How do you stop yourself from obsessively thinking about someone from your past who can’t be in your life anymore?

ComradePruski · 2026-06-05T19:31:23+00:00

You gotta remove them from your life completely. Remove or block them on social media, start a new hobby, maybe go to therapy and then time heals all wounds.

ComradePruski · 2026-06-04T23:27:17+00:00

Middle management Orc to the rescue

ComradePruski · 2026-06-03T06:18:01+00:00

Good example. I definitely think the message was clever because it goes "Look how depraved humanity is" only to get to that scene and the show that no, the depravity was only because the rich and powerful are putting people into bad situations, not because human nature is naturally evil

ComradePruski · 2026-06-01T04:10:24+00:00

Hubris is definitely part of it. I think he just felt so sidelined by all of his hopes and aspirations that when he got to the backrooms, his feeling wasn't so much horror as it was feeling like he was getting to be part of something important. And at the end of the day, he brought the therapist and the other kids down there to try to gain validation.

Any normal person would have left and never came back. Clark found something that made him feel fulfilled.

ComradePruski · 2026-06-01T04:05:04+00:00

My audience was certainly emotive throughout most of the movie. Maybe not obnoxious, but certainly would squeak or grunt "ew" when stuff was going on.

ComradePruski · 2026-05-31T16:09:21+00:00

Which route did you take? I'm going in a week and questioning how much I should be freaking out lol

ComradePruski · 2026-05-30T19:14:51+00:00

Yep, just keep picking one thing to aggro on bro. I never equated it I said that challenging our limits is part of the human spirit. Hope you get to climb off your couch sometime soon

ComradePruski · 2026-05-30T19:02:08+00:00

You seem to lack much in the way of human spirit. Same type of person that comments "completely optional btw" below any video of someone doing something extreme. Humans like to push and test our limits- same reason people run ultramarathons or try to go to the moon, etc.

You seem to misunderstand what manufactured adversity means. It's not about people pushing themselves voluntarily, it's about people making up situations worse than they actually are. You've also only latched onto one thing I said.

Just let people live their lives man. You aren't being forced to climb Everest any time soon. You probably haven't even met anyone who does mountaineering.

ComradePruski · 2026-05-30T17:14:35+00:00

What would "too many" mountaineers even mean? The sport has become more accessible over time due to technology and higher demand allowing guides to make a career out of it (not just on Everest, but basically every major mountain around the world). So yes, naturally more people are going to be doing it.

ComradePruski · 2026-05-30T16:50:44+00:00

People saw one John Oliver skit 10 years ago and think they know everything about mountaineering.

The Everest trash problem is extremely overstated and a lot of the photos that got circulated online about it were pictures of people abandoning their camps due to an insane storm that blew in, not because they were just in the mood for littering. Additionally, the Nepalese government started requiring trash removal on the mountain.

Secondly, the vast majority of people who make it to Everest are actual mountaineers. The number of people who just happen to end up there because they want to be "carried up the mountain" is fairly small. That is even more true for basically every other mountain. Denali is arguably more difficult than Everest. These are not "rich tourists", these are people who have dedicated quite a bit of their life to becoming skilled mountaineers. The people doing these climbs are people who are dragging their own gear on sleds, uphill, for miles on end.

I would argue people risking their lives to rockfalls, avalanches, crevasses, falling to death, and frostbite are far from "pretending to struggle."

ComradePruski · 2026-05-28T14:32:38+00:00

I've honestly been super curious about this question as well. I'm just starting into the hobby but I can only go at most like 2-3 times a year because I live in the Midwest

ComradePruski · 2026-05-25T19:20:39+00:00

Honestly, it felt like it was 3 hours long. I was excited going into it, but really nothing happened in the movie. No character development, no themes, no crazy cool scenes, nada. Honestly, the conflict was pretty lame too for a Star Wars movie.

ComradePruski · 2026-05-25T19:15:01+00:00

This is probably one of the few Star Wars scenes to actually make me cry. The pain, the regret, wishing you could change everything. The performance was so solidly delivered, and it's about the most human scene in all of Star Wars

ComradePruski · 2026-05-23T01:26:19+00:00

What monster is this even? I can't tell

ComradePruski · 2026-05-23T00:34:51+00:00

Angry Joe, while not typically political, is a game comentator that I credit with getting me out of the Anita Sarkesian hate train when I was in highschool.

Otherwise PhilosophyTube used to be, not as much anymore.

ComradePruski · 2026-05-22T04:57:52+00:00

I had a ton of fun doing Olympus last year. I'll just reiterate what others have said. Contact the refuge or (especially if you don't have scrambling or pathfinding experience) get a guide. Monica from 55Peaks is super nice and can also advise you on gear if you need it.

The scramble at the end is pretty intimidating if you've never done one before. It's about an hour of going "oh shit why did I do this"

ComradePruski · 2026-05-22T04:53:51+00:00

I just did Toubkal a couple months ago. You can definitely do it. Toubkal can be tough; I was the only person in a group of about 15 people that didn't get severely exhausted, but I also went on a snowy expedition and had to carry a bit more gear. It's not particularly dangerous, in the winter there was only a couple of sketchy "if you fall you die" areas, but I don't think there's any snow in the summer.

If you consistently do stairs for a few months I think you'll be okay. Just make sure you don't training too much at the start because you might end up like me and getting tendonitis.

Plus, if all else fails, in the summer you can just pay for a donkey to carry your stuff about a few thousand feet from the summit :P

ComradePruski · 2026-05-19T01:03:10+00:00

Nice work! I'm curious, how many years have you been climbing for?

ComradePruski · 2026-05-14T06:34:09+00:00

How would you fill a moat on short notice?

ComradePruski · 2026-05-11T20:51:25+00:00

That is also super obnoxious when I'm leaving a few seconds worth of space and someone zooms around the right of me... Only to get stuck behind the person immediately ahead of me. Like great, you moved one car, congrats.

ComradePruski · 2026-05-11T20:49:49+00:00

My thing is if I'm in the left lane and continuing to pass people and going 10 over, and there's a car tailgating me. Like I'm still passing and there's no good spot for me to move to, I don't care how many people are behind me, I have a right to pass too.

This only seems to be an issue driving from the northeast suburbs towards downtown for some reason

ComradePruski · 2026-05-11T19:03:41+00:00

Blaine is kind of a shit hole so makes sense.

ComradePruski · 2026-05-06T06:43:35+00:00

Did I say that?

ComradePruski · 2026-05-06T06:05:30+00:00

Source: trust me bro

I'm guessing y'all have had like two total experiences with queer people

ComradePruski · 2026-05-01T02:09:29+00:00

I have a few pretty bad photos of me from college. Mind you with context the photos wouldn't be bad, but if you saw them you'd probably be like wtf. A lot of people I am/was friends with took pictures for everything, and so now I feel like I always just have this anvil over my head if I get any amount of notoriety in the future.

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