Wall for Talos (page 9)

True, bit of a catch-22 we're in right now. Can't get good players to post until they get good advice... but they can't get good advice if they're not posting, Best we can do for now is to just manage the idiocy I guess.

It's not that it's a bad name. It's what's associated with that name.

I write too. I started writing since the loss of an important person to me (not death loss), and it's definitely helped. I've grown to get used to it, but there are times when it's definitely not easy.

And yeah, I do agree, getting some players that actually know what they're doing would be nice.

Also, I saw this.

"The RMT isn't really gonna improve until good players actually start posting their teams there, which won't happen until they believe that they can get good advice by posting it there."

Another problem is that people might have good teams and post them, but not enough people play that format to give a proper rating.

Whitefire, Da Viper, and (ugh) Celestial Shadows are notable past names.

Sometimes, I want to have conversations, and I can have some pretty good conversations too. Problem is, I have no friends, so all of the conversations are scenarios in my mind that would never happen in real life.
I'm... a thinker. I can formulate thoughts on specific subjects and expand on various ideas in my mind, but when they come out verbally, it's all in a jumbled mess, I forget half of what I want to say, and half of what I wanted to say doesn't get out.

"This is a bit ironic coming from me, seeing as how I usually don't really care about random people dying, but children?"

I just want to pull a bit from my notebook.

"I understand that death is necessary, but it is still scary. I feel like the plane crash didn't have as big an impact on me as it should've. Our neighbors could've died. We could've lost our house. Had the plane been a few inches over, it could've been us. Yet, none of those phase me for some reason. When someone dies, it doesn't really make me sad. Yeah, I can sympathize (empathize?) with one's loss, but that's pretty much it. Yet when I feel death, it affects me on a greater scale? Maybe I haven't experienced enough significant loss to truly be affected by it..."

This sums up some of my feelings about death. As stated, I understand it's necessary, but it's scary to think about, since death could be around any corner. But for some reason, when someone dies, I don't really get sad. Once I heard that a teacher's grandmother(?) died, and being the extraordinary thinker that I am, I was able to empathize(?) with that loss. But did I shed a tear? No. Not really.
Or when I'm watching TV and there's a funeral, I don't get sad. It's strange how I work. It's not often I'm scared by death, and even less often I empathize with it, but I just feel like death doesn't have as big of an impact on me as it should.

Now contrary to what Pogo said, it doesn't really matter the age of the person who's dying for me. I believe that all lives are important to at least someone else, and of course, some people will have more significant deaths than others, but I do think most, if not all deaths are worth noting. Even if children (mainly teens, I'm assuming, since my definition of children is different than Pogo's) have a lot going on that can contribute to their death, other people are important too, even if they aren't as recognized or going through tough times like others.

Damn not you and Giru actually having interesting conversations.

Yeah, I get the frustration -- the RMT is pretty much a dumpster fire right now. We already hide around 70% of submissions for breaking the rules, and the rest usually don't get answers. The question you're talking about is pushing it for me, but I think it's barely within the realm of acceptability. It's annoying that it's gotten to this, but unless people start reading the rules, there's just not much else we can do.

In terms of actually doing something, we've established new rules to hopefully make things clearer to the few new users that actually read them. I've also been editing questions to standardize tags and remove rule-breaking ones that slipped through the cracks. Just want you to know that yeah we're doing something, but no there's not much else we *can* do :/

Oh god, that's rough. The deaths, not the breakups. What a world we live in, where children kill themselves and others. It's horrible how often things like that happen, and it feels as though people are unconcerned unless there was something 'special' about the attacker/victim, in which case they blather about it for weeks and we never hear about anything else. This is a bit ironic coming from me, seeing as how I usually don't really care about random people dying, but children? Committing SUICIDE? What the hell, mate? Goes to show how messed up this world is.

Hiya, and thanks! Been a while. How are you?

(creys because I have to re-type my wall post)

Anyway, hiya! Welcome back! :3

Not much is up on my end. I beat Live A Live, beat it in Japanese, beat it in Japanese again (I played through the final story as a different character), trying to beat it in Japanese five more times... welp, I guess I figured out what phase I'm going through. Very cool game though. I love the characters. Pogo (or Pogie as I like to call him) is weirdly cute and makes funny sounds, Akira (or Aki as I like to call him because I didn't learn my lesson with the Pogo nicknames) is pretty good-looking for a guy with no shirt and makes funny sounds, mostly in Japanese, Yun Jou is my favorite disciple who saved me from a bathtub once (I'll get to that dream in a minute because it was hysterical), Cube is a funny-looking little robot, Oboromaru is probably the best-looking purple-haired guy who will ever be created (he's not extremely amazing or anything but he has purple hair which kinda isn't a charm point so yeah)... the characters are really something.

And now for the funny part: that dream I mentioned a minute ago. In the dream, me and my mom were walking down the street and apparently busting the illegal fake Pokemon card traders when, all of a sudden, I was apparently kidnapped (o Mgee!1!!!!1one!!1!!)! In an instant, I was locked in an empty bathtub. I'm not sure if it was the bathtub or the shower curtain that was somehow locked but I was locked in. Much sadth. But then the bathtub/shower curtain was unlocked, and to my amazement, the one who had unlocked it was Yun Jou! Yun was apparently a sympathizer with the hostages or something, so we decided to get the heck out of there. But to my dismay, a guy in a suit and shades stopped us. Yun tried to lie his way out of it so that we wouldn't both be imprisoned, but the guy in the shades was rather skeptical, so he decided to test Yun's loyalty by... putting him on an ice-skating rink. If he were to make even the smallest mistake, that meant he was a traitor. How that works is beyond me. Maybe their members take ice-skating training. Anyway, as that was happening, I ran away. Kinda sad, really. Yun saves my life and I run away. Sounds like me though. Anyway, some random puzzles, Mario 3D World, Kirby Star Allies, and that one scene where it turns out Pokemon get arrested when they lose battles later, I learned who was the mastermind behind the evil kidnapper peoples: some bald guy with a poorly animated jaw and a lame theme song, known only as Shattered Shark (actually his real name was Umbra).

(dramatic music)

Well, there's that. How's life on your end? :3