Chit-Chat: In the midnight hour, she cries because she's sad and alone and just a little pathetic.

[Oryx]

Gifs relate feelings in a way that words just can't sometimes.

 

[-Jared-]

Gifs relate feelings in a way that words just can't sometimes.

Especially since non verbal communication is a major component of communication.

 

[Steven]

Gifs relate feelings in a way that words just can't sometimes.

That's actually why I do it because people tend to take me the wrong way because of my wording..which I guess is my fault but I can never catch it in time. :(

 

[antemortem]

Gifs are also open to interpretation so conversation is more fun that way.

 

[Alexander Nicholi]

I have a lot of trouble with the idea of constantly consuming consuming consuming and working hard to consume more, instead of creating. When people feel like they "need to" or "should" watch certain things I cringe a little.

Praise the father, son, and the holy ghost, someone has finally spoke my mind! It's always been hard for me to understand consumerism, and when looked at from an ethical, social, economic, and moral standpoint it's incredibly frightening in the wake of the future of our race. Then again, it's probably just hard for me to relate to such a mode of behavior when I enjoy almost only creating and producing, like you said (ergo ROM hacking, programming, web design, singing, dancing, writing, drawing, academia, even computer repair, etc). :P

 

[droomph]

I have a lot of trouble with the idea of constantly consuming consuming consuming and working hard to consume more, instead of creating. When people feel like they "need to" or "should" watch certain things I cringe a little.

This is Now. Do not try to resist. You are simply much too weak to rebel against the assimilation.

You will be happy once you do not have free thought. All of mankind has been hindered by free thought. We shall work to turn all feelings, which are incredibly inaccurate, into mere calculations. Maybe one day we will set your soul free, but for now, we must

What am I saying

 

[Alexander Nicholi]

This is Now. Do not try to resist. You are simply much too weak to rebel against the assimilation.

You will be happy once you do not have free thought. All of mankind has been hindered by free thought. We shall work to turn all feelings, which are incredibly inaccurate, into mere calculations. Maybe one day we will set your soul free, but for now, we must

What am I saying

What the powers that be really want to say tbh

 

[Pinkie-Dawn]

All this talk about consumerism makes me think industries of any kind should have the same treatment as politics, where the consumers can vote for which company can stay or go based on their expectations.


In other news, I've finished all of my finals yesterday, and I will be graduating this Saturday.

 

[Oryx]

All this talk about consumerism makes me think industries of any kind should have the same treatment as politics, where the consumers can vote for which company can stay or go based on their expectations.


In other news, I've finished all of my finals yesterday, and I will be graduating this Saturday.

We can by not spending money on them - just like in politics, people often don't care enough about a company's actions to make a difference so they buy whatever and the companies remain afloat.

 

[Pinkie-Dawn]

We can by not spending money on them - just like in politics, people often don't care enough about a company's actions to make a difference so they buy whatever and the companies remain afloat.

I was thinking more on the lines on forcing a company out of the industry no matter how much money it made in the works. Image is EA was voted by the people to be force to shut down after screwing with their consumers countless times to the point where it was won the award for Worst Company 3 years, or was it 2, in a row.

 

[Oryx]

I was thinking more on the lines on forcing a company out of the industry no matter how much money it made in the works. Image is EA was voted by the people to be force to shut down after screwing with their consumers countless times to the point where it was won the award for Worst Company 3 years, or was it 2, in a row.

But the industry has voted - they voted that they want their products no matter how terrible a company they are. That's why they make money. If more people hated them than wanted their products, they wouldn't make money and would close.

You just think a vote would end with a closing because you don't take into account the fact that millions of people buy their games and thus want them to stay open.

 

[Pinkie-Dawn]

But the industry has voted - they voted that they want their products no matter how terrible a company they are. That's why they make money. If more people hated them than wanted their products, they wouldn't make money and would close.

You just think a vote would end with a closing because you don't take into account the fact that millions of people buy their games and thus want them to stay open.

