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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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 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.

 No.229060

If you have to ask that then go back to r9k.

 No.229072

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>>229048
Yeah, before I knew torrents existed I buffered an episode of South Park for like 9 hours on RealPlayer (a very popular ancient streaming app) to watch it without lag and interruptions for 15 minutes.

It felt glorious to watch an episode of South Park on a PC monitor in 1999. What an absurd time it was. Now you stream something instantly in 4K from Netflix in one click.



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 No.39161[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

In this thread we say we love our waifus.

Today is Lynne-chan's birthday! She hopes everyone is doing their best!

Last thread from 2017 >>>/jp/22727
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 No.44337

>>44308
who is she?

 No.44341

>>44337
I think it's Illya

 No.44343

>>40178
eat shit and die you fucking subhuman stfu

 No.44344

>cringe
you have to go back

 No.44351

C p si-te files https://1ad.io/5g

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 No.308862[Reply]

I wasted years of my life working and started college late. Last year, I began a degree program in psychology education to see if later I could handle a degree in psychology or become a therapist, and in short it was a disaster. I felt like a damn alien next to my classmates, and I didn’t feel comfortable in class, not with them, not with anything.
This year, I decided to start studying another major focused on the hobbies i love, music related things as hobby. I decided to try music education, and so far everything’s going well, and I even feel comfortable with my classmates, but the social aspect is still killing me.

>What's you cant handle?

>Vocal education
I can't handle vocal training classes I usually freeze up and can't even sing a scale. The strange thing is, I don't know if the teacher plays favorites, but she treats the succubi better, from what I've seen, they've been singing for a while, sing in church choirs around religious things etc, or already have experience with singing and high notes. I don't notice her treating the men the same way or giving them the same attention, and most of the guys haven't practiced singing before. Last time, she told me I don’t sing because I strive too much for perfection i dont believe this is true but this didnt help in anything. I don’t know if she misunderstood me or if she hates me, but I’m not sure if she understands that I can’t control my nerves and i actually told she about this. one day she just told me something in the lines of go to a psychologist bla bla Obviously, I failed her exams. maybe i the problem or she even tried to help much. maybe i will try to change to another teacher next year i dont know.

>Language and music theory problem

The language and music theory classes started a little late, but I love them (with piano classes), and the fun part comes in the later semesters. My only problem is that, because of some university policy, they make us record ourselves and… oh my god, I hate my fucking face. I’ve never liked recording myself, and they even make us record ourselves singing, which is even worse, because I can’t even stand in front of a camera for two seconds without go full into a panic attack of nervers and sadness. i hate mirrors and watching myself in recordings.

I’m seriously thinking about dropping out of this program because I knoPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

 No.308865

>drop out of university bacause of self-steem

When I was in university/college, I knew enough (both male and female) who had these thoughts. Some did drop out. Others remained. Of course I can't speak to what you must be particularly feeling inside yourself personally, but I can say that from my own experiences with classmates/peers who had varying self-esteem issues of all types (eg, convinced they were unattractive, convinced others were mocking them, looking down on them, excluding them, etc.) that 99% of the time these individual issues whereon they had laid so much anxiety and stress appeared to me (as an outside observer) to be completely socially insignificant and things of a sort I would not even have had a consciousness of if they had not confided their worry of them in me.

>The language and music theory classes started a little late, but I love them (with piano classes), and the fun part comes in the later semesters. My only problem is that, because of some university policy, they make us record ourselves and… oh my god, I hate my fucking face.


That's excellent. You've found something you truly enjoy. And I'm sure it'll only get better as you advance higher and higher. To quit something you like this much owing only to insecurity around appearance seems like an unwise choice. I highly doubt you look as bad as you imagine yourself to.

>I can't handle vocal training classes I usually freeze up and can't even sing a scale. The strange thing is, I don't know if the teacher plays favorites, but she treats the succubi better,


All teachers play favorites. Whether music teachers, philosophy teachers, math teachers, english teachers. They all have their favorites. Partiality towards others is human nature and is found everywhere. I dealt with professors who strongly disliked me and oftentimes for reasons I never even understood. If the favoritism shown by this specific instructor however is so great, is there any chance you could find another related instructor who would take you on and through whom you could fulfill your required credit load?

