Something Bothering you?/Daily Doldrums

[OCG]

How did I not think of it before

[Adsolution]

Stupid chronophobia, you literally cannot be corrected. Fuck you, sincerely. I could almost consider you to be the most rational fear of all, one which nearly everyone simply has an easy time ignoring or possesses a mindset that allows them to easily come to terms with it for some reason. I guess there's nothing that can be done about that though, which is usually what it comes down to.

It's miniature 'revelations' like this that make me feel that things I would rather not attend such as school and commitments are wasting a grotesque amount of my time. For every hour I spend on some puerile dreck like that, I could be instead spending it on practicing my skills and working toward my goals. I need to stop trying to prove myself to people, abandon these stupid time-wasters and do what I know I can do, because there isn't a single piece of logic that will tell you that spending less time working towards these things and more time trying to graduate will provide you with more skill in doing what you do over time and in the grand scope of things.

Time is such a valuable asset, and it cannot afford to be wasted. I care about mine that much, and I can't believe I'm choosing to still tolerate those who forcefully waste mine. I need to leave my home, but I have no good source of income, and likely won't for another year at least. I'll likely be doomed to wasting an entire bloody year of my life then, great.

[sonicbrawler182]

I guess this would be the best topic to ask about this.

I can't really find a means to get an ISO of NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams. As I expected, the game has been taken down from pretty much every website, and I can't find torrents with a higher number of seeders than leechers.

So I'm checking the prices on Amazon UK, and it's dirt cheap. I could buy a used copy for less than €5, and not have to wait long at all for it. Plus I could play it at a better resolution on Wii U than I could on Wii, which would be better for recording (I'd likely do playthroughs of this and NiGHTS Into Dreams HD).

Thing is, I'm not sure if I should get a used copy or not. A new copy would cost anywhere between €10 and €15. Which is still just fine, but I just wanna ask if people have bought used games on Amazon UK before, and if they are in a nice condition when they arrive (the condition says "Very Good")?

I actually did buy Tekken Tag Tournament 2: We Are Tekken Edition for my friend, and the condition said "Very Good" too. The outer cardboard box was a bit tatty, but the inner contents were basically mint condition (including the actual game box). But considering how that had an extra layer of packaging, in a sense, I'm not sure how a McBasic Wii box would be. I don't want something that is actually in bits, or worse, a faulty disc.

I know I'm being paranoid (I guess I feel getting the game that cheap AND in very good condition is too good to be true or something), but if you guys have bought used games from them, it'd be great to know how the condition turned out!

[OCG]

Never bought from Amazon, but used copies on eBay are usually looking awesome without scratches (expecially if seller is Japanese).
90% of games I buy are used because I am not ritch to buy new copies all the time. My experience with used copies is almost always good.

As for ISO, I found one with more seeders than leechers but it is always better to buy original product so go for it. If you really want ISO, I can send you link but buying is what I recommend.

[Cairnie]

While it's true that Japanese people really do take care of their games you'd still want to be careful when buying games second hand. Saturn ones can be notorious for being scratched to hell and back thanks to the shitty packaging EU copies tend to be in. Though I've even had cases where I bought PS3 games that were listed as being in good condition but would end up with CRACKS and half the time the seller wouldn't have realised it.

Bothering me now: Christmas shopping. Money's not the problem this year, it's just WHAT everyone wants and I want to get it done as quickly as possible because shopping centres are getting mental now.

[OCG]

Speaking of cracks, my friend reported me that expensive rare PS1 demo he bought had crack on it. It happens to be same seller from who I purchased Croc 1 and Croc 2 for PS1 (Japanese versions) (Seller is Chinese). That fact is bothering me very much lately and I really hope it will arrive without problems.

[Haruka]

@OCG I only bought in Amazon for the first time in September, and the service was spectacular. Rayman Legends arrived factory sealed, without any transportation damage, inside the predicted delivery time and the shipping was for free.

[OCG]

Free shipping? Great to know. How often does Amazon have free shipping I must try out Japanese Amazon once. Most of eBay sellers in Japan put shipping $8 (but some are free to be honest). I guess it wouldn't kill me to do purchase without PayPal once in a while.

Little update on Croc games, I aksed seller why they didn't arrive yet and he told me to expect them around 10th January
What kind of shipping is that?

[Adsolution]

I was in a pretty great mood after having gone to see Frozen with two friends yesterday and watched one of them play through the first bit of Crysis 3.

