chyron8472

suspiciouscoffee said:

I’m playing A Link to the Past right now.

I suck at games.

Have you not played A Link to the Past before?

Possessed said:

as long as you aren’t an asshole about it nobody will

JEDIT: I just noticed Valheru_84 was banned. I was asking why but then noticed it wasn’t that recent and has already been explained. Nevermind.

TV’s Frink said:

Whatever makes you feel better.

You’re calling someone out for being inconsiderate?

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

chyron8472 said:

Possessed said:

You didn’t use an audio book?

😛

“The Bible in Drama”

Was it the edition read by Larry King?

*shudders*

No, they were cast dramatizations.

My wife loves the The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit novels, but the audiobooks have lots of annoying singing by Rob Inglis. We tried listening to them once upon a time, but kept having to fast forward through many minutes of horrible singing, which hurt the listening experience.

So this week I fixed it. I edited out all of the songs from the entire series, except for reinserting about half a dozen that have good renditions on Youtube from Clamavi De Profundis, and the “Chip the Glasses and Crack the Plates” from the live action The Hobbit film.

inAudible’s splitter, joiner, and audio editor tools were invaluable and made the process super easy. I only had to use Audacity for a couple of them.

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RAM: 8GB DDR3
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HDD: 2GB Seagate, 3GB Seagate, 3GB WD Red
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suspiciouscoffee said:

Thanks for the concern, all. Ibuprofen has kept it down to 100 or below for most of the day, but I will likely go to the doctor if it hits 104 or so, which hopefully won’t happen.

Tylenol (acetaminophen) is a better fever reducer.

Possessed said:

You didn’t use an audio book?

😛

Actually, when I was a small child I did have a collection of audio cassettes for something called “The Bible in Drama” and “Character Building Drama”. I enjoyed the latter much more, kind of like modern parables or whatever.

Plus, I had a few Read Along Storybooks that came with audio cassettes. The two I remember now are E.T. and Return of the Jedi. My sister had at least one, but hers were on small 45 vinyl records she could play in her little plastic record player.

I also remember once making a little Read Along Storybook of my own, using typing paper, markers, and my little audio cassette recorder in my room, about outer space.

 
I know you were joking, and I do seem to much favor listening to books over actually reading them these days, but apparently there was a precedent set for it, which occurred to me sometime recently when I suddenly remembered the “Bible in Drama” set I used to have.

My Need-to-Read/Listen list is continually growing these days.

I need to catch up on the King’s Dark Tidings series by finishing book 2 and listening to book 3.
Same for The Land/Chaos Seeds, need to listen to book 6.

Let’s see… *looks at Audible Wish List*.

…Oh, yeah. Red Rising. Thanks dahmage.

I don’t remember how I learned to read. Either from school or my mom or both.

I did have some Little Golden Books when I was a kid, but when looking around for books for my daughter, several of them I have see these days seem to have not aged very well.

DominicCobb said:

ChainsawAsh said:

Like I said, it’s the only fan edit I’ve seen where I’m 100% okay with seeing it before (or even instead of) the original.

Like I said, it’s a fan edit and it is worse than the original.

That’s not what you said.

DominicCobb said:

Personally I think it’s weird to watch the fan edit first. Plus I don’t think it’s any better than the original.

Not any better != worse

Finished Star Wars: Return of the Jedi - Beware the Power of the Dark Side!.

A fantastic read/listen from start to finish.

moviefreakedmind said:

The Vatican was quick to damage control on that one.

By “damage control”, basically the Vatican pointed out that transcription of the Pope’s words regarding this are unreliable because no actual interview was given and what was report “is the result of [the author’s] reconstruction”.

Petal Meadows - Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
Composers: Yoshito Hirano, Yuka Tsujiyoko

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ1f6BEkn_g

moviefreakedmind said:

chyron8472 said:

moviefreakedmind said:

chyron8472 said:

moviefreakedmind said:

chyron8472 said:
Both the good and the bad in life exist, but it’s your choice what you focus on. It’s not a lie to endeavor to find good in things.

That’s not a lie, but it’s still futile.

No it isn’t. If all you can see in life is your shit job and your shit living space, with your shit financial problems and your shit car, then it’s no surprise when people don’t like you if you never have anything nice to say.

