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[Nintex]

Nepenthe

That thread is discussing elements of Indian politics and nationalism that staff are not up to date on. We're going to do some due diligence first before deciding what to do with the remaining reports in the system and the thread as a whole. Please be patient.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/conservative-party-of-canada-leader-has-a-freudian-slip-and-utters-the-n-word-hard-r-while-bumblefucking-his-way-through-condolences-for-sikh-leader.765884/post-112289585

"Please tell us who is the good guy and who is the evil guy"

You can't expect us to learn everything about a foreign culture and its politics.


Wow how can you not know this youtuber used a starfox meme that is harmful and offensive to the black queer furry culture who grew up in uptown san francisco in the late 2000's. Being from England is no excuse. >Banned

[Venice]

1695146775[/url]']
https://www.resetera.com/threads/my-co-workers-are-ignoring-me-and-some-of-my-friends.766100/

I’ve started to this job back in May 2022. Our company has around 100 employees and our team has 9 members. When I started, I see people that are doing jokes and talking to each other. Since I didn’t know anyone I thought talking to people would be good idea to socialize but sadly there wasn’t an opportunity.

In my 3rd week there was a BBQ event. I thought its perfect time. When three people talk to each other from cinema and games (I am gonna name them A, B and C and A is our team lead), I expressed some of my opinions too but they just say “Yeah. Okay.” Or just didn’t care.

After the BBQ, A organized a camping event with friends but they said they need more people and in front of us (newbies) they didn’t even offered to us. B just called his friends outside the work and C doesn’t even know them but they still didn’t invite us.

So I start to hang out with new employees like me. I had good friendship with them. We drink coffee go, for a walk, eat together etc.

But some weeks later, C approached the only woman in our group for drinking coffee and go for a walk and didn’t even invite us. All of these happens in front of us. And when I talk to my friend, she said B doesn’t trust other people so much so that’s why when he makes an organization, he doesn’t invite you or others. But after that, I learn that A and C are like this too.

Nearly 1.5 years have passed and nothing has changed. C invited her to their annually camping and they went driving school together. Well of course I don’t care about this but I told this because to say, they can hang out with new friends and ignoring us.

I can understand that maybe they don’t want to hang out with us but they don’t even talk to us daily. I might switch jobs because of that. My old job had great people and I miss my friends at there.

I would love to know the full story on this, I can only imagine how awkward the OP is

My man, the full story is right in these tl;dr quotes:

"C approached the only woman in our group for drinking coffee and go for a walk and didn’t even invite us."

"C invited her to their annually camping and they went driving school together. Well of course I don’t care about this"

He very much does care about this.

This stalker/creep obviously fancies this woman and has been either friend-zoned or ghosted and now can't stand it because co-worker 'C', aka 'Chad', is boning her 

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/how-much-will-the-rumored-ps5-pro-cost.766022/page-2#post-112275680

Also, polls like these shouldn't exist at all, when industry personnel visit this site day in and out.

Resetera is an influential forum. Many platform holders gauge interest and take these opinions to heart and implement in their end product.

No amount of arguments like "I'm just being realistic with the silicon/fab process being expensive now", or recent SONY price hike trends, margins, manufacturing costs, BoM, etc, should matter to the end consumer, who SHOULD ALWAYS expect their best in their end.

If SONY senses people online are okay or there's no pushback, they will go with the worst case scenario and the people who are going to get affected are the average people who don't even frequent to message boards.

Again, it's disheartening to see that poll, and people seriously, for some reason, "WANT" this to be expensive for some weird schadenfreude.

