Noticed that I am extremely tuned out of media discussions bc of Maoism-Autism mao-shining , but that sometimes I need to engage products, because I can't be picky about the battlefields. Vidya was a maladaptive coping mechanism for [fun and exciting] childhood kermit-pain spamsus for me, so I view old stuff with a distorted perspective and new stuff, I neither have the money nor the time for anything RPG or timesink wise. Same for anime, shows, movies and other stuff.

Now I don't want to be left out of these convos (Read: Struggle sessions about the cultural meaning of thing X or Y) entirely but is there any way to get back up on what a cultural product was about, preferably in-depth and critically?

  • Yahya_al_Keeree [any]
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    1 year ago

    I am in a place where I could pick some friends who are understanding. They get the emotional effort. I generally feel most people who are not ND or trans will just hate my ass anyway, so I don't owe them more than not being mean. I guess I do have to pick things apart one by one. I just was looking for some ressources of angry culture nerds who already transcriped and organized every single line of Fallout 4 dialogue or something I guess, lol

    • jack [he/him, comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      just was looking for some ressources of angry culture nerds

      I sensed a kindred spirit and thought an argument might be more productive than answering your question, unlike with normals

      • Yahya_al_Keeree [any]
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        1 year ago

        I am in angry space ngl. Not bc of you, more got reminded that people hated my guts and will continue to do so and it's on me to fix my issues

        • jack [he/him, comrade/them]
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          1 year ago

          I've been there and it was the advice I'm giving you here (among other things) that helped me do just that. But you still have a right to your anger; just be healthy with it.

          • Yahya_al_Keeree [any]
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            1 year ago

            yeah, yeah. I think it boiled to some conviction that society will not accept me and adapting to them is rewarding them for their bullying, so I always prefered being able to humiliate and hurt opponents in arguments. Something this site is no stranger to.

            • jack [he/him, comrade/them]
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              1 year ago

              Even most NT people are constantly twisting themselves into knots to be the person society expects them too, though their pretzel isn't as knotted. A little bit of that is healthy, really - prosocial behavior it's fundamentally about compromise. But it's easy, especially for ND people, to get way too twisted joker-gaming

              • Yahya_al_Keeree [any]
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                1 year ago

                I am not completely rejecting social stuff, but I do it on my terms. none of their cruel little social games anymore where it ends up in bullying somebody.