Why would I want people to like me?

Because regular positive social interaction has psychological and emotional benefits. Among other reasons.

Lol, yeah right.

This is all just from a single google search.

 
Research Suggests a Positive Correlation between Social Interaction and Health
https://www.nia.nih.gov/about/living-long-well-21st-century-strategic-directions-research-aging/research-suggests-positive

Social Interaction Is Critical for Mental and Physical Health
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/12/well/live/having-friends-is-good-for-you.html

Face-to-Face Social Contact Reduces Risk of Depression
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-athletes-way/201510/face-face-social-contact-reduces-risk-depression

Mental health and social relationships
http://www.esrc.ac.uk/news-events-and-publications/evidence-briefings/mental-health-and-social-relationships/

Key findings

Adults with no friends are the worst off psychologically. There are significant health cost implications from the impact of this social isolation.
The importance of friendships and family networks is not affected by education, employment or marital/cohabiting status.
For women, regular contact with a large family network doesn’t necessarily lead to a higher level of wellbeing. These networks can actually place more obligations and burdens on them. Instead, the research found that women’s friendship networks are more important.
However, men did better when they had a large number of friends or family members. Family networks don’t seem to place the same burdens on men as on women.
Volunteering is not as effective as a social network in protecting the psychological health of working-age people. It does not compensate for the loss of work relationships for people without jobs. However, volunteering was positive for the wellbeing of older people who had retired.
Friendships appear to be important across many nations. A French study showed that having no social exchange with neighbours has a large negative impact on men’s and women’s quality of life. This found that people physically isolated from their friends who maintained wellbeing did so by establishing relationships with neighbours instead.

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https://www.kidsmatter.edu.au/mental-health-matters/social-and-emotional-learning

moviefreakedmind said:

chyron8472 said:

moviefreakedmind said:

chyron8472 said:
Both the good and the bad in life exist, but it’s your choice what you focus on. It’s not a lie to endeavor to find good in things.

That’s not a lie, but it’s still futile.

No it isn’t. If all you can see in life is your shit job and your shit living space, with your shit financial problems and your shit car, then it’s no surprise when people don’t like you if you never have anything nice to say.

Why would I want people to like me?

Because regular positive social interaction has psychological and emotional benefits. Among other reasons.

moviefreakedmind said:

chyron8472 said:

moviefreakedmind said:

chyron8472 said:

moviefreakedmind said:

chyron8472 said:

moviefreakedmind said:

chyron8472 said:
And life sucks enough already on it’s own, so why should we be obligated to fill our very young children’s minds with thoughts of torture and pain?

So they aren’t surprised when they get older?

Surprised?

That suggests having a shitty outlook on life is beneficial. It is not.

Well, it’s accurate and honest.

And how has it helped you to have such an outlook?

I’m sure it hasn’t but at least I’m not lying to myself.

Life is what you make of it.

Nope.

Yes.

Both the good and the bad in life exist, but it’s your choice what you focus on. It’s not a lie to endeavor to find good in things.

That’s not a lie, but it’s still futile.

No it isn’t. If all you can see in life is your shit job and your shit living space, with your shit financial problems and your shit car, then it’s no surprise when people don’t like you if you never have anything nice to say.

moviefreakedmind said:

chyron8472 said:

moviefreakedmind said:

chyron8472 said:

moviefreakedmind said:

chyron8472 said:
And life sucks enough already on it’s own, so why should we be obligated to fill our very young children’s minds with thoughts of torture and pain?

So they aren’t surprised when they get older?

Surprised?

That suggests having a shitty outlook on life is beneficial. It is not.

Well, it’s accurate and honest.

And how has it helped you to have such an outlook?

I’m sure it hasn’t but at least I’m not lying to myself.

Life is what you make of it. Both the good and the bad in life exist, but it’s your choice what you focus on. It’s not a lie to endeavor to find good in things.

moviefreakedmind said:

chyron8472 said:

moviefreakedmind said:

chyron8472 said:
And life sucks enough already on it’s own, so why should we be obligated to fill our very young children’s minds with thoughts of torture and pain?

