Dataninja's posts

I'm not really a fan of interacting with children until they've reached the age where they can be reasoned with. Unfortunately, the time any given human being reaches that point is infinitely variable. :P

Once they've reached that point, then I'm fine interacting with them, at least as much as other people - I'm an introvert (at least in person), and I'm quite happy just sitting alone, doing my own thing, for hours on end. I've found kids tend to have much more energy, though, so they exhaust me earlier than others do, on average at least.

I don't plan to have kids myself, for many reasons. For one, sometimes I'm a bit lax on taking care of myself (especially in the eating department, whoops)... I don't need the additional pressure of having to care for someone else. For another, I worry about the future. The world as I see it isn't really a place that I'd want to raise a child in. I believe we're reaching a tipping point in our society, and I wouldn't want to risk bringing someone into this world if it's going the wrong way. And, more selfishly, I like my peace and quiet. A kid isn't very conducive to that.

I'm quite fine with people who want kids, though. I just feel that they really... aren't for me. Who knows, though. Something might end up changing my mind.

@Emmett khan: Thanks!

...and seeing your avatar and signature is now, for the first time ever, making me think of Data as a ninja. Maybe that's a sign that I need to sleep.

I chose this one because on another site, the username I usually go by was already taken, so I'd had to come up with something on the spot... and, since in many Skype chats I tended to be able to find information faster than others (apparently no one uses Ctrl+F...), so... DataNinja. Also, I'm a programmer, so Data. ...reflecting on it now, though, I've never really been a ninja person.

I picked it here over my traditional username, since I've been informed that that one is basically the epitome of dark and edgy names. Which I found funny, since that had never even occurred to me, but, might as well make an attempt at a better impression.

This is probably my fault for using Internet Explorer, but while using it (Internet Explorer 11, if that matters), I'm not able to click any of the links above topics. (i.e. Mention, Quote, or Edit.) When I was using Google Chrome earlier, I was able to edit one of my posts just fine.

I have already tried clearing my cache and resetting everything. This still might be something on my end, but I just thought I should mention it in case anyone else uses IE and is also having these issues. (Clearly, it means that I just need to make sure all my posts are correct the first time around...)

Hi there. I've noticed that in the My profile section, in anything except for the bio, any apostrophes will cause a backslash to appear after saving the data (for instance "I'm" turns into "I[backslash]'m"). In addition, any existing backslashes whenever you hit 'save changes' will be doubled (in addition to a new one being added for any apostrophes).

I tested it out with a few other symbols (including forward slash and quotation marks), but it seems as if apostrophes and backslashes are the only things (that I found at least) that do this. Hopefully that helps.

(Oh, as an aside, it might help to sticky the Bug Reports Forum rules. I only saw them because I was looking to see if this issue had already been raised.)

Edit: Okay, apparently backslashs don't show up here...