NoRedInk is an awful, terrible, and hurtful online teaching application that some schools force their students to use. The whole website is fundamentally flawed and is an absolute waste of time. The prompts that NoRedInk gives to the students make absolutely no sense and causes the students to get frustrated while completing their assigned tasks on the site. Students have claimed that NoRedInk assignments take hours to complete when in reality it should only take about 30 minutes. NoRedInk also unfairly and brutally punishes students for even one question answered incorrectly. If a student gets a question wrong at any point during the lesson, they are required to correctly answer 3 more questions in a row to continue on with said lesson, and the counter resets itself if another question is answered incorrectly. Also, if the students use hints at any time, they cannot move on with the lesson unless they answer 3 questions in a row correctly. This is why students who use NoRedInk are scared of using the site hints because they fear that if they use said hints then they will be met with the brutal and unforgiving penalty system. The penalty can also seemingly go on infinitely if the student constantly fails to get 3 correct answers in a row, and can seemingly be stuck on one topic forever, without an end in sight. This website, with the addition of the broken and unfair penalty system, ultimately ruins students' days and also kills their grades. As a victim of NoRedInk, I absolutely hated this website with a burning passion. I was seemingly stuck on one topic for 50+ minutes with the website constantly mocking me for my 'great effort'. I cannot stress how many mental breakdowns I have had because of this ineffective and harmful site. During my ELA class, my friends all around me were getting frustrated with this site and its ridiculous and unfair penalty system. Some even slammed their fists on their desks because of the site's brutal and unforgiving nature. All of my friends around me hated it as much as I did. All of the stress that comes from NoRedInk is completely unnecessary, and quite frankly, harmful. All of the stress that NoRedInk gives its victims (the students) is unhealthy amounts of stress that can actually negatively affect them later on as an adult. Study Island, which is a few layers above this site, but still bad, has many different ways to learn a certain subject, and does not punish you for getting a question wrong. All it will do is show an X next to the wrong answer, then will let you move on with the lesson. It does not have a unfair, harmful, ridiculous, and unforgiving penalty system where you are forced to do more questions in a row, and answer them correctly. The only website where you experience such behavior on is NoRedInk. All that NoRedInk seems to do is bully students by punishing them for even getting a single question wrong, making it one of the most disgraceful learning tools to ever exist. The students are being forced to use a website that practically bullies them and mocks them for every single question that they get wrong, and it is disgusting and evil. How would you feel if a site mocked you and pointed fingers at you for being incorrect? It's evil, and the site is especially evil for doing this kind of behavior and bullying students. As a victim of this site, I hated every single second I was forced to use it. Every second of my ELA class was being forced to use this harmful learning website that, in the end, does not teach students practically anything. I hated every second of using it, and my friends did too. Some of them even got stuck on one topic basically forever and couldn't complete the assignment we were given. This site actually sparked student suicide rates up by 80% back in 2018. By god, can we just let students use programs that are actually very engaging and fun all the while actually teaching kids the subjects? That is exactly what made Timez Attack popular in the first place - it taught kids mathematics in a fun and engaging way. Test results were over 200% higher than regular test results (around 95% for most students). And you wanna know why? Because it was fun all while actually teaching kids the subject. And that game was made by veteran game developers who worked on some of the most iconic games from the PlayStation 2, so Big Brainz definitely had experience with game development. But no! We can't have any sence of "fun" in school, so we're going to instead force students onto these crappy websites that do nothing but hurt students' self esteem and mental state. And these sites don't actually make anything better, they make things worse! All that sites like NoRedInk do is cause bad student behavior and it only further decreases test scores and kills grades. Why can't we have fun and engaging ways to learn topics in school? Why do we have to keep using these sites that do nothing but bully and ridicule students? I truly hate the mindset of "no fun allowed at school, let's force you onto this website that bullies you for getting a single question wrong, that will definitely solve the problem". Come on! Let's get crap like Timez Attack and Prodigy again. Stop forcing students onto these websites that do nothing to improve scores and bully students. It's the exact same reason why students hate IXL. Stop, think for a second, America. NoRedInk is a horrible learning application that causes bad student behavior, and frustrates a ton of students. Being a victim of this site, I say that we need to band together, as one, and say that we've had enough. We've had enough of putting up with this broken and unforgiving site and its harsh and unforgiving penalty system. This site either must be banned, or taken down entirely. Everyone hates the site and it must be done away with. Forever.
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"Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."
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To me, nothing will EVER top the magic of Smokey and the Bandit.
Literally one of Hal Needham's and Burt Reynolds's greatest works to date. The plot is very simple: The Bandit accepts a challenge set by Big and Little Enos, which is to travel down to Texarkana, TX to illegally bootleg 400 cases of Coors, and deliver them back to Atlanta, GA, all within a 28 hour time limit. This film's plot actually makes a lot of sense when you think about US laws of the time. Bootlegging laws were much more stricter back then, especially in Texas. Taking beer east of Texas was considered as bootlegging, and it would have severe consequences for anyone who was caught doing it. So, this film's plot is actually based off of the real US laws of the late 70s. It only adds to the authenticity. Laws since then have gotten much more leniant, but they are still made to keep people in check from time to time. It's almost interesting to see the changes from the late 70s to now. It was like a completely different world entirely, and that authenticity only made the film more special, since we got to see the relics of a by-gone era of the United States. I mean, just look at the set comparisons on YouTube. It's like it became a whole different world overnight.
