[Fantasysci5]

haha You guys.

Well, since I haven't gotten many responses, but I have got a few, I'm pretty sure I'll do "The Lost Crown", or many "The Longest Journey". But I'm leaning towards the first.

Wow, the blog has all but died. Was it me talking about adventures? lol

[stepurhan]

Originally Posted by Squinky

Like, with additional conversation branches and perhaps voice acting?

I'll think about it.

I was just thinking about fixing the fuzziness (since I remember at least one person commented on it) but if you want me to voice myself I'd give it a go.

[Fantasysci5]

Can somebody give me a bit of help? I got the Game Cam application to take videos/sounds from games. I'm supposed to be able to get the options in game by using the F1 key, but those keys have never helped for me. It was supposed to bring me from 1st person to 3rd person in Uru, but it didn't. Is there some place to assign the function keys, or am I doing something wrong?!?!

[tsa]

Are you on a laptop? Try Fn-F1. Sometimes the F-keys are assigned functions that have to do with the laptop, and you can access the software functions using Fn.

[Fantasysci5]

Thanks tsa dear. No, I'm not on a laptop. Sorry to sound stupid, but where's fn?!

And what do you think of the games I suggested for me to elad a community playthrough?

[Squinky]

Originally Posted by Fantasysci5

Wow, the blog has all but died. Was it me talking about adventures?

Aw, don't cry! I'll fix it!

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Dear Diary,

Why do I find people so irritating? No matter how friendly I try to be, I find myself completely unable to connect with anyone new I meet these days. Do these things take time? Am I looking in the wrong places? Am I simply so out of touch with reality that no one can relate to me anymore? What does it all mean?

Sincerely yours,
Squankypants.

[rlpw]

Dear Squinky,
Do you find yourself looking for the faults in people before you start to see there better attributes? Just a question Kiddo.

[Fantasysci5]

Aww, thanks Squinky dear.

Really? Do you find me irritating? Because we just met. Maybe it's just a mood you're in. Or maybe you're meeting really irritating people. lol

I'm sorry I can't help you more.

[Squinky]

Originally Posted by rlpw

Do you find yourself looking for the faults in people before you start to see there better attributes?

Sometimes. I don't always like that aspect of myself. I guess it's a defence mechanism of sorts, which can serve me well in some cases but not in others. Then again, sometimes, if I spend enough time around people who initially bother me, I find that their faults become a bit less annoying after awhile. Other times, they just keep annoying me until one day, I explode at them. *shrugs*

Originally Posted by Fantasysci5

Really? Do you find me irritating? Because we just met.

You seem nice enough, though I don't really know you all that well. Admittedly, though, from what I do know, you remind me a little bit of myself when I was your age, which wasn't too long ago. Nevertheless, people tend to change a lot from their late teens to early twenties... I did, at least. And there are a lot of things I thought and did back then that kind of make me cringe now. I dunno.

Anyway, don't worry about it too much. I wasn't thinking of you in particular when I wrote that, so much as I was thinking of people I've been meeting in person lately.

[Fantasysci5]

Oh, okay. Thanks Squinky. Yeah, I know we don't know each other hardly at all, but I like to think of you as one of my good friends from on this forum. You guys mean a lot to me, really. Aww, I remind you for you? Is that a good thing...?

Well, I'm sick with a sore throat from my boyfriend. It's kind of miserable, but I'm cheerful right now. When not hanging with my friends who are trying to make me feel better, especially my boyfriend lol, I'm gonna lose myself in playing the game for the playthrough.

[tsa]

Aaaargh! I am SO stupid! I left my bag with my expensive camera in the train this evening. Oh, I'm so mad at myself! Excuse me while I go and bang my new pan on my head.

Me

[Squinky]

Originally Posted by Fantasysci5

Aww, I remind you for you? Is that a good thing...?

Depends how much you like me, I guess. Which in my case is sometimes.

[Melanie68]

Originally Posted by tsa

Aaaargh! I am SO stupid! I left my bag with my expensive camera in the train this evening. Oh, I'm so mad at myself! Excuse me while I go and bang my new pan on my head.

Aw. Did you give them a call? Do you have your name on there somewhere? You never know if someone honest will find it and return it to you (or to the station).

Good luck.

[MoriartyL]

Originally Posted by Squinky

Dear Diary,

Why do I find people so irritating? No matter how friendly I try to be, I find myself completely unable to connect with anyone new I meet these days. Do these things take time? Am I looking in the wrong places? Am I simply so out of touch with reality that no one can relate to me anymore? What does it all mean?

Sincerely yours,
Squankypants.

