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[mastahcheese]

Just googled "Can I hire a hacker" to see what computer illiteracy would pop up, because I hate myself.

Next, try "how do i hax."

I don't hate myself that much.
...
No, but seriously, that kind of stuff annoys me to no end. Especially in my school, where I can count the computer literates with the fingers in my hands (it is well-known that I am better than the computer class teacher).
I once had someone back away in shock and get scared because I used "close all" to close a bunch of open windows.

This is pretty much how I feel about the fact that my Social Studies teacher, who has somewhat bad grammar, also teaches English. He misuses its/it's, and his stuff tends to be full of awkward sentences.

Sometimes I feel like running up to people and reminding them that commas exist, because nobody seems to be able to remember.

I once had someone ask me what a semicolon was in English class.
I'm still mad about that.

I also had a computer-illiterate computer teacher.
He was trying to figure out how to teach us to use PowerPoint while me and my friend played Halo on our flash drives.

[Mr Space Cat]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I think skeleton armor doesn't actually provide any armor, and may actually decrease health, as a trade off for giving you the ability to grapple.

Not, it's +3 armour, +10 defense, +3 move and the grapple hook.
The previous armour, carapace or something, gives +4 armour.

So it's rather annoying that the best armour I have is irrelevant against the might of the aliens. The same problem occured at the beginning with thin men: they were powerful enough to one-shot and accurate enough to hit almost every time.

I really wish you could choose the specialisation of your soldiers. I don't need 6 snipers when I have a single heavy, a single assault, and no support soldiers whatsoever left.

Research Archangel armor and equip all those snipers with the jumping genemod. Then send the one Assault running around the map while the squad sight snipers all go to high ground and snipe everything from everywhere when the Assault sees them.

The problem is I need better soldiers now. If i had time and money enough to equip them it wouldn't be such a problem, but i don't have laser sniper rifles yet or titan amour - skeleton is the best i have.

Sounds like you are nearing a potentially inevitable demise. It happens when you don't manage to keep getting the equipment/upgrades/resources you need.

In one game I missed several UFOs due to me not getting interceptors on continents with satellites in time, and I wasn't able to get carapace armor before the second terror mission due to a lack of materials, and my squad of my best soldiers got wiped.

All I had were some squaddie snipers and rookies, and most of them got wiped in the subsequent UFO landing because mutons are teleporting haxors who loved to teleport into the same room my squad was in. "Trying to take your time and use tactics so you're rookies and useless squaddie snipers don't all die? Suddenly mutons!" I couldn't get the resources from the UFOs, couldn't get better soldiers, and couldn't stop all the panicking countries from bailing out. Long story short, I lost. Nothing I could do about it but restart.

You don't have to send your soldiers out if you don't want to, unless it's some story mission or something. Just be prepared to handle the resulting increase in panic. Try to spread the promotions around; take a rookie along on easier missions, like early UFO missions, let lesser promoted soldiers try to get a kill before your sniper guarantees a oneshot kill, stuff like that.

There's an XCOM thread in the other games section if you're interested.

[Angel Of Death]

I had a rather nasty ingrown toenail infection that resulted in my nail being 'permanently' removed. It completely grew back within a month. It is now both infected and ingrown once more. Fucking fantastic.

[NobodyPro]

If you really want to blow their minds, use Windows+Tab.

I'm not sure whether to be surprised or embarrassed.

[scrdest]

Oh god, why are 90% of people responsible for creating ads SO. FUCKING. STUPID?

So there's this campaign for driving safely. So somebody had this bright idea to use characters from basically a less funny, more juvenile ripoff of South Park which was popular. FIVE FUCKING YEARS AGO. And is obnoxious as hell.

I'm starting to think we sent all our marketing people off to space, Hitchhiker's Guide style, and we maintain communications, but due to distance it takes several years for the transmissions to go from them to us.

That, however, still doesn't excuse painfully lame puns or stealing tunes and changing the lyrics to a horrible, forced mess.

