I don't?

As you know posting inappropriate and offending suggestions against other users is not allowed. Please refrain from doing so as it's against our CoC: https://support.gog.com/hc/en-us/articles/115001814049-Forum-Code-of-Conduct?product=gog. I'm forced to give you a kind warning.

Also I'd like to inform all of you that we are aware that Crevurre's behavior is often unpleasant and provocative. The appropriate meaningful consequences will be drawn.

Before you do so please cite the posts that are provocative and unpleasant in a DM, so I can match them with examples you don't moderate or count that I look over. If they're all reporting me and ignoring how unpleasant they are to me, and provocative, then it needs to be straightened out as a group of regular users targeting me. Groups of users shouldn't be allowed to harass single users and get away with it, when the user is distressed by it.

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that might be a more practical way of seeing those events. it is all a learning process of course.

to be honest though, i do not feel very comfortable proceeding on this topic with the likes of Crevurre around. It is a sad truth of the world we live in, right?

With that said, i do like to express my wish about your well faring in the choices that await you

Godspeed

Generally a successful failure means you failed at your main aim, but gained a side benefit, that may indeed help you to be more successful in the future. Sometimes things can be looked at too black and white, when usually there are many shades of gray.

We advance through life learning from both our successes and failures in any case. That is what growth is all about.

At some point you have to face the end result of where you are heading, and decide if that's enough for you, or where you need grab some courage and push a few boundaries to improve your lot in life.

Or you can stay safely secure in a padded room, much like they might give you in a mental institution, to abrogate all risk of self harm ... perhaps even in a straight-jacket.

In any case, the choice is yours, and you are the captain of your ship.

I suggest you engage in some bravery and engage with life in a more meaningful manner. Don't succumb to your fears.

There are challenges but also rewards to no longer sitting on the fence.

P.S. Crevurre is a troubled soul, so best we ignore him until he shows consideration for others.

Zimerius, well thanks for the encouragement in any case, and I hope he doesn't prevent you from wanting to post again. I'm glad to see this conversation has picked up again.

Timboli, well I hadn't thought of it like that, meaning that I didn't realize that was the intended meaning of "successful failure", but that makes sense now. And in theory I agree all about trying things, and that's what I'm wanting to do actually, but as for taking risks, any risk that I ever took in my life always invariably blew up in my face, so I kept taking fewer and smaller risks, but even those somehow all went wrong, until I just stopped taking risks completely, because why would I want to cause more problems for myself? I certainly have enough of those already.

EDIT: Sarafan, I'm sorry if you don't like that sort of language (though it is technically just a type of animal and he was asking for it by blatantly saying that he wanted to close this topic), but I'll follow the rules and be polite, which by the way, I usually try to do anyway, but what he said was an insult to all of us.

Fair enough, but remember that as one ages the chance/opportunity to do certain things decreases......so each of us has a choice: either miss out on various things and then possibly regret said choices later on, or take a chance** on some things and see what comes of that.

That said, as always: above all else, live your life in a way you feel comfortable with :)

(**I mean reasonable sounding things, like going out a bit more...not like say becoming stunt performer or etc)

I hear ya on this.....I have some of my own mental issues/etc as well, which I have to work on daily.

That user's comment aside, i've seen that "trend" on the forums that they spoke of.....i.e. some similar users entering various threads and trolling/derailing them until they get shut down. Tis a bit annoying/bothersome, sometimes.

Well I don't know you, and only you or someone close enough to you can be objective enough to have some idea what went wrong all those times. Murphy and Gremlins are indeed a bugger though, but despite them I try to carry on, and don't let them dictate to me.

Of course, it is always important to analyse what went wrong, and if you can use any knowledge of that as a basis to try again.

I am reminded of the guy who asks 50 women out, and all but the 50th one said NO. Getting 49 refusals tempers your confidence and of course for many guys they give up long before they get to 50. If you stay resolute though, then that final YES can be well worth it.

As they say in one of my favorite movies, Galaxy Quest .... Never Give Up! Never Surrender!

GamezRanker, what do you mean by opportunities decreasing with age?

Timboli, well that's inspirational I suppose, but I've always found that nothing has ever gone right for me in my life, and tempting fate always makes it worse. I really don't understand why this is, because I don't believe in luck, other than if it's defined as synonymous with chance, and the odds have somehow gone horribly wrong in every endeavor, WAY more than they ever should have. EDIT: But that doesn't mean that I don't appreciate your advice, or that I don't think it's good.

No worries, I hope you find a way through your dilemma.
It might be helpful to re-read what I and some others have said, and especially to re-consider, that sometimes you can be your own worst enemy.

In my experience, some people are very lucky and others are damn unlucky, and a whole lot of us vary somewhere between. And sometimes it is just about the absence of luck, good or bad. Some say you make your own luck, but I have certainly never discovered how. You can maybe alter the odds, but I find that many have a wrong interpretation when it comes to odds, and too many seemingly rely upon them. There is always a lot of unknowns when it comes to odds, but most folk like things neat and tidy.

I guess I do rely on odds a lot, because in the face of uncertainty, all you really can rely on is probability. Also, I'm very mathematical in my thinking, in general. But yes, I do like things neat and tidy whenever possible.