Thread: Rant and Rave, Cry and Complain

Originally Posted by Zhaylin

Lucas. Perhaps it's the weather for you as well as Dianeva? (and a to you as well, Dianeva)

I never understood how people can be negatively affected by the weather. I adore storms and the rain and snow makes me think of rebirth- everything is so crisp and clean.
BUT!- dimness affects (effects?) my mood. If I don't have a LOT of light, I get very angry and depressed. I have to keep 4 100 watt bulbs burning in my room whenever I'm awake. I also draw the curtain open so there's outside light as well. *shrugs*

Thanks, Zhaylin! *hugs back*

I actually ADORE "bad" weather. Gimme a rainy day and I'll gladly stay home, listen to the water outside and watch a film under some blankets. Right now, it's summer here in Brazil, and this hot weather is definitely NOT helping me feel good. It's so hot that you can turn on the AC and you'll still be sweating. It sucks.

Originally Posted by Zhaylin

Woot! Another Minecrafter
I've given up on the Domes though. I can't follow a simple graph and it was irritating the crap out of me. Here's an awesome link though Plotz - Online Minecraft Voxel Sphere Generator
I'm working on an older game with clay homes. I love mixing the colors (especially, purple/the purplish gray color/deep purple. Those three blend really nicely.
I also have a very difficult time finding spawners. go fishing while it's raining. I fish up lots of goodies from saddles to enchantments. But it is time consuming and boring.

Right! I forgot about fishing. I need to get used to the new enchanting system though... I enchanted three fishing rods, and they all were unbreaking.

I just saw you can now make mossy stone bricks and mossy stone cobblestone, which is awesome.

I get so sure people will like what I like, then I try to force them to do it thinking I know what's best for them, and I need to stop dat. STOP DAT. I need to fathom it. I can fathom it. Sometimes people don't like what you like and that's a-ok.

Originally Posted by Zhaylin

Lol, Tommo, why the rave? is the word out of character for her?

Lol, rave is good right? That's what I thought. I think I posted in the fetish thread, but I thought I posted it here too.

One of my major turn-ons is when quiet/shy/reserved girls swear. And I said I am waiting for a certain girl to say "fuck".

haha

Was at her house last night talking to her on her balcony and she just said it. Took me by surprise and didn't really turn me on coz I didn't really comprehend that she said it for a few seconds, but it's good anyway and it turns me on when I think about it. haha

Oh and yeah, it is out of character, those Lankans do not swear.

Edit: Dianeva - I know what you mean. I didn't have the same circumstances exactly, but I wish my parents divorced way, way sooner. I mean when they actually did, my mum said she wanted to divorce when we bought this house, which was like 10 years ago now. It's just so stupid to prolong a shit marriage. It does not help the kids out at all. Maybe if the parents are actually good people and act loving etc. in front of the kids and put effort in to being close with them even though the marriage sucks, but that usually does not happen, and it didn't happen with me.

My parents were not close at all, and naturally now the entire family is not close. It's the weirdest bloody family I have ever met. I am close to my little sister, she's cool, my brother sometimes but he's totally fucked up and has no idea about relationships and there's a very high chance he just fucked his life completely due to a stupid relationship. And my sister is a self-obsessed, selfish waste of space tbh.

So yeah, good family.

Anyway, guess my point is you are right. And you're not alone.

It was funny, in a fucked up way. Someone posted a video on reddit about this kid who had been emotionally abused and the family agreed to have cameras in the house to document it. I guess the parents thought their kid really was fucked up and they were in the right. Well, me and a couple of other people commented how we didn't even think this stuff was abnormal. Like... watching the video I was half way through and thinking "where is the abuse? this narrator is saying how terrible this is, did I miss something?"

Turns out yes, that kind of shit like not caring about the impact your retarded, childish outbursts have on your kid, is abuse. Yelling at them like a bully would; in a non-constructive, aggressive way, is abuse.

I don't know what solution there is except to move out as soon as you can. And get your own life together and learn from their shitty example.

Rums Hope you're well! If it's not getting worse, I doubt your finger will fall off, but I would still probably see a doctor to make sure.

