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Fuzz
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Posted: 17th Jun 2013 07:34 Edited at: 17th Jun 2013 07:37
Where to begin? So earlier in the week I had to go to a meeting which isn't so bad other than it was raining so much that I could barely see in front of me and had to spend 30 minutes walking to the bus stop and then had to wait another 10 minutes in the rain because the bus was late.

By the time I get on the bus I'm drenched head to toe and even my spare jacket got wet in my bag so I spend 3 hours walking around pretty much in a cold non stop shower and then another 3 still drenched in a meeting and finally I walk home in the dark and dry off and decide to relax. I lay on the couch and go to play my PS Vita and... it doesn't turn on. I fully charged it the night before and it just doesn't want to work and I've had it since the Australian release date and the warranty is only a year so my Vita died 4 months too late.

Fast forward to Friday and I spend the day finishing some stuff in town and then pick up my Joel Edition of Last of Us and played about 3 hours of the campaign and loved it so much I went on the PS Store and downloaded the Season Pass. I then went to resume my campaign and when I got to the main menu it said the was a save error and that the profile might be corrupt. I tried deleting everything on my PS3 to do with The Last of Us and it still won't work.

I then check my email and find out that I didn't get the job at the local book shop, just to top everything off.

So I can't play my PS Vita, I can't play the Last of Us, I don't have a job and I'm out of about $500. Sometimes life loves to punch you in the face.

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Posted: 17th Jun 2013 12:10
Life has a habit of throwing all it's crap at once.

The worst thing is Last of Us though... We can handle not being successful in job interviews, we can handle rain ruining the day and public transport being late, but when games turn on us, when they waste our time, well it takes the biscuit!

I got a fever, and the only prescription, is more memes.
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Posted: 17th Jun 2013 14:13
It certainly does.

I've spent ages trying to install some of my old favourites on to my current machines. Everything seems to be working fine: you get it installed, you download the latest patches, you install the DOS box or whatever thingy that's supposed to be needed to allow it to run on 64 bit machines, you get nicely settled watching the intro game video with your favourite drink in one hand and mouse in the other. Then you hit the Play Game button and, Ping!, up pops a Windows error message about incompatibility or something.

A recent exception to this misery is that I got Heroes of Might and Magic 3 successfully installed on my Vista 64bit PC. That was a weird experience. I chose to ignore lots of error messages and warnings about incompatibility, DirectX 6 (yes 6!), etc, and tried to install it several times in quick succession after each failed attempt. Rather bizarrely it suddenly seemed to have been successfully installed and I've played it several times with no problems since. I still don't know what particular option I clicked to make it work. Lets now see if I can install it on W7 ...
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Posted: 17th Jun 2013 14:27 Edited at: 17th Jun 2013 14:30
You should thank God every day that you live is not the way they live.



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Posted: 17th Jun 2013 14:33
No thanks.

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Posted: 17th Jun 2013 14:39
pff
to be honest, that it getting old, mr handy - i see those messages literarily every day, and they don't tell me anything that I don't already know - I know I live an amazing life, compared to poor people, I KNOW this already, but i CANT make them live better, n omatter how much I want to.
Slapping htat in everyones face all the time is just redundant and silly and most of all: DOESNT HELP ANYONE.


@Fuzz: That really really sucks man :/



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Posted: 17th Jun 2013 15:14
Yes, let's all give thanks for all the things that we have, that starving Africans don't have. Like digital watches, iPods, and soda stream.

Seriously, will people never tire of regurgitating this Bob Geldof stuff at every hint of a first world problem being complained about. Yes, nobody should complain about anything unless it's dying of starvation, that's the way to solve all the worlds problems.

Or, we can work at solving the problems we can actually solve, we can get on with our own lives even though there are billions of people out there with worse lives. We are allowed to be annoyed at things, and shouldn't be made to feel like self-entitled douche-bags just because we voice that annoyance.

Next time, instead of going to the politically obvious standpoint - why not go the opposite way. Next time someone complains about paying out for a game, enough money to feed a family of starving Africans for a month - why not show a picture of Bill Gates having to stir his own coffee, with the tagline 'Think you've got problems?'

