Whatchu doing this Summer

[Teuthida]

Jury Duty.

Dylflon's wedding invites.

Ended up in the hospital where I tripled the number of women to have handled my scrotum.

Became crippled from the meds I was given and ended up back in the ER. Couldn't use my hands for almost two months.

Watched a crapton of movies and tv during the above.

May visit family in California. But then again I hate California.

Now I just have a lot of work to catch up on.

[Typhoid]

Well, problem established.
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No wonder this place is dead.
People don't even want to converse about what's going on with one another.


I've noticed that due to facebook and twitter people as a whole tend to have lost conversation skills, and everyone just simply "talks" in the form of twitter updates. Single line statuses, that type of thing. A rush of information in as few words as possible. No flair the conversation, no inflection. No intention to even make it seem like a normal chat - just pushing out information in less than 4 sentences at a time.

Then again I'm having a bad day and maybe I'm just being far too cynical towards the whole process and how the internet is slowly ruining people and their ability to actually talk. (Hell, remember when people were allowed to have an opinion without getting ripped? Now you can't say anything negative or you're an asshole. Can't give a bad review of a movie, because people like it. Can't give a good review of a movie, because people hate it. Our culture has grown to be so hate-filled. At least with British culture it's tongue-in-cheek, and the hateful comments are made out of friendship. Twitter has turned North American culture into everyone just being an asshole all the time every chance they get simply to impress people they don't give a shit about.)

Edit: Re-reading that, I want to point out I wasn't trying to single either of you guys out, or rip on you. It was just in general I meant that.

[Teuthida]

Nah, you're right. I have similar conversation with Babs every so often on AIM (I'm so out of touch. Do folks not use that anymore?) about trying to get people to comment on NOTR. They rather just tweet their twat directly to him about an article.

There's also reddit. Outside of the memes some folks hold actual conversations. There's no real community though. The days of forums like this are long over.

But yeah, I can't hold a conversation to save my life. I basically talk with only two people on a daily basis.

....I did respond though. Added content....yay?


What did we use to talk about? Games? I don't play them anymore so I have nothing to add. In the old days it was all about upping your post count. That's what got people to post. On reddit you have karma. I still don't get twitter.

[Typhoid]

....I did respond though. Added content....yay?

Like I said, I really wasn't directing that at you guys. It wasn't a hint or anything. It was just a blahblahblah.

What did we use to talk about? Games? I don't play them anymore so I have nothing to add.

Enh, Gametavern can be as much about literal games as reddit is about the colour "red". (yes I know it's a play on "read it", and not actually the colour red, just sayin'. 'GameTavern' is simply a name. The content inside shouldn't be limited because of it, despite the glaring obviousness that it's always been a website for gamers.)

But I do feel ya. I have nothing to add in the game department. I haven't been able to convince myself to play anything lately. I want to pick up Skyrim again, or finish FFXIII-2, but I just feel like I'm wasting my time. Not sure if that's what does it for everyone else, or if its just lack of interest in the games.



Oh, and for the record: Dylans wedding invite was the best thing I ever ever received in the mail. I taped that bad boy above my fireplace. It's so fucking hilariously badass.

[Vampyr]

Pretty boring summer... other than that I bought a house.

That's kind of the reason I haven't been around much, spent a few months being super busy looking for a house, buying a house, getting moved in, then cleaning out the old apartment.

Other than that work has also been super busy lately.

Been hitting the gym a lot more often. I was only getting 2 days a week before the house, now that I'm settled in I've upped that to 4.

Honestly looking forward to Fall and Winter though. NFL preseason starts now, season in a month. Dogfish Head Punkin Ale is right around the corner, and hopefully we'll get some pretty snow this year. I want to sit in my new living room and watch it.

[BreakABone]

Originally Posted by Vampyr

Pretty boring summer... other than that I bought a house.

That's kind of the reason I haven't been around much, spent a few months being super busy looking for a house, buying a house, getting moved in, then cleaning out the old apartment.

Other than that work has also been super busy lately.

Been hitting the gym a lot more often. I was only getting 2 days a week before the house, now that I'm settled in I've upped that to 4.

Honestly looking forward to Fall and Winter though. NFL preseason starts now, season in a month. Dogfish Head Punkin Ale is right around the corner, and hopefully we'll get some pretty snow this year. I want to sit in my new living room and watch it.

Speaking of football.. we should try and do a GT fantasy league. At least, this would get people talking for a few months.

[Vampyr]

I'm up for that.