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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.308357

>>308353
You say that but the boredom would have killed you. Torrenting took longer, Youtube wasn't around until 2006, 4chan was still kind of slow in 2004, and nothing on tv during the week except trash.

 No.308360

>>308352
where is this from?

 No.308361

>>308360
"We find that younger men reported in
creased happiness during the 2000s, despite stagnant wages, declining employment rates and
increased propensity to live with parents/relatives. This contrasts sharply with older men,
whose satisfaction clearly fell, tracking their decline in employment. We see this as suggestive
of a role for improved leisure options for younger men"

One major innovation in the mid 2000s was taking social interactions in general, and
video gaming in particular, online. Facebook, started in 2004, grew from 12 million users in
2006 to 360 million by 2009. Likewise, a generation of new video game consoles introduced in
2005 and 2006 allowed individuals to interact with others online.

https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w23552/w23552.pdf

It's argued that being chronically online makes NEETs happier, basically.

 No.308373

>>308298
Im more sympathetic to real world fuck ups like a boat crashing into something. There's probably a handful of crew doing the jobs of 5+ people AND carrying morons/lazy people.

Lol must have been funny to see those boomers seethe, but hey atleast those ones SHOULD be in touch with reality and understand what it's like. In my country most boomers retired around the late 2000s 2010s era, only the youngest of them are really still working. Soon as they retired, that's when all of the bonuses and workplace perks dried up. My dad currently works at a place with an entire department of boomers that demand, and get their old bonus (essentially an entire paycheck every 2 weeks) meanwhile the new hires get paid less than minimum wage, something about them being visa holders or something, some legal loophole is being used.

Backbreaking labor being done for 10 dollars an hour by new hire, meanwhile boomer sits in office, doesn't respond to calls and sometimes uses the forklift after insulting them for being lazy, he gets 25~35 an hour

 No.308386

>>308373

yea, it just gets worse and worse and worse,

no one wants to protest, or do unions or whatever , we re basically headed back to labor in early 1900s. Would be more worried but plan is to automate us all out of work.

i knew stuff was fucked when x mas eve and NYE became mandatory work days. Were Boomer sacred off days Forever, now its just , o its just another bla bla , improves productivity, can spend w/ your work family


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 No.308343[Reply]

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

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 No.308356

Boredom is one of those human ailments that isn't given proper consideration. Being depressed, lonely, poor, sick, these are "real" human problems, but being bored is just ignored. No one takes boredom seriously, despite the large amounts of human suffering it causes.

People spend much of their time trying to find a way to flee from boredom, and yet many don't even realize they ARE bored, like a society of people who are on painkillers 24/7, nobody would recognize that they are in pain. You only need distractions if you are, in fact, bored, and yet so few people admit to being bored, while at the same time actively running away from it! It's fucking absurd.

I'm extremely bored, and I find that being bored is one thing that can't be defeated with any amount of ingenuity or creativity or money or entertainment. It destroys the human soul.

 No.308362

>>308356
Boredom is the cause of a lot of drug and alcohol addictions. It's why it's the most impulsive normies most prone to boredom that get hooked.

Autists seem to have a very high tolerance to boredom and that's why they're in some sense blessed. I knew a guy years ago who said he was jealous about how I could just lose myself in a subject while he couldn't.

Schopenhauer is the one philosopher who gives boredom a proper place in his analysis, and sees it as basically the root of essential suffering. When we have satisfied every desire, boredom creeps in, it prevents us from actually ever being truly satisfied permanently, and sets in motion action.

 No.308368

>>308348
Dealing with silence?

Joke answer: blast Depeche Mode ("Enjoy the Silence" 2004 remix)

Serious answer, though: music disks titled "sounds of nature" were built to offer a decent background noise. Same for rain sounds.
Not sure if that belongs to /music/ or not.

 No.308369

>>308346
Spend more time at the gym.

 No.308385

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I have allowed to be hurt so much by normalpussies. No more.


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 No.324068[Reply]

I dont know how to cope that old internet is not coming back and that it will get worse for each year that goes by
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 No.324070

you could try re-creating the old internet. nothing is stopping you. you can still make phpBB forums, you can still make IRC channels, you can still host cs 1.6 servers. i bet there's more people like you than you think.

 No.324071

>>324070
cs 1.6 is shit, 1.5 was the last good version before gabe betrayed the community with cs 1.6 and steam

 No.324073

It's fitting considering the real world is declining at a much sharper rate. When age doxification is ubiquitous on every single place of the internet I will just cope with whatever media I've hoarded on my PC, along with trying a few creative hobbies. When real life is just as unbearable, I might go offline from that as well. Every single aspect of the time I was born in is so demoralizing that something I giggle at the thought of it.

 No.324076

The quality of the internet is pretty low on my list of priorities, man.
>>324071
You must bow down to Gabe.

 No.324077

Why do you believe that you need to "cope" with the loss? You're an adult with a computer. You can just work to bring it back.


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 No.305961[Reply]

I need no recognition, I want meaning, but education itseld doesn't give any. Being counscious of the simulation, how it works and why it exists gives a very weird feeling.

There are people who blames the rich, this and that, but the truth is that knowledge doesn't give any meaning and the slogan found in ultimate mortal kombat 3 does not make sense. In fact, knowledge of an anthill in your garden doesn't give you any power (that matters, anyway).

I'd like to go back in time, pick myself up violently against the wall, seeing eye to eye and say "IT IS ALL AN ILLUSION, A THEATER, AND YOU WILL BE TASKED TO MAINTAIN THIS ILLUSION AND YOU WILL HATE IT ALL".

