Haranir remind me of bugbears, design wise that is
November 16, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Haranir remind me of bugbears, design wise that is
That just sounds like the combined bugbears of three different groups of people on this website. It's like defense tech nerds were getting drunk and joking about ideas for a Call of Duty story in the same room as a monkey's paw.
November 16, 2025 at 5:09 AM
That just sounds like the combined bugbears of three different groups of people on this website. It's like defense tech nerds were getting drunk and joking about ideas for a Call of Duty story in the same room as a monkey's paw.
To be fair, coming up with dystopias themed around personal bugbears is a well-established sci-fi tradition. Remember when Bradbury wrote about the guy who got put in jail because he didn't watch TV, or the guy who got put in jail because he wouldn't talk on the telephone?
November 15, 2025 at 11:08 PM
To be fair, coming up with dystopias themed around personal bugbears is a well-established sci-fi tradition. Remember when Bradbury wrote about the guy who got put in jail because he didn't watch TV, or the guy who got put in jail because he wouldn't talk on the telephone?
i may even go so far as to say if behaviorism is not one of your personal bugbears like mine then this might not be for you. if you haven't trained to be a cognitive psychologist you might not be interested. hell i would go so far as to say most cognitive psychologists don't care that much about it~
November 15, 2025 at 6:45 PM
i may even go so far as to say if behaviorism is not one of your personal bugbears like mine then this might not be for you. if you haven't trained to be a cognitive psychologist you might not be interested. hell i would go so far as to say most cognitive psychologists don't care that much about it~
Passed is one of my bugbears too. Why are we as a society so terrified of talking about death.
November 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Passed is one of my bugbears too. Why are we as a society so terrified of talking about death.
Curious to know yr thoughts on these docs when you've watched 'em btw, particularly any pedantic bugbears. (Mine for the record is despite Heidi Range being a talking head her earlier 9 month stint in Atomic Kitten isn't mentioned once - no idea why)
November 15, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Curious to know yr thoughts on these docs when you've watched 'em btw, particularly any pedantic bugbears. (Mine for the record is despite Heidi Range being a talking head her earlier 9 month stint in Atomic Kitten isn't mentioned once - no idea why)
The idea that the reader/audience is not part of the creation of art is one of the most toxic bugbears of modern media discourse
Someone's always like "ah but video game design IS manipulation" but that's silly, it's not, any more than theatre is, or stage magic, or anything. actual manipulation should never be something you're about
November 15, 2025 at 2:40 AM
The idea that the reader/audience is not part of the creation of art is one of the most toxic bugbears of modern media discourse
One of my bugbears is having to re-edit a document that someone else has covered with all the "clever" things Word can do... which usually fouls up whatever I'd done previously.
November 14, 2025 at 11:15 AM
One of my bugbears is having to re-edit a document that someone else has covered with all the "clever" things Word can do... which usually fouls up whatever I'd done previously.
Thanks. Yeah that one of his bugbears reliance on software that can develop expensive faults. Alongside all his other exclusions it's narrowing the field so far that there is hardly anything which fits his exacting ideals! I just want one that is a nice colour and I can get arthritic dog in easily!
November 14, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Thanks. Yeah that one of his bugbears reliance on software that can develop expensive faults. Alongside all his other exclusions it's narrowing the field so far that there is hardly anything which fits his exacting ideals! I just want one that is a nice colour and I can get arthritic dog in easily!
lrp i must master this skill. it is the final rubicon of face posing that i have yet to cross, combining all my personal face posing bugbears: lip rotation, cheek movements, teeth and tongue, and POV camera angles. the ultimate challenge, my white whale. I GOTTA DO IT.
November 13, 2025 at 4:39 PM
lrp i must master this skill. it is the final rubicon of face posing that i have yet to cross, combining all my personal face posing bugbears: lip rotation, cheek movements, teeth and tongue, and POV camera angles. the ultimate challenge, my white whale. I GOTTA DO IT.
My evergreen bugbears are 'drop' when referring to a music release and 'pick up' when referring to something you bought.
The first implies a carelessness about something that required a lot of work.
The second ignores the money - it was picked up with money that was earned.
The first implies a carelessness about something that required a lot of work.
The second ignores the money - it was picked up with money that was earned.
November 13, 2025 at 9:29 AM
My evergreen bugbears are 'drop' when referring to a music release and 'pick up' when referring to something you bought.
The first implies a carelessness about something that required a lot of work.
The second ignores the money - it was picked up with money that was earned.
The first implies a carelessness about something that required a lot of work.
The second ignores the money - it was picked up with money that was earned.
here's to 19 awesome years!
also heckin love your bugbears theyre all a riot
also heckin love your bugbears theyre all a riot
November 12, 2025 at 6:30 PM
here's to 19 awesome years!
also heckin love your bugbears theyre all a riot
also heckin love your bugbears theyre all a riot
The Emperor Of Bugbears rewards you with a smudged scroll that seems to be inscribed with the spell Finger of Cats. But... the words writhe under your gaze. Now it says 'Ray of Starfish'!
