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 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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 No.70852

>>70844
I might be wrong but the way I understood it is the chemosit weren't built specifically just to have something that can destroy people's brains, they were just the ultimate weapon in every respect, and incidentally had the function to destroy brains to deal with that technology that could revive soldiers. But yeah, I'm not sure why it looked like they were harvesting them instead of just destroying them…

>>70850
Sad to see all those birds get torn to shreds, and presumably Cellur himself will die as well in the end… so much lost knowledge.

>How do you all like it so far?
I don't care too much about illogical stuff and the like so I'm enjoying it a lot so far. It's gripping. I wonder what the mechanism to shut down the chemosit is… couldn't they just destroy the brain controlling them? Although perhaps it is too big for that and it would take too long.

 No.70854

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Chapter 10

In two days, they came to Thing Fifty. It was a humbled city, ten square miles of broken towers, sinking into the soft earth. Squares and plazas, submerged beneath fathoms of filthy water, had become stagnant, stinking lakes, their surfaces thickly coated with dead brown leaves. Black ivy clutched the enduring metals of the Afternoon Cultures, laid its own meandering inscriptions over bas-reliefs that echoed the geometries of the Pastel City and the diagrams that shifted across the robe of Cellur.

Of course Norvin Trinor had to show up for a final showdown after how things were left unresolved in chapter 6. I quite enjoyed this little journey to Thing Fifty. It's funny how Tomb the Dwarf has progressively become the only party member worth a damn in this book. He could probably solve this whole thing without Cromis, and certainly without Grif. I guess being a tech nerd and having an eleven-foot-tall wearable colossus helps a bit.
Only two chapters left now.

>>70851
I took it as an effort to hint at the weirdness of this world. Leibowitz was a lot more grounded and tried hard to be realistic, this thing is another beast entirely. I don't know which one I like more. I remember really liking only the first third of Leibwotiz, second act was ok and third was meh.

>>70852
You know there is an episode of Babylon 5 with this exact premise. An alien race builds the ultimate weapon and ends up getting attacked by it.

 No.70857

>>70854
Cromis has fallen off as the protagonist in the latter half of book. The dwarf and Trinor moves this chapter along. Trinor is a more interesting character than I expected. He has that charismatic vilain's pride.

 No.70861

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Chapter 11

He stood before the door, his lips moving silently. Perhaps he was recalling his apprenticeship on the fifth floor. He knelt. He passed his hands over a row of ideographs. A red glow sprang up and followed them. He murmured something: repeated it. "NEEDS YOU," intoned the door abruptly, in a precise, hollow voice: "NEEDS YOU, BAA, BAA, BAA. OURUBUNDOS —

Alright the fate of Grif I did see coming. With only a few pages left, I predict a very obvious ending or a very odd one. I did like this chapter also, especially the whole thing with the door and getting inside the complex.
The end approaches. Let's see how it goes.

>>70857
The dwarf was the best character in this novel if only because it was the only one that made me chuckle. And the power-armor thing of course, I'm a Fallout fan.

 No.70863

>>70861
We're killing off the casts now. Time for the last chapter.


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 No.308343[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

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

Previous: >>307210
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 No.309020

>>309012
I like it better during low libido periods. Getting horny all the time sucks and just wastes me away. I can't concentrate on anything at all. When my libido gets lower I can find at least some time, though not much, to dedicate to something mentally demanding like pet projects or whatever. When it surges up I basically spend all my free time jerking off and doing erratic activities like playing for twenty minutes each game I have until I must fall asleep. And I don't get that much free time anyway due to wageing. I really hate this libido stuff. It really defeats my every notion of rationality, since I basically can't dedicate myself to anything at all because all I do is think about fucking some hot succs from whatever hot anime/manga I watched/read last.

 No.309035

>>309020
>>309012
Thanks for the reminders to take my magnesium pills and to discuss my { libido | gooning}. As for my libido, it's very low. I don't visit sites with "xxx" or "porn" or "[fetish reference here]" in their names. Thanks for reminding me I am not alone in that trait.

 No.309039

fuck everything

 No.309040

>>308343
A sickness is setting in. My thoughts sink towards decay and the biological inevitability of such. It is likely I will get cancer of some kind and die in a hospital bed.

