Vent

[Selfsurprise]

So many negative topics popping up in Gaming in General lately. Like geez people, seems like the past 5 or so topics have been nothing but what you hate, what you think needs to die, pet peeves, etc. Whatever happened to topics about games that are, idunno, fun? Enjoyable? Well made? C'mon guys. :/

I noticed that we have several "hot" topics that are remarkably similar to one another. I'd personally like to see more imaginative topics or otherwise positive threads. I try to come up with stuff from time to time [shamelessplug] I HAZ THRIID LOLBURGERZ[/shamelessplug] but the interest tends to fizzle out rather rapidly.

[Heliocentrical]

So many negative topics popping up in Gaming in General lately. Like geez people, seems like the past 5 or so topics have been nothing but what you hate, what you think needs to die, pet peeves, etc. Whatever happened to topics about games that are, idunno, fun? Enjoyable? Well made? C'mon guys. :/

Well there's the Games You've Finished Recently thread viewtopic.php?f=4&t=8350 and the games you love too much thread viewtopic.php?f=4&t=8343 those are positive right? My pet peeve thread while currently three pages long hasn't been posted to in two days. While I'm not exactly helping the issue because I'm a gripey and whiny little nerdling the trend seems to be dying down.

[Jeb_CC]

Found a profile on DeviantArt, some 13 year old girl, declaring how she's asexual. Makes me want to stab my eyes out. No fucking shit you're 'asexual'. You're only thir-fucking-teen. I'd be kinda worried if you were getting into all that sexual and romantic stuff at that age. That is not a good age to do that stuff in. Don't tell me; "I've found who I really am" when you can barely write an essay. Do something better with your life whilst you're still young, please. :I

[Selfsurprise]

Found a profile on DeviantArt, some 13 year old girl, declaring how she's asexual. Makes me want to stab my eyes out. No fucking shit you're 'asexual'. You're only thir-fucking-teen. I'd be kinda worried if you were getting into all that sexual and romantic stuff at that age. That is not a good age to do that stuff in. Don't tell me; "I've found who I really am" when you can barely write an essay. Do something better with your life whilst you're still young, please. :I

You could argue that at thirteen most people beginning to have the first stirrings of sexual awareness, and I think my generation (born in 1987) were beginning to be exposed to sexuality at an age previous generations would of found difficult to accept. I'd imagine life is only set to get more sexually pressured and complicated for the current pre-teen demographic, what with the social networking and more nebulous concept of gender that one can find therein. For me growing up, the internet was something that I could do whenever it felt like actually working. And when it did actually work, I spent about fourty-seven minutes attempting to download a single four minute song. Looking back at that time retrospectively the internet was much less of a sensory overload than it is today. These days I can't go a few minutes on the internet without being inundated with pseudopornographic visual filler and "chaosgender" pride pages.

[Vapymid]

You could argue that at thirteen most people beginning to have the first stirrings of sexual awareness

Well, I think that's what Jeb's point is - the first stirrings. Far too early to come to a final conclusion about oneself.

 

I personally think that the whole "asexuality", except for a few pathological cases, where it is caused by a disease or a disorder - is a made up construct and a fashionable fad which appeals to adolescent minds as it's something allowing them to claim a unique "coolness" and "difference".

 

and I think my generation (born in 1987) were beginning to be exposed to sexuality at an age previous generations would have found difficult to accept.

This is really NOT the case. But again - it is very fashionable to complain about increasing sexual pressures in the society. Every generation seems to be proud of considering itself more "sexualised" than the previous one, and, at the same time, complain that the next generation is being even more "sexualised".

 

But the simple fact is - there was no internet in my days. Porn was in great deficit in the Soviet Union. But that did nothing to clear my preteen and teen mind from thoughts of girls in all sorts of compromising positions. I did not need porn for that - it was all in my head. Though, any porn that has comeby was revered and treasured and treated as a holy relic

 

A couple of hundred years ago - if a girl would not marry by 16, she'd be labled a spinster. When humans were living in caves - girls would be expected to start bearing children at 12 - 13.

