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Wiz Book Club Reads: The Pastel City Anonymage 06/30/26 (Tue) 18:02:57 No.70718 [Reply]

Hey wizards,

Two other wizzas and I will be reading The Pastel City, a science fantasy novel by M. John Harrison, originally published in 1971.

We'll be following a schedule of one chapter per day. The chapters are about 10 pages long on average. After each day's reading, we'll come here and talk about it. I'll be posting a short daily commentary to help kick off the discussion, along with updates on our progress through the schedule. Of course, you're under no obligation to post anything if you don't want to.

We'll start on Thursday, July 2, so in just a couple of days. Check out the blurb for the novel:

A decaying world. Ancient powers long forgotten. An old warrior with one last battle to fight. The Pastel City is a mesmerizing journey through the ruins of a far-future civilization, where the remnants of lost knowledge mingle with myth and legend. Atmospheric, inventive, and unforgettable, it is a classic of science fantasy.

I'll be following along with this edition, which can be borrowed for free from Archive.org:

https://archive.org/details/pastelcity0000unse

You can choose a different edition if you prefer:

https://archive.org/search?tab=all&query=the+pastel+city&and%5B%5D=mediatype%3A%22texts%22

To borrow a book from the Archive, you'll need an account. They only ask for an email address and password.

Come and join us for some whimsy literary fun.

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Anonymage 07/02/26 (Thu) 14:44:55 No.70777

>>70750
Yeah I love this setting. Probably because i like a bunch of games with the same setting (M&M, TES..). And leibowitz was similar (minus the fantasy stuff i guess).
Besides, i really like how it's written too. We'll see!

Anonymage 07/02/26 (Thu) 21:10:56 No.70780

>>70750
"Borring-Na-Lecht…built the city-fortress of Duirinish on the edge of the Metal-salt Marsh where rusts and chemicals weather-washed from the Great Brown Waste collected in bogs and poisonous fens and drained into the sea."

It must smell really shitty there all the time lol, but yes this is promising

Anonymage 07/03/26 (Fri) 09:48:36 No.70783

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Chapter 1

He had made a hundred yards, his breath coming hard as the unaccustomed exertion began to tell, when the vehicle exploded. A great soundless gout of white cold fire, locked in the core of the launch by a vanished art, dissipated itself as pure light, a millennium after its confinement. It did him no harm: or none that he could recognise.

And here is the protagonist, tegeus-Cromis. He's pretty much your run-of-the-mill sword-and-sorcery guy, though M. John Harrison really puts some interesting flair and atmosphere around him. I like the tower looking over Viriconium. Even the environment is a mish-mash with pieces of desert, a forest of rowans, and the ocean close by, it feels like even nature itself here follows the "blender philosophy" of weird fiction.

As for Cromis himself? Meh. But I'm not really reading this for him, I just want to see more of the world. What you guys think of the protagonist?

These novels are weird for me. It always feels like something I've already read a million times but I keep coming back to it to find something special about it. Can't quite explain.

>>70751
Glad you're enjoying it wiz. You said you don't really read novels, but since you obviously play games like ES, I'm sure you'll be very familiar with plenty of the tropes in this. This is the type of book writers in those studios steal stuff from.

>>70756
Yeah, writers from those days really respect your time with the book length. This one is 157 pages long. I pretty much never read the new fantasy stuff because it's mostly just six books of padding and garbage.

>>70774
I didn't see any cavemen myself in the prologue, but you know what? In this type of book you could always use some.

>>70777
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Anonymage 07/03/26 (Fri) 10:04:44 No.70784

>>70783
I always like these kind of world-weary recluse characters that had their days of glory and now just want their peace. The tower sounds like a very comfy hideout, I was already envisioning myself living in something similar as I was reading.

As for the length, when I started reading again a few years back I started with the Stormlight Archives, lol. Though to be fair, I only found the first book to be truly great (with exception of Shallans character, who just grated my nerves), the others did suffer from their length and everything from book 4 onwards has been very much hit and miss. But this isn't about that.

Anonymage 07/03/26 (Fri) 11:44:43 No.70785

>>70783
I guess having an old protagonist is fairly uncommon compared to modern works and it can promise narrative developments like uncovering his pasts or something. I like the writing style. The description of nature was nice but nothing special, looking forward to what viriconium looks like. Hopefully it's weird and interesting. Also Baan is basically a lightsaber.

>It always feels like something I've already read a million times but I keep coming back to it to find something special about it.
Immersion? I feel like that's the basic idea of how these books work. They transport you to a different world.

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People act like religion is the answer to their problems, it just makes me more depressed Anonymage 03/21/26 (Sat) 02:31:31 No.306449 [Reply][Last 50 Posts]

What is the average wizard's relationship with religion like? No religious person has ever been able to give me a good argument for why God, if he is out there, is not the most maximally evil being in the universe simply by the virtue of creating suffering when he could have chosen not to. Saying "suffering builds character" and derivatives of is just a manifestation of their stockholm syndrome for this vile entity

>I form the light, and create darkness. I make peace, and create evil. I YHWH do all these things - Isaiah 45:7

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Anonymage 07/02/26 (Thu) 07:35:39 No.308870

>>308835
Religion is horrific in a way, how it takes someone free will and make them believe into total mystical nonsense. It's different than being a fan of fiction shit, at least that's stuff is fun. Believing in religion is so fucking boring, church is so boring, strict and too much gossiping. FUcking always expecting you to be some perfect machine and i'm so sick of it, just let me do what I fucking want bitch.

Anonymage 07/02/26 (Thu) 07:55:00 No.308873

>>308870
So all $they have to do is convince you that something is fun and you'll act against your own interests hmm? :)

Besides the social cohesion bit, the resistance to egalitarian complacency is, I think, the most valuable attribute of religions regardless of creed. Using broad Africa as an example - if physical needs are met with negligible labor, if no outside force compels otherwise, why would someone *not* just blitz themselves out on khat, eat bananas all day and masturbate in the jungle?

By imposing arbitrary self denial and setting value outside of base desires, the individual is gently or sternly shaped into becoming more than a hairless ape far far more than any high minded philosophy can accomplish. Sure the philosophy _can_ get the individual there eventually, but at the developing mind level, or even the primitive culture level, this is not effective.

So I suppose the heart of the matter is, is it "better" to embrace standardless dissipation, or conform to useful lies?

