/lounge/ - Lounge

It helps to avoid any media that involves friendships. Anime and kids cartoons are notorious for this sort of propaganda. It affects anyone even if they're aware of it. Single player games that aren't story focused generally don't have that issue.

>>323309
I read a post a while ago that called anime "friendslop" kek

>>323246
same

I also have empty steam friends list essentially. It's probably social ignorance for me more than anxiety. I observe discord groups for guilds in mmos and there's all this madness going on and these cliques and established people with their strange hierarchies led by histrionic types. I think is it really worth the effort to try to relate to this alien soup? So far it has not been. I have been my whole life constantly disappointed by people.

Most games I play are single player and I dont have money nor desire to buy meme games to play with online people.

>>323282
I made a few hundred bucks just using all the freebies from the myriad of casinos in my country.

look at the people who gamble. are those people you look up to, people you want to be like, people you would hope to befriend, people who you would ask for advice? people who you think practive good mental and physical health? people who are moral?

casinos are evil places and the world would be better without. it is where bad people prey on desperate people. casinos are streams of passive income for the few, they provide soul sucking jobs that ruin the employees and turn them corrupt, they insist on security theater, they are used for other kinds of theater too, they reserve the right to be unfair, usually there is alcohol involved, which is a gateway to unhealthy food.

every second you waste in the casino is a second you could have spent to learn how to live within your means better, which is a skill. the longer you stay at the casino the more likely you are to lose money unless you own the place.

gambeling has a magnetic attraction … it attracts idiots.

Weak hippie soydrinkers will try to justify a $420 USD plastic box to grind their food into a paste by saying that most of the plastic is recycled and 3D printed and that the design specs for the device were uploaded online for free so it's progressive or whatever. They will say "No more cleaning" as a prime selling point because cleaning requires muscles that they don't have. They will turn decent vegetables in to slurries of spices and water because their tongues are unable to taste normal food after a lifetime of being burnt by niggerweed smoke.

Healthy men will just eat the food as is, or chop it with a knife because turning food in to paste is fucking stupid and has a history of making children's teeth and jaws undeveloped. If these men need a blender to make preworkout smoothies, they will get one from Goodwill for $14.88 and it won't ever break because it's not made by gay progressive weed hippies.

>>322614
Animal fats are the healthiest fats. Plant lipids are goyslop.

>>323005

this is me and my vegan gang causing a ruckus in your neighborhood

currently enjoying a spiced nutbutter to dip vegetables in from the blender:


>bit of tahini
>bit of peanut butter (is a 100% peanut nothing else)
>raw cashews
>1 juiced orange with pulp
>small piece of ginger
>3 small cloves garlic
>1 small onion (a mild one)
>half a bouquet of dill (without the stems, only the furry parts)
>currypowder
>how curry powder
>fruity curry powder
>kurkumin powder
>pepper
>vegetable stock powder
>dark soy sauce
>almond oil small amount

i blend it into a thick paste and then dip cucumber and bell pepper pieces into it and that's my meal for the day.

yesterday i had nothing fresh left to eat so i made instant vegetable stock and ate it with cashew nuts. i stirred in a spoon of sesame paste but it didn't disolve completely so it was mostly at the bottom of the glass. i did this with soups often and was surprised it did not combine with the instant broth. i guess i never noticed in a soup because i constantly keep the soup moving and eat it with a big spoon from a shallow wide bowl.

can't remember where but a few weeks ago i stumbled upon the meme that 3 meals a day is a conspiracy and i think there might be something to it. i try to keep the window of when i eat somewhat small as in i don't eat breakfast, just liquids and then maybe at 4pm i start with a fruit smoothie and then the more dense stuff (well just nuts in my case) i eat last. when i eat like today until 11pm that it is a 7 hour window of eating.

lol muslims are such well-fed pampered consumers, they call this fasting: only eating in the evening and act like it is the hardest thing in the world XD

I'm going to change things, or at least get close enough that it melts my wings.

>>323237
Omg it's like Icarus! And the cat's name was Icarus! I'm going completely insane!!!1!

>>323194
I'm turning 30 in a month and I wish I knew man.
I let my health decline to a ridiculous degree.
Let myself rot both in mind and body.
I'm a man of inaction and similar to you I have voyeuristic tendencies. I used to just observe people too, I liked watching, doing not so much.
I'd be fine as a spectator. Or at least that is what I tell myself.

>>323197
Feel this too. I tried getting rid of as much as I could recently. I'm burdened by a lot of digital hoarding as well. Not just physical items.
It was a great relief every time I cut out something.
One less thing to manage or worry about keeping around.



