Help, I've somehow landed in a simulation of this weird place I can't leave. My CMD Window is broken. There's weird people in socks here screaming about all sorts of crazy shit. Like how the celestial FBI is looking for them so they need to hide behind their face so they will not be found And extradited.

Then there's weird people acting like they own this place. Like they own us. They want me to swallow these weird round things. When I don't take them they force me to.

I can't leave this simulation. Someone help pls. Can someone connect to my system and reactivate my CMD Window?

I've learned to never set your vagina-world-simulator to random from this. Pls help

An abstract drawing I made depicting an omnipresent being

Hey fellow people,

Like the title says, I'm feeling depressed again after 2 years of euthymia. Lithium was doing its job perfectly. To be honest it's still doing its job, this depression is managable compared to prior episodes. I can distract myself from the bad thoughts when talking with people or reading a book which is really nice.

Hopefully I'll be able to hold down my job through this

Mine has changed to Torture Princess from Spider

I love Serial Experiments Lain.

And I'm looking for a light novel that is similar in the heavy psychological themes. End of Evangelion Movie is also close to what I'm looking for.

Preferably it doesn't have like 15 volumes, looking for a rather short one. But that's not so important, as long as it's psychological And covers themes of ego, consciousness etc.

And if so, why or why not?

Is it the setting, the way it is written, the themes, or the illustrations, or a combination of them?

Do you read 'regular' books as well?

I was watching Anime for a long time already, picked up a manga here and there but I didn't really enjoy them. It felt like there was so little story and I could finish one in under an hour. So I gave up on Manga.

I watched So I'm a Spider, So What?/ Kumo desu ga, nani ka? when it started airing and it hooked me instantly. Her character. The world. The comedy. Everything. (Except the humans...).

Once it was over, I wanted more. And since everyone kept saying the Light Novel is way better, especially the human side, I bought the first 3 volumes.

It was amazing. I binge read them until I had to wait for the English releases. Right now I'm waiting for vol. 16 to be available again so I can finish this series.

I was just wondering, since I only read books that I physically possess.

eBooks aren't my thing.

Do you read rips or buy the ebook/book officially?

So, after 9 1/2 hours of working In a kitchen I was on my way home. I took off my shoes and socks because my feet hurt.

I get on the tram. A few seats next to me a woman sat, loudly talking on the phone.

The call ends and she sees me, being Barefoot. She starts loudly berating me for my disgusting toe nails, and the dirt under my nails etc. At this point I notice that she seems off somehow. Other people start chiming in that my feet are fine and that she should mind her own business. This continues for another 5 minutes, I'm making snarky remarks. I honestly didn't care about her, just being tired after 13 hours awake. Some other things she said:

typical German thing, Turks and Arabs would never do that (she was of Turkish origin).

The hairs on my feet are disgusting.

Ithe other passenger start exiting the tram, it's just us two now basically. I put on my headphones completely ignoring her. She stands up and sits directly in front of me. I take off my headphones.

I ask her if she has bipolar disorder. She asks me if I doe. I say yes. She says she has it too. I say that she seems manic. She agrees. She nearly starts crying and apologizing . I say it's fine, because I realized early on and that I know she didn't mean to harrass me, I can relate.

We talk a bit about bipolar stuff. I tell her I just came from work and my feet hurt, that she's right I should cut my toe nails. She asks me what I work, I tell her I work in a kitchen In a refugee camp.

She starts crying and apologizing again. We exchange names and I have to get off the tram. Once outside I wondered wtf just happened.

That's my very weird random story I experienced on Saturday.

Have you ever randomly met other manic people? It

Done at 4am when hypomanic, right after a depressive episode ended

Gonna be my last post for today. Trying to get some content and discussion going :)

A drawing I made in the psych ward recovering from Depression.

This was before I got on Lithium, since then I've been completely stable. But looking back at these graphs it's quite frightening

This doesn't exactly fit but it's close enough.

This was in 2016 or 2017.

A good friend of mine was in need of a new PC and wanted to buy a prebuilt. I gently (maybe not so gently) told him that was a waste of money and I could build a better one for cheaper. So I put together a decent budget oriented mid tier build for him. i5 and a GTX 1060 6gb. All was well at this point. We ordered the parts to his house and I got on a train to his city to put it together.

At this point in time, I wasn't an expert on building PC's. I had built two PCs in total. both very budget oriented.

So we (I) start building the PC. All goes well. Each part at it's place. Each cable connected (supposedly). Press the power button. doesn't POST. reseat everything. doesn't POST . My friend is getting very anxious at this point which is slightly annoying to me... Saying he should have just built a prebuilt. This in turn is making me uneasy. We decided to take it a PC shop so that they can test if a component is dead. And mostly to ease his anxiousness.

We take the whole computer, which is basically 'ready' in a cardboardbox to the pc shop. Taking public transit with a huge and decently heavy box isn't that comfortable. Arriving at the PC shop we explain the problem to the worker. He takes one look at it and goes: 'You haven't connected to 6pin power cable for the CPU'

Cue embarassment. But also relief that it was just a stupid oversight, fitting to my inexperience.

Back in his home, we connect the cable. It posts. all is good. Mainboard has no wifi built in so we get an ethernet cable. No connection. Ethernet doesn't work. I tried everything that I could and it didn't work. He bought a cheap usb wifi adapter. which works. To this day The ethernet doesn't work. He is still using that PC. I'm telling him he should upgrade it, or more like replace it completely.

He want's to buy a prebuilt. I tell him I can build him a pc for better and cheaper. I feel like im experiencing a deja vu. Hope the second round goes smoother..