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  • Two types that i know of:

    • in-game live service bonus items rewarded for play time or achieving some kind of objectives.

    • potential DLCs for a game that may or may not be made

    Both can be scummy. The former can basically be a mobile pay to win scam that drains bank accounts, the latter can be a “we decided not to add any more content, so thanks for the money and goodbye sucker!” scam that overprices a game and underdelivers.





  • They are, but your therapist might have a contract obliging them to recommend it for the purpose of obtaining large amounts of money. Being a therapist only pays well if your patients are rich fucks with daddy issues.

    Also, there’s a small chance that even though your fears are on point, your therapist might consider it better for you mentally to keep calm and get bent than to maintain a constant state of fear and anxiety. I hear the latter is bad for the heart.







  • Great speech, really, but why aren’t you getting it? It’s not about you or me or the commenter i started the chain with. This was their comment:

    … do people actually do that? As in, is strong jealousy really a thing?

    I’d like to believe that each of us builds their life into the exact thing they need, so swapping places with anyone else would be terribly uncomfortable. So I can’t relate as to why anyone would ever be jealous i guess haha

    Are you and all the people up voting that comment really unable to grasp that there are people who actually do that? That strong jealousy really is a thing?

    You kept deviating with your own sad stories, hope and self-control and get out from the bad environment.

    But this is about them, the people that get left behind, that don’t crawl out and escape, that don’t get to build their lives into the exact thing they need. So that swapping places with literally anyone else would be fucking awesome to them.

    That’s why I said you’re sitting on a high horse, you can’t seem to relate to them.

    God job on making it out though. Though they might have moments of jealousy, I’m sure most of the people that couldn’t do the same are proud and thankful you can be an example to them. (Not sarcasm, if you’re interpreting that way. You only saw those earlier examples and seemed deadset on them being the only kind there is.)



  • You don’t seem to understand. There is no country on this planet that doesn’t have at least one abnormal living environment within. And the people living in such types of environment don’t have the luxury of entertaining your kind of psychological snobbism/elitism.

    You talk of ideals, not reality. From the role of an observer, not a participant. Your advice is superficial nonsense from a position of safety and comfort.

    I mean, what planet have you been living on until now?


  • An average person doesn’t mechanically compartmentalize emotions and puts them aside because they aren’t “productive solutions”.

    It’s good for you that you’ve managed this kind of selfcontrol in order to improve your life. But that’s because you’ve numbed down the things that do you harm.

    A person that isn’t depressed doesn’t have that kind of ‘benefit’. Emotions run freely and wild without fear. And cause all kinds of trouble.

    Lovers being jealous of outside attention to the point of madness.

    Siblings being jealous of biased parental love to end up estranged.

    Children in patched up clothes on the streets begging or on the fields working - being jealous of children dressed in brand new school uniforms and going to school together.

    Any person in a hospital bed with a terminal illness watching through the window the world living a life they can’t have.

    And so many other examples…

    Productive solutions don’t mean shit when it comes to strong emotions and jealousy can be very strong at times. Strong enough to murder even. I mean forget about the world-ending news regurgitation, at the local level where the average person lives, jealousy is high up in ranking as a reason for commiting crimes.