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 No.68295[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Book discussion. Tell us what you're reading.
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 No.71041

Joe Abercrombie's writing is peak. Ive read 5 of his books this year and im going to finish his entire written works by December.

 No.71042

>>71041
It's nice when you find a writer you really like. For me it's Athur C. Clarke. I've read all of his books.

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Finished Miyamato Musashi's The Five Rings on the way to work this morning.

I dont know why I endeavor to continue to learn about Stoic philosophy from out of touch ruling class weirdos.

I dont know if there is much that is applicable to my life.>>71055

 No.71058

>>71056
> the book of five rings
Philosophy for virgin otakus

 No.71059

>>71056
>Finished Miyamato Musashi's The Five Rings
What did you learn?


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 No.309794[Reply]

Another Evil under the Sun Edition. You of many.

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 No.309887

>>309886
>95% of people live life feeling that life is good and cool
Where? Billions of people live in extreme poverty dying from horrible diseases. Every day on the news there is someone killing others or themselves. We have a war in Europe with millions of dead soldiers. Just because you happen to be a privileged nut that is not enduring any pain (for the moment) doesn't mean life is beautiful for most people. Also, your life requires the sacrifice of other living beings.
>It's a sign of severe mental illness
And what tells you that your children will not be mentally ill? You promote playing dice with someone else life while recognizing that it can be a burden. You're hypocrite.

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what are you guys eating today

 No.309900

>>309896
Eating my heart out. Swallowing my pride. Relaxing on the sands of time. Drinking from the fountain of regular water.

 No.309901

>>309900
eating cow heart?

 No.309902

>>309870
I never really had an issue with my parents and they mostly just left me alone, so I can't say you'd feel the same way as me if you were in my position.
>conjure a tulpa
I am seriously considering it..
>>309872
I appreciate the reply, but I wouldn't be posting here if I hadn't already given up on the idea of meeting someone, let alone starting a family. I see where you're coming from, and for most people who feel the way I do it would be the next logical step, but there's nothing that scares me more than the idea of than having to be someone's father for the rest of my life. I am a very selfish person and I would probably break down mentally if I had to sacrifice my own time to deal with not only a child, but a succubus too. I really just liked having people I cared for around me without actually having to do anything other than talking to them occasionally. Knowing they were close by was enough for me I guess.
>engage with a small close-knit friend group
I would if I could, but I wouldn't know where to start. It's been over 10 years since I had friends, and they didn't even like me all too much. I'm at the age where people don't really care to make friends because they're all focused on their families. My coworkers don't really talk to me, though it's not like I ever bothered to talk to them either.
>Your disparity over being alone and the cabin fever you feel in an empty house is a sure sign that you're not one of those types.
I would say you're right here, though I am socially retarded. I crave some form of community while wanting to interact with people as little as possible.
>Until then, if you have a family who you love, by all means keep them close and work to reinforce your bonds
This is probably all I can do at this point, I really do need to get my shit together because I'm terrible at talking to them.
>Read the plights of users here whose ambitions are shackled by overbearing parents or undesirable housemates
That is true, the idea of having to rent a place with strangers is truly horrifying.


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 No.325190[Reply]

nobody told me The walking dead was so lame
let's start why is lame
-white male unkillable "badass" lead protagonist hooks up with the most african negress imaginable
-beta male chink has a relationship with the country side white chick who looks like a model
-irish ginger chad hooks up with a mexican latina
-white dudes who are lovers aka gays
-white men who are shown as evil bigoted and racist
-niggers shown as emotionally vulnerable despite being 6 feet gorillas
-subplots that don't matter and add nothing to the story
-overacting
-gay drama
-overacting
-senseless gorefest
-overacting
-dumb cannibalism for no fucking logical reason
-characters whose death mean nothing
-overacting
-senseless gore
that's the loop and mix it with gay nigger shit and meaningless tropes and subplots and characters
also that's just the top off my head from what I remember
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 No.325261

>>325200

Vrabo Bince

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>>325258
iCarly is kind of fun tbh especially as a kid. Also, the chicks Miranda Cosgrove and Jennette mccurdy are pleasant to watch and their characters have actual personalities.

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so this show went to shit the moment this kike took over the story and scripts
and that was season 4 and forward

 No.325498

>>325370
uh yeah except they painted the white biker dude as racist and inherently evil and had him ridiculed while chained on a rooftop like an animal way before season 4, it all happened in season 1. plus there was that gay exploitative scene about a guy who'd beat his wife or whatever up and he also got humiliated early on. anyway I figured this show is an icky piece of shit fairly quickly and never watched it since, it sucks

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>>325498
Daryl's brother, Merle, was based but also behaved in a niggerish antisocial way that put others in danger so it makes sense the protagonist, Rick Grimes, who was a literal cop, would try and stop him


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 No.324954[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

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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>>325499
Lack of cohesion's a nuisance

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 No.68063[Reply]

I always played around with it in a very disengaged, uncommitted manner. Well, on September 2nd, just a few days ago, I decided to really learn Linux to the point I could truthfully add to my resume to help me find a position somewhere. For that reason, I picked Ubuntu, possibly the most popular, all-purpose Linux distribution out there. I began doing the edx's version of the Linux Foundation's Introduction to Linux course because of the bells and whistles they have there in terms of exercises and whatnot. Unfortunately, they peppered the whole course with unbelievably idiotic mini videos geared towards morons. Imagery of douchebags with designer haircuts typing away at a laptop with some coolcorp background and annoying music.

