I thought this was general off topic, not health 101.
This is a good ol' fashioned southern scolding via internet. I may be bringing up important health points here,but it's really less of a discussion about health and more of a question as to why something that is essential to our species and has been since the dawn of mankind is nonexistent in the lives of children.
Crontic- Yeah, we've known about this sickness for a while. IN OLD PEOPLE. Not spry bouncy younguns that can easily make their way to the faucets but choose not to! There is just no excuse for young people to have it, especially if it's based on willful decisions they're not being stopped from making by their schools or parents.
Those are for people who are 40 and up. Why the hell do I hear stories of children and teens suddenly having kidney stones? Did your parents not teach you the importance of water? If you drink only when you're thirsty, you're not drinking enough fluids; by the time you recognize that you're thirsty, your body is already dealing with repercussions. My shock and disgust is amplified when I heard the response of the chitlins the first time I asked this.
"Water is gross. I don't like the way it tastes"
Ha-Whu-huh-duh-buh-WHAA?
Get your ass over here and have a glass of water! It doesn't taste gross, you're just so packed full of sugars, salts and syrups that something without an artificial flavoring is bland to you! And if you're tasting the nastiness of tap, get your parents to spend what they WOULD BE SPENDING ON SODA IN 3 DAYS to spend on a water filter pitcher which will cost anywhere from 10-20 dollars. Take it from me, I said the same thing! I used to have a massive milk addiction and water tasted like thin nastiness to me, but I understood I needed it. So I continued drinking it and you know what? I eventually adjusted to it, and now I can adore a glass of cold, clean water. Stop drinkin' so much damn soda! It doesn't quench your thirst, it just makes you feel like it's doing that. The ingredients in soda actually only make you thirstier.
"soda contains water too, though..."
If I were to spray glass-frosting spray on your computer monitor, would you accept my excuse that I haven't entirely blotted your vision? If I were to insert some of my own feces into your flu shot, would you take it on the grounds that "the medication is still in there?"
Don't you grumble at me, I'm doin' you the favor that your parents don't care enough to do for you by forcing this on you. Kidney stones are for old people! Not children! And just because you haven't gotten them yet doesn't mean you won't, you're not superhuman nor are you immune.
Unless it's hereditary, 80 percent of your acne will go away. I promise. Not just from cutting soda out of your diet, but by drinking more water, your pores'll be cleaner than they've ever been. Water will reduce your weight, make you feel less tired, and most of your headaches will go away for good, compared to you previously suspending them with the caffeine in soda. Your brain is made almost entirely out of water!
Please tell me I'm not the only one who thinks it's positively insane that a senior citizens issue is now plaguing American children.
The answer to that is highly subjective. My answer? Because animals don't have will. Sure, they have instinct to live. But what computes to them further than that is pain. Because we are more advanced creatures, we will spend years living in sufferance for another chance at happiness. Or perhaps not! Some of us may even enjoy misery, find it poetic, or pursue it so they can claim their failure as complete. We are not so logical and act on emotion.
An animal on the other hand, does not understand happiness within pain, irony, poetic justice/cruelty, etc. An animal doesn't say "Oh god, I need to make it at least to my grandsons next birthday and see him turn 10 before I pass on" or pine to visit his mates grave one last time to give tribute. All that is going through an animals head is "Pain pain pain pain pain I don't know what's going on why is my body like this pain pain pain pain pain pain."
Animals are simple, and within that simplicity, we can bestow mercy. Because their pain is almost entirely physiological, the only way to be morally upstanding is to give them a similarly physical mercy. That is why we pet animals instead of giving them a thumbs up and saying "Gee spot, you sure look dapper today." We transfer our love to them physically because even if we could speak to them, flattery and consoling do not take place in most domestic pets languages.
This is all assuming the euthanization you're talking about is non-consensual. I'm not too fond on pulling the plug on someone unless it's vegetable state beyond the point of no return and been years, but if someone is saying "I do not want to live anymore, please end my life," they should be granted as such. It is insulting that our country forces the death penalty but does not allow suicide. I don't mind any of these but those double standards reek of unjust control over the peoples bodies and personal freedoms.
