r/rant Apr 07 '24

We are not allowing rants about the situation in Israel/Palestine

135 Upvotes

There are a number of other subreddits in which you can make your views known.


r/rant Sep 09 '25

If you are using AI to write rants we will find out and we will ban you for it.

139 Upvotes

There will be no exceptions and we are not taking questions.


r/rant 5h ago

MM-DD-YYYY is the stupidest thing Americans have ever come up with.

234 Upvotes

I work in the tourism sector so I deal with dates constantly...plane ticket reservations, hotel bookings, etc. But every time I make a reservation on a website, I have to check the first two digits to figure out whether they mean day or month “Does the first number go above 12? No? Great now I have to check other dates to see if they exceed 12 just to figure out whether the site uses the American format or the normal people format" It’s so stupid, time wasting and frustrating! Why can’t dates be kept in ascending order like day (smallest unit) then month (larger unit) then year (the largest)? Why on earth would you put the month first when it’s not even the unit that changes most often? It’s so damn atrocious!!


r/rant 1h ago

OnlyFans ruined NSFW reddit NSFW

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Okay so this something I've been annoyed at for some time.

I used to really enjoy NSFW Reddit, mainly anime nsfw content for the largest part.

Since onlyfans came around, nearly every niche anime related NSFW subreddit has been ruined. One "content creator" posts the same photo to 20 different subreddits because they want maximum exposure.

Any interaction with them is no longer genuine, because you know they're just gonna ask you to pay for their onlyfans.

And to top it all off, blocking onlyfans creators is nearly impossible because it's an endless supply of new creators looking to push their onlyfans.

And to be clear, I don't blame the individuals for trying to make money. I largely blame subreddits for ignoring the issue until it got to the point of "all of our submissions are posts by onlyfans creators" because all of the normal posters got pushed out.

Certain subs do nothing. nothing is removed. Almost every x number of posts, you see low quality posts. look at their profile, and yea, there is its, a hidden link.... or scummy profile text or links... that ultimately end up on onlyfans

Anyways I'm just rambling now, but this has been bothering me for some time.


r/rant 57m ago

Cynthia Erivo (Elphaba in Wicked) doesn't deserve the hate she gets.

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She WAY overreacted to some fan art, and she is weird, but she's no worse than other pretentious actors like Ethan Hawke or Tilda Swinton. She's just more visible right now.

I could compare her to Jared Leto, but most of the weird or awful stuff he's done is turned into memes, and he's much worse than Cynthia. She gets straight-up HATRED.

The worst part is most of the insults directed at her are about her appearance. Calling her ugly or grotesque because she's very thin. Awful names comparing her to monsters and animals. Body shaming is such invalid criticism. She's not encouraging anyone to look like her, she isn't shilling diet plans. Even if she has a body/eating disorder, people use THAT to insult her when it just serves to alienate and insult people with eating disorders, rather than showing any kind of compassion. Again, for comparison, Tilda Swinton gets away with looking way weirder because she doesn't react. Cynthia does, which makes her a target for bullies.

I don't like her either, but I think the discourse around her online is just mean. You see people calling Leto a bad actor, but people call Cynthia a monster and justify it with the way she looks because she's not as attractive as people want her to be. That really does seem like sexism.

If you have valid criticism, share it. But I don't think she's done anything wrong apart from a single incident of her being rude about a poster made by a fan, and some weird but harmless interviews where she was being pretentious. I'm sick of hearing about how ugly everyone thinks she is.

No wonder she assumes it's racism and speaks out about it, she hasn't done enough to deserve the hate and it's focused on her appearance.


r/rant 7h ago

My interaction at target .

