Posts by _LS_

  • CTRL + V

    Normal dude who is just really lucky.

    Normal dude with access to advanced technology.

    Normal dude who keeps stumbling into the center of attention. Winding up as the subject of prophecy, or being hailed as the chosen one.

  • Thread for SPAMMY & random posts

    The Veteran vs. Noob mentality is absolutely a problem with online communities. But do you think visible post counts really play that much of a role? I tend to think it has more to do with how the veterans treat each other, vs. noobs. I actually have a really specific example of this, in the Jorbs thread:

    http://forums.zeldacavern.com/index.php?thre…age-2#post-1658

    After my previous post, there were two replies. One from you, and one from Vengeance. My initial inclination was to only respond to you. After all: I know you, I'm comfortable talking with you, and you and I were having a conversation about a specific subject. But that would have arbitrarily excluded Vengeance for no better reason than his new-ness. When he came back to the forum, he'd see that his post had been ignored, and he wouldn't really have much reason to come back again.

    I don't think the post count really matters all that much. I think the real issue is that vets ignore noobs.

    Also, Xenforo is great. I don't know how much modification has been done to this place, but this is absolutely my favorite forum software I've ever used. If I ever admin a forum again, I'd want to use this software.

  • The Best Times

    Yeah, we were always the annoying kids to them, weren't we? Amusingly enough, I was 10 when one of my younger brothers was born. He tended to look up to me the same way I looked up to my uncle, and I tended to be annoyed by him the same way my uncle was annoyed by me. He and I are actually pretty close now, though.

    I've never really had many people to play multiplayer with, so I never really developed a taste for competitive video games. It's something I try to do a little more often these days, but the venn diagram of the games that I like and the games that have multiplayer has only a very small intersection.

  • CTRL + V

    The game is simple. You scroll down to the reply box, and you hit CTRL + V, pasting whatever is currently on your clipboard into a post. Then you share it with all of us.

    If you don't post something because you're embarrassed about it, you're a coward and I hate you.

  • Thread for SPAMMY & random posts

    Well you've certainly corrected the flaw of the spam thread being filled with normal discussion posts.

    Quote from Kaynil

    It is dumb now. Hosting a forum back then was too expensive and the space way more limited so every post in the database had to count.

    In theory disabling the post count discourages members to spam their way up. But if they want to do so. Isn't better that they have an area for those quick posts instead of resorting to shallow replies elsewhere to that end?

    We could be spamming, but instead we're having a coherent somewhat serious discussion. Haha.

    Can't help it. I think it is an interesting thing to talk about.

    I didn't consider database costs. I never actually had to pay for hosting on any of the forums I ran; they were either on my personal server, of Ceraptor's.

    I think there's a reason most websites don't have post counts anymore. Seeing that little number next to your name does something to people's brains. They want to make the number bigger, and they post dumb shit to make that happen. That's certainly what I did at the original TSR.

    Still, I'm glad these forums have kept post counts around.

  • What are you thinking right now?

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    That sounds pretty cool. I hope it works really nicely.

    I found out two if my co-workers really one videogames and one if them us into Zelda. I kind of want to make her join. Not sure how to approach the invitation. Hopefully next Friday the opportunity will arise.

    Good luck with that! Inviting work people into your personal life is always a little scary. But I've found that it can sometimes be surprisingly rewarding.

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    When and how I am going to sleep for the rest of my life.

    Why are you worried about that?


    I've been watching Malcolm in the Middle lately. It's amusing, but not as good as everyone says. And god damn, the early 2000s were dumb.

  • What are you thinking right now?

    Good luck with that! Inviting work people into your personal life is always a little scary. But I've found that it can sometimes be surprisingly rewarding.

    I've been watching Malcolm in the Middle lately. It's amusing, but not as good as everyone says. And god damn, the early 2000s were dumb.

  • <^> Game

    ^ Incorrect! I have a big pot of leftover chili. So it will be my next big meal.
    ^ Also, those videos sound interesting. But yeah, that's not the sort of thing a parent needs to see.
    < Just finished playing Terraria for 4 hours with my little sister. Had a lot of fun.
    V Doesn't have a little sister!

