If you could view something again as though it was for the first time, what would it be?

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I dunno, part of me says Morrowind cause that game is amazing, but part of me wants to say Star Wars, cause I am curious how I would react if it was new to me now. I was familiar with Star Wars before I even retained memory since I never remember a time before having seen it, and I rewatched them a lot as a little kid. Would the Darth Vader twist blown my mind? I have no idea.
 

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altnameJag said:
Pacific Rim, if I could watch it again in theaters.
Pacific Rim, period. Few movies have dropped my jaw quite as much as that did the first time around, I spent the entirety of the Hong Kong battle scene grinning like an idiot.
 

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Could be the case. Hadn't thought to bring it up to any professionals due to it being the least of current problems. Plus it feels kind of deserved in ways that aren't brief or useful enough to elaborate upon. Will see if can remember to mention it in an upcoming appointment though, can be very forgetful in anxious states of mind.

The laugh track absence challenge sounds like a horror reserved only for one's greatest enemies. What if they still laugh? Does that provide a 95% chance that they are a Tory voter?
Oh, well ... yeah. There is a difference between bouts of existential angst, where momentarily (up to a few days and perhaps weeks) face anxiety and temporary anhedonia. Which can be purely stress driven due to a hectic work week (and feeling like you have nothing to show for it), or bereavement, etc. Where you look at the things you did enjoy and face a momentary crisis in the face of cosmic insignificance--and full blown anhedonia. It's what I like to think of as 'the healthy curse' as opposed to simply 'the curse' ... because sapience is a curse, but at least it's the status quo. You can't just be oblivious. The interesting thing about looking at pain is that the types of pain caused bythings like bereavement and sudden social isolation actually show similar brain activity to other types of things like neuropathic pain. And the body responds in a very similar fashion ... spiking blood pressure, increased heart rate, the works.

You can actually die from heartbreak and it takes years off your life, and that's normal. The problem is when the anxiety, the snse of loneliness, and the dissolution of any stabilising effects of the ego begin to lead to prolonged listlessness, fatigue, longterm isolation, stuff like that. People can sort of just 'lose themselves' to it. And it can be like a wrecking ball through their life.

Unfortunately given that worldwide mental health services are basically lacking, usually the cheapest way is people throw drugs at it pretending as if anxiety related distress can be solved with psychiatric medication (it actually can't, we can clinically prove this ...91% of depression cases will not actually be treated with drugs, drugs merely become a crutch) ... But because psychotherapy requires time, and trained people, and is person-orientated rather than market orientated, well GPs handing outdrugs to problems they have no idea of any other way to treat has become the status quo worldwide.

And then governments worldwide complain how it's not working, and then use the fact that it's not working to argue against further funding and increased mental health service cutbacks ... Because people are garbage and awful, and it's hard to imagine a species this tragically cruel to its own ...

And the stupid thing is it can happen to any of us but no politician ever wants to hear; "You know, mental health services needs to treble in public funding. At best psychotherapy services access are not even treading water. Therapists are drowning in cases, and you're not even paying enough for general consultancy much less to actually provide treatment options. Thesame people you throw drugs at now, they will still need drugs 20 years from now ... and by that point you've created nothing but a culture of chemical dependency to treat problems that are environmental and psychosocial in nature."

As for TBBT ... I feel like in order to describe just how unhealthy the show is ...


Is there ever a point these writers actually look at themselves and think; "Are we awful people? I feel like we're awful people ...."

And yeah, at least a 95% Tory voter rate.

At least with Everybody Loves Raymond, Ray's laziness and general antipathy to actually working with Debra maintaining domestic relations and the role of parenting a handful of kids, and a general level of narcissism involved, was portrayed as pathetic. That it has roots with a sociopathic mother who coddled him and none of this is actually a healthy thing, or a normal thing, or an acceptable thing.
 

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I'd go the original Star Wars, The Rock, and maybe... Where Eagles Dare.

Though I'd really love to be able to re-experience the time in which a lot of my favourite online shooters first launched/were in their heyday. Here's looking at you, Ace of Spades...


