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To everyone who joined these forums at some point, and got discouraged by the negativity and left after a while (or even got literally scared off): I'm sorry.
I wasn't good enough at encouraging people to be kinder, and removing people who refuse to be kind. Encouraging people is hard, and removing people creates conflict, and I hate conflict... so that's why I wasn't better at it.
I was a very, very sensitive teen. The atmosphere of this forum as it is now, if it had existed in 1996, would probably have upset me far more than it would have helped.
I can handle quite a lot of negativity and even abuse now, but that isn't the point. I want to help people. I want to help the people who need it the most, and I want to help people like the 1996 version of me.
I'm still figuring out the best way to do that, but as it is now, these forums are doing more harm than good, and I can't keep running them.
Thank you to the few people who have tried to understand my point of view so far. I really, really appreciate you guys. You are beautiful people.
Everyone else: If after everything I've said so far, you still don't understand my motivations, I think it's unlikely that you will. We're just too different. Maybe someday in the future it might make sense, but until then, there's no point in arguing about it. I don't have the time or the energy for arguing anymore. I will focus my time and energy on people who support me, and those who need help.
-SoulRiser
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At least half of the generation before us belives that we should be wasting our time playing outside instead of doing something productive inside. Playing outside isn't productive. Its not like we are sitting inside staring at nothing. Then if we are not playing outside we should be out doing something. What am I suppossed to do outside?
Well this only seems to apply to western cultures because countries like Korea is the complete opposite. They prefer using their minds instead of being athletic, so they spend alot of their time mastering video games, and they even have things like Starcraft arenas where people watch people play starcraft against eachother.
Re: I can't wait till the previous generation passes.
Yeah...but Korea is fucking insane. People have dropped dead of starvation playing Starcraft. People, not person. This has happened more than once. I really don't think that we should hold that culture up as our role model. Going outside is a good thing, it doesn't mean you're an idiot or a jock or even an athlete, it just means you're getting some vitamin D and experiencing the world firsthand instead of through a computer screen. Moderation, dude. Moderation. You can do both. You don't have to choose between staying inside all the time or outside all the time.
It really seems like you're really picking a fight where there isn't one.
I think Buenaventura Durruti is a pretty cool guy. eh kills fascists and doesnt afraid of ruins. The quickest way to kill a revolution is to wait for it.
Re: I can't wait till the previous generation passes.
Rebelnerd Wrote:Going outside is a good thing, it doesn't mean you're an idiot or a jock or even an athlete, it just means you're getting some vitamin D and experiencing the world firsthand instead of through a computer screen. Moderation, dude. Moderation. You can do both. You don't have to choose between staying inside all the time or outside all the time.
Lolthis. I hate it when people from either side of the, let's say spectrum, say that going outside is bad or being inside is bad.
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(11-27-2011 01:00 PM)psychopath Wrote:
(11-27-2011 10:52 AM)Efs Wrote: Our Army is more professional than Amerika.
Except ours isn't allowed to have guns
CrayolaColours Wrote:That post owned. TDF wins post of the year.
Faby Wrote:
krissy Wrote:dessert fox
Mmm, flambéed vulpine.
"There is no enemy, there is no victory, only boys who lost their lives in the sand."
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Re: I can't wait till the previous generation passes.
ProfessorVonStrangle Wrote:
Faby Wrote:WHAT ISSSS THISSS DESSSPICABLE SSSUN YOU SPEAK OF
I FUCKING WARNED YOU ABOUT THE SUN BRO
NO! NOT OUTSIDE...
IT BURRRRRRRRRNNNNNNSSSSSSSSS
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TRIGGER WARNING: THIS TRIGGER WARNING CONTAINS TRIGGER WARNINGS!
Dear Tumblrites:Despite your wrongly self-diagnosedPTSD, no line ofscientific evidencesuggests people can be triggered over theinternet. Triggering works through thesenses(i.e. smell, taste, touch, vision, hearing.) but it goes throughreal time; if you're not experiencing it in real life as it'sACTUALLY HAPPENINGin yourACTUALlife, youCANNOTbe triggered. The only exception to this is if you have aseizure, but then again, that's triggered byepilepsy(i.e. rapidly-changing flashing lights)NOT PTSD. Remembering a bad incident is NOT the same thing as having aflashback. When you remember, youthink; when youflashback,youfeel.
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Max Stirnir Wrote:"In the time of spirits thoughts grew till they overtopped my head, whose offspring they yet were; they hovered about me and convulsed me like fever-phantasies -- an awful power. The thoughts had become corporeal on their own account, were ghosts, e. g. God, Emperor, Pope, Fatherland, etc. If I destroy their corporeity, then I take them back into mine, and say: "I alone am corporeal." And now I take the world as what it is to me, as mine, as my property; I refer all to myself."The Ego and Its Own, pg. 15
Charles Manson Wrote:“Look down at me and you see a fool;
look up at me and you see a god;
look straight at me and you see yourself”
HeartofShadows Wrote:"Life is nothing more than a druggie trying to get their quick fix of happiness while dealing with the harsh withdrawal of reality"
Osip Mandelstam Wrote:"I divide all of world literature into authorized and unauthorized works. The former are all trash; the latter--stolen air. I want to spit in the face of every writer who first obtains permission and then writes."The Fourth Prose, 1930.
