Unpopular Opinions V5: "I still don't like Half Life 2."
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[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;49767010]It pisses me off to no end when people will bitch up a storm regarding LGBT rights, trans awareness, and all that under the pretext of, "They were born with it!" but if you try to use the same arguments for why someone who was born with issues like a mental alignment akin to schizophrenia, those same exact people will state how we need to limit their rights because they aren't fit for society.
It's so much "wat" when I hear people go from "LGBTS are born with it, let them have rights!" "oh someone has schizophrenia??? we should throw them into a mental asylum!" and if you bring up statistics showing that most of the reason for "freakouts" is thanks to victimizing and poor medical care for those with issues, people sometimes will step it up and say that those with such issues should be [I]euthanized[/I].[/QUOTE]
Last time I checked Schizophrenia is a dangerous medical condition (as it affects the persons behavior) and being Trans, Gay, w/e, isn't dangerous.
[QUOTE=Xonax;49767294]Last time I checked Schizophrenia is a dangerous medical condition (as it affects the persons behavior) and being Trans, Gay, w/e, isn't dangerous.[/QUOTE]
Literally reading through his post lets you understand that he's putting schizophrenia and LGBT on the same scale i mean fucking lol
There are actual good reasons for limiting rights for people whose mental state isn't great.
For example, driving, it's less like that a LGBT person is going to end up crashing than someone who has Schizophrenia, so maybe the right idea is to remove the right to drive if you have a severe case of it.
[editline]18th February 2016[/editline]
And what about owning a gun?
Someone with multiple personalities who has a real fucked up one (who is willing to shoot for no reason) is more likely to end up hurting someone than someone who is LGBT, so limiting their rights based off of how severe their personalities are is a good idea.
In the end the limiting rights aspect is pretty much for people who have severe mental illnesses. And last time I checked, that isn't a thing with LGBT people.
[QUOTE=RichyZ;49767134]well because usually being gay doesn't make you more predisposed towards violent acts toward your fellow man
it's not cool to just throw everyone with mental health issues into asylums and pretend it's ok but it's really dumb to compare being born gay with being born with a mental illness that can make you incredibly dangerous given the right circumstances[/QUOTE]
The problem is though is that both come with their own set of problems. For example, their is a higher rate of domestic abuse between LGBT couples(mostly gay men/bisexual men), versus the average population. As well as a problem of suicide and sexually transmitted diseases which do have a large effect on the LGBT population.
What I'm getting at though is that it's fucking horrifying that people are willing to pick and choose what someone is born with to decide on matters of what rights, freedoms, and how they live are determined.
[editline]18th February 2016[/editline]
[QUOTE=Xonax;49767294]Last time I checked Schizophrenia is a dangerous medical condition (as it affects the persons behavior) and being Trans, Gay, w/e, isn't dangerous.[/QUOTE]
Most recent studies regarding schizophrenia have found that the issues are mostly contained within the own person, and most problems are developed namely to stigma while growing up. For example, if someone doesn't have proper help to figure out what is going on or is beaten/mocked in their childhood, they grow problems which lead them to become more violent. Which honestly, can be said for pretty much everyone.
I have schizotypal which is currently under moderation for the possibility of it actually being schizophrenia. It runs through both families with my recently rediscovered grandfather being discharged from the British military after the 2nd World War for having schizophrenia.
Also what I'm saying regarding the environmental factors is that when someone is raised with a family who isn't stable enough on it's own to have a child or family member with schizophrenia, it can lead to environmental factors rising from bad parenting and the possibility of abuse for one's issues.
And yes, I understand that it's not a violent disorder.
My concerns mainly lie in the fact that schizophrenia on it's own has numerous subsets and groups which a person may fall into. Some of which are so passive and non-threatening that it doesn't make sense to go after someones civil liberties and possibly punish them in relation to the name over the actual problems experienced. If someone is stable(Group 1 - One Episode with No Impairment), why should they be treated on the same level as someone who is locked down on a constant basis? That's my problem.
I've never really understood what schizophrenia 'does' to a person.
I was gonna say that bashing weeaboos and otakus is okay because they don't give a shit about actual Japanese culture and only want to visit Japan because thats where their animes come from and think that all of Japan is nothing but an anime in real life. But then I realized that kind of stupid behaviour is probably caused by ignorance, whether willful or not. So that doesn't make it okay.. They just need to realise that there is more to Japan than anime.
Personally I enjoy reading about the history of Japan. The internal struggles and all. Its interesting to discover how and why it all came to be.
I guess they don't NEED to figure that out. Unless they decide to go to Japan while dressed as an uguu anime wacko.
I think a Japanese guy on here said this as well.
[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;49767010]It pisses me off to no end when people will bitch up a storm regarding LGBT rights, trans awareness, and all that under the pretext of, "They were born with it!" but if you try to use the same arguments for why someone who was born with issues like a mental alignment akin to schizophrenia, those same exact people will state how we need to limit their rights because they aren't fit for society.
