Topic: What makes you sad?

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Having been rejected by someone who genuinely loved me.

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General depression and not having a way to get over it.
The overwhelming feeling I get when it feels as if the world is collapsing around me and I can't stop it.

also

When a story ends but it doesn't feel right, like, it had it's happy/sad/empty ending, and there's nowhere left for the story to go, but you can't help but want it to keep going.
and inversely
when a story keeps going, and it passed a good ending point, but it shits the bed and decides to keep rolling in it well past when it should have been put down.
or when a show is rebooted or a move is remade and its utter shit that doesn't hold a candle to the original.

When I'm not quite sure what the future holds, and then I realize I don't know what I even want from it.

The constant fear, not of mortality, but of the mortality of character-
knowing that my story likely wont pass more than a few generations before I become forgotten like the countless unnamed victims to history before me.

Still not being able to draw dicks well...

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single_cell said:
General depression and not having a way to get over it.
The overwhelming feeling I get when it feels as if the world is collapsing around me and I can't stop it.

also

When a story ends but it doesn't feel right, like, it had it's happy/sad/empty ending, and there's nowhere left for the story to go, but you can't help but want it to keep going.
and inversely
when a story keeps going, and it passed a good ending point, but it shits the bed and decides to keep rolling in it well past when it should have been put down.
or when a show is rebooted or a move is remade and its utter shit that doesn't hold a candle to the original.

When I'm not quite sure what the future holds, and then I realize I don't know what I even want from it.

The constant fear, not of mortality, but of the mortality of character-
knowing that my story likely wont pass more than a few generations before I become forgotten like the countless unnamed victims to history before me.

Still not being able to draw dicks well...

I was captivated by the thought of being forgotten... Up until the part where you said you couldn't draw dicks.

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The fact that I'm not all that great of an artist yet.
I mean I'm getting there but how can I keep my hopes
high when the most resent thing I draw can't even compeat
with the next guy. It not like I'm trying to top anyone
art wise, more that looking at other peeps art makes me
realize how bad mine is. ~ ~)

Yes all art is subjective meaning by definition there
really isn't a better or worst since what could look bad to
you could be the best thing to another but, It's more
of a matter of detail and how it sucks I haven't yet reached my
mark of a smoother and cartoony take on PSAG's art style =P

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TL;DR
The insecurities I still have about my art bum me out
when I think about them. Partially about the art but
mostly the fact that I haven't came to peace with it.

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I wanma draw big meaty guys fucking each other but I have no artistic talent at all! That makes me sad.

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Not being able to cry anymore. Sometimes that thought makes me sad. This ability comforts you in its own way.

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Cruelty, to animals and to children, sometimes I can't sleep at some of the horrific things that are going on in the world. Heard of some horrors happening to adults like torture and all that, I feel awful at not feeling quite as upset. Not sure if that is wrong or sort of, normal.

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rhyolite said:
Cruelty, to animals and to children, sometimes I can't sleep at some of the horrific things that are going on in the world.

I agree. Physical or mental, it's unacceptable.

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InannaEloah said:
Stories about a dragon where the dragon dies at the end. Even if the dragon is evil, I still feel sad.

Ever played Drakengard? I highly recommend it. Sorry about the spoiler but it's only a mild one.

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Sorrowless said:
Ever played Drakengard? I highly recommend it. Sorry about the spoiler but it's only a mild one.

I've never played it, but I had a friend who had it so I know at least partially what it's about.

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Genjar

Former Staff

Sorrowless said:
Ever played Drakengard? I highly recommend it. Sorry about the spoiler but it's only a mild one.

Why would you recommend Drakengard to someone who just said that they don't want to see dead dragons...

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Genjar said:
Why would you recommend Drakengard to someone who just said that they don't want to see dead dragons...

I recommend playing Demon's Crest.

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Genjar said:
Why would you recommend Drakengard to someone who just said that they don't want to see dead dragons...

He doesn't Have to follow it and I don't know how severely he dislikes it. I though that he might like it to a degree like some people like to be scared or watch sad movies. Besides it's a self sacrifice in the bad ending.

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Genjar said:
Why would you recommend Drakengard to someone who just said that they don't want to see dead dragons...

I didn't say I don't want to see dead dragons, I said that stories in which dragons die make me sad.

