Still seriously ill. Woke up today to heavy rainfall, thankfully. The weather was cool for it, lowering my burning temperature a bit. Since my fan has retired itself and can't help me at this critical time, I couldn't be happier, it was indeed showers of blessings.
I paid someone and had medicine brought in for me. After taking it, it seemed to have made everything worse. I was in more distress than before, rolling, stretching and turning this and that way. Finally, I was able to doze off in the evening and didn't twitch till it was morning.
The bed bugs must have made a buffet out of me without fail. They do even while I'm able to jerk up and fight back not to talk of now that I lay motionless. Some of them wouldn't just have sucked my blood, they sure must've filled some containers for later (lol).
I suspect my falling sick isn't unrelated to the increase in their population in the cell. I kill over fifty of them per night. No exaggeration. It's that bad that I'd see as many as 3-5 of the bastards whenever I feel an itch and lift the area of my body. I have this sickening cringe feeling just thinking about being trapped together with these things that just don't die and don't go away.
Anyway, to sum things up: I was sick all day, took medicine, lay in my bunk all day till I slept off. I imagine the bugs must've been watching my struggles and knowing the time was close. They must've done so from different crevices, watching keenly till I was overpowered by exhaustion and slept off. I suppose a shout had gone off in Big City which must've been something like “yay! It's party time! The human is down! Charge to the feast everyone!”
Tomorrow is Saturday, the end of a week but the beginning of a new month.
Goodnight Diary!

Hey y’all, good morning. I’m becoming much more serious about my need to quit drinking. Thanks for being here, just reading through the sub is inspiring and helping to motivate me that quitting drinking is a necessity and that it’s possible AND that I need support and community. I guess some people have the willpower to choose to quit and can do it. I’m going to need support and accountability. I’m hoping thru those things that inpatient rehab won’t be necessary. I won’t ramble on but I’m here to ask for advice on two things.
1) Looking for online meeting support groups that aren’t necessarily AA. I used meetingguide app and have been sitting in on a couple this morning. One of them was pretty sweet but like a lot of ppl there are elements of AA that turn me off. If that’s all I can find I’ll take it, I need to be in sober community talking about recovery more than I need to be picky about exactly what that looks like. Any advice on this would be appreciated.
2) Seeking advice on a book to get today while I’m on errands. I think I need to read something on the science of how alcohol works on the body/brain and how that plays w addiction. I know I could Google “best books on….” But I feel like this sub would have some great recommendations I’d love to hear.
Any advice appreciated. Way to go if you woke up not hungover today, and all the rest of us, let’s goooo

