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 No.324954[Reply]

What new nations will materialize, which ones will re-materialize?
What countries will unite, which ones will disintegrate?
Will the EU fully federalize?
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 No.324979

>>324978
Tasked to push the gray nations to the ideal state is the exemplary student of China. He will go around and about all of Africa and ASEAN, building and building and building and building and building and building, cutting the trees, paving the roads, getting the expressways ready, getting the trains and HSRs prepared, and so on for as long as it takes to get these grays to a state akin to Japan.
Once they're all there, China will be elevated to a 'spiritual spectator' state. It will then kick back and relax as a share of all the work it did across the world comes back to feed it, and it will pitch in just a bit in the World Game.

 No.324980

there will be no new nations
I can see these strange constructions arising though where a corporation owns and controls cities in third world countries where it effectively becomes a micronation

 No.324982

It is astonishing that through all the length of this thread NO WIZ has observed that JEWS have world government, or rather Jews have had world government for well over 100 years. The whole world is captured by a singular satanic judeo-phoenician cult. There are no independent nation-states left. Iran is jewish. China is jewish. Russia is jewish. USA is jewish. UK is jewish. France is jewish. Spain is jewish. All such claimed rivalry between nations is jewish theatre (which can be used to further thin the numbers of the stupid goyim with tricks like false flag attacks).

Any country that had a goyvid campaign, has a jewish terrorist government ruling over them. This is axiomatic now.

 No.324983

>>324982
>It is astonishing that through all the length of this thread NO WIZ has observed that JEWS have world government,
Yeah and it's crazy how in the photography thread nobody has yet to point out that the sky is blue

 No.324984

>>324982
Miles Mathis schizo has arrived.



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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.324962

>>324959
I agree. And they had a legitimate concern because memory HAS gotten significantly worse over time. Even within my life time people lost the ability to store 7 digit random numbers, because we just store them inside the phone and carry "our" phone with us rather than use whatever phone is nearby.
Humanity always figures something out. But I get the feeling I will be dead before the disturbance caused by hooking everyone up to a global communication/storage network is sorted.

 No.324964

>>324947
Nigerians have the idea in their head that the best way to get rich is to have a lot of children and then hope of of them becomes a millionaire.

 No.324973

>>324964
That sounds like playing the lottery, except it takes at least 18 years to check your ticket.

 No.324974

>>324973
Well, for farmers it takes a lot less time than that. This is an attitude that primarily agricultural societies have because the more children you have, the more workers on your farm you have and the more money you can make. Child labor is the norm on farms and always has been. Nigeria is transitioning from a primarily agricultural society to a primarily urbanized society. Same transition the rest of the world did when it urbanized. African countries are just farther behind so the attitudes have yet to shift, but they will eventually like they did everywhere else.

Child labor is worse than adult labor (from the point of how productive they can be), and the more sophisticated and developed your society becomes the more true this becomes as the gap between the earnings of an adult and a child grow so large that most developed economies don't have children work at all so they can focus on education. Under these dynamics, more children become a burden to the household as parents have to work to support their children, so they naturally have fewer children.

 No.324981

>>324959
>>324962
Homer never existed. Omeros/Homerus was a group of men whose purpose was psychological control through making popular narrative propaganda (be a good serf, seek glory in war and die). Even the historicity of the dramatic matter of the poems themselves was long ago called into question by certain Greeks (eg, Herodotus). And the issue of the creation of the Homeric canon remains controverted because really there is no-one who knows exactly when these spoken war fables first entered broad consciousness, let alone when they would have been compiled into one lettered system and from there having discovered pockets of literate readership that could have memorized them. Because of this, the belief in the wide dispersal of these poems on the assumed strength of an earlier unattested oral tradition should be doubted.

>Even written books are a mental crutch compared to rote memorized poetic epics. The ancients looked at the proliferation of books with suspicion.


There’s no evidence for any of this. Again, how many had the intelligence or education to actually memorize “poetic epics” composed in high literary ionic greek in any appreciable length? And why would ancient man have viewed the proliferation of nonfiction written material with suspicion? Besides have you ever studied the Homeric poems in Greek? They are an absolute narrative mess that feel like a patchwork of disconnected thoughts, varied language styles, illogical plot-lines, all made to agree with one another under an umbrella of obsessive thematic enforcement of the virtues of war. Does not our own modern day give proof of the true character of the homeric mythologies in that they are still being used to sell the praises of war to young men? It is this irresponsible dramatic focus placed by Homer on celebrating the “glories” of war that has always put me off of him. But instead of here quoting directly from “Homer” in evidence of my argument (which I won’t do, as I feel he/they were propagandists), examine by comparison some passages from out of the mock epic of the Batrachomyomachia (Frog-Mouse-Fight), which features an astonishingly similar writing style. This first passage homerically copies the tone of a human war-leader when delivering a spPost too long. Click here to view the full text.



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 No.228496[Reply]

Thesis:

Engagement with structurally advanced texts and excellent rhetoric trains and temporarily optimises the mind into recurring modes of organization, attention, abstraction, and inference; repeated exposure can temporarily or semi-durably bias cognition toward those modes independently of propositional content.

