It seems I will receive my diploma this month (graduation). That´s the good part, the worst part is that I didn't get that job in the museum.
Well, at least I talked about myths and legends with a barber, and managed to get a "job"of playing my accordion in the barber shop for a month.
[hide]Sometimes I think I´m a total failure, and that´s why I argue with my father (like today) a lot, he is overly confident, and I´m the oposite.[/hide]
That sounds like a great job to have.
Found out four of my dogs got poisoned yesterday. No idea from what. Three of them have recovered fully, but the smallest one is still pretty bad 
Rarely do I ever get sunburnt, but when I do, I get burnt.
Anyway Block Island, RI is pretty cool, and I got a call from an admissions office saying I got into an MBS program for the fall.
The battle against the pests in our kitchen has begun. Prepare to get poisoned, motherfuckers!
Also, I cut my big toe with a fragment of glass while cleaning. Is there something wrong with me thinking "I really want to take a picture of this?" while blood is dripping to the floor?
Playing games with my friends (only ones I have, mind you). End up losing four in a row, each one worse than the last, more people joining in each game trying to make it any better. In the fifth game, I make every single mistake I possibly could have done, die six times in fifteen minutes, and go "yeah" and leave in the middle of the game.
I'm officially the worst loser ever, and I don't think anyone will ever play with me again. Good. Screw that shit 
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Playing games with my friends (only ones I have, mind you). End up losing four in a row, each one worse than the last, more people joining in each game trying to make it any better. In the fifth game, I make every single mistake I possibly could have done, die six times in fifteen minutes, and go "yeah" and leave in the middle of the game.
I'm officially the worst loser ever, and I don't think anyone will ever play with me again. Good. Screw that shit
This reminds me of myself, I always try to avoid playing with my friends because I´m a REALLY bad loser.
I usually rage at the person who is winning.
Or when I play LoL with my friends, most of then ragequit all the time because of KS.
If they are your friends, they will understand and forgive you.
When AP used to be good:
NEVER FORGET !!
This reminds me of myself, I always try to avoid playing with my friends because I´m a REALLY bad loser.
I usually rage at the person who is winning.
Or when I play LoL with my friends, most of then ragequit all the time because of KS.
If they are your friends, they will understand and forgive you.
Oh, I never do any of that. I'm honestly the worst of the bunch and keep getting incredible amounts of crap because of that that I always just stomach because I know that most of it is justified and that my mistakes really make them pissed from time to time. No one likes losing all the time, that's pretty clear. There are just times that I can't stand it myself and that's when I snap.
And, for some odd reason, playing with friends always makes me play much worse. I never feel relaxed and fully in control of what I'm doing when I play with them, and more often than not I keep concentrating on the communication instead of my own game, which always leads to bad things happening. I think I should just play solo until I'm good enough on my own.
Yeah i do that too. Solo or competition games i can shine in but teambased games just overwhelm me poor mind
Losing at games can legitimately make me cry.
Just don't challenge me at anything because you're going to win even if you try to lose and then you'll have crazy to deal with.
Oh, one time when I was six or seven years of age, when I was losing unfairly in a board game I was playing with my uncle, my grandma and my mom, I excused myself and ran to the kitchen drawers and came back with a bread knife pressed against my jugular, threatening to take my own life right there and then if they didn't stop constantly screwing with me instead of targeting one another every now and then.
So yeah, that goes way back. I'm not quite that crazy desperate anymore, but I still have my moments from time to time.
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lol what kind of family gangs up on their kid
A loving, but unbelievably bloodthirsty one. They were always out to get everyone from the very get go, and you needed to be prepared or otherwise your game would end before it had even begun. Usually it was just split very evenly across the board and everyone got their fair share of the competitiveness, but that time they all somehow decided it was my turn to suffer.
They got a real jump scare that time, though. The games were never the same after that incident, and after a while it all just died out since no one got any excitement out of it anymore. Makes me kind of sad, now that I think of it.
Oh, one time when I was six or seven years of age, when I was losing unfairly in a board game I was playing with my uncle, my grandma and my mom, I excused myself and ran to the kitchen drawers and came back with a bread knife pressed against my jugular, threatening to take my own life right there and then if they didn't stop constantly screwing with me instead of targeting one another every now and then.
Yeah, I did this at a friend's get-together. Don't think it was about a game, though. Forget what it was about. But yeah, I lost those friends.
Tabletop games can really get to me too. At first I'm all happy and excited because we're going to have fun and play together and then, depending on whether I'm winning or losing, I slowly deteriorate into either a sadistic, profit-lusting maniac, or a resentful and will-less emotional wreck.