1: Do not call yourself a dubstep group. Go instead for a hybrid genre, like "Dubstep-Rock" or "Dubstep-Electronica." This widens your audience. Plus you'll need some footing once dubstep falls out of style, which will be in the next 5 years. It is a fad genre, and once it dies down there will be only one or two token artists still making it almost on principle alone. Trust me, dubstep is not around to stay.
2: Dubstep, as well as most music, is about synchronization. People make fun of dubstep because it drops the beat entirely to go into obnoxious WAWAWAWAWAWAs. Flux Pavilion is one of the single best dubstep artists you can take notes from because they DON'T DO THIS., recognize that the dubstep parts coincide with the music, it never runs over it or washes it out entirely, but instead plays alongside it.
3: Synchronization within dubstep in particular are the goosebumps you get when the bass you're feeling matches up with the music you're hearing. Ghetto rats let their bass pound away and create unattractive static; remember, the people in these clubs are hopped up on drugs and are extremely sensitive to this synchronization. You ready for the silly part here? Your goal is to massage them to the music, with the music. If you don't understand this aspect of music, sit on your bass, lean up against it with your back, or put it against your stomach. (do this at lower settings, don't put an industrial-sized bass against yourself on a full stomach please...) With more thoughtful artists like Flux Pavilion you will feel very subtle changes in frequency that tickle you in different ways; initially undetectable, but the audience does pick up on the changes subconsciously and is judging the music based on it. Ask around for favorite DJS and dubstep artists but don't forget to ask people what they consider to be "bad dubstep" and run the same experiments with getting very close to the bass. You should feel rapid, unsynchronized drops in the bass that don't run alongside the music, constant buzzing at the same frequency, no subtlety at ALL, as if the artist made the decision to release their noise to the public after composing it on FL Studio and judging it through a 10 dollar computer speaker set...
One of the most amazing sneaky uses of bass in my opinion is . If you get the chance to listen from the album into a nice stereo system, do so. At around 2:30 at the end of the second verse, you will detect a very soft bass that is strikingly different from the rest of the song. You can barely hear/feel it, but it's small things like this that make her music stand out in the industry. It only pulsates about 8 times and grows very softly, but it is not in the first verse. It serves to subconsciously excite you into the climax of the song.
TL;DR? Listen with your body, not just your ears.
Anyways, bullying sucks and the school needs to mediate between kids to solve conflict. The problem is adults see childrens problems as just that; childrens problems. They don't realize that in the process of ignoring the trivial, they are effectively belittling the kids.
Another problem is though, too much mediation from superiors raises children that grow up to be adults that seek help from authorities over everything. And as we've seen in the police brutality thread a few spaces below, that giving that sort of mental/emotional power to authority isn't a hot idea.
So you know what you do? You get loud. You don't get violent, you don't shrink back, you just bow your chest up at the cruel and unjust, and you scold others for watching but not intervening. The act of justice being served does not come from half-heartedly wishing or requesting to higher-ups to get off their hoity toity adult pedestals to come down and separate the fights. It comes from the pursuit of justice, and being relentless in the process.
You see something happening that you know is wrong? You tell them to knock it off.
They don't knock it off? You tell an adult.
The adult doesn't do anything? You use your best judgement to make sure that everybody gets out with their limbs and egos intact.
Your best judgement is scolded? You tell the scolder "**** you, I didn't see you doing anything."
Latin has presence in European and Euro-based languages. It was spread by Rome, which owned most of Europe. Japanese is completely irrelevant, and the content of latin wouldn't come into play at all - but the conceptual unlocking probably helped a lot :smile.gif:
It definitely had no relevance vocab or derivative-wise, but the biggest hurdle I feel with languages is sentence structure. It feels natural to memorize vocabulary of a language but if you don't understand how to string it together, your speed in comprehension and ability to reply goes down the drain. Changing the rhythm of a sentence around is what felt nearly impossible when I first attempted to learn.
