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a cyborg mug
Mar 8, 2010



Eat My Fuc posted:

It's hosed up that episode of Louie where he jacks off in front of the girl in his car and then it ended up being something he actually did.

You write what you know I guess

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jesus WEP
Oct 17, 2004


I can still make myself mad about Freaks and Geeks only getting one season, if I try

yea ok
Jul 27, 2006

that's talent

Mekchu
Apr 10, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

jesus WEP posted:

I can still make myself mad about Freaks and Geeks only getting one season, if I try

My clique should be canceled like Freaks & Geeks

jesus WEP
Oct 17, 2004


I’m mad

Mekchu
Apr 10, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Apparently I can edit people's posts with the Awful app but not probate people with the app. That's kinda useful to know.

Now I can edit it so everyone agrees with me!

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

Gumball Gumption posted:

Too many things on that show took a weird feel when it turned out Louie wasn't just playing a creep. Which does suck, the show was good.

Yeah, it sucks because the show was genuinely great and I just can't watch it (or any of his old stand-up stuff) anymore knowing what a huge loving creep he was. Horace and Pete was another legitimately great show that had a really awesome theater-aesthetic going to it but there is no escaping just how CK permeates nearly every aspect of it.

NienNunb posted:

Yeah it's a shame Polanski is a monster dude would have been seen as the greatest of his generation. Probably still is by sick french freaks.

For years I wanted to see a really good feature adaptation of The Dreyfus Affair and the fact Polanski was the guy who finally made one, and that he put out a director's statement saying,"I too know what it means to be unfairly accused!" just grosses me out so much.

CobiWann
Oct 21, 2009

Have fun!

Alaois posted:

Terriers, always and forever

I'm fine with Terriers only getting one season, because it's such a GOOD season that ends on a perfect note.

I do wish Donal Logue was a bigger star.

Paper Lion
Dec 14, 2009




i went On One in here a while ago about math rock. and stand by that. but this rules

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOOGOqTn9Fo

Cavauro
Jan 9, 2008

i like the video you posted. started playing dishonored 2 again to play as corvo this time and it feels like an old friend. did the same thing with the last deus ex because of some posts about it the other day and couldn't make it 15 minutes without uninstalling it. get outta heah

ChrisBTY
Mar 29, 2012

this glorious monument

Humanity Divided hits a little too close to home.

SamuraiFoochs
Jan 16, 2007




Grimey Drawer
Me when I get a solid part time but relatively stable and solidly paying job for the next little while: You're crushing it bro, and also saving, too! TREAT YO SELF

Also me, hearing my Boomer parents in my head: SPENDING IS HARAAM. ADULTHOOD FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY BOOTSTRAPS

D:

Cavauro
Jan 9, 2008

your parents need some ice cream or somethin'. gotta get them to quit tripping you up. you are killing it. when you Sent me that money for food that i asked for as a joke-but-not-joke your words were seriously the most helpful thing about it. i was feeling like a poo poo rat for knowing that i was going to accept it but you just made me feel like your brother who you love. I cried

SamuraiFoochs
Jan 16, 2007




Grimey Drawer

Cavauro posted:

your parents need some ice cream or somethin'. gotta get them to quit tripping you up. you are killing it. when you Sent me that money for food that i asked for as a joke-but-not-joke your words were seriously the most helpful thing about it. i was feeling like a poo poo rat for knowing that i was going to accept it but you just made me feel like your brother who you love. I cried

The thing is they're not even actively doing it anymore. The one time they did was enough to have the spectre hanging over me.

Cavauro
Jan 9, 2008

is there any chance you've explored telehealth or online therapy? even though reviews and feelings are more mixed on that kind of stuff, Trying to suggest stuff that would be more independent because that's probably related to the things that are stuck in your strong mind

SamuraiFoochs
Jan 16, 2007




Grimey Drawer

Cavauro posted:

is there any chance you've explored telehealth or online therapy? even though reviews and feelings are more mixed on that kind of stuff, Trying to suggest stuff that would be more independent because that's probably related to the things that are stuck in your strong mind

I have been in online therapy for like two years and still am. I have an appointment tomorrow actually. My counselor is Cool and Good and basically reaffirms what my online friendos (including you) tell me, it's just hard to get it to stick in my brainpan.