Or in simpler terms, in the same way that algebra & calculus trains the mind towards logical and methodical thought in the long term, I believe it's possible for works of illustration, music and literature to do so in the short term. If this is true, then it's advantageous to catalogue such art-efacts and optimise exposure to them.

I'm not talking about the first order; "no duh, I read something that told/reminded me of facts and now they're at the front of my attention" or involuntary emotional responses, I'm talking about the temporary mental structure. Meditation or such like, if it works, seems to work by selecting for facts and details, voluntarily emphasising inputs to get desired outputs. It should notionally be possible then, to exercise the mind in such a way that one or more patterns of thought and emphasis can be either cold stored, or reliably reconstructed with inputs on demand. I think genius lies in being able to do this at will and not rely on outside props, but i'm not a genius.

The inspiration for this idea came from reading Robert Carlyle in the morning and consequently having a very organised and effective day at work, but I've noticed it much earlier in the second and third novel of Kai Lung. In the later case, the pleasant but none-the-less non-trivial effort of very complex English usually leaves me in a "well spoken" state for quite some time. I originally put this down to simple mimicry but perhaps there's more to it.

Thoughts? Examples of useful material?

If this is true, consider the darker side - that it's possible to artificially construct and reinforce dysfunctional frames of mind, not just overloading the memory and attention with noise and conflict, but actually implant a structure of thought - at scale. If this was so, how well does it explain modernity.
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 No.228787

>>228748
>What I'm not really understanding is what you would try to get out of it. Snap your finger to be more outgoing an eloquent on demand?
>Learn more efficiently?
>Get into the "zone" for whatever task at hand instantly?

Exactly that. I've done it by accident enough times to notice a pattern and get meaningful comparisons when it comes to task outcomes.

Finding the structure of the phenomena, sourcing tools or procedures that support it, is what I'm looking to do.

It does appear to just be a branch of psychonautics, but I'd never heard of the concept before so thank you to those who responded.

>>228749
Not I

 No.229187

>>228496

i very much appreciate the topic of improvement but it seemed to me like the language you have chosen to communicate it generally did more to distract from it then to support it given how the average wizard is not a level-headed present-minded intellectual but a panicked bundle of worries. you may have hidden your message of improvement behind a wall of complexity from those who could benefit the most from it, which i doubt was your intention.

>Meditation or such like, if it works

you have never felt benefits of meditation? think of it as slowly turning the volume of an annoying background noise down that you were too absent-minded to notice and to realize that it has been the source of an irritation you have experienced and could not make sense of.

>It should notionally be possible then, to exercise the mind in such a way that one or more patterns of thought and emphasis can be either cold stored, or reliably reconstructed with inputs on demand.

this to me sound like the commentary of a half-conscious artificial intelligence currently in the process of receiving an update that is supposed to install agency.

yes you can store thoughts. why is that even worth mentioning to you? you could invent a long number and then learn it like a poem and then later you could recall it.

>I think genius lies in being able to do this at will and not rely on outside props, but i'm not a genius.


this very much sounds to me like you are unconscious to such a high degree that you don't even understand that there are unconscious parts to you. unconscious of unconsciousness itself. like a child that doesn't understand that behind a wall reality does not end but that it is simply not visible from the current perspective. that's something children understand while playing hide and seek. i am saying you might benefit from playing hide and seek with someone for half an hour once or twice.

 No.229188

>>228518
>I believe there is some higher order function that such a process of reading and understanding something either requires, or constructs. And that it is temporary or otherwise transient as the mind resets to a baseline. If so, learning is essentially an outcome of said structure's operation and I think that without the structure you only get rote knowledge.

there are a lot of factors that will influence your ability to make sense.
-your experience. you get better at anything you do repeatedly. if you have a history of already having made sense of things it becomes a quick and efficient process of looking at whatever you are dealing with from as many perspectives as you are able to view from and ask all the questions about it simultaneously. the more you do it, the more of your brain will light up.
-the health of your brain as an extension of the health of your organism ranging from how glued your brain is to how much electricity is available to your brain for this nervoussystem activity
-the amount of energy based on priority your body will unlock for the query, from a shallow quick search to a deep long constant thought-process
-how busy the brain currently is
-how active or inactive other processes are that might interfere, override or prevent nervoussystem activity
-how willing you and your body are to spend energy on the process

 No.229189

>>228585
>How wonderful would it be if by adding 20 hours of pre-learning exercise or self configuration

other then experiencing meditation, which you would very much enjoy, you would love how higher levels of human health feel in terms of mental clarity.

compared to a normal average person with normal industrial age habits: someone who knows how to optimize the health of the human organism is basically feeling super sayan without the exciting visuals though changes in hair color can be part of it.

 No.229308

>>228586
the more i looked into nlp and magick, the more repulsive advertisement became to me. it has gotten to the point that i no longer enter supermarkets that play music with advertisements in between, i can no longer bear it.



