stupid first world problems you're dealing with

  On 9/25/2015 at 4:37 AM, Bob Dobalina said:

^ great jerb, you seem to be on the 'mericuh track to freedom and prosperity! ©

 

  On 9/23/2015 at 2:11 PM, coolandfrank said:

Last Saturday morning some cops rolled up to our apartment. We were out with the kiddo and a neighbor said they were looking for us and said something about a car. So I get back, grab the keys, and head out to where we parked the car. Was it stolen? Vandalized?

 

About 2 blocks before I get to the spot on the street where we parked it, I see another car, stashed in an illegal spot, bashed up, with a bunch of tickets piling up in the windshield. "What a drag for that dude," I think. Oh shit, that dude is me. I call 311 (this is Queens NY). There is a lot of film produciton in our neighborhood and the companies often move cars with a tow truck to make room for trailers and whatever. The deal is, you call 311, and they give you details, usually, where they moved your car to. In this case, I see where the car was moved to, but I need to know what happened. 311 is useless and says I have to try the mayor's office. Mayor's office is closed for the weekend. I give in and call 911 saying no one is hurt, but my car was moved and busted up. I wait for about 2 hours by my sad car.

 

Police roll up and determine the car wasn't broken into, and that yeah it's in an illegal spot and I need to move it. I tell them about the movie studios, or maybe it was joyriding? I dunno. I ain't a detective. They say there's nothing they can do for me other than report it as a hit and run. I can dispute the $500 in tickets if I want. Dispute probably won't go well without any evidence that we didn't move it though. I ask repeatedly, "what can I do to figure out who moved it?" They say they can't do anything for me. They leave.

 

The damage isn't too extensive. I stash the front bumper and grill in the trunk and park the car down the street in a legal spot (it's Saturday, there aren't any nearby repair shops open). The next day I walk by the car and see that there are 2 more tickets (another $110) for "broken equipment."

 

The repair is going to $800. So this whole episode is going to be around $1400. I'm a research fellow at medical college and get paid very modestly. The timing is such that this might put us in the red for a brief period, but I can get $ from family, which is humiliating because I'm 35. Trying to figure out what happened has been a full-time job for the past couple of days. No permits were issued for filming in the area and we are waiting to hear back from the Dept of Transportation to see if they might have moved it. The police basically don't believe us. It's sort of a complicated story. In hindsight, even after spotting the car in the illegal spot, I should have walked to the original spot, called in a stolen vehicle, and pretended I never saw it in the illegal sport. Sigh, there are sadder storied of course, but I've chosen this place to place my rant.

Oh man this sounds like a nightmare. I had a similar experience when we got our rental car towed while her parents were visiting us in Dublin; spent the better part of the day just trying to find the fucking thing, nevermind the fines & whatnot waiting when we actually recovered it. Dis shit sounds way worse though on the reals

  On 9/25/2015 at 2:02 AM, usagi said:

I'm in Boston and so far not one person has called me a fuckin' wicked retahded queeah.

Anyone call you a kiwi yet? You staying for the bklyn & boston shows? Weez gonna sparkdala for that latter that's for sure doqq

Make yourselves known at the Boston show I will also be in attendance.

  On 9/25/2015 at 5:28 AM, usagi said:

^ but of course I just rolled through RI btw. sadly I did not see cashness-guy. now I'm in CT and staying at a lovely place called the Whaler's Inn in Mystic.

In RI/CT? If you're looking for something to do, go to Newport. The beaches are nice, the town is sort of fun, and you can tour the mansions, our deeply problematic trophies from the Gilded Age. Few things have made me more proud to be an American than taking that tour, and hearing the guide go on and on about the wealth, furniture, architecture, etc., and then say that it's all actually pretty tasteless and shitty because it represents what happens when inequality runs out of control. Regulated capitalism!

I should say that that was years ago, so you may not get the same slant. But still!

  On 9/25/2015 at 1:44 PM, coolandfrank said:

  On 9/25/2015 at 5:28 AM, usagi said:

^ but of course I just rolled through RI btw. sadly I did not see cashness-guy. now I'm in CT and staying at a lovely place called the Whaler's Inn in Mystic.

In RI/CT? If you're looking for something to do, go to Newport. The beaches are nice, the town is sort of fun, and you can tour the mansions, our deeply problematic trophies from the Gilded Age. Few things have made me more proud to be an American than taking that tour, and hearing the guide go on and on about the wealth, furniture, architecture, etc., and then say that it's all actually pretty tasteless and shitty because it represents what happens when inequality runs out of control. Regulated capitalism!

 

I should say that that was years ago, so you may not get the same slant. But still!

Yeah, Newport is worth checking out, tons of old colonial shit to check out, the mansions, Cliff Walk, etc. and the parks are nice too. Fort Adams is where the Jazz (and Folk) festivals have gone down over the years (pretty cool but somewhat less interesting without music).

