Rare insult

But what if I played UMvC3 against LTG and he told me

Actually being shown truthful and detailed information about suicide methods helped me avoid it as a youth. That website has since been taken down due to bs regs or some shit. If I were young now I’d probably ask a chatbot and I’d hope they give me crystal clear, honest details and instructions, that shit should be widely accessible.

On the other hand all those helplines and social ads are just depressing to see, they feel patronising and frankly gross, if anything it’s them that should be banned.

Yeah that’s a tough one. Honestly in your shoes for me it would depend on the casus beli.

If Trump invaded China or was the one heavily escalating shit diplomatically, I would feel morally obliged to not support either.

If China invaded Taiwan and Trump intervened, I would feel morally obliged to support NATO even if it was led by Trump.

I don’t even have a disability or anything. I have mild ADHD at best and I’m pretty medicated for it.

Think systemically like the other guy said. Under capitalism consumption is purpose. I can’t blame people for wanting purpose. If you dislike consumerism, you need to create a system that gives people purpose in something else.

I also think that theoretically there’s not anything wrong with consumerism as long as the profits are distributed amongst the workers fairly, like with a cooperative with worker-owner-shareholders who democratically decide their own working conditions and hours and output.

With a large enough amount of stakeholders in that business (workers) who all have democratic decision-making power over the business, I doubt they would collectively decide to shit up the planet with waste or poison consumers since none of them would be shielded by extreme wealth from the effects of all that.

Sometimes people just want the shiny thing, thats okay. I think it would actually shine a bit better if it wasn’t made by slave or sweatshop labour in the global south and the profits didn’t all go evaporate in some private equity ponzi scheme.

Hope you’re asking theoretically.

In the UK, they make you pledge allegiance to serve the crown at the citizenship ceremony, which symbolically establishes that your loyalties lie with the British throne and therefore the state.

In practice, if drafted or if I for some reason volunteer, I would side with whoever I actually sided with morally and ideologically.

e.g. I’d choose the West over the current Fascist Russian regime, but theoretically back a progressive Russia against a Fascist West and so on.

This could mean anything from actively serving to dodging the draft to civilian resistance in case of occupation.

Theoretically a foreign legion isn’t anything too uncommon. There were some Russians fighting alongside Ukraine against Russia last I checked. Being in that case a Ukrainian citizen would only help.

In case of service I imagine there would be the problem of inevitable racism towards me from the natives while in service if people of my nationality/ethnicity are the current enemy, especially if it’s like the Japanese internment camps in the US level of hate, so that would be a consideration, plus more practical/logistical matters like which language I can actually speak properly enough to function in critical situations etc.

This is an interesting question though, is there historical accounts of such groups like this I wonder?

Edit: also, good jumping off point if you want to read about the Russian foreign legion and opposition more generally: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-blue-white_flag https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_Russia_Legion

Good-at-stuff != Good-person

You owe it to others to try to be a good person, or at least, not a deliberately bad one. That is the social contract we all have to sign.

You only owe it to yourself to be good-at-stuff, at least you should if not for capitalism but that’s besides the point.

Not everyone can be good-at-stuff, but everyone can try to be a good-person.

If they succeed in the latter so much it causes them to fail at the former due to a sense of superiority and over-inflated egos then they have failed more spectacularly at an easier task than you.

At least that’s my take on it.

Now with the pep talk out of the way, practically speaking - you need to start making an exit out of that environment. Once they catch on they will no doubt pick on the odd one out, and the fact you’re already insecure will make you that much more an easy target. So I’d say go before this whole thing blows up, just my 2 cents.

Huh? How is it not healthcare? ADHD is a disorder that’s usually well-treated with medication.

I get the person is applying for a disability claim but surely they must already have tried and failed to achieve satisfactory symtpom adjustment to receive welfare?

Neat, though I’d prefer HDMI.

I don’t see why it’s not possible to have a headset that can function standalone, wireless PCVR like Quest AirLink, and also as a “dumb” headset over HDMI like proper PCVR headsets (e.g. Index).

Yeah I don’t listen to podcasts, but art isn’t content and music is definitely the former.

I appreciate the sentiment but you also are making some weird assumptions:

“Such a massive problem”

I said it’s not a big deal.

came off as wanting to prove everyone else who doesn’t listen to music is crazy

Normally I’d think that yeah, given the negative reception I must’ve phrased myself badly, but honestly after reading it all, I think y’all invented this in your heads.

It’s because you think the opposite - that anyone like me is crazy, so when I act like I am normal - you take it as an insult.

And I am normal, as far as I can tell, once more - this is the only place offline or online that anyone had an issue with this, and I’m not gonna set expectations for normality based on a hyperniche hipster forum thread.

Aye

We all know what’s really going on ITT.

Errrr…

Pretty sure that PS5 classic controller didn’t come out 2013-2017. At least I hope it didn’t lol.

Also what the fuck is this haha:

https://divine.video/video/f8fe8278991f82e5cbd655cc2f4eaafb98f35ec405bbe3006cdb081f797d9ea3?source=profile&pubkey=4965ffdd8abb2d5059a25cc7f268b5e160e95e066b9b37e71dca6ee8850a8486&index=6

Edit: …and why am I downvoted again?

Seems that way:

What’s Loops?

Huh?

Yeah they just mean the more layperson understanding of AI as in AI-generated content or as YouTube Studio dubs it: “synthetic media” (pretty good term imo)

Basically just stuff that was “generated”.

I’m sure transformative use of ML like filters etc. would be fine. Even incorporation of generated elements in otherwise a normal video would be fine.

https://divine.video/ - For people who want to see for themselves.

Also the android app from the TechCrunch article, seems like it was nuked though: https://divine.b-cdn.net/app-release.apk

LCD? Aww man. Will there be a way to use it on desktop like the quest, or are we just SoL stuck between $9999 pimax crystal hyperfuck and $4 quest crumpet