The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:
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Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.
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Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).
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In Dwarf Fortress Adventure Mode, there are necromancer towers scattered around worlds sometimes. Common folk will tell you about them and describe the problem as "bone-chilling horror". The description of walking, rotting corpses and other body parts is indeed pretty grim, and they can be deadly, but surprising to a first-time player, if you manage to get past the undead (presumably by slaying them), you can get to the necromancers in said necromancer tower. And you find that they're not hostile to you at all, actually. In fact, they might greet you, but more often are just talking about something or other with the other necromancers. They apparently just reanimate corpses whenever they see them without really thinking about it too much. Aside from that, they're just like anybody else. You can talk to them about the weather or how they're feeling or even get into an argument with them about their values, though you can't directly bring up that they're in some messed-up necromancer cult that gets people killed.
You also see that the necromancers write a lot of books. Tons and tons of books, and only some of them include the secrets of life and death, the learning of which would make you a necromancer yourself. But lots of them are just normal books. It seems that the hobbies of the necromancers are pretty much just writing essays and talking to each other. And building towers. They probably used the undead to build a tower, but the tower must be pretty nice. The undead horde out front means that the jocks can't get in to make fun of them.
I like to think it's a metaphor for this site. Yes, it's a scary icky right-winger zone, but it's actually just nerds who have a particular interest, and, above all, like to write essays, some of which contain the secrets of politics blackpills. Maybe you shouldn't be so worried about the necromancer tower. Besides the zombies, of course. The zombies will kill you dead. Stay away from the zombies.
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