Lol, cashness seems to be laying low atm, we're gonna have to get the Danksignal working again one of these days

  On 9/25/2015 at 7:42 AM, Candiru said:

Make yourselves known at the Boston show I will also be in attendance.

Word C, gonna take this over to ae subforum, really stoked to hear them at the paradise

The left headphone (K240) is intermittently crackling and cutting out for some reason, I don't even move my head a lot for it to happen. I've dropped them a few times, but nothing catastrophic. The upside is that I still have warranty on them for another month. But the effort to send them back and wait for the replacement..eh...

On hold with Staples,,,,never fucking with these people again

I'm meeting a bunch of watmmers in van tomorrow and I'm nervous

Britain's NHS

like a brand new Roll's Royce in some areas, Dickensian in others

Trying to design a page in dreamweaver for my web development class. Following the steps exactly as it says out the book and yet still for some reason the damn scrollbar wont appear as it's intended to. Even showed the professor and he couldn't figure out why it wasn't behaving either. FML, technology hates me.

I got a copy of Majora's Mask in the mail yesterday, and put it in my N64 only to find out that the game won't run without an expansion pak. So I had to spend $20 on an expansion pak and now I have to wait for that to arrive before I can even do anything with this game.

  On 9/25/2015 at 11:58 PM, drillkicker said:

I got a copy of Majora's Mask in the mail yesterday, and put it in my N64 only to find out that the game won't run without an expansion pak. So I had to spend $20 on an expansion pak and now I have to wait for that to arrive before I can even do anything with this game.

that's not too bad. imagine being a kid in the 90s having to deal with this. or a parent.

kind of relieved the expansion pak is $20 and hasn't drifted into obscure and unnecessarily inflated expensive rarity.

the expansion pak is wicked btw. games that require expansion pak all have pretty vivid colour palettes and the difference is pretty noticeable. prepare to be blown away kiddo.

the sidequest with the married couple being separated is from memory the most time consuming.

recently replayed the 3DS port and man the game holds up so well. i didn't bother with too many sidequests tho and admittedly a good chunk of the game is concentrated in the sidequests.

fwp : another dead possum located in back garden. i think that makes 3 now. sometimes in middle of night i'll hear them having a little party in the trees and that's all well and normal but then occassionally there'll be a loud BANG on the driveway shelter followed by really rapid clambering back onto the tree branches. i've had possums before but they've never been this bat shit stupid. dropping off trees and dying randomly in the backyard on multiple occasions. what the hells the deal with these stupid, 'special' possums.

i'm thinking throwing cut up apple slices onto neighbours rooftops may be best bet. they're a bunch of assholes anyway.

it's not so much the noise as much as it is.. why the fuck do they keep falling off trees and dying all the time??

can't these stupid possums ...

get a grip ?

  On 9/26/2015 at 4:51 AM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

. don't know if I ever properly sorted out that long side quest with the aliens at the ranch and all that.

that was fucking hard... i never beat it, got so annoyed when i died and didn't want to go through all that again.

  On 9/26/2015 at 5:39 AM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

yeah possums are loud as fuck, can be a real problem in bushy areas, esp. if you have a tin roof

 

our possums are wayy cuter than the american ones...

lol. that tiny hole into a box full of pastries is a one way entry.

yesterday's page 3 girl is from the windowlicker video, I swear

  On 9/26/2015 at 4:42 AM, bitroast said:

 

  On 9/25/2015 at 11:58 PM, drillkicker said:

I got a copy of Majora's Mask in the mail yesterday, and put it in my N64 only to find out that the game won't run without an expansion pak. So I had to spend $20 on an expansion pak and now I have to wait for that to arrive before I can even do anything with this game.

 

that's not too bad. imagine being a kid in the 90s having to deal with this. or a parent.

kind of relieved the expansion pak is $20 and hasn't drifted into obscure and unnecessarily inflated expensive rarity.

the expansion pak is wicked btw. games that require expansion pak all have pretty vivid colour palettes and the difference is pretty noticeable. prepare to be blown away kiddo.

 

iirc majora's mask came with the expansion pack bundled!

but yeah, i think Majora's Mask is my favourite game ever!

My hearing is significantly lower on my left ear than on my right ear. Listening to music on headphones without balance control is really annoying, and I also dislike using balance control for the same reason I never mess with the EQ, loudness option, etc

Pulled a muscle in my chest, work 10 hour manual labor shifts...can't really miss much work (i need money, they need me) but I think I'm making this way worse by stressing it further. I'm torn (ba dum tsh) about what to do.

  On 9/26/2015 at 11:19 PM, luke viia said:

Pulled a muscle in my chest, work 10 hour manual labor shifts...can't really miss much work (i need money, they need me) but I think I'm making this way worse by stressing it further. I'm torn (ba dum tsh) about what to do.

Find a different job, that sounds like an awful place to work! I think you should be brave and take a couple of days off - surely they'll survive.