Poverty is a slider scale, we can't always go to that convenient starving African extreme, meanwhile nothing changes, nobody is getting outraged at that picture and demanding another Live Aid, at least nobody is who could actually do something.

There is no benefit in hipster politics, it just annoys people.

I got a fever, and the only prescription, is more memes.
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Posted: 17th Jun 2013 18:19
@mr handy

If you care so much then why not help them out?

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Posted: 17th Jun 2013 19:36
I've had a series of unlucky events this week too, but nowhere on the scale of that! Sorry to hear about it. I get rejected for job apps all the time too...

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Posted: 17th Jun 2013 23:01
You know what they say, "When it rains, it pours." And I'll be damned sure if that's not the most true quote in human existence.

I completely understand your frustrations though. Last summer, I had the worst month or so of my entire life. First it started with a week long stomach flu, throwing up non stop for 7 days straight and losing 15 pounds. Then it went to knee surgery only four days after getting over the flu (I had blown my knee out playing racquetball couple months before.) About two weeks after the knee surgery, still on crutches and mostly bedridden, I ended up getting kidney stones. Two stones, one 6.5mm and the other 3.6mm in size. They took nearly two weeks to pass.

It was a horror month. I was out of work for 8 months because of my knee surgery and was expected to lose my job because of it. That was just the cherry on top right there, losing my job I absolutely couldn't afford to... Luckily I was able to get it back. But it caused a great deal of stress.

There's really nothing much we can do in situations like this. Just have to take the punches that life loves to throw at our face and if it knocks you down, get back up and get ready for the next wave that will come.

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Posted: 18th Jun 2013 00:08
So you got wet, some game doesnt work and you didnt get a job?
Sounds like a rather regular day...if this is a bad day for you you live a very easy and probably boring life

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Posted: 18th Jun 2013 00:26
The worst part was probably not getting the job, but obviously the others helped add to the frustration.

When I was unemployed, looking for work as actually pretty big downer because you either don't hear back or you just get rejections, which isn't nice, particularly if it's a job you want. I actually found the process pretty depressing. I still find job searches depressing (I have a job, but hate it )

We all get bad days and of course we could always have it worse, but it's all relative. I mean for me Friday was a terrible day, I wanted to punch somebody in the face (but I don't let me anger out on people), but I had just had a bad day at work dealing with terrible customers. Seemed everybody wanted to have a go, despite me not actually doing anything wrong, but just the nature of the job. When your job requires you to then have empathy, it's pretty draining and you do have to bite your tongue. The 'customer is always right' culture really gives people a strong sense of entitlement and makes them think because they paid for something, they have the right to talk down to you and be as arsey as they wish.

But my call centre annoyances are kinda vented out in this article.

Despite how much I hate customer service. I have a job, I have money, I live with a supporting family and I have a disposable income and I get to do the things I enjoy. So obviously there's always a brightside to look at. Of course, doesn't change the days you sympathesise with most Bond villains and start laying out the plans for your doomsday device.

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Posted: 18th Jun 2013 00:31
Didn't get the job, but bought a video game? Hmm... doesn't seem quite right.

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Almost the same thing happened to me. Except my PS3 is working fine.


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Posted: 18th Jun 2013 00:47
You all just don't want to see a forest behind the tree. I don't care about starving childern of Africa. Some people have real problems, some just think so.

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Posted: 18th Jun 2013 01:05
Quote: "You all just don't want to see a forest behind the tree. I don't care about starving childern of Africa. Some people have real problems, some just think so."



please give us a facepalm smiley.



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Posted: 18th Jun 2013 01:12
Quote: "You all just don't want to see a forest behind the tree. I don't care about starving childern of Africa. Some people have real problems, some just think so."


So now you're calling Fuzz's problems not real? I think not getting a job is a pretty real problem, especially if your interview went well and you had more than a little hope about it. Add to that the other frustrations he had, and I'll bet you'd be pretty upset/frustrated as well!

