Thread "The 2009 Rant, Vent, and Share thread" in forum "Comic Talk and General Discussion *"

Posted at 11:10PM, Oct. 30, 2009

The worst thing is when they say hello as you pass by, since everyone knows that 'hello' really means 'what are you doing here, you barely human turd? Crawl back into your cave where you aren't dragging the average of non-worthlessness of the entire world down by a full fifteen percent'.

In your case… possibly. ^_^

Poor Trout. Being antisocial is great fun, yeah, but in the end you find you often need people for various reasons so it doesn't pay off in the long run.
Whatever. you be how you want, if it suits you better that way. :)

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It's Saturday today. Saturday is good! Friday was half crap. Friday is always half crap now. For some reason all the worst little disasters at work always happen on Friday. All the little and big things that go wrong that would normally ruin a whole day and possibly the rest of the week happen on that day, every week for me, but because it IS Friday I let it all pass and enjoy the day anyway because I know it's the end of the working week. It's a nice system I suppose. ^__^

Posted at 12:10AM, Oct. 31, 2009

Poor Trout. Being antisocial is great fun, yeah, but in the end you find you often need people for various reasons so it doesn't pay off in the long run.
Whatever. you be how you want, if it suits you better that way. :)

What the Christ? FUN? Yeah it's real fun, you fucking dickwipe. I love being a maladjusted mess of a human being. It's fucking great, you should try it sometime and see how fucking fun it is.

Seriously, what the hell? 'Be how I want'? Fuck, if I knew it was as easy as simply wanting to be less of a worthless piece of shit, guess I was wasting my time with all that socialising and going outside and working hard. Thanks for that fucking pearl of wisdom.

That is absolutely the worst thing you've ever said. I'm not joking this time, you might as well have just hacked off my balls with a rusty fucking chisel.

Posted at 12:10AM, Oct. 31, 2009

Yeah that was a pretty harsh ozone, custard has been a jerk in the past but there's no need to get that mean and preachy. :/

Posted at 12:10AM, Oct. 31, 2009

I wasn't being mean at all. I was being absolutely 100% honest and friendly to him. Being antisocial that way is normal, when I was younger I was often exactly that way myself, which is why I said that. I say "be how you want to be" because I wasn't being preachy, that's him, only he can change himself from being that way. That's pretty obvious, and what I was saying by that is "don't change if you don't want to".

But with his reaction to me…? It's just a symptom of the general antisocial stuff he's complaining about, not what I said. -_-

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I don't need to justify myself every single time when insecure angry people make themselves offended over irrelevant things. Perhaps what's needed is to take a few breaths, turn off the computer and think about something else for a while.
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I dunno. Maybe it's a cultural divide? Not everything means the same things in different countries. Australians have a way of speaking and interacting that's rather different to Americans and British people, even though the same language is used. -words have different connotations and there's no way to make that translate directly.

Posted at 2:10AM, Oct. 31, 2009

I dunno. Maybe it's a cultural divide? Not everything means the same things in different countries. Australians have a way of speaking and interacting that's rather different to Americans and British people, even though the same language is used.

Probably. That's why so many Americans feel so tense and oppressed on these boards.

Posted at 4:10AM, Oct. 31, 2009

stuff

That's interesting. I could throw in my two cents into the subject and say that where I live, people generally keep to themselves under normal circumstances, preferring not to make eye contact with strangers or greet them. It irks me when I'm in the states and people are unusually open and friendly. It always rubbed of as "phony" to me.
However, put my countrymen in a hut tub or give them a beer and they open up in two seconds flat.
It's also culturally hardwired into everyone that you have to help those who are in trouble. Therefore 10 people would normally rush in to break up a fight and cars stop to help change someone's tire. I understand that such behaviors are usually frowned upon in the US.

Culture is fun.

I myself prefer being helpful but only if the person needs the help. Otherwise, why the hell should I be friendly towards someone I don't know?

Posted at 5:10AM, Oct. 31, 2009

I don't need to justify myself every single time when insecure angry people make themselves offended over irrelevant things. Perhaps what's needed is to take a few breaths, turn off the computer and think about something else for a while.