  • The Poet Class

    I probably should write them down. A lot of them are just cheap rhyming couplets. Stuff like "For your deeds I'll see you dead / we'll split our body from your head!" or "Go now, to your burial mound. / From here on out, our company shall be less round." (That second one was after the spherical wizard died).

    Everything else was ripped off google.

  • The Best Times

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    I remember my parents used to rent cartridges at the same place they rented movies. It was pretty cool. I only remember QUEST 64. Which I didn't understand but I thought it was cool.

    Isn't QUEST 64 notoriously awful?

    We never really rented games when I was a kid. But I do remember seeing Megaman in the video store and thinking it looked awesome. Not really an N64 era reminiscence though. =P

    More in line with the topic at hand: As mentioned above, the N64 was the first console I ever owned myself. (I'd borrowed an NES for many years from my uncle, and played a lot of SNES at friends houses, but the N64 was the first one that was really mine). But before it was mine, my uncle had one.

    My uncle was a cool dude. Only 10 years older than me, he was old enough that to me he was a grown up, but young enough that he was interested in cool things like computers and video games. Every time we went to my Grandma's house, I'd watch him play Goldeneye and Starfox 64. And sometimes he'd let me and the other kids get in on the action. We'd hotseat our way through Starfox, and try to keep the volume down so our parents didn't catch us playing Goldeneye. Which, of course, is far too violent for children.

    By the by, about a year and a half ago, I plugged in my copy of goldeneye and played it with my younger siblings, who hadn't even been born yet when that game was popular. My sister Olivia was somehow really good at it, and beat all of us multiple times.

  • The American Dream

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    I would love to learn in more detail what was holding you back when you had that position and how you feel much better without it.

    A big part of the problem was the amount of time the job demanded from me. It was 8-5, Monday-Friday, no real vacation time. I was usually waking up in a rush at 6 or 7, and not getting home until 6 in the evening. In the Winter that meant I walked into the building when it was dark outside, and I didn't walk out of the building until it was dark again. The job also demanded a lot of my energy. Physically because I had to spend much of my day running all over a warehouse on a very tight schedule. Emotionally because customers are assholes, and bosses are bigger assholes.

    I don't want to try and paint my experiences there as some kind of "poor me" nonsense. Objectively speaking, I had it really good. I made enough money to support myself and my girlfriend in comfort with enough left over to save. I had job security. I was legitimately good friends with almost all of my coworkers, including my direct supervisor. In many ways, it was a sweet gig. The kinda job a lot of people would love to have. The kind of job more people deserve to have. But it was exhausting, and I'm weak. So I wasn't making as much progress with my writing as someone with more willpower would be able to.

    I knew the whole time that my life was starting to look like a cliche. I'd started out with high hopes about what I would accomplish, then I got smacked down by real life. I got shuffled into a boring and pointless job that was too good to quit. My life was passing by underneath me. How long would it be before I just accepted the status quo?

    (First world problems, am I right?)

    Honestly things would still be going like that if not for my girlfriend. She basically told me to just quit, and she'd take care of our finances. So I did, and I've spent the last year writing every day while my bank account shrank. Almost exactly a year later (the last day at my old job was on the 25th of July 2014), things haven't worked out as well as we would have hoped. I wanted to be bringing in some more money with my writing by now, and Morrie didn't anticipate some of the financial burdens we've faced. So now we're making some sacrifices. I've gone back to part-time paycheck work, and we're looking at smaller apartments. But now I've got my priorities in order. Writing comes first, everything else is secondary.

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    I spent my university time trying to finish my career for the greater good. Getting the paper. I envied my friends that were on the art side while i was in IT. Even then IT was vaguely chosen in the hopes I could somehow reconcile it with my love for forums and interest in building a proper website. I didn't know what I'd do once it was over. I had studied before because that was my duty but somehow the idea of joining a big company or how I'd be working wouldn't make me feel excited in anyway. It actually would make me feel anxious and unfit. like something I'd have to swallow just to be what I knew people around me expected me to be. It backfired and I dropped in the middle of a semester after a breakdown. I just couldn't pass my subjects, my head was elsewhere. At the time I paused it and I hoped I'd continue it here.

