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Author Topic: Things that made you RRRRRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Trust-o-nomics Edition  (Read 3750532 times)

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Re: Things that made you RRAAAAAGGGGEEEE today thread: Anti-Something Edition
« Reply #20340 on: January 30, 2013, 09:30:53 pm »

My professor told me to drop her class. Why? Because I missed a week due to the funeral of a friend, which was out of state. She said it was unexcused  absence... WTF I'm 30 and in college, am I supposed to get note from my mommy, excusing me from school still!!! >:(
Well, no, but if you just disappeared for a week without attempting to contact the teacher, that's... probably not going to reflect well on you, from their perspective. They can't acknowledge you had reason to miss their class unless they know about it, y'know?

From what I've seen, college profs tend towards pretty flexible about stuff like that, but generally if and only if you're proactive about it. Coming in after missing a week of classes without having told the teacher beforehand (or during the absence -- they've got contact information of some sort, presumably) what was going on and possibly (and highly preferably) making arrangements before you left about interim work, etc., yeah, that can get you a failed class or a hefty chunk out of your grade, especially if the school itself has a blanket attendance policy.

Talk to her, y'know? Especially if you can get together notes or whathaveyou and demonstrate you're still intent on investing your effort into learning (catch up quickly, do well on the next demonstration of whatever), you can probably get back in the good graces, so to speak. Also make sure the teacher's not constrained by a campus wide attendance policy of some sort, which may make a difference -- if she is, you might have to take the issue up with someone above her, because the weight coming down on you isn't coming from the teacher, yeah. Funeral related stuff is almost always excused, but you might have to talk to some folks nicely if you didn't give some forewarning.
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Re: Things that made you RRAAAAAGGGGEEEE today thread: Anti-Something Edition
« Reply #20341 on: January 30, 2013, 11:33:35 pm »

Actually the class is 3 hours long... But due to me reflecting on the death and the other "fun..." stuff that goes with it I forgot to contact her, and it was so unexpected, and I left immediately. The others are cool about it though, but still. Plus she said 2 "unexcused" absences results in a lowered grade, and she doesn't have the time to explain the program to me.. Whatever though. Dropped it, just take it next semester, get an A, and go on.
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Re: Things that made you RRAAAAAGGGGEEEE today thread: Anti-Something Edition
« Reply #20342 on: January 31, 2013, 12:13:06 am »

Quick, no jokes allowed! Sigh.
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Re: Things that made you RRAAAAAGGGGEEEE today thread: Anti-Something Edition
« Reply #20343 on: January 31, 2013, 01:28:32 am »

Fucking Settlers of Catan. Sooooooo frustrating. Especally the expansion, where most of the cards just fuck ppl over.
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Re: Things that made you RRAAAAAGGGGEEEE today thread: Anti-Something Edition
« Reply #20344 on: January 31, 2013, 01:31:31 am »

I once had a game of that where at least 50% of the rolls where FUCKING. SEVEN.
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Re: Things that made you RRAAAAAGGGGEEEE today thread: Anti-Something Edition
« Reply #20345 on: January 31, 2013, 01:59:20 am »

I once had a game of that where at least 50% of the rolls where FUCKING. SEVEN.
As a non-Catan player, I take it that's bad?
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Re: Things that made you RRAAAAAGGGGEEEE today thread: Anti-Something Edition
« Reply #20346 on: January 31, 2013, 02:08:33 am »

Not really bad, just annoying.
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Re: Things that made you RRAAAAAGGGGEEEE today thread: Anti-Something Edition
« Reply #20347 on: January 31, 2013, 02:17:18 am »

It's also statistically not unlikely.  I had a game recently where it was almost nothing but 5s.

I have trouble playing that game for different reasons, though.  My wife is a master at it.  I think she's beaten one of the game's designers (I could be thinking of a different Mayfair game), and on a separate occasion almost won a trip to Germany in a tournament.  She was winning the final match, but had to leave because my little brother disappeared when my other brother was supposed to be watching him.

Anyway... there was a period where her and a couple other friends were making me play it with them constantly, and I suffered a losing streak of... I forget.  I think it was over 40 games in a row without breaking 8 points (10 points is victory condition).  I finally couldn't take it anymore, and refused to play for several years.

I don't know why, but I always get picked on when I play that game.  Doesn't matter who we're playing with.  People go out of their way to block my shit, refuse to trade with me, and such.  My wife, meanwhile, is a real snake-in-the-grass.  I warn people that they should be worrying about her, not me, but they don't listen... even when they've played with her many times before.  She lays low the entire game.  Builds modestly.  Looks like she's losing.  Then she nets herself 3-4 points in a single turn and wins.  Every time.
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Re: Things that made you RRAAAAAGGGGEEEE today thread: Anti-Something Edition
« Reply #20348 on: January 31, 2013, 04:16:04 am »

The last week was awful, starting out with a psychosis(that drunkposting wich wasent even drunkposting), ending with another inane argument with my parents.
This week started awful with my friends getting mad at me because my mom prevented me from going to the concert i was supposed to play at.
Fucking assholes.

on a happy note, my school installed a filter. I bypassed the fuck out of it. Thanks god for Tor.
Tor just saved a random unlucky asshole who forgot to turn off their iPhones internet sharing service.
Our internet is going in a few months so i should better get good at the few tricks there are for unlucky assholes.

Sorry im an ass right now. I will get better, i hope. I dont like myself like this.. i feel criminal.
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Re: Things that made you RRAAAAAGGGGEEEE today thread: Anti-Something Edition
« Reply #20349 on: January 31, 2013, 04:18:25 am »

I tried to use Tor once. It made every page take like 30 seconds to load.
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Re: Things that made you RRAAAAAGGGGEEEE today thread: Anti-Something Edition
« Reply #20350 on: January 31, 2013, 04:23:35 am »

Sorry im an ass right now. I will get better, i hope. I dont like myself like this.. i feel criminal.
*hug* :(  Every time I see your posts, I wish we as Bay12 could do something to help...

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Re: Things that made you RRAAAAAGGGGEEEE today thread: Anti-Something Edition
« Reply #20351 on: January 31, 2013, 05:04:40 am »

I once had a game of that where at least 50% of the rolls where FUCKING. SEVEN.
As a non-Catan player, I take it that's bad?

It moves the bandit, wich is really fucking annoying.

Also fuck this assignment sucks.
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Re: Things that made you RRAAAAAGGGGEEEE today thread: Anti-Something Edition
« Reply #20352 on: January 31, 2013, 10:42:13 am »

I tried to use Tor once. It made every page take like 30 seconds to load.
Thats kinda the point. Tor is a massive proxy system, you aren't going to get perfect speeds out of a proxy.
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Re: Things that made you RRAAAAAGGGGEEEE today thread: Anti-Something Edition
« Reply #20353 on: January 31, 2013, 11:32:18 am »

I tried to use Tor once. It made every page take like 30 seconds to load.
Thats kinda the point. Tor is a massive proxy system, you aren't going to get perfect speeds out of a proxy.

For some reason it only took me 5 secs to load *redacted social service*
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Re: Things that made you RRAAAAAGGGGEEEE today thread: Anti-Something Edition
« Reply #20354 on: January 31, 2013, 02:44:29 pm »

I once had a game of that where at least 50% of the rolls where FUCKING. SEVEN.
Oh, those dies are weighted from my experience. Some of the numbers are never rolled.
Never. As in, "HOLY FUCK DID I JUST GET A MATERIAL OUT OF THAT SQUARE HOW DID THAT HAPPEN?" never.
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