Rayvin

Nice one. Only two milestones I have left for this week are the raid and trials of the nine. Obviously not gonna happen!

Incredibly she found a way of annulling it. 15 years after the fact mind you, but still. The Catholic church is remarkably pliable for things like this apparently.

No, it's her second marriage. First one collapsed a long time ago. And is probably responsible for many psychological issues I have

Basically think this will be interesting but also accept that people are generally a bit guarded about this stuff and that no one may want to contribute. While I've opened the thread with a particular conversation in mind, in order to actually contribute something to the discussion myself I'll say that I'm reading a book on pathological altruism. I bought it out of concern generated by some recent conversations with my mother, who (as a religious nut) has decided that even though she's unhappy in her marriage (natural break down, nothing nefarious in play really - her partner is a good guy who I get along with but some things just aren't meant to be). Anyway, she concluded that as she couldn't 'leave' without harming her relationship with both god and her family, and felt that her own needs were inferior in importance to these developments. Pathological altriusm isn't perhaps the an all encompassing term for this, but I thought it was close enough to warrant reading up on. Basically, it states that people who suffer from this way of thinking consistently put other people ahead of themselves, often to the detriment of themselves and usually to the detriment of the people they're supposedly putting ahead of them. Curiously, the book considers that this pattern of thinking could actually be the cause of genocidal tendencies as well, but I've not read that far in yet so I can't justify it As for my own psychological hang ups, I have a great many but I've also worked through a fair proportion. I have a rather intense fear/social phobia which centers around the expectation people may or may not have of me in social situations. Some of these things are pretty standard like fear of public speaking, but mine is perhaps a bit more debilitating than usual because it extends to doing things or avoiding doing things that are on occasion contrary to common sense in order to avoid subverting public expectation of me. So for instance, whenever I enter a publicly accessible building like a restaurant or something, if I'm in a group, I'll go second so as not to draw attention. Things like that. I hate driving for the same reason. Fortunately I also have a strong urge to overcome, so these kind of things haven't held me back career wise - but when the stakes are lower, I have a tendency to shy away in order to avoid making myself uncomfortable. I need to develop more of a 'fuck everyone, I don't care what you think' attitude, really, which is why I'm on here trying to learn from you guys Anyone else experience anything similar?

Yep, I'm making it.

Bumped the wrong thread here I guess. Do we have a psychology thread?

@adios Continued from the other thread What do you mean you picked up on personal flaws by playing 6 ways? You mean in game flaws or some deep psychological revelation?

It did? ( We should probably have a poker thread for this mind )

Doesn't sound any more boring than sitting at work doing emails tbh...

We all know why these two things are the way they are, but I won't say it.

What is actually quite interesting about your issue here is that those posts are a clear 8 minutes apart. It's not like the internet connection is wobbling and submitting it multiple times. Not unless you're currently experiencing rolling 10 minute outages

I dislike (but don't hate) Spurs because I genuinely think they were similarly positioned to us a few years ago. I would have included Liverpool in that bracket as well, except that they at least had a wealth of relatively recent successes to fall back on to support their progress as a club. Spurs have fuck all, same as us. I'm kind of annoyed that they managed to step up and compete from a position of being no marks in our shadow. At least we tend to give them a proper whopping every few years. Not too arsed about Man United either. Had a strong dislike for Liverpool but I've softened now that we have Rafa for some reason.

You've nailed it there mind. As much as I'm probably going to get my money's worth out of this game, there's no real 'end goal' here. You level up, to complete higher grade missions, in order to get better stuff, in order to level up to higher grade missions. Very circular. With Rocket League, the only thing that's changing is your base skill. You don't get better cars, gear, or anything that gives you an advantage. You just get better. And the game rewards you for it by acknowledging your level in competitive rankings and ESL tournaments with actual prize money etc at the end. I suppose Destiny could do this through the PVP route, but that aside, I think the motivating factor for me would be if they expand the story well - so that I want to play the harder levels in order to know what happens. And I don't think I'm quite that invested in it tbh...? The narrative that is. I'm fully enjoying it all in all, but I do suspect I'll get to a point where I'll just think it's pointless going further.

This is why we have Steam. A single system that runs most of the games.

Always knew he was a spambot tbf.

Lemme guess your next post: "Big lump of a centre half that is tailor made for a career outside the top flight."

Still not bad though. Nvidea 960 was supposed to be 'serviceable' at the time, so I got the 970 to give me some longevity. As I say though, graphics in AAA titles don't seem to be pushing the envelope in the way they once did, so I think you'll find you can run basically everything even if you have to tweak the settings a bit.

Here's where Ant will come in and pwn us with his Nvidea Titan something or other...

Mine was £1500 all told, but I had it custom built by someone who knew what they were doing, so the price was lower than buying pre-built. Graphics card is Nvidia970 which I always thought was decent. I coulda gone higher I guess but I genuinely haven't needed to turn graphics down in any game I've played, so I think it was a good choice.

Aye, I don't think graphics tech is pushing on fast enough to warrant upgrading more than once every 5 years or so anyway, so I'd say you're still fine if you've brought the graphics card into line. At some point you need to tell me about your poker stuff like, it's always sounded very interesting. Maybe next time we're hooked up on PS4.

Fair.

Ah that does makes sense tbh. I spent £1000+ on my PC in 2014 and found spending that much on anything that wasn't a house or a car to be really disconcerting. If I'd had an electric guitar addiction to feed as well, I doubt I'd have bothered.

Agreed with respect of the culture, but the games are just so much more responsive... I'm in the top 2% of players in the world on Rocket League on the PC, and the bottom 0.00001% on the PS4 @adios have you seen enough in here yet to convince you to get this? I need people who have the PS4 version for raiding

It's not actually, though it has an array of cooling features. The reality is that the current gaming generation isn't pushing it to the point where the fan even needs to run, so... I assume that this is because it's fucking awesome, but it could well be that the fan is broken and it's melting through the floor as I type this.

I have a gaming PC, you're all peasants to me. My PS4 is just for my 'man of the people' image