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[TheBiggerFish]

Need to buy a cable.

Once again find myself with the options of either driving to the store and spending $16 on a $1.50 cable or going online and paying $8.50 shipping on a $1.50 cable.

I know which one works out better mathematically, but they both make me feel like I'm mismanaging my money. :/

(Obviously the optimal solution is to just add more cables to my online order and ship them together, but I can't think of any other cables I'd need to buy...)

Just buy a bunch preemptively.

@Tawa:You can do it!  I'm rooting for you, dude.

[chaotic skies]

Need to buy a cable.

Once again find myself with the options of either driving to the store and spending $16 on a $1.50 cable or going online and paying $8.50 shipping on a $1.50 cable.

I know which one works out better mathematically, but they both make me feel like I'm mismanaging my money. :/

(Obviously the optimal solution is to just add more cables to my online order and ship them together, but I can't think of any other cables I'd need to buy...)

Just buy a bunch preemptively.

@Tawa:You can do it!  I'm rooting for you, dude.

@DeKa: What fish said. Look at all the cables you have. See if you have spares. If you don't, buy spares. Problem solved.

@Tawa: I've proven to be of little to no help, but if you don't ever try, you're never going to know. I know it sounds cliche, but take it from someone that spent way too long making up his mind way too many times.

EDIT: Does anyone know a work around for the home button on an iPod touch, 5th generation? mine recently broke and I would like to be able to change apps without turning the thing off.

[Helgoland]

@Tawa: Just go for it. What's the worst that could happen?

My current suggested line is door-in-the-face: 'Hey, wanna fuck?' 'No!' 'Well, then you're gonna at least have coffee with me instead, no?'

[TD1]

How do you know they'll say no to the first one? 

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So my parents are waking me through the night to make sure I'm not dead. That's comforting? Apparently having a splitting headache and more lumps on my head than originally thought is a bad thing. I wonder if it's frowned upon to hate someone? For a long time I assumed it was slightly melodramatic to say so, but the last five years have been an education.

[chaotic skies]

It's not frowned upon. I prefer to save the word hate for a few...select people, but if you want to use that word in this situtation, I don't think anyone's going to judge you. Or blame you, for that matter.

[TheBiggerFish]

@chaotic:I'd suggest the Generic Computer Advice Thread.  Not that I'll have any more answers there but it's probably going to find somebody.

[Yoink]

I've been waiting here for an appointment for close to an hour, and some faint (possibly imagined) food smell is making me bloody hungry. I don't have much in the way of food at home, either. Ugh.

[Shook]

Speaking of hungry, it seems that my raging metabolism has turned out to be a disadvantage when not sitting still all day. My "job" involves 1-2 hours of pushing a wagon full of adverts and newspapers around 4 days a week, and apparently that's enough to increase my appetite significantly. While not on my dad's level yet, it's still weird and somewhat annoying that i suddenly get hungry so quickly. Maybe my hunger sense has returned, because it's been rather fucky for the past several years. :v

[Cheesecake]

The latest Game of Thrones episode had me almost tearing up. Amazing how they can make you feel for a guy who only says one thing.

[Yoink]

Dude spoilerzzzz

[Orange Wizard]

Dude spoilerzzzz

DID YOU KNOW THAT MARTIN DIES JUST BEFORE BOOK 7

[Tiruin]

The latest Game of Thrones episode had me almost tearing up. Amazing how they can make you feel for a guy who only says one thing.

This has been blaring out on my facebook and it makes me sad because of ALL THE SPOILERS RUNNING AROUND LIKE IT'S NOT PUBLIC :I
I haven't even watched the series consecutively but I do want to. >_> Gah.

[itisnotlogical]

I played Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines and was severely disappointed. I'll give it one more honest shot but I don't think my opinion's going to change.

[Xantalos]

I moved the post to the actual sad thread but here have quote

I'd rather keep everyone at arm's length, that way I save the other person the pain of me leaving.