If only a time machine wasn't one…

 No.305967

>>305966
Teaching is the most soulless job out there. If it ain't agriculture gunmaking, it's worthless

 No.305976

>>305968
Silly wiz, it should be "agriculture, gunmaking"

 No.305977

>>305968
>growing guns out of the soil?
Gunpowder can be made with nitrates washed from the soil, and carbon burnt from its foliage.

 No.308384

what a dumb shit I just read


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 No.307767[Reply]

>phone alarm wakes you up from blissful sleep
>you're in a warm comfy bed, under a warm blanket
>you bury your head under a blanket for 10 minutes but soon drag your ass out anyway
>drag your ass out to work, where everyone is very demanding and aggressive and hates you
>get back 10 hours later, having no energy to do anything
>do the same thing tomorrow again
I just want to sleep I'm tired of repeating the same morning torture ritual every day. If we weren't ruled by greedy subhumans we'd have 4 day work weeks by now.
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 No.308136

>>308105
I'm planning and preparing to become homeless one day. Any advice?

 No.308137

>>308136
prepare to suffer even more. there aren't many countries where being homeless is comfy.

 No.308375

On my weekends i dont even sleep well, cant enjoy sleeping in.

On the days i need to go to work, my bed is like it was personally made snuggly by god

 No.308376

>>308136
There's a lot of info online, just scrape off the normie mumbo jumbo they like to give. Don't trust any other homeless person either, don't make enemies but dont trust them. Often they are extremely mentally deranged or morally bankrupt and can hide it quite well.

Outside of literally surviving decently you'll need to pick up a pass time so you dont go crazy, hard to do as a homeless. Probably look on google maps where the best spots are. Ideally you want privacy but access to wifi.

 No.308383

>>307892
>For many people, freedom is only found within walls.
Freedom is only found within walls?
I don't understand what you are saying.


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 No.307689[Reply]

I am losing my motivation im gonna fail out of Uni
I dont really want to quit, but I have less and less energy
I am in a state of constant burnout despite doing nearly nothing
im such a failure
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 No.308363

>>307739
college is the ultimate neurodivergent filter. it doesn't test your intelligence, of course, it tests your ability to do things you don't like (work) and your sociability. this is true for the whole educational institution, but especially college. this makes it the final filter for autists, schizoids, and antisocial people in general. the educated echelons of society and their jobs hinge on socialization, networking, collaboration, etc. this becomes clear when you're in college.

i've been in college for two years now and i am certain i will not finish, i stay because it's free and i get a number of benefits. but finishing many obligatory classes involves socialization, working with people in projects, and this is unacceptable to me. I'm also required to write a research paper to get my degree, and this is not happening as it requires discussions with teachers, classmates, etc. ultimately my conclusion from college is that people like me don't have a place in functional society.

 No.308367

>>308363
>Schizoid
Hey that's me! And I agree completely with what you say to be honest, at least I'm not depressed anymore, if I was, college would have actually made me commit suicide.
It's been horrible to be honest, I can mask well enough to where people have no mayor issues working/interacting with me (they do know I'm not normal, and I've been told so a couple of times by normies) but I'm kinda masked and dissociated during and after class, genuinely I have to lay down for a good chunk of time, utterly defeated and tired after I get home from that shit.
Not only that, due to the anhedonia and apathy I don't give a shit about my degree (forced to get it by parents, I won't lol) and not only is my career hard as shit (medicine), it's super social so I'm genuinely dying, the worst part is of course I'm not built for this career or higher education in general (always hated studying and the education system as a whole) but my parents really want me to get a degree and I'm a leech in a third world country, so what can I really do, not like it matters too much when I'm home as I just bury myself in my hobbies, I don't really derive much pleasure from them mind you, like barely a bit here and there but they're a good way to burn time till I eventually die, and overall better than watching paint dry while I daydream.

Anyways, I relate to what you say, college ain't built for people with certain mental illnesses, especially if they have no drive/desire for that education to begin with, but well, not like we can do much, and working isn't particularly better, we genuinely are not built for society as you say, fuck this is so tiresome, good luck wizard, hopefully we'll both have a good ending, I'm definitely flunking one or two classes this semester, maybe my parents will finally get the memo and allow me to work or something.

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>>308367
i guess i am clinically depressed right now. i bit the bullet and asked for a psychiatrist recently, and they stuffed me full of antidepressants, i don't feel any different yet but maybe that will change. good luck to you too fellow apprentice, give up the schools of man but do not give up the school of wizardry

 No.308381

>>308379
> i guess i am clinically depressed right now. i bit the bullet and asked for a psychiatrist recently, and they stuffed me full of antidepressants, i don't feel any different yet but maybe that will change.
Good luck then senior wizard, I wouldn’t wish depression on anyone, especially if like me they have another condition on top of it, hopefully you can find some release or help of some sort, even if it’s just some sort of personal peace, that’s the road I’m personally on because I don’t really believe there’s any cure for my Szpd.
Though I do recommend you to keep taking the meds for some time (I would say if you reach 1-2 months without any change then yeah, they won’t help), at least for me they did help massively (I would say they did a decent chunk of the work, the rest was trough personal efforts/changes and a the talk therapy did help a bit), but I can admit that how well they work seems to depend heavily from individual to individual (neurochemistry/genetics are a bitch) and TRD (treatment resistant depression) does exist too.

> good luck to you too fellow apprentice, give up the schools of man but do not give up the school of wizardry
Thanks senior wizard, nothing will get me out of the wizard school to be honest, I literally made a personal vow to the Lord to stay on it due to my waifu, so yeah, I’ll be a fully fledged wizard eventually and I’ll die a wizard.