 No.309041

>>309040
i feel like a buoy that can't decide if it's sinking or not. neuroticism is a death sentence


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 No.69387[Reply]

What's everyone's opinion on keeping a journal? I've been keeping one for 3 months now and it's a nice pass time.
I can write done my worries and look back on all the things I've accomplished

 No.69389

i have been doing so for two years maybe, lately i migrated to an online blog. previously i used obsidian, which all in all was better but i wanted to learn how to create a website from the ground up.
now i am kinda bummed out about not being able to write super personal stuff. maybe i will write regular thoughts offline, then share a toned down version online. the site is more like twitter, anyway. it is both my creative work and a place to share all other creations of mine.
>cringe fuel
oh, definitely. especially when you are bipolar and vent in your journal. but it is also a proof that a day happened. that those 24h werent lost just because your memory fails. it is also meditation and helps clear distraught thoughts.

 No.69390

Tried it several times in my life.
Never stuck to it.

Had interesting results when I kept a dream journal, mainly getting better at remembering my dreams and holding on to more details.
But even this wasn't enough for me to keep doing it consistently.

Thought maybe it was because I didn't like writing things down so tried making audio logs.
Did it like twice and never again.

Deep down, writing when I am likely the only one to see it feels utterly pointless to me.
I mainly/only write as a form of communicating ideas to others.
I don't really use it as a way of logging mundane memories. If something was memorable then I would remember it without needing to write it down.
If a memory fades then it's probably for the best that it faded.

 No.69391

>>69388
Cringe tho it may be at times I have figured out some important stuff reading through my journal and analyzing it, stuff I would have missed

 No.70860

>>69387
Your journaling experience may vary.

Jours are "days" in French so journalling literally refers to writing down how your days go. Writing down smart thoughts, ideas, and plans should not be in your journalling area of your book, you need a "planner", planning book for that.

 No.70862

I sometimes take notes of interesting thoughts I had during the day. I find this calming.


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 No.63593[Reply]

A Nasuverse Goyball Videogame.
The internet would become completely unusable for months.
It would open a floodgate of abominations that only God could close.
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 No.63596

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>>63594
But you still can torture black skin sims, play with genetics eugenics, play pure race based in incest or inter-familiar reproduction without genetics problems, ignore or kill jews or any set of specific race or by definition of your genetic idea (like just killing all the ugly or green skin sims) and making a harem and gentrification on purpose.
And yes, the community made mods for this in a EA mod. even child do this naturally on purpose while playing these game based in challenges and for them its completly innocent thing.
And the most game have a lot of nsfw mods of the most degenerate shit you can even imagine.
>>63595
Well, gta never changed anything in general, what you expect? its just America in a nutshell, from Mafias to ghetto experience. maybe the last game is a shit i dont know but looks alike. i liked San andreas and IV and stories. But i have the opinion that Rockstars did shit ports from console to pc and never fixed this.
>Also
I see these triple A games around Superheroes and villains and fps are a complety bullshit of total boring gameplay.

 No.63597

Are you implying nasuverse is normie or that it's not?

 No.63598

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>>63595
Twitter screencap response for twitter level discourse

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>>63597
By "Jewish idea” I meant the most cynical, profit-hungry crap you can imagine

 No.63600

>>63599
That's just regular fateslop. Do FGO even get non-nasuverse collabs? I can't remember. Anything they make will print money.


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 No.227827[Reply]

This is a thread to discuss God and religion. One I didn't see created.

What are your thoughts and views on God, if any?

My relationship with Him is complicated, as I used to be Christian but have far strayed and no longer worship Him to a certain extent.
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 No.229213

I have a super hot take to share anonymously.

Christianity is not *just a book* written by people. It's a demagoguery handbook on fallacies, apparently. (Beats the internationally found stories on a big dude who throws lightnings though)

Exhibit one. Mark's, Mattew's and John's parts of Evangelion say the same story which are a bit too similar one to another. There are neither natural discrepancies in testimonies nor serious differences in style made by people of different backgrounds. Instead, we got several stories on how The Kingdom is like X/an Y/an A. This teaches us an *ad nauseam* trick when the same story is written by a several students of the same writing school.

Exhibit two. The part where 5k people were fed with 3 fishes sounds unreal until you learn 3 400kg bluefin tunas can feed a lot of people and the unedible waste can take up several baskets. Talk about abusing people's ability to imagine.

