The "whatever's on your mind" thread

[DAISHI]

Originally Posted by puzzlebox

Or get someone to drive you to the airport.

You had to step to the car :P

[Remolay]

I've been depressed for a good chunk of the day now.

I think I need to talk to someone I really don't want to talk to.

[DAISHI]

The girl I'm head over heels for is leaving town in three days. Dammit.

[WarpSpeed]

Originally Posted by puzzlebox

It's always a relief to find out someone already knows what you were frightened to tell them.

Congratulations on 2600 posts! Not counting the ones in here, anyway. Pick your favorite meaning!

Originally Posted by Remolay

I think I need to talk to someone I really don't want to talk to.

Time to text, E-mail, send a letter, IM, get on IRC, etc...

Originally Posted by DAISHI

The girl I'm head over heels for is leaving town in three days. Dammit.

Are you sure you aren't dating Puzzlebox?

Oh well, I think you were lining up other possibilities anyway.

[DAISHI]

There's no replacement for this one. She has a level of sheer intelligence I've never encountered in another human being.

Most people are replaceable, but once in a while you find one that's not.

[RetroVortex]

Originally Posted by DAISHI

There's no replacement for this one. She has a level of sheer intelligence I've never encountered in another human being.

Most people are replaceable, but once in a while you find one that's not.

This one does indeed contribute greatly to the hivemind.

I mean...

Yes she does sound great.

[WarpSpeed]

If you love her, then follow her.

[Comrade Pants]

Originally Posted by WarpSpeed

If you love her, then follow her.

This, but only if she's into you too. Otherwise, it might seem stalkery.

[puzzlebox]

I obviously don't have all the details of the situation, but personally I'd be doubting the sincerity of a man who claimed I was the best woman ever and then lined up other dates while I was in town.

Originally Posted by WarpSpeed

Congratulations on 2600 posts! Not counting the ones in here, anyway. Pick your favorite meaning!

Ooh, I'll take 2600 Hz! Superphreak.

Originally Posted by WarpSpeed

Are you sure you aren't dating Puzzlebox?

Puzzlebox don't wait in line for no dude (unless maybe he's selling ice cream).

[Scnew]

Originally Posted by puzzlebox

Puzzlebox don't wait in line for no dude (unless maybe he's selling ice cream).

Even I've waited in line for a dude, and I'm a straight dude.

Of course, that dude was

[GuruGuru214]

So I have these three switch boxes that keep my monstrosity of a game shelf hooked to my TV. Ordinarily, the center box switches between the left box, the Wii, and the right box, while the left box feeds the SNES, N64, and GameCube, and the right box feeds the Xbox and DVD player.

Well, thanks to the addition of some component cables for my new TV, and an HDMI cable that turned out to be too short, plus my endeavor to use my old TV as the Tingle Tuner, I now find myself with a clusterfuck under my TV. The center box now switches between the red/white audio and green component plugs for the Wii and the Xbox, plus a dead cable. The right box now switches between the red and blue component plugs for the Xbox and Wii. And the left box still switches between Nintendo's three middle children, but it now feeds into my old TV. And the DVD player feeds into the TV through the VCR via coaxial.

Thankfully, all will be as it should be as soon as my longer HDMI cable gets here and I finish two more Zelda games.

[Chyron8472]

Sounds like your real problem is that none of your switch boxes use component, so you're having to deal with using 3 plugs per input instead of 5.

[coolsome]

[GuruGuru214]

Originally Posted by Chyron8472

Sounds like your real problem is that none of your switch boxes use component, so you're having to deal with using 3 plugs per input instead of 5.

Yes, that's part of the issue, but I never had component before now, so all of my switch boxes are composite for my old composite-only TV, and after I get that HDMI cable, I'll only have one component cable to deal with. Then I just have to finish using my Game Boy Player with the GCN cable and I'll be able to finish clearing up this mess.

Of course, under the TV will still be a mess. There's no way you can have that many inputs running into one small space and not have a tangled mess of cords. But at least all of them will be running to where they should be.

