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Muscle Tracer posted:The best though is when absolutely none of these rules are actually shown to you, you just get a text pop-up about whichever is the first in the list that your password didn't meet, over and over again. you mean like this?
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I know it's a curmudgeony thing to be mad about (I mean what is the Pet Peeve Thread for if not irrational frustrations) but people who don't understand the concept of 'single file' really bug me. Just now I was walking down a section of sidewalk that's made inconveniently narrow by bicycle posts on the one side and a local bar's patio railing on the other. This couple was walking towards me and I was all the way over, right against the patio railing, and the dude didn't budge, so guess what happened? We collided and he stumbled. I'm a pretty considerate person, like I'll be the first to walk in the road if there's someone coming by in a wheelchair or with a stroller or other mobility issues. But if you are a grown-rear end able-bodied man and you can't be arsed to step behind your friend for a brief moment, you are getting bumped into.
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May 8, 2024 01:12
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Drivers that rush to the end of a merge lane that get mad when you don't slide out of their way when they try to bully their way into your lane with their truck. Added bonus when they follow you for a few blocks before obviously giving up and turning around. Learn to drive and how to regulate your emotions. Indolent Bastard has a new favorite as of 12:26 on May 8, 2024 |
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May 8, 2024 03:41
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Indolent Bastard posted:Learn to drive and how to regulate your emotions. NO! DAD! DIE IN A FIRe
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May 8, 2024 15:40
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Podcasts that upload old episodes. It's not a loving radio station, the old episode is still there just as accessible as ever. Uploading old episodes is entirely to artificially increase their numbers by depending on people to either not realize they're downloading an old episode or relying on subscriptions that automatically download it. It feels exploitative and scummy and I hate that it seems like more and more podcasts do this.
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May 8, 2024 18:19
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I actually get requests to upload old episodes a lot with my show. The RSS feeds have caps so the old episodes don't show up in them sometimes. We get folks who want to hear the really early stuff. We don't actually do it, but the demand seems to exist at least.
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May 8, 2024 21:52
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credburn posted:Podcasts that upload old episodes. It's not a loving radio station, the old episode is still there just as accessible as ever. Uploading old episodes is entirely to artificially increase their numbers by depending on people to either not realize they're downloading an old episode or relying on subscriptions that automatically download it. It feels exploitative and scummy and I hate that it seems like more and more podcasts do this. Sometimes they’re not available Or sometimes they need to take a break and so they just upload an old one. It’s not scummy. People should be able to read and see what it says
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May 8, 2024 23:23
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Well, that makes sense. That's definitely not happening in these feeds in seeing though, releasing an episode from last goddamn year
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May 8, 2024 23:29
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Yeah idk then. Sounds like a crappy podcast imo. The ones I’ve seen do that either do it because the episodes are fairly lost due to merging podcast feeds (stitcher I think?) or they’re taking a break so they post an older one, like 10 years old episode.
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May 8, 2024 23:33
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I will say I have a similar peeve, which is for any podcast that releases "previews" on their main feed, which are always like two to five minutes of the actual episode along with an ad for microdose gummies or whatever. That one is absolutely designed to puff up numbers for other stuff. Like I know when I was approached by a publisher about writing some books related to my show, the first they asked for was raw impressions and downloads per month, and it'd be real easy to juice those numbers in a way they'd never care about by releasing snippets or 10 minute micro episodes or something.
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May 9, 2024 00:24
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theironjef posted:I actually get requests to upload old episodes a lot with my show. The RSS feeds have caps so the old episodes don't show up in them sometimes. We get folks who want to hear the really early stuff. We don't actually do it, but the demand seems to exist at least.  CelticPredator posted:Sometimes they’re not available
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May 9, 2024 03:47
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When you subscribe to a great podcast and they put an old one in the feed it’s guaranteed to be a total banger. And the form has been around long enough that it’s quite likely that I never heard the episode on original release, and if I did I’ve either forgotten the details or learned so much about the context that it’s even more interesting.
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May 9, 2024 04:02
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Tiggum posted:. I won't even notice if a podcast I listen to takes a week (or month) off, but if they put up episodes I've already listened to I'm going to be annoyed. It's a bait and switch. Okay but other people would notice when they took a week off
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May 9, 2024 05:14
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It is frustrating to me because, anecdotally, the way I listen to podcasts lends to cause incidents where I find myself listening to a podcast for like fifteen minutes before realizing I've heard it before. It's not like they audibly announce this is a repeat. I know this is resolved through my own attention, but if it wasn't a practice it also wouldn't be a problem.
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May 9, 2024 05:37
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Tiggum posted:But... if they want to listen to an old episode they can just go download it? They're not asking for you to republish the entire archive from the start, are they? So they'd still have to rely on you to decide which episodes to put into the feed? If you're like me and you're at a sort of semi-pro, been doing this for a while level, doing a bunch of work on archives or rehosting can be expensive and time consuming for very little reward. I'm not saying that to suggest that you're just wrong, like I said I don't repost old episodes. I'm just saying it because it's a regular thing I have to tell fans. It takes forever to upload old episodes to youtube and costs money for hosting space to store them as downloads, and in both cases I'm not capable of monetizing that by comparison to current episodes. Not big enough to make youtube affiliate status, and old files won't have relevant ads on them anymore unless they're on a dynamic hosting thing, which would involve reposting them, heh.
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May 9, 2024 05:56
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TV shows that overuse the trope where they start out with some super dramatic event and keep cutting back in time. It worked in that one seinfeld wedding episode, and it can work in general if it's well done, but otherwise it's just lazy writing, like clickbait youtubes that spoil the most interesting part of the video in the first 10 seconds. If the plot isn't interesting enough to keep me drawn in for the entire episode length to find out what happens in the end, it's not worth airing.
