What first world problem did you have today?

[CZroe]

Best I know of is a microswitch, when you release, it's immediate with it's own tactile feel as well. however I recommend you ask over at http://forum.arcadecontrols.com. A lot of well seasoned arcade nuts there, I'm a lowly noob compared to anyone there. Good luck

Thanks. Picked up four of these:
http://www.focusattack.com/seimitsu-ps-14-d-button-micro-switch/

Two so that I can make sure both buttons feel the same, two more in case I want to mod one of my NES Advantage joysticks like this guy. Those switches look extremely similar to what this stick already has.

 

[Imp]

I want a new toaster oven or baking oven. I can afford it, but I got nowhere to put it and plug it in.

On the other hand, a first-world person would have the space to put such a small item and enough outlets to plug it in...

 

[Imp]

Getting annoyed watching musicians sing and try to dance with corded microphones. It's 2015, these things have been around probably since the 1980s... wireless mic system, yo.

 

[highland145]

My iron died. Had to use my travel iron. Took me 2 more minutes.

The wife was making sammiches at the time.

 

[Stopsignhank]

I drove the Mercedes to work today. I don't want the people at work to know I have a Mercedes so I parked far away from the building. I left my cell phone in the car and had to sneak out out to the car to get it.

 

[Imp]

I confused AA batteries with AAA batteries and had to take down, fix, and re-upload a video.

 

[Fire&Blood]

Typed out a raging rant about hulu but accidentally navigated the browser away.

Trying to remember a title of a movie I didn't get to enjoy in the theater so I can watch it on netflix. If I find it, I'm considering dragging a few obnoxious teenagers in here just so I can throw them out at the first sign of distraction.

 

[John Connor]

Typed out a raging rant about hulu but accidentally navigated the browser away.

I hate that! Type something long and lose it. Especially if it's a huge ass rant. If you use Firefox check out the addon Lazarus. It will pay for it's self. Wait, it's free!

 

[John Connor]

My new smartphone which I got on a cyber Monday sale almost fell out of my pocket while having a smoke in the garage. I would have been ape shit. Especially since I knew I should have picked up the $7/month insurance.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I hate that! Type something long and lose it. Especially if it's a huge ass rant. If you use Firefox check out the addon Lazarus. It will pay for it's self. Wait, it's free!

I have a microsoft keyboard and it had these stupid back/forward button right where you rest your hand. I don't know how many times I've accidentally hit the back button, or my cat hit it when she jumps on the desk.

I raged once and shoved a screw driver through it and ripped them out. I filled the hole with caulking and it has not been a problem since. Great OS independent way of fixing that problem.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Made a parody video, using content from Youtube, get flagged for copyright within first 5 minutes. WTF?! How did those other channels get away with it and I can't? Freaking piss me off. Copyright can eat a bag of dicks. I need to setup my own video site.

 

[MongGrel]

It's the man, keeping ya down broh.

J/K

 

[ForumMaster]

Made a parody video, using content from Youtube, get flagged for copyright within first 5 minutes. WTF?! How did those other channels get away with it and I can't? Freaking piss me off. Copyright can eat a bag of dicks. I need to setup my own video site.

if you search, you'll often see that people upload videos with flipped video, or audio that is slightly out of pitch. this is because youtube has an automatic copyright system that does video recognition....

 

[John Connor]

Made a parody video, using content from Youtube, get flagged for copyright within first 5 minutes. WTF?! How did those other channels get away with it and I can't? Freaking piss me off. Copyright can eat a bag of dicks. I need to setup my own video site.

Oh tell me about it! I can't upload shit without it being flagged, yet there are so many that get away with it! WTF!

Would you believe I had to take "copyright school" on YouTube because of a Penn & Teller video I had. It was up there since 2009!

