@MightyDemon82 That sounds a lot like Vkontakte, the Facebook I do have but now it's all State controlled so whatever you do post has eyes all over it. That's basically what it's like for whatever social media we have left, Facebook is banned now too, Discord comes and goes, Twitter is gone, SnapChat I think too and Instagram comes and goes. My only real experience with Facebook was watching a friend slowly go insane. Something snapped during lockdown and they started watching someone who talked about Flat Earth etc, it became all they consumed. Maybe two months ago they sent me 'videos' of giants building the pyramids. I heard they had to go away for treatment, I'm sure they already had issues but they were consuming AI videos about some absolutely insane theories and 'facts'. I understand a certain degree of crazy, but they really did go off the deep end Facebook was what started it all.
That was one of my only experiences (days) on Western social media. That 'poshtotty' was an ex girlfriend, I told her and she went on audio-call and 'stop trying to steal my girlfriend!' It was pretty funny. He was so confused, but he shouldn't been messaging random people like that. I didn't even know him.
The next just started asking 'what do you want?' on repeat so I said 'bring me a shrubbery', because of Monthy Python and I received that.
I think this man tried to sell me drugs, then there were all the non PG messages and pictures. This was all in one day of joining the site so I deleted my page. Probably not for the same reason as you did but, it's weird on there. I was raised without social media, I think there were pro's and cons to that outcome.
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@GirlVersusGame Yes. That's exactly it, a lot of people go down some crazy rabbit holes with A.I. and conspiracy theories. Also you get the kind of people you mentioned there, stalking/creeping on people. One of my mum's friends isn't the brightest and since covid has been spreading the conspiracy theories she's read online. One person I know claimed they had gone off the grid, yet still had a phone and social media 🤣.
Getting off social media is very much a good idea. A celebration is in order, Demon. It was getting bad enough anyway, and it has always been bad for the female of the species, as GvG shows with the 'in just one day' part 🙈 I mean, that is just crazy, right? But I think during Covid at least 50% of people just totally lost their minds and online has been a new type of nightmare since.
You see it on Reddit, still, maybe not surprising as Reddit is both knowingly weird (and plays up to that) but it is still full of people who are actually quite sane or empathtic, or just nice, or 'in on the joke' and there for a laugh. But every so often you see someone mention as soon as they get clocked as female on a post that gets up-voted that they then get inundated with creepyness. It's crazy to me that people still can't just have a laugh online without attracting predatory or horrible behaviour.
And then the politicised stuff is the worst for normal browsing, as everyone is so ready to attack people or defend a cause they think they care about as it fills the big fudging void in their lives. That is where doom scrolling sometimes still gets me, as 'hot topics' pop up and I find myself reading these comments and just thinking "why do you have so much hate and why am I reading it" when initially I was just looking at something funny or interesting. People do crave that easy win and the spreading of their message. And I know reading that is not good for us.
Oh no, I didn't want to make a long downbeat comment, it was supposed to be the joy of Demon taking a step away from that environment 😂 it is good, positive. Yes! It does prove I still need to work on not letting my own eyes wander when on reddit when i'm just there to look at stuff that interests me and have a laugh. Same reason we tend to move away from the comments section here, I think. I'd rather be playing a Larian game than arguing about something that blew up on social media and has spread here for no reason as it is mostly just reactionary nonsense 🙈 i'd love to go and tell people to pipe down 😛 but I barely even skimmed the article as it isn't worth the brain power.
'People lose their shhhhherbert online' report below... comments open and waiting for more people to do similar. Tiring 🙃
@GirlVersusGame I was going to reply to your other comment but i've mentally drained myself 🙈 in summary though, those people were dumb as fudge, but I don't think a lot of people in online games are very nice. I mean, I played a lot of online football games, and it feels like 90% of everyone is awful, and there's only a select amount of people that like those games I can actually get on with. It probably isn't as bad in RPG's overall, but some of those messages I think seem like they are from very emotionally underdeveloped people.
