1.) Is it reasonable to complain about free stuff? (The quality and what not.) Not food or anything like that but free shit that fits into the category of entertainment.
The first example that comes to mind is free MMOs, which is honestly a torn subject for me.  While on one hand, I don't see why the free players (the cash shop users have more right to voice dissatisfaction in my opinion) would get so worked up over a service being provided for free, I do agree with them that there's a certain level of professional quality that should be upheld, considering the company SHOULD be catering to all players as potential cash shop users, and many MMO players invest a lot of their personal time into games they enjoy.  But when people complain about the most minuscule of things, yes it gets rather unreasonable.  Boohoo, the game glitched and you weren't able to pick up loot from a corpse.  That's no reason to raise hell on the forums as if you've suffered some great loss.  Now if it starts happening every time you play, and you've submitted a bug report and been ignored/told the problem was fixed, THEN there may be some justification to your complaint.

Another example is visiting a public recreation area such as a park, and seeing it in shambles.  Yes, the park is free, but I'm not going to shrug off the fact that some jackass decided to have a picnic and leave his trash behind, or that there is profane graffiti all over the playground equipment, or a drunk urinated on the park bench.  While I know I could just as easily go home and never visit that park again, if we remain completely passive about it just because it's free, it will eventually go to shit because of our apathy.

2.) Why do people say that you shouldn't complain about little shit? Because someone else has a worse situation than me I shouldn't feel angry or complain about it? Do you agree with that?
I think everyone has the right to complain at some point, so long as it's not overdone.  It vents frustration, which is more healthy than continuously bottling it.  Yes, there's always going to be someone who has it worse than you do, but that doesn't mean you should grin and bare every negative aspect of your life all the time because of it.  For example, you can damn well bet I'm going to complain if I had a horrible day.  Sure, there are people who have had far worse, and perhaps putting it in perspective may make my day seem better in comparison, but that doesn't suddenly mean I didn't nearly get in an accident on the interstate, have a fight with a close friend, receive news about a death in the family, and lose my wallet. 

It also depends on the way someone complains.  While I'd be fine with someone venting their frustrations about a dissatisfying experience, I'd be significantly less tolerant of someone who was point blank WHINING about something that's not that big of a deal, especially if they do it on a regular basis, or they're complaining about something they could have easily prevented from happening.

I hate how txtspeak is slowly working its way into hand written documents.  My ex's mother used to leave me little notes saying things like "Can u plz start dinner @ 4:30? Thx, LM (Love Mom)", and it drove me up the wall.  My mom tells me, and I've read a few examples of this, that her students have started turning in formal essays using txt abbreviations such as lol, wtf, nm, sum1, etc... as well as 2 for "to" or "too", 4 for "for", and 8 for "ate".  Many of these are from gifted students, and it's an English class.

Custom ring tones bother me too.  Nothing like hearing distorted, nearly unrecognizable music blasting in a public setting while the jackass owner of the phone, who obviously thinks everyone else appreciates his shitty taste in music, lets it ring until the last possible second before finally taking the call.  -.-

You're not going to like my response. :P

It KINDA sounds like you're jumping into a new relationship a bit too quickly, and looking to this new girl to help you get over your feelings for your ex, which is unfair to her.  Two months of single life is very short in comparison to a three year relationship, especially with leftover feelings.  In my opinion, your ex doesn't deserve another chance (her "I was just depressed" explanation kinda sounds like a load of crap IMO).  What you've deemed as sincerity as far as wanting you back doesn't necessarily mean she's going to be the girlfriend you need her to be.  She's very likely realized how good she had it with you, and wants that back.  That doesn't mean she's going to suddenly stop fooling around, start growing up, and treat you properly.  She needs to prove that she can function as a human being by herself, without using you as a crutch (Do you really want the drama of a girl who drinks, parties, and quits school as a way of avoiding problems?).  This new girl sounds better for you, but as I said, it's not fair to start a relationship with her while you still love your ex so much. 

Plain and simple... you're young, and it's very likely that neither of these girls is the one you'll end up with for the rest of your life, or even 5 years from now, so there's no real reason to rush a decision.  Like YH, I feel that if either of these girls was the right answer, you wouldn't be so conflicted right now...  It might be best to at least tell the new girl you need to step back for a bit, because you NEED to deal with your conflicting feelings before you can truly commit to anyone.  Honestly, you need to make sure you're happy with yourself before being happy with someone else.  I know that feeling you get after the end of a long-term relationship where you just want to jump into a new relationship because you miss the benefits and companionship, but that's really not the best way to deal with the situation. 

