The I Miss the Old Days Complaint Thread
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Looked at the Firmament trailers on GOG - that might be worth a go!
...complaint: Ugh, dealing with the logout bug again./ Even though I clicked the "keep me signed in" box I am getting logged out just about every day. A real pain when I click on a thread with a lot of new responses and I get logged out. as tit tags the tread like I have already read it. so I have to manually page until I find where the new posts begin. Also when I do sign back in I'm taken to the dashboard page and have to reopen the particular forum first.
I never experience this on other forums, just here.
Daz Needs better forum software (and a search routine that's actually useful).
I dreamt I tried to attend a public high school, but they wouldn't give me my schedule as I was too old.
Well, after an hour or so of poking around in the new Myst type game "Firmament" I now know where I am.
I'm on a mountain top with gorgeous views designed intentionally for use with 3D-goggle viewing devices(if you have them), and for the next couple of months I now have only one functional eye, but it still has a family of floaters in convention.
And I'm stuck already. I can't even jump off the cliff to end my misery. Ah, thank you, Myst people. Weeks of befuddlement ahead.
Note to self: Self, do not look at "Firmament" playthroughs that are already being offered to you via YouTube's mind reading algorithm.
Edited to add: OK, I've made it off the mountain and peeked at other "worlds", all equally frustrating. Yay? Finding the puzzle isn't hard. Figuring out what the puzzle wants you to do is a bit harder. Doing what you "think" should be done, always turns out to be impossible without twisting the world's knobs & buttons, and since something about the obvious way, is always broken and you have to think out of the box to find a way around it. Wheee...
Until... you realize that that was a red herring and wasn't what actually needed to be done yet. (*sigh*).
And I'm still essentially only at the beginning of the game going through "training" scenes.
Brain 'sploding time comes later.
Yay Mystishness.
Sometimes I need time to myself because I'm so frustrated with life that I'll just seem harsh and combative to anybody who speaks to me. And although they're not doing in intentionally, they're really good at starting conversations with me specifically when I thought I would have time to myself. As soon as I start reading, working on something, or pacing back and forth in a fit of rage, somebody will decide to call me or approach me to talk about something they could have said any time earlier that day. Particularly, when I'm reading, I wish they would notice that I'm putting the reading device down to listen to them, and they would figure out I was reading. And leave me alone. But they don't.
Usually I'm able to listen to the whole speech they give me without snapping. But when I do, sometimes I tell people the reason I spoke harshly was because I was already thinking about some world issue that had me frustrated and it affected my reaction to them. And then they try to tell me how to not be frustrated. Because they think I told them I that as a request for relaxation techniques, as opposed to me trying to politely tell them this is not a good time to talk to me.
I'm pretty sure I look perfectly calm when I'm frustrated or upset, and I look really angry when I'm perfectly calm or happy. At least some of the time.
I get that completely... If I'm in a good mood, nobody pays a damn bit of attention to me... if I get into a murderous rage, everyone shows up to talk to me or ask me for stuff.
I know with me there is no mistaking my negative expressions for calmness... if I'm frustrated, I look frustrated and if I'm angry I definitely look angry... when I'm in a good mood I probably look goofy or smell funny because nobody comes near and I'm guessing those things repel people... then again, I wouldn't be surprised if when I'm in a good mood I might be giving off crazy vibes, or "went too far in the angry spectrum and now he's planning revenge" vibes.
I do get very calm and quite when I'm up to something... in a very (1940s - 1950s) "Bugs Bunny up to no good" kinda way.
Then again you never know what people are thinking... when I was younger (and oddly even now occasionally) I noticed female humans would flirt with me when I looked most like the unibomber or like I was about to go full postal with return address... Being pleasant and charming- Nothing... looking like I was a nanometer from going berserk... sure, that was the moment I'd appear interesting.
Maybe you have a version of whatever that mechanism or aura is...
I don't get humans.
Animals (with the exception of my friend's dog) run screaming from me when I'm in a bad mood, without me giving any verbal indication or actions... humans, complete strangers will stand right next to me and start talking to me.
Maybe they are the same people who climb the fence at the zoo to hug a polar bear or lion... I don't know... but most animals know when to avoid me...
Unfortunately, interacting with nonhumans usually makes me calmer when I'm pissed off... humans just piss me off even more, mostly because on some level, a human was responsible for my bad mood to begin with.
And yes, holding a book or device with reading materials on the screen is like chumming the water with hungry sharks in the vicinity.
A couple of days ago I was in Home Depot pissed off as all hell that they don't have a very common item and it was the fourth Home Depot I went to looking for it, and as I'm going through my notes on my phone trying to figure out some dimensional and material workaround, some random dude walks up to me and hands me a paper and starts to tell me about the kingdom of heaven and how evil spirits are everywhere trying to destroy mankind...
