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[Draignean]

Maybe it's just me and my computer being silly somehow, but it seems that all avatars from photobucket.com are...broken or down? All I see is the ripped picture icon and a blank box in many people's avatar areas, including mine.

How or why do these happen to the hosting sites?

If you nav over to photobucket's main page you can see that the maintenance kitten is hard at work.

[overseer05-15]

Butwait... Isn't DF RTP as well?

Think he's talking about multiplayer.

Though if you've got multiplayer DF on your hands...

[Silverthrone]

...Oh, fucking EA...

I wish there was a digital culture equivolent to social services, that could seize guardianship of IPs from entities that mistreat them. Put them into foster-care with entities that proves themselves willing to look after them properly. Or at least force companies to keep them available.
EA, in this scenario, is the drunken, fat, violent lout in a wife-beater that puts out his cigarettes on his (many, malnourished) children's cheeks. The stinger is that most of them are children he's adopted after murdering their parents. Many of them aren't allowed out anymore.

(The case with poor Alice is just perfect, though. Play it or watch an LP, you'll see what I mean)

_{I don't want to buy Butterfield I anymore...}

[Sebastian2203]

This is sort of a WTF post then also a heads-up post.

I have this friend I grew up with in my neighborhood, we were friends at beginning but as puberty turned in we sort of distanced but still remained friends.

I started to dislike him, for his strange way of thought, foolish assumptions and he constantly had (IMO) wrong view on life.
Other friends in our "clique" kinda agreed with me of his (IMO) bad qualities, and soon I was the one who ended up mocking him in front of the group and sort of treating him like the lowest one in our group (and the group supported me in that).

His views were mistaken, he constantly believed every rumor he heard. He was naive as hell and also got excited easily.
He was also little bit obsessed with his hobbies, bit compulsive and needy.

So that´s how I perceived him as a weak/bad person or one of those high functioning nerds.

Today, I was checking my Facebook and I see this awesome photo, it looks like it was made in studio or something.
It was posted a hell of a six minutes ago and already received 20 likes.

In that photo, he is with this beautiful girl, kissing her, while they both have super-decent clothes on.

I quickly go like, "Whoa he got a girlfriend, last time he had one it was some stupid chick."

I proceed to check her Facebook profile and my jaw dropped, she is Miss internet of some semi-famous contest.
I keep checking out her page and whoa, she has a lot of likes in every her photo (average 400) (And she indeed is pretty looking)

This completely shattered me perception of him, I considered him a lost cause when it came to girls and now he surpassed me.

They are both 17 and publicly posted that they plan to marry.

I then keep lurking around like the envious bastard I am (about that later) and I see a lot of people responding to this photo, he is in this large social circle and he is quite liked in there.

More I examine the social life of this girl, it is more obvious she is quite wanted.

I am amazed and confused by my own reactions and now I am also thinking about myself.
Before I decided to write this post here on B12 my first second reaction was kinda envious-rage, I am cool about it now, but that was what I felt at first.

To explain this further, I moved away from the city that we both lived in and I only occasionally go back to visit my old friends, next time I am going to be there in December I am going to congratulate him instead of being snarky, because whoa, this changes my view on life.

I was maybe thinking too much white-and-black about certain things and I can´t forget that I underestimated this dude, I now wonder if I should feel bad about myself but I am not here to ramble about my infinite internal conflicts.

I posted it here to sort of spread the positive vibe out of this, I was selfish and treated him bad yes, but ain´t his success awesome? The two years I was away from him, he may have succeeded in something that I am still trying to. (Teenager dreams for lyfe)

So, the moral of the story is to keep trying? Whatever.

[Comrade P.]

Re: Sebatsian's story

If I were you I would probably probe the ground for a sudden renewal of contact via facebook messages or some shit. There is a chance that the person you described hates your guts or at least would be unhappy first, so you gotta explain why you did what you did and why you feel differently now. So if it's cool with him you will drop by in December and you'll have a lovely chat instead of a possible fight.

This is not experience speaking, so, you know, do what you think is right.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I hope you still don't believe in nonsense like someone being "the lowest in the group".

[Silverthrone]

What passes for 'Weakness' in teenage years can often blossom in rather fascinating ways. I'd advise to stamp absolutely everything from the teenage years as incredibly temporary and subject of change.

It's a good... Well, 'lesson' is the wrong term, it seems a bit too finger-waggely, maybe 'experience' is the better term. A lot of things that seemed true and tested in teen life will change. Getting that experience, and learning to see things in a different way, is a very good thing. Mind you, it doesn't seem to happen to everyone. Congratulations (and it's a sincere congratulations, however it might come across in text), it will be of much use for you.
Congratulate him, be happy for his sake, and, if you feel that it's necessary for your peace of mind, apologise for things you think he might feel upset over. It's impossible to not feel a sting of envy, it's what one does with it that says something about character.

It's a blank slate, the end of the teens. Best of luck to him, and best of luck to you.

[Dunamisdeos]

HEY GUYS HERE'S A THOUGHT.

DONT BUY EA GAMES.

I DONT BUY UBISOFT EITHER.

Seriously you know for a fact they are going to pull this on you down the road. Don't buy their games, at all.

[hector13]

+1

[Sirus]

But then they wouldn't have anything to complain about :CCCCCC

[hector13]

They would. EA sucking is like, the universal constant.

[hops]

Yeah I mean like. It's not like EA is forcing you to buy their games.

[Neonivek]

Yeah I mean like. It's not like EA is forcing you to buy their games.

Man, so glad I don't live in a country where we have plenty of laws that protect the consumer against the machinations of unscrupulous business practices.

Ohh wait that is right... I don't live in Hell where you obviously come from if that is how things work where you are (Or you know... Dubai)

"I got food poisoning!"
"Well it isn't like they forced you to buy it"

"Hey my phone self-destructed because a recent update happened"
"Well they didn't force you to buy that phone"

Because everything is justified so long as no one literally points a gun to your head.

[hops]

I mean it's just entertainment? You're comparing necessities to time wasters.

[ChairmanPoo]

But the rubber dolls aren't as appropriate to use in polite company.

Poo, you're a doctor now. You were supposed to leave the straw man practice dolls in medschool.

I wish it was straw dolls. I still recall the stench of formaldehyde mixed with blood.