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I think this could be an interesting thing to think about. Seriously consider your flaws. What are they? Nobody's going to be ridiculing anyone here; this is just a bit of self-examination.
Me? Well, I'm stubborn, too timid, I get angry too easily, I don't think before I speak, and I'm socially awkward.
What about everyone else? Don't be nervous.
People are like dice, a certain Frenchman said that. You throw yourself in the direction of your own choosing. People are free because they can do that. Everyone's circumstances are different, but no matter how small the choice, at the very least, you can throw yourself. It's not chance or fate. It's the choice you made.
Arrogant belief in weight of own opinion.
I hate and I do mean hate being told what to do (if I want to know I will ask!)
Apathy about almost everything, particularly work.
Kryptonite.
Short attention sp…………
How do you promote your Hobby? - Legoburner "I run some crappy wargaming website "
Hmm. Not sure if it's the right word, but some kind of "Pride".
If I don't know someone real good, I don't want to own that guy anything. I hate having some kind of moral debt to someone I don't like. Makes me a bit stubborn sometimes, when I could solve problems by giving in to owe people I don't like something. Classical pride's in there, too, a bit, I guess.
Suffused with the dying memories of Sanguinus, the warriors of the Death Company seek only one thing: death in battle fighting against the enemies of the Emperor.
Coming on to internet message boards and responding to threads like this rather than, I don't know, getting involved in community activism if I actually want to interact with human beings and make changes in the world.
"Success is moving from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." - Cliff Bleszinski
@Redbeard: Oh, but by revealing one of your flaws and your opponent focusing on this one to attack you, he gets too focused. While you know that he knows your "flaw", you can act accordingly, self-aware of this apparently weak part in your defense - which acutally isn't one, if you get your enemy to concentrate his efforts on one place. It's like channeling enemy troops into a canyon, where fewer soldiers can defend themselves far more easily!
...okay, don't know where that came from.
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Redbeard wrote:Machiavelli suggests that you should never reveal your weaknesses to others, lest they use them against you. This thread is foolish.
My weakness is having too much money. If someone gave me a whole bunch of money, I'd be totally helpless.
Anuvver fing - when they do sumfing, they try to make it look like somfink else to confuse everybody. When one of them wants to lord it over the uvvers, 'e says "I'm very speshul so'z you gotta worship me", or "I know summink wot you lot don't know, so yer better lissen good". Da funny fing is, arf of 'em believe it and da over arf don't, so 'e 'as to hit 'em all anyway or run fer it.
My biggest weakness is never having read machiavelli.
The Battle Report Master wrote:i had a freind come round a few weeks ago to have a 40k apocalpocalpse game i was guards men he was space maines.... my first turn was 4 bonbaonbardlements... jacobs turn to he didnt have one i phased out.
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Tantras wrote: Logically speaking, that makes perfect sense and I understand and agree entirely... but is it RAW?
Mine are simple,I tend to try to be the center of attention at any public gathering,I can be very self absorbed,I tend to quickly dismiss others opinions if they don't jibe with mine and I have a vicious temper...but i'm working on all of them.
I am both selfish and chaotic. I value self-gratification and control; I want to have things my way, preferably now. At best, I'm entertaining and surprising; at worst, I'm hedonistic and violent.
I like to know what people think about me, but in the long run the only person who has any say in my life is me. Pretty much sums it up metaphorically.
Machiavelli can't touch these jangly bells, my shoes are just too pointy.
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I get paid too much for doing too little. Hell, most of my job consists of posting here, reading, and the occasional pull off a bottle of vodka and Gatorade. Oh, and working out with my clients when I actually have them. Not often these days, due to the economy.
Also, arrogance.
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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
Cheese Elemental wrote:
I'm stubborn, too timid, I get angry too easily, I don't think before I speak, and I'm socially awkward.
How do those exist at a same time? split personality?
It differs a bit. I'm quite moody, sometimes I feel really depressed and get pissed at people who try to talk to me, and it differs depending on the circumstances. I usually say stupid things when I get into an argument about controversial issues like politics and crime.
