It's a natural reaction when you're trying hard with something and it goes wrong. Obviously it's not ideal and you don't want to do it, but you quit the game anyway
Maybe it is a video game. In some video games when you die, you can change character and play again. Would you not like to come back as a different character, and try the game again? See where this human thing goes, what with all the changes in technology and A.I.? Maybe your next video game character isn't a crap one?
...a very buggy, unpolished game with an awful community, and just like any awful video game it comes with grind mechanics. The developers really need to release a patch.
Yeah, on the one hand, the game developer seems to be a genius, creating the vast Universe we live in; on the other hand he seems like a moron to have come up with this human shit-show. The human thing definitely needs an upgrade!
People say life isn't fair.
Well do you know what I do when a game isn't fair?
i cheat or use hacks. Too bad rl doesnt have those
so I fucking well quit that shit
Yeah, a pity the game developer has you coded to avoid quitting the game at all costs. Your O.S. is called
Survival. Your source code is based on that.:
IF
Suicidal thoughts occur
THEN
S.I.
I was watching some of the movie Castaway on TV there earlier. In the movie, Tom Hanks' character (stranded alone on a desert island, for those who haven't seen it) plans to ctb. So he sees a tree at the top of a cliff edge, and decides it's his chance to do it, hang off the edge of the cliff.
But first he wants to test the strength of the tree, by hanging a heavy log off if it. Here's what he tells his friend later in the movie, of what occurred:
"...I was never gonna get off that island. I was gonna die there, totally alone. I was gonna get sick, or get injured or something. The only choice I had, the only thing I could control was when, and how, and where it was going to happen. So... I made a rope and I went up to the summit, to hang myself. I had to test it, you know? Of course. You know me. And the weight of the log, snapped the limb of the tree, so I-I - , I couldn't even kill myself the way I wanted to. I had power over *nothing*. And that's when this feeling came over me like a warm blanket. I knew, somehow, that I had to stay alive. Somehow. I had to keep breathing. Even though there was no reason to hope. "
What if, like Tom Hanks in that movie, you don't have the power to decide if you ctb or not? What if the game developer feels it isn't your time yet?