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Well, speaking as someone who's currently wearing braces on both wrists, yes, it is painful.|
Originally Posted by Electronite
I never realized what torture it is to move one's fingers and hands. Especially for those of us who play video games, the repetitive moving of our upper extremities is tantamount to running a marathon in plate mail in the Amazon.
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I'm about to skew off into a cranky old geezer moment of "when you're my age and have spent as much time in front of a computer as I have", but let's leave it there.
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My point is merely that it's a pretty trivial complaint, especially since I can address it on my end. If it bothers me that much I can ignore the posts of someone with a history of huge blank spaces for little reason or large signature images, for example, though I'm not sure if that will eliminate their signature as well. I imagine it might, but I haven't tested it on these forums. Or I can set my browser to ignore specific images, or at least images from specific sources.|
Originally Posted by MissInformed
Totally missing the point. Scrolling is easy. We have to do it all the time. Which is why I get angry when someone makes me do it for no reason whatsoever. It's not scrolling I mind. It's the vast quantity of blank space people include in posts that make me scroll and that add absolutely nothing of value. As with big signatures on 5 word posts, you're making people scroll and not adding any value to the conversation. If that's what people want me to think about their posts, that they add no value to a conversation, just visual hot air, they can add all the space they want.
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To me, having to scroll past a large signature pic or a bunch of blank space isn't bothersome enough to get upset over. :shrug: YMMV, of course.
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Exactly. Sure it's trivial. I don't recall saying it wasn't. People all over the world are dying every single day because they can't afford food, live in war zones, have parents who don't care, or are just plain victims of poverty, violence, or circumstances most of us can never begin to understand.|
Originally Posted by Electronite
My point is merely that it's a pretty trivial complaint. ...To me, having to scroll past a large signature pic or a bunch of blank space isn't bothersome enough to get upset over. :shrug: YMMV, of course.
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Depending on your perspective, every single thing you or I have to complain about it our lives is trivial, isn't it? And yet, that doesn't make them invalid or unimportant to us.
When I was in the ER last month, the staff kept asking me what my pain was on a scale of 1-10. I was in so much pain I was crying in an Emergency Room, so I kinda figured a lot. But all my limbs were attached. They had a crucifix on the wall and I thought, "Hell, that guy has got to be a 10." I said I was a 7, maybe an 8. Then they gave me the chart with the pictures and, according to the frowny faces, I was much higher on the scale than I thought. Perspective is everything. But just because I didn't have a leg torn off didn't mean it was no big deal.
~Missi
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Miss Informed in 2016! She can't be worse than all those other guys!
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Come on, Missi, really?|
Originally Posted by MissInformed
Exactly. Sure it's trivial. I don't recall saying it wasn't. People all over the world are dying every single day because they can't afford food, live in war zones, have parents who don't care, or are just plain victims of poverty, violence, or circumstances most of us can never begin to understand.
Depending on your perspective, every single thing you or I have to complain about it our lives is trivial, isn't it? And yet, that doesn't make them invalid or unimportant to us. When I was in the ER last month, the staff kept asking me what my pain was on a scale of 1-10. I was in so much pain I was crying in an Emergency Room, so I kinda figured a lot. But all my limbs were attached. They had a crucifix on the wall and I thought, "Hell, that guy has got to be a 10." I said I was a 7, maybe an 8. Then they gave me the chart with the pictures and, according to the frowny faces, I was much higher on the scale than I thought. Perspective is everything. But just because I didn't have a leg torn off didn't mean it was no big deal. |
So if we continue with your analogy, if you were in pain and had at least four ways in which you could completely get rid of it with little effort required on your part, you're going with Option 5: Rant?
Really??
Number of Ways in Which I Can Scroll My Screen, In Order of Most to Least Effort Needed.
There may be other ways as well.
~Missi
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Miss Informed in 2016! She can't be worse than all those other guys!