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 No.68481[Reply]

One thing that completely captivates my interest and imagination is reading about genocides. Some might perceive it as an immature morbid fascination, but for me I think genocide connects aspects of history, politics and human psychology I find interesting.

I collect certain things related to genocide. I have a ‘srbosjek’ - a Serb cutter. The hand knife was used to cut the throats of Serbs during the genocide by the Croatian Ustasze.

I have always thought that beneath the veneer of human civility and empathy, most humans are under certain conditions capable of psychopathic acts of cruelty. Humans bend to social pressure with ease and our empathy is not as strong as it is performed. Lord of the Flies is an understatement.

I visited Cambodia and was really blown away by the history there. The ideology of the Khmer Rouge was fascinating. The number of people that took part in the genocide and only 3 were prosecuted.
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 No.70427

>Humans bend to social pressure with ease

god I hate this about humanity so much

 No.70429

>>70427
with new tech humanity will find new lows, enjoy 👌

 No.70431

>>70426
>Half of /dep/ and /wiz/ is about how normies are npc subhumans
Half of /dep/ and /wiz/ are 18-year-old East Europeans who so far have only experienced life through a school environment.

 No.70440

Have you studied the military structure of the Eastern Front Einsatzgruppen?
it's a thing I personally am working on, even if it's super complex.

 No.70441

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 No.68029[Reply]

Do you have a driver's licence? If so, how did you managed to obtain it? In Eastern Europe, it's pretty hard to get one, a long and painful journey.

It took me almost 1.5 years (including the COVID shutdowns) to get one. I also had to wageslave to be able to pay for the training, it's not cheap around here.

My motivation was that I live in a remote, hilly part of a small town, right next to a forest and there is no public transportation here. I was hold hostage up here, totally isolated. Sound good, but I was totally dependant on my parents to get into the town. I couldn't just go to the groceries, that would be a 2+ hour journey.

It's my single greatest achievement and I'm pretty proud of it. Driving is very useful skill, and one that is realistic and obtainable for NEETs, wizards. A way to make yourself more independent from your parents, others.

What are your thoughts?


(Pic related is not my car)
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 No.70398

>>70381
>china can make a car for $10,000
I know it's not glamorous but the used lots have $8-$13K units. I've had pretty good luck with them - they have all of the maintenance completed and it won't be a craigslist scam or anything either!

 No.70400

>>70381
>>70398
>china can make a car for $10,000
China can make a Chinese car of Chinese quality for $10,000. The price would explode if those bugpeople used real steel and incorporated basic safety features. Features that Americans had to literally die for before they became standard enough to not be considered premium features with premium price tags.

 No.70421

>>68029
I took my driving test at 23 after just driving my dad’s car around in a parking lot and then some back roads for a week. I went to the DMV and took the test which was just 10 minutes of driving the speed limit around town in basically no traffic, she then instructed me to back into a parking space which I failed completely and I still passed the driving test. I have been terrorizing the roads ever since

 No.70428

>>70400
US has 14.2 traffic fatalities per 100k. China has 17.4. For reference Sweden is the lowest major country with 2.1 and Zimbabwe is the highest at 41.2. So there's not really much difference between the US and China. China has actually implemented stronger standards recently too and competition in the marketplace is such that unsafe cars don't sell well.

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>>68029
My car's dead, I live far from work, I'm broke, repairing it's really expensive, but buying a new car is impossible.

I hate living.



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 No.65514[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

What's the last movie you've seen?
What's the oldest film you've seen?

The last movie thread has surpassed the bump limit. >>>/hob/60753
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 No.70386

>>70385
>Really nails how dissociation feels like
I don't believe you understand at all what it means to "feel disassociation". It's not something that can be observed and as such it is not something that any actor or film can portray.

 No.70387

>>70386
It can be identified thus it can be observed mr smartass

 No.70389

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>>65514
I never watch romance films bacause i think all are bullshit but i watched this film by accident
>Silver Linings Playbook
And i liked it, i feel it humanistic in a lot of ways.
Maybe bacause the feeling of that anyone get how you feel is in the entire film, all are assholes to protagonist and all put moralistic tags or bullshit on them. The protagonist feels lonely in a lot of ways, everyone feel distant to them in a not forced acting way.
There're some escenes that the dude and same the succubus turn full anxiety and i suffered that shit, i feel empathy for the protagonists so that maybe is a good camera and acting job.
I dont know if the book is more good.

