The Letting Off Steam Thread - Page 134

I'm so far deep into the friend zone she bought a $50 battery powered toothbrush to leave at my house for sleepovers...

Stupid data structures class. Even my class where we have to program in Assembly is more fun than this crap. It's not difficult by any means, just tedious. I've been working on this thing for 7 hours and still have probably 2 more hours of work to do. It wouldn't be so bad if the data structure we had to extend wasn't set up so badly. I've built these exact data structures myself before for other classes and it was never this obtuse. Things being complicated for the sake of being complicated is what this boils down to.

I don't know why this irritates me so much, but it pisses me off to no end when people use alias in blogs. They always classify people as, "let's call her X, let's call him BOOTS". We don't know you. We don't know your friends. If your friends are reading your blog then they probably already know the situation, and who you're talking about.

Just use their real names already! Or if you're really that crazy about it, just use a random name, and for all we know, that's their real name.

Why is it so important to let us know that you're not using their real names? Like now we're going to respect your blog so much more?

This really shouldn't bother me that much, but every time I see it, I feel like ripping my hair out.

It sucks that you seem upset, but this was a really good read for me. I agreed with a lot of your points. However, I can't contribute in any way other than saying thanks for posting.

-Fuck people who are incapable of having a nuanced view of anything. Everything is black or white. Politicians are all corrupt monsters who want to enslave us, Putin is an action flick antagonist, meat is murder, Israel is purely good and Palestine is purely evil or vice versa. Everything has to be simple for you god damn people?

-Fuck my students, they're assholes. I teach in a left-leaning university and a lot of them are marxists, which would be fine with me, but they never miss an opportunity to give their grain of salt. And while some marxist arguments hold water, theirs certainly don't.

-Fuck my students. Seriously... I wish it wasn't unethical. ;(

-Hearthstone is garbage and it's only playable because it feeds off of your innate need to get addicted to some bullshit that makes your brain release dopamine for no valid reason. You lost? Oh it's just bad luck, it's not your fault. You can tell yourself that and you do. You're never wrong, you never feel bad. Top decked shit? Oh man, so proud of yourself now aren't you you little shit. So fucking talented. Dopamine rush. Such a great god damn game now isn't it? [It may seem to you like this rant about hearthstone is not nuanced which would be ironic, but Hearthstone is pure shit and I consider this to be a balanced view].

Girls who attention whore by posting pretentious selfies shitty song lyrics about being brokenhearted or something silly like that. It's like the artist wrote the song just for them and whatever they're going through life.

I hate attention whores in general. Now this is a bit hypocritical since I'm a bit of an attention whore myself, but when I attention whore, I put hard work into it. I don't have a pair of tits and I don't sit on the dick of every guy I meet, so I actually have to do something in order to convince people to look at me. At the very least I'll post a funny picture. Something that made me literally laugh out loud, because I'm not Buzzfeed and I don't use viral marketing to convince mouth-breathers to spend more time on my site because a) I lack the networking to do that and b) I consider myself above that.

But otherwise I'll actually put effort into it. Some random-ass rant with a controversial opinion that actually gets people to consider a third or fourth alternative on any issue. Maybe I'll write an extensive literary criticism of Ylvis's "What Does the Fox Say" (it's a song about how society enslaves you) or Activate (it's a song about the evils of technology and instant gratification). Maybe I'll tell you a funny story about myself. Maybe I'll write a song. Or thirteeen. Maybe I'll even write a self-referential rant wherein I detail some of my accomplishments and work.

But anyway, it's fucking ridiculous looking at your friendly neighborhood cumdumpster posting "look at me gaise im ugly" pics every two hours of her waking life and watching the number of guys with too much blood in their dick and not enough brain offering some sort of consolation while wondering what the chances are that they could bang her. Or watching her compatriots come in her to assure her that she is not in fact ugly, it is all in her imagination, true beauty is on the inside, the next two lines in whatever song the caption references, and that the collective opinions of "haters", as well as the authors of such opinions, are in fact not worth addressing, reading, or interacting with in any manner whatsoever.

