I don’t like it when people say that ‘fast food tastes bad and only [insert chud group] would like it’. I get where this is coming from, but fast food is designed to taste good, and for most people it does. That line of thinking really only causes victim blaming for people with health issues due to how addictive processed food is.

I hate how everyone buys into the myth of “the government budget should operate how a household budget operates”. It’s not the fact that it’s wrong that bothers me the most, what really bothers me is how it’s nearly impossible to explain why that analogy is bad. I read a whole book about MMT in part so I could explain why that analogy is wrong, and I still basically can’t do it well. When I try people just think I’m full of shit because the analogy is so easy to understand and the real explanation is not intuitive if you don’t have a solid grasp of economics (which is maybe 5% of the population at best, and most of those people, even liberals understand why the government isn’t like a company or a household).

(FWIW I’ve fallen back on the Keynesian “deficit in a recession and surplus in a boom” even though I don’t actually believe it. That seems to be something people can grasp better)

• The whole “alternative medicine” grift and its various hangers on.

• People that think “organic” food must be inherently better in every way.

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• People who use leaf blowers to move dust around outside. What a wonderful waste of energy and effort.

advertising boards being replaced by advertising screens with video. it makes me apoplectic

Wesley Crusher’s character in TNG could have been done so well if they slowly built him into a genius instead of Gene Roddenberry using him as a self insert to stroke his own ego right out of the gate. By the literal 3rd episode of season 1 Wesley’s fate was sealed and even though the backed off on him and tried making him a more normal character later in the show but people just hated him too much by then.

Which sucked because he had good character development later on. Like, right as he was getting to be “not insufferable.” I remember thinking on my first watch “you know, he’s not so bad now” and then they pull him from the show entirely.

I absolutely hate how hardware is made to be impossibly hard to repair nowadays while also incredibly expensive to replace in the Global South. Your month’s worth of minimum wage cellphone broke a button? Your options are either paying half the phone price to replace a piece half the size of the phone, or getting a new one.

I’m salty that AA games aren’t a thing anymore since investors only want the big moneys and indies are all generic pixel art.

My biggest personal pet peeve is the overuse of medieval Europe as a setting in fantasy, especially stuff like isekai. Like come on authors, you can do so much better. Instead of butchering medieval European politics and worldbuilding, why don’t you trying butchering the lore of other regions of the world? Maybe instead of slaying a dragon, we could have our protagonist do a battle of wits against a djinn (idk if that’s their thing, just throwing out ideas)

Or maybe it’s my fault for looking too much at such stories.

• Google/Microsoft everywhere. Anything you do, people expect you to use Google’s/Microsoft’s suite, and they look you weird when you don’t.

• Spam e-mails

• Job search, you have to tell even you dog’s birthday to apply to any job, 0 privacy, they never tell you why you didn’t got rehired, they most times don’t even tell you that you didn’t get chosen, you just wait infinitely. But it is even worse when there are 10 rounds of interviews, activities and whatnot.

• Most games run on Linux, the problem is mostly anti-cheats, most anti-cheats support Linux but a lot of games just choose not to turn it on for Linux, so we get blocked from playing those online games.

• Constant remakes/remasters of games, sequels and “live action” remakes of cartoons, those corps have billions in their pockets, but choose not to take the minimal risk of creating something new.

• Paywalled articles, there’s even the ironic paper about the inaccessibility of scientific research, and that paper was paywalled. But I have found the open source project Marreta (sledgehammer in Portuguese) that works really well to read paywalled news (and remove ads).

• On Dungeon Keeper, that game was so cool, I’m sad that the same happened with Command and Conquer, Red Alert 1 (and specially 2) where awesome games, but now are dead, and the last game launched was a shitty mobile game.

• Fantasy in general (RPG, Games, Shows), it is so satured with over the top stuff, that it just stopped being fantastical. You don’t find a normal King diminishing the amount of silver in silver coins to fund his war, only a beautiful and rich warrior-King. You don’t find a normal small medieval castle, just a 18th century chatteu. Every has magic, so it just loses the charm. Etc etc etc. And the worst thing for me, is how Eurocentric this genre is, and it’s not even the enterity of Europe, it is just Anglo-French centric. You never get arabic medieval stuff, chinese medieval stuff, or african medieval stories.

• Cool artwork, I don’t know, I just hate artworks that try to make the character look super cool, it really irks me.

• When you buy something at the bakery, and the “filling” is so fucking small, you mostly just eat bread dough

I absolutely detest Aaron Sorkin’s writing. I hate how entertaining it is, I just watched an hour’s worth of the newsroom clips. I enjoy it, but I can’t stand all the smug, self-satisfied liberal drivel. West wing is even worse in that regard, it’s chock full of apologia for the worst active war criminal on the planet, given the veneer that he’s just a guy trying his best to save the world he’s in the process of murdering.

I dislike video essayists read one (1) book and make a 40-120 minute video about a large topic using mainly that one book. This is also one of the good reasons to look down on the musical Hamilton and the people who like it too much.

I may be skirting the definition of small but DRM and client side anti-cheats. Some of them are basically malware, sifting through the user’s files. Fuck knows what’s stopping it reading my browser, getting my banking info or email. Besides, a DRM’s only as good as how long it takes folks to produce a crack in the first place. Once it’s out there, best publishers can do is lock out further content, and truth be told, I’ve yet to find any such content that’s worth the money or the time to play.

I really dislike the Legend of Korra. I adored Book 1 as a media illiterate kid. Then it got worse and I got older. The gang isn’t very likable, much of their adventures feel like a waste of time, the gaang’s story got butchered and the world building got obliterated. I seem to be in the minority in disliking even Book 3, Zaheer, and his flying technique. (stranding still, floating isn’t a natural behaviour of air and isn’t encompassed by being the leaf)

Ads.

City council just voted to buy the police an APC (that they don’t have a use for, and if they did it probably wouldn’t be good) while at the same time raiding the library reserve funds to keep taxes low

So much frustrating stuff like that going on here lately, and the city subreddit is absolutely unbearable about all of it

Nerds complaining about videogames.

Just kidding, I get that way sometimes as well, lol. I guess it’s just something that gets a bit tiring because I see it a lot more often, likely since Lemmy attracts people who are more online/tech inclined, so we tend to have quite a bit of videogame talk on here.

KOTOR 3 was never made and instead we got a single player game in MMO form (SWTOR) that was really badly managed for like 10+ years now and that made mockery of the main characters from KOTOR in how hamfisted its inclusion of them was. Part of what makes it grating is the storytelling in SWTOR is not bad exactly, but it’s clearly made worse by being part of an MTX and lootbox infested MMO that was cobbled together with bad management in its development and is riddled with bugs and poor infrastructure design. It’s clear that it was made by people who understand single player games best, but they made an MMO instead because reasons. Oh and on top of that they tried to emulate WoW in aesthetics and came out with something more cartoon looking than realistic, which just bothers me personally on visual preference.

A small thing, really, but it’s a good example of how capitalistic “all-the-profit”-chasing took something popular and turned it into a shallow cash cow. Similar arc with the Assassin’s Creed series, but much more gradual in that case. What started out as more of an adventure game with story as the primary focus eventually became “open world” repetitive gameplay with “let’s see if we can get you to spend in the store” as the focus and story in the back seat.

Michael Bay and his butchery of the classic Transformers and TMNT

The Witcher tv show’s perversion and complete abandonment of the books. Like I can understand changing a story because a scene will be hard to capture on film but its like they read an AI summary of the books and then decided it needed a bunch of random new things because it sounded dull.