Anonymage 07/02/26 (Thu) 08:04:40 No.308874

>>308873
Church/Religion is never and will never be fun to me, my fun is my interests, I want to try at least enjoy something on this earth while i'm here. I don't see a point in believing a non-existence fake retard god who only people bring up when some coincidence happens in their life and claim "it's god!!". It's just embarrassing, humanity needs to be smarter and better than this, religion is FUCKING useless now. There's no point in believing in a lie that can only fill the void for so long.

Anonymage 07/02/26 (Thu) 08:12:52 No.308877

>>308874
I think he meant its useful to organize people so they become wagecucks and let a priest fuck up them up the ass and get psychologically tortured by stupid concepts, all this makes for a better wageslave.

Anonymage 07/03/26 (Fri) 10:41:14 No.308911

>>308873
>self denial
this is such a cuck concept

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I asked "why "aren't you lonely" question is ugly" and Bing's AI delivered Anonymage 11/16/25 (Sun) 05:51:16 No.227116 [Reply]

TL;DR AI got several points for me and I finally felt that the future is here! pleasant shiver

Quoting:

''The question "aren't you lonely" is considered rude because it implies loneliness is a negative state to be avoided, when some people are content being alone, and it can feel like a judgment on the person's social life. It also ignores the important difference between being "alone" (physically by oneself) and being "lonely" (feeling isolated emotionally). The question assumes a lack of social interaction is undesirable, which can be an uncomfortable and presumptuous assumption to make about another person.
It's an assumption of negative feelings: The question assumes loneliness is a universally undesirable state. However, many people are happy and fulfilled when they are alone, finding it to be a valuable time for rest, self-reflection, and connection with their "true self".
It ignores the difference between alone and lonely: There is a significant difference between being alone and feeling lonely. Being alone is a physical state, while loneliness is an emotional response. The question conflates the two, failing to acknowledge that a person can be physically alone but not emotionally lonely.''
''It can be a judgment on one's social life: Asking "aren't you lonely" can feel like a direct criticism of a person's social choices or life circumstances, whether they are single, have a smaller group of friends, or simply choose to spend more time alone. It implies their social life is lacking and that they should feel sad about it.
It overlooks the quality of relationships: The question focuses on the quantity of social interaction rather than the quality. A person may have many friends but still feel lonely, or have very few friends but have deep, meaningful connections.''
It is often perceived as a judgment on life choices: The question is particularly pointed when it comes to lifestyle choices like being single. Many people prefer to be single than to be in a relationship that is unhealthy or unfulfilling.

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Anonymage 06/27/26 (Sat) 16:25:10 No.228995

I am not "lonely". I cannot trust people. I keep expecting them to spring at me at random.

I cannot experience loneliness if I simply never feel safe around people.

>Asking "aren't you lonely" can feel like a direct criticism of a person's social choices or life circumstances, whether they are single, have a smaller group of friends, or simply choose to spend more time alone. It implies their social life is lacking and that they should feel sad about it.

Why would I feel sad if most of the time, I am alone and well? It's the chance of getting a random weird pain and never having it diagnosed that bothers me.

Anonymage 06/28/26 (Sun) 08:08:31 No.229011

this is pure bullshit
someone could genuinely be surprised
like asking someone who works alone in a remote place or something
the question by itself gives no information to where it's used
looks like AI is already crashing out on the most basic text analysis

Anonymage 06/28/26 (Sun) 10:48:08 No.229014

>>229011
Unfortunately, you failed to realize asking "I hope this job doesn't make you X" is much milder in tone as opposed to straight up asking "aren't you X"

The dreaded "aren't you lonely" toss is like pitching a person into a fork of 2 opinions:
1. You are "lonely" and the person is keen to remember you as one, probably dumping unasked advice to run away from such "jerb"
2. If you aren't… "how come you aren't lonely?"

In layman terms, "aren't you X" is on same spot as "Told ya", "Drop this shit job", "oh frick, you must be crazy working this BS" and maybe even a sudden lifetime memory of "hey, Mac, we got a new office center opening up, you totally should join our crew instead" question out of blue

Anonymage 06/28/26 (Sun) 14:19:18 No.229020

>>229014
this isn't what this question by itself means and you are claiming a specific use case is implicitly present
the question is simply the question
another realistic scenario is someone undergoing psychological therapy being asked this
you and your hallucination machine just add rules to language which aren't there

Anonymage 07/03/26 (Fri) 10:24:23 No.229084

>>229020

This is, unfortunately, is a way people think when they carelessly throw the dreaded "aren't you lonely" question.

What's your point, anyway?

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My mum is awful Anonymage 04/03/26 (Fri) 09:24:40 No.306726 [Reply]

I have a horrible mother who criticises me just as much when I do something good as when I do something wrong. I remember having a lot of traumatic experiences with her, and even today she’s still the same. For example, I started being more hygienic and washing my hands before eating, and she started using that habit as a weapon against me. She also criticises me for not going out with my ‘friends’, but when I do leave the house, she keeps insulting me Any advice on how to get free from her? makes me unhappy

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Anonymage 06/13/26 (Sat) 08:05:14 No.308446

>>306727
A-ha.

go stern like a gray rock
ignore her as if you are out of love for her (not true, but…)

Anonymage 06/13/26 (Sat) 08:06:18 No.308447

>>306783
>but I can go and live with my dad because my parents are divorced

Good for you, because my father was shouting very loudly and threatingly on me when I tried that option…

Anonymage 06/13/26 (Sat) 17:48:55 No.308459

>>306783
>>306783
Move with dad

Anonymage 06/15/26 (Mon) 01:31:19 No.308486

mine used to love me
maybe she still does deep down
but our relationship is irreparably damaged beyond hope

she doesn't insult me or make mean comments
we mostly just don't talk beyond the necessary, or see each other much despite living together

Anonymage 07/03/26 (Fri) 10:15:06 No.308910

>>308459
This

Also, make sure to be at ease at first (to avoid the mistake I had made)

/wiz/

Have you tried humility maxxing wiz? Anonymage 06/30/26 (Tue) 16:28:44 No.229036 [Reply]

This is basically most potent weapon against saturn worshippers, especially succubi (the jew of the gender), jew (the succubi of the races), and shabbos goyim (normieniggers in general). None of their magic will work, on the contrary the powers of the natural world will be yours to utilize. Meme magic is one iteration. Ascend more, and the light of God Himself will be yours.

If you read about monks, they are basically IRL wuxia cultivator.

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Anonymage 07/03/26 (Fri) 01:04:39 No.229074

>>229036
>maxxing
You are not welcome here.