This attitude makes no sense to me. Do you think every relationship you begin will end with you leaving?

Continuing my depressive streak for now ... yeah. You either break up or one of you dies before the other.
...
yeah imma move that post in here

Spoiler: enclosed is some giant ramble of nihilism or something (click to show/hide)

Having arguments - well, not arguments as in yelling matches, more as in involved discussion - with people makes me feel incredibly isolated sometimes. No one I know seems to really think about their lives or what they do or why they do things in a rational manner, they just ... follow what their emotions tell them to do. So many people I know profess to relationship troubles when they consistently choose people they know they aren't compatible with because they're 'just looking to have fun', or go drinking excessively and lament their lack of money, or obsess over what other people think of them when it's utterly irrelevant. Not that I'm exempt from this, I've done plenty of stupid irrational shit because of emotional urges, but at least I'm aware of them! Every time I try to talk to someone about this stuff it's like they don't even realize why they do what they do. Like they don't know how to think. People get together because they want to for some inexplicable reason (yeah yeah genetics and all that), they have children - a literally life-changing responsibility that I consider no one but the very wisest sages to ever be ready for - because they succumb to their urges, they dislike people based on irrelevant factors that evoke a sense of unfamiliarity in them that frightens them ... they act on a level lower than thought so often and they don't even realize it.

Hell, I do that too! I have opinions about people that I've formed not because I know said person super well or dis/agree with their viewpoints on certain issues but because the chemicals in my brain influenced my mindset to make it so.

It's ... it makes me feel lonely that no one else that I've met really puts thought into their existence. That ultimately the origin of all the incredible things humanity has accomplished is a coincidental side-effect of biology ensuring that we can reproduce easier. That I my mind myself am not a thing that exists in and of my own permanence but the assemblance of countless other particles, that my depression and nihilistic tendencies are merely the result of preexisting dispositions toward it in my DNA combined with an exposure to factors in my childhood that surpressed my self-esteem and confidence sufficiently that self-sustaining negative mental processes could take hold.

I dislike knowing the scale of things sometimes, because I see how far at the bottom of things I stand on a grand scale and I desire more. And knowing that my existence will likely cease without ever becoming more than it currently is is a saddening thought. Being subject to forces beyond my control - entropy, gravity, the second law of thermodynamics - is bad enough, but the fact that some of them come from within my very body is even worse. There are processes that take place within my body that can change the way I think about things at the drop of a hat, without my consent or anything. How do people not realize how shallow and horrifying that is?

Take love for instance. I know from personal experience that you can fall in love with someone, not entirely voluntarily think about them for 22 hours a day, make every effort to get close to them, literally brute-force parts of your psychological recovery in order to have a better chance with them - I forced myself to not be as much of a hermit as I was at the time in order to be a better fit for this girl - agonize for weeks over whether your desires are truly genuine or just selfish, spend more than a year endlessly thinking about this one person - and then if/when it doesn't work out/you drift apart (in my case high school ended and it never worked out in any case), they can fade from your mind within a few months and you soon find yourself enamoured with someone else, like I did. How in the fuck can you call that love if it fades so easily? How can you be inclined to make such great commitments with someone you know on a rational level isn't compatible with you because your emotions drown that out and then wonder later why it didn't work? How can someone manage to so easily cut someone else out of the life like that - does it imply that all of our current social ties are only a matter of convenience, and if you had no way of communicating with said person you'd forget it eventually? The impermanence disgusts me. Being able to move on like nothing ever happens makes ... love as people call it isn't love as it should be. It's a process designed to facilitate reproduction, and the words bandied about to describe it are false in their entirety. Making promises of forever is a misleading gesture at best. We are all but infants in the eyes of the cosmos, running about attempting to make something meaningful in the infinitesimal time we have before our mortal existences unravel due to imperfect construction of our bodies.

How are people content with this?

[Orange Wizard]

That's a mild sad?