Harebrained

My temper usually sparks up a little and dies down again in no time. Minor irritations and all that. It's when you don't notice I'm angry at all but I'm roiling inside that I'm really, truly, deeply begrudging.

My problem is not so much that they "act like girls," as it is that I'm not very verbally or noticeably affectionate in relationships. Of all the people who really suffer from that, I think the more effeminate or sensitive men are pretty high on the list.

Replaying Legend of Mana. *dreamy sigh*

Worked retail during the holidays in a store that liked to shift things around and where everyone liked to push their work off on other people.

I'm a fan of cats, reptiles, birds, and some fish (mostly bettas). I grew up with everything from cats to iguanas to my sister's ferrets. What I really want is a cockatoo, but I think they require at least a couple hours of attention and socializing daily to be happy. They've been known to imitate people they hear laughing, though, which cracks me up.

Not scared of pools, lakes, etc, but the ocean makes me very uncomfortable, even in video games. I'm also pretty terrified of eating at Subway. I had a food poisoning incident a few years ago that left me bedridden for almost two days, unable to eat or drink normally for a week, and in pain for another several days. I've declined it free.

I've known a fair few popular kids who were popular because they were socially-oriented and warm, but there's always a side that's intolerably vapid and status-mongering. Why the decent ones were ever seen with them I'll never know. This was my experience, too. I mostly hung out with the outsider-type people, which worked for us because we understood each other and were happy to have people who cared. Well, most of us, anyway. In my sophomore year of high school a new kid transferred in, and my friends and I wound up inviting him to our table because we noticed he always sat alone. Chubby, awkward kid who had an intense emotional breakdown prior to the transfer, but we loved him. He wound up ditching us for the worst of the worst when it came to the "popular crowd" after he remodeled himself next year, and didn't have time for us except to show off his new popularity and pictures of his hot new girlfriend to me (knowing I'd liked him). Because, you know, cool people who wouldn't even look at him when he arrived let alone support him through the echoes of his suicide attempt are a much better social ideal to strive for than uncool people who would. I got a call from him a few years later, but it turned out it was because the chick had dumped him. Heaven help him if he ever needs what he had with us in life again.

League of Legends was my introduction to these games. I was a Warcraft 3 fan, but somehow never wound up getting into DotA. I've considered trying DotA 2, but since I play irregularly due to real life I'll probably wind up sticking to LoL because it has a better casual scene plus teams and tournaments I'm already familiar with for watching.

I wanted to pick it up again, but I'm an old fart who doesn't want to go get an NDS to play the official games with and the communities for simulators don't seem too newbie-friendly. I have my education, work, unpaid work, and other stuff to worry about, so I really can't sit and play these games legit unless I want that to be pretty much all my free time ever.

I've always hated that term. Gaming is my subculture, not some sub-group that differentiates themselves based on an irrelevant factor. It's even more annoying when chicks use that factor to disrupt groups with sex appeal and play the popularity game.

I miss the days when it was so hard to make discussions forums into popularity contests that nobody really even bothered. EDIT: To be honest, I kind of hate likes, brohoofs, etc, on forums. I'm against anything that encourages people to post one way or another outside of keeping things functioning, and unless it's on a debate forum where rules would need to be more strict and more effort would need to be put into content. I feel like it encourages people to seek peer validation not through offering their unimpeded insight and humor when they feel like offering it, but through specifically seeking to gain likes. If people can't gauge via likes how much people are enjoying what they're posting and be tempted to react accordingly, they will continue to post and socialize au naturel - which to me, is the whole point of a discussion forum. Unfortunately, things like funny gifs and other low-content fare tend to get the most, and we wind up encouraging people to keep posting them. On another forum I'm on people tend to be very close-minded and quickly try to shut down topics that don't fit into the view of the majority. The first few posts on any such thread are always low-content ones stating the popular opinion with no real explanation, followed by maybe a hundred or so likes from people who want to hop on but don't actually want to participate or expand when they can just piggyback. It also potentially overwhelms the fresh meat to be arguing with someone in such a situation.

T-shirt and maybe boxers, then cocoon myself in blankets and squirm around in that all night. Perhaps someday I will wake up to beautiful wings.

Craving pizza with ranch dressing. It's two a.m. and I need it in a way and to an extent that I can't possibly verbalize.

Plain green onions and ranch dressing on pizza rolls or even pizza?

It's an old song now, but it's also a meme and on some parts of the Internet you cannot ask what love is without it being quoted.

Human beings have enough trouble managing interpersonal relationships and empathizing with others as it is, please stop world. v_v