What Grinds Your Gears?

A couple video game things that grind my gears.

Achievements/Trophies. Half of these so called "rewards" are *** to begin with. You get handed 10-20 per game for just playing and beating the game. This is basically the same mentality of giving trophies away to all the kids' teams in a peewee league. What's to be rewarded? You beat a boss... Here's a trophy! Oh you beat another boss! Another trophy! Oh you found the not so secret, hidden in plain sight amazing thing. Trophy his ***!

I always believed that the point of the system was to reward you for going beyond the normal boundaries of a game. Do something different than what is presented. Some games have got it right but a good majority just hand them out like candy and people get the idea that they're awesome.

Differing degrees of difficulty for games. I remember back in the day when games were actually HARD. You got a handful of lives and MAYBE a continue or two and that was it. And you had to beat the game in one sitting. Obviously as the games changed, so did the mechanics but I feel the mechanics behind the difficulty haven't quite caught up with most games. Easy mode is a joke (obviously) but Normal and Hard and even beyond are just as easy as their predecessor. I'm sure we can all stop and think about a few games where we just blew right through them without much thought or effort on hard/er modes and stop and think to ourselves, "Wait... that was supposed to be Hard?"

Hipsters

They made is much more easier b/c of the ppl these days cry more or complain b.c its much too hard...

Back in the day I do remember what you mean Oddin.. with the extra lives or an extra game here or there.. but that was it.

Abysses Onry ***

(people who nerd rage over stupid ffxi stuff, and people who use "U MAD" when they're raging at someone/thing and trying to... insult them? i don't even know how that's supposed to work. but it reminds me of some screeching little 13 year old boy screaming "YOUR MOM IS A FAGET" into my headset)

There's too many of them to take down. Would take us years, no, our entire life time! And our childrens' life time. And by the time we wipe them out, more will have been born.

1. linkshell advertisements that proclaim the group is a "low man linkshell"

2. any use of any variant of the euphemism "U mad?"

cz ubmad all the time bro

i think he's mad

He's always mad bro.

Mad
Eunuchs
Notoriously
Selling
Amphetamines

That's right folks, Elanabelle has been castrated and sells Amphetamines.

careful he'll remote view you

When a girl comes up to you and in one sitting manages to squeeze in that her b/f is an actor about 10 times... then you ask what he's doing right now/done and the reply is.... "Oh he works at <insert bookstore name>" I wanted to ask "So he's not actually an actor then, he's just trying to be one?" I bite the lip though....

I would ask for a pic of him, and mention "Oh yeah, I saw him in some gay porn at the porn shop."

I don't know about that one.... because then you have to explain a) porn store visit (akward-ish) and b) why you were in the gay porn section. Leads too to many questions...

people who tell me how to run my life when they haven't gone through the experiences and revelations I had.

Valentine's Day, and the overly empty hype that people make it out to be, grinds my gears.

I think most of the hype comes from the commercialization of it. Otherwise I think its just a day in the year to make someone else feel special...

It grinds my gears that this is the sole thread in the forums that can go 250+ pages and stay on topic.

Telling someone about an appointment/event everyday for 5 days..and still have them act surprised on the day of the appointment/event, especially when it is set up for them.

My sneak or invis wearing off Just as the mob turns to face me and keeping me from sleeping it or anything else.

Ppl popping NM without telling the rest of the alliance/pt then complaining because they have no buffs or healing going on.

Ppl pulling higher tier Nm to areas where ppl are doing Quests(slacking subordinates for example) and then refusing to raise a non-pt member when their pt wipes and the NM turns on the quester and one shots them.

AoA grinds my gears sometimes. When I have 1 Shadow left and my Ni recast isn't ready yet so I go to cast Ichi to anticipate losing my last shadow (if not cancel it out so it still gives me my 3 shadows) and it gets instant casted having no effect and at the same time I get my last shadow hit off. Then with the little delay there is after instant casting I try to cast Ichi again and get interupted :P.

"What grinds your gears?"

Today's Marketing. or Social Media / Networking.

Why? Because its so gay these days. 90% of commercials are so HELP I AM TRAPPED IN 2006 PLEASE SEND A TIME MACHINE. Perhaps gay isn't the proper description, but rather really *** corny. All apple commercials, half the car commercials, can't stand it all. And I blame the way we're all so connected to the 'network' to try and create a buzz in advertisements.

Everyone who doesn't drive as aggressively as I do.

Everyone who drives more aggressively than I do.

5 years late: Lindsay Lohan and her little outfits.

must be a record....253 pages on one thread in 29 days... haven't read it since sat so i don't know if it's been de-railed or not

Pixies that fly right past your dead body and don't raise you. *** YOU, PIXIE!

Also, the *** ice cream truck driver that assumes just because I'm not five, that I'm not running after their truck for some gd ice cream. Learn to stop or I'm gonna pop your tires, ***.

Trying to upload a clip of a stand up comedy and having every site I try tell me it's copy righted <_< ***.

The campus snack store is out of Cadbury eggs! This is a tragedy on a national scale! We can't have a cadbury egg shortage, I won't survive! I NEED them!

Charlie Sheen