You should be. High School girl drama was THE WORST.
By senior year I gave up on girls entirely and all of my friends were guys (much to my parents' distress). There was a staggering lack of drama. But tons of Venture Bros, World of Warcraft, late night Pizookies, Super Smash Bros, and bromance. It was the best. 10/10 would do again.
Same here. The only girls I spent time with as a teenager were relatives, and yup, my friends were all guys. Just add in a bit more Aqua Teen Hunger Force and my experience was very similar to yours. Always chose Jigglypuff, always. I think the worst thing that happened to me after that was that a friend decided he loved my prom shoes and tried them on for a catwalk performance. It was hysterical, but decidedly unfortunate for the shoes.
Spent my HS years drawing in a corner of the classroom, listening to music, and talk as little as necessary to people. Although I did have some girl friends that were as introvert/insane as me, so we got along just fine, ignoring the rest.
Yeah, high school, and school years in general were just sitting alone drawing, and having people questioning why I read so much/actually did my homework. And avoiding eye contact for survival reasons.
You should be. High School girl drama was THE WORST.
By senior year I gave up on girls entirely and all of my friends were guys (much to my parents' distress). There was a staggering lack of drama. But tons of Venture Bros, World of Warcraft, late night Pizookies, Super Smash Bros, and bromance. It was the best. 10/10 would do again.
It was mostly me and my best girl friend hanging out with her bf and his best friend. We had a ball. The rest of our larger group were just a bunch of misfits that did random stuff around town. like hang out in ihop until 4 in the morning drinking coffee and talking about the cure even though it was 2003. WE WERE SO COOL.
One of the crackier fan-fic I've ever heard of was Bann Tegan/Broodfather.
This reminds me of my favorite Old French fabliaux:
Under the spoiler: a retelling of the fabliaux.
Trigger warning: talk of phalluses and such. Also, if you are offended by Old French literature. It's a serious topic of study, I'll have you know.
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A husband and wife get three wishes. The wife immediately wishes for the husband to have more penises (penii?). He just wasn't satisfying her needs. And boom! He is covered with penises. PENISES EVERYWHERE! He then wishes the same treatment of his wife. So she is covered in lots of lady flowers. And everything is weird.
Both realize that this was a huge mistake.
And spend their last wish getting their bodies back to normal. They are sad about how they wasted their wishes. And go back to being dirty peasants.
Old French fabliaux = a good time.
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This reminds me of my favorite Old French fabliaux:
Under the spoiler: a retelling of the fabliaux.
Trigger warning: talk of phalluses and such. Also, if you are offended by Old French literature. It's a serious topic of study, I'll have you know.
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A husband and wife get three wishes. The wife immediately wishes for the husband to have more penises (penii?). He just wasn't satisfying her needs. And boom! He is covered with penises. PENISES EVERYWHERE! He then wishes the same treatment of his wife. So she is covered in lots of lady flowers. And everything is weird.
Both realize that this was a huge mistake.
And spend their last wish getting their bodies back to normal. They are sad about how they wasted their wishes. And go back to being dirty peasants.
What theories in particular are you referring to? You don't have to completely decouple classes of cognitive processes. You can influence one sensory filter or even brain region without impairing another, they are not proportionally or directly connected. I think in general it is too complex to draw clear boundaries. It's also difficult to ignore hormonal tides when thinking about perception/awareness etc..
And I still think any theory is strengthened if we do not disregard sensory gating. I believe that could already account for a lot when assuming a "mental consciousness".
Apologies, I am trying to understand "sensory gating" from wikipedia since I have not yet come across it in studies!
So, the "filtering out of redundant/unnecessary stimuli in the brain from environmental stimuli"... the wiki suggests an analogy in the "cocktail party effect" - the way we use our hearing to pick out a single voice in a room full of voices. "Tuning in" and "tuning out" stimuli prevents overloading of irrelevant information in the brain, but doesn't necessarily mean that all of that "irrelevant" information is not processed in the background in some way.
Does that sound right?
Yes, this does sound like a possible explanation of the fade! I wonder if there can be a happy compromise, in that this "collective consciousness" of the fade isn't so much a separate realm, as it is the vast quantity of otherwise "irrelevant environmental stimuli" of the world around us that we "tune in to" under certain circumstances (e.g. dreaming).
(I now imagine Envy existing as this unpercievable thing in the corner of our eyes but never taking form - and choosing to seep into "perceived" existence by oozing into the Inquisitor's brain (yuck)!)
I think generally hormonal tides are taken into account, and classified as part of the physical - part of the study of dualism however is attempting to figure out what exactly would fall under the categories of physical and nonphysical.
Sorry, I just realised there might be a clash in our thinking! "Decoupling classes of cognitive process" was me literally applying Cartesian dualism to the existence of a mind and madrar's "fade-shadow". Causality between mental state and physical event is no less obscure to me than two physical events (brain to limb, for example), since nobody can actually explain what causality is.