A large portion of my art on here shows dragons dying, and out of that stuff most of it was personal art, which I highly enjoyed drawing.

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My left arm being rendered unusable most of the day every day, which would have been fine if I weren't left-handed. That's not what really hurts though. It's that I can't shake this feeling that I deserved it and that the fact that I don't know why just further shows how much I needed to be put in my place.

And the fact that this happens every time I'm injured. I've spent my whole life being blamed for things done to me and now I'm the one blaming myself.

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kamimatsu said:
I've spent my whole life being blamed for things done to me and now I'm the one blaming myself.

Likewise. No one ever wanted to give me any type of support because the things that I had to deal with were entirely my fault and I had to handle them by myself. Add in to the fact that every time you need to vent about anything, I'm told to 'man the fuck up and quit being a little bitch', directed to pretentious and snobbery elitists who obviously never had to struggle, or absolutely nothing.

I do hope that your arm gets better though, it must be a pain to deal with.

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kamimatsu said:
My left arm being rendered unusable most of the day every day, which would have been fine if I weren't left-handed. That's not what really hurts though. It's that I can't shake this feeling that I deserved it and that the fact that I don't know why just further shows how much I needed to be put in my place.

And the fact that this happens every time I'm injured. I've spent my whole life being blamed for things done to me and now I'm the one blaming myself.

Sorry to hear it. Try not to be superstitious about it. Accidents happens. It's not karma unless another person directly did it.

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Sorrowless said:
Sorry to hear it. Try not to be superstitious about it. Accidents happens. It's not karma unless another person directly did it.

What? Doesn't karma happen in any form?

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HypnoBitch said:
What? Doesn't karma happen in any form?

I suppose. But I don't believe in karma. Maybe I shouldn't have used that word. But the idea that people may do negative actions towards you at a later time because you weren't good to them, that I can get behind. Consequences.

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Sorrowless said:
I suppose. But I don't believe in karma. Maybe I shouldn't have used that word. But the idea that people may do negative actions towards you at a later time because you weren't good to them, that I can get behind. Consequences.

That too. I've been directly attacked before in different schools and I'm starting to subconsciously defend whoever does it, even though I would never think it's deserved if it happened to them.

EDIT: At this point, it's nothing I can do anything about. Previous schools were bad enough I could have spoken up, but I can't prove any of it and can't recall faces anyway. Nothing physical in my current school. I'm just conditioned to expect that I did something wrong and that it could come back to bite me at any moment. It's not stopping me from going to school though. I'd never forgive myself if I gave up on that.

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To me this makes no sense. You don't get attacked for no reason. Have you tried asking the perp attacking why he did it? If there are no good reason I hope you will take action against it if you remember who did it.

If I may ask, is the reason you feel you deserve your pain because you did something pretty bad in the past?

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kamimatsu said:
That too. I've been directly attacked before in different schools and I'm starting to subconsciously defend whoever does it, even though I would never think it's deserved if it happened to them.

I believe there's a psychological term for that, Stockholm Syndrome or something along those lines. It's where you start to defend the people who are tormenting you.

Sorrowless said:
To me this makes no sense. You don't get attacked for no reason. Have you tried asking the perp attacking why he did it?

Some people do. I know I've been randomly attacked like that, on several occasions. I asked a guy one time why he attacked me the way he did, and his response was to take a swing at me.

I've come to learn over the years that some people just like to hurt other people, and some folks are just angry, or they "don't like your face," or they're just plain bigoted, all sorts of reasons that have nothing to do with their victim and everything to do with themselves.

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Sorrowless said:
I suppose. But I don't believe in karma. Maybe I shouldn't have used that word. But the idea that people may do negative actions towards you at a later time because you weren't good to them, that I can get behind. Consequences.

The idea of karma strictly being about good things happening to good people and bad things happening to bad people is a misinterpretation. It's more about balance. If your life has thus far been terrible, things will eventually get better. The opposite will be true if your life has been shining and great, regardless of whether you deserved it.

It's not an unheard of notion in the west. You've probably heard someone say "Law of averages."

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Sorrowless said:
To me this makes no sense. You don't get attacked for no reason. Have you tried asking the perp attacking why he did it? If there are no good reason I hope you will take action against it if you remember who did it.

If I may ask, is the reason you feel you deserve your pain because you did something pretty bad in the past?

