I kinda hate the guy so it’s hard for me to keep the tone neutral but I’ll try my best.

Long story short: He’s a popular streamer that had a few controversies that caused many people labelled him as arrogant or egotistical.

The latest one is his take on the “stop killing games” initiative that he was against. He had a video a few months ago were he misrepresentated the movement and spread misinformation (whether or not this was intentional or misinformed is up for debate) and caused a significant drop in the momentum of the movement, refusing to accept any criticism and doubling down on things. That was until recently were the initiative was in the last month and a half before the big deadline at only around 50% of the required signatures, but then huge momentum sprung up with a lot of people marking him as the “villain” of the movement and because of his controversy before it wasn’t long before word spread.

This has obviously led to harassment of the guy(which I feel is too far personally) which he responded to by tripling down on his opinion causing further being labelled as the villain. Eventually the momentum carried it over the finish and people are happy that he didn’t get his way.

Yeah, what if it bites someone. That could end up causing a mutation in them that gives them spider powers. Like some sort of man-spider that would be a menace to society.

“Do you want war?” Goes pretty hard ngl.

Been a while since I last saw the show, but I’m pretty sure she got scratched and bitten plenty of times.

But when the cat comes to you for cuddles you feel smug anyway.

We have 500kg stratagem at home

Hey! He ends up assistant to a highly intelligent scientist researching advanced medical procedures. He could do worse.

Id say they don’t actually buy it. They’re selling it and getting a commission.

An A press is an A press, you can’t say it is only half!

No

Sure “WATER” looks dull if written in boring Arial 10 font with caps lock, but if you add a bit of pizzazz it would look fine as a tattoo. Esp. If you are a non-English speaker.

𝓦𝓪𝓽𝓮𝓻

𝖂𝖆𝖙𝖊𝖗

𝕎𝕒𝕥𝕖𝕣

Nice! I wish my government was still part of the EU so I could contribute.

If anything comes from it, then it would be a great step for the future of gaming.

Talking about it would be enough.

It would find it’s way to a citizen that could make a difference.

There is a reason most modern dictatorships restrict access to the the Internet.

That’s why it’s a nuclear plant instead of a wind turbine /jk

I think I will have to disagree somewhat. Difficultly should change how you play, not how long. Needing to Grind better gear is not respecting the players time.

That said there are games I did enjoy the grind, “the world ends with you” is one of them, but that is a case of earning new ways to play in most cases.

InsideHer-man

I use “honestly” or “to be honest” myself sometimes.

It’s a simple way to convey “I’m going to give you a risky or unpopular opinion. Can be unpopular with you personally, or for public in general. But either way I value the honesty of sharing that opinion over the unpopularity it will cause”

I can see why you would hate it. it wouldn’t be unusual for people to share bigoted/sexist/violent opinions on subjects they should keep to themselves.

I’m sorry to hear about your son, and I apologise if my comment brought up some difficult memories.

For me, it was my best friends funeral and his family had an insufferablely god-fearing priest speaking for part of it who knew him from his childhood. He was telling stories were “he found God”, “god has now welcomed him” and “he now knows God’s love”. I don’t recall exactly what he said word for word, I just remember quietly seething throughout his whole speech and also afterwards my other best friends were venting that the whole thing was disrespectful to his memory.

My friend wasn’t religious in the slightest. it felt like a complete stranger trying to convince a room of grieving people comforting lies that he is “in a better place”, when it was clear he didn’t know him at all.

“God loves you” is fine for me. they are usually simply wishing us happiness in their own way (sure it can be passive-aggressively throw to people they call “sinners” too).

What I really despise is “god has a plan” as words of comfort.

A plan for fucking what? Noahs ark V2? cleverly getting around the “promise not to flood the earth” clause by having greedy assholes pollute the earth in his stead ?

“Ah little 4 year old Andrew would fuck up my plans, better give him cancer… Hm, let’s hit Jane with a truck just incase”

I don’t appreciate that you somehow think a magic man in the sky planning something so cruel would be of any comfort to me.

