u/Glittering_Expert573

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So we got john thickstun and karthik sridharan for CS 3780. Are we fucked? I know both profs are not that great but how miserable can it get with these two?

Anyone has taken a course with one/ both?

This game seems fantastic at first. The mystery, story, civil war atmosphere, and exploration are all great until they aren't. It gets boring towards the end, and I mean the entire process of stumbling upon a closed door and needing some weird-ass key to pass so you turn back and keep searching, open the door, and get another door to be opened. Again.

It also became shallow and the story is completely dismissed towards the end. You no longer are exploring the lore since you're busy revisiting same locations and seeking keys.

I think the game started to be a chore for me right after the Lethe library and ministry sections. These were really cool to explore and the puzzles were made well. After that the lack of effort is too obvious from the developers' side.

Am I missing something? I keep hearing a lot of hype on this game, and it is certainly my type, but I can't help feeling the last third of the game is objectively bad.

I need help with this.

My young brother (13M) is into video games. He plays on his console daily for hours, has no other hobbies, eats and drinks barely to sustain, and has no real social connections outside of his school.

My brother seems to be playing video games to dissociate from reality. What raised my suspecions is his behavior towards playing and the type of games he plays. He gets really mad and irritated when he misses a playing session in a day, and he feels the urge to compensate for the missed hours even if it means staying up late in a school day. He also only play games (GTA V Online, Battlefield, etc,) where he could be absent-minded even though on the outside one might think he is enjoying his time. He logs into GTA V online, rides a sort of flying bike he worked hard to obtain and repetitively keeps chasing and killing online folks or playing online maps that, once again, involve repetitive tasks that one might dissociate completely and still seem to be playing.

He doesn't seem to enjoy video games. He seems to be compulsively playing video games.

We recently bought a big ass 55in screen to replace his small one, hoping that this might encourage him to join me in my sporadic playing sessions of story-based games. I noticed that the times we spend playing story games helps making us bond but most importantly forces us to be present. Now I'm depressed myself and it also helps me keep my mind working into something other than sinking myself into the quagmires of depression alone in my bedroom.

The issue is, I don't want to mess with his coping mechanisms. I know first-hand that dissociation is a symptom of something deeper, and I also know that I got my own dissociation habits and they can sometimes be the only things keeping me afloat. I don't want to take away an outlet that may actually be helping even though is unhealthy. Another thing is, I don't want me fixing nobody when I can't even fix myself currently, especially so when I don't know if my proposition is going to indeed fix his issue or make it even worse.

Second thinking my 55in screen decision makes my want to mount the screen on my bedroom's wall and play story-based games whenever I want to enjoy my time off depression.

Can someone please give their perspective on this? I'm burnt out thinking of all scenarios alone. I could really use a second brain with this.

tl;dr my brother, 13M, dissociates through video games. I, 23M, want to help him out but am treading with caution lest of making things worse. I need advice