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Post by Akago on Sept 5, 2009 10:39:49 GMT -5
Kay, time for me to make use of this area again. Need to vent.
The last mouth or so has been complete evil incarnate. I swear, something evil must be taking notes right now on this, it's been that bad.
Round one: My brother's car, which my parents bought, turns out to be a lemon. A grade 'A' screw job. So this is the first big stresser as my brother was using my car for a good while to get around. This is in correlation with him moving out of the house and up to DC. So there's this huge rush going on try to get him in a vehicle. (He's now moved out, and traded music equipment for a running vehicle.)
Round Two: My brother is trying to get money together for his move, so he offers to sell me his Xbox 360 for $150 I accept as I both like the system and decide to try and help my brother. Turns out this system is not his (supposedly) and his was actually accidentally swapped out with one of his friends during a night of drinking and stupidity. He now cannot get a hold of this person and I will likely never see a working 360 or the $150 I gave him for it. This money going along with the $40 dollars he already owes me.
Round Three: A huge leak springs in the basement, we get a temporary very nasty brown colored pool in the basement and get to spend the next days dealing with the happy mess and fixing the line so we had water again. (My brother lived in the basement, and liked to not keep the rug clean. Seriously, dark almost black brown water.)
Round Four: I am told about a placement test exactly 7 days before the deadline. The instructions say to have a Proctor at least a week before the deadline. Cue the FFFF moment as I try to get this dealt with. A few days later I'm up at the library dealing with it, and then I have to figure out a way to get hold of my parents to tell them to come pick me up as the Library didn't have a public phone. 15 dollars wasted on a pay phone later, and I manage to get in contact with my mother via an online game she always plays through one of the library computers. Following day actually went smoother as I got the tests done and hopefully proved I do not need to be in transitional courses.
Round Five: My college class schedule has to be changed and I had already bought books with the voucher that I now no longer need for this term. An email's been shipped off to my advisor to deal with it.
Round Six: We come to from last night until now. First, I get onto my online classroom to find someone plagiarizing my work. FFFF moment number one as this type of thievery tweaks my switch to no end. After an hour or so of saving the document of plagiarizing proof, and getting an email typed up asking the teacher for help, the second whammy. My dad decides it's time for one of the happy fun 'no one helps me around here' moments. After many hours of dealing with this, everything begins to cool down and here comes the third hit of the night. I remember that my wallet had gone 'missing' a few days before and my brother when he came back 'found' it. So I've been watching closely for charges. I log in to my online bank account and bam, hello BP gas charge that my brother made.
*bashes head against desk* I think I need to go see a shrink soon. Why me?
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Post by Kingpin on Sept 13, 2009 19:02:27 GMT -5
Rant time yay!:
Okay, WTF?! My parents let my brother order a wrestling thing on TV, which is 39.99 First off that in itself is crap because he did nothing to get it, he just asked and got it, but what gets me pissed off is that I spent the last weekend working my ass off and got payed 20, then was told I had to use it to get a haircut, and they got pissed when I came home without getting a haircut (Haircut lady was full of crap, told me I needed to pay an insane ammount of money for a haircut,) So I brought back the money equal to a normal haircut and gave it to them, the rest I kept. Then today I mentioned being payed unfairly (My brother gets insane ammounts of money all the time and I have to do insane ammounts of work just to get a little money,) and they f**king bit my head off saying "YOUR NOT DOING ENOUGH TO EARN THE MONEY AND TRUST YOUR BROTHER EARNS." Then they told me I had to do the things i'm asked to do all the time right away without question, (Wanna know how I woke up yesterday? "KINGPIN LET THE DOG OUT, I'M STILL SICK AND NEED TO GET BETTER!!" this was my mom saying this whom somehow has been sick for a month and has yet to actually go back to work but has been about better for a week, this was also 8 in the morning,) Wanna know why their concept doesn't work? BECAUSE IT F**KING PISSES PEOPLE OFF!!! They somehow feel that i'm the lazy one when I end up doing everyones work and then don't get payed for it, yeah, my parents will tell you I stopped doing some chores and thus don't get payed, the truth is they didn't pay me so I STOPPED DOING IT, IT ISN'T ROCKET SCIENCE, WHEN YOU MAKE A WORKER DO WORK WITHOUT PAY YOUR WORKER BECOMES DISLOYAL AND WILL REBEL. They also still force me to do 2 things still which piss me off: Check in every 1 HOUR so we know your safe and if your late your grounded for whatever insane ammount of time we can think of, and 2: be home before it gets dark because you could get kidnapped or somethin' Yeah, truth? I'm 6 feet tall weighing a total of 200 pounds, I'm generally always with friends, i'm 14 and if I call instead of going personally I get grounded, I will tell you something, that really gives me no motivation to use the random cheap cell phone they gave me saying "Now you can have more privilages becuase you can call home instead of coming..." WHEN I CALL AND GET MY ASS GROUNDED!!! Also, I will tell you my brother has made me do all the work and then some this weekend, i'm pretty tired and even a little weak, and I hope I f**king colapse doing one of their bulls**t jobs:
Doctor: What the hell was your child doing?!