 

[clamum]

Not quite today, but yesterday I found out my homie co-worker is leaving in a few weeks (and he's off for two of those weeks). I'd just be sad to see him go, but more than that he's worked here so long and knows so much about the system that it's gonna be pretty hard to get by without him. I'm gonna be fuckin clueless when there's errors and people are looking to me to solve them. Ugh. I'll miss you Roberto.

 

[CZroe]

Oh tell me about it! I can't upload shit without it being flagged, yet there are so many that get away with it! WTF!

Would you believe I had to take "copyright school" on YouTube because of a Penn & Teller video I had. It was up there since 2009!

Yes. What difference does it make how long it has been up? It's when the copyright owner asserts themselves that matter. I had to take it because I used the NEDM music from YTMND and because we played Guitar Hero in one of my videos.

 

[HeXen]

Lol, I had a YT video flagged a few years back and all it was me playing GTA IV in first person mode for maybe a couple of minutes...thats it. It was a mod I was using, figures Rockstar would integrate it much later into GTA 5. I assume anyone can flag a video and it's automatically shut down or what? I quit messing with YT after that, I have no clue how anyone is able to have vids.

 

[lxskllr]

Bought kumquats yesterday, and was pretty excited about it. Tried them today, and they're virtually flavorless; not quite ripe. I guess I should have paid closer attention :^(

 

[Imp]

Mi horno came a week earlier than I thought. Pretty impressed, Christmas and Amazon delivered my oven in 2 days -- they stalled for days a week or two ago with a power bar, probably because of free shipping. So, because it came earlier, I felt compelled to set it up today.

And while wiping down the exterior of the oven, my paper towel suddenly turned blue. Second wipe turned nothing up -- nor did the next 2 or 3 wipes. I think it came out of a crevice on the underside where they joined plates together. Maybe it was a metal cleaner/polish or Windex at the factory and they missed the gap while wiping -- I really hope it was this because no clue what else it could be. On the bright side, it'll all get cooked off and breathed in the first few times I use the oven.

P.S. lulz on the copyright. I essentially give them the finger by using no sound for 99% of my videos. Get a lot of down-votes but meh, easier for me.

 

[IronWing]

Mi horno? Does go beep beep on El Caro?

 

[John Connor]

Ate too much pizza and salad. Ohhhhhh...

 

[Charmonium]

I have really dumb fruit flies. I mean, I do understand that a fruit fly's brain is probably only a couple of interconnect neurons, but still.

I don't know where these are coming from. My best guess is an old banana peel in the garbage. But wherever they originate, they don't seem too bright.

I put out a glass of vineger and covered it with saran wrap, then I punched some holes but it's possible I didn't make them big enough because I saw one perched on the top and it looked like he was trying to get in w/o any success.

So now I've widened the holes and hopefully they will drown before they can find their way out.

 

[Train]

I have really dumb fruit flies. I mean, I do understand that a fruit fly's brain is probably only a couple of interconnect neurons, but still.

I don't know where these are coming from. My best guess is an old banana peel in the garbage. But wherever they originate, they don't seem too bright.

I put out a glass of vineger and covered it with saran wrap, then I punched some holes but it's possible I didn't make them big enough because I saw one perched on the top and it looked like he was trying to get in w/o any success.

So now I've widened the holes and hopefully they will drown before they can find their way out.

Are you sure they are fruit flies and not sewer flies? They will come out if there's a dried out drain catch in your basement or something. I had 'em last year when the catch below our laundry sink dried up after not using it for a while.

 

[Red Squirrel]

What I always wondered is where fruit flies even come from. Sure, they come from something rotten but I mean, where did they come from before that? A living thing does not just randomly manifest itself without parents having sex and/or laying eggs.

 

[IronWing]

Some neighborhood punk ass kid stuck his lunch in my mailbox. Can't say I blame him* but now I have to wash the mailbox.


* tortilla with toasted bread butt with crumbly cheese and the world's smallest chile pepper plus two hunks of banana with purple frosting. Bees were all over it.