Yeah, I'm sure Sony will change their multi-million or maybe billion dollar business decisions based on a ResetERA.com poll.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/katy-perry-sells-music-catalog-for-225-million.765641/#post-112208780

User Banned (2 Weeks): Conspiracy Theorizing

There’s a conspiracy theory I’ve seen on some Reddit comments and another forum, about how the elite (musicians , actors, high society folk, company execs etc) are liquidating due to the end time approaching. I know a bunch of other musicians have sold their catalogues recently. I saw a tweet reply a while ago in response to Bob Dylan selling his entire catalogue, stating how the rich know that we’re gonna be in a post apocalypse scenario in the near future so they hunkering down now and using their wealth to build impenetrable bunkers and whatnot.

Sorry don’t mean to derail, but seeing this headline just made me chuckle thinking how this just adds more fuel to those peoples fire haha

So do you get banned just for posting conspiracy theories you don't advocate, so advocating them constantly is totally fine as long as you don't admit it's one?

Nepenthe

That thread is discussing elements of Indian politics and nationalism that staff are not up to date on. We're going to do some due diligence first before deciding what to do with the remaining reports in the system and the thread as a whole. Please be patient.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/conservative-party-of-canada-leader-has-a-freudian-slip-and-utters-the-n-word-hard-r-while-bumblefucking-his-way-through-condolences-for-sikh-leader.765884/post-112289585

I could not have said it better. All of this, but especially the bolded.

I've been Black for 42 years and counting. When I say it, it's ALWAYS on purpose. I readily assume the same for anyone else, ESPECIALLY white people.

I've been a white male for 46 years and counting... and I can confirm that Poilievre's faux-pas was 100% on purpose as well. Anyone who argues otherwise is willfully naive or ignorant at best. Fuck, I'm not even going to give him the benefit of the doubt that it was "an accidental slip of the tongue because he says it all the time elsewhere". I think he actually intended to say it here. By choice. To show he could get away with it and then brag about it afterwards.

Pierre is a wicked, monstrous individual who has the absolute worst intentions behind every single thing he does. He is Ron DeSantis with a veneer of self-awareness and that's about it.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/conservative-party-of-canada-leader-has-a-freudian-slip-and-utters-the-n-word-hard-r-while-bumblefucking-his-way-through-condolences-for-sikh-leader.765884/post-112278587

Do they not believe in slip of the tongues. Like are they some sort of gaslight operation started by the CIA?

They seriously believe this guy has just been waiting for a chance to drop the n-word and when he saw the chance he couldn't resist. They basically don't know any racists or people who love saying slurs just to say them so they invent elaborate projection-based theories of how other people act rather than realize these types of people absolutely do not care about setting up plausible deniability. "Yeah, I totally said it and got away with it. How based am I?" Who do they imagine he's doing this bragging to? Where? Discord?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/im-getting-unlimited-hotpot-and-korean-bbq-tonight-how-can-i-maximize-my-hunger-and-fit-the-most-amount-of-food-inside-me-possible.766076/

I'm 6'2", 205 lbs with a 25% BMI if that helps.

It does not because that's not how BMI works.

[Greatness Gone]

Someone explain to me the feigned surprise that Phil Spencer is, in reality, not a hardcore game enthusiast making decisions to empower gamers and is instead a businessman who's trying to make Xbox a successful brand. Why is Ree mad that a working man is just attempting to do his job?

[Boredfrom]

Yeah, I'm sure Sony will change their multi-million or maybe billion dollar business decisions based on a ResetERA.com poll.

Yeah, they are not Unity.

[benji]

Someone explain to me the feigned surprise that Phil Spencer is, in reality, not a hardcore game enthusiast making decisions to empower gamers and is instead a businessman who's trying to make Xbox a successful brand. Why is Ree mad that a working man is just attempting to do his job?

When someone tells you who they are, listen.

Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

Phil Spencer is just trying to setup a way to say the n-word with a hard r and get away with it so he can brag.

[kaleidoscopium]

When three people talk to each other from cinema and games (I am gonna name them A, B and C and A is our team lead), I expressed some of my opinions too but they just say “Yeah. Okay.” Or just didn’t care.