Then, you also have the AMAZING and WONDERFUL country soundtrack composed by the one and only Jerry Reed. He actually stated himself that the film, originally, did not have a music score when he was pulled in as the composer, and the film was nearly ready to be released. So, within a short time span, Jerry Reed composed an entire film soundtrack in such a short timespan, and gave us one of the most legendary pieces of country music in the form of "Eastbound and Down". But that's not it. Jerry would also make "Westbound and Down" as well, which would prove to be quintessential to the film's plot. You see, in the film, when they are heading down to Texas to get the beer, they are going westbound, and you hear "Westbound and Down" playing as a result. This is during the very beginning of the journey. And when they are on the freeway passing by a truck convoy, they are heading back to Georgia, which means they're going eastbound, and that's why you hear "Eastbound and Down", which plays MUCH later into the journey. It shows which direction they are traveling across the US at that time; "Eastbound and Down" playing signals they are nearing the end of their journey, and "Westbound and Down" means the journey has just begun. All in all, that is some truly EXCELLENT soundtrack continuity. It really goes to show how much of a blast they were having making this. He did a wonderful job composing the soundtrack.
But, of course, the star of the movie, is of COURSE Jackie Gleason, who plays as Sheriff Buford T. Justice. Oh man, he was SO FUNNY in this film. In fact, most of his dialogue was completely improvised and wasn't even actually in the script. The things he said during the movie? That was all him doing that on the fly, off the top of his head. His improv in this film was truly off the charts. He made that movie very special. In fact, you know that entire scene where Buford T. Justice and The Bandit run into a restaurant and have a nice, friendly chat, all the while Buford doesn't even realize he's talking to the very person he is after? Guess what? That was Jackie's idea. That entire scene wasn't even supposed to be in the movie. He came up with the idea himself, and as such, it was added to the film on Jackie's request and he made that scene entirely his own. Well, lemme tell ya, that scene became one of the most important scenes of the film, and quite frankly, one of the funniest as well. If it weren't for Jackie Gleason with his incredible improv, this film would have just been a mediocre 'modern-day Western'. But, Jackie's funny dialogue made the movie, he quite literally stole the show. His incredible talent in this film will never be matched. Ever. His improv was literally incredible. God, I miss him and his energy...
This is an absolute must-watch for any car/truck lover. You will absolutely love this film and have a good laugh!
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I forgot to add the word 'GAMES' into the title... I'm stupid X_X
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For me, easily Spec Ops: The Line.
That game took an incredibly dark turn during the White Phosphorus scene. You know those top-down camera views in Call of Duty where you shoot enemies from the sky? This game does that, too. And then, boom, you find out that you just burned a refugee camp to the ground with phosphorus bombs. And this game actually forces you to walk through the travesty you just caused, and see all of the flaiming remains of soldiers screaming for help and buildings and cars burning and on fire. But, the most haunting part of that scene is the burning carcass of a woman holding her child as the white phosphorus breaches through the gate.
That image has been burned into my brain. 10/10 will not be playing again anytime soon
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"A lot of networks report the news as it happens. But only one has the power to report the news BEFORE it happens. Through our state-of-the-art wormhole sattelite, the Onion News Network Future channel brings you exclusive news transmissions from the year 2137. Because to stay ahead in today's world, you need to know what's going to happen in tomorrow's."
And then on the map one of the states is Gay Texas LMAO
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The wheel. Reinvented.
God, I fucking love you, Onion...
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The system specs tho LMFAO 🤣🤣🤣
System Specifications:
- Makes the most irritating beeping noise you've ever heard in your goddamn life
- Fucks up everything else you hook it up to
- 'Scans for receivers', whatever the fuck that means
- Flashes random fucking words and numbers on the display screen
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I'm just gonna leave this here with no further content...
"Sony Releases Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn't Fucking Work"
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Hey, no problem dude! Glad I could introduce you to this legendary and underrated classic. 🥰
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Space Mutiny is easily the best “introduction” episode to the show for newcomers and it remains a classic that shows what MST3K is all about.
I totally agree! The best introduction for first-time watchers of MST3K. It really is the best of MST3K's riffing from Season 8, and in my opinion, let alone the whole series. I am glad I picked Space Mutiny as my first episode. I got a great introduction to the series, and I have been a MSTie ever since. If you haven't seen Mystery Science Theater 3000 yet, start with Space Mutiny.
You will love it.
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For me personally, it's the Season 8 episode "Space Mutiny", which was also the first MST3K episode that I ever watched.
That bit with Mike bonking his head on one of the many railings Servo placed in the Satellite of Love and tumbling all the way down it while yelling before splashing into water sent me into an absolute laughing fit. I laughed for a good 10 minutes at that, I kept replaying that scene. It was pure comedic gold.
