Worse for me. I lost all interest after AC II. Seems like they aren't making leaps and bounds anymore. Just adding tiny things

seanmcloughlin

this, ill prob pick back up on the sieries when they finally get to the present day stuff, that was the only real pitch for me in ACII

im gonna have to go with post apocolyptic scenes from the terminator, its so bad its good

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldTjXFlWtkM

elvis FTW

Oh God, am I still here?xaos

i wanna see the part where he caves in his face as a result

i you care about making it taste more like when you first got it, invest in a toaster oven.

first off, i apologise for the sympathy comment, that comes across as pretty patronising. however you did sound very sorry for yourself. and i'm not self righteous (if you were referring to me). and i'm not lecturing anybody, all i'm saying is common sense. everybody has crap to deal with, learn to deal with yours, whatever it is. and i'm not telling you how to think, or pretending to know how you think...focusing on the "bad experiences" that outweigh your good ones is flat-out not a good idea. it's only going to **** you off. and that's not an assumption on how your brain works, everybody on the planet is going to feel worse if they think about their bad rather than good experiences. that's just science. and as for mutual respect, people who are going to judge you on your affliction clearly aren't the type to earn your respect, so it wouldn't be mutual anyway...and you can insult me, but what i said is true. and self esteem issues that get you nowhere....your problem (as you have presented it) is self esteem. so of course working on your self esteem will help, at least in one regard. it's easier to just say that everythings sucks though.

at this point now im going to try and not pass off as much of an A-hole as i probably did before. seeing as your trying pretty hard to make me understand about the downsides to pessimistic thinking from a disabled persons standpoint, ill give you the benefit of doubt that you clearly mean well by what you say, and i appreciate that to a degree. fact of the matter is i was not simply condoning the ideology of shunning humanity as a whole just because of a few "bad experiences" but that at a very early age people like us are more than likely to have a predisposition to exile ourselves from the more able-bodied groups simply because our physical limitations call for it, example: gym program, outdoor activity, ect. the point im trying to get at is theres reminders of our limitations everywhere we go, we cant escape it and theres no denying it, it rears its ugly head whenever we dress ourselves in the morning, cook ourselves something to eat, go to the bathroom, watch tv, take public transport or our own car, it shows when people catch a glimpse of us in public whether they can help it or not, and it even keeps us from getting a proper night of sleep no matter how bad we want it. it drives me absolutely bat-s*** crazy how some people i know throw their lives away through hard drugs and voluntarily cripple themselves only to become eligible for free money handouts from the government as a result of their own mistakes. what you may consider a cynical view on society i would consider a realistic outlook. now excuse me while i go wallow.

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Eh, I have just learned to live with shyness/social awkwardness...

But mostly because I am in a wheelchair and have been socially ostracized since I was 10 (20 now)... I have tried the things people suggested here only to have the people I say hi to or make small talk with walk off with their friends giggling "ha did you see that retard in the wheelchair"...

So being excluded from everyone and everything has more or less destroyed my communication skills to the point where I have extreme social anxiety and dread talking to anyone out of fear of humiliation...

Yep.

jpph

you aint alone on this buddy, ive got a noticeable affliction that most people will say otherwise just to give me that extra boost of confidence, which is fine with me if it makes them feel better about it, but the bad experiences with people are always gonna outweigh the good because it comes with the territory, and because of that were the first ones to find out the hard way what human nature is really all about. ill treat people the way someone like me would want to be treated but im not gonna go out of my way to say more than 3 words to you just to get my point across.

generally imo, people=s***

that's not true. there's a lot of good going on on this planet. i'd say you're looking in the wrong places. so you have an affliction. don't forget for a second that everyone, absolutely everyone has crap to deal with. yours might be worse than others, but you'd be amazed at the skeletons and insecurities in peoples closet. so you can either lounge about and say how people are crap, or you can realise that you're probably far from the worst off person in the world, and in reality you're the only thing that's stopping you, by wallowing in your own misery..."our greatest fear is not that we are powerless, it's that we are powerful beyond measure"....it's hard to sympathise if you insist on being negative dude.

you can keep your sympathy, pity, remorse and give it to someone who actually wants it, all its givin me is even more of a negative nancy attitude. mutual respect is what i strive for whenever i socialize but dont think for a second i want the mofo with the self-righteous mind set trying to give me some lecture on self-esteem issues, that gets me just about nowhere in life and i find it pretty annoying that someone can try and dictate how i should feel about myself and people when they dont know the first thing about how the wheels turn in my head. the world around us shapes us into the people we need to be in order to survive, why should you say otherwise when all you have to work with is your own perception of reality if that is really something that you call your own?

Eh, I have just learned to live with shyness/social awkwardness...

But mostly because I am in a wheelchair and have been socially ostracized since I was 10 (20 now)... I have tried the things people suggested here only to have the people I say hi to or make small talk with walk off with their friends giggling "ha did you see that retard in the wheelchair"...

So being excluded from everyone and everything has more or less destroyed my communication skills to the point where I have extreme social anxiety and dread talking to anyone out of fear of humiliation...

Yep.

Buttons1990

you aint alone on this buddy, ive got a noticeable affliction that most people will say otherwise just to give me that extra boost of confidence, which is fine with me if it makes them feel better about it, but the bad experiences with people are always gonna outweigh the good because it comes with the territory, and because of that were the first ones to find out the hard way what human nature is really all about. ill treat people the way someone like me would want to be treated but im not gonna go out of my way to say more than 3 words to you just to get my point across.

generally imo, people=s***

no one, i just happened to have a genesis since i was 6...good times

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