\-When i was a child, i thought researchers were actually fighting each other when I heard "researchers are fighting to find a cure for this disease."
\-When I was little, I thought that high-voltage lines were there to allow little men to travel in cable cars.
\-I thought an autopilot actually worked like in the movie "Airplane", that it was really an inflatable dummy.
A moment were you had the false impression you were close to death.
For me:
\-Panick attack. I had a stressful internship, and one day, it materialized with a panick attack. Suddenly, i was increasingly paralysed, my skin became insensitive, had heavy tinglings, had hard to breath. I though "that's it, i'm about to die" and managed to call the ambulance. Of course, by the time it arrives, the crisis had stopped, but i went to hospital anyway. This is were i learned that it was a panick attack, and that was not a vital emergency. If you don't know what it is, you're really convinced you're dying.
\-When i tried a blood donation. My blood pressure lowered rapidly, i became weaker and weaker and feeling increasingly bad, they had to stop the process.
I was riding with my bicycle. One of the elastic straps sticks out a little from my bag, gets caught somewhere, I hear a loud click, then see it spin in the air and finally land on the other side of the road.
For me, it's The revelation of the pyramides. It does everything that shouldn't be done when making a documentary: fallacies, approximations, bad math, not relevant experts (and sometimes so-called experts who are experts of nothing at all), conspiracism, but above all, a completly fucked-up postulate: ancient building have been built by ancient aliens (called "builders") following a precise pattern to advert us of...something, it's not even precisely named.
@bridge_too_close Sorry to accidentally report your post, i misssclicked.
"Ship" is polysemic an is also a synonym of "boat", i wanted to avoid some puns.
For me, it's definitely Pricefield from Life is strange. They would form a really cute couple and i was frustrated to not seeing it in the game.
-The save points just before a cutscene, so if you die, you are forced to watch the said cutscene again and again.
-When characters are discussing, they say what the player is supposed to do. Dude, i'm the one who's supposed to do so, not the guy you're talking with.
-Being sadistic towards my character and the NPC. I kill myself if it can be done in a spectacular manneer and i shoot gratuitously at the NPCs.
-Explore the world outside the limits of the map.
In Vatican, there are 2,28 popes per square kilometer.
Personally: \-The bicycle curse. Every bicyle i used had to go to the repairer at least once, even if i borrow it to someone and even when i try to be careful. \-The schedule curse. My agenda is either empty, either full of events i want to go and that are happening the same day. \-The vacations curse. The weather of the place where i'd like to pass my vacations is always sunny, except the days of my actual vacations at the said place.
When i don't understand the teenagers slang.
When people younger than me become parents.
When people in age to vote were not born at a time i remember as it was yesterday.
When a music/movie of my childhood become old fashioned.
Considering its youngness, i wouldn't consider its non-aging as "surprising".
For me, politician. You have to exploit the worst low instincts of the people to get elect and say what they want to hear, even if you don't think a word about it, and you are not obligated to hold any of your promises.
For me, it's "Nightmare before christmas", it rocked my entire childhood.
Can i suggest a feature request ?
A regular cleanup of dead magazines. Any magazine that have no activity since a defined time should be deleted.
Have you ever developed a PTSD not because you lived something traumatizing but because of a piece of fiction (movie, serie, book, etc...) ?
For me, it's the saga Final Destination, the first horrific saga i've ever watched, and will likely be the last.
For me, it's the SCP-999, he seems pretty wholesome and inoffensive.
\-I bough a niffler plushie for my 30th birthday and i'm still sleeping with it. \-I still listen music for childrens i listened when i was little.
I was rehearsing a play and one of the lines was "Look, there goes the most beautiful arse in the world", and the teacher walked in just then.
When someone made your life a mess, it's difficult to be sad about its death. Have you ever lived a such situation ?
When i was an intern in a store, i hardly resisted to organize the shelves while my own shopping.
Ironically, a toxic fanbase is always more disrespectful towards what they are allegedly fans than haters.
I can understand that people doesn't like the character (honestly, i think he is a bit irritating), the problem is that too many people are treating Star Wars as a religion, and a simply annoying character as a blasphemy.
Can't agree more. I'll never understand such people.
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Ellie's sacrifice was necessary to eradicate the disease that turned people into zombies. Moreover, the latter was very angry with Joel for having “saved” her from this fate.
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Many people were dead because Ellie did not want to mourn the death of joel, so they were actually dead for nothing.
In this case, the character was actually made to be hated, so it's off topic for the current thread.
I had the same reaction when i found out.
Agree, the job is pretty merciless. People hate you whatever you do and even the most unsignificant of your mistake is used against you. If you became politician by idealism, you discover rapidly that persons involved makes you actually powerless: rival politicians, highly influencial ploutocrats, the supreme court (or equivalent), etc.
I have this impression with the US president. Despite the prestige of his position, he is actually highly powerless: most of the domains are in the hands of state governors, and if the supreme court, the senate and the house are not in his camp, he can barely do anything. It can be hard if you are really willing to apply what you promised but not being able to do so.
In my opinion, Abby from TLOU 2. During the first part of the game, she is portrayed as the bad girl, but when she become the playable character, you understand that she isn't:
\-Her father and friends were unnecessarly killed. \-She became pariah from her clan when she saved a member of a rival clan. \-She have been harschly tortured. \-She spared Ellie despite having occasions to kill her for understandable reasons.
I don't get why many players didn't changed their minds at the second part of the game, it's so obvious that the real bad people are Ellie and Joël. Theres no problem about having sympathy for bad guys, but you must keep your critical mind.
And what infuriates me is that people even harassed the voice actress because of what her character did. Come on, guys !
Herd mentality
Any normal human being can be a bloodthirsty beast when he's a part of a group. The group effect demultiplicate the violence of their members and can lead them to acts that they would never do when isolated. Really terrifying mechanism.
Amber Heard. The hate she received during the trial Heard vs Depp was highly disproportionate. Usually, when someone is -really or allegedly- cancelled, many people lose their shit, but strangely, when she was cancelled for real, not so much people complained, while Depp was unfairly victimized. She was clearly a scapegoat for misogynistic low instincts.
Many magazines i browsed don't have any content. You can post here the ones you'd like to see more populated.
According the statistics i did all by myself:
\-47% of magazines don't have any thread/publication \-70% of magazines don't have any comments
The backfire effect. This is when someone see irrefutable proofs that he's wrong, he believes more than ever that he's right.
Elton John, was alcoholic, is now sober since a long time.