I have an issue with the "raindrop and the ocean" allegory; In my opinion, rather than wanting to return to the ocean, the raindrop should strive to BECOME the ocean.
"Simon, what are you on about?..." — "Generally speaking, some of today's or yesterday's stimuli."
Freedom of choice is such a daunting thing, that many people would — and will! — happily choose to do without.
"I prefer to live someone else's life; That way, if something goes wrong, I will at least have someone to blame!"
The essence of life is change; To say someone changed yours is to deny your own agency; To insist you changed someone else's is to claim their feat as your own; And to claim there is none is to ignore the obvious.
A changed life is rather the accomplishment of the one, whose life was changed than the one, who, allegedly, changed it.
Considering how most people play video games, someone simply must make an MMO, where you play as a member of a horde of extradimensional invaders, which is going through the land with fire and sword, working to overcome an increasingly desperate and inventive opposition.
In retrospect, the crowning moment in Metal Gear Solid was when you needed to recover a nuclear card key by shooting a RAT with a STINGER.
Waiting for the bus to arrive, i can feel the seconds of my life ticking away. It's going to be one of these days, isn't it.
"I would like to inform you that tits constitute a valued holy symbol in my religion, and that messing with them is strictly prohibited."
Challenges faced during the creation of this server, No.5: Coming up with a theme to fit the domain name and designing a matching logo, thumbnail and background which would satisfy my sense of aesthetics.
Telling you what you want to hear doesn't make any sense. Do you REALLY want to be constantly lied to, just to make you feel better? WILL YOU feel any better, knowing that you are being constantly lied to?
I'm still waiting for someone to admit that "Yes, there is a single, universal Truth; And it is held exclusively by our direct opponents".
"We can not — indeed, we must not — fix an injustice, so long as there are other injustices elsewhere!"
I've been on Twitter since 2009, but, sadly, never got to make the "over nine thousand" joke, after all. I blame my adherence to minimum post quality.
If i had to explain a twenty-year-old me the difference between making generalized claims and having actual understanding of the topic, i'd probably lose my temper and have a screaming fit.
Challenges faced during the creation of this server, No.4: Reenacting the trope about the sysadmin reading a 640-page manual to configure the mail server.
For avoidance of doubt and future reference: All my stupid ideas have _a lot_ of thought behind them.
I'm really tempted to have my mail server respond to every email tagged as spam with: "Your email was identified as spam by the mail server. To overrule this decision and have your message delivered, send some money here-and-here."