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Ephemeral
Inland Empire
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Ephemeral
(serious thread)

there's been a frankly obscene level of self-depreciating or negative posts cropping up lately and i'm too old to fully fathom whether this is just some fad to be edgy and pretend to be hurting or whether people are legitimately hurting and just taking the opportunity to vent it in here (or maybe a bit of both)

while i don't wanna stifle stuff here, the level of "i'm gonna kill myself" and "my life is miserable and everything sucks" in this forum lately has exceeded any level that can be considered as "ironically amusing" by any standards, and i'm actually more than a little concerned about a few of you at this point

can we all universally agree to maybe tone back the self-dep and negging a little bit? being stupid and endearingly dumb is perfectly fine and well within the scope of OT but holy shit dudes, there's like five threads on the frontpage at the moment that are some variant of "i wanna die"
Saturnalize
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Joined March 2011
Saturnalize
shouldn't this get stickied instead of the mapping thread thingy
igorsprite
623 posts
Joined September 2015
igorsprite
RIP Xuequinox :(
E m i
E m i
it accidentally happened that when i was like that, i also quit osu and didn't post on the forums

and it accidentally happened that when that fixed itself, i came back to osu and started posting again

so i would say that i'm accidentally on it

but is there any sort of real solid reason? as someone who isn't suicidal i'm glad if people can speak their mind and all of that stuff
and if whining is speaking their mind then that's ok, to me definitely, because their trouble is bigger than my trouble of reading it
ColdTooth
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Joined June 2012
ColdTooth
I'd like to hope these people are okay aswell, I'm concerned myself, too.
abraker
Global Moderator
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Joined July 2014
abraker
tbh it's hard to tell which ones are half-joking hinting at something actual from that are not actually serious. I'd like to believe there has been non which were half-joking, but I'd be kidding myself if I convinced all of them are joking. I don't want to suggest disallowing anyone to be joking like that, but it's not ideal not to be able to tell from potential cases either.
Saturnalize
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Joined March 2011
Saturnalize

Momi wrote:

but is there any sort of real solid reason? as someone who isn't suicidal i'm glad if people can speak their mind and all of that stuff
and if whining is speaking their mind then that's ok, to me definitely, because their trouble is bigger than my trouble of reading it
don't forget that this is OT: some of the residents here may take it not seriously. If, in a case, someone needs to blurt such thing, I think it'd be better to put it on General Discussion instead (or reddit, but not oss). Still, better seek therapist.
Naimae
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Joined September 2011
Naimae

Saturnalize wrote:

don't forget that this is OT: some of the residents here may take it not seriously. If, in a case, someone needs to blurt such thing, I think it'd be better to put it on General Discussion instead (or reddit, but not oss). Still, better seek therapist.
but people don't always do the most optimal thing for themselves regardless, so it's possible that someone on here could actually be feeling like that while not seeming like it. maybe they even want to hide it by doing it among a sea of ironic suicide jokes
Saturnalize
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Joined March 2011
Saturnalize

citremi wrote:

Saturnalize wrote:

don't forget that this is OT: some of the residents here may take it not seriously. If, in a case, someone needs to blurt such thing, I think it'd be better to put it on General Discussion instead (or reddit, but not oss). Still, better seek therapist.
but people don't always do the most optimal thing for themselves regardless, so it's possible that someone on here could actually be feeling like that while not seeming like it. maybe they even want to hide it by doing it among a sea of ironic suicide jokes
which is dangerous. My response to the statement has been said well by abraker, so I'm not gonna say it twice.

Though people actually may, initiatively, pm the "person" to help their problem (in any kind of way), I doubt there is.
[-CeMAqpOP-]kee
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Joined April 2015
[-CeMAqpOP-]kee
are you talking about me my post was a joke :P
igorsprite
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Joined September 2015
igorsprite
Open Xuequinox's Posts

Hang Yourself

Result
Shohei Ohtani
Shohei Ohtani
Ephemeral is a licensed psychologist I think

This man knows his shit
abraker
Global Moderator
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Joined July 2014
abraker

CDFA wrote:

Ephemeral is a licensed psychologist I think

This man knows his shit
half of the potential mapper base is in depression. that bird does nothing
Shohei Ohtani
Shohei Ohtani
I'm going to kick your ass.
abraker
Global Moderator
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Joined July 2014
abraker

EXHIBIT A

CDFA wrote:

I'm going to kick your ass.
Shohei Ohtani
Shohei Ohtani
prepare to have your butt kicked
abraker
Global Moderator
8,295 posts
Joined July 2014
abraker

EXHIBIT Butt kinking


CDFA wrote:

prepare to have your butt kicked
Shohei Ohtani
Shohei Ohtani
johnmedina999
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Joined October 2016
johnmedina999
Did you two really have to ruin this thread, of all threads? That's really low, even for OT.
yuhaii
215 posts
Joined May 2017
yuhaii
Have to agree with John.

This is a fucking serious thread, and is not supposed to be memed in, even though it's OT.
Not funny.
abraker
Global Moderator
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Joined July 2014
abraker

johnmedina999 wrote:

Did you two really have to ruin this thread, of all threads? That's really low, even for OT.

yuhaii- wrote:

Have to agree with John.

This is a fucking serious thread, and is not supposed to be memed in, even though it's OT.
Not funny.
Hmmm I did not quite look at the title of the thread when I was in the process of posting. I also open threads in bulk, so I wouldn't see it from the listing either. On the behalf of the OT Royal Society of Quality, I must apologize. I have sinned.


The only remaining thing to be said about this topic is how osu! became associated with depression and anxiety in the first place. Why this talk started, why it continued. Then you begin to realize it got so out of hand that we can't make legitimacy of any of it. Most people say "pls kms" for the lols, memes.
Naimae
66 posts
Joined September 2011
Naimae
I think the point is that Eph wants us to stop making so many suicide jokes. We can't stop them all, but when someone does make one maybe we can take them more seriously instead of assuming they're memeing and ignoring it and probably making it worse. The fewer there are, the more they'll stick out when it appears.
Meah
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Joined November 2014
Meah
I wanna die

Hahahahahahaha no
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