I looked at the paper he handed me, which I only took because I thought he was one of those "Have you thought about solar power?" or "Do you have a Home Depot credit card yet" dudes that wander the store annoying people... some of them are actual employees they force to do that, so I'm not mean to them, the solar and roofing people are "parters" so their on their own as far as my mood... (= poke a rabid badger and find out)... But now we are soliciting for salvation in the hardware section?... Well, actually that's not a new thing, it's happened a couple of times in recent years, but here I am, dirty, angry and unshaven and literally holding an axe (which incidentally I didn't buy because it was twice the price the shelf tag said)...(which got me even more annoyed, wrong item stocked in the wrong place)... (a hallmark of HD must be poor eyesight on the part of the night crew... or maybe they don't turn the lights on at night)... but despite that my man thought that while I was standing there holding a hand axe and frowning at my iPhone, that was an invitation to tell me about evil spirits... I was like "Bro... evil spirits?... you are literally telling the most malevolent spirit in this establishment about our plans... and you hand me your game plan so I can share it with the others... and on top of that, you walked right past the nice old dude over there, who if anything, is closer to knocking on that door and may need some enlightenment beforehand....?... thank you... I'll share this with the others..."
I plopped the axe down on the specialty hardware cabinet and carefully folded up his paper and put it in my shirt pocket as he backed away with a confused and worried look... (incidentally, I looked back to see him going over to the old guy)... so I headed to the self checkout feeling a bit better, only to have that ruined when I scanned the stupid axe and found out it wasn't even close to $12... I just left it there... as once again I didn't find anything I went to Home Depot* for (I did find it at a small hardware store, staffed by what were apparently high school kids who don't know hardware, but that's a different and somewhat oppositely amusing story).
I'm not even going to get into the story about the dope who decided to stand in back of me while I'm using a chain saw to cut up a huge branch that fell off the big oak tree in front of my house (mostly because it was quick and boring)**... parks his car blocking the driveway, walks across the front lawn and is standing two feet in back of me while I'm using the most dangerous tool imaginable (one they literally made a Texas based massacre movie about)... to ask me if I'm getting rid of the wood I'm cutting into firewood size bits and stacking neatly on a cart... no, bro... I'm throwing it all out... the cart, the wood, the tree... the chainsaw...
In that case I wasn't pissed off to begin with... I just really hate doing something potentially dangerous and finding some idiot wandering into the death zone and on top of that, startlingly the hell out of me... I don't think I said much more than "No... I'm not... you really shouldn't stand in back of a person using a chainsaw... it's very dangerous."
But yeah... I totally get what you are saying... the less approachable you should be, the more tempting a goal your situation and appearance makes you.
I just don't get humans.
*For anyone wondering why I don't use the website to see which stores have stuff in stock... it's all lies and fantasy... they take as much as 24 hours to update what they have in stock, despite having the capability for it to be relatively quick... within a couple of hours or less.
** Not in detail anyway.
Oops!
...dogs (save for the tiny hyper "yippy yappy" kind) and cats are more my speed.
I found a great snack that is orange like Cheetos, but has the molecular structure of carrots! Actually they are too suspiciously like carrots? Maybe they are carrots?
It's irritating that one needs to manually renew the license for Houdini Apprentice (the free version) every month, and furthermore that the method to renew it is not very obvious.
Wow! I found this page in a magazine I just got in the mail. Very thought provoking?
Non-complaint: Getting deeper into the "Firmament" game. Solved two major puzzles and grocked a third one, now it's just tedious futtzing things around to execute it. Puzzles are getting harder.
Probably several more to come. I've seen places I can't get to yet. And, so far, I've avoided all walk-throughs and spoilers. However, I have watched the extended trailers. They've shown several places I haven't yet even encountered yet, much less get to.
The previous Myst style game was "Obduction". I ended up cheating, a lot, on that one.
But it was a gorgeous game with a Portal-like mind-twist that made it interesting even after one had realized it. But when I first got "Obduction" back in 2016 my poor computer wasn't up to the task.
I had to wait three years to 2019 when I finally built a machine that would handle it without stuttering and taking forever for the numerous, long, scene loads & reloads. By then I just wanted to get through it so I cheated. And I cheated myself out of some eureka moments. So this time, I'm determined to discover all the eureka moments in "Firmament" for myself. The clues are always there, one just has to stop and smell the roses, and stand and look, long and hard at things. Their worlds are functional worlds. Pipes & wires, go where they should. Power is needed for everything. Things function logically and within the constraints of the world. No magic solutions coming out of left field, all the clues are there, somewhere. Don't rush. Think.
I can tell this game "Firmament" would be gorgeous in 3D Virtual Reality. Perhaps, if my eye heals well enough, I'll venture into VR just for this game. But right now, it's fun just as it is. Wheee...
