centipede
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Post by centipede on May 5, 2019 10:09:12 GMT
Right then, my turn to vent my spleen.
With my father gone, Mum has sold the house. She has more stuff than she knows what to do with, and so do I. I've been given these old toys from back when I was a kid. Some ninja turtles, some transformers, a few Dino Riders, my brother's old headless Action Man doll, a GI Joe talking Duke with a missing missile from his rifle.
I just got a whole lot of that, which I need to try and sell. Some a collectables, but I wonder how much luck I'd have when they're naturally worn and used from being played with, like, some weapons are broken or lost. I'd have to have a full day photographing and posting everything. =groans=
With all this clearing out, I also realised something. As much as I enjoy having something Mega Drive-ish to play cartridges on, it would've made more sense economically, space and money-wise, to buy an old PSP and modify it to play emulation software.
I could've have a non-glitchy version of Super Hang On without the bit rot (although it could be that the Mega Drive HD just doesn't like it, I don't know). I could play it on the go, or get a cord to play it on the TV. Funny, I swore that I bought one of those cords years ago...
Oh yeah, and they cut everyone's horus at work because business slows down in winter.
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Spirit Bomb
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Post by Spirit Bomb on May 8, 2019 20:16:03 GMT
Because in america skinhead culture is linked to the conservative party. That's some weak-ass argument. You're saying that every Republican is basically a Neo-Nazi now. No that's not what I meant. Although the conservative party is pretty much the racist party, though, for a lot of reasons.
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centipede
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Post by centipede on May 11, 2019 12:19:16 GMT
There's racist, then there's protectionist.
Racists just hate people of a certain kind. Protectionists want to reject people who would make life difficult for those already there. That's what Trump struck me as. He promised more jobs by cutting down immigration, thus leaving more jobs for those people already in America.
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Spirit Bomb
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Post by Spirit Bomb on May 12, 2019 20:43:36 GMT
There's racist, then there's protectionist. Racists just hate people of a certain kind. Protectionists want to reject people who would make life difficult for those already there. That's what Trump struck me as. He promised more jobs by cutting down immigration, thus leaving more jobs for those people already in America. There's more to it. He has also expressed no sympathy for native ethnic groups such as our american indians; a good example is how he greenlight construction of a highly controversial oil pipeline, the Dakota Access Pipeline, on sacred indian grounds, which threatens the health of the indian communities there and the surrounding environment as well. That's just one example. There are more although I can't be bothered to search for them right now.
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stratogustav
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Post by stratogustav on May 16, 2019 0:36:59 GMT
There are things that legitimately suck like people obsessing over stupid unrelated things to hide deeper problems.
For example I have a friend that has been mad lately, I know how to deal with him, so we don't fight, but I see him fighting with others for stupid things.
I know deep inside he is only shouting for help, thinking that his irrational behavior is acceptable because the circumstances of his life give him permission to act this way.
It is irrational because that is manipulative behavior, like when little babies cry to get breast feed. The problem is that as an adult all that does is alienate people against him.
That alone can only hurt him more because without noticing it, he is reinforcing his belief that he is alone in the World, and that no one is listening his cry for help.
He just wants to be understood, to seek attention, and to have someone else solving his problems, and since no one does, it is others' fault that he is in that situation.
He is also self destructing himself by chewing tabaco, by getting high at every opportunity to numb his brain, and by not making any effort in dilegently working into fixing his situation.
He gives himself too many breaks, letting time pass by, as if the future will bring an answer by itself, and the present is just a bad dream he wants to get over with.
He doesn't realize that time is limited, and that every day that passes without him changing anything puts him in the same hole deeper, and it will only get harder to escape.
He also expects people to listen his crying out loud by expressing his anger over stupid ego trips that are meaningless with the excuse that he has a moral duty to give these things importance.
He does all of that even though such moral code is completely made up, and in no way, shape, or form communicates the message he wants to put out, thinking people should be able to read this message out of those behaviors that are completely unrelated to what he is trying to communicate, and that it is a message that in a way he doesn't even understand himself.
That message is that he wants to feel important, needed, and irreplaceable, but deeper than that he wants to communicate those things because he wants to feel loved.
At the same time he is aware that some people already do love him, but he tries to block that knowledge because it doesn't match his notion that his is a victim, and therefore, a martyr, misunderstood, and of great importance.
All of that comes down to the human desire to exist, and that a by achieving importance among peers, that desire becomes legitimate, and irrefutable.
At the end people wants to express they are the chosen ones, and considering every one has this notion, maybe there is some spiritual truth behind that belief, that somehow it applies to everyone.
However the knowledge of death messes with people's minds, because it directly defies that notion of existing, and of having that existence to be relevant, and important.