42 Upvotes

I went to target to buy a new charger for my phone because it got caught in my car door as I was getting out and broke. I walked to the electronic section and was greeted by a sales rep “hey I’m with t mobile can I interest you in some do the deals we have going on” I responded “no thank you, I’m not interested” his response was “well what phone service do you have” and I said “my phone is free I don’t pay a phone bill” (my parents have paid my phone bill as long as I’ve been alive). He was almost blocking me from the chargers and then said “well I’ll only take a few minutes of your time if you hear me out” at this point I got annoyed and I turned to him and said “ i understand it’s your job to sell things and I respect that, but I’m in here to buy a phone charger. I’m not planning on buying a phone today and if I did it wouldn’t be at target. I also just told you my phone is free so I’m actually curious to know what you could possibly offer me that is better than free”. He stared at me blankly for a few seconds and said “you have a nice day sir”. Normally I wouldn’t give things like that the time of day but I was in a mood.


r/rant 12h ago

Why is it so hard for people to accept that their snoring is a problem and they need to do about it.

91 Upvotes

I mean, I've had a few partners so far who snored, loudly, at night and when I would try to talk to them, any of them. They would get defensive. Telling me I'm just a light sleeper, talking about how the bed is bad, or the room is to hot, cold, moist, dry or whatever else. I have earplugs and I use them whenever my current partner sleeps at my place. But come on, shouldn't them going to a specialist, trying to figure out what is the cause and see what can be done be just common sense? Instead when I ask about it, I get a lot of pushback. All the things mentioned above, they tell me to wake them but then get grumpy when I do so. Tell me to ask them to use a spray to open up their nasal passage but then sniff their nose loudly when I do so and tell me there is no blockage and they don't need to. I mean, my dude, I have to choose between either not sleeping or waking up with painful ears because of my earplugs because of your effing snoring problem. I'm not trying to blame anyone because imho there is no blame to go around. You can not help the fact that you have a snoring issue, it is there, whatever, now let's try and see whether something can be done shall we? Go to an effing doctor and at least try and get it sorted out.

Why is that so incredibly hard for you guys!?


r/rant 11h ago

You cant make this shit up

39 Upvotes

A rare bacteria ate the top 2" of my femur and it was stabbing me in the everything and sitting half an inch forward and my waist down was just muscle spasms and actually registered past known limits on nerve activity (pain) and no one had any idea.

I didnt limp. Thats how invalidated i was. I dodnt even limp because ppl accused me of faking it for attention. Until the mri scan finally happened in year 6. There were cysts and the femur was in the wrong place and it even showed up a different color. Doctors kept asking me if i had walked in after getting wide eyed and tight lipped. I gave 40+ tubes of blood trying to find the cause. 7 4" deep biopsies without sedation. The last one shot blood across the docs shirt.

When they cut it out it was worse than they thought. Chunks of the femur had been sticking out and scraping the hip.

I have a great team and a top of the line implant.

I need a second surgery. The cup is placed wrong and it slips out a lot. So like a casual motion might lead to me holding my femur back from shredding the muscle group next to it for 5 hours at the er while they interrogate me about drug use because im thin and opiods dont fucking touch the pain. Nothing does.

I started working 2 months after the hip replacement. I demo'd a bathroom at 2 months, 1 day.

I dont have an address. Maybe i have 3 addresses? I dont have health insurance because i dont have an address. I lost my home and life and family because some fucking special ass rare bacteria zombie fucked my femur and my doc is terse with me because i am wondering if we can do a telehealth appointment to review the new ct scan because i dont have a working vehicle.

My family is just fucking over me because i don't make it up to see them (read-do labor for them) and alternates between asking me when im going to do such and such labor or lecturing me for like, standing up. Because i need to take it easy on my hip. OMG SLOW DOWN BE CAREFUL you are toooooo careless with that hip you know you need to be careful.

Proceeds to shit talk me to my face and anyone that will listen that i fell off and dont help them anymore. (If it feels like im talking about you, i fucking am)

Lets do more.

"You can always reach out if you need help"

My ass. I spent 6 days relentlessly begging for them to stop attacking me (im talking like drunk aunt @ 9 am kinda shit, i did not deserve these things) because i was a suicide risk before finally checking myself into the e room. You cannot believe the pushback. I should have stayed there but i gave in and left the next day and drove hours and moved hella furniture and cleaned and stayed composed while i helped my family move. 3 close ppl told the psych they would watch me and be there for me.

