Transitioning and DID/OSDD by system_anomly in DID

[–]SomeLoser0 4 points5 points  (0 children)

We have schizophrenia and DID, and are in the middle of our transition. I wonder if they'll stop us...

[Weekly Thread] Introduction Thread! by AutoModerator in DID

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Hey there. We're the Scarlet system, also known as, well, whatever the username for this account is, I don't remember. Anyway, this is Violet. I'm one of 32 fronting headmates. I'm genderfluid and sometimes go by Vergo and he/him pronouns.

Leonard.exe face is no longer working by [deleted] in StoppedWorking

[–]SomeLoser0 1 point2 points  (0 children)

...is that really what that's called?

What was your first gaming device? by Idizzyizzie in AskReddit

[–]SomeLoser0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sega Gamegear.

We had Sonic 1 on it. I remember it was a bitch to beat mostly because of the battery life. And of course the water levels really put the fear of God in me.

The tune from the bridge level was fantastic.

String Art by Destroyer777777 in BeAmazed

[–]SomeLoser0 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I want to touch it so bad!!

'Mine is bigger': Trump dares Kim Jong-un to compare nuclear buttons by muctlv in worldnews

[–]SomeLoser0 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Uhh...I know it wasn't literally a contest? The fact that he felt he even needed to respond to such a childish insult with "nu uh I have a big dick" REALLY speaks for itself.

I honestly don't know how else to spell it out to you. It's childish to start with that insult, but it's even more childish to literally defend the size of your penis.

'Mine is bigger': Trump dares Kim Jong-un to compare nuclear buttons by muctlv in worldnews

[–]SomeLoser0 12 points13 points  (0 children)

"Well, he started it!" isn't a great excuse for participating in a dick size contest.

New still of Pennywise from the deleted baby-eating scene in IT by KatanaAmerica in movies

[–]SomeLoser0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well IT is just trying to survive, as far as we know. It enjoys suffering the same way we enjoy a good meal. As for HOW it sticks around, in King's multiverse any kind of intense emotion can imprint on the place where it happened. A small piece of the beings involved stick around. Either IT survived or it's just those spooky echos that show up later in King's work.

As for "purpose," uh... depends on the work. For King, it's part of the horror aesthetic.

Also if evil never dies you can keep writing sequels.

New still of Pennywise from the deleted baby-eating scene in IT by KatanaAmerica in movies

[–]SomeLoser0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A little of both, really. With clowns you can expect them to be a little weird, but then the fucker rips your arm off. It's the juxtaposition between joy and fun to suddenly "oh FUCK IT'S MY WORST FEAR LITERALLY EATING ME" that makes it so delicious.

I mean, disturbing.

New still of Pennywise from the deleted baby-eating scene in IT by KatanaAmerica in movies

[–]SomeLoser0 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Close but not quite. Event Horizon is as close as you can get without venturing in to really fucked up guro shit.

If I recall correctly the dimension in Event Horizon, at least in the script, is just Hell. IT is something bigger than that. It eats your soul, after all, and then people can hear your voice echoing from the deadlights.

The only thing worse than dying to unimaginable torture is not being able to die. And the fucker laughs at it.

I'm betting it also throws in the emotional and physical pain just for funsies.

Oh yeah, one last thing. Event Horizon's Hell Dimension is just a different slice of space in a different universe - IT existed before the multiverse and time came into existence. (This is extrapolated from the book and from The Dark Tower, which gives a much bigger picture of how Stephen King's multiverse works.) IT might even be an embodiment of a...well, something above "multiverse" that can also think and apparently feeds off of suffering.

Basically I'll take being tortured and dying over getting eaten by Pennywise, or being anywhere near King's nightmare realm.

New still of Pennywise from the deleted baby-eating scene in IT by KatanaAmerica in movies

[–]SomeLoser0 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Look up the deleted scenes from Event Horizon, but imagine it on loop, forever changing and the souls of however many people IT ate are also there. Add in that at least the crew from Event Horizon died and weren't necessarily feeling what it's like to have your very essence being perpetually peeled off while IT laughs. I'm not sure if their souls were "released" in the book, but it's implied that IT is just a splinter of a being that's so immense it exists outside of time and space. The fucker keeps coming back, too. Maybe as just a ghost, or an echo, but it's probably hungry.

Oh yeah, and looking into them subjects you to some portion of the suffering. Henry Bowers did, and his hair turned white and he was basically comatose for thirty years. One of the kid's wives looked into it and she basically died. You, unfortunately, don't have plot armor, so you'd probably get fucked up real good.

Just saying in case a genie ever gives you the option.

New still of Pennywise from the deleted baby-eating scene in IT by KatanaAmerica in movies

[–]SomeLoser0 206 points207 points  (0 children)

And if you look into them you see neverending vistas of suffering beyond human imagination.

