The ranting thinking thread

[Angel]

I know. Just let him play what he wants. At least he's not bugging you to buy another $60 game. It's... free. However, he'll grow up and realize how stupid Fortnite was and feel shameful for loving it, playing it.

I encourage you to recommend some games to him to show what he's been missing. Just say something like, "ya know... there's Mortal Kombat, y'know."

You seem like a cool parent though. You seem to want your kid to experience the best of the game industry, even if he's exposed to something like Mortal Kombat. Lots of parents go nuts and take away Mortal Kombat from their kid, and shield him/her from that kind of content.

We have a general rule when it comes to media in our house: we check it out first and then make our decision. No one gets to play or watch anything without us checking it first. And then, it has to be played in a common-use area; no tvs or consoles in bedrooms. When they reach a certain age, the rules relax...but if they give me cause, the rules get reinstated.

One of my kids is special needs so we have to be exceptionally careful with what he sees/plays. He struggles distinguishing fiction from reality and there's a real risk to his safety if he tries to act out what he sees. He wouldn't know it wasn't safe and wouldn't understand why either.

 

[Carlos]

We have a general rule when it comes to media in our house: we check it out first and then make our decision. No one gets to play or watch anything without us checking it first. And then, it has to be played in a common-use area; no tvs or consoles in bedrooms. When they reach a certain age, the rules relax...but if they give me cause, the rules get reinstated.

One of my kids is special needs so we have to be exceptionally careful with what he sees/plays. He struggles distinguishing fiction from reality and there's a real risk to his safety if he tries to act out what he sees. He wouldn't know it wasn't safe and wouldn't understand why either.

Kids can surprise you with how well they can distinguish things. It's not hard to guide your kids not to take "this" (whatever it may be) seriously, and put him/her in "that" direction (again, whatever that is).

I was 7 or 8 when I learned violent stuff and wasn't going to be a murderer or whatever. I know something like Mortal Kombat isn't real. My father was always like "I don't like that." I'm always like... "Why? You can take this ****, old man." I mean, I discovered his porn, and his mature Van Damme stuff. Not a murderer or be going out and raping women.

Your parenting is what molds your kids to be as good as YOU want. If you just restrict your kids to content, he's gonna hide things from you that you don't like or want in your household. That rebel attitude.

 

[ef9dante_oSsshea]

I hate that due to my location in the countryside I cant get fibre internet, only wifi via router to a dish on the roof

And I live in ireland where it rains all the time, and the smallest bit of rain or wind lowers the speed from 240mbps to as low as 500kbps

Wish there was a way we had 5g fibre everywhere regardless of location

 

[Angel]

The government have offered food vouchers for people who are entitled to the free school meals scheme.

Mine came through today - I can only use it online.

Anyone in the uk knows that you cannot get an online shopping slot for love nor money.

The vouchers expires in a month.

The supermarkets are booked up for a month.

I am dyscalculic and even I know the maths doesn't add up...

 

[Carlos]

The government have offered food vouchers for people who are entitled to the free school meals scheme.

Mine came through today - I can only use it online.

Anyone in the uk knows that you cannot get an online shopping slot for love nor money.

The vouchers expires in a month.

The supermarkets are booked up for a month.

I am dyscalculic and even I know the maths doesn't add up...

Sounds like Food Stamps.

 

[therogis]

Got flu. With fever.

Not that I'd be excessively worried about my health. I'm having some fatigue, mild shortness of breath and headache, so it's nothing alarming and can be treated at home so far. Just that I had things to do and places to go this week, and now there isn't really any morally acceptable reason to step outside our front door.

 

[Rebel Dynasty]

I should start treating dreams about those people as premonitions. I swear, every time I have continuous dreams involving them, some well-meaning family member/friend of the family contacts me, inevitably bringing up that 1) One of those two people is in the hospital again, and 2) That they know I'm no longer talking to them.

This is probably the first time someone has left the door open to talk about my side of things though, however subtly. I guess that's progress... Not that I'll take them up on it. I'd either ruin what they believe about a certain person, or they wouldn't believe me. Neither outcome is favourable.

Gods... PTSD is ****ing exhausting.

 

[Goldsickle]

At the rate we're going (130+ new cases a day), we might have our quarantine and movement control extended for weeks or even months because too many dumbf***s won't listen and keep making their own secret gatherings and social meetings.

Just last week, 110+ immigrants were caught having their "Friday prayers" on the rooftop of a factory.
Keeping locals in line is one thing but the immigrants are something else.

So far, there are more than 4000 arrests for the last two weeks from people who are flouting the movement control order.

None of these people can ever lecture others "you can't have everything you want".
Because when they are being deprived of what they desire, they show that they are willing to break the law just to get it.

 

[Carlos]

I should start treating dreams about those people as premonitions. I swear, every time I have continuous dreams involving them, some well-meaning family member/friend of the family contacts me, inevitably bringing up that 1) One of those two people is in the hospital again, and 2) That they know I'm no longer talking to them.

This is probably the first time someone has left the door open to talk about my side of things though, however subtly. I guess that's progress... Not that I'll take them up on it. I'd either ruin what they believe about a certain person, or they wouldn't believe me. Neither outcome is favourable.