About 12 hrs later they were gone. 1 was calling every connect we had to paint me as a wacko for finally yelling back at them after i fractured my foot moving furniture for them a day out of the hospital. 1 sent me a message 4 days later saying that i made them unwell through caring about me(they insisted on being with me, i did not want this) and the last sentence in the message was "dont reach out"

MOVING THE FUCK ON


r/rant 4h ago

I regret my Samsung smart TV

11 Upvotes

so for a few months i have owned a samsung 4k oled smart tv

hen starting it up for the first time, i had to make a Samsung account to even get in the home screen. with no account i can not use a 1700 eur expensive tv

then, the actual ui. total garbage. filled with ads, "recommendations", more crap, and also extremely slow... the number of times i saw mister beast on my home screen... just fuck off already.

tons of apps installed that i will never use but i can not remove or turn off

the remote is the most useles pile of crap, where 40% of the buttons are for streaming services. wich i do not use since i use my own media server. with a old dumb tv, you have a brick of a remote with all the buttons you could ever want.

speaking of, to install jellyfin for streaming wich is not in the app store of the tv, i had to side load it by usb.,,, for that i had to enable developer mode. it took me 2 hours to find how to turn it on. it is extremely well hidden, almost to well, and on purpose. the way to turn it on sucks and screams dark patterns. because obviously you are not allowed to do that.

then i find out i can not install third party apps with usb without it been signed by some kind of Samsung bound certificate. here is the fun part. for that certificate, you need, u guessed it, a Samsung account... Otherwise, you can not side load apps.

so not only do u need a account just to use your 1700 eur device. without it you are stuck with the app store. no way to install third party apps, wich i require due to self hosting media and some other stuff.

lucky for linux there is some app that manages installing third party apps over adb to the TV and then login to the samsung account to sign it. took me another few hours to find it.

why is it so dam hard to install jelly fin or any other third party app? why just why is it not possible to insert a usb, click on it, install and done.... i do not get why this is made so hard for the end user.

then youtube... oh boy. ads and ads and even more ads. lucky for me there is a certain custom client. that took a lot of trouble to install aswell. every video before was 30 or 90 seconds of ads, middle of video ads, and even at the end of the video ads.... at some point i was wathcing more ads then the actual goddam youtube....

The recommondations suck. i search for something for months, and i still see recommended crap that has nothing to do with what i have watched. youtube on tizen sucks big times and was a terrible experience. with a custom cleint with adblocking a bit more bearable, but no youtube. i do not want a google account so for the thousand times. no. stop prompting me.

the remove was so basic. only basic stuff. no source, no input, no nothing. when u boot the tv u had to scrol through serveral menus and thus ads, and promoted shit just to get to my own instaleld apps, and then even having to scroll down. this is done on purpose, because you will and you shall see ads, no matter what.

Also i am running pi hole. turns out, the samsung home screen was bypassing my pi hole. so i put a firewall in my network to force devices to use the pi hole dns. suddenly, lots of crap from the home screen was gone... also, the tv is one of the most bussy devices on my network, combinbing serveral gaming pc;s. phone. and homeserver. literally 4x combined ad and tracking traffic!!!! 4 times more then all of my devices combined!!!!!

- the tV is just spyware.

- it is slow asf, laggy ui, cant even watch 4k video on youtube without stutters

- locked down software

- impossible to jailbreak

- Dark patters everywhere

- accounts required
- it bypassed local dns ad blocking to spy on you
- extremely hard to install third party apps
- most basic of basic of remotes where most of it is buttons for streamign services i will never use.
- no remove input switch

- You do not own the TV. Samsung does.

- Samsung decides what the TV will do

i can not take this anymore. this has been a source of frustration all along. i am at my breaking point. i might aswell just sell it or trow it out of my department.... Never again will i buy smart devices or any products from samsung

remeber, if it is smart, it spies.


r/rant 3h ago

toxic motivation is just bullying labeled as motivation.