Dianeva. Inever got along with either of my parents. Moving definitely helped. My mom always cried too. I never really thought of it but I hate her voice at times too. Not so much the crying though. When she tries to get all authoritative, her voice lowers. I do that too lol and I hate it. I always wanted my parents to divorce. I thought it would make everyone happier. But they're still together and still fighting Some people would be lost without their unhappiness and something to argue about. It does suck though.

Oh yes, Lucas. Extreme heat is horrible. That puts me in a bad mood. You can't even sleep in heat (if I'm cold, I tend to hibernate- unless it's absolutely freezing, then I'm equally miserable lol)

Sefalik, forget the enchanting table. I hate it. Just fish until you get good books, then use them with the anvil. Or does the enchanting table work with iron tools etc? I don't recall. That would be the only perk using it.

lol, Narwhal. Yep. Variety is one of the great spices of life. Live and let live.

My rant is that I forgot my dreams again. I had a mixture of good and bad dreams (how is it i know they were good and bad if I can't recall details lol). At some point, I tried to wake up. I sat up, then folded myself in half (as is my habit lol) but I eventually rolled over only my side. still curled in a ball. I was confused when I woke because my bed isn't very wide at all. It's a desk, after all. So I woke with my head pressed against the side wall and my feet (up to my shins) hanging off the edge of my bed I had slept through 15 minutes of my alarm clock.

I also have to take my daughter to work in 30 minutes. Ugh. At least this is getting my out of the house and around people more. I have other stops to make so I'll be gone for only an hour. I still dislike having to leave though

A rave is that my plants are awesome. They are thriving for the first time since I've gotten them. Separating them into another pot was probably one of the best things I could have done for them.
My bird is awesome too. He's pacing back and forth on his perch, chewing occasionally at the bars to his cage and attacking the pineapple grinding stone thing like a woodpecker. He's restless but such a goofy boy.
My plants and my bird bring smiles to my face every day and I'm grateful for them.

**EDIT** Tommo, lol. Makes sense now

Anju, where are you hiding?

Just spent 15 minutes reading rants and raves only to realize that DV brought me 4 pages back. I was constantly thinking "I'm almost certain I read this before??!!"

Now a special moment ladies and gentlemen, my first rant in a long time (albeit a very insignificant one)

Rant: I hate and love the way dinnerbone is developing minecraft. The extra biomes and mechanic overhauls were all wonderfull and awesome but dear god the new content is dreadful. The flowers are just disgusting and even worse is the non-biome specific rock. Hell if the granite and dolomite were only in certain biomes and took huge amounts of space it would probably be cool, right now cave systems just look like a down right mess, with bats and 12 different blocks and witches and a thousand other trivial things.

Instead of working on more layers of complexity, or hard to achieve content, they just add shitty looking blocks. I won't even mention the new temperature system which ruined some of the biome placement.

I'm starting to agree with the saying about Minecraft developers "if it ain't broken, break it".

Originally Posted by Athylus

Thanks Katie, I'm sure I'll pass at least half of them.

Oh Louai, I heard wishful is looking for a boyfriend.

Yay! Glad you will!

Shush you. It's bad enough with my friends trying to set me up.

Dianeva - I feel you on this topic. With moving around so often too it's just been hell. I get blamed for my parents nearly divorcing and that sucks. Just man the fuck up, sort out your own problems and let your kids grow up in a settled environment you selfish gits. Urgh. This is one topic that really ruffles my goat. I disaprove of parents who blame their children for their own fuck-ups. That's not right. That's really, really not right.


Another rant - I have a vegan 'friend'. He's in our friendship group because he transfered to our sixth and was put into my friend's form and he had no one else so we accepted him here and now he tries to convert us to his vegan ways at least three times a week. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm fine with people making their own life choices and I will support that but telling my friends that they cannot run the race for life because we shouldn't support cancer charities as they test on animals and saying I'm as bad as a fucking rapist for wearing wool is not fucking acceptable and STOP FORCING YOUR LIFE CHOICES ON ME HOLLI DOESN'T FORCE ME TO BECOME A LESBIAN AND BETH DOESN'T FORCE ME TO BECOME CATHOLIC AND THOSE WITH EATING DISORDERS DON'T FORCE THOSE UPON ME SO WHAT MAKES YOU ANY DIFFERENT HUH?!?!