[Helgoland]

What ripoff? And take cover if you're gonna say Drawn Together

[Vattic]

A friend asks me over to do some tech support. This is fine except he didn't tell me he's recovering from norovirus until I was leaving. Now I'm waiting to see if I get sick.

[ChairmanPoo]

I don't know what is making me rage, whether it's the bullshit I had to put up with from the ER people last thursday, the fact that a past love interest popped back in sight just long enough to emphasize my lack of love interests, or the bullshit from my department, which in itself would be more than enough cause. All I know is that I've been seething nonstop for several days now. 

[Helgoland]

Play DF. Claim you're accessing missile launch codes.

[AlleeCat]

I hate turning on my monitor in the middle of the night, only to be immediately blinded and practically fall out of my chair. I need that program that automatically adjusts monitor brightness depending on time of day, but I can't for the life of me remember what it's called. It's on the tip of my tongue and annoying me to no end.

(although they still believe that I am hacking everything).

People who are not very computer-literate seem to assume that any time someone has a command prompt open, they are "hacking." Meanwhile, I don't think real hacking involves many command prompts at all.

[LordSlowpoke]

I hate turning on my monitor in the middle of the night, only to be immediately blinded and practically fall out of my chair. I need that program that automatically adjusts monitor brightness depending on time of day, but I can't for the life of me remember what it's called. It's on the tip of my tongue and annoying me to no end.

(although they still believe that I am hacking everything).

People who are not very computer-literate seem to assume that any time someone has a command prompt open, they are "hacking." Meanwhile, I don't think real hacking involves many command prompts at all.

f.lux

It's not worth bothering with in your case, though. It takes time to adjust the screen (half a minute on quick transition) so your eyes are going to be hurt anyway.

also you can do some 1337haxxxxx through putty like reversing dns polarities and tracing ips n stuff

[kisame12794]

Auuuuuuugh. My sister doesn't know how to wash dishes. Or cook. I try and teach her, but she just gets bitchy and says she doesn't need to learn, because I can cook. That is NOT how the world works. I will not always be around to cook for you. Same with the dishes. She uses cold water with no soap to wash them. No. Stop and learn this because you are going to kill someone if you don't.

[Greiger]

Teacher didn't grade any assignments all semester.  Says all assignments are due today and finally graded everything.

Everything has -20% for not including an additional file she did not decide she wanted until 3/4ths of the class through.  Yes, this includes the assignments that were officially listed as due long before she decided she wanted that file. 

...It is also a file that students did not necessarily need to do the assignment in the first place, nor the kind of thing that we would think is important enough to hold on to since the file is unreadable outside of class.  It also cannot be obtained outside of the classroom unless you are willing to spend $60 on electrical simulation software.

It is also particularly annoying that for each consecutive assignment she graded she writes that the file is missing in progressively more large type and bolding.  As if there's a damn thing I can do about it while the school is closed for the holiday weekend.  And as if she graded the assignments within weeks of eachother instead of the minutes my gradeing log indicates.

@Kisame I lived with somebody with the same issues for 3 months.  That really sucked, I would suggest making her wash all the dishes for a week, but that would probably just result in having to wash each dish before you use it.

[Graknorke]

Found the tumblr and twitter and askfm profile for someone I go school with and have confirmed conclusively that she is the worst kind of SJW. And she acts like it all the time and complains and uurgh.

EDIT: A quote that sums the whole thing up nicely

i do admire your audacity when it comes to your views, but i feel you're fighting a battle that doesn't exist here

[SealyStar]

Found the tumblr and twitter and askfm profile for someone I go school with and have confirmed conclusively that she is the worst kind of SJW. And she acts like it all the time and complains and uurgh.

EDIT: A quote that sums the whole thing up nicely

i do admire your audacity when it comes to your views, but i feel you're fighting a battle that doesn't exist here

I have found myself confronted, by no fault of my own, by an entire squad of resident SJWs at my school. I'm still trying to hunt down their Tumblrs.