I know there was tonnes more in you comment, some kind of funny in a very strange and specific way, but my brain really is like a tired, wet bag of rubbish, so I need to go play some Divinity 😄😄
Maybe we can also get you back gaming again, as you admit you haven't played much for a while. Maybe not online gaming though, something with story elements, or would you still prefer the kind of grind and craft and build stuff type of game, a kind of meditative gaming. Maybe a Larian RPG would be a good idea, but that is of course a selfish suggestion as my brain can only process so many things at once and i'm in my latest rpg fascination 😄
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@MightyDemon82 Yes. That's exactly it, a lot of people go down some crazy rabbit holes with A.I. and conspiracy theories.
Is there actually a reason for that? It seems to be happening to so many people, are they trying to stitch together what ever is going on in the world today? It's just so strange that it's even happening, I've only ever seen A.I. in gaming and even that was enough. You'd think they'd naturally see through it.
One of my mum's friends isn't the brightest and since covid has been spreading the conspiracy theories she's read online. One person I know claimed they had gone off the grid, yet still had a phone and social media.
I Once chatted to an old woman on the DeepWeb (long story) and we were talking about CERN because I'd just done a tour and I loved it. She went down this absolutely insane rabbithole about how it was built on a portal to hell, how whatever was inside the injection was black goo from demons, that once you get that injection you inherit a demon, after about two hours she'd managed to tie it all into a train her cousin 'thinks' she saw driving past with the markings 'covid 19'. It was astonishing to just sit there and sip my drink while she just created this tapestry of wildness, she didn't know I hadn't seen the news or non-State TV in years so I had no clue what she was talking about but I found it so hard to just leave the conversation. I wanted to see what she'd say next.
She believed it all, I've talked to 'interesting' people on there but that was an experience. She was on there to hide from her government, I was on there to hide from genuine repression. I wish I logged the chat but it all wipes when you sign out. Then she tried to convince me that because there are Freemasons in my family that I'd been promised to Satan since birth, I told her I was considering joining the female arm for daughters/wives and she almost imploded. I didn't join but I did consider it. It's basically a female branch of the same Masonic order that goes back to the 1800s, they had a local chapter when I lived in New York and were involved in a lot of philanthropy and charity. Charity is a core belief of Masonry, not many people seem to realize that. She sure didn't. There was so much more she said but I was just in awe that an adult, an Elder even believed it. I think she's one of the oddest people I've talked to on there other than quicksand man who would just gurgle, he was unique.
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@Ravix See it's hard for me to call them dumb as fudge because I can kind of understand some of it. If you aren't clued into parts of the world you have to rely on others to provide that 'news' and if they were getting that news from an unverified source they might have been caught up in that absolute media storm. So in a way I understand. I think some people needed a dartboard to feel involved in that how you say, I don't know the word but when the world is complete shocked and disgusted at the same time.
Why would people be so awful in virtual soccer? it's just a ball? I'd understand shooting someone and them getting annoyed because 'you killed me bruo, etc' but how do you fight over kicking a ball around. Isn't it just sportsmanship or is it more like the Football Factory and people are so passionate about an online team that want to virtual throw a brick at you or whatever.
Emotionally underdeveloped might be it. I'll tell you a funny story. One day we were all maybe ten of us in chat with microphones, they hear bubbles so they asked what I was smoking, I was in the hot-tub, then I realized most if not all of them got high pretty regularly. Maybe that was it too, I wasn't high I was getting comfortable. They were hearing the water going through the jets, it makes that pop pop bubble bubble sounds. You know those long glasses people put weed inside or whatever then light it and some how it bubbles? they thought I was doing that.
I know there was tonnes more in you comment, some kind of funny in a very strange and specific way, but my brain really is like a tired, wet bag of rubbish.
That is a really unique visual but it's fine really and strange, funny fits. I try to find humor in some of the more strange parts. I didn't think the duck was funny at the time I thought too much vodka and handguns don't mix, but now I can kind of see the funny side. Life at times is just very-very-very serious, events like that break it up a little. I don't think it's healthy to be around certain things but it's not my place to cause a fuss and funny events are a kind of rarity.