I had an abusive therapist in 2021 whom I recently, and so kindly, made a review page for on RateMDs (Canada); turns out a lot of people feel the exact same way about her, and one person claimed they are reporting her to the ethics board due to her verbal attacks.
My next therapist in 2022 was abusive, even worst than the last. It was so bad I ended up reporting to the ethics board, and the therapist is now doing coaching for the time being. If I had recorded the sessions it would have been game over for that therapist. It killed me for a long time that I didn't record the sessions.
I later sought out a new therapist; my friend warned me that the one I chose had "crazy eyes" and it was red flags all over (based on their PP profile). I should have listened.
This new therapist, Alex, almost killed me, again. He was awful. The second I walked in the room, I warily mentioned my past experience with the abusive therapist. In response, Alex started accusing me of having "destructive" behaviours - despite that I didn't tell him anything about my behaviours yet. I hadn't told him anything at all, just that I was anxious due to a past experience. I think he has issues with younger women.
I saw Alex from August 2023 - April 2024. In this time, he became delusional from his own assumptions, confronted me constantly for things he pulled out of thin air (he would twist anything I said and then confront me for some alleged bad behaviour or cognitive distortion), and was entirely unwilling to try a different approach despite my (at first) gentle attempts to communicate that his approach wasn't working and was making me very unwell. I can gladly provide examples but it'd end up being a long ass post if I do that, so bear with me. He couldn't handle me even trying to talk about my past therapy abuse, because it was assumed to be my fault. Any dissent was "resistance" or rigidity. He refused to do trauma work despite that being the foundational problem. He refused to let me "free associate" (psychodynamic therapy) because he was convinced it would cause me some wild regression (as if his current approach wasn't fucking me up.
There was nothing for me to work with in the therapy. It wasn't grounded in reality; it was just all about how awful I am, yet not even in a way that was tangible - he could never explain himself. I was already hanging on a thread from my past abusive therapists, and I pretty quickly developed a substance use disorder (prescription) to try to cope. Began to vape nicotine constantly to try to stabilize myself. I began to isolate myself. By December 2023 I stopped going out at all - again. You know, almost died from the therapist in 2022, my life was almost ruined, and couldn't go out at all, and there I was basically back in the same place.
I never missed a single session. I even opted to increase to twice a week session in an attempt to resolve whatever was going amiss. I continuously tried to establish a working relationship with him. My self-confidence and sense of reality and self were devastated.
Anyway, March 2024 comes around and it comes out Alex diagnosed me with BPD and that was why he was been so confrontational (and delusional). Now, I'm pretty darn sure I have either schizotypal or a psychotic disorder. I was under the impression he was treating me for this, as he himself said he dx'd me with schizotypal. But I was also very confused because being confrontational with the kinds of populations I fit into is exactly not what you're supposed to do and has been proven to fuck them up. It's one of the reasons I stayed so long; I just dissociated into oblivion. Not to mention the CPTSD.
I end up sending Alex an email detailing my experiences, which was hard to do. He never asked me about my experiences before (it was all about his assumptions of me), and I thought I needed to try to put an end to this, to again try to establish a working relationship.
The next session, Alex immediately begins to apologize, tells me how he misdiagnosed me, that he's been treating me for a Cluster B disorder when he should have been treating me for a Cluster A, that the "treatment" not working wasn't my fault. He also was convinced that this is what went wrong in my past therapies; that they misdiagnosed me with BPD when the issue was schizotypal, and that it just so happens that applying the confrontational treatment for BPD to schizotypal can basically end the schizotype. (TBH he was way too generous to these past therapists; all him saying that proved to me was that he never believed me in the first place.) He told me he "failed me" and that I "humbled him." He was almost crying he seemed so sorry.
I was already looking for a new therapist, but I was grateful that at least it seemed like things were set straight with Alex. I mean, I now had a substance use disorder and all the more therapy trauma, but I'm pretty happy with little. It was mutually agreed upon that the termination was due to the ways in which the misdiagnosis made the treatment inhospitable for me. It was ended amicably but I noticed he began to act weird around me, very distant, etc. I didn't think much of it, figured maybe he was more emotionally involved when he thought I had BPD for whatever reason.