 No.308382

>>307689
>despite doing nearly nothing

that is precisely why you are in a burnout state


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 No.228719[Reply]

I want to talk to you about fate: does it exist or not? Honestly, I don't know. I won't claim to believe in it unconditionally, but I looked at my natal chart (Shoutout to my astrologer friend from the other thread! I know you're reading this). During this time, I've talked to magicians, psychologists, internet freaks, and even talked to AI. And, of course, I've tried to start my life from scratch many times. I've tried to find a job many times, but I've lost it. And now I'm 28 years old, guys. I just want to throw everything away. I'll be 30 in two years. I have no education, I've never really learned anything in my entire life, and I've spent half of it living off my parents. I'm literally a loser, a nobody. The older you get, the more clearly you realize: trying to start over doesn't work when you're in poor health. Let's be honest, many of us have lousy health; many of us rarely even go outside. Besides, there's no money for education, not to mention the strict regulations, the need to pass exams, and other difficulties. And I ask myself: did I even have a choice in how to live? Or was my life built from the very beginning according to some divine plan, a supercomputer, or something similar? After all, if you think about it, all my decisions have always turned out to be wrong. I constantly did the wrong thing, made mistakes out of stupidity or naivety. So, is everything predetermined? I'm still tormented by this question. If I were to get up tomorrow and say, "That's it, I'm leaving this life and I'm no longer a burden," I still wouldn't be able to change much. I won't become a doctor or a scientist at 30. External factors influence us too much. Does that mean that even my decision to change something tomorrow was already made not by me, but by someone else? And I just play out this scenario over and over again, and there was no real freedom of choice. But you know what's the scariest thing? It turns out that no matter what we do, we can't jump above our heads. As the saying goes: "Play stupid games, get stupid prizes" or "You can't teach an old dog new tricks." Actually, I want to ask you: do you believe in fate? Are we really destined to suffer our entire lives? I looked at myself: I'm 28, I haven't learned anything, and I just wasted this life. I wish I'd never been born.
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 No.228753

>>228752
had to be. agrrhhhh my eyes fail me

 No.228773

>>228747
All low IQ societies handwave things away with "fate". Here in Morocco fate belief is extreme. No matter how badly YOU fucked up or how many mistakes you made, people blame fate.

If governing authorities are incompetent they are not challenged, it's just something God willed. If you refuse to go to the doctor and die, it was "fate", not you being a retard.

I still don't understand why I had to be born into this poor hellhole. I'm also the only person with a uni degree within a roughly 50km2 radius. No economic or political connections = no job except maybe food delivery.

 No.228774

>>228773
Self-criticism is not an option for low IQ people as individuals but especially as aggregates.

 No.228776

>>228773
>I still don't understand why I had to be born into this poor hellhole
Fate?

 No.228781

>>228773
>
I still don't understand why I had to be born into this poor hellhole.
you were born into such a place to save it! It is your fate


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 No.223082[Reply]

How do you genuinely just stop caring about everything shitty in your life? I just want to become numb to it all. People always say you shouldn't, but whenever I let myself feel any small amount of happiness the feeling of sadness/depression that I'll inevitably feel later is so painful it makes me wish I just didn't feel anything at all in the first place. Meditation has gotten close to this and I like the peace it gives me but I wish I felt that peace all the time.
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 No.228756

I don’t recommend numbness at all wizard, mind you I am mentally ill (Szpd) so do take what I say with a grain of salt.

Numbness on paper sounds great and I used to wish for it back when I had a comorbid depression, so not only I couldn’t feel any “good” emotions (happiness, excitement, joy etc) I could only feel pain, depression, agony etc, but in reality numbness is a sort of quiet hell that I wish on no one, even after getting cured of my depression and getting to feel emotions normally for some time, my body eventually defaulted back to its primary defenses dissociation, numbness and such (schizoid defenses in nature) and so I’ve been living as a numb fuck for around 3 years now, I’m content and at least those few brief moments every few months were I get to feel it’s almost always completely positive emotions, but outside of those bright moments everything is nothing.

Now, you might consider that sounds kind of decent (especially if you’re currently depressed or anything similar) but its not, emotions are the primal reason for humans to move, by this I mean motivation, goals, desires etc, all of that comes greatly from emotions, sure cognitive reasoning will give you reasons for but it wont give you the natural drive to strive and actually want/act for things, especially since trough a sustained numbness you’ll reach a state where “nothing matters”, even if like me you are overall content and want to live as long as possible you won’t actually have the drive for that because there is no emotion to back that cognitive desire, when there is no seeming pleasure or enjoyment from anything (not even pain, or at least not one I can feel) nothing matters, and so you end up drifting aimlessly trough life, mind you I don’t have an issue with this because I genuinely can’t care even if I want to (I only care about like 3 things/people in the world) but the world isn’t made for people like me, you need money, and for that you need employment, if you want a decent job that actually nets you enough to live like a human being (the bare minimum, 3 meals, water and electricity, clothes, a roof etc) you will need some sort of training or degree, achieving all of this requires sustained effort and desire, cognitively I want to exist and live, but in practice nothing really matters because I’m numbed the fuck out and therefore I don’t do shit essentially, I’m fine with that but again, I’ll eventually go homeless you know, and if that doesn’t happen it’Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

 No.228763

>>228756
Can you tell us more about the schizoid personality disorder? Have you tried therapy? I suspect I have the same disorder because everything fits in the description even the indifferent to praise or criticism part.