What is relevant/irrelevant to another person is not for you to decide.

Perhaps next time angry insecure people make themselves offended over something you said, perhaps you could take a few breaths, turn off the computer and think about not being an internet meglomaniac for a while.

Posted at 7:10AM, Oct. 31, 2009

It's also culturally hardwired into everyone that you have to help those who are in trouble. Therefore 10 people would normally rush in to break up a fight and cars stop to help change someone's tire. I understand that such behaviors are usually frowned upon in the US.

It's not so much that it's frowned upon as it is you're likely to get sued for it. America used to be quite a helpful place untl good samaritans started getting legally punished by spruious claims of injustice, emotional harm, and lacking the skill to help properly. People are just afraid to help others now.

Posted at 7:10AM, Oct. 31, 2009

Cheer up you lot!

Happy Halloween!

Posted at 7:10AM, Oct. 31, 2009

internet meglomaniac for a while.

Ok scarf, "meglomaniac" eh? If it was someone else other than me who'd posted that would you still level the same accusation? More and more the yellow box under my nick is license for abuse and extra criticism.
I'm a normal comic posting user here like everyone else and neither deserve nor appreciate open aggression directed towards me, whatever the perceived provocation. No one on this forum does.

I won't say anything more on the matter and I won't be posting anything more in the forums for a while except as pertains to my administration responsibilities.

Posted at 7:10AM, Oct. 31, 2009

internet meglomaniac for a while.
Ok scarf, "meglomaniac" eh? If it was someone else other than me who'd posted that would you still level the same accusation?

I think the thing is that no one else would have posted that.

But whatever, be how you want to be. ;)

Posted at 9:10AM, Oct. 31, 2009

I won't say anything more on the matter and I won't be posting anything more in the forums for a while except as pertains to my administration responsibilities.

I'm going to miss you!

Posted at 10:10AM, Oct. 31, 2009

I'm a normal comic posting user here like everyone else

Normal comic posting users don't have yellow boxes: with great power comes great responsibility!

I'm not trying to say you're a bad person - more like a normal user who's become drunk with power and turned into a slavering, facistic forum dictator who derives his twisted pleasure from playing psychological chess with ordinary DD users as his pawns, but with a heart of gold underneath it all.

How could you possibly choose to be offended by that?

I won't be posting anything more in the forums for a while except as pertains to my administration responsibilities.

Oh that's right - make me look like the bad guy, you Stalinist.

Posted at 12:10PM, Oct. 31, 2009

It's not so much that it's frowned upon as it is you're likely to get sued for it. America used to be quite a helpful place untl good samaritans started getting legally punished by spruious claims of injustice, emotional harm, and lacking the skill to help properly. People are just afraid to help others now.

Yeah. That's the impression I got as well. Another thing that I remember is the issue of hitchhiking. Apparently it's considered to be such a dangerous practice since either the person hitching the ride or the one providing is a potential mass murderer or rapist. Hitchhiking is a very common thing where I live and there are even designated pick up spots in some areas.

I also understand that some universities provide basic mechanic classes specially aimed for ladies, so that they can fix their car themselves should it ever break down on the road. That way they don't have to worry about anyone who might stop to "help" them. Such mistrust towards a helping hand is completely alien to me.

Posted at 2:10PM, Oct. 31, 2009

What is relevant/irrelevant to another person is not for you to decide.

That was nicely put ironscarf, regardless of 'cultural differences' a little tact can never do you wrong when talking about an obviously personal issue to someone. I've learned this the hard way(oh god have i ;–; ) but i'm glad i did.

At the very least don't act like your perspective is the only one worth having, and at the same time talk down anyone with a differing one. That's the american definition of 'douchebag'.

