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I am officially done. From now on, ANYONE who reiterates any phrase like "Stop being poor", "Get a job", "Pull up your bootstraps", or any other type of phrase that solicits 'poverty shaming' earns a free block from me. As a poor person, I have put up with this mentality for far too long and I've had enough of it. I'm done listening to toxic assholes who think they can just say anything. They can look down on me, so I can look down on them, not for having money, but because of their toxic, douchebag attitude. I'm unworkable, have autism, and I am not gonna listen to people who tell me how to live my life and tell me that I should be doing "x instead of y". Anyone who says that is either just simply an asshole or is privileged and was babied by their rich parents and had everything handed to them. I am absolutely not sorry and I am not apologizing. I've listened to this mentality all my life and I am about ready to snap the next time someone tells me to 'not be poor'. I am so sick and tired of it and I don't wanna be around or interact with anyone who reiterates making fun of people for being stuck in poverty. Y'all don't know what it's like to live off of basically scraps and wonder if you're gonna be able to pay for food or electricity next week. Face it, you guys wouldn't last two days in my shoes and you would hate living like this. I'm done being nice to people who just want to blame poor people for being poor rather than blame the circumstances that got them into this mess. There are several factors as to why people are poor and stay poor: they can't work, everything eats up practically all of their savings pretty much all of the time, they got scammed out of money, they have to pay for a shit-ton of house expenses to even have the privilege to live in their home, literally hundreds of things, and yet, the very first thing you wanna do is blame the poor, unfortunate soul for their financial woes. Nah, I am done with it, and I am not sorry at all. You wanna repeat this and make fun of people struggling to survive, like me? Well, congrats, you've earned yourself a free block. You should take a hard look in the mirror and see just how much of an awful, horrible bully you are. Because I am fed up and done on so many levels. I have hit my breaking point and I will not be tolerating it any longer. Y'all have actually crossed a line with me this time.

I played 3on3 Freestyle on Xbox, right after the game released on the platform and had its trailer. To start off with, it was actually fun and engaging. It was a fun, arcadey-like soccer/football game with a ton of replay value. But then, as I continued to do matches and continued to level up, I realized the true nature of this game and I started to absolutely hate it. Every match onwards, I was placed with basically starter-level players while I was around maybe level 11 - 15 and had already made progress in the game. And almost every single game, I was being faced off against a team that consisted of players above my level, I think they were around level 20 - 25. The matchmaking system completely sucked. But, the worst part is that I was always being placed with teammates who were literally between levels 1 - 5. My teammates were always the absolute worst at this game and I can't even count how many times I lost online matches due to having bad teammates. I was completely ignored every single time I asked for the ball, and even when I was wide open and able to take a shot. I literally was right there, ready to score, and my teammates still passed the ball between each other and completely ignored my existence. There was several times I could have been able to score my team a point, but alas, I was never able to because of my teammates disregarding the fact I even existed. And then, they never played defense properly, and we always kept getting scored on. Over. And over. And over again. We rarely got a single point while the other team got 5 - 8 points in a single game. Their coordination with blocking shots and passes was horrible and it always resulted in us getting schooled by the other team. Meanwhile, I was the only one actually trying my best to block the ball from getting passed or landing in the hoop, and the other team still managed to outmaneuver and outplay us, mainly because my teammates sucked at defense. And most importantly, they always ended up trying to take impossible half-court shots for 3 points, which always failed and always resulted in a turnover. They always attempted to shoot the ball into the hoop from impossible distances, which always caused the ball to bounce off the rim of the hoop. I was trying to be realistic and shoot the ball from closer distances that were close to the hoop, and I only went back to the 3-point line if I wanted to do a 3-point shot. But not my teammates. They just wanted to go all the to the half-court line, and in some cases, even attempted to shot the ball all the way from the opposite hoop, a full-court shot. And because of all of this, I lost. Constantly. I was always on a losing streak in every online match, and I've had multiple cases where I literally just lost 100% of the time, no matter what. I have rarely won a single online match due to this. After so many times of losing matches and hearing that "Don't feel too bad" crap over and over again, I quit playing the game outright and have never touched the game since. I was getting paired with awful teammates, losing pretty much all of the time, and literally getting smurfed, so I decided enough was enough and I wasn't gonna be putting up with it any longer. I have refused to play this game ever since, and I will continue to outright avoid it like the plague. This game is an unfun heap of trash that practically hands victories to higher-level players and might even be pay-to-win. Never playing it again. Ever.

