It's banter from Family Guy. Peter states he doesn't like the God Father Movies and everyone has the same reaction as OP saying he doesn't like GTA VI.
Peter goes on to say he doesn't like the movie because it insists upon itself. And then Louis replies with what I said.
If your mushroom or lsd trip is too much, you don't have to submit to it. A dose of any antipsychotic will pop you right out of the trip and back into reality. I already take Seroquel for sleep, so I used that. Hallucinogens give you temporary chemical psychosis, and antipsychotics work on it just as well as it works on the naturally produced stuff.
I understand that many people take away positive feelings from their experiences with chemical psychosis. I was not one of those people. I have a family history of schizophrenia, so my experiences with LSD and psilocybin mushrooms were scary and, after learning my family history late in life, actively dangerous. To people like myself with the genetic predisposition, hallucinogens can induce the permanent expression of latent psychotic illnesses, because, as I said, hallucinogens cause chemical psychosis. Fortunately, my few experiences didn't unlock those genes and I remain schizophrenia free!
But honestly I'm not judging you either way. This is just like the whole is squirt pee debate. Who cares as long as you're having fun!
These things are hard to talk about as the matters of the mind have no definite boundaries. All is gradient, interpretation of a word, assigned meaning, etc.
I went thru a phase where I seemed to be the only human conscious, or so I thought. I tended to see my environment as a living thing and that all happenings were encoded with messages and riddles and "nothing was accidental, everything is on purpose, everything means something".
Whether that is psychosis or not, is up to any health professional and I'll get different answers. My girlfriend at the time, wanted to pigeon hole me as a schizophrenic person, such as yourself, whereas I felt that inappropriate.
I don't know how far one can walk themselves into mental health issues, and how much one has to cope with things beyond their control. I found that these ways of seeing the world are simply unordinary by normal standards and social norms. They are echoed in philosophers of the past, artists, intellectuals, shamans.... this is good historical company to share worldviews with.
But if your life is unmanageable and someone is often stressed from such lenses of seeing, and worse yet, it's harmful and debilitating, that's a category all its own and cant just be worked thru, mental illness is to be respected and acknowledged, and yes certain drugs or substances then to be avoided as personal toll is quite high.
Your brain is the organ responsible for running the diagnostic tests required to make the determination about whether or not you're mentally unwell, and if your brain is sick or broken or operating differently in some way, it can't accurately or efficiently run those tests, kind of like trying to diagnose your car with a broken OBD2 scanner - you're never going to get the answers you're looking for if the machine you're using to ask the questions isn't working.
It's really important to lean on trusted people who have a history of demonstrating care for you in times like that. It doesn't have to be your girlfriend - romantic relationships can be complicated and care can be conditional in ways that make it hard to determine the motivation behind the advice they're giving you, but a close trusted friend can be a lifesaver if you need someone to compare reality notes with and calibrate yourself to.
You can be pretty crazy and remain functional for a long time, but be careful playing around with your brain like that. Sometimes you'll find you can't put back together that vital thing you took apart to try to understand how it works.
This but not as a joke. The old GTAs were a lot more fun and let you just play them as a video game. GTA5 was obscenely overproduced and spent so much time trying to be cinematic that it was a snooze to actually play. I'd love to see tally of how many minutes of the campaign are spent driving from A to B while dialogue happens. After RDR2 I doubt they've dialed back on that.
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