So I said fuck it, and instead I decided to read the Linux Bible. But then I found out there's an Ubuntu Linux Bible by the same author, and so that's what I'm reading now. Straight to the point, concise, has exercises, not as many as I would like, but I can come up with variations on my own. Today is the third day I'm following the book, and I intend to make a daily post, briefly talking about the stuff I've learned on that day.

The first day was pretty much just going through the fluff. What Linux is, history of Linux, Unix, GNU, what open source is, etc. That's the first 20 pages of the book's 718 pages.

The second day I read about the X Window System, desktop environments, GNOME desktop, Nautilus file manager, and ways to run Linux (live medium, permanent install, etc.). The exercises consist of messing around with the GUI pretty much, something you would naturally do in a fresh install of an OS. I also had to install Ubuntu because I was running Windows. I got lucky because Ubuntu 24.04.1 came with some broken packages for Nvidia drives, and that of course fucked my shit up, which was a very excellent opportunity to do some tinkering and learning. I got it to work, it only took me an hour or so. I read people saying this is the most broken Ubuntu update in years, which I take as a good sign for my timing. And then I broke Light Locker while changing to Xfce as my desktop environment.

Anyway, third day, today, I finally reach the meat of the book and begin messing around with the shell, trying different commands, pretty simple stuff, whoami, pwd, ls, cd, command syntax, hyphenated options for command's behavior, locating commands, and really, just getting comfortable to mess around in the termPost too long. Click here to view the full text.
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>>68063
I'm glad to see Linux growing, I can't thank Valve and Pewdiepie enough of all things, I never thought general users and PC gamers would ever take it seriously, it's nice.

 No.70150

>>70147
You do realize that enshittification will only increase the more mainstream something is? One day you'll rue those words.

 No.70151

>>70150
Linux has some intrinsic protections against enshittification. Most packages are licensed under GPL, and GPL is a viral license, anything that incorporates GPL code has to release all of its code under GPL too. That means that you or someone else have the freedom to fork the code and remove the enshittifying bits.

Companies can pay RedHat astronomical prices for enterprise support and regular consumers can always use Fedora Linux. If that goes into the trash someday, there is always Ubuntu/Debian. Then there is NixOS. There will always be another choice. Canonical cannot simply force telemetry and ads on people like Microsoft has done with Windows 11 and expect not to lose all their users to an adjacent Linux distro.

 No.70152

>>70146
Glad that you found it satisfying, I didn't expect you'd reply this fast. Your experience inspired me to get started, Thank you wiz
>>70147
>>70150
>>70151
That's the worrying bit about linux gaining popularity, I'd still love a distro which is good enough for gaming so that I can get rid of windows from my gaming machine

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i am not even 10 years in myself. recently i have been solving most linux problems with brave ai, i wish this existed when i started because i have solved dozens of problems and understood stuff i was curios about since the beginning. having a place to turn to with problems like that is really helpful. if i can help let me know though i would assume most of you newcomers are way better at solving stuff like that with ai then i am. what i might be good at is ergonomics. i can make a linux machine feel good and tailor it because i have bothered to look into all the little options in the sub menus.

currently i am playing with bash scripts to automatically create and move text files so i can juggle them around fast.

another thing that i think is really interesting is that there are these lightweight ULTRA PREMIUM BUSINESS CLASS laptops (like the lenovo thinkpad x1 carbon gen6) available on the used market with minimal configuration (8gb ram, 4 cores) for very low prices. they can't be upgraded for the most part but they are a joy to use if you are frugal. similar hard to upgrade ultralight premium models not for laptops but for convertibles finally exist on the used market (like the lenovo thinkpad x1 yoga gen5) and they have a keyboard that can be folded all the way around so it is behind the screen when you are tired of laptop mode, leaving you with a touchscreen that has a garaged little pen so you get the actual touchscreen ant note taking experience in linux on an actual x64 computer that runs all the regular linux packages which i prefer to ARM processors.


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 No.309747[Reply]

Sometimes I wish went to the mental hospital. Maybe things would’ve turned out differently. Maybe.
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 No.309864

>>309858
So confirmed you really are a complete and total retard and a shit for brains nigger with nothing to back your claims? That seems to be the only veritable conclusion here, seeing that you're an ESL thirdie and even this guy right here >>309833 recognized just how fucking retarded and genuinely stupid you are, lol

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>>309864
>nothing to back your claims?
I've done nothing but ask for anyone to explain how psychotherapy actually works, and what psychotherapists actually do. I've only made the claims that much of young mens' emotional turmoil can be rectified through introspection without any sort of outside help, and that the healing process for emotional and mental issues aren't as straightforwrd as healing physical ailments.