But once again, my mother likes to dash this away by instantly harping at me as soon as I returned home. My mother's room is directly adjacent to mine, and I am not allowed to sleep with the door closed because she apparently wants to be able to hear what I am doing at all times and have the ability to sneak into my room at any moment to see if I'm doing anything I'm not supposed to be doing. I interjected by saying that not being allowed to have my own door closed, especially when I'm a certified adult is an extreme breach of privacy, and she simply then threatened to take the door off its hinges if I didn't "shut the fuck up and leave it all the way open". I'm not doing this to piss her off, I have a real problem with keeping my door open. I want the fecking thing closed, because I'm literally not comfortable with it open. Also, the principle of it.

Not to overreact here, but can't this be translated directly to her "watching me while I sleep", and isn't that creepy and illegal? Maybe not illegal, but I honestly think that this is something the police would side with me on. I swear, I'm going to punch her in the face if she ever does this again.

[OCG]

I also despise if someone tries to open door while I am sleeping. Puts me in really bad mood and I get rather loud.

[sonicbrawler182]

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My mother can't seem to understand that I've been extremely busy as of late and that I genuinely have so much work to take care of between college assignments, helping some classmates out, helping my cousin out with a present for my brother as part of that Kris Kingle (which I still have to do), helping online friends through serious shit, and just lots of stuff, and that I don't have time to think about trivial things like making my bed every morning and dropping everything just to do things for her. Results in her getting pissy and me being in a shitty mood, which makes it even harder to do everything, on top of my lack of sleep.

Her and my brother lecturing me on my college assignments isn't helping. They fucking promised that if I passed everything in my Leaving Cert (which was a huge challenge considering everything that was going on at the time), they would accept that I was a responsible adult who could make his own decisions, and would not pester me about so much in the future. I succeeded, and now they are bugging me about my college work. They are STILL defending teachers and cannot accept that the educational system here can be really shitty, and that some teachers just don't give a fuck. Everything has to be my fault, and I try my best to make up for the shortcomings of the system and of some of my tutors, but that does not excuse those things for being terrible at their purpose, and I shouldn't be the one being ridiculed, especially since I have more than proven I can deal with pressure, and while things don't always work perfectly, I always figure SOMETHING out.

I don't mean to sound like an angsty special snowflake or something, but I'm 18. If I present so many good reasons as to why my family should leave me alone about this sort of thing, then they should learn to shut the fuck up. We've been through this so many times, even before I was 18. We get along much better when they aren't trying to take control of me or criticise the way I handle things, or how I spend my time.

I find it difficult to even be angry over it. I'm just tired of it at this point.

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[technology4617]

I was in a pretty great mood after having gone to see Frozen with two friends yesterday and watched one of them play through the first bit of Crysis 3.
But once again, my mother likes to dash this away by instantly harping at me as soon as I returned home. My mother's room is directly adjacent to mine, and I am not allowed to sleep with the door closed because she apparently wants to be able to hear what I am doing at all times and have the ability to sneak into my room at any moment to see if I'm doing anything I'm not supposed to be doing. I interjected by saying that not being allowed to have my own door closed, especially when I'm a certified adult is an extreme breach of privacy, and she simply then threatened to take the door off its hinges if I didn't "shut the fuck up and leave it all the way open". I'm not doing this to piss her off, I have a real problem with keeping my door open. I want the fecking thing closed, because I'm literally not comfortable with it open. Also, the principle of it.

That's fucking stupid, especially since you are legally an adult now. You should explain that she no longer has authority over you, and she is technically in the wrong on this one. Present a logical argument to her mad babble. If that doesn't work, you can always strip the hinge screws to ensure that she cannot take your door off.

[Adsolution]

Given that I live in her house, however, she technically does own the puppet strings. If I don't do exactly as she says, she threatens me with getting kicked out, and if I were to disobey and that were to happen, I would be almost entirely out of luck, as in this part of the province you'll be lucky to find a shack for less than $1600 a month.

[technology4617]

What about friends that you could live with?

[spiraldoor]

This thread is nothing but people moaning about their parents, who are still providing for them in every case.

[technology4617]

This thread is nothing but people moaning about their parents, who are still providing for them in every case.

So members have no right to complain when their parents do shitty things to them, because they sometimes provide for you? OK...

[Dark Lum Lord]

This thread is nothing but people moaning about their parents, who are still providing for them in every case.

