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Jan 28, 2018 18:55:58 GMT -5
Post by xeepeep on Jan 28, 2018 18:55:58 GMT -5
You're mixing life length (fairly objective measure) and... how to say this properly... "life's emotional density"?? My English sucks don't judge
One depends on your health and genetics (generally), while the other one depends on your level of social adaptability and attitude towards life and whatnot. Generally.
Basically yea you can have more experiences in life at 30 than someone else at 80... but the fact that you managed to die at 30 (which is not even a half of the average life expectancy) shows that those "experiences" didn't really help you much... unlike the 80-year-old who, despite experiencing a far more sparse variety of situations during his lifetime, still managed to stay alive till the age of 80 and get to consume oxygen for a few decades more or whatever I don't know.
Who's the real winner there?
I don't know if the previous couple of sentences make any sense to anyone but me.
So overall I get your point tho, but IMHO these two are quite different things.
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Jan 28, 2018 19:40:06 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2018 19:40:06 GMT -5
What I'm getting at is that there is a difference between actual life length and perceived life length. Being in a coma is the most extreme example of this. If you lived 40 years but 20 of these years were spent in a coma, obviously you missed out on a lot of stuff. And perceived life length in this case describes your feelings way more closely than your actual life length. Arguably the perceived length is a lot more important because you're 40 and yet there are 30 year olds who "lived" more than you. But this probably applies to more down-to-earth situations as well. What I'm theoretizing is that we have our own internal clocks, which can slow down and actually allow our brains to process more information in the same time frame. There are many examples of this. When recalling the events of a boxing match, the fighters can describe very little moments in such detail! What is just a 2 second punch exchange for the audience can seem like a much longer period for the fighters, with tons of different thoughts going through their heads like a lighting. It's like they can literally experience life in slow-mo. For them it actually becomes longer than for the observers who are present in the same room. To me this means that like they say, age is just a number, and we should worry less about numbers and more about spending our time in the most fulfilling manner. That way when you're about to die some might say "ahh, he's only XX!", but you'll simply laugh at them: "nope guys, I lived much more than that, and you can't convince me otherwise!". Anyway, I agree this is a rather wild theory.  |
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Jan 29, 2018 14:58:06 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2018 14:58:06 GMT -5
I've been really productive recently! I've drawn two pictures last week and exercised some. After doing a third picture I'll then focus on my pixel arts. Even then maybe find a way to start doing some Doom mapping in-between if I don't have to dedicate a week or two solely for it. Woohoo!  |
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Jan 30, 2018 2:34:01 GMT -5
Post by deathevokation on Jan 30, 2018 2:34:01 GMT -5
A collection of "dad saves".. damn, there is some impressive footage here.
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Jan 30, 2018 11:22:43 GMT -5
Post by 40oz on Jan 30, 2018 11:22:43 GMT -5
Regarding the length of life, I've heard an interesting theory recently. You know how some days feel longer than other? Sometimes just 3 days of sightseeing in another country can seem more packed with new information and experiences than 30 days of monotonous work with an occasional free day you spend on the couch. There were even scientific experiments which proved that your perception of time differs depending on how self-aware you are, or how engaged you are. All this points to the idea that it might be meaningless to talk about life's length in terms of usual years. You can die at 30 years old but live your life in a way that will make it seem just as long as the life of a 80 year old man who wasn't as active and self-conscious as you. I think wise people in particular get to live "longer" because of this. Time moves slower for them so they can do more with it. And we should try to follow their example. It's funny you mentioned this because I was just thinking about this. The past several weekends zipped by so quickly and I don't even remember what I did. Mostly just watching TV and being lazy. This most recent weekend however, was my wife's birthday weekend. So we jampacked the weekend with barhopping, going out to dinner, inviting friends over to entertain, etc. We met new people, tried new things we never tried before, and we had a blast the entire time. By Sunday, I couldn't believe the weekend wasn't over yet. So much happened and there was still time left over. I had a similar feeling when I travelled to Europe for the first time. It was only two weeks but it felt like an eternity, but not in a boring way. I was absorbing everything and I felt like a completely new person by the time I returned. I would think differently. It might be a totally self-conscious thing. You don't age less or anything like that, but doing the same boring mundane thing for days and days is wasted time. It slips through your fingers like sand, and that time may as well not have ever existed. And when it's gone you're a little older and you have nothing to show for it. No good memories, no life changing experiences, just an empty void where a younger you used to be. |
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Jan 30, 2018 15:29:31 GMT -5
Post by deathevokation on Jan 30, 2018 15:29:31 GMT -5
One day a portal to the anime dimension will open and all normies who rejected waifus as their god will suffer a thousand terrifying and cute deaths... reeeee!!!
