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Erikson's Stages of Psychosocial Development Anonymage 06/30/26 (Tue) 19:11:16 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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Anonymage 07/04/26 (Sat) 07:38:21 No.229091

>>229090
>Compare this to the current average confused twenty-something and you see this isn't really true
You are really overestimating the confidence of the average 19th century young adult. People were not confident, they were forced. Even Nietzsche was lamenting how german education forced young people to choose one career for life too early in life when they are still clueless (he was talking about early 20 somethings!). In that respect we haven't changed the least. We just have more room to wiggle in since college is easier to get into and is now adult daycare.

>cooperated in various scientific and technological breakthroughs
You're probably thinking about post-war US. The 19th century name-of-the-game was humanist academia (history, philosophy, philology..).

Anonymage 07/04/26 (Sat) 08:04:46 No.229092

>>229090
You could also make a good case that the majority of people were confronted with non-artificial necessity at a much earlier age.

Anonymage 07/05/26 (Sun) 07:48:24 No.229104

>>229091
I dont think you really have an argument, 19th century people definitely lived their lives quickly and efficiently, lots of people don't even live this trajectory in the 21st century but live this extended childhood (compared to back then)
>>229092
homeownership, quality of food and immaterial things like sense of community were better back then, all we have is tech and less rigid morals/ less strict social hierarchy

Anonymage 07/05/26 (Sun) 08:17:35 No.229105

because in 19th century there were things to be done, in 21th century all western manufacturing is done by jeets and chinamen, so westerners just turned into a civilization of manbabies.

Anonymage 07/19/26 (Sun) 04:25:35 No.229311

>>229038
Development is like water, its take little to make it flow, but also little squander it around.

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Autism Anonymage 03/01/26 (Sun) 16:02:11 No.227831 [Reply]

I think that today, autistic and witchy people have a huge advantage over neurotypical people. We have extensive knowledge on a wide variety of subjects, we are determined in the face of adversity, and even if we are socially awkward or find it difficult to talk to people (this is my case, I am socially isolated) we can come together in these spaces and stop forcing social contact with neighbors or parents who ask us for the umpteenth time why we still don't have any friends or a girlfriend. Personally, I'd rather go online to investigate the Epstein case than have friends, and I think that's the case for many of you here. The others are completely ridiculous with their social codes to follow. They restrict themselves in terms of intellectual capacity in a completely stupid way to appear socially acceptable because the norm prefers a dumb athlete to a brilliant intellectual. That's why most people prefer athletes like soccer players or basketball players to Gregori Perelman, who solved Poincaré's conjecture. This whole circus is completely ridiculous. People make fun of their neighbors when they themselves are stupid, but to reassure themselves, they say that others are stupid and criticize us because we are not “within the norm.” We do not accept the social contract imposed by popular dogma, which wants us to we criticize to reassure ourselves without accumulating knowledge. Also, do people really compare their time spent on TikTok or Instagram to the knowledge in books, articles, and other sources before criticizing others? Maybe we should look in the mirror and accept that we are trash in order to change and follow a virtuous path that respects others. That's why we're here discussing this: we need to create a close-knit community and distance ourselves from the idiots who criticize us, keeping only those who understand us.And besides, it's not AI that's going to save these idiots. They need to rediscover what it means to read books, to dream, and to use their brains.

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Anonymage 06/27/26 (Sat) 16:06:00 No.228993

>>228990
I'm talking about multiple characteristic behaviours and traits on the same person, not only a few.

Anonymage 06/28/26 (Sun) 10:40:48 No.229013

>>228993
Multiple? Heh. Zero, despite being an even number, is not a natural number.

Anonymage 07/05/26 (Sun) 23:36:12 No.229120

If you feel your efforts aren't being rewarded as much as you think you deserve, then perhaps try something else. Intelligence isn't the only skill you can cultivate; there are plenty of other things you can do.
Life is long you have plenty of time to learn and experience lot of different stuff, it would be sad to limit yourself to just one thing for some reason.