Nowadays, most, if not everyone online are toxic fiends and just harass and bully people to make fun of them while feeling like they are better than them. It is horrible and it makes the victims feel miserable. It is absolutely wrong and disrespectful, especially to people who are less fortunate than others and can't pay for expensive luxuries like Rolex's. What ever happened to being kind to people? I feel like most people online, especially on Reddit, just get a kick out of being toxic, insufferable brats. Back when I was a kid, people were far more respectful online and actually showed empathy and compassion to people. Now, it's the complete opposite. Which is why I lashed out on one guy in one of my most recent Reddit posts. If you aren't gonna be nice about it, why the hell should I be nice to you? It's called 'respect', and it's earned, not given. I feel like ever since the COVID outbreak most people online have acted more like manchilds. It's all too common on Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, pretty much all of social media in fact. People have seriously forgotten what it means to be 'kind'. Being 'kind' does not involve belittling people and bullying them. You lot need to take a long-ass look in the mirror and see how awful you're being. It was in a ranting subreddit for crying out loud and there was someone being toxic to a person making a genuine argument over in-game skins you have to buy using physical items (which is stupid, and I STAND by my opinion). I'm tired of being nice to people who act like assholes. I used to have more patience, but life is too short and I'd rather just not bother with them. We all need to remember kindness, and by God, it's literally the first rule of Reddit: "Remember the human". You may see a username as just a username, but there is a person on the other side that is the one having to take this toxicity and abuse. You are hurting a real person on the side and that should make you feel ashamed of yourself. I don't know what the hell happened, but it is just depressing as hell that pretty much nearly everyone online has turned into toxic fiends over someone simply stating an opinion. I think we need a complete resetting of humanity, Thanos-snap everyone out of existence and restart the entire human evolution tree. That way the new generation of humans can learn from us and our toxicity and be more nicer and kind to others. It is not hard to be nice and respectful to others, my God, stop acting like it is. You're not only making a fool out of yourself, you're also making people hate you to the point that they want to block you and avoid your presence anywhere on Reddit or any social platform for that matter.

The only thing I hate about DOOM: The Dark Ages is the fact you need to buy physical items for some in-game skins. I am wanting the Executioner skin but it’s locked behind a limited-edition Xbox controller that is probably already sold out by now.

I was a victim of this website.

You all should be angry, and quite frankly, pissed off at both Sony and the infamous UMG record label. They are trying to get a stupid-ass law passed that might end up killing the Internet entirely if it goes through. This new proposed law brought on by these companies will turn your Internet service into an expensive paperweight if you are found to be pirating anime content. You watch a clip of an anime on YouTube, by any chance if this law is passed? BOOM - you have just permanently lost access to your Internet service entirely. This law is a massive human rights violation and is a massive breach of privacy! What if you just watched an anime clip on a website such as Twitter and had no idea that it was a pirated clip? What if you didn't do anything wrong and are living with someone who was in fact pirating anime content? Nope, you still lose access to your Internet seemingly for the rest of your life and it applies to the whole household. That's right, your service will never be turned back on if you break this proposed law even ONCE. There is one side you should draw your pitchforks to and that is Sony and Universal Music. This is going to flat-out kill the Internet if this is passed. These companies need to know that what they're doing is a MASSIVE overreach and overstepping of their boundaries. If this gets passed then I am fully expecting UMG and Sony stocks to tank like crazy, the foundation of YouTube being entirely ruined, VPN sales increasing tenfold, and even hackers attempting data breaches on both companies. We need to stop this from moving forward! I am getting sick and tired of these stupid companies trying to bully us normal internet users into submission. We need to start fighting back and pushing back against the narratives these companies propagate! Enough is ENOUGH! We should REFUSE to stand by and have our basic human rights listed in the Constitution ripped away from us ANY LONGER! WE ALL SHOULD PROTEST AGAINST THIS LAW AND DEMAND THAT IT IS SHELVED FOR GOOD. AND ESPECIALLY BOYCOTT BOTH SONY AND UMG! There's already been severe backlash online regarding this proposed law and I can bet there's gonna be so much more later on should this law actually be taken into effect. And I bet this law is going to end up backfiring in both Sony and UMG's faces spectacularly. I can fully bet that this is probably just gonna end up causing the number of people pirating anime content to increase tenfold - a classic case of the Cobra Effect in action.

(in the style of AVGN's YKWBS series)

Face it guys, Kerbal Space Program 2 is officially dead in the water.

