u/perikaggie

I've got it on two of my accounts more or less back to back. Have had to stop using Twitter entirely to avoid losing the last one. I don't have any way around this, I can't download the mobile application and I'm not willing to give Twitter my face or fingerprint etc so I think I'm screwed.

I'm seeing this happen a whole lot on this Reddit so I wanted to ask, is this happening to everybody? Or have I somehow fallen into a small pool of people twice in a row? Is there any pattern to this happening or was there nothing I could do to stop it? This is ridiculous???

Howdy. I was recently gifted a new Arctis Nova 7 Gen 2 headset, upgrading from an Arctis 7 (unsure which one specifically; it had to have been purchased some time before December 2021) that was on the verge of falling apart. I never had to use any of the related software with those headphones, the dual audio channels were just controlled by Windows and the speakers were just fine for music listening and amateur audio production (since composing is a hobby of mine), I never felt I was getting an inaccurate sound. I am aware this is kind of on me for purchasing gaming headphones for general use but it is what it is.

To the point, I've noticed that the speakers on this new Nova 7 Gen 2 are somewhat muffle-y, high ends are rolled off and the upper bass range is boosted/distorted. I can fiddle with the equalizer in SteelSeries GG to make it sound better/closer to what I'm used to, but it feels like at best it's not quite achieving what the old ones did by default and at worst it's considerably worse, for lack of a precise description things sound more 'congested' and anything that was kind of hissy or loud is made worse.

I can't say I'm thrilled to have to have proprietary software running in the background constantly now but I don't think I have any choice but to get used to it since the equalizer doesn't work otherwise...

Is there anything I can do about this? How do I know that what I'm hearing is 'accurate' when they're so screwy by default? Will I just have to fight the equalizer to fix this, and if so, would anybody have suggestions on how to do so? Thank you!

Howdy. I suppose I should clarify out of the door that 1 I may be 'misusing' this subreddit a bit because while I suffer from most/every ptsd symptom (defined in dsmv) bar flashbacks they are milder though still often disruptive and 2 just to contextualize the nature of this, not going to specify exactly because I'm still 'defensive' about it but the thing that traumatized me was objectively 'dumb', as in it was not a violent or sexual event, I just happened to react like this as a kid to information I found incredibly disturbing at the time, and it's come back to bite me in the ass since a year ago...

Anyway, as the title suggests I also suffer from ocd, I've had it since well before ptsd really emerged in my life. I am under the impression that they influence each other as I have found a lot of my reaction to be very similar to other obsessions I have, only that obviously this is associated with acute fear and nightmares and all the sort of difficult feelings just thinking about it etc.

I hear often that the way of re programming your nervous system to react appropriately to triggers & the original subject of the trauma is re exposure, which makes sense, I feel I have already done this in ways (seeing & rereading about the thing that scared me so much as a kid, trying to engage neutrally with stuff my brain associates with it). My 'adult brain' 'gets it' but some other part of me is still hung up which sucks.

Anyway the ocd part, what happens is I'll get this horrible urge to go back and check check check check again (this checking thing is like the throughline of all of my other pure o ocd obsessions) and prove to myself that I don't have to be scared or whatever, which just builds up the priority of my fear & need to defend myself from basically nothing in my brain and makes me more scared which makes it worse....which seems counterintuitive to exposure therapy??? Usually my go to is just to neutralize this urge, not engage with the subject unless it is actually relevant and right in front of me, essentially say to my brain I don't need to be ruminating on what my reaction will be until it's right there because it's not actually a threat, so I don't waste my whole life ruminating on it. That has worked for me and clearing up my head and getting me back in my own life before (enough that I could unironically be bored as hell and not think about it) but then I feel like I'm 'doing it wrong' because it's not like it's fixing my nervous system about it either & obviously directly confronting a trigger can really disrupt this.

So I don't know how to interact with my triggers at all and teach my nervous system to be normal about it because looking or not looking both feel like such intentional actions. On two occasions this urge got bad enough that I felt I was going to actually get sick from worrying until I did check again which really sucks because how am I supposed to teach my brain that it's completely fine and inane and a one off event that can pass me by and whatnot to come upon anything triggering if it pulls stuff like this and the re re re exposure thing just feeds the crazy check check check check again side of my brain. I feel like I can't win no matter what I do!!! I'm really frustrated. I feel like I should have already got the normal version of all of this through my brain when I went and re confronted the dumb thing that messed me up so much both with support and on my own last year and was completely fucking fine both times. This should be over now!!! I wish my brain would just go back to normal. I really hope all of this is normal and that I'll be okay one day. Thanks if you read my big wordy block of text.

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Maybe this has already been pointed out before but walk with me here.

Overwatch hero Venture, real name Sloan Cameron, who is an archaeologist, has an interaction with Sojourn in which they list their previous residences (Nova Scotia (city not specified), Nevada (city not specified), Buenos Aires (in Argentina), Reykjavík (in Iceland), Mexico City (in Mexico), Singapore (Singapore), Nevada (city not specified)). Nevada twice which is the one I am about to focus on. Of the cities specified all of them are capitals of their respective countries/regions, so in Nevada's case not to much to assume they lived in/around Las Vegas.

Anyway just south of Las Vegas there's a town called Sloan that is known for its petroglyphs which are a thing that archaeologists study. In Sloan there is a Sloan Road and a Cameron Street right next to each other. I feel like I'm going insane.