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[Duke 2.0]

 I suppose I was more freaked out when they said things suggesting they thought they were going to die soon. The situation sounds more like life-threatening situation than gonna die soon situation, but I really want to cheer them up and I don't know how to manage this. We are good friends but again everything I can think of falls into those categories of either giving up to the depression they are having or extending myself too far, although the second category may be more a problem I myself have than any open issue with the relationship.

[Vector]

I suppose I was more freaked out when they said things suggesting they thought they were going to die soon. The situation sounds more like life-threatening situation than gonna die soon situation, but I really want to cheer them up and I don't know how to manage this. We are good friends but again everything I can think of falls into those categories of either giving up to the depression they are having or extending myself too far, although the second category may be more a problem I myself have than any open issue with the relationship.

Erm... I think you may be worrying a bit too much, in the case of "life-threatening."  I spent my years from 7 or so until early adolescence scared I'd die of the same genetic disease that knocked off my cousin, and every time my friends freaked out over my medical exams it made it just a little bit harder.  Of course, these were people who were saying things like "What?  Why didn't you tell me when we started to be friends?" (in a sort of "I wouldn't have ever spoken to you if I thought you might be dying" sort of way).  Don't do that.

Until he's more certain that he's dying, all he needs is a little hope and concern.  Just be kind.

[JoshuaFH]

Playing Nethack, had -25 AC, +5 Grayswandir/+2 Silver Sabre, two or three wands of death, all the necessary intrinsics, I was pretty much ready.

While heading down to start on Gehennom, I killed a frost giant, drank his potion, polymorphed into dragon, lost +5 Shirt/+5 cloak of displacement, was waiting it out when something came around the corner, I attacked without looking, bit a cockatrice.

:c

And what's worse is I know I won't be able to rest until I do it all the way.  I have to beat this game.  It's part of my cred.

Goddamnit, have you been reading the Nethack thread at all? I must have reiterated the phrase "Don't drink-test potions. Drink-testing is bad for you" atleast ten or twenty times over the life of that thread.

[Dakk]

This topic made me sad today >:C

Mainly its because it reminded me that my grandma is totaly senile at her 83 years old now, and I can feel she's going to die sometime soon. And then there's my father, whose stomach problems coupled with spine joint degradation are making him weaker month after month. He's an ex-seargent so he's pretty strong, so it doesn't show alot, but I have this feeling that it is going to happen when I least expect it.
Two years ago he got hospitalized with a serious internal stomach injury and had a hemorrhage, which got close to killing him. We have different personalities, so when we disagree on some random subject we tend to have arguments, though its rather rare, but when we do I get mad at him, then it starts to suck even more cause it makes me think of all this. Almost everybody at home has nice stable jobs and I'm doing pretty well on lawschool, so we'll have no real financial issues if he dies, but I don't wanna think about what will happen to my mom if he dies years earlier then her. She's not much younger then him, but he's her life, and I know I won't be able to take care of her if all comes to the worst. By that time I'll have a career and my own life to worry about, I'll have to trust my sister with that since among all of us 3, she's the one thats most likely to be able to properly take care of her.

[lordnincompoop]

I'm going too return my PC so they can replace the GPU tomorrow.

My main concerns are that they won't do it, or that they will just do something else (I'm really quite certain that the GPU has to be replaced, and wouldn't be satisfied with anything else), and that the new one will be worse that the previous (either by having the same problem or having lower specs than the current one).

Hopefully it'll all go smoothly. 

[MaximumZero]

I am sad because there are no new replies on the thread for my game. It's in my sig, even! [/shameless self promotion]

[Retro]

I am sad because there are no new replies on the thread for my game. It's in my sig, even! [/shameless self promotion]

You should probably put more info up than "I have a game" and an un-named url if you want people to want to click it.

[Rakonas]

I'm pretty damn depressed because my friend just died out of nowhere.

[Duke 2.0]

 Ate at MacDonalds today because screw it, I only have five bucks in my pocket at the time and I'm hungry. The atmosphere at that place just bled with the soul-crushing corporate slave feeling, of people who only work here because they have to and they messed up so they have to take care of a baby or something and can't hold a job anywhere else. Third most depressing thing I saw all week. I made a big motion of thanking the employees as I left to spice up their day a little bit, but I don't think I gave the intended effect.

 And people who have shown support to me, Rakonas needs it much more than I do.

[Schilcote]

Ate at MacDonalds today because screw it, I only have five bucks in my pocket at the time and I'm hungry. The atmosphere at that place just bled with the soul-crushing corporate slave feeling, of people who only work here because they have to and they messed up so they have to take care of a baby or something and can't hold a job anywhere else. Third most depressing thing I saw all week. I made a big motion of thanking the employees as I left to spice up their day a little bit, but I don't think I gave the intended effect.

 And people who have shown support to me, Rakonas needs it much more than I do.

One word: Sheetz. It pwns McDonalds to Tau Ceti and back. Though I guess they don't build them outside of Pennsylvania...

[Rakonas]

 And people who have shown support to me, Rakonas needs it much more than I do.

I think I might be fine... I feel worse for the friends we shared and her family, she was only 16 

[Aqizzar]

Note to self: read more replies.  Jesus Christ, that's awful man.

Ate at MacDonalds today because screw it, I only have five bucks in my pocket at the time and I'm hungry. The atmosphere at that place just bled with the soul-crushing corporate slave feeling, of people who only work here because they have to and they messed up so they have to take care of a baby or something and can't hold a job anywhere else. Third most depressing thing I saw all week. I made a big motion of thanking the employees as I left to spice up their day a little bit, but I don't think I gave the intended effect.

I seriously doubt they're as depressed about working there as you think you are looking at it.  For one, it's normal to them.  They agreed to work there.

Besides, just go to the drive through.

[ToonyMan]

I probably shouldn't mention this because it's humorously dark or darkly humorous, I don't know.

My grand father has an odd reaction about getting old, scratch that, I should say my great grand father.  I'm pretty sure he's in his 80's and he's staying at one of my aunt's/uncle's house right now, because he won't take none of that old people home crap.  He's still perfectly coherent and you should be able to talk to him, but to the point he's perfectly fine with dying.  He accepts it.

I went over one day and he was picking out like freakin' funeral cards or something for himself, he wants everything planned out so that when he dies everybody will know what to do/what he wanted.  I think it's pretty cool but of course everybody else in the family thinks he's crazy.  I don't think he is.

[Schilcote]

Nothing wrong with not being afraid to die. After all, if you're a Christian it just means that you're getting to the good part!

[Gunner-Chan]

Not too weird. I wrote out my will a week after my first heart attack and I update it and review it often enough to make sure it's still what I want.