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Where I talk about all the stupid stuff that annoys me.

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Episode 90 - Nevermind

Hey.  Y'know what really grinds my gears?  When someone posts a question on some tech forum, and then the OP replies and says, "Nevermind.  Figured it out," but they don't say how.  C'mon, man!  Don't you realize that there are other people who haven't figured it out?!  Don't realize that other people google the same problem and click on your thread hoping for the solution?  It's so frustrating when you're desperately trying to solve a computing problem, and you find someone with the answer but
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Episode 117 - Sneezing

Hey.  Y'know what really grinds my gears?  Sneezing.  Oh, damn, does this one grind my gears to a f*cking halt. I sneeze more than most people.  I don't have any specific, acute allergies, just more sneezing than average.  I don't really mind sneezing too much, but it's the inevitable, annoying chore than comes afterward.  I absolutely cannot sneeze without then blowing my nose afterwards.  It is completely impossible.  Many a time I have tried to resist.  I'll sneeze and then sit there say
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Episode 128 - Nacho Cheese Sauce

Hey.  Y'know what really grinds my gears?  When restaurants list "cheese" on an item but it's actually nacho cheese sauce.  Look, I'm not necessarily averse to nacho cheese sauce.  I typically only like dipping chips in it without any other ingredients, but the point is that if it's sauce then it should say sauce.  If I order nachos that say "topped with ground beef, lettuce, beans, and cheese", then I expect CHEESE.  GRATED CHEESE.  Not f*ckin' sauce.  If it says cheese then it should be cheese
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Episode 115 - "I just know."

Hey.  Y'know what really grinds my gears?  When a character in a movie... um... ok, so, like, y'know how in a movie, somebody's girlfriend/boyfriend or something is presumed dead, and then the person will be all like, "He/she is alive!"  And then someone else says, "how do you know?", and then they go, "I don't know how I know; I just know."  F*CK YOU.  You do NOT.  I HATE when they say that.  You don't know.  How can you?  You DON'T.  You just want them to be alive.  Now, I'm not talking about
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Episode 119 - Seasonal Fashion Trends

Hey.  I'm a huge fashionista.  Like Rarity.  I love fashion.  But y'know what really grinds my gears?  Seasonal fashion lines and fleeting trends. I'm not just talkin' about "new" clothes.  I'm talkin' about when the fashion industry puts out new seasonal lines, and the media/celebrities/whoever tells us that last season's [perfectly good] fashions are now "out of style".  This is just planned obsolescence to squeeze more money of out you, and it's contrived garbage bullsh*t.  Let me let yo
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127. The Number of This Episode.

My gears. Y'know what really grinds them? When characters separate out either the subject or object of a sentence and move it out in front as a lone fragment in an attempt to sound more dramatic.  This is one of those things where you probably have no idea what the f*ck I'm talking about until I give an example.  This is where, instead of asking, "Where did you hide the money?", the character will say, "The money.  Where did you hide it?"  Or instead of, "You must not trust Mr. Smith",
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Episode 118 - Whatever Doesn't Kill Me...

Feel like I'm gonna take some flak from all the optimists for this one.  Meh.  Whatever. Hey.  Y'know what really grinds my gears?  The saying, "whatever doesn't kill me only makes me stronger."  Um... yeah... with some obvious exceptions.  How about muscular dystrophy?  How about osteogenesis imperfecta?  Epidermolysis bullosa?  Polio?  Varicella Zoster?  How 'bout cancer?  How 'bout a paralyzing spinal injury?  How about friggin PTSD?  How about f*cking long COVID?? How about f*ckin'
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Episode 112 - #1

Hey.  Y'know what really grinds my gears?  When commercials claim that a show or movie is the "THE NUMBER ONE SHOW/MOVIE IN THE WORLD/COUNTRY!!"  First off, what the f*ck does that even mean?  For a movie, does it mean most ticket sales?  In what time period?  For a show, does it mean highest viewership?  Highest ratings?  Sometimes I think that they just make this sh*t up for commercials.  I don't think there's any liability whatsoever.  I think that any advertiser is allowed to say that their
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Episode 88 - The Hero's Power Up

