Your journey into retro games?

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Believe me sir, I am NO racist. I myself am a minority (Indian). I guess I'll clean up my act around here. I'm sincerely sorry to anyone I have offended.
It's cool, and I wouldn't have insinuated you'd be better off leaving is your posts weren't worded in such a way as to suggest you hold values that are antithetical to those this community has usually stood for. Since it seems, now, that you don't hold those values, an apology is a good first step in repairing your reputation. :)
I just want to clear up that my posts may be controversial but they are NEVER meant to hurt anyone.
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oxymoron wrote:Why don't you try something homeopathic?
No

No no no no no no no.

Homeopathy is complete fucking bullshit other than potential placebo effects. :evil:
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Hobie-wan wrote:
oxymoron wrote:Why don't you try something homeopathic?
No

No no no no no no no.

Homeopathy is complete fucking bullshit other than potential placebo effects. :evil:
That's funny. As a child I was born with severe eczema. I literately had It every where on my body. Yes, everywhere. If I went into the sun for too long my skin would crack and blood would spew out. The doctors couldn't understand what the hell was going on and had me take a plethora of drugs. As well as a few times tore a piece of my skin off while fully conscious. :cry: After a few years of that bullshit my parents went to a homeopathic doctor who prescribed me this pills made from a combination of various plants around the world. Within one year my skin was clear. Now is that a "placebo effect". If you don't believe me I have pictures.
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oxymoron wrote: After a few years of that bullshit my parents went to a homeopathic doctor who prescribed me this pills made from a combination of various plants around the world. Within one year my skin was clear. Now is that a "placebo effect". If you don't believe me I have pictures.
That sucks and glad you got over it, but the homeopathic stuff did nothing. The plant stuff helped or you simply got better.

Water does not have memory and diluting some actual drug down until there's 1 part per million of water is just water. If you really believe that water has memory, then enjoy the thought of drinking pisswater because most of the water you're ingesting will have been through a sewage treatment plant recently, filtered through the ground after being pissed out by woodland creatures, or rain passing through various animal turds on its way filtered through the ground to the water table before being pumped into the water system. Even water that was recently created as a byproduct of combustion probably came out of a car tailpipe along with all of the other exhaust.

Anyway, I don't want to divert this thread further. I just don't want someone that has a real problem to waste money they don't have on bullshit that won't help them.
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Anyway, I don't want to divert this thread further. I just don't want someone that has a real problem to waste money they don't have on bullshit that won't help them.
Please don't call It "bullshit" just because you don't believe in it because In my case and many many others It has done almost literal miracles. It works for some and not for others but It's always worth a try.
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I'm not entirely sure what's going on in this thread right now, but I remember earlier a member was talking about dealing with depression. In 2009 I had the worst depression of my life going on, well it ended up that a simple book helped me turn my life around. The book is called Shut Up, Stop Whining, and Get a Life (links to the latest edition). I know that name sounds antagonistic and silly, but honestly I found this book to be amazing. I understand we are all different people with different situations and needs, so one sole book is not the magic bullet to fix everyone's problems in the world. I'm just saying this book was a major catalyst in helping myself fix my own problems. So maybe it could help someone else too.
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In the "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought" section there's like 12 other books written by the same guy, all with names like this :lol:

If you want self help, just stare at Manowar's warriors of the world cover art for a while, and then listen The Dawn Of Battle a couple of times while simultaneously playing Contra 4, Wizardry 4, Quake world or Mushihime-sama Futari
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Maybe other people who buy his books also buy more of them because they are actually really good books. But we all have our own coping means I suppose.
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I never ... depression ... Nazi's ... Manowar ...

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oxymoron wrote:
Anyway, I don't want to divert this thread further. I just don't want someone that has a real problem to waste money they don't have on bullshit that won't help them.
Please don't call It "bullshit" just because you don't believe in it because In my case and many many others It has done almost literal miracles. It works for some and not for others but It's always worth a try.
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