Found a new therapist at the beginning of April - a formally trained, international psychoanalyst who lives in Prague out of all things (was getting desperate) - and things are going well, finally. No therapy abuse; no issues that even closely resemble the issues I've had with the abusive therapists, etc. Things are finally "easy" with a therapist; the sailing is as smooth as it can be.
Well, two days ago I contacted Alex as I wanted to go to a boutique treatment centre for my prescription substance use issue and they were requesting recent past therapist notes. I thought what a better option than to have Alex send his notes with an explanation that he misdiagnosed me, that he thinks I have been misdiagnosed continuously in past therapies and that's why I've been "treatment resistant," and so on and so forth. Also, given that I developed the issue because of the stress from Alex, this way my story would be corroborated.
Alex was adamant sending his notes was a bad idea, and that the ethics board actually recommends that psychologists write summary letters of the treatment instead. I thought that was nice that Alex was looking out for me. I explained to Alex what I'm looking for in the letter (with the central focus being on the misdiagnosis issue), and that my main goal is to help prove my eligibility for the program (they only take "highly motivated" clients; it's more relaxed in terms of restrictions and what not). I agreed to pay Alex around $400 for his time. I really thought Alex and I were making further amends and that it was so nice he could have my back on this.
Alex gets back to me with the worst letter imaginable. All about how the treatment failed because of ME, how we never made any progress because of ME, that the "lack of consensus on treatment goals and methods" was a massive barrier, and that this all happened despite that the frequency was increased to twice a week (which he failed to mentioned only occurred because I requested it, in an effort to save the therapy!). He made no mention of the fact that I never missed a single therapy session or any fact that would make me sound good, not to mention that he didn't even so much as touch on the fact that the therapy failed because of HIS misdiagnosis. He made it sound like the termination occurred because of how treatment resistant I was.
He also downplayed my trauma (I asked him to speak out this in the letter), saying only how I have a family history of "neglect" and being "scapegoated." My mother would scream at me, like to the point her lungs were going to burst, as a small child until I blacked out, this continued up until I was kicked out at 18, and I have serious CPTSD. I was even diagnosed with PTSD at one point. Like? Alex is supposed to be a specialist in trauma.
So I read the letter and was confused. Got back to him assuring that I'd still pay him, but suggested maybe he remove some parts of it if he can't revise them. Told him I disagree with the reasons for termination and why the treatment didn't work out, and reminded him of the fact he misdiagnosed me. I was honestly very confused and thought maybe he forgot. Told him it's probably not helpful to minimize my trauma.
Cue a minute after I send that email, and it suddenly dawns on me. The pathetic excuse of a therapist never recorded his fuck up in my clinical file. He obviously maintained his delusional narrative within his notes, presumably to cover his ass in case I reported him or sued him for malpractice (unlikely anyway), given his misshapen and misapplied "treatment" caused me a ton of harm due to his incompetence.
I was seeing red and sent him another email informing him that I actually recorded our final session, given what happened with my previous therapist (and Alex knew about my regret of not recording those sessions, and I'd often leave my phone out during our sessions). It's one-party consent in Canada, and Alex at the very beginning told me he was fine if I recorded the sessions anyway. So yeah, I emailed Alex whilst appalled telling him all about how I recorded him stating he misdiagnosed me, was treating me for the wrong disorder, that therapy not working wasn't my fault, and so on.
Told him he can either write me a letter based on facts - facts I can corroborate given my session recordings - or I'm not paying him for shit. Told him to not even bother replying if he isn't willing to write me a letter grounded in reality. Shockingly, he never got back to me.
And now he'll never know if I was bluffing and he gets to spend the next few months in terror that I'm going to use session recordings to report him for knowingly putting false information in clinical documentation.
What the hell. He could have at least TRIED to make me sound decent in the letter given that he knew what he was saying was bullshit. I guess dissonance is a real bitch. I also don't for a second buy that if I had BPD, his shit-tier "treatment" would have magically worked. It was gaslighting and abusive. You can't just make horrible assumptions about people or create a false reality, shove that in the person's face, then gaslight them all the more when the person is fucking confused and, eventually, distraught.
What a gaslighting loser. I should legitimately report him. Leaving him a bad review as we speak.

