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Author Topic: Things that made you sad today thread.  (Read 9719710 times)

Benevolence

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #38970 on: October 25, 2011, 09:43:31 am »

Being a prince is fine, but don't get turned into a car.

It feels like three of my four classes are deliberately piling work onto me over this and the next week. The real problem is because half of it is entirely my fault being so slow to get some of it done. Whee, procrastination~

Also, the avatar change thing would be a site that lets it rotate. I think. That, or it's an animated PNG? Those are things that exist, but I haven't seen them very often at all.
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« Reply #38971 on: October 25, 2011, 09:47:12 am »

Is that an... Utena reference?
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #38972 on: October 25, 2011, 09:48:24 am »

Yes, very much so.

Yet another thing I need to rewatch at some point, because I don't even remember when I first watched it and most of it probably went right over my head...
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« Reply #38973 on: October 25, 2011, 10:00:44 am »

>___<

Thanks, seriously.  One of my oldest friends was an Utena nut when she was younger, so you gave me this really nice wave of nostalgia.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #38974 on: October 25, 2011, 11:15:49 am »

I don't even know, why am I here again? *Peers around the place.*
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #38975 on: October 25, 2011, 11:20:29 am »

If you dislike it so much, why post?
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #38976 on: October 25, 2011, 11:25:21 am »

If you are going to interpret my post as a negative comment on the forum, why post?

*Shrugs.*

The things that one ponders and the ways one feels when browsing here made me feel big time 'meh :<' and I felt like posting in the Sad Thread to get it out of my system, even if it doesn't really help.

Christ, why am I even bothering.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #38977 on: October 25, 2011, 12:09:04 pm »

2 people confirmed dead in the flooding so far, a 25 year old police officer from Wicklow and a woman from Dublin.
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« Reply #38978 on: October 25, 2011, 12:30:24 pm »

>___<

Thanks, seriously.  One of my oldest friends was an Utena nut when she was younger, so you gave me this really nice wave of nostalgia.

I thought you were also an Utena fan?  It really does seem like the perfect thing for you (gender and empowerment issues galore).

Also, have you seen Scott Pilgrim vs The World?  It's basically Utena done waaay differently, but with swords being pulled out of chests and everything.
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« Reply #38979 on: October 25, 2011, 12:39:09 pm »

Nah, I've never been much of an Utena fan.  I just know about it.  It's an interesting show, but the animation quality/style really bugged me.

If you liked that, though, it was based on a manga called "Rose of Versailles."  I haven't read much of that, either, but it seemed pretty entertaining.


I really want to graduate from here and go to grad school somewhere far away.  Everything is too close.

You know how it is when you're an immature kid, and some older group of kids lets you tag along for a while, but then you make a mistake and you aren't allowed to come along anymore, ever?

Yeah, that'd be basically how I feel.  I wish I knew how to stop making these mistakes.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #38980 on: October 25, 2011, 04:28:36 pm »

In my experience, which isn't much, it's to keep making them until you run out of mistakes to make. Or, possibly, you may prefer a route that doesn't involve maximum failure, in which case I'd recommend looking for a group of older kids that's old enough to tolerate a few errors, remembering themselves what it was like. Either way, though, I'm sure you'll make i-

Oh man, I just noticed your sub-avatar text, that is great. >_______>
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“What are you doing?”, asked Minsky. “I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe” Sussman replied. “Why is the net wired randomly?”, asked Minsky. “I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play”, Sussman said.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #38981 on: October 25, 2011, 04:42:37 pm »

You'll never stop making mistakes. The trick is to find friends that won't judge you for them.

And yes, they exist, even if you haven't found them yet.
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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 #38982 on: October 25, 2011, 06:16:31 pm »

Oh, I dunno.  I'm changing.

I no longer look at B's as the scourge of me, or anything like that.  I made a lot of mistakes at the beginning of this semester that make it much harder to succeed now.  And so, I need to live with them.  Trying overly hard to compensate for them is kind of foolish.  You have to go along and get what you can get, not spend sleepless night after night just forgetting everything you learn.  Or at least, I can't remember a damned thing without sleep.

It's just dawning me that I'm about to be 5/8 done with my college career, and I still feel like I know nothing.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #38983 on: October 25, 2011, 06:18:48 pm »

It's just dawning me that I'm about to be 5/8 done with my college career, and I still feel like I know nothing.
"The wise man knows he knows nothing, the fool thinks he knows all."
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Quote from: Chesterton
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 #38984 on: October 25, 2011, 06:22:03 pm »

It's just dawning me that I'm about to be 5/8 done with my college career, and I still feel like I know nothing.
"The wise man knows he knows nothing, the fool thinks he knows all."

I think understanding this is the most important part of higher education.  If you don't come away from the experience humbled, you didn't really learn.
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In the land of twilight, under the moon
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