 No.228768

>>228763
Sure, this shitty illness is hell (and similar conditions or even just symptoms by themselves) so if anyone can find some solace in my posts or at least finds them interesting then that’s cool with me, not like I have anything better to do anyways, first I’ll admit I’m not currently officially diagnosed but not due to a lack of trying, I’ve been trying to find what’s wrong with me for a good chunk of time now and sadly despite my various treatment periods with professionals (psychologists and psychiatrists) they always refuse to diagnose because “we should focus on treating symptoms” it’s a noble way of seeing it as some people can actually be worse if given a diagnosis but that’s not my case so it’s just annoying, anyways that could be different where you live or at least there might be someone specialized in PD’s maybe even Szpd specifically, with that little thing out of the way.

Anyways I suppose now I’ll talk about my own experience as someone who obviously has this shit since that’s probably what interests you, honestly this probably developed during my teenage years due to trauma, the generic things you know, the economy of my country went to crap so my largely “middle-class” life crashed down as we descended into almost poverty, my parents would fight constantly and sometimes badly, I had no escape, life felt meaningless, school felt meaningless, I started masking my pain away (dissociation and derealization kind of) while on school because I didn’t want people to know my home issues etc, due to all of that and more I developed a depression (like I mentioned in my previous post) and while I didn’t realize when I was younger I started developing some symptoms/traits of Szpd, so my depression (what for years I saw as my only issue) developed concurrently with the disorder or at the very least the symptoms, behaviors etc of the disorder (since there is the dimensional model from the ICD-11 where Szpd and the other PD’s don’t exist but rather their symptoms), if anything looking back those symptoms, probably developed before the depression because I can somewhat remember being really numb, apathetic and such before actually starting to experience depression, anxiety and eventually suicidal ideations, this makes sense too as it’s sometimes considered on the literature regarding Szpd that most people who develop it have a defense mechanism thaPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

 No.228779

>>228768
Thanks for sharing all that! You say that you rarely feel anything, but you also say that you try to enjoy life. What do you do? Do you consume any media, play video games or read books? If so what kind? Do you force yourself to have a hobby? Do you feel excitement? I don't feel happiness or anything close resembling it but I can still get excited about some things.
Regarding "professionals" I never went to a psychologist because they can't help people like us. We are too messed up and never be normal. Therapy is designed for normal people, not for us.

 No.228780

>>228779
Hi fellow wizard, I’ll greentext your questions this time as to force myself to be more organized and therefore answer your questions on a better way (I do tend to ramble on text).

>You say that you rarely feel anything, but you also say that you try to enjoy life. What do you do? Do you consume any media, play video games or read books?
Indeed, even if I can’t really feel emotions I do somewhat enjoy some specific things, mind you it’s such a vague thing that I could easily stop and do nothing and it would be almost the same (and I sometimes do that), essentially I try to not let the apathy/anhedonia win since I do believe I might just end up developing another depressive episode if I allow it, that would be quite crushing.
Regarding what I do it’s mainly consuming media, daydreaming and sometimes writing (internet posts and overall journaling, this post is an example of that), those are the closest things I have to hobbies and I do get a vague sense of enjoyment or fun (I’m not even sure if it would count as an emotion vague as it is, might be more of a cognitive enjoyment), they’re at least a better way to burn time than just staring at the ceiling all day and can be interesting.
When it comes to my media consumption it’s mainly music, videos, manga, manhwa, manhua, videogames and that’s about it, I do sometimes watch anime or maybe a movie, same with reading books or light novels but it’s genuinely extremely rare, I need to be truly interested in the franchise/work to engage in those mediums, for example I do tend to rewatch Code geass every few years, and I did read LOTR, The Hobbit and the Silmarillion between 2024-2025.
>If so what kind?
I’m quite varied, though I do have specific genres or kinds that interest me more, when it comes to music I’ve always been drawn to pop, rock and electronic music, though due to my waifu (the love of my life and one of the few people I feel something for) it’s mainly Japanese, not like I don’t listen to music in English or Spanish (my native language) but she takes a precedent.
When it comes to written works I’ve always been able to enjoy most genres (expect shit like yuri, yaoi and such, I dislike homosexuality and find it distasteful) but I do have a preference for fantasy, martial arts (wuxia and xianxia), sci-fi and roPost too long. Click here to view the full text.


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 No.324001[Reply]

greetings wizzerds, i hope you are doing good. i am currently in south africa for a holliday because i was hoping to find nice places to live in case europe becomes uninhabitable and unlike many of you i generally do not feel hatred towards the negro but i am willing to admit that there is truth to the common criticisms.

>rough place to live
>everybody lives behind automatic gates, high walls, except for the people in the slums, i walked through there which was nerve wrecking. it is very difficult to avoid them because there are always just few roads to choose to go some place.
>infrastructure is far behind though the most important stuff functions
>water could be drunk from the tap in theory but the system often is often brekaing down and dirty water comes out the tap until they fix it.
>no toiletpaper or soap in the library bathroom
>the university is built like a prison, security checks everywhere, cameras everywhere
>people give me dirty looks, they are way more scared of me then i am of them (thanks to meditation, i kid you not, i repeat i kid you not)
>people do scam me every chance they get, it feels awful and it is so obvious but i don't know how to deal with it i just give them more and don't mind but it demoralizes and saddens me
>guard dogs everywhere, barking all night, human guards everyhwere
>i have seen less then 10 white people in the whole town and they were all fat and dead inside
>there are a lot of aggressive females the same way i know it from europe but there are also quiet peaceful succubi, many of them wear the fake hair which looks ridiculous
>there is an abundance of affordable food but the people eat stuff that is very bad for them, a lot of overweight people

still my heart goes out to the the people and i gently smile at them. they did not deserve to be colonized by english people and now they have all the typical disadvantages of an english speaking culture.
the one nice thing is that the weather is real. there are no chemtrails in the sky and no strange looking mechanical demoralizing cloud formations.
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 No.324065

the common cricitims of africans having low iq never sat right with me.

