You Know What Grinds My Gears? - Things that personally piss you off

[(((I am NOT a jew)))]

I'm sick of being gaslit by people for wanting adapted characters to look faithful to their original versions.
It's weird how the same people who say "being black doesn't affect their character" are the same ones who like to also say how every facet of race is important, freak out about white people playing injuns and brag about how they've read 20+ black history books to "understand the experience".
Is it window dressing or not?

Anime suffers the most for it. Apparently soyjaks don't understand how artists spend weeks crafting designs specifically to convey a characters' personality, theme and tone so that it actually fits with the way the character's supposed to be presented. Hollywood of all places somehow couldn't find a single jew to play Spike fucking Spiegel and needed to have L, (the most pale motherfucker on the planet) played by a dude who should've played N.
I just wish the white people defending this shit could be honest with themselves about what's going on and why they're okay with it.

 

[Jason Wynn]

i hate the term spoiler itself. you mean to tell me that knowing a plot detail literally "spoils" a movie/book for you? but i really despise people who get pissy about something being spoiled for them. you mean to tell me you can no longer get any enjoyment from a book/movie/game if you know something about a character or plot point? i guess i get if it is some big twist ending thing and that is important to the plot, but you have people yelling spoiler about every little thing. really you think knowing that at the end of a new hope like blows up the death star mean you can now no longer enjoy the movie? it really comes off as childish to me. like a toddler throwing a hissy fit.

I kinda get it if it’s a brand new movie, but there really needs to be some kind of statute of limitations for spoilers. I’ve run across retards who seriously got pissed at me for talking about things that were spoilers 40 years ago but have become so well known you can’t seriously claim to have never heard it before. Things like Vader being Luke’s father, or Norman Bates being the titular Psycho.

 

[WelperHelper99]

Scamscum is just the Android Apple. Avoid. (Unless you're getting the fucker for a song or whatever.) Samsung smartphones haven't been good value in a while, their other electronics are debatable (their TVs are nice but overpriced, their appliances are needlessly-complex Internet-of-Things idiocy usually). I'm not fond of USB-C but those stupid little locking clips on MicroUSB were annoying as shit.

Samsung TV's are alright, good color, work with a lot of accessories, though it seems like they don't like Visio the best. I do fault them for their lack of apps however, like good grief is it normie when I have to whip out my Xbox or plug in a roku to get anything but the most basic shit. That and the cheaper models have only 3 hdmi ports, forcing you to either put up with it or get a splitter, which in the era of 4k media, means expensive cables, and I'm not buying that Onn shit, GE or better man, I'm not watching a 4k blu ray in 1080. Paid too much for that.

 

[(((I am NOT a jew)))]

I kinda get it if it’s a brand new movie, but there really needs to be some kind of statute of limitations for spoilers. I’ve run across retards who seriously got pissed at me for talking about things that were spoilers 40 years ago but have become so well known you can’t seriously claim to have never heard it before. Things like Vader being Luke’s father, or Norman Bates being the titular Psycho.

I wonder if those people would happen to have some sort of mental disorder that might make them tend to do that? Possibly the type that makes it harder to connect to most people socially and has a habit of making someone really interested in trains, maybe.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

Smart anything.

Smart phones - Allowed normies to flood on the internet even more than eternal September
Smart appliances - retarded. I can turn a kettle on and know how a washing machine works.
Smart meters - A way for companies to fuck you over, as seen in the UK
Smart TV - I have a PC and or console plugged in, why do I need to pay more for spyware and bloatware?
Smart 'cars' - take that expensive, pointless electronic shit out of my car. It makes drivers lazy

Internet of Things is not only a retarded phrase, it has made people retarded. Outside of a manufacturing/PLC-heavy setting, it is unnecessary, increases costs of products and hurts teh envyrunmint

 

[HarblMcDavid]

Had my MacBook with USB C ports for years, and never had a problem with it not charging.
What are you doing with your devices, so it all breaks?

Pet peeve:
People being less than careful with their devices and gets pissy when it doesn't withstand them being full retard.

Well, so far I think my phone's case ever so slightly levered the charging port so it sometimes just decides things are going to get hot which causes a bootloop requiring a battery-pull and trip to the freezer to deal with. This would be much easier to repair if they'd properly used a daughter board since it would not require replacing the mainboard to fix the issue, though I have a couple of those lying around.

