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I absolutely hate snobs or elitists. I mean, I go to a movie forum and most of what I see is people dissing out blockbusters saying they're "dumb, mindless entertainment for the masses". Guess what? That's what they are!
They're meant for you to go, sit down and watch a flick with pretty effects and lots of action and not for you to debate the meaning of it.
I like more "cerebral" films like David Lynch or Truman Show and I like discussing about films and their technicalities but I know what movies are, entertainment.
And most of them seem to be stuck in the past saying things like "Movies back then were art before Hollywood succumbed to greed". Hollywood always made films for money and to entertain people.
I mean, I have to deal with liberal art students where I work(fucking hipsters) and I don't want to deal with this in a place where I want to talk about my second favourite thing.

Originally posted this in the popular opinions thread cause it is a unpopular opinion but ended up as more of a rant after seeing the Bumblebee brigade coming back up in other sites so here goes:

Bumblebee ship is the worst fucking ship in RWBY in has no back up in canon and it was created because we were almost 6 months into the series with no one to ship the main characters with so we thought “Why not ship them with each other?!?!?!?!?” Yet it is the most popular ship in the fandom and many of the shippers actually think that it will an end game ship which has now reduced to every single one of Blake’s and Yang’s interactions into “OMFG THEY TOTS LIKE EACH OTHER BECAUSE SHE SAVED HER AND NOT BECAUSE THEY ARE FRIENDS AND LETS IGNORE THE FACT THAT THEY BOTH HAVE SHOWN TO HAVE INTEREST IN BOYS AND NEVER HAVE SHOWN INTEREST IN GIRLS BECAUSE THEY ARE TOTALLY GAY FOR EACH OTHER!”

Overly specific vent:

I'm getting really tired of the comments section and livestream chats for any Planet Dolan videos always having "WHERE'S SHIMA?!" comments, despite the fact the PD crew has answered this question many times, especially in official Q&As like the 5 million subs Q&A on Dolan's channel or the Q&A streams on Hellbent's channel. I mean don't get me wrong I am legitimately curious as to what the heck has happened to keep Shima out of touch with the internet for so long (I keep hearing it's computer problems, but I don't imagine that issue would take months upon months to fix), and it will be awesome to see her finally come back, but geez it's just tiring seeing the same question being asked over and over despite it already being answered like 100 different times.

@L0rdtr3k

I actually came here to put down a little thing about music elitists since I encountered some music elitism recently. Music elitism is the absolute worst basically because of the fact that music is the most subjective art-form period honestly and all art forms are inherently subjective, but some like films still have some way to judge them. Music may have form but the enjoyment people get from music is so diverse there's no way to judge it "objectively" at all.

Like sure your variation of pop music is so much more unique and less derived than that other thing with the same formula. News flash all music is reused in some way whether intentional or not. I've met people who can only like music with lyrics or hell some people who have to enjoy music with deep lyrics.

I have no problem with that since as I said music is personal. I'm trash because most of what I enjoy is soundtracks because of its connection to the fiction which makes the emotion stronger to me. Same way people who can only enjoy deep lyrics get a lot of emotion and rhythm from those. But don't fucking come to me with your drivel of "music doesn't have #deep lyrics anymore only #deep lyrics matter anyone who listens to music about partying should be euthanized". Worst kind of human being.

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Another small vent, one of my least favorite things irl is people with nothing to add to conversations. I've seen it online but honestly it's more rare since even awkward people can be good at talking online. Sorry if this is you, I don't hate you or anything don't feel offended please, this is more advice.

I've been consistently meeting this one kind of person who can only communicate through derailing. It's a group conversation and they don't even listen. They just pull people aside for something completely different, and usually it's about themselves so this type of person also correlates with egotists, or at least people unaware of their ego. It's always something about their own lives and they have to pull everyone away consistently for it. That or it's showing you stuff on their phone.

And the worst part about this is that most people are actually really good at ignoring this type of person, like really good. I however am not I have like deep-seeded politeness that doesn't let me ignore anyone, like I have a problem where if one person is talking to me and then someone else starts talking to me and I am forced to turn to them but then get this crushing realization I'm ignoring the other person and it like glitches me out.

With the kind of person I mentioned above, this is especially a problem. Because these types of people are so obsessed with attention and can't just assimilate with the group once they catch one person like me who actually listens to them they basically pull me out of the group. I can't even talk to them one on one so it's basically a lose-lose situation because all they can talk about is themselves the entire time. And they basically make you their friend even if you don't want it because you at least pretended to listen to them, and I can't stop.

