TheEvanCat

I Hate GIFs

They're childish. Grow up. Get a job. Invest in a 401k. Do something with your life!

Amazon is testing me.

It's like the endless debate over if Rudyard Kipling was actually racist or just joking.

The Unpopular Opinions Thread.

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They're filling that relatable white rapper void left by Eminem.

@Heat

Nah fam, that's what Macklemore has been trying to do.

Official RPG Crush Thread

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Fine. You win. I shall give names.

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There. That is who I have crushes on.

@Altered Tundra

To be fair, when you see blacked out names you can guess them based on a few things.

Just depends on how long it is. Then there's context clues and the usual intelligence analysis. If the black mark looks maybe three letters long and you spend a lot of time around two people named Bob and Michaelangelo, I can guess with a high certainty that you like Bob. If you blacked out Mike's name there, it'd be a lot bigger of a mark.

Easy!

B!tchfest: a healthy release for our non-roleplay annoyances.

@The Spectre I have tried. I have tried repeatedly and it ends one of two ways.

Either they repeatedly defend one another and essentially gang up on me, or they go into how much I hurt them by implying in the first place that they would ever do that. (In turn just shutting me up and apologizing for hurting their feelings and I just end up sitting there feeling stupid and/or guilty)

It never ends in a way that involves actually considering why I might feel this way or if they actually might be wrong or acting hurtful.

They aren't awful people at all. I adore them both. But they have their faults and this is one of them.

I don't doubt they care about me (shit one of them helped me with a very personal and disgusting health issue that I couldn't handle alone) but when it comes to each other they can be very blind to the tiny faults. (Such as forgetting to do this or that) They aren't blind to mine.

@Rica

Then escalate it to the next level in a responsible manner. I don't know the context so I can't say want that is, but you should plan for stuff like this accordingly.

B!tchfest: a healthy release for our non-roleplay annoyances.

To both of you, real talk incoming from the dude with a Hello Kitty profile pic:

The problem with this is that problems aren't weakness, nor is seeking help or assistance to deal with it. All ignoring it or bottling up does is degrade effectiveness by not addressing core problems. Believe me, I've been there enough to realize that it's better to just rip the bandaid off and deal with shit before it starts getting worse. Bottling it up and lying about it did nothing except get me deeper into shit creek, so I decided to grab the bull by its nuts and get the help to deal with it. If you don't, then you get into impacting personal performance, which gets into organizational/school/work/career performance, and you don't want degraded operational effectiveness. It just spirals like the shittiest roller coaster you can imagine.

You need to expect your friends to start helping because they're your battle buddies. And they will, because they give a shit: I guarantee it. They're the guys and gals who will fucking drag your ass out of a burning car or some shit, and your wellbeing (physical, mental, whatever) is more important to them than you might realize. If they'll make you soup or some shit while you're sick and tell you the work you missed that day, then you can know they'll address some of the more lowkey invisible issues (or find someone who can.) But nobody can ask about it if they don't have that intel that lets them know something's wrong.

If someone else is bothering you with something, talk to them about it and settle it there instead of accepting it. If you think they won't understand, come through with a well-planned way to make them see your perspective. Most people are rational, they'll understand. If they don't, escalate it higher in a rationally proportional measure. My roommate wouldn't clean his shit so we talked about it and now he does and stops making me do everything. You just have to try.

TLDR, it helps to stop cheating yourself and just go over the top. It might take a lot of energy and it might be unpleasant and it might be scary as all fuck, but it will solve (or at least start to solve) whatever's actually causing these problems. They tell me the quickest way out is through, wether it be jumping off of a thirty foot tower into the water (I'm scared shitless of heights, by the way) or something personal like talking to my girlfriend about trust in the relationship. It's scary and it takes huge amounts of effort to do, but it's worth it in the end.

B!tchfest: a healthy release for our non-roleplay annoyances.

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This is the truest shit I have ever seen. It's like how people say they're fine when they really aren't.

@Cynder

I really meant like I'm hypothetically getting shot at or something. Then I'm too busy to complain.

B!tchfest: a healthy release for our non-roleplay annoyances.

I found that if my peers and I are not complaining, something has gone horribly fucking wrong. Like, so horribly fucking wrong I'm too busy doing damage control to bitch about my knees or my fatigue. That's how embedded the cynicism is.

Imagine you operate a market stall in an open world RPG. What do you sell? How does it help the player?

I sell propane.

And propane accessories.

If the boards were countries

The USS Libertarianism Ayn Rand.