FlatOut: A great introduction to the chaotic demolition derby racer. This game laid the groundwork for the entire series and it feels wrong to deny its place in gaming history. This is more of a test of the destruction physics, a tech demo, if you will, with racing elements. But, this is still a great game regardless. The handling is great, it feels fun to control, and the destruction physics are amazing for 2004. It is such a simple intro, but what an intro it is. FlatOut truly revolutionized the racing game genre with its destruction physics engine. For 2004, this was state-of-the-art, and it still is to this day. This game is, without a doubt, a true technological feat in racing games, and gaming in general. Definitely a game you should pick up and play. This is where FlatOut got its start, and it is an absolute gem to play. While not the best game in the series, it is a great introduction to the chaotic nature of the series. I got this for free on GOG during Valentine's Day, and it was an amazing experience. I loved FlatOut, and GOG were absolute chads for giving this game away for free. The best element of the game has to be the fact you can fly through the windshield if your car accures too much damage. This is an easy 8/10. Definitely pick this one up. FlatOut 2: ABSOLUTE PERFECTION. THIS is, without a doubt, the BEST game of the entire series, bar none. This is where the series hit its peak. There is a huge sense of speed, and that destruction engine is just... mwah, chef's kiss. This is a game for everyone who thinks that 'crash test dummy' should be a career choice. Wrecking into opponents and causing obscene crashes that feel borderline impossible in real life utterly satisfies me. Not to mention the handling, every vehicle feels so different but each of them feel perfect to control. You are very likely to oversteer on some vehicles, too. And, this is the first game of the series to include Nitrous. If you are in the air for a certain amount of time, or wreck into your opposition, you earn Nitrous, which allows you to quickly pick up insanely high speeds. The damage model of this game is, without a doubt, the best of the whole series. When I first played this, I instantly fell in love with it. I literally was yelling at the AI drivers like a madman, in a good way. I have never experienced this kind of feeling since I played Burnout 3: Takedown. Without a doubt, the best game of the whole series. THIS is what an arcade racer should feel like: chaotic and fun to play. The best part of the damage model is the improved version of flying through the windshield from the first FlatOut game. It's honestly a better version than in the first FlatOut. And that scream? Absolutely hilarious, one of the funniest parts of the game. This game is seriously on par with how much fun Burnout 3: Takedown was. It is always so much dumb fun to just wreck into your opposition and do insane crashes in whichever way you can. One time during a race, an AI driver flew over me with incredible height, and crashed right into a silo connected to a nearby barn on the other side. The car went absolutely nuts, rolled over several times before landing on its side, and the driver flew out of the windshield with incredible distance. I had to swerve out of the way to avoid getting hit, it was a moment that truly never could have happened in any modern racing game. Another time during that same race that silo crash happened in, I rammed into an AI opponent that was in first place from the car's backside, and in doing so, took both me and him off course. I then slammed into the side of his car, used my Nitrous, took both him and me back on the track by sliding his car across the grass while boosting, and then spun him out, taking me from second place to first place, and ultimately winning me the entire race. Another one that happened during that same race was that I was dragging an AI opponent and sliding his car into a barn by pushing his car on its side just like the AI opponent later on, and in doing so, crashed him into wood, sent him back several places, and severely damaged his car. It was so satisfying. It is literally just as fun as Burnout 3 is, and that's truly saying something. This is truly one of the all-time greatest racing games ever made, one of the greatest games ever made, and one of my all-time favorites, it truly falls under the Holy Trifecta. FlatOut 2 is an absolute must-play for anyone who loves arcade racing games, or racing games in general. This one gets a well-deserved 9.5/10. Truly one of the greats. How the heck do you top literal perfection? This one is truly unbeatable, no future entry can and will ever be able to top this. Might even be the Gold Standard. Who cares, though? Get it! It's worth it! FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage: A great sequel to one of the greats, FlatOut 2. It honestly feels like DLC for FlatOut 2, kinda similar to how Burnout Revenge feels like DLC for Burnout 3. Is it better than FlatOut 2? In my opinion, no. But not by a long shot, either. The graphics are very sleek and polished, a little bit more than its predecessor. The tracks are also very fun to race around in, handling is still excellent, and the damage model for the cars is still amazing. But, the reason I feel that Ultimate Carnage is knocked down a peg or two for me, personally, is because it just feels more or less the same with updated graphics. It didn't have that big leap that FlatOut 2 did. In FlatOut 2, new mechanics were introduced, like Nitrous. But, Ultimate Carnage is just FlatOut 2 with a new coat of paint to make it fresh. No, I am NOT saying it is a bad game, far from it, in fact. But, I don't feel the same way I do for FlatOut 2, since FlatOut 2 revolutionized the entire series with changing the series into an arcade racer and adding useful mechanics. It is just nothing more than a great sequel in my eyes. But, it doesn't have that technological leap its predecessor did. Either way, pick this one up, it is a great game and you should absolutely check it out. Great game, gets a 9/10. Beautiful and very fun to play. Get it. FlatOut 3: Chaos & Destruction: Easily the WORST game of the entire series. Bugbear handed the rights to FlatOut off to a entirely different studio, Team 6, so Bugbear could work on a different IP. And by God, this game is a complete train wreck. FlatOut 3 is, 100%, an absolute downgrade from Ultimate Carnage in every single respect. Actually, scratch that. It is arguably one of the worst RACING games ever made. The racing, which is one of the main focuses of the entire game, feels bland and uninspired. It actually feels boring to play, especially when the cars don't have the best handling, and in this game, they do not. They feel incredibly sluggish to control. Also, the puns and pop culture references when you select