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 No.219448[Reply]

After hitting 30 this feeling has been eating me and I don't know how to resolve it. I started watching different youtube channels and it made me realize how much time I wasted staring at a screen when I could be experiencing the world and creating things. The 21st century offers so many possibilities and yet all I did was sit at home play video games and read inane garbage online. Now I always had depression, anxiety, social autism, adhd, average iq etc. that lead to me being an underachiever but nowadays it feels like I was just the right self-help book and meds/supplement combination and some effort away from solving all these issues.

I could start now but after hitting 30 I feel this sense of hopelessness after experiencing aging. I felt like shit in my 20s but now I realize I actually felt good. Now I tire easily and years of sitting made my body feel rusty. I feel like the youth shield is gone and I can't take the future for granted anymore and expect it to make it even to 40. Every time I experience a new pain or sensation I imagine it to be the start of something serious.

How do you deal with this? It feels like modern technology amplifies winners so if you are a loser it feels extra bad because there is such a big contrast between living with your parents and riding the bus and eating mac and cheese and living in a multi-million dollar mansion with a beautiful view and driving a ferrari and eating at 3 star restauraunts.
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 No.225346

>>219448
try experimenting with AI

context: chatbots, not "creating"

context 2: I mean, some chatbots aren't even that hard to master. You can ask PerPLX, let alone ChatGPT, various weird stuff, and it will try its best to navigate you to that weird music you used to hear as a kid.


besides, AI will "creating" things … you know. Less important. You won't be in the need to reinvent a cyberbicycle anymore; merely to fine-tune one for your personal needs.

 No.225366

>>225346
selffix:

>besides, AI will "creating" things



besides, AI will *make* "creating" things

 No.225532

It's been funny. I wasted my teenage years avoiding school and people in general and just played video games and was on the internet all day.
I continued this into my early adulthood, but I did make an effort going to college and working part time, but I didnt socialize that much, just vidya, anime, and internet.
Now for the past however long I've just been working my cushy office job making decent money I thought I'd never see.
But, at the end of all this, I'm playing the same exact video games, watching the same kind of anime, and reading the same crap on chan boards.
I would be lying if I didnt mention that I have made attempts to try normalfag things, but from I gather from those experiences is that you should just do things you enjoy after your responsibilities, which is hardly anything as a single man. Just have to make all the bills are paid, food in the kitchen, car working, and apartment clean.
I try to have more intellectual pursuits, like doing deeper study in my field of work or in philosophy, but these past few months I've been in limbo just doing the same old thing. And I'm content with it for the most part. Times like now I feel this weird nagging feeling OP is feeling that I should be doing more, but I fail to get motivated to do them because the reward just isnt that appealing.
Yeah, I can finish reading Kant, but to what end? Maybe that's what I need to do to satisfy this greater spiritual desire that I feel.
Almost like living on autopilot is antithetical to the human experience and it hungers for some greater satisfaction from exercising agency and exerting your will upon your life.

Sorry for the rambling. OP, if you're anything like me, achieving those goals will only do so much for you. I believe people that have had a persistent depression throughout their life are just gonna have to suffer with it, no matter what you do to do the things normals want you to do. You can get a good job, a big house, nice car, maybe even a wife that is amazing and kids that are great. Our brains are just wired to be pessimistic about life.
Assuming this to be true, the best course of action is to invest time into figuring out how you can manage all your brain dysfunctions. At least that way you dont set yourself up for disappointment when you do accomplish your goals.
Life is just underwhelming.

 No.225551

>>219448
Meanwhile, I am happy to reach the goals of my wiz-tier life. I am now an old geezer, who is all going mad over "damn kids and their damn bikes with damn sawn-off exhausts"

 No.225909

>>225532
>It's been funny. I wasted my teenage years avoiding school and people in general and just played video games and was on the internet all day


given the facts "internet censorship" society of nowadays + memology is a way to make money on a bullshit job of a white collar…


…well, you probably did a unique thing "drinking" unfiltered Internet 24/7 XD



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 No.224915[Reply]

Are you afraid of death? What do you think happens when we die? Unlike most normalfags, I've had a great interest in death for a long time. It's the one inevitable event in our lives, and with every passing moment, death comes closer and closer. Are you prepared for it?

I think that consciousness persists, and though I am not hastening my own end, I do believe that I will move on to a better existence than this current one after I die.
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 No.225838

>>225836
>When I said “time doesn’t just exist in perception” I meant to emphasize the importance of it as a precondition for experience
but my point is that you can't know this. all you know is ultimately what you experience, how do you have any knowledge of the precondition of experience? that is also in your experience
you can ignore this >>225837 because I replied before seeing your post.