I'll tell you a funny story about the music industry though. Have you heard of Thin Lizzy? Years ago I was at a show and the venue had a box reserved for his Mum. She was a lovely woman, afterwards we went back to a party. But it was all old people, she hosted it and invited me along as some kind granddaughter or something, I don't know, but she was lovely and everyone said I should go.
I was there maybe an hour or so and really enjoying my time with all of this interesting old ladies, they'd seen some things and I enjoyed their warmness. I'd had a glass of wine and was feeling more open to conversation so I pointed to her necklace (she wore many) and asked was that Jesus in the picture.
Everyone and mean everyone in that room stopped, even the live violinist. She put her hand on my wrist and said 'do you do drugs child?', I said no thank you I haven't tried and I'm not allowed. And again silence, she went on to tell me that was her son, that he did drugs and it cost him his life and that I should never touch them. It was Phil Lynott's Mum, I actually felt like the ground was going to open and I'd drop through. She'd invited me back because she wanted to 'reach' a young person and spread her message but my mistaking her son for Jesus caught everyone in the room off-guard. The thing is I don't even know how the others heard me because the room was quite large and I speak very quietly by nature. But they somehow heard. When I told the guys on the tour they almost died from laughter and shock, so there's one for you.
I'll never ever live that down, they told everyone and it was the same reaction. I'd heard songs like Whiskey in the Jar but I rarely looked at music videos, I didn't know what he looked like. Afterwards I did because there was a statue of him outside a bar right by one of the hotels and there he was 'Jesus' in the bronzed flesh.
@Ravix A celebration is definitely in order. More time dedicated to my actual hobbies and not wasting time looking at crap. Unless it's officially sanctioned crap that I think is worthy of my free time 😉.
@GirlVersusGame I think a lot of the time it may be that certain individuals just don't have dedicated hobbies and get taken in by all that rubbish online. That could have made a phenomenal read, inheriting a demon and gates to hell sounds like some real crazy supernatural Thriller type stuff. Quicksand man sounds luke a hoot. But yes there's some real special people out there.
Apologies for the late reply. Only one more day of work (next Tuesday) then off for 12 days.
@MightyDemon82 It's fine I'm away at the moment and just saw two other thread replies then yours. Either you all three answered at once or my browsers acting up. It was something, I'm, sure I clipped it because I wanted to read it again. Yeah quicksand man was weird, he'd gurgle then ask if I had any pictures of me in sand. I know where he was going with that so no. I'll update this post if I find that conversation about CERN etc. It's on one of my phones I'm sure.
the only snaps I can find but she was out there even for me, I meet some interesting people on there.
I'd forgotten about this part. She said because I was a submissive that the New World Order (who were my Family) programmed me for MK Ultra and one day I'd 'activate' then un-alive a Pope. I said I'd been to the Vatican but never met any Pope, just viewed art, but oh no she said the Pope was also a demon. That she'd visited in her dreams and saw him 'making' people like me. She wanted to de-program me from Satan's plan, that's what submission was to her. She said that she had helped other girls like me escape the programming and that now they are in hiding, that I too could 'enjoy' freedom.
So then I asked if he's a demon then why would I even unaliving him and she said it's so I could be the antichrist like in Rosemary's Baby. I told her I'm an adult so that's not happening either, that there were other weird parts to me but not that. It's like everything I said she had a crazy answer. I told her that's not how it works, I 'active' when my Partner wants something and I shouldn't have used that word. Oh she said that because I had some blank spots missing in my memory from the past that it was also MK Ultra that they brought me to an underground facility and trained me as an assassin. She was convinced of this because I can handle many firearms. So then she wanted to see some of them, I showed her a couple and 'that's the one you'll use on the Pope, get rid of it'. I told her no way that was a gift and put it away.
