2000 posts everyone, Hurray for me.

[Porygon-2000]

Alright, good going!

Hell, I wish I had that kind of presence around here. Curse my lurky ways. I honestly should have more posts at this point...

 

[Pinkamena]

Not bad!

Personally, what keeps me going is my family. I want to succeed and make them proud.

 

[Nazulu]

Whoopti-fucking-doo, I hit 5000. Just give me the whole cake. Nah, good on ya.

Why do I continue to go on? - Because I need somewhere to go when I don't want to do anything but open my fat mouth. Also, it's interesting here.

What drives me to persist? - Pure anger with incoming malevolence.

Why is it that I have not yet decided to just quit everything, lie down and crawl into a whimpering ball of misery? - Because I want to share that misery with everyone. See how I do it.

Happy 2000 posts .

We should have happier threads yes, but even when we get a new game to talk about everyone is super depressing.

That's because the new games are usually depressing, and now many are getting skeptical, to then cynical.

- Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy. I don't think your happy enough! *breaks device* I couldn't be more angry *breaths heavily*. Wow, thanks man. ~ Uh Ok?

 

[Blood Brain Barrier]

Tell these forums about the driving force that keeps you going in life.
Why do you continue to go on?
What drives you to persist?
Why is it that you have not yet decided to just quit everything, lie down and crawl into a whimpering ball of misery?

I don't know. And perhaps that is a driving force, to know that it is a mystery and that maybe one day we will find out. Or at least to help people to see that none of us know and that the act of creating bullshit explanatory concepts like "willpower" is one of the things keeping us from knowing.

 

[Calibanbutcher]

Tell these forums about the driving force that keeps you going in life.
Why do you continue to go on?
What drives you to persist?
Why is it that you have not yet decided to just quit everything, lie down and crawl into a whimpering ball of misery?

I don't know. And perhaps that is a driving force, to know that it is a mystery and that maybe one day we will find out. Or at least to help people to see that none of us know and that the act of creating bullshit explanatory concepts like "willpower" is one of the things keeping us from knowing.

Well if you gonna be like THAT, you might just as well have gone down the "my biological imperative to survive and pass on my genes for the survival of our species"-road.

Or the ever popular "To consume energy in various forms and to mate with those of the opposite sex in order to reproduce"

Jeeez, lighten up, this is but a thread in the off-topic section of the forums of a mildy popular video-game website.

If you want to discuss philosphy etc, you might be in the wrong place.

Also, how come you are so quick to dismiss "explanatory concepts" as "bullshit" masking the "real" driving force, isn't your explanatory concept, namely that of "curiosity/bringing enlighenment" just "bullshit" as well, seeing as it is clearly just made up by humans as well?
And if you know that you don't know the "right" answer, how can you know that "willpower" / a different explanatory concept is not the "correct" answer you have been looking for?

And to go a bit further than this, seeing as my "willpower" has been dismissed:
"Willpower" is my driving force in so far as it allows me to continue with the tasks at hand, the tasks in my life that I chose to commit myself to and that I refuse to give up on.
If you want to argue that, on a grander scale, "willpower" really isn't much of a driving force, seeing as "willpower" will not guide your choices, then I am on boat with you on that.
And if we go one step further and seek the motivation for the decisions we make in life, it generally comes down to "doing this will benefit me in some way". Either directly, by netting you an emotional / physical reward or in the long term, by netting you the reward after you have put some effort into it.

And these rewards are usually happiness/satisfaction, aka an almost arbitrary stimulus that influences your brain chemistry in such a way as to release the necessary stimulants to give you a "high" for a given amount of time.

 

[Euryalus]

Hurray, I have reached 2000 posts, so applaud me and bring some cake as well.

Conglaturations you have played a great game on your 2,000 posts. I'd be a douche and joke about how I have more, but I don't really XD

Those are almost all User group posts. I have like 1800 legit posts. I'm the most prolific nobody I know! XD

By the way I brought some cake for you!

*hides arsenic bottle behind back*

May you be here to grace us with another 20,000 awesome posts...


Oh, don't mind me, I just remembered a funny joke. Go ahead, eat your cake. It's to die for!

 

[Euryalus]

I do that will everyone's voice now.

1.) You spelled with wrong and now I'm quoting your mistake for all the world to see.

2.) Goddamnit! My grinning clown mystique is ruined! My voice is lame as hell. D:

OT: Also I forgot to answer the questions because I was to busy trying to poison Caliban. :/

The answer to that question is partially found in my motto. I'm kind of a terrible person by non-relative standards and I'd kind of like not to be. I'd like to be like Francis of Assisi and be able to be so filled with happiness and love (no homo XD) that you could literally have your eyes burned out of your sockets and be able to go "eh, at least it'll make for one hell of a conversation starter amiright?"

