Rebdragon

You know what? Yes, you guys are having fun with this, so yes, it is immature of me to try and ruin all your fun. Yes, I am "flexing my e-penis" by dissing all of you when there is no chance of any retaliation worth fearing. Yes, I think only a pack of losers would try and over-quantify their lifeskills by basing them on an internet RPG. Do you think I'm a troll? Then ignore me. But I'm not going to shut up. This five-year-old [cabbage] belongs in General, not OT. Send it there, and you won't see me on this thread again. Do not hold this against anyone but me, but don't go thinking I'm the only one thinking it.

Grow up? Grow up? Read the title of this thread, and tell me that to my face again.

...Seriously? I thought you were quick on the draw. I thought that was what the game was called, when I first heard of it. Now that you mention it, I do remember noticing that when I first started playing. Guess it's just been a really frikkin' long time. And ya, I bet a [cabbage]load of these are fake. The stories from both guys and girls almost always seem to fall into a stereotype of what it means to be loser in each category; it seems like each story from a girl is just a reworking of one I'd already read, and same for guys. For girls, it's always about some guy who's more of a jerk than anyone I've known in my life giving her low-self esteem (or that she's just fat), and for guys it's always about how much of a recluse friend-zoned loser they are. That, and some of these are just too over the top and perfectly bad (as if scripted) to be real.

Seriously? I've never heard it before, and it was such an epiphany that I had to say something (from that quote and the above guy's sig). It's like... the creators did it on purpose. No, I know they did. CONSPIRACY.

Holy [cabbage]. Run. Escape. How can I not have noticed that.

Didn't he retire? And I wouldn't call that a bad day, just an absurdely boring one, fresh with the strong scent of a chain smoker. Oh, and I was being serious. You're one of the few non-losers on this thread. Nah, Piening is still there. NOM and I both have him and are doing badly. #-o Haha, thanks. I thought that was one of your famous sarcastic moments, but I guess I was wrong. Oh, wait a second. Chain smoker. You're thinking of Smokey Joe. He retired a year ago. Oh, right, I was thinking of puthoff. Ya, piening does suck.

I really don't think that thinking in these terms does any harm. It's not that people are trying to get an absolute perspective on how big they are in relation to stuff so they can categorise everything on some kind of logarithmic scale in their lives. It's just innocent musings that serve to humble us. It wasn't that long ago that the human race thought that it was at the centre of the Universe and that there wasn't much apart from the Sun and lots of little dots stuck on a background canvas in the sky. Getting an occasional perspective on our true place in the Universe does no harm, at the very least it serves to educate people about astronomical scales. And at best it can give us a new perspective on our lives. Hm, fair enough. I suppose that as someone who's always found anthropocenticism laughable I just find it a waste of time. I.e., it does not and can not give me a new perspective, because the perspective it would have to offer is one I already have.

Didn't he retire? And I wouldn't call that a bad day, just an absurdely boring one, fresh with the strong scent of a chain smoker. Oh, and I was being serious. You're one of the few non-losers on this thread. Seriously guys, if you feel a need to tell me your agility level online, I'm going to assume it's not realistically high regardless of the number you say. Statistically speaking, most of you couldn't lift the dumbells chick use for toning, let alone survive a mile without collapsing and breaking your glasses. So stop playing pretend, it's creepy.

Uh huh. Did you tell her that her parents told you all of this? And, for that matter, how were the parents so comfortable with you that they'd disclose enough information about their daughter to you that you'd freak her out?

1) I literally just used that comic three pages ago. Don't diminish it's power by misrepresenting it. 2) No. 3) If he was pulling a friend thing, she wouldn't be creeped out that he knew so much about her. I mean, friends are kind of suppoesd to know that personal stuff. 4) Conclusion, he's stalking. 5) It isn't much of a stretch. It's a gaming forum after all, and it's this guy. 6) There's bound to be a stalker xkcd. Redeem yourself. 7) STOP STALKING AND GET THE HELL OUT OF SKETCHTOWN. 8) You want to know where sketchtown is? Right now, about twenty blocks of it are in the five meter bubble surrounding that girl. 9) To stay out of sketchtown, stay out of that five meter bubble. 10) Want to know why that five meters around her are in sketchtown? Because you're creepy and sketchy around her, and you always will be until you learn to BACK OFF and MOVE ON. If she doesn't want to be your friend/girl, for the last time, F her. If she won't take an apology or hang out with you, go find other people. That doesn't mean don't learn from this experience -you really shouldn't stalk, for example- , but don't dawdle on your mistakes. Learn from them, get over them, and used what you've learnt. That's how you improve yourself Oi.

