I'm not sure if Suffering O'Brien is necessarily the best choice for this meme, because it kinda implies that the moment things start looking up, a simulated lifetime of prison trauma is waiting around the next corner...
Yeah that's likely because DS9 is, at its core, an episodic series. If my life mostly reset every Monday, that would make things quite a bit more tolerable.
He is the poster child for that exact reason. He keeps getting the shit end of the stick... but he keeps going because he has an awesome support system that makes everything better.
It is an eternal meme. A trope. The Bibble has Job. Star Trek has Miles. Job lost his family and children to gamblor and miles loses them to the pah wraiths and a time hole. The parallelograms are there, it's in revelations people.
Despite everything that has happened, O'Brien has worked through it with counseling and the support of his family and friends. Something to aspire to if you get your fair share of hardships too.
Is the greatest advancement in Star Trek FTL travel? Teleporters? Replicators? No, it's that their therapists are available, affordable, and effective.
My phone is 12 years old, that picture is the best I can do. Also, godhood is not my bag, I struggle with taking a compliment, being a god would fucking wreck me.
Poland existed out of spite since over a thousand years. Sure, sometimes spite dwindled and they got conquered, but that was just a new reason for more spite!
All I see on the horizon is, at best, eco-fascism and at worst the slow crumbling of humanity before nuclear annihilation.
Why continue to have eyes if all I can see is destruction? Why continue to have ears if all I can hear is hatred? Why continue to have a mouth if the only words I can speak is righteous anger and cries of despair?
The glimmers of happiness get fewer and further between as life goes on. I just yearn for the long sleep; it feels like it'd be peaceful, unburdened, my metaphorical shoulders fucking hurt and I'm tired.
48 Comments
Grass@sh.itjust.works · 40 pts · 102d
It's so damn hard though. It feels like everyone with money and power is deeply inspired by every distopian novel or movie in existence
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 102d
It helps to remember that you are merely a number on a spreadsheet with free will. Fuck that spreadsheet up.
The first 14 minutes of Brazil are inspiration
lightnsfw@reddthat.com · 8 pts · 102d
When I'm feeling extra bad I like to recall the videos of Charlie Kirk and Brian Thompson to remind me that sometimes good things do happen.
Soggy@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 102d
And things are likely to get really shitty but we aren't going extinct and the future needs people that give a damn.
fireweed@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 102d
I'm not sure if Suffering O'Brien is necessarily the best choice for this meme, because it kinda implies that the moment things start looking up, a simulated lifetime of prison trauma is waiting around the next corner...
NickwithaC@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 102d
He also has a loving wife and two kids. He loves his job (most days) and seems genuinely fulfilled in life.
fireweed@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 102d
Yeah that's likely because DS9 is, at its core, an episodic series. If my life mostly reset every Monday, that would make things quite a bit more tolerable.
EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 102d
Sunday nights would certainly become interesting if everyone knew things go back to 1 on Monday.
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one · 3 pts · 102d
Everyone can now participate in Sunday Funday: The Purge Edition.
Zorque@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 102d
He is the poster child for that exact reason. He keeps getting the shit end of the stick... but he keeps going because he has an awesome support system that makes everything better.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 101d
It is an eternal meme. A trope. The Bibble has Job. Star Trek has Miles. Job lost his family and children to gamblor and miles loses them to the pah wraiths and a time hole. The parallelograms are there, it's in revelations people.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 102d
That feels about right.
tensorpudding@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 102d
Despite everything that has happened, O'Brien has worked through it with counseling and the support of his family and friends. Something to aspire to if you get your fair share of hardships too.
fireweed@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 102d
Is the greatest advancement in Star Trek FTL travel? Teleporters? Replicators? No, it's that their therapists are available, affordable, and effective.
Agent641@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 102d
When observed, happiness only comes in particles
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 102d
Will someone please just let me out of the box
k0e3@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 101d
That's the spirit. Party-cles! 🥳
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 101d
That's thc, dude
SSETranquility@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 101d
Ha!
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 102d
SSETranquility@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 101d
That's a happy guy
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 101d
Right up until that Malort makes it past the gums. Or the writers get their hands on him.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 101d
I really need this as a bookmark
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 101d
I found it just sitting on ground outside. Best day of my life.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 101d
Best day OUR lives, comrade.
You can take high quality photos of this for the rest of the fediverse and all, become our new God. I've been looking for a new Nicole/violet
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 101d
My phone is 12 years old, that picture is the best I can do. Also, godhood is not my bag, I struggle with taking a compliment, being a god would fucking wreck me.
I’ll try to get a better picture of it, though.
Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 101d
How does one get malort outside of the US?
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 101d
Burn some rubber bands and used
adhesive bandagescondoms and mix them with some vodka and a little bit of potpourri.PunnyName@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 100d
No one who consumes malort is happy.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 102d
The shortest summary of a Subnautica playthrough
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 101d
Fuck I gotta finish my vanity playthrough. I'm building fancy bases this time, except I'm playing no man's sky instead right now
leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 100d
Eh, if you can't find reasons to stay alive, there's always spite.
The universe might be out to get me, but at least I'll go down fighting.
Or, as someone much more versed in words put it:
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 100d
Spite is great until it isn't. Then it shatters and won't support weight again.
HrabiaVulpes@europe.pub · 2 pts · 100d
Poland existed out of spite since over a thousand years. Sure, sometimes spite dwindled and they got conquered, but that was just a new reason for more spite!
bluesheep@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 100d
Me (I've been depressed for more than half my time on this earth):
::: spoiler Tap for spoiler It's a good message tho don't take this as a attack I'm just coping lmao :::
ThePyroPython@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 102d
I don't think I can.
All I see on the horizon is, at best, eco-fascism and at worst the slow crumbling of humanity before nuclear annihilation.
Why continue to have eyes if all I can see is destruction? Why continue to have ears if all I can hear is hatred? Why continue to have a mouth if the only words I can speak is righteous anger and cries of despair?
The glimmers of happiness get fewer and further between as life goes on. I just yearn for the long sleep; it feels like it'd be peaceful, unburdened, my metaphorical shoulders fucking hurt and I'm tired.
dangling_cat@piefed.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 102d
Your fulfillment is in your local spacetime. You can just focus on your friends, your local communities. Make their lives better.
baines@piefed.social · 2 pts · 102d
don’t worry bro, wet bulb temps will save us
crazycraw@crazypeople.online · 4 pts · 102d
"...also, sorry about the transporter malfunction. "
Janx@piefed.social · 4 pts · 102d
So do sharks.
...and mermaids
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 101d
And zombies
Formfiller@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 100d
It’s been a shitshow from over a decade
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 101d
But for how long before it's shit again?
PunnyName@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 100d
99.99+% of the time with depression
ruekk@fedinsfw.app · 3 pts · 101d
Kinda hard under capitalism
FreddiesLantern@leminal.space · 1 pts · 100d
Thx Miles.
You’ll get Joulian just yet.
Notyou@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 101d
This too shall pass
NakedNateRollerSkate@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 101d
kionay@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 101d
as far as BeeGees covers goes this one is a bit unorthodox but I can get behind it