NienNunb
Feb 15, 2012

I stopped going to therapy for like two months because I didn't want to do it over Skype but giving in and going back has honestly saved my life

Cavauro
Jan 9, 2008

seems like you're doing what you need to do and some Times you just gotta give a holler to your posting friends about the thoughts. They can be wild or mild

i'm glad NineNumb got saved.

Paper Lion
Dec 14, 2009




i cant afford therapy and there are no free ptsd groups that let men in in my area (i am happy women have their own space and understand why, just wish there could at least be one co ed one if not a mens only space too). brain is mush. slept for 4 hours, woke up because macaroni wanted to Break Stuff by Limp Bizkit, now im gamin all nite. sleep is the cousin of death. thank u nas

Cavauro
Jan 9, 2008

thinking about playing fallout 76 when it comes out on xbox game pass. and going to "make fun of it" but while actually playing it and spending significant time there. 1 dollar per month

Bluedeanie
Jul 20, 2008

It's no longer a blue world, Max. Where could we go?



Glad people are doin ok

Glad none of you probably watched the Patriot just now. I sure did

Cavauro
Jan 9, 2008

Decided to play a game about riding a bicycle downhill really fuckin fast instead of fo76

Captain Magic
Apr 4, 2005

Yes, we have feathers--but the muscles of men.
My therapist did not reschedule with me after my session this week because she thinks I’m sorted; will not sign my certificate that says I don’t have donkeybrains though.

Couples therapist says we are doing well and we won’t see her for months because of her maternity leave.

Time to gently caress poo poo up!

In seriousness I love therapy books. Buddha’s Brain and Radical Acceptance both drastically altered how I viewed my issues by focusing on evolutionary biology and pragmatic spirituality, respectively. I also liked Running on Empty; it helped me get a more complete picture of the kind of parental neglect I dealt (deal) with. Read therapy books if you are in or desire therapy! They’re not all saccharine trash (looking at you, Thich Naht Hanh).

Spiderdrake
May 12, 2001



Cavauro posted:

thinking about playing fallout 76 when it comes out on xbox game pass. and going to "make fun of it" but while actually playing it and spending significant time there. 1 dollar per month
given you seem as online as I am, I'm surprised you're not doing the bing points thing

for the past 270ish days I have searched 'care potato' and it amuses me to think of my data floating around some microsoft think tank

Cavauro
Jan 9, 2008

is this the same thing as microsoft points where you trade thousands of points for game pass? i tried that out a little but it seems like a huge pain in the rear end to even get 1/10 of that

SamuraiFoochs
Jan 16, 2007




Grimey Drawer

Cavauro posted:

is this the same thing as microsoft points where you trade thousands of points for game pass? i tried that out a little but it seems like a huge pain in the rear end to even get 1/10 of that

It is unless you buy things on Xbox like me in which case it's actually a p. good deal. I earn like probably $10+ a month in rebates and points and stuff, it is pretty cool and good

I also really enjoy scambaiting videos, they have been entertaining me very much during this quarantine

Cavauro
Jan 9, 2008

i will never xbox.

Spiderdrake
May 12, 2001



Cavauro posted:

is this the same thing as microsoft points where you trade thousands of points for game pass? i tried that out a little but it seems like a huge pain in the rear end to even get 1/10 of that
Yeah you have to use bing search but once I got used to it I realized searching with bing then google usually gave me a better spread of results so I don't mind.

The phone search is kind of annoying but most days it takes a minute or two when I couldn't do anything else anyway.

Brut
Aug 21, 2007
Probation
Can't post for 5 days!
The points thing probably isn't worth anyone's time if you can actually trade your time for money in basically any other way, but google search has been dogshit for years and Bing is very good for images/videos(pornography) and pretty decent for webpages.

All the interactions in my life with therapists and such were forced upon me in my childhood and none of it ended up being positive/helpful in any loving way. There was a high profile suicide today that's probably done the most out of anything I can think of to make me seriously consider trying therapy as an adult, even though I myself have not been and am not at all suicidal. Probably still won't though.

CobiWann
Oct 21, 2009

Have fun!

Bluedeanie posted:

Glad people are doin ok

Glad none of you probably watched the Patriot just now. I sure did

I remember getting hauled out of the theater by my friends because we had gone to the bar next door before the movie and there I was drunkenly screaming "THAT'S NOT HOW THE loving BATTLE OF COWPENS WENT!"

