u/tubby325

This SERIOUSLY gets on my nerves as a book collector. I like my books looking good, and almost none of these prints fit the bill of a good-looking print. Especially for book series, where only the adapted book(s) got the new designs, so the spines and covers within the series fail to match one another.

Some good examples of this that I really dislike are certain prints of Project Hail Mary, the Martian, and A Song of Ice and Fire. In the case of the first 2, the new covers are just outright bad compared to the originals. Why on earth would I want to stare at Matt Damon's face instead of a guy in a spacesuit walking on Mars? And why would I want to also stare at Ryan Gosling's face instead of a spacesuited guy drifting through space? It's so much less interesting and so much worse.

And ASoIaF outlines another, possibly even worse situation, where a perfectly fine cover is infected by a random, colorful, impossible to ignore advertising strip. I don't personally care for the covers, but they would be entirely inoffensive if it weren't for the blatant mentioning of the show.

The kinds of jokes where people simply just say a factually incorrect piece of info have always annoyed me a bit, primarily online where sarcasm is extremely difficult to understand. Far too many people make these sorts of mistakes genuinely that it is difficult for me to ever consider the fact it may be sarcastic. What annoys me the most are all the people who jump in if you fail to recognize it with a condescending "It was obviously a joke."

I can't say I am a fan of being treated with condescension all because I decided to take someone's words at face value, especially in cases where what they said could be considered problematic if taken to be true.

Why do I need to spend an entire minute or longer slowly nudging the lever back and forth for the water to not be ice-cold or scalding-hot? I don't understand why on every single faucet I have ever used, 49% of the lever on the cold side is the same freezing temperature, and 49% on the hot side is so hot it burns my hands immediately. Only the middle 2% is at a temperature I can keep my hands in for more than a couple of seconds.

Showers are also really bad about this. I will have a good temperature, but if I want it to run hotter, I have to do the same routine of going up and down until it has actually gone up the amount that doesn't make me feel like I'm on fire.

When I can't customize the exact difficulty parameters of a game, I hate when this happens. I am so annoyed by the most challenging gameplay-wise difficulties have random other stuff shoved into them, like a permadeath mode, limited saving functionality, and so on.

Some examples of this I have encountered that particularly annoy me:

Hatsune Miku: Project Mirai DX (a rhythm game on the 3DS) - As you go from Easy to Normal to Hard, one additional button is added for the notes (starting at 2, ending at 4). So you don't just have to learn to follow the more difficult rhythms, you also have to now recognize a brand new button you need to press in the middle of it.

Baldur's Gate 3 - Going from Tactician to Honor mode, certain boss enemies get Lengendary Actions, a really fun and challenging addition, but also adds a functional permadeath. If you want to have lengendary actions without dealing with permadeath, you are forced to play in the custom difficulty, which also locks you out of achievements.

I really like certain ways some games increase their challenge factor, but man does it get annoying when the most fun, challenging, and rewarding difficulty is also bogged down by a forced addition like permadeath, or when the game changes too much between difficulties to make it natural to follow the difficulty scale.

Permadeath is by far the worst offender, because you're trying to do a brand new difficulty with stronger enemies, harder challenges, but you now can't make any big mistakes. You're going from climbing a rock wall in a climbing gym to free-soloing; not fun at all in my opinion.

Edit: Oops, seems like the image formatting of this got all screwy. I tried posting it in another way than I usually do and I guess it didn't work out well. Dont think I can fix it without entirely reposting this so I guess I'll just have to deal with it.

https://preview.redd.it/h2lwdl9xja3h1.png?width=750&format=png&auto=webp&s=a9911febe5338eb67b65095581fdcdd1938d7259

Transforming LR Frieza (Final Form) into Frieza (Full Power) as pt. 1 DFE

LR SSJ Goku as pt. 1 Carnival (I created this guy before the frontier LR, just for some reference)

https://preview.redd.it/9kearsi9ka3h1.png?width=750&format=png&auto=webp&s=b1f9e6c06f0082e705118203b9e251fb7fe736de

EZAs for 2022 WWC (improvements on my previous EZA concepts for these guys)

EZAs for 2022 WWC (Cont.)

https://preview.redd.it/bjrs99aska3h1.png?width=750&format=png&auto=webp&s=1d5fa91d667c0f1bc467f4b6eeb4901543823695

Prime Battle Frieza SEZA

https://preview.redd.it/ux8bwx6wka3h1.png?width=750&format=png&auto=webp&s=0445e34b48a107db0a1ec18b320db396d1c66e4d

Standby SSJ Gohan into Father-Son Kamehameha for pt. 2 DFE

Revival Transforming Perfect Cell for pt. 2 Carnival

https://preview.redd.it/wtld9ge3la3h1.png?width=750&format=png&auto=webp&s=6f900dddba769c7035dfb87cdcd0143dd978c04b

(One note for this guy: I fudged his EZA stats a bit because I genuinely couldn't tell if they would really be that abysmal, or if the sources I could find were not accurate. If his base stats really *would* be that bad, I'd increase the numbers by a pretty significant amount)

https://preview.redd.it/5sa9jkqgla3h1.png?width=8500&format=png&auto=webp&s=9aa07a8c882bb15b1785986075fb5e0dc1932243

https://preview.redd.it/40kso1ljma3h1.png?width=750&format=png&auto=webp&s=2a7129e65c253310de29176acd8964f84bfcf980

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There are a few other things I could have designed for this, but I was starting to run out of steam near the end of this. In terms of banner units, I would probably make Frieza's a Ginyu. Not sure what I would make Gohan's.

Alongside this, there are some more EZAs and SEZAs I feel might happen in this hypothetical celebration (if it actually happened), but I felt this was a pretty good selection. If I had more time and willpower, I probably would have also designed an STR Perfect Cell and PHY Cooler SEZA as well.