X-COM RP THINK TANK (part2)

[MarineAvenger]

Brand me an asshole or not but when my friends are concerned, I can be the nicest person to know or I be the biggest ass you have ever seen. Truth hurts, but I won't be afraid to say it. Like I said, hate me or not I will NOT stand by and see people that I love tear themselves apart.

 

[Adrammalech]

Brand me an asshole or not but when my friends are concerned, I can be the nicest person to know or I be the biggest ass you have ever seen. Truth hurts, but I won't be afraid to say it. Like I said, hate me or not I will NOT stand by and see people that I love tear themselves apart.

It's true, being positive with yourself is important. It's both surprisingly hard and surprisingly effective.

 

[MarineAvenger]

It's true, being positive with yourself is important. It's both surprisingly hard and surprisingly effective.

You don't even have to be positive, just don't blame shit on yourself that you shouldn't. In actuality, we are all assholes

 

[Adrammalech]

But I just said I wasn't

 

[MarineAvenger]

But I just said I wasn't

Nope, I am an asshole, you are an asshole, Gem is an asshole, Dahl is an asshole, Tax and Pixy are assholes, even Frost and Zombie are assholes, they just keep it buried.

 

[Adrammalech]

I guess as long as I still have company in this butt convention.

 

[DarkGemini24601]

You want Positive, Cheerful Gem? Well tough shit, unless I get on medication that's a rarity or impossibility.

For gods sake ramma, fucking hell. At this point you're trying to make us appear like enemies, and inadvertently making me look like a pugnacious ass in the process.

And Marine, I think I've mentioning this before, but I don't respond well to negative reinforcement. I cringed when I heard someone tell me that their solution for suicida people was to yel at them and tel them they'd be making their family sad and all that garbage. So you suceeded in upsetting me and riling me up further, you didn't help one bit.

Don't yell at me under the mask of 'tough love.' That's worse than honestly yelling.

 

[Adrammalech]

Okay.

 

[DarkGemini24601]

Hehehe... Now this is weird. I don't feel anything right now. No emotion, neither anger nor sadness nor happiness nor even emptiness. I think I've finally gone completely insane. No real thoughts are running through my head either... It's like I'm watching someone else.

 

[ZombieSplitter53]

Alright... alright... I'm... going to break a rule here, and share something I've heard in private.

Adramma and Gem... you both think the other dislikes you. It is hard to hear you both question if the other has it in for them, when it is so obvious you want to just... be friends. Like I said, sometimes we are a little sensitive. But no one means anything bad, at least not the way you guys think. Like Frost said, sometimes the impersonal way we communicate, writing over a forum, makes us sound more aggressive then we are.

And Marine... might have been a bit too aggressive in his tone, so let me say what he was saying in a nicer way.

There is too much self-doubt, and self-hate. Disagreeing with you does not equal hating you. Please, stop calling yourself stupid, or an asshole, or a pain, or anything like that. The only one saying that is yourself. And everyone... everyone here has been guilty of that at some point, some more then others. Myself included. Half of you have had to reassure me and convince me that I'm not as unforgivably dumb as I feel sometimes, especially when I make a mistake. If somene called me a stupid asshole, you'd defend me, right? So I want todefend you guys from youself.

 

[Adrammalech]

Hehehe... Now this is weird. I don't feel anything right now. No emotion, neither anger nor sadness nor happiness nor even emptiness. I think I've finally gone completely insane. No real thoughts are running through my head either... It's like I'm watching someone else.

Just take a minute and relax. I'm sorry, I wasn't trying to work you up, I was just trying to point out why I'd come to that perception.

 

[MarineAvenger]

I said what I needed to say. I didn't say it in the nicest way but I won't dwell on it. Sorry and everything that comes included with that wrapped in a little pink bow. You know you are a friend Gem, and I hate seeing friends suffer because it is the same way I suffer. I could go on and on about how sorry I am and kiss your ass till my lips fall off but I won't. Got it off my chest so it is behind me at this point.

