Some of these youtube critics try too hard to be like MST3K. Forget it. Do your own shtick and keep it fresh. A lot of performers know when to leave well enough alone but then the fans insist they keep to the same worn out routine.
And then everything went wrong. My favorite enamel paint is no longer being exported to the US? Something to do with the Royal Mail and the shipment of chemicals. And my glasses break and I can't find my spare pair, and I have cataracts and I spill the paint I can't get any more of.
And all that happens after I overcame a terrible bout of depression that had kept me bedridden for two days.
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Ugh. Can't do any game recording with Subnautica without my computer giving me a BSOD. Recording gameplay really does stress the computer out, so anyone who's doing it either has great recording software, or a really beefy machine to record with. I can record for a few minutes before it happens, though… Maybe I should limit record time? hmm…
Maybe I should just record the section where you're out there in the alien ocean, watching as the ship you escaped from explodes… for some reason I find that an awesome sight to behold…
@Lonne- get one of those video capture card things. That should do it ok. That's what people are doing these days.
@Bravo- Yeah, bad things all seem to happen together when you're down.
Man, my friend Bianka weaves every bad thing that happens to her into one giant grand conspiracy by the "universe"…
Depression does that.
I can tell her "no, that stuff is normal and happens all the time, that thing happened because that happened and you did this and that when I told you not to, and you had a great time then and then and things worked out this time and that…"
But the depressive condition makes it's own version of reality that edits out all the good stuff and makes the bad stuff the highlights that're all connected, no matter what.
Which isn't just a negative way of looking at things, it also affects your choices and directs you to along bad paths that make things worse.
Except that I got over the bout of melancholy and then everything went wrong. I just sort of sat back and watched. I hadn't made any poor choices, they were all accidents. The stress on the metal finally broke the frame of my glasses, my hand slipped while stirring the paint, the Royal Mail getting heat from environmentalists over enamel paint, things really beyond my control. But we'll within the law of averages. But they all happened within the same six hours. But knowing the law of averages, when events clump up like that, it should be smooth sailing for a time afterward.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy teaches you that. Keeps me from being like Bianca and "catastrophizing" or making broad statements. Like "everything" "always", "every time"
And my wife is always there to remind me when I do over generalize.
Yes, when bad things seem to clump together for me I try and take a mental step back and think if they really are clumping or if it's just how I'm looking at it, or if my own self is the common factor…
And if I can rule those out (though it's SUPER hard to rule out the first one completely!), then I just think "huh…" and do as you do: must be a weird bunching.
But ironically natural bunches of bad luck like that can set you off being depressed again, make you more likely to make a dodgy decision, and cause more bad luck.
For example:
-Like suddenly investing a lot of money in an alternative source of paints… that turns out not to be legit, but you weren't in a state to investigate properly so you lose all that cash.
Or you buy some cheap replacement frames and get the lenses from the old glasses put in there, only to have those ones break right away and lose the lenses this time as well.
-That is the kind of stuff Bianka would do, ALL the time.
You're catastrophizing. Making a small setback into a major catastrophe and ramping up that to an eleven.
When you are hanging from the seat belt harness in an overturned burning car, half blinded by blood with broken glass all around, then and only then tell me about how awful things are.
That's not catastrophizing man, I'm just pointing out scenarios that people can get into because they're down that can cause them to think the world is against them in a magical sort of way, when in reality there were more understandable factors at play.
And that is how my friend Bianka went from disaster to disaster.
ozoneocean wrote:
That's not catastrophizing man, I'm just pointing out scenarios that people can get into because they're down that can cause them to think the world is against them in a magical sort of way, when in reality there were more understandable factors at play.
And that is how my friend Bianka went from disaster to disaster.
And the psychological term for that is catastrophizing. It's in the literature. I've had mental health care professionals telling me about it for decades. It is linked to self destructive behavior and self fulfilling prophecy. You catastrophize about the worst happening and it does because you subconsciously caused it to happen.
Hahaha, but I'm NOT doing that man. XP
Those aren't "worse case scenarios" that I'm thinking up for myself or anyone, rather I'm giving relatable examples of the sorts of things that DID happen to my friend because of poor decision making.
It's a completely different thing.
Hey, Ozone. I hope you don't mind. Couldn't think of a more appropriate name for the Cyclops. It'll be a while before I actually take it anywhere as it needs hull upgrades first. Hopefully to increase the thing's crush depth to 1400 meters…
Aand the OzoneOcean's first action. To get me close enough to the exploded Aurora (the ship I escaped from at the beginning of the game) so I can seal the radiation leaks in the reactor room. Even the area's most dangerous creature would have a hard time with the OzoneOcean. :)
ozoneocean wrote:
Hahaha, but I'm NOT doing that man. XP
Those aren't "worse case scenarios" that I'm thinking up for myself or anyone, rather I'm giving relatable examples of the sorts of things that DID happen to my friend because of poor decision making.
It's a completely different thing.
Maybe so. But I have seen it in others as a part of the a pathology of a pattern of behavior. It sucks, but it is. Lots of people make bad decisions just so they can feel miserable about them later. And then there are people who feel driven to make a poor decision because their friends tell them not to do it.
