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Offline kurandoinu

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Re: Things that piss you off!
« Reply #6740 on: November 03, 2012, 06:18:23 PM »
The fact that the shops close earlier on Saturday. ><

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Re: Things that piss you off!
« Reply #6741 on: November 03, 2012, 06:34:43 PM »

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Re: Things that piss you off!
« Reply #6742 on: November 03, 2012, 06:52:33 PM »
Post it here.

It's still a work-in-progress, so I'm not ready to go into too much detail yet.  I will say, once I'm satisfied with it, I do intend to share it publicly for free.  At the moment, I'm getting feedback on it periodically from my other veteran gamer friends, and hopefully we'll be able to playtest early next year.
 
At the risk of going OT, I'll say this:  what I'm going for is a D20 skill based system that works across genres, with minimal lists of things, and, where appropriate, simplified game mechanics.  Things that I think are arbritrary or redundant in a game system, or stuff that's even just mechanics for the sake having a mechanic are going to largely be stripped away.  So, no levels, no character classes, no random elements during character creation.  Certainly no feats or spell lists or gear lists.  Every mechanic is going to ultimately boil down to a skill roll with modifiers.  The magic system is proving to be the toughest part, by a wide margin.
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Re: Things that piss you off!
« Reply #6743 on: November 03, 2012, 09:06:05 PM »
Turning on the light in the living room after installing a brand new lamp (and swearing a lot - the thing was heavy, the cables were too short, while putting in the screws we noticed that the holes where too shallow, ...) just to notice that in the process something, somewhere has broken, which results in no light at all -.- looking for the error and trying to fix it tomorrow won't be a pleasure either, as someone has to hold the lamp (did I say it's heavy?) while the other one tampers with the cables.

Offline megido-rev.M

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Re: Things that piss you off!
« Reply #6744 on: November 04, 2012, 01:01:47 AM »
Time wasters (homework slang).

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Re: Things that piss you off!
« Reply #6745 on: November 04, 2012, 08:53:23 AM »
Bi-weekly payments.

Need something to look forward to EVERY Friday at least.

Oh yeah, startup programs.

Every time I log on I go into a routine of bringing up Task Manager and closing all the crap I don't need taking up resources.

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Re: Things that piss you off!
« Reply #6746 on: November 04, 2012, 04:16:28 PM »
Bi-weekly payments.

Need something to look forward to EVERY Friday at least.

Oh yeah, startup programs.

Every time I log on I go into a routine of bringing up Task Manager and closing all the crap I don't need taking up resources.
Bi-Weekly would mean you have to pay twice.
Stop being so stupid and don't finance stuff like that.

And uninstall, or complain.

I'm gunna leave you anyway.

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Re: Things that piss you off!
« Reply #6747 on: November 04, 2012, 04:54:06 PM »
Or indeed just remove them from the list of programs that run on boot...

EDIT: That the Global Marketing Information Database doesn't seem to recognise either Facebook or Google as being companies. I mean, seriously, wtf?

EDIT EDIT: And now trying to search for Google again just gives me loads of companies with 'Apple' in their name. FFS.
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Re: Things that piss you off!
« Reply #6748 on: November 04, 2012, 07:15:18 PM »
lol startup programs: lv0 computer problems

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Re: Things that piss you off!
« Reply #6749 on: November 07, 2012, 11:12:27 PM »
Arseholes who think they can bully their way around the Internet.

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Re: Things that piss you off!
« Reply #6750 on: November 08, 2012, 12:15:33 AM »
Ignorance.

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Re: Things that piss you off!
« Reply #6751 on: November 08, 2012, 12:51:29 AM »
Arseholes who think they can bully their way around the Internet.
Give me your lunch money NOW!!!
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Re: Things that piss you off!
« Reply #6752 on: November 08, 2012, 12:54:34 AM »
Being presented a tedium of a concept only to be told that it is virtually useless afterward.

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Re: Things that piss you off!
« Reply #6753 on: November 09, 2012, 08:11:42 AM »
University rules that states a minimum of 85% attendance is required. If the only thing we do is attend classes when the hell are we supposed to find time for all the projects and extra stuff that come along?????

It's like them asking fuck everything and come sit in class like middle school children.

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Re: Things that piss you off!
« Reply #6754 on: November 09, 2012, 10:51:15 AM »
University rules that states a minimum of 85% attendance is required. If the only thing we do is attend classes when the hell are we supposed to find time for all the projects and extra stuff that come along? ??? ?

It's like them asking fuck everything and come sit in class like middle school children.

They're just preparing you for life in the corporate world.  For example:
 
Employee:  "I've got this huge backlog of work to do.  How am I supposed to get all of these new projects done by the deadline?"
Boss:  "Ever heard of nights and weekends?  Get to it!" <cracks whip>
 
It's called "being above the line".
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Re: Things that piss you off!
« Reply #6755 on: November 09, 2012, 02:26:20 PM »
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I understand that, but getting some projects done meaning you need to visit some companies, and they are open only on working days (i.e. during your college hours). That's when the problem arises. And besides we do get them the result whether we attend class or not. 

Sure it's for our own good, but it still pisses me off. >__>
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Re: Things that piss you off!
« Reply #6756 on: November 09, 2012, 04:26:53 PM »
I'd have been fine with a minimum attendance requirement if so many of my professors hadn't simply been repeating the text the whole time.

I managed a 96% in a class I only attended maybe 4 times.
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Re: Things that piss you off!
« Reply #6757 on: November 09, 2012, 05:02:45 PM »
I'd have been fine with a minimum attendance requirement if so many of my professors hadn't simply been repeating the text the whole time.

I managed a 96% in a class I only attended maybe 4 times.
Liberal arts allllll up in here ;)

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Re: Things that piss you off!
« Reply #6758 on: November 09, 2012, 07:01:25 PM »
Every day at about 3PM I get fucking sleepy I can barely function.
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Re: Things that piss you off!
« Reply #6759 on: November 09, 2012, 08:45:16 PM »
Physically having to do something more than once due to shit-many interruptions >:(. Just going through it once gets tiring enough.

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I understand that, but getting some projects done meaning you need to visit some companies, and they are open only on working days (i.e. during your college hours). That's when the problem arises. And besides we do get them the result whether we attend class or not. 

Sure it's for our own good, but it still pisses me off. >__>

???

1. be there
2. do other things either way

I see this all the time.