We both “have issues” its why we are on the adhd community. But “Obsession with authority”? Hardly.

It’s a healthy respect for a profession that takes a lot of hard work and talent to get into.

All you’ve done is complain they are “stupid”, they only reject treatment due to bigotry, that an average Joe can somehow compete with 8 years of dedicated study. That universities are “degree factories” All without proof as if it is self-evident.

This isn’t healthy scepticism, it’s borderline conspiracy theory territory rooted in mistrust for the establishment. You are trying to shoot down my arguments by stating the whole system is corrupt and cannot be trusted. To me this blind mistrust mirrors the anti-vax sentiment. if you don’t want to be compared then don’t go implying that the whole medicine industry is out to get you.

There are idiots in every profession. What’s your point? That doctors would need to be idiots too? Maybe, but the difference between other professions would be overwhelmingly on the smart side of things. Also; Doctors could be idiots but that doesn’t mean they aren’t specialised in their fields. I heard it is not uncommon for a doctor to have difficulties with taxes or cooking, but that doesn’t necessarily translate to bad medical practice, because if it did, they couldn’t be doctors as they would be kicked out. Bad doctors happen, sometimes human errors/mistakes happen, but not at the rate that you can disregard any medical advice from them.

You would need a better “proof” than that if you are going to prove that most doctors opinions are not to be respected.

Basics are not enough to do advanced work. Practicing medicine is probably one off the most advanced work you can do.

Regardless if the number of doctors is artificially lowered or not; It’s still competitive. Meaning higher quality candidates are a survival pressure. So unless you got some more conspiracy theories for how a “moron” is picked over a good doctor, then there is no arguing that the majority is qualified for the position.

A lay person is not trained to research. Not taught on critical thinking skills, not trained on symptoms to look out for, heck some people don’t know how to use a computer. They shouldn’t be given the chance to hurt themselves through silly self-medication advice and shame on you for encouraging it.

Hell it is even recommended that doctors do not self-diagnose, and they certainly are not allowed to prescribe themselves class-B drugs whenever they want. No way a layman should.

If a medical professional doesn’t trust his own bias to cloud his judgment, you shouldn’t either.

“He who represents himself has a fool for a client.” this same principle applies to medicine as well.

I hope you stop self medication, and seek proper medical advice. However we both know your stubbornness won’t let you. Even if a registered doctor came in this forum to convince you it is dangerous you would ignore him. regardless of what qualifications the person convincing you has you would stick to your opinion.

This is particularly frustrating to me as from my point of view you could hurting yourself slowly, both mentally and physically, and I worry this is affecting your life in ways you can’t objectively see.

I can’t stop you from doing this to yourself, but I can ask you to stop giving this advice out to avoid other people hurting themselves.

Most people in this profession couldn’t give a better assessment than an unplugged sega genesis.

Oh? Care to back that up with evidence?

And if a medical professional would give poor assessments what makes you think Billy-Bob with a 9 year old smart phone can assess him self better? If Billy-Bob does it wrong he could hurt himself or make his mental health worse.

Yeah, but not the way you meant it. It’s usually better to research yourself.

What? There is nothing wrong with with researching symptoms yourself, but to think you are more correct than a trained medical professional is insanely egotistical.

When it matches I’m actually surprised they got it right. Never been wrong yet.

“they got it right”? Ah, I see your issue. You are going to the doctor to confirm your biases and get treatment for it, not to get their professional opinion.

If they don’t agree; "can’t believe they got it wrong. They’re useless. " If they do; "hey they got it right for once. "

You are one of the people that I feel aren’t fit to self-diagnose. Your symptoms could have been autism, bi-polar, or various other conditions. Could have even been a combination. Convincing yourself it was 100% adhd is reckless and should be tempered by an outside opinion.