Complaint: Oh boy, another round of the quarterly fill the cup, puncture a vein today. Yes, the wonderful world of type 2 diabetes. With the help of modern medicine, I've been able to keep my a1c below 7, but I always worry. (sigh)
Facebook keeps retroactively flagging old video uploads for copyright infringement
falsely I might add
(public domain music attributed to the wrong artists )
yet offers me no recourse
I am happy to just let them mute them but I am being threatened with losing my account and no way to filter and select them all in my activity feed and just delete them
don't want my photos deleted
I can bring up all my videos but have to delete one by one, are thousands
Have you tried Dave's Killer Bread: 21 Whole Grains and Seeds? 5 grams of fiber in each slice. One sandwich give you 10 grams of fiber. Over 5 grams of fiber tends to fight off sugar in your blood. Last time I checked, they still didn't fully understand why, but who cares as long as it works?! I am consistently below 7, with no medicine, just watch what I eat. I do have deserts sometimes, too.
Dana
I'm a very long term Type 1 currently on an intensive insulin regime (2 insulin types, 3 shots per day) - if you can keep your a1c down, then that's a good thing - keep it up.
Here's a good complaint...
Who the Frak thought this one up?...
While you are shopping online at a particular site, at the bottom of the screen little pop-windows keep opening and closing, saying "Janet from Oshkosh, Wisconsin bought 3 boxes".... "Dave from Mordor just bought 2 cases"... "Rodger from Los Angeles just bought 3 pallets"...
The frak I care what Rodger bought or if he falls down an abandoned well for that matter...
Who the frak is fraking Rodger to me?
Is this nebulous Rodger some standard of living by which I must measure my existence and compete with?
Is fraking Rodger some bureau of safety and reliability?
Is Rodger or any of these other supposedly real entities' supposed existence some sort of standard of excellence, whose mere mention should trigger my desire to purchase whatever it is they allegedly bought?
What sort of hamster-brained nert buys shnart just because some stupid Rodger bought it too?
Frak Rodger and his whole pseudo-factual crew, I hope they all get eaten by a pack of virtual wild dogs who are then manifested into reality and subsequently poop the lot of Rodger-and-crew's liquidy digested remains out onto the sidewalk where the dribble-lipped nincompoop who dreamed that marketing gimmick up wanders into and slips on rendering him incapacitated long enough for a pack of real wild dogs (mostly dachshunds) to descend upon him and slowly devour him for insulting my eyeballs with such nonsensically stupid marketing ploys.
A bit too bitter a reaction for some perhaps, but I say as a whole, the world may not be able to achieve peace, cure disease or solve hunger, but we can get together and demand Rodger's creator be surrendered and face a humiliating punishment... at least a public pantsing or herring slapping.
Something... for the sake of the future... for the children at least... please.
I think sometimes they use random name generators mixed with random location generator to make up all these fictional people so that you can be manipulated into buying their junk.
@McGyver How could you!? So Rodger does something wrong and you want to go out and slap an innocent herring?
I like how Dave is from Mordor, lol.
On a more serious note, sadly this technique does work. It combines the idea that everyone else is buying it and so I should too, with the idea that they are selling so much of the product that I had better buy my truck load of widgets now before they sell out.
What next? Saruon from Mordor bought everything and you get nothing?
Except foe one of these nine stylish rings....
50% DAZ+ get behind me Satan
Why do you stay with them at all? It doesn't sound like they do you much good over there ...
well I don't go there for reasons Meta seems to think we want to
it's more like a diary/blog of my hobbies for me
I post my 3D experiments, AI Art dabbling, photos of cats etc
and of course videos I am working on
majority are silent but occasionally have public domain or Creative Commons music
yet I see popular music on everyone elses so really dumbfounded
I see. Maybe you could create your own space with something like blogspot if that still exists, and only use FB to link over there, to get some traffic, basically? If that's what you want at all. I used to have something like a hobby blogspot page and liked it a lot, it was completely free if I remember correctly. In any case, hope FB will eventually stop coming after you like this!
When? Then. Where? There. What? That.
Asked and answered by changing the w's to t's.
Thanks Dana.
Are you from Ork? You seem to be getting younger all the time!
Dana
Thanks hacsart. Type 1 is the type you are born with, right?
I got no one to blame but my own bad eating and exercise habits.
Well there's the hereditary factor as well. Almost everyone on my late Mother's side is/was type 2 diabetic, except her. She always watched her weight and was always fit.
My wife eats the thin sliced one with the yellow label/bag... I can never remember the name so I just call it "Killer Dave's Murder Bread"... normally when I'm shopping I don't ask for help because if you ask someone where something is you are likely to cover more mileage wandering around the store with the employee trying to help you find whatever it is than if you just wander aimlessly on your own...
One night my daughter and I went to the grocery store on the way home to pick up a few things and while searching the bread aisle, an employee stocking the shelf asked if I need help and I said I was looking for the bread, but it was apparently out of stock...
As we walked away my daughter said "Do you know you just said "the murder bread in the yellow bag"?"...
In my defense I was very tired, but it totally explained the look on the guy's face.