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 No.69405[Reply]

I like to look up real estate online. I don't buy any of it, because I wasn't born rich into the landed gentry.

However, it's fun to fantasise about. It's amazing what kinds of homes people can have. It's wild to me that someone people have a hundred thousand dollars and just buy a normal house rather than move somewhere kooky for an interesting home.

 No.69406

>>69405
all same as you, are you me?
I look up real estate and day dream about living there and how I can fill the rooms, sometimes its comfy

 No.69409

>>69408
Right. The idea that these lifestyles are truly accessible to us is a false one. To truly make it work, you need to be wealthy, not just rich. Not 7 figures, but 8 figures or more. Need to have people working for you and taking care of all that maintenance and hassle.
Otherwise, you'll be paying the difference with time and stress.

 No.69766

>>69405
Hobnestly, I daydream about a day when a bunch of tower blocks will be repurposed into building for solo wizards - a 500sqft apartment is kinda enough to host a bunch of cool stuff like a CRT telly, two CRT screens on a desk, a funny old Kraftway keyboard, a bunch of oldschool books, a couple of wardrobes holding towes and tees… and other personal rags…





and, a large wooden bunk bed with the upper bunk not being really meant to be used - just to hold a different sleep setup (thinner blanket and such) if it feels too cold to sleep in your normal bunk.


I mean, seriously, tThe Man keeps building "cheap and affordable" tower blocks for people who tend to shit on each other floors and create traffic jams and overall feel out of place in da overcrowded city.



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 No.69014[Reply]

So, after the new price for the Switch 2 games, 90 USA bucks, this new normal will make gaming a expensive hobby, here in my third world country, the price in my local currency will be even higher, to a absurd degrees, gaming in couple of years will be for those with money or just straight up pirates, but I'm a NEET with not a lot of moneyt to invest into a PC gaymer, so what's some hoobies to do there are cheap and acessiabale?
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 No.69120

>>69014
theres no such thing as celtic.

 No.69165

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>>69014
If you want to continue playing video games, without spending a ton of money on the new stuff coming out, I genuinely suggest playing titles from the 2000's or even 90's and 80's through things like emulation, it's cheap, often free even, and there's literally enough video games to keep you occupied for the rest of your life without you having to spend money on any new ones, it's nice…

Have you ever tried this out, OP?

 No.69197

>>69014
Take the emupill and just play the zillions of great retro games on a decent PC. Even a very budget build with a Ryzen 5 5600 and RTX 3060 can emulate pretty much EVERYTHING here, even PS3 games:

https://myrient.erista.me/files/No-Intro/
https://myrient.erista.me/files/Redump/

Recommendations for great classic games:

https://vsrecommendedgames.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page

Get started with emulation:

https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Main_Page

 No.69200

>>69014
Pirate old video games. Most of them are never re-released anyway so have your fill. If you do that you will have enough to play to last this whole tariff war out.

 No.69753

I wonder if Sinclair Spectrum era games can be ported to modern devices found easily



 No.65728[Reply]

lads i honestly love buying stuff. online shopping is fun as hell. i love researching products for hours and discovering interesting stuff thats out there. then you get to own cool and useful things.

any wizards love online shopping here?
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 No.65983

>>65728
I do the same thing, but I spend much of the time looking for a German manufactured equivalent. It is essentially the only nation I will buy anything from now, for so many reasons, primarily for quality. Often I am unable to find an equivalent, but delight in denying myself that product, knowing I am staying true to myself and the cosmos.

 No.65986

I hate it. I mean if I am looking for something very specific online shopping can make it easy, but it is so much more fun to browse a store and physically touch things. I can get a better idea for the specifications for an object than some stock image a chinese seller posted. The way some UI's are made are so atrocious, so bad and organizing and sorting, or you just end up going through pages and pages of these stock images. Its worse when its Amazon where they'll post them same item multiple times.

 No.67876

>>65858
ovens take heeps amount of electricity so air fryers are a very nice alternative, makes my tempura crispy.

 No.67877

NEVER buy clothes online wizzars, unless if it is a simple tee. The foreign measurements fool me again and again

 No.69752

>>67877
I agree.

but!

you can tailor oversized items into fit items!



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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.69564

Recently rewatched some stuff and ended up watching some old ones that I hadn't seen yet
>No Country for Old Men (rewatch, great)
>Blade Runner 2049 (rewatch, good visuals only)
>28 Days Later (sucks)
>Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (not my type of thing)
>Fargo (great)
>Matrix (surprisingly good, thought it was just a meme)
>Let the Right one In (on recommendation, is okay, vampire succubus is cute)
>Requiem for a Dream (I can't feel sorry for drug addicts, might rewatch it at some point idk)
>The Big Lebowski (rewatch, much better than I remembered)
>The Shining (good, I just don't like horror)
>Drive (rewatch, mediocre)

