Off Topic Discussion Megathread

[Kolsykol]

I don't follow celebrities, but Smith is on display across all social medias, reddit lurker or not.

And although I do love my memes - it's a big rip.
Imagine being on display, your entire life, all your business, with nowhere to hide, escape. It's driven some very notable people to the cusp of mental breakdowns.
I want to imagine that there's probably an unsaid rule amongst celebrities that this is something known and to be respected and Chris teetered that line a bit too cleverly and Will did himself no favours.

Will Smith does seem like a genuinely nice person to me, I think he did genuinely snap tho especially with his a bit bizarre love for his family which I don't think is fake or played up for media attention.
When he saw Jada was genuinely bothered by it then it doesn't surprise me too much he'd do what he did.

With that said I do think most of the overly happy and perfect persona is fake when it comes to celebrities and e-celebs and I just find it creepy and inhuman.
It's like when I watch a Youtube video too and there's all this fake hyper ultra positive energy with a HUGE fake smile and fake teeth that have been bleached and they present themselves as these perfect specimen.
What makes it even weirder is that they all talk the same way and have the same mannerisms too it's very weird it's as if they have the same coach or something.

I see this a lot too in American political ads and commercials, it's also a pretty big trope in movies because of the whole '' muh family values '' thing.
They love to shove kids and wives into movies and really ham home how much the protagonists loooooooooves their family and what a great family man he is.
It's just weird, it's so obviously fake and forced and it only makes me feel like people are liars and makes me distrust them.
If someone presents themselves that way all I can think is that they have some serious skeletons in their closet they're trying to obfuscate.

I do sympathize a little in that if celebrities don't present themselves this way they'll get torn to shreds by pathetic media outlets like TMZ and morons on social media.
At the same time it's extremely dehumanizing and weird.
But a lot of people have these extremely unrealistic expectations on other people being perfect as if they themselves are flawless.

I feel like after 9 long years with this game, I'm finally sort of... falling out of love with it. This past month, I've only really logged in for RP and to DM our FC events (both of which I still love doing!). Only attempted to do content and cap tomes for like... 3 days in the middle of it, before I fell off the train again.

I'm just noticing I have more fun playing other stuff, mostly Elden Ring (and now RF5). I log in to FFXIV with the intent to do content, and just find myself exhausted by the thought of it. Between the poor behavior and performance of the playerbase, to how the only somewhat challenging and interesting content is relegated to Savage and Ultimates (things I don't really have time or energy for anymore), to the pitiful state of healers, and topping it off with the future direction of the game... I don't know. I'm just not really happy with it anymore as a game to be played, rather than just a place to hang out with my friends and enjoy fun RP and storytelling.

It isn't even me being burned out; I've routinely taken 'breaks' here and there where I'd just log in to AFK and chat while I played other things on my ps4. This is... different. I just don't feel any real excitement or joy about the future of this game.

I'm hoping all this is just patch lull blues, but eh...

I am still enjoying the game a lot, the problem for me currently is lack of content.
I just do the Savage tier and then I am done for the week, tomestones is whatever I'll do it at some point in the week too.

When the Savage tier is unlocked and you can farm books I'll be doing the fights just for fun and glam, I just wish I could do more runs a week.
I am also looking forward to the new Relic weapons and story too.
But yeah, right now it kinda feels like I just exhaust all content for the week that I have left in one sitting.