[Mongoose]

Yeah, you pick up where I left off. It's tiring dealing with all those negative vibes, you can take over for me

The fact that you're agreeing with Vega here is rather ironic, given your comments in a certain other thread.

And do you guys seriously not get Nuke's general world-view by now?  Because there's no excuse for not doing so if you've been hanging around GenDisc for even a few months.  Just take him at face value, and don't get into fruitless discussions that just waste your, his, and everyone else's time.

[Mr. Vega]

Oh, I've thrown my haymaker. I'll post again if and only if anything interesting emerges from his muck.

[Nuke]

Hey Nuke? You're a perfect demonstration of my biggest pet peeve in the universe: people who think they're legitimately wise or sophisticated because they're cynical and pessimistic. Oh, so all you saw from this article was that people are dicks to each other? That all you took? Then why bother with all the pretense of thought in your responses? You should have just said "I think people are dicks and I will reduce everything I learn to this belief of mine, so carry on everyone. I don't care." Well, not that exact wording, because then you'd sound like a man entirely fueled by mental laziness, but I think you get the gist of it.

We're going to keep caring about things like morality, equality, stripping away the prejudices that we've built in our heads to see what's really there, trying to live lives that are actually "interesting" and "worthwhile", just as you're going to keep sitting on your chair using your brain for absolutely nothing except for convincing yourself that your disdain of everything somehow makes you superior. So please, please just do what you keep advising us to do: don't bother. Or at least just shut up for a while.

i think i am neither wise not sophisticated. mentally lazy, perhaps. comes right down to it you can site sources and debate all day and nothing changes. how am i any different, my way is just as ineffective as yours. so what if i break it all down to gross abstractions. you assume i dont care about morality and equality but i do. but then reality sets in, and i realize people will always be immoral, and true equality is a pipe dream. it doesn't matter if you care or not, it just is. superiority? i never claimed i was superior in any way. shut up for awhile? had you looked, you would have seen i hadn't posted in a page and a half. why bother to stir the ****? i was about to leave this thread to its own devices. perhaps your projecting you own disdainful traits onto others.

and lorric, shut it. if you cant take negative vibes, then dont live in this universe.

[Lorric]

Yeah, you pick up where I left off. It's tiring dealing with all those negative vibes, you can take over for me

The fact that you're agreeing with Vega here is rather ironic, given your comments in a certain other thread.

And do you guys seriously not get Nuke's general world-view by now?  Because there's no excuse for not doing so if you've been hanging around GenDisc for even a few months.  Just take him at face value, and don't get into fruitless discussions that just waste your, his, and everyone else's time.

What are you referring to?

I haven't been posting in General Discussion for more than a few days. I came here for Freespace, so ignored the General Discussion until recently. I've seen Nuke before, but hadn't really taken note of him until now. I don't really understand him, but certainly better than before. What I don't get is he claims to hate a lot of the things he seems to be himself.

Hey Nuke? You're a perfect demonstration of my biggest pet peeve in the universe: people who think they're legitimately wise or sophisticated because they're cynical and pessimistic. Oh, so all you saw from this article was that people are dicks to each other? That all you took? Then why bother with all the pretense of thought in your responses? You should have just said "I think people are dicks and I will reduce everything I learn to this belief of mine, so carry on everyone. I don't care." Well, not that exact wording, because then you'd sound like a man entirely fueled by mental laziness, but I think you get the gist of it.

We're going to keep caring about things like morality, equality, stripping away the prejudices that we've built in our heads to see what's really there, trying to live lives that are actually "interesting" and "worthwhile", just as you're going to keep sitting on your chair using your brain for absolutely nothing except for convincing yourself that your disdain of everything somehow makes you superior. So please, please just do what you keep advising us to do: don't bother. Or at least just shut up for a while.

and lorric, shut it. if you cant take negative vibes, then dont live in this universe.

Sure. Where is this new universe? We can go together since you don't seem to like this one 

As for negative vibes, I just chose not to take them any more. It was doing no good.

[pecenipicek]

As a side note, according to the IAT, i'm a racist bastard

now i'm quite sure that this is partly to the following reasons:
my country is rather small and more predominantly white than others in the region.
people of other ethnicities are pretty much a rarity around here, even less so in my circle of "acquaintances" and others (i'm not much for going out these days anymore so yeah)
ergo, my inclination of facial recognition is obviously biased towards white people, due to the obvious lack of any interaction with people of other ethnicities.

also, is it horrible that i figured out the way it grades my score halfway through the test? the description afterwards just confirmed it...

Spoiler:

for those wondering, white, asian and hispanic people are howering around the middle for me, while black are a bit more towards the "bad" side...

i also think that this in itself is an interesting subject to discuss and might warrant another thread.




as for the main "topic" of the thread... is it horrible of me that when i catch myself "gaslighting" my significant other, i stop myself and explain exactly what i had done to her to mess her up like that and explain to her what to look for to be able to figure it out on her own when dealing with other people, or myself even?

[Mr. Vega]

my way is just as ineffective as yours. so what if i break it all down to gross abstractions. you assume i dont care about morality and equality but i do. but then reality sets in, and i realize people will always be immoral, and true equality is a pipe dream. it doesn't matter if you care or not

Oh, so if everything can't be swept away in a day then it isn't worth doing anything about? At the very least you can affect a handful of lives you spend your time with on a daily basis. Even if you think things are totally hopeless, that doesn't mean you have to be a part of the sludge. That's enough to give this examination value. Better than neatly rearranging your mental refuse every day, for sure.

