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I think he's a goalkeeper. Well he used to be at least

Movies have gotten so bad and simultaneously showings of indie movies, classics, etc. have gone way down since the pandemic, at least in my town

Graphics get better, I enjoy games just the same. Just an excuse to sell new consoles.

A lot of it stuff that used be like 80 cents is now 2 or 3 dollars instead so it's hard to realize how much you are spending until you get to the register

Damn I relate to pretty much all of that. Good luck fighting the good fight out there, we all deserve better.

Fr why is crying like the most reliable way to reset my brain

Unfortunately self-care stuff tends to not be super helpful for neurodivergent folks. Exercise can be helpful if it is rigorous enough to produce a lot of feel good chemicals but sometimes it makes it worse for me. If I'm at home, sometimes all I can do is put an eyemask on and some headphones with some relaxing music and just lay like a potato in bed until it goes away. My animals and my partner comforting me can also really help, but sometimes not.

Since it sounds like you are still figuring out what sensory output messes with you, part of the solution might just learning what consistently bothers you and avoiding it as much as possible. Do you have any sensory input you really like? I personally really like being in water so baths can really help regulate me. Engaging with special interests is also really important and beneficial, but identifying and maintaining special interests can unfortunately be difficult for AuDHDers, well at least it is for me. Sometimes it seems like trying to fight it just makes it worse too and you just have to kinda let it happen and run its course.

I'm in a similar boat so I'm still figuring it out too. I hope these suggestions can be helpful and I'll definitely be checking back in on this thread.

This is nicer than any city street in America

Ah that's true, I was still partly lib during that time. I just remember when Biden came into power and began the "end of the pandemic" propaganda which involved a lot of reining in of non-corporate media. A lot of websites and journalists that kind of served as my entry point were affected or straight up banned. Then yeah Russia and Ukraine just kicked it into overdrive.

The campaign started under Biden to eliminate dissenting information on the internet and social media has been a rousing success. They have made the internet a liberal bubble again.

Are we really gonna make fun of someone for starting a discussion about reactionary ideology in bourgeois media? Like you can think it's totally off base but damn

I just can't get past how ableist the movie is towards Andy. What aspects of his character do you think are interesting in the movie itself? Or do you mean what it represents about how broader society views disabled folks?

Yeah, they make a synth character a Rain Man-esque caricature and treat the whole concept of synths as a stand-in for intellectual disabilities/autism/neurodivergence; he gets treated like shit and used and abused much how real people who belong to the aforementioned groups are abused in real life (I think you could argue there are strong parallels with shock therapy, forceful restraint, etc. and straight up emotional abuse and manipulation). The movie basically says he deserves it because he isn't a "real human" and the movie expects us to sympathize with and root for the other characters who treat him like shit. It wouldn't feel so bad, however, if the film makers didn't make it seem they sympathized with him and acknowledged that the way he is treated is unjust and gross in the beginning of the movie only to pull the rug out at the end with how they handle his character.