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Casual Conversation
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RULES (updated 01/22/25)
- Be respectful: no harassment, hate speech, bigotry, and/or trolling. To be concise, disrespect is defined by escalation.
- Encourage conversation in your OP. This means including heavily implicative subject matter when you can and also engaging in your thread when possible. You won't be punished for trying.
- Avoid controversial topics (politics or societal debates come to mind, though we are not saying not to talk about anything that resembles these). There's a guide in the protocol book offered as a mod model that can be used for that; it's vague until you realize it was made for things like the rule in question. At least four purple answers must apply to a "controversial" message for it to be allowed.
- Keep it clean and SFW: No illegal content or anything gross and inappropriate. A rule of thumb is if a recording of a conversation put on another platform would get someone a COPPA violation response, that exact exchange should be avoided when possible.
- No solicitation such as ads, promotional content, spam, surveys etc. The chart redirected to above applies to spam material as well, which is one of the reasons its wording is vague, as it applies to a few things. Again, a "spammy" message must be applicable to four purple answers before it's allowed.
- Respect privacy as well as truth: Don’t ask for or share any personal information or slander anyone. A rule of thumb is if something is enough info to go by that it "would be a copyright violation if the info was art" as another group put it, or that it alone can be used to narrow someone down to 150 physical humans (Dunbar's Number) or less, it's considered an excess breach of privacy. Slander is defined by intentional utilitarian misguidance at the expense (positive or negative) of a sentient entity. This often links back to or mixes with rule one, which implies, for example, that even something that is true can still amount to what slander is trying to achieve, and that will be looked down upon.
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Finding that the kingdoms of heaven and hell are within me. Knowing that working with my "demons" can make them my holy guardian angels and neglecting attention to the guardian angels cause them to become more ferocious demons than they were before.
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-1
A strong yearning for a place you can't quite describe that is full of discoveries and beauty. Like Wanderlust.
The desire of being free of desire.
Riding fast on your bike in a rainstorm while listening to high energy and/or emotional music.
+1
+1
+1 also it's a crime that I can't just start driving and never stop for the rest of my life and see what places exist forever
Sorry to double post, but are there any other people with hyperthymia here?
-1 But I’m sure you’re smoking hot
Being able to feel and taste other people's art.
The best way I can describe it is like, if someone has a smooth artstyle with soft highlights and there's a lot of cyan/turquoise in that art, it'll tend to have a soft, minty texture. Even JPEG artifacts have a particular "seasoning" to me. I feel weird having to even type this LMAO
-1 I know someone like this though
I envy you, but -1
Synesthesia!
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Hardcore -1
A feeling when you have conquered Alexithymia and every feeling feels new and exiting to discover.
-1 but I’m happy for you! I feel like I’ve always been really in touch with my emotions
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Not sure if +1 or -1, because technically I relate, but it's been about 15 years. Nowadays I find new feelings embarrassing and exhausting. Another thing I have to bury so people offline won't find me annoying.
-1 as that was how I felt couple of years ago but the exitment wore off. I sadly no longer feel that way but that time was great. (I have one more feeling to discover for 100% completion rate)
Feeling nostalgic for a time period you never lived through.
+1
+1 but not a time period per se just knowing things were better before now.
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Can't say I do, but I know people who are though!