Published on 12, July, 2020
I don't know about others, but I'm getting a little concerned that the arguments will put off new members.
Quite often people join and then disappear quite quickly.
I've been involved in these myself on occasion, so I'm not innocent.
However, maybe the mods could create a section where these potentially contentious threads could be placed that had a heading like NSFW (a new one on me but it seems to be well known).
If a seemingly innocuous thread then turns into a constant argument, perhaps it could be moved to there.
It's sometimes interraction between older males and older females (or non binary etc) and comes down to very different relationship/*ex points of view but can of course stem from any subject and any set of contributors.
I think it happens more often than it once did, and I've not been here a year yet.
like most anime, i believe the starting is the strongest and most balanced point.so the siayan saga and the namek frieza one. i think they are strongest as they have a better scope of progression and shows goku trained all the time and struggled hard to get stronger.the newer ones like dragon ball super, i dunno, the power goes up too rapidly and they just get given it all on a silver plate effortlessly now.anime has this issue in all anime though, the starters are always good then it goes down hill and falls apart through each new season.
I remember when I discovered that Z was actually not the first series, I think I've retroactively watched quite a lot. But the Freiza saga was the big main one when I watched it on telly the first go around.Did you have a fave series or saga of the show?
This is an exceptionally good place to be most of the time.
I agree.Even with the disagreements folk sometimes have.
I know personally Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) affects me a lot this time of the year, plus the Christmas thing seems to have started on Nov. 1st. This latest storm will blow over, I just hope it doesn’t take the new influx of people with it. Zen has the right idea, time-out.
yeah i remember all the games too. i never watched it at first though as i didnt have any special tv, i was always limited to bare basic tv..my parents always behind on tech. so most of childhood all i had as channel selection was 1 to 4... then channel 5 got released, i remember i think we stayed up to watch channel 5 be released lol
Do you also remember when we finally got Dragonball Z in the UK?
ah i remember when that first came out. and something called monster rancher too. digimon... they all seemed to come off the back of pokemon. without pokemon none of these things would have came out in the west i think.
Ah yes I myself am AuDHD with OCD, CPTSD, and PDA, it's a tough life. But I find it helps to read a thing then go away and consider it over a cup of tea before I start typing a response if I feel especially prickly about it. And if it wasn't all that big of a deal to still be thinking on it after-all when the mug is empty the ADHD has usually moved me onto something else instead and saved me the bother of reacting in my experience lol. At least I can think what I'd like to type and phrase when I'm having the cup of tea so that helps either way.
I've noticed that people are leaving or stopped writing to me.
Winter is a hard month for me as it brings back painful memories. I found some pen pals on the forum.
Take breaks and I've usually have a curfew e.g. don't look at the forum/social media after a certain time. Set boundaries.
I'm one of the miserable gits, I'm just acutely aware of how my behaviour impacts others. My last psych said I was far more aware than most people she'd seen. That's a mixed blessing I can tell you! I know I'm being annoying/difficult but can't seem to stop the impulsive dysregulated reactions. I guess that's the joys of my PDA/ADHD/cptsd screwed brain.
Those of us in pain also hurt more when it gets cold and going out gets harder so we mix less and are stuck with our own thoughts more. Personally I never find being alone with my thoughts a good thing for my mood.
Why do I think you were also the Beyblade generation like myself Caelus?
I think you are onto something there, winter on the forums is a lot like a friday night on a full moon for A & E.Seasonal Affective Disorder ( or whatever it's called ) runs riot with folks moods this time of year even if they haven't got other stresses too.I joined in the last winter and took the negative-fest as par for the course but then I noticed folks got on with a lot more productive - and friendlier chats in the summer. Seems like it's a cycle.Doesn't seem to help that a lot of folk here don't seem to enjoy xmas or have much irl company (I'm odd that way as I enjoy both) so it seems they haven't got anything especially to look forward to just being cold and lonely, can easily imagine that has a negative effect on their mental health and then they only have here and a few other places online to offload the foul mood.We're really not all THAT miserable a bunch of gits. Just seems like a portion of us just turn that way, but they'll be back to normal next summer.
i feel that yugioh was made to get around internet arguments.if anyone has any issues they just challenge them to a game of duel monsters!its time... to dd dd ..dddd dddd duel!!!i still think yugi cheats, his pyramid thing is like a performance enhancing drug that kinda acts the same way as taking steroids and growth hormones lol
This time of year is worse on all forums.
We don't like the change in weather or clocks changing
The pressure of upcoming festivities is looming
Half of us are probably in poverty and Don't know how to pay for Xmas
Kids have started new schools and parents are stressed
The government is encouraging bad behaviour (braverman)
And we are all sensitive and react to things while dysregulated.
They weren't the only one. Meanwhile all the people who made them want to leave are still here and saying the same things.
Just bumping this up as it's pertinent at the moment.
I hope that newer members don't leave.
Ree left because of the arguments at this time and I still miss them.
If things get too much for me here I become a hedgehog now and hibernate.
I did leave once and considered it a few times before, including recently, but hibernation gives you time to think.
consent (verbal or otherwise) is ascent without unlawful duress by those with the capacity to consent. To agree with a course of action at the time of the action and throughout the action. It must be a genuine choice (hence a lack of duress) saying no must be a realistic option. The consenting party must also have the capacity to consent (mostly relevant if the party is in someway impaired by a substance or medical condition).
Actually capacity to consent is not a very high bar to clear. In the context of substances its somewhere between drunk enough to not remember the night and too drunk to be properly aware of events at the time where capacity ends. For mental health being able to understand broadly what sex is and that consent is required is enough to form capacity. At least that's what case law suggests to me #notlegaladvice.
edit: where things get really controversial is in the legal theory of conditional consent. It'd be interesting to talk through the ethics of the McNALLY case sometime. Lawyers are arguing about that one to this day.
I've not been here very long but I tend to stay away now more than participating.
Consent is a state not the literal saying of the words 'I consent'. People can say things under coercion, if someone consents without enthusiasm they're not really consenting, they're accepting their fate...
No. The education is free and there if you can be bothered to look for it. Now let this thread end for everyone's sakes.