How do people fight for days? How do people have energy to fight for days? Over a video game. It's like cave-persons.
"You said words while me play game hit things unga mad!"
...are you an only child
Oldest of three.
h-how
I'm not saying we didn't fight but, for days? Heck if we fought at all our parents dropped the hammer quick. And our parents always won any fight with them quickly because they could take away anything we held dear on a whim.
Seriously I've told this story before, when I was 15 I didn't clean my room for months despite them telling me to, I went to summer camp for a week and when I came back I had a bed frame and a dresser with no drawers. They took the lightbulbs. I got back the things I could remember having.
That's not winning.
Forfeit counts as a win.
It doesn't though! Because forfeit just means that both parties are still angry about whatever is going on, and the fight continues eternal
Usually one side isn't angry at all though, and destroying the other side's will to fight preemptively is better than fighting.
Also wtf Firefox, you do not correct preemptively into pee-emptively.
Just to be clear: I am also a gamer, it's not like I don't understand how much it sucks to be interrupted...omg interrupting me during a cutsceen I haven't seen before can be frustrating, but usually I just hold up a finger or say "gimme a minute" and all is well. I don't take people's heads off 'cause in the middle of a self-induced adrenaline high.
I am really tempted to pull the sex card for this one.
Honestly, I think there's something to that
Testosterone itself causes mammals to be highly aggressive. I'm having a hard time finding actual studies that link adrenaline/F&F/testosterone directly though.
If it wasn't a multiplayer competitive game I'd be willing to bet money they wouldn't react that way. If it was a single player game with a cutscene, absolutely that response would be alien and extreme.
How do people fight for days? How do people have energy to fight for days? Over a video game. It's like cave-persons.
"You said words while me play game hit things unga mad!"
...are you an only child
Oldest of three.
h-how
I'm not saying we didn't fight but, for days? Heck if we fought at all our parents dropped the hammer quick. And our parents always won any fight with them quickly because they could take away anything we held dear on a whim.
Seriously I've told this story before, when I was 15 I didn't clean my room for months despite them telling me to, I went to summer camp for a week and when I came back I had a bed frame and a dresser with no drawers. They took the lightbulbs. I got back the things I could remember having.
That's not winning.
They make a desert and call it peace.
Longestcontinuousimperialstructuresayswhat? :P
Is Rome the longest? I thought China had them licked.
I ... hmm.
That's actually a really good question.
My gut says you're probably right, but then we could get real finicky about where and when a thing started and stopped being an empire, and whether brief interruptions count as actual interruptions in the continuum. :P
How do people fight for days? How do people have energy to fight for days? Over a video game. It's like cave-persons.
"You said words while me play game hit things unga mad!"
...are you an only child
Oldest of three.
h-how
I'm not saying we didn't fight but, for days? Heck if we fought at all our parents dropped the hammer quick. And our parents always won any fight with them quickly because they could take away anything we held dear on a whim.
Seriously I've told this story before, when I was 15 I didn't clean my room for months despite them telling me to, I went to summer camp for a week and when I came back I had a bed frame and a dresser with no drawers. They took the lightbulbs. I got back the things I could remember having.
I'm an older sibling (I have a sister 2.5 years younger) and we never fought.
Its mostly about not being a dick to each other. Its just for most adolescents that is difficult. My family always put a high premium about watching out for other people in your family as well, so that might have helped. At age 7 or 8 she once jumped on top of a 10 year old and started punching him for saying something mean about her brother. I didn't really need the protection but it was a nice thought and it kind of characterized our relationship.
In HS she was an average student who was also on the academic decathlon team because her big brother used to be on it, and she was completely accepted because she was Pants' little sister. I was the brain, she was the charismatic one(she ended up homecoming queen). We were different enough that we didn't compete and we complimented each other well.
How do people fight for days? How do people have energy to fight for days? Over a video game. It's like cave-persons.
"You said words while me play game hit things unga mad!"
...are you an only child
Oldest of three.
h-how
I'm not saying we didn't fight but, for days? Heck if we fought at all our parents dropped the hammer quick. And our parents always won any fight with them quickly because they could take away anything we held dear on a whim.
Seriously I've told this story before, when I was 15 I didn't clean my room for months despite them telling me to, I went to summer camp for a week and when I came back I had a bed frame and a dresser with no drawers. They took the lightbulbs. I got back the things I could remember having.