  On 9/26/2015 at 4:42 AM, bitroast said:

  On 9/25/2015 at 11:58 PM, drillkicker said:

I got a copy of Majora's Mask in the mail yesterday, and put it in my N64 only to find out that the game won't run without an expansion pak. So I had to spend $20 on an expansion pak and now I have to wait for that to arrive before I can even do anything with this game.

that's not too bad. imagine being a kid in the 90s having to deal with this. or a parent.

kind of relieved the expansion pak is $20 and hasn't drifted into obscure and unnecessarily inflated expensive rarity.

the expansion pak is wicked btw. games that require expansion pak all have pretty vivid colour palettes and the difference is pretty noticeable. prepare to be blown away kiddo.

A parent in the '90s would have had more money than I do. I won't notice a difference, because this will be the first game I will ever play with a Nintendo 64. I never had an N64 when they were still cool and fresh because the only game console I ever had before the Wii came out was the PS2. My cousin had a Nintendo 64 and I was jealous of him because it looked cool and I only got to play it the one time that I visited his house.

The best part is that there are no other games I want to play that are even compatible with the expansion pak. I bought it just for this one game.

  On 9/26/2015 at 5:35 PM, poblequadrat said:

  On 9/26/2015 at 4:42 AM, bitroast said:

  On 9/25/2015 at 11:58 PM, drillkicker said:

I got a copy of Majora's Mask in the mail yesterday, and put it in my N64 only to find out that the game won't run without an expansion pak. So I had to spend $20 on an expansion pak and now I have to wait for that to arrive before I can even do anything with this game.

that's not too bad. imagine being a kid in the 90s having to deal with this. or a parent.

kind of relieved the expansion pak is $20 and hasn't drifted into obscure and unnecessarily inflated expensive rarity.

the expansion pak is wicked btw. games that require expansion pak all have pretty vivid colour palettes and the difference is pretty noticeable. prepare to be blown away kiddo.

iirc majora's mask came with the expansion pack bundled!

but yeah, i think Majora's Mask is my favourite game ever!

My copy of Majora's Mask definitely doesn't have an expansion pak in it. I don't see where there would even be room for one in the box. I hope Majora's Mask becomes my favorite game ever, as much trouble as its been so far. It'll have to compete with Dark Souls, though.

  On 9/26/2015 at 11:25 PM, hoggy said:

 

  On 9/26/2015 at 11:19 PM, luke viia said:

Pulled a muscle in my chest, work 10 hour manual labor shifts...can't really miss much work (i need money, they need me) but I think I'm making this way worse by stressing it further. I'm torn (ba dum tsh) about what to do.

Find a different job, that sounds like an awful place to work! I think you should be brave and take a couple of days off - surely they'll survive.

Thanks, I probably should take a few days off from the heavy lifting... that said, I honestly do love my job. it just wears the body down when I'm not careful, that's all :P

  On 9/27/2015 at 12:27 AM, drillkicker said:

 

  On 9/26/2015 at 5:35 PM, poblequadrat said:

  On 9/26/2015 at 4:42 AM, bitroast said:

  On 9/25/2015 at 11:58 PM, drillkicker said:

I got a copy of Majora's Mask in the mail yesterday, and put it in my N64 only to find out that the game won't run without an expansion pak. So I had to spend $20 on an expansion pak and now I have to wait for that to arrive before I can even do anything with this game.

that's not too bad. imagine being a kid in the 90s having to deal with this. or a parent.

kind of relieved the expansion pak is $20 and hasn't drifted into obscure and unnecessarily inflated expensive rarity.

the expansion pak is wicked btw. games that require expansion pak all have pretty vivid colour palettes and the difference is pretty noticeable. prepare to be blown away kiddo.

iirc majora's mask came with the expansion pack bundled!

but yeah, i think Majora's Mask is my favourite game ever!

My copy of Majora's Mask definitely doesn't have an expansion pak in it. I don't see where there would even be room for one in the box. I hope Majora's Mask becomes my favorite game ever, as much trouble as its been so far. It'll have to compete with Dark Souls, though.

 

dark souls recently got pretty cemented as my favourite game. used to super mario bros 3 but dark souls is still fresh and has way more re-playability.

had a look at the list of games the require expansion pak. it's literally only 3 ??? as a kid i totally bought into the idea that heaps of games required it.

could've sword conkers bad fur day, for example, required it. how odd! bad memory :)

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  On 9/27/2015 at 1:27 AM, luke viia said:

 

  On 9/26/2015 at 11:25 PM, hoggy said:

 

  On 9/26/2015 at 11:19 PM, luke viia said:

Pulled a muscle in my chest, work 10 hour manual labor shifts...can't really miss much work (i need money, they need me) but I think I'm making this way worse by stressing it further. I'm torn (ba dum tsh) about what to do.

Find a different job, that sounds like an awful place to work! I think you should be brave and take a couple of days off - surely they'll survive.

Thanks, I probably should take a few days off from the heavy lifting... that said, I honestly do love my job. it just wears the body down when I'm not careful, that's all :P

 

Seriously don't fuck up your body out of some sense of obligation or something though - some injuries are permanent