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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #37290 on: September 23, 2011, 03:59:16 pm »

I would have pseudo-expected it too.
Wow, you must be a pseudo-time traveler!
I pseudo-try.
So, how far back have you gone in your pseudo-TARDIS?
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By creating a gobstopper that never loses its flavor he broke thermodynamics
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #37291 on: September 23, 2011, 04:02:09 pm »

sudo stop with the pseudo-jokes.
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« Reply #37292 on: September 23, 2011, 04:06:13 pm »

Nah, it's a pseudo-fad with some pseudo-momentum by now.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #37293 on: September 23, 2011, 05:49:23 pm »

 There was just a massive accident involving a school bus near where I live. I called 911 and checked around for anybody needing help but a cop was there in under a minute and asked me to stand back. It's a pretty frightening situation.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #37294 on: September 23, 2011, 05:58:34 pm »

There was just a massive accident involving a school bus near where I live. I called 911 and checked around for anybody needing help but a cop was there in under a minute and asked me to stand back. It's a pretty frightening situation.
Oh God, keep us updated please.  That's horrible.
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« Reply #37295 on: September 23, 2011, 06:08:18 pm »

 It was an empty bus, so no real problem with kids. I was just looking out for the other two cars and the bus driver, who seemed like he was taking charge of the situation before the cop came. Now there are a lot more cops and ambulances. It's raining so as soon as the cop took charge I headed home. I'm thankful I didn't see what required the ambulances.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #37296 on: September 23, 2011, 07:04:09 pm »

It was an empty bus, so no real problem with kids. I was just looking out for the other two cars and the bus driver, who seemed like he was taking charge of the situation before the cop came. Now there are a lot more cops and ambulances. It's raining so as soon as the cop took charge I headed home. I'm thankful I didn't see what required the ambulances.

Hopefully they're just there as a precaution...
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« Reply #37297 on: September 23, 2011, 07:07:06 pm »

 I just played through the Penumbra series and enjoyed it quite a bit overall. I found out though that they don't plan to make the last game that would wrap everything up :(.
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« Reply #37298 on: September 23, 2011, 08:33:40 pm »

I just played through the Penumbra series and enjoyed it quite a bit overall. I found out though that they don't plan to make the last game that would wrap everything up :(.
I think it pretty much wrapped up in the second game. The third was just an add-on; many (perhaps most) players don't accept it as part of the series proper. The main theory is that it's just a hallucination while he's passed out, which is supported by basically everything that happens. Another theory-track is that:
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Any way it stands, I didn't like Requiem. It lacked the story and horror that made the series good; it was just another puzzle game, albeit an above-average one. Did you enjoy it?
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« Reply #37299 on: September 23, 2011, 09:42:41 pm »

 Eh, I liked Requiem as its own game but not so much as a Penumbra game. I'm still going to hold out hope for a real sequel, I think I would even settle for a prequel. There's still a lot of untapped potential there in my opinion.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #37300 on: September 23, 2011, 10:38:11 pm »

2010 census data isn't entirely done available and available to the public, making one of my projects slightly harder to complete. This means that I have 2000 census data to work with ... which is next to worthless due to being completely out of date.... Meh.
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« Reply #37301 on: September 23, 2011, 11:16:58 pm »

So I went to have a flu jab.
We all went and grabbed some pizza on the way back home. Halfway back I'd developed a huge headache, when we got home and I finished eating pizza I went to bed and promptly collapsed.
I was expecting to have a bad reaction but not one that quickly. For some bizarre reason it just seems to have gone straight to my head, and made me feel light-headed and weak. I basically lay there for three or four hours and now my head is feeling better, but unfortunately my arm now really hurts. Ugh.

On the upside I was just playing Tropico 4, and amidst all the other comments of it's painfully ridiculous caricature world I heard this on the radio:
<presenter says something I don't catch>
American ambassador: For the last time, I did not have - with that woman.
Penultimo: ... What did you just say?