Wow.  I've almost done 90 of these things.  That's almost 100.    I'll have to do something really special for episode 100. So, y'know what really grinds my gears? Picture it--a fantasy or superhero type movie.  Magical magic.  Super superpowers.  A heroic hero of light.  A villainous villain of darkness.  We've all seen this kinda sh*t a thousands times, right?  Epic, colorful explosions of epic magical energy, epic music, an epic struggle of epic proportions, an epic so epic you can'
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Episode 113 - "Technology"

Hey.  Y'know what really grind my gears?  When products advertise having some sort of "technology" when it's completely unwarranted just as a gimmick to make it sound cool.  Like, for instance, the ziplock bags we have in our cupboard boast having "power shield technology".  It's a plastic bag, you dipwads.  And my hand lotion claims to have "MVE delivery technology".  Or, say, a mop might claim to have "dirt locking technology", or perhaps a t-shirt will have "lint repelling technology", or a t
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Episode 97 - Game of Sopranos

Game of Thrones and Sopranos spoilers ahead. I wrote a comprehensive post about my feelings on the ending to Game of Thrones when it aired over on my main blog.  Short summary--I liked it and thought that the intense level of hatred was unfair.  But y'know what really grinds my gears?  The hypocrisy of fans between Thrones and Sopranos. Before I go any further, I just wanna make one thing clear: this is just my silly rant blog, not to be taken too seriously.  This is just my opinion, b
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Episode 129 - More Foreign Stuff on Netflix

Hey. This is a sequel to Episode 81.  Quick recap--I hate reading subtitles.  Nothing against foreign stuff, just a slow reader, can't do it.  It really GMG that Netflix doesn't make it more apparent when something is subtitled and not in your region's native language.  I want to be able to tell at a glance. But y'know what grinds my gears even more??!  When you actually take the time to scroll down, click on "audio", check to see if subtitles are on or off, and they're off, then you scroll
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Episode 126 - Online Games

Hey.  Y'know what really grinds my gears?  Getting online gaming to work. Gaming graphics continue to surge forward to unfathomable new heights while netcode just seems to rot away in a dumpster.  Why is it that no matter how much progress we make, no matter how sophisticated games become, no matter how fast internet connections get, and no matter how powerful computers get, simply getting a lobby of your friends together in an online game and playing for a couple of hours without issue is
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Episode 138 - Gender Reveals

I'm probably gonna take some heat for this one, but I don't care. Y'know what really grinds my gears?  Gender reveals.  Especially the big, lavish parties.  The entire concept of elaborate gender reveals is one of the stupidest, most asinine things humanity has ever created, and is one of the things that has probably caused super advanced aliens to look at us from orbit and go, "nope", and continue on their merry way. Yeah, let's spend a bunch of money and resources and pollute the env
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Episode 131 - Do This Really Hard Thing in 5 MINUTES!!

Hey.  Y'know what really grinds my gears?  Clickbaity youtube videos that always say, "How to do this really hard thing in X minutes!"  You know what I'm talking about--it'll be like, "How to build your own gaming PC in 30 mintues!"  "How to configure your own open-source wi-fi router in 15 minutes!"  "How to make this ultra-realistic 3D model in Blender in 25 minutes!"  Yeah, most of these sorts of videos that I see are tech related cuz that's what I do.  But it could also be, like, um... "How
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Episode 135 - Bad Game Remakes

Hey.  Y'know what really grinds my gears?  Bad and/or unnecessary game remasters and/or remakes. Don't get me wrong--a lot of remasters and remakes are fine.  Many are warranted and a huge improvement.  But many of them are also totally unnecessary, and some of them actually wreck things, in my opinion.  Firstly, the game industry is absolutely obsessed with remastering games.  They release remasters so soon after the original that there's basically no point.  Why remaster a PS4 game for PS
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Episode 133 - Kraydoze

Hey.  Y'know what really grinds my gears?  When people mispronounce Kratos's name.  Y'know, from God of War.  They get lazy and slur it, turning the t into a soft d, and the s into a z.  "Kray-doze".  "Kraydoze".  Drives me friggin nuts.  You have to annunciate a hard t and distinct s.  "Kray-tose".  Say "kray", then pretend you're going to say the word "toast", but leave the last t off.  Kray-toas.  Not Kray-doze.  Not Crate-O's.  Kray-toas.  Toas.  Not Doze, not O's.  TOAS.  Kratos is the bade
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Episode 134 - Once and For All!