Anonymage 07/13/26 (Mon) 06:39:07 No.229223

every thread about autism or adhd has to have a conspiracy-brained retard who doesn't believe in neurodevelopmental disorders or the field of psychiatry in general

Anonymage 07/19/26 (Sun) 04:18:37 No.229310

>>229223
I think some people just strive for simplicity. The thing that offends them is having the taxonomy complicated "unnecessarily" in their view. Any time you see these schizo skeptics attack ideas they always attack it on the principle that it is too complicated and we should go with simpler ideas instead. Flat earthers say it's easier to just look for yourself at how the ground appears to be rather than think about it deeply and understand why the earth isn't flat. Here we have them complaining that we've taken the nice simple concept of just calling people weird and gone around classifying them into medical syndromes. He just won't stand for that additional complexity! He won't even entertain it or look at evidence that supports that world view because it threatens the simplicity that he derives some sort of psychological comfort from.

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Drawing Thread 11 Anonymage 03/18/25 (Tue) 12:55:05 No.68877 [Reply][Last 50 Posts]

All you need to begin drawing is a pencil and some paper

Feel free to post any drawings of yours in this thread. Illustration, doodle, traditional, digital - anything goes. Discussion on skillbuilding techniques and fair critique of other wizards' work is welcome.

Videos:

Tyler Edlin - https://www.youtube.com/user/TylerE2284
Proko - https://www.youtube.com/user/ProkoTV
Sinix - https://www.youtube.com/user/sinixdesign
Scott Robertson - https://www.youtube.com/user/scottrobertsondesign
Matt Kohr (CtrlPaint) - https://www.ctrlpaint.com/library
Aaron Blaise - https://www.youtube.com/user/AaronBlaiseArt
Vilpu (Anatomy) - https://mega.nz/folder/9Pw1lYaS#Me7LSwlSg59lNGmkj9tt4w/folder/lPoXEYxS

Poses/Gestures
QuickPoses -https://www.quickposes.com/en
PoseSpace -https://www.posespace.com/posetool/default.aspx
https://x6ud.github.io/#/ Animal Head Reference Finder
https://anatomy360.info/anatomy-scan-reference-dump/

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Anonymage 05/24/26 (Sun) 18:15:12 No.70615

>>70586
>I realize it probably isn't productive at my level to be painting/coloring yet but it's too fun
Having fun is really the only point of drawing. If you're not having fun, then why bother?

Anonymage 06/05/26 (Fri) 03:10:51 No.70657

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>>70490
I've also made this Coraline piece I'm really proud of, based mostly on the book, which I prefer to the film.

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My shitty drawing done by using MS Paint.

Anonymage 06/11/26 (Thu) 18:40:47 No.70668

>>70667
cool penguin

Anonymage 07/19/26 (Sun) 03:51:05 No.70899

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I have an oil painting degree.
Haven't actually oil painted in a couple years due to apartment life and no studio space, so I try to mimic it with digital as best I can.

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wizards who went to japan Anonymage 03/04/25 (Tue) 12:07:58 No.43017 [Reply]

wizards who went to japan, can you share with us your travel please? I like to hear people's voyages, it's like I was there. don't forget to share any details and your best moments too. Tell us what you bought/bring from japan and what did you eat or activites you've done there!
if you have pics, please share them too, I would save them in my folder :3

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Anonymage 12/28/25 (Sun) 14:59:33 No.44096

I went to Japan in summer 2013 (back when they still loved tourists) a group trip organized by an anime/manga forum. Fifteen days, mostly spent between Kyoto and Tokyo, with the usual mandatory stops (Hiroshima, Nara, Itsukushima etc). Main attraction was that it was that, being a group trip, it was dirt cheap; and I assumed it'd be more fun with weaboos like I was myself back then.

First of all, if you ever go there for more than a few days, *bring laxatives* - the rice based diet will absolutely wreck you. Then, for the love of all that is holy, do *not* go in August like we did - summer in central Japan is one of the worst climates on earth. March-April is the sweet spot.

Trip itself was fun enough, some places were nice surprises (Hiroshima is actually a very nice city), some I knew I'd like (2013 Akiba was still worth a visit, I hear it's gone to hell now), some were idiotic tourist traps my Naruto-addled trip buddies wanted to see at all costs, making us waste precious time (ie Iga - the McDonalds of ninja villages).

