How difficult is it to get yourself going?

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Niode wrote: Sorry to rant about this, but it's something that really gets on my goat, we have a serious problem with teenage pregnancies over here and the amount of kids that are having kids just does not bode well for the next generation at all.
Dude, don't get me started.
I was at a grocery store the other day where a teenage Mother was feeding her baby fucking Coca~Cola. Her husband actually told her, "That ain't good for her", to which she replied, "Well, if I take it away from her she fucking cries, see?" *takes the coke away, baby cries* "See?".

What else drove me crazy is that their grocery cart was full of nothing but sweetened cereal, Little Debbie treats, soda (obviously), and Totino Pizzas. A full fucking cart at that. No milk. No formula. No diapers. Just a cart full of junk. And take a wild guess on how they paid for it. No seriously, take a guess.

If you guessed food stamps, give yourself a pat on the back. I'd bet my savings account they feed their baby Totino's pizza and Coca~Cola for dinner.
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Hrmmm, I guess there are people on my side in here about this.

I've been told I shouldn't be allowed to have kids because of the way I think children aught to be raised. I'm sorry, but I think I was raised pretty damn good, and I'm going to apply the same techniques my parents did.

Does that mean them thar kids are going to play outdoors when they get home from school? Damn straight, play tag or soccer or I don't give a shit what, go play. You get your excercise and I get my alone time. But you better be home in time for dinner or you ain't eating.

You want sweets? Oh really, ok well pick ONE box, it's going in the high cubbard you can't reach or even know where it is, and you can have ONE for dessert or something. Oh and you best of finished your plate, because 9 times out of 10, if you have finished your plate you aren't going to be hungry enough to eat that dessert.

Oh so you yelled and cussed out your teacher because they didn't accept the fact you didn't do your homework. On top of that you lied to me when I asked about you finishing it and you said you did in study period. Oh please, I don't want no 'buts, ifs, ors about it'... you just earned yourself a week groundation and a smack across the face.

Oh yeah and groundation means you don't get shit. You get to stay in your room, that's it. And screw this shit where kids get TVs, videogames, phones, and shit in their room. No... when you're old enough to buy yourself a TV or videogames then you can have them in your room. But until then they stay in the den to be shared with the entire family.

Oh and don't even get me STARTED on cell phones. Screw that shit. I got my first cell phone when I was 18 and I lived on my own. "oh but that was a different generation, today kids need them, how will you know where they are?" Hrmmm, how will I know where they are? Let's see, well they best be with in yelling distance of the house. If I yell for them and they aren't front and center in 5 minutes they got some explaining to do. Unless that is they asked to go somewhere, like a friends, in which case I was told where they are going. And if they'll be there a while, staying for dinner, or what not, that family should have a home phone available for you to call me and tell me. Oh yeah, and I want to know where they live first too.

Tell me where in there they need a cell phone? What are you letting your 7 year old just head on down to the mall on their own with out you knowing? I mean come on! And yes, 7, I live across the street from an elementary school, and I see these CHILDREN walking around with cell phones. And not even cheapies, iPhones for crap sake. IPHONES. ::shakes head:: screw you America.

Oh and speaking of living across the street from an elementary school. What the hell happened to the school bus!? I get up in the morning and decide I want me a coffee... it's not a common thing, but hey, today I want a coffee and a danish to go with my work. So I go through my backyard and down toward my grocer. But oh no, I can't barely cross the street because my entire block is covered in cars and children. There's about 3 half filled buses, and about 500 cars zipping in and out. It's not a huge school or anything, I live in a back corner suburb of my city, so this school is relatively small... and it appears a good 60% (and I'm being generous) are being driven to school by their parents. Oh and the ones with in walking distance, yep mommy walks them across the street. Ok ok, if they're 4 or 5 I can get this... but lady you daughter is 10, I think she can walk the 100 yards to school on her own for God sake. Furthermore where in GOD's name do you find the time!? I thought statistics stated that more families consist of 2 working parents instead of 1 like 50 years ago. Ok, if both you crazy bastards are working all the time, then where the fuck is the time to drive and sit your ass down twice a day to drop off and pick up your kids??? I mean shit, the school gets out at 2, who the fuck do you work for that lets you leave for a good hour plus to sit in front of your kids school waiting for them to get off and driving them home.

