I just had a conversation with a friend in which I had a fucking answer for everything and reasons to back up my answers...
I am a horrible person
nah, don't kick yourself too hard.
Sometimes people want answers and sometimes they just want someone to listen.
Who knows? Maybe they appreciated it.
she was pretty irritated by the end of the conversation, and I can't blame her...she wasn't asking for help, I was just one long source of unasked for advice
Why would anyone ever do this? Not using magic is the worst.
I don't even get to be a blood mage eventually!
Blood mags is both OP and really breaks the narrative. Everyone should want to kill you the first time you use blood magic.
That part acutally bugged me in DA2.
Nobody acknowledges that you're a mage. Walking around in a robe with a staff. Casting spells everywhere. Humming "I'm a mage, I'm a mage, fuck you I'm a mage" under you breath.
applying this to the specific instance, it means that the constant stream of entertainment penetrating all our orifices 24/7 isn't due to individual expressions of psychic pain but is instead a method of delivering edibles (made by the cultural elite) to those whose hunger has been created by other organs of the elite
a more reasonable person might explain it using both (top-down and bottom-up creation of demand), because they are integrable to a point
Eddy on
"and the morning stars I have seen
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
spool14: I don't care how cold it is outside
spool16: you should
spool14: I don't *swaggers towards the door*
spool16: dude, your penis is going to freeze
spool14: *stops moving*
spool16: seriously, dude, it'll be like the size of a...a
me, hepfully from the other room: a peanut?
sons: omg, MooooOOOooooM!
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spool14: I don't care how cold it is outside
spool16: you should
spool14: I don't *swaggers towards the door*
spool16: dude, your penis is going to freeze
spool14: *stops moving*
spool16: seriously, dude, it'll be like the size of a...a
me, hepfully from the other room: a peanut?
sons: omg, MooooOOOooooM!
spool14: I don't care how cold it is outside
spool16: you should
spool14: I don't *swaggers towards the door*
spool16: dude, your penis is going to freeze
spool14: *stops moving*
spool16: seriously, dude, it'll be like the size of a...a
me, hepfully from the other room: a peanut?
sons: omg, MooooOOOooooM!
i don't understand why the candle is still burning inside of you
Strange looked up and saw a glint in the man's eye like a tiny candle-flame. He found he could no longer recall whether people had candles in their heads or not. He knew that there was a world of difference between these two notions: one was sane and the other was not, but he could not for the life of him remember which was which.
"and the morning stars I have seen
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
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y2jake215certified Flat Birther theoristthe Last Good Boy onlineRegistered Userregular
i don't understand why the candle is still burning inside of you
Strange looked up and saw a glint in the man's eye like a tiny candle-flame. He found he could no longer recall whether people had candles in their heads or not. He knew that there was a world of difference between these two notions: one was sane and the other was not, but he could not for the life of him remember which was which.
“To me, at least in retrospect, the really interesting question is why dullness proves to be such a powerful impediment to attention. Why we recoil from the dull. Maybe it's because dullness is intrinsically painful; maybe that's where phrases like 'deadly dull' or 'excruciatingly dull' come from. But there might be more to it. Maybe dullness is associated with psychic pain because something that's dull or opaque fails to provide enough stimulation to distract people from some other, deeper type of pain that is always there, if only in an ambient low-level way, and which most of us spend nearly all our time and energy trying to distract ourselves from feeling, or at least from feeling directly or with our full attention. Admittedly, the whole thing's pretty confusing, and hard to talk about abstractly...but surely something must lie behind not just Muzak in dull or tedious places anymore but now also actual TV in waiting rooms, supermarkets' checkouts, airports' gates, SUVs' backseats. Walkmen, iPods, BlackBerries, cell phones that attach to your head. The terror of silence with nothing diverting to do. I can't think anyone really believes that today's so-called 'information society' is just about information. Everyone knows it's about something else, way down.”