But! I realise how this can not be true for working psychologists. Today I studied a guy called J. Fodor, who recounts in The Mind-Body Problem the history of modern psychology in an attempt to explain why we might have differences in views:
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The psychologist frequently applies the experimental methods of the physical sciences to the study of the mind. If mental processes were different in kind from physical processes, there would be no reason to expect these methods to work in the realm of the mental. In order to justify their experimental methods, many psychologists urgently sought an alternative to dualism.
In the 1920s John B. Watson made the radical suggestion that behaviour does not have mental causes. He regarded the behaviour of an organism as its observable responses to stimuli, which he took to be the causes of its behaviour. Over the next thirty years psychologists developed Watson's ideas into an elaborate world view in which the role of psychology was to catalogue the laws that determine causal relations between stimuli and responses. In this "radical behaviourist" view, the problem of explaining the nature of mind-body interaction vanishes; there is no such interaction.
Radical behaviourism has always worn an air of paradox. For better or worse, the idea of mental causation is deeply ingrained in our everyday language and in our ways of understanding our fellowmen and ourselves. For example, people commonly attribute behaviour to beliefs, to knowledge and to expectations.
The radical behaviourist is unmoved by appeals to such cases. He is prepared to dismiss references to mental causes, however plausible they may seem, as the residue of outworn creeds. The radical behaviourist predicts that as psychologists come to understand more about the relations between stimuli and responses they will find it increasingly possible to explain behaviour without postulating mental causes.
The strongest argument against behaviourism is that psychology has not turned out that way; the opposite has happened. As psychology has matured, the framework of mental states and processes that is apparently needed to account for experimental observations has grown all the more elaborate. Particularly in the case of human behaviour psychological theories satisfying the methodological tenets of radical behaviourism have proved largely sterile, as would be expected if the postulated mental processes are real and causally effective.
Nevertheless, many philosophers were initially drawn to radical behaviourism because, paradoxes and all, it seemed better than dualism. Since a psychology committed to immaterial substances was unacceptable, philosophers turned to radical behaviourism because it seemed to be the only alternative materialist philosophy of the mind. The choice, as they saw it, was between radical behaviourism and ghosts.
Let's prove the ghosts?!
It seems a bit extreme to undermine the whole of the psychology discipline. This "sensory gating" (if I understand correctly) may be a happy compromise! I need to go think about it some more
This reminds me of my favorite Old French fabliaux:
Under the spoiler: a retelling of the fabliaux.
Trigger warning: talk of phalluses and such. Also, if you are offended by Old French literature. It's a serious topic of study, I'll have you know.
Spoiler
A husband and wife get three wishes. The wife immediately wishes for the husband to have more penises (penii?). He just wasn't satisfying her needs. And boom! He is covered with penises. PENISES EVERYWHERE! He then wishes the same treatment of his wife. So she is covered in lots of lady flowers. And everything is weird.
Both realize that this was a huge mistake.
And spend their last wish getting their bodies back to normal. They are sad about how they wasted their wishes. And go back to being dirty peasants.
Old French fabliaux = a good time.
Marquis de Sade is a fun thing to read. But yeah, if you have more to share, definitely would be interested!
Thanks for the Pocahontas gif. That sass face made my day!
Yeah, I think that's the thing - I am STILL interested IN Solas. I'm just NO LONGER interested in BEDDING Solas. I want the guy to be happy - I'd love for him to find a happy ending. I just don't want to be with him as anything other than a friend from here on out. Heck, I don't really want to bed ANY of the romance options (other than Cass, but we can womance each other with smutty fiction and battle cries).
I like the lore, enjoy his character and his deep seated flaws, and am so excited to see where this goes. I love the thread, the people in it, and have a good time. Keep being excellent to each other, Solas Thread.
I love this comment.
I still want my girl to doink Solas and would happily embrace a reconciliation with him, but more than anything I want him to be happy. I'd be figuratively heartbroken if they gave him a tragic ending, the poor guy's been through too much to deserve that, and I'm bitter towards any author that does that.
It always makes me think of movie version of The Mist (2007). I was absolutely outraged at the ending. I guess that means it's a good film, artistically speaking, if it inflicted that kind of emotional response, but I thoroughly resented the director for putting his characters through what they did and kicking the puppy when it was down too. xD
Spoiler ahead for film ending if anyone's not seen it but wants to know what happens:
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The main character goes through the whole film trying to save his family from the Mist creatures and then when it's all over, when they've gone as far as they can go and he realizes he can't save them, he shoots them all; his love interest, the elderly couple, his kid, with no bullet left for himself. He was prepared to be eaten or whatever the Mist creatures did, so long as his family was spared that torture. He gets out the car ready to face his fate... and then the army arrives to save him. GAAH!
Anyway, so long as they don't do that with Solas, give him all this crap to go through, and still kick his ass in the end too, I'll be a happy bunny even if my poor girl doesn't get to be with him in the end.
I hear the cool kids these days have broodmother body pillows.
