Don’t underestimate my ability to be both

This healthbar in a previous attempt, tho 🤣

YOU are the final boss 🫵!

I am my own greatest challenge and toughest enemy. I have put myself through the ringer, but one day I will defeat myself!

I’ma be honest, as I was making it, I forgot what the theme was and thought it was “the final boss”. But I had already committed to the idea, so here it is in it’s depressing epic glory. Now where did I put my pill planner?

Poe’s Law, in action

But really though. Dresses look fun. If I had a body to pull it off, maybe I’d give it a go.

But I don’t think I could deal with even more social ridicule than I already face lol

What???

I’m totally cis and I think that all the ti… ooohhhh

It seems like our socialized healthcare doesn’t cover our sarcasm detector organ 😅

Lol well, fair enough!

I still aggressively assert that it still benefits humanity to protect each other, even people who don’t know they need it.

But that’s a pretty reasonable response, I have to admit lol

Fair criticism.

The chef was fired, it is unacceptable to skimp on the cheese

Throwing babies in the deep end is how you get a lot of dead babies who would have grown up to be excellent swimmers.

Like, you fail to understand that youre first on the chopping block if we start to push darwinism. You wouldn’t be sacrificing yourself, you’d just be the first to go.

But in those cases, isn’t fear supposed to be balanced by some reward? Competing instincts/motivations?

Why is it always the people who most need OSHA who want it removed.

Why is it always the least fit people who want to promote survival of the fittest?

But specifically fear instincts seems strange. It makes sense to us because we’re us, but look at it more clinically: we seek out to stimulate the instinct that keeps us safe. That means that it’d doing the exact opposite of its purpose. If we seek to stimulate our fear, that means we seek to put ourselves in situations where fear is a reasonable response, which is exactly what fear was evolved to prevent.
How did this behavior develop, and how did we survive once it did?

That’s still a pretty messed up pass time if you’re not anthropomorphizing. It’s a crazy way to have evolved.

I like that “safe space” theory, that seems very plausible.

It’s still a bit messed up though, because that part of our brain can’t distinguish between play fear and real fear, so we get “rewarded” for both which seems like a very risky move, evolutionary.

I can imagine the aliens being like

How did they survive to become the apex species?

Although with all the brinkmanship and poor threat analysis we’ve exhibiting now on a global scale, perhaps we won’t survive as the apex species for long, so 🤷

HOW DARE YOU 😉

I imagine that’d be just as fucked up to aliens:

Their brain injects feelgood drugs to reward them for being scared??? and they got addicted?!?!

Im gonna edit my post because everyone is too hung up on extreme sports.
Horror movies also fall under the same category of thing. It’s not about the risk, it’s about triggering fear response. I just picked extreme sports because I couldn’t fit the whole premise in the title

Maybe I’ll edit my post because you’re not the first person who misunderstood. I’m specifically talking about thrill seeking, not extreme sports specifically. I couldn’t fit the whole premise in the title so I just picked an example 😭

Extreme sports was more supposed to be an example. Horror movies are the same.

People go out of their way to feel scared, what would aliens think of that?