Some days I think the only reason I keep them added is to see where they eventually end up. I bear them no ill will, but I'd love it if they stopped clogging my news feed with posts that are shitty in every aspect.

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The phrase "you don't understand". Not in a sense like "You don't understand, you shouldn't eat at McDonalds because someone got food poisoning at the restaurant last week and missed work for two days because he couldn't spend two minutes outside of the toilet". That's a well and proper use of the phrase. I mean when it's used to defend an opinion. Like "You don't understand what I've been going through", or "You just don't understand" in response to, say "I don't like watching [insert sport here]". There are many things I don't understand about the world, but there are some that I do, and there are some that I understand very well. Including the things you might be severely misinterpreting in your original statement. The former example is very hypocritical; the latter might have some truth to it, but it's a very vehement and ignorant way to defend your interest.

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"Offensive" terms. I'm not advocating for everyone to start swearing like a sailor at the dinner table, but I think the amount of sensitivity at a lot of words needs to be brought down.

First I'd like to say that nobody bats an eye at "piss" anymore, and "tits" isn't a word you'd use in polite conversation but I'd say it's mostly accepted as a non-vulgarity, so George Carlin, wherever he may be, is probably happy about that. Five left.

"Retarded" was originally a politically correct term spawned (rightfully so) to distinguish the retarded from the dumb; the former aren't idiots, they're simply mentally challenged in some way. That's a good call. But because everyone started using it colloquially, it became another taboo word and we ended up with "mentally challeneged". The fact that people get offended and demand more words just shows their inability to think about the future. We just get a list of archaic words that offend people, the same way we now have "Negro" and to some extent "colored".

"Nigger" is obviously the big one. I believe that we should start using this word more and more until it's desensitized. All we're doing it by protecting it like some sacred shitstain on the fabric of the English language is prolonging the dark connotations it has. "Nigga" alleviates this problem quite well. In the four years I've spent in my high school, where you can find someone of virtually every color skin is available in, virtually anyone in the student body who's having a conversation in the hall can use "nigga" as an interjection and nobody else, including the teachers, will bat an eye. I've used it a bunch, although I avoid "nigga" not because I'm afraid of being "offensive" or anything, but simply because in most cases I'll have more colorful and eloquent language to get the point across. If I'm going to berate someone, I might as well do it in style.

But I'm not happy with just "nigga". This should be extended to "nigger" as well. Personally I use it only if I know the people who are listening, or who might be listening (every racist joke begins with a look over the shoulder... or when you get a school with a good amount of every race and you just have what can essentially be called a derogatory circlejerk), and otherwise I don't use it out of respect. If you believe "nigger" is offensive or shouldn't be said, I'm fine with that and won't say it around you. But I'll do everything in my power to change your opinion, one way or another. You have the right to your opinion, and I have the right to believe that your opinion is fucking retarded

You know how the second most common symbol of gay, after the rainbow flag, is the pink triangle? That's what homosexuals had to wear in the concentration camps, it marked that they were in there because they were gay. Then the gay community made it their own symbol and changed the negative connotations to positives. If we started doing that with words, less people would be offended because there would be less to be offended about.

And if you believe calling someone "black" is even mildly racist, you should never be allowed to vote.

I'm not a professor, and I'm not in the area where the type of subject matter that it sounds like you teach is present, but those type of people even exist in comp sci, where there is not so much room for opinion in some subjects (or so you would think). There's this one asshole who is in 3 of my classes who just has to be as big of a contrarian and know-it-all as possible. It's frustrating because he is cutting into lectures a lot now by arguing with the professors at any opportunity possible. Even worse, he is blatantly wrong roughly half of the time, and the rest of the time his arguments are pointless because the professor either already covered them or they are irrelevant to what we are talking about. I've felt like telling him to shut up a few times but I figured that would be rude, though rudeness isn't exactly something this guy seems to be familiar with.

He stopped arguing with my Assembly class prof though because he got put in his place really hard one day last week. He was questioning how words (chunks of bytes used to store stuff) are organized because he insisted that single bytes could be mixed in the same block of memory as words, which was completely wrong in context to what we were discussing, and the professor told him as much, and dude suddenly stopped being so obnoxious.

