I spent more time on IRC than USENET but I certainly remember it.

I didn’t take the name until much later when I identified more closely with the word, but this was certainly my first exposure to it when I was young.

This was a side project of the guy behind Din_Fiv and it felt very similar feeling, at least for the first album. Later Informatik turned into synthpop and I lost interest in them.

those slow motion Phlox sequences were really something

The one where she loses her betazoid powers for a couple of days and proceeds to completely lose her shit and try to resign before without even trying to wait to see if it will come back in a couple weeks or months or long enough to see betazoid doctor about it. 🤣

I have rewatched the killing scene so many times I’ve lost count now. It’s the best part of Voyager. It makes me happy every time she sets it right.

Down to 27, that’s inspiring! I hope one day I can keep it that low. 🥹

He lives each day like it’s his last (…day to ruin Star Trek)

It’s very much their classic gothic rock sound from their early days.

Not the slightest inkling of witch house, which is an entirely different genre and style.

he was also the Technomancer leader in Babylon 5

I’m sure O’Brien would have no problem recovering it

what they mean by that is, “thank god they learned to mask the problem so they stop inconveniencing us”

Shatner certainly caused problems, but one scene, one kiss, out of the whole of ToS, hardly seems like it would have established a relationship with Uhurah. 🤷‍♂️

Hm and here I thought new trek was bad because of weak and lazy story writing, including blatant inconsistencies with old trek and ‘burning’ the original cannon in order to avoid being accountable to it. 🤔

so many times I drove to work and had… no memory of driving there as I got out of my car.

thankfully I work from home now 🤣

The same can be said of paramount

Cat wanted many treats. I am on way, way too much medication. I can see through time. Send help. 😳

“ACTING” Grand Nagus

The Cure are considered Post-Punk, sometimes even New Wave. It depends on the era of their music.

Sisters tend to fit into in the genre known as Gothic Rock, which is uniquely different it’s sound.

Souxie is more on the Post-Punk side, but understand it’s not unusual for bands to cross genres as they aren’t trying to be a specific genre, they are the product of their influences and creativity.

There are stylistic distinctions as well as differences in musical origins that separate lots of music which still gets grouped into the generalized term of “goth”.

To the people who are passionate about music, knowing and representing those distinctions is often important.

“more human than human”

I can relate to this, infact in addition to these experiences I have chronic muscle pain from tension which primarily comes from being in contact with others.

Being isolated and in control of my environment has been pretty much the only way to minimize it.

As for which of the causes you described are behind the energy drain; for me being perceived automatically turns on what feels like a background awareness that cannot be turned off until no one is there.

I consider masking to be part of this awareness; a self-defense mechanism that we learn early in our development to protect ourselves from harm by calculating how we react in order to minimize potential harm. In those situations it is impossible to feel entirely safe because we cannot control our environment and if we won’t react carefully we might end up with even more interaction we desperately don’t want.

Perhaps it is similar in nature to how something that lives in the wild has to maintain a constant awareness to avoid being caught off guard and potentially killed. An activation of fight-or-flight/primitive brain centers in the brain.

That is one source of energy drain in itself

There is also the energy drain from the much higher amount of sensory input we are being fed from our brains having many more synapses than those without autism. We can’t simply filter out or ignore everything we are receiving, there’s simply too much of it. It has to be stopped at the source before it can become sensory input. Isolation is the easiest way to accomplish this.

IBU is great. The side project of one of the two guys is good too. Templar? something like that