Again I'm so so sorry if you do this a lot, just try to be a little more aware please. I know you can do it. Everyone has the potential I don't care if you have autism or anything I've met autistic people who have learned to be perfect in groups even if they started off severe. And I have to learn to stop being such a pussy and actually learn to deal with this.

I absolutely hate when people say you're "jumping on the bandwagon" or "you just dislike it/hate it because it's popular". Like seriously, stop. Just because I don't like some popular game like Undertale or some popular show like Steven Universe doesn't mean I'm jumping on a hate bandwagon. Some people might actually do that, but others, and I bet most, actually don't like said popular thing for good reasons.

As if this year couldn't get any worse…

As of September 7, 2016, our dog, a Labrador of 14 years has passed away. From what I could tell, she died of cardiac arrest, and by the time we got to the vet, it was too late.

Right now her body is being transported to a funeral home in Tagaytay, and they'll be putting her on ice until the weekend, where she will be cremated.

I apologize if this isn't the right place to grieve and mourn, but like most pets, she was practically family. Hell, my mother admits she's the best dog she's ever had (she was technically my dog, but still), and I don't want to bottle this shit up for too long.

Now I won't have some four-legged senior begging to be fed, beckoning to her bowl to request a meal.

Now I won't see some yellow lump of fur sleeping at the front door when we come back from an outing.

She's gone.

Now I'll never see her wagging her tail when I call her name.

I'm sorry for the mess of tears and snot above this sentence.

Now American mass media companies picked up the word "troll".
And they use it on alt-rights or generally anyone who doesn't support their liberal (in this case PC) ideals that are pursued for nothing but self-validation.

Frankly this is no different than /b/tards using "cuck" over and over like a 9-year-old learning their first swear word.

The very basis of a PC culture is feels first, reason second, this makes people's skin thinner and thinner by the day, unable to take a single joke without flipping out. More-so they tend to care about people's feelings first, disregarding any sort of logic that is long-established and has never gone wrong before.

So this is what the US is coming through?
Wonderful. I'm closer to tasting how good bleach is.

People who vote without environmental issues in mind are going to cause the death of our planet. It's disgusting that our leaders are getting away with ignoring or denying this kind of stuff.

So today was a really terrible day I haven't had shit like this for a long time I figured the start of college was actually surprisingly really fun and stress-free even though I over-stressed about it initially. Hell my entire summer was problem free probably one of the best I ever had even if semi-uneventful. But I like peace and consistency so oh well.

But finally tragedy struck. One of my friends got a "new" girlfriend aka this is the 3rd time he's dating her. That's not the real problem though I like his girlfriend as an individual she has some pretty glaring flaws but like so does he and so does everyone I can ignore flaws easier than most. And even if they kinda obviously aren't that good for each other I don't think it's bad they're together again they're adults they do what they want. The real problem I have is the fact that he's 3rd wheeling the entire fucking earth. He can't separate from this bitch for even a few minutes every breathing moment of his life at college is spent with her and her friend group and that group doesn't want to interact with other people because they're kinda picky with who they hang out with. So me and his other friends are basically just abandoned the only way to meet him anymore is to go to him and his gf and put up with their nauseating infatuation.

So this was kinda hurtful but not the real problem. My dad is pressuring me hard to change into a more advanced math class and I have like a 2 day time frame to do it in. I unfortunately decide to rely on said friend to relay me very vital info for me to be able to change classes at all. I literally waited the whole 2 days relying on this dude I thought I could trust I actually lost count of how many times I reminded him and he forgot and especially how many opportunities he had to send me info. But he never did. Hell I missed the deadline and haven't told him I'm waiting to see if he ever fucking figures out.

And I'm not completely stupid I used someone else as backup just in case he fell through. But ooooooooooooohhhhhhhhh boy as you can guess she also fell through and had various opportunities to give me this vital information that no one else could give me. I asked a 3rd person by the time I had already given up and they gave me the information INSTANTLY. He's already one of my favorite people but I'm considering becoming better friends with him because I can actually trust the guy. He won't abandon me and fuck up my life.

