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File: 1702905627519.pdf (14.18 MB, The Way to Live.pdf)

 No.66929[Reply]

Post rare/interesting pdfs

Does anyone else have a huge library of pdfs that they have collected over the years?
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 No.70116

more pdfs about neet/hikikomori please

 No.70117

>>70116
Share some of the ones that you have found!

 No.70118

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>>70117
I'm trying to find testimonies of hikikomori but can't find

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>>66929
I like pdfs

 No.70734

Does anyone have the cookbook some wizard posted ages ago?


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 No.308855[Reply]

Does anyone else envy those people who say "I have 12\6\4 (etc) month to live"?
Imagine KNOWING for sure -more or less- how many time you have left; all the impunity, courage, quickness and nimbleness, resolution and firmness, with which you would do anything and everything.
I envy such people!
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 No.308857

>>308856
I'm TERRIFIED of poverty.And of having to live moderately for decades.
if I'm told "you die in 5 months", I KNOW I can splurge ,then die.

 No.308858

>>308857
You can splurge right now and die if that's any comfort.

 No.308859

>>308858
It's not the same, there's something about being cursed by wasting diseases that makes even killers afraid

 No.308860

>>308858
I literally can't convince my monkey brain to off my own self.

 No.308861

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


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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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>>324420
Those are competitive bodybuilders who push their body to the extreme on top of being on steroids. You are not going to get health problems by just training normally. If anything getting big muscles is so hard even people who want and try to have them have trouble getting them.

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>>322760
This dude is inspiring.
and yes, the dude in the picrel same.

 No.324487

>>324423
>Still an absolutely unhinged way to convey your message.

mouthpleasure man, they rather have mouthpleasure then feeling like a god.

 No.324490

>>324435
>You are not going to get health problems by just training normally.

i don't believe this to be true. you are not gonna have health problems if you have muscles because you live an active physical life and do gardening and farming but these laboratory muscles from the gym and the way people who go to the gym typically eat i believe to be a different beast.

>If anything getting big muscles is so hard even people who want and try to have them have trouble getting them.

maybe this is the body expressing his preference for being genuine, graceful and fully functioning over being a vanity machine that seeks to impress for disgraceful reasons of self-aggrandizement. i think the body wants you to be Bruce Lee and not Arnold.

 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


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 No.229036[Reply]

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


If you read about monks, they are basically IRL wuxia cultivator.
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 No.229050

>>229042
>let's imitate the speech of a forum composed by indopakistani teenage homosexuals to own teh normies

 No.229051

>>229042
>it's great because it shows that virgins can get a hold of the culture any time they want
you sound childish. like you still care about normals and their "culture" far too much. sour grapes.

 No.229056

>>229036
I've reached the opposite conclusion.
Arrogance, ego is what you need to increase as much as possible for better general well being.

>If you read about monks, they are basically IRL wuxia cultivator.
They aren't. They just cope with that since becoming a monk is a way for the "loser/outcast" to attain status and social validation. Take part in some retreats, listen to some of them preach of whatever religion and you'll find them not at all different than the common folk.

 No.229057

>>229056
>They just cope with that since becoming a monk is a way for the "loser/outcast" to attain status and social validation
Why I'm not a monk
>not at all different than the common folk
But they are different even if they are not nobility - quit trying to drag everything down to the lowest denominator

 No.229058

>>229057
Yeah you are right. They are actually worse.
Most commoners don't seek exuberant levels of veneration or respect for offering nothing of value and being arguably a net negative in cases where they just parrot nonsense from distant cultures without true understanding.


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 No.54625[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Previous thread: >>25265
>The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy organizes scholars from around the world in philosophy and related disciplines to create and maintain an up-to-date reference work.
https://plato.stanford.edu/index.html
>List of unsolved problems in philosophy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_problems_in_philosophy
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 No.70614

>>70612
>ChubbyPepe baby googoogaga tradcath inspirational softcover book list
>I'm a crusader, guys!

 No.70616

>>70612
it's religion, not philosophy

 No.70617

>>70616
In philosophy of religion, it is called classical theism.

 No.70732

>>70533
> Socrates didn't right anything

Plato wrote the Socrates' thoughts anyway

 No.70733

>>70732
He wrote in a way to suit his own purposes.


