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 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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 No.228518

>>228502
Then I have poorly communicated the idea; I'm trying to get a handle on the distinction.

Studying and learning as the rational and sequential collection of domain knowledge is fine, that's its own thing. You read a textbook on how to do something and as a consequence are now literate in the problem space. I'm trying to grasp a different concept.

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.

If that's true, I think it would be possible to optimise for the structure, and potentially maintain it long enough to raise the baseline.

Surface level reading of Marshall McLuhan seems to be approaching the idea from the opposite end - specifically that "forms of mediation reorganize consciousness independently of explicit content." I think that content can reorganise consciousness directly, and if so there should be an optimisable strategy for it.

 No.228519

Per chatgpt, a potentially testable formal hypothesis is:

Repeated immersion in structured symbolic forms (textual, musical, visual, ritual, mathematical) induces characteristic modes of attention, affect, inference, and temporal organization that can persist beyond the exposure interval and unrelated to the subject matter.

So the experiment where listening to Mozart's music had a detectable influence on spatial and temporal reasoning: https://www.artsedsearch.org/study/listening-to-music-enhances-spatial-temporal-reasoning-evidence-for-the-mozart-effect/ suggests it's a verifiable phenomenon.

It may perhaps be testable in a negative form, that say listening to discordant punk rock would make you detectably worse at something unrelated to the subject matter. Or perhaps being bombarded with talk radio and pop music through inescapable workplace contamination would affect the mind far beyond the physical aggravation of the sounds.

again, chatgpt suggests Neitzsche as an early observer of this with the insight that cognition is a physiological process, and like most can be exercised and somehow "self-authored".

 No.228529

>>228518
>Then I have poorly communicated the idea
no, some people are just retarded and have shit reading comprehension

 No.228532

>>228518
looks like you are describing the learning of learning, or metalearning then
obviously everyone must have learned how to learn at some point in their life, probably childhood after the basic physical behaviors are mastered
I hope I'm understanding what you are refering to
maybe we can understand this better by looking at dumb people who cannot learn, and try to see what is not present there

 No.228584

Honestly I don't get the point of all this. Why not just learning some practical skills like metalworking or bush-crafting, or cooking, something that will get some concrete applications in your daily life, and not just be some aesthetics mental gymnastic that just wastes your energy.

I may be missing something tho


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 No.228149[Reply]

To those wizards that have managed to stay as NEET for extended periods of time; do you have any advice for an apprentice? I know I can outright refuse, but to do so would generate ill will and hostility, things that I would obviously like to avoid. For the last six months I have been making an effort to help with tasks around the house such as mowing the lawn, vacuuming the house and sometimes cooking dinner. It seems this way I am not viewed as completely useless. Any further tips, life experiences or suggestions are welcome.
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 No.228547

>>228545
Twelve dollars or twelve hundred? I can't tell if you're being serious or ironic

 No.228548

>>228547
If twelve hundred is on the table I'll take it

 No.228550

29 year old neet with 10 and a half years of experience here. There is honestly nothing to do if you live with family. You know what they're like better than anyone, so you know what your options are.

You can make a gambit and simply push their patience over time by being as agreeable and helpful as possible while showing that you're "working on it", but any long term result is entirely in their hands. Can they accept you living like that? Can they give up on you? Things like that.

I've played up my inability since before I was 18 and have never shown competence where it wasn't absolutely needed since. My parents are good people, so this deception worked for me. Good people are all that can save you. And then you just need to be the type of person that would take advantage of that without remorse. There's no life in NEETing if you aren't at peace with life at a fundamental level. There's no existence quite as "merely existing" as this one.

 No.228553

>>228550
my parents kind of have different opinions on where i should be, but both of them arrived at the consensus that if i don't "figure" my shit out they won't give me anything more than food. plus i've been shame pressured since childhood and i'm extremely vulnerable to it. but you know what? i did neet for a few years and now that i wage 12+ hours 6 days a week (i'm white btw) i feel even more emptiness than when i neetes. it's worse than merely existing.

 No.228583

>>228553
Then why not finding another job that better fit your needs ? Like part-time job or something. What you wrote doesnt really makes sense tbh


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 No.228571[Reply]

The consolidation of the internet and the degradation of wikipedia has really hurt sperging. Coupled this with the degradation of attention span, I now subconsciously refreshed twitter and youtube to get the occasional sweet schizo/orthodox/le science content. The lack of sperging outlet has observably contributed to me subconsciusly goon to use that energy. Life is hell now. My intellectual capacity degrades, and is only maintained by sperg commenting on instagram and twitter, with the occasional rabbit hole dip to verify my intuitions.

What the fuck should I do? On one hand I discovered a new interest in orthodox-esotericism, and has even cracked the basic workings of the magicks of satanist and how to effectively resist them.

However all this is sustained by prior knowledge, regarding actual historical facts, very little that I actually learned. One of my grievances for example, is how little I know of the current ukrainian war, despite being well informed and deeply invested in battlefields development 1-2 years ago. It felt as if I betrayed part of myself not following this unfolding story of mankind.