Anyway, good luck with whatever you decide.

-I have the usual habit of fidgeting/wiggling and playing with random objects that everyone seems to have.
-When I'm concentrating, I bite, stroke, or pinch my bottom lip, usually until it hurts.
-I have a habit of running my nails across or digging them into my skin... Not enough to leave marks, just enough to hurt slightly.  I really don't understand why I do it.
-I shake everything I drink before pouring it, unless it's carbonated.  Including water.
-When I hold hands with someone, I always make sure my hand is behind theirs, or underneath if we're sitting. 
-Whenever I walk with one person, I stay behind and slightly to their right.  If I'm with more than one person, I usually stay behind them, but in the middle (basically I make them my meat shields).
-Everything I carry is usually on my right.  Purse on my right shoulder, objects in my right hand.  But I usually shift items to my left hand to use them, such as keys, and my cell phone is always in my left front pocket.
-I neatly stack or sort things, but only outside my own home.  If I visit a friend and see a stack of DVDs or paper or something that's tilted, I always have to fix it. 

Am I the only one who would've called the cops as soon as the kid went down?

Maybe it's cause I don't see a lot of people do this, but if someone posted a suicide note here I would definitely report it...

I would have even if I was 90% sure it was a joke, just to discourage the person from doing something like this in the future.  A couple years ago this girl I knew online broadcast to a chatroom that she had slit her wrists and wanted to die, even going so far as to intentionally mistype, saying her vision was growing darker and there was blood on her keyboard making it difficult to see & spell properly.  I happened to know her boyfriend, called him, and made him call the police.  They called her parents, who walked in on her sitting at the computer completely fine.  She was in some SERIOUS trouble, and I'm relatively sure they made her go to counseling.  She apparently had been trying to get a hold of her boyfriend after a fight, and was hoping one of us in the chat would be worried and get a hold of him so he'd rush over to see her.

I can't honestly say I'm surprised that it took so long for someone to contact the police, especially given that he apparently had done the same thing in the past and there are so many who play pranks online for attention.  Hopefully this makes people more cautious about how they handle similar situations in the future, and how they treat other people.

whats up with all these people who dont post much to begin with saying IM MORE SHY, there's no way you're that shy.

stormi you got 16 posts and you're occasionally on IRC for you to be more shy than this it would require screaming loudly if someone approaches.

I'm in IRC all the time actually.  I must just not be at the computer when you're in the channel.  Being busy IRL doesn't mean I'm shy in IRC.  But like... yeah, I get on Skype and such with everyone whenever I'm not busy, which is weird considering usually when there are strangers around I'm quiet. :P

Also, I'm not a big poster in general.  I usually read what's going on, and move on to a new thread unless I feel I have something to contribute.  I got over being shy here a couple weeks ago after I realized you guys don't shit yourself when a girl is around, so you all aren't going to weird out on me.

I'm a lot more shy and less vulgar in person than what you'd see from me in IRC (since I don't post much, those of you who aren't in IRC wouldn't know my personality anyway!).  I'm also a lot nicer.  I guess I feel that I have to be bitchy on the internet to keep up with the testosterone packed atmosphere I'm normally in online.

Yeah, that wasn't disturbing at all. o.o

I don't know if this is stalking, or just a case of a guy being extremely annoying...

This guy I went to high school with decided he had been in love with me since we were in school, even after over a year without contact.  He claimed he'd been having trouble starting relationships with other girls, and finally realized the reason was because he was comparing all other girls to me.  He coincidentally(?) had a psychological breakdown and was discharged from the Air Force to come back home within a couple weeks of me breaking up with my boyfriend.  He knew full well I didn't return his feelings.  He asked me out pretty much immediately, and I told him that A: I still didn't feel the same way about him, and B: it was too soon after my last relationship to even consider a new one.  About a month later, we decided to hang out with mutual friends and he tried to kiss me, and even arranged for one of his friends to get me alone and question me as to why I didn't want to date him.

I told him the next day he'd made me extremely uncomfortable, and told him to leave me the hell alone.  He started calling several times a day, usually leaving messages, and also showed up at my door without notice.  I didn't realize what he was doing was grounds for a restraining order, and found him mostly harmless at first... I just thought he was annoying.  This went on for another month or two.