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 No.229038[Reply]

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

https://www.verywellmind.com/erik-eriksons-stages-of-psychosocial-development-2795740
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 No.229047

>>229046

Consider however that the 19th century had:

Strict and largely inescapable career paths - if you even got into one.

Limited education, but with largely uniform (two tier) content optimised for market value OR strategic thinking

Large and active family groups with further social development expected when it wasn't explicitly required by the local culture (e.g. freemasons lodges, workplace unions, church socials, pubs etc.)

true for most ages of humanity, with the 19th century also having:

Consistent and dramatic expansion of resources under management

New industries invented in the space of a year with immense economic consequence

all of those combined did the work in the image as second and third order effects. In the modern age where the majority of families end in divorce, where the average period of continuous employment is 4-5 years, where entire industries shut down overnight, where communities are actively balkanised and managed as a resource to be exploited and where labour unions are painted as a hostile foreign force - all of those steps have to be taken intentionally.

 No.229049

>>229046
Stunted adults maybe

How many people do you think actually get a chance to fully develop?

The vast majority of people do not have emotional intelligence

 No.229052

>>229038
Hilarious to be in the second "bad" part of each of these.

I hit 30 not too long ago, been trying to see if there is anything at all that I could reasonably do to change.
Feel like for the most part I'm already set in stone. Every "improvement" feels fake and deep down I know I'd just be pretending.

I hate these things because to me it looks like more analysis, more observation, reaching the same conclusions that I am fundamentally broken in ways I can't undo.

Maybe I'm too feeble minded to properly use these things, but I don't believe mental work can undo what real physical things did to you. idk if that makes any sense.
Searching for solutions inside your head when it's your head that is an accumulation of all kinds of problems.
Can't think myself into becoming unstunted.

Since you say therapy helped, would you be willing to expand on how and why? You mention the realization, so? What was the actual solution to that?
Reading through your link to me it looks like just another way one can look at cause and effect. As with most psych shit I never see the fix.

 No.229054

fascinating, i wanna read that when i'm sober but the picture has been thought-provoking already in a unsober state!

 No.229055

>>229049
most of humanity was hanging on by their fingernails and scraping by and procreating before their brains even fully develop that ability for that level of EQ…
and by the time they reach that point, stress from raising a family under the conditions usually defers that emotional work for the next generation, and so the cycle of samsara continues


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 No.228138[Reply]

Stepped on the scale today and realized that despite the initial "push" from a medical crisis a year ago, I basically regained all weight I lost (minus 5-10kg).
I also realized I've been working for almost 3 years now, going to be 30 the same week I'll hit my 3 years of work too.
3 years… of wages wasted.

I don't even know what the fuck I spent most of it on. It just escapes me.
Still live with mom and all my necessities are taken care of she takes nothing from me.
I had a blessed opportunity these past 3 years to save up for the dogshit future that hit the world now and I wasted it on toys and basically indulging all I couldn't as a NEET with no money.
The worst is that since I'm an impulsive retard I mostly have nothing to show for it either.

Health is even more fucked then ever before since I never took action.
Rather every action that didn't prove fruitful or flat out failed resulted in my absolute surrender for another month or three or six…
Absolutely defeated at the starting line basically.

To get to the point of this thread. Those of you that live a decently structured, responsible and stable life, how?
I barely have a sense of time. Kinda like when I was a NEET, just instead of 12-16 hours of sleeping and then PC stuff I'm forced to work a rather easy, blessed job.
Once it passes I just feel like I'm teleported to the next shift until I get to sleep through a weekend and months pass.
Even chronic pains don't make me act much. What does one even do to live?

The worst part really is that so many years went down the drain and I really have nothing to show for it. Not even memories.
I want to at least look back on SOMETHING fondly when I'm dying someday.
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>>228968
>I do prefer to be pacified through daydreams and entertainment though.

that to me sounds like the gravity of your escapist habits trying to weigh you down. i hope you reach the point where you make your actual real life so enjoyable that you don't want to flee it anymore but i am nobody to give this advice, every few weeks or months i take a few days and binge some strategy or management pc-game, which is partly fleeing from my life for a short while but also kind of mental training i believe.