 No.225867

>>225751
if we see time - even of just that of our perception - as being linear or non-linear (circular, orthogonal, etc.), we're already making a subtle fallacy.
when we look for time in our perception we immediately find the following,
(1) our perception is in a certain state,
(2) that state is changing.
and that is in essence what time is (then we can derive further facts about it from those two if we want to, eg, that it is continuous and not discrete, that it has no initial and final state, and so on). clearly, there's nothing about lines or circles there. we only create such a model of it in thought (which is obviously posterior to time itself, ie, the changing of perceptions) through a certain abstraction which effectively consists of taking away time from experience but still calling it the same. we do what you said of imagining the moments of experience of our lives as being placed on a line, and then see that maybe a circle makes more sense. regardless of the shape we put them in, in that model, we're imagining them each as frozen moments, which contradicts (2), and in that circle or line all of them are "happening all at once", which contradicts (1). but (1) and (2) are fundamental and necessary facts of experience that can be confirmed at any and all moments by directly examining it, so anything contradicting them must be false.

besides, lines and circles are clearly space and therefore not time (this is all from a kantian/transcendental perspective). that seems very obvious to me, so even my first argument should be unnecessary to see the fallacy, but somehow i never see anyone pointing that out when people debate whether time is linear or non-linear.

 No.225877

>>224915
>Are you afraid of death?
Yes.

>What do you think happens when we die?

Nothing or eternal suffering. And i dunno whats worse.

>Are you prepared for it?

No. I'll die, but i dont want to.

 No.225878

>>225867
Time is not an empirical concept that is drawn from the experience of change. Simultaneity or succession, that are the basis for change, would not come into perception if the representation of time did not ground them a priori. From that a priori intuition we can ground further apodictic principles about the relation of time. Because this inner sense has no shape we can make analogy and represent the temporal sequence as an infinite line and infer from the properties of the line to the properties of time, with the sole difference that the parts of the line are simultaneous but those of time are successive.

 No.225899

>>225878
you're lifting quotes from the transcendental aesthetic without attribution and modifying the wording slightly to adapt it to my post and in so doing making it seem like it's contradicting it when the original (and sometimes also your modifications of it) are in perfect agreement with it.

>Time is not an empirical concept that is drawn from the experience of change.

the "change" i'm talking about in that post is not something one can have an experience of, but is a "feature" (or "form" in kantian) of experience itself. change is not something you can touch, see, hear, etc., but is a feature that is always present in experience, the the changing itself of sensations (tactile, visual, auditory, etc). therefore, it's not an empirical concept, since there are no empirical objects from which to abstract it from. the way i "derived" it in the post when i said, "look for time in our perception", wasn't by "drawing it from an experience" - because all experience necessarily has it - but by what kant called "the faculty for intuiting a priori".
the original sentence by kant (A30/B46) in guyer-wood's translation is, "Time is not an empirical concept that is drawn from an experience", which is fully in line with how i treated it.

>Simultaneity or succession, that are the basis for change, would not come into perception if the representation of time did not ground them a priori.

this is the next sentence in the transcendental aesthetic. the only modification you did is adding ", that are the basis for change," to adapt it to my post, which ironically makes it literally equivalent to what i said in it, yet you somehow say it as if it were asserting something new that contradicted what i said. simultaneity is what i enumerated as (1) and succession is what i enumerated as (2), and i said that these two are what time in essence is, and furthermore that they "are fundamental and necessary facts of experience".

>From that a priori intuition we can ground further apodictic principles about the relation of time

but i also said the same thing informally in a passing comment and you're just repeating it to me in kantonese
>and that is in essence what time is (then we can derive further facts about it from those two ifPost too long. Click here to view the full text.



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 No.221736[Reply]

are you trying to follow up some religion or some dogmas? like for example, do you read the sacred book of hinduism/budhism or maybe you read about philosophers like marcis aurelius and his book about himself. or maybe you're more of an hermetisim guy so you follow up alchemist dogmas or a free masson and try to figure out what symbols means?
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 No.222992

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>>221736
In the Will is the mightiest Magick, when it is united with the Will of the Almighty.

