Hello fellow Cyanide and Happiness fans!
Cyanide & Happiness (C&H) is a webcomic created by Rob DenBleyker, Kris Wilson, Dave McElfatrick and Matt Melvin. The comic has been running since 2005 and is published on the website explosm.net along with animated shorts in the same style. Matt Melvin left C&H in 2014, and several other people have contributed to the comic and to the animated shorts
Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanide_%26_Happiness
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About this community and how I post the comics… Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips. Of course these days you can read your favorite comics online instead of a newspaper, but I love the nostalgia of reading the daily comics. Anyway, one of my favorite current comics is Cyanide and Happiness and I will be posting the daily release from their website (https://explosm.net/) and a an extra or two randoms.
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All comics posted are freely available online. In no way is the poster claiming ownership, copyright or anything else. This is a not for profit community, we just want to enjoy our comics, thank you.
I’m incredibly good at you saying your name and me repeating it aloud without committing it to memory. When I was 19yo, I spent a summer hanging out with a group of people without knowing the names of all but two of them. It was painfully embarrassing trying to hide that fact.
You're making depressing comic week too relatable, please delete your account
It's depressing comic week? This is super lighthearted for them, then.
Just say "I'm sorry, your name slipped my mind" and ask again.
Honestly, people really don't care.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotlight_effect
The spotlight effect is the psychological phenomenon by which people tend to believe they are being noticed more than they really are. Being that one is constantly in the center of one's own world, an accurate evaluation of how much one is noticed by others is uncommon. The reason for the spotlight effect is the innate tendency to forget that although one is the center of one's own world, one is not the center of everyone else's. This tendency is especially prominent when one does something atypical.[1]
Research has empirically shown that such drastic over-estimation of one's effect on others is widely common. Many professionals in social psychology encourage people to be conscious of the spotlight effect and to allow this phenomenon to moderate the extent to which one believes one is in a social spotlight.[2]
The spotlight effect is an extension of several psychological phenomena. Among these is the phenomenon known as anchoring and adjustment, which suggests that individuals will use their own internal feelings of anxiety and the accompanying self-representation as an anchor, then insufficiently correct for the fact that others are less privy to those feelings than they are themselves. Consequently, they overestimate the extent to which their anxiety is obvious to onlookers. In fact, Clark and Wells (1995) suggest that socially phobic people enter social situations in a heightened self-focused state, namely, from a raised emotional anchor. This self-focused state makes it difficult for individuals to set aside public and private self-knowledge to focus on the task.[5]
Oh, that's what I do now. I also let people know that I forget names and please don't take it personally when meeting them. I've had a lot of years to gain more wisdom than I had then. It's trivially easy to be up front. 19yo me, though, didn't know shit.
I let them know when I meet them that I'm going to forget their names. That helps when I eventually do forget it somewhere between 5 minutes and a week later. If I don't forget it, then I've exceeded their expectations, and they feel special.
My anxiety cannot be dominated by a wiki article but nice try
Thanks for sharing that. I know someone who will really benefit from reading and understanding this.
I literally cannot remember names. You could say it to my face and I would NOT remember it. I know the names of maybe 5 people in 2+ months of working with them (summer job) where their name tags are in plain view
I was at your wedding*
Not sure how being inside someone's wedding would work, was he hiding inside the bride's dress the whole time?
If you're part of the wedding party, like a groomsman, you'd be considered in the wedding.