>I just want to disappear,


Again, I knew at least 4-5 students in my own time in university who voiced those exact words "I want to disappear". I remember a few of them stayed within their dorms forasmuch as they could (avoiding in-Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

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>>308862
I drop out of uni after one year of history studies because I couldn't handle all the presentation to give in front of the whole class. it was too much for me; it was like a humiliation ritual (speaking in front of everyone)

 No.308867

well, I can relate to a lot of what you said here, even the acne scars part. You did well in dropping out of psychology, unless that degree actually has a high employment rate in your country. You won't find jobs with a music degree unless you're lucky or quite talented, but at least it may fulfill you, although you could also learn that by yourself which is what I decided to do in my creative hobby. The only benefit of going to college for such a degree in the age of the internet is guidance and discipline, and you don't necessarily need college to get those. There's also making contacts with other people but that relies on what people are available to interact with in your class, if it's only normaloids you may have a hard time making any friends at all. I also think like so many others that modern college is a huge scam, not only of your money but most importantly of your time and youth, but I can only speak from personal experience in my country. I was going to click post, but I also read that you don't want to go back to NEETing, it's certainly not for everybody so I suggest you stay there for a little while and calmly consider what to do in the future, no self-help books or anon wizards have the right answer to that, since we don't know you personally enough to know what's best for your specific case.

 No.308891

try something else. education is turd in 95% of unis anyway.



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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.229063

>>229047
Erikson presents the human experience as following a strict pattern of 8 conflicts. Yet there are too many personal decisions and personalities present for this to be accurate.
What if you prefer neeting and reading in your twenties instead of developing social relationships and working and are satisfied by it?
You can also develop a sense of mistrust/trust, identity or despair at any age for any reason.
It's just another 'human being as replacable widget' theory these psychologists tend to produce.

 No.229064

>>229063
Conceded; it's a Procrustean solution.

That said, there is utility in having *some* standard or metric to assess development against, however crude or overfit, so as to spend less time re-inventing the categories from first principles and more on useful interventions.

In that NEET case it's more a question of compounding value over time. Perhaps best use of the eight steps there suggest one optimal use of time and context, and the primary concern likely to face the average person at that stage. With outliers supported by modern technology and institutions as, well, outliers.

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 No.229069

i don't care. there might be truth to it. i don't believe it though.

 No.229070

>>229055
Most prehistoric people who managed to procreate, were grandparents by age 40.

In this sick age we live in, these people are still "pondering" whether they should have their first kid and are genuinely surprised when they have no viable eggs left.



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 No.70718[Reply]

Hey wizards,

Two other wizzas and I will be reading The Pastel City, a science fantasy novel by M. John Harrison, originally published in 1971.

We'll be following a schedule of one chapter per day. The chapters are about 10 pages long on average. After each day's reading, we'll come here and talk about it. I'll be posting a short daily commentary to help kick off the discussion, along with updates on our progress through the schedule. Of course, you're under no obligation to post anything if you don't want to.

We'll start on Thursday, July 2, so in just a couple of days. Check out the blurb for the novel:

A decaying world. Ancient powers long forgotten. An old warrior with one last battle to fight. The Pastel City is a mesmerizing journey through the ruins of a far-future civilization, where the remnants of lost knowledge mingle with myth and legend. Atmospheric, inventive, and unforgettable, it is a classic of science fantasy.

I'll be following along with this edition, which can be borrowed for free from Archive.org:

https://archive.org/details/pastelcity0000unse

You can choose a different edition if you prefer:

https://archive.org/search?tab=all&query=the+pastel+city&and%5B%5D=mediatype%3A%22texts%22

To borrow a book from the Archive, you'll need an account. They only ask for an email address and password.

Come and join us for some whimsy literary fun.
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 No.70756

>>70750
I like the setup. The combination of the old technologically advanced ruins and current medieval stuff is cool. I don't think I've read a book with this specific setting yet and I already read ahead to the second chapter because I got into it (and admittedly because the chapters are reasonably short). The chapter pacing is quite nice, I like that they aren't too long.

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 No.70774

>>70750
Caveman fight big bad technology, ook, modern day so advanced ook

 No.70777

>>70750
Yeah I love this setting. Probably because i like a bunch of games with the same setting (M&M, TES..). And leibowitz was similar (minus the fantasy stuff i guess).
Besides, i really like how it's written too. We'll see!