I am literally sick and fucking tired of video editors locking features behind paywalls. It's like "Oh, you found a feature that you actually NEED to use? Well, fuck you, pay 20 dollars a month to use that one feature you need!". The free versions ALWAYS have less goddamn features then the paid versions to the point where they actually become borderline fucking unusable. A free plan is always a cop-out to get people to pay for overpriced bullshit with the excuse of "Feature addition!". It's fucking stupid. Every goddamn video editor out there is paid, every one of them. Basic free plans always have the basic and fucking barebones features that qualifies it as "video editing software", and the actual useful features that you might need access to are always locked behind fucking expensive subscription plans that are overpriced as shit. Come on, the original Movie Maker had a ton of more fucking features and was FREE as it came pre-installed with Windows. Guess what? WeVideo? Fucking useless for anyone on its free plan. A huge-ass watermark that takes up way too much of the screen, video length restrictions, low-ass quality with not even ANY of the HD Export options being available for free users (basic 720p and even FULL 1080p), and a ton of other restrictions. You'd have better luck finding a goddamn heads up penny than you are finding a truly free video editor without ANY of the bullshit paid tiers with features locked in it. It's gotten to the point where ANY fucking time I go on a website for a video editor and see a "Pricing" page on it, it's an instant and IMMEDIATE blacklist and I will fucking avoid it like the goddamn plague. I literally will go look for something else. Paywalling features doesn't 'attract' new customers. Quite the goddamn opposite. It instead DETERS them and instantly drives them away from your product or service. Over 10 years ago it was so easy to find a free video editor that suited your needs, all features were included in installation without any features being locked. And now, everything requires some form of goddamn payment to access them. Even the few things still labeled as "free". But I am sure people are gonna come in saying "Oh, but they need to pay for server costs and hosting", to which I will respond with "NO ONE is going to be paying for a service that makes certain features paid and TAKES AWAY features from users stuck on their free plan". It's like every goddamn open source video editor is *SOMEHOW* making more goddamn money than the paid shit... gee, I WONDER FUCKING WHY! People are literally donating to the people making these to keep the program running while with the premium shit you have to pay to "ACCESS CERTAIN FEATURES". There's a fine line between necessity to survive and greed, and it's FULLY clear to me which fucking side the premium crap uses. Guess what? Davinci Resolve has EVERY feature included on its free tier. No bullshit. No stupid paywalling. No excuses. Everything is accessible, and if you want extra features (keyword: EXTRA), you can pay for Studio which is a one-time payment of $295, and then the ENTIRE software is yours with no stupid subscription plans or extra payments required. Like, I just wanna be able to EDIT MY GODDAMN VIDEOS and yet EVERY GODDAMN VIDEO EDITOR OUT THERE IS FUCKING PAID WITH FEATURES LOCKED BEHIND PAYWALLS! I'm not giving any of my fucking time or money to video editors where you have to pay to access all of the features. And yet, somehow, the prices of EVERY single video editor out there are going up in price while wages don't keep up. STOP. RAISING. PRICES. We need the programs to cost LESS, not MORE! Oh, and yeah, since every goddamn video editor out there with a "free plan" that is missing basically 90% of the full program's features you can bet your fucking ASS that people are pirating them. Especially when they are THIS fucking outrageously expensive. This is the EXACT fucking reason why piracy is still running rampant, and instead of making things cheaper, they make things MORE expensive, which only drives up the number of pirates even more. And guess what? Pirates? They get everything for free yet the legitimate customer is fucked over because they have to PAY to use these features while pirates can enjoy them without paying a SINGLE fucking cent. Louis Rossman put it perfectly: "Any time you create a system where the pirate is rewarded yet the legitimate customer gets screwed, the legitimate customer decides they're gonna pirate and they will never give you money again", which ties directly into Gabe Newell's famous quote where he said that it's not a pricing issue, but rather a service issue. Why the fuck do you think Davinci Resolve is making more goddamn money than those "free" video editors with features locked behind paywalls? Nearly everything is free out of the box and you don't need a subscription plan to use them. And if you make the paid options better than the free options, then oh wow, you're ALL of a sudden making more money. Gee, I wonder why. I'm not giving video editors that lock basically everything behind paid plans ANY of my money. My time is fucking valuable and I have far better things to worry about. So, they will see NO revenue from me. At all. Yeah, I'm not paying $20 a fucking MONTH for Sony Vegas. That shit is WAY TOO overpriced. My only other option is a "Free Trial" that WILL expire, and so, I kindly will say "fuck off" to Vegas as I will never be using it. And guess what? I won't pay over $200 for Davinci Resolve, either. But guess what? Davinci is free with most features, Vegas is not, it's a fucking free trial for the full product that will expire after the free trial lapses. Resolve is EASILY the better deal! I can use EVERYTHING for free. Boom! Easy recommend. I'm fucking tired of the goddamn excuses these companies give. You can ABSOLUTELY make people pay for your product without stripping features away and making them exclusive to paid tiers. But, you choose greed over consumers and I have FINALLY hit my fucking breaking point with this bullshit. It's either you make more features free for the less fortunate, or you can watch as your fucking numbers go down to the point where NO ONE'S using your shitty-ass product.

