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[Dutchling]

I'm somewhat glad I couldn't think of a valid situation to "play" it.

[scrdest]

On a different note, it's like inner demons show-and-tell around here.

The server for the General Discussion subforum uses adaCOTTON CANDY chips after all.

[Graknorke]

Oh, no, I understand what you're saying, and I know exactly what you mean.

I think all the time when I'm alone. On the computer, no, but in bed, yes, very often. I can switch it off when I'm distracted, of course, but when I'm not it's all over the place. I think of stupid things I did way back when and my thoughts aren't "OOOOH WHY DID I DO THAAAAAAAT" or "THAT'S SO CRINGY" but "haha I was 16 years old" or "whoops oh well that happened", never calling myself an idiot or anything like that.

Maybe it's due to my total acceptance that the person that I was yesterday isn't me, just someone extremely similar, and that that similarity becomes far muddier the farther time goes back, that as a creature I am fluid and constantly evolving in personality and reactions, with only the most basic of instincts remaining the same over time. Yeah, I've made noises, sang and hummed to myself all the time for the last 18 years, but my taste in what I sing has changed all the time... things like that. I never, ever feel bad about what I've done years beforehand, and what I've done recently can still be rectified.

And yes, not thinking is good. I realize that I can't remember thinking after 20 minutes of not doing so in a way that I would remember (of course I'm always thinking; I'm just not always paying attention) and I just think "oh well".

I think I may be happy to an unhealthy degree.

I always come back to the fact that I am no less shitty than that person was.

[nenjin]

Oh, no, I understand what you're saying, and I know exactly what you mean.

I think all the time when I'm alone. On the computer, no, but in bed, yes, very often. I can switch it off when I'm distracted, of course, but when I'm not it's all over the place. I think of stupid things I did way back when and my thoughts aren't "OOOOH WHY DID I DO THAAAAAAAT" or "THAT'S SO CRINGY" but "haha I was 16 years old" or "whoops oh well that happened", never calling myself an idiot or anything like that.

Maybe it's due to my total acceptance that the person that I was yesterday isn't me, just someone extremely similar, and that that similarity becomes far muddier the farther time goes back, that as a creature I am fluid and constantly evolving in personality and reactions, with only the most basic of instincts remaining the same over time. Yeah, I've made noises, sang and hummed to myself all the time for the last 18 years, but my taste in what I sing has changed all the time... things like that. I never, ever feel bad about what I've done years beforehand, and what I've done recently can still be rectified.

And yes, not thinking is good. I realize that I can't remember thinking after 20 minutes of not doing so in a way that I would remember (of course I'm always thinking; I'm just not always paying attention) and I just think "oh well".

I think I may be happy to an unhealthy degree.

I always come back to the fact that I am no less shitty than that person was.

If you're at least aware of being a shitty person, then you're +1 over your old self.

[RedKing]

I never stop thinking. It is truly hell.

Pretty much this. I am always mindful of part of a monologue from Henry V:

Not all these, laid in bed majestical,
Can sleep so soundly as the wretched slave,
Who with a body fill'd and vacant mind
Gets him to rest, cramm'd with distressful bread;
Never sees horrid night, the child of hell


Basically, King Henry complaining that peasants have it easy because they don't have to think about everything, so they can fall asleep. It's a bit of Ye Olde Royal-Worlde Problems, but I get the sentiment. Life would simpler (albeit far less interesting) without an active mind.

[scrdest]

Oh, no, I understand what you're saying, and I know exactly what you mean.

I think all the time when I'm alone. On the computer, no, but in bed, yes, very often. I can switch it off when I'm distracted, of course, but when I'm not it's all over the place. I think of stupid things I did way back when and my thoughts aren't "OOOOH WHY DID I DO THAAAAAAAT" or "THAT'S SO CRINGY" but "haha I was 16 years old" or "whoops oh well that happened", never calling myself an idiot or anything like that.

Maybe it's due to my total acceptance that the person that I was yesterday isn't me, just someone extremely similar, and that that similarity becomes far muddier the farther time goes back, that as a creature I am fluid and constantly evolving in personality and reactions, with only the most basic of instincts remaining the same over time. Yeah, I've made noises, sang and hummed to myself all the time for the last 18 years, but my taste in what I sing has changed all the time... things like that. I never, ever feel bad about what I've done years beforehand, and what I've done recently can still be rectified.

