Turtlicious

I kept seeing stuff related to something called Flutter Bat, and

A bat?

wtf.

Regulations just killed the pool I used to work at

Couldn't they have just done a fundraiser? See how much they could raise to try and fix everything on the pool?

Internet Relationships

Ariamella said
And I'm honestly curious- because I've never considered it before- but how is the seed of doubt and mistrust more damaging to an online relationship versus an offline relationship?

Do you ever wonder if your girlfriend is actually a 700lb man from wisconsin?

You do when you're on the internet and you start not to trust them. As for the rest, I'll have to respectfully disagree being in both relationships. Most of my time in actual physical relationships were just that.

Physical.

We wouldn't talk as much, (only an hour or two a day at most,) and when we were together we were more interested in boning and talking about boning then actually building a relationship. A relationship in which you stare at someone and talk can be very draining and a lot of it tends to be superficial, there's only so much time you can spend talking with someone IRL before you both want to kill yourselves., (this again plays into the introvert thing, introverts are content to sit in silence next to a person and call it bonding,) it's a lot easier to pussy foot around issues when you show your physically uncomfortable with the subject matter.

Inversely, online relationships tend to cover every object under the sun and require at least 6-7 hours a day of conversation. I just got off the phone with my girlfriend, (we date both online and IRL,) and...



We spoke for 7 hours, 41 minutes, and 31 seconds. (BlueRose was re-named Iris for a shadowrun game and I never chagned her name back ^_^;;)

If you're in an actual relationship with someone, you're not going to find 8 hours a day to talk with them, and if you actually asked for that people would call you nuts, clingy, and probably worse.

E: You have to be an introvert to make them work because an Extrovert wouldn't be the kind of person to sit on skype for 8 hours a day, they'd be out mingling and being an extrovert.

Regulations just killed the pool I used to work at

Mahz said
Damn, can't even provide a cesspool to the public.

Thanks, Obama!

lol

I don't understand why they couldn't upgrade, especially if it was as swanky as mdk is making it sound. Couldn't they have done a donation drive to renovate everything?

Internet Relationships

Jorick said
Agreed on the general idea, that it's not for everyone and only those of particular personalities and inclinations will really be happy with an internet relationship, but some of your specifics are things I disagree with. For instance, I'm an introverted person who rarely interacts with people other than my family face to face, but I'm wholly against the idea of internet relationships for myself because of them being internet things rather than real life things. The way you said it made it sound like all introverted internet nerds would be cool with that kind of relationship, but that's not the case.

Oh, and that part about greater trust and lack of lies? Bullshit. There's a (shitty) movie and a (horrible) TV series called Catfish that deals with people in internet relationships that find out the other person was a lying fuck the whole time; I know there have been things on there worse than someone saying they're hot and actually being an ogre, such as a woman pretending to be a guy to fuck with some lady she was pissed off at. The internet relationship thing actually allows for greater lying potential, it does not inherently have any trust bonuses over real life relationships in that area.

Alright, I need to rephrase what I said then, what I meant to say is that more trust is needed to make it more, because even a sliver of doubt makes people think of the catfish scenario.

And I was only saying more likely, not like every nerd ever.

Internet Relationships

In what sense?

E: Wasn't PF Internet "friendzoned"

Internet Relationships

So I was talking to a friend online via Skype, (I'm taking a short break from the Spam Skype Chat,) and the conversation landed on internet relationships. And what is needed to maintain friendships and have like internet girlfriends. So I wrote / cleaned up a bit, what I said about it, and was wondering your Spammy opinion.

Personally, I think you have to have the personality to support an internet relationship, I don't believe everyone can pull it off.

I don't think someone who is outgoing and extroverted could support an internet relationship. they'd never feel a connection, and it'd be like trying to sculpt clay while wearing thick leather gloves, but if the only "relationship" you know is the inter-personal connections from sharing thoughts, and feelings then an E-Spouse would work out, because it's the maximum of what you know. Especially in our modern "plugged-in" world, they make sex toys that change based on how you fuck them via the internet, Hell you could have internet sex with people

There's a higher expectation for communication, because you won't see each other, what would be acceptable in an off-line relationship (maybe calling 2x a week and that's it,) wouldn't be enough in an internet relationship

It can also be a lot closer emotionally, you kind of run out of things to talk about so you build bonds. Shared stories / jokes, reminiscing about the past, just constant levels of information sharing because there's nothing else to do so you get to know that person very deeply.

There's an implicit level of trust once you start dating in an internet relationship

That neither of you will lie, because that seed of doubt and mistrust is so much more damaging.

Thoughts?

Just saw the new sticky

Jorick said
I find your approval of the sticky rather ironic given the fact that you're one of the likely suspects to end up getting slapped by the no edgy e-fights rule.

Sophistikit said
I find it ironic and humorous and would like to one day be a part of any betting pool that happens regarding Turt's possible lack of future on this forum.

:C

Turt's Cat Count 2

Shit, I got another one:

Just saw the new sticky