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 No.309140[Reply]

i also noticed this in other areas of life even family events people tend to target me for wrongdoings but others do similar things and they face no repercussions.A good example of this is in middle school. I was pretty
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shy but sometimes did things that made kids laugh. what i began to
notice was sometimes id cross the line.whether it was being repetitive with a joke or something kids would get mad. There was a kid, Cam who was new to the school.He had good looks was good at basketball and was probably fucking horrible grades (assuming he got help from others which i saw a lot). after awhile i didnt do that well at getting other kids attention so id start to do annoying things to get some type of reaction.i would get in trouble or get told off by peers when i did these things. when cameron did them he faced little to no pushback or accountability. he also was i guess really close with a female teacher we had and i saw her let him off the hook for things i would be sent off for thousands of fucking times. i cant stand this shit seeing it almost daily it makes me so fucking tired of these sheep retards who let him do things i cant just because im not as good looking or good at some silly sport.
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 No.309175

>>309171
i do hate the game it’s completely bullshit and unfair.There will come a day when someone like me gets to humiliate someone like that well there won’t but it’s nice to think like that.

 No.309176

>>309174
Not that poster but actually I think this is funny and accurate. These kind of small failures are typical characteristic mistakes I keep reproducing in my life. t. 33 year old wiz

 No.309177


>>309176 that’s crazy 33 is nutz i’m 19.

 No.309178

I ate shit in the school parking lot and a group of succubi laughed at me, i still haven't recovered

 No.309179

>>309177
Pack it up unc, shouldn't you be at work



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 No.229293[Reply]

https://www.reddit.com/r/The10thDentist/comments/1uwqzt9/people_who_dont_need_to_work_shouldnt_be_expected/

Consider for a moment this thread. OP's argument is completely logical. For him working has no upside. His parents are wealthy enough that there is also no downside for them to supporting him. Logically then it makes much more sense for them to continue to support him, but if you look at the responses, people literally treat him as if he is some sort of criminal for simply wanting to maximize his own happiness.


This all boils down to the fact that people in this instance arrive at their conclusion not through logic, but rather through instincts that have evolved and been broadly passed down through the group. In this case there is a mismatch between the current societal conditions and the conditions that lead to the instinct evolving.

For most of human history human society could simply not afford to support dead weight. It's obvious how a group could be dragged down by the attempt to do so. People who had the instinct to not try and support these leeches therefore ended up doing better and over time this instinct became wildely exhibited. It doesn't matter that things have changed since the industrial revolution. Because these things are decided by instinct not logic, pointing those things out will not change people's minds.

You can remind them that actually there aren't even enough jobs to go around, not that everyone is constantly working and we can't get enough stuff done to meet people's needs. It's literally the opposite now, but people still react as if it is a personal moral failing to not have a job.

This same dynamic can be observed in many different examples. Most of the problems of modern day society stem from normalfag's inability to realize when their thoughts are being driven by irrational instincts. I'm tired of living in a world run by such cattle. Reading threads like this just make me want to neck myself.
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 No.229303

>>229302
>they'd know that circumcision is a sexual torture ritual that permanently inhibits the brain development of every baby boy it is inflicted upon.
proof?

 No.229304

>>229303
Yep, there's plenty of it out there.

 No.229305

>>229293
>1m on private school tuition
His parents are dumb as fuck, with one million you can live a comfortable life from dividends alone, making way more than a stupid job

 No.229306

I think they just live in a very different world
I was just thinking the other day how every human can use speech and observe the world with their senses yet so many seem soulless normies

 No.229307

>>229305
Which again reinforces his point. If they're willing to spend that much for his benefit, it would be simpler to just give it to him so he can live his life. Doing all the work instead is pointless. The only point is to satisfy his parents desire to see him be normal.



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 No.309114[Reply]

>The more I seclude myself the more I long for human connection
>The more I interact with the 3D world the more I just want to be left alone
I literally cannot win in this life
I am always worried about doing the wrong thing, I am always lamenting all of my errors of the past
I hardly actually live
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 No.309120

>>309114
interesting as if the thing that is everpresent is the flipping coin itself, not the faces. who or what is the 'coin' and who or what is doing the flipping?

 No.309121

seclude yourself and create a tulpa.
or, seek out connection but in the right places. the average NPC isn't the right fit for a wizardly soul.

 No.309123

The meatspace is horrible and an illusion, the wired is just a dead end and a fantasy within a fantasy, what people really want is to escape being.

 No.309141

>>309116
smart answer
i always believed friendship was unworthy of any concern
people can not connect too much on a personal level
we are animals in the end.

 No.309170

>>309141
>friendship was unworthy of any concern
Philosophy says otherwise



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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.309087

>>309037
Maybe my "de jure only" parent is both combined, given how it was me who managed to fix the trashed apartment (financed).

 No.309088

>>309083
>Misery loves company
>see
Oh I wanna be around
To pick up the pieces…

 No.309168

>>309011
>You're absolutely right but what do you do if you're born in a shithole where there is absolutely no way to survive if you don't have parents

Most practical way would be to find a bunch of other neets and pool your bux to rent a house. With enough people the individual rent would be low. If you really live in some third world country there won't be as many regulations prohibiting stuff like this.