A- Batman was pretty cool.
B- Not as good as Joker imo beca-
Opie- The Eternals got only 80 on rotten tomatoes but that's most likely due to chuds and other alt right elements! Most people don't even understand that  Captain Marvel is emotionless on purpose because she's an alien from...
A, B, and C (in unison)- "Yeah. Okay."
C- Anyways, I finally got around to playing the Harry Potter game.i thought it was pretty coo-
Opie- Don't get me started on Shit K Terfrowling and the genocide!
A, B, C- Yeah. OKAY.

Unrelated, but reminds me of an exchange I had recently with a friend of a friend at a gaming store.

*looking at games on the rack*
Friend of Friend (A) notices Hogwarts Legacy, used, for $55. "Wow this looks so fun, maybe I can justify getting it now that it's used and she won't get any profits....!"
Me: "What about the eventual DLC? Wouldn't that become more moral quandary for you?"
A: "Ugh... you are right..." and put the game back on the shelf.

I'll never understand how people can't just... play games lol

[benji]

Unrelated, but reminds me of an exchange I had recently with a friend of a friend at a gaming store.

*looking at games on the rack*
Friend of Friend (A) notices Hogwarts Legacy, used, for $55. "Wow this looks so fun, maybe I can justify getting it now that it's used and she won't get any profits....!"
Me: "What about the eventual DLC? Wouldn't that become more moral quandary for you?"
A: "Ugh... you are right..." and put the game back on the shelf.

I'll never understand how people can't just... play games lol

They were trying to get what they want while signaling how good of person they are. You fucked it up by reminding them of their true priorities.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asceticism

[kaleidoscopium]

just gotta hope that I've inceptioned them to consider their original position is retarded

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/conservative-party-of-canada-leader-has-a-freudian-slip-and-utters-the-n-word-hard-r-while-bumblefucking-his-way-through-condolences-for-sikh-leader.765884/page-3#post-112282841



India: (Allegedly) Assassinates a Canadian citizen, on Canadian soil, because he is the leader of the pro-separatist Khalistan movement, potentially causing a major diplomatic incident between the two countries with severe ramifications, both politically but also for Indian citizens of both countries, for years to come especially since Canada is host to one of the largest Sikh communities in the world outside of India itself

Era: But this guy may have said the 'n-word', why isn't the mainstream media covering THAT instead?? 

Living permanently in the Era bubble has seriously fucked up people's priorities.

To borrow a phrase from the Reeeeesetera idiots, they're just showing their arse when it comes to their own racism and prejudice. 

Brown people don't rank as high as black people on the oppression Olympics scale, so fuck them if they think a political assassination on foreign soil is important. Someone accidentally mispronounced a name that kinda sounded like a bad word™ so let's concentrate on that!

[Uncle]

User Banned (2 Weeks): Conspiracy Theorizing

There’s a conspiracy theory I’ve seen on some Reddit comments and another forum, about how the elite (musicians , actors, high society folk, company execs etc) are liquidating due to the end time approaching. I know a bunch of other musicians have sold their catalogues recently. I saw a tweet reply a while ago in response to Bob Dylan selling his entire catalogue, stating how the rich know that we’re gonna be in a post apocalypse scenario in the near future so they hunkering down now and using their wealth to build impenetrable bunkers and whatnot.

Sorry don’t mean to derail, but seeing this headline just made me chuckle thinking how this just adds more fuel to those peoples fire haha

So do you get banned just for posting conspiracy theories you don't advocate, so advocating them constantly is totally fine as long as you don't admit it's one?

if entertainers are liquidating (and let's face it, most of the rich are rich because they provided some form of entertainment), it's because they know the value of entertainment is about to drop through the floor with the AI rush
 

bob dylan sells his catalogue because he knows in a year people are going to steal his voice to make him sing whatever they want and he needs to cash out before it's worthless

[PogiJones]

Nepenthe

That thread is discussing elements of Indian politics and nationalism that staff are not up to date on. We're going to do some due diligence first before deciding what to do with the remaining reports in the system and the thread as a whole. Please be patient.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/conservative-party-of-canada-leader-has-a-freudian-slip-and-utters-the-n-word-hard-r-while-bumblefucking-his-way-through-condolences-for-sikh-leader.765884/post-112289585

I've got a novel idea, Nep. What if you just let people talk about their opinions without enforcing (an inevitably bad) one from on high?