your character are flat-out painful to see. Some of them actually make me cringe just looking at them. The "Speed" mode where you race F1 cars isn't good, either, since there are, most of the times, uphills before sudden turns without warning, and the F1 cars control even worse than the cars from the main races. And this game is a buggy mess, too. Damage is almost NEVER calculated properly like in previous titles, and instead of your character flying through the windshield in certain crashes, they instead just get Thanos snapped out of existence. The AI is either brutally unfair as they can just get unnaturally fast and keep up with you to win races, or are absolutely braindead and don't know where they're at. And right from the get-go, the game's difficulty is absurdly high, even on the literal TUTORIAL race. The game's so broken as well, you can literally glitch through the terrain. Well, say goodbye to that car, it's heading to the Backrooms now. The WORST and most BROKEN physics, horrible AI that's either stupid or unbeatable, a laughably bad damage model, corny jokes, and the single-handedly WORST handling of any racing game I have ever played. FlatOut 3 is, without a doubt, THE worst game to come out of the entire series, and it completely ruined the series' reputation up to that point. Keep in mind, this game came out in 2011. You think they would learn from Ultimate Carnage and FlatOut 2. Nope! Far from it. Do NOT buy this, buy any of the previous games instead, you will enjoy them much more. I am sorry, but this... this gets a 2/10. Horrible. Absolutely horrible. Do not pick it up even if it is free. It is a waste of time, even if it is on sale, and it is just one of the worst racing games I've ever played. It's at least not The Day Before material where the entire game was a scam. But... horrible nonetheless. Avoid this game at all costs. FlatOut 4: Total Insanity: A mediocre game that is FAR better than FlatOut 3. It's not good, it's not bad, it's just... mid. It doesn't have the same charm of any of the FlatOut games prior to FlatOut 3. The graphics, yes, are beautiful, but where is the fun, chaotic nature of the previous entries? Damage model is okay, but nothing to take home about. Car handling? It's alright, could be better. But it's seriously lacking in one MAJOR department: fun. The fun was had in the chaos. The ludicrous speeds. The crazy crashes and wrecks. While it is a massive and major improvement over FlatOut 3, it is nothing compared to any of the games in the series before FlatOut 3. It's just a mediocre racing game. There is nothing special about it. It's an alright game, but compared to FlatOut 2 and Ultimate Carnage, it's a massive downgrade and not an upgrade. If it were anything like FlatOut 2 or Ultimate Carnage, I would so be behind it. But, once again, different developer, this time, Kylotonn. My honest viewpoint for this game is to wait for it to go on sale. It's a mediocre racing title. It improved on everything that FlatOut 3 failed in, yes, but it's severely lacking in several departments. I will say that it is at least... a game. Not good, not bad. Just passable. I will give it somewhere between 5/10 to a 6/10. I would say a 5.5/10. It seriously needs some work. If this game was just as fun as previous titles, it would have a much higher score. It's just okay, that's all I have to say about it. I don't have anything else to add about FlatOut 4. I'd recommend you wait for a sale before you pick this one up. Wreckfest: Okay, this is a great return to Bugbear's roots! I remember when this game was first being teased and it had the working title of Next Car Game and had that amazing and fun tech demo full with random crap inside of it. That tech demo is an amazing experience, an absolutely incredible and fun physics playground. I had so much fun messing around in that tech demo when it was first released at the end of 2013. It's a core memory. One of the most nostalgic demos I have ever played. But, Wreckfest as a whole is a great return to form for the developer Bugbear. This truly feels like a spiritual successor to FlatOut. The damage model is one of the best I have seen, and the cars feel great to handle and drive. The graphics? Absolutely gorgeous. The whole game truly feels like FlatOut 5. All of the little teeny tiny parts that come off of the car as it gets damaged is just so mesmerizing to watch and look at. Especially in that stupidly fun tech demo. This is everything that Team 6 wishes that FlatOut 3 could've been and then some. While it is a different game series entirely, it truly feels like a new entry in FlatOut. The tracks are great, and the demolition derby mode is a fun display of metal on metal mayhem. I could even say that this game is FlatOut 2.5. It brings back all of the fun of FlatOut 2 and completely modernizes and revamps it. But, there is one thing that this game lacks that unfortunately has to make me knock it down a peg, and that is the fact it just feels like... well, that - just a demolition derby racing game. A great game, absolutely, don't get me wrong. But it just feels like it has a little less of that arcadey-like feel that FlatOut 2 had. That's what made FlatOut 2 my personal favorite entry. Either way, Wreckfest is everything that FlatOut 3 should have been. It is kinda disappointing that FlatOut 3 went in the direction that it did, but by God, Wreckfest absolutely crushed it (pun intended) with the return to factor. In my opinion, this gets an 8.5/10. There is always room for improvement, though. But great game regardless! Definitely pick this up, it's absolutely worth the $30 or even at a slight discount.
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Nope, Total Distortion (1995).
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And yes, I can confirm that Squirrel with a Gun is fun. I've been having an absolute BLAST (pun intended) with the game.
It's absolutely nuts! (pun intended, again)
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Yes, it came out on the 29th of August on Steam and Epic. It will release on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S this Fall.
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The studio is not at fault for making Concord, they were forced into making it by the executives and suits and didn't let the studio make anything more interesting. We have already got, like, a thousand Overwatch-like games as it is, we do not need more of them. And oh boy, Concord has been absolutely bleeding players as a result of Sony's poor choices and decisions. They have already killed this game off before it could even get up off of the ground. They forced the studio to make yet another uninspired Overwatch clone, and the game is getting barely any players as a result. It's not the studio's fault, it's entirely the fault of the executives.
