It’s typically not, unless you get it really bad. I’ve herniated disks in my back a few times. They hurt like hell and take a long time to heal, but heal they typically do. Give it a month or two, and don’t trust it when it first starts to feel better. Give it a solid couple weeks after it stops hurting.
Unfortunately I only get another week to heal before I gotta go full duty again. Ohh wellllll.
So I got this friend I’ve known for like 6 years now (probably my longest running friendship really, besides one other I’ve known for 7 years) and I recently moved in with her and another friend (different friend from the other, known them for 5 years but we’re close) and the friend in question (the 6 year friend) has kinda been out of the picture for a year after she went to the east coast and during the time we’ve been apart she’s totally changed. It’s really starting to show after 4 months back.
She’s highly annoying now and narcissistic, and she constantly talks about how both sexes absolutely love her (she’s recently come out as bi since like 2014). She constantly points out the things me and my other friend do wrong, without taking responsibility for her bit. Her crazy as shit mom and her many boyfriends spent 3 months invading our home and fighting and being generally destructive and annoying, while she did really next to nothing to stop it.
She also has this like horrible opinion of guys in general that stems from nothing more than what she reads online and such (not really an issue but I AM a guy). She’s mean to me in general, you know, name calling and such (not really a big deal, just annoying) and anytime I do something to her in return (name call back as banter you know, poke back at her, etc) she takes great offense and can physically attack and threaten me as a result, stating I started it and an “eye for an eye”. She turns that around and says “oh that’s how friends act haha we harass each other.” But any attempt to tell her to cut it out ends with her blaming me for it all.
She used to be so different but she’s really changed in the last year, and it’s kinda sad cause I really cared about her and genuinely liked her. Now I can’t even stand her, and it takes all my willpower to smile and joke and try to laugh and get along with her. It sucks, we got another 8 months of the lease to go.
Welp I’m back, computer blew itself up a few weeks ago…
I’d do the same if I had to not only remember your ramblings but repeat them as well.
There was a massive party at my apartment complex last night. It went from 11:00 PM to 4:15 AM. There was a brawl in the courtyard at 2:30, and apparently a shooting in front of the building at about 3:00. The furniture in the courtyard was all overturned and being thrown around. There was a broken vase in the lobby. A bunch of cops and a news crew this morning.
Apparently the party was thrown by someone who rented a guest suite. I talked to a building manager today, and he’s rented guest suites before. And they’ve had problems with him throwing parties before. INSTEAD OF NOT FUCKING RENTING THE GUEST SUITE TO HIM, THEY WARNED HIM THAT IF HE DID IT AGAIN, THEY WOULDN’T ALLOW HIM TO RENT THE GUEST SUITES ANYMORE.
Why the FUCK is the building renting guest suites to someone who’s not a guest of any of the residents anyway!?! ESPECIALLY IF THEY’RE KNOWN TO DO IT JUST SO THEY CAN THROW HUGE NOISY PARTIES IN THE COMMUNITY ROOM?
At least one positive thing has come out of it: the community room is now going to be closed and locked at 10PM. That should cut down on the constant noise made by the fucking children I share this apartment complex with. Now if we can just get people to start cleaning up after their dogs when they vomit and shit in the hallways and elevators, this might actually start to approach a respectable place to live.
So the Sapienza episode for Hitman doesn’t come out until technically tomorrow due to timezones. Which is a bit disappointing, but that’s not the reason I’m here.
The reason I’m here, is that when I read the release time announcement, the comments were immediately filled with people who are unable to google to do timezone conversion and comments like
(I can only assume SMD in this context is “Shaking My Dick”)
And
Yes, “GET A GAME” indeed. Because it’s that simple. Just press a couple buttons, that’s all it takes, right?
It’s not like making a game takes time or effort to do properly. It’s not like there are legitimate reasons when a game is delayed, because sometimes code doesn’t work the way it’s intended, or someone on the team gets sick, or things just plain take longer than expected!
Nah man, they’re only holding back the entire game to make money, somehow, even though they’re not charging extra money no matter how you crunch the numbers, and not because it’s not finished yet!
The episodic releases aren’t so people have the choice of not waiting until 2017 to play!
IT ISN’T LIKE IT’S DIFFICULT TO MAKE GAMES![/size]
Oh wait, but IT FUCKING IS!!! IT TAKES TIME TO DO SOMETHING PROPERLY, AND DEVS ARE CONSTANTLY BOMBARDED BY HATE EVEN WHEN IT’S UNWARRANTED, EVEN WHEN THE GAME IS FUCKING GOOD! THERE IS CURRENTLY A SINGLE MAP FOR HITMAN, AND I’VE GOTTEN 71 HOURS OF GREAT GAMEPLAY OUT OF THAT ONE LEVEL SO OBVIOUSLY THE DEVELOPERS HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THEY’RE DOING AND THEY SHOULDN’T BE MAKING US WAIT A FULL MONTH BETWEEN RELEASES OF MASSIVE MAPS WITH HIGHLY COMPLEX GAME LOGIC.[/size]
And it’s not like this is because of the episodic releases, either. You’re damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
Oh, the game got delayed? Lazy fucking devs, release the game already we want to play it now!