I don't doubt it. One of my acquaintances is in computer science and he's very confident and I have no idea why. He's not particularly good at anything, he's semi competent at comp sci from my understanding, but he's so cocky all the time with his $3200 macbook pro. Guy is constantly talking about how great mac is and how awful windows is. A few years back, we were chatting in the bus back home and he told me about how he basically built the class with the teacher informally.

At first I thought he collaborated with the teacher as some kind of intern or the teacher asked him to help with stuff. But no. He just constantly challenging the teacher and brings his own material, ready to talk to the class about the day's topic. "The teacher isn't that great, so I help her", he said...

Fuck's sake. I'm glad I haven't dealt with quite that level of douchebaggery

Fucking hell my friends are pathetic. Ok... maybe pathetic is a bit harsh, but half of them have the maturity of a high schooler. They're all 21 but maybe only 2 have actually been with a girl so whenever one of them introduces a girl to the "group" they all swarm around her like the biggest tryhards. Problem is though, they are absolutely clueless when it comes to social cues, interactions, etc. Naturally the girls love this attention so they stick around for a bit and get free food/lifts/shit in general until they get bored of constantly answering "Hey im bored what r u up to xD" texts. Seriously. It's that bad. Each of them thinks they're casanovas simply because one of these girls TALKS to them. If one of these girls asked a guy to hold his breath till he died he would. They spoil these bitches like crazzzzzzy and devote all their time to them and yet they can't even ask them out. They wait 6 months and finally ask me "Hey *BAHRAM*, do you think she likes me? Should I ask her out?". Even after I tell them that waiting more than 2 weeks is friendzone101, they still don't fucking get it and get rejected each and every time after wasting months of their lives. So a few of us who actually know how to talk to women (and human beings in general) have resorted to hiding girls from the group. It's just so sad.

Continuing with the theme of women; I'm stuck in computer science. I love this shit and I have a pretty crazy contact in that field so I have a lot to look forward to (yay ego)... BUT everyday I'm reminded that comp sci is a massive sausage fest. 3 chicks in the entire program. All. Butt. Ugly. The only way I've hooked up with chicks is through general classes which is hard to do when you have some of these classes where you go in, sit down, get out and skip half the time. Meanwhile one of my dork friends is in a program where he's THE ONLY FUCKING GUY IN THE ENTIRE PROGRAM. Seriously, no fucking joke. And guess what. He's only talked to the girl that's told him "I only like you as a friend" and doesn't realize that sitting with her and joking with her 24/7 in class makes it look like they're going out to everyone else. He actually said one day "I don't understand, all these girls were talking with me and now all of a sudden they avoid me". UHHH HELLO?? They don't want to flirt with you if it looks like you're going out with another girl... Another one of my beloved friends is in an art program where it's pretty much the exact same thing.

I've noticed that people with "normal families" are the most fucked up mentally. Either being obnoxious morons or anti-social retards. On the other hand every guy (and girl) that I've met with pretty messed up families have been the chillest awesome people. Maybe I'm just projecting. I know that when I was younger and I had the stereotypical north american family I was an idiot. Just an absolute dumbass. Then shit hit the fan and I had to mature real fucking quick. Maybe that's why these people are chill. Eh, who knows...

Back to women now... yeah you thought I was done... fuck dat. I'm at a loss when it comes to picking up women on public transportation. As douchey as it sounds (sorry :/), I catch at least 2 girls playing the "eye game" with me on the bus/metro every fucking day. I don't even think i'm particularly attractive but... fuck maybe I am? It feels good to think that so I will. Anyway, if anyone has bothered to read up until the point and actually know how to react in those situations hit me up cuz i'm at a loss. I'm 99.9% sure that me going up and chatting these girls up would end with a number but at the same time it seems so goddamn awkward with everyone sitting there quiet, listening to everyone else breathe. So that's my life at this point... Stare back at some lovely ladies on my ride to school and then qq when I get there and realize I have 20 guys to keep me company for the rest of the day.

