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"deaaaaaaaaaaaar~ i think you finally GET IT!"

You pretend not to hear anything, scared out of your wits. It jumps from behind to look at you with a frighteningly charming smile.

"i missed you so, sooooo much and i won't let you get away this time♥"

You pretend not to see anything, still obviously scared out of your wits.

It looks at you with puppy dog eyes that could melt any single individual's heart down to molten fragments of mental coherence, and you feel immense dread and even greater pity. To whom, you are not even sure. In fact, you no longer are sure that you're still sane.

You realize you are looking at It squarely in Its eyes. You have lost.

"now that we're together, let's stick together~! forever...!"

Its smile is melting your psyche incredibly fast. You may have lost, but you can't help but think that someone out there, something might be able to aid you. You feel you've already done this before. A thousand times in fact. But you aren't sure. Whether or not what you think might be real, you feel that there's still a part in you that could fight.

or you could cave in.

cave in.
cave in.
cave in.
cave in.
cave in.
cave in.
cave in.
cave in.
cave in.
cave in.
cave in.
cave in.
cave in.
cave in.

are you even listening to me...?

Character: The Lost
HP: -1/00
TP: -1/-2,147,483,647

I've noticed a lot of ennui in a lot of people over the past year or so. Many people, at least/especially in America, having gotten into the habit of finding learning boring, and of avoiding work as much as possible. Many of them seem to be in the process of dealing with college or, worse, past it. This leaves them with no real idea of what to do, and a misguided impression that they don't want to do anything. By the time they realize that isn't really the case, they're kinda stuck in a rut, one which is very difficult to get out of.

I personally ended up experiencing much of the same thing, except during what would have been my high school years if I wasn't a weird homeschooled introvert. This, as it turns out, was a very good thing. I've had the opportunity to basically dick around on the computer with youtube and vidjagaems 18/7 for several years now, and it isn't, in fact, what I want, what with the creeping cloud of depression and anxiety. The good thing is that I came to that decision at age 17, just getting into community college, rather than age 29, just getting into the beginnings of middle age.

At this point, I'm hugely enjoying school, becoming involved with people and groups I find interesting, and generally well-to-do psychologically and physically.

My happy, I suppose, is that not only am I enjoying the educational system, not only am I finally doing something, not only am I far more competent socially and educationally than might reasonably be expected, but that I have gained a sense of purpose, of not only wanting to do things, but of having the drive to do them.

I have been, to conclude, happier in the past four months than the previous five years, and things are looking only upward.

Hell. Fucking. Yes.

Congratulations. I've experienced the same thing once and even though college can get daunting, it's not something I would discard for another hour of vidyagaem. I realize that I've grown too attached to my friends IRL that I can't foresee a life without having another friend made to talk to - drink with or otherwise enjoy after graduation of college.

Loathe I am to admit, I am getting rather teary-eyed at the prospect of leaving college to work, because I'll be missing a lot of experiences that only college offered to me.

Has been toaster for long time.

>chkdsk

In all honesty, Undertale was interesting, for better or for worse.

The gameplay is fun, but honestly forgettable in spite of its gimmicks - with the early game being needlessly hard if you're new to bullet hells; the Music is 100% Toby Fox, which is pretty much saying it's mostly awesome for the most part, unless you hate homestuck that much. The graphics are shit, even at gamemaker tier levels. It's quite basically a simple-graphics game due to conveniences and personal capability to produce a game with consistent graphics, because let's face it - Toby is a music/coder guy, not an artist. He built around the crappy graphics to add some theme, and what came out was a throwback to the NES games.

Sound effect design is hit-or-miss, but the storyline is WAY superb given its concept. And it pulls no punches in that department - everything is presented as wonderfully as Toby could in terms of story elements.

The Fandom can produce wonderful things (Undertale RED, various remixes and that one Minecraft Map that abuses command blocks to create the final battle), but avoid the rabid fans in Steam, other forums and even in reddit.

