Topic: Shit Days (Read 227658 times)

Mothra · « **Reply #2581 on:** December 12, 2011, 01:19:37 PM »

Quote from: Brentai on December 12, 2011, 01:09:59 PM

If you say so. Personally I think my superego is the 1% here.

Ba-ZING

Lottel · « **Reply #2582 on:** December 27, 2011, 03:54:41 PM »

Heeeey. After a month of drinking pretty much constantly and suicidal thoughts, I'm basically back to normal for me!

So sorry for flaking out on you guys. Give me a couple days to catch back up on things and let me know if I'm still in any games.

Classic · « **Reply #2583 on:** December 28, 2011, 12:08:08 AM »

Hey guys. Don't be afraid to vent here. We're all ready to be totally ineffectual for you and recommend real counselors immediately after wasting 20 minutes giving amateur advice at literally any time.

JDigital · « **Reply #2584 on:** December 28, 2011, 05:04:54 AM »

My D&D game resumes in January. You're still in it.

Büge · « **Reply #2585 on:** January 07, 2012, 06:25:07 PM »

So it turns out my secondary HD is completely FUBAR. Yep, 500gb right down the john.

:I

Lottel · « **Reply #2586 on:** January 19, 2012, 03:12:17 AM »

Either I ate a bad quesadilla or I'm in love 'cause good lord it feels like someone punched me in the stomach.

(Hint: I probably ate a bad quesadilla)

Büge · « **Reply #2587 on:** January 21, 2012, 08:05:10 PM »

My roommate's been in the shower for the last twnty minutes and it feels like my bladder's going to pop like a balloon.

Lottel · « **Reply #2588 on:** January 21, 2012, 08:30:10 PM »

Pee in their room.
Revenge is a dish best served lukewarm.

François · « **Reply #2589 on:** January 22, 2012, 06:16:57 AM »

[yikes, had to redact a couple things. PM if you gotta know anyway]

Ziiro · « **Reply #2590 on:** January 23, 2012, 12:11:18 PM »

In trying to text with a friend I don't talk with often, he told me that: I'm a bad friend, a jerk, and he told me to fuck off, then said "I'm not going to enable your bullshit social fear of interaction by communicating with you on any other medium than talking over the phone or in person"

Hey, thanks for that. That really helps, friend.

Classic · « **Reply #2591 on:** January 23, 2012, 12:33:32 PM »

I can only hope that the litany of insults he's slinging at you aren't actually in the text of the commentary. Make sure that it's not just brain problems making you leap to that conclusion. Step back and read it again when you're more calm. It could be something equally infuriating, but possibly a bit more forgivable.

Also this person seems like kind of a dick. Friends need to have sympathy for their friend's shortcomings. It's possible that you have real trouble composing your thoughts aloud above and beyond "bullshit social fear". It's nice that your friend wants you to and, more importantly, believes that you can work past this barrier to full functionality. Unless your friend's got some serious psych chops and should know better, I'd say cut your friend some slack for buying into some portions of bullshit pop psych.

It's likely your "friend" is being a dick for some other, unexplained reason. But if you want to stick it to them in spite of the fact that they might still be your friend, call them a luddite and tell them sometimes communicating by text is a simple matter of convenience. If you want to be really mean, pick something that they use medicine for and say that you're not going to enable their bullshit use of that drug.

Ziiro · « **Reply #2592 on:** January 23, 2012, 12:53:15 PM »

No, he actually called me a jerk and a bad friend and told me to fuck off in the text itself.

I guess I'm not even pissed off. I can see his point of view, and I can agree with parts of it. That was just horribly blunt when I was trying to extend something to get interacting with him again.

Zaratustra · « **Reply #2593 on:** January 23, 2012, 01:37:15 PM »

A common illusion to people (specially young people, though some aunts and grandmothers continue to do this through their lives) is that if you yell at other people enough, they'll realize their personal failings and change their ways.

When the most probable thing is that their "personal failings" are either innate or illusory and you're just a dick for pointing them out.

Mongrel · « **Reply #2594 on:** January 24, 2012, 08:21:39 AM »

Out of all my friends in this town, I am now the only one with a job. My only remaining friend in Toronto with a job was given notice this morning.

This of course vastly shittier for them than it is for me, but it's not like I feel good about it.