It's really only bad if they move in packs. Which happens way to f**king much.

Stalker-san, how goes the stalking?

You're from St.X aren't you? I can tell because you aren't a loser.

It's an imperative now!

Ugh. What? From what I've seen, that just about sums up everything YOU hate as well. WHOOOSH.

Hypocrisy. Ugh.

The trick is to passive-aggressively destroy their mental state by being nice to them in spite of their meanness towards you. Or, you know, GROW UP*. Same result. *(code of older sibling- take all blame for siblings that are still children)

Don't mind anything beyond the first line in regards to your post. I know that you're tring to destroy your comprehension, and I was just making a general point off that for the thread. That is, the very act of you not trying to comprehend is what makes something appear pointless. So the post is kind of a response to you I suppose, but I wouldn't put that much effort in just to respond to you, so it's a general response.

The thing is, it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever to think of something on the order of magnitude of a human in terms of an order of magnitude of, say, a galaxy. All right, let me use a hypothetical to explain why thinking in terms of that Voyager image doesn't make sense. Say we use a common unit of measure, like a meter, and create a new length scale, properly dubbed a "stoopid". We give a stoopid an order of magnitude of 10000000000000000000000000 greater than that of a meter, maybe because we want to use it to measure distances between star systems or whatever. Moving on. So, by inversion of this difference in magnitude the meter would be .0000000000000000000000001 stoopids. Okay? Small number, right? If you were thinking purely in terms of stoopids then, could you give me an example of something that is about .0000000000000000000000000034543 stoopids long? Maybe after a minute or two you'd come to the conclusion that maybe a rabbit would fit the bill. But you'd have to actual pull out a piece of pencil and paper to do it- subconsciously, seeing a number with that many zero's in front of it makes a person go "oh, zero, whatevs." THAT'S A PROBLEM. This ain't 2D world. Bunnies ain't zero feet tall. INSIGNIFICANT =/= ZERO There are always things way bigger than us, and always things way smaller than us. Trying to think in terms of anything but one's own level simply serves to either trivialize the matter (thinking in terms of galaxy), or overinflate it (thinking in terms of a proton). You CAN'T COMPREHEND at those levels, so why in God's name are you trying? To confuse yourself for the fun of it? Sheer boredom? No girlfriend? What?

Coming from me, more interesting.

and I still get sick from how cliché the topic is. But don't mind me, just an opinion given a post. The universe is big! The possibilities are endless! Gag. And no, it doesn't make me think. What's there to think about? All you really can do is go "gasp, look, tiny planet! Imfinite possibilities! I seriously can't get anywhere with this, but contrary to that fact it must be thought provoking!"

I've always found this topic absurdely cliche. Ya, the universe is big. What else is new?

Am I the alone in finding this whole "potential" argument a load of bull? I've never heard that argued before in abortion debates, and I can't see any logic in it.

Uh, Jesus CHRIST.. N-... no, I can't even bring myself to respond to that. Words wouldn't cut it. This is all I can say: Stop being a pansy who obsesses over one chick. There you go. If you get rejected, you know what? F**k her. She's missing out, her loss, not yours. Get over it. Get over her.

competition isnt the only code mate. Maybe you don't learn that in hockey, seeing as how violent it is (no offense). And cmon, let's be perfectly honest, is it really an insult to a persons skill if the skill gap is wide? Would you really feel insulted if an NBA player playing pickup with you went easy on you? I wouldn't, because i'd know there was no chance I'd win either way. I would either find someone at my level, or enjoy the company of an NBA player, cause that would be kickass.