The Official Rant Thread

bibbit · Post by **bibbit** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 8:05 am

No snow days because I'm homeschooled. It hasn't snowed yet, but yeah.

Hawaiian Modder · Post by **Hawaiian Modder** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 8:28 am

It started snowing about an hour ago, Huge chunks and now its really fast and small flakes, but over the hour I've shoveled twice, and by the time I'm done I have to re-shovel because it looks like I did nothing. So now my parents are going to get rock salt so I don't have to shovel every 5 mins. We got like 2 1/2 inches already.

-Legendary- · Post by **-Legendary-** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 2:00 pm

I don't have the new maps yet, and I am good with Forge, all the ideas are getting taken ;_; ;p sigh.. I just get that, "Energy being sucked from my stomach" feeling.. (Any of you guyz had that >_> ;p)

DoorM4n · Post by **DoorM4n** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 2:14 pm

All ideas can NEVER be taken man. Its all about creativity...

-Legendary- · Post by **-Legendary-** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 2:16 pm

Yea :p It's also just that others are playing them, and I haven't got to yet >_<

Oh wellz

Elite_Green_Devils · Post by **Elite_Green_Devils** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 2:47 pm

my rant is i guess, how people won't stop hating emos. whats so wrong with us huh?

-Legendary- · Post by **-Legendary-** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 2:51 pm

Theres already some treads on this somwhere >__>

Elite_Green_Devils · Post by **Elite_Green_Devils** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 2:53 pm

im not searching 289 pages for an emo post...

GametagAeonFlux · Post by **GametagAeonFlux** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 2:58 pm

Elite_Green_Devils wrote:my rant is i guess, how people won't stop hating emos. whats so wrong with us huh?

It's not that people hate emos, it's that 99% of them are attention whores who don't shut up about it. Any attention whore is annoying, not just an emo one.

in b4 stupid ass discussion about this shit again

Elite_Green_Devils · Post by **Elite_Green_Devils** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 3:01 pm

i've never noticed that before... oh well. back to adding crap to a map and calling it a mod...

0m3g4Muff1n987 · Post by **0m3g4Muff1n987** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 3:24 pm

God, I hate download.com so much. I started downloading the CoD4 demo about an hour ago (yes, and I have integrated graphics

) and last time I checked (bout 15 mins ago) it was at 3%. I check now and it's still 3% and is at 0.0kbps.

****

EDIT: It resumed installin for some reason. I still hate download.com though (18.1 kbps -_-). A very big middle finger to cnet.

shadowkhas · Post by **shadowkhas** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 3:58 pm

Halo 2 Matchmaking says I'm missing a map. I have every map. :/

JK-47 · Post by **JK-47** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 4:06 pm

I went into Gamestop to trade in the Orange Box for Halo 2... I bought the Orange Box for 60 dollars, and I would have only gotten 24 dollars out of it.

Wtf. I hate gamestop... I couldn't trade it in

ScottyGEE · Post by **ScottyGEE** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 4:58 pm

Gamestop is the same as ebgames yes? Coz they always do that...then they sell it back to other people preowned for $5 less than original game price (or in the case of cnc3 360, $30 MORE)

Dr.Cox · Post by **Dr.Cox** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 5:28 pm

ZOMG STUPID FOX!!!

They ruined Piccolo!!! Stupid DBZ Movie! Did you see who they are getting to play Goku? Yuck.

Senor_Grunt · Post by **Senor_Grunt** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 5:31 pm

bibbit wrote:No snow days because I'm homeschooled. It hasn't snowed yet, but yeah.

I'm homeschooled too!

I thought I was the only one on HM that was homeschooled.

I live kind of close to LA so it never snows where I am. I wish it would. I live on a sloped kind of land and I love snowboarding.

0m3g4Muff1n987 · Post by **0m3g4Muff1n987** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 6:19 pm

Heh, my Life Skills teacher makes me lol. In a mad way. The other day we were in the computer lab, and I'm sitting there playing around with the system files when she tells us to save our documents in a certain folder, so I go there and she tells us to save our files as

20071208_<yourlastname>_78.doc

for the

date_lastname_periods we have her

So I save mine as 20071208_chaney!!!_!!_!_78 (cuz chaney's my last name (don't stalk me (no I'm not related to the vice pres))) just cuz I thought everyone in the class who saw the exclamation points would get a little kick out of it.

