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Well this place got nihilistic real quick.
Ditto on things I liked not quite interesting me as much as they did before.

 

18 hours ago, Battlechili said:

You should avoid buying games unless you know for sure you're going to play and enjoy them. Only buy stuff you badly want, even if its on sale.

When I first got my steam account, I was like "Ooo this looks nice, this looks nice, this looks cool, let's get this as well." Now, I only buy stuff if I know I'll really be interested in it. That being said, there are games on the account I want to play just have yet to play.

And, I think the max I've spent was about $30 one time, and every other steam sale I don't spend more than $20-25, and sometimes even less. Like this time it was a little over $10, and then back during the Star Wars sale it was about $7 for a bunch of old 90s games (the Dark Forces/Jedi Knight series, the Starfighter series)

15 hours ago, Kosha said:

At first glance I thought @Sidewalk Surfboard's avatar was of Roger Waters. I wanted to look up pictures to make sure it was him (it wasn't, I had a feeling it was Freddy Mercury but I wanted to make sure) but looking at pictures of him made me realize that he looks a lot like Adam Diver.

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Adam Driver is Roger Water's secret son!!! AHH! Illuminati confirmed!

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9 hours ago, Victor-933 said:

People started celebrating July 4 last night at 11pm. They were shooting off more than fireworks, though -- I heard more than one handgun and I swear some giggling asshole got out a shotgun.

 

'Murica.

people have been celebrating here since late June and will continue to late July

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Watching the best Motion Picture metaphor for America: The Music Man (a actual fave of mine.) A sorcerous salesman enchants and hypnotizes a small town into song and dance to sell his dubious services, planning to skip town after having sopped up all their cash. Only the learned librarian unfazed by the fanfare stands to arrest his plans, if she can resist his wooing and overcome her reputation among to public.

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1 minute ago, DrGravitas said:

Watching the best Motion Picture  metaphor for America: The Music Man (a actual fave of mine.) A sorcerous salesman enchants and hypnotizes a small town into song and dance to sell his dubious services, planning to skip town after having sopped up all their cash. Only the learned librarian unfazed by the fanfare stand to arrest his plans, if she can resist his wooing and overcome her reputation among to public.

One of my favorite Robert Preston movies <3

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12 minutes ago, DrGravitas said:

Watching the best Motion Picture metaphor for America: The Music Man (a actual fave of mine.) A sorcerous salesman enchants and hypnotizes a small town into song and dance to sell his dubious services, planning to skip town after having sopped up all their cash. Only the learned librarian unfazed by the fanfare stands to arrest his plans, if she can resist his wooing and overcome her reputation among to public.

 

Seth Macfarlane does a surprisingly good rendition of "Ya Got Trouble".

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5 minutes ago, Cingal said:

 

Seth Macfarlane does a surprisingly good rendition of "Ya Got Trouble".

'Tis a pretty good rendition, but you can't beat the original ( I was actually about to bring up "Ya Got Trouble" and then saw your post... so I'll just post it anyway for the unenlightened):

 

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16 minutes ago, Sidewalk Surfboard said:

Whelp, I've once again switched distros.

If you want to avoid PROBLEMS for good, consider Debian.

Also when I went to type in 'problems' like that, my phone's first suggestion was 'JACKSONVILLE' for some reason.

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I have my last finals test tomorrow, then I'll be done with high school for good. These have, so far, been the worst years of my life. I'm very nervous, due to me being mostly unprepared and for having only a very vague idea of what's it gonna be like since none of our very competent and absolutely professional teachers bothered to fill us in on the details proper. Is it just me being overly demanding for daring to ask for simple instructions?

Five years in this pisshole and I don't feel like I've learned anything worthwhile, five years wasted. Soon school will be over and I don't feel prepared in the slightest to face what's to come, the work life and eveything, it failed to give me a direction. Wasn't that what school was for?? None of the things we did were ever exciting or inspirational. On the contrary, I've felt only anger and frustration to be here. Everyday's been an empty routine: wake up early, go to an old ugly school, have unmotivated, bored, boring and/or unprofessional teachers do their thing, see the dickfaces of the classmates you hate, long for that bell to ring. No heart, no emotion, no passion in anything. It was all so fucking uninspired. ''Apathy'' is how I'd describe these years in a single word, and anger. Just... Just zero, niks, nada, nulla. ''Best years of your life'' my ass. How bad is it when something you do makes you wish for time, something so limited and precious, to pass as quickly as possible?