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Last time I went, they wasted my time telling me how smart I am.  At length.  Also about how I seem to speak a foreign language, and how fascinating it is.  I really don't want to have to sit through that again, as it mostly made me feel miserable.
I like it that people here treat me like a person.  Psychologists treat me like an experiment, and I can feel them trying to exert control, which drives me nuts because they don't tend to be very good at it.  Not looking like they're controlling people, I mean.  Not that I'm good at it.  I don't like the blunt psychical force method, though.
Yay psychology! Let's do some psychoanalysis.

Last time I went, they wasted my time telling me how smart I am.  At length.
This I'm very familiar with. The most common psychiatric tool is positive reinforcement. Generally taking the form of complementing their good aspects and good decisions. Usually people that come to them are used to having the psychological crap beaten out of them by themselves and people around them. A lot of people benefit a lot from having someone to listen to them talk about everything that they feel is wrong with them and have them say, "No, you don't suck as much as you think you do."
This also has the effect of making the patient like them more, except I usually see it plain as day and I don't actually like having my ego puffed up. Even if it needs it.

...  Also about how I seem to speak a foreign language, and how fascinating it is.
Ok, saying you seem to speak a foreign language sounds like a bad move to me. It sounds tantamount to saying, "I don't understand you at all." Which is not something I'd personally want to hear.
As for saying it's fascinating... Well for a psychiatrist every person is a puzzle. They have to figure out how they work in order to understand how to help them.

You are unfortunately an interesting person. I can empathise with someone wanting to sit down and gain a complex understanding of you. But somehow I get the feeling they won't have much success.

Psychologists treat me like an experiment, and I can feel them trying to exert control, which drives me nuts because they don't tend to be very good at it.  Not looking like they're controlling people, I mean.  Not that I'm good at it.  I don't like the blunt psychical force method, though.
Yes, this.
I actually do consider myself somewhat good at controlling people, at least about as much as a person can be good at controlling people. I try very hard not to, but it seems to be an inevitable fact that if you have the power to manipulate sooner or later you'll try to use it.
It irritates me no end to watch people try to manipulate me when they're bad at it.
The two big things that always irritated me with psychiatrists is when they try to lead you into your own arguments, and when they drop a series of increasingly unsubtle hints trying to get you to have a particular revelation or touch on a particular subject.
Usually it's not even something I haven't already gone over before.
From what I can tell it seems to be a psychiatrist's job to manipulate people. But yeesh, have some tact!

Anyway. That's my analysis of your psychoanalyst.
And for the record, in my experience psychologists tend to treat you like an experiment. Psychologists tend to be focused on the medicine side of things, whereas psychiatrists don't do drugs.
Psychologists do therapy, but since they're in high demand and usually have little time for individual patients, that's usually done mostly by psychiatrists since they haven't undergone the extremely extensive education needed to dish out medicine. Since a lot of guesswork goes into the use of psychoactive drugs. Psychologists do a lot of probing.
Then there's counsellors that don't have the full psychology degree, but since most therapy is fairly simple this isn't a big deal.
In my experience, counsellors, psychiatrists, and psychologists are increasingly empirical as you go up the ladder.
They often get mixed up. It's good to know the difference though.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #37302 on: September 23, 2011, 11:43:57 pm »

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #37303 on: September 24, 2011, 03:50:58 am »


I would have pseudo-expected it too.
Wow, you must be a pseudo-time traveler!
Pseudo-time travel is easy, we're all doing it at a rate of 1s/s :P

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« Reply #37304 on: September 24, 2011, 08:16:36 am »

Family went out to the city, with the babies, leaving me at home alone....with my little brother.
Who has taken over the computer because "I have a draft I need to do that will take an hour and a half." Then he'll sit at the computer for another hour looking at sports scores.

I was really looking forward to playing Cave Story all day, too. :(

(Posting this from my EEEPC, which has 4GB total storage and can't play anything more intensive than Roguelikes.)
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