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Tripsis...just holy shit. Replace your keyboard often? I got 61 wpm, with 8 errors, which sounds about right, so 53 wpm, which again is about right. I might type a bit faster when I think up the words myself, but I also pause to think. I never learned to touch type either. I learned to type by playing runescape. If you type enough, you start to remember where the keys are, but my fingers don't follow the right patterns or stick on the right keys (I know how your supposed to do it. I normally only use 3 fingers on my right hand, and mostly two on my left (my left ring finger handles the A key, and not much else). My pinkies only get used for the shift key. I also don't bother to always use the same fingers for the same keys, it kinda depends on where my hand is on the keyboard, so I guess all that is slowing me down lol. But yeah. Wow Tripsis. Just wow.

Its possible, but I have never really bothered with planning things like that out. In my experience, conversations have a way of going places on their own, so once you get things started, your normally in the clear. Now obviously things are going to bit different for you, in Grade 9 than they are going to be for me right now as a post grad, but I normally start off just asking how the other persons day went. Since I go to University, I ask how their classes are going. Showing interest in the other person is always good. People love to talk about themselves, and things that interest them (which is why you should date people with similar interests). It's a really good way to get someone to open up, and of course, showing interest in her is bonus points. Now, for you its not going to work quite the same way. I imagine you two share a lot, if not all your classes (or if you aren't in the same class, you probably have the exact same subjects and teachers in a school that size), so that's not going to work as well. My point is if you ask her what she's learning about right now, she's going to wonder just what [bleep]ing planet you live on. Try as I might, I actually can't remember any of my other conversation starters. Hell, I can't even remember how I met my first date (I remember where though. I met them at bandcamp :thumbsup:). I think they invited me to sit with them and their friends though. That same thing happens when I try to remember how I make friends. At every camp I have ever gone to, I've made a friend the first day, normally by lunch time. I still don't have a clue how I do/did it. It would make my life a nice bit easier if I did though. I find meeting people is all about finding an excuse to talking about them, then hoping/pushing the conversation to move beyond whatever trivial thing you used to start it. But I am drifting away from the problem at hand. I'm drawing a blank for general ideas for you, because in all honesty, I don't really have a clue what 14 year old'd talk about anymore. I'm willing to bet its not school though. Unless its about how much you hate it/some teacher/homework. So sure, post a bit about her and her interests, and maybe I can come up with something better.

My first real date ever was dinner at a restaurant. It worked out fairly well, without much in the way of awkward pauses or anything, but my date was also a very social and outgoing person who helped to fill in any kind of blank space. I guess ideally though, if your going to try tgo date someone, then we are going to proceed under the assumption the two of you can hold a conversation for more than 5 minutes. If your looking for things you can do together that put a little bit less pressure on you for the first time, then I would consider going to see a sporting event (like a hockey game) to be something of a compromise between the almost no talking of a movie, and the constant talking of dinner. You don't have to talk full time, but you still get plenty of breaks (plus intermissions), and the game itself can provide a topic for you if you get stuck. Another one I have done is skating (as in the open skates that most rinks will hold a few times per week). Assuming the two of you can skate, its something to do together, and you can talk while you do it, or even try to compete with each other for fun. It doesn't have to be fancy. Just pick something that you both enjoy doing, that you can do together, and that offers some chances to get to know each other better.

It's easier said than done, but he has a point. Love is not a science, and if you over think it, your just going to drive yourself insane. I went to a small school during my last few years, where just about everyone else had known each other since forever. Dating wasn't common, but I think that was mostly because it was small enough that people just weren't interested in each other that way. Also, just about everyone had friends in other schools, so several people were already in relationships with people outside their school peer group. But I would say go for it. Just don't go into things worrying about what is going to happen if you two break up. I'd say that's a fairly sure way to make sure the bottom does drop out of your relationship. The other thing, is that if your worried about making this another bad relationship for her, that's a pretty good sign that you won't. The kind of people who turn relationships really bad don't care enough to worry about things like that. The other thing I will point out, if your worried about the friendship, is that if you have feelings for her and never pursue them, you will go nuts, and eventually your going to lose the ability to hide it, and when that happens your friendship will probably end. You don't want to torture yourself by hiding your feelings, and you don't want to go down the road of what could have been. The sooner you act, the better your chances are. Good luck :)

