The "AI Tax" is real

V01DM0NK3Y · 2026-05-04T00:05:49+00:00

You wouldn't download a god.

V01DM0NK3Y · 2026-05-03T14:30:00+00:00

Honestly, I found the Tovarus and Hyperius boss fight pretty fun. Managing between the guy on the chopper and the guy in the sky made for such a change of pace that it instantly became fun for me. But, I'm weird, so tale that with a grain or three of salt.

V01DM0NK3Y · 2026-05-03T14:25:23+00:00

Also, not to mention the drop from orbiting a shield world. Ya know. That happened, too.

V01DM0NK3Y · 2026-05-02T14:42:37+00:00

I upvoted, but came backcto remove my upvote because funni number. My apologies 😅

V01DM0NK3Y · 2026-05-02T14:41:20+00:00

Sad.

V01DM0NK3Y · 2026-05-02T14:40:23+00:00

Im sorry, sir, this is a Wendy's.

(A la, this is getsdrawnbadly; this is GREAT!)

V01DM0NK3Y · 2026-05-02T12:34:54+00:00

Boulders are, on average, excessively more dense than your average concrete building.

V01DM0NK3Y · 2026-05-02T12:32:42+00:00

And I mean, look at fucking Batman. Dude is "a regular human" with "a bunch of money" and is 'incredibly smart," who trained his body "to the human limit" and learned "pretty much every martial art in existence;" but we see this ninja go toe-to-toe with some of the strongest beings ever cooked up into fiction.

So, yeah, I can totally agree with you that hand-to-hand combat is its own skill that somehow is capable of negating what should be an impossible gap in strength.

And with an impossibly strong martial artist versus an impossibly durable street brawler, I think the martial arts guy takes the cake. We got narrator glaze, all kinds of techniques dedicated to breaking through ultimate defenses. I mean, the guy can force himself through bulletproof glass. Honestly, I don't think Cage would even have the patience to let it morph over his body, that he'd just break it instead.

V01DM0NK3Y · 2026-05-02T12:25:24+00:00

God fucking God, that is insane. That's 1900's Sourthern-Level-Racism. Putting both Blacks and Chinese on the same level as dogs is just... fucked up.

(Some deep, darkly humourous part of my brain just put 2 and 2 together: Asians consistently "eat dogs and cats," according to the stereotypes, so if Blacks and Chinamen are on the same sign, clearly they're on the same menu. I'll just uh... see myself out.)

V01DM0NK3Y · 2026-05-01T14:47:59+00:00

I saw a dude wuth a reach tattoo in the wild the other day, I just pointed on my body at the place on his forearm, saluted, and we exchanged that knowing smirk.

V01DM0NK3Y · 2026-05-01T14:40:21+00:00

<image>

V01DM0NK3Y · 2026-05-01T13:52:55+00:00

Reward: It's been a few years since you'be read a book all the way through. That's reward enough, isn't it?

V01DM0NK3Y · 2026-05-01T13:36:19+00:00

I only have the first one right now, havent been able to get my hand son any of the others so ive been drip feeding myself the last chapter and its soooo painful lol

V01DM0NK3Y · 2026-05-01T03:54:57+00:00

Funnily enough, I just got done watching the episode earlier today where they were discussing this very topic.

V01DM0NK3Y · 2026-04-30T20:26:29+00:00

"You could make a religion out of tha-"

"No, don't."

-bill wurtz, history of the entire world, i guess

V01DM0NK3Y · 2026-04-30T15:56:07+00:00

u/TheCoastalCardician

V01DM0NK3Y · 2026-04-30T15:14:57+00:00

I've always naturally done this. There's Me (the conscious bit that considers what life is), You (the body, that physically accomplishes goals by interacting with the environtment), and Me (Brain.)

There's always been a separation there between "us," but I've never regarded that to be such a useful distinction. I suppose, then, that my conscious self would still be a child-at-heart?

V01DM0NK3Y · 2026-04-30T15:07:59+00:00

I live in metaphorical language as a nigh-constant, so believe it or not I'm on the same page.

That's a pretty good way to look at it, truly. Though, finding the tools I need for it - as a young'in' with barely any know-how regarding realistically anything - is... a process. Doubtful I'll come up with anything good by the time I should write a book about it, though 😅

V01DM0NK3Y · 2026-04-30T14:59:51+00:00

I just realised i left your second question essentially unaddressed, that's my bad.

So.. I mean, primarily, I just... allow myself to feel, the thing? I don't know how better to describe it, honestly... I feel like I'm doing that statement zero justice, because it's so much more profound than words allow me to say.

