Because a guy posted it on facebook and I said it was a shitty thing to do and this is apparently a case of white knighting.
Of course it's bad. It's a bait and switch where the ladies are expecting a token from an internet admirer but instead get a cross-eyed MS Paint caricature. I don't know about it being horrifically shitty. 'Horrifically shitty' is reserved for shattering a person's confidence beyond repair like constant bullying or photoshopping a person's head on top of a porn star's naked body and spreading it around.
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Dark Raven XLaugh hard, run fast,be kindRegistered Userregular
There's a PA comic about doing this, right?
Oh brilliant
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surrealitychecklonely, but not unloveddreaming of faulty keys and latchesRegistered Userregular
i hope ms releases a service pack for win8 that lets you basically just use it like windows 7 but with the good stuff from windows 8
because most of the new pcs here in the uk are being shipped with win7 over win8 due to customer demand
Well if a program has admin permissions (so not something you could distribute via the store) then you can pretty much reskin win8
I'd be suprised if that hasn't been done already.
Though I will say that you get used to the new UI. After about a week of using it on my work machine (so many hours each day) I was acclimated. Maybe a bit longer for a game machine.
And of course if someone makes up their mind in the first 5 minutes that they will hates it forever and so doesn't make any effort to actually learn how to do stuff in the new UI then they'll of course never get used to it.
doesnt really matter
they just need to make it the same user experience by default so that people switch
90% of consumers are the essence of "they changed it now it sucks"
I like going to movies with my wife, because she doesn't talk, unwrap individually wrapped sweets, noisily suck the dregs of a milkshake through a straw or check the brightly glowing screen of her smartphone. Also, I love her but that is way behind the other things when it comes to picking a suitable moviegoing companion.
My only complaint about going with Leigh is that 100% of the popcorn will go into her mouth unless I get two tubs. At which point 75% of the total popcorn will go into her mouth.
So she's also somebody who doesn't talk, unwrap sweets, or snack noisily, but that's because she's probably dozed off.
it's funny because she loves going to movies and will happily pay the $21 or whatever for the experience even if she knows she's going to sleep through half of it
every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
No, the PA comic (and accompanying PATV episode) were markedly less cruel in a number of ways. Firstly because the "victim" was asked first if they wanted a drawing. Secondly because Mike then drew a nice picture of them. The "twist" was that he then drew dicks all over it. It didn't seem like the kind of thing that was likely to hurt a lot of feelings.
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surrealitychecklonely, but not unloveddreaming of faulty keys and latchesRegistered Userregular
I like going to movies with my wife, because she doesn't talk, unwrap individually wrapped sweets, noisily suck the dregs of a milkshake through a straw or check the brightly glowing screen of her smartphone. Also, I love her but that is way behind the other things when it comes to picking a suitable moviegoing companion.
My only complaint about going with Leigh is that 100% of the popcorn will go into her mouth unless I get two tubs. At which point 75% of the total popcorn will go into her mouth.
i had to train a girlfriend so she didnt think "ill have some of whatever youre having" was an acceptable way to conduct herself at restaurants
It's really not fundamentally different from any other prank.
Outside of it mocking women for their looks (and a couple of them being arguably racist).
Which is pretty shitty.
Yeah that's a big thing. It deliberately chose something that people associate with their self-worth because society is shitty and tears them down with it.
also: in a context where that person might be feeling particularly nervous about their appearance (an online dating site)
yeah
it's a cheap shot in the most vulnerable context you could find online
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ChanusHarbinger of the Spicy Rooster ApocalypseThe Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered Userregular
No, the PA comic (and accompanying PATV episode) were markedly less cruel in a number of ways. Firstly because the "victim" was asked first if they wanted a drawing. Secondly because Mike then drew a nice picture of them. The "twist" was that he then drew dicks all over it. It didn't seem like the kind of thing that was likely to hurt a lot of feelings.
Kind of like looking a gift horse in the dick in that case.
