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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #49185 on: July 12, 2012, 10:29:14 am »

A plot synopsis would be good too. :D
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #49186 on: July 12, 2012, 11:08:25 am »

I am actually considering driving home for lunch so I can bid on a diablo 3 auction at the last minute.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #49187 on: July 12, 2012, 11:09:26 am »

Just so long as you're not paying real money.
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For, in order that men should resist injustice, something more is necessary than that they should think injustice unpleasant. They must think injustice absurd; above all, they must think it startling. They must retain the violence of a virgin astonishment. When the pessimist looks at any infamy, it is to him, after all, only a repetition of the infamy of existence. But the optimist sees injustice as something discordant and unexpected, and it stings him into action.

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #49188 on: July 12, 2012, 11:23:44 am »

I saw someone die today. Well, not quite. But I did see the start of her death throes. Poor woman was going home today, too, but she had some singular bad luck.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #49189 on: July 12, 2012, 11:30:59 am »

Rough times, that.

For myself, I'm sad that so many people I know can't seem to distinguish between "This is my fault" and "I'm the only one who can fix this". There are a lot of people I care about, beating themselves up needlessly, and I can't even try to help because it seems like telling the truth always comes off as confirming their greatest fear, and I don't know how I can change that or if I'm even making sense in that distinction.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #49190 on: July 12, 2012, 11:35:33 am »

Poor woman was going home today
Some would say she did.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #49191 on: July 12, 2012, 11:38:10 am »

was downloading World of Warcraft but keeps on shutting down....
It's a sign.  As somebody who has played entirely too much before finally swearing it off. (I have an endgame character to prove it)  WoW's glory days are WELL behind it.  Subscriptions are dropping like flies, and it's my opinion they have been circling the drain since cataclysm. 

The only endgame content worth doing were raids, and they made even that meaningless by introducing dummed down versions of raids that a large number of people can just AFK through and still see all the raid content, up to and including the defeat of the current final boss.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #49192 on: July 12, 2012, 11:55:50 am »

I cut my tongue on a soda can and now I can only taste blood.

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My sads today are inconsequential.
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For, in order that men should resist injustice, something more is necessary than that they should think injustice unpleasant. They must think injustice absurd; above all, they must think it startling. They must retain the violence of a virgin astonishment. When the pessimist looks at any infamy, it is to him, after all, only a repetition of the infamy of existence. But the optimist sees injustice as something discordant and unexpected, and it stings him into action.

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #49193 on: July 12, 2012, 11:59:53 am »

was downloading World of Warcraft but keeps on shutting down....
Subscriptions are dropping like flies, and it's my opinion they have been circling the drain since cataclysm. 

This seems to describe Blizzard in general these days, minus Starcraft 2.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #49194 on: July 12, 2012, 03:08:16 pm »

Right! So, novel synopsis!

(I should really be cleaning the house...eh.)


The novel's name is Zero for Three; it will soon become apparent why. (Those of you not fortunate enough to live under the glorious rule of Elizabeth II, 0 for 3 is a cricketing score; it means that a team with that score got an out (like in baseball) three times but has scored no points).

There are four main characters: the protagonist, named Ross (though as yet sans last name), and three of his girlfriends (I shall explain), in order of appearance Rachel, Alana and Caroline.

The thing about this novel is that it was in its infant stages conceived during a crush gone horribly, horribly wrong about a year and a half ago- serious depression projecting itself onto a teacher crush. It got as far as my cutting my wrist with my razor over her (eep). Don't tell my father (who was the poor woman's boss).

Anyway, your life is fair game and all that, so over that time the novel has evolved. The main character, Ross (no last name given) is a sort of Stephen Dedalus construction- take the author, add some, subtract some, generally mix things around a bit. The main point is that he is cast as clearly quite brilliant (graduate student by profession) but also completely neurotic (clingy as fuck, self-destructively romantic, depressed).

Rachel is the only one who isn't designed to be completely dysfunctional. She's his first girlfriend, and the only one who can
seem to keep him in check rather than exaggerate his doormattishness and clinginess. (He hangs on to her far more than is healthy.) There's a certain Freudian overtone to this: she's a maternal type, which his desperate need for affection, emotional stability and security needs. Unfortunately, about a week before he plans to propose, she falls through a glass door, cutting herself on the jugular, while he stands there falling apart and too indecisive to apply a tourniquet or call an ambulance immediately, and that's that.

Where Rachel was a foil, Alana (whom he dates out of desperation more than anything else) is a mirror: she, like him, is near-suicidally clingy, depressed, cuddly, introverted. So, they just sort of feed on each other's neuroticism, horribly, until she throws herself into a river. In January (Seasonal Affective Disorder is likely to be in play). A few days later, so does he, although he gets stopped at the last minute and fails to succeed in killing himself.

So now we get to Caroline.They are all perfectly designed for him, you might say, just in different ways: Rachel kept him sane; Alana was his mirror image; Caroline is a horrribly manipulative and abusive bitch.

He is a doormat.

It was a match made in hell.

