i have a fat ps3 and i am afraid
That might be a reason people pick up some drugs, notably alcohol and cigarettes as a teenager, but it's still a rather limited explanation. Teenagers are faced a great deal of peer pressure and often live in an environment where doing certain drugs is considered "cool," or at least, they feel they must do it in order to fit in. In adulthood... it's just not the same. They still may be pressured into participating in drug-related activities, but if they have not done drugs yet at that point they probably know how to say no & overcome peer pressure. Even for teenagers, they don't do it because they're trying to fit in. Luxord brings up the case of poor mental health care in this country -- so many teens are abusing drugs meant for medicinal or psychological reasons because they don't have another way to cope with whatever problem they have that requires the drugs.
I disagree! I'm not a writer by any means, the extent of my writing is Star Wars angst fanfiction, but until recently I had never included a sex scene despite writing primarily about romance. It was perhaps very lightly implied once or twice, but even when writing the scenes where it could be implied, I wanted to leave it up to the reader to decide whether or not the characters... sealed the deal, shall we say. Moving along, for the chapter of my fanfiction that has been rotting on my hard drive for a few months, I finally felt that I needed to seriously consider adding a sex scene. In terms of utility, Spoiler: minor spoiler for those who read my fanfiction, which is no one I need to eventually work in a pregnancy (or not need, I basically told myself I was going to buck canon so I could just decide that the couple was ultimately childless, but I want to have them ~reproduce~ for other plot reasons), so some form of sex does need to happen. However, this never needed to be explicit, as I could very easily just say "and then she was pregnant" the end (though obviously more eloquently) and the lack of a sex scene wouldn't be jarring by any means. I knew that pregnancy would be worked in since I started the fanfiction, but because it never needed explicit sex I always regarded any sex scene(s) as "well I could or I couldn't do it" It wasn't until this chapter, which will be the ninth, that I felt I needed to again approach the question of whether to add it. As things look now, there will be a sex scene, though it's extremely light (the note I wrote for myself in my chapter outline was "they **** (tastefully)"). I felt it was important to build the emotion and the, in a way, tragedy of the following events. It's a tool & a plot device for me in that regard. The fanfiction isn't porn or smut in any way, with or without this chapter. I don't deny that readers who really feel the couple in question may get some light satisfaction out of reading the scene, but that's not the primary intent or purpose in including it, and nobody that read it could call it porn (it's literally like two paragraphs, and if you know my writing at all, it's very little action and a lot of emotion). LEAVE IT TO MISTY TO WRITE ABOUT STAR WARS IN AN EROTICA THREAD, I was going to write a reply from a readers' perspective but just couldn't put my thoughts into words. I had a bit to say from a writer's perspective tho~ not sure if any of this is coherent or meaningful
I have to agree with Mish that it's dangerous territory to be treading with the whole sexual attraction thing. Now I'm not saying you're asexual or anything like that, the fact that you're noting your lack of sexual attraction to Ben tells me that it's something you've felt for others, but if he's expecting a sexual relationship from you and you're really just not interested then that is a major gulf, far more major I would argue than the physical distance. It is possible that you are psychologically distancing yourself from him as you hypothesize, but from the overview of the relationship you gave it doesn't sound like you ever really had any kind of sexual attraction to him -- to me it seems more so that you were, over time, slowly attracted to him as a person / his personality, and the sexual component never really materialized. And that's okay! It is actually entirely possible that you're interested in a romantic relationship with Ben, but not a sexual one. Sexuality and love are such fluid things that, even if you aren't used to this kind of relationship, you may find yourself desiring it. But you may also want to see if you, someday, meet another person who you are both romantically and sexually attracted to. I do think that, if you elect to remain with Ben, you need to be upfront about the lack of sexual attraction -- I understand that you didn't wish to hurt him and if you do choose to break things off, that might be better left unsaid (unless you feel you want to be honest about it), but it's something that would inevitably come up if it has not already should you continue the relationship. As for the whole long distance thing... it's complicated. Some people can truly make it work, some with far more significant distances than yours (not to downplay your situation!), and I applaud them for that. In the end you really have to examine yourself and decide whether it's something you could reasonably handle -- though I will say that, as you're going to university, you have no idea what your free time will be like so it may be tough to be tied to a relationship. I have been in a similar situation and in the end I just felt that I'm at a stage in my life where I need to have the freedom that a long distance relationship could never offer -- I would need to feel free enough to go out & do what I like, to meet new people and explore new relationships, and to make decisions about my future for myself. And that's not to say you can't do those things in an LDR but never to the extent that you would single. Which again, if you feel enough for the person and believe that you could handle the distance, that is an option to obviously consider. But it's a weighty one. ( If you're interested, the movie Like Crazy is all about a long distance relationship -- disclaimer that it's quite sad, you'll cry a lot, but it shows a lot of the complications involved in the decision ) All in all... no one in this thread can tell you what to do. I do actually think that taking some time will be helpful to you, it does sound like you suggested it as a sort of "let him down easy" thing, but if after this time you have reflected & decided that you need to break things off, that will be twice you've reached that resolution and that's definitely notable. I don't know Ben's situation (in terms of friends or a support system), but you shouldn't stay in a relationship with someone just because you're afraid to hurt them by ending it. I know that that may sound selfish but the alternative is just too self-sacrificial. Think things over, definitely take into account what some have said (as there's a lot to think on in this thread!), but ultimately, as you know, you'll have to make the decision.