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Concord is definitely DOA (Dead on Arrival)
I don't blame the devs for making the game, I blame the suits for not letting anything more interesting come out of the studio
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My pick is Stanley Kubrick's 1968 masterpiece, 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Also Sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss will forever be one of cinema's greatest opening themes. And combined with the opening credits of the movie with the sun rising slowly over the Earth was absolutely groundbreaking and legendary. It is truly one of the greatest opening credits sequences of all time.
Hi. We’re Your Local High-Speed Internet and Cable Provider. Are you looking for a fast, reliable Internet connection? A large selection of your favorite HD-TV channels? With 24/7 access to the best customer support technicians? All at a fair price? # Fuck you. ~You'll take what we give you.~ You’ll have the option of “choosing" from several of our completely unwarranted rip-offs, including Internet speeds up to 200 times slower than Korea, *at twice the price,* TV packages with 500 channels, 90% of which you can’t view, and we guarantee a plethora of hidden fees. Then, our barely-trained technicians will come to install your services somewhere between the hours of 8 AM and 10 PM, knock once while you’re in the shower, and promptly leave. And once we finally do get your service up and running, it'll be down and limping within 3 hours. ***Indefinitely!*** Why, you ask? Simple. We are part of what is called an oligopoly. It's like a monopoly, only *legal*. See, in closed-door meetings with 4 or 5 of the other major providers, we've secretly agreed not to have different prices, allowing us to completely eliminate any competition, and collectively raise our prices to optimum cockbag levels, because we here at Your Local High-Speed Internet and Cable Provider don't believe in customer satisfaction; we believe in *money*. *Pools* of money. Looking for a better deal? You can **obble-gobble down our balls.** You're paying for it. # Your Local High-Speed Internet and Cable Provider. *"You won't like it, and there's no other option!"*
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Cox is horrible as well, but it's Spectrum I had to deal with. Their service was atrocious and I am glad to be on Fastwyre now, their speeds are, like, a hundred times better than what Spectrum was ever able to muster. Every time I got angry at Spectrum for having slow speeds or throttling my service, I always thought to call them Charter Rectum (or at least say it under my breath).
Thank God I am no longer with them. Horrible speeds for a horrible price. Fastwyre Fiber is so much better and cheaper.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVpXxBp6EIk This ad is **unbelievably** offensive to senior citizens. In the way she is represented, she is literally stereotyping elderly people and it's *SO* disgusting and wrong. This Martha women is literally the Karen in a nutshell, and her acting is horrible and is sometimes **completely** nonexistent. It is insulting and offensive to **all** of the hard-working senior citizens who helped build this country. This ad is basically calling every single elder a Karen. Yes, it's a *fake* Karen, but this does *NOT* excuse the producers of this commercial from being so blatantly offensive and insulting elders. Not even Joe Namath or Jimmie Walker's Medicare commercials sunk this low and insulted elderly people. It was merely just them spewing out crap to promote blatant scams. Martha's ad is a ***WHOLE*** new level of scummy. This ad is literally stereotyping elderly people all across the world and saying that every single one of them are "Karens". It's **HORRIBLE** and **WRONG!** These people dedicated their *lives* to helping build this country to what it is today and all this commercial does is calls them lazy and it wants you to suspend the disbelief that all elders are Karens. That is literally the *whole theming* of this commercial. Hmm, why are elders lazy? **Because they can't do crap for themselves anymore!** Elders literally need help even getting up off of their butts to even move around, and it's not their fault, ***it's a part of life!*** Senior citizens literally helped make this country what it is today, and some of them have even fought in **historical** battles and wars. Calling these people *'lazy'* is really scummy and disgusting! Maybe you might wanna experience actually ***being*** an elder first before you spew out this hateful crap! If anything, this does ***NOT*** encourage the very elderly people that these ads target to call in for Medicare information, it just makes them feel offended and refuse to do business with them. If I was an elder, and I heard this, good job, your ad just made me seal the deal and choose to ***NEVER*** contact you for Medicare info. You make fun of and insult the elders you claim to be for and put an offensive stereotype on them, *then* you want them to contact you for Medicare info? **Disgusting.** You are literally stereotyping elders, which is literally your ***entire goddamn target audience.*** The people who made this ad should be *ashamed* of themselves for being so incredibly offensive to elders and insulting and stereotyping them like this. Literally is the most insulting and offensive Medicare ad of them all. This ad ***needs*** to be pulled for this! Worst Medicare ad of all-time just for insulting elders! Take it off the air. Now.
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Calum Scott easily. That one song that kept playing during every commercial break drove me to madness. It's that "You Are The Reason" song that Kay Jewellers used for one of their commercials, and my God it was the most overplayed shit in the universe while it was still airing and made me despise that song. I hated the sappiness and I hated the stupid-ass high pitch he would constantly sing in throughout the whole song. It's the one and only Calum Scott song I listened to. Kay Jewellers always picked the worst and most ear-piecing sappy songs for their commercials. I have never listened to another one of his songs, and I don't plan on ever doing it. Song is nothing but him sounding like a pussy who cries and whines around woman trying to get them to like him. And keep in mind, this was on every day, on every commercial break. I could never go even ONE DAY without hearing that effing song on my Roku. I was, at one point, seriously contemplating ripping my ears out if I ever heard it on my TV again.