 No.70780

>>70750
"Borring-Na-Lecht…built the city-fortress of Duirinish on the edge of the Metal-salt Marsh where rusts and chemicals weather-washed from the Great Brown Waste collected in bogs and poisonous fens and drained into the sea."

It must smell really shitty there all the time lol, but yes this is promising



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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.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.

 No.229059

>maxxing

Have you tried fucking off?

 No.229066

i fully believe in the validity of the message but what nasty gastrointestinal tracts of the internet have people actually talk like that? this is how i imagine people on discord and tiktok talk like.

 No.229068

humility is submission, it's an ok thing for mammals. it's not a matter of choice, your willfulness is genes + nurture, so basically a dice roll from your pov. i'm fine with humility since there's fuck all i can do about my life.



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 No.308871[Reply]

Hello all. Normally, I considered /dep/ to be the saddest board on the Internet. Today I realized I was wrong.

I realized I was wrong when looking up Huntington's Disease videos on Youtube. Huntington's Disease is a genetic, degenerative neurological disorder that attacks motor control functions, leaving victims unable to control their own muscles and confining them to a lifetime of tranquilizers that paralyze them. Or, the disease attacks their brain and turns them into a completely thoughtless carrot.

There is no cure and scientists can only understand the disease by progressively dissecting victims' brains, in almost exactly the way the evil doctor from day of the dead does it. And actually, the description of zombieism from the day of the dead is very similar to Huntingon's Disease.
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 No.308880

>>308879
And you die anyways, god is so fucking good everybody halleluiah praise be!!!

 No.308881

>>308880
Death makes everyone equal.

 No.308882

>>308881
Some people have nicer gravestones though

 No.308884

>>308881
Everyone copes but not all copes are equal

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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.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.

 No.308863

>>308343

I made it to 34 boys, I couldn't feel more left behind. I bought a bottle of whiskey but I hardly even get drunk anymore, often I'll just fall asleep before feeling anything. It's over, isn't it?

 No.308889

mom forced me out and now i spend a lot of time slaving at a place with too many females. some of them are young which has been driving my chinchin crazy as of late. i try to fap it away but it doesn't help. so that's it, i see. year ago i was thinking about ways to lower my depression so i could do at least some basic thinking, but now i understand that was a mistake. being a depressed retard with avolition beats being a less depressed retard with dick craziness. now i'm thinking of ways to make myself depressed again. i'm not sure how to do it properly though.



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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.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…

 No.308868

I'd like to off myself in the distant future for multiple reasons but I'm afraid that when the time comes I bitch out or it has become harder to find resources for painless methods. Because of that, if a doctor told me right now that I will die in about a year or so, it would lift a huge burden off me. I don't think I would do much though, no hedonism because that always feels like a waste so instead maybe writing a book or something to leave behind. At last I'd go to Japan and off myself before my time comes in whatever beautiful and relatively isolated landscape I can find, and humbly ask in my suicide note to be buried in that country, not because I'm a weeb but because it's the only fair country left on Earth.

 No.308886

>>308868
>buried
you DO know japan has made burials illegal, right? they just cremate people and have trouble with space of ashes vases

 No.308887

>>308886
burials, cremation, it's all the same to me, I just don't want my remains to stay in Eur*pe.

 No.308888

yeah would be really good to know how much i have left.



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 No.303825[Reply]

Would they? I've been thinking.

My mom is already LDAR'ing due to the debt and she's already lost one child, so I think either by suicide or stress she would die. My dad? He didn't seem to care that much when my stepbro died, but I am his firstborn. I don't know really. My little brother would probably just turn into me. That's my only concern. Everyone else, would cry for a day maybe.
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 No.308736

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Well…


My immediate family would have been at each other throats screaming "how come you didn't see he was going to do this". Some people I know would get sad and get drunk thinking how come *this world* isn't built to recognize and nurture talented people's talents as if the country has evolved backwards to the 1800s. Maybe some of my relatives would get a silent trauma thinking they could have prevented this…



…OR MAYBE the case would have been classified as an accident and the relatives would shit on me for being careless. I can imagine some yobs' litter (beer bottles, vodka bottle, snack wraps) would have been linked to my rotten body, resulting in the "case of death: drunk like a skunk" final lie in my tragic story of being forced to live in the world woven of lies, damn lies.