I can't recognize faces well, so I could run into the same person and never realize it. Names don't help because it takes me a long time to learn names. As for why, it was different for each school. For high school it was because they assumed I was violent due to my Autism and it was a preventative demonstration of what would happen if I tried anything. In my previous college, it was because of a long record of "fights" in high school, which were just me getting my ass kicked without fighting back. At home, it's purely psychological, and the reason is nothing more than the fact that they know I won't fight back.

As for feeling guilty, it's more what I didn't do. I've accomplished nothing, every time I come close to accomplishing something, I fail spectacularly in ways that make all the work meaningless, and everyone I know in real life who is aware of my Depression is getting dragged down with me, and there's nothing I can do to stop them from being dragged down just by knowing.

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It seems we are more alike. I don't have a good short term memory. I need to see a face more than once to remember it and I don't remember names unless they are repeated or I have contact with the person. More than once have my classmates in different schools poked fun at me when they learn that I don't know the name of several of them.

I'm surprised to hear about the people and environments here. Blind violence on random people is unheard of for me in the places I've lived. Same with violence on bully victims but I might not just have heard about it. I'm not too social of a person so I don't follow up on gossip. You being blamed for fights as a victim is just wrong.

You know, I have autism too. Although I have high functioning aspergers. I get the best and the worst of two worlds. We are both logical people but we are also able to have illogical thoughts and behaviours and depression is making it worse. I have also heard that those with autism are more vulnerable to depression. I urge you to seek help like getting a psychologist appointment. I suffered from major depression years back. I were unlucky with getting help after a year and it fizzled out into nothing. The friends I told I were depressed didn't take it seriously and my family didn't push me into help as I wish they would. After some more years and getting more numb did I seek help again when I realised it wouldn't go away on its own. It was then I was diagnosed with aspergers. I felt it explained a lot about me. Depression medication helped me find joy in my hobbies again. It's possible that my severe depression made me less emotional and it's something I don't want others to experience.

If you manage to overcome your depression then I believe you have a shot at dealing with your troubles. Getting help is hard but I would be proud if you're able to do it.

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Sorrowless said:
It seems we are more alike. I don't have a good short term memory. I need to see a face more than once to remember it and I don't remember names unless they are repeated or I have contact with the person. More than once have my classmates in different schools poked fun at me when they learn that I don't know the name of several of them.

I'm surprised to hear about the people and environments here. Blind violence on random people is unheard of for me in the places I've lived. Same with violence on bully victims but I might not just have heard about it. I'm not too social of a person so I don't follow up on gossip. You being blamed for fights as a victim is just wrong.

You know, I have autism too. Although I have high functioning aspergers. I get the best and the worst of two worlds. We are both logical people but we are also able to have illogical thoughts and behaviours and depression is making it worse. I have also heard that those with autism are more vulnerable to depression. I urge you to seek help like getting a psychologist appointment. I suffered from major depression years back. I were unlucky with getting help after a year and it fizzled out into nothing. The friends I told I were depressed didn't take it seriously and my family didn't push me into help as I wish they would. After some more years and getting more numb did I seek help again when I realised it wouldn't go away on its own. It was then I was diagnosed with aspergers. I felt it explained a lot about me. Depression medication helped me find joy in my hobbies again. It's possible that my severe depression made me less emotional and it's something I don't want others to experience.

If you manage to overcome your depression then I believe you have a shot at dealing with your troubles. Getting help is hard but I would be proud if you're able to do it.

Have you tryed mnemonics (ya know, word or mental image association)? That always helps me.
like, one of my boss' looks Jewish and has a very squeaky voice so I found it easy to remember that his name is Kyle by thinking of Kyle from south-park.
Or when I first hear someones name i'll come up with a short rhyme or sentence in my head that helps me identify their name based on one of their traits, like lying Lucy, or sassy Sam, or built Bob, or stupid Steve. Something that makes it so that when I see someone I've only met a few times I can go "oh, I remember you, your pale Patrick", or "oh, I remember you.... you're bitching Brittney...(always bitching about something aren't you Brittney from a few houses down?!)"

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When I tried to find images of Amy Rose with huge breasts (by searching amy_rose huge_breasts -hyper, obviously), most of the results were anthrofied versions. Adding -anthrofied still returned several pages of anthrofied versions. After going through and tagging the anthrofied versions so they don't show up (I may've missed some), I'm left with one page of results that is mainly populated with recolors or don't contain huge breasts at all, and the ones that do aren't all that great.