DFW had some serious issues and i actually disagree with his thesis here due to my subscription to cultural elite theory
i agree with him in part, in that smartphones are a great way to make absolutely sure you don't reflect on the essential meaninglessness of your life while you're on the bus
but the horror of Muzak and tedious dullness is not that
at least if you're grappling with existential horror, there is a kind of authenticity and nobility to it, a romantic struggle with the defining questions of human existence
tedium prevents you from doing that without letting you experience anything actually diverting or pleasurable instead
it traps you in a horrible purgatory of existentially oblivious dissatisfaction
i wanted john wall to be the next derrick rose and was incredibly disappointed for a while and only recently have i begun to be okay with the fact that he still is a really good point guard, just not in the d-rose/russell way
i would be an awful father figure
"and the morning stars I have seen
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
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Sir Landsharkresting shark faceRegistered Userregular
spool14: I don't care how cold it is outside
spool16: you should
spool14: I don't *swaggers towards the door*
spool16: dude, your penis is going to freeze
spool14: *stops moving*
spool16: seriously, dude, it'll be like the size of a...a
me, hepfully from the other room: a peanut?
sons: omg, MooooOOOooooM!
isn't it like a comfortable 40 degrees down there?
Please consider the environment before printing this post.
spool14: I don't care how cold it is outside
spool16: you should
spool14: I don't *swaggers towards the door*
spool16: dude, your penis is going to freeze
spool14: *stops moving*
spool16: seriously, dude, it'll be like the size of a...a
me, hepfully from the other room: a peanut?
sons: omg, MooooOOOooooM!
isn't it like a comfortable 40 degrees down there?
Mid 30s tonight. The whole state of Texas might not survive until morning.
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Sir Landsharkresting shark faceRegistered Userregular
spool14: I don't care how cold it is outside
spool16: you should
spool14: I don't *swaggers towards the door*
spool16: dude, your penis is going to freeze
spool14: *stops moving*
spool16: seriously, dude, it'll be like the size of a...a
me, hepfully from the other room: a peanut?
sons: omg, MooooOOOooooM!
isn't it like a comfortable 40 degrees down there?
Mid 30s tonight. The whole state of Texas might not survive until morning.
I will say a prayer
Please consider the environment before printing this post.
An accurate conversion is 35 degree weather to a Texan is like -10 to a Bostonian.
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Element BrianPeanut Butter ShillRegistered Userregular
so my santee has never posted any sort of wish list and looking at the last couple years talking about their gifts...I can't even tell what they received
If you look at almost any american consumer good popular enough for national consumption, that thing has been approved by someone somewhere on a powerful board
apart from certain youtubers i can't think of a decentralized cultural node that gets enough widespread exposure to be a significant mainstream cultural trend
...and then they get the woman
Eddy on
"and the morning stars I have seen
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
so my santee has never posted any sort of wish list and looking at the last couple years talking about their gifts...I can't even tell what they received
so my santee has never posted any sort of wish list and looking at the last couple years talking about their gifts...I can't even tell what they received
so i hope you like cat things because
Like posters and notebooks with pictures of cats on them? Nobody likes cat things.
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will i like dragon age if i loved mass effect but generally don't dig rpg's
Dragon Age: Origins is an RPG's RPG. It feels like a refresh on what they were trying to do with Baldur's Gate back in the 90s, in their own world, with some KOTOR game sensibilities.
Dragon Age 2 feels like fantasy Mass Effect 2-3. Defined character with a set one-word name that everyone calls you by, varied romance options, highly narrative-driven.
Dragon Age: Inquisition looks to be taking the best parts of those two fairly different games and making something better than either one. And it looks to be MASSIVELY long.
So from a $ to time ratio, its a good investment.
Everyone says that DA:O was a modern day BG (including Bio) but I think that is really not correct. It shares superficial similarities (tactical camera is similar to the view of IE games, you can pause and issue orders to all party members, including move orders, which is a big break from KotoR or NWN1, there is party banter, which is admittedly vastly superior to the banter in BG1 or even BG2) but the feel of the games could not be more different. BG1 is a game about playing as a low level adventurer exploring a huge, dangerous world filled with secrets and locations of interest. It is pretty light on story. DA:O is essentially a political story based game with easy combat lacking in danger and small, pretty linear locations. There is very little freedom in terms of exploration. It's really just the order that you choose, unlike in BG1 where you can set out in a direction and just keep going.
