Depressing Realizations

[Veldt Falsetto]

Me and boyfriend were up at silly'o'clock the other day watching some `50 Greatest Music Videos` show, and we knew from the start that the No.1 would be `Thriller`. One day it wont be Thriller. And I will be sad.

I prefer 'Beat It', if I'm entirely honest.

I vote this as Thriller's inevitable replacement:

There are hundreds of far greater videos than Thriller, it's just the iconic one that was revolutionary for it's time, just because it changed music videos forever doesn't mean it's still a good video.

Hey, as I said: I like Beat It better.

I don't tend to watch music video shows, so I'm taking her word that Thriller always gets voted numero uno.

I merely humbly suggested a suitable replacement.

It's always like, the 15 minute version too, so they end the show with the WHOLE Thriller video, it's pretty ridiculous

 

[SquidVicious]

My sad realizing is that despite being the one with the least amount of education (just an AA in CRJ and and AAS in Paralegal) I'm doing far better than any of my friends who went to better schools. In fact, I'm pretty much the only one with a job that isn't in the service industry, and that's only two of my friends. A few weeks ago a friend of mine and I got sloshed on some nice rum I got when I was in Mexico last year and he let some things slide, about how despite the fact that he's 26 he doesn't feel like an adult and that he doesn't know how to do anything other than be a student.

 

[McMullen]

My real choice seems like it belongs more in the R&P forum than here.

However, it is depressing to realize that a game with good potential has failed to live up to that potential, and copyright being what it is, no one will ever be permitted to go back and do it better, so through lazy or inept development we permanently lose games that would have been spectacular.

 

[zelda2fanboy]

I'm probably never going to have a girlfriend and if I do, it will probably be a really fucked up and horrible relationship because I'm so desperate for any sort of contact with another person. The other depressing realization is that for this town and my age group, this is true for most people. I was at a local show the other day and I saw multiple pretty girls I would never be able to relate to on any sort of level. I don't know them, I don't know their friends, and if I approached them it would be seem like I was a creep who was just hitting on them for sex.

 

[FalloutJack]

I don't do depressing realizations...because I don't do depression. I dunno, it just never stuck. Sadness exists in my life, but I have no capacity to mope in great quantity. My mind rejects that and switches to anger.

So...what angry realizations do I have? How about...the world is broken and none of the bastards in the position to fix it ever will? Those lousy bastards. They're the kind of people I hate because the answer - whatever it is in whatever case - is always RIGHT THERE and they're motivated to ignore it.

And there you have it.

 

[ZippyDSMlee]

Only if you go backwards in time(er I mean the opposite of getting newly released stuff) and dig through whats been around for awhile.

I'd rather have more qaulity moving forward desu

right..because everything was better back then

depends entirely on what your looking for and where...like if someone says the top 40 songs are shit I say WELL THERES YOUR FUCKING PROBLEM

see I don't watch mainstream TV anymore..barely at all...because of the internet I can watch shows like Nostalga cric/chick and other online reveiwers... couldn't do that back in the day

Thats half right, about everything being better back them. Games were more balanced and the pay off to finish the better ones was something you do not see into today's focus group driven, ultra pasteurize and streamlined to minimalist media industry.Gaming today might as well take away player input its not needed anymore.

We have more crap, a tiny bit more mediocre titles and rarer gems that can last the test of time.

I buy used I do not go after whats popular I go after what I like but even so there's not much good stuff left to play with.

 

[The Funslinger]

When I was younger, I realized that the sun is indeed getting larger and that one day it will be so massive that it will not only swallow both Mercury and Venus, but Earth as well. Before the sun does that, though, it will first dry up the planet, killing all forms of life. Although I also realized that this would take tens of billions of years for it to occur, whenever my mind would wonder into that realization, I get a little down.

Today, I don't tend to think about it and when I do, I don't feel down, because I'm making the most out of every day.

I misread that last part as "I'm making out most every day". I was all "oh, good for that guy!"

I've recently come to terms with the fact that I'll probably never marry Beyonce.

Things are hard, but I'm staying strong.

I too once came to the shocking realization that I shall never marry Beyonce. It made my day that much brighter.

 

[Crazycat690]

That as the gamer I am, I must evolve or die, I've realized that I can't or don't want to do anything non-gaming related, so I have to get a job in the gaming industry. I got that theory that as a lifelong gamer, my natural evolution is to either report on news for games or make games myself, if I don't I'll die a slow death on a job I don't like.

This saddens me because it seems very hard to get into the gaming industry, and even then it's more of a soulless industry than we'd like to think.

 

[DanielBrown]

When I managed to narrow down everything that has gone wrong with my life for the past eight years to going to a certain party I felt somewhat depressed.

 

[balbuschie]

That working and trying to pay my bills is the best that life will ever be and its all downhill from here.

 

[halfeclipse]

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do you think humankind will transcend someday into another life form whos ultimate function will be to maintain the universe?
or at least a galaxy?

captcha:

well.. humans becoming gods..

Wont say it's impossible, but unless it comes with the ability to break therodynamics or step outside the universe somehow, heat death still kills us. Black hole decay should emit positrons (The anti-particle of the electron) which will form positronium atoms (An exotic atom formed by an electron and positrons in the sub atomic version of a binary orbit), these atoms are unstable and will decay, resulting in annihilation releasing gamma rays. About the only thing left will be photons.

