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[Lord Shonus]

If you burn yourself regularly, get an aloe plant. That helps a lot.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Ugh, new burn~
Not really an issue, but my roommate is so annoying about burns that I just cover them in large sports band-aids and pass them off as scratches or scrapes~ :\
Of course, it's really a shitty way to dress a burn wound~

....Your roommate has a.....problem with people having burn wounds?

Furthermore, how are you regularly getting burn wounds? When it comes to minor injuries, burns are fairly uncommon.

[ein]

Cooking, mostly~
High pain tolerance means I hardly feel it when I press my arm against a toaster oven, or hot knife~
I've gotten a few from working with corrosive chemicals, too, but I don't do that very often~

[MetalSlimeHunt]

There's high pain tolerance, and then there's abnormal pain tolerance. Not being able to immediately feel red-hot metal touching you is the latter. If you haven't been to a doctor about this, you should go soon.

[JoshuaFH]

Against my better judgment, I decided to give Wii Resort: Table Tennis another try.

I succeed in demolishing pretty much every single npc opponent up until I hit 1500 skill points. Up until the magical number 1500, the world was my oyster. Once you hit 1500 though, there is only ONE opponent waiting for you: Lucia, the Table Tennis champion.

Lucia is a young, left-handed girl, clearly still in her teens, sporting pigtails and a flowery dress, and she will mercilessly pummel your sorry ass into the ground over and over again.

Basically, each opponent before Lucia can pass themselves off as a human player, that occasionally makes mistakes, and has bad habits that can be exploited.

Lucia, on the other hand, is superhuman. She is clearly where the game designers thought to themselves "You know what? Fuck the player." and made her a nearly perfect Table Tennis player. She moves at double your speed, has godlike precision, impervious reflexes, she hits her balls harder, brushes off smashes, hits chips like nothing, and her ball control is such that she can hit anywhere on the table at any given time she wants. Anywhere she wants, she can hit it there.

Apparently, it's not enough that I have to control a Mii with the physical abilities of an aging arthritic, but I have to face a woman who has sold her soul to the devil for unbeatable ping pong skills.

This is so demeaning! This is supposed to be a relaxing, casual game! How could they jolly stomp the player's self-esteem in such a grandiose manner by including an NPC that can 0-6 you like nothing?! This isn't a fair challenge, this is just sadism.

For clues on how to beat her, I look up guides online, and I'm swamped by accounts of players having to practice for weeks against her before finally winning. That is ridiculous; this game is ridiculous.

[Spaghetti7]

Take the game, Wii and monitor (just to be sure) outside, put them in a pile, burn them, jump on then, take a chainsaw to them, scream profanities at them, put them in a giant blender then throw them off a cliff.
Rinse and repeat until only ashes are left, and scatter even them across every peak in the Alps.

On a more serious note, I had something like this on Team Fortress 2 today, where I was constantly being killed and couldn't do anything about it. The only solution I could find was to get off before I hunted everyone on that game down and skinned them alive. 
So that's my useful input.

[Simmura McCrea]

I'm in a good mood so I'm giving out internet huggles to all. Yes, even you.

[Spaghetti7]

I'm in a good mood so I'm giving out internet huggles to all. Yes, even you.

*sniff* You're such a good person.

[Dsarker]

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Against my better judgment, I decided to give Wii Resort: Table Tennis another try.

I succeed in demolishing pretty much every single npc opponent up until I hit 1500 skill points. Up until the magical number 1500, the world was my oyster. Once you hit 1500 though, there is only ONE opponent waiting for you: Lucia, the Table Tennis champion.

Lucia is a young, left-handed girl, clearly still in her teens, sporting pigtails and a flowery dress, and she will mercilessly pummel your sorry ass into the ground over and over again.

Basically, each opponent before Lucia can pass themselves off as a human player, that occasionally makes mistakes, and has bad habits that can be exploited.

Lucia, on the other hand, is superhuman. She is clearly where the game designers thought to themselves "You know what? Fuck the player." and made her a nearly perfect Table Tennis player. She moves at double your speed, has godlike precision, impervious reflexes, she hits her balls harder, brushes off smashes, hits chips like nothing, and her ball control is such that she can hit anywhere on the table at any given time she wants. Anywhere she wants, she can hit it there.

Apparently, it's not enough that I have to control a Mii with the physical abilities of an aging arthritic, but I have to face a woman who has sold her soul to the devil for unbeatable ping pong skills.

This is so demeaning! This is supposed to be a relaxing, casual game! How could they jolly stomp the player's self-esteem in such a grandiose manner by including an NPC that can 0-6 you like nothing?! This isn't a fair challenge, this is just sadism.

For clues on how to beat her, I look up guides online, and I'm swamped by accounts of players having to practice for weeks against her before finally winning. That is ridiculous; this game is ridiculous.

This just gave me an image of someone doing weeks of real life training, the whole deal, montage....then when the trainer says 'You're ready now. Go get her!' he turns to the tv, turns the wii on, and starts playing it.

[olemars]

I've discovered the saddest webcomic. That's a reasonably representative sample, I am thinking.

Why can't I stop laughing at these things.

EDIT: I take it back, the only possible response here is "D'awwww"

This thing is fascinating. It's a bit of a roller coaster though. Some are abysmally sad while others are hilarious.

[ggamer]

right, we're in minneapolis now. my brother and his wife gave me some birthday stuff, and we went to console grandpa.

Viewing's in a couple hours.

[Truean]

I keep having horrible dates with seemingly nice but actually horrible men. [sigh] (Never more than one date but still).

[Willfor]

I keep having horrible dates with seemingly nice but actually horrible men. [sigh] (Never more than one date but still).

I'm guessing that one you were telling me about the other day is included with these?

[ChairmanPoo]

I flunked today's exam badly

[Vector]

It's being a very blah morning.  I slept for 12 hours, dreamed about being a dwarven prostitute.  I was woken up by the sounds of my roommate yelling at her father.  Then I got up, exercised, whatever.  My hair has already grown a lot more than I wish it had.  It seems, unfortunately, that it has so much body that I can brush it out to the width of my shoulders...

I guess I'll just grow it all the way back out, or something, or cut it all off.  It's causing me too much confusion this way.

Today, I feel disjointed from the world.  I'd like to hollow out into a blade of grass or solidify into a stone and just get stepped on.  Life as a human is too complex for me.

Or, if it were possible to swim in an ocean of pure logic, far away from all social obligations and demand, a world free from all emotion but joy, I would gladly drown in that sea.