Something Bothering you?/Daily Doldrums

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Reminds me of the time in middle school where the seniors across from us were throwing food at us. I grabbed a chair and threw it at them, the principal gave me a high-five, LOL.

Ahah, I remember you telling me that one.

Who really would have thought you turned from that to being one of the smartest people I know, a question about tourettes syndrome from you, how'd you avoid you know... screaming out naughty words now-a-days? What I mean is how do you cover it up?

Well, that would be the Tourette's stereotype. My ticks are physical (they've never had to do with my voice) though not grand, they're like short little jerks that can happen quite rapidly. The most common ones I have are randomly extending my fingers quickly, squinting sharply, and twitching my head quickly and sharply. I can technically control them, but it requires a lot of focus, and after not too long it makes me feel incredibly restless.

[Zikken]

My god, I'm glad I don't have parents like that, my dad is pretty bad but not like that.

The reason for why so many of us on RPC have dysfunctional home and school lives has always intrigued me. Maybe these times of trouble have provoked an interest in escapism, especially one as imaginative, surreal and ever-changing as Rayman's, or maybe it's a simple coincidence? I'm more inclined to side with the former, as it's something I've consistently noticed ever since I started lurking here.

Possible, since its my case. And the same thing with thousand of people ( not with Rayman but with whatever they like ) too. Wow life is terrible if were all going like that.

Reminds me of the time in middle school where the seniors across from us were throwing food at us. I grabbed a chair and threw it at them, the principal gave me a high-five, LOL.

Best principal ever.

[Keane]

The reason for why so many of us on RPC have dysfunctional home and school lives has always intrigued me. Maybe these times of trouble have provoked an interest in escapism, especially one as imaginative, surreal and ever-changing as Rayman's, or maybe it's a simple coincidence? I'm more inclined to side with the former, as it's something I've consistently noticed ever since I started lurking here.

Maybe. I can't say I know anyone outside of RPC that shares my interest in the attention to detail or atmosphere in games.

Dad: if you go out more you will get more friends.
Like as if I didn't knew what most teenagers act like when I was in a school with 700 of them. I feel like parents take us for idiots or something.

Haha. I remember once looking up Facebook pages of some of the people I knew from school and found most of them discussing that they got drunk and posting pictures of girls being nearly naked. And this was back when we were all 13 maybe 14. If that's what is considered normal these days then I'll be crazy.

Eh, I never followed it either, I think make up makes people look "creepy" honestly. Why put on a fake masquerade in front of what mother nature gave you. If you want to put some on because you like it i'm ok with that but never force it upon others.

And ahh I think this is really stupid, the gender of someone should never determine what they should to do or anything in general. If a guy likes to dress up and stuff, paint his nail etc let him do so or if a girl likes to play basketball, wear hoodies and play video games all night, let her do so, its not your life, you should never chose what they should do.[/quote]
I like to be able to see people the way they actually look. Especially girls who go as far as to make their hair blue and heavily decorate their face. You can't tell what these people look like.

Your completely right. Let people be how they want to be. I'm paying a visit to my grandparents tomorrow and put on my little act again. I'm happy and nothing is wrong in my life. Because if that's not the case they immediately judge me on a level that's insane.

[Dart]

i've got ADHD and a birtheffect which made me born with a permanently disfigured nose, and (it's been fixed) had half my upper lip and part of my upper jaw missing. luckily surgeons fixed have been working on my since I was born. this made me an easier target in primary. anger issues didn't help. eventually people realized that i could (and would) do serious damage physically and emotionally (teachers hated me, especially mr. paine). eventually i mellowed as did others, i find if i get mad now, i'll just read or relax to classical music. high school is so far so good so... to rayfist's earlier post simalour story, food fight guys picking on my table, trying to start a food fight. i dumped a 4-foot cafeteria trash on his head revenge is sweet!

[Zikken]

Haha. I remember once looking up Facebook pages of some of the people I knew from school and found most of them discussing that they got drunk and posting pictures of girls being nearly naked. And this was back when we were all 13 maybe 14. If that's what is considered normal these days then I'll be crazy.

Oh holy shit what is wrong with the society.

I like to be able to see people the way they actually look. Especially girls who go as far as to make their hair blue and heavily decorate their face. You can't tell what these people look like.

I like to see what people really looks like too. I already got someone saying they were ugly without make up but it was the other way around.
I forgot to add earlier people who are born a dude but feels like they are/want to be a girl and vice-versa are also included in this. Its the person's choice and I will always respect it. I'm actually surprised my parents have nothing against that.

