The Nerd Rage Thread

Inviting it from who whom who whom who whom who whom who whom? People who are out to defend Penny Arcade? Who would defend Penny Arcade from anything? Who even cares about Penny Arcade? What is this, 1999?

People who hate Penny Arcade.

I only link with SMBC, so I know I'm okay.

See, now I want to post the Kool-Aid Man strip just because nothing has been said to remind me of it.

A butt is in fact an old unit of volume (two hogsheads, no less!) so "buttload" actually makes sense. See Richard III, where Clarence is murdered:

"Take that, and that: if all this will not do,
I'll drown you in the Malmsey-butt within."

Update on ThinkGeek problem: They saw my post on Twitter about my disappointment, and they made it up to me. No more nerd rage for me!

What did they do what did they do?! I'm so excited I could use an interrobang!

It was going to be $7.49 at the post office to return a $9.99 item, and because I was so disappointed with the quality they gave me a $10 gift certificate code and told me not to bother with the return. So they basically just gave me my money back. Which was really nice of them. They really are a great retailer.

I think I saw someone fit two hogsheads in their butt on Usenet, once.

...brb, washing my brain out with bleach. GAH.

Yeah I saw those pictures of Cleve and his bunker, too.

Ba-Da-Bing

There's a Super Mario Brothers Comic?!?! I hope it's as good as the old cartoon / live action show.

People who try to establish their geek credentials by complaining about films that use flashy graphics and animations to portray 'hacking' sometimes drive me nuts. I work in a bash/CLI/terminal session all day: they look as boring as fuck, even if I generally know what the shite in the terminal means.

Unless you're complaining about the coding sequence in 'Swordfish', where Huge Action has nine screens and they're all displaying a spinning cube or some shit because that sequence makes no sense, even if you grant that they're just trying to sexy up the programming stuff and make it understandabe for non-techies.

That's just because the best hacking scene of all time - of all time - is from Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: The Movie.

Custom skinned apps which don't work with Windows 7 window management features. Fuck you Spotify and your iTunes/OSX wannabe skin. Fuck you even more for not making it a toggle.

Fucking drivers who don't know how to use cruise control. Nothing like being locked to 70mph and some dipshit is accelerating/decelerating between 65 and 75 mph the whole time. So every 30 seconds he's trying to pass...slowly...by riding up my ass, and then 30 seconds later (usually coinciding with going up a hill) I'm practically tailgating him.

You don't use cruise control to climb hills...

Depends. The SUV I borrowed from my dad has a terrible cruise control and doesn't keep speed on hills. My own car, however, does just fine.

I probably shouldn't have used that term. By 'hill' I mean 'anything that isn't perfectly flat like'. I'm not talking crossing the Sierras, I'm talking normal grade changes just driving between cities. My minivan could do the minor adjustments necessary to keep a reasonably even pace.

I don't have cruise control at all :(

What really makes me rage are drivers who are incapable of sitting on the speed limit, until the very moment an overtaking lane comes up on the highway. It is that moment they decide to hit the accelerator and do the speed limit for a change, which subsequently means I have to speed excessively in order to pass and resume my journey (with cruise control enabled). It sucks to be following a caravan doing anywhere between 70 and 90km/h in a 100km/h zone, which means I can not enable cruise for part of the rage associated with this current discussion (I feel your pain BaconTastesGood). Then to hit a overtaking area, and suddenly they travel along at the speed limit, and I'm forced to blaze past at 120, 130km/h, hoping like hell there isn't a patrol car nearby catching me speeding. I would understand if they were going downhill, but no, the road may be flat to uphill, there is no reason for this burst of speed, and I sure as hell don't want to be sitting behind some lumbering trailer/motorhome constantly adjusting my speed. At least truck drivers have a better sense of awareness about them and either indicate if the road is clear in front of them, or will slow down in overtaking lanes to allow a lot of traffic to pass them.

It makes me wish for the days when one highway I used to travel had an open speed limit, though now recently are 130km/h. What I travel on now to go to Brisbane is shit. Being able to line up a convoy of caravans with open road in front of me and blast on past without a care for speed and law enforcement was nice.

