The I Miss the Old Days Complaint Thread

AgitatedRiot

LeatherGryphon said:

AgitatedRiot said:

Gordig said:

Somewhat more erotic than Cirque du Soleil, if you can imagine such a thing.

A buddy asked me to go with them to a strip club. I have told him no many times. NO. So when I was down south looking at houses. He asked me again only if you stopped bugging me, I said. Where this is at is only two stripper joints. One nasty and one classy, He pulled into the joint, and I saw the dancer's stage name. I got out of the car and called a taxi. He asked what I was doing. I said I'm getting out of here before someone sees me. He goes why? I tell him the main act is my great grand niece, and I don't want to be the creepy old uncle. He said ok, let's go to the other I said NO. You don't get it. I'm not too fond of those places. You just tried to get me to look at my niece. He's lucky I did stab him with my fingers in his eyes.

He's lucky you did?   Hmmm,  some people have strange fetishes.   I've had someone poke a finger deep into my eye 40 years ago(and therein lies a tale) and, also enough undesirable experiences with my eyes lately.  No more fingers in my eyes, thank you.   I'm glad I just enjoy tofu in my ears and spiders up my nose.​

I corrected it. We were talking eye pokes. My bro was working a POS of a pickup truck, and he wedged the hood, spring, and lever down. I said Bro take those springs off. So he climbed up onto the fender spring and came loose. His eye popped out of its socket. I screamed he screamed, and it wasn't for Ice Cream. He looks at me and asks why I can simultaneously see your face and the ground. I said don't worry, Bro, they will fix it. He was a Light-Wheel Vehicle Mechanic (63B). Medics showed up and just popped back in. Took him to the base hospital.

NylonGirl

I'd rather be on a pole than on a corner.

WendyLuvsCatz

NylonGirl said:

I'd rather be on a pole than on a corner.

not if Vlad the Impaler put me there  

TJohn

It's Friday!

WendyLuvsCatz

TJohn said:

It's Friday!

been Caturday for half an hour down here 

McGyver

Technically this a test post... but also not...

Part 1:

Complaint... I'm pretty sure the forum has a problem with long posts now... as in not being able to post them at all... I replied to a post that invited a long reply (they listed a few things, which I addressed individually)... it wasn't unusually long and it wasn't funny, I was genuinely responding to an inquiry... 

But apparently a little more than half way through I got an "500 Internal Sever Error"... So I copied the text and tested it elsewhere and it immediately did the same thing... if I remove a bunch of sentences it doesn't have a problem, but the moment I retype them there is a problem... the last time I had this happen I noticed it was at more or less the same character limit... previously (when the forums actually were working properly, more or less) the forum's character limit was vastly greater... I was able to write the "Glossary of Terms - for those new to Digital Art and DAZ 3D" without any trouble... (which apparently is no longer stickied in the New Users forum and apparently hasn't been for a long time... which is kinda crappy, but whatever)...

Its like this forum always knows what I'm up too... About a week ago I started editing a new Glossary of CGI Terms and was thinking that by maybe two or three weeks I'd post the new updated version... but of course, literally every time I've gone to update the damn thing there is some major issue with the forums and I abandon the idea and wait it out and then I add more new terms to the document and it requires more editing and I just forget about it because it's actually a lot of work to post that, especially here where the damn forum crashes so frequently...

I was going to make a thread of photos I've taken that could be used for modeling or scene references, and whether it was coincidence or not someone else posted one (but using web images mostly)... Then the nail in the coffin of that was the inability to upload images... 

The last time I made a freebie it was a long and frustrating game of cat and mouse trying to post the thread and images as the website kept gateway erroring...  

 

McGyver

Part 2:

Now long posts won't work too... I know I'm annoying and my posts are long self delusional nonsense, but I like to think that they maybe make people chuckle or get a laugh, if not for the nonsense, the bad grammar... but long posts are my thing and if that's not a thing anymore, I'm thinking it's a sign that maybe this isn't something I should be wasting time with...

I don't think "I'm wasting time" BSing with friends here, but its increasingly frustrating just doing anything here and I honestly don't wanna be around when the lights in the forum go out permanently, which is increasingly seeming to be a possibility... it's feeling like when a landlord wants tenants to move so they stop fixing stuff.

I'm taking a break, I'll probably still check around, it's just I'm not going to really try to write much (a round of applause) because it's too frustrating to deal with all the various problems or workarounds... Stay well everyone and hopefully they'll fix all these problems eventually.

Cheers. 

WendyLuvsCatz

I enjoy your posts and text uses very little bandwidth 

the fact is this forum just is crappy like it's predecessors apparently were but seems to outdo them in crappiness inspite of the admins saying otherwise 

LeatherGryphon

If the DAZ forum lights go out permanently, then all the tales I've related about my life are lost to the world forever.  Nowhere else have I bared my soul and history.  Perhaps I should go through and find all my story posts, and put them into my tell-all book like I should have done already.  But nobody cares anyway, and it's just ego stroking.  So, probably not gonna get done.  Yay, we all win.