Hey all. I had this really in depth dream last night and I wanted to get some insight on it.
I dreamed I was at my childhood home and my sibling was telling me they had sacrificed a chicken to summon a demon. I went to go and help them because it seemed like they were in danger, but then I got chased and ran into the house and drew a sigil on the door. I got a good look at what was chasing me and it looked like a little girl with small bat wings and snake like eyes that were a bright yellow. I ran upstairs and tried to tell my parents and got the standard you were dreaming go back to bed, only to turn around and the creature followed me up the stairs and told me it's name was Lolo.
I've had dreams like that before where there will be a creature that looks like a humanoid that is obviously malevolent, but I've never gotten a name out of a dream before. I've done some searching and nothing has come up with the name. Does anyone have any knowledge on an entity named Lolo?
Thanks in advance.

The Last of Us Part III:
Title: The Last of Us Part III: Echoes of Hope
Prologue: The game opens with a flashback of Ellie and Joel at the farm, showing moments of peace and happiness before the events of Part II. This sets the tone of Ellie's ongoing struggle with her memories and the loss of Joel.
Act 1: Ellie: Ellie, now in her mid-20s, lives alone on the outskirts of Jackson. She's haunted by nightmares of Joel and her actions from Part II. Despite her attempts to find peace, she feels isolated and restless. Ellie receives a message from a surviving Firefly faction claiming they have a lead on a potential cure for the Cordyceps infection. Torn between her desire for a peaceful life and her lingering guilt over Joel's death, she decides to follow the lead, hoping to fulfill Joel's dying wish and find redemption.
Dina and JJ: Dina has moved on and settled in Jackson with their son, JJ. Dina is raising JJ in a safe, supportive community, but her relationship with Ellie remains strained. Ellie occasionally visits, trying to stay connected, but her internal conflict keeps her distant. Dina loves Ellie but is also protective of JJ, unsure if Ellie can be a stable presence in their lives.
Tommy: Tommy, who survived the events of Part II but with severe injuries, lives in Jackson. He is partially blind and has a limp, making him less active in the community's defense. Despite his physical limitations, he remains a source of wisdom and guidance for Jackson's residents. He has made peace with Ellie, although he still struggles with his own feelings of vengeance and loss.
Abby and Lev: Abby and Lev reach the remnants of the Firefly faction on Catalina Island. They are welcomed cautiously but eventually earn the group's trust. Abby, seeking redemption and a sense of purpose, becomes an active member of the Fireflies. Lev, now a skilled and determined young fighter, views Abby as a mentor and sister figure. They are tasked with scouting new locations for potential safe havens and gathering supplies.
Act 2: Ellie’s Journey: Ellie travels to a decaying, overgrown city in search of the Fireflies, encountering new factions and hostile environments. Along the way, she meets a young girl named Ava, who reminds her of her younger self. Ava is immune to the infection and is being hunted by a ruthless group called The Righteous, who believe she is a divine sign of humanity's salvation.
Abby and Lev’s Mission: Abby and Lev, on a mission for the Fireflies, discover evidence of The Righteous, a cult-like group with a violent ideology. Realizing the threat they pose, Abby and Lev decide to warn the Fireflies and gather allies.
Flashbacks with Joel: Throughout the game, Ellie experiences flashbacks of her time with Joel, revealing more about their bond and the impact he had on her. These flashbacks also show Joel's softer side, his guilt over lying to Ellie about the Fireflies, and his desire to protect her at all costs.
Act 3: The Righteous’ Attack: As Ellie and Ava reach the Firefly base, The Righteous launch an attack. Abby and Lev arrive just in time to assist in the defense. The combined forces of Ellie, Abby, Lev, and the Fireflies manage to hold off the attackers. During the battle, Ellie and Abby fight side by side, overcoming their past animosity for a common cause.
The Procedure: Dr. Lydia Reed, a former colleague of Marlene, leads the Fireflies in developing a new, experimental procedure using Ava’s immunity. Despite the risks, Ellie decides to stay and ensure Ava's safety. The procedure is a success, but the outcome remains uncertain, leaving hope for a potential cure.
Reconciliation and New Beginnings: After the battle, Ellie and Abby have a moment of reconciliation. They acknowledge the pain and loss they have caused each other but also recognize their shared goal of creating a better future. Ellie decides to return to Jackson to recuperate and reconnect with Dina and JJ, leaving Ava in the care of the Fireflies.
Epilogue: In the post-credits scene, Ava, now older and more experienced, leads a new group of Fireflies on a mission to distribute the cure. Abby and Lev are shown helping to establish a new Firefly base. Ellie stands on a hill overlooking Jackson, contemplating her journey and the sacrifices made. She reunites with Dina and JJ, hinting at the possibility of a new beginning and the faintest echo of hope for humanity.
This plot ties up loose ends from Parts I and II while introducing new characters and challenges for Ellie, providing a sense of closure and hope for the future.

I like the blacked-out looks of the RS model much better, but hate the 21” tires from a theoretical ride quality and efficiency (?) standpoint. I wish they offered the RS with 19” tires. Are there any reviews yet that compare the ride quality or range of the two different models?