Oh.. and fuck pot heads. I know too many and they're all the same. Smoke weed erryday brah. Work? Nah rather rip this bong. School? Whatever I'll go into social science where I do fuckall all day and still pass. Borderline bums these guys. I know one guy that was in health and was smart as fuck. He was studying to become a doctor till he started smoking weed. First it was a joint here and there at school. About 1-2 months later it became a weekly thing which escalated to being a daily ritual which finally became "Haaaaa I brought these 5 cannons to school... gonna get soooooo high". Towards the end he was planning his entire day around when and how he would smoke his weed. Full blown addict. And if you talked to him about it he'd say we didn't know what we were talking about "you don't get addicted to weed". Kid's hands were shaking when he hadn't smoked in 3 days. He dropped out of health and went into social and started hitting up raves on a weekly basis. Very... "sketchy" raves which the doormen would greet on a first name basis cause he went there so much. And then he started taking speed here and there and then X, and then wow speed makes me... speedy! Exam? Speed. Feel tired after taking speed? More speed. Rave coming up? Even more. Pills, weed, mollies, x, speed, you name it. It got crazy. Last time I talked to him he was excited to try coke and nonchalantly told me he had dropped out of college; the coke seemed like a bigger deal to him. A guy that I had known since elementary, a SMART guy, turned into a drug zombie in a matter of 1.5 years.

And while I'm here... Our society is so fucking hellbent avoiding being racist that we've turned against ourselves. Some *african american* woman was walking in the middle of the sidewalk blocking everyone and making traffic during the morning's busiest hour with her head down COMPLETELY oblivious to everyone going around her. This was like the tenth morning in a row where this happened (all different black people). Finally me and a guy I know finally walk around her and I tell him "How can all these *african americans* be so goddamn slow all the time" and some white kid beside me shat his pants and went on a rant about how I was the problem with society. Really? I can't point out facts? I can't say that african americans as a whole are detrimental to society because holy shit that's racist that can't be true... can it? And yet behind closed doors EVERYONE says and complains about the same things. Ghetto's, welfare checks, retarded ass english that might be acceptable if we were in the 1890's, hypocrisy, lying, stealing, list goes on. Yes, I admire and respect african americans who have accomplished great things but if you remember from high school: If one person can't stop talking, the whole class is kept behind. That's what we humans do. We generalize shit, make broad assumptions based on past events. A lot of the hatred towards black folks come from very real events, is that racist? Maybe it is. I don't give a fuck, I know for a fact society would be improved without their presence. I'm sure that made someone cringe, good, if it did we don't need you either. Black comedians make fun of people like you; they joke about how scared we are of even saying black in front of them. The white race is the only race that will hunt down it's own members for harassing another group. Yet no one realizes this and people want to keep playing the politically correct card. Well fuckheads look at your beloved cities which used to be symbols of prosperity and have now become dangerous cesspools of crime and violence filled with gangs. But... hey... we enslaved them right? Right. You never fucking hear the end of it. They made a month to remember how atrocious (rofl) their conditions were... wait... were they so atrocious? And wait a minute... If they were so bad why did they go and enslave their OWN indigenous people back in africa when they got their freedom? Where's the month for that? And while we're here... where's the month to remember all the races that have been enslaved at one point in their history? Why is it reserved for blacks? Strange really, white people don't get any of that... yet we're equals... uhhh right?

I do hate when little things bother me but it seems like something that has been occurring more often. Earlier today, I was on skype with a 'friend' whom I have spoken with on a near daily basis for about two years. Ask anyone that has heard us together, they all say we sound like a married couple. I had to go afk briefly to cleanup my dishes and when I returned, she was gone. No message saying she had to go, no comment, nothing. I was like, this was a bit odd. A bit later I jokingly text'd her phone poking fun at her vanishing and expecting a text back at some point... it never came. Well, 1am comes around and I am playing DayZ and she appears back online. I asked her what happened and she said nothing followed by demanding I play PoE which I am fine with but whatever. I told her someone that vanishes does not have the privilage of demanding (jokingly) and so she types, *vanishes*.

