Escapist, what are your major personality flaws?
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Im far to emotional for my own good, and neve talk about my problems to people i know. I am to nice an cant take no for an answer. I hide behind humour alot. Can be to childish and playfull. generaly nervous when starting new things, but like trying them.
I'm completely intolerant of people who don't use logic/common sense, especially in arguments. Sometimes i realise I'm better off just biting my tongue and not saying anything though.
For example one of my friends keeps getting into arguments with me over stupid things, he can't argue for crap. Personally i enjoy arguing, but he takes it too seriously and presumably doesn't like to admit he's losing. I'd stay quiet and let him keep his pride or whatever but i can't help it when he bursts out with something painfully stupid.
I get a little paranoid at times too. And occasionally i can either be a little too pessimistic or too optimistic.
With something like programming for example i'll lean towards being realistic because i know what i'm talking about.
Like when my friends wanted to make an RPG, knowing what my friends are like i knew they'd barely even manage to make a start. They didn't, but they certainly didn't like me saying that beforehand xD
For example one of my friends keeps getting into arguments with me over stupid things, he can't argue for crap. Personally i enjoy arguing, but he takes it too seriously and presumably doesn't like to admit he's losing. I'd stay quiet and let him keep his pride or whatever but i can't help it when he bursts out with something painfully stupid.
I get a little paranoid at times too. And occasionally i can either be a little too pessimistic or too optimistic.
With something like programming for example i'll lean towards being realistic because i know what i'm talking about.
Like when my friends wanted to make an RPG, knowing what my friends are like i knew they'd barely even manage to make a start. They didn't, but they certainly didn't like me saying that beforehand xD
I'm mostly driven by jealousy, envy, and rage. I don't do things to better myself, I do them to be better than other people. It's quite pathetic really.
Intolerance. Not like Racism or Sexism or anything, just the stuff people can control.
A good example is religion. One of the most important tenants of a free society is that people shouldn't fear religious persecution. I get that, I agree with it. So why does my blood boil every time someone says, "God help us" or "God Loves You" or "Jesus Saves". I mean it, I just clench up. One day a religious solicitor is going to knock on my door and end up knocked clean out. It's not like they're trying to force me into anything, they're just expressing a belief that's important to them. Rationally, I KNOW they have every right to do that. Still, I flip out at the complete mindlessness of it all.
Religion = Faith
Faith is, roughly, belief that is not based on proof. It is believing something, not in spite of evidence against it, but merely without evidence for it. And that drives me up the freaking wall. It smacks of superstition and desperation. It really makes me want to slap someone.
So yeah, that's a pretty major flaw with me.
And other stuff in a similar vein but to a smaller degree. Like, when someone sticks by a stupid decision out of pride or vanity. I should just let it go if it doesn't affect me and let them deal with their own consequences. Instead I usually flip out.
I'm working on it, but I just don't have a lot of sympathy or empathy.
A good example is religion. One of the most important tenants of a free society is that people shouldn't fear religious persecution. I get that, I agree with it. So why does my blood boil every time someone says, "God help us" or "God Loves You" or "Jesus Saves". I mean it, I just clench up. One day a religious solicitor is going to knock on my door and end up knocked clean out. It's not like they're trying to force me into anything, they're just expressing a belief that's important to them. Rationally, I KNOW they have every right to do that. Still, I flip out at the complete mindlessness of it all.
Religion = Faith
Faith is, roughly, belief that is not based on proof. It is believing something, not in spite of evidence against it, but merely without evidence for it. And that drives me up the freaking wall. It smacks of superstition and desperation. It really makes me want to slap someone.
So yeah, that's a pretty major flaw with me.
And other stuff in a similar vein but to a smaller degree. Like, when someone sticks by a stupid decision out of pride or vanity. I should just let it go if it doesn't affect me and let them deal with their own consequences. Instead I usually flip out.
I'm working on it, but I just don't have a lot of sympathy or empathy.
I'm being serious here. Become a super villain. Show everyone how it's done and fuck up whoever/whatever you please.Kapol said:
Good luck.
Just remember, when you're at the Legion Of Doom, to slip in a good word for your old pal Funky who got you into the villaining career.
that i have a split personality...yes seriously
and its not fun like the movies make it out to be
and its not fun like the movies make it out to be
Severely lacking in self-esteem, confidence, social skills and motivation, passive, cynical, pessimistic.