 No.309169

>>309168
>trusting other people
Are you serious right now, my nigger?



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 No.58061[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Previous thread >>53822

Thread for games you managed to finish and your thoughts on it.
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 No.63555

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Decided to give Hitman Blood Money a go for old times sake. Doesn't hold up as well as I thought.
My main gripe with it, is that I just don't think the missions are well-designed. For example, on the mission where you're in a suburb the guy you're tasked with killing is inside a house protected by FBI agents. Now to get inside that house the game provides you with ample choice.
You can knock out a clown and steal his disguise, or a catering guy, or a garbage man, or you can sneak around back by sedating the dog in the backyard. Even here there's choice because you can find something to sedate the dog in a nearby house or shoot it from a treehouse a house over. Sounds great right? Tons of agency, player choice, what more do you want. Well, the problem is that you can also acquire a FBI disguise right at the beginning of the mission, very easily in fact, which allows you to go anywhere you want, so there's absolutely no use for any of the other options.
In the second mission, you have to kill two dudes in an opera house. Right at the beginning of the mission one target goes on stage for rehearsal and the other target sits in a balcony and watches. What I found out, is that you can just shoot the opera singer target in the head with a silenced pistol, and throw a remote controlled mine up at the balcony and take out the other target. This way it took me literally under two minutes to finish the mission.
Now I suppose the intent is that you replay the missions, explore the environment, try different methods, get a higher ranking, etc. but to frank that's not something I care for at this stage in my gaming career. So you're just left with pretty dull and straightforward mission in what should be a very choice-laden game.
The game also doesn't really allow you to figure things out in a natural way. During the Mardi Grass level you start off in a hotel; in one of the rooms there's a guy in a crow costume which is something you need. In that room there's two succubi dancing. So what do you do? You can't distract them, so you just kind of awkwardly shoot them all and hope nobody hears, or go find some other avenue of approach.
I did exactly that, found one of my targets just wandering around a back alley, and killer her. Then I heard a guy on a walkie talkie say, that he was in "position" (the mission revolves around you preventing a political assassination). So, I went to where he said he was and easily killed him as well. Then I got tPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

 No.63556

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I played through Prey (2017). To be honest, this isn't my first attempt; I gave up on it a few years ago—I just got lost among all the options and the game's many systems, and deleted it after three hours. A lot depends on how you approach the game and what you expect from it. I thought—because I was misled—that this would be a Bioshock-style game set in space. While there are similarities, this game is first and foremost a completely unique immersive sim; if it can be compared to anything, it’s naturally the System Shock games.So my first attempt at the game was a failure; I ended up soft-locking myself. Now, years later, when I jumped back into it for the second time—more experienced and with a clearer head—it was a completely different experience from the very first moment. I approached it smartly, methodically, and tactically. And it was a completely different experience. I can say that the game completely hooked me within 15 hours.The game is beautiful; the developers have poured incredible energy into the environment, the storytelling, and the various connections between elements. Every day feels meaningful—even the story of the last NPC to die is woven into the narrative somewhere. It’s rare to come across a game into which the developers have poured so much energy and love.

 No.63557

>>63555
>Hitman blood money
The fun thing is killing mission people like a ghost or by accidents (max points and sometimes hard), go full postal or rambo, killing by background or explosions or put venon in things and using the sniper rifle in some places (you can upgrade more and more this weapon as you get unlocks by perfect points in missions same with other weapons) and collecting the weapons or trying exploits.
Or killing every one in map if you can.
Getting the routine of npc or doing every thing perfect at time feels too good like 47 was like a killer god or a paranornal dude (he was a experiment after all)
The news paper at end of missions is very funny.
Here 47 feels like a professional killer and not like a super spy in a film with batman vision like late games.
But yes, each level is too much rigid in structure at times. The house with the fbi van was one used for demo and in short have a lot of ways to play it even without costumes. Its very fast to do.
Some maps are damn big and take more study of npc actions or even minutes to complete. Its very realistic at this and i like the details of maps bacause are in a lot of ways real life places or situations. Some ways to enter or exit or even kill are more slow or fast or even more hard or safe.
Mods and exploits make everything more fun.

 No.63614

>>63557
>>63555
I wonder how well does the new Hitman games hold up. I grewn impatient for stealth while getting older and never went back for them. I have only played the older hitman games and only finished the very first one.

 No.63616

>>63614
The map and mission design in the World of Assassination trilogy is a lot better than the older games, but the trade-off is that Instinct and Opportunities/Mission Stories hold your hand way too much. You can certainly ignore Opportunities (and you pretty much have to if you want to SASO each mission), but the game is designed around Instinct as otherwise you will constantly walk into guards and enforcers that you have no way of pre-empting otherwise.
I also miss being able to customise weapons and upgrade gear, the unlock system in WoA doesn't scratch the same itch.
One minor thing that annoys me about WoA is that if you're disguised as a guard, other guards won't notice that you're carrying the wrong weapon. They used to in Blood Money.


