Lurker > R_Jackal

I live a pretty boring life and already had one stalker to my name in the past, I'd do it.

Money. Internet exists and it seems most people put their stuff out there anyway, nowadays.

People became so sheltered by the anonymity of the internet that they no longer understand how real life interactions work, and that everyone isn't there to be an echo chamber for them and coddle them.

They're both always exactly how strong they need to be to win at all times, unless they need to die for dramatic effect. So it's a draw.

Nah, I don't need spectral gonorrhea. Need an exorcism on your junk to get rid of it.

Everyone's right fucked, not just me. Goku Black in DBFZ.

If that doesn't count, it was a Great Jagras in MHW. Nothing some guns couldn't handle. Actually think the thing would be cool af to have in a zoo.

UnholyMudcrab posted...

I still think their cover of Land of Confusion is better than the original.

Same here. About the only thing I remember them for.

Vacations are what you're looking for. Actually use your off time to relax and do whatever the fuck you want while working, and everyone benefits. You're not miserable, and your employer has a happier and more productive employee.

Always travel with cash for the places that don't do apple/google pay tbh.

BloodyNate posted...

again, you're assuming that other people are like you and have the same opportunities and resources or even parents as you. that's simply not the case.

https://www.recode.net/2017/6/20/15839626/disparity-between-urban-rural-internet-access-major-economies

millions of people still don't have access to the internet. millions more drop out of school and never learn drug safety. many others are told the drug safety they learned is false by somebody they trust. there are as many reasons why somebody would not understand the dangers of what they're getting into, and you're painting over that in broad strokes because that's not what your life was. i'm incredibly happy that you never tried these drugs, but don't you dare think for a moment that you're better than those whose circumstances were different, because you're not. you're just different.

also, i was more referring to myself when i was talking about being on CE at 3 am, because i should definitely be asleep right now

Having lived rurally I know for a fact that if you can receive even awful quality satellite TV, you have access to Internet by and large. Funds are another issue, mind, and I've views on that but that's a whole different topic.

There is legitimately always a means to educate yourself. Trusting people is not something someone should ever do on whimsy with any decision pertaining to their life in my books, do it's still all on personal accountability. You only have one life, just accepting the views of those around you and not forming your own is completely unacceptable in my books.

BloodyNate posted...

what do you mean by "stay the course?" do you mean they keep falling into their addictions? most people don't realize they're addicted until it's too late. hell, how many times have you thought "i'll make sure to get off CE by 10pm" only to find it's 2:57am and you're debating the finer points of addiction? we all let ourselves fall in to something thinking we won't, it's just that the most vulnerable fall into the worst things.

in addition, it's a very privileged thing to say that "the information is there." most people who become addicted are either never exposed to that information, or have that information countered with false information at the wrong time. how many times has someone told you not to mix liquors because it'll fuck you up? it's bullshit, but that time you were at your first party and fucking Fratboy Garrett said that, you made sure to stick to just tequila for the night, and you still got fucked up anyway.

OR how many times have you tried something where someone said "you'll get hurt" and you thought "nah, not me." that's literally a neurological fact about being young -- you think you're always going to be the exemption, even when all of the evidence says otherwise. we are physically unable to properly register consequence until our brains are fully formed, and addiction nearly always takes place prior to that.

it's all so much more nuanced than "they made a bad choice," and to say otherwise is reductive and damaging and literally killing people.

I mean, I've already stated the kind of person that I am. The answer to those things is never for me, by and large. I'm not an impulsive person and, even in my reckless teenage years, preferred weighing things in my head. I generally knew what I was capable of doing and not.

In the area I was in growing up I was offered drugs or drink on a nigh daily basis, and still managed to never do them with minimal outside help as I wasn't religious, and my parents just gave me the typical drugs are bad speech. But I've also been told I'm a little bit of a control freak, as I hate having my perception altered.

As for why I'm doing this, my day is already well under way. Already slept and woke up and done most of my daily activities, so this is wind down time for me and a topic I'm familiar with.

In the age of the internet all of this information is readily available to most anyone, save those that don't want to look. Most of those that wouldn't also tend to prefer going in to things uneducated, so it still boils down to choice in my books.

BloodyNate posted...

i don't think you understand what addicition is. it's not a coping mechanism. it's chemical reliance.

what's more, just because your life sucked and went in one direction, doesn't mean that it's the same for others. some people muscle themselves out of depression. others have to slowly rise. everyone's different, and empathy will help you realize this.

Outside of being forced in to being an addict, which I understand is a thing, for a large portion they choose to stay that course. It's not like the information isn't there, they likely know what they're doing ahead of time.

I understand it all pretty damn well though, most of my extended family were/are addicts. Empathy didn't get too far with most of them. Reality and honesty has a better track record for me.

As someone who has been poor af and generally struggled through life without drinking or even taking Tylenol as far as drugs go, I just gotta tell addicts with sob stories and reasonings to man up. And I had a pretty shit life. Reliance on something else to make me feel happy just would never cut it for me, had to actually get there.

Life is hard. Just gotta deal with it. Granted I've actually helped two friends kick their habits and kinda converted them to my ways.