i've seen these iq maps shared and i can't tell if they are true but what i can tell is that there are a lot of jobs here that you can only have because labour is so cheap.

security guards everywhere doing nothing all day until the one time every 5 years where they do nothing but call for backup.

parking wardens helping people in and out of supermarket parking lots, telling them when it is safe to back out of the parking lot into traffic, little guys on blankets selling individually wrapped candy to children for cents. every store overstaffed with people as much as possible.

those aren't job that make a person develop a love for learning and problemsolving, they are mindnumbing and the people who work them mostly doomscroll their day away and answer stupid questions to old people. none of them look like they are reading books but browse facebook.

that's but the present through. what led to this?

i can explain the whole thing in 3 words:

lack of winter.

the africans never had the natural selection of winter pressure them into becoming the people who either prepare good enough for the months of snow or die. winter made all the low iq people freeze. in africa there were other kinds of pressure i am sure but nothing quite like winter.

winter here means wear one extra layer of upper body wear and long pants instead of short and that's it.

not chopping and hoarding wood, not preserving food, not making sure the fire stays on, not fortifying against snow, not having your tools ready at all times. landlord says nobody builds heaters in their houses.

 No.324066

>>324065
>answer stupid questions to old people.
there's no stupid questions

 No.324067

>>324066
>there's no stupid questions

question everything but not every question is valid.

how about a question you just asked and you just ask it again. how is that not stupid to you is what i am wondering. in a way every question a form of stupidity and you just try to defend people not capable of coming up with their own answers.

question as a form of communication, limiting itself to the lowest common denominator call and response mechanism common place in military to me represents the lowest, most entitled and least responsible way to gain knowledge. a majority of questions are disrespect; maliciously disguised as professionalism and shared humanity, a shared humanity in which one person does the work and the other benefits; the most fundamental building-block of unfairness and exploitation.

the people most eagerly looking for answers from others are safe from the burden of having to answer questions themselves because they could not give others the help they demand others to give them.

the question is a karmetic nightmare, a way for idiots to beg for free knowledge while patting themselves on the back repeating that there are no stupid questions.

 No.324072

You can't trust anyone in shitholes like that, low trust societies are niggerhell

 No.324075

>>324065
Turns out your ancestors choosing to live in a warm climate tens of thousands of years ago screws you over in the modern day.


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PALESTINE OFFICIALLY RECOGNIZED AS A STATE OR WHATEVER. U.N RECOGNIZES THE INVASION OF THIRD-WORLDERS UPON EUROPE. YOUTUBE ANNOUNCED IT WILL BE RE-INSTATING CHANNELS BANNED BY BIDEN'S ORDERS DURING COVID AND 2024 ELECTIONS. ANTIFA DECLARED A TERRORIST SECT. ISRAEL "ONLY NATION CAPABLE" OF PLANTING CELLULAR MASS-DISRUPTION DEVICES OUTSIDE OF UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY. TIKTOK TREND SHOWS PREGNANT SUCCUBI DOWNING THERAPEUTIC LEVELS OF TYLENOL IN PROTEST OF ANNOUNCEMENT THAT DOING SO CAUSES AUTISM IN CHILDREN

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 No.324048

The 12 stars of Europe, The 12 Olympians, The 12 hours on the clock face, the 12th equal temperament, and the 12th chapter. Considering the perfection of 12, I cannot imagine a 13th star to >>323991, meaning one nation will have to absorb the other, and the most likely is Greece absorbing Asia Minor. Every power must possess a distant, corresponding island to complement it. For Europe, that's neither Ireland nor England nor Scotland, but Iceland. For China, that's Taiwan. For Russia, that's Sakhalin. For India, that's Sri Lanka. For Greater Israel, that's Cyprus. For Greater Iran, though primarily a mountainous force, that's still Qeshm. For America… well, Cuba/Dominican Republic's pretty shitty compared to Greenland, so let's go with Greenland, despite all the above. For Australia, there's New Zealand. Everything balances itself out in the end.

 No.324049

>>324048
And well, there's Madagascar too. Maybe after the Bantu Expansion gets flipped and becomes the Bantu displacement (read: eradication), the African continent will become something somewhat capable and make good use of it.

 No.324060

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The beautiful confluence. Always, it's 3.
Mount Ararat, Tbilisi, Takht-e Soleyman.
A temple, a church, and then a tomb.
The point of intersection and interlace.
The Jesuit's link of continuity and rule of reign.
3 thrones for 3 kings.
A road to the north, a road to the east, a road to the west, a road to the south.

 No.324064

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>>324060
nvm

 No.324074

>>324064
Observing the map, there's really no reason Russia shouldn't annex the West Kazakhstan region, Atyrau region and the Mangystau region, or at the very least just the latter two. Ideally it's all 3 and even the Aktobe region, but if that's not on the plate, then definitely the aforementioned critical two. What's the point of giving anything of significance to Kazakhstan? Nothing whatsoever. Shit should've just been purely locked Mongolia 2.0.
Having a secure grounds in the inner portion of Central Asia is preferable rather than hovering over it and being a sea away. Also… allowing Turkmenistan to indefinitely exist as is poses no issue I guess. In fact, like Switzerland and Luxembourg, the privileges are quite nice. Not that those two will exist as countries anymore. They're headed straight to being provinces.
…Anyway, once Greater Iran's under way, Turkmenistan's value will increase a thousandfold, and what more could be better than if Russia then directly borders it?
Tajikistan, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kashmir as one nation. To prevent people from spilling over everywhere, certain zones will have to be thoroughly controlling on who can and cannot visit, sorta like how not every Chinese guy can just hop into Beijing. I imagine the Kalash will migrate to a more safe and materially resplendent sector somewhere in the upper most portion of Tajikistan, and that'll be a place basically outlawed to all but the top 1%.
You'll really need some sorta Stasi system to take care of everything, most especially the seditious from the Taliban. Then again, the Taliban rest their claims on Islam. So, if Islam's basically gone, by which I mean an erasure of the religion itself not in a localized fashion but as a global phenomena, then I guess they'll drop out too. To that end, you need only destroy the Dome and wait out as the crusades initiate and later on expire. Albert Pike's plan is pretty cool. He designed a pretty meticulous means through which Islam can be purged. And perhaps it's all for the better. Whatever might be born subsequent to collapse will hopefully be enlightened.