First of all, dafuq? Secondly, thank you. This comment lead me down a train of thought that helped me finally identify what I hate so much about the DAII hurlock redesign. It's the noses! DA:O hurlocks had skull-like non-noses that completed their creepy visage, compare to DAII and they just look like pale dudes who don't have cheeks, skull is too hidden at that point, not intimidating skull face. Also the Awakening disciple guys show that the skull-nose thing works even if you give em cheeks and semi-normal mouths. So the morale of the story is if you want to make something scary chop its nose off.
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My brothers tried to convince me to buy a Fenris body pillow to make fun of my obsession at the time and I may have considered it.
Please someone explain character body pillows to me. Do you dry hump them? I don't understand. My husband recently suggested I get a Solas body pillow. His tone was acerbic, but I feel like part of him was deadly serious.
Please someone explain character body pillows to me. Do you dry hump them? I don't understand. My husband recently suggested I get a Solas body pillow. His tone was acerbic, but I feel like part of him was deadly serious.
I... *shakes head, shows herself out*
I've found that most of the time, people who have body pillows have them ironically or were bought as gifts. Body pillows themselves are super comfortable.
But then you do have the 'oh no my panties are gone' anime body pillows that uh...probably see some action. And too few washes.
I never paid any attention to the Bioware store before... but this has to be the cutest thing ever. I want it!
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OMG, I love it! WANT!
I also noticed that they're selling the tarot cards as playing cards now. Awesome!!! The cards are the only fan merchandise I could justify buying because I actually need a new deck. The current one has gotten gross. (Two bad the deck has only two jokers. I need two decks with a total of six jokers...)
I quit buying fan stuff after spending a fortune on X Files crap as a teenager. Or rather my mom did. I'll feel eternally sorry for wasting her money like that. What am I going to do with a Mulder head now?! Ugh.
20$ for shipping while websites like teefury/qwertee manage to keep it down to 4/5$ at best, ugh, Bioware, why? (Yeah, still looking at the damn shirt)
I still want my girl to doink Solas and would happily embrace a reconciliation with him, but more than anything I want him to be happy. I'd be figuratively heartbroken if they gave him a tragic ending, the poor guy's been through too much to deserve that, and I'm bitter towards any author that does that.
It always makes me think of movie version of The Mist (2007). I was absolutely outraged at the ending. I guess that means it's a good film, artistically speaking, if it inflicted that kind of emotional response, but I thoroughly resented the director for putting his characters through what they did and kicking the puppy when it was down too. xD
Spoiler ahead for film ending if anyone's not seen it but wants to know what happens:
Spoiler
The main character goes through the whole film trying to save his family from the Mist creatures and then when it's all over, when they've gone as far as they can go and he realizes he can't save them, he shoots them all; his love interest, the elderly couple, his kid, with no bullet left for himself. He was prepared to be eaten or whatever the Mist creatures did, so long as his family was spared that torture. He gets out the car ready to face his fate... and then the army arrives to save him. GAAH!
Anyway, so long as they don't do that with Solas, give him all this crap to go through, and still kick his ass in the end too, I'll be a happy bunny even if my poor girl doesn't get to be with him in the end.
Am I the only one that wants a happy ending for our Lavellans and Solas???????
I feel lonely......
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Marquis de Sade is a fun thing to read. But yeah, if you have more to share, definitely would be interested!
The fabliaux genre was a middle class, medieval thing. It has roots in Greek Milesian Tales and of course Latin ("The Widow of Ephesus" in the Satyricon is the most well known). Also, the Decameron. They are not really in the same vein as the Marquis de Sade. They are meant to be indecorous and raunchy and funny. Lots of nuns and priests behaving badly.
Sadly, the penis tale has not been translated into English. Quelle horreur! I have a reference to a copy of the tale, but it is in Old French (Not newfangled, "new" French).
Please someone explain character body pillows to me. Do you dry hump them? I don't understand. My husband recently suggested I get a Solas body pillow. His tone was acerbic, but I feel like part of him was deadly serious.
I... *shakes head, shows herself out*
No. You mostly just cuddle them...for sleeping. Seriously. They sell full body pillows at Brookstones minus the anime/mange characters on them.
Maybe I shall give Vivienne another chance then. I'm not used to not play with at least Solas or Cole, hence why it always makes it difficult to add Vivienne in the mix. Hearing her being awful to characters I relate to/get along with the most is entertaining for at best 2 seconds, and surely quickly falls in the irritating category soon enough.
But now that I've had all the Solas/Cole content I could have, it might be fun to try other combinations not including them at all.
Viv has my favourite addition to the Solas and Cole's Fade banters:
Solas: *says something werid*
Cole: *replies with something even werider*
Vivienne: You shouldn't encourage that thing!
Cole: Solas isn't a thing!
But she also has a banter where she encorages Cole to possess Solas entirely because she wants Cole to prove her right about him being a dangerous demon...
10/10 would do again.
I think the worst thing that happened to me after that was that a friend decided he loved my prom shoes and tried them on for a catwalk performance. It was hysterical, but decidedly unfortunate for the shoes.
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Thank you, Delphine.