It doesn't help that he's the only guy in the half of the group he's in. He's an obnoxious twat who I will punch the next time he causes me to raise my voice because the rough patch I went through earlier on this week has been pretty much confirmed now. One of the girls I helped at the stables is in year 8 and she was diagnosed with cancer at age 11 and was given the all clear last June and now she's relapsed and has cancer again and it's moved from her lower torso to her neck and urgh. I don't know how she'll manage with this one no one expected it back this early so fuck the world and if that guy even fucking tries to make me change I'm flipping shit and for the first time in multiple years someone can have a Katie bruise because I will not be compared to a rapist for wearing wool and I will not have someone condemn that little girl to death because cancer charities are 'morally wrong'.

No. Just, fucking, no.

Originally Posted by Zhaylin

Sefalik, forget the enchanting table. I hate it. Just fish until you get good books, then use them with the anvil. Or does the enchanting table work with iron tools etc? I don't recall. That would be the only perk using it.

I figured out the new enchanting system. It shows you what you're going to get, but you can't just randomize it. So if I put down a fishing rod and it's not Luck of the Sea, I just enchant a book instead since the only way to change enchantments now is to actually enchant something. So basically I just kept enchanting books until I could get Luck of the Sea, which has helped me get a bunch of junk, but no saddle. I think I'm just too impatient; fishing IS boring.

Originally Posted by dutchraptor

I hate and love the way dinnerbone is developing minecraft. The extra biomes and mechanic overhauls were all wonderfull and awesome but dear god the new content is dreadful. The flowers are just disgusting and even worse is the non-biome specific rock. Hell if the granite and dolomite were only in certain biomes and took huge amounts of space it would probably be cool, right now cave systems just look like a down right mess, with bats and 12 different blocks and witches and a thousand other trivial things.

Instead of working on more layers of complexity, or hard to achieve content, they just add shitty looking blocks. I won't even mention the new temperature system which ruined some of the biome placement.

I'm starting to agree with the saying about Minecraft developers "if it ain't broken, break it".

I agree about the new stone. I like having new blocks to build with, but I'd have preferred them to be biome-specific, or at least a bit more rare. But in the texture pack I use, they don't look horrible, so I don't mind too much. The temperature-based biomes seems to have worked in my world so far, anyway. In my old world, I had a desert directly next to a winter biome.

I wish they hadn't fixed the x-ray machines. No matter, after being frustrated by the lack of mineshafts/mob spawners, I just made a copy of my world and reverted it to 1.7 so I could use an x-ray. I found a mineshaft and went through the entire place. Four cave spider spawners, only one had a chest. All in all, there were three chests--nothing worthwile. Ingots, seeds, junk, and two diamonds. Worthless. Then I found the only mob spawner near my base, and it didn't even have a single chest. Hell, the spawner was all by itself, not a single cave remotely close. Which is fine... I'll make it into an XP farm now, but still. How the hell was I supposed to find that without an x-ray machine? And I REALLY want some damn saddles!

Wishful That would drive me INSANE!

For any who are interested, I just started a LAN game and named it DreamViews If you spawn near the beacon, I set up a chest with diamond gear and enchants.
Then again, I may have the LAN thing all wrong and it's all for nothing
It's a brand new world. I've not explored any of it yet.

I joined a forum, so I'm not gonna be so active here anymore.

Another explosion happened in hermel(somewhere in east Lebanon). Dang, these explosions are weekly! Suisidal cars.

On the up side, I just bought a brand new tablet! I am charging it now for 12 hours. 4 hours down, 8 left.

Wishfull: Really! I'm available! Lol ok seriously, parents' devorce is not a fun ride, take it from someone with first hand experience. But it isn't so bad as everyone says it is! My parents' divorce is one of the worst. They can't see each other or BOOOM! All hell breaks loose! But even in such bad conditions(this is not half the story, my mom had 1 month to live if she didn't stop the amount of depression drugs she was taking, but she beat it. Plus, she attempted suicide twice before), it all works out, and it isn't much hard for the children. On the contrary, it might be better not to have to deal with daily war zones in the living room! And they have no right to blame you, no right at all.

