Pastelland Forum

zombyrus wrote: As you guys are probably aware, I don't really come here very often anymore, and the new forum has revealed something interesting to me. On the old forum, the different boards for general discussion and submachines and everything else existed, but they were underneath a list of the most recently altered threads. With that feature no longer here, I realize that I only really go to the general discussion, and furthermore that I only go to a couple threads in general discussion. I don't have anything especially in common with most of the people here and I don't have the strongest interest in the foundation and focus of the forum (Pastel Games).

While I still read them, I too have noticed a growing threshold before actually commenting on a Submachine related issue. It seems that some discussions just don't entice my imagination - or urge to interject with a comment of a smart Alec - and encompass things I deem trivial about the series. I fear my views are stagnating in that respect, or is it just that we aren't stirring the discussion deep enough, when we think that we've finally found a solid surface within this endless bog of mystery and deception that is the Submachine series?

Besides, for all the things I don't like about this forum, it's quite a bit nicer than any other forum I've been to... I've seen some peculiarly hateful forums, filled up with condescending intellectuals (like me, maybe, only I like me). Even so, I think the only things that keep me ever coming to this site are nostalgia and the anonymity. This is the only forum I really go to, and thus it's the only place where I can express myself without anyone knowing or really even caring who I am. This is nice for a few things, but it's not really enough to make me a regular, I guess.

It is the only forum I ever frequented, and I feel I owe much of what I am to it. Critical thinking, the ability to write natural English... perhaps a tad of maturity, or did that come from somewhere else?

I guess it might have been a little tacky to randomly change the subject to myself, but hell, I made this thread as a place for people to post whatever they were thinking.

Anytime.

zombyrus wrote:Selfishly, I'd like to point out that I was the one who created this thread in the first place, on the old forum.

There's nothing wrong with that.

zombyrus wrote: Besides, for all the things I don't like about this forum, it's quite a bit nicer than any other forum I've been to... I've seen some peculiarly hateful forums, filled up with condescending intellectuals (like me, maybe, only I like me).

I have to agree, I'm not part of any other forum, but the Pastel Forum community is a nice community.

zombyrus wrote:I guess it might have been a little tacky to randomly change the subject to myself, but hell, I made this thread as a place for people to post whatever they were thinking.

No harm there, the thread, after all, was slowly drifting down the page...

A nice change from that very epic discussion from God, I might add.

The Kakama wrote:A nice change from that very epic discussion from God, I might add.

It lasted much longer than politics, too. What unsuitably inflammatory subject should we cover next? Gay marriage? Abortion? Euthanasia? Suicide?

Immigrants!
National minorities!
Transsexual politics!

How about our opinions on the future?

The Abacus wrote:How about our opinions on the future?

Not inflammatory enough! Seriously though, I think things are better for humans now than ever and future promises improvement in our quality of living; on the other hand issues like global warming, pollution and overpopulation will doom us, if we don't act soon, which I fear we won't. I set my hope in technology and the growing collective knowledge of humanity.

On a personal level I wish I could do something for humanity. I don't know what that could be though, so I will continue to look for it. I would really like to be a teacher who makes students understand how great math is, and that math is never just about x's and y's, but alas I'm timid. I also feel that I'd like to know more and more about everything, including maths. To stop learning is death.

Here Here. I literally absorb all Kind of Knowledge I can get my hands on.

I have a bit of a pessimistic view on the future. I see that with boom in technology, with it it will brings greed and desire for things that in my opinion are simply not natural and should not be. For example in January, BBC predicted that around 2050 wealthy people may be able to select elements of their child's genetic make-up prior to birth (all of their predictions may be found here: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/2013010 ... rows-world).

Also technology, I think, will result in disinterest and less appreciation/recognition to humanity's past cultures and accomplishments, which would be a shame considering that there is a lot of culture out there, which is currently being suppressed by modern society through globalisation, technology, mass influence and merging cultures (via the previous).

Technology, however, also has a lot of potential in health research, scientific research, creative industries etc. The way we advance will depend on the way we want to use technology. To me, people becoming self-absorbed into their devices is not a sign that technology will go the I'd prefer.

I realise I've rambling on on the technological aspect of the future, but I don't really have much to say on the other aspects. I may have also been slightly unclear.

on the other hand issues like global warming, pollution and overpopulation will doom us, if we don't act soon, which I fear we won't. I set my hope in technology and the growing collective knowledge of humanity.

I fear that we won't act soon, and when we finally do we would have already started experiencing their effects. My hope lies in technology and the knowledge that there are people out there who see that these problems have the potential to threaten humanity.

Not inflammatory enough!

Maybe.

I would say Creationism in Schools for something inflammatory, but that's exclusively an American thing, I think.