She called my Ex a reptile from space, that he was MK Ultra'ing me so I told her he was a lot of things but he wasn't from space. I was asked if I ever saw him 'shift', I said no but I shift and it's not because of reptiles. She talked about the Hidden Ones and how they were going to come for me with codes in the night, I already don't like the night so I said it was bedtime. She gave me 'reading material' and said I needed to study it to break free from MK Ultra. I reminded her again that it's consent, then back to the Hidden Ones she went. This really long story about how they came eons ago and how my Family were one of the first they went into business with. I told her we're in business with a lot of people but not aliens.
Oh and she said I'd been collared by an ancient space king. I was trying to excuse myself but didn't know how and honestly I was a little freaked out because I was alone and this woman in her maybe sixties was telling me aliens were going to basically take me for you know what. Each time I was like 'it's bedtime for me' she would fire back up. I asked, have you got any cats or anything? To break the theme of the conversation, no cats. She told me she moved to nature to get away from people, that the New World Order were monitoring her, hence the DeepWeb.
I told her I'm being monitored too but because I asked about gay people when gayness was extremism. Then I told her I'm half gay myself and off she said that's what the Hidden Ones want. This was maybe four hours, I was actually getting sleepy. A friend logged and said she has to leave (meaning me) I told him all of the crazy things she told me. He said she's a major underground figure in that Conspiracy community and has thousands of followers even writes books. I showed him the snippets and he said yeah that tracks and not to talk to her again. So I didn't. She tried to get me on another network because she saw me as 'her cause' but I jumped networks so fast. I just wanted to talk to a grandmother figure, she was elderly and obviously had experience with life. I think she actually went crazy.
I'm thinking of all of the other things she said, four hours this was, just constant. Oh she asked me had I been to any islands as a child, I said of course. The Hidden Ones own islands too now apparently. She even told me there were cameras in my stuffed animals, everything to her was a camera. She asked what I did for Covid, I said I got sick like everyone else and had some solo fun. Then came that talk of the alien goo into the injection and never to get it again, she was obsessed about that 'goo'. Maybe the goo talk was a whole hour. I think she's still in one of those rooms, I avoid her. She had me scared that night with her talk of them coming in the night. If I'd have met her a couple of years earlier she could have actually convinced me of some of those things, obviously not now. This wasn't the surface web, if people are talking about this on Facebook then Jesus of Christ that's even scarier because they must believe it. There was just so much more that I forget, she was obsessed with Freemasonry, the goo, New World Order, and of course she tied every one of them back to my life. DeepWeb chatrooms are sort of like Forrest Gump and his chocolates, truly unique each time. I've met some very normal people on there even gamers, then there's people like her.
I found it. This is how she first approached me, we were on voice chat and we jumped Apps and networks then she gave me the four hour 'lesson on life'. She called herself a witch of the woods because she left society to live in nature but still had internet/devices etc. That picture with the red circle is where she said the MK ultra took me, she believed it.
I found the train, and the 'lesson' on Covid. I forgot that 'my Ex was making me a robot' and that A.I. was watching her. It's just fascinatingly insane.
That's the Masonry part. I told her I was thinking of joining the female wing of a lodge the O.E.S Order of the Eastern Star because I could join by legacy membership and I liked the idea of the charity work they did (I never joined) Then I was told a demon was attached to me since birth, generational. That's when the promised to Satan stuff came into the conversation. She was absolutely convinced, it got too personal after that.
This was where I got annoyed because she was trying to convince me that I'd been trafficked so I pinged my friend and he logged in, then the conversation ended. Four hours, that's two movies long of time, but when she said that about my Family I was done. If that's Facebook too, I don't know. I can see why you left the site.
I don't know the English word for it but it was like she was talking about me in the third person like she wanted me to view myself and take what she was saying as if we were watching it happening off to the side. Like if she knew your Dad was a musician, she'd try to convince you that the music industry was evil and that Lemmy or Kerry King promised you to Satan as a child because they know your Dad. The logic makes my head hurt because there is no logical thinking there. I like psychology but that's not psychology, I just don't know how someone can go so far off the deep-end. She's an Elderly lady she needs to be baking cookies, not baking such ideas into girls who she wants to save from Satan, or A.I. or whoever she said is in space and also here.