And structure was the most dreaded part of Latin... Because theirs is butt****ed beyond belief. But once you conquer that mountain of complexity, words are less anchored to phrases and you understand how to change them around better; a wonderful skill to pick up when trying to learn Eastern languages that don't follow by our rules in many uncomfortable aspects.
Wow, thought I'd see more tards in here going "OMG LATIN IS DED Y U TAKE THAT?"
Latin = GOD TIER.
I took Latin as my main language and then pursued Japanese independently because I had been confronted multiple times with needing it for events I wanted to attend, products I wanted to buy, shows/music/books I wanted to enjoy or conversations I wanted to have.
And holy hell, am I glad I took Latin. Once you take it, the whole world of languages opens up to you. What would generally take weeks of trying to understand syntax and sentence structure in a language would take about 10 minutes for someone who is familiar with Latin. I tried my hand at Japanese before Latin and simply could not comprehend it, I embarrassingly fumbled with words and thought I'd have to sputter out little handbook sentences to find the restroom like a ditzy foreign white girl-- I tried again after Latin and found that I had picked up the ability to not just gurgle out Japanese phrases but could comprehend statements and say sentences from my own brain in the language just because of my foundation in Latin... Within MINUTES of my first Japanese lesson, compared to the 20 I had taken before that seemed to produce no results. Not to mention, my English improved dramatically AND I have strong inklings on the subject of conversations going on in both Spanish and French despite not being familiar with either.
It increases your vocabulary across the board by infinite proportions. Latin is a dead language; it is also the root to everything we know now. Think it'll just help you identify fetishes and phobias? Latin has presence EVERYWHERE in nearly every language.
ambi: both
exo: outside
hyper: over
hypo: under
inter: between
mono: single
omni: all
proto: first
poli: many
tele: distant
Picked these up in Latin? Congrats, now you know dozens of words that the average Amurrcan thinks are "totally huge," and not just because you recognize it, but because you can break it down and have a full understanding of the word, even if you've never heard it before; you can piece together what a person means in seconds and not have to stop and ask what they mean when they say they're ambidextrous, they have hypertension or hyperextended their knee, what a prototype or intersection is. Can't ask questions during a test? Fine. You already have an idea of what Omnipotent, Polygamy, inter-species, exoskeleton and hypothetical mean.
the idea that Latin is useless because you don't actively use the language is uninformed and immature. I believe that every single person needs at least a fast food Latin Lite even in their typical English class, because it was one of the most useful things I ever decided to pursue.
Hasbro has always sold Ouija boards, I'm kind of confused that everyone is so shocked by this... They can be picked up at your local CVS or Walmart. There are no magnets, no magic, only a wooden board and a fascinating psychological tendency present throughout all of magic known as the "Ideometer" effect.
The reason why witchcraft and curses are so scary is because of this; fear of the unknown and paranormal is about as human as breathing, and 3rd level initiates are very aware of how far-reaching it can be. This is on telling a singular person that they are cursed or that there is a ghost in the room. All rules of the Ouija board, including the unspoken rumorous ones people state before playing, work as massive triggers for the ideomotor effect. (Would go into them but that'd make this post super long. The main important one is everyone is SUPPOSED to move the planchette until they are comfortable. They say to move it in a way that "feels right," is fluid and until it feels as if it's moving on your own. This is supposedly to "loosen yourself up" so that spirits can more easily act through you. What it's really doing is making you subconsciously aware of the board.)
It is undeniable that we aren't separate entities and instead, are connected together psychologically. Subconsciously we catch the twitches and eye dilation of our peers, we can 'feel' things that others are feeling without needing explanations. There isn't a shifty-eyed trouble maker moving the planchette at every single traumatic ouija board event; single person experiences with the board are filled with completely unintentional, entire sentences and conversations. Imagine what happens when 3 or 4 brains under a slight intoxication of fear are interacting with one another, and how that's translating out onto a talking board...