But by the time I got the info as I could guess when I saw it was already too late and today is the last day to change. My dad as I said has been pressuring me hard about this and I still haven't responded to his calls or texts for hours I don't know what to say. Hey at least I learned an important lesson of don't trust your best fucking friends with your livelihood. I didn't know it can take only a day to get jaded I'm usually so like idealistic.

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Ironically though this wasn't what made me the most sad today. Or then again it could be I'll explain. The big problem was actually that I had been waiting for this shipment of these charms I ordered a week ago. Turns out they arrived! But they "arrived" as in they were immediately shipped back because MY FUCKING DORM DOESN'T FUCKING ACCEPT USPS. So the one thing I was looking forward to all week, utterly destroyed.

This crushed me like I actually almost cried like a child from not getting these little plastic things shaped like my favorite characters. But I have such a huge emotional attachment to Xenoblade that I couldn't help it especially since I hyped the arrival of this stuff so much and after my day was already stressful this was probably more like the straw that broke the camel's back and made me realize the rest of my problems since these charms were one of my only beacons of hope in the darkness that is adult life.

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And the USPS thing brings up another vent. Yes more. It's the fact that my college is so goddamn bureaucratic like if you looked up red tape in a term dictionary you'd see a picture of my college dorms. Like just being here is making me more libertarian I swear.

You have to sign paperwork and leave your id with the front desk to enter anyone else's dorm after 6 and you have to sign out with more signing. And as a minor I have to get extra paperwork and permissions. The really shitty part about this red tape horse shit is the fact that like at 5:59 you can just walk into the door to the dorms with like 50 people in tail and as long as they're all through the door while it's still 5:59 they don't need to check in or out they just walk in. Probably some of the most worthless bureaucratic fuckery I've ever seen even worse than like the DMV and deeper governmental hells.

And you're not allowed to use anything gaming related connected to internet on the school wifi. That means I can't even download games on Steam or use Steam basically at all. The only way is to connect whatever you're using to an ethernet port and register your machine but that has several problems on its own. 1st of all, there's only ONE, ONE, OOOOONE FUCKING PORT IN MY ROOM. 2nd, the registration doesn't even work for me my computer seems blacklisted or something. And 3rd, that means stuff like a 3DS is basically barred from internet altogether so bye bye all those games that focus on online play on my 3DS.

And of course let's not forget the liberal jackassery that goes on on college campuses. I was told on my first day that saying "retard" and "that's gay" (aka my only joke) were banned with no exceptions. And my college is probably not even that hardcore liberal compared to some other horror-shows I've read about that sound like satire.

Like today actually someone who I think is pretty cool said something like this:

him: "Alt-righters are worse than normal right wingers by a lot"

me: "Actually the alt-right is an enormous spectrum it's not a defined movement it ranges from people completely fine with LGBT rights and other socially liberal stuff while still being tough on like immigration and race relations while the other side does indeed consist of neo-nazis and white genociders"

him: "Well I don't care they should all be lined up and shot" with basically not a hint of humor in his delivery.

I swear I'm becoming more conservative by the day or at least in comparison to these people.

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Well that was the end of possibly my longest vent ever I should start like putting together the vents I make here into an autobiography. A very angry one.

I can never do fucking physics problems at all without having to look up the internet. Yet I can do math problems and everything else just fine.

I get very frustrated when I can't do anything productive in college sometimes, it leaves me in such anger that makes me stop trying and then engage on something else like talking with friends or just listening to some music.

I can't fucking stand hypocrites and elitists. I have seen so many Jojo fanboys on this site who group fans of popular works into the "pretentious" and "obnoxious" category while the Jojo fanboys jack off to themselves. "Undertale and Steven Universe fans are butthurt Tumblrinas with autism, unlike us Jojo fans who always have fun, never rage, are never obnoxious, have good taste in-"
Shut. The. Fuck. Up. Watching "manly" anime does not make you God's gift to mankind, so take your sexual organ out of your mouth and sod off.
I respect any member of a fandom as long as they are decent people, but the vocal minority makes it difficult for me to find and admire those kinds of people. I considered Jojo's Bizarre Adventure to be rather decent, but because of a recent run-in with one of the fandom's bad apples, I can't bring myself to watch past the fourth episode of Part 2. If I had watched the whole series way sooner, maybe I could have ended up loving it and stayed a Jojo fan despite the fandom's vocally minor share of narcissists, but I'm afraid they've left me a bad taste in my mouth right now.

