So was I for quite a while, seeing all these memes, then trying to find out more about the topic, after I’ve seen myself in too many of them. So I got my diagnosis earlier this year at 41. Much of my life has changed for the better since then. Do yourself a favor, go and get tested. Don’t wait.

Yeah, she was funny, too. And the seagull guy was definitely a highlight!

I’m still on my first playthrough (just arrived in the third area). What I particularly like about the humor is that it’s charming and mostly unexpected, rather than coming across as crude and heavy-handed.

I’m playing Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon and there are some really funny moments.

There’s this quest where a corpse is hanging from a tree and asks you to deal with some creatures that come at night and do the sexy things where he can see them. Or two drunk guys in a tavern debating if a broken sword that has been reforged and it’s hilt replaced time and time again would still be the same sword. Or there is this undead crypt keeper, really happy to meet you.

The Emperor protects.

Dark. But you might get a knot in your brain.

This is what happens when you tolerate intolerance. It’s a self fulfilling prophecy.

Hairy leg people might not be that safe.

I wish you and your girlfriend all the best!

In general, a lot of things from my past now make more sense. Even my perception and character traits. With the meds, I can tackle and complete tasks more easily, concentrate much better and generally feel much more relaxed. If the constant earworms disappear now, I’ll be almost perfectly happy. However, I am still at the beginning of adjusting the dosage and hope that everything stays that way or gets even better.

Social media got me thinking about it. The more I looked into it, the more I recognized myself in it, so this year, at 41, I was diagnosed. I started taking medication last week and feel like a new person.

Now get this: some scientists think black holes might have hair.

Praise the Omnissiah!

Funny, I heard the exact same explanation for Dark Matter. But the context was ‘so we know, there’s something there, we cannot explain, which is why we need to study more or even rethink what we thought to know about gravity/the universe’. Science is awesome!

That’s, what religion is about. Religion teaches people to be content with not understanding the world.

I’ve been ripped off enough by companies to only do exactly what I’m paid to do. That doesn’t mean that I’m not willing to help colleagues who have questions while I’m just about to disappear into the evening. It also doesn’t mean that I can’t talk to my colleagues about work-related issues, such as annoyances or anything else. As I said, I’m polite, friendly and helpful as long as it’s work-related. And I don’t do it because I hope to gain some kind of advantage from it, but because I want to be treated that way myself. The fact that nobody is forcing me to work at a specific job is true, but it misses the general point of the thread (and indeed of what I said). The fact is that people are people and therefore pretty much the same or at least similar everywhere - that’s the case in my line of work. And I have experienced countless times that colleagues are only too happy to share all the details of the past weekend with you, from family outings to binge drinking to adultery, but they don’t give a shit whether you had a good weekend yourself and dont even ask back. Most of them are not able to communicate at eye level at the absolute minimum and just constantly present themselves and expect some kind of recognition or admiration in return. And I’m supposed to share private things with people like that? For what? So that they can work with me more professionally? Or maybe just to make them feel better about themselves? I don’t care about that crap, let’s stick to what we came to work for. That’s called professionalism. Apart from that, it’s a mystery to me why you only consider colleagues to be halfway decent if they want to share private things with you. Maybe you should reconsider your expectations.

Only those who have nothing else in their lives but work find this unfriendly. Work is not an event that I attend voluntarily, but to earn a living. I am polite, nice and helpful to my colleagues in everything that revolves around work. Anything beyond that is not a matter of course and should not be taken for granted.

This is just another feature of tribal thinking. For various reasons, people are no longer able to differentiate, so that at almost all levels it is now all about “us” versus “them”. And how did that come about? Those who have power and money make the rules and distract us from the real causes of people’s problems by dividing us. And most people seem to swallow this unreservedly. If you don’t believe me, just read the comments here in this thread alone.

That’s the beauty of science. It goes where the evidence points to, not to where you think it should go to. That means scientists have to be able to be self critical and admit they are wrong. Haven’t seen any of that in right wing people.

I once had a GF who not only didn’t like Evil Dead, but she couldn’t understand why I loved it, no matter how many arguments I delivered. She didn’t have to agree with me, of course, but her refusal to even acknowledge my point of view was a real no-go. And the movie was just one example. What can I say? Overall, the relationship didn’t last long.

And the players be like: ‘Nooo! The game was meant to be so difficult! Now they make a super-easy mode where you don’t even have to play the game at all! And anybody can watch it!!!’