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[hobbsyoyo]

It can be a burden finding one you're compatible with. My best and only positive therapy experience was with a student who graduated and moved overseas. Otherwise it's been fairly pointless (for me). Best of luck.

I think I've had 3 or 4 therapists and only one was good. The others were provided by the Army and due to pending court proceedings, had their own motives in our sessions as much as they had my best interest at heart.

It still costs me around 35€ for an ~hour session but would be much more if I went private.

When I went it was over $100 per hour and that was with good health insurance.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Aren't you a killjoy.

Considering all the incidents of horrific cat abuse I've read about over the years and photos I've seen of cats stuffed into microwaves, saucepans with the lid closed, and blenders, I have absolutely zero sense of humor about cats being treated as inanimate objects without consciousness, sensations, or emotions.

Valka, regardless of Ajidica's sarcastic post, don't you remember that this was in the context of discussing a 3D-animated anthropomorphic cat warrior?

Because my character would definitely have a shape-shifting kitten hidden in his sporran which could (for, say, 30s, scalable for XP/level gain) become a ferocious mount with increased mobility and melée claw (blade-type) attack.

Would the kitten be able to decide for itself if it wanted to attack or would it be treated basically as a cat-shaped missile with no right to refuse and no concern would result if it were hurt or killed?

It can be a burden finding one you're compatible with. My best and only positive therapy experience was with a student who graduated and moved overseas. Otherwise it's been fairly pointless (for me). Best of luck.

My only beneficial experience was also with a practicum student. In connection with the topic of cats, he asked what I did online and since at that time I was extremely active on the Cheezburger site, I told him about one of my lolcat pictures being featured on the home page. He asked which one it was, I showed him, and he liked it so much that he used it as his wallpaper for awhile (it was one of a cat examining a chalk drawing of children on a road, and the caption was along the lines of Gil Grissom's assistant helping him out in his forensics work).

Assuming they're not atrocious right out the gate, it takes me four or five sessions to figure out if there's something there or not.

The only therapy I can get through the public system here is group therapy. Private is the only route for 1-on-1 therapy, and it is, shall we say, heavy on the wallet.

I tried group therapy... what a waste of time. First, the person in charge happened to be related to one of my former classmates in school, so we were both uneasy about that even though it was over 30 years later. Secondly, one person in the group kept insisting that none of the people I discuss things with here are real. Apparently I made all of you up, because I can't physically see you. So I pointed out that you can't physically see people who write letters to you, so that must mean the letter-writers are also made-up.

Nope, that's different, she said. It was such a frustrating experience that I just told the therapist it wasn't working for me, and left.

 

[metatron]

There have been people at my door who ordered me to "put the cat down" and they aren't able to grasp that I have no intention of throwing the cat at them.

What?
You have weird visitors at your door.

I'm trying to prevent her from escaping out the door, and the more agitated the humans at my door get, the more likely the cat will try to get away (scratching me in the process).

Yes. Why is this not obvious to these people?

 

[cardgame]

I'll second meta's concern about the weirdos apparently thinking that you will throw a cat at them.

 

[Takhisis]

Considering all the incidents of horrific cat abuse I've read about over the years and photos I've seen of cats stuffed into microwaves, saucepans with the lid closed, and blenders, I have absolutely zero sense of humor about cats being treated as inanimate objects without consciousness, sensations, or emotions.

And yet we play a computer game where we can use WMDs and destroy large swathes of population (human, feline, or otherwise) and this actually helps us win the game.

Would the kitten be able to decide for itself if it wanted to attack or would it be treated basically as a cat-shaped missile with no right to refuse and no concern would result if it were hurt or killed?

In the MOBA-style thing I'm imagining (just for the sake of imagining) it could be a cat-shaped spirit generated by an enchanted crossbow which lasts for as many rounds as your ability level allows or it is dispelled.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

What?
You have weird visitors at your door.

Yes. Why is this not obvious to these people?

Bylaw officers are like that (they were looking for my dad). I pointed out that if I put the cat down, she would run out the door and then I would be in violation of a bylaw that says cats aren't allowed to run at large. Therefore, I intended to hold on to her.

And yet we play a computer game where we can use WMDs and destroy large swathes of population (human, feline, or otherwise) and this actually helps us win the game.

Just because the game allows it, don't assume that's how I play it. I prefer to use ambassadors, skalds, spies, or whatever the equivalent may be, in order to bribe the cities. The only ones I conquer by force are the capital cities. I don't use nukes or cruise missiles.

Not really in the mood to argue this, as I've just come from reading a news article about a man who drowned two cats in a bathtub (would have been three, but the third was able to escape).

