The Good News Thread: I'm So Excited! And I Just Can't Hide It!

[Kaymyth she/her]

12 hours ago, Mesa the Ookla said:

No storming way. Get me one yeah?

And whoever downvoted me b4 it was a joke.

right @Cognizantastic??

??

??

I really hate how I have to continually say that nowadays lol

In addition to what Cog said, I would also put forth the suggestion that perhaps if you focused on making jokes that were actually funny, rather than insulting or annoying or outright offensive, you might get a better reception.

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

You went to Urban Dictionary 

And Wikihow

and you blame me for using twelvie, when you have no idea how it's used in Australia :/ 

YES I WAS POKING FUN AT HOW YOUNG YOU LOOKED

storm me, sometimes you just try to hard @Cognizantastic, the joke was stretched thin already.

And besides you responded with 

On 03/12/2016 at 6:15 AM, Cognizantastic said:

Because I'm young-looking? I'm 16 and it annoys me.

I just tell myself that I'll appreciate it when I'm 40.  

I thought you were cool with it...

[soyperson]

I just:

 * went upstairs 

 * panicked because I have 2 of the three requisite paragraphs done for an essay due tomorrow

 * played around on my new phone

 * texted boyfriend <3

 * scooped an entire pint of ice cream into a bowl 

 * came back downstairs

 * turned on Netflix

 * began eating said ice cream

Am happy.

Edited December 4, 2016 by bleeder

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

And that last essay paragraph that as Is due @bleeder *stern look*

[soyperson]

Just now, Mesa the Ookla said:

And that last essay paragraph that as Is due @bleeder *stern look*

*currently panic-writing essay*

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

1 minute ago, bleeder said:

*currently panic-writing essay*

XD

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

IM sorry its two am and I haven't slept in a day and a half I'm tired OK???? I'll try to respond better when I actually get some damnation sleep, so take this as a half chull reply

Oh and it will have to be a double post too soZ

 

Edited December 4, 2016 by Mesa the Ookla

[Mestiv he/him]

7 minutes ago, Mesa the Ookla said:

Do I look like I would murder u man....

With that Jar Jar smile? who knows

but seriously, I think you two might use some private talk , possibly with a third party moderator to not get too  emotional. i think it's not the first time your in conflict, right?

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

9 minutes ago, Cognizantastic said:

Before I begin, I want to make sure you know that I am not targeting you, and I don't want to be cruel to you in any way. I know that you might feel like you're being singled out, but I promise you that it is not the case. I mean the best, Darkness. I r

Other Sharders, please forgive me if I seem improper in my response. I mean no malice by what I say, and will gladly change my behavior should it be offensive to you.

With that being said, I have a few words.

I was cool with it until I found out about the term's rude, rather insulting implications — that I am a teenie bopper or someone who tries to be "cool", part of a group which is despised in every source which I saw. Etymology such as that is generally consistent across nations, so I believe that my reaction was understandable. I apologize for confusing you with the shift in tone, though. I hope you understand now. 

Darkness, I will take your accusation that I try too hard into consideration, for there may be some legitimacy to it. In return, though, I ask you this — is it possible that you care too little? Perhaps you are not invested enough in your own improvement as an individual. Perhaps you are not invested enough in how your actions may influence the lives of those around you.

Sometimes, Darkness, I feel that you look to the world around you for something to blame rather than gazing within. The fault does not always lie with our environment. Sometimes we are the problem. To illustrate my point, I want to tell you a story... for most of my years in school, I was trapped in a cage of my own devising. I made myself alienated from those around me because I was too set in my ways and convinced in my intelligence to consider the rejection of my peers as a result of my own pretentiousness. That changed with four words, what I consider one of the most important sentences in my life: "SHUT THE [PROFANITY] UP", screamed by a classmate. That caused a shift in worldview that made me look at myself before I ever did others, when I got negative feedback. That jarred me into changing near everything in how I connect with people. I continue to improve to this day because of those words. I don't claim to be perfect, for I am far from it. I do, however, claim to be better — and that's all due to accepting my own fault and seeing others' opinion as just as valid as my own. 

