Iargely Iegendry

No, the thing is bad, don't get me wrong. I don't doubt that some people can relate to this situation or have stake in it. I'm not advocating not caring. 
 
I just don't care. It just seems silly to judge or draw lines between people based on hypothetical situations. Because to us, to Americans, the situation might as well be hypothetical. We didn't even know those people existed until this happened. If the media had made the whole thing up, we wouldn't even know.

"meme meme"
How would somebody win or lose in this scenario? It sounds like it would be a "no but then I don't die and I look you in the eye and a gun shoots out of my eyeball because my eyeball was secretly a gun the whole time and your head explodes" "no but that was just a clone the real me is right behind you and I decapitate you with my chaos katana blade" etc

Normal is highly overrated!

Metal gear solid series

The Departed, Gangs of New York, Magnolia, you fool.

http://amitransgender.com

Make it use tumblr

Heh heh

Make it use tumblr

Heh heh

Make it use tumblr

Heh heh

Make it use tumblr

Heh heh

He's a neo-Tokyo

We know you hate/want to kiss pheo. We get it, trust me!

We know you hate/want to kiss pheo. We get it, trust me!

The cultural questions I knew I would be in the middle, because I'm always in the middle in every single political test I take. I was libertarian as well in my politics class. 
 
I've been telling people for years I'm not a conservative. People always seem to think I am, but no. I have some conservative views, sure, but I also have liberal ones. I'm more conservative when it comes to the family, respect, rank, etc. My family is very conservative. They always talk bad about black people and poor people (they often think blacks are the poor). It makes me angry.
 
I honestly just get tired of people (especially in my home town) saying that the poor are worthless and we shouldn't help them. "My tax dollars shouldn't go to their drugs!" Well, okay, that's a real Christian viewpoint you have there, man. So I'm pretty liberal on issues of the poor and standards of living. Everyone, gay, straight, black, white, man, woman, etc. should have abundant access to necessary things, such as food, clothing, shelter, etc. And, yes, those of us with more money should have to give more. A higher tax on the rich would help everyone but the only people who don't need economical help. The rich.
 
I think social issues such as abortion and gay marriage are not nearly as important as everyone seems to think. I think much more important issues are dealing with our national debt, dealing with the balance of powers between the president, congress, and the court, and giving everyone a decent standard of living. 
 
I think minimum wage should be enough to live comfortably on, and I think businesses should be restricted from raising prices and the government should be restricted from raising taxes in response. If your business loses a bit of money to go toward making your employees' quality of lives better, good.

I was totally clothed though
I didn't mean to like just not acknowledge your post, Allen. I think you're right, after you elaborated.

I don't even care about this "is it his hair or is it a hat" pokemon bullshit. At least that's a solvable problem. This weenie has NOTHING on Jotaro:

A thread fill of circles and spirals is the last thing teto left behind before disappearing mysteriously one day. Inspection of his room by his parents following the disappearance revealed the walls, ceiling and the floor covered in spirals and circles.

 
Just like Michelle Obama, you too can join the movement to save hundreds of lives. I'm talking about those precious, young lives of the kidnapped Nigerian girls who you didn't know existed at all until this brave movement. Take a photo of yourself holding up a piece of paper with the #BringBack hashtag. If it's too much work to hold up the photo, you can simply stand next to it. Or if you don't have a camera, you can still get active in this movement and  always just write the hashtag on a piece of paper and stand next to it. If you don't have a piece of paper, you can just imagine the hashtag in your mind. You'll be a really good person for it, just please take the second out of your day to change the world...
 
Let's keep this up, you guys and soon we can save innocent lives!
 
 
Hateful spoiler:

If the same characters are used from the Hoenn region and if trainer customization is still a thjng, we can finally see once and for all that the male trainer doesn't have white hair, but a hat. I thought he had white hair for the longest time and thought it was really stupid looking.

The theme of man Vs nature was prominent in the originals. This is just speculation, but perhaps players will use a hybrid car instead of a bike?

MS Paint Adventures are back in style.
 

 
Our new friend stands in the middle of an open field. The rolling grass hills stretch off in every direction through the sprawling dystopian metropolis known as Tokyo City! Seedier and seedier people inhabit the alleys and pubs and stuff. You're just a pretty young human being with nothing to lose except your father and your life, which are both pretty important and so it's not nothing at all. You're pretty vulnerable really as Tokyo City's citizens go. You're in the main street, neon signs hanging from the branches of trees reading "Beware of the dog" and "Emergency phone in case you get scared"
 
What is this person's name?

Being an emotionless psychopath is pretty good though, all things considered.

unrelated: what's the Limmy video that you posted once? He was like "what if I hate them?" or something after some teenagers walked by. 
 
Edit: nevermind, I found it.
 