With the recent Gwimbly episode out, I decided to review one of the classic platformers to see the light of Sun in the mid 90's. Everyone remembers the legacy of this game, but boy oh boy, nostalgia glasses sure compensate for some of the glaring issues that plague this title.
Precedents and Development:
"The magic Adventures of Gwimbly in Corn Land" is one of those Megadrive publicity games, such as M&Ms or The Noid video-game, this time from the Monsanto company. And the least said about this, the better. Left-to-right side scrolling, awful controls, repetitive and boring, it was deemed to be a forgotten artifact. But, by good fortune, it was one of the (allegedly) two games that series albanian creator Petulla Pulle had as a kid.
Petulla deserves an aside. Learning to code intuitively and implementing Risk on his Casio FX-81 at the age of 6, he is not the poor boy that media wanted us to belive. Coming from a well off family, when he arrived in the US he co-created Sweet Games (now Insane Groundbreaking Games) with his friend Zachary Taylor, and they started development on Gwimbly after acquiring the Licence from a gambling bet in a pub in New York. Although his reputation being ripped apart now by the abuse accusations and toxic working enviroment, Pulle was a popular figure among gamers in the late 90's and 00's, and his advancements in the field should be recognised.
So, basically a one man job, Gwimbly finished its development in just under 2 years and came out for the PSX in August 1996, just one month before Mario 64, which eclipsed the relevance of the first game in sales. Even so, it was the alternative for the Sony owners at the time looking for a collectathon platformer in the, then, new 3rd dimension. But growing pains show all over the game, as we'll see.
Graphics:
While not being bad, a lot of the 5th generation of consoles problems are present. Textures warp and wabble, popping is noticible even in small areas, and glitches are all over the place, specially after acquiring the triple jump.
What, then, has made that Gwimbly sticks to our memories? The character designs and animations, of course. All of them, from the little Cheddar Gobblin enemies of the first level until Count Groxya, without forgetting Mr. Millipede. Even little details, like Gwimbly's iddle animations, reflect care and dedication (unlike its sequels, but we'll talk about that later).
Sound and FX:
This must be the aspect of the game that stincks the most. The constant crackling and stuttering stuck into my ears as a kid, and it certainly has not gotten better as an adult. The howling made for some funny misunderstandings (the classic line "If I had my Gwimbly gun" was supposed to say "If I had some Sweet Corn", but it made for a good meme in the episode), but it was not good even for that time. And, worst of all, while not being at Gex levels, the constant repetition of lines and screams from Gwimbly got annoying real quick.
Music is nothing to write home about. The Corn Hills theme was catchy, but after the 100th time you got tired of it. The use of Theremin and Erhu instruments was more innovative than effective in the latter levels. Only the Menu Music has had some lasting effects, even musically referenced in the Celeste Soundtrack.
Gameplay:
Gwimbly is a short game, and I think that's a positive. With only 50 Corn Cans to collect, with four main levels, a central Hub and the last Can Count Castle, it didn't worn out its welcome with its 8-10 hour average run.
Nowadays, Gwimbly feels cluncky to control. The comitment you had to endure with some of the jumps is incredible, and the run and jump distance seems inconsistent. But, worst offender of all, the camera was not good. And who ever thought that recentering the camera with the X button was a good idea.
Levels:
- Silly-corn Valley: Everybody remembers the central Hub and tutorial level. Mr Millipede serves as our side kick, and the one who teach us how to jump, roll and make the Gwimbly Stimbly, all while staring us with his glassy eyes. You could skip its advices, and if you did not talk to him once it was recognised in the access to the final level, where he would ask you who you were.
- Icy Corn Flakes: a little fun snow level, the developers made the wise decission to not have icey controls (EDIT: it seems that it was programmed into the level, but it was badly implemented so you walked normally). The 10 Corn Cans here are not very difficult, and the Uni-Corn boss was cute.
- Corncob swamp: The swim level. Enough said.
- The Corn Maze: I still have nightmares from this level. Not by the theming or "spooky" music, but from the level design. The constant back-tracking, the Ghosts of Cornstmass Past and specially the, not one, but 2 Corn Cans that made you speedrun the maze almost made me quit the game more than once. In the second run of the maze, Pulle admitted that he put the least amount of time possible WITHOUT CONSIDERING the animation of the door opening, so it was literally no possible to get it unless you glitched through the invisible wall at the beginning.
- Corn Field of Lava: the amazing thing about this level is that, after activating the volcanoe, the entire level was transformed and filled with pop-corn. Be sure to grab the Can at the beginning of the level, after the jumping rocks, because it will not be possible to grab it after the level remodelling (probably by mistake).
- Can Count Castle: I wish I could say the best was reserved for last, but the tight platforming of this level was a frustration factory from start to finish. The only positive is the Final Boss, and the secret animation if you collected all Corn Cans (and the reason why it was made a PG 13+).
Conclusion and Legacy:
Gwimbly in its original state is a game that lives best in our memories, rather than our current consoles. Luckily, its amazing fandom has corrected many of the graphical glitches and performance issues via patches and ROMs that enhance the expirience. But the level design, even with its good moments, is not something you can easily fix.
The inmediate sequel (Gwimbly 2 on Corny Land // Gwimbly 2: The Adventure of Gwimble and Millipede in PAL regions), that came out just a year after the 1rst game release, pullished some aspects of the original while inexplicably substracting from others. The most glaring example is the introduction of fall damage.
Gwimbly 3 Revengance, which came out in late 2003, was a terrible disappointment. It mutted the sparckly colors of the first two entries, and the introduction of Gwimbly Guns and the absence of Mr.Millipede (who was going through some stuff at the time) left a sour taste for the fans of the franchise for what was its final entry. The development hell that Gwimbly 4 went through, and the aforementioned Pulle accusations, put Gwimbly in a weird spot for the next 15 years.
Let's just hope Insane Groundbreaking Games make something with the face of the company. I do not want a fighting game from Gwimbly. I want a new platformer, and, if one can dream, the first truly good game of the saga.

