The thread for flipping shits (and tables)

Yep, me too.

petty but i'm mad and don't have anywhere to put this otherwise

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i decided to move a cd tower to a slightly different location in the room



whoops it fell over whoops all the cds fell out whoops i guess i better check them for cracks before sorting them back out and putting them back into the cd tower (which i removed before taking this picture) after of course finding a more stable location for the cd tower

and yeah thats annoying but this is somehow the second time this has happened tonight and i guess that part of the floor is just, despite all appearances, completely lobsided can't expect to support a thing upright for more than say an hour at a time whatever was i thinking

for bonus irritation because i admit this isn't the worst thing thats ever happened just an especially egregious series of events, all my headphones are dead bar the worst ones that have a cable of about a meter and its the middle of the night so if i'm gonna sort through them all i'm gonna have to do it in silence because my stupid headphones can't manage to the other side of the room

and its not as if i even use these fucking cds anyway god this is all so incredibly unnecessary, all because i wanted to open up a little space next to the radiator so i could sit and be warm and comfortable and be in range of my stupid tiny range headphones to play pokes and listen to music but nope i'm dealing with this, and dealing with it for the second time in a couple of hours.

(for reference when i decided to put the cd tower back up in almost the same location i reasoned what happened the first time is that it must have been sitting slightly atop a wire which imbalanced the tower and i made sure that was out of the way, i didn't reckon upon the tiniest indentation in the floor from where i had to move a piece of furniture god damn this rant is petty but honestly)

To pair with Ixcaliber's rant (I got second-hand frustration from reading it. My sympathy is with you on that one.) here's my petty rant:

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So here I was, working on my new adventure. I've felt like I already messed it all up by making it a fan adventure and not executing the beginning as great as I could've executed it, but gosh darn it I was determined to make it work SOMEHOW. Too many projects have gone to the dust mites and even if this was going to be the thing that breaks me, I might as well finish it in the end.

So I opened MSPaint and worked for a gosh darn hour on the placement and sketch of Panel 1. After it was all done and good, I did the selection tool, wrapped that shizzle around my fudging sketch, and tried to move it like I had done the last million times: with the arrow keys instead of the mouse because the arrow keys were a whole lot more specific.

But I was holding down the control key while I was doing it and instead of a nice and tidy translation, I got something that looked like a piece of modern art.


This. Except with more color and better graphics.

Apparently, holding down the Ctrl key while dragging around an image makes a copy of that image every pixel you move it, making some sort of protruding hellscape that is immune to the wonders of Ctrl-Z if you don't catch on quick enough that it happened.

So yeah.

I was tempted to punch my laptop until it said sorry, but instead decided to shove my anger into tolerance and redo the entire panel. I managed to get another half hour of work done before going "fudge it" and banishing the unfinished shiz into the depths of my recycling bin. Then I went to sleep because sleep was good and kicking the wall until it made an indent was not.

The good news is, this mis-hap managed to inspire me to base the story about someone other than the MC because fudge that person. Fudge them and the panel they were first in.

Use Paint.Net! It's free, but it's a lot more powerful. Having layers will save you a lot of work.

Use Paint.Net! It's free, but it's a lot more powerful. Having layers will save you a lot of work.

Oh thank goodness this exists. All the other stuff lags because my laptop isn't that powerful, so I'm hoping this doesn't do that. I'm actually challenging myself to be a beast at MSPaint (because why not?), but this will help when I have to do something else that needs to be better quality. Thank you!

As a result, we’ll soon be ending support for the Public folder. Dropbox Basic users will be able to use the Public folder until March 15, 2017. After that date the files in your Public folder will become private, and links to these files will be deactivated. Your files will remain safe in Dropbox.

What this means is every image on this forum and anywhere else I've shared images, as well as every SquwakHawk/voice thing, will no longer be accessable to people unless I allow them individually.

Thanks Dropbox Team, you asses.

It sucks a lot but is also totally unsurprising. Being a large scale image host is a completely unsustainable prospect.
Make sure that whatever site you migrate to, you're ready to find a replacement in 3-4 years too!

I'm assuming you can still link content from other folders though, can't you? I don't even have a public folder but I can still share content.