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So, to make a comment, anyone else think that Mr Handy posts things that are unclear and which are constantly misinterpreted (as we only later find out) or off-the-wall enough to be ignored?

seriously Mr Handy, sometimes the stuff you post suffers from that (or from trolling misdirection to my chagrin) that it doesn't even get whatever point you're trying to make across. IMO at least .-.


But yeah crummy week. Unfortunately venting in the case of anger at least, usually increases rage instead of "venting" it. Venting/letting off steam is a nice metaphor but I think it's more of a metaphor than a truth

Either way, having an internet discussion on it DEFINITELY wouldn't help. Some of the advice I've regarded as kinda helpful but not really, like, "anger and sadness is all mental and nothing more" and especially, "money doesn't buy happiness", I think now are much more true than we normally like to regard. Like the last one, "...doesn't buy happiness." You hear all the time, "Pff, yes it does, of course it does!" But I think it's true, in a very fundamental way, just in a way that can only really be realized in retrospect. (it and related phrases. at the very least trying to live by them increases total happiness, even if they're not strictly true. Like the "80-20" thing I constantly hear. Of course that's not true, it may be 50-50 or 40-60 in most actual cases. But it feels true and realizing and preparing for that 8- percent is damn helpful, so the 80-20 rule becomes invaluable.) But I don't know much, I'm still a dumb kid XD. But I've been insanely depressed when most stuff has been fine in my life, and content and smiling when it feels like everything's going to crap, and I'm realizing some of the phrases people say are actually really damn meaningful and important.

My $0.02. Baha just in general mostly, of course anyone would get pissed off at everything you were listing. (Oh man like TheComet's bad day post. What was it, losing $80 in fines to a self-righteous lady as well as losing possessions? Something else too? Makes me mad just thinking about stuff like that)


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Posted: 18th Jun 2013 08:53
Quote: "So you got wet, some game doesnt work and you didnt get a job?
Sounds like a rather regular day...if this is a bad day for you you live a very easy and probably boring life "


Come on man, any gamer would be annoyed if their $400 gaming system randomly stopped working and they couldn't play the latest game by Naughty Dog :p

Quote: "Didn't get the job, but bought a video game? Hmm... doesn't seem quite right."


I pre-ordered Last of Us a few months ago when I had some extra money.

Quote: "I completely understand your frustrations though. Last summer, I had the worst month or so of my entire life. First it started with a week long stomach flu, throwing up non stop for 7 days straight and losing 15 pounds. Then it went to knee surgery only four days after getting over the flu (I had blown my knee out playing racquetball couple months before.) About two weeks after the knee surgery, still on crutches and mostly bedridden, I ended up getting kidney stones. Two stones, one 6.5mm and the other 3.6mm in size. They took nearly two weeks to pass.

It was a horror month. I was out of work for 8 months because of my knee surgery and was expected to lose my job because of it. That was just the cherry on top right there, losing my job I absolutely couldn't afford to... Luckily I was able to get it back. But it caused a great deal of stress."


Man, that's way worse than what happened to me!


Well today after another meeting (Luckily it wasn't raining much ) I went to the local EB Games where the manager is my friend, see him most weeks and went to high school a few years back, anyway, I don't believe my luck.

He gave me a brand new PS Vita (I still had the receipt and bus ticket from when I got my original Vita last year) and gave me a new Last of Us Season Pass and Collectors Edition content code so I can make a new account if it doesn't get fixed, then we grabbed some lunch and just talked about games and life for a few hours.

So we're going to grab some beers and play some Last of Us multiplayer sometime soon. It's the least I could do :p

And yes, I realise that these problems aren't the end of the world but it's nice to have a steady income and to relax and play some games with friends.

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Posted: 18th Jun 2013 09:54
Quote: "You all just don't want to see a forest behind the tree. I don't care about starving childern of Africa. Some people have real problems, some just think so.
"


Just because someone, somewhere is in a worse situation doesn't invalidate people's problems.

Once again mr handy in a thread you just talk rubbish and then spout more rubbish when people disagree with you.

