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Blayne, I posted this around four years ago in that thread you linked. I very much doubt you'll listen to it now any more than you did then, but here you go:
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quote:You don't frequent Sakeriver right? Right, so you wouldn't know then that I I've been recently diagnosed with PDD-NOS, I'm incapable of having a normal social life.
If your therapist told you that you are incapable of having a normal social life because he diagnosed you with PDD-NOS, I would strongly recommend seeing a different therapist.
PDD-NOS is diagnosed primarily in childhood and even then is sort of a cath-all for things that don't fit elsewhere (which is why the NOS means Not Otherwise Specified). As I understand it, it may be inferred in adulthood, but this is less a full diagnosis and more and indication that this may be the case.
Regardless, the therapist's job would not be to slap a label on you and say "You can't have a normal social life." but instead to work with you, using the potential PDD-NOS as a guide for where your impairments might be, so that you can develop as normal a social life as possible.
PDD-NOS is often a mild condition and the social impairments that it introduces can, in many cases, be managed or even overcome.
Being diagnosed with a mental disorder is not primarily about an excuse for your poor behavior or a way to get free money from the government, which seems to me to be the way you have treated it. It is the first step in working with a competent psychological professional to overcome or manage the disorder. I may be wrong about this, but I'm pretty sure you haven't been to a mental health professional for that purpose since you got your diagnosis.
If you want your life to get better, this would be a big step towards pursuing that.
You have a choice now. You can either ignore me or commence cursing at me. (I mean, there's pretty much no chance you'll actually listen to me.)
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It's a bit surreal to go back in that old thread and see the 2009-era Dan comment on people treating Blayne harshly.
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Just because I'm pretty sure Blayne considers me one of the mean unfair nasties these days. At least that's the impression I get.
I mean, I knew I'd stuck up for Blayne on occasion (and still do, even, when I have a reason to). But I don't usually have cause to see those instances years later. In this case, looking back, I think that I was wrong to scold JT for not giving Blayne more benefit of the doubt.
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What? No, I feel your opinions are wrong and destined for the trashbin of history and this has nothing to do with you as a person; otherwise why would I be playing Pathfinder with you?
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quote:Originally posted by steven: My first thought at reading that thread was "Well, couldn't the Russian just be...drunk? 'Cause, you know...".
Also, Blayne, I'm curious, did you ever actually write that novel, or even start on it? Have you even written anything that you've let other people read? Apologies if you've started threads about it, etc., I lurk pretty infrequently here.
I've been in a process of working to reconcile creative differences with a friend of mine who also wrote a scifi concept but his is Babylon 5ish far future (a few hundred years from now).
I thought it would be interesting if we merged them, my story could be the "prequel" and his can be what happens after--allowing us to split up writing duties and share.
Its an obviously difficult process but I feel a worthwhile one and a good experience with working with people. His issue is that mine is alternate history with its first major point of divergence in 1955. His story originally invisioned things being 'accurate' OTL until we meet aliens in the future.
He also envisions China being the major world power while I stuck with the USSR through the actions of its crypto-jew genius who took control after Stalin died. Nothing is truly mutually exclusive per se, I never actually decided who would win WWIII, so I've suggested it does collapse, NATO is exhausted and China forges on ahead.
For me I felt I could more consistently write a accurate seeming Russian narrative than Chinese, and he's Russian so I'm loling on the inside.
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All three take place in the same long-running multiplayer game as Children of the Fatherland, to which Blayne also contributed with "The Rise and Fall of Grigorii Rasputin" (a comic), and The Komneniad. Earlier he contributed to the later parts of The Great Game and to There Will Be War, although unfortunately you have to dig through a lot of comments to find the meaty AAR posts in these old forum threads. The index posts help somewhat but are not quite complete. There may be other Blayne AARs as well, but those are the ones I'm aware of since I wrote AARs for the same games. At any rate one can't accuse Blayne of not sharing his writing with the world.
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I've also done a lot of learning to draw art over at Sakeriver in my Blogthread.