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So i am totally on board J. H. Williams artwork, seriously just
http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/detective854.jpg

He manages to keep up that cool energy all through the issue, and that one is far from the coolest layout he's done(couldn't find any other scan) Almost makes me bitter when i pick up a Quietly book and everyone is calling him a campy genius (i do like his art though)
Dem inkzz:
http://www.4thletter.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/batwoman-105clip.jpg
http://blog.newsarama.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10087/normal_batwoman1-inks-pg016-017.jpg
^so amazing when colored ;-;

Posted at 2:10PM, Oct. 31, 2009

Wow… good samaritans getting sued for helping people? Almost like that issue where defending yourself will land you life in prison…

Posted at 6:10PM, Oct. 31, 2009

Holy assballs of pants-shitting hell. Why is it so goddamn freakishly cold in my studio? It's actually literally colder than outside in here. The A/C shouldn't be on, I just went down to the maintenance office and looked at it on the heating computer ( I have access because I work for maintenance here.), but I swear it feels like it is. Everywhere else in the school is a toasty 72, but on my floor it's around 50.

Posted at 10:10PM, Oct. 31, 2009

I just had a totally great halloween!

I went to the central canada comic convention earlier today and it kinda sucked so I was all "OOoooooh, halloween suuuuuckkkss this year" but I went trick-or-treating with my friend and then watched The Rear Window, and it was tons of fun.

Posted at 10:10PM, Oct. 31, 2009

the party sucked. nobody dressed up, all the people who were supposed to go out drinking got sick….so we sat around talking about work, while the wife kinda got left out of it…

but i was still the doctor.

Posted at 11:10PM, Oct. 31, 2009

Halloween was pretty good for me. I had no costume planned but I ended up wearing this full body thing of a pink stitch and a trench coat over that, so I could flash it to people.
My main complaint is that many people were sleeping over, but my parents didn't want me to, and well, fuck me for being an obedient son…

Posted at 12:11AM, Nov. 1, 2009

Ugh… it's happening again. When I think of something interesting to do, watch an interesting book or watch a show that I like I almost immediatly fall asleep. However, if I'm doing something that I don't want to do or am bored with something I'm WIDE AWAKE! I always figured at least one gear isn't turning right in the old gray matter, but this is a bit much. I can't even try to draw now because I wake up a half hour later with my face on my tablet. x_x

Posted at 12:11AM, Nov. 1, 2009

Well, my halloween party gig was a bit of up and down…
The two bands that went on before us were hella intense. Us? Not quite so hardcore, but we held our own. Had our old guitarist sit in on a few songs, and that went pretty well.

I actually came to a realization tonight, though. It seems that for all the shows we play, all the people that get exposed to our music, well…it seems like most of the respect we get for our efforts is from the other musicians. The average Joe, the one that doesn't know as much about the technical side of playing music, might take it or leave it, but the other bands (even the ones that do TOTALLY different kinds of music), they almost always give us great revues.

It just seems odd to me that it comes out that way…not sure what it means, but hey, respect's respect, and that's what matters!

Posted at 12:11AM, Nov. 1, 2009

Played resident evil 5 in halloween celebration, intelligent zombies rejoice~
Then played borderlands, what a badass game, cell shading was a totally amazing idea.
It has the exact same wind track as fallout3 though, wat the hel.

Posted at 2:11AM, Nov. 1, 2009

No Halloween here in Jiaxing, China. Let alone Devil's Night (not that I've participated in the latter since I was 13 or so).

I'd like to reiterate that I want a goddamm burrito supreme. If anyone would like to mail me one (and figure out how to preserve it's hot greasy goodness en route) I will be your friend.

As for that phony American friendliness, I can say with authority it depends on where in the States you go. You'll find it in small towns and the midwest. In LA, you'll find nothing of the kind. People rarely interact in LA, except via their cars.

About the argument above: I've noticed that these kinds of things happen very easily on forums. It's because people don't have to look each other in the eye. Human behavior changes in that situation. It's the same in traffic, when people have cars around them, or when they're drunk.

I'm not taking a side here. I'm saying that on both sides of any forum argument, people will say things they normally wouldn't. They're a lot bolder, even experimental. It's happened to me many times.

And emoticons don't seem to improve the situation.

Posted at 1:11PM, Nov. 1, 2009

I'd like to reiterate that I want a goddamm burrito supreme. If anyone would like to mail me one (and figure out how to preserve it's hot greasy goodness en route) I will be your friend.

Maybe if you could get someone to "reverse engineer" one for you then send you the recipe you'd get one. Of course that'd include the recipe for making the tortilla.