I felt so normal after talking to her, like really I felt like the most normal person on the planet. That's when I knew she was really out there. I couldn't show anyone offline because I wasn't supposed to be on there in the first place, that 'thousands of followers' thing really made my ears stand up, I wonder are they other Elderly ladies. And who's buying her books, she didn't use her real name, no one does on there obviously. The thing is everything she said originated somewhere, there's a following to that material.
@MightyDemon82 I found some snippets, not the train or the demons but you can see what I mean. Have a lovely weekend also, especially if it's Christmas there. I added some context from the four hours I spent with her, I can't remember it all. The pyramids came into it at one point, Atlantis, Giants, World War three, she was able to weave it like a tapestry that made sense to her. I didn't see the sense at all.
I found the goo. So basically the 'goo' came from space, they put it in the injections for Covid and the food chain (or something) I forgot the next part. She said women were ugly and that I was pretty and that I should join her cause and create material to bring the truth to people that I was pretty 'thing' and that they'd listen to me.
I'd forgotten that part, she was trying to 'de-program me' so I wouldn't be a bride of Satan and whatever she said is in space then once I did that I could join her truth movement. She gave me some number that I forgot, but basically if I slept with that many men Satan or whatever would come and marry me. I asked her if women counted and she had no answer for that. Oh and she'd go back into our voice App to say the words that she wouldn't type because A.I. were watching her. Also that there was an alien virus that spread between phones, lap-tops and it was linked to my DNA because I had a Master Mason connection. She said being the daughter of a Master Mason meant you were the daughter of Satan. Those were the other girls she de-programmed.
The goo also was the demon she talked about, it sounded like the Eminem music video the Venom. I'm surprised she didn't link that too as in 'look at this documentary footage'. I told her I believe in D/s not marriage so Satan was out of the picture, didn't matter he'd program me to either way.
I think she said she was sent by God at some point and that I was to use the word of God on my Partner, who also was a Hidden One. I told her if I did that he'd put me over his knee, she just didn't get it. I wish I could have told someone offline, I lay in bed trying to just piece together those hours, all of that information. And when someone asked if I was okay I just thought 'oh if you only knew who I just talked to'.
At some point she sent me some 90's style looking collages with lines going between people, places, things. I was to study that, I didn't even save it. I asked her who shot JFK, the Hidden Ones of course because he was onto them and would tell the world of their existence because he had one of their books. The same book they'd show me at night with the codes. She talked about some angel or something that would come to her at night and tell her who needed help, that's how she found me, an angel told her. I asked what else the angel said about me, that was a secret but I'd know in time. She was delighted that I didn't use social media, that was the first step to being enlightened. There was something about cows. I asked her what she even did in nature, I was curious if she was in the actual woods. She never specified.
It's just amazingly weird, that's why I kept listening just to see what was coming next. I didn't think she was trying to recruit me until she started all of that pretty things talk but of course I had to be un-Satan bride'd. I don't have the English words for some of this because it's just not logical. She asked how many men I slept with that I shouldn't go over a certain number or Satan would come to claim me, oh and to stop liking girls because that's what the Hidden Ones wanted. I couldn't remember the number so I just made one up and 'stop doing that!', apparently I was near the summoning requirement. My friend got a laugh out of that. She really thought I was in the New World Order and was trying to free me from bondage, then to come over to her side and preach the truth.
I'll admit I have some issues of my own but I understand my psychology because I work with it not against it, I think she's the first and only clinically insane person I've ever met. If that's not psychosis then I don't know what is. I keep updating the post as I remember some of what she said, there was so much. All I can think is she's in the woods with wi-fi just doom-scrolling some of the most insane material known to humankind, do the woods even have wi-fi in America? I can't tell if nature means she left the city or she means the literal forest. I asked about her home in the woods, I was picturing a Disney home for a witch in the woods. But she would never say. I even asked were there animals in the woods, she wouldn't tell me because A.I. could track their DNA to her doorstep. That's the word I was thinking of, harlot, she said I would be Satan's harlot if I didn't break free. She had such a way with words, insulting you know? Then 'but you'll be pure with the truth'. There was also some story about a river, it talked to her or something, told her to return to nature. She's out there right now in some American forest, I'd suppose.