Ok, ok, you might have good reasons for how you can fit this all in your schedule. You're a parent, you work hard at making time for your kids. Good for you... but you know what!? You don't need to be driving them to school. You don't need to fill my fucking block with 500 cars to drop off your brats. All when there is a perfectly good school bus that does it efficiently, cleanly, and fuck all you green bag carrying bastards standing out there... you want to be green use the fucking public transporation made available to your God damn brat there.




ugh...

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lordofduct wrote:Hrmmm, I guess there are people on my side in here about this.

Oh and don't even get me STARTED on cell phones.

ugh...

Earthworm Jim Soundtrack should calm me down... I'm going to stop.
Jeez-aloo. Cell Phones.
I walk my dog Ripley every morning. Rain, sleet, shine or snow (well, in eastern NC, we rarely ever get snow, and when we do, people flip the fuck out). Anywho, I always see kids waiting for the ol' cheese wagon.

You know what I used to do while waiting for the bus? Tell crude jokes, kick other kids in the nuts, work on homework that was late, spit my gum in the air and try to catch it, or just wait for the bus to arrive.

Now I can't blame the kids, but I can blame the parents and schools, because kids are on IPhones and Balckberry's, tweeting, texting, sexting, and playing games while waiting for the bus. I would have loved to play my GB while waiting for the bus, but for one, my parents wouldn't allow it, and two, schools wouldn't allow it. The school system is soft on this type of crap.

LOD- I would not suggest listening to the EWJ soundtrack. Although awesome, it might get you riled up. I would suggest the aquatic theme from DKCountry. Very, very relaxing.
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lordofduct wrote:...snip...
Welcome back sir. You have been missed. And I can agree with you on every single point... maybe not the smack in the face. Behind works just as well.
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Dudes, you are getting it so wrong, it's not funny.

My parents overpreassure me, have always did because I'm a wiz kid. I got a 9 over ten in an exam? I did wrong by them. I didn't got the highest marks and didn't beat everyone else and jumped a full year? I'm evil and I don't want to study.

Have you ever felt bad because you were "only" the best student in the whole school instad of the entire country? Cut me some slack.

Now, the problem is, I don't feel well enough to study but I can't relax because I feel preassured to study something that leads to feeling worse and studying less. Image your life if you couldn't relax. No videogames for you.

It's not that I do not want to, it's because I can't. My psichologyst (Who, no offense, knows far more about this than anyone of us) compares it to a thirsty horse. It doesn't mind how much you tell the horse that he is going to drink later, he will not be able to run until he drinks. And my parents, among other things, don't allow me to "drink"

Do you think I'm lazy? Then, fuck you because I'm not. I have been feeling bad all my life because others thought I was lazy for not being better than everyone else, because since my CI is over 200 I must be 329048239 times better at studying. I'm not, I can't memorize.

And I'm not smarter than anybody else, much the contrary.


PD: No offense but saying that ADD doesn't exist is downright offensive and it's like saying VIH doesn't exist. You are not qualificated to say ADD doesn't exist.
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Thanks much for the replies, thoughts and suggestions everyone. I do have goals (you'd hope to have some at 23), and am *this* close to finally finishing my Bachelors....in psychology, quite ironically. That being said, I don't think I'm gonna touch the rest of the topic, haha. But for those that do, godspeed!
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General_Norris wrote: My parents overpreassure me, have always did because I'm a wiz kid. I got a 9 over ten in an exam? I did wrong by them. I didn't got the highest marks and didn't beat everyone else and jumped a full year? I'm evil and I don't want to study.



PD: No offense but saying that ADD doesn't exist is downright offensive and it's like saying VIH doesn't exist. You are not qualificated to say ADD doesn't exist.
1) Even in graduate school, when I got a 100% on an exam, my Father would always ask, "Was that the best you could do?". It was probably 25% a joke, 75% motivation.

2) I agree with you that ADD exists, it is just over diagnosed.

Listen. I wish you the best. Seriously, I do. But listen to the majority of the people here. For a "wiz kid" (piss jokes excluded) it sure is surprising you don't use spell check. This is not a knock at you. If anything I just want you to think about putting yourself in your parents shoes. I'm saying this without knowing what pressure your parents are putting on you though. So take it with a grain of salt.
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General_Norris wrote:Dudes, you are getting it so wrong, it's not funny.
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Dude you totally mininterpretted what we said. We didn't say your parents weren't being dicks. Actually they fuckin' are (and I don't care which way you take that statement).