I’ve been thinking about how TE said the night of the accident they were thinking of potentially adding a date for Buffalo at the end of their tour? (especially since the accident happened during the first song - also I only saw that on the OG post here so don’t quote me 😂) It would be great if it could be more of a fundraiser for Bird too. I know I’m super bummed we didn’t get to see their set bc it genuinely looks like an amazing show and hope they’re still considering this! I have FOMO seeing everyone’s vids! But this could be a great opportunity to help do our part in supporting Bird, TE, and the love we have for live music and keeping it alive. Not sure if Mohawk Place would let TE back in for obvious reasons but hopefully another venue could see the opportunity have a positive impact.

I'm looking at the sizes on Amazon and the dimensions just seem like they can't be right. I have a 4L one for all my infantry/small stuff. Looking for something that will hold a doomstalker, preferably standing up, but I could mount them sideways and just lose a ton of space. The 9L box LOOKS like it would work, but the dimensions don't seem to match the visual. Looking to see if anyone has purchased the 9L or Larger boxes and can confirm that things like doomstalkers will fit. Thanks!

Do you think there should be more aid conditions for the US's aid to allied countries outside Nato? Countries like Ukraine, and Israel. In Ukraine specifically, I don't think the government has control and Zelensky's doing whatever he wants. The military officials in the department told them what to do not to spread their forces on multiple fronts and put them at one point, and he had other things in mind. Considering that the average American has a mortgage and three or more kids to raise I do not think everyone would agree on a long-term proxy war. If the taxes increase.
The situation in the Middle East. The problem in the Middle East is getting deeper and deeper and it seems there would be a war with Lebanon any time soon. Hizbollah is the same as Hamas using family members as shields and placing their forces in civilian infrastructure. This means more civilian death toll and more dead babies. The things in Gaza are taking out of control and last week there was a gun battle between border Egyptian soldiers and Israeli soldiers. Two Egyptians died.
I'm not saying to stop the aid completely. I'm saying to place conditions on the assistance about how, when, and where it can be used. Look what happened in Gaza, the entire world gave them money and they built missiles from the pipes and tunnels, and made medical centers terrorist hubs. Many former doctors from Doctors Without Borders who volunteered there said that there were areas in the hospitals where they couldn't cross.
Do you believe there should be more conditions on the US's part on how this aid is spent and who controls it?

I’m looking to buy either a q50 (400hp) or an is350 f sport. The Q50 seems to have the better engine performance wise, but that seems to be about it - the Lexus seems to be better in every other way. Reliability wise - is the Q50 good enough? How long will it last before a major repaiservice? Are repairs/spare parts easy and/or cheap? Why are they so cheaply priced at the dealer and in the used car market? Are used Q50’s reliable and/or easy/cheap to repair? Otherwise, the q50 seems like a bargain of a sporty car.

