Current Events > ITT: I will give $.10 for every 10 posts to hurricane relief

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Kyurem-BW posted...

0AbsoluteZero0 posted...

Ugh, candy corn may be the worst candy ever

yeah to me it ties with black licorice as worst candy

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IfGodCouldDie posted...

Kyurem-BW posted...

0AbsoluteZero0 posted...

Ugh, candy corn may be the worst candy ever

yeah to me it ties with black licorice as worst candy

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Kyurem-BW posted...

0AbsoluteZero0 posted...

Ugh, candy corn may be the worst candy ever

yeah to me it ties with black licorice as worst candy

Very true, black licorice is also disgusting
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I can support this topic, too.
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gmo7897 posted...

I can support this topic, too.

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IfGodCouldDie posted...

gmo7897 posted...

I can support this topic, too.

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send bobs and vagene
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Wow
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To 500!
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450
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I'm sure we can wrap this up tonight.
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452
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Fail. =p
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Amaze
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Wow
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We can do it
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sp
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Wow
D
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am
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D
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the doge get out of my spam
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Kyurem-BW posted...

the doge get out of my spam

Much hungry tho
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To 500

One more before I get to bed.
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SomeBODY once told me
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Gamer99z posted...

SomeBODY once told me

CE was gonna troll me
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DreadedWave posted...

Gamer99z posted...

SomeBODY once told me

CE was gonna troll me

but i didnt
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468
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469
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Wow
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Kyurem-BW posted...

468

Kyurem-BW posted...

469

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Much spin
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X-zKy70I1Y
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The_Doge posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X-zKy70I1Y

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IfGodCouldDie posted...

The_Doge posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X-zKy70I1Y

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The Failed Experiments are the earlier versions of the Tesla. These versions have become overheated and, as a result, their vitae has splintered, causing them to be invisible to the naked eye.
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A single orb is big enough to fill a person's cupped hands. The texture is smooth and jagged. Its color washed while rich. Contrast is not enough to describe its nature. Its appearance is an impossibility. The ancient stone relics have an immaculate surface and perfect shape that look like they could have been moulded by a factory. The orbs are an artificial paradox captured within stone.
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It's the final countdown!
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I saw chill02 at a Belethor's General Store in Whiterun yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything.
He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”
I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Petty Soul Gems in his hands without paying.
Sigurd at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear him, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.
When he took one of the gems and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped him and told him to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After he scanned each gem and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting him by yelling SKYRIM IS FOR THE NORDS!
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Remember
Remember me
Remember me
Remember me
Remember me
Remember me
Where, where will we stand?
When all the lights go out
Across these city streets
Where were you when
All of the embers fell
I still remember there
Covered in ash
Covered in glass
Covered in all my friends
I still
Think of the bombs they built
If that's the best that I could be?
Than I'd be another memory
Can I be the only hope for you?
Because you're the only hope for me
And if we can't find where we belong,
We'll have to make it on our own
Face all the pain and take it on
Because the only hope for me is you alone
How it should you be
Many years after the disasters that we've seen
What we have learned
Other than people burn in purifying flame
I say it's okay
I know you can tell
And though you can see me smile
I still
Think of the guns they sell
If there's a place that I could be
Than I'd be another memory
Can I be the only hope for you?
Because you're the only hope for me
And if we can't find where we belong,
We'll have to make it on our own
Face all the pain and take it on
Because the only hope for me is you alone
The only hope for me
The only hope for me is you
The only hope
For me is you
The only hope
For me is you
The only hope
For me is you
The only hope
If there's a place that I could be
Than I'd be another memory
Can I be the only hope for you?
Because you're the only hope for me
And if we can't find where we belong,
We'll have to make it on our own
Face all the pain and take it on
Because the only hope for me is you alone
The only hope for me is you
The only hope for me is you
The only hope for me is you
The only hope for me is you
The only hope for me is you
The only hope for me is you
The only hope for me is you
The only hope for me is you alone
Remember me
Remember me
Remember me
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DreadedWave posted...

I saw chill02 at a Belethor's General Store in Whiterun yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything.
He said, â€Oh, like you’re doing now?â€
I was taken aback, and all I could say was â€Huh?†but he kept cutting me off and going â€huh? huh? huh?†and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Petty Soul Gems in his hands without paying.
Sigurd at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like â€Sir, you need to pay for those first.†At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear him, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.
When he took one of the gems and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped him and told him to scan them each individually â€to prevent any electrical infetterence,†and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After he scanned each gem and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting him by yelling SKYRIM IS FOR THE NORDS!

