Recreation Commons – Eleventh Floor: Orbital Skyhydrophonics Bar

[Snowflake]

It's all about positive and negative reinforcement sometimes. But it is easier said then done. Say if you are a layback person. You said to yourself that you want to be more active. So you tell yourself that you are active, and you become more active, and you actually enjoys being active. And you think you've been a successful active person. This reinforcement goes back and force and all is good. But one day, you think, phew I'm tired. Let me rest for a day. Then you rest, and you feel so relaxed. And then the next day you want to rest again. And before you know it, you become your layback self again.

Understand oneself is important. Reinforce the good traits and accept the not so good perhaps trait. Or don't view them as not so good. Live naturally is the best way to go. Don't live for others, nor for any kind of standards. Of course this attitude of mine has determined that I will never get Nobel Prize.

[Kody]

Yeah yeah I know.

Still understanding things allows you to change yourself.

I used to not care must what anyone else thought, of course that made it a bit difficult to make new friends when my parents moved. Also my parents complained and started saying I was loser having no friends (yeah thanks mum and dad!!!). I got upset when my parents brought that up one too many times and was also kindof lonely during the breaks, so I went into the completely opposite direction. In retrospect I really overcompensated (I was 11 at the time), basically basing alot of things around finding acceptance and I made quite a few personality changes to myself.

Anyway to tell the truth just about my every action that you guys have seen has stemmed from finding acceptance.

The efforts in the Hive were because I liked the sense of community that used to be in the private forums and was making darn sure I wouldn't lose that. The posts explaining things in the strategy forum are because I made a personality change a while back to help people whenever I can.

The whining and grumping I sometimes show was mainly an effort to balance against any respect I was getting because I was worried that people would envy me and my experience is it is better to be average to gain acceptance.

The whole honor, and telling the truth thing, personality changes that people like.

There's only a things I can think of that doesn't seem to result from the set of personality changes I instigated. I usually have a soft spot for the underdog and hate seeing other people suffer. That I traced back to a primary school teacher that taught me about thinking what it is like to be in other people's shoes. Also from the same primary school teacher I have a strong aversion of all drugs and alcohol. So strong that my friends that drink haven't yet managed to get me to like alcohol even though they've made a fairly good effort at getting me to drink. I can also get quite stubborn sometimes, but thinking back my parents mainly told me I was stubborn and thinking back it was undeserving when they originally made those comments.

It makes you wonder how much of your personality is actually natural, or maybe I'm just different in that I was conciously changing how I act when I was quite young.

And why am I posting this all here, perhaps because it's fairly early in the morning, the fact that I know when people understand you they have an easier time accepting you, and also because I seem to have gotten used to working through thoughts and ideas on the apolyton forums.... must be all the strategy/idea posts I've put here.

[Ouro_827]

You people are scaring me... that's too deep for me to read in the early morning.... Geo, I'm not a PUT member, not authorized into forums.... But I'm pretty sure I know what you were talking of....

[GeoModder]

Ouro: answered your question in AWP thread, and any CC member was authorized in the PUT forum upon request.
Don't know if it's still possible, since Archaic has disappeared.

[Nubclear]

Kody:

[Snowflake]

Go back to sleep tass.

[Ouro_827]

Check your PM's Geo... and sleep? its ten in the morning here...

[Micha]

Originally posted by Comrade Tassadar
Kody:

LMAO

Tass:

Edit: Tass, go and post your orders in the hellenistic NES!

[Illuminatus]

/me looks angrily at Drogue, Geo and FlameFlash.
Ouro is correct. You have choice: pay the drinks and a fee for your behaviour or I call my locusts and mindworms.
And yes, my ultimate bouncers are humanoid, actually the most feared humans of all times. Do not force me to call upon them !

[GeoModder]

/me donates a minute amount of money in the appropriate box on the tab for the time-space continuum breach war orphans on Earth, Europe, Croatia, last decade of the 20th century.

[Illuminatus]

That is nice of you Geo. Forget about that drink, you do not have to pay for it.

[Maniac]

Originally posted by Kody
And why am I posting this all here, perhaps because it's fairly early in the morning, the fact that I know when people understand you they have an easier time accepting you,

Well this may be partially true on Apolyton which seems to have a higher concentration of err... "unusual" characters, but my guess is that if you try to tell people in real life what you just told here, they'll just consider you some weirdo.

[Kody]

Yeah I realised that there are benefits to being considered a weirdo here . Being normal here makes you stick out. Real life requires a different approach for fitting in.

Anyway in real life they have to figure you out for themselves, otherwise people get uncomfortable because they feel that by you telling them directly they have some great responsibility.

[Kody]

Tassadar:

Those things just aren't good for you.

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994920

[Nubclear]

Are you a child?