You crabs in a bucket wear your supposed depression on your shoulder as if it's your entire personality. Even your attempt at offending me was just you pathetically turning what I said about that guy back on me (NO U). You end with "lol" but your ass is cherry red because I dared to question the holy pill gods and the psycho-rapists who prescribe human sacrifices to them.

 No.309889

not part of the above exchange, but i just want to point out that there are over 100 different types of therapies:
https://www.goodtherapy.org/learn-about-therapy/types

so what a psychotherapist does in the session can wildly differ, not only based on methodology but also skill-level, experience and qualifications. the way they conceptualize your problems and approach them can be differ in complex ways. for example, in CBT you're trained to deal with things "rationally" by treating the symptom like a result of bad, illogical thinking. in EMDR, the symptom is caused by some unprocessed trauma and you need to move your eyes a certain way for it to trigger the "processing". in Gestalt therapy, you might imagine a problematic parental figure and confront them about their abuse using the Two chairs technique. in Focusing-based therapy, you would use a special technique to get a grasp on your "felt sense", this implicit sense of the problem in your body, give it words so that it can "move forward" and experience a "felt shift", that fundamentally changes the shape of the problem and how its expressed.

so asking "does psychotherapy work" makes no sense, it's better to think of it as a collection of tools that can work with the mind in order to bring about psychological change/transformation. and like every tool, you have to use the right one with the right problem, and also be skilled enough to apply it, or notice when it's not helping and just making something worse. most psychotherapists aren't the best at this, they might know one or two tools and apply it to everything, force it when it clearly doesn't work and generally just aren't very good at their job. i think it's much better to become your own psychotherapist and master as many tools as possible and learn to apply them on yourself.

 No.309890

>>309866
Observe the brownoid having an all-out melty right here lol. What's the matter? You mad people here put you in your place when you tried to deliberately harm others by spouting all that nonsense about psychotherapy? I swear these retarded teens just keep swarming the place with their /pol/ tier dogshit takes without even knowing what they're talking about. Thankfully now anyone who visits this thread will know better than to be discouraged from trying to get the mental help they need, so your shitty sabotage attempt has failed.

 No.309899

>>309890
>He needs to imagine that the person he's arguing with is a screaming, angry, shitskin from 4cuckshitchannel /politics/ who's totally not having a normal one
>This is his defense mechanism against the reality that opinions contrary to his own worldview are quite common and normal
>He lives in fantasy world where he's the smart one and everyone else are blubbering non-Whites

Now I understand. The psychotherapist who the government pays for you to talk to is your only friend in the world, and I've offended her honor.


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 No.309759[Reply]

i keep wondering if all fiction could be unhealthy for the brain. human life is so short, a day has so few hours. how can you take one or more of these hours and flee to a place that doesn't exist and disconnect from your own reality.

places that don't exist have begun to repell me. my own reality has so many projects i would like to attend to that i feel gridlocked by not knowing what to do first. desire for fiction might be nothing but pure idleness.

i assume i understand the impulse, though i could be mistaken. when i was a child and were forced to attend child prison (school), the idea of no longer being able to explore the world at my own pace and instead had to spend time with the violent conformist was completely depressing. have them judge my intelligence based on how hard i could force myself to care what they thought was important in their desperate attempt to turn me into a mindless soldier and stomp all my dreams and interests in the process.

i'd flee into video games and at least videogames are interactive. in a video game i can make decisions, in school i was but an inmate without agency. but in a movie about a super hero, there is no interaction, the poor fool who watches this is but the passive recipient of centralized propaganda. i don't see how someone would accept this premise and spend time on this.
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 No.309893

Ultimately fiction is empty and meaningless, at least unless you yourself are creating a work of fiction that has some sort of message. In those cases, the importance of your message and the number of people who end up seeing your art become meaningful. Someone who was driven by this would try to become a hollywood script writer or something. For most people though, it's just a means of escaping the real world.

If you hate the real world and your own life and are escaping into fantasy to cope with that it is extremely unhealthy. You would be far better off spending all your time and energy focusing on how to make your own life better. You have to know where to draw the line between fantasy and practicality in your own life as well or you can easily end up some schizoid in a fantasy state bursting in somewhere with a gun shooting up a place.

If you are a broken person you need to focus on fixing yourself first before you can do anything, especially anything grand. Sitting around imagining you are an action hero when you can't even manage basic adulting isn't helping anyone.

Your life is composed of the things you do all day. If that is just consume fiction you will look back on your life and not even remember doing anything. If doing stuff scares you and you find fiction less threatening, well yeah, it is, but it's like riding a roller coaster all day while life is out there to be lived. It's an empty experience on rails meant to simulate life. Real life will always be better provided you can actually figure out how to get good experiences out of it instead of bad ones. That takes a lot of hard work for broken people, but you're better off getting started and working on it anyway you can.

 No.309894

>>309878
everything about reality fucking sucks, learning more about it doesnt make it suck any less and lets be real here, you are still a dumb weak faggot even if you have interacted more with "reality". like I dont see whats fun about reality, ok you travel to africa and see useless niggers or other NPC normalfag faggots and saw a monkey. this shit is entirely useless to me.
meanwhile at least the entertainment is somewhat FUN and doesnt require you to interact with useless normalfaggot people at all.
>it makes you feel less alone
why would I want to be less alone and instead go out into reality and interact with useless normalfaggot people anyway? the worst a wizard can do is interact with reality and be useful to normalfaggots and normalfaggot society.

