I am not afraid of an afterlife because I’m an atheist.
I am afraid of an attempt failing and surviving to live in even more excruciating pain than I’m already in.
So I do nothing except for grump around.
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I don’t understand the mentality of people telling others to kill themselves especially over a game. Wish when people start feeling bullied by this type of person they would just stay away from social media. Chances are the people who say these type of are too cowardly to do it in person.
Having tried and failed myself, I wouldn’t recommend it.
The shame you feel knows no bounds.
Doesn’t help when your family doesn’t believe depression is a thing, and yells at you to “just be happy”.
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a quick question why is suicide more common in 1st world countries? than find the answer your self.
I had a couple of people talking about why people who didn’t know Reckful IRL would be so upset by his passing. There was a long discussion about it, and I jumped in at some point with the following:
“People get to know other people through a computer screen. These guys stream most of their days, and people get connected with them not because they know them personally, but because they relate to them.”
I see a fair share of TRP3 (roleplaying addon that lets you customize your character for other people to read about them) that mention people who suffer from PTSD, Anxiety, Depression and the like IRL. A copious amount of them, in truth, and I pointed that out.
People related to Reckful because he struggled with his demons his entire life. The guy’s brother killed himself when Reckful was 6. He carried that around his whole life, and if you’ve never lost a sibling, you don’t know what that can do to you. People see someone who’s happy, cheerful, doing great content and who seems to have everything going for them, suddenly come up pushing up daisies, and it’s a reality check for what could very well happen to you. They relate because it’s a very visible ‘this could be you - no matter how happy you seem, it’s still a struggle’. There were people messaging me after that about their own issues, and were upset when I told them that, respectfully, they shouldn’t be talking to me. I’m a character on a screen. They need to speak to someone IRL about their problems. I know sometimes it helps just venting, but tbh I get it a LOT from a lot of people, and after a while it wears you down. I’ve actually got in my flags on all my chars (the TRP flags) that I’m nobody’s online therapist, it seems to be THAT prolific lately.
There are resources. Even if your family won’t help you, there are social workers and other people out there who are paid to help you, and who actually care, beyond the payment, about your well-being. I encourage people to use them. It’s the only way you’re going to feel better.
There are so many threads about him on the forums that they’re becoming spam.
I can’t imagine it’s helping people who have depression being shoved in their face. If anything the spam is potentially harming those who don’t follow streamers who otherwise wouldn’t have known it had occurred.
That there is like being in a fair looking to get a prize ,throwing balls, some take ,some don’t . Yet you try.
I love this song so much.
Suicide is real but if we were all mindless zombies suicide would still be real. Social workers are such wannabe intellectuals.
There is a difference between dark humour and blatant trolling at the expense of others.
Dark humour is like a dead baby joke, sad but ultimately harmless IF you know the person you’re speaking with hasn’t gone through something that would make it wildly inappropriate.
Telling somebody that they should kill themselves is just wrong though. It isn’t funny under any circumstances. It’s just a vile thing that really needs to stop–especially when speaking with strangers. You don’t know what they’re going through and you don’t know if they’ve already thought about doing so or not.
Be kind to strangers, or at the least don’t actively be a jerk to them.
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Two way street. While the hatred doesn’t always come from somewhere. It usually does. If someone isn’t being a complete Wad, people won’t generally randomly spew vile things. Granted there is exceptions but that isn’t the rule.
The normal healthy person doesn’t just wake up and say… Hey I’m going to go out and say angry things at people today. This sounds like a fun idea.
Usually there is a trigger. People should be mindful not to do that as well.
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True, but likewise others should be self aware enough to recognize their triggers and manage the resulting emotions caused.
It’s something that some can do better than others.
Pretty much and if you callout the bad behavior you’re a SJW or overly sensitive. Bad behavior and gaming culture go hand in hand at this point and it’s not really fun anymore.
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It’s like when someone keeps pushing you to your limit of what u will take, telling them to chill and keeps doing it, then wonders why you finally blow up at them and say,
“ENOUGH IS ENOUGH”
They they have the stupidity of a donkey to blame you for not continuing to take their garbage. smh
Actually both statement is a bit true. I mean it would be a lie to say this forum isn’t full of people that are either sensitive beyond reason or just simple trolls. It can be hard to really know for sure as there is some people out there so damaged their sensitivity is beyond the level of reason. These people I talk about get upset just because you share an opinion that rubs them the wrong way. You should be able to have a conversation and share opinions without people flying off the handle. Censoring yourself every second of every day would become exhausting. I mean, everyone should of course within reason. But not at the extreme levels some people around here expect.
While I agree with you in theory, sometimes the trigger can be something as simple as the way you look or your mannerisms.
I have seen enough hatred from people simply because someone was fat (like its an affront to others), because someone was carefree, or simply because someone thought they could do something when others didn’t want them to be able to.
In the end people are jerks to anyone they think is different. Some just feel more entitled to be jerks to others, some just don’t say it.
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Yeah, I should of corrected myself as seen in the post above. Everything should be done within a level of reason.
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Maybe we’d have more normal conversations if everyone wasn’t cynical all the time due to the overly hostile nature of the internet?
Who knows 
Folks sure do get a lot more courageous when hiding behind an avatar. Folks don’t even give each other the bare minimum of respect because oh wow, “respect needs to be earned”. People acting like fools.
If someone has to earn respect for you to not treat them like garbage, ya need to reevaluate your life. Fyi, this is a general you, not you specifically.
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Since when did WoW become a therapist?
Well yeah but lets for example use what you just said. There is people I have ran into on this forum that would fly off the handle at you because you just called people fools. You are now insulting people and regardless of how your opinions differ that is just untolerable behavior and now you deserve to be berated for it.
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