Oh, you’re releasing the game in parts, and we can pay either as they come out or the full retail price now? Money-grubbing fucking devs, release the full game we want to play it now!
It isn’t even Hitman. Hitman has just been the last goddamn straw. There are so many fucking assholes who have no idea how much time and effort it takes to make a game, how many manhours, how many late nights trying to fix issues, who don’t even know what crunch is, let alone how terrible it is to go through crunch, just to get a product out the door. But they want the game now, or the developers are lazy. And they want it to be good, or the developers are shitty. And they want it to be less than the standard $60 USD price for retail AA - AAA games, or the developers are greedy.
They’re just never fucking happy, never fucking satisfied, and they want the impossible.
It took a thousand people 5 years to make GTAV. They probably crunched for a full year prior to release, and then some more after to get the current-gen console and PC versions.[/size]
Give the studio of around 150 people some goddamn time to breathe and just be happy they’re giving you the option of playing specific levels as they’re finished instead of making you wait a year from the initially planned public release date. (Which always gets pushed back with any game)
If you don’t feel like waiting between maps, just don’t fucking get the game until they’re all out.
And for the love of god, stop making the developer’s lives harder by shitting on their best efforts to give you an enjoyable experience.
I’m going to extend that out to just about anything these days, the bottom line is people feel so damn entitled for absolutely no reason or effort on their part. People who don’t work expect paychecks, people expect private business to have to do business with them, kids expect to have all their needs and wants provided for them while they go out and shoot drugs and get aids, the list goes on forever.
I’m terrified of what will happen if I live to the point of needing elderly care come mid-2000s. I’d probably just shoot myself in the head before getting lodged up in a millenial care facility, but hey, by then they might just do that for me because I’ll be such an inconvenience to them.
I personally don’t like episodic releases, but at the same time it doesn’t really matter to me all that much as long as the games good and keeps me waiting for the next installment.
Tho I do wonder what’s inspired episodic releases with some recent games, is it gonna be a thing now like season passes?
You know, recently, I’ve been very torn between my usual supportive nature where I’m all for changes and bringing to light issues that are important in modern society, or making sure those around me are comfortable, basically generally being mindful of people’s issues and how they want to be treated, and really getting fed up with the amount of gripe and whining of most of the people who support the topics I support.
For instance, I usually would go out of my way to help a friend with depression, even if they didn’t ask, but recently those same situations have me looking at their texts and status updates like “I don’t even fucking care anymore, they’re being irritating as shit. Grow the fuck up.” Even if I know that it’s much more than just “growing up” in their case.
I feel like my sense of compassion is really slipping, and along with it I’m turning into some dickface that just tells people to get the hell over their issues and deal, instead of actively trying to help those that need it. And that’s driving me fucking mad.
Anytime anyone does something I find even mildly whiny or “poor me”, my immediate reaction is gritting my teeth and screaming internally because, I dunno, I feel like they’re blowing their stuff out of proportion and that everyone has shit to deal with, and they’re not special for their issues, and they’re just being passive aggressive and annoying.
The same goes for any of the people I know who are in heated debates about politics, or feminism (that’s a big one, I know a lot and while most are cool, there’s a few that are assholes), or racism (probably the second biggest one, although really they’re equal). Anytime I see them bashing on people and talking like they’re all knowing, regardless of whether I agree or not, I want to actually, physically punch their face.
I have no fucking clue what I need. Therapy maybe. That or a hobby.
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You try to help people and the bottom line is people just don’t want to be helped. Also watching SJWs going around ruining people’s lives by propugating self-first lies makes me more than furious. People need to have responsibility, they need to have other people’s wellbeing on their mind.
I hate that I have been so full of hatred lately. Really what I hate are the ideals behind the actions, but the honest truth is that the lines between ideals and actual people start to get blurry and I don’t like that.
I had a similar experience going back to a tech career mentorship group that I frequented back when I was looking for work. I’ve been employed for over a year now, so figured I’d go to the group and give back as a mentor.
They did nothing but bitch about how haaaaaard it is to find work as a junior engineer in the tech space. It’s so haaaard and how are we supposed to get our foot in the door when it’s this haaaaard.
Like, my god. I was seated where you are literally less than a year ago. I remember how hard it was. I’m not that far removed from it. I’m about the most sympathetic guy you’re going to find: I hated my old career path, and it was tough for me to pivot out of it while dealing with the associated depression. I was really privileged and lucky to have parents who could afford and would let me move back home while I got that sorted out.
And yet, even I want to slap your shit.
And then I think that I probably sounded like that and I want to fling myself into a wood chipper.
In other news, I like to be angry at Albertans cause the ones that tour B.C. are usually self centered buttwipes but I hate progressive Ecconazis more and now that Fort McMurray burned itself down and the progressives are cheering I really want to punch some ecconazis out and I want Fort McMurray back so that the Albertans have their homes again and everything can go back to how it was.