I am a hollowed out man, in some ways for the better; the Jesus prayer truly has shed the facade hiding the rot of my soul, and I find purpose in fighting the spiritual war whose temporal dimension Hitler and the Romans fought.

I need advice from wiz here, Orthodox's Theosis oversimplified is like those chinese cultivation stories, but actually real. However I am not sure how sperging comes into play without disturbing my current ascension. My sperging comes about in great part from a calvinist upbringing, and I now realized it is massive red herring in Theosis. Any advice on how to proceed for veteran wiz? If things go well, I will be joining as a catechumen in 1-2 month time. Currently I have no spiritual father to seek advice on.
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 No.228577

>The consolidation of the internet and the degradation of wikipedia has really hurt sperging.

you know what it hasn't hurt? books. a book is like a dead person's 40 hour long youtube video but the pictures were lost so you have to read the transcript and produce the video about it in your mind, which also works i have learned recently. since i started to like books, i have not kept up with any youtube channel. i only use it for precise DIY solutions to thinks i am handcrafting basically. youtube stopped being a place i like to go to spend time to a library i go to when i am researching how to do something.

i do wish there was something like wikipedia but for actual people by actual people.

>Coupled this with the degradation of attention span, I now subconsciously refreshed twitter and youtube to get the occasional sweet schizo/orthodox/le science content.

i call this doomscrolling and i know how to get out. if you want to i can share my findings with you.

i have thought about this idea of the degrading attention span quite a bit and i don't believe this is true. what they describe as low attention span is extremely interface expectations which i believe come from having experienced the immediacy of videogames. the solution to having a low attentionspan is to upgrade all the systems of your life until they meet your attention-expectation.

>The lack of sperging outlet has observably contributed to me subconsciusly goon to use that energy.

i'm not sure i am up do date with what gooning means in that context.


>Life is hell now. My intellectual capacity degrades, and is only maintained by sperg commenting on instagram and twitter, with the occasional rabbit hole dip to verify my intuitions.

that's wonderful though. chase all the rabits, you should be learning new stuff all the time. i hope you are also manifesting some of those threads into actual fabric meaning turning them into projects. i'm currently tinkering on building a half-portable little computer that draws so little power that it can stay on always or at least during the day.
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 No.228578

What do you even mean by sperging?
Do you think consuming this content makes you a normie?
I am Christian too.

 No.228579

>Calvinist
Who's going to tell him?

 No.228580

>>228571
'Willpower alone will save you' types the wizard with a Youtube tab playing in the background.

 No.228582

> What the fuck should I do?
Hammer break computer. Hammer break screen and any cpu relying device you own. Go embrace the total hermit schizosperg experience like Jesus does for 40 days alone in the desert. Then come back and enlighten us, please.


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 No.307519[Reply]

i'm 37 (soon to be 38). watching as your body degrades in real time is debilitating. earthly life is evil in every aspect.
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 No.307839

>>307833
What? Your post doesn't even make sense.

 No.307840

>>307839
he's experiencing an episode be calm with him

 No.307841

>>307519
I'm only nineteen and already the decay has commenced. My back and neck hurts, my brain is fucked from years of anxiety and drug use.

 No.307842

>>307839
>What? Your post doesn't even make sense.

you say "it's over" but that does not help you one bit. you know what does help a small amount? exercise, physical activity, physical expression; kid's even used to call this "playing" before there were video games who took everything over.

my post was asking what kind of physicality you wanna try next so you don't dwell on how enshittified things are.

 No.307843

>>307841
>I'm only nineteen and already the decay has commenced. My back and neck hurts, my brain is fucked from years of anxiety and drug use.

you have decades of life left inside, find out how the healthy people spend their time. what do they do.


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 No.228555[Reply]

This thread is mainly for older wizards who have been through it all. What are some things you thought were for normalfags but actually are wizardry?
For me it is Seinfeld. I thought the show was just about normies dating or anecdotes, but after watching about 50 episodes…I realized this is like Welcome to the NHK but for westerners. Costanza is a 40+ yr old NEET that lives with his parents. Kramer is an inheritance NEET that lives alone on same floor as Jerry. Newman is a fat ugly wagecuck mailman, one of the solitary wiz-approved jobs like guard. Elaine is a femcel that dumps guys over the smallest reasons. Jerry is a vocel neet. Beneath the facade of the show you can tell they are all mentally ill and basically have no place in society. Very relatable.
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 No.228566

I realized politics is for freaks, right and left. Normal people dont care about politics, they are what Nietzsche called "the last man", they only care about being comfy, the only way to be comfy is by having a good economy and entertainment, bread and circus.

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>>228566
that's the other way around tho. normal people cares a lot about politics. only outcast (example NEETS, hikikomori) don't care about the soceity's problems

 No.228570

Anything with a high required skill level will filter normies. They might still be there as spectators, use it as an excuse for social interaction, or practice the most basic, watered down, entry-level version possible.

 No.228573

>>228570
will filter losers as well

 No.228581

>>228569
Normalnigs don't actually care about politics, they just fake to be in it for the social credit points. They will just follow the ideas the local hive is telling them to follow. Its all about performing some appearance, not actually a genuine interest.


