Haha, someone forwarded it to me and I thought it was hilarious! I've been taking a short mental health break from Lemmy (was feeling disillusioned by some stuff I was seeing), but will be back to my normal posting soon.
I am fully into Linux now though. No more Windows installs in my house.
(Oh! I thought I responded to your post yesterday, but it was the crosspost to Linuxmemes, so it wouldn't have gone to your inbox.)
He's famous as a really good geo-guesser (a game where people get random google streetview images and try to drop a pin as close to the coordinates as possible).
People give him challenges all the time, and it's really impressive.
They're not mine. There's a popular poster on IG, Reddit, and X called "IRL Loading Screens" (the watermark in the image), and they make these and a bunch of others. I reposted a couple of the states that I saw maybe a month ago here, and people seemed to like them, so I've been saving them for Lemmy as I see them.
Is it an actual photoshop then? This isn't mine, and I assumed whoever did the original edit used some sort of faceswap or AI app to do it because it looked so smooth.
It was for brevity and clarity. People are very familiar with hearing "OCD" used casually, but "NPD" would have sounded too specific and clinical compared to "narcissistic" as a character trait.
It's nobody's decision but yours, but I will point out that as humans, we are very poor predictors of how we will think or feel in the future.
When we're depressed, our brains process thoughts of the future as if we'll be sad forever. When we're happy and have lots of energy, we make big plans as if we'll always feel that way. Lottery winners feel an initial euphoria and think they're set for life, but studies show their mood returns to baseline after about 1 year. Age and development helps you push the fog of foresight a little further, but it's still hard.
I don't know you, but if I were speaking to myself at age 22, I would caution making a decision like that so early. I still cringe about being tasked with picking a college major at 18 and how wrong that could've gone, and this is easily 100x more important.
Yeah, if you search for "IRL Loading Screens", they're on a bunch of socials: a dedicated subreddit, Instagram, X, etc., and their stuff seems to circulate everywhere.
I don't know if anyone has put all the states they've done together yet.
The joke is leaning more on the OCD/narcissistic characteristics of Patrick Bateman than the murdery part. Like, having a ridiculously tedious self-care routine due to vanity (or self-consciousness, take your pick).
Haha, someone forwarded it to me and I thought it was hilarious! I've been taking a short mental health break from Lemmy (was feeling disillusioned by some stuff I was seeing), but will be back to my normal posting soon.
I am fully into Linux now though. No more Windows installs in my house.
(Oh! I thought I responded to your post yesterday, but it was the crosspost to Linuxmemes, so it wouldn't have gone to your inbox.)