The point is, others' reactions to us are a mirror. Sometimes you are correct and the fault lies with the observer, so the observed should stick to what they're doing. But often it is not. Often, we can use the opinions of those around us to better ourselves. That can never happen if we blame them instead of also looking inwards. I heartily encourage you to reconsider not just what you think others will find funny, but your worldview as a whole.

Sorry if I got too preachy, man. I... I care a lot about this kind of thing.

Should you react with anger, I won't respond again. We've conflicted over this multiple times, so I see no benefit in continuing the contention if an impasse has been reached. 

I wish you the best, Darkness. Good luck.  

 

This will be really hard to type on a kindle keabpard lol

I do feel like I'm being singled out, I make one off hand joke at ur youngness and its like a group of sabrespine have jumped down my throat, and their spines are barbed too.

It was meant to be a joke at ur youngness, the fact that you went on URBANDICTIONARY. And Ducking WIKIHOW. And assumed that's what I meant really riles me up

Do in honestly think that's what I think of you?

Hey, guess what my dad thinks I'm the storming  problemproblem too.

Whenever I look inwards I cry. Not joking. I've tried, it's like a dark place. 

If you want me to accept that I am a selfish jerk as two puts it. OK. and storm you to mozzie,  thinknyiu can bite me when I m busy? U ai r hivign nokne malaria

Can we just leave as friends. I love you all. And I hate fighting. 

[Delightful]

2 minutes ago, Mesa the Ookla said:

This will be really hard to type on a kindle keabpard lol

I do feel like I'm being singled out, I make one off hand joke at ur youngness and its like a group of sabrespine have jumped down my throat, and their spines are barbed too.

It was meant to be a joke at ur youngness, the fact that you went on URBANDICTIONARY. And Ducking WIKIHOW. And assumed that's what I meant really riles me up

Do in honestly think that's what I think of you?

Hey, guess what my dad thinks I'm the storming  problemproblem too.

Whenever I look inwards I cry. Not joking. I've tried, it's like a dark place. 

If you want me to accept that I am a selfish jerk as two puts it. OK. and storm you to mozzie,  thinknyiu can bite me when I m busy? U ai r hivign nokne malaria

Can we just leave as friends. I love you all. And I hate fighting. 

Sometimes you need to look at the dark and cry and then try clean it out and let some light in. Life is hard. 

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

Just now, Deliiiiiightful said:

Sometimes you need to look at the dark and cry and then try clean it out and let some light in. Life is hard. 

But I don't have a river, or Hercules strength

[soyperson]

4 minutes ago, Mesa the Ookla said:

This will be really hard to type on a kindle keabpard lol

I do feel like I'm being singled out, I make one off hand joke at ur youngness and its like a group of sabrespine have jumped down my throat, and their spines are barbed too.

It was meant to be a joke at ur youngness, the fact that you went on URBANDICTIONARY. And Ducking WIKIHOW. And assumed that's what I meant really riles me up

Do in honestly think that's what I think of you?

Hey, guess what my dad thinks I'm the storming  problemproblem too.

Whenever I look inwards I cry. Not joking. I've tried, it's like a dark place. 

If you want me to accept that I am a selfish jerk as two puts it. OK. and storm you to mozzie,  thinknyiu can bite me when I m busy? U ai r hivign nokne malaria

Can we just leave as friends. I love you all. And I hate fighting. 

We love you, as well, Da.

EDIT: DA, not Da. You're not my Da.

Edited December 4, 2016 by bleeder
Hm.

[Delightful]

2 minutes ago, Mesa the Ookla said:

But I don't have a river, or Hercules strength

You have the strength you need. And you're allowed to break down and cry. Sometimes we get the most strength from allowing ourselves to be vulnerable and it's freaking terrifying. 

[Claincy he/him]

On 12/4/2016 at 2:41 AM, Zathoth said:

That sounds very interesting. I like the wheel of moments. So you can actually block or dodge in a fight, I like that.

Enabling the characters to react (in advance and in the moment) to actions that other characters are taking was one of the main goals of that set of mechanics.

[Ecthelion III he/him]

Finished all the Cosmere books + Reckoners!