I eventually did say what I wanted to say elsewhere…

I can take a good guess as to who you're talking about, and sadly this is my biggest issue with part of the Jojo fandom. Annoying elitists who act like because they enjoy Jojo (and probably also Fist of the North Star and One Punch Man) they act really snobby about it, acting like they've got "superior tastes." It's a fucking stupid attitude too because much of the Super Best Friends, one of my favorite Lets Play groups, is made up of people who enjoy Jojo, Undertale, Steven Universe, and more, and don't act all snobby about it. I'm a fan of UT and SU myself and I've recently been enjoying my time watching One Punch Man on Toonami, and I'm looking forward to the premiere of Jojo on the same block.

[Okay granted the SBF have still got one issue where they've been known to act like assholes towards the Blazblue fandom because of their self admitted bias towards Guilty Gear, a franchise by the same developers (the worst example of this being when they pulled a really shitty timed troll video claiming they were gonna play Blazblue but they really didn't), but at the very least they're willing to admit "okay yes we know we've been real dicks to Blazblue fans, we'll try and let up on it"]

Well, this is just great. I have a physics midterm coming up next friday and I still don't know jackshit on even the most basic physics problems. Fuck.

Oh, and top this off, now I can't even play Pokemon GO at all since my phone is rooted. God damn it, Niantic.

Seriously though, the "vocal minority" of the Undertale fandom jerks off on how their game is a "masterful work of art that promotes peace and love unlike other games which are just mindless violent trash that promote hate" while sending death threats to anyone that disagress even slightly. Personally, Undertale dosent interest me since it's two things I'm not a fan of (Jrpg's and game that try to be artsy) and it's fanbase pretty much killed any interest I had in it, but you're allowed to like it. Just don't pretend your fandom's any better, because well… every fandom has elitists in some way or another and Undertale's just worse since it promotes tolerance.

I did not say that Undertale's fandom was superior to the Jojo fandom. I said how sick I was of the Jojo elitists talking down on the Undertale fandom while praising themselves, as if they thought they had no flaws. I am well aware of how obnoxious the Undertale fanbase can be, and I would be equally angry towards Undertale elitists if they compared themselves to other fandoms, but right now there were usually Jojo fans who really hammered it in. Since this is a vent thread, naturally, I had to let out my pent-up feelings without taking into consideration that I was unintentionally showing shades of elitism myself.

^On a different note, as someone in the fandom you and fortune were talking about, if you see someone spouting their bullshit like that (especially on this site) I'd appreciate if you would message me some proof, I see people bringing this up all the time, but very rarely do I see it happening myself.
I'm being genuine here, you've made me curious.

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I fucking hate the "online only" motive some companies go with today with their video games. What happens in 20 years? Your game is going to be fucking dead and nobody will remember it, all because you chose online only and didn't even think about single player or private servers. I'm not saying online only is terrible, but there should be a plan to keep the game up in someway when the serves go offline, and they will go offline eventually. Online only isn't the future, more people should be against the idea of games eventually dying.

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While this thread is currently on the topic of it, all popular fandoms are pretty much garbage mostly because there are those certain people who tend to ruin the image for the whole pack and can easily change the view of even the thing they're fans of for some people. A lot of smaller communities tend to shine on this part on this since most of people in those are mostly "normal" but that's just how I view it.

I'm so frustrated with myself. I feel even more glued to the internet than ususal. There are at least two other things I want to do (practicing drawing and practicing writing stories), but because part of me is mad that my level of skill isn't good enough, and feels like I'll never get to the level I want, so I get super deterred and put it off.

The thing is, I'm extremely unhappy and dissatisfied with life, and am starting to seriously worry that there's nothing after death, and getting good at writing and drawing are the only goals I have. They're the only things I want to get under my belt other than fucking buying clothes I acutally like or watching more anime or eating junk or other equally shallow things. My town is boring as hell and I have no money to buy shit, and my mom has no money to have me drive off to a better town to do things or buy shit. I have no other major interests. I have no other major interests to base a future career on. I can barely handle strangers so I don't feel myself being able to keep even the shittiest of jobs anyway, because they all involve working with people. So I feel like if I don't nourish these two interests, I'll grow up miserable in every way, and then die. But practicing is just so frustrating because I'm not at the skill level to create exactly what I want… Honestly, a big fear of mine is that nothing will make me THAT happy. I'm caught in a cycle of being just "okay", and being crushed by a sense of impending doom.

It's not a vent, but hey, do you want someone to talk to? I've gone through that type of stuff myself.

I feel like my stress levels are getting a bit worse, I've had to start taking my anti-anxiety medication more often just to feel more mellowed out. Some reasons for my stress are things well beyond my control too, but yet I still keep worrying about said things.

Trying to find a laptop online that'll run Mankind Divided is hard. :(

I fucking hate most trans jokes. Well kind of. I think no humor should be out of bounds and I make self-deprecating jokes all the time, but I also think humor is contextual. Like a lot of what determines if something is funny or not actually involves the ethos of who is delivering the joke whether you know it or not.

With the case of trans jokes, sure they can be funny but most of the time the people who make the jokes are pieces of shit honestly. This stuff dates back to small references in films like with Naked Gun or Crocodile Dundee where it's like "it's a man get it funny xDDDDDDDDDDD" and now with the internet it's evolved.

Now it's "I'M AN ATTACK HELICOPTER/TOASTER/INANIMATE OBJECT xDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD" and "2 garlic breads XXXXXXXXXxxDdddDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDXXXXXDDDDDDd"

I honestly think I might have found the helicopter and garlic bread jokes funny if they weren't only used by people with an agenda. 99/100 times these jokes are used it's by commenters trying to use it as an actual end all argument. I honestly laughed at the original 2 gender jokes (the garlic bread one) because it was kinda unique and funny you know humor is funny and all. But yet again it got picked up by hordes of unoriginal idiots on the internet who think memes count as an argument similar to people who say "tips fedora" to stifle discussion.

There's also the fact that they're just unoriginal. I don't think this is actually much of a factor though I think I'm just more inclined to see it as annoying repetition because I' m already upset with it. Because I'm a fan of most memes and all memes are just annoying repetition this is no more or less.

But yeah I despise these jokes to no end because of the agenda filled turd sacks that flock to them.

I'm getting tired of people using stupidly low quality bait to try and purposely create "discourse" within fandoms. Also I know some people are sick of hearing this counter argument but frankly yes you can't judge an entire fandom by the minority of bad apples within it. Yes I know full fucking well some idiots within the Steven Universe fandom said or did some stupid shit, but how about you instead call out the idiots for their bad behavior rather than acting like the WHOLE SU fandom needs to "take responsibility" for the actions of a small couple of fuckwits?

I dislike Sargon of Akkad and his fanbase. He calls himself left-wing (since he claims that he's "not right-wing"), but all of his vocal followers happen to be alt-righters and-or people who believe Gay Islamic Cultural Marxism is going to destroy Western civilization. They all have the weird hatred towards "The Left" (as if "The Left" is an united force or ideology), when they're just thinking about liberals or SJWs and not the radical or anti-identity politics left. I wouldn't consider him left-wing if he has a large right-wing fanbase.

@Big Brother

One thing I will say in response is sadly I've noticed a decent number of these alt-right types flocking to any YouTuber that specializes in anti-SJW videos, even if the video creator in question has a centrist political viewpoint and/or is actually rather liberal in a decent number of regards (Shoe0nHead is supportive of transgender people who don't fall into the "made up Tumblr genders" category, with one of her long time friends even being a transman, Armored Skeptic's tackled the infamous right wing Infowars and how they tend to fail at doing proper research, and Chris Ray Gun has said he actually does consider himself a left leaning person who simply hates the more radical side of left wing politics).

I'm in a very bad mood, and been in a very bad mood yesterday. Yesterday, not only I miscounted the time my Film Appreciation class started and missed 20 minutes I forgot my pens and had a very blunt pencil to write on. I blame my essay, I had submitted exactly one minute before midnight the day before(when it was due), I couldn't sleep then. So, I didn't get to sleep til around 3:45-4:00. Thus that day started, it wasn't very much help that I told my dad on what happen. He wasn't much help on it, and wasn't much better either later that day.

I have very how you say…bad allergies, so I decided that I'd clean up my room for the heck of it. Done, but my allergies worsen and not only that I felt more sick than ever. Couldn't sleep due to that, woke up and was cramping all over. Guess what, the day came. Great..took some medicine(fat chance that did) and went to school with a very painful cramp(luckily it was 2 classes, but there was air condition, so it worsened it by much). At least I'm home and have a lifesaver dad got me food, but it is a very painful two days.

Another complaint is why probably on the whole Google fiasco thing, that coment on the page of the thing that's happening. Why should I have thick skin? Why should I let be someone an asshole online? What's the point, if I get offended, I should have the right to be offended.

I dunno, I'm in the "okay" phase. The existential crisis isn't hitting me TOO hard, I mean, I'm currently more worried about my quality of life then death, really. My teachers have picked on my difficulties in school, and are much more helpful then last year's batch, and I actually drew something yesterday. Though at the same time, I kind of feel like there's nothing stopping me from regressing.

Edit:Ah, I forgot I didn't mention problems with school in my original post. Point still stands I guess.

The loudest people always carry the most weight.

I still don't have a job, not for the lack of trying, I've sent my resume to several places and I've been rejected on all of them.
Thursday I'll go to my local games store and see if they're hiring for the end of the year. Gotta say, I'm tired of leeching off my parents and I want to get a job so I can help with the finances here.
Wish me luck on Thursday, hopefully I'll start to get paid by my own sweat.

Wanna know a really nice coincidence? My very vent is basically being addressed during this season of South Park. All because one cyberbully is trolling various women in South Park, the girls of South Park Elementary are putting the blame on ALL the boys in the school and effectively punishing them by breaking up with any boy they were dating. Even Butters comments how nowadays people will blame an entire group for the actions of a single person.

Anyway, to keep things a bit more on topic:

Overly specific vent, but it really bugs me how all my N64 controllers are really getting worn down and I don't know of any good ways to properly fix them myself. At least I can still buy new Gamecube controllers thanks to Smash 4 existing, but new N64 controllers go for a pretty penny online.

A more serious post:

I feel like I'm suffering from a lot of mood swings as of late, where one moment I'm actually pretty calm and collected, the next I suddenly feel like a complete wreck worrying about things that don't even effect me personally but yet I still worry about it anyway. What triggers these negative feelings (and I'm using that word in proper context here) always seems to be my own mind suddenly wondering onto unpleasant thoughts by simply glancing at something that reminds me of something that makes me feel uneasy, even if only for a short period of time. I start to feel cold, my abdomen starts hurting, I sometimes get a sinking feeling in my chest, and I just start to go "I just want comfort, please."

To put things a little more bluntly, sometimes I WISH I could stop giving a shit completely and just be absolutely apathetic, but I know if I was then I wouldn't have anything in the way of positive feelings either. But why do negative feelings seem to keep affecting me more lately, even from things that are small and don't effect me personally?

Lately I've basically been surrounded by sadness and it's kind of draining me. Like in college it feels like everyone fuckin has depression or at least I notice it more. Hell I sometimes start forgetting how it is to interact with mentally healthy people. It might just be I'm noticing the depressed people more. Is this what adulthood is like does it ever get better? I'm not even sad hell these people only drag me down a little I'm very very stable I feel blessed but I wish I could share that with others and it sucks that I can't do shit about it.

It could also be that everyone around me was always depressed (probably the case) and now I just spend a lot of time with them so I actually see it instead of hearing them say it probably in an ironic way so I almost think they're just kidding. It's not just irl either a lot of people in my online circle just seem down all the time and I have to continuously bring them up. I like doing it to an extent and I'll never stop giving the shoulder but I only have so many shoulders to give you know.

I just wish they could all get actual doctors that's the best thing. I realize now more than ever before that it really is a disease not just "sadness". It's a deficiency of a very serious nature.

With Paper Mario: Color Splash reviews turning out to be majority positive how much you wanna bet the people who never gave the game a chance are going to accuse reviewers of being "paid off" because heaven forbid they actually like the game and go against "da hivemind"!

In particular reviews stating the writing is actually on par with TTYD and Super Paper Mario, plus things like the worlds you explore and boss battles are a major improvement over Sticker Star. I mean shit just the writing alone being called "superb" is enough to make me wanna turn into a smug asshole and say "all you people who were bitching that the writing would be mediocre SIMPLY because of a lack of character design variety have pretty much lost that argument."

At this point I've pretty much had it with a class I'm taking and just don't know how to deal with it anymore. The class is heavily based on social issues and the teacher has his set of beliefs on these issues. When you answer "incorrectly" he gets upset. Basically he'll ask what you think about X issue and if the answer isn't what he wants he gets riled up and cuts off the student to point out why he thinks they're wrong without allowing for rebuttal.