Hearing that song practically every single day on every goddamn commercial break made me unbelievably angry. Thank God Kay have stopped playing the commercial with that song included, it drove me absolutely insane every time I heard it on a commercial break. I got sick and tired of hearing it very quickly. Sometimes, it would get so overplayed in one day that I wished I was deaf on numerous occasions. That song has just turned me away from the artist entirely as I bet all of his songs are cringeworthy, sappy songs with him singing in an ear-splitting high pitch. "You Are The Reason" is a full-blown assault on the ears.
Never listening to another one of his songs again after that. One of his songs was bad enough.
And here's the commercial if you are wondering: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Tu_eMQuKGk
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I got some of my own personal favorites!
1: Wildcat getting denied a second oven mitt by every single holiday and person
2: The classic Banana Bus song
3: The entire "Wildcat Cooking Show" segment where they prepare a lobster dish with stuff like a family photo and "chocolate" (poop)
4: The "Hoo-dini" joke in the Split Sides West Comedy Club
5: Everyone asking for tickets to Pluto Nash in 3D
6: The New HP 6000 Thing computer that is literally just a microwave
7: The opening to Vanoss's Moonbase Alpha video - A trailer for a fake movie called "The White Side of the Moon"
8: Delirious's "butt plug" on the back of his car
9: The opening to Vanoss's "Matrix" video - A series of bloopers relating to the elevator scene in the movie
10: The brand-new detatated Wamboghini
11: The "movie set" with 587 bombs
Hello. I am a former Spectrum customer as we ditched Spectrum a while back and switched to Fastwyre Fiber. So far, I have been loving Fastwyre, they have been a joy to work with. A breath of fresh air. But, before that, we were, sadly, a Spectrum customer. And my experience with Spectrum was nothing short of awful. I at some points had constant breakdowns due to Spectrum's horrible and downright dogwater internet service. They were always a pain to deal with and was always the most frustrating ISP we have ever dealt with. They really were a nightmare to deal with on certain days. They seriously pissed me off. As a Charter Communications customer for over 10 years (including Spectrum years), we expected to be treated fairly and had decent if not good speeds. Nope! As soon as they completed the merger with Time Warner Cable and Bright House, it all went to crap. Speeds of our router slowed down gradually over time with no signs of ever stopping. At some point, we were getting less than a quarter of their actual speeds. It was the absolute worst during the pandemic when everyone was needing access to COVID-19 information like info as well as locations to where they could take their vaccines. It slowed down 10x as much. One time, I was trying to watch a Twitch stream on my laptop at the time that since got scrapped. Oh my god, the buffering was atrocious. The stream kept buffering every few minutes or so and it literally made the entire stream unwatchable. It actually, honestly, pissed me off and it made me just leave the stream entirely. I wish I was able to just cancel Spectrum right then and there. That day will never be forgotten in my eyes. Spectrum was just yanking our chains at this point, treating us like complete arse. That day seriously made my blood boil because all I wanted to do is relax and watch a Twitch stream. Absolutely atrocious behavior from Spectrum. In fact, I couldn't even simply browse the internet on certain days without Spectrum deliberately freezing or straight up throttling my traffic. Websites would load like a snail, and sometimes would refuse to load at all. Sometimes, it got so slow that I couldn't access about 99% of websites without being shown the infamous Chrome dino. The fact that I kept seeing that dino on my screen so constantly just proves how inconsistent and unstable their internet is. The internet, at a point, literally got so slow that it iddn't even exceed a single megabyte in speeds. Yep, you heard me. Less than a megabyte both down and up at one point (it hit 0.16 mbps down and 0.02 mpbs up). It is the all-time record for slow Spectrum speeds for me personally. I truly couldn't enjoy my time on the internet with Spectrum due to their inconsistent and crappy speeds. It would get so bad to the point where I would have to use my mobile hotspot pretty much 100% of the time. And oh boy, their Customer Service to us in particular was incredibly unhelpful and quite frankly assholes at times. All we were doing was just explain that our speeds were constantly going down the crapper and all the time the only response that we got was to restart the router/modem and try again. Sometimes, the reps were just assholes and hung up on us. Your customer is trying to get help, and you just hang up the phone on them purely out of spite? Shame on you! Imagine if I was working for an ISP and I just hung the phone up on you without even helping you! You'd be rightfully pissed off! Well, don't do that crap to us! Well, once they did finally get technicians out there, they only made things worse. First one installed a new router that made our internet go out twice as frequently within the first 5 minutes of it being installed, and the other one changed everything on the box outside of our house, and still made it worse. How do you send two tech guys out and have them manage to make our internet worse? In fact, there was one time that our internet was out for a whole 3 hours with no word or ETA from Spectrum. It just went down and we did not get a single word or message from them. Everything went down, the phone, the internet, and the cable. We could not access anything, we could not make calls, we could not go online, and we couldn't even watch TV. Every bit of our Spectrum service was down. We just had to sit there and wait for the braindead employees to get it working again. It would have been nice if we were given a word on if there was an outage or if there was scheduled maintenance for our area. Nope! We couldn't even call them to find out what was going on. We just had to sit there for 3 hours waiting for our service to be restored. It took over 3 hours for them to fix