Random Rants : Someone is wrong on the Internet

[JohannaK]

Almost 24,000 kitten dead, I'd say.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

They would have grown up to be cats. Adult cats are dicks.

 

[azzaman333]

They would have grown up to be cats. Adult cats are dicks.

Cats are awesome.

 

[bhavv]

Even the ones that scratch and bite for no reason whatsoever?

 

[GoodSarmatian]

"Awesome" has become such an overused and meaningless word that it almost warrants a rant...

 

[bhavv]

Awesome.

 

[Lohrenswald]

Doesn't "awesome" really mean "something that entices fear"?

 

[gay_Aleks]

This is subjectively awesome.

 

[Joecoolyo]

Doesn't "awesome" really mean "something that entices fear"?

Something along those lines.

When you break it up, you do get "awe" "some," which would mean to hold in great awe.

 

[The_J]

"Awesome" has become such an overused and meaningless word that it almost warrants a rant...

Link to video.

Got that video from here, not sure who posted it, might have been you, but just in case...

 

[shadowplay]

I'm getting really damn fed up with people backing up in their cars without looking behind them left and right, and instead just looking at the screen on the dash, which only gives a view of what's directly behind the car. Dangerous and stupid.

 

[bhavv]

Awe doesn't mean fear though, it means something hat has amazed you.

 

[madviking]

a person comes up with an idea and everyone else does nothing except eff up the idea. in other words, ideas are great until they have to encounter people. engineering is, in some capacity, the application of ideas that can survive contact with people. philosophy is, in some capacity, the generation of ideas that never have to encounter people to a significant degree. this is why i believe studying philosophy has made me a worse engineer. i've become an idealist in terms of ideas. i like them pure and unadulterated. engineering is nothing but the adulteration of ideas. in conclusion:

goodbye people
hello ideas

 

[Hygro]

welcome to the partay

 

[jackelgull]

a person comes up with an idea and everyone else does nothing except eff up the idea. in other words, ideas are great until they have to encounter people. engineering is, in some capacity, the application of ideas that can survive contact with people. philosophy is, in some capacity, the generation of ideas that never have to encounter people to a significant degree. this is why i believe studying philosophy has made me a worse engineer. i've become an idealist in terms of ideas. i like them pure and unadulterated. engineering is nothing but the adulteration of ideas. in conclusion:

goodbye people
hello ideas

You've basically described writing in a nutshell.

 

[madviking]

 

[cybrxkhan]

Story of my creative writing process, bro.

 

[Takhisis]

*nods emphatically*

 

[Takhisis]

Rant: Atomic Gamer is shutting down?

 

[madviking]

Spoiler big introspective rant with naughty words :

i've been wondering whether or not i've been doing what i really wanted to do all my life. it's easy to fall into the track of being a certain type of person doing certain types of things and ignore the sights and sounds around you. that's what i'm feeling right now. since maybe 7th grade, i've been put in the track of the type of person who'd become do stem-type things. so roughly 10 years of blinders. but the track deepened in junior year of high school when i decided then to pursue engineering. and this track has continued from then on. it seemed i knew i had at least a passing interest in non-stem fields. i enjoyed readying about history and playing music at times in my life. but as these blinders kept me on the straight path, some of these things were left by the wayside. e.g. i stopped playing music in 8th grade. but now, having graduated college, i can sorta take these blinders off. i "won"; i graduated with an engineering degree. but now i'm really feeling regret that i stopped doing things that i really enjoyed to do this engineering degree. because i just had the realization that maybe i don't really like engineering that much. mainly for reasons i explained earlier yesterday. so now, looking back, i'm having these feelings that if i did things differently, it maybe would've made me better right here, right now. these feelings of what-could-have-been are particularly gripping right now as i am completely unsure what to do. god i want to do things over again. everything's harder to do when you're an adult. because in school, you can <snip> around and figure out what you like without any repercussions if you suck at it. i feel that i didn't <snip> around enough back in the day so i got stuck in a rut with blinders for something i don't really like too early in life. now i've realized that i want/wanted to be so many different things that i never got to try and i'm scared that it won't ever change. all these what-could've-been rons frighten me and i feel i <snip> up and got one of the worst outcomes of all of them. i just wish my future self could've helped me on my way. it's one hell of a thing to be doing something you think you wanted to do for 10 years and then suddenly realize that you think you made a mistake in doing it. hopefully i can go back to <snip> around...

Moderator Action: Had to remove some profanity - we still don't allow partially bleeped swear words within user-created text, even when it's in spoilers.