This past weekend, I made it through one of the big bosses in act 3 of Baulder’s Gate. I wept like a child over Karlach’s monologue about how she still feels empty after killing the guy who sold her to devils, and it didn’t change the fact that she was going to die. What’s the point of it all?

  • Weirdfish@lemmy.world
    51·
    9 days ago

    Well, my mom died two weeks ago and my girlfriend of eight years left me this week, I suspect once the shock wears off the flood gates will open.

    • AskewLord@piefed.socialEnglish
      24·
      9 days ago

      been there. when my dad died my girlfriend of 6 years left me for being ‘too depressed and no fun to be around’. i was going to ask her to marry me before he got really sick.

      she was an awful human being.

      • mysticpickle@lemmy.ca
        3·
        8 days ago

        Should be happy you dodged a bullet there man. Imagine how miserable your life would be spending it with a fair-weather life partner ✌️

    • zikzak025@lemmy.world
      8·
      9 days ago

      My input is meaningless, but thought it might be worth sharing from experience that everyone processes grief differently, and in their own time.

      A support network helps, whether that be friends, family, or even a professional. Doesn’t need to be right away, but having someone to talk to or confide in when the time is right can help with managing grief in a healthy way before the proverbial levee breaks.

  • azimir@lemmy.ml
    20·
    9 days ago

    One of my kids said thank you for some work I did to help them.

    It’s hard being a parent. Even a little gratitude can go a long way.

  • schmorp@slrpnk.netEnglish
    15·
    9 days ago

    Found my depressed little brother going to his garden finding a bit of joy. It was so nice to see him better.

  • Klanky@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    13·
    9 days ago

    Worrying that my ADHD 8 yr old won’t have any friends that aren’t relatives because he is so weird with other kids and they lose patience with him.

    • lifeinlarkhall@lemmy.world
      4·
      8 days ago

      ❤️ autistic, ADHD adult. I cried watching the movie “I swear” last night about a boy through to man with Tourettes syndrome. It’s too relatable just how hard life can be why you’re different. I liked the message of the movie though which was that the disability isn’t the problem, it’s the lack of education for society that puts up the barriers. A lot of truth in that.

      I hope your son finds people who he connects with without having to change who he is.

    • BiggestPiggest@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      8 days ago

      Autistic and adhd here.

      I do t have friends at 55 but found a wife who is the best person on the planet. It’s enough to just get one good one.

  • toynbee@piefed.socialEnglish
    12·
    8 days ago

    There are two things.

    My first girlfriend tricked me into getting her pregnant. My sister adopted our progeny. He turned eighteen a few months ago. He’d be well within his rights to hate me, but recently he’s been reaching out to me. I’ve been reaching out to him, too, and he’s responded. Every time we talk I want to cry from relief. I’m so happy he doesn’t hate me.

    The other is the only dog I’ve ever had whom I chose to put down. She was the best dog I’d ever met but her pancreas had failed. She wasn’t eating and she was peeing blood, but what right did I have to decide her life was over? I hope I spared her some suffering.

    Recently my nephew talked to me about my ex-dog. My goodness were there some emotions that night.

    edit: Grammar.

  • Rhaedas@fedia.io
    11·
    9 days ago

    I’ve rewatched Andor a few times now. Quite a few scenes still hit me hard, even after knowing they’re coming.

    I could say the same for LotR also.

  • lonefighter@sh.itjust.works
    10·
    9 days ago

    Telling my therapist that my birthday is coming up and I just wish there was one person besides my dad who would wish me a happy birthday or want to go hiking or something with me on my birthday but I don’t have any friends or anyone in my life who would even know I have a birthday.

    • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
      6·
      9 days ago

      It shouldn’t be too hard to find people to go on a hike. Maybe look around for local hiking communities?

      Friends aren’t magic, they don’t appear out of thin air, you have to find them and make them yourself. Go out, find a group, and let things happen

    • blargh513@sh.itjust.works
      21·
      8 days ago

      What are you doing to make new friends? If the answer is nothing, stop doing that and try something else.

  • printf("%s", name);@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    9·
    9 days ago

    Six hours ago, I did my first round of IPL hair removal. It hurt so badly, I wept. The attendant who did the procedure was so amazingly kind and supportive emotionally that it made me cry even more. Sorry it wasn’t a cry with deeper meaning. 🤣 For me it was deep, because it was my first step towards doing something - anything - for my body, of my own volition. 🩵

  • 「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」(old account, migrated to Piefed)@sh.itjust.works
    8·
    9 days ago

    I went to apply for a US Passport…

    Then I remembered that a lot of immigrants from Fujian are undocumented…

    And like… I have been in highschool with these kids whose parents are from Fujian…

    And I kinda just felt sad…

    Cuz I’m also from China, but I got lucky and got citizenship… and they didn’t…

    So I just cried… :/

    Cuz I can imagine what it’s like with the uncertaintly

    I mean… I kinda feel the same in some ways… I mean with current political atmosphere… who even knows anymore… I could get denaturalized and end up the same as them anyways…

    • Rhaedas@fedia.io
      7·
      9 days ago

      I’m still a believer that his Joi was different. Or maybe any of them could be, with the right environment. Much like Sam in Her wasn’t probably designed to go as far as she did, but they all (or many) ended up becoming something more. What was designed to be an AI girlfriend became aware in some aspects. Not saying what we have in reality is similar, just that emergence is still something to discuss even in a world of fakery to sell a product that isn’t really aware.

      And it can be argued that even the tells of her being more could be saying what the user wants to hear, but… it may not be either. And that’s good writing, letting the reader have to fill in some of the ambiguous things on their own afterwards.

      I want to believe. Maybe partially because it’s that much more tragic. His Joi wasn’t destroyed, she was murdered.

      • Reygle@lemmy.world
        4·
        9 days ago

        Careful with that logic. Many people feel that way about real ai right now and it has destroyed lives. Not that big of a leap today to compare the two.

        • Rhaedas@fedia.io
          3·
          9 days ago

          It is a slippery slope. But the difference is that in a story you’re only given what the writer gives you, and you have to work the rest out. In reality you can show there limitations in what we have now.

          It is a problem with our AI because like with anything else, people are easily convinced and marketed to for what they want to see, and they usually don’t want to dig too deep to find the truth in what they want to be true. Caveat emptor is Latin because selling something based on appearances has been around a long time. Today’s AI is our snake oil. It can be useful, but only if you understand what its limitations are, and how to best utilize its power while not getting sucked into its falsehoods.

          • Reygle@lemmy.world
            2·
            7 days ago

            sucked into its falsehoods

            And its setting for “always be supportive”. There I completely agree. Sycophancy in today’s AIs is horrifying.