Can someone give me, like, the cliffs notes version of this
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It's a story where I follow the POV of different characters serving in the armed forces of the country I was in charge of, I also have Isaac Asimov invent powered armour in science fiction and is charge of the Russian rocket program.
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quote:Originally posted by Dan_Frank: In this case, looking back, I think that I was wrong to scold JT for not giving Blayne more benefit of the doubt.
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Lots of blasts from the past today. Where's Samprany of Orincolo? I feel like it's time to hear from him.
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What you are missing is all in the first sentence of Blayne's post, and in the subsequent responses.
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I do. I think that especially in long posts, Blayne doesn't bother to go back over and correct spellings.
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quote:Originally posted by Orincoro: No, you misspell my username intentionally.
Proof?
Do you really think mine is an assertion that demands proof? Alternatively, do you actually think that demanding proof of a subjective assertion disproves it? Tell us about "objective," again Blayne. I so enjoy that one when you do it.
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So, did anybody notice North Korea has officially put us on notice, by pointing missiles at our stuff?
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I personally like the lengthy list of all the things they were pointing their missiles at.
Meanwhile we point our missiles at one place, and we've pretty much got all their stuff in our sights.
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I think the only reason China support North Korea is because NK makes the Chinese government look like human rights paragons, in comparison.
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quote:Originally posted by Orincoro:
quote:Originally posted by Blayne Bradley:
quote:Originally posted by Orincoro: No, you misspell my username intentionally.
Proof?
Do you really think mine is an assertion that demands proof? Alternatively, do you actually think that demanding proof of a subjective assertion disproves it? Tell us about "objective," again Blayne. I so enjoy that one when you do it.
You are clearly an aggrieved party with some form of grievance, this only becomes 'reasonable' if there is evidence to support the assertion.
Otherwise it is "just making stuff up" or "lying through ones teeth" to make oneself feel good, such as your accusation of plagarism.
Maybe you have some other reasonable grievance, it doesn't make making up grievances reasonable and I'll just make fun of you for it.
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It wasn't a grievance Blayne. You only make yourself look childish by doing things like this. And more so by blowing up a comment into a "grievance," or an "accusation." I'm perfectly within my rights to suppose that you insult me intentionally. You have only to deny it- I do not need to "win," as I don't feel particularly aggrieved.
That this grandiosity suites your ego is clear. But I am not impressed.
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quote:Originally posted by BlackBlade: I personally like the lengthy list of all the things they were pointing their missiles at.
Meanwhile we point our missiles at one place, and we've pretty much got all their stuff in our sights.
north korea makes a quite notable claim about turning seoul into a "sea of fire" and they can't even do that. I mean they can definitely kill a lot of civilians, but the end result would be the absolute destruction of their entire military structure in 48 hours, simply by cutting off the leadership and/or killing it.
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quote:Originally posted by Orincoro: It wasn't a grievance Blayne. You only make yourself look childish by doing things like this. And more so by blowing up a comment into a "grievance," or an "accusation." I'm perfectly within my rights to suppose that you insult me intentionally. You have only to deny it- I do not need to "win," as I don't feel particularly aggrieved.
That this grandiosity suites your ego is clear. But I am not impressed.
You are within your "right" to suppose so, to the same degree you can suppose the world is flat; it just makes you silly for insisting on something you refuse to give evidence for.
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This is an excellent example of people who like to argue on the Internet. The goal is to just keep posting, never admit that there was any chance you could be wrong, until the opposing Internet person stops talking.
As long as you were the last person talking, it means you were righter and smarter and more awesomer than the other guy, because if he were right, he would have had more to say about it, right? Which only makes the "winner" that much more confident, which often crosses the line into obnoxiously belligerent, the next time.
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I would pay cash money to see Blayne work customer service somewhere.
"NO sir it is an OBJECTIVE FACT that this item is not in resalable condition. Anyone interested in being intellectually honest could see this. Fine if you never come back to this store that will obviously be you conceding."
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