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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: How Well Known is the Person Above You?
« on: August 12, 2016, 08:24:11 pm »
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I've seen you around quite a bit!
I've seen you around quite a bit!
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Roll To Dodge / Re: Roll to Magic: Turn 178 Miscasts and Plots
« on: August 12, 2016, 07:31:43 pm »
Exploit the heart to siphon the flames from the two burning skeletons and create a pulse of fire for breathing room.
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Creative Projects / Re: Cinder's 1 Sketch a Day Thread: Day 28
« on: August 12, 2016, 12:59:36 pm »
Nearly a month of lovely doodles and artwork, the hype is real.
Keep going ♥
Keep going ♥
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General Discussion / Re: [*KHEZUNOISES*] What is even a whole orange (Happy thread)
« on: August 12, 2016, 11:23:18 am »Oh no! It's collapsed! Quick, someone do mouth to mouth!You do it.
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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Above user in a nutshell: Forgotten beast edition
« on: August 12, 2016, 10:45:24 am »
Has been here for quite a long time.
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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: August 11, 2016, 11:14:53 pm »Everyone is here for you.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
hoped sickness would be better today.There's always tomorrow. At least if you're sick you can kick back since there's not a lot of work expected, I suppose!
my hopes were dashed
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General Discussion / Re: [*KHEZUNOISES*] What is even a whole orange (Happy thread)
« on: August 11, 2016, 10:28:42 pm »
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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: August 11, 2016, 08:49:31 pm »...Lemme put it this way, BHK.I don't understand why you have faith in me.For the record:I just want to do better. That is all you can do.Nobody will care that you want to do better, and they will do everything you can to prevent you from doing better for the sake of having someone more evil than them for whatever reason. And you'll be hard pressed to find anyone who can say with a straight face that doing so good isn't necessarily the right thing.
I care
Just about everyone I know who I actually like cares, or would if they knew you
I don't think I actually know anyone who would intentionally try to prevent you from doing what they saw as good/better
I'm not certain what that last bit means but I'm still idealistic enough that I probably count for it if it'slike with the other ones
Update: 49.9% of the world now nobody
My life goal is to cure death. Pun not intended. One of my favorite quotes relates to never being able to change the world if you aren't optimistic enough to be disappointed every time it fails to live up to expectations. If I were/become the blogging sort, it would be called "Painfully Optimistic".
I have faith because that is the only way to fix things. Because I refuse to believe that people might not deserve it. They do. There is no such thing as a bad person. There are only people who have made various sizes of mistakes.
Every time I'm disappointed? Every time something fucked up happens? It hurts. And I welcome that pain. I relish it. Because it means I still care. And if there's something that scares me more than death, it's not caring anymore. If people disappoint? At least they have tried. But tried is the wrong word, because trying for the sake of trying, rather than to genuinely put forth their best effort, is almost as bad as not trying at all, and far harder to avoid. But I would rather people try to make amends and disappoint, then never try in the first place, and disappoint in an altogether more depressing fashion.
Caring hurts. That's why we value it so highly. And why I refuse to give up my ability to care about the things that matter: people.
I really admire you for being able to be like that.
... I suppose everyone has a point...
Thank you, all of you.
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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: August 11, 2016, 07:48:31 pm »You don't have to understand goodwill, just accept it. Sometimes people are nice for no reason other than they want to be.I just don't want to disappoint any more than I already have.
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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: August 11, 2016, 07:41:09 pm »I don't understand why you have faith in me.For the record:I just want to do better. That is all you can do.Nobody will care that you want to do better, and they will do everything you can to prevent you from doing better for the sake of having someone more evil than them for whatever reason. And you'll be hard pressed to find anyone who can say with a straight face that doing so good isn't necessarily the right thing.
I care
Just about everyone I know who I actually like cares, or would if they knew you
I don't think I actually know anyone who would intentionally try to prevent you from doing what they saw as good/better
I'm not certain what that last bit means but I'm still idealistic enough that I probably count for it if it'slike with the other ones
Update: 49.9% of the world now nobody
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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: August 11, 2016, 07:32:28 pm »'Nobody' Well, you're bleeding talking to that nobody, mate. Assuming of course, the regret you show is because you regret the action, not the fact you got caught doing said action. It's an important distinction because the former indicates you realise how wrong you were, and the latter indicates that you didn't.Maybe that's you. 50.1 percent of the world isn't you, though...
But in addition to that, I accept that even the worst person on earth has probably done some good in some way, at least thought they were. Hell, Hitler (in b4 Godwin's law) was just trying to fix things. He had a horrible way of doing it, broke damn near everything and caused the deaths of millions, but in his own mind he thought that he was doing the RIGHT thing. In fact, it was probably something of a blessing it was Hitler and not someone more competent.Good or no, someone who's done bad will be seen as bad, using your above example.
And finally: Yes, you are being cynical. Maybe because of what happened to you in your personal life, but cynicism is cynicism.If it's personally happened to me, then it is true. Cynical or not, what I said is just... truth.
3 ) If you let other people dictate your self worth you will be miserable for the rest of your life.I know my self worth, and there is very little compared to everyone else I interact with.
Then stop listening to people altogether?3 ) If you let other people dictate your self worth you will be miserable for the rest of your life.Especially if you only listen to the criticisms people have of you.
EDIT: I'm feeling aggressively optimistic presently. This is an odd mood.
I wish I could be aggressively optimistic. I just get forced to change my attitude when I am because it's intolerable.
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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: August 11, 2016, 07:23:27 pm »I just want to do better. That is all you can do.Nobody will care that you want to do better, and they will do everything you can to prevent you from doing better for the sake of having someone more evil than them for whatever reason. And you'll be hard pressed to find anyone who can say with a straight face that doing so good isn't necessarily the right thing.
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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: August 11, 2016, 07:11:46 pm »There's no need to be so cynical. People do change, they do it subtly and slowly though with a few exceptions, so you'll likely not notice it.Nobody is going to accept a person who's done wrong trying to improve. No matter how much goodwill and penance they undergo, they'll always be nothing but what they've visibly shown as the lowest to the public at large, and they'll be treated as such. No mistake will ever be forgiven, only another reminder of why someone will always be irredeemably awful when speaking to them, and it'll always be acceptable to do so because "they're evil, and we aren't, so this is right." Redemption is too idealistic to feasibly achieve. I'm not being cynical, I'm being realistic from personal observation related to it.
And trying to define why you like someone can be difficult, honestly. And I mean that completely because I'm stumped with regards to my friends, I just like them. Suppose you need a degree of compatibility, but beyond that... nope. No bloody clue.I suppose.
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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: August 11, 2016, 06:49:40 pm »He's right; there's nothing awful about you at all. We like you.I really just don't understand why you would.
Hardly, and on very few occasions.I'm assuming you mean me in particular, doesn't being around mostly anyone make people happy?oh man people can change for the better
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Other Games / Re: How did you last *own*?
« on: August 11, 2016, 05:25:23 pm »
As far as I'm concerned, the Fallout series ended with New Vegas, and what a spectacular ending it was.