Parents: Yeah, lets see, we told him to make coffies, Run errands, Do laundry, clean his room, take out the garbage, get us a snack, and some juice too.
Doctor: WTF?
Parents: He'll be okay right? He's still expected to do these things, or else he's grounded.
Doctor: *Facepalm*
They also find it quite fun insulting me, which I do believe is illegal. My mother has called me fat before, also this weekend she said "You have no friends and no one will talk to you because your face has acne, and its ugly." Serious motivation right thar folks, my old guidance counseler thought I had depression, well f**king look at me now, parents insult me, my father was on drugs and everything else you could be on and was kicked out, my stepdad tries to help a bit but agrees on the chores being unfair, my brothers a bitch, my grandparents think that my parents are treating me like a piece of s**t but can't do anything about it, my aunt is affraid to say anything about it because of the way my mom acts when someone does something wrong.
I hate the crap I'm being put through, getting someone involved, God help me if I were to say no to them, they'd get pissed and ground me.
Now escuse me while I get even more pissed because my brother is watching a TV show that costs 40 bucks and I haven't seen my own money with no catches to it in about a year or longer.
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Post by Akago on Sept 14, 2009 13:03:11 GMT -5
Honestly, I think it might be time to talk to someone out of the household how you feel Kingpin. That guidance counselor that believes your depressed would probably be a good start. This might make it worse, it might make it better, I don't know. But I understand the feeling of being over worked and under paid, and nothing ever changes if you just keep taking it.
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Post by Bloodmeta on Sept 16, 2009 1:52:37 GMT -5
Well I Guess It's My Turn Nao...
Ya Know... This Week Has Been Horrendous, As For Some Freaking Reason... Teachers Are Giving Out A Hell Load Of Homework WHEN I HAVE TO STUDY FOR TESTS TOMMORROW!!! So Basically, I Think, "Hey, This Isn't So Much Work!" Turns Out, For Some Odd Reason, This ONE Little Math Sheet... Took 5 Hours To Do... No F'ing Kidding... I Was Really Pissed That It Took So Long... Afterwards, My Mom Decided To Go Into One Of Her "Arguement Moods" That She Usually Has At Some Points In Time... She Then Said I Was "Spacing Out" (Yes I Do Have ADHD, But I Got Over That "Spacing Out" Stuff Two Years Ago...) And Other Things... So I Then Move Onto This Paragraph... When She Keeps On Talking... And Basically... That Means That I Keep My Attention On The Person Talking... So IT TOOK UNTIL 8:00 o'clock Until Finally, My Brother Said To Mom To Keep Off My Back And Let Me Do My Work... SHE STILL DOESN'T SHUT UP UNTIL DINNER WHICH TOOK UNTIL 9:00 o'clock...And Here's A FFFFFF Moment Here, Folks... I Haven't Studied Anything, I Had To Do This Page In My Math Book, And I Had To Do These Notecards For The Test Tomorrow... Then, I Wanted To Go Asleep, As Their Was Enough Stress On Me Yesterday...Well... We Have Kittens, So They Decided To Act Like Maniac's Throughout The Night... Which Is Why I'm Writing At Like 1:51 A.M.! Welp...Thats All I Have To Rant About...
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Post by madchaosdragon on Sept 16, 2009 19:59:58 GMT -5
And here I thought this thread wouldn't be useful.
Akago, King P.... D*mn... there's no other word for this. Double d*mn for you King P. Take up Akago on that advice. If that fails, go live with your grandparents. At least they understand you. And what the HECK?! Your grandmother is afraid to stand up to her own daughter?! My Nanny would have beat the mess out of my mom for crap like that!
