Pet Peeves

[Mestiv he/him]

People like that are a little scary to me. It's like if she was admitting that all that's stoping her from murdering all the patients in the hospital is a book... 

[Delightful]

4 hours ago, Mestiv said:

People like that are a little scary to me. It's like if she was admitting that all that's stoping her from murdering all the patients in the hospital is a book... 

Now that's a plain terrifying view of it. 

[Mestiv he/him]

Another way to put it from atheist point of view:

So you're telling me, you haven't killed me yet, because your imaginary friend wouldn't like it?  

Anyway, my pet peeve currently is the temperature in my flat :/ It's cold outside, but despite opened windows and AC running it's still pretty hot inside :/ Seriously, what's wrong with my flat? o.O At least in the winter I don't have problems with heating...

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

Neighbors who seem to think that the lane in the parking lot between two rows of cars is a loading/unloading zone. They seem to think they are free to park their cars right in the middle, and are baffled when passing drivers are annoyed. 

Also, this: "Let's see here...*smack* I'll try this, and see if it does that....*smack* no, that didn't work....*smack* I'll try this instead and *smack* that didn't work either...hmmmm *smack* maybe I'll do this...."

*eye twitch*

Edited August 1, 2016 by TwiLyghtSansSparkles

[Oversleep]

I've stumbled across a Dishonored review (the article was about women in the game) and then read the comments... :

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The intent of the writers is completely meaningless. If you depict marginalisation of a form that exists in reality, for example misogyny, you are complicit in it. It's as simple as that. This is especially true when you are using a fictional world, because what you are then saying is that "Misogyny is just a true fact of the universe that will always exist because that's the way things must be." If you are aware that what you are showing is wrong, then you are just being actively malicious rather than incidentally malicious.

Remember kids: If your work contains oppresion or tyrannical rulers, it means you support it If genocide happens, it means you support it...

Those kinds of logic really raise my bloodpressure. If you'll excuse me, I'll be murdering some bad people while avenging the Empress. BTW, Dishonored is really good.

Edited August 2, 2016 by Oversleep

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

12 minutes ago, Oversleep said:

I've stumbled across a Dishonored review and read the comments (the article was about women in the game):

Remember: If your work contains oppresion or tyrannical rulers, it means you support it If genocide happens, it means you support it...

Those kinds of logic really raise my bloodpressure. If you'll excuse me, I'll be murdering some bad people while avenging the Empress. BTW, Dishonored is really good.

Was this review on Tumblr, by any chance?  

Also, ugh. By this reviewer's logic, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl was complicit in slavery for depicting its horrors; The Handmaid's Tale was complicit in brutal misogyny for taking a rigid patriarchal society to its logical conclusion; Heart of Darkness was complicit in European colonialism and the Scramble for Africa by revealing its horrific effect on those forced to live with its consequences; and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian was complicit in discrimination against the Spokane Natives for cluing readers in to just how messed up the reservation system is. The "logic," or what passes for it, falls apart when you squint at it too hard. 

[Oversleep]

I've made it unclear: the review was actually good; the quote was taken from the comment on it.

And no, it wasn't on tumblr

I just wonder what people should make their works about if any bad thing in it means they support it - if you can't write about any bad thing taken from our reality, that leaves us with... dark gods and reality devouring abominations. Oh, wait, dark gods are also part of our world, it would mean I side with cultists. Only time eating abominations, then.

Or utopias.

[Silverblade5 he/him]

Limited bathroom passes 

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

9 minutes ago, Oversleep said:

I've made it unclear: the review was actually good; the quote was taken from the comment on it.

And no, it wasn't on tumblr

I just wonder what people should make their works about if any bad thing in it means they support it - if you can't write about any bad thing taken from our reality, that leaves us with... dark gods and reality devouring abominations. Oh, wait, dark gods are also part of our world, it would mean I side with cultists. Only time eating abominations, then.

