What really pisses you off? please no posts about nexus lol

[Ernest Lemmingway]

I try to avoid getting overtly political, but the antics of Burn Loot Murder in Rochester, NY just reminds me those fucks have gone too far for too long. Thankfully they haven't had the balls to try anything in this state after one demonstration but that doesn't mean they won't be back. I'm not a supporter of groups like the Proud Boys or Patriot Prayer, either. Frankly I feel anyone who decides to get violent should be locked up and the key thrown away. This is no longer about "racial justice" or "liberty" and I don't believe it ever was. This is all just an excuse to get violent.

[AKM]

5 hours ago, Darkpig said:

For example some rich fuck will claim that they worked hard to gain all the money in the world and maybe they believe it too. They do this to justify why they are above the common rabble. The truth is they wouldn't be the business they are without the contacts, initial money to invest in their business and their influence in the government.

Looking back on the decision I made two years ago, I made a major mistake.  That mistake was not using the money I gained during the previous years in a smart manor.  Instead, I did what I thought was right, used it to go back to school - and then found out I was terrible at what I tried to do. 

I'm now doing something different with what I have left, and, frankly, should have done with the whole she-bang rather than fork it over to the school.

The point I'm getting at is: It's not just about working hard for your money, you also have to be smart about it, which I was not.  Now I'm making better decisions, but with a LOT less capital, and it will take me a LOT longer to get where I want to be - with that much less time available to get there.

Starting a business is one of the smartest, but also most risky, ways to grow your money.  And Mr. Rich Fuck did NOT get rich overnight.  As for initial money, bank loans are available to most people who didn't fuck up their credit.

The 'common rabble' are what they are because, like me, they didn't think.  They didn't think long term, but most importantly, they simply didn't think they could do it.  They didn't have a goal and believe in themselves, that they could obtain that goal, and go out and bust their ass to get what it is they're after. 

Why?  Too many handouts.  Too much free stuff (through taxes), at the hands of those who have worked hard for their money, who have believed in themselves and sweated and bled, and cursed until they DID have what they set out to do and have.  It's not an over-night thing, and there is no "get rich quick" button.

Here's a video of a typical response from a 1% trying to have a rational conversation about "how I got where I am" with some of the rabble.  And guess what?  The rabble don't want to work, and sweat, and bleed, and curse.  They want handouts.  They see the haves, and that they have not, and they have absolutely NO CONCEPT of the fact that they, too, could get there if they put their mind to it.  But they don't, because they've beaten themselves down before they even start by believing that they are inferior/not worthy/whathaveyou.  I know, I was there.

I've changed my outlook, but success hasn't come yet.  And it won't for a while.  But with a different mindset, I finally believe I can change my own status.  Do for MYSELF rather than relying on others so much.  It'll be a long road, but I finally have the one thing I've been lacking for a very long time:

Goals.

 

The video:

Spoiler

 

 

[Mr. Otaku]

1 hour ago, AKM said:

Absolutely about your parents.  Having good ones is almost always a good thing.  But it can be over-done.  The whole "protect and shelter" thing, that is.

It was actually the opposite for me lol. What makes my parents great in my eyes is that they didn't ever try to shelter me or protect me from harsher things in life. They only protected me when it was necessary, sheltering was never an option. They themselves have had a tough life when they were kids, especially my dad, so they wanted me to understand the gravity of reality early on. And i did. I guess them being a bit unconventional helped a lot, they interacted with me in ways not many parents can or even think about. I did lose my way a while ago but they helped me out of it just the same.

 

As for the media, yes they'll always be like that and always have been. Trying to spark "controversy" in anything they can find. People resort to hindsight bias far too much than they realize. "Oh they should've done this!!!" No, they shouldn't have, and you wouldn't have either.

[AKM]

38 minutes ago, Mr.Otaku said:

People resort to hindsight bias far too much than they realize. "Oh they should've done this!!!" No, they shouldn't have, and you wouldn't have either.

Ain't that the truth.  I'm almost reduced to fits of giggles listening to what various groups have to say about the same event from opposite viewpoints on that event.  Tonnes and tonnes of keyboard warriors who puff and strut and preen from behind their keyboards, whilst having absolutely NO CLUE about the real world.  My favorites are the extremists who say they would have done this or that, but when someone else says they'd do this or that given half a chance (in the real world), the keyboard warriors get all in a tizzy that someone else would have the gall to say such a thing!  It's hilarious to watch, and would be more so if it weren't for the gravity of the situations it's all revolving around.  Thank fuck these idiots, on all sides of these hot button issues, don't have access to more force or more brain cells to actually do what they yap about.  None have any concept whatsoever of actions and consequences, that's for sure.