Playing either Marble Mixer, Badland or BlazBlue with my friends reduces me into a poisonous pile of seething curse words and insults. It's weird how those games make it acceptable to speak like you hate your friends from the bottom of your heart.
God i wish boardgames weren't so damn expensive.
I really need to get me a set of risk and monopoly
We are all terrible losers.
No no no, oh no, how could I forget.
The best game to ruin all friendships is definitely Resistance. Accusing your friend of being a spy in the most immature way possible is utterly hilarious.
It's stupid to get upset playing against a bad player. In Smash 64 we have a lot of newbies (and I'm an A-tier professional for context) and I always play them pretty casually and teach them the ropes.
And if I'm teamed up with them then I treat it like a challenge and play my hardest. If I lose? Pfft… I've lost hundreds, probably thousands of matches before. Accept the loss and keep trying.
It's fun to see less skilled players develop and slowly grow into full-fledged pros. A lot of the players I've consistently curb-stomped in the past are even giving me my most brutal matches now. >_>
I'm evidently pretty much the complete opposite to people here. When I play games with friends, they often end up annoyed at me for essentially not being a bad enough loser. That is to say, I'll often do completely horribly at the game, but have a great time doing it, which evidently baffles them. Speaking of Smash, for example, a friend once kind of tried to give me some pointers on how to play better, which I pretty much ignored. When he, frustrated, asked me why I didn't seem to care about getting better, I said something to the effect of "Why? I'm having fun like I am".
I don't know, I guess I just prefer being a complete idiot in games and having fun doing it, to trying to be completely serious and win. Except in Dokapon Kingdom, of course, but that's since the entire point of that game is to try to mess with one's friends and hate them while you're playing.
Heh. I use the players that are fine with their current skill level as combo practice. >_>
I spent the better part of today doing the first week of a Coursera course. I am in a real self-study kind of mood lately.
@Panda:
I'm evidently pretty much the complete opposite to people here. When I play games with friends, they often end up annoyed at me for essentially not being a bad enough loser. That is to say, I'll often do completely horribly at the game, but have a great time doing it, which evidently baffles them. Speaking of Smash, for example, a friend once kind of tried to give me some pointers on how to play better, which I pretty much ignored. When he, frustrated, asked me why I didn't seem to care about getting better, I said something to the effect of "Why? I'm having fun like I am".
@Panda:
I don't know, I guess I just prefer being a complete idiot in games and having fun doing it, to trying to be completely serious and win. Except in Dokapon Kingdom, of course, but that's since the entire point of that game is to try to mess with one's friends and hate them while you're playing.
I'm the opposite. I can understand your friends in a way. Unless it's a social event that is clearly about for everyone's enjoyment and the focus is not on the game, I'll be very competitive and try my best to win. My main enjoyment will be about figuring out the game, and playing my best.
I had no internet in my house for the past 2 days. Rather annoying.
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When it comes to board or card games, if I win, I win. If I lose, I lose. The only thing that truly matters to me is playing the game with comrades and enjoying the experience. I actually found myself enjoying tabletop games a lot more when there is no emotional baggage tied to it.
It's for this reason that I don't much enjoy playing games that are really competitive and encourage that kind of mindset. That's not to say I don't enjoy competitive games, just not the ones which feel more like fights than fun. That said, I'm lucky enough to mostly play board game sessions with people who generally don't have this mindset (otherwise I'd not touch Carcassonne or Ticket to Ride), where whoever wins really doesn't matter.
My flatmates no longer play Munchkin with me though after they once pretty much forced me into a game when I was already in an anxious, depressed mood. That game was the worst I've ever played - literally every worst card I could possibly pick meaning I was still level 1 with no weapons while the others were already approaching the endgame. Then I finally got some luck…only to have one flatmate ally with me in a fight out of a sympathy, leading the other flatmate to screw us over in an attempt to stop that flatmate winning...and my allied flatmate managed to escape the fight. I didn't, and lost the tiny little bit of progress I'd gained, at which point I had a bit of a breakdown. I now have a rule of only playing these kind of games when I'm feeling okay in the first place.
Also, I cut my big toe with a fragment of glass while cleaning. Is there something wrong with me thinking "I really want to take a picture of this?" while blood is dripping to the floor?
That is the mark of a true photographer.
Also, I hope your toe is better 
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I'm competitive and enjoy playing to the best of my ability so long as it's my style of playing, which is usually slow paced and straight forward. I still try to win but mostly because it means I get to keep playing or so that I can talk (friendly) trash. No matter what game I get into though, there's always one person in every group that loves to throw his controller and punch holes in the wall. It can be frightening sometimes when I'm the one making them rage.