That's not winning.
Forfeit counts as a win.
It doesn't though! Because forfeit just means that both parties are still angry about whatever is going on, and the fight continues eternal
Usually one side isn't angry at all though, and destroying the other side's will to fight preemptively is better than fighting.
Also wtf Firefox, you do not correct preemptively into pee-emptively.
o-o
How could one side not be angry
I am confused
Parent is doling out punishment because anger
Child is anger about punishment, or about original thing that caused anger
I guess I'm not talking about fights like "YOU DIDN'T TAK EOUT THE TRASH" or "YOU SAID A MEAN THING" I'm talking about ones that LOOK like that but are actually "I DON'T FEEL LIKE YOU LISTEN TO WHAT I SAY" or "I DON'T THINK YOU RESPECT AND APPRECIATE ME"
How do people fight for days? How do people have energy to fight for days? Over a video game. It's like cave-persons.
"You said words while me play game hit things unga mad!"
...are you an only child
Oldest of three.
h-how
I'm not saying we didn't fight but, for days? Heck if we fought at all our parents dropped the hammer quick. And our parents always won any fight with them quickly because they could take away anything we held dear on a whim.
Seriously I've told this story before, when I was 15 I didn't clean my room for months despite them telling me to, I went to summer camp for a week and when I came back I had a bed frame and a dresser with no drawers. They took the lightbulbs. I got back the things I could remember having.
That's not winning.
They make a desert and call it peace.
Longestcontinuousimperialstructuresayswhat? :P
Is Rome the longest? I thought China had them licked.
I ... hmm.
That's actually a really good question.
My gut says you're probably right, but then we could get real finicky about where and when a thing started and stopped being an empire, and whether brief interruptions count as actual interruptions in the continuum. :P
The Han (who did have a pretty serious breakdown in the middle) is about the same length as imperial Rome (who also had a pretty serious breakdown in the middle). With the Zhou the problem is establishing dates. Most of the info about it is much later semi-mythical materiel.
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How do people fight for days? How do people have energy to fight for days? Over a video game. It's like cave-persons.
"You said words while me play game hit things unga mad!"
...are you an only child
Oldest of three.
h-how
I'm not saying we didn't fight but, for days? Heck if we fought at all our parents dropped the hammer quick. And our parents always won any fight with them quickly because they could take away anything we held dear on a whim.
Seriously I've told this story before, when I was 15 I didn't clean my room for months despite them telling me to, I went to summer camp for a week and when I came back I had a bed frame and a dresser with no drawers. They took the lightbulbs. I got back the things I could remember having.
That's not winning.
Forfeit counts as a win.
It doesn't though! Because forfeit just means that both parties are still angry about whatever is going on, and the fight continues eternal
Usually one side isn't angry at all though, and destroying the other side's will to fight preemptively is better than fighting.
Also wtf Firefox, you do not correct preemptively into pee-emptively.
o-o
How could one side not be angry
I am confused
Parent is doling out punishment because anger
Child is anger about punishment, or about original thing that caused anger
I guess I'm not talking about fights like "YOU DIDN'T TAK EOUT THE TRASH" or "YOU SAID A MEAN THING" I'm talking about ones that LOOK like that but are actually "I DON'T FEEL LIKE YOU LISTEN TO WHAT I SAY" or "I DON'T THINK YOU RESPECT AND APPRECIATE ME"
this is silly
so long as ur relationship with ur brothers is that u dont respect or apprecaite them ever there is no confusion
Bowen wait are you making a game, and like in the stage where you're really just thinking about what kind of game to create?
We're doing a lot of back end stuff at the moment.
You'd be surprised at just how much of a game can be recycled, even between different genres.
We have an idea of what we want to do, but, we'll see.
That's really neat!
I have to say I really love Darkest Dungeon/FTL/Etc style dungeon crawling with crew. Not even necessarily the roguelite aspects, I just love having people. The XCOM effect of just being like "Oh no, Jenkiiiiins!"
How do people fight for days? How do people have energy to fight for days? Over a video game. It's like cave-persons.
"You said words while me play game hit things unga mad!"
...are you an only child
Oldest of three.
h-how
I'm not saying we didn't fight but, for days? Heck if we fought at all our parents dropped the hammer quick. And our parents always won any fight with them quickly because they could take away anything we held dear on a whim.