 No.229008

I think all those people you see doing "hard" or "boring" goals are still doing exactly what they want. It's just that their unique psychology is structured to make productive tasks coincide with their wants. Like the chad who grows up in a sports family and his father always talks about discipline or whatever. He builds up this model of physical hard work. He ends up becoming this fitness freak, again doing exactly what he wants.

Then there's wizards. they are doing what they want already. It just doesn't usually coincide with what a normie calls "productive." we are not machines. so you can't just be like: these goals i will achieve no matter what. in reality, you'll only do the things you really want. So like, people who lose weight… maybe they end up having others look down on them to such an extent that the desire to prove them wrong is greater than the desire to eat pizza. Still, doing what you want. I don't think human can really do anything outside of what they want. you need a reason that isn't bullshit. most people don't have any reason to do stuff so they just stagnate.

anyway, my reason is to hurt niggers, and thats what keeps me going.

 No.229009

>>229008
>I don't think human can really do anything outside of what they want. you need a reason that isn't bullshit.

being healthy isn't bullshit. your proud tradition of living outside of responsibility is though.

just think it through all the way and experience it once and you will know that being healthy is worth the price of admission. no pizza tastes as good as being healthy feels, no candy can come close to being thin and feeling light as a feather. the feeling of ability outshines every tasty treat that the factory can come up with.

you just live your life wrong and you will say everything not to look like the fool that you are behaving like. probably the advertisement that filled your brain with wrong images. like good-looking thin people eating garbage, that's one of the worst images that is clouding your perception because outside of advertisement, the unhealthy food is eaten by people who are visibly unhealthy and this would otherwise repel you if you weren't drip-fed lies by advertisement how there are healthy people eating trash. there aren't, those are actors.

 No.229026

>>229009
I agree with you but you have to understand people's psychology is different. like right now im working on multiple projects to hopefully make lots of $ again. i just lay in my bed all day doing research. i work from the time i get up to when i sleep. i dont have time to even cook properly so i just eat crap. my priorities are different to yours. id love to do fitness stuff but not everyone wants the same things. thats kind of what i was getting at with the op. you cant force your priorities. either you want to do something and you do it, or you don't. most fat people have other priorities over getting healthy even if they say they want to do it.

 No.229053

>>229026
>I agree with you but you have to understand people's psychology is different. like right now im working on multiple projects to hopefully make lots of $ again.

stupid reason but whatever

>i just lay in my bed all day doing research.

why you are lying in the bed though, a human body that is properly maintained will be more able to to research, how do you even type a keyboard when you are lying in bed, aren't your arms in all the wrong places?

>i work from the time i get up to when i sleep. i dont have time to even cook properly so i just eat crap.

you shouldn't cook food anyways. that's a modern invention that the body does better without. i only eat fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds and i don't cook, i just cut, blend and/or spice.

>my priorities are different to yours. id love to do fitness stuff but not everyone wants the same things.

yeah you want money because you think you can throw money at problems and you will believe that right until the point you understand that people want to tentacle you in monetary transactions.

>thats kind of what i was getting at with the op. you cant force your priorities. either you want to do something and you do it, or you don't.

i hope your research will someday lead you to the conclusion that your priorities are short sighted.
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 No.322550[Reply]

So wizzies who are familiar with this stuff, is it worth the time and effort? From what I've read most of the darknet or darkweb or wtf is just dead sites, with occasional illegal things here and there. As someone who is just curious and want to pass the time, is it worth the risk of checking out? How do you even find stuff there? WHAT IS EVEN THERE? What are your experiences with it?
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 No.324458

I don't think there is much down there except the infamous illegal stuff. It's not really incorporated in the structure of the internet, imagine youtube, 4cuck and other mainstream sites hosting onion links and other darknet stuff alongside their main like they do with mobile by default, it would be privacy-heaven.

 No.324467

>>324458
>imagine youtube, 4cuck and other mainstream sites hosting onion links and other darknet stuff alongside their main like they do with mobile by default, it would be privacy-heaven.
problem with tor/darknet is there no way to moderate anything, not like you can ip ban anyone

 No.324484

>>324467
Being banned is a violation of our privacy and freedoms

 No.324485

>>324484
When you post on a website it's not your right to post there. It's a privilege. You're posting on another guy's bills.
And I also guess you're fine with websites being raided and spammed with CP?

