Nico Minoru Fan Art, and Cold People

[jedifreac]

Ran the telly in the background. Saw the Scrubs Musical, A History of Drugs, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report (Bill O'Rielly, holy shit), and Oprah. I ended up watching an hour of Entertainment Tonight and an hour of CNN. The contrast was jarring. Entertainment Tonight was all, "Here is where Lindsey Lohan is going for rehab!" and "They need

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[satsumabug]

Re: class, it was pretty clear that you weren't entirely comfortable with what was coming out of your mouth, but I didn't think you said such silly things. Actually what it seemed like was that you started out saying reasonably smart things, then decided that what you were saying was dumb, which then made what came out less confident and therefore less well articulated. To some extent speaking to a group is a bit like writing: you start thinking when you're doing it, and things just come out screwy. This happened to me a lot last year when I was a TA. That is very internal-mental-writhing-creating.

I admire that you speak up frequently in class even when you worry that you're being less than brilliant. My problem is when I think I'm going to say something stupid, I just clam up and then I never get to air my thoughts.

Anyway, you know the randomest things make DWL shudder. He's so... himself, which is why I love his class! (And his mouth doesn't exclusively spout gems of wisdom, either.)

[xkyrie_eleisonx]

Study finds that beating video games makes you feel good about yourself if you suck in real life.

HAHAHA how true.

[jedifreac]

WHAT? It's true!!! It's the sole reason why I play tetris, and that one word twist game on yahoo!

Talked to Charley today. He quit WoW for MCATS. That's dedication, right there. Anyhow, I asked him why he wasn't slaughtering masses of orcs or whatever in Burning Crusade and he said he was going to wait until the price of the expansion went down and then play. "Then when I run with people they will already have all of the phat lewts/fat loots so I can pick up all the good drops." And I realized that was smart, like waiting for a sale..

[jedifreac]

You know, at first I didn't believe that Video Game addiction or Internet Addiction could be real, but then I took a psych class and read up on stuff and yeah...

It's not a chemical addiction per say the way like, nicotine or caffiene works, but it essentially bops the same triggers in your brain/replicates the same feelings and reactions that make things addictive.

Just like how people can be addicted to porn, masturbating, gambling, or stealing.

Of course, no one thinks it can actually happen to them. "I am not weak enough to be addicted, yet I am and just won't admit it."

I think everyone has an "addiction" to something. It's only a danger when it heavily impairs normal functioning.