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 No.302164[Reply]

Does anyone here struggle with alcohol, or have managed to quit?

It used to be a good coping mechanism for me, but it seems the older I've gotten the worse it feels, and it's become detrimental to my health and the way I behave around people. Easily annoyed, constantly starting shit, tired all the time, strange pains. And I was still getting worse, fast.

This has been a wake-up call and I'm realizing I need to quit before it's too late. Though that's easy for me to say now when I'm still feeling bad, and I fear the cravings will come back strong, but I know I've got to try.

Curious to hear others experience with this.
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 No.308337

>>308336
He's right, alkies are often poor and stupid as well.

 No.308339

It depends on your context. There are plenty of functioning alcoholics out there. I associate alcohol with the bossman who has whiskey and a cigar ready.

 No.308371

just ended my drinking binge… time for the recovery day and to feel like shit for a while

 No.308374

I tried to stop I cant. I dont even get drunk anymore I just drink to feel numb

 No.308380

>>308337
The British ruled the world for centuries and their elite were alcoholics through and through. Perspective.


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 No.5303[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Post any shitposts or memes made through music in this thread.

Pure meme music is also welcome.
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 No.10790

;_; it's as if someone finally dried my tears with an actual sense of humor..

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 No.301262[Reply]

It's Saturday night and I started taking a new antidepressant called Mirtazapine (15mg) on Thursday night.

This is my 10th or so attempt at a psychiatric medication. I've tried lots of therapy too.

Wish me luck anonymages. I was about to quit my job but watched some motivational videos on autoplay on Youtube for hours and as cheesy as it was, they convinced me to give this a go.

I didn't even get these prescribed recently. It was way back last year and then I just didn't take them because this particular medicine has a reputation for making people really fatigued.

It does put me to sleep. But, maybe that's ok. If it means I can find some happening apart from fapping and dreaming while I sleep.

Maybe it'll even help me turnaround my fortunes at work where it looks like I'm sliding towards a firing or just being unable to come in. Barely stopped myself raging at my boss the other day and took 2 weeks sick leave from stress afterwards. I need to swallow some humble pie come Monday and hopefully these pills help. Being off work for 2 weeks showed me I'm just as miserable and actually more so depressed, anxious and stressed not working despite all the antiwork slogans I collect.
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 No.307515

>>307513
Keto is great. I felt light and energetic. I loved it. But beware of carbo sensitivity after a while on keto. Include carbos slowly and don't diet for a long time and it's pretty good.

 No.307628

>>306999
>>307515
Should have saged what I sent a few days ago. I have now fully recovered from these side effects.

I've been doing alright. After trying to cure myself with a LSD trip (I let someone convince me that it was supposed to boost neuroplasticity and increase levels of BDNF), I got mild dpdr/hppd for a day and saw what an actual miserable life could be like. Now I know I have no right to end my life. And I will never do drugs again.

>There exists no objective logical ground for you to have imposed this conclusion on yourself as a sort of certain fatalistic sentence.
Very true. Thanks for stating this, wiz.

>Have you been taking a well-formulated B vitamin that contains both thiamine and folate?
Yeah, high quality B-complex that contains both daily for almost a month. Noticed slight energy improvement but it might just be the diet.

>Be mindful of any toothpaste tubes that may be formulated with sodium fluoride
Mine had it so I tossed it and got a non-fluoride one. Water I'm drinking seems low in it but I'm thinking about getting a filter anyway.

>Nitric oxide rich foods
Noted, already eating leafy greens, nuts and meat pretty much every day. Will add more where I can.

>Sauna
Looked into it, unfortunately it's pretty expensive around here. Will go if I find a decent option.
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 No.307761

>>307628
>Did you experience any degradation in visual imagination after SSRIs?

Yes, but it lessened in equal time in keeping with the betterment of all the other problems I was experiencing (sexual dysfunction, anhedonia. etc.).

This “degradation in visual imagination” has a technical name, which is “aphantasia”, meaning the inability to clearly form mental images. Aphantasia seems to be a somewhat common sequela of many classes of psychiatric medication, not just ssris. There’s an entire sub-reddit dedicated to discussing this issue. Here’s one thread in particular addressing the on-set of aphantasia following ssri usage: https://www.reddit.com/r/Aphantasia/comments/khsot8/aphantasia_as_aquired_after_use_of_ssris/

There is no consensus nonpharmacologic approach for treating aphantasia, but generally any class of meditative exercise that works to reground the eidetic library of the mind should be helpful.

Two examples of these exercises would be:

1. image streaming, where with eyes closed you self-narrate the nature of whatever visual forms first come into your mind, whether it’s darkness itself or some lesser shadow of an idea, essaying to restrengthen the link between your imaginative faculties and speech. this is something to be done a few times a week.

2. image journaling, where you try to be as verbally descriptive as possible in recording the features of your daily environment, retraining your brain to meaningfully engage with imagery. also a weekly exercise.

