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Life Advice / Reconnecting With an Old Friend
« on: October 26, 2013, 10:00:37 pm »
I was pretty good friends ('least, I think I was) with this one girl, last year. I don't have any classes with her, and I only really see her in the hallway once. I don't really do much after school, because I have no idea what normal people do in their spare time. Also because I've never been invited to anything with people (the two reasons are sorta intertwined).

Anyways, I wasn't sure if she'd forgotten about me or something. But, on Friday I saw her one of her friends sitting at the football game; I finally grew some balls and just sat down and talked to her a bit. I think it went well. In any case, she hasn't forgotten about me or anything.

But --and this is where the "advice" part comes in-- I don't really know if I should invite her to do something or what. I feel like that's probably the typical thing to do, since there isn't really any other way we'd hang out together; I just don't know what, or if it's even a good idea.


And since Bay12 is renowned for its vast collection of social adepts, I figured I'd ask y'all before I ask any meatfriends. Because, y'know, anonymity in case this post sounds really weird or something.

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General Discussion / Been a While...
« on: September 17, 2013, 05:38:50 pm »
Almost a year ago, I said goodbye to these forums. I left because I felt I needed to grow more in the real world, which would mean spending less time online.

Although it pains me greatly to admit this: I was wrong.

Not about that first part, I really did need to grow more in the real world. But, I was so worried I would confuse the "cyber-world" for the real world that I didn't realize something really, really important.
Y'all are people too.

I learned a lot of life lessons since I left, and I realized (though it took me far longer than it should have) that you guys were my friends, and no different than anyone else I could meet in physical space. I also realized I missed you guys. At first, that felt weird because I hadn't actually met any of you in person, but that didn't mean I wasn't friends with any of you.

Anyways, I just wanted to put this up here because I plan on being here again, and I felt an explanation would be nice. I don't know if any of y'all remember me --and I expect there are plenty of new faces-- so this could possibly serve to confuse you all more.

In summary, to those who remember me: I'm back, and I hope we can be friends again. To those who don't know me: Hello, I'm The Card, it's nice to meet you and I hope we can be friends.

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General Discussion / Fare Ye Well
« on: January 06, 2013, 12:52:21 pm »
Well, this is goodbye.

I had decided to take a short hiatus from the forums to reflect on the year, and I realized something:  My life is shit.

So, I won't be coming around here again.  The forum is not my life.  I need to work on making my life better, and on fulfilling my dreams.

I enjoyed having this to turn to if I needed help.  I enjoyed hearing y'all's thoughts.  I loved every minute on this forum.

But... I don't love my life.  I don't love myself.  I don't even like me.  That... I have to change that.

So, this is farewell.  Perhaps I'll see you, or you'll see me, later.  But you won't ever see The Card again.  You'll see a Mr. Phillips, and hopefully he'll be happy with himself.


P.S.
Good luck with your dreams guys!  (Especially you Poo.  You remind me of someone I used to know really well.)

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Life Advice / My Life As It's Been
« on: January 01, 2013, 03:27:46 am »
Well, I decided I've complained about my life enough, I may as well make a thread about it.  And since I don't really have anyone in real life that cares, I might as well talk about what's going on here.  I'm not really sure where this goes, I guess, but I don't mean for it to start any discussions.  It's more of a way to vent, I suppose.  And maybe y'all will have some handy advice for me.  But here goes, I suppose.
Eh.  This shit took a solid hour to write.  I didn't even think 'bout it, either.  I dunno where all that time goes when I write, but that's normal, considering.

Also, a warnin'.  When I write like this, I tend to write the way I talk.  Apostrophes fucking everywhere.

I'm currently writing this at two in the morning.  I couldn't sleep.  Like most nights.
I get too busy thinking of my past, for one thing.  Another, my ADD runs rampant in the streets of my mind, hijacking thought trains and holding up memory banks.  It makes me wonder, ya know?

Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not one of the unfortunates.  Not one of the people the world has royally fucked over, just for bein' born.  Naw, I screwed myself, all by myself.  Ain't nobody's fault but mine.

I mean, I wasn't born to a rich family, but we did well.  My dad was a controller, which pretty much meant he was the head accountant.  He got his master's degree a when I was in maybe third grade.  Next company he was CFO, or chief financial officer.  It was pretty much the same job though.  He really is the only reason the company he's with now is still standing on its feet.  He used to work in a bank, so he's got practical experience there.
My mom quit teaching after she had her first kid, but she didn't need to work.
We never wanted for any food, and we had two computers and two televisions.  We rented a DVR player when those came out.  My brother, sister, and I played with Legos a lot too.