I'm serious, I loathe and despise people who tell us to stop doing the one thing that we are having trouble doing - being poor. We do not "choose" to be poor, we are forced to live in this crappy financial state because something always seems to get in the way of everything to halt our progress. Yet, these people just love to bully us poor people and tell us "Y'know, you could just not be poor" or something among those lines. I would absolutely love to stop being this way, but I just can't. I can't even work because I have literally been deemed 'unworkable' by a doctor. And these people just pick on us and tell us that we need to stop living like this. How about you stop being toxic? Yeah, sure, let's victim-blame and poverty-shame poor people for being born into poverty or being pushed into poverty through circumstances that are out of their control. We pay for so much crap as it is: food, water, electricity, a place to live, and internet. Don't you think we've been through enough? That we have suffered enough crap as it is? We are over here struggling and suffering because of everything being ridiculously expensive. I mean, we had to previously afford $80 for horrible internet service from Spectrum before we were able to switch to Fastwyre Fiber. I mean, gas prices literally go up every year, make that every month, due to inflation. There's gonna be a time when we won't even be able to afford gas because of it costing too damn much. And yet, we get victim-blamed for having financial woes. But, guess who is still doing good? Greedy, heartless, exploitive rich people who want to gut social programs for the poor, disabled, and sick. They always are able to get out of everything, which includes taxes. And then, those very same people tell us to start getting more money and tell us "have you ever tried not being poor" if we say anything about living expensives or having a hard time buying anything essential. We need help, we get none, and we are laughed at as a result because we need to "stop being poor". Well, if you say it to me, then I have this to say to you: "Stop talking to me". Cut me out of your pathetic life if you don't like the fact I am financially struggling. I have actually ended up crying sometimes over this nonsense and people like you saying crap like this doesn't help me. I literally have bawled my eyes out over me worrying about ending up homeless due to the fact we have barely any money left after we pay all of our bills and taxes. The only thing that gives us hope at this point is our yearly Tax Return. I did not want to end up in this situation, and I don't need some toxic fiend bringing me down and making me hate myself for being poor. If all you can do is bring someone down, then I just don't want anything to do with you. The whole system is designed to keep people like us down and keep the heartless and exploitive rich people flowing with cash. I mean, they literally find legal loopholes to get out of doing taxes, whereas families like us aren't able to use those "loopholes". And guess what? They always waste their money on useless crap like multi-million dollar mansions and expensive supercars. And they sit on their butts doing nothing and the government pays them to do it. But no help for us poor people! No! We have to deal with the taxes. And we're getting made fun of and laughed at by people online whose parents probably failed them in their upbringing and didn't show them proper discipline as a child for acting like a smartass. There are hundreds of contributing factors as to why people are poor: they can’t work, they got scammed, they’re having to pay a shit-ton of house expenses, something always eating up their funds, literally hundreds of things. Do you think they wanted this to happen? Absolutely not! They're already struggling enough as it is. What we should be doing is taxing the overly-wealthy rich people who work against us and force them to pay mandatory wealth expenses and actively punish them if they refuse to pay the expenses, evade them, or both. But no, we're in this stupid system where the heartless rich people get money for doing nothing while we get nothing from it. And people online who tell us to "get a job" and "stop being poor" only make us feel like crap for being poor. It actually makes us hate ourselves. I am stuck in poverty and I don't feel like there is ever gonna be a way out of it, I do not need someone bullying me on top of it. It's bullying in real life, and online, it's cyberbullying. You say this to me, and it's a great way for you to end up on my blacklist; I will ultimately avoid talking to you and will never speak to you again. If anyone says it to me in real life, I will just drop my conversation with them and walk in the opposite direction, far away from them. And the digital equivalent is me blocking the account in question that said it. I do not have time to deal with toxicity from people who just want to poverty-shame poor people. You say it to me, and you will be on my ignore list for the rest of your life. I am done dealing with toxicity towards us poor people as a poor person myself. I'm done with toxic, heartless monsters who think they can just say anything and get away with it. I used to have a lot more patience, but life is too short. I'm serious, I am fed up. I hate everyone who uses the "stop being poor" sentence or any other form of it. Any form of the sentence is poverty-shaming and it will cause you to immediately get the boot should you even dare utter that sentence or any form of it to me. If you want to act toxic, do it somewhere else, because I am done listening to you and done playing your stupid games. It'll be one less asshole to deal with.