People are like dice, a certain Frenchman said that. You throw yourself in the direction of your own choosing. People are free because they can do that. Everyone's circumstances are different, but no matter how small the choice, at the very least, you can throw yourself. It's not chance or fate. It's the choice you made.
Arrogant belief in weight of own opinion.
I hate and I do mean hate being told what to do (if I want to know I will ask!)
Apathy about almost everything, particularly work.
Kryptonite.
Short attention sp…………
This though the belief in my own opinion comes from going to school 12-18 year old's are the stupidest people on this planet
and i can focus for extremely periods of time on my "project" or the current thing i am working on or consider the most impotent ( it could be models, research, writing a program etc.).
H.B.M.C. wrote:
"Balance, playtesting - a casual gamer craves not these things!" - Yoda, a casual gamer.
Three things matter in marksmanship -
location, location, location
MagickalMemories wrote:How about making another fist?
One can be, "Da Fist uv Mork" and the second can be, "Da Uvver Fist uv Mork."
Make a third, and it can be, "Da Uvver Uvver Fist uv Mork"
Eric
I have a habit of going off a tangent when a new idea pops into my head when I'm talking, I don't care what people think of me (mostly. gives off an air of arrogance.)
I procrastinate simply because I feel like it, I will say, and to someone's face, how much I hate them at any given moment. My sense of humor is incredibly sophmoric, and I lie alot.
I noticed that I have a tendency to wander a bit when I'm writing. It really sucks when I'm writing an essay for school, because my mind drifts into a semi-high state and I end up going into a completely different topic. I once managed to turn an essay from a masterpiece on why we need to preserve Tasmania's coastline to my personal experiences with a gummy shark.
People are like dice, a certain Frenchman said that. You throw yourself in the direction of your own choosing. People are free because they can do that. Everyone's circumstances are different, but no matter how small the choice, at the very least, you can throw yourself. It's not chance or fate. It's the choice you made.
I absolutely cannot let something pass if I know it's wrong. This used to be a problem in the real world, because the social rules out there are different - you generally don't get far telling your boss he's wrong in the middle of a meeting, and a friend who's just venting doesn't really want to be interrupted to hear that he was wrong. Now I'm much better at letting things pass in the real world, and I let out all on the internet instead.
Orkestra wrote:My biggest weakness is never having read machiavelli.
It isn't that great. The universal reaction is pretty much 'that's it?' It isn't that shocking, or that inciteful. But it is quite short, you can read it in one sitting. So for a few hours invested you get to say 'I've read The Prince' for the rest of your life.
“We may observe that the government in a civilized country is much more expensive than in a barbarous one; and when we say that one government is more expensive than another, it is the same as if we said that that one country is farther advanced in improvement than another. To say that the government is expensive and the people not oppressed is to say that the people are rich.”
Adam Smith, who must have been some kind of leftie or something.
And so, due to rising costs of maintaining the Golden Throne, the Emperor's finest accountants spoke to the Demigurg. A deal was forged in blood and extensive paperwork for a sub-prime mortgage with a 5/1 ARM on the Imperial Palace. And lo, in the following years the housing market did tumble and the rate skyrocketed leaving the Emperor's coffers bare. A dark time has begun for the Imperium, the tithes can not keep up with the balloon payments and the Imperial Palace and its contents, including the Golden Throne, have fallen into foreclosure. With an impending auction on the horizon mankind holds its breath as it waits to see who will gain possession of the corpse-god and thus, the fate of humanity......
I say what I think, I perv (who doesn't), I procrastinate, and I have very harsh backlashes on people who try and convert me to their religion. I get mean.
Jimi supports METAL
We're outnumbered ten to one here. Still' I love the odds! - Free Will Sacrifice - Amon Amarth
Ketara wrote:To survive on the net requires that you adapt the attributes of a Rhinocerous to a certain extent. A thick skin, a big horn to stab people you don't like, and poor eyesight when certain images are linked from places like 4chan.
Suffused with the dying memories of Sanguinus, the warriors of the Death Company seek only one thing: death in battle fighting against the enemies of the Emperor. 