And if you can't avoid them (they are everywhere), you'll have to understand that it's human instinct to try and share something wonderful they experienced - either to boast or to promote. And play it however you wish, but the most economic way to play the game is >to avoid killing anyone to shave off a few hours of playthrough if you plan on seeing it to the end<.

So much for information dissemination.

We've been told to keep certificates for University, as part of graduation clearance ('cause yay I'm about to get there but i sure do hope i'll pass my undergrad thesis). They neglected to inform that ticket stubs and receipts should be kept. I have a torn receipt here for one of the picture-taking things, and a lot of missing ticket stubs that I threw to make space.

Because of that, I am forced to purchase a lot of items, as a set. A set includes the following.

• 1 plastic envelop (long)
• 1 brown envelop (long)
• 3pcs 50 leaves notebook
• 1 intermediate pad
• 1 box of crayons (8pcs)
• 2 pens
• 5 pencils
• 1 eraser
• 1 sharpener
• 1 ruler

Now that I don't have most of my presentable evidences because I threw them away because they never told us we'd need it, I'll probably have to buy something like 5 sets of those. I hope it won't cost me USD$42.90 estimate.

I really hate forced donations, especially when they try to exploit the fact that a lot of us would be missing a lot of these shit so that the University could squander on our money. Fuck them. The idea is noble, the means is not.

Welcome to Philippine politics, where critical and open-ended thinking is discouraged in favour of ramblings, unquestioning and unconditional loyalty where doing the opposite is going to get you death threats from FANS who don't really understand shit, and their desire to expel a student from a prestigious university for merely (and admittedly harshly) badmouthing the candidate.

Well, the point moreso really is on the sheep mentality most non-educated Filipinos possess, wherein if it isn't popular, you're ostracized and shit for stating something that should be stated, but no one wants to hear. And it becomes increasingly and distressingly evident that nobody really cares looking for the "other side" of a particular issue before stating their judgment, and thus everyone is cursing someone for their apparent arrogance when the media itself skewed the message of the student itself, making it seem much worse than it should be.

Oh, come on Vector. When we say we like you as a person, we mean it.

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Politics and the Media disgusts me. A new issue in Philippine Politics is how a high-quality University student from the University of the Philippines Los Banos (UPLB) is disrespecting a presidential candidate. Now, this presidential candidate has rabid fans all over, and granted, he doesn't have much in the way of a horrible track record, except maybe a few select 700-1,700 extrajudicial kills, to which he admitted, and his official endorsement and complicity with a Vigilante Squad.

Now, since I don't live in his city, I can't really tell the efficiency of killing people in the wild if they're known to be criminals, bypassing the court, but it is reputed to have curbed the crime rates over there. If anything, he's incredibly popular because aside from the killings, he hasn't done anything to plunder government funds from taxes and feed it into his own lifestyle, which could have been lavish if he went the corrupt route.

The student, pressed for time, insufferably asked the candidate how they would allocate funds for country defense in terms of the local terrorist NPA group, versus the priority of education. As we all know, we cannot divide a whole number to become double its worth, so something has to suffer for it. Granted, the student did disrespectfully interject when the candidate was trying to move on to his bigger point, telling him to directly tell the point because time was being wasted and so he could go home.

Conveniently, Rappler (online news outlet) left the tidbit in which the candidate said that he wanted to go home early, and due to the arrogant leanings of the student's attitude, was framed as if the guy was being arrogant for its own sake due to his educational background.

Cue the media, Facebook and all, vilifying the student for a poorly-worded statement, which caused the guy to take down his account due to death threats, and various barbaric leanings of the rabid fanbase wanting the student expelled for disgracing the FUTURE president.

I have no idea how they can be so damned sure that the candidate would win, although he does have the lead at the moment, and the fact that the fanbase actively discourages critical thinking and negative opinions, wanting to turn the country into a world of yes-men. They're all imbeciles, I say.