I DO NOT HAVE A FUCKING PHONE PLAN OR FUCKING PHONE FOR THAT MATTER. STOP ASKING ME FOR SHIT I DON'T FUCKING HAVE. EVERY FUCKING MAINSTREAM SERVICE OUT THERE JUST EXPECTS YOU TO HAVE A FUCKING PHONE AND PHONE PLAN THESE DAYS. WANT TO SIGN UP FOR A WEBSITE? VERIFY YOUR GODDAMN PHONE NUMBER. WANT TO TALK IN CERTAIN DISCORD SERVERS? NO SIREE. VERIFY YOUR PHONE NUMBER FIRST. LOCKED OUT OF ONE OF YOUR ACCOUNTS OVER SOME BULLSHIT REPORTS? VERIFY YOUR PHONE NUMBER TO UNLOCK IT. LITERALLY JUST FUCKING EXISTING? VERIFY, VERIFY, VERIFY! FOR THE LOVE OF FUCK, STOP PROMPTING ME TO VERIFY MY FUCKING HUMANITY WITH A PHONE NUMBER. I SHOULD NOT HAVE TO LOOK FOR FUCKING WORKAROUNDS AND BYPASSES TO GET AROUND THIS SHIT. EVEN IF I DID HAVE AN ACTIVE PHONE NUMBER, YOU AIN'T GETTING JACK SHIT FROM ME. THIS IS NOT MADE TO PROTECT YOU AND KEEP YOU SAFE, IT IS ONLY MADE SO THESE FUCKTARD COMPANIES CAN SELL YOUR DATA TO DATA BROKERS, WHO WILL THEN SELL THAT DATA TO ROBOCALLERS WHO WILL CALL YOU ALL THE FUCKING TIME! LOOK, YOU'RE NOT GETTING MY NUMBER. IF I HAVE TO FIND FUCKING FAKE PHONE NUMBERS OR SIGN UP TO TEMP NUMBER SERVICES, THEN SO FUCKING BE IT, BUT I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO. I SHOULD NOT HAVE TO POTENTIALLY BREAK THE FUCKING LAW TO GET SOME FUCKING SENSE OF PRIVACY. I LITERALLY HAVE A NUMBER ON TEXTNOW THAT IS BASICALLY FUCKING USELESS AND IS ONLY USABLE FOR MAKING CALLS AND TEXTING. EVEN IF I WAS ABLE TO USE THAT NUMBER TO GET A VERIFICATION CODE IN THE FORM OF A SMS, IT WOULDN'T WORK, BECAUSE "OH, YOU NEED TO SIGN UP FOR ANOTHER FUCKING SUBSCRIPTION (LOCK-IN NUMBER) TO GET VERIFICATION CODES"! FUCK, I CAN'T EVEN PARTICIPATE IN SOME TWITCH CHATS DUE TO THIS BULLSHIT BECAUSE SOME FUCKING STREAMERS SET UP THIS STUPID-ASS 'VERIFIED ACCOUNTS ONLY CHAT' BULLSHIT THAT FORCES YOU TO VERIFY VIA PHONE NUMBER TO ACCESS THEM. AND GUESS WHAT? MY TEXTNOW NUMBER? FUCKING USELESS ON ABOUT 90% OF SERVICES ON THE FUCKING INTERNET! WHY? OH, WELL, BECAUSE SOME FUCKING 'GENIUS' DECIDED TO MAKE IT HARDER FOR PEOPLE LIKE ME BY BLOCKING VOIP NUMBERS COMPLETELY. AND TEXTNOW IS A VOIP SERVICE. IF I DO TOO MANY ATTEMPTS TO VERIFY, I GET 'RATE LIMITED'. FUCK. OFF. GIVE ME ANOTHER FUCKING WAY TO VERIFY BECAUSE YOU ARE SURE AS FUCKING HELL NOT GETTING ACCESS TO MORE OF MY DATA! I WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO EVEN "START" THIS PROCEDURE, ANYWAY, BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE A FUCKING PHONE TO BEGIN WITH! DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH FUCKING PHONE PLANS COST THESE DAYS? WELL, HUNDREDS, MAYBE EVEN THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS. DO YOU REALLY EXPECT ME TO GO BUY A FUCKING PHONE PLAN THAT IS OVERPRICED AS SHIT, GET A PHONE NUMBER, AND VERIFY WITH IT? OH, FUCK YOU. AND GUESS THE FUCK WHAT? GUESS WHO LOVES PHONE NUMBERS? FUCKING DATA LEAKERS. SHOULD I EVEN REMIND YOU ABOUT THE TWITCH DATA LEAK THAT TOOK PLACE OVER 2 YEARS AGO? PERSONAL INFORMATION ACCESSED. THAT POSSIBLY INCLUDED PHONE NUMBERS. THAT MEANS THAT THE PEOPLE WHO GOT BREACHED PROBABLY HAD A SHIT-TON OF ROBOCALLS. GODDAMNIT, THE INTERNET IS NOT A FUCKING EXCLUSIVE CLUB, YOU GODDAMN DICKWEEDS. BACK WHEN I WAS AROUND THE INTERNET, YOU DIDN'T NEED TO GIVE OUT JACK SHIT WHEN SIGNING UP FOR WEBSITES OR PARTICIPATING IN CHAT. HOLY FUCK, IRC DIDN'T EVEN NEED THAT SHIT. AIM DIDN'T NEED IT. YOU COULD JUST MAKE A FUCKING ACCOUNT ON THE AOL WEBSITE OR YOUR IRC CLIENT, AND BOOM, YOU COULD TALK TO ANYONE IN YOUR CONTACTS. NO STRINGS OR ANYTHING ELSE ATTACHED. BUT NOWADAYS, YOU HAVE TO GIVE OUT A SHIT-TON OF PERSONAL INFO TO ACCESS NEARLY ALMOST EVERYTHING, AND THAT INCLUDES HAVING A PHONE NUMBER, BECAUSE IF YOU DON'T HAVE ONE, THEN YOU ARE APPARENTLY JUST FUCKED, BECAUSE EVERYONE EXPECTS YOU TO HAVE ACCESS TO A FUCKING CELLULAR DEVICE. BACK IN THE 2000S, HAVING A FUCKING PHONE WAS A FUCKING NOVELTY. YOU COULD EVEN CONSIDER YOURSELF LUCKY IF YOU HAD ONE. NOW, EVERYONE EXPECTS YOU TO HAVE ONE. LIKE, WHAT THE FUCK? I HATE THE FUCKING FAKE-ASS EXCUSES COMPANIES GIVE BY CLAIMING THAT HAVING A PHONE NUMBER MAKES YOU MORE SECURE. BRO, THAT IS A FUCKING LIE AND A HALF. WHERE'S MY FUCKING LIE DETECTOR? ALL IT DOES IS GIVES DATA-HUNGRY COMPANIES ACCESS TO MORE OF YOUR INFORMATION, AS IF THEY DON'T HAVE FUCKING ENOUGH OF IT ALREADY. I MISSED OUT ON SO MANY GODDAMN COOL THINGS BECAUSE OF THIS SHITTY-ASS FORCED PHONE NUMBER VERIFICATION. I FUCKING MISSED OUT ON MONSTER HUNTER FRONTIER WHEN IT WAS STILL UP AND RUNNING DUE TO THIS BULLSHIT. NOW, IT IS FUCKING SHUT DOWN FOREVER AND I MISSED OUT ON IT ENTIRELY BECAUSE OF OVERZEALOUS VERIFICATION. I TRULY THOUGHT THAT PHONE VERIFICATION WAS GOING TO BE EASY AS THERE ARE SEVERAL DIFFERENT WEBSITES WHERE YOU CAN RECIEVE SMS TEXTS WITH EITHER 'REAL' OR 'FAKE' PHONE NUMBERS. NOPE! NOT ONLY DOES THE PHONE NUMBER NOT HAVE TO BE ALREADY USED BY TOO MANY PEOPLE, BUT IT ALSO HAS TO SPECIFICALLY NOT BE A VOIP NUMBER. I MIGHT AS WELL SAY 99% OF THE ENTIRE FUCKING INTERNET DON'T SUPPORT THESE FUCKING NUMBERS. THEY MIGHT AS WELL TELL YOU TO FUCK OFF AND BUY A PHONE PLAN. "DO YOU GUYS NOT HAVE PHONES?" MIGHT AS WELL SUM UP TWO-FACTOR AUTHENTICATION ENTIRELY. DOES IT LOOK LIKE I HAVE A FUCKING PHONE? THEN DO NOT ASK ME FOR A FUCKING PHONE NUMBER OR ASK ME TO USE ANYTHING THAT REQUIRES AN APP! I FUCKING HATE THOSE GODDAMN 'AUTHENTICATOR' APPS BECAUSE OF THIS AS WELL, BECAUSE THEY 'ALSO' REQUIRE YOU TO HAVE ACCESS TO A PHONE. WE ALREADY PAY FOR FOOD, HOUSING, ELECTRICITY, INTERNET, WATER, AND OTHER ESSENTIALS. STOP ASKING ME TO GET A FUCKING PHONE PLAN AND PUT IN MY FUCKING PHONE NUMBER JUST TO ACCESS NEARLY HALF OF THE ENTIRE FUCKING INTERNET. BESIDES, YOU WON'T BE GETTING MY ACTUAL PHONE NUMBER EVEN IF I "DID" HAVE ONE, SO TOUGH FUCKING SHIT. GO ASK OTHER FUCKING PEOPLE TO PUT IN THEIR GODDAMN PHONE NUMBERS, BECAUSE THAT IS OBVIOUSLY YOUR FUCKING DAY-TO-DAY ACTIVITY.

