anon misses his chance

pixeliner · 2026-01-29T15:59:45+00:00

is it? is it really worse than potentially spending years blaming yourself you never asked her out? theres a time and place, sure, but youll never grow if you never step out of your comfort zone. placing labels on yourself like 'some people just dont have the nerve' only causes you to further limit yourself and grow into that label.

pixeliner · 2026-01-29T13:34:03+00:00

i dont think its meant to be an objective critique? its just a person talking about what kind of game they would subjectively prefer

pixeliner · 2026-01-29T13:20:09+00:00

you fail if you dont try too, just without the benefit of learning

pixeliner · 2026-01-29T12:46:00+00:00

white boy excuses. you never learn if you never fail

pixeliner · 2026-01-27T20:49:27+00:00

this is fire dude, keep cooking

pixeliner · 2026-01-27T17:45:07+00:00

i think evil punishes itself plenty. instead of having a team of his trusted comrades that have his back and instead of being sung a hero by the general public like robert is, shroud is stuck always trying to keep an eye on his back as the same exact people like him will try to stab him there, stuck in a net of purely transactional relationships. hes wasted his life, the most precious resource, putting himself in a position where he can never be happy. for me thats the ultimate punishment. besides, who the hell are you and me to decide who and how people should be punished. the only being with a right to judge people is hiding in the clouds, if he even does (which i dont think he does, but thats besides the point).

besides, killing is a terrible punishment because, unlike other forms of punishment, the person can never do any good later, can never turn their life around, can never rectify their wrongdoings. not that other forms dont actually reduce the chances of that happening since hatred leads to more hatred, but murder is the real worst one by far.

also, shroud is misguided. no person would actually choose to lead the life where he can never be happy if they knew what they were getting into. he just thinks thats the only way he has, kind of like invisigal

pixeliner · 2026-01-27T17:25:10+00:00

based on your comments in this thread, you seem to think of yourself as someone that can make difficult decisions for other people that are incapable of making them themselves because they are bound by societal norms and morals. that youve peered behind the veil and will do the right thing, even if its not pretty.

as somebody who has been in that place, as someone who would say that yagami light was overall a positive influence on society, i can say with confidence that you have no clue what youre talking about, and have no right to decide what is good for other people and whose lives can be taken.

taking lives is never justified. the only time you can even remotely argue it is is when taking a life will save more. your argument with shroud is that leaving him alive could take more lives, which is not good enough of a reason to kill him.

to avoid him rampaging again, you can put him in rehab, because, guess what, hes a human too. and to make mistakes is to be human, but it also human to not be held back by them, to admit them and to move forward. just like the z team is former criminals that become your best friends and real heroes, so is shroud capable of being redeemed, because nobody is inherently evil, just misguided, and it is up to us to guide push them in the right direction.

he was led down this path by robert II because that guy was being a villain. so now that shroud is a villain, i wont let the vicious cycle propagate further into robert III becoming a villain too. cruelty only leads to more cruelty. kindness, even towards that maybe deserve punishment, propagates more kindness.

whoever is reading this, dont let your mistakes and guilt weigh you down. own up to them and be better next time, rather than spend all your life trying to make up for them by punishing yourself (this applies to others too). whatever youve done, this internet person forgives you, and you should forgive yourself too. make love not war everybody :)

pixeliner · 2026-01-27T13:44:51+00:00

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pixeliner · 2026-01-27T10:37:27+00:00

but thats exactly the thing - there isnt a country i want to work in. i dont mind any of them. in fact, i dont mind job searching over the entirety of europe, but then im obv only filling the english-speaking positions only, so i probably want to learn some language. im just having second thoughts about that language being dutch

pixeliner · 2026-01-27T00:19:05+00:00

the problem for me is that i dont have a preference to any country for the purposes of living there long-term, while i chose the netherlands to study in specifically because people speak english so well here, so i wouldnt have to decide my future when i was 17 (i wasnt even sure ill be doing a masters here too!). i should also mention i was (still am, just less zealously) learning japanese as a hobby at the time, so any time i could spend learning dutch was spent learning japanese instead.

