I would like to discuss things that we do that increase our levels of well being and comfort throughout the day. What are some of the rituals and habits that you engage in that really make your solitary lives that much more enjoyable? For me I like to go on long walks in the mornings or evenings usually, when the sun isn't so strong. The fresh air and forest environment makes me relax automatically and it fills me with great pleasure that I am walking about without meeting a soul, while most other people are at work. Another thing that makes me feel warm inside is having a folder of old favorite game wallpapers/ingame screenshots that rotate as my desktop wallpaper throughout the day, so I am often reminded of the 'good old days' as it were. Whenever I have to go outside into town, I will wear regular clothes as to not stand out so when I return home there is a big satisfaction of slipping into my sweats, washing my hands and face like a ritual to leave behind that outside-part of my day. I also find there is nothing more comfortable than going to bed after being freshly showered. It really is the highlight of my days, especially since I bought a new mattress recently that finally doesn't give me back pain anymore. Please feel free to share yours!
>>224795 Something else I forgot to mention - I love to take naps during the day. It's again that satisfaction of doing something relaxing when most people have to work but also generally I find that sleeping is one of the most satisfying things I do. There is no place more comfortable than my own bed. I even created a shortcut on my phone that will turn on airplane mode, dim the screen and start a timer for my nap and it is within easy reach at all times. Also, here's one of the pictures that are in my wallpaper rotation, I remember having this as my phone wallpaper a decade ago now when I was really into Minecraft. It still reminds me of those fun times even now.
>>224797 That happens to me too sometimes, though what bothers me more is usually when I pass by places where people have littered. That will ruin my day for sure. >>224798 Thank you! You too wiz! >>224799 Day dreaming for sure help me as well, especially when I am out somewhere in a situation I don't want to be in. Imagining comfy apartments and things like this are a good way to do it. >>224801 That fucking sucks. Do you have to/can you get some meds for it that would help? >>224795 Another thing that I remembered is that I watch tv shows and movies from around the 2000s. Right now I am watching Mythbusters but a favorite of mine that I return to once a year or so is Burn Notice.
>Another thing that I remembered is that I watch tv shows and movies from around the 2000s. Right now I am watching Mythbusters but a favorite of mine that I return to once a year or so is Burn Notice.
same here i have been watching dexter and breaking bad lately although bb is mostly set in the early 2010s it doesnt really matter
>>224807 Gardening is super comfy when it's not hot outside. I remember this spring I spent around 2h just cleaning the paths around the house with a broom. There was a nice wind going and it wasn't even warm. I try to help my folks with garden work in the summer too but a lot of the times I can't bring myself to do it in the heat. >>224814 I think I got to around season 4 or so with Dexter before it became too repetitive for me but I definitely enjoyed the 2000s atmosphere of it. BB is up for a rewatch soon too for me, though I think I liked Better call Saul better overall. 2010s are also still fine for the most part, some of my favorite movies are TF1-3, Pacific Rim and similar ones, which are definitely more recent. I think the main thing is a time when the internet wasn't so ubiquitous and smartphones weren't a thing yet or very new. Media set in that time just has a nice feel to it. Especially when it's filmed with a film camera and you have that nice natural graininess to it.
>>224818 Yeah that was just insanely weird. About the time I quit watching, too. Any other 2000s TV recommendations? I remember Person of Interest being kind of cool back then, Lost has its charm too.
Well I'm 33, and only now have I started masterbating… Like yes, I've had wet dreams, looked at pron, and even emmited the "pre-variant", but never until now have I beat my meat. I have wanted to, ngl, but apparently it isn't just "fapping", there is a legit technique which I earnestly dont feel fully apt to share yet works. But yeah, it feels like I missed out on alot after all these years..
>>224795 As a person with very rough ADHD: grabbing the first cup of coffee or energy drink for the day.
It's essentially God's nectar for me and has been for several years. Feeling sluggish in the morning, but then remembering that caffeine cures my ailment, and then looking forward to it, and then finally consuming it… it's all obviously very pavlovian to me, but then beyond the chemical compound it's all of the things connected to it. Putting on a playlist of "getting hyped for the day" music, maybe putting on some video games or setting up my programming environment, getting into a productive groove where I'm not hating myself. That's what makes life worth living to me.
I'm very thankful for caffeine working as a self-medication. Many of my peers aren't that lucky.
>>225137 Sounds very comfy. I used to be similar but coffee first thing in the mornings messes with my digestion. What are you working on if I may ask?
>>225142 >vidya when I need to burn up hype/adrenaline I'm doing ranked HotS and LoL, then as I shift into a lower gear I put something comfy on my second screen (usually MandaloreGaming or Majuular) as I play through an RPG, right now I shift between KCD2 and Porn modpack skyrim. Playing a porn game with a calm video essay about Ultima Underworld in the background was a weird combo in the beginning, but now it goes together like PB&J for me. >programming Tinkering with my linux system mostly, currently I'm packaging some windows games for proton. Been spending some time learning Rust too, where I'm writing a command line utility I actually think could be very useful as software for developers. It's been a very intellectually satisfying project, having been a python programmer for years it's been a huge whiplash but really fun.