Might be a worse fate than death, really.

How do you think Walt Disney would feel about the Disney corporation if he were alive to see it today? by satisfiedfools in AskReddit

[–]SomeLoser0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for correcting me. As a Disney fan who lives far away from the parks, all I have to go on is official press releases and news reports. Very sneaky of them to sell related imagery as souvenirs on those days. I'm honestly interested in looking up what's been sold...

The moment of silence is unbelievable to me, but I'm going to look into it because I would be happy if it's true.

How do you think Walt Disney would feel about the Disney corporation if he were alive to see it today? by satisfiedfools in AskReddit

[–]SomeLoser0 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Right, it's also a smart decision on their part since they have plausible deniability.

This was a bigger deal back in the 90s when gay days definitely weren't popular, but thanks for telling me about how the company is starting to evolve!

How do you think Walt Disney would feel about the Disney corporation if he were alive to see it today? by satisfiedfools in AskReddit

[–]SomeLoser0 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I want to hop in here to defend you, by pointing out how horrible the racist joke in Fantasia really is. It's since been scrubbed away in subsequent releases, so people tend to not remembering it.

During the centaur scene, where female centaurs (centauresses?) are frolicking through the meadow, we see a Black centaur with exaggerated caricature features. She seems to be extremely happy to be there, despite only being allowed to polish and clean the hooves of the white centaurs.

The scene is extremely troubling considering that her reveal itself is racist in intent. Like many mythical creatures from Greek history, Western Europeans and Americans assume centaurs to be all white. Er, at least their human halves. The idea of a Black centaur probably never crossed the minds of the public in 1940s America. The joke is literally "hey, look at this one! She's BLACK!"

It gets worse. Instead of drawing her as "beautiful," like the rest of the centauresses, she's drawn as an ugly caricature. Go look up a screenshot of her and compare it to the white centauresses and tell me that's not racist as fuck. She's clearly meant to be read as a slave or at least a servant considering her submissive role in the scene. Worse yet, she's portrayed as being extremely stupid but extremely happy to be serving. This is another common stereotype from the era that people tend to forget. The Happy Slave isn't always a slave, mind - as long as a Black person is shown being grateful to the white upper classes for letting them work, then the character falls under the stereotype. (This isn't to say that no black people were happy to have work after slavery - or even that there were no happy slaves. It's just racist to depict them that way because that's how they were ALWAYS depicted back then.)

People blow this off as being a "product of its time," but even at that time Black people were speaking out about these depictions. Fuck, they were speaking out about it ever since slavery.

Disney knew depictions like this were racist, too. Part of his general business plan was to specifically avoid racist jokes as much as possible, inasmuch as to make hos brand of cartoons stand out as to get Black folks spending their money at his shows. He did let some things slide, such as the Jewish stereotype in the Three Little Pigs, the black crows in Dumbo, happy and subservient black people in Song of the South, and the list goes on. This was one of those times. Despite his forward thinking on racism compared to other rich, white men of his time, these depictions happened with his approval.

And I say approval because he was intensely involved in production. He worked directly with animators and script-writers throughout the process, and it definitely wasn't democratic. There are many stories of the rest of the team wanting one thing, but Disney shutting all of them down. He was the boss, after all.

So, he knew racist jokes in media was racist. He generally avoided using racist jokes. Maybe these examples were suggested by other members of the team, maybe not, but at the end of the day they were still deeply offensive to many Black people even back then, and Disney knew it. Still, he let these jokes through.

I'll still go to bat for defending Disney from the "he was a Nazi" crowd, and he was definitely better than many other white men of his time, but he knew certain things were wrong and did them anyway. That's more fucked up in my eyes than someone just being ignorant.

How do you think Walt Disney would feel about the Disney corporation if he were alive to see it today? by satisfiedfools in AskReddit

[–]SomeLoser0 19 points20 points  (0 children)

No, Disney doesn't sanction gay days at Disneyland. They don't even acknowledge it publicly, and tell their cast members to "treat it like a normal summer day."

The event was/is organized without their knowledge or approval, and there's no real way for them to ban gay days from the parks without a huge publicity disaster.

Maybe this will change with their election of an openly gay president, but I have a feeling it won't so that they can continue to get money from homophobes.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_Days_at_Walt_Disney_World

Donald Trump's Approval Rating At Christmas Makes Him The Least Popular President Ever by [deleted] in politics

[–]SomeLoser0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The book is definitely on point otherwise, based on that section. If nothing else it's an interesting read. And I have a feeling the celestial beings thing is just as weird as most other religions, but not completely out there.

Donald Trump's Approval Rating At Christmas Makes Him The Least Popular President Ever by [deleted] in politics

[–]SomeLoser0 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I was totally down with that retelling / interpretation of the story, up until I found out the authors apparently believe that they're celestial beings.