Seriously I've told this story before, when I was 15 I didn't clean my room for months despite them telling me to, I went to summer camp for a week and when I came back I had a bed frame and a dresser with no drawers. They took the lightbulbs. I got back the things I could remember having.
That's not winning.
Forfeit counts as a win.
It doesn't though! Because forfeit just means that both parties are still angry about whatever is going on, and the fight continues eternal
Usually one side isn't angry at all though, and destroying the other side's will to fight preemptively is better than fighting.
Also wtf Firefox, you do not correct preemptively into pee-emptively.
o-o
How could one side not be angry
I am confused
Parent is doling out punishment because anger
Child is anger about punishment, or about original thing that caused anger
I guess I'm not talking about fights like "YOU DIDN'T TAK EOUT THE TRASH" or "YOU SAID A MEAN THING" I'm talking about ones that LOOK like that but are actually "I DON'T FEEL LIKE YOU LISTEN TO WHAT I SAY" or "I DON'T THINK YOU RESPECT AND APPRECIATE ME"
Punishments usually aren't about anger, they're about having a consequence for an action. We almost always step back and calm down before handing out consequences, or we have set ones so if X line is crossed you guys know that Y punishment is coming.
Also, different families have different dynamics - vastly different. For MhaP it sounds like this consequence worked, and I expect the next couple of times he was told to clean his room he did.
How do people fight for days? How do people have energy to fight for days? Over a video game. It's like cave-persons.
"You said words while me play game hit things unga mad!"
...are you an only child
Oldest of three.
h-how
I'm not saying we didn't fight but, for days? Heck if we fought at all our parents dropped the hammer quick. And our parents always won any fight with them quickly because they could take away anything we held dear on a whim.
Seriously I've told this story before, when I was 15 I didn't clean my room for months despite them telling me to, I went to summer camp for a week and when I came back I had a bed frame and a dresser with no drawers. They took the lightbulbs. I got back the things I could remember having.
That's not winning.
They make a desert and call it peace.
Longestcontinuousimperialstructuresayswhat? :P
Is Rome the longest? I thought China had them licked.
I ... hmm.
That's actually a really good question.
My gut says you're probably right, but then we could get real finicky about where and when a thing started and stopped being an empire, and whether brief interruptions count as actual interruptions in the continuum. :P
Just like my Ship of Theseus style musings on whether Constantinople in 476 could claim to be the Roman Empire.
How do people fight for days? How do people have energy to fight for days? Over a video game. It's like cave-persons.
"You said words while me play game hit things unga mad!"
...are you an only child
Oldest of three.
h-how
I'm not saying we didn't fight but, for days? Heck if we fought at all our parents dropped the hammer quick. And our parents always won any fight with them quickly because they could take away anything we held dear on a whim.
Seriously I've told this story before, when I was 15 I didn't clean my room for months despite them telling me to, I went to summer camp for a week and when I came back I had a bed frame and a dresser with no drawers. They took the lightbulbs. I got back the things I could remember having.
That's not winning.
Forfeit counts as a win.
It doesn't though! Because forfeit just means that both parties are still angry about whatever is going on, and the fight continues eternal
Usually one side isn't angry at all though, and destroying the other side's will to fight preemptively is better than fighting.
Also wtf Firefox, you do not correct preemptively into pee-emptively.
o-o
How could one side not be angry
I am confused
Parent is doling out punishment because anger
Child is anger about punishment, or about original thing that caused anger
I guess I'm not talking about fights like "YOU DIDN'T TAK EOUT THE TRASH" or "YOU SAID A MEAN THING" I'm talking about ones that LOOK like that but are actually "I DON'T FEEL LIKE YOU LISTEN TO WHAT I SAY" or "I DON'T THINK YOU RESPECT AND APPRECIATE ME"
Man, you don't punish out of anger, doing it out of anger is an easy way to go too far. You punish to send a message about behavior. And who cares if the kid is angry about a punishment, they're the one who did a thing deserving punishment in the first place.
*narrows eyes at Skippy* you did this to my family....
just have kids that go to bed at 730p so spool can play lol as much as he wants
its easy
May you be cursed with three teenagers in your house and a diseased horse!
Do
do you guys have a horse
That's p cool
Fun fact: Horse can be slang for a heroin habit.
Wait, that's not fun at all!
I
I think I've known more people that have actual horses than have had heroin addictions.
That or I have seriously misjudged the people I've associated with.