Anyways, I have a friend (who will remane anomonyous) who lives with her grandmother now instead of her mother. Can you say "Let the peaceful Alleluias roll"?
Akago, what's a Proctor? It's only been four weeks into college and my brain farts are hitting an all-time high. Did your brother steal your wallet? I would've gave him such an earful... >_<
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Post by Akago on Sept 17, 2009 1:48:26 GMT -5
More or less a babysitter for the exam to make sure I don't cheat. You know how a teacher would hover over the class for testing? It's pretty much like that.
And yes, he stole my damned wallet.
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Post by Kingpin on Sept 17, 2009 20:44:48 GMT -5
I'll move out in three years, when I'm legaly alowed to live on my own, my granny said she'd help me get a house (ain't she awesome?) and said "Get out of there and never look back."
Also, seriously, if your brother steals your wallet and won't give it back say "Okay." Then later, it'll probally be under the matress, though all brothers are the same they are in some ways differant, it may not be there, also make sure he ain't around. Atleast thats what I do with my brother.
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Post by madchaosdragon on Sept 17, 2009 23:29:30 GMT -5
So that's a Proctor... weird. I get uncomfortable when someone I don't personal know hovers over me. I don't care if it is their job. Seriously, for stealing your wallet, he should handing over paychecks since he's so bold.
King P., your situation reminds of when my new quarter collection was stolen and then used up. I was collecting those things ever since they came out. What can I say - history has it's charm. But anyways, I have several suspects and one of them was more or less was the culprit. I never received an apology and only my sister and my mother bothered to help me replinish it. No one but my mom and I knew where I hid my collection. Plus, my room door was locked at the time. (It was last year-ish when I was on campus at college.) Someone picked the lock and took my money. They better be glad my stepdad was there at the time because I would've decked them so hard...>O<*
What sucked was that both culprits were from my stepdad's side of the family! Even my stepdad didn't do a thing! I'm pretty sure he'd be pissed to the high heavens if someone stole some of his money!
... *sighs* Okay, I'm done.
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Post by madchaosdragon on Mar 3, 2010 0:51:54 GMT -5
Back again, sorry for the double post but I really haven't been here for a while and I have a rant to get off my chest.
There is another forum that I used to go to all the time and be with my best buds. Thinsg were awesome there and I even turned out to sorta be a celebrity (I wrote a lot of stories). I didn't really care about celebrity stuff. I had my buddies and even the moderators were cool.
That all changed when the old moderators said that they were leaving the forums. none of us there wanted them to go but it was there decision alone. They left and new moderators came in there place. They remodeled the forums completely. For a while, the forums didn't even act right. You'd log in and go to a different page in the website and it would say you hadn't logged in yet. It was eventually fixed though.
They then set a whole bunch of new rules. That seemed to restrict everyone there. Recently, I posted there asking them if I could make a Pokemon Mystery Dungeoun Rescue thread. If you know or have the game, then you should have an idea what I'm takling about. For this to work, the rescuees must give the rescuers a Rescue Password - a number.
I simply suggested this because I'm good at the game and I thought it would be a good way for me to reconnect with my old friends, and possibly make some new ones. The passwords are strictly for the game only and cannot be used for anything else... literally, it's like your SSBB code. What else can you do with it other than get people to play you a match or two? They count this as personal info and won't allow it. The moderators there seem very close-minded to me.
When I posted to them more or less explaining and asking for permission, they simply deleted my post and didn't even bother to reply to me. I went back to my thread and tried to tell everyone there that I couldn't do the Rescue thread because the mods wouldn't aloow it... and the mods deleted that post! I did nothing wrong on both accounts! The rules about posting personal info applied on the old forums as well, but not to that extent! Don't get me wrong; I whole-heartedly understand that they want to protect those that are their, but come on! They even have a video game section and wouldn't allow it there!
Now... what I am finally able to get is what I've troubled with for a while now: Should I leave that forum for good for a more-opened minded place like here or Youtube or stay at that forum for the sake of my friends that still post every once and a while to see how each other is doing?
I'm really conflicted about this because my buddies and I have been together on that forum for a few years now. Even if I leave, there would be no way for me to tell them where I have gone because the moderators also prohibit the posting other websites, other than theirs.
