Why is Rick so depressed?

The Szechuan sauce.

>>93294431
Literally this

>>93294408
because s3 isn't out yet

>>93294431
Is the Szechuan sauce the elixir that will allow him to accomplish time travel and save his wife and daughter from a fatal explosion in that one timeline?

>>93294408
he know's he's a character in a show and that he is not a member of base reality

>>93294408
He simply knows too much and it causes an existential pain which he's unable to overcome.

>wife left him
>hated by nearly everyone
>pushes away the few who tolerate/love him
>surrounded by morons to varying degrees

Meh.

>>93294486
Shut the fuck up you massive faggot.
This is the most retarded shit I've seen all day, I could still make that claim if I'd fucking spelunked in the sewers behind a 'tard school.
How much lead were you given to lick up on as a child to make you this much of a disappointment?

because he's in a shitty show with a shitty fandom that constantly draws him fucking is own grandson

>>93294614
I think if he was able to know about disgusting rule 34 in a forth-wall breaking way he'd find it funny or ignore it. He's got a pretty strong stomach.

But because he's a 2-d doodle is r34 like photorealistic from his point of view or what?

would you corrupt a morty with fear to the point he's your obedient servant in every sense, but still waiting for the day he will rebel and ultimately kill you?

>>93294656
stop being so fucking autistic

his fanbase

Because he's a dick who everyone hates, which makes his life miserable. I think that'd get to just about anybody.

Born with shit depression genes.

>>93294596
Chill out dude this is suppose to be bully free forum

he's the smartest thing in the universe but life is meaningless

>>93294408

Because he knows for a fact that despite all of his intelligence, he can never really solve the problems that matter most to him.

He tried fighting back. It didn't work.

He tried running away from his problems, but he is getting too old to keep running and he can't outrun being lonely as fuck.

He keeps himself busy working on his little projects and with the occasional bout of multiversal debauchery, but he's fooling himself and he knows it. In the heat of the moment he can forget about it, but whenever it catches up to him it catches up hard.

>>93294656
Nah, even though he's a blatant sociopath that's supposed to be written as amoral he's still somewhat of a moralfag. I'm sure he'd get pretty upset.

>>93294727
Actually, trying to estimate a character's emotional reaction and basing it off of previous behavior and stated beliefs of the character is kind of the opposite of autism spectrum disorders, where an individual cannot comprehend and doesn't care about the opinions and feelings of others.
Try again buddy, you can do better.

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>>93294408
he's getting bald

>>93294789

>Watching your wife and daughter get blown away
>not a cause for depression

>>93295210
>he actually thinks it happened
You should be shot out of an airlock.

>>93295363

>Implying it didn't

It explains EVERYTHING

>>93294780
>Bullying on the internet
Pull the other one mate

>>93295473
It didn't

>>93294408
Because nihilism lol

>>93294408
Because nearly everyone hates him and he hates himself. He's also the smartest being in the multiverse and believes life is unimportant.

If there is another reason, then Roiland and co will probably reveal it at some point.

>>93294596
>'tard
Was it that hard to say the full word.

>>93294408
>Hates himself
>Unable to form strong bonds with others without keeping them at arm's leangth or having his personality overtake theirs
>Probably saw/did a ton of fucked shit fighting the government.

>>93294408
If "ignorance is bliss", what's the opposite?

>>93294408
I don't know why he's depressed but I love angst and drama so I want to see more of it
I also want to see Morty suffer a lot

>>93294565
All these things are his fault though

>>93294408
He wants to die but is too much of a coward to pull the trigger.

>>93296411
sometimes people self destruct and make things worse when they have themselves

>>93296483
*hate

He drinks to numb the pain he feels whenever he realizes what a shitty parent he was/is.

Its also to help him forget the many cosmic horrors and terrifying truths he's encountered, things man was never meant to know.