My girlfriend came home after visiting her family for a month, and I really missed her. And I got to hear the NY Phil play Tchaikovsky's second symphony on the radio while driving to the airport ^_^
I'm usually the best at the games I play with others (video games or otherwise) and if not then it just means my opponents are amazing so I can't be mad for losing, OR it's a game that I didn't care to get good at in which case, well, I don't care. That might sound arrogant, but it's pretty much true… of course some games are largely luck-based or people can ally and bully you, but those things have to be taken with a grain of salt.
HOWEVER I have definitely raged plenty over technicalities. That's the kind of stuff that always causes fights with friends or family. My brother especially though. Stuff like whether or not certain words should count in Boggle, what happens if someone's time runs out in Rummy Cube when the pieces are in disarray, whether or not turtling is cheating. You know.
Print Error go to sleep. Or reply to my PM. :ninja:
Print Error go to sleep. Or reply to my PM. :ninja:
Busted. Yessir.
I already have slept a bit. Am online because I had bad nightmares. Yesterday was a stressful mess of reporting on police behaviour to the national media, dealing with clients at work who wanted me to do scammy things and then got condescending when I explained why that was a problem, and watching a significant amount of my bank account vanish to taxes. I fell asleep before I even got to finish my relaxation drink at the end of it all.
But now I have chocolate. Sweet soul-saving chocolate.
moooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooon
@Print:
Busted.Yessir.I already have slept a bit. Am online because I had bad nightmares. Yesterday was a stressful mess of reporting on police behaviour to the national media, dealing with clients at work who wanted me to do scammy things and then got condescending when I explained why that was a problem, and watching a significant amount of my bank account vanish to taxes. I fell asleep before I even got to finish my relaxation drink at the end of it all.
But now I have chocolate. Sweet soul-saving chocolate.
Oh that sounds awful 
I read some of what you mentioned about the police behaviour issue earlier but talk about an annoying day. Taxes due around this time of year though or what? And I hope the nightmares weren't too crippling…
Here have some of these:
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I could literally eat myself to death and die happily, if it's chocolate marzipan.
Oh that sounds awful
ur issue earlier but talk about an annoying day. Taxes due around this time of year though or what? And I hope the nightmares weren't too crippling…
Yeah, it was unusually bad. As for the tax, the UK likes to do its taxes in half-years. At least you don't have to do a separate tax return for the 31st July deadline, but it's still unpleasant. This is a legacy from having been made to contract for two years. I'm not self-employed at the moment though, which at least means that the money that goes into my bank account these days is already taxed.
Here have some of these:
! http://cdn2.bigcommerce.com/server1100/3630e/products/289/images/965/Niederegger_Marzipan_097305050212__53286.1291941242.1028.1028.jpg
I could literally eat myself to death and die happily, if it's chocolate marzipan.
I squeed a bit at that. That's Niederegger marzipan! I used to live near Lübeck in Germany which is where it comes from, and so I'd often be given some at the end of a work day or when meeting up with friends there. Niederegger actually have a marzipan café near the Rathaus where you can buy all kinds of marzipan fruits, marzipan chocolate flavoured with strawberries/apple/rum/etc. or even marzipan cappuccinos, teas and liquor. Those were happy times 
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Discovered I had forgotten a can of surströmming(fermented baltic herring) in a shelf. I kept it there in the winter 'cause an airing gap kept it cold. But when it's 27 degrees outside… Not so good. It's assumed a spherical shape that looks like it's ready to burst any time.
This would be rather bad. Rather bad. >_<
...But I don't wanna throw it out either. What to do, what to do?
@Print:
Yeah, it was unusually bad. As for the tax, the UK likes to do its taxes in half-years. At least you don't have to do a separate tax return for the 31st July deadline, but it's still unpleasant. This is a legacy from having been made to contract for two years. I'm not self-employed at the moment though, which at least means that the money that goes into my bank account these days is already taxed.
Ah I see. Still annoying that it happens twice.
@Print:
I squeed a bit at that. That's Niederegger marzipan! I used to live near Lübeck in Germany which is where it comes from, and so I'd often be given some at the end of a work day or when meeting up with friends there. Niederegger actually have a marzipan café near the Rathaus where you can buy all kinds of marzipan fruits, marzipan chocolate flavoured with strawberries/apple/rum/etc. or even marzipan cappuccinos, teas and liquor. Those were happy times
I guess I have really good taste in marzipan pictures 
I looked through a bunch and picked the one that looked the most delicious. That café sounds amazing though. I might just have to seize it in a glorious act of piracy.