All that effort and hardly anything to show for it.

Anthrofied: - 170/211
Not Anthrofied: - 41/211

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BlueDingo said:
When I tried to find images of Amy Rose with huge breasts (by searching amy_rose huge_breasts -hyper, obviously), most of the results were anthrofied versions. Adding -anthrofied still returned several pages of anthrofied versions. After going through and tagging the anthrofied versions so they don't show up (I may've missed some), I'm left with one page of results that is mainly populated with recolors or don't contain huge breasts at all, and the ones that do aren't all that great.

All that effort and hardly anything to show for it.

Anthrofied: - 170/211
Not Anthrofied: - 41/211

Uh, I see zero difference between these "Anthrofied" and "Not Anthrofied" posts. Amy Rose is literally an anthrofied hedgehog to start with.

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Looking back at my childhood knowing that my parents hated me, and that nothing I could do would ever make them love me.

Also, the desperate desire to simply be treated like a human being.

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I can imagine that being some of the worst things a human can experience. I gained the opposite problem in recent years. I had a good upbringing but I don't love my family. Sorry, folks. I started being honest with myself and this is the truth of how I feel.

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My dreams. Usually they are a confusing and random mess, without rhyme or reason; when they make some sense are nightmares, actually, I have so many nightmares that had fear of sleeping during my childhood. Is extremally rare for me to have a good dream, at least spontaneously (lucid dreams).
Another thing that piss me off: for some reason, when I dream of someone dying (except myself), it always becomes true in some hours to two months; this shows to be even stranger due to the fact that I don't believe in the supernatural.

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Furrin_Gok said:
Uh, I see zero difference between these "Anthrofied" and "Not Anthrofied" posts. Amy Rose is literally an anthrofied hedgehog to start with.

post #271975 <- Anthrofied / Not anthrofied -> post #120946

The anthrofied tag can apply to established characters that are significantly more anthro than normal. I'm not sure how much more, though, but all the ones I tagged as anthrofied were very noticeably so. I left ones like post #573884 alone because I didn't think they were altered enough to count (legs are thicker, but not much else is different).

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When people chuck out stuff for hard rubbish pickup that's better than the stuff I own.

What is the american equivalent of an otto bin?

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BlueDingo said:
When people chuck out stuff for hard rubbish pickup that's better than the stuff I own.

What is the american equivalent of an otto bin?

Recycling bins the word your look for dood but I might be mistaken lolz ╹ ‿◠;)

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BlueDingo said:
When people chuck out stuff for hard rubbish pickup that's better than the stuff I own.

What is the american equivalent of an otto bin?

Looking into it, apparently Otto has different color lids? Does that mean it's used for a variety of things, such as Yard debris, recycling, and garbage?
It also looks like Otto is available in America, it's just not the standard. There's not really a group term for them here, we just say "Disposal and recycling bins" in whole.

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Furrin_Gok said:
Looking into it, apparently Otto has different color lids? Does that mean it's used for a variety of things, such as Yard debris, recycling, and garbage?

In my area, it's Yellow for recycling, red for general waste and green for plant waste. Other varieties are available.

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BlueDingo said:
In my area, it's Yellow for recycling, red for general waste and green for plant waste. Other varieties are available.

Around here, Yellow is still recycling, but green is general waste and black is for plant waste.

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Furrin_Gok said:
Around here, Yellow is still recycling, but green is general waste and black is for plant waste.

Are your bins the same general shape/style as ours?

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BlueDingo said:
In my area, it's Yellow for recycling, red for general waste and green for plant waste. Other varieties are available.

It's the same where I live (the bins have the same shape too) but our bins are black not green. I live in Victoria.

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Knowing that I have physical problems that have plagued me since I was a child but will likely never be diagnosed because doctors have always dismissed them saying they're "all in my head."

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BlueDingo said:
Are your bins the same general shape/style as ours?

BlueDingo said:
Are your bins the same general shape/style as ours?

Sort of. The back looks pretty much the same, but the front has an extra bar half way down. Rather than those two little handles on the top of the lid, though, there's just that lip on the front to pull it up by.

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InannaEloah said:
Knowing that I have physical problems that have plagued me since I was a child but will likely never be diagnosed because doctors have always dismissed them saying they're "all in my head."