Exhibit three. Basucally, Jesus kept holding a presentation after presentation, making various local priests ultra-mad. Yet those were *presentations*. That's why the Roman authorities were reluctant to intervene at first. However, it's the defining oneself as the king of the land that justified the cricification. It was a lesson for future demagogues to avoid defining oneself and keep being wishy-washy.

Exhibit four. The story about a madman named "The Legion" is a metaphor for a warmonger who sent a legion to capture a region. 2000 "pigs" died but the madman has quit being bad is a metaphor. War metaphor.

Bottom line: reading The Book is the best cure for Christianity. (Attributed to Mark Twain)

 No.229219

Hell awaits us all, because non-existence is heaven.

 No.229220

>>229213
>reading The Book is the best cure for Christianity
I've seen retards who read bits and pieces of it and never figured it out. Mark Twain underestimated how stupid people are.

 No.229224

>>229220
Most christians don't even read it and the ones who do don't even know that only the NT is the one that they have to follow and not the OT, since they're not paying attention. A lot of christian movements nowadays are NOT opposed to divorce, homosexual or premarital relationships, being rich or hurting kids in any given way even if these are the very few explicit rules that christians are supposed to actually follow. I wish mudslimes and jews behaved in the same way with their shit antisocial religions, it would save the entire world a lot of trouble.

 No.229225

>>229224
>wtf are orthodoxal xtians


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 No.324786[Reply]

I've been seeing this stated over and over again where people are saying large swaths of the kids these days are literally illiterate. Do you buy this? Is it really that bad?

If it is, what do you think will be the implications for future life? Are we wizards actually going to be better off simply because we are literate, or will that not even matter anymore because AI will now do all the thinking for society? I feel like people of all generations are becoming even more like cattle just being herded around by the tech companies these days. Are the zoom zooms and alphas their final product? A permanent underclass for the elites to exploit and rape? Really if people can't even read anymore, I shudder to think what might happen.
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 No.324837

>>324821
Personally I count writing as part of literacy too. Even on Reddit and other chans, you'll see shit like massive walls of text without a single comma or full stop, or weird misspellings of words because the writer only knows those words phonetically.

 No.324842

>>324836
"Asian" lumps in Indians, Pakistanis, Arabs, Afghans, etc., they need to separate East, South and West Asians.

 No.324843

>>324836
>US
How about just look at the rest of the world?

 No.324844

>>324821
Does this really exist, a large amount of people who are able to speak but not read?
This sounds like something from an underdeveloped third world country.
I would avoid people like that like the plague.

 No.324845

>>324844
>I would avoid people like that like the plague.
The thing is, it's getting harder and harder to get away from them each passing year, your hometown will be culturally enriched and you will enjoy it.


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 No.227831[Reply]

I think that today, autistic and witchy people have a huge advantage over neurotypical people. We have extensive knowledge on a wide variety of subjects, we are determined in the face of adversity, and even if we are socially awkward or find it difficult to talk to people (this is my case, I am socially isolated) we can come together in these spaces and stop forcing social contact with neighbors or parents who ask us for the umpteenth time why we still don't have any friends or a girlfriend. Personally, I'd rather go online to investigate the Epstein case than have friends, and I think that's the case for many of you here. The others are completely ridiculous with their social codes to follow. They restrict themselves in terms of intellectual capacity in a completely stupid way to appear socially acceptable because the norm prefers a dumb athlete to a brilliant intellectual. That's why most people prefer athletes like soccer players or basketball players to Gregori Perelman, who solved Poincaré's conjecture. This whole circus is completely ridiculous. People make fun of their neighbors when they themselves are stupid, but to reassure themselves, they say that others are stupid and criticize us because we are not “within the norm.” We do not accept the social contract imposed by popular dogma, which wants us to we criticize to reassure ourselves without accumulating knowledge. Also, do people really compare their time spent on TikTok or Instagram to the knowledge in books, articles, and other sources before criticizing others? Maybe we should look in the mirror and accept that we are trash in order to change and follow a virtuous path that respects others. That's why we're here discussing this: we need to create a close-knit community and distance ourselves from the idiots who criticize us, keeping only those who understand us.And besides, it's not AI that's going to save these idiots. They need to rediscover what it means to read books, to dream, and to use their brains.
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 No.228992

>>227831
>Personally, I'd rather go online to investigate the Epstein case than have

The 1990s "•f•r•i•e•n•d•s•" staple of topics to discuss is long gone from being hot, mate

Basically, the "we should fix the society somehow" motto is already enough to make friends. It used to be the case in 2000s Russia, in a sense.