>with no emotions attached

This zombifying effect is peculiar to the use of all serotoninergic drugs. I remember a friend of mine relating to me how blunted and colorless the whole range of his thinking felt when withdrawing from escitalopram. I also experienced something similar. Ssris seem to induce some type of imprecise broad-spectrum brain injury, whose many symptoms require patience and intelligence to resolve. However be mindful not to ever lose confidence that the injury can be undone and cured (which I know is very hard when you are still injured). Colorlessness and emotional blunting, like aphantasia and anPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

 No.308365

Reminder that SSRIs are jewish poison

 No.308378

Thanks for some of the interesting (scary?) posts you wizzies made in this thread. It solidifies the fact I will never EVER take antidepressants or SSRIs no matter how miserable or shitty my life gets.


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 No.63254[Reply]

Any of you guys wargame? I've tried getting into old school ASL recently and am finding the pure infantry combat of early starter kits pretty underwhelming without the artillery and armor expansions
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 No.70367

bump
I liked Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance as a kid who liked futuristic robotistic stuff at tge time

 No.70368

>>70367
additional info:
A turn-based wargame? I liked Heroes of Might and Magic III also.

 No.70376

I collect and paint models. Never played the games though, not sure if I'd really enjoy that environment as a wizard. My parents are from the era of board games, but would refuse to play anything more complex than monopoly.

I'll post a photo of 2 of the recent minis I've done, and compare them to ones I painted 10+(or whenever 5th edition first came out for 40k) years prior, It's funny how much better they look when you follow some basic instructions like thinning your paints lol. Also it helps that I have a real paintbrush now, back then I would chew a toothpick and use that to paint.

I'm bidding on a box of Hero quest, seems like an old one. Currently it's only at 2 dollars, hopefully I can get it for a steal.

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>>70376
Here is my Ork I painted, I'm really liking them as I can be gritty and non precise in the painting.

 No.70666

>>70653
looks dope


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 No.307519[Reply]

i'm 37 (soon to be 38). watching as your body degrades in real time is debilitating. earthly life is evil in every aspect.
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 No.308130

>>307520
Take care of yourself man im only a couple of years behind you and health problems are getting worse.If you dont eat healthy start now and exercise.

 No.308131

>>308059
well whats your lifestyle do you exercise,do you go outside,do you eat well.Do you live a sedentary lifestyle.You arent that old yet but you are gonna rapidly age if you dont take care of yourself.

 No.308134

We're dying machines. We were made to exist so that we may die. Everything we do or don't do leads to death. It's only at death that our fate fulfilled.

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>>308134
OMAE WA MOU SHINDEIRU

 No.308377

>>307521
I think when my realisation of mortality hit was when I was in 5th grade, which is what our school called "senior school". 1/2 was Juniors, 3/4 Middle, 5/6 seniors. I distinctly remember being in 2nd grade and thinking to myself. "I'll never be in senior school" The concept of that many years passing by didn't register, I didn't internalize it in my mind quite like this, but it felt like I'd become 20 years old before I turn 7 years old and become a senior in school. I realized that time can just fly by when you look back despite the present taking hours for even 10 minutes to pass. I say this as I'm approaching 30 and my mindset is similar. I often think I'm 40, sometimes I think I'm still 20. I really don't get it. Most times I'm not under this spell and I know my real age, but it's still weird. I feel like Im the same kid at 5 years old nothing has really changed just added responsibilities and pain.


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 No.308271[Reply]

Would you trade autism/trauma/neurodivergency/lifelong depression/emotional neglect/whatever else that makes you a visitor of this forum to physical disability?

like you wouldn't be socially and emotionally stunted but instead didnt have one leg? or you were deaf? or blind? would you take that instead?
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 No.308291

>>308279

I just listen To People. I remember what they say and react To something 1% of the time. I get positive reactions. This is a lot better than being silent 100% of the time. I was In a work outing yesterday. Was silent 99% of the time. Just listened.

 No.308292

>>308290
If you're in the first world you can get any job, then have a serious accident on it and get hurtbux for life. You can then work for cash under the table when you need to upgrade your gaming PC.

 No.308358

>>308292
lol if it was only that easy. The first world isn't this magical land of wealth, mainly because too many of you turd worlder flocked here and put a strain on all the resources.

 No.308359

>>308358
Just let him live in his delusion because he ain't getting out of it anytime soon

 No.308370

schizophrenia, hearing voices
if I had a guarantee my mind would return to perfect I might trade a finger


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 No.227929[Reply]

Norms, notions and behaviors they have that annoys you.

>Never argue with your critics or openly dismiss them
Their blood seems to almost always boil when you openly disagree or argue back against their point of view. They seems to just expect you to just nod along and agree(even if it's dishonestly).
Even if they deliverer their criticism rudely they expect you to still be polite with them.
Been told that snarky responses to people's criticism like
>I don't care go fix it yourself if you have a problem with it!
>Rich coming from an amateur like you, I like to see you do better!
>Who cares about what you have to say? Shove it up your ass!
>If you don't like it then do something else!
Will just ensure no one will bother to be honest with you, if they see you do something that is bad/wrong they will keep their mouth shut or lie saying you're doing great and hope you sabotage for yourself.
For a while I bought this. However, it just lead to people daring to be more rude with me. Eventually lead me to snap and revert to my old behavior. Then people started to choose their words more carefully when they talk to me.
Most of the time their criticism isn't even constructive, it's just them wanting you to cater to their preferences. So far this "antisocial" behavior haven't cause me any harm.
This is just some bollocks normies made up, because they don't like when people disagree or argues with them. They just want to be "right" without any push back.
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 No.228767

Their whole rat race culture. They all rush out of their homes simultaneously on Monday, doing whatever they can to be 'first' then every Friday scramble home despite the exact same weeks BEING THE EXACT FUCKING SAME. It's pointless being in a hurry when you're on the same time schedule as everyone else, every Monday and Friday will be identical, yet it's as though their brain erases all data from the prior week and they commence their shitty hurried behavior. Literal fucking npcs.