One of my childhood dreams was to someday have enough money to buy a small house in a village and have a rose garden and just chill for the rest of my life. No work.
At the time it seemed attainable. Today, not really short of a miracle.
Even if you "own" stuff you have to maintain it, things go bad, gotta buy it again and many things are extremely pricey. Imagine having to buy a fridge every 5 years if you "retired" with no income.
Or a washing machine etc.
Just sustaining yourself also comes with a bunch of recurring payments. It's a pain. The grind never ends.

Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>323287
I let my health decline to a ridiculous degree.
Let myself rot both in mind and body.
I'm a man of inaction and similar to you I have voyeuristic tendencies. I used to just observe people too, I liked watching, doing not so much.
I'd be fine as a spectator. Or at least that is what I tell myself.

have you ever listen to the cassette programm "psychology of achievement" by brain tracy? if not you have been missing out.

>>323287
>t's like forces above just don't want to let people live.

it really does feel like that but i like to think those people are even more miserable then me. i always felt these people envy me and i never envied them. the direction of envy clearly flows in my favor and i have all their envy and they have none of mine.

i still think you should get healthy and hope that a miracle happens. being healthy is nice. it doesn't make what you describe go away but it makes everything way easier.

pine: this is the only silver lighting on the e-ink horizon. for some reason costs 600€ in the europe store currently while 400$ in the us. the company has wronged me already and did not give a fuck, which is too bad, otherwise i might have waited for this one and gave it a try. what bothers me is they have microphone built in but i am sure i would be able to remove them, the pine stuff is built to be accessed by the user, i assume it would be as easy as removing cables from the connector to get rid of it.

Any good ereaders around 8" that have long battery and SD cards?
Would like to load some manga on there too not just books.

>>323277
>Any good ereaders around 8" that have long battery and SD cards?

depends on if you want a colored e-ink display. i don't know in what fileformat the manga come though.

the biggest color e-ink on a kobo is the kobo libra colour with an 7 inch display and 32gb internal memory and no sd card. assholes took the sd slot out apparently. they say the battery lasts for weeks.

if you don't insist on colour, you can find an older kobo for cheap that has a 6 inch screen and an sd card slot.

i didn't know the newer ones don't have sd card slot, that's quite disgusting behavior by the manufacturer. costs them literally nothing to include an sd card slot in mass production and is imensely useful to whoever uses the device.

>>323280
Yeah couldn't find one with SD card either in the 8" range is why I asked just in case.
Feel like 6" is too small for manga.
32gb ain't much for manga either, it's not horrible, but I'd rather not have to make due.
I'll reconsider if I want one for purely reading.
I don't care for color. Feels like another layer of complexity that could go wrong and is more expensive.

>>323285
>I don't care for color. Feels like another layer of complexity that could go wrong and is more expensive.

i'm hoping for one to be released this year (by kobo, assuming they don't enshittify and keep letting users use a device without account and internet) that is big and uses color so that i can use it for pdf files. some books i can only find pdf versions and converting them to other formats seems like a nightmare. i could use them to look at jamie oliver cookbooks, which are colorfully illustrated and i always enjoyed looking at when i was younger. though it is kind of silly because i don't eat cooked food anymore…

if it comes with a pen i wouldn't mind, maybe it is fun to doodle on the actual pdfs i am reading, that looked pretty cool in videos i have seen about their current biggest reader, something like a ~10inch display.

>>312958
Maybe i need to learn breathing more deep or something.

>>312958
What do I use this information for?
I also highly disagree with the open minded part like some others mentioned:
>>314615
>>314616 exactly. I feel like if you selected creative/art options it gives you this which is retarded.

I really wish someone elaborated on why this matters at all or how this could be utilized for?
Best example gemini gave me is a job mismatch fix.
"if you are a sales guy and took a test that says you are an introvert you should get a new job"
Wow… magical…

>>323226
Then I'd rather have some kind of Assistance in Living, but realistically MAiD is more likely to come around.

>>323226
>It's a program designed to kill people instead of curing their ailments
Things don't get better and if you try, some talking head will discredit you.

Just pass MAiD and things will begin to start to get better… maybe.

>>323261
It's funny, the bootlicking rightists all wish that we "undesirables" would just fuck off and die, yet make it illegal for the state to help us do so painlessly

>>323263
>rightist
True right has never been in power since like Third Reich and even they weren't as right as they could be.
If you mean zionist gop jewlicking scum under the, they need their taxpaying goyim of all kinds to be alive and suffering.