My ex-wifes dog is dying. It's old. She emotionally can't handle the steps involved with that. She called me.

I fucking HATE it when you're waiting to get in to play a game. You have to deal with stupidly long queue wait times with 100 or so ass people all trying to get on the SAME fucking game at the EXACT same time. That's not even the worst part! You wait for like a fucking eternity to finally get into single digit numbers, and then ALL of a sudden, boom - your queue position bumps up from 9 back to 10. WHAT THE FUCK. I haven't even left the goddamn queue. My position in the line should be SAVED and not bumped up. I literally watched my queue number bump up from 7 to 8 in real time. You wait patiently to hopefully finally be the next person to get in the game, but then the fucking game just decides to move you backward in the queue instead of forward. THAT. IS. NOT. HOW. QUEUES. WORK. You are supposed to move forward in the line, like, any regular goddamn queuing system. Pushing someone backwards and bumping up their number back to a previous number is basically the fucking equivalent of cutting someone in line who has been waiting patiently. A 5-minute wait to get into a game turns into a 20-minute wait as you continue waiting for your number to hopefully go down to the point where you are finally the first in the goddamn line. Oh, wait. Boom, you're back to position 2. You were NEXT UP! Now you have to wait even longer to get in. I fucking hate this. I wouldn't have a problem with in-game queues if you consistently moved forward. But no, you are pushed back constantly and demanded to wait for an even longer period of time. I fucking hate queue lines that operate like this. It turns a simple 5-minute wait into a waste of time as you wait for NEARLY half an hour. Fuck that shit.

