The Letting Off Steam Thread - Page 246

That is correct

I'm in general an overwhelmingly negative person and more and more it feels like its to the point where its ruining personal relationships with people I'd like to be more friendly with. People hate negative people, I'm surprised anyone tolerates me anywhere at all.

Hahahaha TvP is so fucking retarded fuck off adepts

Fucking Doki Doki Literature Club Sayori fucking fuck fuck fuck that hurts me so hard fuck shit fuck fuck fuck fucking Doki Doki fuck shit fuck Club god dammit

"My thoughts and prayers go out to the families of the victims."

I once was saying how I wasn't really superstitious and someone else in the conversation said, "That's such a libra thing to say." How do you argue with that logic? He goes on to say, "Libras have very analytical minds and are very practical, and-", but I interrupted to reply, "That could be said for many people born in many different months, and so for that to apply specifically to me is sort of moot because it's a very general statement that could apply to anyone else in the zodiac." To this, he replied, "Yes! That's what I mean. You're very analytical like that."

But no, you fool.

See, people have this idea that the universe communicates with them, and that they can communicate back. In particular, it is the idea that one can project positive vibes out into the universe. It's much more mainstream among the general population than being an openly Bible-believing Christian. If you say, "I'll pray for you!", people tend to think "Wow, what a crazy religious nutjob. I hope he/she doesn't start talking to me about Jesus and oh shit, they're doing it right now. I've got to get the fuck out of this somehow." The politicians in the United States are known for pretending be religious when it suits them, so they always talk about how they pray and shit. But, to be inclusive to non-praying-peoples, they say "Our thoughts and prayers..."

Yeah, no, they're not thinking of faceless families that they don't even know when tragedy hits, and certainly not for a prolonged period of time. That would be weird. It'd make sense in a pre-bronze-age tribe that had one of its children mauled to death by a lion, so the whole tribe goes into mourning for a month. In Amerika, though, culturally, we don't care about each other enough to devote that much time to dead people. Nor should we. In ancient times, people didn't know why death occurred, where rain came from, where the sun goes at night, and so they just told folk tales. A lot of new-agey people think something along the lines of 'all the religions contain some truth because they all came from one common source, and that is that there is a higher power of some sort', which is so vague that it is virtually meaningless. There is no proof that trying to send magic juju thoughts out into the cosmos will have any positive or negative effect on people that we've never seen, except for confirmation bias, which is just shit happening the same way it would whether you did anything or not.

For the people who are praying, what are they praying for, exactly? "Please, super-powerful God who controls everything in the whole universe and can do anything, I ask that you would please manipulate the brain chemistry of the family members of dead humans to feel comforted, and if I'm a liberal pussy, I pray that our plutocratic excuse for a democratic society would regulate guns when it's a billion dollar industry, and when shootings generate huge ratings for news organizations, cause people to use social media, and come into contact with advertisements, and also are encouraged to purchase more guns and ammunition out of fear that they will be regulated. I will definitely not ask you to use your infinite power to bring the dead people back to life, even though I believe fervently that you gave them life in the first place and believe that literally have brought other people back to life in the past, because I secretly know that you will refuse my request and make me feel like you don't exist, which will send me into an existential crisis, and therefore, I will make lots of excuses and rationalizations about why I shouldn't pray for people to come back to life. Amen."

If you talk a religious person about this, they will say that it's God's decision to give and take life, and that we should just accept it. If you ask why seriously maimed people can't use their faith to re-grow limbs, Christians will just say it's because God is testing their faith/taking their limb but giving them something more important/building their character/limbs aren't important and only Jesus is important/it's to teach us that our bodies are temporary vessels for our souls. I say to Christians: grow some balls and pray for some limbs to grow back. Jesus said if you had even the smallest bit of faith (smaller than a mustard seed), a mountain would hurl itself into the ocean. If a national tragedy happens, just pray for people to come back to life or something. Or pray that the next evil person's gun/bomb/knife/truck/laser-robot just melts like butter in the microwave before they can do anything bad. Problem solved. Then, when some dude is like "Life is shit. I'm going to let everyone know what I think of life because the sensationalist news media will distribute my manifesto openly and readily to millions, and then I will be vindicated in death. But first, I need to shoot a bunch of children for no reason." Then he cocks his gun and is really to go on a rampage, but luckily, God got the memo after all those prayers he was receiving, and melts the perp's gun right in his hand and the perp is like "What the fuck, my AR-15 ASSAULT RIFLE is now melted. Shit." Then he would go to jail. THANKS GOD AND JESUS. You did it!

Legit makes me sad. I think the "thoughts and prayers" thing is stupid lip-service, but it just tears me up that this stuff happens. Not just shootings. Like, famines... think about that. There's just no food. Just dirt. Then you die and your family dies. I wish there were a God. And I'd want him to be good, and loving, and caring. Of course I would. You think I just sit here and go, "I'm so glad there isn't a God, because I don't want nobody controlling my life. I love having no afterlife. Shit's lit."?

I can just not stop getting fucking pissed at stupid shit like video games. It's been a problem all my life and I've made no legitimate progess to fix it. I'm getting depressed about fucking overwatch deathmatch, which is the least serious and least competative game mode ever made and it's causing actual mental anguish. I shouldn't be this bad at something after putting this much time into it. Fuck me

Some people are such selfish dicks. It's like God or whatever gives them something like a bag of gold coins, and they think "This is for me." They never think, "Oh, maybe the universe wants me to give this to someone who really deserves it, where it will make their life better. This is definitely meant for me. Life is a play and I'm the main character, and destiny has chosen me to get this amazing thing that I will squander completely." You even walked right past someone who really could've used it, and they said 'boy I could really use those gold coins right now', and you said 'This makes me feel really bad but I am going to keep this for myself'.

A wallet falls right out of someone's pocket, and the selfish person just goes "WHAT AN AMAZING OPPORTUNITY, A WALLET. IT'S MINE NOW." and then the person says, "I know I dropped that wallet, and sort of threw it on the ground, but that was me acting emotionally. May I have it back?" and the other person is like "Naw, it's my wallet now."

It ain't yours, give it back.

I need a sympathy machine. Something I can just scream my problems at and it gives me positive reinforcement so I can refute it and that would make me feel better/worse/idk about myself. I can't use twitter or skype or TL anymore wihtout everyone hating me more than they already do

I'd rather hang myself from the balls than play another TvP. Fucking retard matchup.

@SetGuitarsToKill just gonna copy your first 2 posts on this page. Feel you there :'(
Like the only good thing to have come of the negativity is that some people find cynical humor and ranting funny. But [bleep] if I could harness negative energy I'd shine like the [bleep]ing sun.

Also for something "original".
Today started as a crap ladder day. Like truly atrocious. Multiple losses in a row on 2 different regions to dumb crap I scouted. To players in like diamond 3 or something godawful (not that I'm much better but still). At one point a Terran army killed my maxed 2-2 roach ravager hydra while barely losing a marine and I kinda lost it. I try to GG even after bad games. I try say nothing after terrible games. It's not the worst but I couldn't help but drop a "WTF". It felt like a personal battle had been lost to do that.
For a [bleep]ing ladder game.
Improving anger management is a slow and painful process of pushing a boulder up a mountain only to realise your life is greek tragi-comedy.