The Official Thread of Relationships

[Silverblade5 he/him]

36 minutes ago, Arraenae said:

Not yet. Person A is one of my classes, so I have easy access to them to ask for more info, if they still remember/are willing to tell me. I also might be able to learn who Person B was -- they already told me but I forgot.

Depending on how Snapchat works, the original video might still be on the original recorder's phone. That's an obvious piece of evidence. I've also found an online roster of the JV team (don't know how accurate it is, though) that shows who on the team is a freshman.

The online roster has a sophomore with a name that might be of Person C, but I'm not sure because it doesn't have a photo. The online roster of last year also had someone with the same first name, but different last name. Again, no photo. If I send in an anonymous tip, it has to be in writing and needs to have the right name on it. Shouldn't be too hard to find the spelling of Person C's name if I ask at school, though.

Are there any freshmen on the team that you know of that might make an easy target? Weird name, slow, socially awkward, ugly, bad performance, little athletic ability, week, anything like that?

[marsoupial they/them]

32 minutes ago, Silverblade5 said:

Are there any freshmen on the team that you know of that might make an easy target? Weird name, slow, socially awkward, ugly, bad performance, little athletic ability, week, anything like that?

Gay? Effeminate? Scrawny?

[Silverblade5 he/him]

37 minutes ago, bleeder said:

Gay? Effeminate? Scrawny?

• Acceptable Ethnic Targets (mockery of physical appearance or other inborn qualities)
• Acceptable Hard Luck Targets (mockery of people who tend to play the Butt Monkey)
• Acceptable Hobby Targets (mockery of... well, hobbies)
• Acceptable Lifestyle Targets (a catchall category for the targets we couldn't fit anywhere else)
• Acceptable Political Targets (mockery of civic ideologies)
• Acceptable Professional Targets (mockery of doing what you have to do every day in order to keep on living)
• Acceptable Religious Targets (mockery of the Supreme Being one does - or doesn't - believe in)

[Oversleep]

Storming Almighty, @Silverblade5, dropping eight links to TVTropes like it was nothing? No warning, no... anything.

*Sigh* I'll be back in six hours.

[Silverblade5 he/him]

1 minute ago, Oversleep said:

Storming Almighty, @Silverblade5, dropping eight links to TVTropes like it was nothing? No warning, no... anything.

*Sigh* I'll be back in six hours.

Oops. Did I forget to remove formatting? 

[Arraenae]

I don't know any of the freshman on the football team. I really only know abou this because I know a people who know people on the football team.

There's one girl on the team, but she's a sophomore. Not sure if that would be an issue for her.

[marsoupial they/them]

OK, so to add to my list of boyfriend woes...

Spoiler

When I first moved to where I live now, I made fast friends with a boy named T-----. He was nice enough, and our families became close. We still meet up once a month or so for supper. And he and I still go to school together. 

Recently, I learned that he has begun to develop feelings for yours truly. Which terrified me and sent me into a corner shivering for 20 minutes or so last night. 

I've only ever thought of this guy as my friend, and now he's into me? Like... what???

I'm still trying to find my perfect guy, and I'm rather sure that this guy isn't him. 

But should I give him a chance, or...? 

 

[Turbonator]

Well, @bleeder, give Mr. T a chance. Then dump him. Repeat as necessary.

I'm not good at this relationship stuff. Maybe someone else should give you advice.

Wait, how did I end up here?

[marsoupial they/them]

Just now, Turbonator said:

Wait, how did I end up here?

Time travel.

[Turbonator]

2 minutes ago, bleeder said:

Time travel.

Ah. It all makes sense now!

About your problem, I really do advise giving him a chance. What can go wrong? (That's a rhetorical question).

At worst, you'll discover a sudden hatred of him. Some other member would be better qualified to tell you what to do next, though.

Maybe bring a friend for reinforcement.

[marsoupial they/them]

Just now, Turbonator said:

Ah. It all makes sense now!

About your problem, I really do advise giving him a chance. What can go wrong? (That's a rhetorical question).

At worst, you'll discover a sudden hatred of him. Some other member would be better qualified to tell you what to do next, though.

Maybe bring a friend for reinforcement.

Perhaps. I think my fear is making things weird if it doesn't work out. 

I know that I don't reciprocate his feelings, so I'm just gonna talk to him about it, tell him how I feel, and stuff. 

There aren't many gay/bi guys around, but I don't want to settle for a relationship that I don't want.

Thanks anyway, Turb.