So completely unexpectedly, she actually starts going through the files and correcting file names. I thought she'd just rename the ones that, say, had some n00b's first name instead of their last name, but she comes to mine and reprimands me for putting the exclamation points. She goes into like a full two-minute speech about how if you put unnecessary characters into your filenames, it could corrupt the files, and (this is a direct quote from her) "if you go to open up the file again, it'll give you an error, and you won't be happy then!

"

...

Guess who's still back in the 90's with her superpowerful 200MHz proc, 2MB RAM, MS-DOS computadora!

I swear, everyone in the world should go to some kind of government-compulsory computer course when they start middle school so there won't be any complete dumb sh**s left when it comes to computers. Nothing makes me madder than people who think they have a good understanding of computers. I mean, god, my supposedly genius tech manager at my school locked down the computers like a jail, you can't even f***ing right click on the desktop, start bar, or anything, except when you're in a program. You can't even browse the public drives in explorer. And about a week after school starts, when I can get to a computer, I actually make a shortcut in my documents to the C:\WINDOWS folder. Why do they even try to keep us from doing this stuff? There's always, ALWAYS a way to get past security, and in this case, it was extremely easy.

That's my rant.

JK-47 · Post by **JK-47** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 6:19 pm

ScottyGEE wrote:Gamestop is the same as ebgames yes? Coz they always do that...then they sell it back to other people preowned for $5 less than original game price (or in the case of cnc3 360, $30 MORE)

Yeah, it's such a rip off :\

Kirk · Post by **Kirk** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 6:48 pm

Think my subwoofer died. Probably my fault too, as I am a noob when it comes to electronics.

The connector between the main speaker (front right) was a d-sub connector that connects to the sub. All the other speakers use the RCA cables that plug directly into the sub, so the sub acts as the hub for all the stuff. Input goes into the main front right speaker and goes through the dsub cable.

I needed a longer cable, so I used a computer vga cable (which, I assumed was the same thing as the d-sub, which I've never noticed any difference between in the past) to connect the front right speaker to the sub.

Afterwords, it hasn't worked since. I sort of realized afterwords that the original dsub (is there a difference between vga and dsub?

it lists the cable everywhere on the manual as dsub, though when you search for dsub online and stuff it's for like monitors and such. My monitor was a dsub, so, vga) cable was a bit thicker than the monitor vga cable I used, so maybe some stuff wasn't included in that vga cable, therefore it messed my sub up?

It was working fine, then I decided to move the sub somewhere else in my room, like the center. When I put it back together nothing worked. On the front right speaker was a headphone port, which worked fine. The speakers did not. I looked this up online, found one person with an exact match. He said his sub got overheated or something, which I don't see how that could be possible for mine as I hadn't really used it at all today, except once or twice, where it worked fine. Though I doubt he had any idea...

At any rate, I should be feeling worse than I really am. I didn't even like the damned subwoofer, it had too much bass (which was why I was putting it in the center of my room, as opposed to the corner it used to reside in) and it was on the lowest setting it could go. It didn't have the greatest bass either. Plus, I have another sub that we never use. The only difference is that I now cannot get 5.1 sound like I used to. I managed to salvage the left speaker, the center, and the two rears, jumbled them together and plugged them into the old sub. There is only right and left channels now, though i'm not particularly worried about it. 4.1 beats zero anyday

shadowkhas · Post by **shadowkhas** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 7:15 pm

0m3g4Muff1n987 wrote:I mean, god, my supposedly genius tech manager at my school locked down the computers like a jail, you can't even f***ing right click on the desktop, start bar, or anything, except when you're in a program. You can't even browse the public drives in explorer. And about a week after school starts, when I can get to a computer, I actually make a shortcut in my documents to the C:\WINDOWS folder. Why do they even try to keep us from doing this stuff? There's always, ALWAYS a way to get past security, and in this case, it was extremely easy.

That's my rant.

That "security" is just to stop your average stupid person who'll do inappropriate things on the computers. Frankly, from what I've seen, the people that know how to get past it won't abuse it...that was what my Computer Science teacher in middle school basically thought as well. Our craptacular Windows computers had restrictions, and she knew I was doing stuff like custom desktops for myself, but she didn't care because she knew I wouldn't do anything bad...that and I was probably her favorite student of that year.