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  1. It already logged all your info when it mounted to your PC. All the kids these days need is your IP address to get your internet banned and steal your identity. They make it look like the wad came with a free DVD but in reality it's using the DVD drive to scan everything in your computer. That's why I always recommend people to use Windows XP, it's the only 100% secure operating system.
  2. You're good my man, only the first paragraph is a response to your post and I wouldn't be mad at you either way. I agree with you, so I hope you get why I wouldn't want anyone getting confused and thinking I'm supporting the healthcare system. It's not even a healthcare system, it's just another "The System".
  3. I live in America as well and paid $0 for therapy and $4/month for prescriptions (for Prozac that didn't work). I also pay $0 for my dental work because I'm such a bought-out propaganda-huffer that I learned how to use the internet to find something I can afford even if I'm broke. I'm only phrasing that in such an abrasive way because because I said nothing that defends the American healthcare system, nor have I given any kind of money to the American healthcare system that equals the amount I spent on my Blockbuster subscription in 2007. Actually I'm just kind of cranky today. Either way the fact that I live in America as well puts your anectdotal experience against mine which brings us back to my point: it works for some people, for other people it doesn't. I'm sure free counseling sucks compared to anything you can pay for, and personally I believe that there is an over-reliance on antidepressants that are of questionable quality. I know that's a divisive topic, I don't have any qualms with anyone who feels differently. But nobody forces you to take those, and you're free to be upfront from the start if you don't want to. Even if all you get at first is someone mediocre to talk to, there's probably still a better chance of trying to end up helping you rather than hurting you. You can always keep trying if you're determined to try. Should it be better and are other developed countries offering much better free healthcare and is the reason behind all this because of our healthcare system? Yes, yes, and yes. But who is going to deny that? In a discussion about the U.S. health system, I get that it's inevitable that the conversation has to turn into left vs right at some point, and it's understandable and almost unavoidable in this context, not a result of people wanting to argue. But both the most hardcore republicans and democrats I know in real life would rather have their taxpayer dollars go towards helping suicidal people and people with legitimate problems rather than the dumb shit it goes towards now. Most people in real life don't want other people to be depressed and kill themselves. Changing subjects, not directly responding to anyone (somewhat an answer to the original question): When you're depressed It's very easy to become a part of The System. Even moreso if you have a drug problem, because The System is rigged like a morbid and expensive carnival game. If you're depressed, you're more likely to be poor and vice-versa. If you are either one of those, especially both, you're more likely to be on drugs. If you're poor, depressed, and on drugs, you're more likely to commit a crime (not talking about murder or robbery or anything violent in this case, just a very boring and common crime most people couldn't even give a shit less about). If you commit a crime, you go to jail where you are charged a fine from the money in your wallet. They take your cash, minus the fine, and put it on a pre-paid debit card. Then you go to jail, where you can post bail for a large sum of money. Then you go to court, where you are charged more money. If you want a lawyer, that costs a lot more money. If you want a public defender, you can't get one unless you are virtually penniless. They still charge you for a public defender, so you're paying either way. You won't know if you can get one until you apply for a $50 fee. The DA will offer you a plea-bargain called "probation" where you pay a monthly fee to be drug tested even if your arrest had nothing to do with drugs, a fee for them supervising you, all your court costs and court-ordered fines and restitution, mandatory donations to charity, fees for any classes they order you to take, and community service (which can be opted out of at a fee of $10-25/hour), and you pay your fees through a service that charges a 5% fee. If you can't pay your fees or if you piss dirty when they hand you the cup, the punishment is more probation and more frequent piss tests, which means more fees because they charge you for each one. They can also charge you with "violation of probation" and "contempt of court" for breaking your end of the agreement, and there's a fee involved with that. Once you're back at your job (actually you might lose your job on account of being in jail and your probation officer showing up to your job and informing your boss that you're now a convicted fellon requiring supervision) you can begin to work to pay back your $10,000 in court fines and probation fees, and community service, and kick your heroin addiction on top of all that (don't worry, they offer you rehab for a daily fee). If you do this, you can sometimes have the case dismissed for a fee. If you can't then you go to jail, and then when you're released you've lost everything you own and you're still in debt, but at least you're not being watched anymore, so why not go back to shooting up? You wanted to kill yourself to begin with anyway. At least there's no motherfucking fees. Wall of text because it's a wall of shit. Not a direct summary of my current situation, but it's a mixture of things from the present and past that realistically could have happened in that order to give an idea of how the justice system works. But I'm proud to say that I'm doing alright. I'm more confident now than I've ever been. Gotta do what I gotta do, and there's nothing I can do about it, that's just the way life is. It sucks but sometimes it's the truth. I know it's made me both tougher and more compassionate. I believe in helping those who need it because I know there are other people out there in my position, and I'm at a rare point in life where I can really say "I don't deserve this shit". I didn't hurt anyone and the financial "damage" the "victim" incurred was extremely minimal compared to the assault I'm receiving. I've made mistakes but I've been a good person in life, to my friends and my family, and I'm smart and I've worked hard in life even though I've been suicidal. It would be easy to feel sorry for myself, but I find I'm at my weakest when I do that. Instead, I tell myself that I can handle it and become stronger. That's what gets me through life - not my personal mental health score, but knowing that I can improve it. If I can do it I'd like to help other people do it too.
  4. The simple act of recommending therapy to someone suffering from mental health problems is a reasonable and responsible thing for a friend to do. Much better than the burnt-out "just try LSD/shrooms/weed trust me bro" people I encounter on a regular basis. And that's coming from someone with a 15+ year history of depression and drug use, who had zero benefit from therapy. It would benefit you more to unlearn the conditioned response to get angry at people trying to help you and instead say "I already tried therapy, it didn't help".
  5. I had a negative experience with therapy around the age of 18 but I know people who had the opposite. And they certainly don't live with "cops in their head" like one post here implies, which is quite frankly insulting to me, insinuating that people with therapists become mindless drones reconditioned to become fully reliant on therapy in order to survive. I've seen the same thing said about Alcoholics Anonymous - that it doesn't work and everyone in AA becomes fully dependant on the program for life. Nobody I know in therapy or AA, or even the military, has been reconditioned to such an extent and I only know of one who remained in therapy after they felt their problems were solved well enough to get by. Honestly some posts here come across as though people don't want to empathize with people who had success with therapy. It's very simple: it works for some people, it doesn't for others.
  6. I thought 2016's multiplayer was ass. It just isn't satisfying to kill other players and the whole thing felt like an obligatory bolted-on multiplayer mode from the PS360 era when every game was required by law to include a multiplayer mode. Snapmap was pretty much ass too, way too shallow to make anything
  7. One time my boss gave me a 20% off coupon for a pizza, it was expired but it was a nice gesture that somewhat made up for the fact that he shut off my water and electricity for three days because I only put in ten unpaid hours of overtime one week compared to what I normally do.
  8. They aren't going to fix something that isn't dying just because of Internet Petition #463,857,747. They might fix the problem eventually, but it sure as hell won't be because of this. Also, what dasho said.
  9. Big Screen Capture Industry hates me for this so don't tell anyone, but you can save money by recording your computer screen with a flip phone.
  10. You're overthinking it, there are literally twelve year-olds here that are capable of at least basic ZScript ability. It's just a matter of reading, you don't need to be God of Computers. It seems opressive at first but you'll figure it out if you dedicate some time to learn.
  11. Damn can they ruin Kratos any more or what
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