Vegan? It's too late for that! They have to stalk you for it, it's like a religioun to them!

Yeah, cancer is really ****! I lost my big brother, he had brain cancer. Research for cancer treatment should persisit. You never mind what he says! Sorry for your cancer friend. It is a real unfortune.

Originally Posted by Zhaylin

Wishful That would drive me INSANE!

For any who are interested, I just started a LAN game and named it DreamViews If you spawn near the beacon, I set up a chest with diamond gear and enchants.
Then again, I may have the LAN thing all wrong and it's all for nothing
It's a brand new world. I've not explored any of it yet.

Well unless you're inviting DVers over, no one will be able to join lol
LAN means Local Area Network, so it's not an internet game (i.e computers have to be hooked up directly to each other)

BAH! That's what I thought, Tommo, but thanks for clarifying lol

LouaiB, what?! You must be flogged for even considering leaving us Nah, , glad you found another place and I hope you really enjoy that tablet.

My rant is that I slept like absolute crap last night.
I fell asleep quickly but woke suddenly to a strange sound in my head and unable to catch my breath. For those of you still familiar with record players, , the sound in my head was like the needle being moved quickly- it was a scratch and sort of thump. I was certain I had an extreme sleep apnea episode, but I fell rightback to sleep.

That set the scene for a whole lot of bad dreams, I tossed and turned all night.

When I woke this morning, I saw my computer restarted itself. Part of me wants to use that as an excuse for last nights episode... but I vaguely recall waking to ERROR dings a couple hours before I got out of bed.
It's funny how loud noises don't usually wake me. I'm used to the sound of my computer restarting while I sleep. Sometimes, I'll wake for a second, but usually I don't. But the ERROR dings are something new and they caught the attention of my sleeping self

A rave is that our water started working last night Thank God for showers and working toilets!!!!!!!!!!!

Another minor rant is that I have to take my daughter to work at 10:30. And then I have to go to the grocery store It's going to be a mad house with first of the month check cashers AND superbowl snack buyers. I was going to go last night but... when I go to Walmart I always park in row 5. It's in between the doors on either side of the store. There were no openings on either side of 5 though so I left. The kids laugh at me, but if 5 is filled up, in truth, everywhere else is filled up too and I'm not going to deal with that many people.

I'm also starving again. Is this why people get fat? Do they experience real pain when hungry? Sometimes, I just don't want to eat but my body cripples me until I do.

Originally Posted by tommo

I gotta admit, I laughed at all those reddit posts of photos. "This is what happens to [place] when it snows" and just cars crashed in multiple places down one hill, cars in ditches, whole highways stopped because of the amount of collisions. haha

I'm sure they were slow-ish accidents for the most part, so it's just funny. Although I don't know too much about it.

Rave: The girl said fuck yesterday, forgot to mention that

A lot of cars were totalled, 5 people died, a girl lost her leg trying to get grandmother off the road, and some people are still missing. Living through things like Katrina, it's amazing how bad government reaction can destroy everything. Like I said, good chance my wife's car is totalled because while her initial crash was very small, the 7 OTHER cars that hit her afterwards completely destroyed the back of her car. It's just genuinely insensitive to mock people who never experience this more than once every 5 years. This is the definition of a freak weather occurrence. No one really mocked New York for Hurricane Sandy, despite it being a very small hurricane.

At any rate, I got a new job offer. The company offered me $2k more than my low end, and I told them to keep it, but give me a new title. When I hit the 2015 budget, they can give me adequate compensation since I will be working two jobs, with the title being the way my career should go anyway. The guy offering was floored with this idea, so I think I won him over as a friend in the company. He has the same major as me, and when I called and said "I am free to work" he offered me the job immediately. Someone made a comment that I change jobs like they change women, and that hurt a lot. My career is very contract focused, so I always have something new, which I hate a lot. I want to have a career.

Originally Posted by sefalik

I agree about the new stone. I like having new blocks to build with, but I'd have preferred them to be biome-specific, or at least a bit more rare. But in the texture pack I use, they don't look horrible, so I don't mind too much. The temperature-based biomes seems to have worked in my world so far, anyway. In my old world, I had a desert directly next to a winter biome.