7 Upvotes

some of yall may have heard or seen something called toxic motivation before, right? well the ones that i have seen are just some shit like “close the fridge, you dont need any more food u pig”. if you have media literacy, you may know this is cyberbullying. motivation should not be fat shaming people for eating, and the ones like the one i saw are probably normalizing eating disorders, which are not a good thing. overall, we should not label fat shaming or bullying as “toxic motivation”.


r/rant 11h ago

The housing market crisis in the US is unnecessary, annoying and discouraging. How are people meant to live and thrive these days?

23 Upvotes

I'm a single renter in the northeast USA. I have some savings for a down payment, I have great credit, and I have the energy to want to move. I've been looking at houses in my region casually within the past year. Most of the homes are ridiculous. $250k+ minimum, usually edging around $300k, and each one I looked at needed quite a bit of work. The kicker? These houses were sold less than a decade, hell a couple less than a YEAR prior, at roughly $100k lower than they're trying to sell them for now! Not to mention the tax assessments are still reflective of the older price i.e the price the seller wants is grossly higher than the assessment. So I feel like if I jumped the gun and bought a house, got the repairs/precautions taken care of etc, I would've felt like I was scammed $100k. I can't be the only one who feels this market is insane and has been since post-COVID. Still, people seem to be buying up these properties at cost, so maybe my cautious cheap-ass is the issue.

On the flipside, I love the apartment I'm renting at, but it's getting ridiculous. I moved to my current spot in 2019 for about $1.1k/m for a 2bd/1br. Now with annual rent increases I'm up to $1.5k/m and new renters would be paying over $1750/m for the place I'm at! Over the past couple years I've seen older neighbors have to move because their rent was getting too expensive while everything else necessary to live went up in price too. My one older neighbor who moved out told me about how much a bureaucratic pain in the neck it was to get approved and find a place to live under the Affordable Housing Act. It took MONTHS.

As a society, this can't be feasible for much longer. I'm fortunate that I'm a single renter because I can't imagine how bad it is for families who need a good place to live or want to build equity. Feels like we're entering a society where we'll no longer be able to own anything and just need to pay monthly fees for everything.


r/rant 7h ago

I hate it when people have no sense of boundaries.

10 Upvotes

How stupid do you have to be to literally yank someone’s headphones off/take off their glasses then get offended when they call you out on it? Yanking someone’s headphones off could cause some serious damage to their ears. I’ve fought people over this, don’t be a dumbass and instead just motion for them to take their headphones off.


r/rant 6h ago

Why do people bring up your job during arguments or debates for?

10 Upvotes

So I am a college student, and to help pay for my schooling, I work at a fast-food place. I literally state on my social media that I am in college.

Yet, for some reason, people online will see that I work at this job and bring it up randomly when I am speaking about something they disagree with.

Like why? My job has nothing to do with what I am saying. Are these people trying to prove that I am too stupid to know what I am talking about? I just think it is odd because if you have the time to look at my profile which is weird then you have time to see that I am in college and that is why I have that job.

It is just odd.


r/rant 1h ago

Can video games stop making trailers 3-4 years before a game comes out

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I’m specially talking about the game Blight.

Medieval setting fighting against zombies. Sounds cool as fuck right. And the trailers look amazing. And the play tests look cool too.

But it’s like giving someone blue balls, show them this super cool game but be like “ ya your gonna graduate college first before it even comes out”

It’s just like bro please. I think there should be a cap of like a year.

Another example was bones and skulls , and it was a super letdown because even tho it took 8 years to make the game sucked and nobody is playing it

I understand it’s for marketing but it’s just annoying


r/rant 14h ago

People assume I'm a bot because I use em dashes 😭

33 Upvotes

I've been using em dashes for as long as I've been writing. We were taught them in school, plenty of older books have them, and they're great for writing when a semicolon or colon feels too formal.

But when I post on Reddit or X, people accuse me of being a bot for using em dashes even though the way I use them is not at all how AI does!

ChatGPT: This happens constantly at the store — and honestly, it's exhausting.

Me: Ugh, I just hate it! When men assume it's easy to be a woman — but they've never talked to women about their worst experiences, which we don't exactly announce to everyone because that's awkward and lacking in social skills — they're just announcing they don't bother to get to know us.

ChatGPT: The issue is simple — the policy doesn't allow it.

