Yelling at Fake People

[Gravekeeper]

Dragon Age 2.

Anders.

Godammit, Anders.

I WILL stab you.

[BrenDAnn]

Do the villagers on Minecraft count? I yell at them all the time.... and the animals... and pretty much any NPC or mob in that game. As for movies and shows, yes i think we all do that. It's human nature, I think.

[Fire_on_High]

Guilty....and fanfic at that.

[Latekin]

TV characters in this scenario: Woman is alone in a large house, at night. Most of the lights are off. Woman is neither heroic nor even competent at fighting. She hears a noise (a footstep, a window breaking, something like that) and becomes frightened. Does she find a weapon or an exit? Does she lock herself into a room and block the door? If it's taking place in the current era, does she grab her cell phone and call the police? Nope. She goes to the top of the stairs (she's always upstairs), looks down the dark hall (there are never enough lights) and inquires in a little-girl, quavering voice - "Is someone there?" - Instantly letting Mysterious Intruder know that she's there, she's alone, and she's terrified.

They need to do it the Latekin way, clearly.
Step one: grab sword off beside table.
Step two: Stop loudly and grumpily into the hallway
Step three: "Yell *partners name*, if that's not you, I'm going to frakking murder someone."
Step four: Hear intruder swear and yell "that's some frakking game of thrones shit, frak!" Intruder runs out back door.
Step five: Have every dodgy character in your neighborhood avoid your house like it's a plague hospital.

On topic, I've been yelling at so many Wheel of Time characters lately, because holy shit people, why are you all being so goddamn stupid!?

[Trixie]

Yes, to all of the above? Particularly TV show people and video game characters. Anyone who has played The Sims certainly has.

"Why are you making hot dogs??? Go to the bathroom!!!!!"

[Seshat]

Betraying my geek roots:

"Don't split the party!"

"What are you DOING? Okay, fine. Don't leave the noncombatants alo..."

"You. are. idiots, you know that?"

"Oh, I saw THAT coming a mile off. Okay. Now *you* are going to break a heel, twist your ankle on a tree root or ... yup."

"Oh geez. Fine. Toth, I'm going to bed. Wake me if they start being sensible."

[EricKei]

AnaKhouri -- Have you ever yelled at Deadpool? If so, has he ever responded? I figure, if any comic character would actually be able to do that...

[AnaKhouri]

I am honestly not a Deadpool fan. I know everyone loves him, but if they ever did make a Deadpool movie no one could watch it more than five minutes because he never. Shuts. Up. I find him annoying.

(I know about his realization that he's in a comic, but I'm not real interested in that sort of meta-fiction stuff either)

[flybye023]

I yell at my Sims all the time. High free-will and all that.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Guilty....and fanfic at that.

Same here . . . at the tv, if I'm reading or even at times when I'm writing a story and the girls have done something totally, outrageously STUPID (as in WTF were ya'll smoking to come up with THAT???)

And before you ask, no I don't suffer from insanity . . . I enjoy every second of it.

[AccountingDrone]

Step five: Have every dodgy character in your neighborhood avoid your house like it's a plague hospital.

I managed that back when we lived in Portsmouth VA when some idiot neighbors had hopped the fence, hooked up a hose to the outside faucet brought their cars into our drive and were washing their cars with it. I was working nights and at 9 am was pretty grumpy [they probably figured since it was work time for people with jobs they were safe hijacking our water. Oops.] I stormed out the back door onto the stoop holding an AK and screamed at them to get the fuck out of my yard, and I had better not catch them stealing my water ever again ... 4 people and 2 cars evaporated out of our driveway pretty damned fast ... and we got a free new hose out of the deal

The crack house next to us was the only other rental in the neighborhood and I guess they didn't want to run up their water bill. The main rental house in the neighborhood was across the street from us. Once a cop in a jogging suit came to our back door and told us to be really careful around the house, and to not let the guy across the street into the house for any reason, or let him know we knew he was about to get raided by the cops and riot squad. He was apparently recently on some most wanted type show and was a really nasty murderer. Then the house stood empty for a while, until NIS put some people in to surveil us [we had a roomie and his wife they suspected of stealing some sort of info from the Spadefish when he got out of the Navy] so we did stuff like set up Robs camera with the huge 150mm lens on a tripod aimed back out the window at the house, sent them pizza and chinese takeout and waving at them and such. If they had asked we would have gladly let them in to search. Glen and Eileene were no real friends of ours, and we would not have covered for them at all.

[Cia]

All the time. I yell at the tv - "Pick up the damn gun you moron!" "You heard a noise, you know the house is empty except for you call the cops..no don't grab a fireplace poker and start looking around asking who's there..oh look you're dead."

The last bad weather movie on SciFi, my daughter kept telling me to change the channel because she couldn't take the bad science being spouted out by the 'scientists'. "It doesn't work that way. AAAgh! Change the channel Mom!" Bwahahahaha no.

My favorite yell was "NO! NOT THE CAR!! NOOOO! HE KILLED THE IMPALA!! KRIPKE YOU BASTARD!"

[ParkingWitch]

Oh hell yes!
I've been reading a lot of fan-fic lately and it can be so so bad.

But a lot of it I want to yell at the 'authors'. Stuff like "Do you even know what 'asexual' means?"
"Well thank Goddess you tagged that as made up biology"

Oh the joys of AO3.

[Argabarga]

I get extremely yelly at badly-written fanfic too.

But not at the characters, they're just doing what the author tells them to, so I mostly yell over their heads.... at the REAL culprit.

I mean, it's not their fault the author is a whacko who can't convincingly create characters of his/her own.

*click*

*read*

*blink*


AW COMEON! Do you even watch the show!? You just wrote this so you could get off on it, didn't you? DIDN'T YOU?! DON'T LIE TO ME! I'LL FIND OUT!!

And, as someone who's asexual themselves (in terms of orientation, not biolgically), I get pissed off when people create an "asexual" character without getting what that really means.

Hint: It doesn't mean "Secretly super-kinky if only you manage to push the right hidden button"

[AccountingDrone]

Oh hell yes!
I've been reading a lot of fan-fic lately and it can be so so bad.

But a lot of it I want to yell at the 'authors'. Stuff like "Do you even know what 'asexual' means?"
"Well thank Goddess you tagged that as made up biology"

Oh the joys of AO3.

At least the Bujold community seem to be a bit better. I tried reading some Dr Who and Firefly and gave up. I thought they would at least be about as literate as the Bujold people but no ..... and I don't even want to remember the Twi-tards.

I have been yelling at documentaries for years, and make pretty snide comments at House Hunters and HH International, as well as most of the other shows on HGTV and lots of them on the various cooking shows. [sorry, there is no universe where blackened truffles and foie gras is any part of any sort of real cooking.]

I swear, I wish we could get Mythbusters to tackle that horrible horrible crap that gets passed around periodically about how bad shit was in the middle Ages.