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

I hate how it seems like literally everything requires an account these days; it's utterly pointless and it's done to grab more fucking data off of you as if they don't already have enough. I like to keep the amount of registered accounts I have to a minimum.
Agreed. What grinds my gears is the places whose initial signup process requires demographic information that is unnecessary or irrelevant, just so they can do their best at "targeted marketing" which is entertaining at best or an abysmal failure at worst. I'm actually loathing ordering a work-specific item from what may be a niche vendor because I'm half-convinced they will require an account to order and this very thing.

Some dude calls me up, asks me a couple questions, then says that I'm approved for some autoimmune cheek swab test. Sounds like a scam, but says that my doctor has to authorize it first blah blah blah will show up in two weeks if he authorizes it and they'll give me a step by step guide to do it myself.

Look online, and it's definitely a scam, but the dude didn't ask for my medicare number or anything so I don't know how the fuck they're supposed to bill them or whatever.
Without going too TMI, a family member has had this happen where scammers call and want to send free COVID test kits (not quite so much since the emergency declaration expired, but said relative did get another box of kits within the last week or two). I believe the scam part is one of two scenarios:
  1. They try to obtain the new medicare numbers from unsuspecting seniors through social engineering, or
  2. They may already have the medicare number or enough identifying information - possibly through medical data breaches -to send a fraudulent bill to medicare.
My relative knows enough to contact Medicare to report the scam each time these kits arrive, return them to the post office, and tell the clerk to send them back refused.

In your case, it's possible they may have been phishing for your doctor's info as a way to try to bill medicare.
 
In your case, it's possible they may have been phishing for your doctor's info as a way to try to bill medicare.
These scammers usually go for low hanging fruit so if it's obvious you're not going to be spilling your guts to them they give up. I used to string them along, waste their time, then go on to just straight up insulting them, mocking their voices, etc. but eventually just set my default ringtone to silence so if they're not in my contacts list the phone doesn't even ring.
 
Buy even worse porn (let's be real it's most likely porn) or some explosives.
Put something really gross in an envelope, you don't have to buy anything. Fill it with like, earthworms or something.
 
Put something really gross in an envelope, you don't have to buy anything. Fill it with like, earthworms or something.
If any of those horrible websites where you can order the poop of exotic animals to people still somehow exist, he could try that but he better make sure he doesn't open it and also hope that they don't open it within throwing distance of his property.
 
Some bullshit with Skullgirls happening which I never really cared for since I played the game since Middle School, heavy fan service with zone-tan, schoolgirl panty shots, all that fan service stuff but I never really cared since I always player Beowulf or Big Band. However not only are they removing the panty shots on the 16 year old (which is all those twitter retards believe that it's the ONLY thing people are complaining about) they're removing announcers, art book pages, censoring cutscenes especially against my boy Big Band, and even color palettes. I'm now convinced Artistic Integrity is fucking dead and a majority of game developers and their censorships are cowards.
 
Some bullshit with Skullgirls happening which I never really cared for since I played the game since Middle School, heavy fan service with zone-tan, schoolgirl panty shots, all that fan service stuff but I never really cared since I always player Beowulf or Big Band. However not only are they removing the panty shots on the 16 year old (which is all those twitter retards believe that it's the ONLY thing people are complaining about) they're removing announcers, art book pages, censoring cutscenes especially against my boy Big Band, and even color palettes. I'm now convinced Artistic Integrity is fucking dead and a majority of game developers and their censorships are cowards.
The best part is the retards going "it's not censorship, because the government didn't do it and it's the makers of the game who decided on their own to remove the stuff". No you sluts, you hoors, the main people who worked on the game are long gone (kicked out, in some cases). And it may not be the government, but obviously they're doing it out of external pressures, or internal pressures by the fucking invaders who wormed their way into the team.
 
#2: Channels that have essentially given up the ghost on posting any actual content and instead now just rehash their old shit into dogshit tiktok ripoff clips. I think I've mentioned this before maybe even in this thread but HOLY SHIT its so common now. I've dropped probably a half dozen channels because they gave the hell up. I'm not here to hear roughly 30 seconds to a minute of out of context fart noises from you. Either focus on making the very short form content or make a new channel.
It's funny that you mention that because Joshscorcher and Zefrank1 are doing almost that. Low effort "YOO TOOB SHAWWRTS" clips. Granted they still upload videos but it's kinda disappointing to get a notification, get excited and just see that it's some dumb short.
#1: Niggas who make ANY topic stupidly dramatic no matter how utterly mundane it is. Even really good youtubers will sometimes dip into this. Even Internet Historian who I feel is one of the better ones out there for just *general content* has done this. Melodramatic shit is why I blacklisted people like SuperEyepatchWolf because that fuckwit can't talk about an anime he likes without sounding like he's writing his suicide manifesto. If the topic is a serious one and you start it out by making it clear you intend to discuss it in that fashion fine. I'm just sick of sudden swerves into sob story bullshit to pull for sympathy.
LMAO you remind me of the time where SuperEyepatchWolf made this retarded fucking video about building a gaming PC and treated it like he was fucking tormented by AM from I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream.