Best experiences were def the food, I don't know today but back then eating out was comically cheap; itsukushima (Seto has to be one of the most beautiful coastal areas on earth); and spending three months' worth of salary in Akiba.

As for language, most people actually sort of spoke rudimentary English but you're better off with at least tourist-level Japanese. I needed to find a place and tried to approach these two succubi, they refused to help until I greeted them in Japanese; then proceeded to offer directions in English…

Anonymage 01/01/26 (Thu) 19:40:51 No.44100

Anyone else ever noticed the sheer quantity of fences in Japan? Like in the pics of >>44087, the first one has an fence against the hedge, and the third one has these little post and wire fences for the garden on the right. Or the first pic of >>44089, there is the fence on the low stone wall boxing the ramp in, and then another fence inside the ramp itself, with a railing.
Ever since I noticed that, I keep seeing them and it's pretty overkill at times. Fence builders must be busy in Japan.

Anonymage 01/08/26 (Thu) 19:04:43 No.44125

>>44100
I'm the one who posted the pictures
I'm not claiming to be an expert but central tokyo seems to be fenced up indeed, a lot of them near roads and houses (in that one pic at night, the left part of the pic was actually houses) and of course near cliffs and lakes and stuff
In the countryside (especially in between cities) there were much less sidewalks so not so much

Anonymage 01/09/26 (Fri) 09:48:27 No.44126

I went to Japan back in 2012 with my dad because my Japanese grandma wanted to visit her brother there. She stayed with her brother most of the trip while my dad and I only stayed in Shinjuku. We both didn't have smartphones and didn't speak Japanese so we were too afraid to ride the trains because we knew we'd get lost and not know how to get back to our hotel room. We did have a nice time wondering all over Shinjuku and eating tons of delicious food everywhere. My dad and I's favorite food is fried rice so we got that almost everywhere we went, easily the best fried rice I've ever had, dad agreed. We also loved the gyoza and ramen there. Even the convenience store food blows most American food out of the water. I loved those convenience store sandwiches with perfect white bread and no crust, I could literally eat those everyday every meal. Anyway, eating was mostly all we did.
We also visited some card shops and random malls. My dad tried getting directions to a card shop off the internet and we got lost and wondered through some dark alleys at night, luckily we were in Japan because they seemed liked the kinda place you'd get robbed anywhere else. I remember wandering into this hole in the wall manga store and seeing some crazy doujinshi stuff, I don't even know how it was legal and how someone could just sell it in a store, lol.
Anyway, overall fun trip, Japan's a pretty interesting place. In the US I live in a rural area so the first couple days I was there felt overwhelming at times with all the people.

Anonymage 07/19/26 (Sun) 03:46:49 No.44376

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I'm a wizard who's been living in Japan for about 5 years now.
I'll give a brief rundown on my experience.

Prior to going to Japan, I was a college student in the US, and had studied Japanese as a sort of minor to my degree, ended up being the first exchange student post-covid to go to the country from my university.
Ended up in Shizuoka for about two years, and I definitely wasn't prepared as I thought I was.
Language, culture, etc. None of my ability was up to snuff, and I ended up isolating myself in the atelier of my college, painting and slowly getting more and more unhinged.
Had a hard time communicating with my classmates, and when they found out I was older than them, they were noticeably colder and showed me more half-hearted respect.

Anyway, the foreign exchange ended, and since I was on track to finish my American degree in a semester, I applied to be a research student for an extra year to graduate while abroad and prepare myself for a work visa. I graduated without issue, and continued my painting research under a Professor Urabe (love this man), but I was mentally breaking from the stress and isolation. I tried to make friends, but I was always a loner in the states and never learned how to make friends with my own people, let alone foreign people.
During the last stretch of my student days I had a full manic episode, got fired from my part time job, and ended up violently threatening my coworker, who I was roughly twice the size of.

Having burnt my bridges in Shizuoka, I took the cash I had remaining, got on a train with CVs in hand, and only 3 months left on my student visa, and went job hunting.

