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Author Topic: Things that made you sad today thread.  (Read 9699140 times)

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #42045 on: January 14, 2012, 05:50:17 pm »

Ug. My internet is acting all fucked up. For some reason I can not connect to any site other then this one. Including my homepage and Google...
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #42046 on: January 14, 2012, 06:08:41 pm »

Friends in floods quote

I remember last year when we had floods... we didn't have floods that bad. Some houses in the area were flooded to waist depth and were ruined, and despite our council saying 'Yeah we'll fix it for free' they still have people living in emergency accomodation (read: old dingy caravans) even now.

My family was lucky, the water came as high as the road. Though if a levee burst, we would've been certainly flooded out.

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #42047 on: January 14, 2012, 06:15:58 pm »

Ug. My internet is acting all fucked up. For some reason I can not connect to any site other then this one. Including my homepage and Google...

Must...check...Bay12...
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #42048 on: January 14, 2012, 10:07:18 pm »

World of Warcraft disappointed me again.  I should really have come to expect it by now.

For those of you that don't know WoW uses a talent tree system a lot like Diablo.  So that a player could customize aspects of their character.  Great in theory.  Except for if you are not using a very specific set of talents you are not viable for endgame content.

I had managed to make a nonstandard talent set and still compete on the raid level. I enjoyed being a special unique flower.  Now however blizzard made the next teir of equipment require a talent in order to use it to it's full potential.  The equipment's big thing is that it applies a rather significant buff to a particular item on the talent tree.

An item on the talent tree I did not have and do not like, even with the buff, thus the equipment is useless to me.  However you MUST have that equipment with all bonuses to remain on par with the content, there are literally NO alternative sets of equipment in high level WoW.  It's have this gear for this class and type or GTFO.  No other pieces of equipment even come close.

So I went and respecced losing the majority of my "special flower"-ness so I could get that talent(Feral Druid: Blood in the Water) so I could use that gear, that requires me to use a skill that I find less than useless in a raid setting(Ferocious Bite), which is what the gear is intended for.  I lost a good portion of critical hit rate, bear form survivability, and became a little more restricted when shapeshifting. 

I am now exactly like every other feral druid in the game thanks to stat railroading.  Bah.  Donno why I still play that game.  Probably just because of most of my friends being on it.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #42049 on: January 14, 2012, 10:10:46 pm »

I am now exactly like every other feral druid in the game thanks to stat railroading.
No you're not.

But then again I have no chance of a snowflake in hell of ever participating in endgame content so whatever.


I just checked the calendar.

Gods how I hate anniversaries.
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« Reply #42050 on: January 15, 2012, 01:54:43 am »

The more time I spend in that city, the less I want to leave~
Because everytime I go, I have to leave~ :<

On an unrelated note, and more of a wtf than sad, but whatever, my therapist never responded to my call, so I ended up not seeing her, and having an extra hour to spend in town~

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #42051 on: January 15, 2012, 07:24:45 am »

Starting to feel like I'm getting less good at being a father as I get older (or maybe it's as the kids get older). That's not the way it's supposed to work. You get better at something the more you do it, right??

Yesterday I raged at the kids so loud the dog started barking at me. And the dog is, for all practical purposes, deaf.  :-[
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« Reply #42052 on: January 15, 2012, 07:54:58 am »

Starting to feel like I'm getting less good at being a father as I get older (or maybe it's as the kids get older). That's not the way it's supposed to work. You get better at something the more you do it, right??

Yesterday I raged at the kids so loud the dog started barking at me. And the dog is, for all practical purposes, deaf.  :-[

I feel the same way.  I have a lot less patience than I used to... or it's getting distributed across more daily demands, so the kids don't get as much as they used to.  It doesn't help that brothers fight constantly, and there's nothing you can do about it.
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« Reply #42053 on: January 15, 2012, 08:14:23 am »

It's because of three reasons. 1, the older you get the less connected to your own childhood you get, and the less you understand your kids; 2, the more time you spend with them the more you take them for granted; and 3, the older you get the older they get ;)
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« Reply #42054 on: January 15, 2012, 08:40:24 am »

Starting to feel like I'm getting less good at being a father as I get older (or maybe it's as the kids get older). That's not the way it's supposed to work. You get better at something the more you do it, right??

Yesterday I raged at the kids so loud the dog started barking at me. And the dog is, for all practical purposes, deaf.  :-[

I feel the same way.  I have a lot less patience than I used to... or it's getting distributed across more daily demands, so the kids don't get as much as they used to.  It doesn't help that brothers fight constantly, and there's nothing you can do about it.
EXACTLY. The sibling in-fighting is what drives 2/3 of the rage. Doesn't help that I was raised an only child, so I have no personal experience to base a reasonable response on. My wife was one of 3, so she's completely indifferent to my daughter taking her younger brother's hand and slapping him with it. When I called my daughter on it and made her tell Mommy what she had done, my wife's response was a wistful sigh and "Yeah, I remember doing that..."

NOT HELPING, MOM.  ::)


But yeah...the patience/anger thing really bothers me. I used to have a serious problems with a short-fuse temper when I was younger. And now I'm starting to feel like that again, where things ramp up my irritation faster than I can safely vent until my head throbs and I just explode. Starting to wonder if children were a wise decision for me, statistically.  :-[
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« Reply #42055 on: January 15, 2012, 02:38:09 pm »

I have nothing productive to do today.  I already did all my homework.  Worse, my sleep schedule is all fucked up so I ended up staying up all night last night.  Whenever I do that I get this intense feeling of waste, like I'm throwing the whole day away.  Technically I am, but I'm not normally this cognizant of it.
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« Reply #42056 on: January 15, 2012, 02:54:44 pm »

Haha, my mom raised me after having pretty much raised her sister's first three kids, and they let me know that

a. I was totally unwelcome; they called me dirty, freak, and pig.  I never called them anything.
b. My mom had already used up any interest in fun on them.

She really had used up a lot of her steam.  I never had a birthday party, and I wasn't allowed to do things like Girl Scouts or team sports either.
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« Reply #42057 on: January 15, 2012, 02:59:33 pm »

Vector I am going to give you such a birthday party that you'll never want one again. Step 1: Kidnapping, because probably I won't be able to convince you to go along with Step 2 through rational argument. Step 2: Chuck E. Cheese. Step 3: Hospital visit to get you checked out for food poisoning. Can't be too careful. Step 4: Cake, and pointy hats.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #42058 on: January 15, 2012, 03:04:52 pm »

One of those things I'll never know about, being an only child.  Sounds a bit like my mother's stories of growing up, like when her grandparents left her behind and took the rest of her sisters to Disney Land.

I never really had a "Birthday Party" except about 7, 8, and 9, and none of them were memorable.  At least, I guess not, since I don't remember them.
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« Reply #42059 on: January 15, 2012, 03:17:58 pm »

My mother has always tended to shelter me a lot, then started getting very angry when she realized I wasn't going out there and doing things. Then when I got friends and started going out there and doing things for the first time in my life, she got angry because I was being a nuisance, she didn't like my friends, and she didn't like it when she didn't know where I was or what I was doing.


Ok, have you guys ever seen "Malcom in the Middle"? Well if you remove Dewey from the picture, it is eerily like a caricatured version of my home life growing up. I have a somewhat psychopathic middle brother, my eldest brother has been out of the house and a thousand miles away ever since I was... what, 10? My father is a passive personality, and my mother is a kind of abusive control freak.

I've never actually been that much of a genius, although everyone always considered me one(which has always irritated the hell out of me, i r not that smrt!). There wasn't much shenanigans either, and there are plenty of other details that are off, but abstractly they're pretty similar.
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