Quote from Raptor

I learned that nice people can be assholes and assholes can be nice people.

This man speaks the truth.

I've learned to lessen my expectations on myself and others and take things as they come.

always expect the worst, that way, you'll never be disappointed.

I've tried giving people the benefit of the doubt, and expecting the best out of them, only to realize that my deep, bad-vibes suspicions were right all along. If you treat people like they're walking on egg shells around you, it seems like they won't fuck with you.

Legit though, I've learned that spending a lot of time with somebody/knowing them for a long time does not translate into you being very important in their life

Quote from Captain Cook

always expect the worst, that way, you'll never be disappointed.

I've tried giving people the benefit of the doubt, and expecting the best out of them, only to realize that my deep, bad-vibes suspicions were right all along. If you treat people like they're walking on egg shells around you, it seems like they won't fuck with you.

I'll see your wager and raise you.

Expect nothing of others, so that you won't worry about the bad and be grateful for the good.

I've learned that if you put the virtue of humility to practice and choose not to want you can gain more happiness (Or at least less disappointment). Also that intelligence trumps sociability in the sense you have more of a chance to survive and prosper.

Story behind it; Growing up I have always been poor or have been made to act like I was poor. I rarely got what I wanted so I eventually trained myself not to want until it became part of me to not want anything. This makes it difficult for people to get me anything for my birthday or christmas and makes me boring as a person socially.But in the end it expanded my mind and I reached out to other possibilities and ways of thinking. I chose to learn more about everything else than what went on in my little island. My dreams became unimaginably creative and vivid. My creativity skyrocketed. Also it gave me an amazing work ethic. I made no enemies and the ones I did never became aggravated enough to fight me (though I wish they would've).

Though I had no true friends (except one,but he moved) and the ones I did have just became pot-heads. I learned that drinking, smoking, and partying were meaningless and stupid. Going to them never made me happy. Sadly I still crave companionship and friends.

Anyways now that I am older and moving forward in my goals while my pot-head friends rot on the island, I learned that I made the right choice.

Quote from Drone

Legit though, I've learned that spending a lot of time with somebody/knowing them for a long time does not translate into you being very important in their life

This couldn't be more true. Myself and a friend I've known since primary school have been growing apart lately. And I have a gut feeling he just doesn't want anything to do with me anymore.

Which leads me to say: don't grow too attached to things or people; everything goes away eventually. It'll just hurt that much more when they do. And that's not to say become completely apathetic or cynical. Just don't get too attached.

You can't survive alone. You need at least one close person you could fall back to when the times get hard, or ask him to bring you some medicine when you're feeling like shit and can't get out of bed. Even thought you're an neurotic introvert that is paranoid as fuck, you still can not isolate yourself from absolutely everyone. You need to find at least one friend in most of the social groups you belong to, so that you wouldn't feel alone, wouldn't miss out on things and would have someone there to back you up

Don't tell girls they're pretty when they're saying they're not, even if they are.

I've just had this happen to me. I know about how girls like to fish for compliments, but I really didn't want to fuck this up so I played along. Then she said she's still not pretty because her previous boyfriends all cheated on her with pretty and sexy girls. The convo went in that direction. Her talking about how she's not pretty, me saying a bunch of dumb shit to "convince" her that she's actually pretty. Basically, I began digging myself into a fucking hole. That was yesterday. Today I made a slight joke about how it's good that the kid she's tutoring didn't get turned off by how stressed she looked, because she really haven't slept in more than 30 hours, and then she suddenly brings up everything I said about how pretty she was and told that I was just flattering her last night. I defend myself, but you know the way loaded questions go.

"You're toying with me, aren't you?" I just said it after a while because there was no way out.

"Why would I do that? I'm just trying to get to know you better." she replies after asking me a sequence of loaded questions.

I really like this girl, but goddamn it. If I just said "hey looks aren't the most important thing in the world. You've got a lot more going for you" or something along that line, none of this shit would've happened.

I've learned that despite everything, it's important to allow yourself to be happy and to appreciate the small things in life

Quote from Smile

Don't tell girls they're pretty when they're saying they're not, even if they are.

I've just had this happen to me. I know about how girls like to fish for compliments, but I really didn't want to fuck this up so I played along. Then she said she's still not pretty because her previous boyfriends all cheated on her with pretty and sexy girls. The convo went in that direction. Her talking about how she's not pretty, me saying a bunch of dumb shit to "convince" her that she's actually pretty. Basically, I began digging myself into a fucking hole. That was yesterday. Today I made a slight joke about how it's good that the kid she's tutoring didn't get turned off by how stressed she looked, because she really haven't slept in more than 30 hours, and then she suddenly brings up everything I said about how pretty she was and told that I was just flattering her last night. I defend myself, but you know the way loaded questions go.

"You're toying with me, aren't you?" I just said it after a while because there was no way out.

"Why would I do that? I'm just trying to get to know you better." she replies after asking me a sequence of loaded questions.

I really like this girl, but goddamn it. If I just said "hey looks aren't the most important thing in the world. You've got a lot more going for you" or something along that line, none of this shit would've happened.

Smile's got girl troubles.

Go gay, much easier.

Quote from bl3u

Smile's got girl troubles.

Go gay, much easier.

I'm having girl troubles because I'm lesbian.

Haha, I remember talking indie bands with this girl, and she mentioned Neutral Milk Hotel. I knew that shit, and we both freaked out about it. I showed here Arcade Fire and Bon Iver and shit, and she showed me Fleet Foxes. I showed her a song that meant a lot to me, and she did the same. Then we talked movies and we clicked on that too.

It was perfect. She was Air Force ROTC, I'm USMC enlisted. Her brother was a Marine, and I was her middle ground for that. We both liked Louie, and when we watched Her, we were the only ones paying attention, and as we cuddled we quietly discussed the plot of the movie and shit.

I fell like a bitch for her. She looked me in the eye, and told me, "You're special. You're the only one I can talk to because you really get it. You get me." and I thought that shit meant something. But if you want to tell me you're not looking for anything, and then tell the guy that almost raped you last weekend you really like him, that's not my business.

At the end of it all, I don't hate anybody. He's doing his thing, well too, and she's doing her thing, whatever it is. I just let the wrong one in, and I'll recover from this. What's one person amongst millions.

Be very picky who you let into your heart. Call everybody a friend, but very few a brother.

I learned that it wasn't tecness but Hewitt.

You're a mod?

I don't remember that being a thing.

I'm currently seeing if I could claw my way from the absolute bottom of noobness.

One of my biggest regrets in life is that I didn't start early. I mean, sure I did a few hopeless scribbles with the mouse along with my forum RP'ing days, but I didn't start seriously until my arrival here in stickpage. I spend most of my teenhood grinding away on mindless internet wandering, like the most begrudging MMO player. Then, I started hustling all the lost years I didn't hone my talents with. As such I tend to work in intense bursts with long gaps between. I look at better animators/writers who are younger than me then weep inside as how I'll be left behind. My greatest worry is that I would take too long to get into a skill level I'm happy with, and by the time I get there the people I want to share it too are gone; either retired, dead or just apathetic. I would be alone, not getting a chance to interact with the others of my time as I get stranded in a sea of youngsters.

Of course, a little pep talk with my aunt (and a PM from stone) convinced me that Terkoiz and the others didn't get to where they are overnight. Development takes a lot of time, you can't simply start right away and expect to catch up to him within a couple of months. I'm taking my time, I'll probably get there in a couple of years. I don't have to burn myself out on a regular basis, I'm confident they'll still be around.


EDIT: Congratulations, Ai, another well-deserved victory.