 No.228993

>>228990
I'm talking about multiple characteristic behaviours and traits on the same person, not only a few.

 No.229013

>>228993
Multiple? Heh. Zero, despite being an even number, is not a natural number.

 No.229120

If you feel your efforts aren't being rewarded as much as you think you deserve, then perhaps try something else. Intelligence isn't the only skill you can cultivate; there are plenty of other things you can do.
Life is long you have plenty of time to learn and experience lot of different stuff, it would be sad to limit yourself to just one thing for some reason.

 No.229223

every thread about autism or adhd has to have a conspiracy-brained retard who doesn't believe in neurodevelopmental disorders or the field of psychiatry in general


/wiz/

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 No.227944[Reply]

wizards, this is a truly important question. how do you tell your mom, or anyone else for that matter, that you are really not interested in whatever female they think you should "befriend"?

i know you're going to troll me, but i still kindly ask you to find a second and think about what could be the *optimal* solution. the solution that doesn't burn bridges, doesn't create bitter enemies and yet lets you maintain the high ground. i know this is not fully achievable, but there gotta be an algorithm or something.

my brain just crashes in such situations. it's like "idk wtf are you're even talking about???" i need help
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 No.229215

>>229206
Yeah, imagine how fair society would be if due to a 50% coin flip at birth you could end up having zero rights.

Why aren't people flocking to Afghanistan en masse?

 No.229216

>>229214
*hits its weak poinr for MASSIVE DAMAGE*

 No.229217

>>229214

Giant Enemy Crab!

*hits its weak point for MASSIVE DAMAGE*

 No.229218

>>229215
The bigger irony is that men dont have that many rights either in Afganistan, as they get raped as boys and sold as slaves. But crabs are too mentally retarded to know shit 🤡

 No.229221

>>229215
Dude afgan is a hellhole of mindless brutality and violence. An omega crab isn't going to make it there.


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 No.308999[Reply]

Are there people here who don't have a job or don't get NEETbux and have to live with parents who are abusive and stupid as fuck but you just can't beat the crap out of them because you're dependent upon them?
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 No.309013

>>309000
is your father dead?

 No.309014

>>309013
yeah, i thought i made that clear…

>>309011
>do you get NEETbux in your country

yeah, but it's quite limited and i don't want to deal with all the bureaucracy and having to get an official psych diagnosis. i don't think mom would even let me do it because it would mean having to accept i'm a fucking invalid, she probably still believes i'm gonna grow out of this phase and become a normcuck and get married lol. i'm pretty much done tho, only thing that's keeping me going is some hobbies and the thought of ending it if it gets too much. i've completely given up on any kind of normalcy.

 No.309036

Having totalling retarded and out of touch boomer parents have destroyed any possibility of NEEThood I ever had. Technically I was NEET for nearly 6 months, but during that time I was applying for jobs and had a course lined up at the end of 6 months, so it doesn't count? Every single day my boomer dad would be saying worthless plattitudes. Telling me I'm clearly not asking for the manager and shaking their hands, says they can tell if I'm not going to be a good worker or not. He would stand by the doorway of stores just watching me interact with the manager/customer service people (blocking customers btw) and just scowl at me. Arms folded and grumbling to himself. We must have gone to over 500 locations locally and many places multiple times. He did eventually let up, he didn't want to admit how wrong he was about finding a job. This was all the way back in 2015.

"In this house if you don't work you dont play no video games!!"

"NO WORKY NO EATY"

"YOU NEED TO BE A MAN NOT A MOUSE"

Ironically I work way harder than he ever has now that I have a job. I've pulled 80 hours weeks, once did a 20 hour shift. I'd get home at 2am sometimes and he'd scream at me for being up so late. "I just got home from work dad, I finish at 2" he would grumble and reply that if I had a life I'd be asleep by now so I can wake up in time to go to the ice rink. We don't even fucking have one of those anymore. He also refuses to believe the hours I do, he thinks I'm out partying or something. He knows I do full time work atleast, but he's shown some skepticism as I can't afford a mortgage.. We live in one of the most expensive cities in the world (when accounting wages and stuff). He really is stuck in the 70s.