Some people are just compatible with each other, and others just aren't. If you think a relationship with these people is something you'd value, then by all means go for it. But if you feel like you're not going anywhere with them, then stop. The more you push yourself to be friends with people you're incompatible with, the more frustrated and confused you'll get. So don't. Which is no reason to not start off on the right foot- it might take a little bit to figure out if there's any "friendship potential" there or not.

So, my answer is "You're looking in the wrong places." Don't be angry at yourself, and don't be angry at anyone else. People just are who they are, and despite what you may have seen on TV not everyone should be friends with everyone.


Actually, just today I was having a conversation with someone who's a really nice guy. He kept getting annoyed at me for asserting my opinions too strongly, so I switched topics, showed more stubborn curiosity than he apparently wanted me to show about that topic, and he called me a "jerk". Which threw me off guard, because I thought there was potential there for a pleasant conversation. But there really wasn't any common ground. The way I have conversations isn't often compatible with how other people have conversations. (I tend to find the usual chitchat extremely dull.)

Edit: Just so you know, I do have friends. There are rare people who I very much enjoy spending time with, where we can think on similar wavelengths. In my case that's people with very specific interests. People who feel very strongly toward anything are people I've got a common language with.

[Fantasysci5]

Awww, tsa, I'm sorry. Call them up.

[rlpw]

Originally Posted by Squinky

Sometimes. I don't always like that aspect of myself. I guess it's a defence mechanism of sorts, which can serve me well in some cases but not in others. Then again, sometimes, if I spend enough time around people who initially bother me, I find that their faults become a bit less annoying after awhile. Other times, they just keep annoying me until one day, I explode at them. *shrugs*.

You're still one of my favorite tuba players.

[tsa]

Originally Posted by tsa

Aaaargh! I am SO stupid! I left my bag with my expensive camera in the train this evening. Oh, I'm so mad at myself! Excuse me while I go and bang my new pan on my head.

Originally Posted by Melanie68

Aw. Did you give them a call? Do you have your name on there somewhere? You never know if someone honest will find it and return it to you (or to the station).

Good luck.

Originally Posted by Fantasysci5

Awww, tsa, I'm sorry. Call them up.

I filled in a form, in meatspace as well as online, and now I have to wait three weeks. But I will check at the station tomorrow afternoon too, to see if the bag was found.

[Squinky]

Originally Posted by MoriartyL

Actually, just today I was having a conversation with someone who's a really nice guy. He kept getting annoyed at me for asserting my opinions too strongly, so I switched topics, showed more stubborn curiosity than he apparently wanted me to show about that topic, and he called me a "jerk". Which threw me off guard, because I thought there was potential there for a pleasant conversation. But there really wasn't any common ground. The way I have conversations isn't often compatible with how other people have conversations. (I tend to find the usual chitchat extremely dull.)

Man, it would be so much easier if people actually called me a jerk, or showed some other obvious sign of dislike. As it stands, people are either friendly or indifferent towards me. The trouble is basically that I can't really feel much of a connection, because like you, I can't stand small talk. In fact, I tend to be pretty quiet until a topic comes up that I know something about and/or feel passionate towards, so if folks around me go on and on talking about something I'm not terribly interested in, they pretty much see silence on my end. There's nothing for them to really get angry about.

That, and Canadians are, by and large, very polite and friendly, which can be nice to a point, but also tends to make me suspicious of people not telling me how they really feel. For this reason, it was somewhat refreshing to live in the States for a little while because people there seemed a bit more outspoken about their opinions, so I felt more like I knew what I was getting. And from what little I've gathered about Israeli culture from travelling there a couple of times, people around your part of the world are also pretty upfront about what annoys them. Ah well, such is life. *sigh*

[tsa]

Maybe you should move to the Netherlands. We usually say what we think here. This gave us the offcial title "rudest people in the world."

[MoriartyL]

Originally Posted by Squinky

And from what little I've gathered about Israeli culture from travelling there a couple of times, people around your part of the world are also pretty upfront about what annoys them.

Yes, that's very true. We're not the most tactful or polite of people, and I guess that has worked out to my advantage. But I do know what it's like to run into situations you're not allowed to understand, and that's always extremely frustrating. If there's no clear feedback to what I do, it gives the impression that what I've been doing was meaningless. And if I'm not criticized when I think I should be, I start wondering whether everything I'd been doing really ought to have been criticized. Because there's just no way to know. I got into similar ideas in an interactive blog post which you might have already read ( The Nightmare Scenario).


Edit: Tell me, Squinky, don't you work with people who make games? I'd assume they'd be more likely to share common ground with you. Or is all that done over the internet?