[Nuke]

i can understand how your still in that 'change teh world' phase of life. it goes away when you get older.

[General Battuta]

Maybe it changes as you move to Alaska and get really into drugs and have bad relationships and have a genuinely upsetting genetic predisposition to mental illness :shobon:

[Mr. Vega]

i can understand how your still in that 'change teh world' phase of life. it goes away when you get older.

Did you actually think of that line on your own or did you just google "lame comebacks"? You sound like the ninth-grade class curmudgeon. I think we're done here.

[Mongoose]

What are you referring to?

It's the only other active thread about a remotely-similar topic in here.  It shouldn't be too hard to figure out.

What I don't get is he claims to hate a lot of the things he seems to be himself.

Welcome to being human.  Enjoy your stay.

In all seriousness, though, Nuke has admitted himself many times over the years that he has some pretty significant mental stuff going on.  I daresay that most of us here take him fairly seriously when he speaks fondly of nuclear annihilation, and are perhaps comforted only by how unlikely it is that he'll ever be able to carry it out.  You might not know that yourself if you haven't spent much time in here, but Mr. Vega's certainly been here long enough to be able to pick up on this, and to realize why the replies he's making are ultimately futile.

[Mr. Vega]

What are you referring to?

It's the only other active thread about a remotely-similar topic in here.  It shouldn't be too hard to figure out.

What I don't get is he claims to hate a lot of the things he seems to be himself.

Welcome to being human.  Enjoy your stay.

In all seriousness, though, Nuke has admitted himself many times over the years that he has some pretty significant mental stuff going on.  I daresay that most of us here take him fairly seriously when he speaks fondly of nuclear annihilation, and are perhaps comforted only by how unlikely it is that he'll ever be able to carry it out.  You might not know that yourself if you haven't spent much time in here, but Mr. Vega's certainly been here long enough to be able to pick up on this, and to realize why the replies he's making are ultimately futile.

He needs a good clocking every now and then.

[Nuke]

thats assuming i wont pull a shotgun on you. killing things is good therapy.

[Mr. Vega]

thats assuming i wont pull a shotgun on you. killing things is good therapy.

Glad to see us keeping the ninth-grade loser theme going.

[Mr. Vega]

Alright, alright, someone get us back on topic. I'm dropping out. Ignore him as best you can.

[Lorric]

What are you referring to?

It's the only other active thread about a remotely-similar topic in here.  It shouldn't be too hard to figure out.

What I don't get is he claims to hate a lot of the things he seems to be himself.

Welcome to being human.  Enjoy your stay.

In all seriousness, though, Nuke has admitted himself many times over the years that he has some pretty significant mental stuff going on.  I daresay that most of us here take him fairly seriously when he speaks fondly of nuclear annihilation, and are perhaps comforted only by how unlikely it is that he'll ever be able to carry it out.  You might not know that yourself if you haven't spent much time in here, but Mr. Vega's certainly been here long enough to be able to pick up on this, and to realize why the replies he's making are ultimately futile.

Oh you mean I shouldn't be in the School Shooting thread if I don't like negativity. Lorric of 2 days ago didn't want to be there, but I didn't listen to him

Yes. I do take that seriously. Keep him away from that big red button. Let's hope none like him ever get to push that big shiny red button. I didn't get anywhere with Nuke before and stopped because it was futile. Maybe it should stay that way.

[deathfun]

I'm not entirely sure where this thread is anymore

I'm just glad I have never used one of those phrases while talking to any of the gals I know

Yes. I do take that seriously. Keep him away from that big red button. Let's hope none like him ever get to push that big shiny red button.

Nuke already made it clear he doesn't like the idea of a big red button

[Luis Dias]

Advice: don't take Nuke's mysanthropy seriously (take it as a running gag) and you'll be just fine. No offense intended Nuke, but I kinda like see you as the HLP's own Igor. And Igor* always made me laugh.

*in the same vein as Marvin.

[Nuke]

Advice: don't take Nuke's mysanthropy seriously (take it as a running gag) and you'll be just fine. No offense intended Nuke, but I kinda like see you as the HLP's own Igor. And Igor* always made me laugh.

*in the same vein as Marvin.

poes law makes it impossible for you to know if im serious or not. there is a little experiment that can be done to test this. give me a nuke, and if a city gets vaporized then im serious, otherwise im joking. i can tell you i wasnt joking about killing things being good therapy (and also a good source of protein/lead).

I'm not entirely sure where this thread is anymore

I'm just glad I have never used one of those phrases while talking to any of the gals I know

Yes. I do take that seriously. Keep him away from that big red button. Let's hope none like him ever get to push that big shiny red button.

Nuke already made it clear he doesn't like the idea of a big red button

yes, i am a big fan of redneck engineering. i prefer to detonate my nukes by touching a loose wire to a screw.

[Colonol Dekker]

GD Mod BROFIST


Just don't make eye contact..........anyone,..............with anyone else.

[Luis Dias]

Lol Nuke, you misread me. I wasn't saying I know *what* you are. I am saying what I *decide* to think you are with regards to this forum everytime I read you. IOW, regardless of you being an actual psychopath or not, I don't take you seriously.