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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #101235 on: January 26, 2016, 06:30:03 pm »

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #101236 on: January 26, 2016, 06:38:59 pm »

Nice to see I can vent about my brother putting me and his friend in actual immediate physical danger and people won't take it seriously.
It'd be different if people actually got hurt, but you're not - so it's not such an awful thing to joke about. They're not trying to laugh at you, but with you.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #101237 on: January 26, 2016, 06:47:49 pm »

I've been talking about this for years, and been laughed off or just plain old ignored:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-25/wal-mart-it-came-it-conquered-now-it-s-packing-up-and-leaving?cmpid=yhoo.headline

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Renee Ireland Smith, who ran Town’n Country, said the store immediately saw sales fall by 30 percent once Wal-Mart opened in May 2014. Whenever her store cut prices, Wal-Mart would reduce its prices even more. Smith’s mother, who owned the store, invested $100,000 in savings into the doomed effort. But by October, the family decided to cut its losses and close the business.

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #101238 on: January 26, 2016, 06:48:43 pm »

What Shiny said. We make jokes to lighten the mood - but if someone did get hurt it'd be a different story.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #101239 on: January 26, 2016, 06:52:42 pm »

An even funnier one? ???
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #101240 on: January 26, 2016, 07:20:03 pm »

I can't fit my favourite Asimov quote in my personal text. Boo.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #101241 on: January 26, 2016, 11:52:39 pm »


Nice to see I can vent about my brother putting me and his friend in actual immediate physical danger and people won't take it seriously.
I think that's bringing reasoning a bit too far. :-\
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #101242 on: January 27, 2016, 02:45:11 pm »

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #101243 on: January 27, 2016, 02:46:22 pm »

Trying to use GIMP to worldbuild. I simply cannot make a decent coastline.
Fractals?
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #101244 on: January 27, 2016, 02:48:14 pm »

Trying to use GIMP to worldbuild. I simply cannot make a decent coastline.
This may help.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #101245 on: January 27, 2016, 06:42:40 pm »

Tomorrow is going to be another thursday, where I sit next to the only other dude, who I dint even like, in a class full of girls.

I just can't put myself in a situation where I can talk to girls where I can actually feel good about it and not have it be awkward or frustrating, even in a class full of girls. I really just want to fucking do something but I don't even fucking know where to start.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #101246 on: January 27, 2016, 06:46:34 pm »

Okay even if I wasn't gayish, if there was only one other guy in the class, I think I'd want to sit next to him.  For... symmetry, and to avoid awkward.

But really though, forced situations like "being sat next to each other" are inherently awkward.  Strike up a brief conversation on the way out of class.  There's less pressure, which means they're more likely to engage.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #101247 on: January 27, 2016, 06:54:40 pm »

I just can't put myself in a situation where I can talk to girls where I can actually feel good about it and not have it be awkward or frustrating, even in a class full of girls. I really just want to fucking do something but I don't even fucking know where to start.
Talk to them just like you would any other normal person. It's not like they're some other strange species that speaks a different language; assuming you are speaking english (which is a remarkably nongendered language in most aspects) something like 95% of all discussions are going to play out near identically regardless of if you are talking to a guy or a girl. Talking about the weather, talking about classes, talking about hobbies, talking about homework, they're all going to play out virtually identical when talking to either a girl or a guy (seriously, there's more variance between talking to a sports jock guy and a computer guy than there is between talking to an psychology nerd guy or a psychology nerd girl). Just talk to them like you would to anybody else and you'll get along just fine.

In truth the vast majority of cases what people are being awkward about isn't talking to the other gender, it's being awkward about talking to someone that they view as a potential date. Once you drop that factor by just talking to people like normal it's pretty much the same in the basic conversational structure regardless of who it is. As for the best times to strike up conversation, Rolan hit the nail pretty much on the head. Before/after class are good places for conversations, during class... not so much, but that's just an awkwardness in general, not anything to do with the person's gender.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #101248 on: January 27, 2016, 07:00:40 pm »

This is going to sound dumb but...
Just do it.  Really, just throw it out there and see what sticks.

I was an absurdly low-self-esteem, awkward, reclusive freak.  But I tried awkward small talk with people, who generally politely blew me off.  As well they should.

But in each stage of my life, 1 or 2 people actually responded.  Other people are lonely, too, and interested in the same geeky stuff.  Thus I found (not formed, found) friendships which helped me become who I am.

The consequence of failure is... nothing.  You tried to be friendly and failed, who cares?  Keep trying until you find someone.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #101249 on: January 27, 2016, 07:03:12 pm »

Literally talking about the weather.  Go from there, if there's chemistry.
Or if they seem awkward too, try relatively popular video games or literature.
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