[Mr. Otaku]

55 minutes ago, AKM said:

Ain't that the truth.  I'm almost reduced to fits of giggles listening to what various groups have to say about the same event from opposite viewpoints on that event.  Tonnes and tonnes of keyboard warriors who puff and strut and preen from behind their keyboards, whilst having absolutely NO CLUE about the real world.  My favorites are the extremists who say they would have done this or that, but when someone else says they'd do this or that given half a chance (in the real world), the keyboard warriors get all in a tizzy that someone else would have the gall to say such a thing!  It's hilarious to watch, and would be more so if it weren't for the gravity of the situations it's all revolving around.  Thank fuck these idiots, on all sides of these hot button issues, don't have access to more force or more brain cells to actually do what they yap about.  None have any concept whatsoever of actions and consequences, that's for sure.

Yeah, let someone else do the hard work, then do speeches about how much better it could've been done. Yeah well, anyone can say a bunch of shit, if you can't replicate it in reality then you're just all bark and no bite. Point this out to them and they become a mine of salt on the spot lmao. Predictably retarded.

[27X]

On 9/4/2020 at 10:06 AM, DoctaSax said:

. How is this even happening to me.

 

On 9/4/2020 at 10:06 AM, DoctaSax said:

she

 

[FauxFurry]

2 hours ago, 27X said:

 

 

What, are you trying to provide material for Homo Promo part 2? [To anyone who doesn't know what Homo Promo was, thank Google for hiding all signs of the existence of that ostensibly humorous pro-gay conversion, strangely anti-woman at times ad campaigns from the Oughts. This is yet another example of someone calling themselves 'helping' while spoiling everyone's fun in the process.]

[Darkpig]

14 hours ago, Canaris said:

Except most of them did and nothing screeching commies say will change that. 

Dont get butthurt just because you spent your life smoking weed and jacking off to hentai while others work and now they have brands, franchises and fortunes while you have porn induced erectile dysfunction and weed driven neruological conditions. 

You sound like you are in middle school. Are you sure you are over 18?

[Tyrant99]

I would say that you can't generally do something great, such as starting a successful company, without taking risk. And you cannot take risk without the chance of failure. Therefore, mathematically, not everyone that tries will succeed, and often this is due to circumstances out of their control.

 

Take the guy who invented color television - Philo Farnsworth. This should have made him wealthy, but, due to the unfortunate timing of WW2 overlapping with his invention, people weren't too interested in color TVs at the time as they had other things to think about, then, by the time the war ended, many of his patents had run out. Toward the end of his life, he wouldn't even let a TV into his home.

 

It's also true that around half the people in Forbes 500 are self made in some way, while the other half basically got born into the right family. Being a lucky sperm that happened to live in the right set of balls does not = meritocracy.

 

 

 

[Darkpig]

50 minutes ago, Tyrant99 said:

I would say that you can't generally do something great, such as starting a successful company, without taking risk. And you cannot take risk without the chance of failure. Therefore, mathematically, not everyone that tries will succeed, and often this is due to circumstances out of their control.

 

Take the guy who invented color television - Philo Farnsworth. This should have made him wealthy, but, due to the unfortunate timing of WW2 overlapping with his invention, people weren't too interested in color TVs at the time as they had other things to think about, then, by the time the war ended, many of his patents had run out. Toward the end of his life, he wouldn't even let a TV into his home.

 

It's also true that around half the people in Forbes 500 are self made in some way, while the other half basically got born into the right family. Being a lucky sperm that happened to live in the right set of balls does not = meritocracy.

Exactly. Luck plays a part in success. One broken power line, one bad cog in the machine and that can spell doom for your business. People who don't understand that likely wont be running their business for very long. Risk plays a large part of what makes businesses either succeed or fail period. Knowing how to play is just another piece of the game.

[gregathit]

5 hours ago, Tyrant99 said:

I would say that you can't generally do something great, such as starting a successful company, without taking risk. And you cannot take risk without the chance of failure. Therefore, mathematically, not everyone that tries will succeed, and often this is due to circumstances out of their control.