 No.309037

>>309000
I hate how dumb my parents are with money. My dad is usually ok with the standard stuff, if anything he's great. His shortcoming is getting scammed. He will pay a 5k repair bill on a 2k car. He paid 15k for a fence to be put on our property and I did my own research into it, the fence should have been 1~3k including labour, and people were saying 3k is even quite out there.

Mother is just full blown retarded. She once paid 30 dollars for a supermarket made pizza that just had sauce and grated cheese on top. She also wants to rennovate the house, the house they plan to sell in 5 years and the value is ONLY based on the land. SHe wants to spend around 100k all for it to be torn down. We aren't rich either, we've come into lump sums quite often. Lottery winnings, Inheritence, redundency yet it's all been pissed away. Mother would also spend like 2k a week on clothing and end up giving a lot of it away or selling it for 5 dollars a piece. We should have had enough wealth to live comfortably like royalty

 No.309038

>>309014
I just needed a check.
does your mother date someone?
I hope, if so, that man doesn't get to much annoying to you


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 No.309015[Reply]

I fucking hate being like that but that's my only defensive mechanism against others. I'm sure I don't even have a real personality because self-victimization is the only way how I react and act.
Also self-pity
we're the worst type of person someone can meet. it's on paar with manipulative personalities
I am weak,
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 No.309027

>>309026
Society is built on a few Big Lies

 No.309028

I don't understand where this desire to be seen as a victim comes from.

 No.309029

>>309028
there is no desire. society judges your complaints as either valid or not. you are not a victim if you're a wizard. you are a victim if you're brown or female. that's all.

 No.309030

>>309028
it's a self-defense mechanism. by self-victimize yourself, you're telling someone you are weak and not worth being the targets of bad things they want to do to you. it also comes from fear

 No.309034

>>309015
It's "honest" (in brackets).
You can say to someone who doesn't mean to bully you it hurts already hoping civilized people to back off before some kind of a treatening to sue over moral damages arises. Soyboys are especially good at that.

Unfortunately, it does not *deter* bullies. If you are some kind of manipulator who collects evidence for possible lawsuits, you're golden, and so is your lawyer. If you're honestly asking to leave you alone with this victimization of yourself, you're in the wrong… spot.


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 No.309031[Reply]

whenever you're depressed or sad, come here and draw something using Oekaki. you can draw whatever you want

 No.309032

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 No.309033

oaky cafee


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 No.222729[Reply]

So, my fellow hoomans, does happy +25 NEETs still exist or is now only doom and gloomy views? What happen to the happiness that one feels when finally got the elusive NEETbux? What happen to the happy go luck older NEETs that instead of fighting fate (or tired of trying) just accepted his lot and try to find happiness on his piece of life? Now I only see "buuu huuu I'm le sad NEET". Where are those happy content older NEETs or all online NEETs now are just depressed neurotic people?
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 No.226029

>+25 years old NEETs
>Now I only see "buuu huuu I'm le sad NEET".
I don't see how that's surprising. If you're a +25 years old NEET, as I am, you likely have some kind of mental illness. Regardless of what you think of society, and how much you think that being a NEET is right / good for you, you're still going to suffer from your mental illness. You can even avoid calling it an illness, and use some other words. But the reality is that you're not going to feel ok.
Even normalfags suffer, let alone a mentally ill NEET that has crossed the 25 mark.

If you tell me you're a NEET and DON'T have a mental illness, well, I don't know, that sounds weird.

>>223002
>The anxiety around NEETbux potentially being taken away was worse for me than just working.
This seems quite the overstatement.

 No.226088

>>226029
That's funny, I was a neet in 21-23.

 No.227569

>>222770
Your situation is very similar to mine except I live with my mother and my degree is just entirely online.

 No.229210

>>222729
Actually, yeah!