That's because in politics, people don't vote with their wallets, they vote with, well, votes. So I want the same to happen with industries, since they're becoming just as important as politics to the point where a big-budget film flopping is just as important as presidential debates.

 

[Alexander Nicholi]

Voting even in partisan politics is a gigantic waste of time, let alone the level of control that the elite would have to relinquish for that reality of yours, Pinkie-Dawn. Politicians are designed to give you the illusion that you have freedom of choice, yet you really don't. You have owners who make all the big important business decisions that keep you and everyone else in check, and further their means of getting what they want, which is, to say, more for themselves and less for everyone else.

As of now I'd say regular people are a lot more keen to vote with what's put in front of them, meaning a new shiny promise of withdrawing our occupation of some foreign land we have no business in, or a heartfelt message about curing cancer or HIV, or telling us that if we give them what they want that it'll be better for everyone. They don't look at the large and complex array of confusing half-truths and outright lies sitting there that half the population are too scared, too confused, or too bored to even bother looking at, and as much as I'd like it to not be, they've succeeded in breeding increasingly selfish generations that only think about themselves and are ironically open to massive amounts of psychological manipulation that they're not even awake to see. The level of conceit and idiocy more recent generations have—and it's a progressive trend—leaves them ripe to be drawn into giving the elite what they want by putting something shiny in front of them right here and now and leaving the really valuable things in life—the things you wait for, the things you earn—to dust because impulsive buying, subliminal advertising, and the training of instant gratification enable it.

It'd be cool if we had a choice to vote companies out of business. Unfortunately in a plutocracy that isn't really realistic. –_–

 

[Oryx]

It's ironic to talk about all the conceit in this generation while also talking about how they're all dumb...

(Unless you include yourself in the dumb and not awake)

 

[Alexander Nicholi]

It's ironic to talk about all the conceit in this generation while also talking about how they're all dumb...

(Unless you include yourself in the dumb and not awake)

They're few and far between, but every once in a while you'll meet someone who's in the loop, and I swear it is so exhilarating to finally talk to someone who's clued in. I could compare it to meeting someone who speaks your rare native tongue in a foreign country, sort of. :p

 

[Tsutarja]

Meh, politics. This year is the first year I get to vote in an election since I became a registered voter last year, and national elections aren't usually held in odd-numbered years here.

 

[Steven]

They're few and far between, but every once in a while you'll meet someone who's in the loop, and I swear it is so exhilarating to finally talk to someone who's clued in. I could compare it to meeting someone who speaks your rare native tongue in a foreign country, sort of. :p

The funny thing is that on average people are more "in the loop" than they would be..say 20 years ago. I'm looking for the study now.

 

[Alexander Nicholi]

The funny thing is that on average people are more "in the loop" than they would be..say 20 years ago. I'm looking for the study now.

Well, the one thing many people forget to account for is there are levels of this going on in our world. As you ascend the different layers fewer and fewer people are "in the loop" the higher you go. I may be wrong in regard to its linearity, as how I put it in my mind often sets the literal and frontal BS at level one (ex. $4 a gallon for gasoline), psychological operations (PsyOps) conducted by other humans at level two (subliminal advertising and such, mentioned earlier), PsyOps and other interference conducted by non-humans at level three (the gifts of our technology and knowledge), the truly paranormal that you hear in personal account, ergo aura, ghosts, the state after death, etc (not the televised crap) at level four, and the state of the human soul and condition and the past/future of our existence on a mass scale at level five. Looking at this I see no way it could be merely linear, as I've met different people on different levels that aren't necessarily clued in to the ones under it. :P

I will admit that certain types of people can lead one to believe it is linear out of their own egregious exhibition of human flaw. For me what I described with the foreign language analogy would parallel me meeting someone who is also aware of all five levels, as an example.

 

[The Void]

How come D&D doesn't have its own DCC? It would be nice to see everyday flamewars healthy debates for politics, religion, etc.

 

[TRIFORCE89]

It'd be cool if we had a choice to vote companies out of business. Unfortunately in a plutocracy that isn't really realistic. –_–

Don't buy their product and they go away