Got made redundant right before Christmas. The worst part is that due to the wonders of zero hours contracts, I’m not entitled to anything in the way of redundancy pay etc. Genuinely cannot find the energy to get back on the job hunt, it’s soul destroying out there, record unemployment and so many positions in my field have either evaporated due to Brexit, Covid and AI or are asking for unreasonable levels of experience for a junior position. Thankfully never actually having the money for a deposit on a flat means I can stay at home.
Tempted to pick up the writing again as it’s been a while but it doesn’t exactly pay the bills either, made a pittance writing articles for a bizarre Communist gaming website when I was at Uni and toyed with the idea of going into that but after I just missed out on a position at PC Gamer writing for the Hardware team I sort of saw it as a sign. If I thought there was any money in it then I’d channel the ADHD into something creative like a book or a script but I’m not convinced anybody would want to read the contents of this brain.
@nessisonett Not to pry but how can companies get away with firing people right before Christmas? Are there no UK laws in place to protect people during a time of the year where they have to spend extra on things like lights and fuel? basic survival, and does zero hours mean they just call you up and say 'we need you today?' so there's no contract?
I’m not convinced anybody would want to read the contents of this brain.
There's a market for everything, David Lynch probably thought the same thing. He wrote all his screen-plays, people might not have gotten it at the time but look what he left behind. Have you considered self publishing?
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@GirlVersusGame Due to the massive loopholes in zero hours contracts in the UK, you technically aren’t an employee and can be let go without notice. The government were trying to get rid of them but I’m pretty sure they’ve caved.
@nessisonett Ah man, sorry to hear that, especially from what I seem to remember it taking you ages to get that position in the first place. Is that an immediate thing?
Wishing everyone here a safe Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
today is going to be a fun day since its the annual family christmas get together with food potlock, white elephant gift exchange and some fun games to play which we get more prizes like a gift card or whatever.
i made a rocky road chocolate pie for today. hope my family members like it
@Thrillho Yeah, due to the nature of the contract, it’s essentially just no more work available to me. Awful time of year for it. Just need to get back on the hunt in the new year I guess!
@nessisonett Urgh. Real sorry to read that, buddy. Like you, I thought we were supposed to be getting rid of zero hours contracts. Nasty things. I was chatting to a friend yesterday about the current state of the job market and yeah, it sounds proper grim. The way the holidays have fallen this year, the country is likely gonna take a full two-week break, so I wouldn't even bother trying to engage until the second week of January. Hopefully that'll help you rest up and regain some energy, at least.
Additionally, and as @GirlVersusGame rightly said, don't ever sell your brain short. I thought exactly the same as you and recently discovered that I was wrong (albeit in a very small way but all the same, it gave me a temporary confidence boost when I needed it most). There's always a chance. Don't let a single setback close off any potential avenues. Everybody here knows you can write.
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i made a rocky road chocolate pie for today. hope my family members like it
I'm curious, what was the verdict? Good, I hope!
This time of year is always a little scattershot and multi-part for me, but I'm definitely gonna be AFK for the next couple days, so I'll also wish everybody reading this the happiest of holidays, and hope you all get the games / consoles / peripherals / PSN credit / V-Bucks you wanted!
"If I let not knowing anything stop me from doing something, I'd never do everything!"
I hope you all get to enjoy your respective holidays. I'm not really in the mood this year, in all honesty. Must be the Seasonal Affective Disorder kicking in. I've already made it abundantly to friends and family to not bother getting me anything this year because I'll just hand it straight back to them.
I'm starting to realise the older I get the fewer things I care about and the less I care about them.
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