This is really exactly it. Everyone knows drugs are bad and will, eventually, damage your health in some way (the speed & extent of it varying with the drug, of course, something like marijuana will do comparatively little to your health over long periods of usage, whereas heroine addicts are rather... short-lived). They still do them. People know unprotected sex will eventually lead to STDs and/or pregnancy but they still have it. That's why sexual education classes that extol abstinence and try to scare you away from sex are, statistically, failures. It's more important, and more effective, to teach kids how to have sex responsibly and decide when to become "sexually active." Drug education is a bit more complicated in that we don't really want to be promote "responsible" drug use (at least of harder drugs, but responsible usage of alcohol and marijuana is more acceptable). But people who turn to hard drugs generally are not very happy people to begin with. Drug use is common with the poor, for example. We need to look at why people are using drugs rather than just promote the overly simplified "drugs are bad!!!!" idea.
I'm also a bit disappointed that they're releasing relatively low-res & low-quality screenshots for HD remasters... I mean, barring Re:Coded and some of the model changes, we know what these games look like. We want to be impressed by the remastering of it! I mean, the screenshots they showed for 1.5 were a similar resolution but they were a lot cleaner & sharper. Not to mention that you can rip some pretty gorgeous screenshots from 1.5... View attachment 38603 Edit Because I'm honestly annoyed that they're outputting such low-quality screens, I resized the one I just took to the same width as the ones in the OP and... View attachment 38604 I SHOULD NOT BE TAKING BETTER SCREENS THAN YOU, SQUARE.
Recent updates in magazines & everything have kept the 2014 date, so it does still seem as though Square is on-track with it. I am also hoping we'll get an actual date, even if just for the Japanese release, at E3.
I was actually going to include a HSM gif but I figured people would get the reference easily enough. Glad to see that we're all equally nerds here.
Nope, staff team, admin team, we're all in this together etc etc
Not really sure what you mean by this but we agreed to share the responsibility, I want people to be clear about it & approach whomever they feel comfortable with. I figured it may have been a misunderstanding or oversight on your part, since i wasn't the one to speak to you about this appeal.
To clarify, inquiries about Makaze's original ban or other questions/concerns can also be directed towards me.
Awful quality but That's essentially the argument that Gale uses to justify cooking crystal meth in Breaking Bad and, despite my general dislike of libertarianism, it's a pretty good one here. One could argue he is simply attempting to rationalize his behavior, as one could argue for most of Breaking Bad in general, but it's a point of pride to Walt as well that his product is unadulterated. Walt differs of course because he is concerned about ego more so than the quality of the drug, but the sentiment is still a notable one. People want to do drugs and so they're going to do drugs; we could simply say that stopping it is impossible and attempt to regulate the quality or just let people have at it (a crossroads we've reached with marijuana, not quite at some of the harder drugs).
it's tru i am a saint
Something about Aqua's hair texture is still really bothering me, way more than it probably should...
Installing CFW on your PSP = no need for UMDs. Or physical games. Or PSP games. View attachment 38568
that can be arranged
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so basically the technology version of this
this summer i plan to lay in bed all day work a lot so i can go to disney world that's it that's everything
I didn't buy the game nor do I plan to, but this showed up on my tumblr dash & I found it pretty entertaining. Not sure if it's a case of someone looking for stuff that's broken or if the game is just... broken itself, but it's a good laugh.