People dying in Africa doesn't affect me, and I truly don't care about it. If you think that because they have it bad my problems don't affect me in a real way, you're a fool.

I feel for you Fuzz. I have had days where things keep going wrong, and in isolation none of them would have affected me, but when they keep piling up it does start to make you feel like crap.

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Posted: 18th Jun 2013 10:08 Edited at: 18th Jun 2013 10:11
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Quote: "Once again mr handy in a thread you just talk rubbish and then spout more rubbish when people disagree with you."

A public thread on public forum. I must agree or say why I am agree. Otherwise I am fool and should be ashamed. That's the real life, Handy. Next time I will agree, I promise.

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Posted: 18th Jun 2013 10:29
The thread was a means to vent, not argue. Any mental health expert ought to tell you it's healthy to vent, you let it bottle up, that's when you run into problems. Everybody has bad days, that doesn't mean they think they got it bad or that their life sucks like you're suggesting. Everybody has problems no matter how big or small.

Quote: "public thread on public forum. I must agree or say why I am agree. Otherwise I am fool and should be ashamed"


At least you're able to voice your opinion, some people in the world aren't even allowed to do that in case of endangering their lives, so count yourself lucky.

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Posted: 18th Jun 2013 10:37
Quote: "so count yourself lucky"

Some wise guy once said: "Today was a quite good day because I survived it."

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Posted: 18th Jun 2013 12:53 Edited at: 18th Jun 2013 13:27
Quote: "Some wise guy once said: "Today was a quite good day because I survived it.""


If I were to stab you in the hand, would the immediate pain you felt be soothed by me telling you people have gone through worse?

Of course it wouldn't, because emotions and pain are relative to the people experiencing them.

Quote: "A public thread on public forum. I must agree or say why I am agree. Otherwise I am fool and should be ashamed. That's the real life, Handy. Next time I will agree, I promise."


Your posts are getting a little tedious Mr. Handy. I don't care how clever you think you are, but the forum has rules and everyone else manages to live by them, so why can't you?

You are free to voice your own opinion, but please do so without flaming people or trying to provoke a negative response.

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Posted: 18th Jun 2013 13:16
so - mister handy - your opinion, is that nobody should feel sad or hurt or physical pain, because SOMEONE out there probably has it a bit worse?


so, how's that facepalm smiley coming along?



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Posted: 18th Jun 2013 13:50 Edited at: 18th Jun 2013 13:51
Quote: "so, how's that facepalm smiley coming along?"


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Quote: "I don't care how clever you think you are"

Be polite, please.
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I am free to agree or not to post, I know.

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Did you not listen to anything I just said to you?

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@BiggAdd
I am friendly. Don't troll me, please.

It's incredibly sad when your favorite gaming device dies. I remember when my NES died. Here's a picture of support for Fuzz:


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Quote: "so - mister handy - your opinion, is that nobody should feel sad or hurt or physical pain, because SOMEONE out there probably has it a bit worse?"


Agreed, it's a ridiculous idea. As a French friend once said to me "tout est relatif."

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Posted: 18th Jun 2013 20:46
So really nobody can vent, have problems, feel bad or the like because you wouldn't be able to determine who has it 'worst'. If we were, I'd be very interested to see how you'd manage to measure it.

But I get the feeling Mr Handy enjoys being contrary. Interestingly, when being told off, he assumes he's not allowed to share his opinions.

Quote: "It's incredibly sad when your favorite gaming device dies. I remember when my NES died. Here's a picture of support for Fuzz:"


And you wonder why people have a problem.


Quote: "I am free to agree or not to post, I know."


Not at all what he or Thraxas have said or suggested, but you choose to think it that way. BiggAdd actually mentioned rules. He did not specify, but I can probably list a few that might be relevant.

[i]3.11 We do not tolerate posts made for the purpose of putting down another forum member, group of members, religion, our company, our staff or any of our moderators, past or present.

3.12 We do not tolerate 'trolling', the process of posting inflamatory messages for the sake of starting an argument, or being plain obnoxious.