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(minor spoilers for Dune, but I try to be as non-descriptive as possible)
Have you ever watched, or played or experienced an adaptation of a story that was so good, that you feel conflicted on whether or not you want to experience the source material?
This is something that I subconsciously struggled with before, but I just recently recognised this feeling after finishing all of the Steins;Gate anime.
For those that might not know, Steins;Gate and Steins;Gate 0 are anime adaptations of visual novel games. I have become obsessed with Steins;Gate, can't get enough of it, I watched the animes, the movie, most of the OVAs (though not all yet), and after that I did what (I would assume) a lot of other people do and started watching reaction videos to "try to re-experience it", I guess you could say. But, you know, that can only get so far. And it was during this that I learned through Youtube comments that the anime originates from visual novels. So it would be a fair assumption that I should play the visual novels too, after all, I am desperately after more content, right?
But, you know, I don't think I want to. If I were to play the visual novels, or read the manga or something like that, my feelings towards/opinion of the anime would change. I might think less of it, because I would be like "why isn't this in the anime?", "why was this changed?", "why is this different?".
Reading the source material for an adaptation always changes your feelings towards the adaptation. It always makes it a comparison between the two, and the adaptation usually loses that comparison. Once you experience the source material, the adapation becomes less/non-canon is a sense, because it's different then what was originally intended.
I've always been the kind of person to read the manga to animes I really liked, to get more of the story, and to get it the way it was intended, that's why I know first-hand just how much it can change your perception of a series. After reading the Tokyo Ghoul manga, I can't go back to the anime, after reading Berserk I can only think of how inferior the adaptations are compared to it, after reading Jojo's I can only think of how much the anime butchered the pacing in some places.
But I don't want the same thing to happen to Steins;Gate, because I love the anime, and I feel like I would, in a way, invalidate my feelings towards it by experiencing the source material.
And it's not just with anime and manga, but other media as well.
I love Cyberpunk 2077 and Cyberpunk Edgerunners, I love the characters, the world, the stories, I love it. I will watch the live-action series they are working on and will play the sequel. But I will never read any of the books for the original table-top game. I will not look at any OG lore that isn't in the game/series itself. Because I love the story and world the way they are, and I don't want to change that, even if it means ignoring heaps of more content.
Same with Lord of the Rings. I love the movies, even the Hobbit trilogy (tho it is much worse than LOTR). I will probably never read any of the books, because, again, that would take away from the story of the movies by adding comparison.
I wanted to do the same with Dune. I love the new Dune movies. But my enjoyment of their story is already affected somewhat by learning about the Spacing Guild and how they were pretty much cut out from the movies from Reddit and Youtube. Like, when I was watching the movies I didn't miss them, I didn't care about them, because they weren't in the movie, but that didn't impact the story for me. But now that I know about them, I'm like, the Spacing Guild is pretty important, why weren't they in the films? (tho this can be fixed in the 3rd film) But like, even this small amount of knowledge permanently changed the way I feel about the story of the movies. It's still incredible and I still love it, but it's no longer the almost perfect 10/10 I watched in the cinema, it's the still great, but flawed adatpation of something more developed and complex.
Of course I try to appreciate the adaptations of things I know the source material to for what they are, and not for what they aren't, but it can be hard to not draw comparisons.
And obviously I don't avoid the source material for every adaptation I consume. I will still read the manga for a lot of anime I like, and I will still read the book of some movies or series I watch. But sometimes an adaptation feels so special to me that I don't want to take away anything from it and I don't want to change anything about it.
So I guess what I'm trying to say here is that sometimes preserving the way you think and feel about a story is more important than getting more content out of it. It's up to everyone individually to decide what is more important to them, and which stories they want to preserve. It can be kind of hard to overcome the desire for more out of a story you love, but to me at least, sometimes the integrity, I guess you could say, of the story is simply more important.

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Hey! I'm looking for someone to watch TV shows/anime with. I haven't been able to find the person I'm looking for so I decided to make my own post. I'm gonna include some of my favourite shows so you get the idea of my taste and see if anything peaks your interest.
TV shows: the rookie, Lucifer, the big bang theory, manifest, the good place, izombie, the Orville, the queen's gambit.
Anime: twin star exorcists, noragami, food wars, demon slayer, Dr stone, that time I got reincarnated as a slime, overlord, assassination classroom, spy x family, I don't wanna get hurt so I maxed out my defense, your lie in april, solo leveling.
I'm also open to suggestions and watching some new TV shows and anime obviously haha. Other than watching things I also enjoy cooking, baking, singing, music and photography.
My preferred platform is discord and obviously voice chat is a given if we are going to watch things together. I would also like us to build a friendship together as well so write a short introduction of yourself. Please be over 18 and from Europe for timezone reasons.
Thanks for reading~