One night he showed up at around 9:30 pounding on the door.  He called my cell and home phones while standing outside for roughly 15 minutes, then left.  Half an hour later he came back and knocked for another 5 minutes.  He left one final message to tell me he was going to leave me alone, but had left something on my front doorstep.  I checked after about an hour, and it turned out to be a DVD set he knew I'd been wanting.  He called a couple times after that, then stopped completely.  

Since then, the only times I've heard from him were a message on my cell phone from some crazy chick calling me a bitch for not returning his feelings, and then later a message on MySpace to tell me he'd moved to Connecticut to live with said crazy chick, whom he'd met online.  He told me via MySpace that he was extremely depressed and suicidal after my rejection, and she flew down to see him.  They ended up dating, and he knocked her up and married her within a year.  I told him if he contacted me again, I'd tell her about it, then blocked his account from contacting me.

I was trying to come up with a name for a junk healer character on a MMO I used to play, and it was raining really bad outside.  After no less than 20 of the other names I tried were already taken, I got frustrated and went with Stormi, mostly because I looked outside and my first thought was "It's really stormy out now".  I started using it in a few other games, usually for healers, so it stuck.

Most likely they don't exist here because the strict religious folks would raise hell if there were places strictly intended for adultery.  I mean, there are run down motels where you KNOW people are just there for sex, but they're not openly advertised as such.  You'd think that with the abundance of strip clubs and porn stores, and sexual content on television, things like sex itself wouldn't be such a taboo topic. 

I cry sometimes when I'm under a lot of stress, like I was earlier this week.. and usually it makes me feel better so I tend not to fight it.  But other than this week I haven't cried in maybe two months (and that was under special circumstances).  I tend not to cry for several months at a time.  I do tear up from time to time when I see something really touching on television, or listen to very moving music (instrumentals usually), but tears rarely ever leave my eyes.  I am, however, the type of girl that will cry tears of joy when really excited and happy. :P

My friend Drew has a thing for girls in relationships.  He slept with a co-worker who was engaged for several months before kicking her to the curb, made out with another friend in a relationship, and also had a huge crush on me develop when I was engaged to my ex, but we never acted on it because... why would I fool around with someone if I was planning to commit to someone else for life?  But yeah, evidently as soon as the girl Drew was sleeping with got married, she lost all appeal to him and he doesn't pick up the phone when she calls all lonely (Read: horny) while her husband is busy at work.

Anyway, not sure why you think what you did was awesome...  Think about how you'd feel if she was YOUR fiancee and she slept with another guy while you were out of town.  She must be feeling very confused right now as well.  Are they pretty recently engaged/close to the wedding date?  That's a very vulnerable time for a person who has made the decision to be with ONE person for the rest of their lives.  It doesn't make her a slut, but she really doesn't seem ready for such a huge commitment at this stage in her life. 

Cockroaches scare me half to death.  I can't even look at pictures of them without chills going down my spine.  When Orkin ran those commercials with the cockroach that crawled across the screen like it was ON the television, I flipped every time.  I'm definitely the person that has to stand on the furniture and shout for someone else to kill it.  I'm creeped out, but to a lesser degree, by any insect that can fly or run fast, as well as spiders that run fast whether or not I know them to be venomous.

Small dark places creep me out because I'm claustrophobic.  My friends tease me because I'm afraid of elevators.  I cram myself into the corner as soon as I get in and death grip the handrails, expecting to plummet at any minute.

Also, because I get very immersed in video games, I can't play scary games without someone in the room with me and all the lights on.  I've managed to complete the Silent Hill games I have, but I can't make it through Fatal Frame. >.<

i hate when college students drink while playing vidceogames. its the most boring way to get drunk

In my defense, I'm not a college student and I was at a bar with friends. ^^

This is probably a bad time for me to make my intro.  I'm hung over and my brain is all foggy, so I can't think of anything interesting to say about myself.  I might require spoon feeding, so ask any questions that come to mind.  I promise I'm only this bland when my head feels like there are two elephants using it as a perch. 


Err... I'm a gamer obviously.  Casual right now, because I get addicted easily and right now I'm job hunting so that can't happen.  I prefer MMORPGs these days, but I started with, and still love console games (RPG, FPS, fighting, you name it).  I'd give you a nice long list of what I play, but my memory isn't speaking to me right now, and I'm stubbornly fighting off the urge to go to bed.

I don't know anyone here.  I got bored and decided to find a forum on big-boards.com because I used to post a lot on my old ones a few years back, lurked this one for a bit, and yeah... you can guess the rest.


So yeah, that about does it for me.  Going back to lurk mode for a bit. ^^