our service, the longest outage we have ever faced. And I know others might not be so lucky. Some of you have outages going on for more than a day. A week. Possibly even a month. Some of you may be really unlucky with a year-long outage, but I don't know. And despite all of that, Spectrum's prices were always outrageously expensive. At one point, the subscription we had to Spectrum Cable literally caused our price to go over $300 on the day our payment was due. Literally. We had to pay that much, and that was the time when we still had the cable portion of our service before we cut cord due to it making our bill insanely expensive. And even when we got rid of Spectrum Cable, our bill for the internet and phone combined still exceeded over $100 per month. We were still expected to pay this much for internet that never worked. And it was like this every month. In fact, it continued to rise every month that we continued to be on Spectrum. We barely had enough left by the end of it. Thanks to my autism check, it was just always barely enough to pay for most of the things we have in our house, like internet and water. So, thankfully, my check managed to keep us from going homeless due to Spectrum's insane prices for poor service. If it weren't for that check keeping us afloat, we'd have been on the streets by now, so I am thankful that check kept us from being evicted.. And speaking of Spectrum Cable, there was barely anything good on our subscription. Every time, there was always good channels getting replaced with channels we have never heard of. I was extremely upset when the good retro channel INSP was replaced with GRIT. INSP was a TV channel where we would watch a lot of classic shows that my uncle who passed away a while back grew up with. He was furious when GRIT replaced INSP, and I can't blame him. GRIT was just a TV channel with nothing but random Western shows that we truly didn't even care about. Spectrum replaced a channel we loved with a channel we couldn't care less about. Thank God that they never touched MeTV while we were still on cable, or there would've been a riot. Also, Spectrum had two contract disputes. One with Viacom, and one with Tribune Broadcasting. The Viacom one was set to bring all Nick channels offline, and thankfully, that never happened. But, the Tribune one happened, and it took our local news channel owned by Fox offline. So, now, there was no way for us to get weather on TV, and it pissed off Chiefs fans who were looking forward to seeing them in the Playoffs (this happened in 2019). And the only Spectrum Original I even cared for was Curfew because it had an interesting show concept. And oh man, when we had cable, the commercial breaks were awful. Let me sum it up for you. Spectrum ad. Spectrum ad. Medicare ad. Medicare ad. Spectrum ad. Medicare ad. All day, non-stop. I truly was getting fed up with all of the Spectrum ads and Medicare ads! For one, we already have Spectrum, why are you showing us ads for a product we already have, and, quite frankly, don't like? And two, why are you showing us these stupid Medicare commercials 24/7? Oh my God, the ones starring Joe Namath and Jimmie Walker were the most rampant when we had cable. I hated that Joe Namath went from being a former NFL quarterback to a person lying about Medicare benefits, and I hate Jimmie Walker's stupid voice. Him saying "It's FREE!" in that stupid high pitch drove me to madness. The commercial breaks were truly the worst. The Kay Jeweller's ad with that stupid "You Are The Reason" song made me wish I was deaf on numerous occasions. Spectrum's ad breaks on cable were abysmal and I am so glad we cut the cord on them so we didn't have to listen to any more of Spectrum's stupid showboating, the cringe ads, or the blatant and downright scam ads. And oh man, don't even get me started on that "Directory Assistance" nonsense. It was this stupid phone number that we used frequently if we needed to find a business. Whenever we called, their automated bot responds and asks for the name of a city and/or business. Every single time, the bot either gave us the wrong business or said the name of cities or businesses incorrectly. Their stupid bot made me wanna pull my hair out on numerous occasions. It always took so long before the bot gave up and connected us to an operator who actually would usually send us to the correct place. Sometimes, they also gave incorrect businesses or were complete assholes who just hung the phone up on us, but that was rare, the operators were usually really nice even though we could barely hear a word that they were saying. And every time we were in fact hung up on or given an incorrect business through an operator, we'd have to go through the stupid bot again, and every time we had to, it only made me wanna pull out my hair even more. We had to go through this stupid bot 3 times at one point before an operator gave us the correct business. That day was especially a nightmare. But, the good news is that I am no longer a Spectrum customer. On the very first day of May this year, we were finally able to disconnect our Spectrum internet and welcome Fastwyre Broadband's fiber internet into our home. And let me tell you, switching was the best decision we have ever made. Our bill has never been increased as far as I am aware, and the internet has constantly and consistently been up every single day with no outages, that is, until the middle of the night when most of us are all sleeping. But, it usually takes them less than 10 minutes to get it back up, and then it's working again. And our speeds? Absolutely incredible. We have always hit over 800 megabits per second both download and upload. Every single time. Almost a gigabyte in speeds every time. We have only had our Fastwyre fiber for a little over 4 months at this point and they have truly been a breath of fresh air. A thousand times better than what Spectrum could ever muster. And as soon as we dumped Spectrum for Fastwyre, they have constantly sent us junk mail in a desperate attempt to get us back by offering huge price discounts and promotions for being a long-time customer. And every time, we just laugh and throw their envelopes into the bin. It's laughable they ever think that will get us back. In short: Spectrum is an awful ISP, and if you can switch to a better ISP, definitely do so.