Or utopias.

Stories like this, you mean? 

 

[Sunbird she/her]

Bikers who insist on holding up traffic by refusing to use the bike lanes the city has so thoughtfully provided. Like srsly, you're asking to get hit.

[Pestis the Spider she/her]

My brain is my pet peeve, because it makes me do this:

Step 1: I read a book/watch a movie/play a game
Step 2: My scientific brain activates, and a thought like "OMG, this is so unscientific!" (e.g. "but manatees live in shallow water!") is created.
Step 3: My stupid brain forces me to rage quit otherwise enjoyable book/movie/game. 

Thanks, Brain, you killjoy. 

[ThirdGen]

Does overloading that on something super-ridiculous help?  Like, The Core?

[Pestis the Spider she/her]

Super-ridiculous stuff helps, because the audience is basically warned that all of the stuff is going to be super-ridiculous. Crazy sci-fi stories are fine. My problem is when books/movies/games treat a completely unscientific thing like it's totally legit and scientific, and give no explanation whatsoever as to why it is so ridiculous. As long as the reader is informed in some way that ridiculous stuff is not real then I'm fine.

Like for example I started to read a manga recently. Nice art, decent story, set in history-fantasy world. Of course all of the fantasy stuff get at least pointed out. However for some reason the Birds of Prey in this game behave like piranias and the author treats it as totally normal thing. Or I play a game, where you swim in the deep ocean and all crazy stuff happens (because it's magical deep ocean, or something), but then suddenly a manatee appears, like it's normal. I mean, no matter how magical is the ocean, the manatees just don't swim in such deep water. 

[Mestiv he/him]

After reading your pet peeves, here's mine:

The way programming and generally computer science is portrayed in movies. No, that's not how it looks. No, you don't hack into Pentagon in 6 minutes, smashing keyboard non-stop. No, your computer doesn't display a neat graphs or any other "visualization" of cracking an encryption or anything... There is so much wrong with how they show how computers work that it's ridiculous.

And I don't mean like Tony Stark style computer use. Marvel movies aren't in any way trying to be realistic in any other aspect, so it's fine for him to have Jarvis for help and to handle complicated software with hand gestures and voice commands. I mean movies like James Bond, where they try to show everything as quite realistic.

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

1 minute ago, Mestiv said:

After reading your pet peeves, here's mine:

The way programming and generally computer science is portrayed in movies. No, that's not how it looks. No, you don't hack into Pentagon in 6 minutes, smashing keyboard non-stop. No, your computer doesn't display a neat graphs or any other "visualization" of cracking an encryption or anything... There is so much wrong with how they show how computers work that it's ridiculous.

And I don't mean like Tony Stark style computer use. Marvel movies aren't in any way trying to be realistic in any other aspect, so it's fine for him to have Jarvis for help and to handle complicated software with hand gestures and voice commands. I mean movies like James Bond, where they try to show everything as quite realistic.

 

Spoiler

 

[Pestis the Spider she/her]

2 hours ago, Mestiv said:

After reading your pet peeves, here's mine:

The way programming and generally computer science is portrayed in movies. No, that's not how it looks. No, you don't hack into Pentagon in 6 minutes, smashing keyboard non-stop. No, your computer doesn't display a neat graphs or any other "visualization" of cracking an encryption or anything... There is so much wrong with how they show how computers work that it's ridiculous.

And I don't mean like Tony Stark style computer use. Marvel movies aren't in any way trying to be realistic in any other aspect, so it's fine for him to have Jarvis for help and to handle complicated software with hand gestures and voice commands. I mean movies like James Bond, where they try to show everything as quite realistic.

My computer skills are limited to surfing the net and playing games, so that never bothered me. But I am a biologist, so I end up with, for example, manatees problems or totally-wrong-genetics problems in books/movies/games. I am really dissapointed that authors don't care enough to do a proper research before creating a work. 