 No.70390

>>70389
>more good
>crappy tastes
>low IQ

most likely indian

 No.70420

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I watched "Redux Redux" two days ago. It wasn't terrible— just kind of a turn-your-brain-off movie. You throw it on, kick back, and let it wash over you. It's about a succubus with a time machine who keeps jumping between parallel universes to track down the guy who took her daughter away, over and over.


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 No.62503[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Any type of writing is allowed, from lyrics, to poetry, to essays, and anything in between.

Last Thread:
https://www.wizchan.org/hob/featured/res/46012.html

Some discussion starters for the thread:

>What are you writing right now?


>What's your favorite thing to write about?


>Is there anything important about writing that you wish you knew earlier?


>What literary devices do you implement in your writing?


>Is there anything that you're planning to improve on in your writing?
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 No.69710

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>>69708
it's lright, poemmaking by yourself > poemmaking via Eyyy Aiiii

 No.69711

>>69710
Why do you type like this?

 No.69712

>>69711
Both phoneposting and carelessness

 No.69715

>>69706
Let me be less of an asshole than >>69707.
What do you think of Notes from the Underground?

 No.70419

>>69659
How would it even work here?


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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.70290

>>70270
>Anny wizzie into MTB?
I made a weird move of using a mountain bike as my pointA-pointB bike. Not too comfy, buy not too shabby either. High quality stuff just wouldnt break.

>I've been trying out some trails where I live (I'm blessed to live in the middle of the Alps).


Whoa. I have some trails too. I'm gonna assume your Alps can be either Swiss or Français


0bviously. WEAR A HELMET
1. pressurised WD-40 or such to straight-up spray your bike's chain from dirt and rust
2. Your gear AND your chain both get very smooth over time so you won't be able to use your old gears with your new chain. Keep a chain repair kit in some kind of "bike stuff shoebox"
3. Make sure to keep a shoeboxful of little things for your bike. Never scatter your bike things across your house (even a 50 meter apartment can turn into a quest room if you hoard stuff without organising, in my embarrassing experience)
4. I am gonna assume you may live in Switzerland. I don't know, check your laws (local laws included) regarding headlights, rear lights, honk-honk klaxons vs bike bells vs neither. To my knowledge, Switzerland compared to Germany is what Germany is compared to *the rest of Europe* in terms of being eager to fine you for $$$ over a lack of a 5$ thingy

 No.70412

>>70411
The primary issue with ebikes is the same as that of electric cars. The current lithium ion battery implementation makes the longevity of both incredibly poor and also demands constant maintenance. An Ebike that boasts a 50 mile range without pedal assist may is able to give you such a range (on perfectly flat ground, with no wind ahead, and if you're as light as a malnourished Chinese factory worker). However, once the battery has been fully discharged once, the the individual cells will only charge up to maybe 99.95% of that capacity the next time. Then you discharge them again, and now they reach 99.90% of the original capcity. Then you leave the battery half charged for a few cold nights and some cells begin to trickle power away. You go to charge the battery to full but some of the better cells reach their new 99.85% max before those trickled cells do, so the BMS stops charging all of the batteries with those few still short in order to not overcharge the good cells. After a few dozen trips, a bit of cold and wet weather, and the typical 18650 inconsistencies, you're now only able to drive 25 miles without pedal assist.

So you'll need to drain the battery fully, then charge it fully in a warm dry place, and not let it sit either on or off a charger for long. You'll have to chose either the batteries dying because you're riding a lot or because you're not riding enough. The replacement batteries aren't cheap and frankly it does add quite a bit your nuclear bill whenever you do charge them.

There's also the question of [i]whyi]. Why let an electric motor drive you when you can just pedal yourself? That's not only free but you also earn good exercise. If your environment or the length of your commute demands some assistance, just get a cheap 49cc motor kit and throw it on a junker hardtail mountain bike. If those are illegal where you live, kill the people who made that law so.