Anonymage 07/03/26 (Fri) 07:06:07 No.229079

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https://www.foxnews.com/health/could-humanmaxxing-actually-help-live-longer-heres-experts-say.amp

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>>229074
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2026/04/07/friction-maxxing-benefits/

Like it or not, crabspeak has gone full mainstream

Anonymage 07/03/26 (Fri) 08:21:04 No.229081

>>229080
So what? Should we talk about Friends, Taylor Swift, nigger music, Marvel movies and TikTok dances just because they're mainstream? Ebonics have been popular among the wiggerfied normgroid population for a while now and yet you won't catch any self-respecting person with a three digit IQ talking like that.

Anonymage 07/03/26 (Fri) 10:13:00 No.229082

Maxxmaxxing XD

/dep/

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Depression Crawl Thread LXXV Anonymage 06/08/26 (Mon) 17:50:55 No.308343 [Reply]

The Time God does not forget nor forgive edition. You will do this again.

Previous: >>307210

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Anonymage 07/03/26 (Fri) 07:45:08 No.308905

>>308902
>It is always immoral to have sex
What?

Anonymage 07/03/26 (Fri) 07:55:27 No.308906

>>308892
you'd think i should do that given i have ok looks, huh? i can tell you lookism is only the tip of the iceberg. sex drive for me is like another form of suffering, i don't perceive as anything other than another thing to endure.
>>308896
i don't believe in morals. since you brought it up, i doubt anyone would care to fuck me even in marriage and i'm definitely not getting married in this life.
>>308902
antinatalist bro?

Anonymage 07/03/26 (Fri) 08:00:21 No.308907

Profound spiritual and physical fatigue

Anonymage 07/03/26 (Fri) 08:24:44 No.308908

>>308906
Yes I'm antinatalist and I agree with you sex drive is just additional torture to endure, my dream is to see all life ceasing to exist

Anonymage 07/03/26 (Fri) 09:22:39 No.308909

I'm just a fucking nigger

/lounge/

Anonymage 05/20/26 (Wed) 23:12:28 No.323839 [Reply]

what does your body 'think' about you?
>about your management of your personal human organism.
>about your decisions on what to put in it, or on it.
>about where you take it and when and how often.
>about how you use it

i reject the normoid idea that the body can not think or have an opinion. electricity flows into every cell, not just the bracrabls. life and emotion are all over the body except for in those people who believe their body is just a machine used to park the brain in front of screens.

i do think the body is it's own thing and ideally it is in a mutual loving relationship with the brain. i guess many group-minded people who know nothing but war will have a hostile relationship between body and brain.

i take good care of my body and i love it. it has been so good to me and i always give it enough sleep and put good food in and exercise it and then when i am doing something, it is so accomodating, supportive and helpful. i can not help but suspect it knows me and happily helps me through life. i am fully aware that this is not most people's experience. but it could be most people's experience.

the body has it's own path too and if a brain can understand the path the body tries to walk, decisions can be made to help the body along which then lead to benefits for the entire organism.

i guess i am trying to say the potential for harmony within the organism exists despite so few people stumbling upon it. i guess the obstacle in reaching this state is the corruption process that seeks to consume everyone. those who can see the corruption in others have an easier time dodging it.

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Anonymage 05/24/26 (Sun) 16:14:35 No.323895

i wish death were eternal nothingness
that would be the greatest mercy

Anonymage 05/26/26 (Tue) 03:36:35 No.323909

>>323881
>assuming you are correct and the body is not conscious then explain to me how the body knows when a good moment to poop is and when there isn't. when it is the worst time to poop,
My argument is that consciousness is strictly located in the central nervous system, which makes most of the body a non-conscious flesh slave to the brain. As for defecation there are tiny nerves wired up to the digestive system which monitor and control the entire pooping mechanism. If you damage the nerves but leave the bowels intact you get incontinence, loss of voluntary control of digestive functions while there is no pain, meanwhile if the digestive system is damaged but the nerves are intact you actually feel pain.
>i heard trees coordinate their airspace so that other trees are not in competition with each other for sun and rain.
I'm not saying it isn't alive, I'm saying these organisms are not-conscious. There is no "passenger" or soul stuck in a plant or fungus. Ancient Greek philosophers used to discuss which creatures had souls and which has not. Forming complex structures by itself is not exclusive to life, I wouldn't say mineral crystals communicate with each other because they compete for resources.
>i think cat's live a crazy life, they are strong, dangerous with impressive movement ability
Their life experience in the wild is characterised by struggling to hunt for food their entire life. Nothing like human beings which have language, abstraction, religion, complex social structures. Their primal animal "intelligence" which makes them remember where there is food or get sad when one of their kittens dies is nothing compared to a human's mental and emotional capabilities.

Anonymage 05/27/26 (Wed) 03:57:49 No.323913

>>323881
>yeah you can argue that there are degrees and differences but i think you are judging consciousness by what little of it you have seen so far
I argue there are no conscious beings without a central nervous system. Plants and fungi are life without consciousness. Humans and animals are life with consciousness or soul. Then there are edge cases like worms and certain invertebrates like sea stars where a very small CNS is present regulating physiological impulses but obviously consciousness isn't present there.
>one thing that is keeping you from seeing more of the bigger picture …
I'm well aware the body gets overwhelmed by stuff like processed foods, cigarettes, etc. You are diverging from the main point of the discussion and insisting you magically know stuff about other people's personal health. "I can sense their body screaming in agony" completely ridiculous
>people who are insisting everything that is not medical science must be a scam
Nowhere did I say this
>the body can delay the much needed deepclean
this "cleaning" of the body like removing certain harmful stuff with vitamin C and the killing of microbes by the immune system has been extensively studied by science, this stuff isn't hippie stuff

Anonymage 07/02/26 (Thu) 08:09:45 No.324525

>>323913
>I argue there are no conscious beings without a central nervous system

i don't agree but i think the distinction you are making is meaningful in the sense that it limits consciousness to these urgent animals with their movement ability without honoring what could be called nervous system activity without a center and sometimes without the urgency of an electric system, though i was under the impression that there is electrical activity in plants and fungi; how else could they make those flashy videos where they connect plants and mushrooms to electrical musical instruments and make their impulses audible for humans. when you do respect their existence as a non-moving entity though you probably find things that approximate nervous system activity, usually just slower.

>are edge cases like worms
i'm not convinced consciousness is binary so maybe there is the possibility of having somewhat of a consciousness. when i can make my consciousness grow then there must be degrees to it. when you can punish yourself to keep your consciousness from expanding and it remains in it's infant stage, that's another strong indicator for the existence of degrees.

