HBO: The Last of Us

[Mecca]

Joel is exhausted and anxiety ridden, yet his steady hand can pick off clickers from distance with pinpoint accuracy. Okay!

as someone who is addled by anxiety from PTSD, when you give me a clear objective and an actual fight or flight scenario, it almost acts like a grounding moment and I am able to focus my attention to the task at hand.

[Ello Sailor]

Apologize to Joel at once, Spike.

[spike]

Joel is exhausted and anxiety ridden, yet his steady hand can pick off clickers from distance with pinpoint accuracy. Okay!

as someone who is addled by anxiety from PTSD, when you give me a clear objective and an actual fight or flight scenario, it almost acts like a grounding moment and I am able to focus my attention to the task at hand.

What sorta scrapes are you getting yourself into, mister?

[VinylGuy]

Joel is exhausted and anxiety ridden, yet his steady hand can pick off clickers from distance with pinpoint accuracy. Okay!

as someone who is addled by anxiety from PTSD, when you give me a clear objective and an actual fight or flight scenario, it almost acts like a grounding moment and I am able to focus my attention to the task at hand.

Have you killed any zombies

[Mecca]

Joel is exhausted and anxiety ridden, yet his steady hand can pick off clickers from distance with pinpoint accuracy. Okay!

as someone who is addled by anxiety from PTSD, when you give me a clear objective and an actual fight or flight scenario, it almost acts like a grounding moment and I am able to focus my attention to the task at hand.

What sorta scrapes are you getting yourself into, mister?

Man vs Chicken

[Bi_3]

Apologize to Joel at once, Spike.

[Ensign9]

Just got around to watching Ep. 6 tonight. This is where it feels like the show has finally hit its stride. The new stuff and the directly-lifted-from-the-game stuff all felt seamlessly integrated. The scene in Ellie’s bedroom is carbon copy of the game and, unlike other such scenes earlier in the season, I was fully immersed and riveted.

And breezing through the university sequence was a good call — they hit everything they needed to without adding another zombie fight.

[Monkey_Driven]

Just got around to watching Ep. 6 tonight. This is where it feels like the show has finally hit its stride. The new stuff and the directly-lifted-from-the-game stuff all felt seamlessly integrated. The scene in Ellie’s bedroom is carbon copy of the game and, unlike other such scenes earlier in the season, I was fully immersed and riveted.

And breezing through the university sequence was a good call — they hit everything they needed to without adding another zombie fight.

Completely agree. I also really liked how intimate/sudden the stabbing was. No big action set piece or anything. It just sort of clumsily happened.

[Ello Sailor]

It just sort of clumsily happened.

You... liked that it just sort of clumsily happened?

[Coach]

Joel is exhausted and anxiety ridden, yet his steady hand can pick off clickers from distance with pinpoint accuracy. Okay!

as someone who is addled by anxiety from PTSD, when you give me a clear objective and an actual fight or flight scenario, it almost acts like a grounding moment and I am able to focus my attention to the task at hand.

I used to have random panic attacks and general anxiety disorder. Once I got off nearly all meds (I just take a little prozac) the anxiety and attacks went away. It was hard, but once I stopped Klonopin that really helped.

[Mecca]

Joel is exhausted and anxiety ridden, yet his steady hand can pick off clickers from distance with pinpoint accuracy. Okay!

as someone who is addled by anxiety from PTSD, when you give me a clear objective and an actual fight or flight scenario, it almost acts like a grounding moment and I am able to focus my attention to the task at hand.

I used to have random panic attacks and general anxiety disorder. Once I got off nearly all meds (I just take a little prozac) the anxiety and attacks went away. It was hard, but once I stopped Klonopin that really helped.

I used to raw dog anxiety and the issues would subside after rounds of therapy. Now I have an emergency script of the lowest dose of Xanax that I break in half if I ever have to take it and I can headshot zombies all day.

[spike]

Maybe twenty year old ravioli develops Xanax properties.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[psychobain]

All or None!

+ A-ha and The Cure (carousel)

[VinylGuy]

Riot Act reissue coming soon!!

[psychobain]

Its the Apocalypse and The 10c is still selling merch

[Monkey_Driven]

...from the ashes of Mother Love Bone AND the cataclysmic fungal apocalypse

[Ensign9]

That was solid but didn’t grab me like last week’s episode did. For those keeping score, this was a pretty close match to Part 1’s DLC story.

[tree_]

i take issue with the openings credits saying "written for television by..."...

isn't this supposed to be HBO?

[spike]

That was solid but didn’t grab me like last week’s episode did. For those keeping score, this was a pretty close match to Part 1’s DLC story.

Yep, another dud episode. This show is very up and down.