Yet positive thinking has proven to be better for your mental and emotional state, helps you heal faster, and actually helps you succeed because you’re looking for opportunities instead of ignoring them, as well as actually trying those opportunities instead of talking yourself out of it.

It’s not a fallacy to try to think positively, it’s a scientifically proven tactic.

Yeah, you gotta know when to fold em, but saying that thinking you can do something is the same as a gamblers fallacy is a false dichotomy.

Ok yeah, I’ve lived like that too and I can relate. Trust me when I say that I totally get that mental state.

The one flaw with it, though, that one has to break through eventually, is that it’s reactive. It’s always, ultimately, defined by others.

The escape clause I found was that one of the best ways to get back at the fuckers was to thrive. But to do that, I had to do what I wanted, not just react. But to get what I wanted, I first had to want something for myself, and then I realized I couldn’t get that if I held onto the idea that everything would be terrible forever. I had to have a gritty version of hope. I had to adapt to a positive mindset for my goals or else I’d be hampering myself.

So yeah, spite can get you to accomplish things, but it’s always a contrarian way of doing things, constantly teathered to showing someone up rather than actual freedom.

This is a brilliant way of looking at this whole situation. I think that if people can contextualize it like you said it would really help bridge the gap!

I’m not talking about being in denial. I’m saying that if you want things to not suck, you do have to have the idea that things might not suck somehow later. If you think things are always going to suck then you’ll never bother to make things not suck.

I’m not saying never to be angry, I’m saying never to give up.

I’m not saying that you need to do it in NT style at all! You gotta do it your own way.

Ok, sure, but also negative thinking and giving up hope literally never helped once. It doesn’t help in real world ways and it makes your mental state worse. Obviously going around in a state of denial doesn’t help and ND people have specific challenges a NT person might not get, but ultimately you gotta cling to a positive mindset to make things better.

Insufferable

If you think people should let you enjoy things in peace, you should let people not enjoy things in peace. And if you would shut the fuck up and read, maybe you’d find more games you could enjoy.

I said in a comment “hey why not universal healthcare and also ubi” and this nutcase yelled at me for over a week about it. I wasn’t going to bother with defending the idea since I was just asking “why not” and they were calling me lazy, entitled, and stupid.

I wish you’d come over here and say that!

So I can give you an apple pie and introduce you to some of my immigrant and minority friends and take you to some cool restaurants and museums and native American heritage sights and support groups and hopefully change your mind.

Look I hate crypto too but I don’t think someone should die a show painful death because they were trying to use it to, like, not die.

This is the most gen x post ever

Completely untrue.

The environmental impact would still be as bad, it would still spout out misinformation, it would still scrape for art against people’s will, the images would still be shit and not art anyway, and would still make an intellectual sinkhole.

Uh, is this an ad? On an instance for the program being advertised? People don’t really talk like this.

Real chads lift everyone around them