Mythbusters ended too soon. I feel like The Cask Of Amontillado is exactly the myth they would have tested.
Like, figuring out how long it takes the mortar to dry. Finding the maximum amount of time before knocking down a recently built brick wall. Establishing the best place on a recently bricked wall to topple it and escape.
And then, doing all of that while drunk.
Mythbusters, you left us too soon.
actually, they made that episode – I have a copy of it in my basement, wanna see?
If you force yourself to do things at the expense of your mental health, the debt will eventually catch up with you. Leading to burnout at the minimum, collapse, and often death.
This is why workplace “reasonable accommodation” is vital. And why you need to seek it when needed. And if someone gives you trouble for it, that’s what HR departments are for, and the legal system if your boss doesn’t agree with HR plans (or if you don’t have HR, or they’re incompetent).
Like, I only learned I have ADHD in my 40s, and serious anxiety a couple years ago. Yet I managed to get and succeed at ever-increasing responsibilities for decades before that. My high school physics teacher wrote me a recommendation to attend college astronomy courses so I could teach directed-study astro when I was 15. I now teach college courses and professional writing workshops. I manage a team of dozens of volunteers and coordinate an international community of hundreds related to my Center for the Study of Science Fiction duties. I speak at events across the country. Plus l still manage to maintain a writing career.
I have “ability to function.”
But I’m also severely affected by mental health issues. As in, some days it’s all I can do to even deal with my ever-growing work email - responding to any one leads to three more, like a hydra. So when I was forced to deal with a hostile workplace environment for several years, the added stress nearly burned me out.
Yet I could still “function,” at least perform my duties. Having to fight just to do my damn job in peace made my health (mental and physical), personal life, and writing career take a nosedive that I’m still recovering from.
Gawds, l wish I’d known this stuff - or at least gotten diagnosed - when I was younger.
Take it from someone who learned late and the hard way so you don’t have to:
Throw away the capitalist notion that your worth as a person arises from your ability to function at any cost.
Throw away the Puritan work-ethic notion that you’re fine if you can function at any level.
Get the help you need, medical, professional, or legal.
Okay i learned recently that this has no CG in it so the fact that this is all 2d drawn shit is fucking mind-blowing what even was the Fullmetal Alchemist 2003 series.
bones animation good
This was my favorite OP song and credit in the whole series just because of how dynamic it looked and all this time I could’ve sworn this particular part had to have at least some CGI in it but learning it doesn’t Im even more gagged like….
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