" I come here and get to red convos bout porn stars and stuff like that"

how do YOU know they're pornstars?

as far as what you're saying re: entertainment level, well that goes up and down. Sometimes its dire, other times the place is kickin. But remember that when alls said and done, the Gibster set the place up to discuss Lancers games and by extension other spacesims and by a further extension, games in general. Off-topic is an adjunct, ultimately, and although we have a lot of fun and discuss some (a lot) of interesting stuff, its not what the site is about, really, is it? And, although you might be pushed to adam and eve it, we aren't professional entertainers, and we do have "real" lives to be getting on with, jobs, wives, kids, health issues, money worries, giant pterodactyls in our gardens, all the run of the mill stuff.

One thing that does p*ss me off is that the place turns into an emotional support room at times - it's not something i do very well, being a shoulder to cry on (in public anyway) but I honestly don't want to know about fekkin exams, i did mine years ago, and i dont particularly care about anyone elses, nor do i give a stuff if people cant get girlfriends or boyfriends, who the hell can when theyre teenagers? I couldnt, but i didnt go around whining about it. You'll all lose your cherries eventually, believe me. The worst are the "my parents dont understand me" threads, christ if I was a mod id delete everyone of those at birth and ban the poster just cos they drive me wild - listen up spawns, I'm a parent and i understand you, which why I dont fekkin care, i know what a load of whney attention-seeking self-indulgent teen crap it is! all heart, meh..

see, that's real life for you..

well Taw
I know cus it was said

Well luckily you arent the main man of the forum, sometimes its funmoaning bout all that stuff, I tend to get it that ppl here tend to understand better cus their distant as eg my poems(not talkin bout the thread i started)
I sure hope I never loose a cherrie cus that would mean i had one


And I never said you should be entertainers I talk bout fun which comes from itself I'll explain that tomorrow(altho i got a suspicion(arg sp) its already tmorrow) when i'm awake

BTW Taw you need to be less cynic and pessimistic


Edited by - sycho_warrior on 6/26/2004 2:54:14 PM

you'd prefer naive and optimistic? gee whizz I'll do my dangnest to try!

Well well well. This is sort of like RL after all isn't? I guess s_w and Taw are going to keep it real for the rest of us then



Edited by - Indy11 on 6/26/2004 8:14:43 PM

I find that even on the internet I keep most of my opinions and feelings to myself, trying to stay as distant as possible.

Despite the paranoid skepticism of one or two people here *glares at "T" *, I am as I appear. Eccentric, ginger beer-loving, and totally obsessed with the English language. Oh, and unemployed of course .

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i think you're ace, you're almost as much fun as Esquilax!

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Well I try Taw, I'm here for comic relief after all.

Final - *Shakes head* .

Taw optimistic yea sure, naive? hmm being naive causes fun for other ppl
what I'm trying to say is stop always seeing the bad in stuff it makes you bitter and unable to enjoy life

"giant pterodactyls " What is this?

Edited by - sycho_warrior on 6/27/2004 1:52:57 AM

don't you have them where you live, sw? shame, you've only got lions..

dont forget the hyenas and the leopards and the baboons etc

here's an interesting spin on this whole "real-life" issue.

when me and Mrs Taw were over in the US recently, we were chillin one night at the hotel and watching this prog about "jailbabes" ie lonely hearts contact websites for prisoners in US gaols. I mates can post about themselves on websites and advertsie for partners, and similarly the public can advertise for gaolbirds. Yeah its a bit f*kt really, but it gets better. The docu concentrated on 2 cases, one a guy who was a member of the public who had been corresponding with this woman in pokey, an the second was a woman who'd married this guy who's on death row.

number 1, the guy, was divorced and lonely and scouted websites looking for women he could take up with, but wasnt a good dater. Eventually he started corresponding with this woman whos picture he found interesting on the prison website, and eventually they started talking about marriage. He was convinced she loved him and was telling the truth and that she was just a petty con who'd learnt her lesson, and of course he was ok sending her money, she was his woman and needed it. Only after a seed of doubt had been planted in his mind by the docu team, did he check on the Board of Corrections website to see if she'd told him the truth. hmmm, she'd said she was in for credit card fraud, but in fact she was in for battering her 1yr old baby to death. nice girl, huh? oddly enough he stopped mailing her after that..

number 2 sold her house, gave up her job, and dragged her kids by her previous marriages across the country to be in the town where her intended's prison was located. They'd never met except for her visits to his prison. Eventually they got married and she made the kids call him dad, but they will never ever set him free, even though she is convinced of his innocence. He shot several people in an armed robbery while whacked on crack, iirc, and its all on cctv footage, but no she says hes innocent. go figure? the prog did a cracking psychological profile on her, a classic victim who's drifted into a relationship where she actually can't get physically hurt because the dangerous man she inevitably falls for is permanently behind bars. its a relationship with no risk for her.

the whole falling in love over the internet thing baffles me, it really does. Love, ie romantic love, is as much physical as it is emotional or cerebral, there has to be the chemistry there; no matter how much you may get on with someone online, even find them attractive, until there's the physical sensation of contact it's all just pretend. At the best, you're friends, nothing more. At worst you're avoiding "reality" and indulging a fantasy. Adult romance and dating/sex chatrooms are the absolute pits, but if you want to observe sad aspects of modern social trends they can be q rewarding and rather funny.

hmm have to agree with that in part at least

Simple, Real Life is what's out "there", behind the little door a mile or two past jupiter, through the control room, the corridor and padded cells, past the little elephant people and the flying walruses, there is a place, known as "Real Life", but in truth it's just as silly and pointless as this, therefore tourism isn't a big thing there....

Cannot think of an explanation for situation #1 other than that the guy is an idiot.

For #2, I'd say this is the woman's last chance at proving to herself and the world that she is right and everyone else is wrong about the restorative and absolute pureness of power that love has. Misguided and doomed to be crushed in the end as she may be, she just believe what she believes and is willing to put her own children through this nightmare ... because she knows that what she believes is the truth.

Edited by - Indy11 on 6/27/2004 7:03:34 PM