Re:How to be anti-social – a guide to incoherent and isolati...
by SkyeCA on Friday April 24, 2026 @12:38PM
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These cliches are just annoying to read at this point, everyone has heard this stuff a million times and yet...millions still suffer. If I'm being honest it just comes across as yet another form of bullying when socially well adjusted people say stuff like this to people worse off than them.
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Re:How to be anti-social – a guide to incoherent and isolati...
by hackable_sand on Friday April 24, 2026 @01:13PM
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What they are saying is true. It just might take a lot of work to get the ball moving.
Re:How to be anti-social – a guide to incoherent and isolati...
by dogleash on Friday April 24, 2026 @01:52PM
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I can agree with you while still agreeing with parent poster that it's basically "git gud"-tier bullying.
Very very few orators can successfully pull off "just fix your problems bro" as anything beyond a generic kick in the pants for the people presently predispositioned to be motivated by one.
Re:How to be anti-social – a guide to incoherent and isolati...
by justonceokay on Friday April 24, 2026 @02:31PM
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I regularly bully my close friends into being better people. It just so happens that I fell down the staircase of life much earlier than a lot of people do. I had to do most of my “midlife crisis” thinking in my early 20s because most of my family died and I had to come out as gay without any support.
Now that I’m in my 30s I have the joy of helping my friends along on this journey called life. Sometimes people just need a gentle nudge up the staircase. Sometimes they need to be carried against their will
Re:How to be anti-social – a guide to incoherent and isolati...
by hackable_sand on Friday April 24, 2026 @11:51PM
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I'm trying to figure out how to manage a similar situation.
It's like your friends wanna party raid but they keep going in with incomplete builds
I only got so much patience before I find a new guild
Re:How to be anti-social – a guide to incoherent and isolati...
by arowthway on Saturday April 25, 2026 @05:25AM
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I agree it can feel frustrating and inactionable but it's not bullying, it's a thoughtful well-meaning response. Actually if it makes you feel bad it's a signal it may be worth contemplating more.