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   - Mizal

@Mizal, you happy now?

"Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out. In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys. It's loss and regret and misery and yearning that drive the story forward, along its twisted road."
--Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

"Happiness is temporary, death is forever; Have a nice weekend."

"Any AI smart enough to pass a Turing test is smart enough to know to fail it."

   - Ian McDonald, River of Gods

“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”

   - Henry Ward Beecher

“Never, never, never give in!”

   - Winston S. Churchill

I though it was never, never, never, give up?

EDIT: Actually that may have been someone else, I'm thinking of never, ever, ever, give up.

"Never give up. Never surrender." - Captain Peter Quincy Taggart.

"Well, I hope you don't end up in the SHAME pit." -My art teacher

She knows about CYS I assume?

No- Well, kinda- I told him about it today, about the contest, and the basics of the SHAME pit. I think he would like CYS though.

Ah. I think my teachers would kill me if they found out about CYS lol.

Yours must be an interesting school.

What? Why, lol?

Oh, it just breaks the rules for chromebook usage, it's filled with foul language, it has inappropriate content, I'm interacting with a bunch of strangers, I'm clicking links without checking it's safe first, I've given the site my birthday, eh... all I can think of off the top of my head.

Why on earth would you give any site your real birthday??  This does not seem like a sound practice.  You should be much much more paranoid of things on the internet.

It seems the younger generation has lost all fear of the internet. Much like the Dodo had no fear of Man. Perhaps they will not experience the same fate. But my instinct says they will.

Whereas our kind feared being perceived as cringelords online, in this generation, grown men dance for TikToks with no shame, nor fear of social destruction. I fear for their survival.

I gave a fake one to start, then got a lashing about it from my mom saying I should give them my real age so they didn't show me anything too adult for me, which was really confusing because they said in the past to never tell strangers your birthday. Can they decide which I'm supposed to do?

Lol, I don't think the age you give affects anything you see. And yeah, it's a strange contradiction that exists: You can't tell strangers your age, but telling companies/websites you don't know is just fine.

Honestly that's not enough to dox you. You're perfectly fine. The issue is when they take that info and then trick you into giving more. But that only works on stupids, and you are not a stupid.

Plus only the mods know, and while it's hard to say you can trust someone, they still give me the impression of being trustworthy. But still, you can never be too careful.

“Some people are impossible to please. As soon as they get what they thought they wanted they always want more.”-Monster Energy

"To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time."

   - Leonard Bernstein

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“ 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said, very gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.' ”

   - Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“Me? I'm dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly. It's the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they're going to do something incredibly... stupid.”

   - Captain Jack Sparrow

"a man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance" - Hunter S. Thompson

"Acts of goodness are not always wise, and acts of evil are not always foolish, but regardless, we shall always strive to be good." -Matyr Logarious, Bloodborne

"Making a all-of-my-points bet that my storygame will be better than Enterpride's." -Rooster

Lol, does it still count? I think we can rest assured that Rooster's not going to beat Enter.

Enter could make a story game with the quality of shit at the bottom of a shoe, and it would still be better than any AI slop that Rooster could make :)

Yeah but I was thinking he was banned and all and couldn't do anything anyway.

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“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”

   - Isaac Asimov

No it's no longer something to be ashamed of.

"Hesitation is defeat." -Isshin, the Sword Saint. Don't hesitate or wait to do what you need to, or you will lose. Write that contest storygame, clean your room, ask for that promotion. Just do it. This does not apply to actually publishing said contest storygame, it is better to take a little time to deliberate before doing that.

Ah, I see I have finally have some competition!

Edit: Wow, looking through your posts, all of your recent ones are just in the quote threads.

“Just because you call an electric eel a rubber duck doesn't make it a rubber duck, does it? And God help the poor bastard who decides they want to take a bath with the duckie.”

   - Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”

   - Albert Einstein

"Every day, I wake up to some bullshit on my phone." -JuiceWRLD

We've got a long one today, folks! And from one of our own members, no less!

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"The difference between gender and sex can be summed up fairly easily in the form of intrinsic knowledge. Mizal already gave a fairly good example, but I'd like to give one of my own.

You wake up on a Monday morning and head to work. You get to work and realize the pants you put on are the really, really itchy ones that drive you half crazy. These are the pants your mother gave you, these are the pants you were born with and forced to wear. But they're itchy. They're uncomfortable. They're pink and covered in sequins and you hate those things. 'Well,' your mother asks, 'how on earth could you KNOW you hate those things? Maybe you just need to get used to them.' All the people at work laugh at you when you don't wear those pants. They ask you if you're some kind of freak who prefers plaid even though you were born with sequins. You resolve to go out after work and buy jeans. You find a pair that fits you perfectly. You love these jeans. They feel so much better. But when you go to work, everyone starts throwing their pencils at you for wearing jeans. 'No,' they say, 'You were born with pink sparkly pants! You can't change that just because you feel like it!'

In the spirit of the metaphor, there are so many types of pants, and some of them may not fit you as well as others. It's the same with gender."

   - Liminal

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"[T]here are so many types of pants, and some of them may not fit you as well as others. It's the same with gender."

   - Liminal

“Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.”

   - Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.”

   - Ann Patchett, What Now?

"Do more drugs." -Lil Darkie

“No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse.”

   - Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

"I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it." -Alice from Alice in Wonderland


"We're all a little mad here!" -Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland
Added a bonus, because this one really applies to the site.

“Everything is hard before it is easy.”

   - Goethe J.W.

"...everyone is gay..." Kurt Cobain, in Nirvana's All Apologies