>I'm well aware the body gets overwhelmed by stuff like processed foods, cigarettes, etc. You are diverging from the main point of the discussion and insisting you magically know stuff about other people's personal health. "I can sense their body screaming in agony" completely ridiculous

i don't think there is anything magical about it. every sufficiently advanced technology looks like magic to those who first encounter it. i don't believe this to be true. i don't need to know everything about you in the exact way that you wish for me to know it to know you sufficiently to predict your most likely behavior or make sense of even your less obvious actions. there are shortcuts to knowing you that you may not have found. this whole meme of not judging books by their cover is perpetuated by people who are usually judged to be something unflattering and they think they can lobby other people to flatter them; that's silly to me. the body (even unbeknownst to you) tries it's best to be forthcoming about you and your intentions and visualize you to the best of it's ability.
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Anonymage 07/03/26 (Fri) 06:58:27 No.324554

>>324525
>nervous system activity without a center
i don't see plants and fungi, thinking, feeling and performing conscious activity
>i'm not convinced consciousness is binary
i argue animals have non-intelligent consciousness, like cats. obviously only complex animals have this and stuff like worms can't be called having consciousness
>predict your most likely behavior or make sense of even your less obvious actions. there are shortcuts to knowing you that you may not have found
yeah i guess you can tell what a person did and thought today by just taking a glance at them and maybe having a chat, you have superpowers!
>when you think your troubles are private up to the point when you reveal them through language to others
all human beings mainly use speech to communicate
>yeah clearly nowhere did you say it except right there
mainstream science has it's own idea of the cleaning of the body alongside alternative thinking, thinking in one way doesn't mean you believe everything else is a scam, you can easily combine taking vitamin C tablets with alternative therapies

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Erikson's Stages of Psychosocial Development Anonymage 06/30/26 (Tue) 19:11:16 No.229038 [Reply]

Have you been neglected in you yearly childhood too? I've come across pic rel some time ago by accident and scrolling to this pic made me think I was actually fundamentally broken not by aspergers which wasn't actually that bad but rather by being neglected by mom which didn't even want to hold me when I was crying or talk on difficult subjects. Every stage presented does so perfectly wrap up all my developmental disorders it makes me feel like this framework was made just for people like me (except last 2 cause I'm too young to experience maturity and middle adulthood). Maybe some anon would consider it interesting. I've been to therapy actually and it helped me a lot but I lost my job and I don't have any money left, I'm just neeting at parents place

https://www.verywellmind.com/erik-eriksons-stages-of-psychosocial-development-2795740

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Anonymage 07/02/26 (Thu) 14:09:22 No.229067

>>229064
okay

Anonymage 07/02/26 (Thu) 21:12:16 No.229069

i don't care. there might be truth to it. i don't believe it though.

Anonymage 07/02/26 (Thu) 21:14:20 No.229070

>>229055
Most prehistoric people who managed to procreate, were grandparents by age 40.

In this sick age we live in, these people are still "pondering" whether they should have their first kid and are genuinely surprised when they have no viable eggs left.

Anonymage 07/02/26 (Thu) 23:32:36 No.229073

>>229070
Can't eggs be frozen now?

Many truwiz weren't born until their mother was basically 40.

Anonymage 07/03/26 (Fri) 06:55:17 No.229076

>>229073
Only by wealthy people and there is no guarantee the pregnancy will succeed.

Age of the father matters as well. 45+ = high autism and non-NT risk and also down syndrome risk.

/dep/

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Conformity and imitation drives human behaviour Anonymage 05/09/26 (Sat) 06:07:08 No.307650 [Reply]

I have become increasingly depressed at the state of discourse about almost any subject. Look at the opinions of most people and discuss their reasoning with them; they do not really have reasons based on experience or logic. They are just saying things they think are normal to say. They imitate others. They understand the world through memes. Zero actual curiosity or critical thinking skills when it comes to discussion of politics/culture/history/science/art. Everyone just parrots what they think others think. They think in memes. Partly to fit in and achieve social acceptance and partly just monkey see monkey do like a child or animal.

Democracy is a failure because most people have no idea what they are voting for or what the consequences will be. They just follow the cultural memes. The internet has exacerbated this. Most people’s political views or views on the culture are just glorified SIX SEVEN repetitions - people have no good justification for any of the ideas they follow.

It might sound arrogant and supercilious to say these things. I worry that I am not that different and I just copy things sometimes by instinct. Makes me wonder if the self even fucking exists and we are just biological self replicating robots copying things.

Depressing. Enraging.

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Anonymage 05/27/26 (Wed) 15:23:45 No.308045

You sounds like a failed student trying to cope with his broken ego, ngl.

Anonymage 05/27/26 (Wed) 16:50:28 No.308046

>>308045
you sound like a failed normie trying to cope with his broken ego, ngl

Anonymage 05/27/26 (Wed) 18:10:42 No.308047

>>308046
My ego is very fine, don't worry. You avoided my point though

Anonymage 05/29/26 (Fri) 12:59:46 No.308106

yea everyone pretends to fit in, that's the God of the normie, social approval.

Anonymage 07/03/26 (Fri) 05:44:13 No.308903

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>Conformity and imitation drives human behaviour

Yeah, read René Girard

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Limerence, OCD and Addictions Anonymage 04/20/26 (Mon) 20:19:40 No.307205 [Reply]

This thread is for talking about OCD, addictions, or those kinds of disorders that ruined our lives
>So
When I was a kid, I had some pretty OCD-like behavior—I’d touch things and check them over and over until I felt reassured that everything was okay. I also used to walk on my tiptoes, which is a bit autistic, but I eventually stopped doing that (I don’t know if I have autism at this point bacause never did a test, but whatever).
>So what’s up with you?
Well, in my case is limerence (some studies say is co-related to OCD)
>And what’s that like?
Well, imagine a succubi (for some people even can be the other sex you dont like) talks to you and treats you kindly once or twice, and then you start getting way more than just nervous around her because your body starts releasing dopamine, serotonin, and all that shit. And since you don’t know what’s going on, you think you like her or have fallen in love, but its NOT.
really it’s just fucking anxiety toward a “thing.” Because you’re constantly seeking validation in some way—whether for friendship, attention, or love but you have this anxiety that you know is inappropriate, and if you act on it, the feeling of danger gets worse, it’s almost like you’re having a heart attack. and as time pass the thing got worst and worst and you get more obsessive, nerveous and get a peak of anxiety, even start to rumiate or have that thing of limerence (LO) living rent free in your head bacause your brain cant stop thinking about your LO
>What was the worst experience you've ever had?
Even you will end starting to dream with the LO and have happy dreams or nightmares and waking up crying bacause you are getting the peak of anxiety and dopamine,etc sec before waking up. this shit can even ruin friendship.
>Why the hell does this happen?
I don’t know, genetics, anxiety, depression, emotional dependency, low self-steem, negligent parents, love hungry, maybe OCD etc and a whole lot of shit
>You're larping this nonsense
but in my case, it’s not like those internet memes of bitch tumblr succubi where it only happens once and they use like a joke for love or crush
>You're a retard and you fall in love go fuk yourself wizard
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Anonymage 06/18/26 (Thu) 15:31:19 No.308568

OCD robbed my adolesence and ruined my life.

