Make sure you tell us when you get to Blightown asap so we can make sure you don't miss something super super cool in the game that's kind of tucked away.

Quote from: Dietrich Six on January 17, 2016, 12:32:54 PM

So
much
farming

and also

nothing like 1 shotting gargs at lvl 20

I beat the ever living shit out of somebody and I didn't let them get back up until after I was done.

I'm no fan of violence. Hate starting it. But it was somebody who legitimately deserved it. Even still. They weren't expecting me to attack them when I did. It was a mistake to do it though.

lmao what a puss taking the suckerpunch
probably eats wheaties

Quote from: eggsalad on February 06, 2016, 05:13:38 AM

League o Legends and Dota

and Hearthstone in between

i am cancer

jump off a bridge

I love rogue-likes but dont have the time now with college
mobas are the future

why did they make it like the first as much as possible?

because the movie serves to establish new characters, not a new story
guess which direction the prequels went

When a parent intentionally hurts their kids in any fashion, this bond is ripped up and thrown in the garbage. And it can never be recovered. I don't know the finer details on this one, but it speaks for itself. Kids trust their parents, absolutely. And breaking that trust through physical violence or any kind of abuse creates heaping truckloads of potential problems, depending on the severity and the circumstances.

I'd enjoy something measurable here.

3.) they derive a perverse sense of pleasure out of inflicting pain on somebody smaller and weaker than them.

I think you're projecting at this point.

It didn't make me a worse person.

Quote from: eggsalad on February 03, 2016, 10:45:19 PM

Some misbehavior needs to be stopped faster than standard conditioning can achieve sometimes. The thing about kids is, not everything works with every kid all the time.

So condition them to be resentful, sadistic bastards who solve their problems with violence. Brilliant solution.

That's why you don't solve everything with spanking or just keep spanking even when it doesn't work.
Nothing about parenting should or can be rigid between individuals.

I might relapse if I don't manage to salvage myself in Calc.
Otherwise I've been like literally free of it for the first time in memory.

but we all know how fucking long that lasts

*metallic alarm sounds akin to the death of silence*

"I have aspergers."

I don't pass out when it happens, I'm still conscious, but my brain sort of shuts down sometimes I fall over and start seizing. Only once did I hit something hard while falling so I'm lucky I guess. I was mostly numb so got on pretty well.

What makes the game fun for me is the combat, and the whole not-knowing-what's-gonna-come-next. Right now, those are my biggest takeaways so far. I feel like I'm really on a perilous journey, and it's cool.

I feel you.

Just so many times I find myself amazed at how I had found yet another new area with a whole new sets of quirks and enemies. Nowadays the game seems so small, but that first playthrough it felt like some surreal never ending story.

almost ran one down with his truck

can you please not act like that is in any way not the officer running into the direction of the vehicle like a monkey

"Like father like son"

Personally speaking, I would prefer to raise my own offspring over another, simply because there is good possibility my offspring's behavior is something akin to either me or my partner (or both) thus making how to approach raising them slightly easier. While there is a good possibility the child could be something completely different from the two of us, it's not as big of a gamble as adopting a child.

The other reason is as you stated, the process is very tedious. Screening the potential parents has a variety of problems and basically expects all parents to create the perfect child. News flash: That is not the reality, while parenting you WILL fuck up in some instances, that's an unavoidable fact, but it's all about reducing those mistakes and the ones your parents may have made when we we're raised. This fact however, is one child services doesn't believe in.

Quote from: eggsalad on January 29, 2016, 02:50:36 PM

Which is one of the most ape-ass, selfish desires out there.
The legit reason to not want to adopt is because the adoption process right now is cumbersome and takes forever. "muh genes" is grounds for not letting someone pass their genes IMO. I know you weren't saying that's what you felt but guh this one fucking infuriates me.

The only real behavioral inheretence is manifested in conditions like aspergers, which is an entire other touchy subject because just because the parents have learned to live at peace with something like that, it is not very ethical at all to knowingly put it on a child. Aspergers can lead to some crippling fucking depression and death.

Everything else has hardly any emperical basis though. If you try adopting a child who's well developed already, yeah they're coming in with a lot of conditioning outside your control, but waiting for a younger orphan isn't out of the question (again the system is the problem).

And I think people need to reframe how they see dealing with an adopted child's problems. It seems when people imagine an adopted's problems they suddenly feel like they don't have responsibility to help their child get through them. That's not how parenting works, if you want to be a parent you should want to assist your child with their problems no matter who's fault it is it happened.