You agree that moderators shall, at their discretion, determine what constitutes a violation of these terms, along with generally accepted netiquette standards, and can take action against those who voilate these rules.[/I]

3.12 is probably the most relevant one, but I'd say your sarcastic remarks would suggest to me that 3.11 is relevant also.

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Posted: 18th Jun 2013 21:50
Quote: "And you wonder why people have a problem."

feel sad != have a problem

Problem - awareness of the inability to resolve the difficulties and contradictions that have arisen in the situation with existing knowledge and experience.

Quote: "So really nobody can vent, have problems, feel bad or the like because you wouldn't be able to determine who has it 'worst'. If we were, I'd be very interested to see how you'd manage to measure it."

Very original conclusion, but I would like to disagree, if you don't mind.

Please note that Fuzz have not said the word "problem".

I said [Some people have real problems, some just think so.] replying to Van B, though it was not very clear, my bad.

Starving people of Africa should be upset 24/7 but they are not. And their life is much worse. Punches them in the face too hard, speaking as Fuzz. So really Fuzz is just too sensitive person, and I wish him to be strong.

That's the forest.

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Posted: 18th Jun 2013 22:46 Edited at: 18th Jun 2013 22:47
Quote: "So really Fuzz is just too sensitive person,"


What? No. You probably have gotten angry over a game or a program once. I'm guessing you're a sensitive person as well. I'm sure that if you lost your job and had a really crappy day you'd be angry too.

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Posted: 18th Jun 2013 23:29 Edited at: 18th Jun 2013 23:30
mr handy = zen guy - always at peace, always at balance.

edit: and yet he goes on complaining about how he is "not allowed to post a disagreeing post"



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Posted: 18th Jun 2013 23:38
Anybody else find it weird that mr Handy will disagree about something, even if he already disagreed to another option?

For example, in the Leadwerks for Linux thread, he was very, very contrary about Linux, then in another post said that Linux was awesome.

He;s just being contrary to feed arguments and troll. Congrats mr Handy, you've proven yourself to be an annoying user.

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Quote: "You all just don't want to see a forest behind the tree."


Wow, it's "you can't see the forest through the trees," that is not what that expression means. It means you're looking for something that you're already in the midst of.

Quote: "Problem - awareness of the inability to resolve the difficulties and contradictions that have arisen in the situation with existing knowledge and experience."


Ah yes, the very official Merriam-Webster-Oxford-Cambridge definition, eloquently written and making total sense. A problem is "awareness." Good call.

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I love you too, Yodaman Jer. Please, don't read my posts.
Quote: "and yet he goes on complaining"

No I don't. Seriously.
Quote: "Ah yes, the very official Merriam-Webster-Oxford-Cambridge definition"

Awareness is a correct translation. I took the definiton from our National Psychological Encyclopedia. Have a nice day.
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Quote: "No I don't. Seriously."


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Quote: "Quote: "And you wonder why people have a problem."
feel sad != have a problem"


I mean, a problem with your comments. They can be at times extremely sarcastic, condescending or downright patronising. You're also very contrary.

This is why this rule in the AUP suits your behaviour.

3.12 We do not tolerate 'trolling', the process of posting inflamatory messages for the sake of starting an argument, or being plain obnoxious.

I suspect it's what BiggAdd is referring to when he's suggesting you're not sticking to forum rules. Of course, you put his and Thraxas' comments down to them trying to stop you from voicing your opinion. Interestingly, in my years on this forum and being a member of other forums (and even moderating) this is the most common conclusion people come to when a moderator is trying to stop them from avoiding a forum's rules or ettiquette. Rarely does a person identify their own behaviour as wrong.

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Posted: 19th Jun 2013 00:45
Quote: "This is why this rule in the AUP suits your behaviour."

In this thread you may apply this to the others aswell.

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Posted: 19th Jun 2013 01:10 Edited at: 19th Jun 2013 01:10
Of course, it'll all be up to moderator discretion (as the AUP also states). It would depend if they're seeing people trolling, trying to stir up flames or are being obnoxius, putting people down or if they're trying to make a point about your behaviour in thread. It'd also be up to their discretion whose behaviour is relevent.

Personally, I would say the latter because that's my motivation. Of course, moderator discretion will apply to you as well and moderator input in the thread so far suggests what that might be, but I won't speak on their behalf.

A set of rules on a forum cannot be made applicable to every situation on a forum and cannot account for everything or account for how somebody may attempt to lawyer or work around those rules, hence some forums will allow moderator discretion into play.

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Posted: 19th Jun 2013 02:00
Quote: "Awareness is a correct translation. I took the definiton from our National Psychological Encyclopedia. Have a nice day."


Cool, how about a link? Maybe a screenshot of the page you got it from? And, while you're at it, why don't you give an explanation as to why "feeling sad" is not a problem, given the fact that you're "aware" of feeling sad and would like to not feel sad.

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Posted: 19th Jun 2013 02:09
@ionstream
How about stop flaming?

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Posted: 19th Jun 2013 02:49
I see a Nigella Lawson moment approaching.
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Posted: 19th Jun 2013 22:02
Problem

Noun
-A matter or situation regarded as unwelcome or harmful and needing to be dealt with and overcome.
-A thing difficult to achieve or accomplish.

My dictionary has a definition also. It differs greatly from yours.

Quote: "A public thread on public forum. I must agree or say why I am agree. Otherwise I am fool and should be ashamed. That's the real life, Handy. Next time I will agree, I promise."


There's no need to agree with anything, anybody posts, ever. However, there's no need to be obnoxious either. Also, just because something is posted in a public forum doesn't mean you NEED to respond.

Fuzz was having a bad time and needed to vent, so he did. We've all had bad days, we've all needed to vent and let off steam. I hate that your response is people in Africa have it tough and never complain. Yes, sometimes we need to put our problems into context and remember how good we have it. BUT, there are times that things are overwhelming and that just doesn't cut it.

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Posted: 20th Jun 2013 04:49
Glad things worked out a bit better in the end, Fuzz. Must be freezing down where you are at the moment! Would not want to be drenched in that weather. I just watched my girlfriend finish Last of Us the other night. Good looking game, and very emotive. Not my type of gameplay, but she tells me I must play it.

Winter always seems to make blows more palpable. Something about having cold feet just makes my life irritating, and Tassie winters can be oh-so cold!

Also, big round of applause to Handy for mega-trolling everyone with remarkable immaturity. Strikes me as one of those "depression and sadness don't exist" type characters. Lighten up a bit mate, let people express themselves without being judged.

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Posted: 20th Jun 2013 14:16
Well said.
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Posted: 23rd Jun 2013 01:53 Edited at: 23rd Jun 2013 01:57
I remember having a terrible week some time in February and decided to vent it in a single long rant that i was gonna post here, Naturally being a terrible week, i accedentally deleted the long rant before i was able to post it here lol.

We all have those terrible weeks. I actually had much worse. Gadgets break all the time because i work in an industrial-like environment which requires me to have rugged military grade cellphones and stuff since common electronics cant handle such abuse.

Its gotten to the point where last time i bought a 160gig mp3 player, i decided to buy 2 because i knew that it will break eventually and it did. Just this monday, the tochscreen cracked (while the actual screen part remained intact and i could turn it on and off but i could no longer use it. my mp3 player turned into a highly advanced brick that can turn on and off)

2 weeks ago, i had to work in a basement that was flooded with a busted sewer pipe. i came home smelling of waste. Well i had so many bad days since i got my job and i got so used to them that they are a common every day thing now and i no longer feel the need to vent anger when i can just take my huge backpack with a 300m roll of cable get into a crwded subway and annoy the hell out of everyone behind me who are forced to be pressed against my roll of cable. Its so satisfying to know that people extremley annoyed and cant really be angry with me because the subway is so crowded i barley have enough space to move let alone take off my backpack which will involve in having to push even more people around me.

so yeah,.. first world problems

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Posted: 25th Jun 2013 13:52
I went into EB Games today and got a free copy of Journey Collector's Edition, a copy of Game Informer and some other collector stuff. All for free

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