They say people had fun in Daggerfall.

I understand everything, but not the older German “s” instead of usual English one. And that use of “u” is awful. Especially since it’s inconsistent. Why are you doing this?

Right, for him when Trump or Harris wins, the election is fair and transparent.

I’m sorry for the conspiracy tone, but they do keep playing you for fools.

I know. I’ve just known a real narcissist. The difference is that with a pseudo-narcissist (like my mom) there usually is some way to avoid triggering their trauma. With a real narcissist (like that girl) there really is none.

Yes, and what you are describing means you have to cut it. I’ve had such emotions.

You will also find out in future that there can be relationships with all the joy and none of the pain. Even dysfunctional ones will more often be better than not.

There is, however, a kind of protective narcissism that can be removed if you treat a person gently.

The society (some family members included) may treat schizophrenics, autistic people with PDA, others harshly enough (pressuring them to be “normal”) that they develop this thing, that may seem very similar to narcissism.

EDIT: Putting it a bit differently - if a person is kind to animals, there are likely not narcissist, but may be pseudo-narcissist. If they can’t do something you ask of them, it may be PDA. If they can do something kind involving sacrifices on their own, but suddenly can’t when you put that as some expectation - then they are traumatized and the problem may not be with them.

I think this seems more like a BPD person, but - narcissism too.

As you are asking for advice, mine is:

About narcissists - never ever allow them to have any degree of control over you. Similarly to people grown cowards TBH.

Did you have a honest talk, without substances, on all the conflict parts?

If there’s avoidance of that, nothing you can do. I have, eh, some experience in my life too. Just move on.

Also, about substances - stop drinking. Try limiting yourself to something like tea without sugar and buckwheat, and maybe something like salted turkey broth with some pieces of turkey meat eaten separately. Maybe milk.

At least that’s what helped me to regain ability to sleep after my losses and traumas.

… for the very reason that Fortran you can grasp in an evening.

So it’s not a nasheed

Thx

I dunno what that was, but I got a cup of something transparent and not tasty once at BK. Don’t think I felt too bad, maybe cause I stopped drinking that immediately.

Such a plot device has been used in every sci-fi universe I’ve been interested in. It’s not even funny.

I mean, Denethor is a name from Silmarillion, he’s Legolas’ ancestor IIRC. And I think there’s a Boromir there too. Faramir - oops.

True, I’ve missed the possibility of a new sickness affecting body odors, or schizophrenia with perception of same old ones changing.

Your logic sucks. They wrote they didn’t realize what the smell is. Their crotch would have a familiar smell with variations depending on things eaten recently.

I know it’s not simpler because I’ve tested it in society a few times.

Also if you’d familiarized yourself with, as I said, the ways large-scale scams work, you’d notice this pattern too.

And propaganda.

And it’s a common pattern in movies that the “good guys” can “hack” something or do something the shady way, and normies really do think that they’d be more comfortable with having that possibility. They see good secure systems as some kind of digital police state and don’t understand that the existing world is much closer to that.

I’m not impartial, of course, my interest in these parts of human psychology comes from studying Nazi Germany, Armenian Genocide, trying to understand why Russian society is as it is and how to fix it, same for Armenian society, and, ahem, engaging in discussions about corruption with people benefiting from it.

In the latter case I was intentionally disallowing all aggressive emotions from my side and such and pretending to be naive and that we are all interested in a better world, and explaining how one can create systems where corrupt people don’t multiply like cockroaches, and also arguing from the position of us all willing to solve problems allowing corruption and bendable rules to exist, and noting how stupid it is that someone absolutely unskilled in anything useful can benefit solely from occupying a right place, and that such critical points should be removed. Made them utterly furious and some other people, whom I considered kinda honest, rather unsympathetic to me.

Third parties love their trojans just being treated as normal way of life.

“Anti-cheats” instead of not being imbeciles while designing protocols for multiplayer, “anti-viruses” which need to run kernel-level and download databases with executable code, video drivers which just can’t be packaged with Windows.

One thing I’ve realized is that large parts of social structure are dependent on cheating. We all want to cheat, so we all agree to a system where cheating is possible, but pretend it’s not happening until someone gets caught and then just behave as if nothing happened.

One necessary part of someone’s upbringing is honesty. There’s an amazingly deep moment in LOTR where Eomer says that Rohirrim don’t lie, so they are not easily deceived.

This is not a poetic device. This is how it works. Ponzi schemes usually target people who think they are smarter and more cunning and will gain something from them. And rigged security systems work because most of participants think they are the ones who may at some point abuse those systems, but most of them are the ones becoming eventually victims of such abuse.