My tablet basically lives on a tripod being babied for years and yet somehow that shit has a coinsflip chance of being put in "slow charging" mode when I plug it in, not clear if it's the cable or the port, sometimes I think it's the cable so I change it, but that never lasts. Either way, much easier to fix if you don't have to hot-air and pry that shit off the motherboard to fix the issue.

I treat my devices like fucking children made of brittle glass, my screens don't have scratches with no protector, that's the kind of care I take of them, and even then I'm 2 for 2 on issues with USB-C in light-use scenarios.

 

[Book Thief]

People who honk at you at a stoplight when the light just turned green. Motherfucker, I was JUST taking my foot off the brake and moving it to my accelerator when you honked. Just because I haven't sped up to the speed limit in the 0.2 seconds the light has been green doesn't mean that I missed the signal, you impatient fuck.

This guy did this like two or three times in a row while following me. Apparently this assclown had to be somewhere super important that he felt the need to honk at me for properly obeying the traffic laws.

 

[(((I am NOT a jew)))]

Null.
Fuck that bully. What a transphobe.

 

[DoomsdayElite]

People who eat on the bus. I mean fast food, pizza, shit like that. I just find it trashy. I saw a guy-white, surprisingly-eat an entire bucket of KFC and that greasy odor in a tight space is just gross. For an added touch of yuck, he licked his fingers after finishing a piece.

 

[(((I am NOT a jew)))]

People who try to insist something is one genre when it's not just to seem elite. Using such a technicality to rules-lawyer your way into arguing something is something it obviously isn't when it comes to fiction.
People who will put something like 1984 on top of a list of best horror novels or will say something like "The beginning of Saving Private Ryan scarred and disturbed me more than any gorefest could". I've actually seen faggots list Gotham City as the number 1 Batman villain and use the most retarded sophistry to explain how a city could be an antagonist. It's hard to name examples but you know it when you see it; i.e Die Hard being a christmas movie, Jaws being a remake of Creature from the Black Lagoon, and other asinine bullshit. Stuff that you could argue is true, but would look like a piece of shit in doing so.
The worst one possible is whenever anyone instucts you to watch the first movie in a series as a "prequel" or watch the last movie and then watch every movie before it so "it all makes sense".

One more: Anyone who tries to look into genre/horror films like they would an art film. No, slasher movies do not have a pro-religious/god's wrath message because the kids being killed happen to fuck and do drugs every now and then and most films are not an allegory for Vietnam. Kill yourself.

 

[Nick Obre]

People who try to insist something is one genre when it's not just to seem elite. Using such a technicality to rules-lawyer your way into arguing something is something it obviously isn't when it comes to fiction.
People who will put something like 1984 on top of a list of best horror novels or will say something like "The beginning of Saving Private Ryan scarred and disturbed me more than any gorefest could". I've actually seen faggots list Gotham City as the number 1 Batman villain and use the most retarded sophistry to explain how a city could be an antagonist. It's hard to name examples but you know it when you see it; i.e Die Hard being a christmas movie, Jaws being a remake of Creature from the Black Lagoon, and other asinine bullshit. Stuff that you could argue is true, but would look like a piece of shit in doing so.
The worst one possible is whenever anyone instucts you to watch the first movie in a series as a "prequel" or watch the last movie and then watch every movie before it so "it all makes sense".
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One more: Anyone who tries to look into genre/horror films like they would an art film. No, slasher movies do not have a pro-religious/god's wrath message because the kids being killed happen to fuck and do drugs every now and then and most films are not an allegory for Vietnam. Kill yourself.

Some things could be argued thematically, like the Gotham thing, but not in a practical sense. There's a video that argues Snowpiercer is a sequel to Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. I was like "come on, man", but it made a good case of the parallels, though obviously it's not gonna be literally true. Incidentally, he later made a sequel to the video and it turned out to be an incredibly detailed retrospective about the story of the Snowpiercer french comic, the filmography of the movie's director (the korean guy who made Parasite), and more; it was really interesting.