This doesn't mean that DA:O is a bad game. Not by any stretch. But it is not really a spiritual successor to BG, so much as it is a competent but limited example of modern Bio design that happens to borrow some aspects of infinity engine games.
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spool14: I don't care how cold it is outside
spool16: you should
spool14: I don't *swaggers towards the door*
spool16: dude, your penis is going to freeze
spool14: *stops moving*
spool16: seriously, dude, it'll be like the size of a...a
me, hepfully from the other room: a peanut?
sons: omg, MooooOOOooooM!
isn't it like a comfortable 40 degrees down there?
everything bigger in texas
freezing point of water 50°
Allegedly a voice of reason.
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knitdanIn ur baseKillin ur guysRegistered Userregular
edited November 2014
Pet peeve: drivers who refuse to turn on their goddqmn headlights during twilight hours, waiting until it's completely dark and making it really hard to see them in the meantime.
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“I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
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i have a doctor's appointment in seven days and that's good and all but
this is a bit much
i can't keep popping ativan
that is not a solution
i am on 200mg of topiramate a day, i shouldn't be having seizures at all, that's a lot of anti-seizure medication
yeeeeeeeaaaaahhhhhh
I'd be not waiting a whole week to see a doctor with that happening.
well
i don't really have another option there
that's when he's available
it's that or go to the emergency ward, which is kind of dumb since i'm not really having a medical emergency?
like yes, seizures suck and they're awful but provided i do not injure myself in the act of having one they are not in and of themselves life threatening at this juncture and as a result do not represent a clear and present medical emergency
i can go to a walk-in clinic and see a walk-in doctor who is not my doctor and doesn't have my medical records, which allows him to go.... yes, you sure are having seizures, that sure is... a problem? here, take some ativan
oh, you already have a prescription for ativan
hrm
like basically this is something i need my GP to refer me to a specialist for which i can't really expedite
a specialist needs to look into this issue and figure out what the dick
to be frank the grim reality is i probably need to come off the Wellbutrin and that is like, almost without a shadow of a doubt the cause here or at least a very major factor
and i am responding to this idea like a fussy toddler kicking his feet because Wellbutrin is basically the only anti-depressant that has worked on me without mondo awful side-effects like psychotic episodes or colossal weight gain and shit so
so coming off it is terrifying and i don't have a psychiatrist right now, my previous psychiatrist is in Ontario and i haven't acquired a new one since moving to BC (although my new GP is trying to hook me up with that) and i can't come off the Wellbutrin without being on some kind of other functional anti-depressant, that would be badtimes
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she was pretty irritated by the end of the conversation, and I can't blame her...she wasn't asking for help, I was just one long source of unasked for advice
"HEY YOU'RE HAWKE THAT RENEGADE MAGE!"
*massive fiery explosions, charred corpses*
"Hey you're Hawke that..... uhh.... wandering... monk....."
In the future war against O.R.I.F.I.C.E.S., you can never have ... Too Many C.O.C.K.S.
a more reasonable person might explain it using both (top-down and bottom-up creation of demand), because they are integrable to a point
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
spool16: you should
spool14: I don't *swaggers towards the door*
spool16: dude, your penis is going to freeze
spool14: *stops moving*
spool16: seriously, dude, it'll be like the size of a...a
me, hepfully from the other room: a peanut?
sons: omg, MooooOOOooooM!
like a button on a fur coat
i have had
10 seizures of varying degrees of severity
this is getting a wee bit excessive
i have a doctor's appointment in seven days and that's good and all but
this is a bit much
i can't keep popping ativan
that is not a solution
i am on 200mg of topiramate a day, i shouldn't be having seizures at all, that's a lot of anti-seizure medication
lulz
I'd be tempted to fuck with them on that one
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
You can make a ridiculous nba team with only Kentucky grads since 2009
C: boogie cousins
F: Anthony Davis
F: Terrence jones
G: Eric Bledsoe
G: John wall
Bench: nerlens Noel, Kidd-gilchrist, Patrick Patterson, Brandon knight, Julius randle, enes kanter, James young jr
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
+10 points for Jonathan strange reference
it's definitely true if you're looking at history with a wide angled lens
but do you feel it's still true about our current historical moment
Being a Kentucky fan makes it a lot more fun to follow the NBA.
