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As long as you realize that love is only temporary.

It's a compulsive urge to breed that makes you tell yourself that it's really what you want, when in reality it's a mild inconvenience at best.

And just like water in a bathtub, no matter how warm and comfortable it might be at first, the heat will eventually dissipate, and the novelty of being there will start to fade away. Eventually you'll be sitting in a cold, boring body of water, and all you'll really want to do is get out and drain it as discreetly as possible, and try to tell yourself that the next time you get in a warm tub that won't happen.

If it makes you feel any better, you're not the only one feeling this. She is too.

You guys are really fucking depressing.

Depressing or realistic?

I'd say clairvoyant

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Depressing or realistic?

Reality is depressing.

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Reality is depressing.

Reality is up to the eyes of the beholder. "I'm not crazy. My reality is just different from yours".

So on a more fun and less deep topic Dark Souls III is pretty damn fun. It's given me a love-hate relationship for it because every boss I face seems impossible at first and then when I beat it after 3-10 tries it leaves me thinking "why didn't I do that earlier?"

The game doesn't take too long to grind to a level where you can properly determine what build you want and your first character is never going to be perfect. The game right now doesn't favor magic but in the next update there is going to be something that makes magic OP and they will have to fix again.

Right now I'm running a greatsword and shield build with no particular stat focus. I'm using everyone's favorite claymore and it is fun and easy to use and is good but not great. I need great and to do that I would have to focus my stats in a certain direction and I am torn.

I want to either move on to the unique Farron greatsword or the Exile greatsword but I could end up wanting to do a strength build but that also comes to a conflict. I feel like I want my second hand to be a Kitana but to do that I would need to get better at dodging and ditch blocking for the most part because blocking with a sword? Not the best idea. But to properly use a Kitana I need to focus in dex as well and the only good greatswords (of any of the types of greatswords that you can one hand) are the Farron and the Exile. The Farron looks amazing but it seems like such and oddball since it has an already secondary dagger. The idea is cool but I don't know how that supports my idea to start using a Kitana as a secondary. I also need to figure out how not to fatroll with all this fancy gear since I don't want to have to wear that light of armor. I think I can end up dealing with lighter armor though.

Quote from Cook

As long as you realize that love is only temporary.

It's a compulsive urge to breed that makes you tell yourself that it's really what you want, when in reality it's a mild inconvenience at best.
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Quote from Cook

As long as you realize that love is only temporary.

It's a compulsive urge to breed that makes you tell yourself that it's really what you want, when in reality it's a mild inconvenience at best.

translation: "I'm incapable of feeling love for anyone beyond a temporary compulsive urge to fuck them"

how you're capable of convincing yourself that this applies to everyone is beyond my comprehension

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translation: "I'm incapable of feeling love for anyone beyond a temporary compulsive urge to fuck them"

how you're capable of convincing yourself that this applies to everyone is beyond my comprehension

"Beyond my comprehension" more like beyond the ability to care. Every person is far too different for any one thing to apply to everyone. Anything you try to say that all humans have in common can almost always be countered.

I think the one thing everyone has in common is they feel something,some way about everything around them. Cooks opinion has been developed by experience and observation. From his standpoint what he is saying makes perfect sense. But let's say someone just like Cook minus whatever experience gave him this POV were to be happily married for 20+ years, his opinion would be very different.

Reality is literally just a commonly accepted way of understanding what goes on around us. "Life and it's meanings are a variable".

What happens to Azure is his chioce and path and he made it because of who he is and what experiences led him to this point. Whatever happens at the end of it? Well what happens, happens. I have faith it will end well for Azure. If it doesn't well his time will not have been wasted as long as he learned something from it. Azure I hope the best for you and your decisions with this girl :)

Cook it makes me happy that you are happy to give what guidance you have to Azure to make sure he doesn't hurt himself with his decisions. Prevent decisions without thought but do not discourage the decisions themselves. Try to keep your head up a little more ok? :)

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"Beyond my comprehension" more like beyond the ability to care. Every person is far too different for any one thing to apply to everyone.

right, yet he's acting like his absurdly cynical view of love can be generalized to everyone. that's why I said what I said. I'm not sure what you meant by that first part

that said you are right, I don't particularly care either way

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right, yet he's acting like his absurdly cynical view of love can be generalized to everyone. that's why I said what I said. I'm not sure what you meant by that first part

that said you are right, I don't particularly care either way

First part basically means the idea is so absurd to you that you don't care to try and understand it. That's not really a bad thing. And I think it's just an expression of his viewpoint. Sometimes our viewpoints are so engraved in our minds it's hard to see that people can think differently in that area.

Omg exile hes just jokin

I've never been in love, actually watching other people be deeply in love is a little sickening to me.
Truth be told it seems like just another compulsion that the jaw dropping piece of kit called our brain inflicts upon us. Seems like just more electric signals and chemicals really, I'm hard pressed to think of it any other way since I haven't experienced it.

Seems like it could be worthwhile, but everyone else acts like it's so special. But is it really though? Is it really that special? Is it really that deep and complex?
I dunno, like I said I've never been in love.

But I can totally see why cook would be cynical about it.
Because I'm pretty fuckin' cynical about it too.


Meanwhile the Canadian PM proving he's about a thousand leagues more intelligent than the American candidates by explaining quantum computing easily.

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Is it really that special? Is it really that deep and complex?

Yes.

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But I can totally see why cook would be cynical about it.
Because I'm pretty fuckin' cynical about it too.

This is also an acceptable viewpoint to take.


Love is too complex and happens on too many levels to too many people for it to be seen in terms of winning and losing, good and bad. It simply is, and can lead to good and bad roads.

Well I'm not talking about love itself, I'm mostly referring to being in love, like relationships and romance, all that shit.

The former is too vague and usually results in abstract conversations, the latter is a biological compulsion.
When I see a couple, a lovely couple holding hands and kissing, I'm not seeing "love" so much as animals in heat. Creatures that have been doing this for generations upon generations and have no ability to perceive it as anything but this fantastical thing they make it out to be.

I guess this makes me a dickhead.
So it strikes me as ironic that people talk it up as so special, when really it's about the least special thing humans can do.

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Meanwhile the Canadian PM proving he's about a thousand leagues more intelligent than the American candidates by explaining quantum computing easily.

Oh fuck, now we need to build a wall between us and Canada and make them pay for it!