I HATE ARCHERS IN MOUNT AND BLADE WARBAND MULTIPLAYER. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
I love this game, I’ve probably played it more than any other in the past year, with the possible exception of Bad Company 2. Archers are part of the game, but no server ever puts limits on their number.
They just sit back and try to be all pro an shit with their 1337 archery skills. Worst thing is when a bunch of clanboys join a server and they ALL go archer or crossbow men. Go train your shooting skills with a railgun in quake 3. No more epic clashes in the middle of the field, no more maneuvering, just a bunch of idiots too afraid to move two feet into the map, hiding behind walls and trees. Seriously, I saw one dude that developed a technique to jump when in hand to hand combat with his crossbow armed to bypass the enemy shield. IN HAND TO HAND COMBAT!
The one upside to this is being able to disembowel these arrow shooting turds like the the peasant dogs they are, being able to ride them down so that their imaginary peasant wife and kids won’t be able to pay their taxes to their lord and will have their peasant hut burned to ashes as they cry for their lost father and husband who should have been a farmer all along.
It’s even better when they’re expecting you to hold up inside the castle maps like Village, but then you do an unexpected sortie and before they know a blade from a horseman is opening their neck from ear to ear.
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in case you’re wondering, i also had the upper/lowercase letters, numbers, symbols, etc.
Those relatives that forward you every chain e-mail and “funny picture” emails they receive.
Websites that won’t work properly without IE, specifically password fields.
Enter the password the first time: Login incorrect.
Enter password second time, after toggling caps lock: Login incorrect.
Okay, go look up my secret password.txt file. Type that in.
Login incorrect. You are now LOCKED out please contact (800)xxx-xxxx.
That’s when I find out it’s a just because it hates firefox/chrome.
jason
1725
When the regular login page fail, but the “You’ve failed, try again.” page works using the exact same password.
When I get emails like that these days, the person in question receives The Curt Note.
At first they are a little miffed, but it’s the only way they learn.
I give my relatives lots of Snopes links. It really helps them start to learn to weed out the flak themselves.
Zylon
1728
Sites where the registration and login pages use different password validation.
jason
1729
On the subject of passwords, in enrages me when corporations have so many rules for password generation that it actually limits the number of possible passwords and makes it easier to hack.
“Passwords must be 8 characters, containing at least 1 lower case letter, at least 1 upper case letter, at least 1 number and 1 special character. Passwords cannot have more than 2 letters in succession, nor more than 2 numbers in succession, and may not contain more than 1 special character. All valid 2 letter words cannot be contained within your password. Your password cannot contain either your birth day, birth month or 2 digit birth year. In addition, you must change your password every 30 days and you cannot use any password you have used in the past 36 months.”
This is about as nerd-ragey as it gets, but I get irrationally angry when my gamepads don’t work. And I’m not talking about the ol’ gamer excuse of a defective pad when you mess up. I mean legitimate controller malfunctions that cause me much yelling and sadness. One of my 360 controllers has a thing where the left analog stick has too much play and will often register as moving left when in the neutral position. It’s not usually an issue on games using the stick, but on fighting games using the dpad it’s a huge pain as my character will just start moving left in the middle of a fight. It’s bad enough that the 360 pad sucks anyway, but to have even the analog stick fuck with me makes me hate the controller as if it was sentient.
Zylon
1731
Complaining about electromechanical failure is about the least-nerd ragey you can get. And there’s nothing irrational about it… unless you mean you get so angry that you lose the ability to behave rationally. In which case I have to ask, how many holes have you punched in your walls?
People still use the d-pad for fighting games? I have gone the way of the stick and not looked back. I am actually better in the latest Tekken and Soul Calibur with the stick rather than the d-pad.*
* - All of that said, my brother still uses the dpad and we are still pretty even, all these years later, so apparently the stick provides not actual benefit… Other than they usually take longer to die!
Yeah, the irrational part comes when I openly curse at the gamepad itself, as if I can somehow make it feel bad. And I will admit that I have broken a few over the years for not working properly. Back when I had my old Xbox (not 360) with the gigantic controller, the B and Y buttons started to go out on me while playing Soul Calibur 2. I’d have to mash them down as hard as I could just to get them to register at all. Normally I’m pretty good about not breaking controllers, but since this one was already broken, I made it a point to smash it to bits. This was actually harder than I thought, as the thing was apparently made out of some sort of space-age material. I then went from being mad at the controller to being mad that I couldn’t easily break it. Swinging it by the cord into the concrete porch did the trick, but even that took quite a bit of effort.
This just causes people to write down their pw. I know I do. But it lets us put a little checkmark in the SOX form that says we’re secure. Yay!
Quitch
1735
That’s because they’re badly trained. Do you struggle to think of sentences? No? Then writing a password is easy, except people insist on making it one word. Stop. Make it a sentence, much easier to remember and far more secure.
Of course, stupid online systems with stupid limitations don’t help.
Zylon
1736
Thinking of them isn’t the problem. Remembering them, is.
Also, very very many systems don’t accept passwords of more than 20 or so characters.
That and the fact that so many things are done online, it starts to get a bit overwhelming remembering so many passwords designed to be secure. I’ve gotten to where I write all mine down at home, but then I’m screwed if I have to do anything from work. I’ve contemplated using that password profile site people here have mentioned a few times, but I’m pretty paranoid about giving all my account info to one organization.
Zylon
1738
And god help anyone trying to type an entire sentence without fat-fingering it when you can’t see what you’re typing.
Quitch
1739
It’s the latter that’s the problem, sentences are infinitely more memorable than key words because, for one thing, the symbols are not nonsense. You don’t need to remember the symbols any more, because it’s a sentence. You don’t need to remember the capitalisation, because it’s a sentence.
I don’t think anyone’s arguing that sentences aren’t easier to remember. The issue is having to remember multiple ones and which accounts they go with.