 No.309895

>>309893
>that it is extremely unhealthy.
who gives a shit whats "healthy" anyway?
>or you can easily end up some schizoid in a fantasy state bursting in somewhere with a gun shooting up a place.
oh no! not shooting up the precious normalfaggots!
lmao
>when you can't even manage basic adulting isn't helping anyone.
why would you want to help anyone to begin with?
is it really such a wet dream of normalfaggots to reform wizzies so they become "useful" to them?
>you will look back on your life and not even remember doing anything.
thats a good thing, why the fuck would I want to remember shit from my shitty life and how I had to interact with normalfags?
>how to get good experiences
entertainment provides all the good experiences you'd ever need. meanwhile reality will just be shitty as always.
but a normalfaggot like you cant understand this I bet.

 No.309897

>>309895
I'm glad you've unlocked the secrets of happiness wiz. Who knew it was as simple as watching a shit ton of TV?

 No.309898

Define reality.


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 No.229521[Reply]

I've wasted so many years of my life. And right now I work a shit job that requires way too much work for the low pay. I dont really have an credentials especially for all the jobs in my area that are like 99% senior analyst bullshit that I could probably never lie good enough to get into

I've heard of so many other guys with comfy jobs like night watchman or dudes who somehow keep getting vibecoding gigs from home even if they dont know how to code.

How do you go about this? I'm still a mage in my early 20s. Never got any formal education or anything. As my life is now I could probably rot away years upon years away miserably in the blink of an eye. I already have done nothing for the last decade. I even bought a gun to check out if all hope is lost

I still have a tiny sliver left
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 No.229599

>>229567
What even is your job? You can't bloviate so much about opportunities or doing things unless you're at least upper middle class or something. I am not going to do the wagie dance unless I am getting a lot from it. It's better to die otherwise.

 No.229610

>>229521
>How do you go about this?
I went in as janitor, showed some interest and knew what I was talking about when computer stuff popped up… was able to transfer over to warehouse/equipment and now clean power supplies and sort cables and stuff… dream job really for our kind. And yes, just put in a request for later shift so there's even less people to deal with so I'm taking the win.

 No.229634

>>229610
>now clean power supplies and sort cables and stuff… dream job really for our kind.
I don't get it, why is it a dream job?

 No.229648

>>229527
>get an overnight security job at an "internal" account where youre just sitting in an empty office building all night.
BUT HOW?
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 No.229649

>>229634
i can see why, cleaning machines and sorting cables beats the humiliation ritual of cleaning shit smears in a greasy bathroom. People probably dont bother wiz either since it's easy to look busy


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 No.70926[Reply]

Has anyone considered designing a board game as a hobby? I have been doing it for over a decade, well even arguably my whole life, even as a child. All I do is formulate rules and people can use equipment they have at home to play. Advantages are.

>anyone who is reasonably intelligent can do it
>you create a whole mathematical universe in a few minutes potentially, making it the greatest payoff/investment ratio of any hobby I would argue
>you can get famous even with a very bad and derivative game (not that we care about that kind of thing)

Feel free to ask me about how to make abstract games, however I only formulate rules, I know nothing about producing components, sorry if that is an area of interest for you
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 No.70961

>>70960
Oh, I thought it was just generally understood that ai can easily cream any human at any board game. I thought what you were saying was people shouldn't bother playing games because ai will beat them. But yeah, I hate to have to say it but no such game exists, mastering strategy games is just the kind of thing ai is best at.

 No.70966

>>70933
>I don't know what suggested I am "very intelligent" here.
playing board games is always thinking within some fixed rules and if it's something popular like chess there's already a mountain of knowledge and approaches to it
designing board games itself forces you to think how rules themselves come together to create the game, this also requires creativity as you are thinking up new games
I don't think you'll find a lot about how rules come together outside maybe some mathematics papers

 No.70979

>>70966
like I say, making games is 1% inspiration and 99% pretension. Look at something like Boop. Anyone could have come up with it and its one of the most popular abstract games. I do make it more of a cerebral exercise but its not necessary. Anyway thank you for the kind words.

 No.71052

Chess, but it's cute White angel loli against big boob succubi in black bikinis

 No.71054

>>70979
you can't avoid thinking on a higher level and there isn't much available already existing work, playing a specific game like chess over and over again you can just learn the already most effective ways of playing and you're always thinking inside the rules of the game
>>71052
Chess is based, mental hobbies are always superior to physical ones like soccer


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 No.70652[Reply]

A slightly unusual hobby for a wizardly man, but I've always had an attraction to it.

What I like about it is the extremely large variety of tricks that can be learned. It's like the Path of Exile skill tree in the sense you can pick a direction and learn that way. You can build up your foundations, or you can go the straight and narrow all the way to learning your favorite trick. The large variety of tricks also mean there are a ton of easier ones to learn, and learning these tricks provides such a strong feeling of accomplishment.

