Feeling down, user? Come on in, let's talk

Feeling down, user? Come on in, let's talk.

Unwind, talk about what's got you down, and we'll try to help you out. We're here to help.

>Advice
>Conversation
>Good feelings

Let's be nice, folks.

Evening Comrades

Aw, Fenn's first thread. Have a bump

Hello there! How's your evening going?

Thanks Cayde. Doing well, I hope?

Also, get thread so get rolling

I'm always here.

Kinda boring tonight honestly.

Checked, doing great and you?Checked

Aw, Velvet. Thanks for coming in tonight. I've told you before how highly I think of you, but you don't want to hear that again. How's it going?

That's better than it could be though, right?

Let the dubs roll in... I'm doing alright. Got a sore throat.

That is true. It could be worse, but it could also be so much better.

Why...
This is wrong.

It's not wrong, it's his first day
Hopefully it'll be gone tomorrow

Boredom is perhaps one of the most dangerous by-products of advanced society...

Welcome to the thread. How're you doing tonight?

That is true. That can be even more of an issue as more stuff is automated. Though it can user in an age of post-scarcity.

You aren't Peashy.

Alrighty, now let's get down to business. How can we, avatars, improve upon offering advice and harboring a calm atmosphere on this board?
>serious replies encouraged
>best advice will get something idk

No, I think the automation removes the personality from production and destroys the communities created by manufacturing. Not only does it provide many cheap and wonderful things for us, it takes away the jobs that were once central to the lives of thousands of people and gives them to robots. Thoughts?

Who are you?

Nepu.

Hey everyone

By stop posting completely or refrain from using avatars or signatures, the general advice from most of avafags is bland and mediocre, such as "things get better, user!" Or "I have faith in you! You can do it!" Those are blatant lies and user knows. I can keep going.

Maybe your thread would get more replies if it wasn't full of cancerous anime weeb trash

Keep going, you seem to know how we can get things going

But Comrade, it allows the worker to focus on more creative pursuits, without regard for making ends meet. As now we have achieved post-scarcity, there is no need for wage labour of days past.

The best way to offer help to someone who's feeling down is to let them know that you're there if they want to talk, and to let them come to it on their own. Act like usual and help get their mind off things.

I'm on a downward spiral of depression that has been worsened by catching feelings for a girl who I found out is a lesbian and won't stop talking to me.

Worst part is when I asked her about being a lesbian she didn't give me a straight answer.

Despite everything I feel like the only reason she talks to me is because I can buy her cigarettes.

you aren't my partner!

The thing is you guys can't get anything going. Atleast not by what I've seen, others such as Reimu or 2B are more straight forward and put the things on the table for user to decide, user comes with an issue, host identifies the problem and offers certain solutions, instead of just spouting motivational nonsense, user comes with a question, we provide answers, and user should take the actions on his own, we shouldn't walk him through the whole ordeal. They shouldn't stay and update everyday.

I've had that happen. Best thing to do is get out cause she'll only use you for that. Also a chance she'll just leave when she finds someone else to get her cigs

It may be time to distance yourself from her. If you get that feeling already, it sounds like you know you are being used. Sometimes learning proper boundaries sucks.

It's been so long since i saw a Reimu thread, anyone knows if something happened to her? I'd ask her myself but shiness...

Yeah tru :(

Her work schedule doesn't really allow for the old 8 cst times any more

Mostly busy
I'm taking over while she recovers

Bork!

Hey there, how's things?

Neptune, solid advice. Thank you.

But my friend, when the worker is not working, the worker does not have money to afford the wonderful things that industrialism has produced. In this world there is no perfect socialism. Right now in the midwest (well, everywhere really) there are towns that used to be huge, towns based around factories. Now that the factories have been closed and the labour outsourced to China, all those people have no jobs in the Capitalist Republic of America. They need either proper support or work.

Well, that's what I'm trying to do with this thread, user. Is it working?

Oh, user... that's hard. Perhaps now the best thing to do is to get away from her, clear your head, and pursue something else. Do you have something you can focus on, like a hobby, a job, or schoolwork? We're here to support you.

Yes, Cayde and I are taking over from the venerable 2B for the moment while she's down for repairs. Care to join us?

Sky, glad you could make it.

