Living what you're into, as much as you can.

[Speakers]

So, this is a theory I have and do live by.

You like playing the heroic in games, or reading about them?

Well...as best you're able, why not be that?

I'm not saying that everyone who plays games should join the army, what I am saying, is why not work out and learn how to use a sword?

Money and time are factors, but pretty much everyone can do pushups in the morning.

[Aya ॐ]

Gee, I don't know. If I were to follow the steps of the characters I play I'd have to take up being a slave to a group of people, and start practicing beastiality xD That's not a bad idea though, and I'm actually going to start working out HARD tomorrow, so this is some motivation, and a change of thought, thank you.

[GimmeBACON]

I do work out, I'm fat because I'm diabetic and let myself go when I broke my leg and haven't been able to lose my stomach.

[NickNozownik]

You can be heroic in real life even if you have absolutely no experience in using weapons and have no idea how to fight. Like people who will run through flames to save someone. And that's just one example.

I think that overall it is a good idea, but it greatly depends on who you are playing as in video games. I usually play as a devout follower of Khorne or Slaanesh. I think that killing people in real life wouldn't get me very far, but the Slaanesh part is perfectly doable in most cases.

[Guest endgameaddiction]

I suppose I now know what I want to be in life; a slut! just like my waifus. I never perceived life in that way. I suppose the only predicament to this whole philosophy is that I can't literally become a woman and get impregnated and have like 30 kids all different colors and with different baby daddies. Oh well, one could only dream.

[Revuu]

I'm going through life aiming to constantly learn and improve myself. Does that count?

 

Assuming I can land that R&D science job.

 

[Speakers]

Gee, I don't know. If I were to follow the steps of the characters I play I'd have to take up being a slave to a group of people, and start practicing beastiality xD That's not a bad idea though, and I'm actually going to start working out HARD tomorrow, so this is some motivation, and a change of thought, thank you.

 

 

 From personal experience and from having trained many people, you're much better of starting small and building slowly. People who go "WOO! YEAH! FUCK YEAH! GONNA TRAIN HARD IMMEDIATELY!" tend to burn out quickly.

 

Set up a program or method of consistent improvement, and work on that with dedication.

 

Transformation is largely psychological not physiological, and this is something people tend to miss. Going to the gym or exercising at home, in the park, or whatever you choose isn't actually that physically demanding in the beginning, it's the mind that needs to change first.

 

 

You can be heroic in real life even if you have absolutely no experience in using weapons and have no idea how to fight. Like people who will run through flames to save someone. And that's just one example.

I think that overall it is a good idea, but it greatly depends on who you are playing as in video games. I usually play as a devout follower of Khorne or Slaanesh. I think that killing people in real life wouldn't get me very far, but the Slaanesh part is perfectly doable in most cases.

 

 Well, there is that, but you'll find it a lot easier to be heroic if you're in good shape and have skills.

 

See, this is why I always play 'good' characters. Let those lessons flow into real life basically.

 

Also, FILTHY HERETIC!

 

Obviously....

 

I tend to use computer games as a goad to get the rest of my life in gear where I'm falling slack. "Wait, why am I spending so much time to level up my character when I could be levelling up in real life?"

 

I find that to be a useful reminder.

I'm going through life aiming to constantly learn and improve myself. Does that count?

 

Assuming I can land that R&D science job.

 

 

Of course it does. But you can even improve on that.

 

Learning how to learn is a skill, and learning how to improve yourself in the most optimum fashion, is a tricky thing in my experience!

[Guest MonsterFish]

I read alot about serial killers, should I start doing it senpai?

[Speakers]

I read alot about serial killers, should I start doing it senpai?

 

No.

 

You should purify yourself and work towards something more wholesome.

 

The caveat to all of this I suppose, is be into something worthwhile in the first place. Being an edgy kid really won't do you any favours in the long run.

 

It's a MUCH better idea to work out, skill up, and live a good life.

