u/halloweentown1

My small family and I decided to come down to Ocean City for fourth of July. It's me, my wife, eleven kids, both sets of grandparents, three sets of aunts and uncles, handful of cousins, and three dogs.

So we're coming into town, and we're already SHOCKED and annoyed at the traffic. Took us 23 minutes to get in. Insane. Then we get to our accommodations... and theres OTHER PEOPLE STAYING THERE? YOUTHS NO LESS! Like whattt is going on?

So then we make a trip down to Wawa for a quick dinner.. WHY ARE THE HOARDS OF PEOPLE??? HAS IT ALWAYS BEEN LIKE THIS?? WHY ARE THERE OTHER PEOPLE ALSO IN OCEAN CITY ON ONE OF THE BIGGEST WEEKENDS OF THE YEAR!?!?!

And don't get me started on the people walking down the road. ELBOW TO ELBOW NO MORE THAN TWICE. Its insanity and this place has gone to shit. I remember when you could come here and buy 94 fireworks for half a nickle and a button without anyone bothering you for miles. Now I gotta see other people, in a TOURIST TOWN? Not on my watch.

How yall sound lately btw

Call that Black Friday

Both are on sale right now and I just don't know which one to pick lol. Has anyone played one or the other or both? If both, which was your favorite? I'm kinda leaning Paradise Killer but not enough to sway me

This is gonna sound funny but I'm actually begging for someone to help me change my view on this lol. I loooove horror and I used to be SO into paranormal stuff, ghosts/poltergeists, unexplained phenomena, and just anything that "challenged" what we know about reality/earth, you get it.

Over time, I realized I didn't believe in any of it anymore and I strongly believe that there's an explanation for those types of things. Even if the explanation is rooted in some type of science we haven't even discovered yet, I believe there's an explanation somewhere out there for every strange occurrence. But it PISSES me off that I believe that lol. Like I wanna to be scared, I wanna believe in ghosts, I wanna believe in strange mysteries. I'm telling you up until probably 5 years ago I was all about that shit and just loved the idea of the unknown, but now I just feel like its 'unknown' because its not real.

Every paranormal documentary, video, investigation, it's all just noises, shit moving around, and shadows. Anyone or anything could create that, purposely or accidentally. And then they're like "oh dude it's a poltergeist, look at these scratch marks" and it's just red marks from human finger nails 😭

And trust me I get that 99% of paranormal investigations that have that type of content are simply for entertainment, but I guess that just proves deeper that there's no video proof of that type of stuff. Then the 'genuine' investigations where people aren't playing shit up are just like, "yeah guys the spirit box just said "Kill Ham"..." like ok. cool. Kill Ham. Lets go home now.

Idk someone convince me unexplained whimsy exists in this world please

Like I'm genuinely sorry that you can't get to a doctor, but that doesn't mean you get to diagnose yourself. I get it. Not everyone has insurance. I just lost mine in December. But just because you don't have insurance doesn't mean you can consult google and call it a day. It just doesn't work like that. And I'm not talking about diagnosing yourself with a cold or a headache due to low blood sugar or something. I mean the people that say they have entire disorders or conditions without ever consulting a doctor. Oh and don't get me started on the people that DO see a doctor and then when they don't get told what they wanna hear they just go see a new doctor and repeat.

I was diagnosed with a connective tissue disorder when I was younger by a geneticist, and I literally had to get restested for it in 2022 because SO many people were coming in and saying they had it without an actual diagnosis. They even shut the clinic down to the public. Obviously I still had that shit because it was tested by a literal geneticist, but like what's even the point of self diagnosing yourself with that? Why do you want that? And it's literally always just people who are double jointed too as if that's the one qualifying factor and not literally anything else. You can't just diagnose yourself with a connective tissue disorder like WHAT? I have a team of like 12 doctors and you're trying to say you're just rawdogging it?? I do not believe you even slightly! I don't have insurance right now and am having them bill me. Like to put it in perspective I'd rather be $50,000 in debt than not have their help/stop seeing them until I get insurance again. There's people with this condition that die before they turn 40, with a median life expectancy of 50, AND YOU'RE SELF DIAGNOSING YOURSELF WITH IT?? LMAO!!!! Like its funny at this point.

All in all, there's nothing wrong with educating yourself and saying like, "I show signs of this and would like to bring it up to a professional". But googling up a storm and going, "yeah I have this" just isn't a real thing and just because you say you have it doesn't mean you do.