 No.324510

>>324484
>privacy and freedoms
those are spook , as the other giy would say


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 No.65927[Reply]

Here we discuss and speak of dreams that we had or the kind of dream that we would want.
We don't discuss of lucid dreaming.
I wanted to make this kind of thread as i do control them in how they will work but once inside i let the dream go and work his own doing.
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 No.70573

>>70465
Average armed Ameriburger who wishes someone would break into their house

 No.70574

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I play a lot of multiplayer military shooters that aim for realism in the way weapons are handled, and I also do shooting sports IRL. This gives me a lot of dreams in which I'm just an armed soldier tasked with doing mundane military tasks or going and killing communists. Being an actual warrior in these dreams is cool but sometimes the dreams lean more to the videogame side and I end up dying because I'm lagging out or the controls are being unresponsive. Like you know how men have dreams about punching people but the dream doesn't always let the punch really land? I keep needing to shoot communists but the gun isn't working. Last night was a case of me needing to set up a radio on the field but it kept being red and translucent to indicate that it couldn't be placed there, and I died trying to find a place where the game would let me set it up. Then the dream went realism mode and I was shooting at bad guys (Slavs) who were holed up in a building, but then I found out there were also nice cats and dogs in the building too and I may have harmed them so I woke myself up by killing myself.

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>>65927
I once had a dream i fucked you mama

 No.70688

Sometimes, I dream about cheese…

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>>70577
pff pff pff

but i would never ever ever ever hire one


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 No.308831[Reply]

There is nothing worse than being dumb, yet smart enough to know the fact that you are dumb. I am constantly forced to live with knowing that i am too stupid to handle even the simplest of tasks, everytime somebody corrects me on something obvious that i should have known i feel so fucking worthless.
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 No.308838

>>308836
What, so you can make fun of him?

 No.308839

can relate. advice: suffer better

 No.308851

>>308838
I am not like that. I want to understand well, i think he might be exaggerating

 No.308853

>>308851
Well havent checked into this site in a while but let me give you some examples
>i messed up some cookies at the local cafeteria i work at by cutting some of them too small,an then repeated that some mistake
>i didnt know how a coffee machine worked since i never drink coffee
>my room and my daily routines are incredibly disorganized

 No.308854

>>308853
just as I expected, you're exaggerating. those are things that you will learn to do well over time. Obviously, you don't know how to do something without previous experience. If people expect to you know things that you don't know, it isn't your problem


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 No.33619[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

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

This is why warhammer roleplay and castle drachenfels will always be superior
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>>70680
There wasn't a good reason, it's just that I tend to focus on the negative side of anything I'm doing. I quit because I thought I was going to dedicate myself to reading more books, but of course, in the end, I barely read shit anyways and now I'm outta game. I'll probably find a new group on Roll20.

How long did it take you to call it quits with your campaign? I hope you had fun with it. Maybe it's best to have shortish games that end after some months so people can recharge, instead of turning it into a fucking religion the way me and the guys were doing. The first couple of weeks after I left I truly felt like I had escaped from a cult. And now I want back into the fold. I'm almost inclined to give a hollow laugh.

I prefer strict rules myself, but I'm not dead set on them. I do very strongly prefer no fudging to save the characters, no matter what. You can only have true consequences from your decisions if the world is not conspiring in favor of the PCs.

>>70679
It is fun. It's way better than any video game out there, that's for sure.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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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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WE'LL START TOMORROW!

Hey wizzas, tomorrow we'll start reading The Pastel City together, a weird fiction book. Check this thread if you're interested.

>>70720
Nice to have you on board wizzie. Rule 6 of Wizchan says one must not link to any content illegal in the United States of America, so I won't link anything here. But anyone interested in downloading a copy of the book instead of using the archive.org links provided in the OP can very, very easily find it online. I just checked, and it literally took me less than 20 seconds to find a PDF copy through a simple Google search.

>>70723
The Pastel City is considered a gem of weird fiction, but I can understand it not being for everyone. People really like Dune for example and I don't care for it at all. That said, I'm happy you're giving it a shot! The prologue is just a quick history of the world in very broad strokes, the actual story doesn't read like that. I hope you'll manage to immerse yourself in the novel as the days go by.