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 No.63216[Reply]

Games you played that were not as good as the mainstream masses/reviewers would had you believe.
Also games that were recommended by "patricians", that turned out to just be games that cater to their autistic taste.

While I didn't find the gameplay or aesthetic of borderlands bad. The writing is so god damn cringy, it's like a boomer trying to write something he thinks modern teens like. After 2 hour I just couldn't stand it anymore. Gearbox were veterans and they had the backing of 2K a major publisher, this was the best writer they could get?
The deigns of banished isn't bad. It just that it felt like doing homework instead of playing a fun game. Many hours of planning, trail and error. Only an autist could think about spending the weekend for this.
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 No.63512

>>63432
Remedy have never good game, they're total hacks imo

 No.63522

Honestly, I could list a hundred games. I've found that my tastes and opinions are completely antithetical to most gamers, even the supposed "real diehard gamer" types that are supposed to have refined taste. Here's a couple of my hot takes, just for the heck of it.

>Morrowind
Very poor roleplaying game. Static world with static and boring NPC's, with little to no player agency. One of the first quests you do for the Fighter's Guild requires you to collect a debt from a character and the only way to get the money is by killing that character. Can't intimidate them into giving it to you, can't steal it from them, can't choose to help them out somehow, nothing. It's an okay game, when you treat it is an action-adventure game with exploration elements and don't expect to have any agency or immersion, I guess.
>Gothic (1 and 2)
Another beloved "RPG" that's really just an action adventure game. Everybody always likes to bring up how this game is filled with choices and gives the player agency, etc. What they always conveniently forget to mention is that this only applies to the first chapter of the game, after which the game is entirely linear. Also, very poor voice acting, dialogue and story in my opinion.
>Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines
An unfinished game that people treat like it's finished. Santa Monica is a 10/10, I will agree. Hollywood and Downtown areas are good as well. Everything after that is not worth playing. The atmosphere, characters, etc. are all very good, but there's too much wrong with this game for it to have the status it has. A game that's a 9/10 for the first 30% and then a 2/10 for the remaining 70% can never be considered truly great.
>Dark Souls
Just not a very good game. I think the lock-on, dodge-roll combat is very clunky and unsatisfying (see Blade of Darkness for a game with good melee combat). The enemies constantly respawning is just annoying and bad game design. When 90% of the game consists of running past the enemies, you've got a game design problem on your hands. Much prefer the King's Field series.
>Fallout New Vegas
It's not a bad game, I quite like it even, but it gets too much relative praise. Fallout 3 and NV really aren't that different and are both pretty casual RPG-lite experiences (which is fine), but only FallouPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

 No.63523

>>63522
>Fallout New Vegas
>It's not a bad game

That is the only game on your list that is by all means objectively a bad game. Technical bugs that inevitably made the game unplayable after a certain amount of time, frequent crashes, lack of unique world content, lack of unique gameplay elements, janky movement and camera, Reddit humor, poor performance, ugly environment in an outdated renderer, grinding skill points to make the same gun do more damage somehow, DEI strong Black wimmin and gay male strippers, small empty world, took place in the Wild West during a phase where many other better games were also taking place there, convoluted weapon modifying system, lack of unique world events, predictable story, inconsequential faction endgame outcomes… All released for full price followed by expensive DLC that itself was all riddled with the same problems.

 No.63524

>>63522
Sorry me engrish
>One of the first quests you do for the Fighter's Guild requires you to collect a debt from a character and the only way to get the money is by killing that character. Can't intimidate them into giving it to you, can't steal it from them, can't choose to help them out somehow, nothing.
In precise way, the guilds are focused in the roll skill they use, fighters are melee etc, mage use magic or related to artifacts and books and Thiefs rogues use any tricky way to things, i remember read this in a Dev book or something that they try to keep the roll focused in the guilds but yeah you can do mage guild thing without magic in general lol.
>Dark souls
I never liked it, i still like the fight system but is still clunky to me in every souls-like game (Zelda and the other spanish rpg game is more good at this even)
I dont know much about the other games.
I dont have much problem with linear fps games and open world, a lot of these games just repeat the formula and etc, the repetition with new things factor maybe make it fun again, not the "farming" for lost time and "dlc" extra shit to do sometimes.
Vampire the masquerade was a good game to me but yeah, unfinished and need mods etc.
I still like the histories of these things, but you need to go full no spoiler without internet to enjoy these games.
I truly enjoyed Stalker games.

 No.63525

>>63523
Honestly I won't argue there, I think those are valid criticisms. I just always looked at the 3D Fallouts as being super casual consolized adventure games, so my standards for judging them are pretty low.
>>63524
>In precise way, the guilds are focused in the roll skill they use, fighters are melee etc,
That makes sense, but then they should have designed the quests around that decision in a more immersive way. If you're gonna have me collect a debt I can only get through violence, direct me to a bandit that's hiding in a cave somewhere, not an innocent succubi working in a tavern I have to murder in front of every one.