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May 10, 2024 02:32
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I should really change doctor's office, even though the doc I got this time seemed fairly nice. Booking an hour at my previous doctor: Pop in to the national health website, book an available appointment online, done. (Before that got standardized, use their web portal to do the same.) At the new one. Check on the website, see that they still don't accept online bookings, 2 years later. They say you can request one through a form, but they don't reply to that and just let it time out after a few days. You call them, and the phone immediately goes into a 2-3 minute schpiel about: "We've changed name and location (2+ years ago), you can also book hours online, here are our incredibly variable phone hours." And then they just ignore the phone for 20 min until the lunch break hits and the hold-bot goes 'we're not currently open, please call back later.'. It's faster to just travel in and book appointments in person. (And why yes, the phone hold is an incredibly obnoxious one that notifies you that there's unfortunately nobody to answer right now every 30 or so sec.)
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May 10, 2024 10:12
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what the gently caress is up with websites and apps calling things GIFs when they are actually just MP4s with awful resolution
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May 10, 2024 16:39
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Wraps, tortillas, souvlaki bread, etc. that comes in packs of five. That's not divisible by anything. Put one more in there. 
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Tiggum posted:Wraps, tortillas, souvlaki bread, etc. that comes in packs of five. That's not divisible by anything. Put one more in there. It's divisible by 1
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May 15, 2024 16:46
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Tiggum posted:Wraps, tortillas, souvlaki bread, etc. that comes in packs of five. That's not divisible by anything. Put one more in there. Me looking up from my prayer mat...souvlaki bread?!
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Dopilsya posted:Me looking up from my prayer mat...souvlaki bread?! 
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Tiggum posted:Wraps, tortillas, souvlaki bread, etc. that comes in packs of five. That's not divisible by anything. Put one more in there. Breakfast sausages come in packs of 14. Do you think I'm feeding one person 2 sausages a day every day of the week? Just make every sausage like 10% bigger and make it 12 sausages.
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May 16, 2024 12:34
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People who are out of office for a defined period of time, but set their out of office to last indefinitely, so you still get their stupid auto responses etc even when you KNOW they're in today
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The Perfect Element posted:People who are out of office for a defined period of time, but set their out of office to last indefinitely, so you still get their stupid auto responses etc even when you KNOW they're in today this is a power move and i respect it.
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I love the 'this email is not consistently monitored' auto reply like that's a really cool way of saying gently caress you to the world and I respect it What does annoy me though is when it's HR people. Your entire job is to forward emails and distribute essential resources and powers from behind emails, so kindly do it??? Do the three hours of work a week and then you can euthanize stray cats or whatever your hobby is
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May 17, 2024 14:51
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Not sure if this is an actual peeve or just something that baffles me but how do people still not understand PowerPoint? Like real basic poo poo. I've been in multiple meetings with people sharing PowerPoint and they just screen share the PowerPoint window in editing mode, like with the menu on the top and the sidebar with the list of slides and all! Like, my guy at least start the slide show?! Back when I was in college in the dang stone age a professor showed me how to save the thing as a "PowerPoint Show" that just loads the thing straight into Slide Show mode. I think if I did that I'd blow people's goddamn minds, and I am by no means a PowerPoint expert!
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Silver Falcon posted:I've been in multiple meetings with people sharing PowerPoint and they just screen share the PowerPoint window in editing mode, like with the menu on the top and the sidebar with the list of slides and all! This is, by far, the most common way I've seen PowerPoint used. Like it's just how people think you're supposed to do it.
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Silver Falcon posted:Not sure if this is an actual peeve or just something that baffles me but how do people still not understand PowerPoint? Like real basic poo poo. I've been in multiple meetings with people sharing PowerPoint and they just screen share the PowerPoint window in editing mode, like with the menu on the top and the sidebar with the list of slides and all! Like, my guy at least start the slide show?! To be completely fair, if your org uses MS Teams, poo poo is just broken sometimes. Actually, a lot of the time. I've seen that particularly have to be done because full screening the presentation in screen share mode (that is, not "sharing PowerPoint through Teams" which often fucks up) will just crash the application altogether.
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May 17, 2024 20:15
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Honestly I could write a whole two pages of posts ITT about Microsoft Teams but I won't.
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Gomez Chamberlain posted:To be completely fair, if your org uses MS Teams, poo poo is just broken sometimes. Actually, a lot of the time. I've seen that particularly have to be done because full screening the presentation in screen share mode (that is, not "sharing PowerPoint through Teams" which often fucks up) will just crash the application altogether. Oh? In fact we do use Teams! Well this is why I grumble about it here instead of calling anybody out during a meeting for not knowing how to use PowerPoint. 
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I can see why sometimes closed captions are a little bit off, like they miss a word or two. But it really bothers me when you get a sentence that's just completely different, ESPECIALLY in scripted stuff where you could presumably just copy-paste the script for a starting point. What gives?
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It's especially nice when it completely undermines a joke or takes away any gravitas. This would be a fun time to have an example at hand. Post over.
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Muscle Tracer posted:I can see why sometimes closed captions are a little bit off, like they miss a word or two. But it really bothers me when you get a sentence that's just completely different, ESPECIALLY in scripted stuff where you could presumably just copy-paste the script for a starting point. What gives? i was under the impression that in cases where it's an entirely different sentence, the cc IS the script, and the actors did an ad-lib that made the final cut
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