Dude, you're spending inordinate amounts of money on a computer, you're not experiencing an existential crisis.

Deepfakes of actors and actresses who have long since passed away, such as Peter Cushing, for cheap cameos in a capeshit movie. Not only does it look uncanny, it's also very disrespectful to the deceased actor/actress and it's honestly disgusting from a moral standpoint.
Ugh you made me think of the hologram Tupac concert despite the fact that the man has been fucking dead since the mid 90s.
Some bullshit with Skullgirls happening which I never really cared for since I played the game since Middle School, heavy fan service with zone-tan, schoolgirl panty shots, all that fan service stuff but I never really cared since I always player Beowulf or Big Band. However not only are they removing the panty shots on the 16 year old (which is all those twitter retards believe that it's the ONLY thing people are complaining about) they're removing announcers, art book pages, censoring cutscenes especially against my boy Big Band, and even color palettes. I'm now convinced Artistic Integrity is fucking dead and a majority of game developers and their censorships are cowards.
Welp, another game company that bends the knee to current year-isms,

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As to what pisses me off lately? Well....

It annoys me how tribalism has become so prevalent. I was encouraged to join a few online communities on Facebook and it's everything from people choosing not to have children while being unreasonable fucking vile to parents and kids. Saw a post of someone making a fun of a 5 year old with clear emotional problems with violent outbursts at siblings, parents and dogs and strong implications that he has been abused and they were like like "No the kid deserves it. I care more about the dog."

Another person stalked a friend of theirs who had posted pictures of their stillborn baby to cope and ridiculed the mother for it - while reposting said pictures. A third ridiculed women for getting postpartum depression. And these people are gross but it¨s a fucking hivemind in there. You will get dragged and dogpilled and ridiculed if you say "Uhm wtf, relax."

I was a member for about an hour before I left and did a petty by reporting the group for harassment. It probably won't do much but I feel fucking better.

Another one that bugs me is niggers, chinks, kikes, women, any minority really taking the time to scree about something unrelated and how offensive it is. I've experienced some in writing groups. There will be some innocuous post about writing advice or some retard asking about some fetish shit and some fucking retard will be like "Uhm excuse me, that's a slur to [insert group here]" like they are the arbiters of language. An example of this is the degenerates who like to write wolf pack fetish fuel and they use a/b/o after alpha/beta/omega and people will be like "Uhm slur, yikes honey. Offensive to indigenous Australians!"

A third one is the current media acting like characters who are either gay, non-white or women is something continually revolutionary. It's like...are you people retarded. Shit has been like that for fucking eons. Remember when female characters were treated as characters and not fucking political mouth pieces for shit journos and rapists male feminists?

This one is cheating because it's so easy but...trannies. This relates to my writing groups as well but there's this one fucking creepy tranny who's obsessively posting about lesbians, fictional female characters who are blood related fucking and will take every opportunity to coom post about his favorite female characters family members with their epic girl dicks and do some hawt lesbo kissing. And it's like....it's really uncomfortable and it's fucking creepy.

It's always trannies so fucking overly sexual with their polyamory and their lesbian fetishization and I hate it. I hope there's some kind of tide that makes society collectively hate them again.
 
@DenseDeerFather I feel that one on the writing group. I hate making romantic or sexual story lines because just writing about it makes me uncomfortable. Overall I usually write male only characters where my big flaw is making them Gary Stus usually by accident. I think a power fantasy is better than a sexual fantasy.
 
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Two words: game options.

My TV is old and someone fucked with the settings so it overscans and cuts off the corners, and several games I've been interested in are unplayable because I can't see the HUD and there's no option to adjust it. Very specific complaints but when there's ten thousand settings for accessibility it feels a bit overlooked.

And remapping controls. Ever find one control really annoying so you go to remap it, and find the only remaps available are preset ones, or it simple doesnt let you remap the one single control you wanted to remap when you opened the menu in the first place.

I am curious to see if I'm completely alone and should "suck it up scrub"
 
@DenseDeerFather I feel that one on the writing group. I hate making romantic or sexual story lines because just writing about it makes me uncomfortable. Overall I usually write male only characters where my big flaw is making them Gary Stus usually by accident. I think a power fantasy is better than a sexual fantasy.
Which is completely ✨valid✨™️
(Sorry, had to)

This actually reminds me of a bunch of people going "People who dislike Rey Skywalker for being a Mary Sue are sexist and hate women! If Rey is a Mary Sue, so is Superman! And James Bond!"