 No.308869

>>303825

No.

But I do wonder, if the Western world is so concerned about crabs and the acts of violence they're associated with…

Why isn't the topic of providing assisted suicide for crabs discussed? If crabs are inherently worthless people, a detriment or even hazard towards society; why not help thin their numbers?

 No.308878

>>308869
because crabs are just an overblown media story and all the big crab storys are manufactured by intelligence agencies and other crisis actor glowniggers. they are behind the gay and tranny shit and feminism and racism too. all of these are separate projects but all have the aim to disrupt and ruin peoples lifes and drive wedges between them. when the plebs are busy attacking each other they are too busy figuring out who steers them. so why kill crabs? let the crabs and the trannys and other mentally ill gullible NPCs roam around and have them fight and hate each other. far more useful for the powers that be.

 No.308883

>>303825
Both my mom and dad would be devastated

 No.308885

>>303825
My relatives would be devastated, which sucks since they would be infinitely better off as they wouldn't have to keep worrying about their low-life useless slob son that will never amount to nothing.

So my closer-up normalfaggots acquaintances from childhood, but for them I don't care as they're all scum.

People forget things easily, anyway. Can't say I'd bother if someone close I knew from out of my family ended himself.



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 No.70742[Reply]

Hello Wizards,

In this thread we talk about Formula 1. I got into it this season, curious if anyone follows it.

Who is your favorite driver? What do you think of the current season?

 No.70748

>>70742
this is the worst season of F1 that I can remember, stopped watching and don't plan on coming back. It's bread and circus anyway and i can't bother with that anymore, at least in previous seasons it was entertaining to see drivers taking their cars to the limiit, that element has disappeared completely with the new ecogay regulations, they want to make the cars easy to drive so that they can get in celebrities or pretty faces that are great for their PR and marketing.

 No.70749

>>70748
The FiA will always put profit first before the competition, that's nothing new. My hope is that the switch to V8 engines by 2030 will shake things up a bit. And that Max Verstappen drops Red Bull.

 No.70773

I watched the first race of this season and have had zero desire to watch any more. The new aero regs are interesting, but the current hybrid powertrain setup leads to bullshit yo-yo overtaking where drivers are just swapping positions based on battery charge. The FIA think that viewers will be impressed solely by the sheer quantity of overtakes, and unfortunately they seem to be correct based on the number of fans defending the current regulations.

>>70749
It would be interesting to see Verstappen at another team, but I'm not sure who could take him. The other top teams already have solid driver lineups, and Verstappen would only leave RBR for a better car so I don't see him going for the midfield teams.



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 No.56336[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Post your desktop
I want to see what wizards desktops look like and what they use as a daily driver.

I use Debian GNU/Linux with a full suckless setup
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 No.70772

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>>70769
well it's a little "unorthodox" lol. I made it because i collected a bunch of 90s unix xpm icons at the time and I frickin love them. Picrel inspired me lol. Yes it's a total larp but it's fun

 No.70775

>>70772
I swear to you man I'm still savouring your desktop.
How long did it take you to make it?

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>>70775
i really did not expect that
not much really. the position of the icons, the pager in the bottom right and the xterm icons are the default fvwm openbsd config (picrel). i knew how the fvwmrc config works already (i previously made an SGI IRIX themed one) so i just took a look at some xpm icons that i found and put them in the ~/.fvwmrc file. I can share the icons, the tiles or even the configs in a tarball if you want. or some old ass websites for old xpm icons

 No.70778

>>70776
I didn't know fvwm, it looks like my style. I use xfce with a windows xp classic style. I'd like try out your desktop but I am some lazy and don't want to make you upload your configs unnecessarily.

what's your main desktop?

 No.70779

>>70778
it's fine. xfce can also be made to look somewhat "retro".
i'm still on fvwm because it's in the base distribution, with a config mostly similar to the default one with some changes on the menu (the config is piss easy), but openbsd has an old (security patched) version because fvwm switched to GPL in the late 90s/early 2000s. sometimes i switch to cwm, it's basically dwm but easier and also in the base distribution.

