Author Topic: No more struggles above this thread (Read 8200 times)

Shaka Khan · « **on:** August 16, 2015, 06:08:36 PM »

Drawing the line here. There has to be more to this world worth discussing than your whine.

Even the GAF threads are less pathetic.

Think about that for a second.

Feel bad.

Now bottle it up, and wait until your next therapy meeting, which I'm sure you can afford because you're an adult, able person.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #1 on:** August 16, 2015, 06:10:11 PM »

Pointing out my stuggles is a stuggle. Stop stuggling me, Khan.

Shaka Khan · « **Reply #2 on:** August 16, 2015, 06:10:42 PM »

Here's a great resource that helped me overcome my insignificant problems.

toku · « **Reply #3 on:** August 16, 2015, 06:13:50 PM »

we gon' be alright

Shaka Khan · « **Reply #4 on:** August 16, 2015, 06:15:38 PM »

Pity parties do jack shit brehs. WAKE UP!

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #5 on:** August 16, 2015, 06:18:01 PM »

I only get soft yesses when I invite people to my pity parties.

milchs evil twin · « **Reply #6 on:** August 16, 2015, 06:18:10 PM »

Shaka Khan · « **Reply #7 on:** August 16, 2015, 06:26:02 PM »

Bump.
You're on notice, Twin.

milchs evil twin · « **Reply #8 on:** August 16, 2015, 06:27:11 PM »

My struggles will outlast your non-struggles.

Shaka Khan · « **Reply #9 on:** August 16, 2015, 06:35:12 PM »

Quote from: The Walrus on August 16, 2015, 06:30:48 PM

Fuck off, figgurt.

Someone called me a figgurt. I must alert the internet...

Himu · « **Reply #10 on:** August 16, 2015, 06:38:03 PM »

I've got no problem with people letting off steam. I agree that some people out there on the internet only ever post about negative shit and it's a total downer. Like someone on my Facebook, all she does is bitch. But on the opposite spectrum, it feels like the internet is becoming this blackhole of faux positivity where everything in life is happy, everything is carefree, and every day is an adventure as really, really fucked up shit is going all around us. It comes across as a species wide apathy, and it feels like social media - or rather, Facebook in particular - fuels it. My own cousin unfollowed me on Facebook because I post about "too many negative things." It's like people want a constant sense of validation and a care free hug box zone. That's not to say we should relish and thrive upon these bad feelings, but it's almost as if the collective millenial's main modus operandi now is to deter anything that may drudge up any "negative" feeling or thought or something that goes against the status quo. It is methodically craven in its pursuit of "peace" with as little conflict as possible without ever parlaying anything of substance.

Internet is the new Opium of the people.

milchs evil twin · « **Reply #11 on:** August 16, 2015, 06:42:09 PM »

Well, of course you're only gonna positive or negative stuff.

Neutral isn't really newsworthy...

Shaka Khan · « **Reply #12 on:** August 16, 2015, 06:44:25 PM »

Not that I intended this thread to be super REAL TALK. But as long as there's a healthy balance everyone can get along. Try to overwhelm the shared space with your personal, unrelatable problems... and we got problems.

Think of it like smoking— You're free to do it, but everyone is breathing the same air, so try to be considerate and self-aware.

(...bitch)

Himu · « **Reply #13 on:** August 16, 2015, 06:48:26 PM »

I also agree balance is healthy and the best manner of dealing with it.

Olivia Wilde Homo · « **Reply #14 on:** August 16, 2015, 06:49:26 PM »

People are too positive on the internet? LOL

The internet is mostly a black hole of negativity. It's shit that people would never get away with saying to anyone in public. That's why they say it: to project their failures and shortcomings as people to those who can't or won't retaliate. Most internet haters are people who had high hopes for themselves and are finding out that it ain't gonna happen for them; at best, they can be a cog in a giant corporate machine and at worst, they can't find gainful employment so they have to rely on the "gig economy". I'm sorry that life hasn't turned out the way some people wanted it to be but that doesn't mean that I need to pay attention to people bitching about what some asshole I don't care about said on Twitter.

milchs evil twin · « **Reply #15 on:** August 16, 2015, 06:51:40 PM »

Overly hot chili is the most relatable of all problems, though...

