, I'm not going to repeat it unless the blender was on or something. If you're too stupid to listen the first time, I'm not telling you again. The one exception is if it's something like a long, scientific name, or a bit of archaeology/paleontology/medical/general science news that needs two reads to wrap one's head around. tl;dr:
Edited by Seffoo, 21 Nov 2012, 07:18 PM.
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| Seffoo | 31 Aug 2013, 11:07 AM Post #8 |
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Disclaimer if you happen to be reading this: This is coming out as I go. Content warning for weird nonsense. I don't know what I might say. Spoiler: click to toggle
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| Seffoo | 6 Jan 2016, 01:12 PM Post #9 |
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2016. Just as ill as before. I thought it'd have gotten better by now. Fuck it. I'm so tired. |
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