[Rayfist]

Haha. I remember once looking up Facebook pages of some of the people I knew from school and found most of them discussing that they got drunk and posting pictures of girls being nearly naked. And this was back when we were all 13 maybe 14. If that's what is considered normal these days then I'll be crazy.

One thing I'd love to discuss. This is sadly becoming really common around here. I think this could be another reason of mine using videogames to escape reality, the reality of this generation in America- is awful. What the woman at my school have done is a lot worse, a whole leakage of nude photos (13-14), starting posting on the web from people from our School. Our School took action and well, made a silly announcement about it. It really makes me cringe seeing this, seeing these young children grow up in such a way. I'm not sure what it could be that dramatically influence these peoples decisions, whether it be parents, TV, I don't know... all I know, it's getting a lot worse. I'm seeing 12 year olds with Iphones now, this isn't rare, this is becoming common now, seriously.

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I forgot to add earlier people who are born a dude but feels like they are/want to be a girl and vice-versa are also included in this. Its the person's choice and I will always respect it. I'm actually surprised my parents have nothing against that.

That was me actually for a while. I had my gender icon set to female here in 2010, though eventually in late 2012 I realised it wasn't for me. While I identify as male now, I chose to disable the icon to avoid possible confusion or awkward questions from those who don't know me given my sense of style and so on. Also, I like how my name fits on top of my avatar like a hat; the icon would ruin that.

I like to be able to see people the way they actually look. Especially girls who go as far as to make their hair blue and heavily decorate their face. You can't tell what these people look like.

I've thought about dyeing my hair dark blue. That would be interesting.

[Rayfist]

Heh, I dyed my hair blue long time ago. I use to find it stupid, but now I find it a really creative method of expressing yourself, maybe I'll do it when I graduate sometime.

[Keane]

I like to see what people really looks like too. I already got someone saying they were ugly without make up but it was the other way around.:boon

In the end it only gives people a wrong picture of how you look, and eventually disappointment will be follow.

I forgot to add earlier people who are born a dude but feels like they are/want to be a girl and vice-versa are also included in this. Its the person's choice and I will always respect it. I'm actually surprised my parents have nothing against that.

I'm totally fine with that. I wonder why some people are even against such things or homosexuality. I know it's against the religions of some, but it's not like these people are having an effect on your life.

[Zikken]

Someone in my bro's class is 14 and she got pregnant. I have nothing about young children using technology like gaming consoles since I was doing so at the age of 3 already. But Iphones and things like that, I think its a bit too far. And yeah America is getting pretty awful at that, and i'm including Canada in this, because its the same thing.

I forgot to add earlier people who are born a dude but feels like they are/want to be a girl and vice-versa are also included in this. Its the person's choice and I will always respect it. I'm actually surprised my parents have nothing against that.

That was me actually for a while. I had my gender icon set to female here in 2010, though eventually in late 2012 I realised it wasn't for me. While I identify as male, I chose to disable the icon to avoid possible confusion or awkward questions from those who don't know me given my sense of style and so on. Also, I like how my name fits on top of my avatar like a hat; the icon would ruin that.

I kind of noticed that because that your DA is still saying Female and people were calling you by "he,him" ect here which confused me for like 2 weeks.
And yes it does a perfect hat.

I forgot to add earlier people who are born a dude but feels like they are/want to be a girl and vice-versa are also included in this. Its the person's choice and I will always respect it. I'm actually surprised my parents have nothing against that.

I'm totally fine with that. I wonder why some people are even against such things or homosexuality. I know it's against the religions of some, but it's not like these people are having an effect on your life.

Exactly what I think.

[Keane]

Haha. I remember once looking up Facebook pages of some of the people I knew from school and found most of them discussing that they got drunk and posting pictures of girls being nearly naked. And this was back when we were all 13 maybe 14. If that's what is considered normal these days then I'll be crazy.

One thing I'd love to discuss. This is sadly becoming really common around here. I think this could be another reason of mine using videogames to escape reality, the reality of this generation in America- is awful. What the woman at my school have done is a lot worse, a whole leakage of nude photos (13-14), starting posting on the web from people from our School. Our School took action and well, made a silly announcement about it. It really makes me cringe seeing this, seeing these young children grow up in such a way. I'm not sure what it could be that dramatically influence these peoples decisions, whether it be parents, TV, I don't know... all I know, it's getting a lot worse. I'm seeing 12 year olds with Iphones now, this isn't rare, this is becoming common now, seriously.