I guess I have really good taste in marzipan pictures
Good luck trying! Lübeck was the capital of the Hansa (Hanseatic League), a hugely powerful and very wealthy confederation of merchant guild cities, and thus well versed in fending off pirates. They do accept Euros now, however.
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Discovered I had forgotten a can of surströmming(fermented baltic herring) in a shelf. I kept it there in the winter 'cause an airing gap kept it cold. But when it's 27 degrees outside… Not so good. It's assumed a spherical shape that looks like it's ready to burst any time.
This would be rather bad. Rather bad. >_<
...But I don't wanna throw it out either. What to do, what to do?
Burn it from a distance, it's the only way to be sure.
(Everything I have heard about surströmming makes it sound utterly horrific. I mean, you don't open cans in the house because the smell lingers for ages, so why would you actively eat something that does that? Isn't that, like, a massive sign that this is something that should not be eaten? I admit I'm vaguely curious as to what it's actually like, though - and given I love salmiak and marmite, I wonder if I might even like it… Also wondering if anyone has ever tried making a surströmming & durian meal as the most pungent dish ever made.)
Board games are pretty great. There's almost little to no stakes involved (other than bragging rights). But for games where there's teamwork or cash involved, that's a whole ball game altogether…made worse by my particular playstyle (in general) of being too conservative.
Mahjong is the best game to get someone really mad if you know what you're doing
When i was a child, i often played cards with my grandfather. Whenever he won, which was pretty often, he always made fun of me.
@Print:
My flatmates no longer play Munchkin with me though after they once pretty much forced me into a game when I was already in an anxious, depressed mood. That game was the worst I've ever played - literally every worst card I could possibly pick meaning I was still level 1 with no weapons while the others were already approaching the endgame. Then I finally got some luck…only to have one flatmate ally with me in a fight out of a sympathy, leading the other flatmate to screw us over in an attempt to stop that flatmate winning...and my allied flatmate managed to escape the fight. I didn't, and lost the tiny little bit of progress I'd gained, at which point I had a bit of a breakdown. I now have a rule of only playing these kind of games when I'm feeling okay in the first place.(
Aw, poor you. I used to play Munchkin with a couple of friends and ended up in more than one fully similar situation, but my friends and I had a sort of a gentlemen's agreement by which even though everyone did their utmost to harass everyone else whenever they felt like it no one ever messed with the ones with the worst luck since everyone knew they were already under huge stress. And it worked; there was always a competitive will for vengeance there, but it never crossed the line of becoming personal or outright hurtful to any player. And we all enjoyed the games A LOT as a result of that.
When I fell so low that I couldn't possibly fight any monsters without help anymore and when it was obvious that I could no longer win the game, I just focused on gathering as much cool loot as I could - regardless of whether I could use it or not. I just wanted anything that looked funny. And a couple of times it lead to a situation where I was traded something that actually helped me out and allowed me to affect the course of the endgame because everyone suddenly wanted my stuff. Fun times. ;D
But this is a different game with different players. I'm kinda with Panda there that losing in LoL and other games in which I know I'm not the best doesn't usually disturb me that much, but when it happens a multiple times in a row and all because of my own mistakes that I realize I make but react too slowly to rectify them in the actual game itself it all starts getting very depressing and somewhat aggravating. Probably because I'm so competitive that I know I enjoy a game like that the most when I'm actually doing good myself. It doesn't really matter whether our team wins or loses as long as we all play as well as we can.
Magic: The Gathering sucks ass.
Jagger shots suck ass
Ill stinkto beer and im fucking drunk but i had a blast hodfamn i missed this shit i had so much fun
Love u all
I'm usually the best at the games I play with others (video games or otherwise) and if not then it just means my opponents are amazing so I can't be mad for losing, OR it's a game that I didn't care to get good at in which case, well, I don't care. That might sound arrogant, but it's pretty much true… of course some games are largely luck-based or people can ally and bully you, but those things have to be taken with a grain of salt.
HOWEVER I have definitely raged plenty over technicalities. That's the kind of stuff that always causes fights with friends or family. My brother especially though. Stuff like whether or not certain words should count in Boggle, what happens if someone's time runs out in Rummy Cube when the pieces are in disarray, whether or not turtling is cheating. You know.
That sounds like me also. But I don't get into fights over technicalities, I usually quickly try to compromise and pick my fights.
Discovered I had forgotten a can of surströmming(fermented baltic herring) in a shelf. I kept it there in the winter 'cause an airing gap kept it cold. But when it's 27 degrees outside… Not so good. It's assumed a spherical shape that looks like it's ready to burst any time.