See as you concede, the issue isn't ADD/ADHD... it's your parents have way to high of standards they are reflecting you against. Does this mean there is something wrong with YOU? Does this mean that you are a failure? Or that you have ADD and need to see a doctor?

NO

They think because you aren't the end all be all motha fucka earth (because you know, an ego that big means that my spawn best be the best... lets blow Einstein and Newton out of the water with our peatry dish semen concoction!). Come on, you're a normal guy, like the rest of us. You aren't stupid, but you're not fucking Nietzsche!

In the end, we agree, you don't need the fucking doctor. Where we may not agree (or maybe we do) your parents probably need a fucking doctor. Because I'm sorry your an average joe... most of us are. Nothing wrong with that. Humans procrastinate, we get lazy at times, we need our interests peeked. It's just the way it works!


But as someone already said, doctors are ready overdiagnose a bunch of nonsense. Yeah I bet a few people out there actually have some over active nonsense that's really hard to prove and blah blah blah that could be called ADD... but do the 10 kids on my block taking amphetamines for it actually have it!? NO! No they fucking don't. Because that many kids fucking have it, then it's not an abnormality, it's common, it's of the fucking NORM. And thusly we really shouldn't be shoving amphetamines down their throats. FUCKING AMPHETAMINES... do you know what those do to kids!?

That and worst, it undermines the people who actually suffer from really bad mental disorders. Oh I remember the 90's, Manic Depression was the diagnoses of the fucking decade. Everyone in my highschool had... oh yeah, entire cliques of kids hooked on prozac, welbutrin, etc etc... oh fucking please. These kids were fine. Yeah that got upset a few times for this reason or that, every kid does.

Oh but when I told them to shut their fucking mouth, and that they don't know what they're talking about, if they wanted to know what a real sufferer was they should meet my friend Steve or my little brother.

"Ohhh, yeah I know where they're coming from, I have that too."

Oh really, really do you!? Ok, no, you wanna know what they have. My brother attempted suicide when he EIGHT. He's dead now, finally succeeded at 19. Because no one believed him, no one considered that he might need some help. No, just shove em' to the corner... he's just another emo fag like the rest of those punks out there. Like you, and him, listening to "good charlotte" and that nonsense.

Please...

do I believe this shit exists? Yeah.

Sad thing is, I don't care anymore. You don't in my book. Because if my whole dies because you all ignored them. My dad, my step mom, my baby fucking brother, my uncle, and everyone... every fucking person. Well fuck you. I'll ignore your bullshit... you don't have it in my book. Because doctor A and doctor B have completely fucking undermined then entire fucking system.

So I don't take your word. I don't take anyones. I call bullshit, especially when I'm fed nonsense that's pretty fucking normal. Being pressured by parents, that's pretty fucking normal. Wanting to commit suicide at the age of 8, that's NOT normal.

Furthermore there ain't a damn pill on earth that'll cure it. Do you know what those doctors even KNOW about depression, ADD, multiple personality disorder?? Do you even know? No, you don't, because they don't. Shit multiple personality disorder is to this day considered a myth by several doctors. Depression is classified as an "unrecordable chemical imbalance". We don't have the technology to actually measure this chemical imbalance, nor do we know the standard line upon which to compare any measurements if we COULD make them. It's all a guess... how the hell do you make a chemical to counter-balance a chemical imbalance you can't even record. It's not like all manic-depressives have the same imbalance. Some produce elevated levels of seratonin, others elevated amounts of melatonin. Some can't produce one or the other at all. It's the main reason it's called "manic" or "bipolar" because the patient swings wildly between exstatic fits and depressive fits. One moment they're slitting their wrists, and then a butterfly flies by and they've found God.

Yeah, you have ADD... you have ADD just as much as God exists. Because in the end, we can't prove one way or the fucking other.
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hrmmm

well it appears I turned the rant machine on high.

I'm going to bring that back to an idle now. I got a little overboard there.
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MrPopo wrote:
lordofduct wrote:...snip...
Welcome back sir. You have been missed. And I can agree with you on every single point... maybe not the smack in the face. Behind works just as well.
I was going to say this same thing.

Also, of course ADD and ADHD exist - but it is also true that it is extremely overdiagnosed.
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