Positive Touch · « **Reply #16 on:** August 16, 2015, 06:51:50 PM »

why the fuck do y'all wanna talk about anything besides videogames and fast food anyway

Shaka Khan · « **Reply #17 on:** August 16, 2015, 06:58:38 PM »

Plus, social media — and especially Facebook— is a completely different beast. You run a personal page that encourages you to share your thoughts ("What's on your mind?"), your photos, and your every moment. On Facebook, I personally add you as a friend because I'm interested on what you have to think or say, and whenever the interest is gone I can terminate the interaction very easily.

Whereas on public forums?

*flashback to bloodwakes struggles*

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #18 on:** August 16, 2015, 07:04:05 PM »

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #19 on:** August 16, 2015, 07:05:11 PM »

#strugglelivesmatter

Himu · « **Reply #20 on:** August 16, 2015, 07:07:13 PM »

Quote from: Mary Tyler Whore on August 16, 2015, 06:49:26 PM

People are too positive on the internet? LOL

The internet is mostly a black hole of negativity. It's shit that people would never get away with saying to anyone in public. That's why they say it: to project their failures and shortcomings as people to those who can't or won't retaliate. Most internet haters are people who had high hopes for themselves and are finding out that it ain't gonna happen for them; at best, they can be a cog in a giant corporate machine and at worst, they can't find gainful employment so they have to rely on the "gig economy". I'm sorry that life hasn't turned out the way some people wanted it to be but that doesn't mean that I need to pay attention to people bitching about what some asshole I don't care about said on Twitter.

I find Twitter pretty realistic. Then again, I hitch my horse directly to things that affect me, and that's mostly in relation to race. Nothing you said corresponds to my reality of the Internet. It actually reinforces it: people who are in a good place and therefore deem all people who they see as "negative" as losers who obviously (even when this isn't the case) that they are failures and thus have a reason to bitch. A narrative of clandestine snootiness that doesn't find people's personal struggles as valuable.

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #21 on:** August 16, 2015, 07:08:17 PM »

#whiteinternetlivesdontmatter

Shaka Khan · « **Reply #22 on:** August 16, 2015, 07:09:28 PM »

Me IRL struggling

Me IRL overcoming my struggle

Himu · « **Reply #23 on:** August 16, 2015, 07:14:11 PM »

The idea that the internet in its current incarnation is inherently negative makes no sense in light of the popularity of sites like Upworthy or whatever doesn't...make sense.

Shaka Khan · « **Reply #24 on:** August 16, 2015, 07:15:52 PM »

Quote from: Queen of Ice on August 16, 2015, 07:07:13 PM

Quote from: Mary Tyler Whore on August 16, 2015, 06:49:26 PM
People are too positive on the internet? LOL

The internet is mostly a black hole of negativity. It's shit that people would never get away with saying to anyone in public. That's why they say it: to project their failures and shortcomings as people to those who can't or won't retaliate. Most internet haters are people who had high hopes for themselves and are finding out that it ain't gonna happen for them; at best, they can be a cog in a giant corporate machine and at worst, they can't find gainful employment so they have to rely on the "gig economy". I'm sorry that life hasn't turned out the way some people wanted it to be but that doesn't mean that I need to pay attention to people bitching about what some asshole I don't care about said on Twitter.

I find Twitter pretty realistic. Then again, I hitch my horse directly to things that affect me, and that's mostly in relation to race. Nothing you said corresponds to my reality of the Internet. It actually reinforces it: people who are in a good place and therefore deem all people who they see as "negative" as losers who obviously (even when this isn't the case) that they are failures and thus have a reason to bitch. A narrative of clandestine snootiness that doesn't find people's personal struggles as valuable.

I hope you're not conflating the struggles I'm referring to here with those impacting millions of lives, such as issues of race, discrimination, politics, and any other relevant current events. Those have always, and will always, have a right to exist.

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #25 on:** August 16, 2015, 07:16:57 PM »

people gravitate towards fear and look for salves

Shaka Khan · « **Reply #26 on:** August 16, 2015, 07:17:30 PM »

Quote from: Queen of Ice on August 16, 2015, 07:14:11 PM

The idea that the internet in its current incarnation is inherently negative makes no sense in light of the popularity of sites like Upworthy or whatever doesn't...make sense.

If it's any consolation, Upworthy's bubble has bursted. Other sites quickly figured out their terrible reporting practices and copied it until people got pissed off and pushed back.

Kara · « **Reply #27 on:** August 16, 2015, 07:20:16 PM »

I've heard of struggle sessions but I thought those things went out of fashion at the conclusion of the Cultural Revolution.