 No.69702

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Well, with the death of Jim Lovell, it got me to thinking about the film Apollo 13. As time marches on, I gotta say, each passing year I love this film more.
I think this movie is the most stereotypical male movie ever made. Emotion and bullshit relationshit drama is RARELY the focal point of the movie. It's always a standoff one-off scene of his wife being sad for two seconds before getting back to another "WE SOLVE PROBLEM NOW" scene. In fact, those scenes are so short and so downplayed that they almost feel like a parody of those films from the 50s that would hammily shove them into the movie to say they had romance for the trailer. The only times I can think of where emotions actually happen with the main characters, it's immediately shut down. E.g., when they start blaming each other for the accident and displaying anger and Jim says, "NO ANGER NOW, WE SOLVE PROBLEM FIRST"
It's also a REALLY repetitive and simplistic act structure:
Act
Scene 1
THERE PROBLEM.
Scene 2
BRAINSTORM PROBLEM.
Scene 3
I DON'T KNOW IF SOLVE PROBL–WE SOLVE PROBLEM.
Scene 4
IMPLEMENT SOLUTION TO PROBLEM–WILL IT WOR–IT WORKED. NEED TO FOCUS ON NEXT PROBLEM.
And it's just that Act repeated over and over and OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN HOLY FUCK I DON'T CARE THAT IT'S REPETITIVE I WISH THAT ACT STRUCTURE WOULD'VE KEPT GOING EVEN MORE! Given the real Apollo 13 though, it could've, because there were actually MORE problems they solved irl and they had to tone it DOWN for the fucking movie!
I also love how self-directed everyone is. For example, Gene Krantz has that general meeting where he gives that Captain Jelicho speech trope of "I want men running every simulator, we need hands on every nut and bolt, I need people running double shift bla bla bla!" EVERY other time that speech trope is done, the leader character ASSIGNS tasks to people. This is the only piece of media where he's just giving the motivating speech, and in fact MID SPEECH you see actors moving around and leaving the room WITHOUT having tasks assigned to them. Like the moment he says, "Let's get simulators running the power-up procedure," you see a couple guys self-directed leave the room with no further questions. There's just this MASSIVE amount of non-verbal communication.
No toxicity.
No relationshit crap.
Just solve problems.
The movie is a form of male wish fulfillment.

 No.69744

>>69117
>I really don't understand how people think 2049 is better than the original Blade Runner
it's a philistine opinion. The original Blade Runner has superior visuals, music, scripting, casting and pacing

2049 is popular because it has the AI girlfriend and Ryan Gosling looking sad and lonely

 No.69747

>>69117
>>69123
>>69125
>>69242
>>69744
I don't know if this is well known and I don't need to explain this or not, and I thought this was common knowledge, but just in the 1% case not, here goes…
There are multiple versions of the original Bladerunner. One has this really hammy voiceover that ruins half of the film(*). The other knows what it's doing and let you _watch_ the film (and has the famous origami unicorn with a lot of meaning). People just getting into Bladerunner are basically at a coin flip about what they see, and many, many people think "Oh, theatrical cut, that must be the good one, it's 'theatrical' or 'more original' so that must be 'authentic!'" and it's definitely not.
(*)It's theoretically not that much voiceover, but half of what makes Bladerunner great is that it's one of the few movies that has silence and ambiance. So it doesn't take a lot to absolutely crush what is the soul of the film. And once it's destroyed once, it's kind of just destroyed from that point onwards.

 No.69748

>>69747
I didn't notice that >>69117 already knew about this
>No narration of course
sorry.


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 No.69460[Reply]

I 'm a lifetime materialist and I 've took an interest in such /x/-core topics, my only experience with this kind of stuff before is reading Evola's book on esotericism and mythology, despite being a more of a reddit atheist kind of skeptic I can take some pleasure from reading about those topics, are there any /x/ Wizards here?
Wether people who actually believe in this stuff or just like to learn about it for fun like me.
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 No.69473

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I don't feel comfortable sharing my /x/ fantasies here because some cryptonormie is gonna shit on it. You know how you can really like a song, but then you hear some normie listening to it on a bus or something, and the song is ruined for you? It's like that.

But it has to do with souls having genders; there are feminine souls, and there are masculine souls. And yes, one can be a soul in an opposite-gender body.

 No.69474

>>69473
>You know how you can really like a song, but then you hear some normie listening to it on a bus or something, and the song is ruined for you?
No, that is mental illness

 No.69494

>>69460
Chaos Magick is the only kind of occult phenomena that verges on seeming plausible. The idea that perception affects reality.
Interesting video from a Scottish comic book writer on chaos magick/occultism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTMFBYXmvMk

 No.69509

>>69494
I second this channel

 No.69743

anyone interested in the idea of remote viewing?
dont know where to post this and dont want to make a thread about it.

this is an interesting video



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 No.11978[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Is anyone here in to 3D modelling? Planning to start?

What programs do you use? Are you working on animation, models to publish, or building environments to render pleasantly? If you plan to export to a game engine, check out ( >>>/games/8456 )
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 No.69729

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here I'll give you guys a lil sumthin since im tired and bored tonight. been working on this sci fi short film about repetition and collapse for a few years with a bit of societal commentary as a backdrop to the main story about a guy falling through the sky. probably wont finish it for another 10 years or so cuz animation takes forever and i gotta uhh redesign a few things cuz of reasons but im chippin away at it

 No.69731

>>11978
I'm trying to start. Until the end of the week I want to model the lighthouse from Wii Sports Resort.

