You can't use summons to beat schizophrenia
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Maybe I'm tired and extra bad at comprehension but is this saying that telling people to get better at the game is ableist?
The amount of upbears suggests I'm missing something
I made this meme in like 2020ish, my intention was since I like Souls games I often see how the sweaty elitist tryhards talk about the games and usually they fling ableist slurs around pretty often, so I just wanted to make fun of them, it's kinda like the "when you put 100%ed every FromSoft game in your resume but you still don't get a job" meme
I think its more about the lack of accessibility options like a pause button in souls games
Ok makes sense. No pause is a silly artificial difficulty thing for sure
you didn't beat that infection if you used anti-biotics
If you ever need a doctor for any reason you’re a cheater and you don’t deserve your achievements
Ngl I feel antivaxx about having reluctance to psych drugs due to three friends' negative experiences with them
I think there's plenty of reason to be wary about. My experience with psychiatrists is that there's not a good way to know beforehand if meds are going to work well or give nasty side effects, you just have to try and see.
That being said, ever since I'm on my current adhd medication and antidepressants i am able to think about the future, and to work on building my own happiness, rather than trying to put out so many fires I couldn't help to be terrified and paralyzed by everyday life.
I think it's fair to demand that psych meds aren't prescribed like what feels like throwing shit at the wall snd see what sticks, while acknowledging that when the right dosage and medication is found, they make it possible for many of us to actually live rather than just surviving.
Antivaxxers overwhelmingly talk about made up problems (or ones that are absurdly exaggerated). Psych drugs can sometimes have genuinely completely debilitating effects in a person at a much, much higher frequency depending on the specific drug, while others are really banal.
shit literally destroyed my life.
Yeah, I've never been given anything that hazardous but I know people who got more fucked up by drugs than their actual mental illness and it robbed them of years of their lives. Now they're on medication that are helpful, though
Everyone that I know that has been on meds has had negative experiences, but I think an important distinction is that a lot of psych meds are trial and error, and having bad experiences is part of the process of finding what works for you and adjusting to it. I went through it all and discovered that meds aren't for me personally, but there are people I know who rely on their meds and they seem to work well. Chutes and ladders really I guess.
:yea: it fucking sucks
there are ladders? i've never seen a ladder
Insufferable fandom
Next they'll say that if people abroad help the cause of white South Africans and do their part in pressuring their governments to end support for white genocide, actually white people wouldn't have been saved at all.
The boers should have just memorised Mandela's attack patterns
This is why I quit therapy. Too many sweats
Oh, wow, group therapy? Nah, that's fine for scrubs, but I'm really more of a solo player.
I'm going to play devil's advocate here, because it just seems badly worded.
Regarding anxiety, medication will relieve the symptoms, but the anxiety itself, the cause of it, is still unaddressed. That happens in therapy.
I think that's where the Dark Souls joke comes in, because they aren't talking about being "cured" of anxiety with meds, but overcoming it while being helped by meds, which is being compared to fighting a boss while making use of summons (or magic or resins or whatever other mechanics the speaker dislikes). The idea is that "beating the boss" is an objective challenge that requires you being limited to certain tools, and using tools outside of that to win is "cheating" and therefore you didn't "really" beat the boss. The joke is that anxiety is like a boss, a challenge that you need to defeat without aid from items to make it easier (to "cheat").
Obviously I'm only explaining the joke in tedious detail because I am assuming it's of interest to someone who is inclined to do a devil's advocate thing.
Yeah, if you're given meds in isolation without probing into what's wrong then you have my condolences. But the comparison to a boss battle, like it's supposed to be an arduous task, is an artifact of how tasks are structured in games and education. Your anxiety might come from crowds, but if you tank some fatigue and headache from consuming less caffeine combined with anxiety meds and you can tolerate it for a while then gg.
If it has to do with trauma, you might have a harder time in stabilizing yourself, but it might involve the affirming process of finding community with whom you overcome. And finding people who you fw isn't really a dodge or die boss battle.
I like watching snowflake ironman accounts on YouTube. I even played Old School RuneScape with a few ironman types for a while. Basically, you choose to limit yourself in funny ways. "I can only use what I acquire from sailing" or "I technically have a way to get 8k smithing experience an hour, so I must get 13m experience before I do anything else." Watching them limit themselves helped me overcome that kind of complex and really enjoy the freedom to choose whichever grind I find compelling that day anywhere on the map.
The point being that if I don't think I'm going to discuss the game or if I'm doing my first casual playthrough then I want to see whether I like the game enough to play it again to even entertain putting extra constraints on myself. So if I don't really enjoy the process of having anxiety, why the fuck would I choose to limit myself in the process of overcoming it? The only good reasons are things like adverse health effects, dialing in dosages and options, and complications to that effect.
That's the joke, that the attitude that I outlined is ridiculous.
If they get cancer, do they only really beat it if they don't use medicine?
Skill issue just parry the metastases
Not with pre-patch painting guardian sword, that's also cheating. No I will not explain
Musk Melon is not a real billionaire. We don't have a single real billionaire 😔
Bit idea: If you didn't produce the good or service yourself you didn't really earn the money. Contracts are basically a crutch for weaker players to get power leveled by smarter, stronger, and more honest players. You should ask wealthy people if they have real wealth or fake, inflated contract wealth. If they justify rent seeking or exploitation you just make disappointed, consternated faces at them - perhaps even muttering "ew..." Police force enforcing property rights are like summons in Elden Ring.
I produce the good, and service myself daily.