… My ex was SA’d by a staff member during one fairly long term stay.

Managed to get that guy fired, but not … you know, prosecuted.

The state of mental health is fucked because mental health, at its core, foundationally is built off of ‘how do we pathologize and treat people who have trouble being or cannot actually be any kind of an ideal employee.’

No one fixes this, or homelessness, because … no one cares, these people have no money or power, they are viewed as drains on society, instead of potentially productive members of society, or even fundamentally as just… human beings with consciousness/souls.

It is a structural issue with literally all of society, and the severely mentally ill, and the homeless (which often coincide, what a shocker) are literally the untouchables class.

We like to think we are more modern, more enlightened, more decent… no, we are not.

We are just better at technological propoganda and treats and distractions.

… Maybe there is a world where … now that the veil of this has been shattered by the rise of fascist MAGAs… maybe, down the line, this will lead to some kind of equivalent social/philosophical reexamination of how… we do everything, as there was after WW2 and the Holocaust… maybe that could be our future.

So… yeah.

I just wanna say… they’re not ‘imaginary’ tormentors, in the sense of someone playing make believe, who can just … not do that.

They cannot turn off the voices in their heads.

They cannot control the fact that they have vivid visual, audio, tactile, olfactory etc hallucinations that are indistinguishable from actual reality, that their memories of past events can basically just have things that did not actually happen… formed or inserted as a ‘core memory’, or things that did actually happen… wildly warped or just removed.

So… what do you do, show them a video of what happened, with them in it?

Nope, thats fake, thats not them, that is their doppleganger, that is their evil clone.

Nobody really knows how to ‘fix’ this, or if its even possible.

Antipsychotics generally just make them more docile and less prone to aggressive outbursts, but they also have massive sideeffects… they often do not actually stop the actual ‘unreal’ experiences.

It is nowhere near as simple as ‘stay on your meds and all the hallucinations go away.’

The result is that… they cannot trust anything… because quite often, the psychiatrists and other medical people they see will basically manipulate and trick them into beleiving the meds … are a cure… insinuating or even directly stating that their meds will solve the problem.

There is also a lot of other kinds of fraud and abuse going on with many people who treat schizophrenics because… who’s going to believe them?

…

I had an ex who … developed into severe schizophrenia.

Shit sucks man.

I mean… it doesn’t make it fun to you.

Many people do genuienly enjoy games that, to whatever extent, feature a whole lot of walking, with very scenic or stylized environments, or that use walking itself and not much more actual gameplay mechanics… to tell a compelling story.

Dear Esther.

The Stanley Parable.

Not much… ‘gameplay’ going on there.

But a lot of people like those games.

There are even like… basically just finely crafted GMod maps that are more or less just designed to be explored, to allow the map itself to tell you the story of … why it is the way it is, how it got that way.

Death Stranding, by comparison to everything else I just mentioned, has far more developed gameplay components and systems, and a narrative structure, highly prodoced cinematics, etc.

Kenshi very often features a fuck ton of walking, and you just trying to figure out how to survive a very long hike.

You can view even a pure walking sim, with basicsally no actual other gameplay mechanics… as… a first person movie you walk through.

Its no problem if you don’t find these kinds of games compelling… but as you can see by a whole lot of comments in this thread, a whole lot of people roughly accept the moniker of ‘walking simulator’ and say ‘yes actually, i find this kind of experience quite compelling!’.

Like… what is more of a ‘game’, a walking simulator that just tells a story via environment and narration… or some kind of idler/autobattling game, where quite literally 99% of the game just plays itself?

I don’t find those compelling at all, personally, but tons of people do, and that’s great for them!

…

But beyond all that: All Hideo Kojima games are trash… is a pretty ludicrous statement to make, unqualified, with no specifics.

The dude basically pioneered his own concept of a stealth action game, and these games have been hugely successful and influential.

Sure, the plots can get pretty zany and convoluted, but that too is part of the appeal for many people.

Ever taken a shower with a detachable/flexible shower head, and pointed it upward at your bunghole?

Bidets are sort of comparable to that.

Difference being… if you get one of the basic bidet kits… they tap into the water line your toilet bowl uses to refill after a flush.

And they often don’t have water heaters or or resevoirs of their own, if its an affordable bidet kit.