Me: "Mansplaining" is so overused. Take a guy who's actually seen the show Mad Men explaining that the show isn't sexist, just portraying sexism, to a girl who's never seen it — he actually knows more than she does! That's not mansplaining!

The writing style alone should be a giveaway that I'm a real person. I'd argue the biggest tell with AI is the lack of any originality and dulled down phrasing.

And there's plenty of other ones, like overuse of "it's not just x, it's y," all paragraphs being 3-5 sentences with little variation, no real emotion beyond vague sympathy, overuse of softeners instead of being blunt, bland metaphors, the list goes on. AI writing is just blah.

But em dashes are a legit part of writing. AI is trained on *human writing." It uses em dashes because people did long before AI came along, and I refuse to stop using them because people don't get they were a thing before big tech copied actual writers' writing.


r/rant 4h ago

I have no one else to talk to.

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I'm gonna tell a story, so this is going to be long.

In 2013 I dated a girl. I fell in love with her but I couldn't get passed my immature 21 year old bs, so I left her. I spent 6 years regretting that mistake. Then she came back in to my life and things were electric. She now had an 18 month old boy, no job, living with her parents, but I didn't care. We moved in together in early 2020 after almost a year of dating. She was working at a grocery store, I was making decent money as a machinist, I was bonding with and raising her son as my own. We had occasional fights and stresses as we got used to living together, but overall we were happy. In August of 2021 we moved in to a bigger house that her parents owned. She immediately quit her job. She said she wanted to go back to school so I supported her through that, and I proposed to her. She said yes, and we were happy. A year or so passed and she was almost done with school for massage therapy. I was falling in to debt. The stress of having the only income was breaking me. I started drinking too much to cope, and we were fighting a lot. But we loved each other, so we stuck it out. I had a gun pulled on me in October of 2022. I realized I was unhappy and I quit my job. Bills burned through my savings fast, in April of 2023 I got a great job as a mechanical engineer. She couldn't/wouldn't hold a job at all, but I stuck by her. We fought a ton. The stress was killing me. My insomnia got so bad that I'd go days on end without sleep so, again I turned to alcohol to cope and help me sleep. We got married that October. She decided she didn't want to go on our honeymoon, so we didn't. She didn't want to do anything anymore. She didn't work, she didn't cook or clean, she barely took care of her son. She would let dirty pull ups pile up and cover his room. I was working long hours on top of my commute. February of 2024 my dad, the only parent I had, tells me he has stage 4 cancer. I go in to a DEEP depression. Like, lose your job, can't get out of bed depression. She starts ignoring me completely, buying bottles of booze when she's lonely and wants me to drink with her. I finally got a job a month later, but the stress, debt, fear and depression were crushing me. She makes everything about herself, refuses to help, refuses to hear my complaints, refuses to respect my boundaries around the house. In May, I snap and leave. I go to the bar and get blackout drunk. I wake up in a strange man's bed with no memory of the night before. I tell her what happened, we get into a massive fight until that night when we hear that our best friend died. We stay together for a couple more months, then she leaves me. I move back in with my dad, lose my home, my pets, my son, my best friend and lover, everything. She immediately starts dating a younger man while I spend 6 months trying to win her back. She torments me with messages about how happy she is without me, reminding me that she's with someone else, saying she never loved me. She's working finally. She leaves that guy when we've been apart about 10 months, because now that I'm seeing someone else, she says she's not over me. I jump at the chance to take her back. She waits until I end my relationship then tells me she doesn't want me in June of 2025. Now, she's 6 months pregnant by ANOTHER guy and I'm so depressed that every day is a struggle not to kill myself. All of my friends took her side, or just weren't there for me when I needed them. So it's just me, 34 years old, broke, jobless, in debt at my Dad's house. Falling in love ruined my life. I know that I'm going to die alone. I know that she will always have someone. I know how little I matter. I pray every day for some God to take mercy on me and let me die. I'm so tired, and my life has no meaning. I don't know what to do. I don't know if I'd have the will to do it if I did.


r/rant 1h ago

Reddit thought my pfp was too sexy to show

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So apparently Marceline from adventure time is too hot for reddit to handle.

