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Re: The Small Rants Thread VIII: Now more bitchin' than ever.
« Reply #840 on: September 20, 2014, 04:28:25 PM »
I feel like my sanity is slipping through my fingers. I'm getting worse and worse with people.

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Re: The Small Rants Thread VIII: Now more bitchin' than ever.
« Reply #841 on: September 20, 2014, 06:37:14 PM »
I feel like my sanity is slipping through my fingers. I'm getting worse and worse with people.

Insanity is defined by inability, and while I can't say I have any idea what going insane must be like, I must respectfully disagree. Based on what you've spoken about before, I'd think it's more likely your depression is reaching some really, really bad levels.

Depression basically takes your perception and runs it into the ground. You might either perceive things in a worse light than they deserve or see things that aren't there and run with those.

For obvious reasons, this has a really bad effect on how you interact with people. And those bad interactions stick with you. Depending on how bad it gets and how much you put the blame for it on your shoulders, you basically go into a vicious circle.

The first thing you need to do is: since you KNOW you're not well, you have to think twice over every bad impression, and take it with a grain of salt. Don't trust your gut instincts. Think twice before you say anything, too. You should gradually see a little improvement, which will help you climb your way back up.
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Re: The Small Rants Thread VIII: Now more bitchin' than ever.
« Reply #842 on: September 20, 2014, 07:26:08 PM »
Insanity is a legal and not medical or scientiffic construct, but this sort of hair-splitting doesn't really help anyone out. :/

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Re: The Small Rants Thread VIII: Now more bitchin' than ever.
« Reply #843 on: September 20, 2014, 07:31:21 PM »
If it helps, I also suffer from depression.  I can try and offer whatever I've learned from my shrink to you, it might help.
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Re: The Small Rants Thread VIII: Now more bitchin' than ever.
« Reply #844 on: September 20, 2014, 08:22:04 PM »
Insanity is a legal and not medical or scientiffic construct, but this sort of hair-splitting doesn't really help anyone out. :/
It's not hair-splitting, RD. Brujon has noted on numerous occasions he's clinically depressed.

Furthermore, insanity is one broad-ass term to cover a LOT of potential medical conditions, its (also incredibly broad and oftentimes inadequate) use in the legal vernacular notwithstanding.

We know what brujon HAS, and we know what he's EXPERIENCING right now. It's a lot safer and more effective to act on information we have than presume on information we don't.

What one feels is happening, especially when one suffers from depression, and what is ACTUALLY happening can be two very, very different things. And depression is known to affect your perception. It's one of its main symptoms.
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Re: The Small Rants Thread VIII: Now more bitchin' than ever.
« Reply #845 on: September 21, 2014, 12:56:06 AM »
The saga of Draconic Man has come to a close (and incidentally all previous links are now probably broken).  It was just some guy who didn't realize about the discussion pages as I suspected.  If it's any condolence, he set out to make broken stuff and succeeded with flying colors.  While I don't see the point to his endeavor, after a brief spat where I had to put on the mod pants, we agreed to sandbox his material where it can be happily preserved.  Alls well that ends well.

Actually I'm glad it ended well.  This could have been an Archetyper 2.0.  Sorry Archetyper, but you're still the worst thing ever.  Congrats on retaining the golden poo!
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Re: The Small Rants Thread VIII: Now more bitchin' than ever.
« Reply #846 on: September 21, 2014, 12:57:51 AM »
Explain this Archetyper?

I am filled with curiousness.
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Re: The Small Rants Thread VIII: Now more bitchin' than ever.
« Reply #847 on: September 21, 2014, 01:17:08 AM »
Hoo.  Where do I begin.

We get new people every so often and they make articles and all is well.  Sometimes, it's bad, it's really bad.  And one time it was Archetyper.

We began to get curious articles, deity entries mostly, detailing real life religious stuff.  While I don't think it's wise to bother with it, that's not bad or wrong or anything.    Though what he put in there became quickly and increasingly more bizarre and deranged.  One of his gifts was Yahweh, you know, the old Judeo-Christian god.  He was.... lawful evil.  Well, he loves his controversy I see.  Then there were his custom gods which all interlinked and interacted and we began to realize in as the sticky stream of misogyny and perversion came pouring forth that this was someone special.

Honestly I'm not sure what was worst, but the thing that stuck out in my mind was his goddess of love, light, hope, etc whose entire gimmick was that she was raped by the devil, so she did the logical thing snapped off satan's dick and now uses it at an eternal dildo.

Mix the sheer offensiveness of his articles with an Charisma of 1 and an insanity reserved for Derro.  Just when I thought that no one could play games like FATAL seriously, we found one.  I mean full on -4 Str females, historically/mythologically accurate rape, "I will sue you for libel because people on the internet don't like me" insanity.  We found one of the FATAL players.  It was so bad it spawned the creation of the In-Denial FATALite.

He got banned later on for some actual offense I cannot remember, but for two weeks or so it was an absolute feast of the most lol-worthy and yet horrifying material I've laid eyes on.