That would be the normal reaction...idk I just feel like I need a straight answer before I can put it to rest. It just doesn't help that I was depressed in the first place, this is just an additional blow.

Expect her to be back around next week, if not, grant her for dead or something, lmao.
Tell her to stay away from you, maybe also tell her to go die, get better friends.
Maybe she is dead, why aren't you dead?

I have hobbies and a job.

I'm so hard myself. every tiem i fuck up i beat myself up like it's the end of the world. i just wish I were perfect

tl;dr if you're gonna run an "advice" thread, stop turning it into a fucking circlejerk and actually give people advice

Telling her to die is a bit harsh ain't it? I may make it clear that she can't use me for cigarettes

But if you were perfect, you wouldn't strive to do anything

I gotta say, I've not been around here all that long but this is probably the most upbeat thread I've seen. Far as I'm concerned? You're doing a bang-up job, pal.

I went on a date with this girl, everything went great. We started talking a lot on facebook. She said she wanted to come visit this week. When we talked tonight, we got into the subject of why men don't cry as much as women. When explained why I think it is biological and not societal pressure, she got all mad, and now she won't talk to me. What the fuck happened? Feels bad atm.

10/10 adorable

But friend, you do not understand. In a post-scarcity the whole notion of Wage labour is obsolete, as everything is plenty.

Production out put would be many times greater than the consumption.

Instead of working for your survival, you can instead work for you own happiness. Create what you wish without the threat of going hungry, or homeless. (Toothbrush is communal though)

Work schedule? If that's the case then it doesn't really matter she can't do threads anymore, i'm glad she found a job, it's better this way.

Why should i be dead? I have almost everything i could wish for, and what i don't have is just something that drives me further to achieve my goals, i have no reasons to die already.

What make you think im feeling down?

Strong difference of ideologies. Sometimes we need to make sure the other person feels heard and understood even if we don't agree with them. This obviously has some significant meaning to her, so you'll have to aware of that in your next encounter.

...

Wheres reimu?

Lucky for you, perfection is bullshit, everyone is different, everyone is broken on their own way, give up looking up to false standards. Exploit your skills, train, learn, get good.
Thanks babe.
Or do that and she'll leave on her own.
If she gets upset over petty stuff like that, geez, man, imagine how would she get over more serious shit. Dodged a bullet imo.
Wasn't even advice, I was stating what's wrong with threads, and you just went and did just what I said you guys do.
She has always had a job though.

im too much of a pussy to tell this girl that I like her/how I feel about her cause I know I would get rejected/even if I didnt the relationship wouldnt work cause shes long distance so im going to fucking kill myself saturday

Then why come in? Go ahead and talk about it, it'll hurt less to let out anything you've kept to yourself

Working, Moonbitch!

not here that's for sure moonbitch

Bork bork!

I think her hours kinda became fixed now?

Sup.

Things are pretty good, you?

Don't kill yourself over one girl. There's plenty o' fish in the sea, so tell me what makes her so special to you

Have fun.
Man, I swear, these moonbitches don't even read sometimes.

...

ahem, *bork bork

Hi Reimu!!
Nice to see you!

Well yes, but i'm not sure if that alone was enough to support her, maybe she found a better job or even decided to have another one.

That's impossibile given the way this community was made, it would mean having to rework the whole thing...

My girl and I broke up about a fortnight ago.

Managed to keep my mind off things but visitng a couple old sparks then going on a road trip with da boys and taking some acid at a festival.

I've been through a bunch of break ups before and each time I come out more and more emotionless. I feel so melancholy and hollow

idk its gay. shes like the only person that seems genuinely interested in my problems and seems to care instead of going through the motions. we talk a lot and are good friends

shes really special to me

can i fucking smell your socks?

I'm not actually here but have a bump.

-phi

Thanks. Y-you too.

Don't entirely know who you are, but welcome.

It started with Reimu making threads and giving advice, then avafags slowly started to gather around. It started as an advice thread, but it turned into a circlejerk. Do you even know what you are saying?
It is good to think about stuff every once in a while, melancholy can be like a trance, I kinda like it myself sometimes, allows me to reflect about myself. How is it going for you?

... that in itself is something not to take for granted. Even without the romance that is something wonderful to find. I'd work on appreciating what you have with her.
All pretty normal feelings, I say this a lot, but nothing is meaningless if you learn something you can use in the future to help you. It's gonna hurt, no doubt, but recovering is partly a learning experience.
Nice to see you Phi

Those are good. If she won't do anything but bum cigs off you, can you just cut her off completely?