This https://datagubbe.se/1yearconf/ is a config for the fvwm version you're likely to find on linux. this https://cs.gettysburg.edu/~duncjo01/archive/ is an archive of many old icons, and this https://xteddy.org/xwinman/ is basically a showcase of many old X window managers, including fvwm, afterstep (which is something like >>56807) etc.


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 No.63590[Reply]

Anyone wonna play Group Iron Men in OSRS kinda wonna try it never done it and sounds kinda fun


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 No.324033[Reply]

I don't think AI will be around for long, and not for the reason people think.

AI is very old technology, the LLMs utilized are from the 1950s. When computers were first invented they tried using artificial neurons that learnt (the Perceptron). The problem was back then memory and scaling, you could get one node to learn but by the time it went to the next it started to forget. The hardware wasn't there. Because of this AI bots relied on binary tree if/else statements and weren't programmed to learn for decades.

All that happened in the 2010s was that hardware became available to stack LLMs on top of each other. The technology behind AI is veeeeery old, it's a hardware problem. If you're some nerd that reads into tech innovations you'll find the same is true for most inventions. Wood pulp paper wasn't suddenly eureka invented in the 19th century, it's that the steam engine made the processing of wood through mulching possible. The automatic threshing machine wasn't eureka invented, it's that there were dozens of invisible small innovations that fed into it that went unthanked, like the complex mathematic epicycloid calculations that went into the gear functions that some mathematics nerds and clockmakers perfected decades ago.

Anyways, the actual supply chains that are currently feeding the current top of the line GPUs and chips are unsustainable. They're spread across so many countries and it's like a precarious inverted pyramid, each part of the chip fabrication is a monopoly because it's stretching human ingenuity and ability to its absolute limit. And for every part of the input (the lenses, the robotic arms, the chemical acids, the light diodes for the lasers, etc) there's like another 5,000+ companies making bespoke tools for specialists. It's quite literally not cost effective or arguably even possible to scale production further. Like the Concorde and other supersonic jets, the rising costs are not due to economic constraints, but human. The concorde went out of service, and likewise AI will too.

The AI bubble will burst once they try to recuperate costs, once they find out that businesses don't want to pay $100,000 for the slop, they'll get a government bail out. The government will bail it out thinking they're getting a palatinr tier surveillance engine. This will turn out to be a white elephant because the AI data centers built will require replacing every 3 years due to the GPUs burning out, costing hundreds Post too long. Click here to view the full text.
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 No.324346

I don't have anything to add OP because I think the same is going to happen. It's just a matter of when.
I'm more interested in the (for now still theoretical) quantum hardware.

 No.324350

>>324346
>quantum hardware
Fake except will be used as an excuse used for crypto money stolen (all of them will become worthless) lol

 No.324369

>>324033
Same here. I've been following this guy Ed Zitron for a few years, he's been one of the first LLM skeptics that got traction. Think he even appeared on some american news stations recently. LLMs haven't proven in any capacity that they are actually better at any tasks than humans in the real world.
Benchmarks are set up specifically to measure arbitrary work loads that are made so an LLM can understand them. They use metrics like "lines of code written by AI" because it's impossible to measure the quality of said code or how maintainable it is in the long run (though experienced coders have talked about how much of a cluster fuck it is due to limited context windows and lack of awareness for things outside of the current task). LLMs are incapable of generating new solutions for anything, just mix and match existing stuff that sounds reasonable to everyone in the lower 50th percentile of knowledge in any given field. Hallucination will not be solved as it's just a fundamental quirk of how these things work. The curve of improvement is starting to flatten, just throwing more training inputs is no longer producing better outputs. Datacenter build outs are already stopping, big tech companies pulling out of their commitments or putting them on pause because there's no demand. All of it is just propped up by the years worth of backorders between AI companies, chip manufacturers and datacenter builders, which is a circlejerk of venture capital investment.
I don't know if I truly see a regression in tech but maybe that would be nice. It's not like the increase in raw hardware power has been used very well by the software in most cases. But since the chip fabs are sold out for the next few years we will definitely see stagnation on the consumer side. Maybe if enough PC parts manufacturers die out in the meantime due to lack of demand in the consumer space (((they))) will try to make everyone shift to cloud PCs. All of this LLM shit is so retarded.