    Between that and now I have learned different things about me and what I want. I now think it is a mistake to rush people into university when they don't know yet what they want to do. I think some work experience, a little travel , something that puts them open to learn more of what is out there is better than just taking uni for being the next step hoping ambition will fall on them like a thunder. I think that hurrying comes because of this mentality. Money is important and we all have things we would like to own but when it becomes the center of your life, above the people you care for, above your own self- fulfilling activities, above your own ability to enjoy the peace of being here right now that is not doing better. It becomes a cycle.

    You're absolutely right. Every time I hear a highschool kid talking about how they don't know what to major in, I tell them the same thing: Take a gap year. Get a job. Figure shit out. It's better to take a little time now to find your place in the world than it is to blow your chance at higher education by rushing into things.

    And they always say the same thing to me. "My parents don't think I should. They say if I take time off, I might never go back."

    Bullshit. Your parents are dumb. They think you'll never go back because they still think of you as the child they had to force to go to school every morning. But you're not stupid, you want to take your college education seriously. Are your parents going to pay for 100% of your education? No? Then why are you going to let them force you into tens of thousands of dollars of debt when you don't even know what you want to do with it? I know it's scary, I know that you've never been given any training in how to do it, but you've reached a threshold in your life, highschool kid. It's time to make your own choice.

    Most of the time, parents who try to force their children not to take a gap year are parents who never finished college themselves. They don't know what they're talking about.

    By the by, Kaynil. If it makes you feel any better, I never got my piece of paper either. I ran out of money, didn't eat much for about a year, destroyed my grades, and ended up dropping out.

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    I am right now at the age where I am becoming aware of my own mortality. There is a point where you realise you're not in the age bracket where death seemed like something unlikely and far. I am pretty sure I have a long while to go if I die of natural causes but I've seen enough of that sense of control being shaken unexpectedly around me to know things can change a lot in an instant. It has taken me to think, to really weigh what is what I value and what I want in life. I no longer feel ashamed or less of a person because I am completely happy with the idea of just making enough to enjoy the lifestyle I currently have, save up for emergencies and keep building my retirement money account. I just want stable job, time to write, doodle, keep this project which is very important to me and keep learning little things that makes me happy.

    Yeah, we're getting there, aren't we? Scary shit. The fundamental tragedy of all human life is not that it ends, but that it knows it.

    Nothing we do really matters in any kind of metaphysical sense. If we make ourselves happy, and love other people, then we're doing good.

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    I don't know where I read that we can either consume what other people make or create things to be consumed. I am happy consuming other things but I want to feel i am also making a little something every day, maybe writing, maybe drawing, maybe trying a new language. Just going out and enjoying the sky. I never want to lose the ability to enjoy simple things in life. Someone I care for a lot once said to me he could no longer do something like sitting to see a sunset because he would just be thinking about the time being wasted on it. It made me so sad to hear it and still makes me sad now, years after. Because for many that wasting time is tied to the "Time = money" mantra. There is so much more to life than money.

    I'm a lot like your friend, actually. I know it's not the best outlook, but I have a hard time accepting inactivity. If I'm not doing something or making progress on something that my fucked-up, broken brain thinks is valuable, then I'm going to hate myself later for wasting the time.

    I'm trying to force myself to acknowledge that any time spent connecting with people is valuable, and I should never feel bad about that.

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    I am out and question why are we as a race where we are. This moment where we're so different with our malls and our roads, with our professions and our inability to survive in nature's grasp if we were thrown out. With our paradigms and taboos.

    I want to have some fun in the moment, whether at work, with my amazing coworkers I've had the privilege to meet, online on forums, at home with my housemates... I want to encourage myself to do, write that story, post that comment, try that weird thing while nobody's looking, buy that you have wanted for a while. Just be responsible to keep your job, pay your bills support your lifestyle.

    <3

    A lot of this ties into my revolutionary inclinations. Toppling the bourgeois, breaking the corporate structure, etc. etc. etc. But ultimately I don't believe any of that will happen in my lifetime. We live in the times that we live in, and we need to make the best of what we have.

    I feel like I could write 10 pages in response to you, Kaynil. But I should probably stop writing now, because this is already longer than any forum post that anyone has ever bothered to read. =P

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