He's just not happy. Instead of doing the bullshit stop and reexamining of his habits and trying to better himself, he just numbs and trudges on. Plenty of ppl are self destructive. He just has gotten comfortable in it.

>>93294408

He is smart, very few people are his equal so he pushes them away both naturally and deliberately. To fight his loneliness he does drugs and parties, but it just a temporary sacrifice to a void that can't be filled.

Nah I am fucking with you, it's the Szechuan sauce.

>>93296719
>He is smart, very few people are his equal so he pushes them away both naturally and deliberately
He don't seem to care about intelligence as he couldn't stand Zeep and other Ricks.

>>93296819

He thought they were stupider than him.

>>93296843

Goddamn it you Boco, you fat Jew, it's dumber. Why are you so stupid?

>>93296916

Wouldn't both work?

And hey! I'm not Jewish.

>>93296411
Hence why he's depressed

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>>93294408
all the idiots in this threat that can discuss Reddit and Memey very deeply on reddit but they try to shill the show here because they feel obligated by their autism.

>>93294596
Calm down he's just a Redditor.

>>93296152
Knowledge is power!

>>93297089

At your favorite schoolhouse, Schoolhouse Rock!

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>>93296520
>things man was never meant to know.
people unironically believe knowledge like that exists

>>93294494
this

ignorance is bliss

>>93294513
yup

alcoholism is an after effect of smartness in his case

>>93294408
His butthole cannonicly doesn't work anymore due to sneaking seeds through intergalactic spaceport security.

>>93297206

Its an existential thing.

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Maybe cause he knows all his existence is meaningless and everything he do doesn't matters. His life is empty, his wife is no longer with him, he is an alcoholic and a idiot, he push away everyone who tries to help him and he hate himself because of that.
Rick is a toxic person, and he need real help, but first he need to accept all his faults and let the other people to join in his life for good.

>>93295760
It happened

Only he was the dark suited rick and not the young rick, he blew up that rick''s family because he was jealous of his happiness.

>>93294408
<tfw to smart

>>93294408

Because he's an asshole and he deserves it.

>>93297710
close. the only people smart enough to have a decent conversation with hare Ricks. We all know that Ricks are assholes. That leaves Rick very alone.

>>93294855
Not caring about the emotions of others is a trait of sociopathy, not autism.

>>93297398
You're talking out your arse

>>93294408
Because he knows he's on a show who's only expression of humor is "flubba dubba poopoopeepee! Haha *burp* morty don't u kno that life is le ebic mesningless and le atheism XD omg im so *burp* DRUNK le mega epic"

Scenario 1:

He knows that he's a destructive influence on his friends and family, but he cannot live without his friends and family - forever torn between his need to live with his loved ones, and the knowledge that it is a selfish need because his loved ones would be better off without him.

Scenario 2: He knows he's a fake character in a cartoon show who's forced to keep doing dumb shit like a carnival dancing bear to entertain horrible elder evils that would cancel his show and utterly annihilate his entire multiverse in an instant.

Scenario 3: Both scenarios, for a double whammy.

>>93295473

>It explains EVERYTHING

That was the point, Rick made up a fake story that explained everything so he could trick the federation agent.

>>93294473
It's being worked on. My daughter knows Justin and she's seen some of the rough cuts.

>>93298064

He is also a liar

>>93298104

Ah the old reverse nintendo dad.

>>93294408
He's too smart to be happy

Literally none of you faggots including me are Rick

>>93298136
She gave me an autographed figure of Jerry for father's day.

>>93298208
post pics or it's not real

>>93298117

Yes, creating a fake story is a lot like lying.

>>93297346
I'm pretty certain that he knows of his flaws, but doesn't care anymore and knows it's too late.

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>>93298244
Rear view.

>>93298208
Hope you feel proud to be the equivalent

>>93298263

That's not what I meant, and you know it.

>>93298446

Aw, that's sweet of her. Look at this anon, living a life with a loving daughter. Brings a tear to my eye.