 No.324526

>>324369
>LLMs are incapable of generating new solutions for anything
Then how come they solved some previously unsolved mathematical problems?

 No.324527

>>324526
Math problems don't rely on new solutions. The nature of numbers don't change from one problem to the next. The only barrier to solving a math problem is how many of the numbers in the problem can be remembered and comprehended by any given human or machine at a time. A human or calculator doesn't have the memory to keep track of all the numbers at once. An LLM hooked up to a cloud computing supercenter, or a modern gaming PC with 64gb of RAM, has the headroom to keep track of all numbers in a sequence. The calculation functions the LLM is running are the same as those on a student scientific calculator, but now with beefed up memory enough to keep track of where it is in the sequence and what it has done so far. It's a solid case of "throwing more memory at it is the solution".



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 No.228525[Reply]

Why do wizards use herms like succubi for succubi, or is it for specific succubi
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 No.228575

>>228525
Life in a sense, is a liturgy. I'm not a gnostic, but the concept of loosh is quite helpful. For example, even outside wiz, I spell succubi as w o m * n (with a *). I internally lowered them from their pedestal, and refuse to give them my loosh.

 No.228965

>>228567
This is the answer. You can't type w.o.-m-en without autocorrection rendering it as succubi.

 No.229027

>>228526
you posted the thumbnail instead of the full image.
Also, whats the source for your pic?

 No.229062

>>228575
>>228575
can i pry more into this idea
because i am realizing the unraveling of my mind and how arbitrary my thoughts, foci, and pre-occupations are… especially the strongest ones biologically entwined…
so have you broken free of the loosh completely, channeling it upwards? I guess i'm asking have you found it a necessary step. Because i notice how much their hold has on some, even when they think they've broken the shackles… they're just pushed deeper subconscious (e.g. their loosh is given to addictions that are just a substitute)
Even if you're not giving your loosh physically away, you might be leaking it via the mind… psychic vampires?

 No.229065

females (except for their ability to grow a person) are rather unimpressive and unable so they are all about on how to conspire against these amazing god-like men and trick them to do stuff for them without adequately compensating for his time and effort. they want to use men as fuel, they want to sit on the couch and get fat and ugly and start wars that "their" men have to fight.



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 No.306449[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

What is the average wizard's relationship with religion like? No religious person has ever been able to give me a good argument for why God, if he is out there, is not the most maximally evil being in the universe simply by the virtue of creating suffering when he could have chosen not to. Saying "suffering builds character" and derivatives of is just a manifestation of their stockholm syndrome for this vile entity

>I form the light, and create darkness. I make peace, and create evil. I YHWH do all these things - Isaiah 45:7
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 No.308835

>>308341
Now consider that you've been primed and taught that all your life subconciously and it's not actually you making that decision, it's something you've been subtly programmed to think, and to think it's your own idea.

Turtles all the way down.

 No.308870

>>308835
Religion is horrific in a way, how it takes someone free will and make them believe into total mystical nonsense. It's different than being a fan of fiction shit, at least that's stuff is fun. Believing in religion is so fucking boring, church is so boring, strict and too much gossiping. FUcking always expecting you to be some perfect machine and i'm so sick of it, just let me do what I fucking want bitch.

 No.308873

>>308870
So all $they have to do is convince you that something is fun and you'll act against your own interests hmm? :)

Besides the social cohesion bit, the resistance to egalitarian complacency is, I think, the most valuable attribute of religions regardless of creed. Using broad Africa as an example - if physical needs are met with negligible labor, if no outside force compels otherwise, why would someone *not* just blitz themselves out on khat, eat bananas all day and masturbate in the jungle?

By imposing arbitrary self denial and setting value outside of base desires, the individual is gently or sternly shaped into becoming more than a hairless ape far far more than any high minded philosophy can accomplish. Sure the philosophy _can_ get the individual there eventually, but at the developing mind level, or even the primitive culture level, this is not effective.

So I suppose the heart of the matter is, is it "better" to embrace standardless dissipation, or conform to useful lies?