And can you explain to me how time travel makes sense at all?  

I've watched all of Doctor Who, and countless other time travel books and movies have been consumed by me, but it still makes my head hurt.

Oh well. 

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

5 hours ago, bleeder said:

Perhaps. I think my fear is making things weird if it doesn't work out. 

I know that I don't reciprocate his feelings, so I'm just gonna talk to him about it, tell him how I feel, and stuff. 

There aren't many gay/bi guys around, but I don't want to settle for a relationship that I don't want.

Thanks anyway, Turb.

And can you explain to me how time travel makes sense at all?  

I've watched all of Doctor Who, and countless other time travel books and movies have been consumed by me, but it still makes my head hurt.

Oh well. 

Yep, do exactly that! Tell him how you feel. Oh, and I'm not sure if you should call Turbinator Turb. It's bears an uncanny resemblance to another word I know.

As for time travel....*coughs* *wrings his hands*....I think you came to the right place.

Realistically, lets put it this way. Time travel means moving through two points in time. Alot of theories have been made to see if it is indeed possible, however most scientists believe it is either impossible, or doing so would be fatal to humans. Think of a temporal rupture, or a historical splinch XD

Well. Alot of people think that time is constant, but then Einstein came along and proved us wrong, showing that time is an illusion and that it is in fact, relative, it varies for every observer depending on how fast you are travelling through space. To Einstein, Time is the "fourth dimension" the first three being in space,such as width, length, height. But time brings a new dimension, "direction", which happens to conveniently only  go forward. Einstien's theory of specia relativity states that time speeds up or slows down relative to how fast you are moving to something else.Approaching the speed of light, a person inside a spaceship would age much slower than his twin at home. His theory of general relativity states that gravity can bend time.

Picture a four-dimensional fabric called space-time. When anything that has mass sits on that piece of fabric, it causes a dimple or a bending of space-time. The bending of space-time causes objects to move on a curved path and that curvature of space is what we know as gravity. Both of these theories have been proven with GPS satellite technology that has very accurate timepieces on board. The effects of gravity, as well as the satellites' increased speed above the Earth relative to observers on the ground, make the unadjusted clocks gain 38 microseconds a day. (Engineers make calibrations to account for the difference.) Using this sense, astronauts are time-travelers as they return to Earth slightly younger than their twin.

Now, to the theories on how it may be done. First up is "Wormholes"

General Relativity shows that it could allow travellers to go back in time, however it has been considered physically impossible. One way is to go faster than light, however that is said to be impossible. Another is to create wormholes between two points in space-time. These are entirely possible, but today's tech desn't allow us to create them. Wormholes can exist naturally, but they are unstable and collapse quickly, only suitable for small particles, however, we still need to observe these wormholes.

Infinite cylinder

Astronomer Frank Tipler proposed a mechanism (sometimes known as aTipler Cylinder) where one would take matter that is 10 times the sun's mass, then roll it into very long but very dense cylinder.

After spinning this up a few billion revolutions per minute, a spaceship nearby — following a very precise spiral around this cylinder — could get itself on a "closed, time-like curve", according to the Anderson Institute. There are limitations with this method, however, including the fact that the cylinder needs to be infinitely long for this to work.

Black holes

Another possibility would be to move a ship rapidly around a black hole, or to artificially create that condition with a huge, rotating structure. This is what Stephen Hawkings supports.

"Around and around they'd go, experiencing just half the time of everyone far away from the black hole. The ship and its crew would be traveling through time," physicist Stephen Hawking wrote in the Daily Mail in 2010.

"Imagine they circled the black hole for five of their years. Ten years would pass elsewhere. When they got home, everyone on Earth would have aged five years more than they had."

However, he added, the crew would need to travel around the speed of light for this to work. Another limitation is that if you used a machine, it may break down before you hit lightspeed.

Cosmic strings

Another theory for potential time travelers involves something called cosmic strings — narrow tubes of energy stretched across the entire length of the ever-expanding universe. These thin regions, left over from the early cosmos, are predicted to contain huge amounts of mass and therefore could warp the space-time around them.

Cosmic strings are either infinite or they’re in loops, with no ends, scientists say. The approach of two such strings parallel to each other would bend space-time so vigorously and in such a particular configuration that might make time travel possible, in theory.

