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[ChairmanPoo]

Socrates was a douchenut and should never be quoted. Fight me.

My quick, easy method to avoiding impostor syndrome is to simply not have any efforts or accomplishments in your life worth feeling proud about in the first place. Do you... d'you think I could market this technique somehow, guys? Maybe it could be a follow-up to the first overly cynical self-help book I've long been thinking of writing.   

Unfortunately I think a guy called Buddha already has that corner of the market covered

[MaxTheFox]

...fuck the Russian government and all politicians supporting it. As a bisexual, I'd probably get arrested if the government knew about that. I want the United Russia party to burn and collapse and for revolutionaries to hang Putin and Dugin and all their cronies and shoot the oligarchs. I'm safe talking about it here because I use both a proxy and a VPN, and they can't do shit about people talking shit about them on foreign sites anyways... If I said this on VKontakte or something the police would be coming for me.

[ChairmanPoo]

What makes you think I'm not a GRU informant?

[martinuzz]

I feel you. Russia is a terrible place to be for lgbtetc.
And black people for that matter.  USA is bad, but it is a paradise for black people compared to Russia from the experiences of some coloured exchange students I've heard first hand.  Leaving the relative safety of university foreign student campus as a black person there means getting the crap beaten out of you.

[MaxTheFox]

I wish I could elaborate more on my fantasies regarding what I want to do to the politicians who are mainly responsible for the oppression... but I feel like that would be too graphic for this forum and I don't want to get banned. One link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/CruelAndUnusualDeath/RealLife

[KingofstarrySkies]

I did horribly in Dota this morning, and now have to go to work in the sweltering heat while carrying the burden of shame. Life's hard.

[George_Chickens]

I realised so many of the communities I visited are gone with no real replacement for them. There are places with similar topics, but all instances I've seen are dominated by attention seeking, political derails, and zero quality (re)posting, to the point where it just isn't enjoyable. It seems like a lot of the negative behavior in discussions that was shunned only years ago is now the norm, and completely consumes most online communities.

I just miss being able to sit down and talk about a shared hobby or craft with strange people from miles away.

[LordBaal]

Don't worry George, here, we will endure. DF is eternal, it is inevitable.

[AzyWng]

I don't believe giving specifics is a very good idea (I do not want what just happened to repeat again here), but someone whose work I enjoyed (and was even working on a sequel which I looked forward to) had some posts of theirs on a forum shown on Twitter.

These posts said... things. Again, I don't want to give specifics because I'm afraid that's going to kick off a massive argument that will make me afraid of continuing to read and post on these forums. Which reminds me, that's what happened in that creator's associated Discord server. A bunch of users started (and I think still are) arguing with one another and it's become rather hostile. Previously, beyond some jabs and memeing here and there, everyone was relatively civil.

But after seeing some of the things people are saying in there, all I can think is "I guess these people showed their true colors. Or at least how they react to unpleasant situations."

I'm not really sure why I'm writing this. I just can't keep it to myself, even knowing there are people out there who likely have much worse to deal with.

[Yoink]

I'd want to move to Russia if not for the fact that I'd probably freeze to death within minutes of getting off the plane.   
Also I have bad circulation, so I doubt I'd ever be able to master the art of squatting all the time. My balance ain't too great, either.   

[Rolan7]

Trying to quit drinking is *annoying* me.  It had become such a habit.  It hasn't exactly been a hard 5 days, I guess, I just keep thinking about it.  It's ironically a lot like, random f'ing example, wanting to compulsively check a Discord but not being able to.  Or a webcomic or something, I guess.  It's a habit.

Seltzer helps, I guess.  Ginger ale helps more since it burns (and is diet and alcohol-free, to be clear) but I haven't used any yet.  5 days.  Sleeping fitfully, dreaming... a lot, but it's mostly good so far.  Noticeably healthier too, which I guess is nice, but I've been too distracted to really appreciate it.  Constantly distracting myself to avoid thinking about the, ah, reason I quit.

This annoyed mixed mood might be for the best, though.  Not manic, not really depressed.  Just annoyed and staying distracted.  Handling the emotional fallout slowly, carefully.
I think I'm going to need more time.  Which is fine, I kinda expected I would.  Body's healing, mind's healing.

And, there it is... heartache.
Last night I dreamed about tumbling through a dark void in a tin can spaceship, but I wasn't alone.  I was in constant radio contact, I was just a sucky pilot.  Your typical "dangerous driving" dream with a cosmic twist.  Concern about my direction in life.  That's a fine dream, I'm used to that.  Give me more like that.  Not the heartache, not yet.

Pfeh, this looks like a drunk post, but it's not.  This sort of thing was always in me, alcohol just lowered my filters for sharing it.  I don't plan to stop expressing my emotions.  I'm just going to stop getting drunk and doing it poorly.

[dragdeler]

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[Rolan7]

Yeah Canada Dry is my go-to!  I probably should have mentioned that since I've also had proper ginger ales which are, hoo, much sharper.  In a good way, though they tend to be a bit too sweet for me.  Canada Dry has enough burn to help me enjoy it slowly, same reason I enjoy vinegar chips (though those often don't slow me down enough... which has consequences...)

Also, since I was oddly vague about this:  I'm single now because of something I did while drunk.  Was just a matter of time, really.  But I've also just generally been annoying and worrying people who care about me, which was crummy.  Having to break out of that intoxicated, hedonist rut of despair.

[Reelya]

I realised so many of the communities I visited are gone with no real replacement for them. There are places with similar topics, but all instances I've seen are dominated by attention seeking, political derails, and zero quality (re)posting, to the point where it just isn't enjoyable. It seems like a lot of the negative behavior in discussions that was shunned only years ago is now the norm, and completely consumes most online communities.

I just miss being able to sit down and talk about a shared hobby or craft with strange people from miles away.

Eternal September

Eternal September Clock

Today is ... September 9793rd, 1993.

[scriver]

I just got written out as a hopeless case by my mental health department. They're basically saying there's nothing more to do with me.

Oh and today is my birthday.