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  1. ThirdGen
    Peter Gabriel, King Crimson, Nine Inch Nails, They Might Be Giants, Foetus, The Clash, Liars, Autechre... There's a wide array of good stuff there. Fweedly-foo.
  2. ThirdGen
    You made your derpy picture even funnier.
  3. ThirdGen
    Man, this is just like when ee cummings and bell hooks started a company together.
  4. ThirdGen
    Indeed.
  5. ThirdGen
    FweedleOotTooty?
  6. ThirdGen
    You were sadly mythtaken.
  7. ThirdGen
    You can do no wrong, for you do not know what it is.
  8. ThirdGen
    I'd grab the zombie apocalypse and throw it into a tornado! And then dance party!
  9. ThirdGen
    toot totweedly foo
  10. ThirdGen
    (hollows out a hemalurgic spike, adds air holes) Toot.
  11. ThirdGen
    I'm not going to be an Ookla.
  12. ThirdGen
    You get hands of blue. *Inserts a Fruity Oaty Bar*
  13. ThirdGen
    Still not very utilizer-solicitous.
  14. ThirdGen
    The word "utilize."
  15. ThirdGen
    I'd be a tube of Soylent if they could start observing proper health and safety procedures.
  16. ThirdGen
    I suppose not! But Blaze, you've got it.
  17. ThirdGen
    Love Exciting and new Come aboard We're expecting you ... Hang on, this is getting off track
  18. ThirdGen
    Nope, it's an RPG. Hint: From the 90s.
  19. ThirdGen
    The latter. The employer appears to be the villain for the first section of the game until the real villain shows up.
  20. ThirdGen
    The main character and villain are known for having different variations on "really big sword."
  21. ThirdGen
    Correct; the story is a video game.
  22. ThirdGen
    It's a game.
  23. ThirdGen
    The best-known aspect of the story is the villain killing the main character's love interest. ...Really, this was one of the most famous scenes of this story's medium for that decade.
  24. ThirdGen
    Antidepressants get a bad rap. People don't want to overmedicate, feel like a zombie, be dependent, or whatever they've heard antidepressants do. Thing is, your brain chemistry is unique and you won't really know how antidepressants work for you until you try them for a while. With some people, they work wonders. (Full disclosure: for me they were somewhat effective, talk therapy was much more effective, and not being unemployed any more was by far the most effective.)
  25. ThirdGen
    Pestis, I understand your frustration. Depression is one of many things that people don't typically understand until they have in some way been forced to understand it. Like the question "What do you have to be depressed about?" They don't know or want to believe that it's a state of having a completely altered brain chemistry from the norm. How pervasive that is, how it manifests not just as sadness, but anger, apathy, a differing fixation on social cues, etc. When someone's experience of the world deviates so much from what you're used to, from anything you've even heard of (especially if you grew up in an echo chamber of standard ideas), the natural first reaction is to not believe them. If it doesn't connect to something else you've seen, or someone you already know and believe the experience of, it's considered impossible. I wonder sometimes what my worldview would be if I didn't have an incredibly awful three years of middle school that left me permanently damaged emotionally. And I hope it doesn't take things like that happening to people to make them empathetic to those who are suffering in unfamiliar ways. But this problem, this lack of empathy, is the foundation of conformism. And I don't know how to break it. If you attack it head on, you're perceived as an outside invader, and people close ranks and defend the limits of life as they know it. And yes, how dare people dedicated to suppressing harsh realities raise kids. There ought to be an alternative for kids to the family they're born into.
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