Deplorable, sneaky, drove-someone-to-suicide psychotic depraved souls. criminals who lie, cheat and steal from personal to federal levels. Corrupt both spiritually and mentally, vain to the highest degree, absolutely abominable brutes.
Play on their insecurities. Don't react to their words and instead begin questioning their motives in front of their peers about why they're staring at your junk and making notes on your underwear. Question them about their sexuality, and make slightly serious-toned statements concerning you not feeling comfortable about sharing a locker room with them for that reason, like "Well jeez, dunno how I feel about sharing my changing space with a bunch of homoerotic teens that are sizing up my package..." if they get angry, don't push it and back off confused and offended, further cementing that your behavior isn't one of lashing out, but of 'concern' regarding why they seem to care so much.
Even if you know that they're not being gay in the least when they say things like this, young straight teens who haven't had the chance to really prove their masculinity to everyone around them are going to naturally be repelled by anything that might label them gay. You've got the upper hand in this because by talking about your body, they are entering your figurative 'territory,' and have become susceptible to mindgames, particularly regarding why they entered in the first place.
I like crazy mountainous regions, that way I have against mobs, there are very few trees to obscure my view, and since I build around nature and never level it with dynamite/excessive digging, it forces me to build creatively.
but a neighboring swamp biome is nice, one block high water means easy clay-hunting.
My god, am I reading this thread right now, is this real life?
Are you guys high, or just new to the internet?
The Minecraft forum is definitely one of the most civilized gaming communities currently in existence. I would never so flagrantly disregard someones criticisms about something, but this is just untrue.
A: Honest to goodness attempts at art. Even from people who aren't artists. Active skinners, lively modding community, architects and designers. Lotta creativity surging through this place.
B: Actual criticism from people who care about the path the game is going down. It's users aren't just trying to change the game, they have a vested interest in its community and what certain changes may entail for future updates.
C: Most of its users can type. No promises that what they're typing is intelligent and thought-provoking, but it's not BR BR BR BR BR BR BR BR BR BR BR BR BR
The Minecraft community has it's hang-ups; lotta indecisive people here who are afraid to take a side, lotta retartists with stunning portfolios that consist of "cookie monster, cookie monster in suit, link, red link, link in suit, steve, steve in suit, steve w/ headphones" plenty of people who don't emit any personality on the forum and have 200+ posts of "I don't like it but I don't hate it"
But by saying that this community is "bad" or even "worse" than anything else than something great makes me think you did not even peek your head into the forums of Ragnarok, WoW, runescape, Gaia, Neopets, Myspace, Luna Online, ANY Nexon community (Maple Story, Audition, Mabinogi) League of Legends, GameFAQS, Perfect world-- you get what I mean, the list goes on. Writhing dark holes of stupidity. Entire sections consisting of "gimme ur items or i report u an say u molest me ingame" on the forums.
I hate when people disregard problems with the excuse that it "could be worse." I love pointing out the flaws of entire groups of people and acting like a jackass in general. You can trust me when I say that the absolute worst thing about its fanbase is a little mediocrity here and there.
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This is a good ol' fashioned southern scolding via internet. I may be bringing up important health points here,but it's really less of a discussion about health and more of a question as to why something that is essential to our species and has been since the dawn of mankind is nonexistent in the lives of children.
Crontic- Yeah, we've known about this sickness for a while. IN OLD PEOPLE. Not spry bouncy younguns that can easily make their way to the faucets but choose not to! There is just no excuse for young people to have it, especially if it's based on willful decisions they're not being stopped from making by their schools or parents.
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Those are for people who are 40 and up. Why the hell do I hear stories of children and teens suddenly having kidney stones? Did your parents not teach you the importance of water? If you drink only when you're thirsty, you're not drinking enough fluids; by the time you recognize that you're thirsty, your body is already dealing with repercussions. My shock and disgust is amplified when I heard the response of the chitlins the first time I asked this.
"Water is gross. I don't like the way it tastes"
Ha-Whu-huh-duh-buh-WHAA?