This would be rather bad. Rather bad. >_<
...But I don't wanna throw it out either. What to do, what to do?
Eat it? Can't imagine that it has gone bad
How can something rotten go bad ? :ninja:
Aw, poor you. I used to play Munchkin with a couple of friends and ended up in more than one fully similar situation, but my friends and I had a sort of a gentlemen's agreement by which even though everyone did their utmost to harass everyone else whenever they felt like it no one ever messed with the ones with the worst luck since everyone knew they were already under huge stress. And it worked; there was always a competitive will for vengeance there, but it never crossed the line of becoming personal or outright hurtful to any player. And we all enjoyed the games A LOT as a result of that.
When I fell so low that I couldn't possibly fight any monsters without help anymore and when it was obvious that I could no longer win the game, I just focused on gathering as much cool loot as I could - regardless of whether I could use it or not. I just wanted anything that looked funny. And a couple of times it lead to a situation where I was traded something that actually helped me out and allowed me to affect the course of the endgame because everyone suddenly wanted my stuff. Fun times. ;D
But this is a different game with different players. I'm kinda with Panda there that losing in LoL and other games in which I know I'm not the best doesn't usually disturb me that much, but when it happens a multiple times in a row and all because of my own mistakes that I realize I make but react too slowly to rectify them in the actual game itself it all starts getting very depressing and somewhat aggravating. Probably because I'm so competitive that I know I enjoy a game like that the most when I'm actually doing good myself. It doesn't really matter whether our team wins or loses as long as we all play as well as we can.
These kind of games really strike me as something that you'll want to play with good friends who wouldn't begrudge you on your general playstyle, especially in MOBAs. It happens especially when you're a newbie trying out the ropes and people place the blame on you (sometimes not unfairly) with varying degrees of blame and flame. And when you realise that you have to go through so many games before getting better….
@Print:
Burn it from a distance, it's the only way to be sure.
(Everything I have heard about surströmming makes it sound utterly horrific. I mean, you don't open cans in the house because the smell lingers for ages, so why would you actively eat something that does that? Isn't that, like, a massive sign that this is something that should not be eaten? I admit I'm vaguely curious as to what it's actually like, though - and given I love salmiak and marmite, I wonder if I might even like it… Also wondering if anyone has ever tried making a surströmming & durian meal as the most pungent dish ever made.)
Burn food?! Are you crazy?? Also, I don't know about marmite but it doesn't taste anything even remotely like salmiak. 
Hm. How to describe it… The flies are crazy about it, they will flock to it like some kind of zerg swarm. It does have slight smell of some kind, only many many times stronger.
It's an acquired taste, you're first instinct is indeed that "THIS SHOULD NOT BE EATEN". Hahaha. 
@wolfwoof:
Eat it? Can't imagine that it has gone bad
Of course I'm gonna eat it! It's just that I've been saving it for the "surströmming premiär"(the time you traditionally eat it). Hope it doesn't blow up until then…
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I put it in a plastic bag(sopsäck) and put it in the fridge, that way it won't ferment much more and hopefully if it does burst it wont contaminate too much of my apartment.
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Oh, and a crazy British dude opening a can inside:
Once your done with it give the tin to print as a souvenir
Give the tin to print? What are you talking about compatriot?
^ That sounds really potent through, the closest I've ever known would be smelly beancurd. Just remember that it's the food's defence mechanism to prevent predators like us
Ah man, this reminds me of the time when my cousin and I were playing the first mario party and I stole like 7 stars from him. So he turns around and goes, "You steal one more thing from me and we fighting."
I steal 10 coins from him, he throws his controller down and then we actually got into a fist fight. xD
/troll
@Jazzy:
Ah man, this reminds me of the time when my cousin and I were playing the first mario party and I stole like 7 stars from him. So he turns around and goes, "You steal one more thing from me and we fighting."
I steal 10 coins from him, he throws his controller down and then we actually got into a fist fight. xD
/troll
Who won ?
My money's on the other guy, cause you know, top heavy :ninja:
@Jazzy:
Ah man, this reminds me of the time when my cousin and I were playing the first mario party and I stole like 7 stars from him. So he turns around and goes, "You steal one more thing from me and we fighting."
I steal 10 coins from him, he throws his controller down and then we actually got into a fist fight. xD
/troll
Hey Mario Party is serious business.
points to bloodied palms
Give the tin to print? What are you talking about compatriot?
The tin. Y'know the foul smelling brine covered container
And print is this unsuspecting british girl who joined us recently
Little did she know that we are all horrible people:ninja:
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