According to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, about 20% of U.S. small businesses fail within the first year. By the end of their fifth year, roughly 50% have faltered. After 10 years, only around a third of businesses have survived.  - taken from this article:  https://www.lendingtree.com/business/small/failure-rate/#:~:text=According to data from the,failure rates are fairly consistent.  This has been true for a very, very, very long time.  As you said, there are a ton of reasons this takes place.

 

Risk is inseparable from reward.  It may be proportional, but it is inseparable.  Many people are afraid of risk and seek to minimize it.  Others appear to throw caution to the wind.  Failure is not something to fear, rather it is something to learn from.  Now it is far better to learn from the failures of others, but at some point a person is going to have to get out there and give it a shot.  Each person is going to have to learn what amount of risk they are comfortable with.  Pretty much everything in life has risk associated with it.  From relationships to work to even eating.  Eat at this restaurant and there is a remote chance of food poisoning.  LOL!

[gregathit]

3 hours ago, Tyrant99 said:

But, what I'm talking about is very hard for the human brain to truly wrap itself around, and in fact, it even seems to be wired in such a way to actively suppress and replace with useful delusions of exaggerated order and organization instead.

I would say that is due to the chaos/randomness of what you are describing being unsettling to our minds.  Thus we seek to replace that uncertainty/chaos with order and organization.  Most likely this is why there is religion.  Folks try to supply a simple framework of order to the data so that they can focus on other things.  Just as it is hard to work in a messy office, they clean things up by imposing a framework of order.  I'm not a psychoanalyst so that is the best spin I can think of as to why humans do this.

[Canaris]

7 hours ago, Darkpig said:

You sound like you are in middle school. Are you sure you are over 18?

Whew, seems like a touched a nerve here. 
I was working for myself when you were a drop of sperm bouncing in your dad balls, sit down and shut the fuck up commie bitch boy.

And stop trying to grab other people money and hard work before someone snaps that twig you have there.

 

And back on topic :

I was reading some RDR2 reviews and it fucking drove me up the fucking wall when the "game journalists" were bitching about the game starting slow ( and it was actually a complaint people levied against RDR 1 too)...

I fucking hate the goddamned sensory overload i get whenever i start a new AAA game today, especially something from Ubishit - the dozens of messages, tutorials, collectibles, fucking skills, abilities, level ups, twitch/facebook/YT/pivix/shitter integration, the DLC annoucements and dozens of other shit all poping at once on the screen, fucking adverts and whatever else. I hate being treated like im some fucking 12yo Fortnite kiddie that will drop the game after ten minutes if my eyes arent gangraped to death by oh shinny stuff!! shit.
I miss when i was playing GTA SA/RDR and the game started slow and slowly introduced all the various elements and concepts of the gameplay, allowed me to actually immerse myself into the game world, experiment, experience the game, get familiarized with controls, the gameplay etc. 

 

And i hate that because i know why modern AAA market does that - the game is shit so they need to distract the player with bullshit busywork and flashy shit before he discovers the lack of actual quality of the game.

[KoolHndLuke]

Is it justice we want for some people that are just hateful shitbags.....or is it revenge? Do we feel those people are beyond redemption, or do we just not care? Just putting this out there because a certain person is on my mind and I can't help but think about what I'd love to do to them. Some fucks don't really understand you can only push people so far.....

 

[gregathit]

19 minutes ago, KoolHndLuke said:

 Some fucks don't really understand you can only push people so far.....

And some do, but either don't care or even worse, they are trying to push your buttons.  Keep in mind, no one can make you do anything.  Only you can decide to get angry.  Folks can't make you become angry.  Instead of reacting with emotion, look at why they are doing what they are doing.  Is it spur of the moment, are they trying to provoke you so that they can gang up on you, are they trying to get something on film to push a narrative?  By looking at things logically you can make a better decision on how you react.  True, sometimes there are no good decisions.  Sometimes you just need to walk away.  But above all, remove emotion from the equation if you can, it will dramatically improve your ability to make good decisions.  Don't get me wrong, sometimes there is a time to draw a line in the sand and stand.  But do so without emotion driving you to it blindly.

[prinyo]

On 8/21/2020 at 4:08 PM, ToJKa said:

Well, shit. [...] Oh well, maybe Valve can sort out the Index production by 2023

 

On 8/21/2020 at 6:20 PM, landess said:

Fuck! At least I shouldn't be affected in the long run (at first)

I think people overestimate the actual impact this will have on users. Facebook can already link your Oculus to your FB account quite precisely.

