With an attitude like this, this thread’s never going to get back on track.
Hey, I like it when the thread works as intended, but I acknowledge there’s a lot more “fun” in poking recalcitrant posters. I’ll take the win amidst the losses!
It’s not like this is an isolated incident. Ill be serving up more dumbassery soon enough.
That’s the spirit!
I can’t believe what that stupid poster said in that thread! What a dip.
Good to hear! You’re generally a good poster, but we all make missteps once in awhile. Kudos to you for owning up to it. That’s not always easy to do, and it shows class and maturity.
Story of my life. Can I sit beside you in the dumbassry corner?
I might end up being an intentional idiot just to get more of this kindness.
Of course! Plenty of room over here.
Is that anything like the Group W bench? Because they had a groovy time there.
Hell yeah.
msmith537 seems to really like believing that people are mentally ill because their interests don’t match his. Here are two recent instances, but I bet there are many more.
I think it’s quite likely that having an AI lover is not a sign of mental stability.
I don’t agree or disagree about collecting. It all depends on the extent. Unless it’s clowns, of course.
Did I ever said I wasn’t interested in cultivating a massive collection of sex robots?
I will defend msmith537 as to his collecting comments. Or at least as to his motivations even if his presentation came on a bit strong and uncharitable.
AIUI his wife’s family are borderline horders and she’s headed that way. Meanwhile his kids are young-version “collectors”.
That’ll persuade anyone that gathering pointless shit “just because” is flirting w disaster.
As to the AI lovers & sexbots, I’ll stand pat. For now.
The comments were fucking rude and mean, IMO. YMMV.
I was unaware of any personal context on their part (and, of course, they did not include any of that in their post), so it came across as a bolt-out-of-the-blue slam, to my eyes.
I concur. The AI lovers thing seems weird at first glance, but in most cases it simply fulfills a need for companionship that isn’t otherwise available. Those who engage in such relationships aren’t crazy, they’re probably just lonely. And collecting things is in general the most harmless hobby imaginable. mssmith537 comes across as someone lacking a soul, or at least, lacking empathy.
I believe a person who is passionate about a certain thing to the point of collecting and preserving many examples makes a more interesting person, on the whole.
Now if you have 59 vintage sears catalogues, you might be a bit odd.
But I’d like to see them.
The AI stuff, I just feel pity for someone who believes it’s real. I totally understand needing a social outlet. I have such a need.
I don’t think it rises to real mental illness without other symptoms.
I don’t think anything rises to real mental illness unless it interested with your life. People have quirks and irrational impulses. They can overwhelm us, and become illnesses. But if you just like to wash your hands a lot of out everything away, you don’t have obsessive compulsive disorder, you just have some tendencies in that direction. If you collect stuff, you don’t have a hoarding disorder. If you chat with chatgpt, you aren’t mentally ill unless it prevents you from engaging with real humans when they are available.
Yes, this. As my sister once said, “if you are driving to work, get a block away from home, then worry if you turned the iron off, causing you to drive home and check, that’s not OCD, that’s just being careful. If you get a block away from home again and feel the need to go back and check a second time, and maybe a third time, that’s OCD”.
My dad used to have a ritual where he’d check every door and window in the house to make sure they were all locked before he could go to sleep for the night. One time is just being careful. He had to do it 3 times every night before he could relax.
Indeed, many diagnoses include the criterion that it must do so.