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 No.38503[Reply]

I know there's a draw thread on /hob/ for posting any drawing you want, but I thought we might want to have a draw thread here specifically for anime requests. Post your requests and/or anime-style drawings. I'm a drawfig myself so at least one of your requests will be fulfilled.
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 No.44266

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spic & wolf

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How does one learn to draw a body while making it look natural?
Because for me the shoulders,arms,legs always look heavily off
I always have massive problem with perspective too but I would like to talk about it later

 No.44272

>>44271
Cute drawing.

Answering your question: learn basic construction, some basic anatomy (specially proportions and gesture), and draw from observation, be from real life or other art.

It takes time.

 No.44273

>>44271
Just keep drawing! It's that easy!

 No.44274

>>44271
the shoulders, legs and arms fit perfectly


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 No.52132[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Bicycles ~ good for getting around short distances easily.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDbNe3mS0aw
Or when the power goes out..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW79QxVbCgY
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 No.70413

>>70412
This is total nonsense. Battery degradation curves are not secret. You lose some of your total capacity with time but it's almost negligible. You can charge it hundreds of times and you will still be more than 90%. 90% of 50 is 45, not 25. Plus you can pedal with your legs if you want extra range, in fact that's kind of the point, to get some exercise while not killing yourself and having some fun.

You suggest pedaling yourself which makes no sense if your complaint is that the ebikes battery range will not be enough. Which is it, the bike doesn't provide enough help or it provides too much? Whatever your reason for objecting to ebikes is, it's not the ones you are stating in your post.

 No.70414

>>70413
>Battery degradation curves are not secret
The fact that Chinese lie about their manufacturing quality is not a secret.
>You lose some of your total capacity with time but it's almost negligible
No it's not. The natural loss with time and the inconsistent "safe" charging of several dozen Lithium cells with the cheap BMSs present in ebikes will quickly accumulate in to a very tangible decline in capacity.
>You can charge it hundreds of times and you will still be more than 90%
No I can't.
>Plus you can pedal with your legs if you want extra range, in fact that's kind of the point, to get some exercise while not killing yourself and having some fun.
The question is "are ebikes worth it" and considering the ones that actually function start at around $900USD, the added convenience of some battery assistance doesn't outweigh the negatives present in all ebikes. Exercise could be had for way less, distance could be achieved with way less, and fun could be achieved with way less. Longevity and versatility also cost way less when buying a regular bike.
>You suggest pedaling yourself which makes no sense if your complaint is that the ebikes battery range will not be enough
People who are interested in ebikes are usually the kind of people who don't cycle at all. It's safe to assume >>70411 is looking for an analogue to a car, and not to make the exercise and fun of his current biking hobby a little less physically rewarding.
>Whatever your reason for objecting to ebikes is, it's not the ones you are stating in your post.
You're right! I also object to them because they're for fags who think they own the road, the bike lane, and the sidewalk all at once. They're a great way for dealerships and people to send lots of money outside of the country in exchange for a poorly built bike frame with shoddy batteries glued on. After the display PCB gets wet, the BMS refuses to charge the batteries, and the aluminium frake cracks, the e-bike becomes e-waste which we all have to pay for.

 No.70430

>>70414
congratulations on being both racist and delusional.

 No.70589

Going cycling somewhere where there is fresh air while living in a city can be so calming. too bad I don't have money for a bike right now

 No.70590

>>70589
S T E A L O N E


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 No.307706[Reply]

Why do us humans have to be so alone? I feel that despite having options to live and exist and do things we still are so very dependent on this biological programming to seek connection. I don't know how to say this but I honestly, often hate myself for seeking it from other people — trying to make friends who would listen, or talk, or at least stay. I know people are very busy and have no time to stay to listen and understand other people's loneliness but I typically wonder if I could just have one person, not a therapist, just one genuinely good person who would not be judgemental (although they could be if they have any good advice) and would just listen to me like I matter; my situation is not something I am making up, this is me, suffering from being an outlier who has tried so hard to be a part of normal people but just couldn't. I really tried, but the performance was too much (although calling it a performance would be hypocritical). I could not do it, everyday I felt I was lying to myself, there was a small part of whatever honesty left was leaving me everyday, slowly but I could feel it. I did't know if I am living or lying. How long can I continue with this? Even when alone one, doing his work, to push through shouldn't there be a part within him that calls for an alignment with his honest self? I feel I lack that, it feels so pretentious to be existing. I don't wanna leave everything and just run away because I am not strong enough but I wonder if I could continue like this, and even if I could, calling that just a part of being human and a lot of other (fellow wizards) are going through the same, I don't know how long I could go on without completely going insane.
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 No.307829

You sound like you expect too much from other people. People are dumb and trash and worthless, you and me included. Stop giving a fk about them and start focusing on yourself and what you want in life. You will feel better afterward, trust me I am experienced wiz

And by the way this introspection intellectual slop you served us here will lead you nowhere, it sound dumb and pointless from an external viewpoint even tho its was likely very meaningful to you, so you should stop it, for your own good, its just a waste of energy, in my opinion.

 No.307830

>>307829
fact check: false

 No.307831

>>307830
> Stop giving a fk about them and start focusing on yourself and what you want in life.