I wish they hadn't fixed the x-ray machines. No matter, after being frustrated by the lack of mineshafts/mob spawners, I just made a copy of my world and reverted it to 1.7 so I could use an x-ray. I found a mineshaft and went through the entire place. Four cave spider spawners, only one had a chest. All in all, there were three chests--nothing worthwile. Ingots, seeds, junk, and two diamonds. Worthless. Then I found the only mob spawner near my base, and it didn't even have a single chest. Hell, the spawner was all by itself, not a single cave remotely close. Which is fine... I'll make it into an XP farm now, but still. How the hell was I supposed to find that without an x-ray machine? And I REALLY want some damn saddles!

I kinda like that you can't craft saddles (Well they could have chosen a better object), it adds a layer of well needed complexity to the game. I hear ya on the finding mineshaft deal, I remember back in beta finding spawners and mineshafts were easy, literally every map was saturated with them. They used to provide a steady source of food and metal for when I spent hours underground. Now all I see are weird coloured blocks.

Maybe setting up a DV server for minecraft would be cool? Opinions?

phew I'm so nervous. I've been detoxing using distilled water, and going through healing crisis and all that, so I don't want to put sedatives into my body really. But I'm so nervous I think I'm going to take three xanax is all. I feel conflicted.

Ah just heavy PMS Dianeva, still a bugger. My sis recently got one of those spirals and she's not menstruating anymore, she also told me she isn't "an aggressive bitch 1 week in the month" or something like that, dunno how long it lasts for women. No offense to you! This is what she said. So apparently it helps her.

Three things I'm thankful for today:
I went jogging
Had a nice dinner with my dad (turkish pizza with doner!)
Did not smoke weed

I've been checking my school website like 5 times a day, but there's still no test results. Guess I'll wait for a while.

Lols on that vegan friend... it's like a jehovah witness. So annoying, you shouldn't force your beliefs on other people. Suggesting it once is fine though.

I've come to the realization that I just need to let people be wrong. This, personally, has been very troubling. A friend and I exchanged tarot readings last night, and since I've learned tarot I haven't really liked any of my readings because I see right through it. It just seems silly to me. I was at the point where I couldn't even stand tarot and refused to give readings. My friend wanted to exchange readings, so first I let her give me one and she used the image of crabs in a bowl grasping at each other and prohibiting each other from escaping the bowl to respond to my current frustrations. She said that I don't need to focus on bringing everyone with me at this time and that trying to do so holds me back. I realize now how true it is, I spend way too much time letting other people bring me down with due to my frustration with their blindness, ignorance, ridicule, dismissiveness, bluntness, etcetera. They haven't experienced what I have, how can I expect them to understand the world from this vantage point? Rather, it's time to just take what I've learned and put it practice, and ignore everyone who doesn't get it. Then, when my practice has fruited, they'll see the fruit of my labor and they'll find a reason to listen. Until then, I'll just let them be wrong and try not to take it personally.

Following this I gave her a tarot reading. I've never met her before, she's currently dating one of my best friends and they met shortly after I left for the road. I had heavy doubts about my ability to give a tarot reading on facebook. I'm not one to buy into my own bullshit, and so I kind of assumed I picked up on nonverbal clues for my readings, for the most part, and that's what made them so good. When I gave her one, I realized that actually what makes me so good at tarot is that I speak as I think, and don't give myself time to second guess myself. I get a stream of pure intuition. I tapped into the same understanding I always tap into, and this time I couldn't rationalize it as nonverbal clues and preexisting knowledge. It rejuvenated my belief in tarot and in myself. I look forward very much to what the future holds for me now.

EDIT: I'm not even going to go back and edit that bullshit. This fucking laptop's tap-n-click shit is still fucking with me, and it's a dell inspiron so you can't even turn it off. I stopped giving a fuck, I just put cardboard over the touchpad now whenever possible.