The way I look at it, the f2p game exists (now) for the sole purpose of creating potential future subscribers. I think the fact that the game has not become a total demo with things like level caps, or a gameplay time limit is quite frankly amazing. I'd have to assume Jagex is either a super nice company, or the ad revenue is enough to pay for the free game (which could very well change now since I suspect that most of the bots being f2p boosted ad revenue considerably), which is why they are happy to let people who will never become members continue to play their game. The other thing is that since the free game has always been unlimited in these aspects, it doesn't cost them to keep it this way, and on the whole, it probably doesn't do that much harm. The people who never get members, probably never were going to anyway, so that's cool. I don't have a problem when f2p gets updates that further its role as a recruitment tool though. The more members the game gets, the more money Jagex has and that means more cool stuff gets developed. I do have a problem with free players who somehow feel entitled to more than updates that are geared to making f2p more effective as a recruitment tool. It is there to showcase and sample the game, and it shouldn't be funded to do anything more than that. I was f2p for 3 or 4 years, and this was when I was much younger, and I never felt entitled to anything. Sure, some of the members are really rude, or being really stupid about it. But there is no shortage of ungrateful free players either. I don't think either side can take the high road.

I almost died laughing at this. I think its pretty safe to say I am the 1% too. And being an introvert in a relationship is always fun. As long as your partner understands (and respects) that you need alone time, I find it works out though. But if you get someone who get offended because sometimes you need a day to yourself to recharge, then shits just gonne be hitting the fan 24/7.

I'm not a doctor, but I am pretty good with chemistry. It seems to me that, oh shit, its actually not possible to hydrate something (fill with water), withouth some water lol. Seriously though, it obviously doesn't dehydrate you, and since you don't pee out quite as much as you take in, it would seem that water probably does hydrate you. But then I'm not functionally retarded, so what do I know. Next up, their going say that water doesn't keep you from feeling thirsty. At this point, we can conclude that they are either zombies, or they absorb water from their surrounding via osmosis.

I wonder when I learned to talk to people... I don't enjoy talking to people I don't know. It's a lot more effort than normal, but at some point in the last few years I apparently figured out how to not be awkward about it. I rarely meet new people of my own volition though, so I don't have to use the skill that much. Never been much of a people person anyway. I legitimately prefer my own company, though oddly enough, if I were cloned and that clone had my personality, I sometimes think I would find me insufferable in the flesh. Not that I think I am annoying to be around, but someone who knows all my tics and stuff, it would be weird. I guess I'd either get along with myself really well, or I'd hate me. Ah well, I get along with the voice in my head just fine :D Got Crysis 2. Now I am downloading the Direct X 11 mode, and the enhanced textures, which comes out to 2 freaking GB. So now that I have fufilled my quota for making other people think I'm really weird for the day (this post), I guess I'll go make something to eat, because I'm fairly sure I slept through supper last night, and now I'm kinda hungry. Anyone ever been hungry to the point where they feel kinda sick (normally for like 5 minutes then it goes away for an hour)? I feel like its kinda counter productive, since I normally end up laying down till it blows over, and its really hard to eat anything when your stomach is all making a fuss. Like, stop complaining for 5 minutes so I can feed you ffs. And yes, I don't normally eat till I get hungry, and no, I don't normally wait until I feel sick to get off my ass and make supper (and that's make as in real cooking, not some bull shit microwave meal).

First, Ken remade the thread, and to his credit, its a very good recreation considering he didn't have it saved (I'm surprised he didn't just get an fmod to copy it and send it to him. Here is its QFC: 285-286-462-63381407 I'm kinda shocked, both because I didn't expect him to blow up like that, and because I think he is surprised he got booted out for it. There is a very big difference between disagreeing with the person you are volunteering for, and publicly flaming them, and he was totally doing the latter. It's a shame, because both of the high profile demoddings have been dedicated people, and their loss is a loss for everyone imo, but I don't think there is any excuse for how either of them acted. If you really have that big a problem for the person you are volunteering for, at least have the decency and respect to resign before you publicly undermine them. To do that to someone you are actively volunteering for, actively supposed to be helping, is just plain rude. So while I might commend them on their messages, I don't condone, or respect, the way either of them did it (because they were still mods when they did it). I also kind of resent them for getting themselves kicked off the team, because they were real assets to the community there.

