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Cyanide and Happiness

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Hello fellow Cyanide and Happiness fans!

About this community and how I post the comics… Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips. Of course these days you can read your favorite comics online instead of a newspaper, but I love the nostalgia of reading the daily comics. Anyway, one of my favorite current comics is Cyanide and Happiness and I will be posting the daily release from their website (https://explosm.net) and a an extra or two randoms.

Cyanide & Happiness (C&H) is a webcomic created by Rob DenBleyker, Kris Wilson, Dave McElfatrick and Matt Melvin. The comic has been running since 2005 and is published on the website explosm.net along with animated shorts in the same style. Matt Melvin left C&H in 2014, and several other people have contributed to the comic and to the animated shorts… Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanide_%26_Happiness

Hope you enjoy and feel free to contribute to the community with art, media, cool stuff about the authors, tattoos, toys and anything else, as long it’s Cyanide and Happiness related!

Ps. Sub to all my comic strip communities…

Bloom County [email protected] https://lemm.ee/c/bloomcounty

Calvin and Hobbes [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/calvinandhobbes

Cyanide and Happiness !cyanideandhappiness https://lemm.ee/c/cyanideandhappiness

Garfield [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/garfield

The Far Side [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]

Fine print: All comics I post are freely available online. In no way am I claiming ownership, copyright or anything else. This is a not for profit community, we just want to enjoy our comics, thank you.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

I literally cannot remember names. You could say it to my face and I would NOT remember it. I know the names of maybe 5 people in 2+ months of working with them (summer job) where their name tags are in plain view

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I was at your wedding*

Not sure how being inside someone's wedding would work, was he hiding inside the bride's dress the whole time?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago

If you're part of the wedding party, like a groomsman, you'd be considered in the wedding.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I’m incredibly good at you saying your name and me repeating it aloud without committing it to memory. When I was 19yo, I spent a summer hanging out with a group of people without knowing the names of all but two of them. It was painfully embarrassing trying to hide that fact.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Just say "I'm sorry, your name slipped my mind" and ask again.

Honestly, people really don't care.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotlight_effect

The spotlight effect is the psychological phenomenon by which people tend to believe they are being noticed more than they really are. Being that one is constantly in the center of one's own world, an accurate evaluation of how much one is noticed by others is uncommon. The reason for the spotlight effect is the innate tendency to forget that although one is the center of one's own world, one is not the center of everyone else's. This tendency is especially prominent when one does something atypical.[1]

Research has empirically shown that such drastic over-estimation of one's effect on others is widely common. Many professionals in social psychology encourage people to be conscious of the spotlight effect and to allow this phenomenon to moderate the extent to which one believes one is in a social spotlight.[2]

The spotlight effect is an extension of several psychological phenomena. Among these is the phenomenon known as anchoring and adjustment, which suggests that individuals will use their own internal feelings of anxiety and the accompanying self-representation as an anchor, then insufficiently correct for the fact that others are less privy to those feelings than they are themselves. Consequently, they overestimate the extent to which their anxiety is obvious to onlookers. In fact, Clark and Wells (1995) suggest that socially phobic people enter social situations in a heightened self-focused state, namely, from a raised emotional anchor. This self-focused state makes it difficult for individuals to set aside public and private self-knowledge to focus on the task.[5]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh, that's what I do now. I also let people know that I forget names and please don't take it personally when meeting them. I've had a lot of years to gain more wisdom than I had then. It's trivially easy to be up front. 19yo me, though, didn't know shit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

My anxiety cannot be dominated by a wiki article but nice try

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You're making depressing comic week too relatable, please delete your account

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

It's depressing comic week? This is super lighthearted for them, then.