 No.308874

>>308873
Church/Religion is never and will never be fun to me, my fun is my interests, I want to try at least enjoy something on this earth while i'm here. I don't see a point in believing a non-existence fake retard god who only people bring up when some coincidence happens in their life and claim "it's god!!". It's just embarrassing, humanity needs to be smarter and better than this, religion is FUCKING useless now. There's no point in believing in a lie that can only fill the void for so long.

 No.308877

>>308874
I think he meant its useful to organize people so they become wagecucks and let a priest fuck up them up the ass and get psychologically tortured by stupid concepts, all this makes for a better wageslave.


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 No.323839[Reply]

what does your body 'think' about you?
>about your management of your personal human organism.
>about your decisions on what to put in it, or on it.
>about where you take it and when and how often.
>about how you use it

i reject the normoid idea that the body can not think or have an opinion. electricity flows into every cell, not just the bracrabls. life and emotion are all over the body except for in those people who believe their body is just a machine used to park the brain in front of screens.

i do think the body is it's own thing and ideally it is in a mutual loving relationship with the brain. i guess many group-minded people who know nothing but war will have a hostile relationship between body and brain.

i take good care of my body and i love it. it has been so good to me and i always give it enough sleep and put good food in and exercise it and then when i am doing something, it is so accomodating, supportive and helpful. i can not help but suspect it knows me and happily helps me through life. i am fully aware that this is not most people's experience. but it could be most people's experience.

the body has it's own path too and if a brain can understand the path the body tries to walk, decisions can be made to help the body along which then lead to benefits for the entire organism.

i guess i am trying to say the potential for harmony within the organism exists despite so few people stumbling upon it. i guess the obstacle in reaching this state is the corruption process that seeks to consume everyone. those who can see the corruption in others have an easier time dodging it.
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 No.323894

>>323878
I don't see how this post refutes my argument or advances your own.
When something goes wrong or well in your body your nerves connected to it create these pleasant or unpleasant sensations. You somehow claim there is something intelligent hidden behind hunger or pain while it's just blood sugar dropping, nerves picking this up, and sending this info to the more voluntary part of your nervous system.

 No.323895

i wish death were eternal nothingness
that would be the greatest mercy

 No.323909

>>323881
>assuming you are correct and the body is not conscious then explain to me how the body knows when a good moment to poop is and when there isn't. when it is the worst time to poop,
My argument is that consciousness is strictly located in the central nervous system, which makes most of the body a non-conscious flesh slave to the brain. As for defecation there are tiny nerves wired up to the digestive system which monitor and control the entire pooping mechanism. If you damage the nerves but leave the bowels intact you get incontinence, loss of voluntary control of digestive functions while there is no pain, meanwhile if the digestive system is damaged but the nerves are intact you actually feel pain.
>i heard trees coordinate their airspace so that other trees are not in competition with each other for sun and rain.
I'm not saying it isn't alive, I'm saying these organisms are not-conscious. There is no "passenger" or soul stuck in a plant or fungus. Ancient Greek philosophers used to discuss which creatures had souls and which has not. Forming complex structures by itself is not exclusive to life, I wouldn't say mineral crystals communicate with each other because they compete for resources.
>i think cat's live a crazy life, they are strong, dangerous with impressive movement ability
Their life experience in the wild is characterised by struggling to hunt for food their entire life. Nothing like human beings which have language, abstraction, religion, complex social structures. Their primal animal "intelligence" which makes them remember where there is food or get sad when one of their kittens dies is nothing compared to a human's mental and emotional capabilities.

 No.323913

>>323881
>yeah you can argue that there are degrees and differences but i think you are judging consciousness by what little of it you have seen so far
I argue there are no conscious beings without a central nervous system. Plants and fungi are life without consciousness. Humans and animals are life with consciousness or soul. Then there are edge cases like worms and certain invertebrates like sea stars where a very small CNS is present regulating physiological impulses but obviously consciousness isn't present there.
>one thing that is keeping you from seeing more of the bigger picture …
I'm well aware the body gets overwhelmed by stuff like processed foods, cigarettes, etc. You are diverging from the main point of the discussion and insisting you magically know stuff about other people's personal health. "I can sense their body screaming in agony" completely ridiculous
>people who are insisting everything that is not medical science must be a scam
Nowhere did I say this
>the body can delay the much needed deepclean
this "cleaning" of the body like removing certain harmful stuff with vitamin C and the killing of microbes by the immune system has been extensively studied by science, this stuff isn't hippie stuff

