Merlu

joined 1 year ago
 

Have you ever developed a PTSD not because you lived something traumatizing but because of a piece of fiction (movie, serie, book, etc...) ?

For me, it's the saga Final Destination, the first horrific saga i've ever watched, and will likely be the last.

 

For me, it's the SCP-999, he seems pretty wholesome and inoffensive.

 

-I bough a niffler plushie for my 30th birthday and i'm still sleeping with it.
-I still listen music for childrens i listened when i was little.

 

I was rehearsing a play and one of the lines was "Look, there goes the most beautiful arse in the world", and the teacher walked in just then.

 

When someone made your life a mess, it's difficult to be sad about its death. Have you ever lived a such situation ?

 

When i was an intern in a store, i hardly resisted to organize the shelves while my own shopping.

[–] Merlu@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Agree, the job is pretty merciless. People hate you whatever you do and even the most unsignificant of your mistake is used against you. If you became politician by idealism, you discover rapidly that persons involved makes you actually powerless: rival politicians, highly influencial ploutocrats, the supreme court (or equivalent), etc.

I have this impression with the US president. Despite the prestige of his position, he is actually highly powerless: most of the domains are in the hands of state governors, and if the supreme court, the senate and the house are not in his camp, he can barely do anything. It can be hard if you are really willing to apply what you promised but not being able to do so.

 

In my opinion, Abby from TLOU 2. During the first part of the game, she is portrayed as the bad girl, but when she become the playable character, you understand that she isn't:

-Her father and friends were unnecessarly killed.
-She became pariah from her clan when she saved a member of a rival clan.
-She have been harschly tortured.
-She spared Ellie despite having occasions to kill her for understandable reasons.

I don't get why many players didn't changed their minds at the second part of the game, it's so obvious that the real bad people are Ellie and Joël. Theres no problem about having sympathy for bad guys, but you must keep your critical mind.

And what infuriates me is that people even harassed the voice actress because of what her character did. Come on, guys !

[–] Merlu@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Herd mentality

Any normal human being can be a bloodthirsty beast when he's a part of a group. The group effect demultiplicate the violence of their members and can lead them to acts that they would never do when isolated. Really terrifying mechanism.

[–] Merlu@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Amber Heard. The hate she received during the trial Heard vs Depp was highly disproportionate. Usually, when someone is -really or allegedly- cancelled, many people lose their shit, but strangely, when she was cancelled for real, not so much people complained, while Depp was unfairly victimized. She was clearly a scapegoat for misogynistic low instincts.

 

Many magazines i browsed don't have any content. You can post here the ones you'd like to see more populated.

According the statistics i did all by myself:

-47% of magazines don't have any thread/publication
-70% of magazines don't have any comments

[–] Merlu@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The backfire effect. This is when someone see irrefutable proofs that he's wrong, he believes more than ever that he's right.

https://www.skepdic.com/backfireeffect.html

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Some shady webside asked my credit card numbers "for verification purpose". Yeah, sure !

 

Yesterday i had a pain in the foot for no reason, walking was highly suffering, then the pain disappeared suddenly and i never understood where it came from.

 

Sometimes, the rules you have to respect for your job may have ethical problems. Did you violated one of these rules ?

[–] Merlu@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

Elton John, was alcoholic, is now sober since a long time.

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For me, they are members of a forum i joined long time ago. After the forum died, we moved to discord. They are really wholesome and respectful, and they know some things about me that even my mom ignore.

[–] Merlu@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

When i was a child, i thought that high voltage lines were for little people travelling in cable cars.

[–] Merlu@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nobody. No matter who the president is, they never hold their promises and the real leaders are the oligarchies that pays both democrats and republicans. So no matters who becomes president, it's never a win for the citizens.

[–] Merlu@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Merlu@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Juste some ideas that crossed my mind, maybe all at once is too expensive for one billion.

  1. Clearing all my debts.
  2. Shop only ethical products.
  3. Support lot of projects that are close to my heart.
  4. Corrupt politicians to incite them to make ethical choices.
  5. Buy shady companies and let them sink.
  6. Create my own utopic nation and corrupt the UN to let them recognize it.
[–] Merlu@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A private property sign.

[–] Merlu@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

For many, many reasons:

-People disagree politely, i've never been so happy to be contradicted.
-A moderation that actually works, and not an useless reporting tool who let toxic behaviours fully impunished because business is business.
-An administration crew and/or developers that actually listen to users, not a corporation that is a submissive slave of the advertisers.
-I can act the way i want, and not the corporation wants me to do because it bring him much money.
-I don't feel i'm the product.
-Nothing is buzzing after being published.

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