The Bitching Thread

[Animeniax]

Try some betamethasone dipropionate cream. That stuff cures pretty much all skin ailments. It requires a prescription however.

I almost finished Need for Speed: Most Wanted today. It turns out after you become the top guy on the list, you have to survive an extended police chase. Sorry if that's a spoiler.

Right after you do 5 consecutive races against the #1 guy, you think it's over, but it immediately throws you into a level 6 cop chase. So I spent almost 3 hours straight playing this game, to the point my vision blurred. I wasn't sure if it saved after you beat the #1 guy, so I kept playing (and replaying cause I'd get busted a lot) to try to finish the game, but then the DVD drive failed on me again, so I have to wait until tomorrow morning to see if I have to do the 5 races again before I can try to finish the cop chase. Here's hoping it saved after the 5 races.

[Killa-Eyez]

I've never gotten to finish Underground 1 or 2 (the only ones I like) to this day, that kinda bumbs me out 2. Now I'm playing GoW 2 with a friend of mine but he's busy alot so it's moving slow. I really want my PS2 back (it's at his place fo GoW, his house is cooler to play at), cause I want to practice Tekken before 6 comes out on the PS3. I wanna OWN on the online play.

Also, I live @ my sis' place in a flat. She has some trouble with a neighbour and it seemed that just after my sis left for vacation to Miami, he turned off the water supply. He could've done it, cause the watermeter for all houses is in the basement in a cabine. Offcourse I couldn't find a key so I had to knock on another neighbours door to kindly ask to loan the key. Very frustrating, and I'm not sure what I'll do to that neighbour the next time he starts shit. I don't know for sure he did it, but who else could've done it? I'm a 99% sure it was him, except, I have no proof.

Yesterday I was healthy and everything. Today my throat hurts, I spit alot and I just sneezed blood.

FUCK!

[Buffalobiian]

Try some betamethasone dipropionate cream. That stuff cures pretty much all skin ailments. It requires a prescription however.

That's because it's a topical steroid

[Animeniax]

That's because it's a topical steroid

I did not knowingly take any performance-enhancing substances.

[Buffalobiian]

I did not knowingly take any performance-enhancing substances.

Don't worry. It doesn't enhance anything

Try some betamethasone dipropionate cream. That stuff cures pretty much all skin ailments

Thought I'd say, if people have this lying around at home, don't put it on cuts, infections or tinea/fungus etc! -> being an immuno-suppressant means they'll just get worse.

Inflammations, hives and allergy etc are all good though.

It's a prescription for a reason

[complich8]

Wow ... the travails of you folks over the last few weeks make mine pale by comparison. Everything I have to bitch about is caused by my own laziness, negligence or lack of motivation.

[Animeniax]

Weird, I was thinking the same thing about my recently posted problems. A bad DVD drive in my X360 and having to redo some races in a game don't compare too well to some of the real life problems you guys are posting about.

Mostly my problems are a result of boredom.

[Ryllharu]

Seth spamming Dhalsim's long arms in SFIV. Every. single. time.

[Xelbair]

Try to fight with kilik in SC4 then.(with other char than siegfried or nightmare - they own him)

[Buffalobiian]

Being sunburnt is no fun.

[Nadouku]

God, I accidently stepped on a nail. It didn't stab through that much, but enough to make it bleed and hurt more if I step on it. Now, I have to limit my movement around for a while till it heals up, and maybe go see a doctor it something weird presents itself (like an infection).

[Kraco]

Just be sure your tetanus vaccination is still in effect. Seeing how you are 92 years old, you might have forgotten when you were last time vaccinated (booster).

[Nadouku]

Heh, I got it checked and it turned out okay as long as I don't apply any force on it. I did renew my tetanus shot so now I have another ouchie to worry about.

[Ryllharu]

I discovered today much to my dismay, that a box Girl Scout cookies are on average 1/3 smaller than they were last year. They still cost the same.

It is only now that realization of the full extent of the global economic depression really hits me

[RyougaZell]

Cookies? Bleh..

Try living outside the US and see you economy go downhill thanks to the dollar.
Before this mess began I could buy a dollar with 11 pesos. Today the freaking dollar costs 16 pesos. Thus... games, movies and whatever crap I want to buy ends up being almost 50% more expensive

[Ryllharu]

Thin Mints are one of the greatest gifts mankind gave to itself.

Don't think it's that much better here. While it may be entirely our economy's fault, things are not pretty here. I lucked out by being in a slower-growth stable industry, but everything else has gone to shit. The huge company right down the road is laying off hundreds of researchers. That's a huge hit to the upper middle class in the region, which will cause a ripple effect over the long term. They all tighten their belts, everyone in the retail industries suffer. It can cause a big cascade.

As for the exchange rates...buy local?

[RyougaZell]

I've got no problem with local things. But manga and videogames are extremely expensive now. For instance... Street Fighter 4 sells for 1200 pesos in its normal version, whereas if the economy hadn't go down it would cost only 700 pesos. And thats with 'legal stores'. Those that import illegally sell it at 900~1000 pesos.

Don't really want SF4, but it was a good example.

[Killa-Eyez]

On a less depressing note, went basketballing last weekend. Caught in the defense a big fat guy drives in, hard, and I tried to hold him off with my D and reached for the ball.
Ofcourse a foul cause I hit his finger while reaching with my left arm, but at the same time I think my right got tangled up with his left in some way.
It felt like my arm was being dislocated and relocated on the spot. It hurt. Bad. But I shook it off and kept playing. Didn't suffer much from it the rest of the day.
Then in the evening the pain just came like a 100 MPH schoolbus into my arm. I thought it was gonna fall off. It's better now, though I can't make excessive movements with it. Today while playing, I reached with it for the rebound. I felt that.

[Xelbair]

Thank god that this economic disaster haven't reached Poland. Games are now expansive as hell(200PLN for new console game, average earnings 2000PLN(500-750 <- remove this for taxes), if they would be more expansive no one would buy them.

[Assertn]

lol. In the midst of a global recession and you guys are only concerned about the cost of video games. Seriously.