[Boredfrom]

Why even let Excel make threads anymore. Is pretty clear the key issue (the death of the sikh leader) is a pretty complicated are of  Canadian politics just to say “HUR HUR CONSERVATIVE ALMOST SAID THE N-WORD HUR HUR”.

EDIT: Wait, it was not excel the one that made the thread . I swear I thought it was her.

[Boredfrom]

This is surprising and uncharacteristic of a democracy not named US or Israel.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/intelligence-shows-india-was-behind-slaying-of-sikh-leader-in-surrey-b-c.765824/

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/conservative-party-of-canada-leader-has-a-freudian-slip-and-utters-the-n-word-hard-r-while-bumblefucking-his-way-through-condolences-for-sikh-leader.765884/page-3#post-112286747

User Banned (1 Week): Dismissive commentary over multiple posts.

Never mind. I don't even know why I bother with this side of the forum.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/conservative-party-of-canada-leader-has-a-freudian-slip-and-utters-the-n-word-hard-r-while-bumblefucking-his-way-through-condolences-for-sikh-leader.765884/page-3#post-112287278

User Banned (1 Month): Excusing use of the N-word

this is pretty much a nothing burger. attack him for his racist, transphobic policies. attack him for his insane apathy toward drug users and people in poverty. don’t waste your time on a slip of the tongue.

I suppose if this draws attention to what a piece of shit he is, all the better though.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/russell-brand-accused-of-rape-sexual-assaults-and-abuse.764789/page-9#post-112120760

User Banned (2 Weeks): Inflammatory Generalization

Aww, it would be a shame if Noel was one of them, but he does have that odd effeminate/hyper masculine mix that the classic 70's perverts had. As for Brand, I'd be more surprised if someone found definitive proof that he wasn't a sex pest, I always assumed it was a given with the creepy cult leader vibes he gives off.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/fortune-us-covid-levels-are-so-high-they%E2%80%99re-hovering-near-2020%E2%80%99s-initial-peak.765491/page-2#post-112189355

User Banned (2 Week): Dismissive Misinformation

Fuck sakes, and people don't give a shit, I swear I'm gonna fucking die before I hit 30 over this shit over my complications, even being quadruple vaxxed. Ugh. Will continue doing the necessary measures, but it's frustrating.

Are you equally susceptible to the flu or even the common cold? How were you holding up before Covid became endemic? It’s mostly an upper respiratory sickness now.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/phil-spencer-in-2020-getting-acquiring-nintendo-would-be-a-career-moment-nintendos-future-exists-off-of-their-own-hardware.765935/page-20#post-112264652

User banned (2 weeks): misrepresenting moderation, prior ban for platform warring

They will try to buy everyone they can, this is their strategy and it's pretty clear for like 3 years now and people will cheer for them because they will be able to play "for free" on GP. You can even find posts in this thread.

The acquisition thread is full of this and you get thread banned for saying otherwise.
What Spencer is after, is changing the industry for worse.

[BIONIC]

Not reading this shit, but in case someone wants to

We haven't seen Legion. Reading the Wikipedia page, it seems to make the common misconception of associating Dissociative Identity Disorder and Schizophrenia together? While the two can be comorbid with each other, they're very different conditions.

As for Split... I can only speak of my own opinion here as I'm the one fronting, but it's not a very flattering or accurate portrayal. James McAvoy does good with the body language, at least, and I like that they showed female alters. But the rest of the movie regurgitates some of the worst stereotypes and inaccuracies regarding DID and OSDD. Systems with DID are more likely to be the victims of violence, rather than violent themselves.