Because, since she sees him as her toy and he's perfectly willing to play the role, she likes to see how far he'll go, since he's such a
wreck. BDSM? Let's see if he'll be the dom. He's horrified by the proposition, of course; he can't stand the idea of hurting her. It
takes an entire hour of cajoling him and breaking him down before he relents.

Unfortunately, he has a streak of deeply repressed sadism, and an equally repressed desire to take revenge on her. Combine this with the
aforementioned mental instability and things will not end well. He, to his horror, enjoys using a riding crop on her; indeed after a few
minutes it's not enough; he starts whipping her harder and more intensely, and finally loses it completely. Against her protests/safe
words, he rapes her, then pulls a cricket bat out of the closet and beats her to death.

He is, of course, horrified at the monster he is, or perhaps has always been. So he runs out of the flat outside. The problem, of
course, is that leather is distinctly thin, and it's winter. He collapses from hypothermia, and enters a sort of dream-before-dying, in which he finds himself in...heaven, of a sort, in that there's a floor, and it extends infinitely in all directions; however, it is bisected by a wall of glass; on the other side is Alana. It dawns him, after a bit, that this is hell, and they are condemned to pine for each other for eternity, being unable to communicate or touch but fully able to watch each other fall to bits

Sorry if that sounds strange or bizarre or wasn't explained well. I've had almost no sleep recently.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #49195 on: July 12, 2012, 06:05:42 pm »

Asked my dad's opinion on this. I should've known better.
He said it was a load of crap, thought it was funny, and that if people don't like Daniel Tosh they shouldn't listen to his comedy.

Dhokarena, that sounds pretty interesting. But I don't enjoy romance stories, so I'm not sure how valid my opinion about it is. Keep up the work; it could be a worthwhile story.
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« Reply #49196 on: July 12, 2012, 06:18:47 pm »

Asked my dad's opinion on this. I should've known better.
He said it was a load of crap, thought it was funny, and that if people don't like Daniel Tosh they shouldn't listen to his comedy.
Dude's an asshole who made some extremely poor taste jokes, but there are quite a few comedians who make a living off poor taste jokes and asshole behavior. If there's a problem here (beyond the normal problem of offending and insulting people), it's whether the woman in the audience had reason to feel threatened and not just humiliated. I'm not buying that unless people were getting up off their chairs, or verbally stating they actually would attack her, or something like that.

As it stands I just see a guy profiting off misanthropes who laugh at that shit.



Dhokarena56, a plot synopsis is nice and all, but whether it will really turn out good or not depends on execution. You can have the greatest idea in the world and botch it, or a horrible idea that blossoms into something wonderful. Until you make it, neither we or you will know what it will really be like. So make it :)
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For, in order that men should resist injustice, something more is necessary than that they should think injustice unpleasant. They must think injustice absurd; above all, they must think it startling. They must retain the violence of a virgin astonishment. When the pessimist looks at any infamy, it is to him, after all, only a repetition of the infamy of existence. But the optimist sees injustice as something discordant and unexpected, and it stings him into action.

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« Reply #49197 on: July 12, 2012, 06:29:31 pm »

Asked my dad's opinion on this. I should've known better.
He said it was a load of crap, thought it was funny, and that if people don't like Daniel Tosh they shouldn't listen to his comedy.
Dude's an asshole who made some extremely poor taste jokes, but there are quite a few comedians who make a living off poor taste jokes and asshole behavior. If there's a problem here (beyond the normal problem of offending and insulting people), it's whether the woman in the audience had reason to feel threatened and not just humiliated. I'm not buying that unless people were getting up off their chairs, or verbally stating they actually would attack her, or something like that.

As it stands I just see a guy profiting off misanthropes who laugh at that shit.
The problem is the number of people who think he's funny and see nothing wrong with his comedy. Petitioning is a bit ridiculous, but more people need to realize that he's sick and that sort of thing isn't okay. That's why his reaction bugged me, but maybe I didn't explain it very well.
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« Reply #49198 on: July 12, 2012, 09:39:50 pm »

When/if I have a kid that is old enough to play the games that I played as a child, the games will be like 20 years old.
Even now, with the significant nostalgia factor  the graphics (for most of them, some of them like super mario world manage to stay sharp now, and probably will as well far into the future) and age (which includes stuff like interface improvements, gaming hardware/software, ect) of the games present a significant problem to enjoyment, and I am the type of person that cares less about graphics then 99% of the gaming population

For the most part it will probably like me trying dagerfall (EDIT: Arena, not daggerfall) ~10 years after it came out, I wanted to like it, but I just couldn't with the terribad graphics (which were great for its day) and the interface just killed it for me.

And in 10 years, the will be even more aged, and he/she/they probably will try them for 5 minutes then go: "YUCK, look at those graphics, and these controls suck". Even if my kids have good taste in games (and by good I mean similar to mine) they probably won't really like them and play them because comparatively they are crap.  :-\
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #49199 on: July 12, 2012, 10:20:30 pm »

Kids don't really care about graphics that much. at least not at the ages they start gaming at. They tend to care more about doing something with a parent than anything else.
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