Himu · « **Reply #28 on:** August 16, 2015, 07:22:41 PM »

Quote from: Shaka Khan on August 16, 2015, 07:15:52 PM

Quote from: Queen of Ice on August 16, 2015, 07:07:13 PM
Quote from: Mary Tyler Whore on August 16, 2015, 06:49:26 PM
People are too positive on the internet? LOL

The internet is mostly a black hole of negativity. It's shit that people would never get away with saying to anyone in public. That's why they say it: to project their failures and shortcomings as people to those who can't or won't retaliate. Most internet haters are people who had high hopes for themselves and are finding out that it ain't gonna happen for them; at best, they can be a cog in a giant corporate machine and at worst, they can't find gainful employment so they have to rely on the "gig economy". I'm sorry that life hasn't turned out the way some people wanted it to be but that doesn't mean that I need to pay attention to people bitching about what some asshole I don't care about said on Twitter.

I find Twitter pretty realistic. Then again, I hitch my horse directly to things that affect me, and that's mostly in relation to race. Nothing you said corresponds to my reality of the Internet. It actually reinforces it: people who are in a good place and therefore deem all people who they see as "negative" as losers who obviously (even when this isn't the case) that they are failures and thus have a reason to bitch. A narrative of clandestine snootiness that doesn't find people's personal struggles as valuable.

I hope you're not conflating the struggles I'm referring to here with those impacting millions of lives, such as issues of race, discrimination, politics, and any other relevant current events. Those have always, and will always, have a right to exist.

Some people (mostly white people, some other racial minorities) will flat out tell me to stop being negative or angry about race matters. It's filed under everything I'm talking about, because these people avoid these issues just as much as they avoid any other "negative" feeling. When I said they avoid bad feelings, they avoid ALL BAD FEELINGS and want everything and everyone to be a smily happy place town. The premise of your thread sounded eerily similar to "why are you so angry?!!?" topics regarding race.

recursivelyenumerable · « **Reply #29 on:** August 16, 2015, 08:21:30 PM »

I'm pretty sure the twin Black Holes of Negativity and Faux Positivity are key 🔑 elements of the Kingdom Hearts cosmology?

king of the internet · « **Reply #30 on:** August 16, 2015, 09:49:04 PM »

Maybe some of us enjoy wallowing in shit.

Shaka Khan · « **Reply #31 on:** August 16, 2015, 10:11:11 PM »

Maybe some of us are fed up listening to your wallowing... bitch.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #32 on:** August 16, 2015, 10:12:42 PM »

So this is how online bullying feels. Now I know why teen girls cry.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #33 on:** August 16, 2015, 10:30:01 PM »

I've been feeling sorry for my self for like the decade I've been posting on this forum, Wrath. O, fuck, I'm not going anywhere in life.

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #34 on:** August 16, 2015, 10:33:55 PM »

vularai makes it funny because he uses the history and struggles of the communist state as his preferred metaphor. we can ALL get behind the central planning and distribution of misery.

Himu · « **Reply #35 on:** August 16, 2015, 10:39:48 PM »

I personally don't read the struggle thread. It's mostly a circle jerk of "tied my shoes wrong this morning

" or "have to work late today

" or something.

Mandark · « **Reply #36 on:** August 16, 2015, 10:44:00 PM »

Quote from: Shaka Khan on August 16, 2015, 06:08:36 PM

Even the GAF threads are less pathetic.

no

Shaka Khan · « **Reply #37 on:** August 16, 2015, 11:21:37 PM »

Quote from: Van Cruncheon on August 16, 2015, 10:33:55 PM

vularai makes it funny because he uses the history and struggles of the communist state as his preferred metaphor. we can ALL get behind the central planning and distribution of misery.

He keeps it cute, but he better keep it fresh.

Shaka Khan · « **Reply #38 on:** August 16, 2015, 11:23:43 PM »

Quote from: Queen of Ice on August 16, 2015, 10:39:48 PM

I personally don't read the struggle thread. It's mostly a circle jerk of "tied my shoes wrong this morning " or "have to work late today " or something.

I've completely ignored them tbh lol. I'm only making this thread as a public service... last time we let it run unchecked, it reached critical mass and got... "complicated."

Himu · « **Reply #39 on:** August 16, 2015, 11:24:08 PM »

When was this?

Shaka Khan · « **Reply #40 on:** August 16, 2015, 11:27:24 PM »

TVC15's flogging thread, Malek's diarrhea, and Bloodwake's "it's complicated" trifecta.