In the MOBA-style thing I'm imagining (just for the sake of imagining) it could be a cat-shaped spirit generated by an enchanted crossbow which lasts for as many rounds as your ability level allows or it is dispelled.

What does MOBA mean?

 

[H4run]

What does MOBA mean?

Multiplayer online battle arena

Like this

or more popular like this

 

[Takhisis]

Oooh, so many tropes come into play that I just think you've entered Sparkling Generation Valkyrie Yuuki territory, Syn-kun.

 

[cardgame]

Snapchat has a new filter that makes you look like the gender opposite to yours.

It's kinda upsetting just how attractive I am as a girl.

What's the icon look like?

 

[Gori the Grey]

What happens if one runs ones picture through the filter for the gender that one is?

Do you get an extra-machismo Syn? Or does it just give you your own picture back?

Speaking of Sin, and admiring one's own image in the opposite gender . . .

In Paradise Lost, Sin is an allegorical character. She burst, fully formed, out of the head of Satan at the moment he resolved to rebel against God. He meets her later in the poem. He doesn't remember her, but she refreshes his memory, including that, at her appearance, Satan fell in love with Sin and had sex with her (engendering Death) (and it gets worse, but that's a story for another time). As she narrates this story she says,

Thyself in me thy perfect image viewing
Becam'st enamoured.

What Satan fell in love with in Sin is that she looked like him.

 

[Ferocitus]

The guy filter has a beard, the girl filter has makeup. Both have a faint pink glow on the inside of the circle.

The rouge on your cheeks makes you look like an angry budgie with rouge on its cheeks.

 

[cardgame]

As she narrates this story she says,

Thyself in me thy perfect image viewing
Becam'st enamoured.

What Satan fell in love with in Sin is that she looked like him.

So just a bit of a rehash of Narcissus?

edit: found the snapchat gender-swap, previously I only had the beard but it isn't real time so it's less effective, actually, than a couple I was using the other day. There was a japanese anime-style pink ribbon/circle glasses thing that was crazy cute, but a bit too much on drawn-on-fx, and a more generic/less OTT simple flower in the hair.

 

[Gori the Grey]

Yep.

And the popping out of his head bit is Athena.

 

[Snerk]

I'm running out of ideas for posts in OT. I got nothing. Well except this, but this is kinda weak.

 

[Lexicus]

Looking at the ocean in whatever hemisphere of the planet is experiencing winter is hypnotic:

You can see the waves are reaching 30 ft south of Australia.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Two men wearing green kilts just passed my living room window while riding on a crane.

They're supposed to be washing the exterior windows of the building. I don't know if that just means the windows in the public areas or the suite windows as well; if the latter, they haven't bothered with mine yet. They're still dirty.

The company's name is Men With Kilts, and I was joking with the building manager a little while ago as to whether they really wear kilts. Now I can tell him that they do.

 

[BenitoChavez]

There are an abnormal number of major Californian cities that start with the letter 'S'. San Francisco, San Diego, San Jose, Sacramento, Santa Cruz...

Also, I bought a chocolate bar today and on the inside of the wrapper it has a quote from Romeo and Juliet. I never understood Shakespeare very well but what it means in the context of eating chocolate is even more baffling.

Juliet: A thousand times good night.

Romeo: A thousand times the worse, to want thy light.
Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books,
but love from love, toward school with heavy looks.

Juliet: Hist! Romeo, hist!—O! for a falconer’s voice,
To lure this tassel-gentle back again!
Bondage is hoarse, and may not speak aloud,
Else would I tear the cave where Echo lies,
And make her airy tongue more hoarse than mine,
With repetition of Romeo's name.

Romeo: It is my soul that calls upon my name.
How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night,
Like softest music to attending ears!

 

[Gori the Grey]

She uses the word "sweet" in a famous line shortly after that passage.

Maybe they're counting on readers (eaters?) to make that association?

 

[Takhisis]

I'm running out of ideas for posts in OT. I got nothing. Well except this, but this is kinda weak.

You could advertise my mafia game. Just a thought.

There are an abnormal number of major Californian cities that start with the letter 'S'. San Francisco, San Diego, San Jose, Sacramento, Santa Cruz...

That's because they were very Catholically dedicated to various saints and the by-then independent USians were uncreative enough to just leave the names as they were.

 

[Gori the Grey]

I'm running out of ideas for posts in OT. I got nothing. Well except this, but this is kinda weak.

Pffft. At a mere 6154. Get to 6226 and then talk to me about running out of posts.