But they have had issues in the past years with regulators about merging data cross services. For example last year "Germany's competition regulator has told Facebook to substantially restrict how it collects and combines data about its users unless they give it explicit consent." [ source ] Facebook appealed successfully [source] but as the article notes: "essentially kicking the matter into very long legal grass.".

So Facebook is merging accounts across their brands as they have also started merging features and services. [example]

But now they are headed to a deadlock in Germany where they stopped recently selling all Oculus headsets. Because of a German law that you can't require the customer to use product A in order to use product B.

 

I don't think this has much to do with Valve as the Index is a very different niche - the Index is an expensive high-end headset. This is happening in the niche Microsoft is interested in, but so far they haven't managed to establish a stable presence even after having a range of headsets.

[landess]

37 minutes ago, prinyo said:

Facebook can already link your Oculus to your FB account quite precisely.

One needs a FB account - which I don't have. I have NEVER opened a FB page in any way. While they no doubt have certain info on me by virtue of having the occulus PC app. I never use their store or anything. Just the software needed to run the device.

 

Don't get me wrong, I'm sure that app has mined a decent amount of data and continues to update it each time I turn it on. Because I don't use the PC app for anything else, as long as I can get the software to upgrade through itself if needed to run, then everything else can kiss my ass.

[AKM]

7 hours ago, Tyrant99 said:

I would say that you can't generally do something great, such as starting a successful company, without taking risk. And you cannot take risk without the chance of failure. Therefore, mathematically, not everyone that tries will succeed, and often this is due to circumstances out of their control.

Success, for the vast majority of people who are successful, is not a matter of not failing so much as it is about how you view failure. 

The unsuccessful generally take the view that failure a signal that the endeavor is hopeless, and once they fail at something they give up and go do something else.

 

The successful, on the other hand, view failure as a learning experience.  "Welp, that didn't work, let's try it another way and see if a different approach works."  There's a famous saying attributed to Thomas Edison about his "invention" of the light bulb.  Paraphrase: 'Mr. Edison, how could you possibly keep your spirits up when you kept failing in your quest to build a light bulb?' "I didn't fail, I learned many different ways how not to make a light bulb."  Elon Musk's story is very similar.  Failure after failure after failure, one tiny success... more failure.  It's not about the fact that you failed, it's about how you handle that failure, what you do with it, that counts.

Rant:  The keyboard warriors are at it again.  When I point out something to someone, and get shouted down.  Really?  Then why is it that there's an entire industry centered on what I just mentioned, hmmmm?  Honestly.  Some days I just wish the internet were only about information gathering ability with a complete lack of direct communication ability.

[prinyo]

41 minutes ago, landess said:

One needs a FB account - which I don't have. I have NEVER opened a FB page in any way. While they no doubt have certain info on me by virtue of having the occulus PC app. I never use their store or anything. Just the software needed to run the device.

FB has a "shadow account" for you. If you have added your CC details to your Oculus account then it can get more specific. But I guess from what you said you haven't. I guess you are using a Rift, on the Quest it seems not possible to not use the store for the best Quest stuff.

[landess]

7 hours ago, prinyo said:

I guess you are using a Rift

Yes. Purchased it a few months after they left 'beta'. They didn't even have the controllers yet - just the Xbox controller and 'key-fob'. I recently looked into the dual hand controllers - WAAAAYYYY over priced.

[steelpanther24]

14 hours ago, landess said:

One needs a FB account - which I don't have. I have NEVER opened a FB page in any way. While they no doubt have certain info on me by virtue of having the occulus PC app. I never use their store or anything. Just the software needed to run the device.

 

Don't get me wrong, I'm sure that app has mined a decent amount of data and continues to update it each time I turn it on. Because I don't use the PC app for anything else, as long as I can get the software to upgrade through itself if needed to run, then everything else can kiss my ass.

I hope one day that people will say that this move explains how Oculus followed Beta tapes (vs VHS tapes) into being a trivia question.   

[Darkpig]

17 hours ago, gregathit said:

According to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, about 20% of U.S. small businesses fail within the first year. By the end of their fifth year, roughly 50% have faltered. After 10 years, only around a third of businesses have survived.  - taken from this article:  https://www.lendingtree.com/business/small/failure-rate/#:~:text=According to data from the,failure rates are fairly consistent.  This has been true for a very, very, very long time.  As you said, there are a ton of reasons this takes place.

