Fruck
Lacks all conviction
Fruck is just this guy, you know?
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Fruck
Lacks all conviction
1d ago
Pretty much. Sometimes it's easy to recognise when you have been crazy, but most of the time yeah it is 'oh I overreacted but I was basically right.' The confounder in all of this is the intelligence of the person being discussed of course.
Fruck
Lacks all conviction
1d ago
To build on @Muninn's great explanation: Schizophrenia is in a way pattern matching in overdrive. What anti-psychotics do is dial the frequency in closer to the station that we call reality, but there is always still some fuzz. So a lot of people go on anti-psychotics for a while and because the fuzz is still there they don't really feel very different - or worse, they feel like they have traded the frankly fucking magical world they lived in for the grey lifeless slog all the zombies live in, because it has no effect on the symptoms like anhedonia.
And on top of that they also get to enjoy fun side effects like feeling dog tired all the time, constant headaches, weight gain despite constant vomiting, and the always delightful sensation of your muscles seizing of their own accord so you look like you have cerebral palsy because your jaw desperately wants to rest on your shoulder and your hands are doing their level best to retract into your elbows. On top of that, there is the widespread belief in the community that if you find yourself gurning you have been on anti-psychotics for too long and you are rolling the dice on involuntarily gurning for life.
Fruck
Lacks all conviction
1d ago
This was an excellent post, and I agree, this is textbook paranoid schizophrenia. Call the police man. Anonymously if possible, he is better off with you in his life imo. I would have and I am a paranoid schizophrenic. My reaction to reading he wants to get a gun to "be a man" and "take care of business" was "ohhhh shiiiiiiiit." Paranoid schizophrenics aren't dumb, we are good at connecting dots (too good), and if after a police visit he can't connect the dots that determine why him saying that to anyone is a bad idea, then he is too crazy to have a gun anyway.
I really appreciate the fact that you are thinking deeply about this, but the fact of the matter is that society just isn't equipped to individually assess every mentally ill person for the intricacies of their lunacy, and we know that schizophrenics have an elevated risk of substance abuse problems and as a result criminal behaviour. That doesn't mean we should be locked up, but it does mean society should limit our freedoms in some ways unfortunately. We can not be cops, we can not be judges, and we shouldn't have guns. I don't want to be treated like a toddler with a bomb, but I also don't expect society to commit suicide just to appease me. I might be fucking crazy, but I'm not a narcissist.
Fruck
Lacks all conviction
1d ago
Psychosis does not equal schizophrenia. Men with schizophrenia are indeed more likely than the sane to commit violence - 4 to 7 times more likely depending on your source - but the absolute risk is actually very low - 1 in 4 schizophrenic men are likely to be involved in violent crime and schizophrenics make up about 0.3 percent of the population.
On top of that you have the fact that the vast majority of that 4 to 7 increase is by schizophrenics with substance abuse problems. Which makes sense when you understand the critical factors that separate schizophrenia from garden variety drug induced psychosis - the negative symptoms. It's actually really hard to summon the interest to violently assault someone when you spend most of your time in a state where you can barely summon the energy to give a shit about eating. When getting angry at a guy who cut you off in traffic feels like a lot of effort. When watching TV or doomscrolling feels like a chore.
That said, I agree with your overall argument, crazy people shouldn't have guns. But also, saying you don't buy into slippery slope arguments is like saying you don't go for this 'multiplication' the kids are doing, the world is shaped by patterns whether you buy into them or not.
Fruck
Lacks all conviction
5d ago
On my first post I complained that there's not enough exploration in Silksong. I'm glad to say the situation improves a lot once you read the Citadel at the top of the map. It acts as a massive hub area disconnected from the main fast travel network, with many hidden areas you can discover and tackle in different orders, lots of unlockable shortcuts, etc.
Lol yeah I got to the final boss of act 2 and I didn't have double jump so I knew I was missing an area, so I went hunting and I found six more biomes.
Fruck
Lacks all conviction
5d ago
Oh I am loving the absolute shit out of it so far. I have two complaints - the inventory management system is stupid, just needlessly convoluted, although that might be compounded by the second issue - I want a combat difficulty between story and hard, because the refilling of all your health and sanity with each save makes most of your inventory useless, but my heart can't handle the tension of fighting disturbingly sexy scarecrows while three hits from death at all times.
I don't know what the story is about yet and I don't want to speculate, but the characters are great so far. I am both terrified of my friends and desperate to save them, especially after the beginning and Hanako is such a melancholy protagonist, which just makes the game feel more claustrophobic.
Fruck
Lacks all conviction
5d ago
It'd be nice if they also said "and also cheering for murder is bad, you ghouls" but I don't particularly expect it of them any more than I'd expect Rush Limbaugh to tell his listeners to stop saying the people who died in ICE custody deserved it.
You just take it for granted that mainstream broadcasters are arms of the left, like that's somehow acceptable. And yet in an environment where the people who are supposed to speak to the whole nation are only willing to tell one side to stop being ghouls, you want to blame the twitter algorithm for the lack of left wing sympathy in anyone's feeds?
British police are trained how to do it, and American police could be.
You know, I nodded in agreement when I first read this, my mind going back to old episodes of Taggart, Inspector Morse and Prime Suspect. And a great example immediately came to mind - DCI Schenk in Luther, in this scene, which is excellent. But all of those shows are from a different time. Luther is the newest, and even then Schenk's character arc through the series is he's a good cop who plays by the rules but along with Luther his style of policing is considered outdated by the establishment and discarded in favour of small black women who should be presenting children's shows. The British police don't know how to do it anymore either.
Edit: in fact I would guess there was some correlation between the decline of the British police force and relative lack of non-comedy British cop shows. Because there certainly wasn't a lack in the past.
God damn man! What do you use it for if not llms?
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