Get your ass over here and have a glass of water! It doesn't taste gross, you're just so packed full of sugars, salts and syrups that something without an artificial flavoring is bland to you! And if you're tasting the nastiness of tap, get your parents to spend what they WOULD BE SPENDING ON SODA IN 3 DAYS to spend on a water filter pitcher which will cost anywhere from 10-20 dollars. Take it from me, I said the same thing! I used to have a massive milk addiction and water tasted like thin nastiness to me, but I understood I needed it. So I continued drinking it and you know what? I eventually adjusted to it, and now I can adore a glass of cold, clean water. Stop drinkin' so much damn soda! It doesn't quench your thirst, it just makes you feel like it's doing that. The ingredients in soda actually only make you thirstier.
"soda contains water too, though..."
If I were to spray glass-frosting spray on your computer monitor, would you accept my excuse that I haven't entirely blotted your vision? If I were to insert some of my own feces into your flu shot, would you take it on the grounds that "the medication is still in there?"
Don't you grumble at me, I'm doin' you the favor that your parents don't care enough to do for you by forcing this on you. Kidney stones are for old people! Not children! And just because you haven't gotten them yet doesn't mean you won't, you're not superhuman nor are you immune.
Unless it's hereditary, 80 percent of your acne will go away. I promise. Not just from cutting soda out of your diet, but by drinking more water, your pores'll be cleaner than they've ever been. Water will reduce your weight, make you feel less tired, and most of your headaches will go away for good, compared to you previously suspending them with the caffeine in soda. Your brain is made almost entirely out of water!
Please tell me I'm not the only one who thinks it's positively insane that a senior citizens issue is now plaguing American children.
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An animal on the other hand, does not understand happiness within pain, irony, poetic justice/cruelty, etc. An animal doesn't say "Oh god, I need to make it at least to my grandsons next birthday and see him turn 10 before I pass on" or pine to visit his mates grave one last time to give tribute. All that is going through an animals head is "Pain pain pain pain pain I don't know what's going on why is my body like this pain pain pain pain pain pain."
Animals are simple, and within that simplicity, we can bestow mercy. Because their pain is almost entirely physiological, the only way to be morally upstanding is to give them a similarly physical mercy. That is why we pet animals instead of giving them a thumbs up and saying "Gee spot, you sure look dapper today." We transfer our love to them physically because even if we could speak to them, flattery and consoling do not take place in most domestic pets languages.
This is all assuming the euthanization you're talking about is non-consensual. I'm not too fond on pulling the plug on someone unless it's vegetable state beyond the point of no return and been years, but if someone is saying "I do not want to live anymore, please end my life," they should be granted as such. It is insulting that our country forces the death penalty but does not allow suicide. I don't mind any of these but those double standards reek of unjust control over the peoples bodies and personal freedoms.
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2: Dubstep, as well as most music, is about synchronization. People make fun of dubstep because it drops the beat entirely to go into obnoxious WAWAWAWAWAWAs. Flux Pavilion is one of the single best dubstep artists you can take notes from because they DON'T DO THIS., recognize that the dubstep parts coincide with the music, it never runs over it or washes it out entirely, but instead plays alongside it.
3: Synchronization within dubstep in particular are the goosebumps you get when the bass you're feeling matches up with the music you're hearing. Ghetto rats let their bass pound away and create unattractive static; remember, the people in these clubs are hopped up on drugs and are extremely sensitive to this synchronization. You ready for the silly part here? Your goal is to massage them to the music, with the music. If you don't understand this aspect of music, sit on your bass, lean up against it with your back, or put it against your stomach. (do this at lower settings, don't put an industrial-sized bass against yourself on a full stomach please...) With more thoughtful artists like Flux Pavilion you will feel very subtle changes in frequency that tickle you in different ways; initially undetectable, but the audience does pick up on the changes subconsciously and is judging the music based on it. Ask around for favorite DJS and dubstep artists but don't forget to ask people what they consider to be "bad dubstep" and run the same experiments with getting very close to the bass. You should feel rapid, unsynchronized drops in the bass that don't run alongside the music, constant buzzing at the same frequency, no subtlety at ALL, as if the artist made the decision to release their noise to the public after composing it on FL Studio and judging it through a 10 dollar computer speaker set...
