“Cognitive Behavioral Approaches are the most effective means of recognizing negative patterns in real world scenarios and correcting those behaviors is a matter of will and repetition”

And, she was right, as far as I was concerned. I’m not ‘fixed’, but I can tell when my own patterns have kicked in and I’m in a spiraling loop, and the tools/knowledge of kicking that loop with new actions in an attempt to break the pattern has been really helpful.

The most important thing I learned were strategies to handle the panic attacks. The knowledge of flooding the brain with physiological responses through focus on sensations and objects within my immediate vicinity has been instrumental in grounding me to the present. The panic attack still comes, but it’s not as long and I’m not left exhausted, sweaty, and emotionally dead as often as I was.

The mumbo jumbo softer side (I went to school for psych, my BA says I get to say this) of Psych is really good for a lot of things. The practical side of Psychology is really good for most if not all people.

I can’t say I agree with the Bayonetta comment, but it’s because I only played it at a friend’s house a few times growing up and think it’d go over as well as a Final Fantasy movie.

FF 13 sucked for me. The sudden transition to even more linear environments, my salt about a lack of turn based combat, and the oh-my-god-they-out-finalled-their-fantasy with the cutscenes longer than dissertations. I love Sazh, love Fang, I fucks with Vanille and I low key love lightning design and a return to the gun blade. None of that could save that game for me, though. Oh, and fuck turning gods into vehicles, that Shiva-cycle was lame

Okay, Yotei. You’ve played this? And did you not like it, or was the protagonist being a woman somehow harmful to the gameplay or story?

COD, which one, and why is it somehow girlboss slop instead of AI assets and Fortnite-ification slop? Are the woman models better hitboxes or less stereotypical ARMY WARRIOR than the men?

Horizons…like Forza or like the game series that has always been about a woman? Did you play the games, and was her character somehow not the character you expected them to be? (I will say, women make up about 20% of Engineers in the US, so it’s not crazy to think a woman scientist cloned herself, thus resulting in a 'savior character

GTA 6…I don’t play GTA so I can’t say much on that one. Have you played it yet? Can you share details so people can see how girl boss slop it is?

Please, regale us with the girl boss games that suck.

I’m not saying they don’t exist, surely they do, I just want to know which ones you don’t like that you can name.

Can’t watch Seinfeld because Jerry is a vocal zionist. BUT, I can watch Curb Your Enthusiasm and just skip and Seinfeld feature, so far

Just…because I need to know.

Are you Cuno? Or do you hate Cuno?

“Like a leaf caught aflame, it’s matter converted to heat and the bonds broken down to ash. It’s not gone, it’s structure has changed to the point of no longer being ‘a leaf’, and what we see before us when looking at someone/something who has passed on is the same as ashes in the fire. Changed, but jot truly gone”

There’s a fee for that, not joking

Which is exactly what I was talking about. Uhura and Kirk kissing was appalling because it was two people being forced to engage physically against their will. The appalling part wasn’t that there was an interracial kiss, pushing the idea that, in the future there is no problem with interracial relationships or interactions.

It is a story about consent that also cements that racism isn’t an ideal upheld by the ‘good and socially advanced’ people of the federation.

I have a lot to read up on, thank you for linking those.

I needed to hear this today, and to have this interaction. I’ll keep you in mind for sure, you seem very knowledgeable and have been oh so kind

Thank you for the information and the advice. And the hope. I think we all need a little hope right now.

I’ve looked at DIY estrogen, but I worry about my existing health. I’m not unhealthy, but my family has heart disease and I have a fatty liver (I don’t drink, or, don’t drink more than twice a year at most) and need to look further into any (unwanted) side effects

Thank you

That’s incredible! Thank you for sharing.

I have not had similar issues, I have never been accidentally called my preferred gender. It’s given me a lot of cover to hide behind. And I don’t live somewhere yet (moving this year) that is positive about Trans healthcare. My doctor essentially told me “good luck, you should wait until you move, the only referral I have will slur you”. But I’m hopeful.

One girl to another, really, do you ever feel pretty? Does the weight of it all drop for a moment and you can look at yourself and say that you like, at least some, of what you see? I’ve just reached 30, and the feeling of ‘too late’ sits on my mind often

I believe I misread, then. As I thought your commentary was on the idea that we SHOULD make their homosexuality and the feelings/beliefs of his people a plot point to be investigated and played out instead of seen as “in Star Trek, we’ve moved on from simple bigotry, we now do space bigotry” like I’d expect.

I, admittedly, haven’t seen the show (fuck Paramount, and my piracy days are on hold) and only based that on the initial comment which I thought to be in support of making the character’s sexuality their plot point instead of their journey/ambitions as a character driving their change and story.

Oftentimes I find that I prefer semi-episodic Trek, but having plots stay relevant isn’t so bad when it’s actually addressed. I hope they handle those this time around and that the series is on firm legs by the time I go to watch it.

Thank you for giving me more info on it

Moreso, in the same way Uehara kissing Kirk was a problem at the time, it’s not shown as a problem in the show, reinforcing that normal, sensible people already believe it’s fine. So in that same vein, make homosexuality and transexuality normal in Star Trek, and investigate bigotry through another allegory. As they often do

God, how’d you find the confidence? Good job! I’m still changing clothes every time I take my dog out. And you got a compliment on an outfit thing you picked?! The world really can be good

I think we’ve seen too much of Klingons being reasonable enough people when it comes to social issues that I don’t think that’s a path we should explore if only because there are other means of doing it.

Orville does it a lot like older Trek, which is to say, beats you over the head with a concept you may be experiencing in day to day life and shows the real world consequences of opinions around it. They have a storyline about a Klingon-like race that is strictly male (they sex change the babies if they’re not male), the ‘right’ opinion is very clear by how the main protagonists react, but they can’t just overrule another culture or people

In this way, they assert that the learned/educated belief is to let people be who they are, and restricting that only causes pain and trauma and the rift it tears in families can be massive. They flipped the issue on it’s head. “Forced sex changes” is the big fear Republicans in the US have been touting this last few decades, so now the uber-masculine species is forced to be all male and any disagreement is systematically squashed and discouraged. But it’s so painfully clear the Moclans are in wrong, and the tension of the show comes down to how systems oppress others and the limited options for outside entities to intervene.

Essentially my point is that people WANT a utopian show where the good guys are really doing good things and the universe is mostly on it’s way away from the troubles we experience in society today. Orville and Old Trek both asserted that some things have already been handled in Earth’s history, like capitalism and gender/sex discrimination, and that people who disagree are anachronistic and often farther behind in other technologies. Call the dumb people dumb on my fantasy show, and do it in a way that let’s the audience experience the issue without making it an opinion that holds ANY mainstream appeal outside of clearly-wrong fringe groups.

If it’s not a problem for Kirk to kiss Uhura then why should homosexuality be an actual contention point in Star Trek in 2026? Just give us another allegory for it and we’ll pick it up and move on

I think you misremember being a teenager. As my moody attitude swings would deter all but a select few friends who understood I was going through something.

That, and Squall et al. are child soldiers, kind of depressing business for teenagers

Playing WoW

See message from QT3.14 Dranei boy

Press numlock, type out ‘sup bb LFR BT?’

Left and right mouse click to halt and continue killing. The good old days

My thought is that it’s part of the enforcement of that ‘fair time’ bullshit. They’re covering their asses in case they haven’t allowed enough ‘conservative candidates’ similar time on air

I’m not going to shit on someone using their platform here to share how shitty the US government is

But writing off drugging people and stealing from them is so weird. If drugging people and stealing from them is a ‘rolling eyes’ emoji action, I think you need to re-evaluate your morals.