In regards to opening up about this, yes. Liz and Margie both had objections initially about making this thread. In fact, this was a big reason why we haven't discussed it too much here. We only agreed to it after watching Moon Knight, and even then Liz still had a lot of hesitation at first. Unfortunately, harassment is still a very common thing, and while I appreciate the wonderful responses from everyone, this thread isn't exactly private even in the members only section.

In your example regarding amnesia, there would have to be a compromise of some sort there. The example you mentioned isn't one that would typically come up (some of us like horror, but there is a universal dislike of excessive gore due to violence being a trigger) so it's hard to say what we would do in that situation. Additionally, while all of us would remember what happened, we wouldn't be able to perfectly recall it unless we were fronting. The details would be like any other memory at that point.

We should get to Episode 4 of Moon Knight today.

Episodes 4 and 5 were very emotionally intense in a way we weren't expecting. I don't know how I feel about the portrayal of some aspects of it. But there were also aspects I absolutely loved. I don't think Moon Knight is a perfect representation of DID, and I'm not even sure it's possible for a perfect representation to given how varied the condition can be. But it's one of the best we've seen in a TV show/movie.

We watched the two episodes in parts over the course of the day, especially as episode 5 had a lot of triggering content. I had to stop at one point because of this. Episode 6 is going to be for tomorrow or Thursday because of this.

On the Layla and Steven scenes in episode 4, [ISPOILER]I enjoyed the dynamic between the two of them a lot. It was enjoyable watching them go through the tomb and solve riddles and stuff. Steven being an absolute dork the whole way through was personally relatable to me. That being said, the kiss between the two of them was unsettling, and Liz did not like it at all. I think our dislike of this scene was the one two combination of how we view our own relationships with others, and just second hand embarrassment. [/ISPOILER]

On the Asylum[ISPOILER]/Afterlife scenes, those were very hard to watch. I found the whole "Dr. Harrow" character to be simultaneously rather interesting as a representation of an existing character, but also kind of a jackass. With DID/OSDD you have to have a therapist you can trust to explore things gradually. You can't have a therapist who is constantly poking at your wounds like Dr. Harrow does. If there's a protector alter in the system, that's a good way to force them to the front instead of the intended alter/headmate. I get what the production team was trying to go for here - the scene is a figment of Marc's mind and he won't let Steven into it, and it's also supernaturally induced. The "Dr Harrow" is also clearly meant to represent a well-meaning person who is going about it the wrong way, like Arthur Harrow himself.[/ISPOILER] But I suspect that those who aren't familiar with DID/OSDD might get the wrong idea from this scene entirely, and I wouldn't want them to think that this is an acceptable way to handle treatment.

I liked the fact that Marc and Steven gradually grow to trust each other over the course of it. They open up, and work together to solve the issues they're facing. It is very much like how [USER=22690]Harmony Friends[/USER]  described it. Understanding each other. This is what it means to be healthy when dealing with a condition like this. Instead of fusing everyone together like a blob of parts, you learn to strengthen the connections and bonds with the other so you can live a happier life.

The scenes showing Marc[ISPOILER]'s dissociation and the events leading up to it were particularly tough. Losing a family member, especially a sibling, is traumatic. Watching a family member be devastated from such an event is even harder, and I felt that aspect of watching a family member get worse and worse on a personal level. Our own dissociation wasn't dramatic as that, but the way Marc kept saying "It's not my mom, it's not my mom..." before Steven appeared and took over was definitely something that struck a chord with us. [/ISPOILER]

Steven [ISPOILER]realizing his mother is dead and him not taking well to the fact that he was "made up" to take the abuse very chilling. We haven't gone through that kind of parental abuse like that, but it is definitely something we understood. I struggled to watch it in particular. For headmates/alters who are not the host, it can sometimes feel like you just exist as a byproduct or extra. This scene actually got me thinking very deeply about how I relate to the other headmates in our system. Especially as the system's primary host. [/ISPOILER]

