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[Descan]

More like last-gen, really

There was at least one whole PC generation and a good 5 phone generations between the 360 and now

mother of god did you actually count the phone generations.

... iPhone 1 came out after the 360.

We're at iPhone 5. Or something.

MATHS! EXCEPT MORE LIKE... NOTICING NUMBERS.

[Sirus]

Aye, the adamantium generation, still have a number of those aroudn the house, most of them work just fine, it's the damn batteries that are dated and don't las for long though :C

Actually, adamantium isn't that strong. I think they use a more rare and strong mineral, named Nokianite.

Which itself is a shoddy imitation of Nintendium. Sadly, the world's supply of that wonderful material is all but used up.

[majikero]

Sadly, we have no way to recycle Nintendium and will have to sit there uselessly till the heat death of the universe.

[GlyphGryph]

THEY CANCELLED MY FUCKING APPOINTMENT. ARGH.

Not even the fucking place that HANDLES the appointment, the place I have an appointment WITH - no, they are super awesome, they could get me in tomorrow, no problems. But instead, my fucking doctors office SCHEDULES a FUCKING APPOINTMENT 5 goddamn months out, leaving me to fucking suffer when there were open slots CONSTANTLY available in the meantime I could be going to and REFUSES to allow me to go earlier, but my appointment finally arrives after so many months of waiting...

AND I FIND OUT THEY CALLED THE HOSPITAL AND FUCKING CANCELLED IT?

Oh yeah, they made a new one almost two months further out, but WHY THE FUCK. WHY. THE. FUCK.

These fucking people. I have never, in my life, met a worse group of medical professionals, and I've met a lot of fuck ups. Their stupidity, incompetence, and sheer assholery knows no fucking bounds. I know exactly why they did it too - because they fucked up the goddamn referral the first three times they did it, and after spending ten hours on the phone walking them through a process a doctors office should have a basic fucking handle on they screwed it up again and just lied to me about it. And when they realized it, they quietly cancelled and rescheduled. HOLY FUCKING HELL. They screwed up, cancelled, and rescheduled and managed to screw it up AGAIN.

I am literally fucking quivering with rage right now. If I hadn't mostly gotten better on my own I would be fucking DEAD right now. There were two weeks in there where I wished I was dead because it would have been an improvement. And instead I'm still getting jerked around by these fuckwads.

God damn it.

I just want to fucking break something.

This is why I fucking hate doctors!

[Tellemurius]

you are going to the wrong doctor

[Neonivek]

you are going to the wrong doctor

Ohh but he likes his doctor... he hates the non-doctors.

[GlyphGryph]

you are going to the wrong doctor

Ohh but he likes his doctor... he hates the non-doctors.

...no? I hate my doctor.

If I could switch doctors I would, but it's easier said than done. I made a huge bloody mistake going with the Blue Cross HMO instead of the PPO, I know that much at this point.

[Neonivek]

Nevermind, opps. I mistaken that because of the "I like" part.

[GlyphGryph]

I like the hospital I'm trying to get the referral to.

They are not the problem. It's my PCP I hate.

[Neonivek]

Yeah I've been rather silly. I thought you were referring to a referral within the same hospital.

Could be worse, you could have been to the Scrubs hospital... or House's Hospital... Or honestly just about any hospital show's hospital.

[Tellemurius]

Yea im under the PPO plan, its so fucking much better. Worth more dollars to throw at.

[MonkeyHead]

Another mass shooting in the states... 

[Solifuge]

Another mass shooting in the states... 

Our love affair with violent entertainment remains unshakable. Bloody movies still top the charts every weekend. Violent video games generate billions in sales annually. And gun sales have soared. Background checks for gun sales numbered almost 20 million last year, about 20 percent more than the year before.

But people have always had guns in America, and kids have always played violent games — if not “Call of Duty,” then cops and robbers.

That’s not what the problem is. What is changing in this country is our acceptance of the way America is changing. Our middle class is disappearing, our income gap is back to robber-baron days and none of the people responsible for the global economic crisis went to prison or jail. How is it possible that we’ve all become so used to mass shootings? It’s the same thing that lets us drive past the panhandlers at intersections and the same emotional armor that gets us past the wounded veterans with prosthetics on the Metro.

Mass shootings are becoming as American as apple pie and baseball. And that’s almost as appalling as the mounting casualties.

I am pissed off at human indifference... but I'm afraid it might also be a consequence of new communications technology making us citizens of a larger world which we have a better view of than ever, but we humans retaining as small and local a level of concern as ever. Unless the shootings are in your home town, or affected someone you care about, you're liable to find them tragic but ignorable. They're someone else's problem; we've got enough to worry about as it is. But are we worrying about the right things if we can just ignore these events?

Maybe Fermi was right.

[Neonivek]

I don't know...

Could it be that people feel almost completely disenfranchised from their own communities, government, and society in general... BECAUSE they ARE and it is actually built to instill this?

So let me jump ahead... To Bob who wants to do something about gun violence.

He goes to the police and they tell him to go home. He goes to the government and they tell him to go home. He goes to the community and they tell him to go home.

Well that is it for Bob.

I'd feel indifferent if I were Bob and knew terrible things were going on around me and knew that no matter what I did I wouldn't affect anything because I am not some sort of superman they write of in the History books.

But certainly the school system must have filled him with civic pride right? Well the school crushed the sense of community with its fund raising and crushed his sense of charity by is FORCED ENFORCED charity.

[LordSlowpoke]

eh, fuck that noise

how expensive do you think it would be to get an orbit-faring rocket made by north korea or someone else who gives no shits but just wants cold hard cash

i'm sure i'm not the only one done with this planet, we could crowdfund this shit