Oh, but I haven't talked much about them.  I'm the youngest, and my brother is the oldest.  He's into pretty much anything drivable or flyable.  He had a flight sim hooked up in his room, and he ran it in real time.  Had all kinds of pedals and shit too.  I truly think he could've flown a plane when he was twelve, if he had to.  My sister, she's the middle child, but she ain't like most middle kids.  She's loud and proud, and if you didn't like her attitude you could get bent.  We found out she had some disability that inhibited her ability to control herself, but that wasn't 'til our second life. 
'Course, I call it our second life, but it don't feel like second anything.  We all look back on our old house in California, on the other coast, and we don't think of it as being part of our lives.  Kinda funny, really.  We always thought our old life was gonna be our only one, that we would never move.  But we did, and I'm pretty fucking glad about it.

And, of course, we have the star of the show: Me.
I was one of maybe ten other white kids, counting my siblings in that total, at my grade school.  But I didn't see any of 'em different for that.  Never really noticed it, and I still only do if I'm looking in my yearbook.  Now, none of 'em were any bright shining lights if ya get my drift.  No one really cared 'bout reading, 'cept me.  I fucking loved to read books.
Here's the catch though: I only loved them 'cause they weren't people!  Ain't that a laugh?  I fucking hated them!  All of 'em!  And without one damn reason, too!  I still don't fucking know why I loathed their guts, I just did!  An' it wasn't a skin thing, 'fore any of y'all suggest that.  'Cause I hated the scarce majorities I knew too!  I just couldn't stand fuckin' people.

I sat my fat ass on a barred bench and read.  I read the shit outta those books.  Fuckin' first Potter book in a week when I was in second fuckin' grade.  I read about fifty o' those Magic Tree House books in two months.  I know that 'cause our teacher assigned that many to us for the school year, and I did it in the first fucking month an' a half.  'Bout half the kids didn't even finish.

But I wasn't like ol' Scrooge, reading 'cause I wanted friends.  I said "to hell with friends!"  I read to get away from people, not to find more o' the fuckers!  I didn't get no satisfaction outta them, I got satisfaction outta being able to distance myself from people I knew!
'Cause believe you me, it wasn't no fault of their own.  They tried.  They actually fucking tried to be friend with me!  There would always be someone trying to strike up conversation, or get me to play.  I just ignored them.  Eventually, I got to be part of the scenery.  I swear, they probably found that fucking seat by looking for my fat ass, then looking down a few feet.

So when people talk about how their past sucked, I got nothing to contribute.  I fucked myself over royally.  Guess that's a reason why I made this thread, 'cause there ain't no place for it.  I never met anyone who'd done the same.  I've met people who've been fucked over, but it's always been nature, or luck, or God doin' the fucking.  Never themselves.

Guess it's kinda cheesy, but it's been this wonderful state of Virginia that's warmed me up.  Well, the people, anyhow.  But that's a topic for later, if y'all wanna hear it.

Anyway, I s'pose that's the basics.  I don't really know if this is the place for it, and I don't know if any of y'all wanna hear any more.  You may not even have wanted to hear what I've had to say so far.  I don't blame you, if that's your attitude.  I know I sure don't like it.

But it gets better, trust me.  It don't have a happy ending, with rainbows and unicorns an' shit, but it gets happier.
If, uh, y'all wanna hear more, I'll put some more of my sorry-ass life up here.  I only told y'all the basics, there's a few more layers to the story I just read off.  There was more to me than just pure-fucking-hatred for my fellow man, but not much else in my noggin.

Tell you what.  If anyone wants me to go on, or elaborate, I will.  Otherwise, I'll just move onward in time.
An' I hope I didn't bore ya.

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General Discussion / Should I Get an Avatar?
« on: November 04, 2012, 08:35:52 pm »
So... I've been on this forum for a while, some of you know me.  I've been thinking that I need an avatar, but I have no ideas what to use.  Anyone have ideas?
Also, this is right forum to ask this on, right?

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Curses / Security Issue
« on: May 23, 2012, 05:59:08 pm »
I'm not very good at Liberal Crime Squad, but I'm having a small issue raising my security skill.  Mainly, that it seems to stop rising at 1.70.  It isn't capped out, my security cap is 9.00.  I've been trying different doors at different locations, has anyone else had this problem?

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Starting a Real Fortress
« on: March 25, 2012, 07:36:36 pm »
Though I have played a bit of fort mode, I really just play adventure mode.  I realized the game is called Dwarf FORTRESS, and so I am starting a fort with the latest version.  But since I haven't played fort mode much, I was wondering if any of you had suggestions.  Should I rely on fishing, farming, or hunting for my food?  Which biome should I embark in?  What kind of starting skills?  Feel free to answer any more questions you think I may have.

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