Is it weird the only person I've ever met that I knew had an active heroin addiction was an Ivy League student? And she was from a middle class background?
She dropped out, of course. And it was because of a boy who was an addict, of course.
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Real talk. I don't think that prioritizing an online game over real life situations that demand attention is reasonable. I also don't think that continuing to play a game when it is upsetting your partner or causing you to ignore your spouse or children is reasonable. Basically the only situation. Where I think that kind of behavior is acceptable is a work emergency, and it should be a real emergency that you will get in trouble over if you put it off.
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How do people fight for days? How do people have energy to fight for days? Over a video game. It's like cave-persons.
"You said words while me play game hit things unga mad!"
...are you an only child
Oldest of three.
h-how
I'm not saying we didn't fight but, for days? Heck if we fought at all our parents dropped the hammer quick. And our parents always won any fight with them quickly because they could take away anything we held dear on a whim.
Seriously I've told this story before, when I was 15 I didn't clean my room for months despite them telling me to, I went to summer camp for a week and when I came back I had a bed frame and a dresser with no drawers. They took the lightbulbs. I got back the things I could remember having.
That's not winning.
They make a desert and call it peace.
Longestcontinuousimperialstructuresayswhat? :P
Is Rome the longest? I thought China had them licked.
I ... hmm.
That's actually a really good question.
My gut says you're probably right, but then we could get real finicky about where and when a thing started and stopped being an empire, and whether brief interruptions count as actual interruptions in the continuum. :P
The Han (who did have a pretty serious breakdown in the middle) is about the same length as imperial Rome (who also had a pretty serious breakdown in the middle). With the Zhou the problem is establishing dates. Most of the info about it is much later semi-mythical materiel.
Yeah, that was part of my point about defining when an empire "started" and when it was really "ended" or "interrupted" significantly enough to mark a break in the "imperial continuum".
With Rome of course it's pretty easy to set a rough start and end date (I mean, we could debate both a little bit, but loosely speaking), and the significant interruption is pretty readily apparent.
Whereas things get a little trickier with China because, yeah ... if you apply the definitions loosely enough, it basically starts in pre-history and only ended recently >_>
Old Kingdom Egypt lasted a solid 500 years at least under the same small extended family. And that's if you take the reductionist view that it didn't start until the move of the capitol to Memphis. If you include the earlier period when the same family was ruling from the south it is more like 1000 years of stability and political unity under the same family.
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But seriously.
Ban LoL and only only allow them to play DA:I MP
with me.
How do people fight for days? How do people have energy to fight for days? Over a video game. It's like cave-persons.
"You said words while me play game hit things unga mad!"
...are you an only child
Oldest of three.
h-how
I'm not saying we didn't fight but, for days? Heck if we fought at all our parents dropped the hammer quick. And our parents always won any fight with them quickly because they could take away anything we held dear on a whim.
Seriously I've told this story before, when I was 15 I didn't clean my room for months despite them telling me to, I went to summer camp for a week and when I came back I had a bed frame and a dresser with no drawers. They took the lightbulbs. I got back the things I could remember having.
That's not winning.
They make a desert and call it peace.
Longestcontinuousimperialstructuresayswhat? :P
Is Rome the longest? I thought China had them licked.
I ... hmm.
That's actually a really good question.
My gut says you're probably right, but then we could get real finicky about where and when a thing started and stopped being an empire, and whether brief interruptions count as actual interruptions in the continuum. :P
Just like my Ship of Theseus style musings on whether Constantinople in 476 could claim to be the Roman Empire.
(I think yes)
I think the "eastern empire" is still essentially Roman in culture and governance until the mid 7th century. By that time depopulation and loss of territory in war had reached the point of it being a fundamentally different society just as it did in the west (Roman culture went on for a long time after the last Emperor in some places).
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little jerk
u cant even win it u just stave off losing until eventually u stack so many debuffs ur max hp gets set to zero
shit game design
Usually one side isn't angry at all though, and destroying the other side's will to fight preemptively is better than fighting.
Also wtf Firefox, you do not correct preemptively into pee-emptively.
Play until you get 1000 coins. This is easier said than done.
um no it's amazing
we are all playing torchbearer in real life
constantly stacking conditions
hungry and thirsty, exhausted, angry, sick, afraid, injured, one after the other
until we are dead
Its an oft repeated biological myth that testosterone drives anger.
I ... hmm.
