Thread for Things That Made You Frown Today

[Androidpk]

Games Workshop seems to have a slow dime versus a fast nickel mentality. I believe they always have been.

Have their prices always been so outlandish? I know there are a couple of places that will sell the same product for 20-25% cheaper but GW has made it so other places can't sell their products through online means, you have to call up or some shit like that.

[TheEschaton]

Hey it's not easy being white in a rich country. I had a nightmare I had to wait an extra 2 days for that game I really wanted.

My nightmares tend to involve raid bosses.

[Androidpk]

My nightmares tend to involve raid bosses.

Jewelry too right.

[TheEschaton]

That was a one off, normally dreams about jewelry are fantastic.

[Latrinsorm]

If shaving errors make you feel bad, maybe you should reconsider your sensitivity level.

This actually gives me an opportunity to expound upon a theory of mine!! I've often found that my sensitivity level while dreaming is way, way out of whack with real life. The sheer magnitudes of euphoria, sadness, fear, anger are astonishing when recalled later while awake. It is as though being embodied carries an emotional inertia in addition to the physical. Or, perhaps more probably, whatever part of the brain that is responsible for emotional inertia is among those parts of the brain turned off while sleeping/dreaming, like the part of the brain that turns my thinking "run!" into leg motion, or sadness into tears.

How would you rate your emotional experience while dreaming? Do your responses seem pretty much the same as they would be if you received the same prompts while awake?

What Casshern. There is the original 1973 anime series, there's the 1993 anime movie (which I am talking about,) the live action movie which came out in 2004 and was totally awesome and the most current reboot series in 2008.

The most recent one. APPARENTLY I have two more movies to see now though.

[Liagala]

like the part of the brain that turns my thinking "run!" into leg motion

I could be wrong on this and I'm entirely too lazy to look it up, but I believe this particular part is still very much online while you sleep, but the body puts out a chemical that stops the signals from getti, or something. Consider dogs' legs twitching in their sleep, or people who talk, etc.

How would you rate your emotional experience while dreaming? Do your responses seem pretty much the same as they would be if you received the same prompts while awake?The most recent one.

I'd say my emotions are roughly what they would be if I encountered an identical situation when awake. The problem is, it's physically impossible to encounter an identical situation, because the rational part of your brain takes a vacation while you sleep. You perceive things differently, because there's no part of your head going, "I know that looks like a 6' tall tarantula, but guess what? Those don't exist. It must be plastic. See, look there, next to the eye. Notice that mechanical bit when it turns just so? Yeah." Obviously a man-sized tarantula is an extreme example, but that general idea applies to perfectly ordinary things like leg shaving too.

[Drakefang]

I'd say my emotions are roughly what they would be if I encountered an identical situation when awake. The problem is, it's physically impossible to encounter an identical situation, because the rational part of your brain takes a vacation while you sleep. You perceive things differently, because there's no part of your head going, "I know that looks like a 6' tall tarantula, but guess what? Those don't exist. It must be plastic. See, look there, next to the eye. Notice that mechanical bit when it turns just so? Yeah." Obviously a man-sized tarantula is an extreme example, but that general idea applies to perfectly ordinary things like leg shaving too.

It's the six foot tall cocks you should be worried about. We know you dream about them.

[Delias]

Have their prices always been so outlandish? I know there are a couple of places that will sell the same product for 20-25% cheaper but GW has made it so other places can't sell their products through online means, you have to call up or some shit like that.

It was always sort of expensive but you could justify the "this kind of casting mold costs more, they need to recoup their costs" and stuff like that... they raise the price significantly normally every 3-5 years, but lately it seems like it is going up every year.

[diethx]

I'd say my emotions are roughly what they would be if I encountered an identical situation when awake. The problem is, it's physically impossible to encounter an identical situation, because the rational part of your brain takes a vacation while you sleep. You perceive things differently, because there's no part of your head going, "I know that looks like a 6' tall tarantula, but guess what? Those don't exist. It must be plastic. See, look there, next to the eye. Notice that mechanical bit when it turns just so? Yeah." Obviously a man-sized tarantula is an extreme example, but that general idea applies to perfectly ordinary things like leg shaving too.

This, pretty much. Although with one exception - I once had a dream that I was living in my old best friend's parent's house, but in the attic. Which was full of bugs (including bigass spiders), and when I tried to sleep, they'd crawl out over the walls and over my head. If I encountered a situation like that in real life, I probably would have had a fear-induced heart attack. In the dream I was afraid but also killing them without issue.

[Androidpk]

What Liagala said, rationality usually flies out the window when it comes to dreams. I had a dream the other night where I was actually in my real bedroom and I didn't realize I was dreaming. I walked over to the window, pulled down my pants, and started pissing on the AC unit. At first I was like damn, I really had to go. It wasn't until a few minutes later when I was like wait a minute, WTF am I doing??