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Broadband still borked. If no help soon, ringing the helpline. Arg.
Edit: Rang them. Need new cable. Tech guy has nice voice. But anyone telling me how to fix my computer and actually making sense at it is bound to sound nice.

Backseat gamers. Don't talk to me about backseat gamers.
I was in Gamestation after life drawing class. And what should I spy, sitting there in a pool of violin-sounding golden light? (Well, not literally, but you get the picture.)
Four Swords Adventures hooked up to the demo Gamecube.
I dive on it. Watch the intro. Get playing happily along.

Then disaster strikes.
Get to a puzzle where I need the four Links to push this boulder.
Someone's watching me.
He reaches out and pushes at my controller.
I look over. "Excuse me? You could've just told me what button to press?"

Idiot guy goes away. For about five seconds. Then, as soon as I go on the next screen - "Oh, you need to go in there..."
I stop. Stare. "Do you want to play?"
"Uh, it's okay..."
"Then would you stop trying to tell me what to do here?"
"Well, sorry..." (in a very 'excuuuuse me, princess' tone of voice.)

Look, buster. I know the Zelda games. I know Hyrule. Odds are, better than you.
Do not assume that *I'm* the damsel in distress here. I have had five minutes on this game. Of course I'm not going to have the controls down perfect. If I'm sucking, so what? Can't I at least try to play for myself? Even if you're the sort of gamer who can finish Metroid Prime in under two hours while standing on one leg and whistling The Star Spangled Banner, that does not give you the right to interfere.
Got it?

Aarg.
Perhaps, in retrospect, I should've asked him "Do you go round touching girls' butts often?" as soon as he poked the joypad...

Pet Peeve.

I suppose this goes hand in hand with Hero Boy in the game shop earlier, and the whole You Do This routine.

But.
Spoilers.
Don't you just hate them?
Look. I can understand that you don't go into - say - a Minish Cap board if you don't want to hear about various Vaati-kicking facts. But if you just go rolling along quite happily - on, say, a totally unrelated game board - and someone starts spewing details on game endings and crud...

Example I just hit.
Surfing along on a Metroid forum. I'm looking at stuff on MP1. And some dozy idiot goes
'Well, Samus losing her stuff is okay when it's like
SPOILER
(Insert Fact On MP2 Ending Here)'

...without giving anyone a chance to stop their brain going onto the next sentence after the word spoiler. At least he tried, though.

Just because a game is in the shops doesn't mean everyone everywhere has finished it, m'kay? I'm trying to finish Echoes without knowing anything more than what the last suit looks like beforehand. I'm trying to clear Minish Cap without finding out any crazy facts. But does the 'Net not quite get this?