Cruising is very nice too, I intent to get a bigger old school board with soft(?) wheels for nice and easy transport.

The art on skateboards is also quite nice, there's something for everyone. Also you can buy blanks and draw on it yourself. I think the level of creativity in all aspects of this hobby is so amazing.

All things skating related welcomed, I'll try my best to answer with great care to everyone.

Thank you for participating
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 No.71035

>>71028
>they don't stop looking like idiots with those clothes being adults.
You are gay! Stop typing!

 No.71036

>>71028
I'll be honest, that was my reaction even coming/going from comic shops… and that's the closest thing to nerd mecca short of going to a convention: it stands out even there.

 No.71037

>>71034
Gotta agree, hobbies are hobbies but target audience is absolutely in play. Like my uncles and their hotrod t-shirts is one thing, but if they pop on a ninja turtles shirt (even as a retro play), people are gonna talk.

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skating has a lot of physical benefits that i had no idea about. had i known the positive impact it would have had, i would have done it in my 20s when i was busy doing dumb shit like going to university or working.

fun fact: after skating for a year or two, when you lose your balance while skating and are about to fall, time literally slows down so you can make a good decision in slow-motion and find out how to fall down in the exact way that hurts you the least.

it attracts a lot of unwanted female attention though so that could be a reason for wizards to be careful with it. while being on the skates i can outmaneuver everyone so it is both difficult to come near me and i can change direction way better then any female on foot. it does give my motions off the skates a certain elegance/grace/experience/refinement/maturity so just when i walk down the street unfortunately females are attracted the same way they would be to an experienced dancer.

it does feel amazing though when i just get to skate without females stalking me or an audience forming or photographers being cancerous. with all the unwanted attention i am getting i keep wondering why those people who want to stare don't live themselves a little instead of wanting to watch the other people live a life…

 No.71053

>>71039
Excuse me, this is the anime t shirt discussion thread!

The time slowing down is real. Very crazy thing to describe to someone who has never experienced it. Also have you noticed when you slip during walking for example, you can automatically just rebalance yourself far better and very naturally? I can slip and my upper body remains so still. I could hold a glass of water and not spill a single drop.

One thing I'm quite worried about now is injuries. Now the injury itself is bad enough, but the hospitals in my country are a fuckng joke. My coworker was telling me today his brother broke his arm yesterday and had to wait 11 hours before he was treated. This has honestly dampened my interest in skating for the time being.. I can't do double doses of trauma, give me a broken arm sure but I need to be getting operated on within the hour. All that adrenaline and shock isn't gonna last long. That pain and the anxiety of not knowing when you'll be seen would break my mind


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 No.229641[Reply]

I like Igloos

Reading up on Inuit hunter gatherers is comfy. The world really did once feel like it had more wonder in it. I remember growing up on early 20th century books where savage lifestyles still existed, and it just feels a shame the mysticism of the world has disappeared now its been mapped out.

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yurts >>>>> igloos

 No.229643

>>229641
The fantasy of being in your little shelter, comfortable and safe while just outside the unforgiving harsh weather is raging on is indeed quite comfy.

 No.229644

>the mysticism of the world has disappeared now its been mapped out.
Ironically it is those very savages who are still benefited by blissful ignorance. They have all of the questions and none of the answers. They ask the stars for answers the ocean can give them. They dream not of fearsome lions or of the warm embrace of a quiet library at night. An alien world beyond ctheir wildest dreams is a walk away and yet they remain in place, throwing snow at seals and screaming at their ceremonial boot.

Is what I would type if my tax dollars weren't being spent to send blubber-flavored condoms and gender-nuetral marijuana to those God damned snow monkeys. Don't underestimate the reach of globalism's sickly tentacles.

 No.229645

>>229642
That yurt looks like it has way too much wooden furniture. You have to remember they packed all that shit up and had to lug it 200-300km seasonally twice a year. Maybe a chieftan had it decked out like that but i really dont't think theyd waste space on wood.

Pastoral nomadism is sorta peak humanity. I reckon iranian nomads had it good. The food seems delicious. Every night eating flatbread, meat and yogurt with fresh milk.

 No.229646

>>229645
>Traditional nomadic furniture—most notably the avdar (wooden storage chests) and low cabinets—was intentionally built with straight lines and box shapes. This wasn't just for aesthetics; it meant they could double as packing crates, packed full of textiles, religious items, or winter gear, and lashed directly onto the backs of camels or carts.

>Rather than heavy standalone bed frames, traditional sleeping platforms were often modular or designed to double as storage benches, keeping the footprint tight.

Oh I'm wrong. I just assumed they used sacks for everything and didnt consider dual use furniture.


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 No.309621[Reply]

Does anyone else hate his own body? I hate mine so much, I feel uncomfortable in my own body the whole time, it doesn't matter what I'm doing, I feel dirty, sick, detqched from my body. I want to get out of my body.
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 No.309852

>>309830
>tension in my muscles
Man I hate it so much! It happens to me in my legs, mainly when I'm lying in bed.

 No.309854

>>309852
Right? Lately my left quad in particular hurts when going up stars sometimes, like it's tight and straining to generate force. And the muscles between my shoulder blades have been very tight as well recently which is really uncomfortable. I think that one might be due to my sleeping position or bad pillow, since you mentioned the bed as well.

