ButterSkeleton posted:

I'm totally gunna come off as an rear end on this, but looking into the replies, I'm kinda annoyed at Patrick Klepek because he seems like the whitest dude ever and he's asking people to DM him epilepsy stories.

I get it, but something about a cis white guy doing that kinda stuff rubs me the wrong way.

Nuebot posted:

Epilepsy is something that doesn't really give a poo poo about your race, gender, sex, or pretty much any other facet of your identity. People across the globe can get it and suffer from it, a lot of people can get hit by it and literally never know or realize what it is because we, as a sort of increasingly media reliant culture, have a weirdly specific and usually joke-focused definition of what epilepsy and seizures are (people watch cartoons, fall down flailing wildly and comically) and the majority of people will probably go through life without ever encountering a seizure or even knowing an epileptic personally even though there are certain types of non-dangerous epileptic activity that are fairly common in a lot of the population. All most people know about this poo poo tends to come from things like The Simpsons which had one episode that jokes about anime causing seizures. And the hosed up thing? Any epileptic who doesn't like being made light of like that just gets told to shut the gently caress up and stop being a bitch. Just like with the recent cyberpunk controversy where tons of people I, otherwise, thought were cool and respectable couldn't wait to prove just how much they loving hated people who's brains are broken.

It's something that doesn't get reported about, often, and a ton of people are very ignorant about to the point where there's this massive almost insultingly myopic view about epileptics where even people in progressive spaces just have zero sympathy or empathy for us. I see arguments like "Well if you ignore the warning signs whatever happens is your own fault" and it's just a really callous and exhausting one because basically every facet of your life is potentially seizure triggering unless you wear a blindfold all day and sleep perfectly every night in a hyperbaric chamber or some other absurd poo poo like that because it's an absurdly varied and individual disability to have. Know what the number one thing that makes me feel dizzy and faint is? The sun. Specifically morning sun, the way it flashes behind trees, poles and other things when riding in a bus or other vehicle. For years that made getting to school or work an absolute nightmare because sometimes I'd arrive borderline incoherent and most people would just shrug their shoulders and tell me that was my own problem (I, in fact, failed phys ed. because my school didn't give a poo poo about what my doctor said). There's nothing I can do about that except try to work my life around that poo poo and I was lucky enough to be diagnosed when I was young so I've had decades to adjust and adapt to a fairly restrictive life in regards to garbage like that. For people who get diagnosed later in life, it's very difficult to adapt because depending on the severity they might well have to treat every day like they're made of glass now and if anything goes wrong the entire world is ready to just tell them to gently caress off it's their own fault. It's really, really, hosed up how lovely people are to epileptics and diabetics, yo.

Here's a personal anecdote about just how much this poo poo sucks: I was diagnosed at thirteen. I had just started learning how to drive, because I'd have been able to get my learners in the next few years, and was really excited to finally have a car and be able to drive. But my seizures were hard hitting and we didn't know what triggered them right away, so unless we could figure that out and get them under control (in my state at least it's something like two years seizure free and owning your own car and having a driver's license is pretty key to a poo poo ton of jobs in America, even if you don't need them for that job - boy howdy let me tell you how fun it is to try and get a job when you have neither of these things.) then I'd just flat out never be able to drive. So that was one hopeful dream smashed. Movies? Video games? Watching TV? Even browsing the internet? Well again, depending on what set off the seizures and whether or not we could find a medication that would get them under control I would either not be able to do these things at all or would have to do so in a severely limited fashion lest I be risking my life every time I wanted to look at fun jpgs. Oh and stress and exhaustion exacerbated my new condition and made me even more prone to seizures. Know what makes me real stressed and exhausted? Having all of my hobbies potentially hacked away from my life and having to spend the next few decades structuring my life around a heavily restricted schedule and public transit. Any time I had a seizure my doctor blamed me for it. I wasn't following the restrictions, I wasn't taking my medication, I wasn't doing it right. But the medication didn't work. I kept saying this, it didn't loving work. It just made me sick. Seizures kept coming, and since no one loving listens to an epileptic, they just blame us, I got to spend a good few years getting worse and worse until I could finally, legally, make my own medical choices and find a doctor who would listen to me. Even then it took us another five years to find a medication that works because that's just the joy of epilepsy. My current medication, and as far as we know the only thing that works, destroys my bones though. I now have to take five different medications just to stop my ribs from shattering at the most mild of impacts, it's just a loving horror show down there now, not a single one lines up with another anymore. Oh, and during all of this? I had no one to talk to. No one who gave a poo poo. Because Epilepsiy is a funny joke! Pretty much anyone who found out in real life spaces would immediately try to start flashing the nearest light switch. People online would start sending gifs and youtube links.

