The Bitching Thread

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Originally Posted by Buffalobiian

So where you actually after the porn, or the movie? xD.

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I was hoping for an intentionally, hilariously bad parody of the original movie/characters with the porn being icing on the cake. Instead, it was 99% depressingly bad porn and 1% confusing irrelevant plot.

It was pretty funny when talking with the ISP rep; she instructed me to delete the movie, and I told her I already did shortly after I downloaded it because it was terrible.

Edit: Apparently, upon further investigation, I downloaded the wrong damn movie altogether...


Anyway, definitely leave it unplugged until needed.

Last episodes of X-Play and Attack of the Show aired today. I wasn't that into them, but they were fun to watch on occasion. With their demise, I will no longer have any reason to watch G4.

9th in a poker tourney for 25k$ when first place was 500k$.. Chipstack was worth 200k$ when I came into the final table. I want to puke. To make it worse they made a deal when it got down to 7 players where the player worst off got 150k$. So damn close. Decided to get high rather than drunk because drunk always makes me drunkpost or really depressed, think that was a great decision. Biggest adrenaline rush in forever though..

Other than that I am using adderal/ritalin/vyvanse more and more frequently and am scared it will be hard to stop. So much stress around family and everything else lately and this is the only thing making my anxiety go away and actually lets me do productive stuff, even simple stuff like going to the store and making food. I really need to start exercising every day.. I used to just use 1-2 times a week, now I'm using nearly every day.

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Originally Posted by Xrlderek

9th in a poker tourney for 25k$ when first place was 500k$.. Chipstack was worth 200k$ when I came into the final table. I want to puke. To make it worse they made a deal when it got down to 7 players where the player worst off got 150k$. So damn close. Decided to get high rather than drunk because drunk always makes me drunkpost or really depressed, think that was a great decision. Biggest adrenaline rush in forever though..

Other than that I am using adderal/ritalin/vyvanse more and more frequently and am scared it will be hard to stop. So much stress around family and everything else lately and this is the only thing making my anxiety go away and actually lets me do productive stuff, even simple stuff like going to the store and making food. I really need to start exercising every day.. I used to just use 1-2 times a week, now I'm using nearly every day.

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Tried talking to anyone, particularly social support?

Perhaps they know of some ways to deal with it that you wouldn't otherwise think of.

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Originally Posted by Buffalobiian

Tried talking to anyone, particularly social support?

Perhaps they know of some ways to deal with it that you wouldn't otherwise think of.

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I have tried a few therapy hours before but that was when I didn't use nearly as often and I didn't find the hours much use, it's all the same, just telling you you're a good person no matter what etc etc. Probably should try again but be more open about the adhd drugs actually being a problem(didn't think it was before).. anyway I probably wouldn't have posted the above before if I wasn't high, feels embarrasing when I look back at it, to complain on a forum I so rarely post on.

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Originally Posted by Xrlderek

anyway I probably wouldn't have posted the above before if I wasn't high, feels embarrasing when I look back at it, to complain on a forum I so rarely post on.

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No better place for it

having things recorded on the forum will also allow you to look back and gain perceptive about yourself. I encourage it.

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Originally Posted by Death BOO Z

having things recorded on the forum will also allow you to look back and gain perceptive about yourself. I encourage it.

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I second this. I've gone back and read some posts and been alternatively shocked and amazed at some of the stuff I've posted. I'm a pretty clever guy.

No comment Ani. To DBZ's point that is one of my favorite things about this forum. I spend the majority of my time here just rereading old posts, it is a great thing to be able to look back at myself and more importantly the way people perceive me.

I've looked at posts on other forums from 12 years ago and I notice a huge difference between how I wrote then vs. how I write now.

I think my writing quality peaked at around 2009.. then I've declined in general. Not sure if it has anything to do with the lack of reading literature.

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Originally Posted by Buffalobiian

I think my writing quality peaked at around 2009.. then I've declined in general. Not sure if it has anything to do with the lack of reading literature.

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I read a lot of modern classic novels and there seems to be a lack of concern for proper use of grammar and sentence structure. Take Cormac McCarthy's works, or Kurt Vonnegut's. McCarthy writes in short, clipped sentences, interspersing run-on sentences with long-winded paragraph-length sentences. I don't think it's helped my writing much at all. Being a liberal arts major during the past 3 years has definitely helped.

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Originally Posted by Buffalobiian

I think my writing quality peaked at around 2009.. then I've declined in general. Not sure if it has anything to do with the lack of reading literature.

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I feel the same right now about my own writing.

I have a hard time deciding when to use commas, when to use commas versus periods, and awkward logic ever since I've increased my exposure to other people's writing. Now, I'm not too sure what's really right nowadays...

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e.g., When will you come my house, Tom?

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When will you come to my house Tom?

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e.g., Jason, please eat dinner with us.

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Jason please eat dinner with us.

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e.g., Similarly, do we need a comma after the first word transition?

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Similarly do we need a comma after the first word transition?

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The list goes on and on; I think I'll just end up sticking to short and simple sentences in the future - especially since it'll be technical writing anyway.

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Originally Posted by Enkoujin

When will you come to my house Tom? Jason, please eat dinner with us. Similarly, do we need a comma after the first word transition?

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I would have identified those as the correct versions.

No matter the language (I bet), the name needs to be separated with a comma in the first two examples. The rule is about directly addressing someone.

"When will you come to my house Tom" <- In this example there's an entity called "house Tom". Is it a live music club or something?

It's more clear if you have the name in the middle of the sentence:

"When will you, Tomson, eat dinner with us?"

However, in Finnish there doesn't exist a thing called "first word transition", as far as I'm aware of, so such a thing would pose additional trouble for me (though some other comma rules might lead to the same effect, but that's a different story). There are also numerous other examples of the English and Finnish comma rules being totally different. When those two mix in my head, the end results is that I can't anymore use commas correctly in either language...

Hmm, now that you pick that up.. I would actually be inclined to use the comma in that Tom sentence as well. I was concentrating on "come vs come to" and picked the latter automatically.

In Finnish are the 'I' 'You' etc part of the verb or is it like in English?

I'm messing up English grammar because i mix it with Polish sometimes(and vice versa).

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Originally Posted by Xelbair

In Finnish are the 'I' 'You' etc part of the verb or is it like in English?

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If we are talking about the subject of the sentence, they can be separate words, like in English, or in many cases they can be dropped out entirely because the verb contains the information in any case. Usually it's voluntary if you leave it there or not. Especially in spoken language it's usually left there.

I know some pay-for-DLC is already out there, but I hope this isn't the future of games: Dead Space 3 is selling suit/weapon kits for cash money. The game already costs $60, now they want you to buy stuff for use in the game.

This is really old news.

You're paying for kits rather than grinding out crafting materials. It's single player items, and nothing you can't get by playing the game.

It's no different from cheat codes of the older generation, any Korean browser MMO game, or games like Farmville. This might come as a shock to you...but this isn't even new for EA. It's no different from Mass Effect 3 multiplayer. You could buy packs instead of unlocking with in-game currency, except this only affects single player and co-op.

Pay for convenience. Absolutely nothing to get outraged over.

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And if you're not talking about the micro-transaction kits...then it is just regular the DLC developed after the game went Gold (out for QA, certification, and printing). Which isn't anything new either.