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Author Topic: So my friend says there are no normal people playing df...  (Read 26101 times)

Tiruin

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Re: So my friend says there are no normal people playing df...
« Reply #30 on: July 31, 2016, 11:21:59 pm »

Your friend is an idiot.
Not good to judge without knowing the context here. :P
But I'm bad at picking up jokes!
As you grow older, you may notice that some people try to live stereotypes.  These are people for instance, who think all girls must like pink and ponies and boys must like trucks and the color blue.  They live their lives based on what Oprah or "insert_popular_social_media_person" says.  These people are the real world equivalent of peasants and NPC's.

Sentience is not an absolute.  There are various grades of sentience, and you should probably take a solid look at your friend and decide if he is the sort of person you want to shackle yourself with.
To forward this up with a bit of science--stereotypes are cognitive constructs, otherwise known as 'how we begin to organize information to make reasoning and sense, by categorizing them into concepts that we can understand', which always contain general characteristics. A stereotype in this sense doesn't have a 'natural' ideation of something negative, but is a concept in itself alone.
Why I'm amused here is because of how innocuous this is. :D

I'm normal
Like here. This guy has it right. :P
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Re: So my friend says there are no normal people playing df...
« Reply #31 on: July 31, 2016, 11:22:40 pm »

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Re: So my friend says there are no normal people playing df...
« Reply #32 on: July 31, 2016, 11:48:21 pm »

"Normalcy" is a constantly moving goalpost that is not inherently connected with goodness; it is not a good moral standard.

My friend says that all df players are 13 to 14 or lone programmers...I need to show him a proof "normal" people play this game...Any help?
Did your friend say that DF players were abnormal, or are you saying that?
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Re: So my friend says there are no normal people playing df...
« Reply #33 on: August 01, 2016, 12:02:33 am »

This is one of the strangest questions I've seen asked here.

Is it a trick? A trick to get us to reveal our real identities?

At any rate, I'm a 30 year old horse.
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Re: So my friend says there are no normal people playing df...
« Reply #34 on: August 01, 2016, 08:08:03 am »

I hate these "Oh I/we are sooo special"-threads.
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Re: So my friend says there are no normal people playing df...
« Reply #35 on: August 01, 2016, 10:06:50 am »

I hate these "Oh I/we are sooo special"-threads.

Pretentiousness is the spice of life!  8)
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Re: So my friend says there are no normal people playing df...
« Reply #36 on: August 01, 2016, 01:37:46 pm »

This is one of the strangest questions I've seen asked here.

Is it a trick? A trick to get us to reveal our real identities?

At any rate, I'm a 30 year old horse.
This reminds me of a very odd exercise when I was new in the Army.  Paraphrasing the instructions:
"In the event of a military draft, some people may intentionally try to fail the aptitude test to avoid service.  To recognize what that looks like, we're asking you recruits to try to fail this test without being too obvious about it.  I assure you this is not a trick to replace your real scores with bad ones."

As for me, 40-something married guy with kids, but I need to keep a pretty thick wall between my DF stuff and my real professional life.
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Re: So my friend says there are no normal people playing df...
« Reply #37 on: August 01, 2016, 02:03:38 pm »

This reminds me of a very odd exercise when I was new in the Army.  Paraphrasing the instructions:
"In the event of a military draft, some people may intentionally try to fail the aptitude test to avoid service.  To recognize what that looks like, we're asking you recruits to try to fail this test without being too obvious about it.  I assure you this is not a trick to replace your real scores with bad ones."

It sounds like they were trying to trick you into revealing how you would try to avoid serving.
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Re: So my friend says there are no normal people playing df...
« Reply #38 on: August 01, 2016, 02:21:41 pm »

This reminds me of a very odd exercise when I was new in the Army.  Paraphrasing the instructions:
"In the event of a military draft, some people may intentionally try to fail the aptitude test to avoid service.  To recognize what that looks like, we're asking you recruits to try to fail this test without being too obvious about it.  I assure you this is not a trick to replace your real scores with bad ones."

It sounds like they were trying to trick you into revealing how you would try to avoid serving.
Well, how other people would avoid serving.  After entry, taking any kind of aptitude exam is voluntary.  It would usually only happen if you're trying to change to a different job with different requirements than your original job (For example, at least back then not every job required color vision, and jobs that involved languages or Morse Code has very specific tests.  Another, the Monotony Tolerance Test, is just plain mean).
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Re: So my friend says there are no normal people playing df...
« Reply #39 on: August 01, 2016, 03:05:14 pm »

Dump your friend in magma and find a new friend.
I'm the only normal person in existence, everyone else is wierd.
What? Don't look at me like that or I'll dump magma on you.
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Re: So my friend says there are no normal people playing df...
« Reply #40 on: August 01, 2016, 03:42:29 pm »

Well, I'm a programmer and university student so I guess I'm not normal according to your friend or something.
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Re: So my friend says there are no normal people playing df...
« Reply #42 on: August 01, 2016, 06:26:31 pm »

I'm normal

I disagree

A bit of trolling today capn?

You should seriously convince toady to do another df talk. The lack of them leaves a dark void in my life that can only be filled by hearing tarns sultry voice.

And of course your voice.
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Re: So my friend says there are no normal people playing df...
« Reply #43 on: August 01, 2016, 06:29:20 pm »

I'm definitely not normal, not in the good way but eh.
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Re: So my friend says there are no normal people playing df...
« Reply #44 on: August 01, 2016, 06:36:39 pm »

I'm normal

I disagree

A bit of trolling today capn?

You should seriously convince toady to do another df talk. The lack of them leaves a dark void in my life that can only be filled by hearing tarns sultry voice.

And of course your voice.
 :P

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