For me it felt like an uncomfortably mild head high. Some slight anxiety spikes, mild SI, quicker to anger.

I’ve been thinking of playing again, but performance/optimization has always been terrible for me, and I even upgraded most of my components from 2016 era to 2022.

You don’t know what this means to me ='(

I just played this on Linux Mint yesterday (natively) and it works well. Heard it runs better with Proton, but I have yet to try. Too lazy to check, are perks still a thing? I dislike them >.<

I must insist than you never tear yourself down in my presence again.

Tell Mr. Krabs that he needs to go on a diet. That is, a money diet. You need to get your snoozy bubbles more often 🐟

Clamsheet has been filled out successfully and now I will rest in my (small) pile of sand dollars. Just kidding, house work: part 3, let’s go!

Can you edit this to include a reminder to fill out my timesheet? I think it would be funny and helpful. But as a con, perhaps it would break the Bikini Bottom immersion I feel in this community.

Screw it, I’m going to Goo Lagoon for the weekend.

Until you can’t what?!?

He’s here, he’s weird, I’m uncomfortable.

I wonder if they picked this one and then shone a bright light through the top to achieve this effect. I can never get a cool shot like this of undisturbed mushies. Looks like a super long stipe, though.

Hmm, psychedelics are truly mysterious. I find that they can lead to some permanent “more abstract thinking” than usual. I read this article once that attempted to answer the question of why early psychedelic proponents and researchers were so “weird” as the article put it. Have you read it? I’m glad you feel different. I feel like I’m in a transition phase (hopefully).

Neat. It’s like your mind sees a lot of emotional subtext when that meaning is not necessarily there, at least in a comic. I’m sure you look at things in life in the same way, except your point of view is much more useful and practical there, given that subtext is king in reality.

There should be some type of new art form or art genre that seeks to replicate this juxtaposition of happiness and environment, which creates feelings of the surreal.

I sometimes wonder how pure and positive cartoon characters would react to our world. What would be their daily routine?

I see what you mean about framing given the context. Mental health is too important to waste it worrying about things mostly out of our control. Maybe comic guy is just trying to take a day off from frowning? Haha

Little side excerpt here: I’ve been meeting a lot more people like you lately. People that connect highly emotionally with media content (you), and also react highly emotionally with other people (in the case of the people I know). This is in stark contrast to myself and other people I know who are jaded to this type of experience and only seem to “feel” stuff in an indirect way, or a culturally coded way in order to protect their mind from potential trauma. I believe that’s called an avoidant personality or something. Reading your original comment just helps me to open my mind to new ways of being and experiencing when all I’m used to is what I’ve already encoded in my behavior from others. Anyway, thanks for the insight!

Edit: went too deep than is socially acceptable.

Hmm, interesting what you said about misattributing the euphoria to the event and not the drug. That terrifies me that all events with alcohol are actually some kind of mass torture method that we need poison (ironically) to get through. That kind of sounds like hell lol.

I thought about propranolol, but saw that it was a beta blocker and decided not to risk it in case I had some heart thing. Wasn’t crazy about the warning that if you stop taking it suddenly, there could be serious side effects. I’m sure that’s only if you take it regularly, but I don’t want to chance it.

I keep thinking that it’s not socially acceptable to remove yourself and limit exposure, but then I remember that it’s the people in my life who see full immersion as normal and a requirement. Maybe I’ll try a stimming toy and see if I feel different. Like one other person said, having a role/job at an event or anywhere always takes some edge off. You ever hear of Kanna?

What’s bizarre is that your focus snapped to the body language and emotions of this sketched character instead of the main idea of the comic. I don’t mean to be judgmental at all, it’s just an observation and an interest of mine. Can you tell me a bit more about your flow of consciousness when you first looked at the image?

Yeah, I get that as well. I think most people have some kind of sensory ick. Mine is definitely overstimulation in a public environment. Sure, some drugs are not good for that type of problem, but others are. Not that I am condoning drugs as a necessary solution.

Have you found any methods for coping with the system overload?

As for the edit, I am trying to remain self aware and non opinionated. Hopefully my ratio improves. I am a pleaser haha.

I hate being seen as well. The worst thing is when someone sees me having fun, though. I don’t think it’s a problem to hate socializing at events where there’s not much of anything going on. That’s easy to get sick of.

As long as there’s some desire to do your hobbies and maybe once in a while do them with people who you’re close with, I see no problem.

I hosted an in person meet up of strangers today for 3 hours. You have to work it like a muscle. Also, drugs help.

I am very much like this, though. You have to want it enough. How do you want it, you ask? Dopamine detox.

Edit: I just realized I posted this useless advice to the autism community. This probably will work for socially awkward shut ins, not autistic people. Sorry for the confusion.

If people are out shooting in public, witnesses should want to come forward to talk to the cops. Kinda weird.

It’s that good? Maybe I’ll try it.