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As it is being revealed, I think you have problems over people confirming, and on the next few statements, hate being screamed at. For the first part, it's just natural people will confirm, and will have to deal with it accordingly. Catch yourself in the act when your mood sours because 'they don't believe in you'. Because they're not always asking you about it because they don't believe you. They're asking about it at other times to make sure they heard right.

It's just as well on my case anyway, since I can absentmindedly agree to things when I meant the opposite.

As for the last few examples, do you have a particular hate at being screamed at, accused of and so on? I wouldn't say that it's natural, but some people just like shouting at others when they believe a mistake has been done, when they haven't been clear on their part anyway. You can try stating the below answers to those questions, and inquire if it did matter.

Then you can feedback with you won't/will do it next time, as you see fit, or give a response in the case of policies being ignored etc, since customers have a right to know company policies if they demand to know, or if you think they need to know.

During any of those reactions, you need to catch yourself on the act where you're building up unwarranted and unnecessary energy and then react appropriately. And by appropriately, I mean, focusing on Zen (On a single goal, without any distractions) and delivering your response.

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Now, while I won't decide your gender for you, do note that Stereotypes are merely expectations of society for a given kind of person, and that they're... as others have already said, full of BS.

Stereotype one: Poor (Homeless) people do not know how to work or find work, and they should be toiling to get their funds instead of asking for help from some schmuck who's willing to sacrifice his hard earned money for someone undeserving.

Now, it's not as if all poor, homeless people did not try finding work. Depending on where you live, seeing these unclean, filthy vagabonds near your doorstep is grounds for shooing the guy. How can these homeless people find work when a lot of people in society shoo them off immediately? And these guys are also starving for the most part, and everything is paid. They will have to resort, at some point, to begging for meals or cash to purchase meals.

Stereotype two: Boys have a natural tendency to cheat on their lovers more than females do.

While this isn't as prevalent in the western countries as they have more open, ephemeral relationship structures, these SJW quotes tend to oversell a person's personality as a product of his gender. I mean, of course, you would think differently if you had a pOnOs than if you had a vagOOO for the most part, but certain morals are ubiquitous in both genders, and this kind of dangerous thinking already gives you a "first impression" on a person without spending the time to know them, simply because you're a male. There are some people who take this further by giving females the natural moral higher ground causing people especially in my home country, to say that it's natural for females to start fights, but whoa whoa whoa if the male is already tired of their shenanigans, it always has to start from finding a nicer girl.

That's not a really good stereotype; that's insecurity.

Stereotype three: Gender Roles

Males are expected to be muscular, and females demure. Any deviation from that is a sign that that person may have weird, possibly homosexual leanings. That's absolutely untrue; people can gain hobbies wholesale from other people. Is a male who cooks gay? Is a female who works out, developing muscles, lesbian? Is a male who cries himself gay? A female who confronts conflict with fists lesbian?

You see, you don't have to conform to gender roles, because stereotypes are expectations, and expectations are often unrealistic. If we were to base everything into expectations = reality, then we'd be back to the old times where blacks were slaves, whiteness is a paragon of virtue, and females a possession of the powerful male - the commander.

None of the above are realistic, and in an age where equality is encouraged (and I hope to God it stays that way), I do not want to see people review behaviors based on their skin colors, gender, and expected activities to be done by a particular individual.

What I'm saying is, do what you want; even if you don't conform to society, what's important is that you're still you, and at the end of the day, you DEFINE who the fuck YOU WANT TO BE.

When a mother you hate out of the blue contacts an aunt, and inquires some shit she's not supposed to know, obviously, the only choices for suspects are those from the inside.

I am one such of them suspects. And I did nothing. I get accused, shouted at, disowned, abused verbally, and insulted, and my mind is at an all time low. And I did nothing. I also didn't reveal the 10k monetary gift i received from her, although i only accepted it out of obligation and made a lot of effort avoiding to contact the goddamned mother, and as i said, obligation because she's supposed to fund me as a mother should anyway.

But that has been twisted into a narrative in which I have betrayed everyone by being sold for 10k, and now I'm the primary suspect in an all-too familiar and bullshit event that shouldn't have escalated the way it is right now.

As it is, my aunt no longer receives financial aid because of her involvement.