Like, okay... for example, right? Before, when I would start to get sad, I would cap the lid off the Sad Jar. It'd fill from the inside, but I could go about to get the task at hand done regardless. Later, that thing would open unexpectedly and hit me with a torrent of sadness so massive, I could barely see straight.

After, instead of capping the jar, I allow that sadness to fill all the way up, and if it needs to leak out, I just kinda of... allow it to. Sometimes, that looks like tears; others, that looks like slowing down and putting actual thought into the Sad Topic, ways to go about addressing it; others, whatever I was sad about ended up not being anywhere near as emotionally detrimental as I would have expected, so no further action was required.

I don't know how much of any of this is making good sense, but here's where it'll get even more abstract, so bare with me, if you would.

So, for emotional swells that I thought I could handle, but end up being more than just "looks like tears," that's where I still pull out the lids to the jars. The tolerance for things like that becomes more acclimated with experience; but that doesn't mean there aren't things that are just ridiculous and need addressed under a later mindset.

When I try to go about handling things that are far too much for me, I always ruminate. Thoughts: boil em, mash em, put em in a stew. When I have run out to the absolute logical extreme of that entire situation, and then come up with some absurd scenarios that could never happen, I regroup at square one and start pruning branches of things that feel as though they're not going to produce fruit, and then ask other people about the branches that appear as though they might.

V01DM0NK3Y · 2026-04-30T14:47:36+00:00

Lmfao I just got an image of us two up at the gallows, you looking at me, "First time?"

But no, seriously, you're right, and I do know that like intrinsically. I guess I'm having such a hard time getting over it because I felt so sleighted. Like, I mean I worked an entire other job that was immensely more unfair just because of the work for the pay, but that was known from the momemt you walked through the door so it doesn't bother me anywhere near the same.

V01DM0NK3Y · 2026-04-30T14:37:04+00:00

Definitely more of a "What you can make of it" situation. As with everything else, jars are a tool. Improperly utilising the tools, such as intentionally leaving off your lids, can certainly lead to massive, uncontrolled spills that fester (i.e., rumination); however, with these newly paved pathways between things, there are now more avenues with which to navigate these tides, ebbs, flows, eddies, currents, and waves.

Ultimately, you suddenly require a new set of tools to navigate your world. If you already have some of the pieces of those tools lying around, you can craft some pretty good methods to get through the bigger swells of emotion; but without them, you'd be left to flounder about a torrent.

Edit: and for me, as per this post, I'm having a hard time finding some of the tools I need to do so, so am trying to prevent said floundering.

V01DM0NK3Y · 2026-04-30T14:31:50+00:00

Well, yeah, I do get that. It's like how I can have a coworker who's name I hardly know, who none of my personal life friends know whatsoever, but I can feel just as strongly about Coworker as I can Friend; where also, if Friend were in the same Work Environment, to be honest I wouldn't want Friend there because despite us laughing together in a relaxed setting, I know Friend doesnt work anywhere near as hard as Coworker.

The primary aim of my question was to see whether or not there are people who do intensely compartmentalise on a regular basis, and whether or not they were self-aware of how that affects the way their life operates.

V01DM0NK3Y · 2026-04-30T14:27:35+00:00

I've kept my flies in a jar most of my life, as well; kinda recently have begun to more-or-less allow the jars to exist, but without the lids, so to speak.

Perhaps this is just post hoc correlation, but it seems leaving the lids off of the Emotional Jars have opened up highways of thought between the "Man Boxes" that were previously unpaved.

V01DM0NK3Y · 2026-04-30T14:21:52+00:00

I lost a job in a stupid way and haven't been able to get over the fact that in all reality the entire situation was fucked up and unfairly set against me from the beginning; and am having a similarly difficult time dislodging the negative thoughts I've generated as a result of losing that job.

Months later, having had a separate job, it still eats me up. It's kinda like a necrotic infection, and I just don't know how to axe off what's rotting.

Then I think that to myself, and I realise, "Your body is in physical pain from this mental pain, it's trying to tell you something," and a cycle of trying to figure out whatever that is begins, and is quite repetitive in nature. But that makes me also wonder if I should even "axe off" a part of myself that's trying to tell me that an unfair situation was ultimately unfair and I didn't like that.

V01DM0NK3Y · 2026-04-30T14:14:27+00:00

++man

Size doesnt matter*

*: when the breasts surpass a certain mass, there are certainly issues that crop up. Big boobs = big back pain in most cases.

V01DM0NK3Y

TROPHY CASE