[ISPOILER]Taweret[/ISPOILER] was absolutely great and one of the highlights of these two episodes. [ISPOILER]Her first appearance was hilarious, and we got a laugh at her asking if they were twins and both Marc and Steven giving her different answers. [/ISPOILER]

EDIT: Something I forgot to mention too [ISPOILER]Steven being based off a fictional character. Fictives are common in DID systems, and can often take the form of characters from media that people know. But what I really found impressive is that Steven himself seems to not be a fictive directly and instead simply has the fictional character as a basis. That's very relatable on a personal level. There are no fictives in our system, and our system was formed long before this. But people reading this thread closely might have noticed that two of the five people in our system have names taken from a certain PS1 RPG. That also deals with Dissociative Identity Disorder as a major plot point. [/ISPOILER] An incredible attention to detail right there from the showrunners.

[books]

Lots of bannings. Mods must be mad there's not a third mod who is an expert in Indian politics.

Edit- these people are straight up insane. Not crazy crazy. But look at me I'm eating glue crazy.

[Potato]

User Banned (2 Weeks): Conspiracy Theorizing

There’s a conspiracy theory I’ve seen on some Reddit comments and another forum, about how the elite (musicians , actors, high society folk, company execs etc) are liquidating due to the end time approaching. I know a bunch of other musicians have sold their catalogues recently. I saw a tweet reply a while ago in response to Bob Dylan selling his entire catalogue, stating how the rich know that we’re gonna be in a post apocalypse scenario in the near future so they hunkering down now and using their wealth to build impenetrable bunkers and whatnot.

Sorry don’t mean to derail, but seeing this headline just made me chuckle thinking how this just adds more fuel to those peoples fire haha

So do you get banned just for posting conspiracy theories you don't advocate, so advocating them constantly is totally fine as long as you don't admit it's one?

if entertainers are liquidating (and let's face it, most of the rich are rich because they provided some form of entertainment), it's because they know the value of entertainment is about to drop through the floor with the AI rush
 

bob dylan sells his catalogue because he knows in a year people are going to steal his voice to make him sing whatever they want and he needs to cash out before it's worthless

Why would anyone pay an extortionate amount to see some shitty 35 year old "artist" who lip-syncs her 3 minute pop ditties about teenage love or wet ass pussies when they can see an AI-generated holographic version of Elvis sing whatever they want? 

Girl better get herself an OnlyFans account if she wants to eat...

[Potato]

Why even let Excel make threads anymore. Is pretty clear the key issue (the death of the sikh leader) is a pretty complicated are of  Canadian politics just to say “HUR HUR CONSERVATIVE ALMOST SAID THE N-WORD HUR HUR”.

EDIT: Wait, it was not excel the one that made the thread  . I swear I thought it was her.

Understandable mistake honestly.

[Potato]

This is surprising and uncharacteristic of a democracy not named US or Israel.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/intelligence-shows-india-was-behind-slaying-of-sikh-leader-in-surrey-b-c.765824/

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA

They really are that fucking stupid, huh?

[benji]

Not reading this shit, but in case someone wants to

We haven't seen Legion. Reading the Wikipedia page, it seems to make the common misconception of associating Dissociative Identity Disorder and Schizophrenia together? While the two can be comorbid with each other, they're very different conditions.

As for Split... I can only speak of my own opinion here as I'm the one fronting, but it's not a very flattering or accurate portrayal. James McAvoy does good with the body language, at least, and I like that they showed female alters. But the rest of the movie regurgitates some of the worst stereotypes and inaccuracies regarding DID and OSDD. Systems with DID are more likely to be the victims of violence, rather than violent themselves.

In regards to opening up about this, yes. Liz and Margie both had objections initially about making this thread. In fact, this was a big reason why we haven't discussed it too much here. We only agreed to it after watching Moon Knight, and even then Liz still had a lot of hesitation at first. Unfortunately, harassment is still a very common thing, and while I appreciate the wonderful responses from everyone, this thread isn't exactly private even in the members only section.