Always doctos who doesn't take you seriously.

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InannaEloah said:
Knowing that I have physical problems that have plagued me since I was a child but will likely never be diagnosed because doctors have always dismissed them saying they're "all in my head."

My friend has Fibromyalgia, but it's really hard to diagnose this apparently.

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Sorrowless said:
Always doctos who doesn't take you seriously.

Bear in mind they have to deal with hypochondriacs as well.

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Sycamorph said:
My friend has Fibromyalgia, but it's really hard to diagnose this apparently.

I feel for your friend. One of my problems is a lot like asthma, though it's never been diagnosed because most doctors have completely dismissed it without even trying to examine me, and the one doctor who did went right for the whole "you're not wheezing therefore you don't have asthma" thing despite the fact that wheezing isn't the only symptom of the disease and I only said the symptoms were similar to those commonly associated with asthma. Pisses me off how often they accuse you of "self diagnosis" when all you've done is give the best explanation you can with limited or nonexistent medical knowledge.

It's like "doctor, I'm going through symptoms that are portrayed as asthmatic on TV, do I have asthma or something else?" and the doctor goes ballistic on you misinterpreting your obvious deference to their understanding of medicine as "self diagnosis" because you dared to use the word most commonly associated with the symptoms. I swear, sometimes I think doctors belong in a mental institution because of how they see attacks on their profession where there are none. If anyone else was that paranoid, they'd be locked up in a padded cell... or given badges in some places.

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InannaEloah said:
I swear, sometimes I think doctors belong in a mental institution because of how they see attacks on their profession where there are none.

They already have doctors there. Giving them more won't make much of a difference.

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BlueDingo said:
They already have doctors there. Giving them more won't make much of a difference.

No, they don't have doctors there, they have psychiatrists. Big difference. ;)

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InannaEloah said:
No, they don't have doctors there, they have psychiatrists. Big difference. ;)

Psychiatrists are doctors. There's more than one kind of doctor. Furthermore, a psych ward would have other doctors on-site, including at least one medical officer.

The doctor you go to first to find out what's wrong with you is a general practitioner (or GP for short). The other doctors are more specialized and either perform further diagnosis and/or administer treatments.

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What makes me sad is that I just, as in within minutes of posting this, learned that you can downvote Admin posts now.

I remember when you couldn't.. The amount of time I haven't known about this is a true tragedy.

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BlueDingo said:
Psychiatrists are doctors. There's more than one kind of doctor. Furthermore, a psych ward would have other doctors on-site, including at least one medical officer.

The doctor you go to first to find out what's wrong with you is a general practitioner (or GP for short). The other doctors are more specialized and either perform further diagnosis and/or administer treatments.

Do you not understand the concept of humor? I didn't just put that ;) in there for looks, yanno.

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AnotherDay said:
What makes me sad is that I just, as in within minutes of posting this, learned that you can downvote Admin posts now.

I remember when you couldn't.. The amount of time I haven't known about this is a true tragedy.

What do you mean, you remember when you couldn't? That's always been available.

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Furrin_Gok said:
What do you mean, you remember when you couldn't? That's always been available.

It was not possible a long time ago.

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AnotherDay said:
What makes me sad is that I just, as in within minutes of posting this, learned that you can downvote Admin posts now.

I remember when you couldn't.. The amount of time I haven't known about this is a true tragedy.

Yeah, but it seems like they won't display at a score less than zero - if you go to an Admin's account, you can find posts with a lower score, but then if you go to the post itself it will display as zero but no lower.

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Clawdragons said:
Yeah, but it seems like they won't display at a score less than zero - if you go to an Admin's account, you can find posts with a lower score, but then if you go to the post itself it will display as zero but no lower.

It's to avoid it being hidden by that negative comment threshold, in case anyone didn't know.

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It always feels like, if I'm not doing something, even if I'm too tired to move, which is always, I'm just wasting time. Even when sleep-deprivation has left me dizzy and hallucinating floating veins, if I'm not active, I'm being lazy. And I haven't been told this by anyone. It's one thing when you're being constantly harassed by others for things you can't control, but it's another when you're doing it to yourself and knowing about it just fuels it. I've managed to turn not giving up into a form of punishment because I haven't done anything to earn a break, and because I never will, I'm selfish for trying to let go.