 No.70726

I'll be joining you guys. Found it on Annas Archive, though my file seems to have a few formatting quirks or misspellings here and there. Read the prologue, the set up seems interesting enough. Looking forward to reading it.

 No.70727

where did you meet two other wizards, on shitcord?

 No.70728

>>70718
I'm one more wiznog for this, wouldn't mind reading another fantasy book (with an interesting twist?)

 No.70729

>>70726
Cool! Thanks for joining. If you dig some more I'm sure you can find a cleaner copy. anna can be a tad disorganized, try libgen.

>>70727
>>68295

>>70728
Thanks for joining wizza. It's a science fantasy novel, there's always weird stuff going on in these. We'll see!


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 No.228407[Reply]

Why is anime so engraved into this site and this kind of culture? Is it just the cause of the succubi or cause japan had the crab culture first?
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>>228994
Lucky Star i'm not so sure qualifies, given:

More than one of the older succubi characters are shown to be in dead end careers/relationships or "losers"
Konata's mom dying was a significant factor
There's more than one instance of "classism" in the agitator's sense and it's intentionally highlighted
the Boke Tsukkomi routines are occasionally more mean spirited

Lucky Star is I think far more a gag manga derivative, where the goal is to manufacture contrast and comedic conflict, whereas plain Moeshit and CGDCT shows "a better world" and emphasises one small part of it

the one that *kills* me is Nonon-biyori, because it is a superb presentation of "a better world" that strikes particularly close to home as I had the benefit of living something very much like it on multiple axes. The contrast of having *lived* this and then been compelled to join the artificial rat race with its filth and machine induced hopelessness makes it much more obvious how someone could be convinced to fight for a reality like that.

If you've never experienced a peaceful, clean, safe, slow life with opportunities before you, respectable ancestors behind, and genuine optimism about the future, getting to experience it through fiction could be a traumatic experience that changes your world view.

It's why I can't finish Nononbiyori, it's painful to be reminded that once the good life it represents was real and common - and we can never have it again.

 No.229033

>>228974
that's not dialup - as in POTS dialling modem as opposed to dedicated internet lines

Dialup is 1994-1999, when 1 GB was, if you were lucky, 2 days on 48~kbps

Crysis was 2007, not remotely in the same era of internet infrastructure

 No.229034

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

 No.229040

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

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

 No.229048

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

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


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 No.308772[Reply]

I’m starting to question who I really am; I feel like I’m losing my mind as memories of my painful past come flooding back. I don’t know who to talk to—who I can actually trust. It feels like no one understands what I’m going through. They tell me I’ll be fine, but I don’t feel fine at all. Every day, every moment—it feels like an endless, vicious cycle. I’m exhausted by all of this, yet I try to appear strong so no one sees me as weak. I know it’s frustrating; I hate everything—the past, the future, everything. It’s all the same; nothing ever changes.

 No.308773

>>308772
sorry you're in the depths right now and it's hard (or impossible) to see a light at the end of the tunnel where you have relief.

Do you have fluctuations in this feeling are there days that somehow you feel back to normal, even if it's fleeting?

Do you want more questions, advice, or something in particular? I can say i relate to the vague yet pervasive existential dread you're experiencing, but i also know being in the thick of it is hard to listen to advice or anything.

Like the fact that there's a grain of truth in what people have said: "you'll be fine" - cus in a sense you got through yesterday's battle - you were technically fine. So what's really going on?

 No.308782

no one will help you
you can trust no one
normies are semi-retarded
the body is a parasyte feeding off the real you
isolation, distrust, paranoia and suicide are good things

 No.308786

It's as if you're crawling in your skin, yes? And the wounds… They will not heal, yes? Maybe go outside. Find something to hate that actually needs to be hated instead of hating yourself.

 No.308791

it'll go away in a few years. the torment never stays the same. something else will give you pain instead

 No.308852

>>308772
I wonder if your food, while tasty, lacks *wellness* which may do some shenanigans to your body, bullshitting you into stress response over some weird deficiency of some bullshit vitamin or microelement.