The more I watch, the more I am convinced that this hasn't been totally thought through. One I like was placing bets on whether the first hit against a guard would be odd or even. Unless Jagex wants to remove combat, chat, and every item from the game, there is no possible way to prevent gambling by 'taking our toys away'. They allowed it to go on for WAY to long, and let it grow into a huge industry. The dice hosts are frantic to make a quick buck again, and the gamblers are eager for their next betting fix. By failing to do something about this before it permeated so much of their community, Jagex might have already doomed themselves in this battle. I'd like to think they will learn something from this about not waiting for 11 [bleep]ing months to take a stand, but they wont. I'm not sure what they can do now. Their best bet might be to try and combat it with the rules, with really heavy punishments. Assuming they can actually enforce the rule about not trading things between your accounts, this could potentially work since the host accounts would be the ones you *don't* want getting banned. But this will also drive the gambling underground, which will probably make the scamming even worse than it was before. Still, I think its time for trust trading to be against the rules again. This would target the advertisers and the hosts, which while not eliminating gambling from the game, should at least put a damper on it, rather than what they are doing now, which is literally daring their community to become more creative.

What I would have liked to see, is essentially a casino. The gambling isn't going to go away, so the easiest thing to do would have been to just make an npc that essentially hosts 55x2 (the most common stakes that I saw). Since its an npc, it wont scam people, and since it wont scam people, it would be more appealing than the dice hosts (and probably faster), which would have at least had a chance of killing it off. You can't beat gambling, and by not even making it against the rules its like they aren't even trying, but if it is just the scamming they object to, and not the activity itself (though I suspect it might be both), the best thing they could have done would be to make a safer, more appealing alternative. This will probably make things worse as pointed out. Most of the alternatives are either really unfavourable odds (such as 2:1 for the dunge emote), or 50/50. The 2:1 stuff might fly if the right payouts are used, but anyone hosting at 50/50 stakes is going to scam sooner or later, or they aren't going to make any money in the long run. I figure once this becomes totally fubar, Jagex might actually start taking productive attempts to solving the problem.

The solution for stale people on the highscores would be an activity filter. People who no longer train/play could simply be removed, and added again if they start playing. Nice to see them admit its a marketing thing for once though. I mean, they had their silly excuse (with an obvious better solution), but they did come out and admit that they are hoping this will encourage membership. At least they are being honest about it.

I guess we're all saying move on right away, because that is what life has taught us. Maybe that makes us wise, and you should follow our sage advice, or perhaps we're all really cynical, and your wise to not give up. Probably a bit of both. If I may: Either way, we're not invested in this, so its a lot easier for us to say move on to you. Of course, since we aren't invested in this, you can also assume we are thinking about it in a much more logical and sound manner :D (that is why you ask other people for opinions on this kind of thing). Anywho... If you want to wait it out a week or two, I really don't see the harm in that. The only thing I will say is that as long as your waiting, your not available for anything else. If you ever enter another relationship while doing something like the waiting game with someone else, you have effectively made that relationship Plan B. This is something that, at the very least, you will have to hide for as long as you want that relationship to last, because nothing ends a relationship like "I really wanted this other girl, but she didn't want me so I settled for you". That will end not only your current relationship, but I imagine would end your potential to be with every girl on Earth who (a) hears about it, and (b) knows who you are. By the sounds of it, this would be approximately every girl in your town. So don't make the mistake of waiting for her forever under the assumption that you can always go with someone else if the oppourtunity comes up. You need to sort that shit out before you move on.

I do the getting up to fast thing, which isn't hard to do with low blood pressure (though its gotten back up to pretty much normal in the past year, which is actually kinda nice, since for a couple months this was happening up to twice a day). It's kinda neat all things considered, what with the narrowing of your field of vision and the weird sounds and feelings. I think the worst one for me was I litterally jump up off the couch, and made it a good 15ft down the hall before it set in, and I realised that it was bad enough that I was going to pass out, so I tried to kneel down (the idea was to get on my belly. Once your level, it goes away instantly). Instead of kneeling, I guess my knees got a 'just release' signal, which felt really good when they hit the ceramic floor :wall: On the plus side, it knocked a couple feet of the journey to the floor for when I passed out a second later. I beat Dead Space 2 today. Go me. Oh, and I was having blood work done at the hospital a couple days ago, and a girl fainted on her way out the door (I don't think it was from having her blood drawn). I can't say I (or anyone else in the room at the time) was impressed with the response time. I think it was a good 3 minutes before the staff made a call (and not because they were all busy helping the girl). In all honesty, I've seen Ambulances respond to 911 calls faster (I am counting the time before the call, since it should have been one person making sure the girl was alright, and another immediately calling for paramedics). As for me, I'm just impressed she didn't knock herself out cold for an hour or two, since she went over backwards. Maybe she was still awake, and didn't actually slam her head into the ground.

Here are the problems, as I see it, with trying to get out of the friend zone: #1 Good [bleep]ing luck. #2 If she just wants to to be friends, and you want to be lovers, then you've already established a huge inequality in the needs of the relationship. To put it simply, you "need" her, and she doesn't really need you, so even if you do manage to get to dating town, your pretty much at her mercy. A relationship where only one party is truly invested in it, is not a relationship that is built to last. If you really want the girl to be in your life, your better off as friends. And that's where the needy part comes in. Anything you can do to try and get out of the friend zone is going to say, in great big neon letters, that you need her. Aside from being an incredibly unattractive state of being, this again leads to the social dynamic where your a lot more invested in the relationship than she is. Even if she does eventually love you back, she had to work at it. In the long run, trying to get out is just a sure fire way to end your friendship, whether you get to dating, or just creep her out so much trying to get her that she doesn't want to be around you any more. It's very difficult to be around a guy who overtly wants more than friendship, if friendship is all you want. It very quickly becomes a lot easier, and more enjoyable, to isolate your would be lover from your social group as much as possible, so that you don't have to deal with it anymore. I'm sure there are guys out there who have gotten out of the friend-zone and into meaningful relationships, and I'm sure some of them went on to get married and never divorced. But these people are a not the norm. In most cases, this sort of thing is probably not even a theoretical possibility. Move on.

ahar, same here. though people do tell me i sound fairly deep and mellow. i think there's a specific scientific reason about why we hear differences in our thinking voice etc, will have to find that. I think its because your recorded voice sounds close enough to what you normally hear that you recognise it as yours, but at the same time it doesn't sound like the voice you've been hearing coming from your own mouth your entire life, and you find it creepy/disturbing. I've never really enjoyed hearing my own voice, except when its done live through a microphone. As long as I can hear *my* voice, it doesn't matter if I am hearing the electronic version too.

I don't really get the slippery slope thing with abortions and embryonic stem cells. To me, that's pretty much the same as the argument that condoms should be available (for free) in high schools because that makes having premarital sex easier. Yeah, there are probably people out there who would have chosen an option other than abortion if not for the contribution to stem cell research, but I really don't think there is going to be some kind of abortion craze as a result. Abortion is already happening, and its going to keep happening, whether people like it or not, so why not make the best of the situation. Ultimately, I think it does more good than it does bad.

Bought Dead Space 2 yesterday, and its made its way into my dreams faster than expected (normally it would take a few days). No necromorphs or anything scary, but when I woke up I remember that a whole lot of thoughts about Unitology were going through my head, like some sort of debate. They continued while I fell back asleep at least once, but I didn't have my journal so I no longer have any idea what the thoughts actually were. Still waiting for my dreams to take a potential turn to the pants crapingly insane. I don't generally play games where stuff jumps out at you, and other parts of the game are deeply disturbing. Actually getting to the point where I fear falling asleep because I really don't want aspects from the game in my dreams (but the game is so good I can't not play it). Anyone else ever have that problem, where your pretty sure a nightmare is on the way and you really just don't want to sleep out of fear of what kind of dream your going to have? I suppose this could also apply to recurring nightmares, where people don't want to go to sleep because they expect to have the same nightmare again. Not fun.