About the prequels thing, I hate it when people completely ignore the narrative reasons something is told out of order. Like when people say to watch the Marvel movies like this: Captain America 1 > Captain Marvel > Iron Man, etc. Or worse, the ones who say to watch all the introductory or past scenes first, then the present ones. What do you want, to see Carol or the Eternals in your first hour of your Marvel marathon, then not see them for like 40 more hours? Do you think that's gonna be a good narrative experience?
That said, I have enjoyed (as a supplementary experience, never as something that would replace the real article) fanedits of movies or shows that rearrange stories told out of order. Like that one that separates Pulp Fiction into two movies: Vincent's story and Butch's story. They work great if you're already very familiar with the real movie as a way to look at it from another angle, to clarify things, etc.

The thing about "watch the last movie first", man, it reminds me of the time Mother's Basement proposed his own custom reading order for JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. Look at this absolute retardation:

It's a good thing he got so thoroughly clowned for it, he ended up deleting the thing.

 

[(((I am NOT a jew)))]

It's a good thing he got so thoroughly clowned for it, he ended up deleting the thing.

That's fucking exceptional.

 

[Inside your walls]

This will sound very specific but I will try to word myself properly.

People who have the "We must care for everybody, even for those we don't know" philosophy but cranked to extreme, combined with the fact people with that view tend to be sheltered and childishly naïve.
The part that grinds my gears is when they openly demonize and try to make you saying "I don't really care for everyone else, I only care about those closest to me" as a bad thing.

If people really applied that philosophy where we put others, especially people we won't ever interact before ourselves and get upset for their misfortunes,
the world would be a giant misery fest.

 

[(((I am NOT a jew)))]

This will sound very specific but I will try to word myself properly.

People who have the "We must care for everybody, even for those we don't know" philosophy but cranked to extreme, combined with the fact people with that view tend to be sheltered and childishly naïve.
The part that grinds my gears is when they openly demonize and try to make you saying "I don't really care for everyone else, I only care about those closest to me" as a bad thing.

If people really applied that philosophy where we put others, especially people we won't ever interact before ourselves and get upset for their misfortunes,
the world would be a giant misery fest.

I used to be that guy, less so anymore. It's fine to care about other people or have empathy, but I think some people really just need to fuck more.
I think the worst example is if you're shitting on the rich or a celebrity and you have that one faggot who always has to ruin the conversation with something like "Hey, rich people who have everything they could ever possibly have in life experience hard timez 2!"
No, fuck you. Are they around to hear me shit on them? Is an actor going to sneeze every time someone makes fun of them? Are they going to have less in their bank account tomorrow because somebody's taking a little bit of time out of their shitty day to slightly knock them? No, okay then shut the fuck up.
In my experience though those "We need to think of everyone" types are usually just perpetually miserable people who literally do nothing to look out for said people, nor their surroundings, or themselves. They're the type of person that if you're having a nice dinner suddenly feels the need to bring up how some people are starving or going through some civil/social strife somewhere in the world. Not as a call to arms, but as a way to make anyone they come in contact with have a shittier day and generally hate them.
There are good people out there who do see what a shitshow the world is and try to help, but the overwhelming majority who talk about it just have shitty lives and won't be happy until everyone is as much of a nihilistic curmudgeon as them. I notice these people also don't really give a fuck about anything or anyone themselves but are using something going on in their lives as an excuse to virtue-signal instead of doing something basic that will actually help out their own community.

 

[Nonconsentual Pronouns]

I'm getting progressively more sick of trend-chasers.

I really don't care how old a thing or its format is; if it was ever good, it's probably still good unless it's been specifically ruined somehow. If something is no good now, that's a general indicator that it was never actually good and that it was just a trend. Amongus was never good; it was done to death, hated the whole way by most people, vanished completely and isn't coming back. Trollface and Doge were good, never truly went away and have made a resurgence that's sticking around. Most 80s fashion was hipster/elitist trash and still is trash that no one cares about. 50s fashion never truly went away and has been riding a resurgence for over two decades now, here to stay. Drug-fueled 60s/70s synth has been in the trash where it belongs, while swing, jazz and rockabilly still aren't going anywhere, even if they are in the background. 80s rock is mostly self explanatory.