 
 
I think I was afraid to express myself in the past, but I've grown up with that mindset. I don't think it's terrible to express yourself, but my learned tendency makes me have to actively think about it when I'm doing it. I don't like not knowing if I am doing something for me or for me to get something from someone (which is why I think people talk about themselves openly). So I often just don't do it. I feel like that thought process makes me look at what others share with more scrutiny. For some reason lately, the concept of expressing yourself is really, really funny. It's probably being around so many hip people and going to this art school. 
 
I just think "what are you supposed to be?" I just feel like it's futile to express yourself. They are putting energy into trying to be different, yet they aren't really different at all. I think they should do it completely or not at all. That's my first thought. My second thought it that it's kind of small for a person to think of themselves as unique or special. Maybe they are keeping their goals small, too, and maybe trying to be relatively unique in their own circle, or in their school, or in their town. After the Internet became a popular thing, I just feel like people are trying harder than ever to be unique because there's more "competition". The world is smaller, and the fact that they aren't so special after all makes them want to take their self-expression up a notch.
 
edit:
This is lit'rally the most punk rock post I've ever written holy puppy. I'm laughing re-reading it. But I mean all of it.

Also, as a side note, I'm not entirely sure that it's that bad a thing to be validated by other people, by talking about your interests and your day in public spaces. I'm not sure how damaging that really is. Being able to express yourself in front of other people is a pretty necessary skill. If I said "We don't need to post about our interests on Facebook!" I'd only be saying that because I'm vaguely self-conscious about sharing my thoughts and feelings with other people. People knowing what I like gives a small feeling of vulnerability which makes me a bit uncomfortable. Me condemning social media would just be me trying to allow myself to become more introverted by sharing less and less. In order to be comfortable around other people you have to be able to share. At least I do.
 
Straining yourself by holding things back, tensing up your brain so that nothing gets out, controlling the border between thought and speech, it bound to be tiring. No wonder introverts can't handle social situations for too long. Like, maybe there are people who like being alone but can also express themselves in a healthy way, I dunno. But sometimes it feels like people who call themselves introverts just have trouble sharing with other people.
 
Like, I don't like to call myself an introvert because it feels like I'm trying to escape from expressing my emotions. I don't like the idea of being quiet and recluse. Sounds miserable. I'm not sure if I dislike that way of life because I have an inherent desire to share myself with others; Or because my dad does lots with the community, my sister is very outgoing, my oldest brother is an ex-activist, and my second-oldest brother is quite outgoing and charismatic. Maybe I just have people who A: make me feel that I should live up to that too, or B: have shown me that way of being, and so I gravitate towards it because the way has been paved.
 
Blogging still. I'm very tired now actually.

I think you and I have really similiar internal monologues and thought processes some times. More so than anyone else that I've met (granted, I don't always get to read their thoughts like I get to read yours). 

I only care to the point where I will only feel the need to protect something or be emotionally invested in something when there is something I feel I can do about it. This Nigerian kidnappings doesn't make me angry. I don't have that kind of empathy for other folk. Consciously I care, but on a deeper level I don't. It's not worth my time and energy to care. Nigeria can sort itself out with some help from their friends.
 
It's not that I don't care about the overall problem with the global mistreatment of women, but I'm just more focused on how I can improve womens' standing and treatment by picking apart my own mind and finding where I'm going wrong. I'll try and improve things from where I am, and by trying to influence others. I do care, but deep down I know when to stop caring. I'm not caring to the point of going out and educating people, but I'll share my viewpoint with people when I see the opportunity. I don't like to cause too much upset by causing an argument or forcing a topic.
 
Like, as an example (not a dig at you saha); when Phanta (not a dig at you either) fell out with folk one time I remember, you and him argued, while somehow when I talked to him we had a nice enough chat about it. I'm not sure which was better for actually communicating our point to him, but I did think that maybe I was able to make a less inflamed discussion out of it was because I just didn't get as invested in it as you did. I wanted to tell him where he was wrong, but you wanted to make him know why he was wrong. You forced it a lot than I did, because you were more invested in it.
 
I prefer being casual about most things. I feel like things go better if you're more laid back about it. Like my irl friend who has emotional issues, she'll often just turn things around to be an insult against herself, or she'll scoff at anything nice you try and say. I just laugh it off and try and take her less seriously than she's taking herself, in the hopes that it'll somehow rub off on her. I feel like if I took her seriously about it then the serious atmosphere would just make her more rigid, and trying to reform that structure can just cause it to snap in defense. I'm not sure I have it right, and I'm sure that if I faked sympathy and made some white lies, she'd be happy for it, but then she'd just get attached to someone who isn't real, and that's not fair on her. It's the safest way to deal with her for me, without letting my irritation at her difficult nature be seen. Sometimes when I make light, she talks a little more lightly about it too, and I feel like that's a small confirmation of my technique. The manner in which something is said contributes to an atmosphere, and that atmosphere influences the response of the other person. So it's best to try and maintain a light atmosphere when you're trying not to cause a fuss. Though it's true that tough love is sometimes needed, because not everybody is so simply dealt with. I'm off on a tangent here, but this is just me preaching the virtues of not caring quite so much.

Also relevant: