First post of the New Year

So, after taking most of December, January, February, and March off from my not so frequent in the first place posts, I'm back. A lot has happened since my last post. I got married, had a kid, bought a house... nah, I'm kidding. Life hasn't gotten that exciting yet. However, I did finish a semester at university and partially developed a computer game (based on the board game Clue) in the process. I also applied for, and have a good shot at receiving, a scholarship to study in Germany next winter semester. Man, I'm pumped about that. I hear they've got some pretty good beer... err, I mean educational facilities, over that way. However, that's not the point of this post.

The point of this post is to complain about online help forums. As a university student, I have better things to waste my money on then books. It's like $200 a pop to buy some of these piles of paper which turn out to be about as useful as a warm beer when it comes to teaching me anything about anything. So, as my education continued I've learned that Google is as good as, or better than, most textbooks out there. There have been countless projects I've completed through searching the information (and sometimes the answers themselves) on Google. Then, as time went on, I noticed that online forums seemed to hold some pretty good information. But lately, I've been finding that more often than not, when I find what I think is good information on an online forum, all the replies say, "I have the same problem." Like, who gives a shit? Why is it necessary to tell the world that you have the same problem? It just forces me to read 10 pages of replies only to find that 400 people have the same problem as the first guy. Anyway, that annoys me, so I thought I'd share my frustration with the world. And, I know, I know... who gives a shit?!