People really have fucking idea what they are talking about. I don¨t wanna go into a nerd spergout but these people fail to understand that being physically capable -/- a Mary Sue or a Gary Stu.

Anyway...

I for one am a sucker for romance with a few bells and whistles so it's most I write. It's usually accompanied by a grander plot. But regarding writing, I fucking dislike the people act like you absolutely have to have a message or a meaning with your stories. It's like people aren't allowed to just enjoy telling a story.

And in communties, people will be like "Not enough representation uwu" and I always get fucking annoyed by this. Bitch, write your own fucking shit. You can compalin about some innocious thing being totes insenstive to minority of the week so you can also get your fat ass in gear and write your fucking story yourself. My work is not your hugbox so eat a bag of post op tranny dick.
 
Which is completely ✨valid✨™️
(Sorry, had to)

This actually reminds me of a bunch of people going "People who dislike Rey Skywalker for being a Mary Sue are sexist and hate women! If Rey is a Mary Sue, so is Superman! And James Bond!"

People really have fucking idea what they are talking about. I don¨t wanna go into a nerd spergout but these people fail to understand that being physically capable -/- a Mary Sue or a Gary Stu.

Anyway...

I for one am a sucker for romance with a few bells and whistles so it's most I write. It's usually accompanied by a grander plot. But regarding writing, I fucking dislike the people act like you absolutely have to have a message or a meaning with your stories. It's like people aren't allowed to just enjoy telling a story.

And in communties, people will be like "Not enough representation uwu" and I always get fucking annoyed by this. Bitch, write your own fucking shit. You can compalin about some innocious thing being totes insenstive to minority of the week so you can also get your fat ass in gear and write your fucking story yourself. My work is not your hugbox so eat a bag of post op tranny dick.
Requiring representation especially if someone is just a fucking tourist in a fandom really pisses me off a lot. As for my story writing it's honest to god just me making autistic scenarios and making the worst out of them. One story I called was "The First Metal" where it was about this orc doing his usual thing of pillaging and raiding humies to collect their loot and skulls. His specific tribe collect skulls, leather, and furs to make badass thunderous drums but unfortunately this orc was so strong that he'd crush the skulls of all humies preventing him from making his own drum. In his rage he went out on his own to slaughter and maim until he comes across a bard and his lute. He takes an interest in it and after a few gruffs and sentences he takes the lute and rips out the bard's guts and runs off. He kills a wild beast for leather and fur to make a basic drum but adds a tusk to the end of it to mimick the lute. He boils and sun drys the intestines to mimic the strings but still but thins them out enough and strengthens them to make them more like metal. He practices and practices to no avail as he fails to understand it. He walks up a mountains and pleads to his asshole god to grant him the wisdom too. That god after being angry with him decided to strike that retard with a bolt of lightning. The orc survived and so did his lute as he proceeds to play these harsh and brash sounds so wild that it makes his own ears bleed. Thus the first metal was born and the first guitar. Now that was one of my more edgier stories as I was inspired by Brutal Legend and Warhammer Fantasy. A bit cringier but I liked it a lot as a 12 year old.
 
Mudslimes not being able to speak to each other in normal people volume. Sunday morning and i can hear these sand niggers from the other end of the street, clear as day. It gets worse in Summer, i swear. I wasn't that racist when i moved here 10 years ago but by now i'm ready to lead the next Dirlewanger death squad.
I can't find it but there was one and the nigga actually put an Ares Predator in the thumbnail ok that would be pretty fucking awesome to own but the Ares Predator doesn't exist.
Man, it should, though.
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Some bullshit with Skullgirls happening which I never really cared for since I played the game since Middle School, heavy fan service with zone-tan, schoolgirl panty shots, all that fan service stuff but I never really cared since I always player Beowulf or Big Band. However not only are they removing the panty shots on the 16 year old (which is all those twitter retards believe that it's the ONLY thing people are complaining about) they're removing announcers, art book pages, censoring cutscenes especially against my boy Big Band, and even color palettes. I'm now convinced Artistic Integrity is fucking dead and a majority of game developers and their censorships are cowards.
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I've never been a Skullgirls fan, but all the same I still agree with you. This hysterical leftist rush to censor everything they get their grubby little paws on is awful. I wish it would stop.

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Sort of work related: I hate people like my SJW coworker who loves to blame everything, and everyone, else for his problems instead of taking any personal responsibility. For example, it's not his fault that he's been married four times! It's his three ex-wives' fault for not accepting him for who he is! Yet he also sees a therapist and talks too much about supporting trannies. He also gloats about being a hedonist. It's beyond tiresome...
 
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