I really hope Anthony Davis either ends up on a good team or the Pelicans build a good one around him.
but jeez that fucking talent out of kentucky has exceeded all possible expectations
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
yeeeeeeeaaaaahhhhhh
I'd be not waiting a whole week to see a doctor with that happening.
Baldur's gate, torment, witcher, red dead redemption
that is all.
e.g., social media is largely dictated by a tiny, tiny fraction of users, and there is overlap between these tastemakers and the larger media industry
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
i agree with him in part, in that smartphones are a great way to make absolutely sure you don't reflect on the essential meaninglessness of your life while you're on the bus
but the horror of Muzak and tedious dullness is not that
at least if you're grappling with existential horror, there is a kind of authenticity and nobility to it, a romantic struggle with the defining questions of human existence
tedium prevents you from doing that without letting you experience anything actually diverting or pleasurable instead
it traps you in a horrible purgatory of existentially oblivious dissatisfaction
i would be an awful father figure
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
isn't it like a comfortable 40 degrees down there?
Mid 30s tonight. The whole state of Texas might not survive until morning.
I will say a prayer
so i hope you like cat things because
Arch,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_goGR39m2k
apart from certain youtubers i can't think of a decentralized cultural node that gets enough widespread exposure to be a significant mainstream cultural trend
...and then they get the woman
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
Broiled chicken for life
If it's me, I'm sorry I'll post a list soon.
Like posters and notebooks with pictures of cats on them? Nobody likes cat things.
Everyone says that DA:O was a modern day BG (including Bio) but I think that is really not correct. It shares superficial similarities (tactical camera is similar to the view of IE games, you can pause and issue orders to all party members, including move orders, which is a big break from KotoR or NWN1, there is party banter, which is admittedly vastly superior to the banter in BG1 or even BG2) but the feel of the games could not be more different. BG1 is a game about playing as a low level adventurer exploring a huge, dangerous world filled with secrets and locations of interest. It is pretty light on story. DA:O is essentially a political story based game with easy combat lacking in danger and small, pretty linear locations. There is very little freedom in terms of exploration. It's really just the order that you choose, unlike in BG1 where you can set out in a direction and just keep going.
This doesn't mean that DA:O is a bad game. Not by any stretch. But it is not really a spiritual successor to BG, so much as it is a competent but limited example of modern Bio design that happens to borrow some aspects of infinity engine games.
everything bigger in texas
freezing point of water 50°
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
If it is I might start shouting it all the time.
well
i don't really have another option there
that's when he's available
it's that or go to the emergency ward, which is kind of dumb since i'm not really having a medical emergency?
like yes, seizures suck and they're awful but provided i do not injure myself in the act of having one they are not in and of themselves life threatening at this juncture and as a result do not represent a clear and present medical emergency
i can go to a walk-in clinic and see a walk-in doctor who is not my doctor and doesn't have my medical records, which allows him to go.... yes, you sure are having seizures, that sure is... a problem? here, take some ativan
oh, you already have a prescription for ativan
hrm
like basically this is something i need my GP to refer me to a specialist for which i can't really expedite
a specialist needs to look into this issue and figure out what the dick
to be frank the grim reality is i probably need to come off the Wellbutrin and that is like, almost without a shadow of a doubt the cause here or at least a very major factor
and i am responding to this idea like a fussy toddler kicking his feet because Wellbutrin is basically the only anti-depressant that has worked on me without mondo awful side-effects like psychotic episodes or colossal weight gain and shit so
so coming off it is terrifying and i don't have a psychiatrist right now, my previous psychiatrist is in Ontario and i haven't acquired a new one since moving to BC (although my new GP is trying to hook me up with that) and i can't come off the Wellbutrin without being on some kind of other functional anti-depressant, that would be badtimes
so i'm in a shitty place on this entire issue
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
If DA2 is basically like a fantasy Mass Effect, I might have to give it a try.
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin