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Also a reduced population would decrease mankind's ability to progress. Think of how much less technology would be able to progress if our thinking pool decreased by 75%. Edit and OT: Personally I think some serious steps towards changing attitudes towards mental disorders would be a great step. I think we'd have a lot less people going out a massacring school if they could get proper psychiatric treatment (which would require them not being discouraged to by a society that shuns and distrusts the mentally unfit). Also, let's turn prisoners into rehabilitation centers rather than criminal training and production centers.

That was beautifully put.

^However I think many girls follow the sentiment: "If I find long hair inconvenient I'll keep it short because wanting to date people doesn't mean I should mould my entire life around the preferences of the opposite gender." Which is a smart sentiment to follow regardless of your gender.

That was... beautiful.... :cry:

^Implying one should ever be without a towel.

Personally I think it depends on the girl. I know a few girls who pull of short hair brilliantly (although one is doing Bald for Bucks so she's going to have no hair at all fairly soon), while others can't pull it off at all. I can understand why some girls hate having long hair, though. It's a huge pain to maintain.

Technically I'll be drinking tea, but "Hey want to get coffee except actually I'll have tea" just doesn't have the same ring to it. Anyways our campus has tons of good coffee places, so I figure I'll ask her between classes. I have absolutely no worries about once the date starts. Once I've started talking with someone I never have many issues with maintaining a conversation, and she's pretty talkative so there shouldn't be any issues there. Hence why I'm keeping it simple with coffee, because mainly I just want an excuse to talk with her and get her phone number/Facebook/something similar. That way I don't need to rely on catching her (or trying to maneuver myself so that she can easily catch me) after a class because that's a pain and can easily be disrupted. My main issue was simply asking her, but I think I'll be fine now. I've just got to remember that I'm really overthinking things and have a tendency to get over-anxious about initiating things and avoid letting that stop me. Another issue, though: (I stuck a TL;DR at the end of this because I ended up rambling and talking myself through some things here, so feel free to skip this if you don't feel like bothering with a stream of consciousness.) What are good ways to help slow yourself down when packing up? I tend to be the kind of person who packs up very efficiently after a class, so even when I slow myself as much as I possibly can (while still trying to seem natural) I tend to be out of the door several minutes before her. Due to this the only times I run into her after class are the days that she's unusually fast or I get detoured by something for the ideal amount of time, neither of which is terribly reliable. Or should I just walk straight up to her when the class ends and ask her to coffee then? That'd be more difficult to me. (I can do an aloof attitude really easily because I've gotten in the habit of acting aloof to hide nervousness and the like, but acting straight-up confident is difficult when you're not feeling terribly confident.) And yeah working on flat out confident behavior is definitely another thing I need to work on. Maybe I should approach her that way just as an exercise to help me get used to approaching people? I mean if I screw it up at most I'll lose a potential friend/girlfriend which isn't much at a campus of 20000. TL;DR: Should I take: the "confident" approach that I'm fairly inexperienced with (which would of course help me gain experience with it and hopefully get a bit better) by approaching her directly after a class and asking her if she wants to go out for coffee or the "aloof" approach (which I'm much better at because I'm naturally aloof when I feel uncomfortable) by attempting to "happen" to leave at about the same time as her (aka packing up slowly), which would put me more in my comfort zone but also be more likely to be screwed by chance (she leaves quickly, or she leaves too slowly for me to "cross paths" with her) Which way I'll actually ask the question (aka RPG's or Muggi's way) will depend on which one flows naturally out of my mouth, though. The more I try to think out spoken lines the more awkward and clunky they get.

The issue with that is that I 1: Don't have any events of that sort currently planned. (Like the current fun events on my horizon are a book club [which is very inclusive and would not welcome newcomers], and a sparring tournament that's a six hour drive away.) 2: I've got to act soon because the semester ends soon, and then I might as well kiss my chances goodbye because I won't be seeing her again unless we're already in contact. And I feel like organizing an event just as excuse to see her is putting WAY too much effort into it.

^Either tell us what happened or don't. But no-one's going to be able to give you any good advice if all you tell us is that you're really angry at her because she did a thing.

^Yeah that's why I'm asking her to coffee. I still barely know her so I figure something casual that can hopefully get me her number or something is my best next step (and if that doesn't go disastrously/ she doesn't turn out to be a serial killer then I can move towards asking her out to a more date-y situation). I guess I'll try the three-second rule, which is probably something I should get good at anyways to counter my bad habit of overthinking things.

So, an update: Remember that girl who I crushed on ages ago? Well I'd pretty much given up on that (I was just focusing on improving my general interpersonal skills), but a while ago a class we had together was cancelled but neither of us got the memo, so that yielded a super-easy excuse for a conversation. Since then we've chatted every time we ran into each other, and I've gotten her name. Of course I also just realized that the semester is ending in like 3 weeks, which means I need to get her phone number pronto if I don't want to completely lose contact over summer break (she's a different major as well, so in a Freshman class of 6000 it's likely I won't run into her by accident again). This probably shouldn't be an issue: She's started several conversations with me and seems to be showing interest (although my ability to accurately detect interest sucks, she at the very least likes talking to me), so asking for her number shouldn't be an issue. Especially if I invite her out for coffee or lunch or something after a class. Unfortunately, while I can handle conversation and such fine, I'm having issues getting over my nervousness to ask her out for coffee or something. It's pretty dumb, I know, but any tips on lowering that stress?

[hide=spoilers] The lightning strongly reminded me of the blasts shot by the Hideous, personally. Maybe Earth was their birthplace/houses a related species? However I'm also pretty interesting in that shooting star. That was a blatant Chekhov's Gun moment- writers tend not to remember shooting stars except for wishes and alien invasions. Also I feel like more pirates attacking Red would just result in more dead pirates. Even if he's low on power he's demonstrated that he can obliterate them with barely any effort. It may even scare off the pirates. Personally I'm expecting half an episode of distrust followed by a few "peaceful" episodes before shit starts to hit the fan. [/hide]

^Actually your arguments falls into pieces because I see no issues with nuking swarms of insects. The human casualties would be an unfortunate, but still acceptable, consequence.

^Flying solo at prom can actually be pretty awesome if there're pretty girls doing the same. In other news, I think I've managed to somehow trick a girl into mutual affection. Expect me to be begging for advice some time in the near future.

Seems like it's going to be... 8-) a wild ride. :wink:

Unfortunately, it's legitimate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magicicada http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/08/billions-of-cicadas-east-coast_n_3038412.html Either this will break my fear of insects or break me, not sure which yet.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2305178/Billions-cicadas-swarm-East-Coast-spring-dwelling-underground-past-17-years.html I have a fairly large fear of insects and I'm terrified of this ugh someone take me to a new state.

So my Hardcore Superflat mode world is going along swimmingly. My complex has walls that are 3 blocks thick (I only need to add one more layer, which will be made of whatever creeper-proof material I can obtain in massive quantities most easily- probably obsidian or brick). I've obtained an anvil, a maxed enchanting room, a nice bedroom, 4 complete maps of my area (ranging from zoomed fully in to zoomed fully out), more food than I can ever eat, an extensive bedrock-level mine, many farms, and reliable lava and water supplies. My next goal is to build up supplies to go to the Nether, which will be a massive risk judging that dying in the Nether is pretty common and if I die I lose everything. I'm going to try to get full Diamond armor with fire and blast resist, along with the best bow and sword I can get. I've also almost entirely taken care of the problem of mobs spawning inside my compound, which is good because I've gotten really sick of creepers blowing holes in my lawn.

So, that Suisei no Gargantia episode.... [hide=Spoilers] Stuff I found interesting: -Even though the main character escaped, mankind just lost a pivotal battle against whatever those things they were fighting were. I'm sure that isn't good for mankind. -The information spewed out in the opening scene was so heavily propagandized and hateful (calling the aliens lower beings and such) that I feel like the human race may not have been the good guys there. -The ending credits were completely half-assed, just like the ending credits of the first few episodes of Madoka Magica. This reinforces guesses that this series will have a major genre shift. -The mentions of mankind's main home, and how the main character would be granted the privilege of living there for a few weeks in exchange for his >100000 hours of service just add to my thoughts that mankind has turned into a dystopian society. -Why would Earth have been forgotten? What drove much of mankind away from it?[/hide] Edit: Just watched Shingeki No Kyojin episode 1.... Intense as heck.

^I have hopes for Railgun Season 2, but am terrified it'll be as filled with useless fanservice and filler as the first series. If it is then I'll be dropping the series for sure, because this is probably the most engaging section of Railgun's plot so far. Also the Urobutcher's new anime, but I've already spammed this thread with enough of that. ...I just realized episode 1 had been fansubbed and is online now. Bye.

Just had a crazy few days, hence the lack of posting: On Thursday I remembered I had a 10 page term paper due the next day at 5pm, which I had not yet started researching for whatsoever. So for the rest of Thursday and until 4pm on Friday I desperately researched and wrote. Then the printer I was using at my University decided to give me crap by printing only 5/10 pages of my paper, only putting text on half of one of them, splattering them with ink, and even ripping them a little. I still managed to get the paper in at the last second, though. That evening I went to a Bob Dillan concert which was alright, but I was way too tired for it so I really didn't enjoy it. Also this lead to me not getting to sleep until about 2am, while I had to wake up at 7am for a sparring tournament the next day. At the tournament I got roped into helping judge the pre-blackbelt divisions, so I was busy with that for about four hours. Then it was finally my division for sparring. I managed to get fourth place! Out of four. Of course it didn't help that I was not only the youngest and lowest rank in my division (not to mention the only one with no experience in black belt tournaments), but that both of my opponents had at least sixty pounds on me. The first guy just used his weight to charge me down, and the second was a head taller than me and could drop axe kicks onto my head from approximately sixty feet in the air. Miraculously however I ended up not getting injured and I learned a lot about what I need to improve for future tournaments*. After that I got home, passed out on the couch for an hour, then went to the book club I founded with a few friends (read: Excuse to hang out while still talking about smart things for some of the time) and hung out there for a while. Today I've decided to balance this all out by doing absolutely nothing. *Aka I need to be faster because when someone who is the same height as you but sixty pounds heavier can match your speed something is definitely wrong, and I need to practice some ways of fighting back against people who have crazy reach advantages over me. Suck less, win more.

How to be the biggest creep ever: Get the first name of someone and figure out what college they go to. Put their first name into that college's student search function. Plug all the names in the list into Facebook search until you find them. Rev up you windowless van.

I'm really curious as to what this joke was, now. OT: I have a 10 page term paper due at 5pm tomorrow and I've written a page and a half of it. This is going to end well, I'm sure. Also, I have a sparring tournament Saturday, and as it's my first time sparring black belts from outside of my studio I'm extremely nervous about how I'll fare. So long as I don't do so badly as to be an embarrassment I'll be happy though. Although I'd be ecstatic if I did well, too.

^Sounds like my first relationship. Not to sound like a stick in the mud, but generally even "no secrets" relationships have plenty of half-truths and miscommunications. Especially if either member gets complacent and starts assuming their partner will always be upfront about uncomfortable topics. Mind, your relationship could be an exception to that but I still advise caution and avoiding letting yourselves get too comfortable. That was what killed my first relationship.

Fight me in real life Mlb and I'll show you how facism really works. By crying and begging you to stop hitting me and then bleeding on you and ruining your shirt. The Hegemony thread was what made me actually make an account here, actually. I had been lurking for about a year before that, but my ideas for an evil-scientist based organization formed in Switzerland forced me to make an account. That also reminds me of our incredibly extensive zombie thread.