And yes, not thinking is good. I realize that I can't remember thinking after 20 minutes of not doing so in a way that I would remember (of course I'm always thinking; I'm just not always paying attention) and I just think "oh well".

I think I may be happy to an unhealthy degree.

I always come back to the fact that I am no less shitty than that person was.

Just before sleeping, heh, how familiar. In general, I follow Putnam's way of thinking more or less, although it's more 'God I WAS such an idiot back then, gotta remember to never do that again. Ever.', though I'm occasionally kicking myself for majorly screwing a certain thing up in the past, but then it's 'Eh. At least I had the opportunity to gain experience on how not to screw it up again.'

Then I go back to doing what in retrospect will have been being an idiot. Yay!

Basically, King Henry complaining that peasants have it easy because they don't have to think about everything, so they can fall asleep. It's a bit of Ye Olde Royal-Worlde Problems, but I get the sentiment. Life would simpler (albeit far less interesting) without an active mind.

I find being left without anything to think about or focus on doing - I'd call it boredom but it's not the kind of boredom you get when listening to someone droning about something that doesn't interest you, it's simply the mind-numbing absence of stimuli - almost physically painful. Over a certain threshold, I start acting irrationally and doing something, anything, to just stop having to endure that feeling.

[GlyphGryph]

Huh. Aside from it making it difficult to sleep, I like always thinking. It keeps me occupied and entertained during boring stretches of life, which is most of it! (I guess maybe I wouldn't care so much if I wasn't always thinking though?)

I think the problem is that most of the people here who dislike waste their precious thinking cycles reminiscing and regretting and shit. Stop that, do what I do. Spend your thinking cycles scheming.

Scheming is perhaps the most enjoyable sort of thinking on the planet, or at least up there in the top three. There really is no better way to cheer yourself up than a dive into the world of scheming. Make sure to keep the scheming positive though, and scheme about ways to get on top or make something happen, not ways to avoid something!

[scrdest]

Huh. Aside from it making it difficult to sleep, I like always thinking. It keeps me occupied and entertained during boring stretches of life, which is most of it! (I guess maybe I wouldn't care so much if I wasn't always thinking though?)

I think the problem is that most of the people here who dislike waste their precious thinking cycles reminiscing and regretting and shit. Stop that, do what I do. Spend your thinking cycles scheming.

Scheming is perhaps the most enjoyable sort of thinking on the planet, or at least up there in the top three. There really is no better way to cheer yourself up than a dive into the world of scheming. Make sure to keep the scheming positive though, and scheme about ways to get on top or make something happen, not ways to avoid something!

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[Jopax]

Math, math is making me rage and hate myself.

I've started practicing for this entry exam or something we'll be having in two weeks, there's not much stuff to practice honestly and it isn't all that hard, highschool level crap.

And since I wasn't paying much attention in highschool and that shit was over two years ago I forgot most of it. So after triumphantly solving the first problem (they always get you hooked and feeling good with the first one) I proceeded to drive myself into a brick wall on the next three.

I know there's a solution, a pattern or something to be done, I just can't figure out what, and it's pissing me off because it's not something I can brute logic my way trough, it's something you have to memorize by heart and notice in the problem to be able to overcome it.

Fucking math man.

[Graknorke]

My laptop has suddenly got quieter for a reason that I cannot ascertain. It's really annoying.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I have once again attempted to make a flag signature work. Progress has been made, and yet progress has been halted by the strange washed-out effect I have ended up with.

[Sirus]

Might be because you saved it as a jpeg. Try png instead.

[Gunner-Chan]

My laptop has suddenly got quieter for a reason that I cannot ascertain. It's really annoying.

Do you mean your speakers or your fan? Since I was concerned about my sound getting quieter not that long ago, but it turned out to be my headphones dying.

[Graknorke]

My laptop has suddenly got quieter for a reason that I cannot ascertain. It's really annoying.

Do you mean your speakers or your fan? Since I was concerned about my sound getting quieter not that long ago, but it turned out to be my headphones dying.

It's the sound, but it's definitely the computer that's at fault because it doesn't even seem to be every program.

EDIT: Nevermind, I figured it out. Windows 7 Mixer is ridiculous. It put Flash all the way down 4noraisin.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Might be because you saved it as a jpeg. Try png instead.

I already tried png. It didn't go well. I ended up with microflags.