 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.


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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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 No.69819

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 No.69820

what device do you use? or you use. your phone?

 No.69821

>>69521
Yo that's cool. What even is this place?
>>61342
Love the snow vs the warm inviting lights.

 No.69834

>>69821
>What even is this place?
A Halloween store. It's empty except for the month of October, where it gets full of cute succubus outfits for little with succubi, and anime cosplay. After Halloween, all of the employees are ground in to a fine paste and shipped to the shrimp farms as chum.

 No.70382

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>>69820
Photos are taken with a camera. Phones are for ordering pizza.


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 No.66162[Reply]

Anyone here still read Sexy Losers? Just found out that this is still updating and no longer looks like anime.
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 No.70375

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>>70371
This one right? Looking for Group. If I am not hallucinating, they were done by the people who did "Least I Could Do". Was nice, but yes they went super serious. The undead not actually being undead or something?
I'm not sure if the creators always were, but I dropped them when they didnt hide their leftism. I thin a decade ago I kinda checked on them and saw that they turned the "suck of a buck" hooker in to a FtM Tranny.

 No.70377

>>66244
I also wanted to create comics just like this.

 No.70378

>>66244
>>70377
What holds you back? There are plenty of comics that arent perfectly drawn but still managed to get cult like status, p.E. Tails gets Trolled

 No.70379

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>>70375
Yeah that one. And the elf being the king/hero of some prophecy or something, being forced to kill a child to save something greater, except the kid wasn't a kid but some illusion or shapeshifter who orchestrated it, because what the elf was supposed to "kill" was his "innocence". It was just getting too pretentious for me and I dropped it.

This reminds me of another 2 video game related webcomics.
- Goblins one which I dropped when it had a "pseudo rape" arc. Some bald human barbarian and lamia chick had a nice thing going, but lamia is cursed to forget about him and she prepares to leave him when he uses some magic item to make her stop which triggered her PTSD flashback of being raped by some other dude before. Then the artist dumped some huge ass sobstory on the website about how his mom was raped or something and even a small interview with her. I dunno if it was an elaborate joke or not but I just dropped it at that point.

- Order of the Stick. Was nice for a while but then at some point the story pivots to "but umm have you considered that goblins are only evil because of socio-economic factors and it's in fact humans that are bad?" which also caused me to drop it.

It's been a while so I may not be remembering this properly.

 No.70380

>>66162
Pretty degenerate. Thought he made a new webcomic because a lot of his original stuff had guest artists who were already integrated into his storylines. Didn't update or slowed for a while but I sent him a sympathy email when next to one of his comics he talked about being pushed out of a friend group because of a succubus. Then he did one or two more updates after that.
>>66244
>>66544
the GOATs. Don't think they update any more though, or I think Blastwave just did a spinoff and stuck with that.
>>70375
I found it reddit tier, like deadpool for fantasy.

One dumb comic I followed for a while (because it was something to follow) was a lego comic based on star wars and star trek.



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 No.63254[Reply]

Any of you guys wargame? I've tried getting into old school ASL recently and am finding the pure infantry combat of early starter kits pretty underwhelming without the artillery and armor expansions
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 No.65893

>>63254
Define wargame. At various times I have played 40k, Battletech, Flames of War, and Warmahordes. As a kid I played Panzer Blitz and some other Avalon Hill games.

 No.67904

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I've been running some Chainmail battles with some guys.
It's fun!

 No.70367

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

 No.70368

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

 No.70376

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

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

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



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 No.64286[Reply]

ITT we post pictures and discuss our love for parks.
When did you realize you loved parks?
What is your favorite thing about parks?
What is your first memory of a park?
What is your favorite memory of a park?
How often do you dream of parks?
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 No.70006

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 No.70007

>>64302

Wear covid-era maaaaask
and scarf

normies'll assume you have

a) common cold
b) astardy edginess
c) o v i d

>>64305
thanks for your input, really

>>64308

huh… maybe, someday…
thanks for the idea.