When I was an unborn baby, I was in the womb of a succubus who had a faulty heart tube due to childhood rheumatic fever, was nutritionally deficient, ate poorly, smoked and did drugs (but no alcohol surprisingly lol), and was under chronic stress. My prefrontal cortex was largely underdeveloped. On top of that, she was very abusive. Imagine being a mother, giving birth to this fragile baby after nine months and violently beating the baby because it didnt immediately act like an adult. Yeah.

As a result, my brain is permanently hardwired to be mentally ill and retarded. I tried my best to exist, but its very difficult. Killing myself sounds really nice these days, but the pain of living gets so overwhelming that moving around is painful, let alone making the effort to die. Why does dying have to be so effortful? I dunno.

Im a third worlder btw. All third worlders unite!

Anonymage 06/18/26 (Thu) 15:39:54 No.308569

>>307330
>i also experienced this when i was younger because i was in school were happiness is 'treated' as a problem and you learn it is better not to be happy.

nigga what kinda school did you go to??? a russian school???

every school everywhere on the planet forces positivity on everyone, they'd never tell you to be unhappy

Anonymage 06/18/26 (Thu) 15:52:20 No.308570

>>308552
Humans point?

Yes. You totally earned a good chunk of wizard's human-ness points for helping a succubus with her crap using the /wiz/dom you have accumulated throughout years. Good job, really

Congratulations!

Anonymage 06/19/26 (Fri) 15:09:37 No.308581

>>308569
СМЕХ БЕЗ ПРИЧИНЫ ПРИЗНАК ДУРАЧИНЫ

Anonymage 07/03/26 (Fri) 02:20:55 No.308900

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This thread is the gayest thing i've ever seen

/dep/

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Am I a man? Anonymage 05/24/26 (Sun) 23:21:39 No.307971 [Reply]

I know there’s nothing wrong with me. I’m perfect. I’m skinny, kind, and thoughtful. But the isolation from everyone around me has been getting to me. Nobody has ever put effort into me. I changed my style just to receive barely any compliments, then proceeded to get ignored by everyone. No whore has ever thought of me as a man. They’re gross creatures who look at me and think I’m homosexual. I’m not. Just because I look like a slut doesn’t mean I am one. Then I am being secluded for not being manly enough. other male seems to think of me as one of them either, shouldn’t I be given respect from my fellow peers and colleagues?

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Anonymage 05/26/26 (Tue) 18:43:05 No.308036

>>308017
I don’t use discord.

Anonymage 05/26/26 (Tue) 19:26:05 No.308038

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>>308035
>crabibate

Anonymage 05/26/26 (Tue) 19:50:34 No.308040

>>308038
Lol… sorry, stupid typo.

Anonymage 05/27/26 (Wed) 19:36:58 No.308049

>>308040
you called yourself an involuntary celibate tho

Anonymage 07/03/26 (Fri) 01:50:53 No.308899

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>Just because I look like a slut doesn’t mean I am one.
While this is one of the funniest things i've read this year, i'll tell you to fuck off (faggot)

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Tabletop Rpg Thread Anonymage 02/01/17 (Wed) 11:56:58 No.33619 [Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Has anyone read 5e's fucking Ravenloft?
Just some of the horrid shit in it:
>Strahd's played off as what amounts to Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Angelus levels of edge, literally feels nothing and seemingly has no interests above the usual, though not for the same Bram Stoker's Dracula tier reasons, Literally just wants Tatanya as if a meaningless trophy on his belt
>These dumb faggots made it so that Strahd wants to turn whatsherface not into a vampire bride, or hell, even a true vampire, BUT VAMPIRE SPAWN (You know, sniveling wall crawling nosebleed assface monster vamps?)
>Tatanya's a nigger
>The reincarnation is a nigger
>Strahd's wives are niggers
>Nigger Mayor of a town surrounding the land
>Evil white "everything is fine man"
>Strahd's a Bisexual sodomite degenerate with two male consorts to boot
>Made Barovians "Diverse"
>Made Strahd's conquering of the land sound tyrannical as fuck and less just
>Made it so that Some have Barovians have souls and some don't because of 5e's ravenloft being in a private demiplane, stopping newborn bodies from getting souls, in a piss-poor attempt to mimick the Old demiplanes of dread thing where some residents are literally just NPCs made by the powers, even though this makes no sense to anyone who's had to deal with Gulthias in 3.5 and Ashradorn in the whole Soul font thing with the ban on unborn souls in lore, so these people should be getting souls, because otherwise the demiplane would have to deny all positive energy for this shit to even remotely work
>All done because they're too lazy to redo the demiplanes of dread just like before,
>Strahd now heals for 20 in his fast heal
>Mongrel Men are the results of Racemixing past the half-race stage suffer for it, check their description and it's fucking played off as a good thing despite them being ugly mutants beyond redemption in their racial descriptions, the self-unawareness is real

This is why warhammer roleplay and castle drachenfels will always be superior

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Anonymage 06/23/26 (Tue) 23:51:07 No.70685

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>>70682
>How long did it take you to call it quits with your campaign?
It ran for about 6 months, and when I really got tired of it I gave myself another session to see if my motivation would return (as it often did), but it didn't. And the funny thing is that the campaign was at a point where it could expand to the overworld and such, with lots of opportunities for development, but after each session, I was getting less and less enjoyment from the whole thing.

Now I'm thinking of doing some solo adventure, playing as one of those yeti monsters (>>70680) and dwelling in a dungeon, looking for human encounters to devour their brains and gain their powers.

Anonymage 06/24/26 (Wed) 19:21:46 No.70686

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>>70685
That's a respectable run. You can get a lot done in six months. Most online games don't last four sessions, let alone several months.