One of the most amazing sneaky uses of bass in my opinion is . If you get the chance to listen from the album into a nice stereo system, do so. At around 2:30 at the end of the second verse, you will detect a very soft bass that is strikingly different from the rest of the song. You can barely hear/feel it, but it's small things like this that make her music stand out in the industry. It only pulsates about 8 times and grows very softly, but it is not in the first verse. It serves to subconsciously excite you into the climax of the song.
TL;DR? Listen with your body, not just your ears.
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Another problem is though, too much mediation from superiors raises children that grow up to be adults that seek help from authorities over everything. And as we've seen in the police brutality thread a few spaces below, that giving that sort of mental/emotional power to authority isn't a hot idea.
So you know what you do? You get loud. You don't get violent, you don't shrink back, you just bow your chest up at the cruel and unjust, and you scold others for watching but not intervening. The act of justice being served does not come from half-heartedly wishing or requesting to higher-ups to get off their hoity toity adult pedestals to come down and separate the fights. It comes from the pursuit of justice, and being relentless in the process.
You see something happening that you know is wrong? You tell them to knock it off.
They don't knock it off? You tell an adult.
The adult doesn't do anything? You use your best judgement to make sure that everybody gets out with their limbs and egos intact.
Your best judgement is scolded? You tell the scolder "**** you, I didn't see you doing anything."
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It definitely had no relevance vocab or derivative-wise, but the biggest hurdle I feel with languages is sentence structure. It feels natural to memorize vocabulary of a language but if you don't understand how to string it together, your speed in comprehension and ability to reply goes down the drain. Changing the rhythm of a sentence around is what felt nearly impossible when I first attempted to learn.
And structure was the most dreaded part of Latin... Because theirs is butt****ed beyond belief. But once you conquer that mountain of complexity, words are less anchored to phrases and you understand how to change them around better; a wonderful skill to pick up when trying to learn Eastern languages that don't follow by our rules in many uncomfortable aspects.
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Latin = GOD TIER.
I took Latin as my main language and then pursued Japanese independently because I had been confronted multiple times with needing it for events I wanted to attend, products I wanted to buy, shows/music/books I wanted to enjoy or conversations I wanted to have.
And holy hell, am I glad I took Latin. Once you take it, the whole world of languages opens up to you. What would generally take weeks of trying to understand syntax and sentence structure in a language would take about 10 minutes for someone who is familiar with Latin. I tried my hand at Japanese before Latin and simply could not comprehend it, I embarrassingly fumbled with words and thought I'd have to sputter out little handbook sentences to find the restroom like a ditzy foreign white girl-- I tried again after Latin and found that I had picked up the ability to not just gurgle out Japanese phrases but could comprehend statements and say sentences from my own brain in the language just because of my foundation in Latin... Within MINUTES of my first Japanese lesson, compared to the 20 I had taken before that seemed to produce no results. Not to mention, my English improved dramatically AND I have strong inklings on the subject of conversations going on in both Spanish and French despite not being familiar with either.
It increases your vocabulary across the board by infinite proportions. Latin is a dead language; it is also the root to everything we know now. Think it'll just help you identify fetishes and phobias? Latin has presence EVERYWHERE in nearly every language.
ambi: both
exo: outside
hyper: over
hypo: under
inter: between
mono: single
omni: all
proto: first
poli: many
tele: distant
Picked these up in Latin? Congrats, now you know dozens of words that the average Amurrcan thinks are "totally huge," and not just because you recognize it, but because you can break it down and have a full understanding of the word, even if you've never heard it before; you can piece together what a person means in seconds and not have to stop and ask what they mean when they say they're ambidextrous, they have hypertension or hyperextended their knee, what a prototype or intersection is. Can't ask questions during a test? Fine. You already have an idea of what Omnipotent, Polygamy, inter-species, exoskeleton and hypothetical mean.
the idea that Latin is useless because you don't actively use the language is uninformed and immature. I believe that every single person needs at least a fast food Latin Lite even in their typical English class, because it was one of the most useful things I ever decided to pursue.
