Do you have a good cake recipe that you would like to share?
Ladies and gentlemen, I'm just gonna state the obvious; we have a doppelganger in our midst.
I, as a baker who respects creative integrity and intellectual property, I am disgusted at how much you have copied my cake recipe. From the shape, to the frosting, do you not have any value or respect for originality?
You're a laughing stock. It's cheesy, it's disgusting, I personally found it absolutely artistically atrocious. I am embarrassed to be sitting here, in your presence, having to even to even dignify you with an answer of my opinion.
I'm gonna say it. It's disgusting. You make me sick. It's absolutely disgusting, you have no identity. I can't stand it. I'm ashamed to be here.
Why do you tend to stay invisible here?(like me on skype D:)
Honestly, so I don't have to reply to messages straight away. Haha. I am not really at all a fan of small talk and most of the messages these days that I get are just that and I'm not really inclined to reply straight away or sometimes even at all (sorry to everyone who is waiting for a message from me - it's not that I don't like you or anything, haha). That and... idk. It also helps my being invisible on Skype too I suppose, people can't see me on PC so assume I'm around on Skype (which is only some of the time) and message me on there. Sometimes I just don't wanna talk / want to have specific conversations with specific people.
Final thoughts on ORAS after completing them?
Absolutely goddamn gorgeous. A few things that I found though:
That's about it, though. The playthrough was absolutely delightful, on par with HGSS easily, and fixed so many of the mistakes that XY made. Not sure which is my favourite at this stage out of ORAS and HGSS though; although in retrospect I'd probably lean a wee bit towards HGSS simply for the region size and nostalgia purposes.
Do you miss admin things?
Yes and no. I definitely miss actually having a direct say on things to some extent; I'm finding that sometimes I feel sort of frustrated when a decision that I don't agree with gets made that I couldn't contribute my vote like I used to be able to. I miss the AdminCP too; the ability to actually
do things on here was nice and it was fun just tinkering around and seeing what kind of things I could make happen. Also nice being able to deal with issues when they arise rather than going through the report system and all that.
On the other hand, I feel all I've wanted to say as of late (and up to when I left) was pretty much "yes" or "no" to things with nothing else and that's not a good place to be in as an admin. Some discussions don't really warrant any more than that but with the more serious, in-depth, major decisions if that's all you want to contribute then you really need to address how suitable you are to lead a community and how damaging to it your flippant attitude is. Even if it's something like "I agree fully with x opinions" it beats going in, dropping a vote and then leaving which is all I really wanted to do for a while. So I don't miss the fact that I was not great for the community around then. Also I've just been generally busy as of late and wouldn't have had the time to contribute to PC - nor, when I do have the time, do I want to use it on PC right now. I'm really enjoying how non-committal and easy being a member here is in comparison to being an admin whilst still getting nearly as much out of it as I did before.
m8 I am also 5'7"-5'8". would you agree that we're basically the same person?
Yes.
Alex, can we just talk about anything or nothing on skype soon? I miss chatting with you.
Sure. 8) I'll message you when I see you on (although I'm on less lately).
Do you think you're a good person?
omg why did u hav 2 bring da pain w/ these qs i mean rly
Anyway, I'd say it's hard to say what defines a good or bad person, but that's a totally non-comittal answer and I feel like everyone sets their own standards for these things regardless. But, preamble aside, no, I don't - although there's some complexity and possible irrelevance to this which I'll come back to. I don't think I'll go into the full details of why I think this since I am not nearly intoxicated enough to do so, but the tl;dr of it is that I have a fair tendency to not really be able to interpret how other people are feeling or to realise what sort of an impact my actions might have on them. I don't really find that someone else's emotional state, positive or negative, really impacts mine either; if I do something to make someone else happy I find that I don't feel much joy from that and if I do something that makes someone else sad I don't find I feel much remorse for that. That's not to say that I lack empathy completely, but you need to be
really upfront about how you're feeling with me and you sometimes need to be someone that I've a fair emotional connection with in the first place. As I say there's more in terms of examples etc but I'll spare you the details right now, haha.
Anyway the reason why I say that it's possibly irrelevant is because I think that most people gauge how "good" a person they are in comparison to how "good" those around them are. After all, there are no objective ways to really say, so this would make some sense at least. But the issue there is that, aside from the very few people that you know extremely well, you're seeing in a large part what other people want to present. I don't believe that anybody goes around speaking and acting on their mind in 100% full so that other people can see at a glance everything about them; I think that everybody portrays themselves, at least initially, in a way that is favourable for them and their interactions with other people. Therefore I think that everybody has a skewed view of people around them and holds a higher idea of people than is actually realistic. I'm not one of those cynics who thinks that humanity is inherently bad, but I do believe that what we see of people we interact with in every day life is a sort of buffed up version of them that suppresses some of the "bad person" traits. Hence while I say I don't think I'm a great person I don't think for a minute that everyone around me is exactly golden, or that how I feel is particularly unique. Similarly I think people around me think that I'm a good person because... unless they asked directly, how would they know any of what I said above? And even then would they interpret that in the same way that I do?
Would you say you're someone that people look up to?
No, but I do like to believe a lot of people see me on the same level as them, which I think is the best place to be. Or at least, that's what I aim for, haha. I don't really like the idea of people looking up to me because, as I said before, you have no idea what you're actually looking at and you're much more likely to build a good relationship with someone if you take an "I'm okay and you're okay" approach than to look up to someone. If I feel like someone's looking up to me I tend to try and help them level with me a little bit by interacting with them like I would with anybody else, regardless of their standpoint on the matter; if I feel like someone's looking down on me, they aren't worth trying to level with. I don't really tend to look up or down on anybody, so it's a non-issue for me.
That said people do seem to find me a good person to know; I feel like people (offline, anyway) enjoy being around me and I find myself being someone people come to a lot for help, advice or just a bit of confidence or whatever. And that's quite nice, although again - I think it's more an "on the same level" thing that any sort of ABOVENESS.
What has been the most defining moment of your life so far?
Oh, now there's a tough one. I dunno if I'd say there has been any one (or more) clearly defining moments that've made me reconsider everything and have genuinely and definitively changed me as a person (although I will touch on one later because otherwise
~non-committal answer~). Like with most people some things have had a more significant impact on me than others but I don't really feel like any one thing has been a particularly big decider. Although maybe it would have been if I really knew what constituted a "defining moment", haha.
Anywho - this first one will sound dumb to anyone who hasn't tried them and cliché to anyone who has, but the first time I tried psychedelics is one that really stands out to me as a game-changer. Explaining in full would take a while and would be a largely pointless exercise, but I basically ended up looking at a load of things in a totally different way and dropping some really irrational ideas. It really cleared up my head a lot and that did me absolute wonders in general life. I'd say that it was definitely one of the big changes I can think of, despite how...
yeahhhhhh it sounds. There is one other I can think of but it's more negative and I don't really know what sort of a bearing it had on me to this day other than "well that was shit", haha.