I understand that various types of humor that I enjoy also cause people anguish. That's part of the price of comedy, there's always a victim. I just think the cruelty to humour ratio is out of whack on this one. Can you imagine how shitty you would feel if someone did that to you? Especially that black girl. Jesus...
"they changed it now it sucks" is a viable argument in a lot of cases when it comes to software
because the benefits of the change almost never ever weigh up for the inconvenience of the change.
good god
I'm bitter about the chucklefucks who design Word's interface.
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LudiousI just wanted a sandwich A temporally dislocated QuiznosRegistered Userregular
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I enjoy cruelty. I feel that it is a lost art. That said, this is pointless and dumb and needlessly cruel. Cruelty is best served to those that deserve it. Not people looking for love on a dating website. What they are doing is positive. It could even be argued that they are participating in a human imperative.
White Knighting is when you defend a girl who is perfectly capable of defending herself. Posting a shitty cruel joke on facebook and being called out for it is not being White Knighted, it's called being your just desserts.
do you dudes ever get this thing where you are watching a film with somebody and they ask you "who is that" about one of the main characters
and the implication of that is that they literally cannot have been understanding what the fuck was going on
i thought this was just my mother, then i met another girl who did it
i wasnt sure whether to laugh or cry
The Lady Chanus will be working on a paper or something while we watch a show and every five minutes or so will ask me to explain what just happened because she wasn't paying attention.
I... I love her. I do.
Allegedly a voice of reason.
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surrealitychecklonely, but not unloveddreaming of faulty keys and latchesRegistered Userregular
It's actually a pretty shitty tablet OS too, you have to memorize how to do everything because the entire UI is invisible
You know because visible buttons for functions were a terrible idea, everyone should have to memorize combos like its street fighter. Honestly for me that's fine, but when you're first using the thing its an exercise in frustration. Nothing about the UI is intuitive in the slightest.
To close an app, for example, you have to drag from the top right of the screen down towards the middle and hold until the app becomes small and then drag it to the bottom edge and release
You know because the "X" was too fucking inelegant and cumbersome
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So she's also somebody who doesn't talk, unwrap sweets, or snack noisily, but that's because she's probably dozed off.
it's funny because she loves going to movies and will happily pay the $21 or whatever for the experience even if she knows she's going to sleep through half of it
As long as she doesn't snore that seems fine. If I fell asleep in a theater, I would expect my other theatergoers to throw things at me.
i had to train a girlfriend so she didnt think "ill have some of whatever youre having" was an acceptable way to conduct herself at restaurants
That I don't mind so much. I don't mind sharing the few bits she might be interested in. She just has has a blind spot where there is no community property popcorn, there is simply her popcorn that I may be holding.
do you dudes ever get this thing where you are watching a film with somebody and they ask you "who is that" about one of the main characters
and the implication of that is that they literally cannot have been understanding what the fuck was going on
i thought this was just my mother, then i met another girl who did it
i wasnt sure whether to laugh or cry
Yeah, I've had a bunch of people do this. Sometimes it will be something that is so stunningly daft it will make me question whether I've misunderstood everything.
"Is he one of the good guys or the bad guys?"
"What? That guy? But, he's a Nazi. How could he be a good guy? Unless, wait, is this a movie where they make a Nazi a hero? Maybe it is. I don't know now."
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Celebrating viciousness is ok, but better not use the word "fuck" uncensored
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Of course it's bad. It's a bait and switch where the ladies are expecting a token from an internet admirer but instead get a cross-eyed MS Paint caricature. I don't know about it being horrifically shitty. 'Horrifically shitty' is reserved for shattering a person's confidence beyond repair like constant bullying or photoshopping a person's head on top of a porn star's naked body and spreading it around.
doesnt really matter
they just need to make it the same user experience by default so that people switch
90% of consumers are the essence of "they changed it now it sucks"
No, not really. That wasn't about going HEY YOU'RE FUCKING UGLY.