Before I continue, I should explain something. In my past, I have had bad experiences with former friends where they through some misunderstanding or whatnot just close of all forms of communication. They essentially, "vanish" due to petty things or whatnot. My friend and I have had an argument in the past where she did the very thing; she got annoyed and vanished until later. I hate when people do that because it reminds me of some bad times in the past and she knows that. So when she did again this evening, I got real annoyed. I messaged her and she typed, *vanishes again* but I told her how much that shit bothers me and she knows it. Apparently she "forgot" and did it just because I can be stubborn even though there was no problem. In other words, she did one of the very few things that I really hate and it was for no real reason... the discussion followed by bringing up her vanishing and then she said it... she said... we are close friends... but not that close since apparently expecting someone to say they have to go means you have to be in a relationship of some sort.

Sorry but when I am with friends on teamspeak, Sc, DotA, etc. friends, I still say if I am heading out or not. You do not have to be very close to think, maybe I should tell them I am heading out just because well you know, it is courteous. If an emergency sure, that make sense. She made it out as if I was needing to know her every move, where she was going, etc. but I did not care. Just thought a simple, "I'm heading out" would have been fine but gotta be married to expect that. So in a weird way, I ended up being shut down as to what felt like being friendzoned. So after stupid little things I am annoyed and now wanting to murder some random folks in DayZ... So those that die at my hands, sorry, but your deaths are needed.

Spent about three hours debugging a knight's tour program that took less than an hour to write. The whole time, it turned out I forgot to check for negative array indices. Just added TWO FUCKING LINES and the whole thing suddenly works.

Goddamn, programming makes me feel like a retard sometimes. Makes me want to drill holes through my skull

What's with people who whistle? Shut up asshole. We all have to hear your bullshit.

I fucking hate the literature teacher who forced us to read a really lengthy book in under a week. So I read it, while not having absolutely any free time the entire week. I was one of the few who actually read the book (of about 60) and guess what - I got the worst grade, while like half of the people who read just the summary, got the best grade.
The teacher asked some really fucking unimportant details, which I couldn't answer to, since I've never been good at remembering tiny insignificant details. In addition, in the test we had to discuss questions, and later she "corrected" my test with some totally unrelated questions, which I was supposed to answer to in my discussion , which she thinks made sense, yet trying to discuss whether they made sense or not is like talking to a wall. The best part is that I had even previously answered several of those (in other questions). Then, she proceeded to give me a lecture of how I didn't understand the book and how I probably hadn't even finished it (but obviously I can't prove shit to her because of the reasons above)

I must however say that now I value the teachers, who actually know what they want from a student and try to be a teacher, not an obstacle, a lot more. Luckily, all but the one, who I described, of my teachers are the latter.

TL;DR: some teachers are dicks

People on ladder are... confusing to sound less insulting. I was asking a guy after a game why he goes only stimmed bio and rans them into tanks. He responded with : "report" . For what kicking your ass? Dafuq??? Its not my fault when you force a base race and die horribly in the process. You attacked a base that you never scouted so I must assume you maphack. Sometimes people are too sensitive. I really wish Blizz would would wake up and nerf bio heavy , its way to easy and a lot of people would lose way more games.
Also fuck the guys that unpause when you say "pp?" after a few seconds, assuming you went to the bathroom(I didnt btw was still sitting in front of my monitor.) . What do you get from it?. Learn some strategies and tactics if you are so bad that you have to rely on such situations and dont allin. Im glad I beat that guy after his horrible attack. Im a calm person but crap like this makes me upset too. " Dude I dont have time for pause" Yeah thats why you waited a few secs ,then unpaused and then allined you douche , to get freewins to push your ego right? Man kids on the Internet, when I think of them this always comes to my mind:


Fuck Protoss too. Im leaving every game against that stupid race that is designed for spoiled children until blizz fixes this shit.

You sound pretty beta and ultimately need to stop taking someones personality flaws so personally. Stop putting pussy on a pedestal.