CarlCX
Dec 14, 2003

Brut posted:

The points thing probably isn't worth anyone's time if you can actually trade your time for money in basically any other way, but google search has been dogshit for years and Bing is very good for images/videos(pornography) and pretty decent for webpages.

All the interactions in my life with therapists and such were forced upon me in my childhood and none of it ended up being positive/helpful in any loving way. There was a high profile suicide today that's probably done the most out of anything I can think of to make me seriously consider trying therapy as an adult, even though I myself have not been and am not at all suicidal. Probably still won't though.

I needed therapy as a teenager, and because I didn't get it I wound up being forced to spend time with my high school counselor instead, which was almost helpful and in some way affirming up until the moment he called me in to abruptly tell me it was our last session and he'd just called my mother and told her everything I'd ever said.

I consequently became an adult who DESPERATELY needed therapy, but didn't seek it out for years. I wish I had earlier. A good therapist (but that "good" is real, real important, unfortunately) is a wonderful thing and I have come farther in the four years I've been doing it than the previous twenty of trying to do it myself.

I hope you give it another shot. It doesn't have to be ideation, it's just good for feeling healthier, and it's a lot different as an experience when you're choosing to do it and you have the power to end it.

Brut
Aug 21, 2007
Probation
Can't post for 5 days!
"Just find a good therapist" sounds the same as "Just win the lottery" to me.

NienNunb
Feb 15, 2012

Therapy is complicated. Some people like me have had nothing but positive experiences with therapy. Others haven't, and I get it. My sister had a terrible therapist and it scared her off from the concept for like 15 years. Not a lot of easy answers to this question, everyone on either side should just be understanding of the other.

CarlCX
Dec 14, 2003

Brut posted:

"Just find a good therapist" sounds the same as "Just win the lottery" to me.

You're not completely wrong. Like, NienNunb said, it varies so goddamn much. I know people who found it on their first try and consequently think therapy is always perfect, I know people who were openly abused by terrible therapists and no longer trust it period. I kind of had both; I spent a long time searching for therapists the right way, got gently caress-all for recommendations and had to learn what didn't work, and then found my awesome therapist by complete and total accident.

It's absolutely worth doing, but it's very rare for it to be easy, and that sucks.

Cavauro
Jan 9, 2008

i went to therapy and thought poorly of the sessions i've gone to due to the methods they were using and personality veneers. my anxieties plus the discomfort of that stuff has made sure it failed so far, which i know is on me. but i don't like to say this because it shows i am a rear end hole. i've never said it before. thank you for absorbing my thoughts

Eat My Fuc
May 29, 2007

My first therapist attempted to sexually assault me, and i've had like 5 since and none have been helpful, all we're low income/no income options so most we're either young trying to work their way to being a real therapist at gov facilities, etc. Medication and dark souls has been the only thing to positively change my mental illnesses, but i lost my medication due to admitting to smoking marijuana to my gov appointed psych, so yea never admit that to a doctor they will gently caress you.

at least i have dark souls.

but yea the way people say "go to therapy" like it's even an option for most working people is so snobby and lovely.

Cavauro
Jan 9, 2008

don't you dare go hollow.

Beef Jerky Robot
Sep 20, 2009

"And the DICK?"

I feel very lucky to have had such a positive experience with therapy. If anyone is in the southern NH area I know a great one.

ChrisBTY
Mar 29, 2012

this glorious monument

My therapists have been good, but there's only so much they can do. They can't change reality.

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Captain Magic
Apr 4, 2005

Yes, we have feathers--but the muscles of men.
I know good therapists in St Louis. Sucks that you dudes have had terrible experiences.

I had a real lame duck couples therapist who didn’t pick up on my wife’s depression, and my wife had a therapist for years who couldn’t schedule poo poo and also did not have anything to say about her burgeoning alcoholism, so the struggle is real. I got very lucky early in my own recovery to go to a therapist who had extensive experience with alcoholics, then I had another with the same (though that time I specifically looked for such), and our couples therapist uses the Gottman method which is really good and aligns with how my wife and I think.

I think self-care is important and it’s really hard to get perspective on significant emotional problems without therapy. Like, in A Wrinkle in Time, when they meet those aliens and have to explain the concept of color to those beings who have adapted without using sight. It’s like that. Otherwise hopefully you can find some excellent support network and empathetic people. Everybody deserves to live in peace with their selves.

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