rolling FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS thread

like when I joke about making an anechoic chamber in my basement for fun

I'm just bitter because my car only has one working speaker and no working volume control, soI can't hear anything if I'm driving faster than 40mph.

if i was less terrified of customer service interactions i would ask the rental agent in cincinnati for the car with the sickest audio system and report back to you guys.

sorry I only follow car dealership updates via twitter

btw there's no way whiney's drive was more than 3.5 hours, so it's not "a super long road trip"

in fact he spent 1/3 of that amount of time driving from and to the rental car place + waiting for a new car

I mean he's only driving from one side of brooklyn to the other, right?

they should give him a stereo that only sounds good playing witch house

hahaha

Whine like the cars, the cars that go boom

I had a FIRST WORLD PROBLEM to add to this but I really can't compete

• I had more than doubled my previous high score playing Tetris on my phone today, but i got a call and when i hung up i hit the End button twice by accident and that killed the game without saving the score... :( I was in the Zone.

i really hope whiney didn't actually do that

would you bet against it?

my money would be on the "just wanted a good tweet" scenario, but i dunno

nah, he did it

okay, that's just being an asshole, unless the stereo was actually broken

You know that's going to be the reason, not that the factory settings were too low.

maybe rental car stereos have lower output so people don't blow the speakers

Only saying that there will be justification for this, you wait.

I've had some rental cars that do this annoying thing where the stereo gets loud when you step on the gas, but then gets really quiet when you slow down or stop. It's actually some kind of setting that you can change if you find out how to work the menu on the stereo.

I've noticed that before too, that the stereo would go down as I turned a corner. Took me awhile to figure out it wasn't me.

There are some damn stupid features cars get sold with these days.

haha yeah my car has speed-sensitive volume, i've never tried it tho sounds kinda dumb

Not everything in this world needs to be goddammed automated.

I forgot about that! My car has it too, kind of nice but I am twitchy so I turned it off.

I mean, talk about your FIRST WORLD PROBLEM and all, but who the hell raised so much of a fuss about not being able to hear their radio when the engine revved too hot.

oh i dunno. i for one am sick of having to turn down the volume manually every time i turn a corner.

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Can I get a home stereo system that automatically lowers its volume when the needle first hits the record or gets to the label? That scuffing sound is going to ruin my speakers.

my ex's car had that and it was real annoying at first until i discovered that the stereo's RPM-sensitive volume feature actually had three or four ~different levels of sensitivity~

once i got it dialed in to the level that worked for me it was awesome

i blew out my speakers years ago when i maxed the volume when Hollaback Girl came on the radio

songs where it's fun to spell c-a-n-k-l-e-s 2 the beat

once i got it dialed in to the level that worked for me it was awesome

You shouldn't have to do this. It's like Microsoft engineers have taken over the auto industry.

no, it was like driving w/o having to adjust the volume knob ever

How loud are these engines? Of all the things that interferes with whether or not I can hear something, the RPMs are down on the list.

It would even be more distracting for me since if I'm slowing down, I'm probably looking for a street number and i don't need the volume popping back up.

well presumably, the faster your engine is going, it usually means the car is also going faster-- more friction from the road/wind etc.

It would even be more distracting for me since if I'm slowing down, I'm probably looking for a street number and i don't need the volume popping back up.

this is when the volume would be rolling back down, pp.

luckily, my truck makes so much racket that the only setting that makes sense is MAX VOLUME at ALL TIMES

See, I'm already getting confused. Just leave it set at 12 and I'll manage on my own.

FYI, J0rd, the display literally said "VOLUME LIMITED" when u tried to turn it up.

I had about 4.5 hours driving today. I lost maybe 45 minutes of my day. Totally worth it.

What, was i going to be alone with my thoughts?! Literally the only thing I like about driving is blasting rap records.

im with whiney on this one guys sorry

I even played kreayshawn for u j0rd u_u

What, was i going to be alone with my thoughts?!

I think he's found an argument we're not gonna beat

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i blew out my speakers years ago when i maxed the volume when Hollaback Girl came on the radio

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uhmazing

Has anyone referred that tweet to white whine yet?

Last time I submitted something to whitewhine, the person whose fb profile it was threatened to sue me and the site for 'breach of copyright' and actually got the post taken down. Amazing.

^^^ first world problem

Yeah I felt like I was trapped in a recursive first world problem with no escape. Probably got over it by eating some cheesecake or something.

how did they know it was you

Ha well I did then post a link back to whitewhine on their fb profile. I thought he'd take it 'the right way'.

The offending image, for posterity
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-qVVw_VJrOZw/TcaV53JrKiI/AAAAAAAAABE/9_ViUfrAo-c/s500/whitewhine.JPG

(he pays for his cleaner from his trust fund)

what a cad