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[hector13]

 

Y’all are, like, sons of bitches and that.

My sad today...

[JoshuaFH]

Humans aren't exactly endowed with innate senses of the proportion of the metal death-beetles we encase ourselves in now-a-days.

I mean. You got like three mirrors to see the rest of your car; that's it. And they don't even cover all of it. And even if they did, we're also not that great at innately translating a distorted and cut-up mirrored image of our surrounding metal beetle into an actual mental map, enough to know the end-bits are at all times.

we're not even that good at our *own* bodies end-bits being in the places we think they are, not 100% of the time; and we've only been pilotting THOSE around for a couple hundred million years, give or take. (couple dozen million for the vague shape we got now, even) The death-beetles having been around for the eons that is... About a hundred years.

T' be fair you don't need to know precisely where things are around your car at all times, just a general idea that there's some asshat going what seems like a thousand miles an hour coming up on your left, there's someone else tailgating you despite you going 5 over, and you're trying to avoid that idiot cyclist on your right who is wearing black at night.

People are fucking stupid, your basic goal when driving is to anticipate just how fucking stupid they're going to be. People seem to be very good at anticipating when I'm being fucking stupid.

As fer Joshua's issue, he did the sensible thing, just forgot to check his mirror. Cars have bumpers, the person behind him was alright, nobody got smooshed to a thin red paste. Success.

I'm sorry for being overemotional about the whole ordeal. Sometimes I think I'm just so thin-skinned that any little thing can ruin my day, and convince me subsequently to then actively avoid doing anything for the day for fear that I've jinxed myself somehow, and that continuing to try to do things just sets me up for more failure, and that winds up becoming just me isolating myself and making me feel worse.

[hector13]

Nah it’s cool, I do that too. The foibkes of being human.

I avoid a particular junction which would, under ideal circumstances, make my journey home from work a little faster, ‘cause it is poorly designed and I can’t trust myself not to be an idiot just to avoid sitting at lights for an extra minute. I also avoid the interstate which would take a few more minutes off ‘cause most of the bizarre decisions I’ve seen while driving have happened on the interstate.

Normally I’m as patient as can be, but put me in a car and I let my most misanthropic self out.

[ChairmanPoo]

There should be a way to weaponize ghosts in DF. I don't know, some kind of ward, or statue, or artifact.

Consider how interesting would be to be able to use ghosts as (a double edged?) weapon... at the cost of violently killing and desecrating citizens...

[Eschar]

There should be a way to weaponize ghosts in DF. I don't know, some kind of ward, or statue, or artifact.

Consider how interesting would be to be able to use ghosts as (a double edged?) weapon... at the cost of violently killing and desecrating citizens...

"Eschar likes FAILCANNON for its weaponized ghosts."

[Dozebôm Lolumzalìs]

There should be a way to weaponize ghosts in DF. I don't know, some kind of ward, or statue, or artifact.

Consider how interesting would be to be able to use ghosts as (a double edged?) weapon... at the cost of violently killing and desecrating citizens...

...wrong thread?

[ChairmanPoo]

There should be a way to weaponize ghosts in DF. I don't know, some kind of ward, or statue, or artifact.

Consider how interesting would be to be able to use ghosts as (a double edged?) weapon... at the cost of violently killing and desecrating citizens...

...wrong thread?

Ummmm ...No?

[Eschar]

If he's sad that you can't weaponize ghosts, then this would be the correct thread.

[Dozebôm Lolumzalìs]

I suppose, but that just seemed like it fit better in DF Suggestions or some other upper board. I don't even know anymore. Carry on, and never mind.

[TD1]

what even is truth

[Eschar]

I suppose, but that just seemed like it fit better in DF Suggestions or some other upper board. I don't even know anymore. Carry on, and never mind.

It belongs there too, actually. Ambiguity: 1, the human race: 0.

[heydude6]

Anyway, to put things a bit back on track...

I was hoping I would never have to post here and maybe this incident doesn’t warrant a post in the full blown sad thread, but considering the fact that it involves the potential loss of human life, I felt this was where it belonged.

So, I’ve been on the Subreddit of a certain popular game and yesterday a guy asked if he should still play it considering he had a lot of the game spoiled. He then proceeded to list off the specific spoilers he heard before casually mentioning that he had near-suicidal depression.

I didn’t consider the spoilers to be that big a deal (there was still a lot he didn’t know), but considering my own experiences with the game as well as the experiences of others, I decided to advise him against playing it cause I was worried about what the game would do to his mental health.

Today I decide to come back and check on the thread, and I find that he deleted his account. The Op is gone, all of his replies are gone. In their place instead is just a blank space with [deleted] inside it. If I still remembered his username I would look him up to see if there is any trace left of him anywhere, but for some reason I doubt that.

Now this isn’t conclusive evidence that he’s dead, but it is pretty damning. I just can’t believe someone I talked to only a day ago is now gone. I didn’t know him very well, but still! A human being f**king died today, and almost no one noticed!

Part of me wants to blame myself for this, but I stand by the stuff I wrote. There probably wasn’t anything I could have done to make things better.

[Maximum Spin]

Simmer down a bit, perhaps; it's highly unlikely that he's actually dead. I'd actually rank the possibility of "deliberate trolling to make people have exactly that reaction" higher than "did a suicide", but plenty of people also often just delete accounts in a fit of neurosis. This not only isn't conclusive evidence, it isn't any evidence at all.

[Egan_BW]

Considering the game in question, I think that's just someone doing a tiny subtle creepypasta.

[ChairmanPoo]

what even is truth

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