Yes, people who like those games exist, somewhere, somewhere dreadful under your bed and in your closet, waiting.  And they want to introduce you to their goddess rape fantasy game.
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Re: The Small Rants Thread VIII: Now more bitchin' than ever.
« Reply #848 on: September 22, 2014, 08:38:00 PM »
Okay, so I'm trying to find the right word to use that's opposite of "incident", which in physics (optics) refers to the beam of light that hits a surface (the incident beam hitting a mirror, lens, etc.).  So I google what I thought would be the beam that leaves a mirror, excident.  Spell check said no, but google?  Well, some people spell "accident" as "excident" apparently.  And there are SO MANY pictures/video of people having been severely injured.  Like, limbs lobbed off.  Or dead.  DON'T GOOGLE EXCIDENT.
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Re: The Small Rants Thread VIII: Now more bitchin' than ever.
« Reply #849 on: September 22, 2014, 09:30:11 PM »
Okay, so I'm trying to find the right word to use that's opposite of "incident", which in physics (optics) refers to the beam of light that hits a surface (the incident beam hitting a mirror, lens, etc.).  So I google what I thought would be the beam that leaves a mirror, excident.  Spell check said no, but google?  Well, some people spell "accident" as "excident" apparently.  And there are SO MANY pictures/video of people having been severely injured.  Like, limbs lobbed off.  Or dead.  DON'T GOOGLE EXCIDENT.


It's only because you complained about spelling that I'm pointing out that "lobbed" means thrown and "lopped" means cut. Also, in an optics context, the ray leaving a mirror is the reflected ray, and the ray leaving a lens is the refracted ray.

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Re: The Small Rants Thread VIII: Now more bitchin' than ever.
« Reply #850 on: September 22, 2014, 10:41:35 PM »
I did not spell it wrong.  Yeah.well, I did mean lopped, but both instances were represented...

And in optics, yes, I know that term, but I wanted to refer to the exiting side of a refracting material.
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Re: The Small Rants Thread VIII: Now more bitchin' than ever.
« Reply #851 on: September 22, 2014, 11:16:53 PM »
I did not spell it wrong.  Yeah.well, I did mean lopped, but both instances were represented...

And in optics, yes, I know that term, but I wanted to refer to the exiting side of a refracting material.

Well....Not sure how well it applies, but since you said you want to have a name that refers to the actual side of the materials that the refracted beam is exiting through......In gem faceting the side that light enters through, and is them refracted within, is called the crown, and with the opposite side of the gem that the refracted light leaves through being called the pavilion (tho that called a leak and is bad to let it out through any side that isn't the same side the light came in from in the context of gem faceting :p )

Anyways...................Pavilion?
Not sure how much context that might need to get tho...

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Re: The Small Rants Thread VIII: Now more bitchin' than ever.
« Reply #852 on: September 22, 2014, 11:31:36 PM »
I just used "refracted"
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Re: The Small Rants Thread VIII: Now more bitchin' than ever.
« Reply #853 on: September 22, 2014, 11:32:15 PM »
I just used "refracted"

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Re: The Small Rants Thread VIII: Now more bitchin' than ever.
« Reply #854 on: September 23, 2014, 10:47:43 AM »
I am wasting my time trying educated RP Drama Queens on logic regarding D&D Next. On Facebook.  :banghead

Now that I wrote that, I realize what a stupid move it was.

The argument:

"A level 20 PC will have an optimized AC of 24. Therefore, because a goblin has a +3 to hit, it has an actual chance of hitting a PC and a band of goblins is an actual challenge to a level 20 PC."

So you're going off an absolute premise (this when the DMG isn't even out yet), a different, flawed one (they always had that chance, it's called a natural 20) and then assuming an outcome (that the level 20 PC could actually die from a band of goblins).

Can somebody help me crunch the numbers on why this is bullshit? I'm going off a simple figure or two here, but I see a band of maybe 100 goblins not being an actual challenge.
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Re: The Small Rants Thread VIII: Now more bitchin' than ever.
« Reply #855 on: September 24, 2014, 12:24:30 PM »
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Ask "How many goblins?" and make them do the work for you.
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Re: The Small Rants Thread VIII: Now more bitchin' than ever.
« Reply #856 on: September 24, 2014, 03:50:11 PM »

I feel like my sanity is slipping through my fingers. I'm getting worse and worse with people.

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Re: The Small Rants Thread VIII: Now more bitchin' than ever.
« Reply #857 on: September 24, 2014, 04:03:00 PM »
Ugh, i keep putting off working on my final course thesis. It's going, but it's going slow, and it CAN'T GO SLOW.

I have to finish it. I have to finish it fast. Goddamit... I want to do anything, anything but do it now. My mind is going places and i can't focus. Shit.
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Re: The Small Rants Thread VIII: Now more bitchin' than ever.
« Reply #858 on: September 24, 2014, 04:20:33 PM »
What is your thesis, and how complete is it?
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Re: The Small Rants Thread VIII: Now more bitchin' than ever.
« Reply #859 on: September 24, 2014, 04:28:59 PM »
Ugh, i keep putting off working on my final course thesis. It's going, but it's going slow, and it CAN'T GO SLOW.

I have to finish it. I have to finish it fast. Goddamit... I want to do anything, anything but do it now. My mind is going places and i can't focus. Shit.

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