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I think the message of the show is supposed to be for those people, the ones around depressed or suicidal teens/young adults, but I don't think the target Audience is the same group. The target audience seems to be younger people who are slightly to very socially outcast. Quieter people who may not have many friends, who spend more time online or reading than in social situations. It's really the same audience as for Coin Heist or Deidra and Laney Rob a Train. They're people like on the shard, who probably for the most part aren't or haven't been on the top of social hierarchies IRL, but may be very involved in internet life. We tend to be more likely to suffer from depression, bullying, or suicidal thoughts, largely because our introversion can stop us from making the friendships and social nets to protect us. Instead we tend to take solace in our books, our games, forums, or netflix. So I think why it's created such an uproar among people involved in suicide prevention is because it's a show that they know a lot of statistically vulnerable people are going to watch, and instead of Coin Heist or Goonies which support being different but also friendship and family, it presents suicide as a valid option. I personally don't have a problem with the show existing or anything. It could be used for a lot of good and raise awareness among people who don't know anything about the subject. But I think that the way it was released and marketed and presented was very dangerous because it teaches vulnerable teens and young adults very bad scripts, ways of thinking and acting, that could have Very dangerous consequences. Just my two bits. I've taken some psychology courses, but haven't studied trauma or suicide in depth. Most of my opinion here comes from personal experience and my understanding of what I've read from people who Are experienced in the field.

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Imagine Dragons have started releasing songs from their third album: Evolve, and the latest song is fantastic! Whatever It Takes Thunder was honestly possibly the worst album song they've released so far. Some of their movie songs aren't great, but Thunder was pretty bad. I've also started listening to Cage the Elephant, and boy, they're awesome.

I've been waiting for that to happen to. From what I've heard the creators of the show were very irresponsible with their depictions of the pre-suicide environment and the suicide itself. Mental health care people have been freaking out about it. I really hope that everyone stays safe and doesn't learn the wrong things from the show, but I think it's only a matter of time. The fact that they're making a season two has me even more worried. Back to FMA: I would totally be down for a shard wide re-watch of either the original show or Brotherhood, except neither are available on American Netflix to stream right now

I think either Pratchett's Monstrous Regiment or Soul Music.

Coolio, Without Looking it up name three of Robin Hood's Merry Men.

I don't know what the original, original members in the comics were, but the justice league cartoon that I grew up on had these as the origin members: Batman Superman Green Lantern Martian Manhunter Wonder Woman The Flash Hawkwoman

I did actually like God Emperor, much more than Children of Dune actually. It's just that If I read God Emperor than I'll probably feel the need to read 5 & 6, and I really just didn't like those two very much. Maybe in the far future I'll do a complete 1-6 re read, but not soon. I've still got such a bitter taste in my mouth from 7 & 8. Sandman volume 4 is good so far, although I haven't had time to really dig in yet.

I finished Sandworms of Dune last night. It should be clear by now that Dune 7 & 8 leave a very bad taste in my mouth. I'm done with Dune for good now. I'm only ever going to reread the first two, maybe three books. So I'm going to swing back to reading the Sandman, I'm on volume 4 now. I also will probably be starting the Tiffany Acheing subseries of the Discworld soon.

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Saw it this afternoon as a group date. Awh yeah! That was hilarious, at least as good as the original. A lot of awesome character growth. Action was great, effects were awesome, growth was phenomenal, villain was better than normal marvel fare, but I wasn't super impressed with the end credits. I don't understand the MCU implications from the final one, and aside from Teen Groot, the rest were meh.

I got David Charleston. Wasn't expecting that one. I guess I can think of a lot of similarities though. Nerdy father homeschooled (Sure he went to the one in the factory in Newcago, but that's not where he learned what he needed for life) Thoroughly immersing ourselves in our selected fields of study and making it a nerdy passion For the majority of our teen years not being socially talented at all, but growing out of it by the end. A depressing hometown. Being confident plan makers Making interesting metaphors Cussing in strange ways Confronted our deepest fears All that being said, I might be more like Spook.

So I just finished Hunters of Dune. Wow....Brian...Kevin....mates, ya'll didn't even try to write like Papa Herbert at all did you? That was the most functional writing I have ever read. I don't mean that as a compliment. Basically....It reads like they found the outlines for Dune 7 and filled it in with enough dialogue and exposition to publish. One of the joys of Dune, perhaps the main joy, is how beautiful the writing is. The amazing philosophical, religious, and political thoughts, the both human and godlike heroes are the other joys. Hunters of Dune....Is a very light sci fi adventure. It just doesn't work. It hurt to read it, because nothing with Dune in the title should be like that, but I was at least able to get through it fairly quickly. So....Sandworms of Dune is next, and then I'm finally done. I know I'm going to be heartbreakingly disappointed, but I really can't help myself. I want my ending. I really am going to have hunt down Frank Herbert after I die and just sit down on a cloud and listen to him tell me the story of how it's supposed to end, but until then I'll finish reading the published series. On the bright side, I definitely know that I don't want to read the Butlerian, Houses, or Organizations books. There's No way I could take more of Brian and Kevin's writing.