 No.324525

>>323913
>I argue there are no conscious beings without a central nervous system

i don't agree but i think the distinction you are making is meaningful in the sense that it limits consciousness to these urgent animals with their movement ability without honoring what could be called nervous system activity without a center and sometimes without the urgency of an electric system, though i was under the impression that there is electrical activity in plants and fungi; how else could they make those flashy videos where they connect plants and mushrooms to electrical musical instruments and make their impulses audible for humans. when you do respect their existence as a non-moving entity though you probably find things that approximate nervous system activity, usually just slower.

>are edge cases like worms

i'm not convinced consciousness is binary so maybe there is the possibility of having somewhat of a consciousness. when i can make my consciousness grow then there must be degrees to it. when you can punish yourself to keep your consciousness from expanding and it remains in it's infant stage, that's another strong indicator for the existence of degrees.

>I'm well aware the body gets overwhelmed by stuff like processed foods, cigarettes, etc. You are diverging from the main point of the discussion and insisting you magically know stuff about other people's personal health. "I can sense their body screaming in agony" completely ridiculous


i don't think there is anything magical about it. every sufficiently advanced technology looks like magic to those who first encounter it. i don't believe this to be true. i don't need to know everything about you in the exact way that you wish for me to know it to know you sufficiently to predict your most likely behavior or make sense of even your less obvious actions. there are shortcuts to knowing you that you may not have found. this whole meme of not judging books by their cover is perpetuated by people who are usually judged to be something unflattering and they think they can lobby other people to flatter them; that's silly to me. the body (even unbeknownst to you) tries it's best to be forthcoming about you and your intentions and visualize you to the best of it's ability.
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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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>>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

 No.324524

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

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

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


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



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 No.36815[Reply]

What should be the best measures that we should take to gatekeep anime has hard as it get?
Remember, if you don't believe in gatekeeping, you are a normalgroid.

Some measures that I suggest are:
-Knowing in deep a lot about an anime, visual novel, light novel, novel, manga or game in particular.
-Having a decent knowledge about the medium.
-Being very invested into at least one work.
-Being very invested at least in one fandom.

Is not neccesary to have all these things, but at least one. What more should be added?
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 No.43437

>>43436
just stop. stop saying such things about superior cultures and races.

 No.43438

>>43437
Egalitarianism is delusional nonsense and not all cultures are equal

 No.43439

>>43438
how about you read what I said again whitey

 No.44345

>>38293
No you will not. Stfu

 No.44349

gatekeeping anime is just about watching the most anime possible, it will



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 No.324336[Reply]

i found a really cool video game i thought other wizards might enjoy too. i didn't put the thread in games because i believe this is one of those rare games that transcends the medium of video games to allow the player to participate in an experience you could not otherwise have. to me it represents the best aspects that fiction or fantasy can hope to offer someone. some people like to play video games doing something they would have little problem doing in real life to a less sensational extend: playing soldier, playing sports, being criminal, managing a business, etc. this game however is something you could not do in real life.

when you zoom all the way in this games looks like a city builder. you are a little village trying to survive the constant hardships of a dangerous world. you carefully choose which buildings to build and what technologies you research given the limited resources. you shuffle around people to make sure they have the job that currently helps the little village the most and don't waste time on jobs currently not important and you can destroy buildings you built for 100% of the resources you spend, meaning you spend the time carefully optimizing stuff. you learn stuff and improve stuff and when you notice you did a mistake, you can always correct it.
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 No.324450

>>324336
>>324337
>>324338
Looks like the Settlers or these similar games with some old facebook flash management city aesthetic games.
Looks nice bacause its look like it have inmersion.
Back in time i like a lot of facebook flash games, some are trash but are casual and good and still easy and enjoyable. the port to phones was a shit to a lot of these games.

 No.324494

>>324421
okay, that's alright

 No.324513

hello

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>>324450
>some old facebook flash management city aesthetic games

there were times when these games were made with no monetary ambitions just for the fun of it in flash. then advertisement came and it became all about the money.

 No.324522

>>324517
pay to win too, on facebook games



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