Missing the Point (Nerdy Rantings)

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[DCFilms]

That stick figure sure is good at doing a flying-ninja kick.

[TheShwaNerd]

.... he is sitting at a table eating cereal.... but I see your point.

[BionicDance]

I get what you're saying, but do YOU get that I do not have the ability to MAKE myself ACTUALLY care less? Do you realize that I would see that as LYING TO MYSELF? ABOUT myself?

I cannot just change my perspective and make everything okay; there has to be SUBSTANCE behind the argument, I cannot simply wish my deficiencies away or ignore the pain. It has to be SOLVED, or all I'm doing is putting a Band-Aid on the problem; it'll still BE THERE, under the surface. Waiting to ambush me later.

[UnhappyTestTubeBaby]

I also want to applaud your efforts here. You've opened yourself up a lot by offering to help people they way you have. You should realize that you may find yourself in difficult places from time to time if you take on the personal problems of others.

[Tuzioya]

This is a wonderful response shwa. I really would like to know the name of the song as well, it really added to the video.

[Valkes]

@SonofTzeentch I quite agree, the figures are kind of expensive to just sit on a shelf, and get dusty.

[Valkes]

@SonofTzeentch My general impression from both games is that in PVP HPS generally outstripped DPS by kind of a lot. Take my DoK for example, I was able to keep ahead of 6 other people, and eventually kill each of them in turn. Paladins in WoW were the same way, generally unkillable. I personally blame raids for this, PvE dmg gets to the point where they have to give healers better heals, and the DPS just can't keep up.

[SonofTzeentch]

As for 40k, I'm lucky in that we have a big player base over here (somewhere between 20 regulars, another 10 or so semi-regulars and lots of people that simply show up from time to time).

But yeah, if there isn't anybody to play with, then the only point of getting the minis is to paint them up as a hobby. Since I'm not all that into that part of the hobby, I wouldn't be motivated to get more minis either in your situation.

[SonofTzeentch]

I think in WAR too many people didn't really get that in the pvp scenarios they had certain roles, where some of the player would do all of the killing, while others did support, be that with debuffs, heals, buffs or whatever else.

...which I always found odd; after all, in WoW raids people seem to accept this as a quite normal happenstance, but when facing human opponents they feel they must be just as 'killy' as everybody else.

Not saying you are like this, just my general view of the players

[Valkes]

@SonofTzeentch I suppose that's correct, I honestly don't have the clinical experience needed to make a decisive judgment on that, but it makes sense.

I dunno my DoK was op as hell when I played, I dropped like 6 people at a time without breaking a sweat.

[Valkes]

@SonofTzeentch I've started collecting 40k, but honestly I'm not overly motivated to get into it, there's only like one meeting a month where I live, and only like 3 people show up.

[SonofTzeentch]

(cont...) As long as I can still play Warhammer 40k I don't really care that much I guess. Wonder if that MMO will turn out interesting. Not that I'll have money to play it for a while, but still.

Play any of the Games Workshop miniature games?

[SonofTzeentch]

Right, general feeling of unwell isn't what I was referring to. But I also never said that it is something that doesn't work for him (obviously I don't assume that he is lying), merely that such an aesthetic rush is not something which is objectively shared by others (it's a subjective thing) and more iomportantly, someone suffering from depression may have these rushes but be left untouched depression-wise.

I didn't think WAR was too bad actually. I just lacked time to play it.(cont...)

[Valkes]

@SonofTzeentch Malaise is defined as a "General feeling of unwell" by Wikipedia, which could cover the definition of non-clinical depression as well imho. As such, if looking at the stars brings about a rush of endorphins which help him to recover from this feeling of unease, you can't tell him it doesn't. Glad you're able to see my point, others had a difficult time of it. Too bad about WAR being a giant fail though huh?