Oh it's not just the US. The Netherlands has clinics to help 12 year olds stop drinking. Like Zepto said I'm not against kids using technology and Internet but it's going to keep exposing younger kids to such concepts.

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I think it's good that kids are at least somewhat exposed to such things, it just needs to be enough so that they understand the risk associated with it. After all, sudden exposure is a leading cause of impulsive habits and being awkward about it.

I sound like a TV PSA.

[Dart]

these are the moments when you can realize somebody has it worse than u. my condolences to all on this forum!

[Keane]

The reason for why so many of us on RPC have dysfunctional home and school lives has always intrigued me. Maybe these times of trouble have provoked an interest in escapism, especially when it brings you to a world as imaginative, surreal and ever-changing as Rayman's, or maybe it's a simple coincidence? I'm more inclined to side with the former, as it's something I've consistently noticed ever since I started lurking here.

Coming back to this, I think Rayman does appeal to a certain audience. A lot of same interests in music, art, humour etc. I've never seen a community where a whole side forum can exist out of the amount of people with drawing skill.

[Dart]

The reason for why so many of us on RPC have dysfunctional home and school lives has always intrigued me. Maybe these times of trouble have provoked an interest in escapism, especially when it brings you to a world as imaginative, surreal and ever-changing as Rayman's, or maybe it's a simple coincidence? I'm more inclined to side with the former, as it's something I've consistently noticed ever since I started lurking here.

Coming back to this, I think Rayman does appeal to a certain audience. A lot of same interests in music, art, humour etc. I've never seen a community where a whole side forum can exist out of the amount of people with drawing skill.

definitely

[Zikken]

these are the moments when you can realize somebody has it worse than u. my condolences to all on this forum!

I wanna hug everyone here.

I think it's good that kids are at least somewhat exposed to such things, it just needs to be enough so that they understand the risk associated with it. After all, sudden exposure is a leading cause of impulsive habits and being awkward about it.

I sound like a TV PSA.

I think the same, I was already on internet at the age of 10, not on any website, just going on google but no one is safe from google images. And got against the rule of deviantart and joined at the age of 12. Well at least it made my grade in English A+ because I learned the language in 6 months because of that. Plus here where I live you learn all those thing at the age of 10-12, I can't remember exactly when since its been some years but I know its around that.

[Keane]

these are the moments when you can realize somebody has it worse than u. my condolences to all on this forum!

I wanna hug everyone here.

*Hug*

Yeah, good talk with you all. Put me in a much better mood.

I think the same, I was already on internet at the age of 10, not on any website, just going on google but no one is safe from google images. And got against the rule of deviantart and joined at the age of 12. Well at least it made my grade in English A+ because I learned the language in 6 months because of that. Plus here where I live you learn all those thing at the age of 10-12, I can't remember exactly when since its been some years but I know its around that.

Back when I was eight or nine I was doing a presentation on cats. I decided to do some research and learned a lot of things about, err, love that day. I think you can guess what word I used to look up cats.

[Zikken]

I think the same, I was already on internet at the age of 10, not on any website, just going on google but no one is safe from google images. And got against the rule of deviantart and joined at the age of 12. Well at least it made my grade in English A+ because I learned the language in 6 months because of that. Plus here where I live you learn all those thing at the age of 10-12, I can't remember exactly when since its been some years but I know its around that.

Back when I was eight or nine I was doing a presentation on cats. I decided to do some research and learned a lot of things about, err, love that day. I think you can guess what word I used to look up cats.

Aahah oh my god. Google is the worse for that.

these are the moments when you can realize somebody has it worse than u. my condolences to all on this forum!

I wanna hug everyone here.

*Hug*

Yeah, good talk with you all. Put me in a much better mood.

Always good to talk things out in a while. Keeping things inside too long just get them worse.

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Would anyone mind if I moved this whole multi-paged conversation to the Daily Doldrums thread? Aside from the obvious reason, it would also be easier to find if we wanted to refer back to it in the future.

[Keane]

Would anyone mind if I moved this whole multi-paged conversation to the Daily Doldrums thread? Aside from the obvious reason, it would also be easier to find if we wanted to refer back to it in the future.

No problem. We've loaded up Rayman 3's thread quite a bit.