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Jan 31, 2018 11:04:43 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2018 11:04:43 GMT -5
I was trying to design a card game (where you place cards on a board and play it sort of like a simple RTS game like Army Men RTS) last night and decided to use roman numerals on the cards since they can be pretty much read the same way up or down. To my dismay there was no roman numeral for zero! aaaaaaaawuhfoasieufhas
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Jan 31, 2018 12:12:23 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2018 12:12:23 GMT -5
Recently began to realize that I'm worse at English than I thought. It's like people can understand what I'm saying, but not what I REALLY want to say. The difference between how I and others perceive same words and expressions is a little too big. This becomes the most obvious when I attempt to criticize someone but just come off as a douchebag because I don't fully grasp the weight of the words I choose. Indeed, I always have a better reputation in Russian speaking communities, where I have much more control over the way people perceive me. I wonder what can be done about this and what it means for my future translation activities. I was kinda hoping to do jp->eng translations in somewhat near future, but obviously my English is nowhere close the required level. Well, the best thing I can do is to keep learning. I guess especially speaking English more in real life would help a lot since on the internet there is less incentive to be careful with wording.
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Jan 31, 2018 12:45:22 GMT -5
Post by 40oz on Jan 31, 2018 12:45:22 GMT -5
The difference between how I and others perceive same words and expressions is a little too big. This becomes the most obvious when I attempt to criticize someone but just come off as a douchebag because I don't fully grasp the weight of the words I choose. Indeed, I always have a better reputation in Russian speaking communities, where I have much more control over the way people perceive me. I think your english is pretty excellent, unless of course we should be disagreeing on a lot more stuff! English is my native language and I don't know a whole lot about other languages, but I too often find it very difficult to speak in a compelling way that keeps people's attention long enough to get a provocative thought across. I have a friend who I've given up talking to because he's terribly addicted to social media. Every time we talk about something he needs to interject a comment after every sentence. It drives me crazy and he tries to predict where I'm going with what I'm saying instead of actually listening, and it makes all of our conversations really short, incomplete, and any time together really frustrating. Even on doomworld when I'm talking about a complicated problem, I've become so self concious about condensing my posts because two sentences in, the reader's already drifted off into what they want to say instead of reading the rest of the post with their full attention. I think it's a cultural thing, not you. |
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Jan 31, 2018 12:48:15 GMT -5
Post by xeepeep on Jan 31, 2018 12:48:15 GMT -5
^ Struggling with a similar thing, man. feelsman.jpg
Your English is way better than mine tho
Slightly angry rant ahead warning lololololol
So I'm taking the Cambridge Proficiency exam on 10.03 -- that's C2 level, the highest you can have (well I have to brag a little!) -- yet I frequently have real issues with expressing myself in English. Would you really say my messy posting deserves the highest possible level of English language mastery???
The problem is (IMO) in me being fully tri-lingual (mentioned this thing before I think), so, when I think of a sentence I'd like to say, I formulate it in the lingo it looks best in and then just mentally GoogleTranslate it to the language I'm using at the moment. Most of the time it does the job but I sound very weird. Like, sometimes the other language simply does not have the grammatical construction you used in your head in the ideal language, so you have to rephrase it, and then your perfectionism freaks out because, to you, it doesn't fully convey the meaning and emotion you had in mind (although it in fact does!).
There's an example right there!! "...although it in fact does" -- you couldn't GoogleTranslate that into Serbian (my native lingo). You can't say that. You'd have to say "although, in fact, it is so" or "although, in fact, it does convey it", which sounds slightly too formal and/or awkward in English, but is the only possible way of saying it in Serbian. See what I'm getting at? Now imagine dealing with that thing consistently always all the time constantly!!!!!
Also the criticism thing is kinda difficult for me as well, as I'm not as good with the vocab you need to call out people. I don't call out people often, y'know, so when I do, I face a complete lack of "means" of... doing so, I guess. (See, another weird sentence!)
Damn this languages thing, too difficult!! Whose idea was it that people speak different languages?? Damn those people from the old-ass legend who were building that tall-ass tower in ancient-ass Babylon amirite? How's that legend called in English anyway?? Damn ffs!
EDIT: also damn me constantly subconsciously swapping "for" and "from"!! Damn muscle memory! Argh!
