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[Putnam]

Holy shit. Google gave me a "building a community" article among a bunch of links under "channel tips". I was like "oh boy this is probably gonna be sorta culty".

To my utter horror, it's completely culty.

[TheBiggerFish]

Why are interpersonal interactions so difficult and complicated? I'm not going to problem dump in a public forum because it affects other people this time but damn. This is like trying to get through a maze blindfolded except the maze is constantly changing and you don't know where you're meant to end up.
Sorry for the vaguebooking level shit but like I said before I'd rather not put public details. I guess if someone really cares they could PM me but I might not reply, dunno really.

EDIT: Wow that came across as grimmer than I meant. To clarify there's nothing particularly wrong with me I'm just totally lost.

*applies platonic hugpats*

Socializing is hard.

It'll get better.

[Greiger]

Holy shit. Google gave me a "building a community" article among a bunch of links under "channel tips". I was like "oh boy this is probably gonna be sorta culty".

To my utter horror, it's completely culty.

I like the, what are they called... russian nesting dolls?  On the header of that article.  Nothing says 'not cultish' like a picture of a few almost-but-not-quite identical ceramic women with dead eyes staring into your soul with the words 'Build a community' above them.

[RedKing]

Holy shit. Google gave me a "building a community" article among a bunch of links under "channel tips". I was like "oh boy this is probably gonna be sorta culty".

To my utter horror, it's completely culty.

Special handshakes?? How does that even work online? 

[cochramd]

What is it about reading about massages that makes you really want a massage? Also, damn, I need to work on my posture.

[smirk]

Holy shit. Google gave me a "building a community" article among a bunch of links under "channel tips". I was like "oh boy this is probably gonna be sorta culty".

To my utter horror, it's completely culty.

YES, this is completely culty

why would a normal person want to read this
or print the "Best Practices" summaries and pin them above their bed
to be recited in a litany before sleep

no-one should do that
I certainly won't

[Bauglir]

What is it about reading about massages that makes you really want a massage?

you son of a bitch

now i want one

[cochramd]

What is it about reading about massages that makes you really want a massage?

you son of a bitch

now i want one

What, that's all it took to make you want one? I had to flip through a few wikipedia articles on various massage types (Swedish, Thai, Indian Head, you know, the works) before wanting one.

[Graknorke]

Socializing is hard.

It'll get better.

Nah the socialising is the easy bit. It's trying to understand other people that's hard.

[cochramd]

Socializing is hard.

It'll get better.

Nah the socialising is the easy bit. It's trying to understand other people that's hard.

You don't need to understand them completely, you only need to develop a reliable blackbox model of their thought process.

[Teneb]

For some reason, youtube is completely broken for me, but only in Firefox. Works okay in Chrome.

Socializing is hard.

It'll get better.

Nah the socialising is the easy bit. It's trying to understand other people that's hard.

You don't need to understand them completely, you only need to develop a reliable blackbox model of their thought process.

Not even that, just get good at pretending to understand them at all.

[cochramd]

You need the blackbox model to predict their actions and reactions, though.

[Shadowlord]

Well that's easy, every action has an equal and opposite reaction. My work here is complete.

[cochramd]

You'd think it would be like that, but once you start putting the blackboxes in things get more complicated.

[BlackFlyme]

My phone company is not that good. Poor reception everywhere. Dropped calls all the time. Massive delay in text messages.

Seriously. I just got a text from a friend. He sent it on the 8th. Twenty-two days for a damned text.

How do you fuck up that badly? I should have just mailed him a letter.