 

The problem with reading about serial killers or other wrong topics, is that becomes what you think about which affects your psychology in quite disturbing ways.

 

You are what you do, tends to apply to many things.

 

Hence, if you spend your time reading Marcus Aurelius, working hard, and, quite obviously, perhaps training in the martial art of your choice, that will have a certain result, whereas if you saturate yourself in what might be called 'wrong views' that will also have a certain result, only in this case, a negative one.

[gregathit]

I managed to stick my head up my ass and can't seem to get it back out..........so push ups aren't an option for me these days. 

[Aya ॐ]

Agreed on all points sir. You sound like an experienced person, and knows how to give good advice, and that's just awesome I'm not going to be training hard for too long, I just need to lose about 5kg to get back on average weight, trying to pull that off in 1 month xD 

[Guest MonsterFish]

 

I read alot about serial killers, should I start doing it senpai?

 

No.

 

You should purify yourself and work towards something more wholesome.

 

The caveat to all of this I suppose, is be into something worthwhile in the first place. Being an edgy kid really won't do you any favours in the long run.

 

It's a MUCH better idea to work out, skill up, and live a good life.

 

The problem with reading about serial killers or other wrong topics, is that becomes what you think about which affects your psychology in quite disturbing ways.

 

You are what you do, tends to apply to many things.

 

Hence, if you spend your time reading Marcus Aurelius, working hard, and, quite obviously, perhaps training in the martial art of your choice, that will have a certain result, whereas if you saturate yourself in what might be called 'wrong views' that will also have a certain result, only in this case, a negative one.

 

 

You're saying that 'You should only go into what you really want to... so long as that thing is exercise and/or good.' There's a real difference in wanting to learn about things and wanting to be something. Someone really knows about blood, does that make them psychopathic? Do they want to murder everything in sight so they can learn about blood? Absolutely not. People who know about blood may well grow up into being hemotologists. People interested in bones may turn out to be anatomists. Someone learns about Nazis they're considered Historians. I for one learn about serial killers because I like to know about their thought process, not the details behind their murders. For example serial killer Ed Gein had a thought process that was very protective of his mother, so much so that when she died he was so alone that he ended up killing (Now considered that most corpses found in his house was actually from digging graves) that he had to create a 'new mother'.

 

I have never hurt anyone in my life. I'm not mentally challenged apart from a few rudimentary and common social disorders, I'm not a psychopath(Not to say one has to be mentally challenged to be a psychopath or a killer). In fact I practice Buddhism and strongly believe in the Heideggerian theory of Gellasenheit and the Buddhist concept of Solipsism. I could not and will not hurt anyone unless it means protecting the people I care about.

 

I apologise if this comes off as a little mean, but it appears you want people to discuss this. I have a real lack of empathy (And no, that's not something you can say 'Well you say you're not mentally challenged and then you lack empathy', we both know having a lack of empathy does not make you mentally challenged) so I greatly apologise if it offends you. I really don't like hurting people.

 

So yeah, being 'edgy' can get you very far in life.

[Speakers]

Agreed on all points sir. You sound like an experienced person, and knows how to give good advice, and that's just awesome I'm not going to be training hard for too long, I just need to lose about 5kg to get back on average weight, trying to pull that off in 1 month xD 

 

 

Ah, you may have misunderstood what I wrote. You most definitely SHOULD train hard for as long as you are able, but you should work up to that slowly rather than thrashing yourself and failing.

 

Hrmmm. Weight is in my view, a false metric. Go by BMI and I am in the heavily overweight category, but I have washboard stomach. Muscle mass and such!

 

You should, in my view, aim towards an exercise routine that is part of your daily life.

 

Trying to lose weight in a fixed time period I don't recommend per se, as it treats exercise and fitness as a short term thing, rather than a life time thing.

 

The former is a mistake from everything I've seen, the latter a worthy goal.

 

 

I read alot about serial killers, should I start doing it senpai?

 

No.

 

You should purify yourself and work towards something more wholesome.