 

In the Middle East, in some countries which are considered Western allies - 12 is the age of adulthood and lots of girls are married off at that age.

 

what with the social networking and more nebulous concept of gender that one can find therein.

Yes, life is getting in general more informationally intense, which is interesting for me - in terms of when will we reach some kind of a limit or a saturation point when a large percentage of the population will become overloaded by the flood of social information and there will be a bounce back.

 

But that thing about nebulous gender is yet another one of those made up "hide-behind" labels - a fad that will defninitely die away in a few years.

 

These days I can't go a few minutes on the internet without being inundated with pseudopornographic visual filler and "chaosgender" pride pages.

 

Well, again - I believe that most of that is just an expression of typical adolescent ideas and desires and self-identification attempts. It always was happening since humans became homo sapiens and porbably from before... The difference now is that it's much easier to express and share these thoughts with a vast audience...

 

In my time I would draw something and only a select few friends will ever get to see my doodles. These days you can put in on the 'net and scores of people will see it - but it doesn't mean that these things would not have been thought about if not for the internet. If you see what I mean...

 

Regards

[Selfsurprise]

Well, I think that's what Jeb's point is - the first stirrings. Far too early to come to a final conclusion about oneself.

I personally think that the whole "asexuality", except for a few pathological cases, where it is caused by a disease or a disorder - is a made up construct and a fashionable fad which appeals to adolescent minds as it's something allowing them to claim a unique "coolness" and "difference".

There's definitely a worthwhile argument to be aired in regards to the notion of counter-cultural sexuality mindfully bucking societal norms. That being said though, any student of recent history will tell that the LGBT community (hell, add women in general to that) had to inhabit those counter-cultural spheres of influence to even have any kind of the voices prior to the 80's, the mainstream certinly wasn't accommodating them. And in regards to my own personal orientation, though I'm quite self-effacing about it and am certain of my heterosexuality, the whole asexual archetypal personality remains something that appeals to me, if only to explain some of my Houellebecqian sense of indifference in regards to relationships. I'm all too aware that I'm a subpar overweight unattractive male, and the older I've gotten the more content I am with that "depressive realist" outlook.

 

This is really NOT the case. But again - it is very fashionable to complain about increasing sexual pressures in the society. Every generation seems to be proud of considering itself more "sexualised" than the previous one, and, at the same time, complain that the next generation is being even more "sexualised".

 

But the simple fact is - there was no internet in my days. Porn was in great deficit in the Soviet Union. But that did nothing to clear my preteen and teen mind from thoughts of girls in all sorts of compromising positions. I did not need porn for that - it was all in my head. Though, any porn that has comeby was revered and treasured and treated as a holy relic

 

A couple of hundred years ago - if a girl would not marry by 16, she'd be labled a spinster. When humans were living in caves - girls would be expected to start bearing children at 12 - 13.

 

In the Middle East, in some countries which are considered Western allies - 12 is the age of adulthood and lots of girls are married off at that age.

I hope I didn't come across as somebody denouncing the next generation for their lurid sexuality and lack of respect - I'm not an old man yet! Even if I feel like one.

I also have to elaborate on the fact that I was predominantly trying to analyse the western (i.e. metropolitan European and American mores, to oversimplify the argument) model of sexual politics. Specifically in regards to England, I find that we have a peculiar relationship to sex before the age of consent. We largely uncritically accept that children and teenagers are exposed to sexuality through popular media, but then condemn those same children for expressing any kind of sexual awareness - which will invariably be a distorted and undeveloped concept of sex and gender.

 

Yes, life is getting in general more informationally intense, which is interesting for me - in terms of when will we reach some kind of a limit or a saturation point when a large percentage of the population will become overloaded by the flood of social information and there will be a bounce back.