That's actually a really good question.
My gut says you're probably right, but then we could get real finicky about where and when a thing started and stopped being an empire, and whether brief interruptions count as actual interruptions in the continuum. :P
Fun fact: Horse can be slang for a heroin habit.
Wait, that's not fun at all!
Its mostly about not being a dick to each other. Its just for most adolescents that is difficult. My family always put a high premium about watching out for other people in your family as well, so that might have helped. At age 7 or 8 she once jumped on top of a 10 year old and started punching him for saying something mean about her brother. I didn't really need the protection but it was a nice thought and it kind of characterized our relationship.
In HS she was an average student who was also on the academic decathlon team because her big brother used to be on it, and she was completely accepted because she was Pants' little sister. I was the brain, she was the charismatic one(she ended up homecoming queen). We were different enough that we didn't compete and we complimented each other well.
QEDMF xbl: PantsB G+
o-o
How could one side not be angry
I am confused
Parent is doling out punishment because anger
Child is anger about punishment, or about original thing that caused anger
I guess I'm not talking about fights like "YOU DIDN'T TAK EOUT THE TRASH" or "YOU SAID A MEAN THING" I'm talking about ones that LOOK like that but are actually "I DON'T FEEL LIKE YOU LISTEN TO WHAT I SAY" or "I DON'T THINK YOU RESPECT AND APPRECIATE ME"
I'd love it if you took a look at my art and my PATREON!
The Han (who did have a pretty serious breakdown in the middle) is about the same length as imperial Rome (who also had a pretty serious breakdown in the middle). With the Zhou the problem is establishing dates. Most of the info about it is much later semi-mythical materiel.
No wait, better
draw it again, in sharpie, ON their door
I'd love it if you took a look at my art and my PATREON!
I
I think I've known more people that have actual horses than have had heroin addictions.
That or I have seriously misjudged the people I've associated with.
this is silly
so long as ur relationship with ur brothers is that u dont respect or apprecaite them ever there is no confusion
its ez
That's really neat!
I have to say I really love Darkest Dungeon/FTL/Etc style dungeon crawling with crew. Not even necessarily the roguelite aspects, I just love having people. The XCOM effect of just being like "Oh no, Jenkiiiiins!"
I'd love it if you took a look at my art and my PATREON!
i regret nothing though
The guy who did the weapon degrade rate in System Shock 2 applied the same rate to our telemeres.
Punishments usually aren't about anger, they're about having a consequence for an action. We almost always step back and calm down before handing out consequences, or we have set ones so if X line is crossed you guys know that Y punishment is coming.
Also, different families have different dynamics - vastly different. For MhaP it sounds like this consequence worked, and I expect the next couple of times he was told to clean his room he did.
the funniest thing about this post is that i posted the exact same thing in response to TTODewback posting the exact same thing like 3 months ago
gotcha suckers
Just like my Ship of Theseus style musings on whether Constantinople in 476 could claim to be the Roman Empire.
(I think yes)
Man, you don't punish out of anger, doing it out of anger is an easy way to go too far. You punish to send a message about behavior. And who cares if the kid is angry about a punishment, they're the one who did a thing deserving punishment in the first place.
Is it weird the only person I've ever met that I knew had an active heroin addiction was an Ivy League student? And she was from a middle class background?
She dropped out, of course. And it was because of a boy who was an addict, of course.
QEDMF xbl: PantsB G+
Yeah, that was part of my point about defining when an empire "started" and when it was really "ended" or "interrupted" significantly enough to mark a break in the "imperial continuum".
With Rome of course it's pretty easy to set a rough start and end date (I mean, we could debate both a little bit, but loosely speaking), and the significant interruption is pretty readily apparent.
Whereas things get a little trickier with China because, yeah ... if you apply the definitions loosely enough, it basically starts in pre-history and only ended recently >_>
Ban LoL and only only allow them to play DA:I MP
with me.
This is sage advice
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Lots of positive reinforcement and liver treats when they do what you want.
And patience.
Make them all sit as you train the puppy so they have to wait.
I think the "eastern empire" is still essentially Roman in culture and governance until the mid 7th century. By that time depopulation and loss of territory in war had reached the point of it being a fundamentally different society just as it did in the west (Roman culture went on for a long time after the last Emperor in some places).
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"Great" and "Terrible" are just overplayed.
Justin the Apostate was an interesting one though.