 

[Scarim Coral]

We've all had them, when some random moment you come to the realization that just makes you feel really, really bad. So this is the thread to share some of the ones you've had.

The other day I was browing the internet when out of nowhere I realized something. Since I'm only 14 years old then pretty much everything I hold dear right now will end, or die sometime in my lifetime. MLP:FiM, Adventure Time and The Walking Dead will all be cancelled. Most of the amazing game developers we have now will either die or leave the gaming business, so if gaming stays for long then it'll mean there won't be Kojima, Gabe N, Suda51 and Miyamoto in even 20 years time. Nintendo will probably go out of business, removing pretty much any connection gaming has to the old days. Damn... now I'm depressed.

You clearly need to watch this (from 1.10 onward)-
To sum it up it's isn't the end/ destination that matter, it's the journey that truly matter the most.
I mean yeah I dread the days to see animes like One Piece, Naruto, Fairy Tail (the long running series) actually ends and when death comes to people like Miyamoto and Stan Lee. Ragardless those animes had been a great series and those people are awesome.
Granted I don't believe all things will end at some point like e.g. DC comics got an reboot while Marvel got that reboot-ish coming in Ocotober too.

Anyway I'm getting side so here's my depressing relization.
I used to be very navie as a kid especially I was one of the few Chinese people in the town I was living in. No the other kids weren't racist (well most of them) but they did treat me differently. I used to believe i was making a new friend everyday and was like that in High School.
Anyway one day I heard some students I know talking about me behind my back which one of them mention she doesn't like how everyone was treating me differently (more like a special kid than a regular friend). That when I realise everyone had been treating me more as a tool (they did ask me to do stuff like say something in Chinese) all this time. I pretty much hit depression after that day (like crying and listening to Linkin Park).
Anyway it wasn't all in woes since after High School I went to University and met new people who I can truly called them as my "true friends" (liked me just the way I am) since I had a new start with no one knowing my embrassing past.

 

[xplay3r]

Every living creature dies alone...

 

[ToastiestZombie]

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I remember seeing a quote from Dr Seuss I think. It went something like "Don't cry that it's over, smile because it happened." I follow that quote, it's amazing. Yet, coming to the realization that all your childhood shows, games and friends will eventually go away. It's a crappy realization.

 

[gNetkamiko]

All we've got waiting for us is the slow, but enetiveable heat death of the universe as it approaches maximum entropy, and the space of time life can reasonably exist in the universe is around 100 Trillion years.

100 billion years from now. the local group will destabilize, merging into one big galaxy, a trillion years after that galaxies will be red shifted far enough we wont be able to see them anymore (even the gamma rays they emit will have a wavelength longer then the observable universe.) 100 trillion years from now, the Stelliferous era will end, and no more stars will form. 10-20 trillion years after that the last stars (low mass red dwarfs.) will exaust the last of their fuel, cooling to white dwarfs, leaving the universe populated black holes, neutron stars and white dwarfs. In the absence of an energy source, these remnants will cool further, grow faint and except for rare events the last light in the universe will go out.

Over the next quadrillion years, the remaining orbits of the planets will decay, or be flung from the system, and over the next 100 Quintillion years the same will happen to the stellar remnants within the galaxies.

10 Decillion years later baryonic matter (Which includes protons and neutrons.) will begin to decay into photons and leptons, and by 10 Duodecillion years (10^40) this will have finished, leaving the universe to the black holes for the next 10^100 years as they slowly evaporate to nothing, leaving the universe effectively empty as it reaches true heat death.

Fuck me. Way to cause a huge downer. O.O

You certainly did your homework.

 

[Scarim Coral]

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I remember seeing a quote from Dr Seuss I think. It went something like "Don't cry that it's over, smile because it happened." I follow that quote, it's amazing. Yet, coming to the realization that all your childhood shows, games and friends will eventually go away. It's a crappy realization.

Do you want an even more depressing realization?
Yatzee, the crew from LLR and even the people that run this site are all adults (unless you are an adult too at their ages).
If this site continue for a long time like let say 20+ years at some point those people would had retired meaning their shows will end unless they hire new cast into the shows and likewise hire new people to run the site. Well ok Yatzee would of retire at some point.
Now I just remember some of the webcomics I follow (the ones with a story) will at some point end aswell.

 

[Dalisclock]

We've all had them, when some random moment you come to the realization that just makes you feel really, really bad. So this is the thread to share some of the ones you've had.

The other day I was browing the internet when out of nowhere I realized something. Since I'm only 14 years old then pretty much everything I hold dear right now will end, or die sometime in my lifetime. MLP:FiM, Adventure Time and The Walking Dead will all be cancelled.

I'm not bothered by the fact that everything will end. What I care about is that things will end at the right time. Not be cancelled before they've run their course(Firefly, ) and not drag on and on forever, long past the point that they've done anything interesting or original(Too many series to count) so that when they do get cancelled, nobody cares.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

Your fandom sucks son, accept it.

Applicable to any group of people. After a while you just get sick of things because of the people connected to them. Like TvTropes. Fucking idiots.

Oh stop your bitching.

At least I wasn't banned for harassing people in PMs, Blitzwing. I just quit since it wasn't worth my time.