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Semaj said:
It makes me sad that I can't get a pet fox where I live.

Foxes aren't made to be domesticated. Unlike other domestic animals, once domesticated, Foxes cannot live on their own. Domestic cats and dogs have essentially evolved to live in human environments, rodents can scavenge, but some, like foxes and squirrels, lose any instinct to forage their own food and don't normally think to scavenge.

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Furrin_Gok said:
Foxes aren't made to be domesticated. Unlike other domestic animals, once domesticated, Foxes cannot live on their own. Domestic cats and dogs have essentially evolved to live in human environments, rodents can scavenge, but some, like foxes and squirrels, lose any instinct to forage their own food and don't normally think to scavenge.

Can you elaborate on this claim that "Unlike other domestic animals, once domesticated, Foxes cannot live on their own."

Indoor cats tend to get hit by cars when they run away. You seem to be saying that nature rather than nurture would cause certain domesticated animals to survive better as urban strays. Domesticated foxes have dog-like behaviors and specific gene differences from normal foxes that would help them to adapt to human presence. But this happened over decades and more than 10 generations of selective breeding in Russia. Picking up a wild baby fox and bottle raising it is not the same as domestication.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_fox_(animal)#Domestication

Here's a channel with a fox owner

A fraction of Moscow's stray dogs use the subway system

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I would prefer a pet maggie (aussie ones, not american or eurasian ones). Much easier to manage, intelligent, they sing songs and I can sic 'em on people I don't like.

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BlueDingo said:
I would prefer a pet maggie

Long time ago I remember reading about people who actually kept crow family birds for pets. Like indoors and stuff. Honestly it was among the most WTF things I've ever read. They are really not made to be confined in any reasonable amount of space, and they are destructive way beyond their size.

OTOH, a tame free-living one is kinda doable with crows.

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hslugs said:
Long time ago I remember reading about people who actually kept crow family birds for pets. Like indoor and stuff. Honestly it was among the most WTF things I've ever read. They are really not made to be confined in any reasonable amount of space, and they are destructive way beyond their size.

OTOH, a tame free-living one is kinda doable with crows.

That's why you start with a very big cage. About 150m3 should be enough.

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Genjar

Former Staff

hslugs said:
Long time ago I remember reading about people who actually kept crow family birds for pets. Like indoors and stuff. Honestly it was among the most WTF things I've ever read. They are really not made to be confined in any reasonable amount of space, and they are destructive way beyond their size.

Destructive how? Mine never got into any trouble at all, and he had a free reign of the whole house for 17 years.

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Genjar said:
Destructive how?

Droppings on anything it can fly over or next to, tearing down wallpaper for its own amusement, and moving or hiding any loose objects it could pick if I recall correctly.

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Genjar

Former Staff

hslugs said:
Droppings on anything it can fly over or next to, tearing down wallpaper for its own amusement, and moving or hiding any loose objects it could pick if I recall correctly.

Droppings weren't a problem, they were always in the same places. Mostly around the perches. Nothing that couldn't be solved with some strategically placed newspapers. And I can't say anything for sure about wallpaper ripping, because we had wood paneling. But he never vandalized any books or magazines.

As for hiding objects, yes, I can see that being problematic. Though as long as he had plenty of toys to play with (such as Duplo blocks), he didn't show much interest in plain human objects.

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Genjar said:
Though as long as he had plenty of toys to play with (such as Duplo blocks)

Did he ever build anything?

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That I have to beg people for commissions while artists who are ten times worse artists than I've ever been in my entire life make small fortunes every damn month.

It's worse when I actually need the money. Makes me feel like crying.

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InannaEloah said:
That I have to beg people for commissions while artists who are ten times worse artists than I've ever been in my entire life make small fortunes every damn month.

Considering much of your content features dragons getting raped and murdered, this doesn't surprise me much.

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Clawdragons said:
Yeah, but it seems like they won't display at a score less than zero - if you go to an Admin's account, you can find posts with a lower score, but then if you go to the post itself it will display as zero but no lower.

Actually you can still see the real score, however you have to up or downvote the post in order to do so. It's a temporary show and I only know this because I recently voted on one of NMNY's comments and found it had a -500 something, iirc.

Yeah, it's on this post https://e621.net/post/show/378180. NMNY's post there currently has -573. It's kinda great, even if the post itself can't be downvoted into oblivion.

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