Was a difficult time.

Olivia Wilde Homo · « **Reply #41 on:** August 16, 2015, 11:30:35 PM »

I never got to see Bloodwake's thread

ToxicAdam · « **Reply #42 on:** August 17, 2015, 12:02:11 AM »

Those threads serve a function though. Imagine how many bad threads would have been created with people sharing their minor annoyances.

It's probably saved The Bore from 10 bad threads from myself alone.

Himu · « **Reply #43 on:** August 17, 2015, 12:08:57 AM »

he's dating someone now

brawndolicious · « **Reply #44 on:** August 17, 2015, 12:24:56 AM »

What happened to bloodwake? Maybe I was drunk that night.

Positive Touch · « **Reply #45 on:** August 17, 2015, 12:53:12 AM »

I played mass effect 3 with him he was a cool guy

Reb · « **Reply #46 on:** August 17, 2015, 04:22:27 AM »

Jesus christ, team overshare is trying to police what people share?

Wrath, Shaka, I'm calling you out as people I most s'd my h to in the past.

Shaka Khan · « **Reply #47 on:** August 17, 2015, 08:52:28 AM »

Quote from: Reb on August 17, 2015, 04:22:27 AM

Jesus christ, team overshare is trying to police what people share?

Wrath, Shaka, I'm calling you out as people I most s'd my h to in the past.

I kept it cute, I kept it fresh, I kept it out of pity-party megathreads, and most importantly I kept it moslty to myself under Shaka.

Vote Shaka/Wrath 2016.

Rufus · « **Reply #48 on:** August 17, 2015, 08:56:07 AM »

Think of the struggle thread as a pressure release valve. You let it trickle out there so the boiler doesn't explode at some random time.

CatsCatsCats · « **Reply #49 on:** August 17, 2015, 09:31:29 AM »

Sorry we all don't just come here to talk about GAF, and have real lives

Shadow Mod · « **Reply #50 on:** August 17, 2015, 10:53:05 AM »

Struggle threads? What?

Does that include the struggle of boreans to get brojobs from other boreans?

T234 · « **Reply #51 on:** August 17, 2015, 10:55:17 AM »

Niccas need to back off of my friend Bloodwake. When I first met him, he checked me for flippers. The hallmark of a True Gangsta.

CHECK EM FOR FLIPPERS

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #52 on:** August 17, 2015, 11:44:07 AM »

Blood Wake was a good game.

Shaka Khan · « **Reply #53 on:** August 17, 2015, 01:03:42 PM »

To clarify, I understand that it's hard to not vent when you struggle. My proposed solution is stop struggling. Like, stahp, breh. Stop.

Nope, don't finish that thought. Just stop.

Shaka Khan · « **Reply #54 on:** August 17, 2015, 01:05:46 PM »

Quote from: CatsCatsCats on August 17, 2015, 09:31:29 AM

Sorry we all don't just come here to talk about GAF, and have real lives

(Image removed from quote.)

I want to preserve those real live sis, when some of y'all want to end it.

studyguy · « **Reply #55 on:** August 17, 2015, 01:06:52 PM »

So you're saying I should just stop resisting?

Kara · « **Reply #56 on:** August 17, 2015, 01:12:07 PM »

Quote from: Van Cruncheon on August 16, 2015, 10:33:55 PM

vularai makes it funny because he uses the history and struggles of the communist state as his preferred metaphor. we can ALL get behind the central planning and distribution of misery.

I was going to point out that Shaka is acting like Lavrentiy Beria during the Troika but the implication of that was that I am a Khrushchevite and I am *not* a Khrushchevite. Read ~~Atlas Shrugged~~ Enver Hoxha.

CatsCatsCats · « **Reply #57 on:** August 17, 2015, 01:18:06 PM »

Quote from: Shaka Khan on August 17, 2015, 01:05:46 PM

Quote from: CatsCatsCats on August 17, 2015, 09:31:29 AM
Sorry we all don't just come here to talk about GAF, and have real lives

(Image removed from quote.)

I want to preserve those real live sis, when some of y'all want to end it.

Oh well, hell no, I'm on my grind tryna buy me that cabin in the woods

Shaka Khan · « **Reply #58 on:** August 17, 2015, 01:24:57 PM »

So what would it take for some of you to stop hating life? Let's hear it and address it right now.

demi · « **Reply #59 on:** August 17, 2015, 01:27:35 PM »

Why is this suddenly an issue now?

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