 No.222994

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my wizardly path is to get the fuck out of the demiurge's prison
however, i do not know how
as such, there's a very good chance that i'll just get reincarnated here again
but i'm trying to learn astral projection to see if i can discover anything useful to escape

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 No.225835

>>221736
>philosophers like marcis aurelius and his book about himself
kek

 No.225893

I don't follow any one path, much less as dogma.
I've looked into different interpretations of reality, though by no means all, and the best I can do is figure out what makes most sense to me.
There is, I suppose, much to say about sticking to a single tradition's scholarship and studying it deeply. It's just not in my temperament.
If I have to point to a single most influential philosophy for me, it would be daoism. I also consider myself a bit of an animist.
You could say I chose the path of green wizardry.



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 No.225239[Reply]

> Have VR headset
> Have penetration sensitive stroker (not invented yet)
> Connect the two (*nintendo click*)
> Play a variety of games with a harem of digital anime NFT waifus
> Use AI with other tools to create waifus

Why isn't this a thing yet? It's already possible and would sell tons.

Pros:
+ Video games are actually fun to play and an emotional investment (if you haven't noticed)
+ Real physical exercise (abs and pec activation)
+ If iq too high to be immersed, just develop and increase realism until fooled, iq's just a number
+ Can connect online with multiplayer
+ GPU's the limit

Cons:
- Isn't real/no human connection
- It's all simulated (isn't reality simulated?)
- Physically limited
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 No.225710

>>225239
>nintendo
kill yoself

 No.225730

>>225239
uh, CM3D2 has an USB fleshlight that link to their VR game.

 No.225891

>>225250
That picture is dumb. Many kigu look uncanny but that's not the case here. That kigu looks pretty cute. What sort of amygdalet would find it scary?

 No.226001

virt-a-mate already exists.
it turns out VR sucks and you get bored after a week

 No.226051

>>226001
Think about a controller and a console, all the 2D and 3D games and in between.

Now replace the controller with a depth sensitive stroker.



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 No.225871[Reply]

Your opinion on recent anime-themed Chinese videogames?


pic somewhat rel

 No.225872

I genuinely think Genshin has one of the best casual exploration gameplay out there but I stopped playing because I hate grinding for character mats. Gacha is a scam and will never get my money. Honestly I am sick of live service gachaslop now so I probably won't play them again. Also Chinese can't write and Hoyoverse is the king of awkward infodump. Last time I play Genshin I can't stop spamclicking to get through their dumbass chatgpt-esque wall of text because they don't want to add a skip feature for some reasons. I don't care about the country of origin. More competition is good. The Japanese need to stop being complacent with their old successful IPs they're not doing anything with. The recent fate collab on star rail blow away any 3d fate games in term of animation and models. Compare it with Samurai Remnant for example.

 No.225873

>>225871
The Chinese are subhuman bug people. I would never play an "anime-themed" Ch*nese game

 No.225874

>>225872
I never paid a cent for Genshin and just explore around for fun. Idgaf about mora or primogems or newest weapons.

It's astounding we can play such a BotW clone on a mobile phone. Plus I like the soundtrack, it's really beautifully composed.

 No.225875

Moved to >>>/games/63100.



 No.225321[Reply]

For those who don't know this, an "invcel" (Alana, 1997) is someone who does not want to be celibate but is anyway, so involuntarily celibate, "invcel". Later this was taken over by men and shifted to "crab" by 2000s.

The media use of the term has now come to mean anyone who sees the world through an "crab" pov of people who can get sex vs. people who cannot. So now there are two definitions.

I hate this word so much now that people have started to refer to it IRL. Even the people who can barely speak English have picked up on it.

It is such a succubi centric word and places all male value on their relationship status and their perceived relationship with succubi as a whole. It's erased all of the non-sex oriented men's subcultures and communities like nerds, geeks and wizards. The split definition "people who cannot get sex" vs. "subculture of people who believe in crabdom" now includes every male only community.

I hate erasure and fucking fake stories. I don't care about doing performative shit for "normies". I work, that's fucking enough, leave me alone!
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 No.225808

>>225806
>You don't have to identify as a NEET to be classified one officially by the government. People can't decide their own social status. That's done by people who hold power in that society.

Are you a -vum?

Anyone who hasn't held a job for a minimum of a month qualifies as an "involuntarily umemployed". The "invums" have suffered microaggressions and fake "personal responsibility" trolling for as long as human history even before the term was coined in 2025.

Invum is an involuntary state of being and not a movement or an ideology - Invum forum introduction

I will soon create a forum and invite some NEETs who qualify to discuss and share experiences and all the reasons why someone could be an invum. I expect to find racevums, femvums and many mentalvums there.

Femvums have actually existed for a long time and you can't argue against that. They might need their own group - Vumen's rights?