To top it all off I have to do these shitty finals too now and for what? Seriously what the hell is their purpose? To prove I studied, that I did my job? That's what report cards are for but nah, let's do this superfluous, useless fucking test, because we love our students so much that we just don't want to let them go. I'll be honest, I didn't study these last couple of weeks for this final test, I am mostly unprepared. I just fucking hate school so much that I can't be bothered with it any longer. But that doesn't matter: the minimum score required to gain the diploma is 60/100 and so far I have 54 points. From this last test one can gain up to 30 points, so I only need 6. An easy feat, even with a preparation as poor as mine

 

inb4 post of some lecturing know-it-all coming to patronize me on how great school is or how my opinion doesn't matter because I'm still an adolescent or how my problems are irrelevant just because someone else has it worse. To the patronizers, piss off. You're not me, you're not my daddy, you haven't been where I've been, you have no idea what it's been like

 

I should end this emotional rant right here and go study now. In case you didn't notice, talking about this subject makes me furious. I'm just... Extremely disappointed and frustrated and embittered from this experience. Please understand where I'm coming from, not that understanding is something that can be requested, but you get what I mean.

Lol these lyrics from ''Breaking The Law'' describe my feelings perfectly:

So much for the golden future, I can't even start

I've had every promise broken, there's anger in my heart!

 

Let's get this crap over and done with once and for all. I'll inform you tomorrow of how it went, if it went well

 

Edit: I might make this a thread of its own...

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36 minutes ago, Kosha said:

I'm just going to shamelessly plug my Tabletop RPG Thread right here.

Get that filth out of my sight! Absolutely disgusting, contaminating this nice clean thread with that.

@AmiirBest of luck! I'm sure you'll be fine Amiir. Most everyone feels trepidation at this stuff. But in time you'll find you've learned more than you'd think. Even things that weren't necessarily taught to you by the teachers. It's not all about academic knowledge.

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The last echoes of the big bad development task have ended.

I cleaned up some of the 3rd party's manually constructed values that didn't meet the specs set forth. I've scheduled the jobs to execute automatically as according to plan. I provided details on things that can be done should certain types of issues occur, just in case the 3rd party pulls the rug out from under us.

The date to run was pushed back to the 10th because the business team works in mysterious ways. So, I'll be on the plane as this thing runs for the first time in the live environment. B)

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1 hour ago, Osrik said:

I accidentally answered the door for some Jehovah's Witness, luckily they did not want to talk at me, but only gave me a pamphlet for some odd convention.

I must be more vigilant in the future...

You have access to furry... material

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2 minutes ago, DrGravitas said:

There are people wandering around the office trying to catch Pokémon -_-;

 

This sounds like the perfect excuse to paint up some tennis balls and start throwing them at your coworkers.

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8 minutes ago, Mr. Fox said:

This is the perfect opportunity to show off your furriness.

Pfft! I can see it now: They come walking around the corner with their phone up in their face, turn into my cube and there there I am in a full green-fox fursuit. Their phone, and their jaw, slowly lower as they realize I'm not part of the game.

Then I throw a PokéTennisBall at them xD

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I'm so weird. Why do I have to throw away a good thing to make progress in this part of my life? To the rest of the world, it probably looks like I'm going backwards. It's supposed to be fun, and fun I'm going to have.

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38 minutes ago, Xaende said:

I'm so weird. Why do I have to throw away a good thing to make progress in this part of my life? To the rest of the world, it probably looks like I'm going backwards. It's supposed to be fun, and fun I'm going to have.

May I ask what your throwing away?

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17 hours ago, DrGravitas said:

May I ask what your throwing away?

Mostly a niche that set my art apart back in the day. It may look like I'm devolving into just another maker or anthro sparkledogs. Maybe I am, but I'd rather that happen than stop altogether. It's just where my inspiration lies these days. My style should follow me, but I can imagine people thinking the subjects are too generic. I purged most of my comics, but I may make new one in the future. It's complicated, but probably not very consequential in the grand scheme of things.

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1 hour ago, Xaende said:

Mostly a niche may not have set my art apart back in the day. It may look like I'm devolving into just another maker or anthro sparkledogs. Maybe I am, but I'd rather that happen than stop altogether. It's just where my inspiration lies these days. My style should follow me, but I can imagine people thinking the subjects too generic. I purged most of my comics, but I may make new one in the future. It's complicated, but probably not very consequential in the grand scheme of things.

Do what you feel you enjoy most. Everyone can stop looking at your art the next day, however, if you still enjoy making that type of art then keep going because what matters most is your happiness. Everyone has their own tastes and those tastes may not be the same of yours but you'll always have the few that like yours.

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56 minutes ago, LazerMaster5 said:

So I may be considering a change of career. Is pizza delivery service something worth doing compared to my current job at the theater?

I dunno, you *are* giving yourself quite the challenge there. Why not shoot for a professional job and wind up making twice as much?

Pizza delivery is not a career :V

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1 hour ago, Alexxx-Returns said:

I hate hate HATE drawing sergal feet.

Or more specifically, I hate not being able to draw them well.

Life drawing is key. Find a group of sergals lounging on the beach, with their feet sticking off the end of the towels or something, and sketch them.

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