So when I hear someone say that something is bad because it's "old", all I can think is picturing them as any of the annoying skanks I went to middle school with who would say dumb, vapid shit such as "liek omg that is liek SO totes last week wtf". Grow up and like what you like because you like it and because it's good, not because anyone is telling you to like it or just because it's new. Trend-chasing is peak braindead consoomer behavior right up there with only buying new and constantly replacing everything.

 

[(((I am NOT a jew)))]

So when I hear someone say that something is bad because it's "old", all I can think is picturing them as any of the annoying skanks I went to middle school with who would say dumb, vapid shit such as "liek omg that is liek SO totes last week wtf". Grow up and like what you like because you like it and because it's good, not because anyone is telling you to like it or just because it's new. Trend-chasing is peak braindead consoomer behavior right up there with only buying new and constantly replacing everything.

It's also shitty when it comes to trends that shouldn't be bad.
I don't know how many youtube video titles I've seen of "VELMA is literally the worst piece of shit I've ever seen and is the Holocaust in animated form" followed by an obvious thumbnail to drive the point home anymore. It makes me almost want to watch the show out of spite just because I know not that many actually care THAT much about a shitty reboot of a children's cartoon. I don't care if you're pandering to me, if I know you're pandering it becomes obvious real fucking quick.
Hype/antihype really is killing shows for me. I really can't look forward to any anime anymore when every single video or person I run into is saying how it's the second coming of christ or they're foaming about whatever stupid controvery it's wrapped up in.
Is Hogwarts Legacy a good game? I have no idea and probably will never know because the amount of troon hysteria and people showing support for it just because it's pissing off troons for drama that is not the game being discussed has kind of ruined whatever reputation the game could have had with people who just want to play a fucking game.

 

[Mr. Confederate Man]

80s rock is mostly self explanatory.

I'll never stop rockin' with Dokken

 

[Kiwi Lime Pie]

Only a fool would think a business values customers beyond the profits they generate. I'm sure there are a few rare businesses that DO care about the customers, but again those are the exception not the rule.

Seeing Corporate America treat customers as little more than dollar signs is a turn off that makes me appreciate those small businesses that make an effort to treat established customers like people and treat new customers good enough to make them want to come back.

Also, most customers think bullying a low-rung employee is equivalent to "sticking it to the man."

Probably some sort of dopamine rush or power trip thing. I spent a summer serving food in a cafeteria and I had one particular regular talk to me during her ordering like I was automatically inferior to her simply because I was on the opposite end of the serving station. I'm not sure what she gained from that attitude, but it certainly made me resent her any time I saw her coming to my station.

This has impacted everything, and I really mean everything.

Overall, I think companies are so desperate for workers that they're hiring anyone who applies even if their people skills are lacking and such that they shouldn't have been hired in the first place.

Medically, I agree with you and would also add that medical facilities still imposing some sort of strict COVID protocol (as an example, my primary doctor's office still makes patients wait outside in their cars until their appointment time) are doing a disservice because it discourages people from seeking routine/preventative care because the hassle resulting from the safety protocols isn't worth it until they become seriously ill.

I don't know how old people cope with this garbage.

They don't. I know a senior frustrated with their phone because it's hard to see the buttons in direct light and the process of making a simple phone call is more complicated than it needs to be. Worse, if the phoen reports there is a waiting voice mail, it pops up a modal screen that has to be dismissed before making a call or doing something else.

People who honk at you at a stoplight when the light just turned green.

Today, I was waiting behind someone who chose not to make a legal right turn on red when they had the chance. The car being me starts honking and all I can tell myself, "You can't move till I do, and I can't until the car in front of me does, so why make it look like you're honking at me?"

On the flip side, people who have a clear green light and refuse to move forward grind the gears.

 

[seri0us]

I think it would be really satisfying to say "Let's see what the police think about this " except the situations where I need to contact law enforcement are ones I really don't want to be in.

 

[Jason Wynn]

I have one more homeless junkie piece of shit get in my personal space demanding a cigarette or change from me, I’m going to be two seconds away from just whaling on them. You’re the scum of society, parasite. Don’t you fucking dare demand anything from me like you’re entitled to it.

Sad thing is if one of them would just act like a fucking human and politely say something like “hey man, could you spare an extra smoke?” or something like that, I’d give them one. But no, it’s almost always some greaseball going “gimme a cigarette!” while giving me the stink eye.

Fuck you.