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The educated class is always open to new ideas as long as it conforms perfectly to their indoctrination.

Good for you man. I'd like to give a speech on that topic myself.

Someone please feed that poor girl.

Yeah, I'm wit NoOne. My understanding was that Native Americans were a peaceful and thriving people until the white man killed most of them and stole all their land. Since that's no longer happening, they should all be great, right?

In all seriousness, I'm not terribly informed on Native American issues, but I know the community does suffer a lot of issues especially with substance abuse. It is hard to believe that people are still upset about rivalries that happened over a hundred years ago, but we can see that in other cultures as well.

@bruxae:

I guess we just have differing experiences.

Truthfully, OP's post was so garbled that it's difficult to see what exactly is happening with him. I'm not necessarily against your, "Get over yourself!" approach for some people are losers who need a good kick in the seat of the pants, but I wouldn't start with the assumption that someone is being a loser until evidence proves it to be the case. My entire case was based on the presumption that OP has had serious depression for quite awhile and has seriously been having thoughts of suicide for awhile now. If your scenario is right and OP is just whining about life's troubles and mentioning suicide because it gets him attention, I join you in saying, "Life is tough. Get over it. Do your best with the hand you are dealt," but if this guy is genuinely depressed, your comments seem likely to make him feel worse about himself which is why I wouldn't start with your approach. I had a couple friends react the way you did, and though I realized their intentions were good, they certainly didn't do anything to help me but just made me feel worse.

As far as my comments being condescending, I don't see how it belittles someone to say, "Hey, you might have an actual medical disorder. If you are having these symptoms, go see a doctor." Would I be condescending if I told someone the lump growing from their forehead might be cancerous and they should get it checked out?

I think you and I can agree that OP needs to take responsibility for himself. If he's just a self-pitying drama queen, he needs to come to terms with the difficulties of life and learn to persevere in a more healthy way. If he's actually depressed, he needs to admit he has a problem, seek medical help and make life changes to minimize the chance of a relapse. Sitting at home thinking suicidal thoughts and complaining about friends who care won't help him.

If you have been feeling down for more than a month and you are seriously thinking about suicide, you are depressed and you need to see a doctor. I've been depressed and suicidal, and I spent about five years ignoring it because I didn't want to get help, and though I wasn't miserable the entirety of those five years, I spent much more of that time experiencing misery than I needed. When you are depressed, you literally have a chemical imbalance in your brain that keeps your happy chemicals from being released properly, and no matter how hard you try to feel good, you'll never feel good as long as those chemicals are off. There are certain things you can do like exercise, develop a consistent and sufficient sleep routine and begin to consciously rewire your thought patterns to avoid ruminating continuously on self-destructive thoughts (I can explain more on that if desired), and these may be sufficient to get the imbalance restored, but there are also medications who do this more quickly and more easily, and considering you are already slammed for time, I'd suggest seeing a doctor.

Here's the thing. Whatever you have going on and whatever you are trying to accomplish, it's all meaningless if you are dead, and I know you didn't actually attempt, but if this was more than a passing thought, then you are getting dangerously close to the edge, and again, I've been there so I know of which I speak. Drop anything that stands in the way of you getting your head on straight. If you will get medical help, you can probably get healed while keeping your current work load, but if it comes to your life or your goals, put your goals on hold for a few months and get your head on straight and then you can start killing those giants that stand in your way with a new, improved, happier, more focused and more fulfilled you.

As far as friends, be thankful you have people who care about you. Some people like Bruxae will try to help in all the wrong ways by belittling your feelings and stresses and acting as if you are being ridiculous, but this is only because they don't understand how the world can feel like it's caving in on you. If they've never experienced serious medical depression, they can't sympathize with your feelings and instead assign bad motives to you. Realize people like this are also trying to help you in their own inept ways, but know that you cannot shrug off a physical infirmity, and though it is a problem with your feelings, what is in your feelings is being shaped by what is happening in your physical brain. It's not your fault, but you do have a responsibility to help yourself for if you don't help yourself you will soon be unable to help anyone else.

Hope you get to feeling better,

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Odd that Off-Topic is rating it higher than General Discussion.

If I can divorce my expectation based on what I know and love about these characters from the comics from the movies, then I'd give this movie a 6.5 out of 10. It was visually very interesting and painted a grim world of good action. The writing was very flawed in terms of plot holes, character motivations and character development, but it had good moments.

Knowing what I know the characters, I think this movie failed to capture the heart of it's protagonists completely, and I hate it for making Superman a mopey character and Batman a murderer. 4/10.

Star-Lord. Better to be a happy thief than a miserable murderer. Also, space ship.

Gary Johnson, the Libertarian candidate.

The fun thing with Johnson is that when people say to you, "Feel the Bern," you can say, "No, feel my Johnson!"

Huh? Huh? Thank you everybody! I'm here all week. Donations are accepted!

Damned if they do and damned if they don't.

I'm not the biggest GL fan, but from the comics I've read, Hal has always had a bit of an attitude problem of feeling entitled and ignoring all laws he finds unnecessary, so I don't find it completely out of character for him to go rogue. The killing of his teammates is the only thing really beyond the pale. I don't doubt for a second he'd have killed Guardians of tried to reboot the universe in his image.

DC had broken one of their key characters. If they didn't explain it away, they could never have used him again. As retcons go, the idea of Parallex possessing Hal is pretty fitting and acceptable.

They did the best out of a bad narrative box they had written for themselves.

He's back in his old costume, but it has the double RR's so I guess they are sticking to Red Robin. I don't mind the name, but it seems odd to stick with the name while keeping a costume very much inspired by the original Robin costume and not being all that red.

I don't know what Rebirth means. Tim was my favorite character but now I hate him because of Teen Titans #0. I would love to see his pre 52 history restored, but I'd settle for them scrapping the old continuity and just giving him something akin to it in spirit.