Monty Python worthy

I remember that one

Sweet!

I want a game that is a standard sci fi/fantasy RPG, except the main characters each suffer from a mental health condition that affects their gameplay (and of course the story).

My brother (now deceased) had both schizophrenia and numerous personalities. He had visual and auditory hallucinations thanks to the schizophrenia. On top of that, in my last conversation with him, he mentioned that all his personalities ‘shared information’ except for one that was in denial. Because of that, when a different personality took over after that one, he would have no idea what happened during the time that denial personality was in control. Sadly, my brother passed after he had stopped taking medications for a week and decided to use computer duster (something he had finally got clean of) to sleep and never woke up.

Now, imagine that in a high sci fi or fantasy RPG. You might begin fighting and wasting energy on enemies who aren’t actually there, but you think they are. You can go into battle and no other party members will help because, as you find out after, those enemies weren’t really there. Maybe you become weak because of a would and have to get through a dangerous area to get to a hospital. There you find you never had an injury, it was a hallucination (based on a 911 call my brother made thinking he had slit his throat when he had not). Maybe you go to learn some key information from a character who then dies dies suddenly. However, you don’t remember any of it.

Most important though, in the end, you are still the hero and still save the day. The idea being that yes people with these mental health challenges struggle, but they aren’t monsters. My brother was one of the kindest people I know and loved to help people. A game like that, if done right, could help players understand what these conditions are actually like (not hollywoods bs) and show that they can still be heroes. I think that would be cool

Yep people are ridiculous

Many years ago Inworked at an Arby’s inside a food court. A man and woman came in, and she ordered a Jamocha shake while he got a free cup of water. They then went back into the mall.

About 20 minutes later they come back and he complains about a fly in his water. The assistant manager (I was just a cashier) said sorry and gave him a new cup of water.

“What are you going to do to make it up to me?” Seriously? It was free, we could give you 10 times what you paid and it’d still be $0. Plus, the fly probably came from you going out in the mall.They didn’t get their way so she asked for a refund on the shake and got that. Ridiculous if you ask me.

THE RIGHT MAN IN THE WRONG PLACE MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD

• GMan, Half-Life 2
• Michael Scott
• BigMoe

I like those options, at least better than some of the options I’ve read.

That would be awesome. Seeing someone dressed like a cat tackle someone would be a crazy.chamge

Ah, thanks, I misread that.

Seattle has enough you could easily come up with an awesome name too.

Sounds like a good name. They have the nationals for baseball, and the capitals for hokey, so I get commanders too. But retail is a sweet name

What’s the current name?

Oh thank goodness I thought it was just me. When I read that I thought ‘dang covid messed me up’

Been a few years since having covid, but my wife and I both feel like we lost some memory and brain power from it, even though we were both vaccinated and had less evere symptoms than others.

In our 30s by the way

The same question could apply to emotions. How do you put it on a scale and measure it’s weight? As a sufferer of mental illness myself, the same question applies there: how do you put mental illness on a scale?

Yet, well before the advent of CT scans and other medical wonders, people didn’t doubt the existence of emotion or mental problems.

They may not have known the cause, but they understood them based on their experience and the effect on behavior.

Emotions can’t be seen, but you can see the effect they have on a person. In the same way, no, you can’t put Spirit on a scale, but you can see it’s effect in people’s lives and feel it through experience

There certainly is a replication process, as found in the Book of Moroni (a section within the Book of Mormon), chapter 10, verses 4 & 5

"4.And when ye shall receive these things, I would exhort you that ye would ask God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Christ, if these things are not true; and if ye shall ask with a sincere heart, with real intent, having faith in Christ, he will manifest the truth of it unto you, by the power of the Holy Ghost.

5 And by the power of the Holy Ghost ye may know the truth of all things."

As for knowing it was my Spirit feeling an impression, it’s much the same as people knew what emotions were long before we could see activity in the brain; through experience we can recognize and understand it even though it does not as yet appear on a scan.

To paraphrase a church scholar Hugh Nibley, it’s not that science and https://apps.apple.com/us/app/gospel-library/id598329798 contractadict, but that incomplete religion and incomplete science do. Complete religion and complete science work fine together.

For properties, we go to Doctrine and Covenants (another standard work in our church), section 93, verse 29

“29 Man was also in the beginning with God. Intelligence, or the light of truth, was not created or made, neither indeed can be”

In other words, the building blocks are intelligences. Now, when those intelligences come together, they can be formed into a Spirit.

Moving to section 131, verses 7 and 8

"7 There is no such thing as immaterial matter. All spirit is matter, but it is more fine or pure, and can only be discerned by purer eyes;

8 We cannot see it; but when our bodies are purified we shall see that it is all matter"

To reframe my experience then, the Holy Ghost, a member of the Godhead along with Jesus Christ and The Father (who are separate beings), spoke to my Spirit in a way I can sense and understand internally but, much like emotions before brain scanning, I cannot show.

Certainly happy to answer more questions (though I will be on the road today).

There is an app that contains all our standard works and will make finding these and other references easier. I believe there is also a section for Gospel Topics

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/gospel-library/id598329798

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.lds.ldssa&hl=en_US&gl=US

Excellent points, and I’ll just add my own 2 cents.

I wouldn’t stress. I went to Weber State in Ogden, Utah, and its really more of a commuter school. Plenty of people living off campus and working full-time. I didn’t do a lot of parties or anything, but I had some good friends.

If you are happy, don’t worry about it. If you know a few people and that’s all you need, you’re good. Besides, there is plenty more of life where you can have a funner time.

I didn’t really start what I would call the ‘best part’ of my life till I met my wife at 27. I’m 34 and honestly enjoying it more than I did my 20’s

I’m a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

I was born into, but as I grew, I had to know for myself it was true or not. I did a lot of praying and reading, and one day received an answer to my prayers. In this case, the best I can describe is a flow of light and knowledge, and a confirmation to my Spirit that it was true.

From then on I’ve had more experiences, but that was the start, and that is why I continue on the path I’m on.

Been out of college for years now, but pick a quality backpack. Sounds weird, but between work and school and whatever else, sometimes it feels like you live out of that thing. Maybe that was just me

Hard to explain. Like a pin, but you are just tapping 4 areas on the screen

Think you are right.

All I see is the disable option.

I might just delete. If someone messages me when I’m at lunch, it can probably wait