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[Commodore]

That answers a question I had about whether or not I should give the show a try. I didn't like the original but I was willing to put that aside to give Fear a proper chance. Now I won't. Thanks for the tip.

It also suffers from the problem of having infinitely cooler and more entertaining stuff going on off screen and instead choosing to show us the boring "family drama" crap.

In last night's episode there was a scene in which they just have a close up of the main character's face while he sits in a Humvee listening to soldiers fight zombies inside a building instead of actually showing the infinitely cooler scene of the soldiers in the building fighting the zombies.

EDIT: There's also a distinct lack of zombies in the show so far. In the first season so far, which has been like four or five episodes, I can literally count on one hand the number of zombies they have actually had on screen.

 

[warpus]

I'm in some sort of post-Norway funk. I can't focus on anything, can't get anything done, haven't yet unpacked.. and I got back a month and a half ago.

There's a girl who is very partial to me, but, ever since I've returned from my trip, I've been sort of staying away from her, from chores, from really embracing my life here again. I'm not depressed or anything like that, I'm not day day dreaming about fjords or brown cheese, I'm just sort of..

I don't know, everything has felt really weird ever since I got back. Like this isn't really my life, but rather a fake place, where everything is just a bit off. Not real.

Mind you I've made some progress - I've been slowly getting this and that done and I've been getting better at focusing on things that need doing. But.. I've never felt like this after returning from a long trip, so it's weirding me out. How do I deal with this?

 

[Commodore]

I'm in some sort of post-Norway funk. I can't focus on anything, can't get anything done, haven't yet unpacked.. and I got back a month and a half ago.

There's a girl who is very partial to me, but, ever since I've returned from my trip, I've been sort of staying away from her, from chores, from really embracing my life here again. I'm not depressed or anything like that, I'm not day day dreaming about fjords or brown cheese, I'm just sort of..

I don't know, everything has felt really weird ever since I got back. Like this isn't really my life, but rather a fake place, where everything is just a bit off. Not real.

Mind you I've made some progress - I've been slowly getting this and that done and I've been getting better at focusing on things that need doing. But.. I've never felt like this after returning from a long trip, so it's weirding me out. How do I deal with this?

I know exactly how you feel. I felt that way after coming back from Iraq and again after coming back from Afghanistan. It has gotten "better" but I still haven't been able to fully shake the feeling and it's been 3 years since I got back from Afghanistan.

 

[warpus]

3 years eh...

Thankfully I am heading to Iceland for a couple weeks next summer, but that's hardly a fix for this problem!

 

[Arakhor]

One time I gave 2 toddlers two identical toys and left the room. Five minutes later one toddler crying and the other one has two toys. For some reason people have to be taught that "we share". And having hard time learning it till our graves, ain't we?

Really? That's your rebuttal? Next you'll be suggesting that the fact that we have to learn not to pee ourselves is proof of original sin.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

It also suffers from the problem of having infinitely cooler and more entertaining stuff going on off screen and instead choosing to show us the boring "family drama" crap.

In last night's episode there was a scene in which they just have a close up of the main character's face while he sits in a Humvee listening to soldiers fight zombies inside a building instead of actually showing the infinitely cooler scene of the soldiers in the building fighting the zombies.

EDIT: There's also a distinct lack of zombies in the show so far. In the first season so far, which has been like four or five episodes, I can literally count on one hand the number of zombies they have actually had on screen.

Yeah I heard they focused a lot on teenage drama stuff and the critics weren't sure it was going to pay off. I guess they want you to get more invested in the characters but that only works if you are interested in teenage dramas in the first place.

Thing is that weak characters were what drove me from the original. I think the characters got a lot better in later seasons but in the first season they were just cardboard-flat.

I'm in some sort of post-Norway funk. I can't focus on anything, can't get anything done, haven't yet unpacked.. and I got back a month and a half ago.

There's a girl who is very partial to me, but, ever since I've returned from my trip, I've been sort of staying away from her, from chores, from really embracing my life here again. I'm not depressed or anything like that, I'm not day day dreaming about fjords or brown cheese, I'm just sort of..

I don't know, everything has felt really weird ever since I got back. Like this isn't really my life, but rather a fake place, where everything is just a bit off. Not real.

Mind you I've made some progress - I've been slowly getting this and that done and I've been getting better at focusing on things that need doing. But.. I've never felt like this after returning from a long trip, so it's weirding me out. How do I deal with this?

Your second paragraph sounds like where I was at about a year ago. I did see a therapist once and he told me it was low-grade depression. Instead of taking any steps to deal with it I just let things kind of go on like that until it got much, much worse.

I hope for you this isn't the case and you'll snap out of it soon. In another thread you very much seemed to have the attitude to get at it, so to speak and not shy away from life. That was a great attitude to have; keep at it friend.

 

[Tigranes]

Really? That's your rebuttal? Next you'll be suggesting that the fact that we have to learn not to pee ourselves is proof of original sin.

Urination is physiology. I talk about that people have to be taught doing good and make right choices, not the other way around.

 

[warpus]

I hope for you this isn't the case and you'll snap out of it soon. In another thread you very much seemed to have the attitude to get at it, so to speak and not shy away from life. That was a great attitude to have; keep at it friend.

Thanks! It's appreciated. If it keeps up I'm going to consider that it is actually depression.. hey maybe it is. For now maybe some positive thinking is going to kickstart me in the right direction.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Goddamnit. Play FO2 normally for a month, then suddenly break down. Now end-game will have to be played in windowed mode...

 

[azzaman333]

Went to buy some absinthe to give it a shot, turns out absinthe is stupidly expensive compared to other liquors, so I bought some tequila instead. Come at me long weekend.

 

[bhavv]

Urination is physiology. I talk about that people have to be taught doing good and make right choices, not the other way around.

Sharing is for children, not for adults.

Unless you think its perfectly ok for me tk share your house, drive your car, use your PC or any other expensive things you paid for.

 

[Lohrenswald]

Sharing is for children, not for adults.

Unless you think its perfectly ok for me tk share your house, drive your car, use your PC or any other expensive things you paid for.

That's a farcical argument and you know it.

 

[bhavv]

Farcical??? (I cba to google define it).

Its a pretty common argument / rebuttal that adults don't share things they've paid for themselves.

Oh, mind if I share your debit / credit cards?

 

[Lohrenswald]

What you propose isn't sharing, but leeching. Had we shared in amount of labour, I would be immoral to not share goods with you.

 

[bhavv]

Children don't do labour though.

And sharing kind of is the same thing as leeching, unless you think that couples that share a house and car are leeching off one another.

 

[Lohrenswald]

Children don't do labour though.

Neither do they have credit cards or houses.

And it's not like children are a pristine example of how humans really are.
Because children grow up. That's the whole point, they learn to share and whatnot

 

[bhavv]

But the point I was making is that adults don't share.

 

[cardgame]

Adults share all the time. Or haven't you heard of relationships?

 

[bhavv]

No what are relationships?

 

[Antilogic]

Gotta love it when a business randomly sets deadlines at 1 AM instead of the close of business that day. Because that would make too much sense.