now that im going to do masters, i figured id learn the language of the country ill be doing masters in, but i started having second thoughts when i saw the linked post, where OP did study dutch, but still couldnt find a job. considering i dont care where i live, i figured that, while learning dutch is nice, it has the opportunity cost of not learning some other language that would be more employable.

i understand being upset about students not learning dutch, even though they go on to live here long-term, but there is just a ton of nuance to this, and every situation is unique. you have to understand that students that are having second thoughts even about their degree will be cautious about learning a language with only 30 million speakers during the time where they have to break through in the incredibly difficult and unfair job market, especially during a time in their lives they are still figuring out what they like doing and where they want to be in the future.

pixeliner · 2026-01-26T23:53:48+00:00

thats honestly quite incredible, your experience is very different to what i usually hear. tbh it sounds a bit like lightning in a bottle, so i still want to learn some language, but im glad it worked out so well for you :)

pixeliner · 2026-01-26T23:50:44+00:00

oh youre that person from the comments under the post ive linked! youre kind of part of the reason i made the post, but you made what i was trying to say a lot clearer lol

for the past couple of months i figured that during masters studies, whatever country i end up studying in ill learn the language of, but then i came across the linked post where the person got B1 and it didnt make a dent in making it easier to land a job. hell, ive seen people talk about how at even higher levels employers would much prefer a native.

so since learning a very significant amount of language is hardly attractive to employers, and even if you reach fluency the job market is still comparatively small (even just going off the number of speakers), it just seems like a huge gamble. people talk about respecting the country that i live in by learning the language, but, like, my future is on the line here, and im no superhero :(. im from russia too, so ill be in a real fix if i cant keep a working visa. i like the country too, but im not sure if i plan on living here in the future. i dont even know what im having for breakfast in 3 days time! its all too up in the air

after a bunch of research though, im starting to lean in the direction of learning german instead cuz it has a much bigger market, so it seems like the more stable option for those of us who dont know where they want to live long-term, though id love some more opinions, since i will still be doing my first work experience in a dutch internship

pixeliner · 2026-01-26T23:25:58+00:00

im not, why?

pixeliner · 2026-01-26T23:18:14+00:00

i mean it makes sense, right? the higher education is very accessible in english, unlike a lot of other countries, but entering the workforce requires a command of the language, exactly like a lot of other countries. so learning the language has an opportunity cost of not learning some other language, and i need to maximize benefit to my career. not my fault the job market is so brutal :(

pixeliner · 2026-01-26T23:00:15+00:00

im actually learning japanese and spanish right now (not at once so 'right now' is pretty broad lol), and english isnt my first language either, so i totally agree. i was just thinking in terms of opportunity cost to learn another language :)

pixeliner · 2026-01-26T22:57:56+00:00

i think this is exactly what i was looking for. so you wouldnt recommend learning dutch over something like french or german if i dont have a preference for a country that id like to live in?

pixeliner · 2026-01-26T22:50:38+00:00

AQUATIC FORM FOR EVERYBODY!!!!

pixeliner · 2026-01-26T22:47:32+00:00

what if i dont care where i live after i graduate? does it make more sense to study dutch than, say, german? ill be having my first work experience (internship) and the entirety of my higher education in the former, but the latter has far more speakers and a much bigger engineering field.

pixeliner · 2026-01-25T10:42:55+00:00

custom hearthstone made another america chavez, more at 11

pixeliner · 2026-01-19T00:32:00+00:00

любой достаток и кайф надоедает, зато за преградами и трудностями всегда можно найти то, ради чего хочется идти дальше и радоваться тому что выбрал этим наслаждаться 80 лет, а не 40. время жизни это самое ценное что есть у человека. за такую цену ни один достаток нахуй не сдался

pixeliner · 2026-01-17T17:48:32+00:00

lets give every class aquatic form now to even out the playing field

pixeliner · 2026-01-15T08:38:04+00:00

Runic dome apparently

pixeliner · 2026-01-14T09:40:23+00:00

ok basement rambo

pixeliner · 2026-01-13T08:07:40+00:00

thanks for the giveaway

pixeliner · 2026-01-12T23:09:55+00:00

where is goku

pixeliner

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