I don't know how I became aware of these things, and it saddens me that's the human condition for many. There is nothing I can do to change that, and even if I can successfully communicate these ideas to him, or to any other one that is unaware of them, I realize it is futile because having that knowledge doesn't make a difference in them, if anything it may even make them sadder for that.
One thing I believe is that anytime anyone feels bad emotions, that's a healthy thing. It is your body, or mind, giving you an alert that there are things that need to be changed, and that you are solely responsible for making those changes, even if ultimately any human effort may appear futile, and meaningless on the surface.
It is also important for people to know that blaming, or punishing others for their own failures is irrational, and that every time they do that, they are adding unnecessary suffering to their soul.
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Spirit Bomb
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Post by Spirit Bomb on Aug 20, 2021 22:02:45 GMT
For the first time in recent memory, China has let me down BIG TIME. I was reading the news just now and found this: news.yahoo.com/china-npc-three-child-policy-065428415.html"China has officially boosted its child-per-couple limit from two to three in an effort to reverse population decline" I have officially lost some respect for China. I had been a lifelong admirer & adamant advocate of their one child policy, which China increased to two back in 2016, much to my overwhelming disapproval. But now, they've really gone and pussied out. A three-child limit doesn't even really qualify as population control. For a country that is so grossly overpopulated, a population decline SHOULD be happening. Our planet NEEDS us to reduce our numbers. I hope China realizes this mistake and reverts back to their two or one child limit policy soon, because this is horse shit.
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scipioafricanus
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Post by scipioafricanus on Aug 20, 2021 23:15:08 GMT
For the first time in recent memory, China has let me down BIG TIME. I was reading the news just now and found this: news.yahoo.com/china-npc-three-child-policy-065428415.html"China has officially boosted its child-per-couple limit from two to three in an effort to reverse population decline" I have officially lost some respect for China. I had been a lifelong admirer & adamant advocate of their one child policy, which China increased to two back in 2016, much to my overwhelming disapproval. But now, they've really gone and pussied out. A three-child limit doesn't even really qualify as population control. For a country that is so grossly overpopulated, a population decline SHOULD be happening. Our planet NEEDS us to reduce our numbers. I hope China realizes this mistake and reverts back to their two or one child limit policy soon, because this is horse shit.
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stratogustav
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Post by stratogustav on Oct 13, 2021 7:35:08 GMT
I may not like stealth games as much as other people, but I have been a huge fan of stealthing my whole adult life, and at some point I considered myself with world class skills. Well now, out all of the 50 States in the country, California, the State I happen to live in, has officially made it illegal, which now makes me wish Newsom was out of office because when some things become a thing here, other States follow, and they make life miserable for those people too.
So I guess I was part of the last generations that didn't get in legal trouble for it, and it makes me feel for those in newer generations that will never get to experience these things. It is no wonder many people are said to be leaving the State, but it is futile because many of the things implemented here, eventually end up reaching those other places too.
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Dlotn
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Post by Dlotn on Oct 13, 2021 16:51:27 GMT
I may not like stealth games as much as other people, but I have been a huge fan of stealthing my whole adult life, and at some point I considered myself with world class skills. Well now, out all of the 50 States in the country, California, the State I happen to live in, has officially made it illegal, which now makes me wish Newsom was out of office because when some things become a thing here, other States follow, and they make life miserable for those people too. So I guess I was part of the last generations that didn't get in legal trouble for it, and it makes me feel for those in newer generations that will never get to experience these things. It is no wonder many people are said to be leaving the State, but it is futile because many of the things implemented here, eventually end up reaching those other places too. I searched up what that meant, and jesus christ dude. How was that legal to begin with.
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stratogustav
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Post by stratogustav on Oct 13, 2021 17:33:51 GMT
I do understand the argument because it could be dangerous when it comes to venereal diseases. I see why it should be illegal. It is something I haven't been involved with since 2019, and luckily I never had a problem with it because if you are good they never find out, but chances are you can get caught if you aren't careful, and now the consequences are more serious.
In my 20s I met many girls from Europe, mostly tourists in Las Vegas, which is Nevada anyway, and the big majority were girls I never had contact with ever again after that, but I went to check myself recently and I'm completely clean, no serious venereal diseases of any kind, plus part of the practice is to pull out because you need to make it look like you are taking it off in that precise moment even though it was off for a while.
Technically you can still get away with it if you make it look like an accident, but the way to do it entails that she will find out no matter what because you have to blame it on it slipping off during, you just put it loose, and let it happen, but if you are not good at bluffs that could be bad news for you, plus if you have the same accident more than once with the same girl she will likely figure out you are full of it, which is why it's better not to risk it.
This law definitely changes things, and I'm just glad it came this late because it would have been a shame to spend my 20s worrying about that sort of technicality, but so many things are changing now, and at this point nothing is surprising anymore.
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