Shareable links from Dropbox don't like being direct linked (for the purposes of BBCode) quite so much as things in a public folder. They generally either take you to a download link or a page that contains the file and a bunch of Dropbox shit, rather than just the file.
Might be there's some way to do it regardless but it'd still require updating alllll of your old links everywhere.

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Yeah, that's what I've always done. It's a bit of a pain, but it works.

My first job application to Japan was turned down in favor of another applicant.

BUT you don't always catch your first bite. Some Japanese (or maybe Singapore or Hong Kong) students are gonna be getting a rad new science teacher next year just you wait.

Yearly reminder that Holidays are hell and i hate them

Yearly reminder that Holidays are hell and i hate them

complete agreement

I'm not feeling well.

my life is slowly falling apart in ways i hoped i could avoid

when you've got the biggest goddamn friend-crush for someone but then remember:

• meeting people sucks
  
• you're mildly depressed and emotionally unavailable
  
• you've got plenty of other relationships you're neglecting
  
• you've got plenty of other projects/things to do you're neglecting
  
• you're the kind of person who views relationship maintenance as another chore on your big daunting listglomerate of autofoisted horseshit
  
• anxiety

you're the kind of person who views relationship maintenance as another chore on your big daunting listglomerate of autofoisted horseshit

finally, somebody puts it into words properly. i've been having that feeling for years.

Ah yes but do you feel this way about everyone? Not just acquaintances and people you have an obligation to maintain relations with, but people you're pretty sure you legitimately care about*?

Do you wonder whenever you do anything nice for anyone whether you're doing it as a genuine thing or just to stop yourself from feeling like you're two degrees of ironic detachment away from your feelings?

If so holy shit I'm sorry you've gotta deal with that, let me tell you it sucks five kinds of ass

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I say pretty sure cuz, like, it doesn't seem like good intentions count for much without some actual affirming words or even gestures to back it up. If all the negative litanies in your head about what an awful person you are and how much you detest objectively harmless shit don't count for shit until you act on them, why are positive emotions any different?

my life is still slowly falling apart in ways i hoped i could avoid and some i couldnt avoid and theres nothing i can do other than hope things i want to happen happen and im ignoring so many things and it hurts so much

lol

it's like... I enjoy being with friends, I want to be with friends, but setting things up outside of school is so much work, too much work, and at the end of it I always end up wanting to hide in my room and not talk to anyone for hours. talking during school is 75% complaining about how tired we all are and 25% talking about games I don't play.

And I kind of want to get into some kind of romantic relationship at some point as well, but then I remember that hoooly shit I have no IDEA what that even really is, how to get into one and how to maintain one and how goddamn tiring it would be to have to deal with the same person all the time, even if you love them or whatever. what do people even DO when they're dating, anyway? it just seems like friendship with sex, and what's the point of that? do people actually like take each other to movies or restaurants or whatever? I don't know. I don't want to go through the effort of learning.

so in the end I just end up sitting in my room and pretending I have friends on the internet, because there I don't actually have to say anything out loud.
I don't even know any of you but you're still easier to talk to than the two or three best friends I've had for like five fucking years.


it's not even social anxiety. it's like I'm just hardwired to be a recluse

if these goddamn kids don't learn to chew with their fucking mouths closed i swear to god i will sew their esophagi shut.

I feel like a human garbage fire and like i cant do anythig right. Simultaneously really upset with/ sick of a friend and feel like everyone hates me because i cant be a decent human being

i wrote a really long rant here. like, so long it got past the point i think most people would even read in one sitting. but i kept going because i knew i was just doing it for myself, get it all out and all that. but then it got really personal and i figured i should just keep it to myself and save it somewhere else. the classic write an angry letter and never send it technique.

tl:dr, too much happening, health is pretty poor, work feels too much, free time too little, sex life completely lacking lately

Ugh. Ugh ugh ugh.

One of the girls I work with said she had a dream where I was having sex with her. This isn't the first time this has happened with someone and I always find it really creepy when someone tells me, especially since it's usually a dream they didn't want.

I'm not sure why someone would tell someone else that a dream like that shocked them awake. Is it supposed to make me feel good that it terrified them or something? When I get creeped out they always get really bothered that I was too. The entire situation is terrible.