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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.309117

I live brooding over past confrontations and aggressions I didn't have the balls at the time to stand up for. I think about getting revenge all day which is almost impossible since I don't have the physical and mental attributes yet to pull it off.

 No.309127

>>309117
yeah. you still can try gym, though

 No.309128

>>309113
this is a very good advice, people who have never visited the bottom of tooth rot don't know what they sing up for. it's horrible.

 No.309131

>>309113
Just eat and drink zero sugar. Problem solved.

 No.309144

>>309131
not really, but sugar is really bad for teeth, yeah


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 No.319697[Reply]

This thread is for discussion of electronics addiction.
It's also for opting in and discussion of limitation or complete absitenence.
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 No.324880

>>319709
>>319712
>>319770
>Don't you guys have headache and blurry vision after a while of staring at the PC?
you should get that checked out because that could be a sign of diabetes, macular degeneration, multiple sclerosis, corneal edema or glaucoma. i've been staring at a computer screen all day every day for the past 30+ years and have no issues. only time i have eye strain is if i turn off ambient light around screen (pitch black room) for too long or skip my sleep. as for headaches, i used to get chronic headaches (unrelated to screen time) but cured it with magnesium glycinate supplement

 No.324881

>>324880
> i've been staring at a computer screen all day every day for the past 30+ years and have no issues

CRT monitors cause eye strain you lying retard so if you were using them back then all day and everyday you definitely did experience some issues
It's been proven that crt can cause visual problems such as cvs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_vision_syndrome

 No.324963

Any moment when I am not getting dopamine feels horrible. The silence is immediately filled with disquiet. First come the negative thoughts. If you're lucky, you can gather enough focus to meditate and minimize the anxiety, but the uneasiness will still be there throughout all the breathing and mindfulness, nothing except being on the internet erases it completely. Besides I can't meditate the whole day. If there is no negative thoughts or meditation then I just drift and it's dull. It's so dull I makes feel like I am not leaving. It's like being half asleep or being drugged up. I guess the only way is really to find a different source of dopamine. Nothing will really top the internet/porn/media combo though. That's the best high I can hope for in life. Probably the closest thing to happiness I can feel even if just for a short moment. It's just not sustainable. Isn't it kind of fucked the reason addiction is bad is because it feels so good it makes you scared to face how shitty real life is?

 No.324965

>>324963
real life becomes shitty if you consume too many things that generate dopamine dependence. you need to get back the capacity of being at peace with the simplicity of the life. See, it is about being calm and aligned with the simplicity of life, not looking for pleasure, it comes as a result of a life well lived

 No.324972

>>324965
No, the shittiness of life is inherent. Pleasure just snaps you out of being used to the shittiness. It's like if you grab an African cobalt mine slave and makes him live like a Saudi sheikh for a day, only to throw him back into the mine. The dopamine only makes real life sucks by comparison and makes addicts go into denial of having to live in the real world. If you are rich enough to not care about real life responsibilities, the optimum life to maximize happiness is to hook yourself to a quick and easy dopamine source and forget about the real world. Sure hedonic treadmills and boredom exist, but those can be managed. Still, the optimum happiness producing lifestyle for the rich is definitely to not face the real world. That's just for poor people.



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 No.309084[Reply]

Anyone experienced getting fired from almost all jobs they ever had? I’ve failed at almost everything I ever had and got insulted before. Has anyone expirienced something similar
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 No.309093

>>309084
>insulted
My own father insulted me many times working with him. Imagine how useless made me feel that

 No.309099

>>309093
Is he a boomer by any chance?

 No.309122

>>309090
This is what I ended up with too OP.
It's a good job, as good as I can ever imagine having.

The only negative is the stress some people have from >>309091 , but I can tank it pretty fine since I don't care.
Job security comes from normies being unable to tolerate normies.

I just think of myself as some robot since I'm very rigid with how I talk to customers.
It's like, I got my little canned sentences that I can branch from a little depending on how things go and that's about it.
You get better at it, you add stuff to your vocabulary, expand the instruction set of your robot body or something, but all in all it's not very taxing mentally or physically.

I'm very grateful for the second half too since I let my body fall apart pretty bad.

Another job I was really good at was being a cashier.
The machine gave me the numbers for how much change to give back or how much money to take. You just move stuff from left to right or right to left.
I also just had some pretty much memorized repeat sentences I'd say to customers depending on what they say if any interaction was prompted besides hello/wouldyoulikesomeXYZ/goodbye.

Unfortunately these jobs seem to be disappearing. Cashier jobs are only like 1 / store and the rest is standing around the self checkouts 8 hours a day and running around on top of that.
Phone support jobs are getting AI replaced too for the most part.

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 No.309137

my stepmother made me feel dumber even though I graduate college. A lot of education systems nowadays is mostly about passing the buck rather than educating students. Most people in leadership positions are assholes and will immediately test you upon meeting you to determine if you are leadership material or another lamb they can slaughter or ignore.

