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Soru said:
Okay so i'm going to try divert the conversation a little, this stems from something that has bothering me.

Do any of you partition the people in your life? For example, family stay with family. Friends from stay with friends from work. School friends with school friends. etc etc and disallow anyone from any group to mix with others? On top of that, if you do this, are there any exceptions and why is that person an exception?
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I do have a "core" of 6 really good friends, but i do mix the whole lot really, i hang out with my sisters friends, my sister hangs out with my friends, i hang out with co-workers of friends, know a lot of family from my closest friends.
I enjoy meeting knew people and if you're limiting yourself to groups that's a lot harder.
 
i read these

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My school banned Goosebumps because kids were reading them way more than any other book and trying to do book reports on them and shit.

I got back at them though, because my next book report was on The Silence of the Lambs.
 
Ah, I remember the days when Choose Your Own Adventure books were the height of entertainment. Good times. I had dozens of those things.

edit: my song would be A Warm Place by Nine Inch Nails. Always has been, always will be.
 
Soru said:
Okay so i'm going to try divert the conversation a little, this stems from something that has bothering me.

Do any of you partition the people in your life? For example, family stay with family. Friends from stay with friends from work. School friends with school friends. etc etc and disallow anyone from any group to mix with others? On top of that, if you do this, are there any exceptions and why is that person an exception?
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I keep my family a bit separate on some of my facebook posts and so forth. In general, though, my different friend groups are separate simply because they have separate interests.

When I do something fun, though, pretty much all my friends are invited. They come along if they want to. For instance, two weeks from now is the 15 mile stroll through Queens and Manhattan (ultimately up the High Line Park but halfway through we're checking out some box car races). Half the group is some of my sci-fi college friends, and the other half is a bunch of burner fringies. It just turned out that way. People also don't like to go very far for fun, so wherever I go, the friends closest to that area will congregate, and the far away ones won't. It's pretty logical.


Why I do this, I don't know. When I think about myself and how I act in regards to friends etc. I also wonder, do other people do this? Is it common, because I'm not involved with most other people to know really. And this is why I ask.

RPGaf, is this you?
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It takes a lot of effort for people to maintain links, especially if you're the person who has to do most of the work. I'd say that the lion's share of my non-work/sleep/school time centers around this effort. It's worth it in the end, because people tend to think more highly of you when they realize you're making an effort in their direction.


Edit: I don't have such a big enough liking for music that i'd be able to find a song that describes my life.
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You can borrow my choice, if it helps. "I'm not the son of some Roman god, but anyway, I think I'm gonna be okay". :)
 
Arjen said:
I do have a "core" of 6 really good friends, but i do mix the whole lot really, i hang out with my sisters friends, my sister hangs out with my friends, i hang out with co-workers of friends, know a lot of family from my closest friends.
I enjoy meeting knew people and if you're limiting yourself to groups that's a lot harder.
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Thats the thing, I do enjoy meeting new people and I'm an extremely extroverted person. so I have no idea why I do this.
 
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Alfred Hitchcock and the three investigators series were great :D.
Anybody? I loved those books very much with like other choose your own adventure.
 
Stet said:
My school banned Goosebumps because kids were reading them way more than any other book and trying to do book reports on them and shit.

I got back at them though, because my next book report was on The Silence of the Lambs.
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God forbid kids actually enjoy reading and doing bookreports. Can't have that!
 
I got a slight chuckle in Skyrim when I stumbled across that one Choose Your Own Adventure book about the dragon. It was definitely a, "Yo dawg, I heard you like role playing" moment for me.
 
anyone ever see/do these puzzles that had a mystery story in them? or was it a book , i forgot


I remember in 3rd or 4th or 5th grade when i did one that had to do with a time machine, it was amazing


this was in the late 90's
 
InfiniteNine said:
Yeah I loved the choose your own adventure ones! It was fun seeing all the different outcomes to your decisions and the endings or dead ends it lead to.
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I remember one of them involving your older cousin picking on you and calling you out, you could either stand up to him by beating him in whatever sport him and his friends were playing or just leaving.

The second option involved RL Stine scolding you for being such a boring main character. XD

I also did book reports on Goosebumps, hater teachers gonna hate.
 
Interesting choices guys. Lots of stuff I've never heard before so I'm getting a lot of good music recs out of this too :o



ghostmind said:
I was reading this series when I was young (yes I am OldGAF):

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Trust me, you don't want to know the secret of the old mill.
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When I was 9-12 I was a huge Nancy Drew fan.

I actually almost thought about buying a few of the first volumes to read but even though they were only $3 each for some reason I couldn't bring myself to buy them :x It's too bad they're so ridiculously expensive on Kindle.
 
I used to read pretty much everything when I was a kid, my childhood reading ran the full gamut from Elmore Leonard and Patricia D. Cornwell to Ian Livingstone roleplaying adventures and Dragonlance.

ShockingAlberto said:
Saint's Row 3 had the same effect on me with the text-adventure level.
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Alright you fucking unicorn, you're going down.
 
Trying to explain to my kids one day that Will Smith had his finger on the pulse of society and sang songs about his terrible movies (that we all thought were great at the time) and getting Jiggy With it will be impossible.
 
ShockingAlberto said:
Trying to explain to my kids one day that Will Smith had his finger on the pulse of society and sang songs about his terrible movies (that we all thought were great at the time) and getting Jiggy With it will be impossible.
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By then, I'm sure Will Smith's kids will be the two biggest stars in Hollywood.

clearacell said:
Did I miss out on the theme for today? I haven't been in this thread for like a day and I feel like I've missed out on so much.
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It's photoshop your face to your pet day.
 
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