I do feel happy right now. Happy as in satisfied, that's for sure

 No.229212

I'm a legit hikineet, I don't get neetbux so I just leech off my parents. I find the lifestyle quite comfortable, socializing was never for me so I don't feel like I lost anything in that regard, if you gave me a billion dollars the only things I'd change would be my house (in Monaco), being capable of leaving the house to take a walk while feeling safe, and slightly my diet. When parents die and money runs out I will have to choose whether I commit suicide, live off charity or become a minimum wageslave, but I think there's at least more than a decade for that to happen. In the meantime I'm working on a personal project that may give me money or not but I will enjoy it regardless. I'm not more afraid of the future than the average guy is, death comes sooner or later.


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 No.62503[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Any type of writing is allowed, from lyrics, to poetry, to essays, and anything in between.

Last Thread:
https://www.wizchan.org/hob/featured/res/46012.html

Some discussion starters for the thread:

>What are you writing right now?

>What's your favorite thing to write about?

>Is there anything important about writing that you wish you knew earlier?

>What literary devices do you implement in your writing?

>Is there anything that you're planning to improve on in your writing?
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 No.70597

>>69706
edgy/10

 No.70606

>>70596
shit I misremembered, I read a different book by Dostoevsky called The House of the Dead, the entire book is about life in a prison. I'm sorry my mind is a mess right now.

 No.70607

>>69706
you want to be cioran but for that one must spend so much more time alone and have insomnia and be old to truly become a pessimists

 No.70858

I've started trying to write a fantasy novel. It's hard to write though. I knew it would be since I'm brand new at it and you can't expect to be good at something you are just starting out at, but it's still a frustrating feeling to realize everything I'm writing is shit and yet I still have to keep crapping it out anyway.

I've realized I'm overly verbose. Has always been a problem of mine and it's becoming a problem for the narration of the story. I think I can probably cut a lot of fat in my next draft and hopefully I should be able to improve some.

 No.70859

>>70858
do you mind telling us the summary of your book?


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 No.228815[Reply]

Does somewiz know what happens after death..? I don't like procrastinating very much now. I'd really like to know what I'm getting into.
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 No.228845

>>228815
yeah i know about the afterlife
after death you simultaneously gain and lose a lot of freedom
your soul which was free in a way in this life becomes trapped in a way after you die
like if you only did scummy stuff like ripping off people and bullying it's this stuff forever, no way to ever become a good person
good people become trapped too in a way, no more 'succumbing to temptation' and shit
at the same time you gain a lot of freedom, basically do what you want forever without the pains of the body and sickness and stuff, must be really comfy compared to the struggle of the living, within your alotted place for your soul which cannot change anymore in a certain way

 No.228887

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=px4NcLb88F8

 No.228889

You can't "not exist". Even if it takes billions of years for consciousness to form again after you die, it wont be "you".

"You" will just be inside a clump of cells called a body in an instant after you die. Somewhere else on the planet or in the universe.

If you snap back into this planet as a human, it all starts over roughly at age 2-3 when you first start forming permanent memories. Everything before that will be a distant haze.

 No.228931

I forgot I made this thread

 No.229209

Do we really have all this consciousness just to go poof? That's fucked up man.


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 No.324657[Reply]

I had a strange bizarre dream
>People stop having children but jobs are plentiful
>for some reason, a crisis related to a rare disease breaks out
>there isn’t as much immigration anymore (to bring in cheap labor) bacause of fear of this rare disease, the robots and AI tech are too much cost to use in favor of jobs.
>The world government establishes a totalitarian regime in which it forces people to marry and have children (in an absolute non-religion context just a state owned thing maybe based in laws)
>furthermore, if people are unable to do so on their own, the government steps in to ensure it happens by assigning you a partner (regardless of your sexuality) and guaranteeing you a job at some facility or specialized work related to your first years of studies, knowledge or a factory job.
>as well as housing, and you’ll likely have to move from your hometown and daily routine to a working-class neighborhood or related structure to the working force that the economy need if its the case of your job
>The entire scheme of life now is related to you get a partner and a job and a family and sons to keep repeating the cycle, they dont have interest in family problems or wathever you do with your life, they just want to you to just to have job, sons and give more to the raise the economy.
>If you oppose the government or don't have a partner or children, you are arrested and declared a social outcast and a good-for-nothing
>In this process, a digital credit system begins to be used, in which there are the married, those with children, and the outcasts. Logically, the latter have no rights to anything, and the former enjoy more benefits—although in reality there isn’t much difference in benefits beyond the typical economic gains associated with modern social class.
>Outcasts can reintegrate into society under certain conditions regarding work, children, and family—if they meet those conditions.
>Adoptions are made easier with even greater oversight by government officials and agencies, even for infertile individuals or even for other schemes of families.
How would this affect the world or evPost too long. Click here to view the full text.
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>>324662
It's honestly incredible that this advertisement is real and actually existed. Stunning and brave even

