KatonRyu

It is, yes. But just because it's real doesn't mean it's forever. People change, circumstances change. What was once a balanced friendship can become toxic. Just be glad with the good times you have with your friends, I guess.

That fully depends on the situation and circumstances. Showing your emotions while society or your peers or whatever usually frown on that, that's strength. Having a crying fit because your favorite sweater isn't dry yet, that's weakness.

Blue, apparently, and to my surprise the description was actually pretty spot on. More than what I can say about most other online tests I do, so I'm pleasantly surprised.

I'm really not too sure. I'm mostly the same, I think, except sometimes I'm just a little bit more confident online than off. These days it really doesn't differ much, though.

I write because I love writing, and because I've always written. I love coming up with a story and then having the characters, either my own or pre-existing ones, go through it. I love writing the interactions between them, and certain really edgy or sappy moments. I post my fanfics online because if even a single other person enjoys it, I feel accomplished, even though I tend to condemn my own stories as soon as I've written them. Everything about the writing, from the good moments to all the frustration where nothing works, is why I write.

I used to be afraid of dogs, until my parents decided to get one. Though their second dog still kind of makes me nervous a bit, I'm generally a lot more okay with them than I used to be. Other than that, the fear that the people I care most about would stop hanging out with me the moment I stop being 'useful'. There's literally two people in the world where I'm afraid of that happening, with everyone else I don't really care, but it's still irrational.

The Catacombs of Carthus in Dark Souls 3 are my least favorite area, topped off by having the cheesiest, most gimmicky boss of the entire fucking game: High Lord Wolnir. Usually it's actually ranked as one of the easier bosses, and that's true if you beat him on your first try because he begins non-aggressive. If you don't, though, it's a massive pain in the ass. All you really need to do to kill him is destroying his three glowing golden bracelets, but he has an incredibly damaging AOE death fog that will kill you in about two seconds if you get caught in it, he spawns skeletons which cause bleed damage, and if you take too long he'll pin you against the back wall and the fog attack will kill you. There are plenty of bosses in the game that killed me way more often than Wolnir did, but with the other bosses I never felt like it was just a cheap gimmick fight. It's honestly the worst boss in the entire franchise for me, even worse than the Bed of Chaos in DS1.

There's one commercial on the radio in the Netherlands for Social Deal, that just seems to be designed to make me hate their brand with a vengeance. It basically opens with a guy really loudly saying SOOOOOOOOOOO, in the most annoying tone of voice possible. It's always louder than whatever commercial preceded it, and it never fails to piss me off. It's one of the main reasons I now just mute the radio when the commercials are on whenever I'm not listening to my own music.

I really don't care much for it. I prefer straight-up medieval fantasy, rather than contraptions with tons of gears and steam coming out of everything. It doesn't help that I consider the Industrial Revolution IRL an incredibly boring part of history, thanks to high school just going on and on and on about it. The one steampunk thing I actually like is this one restaurant/bar/whatever it actually is in Gothenburg, Sweden, because they've got great burgers and really fancy brightly colored drinks with dry-ice in them to make them smoke. Great place.

There's an Esso near my house, another Esso a bit further down, some BP stations and I think there's a Shell not too far away. There used to be a Texaco nearby but it got demolished like a year or two ago. And those are only the ones I know about, there's bound to be a few more scattered around the city.

I usually don't celebrate them, but I do still enjoy them for the most part. Especially this year, when I finally decided to invite people over for once since it was my 30th. As for acting my age...I don't, probably. Lots of people around my age seem to enjoy talking about finances and the like, and honestly that bores me to death. I enjoy watching kids' shows, reading kids' books, watching Let's Plays on Youtube, and generally doing all kinds of things that have absolutely nothing to do with being a productive adult. I can be one, if I really have to, I just don't really enjoy it. And how I've changed, well, I mainly just got more confident and physically stronger. I'm still the same insecure nerd I've always been, just better adjusted in general than I used to be, and much more able to let things slide.

Not really. When a cop is driving near me when I'm in my car, that's when I get paranoid.

I think that safe space/hugbox trend that exists in certain circles both on- and offline is taking positivity way too far, indeed to the point that those within it lose the ability to deal with any form of criticism. Truthfully, though, even though I often ask for criticism on my writing and I do take it to heart, I don't really like receiving it. I'd like to just be praised by others, even though I constantly tear myself down, and I wouldn't be surprised if that goes for most people. Being criticized isn't fun, plain and simple, so the evolution of places where you can be sheltered from criticism is probably a natural thing, to a degree. Ultimately, I think people should try to see where someone is coming from when they are giving criticism. Is it coming from a desire to help, or to hurt? If it's the first, be grateful, and if it's the second, just ignore it since it's meaningless anyway.

In my case, the visceral reaction is because they have very good characters, who happen to be in a story that gets worse and worse. I'd like to know your thoughts once you have played it, though.

I was kind of surprised that there wasn't a topic for this game on here. Or maybe there has been, but it's been deleted or locked because the discussion got out of hand. I don't know. Still, being a non-PS4 owner I just finished watching the LP of the game, so I figured I'd go to a forum entirely unrelated to the game to give my opinion on it, and see the opinions of others. For those who haven't played the game or watched an LP of it, I'll put this entire rant in spoiler tags. Well, with my opinion summed up in this giant rant, I'm quite curious what other people think. Did you think the story was handled well? Did you think the conclusion was satisfying? Lastly: this game has already gotten quite the reputation, so just in case, keep any discussions civil and on-topic.

As long as they leave me alone, I'm fine with anything. Same goes for every other creed/religion/way of life, really. I admit I get quite annoyed when people start preaching the health benefits of it, though, as if it's the only rational choice to make. I will eat as many burgers as I want, thanks, and the heart attack is entirely on me.

Briefly, when I had no idea what else to do and with the intention to basically be an athlete only, as in employed to be mainly a fencer and very few other duties. Of course, I'm nowhere near good enough to do something like that, and the Department of Defense sports funding was pulled very shortly afterwards, so nothing ever really came of it.

No, and I don't really ever intend to. I don't care about the financial world and the phrases being thrown around in this thread alone hurt my simple brain. I'll stick to shoving my money in my savings account and work from there.

Basically, if someone wants to follow the stereotypical gender roles by their own free will, let them. I only dislike them when they're being used to measure someone's worth as a person, for instance considering someone as being somehow wrong for liking things not stereotypically associated with their gender.

Not really. I do sort of suffer from the opposite, in which I begin to hate things that everybody is getting into, just because I don't like the idea that I'm being told what to like, or something. Call it hype backlash, I guess.

Good question. I think Jaime would probably have won out in the end, but not easily. I think Ned would probably have managed to injure Jaime, but that Jaime would still overpower him in the end, either because Ned would lapse for just a moment after injuring Jaime and Jaime would use that to his advantage, or because Jaime would turn out to just be a little more skilled than Ned.

It kind of depends at what era we're looking at. Jaime himself considered Arthur Dayne to be the best swordsman, and Ned Stark was considered to be very good, too. I might've picked Jaime, but you don't get to see him fight all that much before he loses his hand.