Went to Aichi, made a pit stop in Nagoya to inquire on work, then onto Gifu City, and from there, Ise. Spent a few days in Ise having a mental spiral and eating fried oysters and drinking beer (shoutouts to the folks at the Naiku Isekadoya Taproom, took good care of this insane whiteboy).
Not having much luck, I went from Ise to Nara, and finally to Kyoto, where I had found work surprisingly with the cold approach. It wasn't good work, but they managed to get me a working visa using my oil painting degree from the US and my certificates from Shizuoka.
Worked there for a few years and actually became N2 level fluent in the language thanks to the constant interaction with my peers. Mentally, I chilled out and began working through my issues, after receiving a bipolar 2 diagnosis. MPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

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Sad Oekaki Anonymage 07/12/26 (Sun) 18:39:33 No.309031 [Reply]

whenever you're depressed or sad, come here and draw something using Oekaki. you can draw whatever you want

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Anonymage 07/16/26 (Thu) 20:08:53 No.309106

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meow meow
nya nya
im a passive submissive
retard~

Anonymage 07/17/26 (Fri) 09:14:42 No.309112

cant even post

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archiving stuff on discs Anonymage 02/19/23 (Sun) 08:01:28 No.64175 [Reply]

anyone do this?

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

external hdds/sdd don't last very long

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Anonymage 07/17/26 (Fri) 21:18:23 No.70894

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

Anonymage 07/17/26 (Fri) 21:20:18 No.70895

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

Anonymage 07/17/26 (Fri) 21:22:41 No.70896

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

Anonymage 07/17/26 (Fri) 21:25:13 No.70897

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

Anonymage 07/19/26 (Sun) 01:26:18 No.70898

Invested in a lot of blurays and backups and storage only to realize I don't have anything worth caring about enough to ever bother backing up.
Honestly most stuff hoarded at random I'm probably better of losing.

What even are you guys saving?

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A kind of put together rant i made about my school life Anonymage 07/18/26 (Sat) 05:38:55 No.309140 [Reply]

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

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Anonymage 07/18/26 (Sat) 14:02:57 No.309176

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

Anonymage 07/18/26 (Sat) 14:32:52 No.309177

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

Anonymage 07/18/26 (Sat) 14:49:08 No.309178

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

Anonymage 07/18/26 (Sat) 14:52:38 No.309179

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

Anonymage 07/19/26 (Sun) 01:24:45 No.309187

>>309178 i envy you

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Can kids really not read anymore? Anonymage 07/11/26 (Sat) 15:43:11 No.324786 [Reply]

I've been seeing this stated over and over again where people are saying large swaths of the kids these days are literally illiterate. Do you buy this? Is it really that bad?

If it is, what do you think will be the implications for future life? Are we wizards actually going to be better off simply because we are literate, or will that not even matter anymore because AI will now do all the thinking for society? I feel like people of all generations are becoming even more like cattle just being herded around by the tech companies these days. Are the zoom zooms and alphas their final product? A permanent underclass for the elites to exploit and rape? Really if people can't even read anymore, I shudder to think what might happen.

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Anonymage 07/18/26 (Sat) 11:26:20 No.324973

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

Anonymage 07/18/26 (Sat) 12:18:10 No.324974

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

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

Anonymage 07/18/26 (Sat) 15:53:02 No.324981

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

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

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

Anonymage 07/18/26 (Sat) 20:31:26 No.324987

>>324981
I am no scholar of greek but this puts me in mind of the following tidbit of Euclid that's stuck with me:

Δὸς αὐτῷ τρεῖς ὀβολούς, ἐπεὶ δεῖ αὐτὸν κερδαίνειν ἀπὸ τῶν μανθανομένων

which was translated to me as
"Give him three obols, since he must make a profit from us" that latter part however misconstructed being the striking part. Everything *must* generate a profit, it *must* contribute to the sum of human learning, because no other value is valid.

What I think the Greeks knew, and modern living is perhaps learning painfully once more, is the limits of rationality in the broad populace. Specifically in a context of abundance, where survival is taken as more of a given than a struggle (for the entrenched few), where every activity or decision has a reasonably stable outcome and basic rational behaviour when applied to it has a positive outcome… what then?

I work as an engineer, a good day or a good project for me raises the floor of labour required to make value in the modern world by some tiny degree such that 5-10 more people are no longer fit to contribute to it. Usually the staff i've been brought in to automate out of relevance. Perfectly rational course of action - where does *that* end?