So that means your bidet water can be… quite cold, if your house/building doesn’t have great insulation, during the winter, or fairly lukewarm, during the summer.

Not well. As RedditRefugee notes…

They do indeed usually incorperate you into their personalized, uber conspirstorial worldview.

If you have ever heard the phrase ‘Targeted Individual’ or ‘Gangstalking/Gangstalkers’… these are phrases commonly used by schizophrenics in online communities… who, having broadly similar underlying thought processes and lived experiences, will and do gather on the internet and discuss their … paranoid/persecutory delusions… and they do seem to have largely agreed on those phrases to describe their individualized, specific experiences.

I believe at one point, reddit had a fairly large r/TargetedIndividuals or r/TIs subreddit, something like that… not sure if it still exists or is active.

Pfff, if you want a military flavored walking simulator, play Arma 1/2/3/Reforger without vehicles, in some scenario with either very low equipment levels, or that requires an actual 12 km hike from the LZ to the objective for whatever reason.

That’s a fucking walking simulator.

… I had this start happening around the time I hit 30.

Not graying or wrinkles really… but the ear and nose hairs.

Fortunately, yes, it is basically as simple as ‘get an ear/nose trimmer’, but also yes, it is annoying.

I have yet to approach ‘nosestache’ levels though, lol.

Horrible anti-idea this made me think of:

Mustaches… but grown out of wildly prolific nose hairs.

Gotta say, I love the idea of a private company being called ‘PublicSquare’… and the irony of this utterly whooshing over the heads of literally everyone involved.

Conduct a Comsat Station Scan at I8 to simultaneous scan for lurkers and also let mom know its ok that you’re missing dinner.

Alternatively:

Deploy Amy Rose to chase Sonic off the board with incessant fangirling marriage proposals.

Hah!

Jokes on all of you!

I …

… learned how to stop pooping.

(In all seriousness, consider getting a bidet kit. You can find fairly decent, farily cheap ones, and they can massively cut down your TP usage to basically just undampening your pooper.)

hehheheh

I got a legit belly laugh out of that, I had not seen this before.

Amazing.

In the case of Kanye… fell astoundingly far down the antisemitic conspiracy rabbit hole.

Before he went turbo-mega-ultra Hitler fanbo1 on Alex Jones… he was saying a lot of shit about how the entire entertainment industry was run by a cabal of Jews who secretly fucked over himself and other black artists in particular.

… He completely lost his mind in this process and has arguably been having the world’s longest sustained, continuous, psychotic break (I think he’s been far more obviously just unhinged bonkers for longer than Elon?).

He legitimately hated and hates Jews so much that the actual Hitler stuff came afterward.

How does he rationalize that Hitler would absolutely have killed every Black or African descended person he could, that he switched from being inspired by American rascism to calling the US a ‘mongrelized’ people, because of American society’s multiracial makeup, interracial marriage etc?

Easy: He’s completely insane and legitimately should be in a room with padded walls.

Logic? Reason?

404 error.

…

Have you ever tried to convince an unmedicated, manic schizophrenic that… the things they are saying just fundamentally do not make sense, at a basic grammatical level, that their mind invents things that did not happen?

Yeah, doesn’t go so well.

Is that some kind of speed run record?

For people not doing a ban evasion, who had a previous account?

I just dropped a pen and it fell downward.

… hope that helps lol, its the little victories rofl.

I … am still yet to fully process that, technically, all Americans are legally of the female sex, because these morons do not know how biology works.

It would appear to be about 2 years worth of Russia’s domestic arty shell production capacity… not sure about how many shells they normally fire per month or year…

Thats uh… thats a gigantic crime rofl, fucking wow.

Not quite sure exactly what that slots into, tampering with evidence, obstruction of justice, not complying with the discovery process… but uh yeah wow dang, that’s the kinda thing that can actually lead to charges against the actual people that do this, if not at least the people that order other to.

Great job, morons!

… fucking megacorp version of ‘the discord channel got leaked, nuke everything!’, especially if these directives were newly enacted after any of the anti trust suits began.

LLMs are basically extremely complex text autocomplete systems.

Most smartphones these days have such systems learn from yourself, personally (and of course use all of your vocab data to make a profile of you and sell it to marketers, law enforcement, whoever is buying)… but LLMs learn from… a little bit of everything, all of the time.