Welcome to a splendid little land named "Adolescence". And to your right, "Angst".

[sonicbrawler182]

This thread is nothing but people moaning about their parents, who are still providing for them in every case.

It's called tough love.

And for the record, I provide for my mother a lot myself. I gave her nearly €1,000 to pay for house renovations she couldn't afford, and paid for many school fees by myself that most people have their parents pay for (such as applying for the ECDL course). She's quite impulsive. I was saving said money for moving out when I got to college, and it just so happens that she now gets on my back about "wasting electricity" when I'm trying to work on college assignments (which require I use electricity), which wouldn't be happening if she didn't impulsively do up the house when she did, as I wouldn't be using her electricity. :V

[Adsolution]

This thread is nothing but people moaning about their parents, who are still providing for them in every case.

I'm not really seeing why it's such a problem to take issue with people who completely abuse the fact that you're dependent on them because you are currently unable to sustain yourself. Are you implying that someone has little right to complain, no matter how completely unreasonable or downright abusive a situation is?

I think it's become abundantly clear that this forum is a tight community where people are comfortable to talk about their arguably legitimate problems, without the need for others to summarise these problems in the most shallow way imaginable in an attempt to 'put the concept into perspective' whilst ignoring all details and motivations that comprise the situation itself.

Besides, 'in every case'? In the sense that they provide you with basic living needs such as a place to live and food to eat? That's essentially your implication of a justified parental role. Aren't you missing a lot here?

[Keane]

I was in a pretty great mood after having gone to see Frozen with two friends yesterday and watched one of them play through the first bit of Crysis 3.

But once again, my mother likes to dash this away by instantly harping at me as soon as I returned home. My mother's room is directly adjacent to mine, and I am not allowed to sleep with the door closed because she apparently wants to be able to hear what I am doing at all times and have the ability to sneak into my room at any moment to see if I'm doing anything I'm not supposed to be doing. I interjected by saying that not being allowed to have my own door closed, especially when I'm a certified adult is an extreme breach of privacy, and she simply then threatened to take the door off its hinges if I didn't "shut the fuck up and leave it all the way open". I'm not doing this to piss her off, I have a real problem with keeping my door open. I want the fecking thing closed, because I'm literally not comfortable with it open. Also, the principle of it.

Not to overreact here, but can't this be translated directly to her "watching me while I sleep", and isn't that creepy and illegal? Maybe not illegal, but I honestly think that this is something the police would side with me on. I swear, I'm going to punch her in the face if she ever does this again.

My mother wanted my door open in that vacation home and I hated it too. Sometimes I went to the toilet purely to feel private and alone for a moment.

This thread is nothing but people moaning about their parents, who are still providing for them in every case.

So what? The fact that people have literally said things along the lines of "my parents beat me" is okay because they support you? It's okay for my mother to threaten me with keeping me from talking to people she knows make me feel better just to get what she wants? It's okay when parents are absolutely abusive assholes that make their kids end up going to a video game forum to get some comfort? Sorry but I've heard some insanely ridiculous stories from friends, not to mention friends who have gone trough things like depression or are bipolar, that manage to shock me. It shouldn't be a 15 year old kid on a video game forum and DeviantArt writing walls of text to them trying to cheer them up, it should be their fucking parents. Providing =/= being a parent. Being a parent also means actually caring for a person, making sure they are happy with themselves and being two understanding and strong figures that they can appreciate and look up to. I'll respect someone when they can live up to that, not if they pay for school and the pizza you had last night until 18 fucking shit years, and not just any, your childhood, have passed and you can go on on your own.

If parents agree to have a child, it's more than normal to expect that they provide you. But if I hear from a friend that they are physically and mentally hurt by their parents I find it pretty fucking ridiculous to say "well they give you a bed to sleep in so you should probably shut up and be okay with that."

And I'm not just raging against parents that ridiculously bad, I'm talking about any kind of bad parenting. I appreciate mine to an extend but the fact that the two people I see most I don't feel comfortable enough with to even share something like who my friends are or that I'm into certain stuff because I'm afraid of the reaction is wrong.

Even on just the internet where you can't even see or hear a person it's more than clear that they feel hurt and it honestly couldn't make me feel worse when I can't be there for my own girlfriend. Ignoring how these people feel and just shoving it aside with "here's an excuse get over yourself im too lazy to give a shit about you" nonsense would be awful. I seriously hope more people in the future put aside ignorant views like that.