November 12, 2025 at 6:58 AM
The Emperor Of Bugbears rewards you with a smudged scroll that seems to be inscribed with the spell Finger of Cats. But... the words writhe under your gaze. Now it says 'Ray of Starfish'!
Judgment’s lack of a second E is one of my bugbears. Also for some reason I always try to spell “bureaucracy” beauraucracy (maybe baby dyslexia)
November 12, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Judgment’s lack of a second E is one of my bugbears. Also for some reason I always try to spell “bureaucracy” beauraucracy (maybe baby dyslexia)
This is one of my most pedantic bugbears
November 11, 2025 at 11:02 PM
This is one of my most pedantic bugbears
First the satanists and then the gays…maybe a different order…then the commies, trans, vegans, hippies, muppets, shit-beer and skittles. Rightwing bugbears are as impossible to kill as Louisiana cockroaches (who get US congressional healthcare).
November 11, 2025 at 10:23 PM
First the satanists and then the gays…maybe a different order…then the commies, trans, vegans, hippies, muppets, shit-beer and skittles. Rightwing bugbears are as impossible to kill as Louisiana cockroaches (who get US congressional healthcare).
Well, that was one of Orwell's big bugbears - whether it be weaponized language, the obliteration of proscribed words or rendering definitions so vague you can have two people convinced they are in total agreement whilst thinking contradictory thoughts.
November 11, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Well, that was one of Orwell's big bugbears - whether it be weaponized language, the obliteration of proscribed words or rendering definitions so vague you can have two people convinced they are in total agreement whilst thinking contradictory thoughts.
This has been one of my biggest bugbears since moving here; why do we have to manually submit taxes? The UK, home to idiots like me, manage to do auto taxes through PAYE. Why can't Canada?
November 11, 2025 at 2:34 PM
This has been one of my biggest bugbears since moving here; why do we have to manually submit taxes? The UK, home to idiots like me, manage to do auto taxes through PAYE. Why can't Canada?
especially when it'd be very easy to tie both of those movies into his bugbears
"Edge of Tomorrow is about showing courage in defense of Civilization and also, about how your reputation of being an annoying little bitch doesn't mean you can't save the world"
"Edge of Tomorrow is about showing courage in defense of Civilization and also, about how your reputation of being an annoying little bitch doesn't mean you can't save the world"
November 10, 2025 at 8:45 PM
especially when it'd be very easy to tie both of those movies into his bugbears
"Edge of Tomorrow is about showing courage in defense of Civilization and also, about how your reputation of being an annoying little bitch doesn't mean you can't save the world"
"Edge of Tomorrow is about showing courage in defense of Civilization and also, about how your reputation of being an annoying little bitch doesn't mean you can't save the world"
i did love del toro's frankenstein quite a bit but it did remind me of one of my perpetual bugbears in genre fiction which is when monstrous but soulful dudes or dude-shaped beings are matched with conventionally attractive women who see their true beauty within or whatever.
November 10, 2025 at 2:44 PM
i did love del toro's frankenstein quite a bit but it did remind me of one of my perpetual bugbears in genre fiction which is when monstrous but soulful dudes or dude-shaped beings are matched with conventionally attractive women who see their true beauty within or whatever.
Grab some esoteric beliefs and bugbears and engage based upon those like a true poster, imo
November 10, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Grab some esoteric beliefs and bugbears and engage based upon those like a true poster, imo
Populism implies views that are daft but are actually quite popular. So you'd be a fool not to realise people are quite anti-immigration, or people generally favour "nationalisation" despite it not solving their main gripes about privatised industries. These are mostly unpopular elite bugbears.
November 10, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Populism implies views that are daft but are actually quite popular. So you'd be a fool not to realise people are quite anti-immigration, or people generally favour "nationalisation" despite it not solving their main gripes about privatised industries. These are mostly unpopular elite bugbears.
This is another example of “politics is *really* all about my particular bugbears”, which you can tell by the author shoving together two entirely unrelated events linked only by their coincident timing. Falls into the not even wrong category. on.ft.com/4819NPz
November 9, 2025 at 10:04 PM
This is another example of “politics is *really* all about my particular bugbears”, which you can tell by the author shoving together two entirely unrelated events linked only by their coincident timing. Falls into the not even wrong category. on.ft.com/4819NPz
This, combined with matters of taste being mistaken for quality issues, are my big cultural bugbears right now, especially in the book world. It’s a very insular way of looking at art and it drives me insane lol.
November 9, 2025 at 6:44 PM
This, combined with matters of taste being mistaken for quality issues, are my big cultural bugbears right now, especially in the book world. It’s a very insular way of looking at art and it drives me insane lol.
That's one of my bugbears with AI. They are pathetic w critical reasoning. I've been told some are working to improve that, but I haven't seen it.
November 9, 2025 at 5:37 PM
That's one of my bugbears with AI. They are pathetic w critical reasoning. I've been told some are working to improve that, but I haven't seen it.