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 No.308343[Reply]

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

Previous: >>307210
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 No.308813

yeah well it's a little too warm to be honest. i don't normally have much awareness of things around me, but with all this heat and lack of air conditioning anywhere in my life it feels like… you know what it feels like. it's hard to move and i am absolutely not capable of thinking whatsoever

 No.308826

at 34, i have accepted that there is nothing left for me but to rot and pray my psych meds keep me sane enough to not go on a psychotic rampage. i will regret every opportunity i fumbled, every relationship i sabotaged for the rest of my miserable existence.

 No.308827

If they remade It's a Wonderful Life for modern times, it would just be George Bailey's job getting replaced by some indian guy from Blackrock. His wife would have met some other guy on tindr and the town would still go to shit anyway.

 No.308828

>>308810
Is your back okay?

 No.308850

never been so hopelessly depressed. its one thing to feel shit and at least hope for something, to have a potential route out. its another to get there only to lose it. like the train arrived at the platform but broke down 1/8th the way there. sometimes i think im the most miserable person in the entire world.


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 No.308814[Reply]

How do you deal with extreme public humiliation and a destroyed reputation? Shits suicide fuel
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 No.308844

>>308843
I don't really deny any of this. And genes do play a significant role, including in the development of temperament and reactions to traumatic social experiences, as in the OP. But how accurately can you predict something like this? Even if you're neurotic, you can certainly learn to cope with this. And you're unlikely to predict the success of the learning until you try.
Genetic testing can reveal a lot, but we still can't predict someone's fate 100%. Moreover, genes reveal more about predispositions.

 No.308846

Has anything really bad happened to any of you? Can you tell?
Because it happened to me. Probably the worst one possible.

 No.308847

>>308846
You first.

 No.308848

>>308846
>Probably the worst one possible.
i doubt it, but tell me

 No.308849

>>308844
>we still can't predict someone's fate 100
you don't need 100%, 98% is enough. the other 2% account for some physics shenanigans that aren't predictable mathematically, such as a car starting to skid and hitting you to death (the good outcome).


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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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I read The Face in the Frost. The first third is charming, and the first half is kinda interesting, but at some point you start wondering when the damn thing is going to end.

I think the reason is that this book has no real plot. The events don't build toward anything. Instead, it feels like a series of encounters with the not so weird world of wizardry. The story follows Prospero, a wizard, and his friend Roger Bacon, another wizard. Someone is out to get Prospero for reasons. It's mostly an excuse to send him on a journey, and by "journey" I mean he wanders from place to place without much purpose or direction. Something odd happens here, then something odd happens there. Rinse and repeat.

Most of the novel consists of descriptions of kitschy objects: a set of Tarot cards, a window frame, a coat, a painting of dogs playing poker. It's all very charming at first, but before long you realize that's really all there is to it. It's like overstaying in a gift shop. Lots of little silly things to look at but in the end it's pretty much all junk and you feel like leaving.

I almost gave up on it, but I kept going, wondering whether it would eventually make sense or end up saying something. Nope. The big bad loses in a very dull way, there's a tea party, and then it's over.


Anyway I began reading A MUCH better book. Dare I say it's actually good, something rare for Sword and Sorcery stuff. It's called The Pastel City. It's short, too, so I'm wondering if anyone is interested in reading along like I did with A Canticle for Leibowitz. Let me know if that's something you guys want to do again.

 No.70713

>>70712
Kinda amazing that I read Leibowitz in the same time period and i completely missed this thread. I'm down for the pastel city! The short introduction from wikipedia is really cool. I really love the premises of fantasy worlds with remains of ancient technologically advanced civilizations.
How does that work though, do we wait until more wizards show up?

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>>70713
Well, holy shit, pardon my French. I didn't expect a response, and certainly not one just minutes later. Nice, thanks for that.

Let's give it a couple of days so more wizzies can see this post. Meanwhile, I'll be putting together the spreadsheet with the chapters and dates so we can all follow along. I'm already looking forward to it.

HEY EVERYONE. WE HERE AT THE WIZBOOKCLUB DO BE READING THE PASTEL CITY, STARTING IN A COUPLE OF DAYS. DON'T MISS OUT! JOIN NOW!