What he said is true. Also if you actually live like that good things come automatic.

 No.307837

>>307829
>not care about what others think
ill just get my shit kicked in if its around the wrong person

 No.307838

>>307837
Are you so small and weak that you believe people will not only attack you, but also beat you every time? If someone gets violent, get violent back.


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 No.307723[Reply]

Very late 20s. Never been on a date, never been approached. Never had any friends, only acquaintances. Not even meme internet "friends". I always thought these things would naturally come to me at a later age, but they never did. With each passing year it gets worse. There is something profoundly wrong with me, it's like the part of my brain that's responsible for human contact was amputated at birth
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 No.307746

>>307745
I find myself desiring cutesy silly fun stuff as I get older.
It is what it is.
I can't stomach drama or "realistic" shit anymore. Not a homosexual though thankfully.

 No.307747

>>307723
I am nearing 30. I've been like that all my life. I have a friend but we share just the basic stuff, going to the same school, knowing same people, not that much in common.
When I was much younger I had several bouts of 'I can find myself friends and maybe even a cute girlfriend like in one of them animes'. It never went anywere. My attempts at finding friends get crushed by the fact most people i've encountered in my life are just plain retards with whom I can't discuss anything. We just don't share anything with them. I realized what's the point? I'd rather be in my own company that waste time and effort on fruitless relationships.

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>>307747
>When I was much younger I had several bouts of 'I can find myself friends and maybe even a cute girlfriend like in one of them animes'. It never went anywere.
My vampire wife will arrive any minute now.
A yukionna will do as well.

>with whom I can't discuss anything.
What would you like to discuss with friends?
I used to have stuff I cared about and stuff I wanted to talk about with people, but nowadays I just don't have any interests or things to share.
I have to wonder why I even desire such a thing anymore in that case.

 No.307752

>>307748
>What would you like to discuss with friends?
What first comes to mind, vidyagames. Discussing what we playan or ever playing them with a friend somehow. That seems so alien.

 No.307836

I can share some experience with this.

If you haven't reached any milestones by your late 20s, now is the very last chance. After that it's well and truly over. I wageslaved during my 20s, thinking that if I just work hard I'll naturally meet cool people and maybe get a gf. However I was an awkward sperg which is why I spent all my time working, not really understanding how to socialize.

In my 30s I can't form a connection with anyone now on pretty much any level. I have a career sure, so at least I'm not homeless, but that's it.

Your brain does indeed calcify and what skills you perfect in your 20s are what you're stuck with.


/dep/

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 No.306970[Reply]

I've seen this discussed in many threads so I made a thread for it. Many wizzies had had their life destroyed by psychiatric medication be it SSRI's, antipsychotics, benzodiazepines or others. A psych ward stay tends to leave you worse off. Some people get abused in psychiatric institutions. Mentioning you are sad and thinking about suicide to a doctor or nurse can get you forcefully restrained and tranquilised.
I'm suicidal but I avoid any medical help precisely for this reason.
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 No.307634

>>307630
>https://alpha-stim.com/
Not sure this would actually help with your OCD, plus it seems pricy. In any case I recommend avoiding therapy unless you find a therapist that actually cares about you and can help you practice ERP. But modern therapy is completely freudian and most of the time therapists refuse to listen to you, so I recommend practicing ERP on your own.

 No.307640

>>307634
>modern therapy is completely freudian
What? The only therapy most insurances will pay for is CBT.

 No.307642

>>307640
Most CBT insurance therapists don't actually do real ERP. They do talk therapy with a CBT label. Proper ERP exists but is hard to find. That's why I think modern therapy is often useless Freudian-lite for OCD.

 No.307646

i think the clinic wants to see me locked up

 No.307834

>>307631
>but no matter how hard i tried online people just don't work to fill my void
I can relate to this. I still prefer being alone to being around normies though.


/dep/

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 No.307767[Reply]

>phone alarm wakes you up from blissful sleep
>you're in a warm comfy bed, under a warm blanket
>you bury your head under a blanket for 10 minutes but soon drag your ass out anyway
>drag your ass out to work, where everyone is very demanding and aggressive and hates you
>get back 10 hours later, having no energy to do anything
>do the same thing tomorrow again
I just want to sleep I'm tired of repeating the same morning torture ritual every day. If we weren't ruled by greedy subhumans we'd have 4 day work weeks by now.
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 No.307770

get a part time job and become frugal so you don't need as much money. move to a small shitty apartment that's walking distance from work so you don't have to pay for a car and insurance.

 No.307774

working seems like hell to me
i live off unemployment monies and when they run out later this year the rope is the only realistic option
it is also extremely unlikely I will ever be employed even if I try very hard to find a job

 No.307776

>>307767
the worst is there are some jobs where you work REALLY 4 or even 3 days a week out there. but like >>307770 said, you can become a freeter

 No.307781

what kind of work do you do, wizzie?