I generally don't show much emotion (though I was born with a face that, when emoting, looks uglier than it normally does), only possible exception being my voice which most people tell me sounds like i'm severely depressed or manic-depressive. Despite the Gordon Brown-esque façade, i'm quite sensitive to other people's opinions of me.
I have a tendency to choose abort rather than retry, so to say. If I make an error, i'll toss the whole thing out rather than fix it and continue on. Applies to pretty much everything I do.
If I feel I can't do it right, or that it requires practice before i'll be at a skill level at which i'll be happy with my work, then i'll not even try. This goes especially strongly for creative pursuits, directly at odds with my strong desire to do and be good at such things. Less so with gaming, in that i'm more tolerant of a learning period (except in strategy games, strangely)
My sense of humour leaves much to be desired, both in the actual funniness of any jokes I tell, and the unmistakeable taint of the darker reaches of the Internet. Generally my own failures are what people find most amusing, like a half-Finnish Mr. Bean.
There are some pretty awful thoughts that go through my head all the time, or randomly appear; such as the thought of killing my cats whom I love dearly, for example. Then there's thoughts of racism, criminal acts, blind nationalism, other kinds of killing and the usual depressive line of thought. They generally cause me distress when they come to my mind, and make me hate myself more for having them. I'd sooner die than let the content of these thoughts become known to anyone I know in real life, and I do not let them control my actions. I just fear the day when I lose my self-control (which is rather considerable, though perhaps the term self-smothering would more aptly describe how it defines my behaviour i.e. putting a pillow over the sleeping face of my desire to do things) and these thoughts become actions.
Not sure insecure is an apt descriptor, rather i'm secure in the belief that i'm completely inferior in all aspects.
I generally am highly suspicious of people, if someone seems to be acting friendly towards me, then i'm thinking to myself "how on earth would they benefit from making my acquaintance?" As the answer to that is usually "not at all", that often leads me to believe the person is either insane, drunk or American, to take from one Finnish joke.
Also, I can never leave my posts alone; i'll write the initial post, think of more stuff to put in it, then I end up continuously amending a post until it's longer than A Not-So-Brief History of Everything.
I generally don't show much emotion (though I was born with a face that, when emoting, looks uglier than it normally does), only possible exception being my voice which most people tell me sounds like i'm severely depressed or manic-depressive. Despite the Gordon Brown-esque façade, i'm quite sensitive to other people's opinions of me.
I have a tendency to choose abort rather than retry, so to say. If I make an error, i'll toss the whole thing out rather than fix it and continue on. Applies to pretty much everything I do.
If I feel I can't do it right, or that it requires practice before i'll be at a skill level at which i'll be happy with my work, then i'll not even try. This goes especially strongly for creative pursuits, directly at odds with my strong desire to do and be good at such things. Less so with gaming, in that i'm more tolerant of a learning period (except in strategy games, strangely)
My sense of humour leaves much to be desired, both in the actual funniness of any jokes I tell, and the unmistakeable taint of the darker reaches of the Internet. Generally my own failures are what people find most amusing, like a half-Finnish Mr. Bean.
There are some pretty awful thoughts that go through my head all the time, or randomly appear; such as the thought of killing my cats whom I love dearly, for example. Then there's thoughts of racism, criminal acts, blind nationalism, other kinds of killing and the usual depressive line of thought. They generally cause me distress when they come to my mind, and make me hate myself more for having them. I'd sooner die than let the content of these thoughts become known to anyone I know in real life, and I do not let them control my actions. I just fear the day when I lose my self-control (which is rather considerable, though perhaps the term self-smothering would more aptly describe how it defines my behaviour i.e. putting a pillow over the sleeping face of my desire to do things) and these thoughts become actions.
Not sure insecure is an apt descriptor, rather i'm secure in the belief that i'm completely inferior in all aspects.
I generally am highly suspicious of people, if someone seems to be acting friendly towards me, then i'm thinking to myself "how on earth would they benefit from making my acquaintance?" As the answer to that is usually "not at all", that often leads me to believe the person is either insane, drunk or American, to take from one Finnish joke.
Also, I can never leave my posts alone; i'll write the initial post, think of more stuff to put in it, then I end up continuously amending a post until it's longer than A Not-So-Brief History of Everything.
I'm a procrastinator, I'm often a bit of an ass and I swear with every alternate word sometimes.