Like, what the fuck ever happened to compassion?! It just seems like every fucking person online nowadays has to be passive-aggressive to someone JUST to get their stupid point across. Like, why are people so goddamn inconsiderate of others well-beings these days? It seems like they truly get a hate boner from every fucking thing they see online and think it is okay to be an asshole to them. Getting your point across to someone does NOT mean you can be an asshole about it and speak in a very rude and passive-agrressive manner to the OP. Have some goddamn compassion and at LEAST be nice when you're talking to them. Back in the days when I was first on the internet in the early 2000s, people were FAR more understanding of shit and weren't fucking assholes about it when trying to explain something to people. The Wild West of the internet was truly a much different and far better place than the internet we have now. Now, pretty much EVERY site like Reddit and Twitter has assholes being passive-agrressive or have a straight-up shitty attitude in general. Speak your mind even ONCE and people feel the need to be an asshole about it. There are features like the fucking block button for a goddamn reason, use them wisely and efficiently! If you truly do not like what someone has to say, fuck off somewhere else, leave the person alone, and block them if you so chose to. Being a fucking asshat about it doesn't get you anywhere, and NOR does it get your point across. All it does is makes you hated by the people who DO ACTUALLY give a shit. There is a serious fucking lack of respect, empathy, and compassion these days. These days a fucking MONKEY is more compassionate than a human, and I truly hate to say that, but it's true. We are truly going BACKWARDS with being 'human' with each other. This needless rudeness only makes me miss the old internet even more.
I really, really hate bathroom doors that have small lock buttons that you press down on to lock the door. We have two of these in both of the bathrooms we have in our apartmentt. There is a bathroom upstairs in the hallway and a bathroom downstairs near the living room. To lock the doors, we have to press down on these tiny buttons that are next to the door handles. These buttons lock up the handles and prevent them from being turned, so just in case someone doesn't know you're using it, they'll know someone's in there, because the door is locked. The button is supposed to be unlocked when the handle is turned with the handle that is inside of the bathroom, yes, the lock only locks the handle that is outside of the bathroom. It should be fine, right? No problems, right? Well, I just proved today that these tiny buttons are probably some of the worst, most poorly designed locks I have ever come across in my entire lifetime. I went up to use the downstairs bathroom like I always do, and I always make sure to lock the bathroom door while I am in there so no one acccidentally walks in. on my doing my business. Well, when I got out of the bathroom and turned the door handle, I assumed the lock button was released as I always did, and just turned off the light and closed the door and went about my day as usual. Well, I didn't realize it at the time, but the lock was stuck, it was jammed. It never actually was released, and when I closed the door, the lock was still registered and I closed the door after using the bathroom in our living room without knowing or realizing this. Well, I truly didn't, until I had to go to the restroom again. I noticed that the door was not opening like it was supposed to, and I also knew that no one was in there, since the light was off and the door waa closed. The only way I would know someone was using it is if the door was closed but the light was on, so this made me very anxious and worried. And so, I tried everything to get this door open: I tried moving the lock using a knife, using the knife to pry the door open, even used a pair of scissors to try to unjam the button that was causing the door to be locked. No dice. Everything I tried was deemed as useless and I eventually assumed the door was going to be permanently locked so I went upstairs to use the bathroom instead and used the bathroom in the hallway. But I definitely couldn't stop stressing about this. A freaking button just caused the door to be locked for what I assumed was to be permanently. But, by God, I managed to open it eventually, and I am so thankful that I 'did' manage too. Throughout the rest of the day, I was stressing about being scolded for making the bathroom in the living room useless. I even tired finding help online, but no luck still. There was nothing about this button being stuck online, it was only the button in the middle of the door handle that was being discussed. So, I tried one last thing to get this door open, and thank God we had it. I tried using our yellow flyswatter we bought not too long ago to try to pry open the door. I still wasn't having any better luck, the door wouldn't budge. And so, I tried pushing on the bottom of the door as well on top of using the flyswatter. Still nothing. And so, I tried one last thing, and that was to move the flyswatter around the location of big hole where the big metal piece would usually go. I struggled and struggled to get this open, tried every place. And, after struggling for what felt like an eternity, I found a sweet spot, and by God, I got the door open. When I looked on the other side of the door handle, I noticed something that truly made me wanna facepalm so hard. The lock... was still active. It was pressed down, indicating the door was still technically 'locked'. It was stuck on the 'locked' state the entire time and I didn't even realize it. I truly was so annoyed when I made that discovery, but by God, I got the door open and the bathroom in the living room was finally rendered usuable again. And when I turned the handle again after a few minor inconsistencies, like magic, the lock released and the door was no longer in a locked state. And after I used the bathroom again, I had to test the door handle by opening and closing the door just to make sure it was actually unlocked. And it worked every time. I hate those bathroom door locks that are just tiny buttons! There is a high chance that they can get stuck and make an entire bathroom inside a household or apartment useless unless you really work for it to get the door open again. These locks are seriously some of the most poorly designed pieces of equipment I have ever seen. Imagine if we moved out with the downstairs bathroom door locked. The next family that moved in would have not been able to even 'use' that bathroom and would only have one bathroom available to them! And there is one of those same stupid lock buttons on the bathroom upstairs in the hallway, too. Both bathrooms we have both have these horrible door locks! And the worst part is that this could've happened to the one upstairs as well. Imagine if it happened to both! We wouldn't 'have' a bathroom! So yeah, I am definitely never, ever going to use either of those locks again. They have failed me once, and they probably will again. I am just going to shut the door from now on with the light on and not lock the door, thank you. Those tiny lock buttons on the bathroom doors we have are TRULY Asshole Design.