 No.307832

>>307774
Wow wouldnt want to be you


/hob/

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 No.64802[Reply]

Recently I've become fascinated with tessellation and spent the past couple of weeks collecting pictures of mosaics from around the world. Eventually just looking at them was not enough and I want to go deeper, understand the geometric shapes and its secrets better. Not even sure why but periodic tiling feels like a brain massage to me, like I'm about to fall out of bottom of how I usually perceive the world around me. So I picked up the book Geometry by Cambridge University Press. Feel free to give a hollow laugh: I honestly thought I could just skip the math part of geometry (yes I'm an idiot) and appreciate its resulting surfaces. While you can do that, if you want to appretiate geometry even at a surface level, you need to know the bare minimum of maths. The book suggested a good grasp on the basics of linear algebra and algebraic structure. I thought 'OK, I'll read the wiki entries as a lazy primer' and quickly realized I forgot even the basics of mathematical symbols. I guess it's true after all, if you don't use it you lose it.

Long story short, I'm currently going through Pure Mathematics for Beginners. The good part of being dumb is when you learn a single thing it feels like a whole new world just opened up and it feels really good.

So yeah, maths thread.
Previous one; >>30554
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 No.70507

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 No.70508

>>70507
I just wanted to make video games, man

 No.70509

>>70507
saw some people on twitter that are building a math knowledge graph, connecting every concept starting from elementary school, all the way up to graduate level math. but they deliberately don't post the whole thing so they can shill their proprietary learning platform. if you had the whole map, you could just follow it on your own and self-study. you could pick a concept and go backwards and learn all the prerequisites, figure out what fundamentals you might be missing. i think stuff like this should be standardized, would make learning complex subjects more accessible.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gzm6ZoRXAAAEOqx?format=jpg&name=large

 No.70587

I find being able to solve single variable calculus problems (possibly with a formula sheet) to be a much better marker of general intelligence and problem solving ability than iq tests or personality tests.
It's also depressing how much people would fail this

 No.70588

>>70508
>making video gaymes in 2026
>thinks projective geometry is hard
brainlet moment


/dep/

 No.301895[Reply]

Starting a new anti-suicide general as the original has been bump-locked.

Helping wizards to understand that persuasive feelings of suicide can be bested.

Further the discursive spirit of this thread will remain the same as the first: to counter the general luring tenor of sadness that defines all the other threads through sharing positive practical advice purposed to reducing suicidal behavior even when we feel most suicidal. Naturally, being that I started the topic, I will be the first to contribute.

(1) Know that I care about you guys deeply and sincerely. Call me a faggot, I don't care (many have already done this, to no worthwhile avail)
(2) Examine what you are eating. For example, gluten especially produces depressive/psychotic episodes in sensitive autistic individuals. Sugar also is not healthy for your brain. Delimiting ingestion of both is wise.
(3) Make sure you are getting sufficient sleep. Chronic sleeplessness or even a few days' worth of irregular sleep can seriously interfere with the clarity of our thinking.
(4) Clean up. Taking a warm shower and putting on fresh clean clothes always is refreshing and helps to break up darkened mental habits.
(5) Breathe fresh air. Open whichever windows punctuate your room and allow some wind to come in.
(6) Watch your breathing. When we are panicked, our breathing can become very disordered and we do not recognize the effect this has on our thinking. Take deep, purposeful breaths, and collect your thoughts.
(7) Respect yourself. You have done your best to survive in an awful world, and you should grant yourself forgiveness for any mistakes and the allowance to rest with a composed and balanced mind.

I've done my part. Anyone else?
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 No.307253

>>306994
under large remote trees is a spot i enjoy for meditating.

 No.307353

its not that bad. i only ever lurked here so im not totally sure what wiz attitudes towards substances are. why not try lsd and meditate on your experiences? read into buddhist practices and be cool.

 No.307560

>>304017
Are you Christian?

 No.307696

>>307560
yes.

 No.307828

>>306997
goodbye :3


/lounge/

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 No.320472[Reply]

Post your wallpapers.
After seeing the desktop thread I thought it would be good to share what wallpapers wizards are using.
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 No.323419

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Some nice nature papes I have on rotation.

 No.323820

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I made a blue one. It is nice to have my Windows computer set to "light mode".

 No.323822

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 No.323824

>>323822
The second one would be great if the screenshot was taken from an emulation of the HD remake with AA enabled.

The first one is butt (that's bad) because of how busy it is on the left. Desktop icons would get lost in there. It must be flipped horizontally, vertically too maybe.

 No.323828

>>323824
>>323824
The second one would be great if the screenshot was taken from an emulation of the HD remake with AA enabled.

maybe you are lucky and somebody did a insanely good looking high resolution playthrough of it and you could just screenshot it off.

>The first one is butt (that's bad) because of how busy it is on the left. Desktop icons would get lost in there. It must be flipped horizontally, vertically too maybe.

i can't even do wallpaper anymore, i just set it to a solid color. either a gray or a deep blue. besides these days i have my entire desktop covered in widgets. some hold my shorcuts to programs, others just visualize heat or show system percentages. i did like the combination of gray and colors when i was younger.


/dep/

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 No.303736[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

You will still be stuck browsing this thread in 2026 edition

previous>>296811
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 No.307792

>>307789
It's a curse that the Archons inflict upon those who do not enjoy feeling sick. This is why NEETs feel bad all the time. Forever vacation = forever ill.