It's early so the word hasn't caught on yet but it could be mainstream in 30 years or so. Then the "invum theory" could catch on and people can start to label each other "-vums".

 No.225814

>>225808
Yeah, that just sounds psychotic. People will continue using NEET, íncel or other established terms because they can quickly form a mental image based on what they heard influential people talking about them.

It doesn't matter if they're derogatory or not, humans are vindictive bullying animals and have no morals. They want to openly ostracize and torment those who don't fit in.

 No.225817

>>225814
>Yeah, that just sounds psychotic.
Exactly what I'm trying to say, inventing and then astroturfing "crab" in 1997 is just as psychotic as "invum" or "inNEET", but guess what, you're defending it to me as an established term. I guess it's psychotic until I've convinced 10k followers they're inNEETs and get featured on a Netflix documentary.

Think of every other social adjective and prefix it with "involuntary" and create a crybully forum about it and simmer for 3 years before letting the radicals out to other forums. I would estimate up to 10% of male spaces being crab believers with the rate going up to 30% for dating related forums.

 No.225842

>>225817
Honestly, it's far higher in all generations millennial and younger. At least 70%+ of the men are getting zero action or they are even openly mocked by succubi of their gen on tiktok.

A small percentage of good looking zoomers and gen A men who aren't soy infused multigender neurotics get to fuck dozens and hundreds of succubi.

 No.225870

>>225842
"crab" is just a definition but I don't deny that the dating economy can shift and be shit to men.

>they are even openly mocked by succubi of their gen on tiktok.

"crab" forums regularly catch and ban succubi so it's no surprise if a large proportion of lurkers are succubi, these succubi are in on the "crab" game. The BP is trending on tiktok right now.

They're studying "crabs" and then using that stuff to try to "neg" men online.



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 No.225848[Reply]

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 No.225861

Moved to >>>/b/1023302.



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 No.224588[Reply]

For decades now, normalfags who have hated welfare abuse and the welfare system have been saying it'll collapse one day. Too many people will leech off it, it can't last forever.

However, it does seem like western governments are now beginning to talk about the unsustainability of the welfare system. The UK Labour government broke down the stats and NEETdom numbers are growing faster than wagies can contribute to it, forcing welfare reform. The US social security system will be insolvent in a decade's time, forcing reform there.

Just how long do you think we have left? It's obvious more men are checking out, and the wagies won't provide for us forever.

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 No.225726

Having money is the biggest safety net. You don't have to stress about job if you own your apartment. Its different if you have a comfy office job, but I've worked with maintenance workers that didnt even take breaks just to keep their shitty 16 euros/hour jobs. Their jobs were shitty but they kept doing all this because their previous jobs were even more shitty, hauling 20kg welding equipment up 5 floors at 7:15 AM just to weld some pipes for 7 hours.

I work a maintenance job atm. I take my breaks, if boss ever says "were going to need you to stop taking breaks" I'll just walk out. Meanwhile normies are paying half of their paychecks to rent

 No.225740

>>225726
They blocked my mom's bank account over 30 bucks in utility rent debt though.

 No.225741

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>>225740
Look at that dangerous financial criminal! Don't look at me! Prosecute and cancel her!

 No.225769

>>225741
What's funnier, me mum is such a social normie she would never write a decent letter*, multiply it, send 1 copy; proceed to send the same letter to higher and higher instances.



*Letters of special type can be sent with a decription what kind of clause/document/request is inside.

Postal service is just not supposed to lose letters like this one.

Boom.

 No.225859

>>225706
Yeah, there has never been a time in human history when most of the population is unemployed. Most people could always count on finding work somewhere, unless they were disabled. Now with AGI, mass layoffs are inevitable. This will be interesting to see unfold.



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 No.225849[Reply]

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 No.225862

Moved to >>>/b/1023309.



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 No.223082[Reply]

How do you genuinely just stop caring about everything shitty in your life? I just want to become numb to it all. People always say you shouldn't, but whenever I let myself feel any small amount of happiness the feeling of sadness/depression that I'll inevitably feel later is so painful it makes me wish I just didn't feel anything at all in the first place. Meditation has gotten close to this and I like the peace it gives me but I wish I felt that peace all the time.
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 No.225839

>>223082
try drinking as little coffee as possible

 No.225841

Asuka is a Hapa?

 No.225844

>>225841
½ Deutschland ½ Nippon

 No.225847

>>225844
Then she's a hapa through and through

 No.226007

>>223082
>How do you genuinely just stop caring about everything shitty in your life?
eh, you wish

>>223089
yeah sure



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