>>64343
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>>64286
I like the fall. Summer is way too hot and makes normies run around and party outside. In the fall when it gets colder they already start to stay inside more. So I can take my time walking along the same path as always and admire the color of the changing leaves and wonder how many times I will walk this path before this time of my life comes to a close as well. Perhaps I will miss these mundane scenes one day. Perhaps I will forget them entirely. But for now I am comfy and enjoying the sights.

 No.70011

>>70010
Good call.
I think I should go for a walk in the park too.
Regards, >>70007

 No.70369

>>64294
But what about posting park lains?



 No.62567[Reply]

I've been interested more and more about the power of daydreaming. I think that if my daydreaming ability was extremely advanced, that it would activate an entirely new level of self-actualization for myself.

To this end, I've been looking for ways to enhance my ability to daydream, and have recently gotten interested in writing fiction (which there's already a thread here about it >>59403 ), tulpas (plenty of threads about that stuff), and in solo roleplaying. I don't see anything about solo roleplaying games, though, so I thought I'd make a thread about it.

I've tried solo roleplaying before in very naive attempts, but you run across the obvious pitfall: the temptation to metagame your character against knowledge that should only be privy to the GM or other characters is just too much. Quickly, it becomes unrealistic. I'm just getting started in this space, so I don't know a whole lot, but some of the systems (oracle systems like Mythic GM, for example) and techniques (solo episode journaling) that have been developed are a lot more advanced and appealing than I thought they'd be.

If anyone knows about any good solo RP systems or thoughts about it, please share.
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 No.69672

>>69668
This is the first genuine complement I've received in a long time, and I think the first complement I've come across on a chan, ever. Thanks.
Sage because this post is sappy.

 No.69674

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>>69661
I've put some thought in trying to make the system as bare bones as absolutely possible and this is what I have so far. Each successive iteration I've been stripping out more and more until this is what I'm left with so far. I still don't know if the categories quite make sense/work in my playtesting so far, even though I can force them to work…
My main issue atm are the action/theme oracles. In practice, I find I do need them to be that small so that the whole system "fits in human memory" without too much effort for a new player. By making them "multiplicative" I can capitalize on the exponential compression to really expand their power, e.g., you "roll" 3 times to get a word for each category, and the word combination defines the theme/noun or action/verb. This allows me to "fit" a lot more words into the same space. However, I find the theme/action oracle to still be really abstract to work with in playtesting so far. It's hard to bullshit up a MBTI/Compass system to define nouns/verbs.
The fate oracle I think works well when you play with the principle of "If you aren't willing to accept 3:7 or 7:3 odds, then don't bother with the fate oracle and just have it happen in the game."
Idk, I'm going to do a bit more playtesting to see if I can even out the action/theme oracle kinks.
I've got a more complete writeup I'm working on w/examples/etc., but I wanted to make sure I could at least get it not only on a single page, but on a single page with plenty of white space and DEAD simple (it's got to be done all in your head!).
Again, I don't know if I'll be arsed to finish up the full writeup, but whatever. I find the full writeup interesting as it not only explains all the design choices so far, but also explains what I've noticed in some other playtesting, which is that the system seems to have far more applications than just games.

 No.69679

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>>69674
Draft v.1

 No.69680

>>69679
Been playtesting some more, and the main issue I've come across is using the theme oracle. There are the specific words I choose in the theme oracle are giving me..bad vibes.
It's also not just that I can "represent" as many things as possible with as few words as possible, but I have to make the weightings of those representations be things more likely to carry a story. For example, one time I was playtesting and hit "ethereal" like three times in a row and was like, "O.k., come on, I don't want to make a @#$!ing pantheon right now!"
I think I can fix it by choosing the word categorizations more carefully, and being more willing to completely avoid certain categories, but…I'm not an ontologist.

I just had a thought. If I incorporated toki pona's ontology, I think that might help. Also, if I gave the player choice at each vertex of the triangles between a word or it antonym, that might help too?

 No.70359

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Go to church(or what's your temple is), phone on Do Not Disturb mode

try praying, end up daydreaming powerfully
??????


notes

profit



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