It's so much "wat" when I hear people go from "LGBTS are born with it, let them have rights!" "oh someone has schizophrenia??? we should throw them into a mental asylum!" and if you bring up statistics showing that most of the reason for "freakouts" is thanks to victimizing and poor medical care for those with issues, people sometimes will step it up and say that those with such issues should be [I]euthanized[/I].[/QUOTE]
also being trans is biological as well as mental.
I kinda knew schizophrenia had something to do with paranoia but not to that extent. That must be tough to live with. Is she medicated?
I can kind of understand that people are scared/prejudicial about schizophrenics but shit its not like they can do anything about it. If only people were willing to understand...
For myself, one of the reasons they think it's actually schizophrenia over schizotypal is because whenever I have any form of hallucinatory episode, it's a full visual one. When it first happened, I legit thought something had terrible gone wrong or I became some sort of prophet. The entire world around me looked like a post-Resource War type hellscape where the grassy fields were nothing but dry desert, and buildings were damaged from constant fighting.
What's even worse is I get stuck with these visuals for ten or more seconds, and they just go away. One of the things I was told to turn to in therapy was to draw and write short stories for the scenes I witness during those types of episodes, and take them more as a blessing of artistic impression over anything else.
Other times my vision blacks out, and I start seeing poke-a-dots in multiple colors flickering and changing shapes into all sorts of stuff.
[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;49767875]What's even worse is I get stuck with these visuals for ten or more seconds, and they just go away. One of the things I was told to turn to in therapy was to draw and write short stories for the scenes I witness during those types of episodes, and take them more as a blessing of artistic impression over anything else. [/QUOTE]
I'll just say that most of the stuff Lovecraft has written came straight from his vivid (and to him as real as being able to sense your skin being touched) nightmares. I can only imagine what it must be like to see the world around you turn into a post-apoc world for some seconds. I don't know how I'd react to it tbh
What did it take to get help? Have you made your peace with it?
tbh i think we should discuss this elsewhere
-This discussion is too fucking retarded to carry on-
Social Justice Warrior is an ironic term.
The tragedy of the social justice warrior is that their actions actively harm the cause of social justice. Creating a more inclusive society where everybody is treated with dignity and all people are included means being in favor of freedom of speech and being opposed to judging people on their genetics. The difference between the social justice warrior and social justice advocate should be pretty obvious.
The warrior is basically an attention-whoring bigot and the advocate is actually working towards ending racism and getting us towards a more equal society. Proposing that "women should always speak first" at a university discussion on sexism is not advancing equality.
[url]https://youtu.be/im25MN5AwIc?t=23m24s[/url]
[QUOTE=Leo the Leo;49755139]I never really understood this insult/line of reasoning. CoD veteran campaigns tend to be hard as fuck. I've had more trouble completing MW and WaW on veteran difficulty than I did beating games like Doom on Ultra Violence, Bit Trip Runner or Dark Souls.[/QUOTE]
CoD on veteran is pretty easy. Well, WaW at least. Only problem was the sniping segments and the times where they'd just throw billions of grenades.
The mechanic where you eat gravel to regain health is what makes it easy.
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A lot of arguments on the internet about equality/feminism/nice things and whatever are so bad that I honestly think guys from the otherside of the argument are writting these to discredit their enemies.
[QUOTE=The Jack;49769705]A lot of arguments on the internet about equality/feminism/nice things and whatever are so bad that I honestly think guys from the otherside of the argument are writting these to discredit their enemies.[/QUOTE]
"But if you see this video I found from some non-academically acclimated dude who rants about panties in video games, I can PROVE to you how right I am!!!"
You have a pretty good view of it though, a majority of the threads posted on FP regarding feminism are made entirely to belittle the other side rather than address the topic, and the people who post them have a strange habit of trying to be as inflammatory as possible.
[QUOTE=Rangergxi;49769635]Social Justice Warrior is an ironic term.
The tragedy of the social justice warrior is that their actions actively harm the cause of social justice. Creating a more inclusive society where everybody is treated with dignity and all people are included means being in favor of freedom of speech and being opposed to judging people on their genetics. The difference between the social justice warrior and social justice advocate should be pretty obvious.
The warrior is basically an attention-whoring bigot and the advocate is actually working towards ending racism and getting us towards a more equal society. Proposing that "women should always speak first" at a university discussion on sexism is not advancing equality.
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now lemme take a wild guess
you're the advocate, everyone you disagree with is the warrior
[editline]19th February 2016[/editline]
Lets be honest here, what the hell is even the point of that post? What does anyone gain by praising an arbitrarily defined group as better than another arbitrarily defined group beyond yet another way to feel superior to others?
[editline]19th February 2016[/editline]
I know its easy having these neat little labels to use on people, but nobody is that one-dimensional. I could easily name a few dozen posters here that are as liberal as they come on certain issues, but sound like every other conservative out there on others (which is not at all a bad thing!). So maybe instead of trying to separate everyone you dislike into these foggy groups so that you know which of your memorized little speeches to use for each post, why don't you try focusing on actual arguments rather than the people making them?