Man I tried solo games but I just can't do it. The wealth of bizarre shit that happens when five nerds get together to play these games just can't be matched by solo play. At least not for me. In many ways solo is the best way to play it because you don't depend on others. I really like that part. It's basically a video game. Pick up and put it down whenever you want. If only I could get into it.

Anyway, I already caved and found another group. We'll be playing through a module this time, about 20 sessions, so about the size of your campaign. Not enough time for me to start hating on rpgs which is good. I can't wait to delve into musty corridors and throw some dice. We start next week. I'll report back.

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>>70686
I'm eager to hear your report.
If you don't like it, at least the module will end at some point.

Anonymage 07/01/26 (Wed) 17:28:44 No.70730

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Well I said I would report back so here I am. I had my first game with the new group. It was rather strange, as I'm not used to playing with newbies. My usual experience with gaming is with grognards, and the game very quickly gets into a rather smooth operation: go to the dungeon, kill the monsters, fetch the gold, bring it back for XP, rinse, and repeat. Roleplay is present but secondary, it's a game, not a narrative. The characters are tools for combat and exploration first, not people. It's just a different way of playing, is all.

Now, with the newbies coming into roleplaying after the Critical Role phenomenon, it's different. They all want to elevate their characters to some literary figure. I sat through a 10-minute argument between two players because they have PCs whose "personalities" clash. These players have pet characters that they intensely protect from all danger, to the point of being a detriment to the game itself. They don't want to go into the cave "because there might be something too dangerous inside." Well wtf man, that's the whole fucking point, is it not?

The DM is aware of the problem and was privately messaging me days before the session, telling me he was hoping that I would stir the other players to action. I have never had that happen to me before. Usually, DMs are control freaks who want to have complete control of the world and the players somewhat. This guy is apparently too afraid to be candid about the pet characters that are paralyzing his game and is trying to recruit me as his hatchet man.

Welp, I'm happy to inform you that I embraced the task. We saw some action and a character got killed, although it was an excruciating process that took several minutes of arguments. But before that, let me tell you about what we did in town before going out into the caves.

One of the players actually had his character looking for work AS A FUCKING BARISTA AT THE LOCAL INN! Holy fucking Christ Jesus, man. Here we have a game where you can be a hill giant, a devil, a paladin, a rogue, a demon prince from hell, or a fucking dragon if you want to. And this guy takes a 15-minute side quest to try and get his character work waiting tables! There was nothing particularly important about this inn, either. It's just an inn.

And it's not like we were short on money either. This is a Monty Haul DM and each of us had enough money to afford food and board for like a whole year. Besides, we can just hearPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Anonymage 07/03/26 (Fri) 00:14:03 No.70782

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>>70730
Glad to hear you had fun! Indeed, it seems there is hope ahead, if not for a good game, then at least for interesting interactions.

I came across an old article recently discussing this exact difference in philosophy, the divide between the "game-players" and the "role-players." I always assumed the latter style of play took root in the late 80s, but it was happening even in 1977, only three years after the release of Original D&D.

So there have been misunderstandings since the very start. The game is supposed to be about acquiring treasure, magic items and XP, building a stronghold, having your own army and claiming a piece of the land as your own. If your character isn't interested in any of that, then they shouldn't be an adventurer.

>The player who lost his character got into an argument with another player because that player didn't come to his aid when he was the only one who could've done something.
I bet/hope one day, in the not too distant future maybe, this player will look back on this moment and realize they were actually having fun. This sort of interaction is more real than anything narrative-based games can create.

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drop out of university bacause of self-steem Anonymage 07/01/26 (Wed) 20:18:22 No.308862 [Reply]

I wasted years of my life working and started college late. Last year, I began a degree program in psychology education to see if later I could handle a degree in psychology or become a therapist, and in short it was a disaster. I felt like a damn alien next to my classmates, and I didn’t feel comfortable in class, not with them, not with anything.
This year, I decided to start studying another major focused on the hobbies i love, music related things as hobby. I decided to try music education, and so far everything’s going well, and I even feel comfortable with my classmates, but the social aspect is still killing me.

>What's you cant handle?
>Vocal education
I can't handle vocal training classes I usually freeze up and can't even sing a scale. The strange thing is, I don't know if the teacher plays favorites, but she treats the succubi better, from what I've seen, they've been singing for a while, sing in church choirs around religious things etc, or already have experience with singing and high notes. I don't notice her treating the men the same way or giving them the same attention, and most of the guys haven't practiced singing before. Last time, she told me I don’t sing because I strive too much for perfection i dont believe this is true but this didnt help in anything. I don’t know if she misunderstood me or if she hates me, but I’m not sure if she understands that I can’t control my nerves and i actually told she about this. one day she just told me something in the lines of go to a psychologist bla bla Obviously, I failed her exams. maybe i the problem or she even tried to help much. maybe i will try to change to another teacher next year i dont know.

>Language and music theory problem
The language and music theory classes started a little late, but I love them (with piano classes), and the fun part comes in the later semesters. My only problem is that, because of some university policy, they make us record ourselves and… oh my god, I hate my fucking face. I’ve never liked recording myself, and they even make us record ourselves singing, which is even worse, because I can’t even stand in front of a camera for two seconds without go full into a panic attack of nervers and sadness. i hate mirrors and watching myself in recordings.

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Anonymage 07/01/26 (Wed) 21:35:44 No.308865

>drop out of university bacause of self-steem

When I was in university/college, I knew enough (both male and female) who had these thoughts. Some did drop out. Others remained. Of course I can't speak to what you must be particularly feeling inside yourself personally, but I can say that from my own experiences with classmates/peers who had varying self-esteem issues of all types (eg, convinced they were unattractive, convinced others were mocking them, looking down on them, excluding them, etc.) that 99% of the time these individual issues whereon they had laid so much anxiety and stress appeared to me (as an outside observer) to be completely socially insignificant and things of a sort I would not even have had a consciousness of if they had not confided their worry of them in me.

>The language and music theory classes started a little late, but I love them (with piano classes), and the fun part comes in the later semesters. My only problem is that, because of some university policy, they make us record ourselves and… oh my god, I hate my fucking face.

That's excellent. You've found something you truly enjoy. And I'm sure it'll only get better as you advance higher and higher. To quit something you like this much owing only to insecurity around appearance seems like an unwise choice. I highly doubt you look as bad as you imagine yourself to.

