Fuck EA (and fuck the entire concept of "necro-posting")

So I was having an issue while playing The Sims 4 yesterday. I went online to find a solution. I found a two-year old thread on answers.ea.com with a solution that proposed using third-party mods to fix the issue. That solution didn't work. I found a solution that did work, elsewhere on the Internet that wasn't on the answers.ea.com website. I replied to that thread on answers.ea.com saying that the old solution didn't work anymore and told them what I did to fix the issue and where I found the solution.

Today, I got a message from an "EA Community Manager" saying that my reply to that thread had been deleted for being "in violation of the AHQ community guidelines" because of "necro-posting." (The thread in question, again, was two years old and contained outdated, incorrect information about a bug that was still in existence in The Sims 4.)

So, basically, I replied to the "EA Community Manager" and told them that 1) they might as well just delete the entire thread, then, because it was outdated information, and that 2) if trying to provide accurate information was "in violation of the AHQ community guidelines" then I didn't want to be part of that so-called "community" anymore and if they could just delete/close/remove my Answers.EA.com account that would be great. Thanks.

Suffice it to say, even if they don't close/remove my account there (which apparently isn't possible to do without deleting your entire Origin account, as they've got it all tied together), I will never be posting to answers.ea.com ever again, regardless of whether a thread is new or old, even if I may have the perfect solution to some issue someone else is having and nobody else is providing. Answers.ea.com can go fuck itself forever now, as far as I'm concerned. Sure, I'll still lurk/leech from there as needed, to get solutions to any of the the other issues that I may run into in EA's roach motel computer games, but I'm not going to be fucking trying to contribute there anymore.

Anyway, because I feel like I have become far more upset/angry over this stupid shit than it has any right to make me, I'm going to consider this post to be a purgative/catharsis and will try my damn well best to forget about all of this once I click that "post" button.

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Also, I thought I had already written a rant about my dim view of the frenzied hatred against so-called necro-posting, but if I did, I can't find it now. Or maybe I posted it farther back than 2015-ish or so, as that's as far back as I cared to look, as I'm pretty sure it was more recent than that. Or else I just posted it only to Facebook, back when I still had Facebook. If I did make such a post here, I certainly didn't use any of the appropriate tags that I would've thought I'd have added to it to make it easier to find in the future. *shrug*

In any case, to briefly repeat here what I thought I had already posted here but apparently didn't: my view of "necro-posting" is that it is (or at least should be) perfectly fine, as long as said "necro-post" is actually useful. (And if it isn't useful, then it is not any worse than similarly non-useful posts being made to "new" threads, either.)

I also ranted about the fact that some forums/people on said forums, conversely, get intensely angry about the exact opposite issue, when users don't "necro-post," i.e. if a new thread/whatever is created rather than a reply being made to an old, already existing thread. (E.g. "Well, if you'd just used the search function, you would have seen that this thread from ten years ago or whenever already existed, and you could have and should have replied to that, instead of making this new post/thread here."

Hell, that is also an issue on answers.ea.com, given how many times I've been looking at a thread there, only to see dozens of bloated "merging your post with this other already existing thread" replies from "EA Community Managers" which completely break the chain of conversation in a given thread. So, they apparently don't want people to respond to old threads, but they also don't want people to make new threads either. Go fucking figure. (It's even worse than that, though, given that in far too many cases, the "EA Community Manager" completely fucked up by merging threads that were only tangentially related to each other, each dealing with different issues entirely that only seemed to be related on the surface.)

"The Repeachment is Coming"

A post on Whatever.

If the only thing to come out of a successful impeachment and conviction (whenever it may happen, and a conviction would have to come after Bitch McConnell is no longer Senate Majority Leader as it wouldn't happen at all otherwise) is that Trump is no longer allowed to run for any public office ever again, that would be good enough for me. It probably won't remove him from being President within the next geologic eonweek and a half, and an impeachment conviction alone probably wouldn't result in him going to jail (that's what all the unfiled charges against him waiting to be filed once he's no longer President are there for), but just preventing him from running for POTUS again would be good enough, I guess.

One more pisser and then a bright side for today.

Another off-pisser today was when I went to renew my Tracfone minutes. Back before Christmas, they sent me a thing in the mail that was supposed to be a Happy Birthday thing, with a code to add an extra 30 minutes to my account when I used it during buying a new time card thing. They said it would expire at the end of my birthday month, i.e. January. Yet, when I tried to use it today when I bought a new 90 day, 60 minute card, it told me the code was already fucking expired. Lovely.

But, meh, I'm not too terribly pissed off by that, given that I currently have 1475.36 minutes on my phone, so losing out on an extra 30 minutes isn't a make-or-break situation. It's more the principle of the thing, really. Don't tell me you're giving me something, and then when I try to get/use that shit, it's not actually there.

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The bright side: I finally got my two 1TB SSD drives in my hands today. That said, I'm not going to fuck with that shit this evening. I'll do it tomorrow, because I have a few last minute backup-to-external-drive things I want to do. Also, I plan to redo the thermal paste on the CPU while I've got the computer unhooked and all that shit, too (though I'll probably hook it back up temporarily to make sure that, at least, still works properly, before I move on to swapping out the drives).