How about YOU stop being an asshole. We don't "choose" to be poor. We have a million things getting in the fucking way constantly, which makes it impossible for us to make money. We have to pay for food, water, internet, electricity, and other shit already, and it practically eats up all of our savings at the same time we are trying to save UP money to afford a better place to live in. "Just get a job then" What if I can't work? I have autism and have LITERALLY been deemed 'unworkable' by a professional doctor. I have a million things to worry about already and getting a job is NOT one of them as I can't even work at one regardless. But yet, fucking rich people, I swear to fucking God. Specifically the 'scumbag' rich people. They always find ways to get out of EVERYTHING - including doing their taxes. They find legal loopholes which makes it so they don't have to pay anything to keep living in their mansions. Guess who doesn't get those? Families that are in a financially unstable environment. They are already struggling enough as it is and they still have to pay for fucking everything while rich people sit on their fucking asses doing nothing and never have to pay even a fucking cent! Poor families already have to deal with enough shit as it is and they literally have to worry about if they will even have enough money to put fucking food on the table for their children. Why can't we start taxing the rich but just making it the regular cost of living and make it mandatory and not optional!? It makes me sick to see the greedy rich people getting spoiled like this and us getting absolutely no assistance! "Stop being poor"... how about stop acting like a fucking dickbag? Do you really think they choose to live like this? NO! They are poor because they are having their money ripped away from them constantly from like 10 different fucking angles all at once! Meanwhile, asshole rich people waste their goddamn money on multi-million dollar mansions and 15 fucking Lamborghini Aventadors, and they never have to worry even once. There are hundreds of contributing factors as to why people are poor: they can't work, they got scammed, they're having to pay a shit-ton of house expenses, something always eating up their funds, literally hundreds of things. Do you think they wanted this to happen? Absolutely not! They are already struggling enough as it is and something always gets in the fucking way and completely halts any progress! I have actually had mental breakdowns over having to worry about if we'll even have a fucking place to live, because the last thing I wanna do is end up on the fucking streets and my family and I getting evicted from our home. Like, do you think they chose to be homeless? No, they're homeless because they couldn't make any money, no matter how hard they tried to. I have literally cried some times over this bullshit because I feel like my family and I are living in basically fucking poverty while everyone else seemingly has money and can flush money down the fucking toilet like this. I am serious, "Stop being poor" is such a toxic sentence, and it pisses me off when people say it. They absolutely WANT to stop being poor, but there are too many things they have to worry about, they get NO governmental assistance, and they're always seemingly short on money no matter what they do to try and save it. Seriously, say that shit to the wrong person and you could end up with a black eye or something much worse.

It happens all the frickin' time. Someone wants to convert a PDF file to Word. Fine, we have tools for that, but depending on the quality of the PDF, the resulting text may contain some errors or just complete gibberish. But *then* you find out that they had the original Word file all along. I hate that so much.

I truly hate Microsoft Rewards. I have over 30k points in my account that I cannot use for basically anything. For the past few years that the Rewards app was available on Xbox, I was able to redeem all of my rewards and gift cards without the need of any extra information. Every time I was able to redeem gift cards, I did, and boom - they were instantly redeemed and available on my account funds. Nowadays, I can't redeem jack squat on their Rewards program. Nothing at all. They went ahead and discontinued that very useful Rewards on Xbox app that I had been using for many years with all of my Rewards points, and they replaced it with a far inferior app that is just a tab on your Xbox Profile. And yes, it does have a way to redeem your points for stuff like gift cards, but good luck trying to use the very points you earned, you literally can't. It forces you to scan a QR code which, in return, leads you to phone number verification via SMS. I already ranted about phone verification in this community before, so I won't get into it. Anyways, your Rewards points become completely useless. It's like Microsoft is trying to make it so you can't use your points! So, redeeming points on Xbox? USELESS now. You can't do it. You need security info. And if you are trying to redeem points on the website directly... well... heh, good luck. I have been trying to redeem the classic Tim Burton film Beetlejuice for the entire dang month. Every time, I couldn't. Because you need to add a phone number to be able to. No phone number, no movie. And then, when I tried to add a phone number? "LOL, we you need your security info first". And since I don't have access to it, guess what? I have to wait 30 days to get new security info. THIRTY. WHOLE. DAYS. I can bet you ten to one that the offer will be gone by then and I would have missed out due to Microsoft's stupid systrm they have put in place. You know what could really solve this problem? AUTHENTICATOR APP. I know I said I hated authentication apps before, but by God I finally got a phone. Honestly, it would be so much more convenient if I could just use Bing Authenticator to verify with Rewards. But no, I can't, because Rewards still requires a phone number with an active line. I am gonna miss out on an incredible offer due to this, and I am absolutely angry about this. I seriously hate Microsoft Rewards now. They don't even want me using my own points to redeem crap. And this stupid phone number verification crap is the reason why. Can we just get rid of phone number verification entirely? It's outdated. Pointless, even, because throughout my experience on Reddit, I was still attacked by a person with a million alt accounts.

NoRedInk is an awful, terrible, and hurtful online teaching application that some schools force their students to use. The whole website is fundamentally flawed and is an absolute waste of time. The prompts that NoRedInk gives to the students make absolutely no sense and causes the students to get frustrated while completing their assigned tasks on the site. Students have claimed that NoRedInk assignments take hours to complete when in reality it should only take about 30 minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVpXxBp6EIk

Hello. I am a former Spectrum customer as we ditched Spectrum a while back and switched to Fastwyre Fiber. So far, I have been loving Fastwyre, they have been a joy to work with. A breath of fresh air. But, before that, we were, sadly, a Spectrum customer. And my experience with Spectrum was nothing short of awful. I at some points had constant breakdowns due to Spectrum's horrible and downright dogwater internet service. They were always a pain to deal with and was always the most frustrating ISP we have ever dealt with. They really were a nightmare to deal with on certain days. They seriously pissed me off.