The only thing really standing in the way of that is me. I may screw up, will screw up, but at least I can try... And to end on a note that doesn't force to lose all 'pist credibility, Read that post in this voice. XD

 

[sextus the crazy]

Congrats man. Now, when I make a 2000 posts thread, it'll be too soon and seem like a rip off

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

1. See, you get quoted on stuff NOT feminism related.
2. That was a depressing post, so here, have a bunny.

Awww that's the cutest bunny evar. Although it seems not to know how feets work D:

Spoiler: Here is a picture of my cat Smudge and her babies, in return.

 

[DoomyMcDoom]

Hurray, I have reached 2000 posts, so applaud me and bring some cake as well.

In all honesty:
I really like these forums, or I do, most of the time, especially when there aren't as many flamewars going on and people discuss more "fun" stuff, as opposed to arguing with each other like monkeys flinging shit in a cage, which, whilst entertaining to watch, gets dull after a while.

And now, to introduce some sort of reason-d'être to this thread:

Tell these forums about the driving force that keeps you going in life.
Why do you continue to go on?
What drives you to persist?
Why is it that you have not yet decided to just quit everything, lie down and crawl into a whimpering ball of misery?

My main driving force is sheer willpower. I just refuse to give up on anything or anyone, and as long as I am able to continue, able to drag myself towards my goal, I will not cease to move towards it, and I will drag those with me that don't have the strength left themselves.

That and an unquenchable rage that makes my blood boil every waking moment.

Ok, maybe the rage part is made up.

Or maybe it isn't.

Either way, I just posted here for the 2000th time.

Congrats on the 2000! I believe that this is my 1500th post as well so yay me as well, but 500 posts less yay than the yay for you.


The thing that keeps me going in life?
That depends, sometimes it's loyalty to friends, sometimes it's the pursuit of one of my many curiosities...
But mostly it's my ever burning self loathing, I hate myself, and I find that most of life is torture, so why not see just how much I can suffer before my subconscious drives me to end it in some creative "accident".

Still, I owe friends of mine debts, and I refuse to die until they are all payed and my debts are settled, nothing is stopping a natural disaster or traffic accident from wiping me out first, but those are hardly within my control.

 

[PatrickXD]

I'm almost at half of your posts. Yay!
My driving force is the fact that my life is pretty good! I like the way things are going, I have fun, I do what I want to do. All is well. So why stop, I guess?
Ohohoh, what drives me to persist through hardships is that I generally find them really fun! Like, when something is physically challenging, I laugh and plough on as best I can and come away with awesome memories! And when something is mentaly or emotionally challenging... Same thing, really! So that's a thing.

 

[Calibanbutcher]

Congrats man. Now, when I make a 2000 posts thread, it'll be too soon and seem like a rip off

Make a 2500 posts thread then?
No-one will remember this thread by then and 2500 is a much larger number...

1. See, you get quoted on stuff NOT feminism related.
2. That was a depressing post, so here, have a bunny.

Awww that's the cutest bunny evar. Although it seems not to know how feets work D:

Spoiler: Here is a picture of my cat Smudge and her babies, in return.

But doesn't that make it even better?
And I like your cats, weird as it may sound...
/insert lame "pussy" joke here

I do that will everyone's voice now.

1.) You spelled with wrong and now I'm quoting your mistake for all the world to see.

2.) Goddamnit! My grinning clown mystique is ruined! My voice is lame as hell. D:

OT: Also I forgot to answer the questions because I was to busy trying to poison Caliban. :/

The answer to that question is partially found in my motto. I'm kind of a terrible person by non-relative standards and I'd kind of like not to be. I'd like to be like Francis of Assisi and be able to be so filled with happiness and love (no homo XD) that you could literally have your eyes burned out of your sockets and be able to go "eh, at least it'll make for one hell of a conversation starter amiright?"

The only thing really standing in the way of that is me. I may screw up, will screw up, but at least I can try... And to end on a note that doesn't force to lose all 'pist credibility, Read that post in this voice. XD

1. NO, did not read that post in that voice MUHAHAHAHAHAH.
2. Good thing I made myself completely immune to arsenic then.
3. The cake was delicious.
4. The difference in voice proves once and for all who the evil mastermind is.

 

[MtnGamer]

Congrats on a long run of 2000, and good luck with many more future posts! Also, good job on the Sexism cast, I think you make a great debate moderator and hope to hear more from you soon.

And just like Colour-Scientist, I too have matched your voice to your posts, now that we have been on a few podcasts together.