The romantics and oligarchs of the post industrial revolution saw the rough outline of this reality and dove in to highly sentimental and flowery language as a badge of honour adding arbitrary complexity and unspoken expectations as almost a sport. Now I start to think it was actually the right thing to do - because I've read Kaczynski.

So consider; in a world with progressively more and more engineering and rational planning, where speciation is likely to be on the horizon based on wealth and luck, what's *left* for those below the standard of future true Aristocracy in the literal meaning but the fleeting joy and excitement of heroic poetry? Slavery in chains so light and gilded they know not the difference? Perfectly Rational Slavery of the mind if not the body? Azimov had a credible vision of this in the later Foundation books with Fallom and Solaria - an entire planet consisting of the estates of 100 or so biological individuals who detest being less than a thousand miles from each other.

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Anonymage 07/19/26 (Sun) 00:34:11 No.324994

>>324987
>Enshrining violence and valour in poetic form preserves it as something to be celebrated

I think the glorifying of violence in books is fine so long as the narrative target is purposed at specific tyrannical elements limiting the freedom of other characters’ lives. But this isn’t the case with the Homeric poems, which celebrate indiscriminate violence and bloodshed in circumstances of pointless war. Agamemnon for instance is a basic fat greedy king who craves more power, whom Homer describes as Οἰνοβαρές, κυνὸς ὄμματ᾿ ἔχων, κραδίην δ᾿ ἐλάφοιο, wine-heavy, having the eyes of a dog, and the heart of a deer. And yet the whole of the Iliad features innocent brainwashed young soldiers dying on the behalf of the ambitions of this slob king. Though this was probably near the belligerent conditions of the ancient world, where half-deranged rulers led young men to their deaths. But our own modern day isn’t much different, where masonic puppets (presidents, prime ministers) of jewish bankers lead young men to their deaths.

>Because the cycle of violence is a cycle

Violence is the native quality of all biological life. A gnostic interpretation would be that the demiurge set us in a loop to devour each other. But I don’t necessarily support this view.

>What I think the Greeks knew, and modern living is perhaps learning painfully once more,

I think the Greeks understood this when we find the sentence: Βίος κέκληται δ' ὡς βίᾳ πορίζεται → Vi quia paratur vita, vita dicitur

It has been called life (bios) because it is supplied with force (bia). And then this is carried into Latin with similar alliteration as: Vi quia paratur vita, vita dicitur — Because life (vita) is prepared with force (vis), it is said life (vita).

I maintain that there is nothing wrong with this however so long as the carrying of force (violentia) is managed by a just ruling party (which at this moment in our world it is not).

> is the limits of rationality in the broad populace

If this is your way of saying the goyish herd is a stupid animal, then I agree with you.
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Optimising the mind Anonymage 05/13/26 (Wed) 10:33:50 No.228496 [Reply]

Thesis:

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

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

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

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

Thoughts? Examples of useful material?

If this is true, consider the darker side - that it's possible to artificially construct and reinforce dysfunctional frames of mind, not just overloading the memory and attention with noise and conflict, but actually implant a structure of thought - at scale. If this was so, how well does it explain modernity.

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Anonymage 07/10/26 (Fri) 19:44:40 No.229187

>>228496

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

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

>It should notionally be possible then, to exercise the mind in such a way that one or more patterns of thought and emphasis can be either cold stored, or reliably reconstructed with inputs on demand.
this to me sound like the commentary of a half-conscious artificial intelligence currently in the process of receiving an update that is supposed to install agency.

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

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

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

Anonymage 07/10/26 (Fri) 20:00:02 No.229188

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

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

Anonymage 07/10/26 (Fri) 20:12:11 No.229189

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

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

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

Anonymage 07/18/26 (Sat) 15:49:16 No.229308

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

Anonymage 07/19/26 (Sun) 00:12:07 No.229309

Here's my better wiz thesis: of the many ways for cognitive enhancement, NICOTINE, yes, nicotine, is one of the few compounds SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN to do anything. W-woah wiz, step back, n-nicotine is addictive, and– we'll get to that, you meandering soycuck. What is fascinating about nicotine is its easily acquired and it works. Yes, you can buy caffeine, but who here hasn't heard of caffeine? The studies showing nicotine can boost cognition are remarkably robust. It's even been shown to be effective in ADHD.

