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Competition Rules 1. Must be hand drawn, either on paper or in a program. It can then be manipulated in an graphics program. But unoriginal artwork cannot be used as the main focus. Copyrighted images cannot be used. All pieces containing copyrighted images will be disqualified. 2. Submissions must follow the current theme that has been chosen by a moderator for that week. If you submit more than one piece, please clarify which one you would like to be judged. 3. If your image is larger than 600 pixels wide, please provide a link to the image instead of posting it in the forum. Otherwise, the image will be cut off. 4. Artists cannot win in subsequent weeks. You can still submit, but if you won the week before, you cannot get first place again the next week. 5. After the deadline, a moderator will pick the winner, and they will be awarded a 25 AP award.
If someones just crying, I've found (through at least 10 experiences) they they act drastically when you try to support or condole them, and have acted overall negatively towards me, and they had just been crying. I saw no phone, and nothing to read....so yeah, I tend not to do that anymore :P
I think it is mainly because a show of emotion in such a public place is not really something that you want to admit to. Crying is very personal. When someone tries to comfort you for it, they are seeing you in this weakened state, and might receive an over-aggressive response trying to make up for the lack of defense. People don't like being that open to people that they don't know. We all have our defenses up.
Especially with technology, it brings us even further away from other people. It is easier to communicate with someone when you can't see them. It is a very impersonal way to communicate. Closing that gap could be hard for some people.
Or at least that is my psychoanalytical view of it... lol.
People don't like being that open to people that they don't know.
Moving this beyond the specific scenario of a person crying, I see the main sociological driver of the phenomenon in this discussion to be the breakdown of community spirit in the global pursuit of individualism.
The next thing we should note is that there are things that we have clearly asserted is, loosely speaking, natural and that which is unnatural.
Hmm I wasn't in the first place I suppose,since humanity is a self-destructive race that does nothing but bicker and argue instead of actually getting things done.You know when I created the theme I didn't expect it to help create a discussion within the thread about modern society.If I get to become full time judge I already have an idea what the next them could be though...
*raises hand* oo! oo! Speciesism? War? Human interaction?
well if hypothetically I were to get elected as judge then I wouldn't want to give it away,although I may change my mind on this.Who knows lets see what happens.
PICKING NEW THEME, SINCE THE PEOPLE WHO WANTED TO JUDGE ARE LAZY BUTTS WHEN IT COMES TO EITHER DECIDING OR WHAT NOT.
I never got to think up a proper theme (just took the first thing there, because we needed one), so because we need one again: THEME: Dungeons and Dragons!!! DEADLINE: Friday the 13...n No, Monday the 16th, which is a week from now. JUDGE: I have apsolutely no idea, but haHA! to them:P
Sorry, but we are trying. As it was before, people wanted Zophia, but now she has not had one single vote. So just vote, and we will have a judge on Monday. Just be happy there is a theme now, right? And let Klaus judge, because he was annoying enough to think non of the nominees are good enough, so let him prove his worth.
And...umm...what is Dungeons and Dragons....
DnD = role playing game, rather old and cool. DnD Or just draw a dungeon with dragons. It does not have to be the rpg. Or else I would have picked WoD.
But Klaus...what if I want to Judge? Lets vote on it...
Well, since no one is really being definite about judging here, I will step in and give you guys a judging direction for the time being, if you so choose.
Dungeons and Dragons: will be judged by Klaushouse on Monday
Next judge will be Kingryan, who will pick the next topic and due date once the current competition is over.
In the meantime, everyone should go vote in the voting thread, and whoever wins that will take over once Klaushouse and kingryan have finished judging.
I'm betting people would probably be more familiar with Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale than the board game. I don't think most are old enough to know exactly what it is (or even the two video games I mentioned), save maybe the alignment system and maybe THAC0.