>I can't handle vocal training classes I usually freeze up and can't even sing a scale. The strange thing is, I don't know if the teacher plays favorites, but she treats the succubi better,

All teachers play favorites. Whether music teachers, philosophy teachers, math teachers, english teachers. They all have their favorites. Partiality towards others is human nature and is found everywhere. I dealt with professors who strongly disliked me and oftentimes for reasons I never even understood. If the favoritism shown by this specific instructor however is so great, is there any chance you could find another related instructor who would take you on and through whom you could fulfill your required credit load?

>I just want to disappear,

Again, I knew at least 4-5 students in my own time in university who voiced those exact words "I want to disappear". I remember a few of them stayed within their dorms forasmuch as they could (avoiding in-Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

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>>308862
I drop out of uni after one year of history studies because I couldn't handle all the presentation to give in front of the whole class. it was too much for me; it was like a humiliation ritual (speaking in front of everyone)

Anonymage 07/01/26 (Wed) 21:51:08 No.308867

well, I can relate to a lot of what you said here, even the acne scars part. You did well in dropping out of psychology, unless that degree actually has a high employment rate in your country. You won't find jobs with a music degree unless you're lucky or quite talented, but at least it may fulfill you, although you could also learn that by yourself which is what I decided to do in my creative hobby. The only benefit of going to college for such a degree in the age of the internet is guidance and discipline, and you don't necessarily need college to get those. There's also making contacts with other people but that relies on what people are available to interact with in your class, if it's only normaloids you may have a hard time making any friends at all. I also think like so many others that modern college is a huge scam, not only of your money but most importantly of your time and youth, but I can only speak from personal experience in my country. I was going to click post, but I also read that you don't want to go back to NEETing, it's certainly not for everybody so I suggest you stay there for a little while and calmly consider what to do in the future, no self-help books or anon wizards have the right answer to that, since we don't know you personally enough to know what's best for your specific case.

Anonymage 07/02/26 (Thu) 21:15:51 No.308891

try something else. education is turd in 95% of unis anyway.

Anonymage 07/02/26 (Thu) 23:29:09 No.308898

>>308891
That makes it even worse. In much of the world if you didn't at least complete undergrad, you're permanently relegated to the underclass.

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Waifu Thread 2022 Anonymage 06/11/22 (Sat) 21:37:13 No.39161 [Reply][Last 50 Posts]

In this thread we say we love our waifus.

Today is Lynne-chan's birthday! She hopes everyone is doing their best!

Last thread from 2017 >>>/jp/22727

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Anonymage 06/24/26 (Wed) 00:30:10 No.44337

>>44308
who is she?

Anonymage 06/27/26 (Sat) 12:48:22 No.44341

>>44337
I think it's Illya

Anonymage 06/30/26 (Tue) 12:08:30 No.44343

>>40178
eat shit and die you fucking subhuman stfu

Anonymage 06/30/26 (Tue) 12:11:17 No.44344

>cringe
you have to go back

Anonymage 07/02/26 (Thu) 23:04:29 No.44352

>>40497
well, stay ignorant

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would anyone really care if you killed yourself? Anonymage 10/30/25 (Thu) 18:29:45 No.303825 [Reply]

Would they? I've been thinking.

My mom is already LDAR'ing due to the debt and she's already lost one child, so I think either by suicide or stress she would die. My dad? He didn't seem to care that much when my stepbro died, but I am his firstborn. I don't know really. My little brother would probably just turn into me. That's my only concern. Everyone else, would cry for a day maybe.

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Anonymage 07/02/26 (Thu) 08:16:51 No.308878

>>308869
because crabs are just an overblown media story and all the big crab storys are manufactured by intelligence agencies and other crisis actor glowniggers. they are behind the gay and tranny shit and feminism and racism too. all of these are separate projects but all have the aim to disrupt and ruin peoples lifes and drive wedges between them. when the plebs are busy attacking each other they are too busy figuring out who steers them. so why kill crabs? let the crabs and the trannys and other mentally ill gullible NPCs roam around and have them fight and hate each other. far more useful for the powers that be.

Anonymage 07/02/26 (Thu) 13:59:21 No.308883

>>303825
Both my mom and dad would be devastated

Anonymage 07/02/26 (Thu) 15:19:05 No.308885

>>303825
My relatives would be devastated, which sucks since they would be infinitely better off as they wouldn't have to keep worrying about their low-life useless slob son that will never amount to nothing.

So my closer-up normalfaggots acquaintances from childhood, but for them I don't care as they're all scum.

People forget things easily, anyway. Can't say I'd bother if someone close I knew from out of my family ended himself.

Anonymage 07/02/26 (Thu) 22:35:19 No.308894

At this point, no. I know one person who would be a little sad but not surprised I went through with it and life would continue on. I might as well be dead now, I work nights and live far away from civilzation, I only go into town once or twice a month, preferably on a weekday morning when all the npcs are gone, though with summer comes all of the families with their screaming shithead children.

Anonymage 07/02/26 (Thu) 22:43:20 No.308895

>>308869
They just want to remove the symptoms with medication, not the cause. Npcs are insane narcissists so it can't possibly be their fault when people want to drop out of society.

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Anonymage 07/02/26 (Thu) 07:44:52 No.308871 [Reply]

Hello all. Normally, I considered /dep/ to be the saddest board on the Internet. Today I realized I was wrong.

I realized I was wrong when looking up Huntington's Disease videos on Youtube. Huntington's Disease is a genetic, degenerative neurological disorder that attacks motor control functions, leaving victims unable to control their own muscles and confining them to a lifetime of tranquilizers that paralyze them. Or, the disease attacks their brain and turns them into a completely thoughtless carrot.

There is no cure and scientists can only understand the disease by progressively dissecting victims' brains, in almost exactly the way the evil doctor from day of the dead does it. And actually, the description of zombieism from the day of the dead is very similar to Huntingon's Disease.

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Anonymage 07/02/26 (Thu) 10:39:05 No.308881

>>308880
Death makes everyone equal.

Anonymage 07/02/26 (Thu) 11:01:32 No.308882

>>308881
Some people have nicer gravestones though

Anonymage 07/02/26 (Thu) 15:03:02 No.308884

>>308881
Everyone copes but not all copes are equal

Anonymage 07/02/26 (Thu) 20:20:54 No.308890

Anonymage 07/02/26 (Thu) 22:34:36 No.308893

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Imagine having this disease and being evil enough to have a child (Knowing they have a 50% chance of also getting it). Breeders are fucking insane

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Why anime Anonymage 05/04/26 (Mon) 10:34:13 No.228407 [Reply]

Why is anime so engraved into this site and this kind of culture? Is it just the cause of the succubi or cause japan had the crab culture first?