On the issue of where the stem cells come from, I have no issues with using an aborted fetus. I might not be pro abortion (nor am I pro life), but if the fetus is already aborted, then why not try to make some good come from something bad. At least try to make it count for something. I have family with cancer, and in a few decades my life might very well depend on an organ transplant. If it could become possible to repair the organ, or grow a new one, that would be amazing for me, and could easily add a decade to my expected life span. Even more importantly, if I have children, it is very possible that they could inherit the same genetic defect I have. The tests have never been performed to see if other people in the family have it, since it is quite possible for them to never be discovered if it doesn't cause any issues, so I don't even know if the trait is recessive or not. The important part is, my DNA carries a potentially fatal defect, one that could very probably be entirely negated with stem cell intervention at birth.

Nothing wrong with a movie, or board games for that matter. I probably wouldn't normally think of board games for a date though. Go with a scary movie :thumbsup:

Today I bought Dead Space 2. I have a weakness for awesome looking armour, so the game caught my eye, and then I read the back and its like, huh, zombies. I love zombies and power armour so I figure its gonna be an awesome game. AND HOLY SHIT WAS I RIGHT! The game earned its M rating in under a minute, and it never let it go. Its easily the creepiest, darkest game I have ever played. I realized just how much ownage it was when I was attacked by mutated, reanimated babies, and once my gun ran out of ammo in the clip, I just beat the ever loving shit out of them with my fists. It's just wanton slaughter as you shoot/beat/stomp your way through this dilapidated city. I see lots of time being sucked into this in the near the future. Also, nightmares. LOTS of nightmares. Or really epic dreams. Only time will tell (should take a couple days for the game to work its way in).

Goddess has the right of it. I had enough friends who couldn't stand their siblings, and from years of observation, yelling and physical violence don't seem to solve anything. The difference between them back then, and you right now Tim is that if you hit her, she has grounds to press criminal charges, and its not worth going down that road. We had our first snowfall here yesterday. It didn't stick, but I'm not overly happy about it. Normally it waits till after Remembrance day (the 11th). On the other hand, maybe early snowfall means a white Christmas this year. Been a while since we got one of those I think. And its getting cold outside now, and a lot worse at night. Doesn't really make you want to go out and do anything. I am also reminded off the asshat who pulled my handbreak while I was driving. I've never been that pissed off before, and I doubt I ever will be again. I stranded his ass.

I have Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Not entirely sure which one, but they suspect its Ulcerative Colitis. The medication keeps the inflammation and internal bleeding away, so even sticking yourself with a needle is a huge step up form the alternative. I used to be afraid of needles, but after a while, you get pretty used to them. My sister in law in phobic of them though. I don't think she can normally even stand to be in a hospital at all.

So the new medication I am on for a condition I have is injected at home with something akin to an epipen (except a totally different drug inside), rather than by IV at the hospital. The conveniance is nice, since the injections for the last drug suck up a few hours of your life every few weeks. Today was my first time doing it on my own, and I still find it really weird. The procedure for this drug makes it so that the needle doesn't hit your muscle, which means it doesn't hurt all that much, and it stops hurting almost immediately (as opposed to say a flu shot which can make your muscle sore for a while), and that's nice, but its still really weird sit there, holding the injector against yourself and trying to push a button that you know is going to push a spring loaded needle into you. There is a part of the brain that just really doesn't want you do something to yourself that you know full well is going to hurt. What also still kinda amazes me is you can't feel it when it goes in. I remember being told how part of pain is just what you imagine based on what you see, and you can't see the needle of the injector while its doing its thing. It actually takes about a second for you to really feel anything, and I suspect that most of the pain is actually from the fluid build up (because its injecting about a millilitre of fluid into you), not the needle itself. Once the introduction schedule is over with, I get to do this once a week, for the next few years at least. I figure it gets way easier with time though.

Fairly certain that's not legal, though if my parents disowned me at 15 then things were probably so bad with them that I would be one of those kids who arranges to go live at their friends house until they are old enough to support themselves.