Cruise control is not a thing here. It's an expensive extra that most people don't have - also the lack of long straight roads.
What I hate is on the road between my local towns where some people for reasons unknown drive just under 70 km/h where the limit is 80 and when we then reach a town, where the limit is 50, they cruise along at just over 60... it's like they have cruise control and have just picked some arbitrary speed.

On the freeways I don't know what I hate the most. Truckdrivers overtaking each other at 100 km/h speeds where the limit is 130 blocking the 2nd lane, or people tailgaiting me and flashing their lights when I'm overtaking with 130-140 km/h.

I'm a habitual speed-limit-follower, or at least less than 5mph above it, which makes me a big outlier here. On multilane freeways, which are virtually all I ever use, I hang out in the slow lanes and all is well. On one-laners I am always being passed, which is fine with me, I try to help out. (I call these people cop bait and happily wave at them as they head down the highway running interference for me.) On twisty roads, people tend to stack up behind me, because my car is not high powered or agile and I'm afraid of taking curves at speed. At least I have the decency to use turn-outs when people start stacking up behind me and slow down or at least stay the same when being passed.

I stridently disapprove of the portrayal of many villains in Marvel's Avengers Alliance Facebook game! The Juggernaut is not a mutant! And why is Vapor teaming up with Whiplash? Where are the rest of the U-Foes?! Why am I using Hawkeye to take on Sandman and Green Goblin? These are Spider-Man foes! I QUESTION THE CANONICITY OF THIS GAME!

Also there should be a bonus for using Spider-Man and the Human Torch! They are best friends, okay!

(It really is all over the place. I've got Spider-Man in a Future Foundation costume, Captain America in a WWII outfit and Kitty Pryde in her 70s Shadowcat outfit and we're all taking orders from a black Nick Fury who is referencing the Mandarin's Ten Rings terrorist organization. But also Doctor Doom is here and using magic.)

I had no idea Juggernaut wasn't a mutant. I didn't know the evil X-Men team would even accept non-mutant members into their fold, what with the magnetic hat guy being so obnoxious about them, at least in the movies any way.

THEY DONT THE JUGGERNAUT IS NOT A MEMBER OF THE BROTHERHOOD OF EVIL MUTANTS* OH MY GOD I WANT TO PUNCH YOU IN YOUR TRACHEA!!!!

*He is in the movie, but the movie was awful. Also the Ultimate version is, but that's also awful. He's not a goddam mutant. He is (was, as of Fear Itself? I don't read comics anymore) the avatar of Cytorakk, who is basically Khorne with a ruby fixation. As a villain Juggernaut usually works alone or with Black Tom. During his occasional stints as a good (which make me HAPPY) he's joined the X-Men and Excalibur as some kind of token non-mutant member.

Thankyouthankyouthankyou!

I get really irritated at drivers who will let long lines of vehicles stack behind them and refuse to use turn-outs. I try to remember to wave and smile at the ones who do.

In IE9 if I have multiple tabs open I can click and hold on one and move it and it will pop out into its own window.

There does not appear to be any way to take that window and put it back into a tab.

Someone please tell me I'm wrong and how to do this, cos I'm nerd ragin' pretty bad.

You should be able to just just drag the tab back to the IE window where you want it, even if the window you want to merge back into the main IE instance only has a single tab in it.

...

I'm dumb.

This is exactly how you do it in Chrome. Despite that, I've been trying to merge it back in completely incorrectly. Instead of dragging the tab I've been trying to drag the top of the window. The title bar.

Thanks!

YOU ARE WRONG.

So, my wife insisted we go to the pharmacy that's about 20 minutes away, "Because it has a drive-thru", as opposed to the one that's less than 5 minutes away. The engineer in me got annoyed at the inefficiency in her logic.

I'm pretty convinced trying to pass some people triggers a competitive response that goes back to sleep as soon as the pass crisis is over.

Well, that depends. If it's someone in a 1984 hatchback trying to pass you, that just will not do.

So that WAS you.

I appreciate that Google is very paranoid about protecting my junk mail account. I can't log onto it ever without getting a text message first! That's so great and awesome, especially when I'm at work and in a dead zone so I can't receive a text message!

I find it a little odd that they could give a shit about my main email account. I could attempt to log on from Syria and it wouldn't care. I'm pretty sure that there have been times that I've mistyped my PW and a screen briefly popped up that said 'close enough, bro!' and then let me in.