Lukas Foss Wrote:That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.
Re: I can't wait till the previous generation passes.
fish20 Wrote:At least half of the generation before us belives that we should be wasting our time playing outside instead of doing something productive inside.
Re: I can't wait till the previous generation passes.
psychopath Wrote:
"Incredible NPC AI?" This must be a different version than the one I've been playing.
I think Buenaventura Durruti is a pretty cool guy. eh kills fascists and doesnt afraid of ruins. The quickest way to kill a revolution is to wait for it.
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Re: I can't wait till the previous generation passes.
Rebelnerd Wrote:
psychopath Wrote:
"Incredible NPC AI?" This must be a different version than the one I've been playing.
Not to mention the graphics suck, player models resemble hairless apes,
the characters are boring and unconvincing, the parties formed tend not to last long as most have to disband to do those stupid job quests that not only take absurd amounts of time but are also boring.
The only time the game is fun is when you go against the rules of the game and even then the developers were moral fags who made it so that you can't win if you do.
Re: I can't wait till the previous generation passes.
HeartofShadows Wrote:
Rebelnerd Wrote:
psychopath Wrote:
"Incredible NPC AI?" This must be a different version than the one I've been playing.
Not to mention the graphics suck, player models resemble hairless apes,
the characters are boring and unconvincing, the parties formed tend not to last long as most have to disband to do those stupid job quests that not only take absurd amounts of time but are also boring.
The only time the game is fun is when you go against the rules of the game and even then the developers were moral fags who made it so that you can't win if you do.
Outside sucks. Yesterday I went to a 7-11 with my money I painstakingly earned from HOURS of grinding; when I came up to the register to talk with the shopkeep, she told me the energy drink potion I had wished to purchase cost $5.00 FOR A LOUSY CAN! Afterwards, I saw a newbie on the street who looked like he din't know what he was doing; like he had been con'd from an older player (he was dressed in rags and had a beard which made me guess he hasn't shaved in weeks) So I offered him my energy elixir, but all he said was "I wanna dollar'!" So I says "This soda costs $5" but he kept insisting he wanted a dollar, so I finally said "Look; do you want it or not!?" So then he spits on me and calls me a communist and walk off. This is what I get for being nice.
I'm staying inside from now on.
Hidden stuff:
TRIGGER WARNING: THIS TRIGGER WARNING CONTAINS TRIGGER WARNINGS!
Dear Tumblrites:Despite your wrongly self-diagnosedPTSD, no line ofscientific evidencesuggests people can be triggered over theinternet. Triggering works through thesenses(i.e. smell, taste, touch, vision, hearing.) but it goes throughreal time; if you're not experiencing it in real life as it'sACTUALLY HAPPENINGin yourACTUALlife, youCANNOTbe triggered. The only exception to this is if you have aseizure, but then again, that's triggered byepilepsy(i.e. rapidly-changing flashing lights)NOT PTSD. Remembering a bad incident is NOT the same thing as having aflashback. When you remember, youthink; when youflashback,youfeel.
#HashTagsAreForIdiots
Max Stirnir Wrote:"In the time of spirits thoughts grew till they overtopped my head, whose offspring they yet were; they hovered about me and convulsed me like fever-phantasies -- an awful power. The thoughts had become corporeal on their own account, were ghosts, e. g. God, Emperor, Pope, Fatherland, etc. If I destroy their corporeity, then I take them back into mine, and say: "I alone am corporeal." And now I take the world as what it is to me, as mine, as my property; I refer all to myself."The Ego and Its Own, pg. 15
Charles Manson Wrote:“Look down at me and you see a fool;
look up at me and you see a god;
look straight at me and you see yourself”
HeartofShadows Wrote:"Life is nothing more than a druggie trying to get their quick fix of happiness while dealing with the harsh withdrawal of reality"
Osip Mandelstam Wrote:"I divide all of world literature into authorized and unauthorized works. The former are all trash; the latter--stolen air. I want to spit in the face of every writer who first obtains permission and then writes."The Fourth Prose, 1930.
Lukas Foss Wrote:That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.
Re: I can't wait till the previous generation passes.
I don't know, outside can be sort of fun if you play it right. I'd suggest joining the thieves guild and shit like that. Then you don't have to spend all day doing those stupid ass job quests.
Re: I can't wait till the previous generation passes.
ProfessorVonStrangle Wrote:Right now, the Outside zone is full of Chavs. Imma stay inside until the developers nerf their spawn rate.
This.
At the moment, it is cold outside and I can't be bothered to walk anywhere. There is nothing that I can think off that interests me outside at the moment. I think I'll stay in where I can shoot fireballs at magical dragons.