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Post by wisdomseyes1 on Feb 5, 2011 3:01:00 GMT
@aux: sorry. i guess i misunderstood your intention... though I still believed you misunderstood mine (on that note, the wargaming guy apologized 16 minutes ago on the u-tube comments  ) |
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Post by Aux on Feb 5, 2011 3:06:25 GMT
Sounds like you have a plan Pandora! That is what I'm talking about!
Also, about the whole "Friends and Warhammer" argument. I don't mention it unless they ask. For the most part they think it's "Cool" and "Like Chess and Starship trooper bugs". Also, ex-gfs generally just ignore/think its funny that I play with little toy soldiers. My life doesn't revolve around 40k. I post here as much as I do here on bodybuilding forums and health/fitness sites. I like partying/clubbing, that takes up every other weekend. I have a different circle of friends for each. Some overlap, most don't. Like I said, it is the Lifestyle you decide to live that determines your future/general happiness.
Also, Loplod. I love you.
No homo
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Post by wisdomseyes1 on Feb 5, 2011 3:11:12 GMT
If one's life revolves around a game... then they have more problems than their personal life... like getting a personal life  No offence to those who actually have 40k as a life (cuz i know there are some... i have met them 0__0) |
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Post by Aux on Feb 5, 2011 3:23:39 GMT
If one's life revolves around a game... then they have more problems than their personal life... like getting a personal life No offence to those who actually have 40k as a life (cuz i know there are some... i have met them 0__0) Oh I know a few hahahaha It's a hobby. A great hobby. You socialize with other gamers face to face, you build/paint and work creatively, you compete with others, you have a sense of unity in the War-gaming community. Me, the Jock/douchebag from highschool can hang out with the "Odd kid" in high school, "old guy that works at the gas station up the road", and the "Obviously gay dude that works at Hollister". We can all game together, social statuses become irrelevant. Instead of "Emo Gamer Nerd vs Large beastly middle age man" it's "Deathwing Dark Angels against Loganwing Space Wolves". At the GT I won the Vegas ticket too, I played a kid I know named Pat. Pat is around 13~ years old. He's playing in an invitational top level GT. At 13. We both share the top scores. My mind was blown. He tabled 4 other older men.... and it was okay. Because it is a game. A hobby. Something fun to do instead of sitting at home on forums. Night Hive |
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Post by logic79 on Feb 5, 2011 10:09:27 GMT
Sorry to get all gushy, but I really think this post should be held up as an example of just how different the Hive is to other forums. Even when things looked less friendly, it didn't turn into a flame attack and no one mentioned the war! (On a side note, there was a study done that claimed that any forum thread that reaches 75 posts will always end in a flame war about WW2.... again the Hive proves otherwise!)
Not so long ago, I got to a point similar to wisdoms, where I had had enough and posted a rant on Heresy about how Homophobic our hobby is. I had just returned from a Gamesday on a GW store organized bus, where (much to my own shame) I had listened to 20 odd people ripping the piss out of a 15 year old kid who was foolish (or perhaps brave) enough to be openly Bi sexual. The breaking point for me was when the staff joined in... yet still I stayed quiet. Anyway, the thread didn't go down to well, and the responses ranged from "get over it" to, "its your fault for being gay."
So, thank you Hive, you are a pretty cool bunch of people.
Oh, and Aux, I'm sick of being a fat arse to. Any hints for someone who the Doctors have banned from exercise?
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Post by Inquisitor Stingray on Feb 5, 2011 10:15:00 GMT
This thread has rendered me quite paranoid; are people trolling or what?
Look, at a young age I was declared as being manio-depressive and borderlining. One thing I've learnt is that Aux does not speak 'the truth' when he tells you to blame yourself for your flaws and errors. That apparently worked in his life, but it still was his subjective point of view. I must say Aux, while not trying to be scornful at all, you either sound quite ironic or just plain naive. Succeding in life is a subjective matter, we all realize that, but we should also all have learned that there are times when, no matter how we behave, our surroundings will still insist on being douchebags.
It takes two to make a tango. Sometimes, just sometimes, it can be a little comforting to know that you're not the one who is doing it all wrong. Sure, if you're fat or smelly, then yes, do as Aux says and work against it. But if you're feeling lonely, unsecure and depressed or angry, then it might not be that easy to 'ask for a higher wage or go socialize'. It's easy to change a lifestyle, but a personality? That's quite an underdoing.
I must say, a little piece of me dies inside, whenever people think that 'girls noticing me' is the real substitute of '? ? ?' before profit. This may just be me, being a pseduo-religious knucklehead, but some peoples definition of succes and happiness seems extremely hollow to me.
I recently started on the Gymnasium. I don't really know what that is in American/English terms, but despite being nervous and all, I just grabbed life by that balls and greeted my future class-mates, by saluting them in Klingon. I find it much easier to connect with people when they know what I like and what I stand for. As a result, there's much less of that damned "I guess he is okay?"-talk. Either people deal with me or are scared the hell away. It should be noticed that my Klingon frowned quite a lot in comparison to the girl standing next to me, which greeted us with these words: "Hi, I'm Karen, and I can fart out of my v*gina!".
Ack, the youth of today..
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Post by Psychodrake on Feb 5, 2011 11:37:57 GMT
Can't say I agree with Aux's original post entirely (Can't say all my problems are my own fault) but the idea that life is what you make it is quite correct. Living as a disabled person in the UK, I'm disgusted at the people who take advantage of the benefit system due to their own laziness. I couldn't really find the right words in my first post, didn't mean to make you sad either, was just hoping my own experience would make you realize it isn't so bad. My own little emotional period faded after a month or two and now I'm back to being an incredibly happy person.