In your example regarding amnesia, there would have to be a compromise of some sort there. The example you mentioned isn't one that would typically come up (some of us like horror, but there is a universal dislike of excessive gore due to violence being a trigger) so it's hard to say what we would do in that situation. Additionally, while all of us would remember what happened, we wouldn't be able to perfectly recall it unless we were fronting. The details would be like any other memory at that point.

Episodes 4 and 5 were very emotionally intense in a way we weren't expecting. I don't know how I feel about the portrayal of some aspects of it. But there were also aspects I absolutely loved. I don't think Moon Knight is a perfect representation of DID, and I'm not even sure it's possible for a perfect representation to given how varied the condition can be. But it's one of the best we've seen in a TV show/movie.

We watched the two episodes in parts over the course of the day, especially as episode 5 had a lot of triggering content. I had to stop at one point because of this. Episode 6 is going to be for tomorrow or Thursday because of this.

On the Layla and Steven scenes in episode 4, [ISPOILER]I enjoyed the dynamic between the two of them a lot. It was enjoyable watching them go through the tomb and solve riddles and stuff. Steven being an absolute dork the whole way through was personally relatable to me. That being said, the kiss between the two of them was unsettling, and Liz did not like it at all. I think our dislike of this scene was the one two combination of how we view our own relationships with others, and just second hand embarrassment. [/ISPOILER]

...

Watching a family member be devastated from such an event is even harder, and I felt that aspect of watching a family member get worse and worse on a personal level. Our own dissociation wasn't dramatic as that, but the way Marc kept saying "It's not my mom, it's not my mom..." before Steven appeared and took over was definitely something that struck a chord with us.

...

We haven't gone through that kind of parental abuse like that, but it is definitely something we understood. I struggled to watch it in particular. For headmates/alters who are not the host, it can sometimes feel like you just exist as a byproduct or extra. This scene actually got me thinking very deeply about how I relate to the other headmates in our system. Especially as the system's primary host.

...

EDIT: Something I forgot to mention too [ISPOILER]Steven being based off a fictional character. Fictives are common in DID systems, and can often take the form of characters from media that people know. But what I really found impressive is that Steven himself seems to not be a fictive directly and instead simply has the fictional character as a basis. That's very relatable on a personal level. There are no fictives in our system, and our system was formed long before this. But people reading this thread closely might have noticed that two of the five people in our system have names taken from a certain PS1 RPG. That also deals with Dissociative Identity Disorder as a major plot point. [/ISPOILER] An incredible attention to detail right there from the showrunners.

So this raises at least one question, are they rewatching the episodes over and over as each member of the system fronts?

edit: Actually, it's remarkable that all the alters despite being distinct personalities don't have different opinions about the show, Marvel, the experience of DID, etc.

[NekoFever]

Fictives are common in DID systems, and can often take the form of characters from media that people know.

Oh, look, another pretend self-diagnosed mental disorder for people who spend far too much time online and watching cartoons.

[Besticus Maximus]

We were sat there, thinking about how I used to play Resident Evil while some dude railed my mom in the next room when Wesker and Barry fronted for the first time. We remembered then that Wesker, Barry, Jill and Mr Arkley where always there even before Resident Evil came out. Yes, yes they were. When the moon is fat and the sky is bidden we shall hunt.

[benji]

Fictives are common in DID systems, and can often take the form of characters from media that people know.

Oh, look, another pretend self-diagnosed mental disorder for people who spend far too much time online and watching cartoons.

Even better, it's another instance where they're taking normal behavior you're supposed to grow out of and adopting it as a badge of pride purely to claim that they're different rather than developing an actual individual personality.