That sounds like a really good idea.

user, it's okay. You don't need to be perfect. Lower your expectations a little bit; if there's no way you can achieve what you're shooting for right now, maybe you can make it to something a little lower, and progress more slowly.

Thanks a lot! I'm still pretty nervous about all this. The positive words really lift me up, I mean it. Thank you.

That's strange. Do you know if she has some kind of strong idea of a social system, and whether that might be affecting her? Some people get upset if others strongly disagree with how they understand the world.

My good man. I have many things to talk to you about, but I can't right now. Could we speak about this later, perhaps tomorrow?

But Neptune, some of us really do say intelligent and helpful things. Sky, for instance, engages with user and gives positive and well-thought-out solutions.

user, if you keep tearing yourself down like this you're not going to make it anywhere. Stop it! Stand up straight and remember that actually you're pretty cool. Tell her! If it doesn't work, it doesn't work, and you move on. If it does work, then that's amazing. You've got nothing to lose.

I'm doing alright. Little stressed with my first thread. Other than that and a sore throat, feeling pretty good, really. Glad you're doing well.

A little hollow feeling afterwards is natural user, but remember that you are not defined by how you feel at your lowest point. You are a better person than this, and you know that. Remember it!

Are you *really* Phi, Phi?

>impossibile given the way this community was made
nah because you guys hang out on a discord and also some have each other on steam. have pleasantries like asking how each others' days are there instead of doing them all here

Thanks for advice. It was just so weird, even when I said we could agree to disagree she said that she didn't like to that since she loved to have discussions.

Hey, us Canadians gotta be nice to all the folk that don't often get kindness. 'tis an enjoyable curse.

thats actually one of the other main reasons im scared to tell her. im worried it will worry the friendship

I have no idea, it was just so out of the blue man.

I agree with this, now we just have to reform this community

Ohhh, it's good to have you here!

That's Reimu.
She's the one who originated this.

$100

Fight it. It's fresh right now, it might seem impossible, but each of your relationships is a learning experience. Take your time, process your grief and think back on what you could have done better, and the things you should look out for in future lovers. I'm sorry it didn't work out, Anonymous. I'm sorry you've been through so many. I have too, and I wouldn't wish it on anyone. But it will be okay.

so why are you talking to me instead of trying to give advice, then? you're the cancer killing these threads right now too.

Ah, that is not a problem Comrade. We shall continue this tomorrow

I have her friendship/relationship to lose I feel

I am actually. I'm not really able to stay but I thought I'd wish you luck. You're doing a good thing.
I'm not actually here but thank you.

-phi

If you really care about the friendship you've gotta be upfront and straight about it. Swallow back your feelings and make certain she knows exactly how you feel. Express your desire to keep the friendship alive beforehand, and tell her there wont be a falling out if she doesn't feel the same way.

Are you serious?
Thanks for being the voice of the reason here, user.
No problemo babe. She sounds weird tho.
Sky is a person that makes a living out of guiding people to the right direction, you guys mostly make the threads reach pic and bumplimit sooner instead of helping out properly.

Well I am, look up

im a stinky nigger no body loves me any advice

nah 20bux
will you ever answer me on twitch?

Communists took over the Nazi flag on pixel war and b is a retarded pile of unorganized fags who are letting them win and basically I want to kill myself now

You will suffer, but you'll make it through. Plus you might make new friends

Depends on the context of what you mean by that. What'd I do?

grow up fag no one gives a shit about canvas

>user
oh honey

The pixel War was a lost cause, Sup Forums should have never gone in without proper organization

Hi there! Silly me, i spent so much time looking for you while i just noticed you were here so close to the start, how are you?

I am not into any of the groups on Steam or Discord, and unfortunately i don't have pribate accounts to some of the people i want to talk with so i have to do it here. Besides, in a perfect world where everyone understands and acts for the greater good you'd be able to convince other avatarfags to avoid behaving in such a way, good luck trying to explain people your motivations with them doing what you asked.

It was bound to end in that way, which is fine by me honestly, OP herself used an avatar after all, others just wanted to be recognized too i suppose and followed the lead. Besides, why did you start this conversation?