Before reading the post body, I was trying to think if I’d ever seen apple orange juice, because I thought it was a weird juice combo thing… like the joke that apple marketing is fantastic because it’s in every other juice.
So genuinely thanks for the explanation lol
Does something like this make him a fraudulent magician?
I would think so if I ever found out the amazing tricks I watched were just rfid triggers… just me?
Yeah, why do other countries get to have all the fun government brawls?
Oh, here I thought they actually made it! That didn’t happen? :p
It’s kinda beautiful to watch.
I hope it matters. Probably won’t, but maybe. Stranger things have happened…
Honestly, about time.
The scaled-up child/scaled-down man dummy that’s been used for ages is not a good representation of female anatomy.
Hope it goes into use.
I do refute that “fact”, though.
I personally would rather be an amputee on the side of the road with no shelter than be kept prisoner in my own body with the use of drugs and restraints. That’s literally my worst nightmare. And I’m not “severely mentally ill”.
You don’t know what reasons she has for doing what she does, but what IS completely, abundantly, crystal clear, is that she herself considers the position she is presently in to be better than whatever she would potentially deal with under care. And you don’t know why she came to this conclusion. Maybe she was institutionalized when she was young and was abused or whatever and has ptsd about it. Maybe she knows someone else who was.
Or yeah, maybe she’s so mentally ill that it’s forcing her to deny care. I strongly doubt it, but maybe. And we’ll never know unless we fix everything else first. So. Kinda moot point, isn’t it?
Yes, however it’s mostly a refutation to your prior comment that severely mentally ill people refuse treatment as a direct consequence of being mentally ill. This is only rarely the case. The vast majority of those severely mentally ill people are still people capable of learning about stuff and doing cost-benefit analysis for their own lives. They make rational decisions to the best of their ability. This ability may be flawed, but that’s the case for all people. Nobody has a pure, 100% complete and accurate view of things.
They refuse treatment largely because the system is horrible. Would they still refuse if the system wasn’t horrible? Most of them probably would not, because struggling is really hard. Most of them would get themselves the help they feel they need if they honestly thought there would be a good outcome.
But what they think they need and what the system or society thinks they need aren’t necessarily the same thing. Maybe all they really -need- is a place to exist exactly as they are, with zero medical intervention, with a clean environment where they feel safe and secure. If that’s all you felt you needed, would you risk being drugged for the rest of your life? I sure as hell wouldn’t, no matter how bad my experience of existence is. At least I have agency.
And honestly until we reach that point, where mental healthcare is supportive to the individual and genuinely helps them live whatever they feel is a fulfilling life, discussing what to do with the minuscule remaining fraction of sufferers (a number we genuinely can’t even quantify at this point) is sort of dumb, and seems like a pretty big distraction from doing anything better for everyone who isn’t in that camp.
Only thing I can think of reading this is the Cleopatra 2525 intro theme
And the satirical futurama reference
If the system was actually helpful to people, and severely ill patients still didn’t want help, you might have a point. Right now though, the system doesn’t help most people, it harms them actively, so we don’t actually know how many people would still refuse quality care.
And let’s be serious here, the number of people so mentally ill they can’t be trusted to make a decision about whether or not to take offered help…? Really really small percentage. We definitely shouldn’t be structuring the entire system based on edge cases, even if those edge cases have a legitimate need for that sort of inhumane treatment (a premise I strongly question).
Forcing someone to undergo potentially mind-altering medical treatment (because they absolutely will drug someone who fights against being there) and probably abuse (just check the stats) at the hands of the system isn’t humanitarian either.
This is one of those situations where all you can really do is make sure the options are as good as they can be, so people want to choose to get help, and we are not even remotely doing that.
Of all the things to be annoyed about in this pic, I think the thing that gets me the most is that you still have to remove some of the husk. The whole point is to do less work? Too bad, do it anyway.
It’s like they thought it would be corn lingerie “no no, make sure you leave some of the husk on to enhance the sexiness! See, just show the cleavage in front here.”
There, see? That’s something you get caught doing.
Wild what people are willing to admit to, though… 0.0 hopefully joking
“Caught” is a very weird way to describe seeing someone do something entirely normal.
Similarly, granular audio options that separate dialogue from ambient from music from system sounds. Definitely don’t need my ears blown out just to hear dialogue.
I like having the background music very low, but not off, system sounds a bit above that, sound effects higher than system but lower than dialogue, which is maxed. And of course ambient sound levels really depend on the game and what kind of ambiance it has.
Same thing with granular contrast/gamma/etc. Don’t just provide a few preset options, especially if they can only be set before you start the game (also they should never only be set from the main menu, never). Let the player choose whatever they want on the fly. I love playing with everything bright so I can see wtf I’m doing, I don’t give half a shit if the devs think it should be so dark it’s not navigable. I disagree.