 No.309855

maybe if you change your body into a female body you'll get happier

 No.309867

>>309854
>. I think that one might be due to my sleeping position or bad pillow, since you mentioned the bed as well.
My solution for that was to spend less time in bed haha

 No.309875

>>309867
Nice if that's all it took. I'm currently shifting my exercise regimen towards more mobility and stretching rather than adding more tension through pure strength training, in hopes that it will help me feeling limber again. It's already getting better, I think.


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 No.229546[Reply]

If I quit smoking and pretended to be dead, would it be a good idea to destroy the world, for example, with COVID-19 or World War II? If so, what would you wish for?

> World War III
> COVID-19
> Zombie Apocalypse
> Alien Invasion
> Robot Wars
> Dinosaurs Return
> Parasitic Monsters

The choice is yours; I'll just run it, and the one with the most votes will be chosen.
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 No.229586

>>229546
gonna have to go with zombie apocalypse. I thought covid was fun and exciting, so zombies would be like covid but better. plus I'd be safe for a time in my tower.

 No.229592

>>229546
big but unexplainable disease, like, you get sick but there is no virus or bacteria or contamination or anything. that would freak everyone out

or extremely quick desertification. have you read the time machine, when the guy goes too far into the future and the earth is just an uninhabitable desert and the only visible life forms are a bunch of small crustaceans? something like that, or the game "kenshi"

 No.229595

i hate science fiction

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>>229546
>If I quit smoking and pretended to be dead, would it be a good idea to destroy the world
>quit smoking
>pretend to be dead
>destroy the world

I'm sorry wiz, but what? What do any of these things have to do with each other? Why would you need to pretend you're dead in order to quit smoking, or to quit smoking to pretend that you're dead? Why would either of those things be required to destroy the world, or influence whether or not it's a 'good idea' to do so? I don't understand your thought process at all.

 No.229640

Id like to see dinosaurs return. Id love to know what they all sounded like clicking and chatting in unison in the forest. They'd probably drown out the sound of the birds and insects and it would be a chorus of clicks and chattering.


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 No.48726[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Recently I've been getting into photography. I've found that after doing so, I perceive moments in different ways. Things simultaneously seem more transient, yet more permanent. It's a sensation that's difficult to describe, except to say that I am more 'aware' of the moments around me. For obvious reasons I have avoided urban areas, but in terms of landscapes and natural shots, it is quite peaceful.

Any photography hobbyists here?
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>>69820
Photos are taken with a camera. Phones are for ordering pizza.

 No.71048

I've decided to take up wildlife photography as a way to live my life to the fullest while living in a tent on public land.

I just bought an Olympus E-M1X used and an "open box" Panasonic Lumix G VARIO 100-300mm f/4.0-5.6 lens to go with it.

I decided on the micro four thirds form factor simply because the super telephoto lenses are significantly smaller and cheaper due to the 2x crop factor from the smaller sensor. The 100-300 is essentially what a 200-600 on a full frame camera would be. They also make lenses with significantly more zoom than that all for less than comparable sony, nikon, or canon lenses.

The olympus bodies are especially well weather sealed which I desired. This lens was the cheapest weather sealed supertelephoto lens I could find. I think the larger body of the E-M1X should help it balance well with large zoom lenses.

I still want a 12/13 mm wide angle lens for landscapes but I might wait a while to buy one because the camera + lens I just bought cost me almost $1200 after tax. This is not a cheap hobby sadly. I will report back after the camera arrives and I've had a chance to use it.

 No.71049

>>71048
>I decided on the micro four thirds form factor simply because the super telephoto lenses are significantly smaller and cheaper due to the 2x crop factor from the smaller sensor.
>I still want a 12/13 mm wide angle lens for landscapes
You can get a speedbooster. It's an adapter to put larger sensor lenses on smaller sensor bodies, with a corrective element to scale the full field of view down without any vignetting. It also results in more light reaching the senor overal, which is where it gets its name. There are decades of full-frame Canon ultrawide primes on eBay that get boosted to something like f0.95.

I shoot video on MFT and I find that the MFT versions of new lenses are always a bit cheaper for some reason.

 No.71050

>>71049
Interesting, never heard of a speed booster before. I had been eyeing the 200mm f/2.8 to use with the 1.4 and 2x teleconverters as a potential upgrade path down the line. From what I'm reading it seems the speedbooster is pretty much like a teleconverter but in reverse. The more I learn about the MFT form factor the more I like it. It truly is versatile.

 No.71051

>>71050
>The more I learn about the MFT form factor the more I like it. It truly is versatile.
That's a common consensus. APSC sensors are bigger but their current issue is that cameras using them try to cram as many megapixels as possible over its real estate. The end result is smaller texel size which means each pixel is fueled by less light, culminating in a darker image with poorer dynamic range. My BMPCC4k is MFT but it only needs to spread a 4096x2160 image over that sensor so the images just glow straight off the camera.

