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[Amperzand]

I've noticed a lot of ennui in a lot of people over the past year or so. Many people, at least/especially in America, having gotten into the habit of finding learning boring, and of avoiding work as much as possible. Many of them seem to be in the process of dealing with college or, worse, past it. This leaves them with no real idea of what to do, and a misguided impression that they don't want to do anything. By the time they realize that isn't really the case, they're kinda stuck in a rut, one which is very difficult to get out of.

I personally ended up experiencing much of the same thing, except during what would have been my high school years if I wasn't a weird homeschooled introvert. This, as it turns out, was a very good thing. I've had the opportunity to basically dick around on the computer with youtube and vidjagaems 18/7 for several years now, and it isn't, in fact, what I want, what with the creeping cloud of depression and anxiety. The good thing is that I came to that decision at age 17, just getting into community college, rather than age 29, just getting into the beginnings of middle age.

At this point, I'm hugely enjoying school, becoming involved with people and groups I find interesting, and generally well-to-do psychologically and physically.

My happy, I suppose, is that not only am I enjoying the educational system, not only am I finally doing something, not only am I far more competent socially and educationally than might reasonably be expected, but that I have gained a sense of purpose, of not only wanting to do things, but of having the drive to do them.

I have been, to conclude, happier in the past four months than the previous five years, and things are looking only upward.

Hell. Fucking. Yes.

[Trapezohedron]

I've noticed a lot of ennui in a lot of people over the past year or so. Many people, at least/especially in America, having gotten into the habit of finding learning boring, and of avoiding work as much as possible. Many of them seem to be in the process of dealing with college or, worse, past it. This leaves them with no real idea of what to do, and a misguided impression that they don't want to do anything. By the time they realize that isn't really the case, they're kinda stuck in a rut, one which is very difficult to get out of.

I personally ended up experiencing much of the same thing, except during what would have been my high school years if I wasn't a weird homeschooled introvert. This, as it turns out, was a very good thing. I've had the opportunity to basically dick around on the computer with youtube and vidjagaems 18/7 for several years now, and it isn't, in fact, what I want, what with the creeping cloud of depression and anxiety. The good thing is that I came to that decision at age 17, just getting into community college, rather than age 29, just getting into the beginnings of middle age.

At this point, I'm hugely enjoying school, becoming involved with people and groups I find interesting, and generally well-to-do psychologically and physically.

My happy, I suppose, is that not only am I enjoying the educational system, not only am I finally doing something, not only am I far more competent socially and educationally than might reasonably be expected, but that I have gained a sense of purpose, of not only wanting to do things, but of having the drive to do them.

I have been, to conclude, happier in the past four months than the previous five years, and things are looking only upward.

Hell. Fucking. Yes.

Congratulations. I've experienced the same thing once and even though college can get daunting, it's not something I would discard for another hour of vidyagaem. I realize that I've grown too attached to my friends IRL that I can't foresee a life without having another friend made to talk to - drink with or otherwise enjoy after graduation of college.

Loathe I am to admit, I am getting rather teary-eyed at the prospect of leaving college to work, because I'll be missing a lot of experiences that only college offered to me.

[TheBiggerFish]

*applause*

[Bauglir]

-happy snop-

Hooray! All of those are good feelings (and my happy is that I know them from experience, save that I had the same realization as you only after college >_>)

[scriver]

So this thread made me remember I do in fact have Undertale and start playing it (previously the super ultra ugly art had put me off, but since my computer got all wonky and can't access it's memory properly or something the low-graphic is actually what enables me to post it now).

It's a pretty nice little game. Better than I expected it to be (I thought it was going to turn out to be very overhyped), but so far I am not seeing anything revolutionary about it - I'm not sure how far I've actually gotten in it yet though.

[Jopax]

So it's been resolved, finally. I won't go into details since the story is kinda too long, but the short of it is, I've finally moved on from a person that means a lot to me. It was an amicable closure to a rather turbulent year and I feel like things are looking up, even though I'll be moving ahead without them I'm not afraid that much because I know that they'll always be somewhere in this world and I think that's enough for now.

On to new adventures I guess

[Furtuka]

Solifuge stream has come back!

[KingofstarrySkies]

So it's been resolved, finally. I won't go into details since the story is kinda too long, but the short of it is, I've finally moved on from a person that means a lot to me. It was an amicable closure to a rather turbulent year and I feel like things are looking up, even though I'll be moving ahead without them I'm not afraid that much because I know that they'll always be somewhere in this world and I think that's enough for now.

On to new adventures I guess

Yay! :3

[Teneb]

Another book review down, another to go, plus two tests; one of those I can do at home, the other I will find out if it's also the case in two days. After that, some long delayed two/three weeks of vacation.

[Shook]

Huzzah, i have handled TWO social events this weekend without my bowels flipping out! I mean, they're kind of cranky right now, but given what they've been through today, that doesn't really surprise me. In fact, compared to the last time i went to a social feasting event, this is downright mild, and situated AFTER the event, which i am grateful for. Why? Because FOOD WAS DELICIOUS. Also cake. Shook likes cake. Shook should by all means be a fatass, but third-person Shook apparently doesn't store much fat at all. I'm fine with that, it gives me an excuse to stuff my face with vanilla-laden cake. :v
On top of that, my extended family is a nice bunch of people to be around. Judging by both my dad and his brother, i think it's fair to say that goofiness lies in the family, so i kind of wonder what my grandparents were like in their younger years.

[quinnr]

JOURNEYQUEST IS GETTING A THIRD SEASON.

[spümpkin]

Due to a number of reasons, I'm actually feeling the happiest I have been in a while now, and I think I'm finally okay with my current circumstances.

Things are going my way for once, and I don't feel the paranoia that this means they're gonna go wrong soon, which is a change.

[Flying Dice]

As per WTF thread, had to switch from Pale Moon to Cyberfox because of more Google bullshit. But Cyberfox is apparently amazing, best Firefox branch I've used yet. And there's a new, ideologically-driven adblocker out too!


eeeeeee one of the default features is an icon that shows which tabs are producing sound

[Putnam]

firefox and chrome both have that by default

[Flying Dice]

Yeah, but I've been running on less-privacy-invading browsers (which tends to correlate with "outdated" and "poor UI") for a while now, most of which you'll feel lucky about if you can configure them to have a "new tab" button on the tab bar and similar.