Hey.  Y'know what really grinds my gears?  The phrase "once and for all".  It's so overused.  It's such a cliché in movies and TV, especially epic fantasies and the like.  It's like a requirement for any movie with a sword battle in it at any point.  It's like the Wilhelm scream.  It's just ubiquitous.  It's so contrived.  Lemmie tell ya, when a hero boldly proclaims "ONCE AND FOR ALL!", that's when I stop caring.  I'm out.  Too melodramatic.
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Episode 136 - OS EOL

Hey.  Y'know what really, really REALLY grinds my gears?  Operating system end of life. I've already ranted about how much I hate change.  Twice!  But this demands its own entry.  I basically live on my computers, and I am so, so f*cking sick of having my life and my world uprooted and upended and thrown into chaos every few years when my operating systems reach their Celestia damned "end of life".  Why, why, WHY in the name of Celestia's sunny ass do they have to kill operating systems all
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Episode 137 - Terminal Commands

This one might be a little insider baseball. Y'know what really grinds my gears?  Terminal commands on  Linux.  Anyone who uses any Linux based OS knows that if you want to do anything more than just the basic layperson stuff that comes bundled with the OS (like word processing, web browsing, listening to music, etc), then at some point you're going to come face to face with the terminal (aka the console or command line) for some advanced operation.  I don't mind this, but what annoys the p
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Episode 141 - Chocolate Chip Cookies Today

Hey.  Y'know what really grinds my gears?  Chocolate chip cookies today.  I feel like it's so hard to find a really good one.  I swear, I haven't had a really good chocolate chip cookie in 30 years.  Mrs. Fields' semi-sweet used to be my favorite as a kid, but they started to slip around 2000 or so.  They suck today.  And it's not just me--they used to be mom's favorite when I was a kid, too, and now she doesn't like 'em, either.  They really went downhill. When my parents were young and da
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Episode 142 - Bad Dreams

Hey.  Y'know what really grinds my gears?  Bad dreams.  Well, er, um, it's not exactly any one specific experience of having a bad dream that annoys me.  Well... heh...  I might be kinda weird, but as an adult, I actually find the experience of an occasional nightmare to be kinda fun!    I mean, when it's something wacky and crazy like some sci-fi horror. Lemmie start again.  Y'know what really grinds my gears?  Always having dreams about bad stuff and never good stuff.  I only dream about
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Episode 139 - Digital Edition

Hey.  Y'know what really grinds my gears?  Inaccurate use of the word "digital". When a movie or game releases a "digital" version, what does that mean?  When a movie is advertised as being available on DVD, blu-ray, and digital, what does the digital mean?  When Microsoft and Sony advertise all digital Xboxes and Playstations, what does that mean?  I'll tell you what they think it means, and what most people assume it means--download or streaming only.  No physical media.  I.e. no optical
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Episode 143 - Frizz Dayz

Only long haired ponies will understand this one. Y'know what really grinds my gears?  Frizz days. Most of the time, my hair brushes out just fine.  I brush for a few minutes, and it's tangle free and the brush goes through smoothly with no resistance and no noise.  But then, occasionally, for reasons that are utterly mystifying and inscrutable. the hair just decides that it won't brush out, no matter f*cking what.  I never change my routine, I always condition, and all variables appea
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Episode 140 - Light Bulbs - The Legacy Sequel

Long time fans of my series... *snickers*... pffft, yeah, right.      A pony can dream, though, a pony can dream...   Anyway, readers may remember that I did an entry on newfangled light bulbs way back in episode 6.  It's time a legacy sequel! Y'know what really grinds my gears?  F*ckin' LED light bulbs.  They're so fickle and unreliable.  We have so many that flicker on and off or go dim and then bright again and weird sh*t like that.  And it's definitely the bulb, I guarantee you (not the
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