I can't wait to unleash SHOCKTROOPER MK.II e.e

Bright Yellow armour, Bright Yellow lightning gun.
Quad Damage pickup.

It's go time buttercup.

Holy fuck I've been watching siege gameplay and they've really fucked shit up
Unlike in previous games where you could plan an attack against a settlement from any 360 angle it's all linear this time. You can only attack them straight on.
what. the. fuck. CA.

sort your shit you fucks

i get that there are going to be copy and paste settlements for minor regions they can't build unique ones everywhere but these are major cities in the lore like zhufbar and altdorf

Oh boy

guess they went for the tabletop-to-game literally

I mean it's shitty but it wouldn't make much difference for me, I hate splitting my forces up and if I'm gonna take a wall it's a speartip strategy <_<

I hate watching them play battles though, they always balls it up rather than concentrating their army into one overwhelming attack e___e

Quote from: Mr. Psychologist on April 13, 2016, 07:16:16 AM

I think the whole point of his character was supposed to be 'unlikeable degenerate snake' so that you are more sympathetic to the mongols.

So the answer would be: probably, even if nothing happened

I liked the setting and show but egh, netflix really needs to stop thinking with it's dick when it comes to OC.

To me the only nude scenes in the show that have any purpose to them are the ones with Mei Lin. For the rest of you can take away and there wouldn't be any impact to the show. With hers on the other hand they either go with her character or they setup events. The other pointless scene is the one where Macro has sex with that female Mongolian warrior. I don't see what point there was to that scene when she had no interactions with him after it and she didn't marry him.

Actually I think that one did return later as another plot point to the effect of 'you fucked up now son' but that might have been someone else.

If they did it with some cut to black shit it wouldn't be half as bad, but instead they just go ham with it on all fronts as often as possible as with the rest of their shows.

BF4

nice

doubly nice for being one i haven't seen before gg

Quote from: Mr. Psychologist on April 13, 2016, 02:16:50 PM

Quote from: zenengerX on April 13, 2016, 02:14:13 PM

Quote from: TBlocks on April 12, 2016, 10:57:12 PM

The online ones are total BS.

Real IQ tests are administered by psychologists.

I agree.

Quote from: Mr. Psychologist on April 13, 2016, 01:29:44 PM

Tell me if I'm dumb or not.

you're a fucking retard jimmy, i'm sorry

Oh.

and here I thought anyone named Jimmy was a boy genius.

that's just to make jimmys feel better about themselves

Quote from: Mr. Psychologist on April 13, 2016, 01:29:44 PM

Couple of things that cropped up seemed fairly positive though, prognosis wise, in that it appears to be treatable with CBT adaptations/emotional awareness training etc.

Apparently it's correlated with some personality disorders. I'm sticking my neck into an area I don't understand, but it feels like this could go some way to explaining how disorders like BPD are on a spectrum, with only mildly alexithymiatic people not qualifying for a 'serious' diagnosis but still exhibiting symptoms like fleeting emotions or a lack of identity.

In terms of treatment, this book is cited on the wikipedia page: "Disorders of Affect Regulation: Alexithymia in Medical and Psychiatric Illness". Apparently, the emotional deficits involved in alexithymia makes people incredibly unresponsive to psychotherapy and entering such therapy can exacerbate problems like substance abuse. That said, a cursory read makes it look as if people can be differentiated into those who have it due to unfortunate circumstances, and those who have it as a stable personality trait.

Perhaps those afflicted by poor circumstances are the ones most helped by therapy, whereas those who have it as a stable personality trait do not. Is there any basis for something like that in the psychology literature? Like, situation-driven depression vs. endogenous depression and how easily each responds to treatment?

Hmm, it could work like that but the thing with situation vs endogenous depression is that both can be equally hard/easy to treat, it just depends on what is available.

Situational depression can be resolved by extricating a person from what is making them depressed, which doesn't come too easily in most situations hence the depression (Feeling of being trapped/no escape) and endogenous can either be resolved with medication quite rapidly or it's resistant in which case it can be a real bitch to treat.

For PDs, there has been for the longest time a consensus of 'well shit' because a lot of the typical therapies straight up don't work and medication isn't the right sort of treatment at all. But there has been some headway kind of recently with dialectical behavioural therapy, which apparently works even with BPD (a bloody miracle tbqh).

The BPD spectrum hypothesis is more to do with explaining the similarity of borderlines with bipolars, but it's not quite a proven one and it's a bit dicey to try and link the two imo. I'm not opposed to the idea, it's just not got enough weight behind it at the moment.

For alexithymia, if the worst case is that there is no cure, it is still likely that you can ameliorate the severity of it with emotional awareness. If a person doesn't feel empathy (properly) to garner an understanding of someone else's mind, then teaching them to recognise the objective signs and measures of emotional states might be helpful for improving human interactions.

A bit like microexpression training but less about the little twitches and more about the general recognition and understanding of emotions as a concept, even if they are apparently devoid/deficient.

That being said, if it's more like autism and get ready for this one which is currently hypothesized to be an extremely male brain (I'll follow up with more detail about the neurology of it if you'd like but this is already a bit cumbersome) then the prognosis of getting someone to be able to recognise emotional states is a bit less optimistic. AND THEN to add to all the fun, there is a ted talk that i'll try to find that actually says 'shut the fuck up you pessimistic motherfuckers' towards the deterministic outlook of autism development and suggests that you can actually nip it in the bud somewhat and avoid the kind of crippling autism in favour of a much more mild/high functioning standard.

Question is OP, what chapter is the terminator from?

That wins this thread and any future edgethread.

I really hope in 10 years time he looks back at what a pillock he was.

I think the whole point of his character was supposed to be 'unlikeable degenerate snake' so that you are more sympathetic to the mongols.

So the answer would be: probably, even if nothing happened

I liked the setting and show but egh, netflix really needs to stop thinking with it's dick when it comes to OC.

so uh this happened

help ;-;

I love endless space

Favourite has to be Dawn of War Dark Crusade/Soulstorm though, with AOE3 coming a very close second. TW shogun 2 is up there too and total warhammer will be when i get to play it.

It's really quite satisfying when you forge an alliance between all of the races against the not-tyranids and then go to purge the systems they have infected to save the planets from being consumed.

Then when they are dead, it's usually a sort of awkward sidewards glance between the other races and I before everyone fuckin legs it for the scientific victory. Quality game.

i retook it

My grandpa was/is one of the best drivers in the family, he's been an advanced driver* for decades now but recently it's been between jarring and outright terrifying when he drives.

He does this thing where he'll half-slow to let someone pull out ahead of him, then speed the fuck up and rev the car to death before slamming the breaks when you can see the whites of the driver's eyes in their mirror.
Then he proceeds to swear profusely about 'THESE FUCKIN LITTLE SHOITES PULL OUT LIKE IT'S THEIR GOD GIVEN ROIGHT' and rinse/repeat for the journey.

As much as I love my grandparents, he shouldn't be driving and I'm pretty sure he'd fail a test if he had to sit one tomorrow, advanced driver or not.

*Dunno if yanks call it something else, but it's basically police driver standards.

;-; i just can't walk 5 extra minutes to a greengrocers ;-;

;-; my rascal only has enough charge to make it to walmart and back ;-;

Fat Acceptance =/= Fat Shaming

There isn't much cause to be unpleasant to someone for being overweight, but nobody in their right mind should be accepting/promoting it.