Ultimately most of his opinions are popular opinions so it doesn't happen too often. Just answer what you think he wants and it's another boring class. I didn't care until I received the most intense chewing out over the course of this class for an "incorrect" answer after being asked to give an opinion. Now, I've gone from mildly bothered to livid. Why even bother asking for opinions or having "discussions" if you can't be bothered to contain your anger for a dissenting opinion? It's not like these are super sensitive social issues either. As an example: "Should you market differently to different races?" Um… I guess no? "WHY NOT?! LET ME SHOUT AND EXPLAIN WHY YOU'RE WRONG ABOUT THIS COMPLETELY SUBJECTIVE QUESTION" (the question I was given was about work parties)

I need this class to graduate so I can't drop and now I'm stuck.

Guys, saying "all men suck" isn't sexist, because obviously when someone says that, they don't really mean it. http://i.imgur.com/jTg6ism.png

rage is at max. Since when did 4chan turn into tumblr?

A minor one but there must be a Kickstarter that buys the rights for pulp stories and magazines and releases them in a collection.
I can see the title of it; "Fantastic Collection: 10 terrifying volumes of extraordinary stories".
One of the stretch goals should be that the books will be printed in pulp paper for giving the feel of the old magazines and each volume having all kinds of goodies like cover gallery, writer bios and posters.
Been reading way too much Lovecraft lately and I want to find those old stories to read because they're quite important pieces of literature.

Have you tried taking a bunch of other students with you and going to a dean or headmaster to formally complain about this issue?

You all should be glad if you don't go to middle school any more. There are certain groups and of memeing fucks in my classes who seem to make it their life mission to say the latest meme phrases every. Single. Fucking. Day.

"OH YEAH, MR KRABS!!!"
Every day.

"Did you just assume my gender? TRIGGERED!!!"
Every day.

"I sexually identify as an X"
Every day.

Various Shrek memes?
Everyday.

Harambe?
Don't get me fucking started.

I almost hope a new vine meme comes out so they can at least shout out some brain dead shit that's new.

What is worse than people that claim that they have splendid sense of humour? The answer is people who claim that they have poor or no sense of humour at all! To make such a claim is either trolling, an attempt at humour (ha ha) or simply a pathetic lie. Why the hell would people make such a claim? I can only think that it's one way of trying to be special or making an excuse not to try to understand other people's humour, and, by extension, other people themselves.
I can understand people who refuse to laugh at offensive jokes, but social interaction such as joking is only one part of humour. It's also about observing, processing, documenting and expressing. Humour is often about seeing something old from a new angle. It can be a powerful tool for innovation and social change. Isn't that one reason why dictatorships and theocracies of all sizes are afraid of humour?
So, if you're ever dealing with someone who claims that they have no sense of humour, you're dealing with a nicolaite gimp nazi zombie, and you need to point that shit out.
People need to stop wearing mental defects, real or not, as some kind of perverse badges of honor.

Bleh, I hate the comment section to sad things.

This: http://9gag.com/gag/aGDzLZz

Brings me sadness, but the comment section just makes me mad, like fully mad! Like do some of these idiots understand the meaning of this picture? It's not hard, and I wish the people who were "yeah, but it's ok shielding my child from someone different." don't comment at all. Hate these comments, and they're a little too much on this stupid comment on a Pokemon on judging someone on their appearance.

Every damn time I say I need to just "not give a shit" about something that bothers me (note though in this case I'm mainly referring to things that frankly don't even affect me directly) I can't resist still looking into what others are saying and then giving my own two cents on the matter. However I always worry that the moment I say I disagree with something that like 90% of the people in the comments section are agreeing on I'm going to have my opinion completely disregarded and I'll be told to "shut the fuck up, no one gives a shit what you think [unless you agree with us]."

Like I'll just go ahead and mention a recent example: some YouTuber that's a self admitted "edgy cynic" posted a video where he basically just rants about how he thinks Nintendo is shit and that anyone who disagrees with him is just a stupid fanboy, and I want to put a rebuttal comment but I just know this guy's small fanbase would pounce on me.

I'm in the same boat as you on that "not give a shit but can't ignore and vent" comment.