Think about that for a moment. You have a disorder where the primary first line of treatment is strong, pharmaceutical grade stimulants, yet nicotine is still effective alongside it. Isn't that interesting? As for addition, nicotine is significantly less addictive than smoking. The reason for that is compounds in tabaco are synergistic with nicotine. It's why you don't really get a buzz when you take nicotine by itself. I've even read studies that show that nicotine isn't addictive at all. Keep in mind: they are talking about tabaco at all. They simply give nicotine to people who haven't taken it before and didn't see dependence.

So this is my thesis: the simple answer to cognitive enhancement is quite literally just nicotine. You have to do it right though. It's a very short acting stimulant and transdermal patches will avoid the crash.

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The grass is always greener Anonymage 07/17/26 (Fri) 13:19:15 No.309114 [Reply]

>The more I seclude myself the more I long for human connection
>The more I interact with the 3D world the more I just want to be left alone
I literally cannot win in this life
I am always worried about doing the wrong thing, I am always lamenting all of my errors of the past
I hardly actually live

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Anonymage 07/18/26 (Sat) 13:24:42 No.309170

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

Anonymage 07/18/26 (Sat) 21:40:13 No.309181

>>309141
Thats a sad way of thinking
Im sure its possible, my frequency is just out of alignment and cant be recieved properly by others
Unfortunate

Anonymage 07/18/26 (Sat) 22:20:58 No.309182

>>309141
That cope only works if you're a schizoid

Anonymage 07/18/26 (Sat) 22:33:56 No.309183

I feel like people who are able to show affection have some kind of ability that I'll never have, I saw a succubus the other day talking to a bird in a sort of affectionate way and I realized that I'd never do that

The logical part of my brain says that it's meaningless, she'll turn around and eat a bird and cook its eggs right after as if nothing happened, but I sometimes worry about that, I always look at things in this analytical way to a degree that it prevents me from forming connections with people, the thought of being old and all alone makes me uncomfortable and I'm afraid I might end up like that

Anonymage 07/18/26 (Sat) 23:24:52 No.309186

>>309183
you have the ability, it's just suppressed because acting like that would get you bullied and humiliated as a man. succubi can afford to express their full spectrum of emotions, they can be lovey dovey with their dogs and babies and they can be cheerful and dance and sing in public because no one has ever told them to shut the fuck up and shamed them for it.

find a stray cat or puppy and just pat that lil fella like there's no tomorrow. i remember this one time i pet this cat in front of my apartment building and it was pouring and everything and i could feel a wave of sudden emotion come up out of nowhere and just overwhelm me, almost started crying. yeah, the ability is there, it's just… suppressed.

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Depression Crawl Thread LXXV Anonymage 06/08/26 (Mon) 17:50:55 No.308343 [Reply][Last 50 Posts]

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

Previous: >>307210

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Anonymage 07/17/26 (Fri) 20:57:44 No.309131

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

Anonymage 07/18/26 (Sat) 06:25:55 No.309144

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

Anonymage 07/18/26 (Sat) 18:35:46 No.309180

ALL human behavior, every single moment and action of the day, goes like this
If I do this, then that happens
If I do this, then that happens
If I do this, then that happens
from smoking a cigarette, every thing at work, any interaction or conversation with other people
reality has to be some kind of computer program or deduction

Anonymage 07/18/26 (Sat) 23:03:51 No.309184

>>309144
Yeah really. How are you getting cavities without eating sugar? Smoking? Not brushing your teeth once a day for 30 seconds? I haven't been to a dentist in a decade, have crowded wisdom teeth, have crowded front teeth, they're yellow, but I avoid tooth aches primarily by not consuming sugar.

Thanks for the condescending comment anyhow! I recommend smart people follow my advice instead. Cheers

Anonymage 07/18/26 (Sat) 23:12:30 No.309185

>>309180
Principle of cause and effect. let me guess, just by saying this alone, you are 23?

