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I wonder how many people actually find genuine solace and relief in being able to just be the way they want to envision themselves in their head. Surely the lone voice in the back of your brain that demands you to do impossible things and breaks your head open when you haven't achieved them yet would surely find some other fantastical thing to find and hurt you with, right? The voice that hurts you because fictional characters aren't real and hurts you because the baggage of your younger self's trauma hasn't been properly sorted and folded away; can it really just be whimsied away with a 3D avatar? While I do feel that something like VRChat can alleviate some of the depression-adled symptoms of dysmorphia or whatever. depression is still depression, and without (and sometimes even with) proper mental healthcare I feel that these people will eventually further bury themselves deeper into some other pit; both figuratively and literally. Maybe this is just my own overt self-awareness and cynicism talking, but looking at this article I only see a masquerade; and the red death looms over.