/wiz/ - Wizardry

Hello, fellow wizards! I have turned 30 today. Thought I'd celebrate the occasion by popping in to check this fine tower of wizardry. The rules say you only have to be 18 so I guess I could have posted here sooner but it feels more appropriate to be here having earned my cloak and hat. When do the magic powers kick in by the way? I want to speck into conjuration if possible. Having a little homunculus around to carry my stuff sounds nice.

Hello, wizards. I am 27 and today I got a job after 6 years of unemployment. (I worked when I was young). I feel so depressed that I go to work for pennies and without prospects and career growth for a penny position for pennies that I do not know what to do next in life. I will be paid 200 dollars a month. I am from Eastern Europe and from a small town, by the way. I do not even think that I will last there more than 3 months. I am silent about the team and other terrible places, as well as the working conditions. But then, I will probably buy myself a rope with the last money, when I work there for a long time. In any case, I can not sit at home as before (mom is old and sick), but I do not want to suffer anymore. I had nothing in my life, no money, no friends, no education, no future, no present, no past, I was humiliated at school, everyone humiliated me. So the rope is the best choice, in my opinion

Volcels, what if?
What if you could have the perfect succubus?
>she would always love you no matter what
>she would never betray you
>she would never nag
>she would never test you
>she would never insult or mock you
>she would never do anything you wouldn't want her to
If you could have such a succubus, would you still refuse to have sex with her?

If you admit to wanting sex with her, I won't consider it breaking any rules because such a succubus does not exist, and it's a fantasy on the same level as a 2D waifu.

It’s easy to assume that more money, more stuff, and more status will make us happier. That’s what we’re sold every day—on social media, in ads, in the way we talk about success But is it actually true?

I’ve seen videos of small villages in Africa where people live with almost nothing—no Wi-Fi, no fancy houses, no designer anything. And yet they laugh. They sing. They dance in the streets. They seem genuinely joyful. Not because they have everything, but maybe because they don’t Then I look around at places like California, where people live in luxury condos, drive $200k cars, and eat at places that cost more than some families make in a week. And still, depression and anxiety are everywhere. Even some of the richest, most famous people in the world—people we think have it all—end up feeling so empty that they take their own lives So what’s going on? Why do people with "nothing" seem happy, and people with "everything" feel lost?
Maybe happiness isn’t about what you have Maybe it’s about how connected you are—to other people, to yourself, to the moment you’re in Maybe we’ve just been chasing the wrong things Just something I’ve been thinking about. Curious what you think, too.

Is anyone else bothered by how much importance people place on sex?

I can't think of any other desire that you can satisfy entirely by yourself at no cost. And once you satisfy it you don't crave it anymore and might even feel disgust (aka post nut clarity/shame).

And yet because of sex people choose to ruin lives of others and their own, to ruin their health, to spend tons of money, to ruin relationships, to feel depressed and what affects me the most as wizard: also taint media with their horniness. Video games will have clearly cumbrained character design that looks stupid if you are not horny and if you criticize it you get called gay or a succubus. Movies have pointless sex scenes. They can't even comprehend people not being obsessed with sex 24/7. Imageboards are full with coomers shitposting and bitching and not getting laid.

Does no one else see how pointless it all is?

I finished school a decade ago. I will be 27 in a few months.
This thread is based on a similar one I saw about 2 years ago. I am a relatively new, and started using the board in 2021. As I got older, I came to the conclusion that the lack social skills, while essential to my personality, is not something that I can take pride in, or enjoy discussing, nor is my approaching middle age. If anything, I tend to be nostalgic about and idealize my youth when my chronic health problems were less evident. I am glad for you if this board somehow gave you catharsis, lifted you up, or blackpilled you in a profound way (if that is what you wanted), it’s just that I feel that wouldn’t fit in here (or any other imageboard). Some of the things you post here look like something I would come up with in my late teens or early 20s, back when I had the energy to take the memes too seriously.
>you’re not a true wizard if you don’t consume anime etc.
As if the action of wasting time on something else other than gook media would nullify the a(nti)social behavior acquired by a person over the years. I don’t get it, which probably has a lot to with me being more focused on survival rather than self expression since I’m a poorfag that lives in the shithole of *kraine (there are worse places to live in, I am obviously privileged since I do not work, and I do not deserve pity for personal reasons not directly related to the topic of this post).
I find that doomscrolling, be it normie comments under the youtube videos or the imageboards is detrimental for my sanity, and I would rather spend time on any type of escapism. Going offline for extended periods of time appears to be an even better option, but I don’t have the strength for it. Even wallowing in my thoughts as I attempt amateur psychoanalysis, while much like the doomscrolling, ultimately does not better my situation, is less harmful, because it lacks the aspect of repeating an action for a dopamine release.

So what's preventing you from improving your situation?

Today I watched a Youtube mini-documentary talking about a disabled guy with no hands or arms who hosts a successful podcast and before that for many years he had a youtube channel where he made re-action videos to soccer videos, his channel was big and successful and so is his current podcast, the documentary was talking about how that person managed to challenge his disability and be successsful praising him and all that, and it made me ask my self if this disabled person managed to make it (nothing about succubi or sex here) then how come I am a healthy guy with no excuses and still struggle to make anything or improve my miserable situtation?, there's gotta be something I can do for sure, if this guy with no arms managed to be very succesful then i sure should be able to do something fine, hell there are even blinde people who work in I.T teaching and even artistic work and medicine:
https://www.trade-schools.net/articles/jobs-for-blind-people

R.N, I am learning cyber-security on my own But I am not really consistent with it, sometimes I even ask if it's worth it to begin with.

I would like to discuss things that we do that increase our levels of well being and comfort throughout the day. What are some of the rituals and habits that you engage in that really make your solitary lives that much more enjoyable? For me I like to go on long walks in the mornings or evenings usually, when the sun isn't so strong. The fresh air and forest environment makes me relax automatically and it fills me with great pleasure that I am walking about without meeting a soul, while most other people are at work. Another thing that makes me feel warm inside is having a folder of old favorite game wallpapers/ingame screenshots that rotate as my desktop wallpaper throughout the day, so I am often reminded of the 'good old days' as it were. Whenever I have to go outside into town, I will wear regular clothes as to not stand out so when I return home there is a big satisfaction of slipping into my sweats, washing my hands and face like a ritual to leave behind that outside-part of my day. I also find there is nothing more comfortable than going to bed after being freshly showered. It really is the highlight of my days, especially since I bought a new mattress recently that finally doesn't give me back pain anymore.
Please feel free to share yours!

The path of the warrior are similar to the wizard way. Great warriors through the history were celibate.
A lonely man with his sword. Anyone?

What is the best charity for preventing male children especially babies from being circumcised? Particularly in wealthy western countries where running water and whatnot is universal and circumcision is totally unnecessary.

Approximately how much money does an individual have to donate to prevent one baby boy who would have otherwise been mutilated from being circumcised? Do intactivist charities with this level of data exist? There are very well studied effective altruist charities that have lots of research and randomized control trials that show they can save a human life from something like malaria for seven thousand dollars or less for example. Is there anything like this for intactivist charities?