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Posted January 20, 2025
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Iohannis42: Never give up! Never surrender!
Who are you? Answer me! Is this being some sort of test?!
Posted January 20, 2025
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Iohannis42: Never give up! Never surrender!
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FarkyTheDog: Who are you? Answer me! Is this being some sort of test?!
No test. He rehearses Leonidas. From the 300 film.
Posted January 20, 2025
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FarkyTheDog: Who are you? Answer me! Is this being some sort of test?!
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CarChris: No test. He rehearses Leonidas. From the 300 film.
So all is being well? This putting my minds at ease!
Posted January 20, 2025
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CarChris: No test. He rehearses Leonidas. From the 300 film.
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FarkyTheDog: So all is being well? This putting my minds at ease!
You know a strange thing I read just a few days ago? According to a research, watching horror movies is beneficial in real life! This has an interesting point. Submitting oneself to being anxious/afraid/worried by watching a horror movie, from the safety of our nothing-bad-will-happen house, actually trains ourselves to be better prepared when/if we face a stressful situation in real life. A situation not concerning monsters and ghosts, of course, but any other thing that makes us anxious or stressful inside a day. Since many years, I like horror movies, so, come to think of it, I think it worked on me!
Posted January 20, 2025
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CarChris: You know a strange thing I read just a few days ago? According to a research, watching horror movies is beneficial in real life! This has an interesting point. Submitting oneself to being anxious/afraid/worried by watching a horror movie, from the safety of our nothing-bad-will-happen house, actually trains ourselves to be better prepared when/if we face a stressful situation in real life. A situation not concerning monsters and ghosts, of course, but any other thing that makes us anxious or stressful inside a day. Since many years, I like horror movies, so, come to think of it, I think it worked on me!
Doesn't working, my face in mirror still scares me. Haaaa!
Posted January 20, 2025
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Braggadar: Ah. I see.

But I can tell you by experience the dopamine hit of gaming doesn't help. It might seem that it does but it's a hollow habit which only allows the problem to worsen whilst being distracted.
Everything in moderation, but games do wonder to allow me to de-stress and change my head space.

Often, that allows me to distance myself from immediate issues and then tackle them again later with a fresher mindset. Overall, I find games help me to be more creative in my life.

It is not possible for everything, because some issues are heavily time constrained, but whenever it is possible, it helps a lot.

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lupineshadow: With crime and unsafe societies we need to live according to a risk analysis, but not engaging also contributes to the decline of society. The risk of engaging with other people is low, but the risk of nobody engaging with some people is very high indeed.
If your country designation is accurate, you live in Japan which is one of the safest countries there is... overcrowded (especially in urban areas), but extremely safe.

I live in Canada which high up there in terms of safety and I've been to Japan for a cumulative period of about 5 months now (thanks to my wife... if it is up to me, I don't travel, ever) and I can tell you, it is another level in terms of feeling safe. If you don't feel safe in contemporary Japan, I don't where you'll feel safe.
Post edited January 20, 2025 by Magnitus
Posted January 20, 2025
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CarChris: You know a strange thing I read just a few days ago? According to a research, watching horror movies is beneficial in real life!
Oh, that is interesting.

I am not much of a horror movie fan myself, but I have tried to see some of the classics. I saw the original Halloween, Friday the 13th and Amityville in the last 2 years.
I do feel a bit concerned about the direction of some more recent movies, where you only see people made suffer in despair. It seems to encourage some power-driven bad behavior in some people.
Posted January 22, 2025
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Gede: I am not much of a horror movie fan myself, but I have tried to see some of the classics.
Same. Although I must say that the very good horror films have done a brilliant job of taking my mind off bad things I was going through, so there can be a benefit. They can be stress relieving.

The most recent time this happened was when I watched "Barbarian." Holy shit that was a good film. I was having many difficulties at work when I got home and saw that, and it completely made me forget about work, and afterward my problems didn't seem so big after all.

OTOH, I recently saw a film that I can't remember the name of. It was really well made, but it was by far the most depressing thing I've ever seen in a film. This girl grows up in a house out in the middle of nowhere like in the 1800s, I think her parents are around, but horrible things just keep happening to her and the people around her, and it goes on like this for nearly three hours. And then nothing good happens at the end. She gets arrested by one of the bad people that followed her, and then she falls off a boat on purpose and drowns herself. I was really upset at that ending, and it just depressed the hell out of me. Anybody know the name of this film? I can't think of it.

So anyway, to the OP, I'd recommend "Barbarian," but would definitely not recommend whatever the hell that other one was, if I can ever think of the name of it.
Post edited January 22, 2025 by GilesHabibula
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