Oh, and that Wii component cable turned out to be a bit shorter than the original Wii composite cable, so it's a good thing that the Wii is almost the closest console to my TV.

[Johro]

Mine's a mess too. 2 TVs. Consoles. Video players. Recorders, Camera. Oye.... and I don't even have cable in this room.

[GuruGuru214]

Oh, yeah, I have a whole other mess on the coaxial end of things. I have one switch, with cable and the VCR on one side and the Atari running through the NES running through the Genesis on the other side. I think. It's been a while.

The worst part is that I'm considering looking into getting an HD box now that I have the TV for it, and those are much bigger. I may have to see if I can get my hands on a different VCR (if I don't just eliminate it entirely), and I might ditch the standalone DVD player and just use the Xbox for DVD. Besides, I usually use my computer to watch DVDs unless I have company, so the player doesn't get nearly as much use as it used to.

[Rather Dashing]

Wait, you use a standalone DVD player and it's not because you own DVDs from other regions?

[Johro]

Originally Posted by Rather Dashing

Wait, you use a standalone DVD player and it's not because you own DVDs from other regions?

I do too. Initially for AV projects, but I do often find myself throwing a DVD on in the background while I play games.

[DAISHI]

Time to be a human being.

Some of you will read this and care because you know me on a slightly deeper level. Some of you will read this and pass it over by virtue of the fact that I posted it. Regardless, here is my manifesto on humanity.

I consider every human being I meet on the value of what they can contribute to my personal happiness. If you can enhance me business ventures, if you can bring joy to my social circle, if you are valuable because of your knowledge of a field I am unfamiliar with, you are valued to me.

If you contribute nothing of practical, somewhat measurable value, I consider you invaluable, in the context of your relation to me.

That is Jason. That has been my whole life reduced to a simple equation. Judge people and retain them on the basis of how they can practically contribute to your existence. That has been the lesson of my parents. That is why I am business driven. Because in my family, the value of an individual is boiled down to their contribution to your personal enjoyment or enhancement.

But despite the fact that I am inherently self motivated and self driven, I've spent a good deal of my life working in places like Mexico, Thailand or New Orleans. I've given out clothes, passed out food, spent my days sweating mixing concrete, tearing down homes and building up new homes.

On a personal level I consider every person I meet expendable unless they directly contribute to my own self satisfaction. On another level, if you asked me to care for a homeless individual, I would do it. I have, and I would do so again.

So measure me by whatever measure you would. On a daily basis I dismiss people left and right. But the people that I find to be farthest away from me in intellect and accomplishment are the people I've spent half a life serving for. The same attitude I have that dismisses them yet gives way to a deeper care. Years spent in food shelters, years spent working in public schools for the underprivileged, years spent working in warehouses without heat or cold, years spent without showers, years spent without tools, building homes and bringing food without compensation. And for what?

By and large, I dismiss people intellectually. By and large, my heart tells me every human being has value that goes beyond my ability to measure.

I know I'm a miserable human being on regular occasion. I read some of the comments and some of the responses to my honest replies. I can see the disgust. And, I completely understand why. On many levels I'm an advantageous human being only interested in my personal economic and social uplifting.

On another level I've spent most of my years giving up that pursuit to serve the people that I intellectually dismiss, that on a spiritual and heart level I care more for than any of my academic and social peers.

I spent tonight with a person that reminds me why I'm alive. I spent a lifetime being a reject, and another lifetime building myself into an impenetrable wall of economic and social accomplishment that would be able to show all my adolescent peers that I was better than them.

And that wall is worthless. I know that. Be disgusted with the human being that I so obviously am. But know that there is another person that still exists, far beyond the words that are said, that acts in ways that far contradict the intellect and speak more to the spirit and heart.

[Chyron8472]

Originally Posted by Rather Dashing

Wait, you use a standalone DVD player and it's not because you own DVDs from other regions?

As do I, but mine also upconverts to HD.