So they aren’t surprised when they get older?

Surprised?

That suggests having a shitty outlook on life is beneficial. It is not.

Well, it’s accurate and honest.

And how has it helped you to have such an outlook?

moviefreakedmind said:

chyron8472 said:
And life sucks enough already on it’s own, so why should we be obligated to fill our very young children’s minds with thoughts of torture and pain?

So they aren’t surprised when they get older?

Surprised? That suggests having a shitty outlook on life is beneficial. It is not.

I grew up watching the same movies. Was I surprised that life isn’t the same as is in cartoons? No. Did they trick me or delude me into thinking life is easy? No.

Come on now. Kids are smart enough to know life isn’t exactly like the movies. But the movies also don’t have to be exactly like life.

moviefreakedmind said:

chyron8472 said:

moviefreakedmind said:

https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Planned-Parenthood-Keystone-Disney-Princess-Abortion-Tweet-Controversy-478115553.html?_osource=SocialFlowFB_PHBrand

This might be the funniest thing I’ve ever read.

Because nothing says “Happily Ever After” or “Follow Your Heart” like unwanted pregnancy or destroying human fetuses; Disney Animated Studios also is certainly the best to tackle this topic; and the target audience obviously should be young children.

Disney movies are all about people who have perfect lives and overcome a threat to that perfect life so they can go back to living their perfect lives.

Methinks you haven’t seen an animated Disney movie in a very long time. Certainly the main characters can have a mostly positive outlook on their situation, but that doesn’t mean they have perfect lives.

Just because the movies aren’t brutal like their original versions, that doesn’t make them bad. And life sucks enough already on it’s own, so why should we be obligated to fill our very young children’s minds with thoughts of torture and pain?

TV’s Frink said:

chyron8472 said:

moviefreakedmind said:

I have a question for Christian users here. What exactly do you find inspirational about Jesus Christ? I find that a lot of Christians see him as a role model as well as a god and I’m curious about specifics.

moviefreakedmind said:

Dek Rollins said:

moviefreakedmind said:

Dek Rollins said:

moviefreakedmind said:

The “fire insurance” is the only reason to dedicate your life to Christ. You may say there are little benefits, but if you weren’t going to roast in hell there’d be no reason to suffer through church, evangelizing, praying, and all that. Life’s too short.

I feel like this is kind of a glass half empty or half full thing. Your reasoning isn’t incorrect, but I feel it’s more important to focus on the eternal reward of faithfulness rather than the eternal punishment of unforgiven sin (or whatever Hell may be).

The reward isn’t as desirable as the punishment is horrifying.

Dek Rollins said:
they spend more time wacking off than they do imitating Christ’s love.

The reason they do that is because it’s a natural urge and desire of human beings (which God supposedly created). It’s especially a very natural part of growing up and developing. Encouraging people, and especially youth, to repress themselves and be ashamed of themselves for something that’s biologically ingrained into them is one of Christianity’s biggest faults today.

I mean, that wasn’t my point, but okay. I don’t disagree with you.

Oh, well that’s how I took it.

I was just referring to the fact that they have no desire to express the love of Christ to others. The “wack” was just an example that I chose based on its place in religious society.

most people don’t want to hear about the love of Christ. I certainly don’t.

These two things do not go together.

Just like religion and facts.

ZING!!!

I’m sure you’re feeling clever, but no.

moviefreakedmind said:

https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Planned-Parenthood-Keystone-Disney-Princess-Abortion-Tweet-Controversy-478115553.html?_osource=SocialFlowFB_PHBrand

This might be the funniest thing I’ve ever read.

Because nothing says “Happily Ever After” or “Follow Your Heart” like unwanted pregnancy or destroying human fetuses; Disney Animated Studios also is certainly the best to tackle this topic; and the target audience obviously should be young children.

I can’t wait to hear my daughter sing along with catchy Musical songs about abortion. JEDIT: Maybe that’s what “Let It Go” from Frozen was supposed to be about?

Possessed said:

Maybe he wants to hear an explanation that goes deeper than “he loves me”.

But that’s not what he said. I’m saying his saying he doesn’t want to hear it calls the genuineness of his curiosity into question.