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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Toxic Stuff in Movies about L&D |
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Replies: 34
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| Movie theme: If you try hard enough, you can just win the person over. Reality: Some people will not be attracted to you or into you no matter what you do. Seriously! Persistence is toxic! No means no "I will let him know that Persistence Is Futile ." -- Capt. Janeway, speaking to 7 of ... |
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Forum: Games and Video Games Topic: im doing a test campaign as a dm any tips |
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Replies: 10
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Sillylilgoober wrote: Thanks for the tips :3 Do you have any questions?
How is the test campaign going? |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Issac Asimov Saying |
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Replies: 1
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| "Violence Is The Last Refuge Of The Incompetent" (Issac Asimov Foundation 1951) Does this saying bring anyone to mind? Just about every male high-school classmate I ever had -- buncha testosterone-poisoned cretins, every one. BTW: Salvor Hardin was the character whom Asimov quoted in 1942... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: I don't trust mods |
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Posted: Yesterday, 5:41 pm
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Replies: 14
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Nightwing82 wrote: Fnord wrote: All you have to do is follow The Rules , and you will experience no actions against you The mantra of every totalitarian. |
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Forum: Games and Video Games Topic: im doing a test campaign as a dm any tips |
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Posted: 14 May 2024, 6:04 pm
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Replies: 10
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Thanks, again!
Have you looked into other games, like Paranoia, Traveller, and "Big Eyes, Small Mouth"?
I wonder how the OP is doing. |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Mother's Day Thread, "official" |
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Posted: 14 May 2024, 6:00 pm
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| My mother was born on Mother's Day in 1934. She would have been 90 years old, had she not smoked for most of her life. She did the best that any mother could do with 6 kids and a bipolar/alcoholic husband. I miss her laughter. I miss her wisdom. I miss her strength of character. I miss her. :he... |
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Forum: WrongPlanet.net discussion Topic: MODERATOR ATTENTION: How to get help when you need it |
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Posted: 14 May 2024, 5:52 pm
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| This Thread and This Other Thread seem to be covering some of the same ground, maybe because they were started by the same member. Maybe they could be merged. At the very least, maybe both should be in a Members Only sub-forum. Just suggesting; since they may also be perfectly fine just as the... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: I don't trust mods |
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Posted: 14 May 2024, 1:10 am
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Replies: 14
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All you have to do is follow The Rules , and you will experience no actions against you from our mods.
They're a decent bunch here. |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Lithium in drinking water |
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Posted: 13 May 2024, 7:46 pm
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Replies: 5
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| Of course Lithium exists in tap water. So does just about every other naturally-occurring element. This is nothing new or news-worthy -- more of a click-bait scare tactic used by commercial pay-to-view websites like Science Direct. |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Your Personal Stories of Malicious Compliance |
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Posted: 13 May 2024, 7:19 pm
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Replies: 17
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| Hope this isn't too off-topic: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-gets-realistic-picture-boat-painted-fence-designed-hide-rcna151928 It's not a personal story about me, but it is malicious compliance, or at least a "light-hearted jibe at officialdom" as the article would have it. I ... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: Would you save humanity? |
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Posted: 13 May 2024, 7:10 pm
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Replies: 18
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| Imagine, in a fictitious and strictly hypothetical scenario, that there is a virus that will cause the complete extinction of humans while doing no harm to any other species. And imagine that, for whatever reason, you are the only scientist in the world capable of curing this virus and saving human... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Warning: Superman costume does not enable flight. |
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Posted: 13 May 2024, 7:02 pm
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Replies: 17
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| There is this warning on a Superman costume. It's been there at least since the mid-1960s. According to some "Old Wives' Tales" I heard as a kid, at least one person injured themselves by trying to fly off a garage roof while wearing a Superman Hallowe'en costume. Read the Washington Pos... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: destroyed your life |
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Posted: 13 May 2024, 12:15 am
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Replies: 18
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| A person can be a survivor and still have lasting damage to their lives, especially if their kids have been hurt or they have lasting physical and psychological injuries. 100% agree. I did not mean to imply otherwise. The phrase "I am a survivor, not a victim" is what I recite to myself ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Have you heard of "tone policing"? |
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Posted: 13 May 2024, 12:08 am
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| It is not "Tone Policing" to ask someone to lower their voice and speak in more pleasant tones. Some of my former co-workers did not seem to understand the concept of an "Indoor Voice". And it was not just me asking them to moderate their voices. People in other offices and on... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: destroyed your life |
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Posted: 13 May 2024, 12:03 am
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Replies: 18
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To paraphrase Friedrich Nietzsche: "That which does not destroy me has made a grave tactical error."
I am a survivor, not a victim. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: destroyed your life |
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Posted: 12 May 2024, 10:33 pm
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Replies: 18
Views: 542
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| As long as I remain alive, my life is not "destroyed". |
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