Rants

I’ve made contact.

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Well I received a message (FINALLY) regarding why my payment for my R9 290 hasn’t cleared. Turns out they ran out and I’ve been put on back order status… lovely. They did say though that they would ship it out later this week. Hopefully. It would be my luck to make my purchase RIGHT when they ran out. At least they messaged me back about it… even though it took 3 tries. I was getting a bit rough around the edges since I’m trying to sell my parts off to someone who could put them to great use… ugh.

When they get that to me I’ll put my new CPU and GPU in, then I can rock and roll. I’ll have to see how much it’ll improve under Linux, and under windows I’ll have to see how much I can crank Tomb Raider up, and finally run Shadow Warrior at a framerate above 30. Wouldn’t that be nice!

Black Friday: The After Math

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I’m kinda bummed. I ordered some stuff either on black friday/cyber monday and most of my stuff still hasn’t arrived. Although one thing did arrive today (which I ordered two weeks ago) and it arrived with someone elses order. Yeah, I got their invoice and address. I’ve contacted the company (World Market in this case) and am waiting for a reply back. One hell of a mistake too man, someone ordered three glass pillars and the shipment is worth $119.

Then of course I ordered a R9 290 a few days ago via TigerDirect (selling my 6950 and decided to upgrade) and my payment STILL hasn’t been processed. I have lots of stuff I ordered two weeks ago and the only thing I got was that stupid package today, plus my new CPU and two hard drives. What the hell? Did NewEgg, WorldMarket, TigerDirect etc etc pull a Wal-Mart and deliberately under staff themselves? This is bullshit! This is grade A 100% bullshit. Of course I’ve received emails from places like NewEgg saying “Your order may be slightly late due to the volume of Black Friday”. No, I think companies are deliberately under staffing their employees and it’s causing trouble for the few people who are scrambling to get anything done, and the customer waiting on the other end. I didn’t have problems like this at any other time of the year, so why now? I’m not the only one complaining about slow mail. There are lots of people out there who have ordered new parts and presents and the services have been slow as hell.

I regret waiting to buy that card. I didn’t expect the latest coin craze to cause such a drought on the GPU marketplace. I never could have predicted litecoin.

Technology, making us smart and stupid at the same time.

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Make of it what you will, but I think a lot of today’s technology is mentally crippling and even causing people to mature slower and live extended childhoods. Not just with smartphones, but I think moreso with gaming… Yes, I said it. Gaming. Especially with lots of guys I’ve noticed and the whole “I have to win or I’ll RageQuit” mentality that appears with lots of “hardcore” male gamers and on rare exception female gamers.

Come to think of it, the whole “girls suck at gaming” line that guys like to throw out more than the kitchen sink is just another form of “girls have cooties” but on the adult scale.

Here’s an example from the boys club over at [H]ardForum: Link

Anita Sarkeesian’s 2nd part to her Video Game Tropes vs Women finally came out and the boys at [H]ardForum, in their usual fashion reminded me why I only read their reviews and front page news.

I didn’t agree with the entire video, but she did have a valid point. Rescuing female characters is overdone in gaming. However most of the titles she mentioned (with some exceptions) were console games. [H]ardForum mostly has PC gamers, why are they pissed again? Oh I forgot… They’re based in Texas, and feminism is like the small pox of cooties to these guys.

Oddly enough in the same time frame, this study pops up about women heading households in the US moreso than men. It was discussed on MSNBC’s Morning Joe Bloe. Keep in mind this study wasn’t conducted on MSNBC, it was a study reported by the NY times, and Joe Scarbrough (who I don’t even care for btw) flat out called today’s modern men a bunch of weak gamers in their 20’s. It amazes me how quite a few guys in that thread (who are even in their 30’s 40’s) come in totally butthurt about the statistics. Even coming in and outright saying they would rather play games than go out with anyone. That would explain this statistical data.

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Now, why does it skyrocket around December constantly? I can’t imagine them having girlfriends that give them this stuff for Christmas.

The ancient mp3 player of Wal-Mart.

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Wal-Mart, always offering low prices.

We have great news for fans of obsolete technology! If you’ve been waiting to get hold of an MP3 player that’s old enough to receive its First Communion, you don’t have to pay Walmart’s high price of $109.72 for one. No, the glorious MobiBlu is now on clearance for only $60.

They’re sure proud of their junk. 😆

Driving and texting surpasses drinking and driving deaths.

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I’m sorry, but what the hell is with people who value texting over their own well being? Seriously, look at this study.

Texting while driving has now replaced drunk driving as the number one cause of teenage deaths on the road in the U.S., new research has found.

The study, performed by the Cohen Children’s Medical Center in New York, found that more than 300,000 teens are injured and more than 3,000 die each year as a result of sending SMS messages while behind the wheel.

My state has outlawed using a phone while driving, but it’s rarely ever enforced (around town anyway). I just don’t see what the big deal is about needing to text at all times. Day in and day out I see people texting while driving, walking, grocery shopping while pushing a cart (if I could count the amount of times I’ve been bruised because of these fuckwads), pushing baby strollers, hell even riding on a bike. Today I saw a little 5 year old girl in the neighborhood. She was trying to ride her bike and talk on a smartphone at the same time. I see teenagers around town doing the same thing. :roll:

I have to ask, are these called smartphones because they’re more intelligent than the majority using them? They might want to relabel.