 No.307794

>>307792
For some, freedom is only found within walls.

 No.307795

Work's been surprisingly fine for me this month… only hangup is the two old farts from the morning shift. One of them needs to retire, I spend 4 hours out of the day trying to dodge him… just follows me around stopping projects and telling me everything can't be fixed because he already tried.

 No.307815

>>303790
Security is actually not a bad gig for your typical wizzie and it can very rewarding, but you do need to get lucky with finding the right job I feel. Yea, you can probably just accept the first security job you come across if you're really desperate, but it might consist of you being forced to stand on your feet the entirety of your shift in some retail store or public facing venue dealing with NPC normies all day who want to fight you and cause trouble, and it would drain your wiz-battery pack quickly and then you would end up hating it. Here's some wiz-tips for finding an ideal security job:

1) Don't just accept just any security gig that you're offered, always try to ask around to find out exactly what the job consists of. It'll also depend on the security company you apply to, some of them will be clear and upfront with you about the job requirements as well as the locations you'll be working at, while others will be very evasive because they just need to fill the post and don't really care much about their workers. I would recommend avoiding those type of places. A decent security company will be upfront with you about their expectations as well as the work environment. At the same time you can't be a floor mat yourself and just accept whatever job post you're offered, if you don't think you'll like working at a job site - don't accept it.

2) Try to do some research on the security company that you're applying to and what kind of sites they staff, for example some of them will focus exclusively on public facing venues like security at concerts, retail stores, normie social events, and if you're just looking for some easy sit down on your butt do-nothing jobs, then you'll obviously probably want to avoid those. Try to get some previous employee feedback about the company that you're applying to, you can google the employer and their reviews and read what previous employees said about working there, whether if it's a good place or not. An ideal wizzie security job is one where you'll be mostly working by yourself, isolated from the general public and your duties mostly consisting of sitting down, occasionally doing some patrol rounds or watching the CCTV cameras on a monitor. Places like industrial areas, warehouses, after-hours medical facilities, etc. when all the normies are gone, etc. those can be good environments to work at.Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

 No.307827

>>307815

only if zero criminal record. i have super minor criminal record, and was told yea, dont bother, it ll be a nite mare for you to become even an unarmed.

and even so,

could wind up like dude stuck deployed in bad areas. or worse, they put you someplace and are turned into a receptionist


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 No.63518[Reply]

I don't understand how this game got so many accolades. As a 30 year old boomer who's played tons of RPGs western and eastern there isn't anything that unique about expedition 33 that makes it a substantially better game then everything else that came out.

People saying we haven't had a good jrpg in decades haven't heard of the trials of cold steel series. I'm convinced everyone that likes this game is a zoomer who only played pokemon as their only RPG.

 No.63519

>>63518
I hate this game

 No.63520

It's a JRPG without anime. Anime is what turns off most normies. Also the art direction and music were pretty good.

 No.63521

It's just the bad version of Super Mario RPG


/lounge/

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 No.321660[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

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

Previous thread: https://archive.is/JfDla
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 No.323713

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>>323712
>good old 'rona
Unironically good.

- $1,800 free bux from the government every month
- Streets empty, quiet, clean
- Nobody telling me to get a job
- Every disgusting gaylord shop employee is wearing a mask so I don't have to smell their mouthbreather cumbreath
- Food is cheaper, stores literally giving some of it away
- Total halt on immigration, crackdown on border hopping
- Vidya goes on sale, game servers packed
- Content slaves have nothing to do besides make more videos for me to watch
- Acceleration, more fencesitters lose faith in Liberals
- Interviewed by police whenever I go out, enjoy the chat, I can grab their gun if I really wanted to
- Bugpeople in China being tortured

There are some bad things like White children being forced to stay in and do their usual school junk now on a screen, but even that comes with the benefit of them not being forced to interact with the undesirables at school. "The lockdown" was effectively me doing live action roleplay in a renaissance fair but instead of going medieval in the medieval times, I was enjoying being a normal White guy in the time when my city was 99% White. Quiet, safe, cheap… Not a rat race among human vermin. Everyone I ran in to actually doing shopping or enjoying their time outside had a cultural connection to me as someone who at least isn't entirely scared shitless by some made-up pandemic and the government recommendations for how to live during it. Please Hitler let it happen again.

 No.323714

>>323713
It also made normalfags go crazy from being indoors. Which was hillarious. I didn't mind it that much. Empty streets were perfect for a good wizard walk. Forced jabs for goycattle and 'no jab - no entry' madness was horrible though.
It's probably a nothingburger but another quarantine would be entertaining if anything. I hope it hits India the most but those tards live in filth so they must have some sort of disease resistance at all times.

 No.323716

>>323685
I agree

 No.323738

>>323712

>Iran will launch a nuclear weapon which will delineate the existence of a new World Split.

I can't tell if this is serious. If you didn't know my wizard: this is a fake war.