They do need help, but not pity. They need to face reality. It's a choice that turns in to a disease ultimately, but you always choose to get there in the end.

I tried fortnite and couldn't understand the draw at all.

The gunplay was garbage, the building mechanic felt thrown together, even the animations were shitty. At least when LoL was in the top spot I halfass understood it's popularity. Fortnites meteoric climb just confused me though.

Parappa09 posted...

R_Jackal posted...

My desire to watch movies and TV are dying as I get older, and my gamer side only grows stronger. I don't even keep Netflix/Hulu/whatever any more because watching shit is just boring to me.

for me it's the opposite

gaming is dying yet i'm keeping up with movies and TV shows

Dunno, for me every TV show of a genre is more or less exactly the same to where I can predict what the next episode is going to be so accurately that it's not even fun to watch any more. Same for movies.

My desire to watch movies and TV are dying as I get older, and my gamer side only grows stronger. I don't even keep Netflix/Hulu/whatever any more because watching shit is just boring to me.

Don't see a reason for it in the first place, but that's just me. Also don't smoke at all so that would in fact be a lie.

LightningAce11 posted...

You need smartphones for networking, staying in contact, job searching.

Just because you don't have any of those on your schedule doesn't mean you should insult people who do.

And yet I can keep up with all that on my $150 phone in pretty much the same capacity. Weird, huh?

The point was the iPhone. I see millennials bitching about being poor, and yet they have the newest phones, game consoles, tablets, smart home setups, so on. They do everything they can to remain a victim instead of improve their life.

Tyranthraxus posted...

Letron_James posted...

He snapped the neck of his autistic child and killed his wife

Theres no excuse for that cte or not, he chose to make his finishing move a diving headbutt, he chose to inject roids, and he chose to kill his family.

No one is excusing it. They're just asking why.

This. Dude went from a guy everyone loved, worked hard for his family, to "I'm going to kill everyone I love." 0 to 100 real fuckin quick. People just don't know what was going on.

southcoast09 posted...

25] Other tests conducted on Benoit's brain tissue revealed severe chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE),[26] and damage to all four lobes of the brain and brain stem.[27]


So, this was from wrestling? That seems like a lot of damage to take. I dont want to drag his name in the mud, but I thought that there was something about steroids or drugs that played into this.

Benoit liked taking un-braced/un-protected chair shots to the head for "authenticity" iirc. Also his common finisher was a diving headbutt off the top rope. Dude basically sacrificed his brain for everyone's entertainment.

I like both. Hell, I'll listen to damn near anything pending on my mood, whatever suits me. Never heard of that particular artist before though.

America likes to pretend we have an immigration problem so we can blame all the problems we make on something else.

Not really. Most countries seem to be involved in stupid shit quite publicly for the past like 10 years.

Shou Tucker. Goku's also a candidate, he basically opted to stay dead instead of raise his kids. He also gave his only child at the time to a person who has wanted to murder him for years to train.

Because he had decent technical skills, but through story and ring psychology, could have a damned good match with pretty much anyone due to flexibility. If he couldn't do it with ring work he could usually do it with antics and storytelling in-ring, so he basically always had a means to keep the crowd entertained.

Yeah, though it started as an IRL one and went that way after I moved. Didn't last long.

FlyingForever posted...

MikeGesicki posted...

@FlyingForever

Ive never gotten a speeding ticket, so no, I cant relate.

You're supposed to go with the flow of traffic for safety. You're that knob who when all 4 lanes are moving along quite nicely decide in your little prius to drive 15mph slower forcing everyone to lane change around you just because "but teh speed limit says :_:"

Get off the road

I used to think like this too, until one day the police decided to be dicks about it. Wound up getting it thrown out, but it was a colossal waste of time.

Blaming shit on previous generations as far as work and debt problems go seems like a cop-out though, to me.

I was poor. Eat ramen and off-brand pickles for every meal poor. I was angry at everyone and thing in the world, blaming my parents, employers, everything. Once I quit caring, everything turned around.

A little financial planning goes a long way, and you don't gotta kill yourself to do it. That's something almost everyone in my age bracket is doing, working themselves to death for minimal payout. Hell, I work half the time as my best friend and I'm doing better financially than he is due to shit like not keeping up with the best smartphones and managing my college expenses and cutting costs to where I had damn-near none(When you live that poor, you can go back to it for a while for the greater good.)

Also gotta realize life isn't worth stressing over. Life is your one shot at everything you'll ever do--even if you believe in an after life, it is after this life, so it's not this one. Fixating on the bad only hurts you and doesn't help in the least. May cut down on those college funds.

Also, if you're struggling, get down to brass tacks. Pride also doesn't really help anyone. You may want to run a startup or be a tech billionaire, but working at a garbage company for triple what you're making at Walmart in some states(and occasionally less hours too) could be the godsend you need to get on track.

Sekiro and, surprisingly, Anthem both look pretty promising as well. Fallout is Fallout, the main game will likely be underwhelming--hoping this one's modding community isn't...awful?