 No.69734

>>69731
u can fuck around with the 3d models that have been posted online too https://www.reddit.com/r/wii/comments/q20pg9/i_ported_wuhu_island_to_blender/

 No.69735

>>69729
It looks astonishing anon, Making a entire animation by yourself sound hard, So I wish you luck. Great job and keep going!

 No.69736

>>69734
Sure but I wanted to learn it anyways so I want to do it by myself. Goal is to 'remake' Wuhu Island at some point.


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 No.49409[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Anyone here have weird, niche interests? I’m curious about this kind of thing. I like hearing about people dedicating their lives to one specific strange thing. Post about them here.
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 No.69068

>>68024
do you use them?

 No.69119

>>49409
>Anyone here have weird, niche interests?
Vintage computers.

 No.69126

>>63711
continue…. vintage as 90's , 80's??

 No.69713

>>69126
Not him, but I like the idea of keeping a disc full of shareware DOS era games, a DIS era PC and and a CRT monitor for the nostalgia feels.


regards, a wizard with a refurbished gaming laptop from '00s

 No.69732

>>69119
old free FLash games played on an old 2009 laptop = feels nice. Also, I need to check my vision


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 No.61466[Reply]

Are any wizards interested in astrology? I've recently got into it and become very passionate about it. It's definetely true, and i've also started to developing my own theories that i'm hopefully going to refine with time.
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 No.69627

>astrology

Are you a succubus?

 No.69655

I'm open to it. Tell me some cool stuff that would get me hooked.

 No.69657

>>67793
>>69655
its kind of hard to do casually it's complicated. If you want a really lazy thing:
1. go to https://horoscopes.astro-seek.com/birth-chart-horoscope-online
2. put in date of birth, time, and birth city (don't bother if you don't have the exact time)
3. save the page as a pdf
4. put it in claude or some ai thing
5. ask the most significant parts of your chart

the reason they had particular astrologers do readings is just because it's fairly complex. Things like sun sign being all people talk about is basically useless IMO (historically they would have used the ascendent as the "sign" when someone asked)
if anyone wants to post their chart from this I can give a quick reading (just enter it on astro-seek then click the button that says Hide birth data under the chart)

>>69627
>>67793
succubi being the ones into it is largely a product of it being hijacked by new-agers in the 19th century, they are basically just so fucking retarded and wrong they aren't even worth talking about. As I said above anyone saying just their sun sign is just totally out of touch.
Only in the past couple decades have we started translating the classical greek/medieval texts and that more traditional form has gotten much more popular. It's also basically all men doing the translations and that wrote those thousands of years ago.

 No.69700

One thing I always wanted to know, does astrology also influence animal personalities based on when they are born, or only humans? Why or why not?

It's just kinda weird to think that one planet being more to the left or more to the right when I was born influences whether I grow up introverted or extroverted.

 No.69723

I've been studying astrology for a year now, focusing on horary astrology. The problem is that I don't have anywhere to practice. I was thinking about using this thread, but I don't think it would be the right use.



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 No.69703[Reply]

I didn't know where to post this, but I guess it might help people with little sadness a little bit.
I was reading here and watching videos (some buddhist-yoga-psychology-magick related things) and reading some books
>For mind-body techniques and other phenomena
https://www.psychonaut.tech/
>For drugs and other altered stated of mind and other phenomena
https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/Main_Page
https://m.psychonautwiki.org/wiki/Main_Page
and I do this some days (Maybe it just a placebo, but this relax me.)

>Give yourself massages on your legs, head, face, and scalp (scalp massages).

>Rinse your eyes with water, exercise your eyes by looking sideways for a while. watch the sun for 2 seconds (more bright colors temporally)
>Make a kasina-tatraka with a wall or a classic color disc or anything healthy you want
>Focus on your breathing for a while (breath by nose and not mouth)
>Count breath to 64 or ignore toughts and persist
>Practice metta and place one hand on your chest-heart (and the other on your stomach to feel more warmth if you want)
>stimulate the vagus nerve for 1 minute (by your hands or do other another method, you re warned if you're old, have heart-nervous problems or use machines for doing this)
>Put your body against the wall, sitting on the wall with your legs pointing toward the ceiling to lower your blood pressure and lighten your heart beat (do kasina against wall or breath chill) so legs up the wall in L pose.
>Stay away from phone or pc for a while, even radio or news bullshit
>breathing through the nose and diaphragmatic breathing
>Give yourself massages again
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 No.69704

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>>69703
And yes, I meditate, but honestly, I don't see it as spiritual thing.
it's more a a way to relax to me.

 No.69705

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>The focus is on techniques without drugs.
As someone who just took weed gummies for the first time in months:
Whoops

 No.69717

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>>69703
>Make a kasina-tatraka with a wall or a classic color disc or anything healthy you want
easy I can do this all day.



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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.69709

>>69708
Go cry, emo kid.

 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?


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