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Jan 31, 2018 13:37:27 GMT -5
Post by BattleKorbi on Jan 31, 2018 13:37:27 GMT -5
I have no problem using English really, I have a medical paper somewhere around here which states that the first language I had learned was English. I can say I am bilingual. My English was at the top back when I was actively writing stories; I had to use all the proper grammar and vocab stuff bc... well, in case somebody reads it, but now since all I do with English is writing posts, I can tell it has gotten a bit weaker. I did feel a little bit proud today when I was able to talk with this foreign person on the university grounds with full-on English, 100% completion rate, you know, proper pronunciation, no stuttering at all, British accent, all the good stuff. If there was anything I flopped in was when I first started talking in Croatian, and didn't stop halfway through my explanation until I heard the poor person meekly say "I'm sorry, I can only speak English...", I must had terrified them. Imagine a guy talking about something in some weird language like Polish or Czech, and he didn't hear you the first time you said you don't understand his language. Poor girl  Me: DZIEN DOBRY KURWA Person: Umm... Me: A NU CHIKI BRIKI V DAMKE, JOB TVOJU MAT'! Person: Excuse me--- Me: URIN NAHRIN, GET OUT OF HERE STALKER! Person: I can only speak English! Me: Oh, I apologize, didn't notice that at first. Eh, stuff like that always happens. Now, yeah, I wanted to ask you about something. Person: ... Me: Do you happen to know what is the password of the library's WiFi? Person: Uh nooo... Me: Ah, bummer. I just asked because I wanted to check this thing real quick, didn't need to do a whole research or something. Either way, I apologize for disturbing you, and thanks again for listening to my troubles. Person: You're welcome...? A lotta people praise me on my voice and accent, and multiple people had already said I could work as a radio host or a speaker of sort, so yaaay! Now for the bad stuff: I keep switching between English and Croatian whenever I am talking with anyone I know and I am comfortable with. It is like I have those two languages merged into each other, yeah, there are things poking out like grammar changes and little stuff, but I kept interchanging them until they both had grown into a language I have for myself inside my head. I think in images, so it isn't a problem, for me at least, but when I want to talk with anyone, I often shoot out one-word-lines, unless I am explaining or asking or discussing. Sometimes I just let my body language do the talk, but either way, when I am trying to do another (slavic) language, I often translate them like any other normal person would, like "Oh this word is apple, this one is bite... Ah, bite apple!", but when someone asks me "How did you calculate/figure out this?", and I am like "Umm, well... you... umm... this is A, and this is B. SCHWOOP! See?", it is like I am saving my vocabulary for strangers and large crowds of people and important stuff (or at least, important to me), but when it is just side stuff and trivia, it goes like this: Mom: Hey, how did that exam go? Did you--- Me: Yeah. Mom: ---pass th--- Me: Yeah, I didn't. Mom: ---at one you had at Monday? Me: Yeah, I didn't fail. Mom: ... Mom: IS IT YES OR NO!?
Me: No, it's a yes, I didn't fail, I passed it. Mom: wut? Me: 75 PERCENT CORRECT!
Mom: Oh, that is good, but where did you fail at? My brain: Not this shit again.Might be me distracted by some stuff, might be me smashing my internal "skip dialogue" button, might be me bored with just dealing with that stuff. Either way, you won't be getting a coherent sentence from me unless I am fully invested in a topic the question is about. ... This seems like a mundane thing, am I right? |
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Feb 1, 2018 11:36:39 GMT -5
Post by BattleKorbi on Feb 1, 2018 11:36:39 GMT -5
On a bit (currently) offtopic note:
Either one part of my gums had swelled again, or is some sort of a blister, but either way it fucking hurts and it doesn't hurt at the same time. That part of my mouth is numb (not a big part, fortunately), but there seems to be discomfort and/or pain coming from it as well. This keeps happening when I am a idiot. Before you all go like "GO TO THE DENTIST RIGHT THE FUCK NOW", I am gonna say no to that. This usually passes away, no harm done. Might be some stupid shit. Either way, hurts. Doesn't hurt, I cannot talk for more than a word due to how un-comfortable the sensation is, and in general, shit. I wish I could pop a painkiller without any questions asked. Just this fucking once in a year. But I cannot stand having myself questioned over why did I pop one due to the ever-present fear of me becoming a junkie or some shit and being sent to the damn dentist who would "discover" all sorts of problems and I would be stuck with some stupid shit. I fucking know that my teeth will fall out and what not, I don't wanna listen to those ramblings right now because I wanna get rid of this sensation first but it won't go away soon and it doesn't help that I have a important exam tomorrow and now I cannot focus properly because some stupid shit.
Thanks for tolerating my shit. Have a nice day.
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Feb 1, 2018 12:11:30 GMT -5
Post by TOS on Feb 1, 2018 12:11:30 GMT -5
Korbstomp, my advice to you is buy some kind of numbing gel from the drug store, apply it to the gums, sterilize a needle, and drain that shit.
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Feb 1, 2018 14:17:44 GMT -5
Post by xeepeep on Feb 1, 2018 14:17:44 GMT -5
Before you all go like "GO TO THE DENTIST RIGHT THE FUCK NOW", I am gonna say no to that. Your problem |
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Feb 2, 2018 2:13:56 GMT -5
Post by Olroda on Feb 2, 2018 2:13:56 GMT -5
Korbstomp, there is no shame in fear. There is only shame in letting it rule you. Either do what Trace says or go to the dentist. And make sure you brush your teeth properly and floss once in a while - letting your mouth rot when you have a chance to do something about it is really stupid. Consider the fact that you only get two sets in a lifetime, and once they're gone it will cost you a fortune to get a new one.