Ok, finally we come to Time Machines

It's generally understood that you would need a machine to go back in time.Time machine research often involves bending space-time so far that time lines turn back on themselves to form a loop, technically known as a "closed time-like curve". But to accomplish this, one would need a form of matter known as "negative energy density". But this form of matter has strange properties, including moving the opposite direction when pushed.Such matter could theoretically exist, but if it did, it might be present only in quantities too small for the construction of a time machine.

However, time-travel research suggests time machines may be made without the exotic matter. The work begins with a doughnut-shaped hole enveloped within a sphere of normal matter. Inside this doughnut-shaped vacuum, space-time could get bent upon itself using focused gravitational fields to form a closed time-like curve. To go back in time, a traveler would race around inside the doughnut, going further back into the past with each lap. This theory has a number of obstacles, however. The gravitational fields required to make such a closed time-like curve would have to be very strong, and manipulating them would have to be very precise.

All of these have their own problems, but the general ones include the Grandfather paradox, related to the butterfly effect. 

Also, humans may not be able to withstand time travel at all. Traveling nearly the speed of light would only take a centrifuge, but that would be lethal. Using gravity would also be deadly. To experience time dilation, one could stand on a neutron star, but the forces a person would experience would rip you apart first.

That help?

[PantsForSquares he/him]

18 minutes ago, Darkness Ascendant said:

To experience time dilation, one could stand on a neutron star, but the forces a person would experience would rip you apart first.

For reference, dropping a marshmellow from 10m above a neutron star's surface generates the same amount of energy as a nuclear bomb (at least, if my math checks out). You'd get torn apart incredibly painfully when trying to approach.

And, to make things even worse, there's a neutron star spinning so fast, the linear velocity of its rotation is 0.24c.

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

2 minutes ago, PantsForSquares said:

For reference, dropping a marshmellow from 10m above a neutron star's surface generates the same amount of energy as a nuclear bomb (at least, if my math checks out). You'd get torn apart incredibly painfully when trying to approach.

And, to make things even worse, there's a neutron star spinning so fast, the linear velocity of its rotation is 0.24c.

What do you study again? I want to be a quantum physicist when I grow up.

[Mistrunner]

18 hours ago, bleeder said:

OK, so to add to my list of boyfriend woes...

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When I first moved to where I live now, I made fast friends with a boy named T-----. He was nice enough, and our families became close. We still meet up once a month or so for supper. And he and I still go to school together. 

Recently, I learned that he has begun to develop feelings for yours truly. Which terrified me and sent me into a corner shivering for 20 minutes or so last night. 

I've only ever thought of this guy as my friend, and now he's into me? Like... what???

I'm still trying to find my perfect guy, and I'm rather sure that this guy isn't him. 

But should I give him a chance, or...? 

 

My advice is "run away from all potential relationships screaming until you're thirty," but I realize I'm probably in the minority with that opinion.

In all seriousness, romantic relationships really aren't necessary or practical at this point. They tend to make things overly complicated and drama will often ensue. *shudders* Focusing on creating friendships for now is much more sustainable.

Speaking of such, I'm caught in the middle of a square of sadness. Obnoxious high school drama below. Be ye warned.

Two people I know who shall be referred to as M and T were a couple for a while last year. This summer he broke up with her. It was all very dramatic. Remember Lunch Girl? Somewhat soon after M and T broke up, M and Lunch Girl got together. Now Lunch Girl hates T, T demonizes Lunch Girl and M, and M dislikes T.  I normally wouldn't care less, except for the fact that I try to be friends to them all. I, apparently having the infamous "tell me all your secrets" face, have been vented to by all of them and it's kinda terrible. None of them are bad people. They don't understand that, though.

Besides that, all three share a dislike for a pair of twins that I happen to be on really good terms with. They can come across as a little rude, but they're really just joking around.

Everybody's human, nobody's perfect. Y'all are nearly adults. Act like it. Talk to each other to work out your differences, not me. I'm not going to cut ties with someone I enjoy spending time with just because you don't like 'em. I don't want to have to work around your unreasonable grudges. So help me, you will not drag me into this.

[/vaguely incoherent rant]

[PantsForSquares he/him]

28 minutes ago, Darkness Ascendant said:

What do you study again? I want to be a quantum physicist when I grow up.

I'm studying chemical engineering, but I also like physics. I've taken my college physics classes (which are a requirement for the fluid dynamics course I have to take further down the road)

18 minutes ago, Mistrunner said:

Talk to each other to work out your differences, not me.