 

[ZombieSplitter53]

Hehehe... Now this is weird. I don't feel anything right now. No emotion, neither anger nor sadness nor happiness nor even emptiness. I think I've finally gone completely insane. No real thoughts are running through my head either... It's like I'm watching someone else.

It is called depersonalization. It is caused by excessive stress, anxiety, and clinical depression (also caused by obsessive compulsive disorder, which is why I have to deal with it on a regular basis).

It will pass, once you relax a little. Just remember. We all love you. No one is out to upset you or piss you off.

Everyone loves you too, Adramma. No one thinks you're an asshole. Honestly, that sarcasm thing? I had the same problem in school. I didn't know how to socialize, so I turned to sarcasm to lighten the mood. And people put me down for it. I eventually just... stopped talking. This is the most I've communicated with outhers in a long time.

So please, the both of you... don't put yourselves down so much.

 

[Frostlich1228]

So are we going to finish that post tonight? Or are we going to wait till tomorrow?

 

[Taxor_the_First]

...Tax and Pixy are assholes...

One shrugged. “At least you recognize your faults.”

“Recognize?” Sali Taxor laughed, his gut shaking in response. “I embrace it! Which is why your daughter is going to have a brain hemorrhage while you're out doing your thing."

One took off his glasses and narrowed his revealed eyes. "What."

... actually now I'm tempted to do that. Not doing much to disprove you, am I?

 

[ZombieSplitter53]

So are we going to finish that post tonight? Or are we going to wait till tomorrow?

Well... unfortunately, as much as we'd like to, Gem's internet is still down.

And if it isn't up by tomorrow at 4, that means he, Pixy, and Dalh won't be available for half the fight. One, maybe. Two, sucks but we can work it out. But three? That won't do.

Obviously, none of your fault. Gem didn't knock his own internet out, Dahl didn't make his work schedule, and Pixy said he was told last minute.

Now, assuming people can all meet on Sunday, and we can meet early (like, no later then 12 my time/ 1 Frost time/ 10 Pixy time), I believe we can do it all on Sunday. It is one fight, a complicated one, but still one fight. We would just have to focus, cut the chatter a bit, and work hard.

However, this is about fun, not pressure. If that can't work, as much as it sucks, we might have to push it back to next weekend. Not ideal, but we did set a week aside in case something like this happened. I open the floor for everyone's opinion on it.

 

[Dahlexpert]

Yea, I went over my work scheduled because I wanted to get my case count. Which made me stay at work until 7:30, sorry about that.

 

[BMPixy]

Well... unfortunately, as much as we'd like to, Gem's internet is still down.

And if it isn't up by tomorrow at 4, that means he, Pixy, and Dalh won't be available for half the fight. One, maybe. Two, sucks but we can work it out. But three? That won't do.

Obviously, none of your fault. Gem didn't knock his own internet out, Dahl didn't make his work schedule, and Pixy said he was told last minute.

Now, assuming people can all meet on Sunday, and we can meet early (like, no later then 12 my time/ 1 Frost time/ 10 Pixy time), I believe we can do it all on Sunday. It is one fight, a complicated one, but still one fight. We would just have to focus, cut the chatter a bit, and work hard.

However, this is about fun, not pressure. If that can't work, as much as it sucks, we might have to push it back to next weekend. Not ideal, but we did set a week aside in case something like this happened. I open the floor for everyone's opinion on it.

Well, from what I've just learned, I should be able to put in a few hours earlier in the day Saturday, as apparently I'm not leaving until 2-3-ish my time, though I'll probably be out the rest of the day after that.

 

[Dahlexpert]

Now Sunday if were doing this early, I wake up before noon around 11 esh so i'll be there.

 

[ZombieSplitter53]

Well, from what I've just learned, I should be able to put in a few hours earlier in the day Saturday, as apparently I'm not leaving until 2-3-ish my time, though I'll probably be out the rest of the day after that.

'Friad I don't get off until 4, so one of us would be out on that day.