 

The caveat to all of this I suppose, is be into something worthwhile in the first place. Being an edgy kid really won't do you any favours in the long run.

 

It's a MUCH better idea to work out, skill up, and live a good life.

 

The problem with reading about serial killers or other wrong topics, is that becomes what you think about which affects your psychology in quite disturbing ways.

 

You are what you do, tends to apply to many things.

 

Hence, if you spend your time reading Marcus Aurelius, working hard, and, quite obviously, perhaps training in the martial art of your choice, that will have a certain result, whereas if you saturate yourself in what might be called 'wrong views' that will also have a certain result, only in this case, a negative one.

 

 

You're saying that 'You should only go into what you really want to... so long as that thing is exercise and/or good.' There's a real difference in wanting to learn about things and wanting to be something. Someone really knows about blood, does that make them psychopathic? Do they want to murder everything in sight so they can learn about blood? Absolutely not. People who know about blood may well grow up into being hemotologists. People interested in bones may turn out to be anatomists. Someone learns about Nazis they're considered Historians. I for one learn about serial killers because I like to know about their thought process, not the details behind their murders. For example serial killer Ed Gein had a thought process that was very protective of his mother, so much so that when she died he was so alone that he ended up killing (Now considered that most corpses found in his house was actually from digging graves) that he had to create a 'new mother'.

 

I have never hurt anyone in my life. I'm not mentally challenged apart from a few rudimentary and common social disorders, I'm not a psychopath(Not to say one has to be mentally challenged to be a psychopath or a killer). In fact I practice Buddhism and strongly believe in the Heideggerian theory of Gellasenheit and the Buddhist concept of Solipsism. I could not and will not hurt anyone unless it means protecting the people I care about.

 

I apologise if this comes off as a little mean, but it appears you want people to discuss this. I have a real lack of empathy (And no, that's not something you can say 'Well you say you're not mentally challenged and then you lack empathy', we both know having a lack of empathy does not make you mentally challenged) so I greatly apologise if it offends you. I really don't like hurting people.

 

So yeah, being 'edgy' can get you very far in life.

 

 

I agree, but from everything I've seen, washing yourself in horror won't do you any favours.

 

NEVER hurt anyone? Ho ho ho! I doubt that one very much! 

 

Can't walk down the street for a week without hurting someone in some way it seems to me to be all too often the case. I'll leave it up to you to review your life as to whether or not your statement is true.

 

Before you worry about hypothetical scenarios, my advice is to train such that you have the ability to protect the people you care about, as well as yourself obviously.

 

Be careful of such apologies. Life is not a hugbox. One of the greater malaises in modern society is that people are becoming far too easily offended and triggered, and that is utterly shameful. 

 

Also, point blank, no. Being edgy only breeds chronic delusion.

[Rorschach666]

just added +1 to strength on my skill list

[Guest MonsterFish]

just added +1 to strength on my skill list

 

You can now use Rune Halberds!

[Lexi SubZero]

Hmmm...I quite enjoy playing evil characters if the game lets me (..has good vs evil decision moments). ...sooo...should I go on a killing spree tomorrow to rack up some Negative Karma/Dark Side/Renegade/Way of the Closed Fist points of my own..? 

[Speakers]

Hmmm...I quite enjoy playing evil characters if the game lets me (..has good vs evil decision moments). ...sooo...should I go on a killing spree tomorrow to rack up some Negative Karma/Dark Side/Renegade/Way of the Closed Fist points of my own..? 

 

Nope. You should renounce such behaviour utterly.

 

I suppose the caveat to this is, live with arete, always. 

[Fienyx]

I've tried to do that, be nice, always help, keep in good shape. I was in the Army. Got married, had a kid, did everything I could to make sure my family had everything they needed. To the point, when the job market went to shit, I traded my car for an old Winnebago to keep a roof over our heads til things got better. They did, for a while.  Always had lots of people to be around.  Then I got multiple sclerosis. Almost all of my "friends" left, my ex-wife didn't want a disabled hubby, so I get kicked out after almost 2 years of her abusing me (stress induced seizures caused by the MS) to live in my car, in winter....