I’m not sure where this lack of respect comes from. if you are in the UK like me it probably stems from the lack of funding for the NHS leading to “revolving door” Quick assessments as they aren’t able to spend the proper time going through everything. I have my own gripes with the NHS but I trust that the qualifications they have makes them more specialised in dealing with my health than I or the average person.

Patient-facing doctors and those who do research are two circles that do not overlap. The patient-facing people only do research to see if tpsychosisdeny you treatment based on race/sex/(insert immutable trait here) or how they can otherwise jerk you off until you die or leave to save on the budget.

“Deny treatment”, huh? Sounds like someone self-diagnosed and demanded medication and the only professional in the room wasn’t having any of that shit. How are they supposed to trust what you say your symptoms are when you are clearly biased towards what you think you have, you’d look like an addict trying to get a fix.

I doubt bigotry is involved, but if it was then you could easily get a solicitor involved and he could help prove that you weren’t reviewed fairly, by having a second doctor examine you and comparing that to the original.

Regarding research, doctor regularly attend medical conferences and research treatment options throughout thier career as medical sciences advance. You don’t stay a doctor otherwise.

Yeah he’ll say “have you tried not being sad. Also maybe stop being transgender/black/woman.”

If by “have you tried not being sad” you mean they suggested the usual rounds of meditation, exercise, diet, etc then that is perfectly normal to do and shows proven mental health benefits.

Maybe they offered anti-depressants/anti-anxiety to help cope? My GP did (as I had a report from work that suggested that I’m showing signs of depression) but I said I would rather a mental health specialist assess the symptoms as they can overlap with adhd and I want a fair assessment for when they do.

I seriously doubt they mentioned race/etc.

That is if they respond at all, usually it’s just silence, or being told to fuck off and wait.

This part I can sympathise with. I waited 4 years for adhd to get treatment and I needed to chase them for updates every step. It’s frustrating, sometimes I feel like they are throwing pills at me and throwing me out the door hoping this time it will improve. (though in a way that’s really the only way it is done right) I wish their was more monitoring/reviewing of treatments, but I am perfectly fine with their knowledge on the subject.

I attribute this to a lack of funding and a huge waiting lists rather than simple negligence. There simply isn’t enough budget/enough doctors/enough time to give everyone the time they need.

That said; as frustrating as it is, that is no excuse to recklessly/stupidly to self-diagnose and self-medicate. Doing so invites health risk that I’m not comfortable with people taking.

My life won’t pause itself. I’ll never get those years of waiting back if I wait. Or I can just do what I know is right and what I know helps and bypass this circus of drug gatekeeping.

Waiting sucks I know. If that is unbearable then seek private treatment. If that is not an option then wait like everybody else. Until funding improves that’s what we are stuck with. This “circus of drug gatekeeping” is there for a good reason, and it is because a layman is not a good judge.

And if a layman can’t do it, a doctor is even less likely to.

Wait, are you seriously claiming a doctor has less knowledge than a layman? Really? 8 years of studying to somehow know less than the average person?

Going to assume you are being hyperbolic rather than actually believing this. It’s one thing to be frustrated with the current system; it’s borders on conspiracy theories thinking they are all incompetent for no good reason.

Nah. Just Google what amfexa doses are there, pick lowest, eyeball napkin math it out…

This is insane. No one should be doing this, least of all people with mental health issues. There are MANY steps that allow human error to mess things up. Messing up the measurements via simple misreading of a decimal is a simple one that could get someone hurt, and maybe even killed. The LD50 is only 96.8 mg/kg from what I found. If you don’t know what LD50 is without Googling what it is, then stop immediately. You are not anywhere near informed enough to be doing this.

Phycosis is a also common side effect of its misuse. And I’m not convinced anyone doing this would have sound judgement.

Letting someone decide their own dosage for an addictive drug is also a recipe for disaster.

There is no sane professional that would consider this bootleg treatment safe enough to match commercial treatment.

If you aren’t stopping immediately, then at minimum don’t spout these dangerous ideas that could get someone else killed.