Oh and Sub Rosa too

 

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Addendum_Forthcoming said:
Oh, well ... yeah. There is a difference between bouts of existential angst, where momentarily (up to a few days and perhaps weeks) face anxiety and temporary anhedonia. Which can be purely stress driven due to a hectic work week (and feeling like you have nothing to show for it), or bereavement, etc. Where you look at the things you did enjoy and face a momentary crisis in the face of cosmic insignificance--and full blown anhedonia. It's what I like to think of as 'the healthy curse' as opposed to simply 'the curse' ... because sapience is a curse, but at least it's the status quo. You can't just be oblivious. The interesting thing about looking at pain is that the types of pain caused bythings like bereavement and sudden social isolation actually show similar brain activity to other types of things like neuropathic pain. And the body responds in a very similar fashion ... spiking blood pressure, increased heart rate, the works.

You can actually die from heartbreak and it takes years off your life, and that's normal. The problem is when the anxiety, the snse of loneliness, and the dissolution of any stabilising effects of the ego begin to lead to prolonged listlessness, fatigue, longterm isolation, stuff like that. People can sort of just 'lose themselves' to it. And it can be like a wrecking ball through their life.

Unfortunately given that worldwide mental health services are basically lacking, usually the cheapest way is people throw drugs at it pretending as if anxiety related distress can be solved with psychiatric medication (it actually can't, we can clinically prove this ...91% of depression cases will not actually be treated with drugs, drugs merely become a crutch) ... But because psychotherapy requires time, and trained people, and is person-orientated rather than market orientated, well GPs handing outdrugs to problems they have no idea of any other way to treat has become the status quo worldwide.

And then governments worldwide complain how it's not working, and then use the fact that it's not working to argue against further funding and increased mental health service cutbacks ... Because people are garbage and awful, and it's hard to imagine a species this tragically cruel to its own ...

And the stupid thing is it can happen to any of us but no politician ever wants to hear; "You know, mental health services needs to treble in public funding. At best psychotherapy services access are not even treading water. Therapists are drowning in cases, and you're not even paying enough for general consultancy much less to actually provide treatment options. Thesame people you throw drugs at now, they will still need drugs 20 years from now ... and by that point you've created nothing but a culture of chemical dependency to treat problems that are environmental and psychosocial in nature."

As for TBBT ... I feel like in order to describe just how unhealthy the show is ...


Is there ever a point these writers actually look at themselves and think; "Are we awful people? I feel like we're awful people ...."

And yeah, at least a 95% Tory voter rate.

At least with Everybody Loves Raymond, Ray's laziness and general antipathy to actually working with Debra maintaining domestic relations and the role of parenting a handful of kids, and a general level of narcissism involved, was portrayed as pathetic. That it has roots with a sociopathic mother who coddled him and none of this is actually a healthy thing, or a normal thing, or an acceptable thing.
Yeah, for sure the extent of how far the challenges of mental health affects the human population, and in ways that are not always obvious or instant is vast and varied and requires so much more awareness and investment than is being afforded. Advances being made in research currently are regularly impressive, but without accompanied government support to provide anything new toward the public, it's all mostly reserved for those with wealth and connections.
Have regularly spoken to people on both sides of the service here and it's getting worse for everybody, whether they're working within the system or requiring support and treatment from it. Overworked underfunded professionals are restricted in how much they can support each individual. The conservative government(s) couldn't care less if it doesn't generate profit within the "free market." Well, they actively fight to undermine it with all the subtlety of a drunken hippo navigating a care home, but that's a deep reservoir of bullshit no amount of words from me will fully do the issue justice here.
 
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I could name somewhere around 10 million things I'd love to experience again for the first time. But right now I'm rewatching Babylon 5. It's been 4 or 5 years since I last saw it, so it's not totally fresh but all the big stuff I remember, and I can't help but recall how awesome it was the last time when it was new to me and all the surprises were still there. So right now that's my answer.
 

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The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

First time I saw I was knocked back in awe of the audacious weirdness and high camp glory of it all. I still love it, easily and without hesitation calling it my favourite film, but no subsequent viewing can ever recapture the baffled joy that I experienced as I watched it for the first time.