1. America is a judeo-masonic dictatorship (always has been)
2. The "American Empire" does not exist; it's just jewish banks
3. Iran fell to the jewish CIA in 1979 when they overthrew the Shah under the mask of an Islamic revolution
4. The Hostage Crisis was faked in order to cement an appearance of antagonism between the two covertly jewish governments
5. Iran's parliament building is a pyramidal masonic temple with 33 windows
6. Iran had a large comprehensive (((covid))) campaign
7. Iran does not have nukes, because nobody has nukes; they are a jewish fraud
8. Hezbollah is mossad, like Hamas – a controlled group
9. China is also jewish and has been since the mid 19th century
10. Oil is abiotic. There exists no scarcity. By forming an appearance of scarcity however, invisible jewish oligarchical powers can keep the prices artificially inflated while therefrom easily enriching themselves and lending a believable pretext for the criminal market manipulation we are now seeing and will likely continue to see so long as semites are resolved to play war games between the goyish tributary states they rule.

Reminder to glowniggers: your upcoming false flag will fail.

 No.323827

>>323508
All of Jamur and Kashmir is fated to be annexed by China, and then some, plus also Sikkim, then everything in the north east. India's destiny is probably to be incinerated by China.


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 No.307210[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Post here if you don't have enough to say for a new thread, but it's too depressing for the crawl thread.

Previous:
>>306157
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 No.307821

>>307820
or maybe because hes some wizkid retard straight out of /pol/: "defend land that is yours" whats *yours* exactly? youre a fucking low status alienated, disconnected male - nothing is yours, nobody cares, theres nothing glorious or cool about being another body for society's "disposable" male meatgrinder. its pathetic on many levels. youre dying to protect succubi who dont give a fuck about you, just to be demonized post-death. failing that youll come back traumatized with limbs missing, having only killed guys forced into the same situation as you.

the only good thing about being drafted is getting the chance to shoot your recruiters or the archetypical hazing strongman posturing losers who bullied you like back in highschool.

 No.307822

>>307821
You either fight on better terms or fight on worse terms. Forced mobilization on occupied territories has been a thing since 2014 and only increased since 2022. Muscovian shelf life is way shorter, up to 12 days. The guys in Muscovy are not forced, they signed contracts to kill, as a result the financial burden was out on Muscovian regions with all negative economical consequences. Succubi actually often fight better than men and there's plenty of them on Ukrainian side. Ukrainians in Crimea were forced by Muscovy to fight in Syria too. If you value your life that much, then you're a privileged failed normalfag who didn't suffer enough.

 No.307824

>>307822
why don't you go grab a snack and take /pol/ elsewhere? you're cringe

 No.307825

>>307822
my life fucking sucks but im not enough of a beaten down wretch like you to glorify throwing his life away for a society that considers you dispensable simply because of your gender.

i dont care when it started retard, blah blah blah, the draft has been a thing for all of history, le russian bad whatever, i dont give a fuck about the politics of whatever side youre on and no wizard should (why care about geopolitics of a world youre outcast from anyway), youre some little polchud wizkid who still thinks falls for this nationalist koolaid like you think it gives you some meaning in life to pretend this shit matters and gives you a little hobby. i heard some stories about russian soldiers contracts being forced to be extended so they had to go fight, im sure thats true and theres always men forced to fight in wars on both sides. its not some cod campaign.

bro is actually falling for muh russian elite female snipers tier feminist pop culture slop about how succubi are better soldiers. "plenty of them" a la cherrypicked propaganda articles you eat up and in any case they werent forced to fight like the men are so i have absolutely no respect for them. its like a white person voluntarily going to pick cotton, its not at all the same context, they arent "better" when they can just up and leave when they feel like it and by virtue of gender arent compelled to go die. this is the only relevant and important part to me and to any wiz - that society says your life is inherently worthless because youre male, and if you subscribe to that notion youre an absolute subhuman loser scumfuck.

if youre enough of a moron to fall for this sort of hurr defend ur country!!!11!! rhetoric then youre a privileged little mong who doesnt have any real issues. a wiz who takes his own life rather than being bloodfuel for the normalfag war machine has 100000x more respect than some drafted bitch boy poltard loser who takes it up the bum and acts like its a good thing. theres wanting to die on your own terms and then being compelled to die because society says you have to. if you dont find that humiliating, youre chopped, as the kids say.

by shitting out this gross rhetoric youre also by extension advocating to maintain a worldview which keeps low status guys like wizards on the bottom rung and fair game to be treated like dirt and killed. i dont liPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

 No.307826

I never belonged to this world
2 years of anhedonia have destroyed me


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/wiz/

 No.228525[Reply]

Why do wizards use herms like succubi for succubi, or is it for specific succubi
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 No.228533

ain't it obvious

 No.228567

>>228525
>Why do wizards use herms like succubi for succubi,

the word w/o/men automatically self-corrects to "succubi". i believe it is the same case for the word f-e-males. so that whenever these words are straight out written without intercalary modification they are rendered as succubi. in the same way s-oy auto-corrects to "onions" on halfchins.

 No.228568

>>228526
is this your first time on an imageboard???

 No.228574

>>228568
pity he's gonna his mind ruined by the fucked up demons who lurk here but hey everybody had the first time

 No.228575

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


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