 No.309139

>>309122
>I was fired a couple times because I "couldn't figure out obvious things". Basically anything that required my subjective judgement I fucked up too.
People complain about instruction manuals and guidebooks that are too verbose and treat you like an idiot, but a lot of those came about because the alternative was boomers with 40 years experience doing one thing and one thing only assuming what's obvious to them is just as obvious to the newbies that they've put zero effort into teaching.



/wiz/

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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.229226

>>229224
The only religion throughout history where people have read their own holy scriptures is judaism (torah).

Christians and muslims have been majority mentally retarded and early buddhists/hindus had very little access to the texts.

 No.229282

I literally cannot do any religious activity now after hearing this disgusting voice for so long, I have a history with Christianity though.
>>228298
Last thing I did before I started hearing this voice is coming to the following conclusion:
What is Jesus (God) actually doing?
He is explaining what you have to do if you wish to receive divine love.

 No.229288

>dysgenics proves that we are products of unintelligent evolution.
peak pseudointellectualism

 No.229290

>why do you not believe in god?
>are you some kind of atheist/physicalist?
Ask them this, can human morality exist in a vacuum? Can it exist without the threat of punishment from god? Can it exist without reasoning or logic, assuming all reasoning and logical can be inherently moral?

 No.229292

>>229290
Nobody said anything about morality. This isn't the own you think it is.



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 No.44369[Reply]

I know this is a controversial thing to say, but I learnt about the Japanese Imperial Family, and I felt so horrible in my own stomach knowing how the Japanese Emperor can't leave, even if he wants to. And the horrible treatment of his wife for not producing a male heir.

The Japanese Government's perspective regarding the Imperial Family is extremely horrible, they worship the beautiful throne but will not let the individuals who should be on that throne live in dignity to be honest. They are not even citizens and the Japanese Government only seems them as State Property.

At least the Princesses can marry commoners and leave if they want, the Empress can be divorced, but the Emperors and Prices can't even fucking leave, every single one of their moves is monitored, they are forced to perform unnecessary rituals, etc. I honestly, will get massively hated for this but life is significantly better in a trailer park than it is the Imperial Palace.

Honestly, if Japanese really revere their emperor they should force the government to give emperor basic human rights and freedom of movement. Like this really reminds me of when I read about GITMO tbh.

The only silver lining about learning this is that I unironically have more respect for my life in the third world country where I can go where I want, eat what I want, and speak what I want.
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 No.44371

oh no, poor rich people, you’re right wizzie your much better off in your third world mud hut with cows and flies outside your room

 No.44372

>>44371
I mean the guy doesn't even have a bank account. He's literally kept for decoration and can do nothing as family is tortured.

 No.44373

Did a jeet write this?

 No.44374

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>>44370
>The Meiji Restoration was a Jewish coup.

 No.44375

>>44374
Look into how the Japanese were able to prevail in the Russo-Japanese War i.e. British support and Jewish loans.



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 No.63216[Reply]

Games you played that were not as good as the mainstream masses/reviewers would had you believe.
Also games that were recommended by "patricians", that turned out to just be games that cater to their autistic taste.

While I didn't find the gameplay or aesthetic of borderlands bad. The writing is so god damn cringy, it's like a boomer trying to write something he thinks modern teens like. After 2 hour I just couldn't stand it anymore. Gearbox were veterans and they had the backing of 2K a major publisher, this was the best writer they could get?
The deigns of banished isn't bad. It just that it felt like doing homework instead of playing a fun game. Many hours of planning, trail and error. Only an autist could think about spending the weekend for this.
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 No.63574

>>63560
It's a miracle that it even manage to become a big name franchises.

 No.63611

>>63441
>>63443
>>63439
>it’s not a design flaw, it’s a feature to punish you for having lost to a boss

While its clear that the devs didn't want the checkpoint to be in the boss door (they could have just done so) and for the loss to mean something, I think its very questionable how much of this punishment and this design is intentional and not just sheer incompetence of the devs, that fans try to cover up with a excuse (its not a flaw, its a feature!), especially if we look at the DS1, that exploded in popularity and influenced their later titles.

There is a lot of indication that the devs didn't had enough time and resources to properly polish and finish DS1, like a noticeable drop in quality in everything past Anor Londo. We also have things like the Capra demon boss, where it seems like they couldn't be arsed or didn't had time to make proper mechanics, so they stuffed some stunlock dogs in tiny room with the demon (that would be extremely easy otherwise) and called it a day. Later games don't seem to have many things like this.

I didn't play Elden Ring, but from what I have seem in videos, its just open world DS with a new lore, and with checkpoints much closer to the boss rooms. Really curious change.

 No.63612

For me the single most overrated game was legend of zelda Breath of the Wild.

I kept waiting for it to get good and then I realized I had finished the game and I was like holy shit that was bad. The whole world is so damn empty and filled with the same tiny tiny number of enemies and things to do. All the puzzles are brain dead except for a couple which are only hard because they did illogical things not because the puzzle was actually hard.