The Rokinon 12mm is a good ultrawide I use and I hear good things about the (older) SLRMagic 8mm video lens. The former is a photograpy lens so it's sharp. What's nice about both of these lenses is that they're ultrawide but with glass that physically corrects the barrel distortion, so you don't get the severe fisheye effect.

I hope you see many cool birds and other wildlife in your tent adventures


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 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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 No.71019

>>70667
This is crazy good, especially considering the software.

 No.71032

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>>69464
That looks awesome! I love doing paper animations. Here is an old one I did years ago of a little Wizard making tea. Originally it was going to be longer but i got burnt out.

 No.71044

I feel like i can break down figures down into simple shapes with ease, but all those shapes are flat. I can draw from life and draw what I'm seeing, but i feel like it's just me breaking things into flat shapes again. I can't feel, or visualize or express things in a 3d space.

I feel like it's hindering my ability to shade properly, hindering my anatomy, and is making me completely incapable for drawing anything complex like a body in different perspectives (like top down)
Yes i do studies from life pretty often, ranging from simple shapes to human figures. I have attempted drawing each frame of an object rotating before, but it still doesn't help me visualize
Is there ANYTHING i can do to address this problem that doesn't default to "study from life" or "do still life", because rest assured i already try to do those as a part of my consistent practice. Is there anything i can do to face the problem head on, or do i continue studying and hope that one day my brain will finally start working with me?

 No.71046

I also problem with drawing bodies in general I can do the head decently but the rest of the body specially the arms and shoulders always look unnatural and odd to me when I draw them

I am just deeply afraid that I will never reach a level of drawing I truely desire and I everything I draw will always be mediocre and never good as some Japanese artist on Pixiv because my own brain is against me

 No.71047

>>71044
I remember watching Glenn Vilppu drawing and feeling like I was beginning to understand what it means to "feel" form. Watching more experienced artist draw can help you too. I recommend Vilppu and Michael Hampton.
If you watch enough people figure draw, you'll notice that some people start with gestures while others focus on contours. There isn't a definitive drawing style, but by modifying your process, at least temporary, you can gain a new perspective on drawing.
I have been copying drawings from Bridgman's Complete Guide to Drawing From Life. His figures make it easy to see how the forms of the body interlock into each other.
Beyond that, I think it boils down to mileage. By studying and drawing a lot, the small bits of knowledge you pick up will add up and start becoming noticeable.


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 No.325406[Reply]

advertisement is repetitious. most people don't understand or make use of repetition themselves for their own benefit. they do live in a world where others repeat things in their face without their consent though. it annoys them but they think nothingn of it… consciously. whatever gets repeated the most to someone, automatically wins the attention of the subconsciousness.

i look at people who don't use adblock like they are an inferior species to me. like they are the dying last few survivors of a species unfit for survival.
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 No.325463

I haven't had access to my main PC (almost made homeless and it is now in a storage unit lol) and I miss having adblock, even had that extension on Firefox that skips ad-reads too.

Ads really do just shit all in your mind. At least before, ad breaks were considered in television, now it constantly breaks the emotional immersion. If I am doomed to only feel while watching shit, it'd be really nice if that was still sacred.

 No.325466

>>325463
Adblock is available for Samsung Internet in the app store I think. It might use some firewall / DNS lookup to block ads on any browser you use

 No.325468

>>325463
If you have an Android device, you can install F-droid then whatever flavour of Firefox Android strikes your fancy. I'm currently using Fennec, but I have no idea if it's the best one, all I care about is that I can install desktop version extensions.

 No.325470

>>325468
i use iron fox, i think this is also in the fdroid. then a few days later i learned i also can get brave browser via f-droid, just requires to add their repo.

 No.325506

>>325463
What the hell is going on in your life?


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 No.309657[Reply]

I try and try like I really do to be a wizard but unfortunately keep heading into becoming a crab. As someone who can't afford to NEET and will just die on the side of the street if I do so, I have to unfortunately go out into the real world and try to get a job and maintain a "social life".

And that is the worst part about it, I simply don't get it, a friend of mine wanted to meet another friend and he wanted me to go to club with me, now why did I agree? Because I wanted a referral for a job. Apart from that clubs in my country are horrendous for sub-3 men like me because they don't let people like me enter because of "dress code" when in reality you look ugly, short, singly, and the whole nine yards.

I got a referral so that's a good thing if it materialises into a job. But what I saw in club is not something that I have not known but to see it happen it still caught me like a deer in the headlights, basically I knew that this friend of friend is going to be a piece of shit because he is a club-goer.

But when I saw him literally just go up to a bitch and started making out with her continuously then going to the toiled and then coming back, and then actually showing me his Instagram and Snapchat about fucking a succubus 5 times one day, and fucking 10 different succubi in 10 days and sharing nudes on Telegram by starting out with the message "New Pussy around my Dick.".

God bless him for giving me the referral which probably won't materialise into a job but for some reason I wish I never met him, I saw a weird kind of primal expression on the faces of succubi, the man was 6'4 and had a chiseled face. And when I came back home I swear to god, I couldn't drive the car straight. Like I was about to crash 3 times, not because I was driving fast, but I was so pissed and my mind was just thinking about like what the fuck? I had to struggle for every single ounce of thing in life, and there are guys like this who just do what? Fucking exist?

