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2017-05-08 at 7:41 AM UTCI was reminded of an old idea I had. Related to it, I recall that on Hyperbole and a Half there was one comic about a time where she was dealing with the trouble of her sister sharing a room and her mom built her this sort of fort around her bed made out of sound proof material. She was really bummed out at first, but it worked out.
It's an odd idea, but because I'm so insecure about being heard by someone next door, sounding like I'm talking to myself or bothering them, maybe I'll just sound proof a closet, put a light inside, and practice speaking exercises for an hour or so each day. I mean, we did evolve to speak, it's so ingrained in our brain, and there is neuroplasticity, so it's not like I'm bound to have lost it forever.
It reminds me of reading of some famous person who used to have a speech impediment as a child, but he practiced enunciating down by the river,where the sound would drown out his voice, with pebbles in his mouth, and at the end of his training he managed to become an incredible orator.
I'm depressed, insecure, and damaged as shit, but, geez, there are people who have problems way worse than me and still manage to have friends and have happy fulfilling lives.
God, the capacity for suffering and depression humans have is just incredible. There's a reason we're the only animals that commit suicide. Severe depression is a horrifying experience I hope none of you ever go through, it radically alters your perception or yourself and the world, the way you think and behave.
I'd still prefer to live in VR, though, meatspace is pretty underwhelming. 5 years, man, just gotta hold out for 5 years and we're bound to have that 4K per eye, foveated rendering, eye tracking, and other neat features. I want to save enough money to just drop the hell out of this godforsaken world, it wasn't that great even when I wasn't depressed.
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2017-05-08 at 7:43 AM UTC
Originally posted by Kolokol-1 So what should we do? Do what we wanted to do anyway, or wait to see what happens?
Also this person has a history of drug abuse and attention whoring, I lived with her at one point and she had the entire family turned against me at one point because I was getting angry and yelling at her. She basically would get fucked up and provoke me until I lost my temper and then called someone else and let them hear me yelling in the background
Normally myself and the rest of the family would let her do her shit but now she's had a baby with this guy and everyone wants to "protect the innocent child"
Also we have bought her surveillance cameras and phones but she won't record the guy doing anything for some retarded reason
Obviously I have only a sliver of the full story here but if a family member told be about a serious case of domestic abuse, that I thought might be recurrent, I'd at least bring the matter to some kind of group that had handles domestic abuse cases. Worst outcome is some people think you overreacted, verses best is you really change someone's life for the better. -
2017-05-08 at 7:45 AM UTCI'm waiting for VR to become worth it as well. Once they make it where you actually feel like you're in whatever game/simulation you're playing, I would have no issue dropping 10k for the setup.
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2017-05-08 at 7:48 AM UTCYou don't get to fuck this planet, this planet fucks you.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2017-05-08 at 7:49 AM UTCI mean, really, I just can't see any logical reason to be ashamed or apprehensive about it. What's wrong with living in VR, or at least spending your recreational time in it? Of course proles are going to come up with reasons that are dumb as shit, but I really wonder if there's anyone who could give me even a single intelligent compelling reason to do so.
Oh, and maybe Elon Musk's Neural Link will allow us to communicate similar to telepathy, so I'll never have to use my voice or be face to someone ever again. Just gotta hold out and wait for my version of heaven on earth. *crosses fingers* -
2017-05-08 at 7:50 AM UTC
Originally posted by Lanny Obviously I have only a sliver of the full story here but
I was just thinking as I reread my post, "damn, I say that we don't have the full story, now everyone's going to respond to my post saying that they don't have the full story" lol.if a family member told be about a serious case of domestic abuse, that I thought might be recurrent, I'd at least bring the matter to some kind of group that had handles domestic abuse cases. Worst outcome is some people think you overreacted, verses best is you really change someone's life for the better.
Yeah this is what we're thinking at the moment but if we do that the child will be taken away from both of them, as both of them are clearly unfit to be parents. We're trying to decide if that's worth it or not.
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2017-05-08 at 7:51 AM UTCThis is what a young female in America will look like in 2060.
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2017-05-08 at 9:30 AM UTCImagine if there was this random tree in the woods that would just demean your worldview, insult you, lecture you about various topics, give some of the most bizarre musings on life and the human condition, and just had this incredible store of knowledge about a vast array of profound topics that it only gave you at its whim, other times completely ignoring you or going off for the pettiest of reasons.
That would be one cool ass tree. Maybe one day they'll be able to salvage all my posts and create an AI based on it, and in some place in virtual reality you'll randomly come across it. It reminds me of that episode of Psycho Pass, like you transcend yourself and become a Platonic ideal.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2017-05-08 at 9:36 AM UTCI actually really like helping people. An idea I've had, that sort of reminds me of that girl from Peanut's who played psychiatrist, is to set up this impenetrable hermit box that randomly appears around areas of SF for a certain period of time. People put their questions in, ask for advice, along with their email, and I respond if I deem it worthy.
The legend of the autistic hiki hermit sage.
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2017-05-08 at 10:34 AM UTCInteresting anecdotal article about Nardil that I came across. If anyone's interested in the subject, or there's ever a time when you need something for both severe depression and anxiety. God I wish they were prescribed more and new ones had been developed.
MAO inhibitors: the forgotten antidepressant that saved my life
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2017-05-08 at 10:34 AM UTC
Originally posted by Malice Imagine if there was this random tree in the woods that would just demean your worldview, insult you, lecture you about various topics, give some of the most bizarre musings on life and the human condition, and just had this incredible store of knowledge about a vast array of profound topics that it only gave you at its whim, other times completely ignoring you or going off for the pettiest of reasons.
That would be one cool ass tree. Maybe one day they'll be able to salvage all my posts and create an AI based on it, and in some place in virtual reality you'll randomly come across it. It reminds me of that episode of Psycho Pass, like you transcend yourself and become a Platonic ideal.
How I wish this were so.
