The Bard

My best friend killed himself almost exactly a year and a half ago. We'd known each other through high school and he was one of the few people I would consider a true friend during those years. Sometimes we'd talk about suicide, since both of us were in a pretty bad place mentally at the time (although suicide was never a serious and prolonged consideration for me), but somehow I managed to pull through and then went off to uni. Trust me, in a headspace like that, you can't muster enthusiasm for anything other than perhaps recognising your own predicament in another person. Anyone who says suicide is "stupid" seems to always present an argument centered around "perspective," or "seeking help," but thats beside the point, when your mental condition is so contorted and prolonged to the point that it becomes all you know, any idea of escape from it just seems unfathomable. Anyone who says suicide is "selfish," is presuming the sort of agency that comes with ordinary mental existence. I used to have panic attacks that came with the sort of terror and entrapment that made me instantly wish to be put down, it was unendurable. We aren't some sort of Tralfamadorians (Slaughterhouse 5 reference ftw) who exist outside time, and our perspective is situated directly in the moment. I think it pathetic to pass judgement on something of which you have no personal understanding.

I love me some Denny's

I avoid these hurdles by choosing not to do anything with my life.

Which is what I find weird and stupid. A conversation isn't supposed to be some bizarre beurocratic ordeal where any divergence from the "topic" needs to be stringently demarcated. I don't understand why we can't let a discussion grow organically, letting it return to the original question when someone wants? Read some more Slaughterhouse 5 today. The part where he watches the war film backwards is an amazing reversal, Tanks become these tubes that suck up damage and leave. Think it was supposed to be the inspiration for Times Arrow

OHMYFUCKINGGODMASTODONANDINFLAMES. Tickets need to be bought. NOW.

This makes me sad .

I have no qualms with being a dick, so I wouldn't mind being a manstress.

How is this shit still going when there are actually are fuckton of worthwhile fighters on the market these days? MK is poop from a butt, and the aesthetic isn't interesting any more either, and I doubt after so many iterations they're actually going to make a well balanced fighter.

If the Greek Stoics were a modern day fraternity, one of their initiation hazings would be to endure any given ten minutes of The Jeremy Kyle Show. Slaggis, you're a mutant.

I played flip cup with my best friends bandmates, got so drunk that I ended up exposing myself infront of the lot of them and a couple of ladies, and no doubt spewed some insane bullshit. I now feel like I have PTSD, keep getting flashbacks while I'm doing random shit like walking in the middle of the street and keep having to stop and facepalm. It would be kind of amusing in retrospect if it wasn't so predictable.

Paj went to uni and became aquainted with hipster kitsch.

Dude, fuck off. That's not bad. You want bad? This is bad:

I donno, I don't like Minotaur Rescue too much. I know its going for that lo-fi Atari charm, but it just doesn't play very well. The acceleration on the ship is bizarre, and its difficult to correlate the controls with the spastic movement of the ship sometimes. The aesthetic is like a bizarro 8-bit acid trip though.

Too right about Blackened! Few of the obvious ones off the top of my head: Probably one of the best ever:

Yay, more silly bullshit from ye olde world.

Nah, that game was Zen. Perfect zone out game. I would emerge after 4 hour sessions which seemed more like half an hour. It could have done with Co-op though

Ah when you said Phoenix I thought you meant Phoenix Wright =(.

Happy bday dudemanbrobuddypalguy. Have a goodun

I loved this game. That was the year Ubisoft wowed me with both this and Prince of Persia: Sands of Time...nostalgia boner

In contemplation of the Best/Worst thing to happen to you threads, realising that my life at the moment is throroughly eventless.

It's called the internet.

Doesn't Schwartzkopf translate directly as "Blackhead." Ew.

Demonstrating personality and demonstrating intimate knowledge of events that indicate a sense of accomodation with forum personalities (beyond the pleasantries expected of a stranger) that predate your supposed join date, are two different things. Nothing wrong with a bit of healthy scepticism, and its not like anyone was being hostile . Danman, lets not go and attempt to sterilize this place of its personality by expecting everyone to be unnecessarily cordial towards people with whom they've been familiar for years.

If the dude can't handle a gentle ribbing, he's not going to like it round these parts...