Confessions of Atlas

[morgankingsley]

I have 53 tabs open right now

[Starry Eyed Jagaloon]

I have 53 tabs open right now

You monster

[Orwell]

I cried at the end of Michigan v. Michigan State when Michigan's punter fumbled in 2015, I cried when they ruled J.T. Barrett run as a first down in 2016 in Michigan v. Ohio State.

But onto something more serious, my biggest fear is being stupid. Like I don't really have a lot going for me, but the one thing I have always been able to fall back onto is being smarter than most people, but I have an awful work ethic, and I have had lackluster grades, this is something I really need to work on fixing, but my largest fear outside of death, aging, and dementia is it being found out that I'm actually average or below-average intelligence because much of what I am built around is knowing things, I have nightmares about people who are smarter then me showing me up. Like I accept there sure are people that are smarter than me, not just on this forum but in life, but the biggest problem I have is that if I am all of a sudden stupid, then I don't know what I have to do, because I am bad at talking to people, it's not like social anxiety or anything I just don't really understand on how to carry on a conversation with anyone. However, one of my goals is to work on my social interactions with people and try to calm down more because I am a very jumpy and movey person which. If anyone ever found out in my real life that Im actually just a stupid kid that uses being "smart" as a defense it would probably ruin me, because that's really who I am as a person at this point, but I don't really feel as if I am smart compared to the average person.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

I have 53 tabs open right now

Don’t take more than four if you don’t want to hallucinate an entire terrorist attack....oh wait you mean those kinda tabs.

[Dr. MB]

I haven’t seen a single full Star Wars movie.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

I haven’t seen a single full Star Wars movie.

Same.

[T'Chenka]

I haven’t seen a single full Star Wars movie.

If you ever decide to watch just one to say you did it, the two most worth watching are A New Hope (1977, originally titled Star Wars) and it's direct sequel The Empire Strikes Back (1980), which is considered the very best one by most.

[America Needs a 13-6 Progressive SCOTUS]

Back when I was 13 or so years old, I used to think eugenics was/could be good policy in some situations, including forced sterilizations and sometimes even forced abortions.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Back when I was 13 or so years old, I used to think eugenics was/could be good policy in some situations, including forced sterilizations and sometimes even forced abortions.

But now that you're 16 you reject such foolishness?

[America Needs a 13-6 Progressive SCOTUS]

Back when I was 13 or so years old, I used to think eugenics was/could be good policy in some situations, including forced sterilizations and sometimes even forced abortions.

But now that you're 16 you reject such foolishness?

No, I am 21 right now. And yes, I now know enough to understand that 13 year old me was wrong about this subject. Very very wrong.

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

[Libertas Vel Mors]

I have committed voter fraud before, and that is a major reason why I support increased electoral security (I voted using an absentee mail ballot, with permission from the owner of the ballot and only for generally downballot races, but still, illegal).

[Continential]

Back when I was 13 or so years old, I used to think eugenics was/could be good policy in some situations, including forced sterilizations and sometimes even forced abortions.

The only way eugenics could be good is for pedos

[Elcaspar]

I keep jumping between the different county maps that i am making, so i rarely ever finish one of them.

[morgankingsley]

I made a 9 hour long movie in 8th grade with a budget of 11 cents. I'll make a separate thread explaining the plot of it and events if you guys are interested

[Orwell]

I made a 9 hour long movie in 8th grade with a budget of 11 cents. I'll make a separate thread explaining the plot of it and events if you guys are interested

I'm intrigued it's probably better than God's and Generals

[GM Team Member and Senator WB]

I drunkenly heckled DragonForce in Toronto by yelling "Final Countdown" with a buddy between songs, and the singer called us "you c(younexttuesday)s" on the microphone amd said "we aren't playing The f___ing Final Countdown!"