 

Now, I live with my parents because I can't afford a regular apt on my fixed income, nor can I get section 8 housing due to other people pulling major bs. I have 1 person outside of family that will hang out, 2 people I talk with on FB, and 2 brothers, who really don't make me feel like a brother.

 

As far as learning new skills, there is not much I can't do. This has been professionally verified via psychological evaluation (psychologist didn't even know how to talk to me after scoring the tests. He had never spoken to anyone as intelligent as me in his 25+ years), who told me I could be a good heart surgeon with just a few weeks hands on training, and college testing (college estimated my double major would be done in 2.5 - 3 years, before I tested out of nearly half of my classes)

 

Unfortunately, I started to develop migraines from reading (the only thing keeping me from learning how to write scripts and make pure awesomeness mods). 

 

So, when it comes to my games, I prefer to be a bit more evil. It lets me take out the frustrations that I can't on the people who deserve it. I even had a mod that simply added a few NPCs (20 - 30) named after the people that have most negatively affected me. I have taken great joy from killing, mutilating, enslaving and just about any other horrible thing that can be done in Oblivion with mods, all those people. Ex-wife, supposed friends, certain police officers (the ones who told me men can't be victims of abuse and laughed at me).

 

I also meditate. I've opened all my chakras, seen my wings, and been to places that can't be described (seriously, the physics don't follow our rules of physics, but the colors there are absolutely amazing). 

[Buddy Christ]

It is funny, the title says "Living what you're into, as much as you can", but if somone doesn't go all "Kumbaja", it gets put off as "don't do that."

I want to live what I am into, not what is political correct or socially accepted.

So, if I want to beat the crap out of someone who annoys me, I will do it. Heck, if I want to beat the crap out of someone just because I am in a pissy mood, I will do it.

 

 

[Buddy Christ]

-snip-

 

I snipped your post, I hope you do not mind.

Just wanted to say that I can relate to some of the stuff you posted (Mother had MS for almost 30 years).

What struck me about your post is the following:

Caring and loyalty are easily abused. If people know you well enough, they know how to hurt you and they will.

 

It is like Schiller said in his work "Fiesco's Conspiracy at Genoa":

 

The Moor has done his duty, the Moor can go.

[Fienyx]

It actually felt good to get that all out. It's been running thru my head nonstop since my ferret died. I have so few people in my life by their choice, I don't want to take depression anger out on my family. Verbally, it would be very bad to say the least.

 

I'm glad this a wonderful and supportive community. Honestly, I probably would have completely fallen to depression if it weren't for so many great people here at LL.

 

To all who play bbof games, or have taken time to conversate with me, whether working on mods, trouble shooting, or just shooting the shit,

 

Thank you.

[Cynical Misanthrope]

 

[...]

 

You're are truly an amazing person. You are so much stronger than me. I can't even begin to comprehend your experience that you have suffered.

If I knew you IRL, I would be glad to have you as a friend. And to your ex-wife and ex-friends, I say, fuck em. Fuck em all to hell.

 

Those shallows pricks don't deserve your love and friendship.

 

In the end, you're stronger one. The winner.

 

 

[Buddy Christ]

Snippety snip

 

I do not want to sound sappy or anything, but you are one of the inspirations for me to go on and not quit.

Thank you for that! And I thought, you should know.

[Fienyx]

Well, life continues no matter. Long as I can get out and about and 5ake care of myself, I'll keep pushing. I do believe a person with a life long medical condition that grealty lessens or even removes quality of life (ie:if my arms started to give out) should have the right to choose to end thier suffering, but only when they can truly no longer withstand it.

 

I do my best to stay positive, when I could walk with a cane, I used to wear a tail (I'm a furry) and where I life, that almost completly unknown. Make people smile,hear kids "look mommy, he has a tail. Can I get one?" lol. Gotta find the happy, sometimes its hard, but its out there.