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The reason why witchcraft and curses are so scary is because of this; fear of the unknown and paranormal is about as human as breathing, and 3rd level initiates are very aware of how far-reaching it can be. This is on telling a singular person that they are cursed or that there is a ghost in the room. All rules of the Ouija board, including the unspoken rumorous ones people state before playing, work as massive triggers for the ideomotor effect. (Would go into them but that'd make this post super long. The main important one is everyone is SUPPOSED to move the planchette until they are comfortable. They say to move it in a way that "feels right," is fluid and until it feels as if it's moving on your own. This is supposedly to "loosen yourself up" so that spirits can more easily act through you. What it's really doing is making you subconsciously aware of the board.)
It is undeniable that we aren't separate entities and instead, are connected together psychologically. Subconsciously we catch the twitches and eye dilation of our peers, we can 'feel' things that others are feeling without needing explanations. There isn't a shifty-eyed trouble maker moving the planchette at every single traumatic ouija board event; single person experiences with the board are filled with completely unintentional, entire sentences and conversations. Imagine what happens when 3 or 4 brains under a slight intoxication of fear are interacting with one another, and how that's translating out onto a talking board...
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Deplorable, sneaky, drove-someone-to-suicide psychotic depraved souls. criminals who lie, cheat and steal from personal to federal levels. Corrupt both spiritually and mentally, vain to the highest degree, absolutely abominable brutes.
They're pretty bad.
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Even if you know that they're not being gay in the least when they say things like this, young straight teens who haven't had the chance to really prove their masculinity to everyone around them are going to naturally be repelled by anything that might label them gay. You've got the upper hand in this because by talking about your body, they are entering your figurative 'territory,' and have become susceptible to mindgames, particularly regarding why they entered in the first place.
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1:Annoying enough to despise, nice enough to keep around.
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but a neighboring swamp biome is nice, one block high water means easy clay-hunting.
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Also, take off your pants.
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That's just fine, because the party will be coming to you. >:3
Honestly, I thought that was a joke. If such a thing were ever implemented, I'd be with ba12348 on dem piston-powered doors.
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Are you guys high, or just new to the internet?
The Minecraft forum is definitely one of the most civilized gaming communities currently in existence. I would never so flagrantly disregard someones criticisms about something, but this is just untrue.
A: Honest to goodness attempts at art. Even from people who aren't artists. Active skinners, lively modding community, architects and designers. Lotta creativity surging through this place.
B: Actual criticism from people who care about the path the game is going down. It's users aren't just trying to change the game, they have a vested interest in its community and what certain changes may entail for future updates.
C: Most of its users can type. No promises that what they're typing is intelligent and thought-provoking, but it's not BR BR BR BR BR BR BR BR BR BR BR BR BR
The Minecraft community has it's hang-ups; lotta indecisive people here who are afraid to take a side, lotta retartists with stunning portfolios that consist of "cookie monster, cookie monster in suit, link, red link, link in suit, steve, steve in suit, steve w/ headphones" plenty of people who don't emit any personality on the forum and have 200+ posts of "I don't like it but I don't hate it"
But by saying that this community is "bad" or even "worse" than anything else than something great makes me think you did not even peek your head into the forums of Ragnarok, WoW, runescape, Gaia, Neopets, Myspace, Luna Online, ANY Nexon community (Maple Story, Audition, Mabinogi) League of Legends, GameFAQS, Perfect world-- you get what I mean, the list goes on. Writhing dark holes of stupidity. Entire sections consisting of "gimme ur items or i report u an say u molest me ingame" on the forums.
I hate when people disregard problems with the excuse that it "could be worse." I love pointing out the flaws of entire groups of people and acting like a jackass in general. You can trust me when I say that the absolute worst thing about its fanbase is a little mediocrity here and there.