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New Nations, New World. Anonymage 07/16/26 (Thu) 23:01:23 No.324954 [Reply]

What new nations will materialize, which ones will re-materialize?
What countries will unite, which ones will disintegrate?
Will the EU fully federalize?

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Anonymage 07/18/26 (Sat) 16:23:05 No.324983

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

Anonymage 07/18/26 (Sat) 16:34:42 No.324984

>>324982
Miles Mathis schizo has arrived.

Anonymage 07/18/26 (Sat) 17:31:29 No.324985

>>324976
>and this nation more so than the others–you must be as brutal as possible in regard to ensuring the citizens never get out of the country.

..Peoples of Russia can cross into Eran and vice versa.
..Peoples of Kharthage can cross into Europa and vice versa.
..Peoples of Akkadia, who enslaves Israel, can cross into Egypt and vice versa. The enslaved Israel, also, can cross into Egypt and vice versa.

Or something like that.

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>>324985
..But then you can't leave Sindh, can you? And PKP, controlled by Islamabad. So you just end up with this.
In the end, all of Pakistan is integrated.
It's a completely unstable place..

Anonymage 07/18/26 (Sat) 21:43:11 No.324992

>>324991
You'll have to put a firm control on Eraistan to make sure everyone doesn't migrate to Eran much as it was in the Achaemenid Empire, and how to fulfill that in modern day is mimicking how Russia deals with its Mongols. You never see them in Chechnya, you never see them in Moscow, you never really see them anywhere outside of Siberia. They're all still in 'Russia'. They're not estranged, they're not discarded, they're all 'Russian'. For that matter, Chechnya is mostly only Chechen. No Slavs no nothing, only Chechens. They must have retained and modified the propiska system from the USSR and made it so every oblast/krai comes with a specific passport. A Muscovite will have a Muscovite passport and a Russian passport to go with it, just as a Siberian will have a Siberian passport and a Russian passport to go with it. They then make it so the Siberians aren't allowed to waltz easily to Moscow but the Muscovites can settle wherever they please.

That's exactly what the Complete and United European Union will be like. That's what Eran will be like as well. That's pretty much what every super-state ends up being like. They all adopt the propiska system.

You have an internal 'vnutrenniy' passport for nation specific affairs, in addition to which there are passports conformant to the propiska system for exclusivized/atomized zones inside the nation, and you don't have to limit these to just cities and capitals. It can be whole provinces inside a greater federal body.
So, to prevent Eraistan from spilling overmuch into Eran proper, you just make it so they need a passport to step in… to prevent Russia from becoming 100% Mongolian, you just prevent the Mongolians from spilling all over everywhere across Russia. To prevent Russia from becoming RusChechen, you just mostly atomize em to their region. To prevent Slavs from taking over Mongolia, you just exclusive Mongolia.

The USSR was running things pretty creatively, but you have to conceive these policies and rules when you're combining quite disconnected countries.
How do you prevent Russia from becoming Kazakhstan?
How do you prevent Georgia from becoming Tajikistan?
Just employ the propiska system.
How do I prevent France from becoming Germany?
Just employ the propiska system.
Blatantly favor some, blatantly disfavor the others. What does it matter?
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Normalfags are unthinking cattle wholly driven by instinct Anonymage 07/18/26 (Sat) 10:43:22 No.229293 [Reply]

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

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

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

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

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

This same dynamic can be observed in many different examples. Most of the problems of modern day society stem from normalfag's inability to realize when their thoughts are being driven by irrational instincts. I'm tired of living in a world run by such cattle. Reading threads like this just make me want to neck myself.

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Anonymage 07/18/26 (Sat) 12:51:18 No.229303

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

Anonymage 07/18/26 (Sat) 13:19:19 No.229304

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

Anonymage 07/18/26 (Sat) 13:57:35 No.229305

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

Anonymage 07/18/26 (Sat) 14:10:22 No.229306

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

Anonymage 07/18/26 (Sat) 14:19:13 No.229307

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

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NEETing with abusive parents. Anonymage 07/10/26 (Fri) 14:42:35 No.308999 [Reply]

Are there people here who don't have a job or don't get NEETbux and have to live with parents who are abusive and stupid as fuck but you just can't beat the crap out of them because you're dependent upon them?