 No.324791

>>324668
I can't help but think the white pair of lips belongs to a gal while the black pair of lips belong to, well, a male.

 No.324797

>>324791
Mutt's law

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>>324662
Wow… I cant believe its been so long. I think I'll look back to the 2016-2025 as the surreal lolcow DEI era…

>>324668
Same as you. I'm looking back and realizing how surreal and ridiculous this was, when back then I just kind of dismissed it as nothing significant.

 No.324820

Mark my words, this will be a real thing in China within a decade. At least for succubi.
They're still at the "we will pay you to have kids" phase, but once their succubi keep being succubi, married to and dependant on the state while chasing an unrealistically high standard in their extramarital dating life, they will move to the stick rather than the carrot.


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 No.68295[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Book discussion. Tell us what you're reading.
Previous threads:
>>64932
>>60032
>>54504
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 No.70715

>>70712
>>70713
>>70714
The Leibowitz readalong was just the guy suggesting it and me so it was not much of a book club. Are you the Leibowitz guy? I thought you hated the readalong from your posting tone because it was awkward with just two people. I'll probably join another readalong though because I like that it gave me a routine.

>do we wait until more wizards show up?
This place is dead but I think the reason you missed the readalong was because we were posting in the general reading thread. Maybe if we make new thread with eye-catching picture and kept it bump to the top of /all/ everyday you'd get one extra wizard.

 No.70717

>>70715
Yup that's me. I didn't hate it at all, it was a nice experience. I had tried before with another book but nobody showed up. Leibowitz was a success as far as I see it.

Well if you guys want a thread just for The Pastel City I'll do it. We'll start this week. Maybe more people will join.

 No.70795

>>70715
>this place is dead
Unlike /dep/, he-he

 No.70810

finished reading 'à rebours' from Huysmans. the book is about a rich guy who lives alone with it's maids and butlers and hens basically a NEET and has a lot of intellectual ramblings but hens also sick. doctors say because he's a reclusive lifestyle and what he needs is to go out like normalfags do but he don't want to and at the end he must go and interact with other people
I was lost when I read the beggining but the ending chapters were more understandable. it's a ok book. I think it would belong to wizard core books with NHK

 No.70856

>>70855
It depends on what prospective you're starting with and the one you want to have.


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 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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 No.229087

>>229084
yes
this is a single way people think in a specific scenario
you can think of different scenarios
even different ways of asking it rudely
no information is gained
AI only seems useful for things like generating short stories or hypothetical scenarios like this
doesn't seem like a golden age of AI is coming to me
anyway good you find this pleasant

 No.229095

>>229087
>>229087
Here's the trick: if a wizard asks Bing "why "aren't you lonely" question is ugly" then said wizard probably already has some kind of predisposition towards "aren't you lonely". Perhaps, the wizard has already made up his mind the very "aren't you lonely" felt had just ugly - that's something Bing, an easily accessible search engine, would be expected to treat as something that bothers a person. Hope you understand my point. Welp, your point seem to make some sense too since some people tend to overreact to the slightest things- been there, had to through the hoops of improving my life.

 No.229098

>>229095
clever

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>>227119
The things I'd do with Ran would make the hardened person crack.

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>>229201
No…

Oh no no no…

Calm down sir…

Calm down…

Just let it go…

Leave her alone…

Sir, you don't have to do this…


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 No.44099[Reply]

Liru is a werewolf princess from the Netherworld.

Liru is a wonderful werewolf and I love her! ❤️

 No.44129

A.I slop

 No.44163

>>44129
this
>>44099
AI kewl stuff goes to /hob/ to Stable Diffusion threda

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>>44129
Care to draw better since you think the image of Liru is so poor.

 No.44366

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Liru will live forever!