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Feb 2, 2018 7:17:28 GMT -5
Post by BattleKorbi on Feb 2, 2018 7:17:28 GMT -5
Its okay, it is being worked on as of right now (going to the doc and all that fun stuff), I just don't want anyone preaching onto me to do what I had already planned to do. I just fucking hate that, especially whenever someone who is doing that gets that feeling like I didn't knew before-hand and that he got to "teach" me. I just wanted to pour a bit of pain through words, this whole dentistry thingy isn't like healing a Pokemon; in a mere moment. Its a whole process that takes time, so yeah. I just... CANNOT be bothered by someone preaching into my ear about what I already planned to do when dealing with such discomfort at the moment. Pls don't tell me I am the only guy who wants everyone to shut the fuck up while I am planning and dealing with my situation. I did liked Trace's post because that is the first time I heard about numbing gel; usually that kinda thing gets solved by anti-biotics, and I also liked Xeep-Eep's post because he respected my indirect initiative for everyone to shut the fuck up |
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Feb 2, 2018 7:23:24 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2018 7:23:24 GMT -5
Hey you brought it up don’t be a grumpy cunt
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Feb 2, 2018 8:08:17 GMT -5
Post by 40oz on Feb 2, 2018 8:08:17 GMT -5
Of course he's being a grumpy cunt. He's in pain!
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Feb 2, 2018 8:45:26 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2018 8:45:26 GMT -5
So we’re in agreement he is being a grumpy cunt, all good that’s settled. Mouth pain is no joke yo, and I’ve suffered like little Korbs at times for two decades. Although people in my immediate vicinity may have incurred my grumpy cuntoxicity in these times, little korbs brings the vicinity to us, so man up little korbs and enjoy the suffering bro. I just want to say dental drugs are the bomb yo haha
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Feb 2, 2018 12:46:38 GMT -5
Post by Olroda on Feb 2, 2018 12:46:38 GMT -5
Poorly formatted rambling Heh, that's fine. The hard way is the best way to truly learn something. |
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Feb 3, 2018 4:48:49 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2018 4:48:49 GMT -5
I am now officially unemployed. Really glad I'm out of the army, really bummed that I've got to job search again.
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Feb 4, 2018 7:46:12 GMT -5
Post by xeepeep on Feb 4, 2018 7:46:12 GMT -5
^ aT lEaSt yOu dOnT hAvE iSsUeS wItH pOoPiNg nOw
was that too dank
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BTW does army really make you a man? I guess you're the right person to ask.
Here in Serbia, army has been voluntary since about early 00s...
...however I'd like to spend a year there to, you know, become a real man. Like my dad and grandpa did, right?
My plan atm is to go there after finishing university, so I'll be about 21-22 at that point, if it matters.
Is that a decision that has at least a bit of sanity? Are there better ways of becoming a real man?
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Feb 4, 2018 9:13:11 GMT -5
Post by TOS on Feb 4, 2018 9:13:11 GMT -5
Stick to your guns and do what you want; be unapologetically you. That's being a man.
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Feb 4, 2018 13:07:59 GMT -5
Post by BattleKorbi on Feb 4, 2018 13:07:59 GMT -5
You can be a man without the military, some ppl go into military and still aren't men. They aren't worried about that however, since they are women :DDDDDD However, getting into military, if you can brace through it, can definitely be worth it. One of my older brothers is now in charge of a regiment, and knows quite a lot about radars and anti-air tech. Not only that, he has a steady job, finished two college courses, and got married last year. Dude is like, 27. Not easy life per se, but there is a lot of options for him to do, and he can chill time to time, and doesn't have to worry about being hungry. In fact, he is going on a diet along with his wife once they heard I lost like, 10 kilos by cutting out sugar and wheat If you just wanna be a brute or something, I dunno, and get ripped, there are prolly easier options, but still, look into everything thrice, if not more times, before deciding. In Croatia, for all I know, attending college/university along with military is a great thing for those who have the bravery and determination to do so, and if they can fill all the requirements. I wanted to follow my brother, but sadly my glasses have just a bit higher diopter than the limit => Korbi isn't in military  I still live fine though, never went hungry nor did was I short of cash, unlike what I hear from other students. Might be the fact that I just don't go out nor do I drink or smoke. That alone saves money. And I digressed. |
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Feb 4, 2018 13:56:30 GMT -5
Post by TOS on Feb 4, 2018 13:56:30 GMT -5
Korbi digressed all over the place. It's super effective!
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I still live fine though, never went hungry nor did was I short of cash, unlike what I hear from other students. Might be the fact that I just don't go out nor do I drink or smoke. That alone saves money.