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AHR

Is it bad that there are very few suicidal people online that I take seriously? 

Maybe it's just the inherent narm that comes with it, but I get the feeling that they're exaggerating or something, or trolling.

I thought it was just one person, but then it happened in an unrelated incident.

Malkavian

I wouldn't say it was bad, but I still think stuff like that betrays genuine psychological problems.

Using other people on the internet is never a good solution, though.

On another note I just saw episode 21 of Nichijou. KyoAni needs to make a moe action show now.

Nyarly

I've never seen a Micheal Bay movie, but judging from what I heard I still pretty much saw them all because I watched a couple of episodes of the series "Alarm für Cobra 11" (which consists of cars exploding and not much else, at least the exploding cars are the only "memorable" part) years ago.

InsanityAddict

It's been swell weather for the past week while it was rain all summer long. Not that I'm complaining, but the only outside events going on currently is an obnoxious fair that has pretty much cut off the city center from accessibility. And is filled with drunken proles.

All Nines

I added Eden of the East to my watchlist. That makes nine series, including Samurai Champloo, which I've ordered in on Amazon.

EDIT: >mfw the artist for Nichijou's OP did both the male and female vocals (with voice editing technology, but still)

Anonus

Hello.

Central Avenue

Hi AU!

How was the trial? Were the charges dropped?

RedEyedAbyss

Egad. What's the point of a YMMV page if they end up disproportionately gushing?

MillerCross

The thing is, YMMV are not about subjective elements, but about metafictional elements, which contain subjective elements within.

Malkavian

So I finished Nichijou earlier today. It's one of those endings that makes me sad because I won't get to see more of the characters.

DYRE

I honestly can't say I care about even a single character from Nichijou.  I think the show is really funny, but I don't have any particular attachment to the characters like I do with a lot of other shows.

AHR

I used the term Ruined Forever for the first time today. It felt odd.

ClockworkUniverse

Argh, my Dark Souls preorder hasn't shipped...

Malkavian

You have taken your first step into a much darker world, AHR.

INUH reminds me I need to pre-order Arkham City.

MillerCross

my mouth feels alien...

captainbrass

Like a xenomorph? Or an illegal alien?

MillerCross

More like it really doesn't feel like my mouth. I move it and it's...weird. I can't explain it. This bothers me.

captainbrass

You mean it's numb? My usual approach to stuff like that is to wait a couple of days and see a doctor if it isn't going away of its own accord.

MillerCross

Nah, not numb. I can feel it outright, but it feels out of place. Like, when press my teeth really tight together, i feel there's something missing at the back of my mouth. 

IanExMachina

^

*Waits for someone to say a cock.*

Malkavian

Try a cough drop or a popsicle.

MillerCross

Huh.

brushing my teeth seems to have done the trick. 

anyway, studying for the photography midterm. oral exam. three questions. the whole term's grade rides on this exam.

this is totally fair.

Counterclock

Good to hear you're feeling better Juan.

MillerCross

Thanks.

One thing that causes a lot of new photographers confusion is that large apertures (where lots of light gets through) are given f/stop smaller numbers and smaller apertures (where less light gets through) have larger f-stop numbers. So f/2.8 is in fact a much larger aperture than f/22. 

why did i not know this

._.

MadassAlex

So I was talking to an internet friend just now and he was talking about he and another buddy dual-team trolled some anime nerd. One of the hardcore kind, who not only had never had anything like a girlfriend but would have small capacity for that sort of thing.

I was kind of disappointed in my friend. He's a true sufferer of autism and has gone through hardcore social training to overcome it. Today, he has an intelligent, beautiful wife, earns a lot of money at his job, games the financial system through asset manipulation and is a father. He's a highly, highly elite war veteran to boot with enough martial training and experience to defeat anyone I know. For all intents and purposes, he's incredibly fit, skilled, intelligent and lucky.

But he was once in that guy's shoes via his autism, you know? He's not so different from the anime nerd, and neither am I. I can put on the mask or pretense of being more normal, and my skills are considered pretty "cool"; I'm both a swordsman in a nigh-lost martial art and a pretty decent guitarist. But just a handful of years ago, I was as "pathetic" as the anime nerd he was trolling and even today I can only pretend to be much better. When I'm feeling miserable and lost, I still escape into my fantasies via media and other means to ease my pain, and while I've slowly gained the ability to deal with my issues within the real world, it's not difficult to understand someone who's failed at that. In fact, I still fear slipping back into my old, easy ways.

Most of all, I dislike the implication that the anime nerd is entirely to blame for his own situation. I don't think anyone entirely decides to slip into fantasy as a reaction to their troubles, and it's very difficult to pull out of that after becoming comfortable with it. Mockery doesn't do anyone any good, and it only encourages such escapists to retreat deeper into themselves. What people like that need is someone, or a group of people, to gently tell them that there's a real world ready to accept them out there while informing them of their errors. It's absolutely horrible to be locked into that cycle, because even if it doesn't feel so bad at the time, everyone has to step into the real world eventually. Even if it's just when their parents die and they have to bring in their own income, they'll have to eventually make their own living.

Emerging from that state of emotional dependence on escapism is a slow, painful process, and I wouldn't want anyone to stand in the way of another's recovery. It's true that, ultimately, people have to help themselves and be willing to have others help them, but no-one will seek help if all they've come to expect is mockery and rejection.

Counterclock

Hey Alex.

Extra creditz?

MadassAlex

!!!

Of course! They have a brilliant two-parter that refers almost exactly to what I'm talking about.

Here and here.

Plus, a new episode should be out reasonably shortly... or is it tomorrow?

MillerCross

welp, back to the greasemonkey ignore extension with the both of ya.

MadassAlex

I still find it kinda hilarious that if Juan and I ever met, he'd miss half of what I was saying unless I wrote it down. xD

Counterclock

~huggles Alex~ ^_^