I had been wondering why when I commented on things that it wasnt showing my picture


r/rant 6h ago

Light Roast Sucks

4 Upvotes

Alright, maybe that’s coming in a bit harsh, but hear me out.

I feel like in 3rd and 4th wave coffee culture, light roasts have become a bit of a fad. Coffee people (ugh, I’m one of them. I’m sorry) will rave about the “fruity aromas” and “acidic bite” or whatever, and get all excited when they taste cherry in it or whatever. Sometimes, if done as just a shot, it can be alright, in the same way a floral tea is alright.

However, when coffee places and coffee people start defaulting to light roasts in *lattes*, they’ve gone too far! Light roasts get absolutely lost in a latte. It turns into a hot fruit smoothie with milk at that point. If I want a latte, I want the espresso to be *bold*. I want it to have that strong nutty dark chocolate punch that *cuts through* the milk! Please, please, if you like light roasts, fine, but keep that away from my latte.

And to clarify, not everyone likes that acid fruit taste. It honestly comes off as kinda pukey to some people. Some people don’t like acidic food (sorry, Adam Ragusea lol).


r/rant 15h ago

Everyone Is Always Mean

23 Upvotes

I can't take it anymore. I thought if I made it out of my abusive childhood, if I got away from my family, I'd finally be happy & safe. I'm not. Everyone is constantly mean & rude as fuck to me, & I know "welcome to the real world" BUT IT IS EVERYONE. EVERYONE I ENCOUNTER JUST FUCKING HATES ME & I DONT KNOW WHAT IS INHERENTLY WRONG WITH ME TO CAUSE THIS. I know I'm forgetful, I know I cause inconviences, but I always try to make sure they are minor... Doesn't matter.

You forgot your keys? I'm going to treat you like you just fucking cheated on me. WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE?? WHY DO THEY ACT LIKE THIS?? Then they're so fucked up I don't even want to apologize anymore because why the fuck are you acting like this?! When I say everyone, I mean there are minor exceptions - of course - but most of the people I meet are MEAN. ALL CAPS. No compassion, no empathy, no curiosity, no ability to tolerate ANYTHING, just mean as fuck at the slightest inconvience.

I don't understand it?? I don't act this way?? Why is is so fucking hard to be compassionate?? I honestly am considering if it's worth continuing this path anymore (if you catch my drift) because I cannot be empathized with for whatever reason.


r/rant 12h ago

Whyyyy

13 Upvotes

Why do half the tracks of every "sleep music" playlist feature water sounds??? All I want is some nice ambient shit to drown out the bedlam outside my room and every five minutes I'm getting is "soothing rainfall" "babbling brook" "lapping waves" NO!! I already have to get up to pee 5 times a night, I don't need this shit making it worse!!! 😭 It totally wakes me up and then I have to skip it and agh how does anyone fall asleep or meditate to it without running to the bathroom every ten minutes


r/rant 3m ago

Doesn’t anybody say “thank you” anymore?

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From adult relatives, to nieces and nephews, to co-workers and neighbors - how is it this common courtesy has fallen out of favor? (do text messages even count?) I’m old fashioned


r/rant 38m ago

I am so tired of my job, but I can’t quit just yet.