My only complaint about going with Leigh is that 100% of the popcorn will go into her mouth unless I get two tubs. At which point 75% of the total popcorn will go into her mouth.
Yeah I was hoping there'd be one person saying "man that's not cool"
nope
Are you thinking of the Draw Something one where Gabe draws dicks and the word in question only incidentally?
Okay I legitimately laughed about the top one
you may fire slings and arrows at me
So she's also somebody who doesn't talk, unwrap sweets, or snack noisily, but that's because she's probably dozed off.
it's funny because she loves going to movies and will happily pay the $21 or whatever for the experience even if she knows she's going to sleep through half of it
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
No, the PA comic (and accompanying PATV episode) were markedly less cruel in a number of ways. Firstly because the "victim" was asked first if they wanted a drawing. Secondly because Mike then drew a nice picture of them. The "twist" was that he then drew dicks all over it. It didn't seem like the kind of thing that was likely to hurt a lot of feelings.
i had to train a girlfriend so she didnt think "ill have some of whatever youre having" was an acceptable way to conduct herself at restaurants
because the benefits of the change almost never ever weigh up for the inconvenience of the change.
yeah
it's a cheap shot in the most vulnerable context you could find online
Kind of like looking a gift horse in the dick in that case.
good god
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
No, Gabe was like video messaging people, saying "I will draw you"
And then he drew a girl with dicks in place of her eyes
ed; yeah, I saw the PATV of it too - he did start drawing legit sketches of people before the dicks arrived.
no, you're right
this just seems mean
yeah, but metro is legitimately worse for a desktop PC
I've started to do Windows Server 2012 rollouts and metro sucks
it's probably fine for a tablet
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
ah ok
and the implication of that is that they literally cannot have been understanding what the fuck was going on
i thought this was just my mother, then i met another girl who did it
i wasnt sure whether to laugh or cry
Yeah...not a cool thing to do.
Metro is a pile of shit and metro apps can't be resized, they're these fullscreen monstrosities that induce rage
I bought my mom a win 8 computer and she couldn't figure out how to do anything so, so much for making the OS simpler for old people and dumbs
Well, the difference being he didn't also draw her in a way that accentuated features she was possibly self-conscious about.
Unless she had really tiny penis eyes.
im not sayin they is right or rong
im just sayin that if they want people to change they have to account for this
I'm bitter about the chucklefucks who design Word's interface.
White Knighting is when you defend a girl who is perfectly capable of defending herself. Posting a shitty cruel joke on facebook and being called out for it is not being White Knighted, it's called being your just desserts.
They were kinda cross eyed, so you could infer "cock eyed" :P
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The Lady Chanus will be working on a paper or something while we watch a show and every five minutes or so will ask me to explain what just happened because she wasn't paying attention.
I... I love her. I do.
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i've been subject to such questions, i generally just ignore them
the question is its own answer to minds that feeble
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
You know because visible buttons for functions were a terrible idea, everyone should have to memorize combos like its street fighter. Honestly for me that's fine, but when you're first using the thing its an exercise in frustration. Nothing about the UI is intuitive in the slightest.
To close an app, for example, you have to drag from the top right of the screen down towards the middle and hold until the app becomes small and then drag it to the bottom edge and release
You know because the "X" was too fucking inelegant and cumbersome
As long as she doesn't snore that seems fine. If I fell asleep in a theater, I would expect my other theatergoers to throw things at me.
That I don't mind so much. I don't mind sharing the few bits she might be interested in. She just has has a blind spot where there is no community property popcorn, there is simply her popcorn that I may be holding.
Yeah, I've had a bunch of people do this. Sometimes it will be something that is so stunningly daft it will make me question whether I've misunderstood everything.
"Is he one of the good guys or the bad guys?"
"What? That guy? But, he's a Nazi. How could he be a good guy? Unless, wait, is this a movie where they make a Nazi a hero? Maybe it is. I don't know now."
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