This is primarily the reason why I avoided relationships in high school. Honestly, most high schoolers aren't going to handle breakups/rejection particularly well, and proper communication is absolutely key (and isn't a skill most high schoolers have) to not ending up with a giant drama llama looming over everyone's shoulders. And drama is never, ever fun. It's neither an intact nor burned bridge; it's more like a frayed rope bridge, waiting for the slightest disturbance before catastrophically falling apart.

[marsoupial they/them]

6 hours ago, Darkness Ascendant said:

Yep, do exactly that! Tell him how you feel. Oh, and I'm not sure if you should call Turbinator Turb. It's bears an uncanny resemblance to another word I know.

As for time travel....*coughs* *wrings his hands*....I think you came to the right place.

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That help?

*sigh*

This is why I Shard, guys. 

[Delightful]

7 hours ago, PantsForSquares said:

I'm studying chemical engineering, but I also like physics. I've taken my college physics classes (which are a requirement for the fluid dynamics course I have to take further down the road)

This is primarily the reason why I avoided relationships in high school. Honestly, most high schoolers aren't going to handle breakups/rejection particularly well, and proper communication is absolutely key (and isn't a skill most high schoolers have) to not ending up with a giant drama llama looming over everyone's shoulders. And drama is never, ever fun. It's neither an intact nor burned bridge; it's more like a frayed rope bridge, waiting for the slightest disturbance before catastrophically falling apart.

Upvote for drama llama. 

Id attempt to give advice bleeder but I'm kind of exhausted. Honesty and kindness are always good fallbacks though. 

[Eccentric Hero he/him]

8 hours ago, Darkness Ascendant said:

Yep, do exactly that! Tell him how you feel. Oh, and I'm not sure if you should call Turbinator Turb. It's bears an uncanny resemblance to another word I know.

As for time travel....*coughs* *wrings his hands*....I think you came to the right place.

Realistically, lets put it this way. Time travel means moving through two points in time. Alot of theories have been made to see if it is indeed possible, however most scientists believe it is either impossible, or doing so would be fatal to humans. Think of a temporal rupture, or a historical splinch XD

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That help?

Thank you. I'm sure this will help me in the DA competition. I'm thinking of going in as an independent researcher.

8 hours ago, Mistrunner said:

My advice is "run away from all potential relationships screaming until you're thirty," but I realize I'm probably in the minority with that opinion.

In all seriousness, romantic relationships really aren't necessary or practical at this point. They tend to make things overly complicated and drama will often ensue. *shudders* Focusing on creating friendships for now is much more sustainable.

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Besides that, all three share a dislike for a pair of twins that I happen to be on really good terms with. They can come across as a little rude, but they're really just joking around.

 

I agree with you. But you got me at the twin part, because it sounded similar to me and my twin.

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

9 hours ago, Eccentric Hero said:

Thank you. I'm sure this will help me in the DA competition. I'm thinking of going in as an independent researcher.

DA competition? That wouldn't be a Darkness Ascendant competition would it? (What is it?)

[Eccentric Hero he/him]

3 hours ago, Darkness Ascendant said:

DA competition? That wouldn't be a Darkness Ascendant competition would it? (What is it?)

Dark Alley

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Also, the Dark Alley would like to officially announce a new contest in which all applicants try to adequately define Time. What even is it anyways? The reply that best defines Time, thus allowing us to capture and experiment on it in our dark and mysterious laboratories will be awarded with the tears of a red dwarf star and a batch of our classic Soul-Enriching Not-really-Nilla Wafers!

For questions, comments, or rants about the impossibility of pseudo-cognitive implementation in SoulGolems, just ask me or any of the menacing gargoyles lurking in the Alley.

~Fatebreaker

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

nooo. You stole my thing

[Eccentric Hero he/him]

20 hours ago, Darkness Ascendant said:

nooo. You stole my thing

Not really. Your invaluable knowledge has greatly benefited me, but you still have a chance. I think that there is definitely way more research and thinking to be done before we can call it a day.

Edited October 5, 2016 by Eccentric Hero

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

1 hour ago, Eccentric Hero said:

Not really. Your invaluable knowledge has greatly benefited me, but you still have a chance. I think that there is definitely way more research and thinking to be done before we can call it a day.

I was just kidding. I have no intention to join the contest. There's no benefit for me.

[Eccentric Hero he/him]

1 hour ago, Darkness Ascendant said:

I was just kidding. I have no intention to join the contest. There's no benefit for me.

Where there is struggle, there is benefit. I just made up that quote. I'm sure you'd get some street alley cred if you joined the competition.