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Looks:
I'm 6 feet, Indian. I have dark brown eyes, short wavy black hair with brown streaks, I'm pretty athletic in my build, broad shoulders, long legs. My aesthetic constantly oscillates between nerd and stripper – think smart jeans and a well-fitted shirt for everyday wear, but I clean up nicely for a night out or a special occasion.
Interests:
🖋 I'm an author and a poet. I like keeping things, ideas and people immortal in my work. I'd like to think of myself as a hope collector, who likes to collect abandoned hope, repurpose it, and make it into something you would want to have in your life.
🤯 The only high class meme enthusiast. This is a consequence of being on the internet for far too long. From tacky Facebook memes to Gen Z humor, you can bet I will be gasping for air.
👟 I'm really passionate about the environment, and I'm very eco-friendly. I love guerilla gardening and being a rebel against the capitalist system. I'm always open to having a healthy discussion/debate even on things I don't agree upon.
🍮 I love cooking! I'm always looking forward to learning new cuisines! I also like to grow most of my ingredients. I'd say food is one of my love languages!
⭐ I really like anime, I've had this weird generational habit of collecting different rocks (Rockhounding), I hit the gym everyday, I try to be spiritual, and read. One of my recent obsessions has been chess! I'm also fascinated by history and art.
🏳️‍🌈 I'm bisexual and an LGBT ally! I've been in the worst depression and I've made it out. Here to give away all my love. ❤️
What I’m Into:
I’m drawn to people who are open-minded, adventurous, and have a positive outlook on life. Someone who can enjoy both the simple pleasures and the grand adventures. If you love spontaneous trips, deep conversations, and laughter until it hurts, we’ll get along just fine.
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I know this is a highly controversial subject and I'm not trying to polarize any communities here. So I will say before jumping into this that I'm not anti-trans, but I also don't think that every person who's struggling with identity issues in life should blindly be supported to have a sex change like that's going to be a real solution for whatever challenges their facing.
That being said, here's why I'm posting. This morning I woke up to a notification letting me know I've just received my first ban from a sub. This is a sub about mental health, which I felt is important and was looking forward to being an active member in. This was also my very first comment in this particular sub, which is why I'm shocked that I was banned for what I thought was a well worded, mindful response.
Basically the OP wasn't happy with being born their sex and was saying how they thought their life would be easier if they were born the opposite sex. Most of the comments were just supportive of this, which doesn't necessarily bother me. But I wanted to offer another perspective for OP to consider.
So I carefully crafted a message basically letting OP know that life as a girl wouldn't be any easier. As females still have plenty of challenges to face. And what OP was experiencing was a classic 'grass is always greener on the other side' mentality.
I went into a bit more detail than this but in no way was mean or anti anything. Yet I was banned for trying to open OP's mind instead of just blindly being supportive of a change that may end up being an even bigger regret for OP years later.
AITAH?
I can imagine if this post is allowed to stay and generates a lot of responses that differentiating between the me OP and the other OP could get confusing. So maybe try using the term 'other OP' if referencing something about that.

Me (F26) and my boyfriend (M29) have been together for little more than a year. He is very sweet and affectionate with me. Has shown nothing but being faithful and loyal.
We had an issue about his facebook, tiktok and instagram because he followed so many random girls (that he didn’t know and that wasn’t celebrities, also he don’t follow any men like that so he followed because of their gender). We talked and he deleted a looot of these.
But I freaked the other day and looked in his phone (he gave me his password).

• He has unfriended so many girls on facebook but still follows a lot. No new ones though.
  
• I saw his messages from 2021 when he wrote hi to all the girls he befriended like that.
  
• His recent search on facebook is so many girls names, not celebrities but girls showing low cleavage and such. He doesn’t follow or friend them though.
  
• His best friend broke up with his fiance, in this time he tried to set his bf up with my friend and he also dated a girl my bf knows before coming back with his gf very shortly after. Birds that flock together or how is that saying.
  

I am an overthinker and I know he is going to propose to me soon. He hasn’t talked with any girls and the rest of our relationship is fine. But I don’t want to end up betrayed because I was blind to signs.
I don’t follow random men or post thirst traps myself.
What can I do about it?