I also found Red Dead Redeption 2 to be boring and shitty. My issues lay with the plot and the gameplay. The actual story of RDR2 is fucking boring and shitty, despite actually good writing when it comes to stuff like dialogue. This is a rather odd juxtaposition because typically people who can write well can do the whole thing well, but not in this case. Gameplay was just a slower clunkier feeling version of every other shooter out there with some GTA elements. The world was beautiful and exploring was the only fun part of the game, but it was only rewarded with little easter eggs not really any meaningful gameplay reward so it ends up feeling aimless a lot of the time.

 No.63613

>>63612
I was never really on board with open world games because of what you've described. The few I've played are either mostly empty, and the big world just inflates playtime via extra traversal time, or full of procedurally generated low quality shit that isn't fun to play or can be straight up broken because nobody play tested it.

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>>63612
>Breath of the Wild.
it's all right. I hate cell shading, but the food and climbing mechanisms are something I wish elder scrolls had. I got filtered storming Ganon castle when I realized how much I'd have to grind to get guardian arrows, plus their aesthetic ruins the fantasy setting.

>>63613
attached is a game that is UNDERrated, but its open world done right. A lot of games like shoving a morality system, but this is one of the few games left that encourages you to act like an asshole, which I think is essential if you want to truly enjoy an open world game. Otherwise avoiding civilian casualties just makes the game tedious and frustrating.



/hob/

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 No.64175[Reply]

anyone do this?

i burn discs, title them and then put them back on the spindle, so they stay in good condition

external hdds/sdd don't last very long
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 No.70884

>>70849
It's not about "work", its about not getting a sensitive file damaged because a single bit got damaged with a cosmic ray + the CRC sums not matching, as a result = having the whole file deemed as "damaged" (very important for data with high levels of compression, such as .rar or .mp4 files)

 No.70894

>>64175
kek I just did this considering how expensive memory is getting. Kinda bumed I burnt out my BlueRay burner because I couldn't find the original power adapter.

 No.70895

>>70884
that's largely the benefit of analogue medium, though there might be software tools that can repair bit rot to a certain degree. Though I have doubts how well that software would recognize obscure file formats.

 No.70896

>>64191
DVD's use aluminum? I know the problem with writable CD's is that they actually have a dye coating, and when you are "burning" the CD you are really just chemically changing the dye. Then the problem is the dye is organic based and will decay regardless of how well you protect the CD, especially if you leave it in sunlight.

 No.70897

>>64208
Even magnetic tape is. You really can't fuck it up unless you put a neodymium magnet right on top of it. And if you are worried about heat you are more likely to boil water that bake the magnetic moment directions.



/wiz/

 No.229116[Reply]

how do you feel about aging alone? no children, no wife, no family, minimum pension.
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 No.229186

>>229185
What made them your allies to begin with?
I don't get the sense of comradery just because we are all in hell. Not to mention the heat doesn't seem all that bad for lot of my "fellow humans".

 No.229191

>>229182
How many kids do you have?

 No.229192

>>229191
This is what I wanted to ask him too, but I didn't want to be an ass.
Thanks for doing it instead lmao

 No.229242

>>229192
*did't want to sound like an ass

 No.229291

its gonna suck having to lift heavy objects by myself, or asking for ride to places where I have to drop off a car. I'll probably go out like that found footage youtube video where some teenagers sneak into a derelict house full of trains and trash only to find a half decayed corpse lying in a chair.



/hob/

 No.67098[Reply]

Post youtube channels that are clearly made by a wiz, NEET or hikkis, and made for the same demographics and not for normies.
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 No.70094

50 minute video on warhammer 40k tanks. He inserts a mattress ad though.

 No.70890

don't mind me, just posting some comfy animal vids

 No.70891

>>70890
sorry, youtube fucking autoplay

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/wiz/

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 No.219448[Reply]

After hitting 30 this feeling has been eating me and I don't know how to resolve it. I started watching different youtube channels and it made me realize how much time I wasted staring at a screen when I could be experiencing the world and creating things. The 21st century offers so many possibilities and yet all I did was sit at home play video games and read inane garbage online. Now I always had depression, anxiety, social autism, adhd, average iq etc. that lead to me being an underachiever but nowadays it feels like I was just the right self-help book and meds/supplement combination and some effort away from solving all these issues.

I could start now but after hitting 30 I feel this sense of hopelessness after experiencing aging. I felt like shit in my 20s but now I realize I actually felt good. Now I tire easily and years of sitting made my body feel rusty. I feel like the youth shield is gone and I can't take the future for granted anymore and expect it to make it even to 40. Every time I experience a new pain or sensation I imagine it to be the start of something serious.

How do you deal with this? It feels like modern technology amplifies winners so if you are a loser it feels extra bad because there is such a big contrast between living with your parents and riding the bus and eating mac and cheese and living in a multi-million dollar mansion with a beautiful view and driving a ferrari and eating at 3 star restauraunts.
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>>228204
>Look at this society of murder and injustice
that's just the head of the snake. The world is forged with that energy but there is a wake behind it… there IS beauty in this world, peace, prosperity, harmony. It's just not at the head of the snake where evil lives and runs the world forward. It sucks that we have to live in their shadows but it is what it is, and there ARE ways to become immune to their aura and forge your own path.