[Delightful]

3 hours ago, Pestis the Spider said:

My computer skills are limited to surfing the net and playing games, so that never bothered me. But I am a biologist, so I end up with, for example, manatees problems or totally-wrong-genetics problems in books/movies/games. I am really dissapointed that authors don't care enough to do a proper research before creating a work. 

What kind of genetics problems?

[Pestis the Spider she/her]

17 minutes ago, Delightful said:

What kind of genetics problems?

Sometimes in some books there are people trying to explain something in terms of genetics (viruses, mutations, zombies, other weird stuff happening), and the explanation makes like absolutely no sense, because the author didn't do research. Funny thing is that this weird stuff could be easily explained in the way that makes sense (even if it's fantasy explanation, really) if only the author tried harder. I can't really remember any particular examples right now, but I remember thinking "there is no way it works this way" several times, while reading books/watching movies. 

Edit: Seriously, sometimes I prefer that author uses just "magic" as an explanation instead of trying to make his explanation sound scientific and making it completely wrong. 

Edited August 3, 2016 by Pestis the Spider

[Sunbird she/her]

I discovered something new that really bothers me today. I was in the middle of going around a turn in my car when I suddenly got the overwhelming urge to sneeze and I was like AHHH NOT NOW I NEED MY EYES OPEN TO DRIVE. I ended up sneezing during the turn despite my attempts to resist, but thankfully my outlandish fear of crashing due to a sneeze didn't come true.

[Silverblade5 he/him]

Why is it considered bad behavior if I politely say no to something?

Why is it considered arguing if I have a different opinion on something, and vocalize it?

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

4 hours ago, Silverblade5 said:

Why is it considered bad behavior if I politely say no to something?

Why is it considered arguing if I have a different opinion on something, and vocalize it?

Because the person calling your behavior bad or argumentative wanted you to go along with what they wanted and are angry that you'd rather do your own thing. Twimom did that all the time. 

[Silverblade5 he/him]

4 hours ago, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said:

Because the person calling your behavior bad or argumentative wanted you to go along with what they wanted and are angry that you'd rather do your own thing. Twimom did that all the time. 

Gramdma. On whether or not a coat was needed for the current weather. She said yes. I say no. I than her for her advise. She makes me say yes. 

Mat the hotel, she proceeds to complain about how I have to argue all the time, that I should be making her life easier when apparently a different opinion is so hard to accept. 

Edited August 4, 2016 by Silverblade5

[Kaymyth she/her]

20 hours ago, Pestis the Spider said:

Sometimes in some books there are people trying to explain something in terms of genetics (viruses, mutations, zombies, other weird stuff happening), and the explanation makes like absolutely no sense, because the author didn't do research. Funny thing is that this weird stuff could be easily explained in the way that makes sense (even if it's fantasy explanation, really) if only the author tried harder. I can't really remember any particular examples right now, but I remember thinking "there is no way it works this way" several times, while reading books/watching movies. 

Edit: Seriously, sometimes I prefer that author uses just "magic" as an explanation instead of trying to make his explanation sound scientific and making it completely wrong. 

Ahh, like in The Walking Dead, a universe where the CDC is apparently populated by a bunch of idiots who have no idea how to grow a cell culture in order to determine whether the Walker disease is a virus or bacteria or fungus...

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

1 hour ago, Silverblade5 said:

Gramdma. On whether or not a coat was needed for the current weather. She said yes. I say no. I than her for her advise. She makes me say yes. 

Mat the hotel, she proceeds to complain about how I have to argue all the time, that I should be making her life easier when apparently a different opinion is so hard to accept. 

My grandmother does the same thing. It's a nice little way to both shut down further opposition to her opinions and get the rest of the family to side with her, should you oppose her again. It's also passive aggressive as all get-out.  

[Oversleep]

Grandmas have something about temperature. My grandma always thinks it's colder than it really is.

Fortunately, she believes me when I say I'm OK