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Every time I log into this "forum," there are between 20 and 100 new posts in the Games threads and maybe one or two or NONE in any other thread. This "forum" should be renamed A Lonely Life Arcade and the owners should start charging money per play. Within a year they could buy themselves a...

I just lost interest in creating music with MuseScore. That interest had lasted five days, during which time I had written five new (substandard) pieces of music and even released some of them on internet radio. Before that I was all hot about learning functional programming languages, mainly...

...20 threads on this forum that have received replies since I last checked eight hours ago. That's a fairly active forum. But 19 of those threads are already at more than 50 pages. What happens to a thread when it reaches more than two pages is that people stop reading anything that's not on...

Hi, guys. I haven't logged on in a while. For a catchup see my thread in the new members forum. This thread is about making music using MuseScore (or another similar software, but all I've seen except Muse Score cost money, and MuseScore is open source and free of charge). I find putting notes...

I can't remember when I last logged on this forum, but a ton has happened since then. In July 2015 I went out of town on a casino junket and lost all my money, becoming stranded on the streets of a small city I knew little about. I spent four days at a homeless shelter before finding a way to...

I'm not too sure what to do about the morning uglies, which consist of waking up sullenly wrathful. Sometimes the feeling morphs into true anger. This morning I punched my mattress several times and the noise appears to have woken both my father and my brother. These ugly moods don't accomplish...

About two weeks ago, I noticed a piece of admail in my email inbox inviting me to apply for a credit card. Purely on a lark, expecting to be denied because of my low income, I filled out the online application...and was immediately notified that it had been approved. The card arrived in the mail...

As arranged, I phoned my family doctor this afternoon to discuss my projected cataract surgery and referral for a personality disorders assessment. He said he had been unable to reach the eye doctor by phone and had written a one-sentence letter saying I had decided to go ahead with the...

I started taking Ativan on Monday evening for anxiety about the upcoming cataract surgery, which was exacerbated by the fact that the surgery hasn't been scheduled yet and I had to wait until tomorrow (Thursday) to get further information. The ativan is at a low dose, 1 mg in the morning and 1...

I found an online test for various personality disorders. It consisted of about 30 yes/no questions and looked reliable and responsible. In the results it listed about 10 different personality disorders and evaluated me as being at low or medium risk for six of them. It evaluated me as being at...

Since moving back in with my birth family in 1996, I've always been called to dinner when it was ready. Yesterday my brother was not home for dinner and my father just grabbed something for himself to eat and didn't call me. About three hours later I realized that I had completely forgotten to...

From speaking to my brother, I realized that he and my father would feel unable to walk away from me even if caring for me became too much for them. I decided that it wouldn't be fair to them to let myself go blind, so even before I saw the family doctor I decided to go through with the cataract...

I finally opened up to my father about the question that has been on my mind for the past two days. I don't do anything useful or productive with my vision. I don't do anything useful or productive at all. So why should I go through the rigors, and endure the distress, of cataract surgery...

The news from my ophthalmologist on Tuesday was terrible. I have retinal issues, but they cannot be properly evaluated because of my very bad cataracts. The cataracts in my left eye already make that eye legally blind and within a year I'll lose sight in that eye completely. The right eye will...

I recently discovered that, between the ages of 4 and 48, I met eight of the nine diagnostic criteria for borderline personality disorder. I still meet three or four, as evident from my history on ALL. There is a chance that I was diagnosed with it in 1977, at age 12. That diagnosis was almost...

This will probably anger parents, educators, and even children, but the truth hurts, don't it: http://mickeykocic.deviantart.com/art/the-real-purposes-of-school-539798412

Remember SSI, the company that brought us the Gold Box games in the 1980s and 1990s? They're resurrecting themselves as TSI and planning a brand new, up-to-date strategy-based game that is true to the original Gold Box concept. They had a kickstarter campaign in late 2014 that didn't reach its...

I thought I'd just link it instead of pasting the whole thing here: http://mickeykocic.deviantart.com/art/On-the-Advent-of-Lifelong-Childhood-539254989

Forming groups is as old as life itself. It started about 3.46 billion years ago, long before any living thing started doing anything like eating, seeking shelter or having sex. Because we inherit group formation from the most ancient of sources, there is a push inside all of us to form groups...

Here's a post I made on another forum that could potentially get me banned from that other forum: "Asexuality hasn't entirely recovered from its origins as a concept and remains an intensely poitical topic of discussion. Wherever politics are involved, there is going to, unavoidably, be...