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Anonymage 06/29/26 (Mon) 21:46:17 No.229034

>>229033
I don't remember getting DSL until mid to late 2000s

Anonymage 06/30/26 (Tue) 20:43:58 No.229040

>>229033
Downloading games on true dialup was usually a waste of time because you would timeout so much.

That's why you bought the game on 4-8 different installation CD's.

Anonymage 07/01/26 (Wed) 07:29:47 No.229048

>>229040
Which was why actually getting an anime *clip* was legitimately something of an achievement to be celebrated.

You had to work for it, you had to plan, and you had to be lucky. Even in early post dial up I fondly remember the day my first torrent finished - it was the 3rd episode of the Digi Charat anime.

Anonymage 07/01/26 (Wed) 20:26:07 No.229060

If you have to ask that then go back to r9k.

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>>229048
Yeah, before I knew torrents existed I buffered an episode of South Park for like 9 hours on RealPlayer (a very popular ancient streaming app) to watch it without lag and interruptions for 15 minutes.

It felt glorious to watch an episode of South Park on a PC monitor in 1999. What an absurd time it was. Now you stream something instantly in 4K from Netflix in one click.

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Anonymage 07/01/26 (Wed) 18:20:00 No.308855 [Reply]

Does anyone else envy those people who say "I have 12\6\4 (etc) month to live"?
Imagine KNOWING for sure -more or less- how many time you have left; all the impunity, courage, quickness and nimbleness, resolution and firmness, with which you would do anything and everything.
I envy such people!

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Anonymage 07/01/26 (Wed) 19:14:35 No.308861

sometimes i envy people when i hear they died.
>he died suddenly in his sleep
i wish that were me ffs. i don't have it in me to actually kill myself and natural death is unlikely for several decades…

Anonymage 07/01/26 (Wed) 22:16:12 No.308868

I'd like to off myself in the distant future for multiple reasons but I'm afraid that when the time comes I bitch out or it has become harder to find resources for painless methods. Because of that, if a doctor told me right now that I will die in about a year or so, it would lift a huge burden off me. I don't think I would do much though, no hedonism because that always feels like a waste so instead maybe writing a book or something to leave behind. At last I'd go to Japan and off myself before my time comes in whatever beautiful and relatively isolated landscape I can find, and humbly ask in my suicide note to be buried in that country, not because I'm a weeb but because it's the only fair country left on Earth.

Anonymage 07/02/26 (Thu) 16:01:47 No.308886

>>308868
>buried
you DO know japan has made burials illegal, right? they just cremate people and have trouble with space of ashes vases

Anonymage 07/02/26 (Thu) 19:36:04 No.308887

>>308886
burials, cremation, it's all the same to me, I just don't want my remains to stay in Eur*pe.

Anonymage 07/02/26 (Thu) 20:13:17 No.308888

yeah would be really good to know how much i have left.

/hob/

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Formula 1 Thread Anonymage 07/01/26 (Wed) 22:42:39 No.70742 [Reply]

Hello Wizards,

In this thread we talk about Formula 1. I got into it this season, curious if anyone follows it.

Who is your favorite driver? What do you think of the current season?

Anonymage 07/02/26 (Thu) 07:40:05 No.70748

>>70742
this is the worst season of F1 that I can remember, stopped watching and don't plan on coming back. It's bread and circus anyway and i can't bother with that anymore, at least in previous seasons it was entertaining to see drivers taking their cars to the limiit, that element has disappeared completely with the new ecogay regulations, they want to make the cars easy to drive so that they can get in celebrities or pretty faces that are great for their PR and marketing.

Anonymage 07/02/26 (Thu) 09:40:15 No.70749

>>70748
The FiA will always put profit first before the competition, that's nothing new. My hope is that the switch to V8 engines by 2030 will shake things up a bit. And that Max Verstappen drops Red Bull.

Anonymage 07/02/26 (Thu) 13:33:52 No.70773

I watched the first race of this season and have had zero desire to watch any more. The new aero regs are interesting, but the current hybrid powertrain setup leads to bullshit yo-yo overtaking where drivers are just swapping positions based on battery charge. The FIA think that viewers will be impressed solely by the sheer quantity of overtakes, and unfortunately they seem to be correct based on the number of fans defending the current regulations.

>>70749
It would be interesting to see Verstappen at another team, but I'm not sure who could take him. The other top teams already have solid driver lineups, and Verstappen would only leave RBR for a better car so I don't see him going for the midfield teams.

/hob/

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Desktop Thread Anonymage 12/13/20 (Sun) 08:10:58 No.56336 [Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Post your desktop
I want to see what wizards desktops look like and what they use as a daily driver.

I use Debian GNU/Linux with a full suckless setup

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Anonymage 07/02/26 (Thu) 13:54:23 No.70775

>>70772
I swear to you man I'm still savouring your desktop.
How long did it take you to make it?

Anonymage 07/02/26 (Thu) 14:18:05 No.70776

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>>70775
i really did not expect that
not much really. the position of the icons, the pager in the bottom right and the xterm icons are the default fvwm openbsd config (picrel). i knew how the fvwmrc config works already (i previously made an SGI IRIX themed one) so i just took a look at some xpm icons that i found and put them in the ~/.fvwmrc file. I can share the icons, the tiles or even the configs in a tarball if you want. or some old ass websites for old xpm icons

Anonymage 07/02/26 (Thu) 15:16:44 No.70778

>>70776
I didn't know fvwm, it looks like my style. I use xfce with a windows xp classic style. I'd like try out your desktop but I am some lazy and don't want to make you upload your configs unnecessarily.

what's your main desktop?

Anonymage 07/02/26 (Thu) 15:30:43 No.70779

>>70778
it's fine. xfce can also be made to look somewhat "retro".
i'm still on fvwm because it's in the base distribution, with a config mostly similar to the default one with some changes on the menu (the config is piss easy), but openbsd has an old (security patched) version because fvwm switched to GPL in the late 90s/early 2000s. sometimes i switch to cwm, it's basically dwm but easier and also in the base distribution.

This https://datagubbe.se/1yearconf/ is a config for the fvwm version you're likely to find on linux. this https://cs.gettysburg.edu/~duncjo01/archive/ is an archive of many old icons, and this https://xteddy.org/xwinman/ is basically a showcase of many old X window managers, including fvwm, afterstep (which is something like >>56807) etc.

Anonymage 07/02/26 (Thu) 23:48:55 No.70781

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