One thing that really bugged me about said YouTuber (I'm not naming him because I don't want him to get the attention I'm sure he wants) is he used that stupid "Nintendo should just go third party and make the games everyone else is making!" argument. One reason why I hate this argument: Nintendo has said they'd rather close down before they ever go third party, and apparently a bunch of people don't realize that if Nintendo goes down then their iconic franchises are going with them. Stop fucking asking for Mario on Xbox or Pokemon on PlayStation, it's not going to happen. If you want Nintendo exclusives so badly, buy a Nintendo console. I still have to buy a PS3 and PS4 just to play Ratchet and Clank and you don't see me or any other people begging Sony to put the franchise on other platforms.

Gonna get political here for a bit so here goes nothing.

Am I the only one here who pretty much turns their brain off when a supporter for any of the main 2 presidential candidates just begin a justification for supporting their candidate with "But x did y!" or something along the lines of that? This has been driving me up the wall mainly because it makes me wonder "Is this what political discourse has turned into? Just focusing on scandals of the past of 2 people?" while also just making me hate both the main 2 choices because most of the time it's about "Oh but Hilary and Benghazi" or "But Trump and sexual assaul-" No, get that schlock out of here. Like, I want to learn about why I should support either Hilary or Trump and their cause (not saying I actually do support these candidates, oh god no), NOT Benghazi or about Bill's past escapades or the latest opinion coming out of Trump's big fat mouth.

And while I'm on the subject of people focusing on scandals, Trump's response to the whole Trump Tapes thing is just, bad. Especially the part where Trump tries to shift blame onto the Clintons for doing sketchy shit. Like this isn't about them, Trump, it's about YOU. Don't try to shift the blame to them and derail the conversation. Yeah, I know the Clintons did some pretty sketchy shit back then but that doesn't discount what was said in those tapes. Yeah you owned up to it, good for fucking you, but that ending remark was not needed. Also, the people saying that the dialogue is just "locker room talk" and that what was said shouldn't be taken seriously is just one of the biggest piles of horse shit cop-out excuses I've heard. That is pretty much just saying "IT'S JUST A PRANK BRO" in my eyes.

I have no idea if anyone sympathizes with anything I said here or if it has already been said and I'm just repeating stuff, but whatever.

This might seem like a relatively minor problem, but I can't get enough sleep anymore, no matter how hard I try, and it's become worse since I started a 8:00 class. This has resulted in me feeling groggy and tired throughout the day.

The worst part of it is that I'm choosing to do this do myself. On my days off, I usually spend a few hours past midnight watching Youtube videos, playing video games, browsing Facebook, etc. I'm able to cut down the amount of time of doing this whenever I have school the next morning, but I sometimes have to use that time to do homework or study instead. In some cases, I don't get out of work til around midnight, and I end up having the 8:00 class the next morning. My grades and my work performance haven't suffered much, but I stress more, I tend to lose focus and I get pretty bad headaches.

Before a couple of years ago, I could manage 8-10 hours of sleep and feel good the next morning. A lot better than I do now. Nowadays, whenever I do have time for a full-night sleep, I can only manage 6-7 hours, sometimes less. I go to bed at around 2 AM, and I wake up at around 7 or 8. I try to force myself back to sleep, but it just won't happen. I don't know if it's because my body has become so accustomed to this awful routine that I've created for myself, but it has made me feel like shit almost every day for about a year and a half.

I think the main problem is that I feel like I need all of this technology in order to lull myself to sleep. Not sure exactly why I need it. I do know what I have to do in order to fix this problem, but at the same time, it irritates me that I always fail to go through with it. I keep telling myself "Okay tomorrow, I'll cut back on the Youtube videos and try to get more sleep," but it just never happens. In the end, I just give up on trying anything.

I know I'm rambling way too much, and it's probably not as bad as I'm making it sound, but what do you guys think about all of this?

Will these kids(?) stop posting "If I get this many likes/subs my mom will buy me a puppy" in the YouTube comment section? We all know you copied it.

I guess I'm at the age now that this shit starts to happen but it's still shocking to me that people I went to middle school with are starting to die of overdoses or get arrested for murder.

After thinking about it a bit more I decided to add a little sort of appendix to this:

The fact that Trump had to explicitly mention the Clintons in a negative manner in his apology/statement on the manner just raises a huge red flag for me, because it tells me that he's only saying this apology just to save face and probably doesn't mean it at all in the first place, while in the process caring about himself. Then again, who doesn't make apologies in this day and age to save face while only caring about themselves?