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Post by Akago on Mar 3, 2010 18:01:18 GMT -5
I would say you should bring up the issues with the forum your talking about. You may burn the bridge to your account (AKA ban) by calling the moderators out though. First I would send out a PM to your friends, and anyone who you think would like to know about whats going on. Then make a post calling out the mod's bad behavior, making sure to save it in a notepad or some other form to keep it. They may just delete it and ban you, they may just delete and continue to play 'we're good mods! D:', or they may be smart enough to respond to it.
If they do the first thing, that's why you sent the PMs about the situation so the existence of it isn't wiped off the face of the earth. They might be willing to pick up the flag and join you in the fight by agruing about the fact you were banned. Then if the mod do a mass ban because everyone is complaining, it likely won't go as well.
If they do the second, possibly another PM to anyone who responded to the first about how they deleted the post. Then pull up that notepad, copypasta, and put something in the top about how they can't just avoid the complaints and your not going to just go away in big letters.
More or less, instead of putting up with it or leaving, I would try to change things first. You may in the process have to leave because of a ban, but at least your friends will know.
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Post by madchaosdragon on Mar 3, 2010 18:28:39 GMT -5
I can't PM any if my friends because 1) I don't know how to PM and 2) I can't get their email addresses because those frickin' mods don't allow the posting of personal info, emails included. These mods are very close-minded; they are going to delete the post the second they see it and not even respond to me. I even found another thread where another user is doing more or less the same thing: trying to post their Friend Code so others can trade with her. They used the smileys as code. Ex: : 1 : 2 She even posted how the code works an they her get away with it even though that's still what they call "personal info". And I mean, come on! The kids on that forum range from about 7 to 12. I'm pretty sure they are smart enough not post anything so personal like phone number there. Codes for a game shouldn't even count as personal info. I am, though, going to contact them personally and talk about this. If worst comes to worst, I'm gone and I probably won't hear from my friends again.
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Post by Akago on Mar 4, 2010 0:11:06 GMT -5
What type of forum is it? Does it not have Private messaging or anything like that? Like on here, if you look right below your picture, there's a little folder like icon to send to a message that can only be seen by you and the person who sent it.
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Post by madchaosdragon on Mar 4, 2010 11:23:55 GMT -5
It's the 4KIDS forum. You know, that new station took over Saturday mornings on Channel 2. It used to be the FoxBox. There is no private messaging there. There is a messaging system but you can only send preset messages that they made up to send to other users. It works between user accounts only. These message are not sent through emails.
I know it's a kiddy forum, but I made a good group of friends in my first and second years there. I kept my account and kept coming back because I wanted to talk to them and have fun. I'd like to be able to stay in contact with those friends.
I emailed the site... er, the "webmaster" last night and I'm still waiting for a reply. That'll either be in the form of a response email, no response email, or the worst case scenario, a ban. I couldn't even sign up again as a different user because they'll just find me out and ban that account. It has never happened to me but I've seen it happen to a few other users.
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Post by Kingpin on Mar 5, 2010 7:44:09 GMT -5
OH....GOD...
*shudders*
Back when I was a young kingpin I used that forum a lot - It was where I did the original Asuni project - I left when they deleted half of it saying it was innopropreate for content (Something about teleportation being a nono - I kept the language and Violence down.) The PM system didn't work to my knowledge at the time and they got rid of it. they were in constant matienence and yes, Adressing the Mods is impossible - the post will just be deleted and you will be given a ban warning.
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Post by madchaosdragon on Mar 6, 2010 0:24:21 GMT -5
Ya know... I think I remember user that used to be there by the name of kingpin. Was that actually you or am I thinking of somone else?
What was the Asuni Project? Were you there before the forum was re-done, or way before that? The mods I had before the site was re-done were pretty cool. The only time they got antsy was when there was some or couple of users called "Vandetta" that were basically spamming the forums.
Anyway, I tried emailing them two days ago and (obviously) didn't get a response. So, just now, I emailed the same message to them again. I'm trying to be good here. All I want is an answer for their actions but no, they have to be big jerkin' a**holes about it.
Luckily, they finally let one of my posts go through. I simply told my friemds that if I never return there that it wasn't their fault in anyway. If they want to find me, they'll have to look elsewhere.
Man, this sucks! Why the **** are they being so immature about this?
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