Children do this, and it's fine, it's part of developing the capability of imagination. Children either know or eventually know that it's not real because this is also a key component in development. Many of our LARPers (see also: trans communities fondness for "girl" and other lower age statuses) have a strong psychological interest in rejecting being an adult and regressing into children. Then demanding everyone else treat this as "real" because they humor children in this regard. Even though this is done because it's recognized as a phase (IT'S NOT A PHASE MOM THIS IS WHO I REALLY AM) and that they will grow out of it. (And if they don't, it's a problem that needs to be addressed. Something our LARPers also reject, that's genocide.)

This also explains their political views, they want a police state that treats them personally as children in the loving way. Treating everyone else as children, and thus oppressing them massively, does not bother them as long as they get what they want.

As someone radically in favor of liberty and also in favor of people with mental health issues getting better and happy, you know the more I learn about it, I find that I may be starting to not care for it and eventually may become against it.

[Besticus Maximus]

Fictives are common in DID systems, and can often take the form of characters from media that people know.

Oh, look, another pretend self-diagnosed mental disorder for people who spend far too much time online and watching cartoons.

Even better, it's another instance where they're taking normal behavior you're supposed to grow out of and adopting it as a badge of pride purely to claim that they're different rather than developing an actual individual personality.

Children do this, and it's fine, it's part of developing the capability of imagination. Children either know or eventually know that it's not real because this is also a key component in development. Many of our LARPers (see also: trans communities fondness for "girl" and other lower age statuses) have a strong psychological interest in rejecting being an adult and regressing into children. Then demanding everyone else treat this as "real" because they humor children in this regard. Even though this is done because it's recognized as a phase (IT'S NOT A PHASE MOM THIS IS WHO I REALLY AM) and that they will grow out of it. (And if they don't, it's a problem that needs to be addressed. Something our LARPers also reject, that's genocide.)

This also explains their political views, they want a police state that treats them personally as children in the loving way. Treating everyone else as children, and thus oppressing them massively, does not bother them as long as they get what they want.

As someone radically in favor of liberty and also in favor of people with mental health issues getting better and happy, you know the more I learn about it, I find that I may be starting to not care for it and eventually may become against it.

Oh brave new world, that has such people in it!

[MJBarret]

On the topic of self-serving delusions, I almost never trust anyone who casually mentions that they were raped or molested online.

Everyone I've even remotely known in real life who went through that shit, never bring it up! It's not something they want anyone but their therapist to think about when interacting with them. It's usually the worst thing that's happened to them and they don't like wearing that nightmare like it's their identity.

So every time I see someone on Era use that shit like it's nothing more than an ATK/DEF buff to win internet arguements I can't help but view it with the same skepticism I hold for "Headcases"/"Headmates"

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[Potato]

When three people talk to each other from cinema and games (I am gonna name them A, B and C and A is our team lead), I expressed some of my opinions too but they just say “Yeah. Okay.” Or just didn’t care.

A- Batman was pretty cool.
B- Not as good as Joker imo beca-
Opie- The Eternals got only 80 on rotten tomatoes but that's most likely due to chuds and other alt right elements! Most people don't even understand that  Captain Marvel is emotionless on purpose because she's an alien from...
A, B, and C (in unison)- "Yeah. Okay."
C- Anyways, I finally got around to playing the Harry Potter game.i thought it was pretty coo-
Opie- Don't get me started on Shit K Terfrowling and the genocide!
A, B, C- Yeah. OKAY.

Unrelated, but reminds me of an exchange I had recently with a friend of a friend at a gaming store.

*looking at games on the rack*
Friend of Friend (A) notices Hogwarts Legacy, used, for $55. "Wow this looks so fun, maybe I can justify getting it now that it's used and she won't get any profits....!"
Me: "What about the eventual DLC? Wouldn't that become more moral quandary for you?"
A: "Ugh... you are right..." and put the game back on the shelf.

I'll never understand how people can't just... play games lol

You should make it your mission in life to advise that person about the problematic roots of every single game in the world, just to fuck up their day...every day.