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Anonymage 07/16/26 (Thu) 04:43:32 No.309083

>>309062
i see

Anonymage 07/16/26 (Thu) 08:34:31 No.309087

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

Anonymage 07/16/26 (Thu) 08:35:14 No.309088

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

Anonymage 07/18/26 (Sat) 12:31:05 No.309168

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

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

Anonymage 07/18/26 (Sat) 13:21:57 No.309169

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

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Post in this thread when you finished a game. Anonymage 08/10/22 (Wed) 22:57:53 No.58061 [Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Previous thread >>53822

Thread for games you managed to finish and your thoughts on it.

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Anonymage 06/11/26 (Thu) 16:45:59 No.63555

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

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

Anonymage 06/12/26 (Fri) 14:14:46 No.63557

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

Anonymage 07/17/26 (Fri) 15:49:35 No.63614

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

Anonymage 07/18/26 (Sat) 11:24:47 No.63616

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

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Computer/Internet limitation thread Anonymage 06/02/25 (Mon) 14:51:25 No.319697 [Reply]

This thread is for discussion of electronics addiction.
It's also for opting in and discussion of limitation or complete absitenence.

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Anonymage 07/14/26 (Tue) 12:26:01 No.324880

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

Anonymage 07/14/26 (Tue) 12:44:50 No.324881

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

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

Anonymage 07/17/26 (Fri) 18:43:14 No.324963

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

Anonymage 07/17/26 (Fri) 21:37:16 No.324965

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

Anonymage 07/18/26 (Sat) 05:06:49 No.324972

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

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Any low iq cels around? Anonymage 07/16/26 (Thu) 06:07:06 No.309084 [Reply]

Anyone experienced getting fired from almost all jobs they ever had? I’ve failed at almost everything I ever had and got insulted before. Has anyone expirienced something similar

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Anonymage 07/16/26 (Thu) 13:32:52 No.309093

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

Anonymage 07/16/26 (Thu) 16:09:52 No.309099

>>309093
Is he a boomer by any chance?

Anonymage 07/17/26 (Fri) 18:10:33 No.309122

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Anonymage 07/17/26 (Fri) 21:16:03 No.309137

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

Anonymage 07/18/26 (Sat) 03:15:57 No.309139

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

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Thread to discuss God and such Anonymage 03/01/26 (Sun) 02:01:41 No.227827 [Reply]

This is a thread to discuss God and religion. One I didn't see created.

What are your thoughts and views on God, if any?

My relationship with Him is complicated, as I used to be Christian but have far strayed and no longer worship Him to a certain extent.

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Anonymage 07/13/26 (Mon) 16:59:36 No.229226

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

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

Anonymage 07/17/26 (Fri) 06:52:06 No.229282

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

Anonymage 07/17/26 (Fri) 18:16:30 No.229288

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

Anonymage 07/17/26 (Fri) 21:08:53 No.229290

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

Anonymage 07/17/26 (Fri) 22:50:33 No.229292

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

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Regarding Japanese Imperial Family. Anonymage 07/17/26 (Fri) 08:56:04 No.44369 [Reply]

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

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

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

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

The only silver lining about learning this is that I unironically have more respect for my life in the third world country where I can go where I want, eat what I want, and speak what I want.

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Anonymage 07/17/26 (Fri) 11:58:55 No.44371

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

Anonymage 07/17/26 (Fri) 12:25:48 No.44372

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

Anonymage 07/17/26 (Fri) 15:09:15 No.44373

Did a jeet write this?

Anonymage 07/17/26 (Fri) 15:13:27 No.44374

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

Anonymage 07/17/26 (Fri) 22:48:32 No.44375

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

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games you found overated Anonymage 10/04/25 (Sat) 13:25:23 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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Anonymage 06/25/26 (Thu) 06:09:03 No.63574

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

Anonymage 07/16/26 (Thu) 21:29:52 No.63611

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

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

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

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

Anonymage 07/17/26 (Fri) 14:03:16 No.63612

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

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

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

Anonymage 07/17/26 (Fri) 15:21:32 No.63613

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

Anonymage 07/17/26 (Fri) 21:38:48 No.63615

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

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

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