Like, what the fuck ever happened to compassion?! It just seems like every fucking person online nowadays has to be passive-aggressive to someone JUST to get their stupid point across. Like, why are people so goddamn inconsiderate of others well-beings these days? It seems like they truly get a hate boner from every fucking thing they see online and think it is okay to be an asshole to them. Getting your point across to someone does NOT mean you can be an asshole about it and speak in a very rude and passive-agrressive manner to the OP. Have some goddamn compassion and at LEAST be nice when you're talking to them. Back in the days when I was first on the internet in the early 2000s, people were FAR more understanding of shit and weren't fucking assholes about it when trying to explain something to people. The Wild West of the internet was truly a much different and far better place than the internet we have now. Now, pretty much EVERY site like Reddit and Twitter has assholes being passive-agrressive or have a straight-up shitty attitude in general. Speak your mind even ONCE and people feel the need to be an asshole about it. There are features like the fucking block button for a goddamn reason, use them wisely and efficiently! If you truly do not like what someone has to say, fuck off somewhere else, leave the person alone, and block them if you so chose to. Being a fucking asshat about it doesn't get you anywhere, and NOR does it get your point across. All it does is makes you hated by the people who DO ACTUALLY give a shit. There is a serious fucking lack of respect, empathy, and compassion these days. These days a fucking MONKEY is more compassionate than a human, and I truly hate to say that, but it's true. We are truly going BACKWARDS with being 'human' with each other. This needless rudeness only makes me miss the old internet even more.

I really, really hate bathroom doors that have small lock buttons that you press down on to lock the door. We have two of these in both of the bathrooms we have in our apartmentt. There is a bathroom upstairs in the hallway and a bathroom downstairs near the living room. To lock the doors, we have to press down on these tiny buttons that are next to the door handles. These buttons lock up the handles and prevent them from being turned, so just in case someone doesn't know you're using it, they'll know someone's in there, because the door is locked. The button is supposed to be unlocked when the handle is turned with the handle that is inside of the bathroom, yes, the lock only locks the handle that is outside of the bathroom. It should be fine, right? No problems, right?

I absolutely HATE loot boxes. Wholeheartedly fucking HATE them and the person who thought up that shit. Congrats, fucking idiot - you just killed rewarding gameplay and made it as so EVERY fucking modern game now requires you to grind for 200+ hours to unlock everything or the things you want. It's absolutely DISGUSTING and all it does is just encourages players to keep "grinding away wasting hours of their life to get more chances at loot boxes". It's horrid and vile.

I have been on YouTube for over 8 years. I created my channel back in 2016 and I have over 10k subs across my entire channel. With this, HAAWK sees me as a prime target for their unlawful and abusive claims they are constantly allowed to do through their 3rd-party claimant status. And they should not be, in any way, allowed to do this.

There is one mission in Mirror's Edge Catalyst that I absolutely fucking hate even to this day. And if you have played the game and suffered through this mission yourself, then trust me, you know DAMN why. I truly have never wanted to throw my controller across the room in a fit of rage as much as I did when trying to complete this mission I am about to say the name of. I truly despise it with a burning passion. It is my least favorite mission of the game for VERY obvious reasons.

I think it's safe to assume that Coyote vs. ACME is not going to have a public releasse. But guess what? That movie was killed for that dogshit adult animated Scooby-Doo series "Velma" getting a SECOND fucking season. Yeah, sure... let's keep the garbage that makes money and not the fucking creative shit that actually fucking innovates. Their stock value has taken a shit due to this as well. Like, I am fuckirg tired of this. Can we just fucking boycott Warner Bros. at this point? I am not gonna buy anything from a company that treats animation as horribly as it does, and I will sure as hell be avoiding the relaunch of MultiVersus at ALL costs. They can suck my goddamn testicles, they're not getting a fucking dime from me.

To get to the point, I’m currently working on a comic (maybe more a manga?) and I’ve just come to a grinding halt and can’t really find the motivation to continue the project…I feel like I work on the story constantly in my head and jot down notes but when it comes to thinking of how to bring my vision into the world, nothing feels adequate or satisfying. I’ve gone over it a bunch of times since the beginning: should I make it a manga? An animation? Should I just submit it to some studio to probably never see the light of day, and if it should; then not see a dime? Should I commission help? I’m too poor for that so, can’t do that. so I’ve just been hand drawing crappy panels in a storyboard-esque manner just to get the point across. Now, I’ve been out of touch with drawing for a long long time and idc what anyone says; it does NOT come to you like riding a bike. Usually when all of that starts going through my head I tell myself “look at how one punch man originally started” and it gets me through a page or two, but the past few days I just can’t find any real motivation to pick up my book and pencil….

so, it turns out my sibling, after college, they became fearful for their (and our family's) life and started pressuring my family. They are controlling me, my grandmother, and my mom.

I'm confessing this now, so I can still maintain my accountability (and not become a piece of shit).

My reasoning was that it would "help my microbiome". I'm so stupid; I'm too impulsive. The piece I had was light colored and it was as wide as a fork.