The Letting Off Steam Thread - Page 187

Smart people saying the dumbest shit... ARHG!

Tell me that isn't me

Anyway I'm tired of student strikes here in Quebec. I'm on strike right now, I've been on strike for 2 weeks and the reason is absolutely amazing: we are against austerity measures and against the exploitation of hydrocarbons. Two legitimate concerns on their own but why would they be taken together? It makes no sense at all...

But to make it fucking worse, the university's dumbshit administrators decided to take this time to expel 9 students, many of which are executives in the student associations, because of alleged bad behaviour in previous protests (like blocking a hall and using a bad tone of voice when talking to admin). This obviously added fuel to the fire, and while we could have otherwise expected for the strike to end yesterday, now it's back on track and I can't finish my semester. And once again it won't get anything done and we need to wait for the unions to have a united front against the bullshit austerity measures of the liberal party.

Oh well, my fault for switching to this uni.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj2_RC6CZA8

Girl problems bra.

No that wasn't about you I mostly agree with what you said, my main contention is that it doesn't have to be counterproductive. But I agree that they demonstrations like this often can be.

So I ended up spending a year at some college at a program I wasn't interested in nor saw myself doing as a career even if I ended up trying so hard in my studies for this program. So I finally found some way to tell my parents about this, they exploded and told me to get out of the house by the end of April and my dad told me simply seeing me pisses him off. Oh of course they can say the shit like, "They are doing it because they love you" but I don't find my dad exactly a loving person when all he does is explode in rage when something doesn't go his way and tells me he hates seeing me. Either way we decided it was better to drop the program I'm in, problem is, it's too late to have officially dropped and now I'm worried this may affect my ability to join a new program because I need student loans but if my grades from this year are too shitty they might not want to. I talked over with my college's coordinators but they tell me to either get the exams done or see if I can pass, which I'm certain won't happen because I want to fucking skip these stupid exams for a field I have zero care about. So now I'm in a weird limbo where I'm worried about whether I can actually go to the program and school I want but if I can't get funding because of my shitty grades at a program I didn't care about I'm fucked. I'm not really too angry at my parents for basically forcing me into here, but when all they can say is, "It was for your good" ticks me off. Plenty of people did what they thought was for the better but it ended up bad, don't give me your shit that you thought everything you did was picture perfect and I fucked it up for you. Take some responsibility and admit you didn't do everything right, cool your fucking jets and act like a calm adult instead of a child. Oh, and he has the shitty excuse of "Don't copy what I'm doing" when he tells me about my attitude problems, which is the laziest way of pushing blame from himself when he can't even act out on his own suggestions. What a fucking hypocrite. And if you talk so much about how Christianity is your main drive then why do you have none of those changes that you love to tell me about a Christian should have? There is a reason why I don't believe anymore, because of people like you dad who can't even be consistent with what they say so much yet justify it by saying how you shouldn't follow me. BE THE FUCKING EXAMPLE DON'T PUSH IT AWAY WITH THAT AWFUL EXCUSE.

Fuck Bronchitis and on my week off as well. I have been dealing with this shit since Sunday morning, like someone sitting on my chest, and a cough I just can't get rid of. Damnit!

day 313, shitty maps like deadwing are still being played at the highest level of competition

Just crawl back into your hole, please and thank you.
Also I blame math for deforestation!

I not-so-secretly loathe TL mods and TL writers. TL writers a bit less, they just aren't very good writers.
While some TL mods are fun guys and even take part in the same discussions as the lowly users, a lot of them are complete douches, and generally your usual power hungry guy with no IRL power (well, your typical efficiently repressive forum moderator). I especially like how they decide with a simple one liner that a discussion involving 20 people is not worth having.
I still am thankful that TL is modded so heavily, because it's probably quite a bit more civilized than your usual internet discussion place, but I wish forum moderators would quit their high-and-mighty attitude.

tl;dr: I don't like authority.

guys why the fuck is this game so bad

thank you blizzard that one fucking abduct range makes playing against mech and lategame toss so much fucking easier, suck a dick

i mean how fucking stupid wouldnt it be to give zerg a reliable way to play the game, WHY WOULD ANYONE EVER WANT THAT

Need to vent a bit. Fuck you, Amazon! I have been a customer for 15 years, 100 orders, thousands of dollars, only ever sent three things back (two had DRM and I couldn't watch/play, one was 'gf doesn't like the color').
Bought a book 2.5 years ago, finally get to read it, and it's a misprint with 40 pages being a reprint of earlier ones.
I asked very politely and nicely to get the book exchanged, or even just a kindle edition.
Nope.
I ask again, pointing out the above stats.
Nope.
I ask to have my case reviewed by someone higher up, still politely (I have worked in IT support, I never abuse the agents).
Nope.
Instead, I get the worlds lamest 'apology', from a guy having the signature "Our goal: Being the world's most customer-friendly company", he's asking me to not judge them by their behavior in this particular case, but by my general experience with them.
As if I'm going to buy from you again.

28 years old. A year ago I was making 26 bucks an hour. Today I work at a Golf course making minimum wage. Trying to go back to school but first I need to take 4 high school courses just to apply for the program. The program is 2 years. Usually there is about a year wait to get into the program. So if everything runs smoothly I could potentially graduate in 4 years at 32. Get a job hopefully by 35 and retire in 30 years at 65. Doesn't sound so bad on paper, but right now, sitting in the basement of a another man's house, a shadow of my former self, it all seems so daunting.

HEUEUHEUHEAUHEUH IM TERRAN I CAN DO WHATEVER THE FUCK I WANT AND SINCE YOURE NOT TOP MASTER OR GM YOU REALLY CANT TELL WHICH OF THE RETARDED 20 BUILDS IM DOING

if i was terran id have a fucking 50% winrate at master just doing retarded bullshit with hellbats banshees and drops i swear to god

dAPhREAk sucks

People who think they're above statistics

Stop betting what you can't afford to lose. A while ago I had a friend who told me that there is a way you can always win at roulette. Always. You start with a small bet, and if you lose you double it. If you start with $10, you lose, then you bet $20, if you win you go home with $40 and you're up $10. It works! And another good trick is if it hits the same color 3 times you should bet on the other color because what are the odds of hitting the same color four times in a row?

Obviously, both of these tricks are dumb. The first one will always give you a small payout for a relatively small chance of having a streak of bad luck and making you lose a huge amount of money (Low risk, low reward, but if the risk hits it'll hurt bad).

People are horrible. They don't understand these simple things. No if I bet $90 and $100 on these two things even though the house takes a cut I'll ALWAYS win. "We're BOUND to win one of these!". Shut the fuck up D:

Right now CS players are using this csgojackpot site which pools 10 people's skins together and has one of the 10 people win the jackpot. The higher your contribution to the pool the higher your odds of winning. Now people have all these fucking theories like "you should do smaller bets" "you should do bigger bets". "I have this theory that if I win a big jackpot I'll lose the next one". People legit believe all these superstitious things. Yet the guy's chain betting thousands of dollars worth of skins (sigh) for hours. Assuming the site takes no cut and isn't rigged, it doesn't matter what you bet... Anyway sigh.

you get 20 minutes into a ladder game on iccup, PvT, just killed his hidden base, got 2 new bases of my own up, crush his push and.......fucking windows update restarts your shit

kinda want to dye my hair, kinda wanna die in general

aviFToss