Honestly, at that point years of thinking "I am never going to think about cunts" and months of trying to be a fucking monk only to enter a state of ragebait, I swear to god, when I returned in the night I was awake for a total of 48 hours just raging like a mad man and screaming into the damn mattress. Like what the fuck? How in the blue hell is it so easy for these kind of people? And this guy has cheated on every single cunt who was his GF. And has fucked over 40 succubi litePost too long. Click here to view the full text.
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 No.309789

>>309785
SHUT UP DEMONIC FUCKING NORMIE YOU JUST ASSUME ASSUME ASSUME ASSHOLE. I DON'T WATCH PORN, GO BE A CRAB ELSEWHERE. FUCKING NORMIE

 No.309826

>>309657
it's unfair that you should have to become a shut-in, i will not stand for it. clubs are disgusting places, there have to be places where you can exist.

 No.309827

>>309684
>i feel like ive gotten slower and stupider

you need exercise, healthy food and interests to practice and gain experience in.

build a piece of furniture for yourself and try eating a new vegetable. don't eat pizza and watch entertainment, that will only degenerate you.

 No.309853

>>309827
>you need exercise, healthy food and interests to practice and gain experience in
this is called normie advice precisely because only normies have access to the ingredients.
>exercise
no motivation to do so when you don't leave your home
>healthy food
requires knowledge that you're too stupid to acquire
>practice and gain experience
only possible for normalfag. if i could practice and gain experience, and i don't mean a physical possibility, but rather the mental ability to do so, i wouldn't be where i am in the first place.

 No.309874

>>309785
I'm not a porn addict, fuck you
can't you just use websites for normies where you are welcome or something?


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 No.309031[Reply]

whenever you're depressed or sad, come here and draw something using Oekaki. you can draw whatever you want
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 No.325502[Reply]

im actually so tired of being a virgin. does anyone here even know what sex feels like. is it even that different to jerking???

 No.325503

how the hell should we know, pal?
we're just as much in the dark as you.
if you wanna meditate on it, imagine warm, wet, tight feeling around your wizpenis, plus the excitement of "omg i can't believe a gurl let me do it to her finally"

 No.325504

Like bags of sand

 No.325505

Moved to >>>/b/1040068.


/hob/

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 No.71025[Reply]

What's the last movie you've seen?
What's the best movie you've seen lately?

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 No.71026

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>>71025
Finally watched Alien: Romulus. But before watching it, I went back and watched all the Alien movies. I'm a huge fan of the original and can pretty much quote the entire thing from memory. It took me a week to watch them all. Here are my unsolicited opinions on each.

Alien (1979) — Almost a perfect horror film imo. The plot is nothing to write home about, but the set design, the alien design, and the atmosphere are perfect. It's one of the most hauntingly beautiful labyrinths to ever grace the silver screen. The amount of detail in every inch of the Nostromo and LV-426 is amazing. The idea of having blue-collar characters made the whole thing work. One of my favorite movies of all time.

Aliens (1986) — A generally fun, competently made, but ultimately dumb blockbuster movie. Compared to the original, it's a downgrade on every level. The characters are flat, samey, and uninteresting. Obvious bad guy doing bad guy things. The design of the ship and interiors is functional, but not nearly as beautiful or interesting as in the first movie. It's not a bad movie, but it pales in comparison to the original. The "perfect organism" is also shown to be completely pathetic, stupid, squishy things.

Alien 3 (1992) — If Aliens is a competently made movie with boring ideas, Alien 3 is a movie with some good ideas but clunky execution. The characters are interesting for the most part, and the dialogue is way better compared to the second movie, but it's mostly the formula of the first movie: a monster killing the cast one by one while everybody else runs around inside a sci-fi labyrinth in despair. It doesn't really add anything to the universe either. Still, it has some cool ideas in there.

Alien Resurrection (1997) — Awful, shitty characters that have nothing interesting to say. Ripley is basically a new character played by the same actor, and the new character is shit. It's full of goofy moments and idiotic plot points that make no sense. The special effects and set design are mostly OK, but the dialogue and plot are garbage. Characters have to constantly drop exposition dumps just to make sense of whatever is going on. The only interesting character in there is Gediman. They really drove Ripley into a corner with this one. No wonder they pretty much dropped the whole thing and started making movies set in other points of the timeline.Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

 No.71030

Wes Anderson fan so firing up The French Dispatch tonight; favorite W.A. film is probably The Grand Budapest.

>>71029
I'll throw 'em a bone, home theater nerds especially - some get pretty gonzo with their laserdisc/dvd/bluray hoarding and gear setups.

 No.71038

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I have seen the first hellraiser yesterday, great movie,

The second in the other hand…
The first 1/5 is really good but the rest feels like a parody or a spy kids movie, is so bad that it breaks the inmersion a lot of times

The saga have 8 more movies and acording to people these 2 are the best ones…

 No.71040

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I couldn't see shit because of how dark the movie was. it was a ok movie about witches and it depicted witches good

 No.71043

>>71040
Okay film. Should have been advertised as a psychological thriller rather than a horror movie tho


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