#if you havent played it yet please do

[accursed-vagabond]

Barry, Sonic is fucking dead, please stop beatboxing.

[junesprince]

do you see the vision

[trans-estinien]

went into the trenches of wow raiding (past lfr) for the first time and. it was bad.

[miciiq]

Hiasobi (Play With Fire) Master Lv.31 Full Combo

[piecesofchess]

Looking at the poll results...it's pretty sad that the most hated/disliked Pirate101 worlds are the beginning ones. It pains me to hear ppl quit when playing through Monquista or Cool Ranch when the game DEFINITELY picks up later on. (Aquila is a pain, but Valencia is worth getting to again, imo)

I implore you guys, PLEASEEEE keep playing, Cool Ranch is awful but it feels good when you finally get out of it, I promise

[hecksupremechips]

Btw I’ve started playing the funny stars and time game. The the one about the loopty loop and the white diamond ass shit

[cuz-reasons]

If I were to, theoretically, do a research paper type thing on the different type combinations found in pokemon, for fun, could I post that to ao3? Would you want me to post that to ao3?

[lesbianshadowheart]

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[sea-jello]

i dont want to hop on the "my toxic trait" train but there are times in my life where i become so unwell about a musical theater actor i go to their imdb and watch every tv episode and/or movie scene theyve done. and then sometimes i stumble upon things like this

this is will connolly playing the role of "dj skillitz" whos dead, uses the word "dudebro" very unnaturally and fucking piece of shit im halfway through the episode and the whiplash ive gotten in the past 7 minutes is incredible

[blearyfaced]

sometimes you just have to take a seat and touch grass with your most beloveds

[faerune]

i gotta be real i cannot for the life of me totally trust the emperor

[vanillabat99]

I've started watching a "Corpse Party" playthrough, and so far it's the kind of thing I've been looking for in horror media!! It fills the content holes that Danganronpa didn't meet!! Downsides so far include:

I think I started with the wrong game, but I can't find any playthroughs of the first game on this particular channel.

Playlist is like 24+ hours total. This will take awhile.

Videos are from 9 years ago and the max resolution is 240p. I suffer.

Game audio is weirdly balanced between music and voice acting, and the video itself is also weirdly balanced between the game and commentary. I cannot win the volume settings battle.

The game text is translated, but the voice acting is not, so I can't put it on in the background and I have to read everything.

All of those things are more technical/personal issues and don't have much of an impact on my enjoyment so far!! If I manage to get through this playlist, I would like to get into the rest of the games as well ^-^

[3liza]

there is strong evidence to suggest, and I certainly believe, that c-ptsd causes an adaptation to long term, ongoing stress by compensating with chronic cortisol underproduction, leading to an endocrine disorder where you're only getting enough stress hormones to be functional when your house is burning down. this is why a lot of us only feel normal, or good even, when dealing with some sort of emergency.

the problem with looking for this function of the endocrine system in the scientific literature is that PTSD and CPTSD still arent reliably clinically separated even though they have very different symptomology, and people with one-time-incident PTSD don't tend to show the endocrine damage. so studies on "people with PTSD and their cortisol levels" show inconsistent results.

this study from 2018 notes that the cortisol in female subjects and subjects who had PTSD from sexual and domestic assaul--two groups whose PTSD is almost always C-PTSD rather than short term, like natural disaster or combat trauma--was significantly lower than in combat veterans, illustrating my point without apparently knowing or speculating on the reason behind it.

this is an extremely useful adaptation because it restores stress hormone homeostasis (balance) to a person who is trapped in a nightmare situation. the problem is that it also causes you to start feeling "worse" as soon as you are no longer in a crisis. this can cause malfunctions of your "gut check" processes because sometimes, for some people, you feel better when you're actively in danger, a thing thats been observed by researchers and emergency workers who work with domestic violence situations and adult victims of childhood trauma for a century, and makes a lot of the "trust your body" type advice actively counterproductive.

minor effects include reinforcing the ADHD tendency to leave everything until the last minute because you know and have learned you literally cannot do it unless it's an emergency, but it also creates people like my aunt who very observably creates emergencies for herself through various little choices like intentionally ignoring her check engine light because she has been so dysfunctional for so long that she can't operate at all unless she's trying to outrun falling dominoes.

anyway I think low dose corticosteroid treatment will probably be officially discovered as a treatment for C-PTSD within the next five years and be clinically applied at some point after that. one of the discouraging things about this process is that the endocrine system doesn't seem to adapt to relative safety very quickly or at all for many people, including myself. either it's impossible for the affected person to achieve the level of security required to actually readjust and small stressors keep signaling to the body to maintain the incorrect stress responses (common for people who are stuck in poverty by disability or mental illness), or theyre like my aunt and either consciously or unconsciously maintain their own emergencies to stay on an even keel.

cortisol is also necessary for trauma recovery. there have been studies where patients in the ER who were dosed with additional cortisol following traumatic incidents like fires and car wrecks were less likely to develop PTSD in the following months than the control subjects. if you're constantly dealing with emergencies without an emergency-level cortisol dump, yeah sure you'll be very calm and functional during the emergency for everyone, but maybe you're not getting enough cortisol to avoid developing even more PTSD, and certainly not enough to control the related inflammatory processes. this could be contributing to the increased incidence of inflammatory chronic illness in C-PTSD patients.

big fan of characters who have it all under control when theyre put in situations but no idea how to be like a regular guy doing regular stuff when all is said and done.

[arolesbianism]

I have obtained a new oc and in the process I've already signed myself up for needing to make at least 3 new ocs for his story which he now has despite me initially Intending for him to be a side character for a different side character to hang out with. My townhouse has over 200 characters on it.

[vonlipvig]

why is the acp investigating the oligarchs 🧍 i didn't tell them to do that

[psychicgoopsuitcasemonger]

Update: I fucking love him so much how does he put up with my bullshit

The patience this guy has with me is insane I WISH I had what he has

Started my first playthrough of Disco Elysium and I am so terrified of disappointing Kim someone help me