Become your own head of the snake and start a new wave, or find one that is already out there and try to push more energy in that direction

 No.228385

>>228342
>there IS beauty in this world, peace, prosperity, harmony
I agree, people reject this by their own choice

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>>228471
>Lost my virginity
oh, ok. still i dont give a damn about it. you still can be philosophical Wizard maybe. you enjoyed it or want to do it again? well, maybe this is not the good place to talk about it if we go against the rules.
just dont troll about it, still i dont give a damn.
>and totally got stupid lucky with also having a real life friend group at the same time.
That's normal to me, good for you. even if are fake, autist or good for the health of your mind or group.
>here are absolutely draw backs that mentally fatigue you faster if you have no real life social group.
True
>Not having people in your life to be with and spend time with will atrophy your brain faster.
True
>This life truly is very meaningless and unfulfilling. And I want the wiz who wrote this post to know that you are not missing ANYTHING.
>Life sucks for everyone. Normalfags just pretend that it's not as bad it truly is. They absolutely lack intellectual depth and are a pain to be around.
True but you still can have fun and dont give a shit about it. The end is the same for all, call it absurd or enlightened positive nihilism or wathever.
Life is a joke and Absurd, just dont ruin it more.

 No.228984

>>219448
>How do you deal with this?

get away from the consumerism that ruined you and go towards being the creator that has the power to fix you

>take your life into your hands

>get interested in making good choices for yourself
>make full use of the day because that's your time which is your currency
>you don't run away from uncomfortable stuff because the time is so precious, you instead find ways to deal with the difficulties so that they don't take over your life

you have heard so many wise words, vast amounts of good information. just implement the good information to the best of your ability and watch everything get better around you.

 No.229289

Sometimes I think this, but I combat it by pointing out how much time I wasted on education, on trying hard, and doing the right thing, and still getting punished for it all. I just want to live the rest of my life quiet and happy, but it seems the world is determined I an hero myself.



/wiz/

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 No.227891[Reply]

Why don't you have a tulpa, anon?
You can cheat yourself out of loneliness by fostering a loving relationship with an imaginary friend.

Benefits of a tulpa,
>You can choose any shape or form for her.
>You will never feel alone.
>She will always show unconditional love.
>She will always follow you around.
>You can have sex without losing your virginity powers or contracting STDs.
>Costs absolutely nothing.
>Basically the 'ultimate' form of a waifu.
The only negative is the social stigma, which you can easily avoid by not revealing your powerlevel.

It was the best decision of my life. It feels so good to have someone take care of you, compliment you and physically comfort you.
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 No.228476

>>227891
not honest with myself enough

 No.229267

for a while this thread sat in the back of my mind… a new concept introduced…
then i started practicing more intentionally…

and it started working…

and then today, when i was feeling a really harsh emotion i turned to my tulpa but instead of feeling comfort, i got hit with devastating despair… 'i am resorting to tulpamancy to cope'. I knw it's not exactly 'maladaptive', but it's still not how i thought things would turn out. and now she's with me, so i guess it's how it's gonna be from now on…

 No.229271

>>229267
>and it started working…

how long have you been doing it?

>I knw it's not exactly 'maladaptive', but it's still not how i thought things would turn out. and now she's with me, so i guess it's how it's gonna be from now on…

I don't get you.. can you explain better? what does "maladaptive" mean?

 No.229283

>>229271
i mostly mean in context of:
>Maladaptive daydreaming is a psychological condition characterized by extensive, vivid, and compulsive daydreaming that replaces human interaction and interferes with academic, vocational, or social functioning.

the 'maladaptive' part comes from it interfering with those major pillars of life.

But i'm trying to construct a tulpa that is actually uplifting and motivating and supportive. And those areas of my life are already damaged so idk how 'maladaptive' it can be at this point.

>how long have you been doing it?

So far it's only been a week, still very much "forcing" it.
And the way it started working is subtle and mostly internal.
So far, the thing that is 'working' is only that i am consciously talking to HER instead of my INNER CRITIC more often throughout the day.

So having a dialogue with a nice inner voice is infinitely more encouraging than my normal unconscious mind, which only talks with my INNER CRITIC. When my auto-pilot mind runs and only talks to the INNER CRITIC, he makes me feel ashamed and incapable and more often to give up and just stay depressed.

 No.229287

>>229283
I see.
I tried that as well, and it didn't work for me. It didn't feel healthy, I felt I was going crazy. I'd recommend that you approach other people and try to make friends. It's harder but worth it and healthier than talking to yourself



/dep/

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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
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 No.309103

>>309100
what was the windiest wind you have ever been in?

 No.309106

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 No.309108

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meow meow
nya nya
im a passive submissive
retard~

 No.309112

cant even post

 No.309119

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