Gods... PTSD is ****ing exhausting.

I have that ability. Be careful how you use it. If you have those kinds of dreams... It's nudging you of warnings, and if you don't heed it or you don't want that outcome - don't do anything yet until you see the dream being played out. That is your cue to react or stay calm.

I woke up one day, like startled. I was gasping, with heart racing... I saw a splitting image of my grandmother, and I foresaw her death. Like. I didn't want it... I know, and knew it would hurt my mother, cousins, brother, etc. Not immediately, but 2 years after the premonition - they reacted a little better than I expected, but that was an experience... I don't want to happen again. Because it's dangerous - especially if your predictions/premonitions usually ends up right.

So, my advice: Be optimistic, positive, and don't dwell on the negative...

At the rate we're going (130+ new cases a day), we might have our quarantine and movement control extended for weeks or even months because too many dumbf***s won't listen and keep making their own secret gatherings and social meetings.

Just last week, 110+ immigrants were caught having their "Friday prayers" on the rooftop of a factory.
Keeping locals in line is one thing but the immigrants are something else.

So far, there are more than 4000 arrests for the last two weeks from people who are flouting the movement control order.

None of these people can ever lecture others "you can't have everything you want".
Because when they are being deprived of what they desire, they show that they are willing to break the law just to get it.

Wh... Wha... What.. What, for real? I knew people are ****ing retards, but this is another kind of stupid.

Do you people realize THERE'S A PANDEMIC GOING ON!?

 

[Goldsickle]

Wh... Wha... What.. What, for real? I knew people are ****ing retards, but this is another kind of stupid.

Do you people realize THERE'S A PANDEMIC GOING ON!?

Catching the plague is compared to martyrdom in Islam... according to some "confirmed" hadith (sayings from prophet Muhammad).

 

[Goldsickle]

Two more weeks of quarantine confirmed, ends at 28th of April.

Thanks a lot, dumbf***s.

 

[Angel]

Because now, right now, is the PERFECT time for a pinched nerve in my spine...:shifty:

 

[therogis]

Our hospitals are running out of equipment. Therefore, the National Emergency Supply Agency of Finland signed a deal about buying surgical and respiratory masks from two private sector traders.

The first consignment of those masks, in total worth 5 million euros, was tested in a certified laboratory. They failed to pass the standards for hospital use.
Ow, crap. 5 millions for fake masks.

Well, it sounds like an accident. Yeah, a MAJOR accident. An accident that is at least worth millions of euros in the middle of an economic disaster and will result to deaths as well. But still, an accident, nothing more.

Except that one of the private sector traders in this is a hugely overindebted quickie loan creditor, and the other one is a yellow press celebrity, best know for cosmetic surgery business and financial crimes. Both of these two are Finnish nationals... living in Estonia. :meh:

Tl;dr: Our national agency is foolish enough to sign contracts about emergency equipment in the middle of a global crisis with white-collar criminals over the state borders. The very same borders that are F%CKIN CLOSED.

A government agency just can't be that stupid. Smells like corruption. :shifty:

 

[Goldsickle]

Some f***ing dumb old fart snuck out of his home (his residence is under quarantine) and has been sleeping in the prayer room of my town's dry market for days.
Other store/stall owners of the market have claimed that he has a high temperature.
EDIT: It seems that the claims that he is seen having a high temperature may be false.

Anyone praying in the prayer room could have been infected if that old fart was positive with Covid-19.
This is why you don't f***ing violate the movement control and quarantine.
Some dumbf***s just Don't. F***ing. Get. It.

 

[Foxtrot94]

Another mod that attempts to improve DMC5 Trish's face popped up on the Nexus. I mean, I appreciate the determination of people, but none of them has managed to quite nail it. I just think Trish's face is nearly irreparably botched in this game, she looks like a hag no matter what.

 

[Foxtrot94]

Come on Capcom, it's time to put Nero in a fighting game. You got no excuses anymore. People like him now, and the instrumental version of Devil Trigger is an honest to God perfect theme for him in a fighter. Not to mention his fighting style has been extremely fit to a fighting game since the beginning. Make it happen.

 

[Foxtrot94]

****. You.

 

[Angel]

Stop smoking weed out in your garden, you moron. Your wife is a school teaching assistant so if she goes to work reeking of drugs, I doubt she's going to keep her job. She can't sit at home all day falsely claiming disability like you. She has standards in that, if not in choice of husband.

And I am so sick of my kids not being able to go outside because of the sheer overwhelming stench of your B-grade weed that you most likely bought from some sweaty 15 year old boy who has rolled it with grass cuttings and his grandmother's ashes.

All my washing stinks of weed. My damn cat stinks of weed. The whole street can smell it. But you know full well that the police are busy dealing with stuff right now so they can't spare the time to tell a middle aged man to stop behaving like a recalcitrant child.

No one likes you.

 

[Carlos]

****. You.

Eh. Not like there'll be a lot playing multiplayer.

 

[Foxtrot94]

Eh. Not like there'll be a lot playing multiplayer.

There was a good amount of people playing before GameSpy shut down.