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Post by The Tomato on Feb 5, 2011 13:35:54 GMT
While aux does sound a bit like a douche on the original post i think you are missunderstanding his intentions. What I think he's getting at is that while all the problems in your life might not be your fault, you are the only person you can count on to make your life better. While I was in gradeschool I was bullied almost constantly from 2 to 8th grade and despite doing what everyone told me and ignoring them "so they would get bored and stop" it didnt exactly get better. And while i can agree that breaking one of the bulies nose against a brick wall might not have been a smart move, my life got a lot better after that.  |
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Post by Loplod on Feb 5, 2011 14:07:25 GMT
Oh, and Aux, I'm sick of being a fat arse to. Any hints for someone who the Doctors have banned from exercise? I'm going to answer this quickly cause Aux is busy and I know just as much. First of all, Why can't you exercise? Just curious is all. But otherwise you just need to fix your diet man, if you eat right then you'll end up right. It will take longer if you can't go for walks/runs. But if you stick to 1500 Kcals a day (thereabouts), Set up an Excell document and write down EVERYTHING that goes in your mouth, at 1500Kcals a day thats three 500kcal meals, thats NOT THAT BAD. do what little you can you should see some (and I stress SOME) results, having a pre-existing medical condition that stops you is rather bothersome in this sort of case. And is almost a reasonable excuse, But not as cool as saying "yeah, I can't exercise, But I still lost 10 pounds" Its all in the mindset. If the mind wills it, the body finds a way. www.liamrosen.com/fitness.html^ that is the sticky from /fit/ a bodybuilding fourm Aux and myself use. It covers all bases and will help you understand what is going on, If you have to just skip to the diet stage and read that, But I think everyone can benefit from reading the whole thing, I know I read it over 4 times before I actually got up and did things. And one last thing, Start TODAY, Not "end of the week" or "Tomorrow" you start RIGHT NOW. If anybody actually wants to talk to Aux or I about this stuff he talked about Vent/Skype before. both of us pop in the MiniWargaming ventrillo from time to time. Thats where I hung out and met Aux for the first time. AANNDDD its a wargaming vent, So you can chill with random wargamers from across the globe. Toronto.maxfrag.net 3826 |
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Post by Aux on Feb 5, 2011 17:07:01 GMT
You still use the excel spreadsheet I gave you? I think Nick abandoned that awhile back since he bulking. I starting using a notebook so I could carry it around. Losing weight is one simply way to get confidence. It gives you a sense of control over your body and life. Lifting in general gives me a different outlook on life. Everything is so systematic and realistic. I put food into my body, clean bulk/cut w/e, BW in G of Protein, it's a machine, a system. Nothing is impossible. Liam, since when is /fit/ a bodybuilding forum? lol. Also check my last status on FB, be amused at the comments about the one kid. www.simplyshredded.com/ = Great forum/community www.bodybuilding.com/ = Meh forum/community, great place to buy stuff though if you have a facebook, just add me: www.facebook.com/#!/Auxellion Yes I know it's /auxellion. It seemed like a cool idea at the time. |
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Post by wisdomseyes1 on Feb 5, 2011 19:28:45 GMT
I find it a little amusing how they have body building forums. Though i can't really laugh knowing they have forums for everything (aka warhammer  ) @logic: I heard it was about Hittler... I guess its the same thing though And as for peoples, "it's your fault for being gay" comments... W-T-F. Are the (please do not swear) seriously believing that? Is that really how they think it works? I mean... I know that their are some people who just say their gay, and then those people make it a bad thing to be gay, because they make it seem like a choice. Do people honestly think that one chooses to be hated by most of the world? Most Legitimately gay people HIDE it... because they know the consequence of it otherwise. that is such a twisted view of the world as it is... they refuse to see what is right in front of them because they refuse to believe that it can be true. Then they go an make stereotypes like that we are all perverts who spend our nights thinking of ways to get little boys into dark rooms alone... Gahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I HATE IT! >=( |
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Post by Hellbreaker on Feb 5, 2011 19:33:14 GMT
And as for peoples, "it's your fault for being gay" comments... W-T-F. Are the (please do not swear) seriously believing that? Is that really how they think it works? I mean... I know that their are some people who just say their gay, and then those people make it a bad thing to be gay, because they make it seem like a choice. Do people honestly think that one chooses to be hated by most of the world? Most Legitimately gay people HIDE it... because they know the consequence of it otherwise. that is such a twisted view of the world as it is... they refuse to see what is right in front of them because they refuse to believe that it can be true. Then they go an make stereotypes like that we are all perverts who spend our nights thinking of ways to get little boys into dark rooms alone... Gahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I HATE IT! >=( And this is why I can only thank my mother for having her gay friend. He's a cool guy and I can say that is the only reason that unlike a few friends of mine I'm not homophobic. It's not like some random guy will jump you and raep you in broad daylight just because he's gay. That's just silly. Maybe in a dark alley at night but that's beside the point! |
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Post by wisdomseyes1 on Feb 5, 2011 19:44:43 GMT
Hahaha :-) Why do I not feel insulted ;p
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Post by The Tomato on Feb 5, 2011 19:45:39 GMT
It's not like some random guy will jump you and raep you in broad daylight just because he's gay. That's just silly. Maybe in a dark alley at night but that's beside the point! Iv'e always figured that most of those who fear do so that because they know deep in their hearts that thats the only way they will ever see some action. Edit: Response to post below |
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Post by Hellbreaker on Feb 5, 2011 19:45:52 GMT
Hahaha :-) Why do I not feel insulted ;p I have no idea, because I was supar cereal. |
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