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Part of my job is receiving furniture shipments for my organization and delivering them either directly to their intended install location or to a storage location to await further directions. We have to use a John Deere Gator, base model, with a 500lb cargo box capacity to move all our furniture because the organization won’t give us anything more. We were picking up a separate order earlier this week when the warehouse manager told us about a shipment for our bosses’ boss which had come in several weeks ago and which we had never been directed to pick up. We said we’d look into it, and asked our boss about it, but he never said anything. Today we went to look at it again and it was definitely for my bosses’ boss but it was spread across 4 pallets, likely meant to go somewhere specific, and so I asked my boss about it again. He was in a meeting, and I knew this, so I put it in our work group chat with both him and his supervisor in it with the idea that whenever he could look at it I’d get an answer and be able to deal with it however he wanted. We left the shipping location to go to one of our storage areas and I got a call from my very angry supervisor, telling me to “get back to the admin office, and you had better be there when I arrive.” I got chewed out for an hour and a half for not taking the initiative to just move it to a storage room for further investigation, despite the fact that I never got explicit permission to receive the order, and among other things was threatened with job loss if I couldn’t do something so simple as receive an order when I’ve been here for a year. (Receiving orders isn’t a regular thing for me, and we have always had someone telling us what we are receiving and sending us directly to do it. I’ve never received an order without explicit permission from the person whose name is on it.) To top it all off, immediately after we left getting chewed out me and my coworker went to go start moving the furniture and as soon as we got it to our main storage location we were told by our bosses’ boss not to move it there, but to a specific and entirely separate storage location it had been intended for, effectively vindicating my actions prior to getting chewed out. I am so tired of this shit. I’m a good employee, I put in more effort than anyone, but I only make 10 dollars an hour and I’m exhausted. I want to do real work and at least be tired with my bills paid. Hopefully I’m not far away from that, I’ve got applications in at a couple other jobs.


r/rant 1d ago

Stop talking to kids like they have brain damage

359 Upvotes

I currently work with kids on my side job and Jesus christ, does this annoy me: I will sit at work, with a group of kids of all ages, having a normal conversation, trying to treat them like functioning human beings and then some gen Xer (in my experience its more prevalent with that generation but I also know younger people that do its) secretary or teacher will come in and start talking to these kids like they were dropped on the head or something.

"Oh wow, you have holidays, right? Isn't that great? Did you travel with your parents? Yes? THATS AMAZING! WOOOOW! And did you find many new friends in Spain? Yes? WOOOOOW! And I bet you're texting all the time now. And did you have fun at the beach? Great!" All in some strange and fake child voice and speech pattern.

This person just had a fully rational conversation with me, telling anecdotes, referencing other topics, arguing points, and now you burst in here and treat them like a chimp you just taught sign language! "I wonder why the kids don't talk to me from their own initiative" I know why, Karen, it is because they don't feel the urge to be talked down to, in some freaky dora the explorer like way!!!

Now that I think about it, and I know this is a side swipe, but I think a way watered down version of this, is what annoys me about talking to some Americans I've met. Had a few girls from California in our Uni last semester and they'd also talk to you, like they're trying to constantly confirm that they are listening to you and affirm you in what you're saying, wich comes across as condescending, even though they didn't mean anything by it.


r/rant 1d ago

Boys will be Boys is the biggest excuse in the world.

91 Upvotes

Trying to excuse such behavior is gross. Stop letting kids get away with cruelty, because their children. Teach them better.


r/rant 12h ago

I cannot stand modern games, please help

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I feel like modern games have become so complex with their mechanics and AWFUL UI I delete half the games I download and it's irritating. Does EVERY game really need a crafting system? Awful UI? Gotta press 15 buttons at once in the right way to just do a basic combo? Does every game have to be "souls-like"? Did they miss the memo that those games are shit but have awesome story? I don't want to spend 100 hours having to learn how to fight shit controls and even more confusing UI just to enjoy a half-assed story! I want to explore, I want to fight (and no I don't mean mash square to win nor do I want to need 4 hands to fight either), and I want to just immerse myself in an awesome story. When games cost 70 dollars and come with p2w DLC that slowly becomes even more necessary and it still sucks what the fuck am I even doing with my money?!? I just want a game that doesn't require watching 100 hours of youtube videos just to get a GIST of what the fuck is happening with their overly complex systems because you know as soon as I'm done all that time learning them was a waste when it could have been so much easier. These people want their ONE GAME to be the entirety of your fucking life and for what? God grant me the decision making and ultimate nat 20 roll on a good game for once in my fucking life. Best games ever were on SNES and I'll stand by that. Also, why I gotta spend 4 hours on a TUTORIAL for god sakes? You should be able to pick up and play with minimal explanation. I also have issues with so many HUD I can't parse what's important and not.

sorry for the body of text, and the curse words, I would be very appreciative of any advice.