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Paperboy
Posts: 25
Joined: 26 Mar 2009

GFWL.

Infamous Scribbler
Posts: 610
Joined: 26 Apr 2009

crazyhaircut94:

tenlong:
Windows vista It sucks hairy gorilla titties!

That made me laugh a bit.

It is true!

Muckraker
Posts: 330
Joined: 9 Aug 2008

EMFCRACKSHOT:

MurderousToaster:

It is a fault, they didn't intend for it to be there, and as such it was not DESIGNED.

In this we shall have to agree to disagree

Err, no, we shan't. It's a simple fact that whilst the RROD is supposed to be there to TELL YOU your console's broken, the thing itself was not placed there on purpose, and, once again not designed

Gone Gonzo
Posts: 1516
Joined: 30 Mar 2009

Call of Duty4, Dual M203 and Martyrdom layout. I like to time myself before getting booted from servers.

Nobel Laureate
Posts: 15997
Joined: 26 Dec 2008

WaffleTron:
Women, am I right men? XP

Nah, ladies are great.

Dudes on the other hand...

Uh, but no.
Console controllers.
It's like they designed them to be the modern answer to the Iron Maiden.

Gone Gonzo
Posts: 1970
Joined: 1 Jun 2009

smart cars.

pretty sure they were invented purely to infuriate me.

Gone Gonzo
Posts: 1970
Joined: 1 Jun 2009

MaxTheReaper:
*snip*

hate to be off topic, but me likes your avatar. :D

leloush is probably the coolest psychopath ever.

Nobel Laureate
Posts: 15997
Joined: 26 Dec 2008

la-le-lu-li-lo:

MaxTheReaper:
*snip*

hate to be off topic, but me likes your avatar. :D

leloush is probably the coolest psychopath ever.

I never really thought of him as a psychopath.
Simply very motivated.
And awesome.

Gone Gonzo
Posts: 2034
Joined: 3 Sep 2008

The seats on a C-130. I cannot imagine how they could be less comfortable without being explicitly designed to inflict suffering. Along those lines I have to mention the stools used in my most recent physics lab. They never bothered me until the classroom flooded and I had to spend 16 hours a week last semester sitting on the damned things. Though far less annoying than the seating in a C-130, these are notable simply because I was so often subjected to them in recent memory.

Press Junketeer
Posts: 437
Joined: 8 Sep 2008

The board game "Frustration" anyone who doesn't know what i'm talking about has never known pain or suffering.
The scroll thing they put on laptop touch pads just to annoy you, so you end up scrolling to the bottom of the page when you just wanted to move the mouse to the left.
On the subject of laptops, laptop keyboards, you need to mash them before they register that you've touched them so you write something and then find you've got about fifteen typos to correct.

Copy Clerk
Posts: 72
Joined: 1 Jul 2009

Basically everything featured in these 12 short video clips.

http://www.cinemassacre.com/new/?page_id=197

Gone Gonzo
Posts: 1970
Joined: 1 Jun 2009

MaxTheReaper:

la-le-lu-li-lo:

MaxTheReaper:
*snip*

hate to be off topic, but me likes your avatar. :D

leloush is probably the coolest psychopath ever.

I never really thought of him as a psychopath.
Simply very motivated.
And awesome.

well very motivated indeed.
and i think he is a psychopath in the technical sense of the word.
maybe it's just me. /:

don't think it's a bad thing though. :D

Gone Gonzo
Posts: 1766
Joined: 2 Jul 2008

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By rights, this ought to be the ultimate corkscrew.

1. Position. Grip end of wine bottle with handles. Push down. Pull up to extract cork.
2. Push down again. Grip cork with handles. Pull up to extract screw from cork... (repeat ad infinitum)

Step 1. works a treat. Effortlessly awesome.
Step 2. fails tragically, as the grips don't fully close on the cork. When you pull up the cork just slips through.

Now you can either bust your fingers manually unwinding the cork from the screw, or buy another corkscrew for the next bottle...

Gone Gonzo
Posts: 2575
Joined: 19 Mar 2008

WaffleTron:
Women, am I right men? XP

Yes. Yes you are.

Also, adverts with songs.

Gone Gonzo
Posts: 2356
Joined: 5 May 2008

Quick Time Events - What dipshit feels the need to add a Daley Thompsons Decathlon mini-game in the middle of a bloody action sequence. Pro-tip If you stop the action its no longer action. See Call of Duties bomb defusal on the NDS or Bioshocks pipes minigame for appropriate use of mini-games.

DRM - Specifically dialing out to the net to verify a BOUGHT product. If I pay money for it it should be complete & ready to go. Incidentally needing a disk in to play ? Your isntall because you cant code or arent smart enough to include three levels of texture installs takes up 15 Gb. 15 Gb of my HDD space & I still need the frelling disk in NOOOOOOoooooooooooo. DRM makes pirates of legitimate users.

Windows Operating systems - Trying to be too much like a Mac & automating processes, my particular favourite right now is my computers tendancy to activate System Restore Backups on my external USB's despite me telling it not to. Your computer should never do anyhing by itself EVER unless it has your explicit permission.

Package malware - 'Do you want to install Norton Safeguard with your copy of a totally unrealted product'. WTF do you think you shower of &$^%*$wipes.

Gaming mice - There are about 4 gaming mice in the world that have the right number of buttons & the right shape & placement. Its not rocket science kids.

