Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

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"Individuality is fine, as long as we all do it together."- Frank Burns

 

[dragoner]

the death of critical thought

Did it ever exist?

 

[Scribe]

Did it ever exist?

Yeah.

 

[CleverNickName]

"How can you still disagree with me? I explained everything so carefully. I guess I'll explain it again, do try to pay attention this time okay?"

 

[Older Beholder]

One of the guys in my group found the sound effect buttons on discord, and now our DnD games will never be the same again.

 

[CleverNickName]

I'm told the "ba dum tss" sound has a name... it's a rimshot. Which I thought was a shooting term.

 

[overgeeked]

"How can you still disagree with me? I explained everything so carefully. I guess I'll explain it again, do try to pay attention this time okay?"

It's a habit of neurodivergent people. Particularly autism and ADHD. If I explain it sufficiently you'd understand. Since you don't understand, clearly I did not explain it sufficiently.

 

[overgeeked]

Or literally any opinion at all, about any topic at all.

"How dare you have an opinion." Indeed.

 

[RealAlHazred]

One of the guys in my group found the sound effect buttons on discord, and now our DnD games will never be the same again.

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Wait, you can do SOUND?!

... Can you do music? Like a loop?

 

[Umbran]

Well you see first, you form an unhealthy, borderline mentally ill attachment to something. A game, concept, ideology, whatever.

Well, in a word, no.

The first thing to remember about what you see is that there is no "illness" involved. The dynamics are incredibly common - we see them everywhere - because they are the combination of a few basic and entirely normal human behaviors, that just don't happen to be great in a world with social media.