Wait a minute, why the fuck are you still on 4chan?

>>93298948
I'm an oldfag sonny.

>>93297815
>I'm gonna say that I don't care, not that I can't, that will win me the argurment!
>even though both arguments hold the same weight.

>>93297206
Seeing the reality of a true infinite worlds multiverse would probably drive any man to drink.

>>93294408
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr9Ad1XpIIk
why wouldn't he be depressed?

>>93298104
well, can we get info on these rough cuts?

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>>93299258
>If you do think about it, there's a chance you'll just end up like Rick and that's absurd
>Implying that's not the highest form of enlightenment
This guy's excuse is that we should distract ourselves with forms of escapism and minuscule purpose because the truth is too hard to grasp? What a fucking LOSER.

>>93294486
no it just tastes good and he can't have it anymore

>>93299226
>Seeing the reality of a true infinite worlds multiverse would probably drive any man to drink.
Don't you mean that living in an infinite worlds universe designed to eternally torture the inhabitants invented by a fat old man and an ADHD crazy to entertain millions of braindead millenials kept barely alive by an horrid council of [AS] executives would probably drive any man to drink?

>>93299469

No, it's that coming to terms with the futility of existence leaves you empty and you should probably do something better with your time.

>>93296411
That's kind of the point...

>>93294408
classical op character goes borderline suicidal and becomes risk addicted because he cant lose archetype

>>93294408
Because he's a shitty self-insert for Dan Harmon's ego.

>>93299262
She said Just joked they didn't have an NDA, but they had a "friend D A", so she didn't say much. I saw a quick vid of a black and white storyboard, but I couldn't tell what was going on other than Rick giving Beth a fist bump (their backs to the camera)

>>93301077
I'm screenshotting that

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>>93299226
He can casually visit sex planets at will, the fuck it would.

>>93301134

Sex gets boring, especially if you are just mindlessly humping people you don't know. x2 multiplier for seeking out as a deliberate distraction. Hedonism is harder than it looks.

>>93301244
But in an allegedly infinite universe, there is literally no end to the distracting hedonism you can find/participate in. If he really hates life so much, he'd just travel from universe to universe satisfying increasingly bizarre and degenerate desires until he died. Whenever people throw around the "infinite realities" theory they never seem to realize the full implications of it. If there really *is* an infinite number of realities, there's one that will make him happy.

>>93294486
He straight up admitted it was a fake memory he used as a trap, which was the only reason he was able to alter small elements like what the code was. Because it was completely fabricated. You 100% took the wrong message from that sequence. It was Harmon poking fun at the kind of "This is how Rick became Rick! This is why he's like this!" storytelling.

>>93299258
i hate absurdist philosophy it is just so depressing

>>93301420
That's what I keep telling my therapist.

>>93301420
that and it just makes the show not fun. it is just sad and heavy handed with it's absurdist philosophy.

>>93301432
>>93301432
me too but therapists are usually secular jews or modern liberalists who all hold these philosophies close. some sort of metaphysics is what you need or the embracing of the idea of existance as a mystery that we are slowly solving. mystery because it opens to the possibility to good as well as bad as we do not know

>>93301420
>>93301432
>>93301454
>>93301517
Achmed BTFO. Take your bronze age death cult belief and fuck off back to 10000BC.

>>93301555
huh, i just find it sad why is that bad. they never end with the whole "life is meaningless and i am sad" joke it gets old pretty quick.

>>93301323

No? There is an infinite number of numbers between 1 and 2, none of which are 3. Also Rick and Morty specifically don't have infinite universes, just a fuck ton.

The problem isn't with finding something new with hedonism, the problem is as a jaded cynic he wants something real, he doesn't just want to constantly drop feed some more serotonin. It's why he was genuinely sad after unity left him, it's why he flip flops between trying to care about "his" family.