Lmao
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It should be noted that I've upvoted every single person who's disagreed with me here, as far as I know.
That said.
In 7th grade, I took an SAT test without preparing for it at all, it was spur-of-the-moment, I knew about it about an hour ahead of time and didn't do any research or anything. I scored higher on it than the average person using it to apply for college in my area.
An IQ test has shown me to be in the 99.9th percentile for IQ. This is the highest result the test I was given reaches; anything further and they'd consider it to be within the margin of error for that test.
My mother's boyfriend of 8 years is an aerospace engineer who graduated Virginia Tech. At the age of 15, I understand physics better than him, and I owe very little of it to him, as he would rarely give me a decent explanation of anything, just tell me that my ideas were wrong and become aggravated with me for not quite understanding thermodynamics. He's not particularly successful as an engineer, but I've met lots of other engineers who aren't as good as me at physics, so I'm guessing that's not just a result of him being bad at it.
I'm also pretty good at engineering. I don't have a degree, and other than physics I don't have a better understanding of any aspect of engineering than any actual engineer, but I have lots of ingenuity for inventing new things. For example, I independently invented regenerative brakes before finding out what they were, and I was only seven or eight years old when I started inventing wireless electricity solutions (my first idea being to use a powerful infrared laser to transmit energy; admittedly not the best plan).
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I have independently thought of basically every branch of philosophy I've come across. Every question of existentialism which I've seen discussed in SMBC or xkcd or Reddit or anywhere else, the thoughts haven't been new to me. Philosophy has pretty much gotten trivial for me; I've considered taking a philosophy course just to see how easy it is.
Psychology, I actually understand better than people with degrees. Unlike engineering, there's no aspect of psychology which I don't have a very good understanding of. I can debunk many of even Sigmund Freud's theories.
I'm a good enough writer that I'm writing a book and so far everybody who's read any of it has said it was really good and plausible to expect to have published. And that's not just, like, me and family members, that counts strangers on the Internet. I've heard zero negative appraisal of it so far; people have critiqued it, but not insulted it.
I don't know if that will suffice as evidence that I'm intelligent. I'm done with it, though, because I'd rather defend my maturity, since it's what you've spent the most time attacking. The following are some examples of my morals and ethical code.
I believe firmly that everybody deserves a future. If we were to capture Hitler at the end of WWII, I would be against executing him. In fact, if we had any way of rehabilitating him and knowing that he wasn't just faking it, I'd even support the concept of letting him go free. This is essentially because I think that whoever you are in the present is a separate entity from who you were in the past and who you are in the future, and while your present self should take responsibility for your past self's actions, it shouldn't be punished for them simply for the sake of punishment, especially if the present self regrets the actions of the past self and feels genuine guilt about them.
I don't believe in judgement of people based on their personal choices as long as those personal choices aren't harming others. I don't have any issue with any type of sexuality whatsoever (short of physically acting out necrophilia, pedophilia, or other acts which have a harmful affect on others - but I don't care what a person's fantasies consist of, as long as they recognize the difference between reality and fiction and can separate them). I don't have any issue with anybody over what type of music they listen to, or clothes they wear, etc. I know that's not really an impressive moral, but it's unfortunately rare; a great many people, especially those my age, are judgmental about these things.
I love everyone, even people I hate. I wish my worst enemies good fortune and happiness. Rick Perry is a vile, piece of shit human being, deserving of zero respect, but I wish for him to change for the better and live the best life possible. I wish this for everyone.
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I'm pretty much a pacifist. I've taken a broken nose without fighting back or seeking retribution, because the guy stopped punching after that. The only time I'll fight back is if 1) the person attacking me shows no signs of stopping and 2) if I don't attack, I'll come out worse than the other person will if I do. In other words, if fighting someone is going to end up being more harmful to them than just letting them go will be to me, I don't fight back. I've therefore never had a reason to fight back against anyone in anything serious, because my ability to take pain has so far made it so that I'm never in a situation where I'll be worse off after a fight. If I'm not going to get any hospitalizing injuries, I really don't care.
The only exception is if someone is going after my life. Even then, I'll do the minimum amount of harm to them that I possibly can in protecting myself. If someone points a gun at me and I can get out of it without harming them, I'd prefer to do that over killing them.
I consider myself a feminist. I don't believe in enforced or uniform gender roles; they may happen naturally, but they should never be coerced into happening unnaturally. As in, the societal pressure for gender roles should really go, even if it'll turn out that the majority of relationships continue operating the same way of their own accord. I treat women with the same outlook I treat men, and never participate in the old Reddit "women are crazy" circlejerk, because there are multiple women out there and each have different personalities just like there are multiple men out there and each with different personalities. I don't think you do much of anything except scare off the awesome women out there by going on and on about the ones who aren't awesome.
That doesn't mean I look for places to victimize women, I just don't believe it's fair to make generalizations such as the one about women acting like everything's OK when it's really not (and that's a particularly harsh example, because all humans do that).
I'm kind of tired of citing these examples and I'm guessing you're getting tired of reading them, if you've even made it this far. In closing, the people who know me in real life all respect me, as do a great many people in the Reddit brony community, where I spend most of my time and where I'm pretty known for being helpful around the community. A lot of people in my segment of the community are depressed or going through hard times, and I spend a lot of time giving advice and support to people there. Yesterday someone quoted a case of me doing this in a post asking everyone what their favorite motivational/inspirational quote was, and that comment was second to the top, so I guess other people agreed (though, granted, it was a pretty low-traffic post, only about a dozen competing comments).
And, uh, I'm a pretty good moderator.
All that, and I think your behavior in this thread was totally assholish. So what do you think, now that you at least slightly know me?
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Thanks everyone for supporting this and getting this to 500, I know we aren't exactly there, but we will be in a few minutes. I'll make my donation tonight and make a new thread with the screenshots and whatnot. This has been fun and for a good cause.
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See you don't understand. Homework is just a hurdle for the intelligent. I read Huxley's A Brave New World and it really put my thoughts into words. I mean you have the working class that is supposed to do grunt work like homework. Big business wants to keep the general public from being rich which is why they stress homework in classes so much. It's supposed to make you think that it's what real life is. And test's are even WORSE! Yeah, I can look up any fact I want, but school just is trying to make us "hampsters" run through loops over and over again to see if we can remember a fist full of facts. I don't care about that. I'm an engineer and we look what we need to and our intellegence is what puts it all together. I didn't fail school, school failed me.
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