The customer is always right, especially when they have a gun.

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Woman arrested following gun altercation at Wal-Mart

On March 1, Mary Frances Alday, 61, of Crawfordville was arrested for four counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and one count of battery following an altercation at Wal-Mart that included four store employees.

Alday became verbally abusive toward a 48-year-old female employee when the employee explained that she could not use an Internet coupon. Alday struck the assistant manager with a shopping cart and was escorted out of the store. Alday went to her vehicle and retrieved a firearm in a holster. She removed the firearm from the holster and began waving it at the victim and three other store employees who had joined the investigation.

Oh, and to make matters worse, the coupon was only ONE dollar off of whatever the purchase was. Still, she couldn’t have been too insane to get legal ownership of a gun amirite?

Rapping and Church… do they go hand in hand?

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Add an e to the front of rap and that’s what you’ll be getting an earfull of if you listen to these videos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-p98umv1gg&feature=player_embedded

Jesus loves you… unless you’re gay. Then you’ll burn in heaven for it. Of course that video doesn’t even come close to beating the pants off of this one:

First of all, I don’t even like rap. Maybe a couple songs but as a genre it’s not my style. To be fair though, if you’re going to try and do something like this you should try and put a little more soul into it.

Look! A rap about church that DOESN’T make you sound like an asshole!!!!!! :angel:

But enough of that. As I said I don’t really care for rap. I’m more into metal. So here’s some Christian Metal:

People have no sense of humor.

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So I was reading up about some controversy regarding Seth MacFarlene at The Oscars. Apparently some of the bits he did pissed off a lot of women that don’t seem to get his comedy style. Which is really disappointing and in some ways embarrassing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap3_1bM40L4

I found it to be hilarious. Anyone with half a brain could tell he was making fun of the Hollywood stereotype regarding boobs in movies. Just about everything he does involves making fun of stereotypes. If you’re going to judge him by his art without knowing full well that he picks on… EVERYONE, you are pretty fucking stupid.

You could tell he was ready for this too. Having Shatner informing him from the future that he would be the worst host ever because of what he was going to do makes it clear that he knew this would cause some controversy, which he’s really good at sparking.

Jesus Justin Bieber Christ, anyone who takes this seriously really has no funnybone.

Another day of wage slavery.

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With people getting their tax returns, everything at work has been getting turned upside down by customers throwing shit all over the place and claiming that they’re just supplying us with job security. Yes, they are giving us job security. The problem is there can be too much job security. If we don”t get our work ALL finished we get talked to about it despite how much we work our asses off. I normally work in men’s underwear and socks/men’s athletic/young men’s clothes/men’s big and tall and men’s work clothes which is the biggest area out of all of them since it includes dress shirts, slacks, jeans from all kinds of brands among other things. That is considered one entire department. Back in the old days before I worked there you would normally find two people working together (one for each side). But with cut backs made by upper management, that is left to one person… if they even schedule someone to work that night since upper management has been cutting hours yet again.

There should be five of us working the entire up stairs at all times. But lately people have been getting sick from colds and that really bad flu going around. And we can’t hire anyone because our boss would be forced to shorten everyone else’s hours even moreso (they never add, they only subtract). So we’re left currently with 3 to 4 people (if we’re lucky) at a time. Factor in one of them constantly being called down to cashier and another person being on break/lunch and you have 1 to 2 or even 3 if you’re lucky.

As someone who has been pulled to just about every part of the store I can say that the entire store (all but the meat and seafood dept) are run this way. If you run out of people that can work with you they call other people from other departments to try and work for them, even if they lack the proper experience. I remember being pulled into bakery when I had no experience. They gave me one day of training and I still didn’t learn everything. But I was still expected to run the entire bakery by myself and be completely finished by 9pm. I think out of all the times they made me work over there I only got out on time twice. Hell even with cutting corners I still couldn’t get out on time.

The sad part is that I can bitch about this for hours on end, and it won’t change anything. I can tell my boss that we didn’t accomplish much due to “this this this this and this” and they’ll swear up and down that “Ohhh if you do this this this this and this THIS way, you’ll get it done” when in reality they don’t even know what the fuck they’re talking about.

I was hoping with this new job that things would get better. I may have to revisit my idea to jump ship and find employment elsewhere.

ZOMG! Wombs full of dead fetuses!

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Ok, I HAVE to write about this. It’s just too fucking stupid to pass up.

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Did you know that if you use birth control your womb will be full of dead fetuses? Srsly!

Swanson: I’m beginning to get some evidence from certain doctors and certain scientists that have done research on women’s wombs after they’ve gone through the surgery, and they’ve compared the wombs of women who were on the birth control pill to those who were not on the birth control pill. And they have found that with women who are on the birth control pill, there are these little tiny fetuses, these little babies, that are embedded into the womb. They’re just like dead babies. They’re on the inside of the womb. And these wombs of women who have been on the birth control pill effectively have become graveyards for lots and lots of little babies.

MURDER!!!!!! That’s right up there with all of the eggs they have that go to waste each time they have a period… Bad women, very very bad! Those could be people too!