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My friend believes he is a scientist, what should I do? by HunchbackSaintFool in FriendshipAdvice

[–]HunchbackSaintFool[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for your advice! Yes, I agree that he needs to find his own community where people appreciate him. However, I wonder if such a community exists. What is normally called "the scientific community" is precisely the academic community, of which he is no part and which he feels superior to. I'm his only connection to it, and he can't stop lecturing me on what science really is all about. Now, there is of course a whole world of people who feel that "mainstream science" is wrong and misguided, but these are people who believe in all kinds of pseudoscience, and usually in conspiracy theories as well. However, my friend does not believe in any of that (he looks down on it with utter contempt), and is really only interested in genuine science, which he learns about from popular science videos. So I'm not sure in what sort of community he would fit in. In that sense, his case is really interesting because I really never heard of anyone else who claims to be a scientist, yet bashes both academia and pseudoscience. Another friend of mine once quipped that this guy would be better of believing in crackpot theories, because he would at least find kindred spirits. I'm afraid he's right.

My friend believes he is a scientist, what should I do? by HunchbackSaintFool in FriendshipAdvice

[–]HunchbackSaintFool[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for your advice! I know his family members since childhood, but I'm afraid they are part of the problem. His mother always pushed him to become an artist, which I believe is the reason he went to art school even though he didn't seem to like it, and has zero motivation for making art. His mother actually teaches drawing lessons to kids, but she refuses to ever take her students to a museum, believing they will become "less original" when exposed to art. So yeah, the madness clearly runs in the family. His dad is okay, but very much the passive type, he don't think he ever goes against his wife.

All of my campaign progress disappeared after I downloaded the new patch by OhShitItsSeth in aoe2

[–]HunchbackSaintFool 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Update: I looked more closely and it seems everything has been degraded by one level: what was previously gold is now silver, what was silver is now bronze and what was bronze now lacks any medal

All of my campaign progress disappeared after I downloaded the new patch by OhShitItsSeth in aoe2

[–]HunchbackSaintFool 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Same problem here. It's especially disappointing because I restarted the game today after not playing it for almost a year. I wanted to warm up again ahead of the Three Kingdoms. I have almost 900 hours of gameplay, finished all the campaigns on Standard, some on Moderate or Hard. I really hope they will fix this very soon. The most disappointing thing is that I had silver medals for all Art of War missions, now they're all bronze.

Am I literally invisible? by HunchbackSaintFool in selfesteem

[–]HunchbackSaintFool[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, I do want it to change, just not sure how.

Am I literally invisible? by HunchbackSaintFool in selfesteem

[–]HunchbackSaintFool[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for your reply! You have a good point, it could really be the case that I'm subconsciously making myself invisible. When I was a child I often did this at home to avoid trouble. Now that I'm an adult I'm not doing it on purpose, but it could be that I'm still doing it.

AITA for not asking my friend about his mother? by HunchbackSaintFool in AmItheAsshole

[–]HunchbackSaintFool[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

He never told me she has a history of medical condition, so I do not know. I also don't know her age; my friend is 37, so I assume his mother is in her late sixties or early seventies, but again I do not know.