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  1. Comment on The making of Noctis, the 'No Man's Sky' forerunner whose creator retreated from the world in ~games

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    You know, I thought I recognised the influence of depression on No Man's Sky. I'm really glad to know whose genius it actually is, both the original creator and the community that helped develop...

    You know, I thought I recognised the influence of depression on No Man's Sky. I'm really glad to know whose genius it actually is, both the original creator and the community that helped develop it. The post rock soundtrack really is the icing on the cake for the isolated mood. No other video game makes me openly weep like NMS. It's a lot like my own dreams - hardly ever any people in them.

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  2. Comment on What creative projects have you been working on? in ~creative

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    I'm always in pain, so making art has been an essential part of my life. I don't like sharing usually, because these are my real feelings and very few people know how to treat music as anything...

    I'm always in pain, so making art has been an essential part of my life. I don't like sharing usually, because these are my real feelings and very few people know how to treat music as anything except a commodity. I've always felt like I was speaking a language of one, which makes it a useless language doesn't it?

    https://murmuru.bandcamp.com/

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  3. Comment on Germany's far-right AfD sees poll numbers surging to nearly 20% nationwide in ~society

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    Hannah Arendt's 'Origins of Totalitarianism'.

    Hannah Arendt's 'Origins of Totalitarianism'.

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  4. Comment on What impact, if any, did being raised as a woman have on you? in ~life.women

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    I've been where the other comments have been too, and also the thing that's really knocked me for six lately is realising exactly how much of what I've read in books only applies to men, it was...

    I've been where the other comments have been too, and also the thing that's really knocked me for six lately is realising exactly how much of what I've read in books only applies to men, it was written by men for men and framed as universal. I know I'm a bit late to the party on this issue but the reality of it is really beginning to hit me now. There's so much I believed about myself that isn't true, it isn't me, and no wonder it baffled me and was kind of hard to relate to when I read it, and how much despair it wrought in me and how different and isolated it made me feel. I now know how much I have to be on guard reading anything written by men who have not yet had the critical realisation of the world outside themselves.

    However, despite now trying to read anything before the early 1900s compounding into a complex trauma, I think that this means that I've discovered something vital about myself, and I'm not letting go of it.

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  5. Comment on I'm a little concerned with the prevalence and popularity of topics and videos seemingly designed to upset people and "get people fired up" in social media in ~talk

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    You might be surprised to learn that it's a mechanism for resilience against being traumatised. It's basically combat high that is chased. The more you can enjoy an adverse situation, the less...

    You might be surprised to learn that it's a mechanism for resilience against being traumatised. It's basically combat high that is chased. The more you can enjoy an adverse situation, the less PTSD symptoms will be experience.

    I think that biology is very energy efficient - there are in fact a limited range of reactions that are applied to many situations and then pre-consciously framed so that we experience a new, unique emotion attached to specific memories. The 4-way trauma response is a universal in mammalian biology. Fight, freeze, flight and fawn. We are all using them all the time, you've probably heard about it in connection with war veterans and people whose battlefield was the family home but all of us can be considered the walking wounded to different extents.

    Here's a quote from a veteran of war participating in a study about PTSD: "At first I hated it. Then I was just doing my job. Then I felt nothing about it. Then I began to enjoy it."

    Perpetrators of human rights abuses almost completely lack a traumatic response to the inescapable situation, including children who are taught to scapegoat another child and abuse them alongside their parents. No PTSD symptoms. Witnesses and victims however, who also experienced near or total powerlessness had significant and lasting trauma reactions.

    Also not forgetting, men (mostly) seek out combat high during peacetime too in order to protect themselves against schizophrenic conditions when their ego, the force holding the organism together, is compromised.

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  6. Comment on Idaho drops panel investigating pregnancy-related deaths as US maternal mortality surges in ~life.women

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    Huh, the few people into whose hands we concentrate all the power are trying to control us to an even greater extent? How could this possibly happen?

    Huh, the few people into whose hands we concentrate all the power are trying to control us to an even greater extent? How could this possibly happen?