R^2 · « **Reply #2595 on:** January 30, 2012, 07:31:36 AM »

"Perhaps you'll be blessed and it won't be the alternator. It could be a relay switch."
"The difference being one costs $600 I don't have and the other costs $200 I don't have? He already has all my money from when I got my serpentine belt, tire, brakes, and windshield wipers fixed last week."

I didn't comment that the best "blessing" I can hope for is something merely bad happening to me, rather than devestatingly terrible.

Catloaf · « **Reply #2596 on:** January 31, 2012, 11:01:59 AM »

I suppose I'm simultaneously complaining and asking for some advice, so I'm not sure I should put it here or in another thread. But this shit really ruined my day yesterday, and I will likely continue to feel like shit until I get this shit working as I'm pretty sure I'll fail this college class if I can't do the fucking homework assignments.

So I spent this past weekend trying to get Visual Studio 2010* (Visual C, specifically) set up to compile code from my textbook for my graphics programming class. We're being forced to used OpenGL and the author's code uses glut, as opposed to the newer freeglut which we'll be using. And so I spent hours attempting to put all the right .lib and .dll files in all the right places for glu, glut, glew, freeglut, and some mesa3D stuff (because it worked for a classmate) and... NOPE. I wasn't alone; the entire class spent the entirety of our last lecture time attempting to get our computers to run the shit. And still, I can't get it to work. I mess with the shit in and out of visual studio, and I end up with one reoccurring error: it can't read glut32.dll. Well, looking up the error code says that it's giving an argument too long for the command line; I think this is for VS's internal command line, and not the system's, but I don't fucking know.

I give up. I try installing cygWin, because OpenGL seems to like Unix a hell of a lot more than Windows, and it won't install right and doesn't recognize any standard unix commands (not that I'm even familiar with unix command line) and I give up there.

So, I'm stuck. Trying to figure out which of the many things based on OpenGL to attempt to use to make this shit work, look for a whole new compiler, or to just keep smashing my head against the keyboard as is hoping for a miracle.

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In less ambiguous thread relevance:
This semester I'm only signed up for two classes; one a day, and I can't find a part-time job... or anything productive to do with my over abundance of free time. Note that I can't get myself to just sit down and work on hobbyist/practice/self-study projects, goddamn I wish I could, but no:

"What should I do? Draw? Study kanji? Try making a game? Write something?"

"I know! I'll go back to sleep or watch horrible TV all day!"

*On my Windows7 64-bit laptop where I do my work and which Saturn constantly borrows while putting off setting up his desktop for the N^th week now.

Stush · « **Reply #2597 on:** January 31, 2012, 01:16:10 PM »

I know that feeling, Catloaf.
"Hey, I should draw!" "Oh wait, I watched some youtube videos earlier, LET'S WATCH THEM AGAIN"

Shinra · « **Reply #2598 on:** February 01, 2012, 04:18:46 AM »

Right before bed last night I abruptly shifted to mania and found myself unable to sleep. Went to bed at 11:40 and brain was too active to sleep, but i was tired enough that i kept dozing off and immediately waking up. Around 1 AM I started screaming and freaking out because my skin was dry and, quote, 'withering away'.

Four hours later my alarm goes off and I have to get up to go to work. Entire time I'm getting ready I feel like there's someone in the house with me other than my wife and I. I brush it off because I'm fucking crazy today and I lock up the house and then feel like I'm being watched/followed. Get into my car and compulsively check the back seat for anyone back there. Ok, everything's cool. I'm going down the highway at 75 miles an hour and condensation formed the outline of a person in my back window. I was convinced there was someone back there and I damn near plowed into the median.

Hurray for being fucking psychotic!

Stush · « **Reply #2599 on:** February 01, 2012, 04:45:06 AM »

I know this is a pretty dumb thing to be sad about, but I think my PS3's disk drive finally died. :( I don't really have much lately, and what I could save was going towards buying a new PC. It's not under warranty or anything, And I dunno if I can send it in anyway, because when I first got it, I got it for free from a friend because the drive wasn't working, and I went to a dude to get a new one installed, I don't think he was like an official PS3 repairman. So I dunno what to do, Maybe I should trade my 360 in to get some cash off of a new PS3, because I barely ever use it, anyway.

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