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The year is 2160AD. Bydo incursions have slowed down since the last attacks that culminated in the loss of the blueprints and the prototypes of the R-90 Ragnarok, R-13A Cerberus, and the R-9A2 Delta. Fortunately for humanity, the technology still exists; one simply has to "reinvent the wheel", so to speak. After several missions into Bydo Space, Humanity seemingly has located the true location of the Bydo Mother Core and the one real way to end the fight.

The Final Approach thus begins...

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An R-Type inspired Arms Race game run by one who has little to no commitment running forum games (but that may change???), and certainly one who hasn't run an Arms Race game before, although I observed Sensei's magnificent game. In this game, you attempt to develop ships, weaponry and technologies in order to curb the threat of the other entity. Because this is also an Arms Race game, you also get to play as the series' main antagonists, and get to kill the other side of the party in your rage and desire to conquer all.

People get to propose weaponry to use, create, and when time gets to it, affix said weaponry to ships and test them live-fire on the enemy. Rolls will be done behind the scenes, and statistics determined on the type of weaponry/ship/technology, and its features. Weaknesses are also typically developed, which can be refined by researching/developing more on the same item.


As is usual with Arms Race type games, two game threads will be maintained, and you are advised demanded not to visit the other thread if you've already picked a side. Nobody likes a shifty allegiance-shifter person. But before we do that, let's run an interest check and clarify some issues as needed here, so I can tweak the game before running it.

A monday morning mistake.

Damn, that's the most restraint I've seen on the internet since freaking ever.

Either you know something I really don't or something is off here. Prolly that first one knowing my luck. How do you just fucking float above all that shit that life just throws right at you all the time like you're talking about? Like, somebody tells me something stupid or whatever and sometimes I just wanna punch 'em but I just fucking can't. Yeah, sure, part of it's that I don't wanna be in jail or whatever, but I just want to scream or something. I can't do that shit either.

I might not be smart enough to get what you're talking about either. I'm tryin' to think about this whole ocean stuff you're saying, so does that mean that people just have a ton of shit making them feel like crap all day? They can't handle it and stuff, is that what you're saying? Cause I think that's it, but I've been wrong a lot before.

So I'm supposed to try and not let it bother me cause these people pissing me off have their own problems and it's really no use? Part of that's the whole happy place thing? Is there more to it, because that sounds really hard?

Can you make this philosophy shit clearer for me, because I'm pretty sure I'm not getting a good chunk of it.

To float above is to catch the fact that you are getting angry and irritated, and not acting on those impulses. But you're angry, why should you? The consequences could be more dire if you argued harder than if you didn't. You weigh your options whether it's worth it to be angry or not. Then you shoot one of the options down, preferably the one getting angry, and reply politely and if need be, detached, to the person inquiring. You can then say, I don't know, or I can't say. Or state personal reasons. Or that you're busy. Typically, people will respect your rights there and then.

It's much harder with families under certain cultures, because some of them demand full transparency. In which case, you can try to make an excuse. No, try to avoid lying. Lying can get pathological and severe. Instead, recount the entire situation, and summarize all the major points. If they find the explanation unsatisfactory, you can opt to go out and away from the source of the problem, if it's a problem you don't want explained.

If someone wants you to agree, you can perhaps give a non-committal yes.

In the context of the internet, avoiding arguments is as simple as catching yourself typing some rebuttal, remarking whether this is worth your while, and deciding from there that it (probably) isn't.

Time is money, you shouldn't try wasting it too much on arguments you don't believe in. AND FINALLY, if someone is baiting you, do not take the bait. It's not worth it.

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Part of my technique is realizing why people can be shit is because, there's also shit they're dealing with. They're the same as you: people. So, its ultimately your decision if you want to argue or if it isn't worthwhile.

I believe David Foster Wallace's commencement speech (abridged) changed my way of thinking partly.

Well, it doesn't matter to me anymore anyway. I'm still happy that at least some of the kids have their closure finalized. They've been fighting too much.

Of course, with the planned epilogue, and the Caliborn preview, we dont know how much of this ending is actually a psyche-out.

Vriska being the game's cueball is my headcanon now though. She's been for and against the enemies one too many times, and ultimately decks out LE with his own weapon.

This is very obviously a setup for Hiveswap, and LE's eventual return.

I know it.

still didn't know homestuck ended up being the animu it was supposed to be.