Peoples is funny.
Guess what, I have cataracts! Well I have known that for years. But my right eye is finally operable. So no getting new glasses until after the surgery. They put in a whole new lens now so the vision in my right eye could be fully corrected. Maybe I could start wearing a monocle.
Genejoke wrote:
Well it seems the UK has decided to go it alone and leave the EU… Worrying.
The EU is just another name for German European hegemony. What they failed to do with weapons 100 and 75 years ago they've succeeded in doing with economics.
Or at least that's what some would have you believe. So Britain needs to go it alone… again.
bravo1102 wrote:Genejoke wrote:
Well it seems the UK has decided to go it alone and leave the EU… Worrying.
The EU is just another name for German European hegemony. What they failed to do with weapons 100 and 75 years ago they've succeeded in doing with economics.
Or at least that's what some would have you believe. So Britain needs to go it alone… again.
Quite… it's unknown territories which would be less worrying but who know who will be steering the ship.
All the old gits have voted us out and all the youger voters who didn't want it now have to live with it. The same people who got unlimited jobs, cheap foreign holidays, early retirement and generous pensions are stitching us up because they hate foreigners and think we are going to stop immigration.
That can't happen of course, but they believe it because politicians are afraid to tell the truth.
bravo1102 wrote:Don't even joke about it. Get one!
Maybe I could start wearing a monocle.
I bought two from Ebay… but gave one away. :(
You can get them in different magnifications. You'd love them. They're great fun to wear!
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Exactly right Scarf. Fair enough if the country really does want to leave the Union, but it was mainly driven by xenophobia and nationalism, which are the wrong reasons.
In a democracy one of the most effective ways to sell something to the voters is to appeal to their emotions. Not a calm rational argument but xenophobia, nationalism, fear, tradition and so on.
So a lot of times and electorate will make the right vote for all the wrong reasons.
Traditionally and historically, Britain has been against single power domination of Continental Europe. Joining the EU was the break from tradition. I remember one editorial saying Britain joining the EU was merely a case of "if you can't beat'em join'em"
It'll take two years or more for the UK to get out so there's nothing really overnight earth shattering about this. Any market action is a flutter and not permanent. And then there's the simple fact that the EU has a large trade surplus with the UK. They are a valuable market for the EU and you just don't let that walk away no matter how anti social xenophobic they want to be. ;-)
There are other sides to it though than the long-view Barvo.
I have a Bulgarian friend there at the moment who's been travelling through the country. The climate surrounding the exit vote and most especially the victory has made life there intolerable for her and many foreign people- she can't wait to get out.
This is a massive endorsement for the white rights type parties and candidates. They can use this as a beachhead for more erosions of people's rights and make it a lot easier to promote their agenda.
ozoneocean wrote:
There are other sides to it though than the long-view Barvo.
I have a Bulgarian friend there at the moment who's been travelling through the country. The climate surrounding the exit vote and most especially the victory has made life there intolerable for her and many foreign people- she can't wait to get out.
This is a massive endorsement for the white rights type parties and candidates. They can use this as a beachhead for more erosions of people's rights and make it a lot easier to promote their agenda.
Appeal to emotions. Hate is a very powerful emotion. It's so easy to point to an immigrant and say "he stole your job" without knowing the years of work and sacrifice and support from friends and relatives it took for him to get there. You don't see all the ones still in jobless poverty in the home country so proud of the tiny success he made.
Or another who left everything they ever knew to enter an alien world all alobe seeking any opportunities because at home there is nothing.
It's so easy to resent that because you were here and took for granted what they had to cross half the world to get a chance at. The immigrants may just work longer and harder because they don't take things for granted.
But you know not taking a long view is what is missing from most hate groups. They don't know about know-nothings hating the Irish 200 years ago. Irish are mainstream now. They don't know about how early Pennsylvania was terrified of vanishing in a sea of Germans. Now one third of all Americans have German heritage and there is no Balkanization of Pennsylvania.
Long view gets you over the temporary race baiting to see that groups have always mixed and assimilated. Don't go on about future diversity, but tell them of the diversity that got them where they are. Your homogeneous group came from a great many heterogeneous groups.
ozoneocean wrote:
There are other sides to it though than the long-view Barvo.
I have a Bulgarian friend there at the moment who's been travelling through the country. The climate surrounding the exit vote and most especially the victory has made life there intolerable for her and many foreign people- she can't wait to get out.
This is a massive endorsement for the white rights type parties and candidates. They can use this as a beachhead for more erosions of people's rights and make it a lot easier to promote their agenda.
What's most worrying is these people now feel they have a mandate and when they finally work out immigration is not going to stop and their imaginary England is not going to return, all hell will break loose. Frightening times.
Genejoke wrote:
Or… those people will get angry and come the next general election ukip will win and then Nigel Farage will build death camps for non whites.
They're already there next to the FEMA camps for wrong thinking Americans that Obama built. Or was it G.W. Bush?
Don't worry Trump will help you reinstall all the beach barricades you have left over from stopping the Nazis. He'll get Mexico to pay for that too.
American tourism will probably surge because it sounds like the UK is becoming just like the US.
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