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[Lightningfalcon]

I need to stop reading the news. Or burn the world.

That's why I don't watch the news. And I would say that's the better solution.  My family considers me extremely irresponsible because I don't keep up on current events.  They were surprised I didn't know that there were 2 bombers the other day.

I responded with that I have little interest in things that do not directly effect me or anyone close to me, or that I cannot meaningfully change for the better myself.  As cold as that sounds, why spend an inordinate amount of time worrying about anything else?  Really the only reason I have even a passive interest in the events in boston is because this is probably either going to be blamed on videogames, or keep us from being allowed to buy deodorant without a 10 day waiting period.

Next time they give me a hard time about it I'll be sure to mention that earthquake though.  They are not the type to pay any attention to any international news.

I share what is largely the same viewpoint.  While I feel sorry for those who died in Boston, what happened there didn't even attempt to put a tiny dent into how many people died that day.  If it was something that was on the scale of 9/11, or bigger, then I might care, but even that doesn't greatly increase the amount of people who had died that day. 

[Akura]

Why the hell does everything decide to say "Fuck it, I quit" when downloading updates if the connection hangs for one second?

[LordSlowpoke]

Right. Today's rage is caused by my system being hosed by a game that supposedly is completely safe (Papers Please, 0.54)

I seriously hope it was not the case but it was the last thing to make registry edits before it all went to shit.

[Akura]

Why do people insist on smoking inside those little bus stop shacks(of which there are exactly three that still exist without severe vandalism in my county)? And why do they insist on holding their cigarette so close to my face??

[Pnx]

I swear that flipping computer fan has gotten noisier, drives me nuts.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Probably has, clean it out if you can.

[Pnx]

I did clean it out, I cleaned it out less than a week ago, that was when it started getting noisier!

[MetalSlimeHunt]

See if you have any loose parts.

[Pnx]

It's possible, but given that it's the power supply fan that's making all the noise, the thing is lodged in the power supply's casing, and holding or otherwise trying to dampen rattling in the power supply makes no changes, I suspect that fan is just going bad.

[Tellemurius]

Trying to find a feed the beast server.

Needless to say, it's not going well. The ones I've found are either too spread out (even across six dimensions. On a 40 player server >.<) or too laggy.

my club is starting one this week, i can get you access to it if you want

[Eric Blank]

I'm so dry and itchy, I can't sleep! My skin is on fire! There is no moisturizer in this building and no way to get any until after dawn. It burns. IT BURNS!

[Sirus]

FAAAAAAAACK.

Hey YouTube...if I leave a video's page, I DON'T WANT IT TO CONTINUE PLAYING WITH NO WAY TO STOP IT!!!
I have TWO copies of the same video running at the same time despite closing that window. The overlapping audio is driving me bonkers.

[kaijyuu]

I'd blame that far more on your browser.

[Sirus]

Fine.

GODDAMMIT, NIGHTLY! Stop running the audio for videos I'm not even trying to watch any more! Bad browser, bad!

ETA: Thank the various gods. Either my browser finally realized wtf was going on, or the videos ended. No more sound!

[Skyrunner]

I tried to buy an iPhone app. iTunes churned for a moment, then popped up a message along the lines of "iTunes cannot process purchases at this time," then a text messge from my bank arrives saying that iTunes charged my debit card. I didn't get the app.
Raeg. S:

Also, this isn't the first time that happened.