I’m graduating and had to pass off leadership of my university club to newer members. One person didn’t get the officer position she wanted when she thought I was already giving it to her. I had told her I thought she was good for the position and that I would talk to the other club officers about it. She took this to mean she was getting the position. When I talked to the other officers they were firmly against it so I told her she couldn’t have the position. She claimed I had tricked her and got so salty she quit the club, ranted at me over Facebook and changed our club’s Facebook page to say a shitload of negative stuff about us.
How fucking petty can someone get.
On the topic of losing compassion for people, I’ve got a housemate who regretted going to our university and has had a pretty unhappy time here (though I personally think his bad time has nothing to do with the university and everything to do with an attitude problem). Combined with some family issues and a cornucopia of neuroses he validates instead of dealing with, he’s just in general pretty unhappy. I’ve got some sympathy, but the outward result of his plight is that for the last 1-2 years he’s been an insufferable cunt whenever he’s in a bad mood. He’s become the most bitter person I’ve ever met and he’s constantly complaining and lashing out and just in general deeply passive aggressive and I’m so fucking sick of his shit.
I understand having your problems, but even when you have your problems you have to at the very least make an effort not to be a cunt to everyone around you. That’s what everyone else does.
I feel like so many people grappling with personal issues don’t realize that the vast majority their peers are also desperately grappling with issues and it’s just not apparent to them because everybody is just too locked into their own head.
Facebook’s algorithm can fuck right off. I spend enough time trying to convince myself that it doesn’t matter if my old friends from highschool have intentionally cut me out of the group without having the common decency to be open about it, I don’t need the website I go to to interface with the people I hang out with now to remind me of it by showing me their latest wall posts to each other about how much of a great time they’re having without me.
That’s what the hide post button is for.
Just do what I do:
I have a whole bunch of classmates from high school that I never had a high opinion of. We added eachother on Facebook because we’re classmates but we never really interacted. I started to notice they posted a lot of stuff that was so stupid it was funny (bad tattoos, an obliviously shared screenshot from Tropic Thunder captioned “I bet only 2% of you will share this. Support our troops, war is hell”, etc.). I started clicking on their stupid shit and Facebook noticed and gave me more of their stupid shit. Now I call my newsfeed “The Zoo” and actively click on things I find entertainingly dumb such that Facebook’s algorithms give me even more of them.
Wanted to play Total War today (Yes I know it’s a sega game at release)
Tried using e-card which has always worked b4 to purchase. Steam blocks it.
God damnit.
EDIT: Created a new steam account, bought the game there and then gifted it back to my original steam account.
Mission accomplished.
So, a week ago a 16 year old girl was gangraped by 33 (!) guys in Rio de Janeiro, on of them being her “boyfriend”. The deed was discovered through boasting tweets by the rapists showing themselves off in fotos and videos while raping the girl and commenting everything in a very sarcastic way.
Sht like that is just way beyond belief, yet so true and I am afraid more common than one might think. It just makes me so damn angry thinking about their goddamn selfconsciousness and actually having NO SHAME at all - in fact, quite the contrary: taking major PRIDE in it - and just destroy someone! This is fcking cowardice and mental deficiency disguised as power, pride and even fun.
And the fucking illegitimate interim Government - made up by ONLY WHITE MEN, not a single woman, not a single black person, not a single person of indian decent - is claiming to pursue the crimes, and yet, they are the fucking definition of machismo, half of them actually beating their wifes and facing other criminal charges, having only the immunity preventing them from going straight to prison.
fuck.
I mean, really. And it’s not only Brazil. I mean, the fact of actually having a realistic chance of having Donald Trump (Link mildly NSFW) as the next president just makes you doubt in the fate of the whole humanity. And then there’s so much incedibly FUCKING STUPID-IDON’T-WANT-TO-USE-MY-BRAIN-I-JUST-WANT-MY-BACKYARD-TO-BE-THE-WAY-I-WANT-IT-AND-THE-REST-OF-THE-WORLD-CAN-GO-FUCK-THEMSELVES-Mentality here in europe, too, and so many countries are shifting toward the right and these parties disguising themselves as “the peoples parties” while being extremely xenophobe and arrogant.
…ugh. My wife and I are regularly having emotional conversations about this shit and I never was really politcally active, but I alsways had a strong notion for fairness and always reacted quite outraged when somebody justifies unrightfulness with just stupid “arguments” or violence, for that matter. And now I am seriously thinking about what can I do and how can I stand clear of this shit. Goddamn…and my PC is not even powerful enough to be able to play the new DooM, so I could at least treat my aggression temporarily…FUCK!
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The more I visit this thread, the greater I feel for creating the other.
Chipped my fucking tooth, eating of all things. Hurt like blazes when it happened but now it’s just uncomfortable and I keep licking it, but there’s no pain, so that’s good.