 

But that thing about nebulous gender is yet another one of those made up "hide-behind" labels - a fad that will defninitely die away in a few years.

Maybe some of the current terminology and memetic themes are faddy, and that the language and subcultural motifs will fade into obsolescence, but I honestly think that the future of sexual identification and gender is set to become multifaceted and (by our still almost unavoidably binary standards) anarchic and unutterably strange.

[Heliocentrical]

I personally think that the whole "asexuality", except for a few pathological cases, where it is caused by a disease or a disorder - is a made up construct and a fashionable fad which appeals to adolescent minds as it's something allowing them to claim a unique "coolness" and "difference".

Not to mention the great sense of false power and independence that comes with declaring yourself as Asexual. The "I don't need a companion to be happy" idea or the "I don't need what everyone else needs" idea are compelling exactly for these reasons. It makes you believe that you're 10x better than everyone else because from your perspective it's something they need that you don't.

 

Gosh, the more I think about this the more I realize I'm an asshole who'll unconsciously demonize people, even myself for any perceived inefficiency. It's a very unhealthy way of thinking because when you fuck up you won't be able to tolerate that you fucked up and that you're human. Even now the idea that I'm a human with flaws and that's okay is a very tough pill to swallow.

[Psychotic Ninja]

You know what sounds like a great idea!? Going to a Drycleaners before they're opened, wait until they're just opening up to come in, and complain that they're not fully opened yet, all the while waiting for my clothes. Doesn't that sound like fun?!

[longliveprose]

And then maybe you can go into a small mom & pop store, shout "ARE YOU OPEN ON THURDAYS?" and when they answer shout thank you and leave.

[Psychotic Ninja]

Oooh, can we do that every Thursday?

[longliveprose]

Ask George, I don't know!

[Psychotic Ninja]

Drycleaners are storage facilities, right?

 

 

Do note, most Drycleaners will throw away or donate clothes that haven't been picked up after 30 days

 

Double post:

 

[Selfsurprise]

^ I was once banned from the last.fm forums for two weeks for calling a particularly persistent grammar nazi named LICA-98 a cunt. Literally, all he ever did was correct inconsequential grammar and spelling errors on the forums, all day, every day, often posting hundreds of times a time. I'm still not sure if he was a simply an extremely committed troll filling the void where his soul once resided, or a genuine self-imposed corrector of internet commentary filling the void where his soul once resided.

[Heliocentrical]

In regards to English and grammar I only hold myself accountable and even then I don't always follow my rules consistently. A nice little guideline for myself but nothing more. In all honesty it doesn't really matter. Like all human conflicts it boils down to people groveling over tiny, insignificant amounts of power.

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[longliveprose]

Drycleaners are storage facilities, right?

 

 

Do note, most Drycleaners will throw away or donate clothes that haven't been picked up after 30 days

 

Double post:

 

 

Should have used have and not of.

 

DP:

 

Disney movies, I think, are the most formulaic I've ever seen. Just another reason I hate them so much, alongside the company itself.

 

See if you can guess which movie I'm talking about:

 

The first few scenes are our protagonist as a child, to demonstrate their personality and a bit of world building, too.

Give them a lofty, unrealistic ambition that no doubt they will live up to.

Introduce a character that is really important to the plot about 30 minutes in.

Then lift the curtain and reveal all is not as it seems.

Everything then goes to shit for the main character.

But then in a stroke of luck, the main character succeeds and everything is even better than it was before the plot.

 

And then release unnecessary, straight to video sequels.

[Blightmare]

If one day I woke up and found out that my internet company had vanished with no signs of what could have happened to them, like literally just disappeared from the face of the planet

 

I would feel nothing.

 

The day this leeching scum company crashes and burns could not come fast enough and I will forever mark my calendar when that day comes and celebrate it every year. If any motivation is big enough to get me to move out it's that I would never have to deal with these shitbags ever again.