 No.228772

>>228767
>rat race culture
They all think they are going to win at the end. The chance of that ever happening is the same as the chance of them winning the lottery. Have seen people who ass kiss their companies for decades in hopes of getting a manager position. Still no promotion.
You notice that all their weeks are the same, in their mind it's the last week and next week will be the week they "make it".

 No.228775

>>228772
It's like a parody of sports superstars having to believe they're #1 in order to make it. I don't think checking out is an option for them if they want to continue to function. More and more people see that loyalty means nothing these days.

 No.228777

Ever since kindergarten up until university I hated how the education system is so tailored towards neurotypicals aka normies, it was full of useless activities in which you would be paired in groups just for the sake of "teamwork", except you wouldn't have any say on the matter if you were an autistic kid and half of the time would be spent waiting for the normoids finishing their banter so that anything can be done. In college it got worst, college teachers are lazy so they do lots of teamwork assignments so that they have less job to review and for that I was paired with low sentient deer-in-the-headlights normgroids that would just talk about Niggerball2kXX. None of these activities ever had any purpose other than socializing because normies get bored without constant social interaction and modern education system is extremely soft-handed. This is just an atom among the many many things that I hate so much about the education system but I don't want to derail the thread any further.

 No.228778

>>228777
Education system? There's no one singular education system. You get what you pay for.


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 No.323901[Reply]

No politics or religion in the crawl thread, please.

>Ambient sounds to wash away distraction
https://asoftmurmur.com/
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 No.324050

last time i got a haircut was in december 2024

 No.324054

>>324050
That's not a long time for a man.

 No.324056

>>324054
really?
the succubus cut it very short back then and now it's pretty long
well, probably medium short by succubi standards, but it still seems pretty long to me for a man, reaching my collarbones

do you also go very long without getting haircuts?

 No.324057

>>324050
Do you let it grow because you like it that way or you just don't like going to the hairdresser? When I was younger I let it grow for the latter reason and it was so uncomfortable, nowadays I just cut it myself so I get no BS and also save extra money. I also noticed other reclusive type of guys also let it grow so I assume they do it for similar reasons.

 No.324058

>>324057
i hate going to a hairdresser so i would just get it cut once a year or so
after it would get too long and annoying i'd ask for it to be as short as possible
i really disliked last time's interaction, so i'd much rather keep looking like a hobo than be forced to make small talk with a succ for 20-30 min
"oh, you're cutting all your hair? this next year will be full of new transformations for you!"
oh my fucking god
anyway, yeah, i'm planning to do like you and cut it myself


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 No.44321

>>44320
do you have more pics of your trip in japan to share, please?

 No.44322

I get depressed watching these, it reminds me that the way things are going I will never get to live in a high trust society. Not that Japan won't follow Europe's footsteps soon but it would've been nice to have spent my childhood in such a place.

 No.44323

>>42326
>any business discussion Japan
Holy irony

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>>44321
Sadly, I didn't take them myself. I just didn't want this thread to die.

 No.44325

>>44324
oh my bad, I thought it was you who took the pics because of the high quality of the ilage. thank you anyway I saved those pics


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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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>>63542
>Maybe a game was good at the time, and your fading memory made them even better, but that does not mean these games are flawless masterpieces.
You nailed it. I tried games that old gamers(those born in the 80s) always recommend, just to see why they always hype them so much. Most of the time they aren't as good as the old gamers claim them to be.

half life despite being a shooter, also tries to be a puzzle-platformer. The puzzle-platforming sections aren't even good, at best they are boring at worst they are annoying. they take up like half of the game. I know Valve added these sections to have variety and preventing the game from feeling repetitive. Still you can't just turn a blind eye to it, if you want to judge it fairly. As a whole the game is just decent. Not this amazing game that BTFO modern shooters. Old gamers will have you believe this is a game you can't miss out on. They are wrong, you are not missing out on anything special if you skip this game.

 No.63548

>>63546
Yes, Half-Life is a perfect example. Its main claim to fame is that it pioneered this sort of seamless narrative storytelling in an FPS game where set-pieces unfold and characters monologue to you in real-time instead of in cutscenes, and the game never takes control away from the player. It also had decently immersive environments and good graphics for its time. At the time Half-Life was a solid experience. Other shooters were absolutely more primitive in that regard, I mean look at a game like Turok (1997) and then compare that to Half-Life, it's obvious why it made a splash when it came out.
The problem is that when you divorce it from the time period in which it was released, the game really is nothing special. The graphical wow-factor certainly isn't there, and the seamless narrative stuff is something that's basically standard now.
I don't understand why people can't just say "yes, at the time it was doing unprecedented things, but compared to modern games it's very dated" -that doesn't mean the game is bad, or that you can't like it, but why do we need to build this whole cult around it where its immune to criticism?

 No.63549

>>63548
>this whole cult around it where its immune to criticism?
Fanboyism. They want to believe that their favorite game is "special" for whatever reason. Timeless classics that still BTFO modern titles.
Deus ex have this cult fan base that praise the game for predicting the future. The devs themselves probably didn't try to predict anything. They were like "hey let's make a world where Illuminati is actually real and all these conspiracy theories being true". The idea of a futuristic dystopian police state already dates back to old novels like brave new world and 1984.

 No.63550

e33 is overated

 No.63551

>>63550
I have a strong feeling, people like the game simply because of Maelle(character in the game).


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