People - People are arseholes me included, we need a good plague. Swine flu, swine flu, its our virus if it cant do it, well bollocks.

/rant (That felt good :D, there might be more tommorow :D)

Beat Writer
Posts: 163
Joined: 30 Mar 2009

Ironing - Who was it that decided having unreasonably flat clothes is a reflection of the person wearing them?
Ninja Gaiden - Do I need to explain?

Press Junketeer
Posts: 483
Joined: 22 May 2009

My sisters' Disney-fed personalities.
Thick-as-a-brick-wall cardboard on products that really don't need them.
Knife-edge-thin cardboard on products that really do.
Temperature.
My goddamn keyboard.

Nobel Laureate
Posts: 15997
Joined: 26 Dec 2008

la-le-lu-li-lo:

well very motivated indeed.
and i think he is a psychopath in the technical sense of the word.
maybe it's just me. /:

don't think it's a bad thing though. :D

I dunno, psychopaths tend to be pretty awful at the whole "planning" thing.
They usually just go for "let us see who I can stab today."

Gone Gonzo
Posts: 2226
Joined: 16 Aug 2008

celotape and cling film. celotape isn't too bad but cling film i hate with a passion.

Gone Gonzo
Posts: 1970
Joined: 1 Jun 2009

MaxTheReaper:

la-le-lu-li-lo:

well very motivated indeed.
and i think he is a psychopath in the technical sense of the word.
maybe it's just me. /:

don't think it's a bad thing though. :D

I dunno, psychopaths tend to be pretty awful at the whole "planning" thing.
They usually just go for "let us see who I can stab today."

maybe he's just a very very clever psychopath, ehhh?

Gone Gonzo
Posts: 1970
Joined: 1 Jun 2009

PureChaos:
celotape and cling film. celotape isn't too bad but cling film i hate with a passion.

and it's WAY harder to use & rip off a piece than in the commercials.
i always make a mess. :[

Infamous Scribbler
Posts: 673
Joined: 9 Jun 2009

Rush Limbaugh.
Seriously though, some video games. At some point the designers must have realized that a certain part of a game was very frustrating, and considered that to be, well maybe not desirable but certainly not a problem either.

Gone Gonzo
Posts: 2461
Joined: 9 Mar 2009

Veteran mode on CoD. So many grenades...

Press Junketeer
Posts: 391
Joined: 1 Jul 2009

windows computers

tv- such good shows to put on but they just put on shit mostly

THE FRENCH- sorry but I just had to include that

complete dickheads- not normal slightly annoying people but beople that I generally feel life is wasted on, you spend time with them and even then it destroys your soul even normal dickheads can turn out to be ok, misunderstood, sorry i'm rambling now but i hate them so much

the film 7 pounds- me and my family went to the cinema, the film we wanted wasn't on so we saw a Will Smith flim- "7 pounds", I expect Will Smith films to kick ass NOT suck ass, if I saw it alone, with a friend/ girlfriend I would have walked and got the train back if necessary, Will Smith is suited to badass action films, thats what I expected and I was left dissapointed (Also none of us had seen the trailer- so don't point it out)

Gone Gonzo
Posts: 2786
Joined: 20 Feb 2009

Phones.

They always ring at the worst possible moment.

Copy Clerk
Posts: 58
Joined: 7 Mar 2009

I hope this was posted.

Windows Vista.

Gone Gonzo
Posts: 2226
Joined: 16 Aug 2008

la-le-lu-li-lo:

PureChaos:
celotape and cling film. celotape isn't too bad but cling film i hate with a passion.

and it's WAY harder to use & rip off a piece than in the commercials.
i always make a mess. :[

exactly. the worse part is, when finally being able to rip it, it sticks to itself. it's Satan reincarnated into a plastic sheet.

Press Junketeer
Posts: 391
Joined: 1 Jul 2009

la-le-lu-li-lo:
smart cars.

pretty sure they were invented purely to infuriate me.

They were invented to be the most ugly thing known to humankind as well as being invented to make people view the person in them as a stupid twat
- hmm it served an effective dual purpose then :)

Gone Gonzo
Posts: 2226
Joined: 6 Apr 2009

The Irish train system.

Gone Gonzo
Posts: 1445
Joined: 17 Apr 2009

Windows Vista

Governmental bureocracy

Grinding in MMORPGs and JRPGs.

Non-instant travelling systems in RPG, adventure and puzzle games with huge maps.

Press Junketeer
Posts: 500
Joined: 21 Jun 2009

The greatest oxymoron known to man: Microsoft Works

Need I say more?

Infamous Scribbler
Posts: 688
Joined: 3 Jan 2009

Most (so-called) Customer Service help lines.

Nobel Laureate
Posts: 15997
Joined: 26 Dec 2008

Chilliman:
I hope this was posted.

Windows Vista.

Many, many, many times over.

la-le-lu-li-lo:

maybe he's just a very very clever psychopath, ehhh?

He certainly has his moments of less-than-clear-headedness, but I'd say he definitely doesn't fit the criteria.
God knows he's got to be a bit traumatized, though.

Gone Gonzo
Posts: 2928
Joined: 21 May 2008

Sevre90210:
Hmm. Macs. Am I right?

No

Pulitzer Laureate
Posts: 725
Joined: 16 May 2009

The ball in a cup game. I'm always screaming at the thing.

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