#giuseppe-nerdi

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giuseppe-nerdi replied to your post: Click Clock Wood from Banjo Kazooie is my jam...

That’s like the best track from that game

True, I feel the need to include it here to go with that post:

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giuseppe-nerdi replied to your post: I may as well jus remake my whole shitty...

I liked it???

You didn’t see the whole thing, originally it was pretty genuinely awful, it’s fixed now though

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Hey, could you explain what you said about mice not having anxiety or depression? I was under the impression that those were natural behavioral problems for animals to have.

Anxiety and depression are, technically speaking, disorders of the human brain. There are a couple of reasons for this, one being the very simple fact that we can’t actually ask animals how they’re feeling and they can’t tell us they’re experiencing anxiety, etc. Further, if animals do experience these conditions, who’s to say that the presentation and characteristics would exactly mimic the human version of the condition? We can observe animal behavior and determine when it deviates from the norm for that animal, and we can assign it traits that sometimes resemble conditions like anxiety (e.g. for rodents, decreased entry into the open arms of a maze). 

However, just like in humans, sometimes the presence of one or two anxiety-like behaviors does not mean there is a pathological condition. Sometimes the responses to stimuli are normal in the context of stress (i.e. fight or flight), and are simply representative of a properly functioning stress pathway. To say that a mouse ‘has anxiety’ because they prefer the closed arms of a maze, or ‘depressed’ because they avoid another mouse that beat up on them (actual thing I read in a paper, btw) would simply be incorrect. 

A better way to discuss anxiety and depression in the context of animal behavior is to describe them as ‘anxiety-like’ or ‘depression-like’. 

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giuseppe-nerdi replied to your post: my hands are shaking

Why shake? :(

I don’t know :c

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OH NO SOMEONE ASKED YOU TWO OF THOSE ALREADY. The superstition one then (black cat?)

Black Cat: Are you superstitious? If so, what are you superstitious about?

Not especially, but I always ‘knock on wood’ when i mention something’s been going well, just in case

(Though I also used to always throw salt over my shoulder when i spilled it because of that Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy episode)

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Hocus Pocus, Pumpkin, Witch!

I got Hocus Pocus and Pumpkin already, but

Witch: If could have the power to cast any kind of spell, what kind of spell would you cast?

A de-stress spell, one that would get rid of my irrational worries and weird anxiety things (like when i worry about not going to a class even though it’s been cancelled)

OR a spell that was the equivalent of a nice long shower so i can always be clean...I feel like that would be really helpful

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giuseppe-nerdi replied to your post:It’s so hot, on my way back from class I felt like...

It’s almost October, why does this Hell State torment us so

When will we be free

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giuseppe-nerdi replied to your post:I…really want to go to a ren fair…a lot

I thought that happened already?

Yeah, but i’m looking at pictures of renaissance costumes, and i want fried food that’s bad for you