[QUOTE=Recurracy;49768331]I'll just say that most of the stuff Lovecraft has written came straight from his vivid (and to him as real as being able to sense your skin being touched) nightmares. I can only imagine what it must be like to see the world around you turn into a post-apoc world for some seconds. I don't know how I'd react to it tbh
What did it take to get help? Have you made your peace with it?
tbh i think we should discuss this elsewhere[/QUOTE]
For awhile I avoided going to the psych like the plague. I had prior experience when I was younger with them which can always have been summed up as, "Greedy motherfuckers trying to get you for the last dime" and also because by the time I started to see the more vivid hallucinations, I had already become interested in firearms and owned a few. As you'd imagine, I wasn't really thrilled about the concept of possibly losing around a $1000 worth in firearms because of something which was undiagnosed for a few years.
Eventually though, I needed to get my shit in order and a few other FP'ers, Sobotnik and Zoney being two of them, pushed me into going and trying to at least get everything checked out medically speaking to make sure everything was good before going to work.
For about five months, I went through a battery of tests and within the first two months they pretty much said, "Yeah you probs has Aspergers and some pretty bad depression and feelings of guilt from your past issues, but their is one little weird thing we need to check" and they ended up doing a few tests on me to try and pinpoint what could be a possibility.
The next four months were digging around in medical records from past family members, including my uncle which had committed suicide when I was younger, and trying to pinpoint a cause for issues that had been occurring in my family for all the many years. They managed to stumble into a few records finding out that my grandfather on the British side of the family had schizophrenia and on my fathers side... Just a lot of fucked up shit. Even though it's common, my father himself was tested for a rare variant of the "[URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoamine_oxidase_A"]warrior gene[/URL]" back when he was a teen for similar problems to what I have.
After that came to light, a few other tests were done and we came down to schizotypal. As mentioned previously, it's being monitored at the moment for any changes but from what I understand with Aspergers and Schizo-anything, you can only target the symptoms, not the cause. So, yeah. Prozac, Ativan, and whenever anything to serious comes by loads of anti-psychs and given the, "fuck off to local woodland area to chill out".
the Steam UI is bad
[QUOTE=Sector 7;49770480]the Steam UI is bad[/QUOTE]
The UI is better than Origin, GoG Galaxy, or uPlay. It could definitely be better but it's one of the better UIs for a game store client.
steam UI needs another overhaul like it had back in 2010 (or was it 2009?)
[editline]18th February 2016[/editline]
maybe something more in line with big picture's organization.
call of duty is good.
[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;49767875]For myself, one of the reasons they think it's actually schizophrenia over schizotypal is because whenever I have any form of hallucinatory episode, it's a full visual one. When it first happened, I legit thought something had terrible gone wrong or I became some sort of prophet. The entire world around me looked like a post-Resource War type hellscape where the grassy fields were nothing but dry desert, and buildings were damaged from constant fighting.
What's even worse is I get stuck with these visuals for ten or more seconds, and they just go away. One of the things I was told to turn to in therapy was to draw and write short stories for the scenes I witness during those types of episodes, and take them more as a blessing of artistic impression over anything else.
Other times my vision blacks out, and I start seeing poke-a-dots in multiple colors flickering and changing shapes into all sorts of stuff.[/QUOTE]
That sounds a lot like my schizophrenic friend who lost all of her friends due to a major psychotic episode that lasted [I]days[/I]. She thought she was the president's daughter and everyone was trying to kill her.
[editline]19th February 2016[/editline]
[QUOTE=Janus Vesta;49770623]The UI is better than Origin, GoG Galaxy, or uPlay. It could definitely be better but it's one of the better UIs for a game store client.[/QUOTE]
Non-native interfaces bother the hell out of me, though.
[QUOTE=spoder55;49771260]call of duty is good.[/QUOTE]
activision is fucking it up with their publishing choices but black ops 3 is honestly a really good game
[QUOTE=RenegadeCop;49772219]Steam need multiple tabs more than anything[/QUOTE]
Steam is clunky as fuck.
I can't tell you how many times, when going on the workshop, I've had to go back to my library, select the game, select the workshop and look for mods because page 2 or 3 just showed up with "Nothing's Here"
on like, fucking Garry's mod
Steam client should be redone from scratch. Its pretty bad on Linux
its pretty bad on every OS
I'd gladly give the anime Lucky Star a chance if the protagonists didn't spend the first five minutes or so of the first episode talking about how one should eat a wide array of food (with my imagination going wild, for some reason)
Sometimes my Steam opens really bloody quickly, other times its slow as balls. That overlay feature in-game should be redone, good concept, badly done.
I missed steam when it looked basic but ran well. Before they did the massive redoing of it.
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No, That's not mine.
Trump supporters are the most delusional motherfuckers I've ever seen/argued with.
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