It was a long time ago and I don't even know why we did it.

lol whenever I eventually go to one of their shows I'm gonna do that

also: I've listened to nothing but Dragonforce while making N U T updates the past month. I think downloading clone hero and their entire discography was either a mistake or a blessing idk which

[morgankingsley]

I had one of my co workers tell me they thought I was almost thirty. Bro if I was thirty I would be older than my f---ing boss

[T'Chenka]

I drunkenly heckled DragonForce in Toronto by yelling "Final Countdown" with a buddy between songs, and the singer called us "you c(younexttuesday)s" on the microphone amd said "we aren't playing The f___ing Final Countdown!"

It was a long time ago and I don't even know why we did it.

lol whenever I eventually go to one of their shows I'm gonna do that

also: I've listened to nothing but Dragonforce while making N U T updates the past month. I think downloading clone hero and their entire discography was either a mistake or a blessing idk which

The keyboardist is REALLY chill. Drummer seems like some average 40 year old Ebnglish pub dude. Herman is big and muscled, strong and silent. Sam seemed okay I guess, quite a drinker. Never saw / met the singer but maybe a diva? Only one that didn't come out to meet fans afterwards but thst could be for any number of reasons.

[Hammy]

I am too superstitious to change my sig, worried it will jinx it.

[Astatine]

When I was 13, I came out as gay to my only friend in school back then via message, hating myself for it, and the next day a friend of hers took her phone and read our chat history telling half of the Year I'm into boys. Sucked. Reactions were not too bad tho, could've been much worse.

My Georgian grandma doesn't know anything about politics, since I was 12 she kinda managed to get mail in ballots and urged me to vote for her cuz I know more than she does.

[Farmlands]

When I was 13, I came out as gay to my only friend in school back then via message, hating myself for it, and the next day a friend of hers took her phone and read our chat history telling half of the Year I'm into boys. Sucked. Reactions were not too bad tho, could've been much worse.

This is why I made sure to specifically wait until school was over for me before telling my best friend I was gay. Those things always spread like wildfire in that environment. Plus, I guess it helped that I wasn't really sure of it until the age of 16, when I was definitely more mature than at 13.

[Astatine]

When I was 13, I came out as gay to my only friend in school back then via message, hating myself for it, and the next day a friend of hers took her phone and read our chat history telling half of the Year I'm into boys. Sucked. Reactions were not too bad tho, could've been much worse.

This is why I made sure to specifically wait until school was over for me before telling my best friend I was gay. Those things always spread like wildfire in that environment. Plus, I guess it helped that I wasn't really sure of it until the age of 16, when I was definitely more mature than at 13.

I guess I was kinda early on, but at the age of 11 I already realized I was gay and just kept either avoiding the thought of it or pretending something that was just some malarkey (like "crushing on girls" with straight male teenie friends).

Was kinda relieving to tell it but after two years of constant anxieties this was a nightmare first, but actually, most people were quite chills with it. Quite ofc, not fully.

Another confession:
At age 15, a my English teacher assigned the boys to write a text about their dream girl and the girls to write a text about their dream boy. I wrote "I'm sorry, I couldn't do the homework because I'm gay" into my textbook and gave it to my teacher. Still have it at home somewhere.
Next day in class I she said I could have been "a little bit more flexible" to which I responded that if a maths teacher assigns me with calculating a saddle point of a function I couldn't just calculate the inflection point because I am not able to do the former.

The comparison is kinda mediocre, but what I heard from a younger friend who still goes to that school is that she has become more open and less heteronormative.
Like, it might be those little things like a homework who contribute to LGBT people questioning themselves (especially at that age) to be put in a role of "Just because you're a man, you have to like girls".

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

I wish the Soviet Union was around because I miss the supremacy of my Russian Slav people, especially over Europe.

[T'Chenka]

I wish the Soviet Union was around because I miss the supremacy of my Russian Slav people, especially over Europe.

Promoting stifling authoratarianism to own the Normans, Greco-Romans and Iberians.