Rant: I hate it when people think I have cancer. Heard two guys talking about me, I think they're turkish or whatever. It doesn't really matter where they're from, so I made eye contact and shaked no. He was like oh he heard us man... so I said of course I did. Kept strong eye contact, but for some reason when these things happen I still feel hot in my head and my face turns red. It's such a hindrance and I don't know what it is, perhaps I am embarassed because people think of me that way. I need to learn to let go of that, or maybe just pretend like I don't hear. Even though the confrontation is kinda fun actually, and I feel bad if I don't react to it afterwards. Kinda at a loss on how to approach this kind of situation.

I should get over myself.

Wow... so many deep thoughts today!

*tsk tsk* Athylus. I'm one of Jehovah's Witnesses Well, not really... I was disfellowshipped and I haven't gone to "Church" for a long time now. But I still identify as one and I plan on going back once my house is in order and I stop smoking.
I'm not offended though. I just like razzing people about it. I get a chuckle out of those jokes as well (as long as they're not over-the-top).

Anyhow... OP, there's even a Scripture sort of about what you're talking about. I've not studied in a long time. It's about believers who are married to unbelievers. It says that 'by your actions you may win them over'. No one likes to be force fed- especially if they're full or otherwise satisfied.

Narwhal. Sedating yourself through withdrawal (?) might actually help.

DutchRaptor, I'd love a Minescraft DV world. I tried making one but.... I wouldn't even know how to begin creating a server (or whatever it is).

Tiresias, for all you're going through. Great job making such a terrific impression!

My rant is par for the course. I have to leave in 30 minutes to take my daughter to work. Blec. I also slept poorly last night. I also have to do a ton of laundry today in preparation of the next big freeze (Sunday).
Another rant is that our cat, Panda, is gone for good. Our cats are so strange. I see lots of "cat lady's" but ours wont stick around. As soon as they're ready to start they're own family, they disappear. I really liked Panda.
Now that I have some extra money, I'm going to start getting these beasts spayed and neutered. But I still owe $600. in back child support and $50. a month. Blec. Poor kitties. You guys might have to wait after all...

So did you go to people's door and try to convert them Zhaylin?

Good thing you're not offended, panicked a little there.

Oh, I have something to complain about that everyone will agree with.

How about Microsoft making it so you have to pay 25$ or 50$ a month to use Windows? Not updates, just to use it.

Originally Posted by Zhaylin

Anyhow... OP, there's even a Scripture sort of about what you're talking about. I've not studied in a long time. It's about believers who are married to unbelievers. It says that 'by your actions you may win them over'. No one likes to be force fed- especially if they're full or otherwise satisfied.

I don't force feed anyone, it has nothing to do with not tolerating other people's beliefs. I'm just a "well actually" guy and I point out misconceptions and stuff. It's like you just now. I have the compulsion to correct your inaccuracy or what I perceive as an inaccuracy regarding me and I'm sitting here trying to clarify and get on the same page and there's no point. You were just adding your two cents, just cause you used the term force fed. My beliefs aren't better than anyone else's and I never really flaunt them IRL. I don't need to be right, I don't care. I just don't like it when other people are wrong about what I say or think.

Urgh. I just can't even express my thoughts on life at the moment.

I'm tired of being put out of the picture by people because I'm not popular.

Oh really? Fucking really? I'm a fucking radio presenter, I play league hockey, I've competed in Horse Riding and I volunteer at more than one place as well as having a paying job. That's what really fucking matters you bunch of bitches so y'know what, get a grasp on what really matters in life and grow the fuck up.

Originally Posted by Wishfulthinker

Urgh. I just can't even express my thoughts on life at the moment.

I'm tired of being put out of the picture by people because I'm not popular.

Oh really? Fucking really? I'm a fucking radio presenter, I play league hockey, I've competed in Horse Riding and I volunteer at more than one place as well as having a paying job. That's what really fucking matters you bunch of bitches so y'know what, get a grasp on what really matters in life and grow the fuck up.

You know what really matters. It just means they care about status and not about how a person is on the inside. While that is worth only a nickel yours is worth a thousand dollars. Hold your head up high and proud. Those people that just care about popularity aren't worth your time.

I had to respond to that because quiet frankly because those kind of people make me hurt on the inside, and makes me feel worse when it effects people around them as well.