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I was actually talking about the Fitz books by Robin Hobb For Malaazan....I got through Gardens of the Moon. By the time I finished it I did in fact like the book, although I still didn't understand a lot of it. It got to a point in Deadhouse Gates however, where I decided to just stop reading because of the violence. I think it was about three fourths through, around the point where some characters were escaping slavery in a mining island. There was a battle or a riot in a city, don't remember exactly, and it got waaay more graphic than I could take at the time. I haven't completely ruled out returning to the series, but at present I'm really not looking for that much violence in my entertainment.

I read the first book, and I really enjoyed it. It was interesting, had a neat magic system, solid conflict, and I was fine with the characters. Book two....I hate it. I forced myself to read the whole thing, but it was such a hard read that I've never been able to get myself to read book 3. I am very much in the minority here. Most people love book 2. I don't understand how or why they do, but I'm fine that they like it. I found it horribly slow, kind of like WoT 8-10 except without multiple PoV. I also started to really dislike several characters. Basically, I did read it, but I would describe book two as unreadable. That being said, I don't know of anyone who agrees with me that it's a bad book.

I'm a huge fan of the original Darksiders. I'm going to be playing the Warmastered Edition as soon as I get some time. Assuming I'm comfortable with how my laptop plays Warmastered, I'll get Darksiders 2 whenever it goes on sale. I'm so happy that Darksiders 3 is happening, this series really deserves it.

So I finished the first season of Into the Badlands. Braize, that was awesome. The plot isn't neccesarily original, nor the characters, but the world is and I think that the plot has been very well written and thought out so far with pacing that is very on point. The acting has been teen actor to pretty good, for the most part it's pretty good. I'm really enjoying how right now, there really isn't anything good or innocent in this world, but that the characters are fighting so hard to change that. It's a bit like Mistborn really, a world broken with most of humanity enslaved, but a few people trying to be different. Plus kun fu. I've downloaded the amc app and am planning on starting season two tonight or tomorrow. I watched the pilot for The 100 Saturday cause I was bored. Meh, it could be good I suppose, but I'm not too hopeful. I'm going to wait to give it more of my time till I've finished ITB.

One AP exam down, three to go. I'm feeling pretty good about how Psych went, although I had hoped for a different proportion of certain types of questions in the mcq section. Probably got a pretty strong four or a five on it, but who knows. I'm gonna spend the evening celebrating by playing RPGs and bingeing netflix.

Awh come on....I don't get to see it till Saturday

I've got my first AP exam of the year today. AP Psychology. I feel okay, but dang there's a ton of stuff in Psych and if the whole exam covers the nervous system instead of like the experimental method and therapy than I'm in trouble.

I didn't come away from it feeling like it was just a bad book. I just really didn't like it. I can get how people appreciate it as literature....at least a little....But I agree, I have no idea how anyone could rave about it. I'm planning on following your advice. I'm gonna get through Hunters and Sandworms and call it quits. There's a part of me that wants to read the Butlerian books, but I know that there's NO WAY they could do that kind of story justice. A story about the Butlerian Jihad should be absolutely epic, with conflicts escalating well beyond what's actually seen in the Dune trilogy, and with characters stronger than those in God Emperor through Chapterhouse. It would be a very different type of story, one that I doubt Frank Herbert could've pulled off himself. There's no way I trust those two to do it justice.

It's almost a dollar more than the minimum wage in Ohio. On the one hand I enjoy making more money per hour than my friends, but on the other it kind of annoys me that I probably have the least paid job at the rec center. Lifeguards actually have to have a lot of training and certifications, which are usually expensive to get, so it seems pretty weird to me that we get paid less than some of the other easier jobs. Lifeguarding in general also has a horrible turnover rate, and I can't help feeling that it would be a lot easier to stay staffed if we got paid more than the average fast food worker.

So after watching the wonderful movie, Coming Through the Rye, I was inspired to read Catcher in the Rye. I did not like it. I think I get and totally appreciate what the author is trying to say- people are often mean, jerks, or dumb, and a culture of conformity can crush people who are naturally non-conformists, and that youth should be protected from the ugliness of human behavior- but I really don't like the book. Holden, even though he should be given slack for the mental pressures that eventually make him break down, is the most unlikable protagonist I've ever come across. He's a liar, a jerk, and it seems like he's more prideful than any of the people he's constantly judging. Since he's the narrator the entire time, it was very hard for me to read the book for any extended period of time and I almost didn't finish it. So basically, I think ya'll should watch Coming Through the Rye and skip the book altogether. I've got Hunters of Dune. So far I definitely don't enjoy the change in writing style, the watering down of the dialogue and philosophy, and the amount of time easy the reader into the world. C'mon, this is Dune, just throw the reader in. We'll figure it out. All that being said, so far it's not as bad as I'd feared. I've heard others say this and I'm repeating it. I'm going to read the books to try and get some sense of completeness now, but when I die one of the first things I'm going to do is track down Frank and get him to tell me how it's all supposed to work out.