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[Flying Dice]

At which point things went distinctly...ah, unhappy for the Happy Thread.  No one said Yoink or other posters should stop drinking or that they were horrible people; in fact, what was originally brought up was that abstaining itself was horrifying.

I mean, maybe if you clicked "reply" right after he posted that and ignored everything posted after it. 

I apologize, but could you point me to where people explicitly suggested all others should not drink?  The closest I can find is a possible implication if one reads strongly into Sergarr's use of "mind-impairing drugs," but that was in direct reaction to Yoink stating that declining alcohol was itself horrifying, or Kabal suggesting that people who were congenital alcoholics declining alcohol was itself not horrifying, either (before also stating explicitly that they didn't care if anyone drank, so long as they didn't claim it was good for them, though they did state their dislike for it).  I do believe it's at least rather clear that I didn't "click 'reply' right after [Yoink]", though, especially as it's fairly clear the point I responded to was Harry's "simpler level" for Kabal, which I felt overgeneralized the matter.  It doesn't matter if it's alcohol, cigarettes, or NASCAR; it's fine in and of itself to not like something that other people around you happen to like.

EDIT:
Which, I should add, I wonder if it isn't Harry's actual opinion as well, that questionable statement aside.  After all, before the overgeneralization, he had limited himself to simply the virulent expression of that dislike.  The problem was simply that he stated that simply disliking something was enough to be a "fast track to exclusion" in addition to actually expressing that dislike on a constant basis.

I would like to respond to that, but unfortunately the only way to respond to such idiocy would also fall quite clearly outside the realm of "chill".

I can tack up a lot of what people say as idiocy and people still bother to entertain it. The difference is that I know and have seen that alcohol has nearly no positives.

Seems pretty clear to me. Oh, but I suppose saying that some thing or behavior is basically terrible and that's an objective fact doesn't carry implicit condemnation of whatever it is. Passive-aggressive sniping isn't a thing, right? /s Cuts both ways, too; giving someone shit for not drinking is as obnoxious as giving them shit for drinking. Just about any statement of claimed objective truth which happens to condemn everyone who does/does not do the thing you don't like/like is going to draw animosity from people who do the thing.

[Sirus]

Guys c'mon, this has been getting dragged on all day. Surely we can find something better to fill the happy thread with 

[Yoink]

Sorry, I didn't really have much in the way of Happies to derail the derail with.
I tried, though. Um, I guess playing Chroma Squad counts as a Happy? Yeah, let's go with that. Videogames are a happy.

Edit: Everything this band does makes me happy, and they are definitely keeping up the good work.
So very, very keen for their new album. Comes out next month. Hopefully I can manage to be in Melbourne for the launch show.

[Rose]

My happy is that I got some deliciously creepy textures for evil grass in my DF visualizer thing.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[Culise]

Seems pretty clear to me. Oh, but I suppose saying that some thing or behavior is basically terrible and that's an objective fact doesn't carry implicit condemnation of whatever it is. Passive-aggressive sniping isn't a thing, right? /s Cuts both ways, too; giving someone shit for not drinking is as obnoxious as giving them shit for drinking. Just about any statement of claimed objective truth which happens to condemn everyone who does/does not do the thing you don't like/like is going to draw animosity from people who do the thing.

But the post I was responding to wasn't just...

No, Sirus is entirely right.  This is not Happy at all.  So let us be Happy.  So, happy: I'm quite enjoying Pokemon Moon as well.  Picked it up at the midnight release and I don't work tonight due to a lucky coincidence, so I've been enjoying it for a couple hours. ^_^

[Tack]

Gross.

[birdy51]

There was a significant amount of brothers in one room, and I found myself smiling in such way that I had not in a long time. I am tired, but tonight I go to bed with my heart full.

[ein]

i've been thinking about this all god damn day it's just so cool

Spoiler: spoilered for eldritch horror (click to show/hide)

wreck of the uss saratoga, if anybody's curious

[spümpkin]

i dont know whether this belongs in the happy or sad thread, so im gonna put it in both


finished watching gravity falls

normally sad media just makes my eyes well up, if its really sad, but only undertale (not the actual game, a fan-thing) has made me full-on cry before.

just full-on cried, with moaning, twice in the last episode. its really good

i highly recommend

the tears were both out of joy and sadness so thats why it goes in both threads

[Solifuge]

Ein, that's so dang pretty. Wow.

[Gunner-Chan]

Wow I decide to use my browser for nothing but youtube for a bit because I'm honestly too depressed on average to bother reading other peoples posts anywhere and you guys go on for pages over bullshit aggressively? Wow.

First of all you're all idiots. With that out of the way remember to keep things fucking CALM. Okay? God damn.

[ein]

Ein, that's so dang pretty. Wow.

i'd love to visit some shipwrecks sometime

i've always been a slut for naval and nautical shit, so owning a boat and traveling around the world is a dream of mine, if a bit prohibitively expensive

while we're on the topic, paul allen's research team did a livestream of japanese battleship musashi's wreck, and it's also hauntingly beautiful

[Solifuge]

I knew a friend of a friend, who used to work as a ferry captain. One day, she sold all her things and bought a yacht to sail around from place to place, living on her ship and working odd jobs like a cool nautical vagabond. I don't think that's something I could do, but I really admired her for it.

But yeah, I love the water too. Worked at a diving shop once, and did a bit of free-diving and scuba stuff, though just at touristy reefs and such. If it wasn't stupidly dangerous, I'd love to do cave diving too. Or even deep-sea drone stuff. There's so much cool, unknown, and alien shit down there, and I want to see it.

Also, thanks for the vid. I'll have to check that out.

[Tack]

You're all idiots. Do a smart thing.

Except we'd already kind of resolved and dropped it all on our own by that point, almost a page ago.

[Tiruin]

You're all idiots. Do a smart thing.

Except we'd already kind of resolved and dropped it all on our own by that point, almost a page ago.

It's not literal GC is concerned, and that's my happy.

That said, ein, do more of that naval stuff @_@ Or probably make a thread for it! I've always been interested in the wrecks of the sea and what goes on in the depths of our oceans (along with the myriad forms of life and how our shipwrecks became part of creating possible new ecosystem areas).

Also, thanks for the vid. I'll have to check that out.

I can't view the vid at the moment.