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[Angel Of Death]

I have got a new, DWARVEN sig.

Do you like it? _{Or is it an offensive piece of crap?}

[Mindmaker]

I just realized the obvious thing:

"If you're nice to people, you can probably waste less time because you don't have to spend time arguing, and when you need a friend you don't have to either spend time being depressed about the lack of one or working forever at getting one, only to find that once you've finally made friends you don't need or want one anymore."

To me it looks more like:
"If you're nice to people, you'll probably be horribly exploited and made fun of by those wretched human beings, who form the majority, but will be liked by the more interesting ones, which are fun to hang out with."

But hey, there is more than one truth.
If yours really works, I'm happy for you.

[ein]

Protip: When writing a paper for science class, each time you throw in a properly used scientific term is bonus points.

[G-Flex]

Why should you earn bonus points just for using terms correctly? Isn't that sort of a given? That's like getting bonus points for putting punctuation in the right place when writing something for English.

[ein]

I don't know.
Science teacher fed up with people misusing/not using terms, mayhaps?
All I know is I got a 120% on a short writing assignment because I used genotype and phenotype correctly more than once.

[Max White]

Those are the lowest standards I have ever known for a science class. That's not to say you did poorly, or you yourself don't know what your on about, but bonus points for correctly using terms? Realy?

My old science teacher would kick the ass of anybody that got terms mixed up.

[Heron TSG]

"If you're nice to people, you can probably waste less time because you don't have to spend time arguing, and when you need a friend you don't have to either spend time being depressed about the lack of one or working forever at getting one, only to find that once you've finally made friends you don't need or want one anymore."

To me it looks more like:
"If you're nice to people, you'll probably be horribly exploited and made fun of by those wretched human beings, who form the majority, but will be liked by the more interesting ones, which are fun to hang out with."

I've always gone with "Be nice to people whether they're being idiots/annoying or not." It's worked fairly well for me so far. I don't extend this policy to people taking advantage of it, though.

[Max White]

Being nice != being doormat.
A push over says 'Yes'.
A nice person says 'Sorry, no thank you'.
And a jerk says 'F**k off'.

[Mindmaker]

"If you're nice to people, you can probably waste less time because you don't have to spend time arguing, and when you need a friend you don't have to either spend time being depressed about the lack of one or working forever at getting one, only to find that once you've finally made friends you don't need or want one anymore."

To me it looks more like:
"If you're nice to people, you'll probably be horribly exploited and made fun of by those wretched human beings, who form the majority, but will be liked by the more interesting ones, which are fun to hang out with."

I've always gone with "Be nice to people whether they're being idiots/annoying or not." It's worked fairly well for me so far. I don't extend this policy to people taking advantage of it, though.

I've gone with the same policy, but it still has given me trouble.
And you misunderstood me. I wasn't nice to people who were taking advantage of it.
To some people "minding you own business", somehow means the same as "looking for trouble".

[Itnetlolor]

"If you're nice to people, you can probably waste less time because you don't have to spend time arguing, and when you need a friend you don't have to either spend time being depressed about the lack of one or working forever at getting one, only to find that once you've finally made friends you don't need or want one anymore."

To me it looks more like:
"If you're nice to people, you'll probably be horribly exploited and made fun of by those wretched human beings, who form the majority, but will be liked by the more interesting ones, which are fun to hang out with."

I've always gone with "Be nice to people whether they're being idiots/annoying or not." It's worked fairly well for me so far. I don't extend this policy to people taking advantage of it, though.

I was once like Vector back while I was in school, during college, and some of my past jobs, I learned from some mistakes and tried Barbarossa's method; eventually, I just decided that with situations overall not improving, and having been betrayed a fair amount of times, Mindmaker's became my new truth.

At least, my niceness is moderated, and mostly out of common courtesy/decency, but no further than that. Until my trust is earned, deal with my real self (which I realized over the years, was not the nicest of people; but good natured when best to be). Exceptions to having to earn my trust are usually people I don't run into often (or people I don't sense any force-door-matting vibes off of), most elderly people, and kids.

How I see it, being a good person yields good things; being nice, however, leaves them open to getting stepped on. Good does good, even when it's not always nice. Good can discipline; Nice cannot. Good = Shows Respect, becomes respectful, Nice = Shows passage, becomes passage. Consider it like the mentality of the parent of a spoiled child. A good parent would discipline the child, and cut them off until the child begins to behave itself; A nice one will continue to spoil the child until they win the child's respect again. Though similar, they differ at times.

Best not to confuse good with nice. So to put it, it can help out anyone stuck in the "Nice Guy"/"Just Friend" stage of life. Heck, don't even try to do good, just be yourself. For some reason the Star Trek: First Contact quote comes to mind:

Cmdr. William Riker: Someone once said "Don't try to be a great man. Just be a man, and let history make its own judgment."
Dr. Zefram Cochrane: That's rhetorical nonsense. Who said that?
Cmdr. William Riker: You did, ten years from now.

[Max White]

Got bored, drew more.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[Itnetlolor]

Got bored, drew more.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Needs a Chryssalid.

[tomas1297]

 I'm ill, but on the bright side, I killed 2 guys with one sniper shot in Silent Storm. Yay for being moody! I'm such a dwarf...

[The Merchant Of Menace]

I managed to get through a bus trip without feeling like I was gonna throw up. 'S a pretty good sign.

[tomas1297]

I managed to get through a bus trip without feeling like I was gonna throw up. 'S a pretty good sign.

Over here we have different reasons to throw up in buses. Will I ever stop mocking my homeland? Hahahah- no...