DanaTA

I, too, enjoy your posts, McGyver!

It does seem that every time they "fix" the forum, it gets worse in one way or another.  Perhaps we should stop asking them to fix it, before it doesn't work at all!   

LeatherGryphon

DanaTA said:

I, too, enjoy your posts, McGyver!

It does seem that every time they "fix" the forum, it gets worse in one way or another.  Perhaps we should stop asking them to fix it, before it doesn't work at all!   

I too appreciate McGyver's posts, although I admit I don't always read them all the way through(there's only so much incongruity that can be absorbed in one sitting).  But I know they are always enormously disturbing in a good way. 

And I too have been lamenting the "fix the website" calls.  They haven't seemed to have significantly improved the user experience. 

kyoto kid

...McGyver, your whimsical posts always brighten my day.  Need more of that given what I often have to deal with in everday "real" life. 

WendyLuvsCatz

someone is trying to hack my facebook account 

I am to scared to click on the link in the email from Meta in case it's the hack instead 

I did however get a phone sms too

kyoto kid

...complaint: too many "nuts holding the wheel" (an old saying of my high school driver's ed instructor) on my walk to the market today.

LeatherGryphon

kyoto kid said:

...complaint: too many "nuts holding the wheel" (an old saying of my high school driver's ed instructor) on my walk to the market today.

Anything novel?  Or just the same old carelessness? 

kyoto kid

...pretty much same old : not using their turn indicator or engaging it  at the very last second, blocking crosswalks, driving through stop signs and general impatience.

Seems the pandemic had a  side effect, as apparently motorists here seem to have forgotten the "fine art" of controlling a motor vehicle.  Then again, maybe they binge watched those dash cam videos on YouTube as a means to alleviate the boredom of mandated quarantine.

NylonGirl

McGyver said:

Part 2:

Now long posts won't work too... I know I'm annoying and my posts are long self delusional nonsense, but I like to think that they maybe make people chuckle or get a laugh, if not for the nonsense, the bad grammar... but long posts are my thing and if that's not a thing anymore, I'm thinking it's a sign that maybe this isn't something I should be wasting time with...

I don't think "I'm wasting time" BSing with friends here, but its increasingly frustrating just doing anything here and I honestly don't wanna be around when the lights in the forum go out permanently, which is increasingly seeming to be a possibility... it's feeling like when a landlord wants tenants to move so they stop fixing stuff.

I'm taking a break, I'll probably still check around, it's just I'm not going to really try to write much (a round of applause) because it's too frustrating to deal with all the various problems or workarounds... Stay well everyone and hopefully they'll fix all these problems eventually.

Cheers. 

I like reading your posts. I don't normally feel like I have time to read anything very long but your posts are maybe the only exception. If there's ever another government shutdown then I'll probably read The New Yorker and The Atlantic. I wonder if they're connected. Are you connected with them? Anyway I'm sure I get ignored five times as much as you... This is about me now... I hate this. I'm going to bed.

AgitatedRiot

kyoto kid said:

...pretty much same old : not using their turn indicator or engaging it  at the very last second, blocking crosswalks, driving through stop signs and general impatience.

Seems the pandemic had a  side effect, as apparently motorists here seem to have forgotten the "fine art" of controlling a motor vehicle.  Then again, maybe they binge watched those dash cam videos on YouTube as a means to alleviate the boredom of mandated quarantine.

I know what you mean. Twice in the last week, people tried to kill me. It's like, Hey, I'm turning. Good luck, everybody.

kyoto kid

...I have a little line I say in my mind when I approach a crosswalk or intersection (after looking both ways, even on a one way street) that goes' "any cars to kill me?"  If its clear I "say" "guess not" then cross.  if there are I just stand back a bit and let them go. 

I'm no longer the most agile person around and a bit of patience can be a lifesaver .  I'm retired, I'm in no hurry, unlike most of these "nuts" I see.

Zylox

WendyLuvsCatz said:

someone is trying to hack my facebook account 

I am to scared to click on the link in the email from Meta in case it's the hack instead 

I did however get a phone sms too

I suggest logging into your account and changing your password.

 

edit to add: you could also try contacting their customer service through their website, explain what happened, and see if the email was legitimate or a phishing attempt.

WendyLuvsCatz

did the latter and checked my logins, all the same IP this month (changes of modem powered off)

so my password is safe, this person is just phishing for it by asking for a code

this has happened before but the big difference is the wording of the email

normally it says if it was not you ignore this email

but this time it wants me to contact them, that's whats raising the red flag

people can and would copy the standard details and use tricks to make it look legitimate including the sender

my phone number could easily be on any number of sites that may have been hacked too where I had to provide it but since I don't use my real surname on Facebook a bit strange however I do have my Facebook in my signature here for example so not improbable someone has access to both bits of information 

there is nowhere for me to enter this 8 digit code if I wanted to

I just hope the other person cannot randomly enter it wherever they have the option 

I am guessing they do this to thousands of accounts using the same numbers (not one sent to me) and luck out on some

TJohn

Happy Caturday! 

