The interesting trivia/facts about yourself thread

Discussion in 'Off Topic' started by PredatoR[HUN], Jun 4, 2012.

  1. Grantrithor

    Grantrithor Member

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    You can get the illusion by playing a game where your sprite is 1 pixel high and you shoot 1 pixel high bullets on a horizontal plane, you can only move left and right and 1 pixel high enemies come at you.
     
  2. flasche

    flasche Member Staff Member Moderator

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  3. McGyver

    McGyver Experimental Pedagogue

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    Haha, Wolfenstein 1D is hilarious!
     
  4. ViroMan

    ViroMan Black Hole (*sniff*) Bully

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    Suffers from a mild case of pyromania. (yay boyscouts.)
     
  6. ViroMan

    ViroMan Black Hole (*sniff*) Bully

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    I think it was best said in the movie Back Draft....
     
  7. Deadpool

    Deadpool SVETLANNNAAAAAA

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    compassion = empathy.... of which I have too much, and incidentally is the fundamental emotional basis of good acting, for all you actors out there.

    yes I skipped 3 pages cause words
     
  8. Trickster

    Trickster Retired Developer

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    Empathy is just about understanding someone else's emotions. You don't necessarily have to care.
     
  9. Grantrithor

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    So, if you can get angry, then you have some form of empathy, because you can fathom the idea of emotions.
     
  10. Candles

    Candles CAPTAIN CANDLES, DUN DUN DUN, DUN DUN DUN DUN.

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    No, because that's still your own emotions. The key to understanding empathy is that it is about how one relates to others on an emotional level, it has almost nothing to do with the self.

    If an emotion involves empathy, one way to look at it is to ask if a full-blown sociopath can feel it. If they can, then the emotion doesn't involve empathy and if they can't, chances are good it does involve empathy.
     
  11. Space_Oddity

    Space_Oddity The Shitstorm

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    Seriously though, empathy is understanding emotions which I corrected to compassion which means giving a fuck, essentially.
     
  12. flasche

    flasche Member Staff Member Moderator

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    empathy is not only about feelings but thoughts, intend and behavior too.
     
  13. FN198

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    It's not nearly as complex as you all describe it.

    Just understand where people are coming from and that's it.

    (in before imspartacus barges in and pisses autism all over 'where people are coming from')
     
  14. Ikalx

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    Yeah... compassion is about whether you care - i.e. how "kind" you are.

    Empathy is simply about comprehension. You can use it to torture someone or to help them, your choice.
     
  15. Candles

    Candles CAPTAIN CANDLES, DUN DUN DUN, DUN DUN DUN DUN.

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    Christ, you guys are terrible at this. Empathy is both understanding and comprehending someone elses feelings on a PERSONAL level. This goes beyond just making the connection that Person A feels bad because B happened. To have empathy implies the reciprocation of feels towards others. If someone is sad, you comfort them, if a person is happy, you're happy with them, generally not to the same degree as they are though.

    Compassion is a feeling of want to alleviate other peoples troubles that arises from strong feelings of empathy. Helping out a friend who needs some money, putting a person up for the night or taking someone to the hospital are all examples of compassion; active work to dissipate the suffering of others.

    Sociopaths by definition lack empathy and everything that comes with it. That includes compassion, guilt, remorse, sympathy and the like. Nonetheless, most of them CAN understand others feelings and use this to their own ends, but they lack the reciprocation part of empathy.
     
  16. LordDz_2

    LordDz_2 Strange things happens here

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    Want a hug Candles?
     
  17. WalMartGreeter

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    Fun Fact: I make more money than you. Get a real job.
     
  18. Trickster

    Trickster Retired Developer

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    Peasant says what?
     
  19. WalMartGreeter

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    British subject of peasantry says what to a 21st century monarchy?
     
  20. PredatoR[HUN]

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    What's your problem with peasants?
     

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