 

Risk is inseparable from reward.  It may be proportional, but it is inseparable.  Many people are afraid of risk and seek to minimize it.  Others appear to throw caution to the wind.  Failure is not something to fear, rather it is something to learn from.  Now it is far better to learn from the failures of others, but at some point a person is going to have to get out there and give it a shot.  Each person is going to have to learn what amount of risk they are comfortable with.  Pretty much everything in life has risk associated with it.  From relationships to work to even eating.  Eat at this restaurant and there is a remote chance of food poisoning.  LOL!

It does take a certain mindset to become a business. It is not for everyone and the bias of others are what drives a business forward. Such a lifestyle can lead to a complex of some kind which may cause some to abuse their privileges as business owners. Things like abusing their workers or sometimes breaking the law. This of course does not apply to most businesses.

 

Taking a step back being a part of a business leadership is a comfy place to be due to the amount of money flowing in. Since I am going by what @KoolHndLuke said yes there is some semblance of a class system in a capitalist system. It isn't rigged like other systems like it but rising through the ranks can be a monumental task due to leading members being unwilling to give up their position. Any biases towards you they will use to keep their position. Climbing the leadership ladder in a store for example is not an easy thing if say one of your family was imprisoned or you were imprisoned yourself or they just don't like your family in general. Same with starting a business as people will be less likely to do business with you given your looks, family history, accent, etc.

[steelpanther24]

20 hours ago, Tyrant99 said:

Go back 200 years and try to calculate the mathematical probability that you would ever exist and you would find the result to be almost infinitely infinitesimal. A tiny tiny epsilon of a number, greater that 0, but astronomically improbable. And yet, here are, 100%.

 

The future is always probability streams collapsing to reality, many of which are incredibly unlikely. But, humans are pattern recognition animals and programmed to think in overly simplistic terms relative to our own anecdotal biases and experiences. This leads to the common delusions that things make more sense or have clearer cause and effect relationships than they actually do, objectively. 

 

But, what I'm talking about is very hard for the human brain to truly wrap itself around, and in fact, it even seems to be wired in such a way to actively suppress and replace with useful delusions of exaggerated order and organization instead.

 

The "go back 200 years" also triggered a point made by a colleague  several years ago, that the human race has not gotten smarter than those that lived during the Roman era or even during the "middle ages" (I am speaking of the "West" as my knowledge of the "East" is woefully lacking).   We know more things, sure, but knowledge is not intelligence.   Knowledge plus intelligence is wisdom.  Unfortunately, time is the best teacher of knowledge, but it kills all of her students.

 

I typed up a big paragraph on this is why we still think like we used to in "olden ages" but......you, and others, have already said it.

[landess]

23 minutes ago, steelpanther24 said:

I hope one day that people will say that this move explains how Oculus followed Beta tapes (vs VHS tapes) into being a trivia question.   

While I get the idea behind a technology going 'extinct' I hate that comparison.

 

Betamax was/is a superior technology compared to VHS. I even played music with a fellow whom used a Betamax machine for studio recording because of the fidelity. The reason VHS 'won'? Because they decided it was better to have LONGER tape run time at the expense of quality. See.... the lowest common denominator wins, because people are stupid.

[gregathit]

30 minutes ago, Darkpig said:

It isn't rigged like other systems like it but rising through the ranks can be a monumental task due to leading members being unwilling to give up their position. Any biases towards you they will use to keep their position. Climbing the leadership ladder in a store for example is not an easy thing if say one of your family was imprisoned or you were imprisoned yourself or they just don't like your family in general. Same with starting a business as people will be less likely to do business with you given your looks, family history, accent, etc.

No, this isn't the slightest bit true at all.  If you actually are worth a damn as a worker and you are not given the opportunity to advance, you leave that business and go to another.  Often folks hop from one business to another just for a raise or title change when there was nothing at all wrong with where they were.  Now if you have zero skills because you made poor choices in life, well, your path forward is going to be a bit longer and much tougher.  For anyone else, it depends on how much stress and time you want to pour into your profession. Of course it also depends on what profession you have chosen.  If you picked lesbian dance theater........well, refer to my earlier comment about poor choices.  You can see who will pay more, McDonald's or Burger King.  ROFL!!!  As for race, family or religion.......nope.  I don't give a shit about any of these things when I order a burger, buy a motorcycle or pick a hotel to stay in.  Who would?  Perhaps there are professions that do care, I know construction doesn't.  Nor do any of the businesses or people that I've come in contact while traveling the US.