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Post by Piccolo on Aug 2, 2014 12:24:36 GMT -5
I always wonder in these threads if some people probably could get a girlfriend or whatever, but they prefer to wallow in self pity and act like martyrs because it's easier. Because real talk, that's how some folks are coming off here. I think an alarming number of people in society are losing general social skills, to be honest. There are a ton of people all over the internet saying they have social anxiety, and I wonder if part of it is our increasingly isolated digital lives. I mean, maybe people always looked at the opposite sex this way, but it seems like social isolation would exacerbate that perception of a whole gender as basically things that everyone deserves one of, or as a puzzle to solve, as opposed to individual people who you can get to know and experience life with. The less people you interact with on a daily basis, the harder it is to remember how it's done without coming off as creepy or calculated or just off.
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Aug 2, 2014 13:06:48 GMT -5
Eh, it's not 'your feelings don't matter', it's 'people are saying the same things over and over again, and they do that in every one of these bi-monthly threads'. So I decided to have a lil fun with it.
I'd do the exact same thing regardless of the thread; and will again I'm sure.
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ibdude
Don Corleone
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Post by ibdude on Aug 2, 2014 13:53:19 GMT -5
Eh, it's not 'your feelings don't matter', it's 'people are saying the same things over and over again, and they do that in every one of these bi-monthly threads'. So I decided to have a lil fun with it. I'd do the exact same thing regardless of the thread; and will again I'm sure. You guys are mods though and you shouldn't be acting like that.
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Post by Raskovnik on Aug 2, 2014 13:59:02 GMT -5
I do think outright derailing a discussion instead of just ignoring it if you really don't care that much is pretty bunk troll behavior. If it's really not going to go anywhere and people are tired of discussing it it'll burn out on its own.
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mizerable
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You're the lowest on the totem pole here, Alva. The lowest.
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Post by mizerable on Aug 2, 2014 14:11:28 GMT -5
I think Bad Boys is better.
Nice Guys was a nice change of pace for Jason Mewes, but the title change along with the low production hurt it. Bad Boys on the other hand, is quite possible Michael Bay at his best.
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Aug 2, 2014 15:44:49 GMT -5
Eh, it's not 'your feelings don't matter', it's 'people are saying the same things over and over again, and they do that in every one of these bi-monthly threads'. So I decided to have a lil fun with it. I'd do the exact same thing regardless of the thread; and will again I'm sure. You guys are mods though and you shouldn't be acting like that. There's really not us acting like anything, as there was no malice involved. Again I point out that anyone who cared to talk about the topic at hand could do so at any time; nothing we were saying was preventing that. Further, there's a block post feature. If someone's got a problem with something I say, I welcome em to click up on the lil gear thingy and block anything I say. I promise it won't offend me one iota. If I was trying to be an asshole, I would've just used the search feature and found one of the other forty threads about this exact same topic, locked this one, and linked to that one. Not what happened here, it was just posters having a bit of fun inside a thread. Hell, if someone wanted to join in, they were more than welcome. As is though, eh, you can do a lot worse than listening to some mid 80's pop. Hell, there's a topic of discussion to bring up with some chick--what sort of music she's into.
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Post by HMARK Center on Aug 2, 2014 21:10:44 GMT -5
Folks, please do us a favor: let the mods handle things, even if you feel other mods are doing something wrong. If it's really that bad, we'll deal with it. I always wonder in these threads if some people probably could get a girlfriend or whatever, but they prefer to wallow in self pity and act like martyrs because it's easier. Because real talk, that's how some folks are coming off here. I think an alarming number of people in society are losing general social skills, to be honest. There are a ton of people all over the internet saying they have social anxiety, and I wonder if part of it is our increasingly isolated digital lives. I mean, maybe people always looked at the opposite sex this way, but it seems like social isolation would exacerbate that perception of a whole gender as basically things that everyone deserves one of, or as a puzzle to solve, as opposed to individual people who you can get to know and experience life with. The less people you interact with on a daily basis, the harder it is to remember how it's done without coming off as creepy or calculated or just off. I think there's a combination of factors at play here, and the increasingly digital nature of our interactions may well be part of it. I've seen an annoying number of people of late pooh-pooh the notion that we're losing interpersonal skills with the marching forward of technology; I do think some people overplay that fear to a silly degree and ignore the history of chances in communications and human interaction, but the Internet age really is uncharted waters in that regard. I also think part of it is a larger cultural shift that's occurring as, for the first time, really, there's a widespread movement away from the typical power structures that have to this point upheld Western civilization; more to the point, patriarchal culture dominated by people of Indo-European descent. The "old ways" of talking to people, of courting, of interacting with others who aren't the same race/religion/gender as you are all changing, and I have to think there's something there that leaves many people confused, tentative, or whatever like that. Looking at it optimistically, I like to think we're growing and maturing as a society, but all progress comes with growing pains. I'm also pulling almost all of this out of my ass, so, really, take all with a grain of salt.
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Post by Wolf Hurricane on Aug 3, 2014 23:30:00 GMT -5
I always wonder in these threads if some people probably could get a girlfriend or whatever, but they prefer to wallow in self pity and act like martyrs because it's easier. Because real talk, that's how some folks are coming off here. I think an alarming number of people in society are losing general social skills, to be honest. There are a ton of people all over the internet saying they have social anxiety, and I wonder if part of it is our increasingly isolated digital lives. I mean, maybe people always looked at the opposite sex this way, but it seems like social isolation would exacerbate that perception of a whole gender as basically things that everyone deserves one of, or as a puzzle to solve, as opposed to individual people who you can get to know and experience life with. The less people you interact with on a daily basis, the harder it is to remember how it's done without coming off as creepy or calculated or just off. Immediately, off the first paragraph I was ready to disagree, but the second part does make a lot of sense; however, it's still just one side of the coin. In the case of limited human interaction offline, yes it would be more difficult. However, at that same rate, there are a lot of people whose interactions have been improved by online interaction (my own included) because of being able to more easily find people with similar likes and interests. Also, it can help rend the ice even before face-to-face interaction, thus leading to less discomfort or walking on eggshells when meeting for the first time. Not to say that it doesn't have it's flaws, but I for one would say that social media has done more good than harm in helping make people more interactive, not less.
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