I think the worst is the food. Buy a brown bread without checking the label and you get this greasy 7 percent seed oils loaf, which gives me acid reflux. Some supermarkets where I live don't even sell real bread anymore. The very basics of life become inaccessible with this race to the bottom

This is more of a /dep/ post hence I apologize in advance for that: I have been a Hiki/N.E.E.T for nearly 15 years by now and it in the past few years it has been getting unbearable, the boredom and monotony are agonizing, does not help that i have nothing to do and I don't have any money for hobbies at all, I might be dumb but I don't believe wageslaving would be worse than this, I feel like I am getting crazier by each day, sometimes I start punching walls just from the sheer unbearable borodom that I am facing, it makes every atom of my body boil, I am envious of all comfy and happy N.E.E.Ts out there, I have all the free time anyone could dream of, but totally nothing to do with it, I hope you all have it much better than me, thank you for reading and sorry again if it comes off as a whinny or negative post.

>>323175
Have you tried to make up imaginary characters in your head and let them debate over something? It takes a lot of effort to sustain those mind animations, it's really satisfying.

>>322679
I wonder what kind of people calls NEET/hiki 'parasite'? are they jealous of NEET and hiki or it's something else?

>>323175
>it has been getting unbearable, the boredom and monotony are agonizing
funny that you say this because wagecucking for a couple years has the same result.
shitty work becomes monotone, unbearable and agonizing and you are counting the seconds until you can go home. by the time you are indeed back home you notice you are too tired to do anything that requires effort so you doomscrool jewtube and play videogames for an hour and then its off to bed so you can wake up and spend another day counting down the minutes and seconds until you can go home.
yeah and money? forget about money, as a lowly wagecuck you are just as poor as a neet.

i could never be a communist because they demand you work, as a neet im what marx would call lumpenproletariat trash

after a long journey through fascism, communism, and many other isms, i have settled on the fact i value freedom over most things, and the only ideology that gels with that is anarchism

>>323185
if you were on an island with 10 people you liked and they would even like you back, you wouldn't want to work together and work a bit and get a bit out of it? and if you didn't, you wouldn't at least want to trade what little fruit you have gathered for something your buddies may have gathered?

>>323167
promoting communism is either a psyop or a lack of knowledge of history or economy. Otherwise people would post just socialist or keynesian ideas

>>323187
>it is impossible not to expliot the worker, the worker must be owned by the stock market like he was a piece of property

your gatekeeping is nothing but spam, where are your arguments

>>323185
If the owner class didn't reap the fruits of the worker class labor, there would be more resources to distribute among the workers. Therefore the workers wouldn't need to work so much. Say 20 hours weekly instead of the standard 40. It wouldn't be so bad, and certainly beetter for everyone except the rich. But yeah, neeting is the best option. It's just not available to everyone.

>>319697
OP, if you are stuck with Internet, try setting up a set of 90s/00s used not-so-electronics like radio/tape player

and do chores while blasting music, I dunno, an Internet radio will also do

>>322103
Fixed a boombox for my brother


A real 1999 boombox, 7kg 60cm wide spacey-looking stereo

He praised the sound quality. This is the first time in q5 years he hears radio in high fidelity with proper bass.

>>319697
digital is the way

Need to get off the computer but I've been connected for so long the sudden isolation of not having access makes me feel alone and vulnerable. A whole world I've always lived in is suddenly cut off from me. It's like I am doing life sentence in prison but the world outside the prison is the digital world while the prison building is real life.

>>319697
I've been on my PC every waking moment I could do so for the past 24 years or so.
For me, a recent thing is trying to embrace phones and a tablet I got for further consumption and comfort.
Never was addicted to a phone since I was at a PC all day, why bother right?

I don't mind it too much, I'm on it to numb myself. I often just stare at the screen as of late, not even scrolling any manga, let alone doing the gargantuan effort of playing games.

The only issue I have is with digital hoarding. I know the internet as I knwo it is coming to an end so I should really start hoarding.
Having so much unsorted JUNK I saved over the years is causing me mad anxiety too.
I need order, but pic rel is unsortable… can't let it go either.

I got about 6TB of SSD space open for once I start scraping the 35k bookmarks I hoarded over the years as well.
Mostly manga, doujins, r34 pics, audio/voiceworks crap like that that isn't really worth it, but would give me peace of mind to have my own offline library. Wish I wasn't so retarded about it and knew what to do.
Was looking into lanraragi and hydrus but they aren't exactly plug and play and idk what would happen to those hoards if I had to move drives to another PC that might not be windows in the future.

TL:DR; digital hoarding gives me mad anxiety
I considered purging most if not all I have currently downloaded and questioning how much I should even hoard considering I might not even be able or desire to jerk off much now that I'm 30.

What would I even do with my time without it? I can't imagine it. I have a tiny 2x5m room. I tried hobbies like mini painting, carving, drawing etc. but failed at acting on them in the long run.
I'd just put the stuff in front of me and stare at it like it's a screen. Fucking hell…