[Silverblade5 he/him]

@Cognizantastic, I really feel like I need to say something in @Mesa the Ookla's defense. I believe this conflict was a result of a misunderstanding of the use of a word. Twelvie. In my school, the word "sevvie" is often used to refer to seventh graders. I believe DA was using Twelvie in this manner. As an abbreviation for "twelve year old". The joke was merely that you look a lot younger than you actually are. I'll need DA here to confirm this, but I'm going to have to agree with him here, and say that everyone here is taking this too far, and too seriously. 

[mattig89ch he/him]

My new SSD for my Lenovo G505s just arrived.  Still need the USB cable to clone my laptop's current drive to it.  But I'm so excited to finally speed up my laptop!

The bottle neck of that thing has been my hard drive so far.  I might need to max out the RAM with another 8 gig stick, but even still.

Mushkin 1TB SSD, if anyone's interested.  + 2 year replacement warranty.

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

Glad we could drop this. I'm sorry for causing you any distress @Cognizantastic

[Briar King]

Bring it on Old Man Winter! I welcome your Artic breath. I ll be outside by my fire for those 20's nights on forecast this week.

[mattig89ch he/him]

I miss those days of spending 20 degree weather next to a fire.  Its not so much fun to do it on your own.

Enjoy it BriarKing!

[Oversleep]

On 4.12.2016 at 0:02 AM, Cognizantastic said:

According to the Internet...

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"A twelvie is a person under the age of 13 who acts like they are 16, nobody likes them and they should be murdered" (wikihow)

"A twelvie is a person that is between 12-14 who thinks they are cool and they [PROFANITY] know everything... twelvies are [PROFANITY]annoying and they think they are better than everyone else. Twelvies are also known as teenie boppers. [PROFANITY] teenie boppers." (Urbandictionary)

Just for reference: while I am not familiar with wikihow, I know urbandictionary. It's... untrustworthy is not strong enough, not even that magnitude. Anybody can add definition whatever they think and we end up with a mess. Never trust urbandictionary. Not only they're contradicting each other, then there are also people who just don't like something and will smear the term down (made up example: you'll find "feminist" defined as <a lot of curse words implying them being stupid and the like>).

So... that's about it.

[Delightful]

55 minutes ago, Ookla the Sunrise Watcher said:

Just for reference: while I am not familiar with wikihow, I know urbandictionary. It's... untrustworthy is not strong enough, not even that magnitude. Anybody can add definition whatever they think and we end up with a mess. Never trust urbandictionary. Not only they're contradicting each other, then there are also people who just don't like something and will smear the term down (made up example: you'll find "feminist" defined as <a lot of curse words implying them being stupid and the like>).

So... that's about it.

It is sometimes useful for very slang internet-y terms you'll never find defined elsewhere.

[soyperson]

Going to Goodwill afterschool with friends! Woo, thrift-store-ing! 

Also, I got one of my friends listening to Night Vale. During episode one, she turned towards me with a very puzzled/terrified look on her face every thirty seconds or so. Her verbal responses are quite amusing as well:

"CAM WHY ARE THERE SMALL ANIMALS FALLING FROM THE SKY---Oh they're dead."

Edited December 6, 2016 by bleeder

[Sunbird she/her]

So my grandpa recently bought a discounted pair of cellos off the Internet even though he doesn't know how to play yet. (I don't either, for that matter.) I got to spend half an hour attempting to tune one with a pitch pipe. Not very easy when one of the pitches on the pitch pipe was about a half-step flat and the strings kept loosening after I tightened them, but I found it relaxing after the crazy hectic day I've had. (See my post in the Bad Day thread for the full rant.)

[skaa he/him]

Just finished my second day in Tokyo. (BoM Spoilers)

Spoiler

One more full day to go before I head back home to South Scadrial--I mean, the Philippines. Seriously, I felt like I needed a mask because of how much I can relate to Allik's people now. There was no snow, as it had been "warm" days so far at less than 10°C, but that's fine given that I suddenly fear the thought of going out on one of their colder days. Those Uniqlo Heattech clothing saved my life, though. They're like my own personal Heat medallions.

Today me and my folks got to visit a couple of temples, ate some sushi from a conveyor belt, went on a couple of boat rides, ate some takoyaki, and explored Odaiba. I still have Pokemon Center and Akihabara on my list, so I'll make sure to visit them tomorrow even if I have to go on my own.

Wish me luck!

Edited December 9, 2016 by skaa
Yikes, I forgot that's a spoiler