LeatherGryphon

kyoto kid said:

...I have a little line I say in my mind when I approach a crosswalk or intersection (after looking both ways, even on a one way street) that goes' "any cars to kill me?"  If its clear I "say" "guess not" then cross.  if there are I just stand back a bit and let them go. 

I'm no longer the most agile person around and a bit of patience can be a lifesaver .  I'm retired, I'm in no hurry, unlike most of these "nuts" I see.

And then there are the too polite drivers.  Tuesday I was on a mini-adventure to do laundry.  While there I toddled across the street to the CVS drugstore for 20 minutes of wild excitement perusing aisles of goodies, ending up only with my prescriptions and a Hershey bar, and then toddling back to the laundromat.  On the way there I take the direct path to the CVS door, and cross in the middle of the block.  It's easy enough, one just waits until the traffic light is in your favor, all the cars have passed your crossing point, and it's clear to go.  But nooo, this big semi-truck driver sees me standing on the middle of the sidewalk in the middle of the block, watching traffic and the light, and he deliberately stops and motions me to cross.  Duh, NO.  I can't see what's behind you or coming up on your left side.  so, I step back one step to the far edge of the sidewalk and motion him to go on by me, at which point he gives me the finger, and forgets to downshift.  Either he thought I was going to jump in front of him or he was trying to be helpful, but "hey, man, you're a huge truck, I saw you coming, so don't curse at me when you grind your gears trying to get started again."

   I had that happen at least once before, in Melbourne, Florida 20+ years ago.  Babcock street is a major north/south road through the city of Melbourne connecting two growing areas of the city.  There are (or were) long stretches of Babcock St. that are empty of buildings, yet the city in their infinite wisdom (and future planning) put crosswalk marks on the pavement across the heavily travelled, four lanes of traffic in the middle of the empty area, just in case you wanted to get the nothing on the other side.  No traffic light, just the pedestrian crossing in the middle of a half mile long block in the middle of a quarter mile of nothing.  At the crossing marks is a sign for the drivers that says "Drivers must stop for pedestrians in crosswalk".  All well and good, and prudent, and thoughtful, but "in the crosswalk" does not mean to slam on your brakes and stop for the guy on a bicycle taking a breather near that sign.  So there I am standing next to the road, on the sidewalk, not headed across the street, and a car slams on his brakes, stops before the crossing lines, and motions me to cross.  I'm sorry, but this chicken doesn't want to cross the road.  I motion for him to continue and he just sits there waiting for me to cross.  I finally had to yell at him that I was NOT crossing the street and pointed out that he was developing a long line of angry drivers behind him.  

WendyLuvsCatz

I hate that especially since I am not even at a crossing

also if there isn't a crossing and some random with nobody behind them decides to stop and it's not clear the other direction, I won't stand in the middle of the road

I get all sorts of abuse for waving them on. I hide behind trees. deliberately look the other way, pretend to be admiring the building behind me and it still happens, there are plenty of oportunities to cross lesiurely if only these white knights would just go

but they never stop turning into a side street I am crossing and that's law here

Sfariah D

I had a bad cold this last week.  (Not sure what a good cold is?) I'm starting to feel better.

Sfariah D

Do you want an apple?

Charlie Judge

Sfariah D said:

Do you want an apple?

Nope. I prefer my computers to be Windows compatable. 

But your attacment does look peachy to me.

Sfariah D

Charlie Judge said:

Sfariah D said:

Do you want an apple?

Nope. I prefer my computers to be Windows compatable. 

But your attacment does look peachy to me.

i don't have a picture of an apple, but I took a picture of a peach.

LeatherGryphon

Onward and Upward:  OK, I've bitten the bullet and executed an in-place upgrade to Windows11 on one of my three machines that are natively capable of supporting Win11.  I chose the least critical one, just in case.  All seemed to go well UNTIL...   until I started looking for familiar and frequently used features like twiddling network settings, and such mundane things as changing the taskbar, and turning the f@%#n machine off.  For the first time in 35 years, the "START" buttton that you push to STOP the machine(*rolling eyes*), isn't at the left end of the taskbar.   OK, ok, ... momentary mindstorm has abated, and I've figured out how to left-tize the taskbar and get rid of the huge, annoyingly obtuse, widget monstrosity.  

I'm gett'n too old & fragile to have many more culture shocks like this.  But now that I have a seemingly functional Win11 system, I have several months of productive bitching ahead of me.  Stay tuned.

AgitatedRiot

NON-Complaint: good thing I have liquid cooling.