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DuracellEnergizer said:

I’m getting pretty fed up with team_negative1’s blatant disregard of the team account rules. They’ve been warned plenty of times over the last several months not to post outside their thread, but they keep doing so with impunity.

I say it’s about time team_negative1 was hit with the ban hammer – at least for a month.

I couldn’t agree more! I wasn’t bothered by their posts until it ruined the Theatrical Cuts vs. Special Editions section of the forums. The fact that they provide material to Harmy is very nice and I appreciate it a lot, but it shouldn’t be a free pass to break the rules of the forums.

EDIT: I stand by the statement that they shouldn’t get a free pass to break the rules, but I want to note that by using the word, “ruined” I didn’t mean that they literally reduced it to a state of decay, collapse, or disintegration.

From now on though I am done taking jabs at team_negative1 as it is unnecessary and inappropriate.

Made the fatal mistake of clicking on off topic forum over at DVD Talk, wandered into a blazing theological discussion. Didn’t participate personally, but it was ugly. And some of the stuff in it really kicked a comorbidity between my OCD, Aspergers, anxiety, and depression, causing me to have 72 hour+ panic attack off and on, repeating things I read over and over and over in my head in some kind of nightmarish OCD loop. Can’t get my head to stop buzzing, it’s driving me nuts, like some sort of OCD loop. So yeah, apparently with the depression’s return, the anxiety has made a rather unwelcome return with it. I’ve heard everything everyone has said there at least a dozen times, there and elsewhere, so I cannot for the life of me figure out what set me off. Fuck this shit. I have to work in 5 minutes. It’s hard to function with it. Why did I keep going back to it when I knew it would upset me, and why did it upset my when I’ve heard everything everyone has said 1,000 times before? I don’t need this shit, I have to work 8 hours. I want my fucking buzzing head to stop.

http://forum.dvdtalk.com/showthread.php?t=624553

I’ve never understood why people get so vitriolic in religious discussions. I guess it can somewhat make sense if it’s between multiple religious people with differing views since they all believe that their worldviews come directly from a divine entity, but I don’t understand when certain agnostics/atheists try to mean-spiritedly poke holes in another person’s belief system since it’s inconsequential to them. Why constantly complain about how unbelievable something you believe to be a fiction is? Either way I can’t stand it when debates get ruined by pointless insults being thrown around.

I just don’t understand why I keep going back to something which I know will upset me and keep getting upset about things which I’ve heard hundreds of times already. It doesn’t fucking make an sense to me. Then the depression worsens. It’s a stupid cycle.

DuracellEnergizer said:

I learned to avoid most on-line religious debates a long time ago. Sometimes you get respectful dialogues between the different parties, but most of the time it’s just a bunch of uncouth jackasses tossing insults and strawman arguments back-and-forth.

Damn straight!

DuracellEnergizer said:

I learned to avoid most on-line religious debates a long time ago. Sometimes you get respectful dialogues between the different parties, but most of the time it’s just a bunch of uncouth jackasses tossing insults and strawman arguments back-and-forth.

I learned this a long, long, long time ago. I stuck to it for many years (though it was largely pre YouTube, which has made even more chaos). For some fucking reason, I broke my own rule and now I’m in this mess. I wish I knew why this shit was lingering and bothering me so much. I hear these kinds of things (frequently more well-written) on House, True Detective, and Bones, among countless others, literally hundreds of times. I wish I could figure it why this was happening to my brain. The SSRIs worked for 15+ years. I keep thinking that I’ve chosen an impossible question related to the meaning of life and impossible questions precisely because my demented OCD brain knows that’s a perfect way to trap itself.

DuracellEnergizer said:

I hate it when all the good cable TV channels get rebranded, sold off, shut down, or otherwise changed into something completely different than what they were.

[JEDIT]

Also, I hate how there’s no simple, easy way just to connect a VCR to a computer without having to go to the trouble of buying a freaking adapter. Why couldn’t they just make laptops with analog connections?

ION did make a VHS deck with a USB output, but it was short of features most of us value, like Hi Fi sound. Whether it works without the included software I have no idea. Considering how most decks made after 2000 we’re 98% cheap plastic, it was surprisingly heavy.

SilverWook said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

I hate it when all the good cable TV channels get rebranded, sold off, shut down, or otherwise changed into something completely different than what they were.

[JEDIT]

Also, I hate how there’s no simple, easy way just to connect a VCR to a computer without having to go to the trouble of buying a freaking adapter. Why couldn’t they just make laptops with analog connections?

ION did make a VHS deck with a USB output, but it was short of features most of us value, like Hi Fi sound. Whether it works without the included software I have no idea. Considering how most decks made after 2000 we’re 98% cheap plastic, it was surprisingly heavy.

I have one of those…a fairly reasonable little machine…

Was tempted to get one if the need ever arose to preserve a rental tape that was too nasty looking to put in my more expensive decks. Odd it doesn’t actually have the VHS logo anywhere, unless JVC doesn’t give a rat’s ass about their patents anymore.

Mike O said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

I learned to avoid most on-line religious debates a long time ago. Sometimes you get respectful dialogues between the different parties, but most of the time it’s just a bunch of uncouth jackasses tossing insults and strawman arguments back-and-forth.

I learned this a long, long, long time ago. I stuck to it for many years (though it was largely pre YouTube, which has made even more chaos). For some fucking reason, I broke my own rule and now I’m in this mess. I wish I knew why this shit was lingering and bothering me so much. I hear these kinds of things (frequently more well-written) on House, True Detective, and Bones, among countless others, literally hundreds of times. I wish I could figure it why this was happening to my brain. The SSRIs worked for 15+ years. I keep thinking that I’ve chosen an impossible question related to the meaning of life and impossible questions precisely because my demented OCD brain knows that’s a perfect way to trap itself.

If I may be so bold, what is the impossible question you have chosen?

I ask because I grappled with depression and the impossible question: ‘why is there something rather than nothing’ for years before understanding that the question was wrong. The question should be ‘IS there something rather than nothing’, and this can be meaningfully answered. The ramifications of this answer now form the basis of my life philosophy.

I’m sorry that you’re dealing with this right now. PM if you’d like to talk about it.

Thank you for the kindness.