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I’m trying to quit vaping nicotine, and I’ve been using nicotine lozenges to help manage the cravings and withdrawal. I didn’t expect vaping to affect me the way it did, but over time it started causing noticeable anhedonia and increased anxiety. Things I used to enjoy felt flat, and my baseline stress level just kept creeping up, which was honestly exhausting. That’s what pushed me to take quitting more seriously instead of brushing it off.

I’m still figuring things out and adjusting as I go, but I’m curious about other people’s experiences. Have you noticed mental health changes from vaping or smoking nicotine, either positive or negative? Do you vape, smoke, or use any nicotine replacements, and how has that worked out for you?

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I saw this movie and it is one of the saddest and most decadent things I have seen in a while. A guy who was biologically designed to be submissive and follow orders, with the sole objective of killing his race, where his only consolation is an AI that appears as pornographic propaganda everywhere, at the same time that it is used in the worst possible way to be nothing more than another mercenary, making him believe that he is somehow the chosen one or some shit like that.

I haven't seen such a decadent movie in a while. The characters are dead inside, they are simple machines for killing and following orders, they lack freedom and are nothing more than puppets used for other people's interests.

I was thinking about putting a picture of me for you to ‘’rate‘’ my no…beauty or crab level or whatever you want to call it, but I'll better not, I'll just say that I look almost 100% like the character in the movie Powder (picture), but I'm short, I have brown eyes and no powers. Goodbye, good day (closes the door and leaves).

How can I deliberately cultivate a persona of a "creepy\weird off-the-social margins, kinda guy" whilst going to public (free) university? It's part of an Insight Role; a sort of long-term IRL LARP\ARG ,wherein I embody an Adversarial Ideology -in this case, it will be Communism- but also embodying the more obscure and deep-dense aspects of it…
I thought of wearing only hand-KNIT PANTS And Shirts a la hippie, using grocery bags instead of a backpack for my books\notebooks\pens and pencils, deliberately neglecting nail ,hair, and facial hair grooming and trimming, avoiding showers, carrying and old plastic lunchbox with a deliberate mish-mash of badly-done food, etc etc
>Other ideas may include; over-sized "80s hip hop \Drill" styled pants + shirt+ sweater, but tightly bound together at the waist through a tight, sturdy, leather belt + steel-toe leather boots, even in summer.
>routine changes in body mods like Twisters, piercings, "wild" hairstyles like matted unkempt , dreadlocks , shaved head, etc

Have you ever thought of living in a car? I think it is very wizardly as you can live alone and travel wherever you want. You don't have to pay rent only car utilities and insurance. Of course you don't have a bathroom you will have to rely on gyms to wash yourself but still it sounds comfy. You also need to tackle the weather and other people but it is possible to do stealth camping.

this thread is for Hikikomori and N.E.E.Ts.
use this thread as an exchange between hiki and neet and share what you think is worth sharing.
here's a website that sell hikikomori themed magazine in japan. the website has some interviews of hiki around the world. if you'd like to check it, here's the link: https://www.hikipos.info/

Wizards,

Is this man a fraud? I just watched the "Free Solo" film of this guy supposedly climbing a very tall mountain in a single go without any harness/rope/etc, yet within the run-time of the film itself there is no continuous shot of his attempt, no one unbroken visual tracing of his achievement; the movie is basically 1.5hrs of the guy talking about himself, of his family talking about how worried they are about him, about what sort of diet he likes to follow, about his differences with his girlfriend, etc. Throughout the entire film there is perhaps only a 20min. segment of actual climbing. And again and just as importantly – there exists no one continuous unedited uninterrupted shot of his climb. It is all chopped. You see him start at the bottom, then further graduating sections of his path ascending up the mountain are illustrated to the viewer with CG, then it cuts back to him appearing at some random higher point on the mountain, then more capturing of the emotions of his friends ("he's crazy, I can't ever watch him do this again, etc."), then we return to find him at a still higher point on the mountain until the top is finally illogically reached without there ever having been any evidence of a continuous climb.

I find this suspicious. Why couldn't the movie just have been what is was advertised to be – a cinematographic documenting of a man climbing a tall mountain? The film should have been left unmolested from all the above distractions. What was the purpose to this movie if it were advertised to be a documentation of an athletic event for which it offered no full evidence? Why exclude the full visual record of such a claimed great achievement if the achievement is really there? But lastly why is the viewership that applied itself to the watching of this film so uncritical? They just believe what they're shown. Why?

I may also now need to own to say that the showing of this recent “free solo” climb of the tower in Taipei felt to me like a kindred sort of falsehood and like with the film I am given to ask: Why all the cuts? Why not one sustained continuous shot of the ascent? Why not before all be committed to the producing of clear cinematic proof of the climb? None of it makes any sense, leastwise from the perspective of the directors themselves who would want to create a picture with maxed dramatic appeal.

But then if this is all fake, what is the aim native to the minds of the deceivers that motivatePost too long. Click here to view the full text.