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Oh hey, my copy of the Player's Handbook finally arrived.
D&D. 3.5e.
Ooh, nice!
Isn't 3.5 OGL, anyway?
The d20 system is, but I don't believe 3.5e is.
Ugh, how do you cheer up someone that doesn't wanna be cheered up?
You don't.
Pretty much. Misery can be as addictive as joy, so you often just have to let someone get sick of their own neurosis.
Yeah, I guess. I mean, i'll hear them vent online, but what was supposed to be a "I hope everything goes better for you" from me gets misinterpreted into a "how dare you feel like shit?! man up, pussy!", even though they'll acknowledge that i was just trying to make them feel better and ugh, yeah, what do I care if you actually do go through with killing yourself, none of us care right?
EDIT: Yeah, that sounds a little melodramatic on my part, even for me. I'm sure he'll sleep it off.
Adorable animal pictures? Getting cheered up by them is an involuntary reaction.
Show them /adv/. Seeing worse misery and bigger tools are a surefire way to get someone to relativize their problems.
Not sure if sarcastic. Or at least, I can tell you that attempting to make myself feel better by lurking /adv/ had the opposite effect, even if it did allow me to relativize my problems. Actually, it may be different for Schitzo's friend, but that's precisely why I felt worse.
qft
Meh, it worked for me in the past, if only because some of the more whiny posters set a good bad example of self-destructive thought patterns, and how to perpetuate them.
That's alright as a shock-to-the-system, looking-into-the-mirror kind of thing, but identification and acceptance of a problem (or many problems) is only the beginning. Changing habitually self-destructive behaviour is another matter entirely, and it's especially difficult because it often requires a significant change in environment. If you don't require that moment of realisation because you've already had it, there's really no reason to look down on others. Just let them be with their problems and wish them the best, because there's small benefit in exposing oneself to other peoples' cycles of weakness.
Any problem that is on such a level that it requires a change in environment, lifestyle or habits is nearly always good reason to see a therapist instead of trying to resolve it yourself. However, there are a myriad of minor toxic loops and fallacious forms of thinking in which one can fall when in a foul mood, even when you've shaken those moods off before. Epiphanies don't stick in a single moment of realization.
But meh, this is straying into the territory of vague generalizations not tailored to the specifics of a situation, so it's a bit moot.
So, here's to another twelve hours of general assistant duty.
yaaaaaaaay~
Rewatching Casino Royale.
I normally don't like Bond but Casino Royale remains awesome if only because it actually doesn't congratulate Bond on being a huge sociopath. (Well, sorta.)
Ooh, interesting thing I like to bring up about that. The bit where he's recovering at Lake Como? Directly across the lake, you can see the small town of Bellagio. I stayed there once and IMO, it is quite possibly the best vacation spot on the planet.
- looks up pictures -
Reminds me of Venice and Boca. I like
Venice is great, but it's just way too crowded. Bellagio is nice and quiet. Great for recovering from jet lag.
Casino Royale is a movie I loved to bits. It's kinda a bonding movie for me and a cousin of mine. I am fond of Quantum of Solace based on some of the "Bolivia" locales I recognize on my daily life. Also, Stana Katic
I finally reduced my tabs from 80 something to 48
Because Firefox was taking forever to load the tabs
@Alex: A couple pages back, you posted an anti-beard plucking law. Where the heck was that from?
It was quoted from Milos' post, where he posted a few medieval Serbian laws from the 14th century.
Serbia is serious about its beards.
That's from the period when the Kingdom of Serbia flipped the bird at the Byzantines, wasn't it?
I'm not sure; you might have to ask Milos about that.
>.> I tried getting a torrent of Stephen King's It (There is pretty much zero chance of watching it on a TV in this house since my mother hates anything horror, and renting it anywhere but over Video on Demand is laughable)
WHO THE FUCK UPLOADS A TORRENT OF A MOVIE BUT DOESN'T INCLUDE THE SOUND!?
I say that because I was actually reading about the history of the Eastern Roman Empire recently. If I recall correctly, the mid-14th century was one of the few windows of time wherein mediaeval Serbia was properly independent from either Ottoman or Greek rule.
Oh come on, The Shining isn't even the right format!
As in it isn't even playable!
WHY are people giving these good reviews and ratings!?