the average sized kahuna

Fuck you're right. now I gotta pick something else for third base

Dugout: you see me smoking a cigar and/or hitting my vape and think I'm super cool

First base: raw and nasty sex

Second base: you see me having a trauma response

Third base: Yugioh card game

A picture of Little Bit and Hugo the cats. They are laying on a red fleece blanket in front of a heating vent, with Little Bit very close to the vent and enjoying the heat

she is monopolizing the heating vent

Effects of a video game intervention on symptoms, training motivation, and visuo-spatial memory in depression By Moritz Bergmann, Ines Wollbrandt, Lisa Gittel, Eva Halbe, Sarah Mackert, Alexandra Philipsen, Silke Lux Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, 2023 doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1173652 Methods: a total of 46 clinically depressed individuals were treatment including psychotherapy and/or randomly assigned to one of three groups: an experimental "3D video gaming" group (n = 14) which played Super Mario Odyssey, an active control group (n = 16) which trained with a computer program "CogPack," and a treatment-as-usual (TAU) group (n = 16) which received a standard clinical pharmacotherapy. Results: regarding depressive symptoms, a significant decrease in the proportion of participants who showed clinical levels of depressive symptoms as measured by the Beck Depression Inventory was only found in the 3D video gaming group (which played Super Mario Odyssey). Conclusion: besides a standalone cognitive training, the current findings suggest that cognitive trainings using a video game have potential to increase subjective well-being, show higher levels of training motivation, and lead to improvements in visuo-spatial memory functions in MDD. The proportion of participants that showed depressive symptoms (BDI-II ≥ 13) at pre- (T1) and post-assessment (T2). For Super Mario Odyssey, 100 at T1 and 57 at T2. Note: information heavily abridged. For the full paper, see link above.

A 2023 German psychiatric study found that playing Super Mario Odyssey significantly improved depressive symptoms in clinically depressed individuals compared to regular psychotherapeutic treatment, reducing depression by 43%.

hostile writing environment. I'm calling the guild

Holy shit there's hope

Does anyone ever make a late in life pivot to sex work? Or is that just not a thing

FOUND IT

Pic of the guy from that one documentary about porn where he was described as a "pornography historian". He's got a potbelly and he's wearing a Hawaiian shirt. like oh my God I should've been him. gender euphoria

I should've gone into porn. Not acting, but like. Writing & production

I'll get back to hornyposting soon, I just feel like talking about this aloud feels like its own little act of rebellion

I'm openly nonbinary but present kinda femme against my will. I feel like a zoo animal playing with the ball in its exhibit. you know?

I used to love doing my hair in fun and cute ways--chunky braids, pigtails, etc. And I'm still trying to find joy in those things. But I had to grow my hair out as a form of camouflage under fascism and it feels. Idk. like play devoid of joy

growing my hair out used to be an act of rebellion when I was younger, but now it's a form of social detransitioning and it's painful in a way that's difficult to explain

Monsters in the Witcher universe are expecting a guy with white hair and a mean look on his face. They'd never expect the freak carrying a bottle of wine and a dozen red roses

Head Witcher or whatever they're called: hey you're back. Did you defeat the griffon?

Me, hair a mess and covered in leaves, dirt smudging my armor, walking a bit funny: in a sense yes

I'd either be the best or the worst Witcher of all time on account of the fact that I'm a card-carrying monster lover

You're a real one, I'll pass this along

"trying to convince my man to go shirtless in the house more often" any% speedrun

All other Cupsy Yummy cards are inferior. I WOULD stab them

I will NEVER stab my boy

Cupsy Yummy taped to a wall in a devotional manner

Got Cupsy hanging above my work computer like the Mother Mary

My old job: you can't go socks out in the office, Han. What will the shareholders think

My current job: the minotaur makes us good money if we let them walk around in no shoes

so yesterday at work, one of my managers brought all the new therapists by my office (I am an enthusiastic zoo exhibit at every job I've ever worked). I said "haha sorry for the slippers, I hate wearing shoes in the office" and all four sets of eyes went directly to my feet. I'm not very smart

In Mario & Luigi: Brothership, Starlow bizarrely claims herself to be "an eight-headed beauty". This is actually a mistranslation. She actually refers to eight-head body proportions, used traditionally for fashion illustrations, instead of literally claiming to have 8 heads.

Me: damn I'm so tired of being a healthcare provider sometimes. This shit is hard
My job: hey do you want to talk about the explicitly gay hockey show on our official podcast?
Me: yeah

Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream Will Allow Same-Sex Relationships & Non-Binary Miis Finally fulfilling the "more inclusive" promise

reasons to not die

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Going feral over this news