Check this thread if you want to know how it works. We did it with A Canticle for Leibowitz. It's quite simple: I post a spreadsheet with the reading schedule, and we all follow along. We talk about the book, but you don't have to post if you don't want to. Let's have some fun.

 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.


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 No.303736[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

You will still be stuck browsing this thread in 2026 edition

previous>>296811
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 No.308820

how does heat affect your wageing? it probably sounds inane, but i really have a very hard time moving when it's too hot and i absolutely can't think for the life of me. no matter how hard i try i just can't adjust. this affects my affairs in a very bad way.

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>>308764
>23
You are very young. Things can get so much worse.

>>308820
>it probably sounds inane
It only seems "inane" because the kikes have programmed you to think that way. They don't care if your body is destroyed as long as they get value from it.>I'm only 23

 No.308830

>>308829
damn kikes and their eugenics.

 No.308833

>>308820
Work has a habit of running the place at 74-79 degrees all year round for us (they have commercial AC, the bosses just never leave their 68 degree offices and don't care). That means I just work slow and always carry a small piece of equipment to 'look busy' in case they do wander out of their cushy towers.

 No.308845

I would recommend a technical sales gig. All my co workers detects the autism, and gave the natural reaction normies gave to autists, especially the wom*n and feminized "men". But fortunately I managed to held on to this gig. Overall a very comfy pseudo NEET job. You need to make rather frequent visits to customer, which paradoxically I can do really since without any lingering personal attachments, it appears I have internalized such interactions the way a gamer approach a conversation simulator.


I might even say I do be better in a sense than some of my co-workers in building relationships with customers, for some reason the opposite is happens when it comes to customers, I could shut my mouth most of the time, merely picking the correct conversation options, and they just seem to naturally like me for some reason.


The ultimate perk of this job is technical conversations blend with a bit of a personal touch increase that affinity bar as well if not more than casual conversation. Anyway, as long as you do reasonably ok to maintain your accounts and keep up appearances, you should be ok.

Anyway, you do need to accustomed yourself to replying to messages confidently, and drive to places. Which is comfy, I can listen orthodox saints/ schizotube/ crabtube/ history-geopolitictube/ 40k tube on the way. A lot of decision making responsibility fell to you, but this is still managable, as long as you're fine with management, they were the ultimate fell guy if things go wrong.

Since you are basically your own boss day to day, its more forgiving for neurodivergents. The chanllenges of a white collar job for adhd is still there, but you have more room to mitigate these.


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 No.30172[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

This is a highly underrated, extremely fun series that can occasionally get pretty sad and heavy. No one talks about this hidden gem enough.
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 No.42843

>>42839
>I wish I was autistic enough to enjoy those sorts of anime.
The capacity to feel endearment for children, especially little succubi, is owed to a developed neofrontal cortex, specifically the amygdala. Autists (real ones) have small sized and/or low synapse activity of the entire region. So to be autistic is to not enjoy these types of anime.

Stop conflating autism with having any semblance of healthy male personality.

 No.42849

>>42843
>neofrontal cortex
it doesn't exist

 No.42851

>>42849
It exists.

 No.44346

>>30215
>>34547
Seethe trannies lmao

 No.44347

>>32557
Saeed please, don't try to make it look like you're a recognizable celebrity


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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.70132

>>70129
IIRC optical disks are immune to "digital rot" aka sudden switches from 0 to 1 from space radiation (weak, but random) so they are a *niche* data savers now

 No.70699

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Here's a research paper from the Canadian government about the longevity of various types of laser discs. CD-Rs are rated as the most durable, even with the most common dye made today (azo dye, 20-50 years). Dye is extremely important and yes, you guessed it right: it was better 20 years ago.
Laser discs are more durable than the rated longevity of hard disks (SSDs and flash drives are not even worth considering).
https://publications.gc.ca/site/eng/9.882573/publication.html

 No.70708

>>70699
I actually had dvds full of anime I burned back in 2006 dye rot on me, these days I use RAID and duplicate servers.

 No.70709

>>70708
Checks out, I guess you used DVD-R and the durability is 10-20 years

 No.70710

I remember this seemed like a fun thing to do back in 2010.
However I can easily store my stuff on 512 gb microsd cards now.
Using discs to archive seems tedious and retrotechy to me


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