@CC
It's not good to be predisposed to misanthropy. Peers shouldn't be conditional either. It's less about the benefits of being friends with them, or the service either provides, but about the relationship itself. It's more sensory than perceptual, so I can't properly explain it with words. Perhaps a change of scene would be good too; as I don't expect myself to find any relatable friends in the suburban outskirts of Phoenix.

@Izen
Social skills have to be built up, it gets easier.

Again, I don't have an automatic dislike towards people. People are automatically neutral, until they do something to shift them towards the negative or the positive. Friends I have aren't because I benefit from them or them providing a service or whatever. People I'm friends with is merely because I enjoy being in their presence.

But that's the problem. Some people I simply don't enjoy being in their presence (though that's not the same as me having a negative view towards their presence). And others, they don't find that a good quality in a "friend," for one to merely sit near you mostly in silence. It's seen as antisocial or weird or autistic or whatever labels are thrown about these days.

So those people remain neutral, they get up and leave, and I don't make friends.

Ooh talking about how bad we are at social interactions? Well I am really good at being an acquaintance but utterly fail at anything deeper than that. Strangers often come up to me on the street to talk to me and in many situations I think I'm pretty charismatic smooth talker, being able to crack quick jokes and make small talk well. But this facade is very shallow and once its been penetrated I am rendered a deflated and paralyzed. People generally don't want to get too close when they start to see the cracks in my presentation. With the few that do manage to get to know the "real me" I have major difficulties connecting with them and almost universally I push them away. Online is a bit different of course. I try to be alone most of the time but I get really sick when I'm alone too much.

@CC
Your other post sounded more like disdain than indifference, but I guess you elaborated on things.

It's funny how autism and antisocial personality disorder have become the next big fake disease, like ADHD before them. I mean, sure they exist. But is someone really autistic, or are they just high strung and obsessive? Are they not socializing, or are they antisocial. Antisocial Personality Disorder is the opposite of what people think it is. An antisocial person is one that violates the social rights of other people, not one who withdraws from social interaction. They're thinking of Avoidant Personality Disorder, which in most cases is never a fully blown personality disorder. So these idiot mothers and psychiatrists cry wolf that their kid has the behavior of a person with "X personality disorder". All it really does is hook them up to the prescription drug machine, unable to escape its grasp before they're even old enough to have control of their own lives. My mom tried to do the same thing with me, claiming I had ADD. It was all smoke and mirrors, as it turned out that (sarcasm engage) sometimes kids don't want to focus on things. (disengage) I feel sorry for all of the kids who are misdiagnosed as sufferers of Aspergers, or even fullblown Autism. At least when high strung/rude kids were called "Indigo Children", nobody was giving them drugs.
And that's why psychiatrists can't be trusted. Or moms.

Glad I got this off my chest, ♥♥♥♥ repressed emotions.

@Con
Yeah, it's easier to be friendly than a full-fledged friend. It's not something people are willing to just do on a whim in most cases; only the most sanguine of people dare live on such an edge.

Speaking of social stuff, I've finally broken free from my previously withdrawn lifestyle, and am going downtown with my girlfriend on the weekend, and perhaps more weekends if she's up for it. All the big events of this week are either in a few towns over, or expensive... So we're most likely going to walk around parks and landmarks, get some coffee, check out shops.

I have a few good friends, but even if I don't like most people, I try to be friendly and helpful. It's probably working, since most people are friendly towards me.

I dunno, CC48 didn't seem misanthropic at the get go for me. :/


I don't know, I find my time monotnous, and I try for more interesting situations; when it comes to talking with others, it feels more like giving coins to a machine.. which pretty much was one of my isssues a while ago, but I have honestly no idea what giving someone interesting to think about when they either are preoccupied, disinterested, or simply don't respond?
The doctors say I'm intelligent, and my friend keeps on trying to get me into programming [especially in the advent of non-Von Neumann shenanigans] and says I'm a pretty vocal and explanatory figure.

As far as Contrary, I dunno, you aren't that conversational, you are offline very often, and don't respond, but you are pretty good commentary videos, even when just starting.

[At this point I begin to multi-bus]




In retrospect, I guess I'm naturally mutable, and it comes from the perceived inability to "succeed" with friends and magically get hour long conversations, and have to jump and leap around multiple people. :\
... Which makes sense since I could juggle several people in private chat, 3 irc channels, and 2 forums at the same time, up until the time my computer couldn't handle the weight anymore. [The main issue is a low-end video card that is low-end even in 2006]

No
Not at all
All hype has been destroyed, unfortunately. The hype train is a mess, there were a lot of casualties.
I should get around to changing my avatar but I'm too lazy. I like transparent ones but I don't know how to make transparent ones properly.

What happened there? With the Hype Train.
Also, transparencies shouldn't be too difficult, I don't know if jpg support transparencies, but again they have horrendous compression, so I wouldn't think that they'd have transparencies.

Try saving images as *.png's, or something, past that, get something like paint.net or graphics gale.
I'd use transparencies on my art assets [for 2D], but visibility is an issue.

[Alternatively, I could crop an image for you, if you'd like, and send it back with the fancy transparencies. And past that, I think I remember how to make animated gifs with gimp... it's pretty brain-dead simple, and probably supports transparencies.....]

jpg does not support transparency (also known as an alpha channel, in case you see that term floating around). png does, as does gif, and some other more specialized formats like dds. There's different bit depths in png and gif though, relating to how many bits each color can have of transparency. gif only has one bit of transparency, meaning that a given pixel can only be entirely transparent (not visible) or entirely solid (entirely visible), where png has up to 8 bits of transparency (meaning 255 different levels of partially visible).

Sadly, the apng standard didn't really catch on, so the only animated image format is still gif, even though it's extremely dated (it can only support 256 colors in a single image, and the aforementioned single bit of transparency).

I saw the apng a while ago, I thought it was novel, but I never really understood what the deal was... anyways, paint.net did have a module-widget for saving/converting apng's, and they did work on the paint.net forums.

I really need mentors since I haven't been introduced to google search 101.

I seem to be one of those people that others naturally want to spill extremely personal information to, probably because they think I'm trustworthy or something.

It combines the animated-ness of gifs with the good image quality of png. That's really it. It's great though.

I think most people can confess to that at some time or another.

They promised a trailer about two or three months ago and we still don't have one, there's no beta yet but they expect to release the game this year, they're using the money they got from pre-orders to actually publish other games, even though Starbound isn't even in bet yet.
There were also a lot of little things, like an enemy called Po. It's a kawaii poop thing. This is the daily update right after showing us a prison/penal colony.

So people are worried about the direction, what they're doing with the money, etc.
There was also a thing where they made a little demo to show at i49, which is some European gaming thing, but they refuse to release anything to anyone else. They even had the yogscast play the game at a panel, but by the end of it half the people at the panel had left because nobody really wanted to watch yogscast pretend to be funny while playing the game.
Essentially they're ♥♥♥♥ it up real bad. Even the forums, which is normally a hugbox of people who refuse to see any faults, has started to question how things are going.

Also I made a new icon.

They should spend less time disappointing their fans and more time learning about how to not make bad poetry, or at least get some girlfriends.