Homeschooling isn't innately bad. It's an excellent supplementary education device, and can help some kids out. Full time homeschooling depends on the teacher of course but isn't innately bad.

Nah. People who have that innocentish look about them are usually drama magnets.

A lot of the people doing well in tournaments and the like are around 30 or so years old iirc.

Daigo is almost 40 I believe and still pretty good last I saw, but have not been following fighters too closely for a few years.

Fuck Cali, solely because of how expensive it is. Mean that sarcastically, mind--though still pricey.

Good on them, it's a beautiful place. Visited there like three times, would jump on an opportunity to live there.

kayoticdreamz posted...

FluttershyPony posted...

kayoticdreamz posted...

while he is a cheating scum bag.....the sane rational thing to do would be for the girl to break up with him

instead she goes bitch mode, expects nothing bad to happen to her, but low and behold she gets her ass whipped, and now white knights are going to defend her because girls are innocent and weaker while pushing the girl power agenda.

so yes, the BF is guilty of cheating(but thats not a legal crime), but the GF went bitch mode and ruined a mans life which is a crime, which lead to another crime, GF getting her ass beaten.

so i blame her....she could have and should have walked away.

cucks wont do anything cause louis is an even more protected species than the bitch.

and you see it in this topic.

cucks white knighting for the girl.

it's plain for all to see....she could have and should have walked away. she does that, and this story has a happy ending. just because you are in a relationship where someone cheats on you doesnt give you the right to enter bitch mode and ruin another person's life.

For one, it's likely high school/college or something around there, so drama is all people know.

For two, you're talking like a rational person. If she was serious about the relationship in any capacity, her knee-jerk reaction was probably intense bitterness, disgust, feeling used, and likely above all else--intense anger. Possibly sadness. Cheating... well, most people don't just go "Oh, well, that's fine. Let me just walk away so you can be happy."

Cheating is the kind of stuff where, a few years back where I live, someone rented a fucking backhoe and legit made aliek 10 foot deep trench around his cheating girlfriends house while she was out for a weekend. Cheating-based insanity is powerful.

The guy was the scumbag tbh. If you're gonna do shit like that, at least be honest--you only wind up hurting everyone involved, yourself included, if shit goes wrong. Which is what happened to this guy, who then took his own failings out on the poor girl.

Having grown up watching Thundercats, what purpose does this serve? It insults the people that grew up with it to provide what appears to be another braindead, no-point, mindless comedy cartoon for kids who have no idea what the IP is.

Don't get it.

LIsJustice posted...

R_Jackal posted...

It's comics. Death is like a nap.

Unless you're Uncle Ben or Earth-616 Gwen Stacy.

Well, for heroes. Side and backstory characters basically run on borrowed time all the time.

It's comics. Death is like a nap.

Ear plugs. Or slap some earbuds in and listen to music.

Congrats. Hope it all goes well, and may your recovery be speedy.

Soviet_Poland posted...

Medals are sensitive, but not specific. It might be that you had all those medals because your team is not stepping up. It could also be indicative of not doing your role correctly. For example, a reinhardt can easily get gold elim/kills if they charge in, get a kill, swing a few times, then die. Of course, then your team is without a tank and they all drop like flies as a result of the rein not doing their job.

Rein gets gold offensive medals and goes "what are you guys even doing?"

See?

This. Yesterday, I was playing a game with all friends(we were messing around doing stupid shit mostly). I got 14k damage as Rein, which was gold by a huge margin. Lost that game horribly.

Tyranthraxus posted...

R_Jackal posted...

Superman's biggest weakness is idiocy. Batman's biggest strength is intelligence. Batman wins.

People really fucking need to stop saying this bullshit. If all you needed to beat him was "intelligence" Braniac would fucking murder him in seconds.

Fine, Batman's biggest strength is being a hero with intelligence, which gives him stupid high plot armor in most situations.

Meanwhile, Supermans nigh-invincibility usually tallies up to negative plot armor. Which usually means he does stupid shit to get himself killed.

Roadhog with silver healing is the problem. Either you were bullet sponging and feeding a bunch of ult charge by staying engaged and there being relatively low elims on your team, or your healers were garbage.

Aloner posted...

R_Jackal posted...

Was never one for trivial relationships and it would likely make me question loyalties for a while to be honest. I'd probably break up almost immediately. People tend not to change much in matters of the heart.

What if you're the only dude she's ever been with though?

No bearing on it whatsoever, but I'm more practical about relationships. I'll put in the work to make them work, but if I see a problem I won't get past or they won't, I'll just walk away from it. Or something that will be the cause for agruments or something of that sort. Life's too short for drama.

Superman's biggest weakness is idiocy. Batman's biggest strength is intelligence. Batman wins.

Seriously though, dude's near invincible and he almost always finds some stupid way to get his ass whooped in to oblivion, lose his powers, or die for dramatic effect(Well, "die.").

Geez, I was just trying to replay this game today. Disc is shout though, or my GameCube doesn't work any more, it was kinda on its last leg. This is amazing.

Was never one for trivial relationships and it would likely make me question loyalties for a while to be honest. I'd probably break up almost immediately. People tend not to change much in matters of the heart.