>>93301517
I have been an absurdist since I was a preteen, the best I have figured out is empathizing with others. Just get so caught up with their bullshit that you leech off their emotions and create your own.

>>93294596
New pasta?

>>93301323
it's a central finite curve
besides not all infinites are equal
the numbers between 1 and 2 are infinite but none of them will be 3

>>93301574
>you leech off their emotions and create your own
That never happens. You only come to realize you're surrounded by idiots and then you suddenly care about existence even less.

>>93294408
Lack of pressure

>>93301628

No no, you are doing it wrong. Don't treat them like real people. Treat them like characters on a tv show. Try to figure out what is wrong with them and where the writer is trying to take them, enjoy their character arc and move on when they become cliched.

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>>93301663
>Treat them like characters on a tv show.
I do that. Then I realize I'm a background character that is used only to fill out space in the scene, that sometimes doesn't even get drawn right, that never talks or is talked to.

>enjoy their character arc
My favorite type of character arc essentially amounts to Suffering Porn.

>>93301729

>background character

Okay my friend, there is your problem. Make yourself the supporting character. You are their ultimate wingman, their shadow. You are helpful and kind and always there for them. You are never in the way, but are always there when they trip to pick them up. You are the perpetual nice guy in their friend zone. By doing this you get the suffering, because they trust you and come to rely on you. They will need you and you get to watch them fail to figure out they are their own greatest enemy, and when you get bored they will give the cherry when they cry because they miss you and you are never around.

I personally like balancing a small amount of people, but most important is just make sure to never get sucked in to deeply.

>>93294408
I can't wait for season 3, i love the threads where faggots try their hardest to justify the insecurity this show causes and try to spin it in a positive light that they feel inadequate underneath the weight of ricks massive ego.

Its so embarrassingly great.

>>93301574
This fucking "greater infinities" bullshit again...

>>93301603
see >>93301948

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>>93301663
I think that means you're a sociopath, not an absurdist anon...

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>>93301841
>Make yourself the supporting character.
I don't want to. I hate the show. Its characters, its setting, its plot. In fact, would that I continue fading until I turn into prop and watch no more; failing that, there's the nooze.

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>>93302056
Then lean into it. Open your heart to the hate and realize the difference between acceptance and rejection is all just chemicals in your brain. There is no pain if you learn to love pain.

>>93302056

Yeah, I know how you feel. To be honest I am only slightly less empty then I was before. Still I no longer actively think about ending it and have move up to "meh". Baby steps anon. Baby steps.

>>93302102
I've learned to love to hate, and to hate only, if that's what you mean.

>>93302139
But if you've learned to love hate, then that means you love something. Now just work backwards from there. Like something ironically, and watch as it slowly becomes unironic.

>>93302139
“But that was just it - hate was exactly the right word. Hate is a force of attraction. Hate is just love with its back turned.”
-Terry Pratchett

>>93302185
So hate is like negative mass?

>>93302202
More or less. The true opposite is love is apathy, he posits, because when you hate something you often times *enjoy* hating it. It's how politics in America works, each team gets a massive hate boner for the other one, which is why one can't really exist without the other anymore. A lot of things continue to exist through sheer hate symbiosis.

>>93294408
Booze does that to you.
After you drink your actually hung over for the next 36 hours or so even if you don't have a headache, constantly out of wack brain chemistry leads to chronic depression.
When they say drink responsibly it doesn't mean don't get drunk and drive it means don't drink if you have work the next day or anything important to do because mentally you only gonna be 70% there.

>>93302202
If you can't be positive, be the best negative you can be.

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>>93302250
>It's how politics in America works
I really don't think anyone could say that American politics "work".

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>>93302307
It's funny because it's true.

>>93301603
>>93301574

Infinity, like the number 0, is an abstract concept that does not actually exist. 0 is merely a way to say "a lack of something," infinity is a way to say "larger than can be counted conveniently."

>>93294408
OP, you didn't post the thread theme

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTA0DSfrGZ0