[BidetoftheDead]

So i decided it was time to get back into trying to find a job, the Toys R' Us is usually understaffed so I decided to write an application. Their application process? A ten minute questionnaire of bullshit questions that has nothing to do with a cashier position and then TWELVE PAGES of "strongly disagree, disagree, neutral, agree, strongly agree" questions. I didn't even finish the timed part because the question were pretty hard and some didn't even make sense. "What is a small grove of trees" it was multiple choose with four possible answers. ALL THE ANSWERS WERE SINGLE LETTERS.

 

I can see why they're understaffed now.

[Blightmare]

>Overwatch competitive

>Queue's up as 4, get's 2 randoms

>Us 4 make up the tanks and healers.

>Random never with us. Like ever. Even watched one of them run past me and die alone while I was waiting for literally everyone else to respawn and join me.

>Friend crashes.

>We lose.

>"Fucking AFKer's(?????) You guys queued up as 4 but are so useless. learn to play. god you're the worst fucking team I've ever seen. Learn to group up with the randoms."

>Reported, blocked, left.

 

Honestly, if you're gonna be a trash talking asshole at least don't be the literal reason we couldn't kill anyone. These randoms were the damage classes and they were apart of 0 team fights, and always ran in alone. Because of their complete inability to group up with us, the other team constantly took the fight to us which we had absolutely no hope of dealing with without any damage. Why is it ALWAYS the ones who do the worst that have the biggest most arrogant mouth? Take some responsibility for yourself, fucking hell.

[Selfsurprise]

So i decided it was time to get back into trying to find a job, the Toys R' Us is usually understaffed so I decided to write an application. Their application process? A ten minute questionnaire of bullshit questions that has nothing to do with a cashier position and then TWELVE PAGES of "strongly disagree, disagree, neutral, agree, strongly agree" questions. I didn't even finish the timed part because the question were pretty hard and some didn't even make sense. "What is a small grove of trees" it was multiple choose with four possible answers. ALL THE ANSWERS WERE SINGLE LETTERS.

 

I can see why they're understaffed now.

You should of ticked all of the options, and then ask them if you did good.

 

I would encourage you to keep at it, but I know all too well how utterly hideous working in retail is. If you can get a job that involves not working with the public, I urge you to go for it.

[Doublenature]

I want to thank everyone for this thread existing in these times.

 

 

Throughout my life, Ive always gotten extreme headaches whenever there is alot of noise (many people talking at the same time at a loud volume is a prime example) which causes me to either shut everything out or getting pissed off because no-one shuts the hell up.

Now when I got my ADHD diagnosis, they told me this: "You've got ADHD." That was it. Ive made a few friends with ADHD who has told me that they experience the same exact thing.

 

On to the vent:

My aunt came here yesterday, I havent met her since 2011, so I figured that it would be fun.

Boy, was I wrong...

She always ALWAYS has to talk, she'll interrupt anyone mid sentance and have some retarded story to tell. She also gets a little bit too drunk during the night and always talks really fucking loud. Whenever me or someone else is telling my little sister that what she did was wrong, my aunt always comes in and screams louder than everyone else, saying: "You're only a kid! You should do these things!"

Just 5 minutes before I started writing, we were playing a game (basically trivia) and my mom and my stepdad started fighting over some stupid shit again, my aunt is screaming things constantly about how stupid they are for fighting, she interrupts everyone when they are reading the questions etc. so I had to leave. I didnt fucking want to leave, I love playing trivia with my family, its really fun.

 

Ive fucking had it, mom seems really sick of her aswell.

 

Oh yeah, she also keeps telling me how she's gonna buy me a car before they leave, but every morning she just says: "I was a little drunk, I was just joking."

I never asked for a car (I just told them that I would like to own a Volvo Amazon or a Volvo 242 sometime) so stop fucking around, either buy me a car or shut the hell up. Dont get my hopes up like that. (Half-joke rant, I dont need someone to buy a car for me, I already have one, but still, dont do that.)

 

 

Thanks for letting me vent.