leekfiend wrote:People with widescreen televisions who insist on stretching all content to fill the screen, thus buggering up the aspect ratio on $bignum percent of it.
Some tellys have a strange sort of variable aspect-ratio mode which is supposed to be a better solution to this problem[*], whereby the centre of the screen is something closer to the correct AR, and the edges are stretched more. The idea being that most of the action takes place in the centre. This is fucking awful. I can just about get my brain to temporarily adjust to viewing everything uniformly stretched to fit widescreen mode, if I'm forced to. What I can't get my head round is people becoming thinner and fatter as they move across the screen. Or if they're in close up and slightly off-centre, one side of their face gets all stretched out making them look deformed. Whoever thought that would be a good idea never actually sat down and tried to watch it.
Oh and copying 10000s of files in Windows when it proudly proclaims half way through "couldn't copy file ??????" and stops mid way through completely screwing you, can't they just copy the files after it and just list the files that failed? Oh no that would be too much like a real operating system to code for them
I just zoom it up vertically and miss the top and bottom bits as neccessary, black borders left and right are not good for the life of the tube convergance wise IIRC anyway. Plus you get to not have to see all those stupid cunting logos all over ever channel these days (even on BBC3 on films now )
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Cloudane wrote:In World of Warcraft when you've spent ages carefully clearing a camp on your own, then some tosspot just strolls in while you're killing the last one and opens the chests.
Cloudane wrote:In World of Warcraft when you've spent ages carefully clearing a camp on your own, then some tosspot just strolls in while you're killing the last one and opens the chests.
Grrrrrrr!
Vanish/Feign Death for rogues/hunters is useful - sometimes shifts the aggro onto the bloke opening the chest
moosedude wrote:lvl40 for a horse? 90g? you're havin' a laugh!
Heh, my rogue bought his mount at L27, just couldn't use it for another 13 levels
Yet the picture they post in the ad, has their own pet in it, laid in their petbed
And though you're gone, you're with me every single day believe me
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Searching for a piece of tech in Google for some inside info from a specialist forum or somesuch, only instead to be confronted with pages and pages of fucking price comparison websites trying to sell you one..
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Stuart B wrote:Searching for a piece of tech in Google for some inside info from a specialist forum or somesuch, only instead to be confronted with pages and pages of fucking price comparison websites trying to sell you one..
...and review sites that don't actually have any reviews for the product, but put up a page about it anyway
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