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 No.322725[Reply]

i've seen a few wizards who don't seem healthy.

is too bad because being healthy is easy once you know what matters.
the practice of being healthy i have reduced to managing of habits:

you constantly manage your habits. you find out what they are by doing the opposite of being in autopilot. manual flight. then you imagine the long term consequences of each habit. then you decide if you want those, the development of a desired state. keep the desirable habits, reduce all those you don't want through constant attention on your habits.

as you do this you might stumble upon ways to improve upon the desirable habits. this is almost already doing the next thing, which is finding good new habits to practice and slowly wondering when you have time to do them.

it is up to you to be healthy, it is an option, you can make this happen if you so choose. health is one choice away.
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 No.324511

I like to go out for a run about four times a week if it isn't raining out there. Sometimes, I can only run two or three times a week. It's better to run in the morning since after doing it you can see the whole day in front of you, it's like it expands

 No.324524

>>324511
>I like to go out for a run about four times a week if it isn't raining out there. Sometimes, I can only run two or three times a week.

that's amazing. currently i am not really running but doing 2 or more 30-60min walks per day but what you do i believe to be even better because when you go fora run you sweat more.

>It's better to run in the morning since after doing it you can see the whole day in front of you, it's like it expands

yeah i have noticed the same thing, when i exhaust myself a bit early in the day, i can make way better use of the day. i am in the process of slowly adjusting myself to getting up earlier to around 7am after being a nightowl for many years, i believe this helps too because the human body is somewhat of a plant and benefits from being exposed to natural sunlight. life at night is possible but i believe humans are meant to be up during the daylight to get sunshine on the skin.

 No.324711

>>324451
i wish the dude in your picture had a more pure approach because the costumes and theatrics are cheapening the genuine ability this dude bothered to cultivate. it looks so silly and childish but the discipline necessary to become able to do the physical feats would have been impressive to me otherwise. i suspect this is done to appeal to females who are too brainwashed into relating to the bright advertisement world to care about anything that isn't obvious.

 No.324790

>>323821
Noted: a blender (usb-c portable variant) > alle.

 No.324800

>>324790
>Noted: a blender (usb-c portable variant) > alle.

other ones looked so small so i think i found a nice one … until the battery becomes weak and then i am hoping i can change it. no idea what the battery inside looks like.

i think aldi sold one once and i regret not buying it but it was probably also a small one.

i am happy to report i did use it to drink so much lemon and banana smoothie that i effortlessly reached this state of always feeling cold, which i only managed to reach through many days of eating nothing and only drinking self-made fruit juice. was unpleasant because it was winter where i was. this cooling of the body is so pleasant in the summer.


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 No.226320[Reply]

What do you guys think of Prison Planet Theory ?

Some people are so fed up with suffering on earth, so they came up with this theory to cope with reality
personally I think it kind of overlaps with the wizards philosophy

there is even a subreddit dedicated to it
https://www.reddit.com/r/EscapingPrisonPlanet/
and people seriously thinks they are prisoner in this planet
and thats their energy is being harvested by aliens
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 No.228347

>>226320
>Prison Planet Theory
Gnostic ideas reworked, right?
like the old Marxist with some things they want to explain around material things without too much proof…
Sometimes i belive Matrix films and UFO things just gave more ideas to these schizos, but still sound fun and that's matter.

 No.228354

it's more like a farm than a prison

 No.229193

>>228354
what if both

 No.229194

>>228354
>>229193
who would be the farmer and who is the warden then?

cus >>228057
it's more than just socio-economic prison. Human culture probably just mimics the same mechanism. But consciousness itself is inside the prison of existence like >>228346 says

Trying to comprehend the cosmic horror that immaterial ghost would feel is kind of overwhelming…

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>>229194
There is no alien farmer. Only elite human ones. If you're not the one earning $500m+ a year through dividends and ownership, you're the one being farmed.

If your ancestral home of 400 years isn't a 3000m2 castle with English gardens, you're the one being farmed.

If you have to work 8 hours a day to evade homelessness, you guessed it.

And nearly every fucking human alive on this planet is being farmed by said Rothschilds, Habsburgs, Grosvenors and Medici descendants and their cadet branches.

Most prisoners have to accept working for $1-10 an hour or face starving to death.


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