I say all of this because holy gently caress, if the reaction to that cyberpunk thing proved anything it's that we desperately need more people to report on epilepsy. Because, still, people don't give a poo poo about epileptics. Our experiences are ignored and dismissed, even when it's about our own reactions and experiences. People continually look for excuses to blame us for what happens and the sheer disdain shown for something we literally have no control over is not only disgusting, but depressing. We deserve to have fun too, and we deserve to be treated with respect like anyone else. But at best people just kind of treat us like we don't exist. Because when they do, it's just as a joke or active dislike.

Babysitter Super Sleuth posted:

The absolute loving peak of this whole saga was Destiny forgetting/not knowing how personalized trends on Twitter work and accusing RL of gangstalking him by making LSAT trend.

No.1 Special posted:

Maggie Mae Fish - How to Make a Martha || Zack Snyder, Part 3:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RflVJW_MRbs

The last one.

No.1 Special posted:

Maggie Mae Fish - How to Make a Martha || Zack Snyder, Part 3:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RflVJW_MRbs

The last one.

Kim Justice posted:

Which take is worse: Being mad at Patrick Klepek for following the basic tasks of his job, or calling Mia Mulder bougie for complaining about being woken up by jackhammers in the morning?

Ghostlight posted:

please don't post minion memes in this thread

ButterSkeleton posted:

I have a predisposition against super white rear end journalists who write articles about the suffering of others. In this case the article work definitely isn't a race/gender thing, but the approach is still white as hell. Sitting at home and collecting stories in DMs is IMO the safest, whitest poo poo on the planet.

JordanKai posted:

https://twitter.com/Ad_Inifinitum/status/1336710426420269058

These days you'll get arrested and thrown in jail just for saying you failed the LSAT.

No.1 Special posted:

The last one.

josh04 posted:

Nucleic Acids posted:

The fact that he didn’t have a cheat sheet at hand is quite funny.

Srice posted:

Jeremy Parish put out a video on Final Fantasy Legend II, and since the Gameboy SaGa/Final Fantasy Legend compilation is out in less than a week that's some excellent timing on his part.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9n-BzSYWAs

Takoluka posted:

He specifically moved this video ahead of schedule to coincide with the release.

nine-gear crow posted:

Couldn't happen to a nicer collection of neck hair.

Dawgstar posted:

What happened?

Dawgstar posted:

What happened?

sexpig by night posted:

I mean, on the whole he's a miserable psycho who makes like fifty videos screaming about the same 'WOMAN SAID THING!!!!! AAAAAAAAAA!!!!!' thing.

In this case he got very mad that a reviewer gave Cyberpunk a 7 (the bastard, how can small indie studio CDPR recover from that savaging) and in her negatives she said things like 'a lot of the side stuff is just kinda meaningless to do and actually feels really disconnected from the main story, so at a point I just stopped doing them', and 'the customization/hacking stuff feels extremely tacked on, I hardly used it when the game didn't make me'. So naturally this means she didn't really even play the game and is just LYING to hurt your best friend the Polish game studio who can't stop mocking minorities.

sexpig by night posted:

...in her negatives she said things like 'a lot of the side stuff is just kinda meaningless to do and actually feels really disconnected from the main story, so at a point I just stopped doing them', and 'the customization/hacking stuff feels extremely tacked on, I hardly used it when the game didn't make me'.

Groovelord Neato posted:

I love the reactionaries whining about game reviews when the real travesty is one of the all time greatest games (New Vegas) ended up with an 84 on metacritic mostly due to bugs screwing Obsidian out of a bonus mostly when this game is buggy to the point people are calling it unfinished and currently sits at 90.

Groovelord Neato posted:

I love the reactionaries whining about game reviews when the real travesty is one of the all time greatest games (New Vegas) ended up with an 84 on metacritic mostly due to bugs screwing Obsidian out of a bonus mostly when this game is buggy to the point people are calling it unfinished and currently sits at 90.

SimonChris posted:

https://twitter.com/HardDriveMag/status/1335947292810080256

Sydin posted:

Too late unfortunately, their stock has already dipped over 10% because of the harsh reviews rolling in.

Bakeneko posted:

What reviews are these? Most of the ones I’ve seen have been glowing.

I’ve barely scratched the surface of the game so it’s not like I can give it a full review myself, but I can say I’m loving it so far. No game could ever hope to live up to 5 years of hype, and Witcher 3 was the toughest possible act to follow, but I’d say it was definitely worth the wait if a few launch bugs are the worst people can find to say about it.

Bakeneko posted:

What reviews are these? Most of the ones I’ve seen have been glowing.

I’ve barely scratched the surface of the game so it’s not like I can give it a full review myself, but I can say I’m loving it so far. No game could ever hope to live up to 5 years of hype, and Witcher 3 was the toughest possible act to follow, but I’d say it was definitely worth the wait if a few launch bugs are the worst people can find to say about it.