Though it is frustrating to have a hobby where only a small subset of the already small subset of linux users know what my niche is and how it works, and my projects are only ever gonna sound cool to that specific niche. It's thankless work in that sense, but obviously it satisfies myself so who cares.
>playing gay fake games for normies >watching the most fake grifter youtubers playing the most pozzed AA realpolitik games >using troonix what a cancer larper just kys
>>225139 I don't blame you, it is practically impossible to distinguish "being quirky/lazy" from debilitating ADHD. Would I not be cursed by it, I'd probably call it made up too. >>225147 >>gay fake games what does this mean? >>for normies if you have cooler recommendations I'd unironically like to hear them >>watching the most fake grifter youtubers How are they grifters? I'm not buying a fake product from them, I'm getting entertainment from free videos. >playing the most pozzed AA realpolitik games elaborate on this, I don't understand what you're trying to say >>using troonix really? are you not aware of the huge amount of nazi-tier straight white men using linux? >what a cancer larper how am I a larper?
>>225148 Do not heed his words wizzie, he's just another tourist being annoying as usual. I just wish that people who use that kind of dialect would get banned without hesitation but alas.
>>225151 So it seems.. I don't understand why the soyjak people can't just fuck off to whatever hellhole they came from and leave this place be. This was meant to be a nice and comfy thread, and yet there are people like him that defile everything they come in contact with, and use their retarded dialect alongside it.
>>224799 You have posted this exact same photo some years ago.
>>225160 Wizchan isn't a board for the mentally ill. It's a board for men who chose to remain virgins. If you believe celibacy is a mental illness, then you are the one who can be called an outsider. English clearly isn't your strongest tongue so you're in over your head talking about mental illnesses with Wizchan users.
Earl's Gray when I am winding up, usually to actively engage in one of my hobbies, is a regular favorite. Mint tea, sometimes with a bit of ginger, is my ideal drink to wind down.
>>225166 Tea certainly is nice. My mom also buys loose leaf tea for herself a lot. Usually some kind of green tea blend with fruits and stuff. For some reason the ones with the fruit always turn out bitter for me but the pure green tea is pleasantly mild. I also love mint tea, there's this expensive brand that makes bagged tea and their spearmint/licorice tea is real tasty. Too bad they're so expensive, though.
>>225169 *meant to say mint, not spearmint. A lot of teas have spearmint but that's just too spicy for me. Finding a regular mint tea is kind of rare, which is why I like the one I described so much.
>>225166 >>225169 >>225171 Don't buy expensive mint tea. Just grow mint in a pot and harvest it to make tea. Any tea you buy from a a store will be goyslop.
>>224795 Since these days i have more free time than usual, i like reading a little in the morning and doing a daily Kingdom of Loathing grind. Having a bike when i am feeling sleepy and there are also 40 degrees celsius in the sun outside is really therapeutic to me
>>225175 >expensive A one pound bag of loose leaf mint tea cost like $10 bucks and last for well over a year of semi regular drinks. >goyslop Oh fuck off with your retarded edgy antisemitism bullshit. Loose leaf tea has nothing to do with jews you brainless fool.
Or he's the person who only eats kosher - and avoids the places that makes processed food due to reasons such as "you don't know whether they mix milk and meat on that food processing plant"
>>225163 >You have posted this exact same photo some years ago. indeed and I will do it everytime I need the urge to remind everyone I want to live there
I don't know if you know this, but kosher food is also unhealthy. There are ultra-processed foods that are kosher. So, in the original sense of the term, Jews also eat goyslop. I would even dare to say that most American fast food is kosher (Yes, even with all those oils and ultra-processed industrial products, it complies with Jewish kosher law.)
>>225876 This only applies to USA where decades of cheapflation have made most store-bought non whole foods into frankensteinesque chemical cocktails that have little to do with nutrition.
Most of those "foods" would be straight out banned in Europe or laughed out of the market especially in western and northern EU because people actually read labels.
>>225146 I dont even know how to install proton since you apparently need to install steam for that and that yucks me out. I was always using wine and googling the error messages but oftentimes nothing useful would come out which is quite annoying. Its also annoying when winetricks doesnt work and how messy it all still is. How do you even learn about wine and how to package games? you must be really knowledgable with the process windows binaries run and how dependancies are installed.
>So it seems.. I don't understand why the soyjak people can't just fuck off to whatever hellhole they came from and leave this place be. This was meant to be a nice and comfy thread, and yet there are people like him that defile everything they come in contact with, and use their retarded dialect alongside it.
>>225883 I bump this thread after nearly a month of inactivity with one little opinion and people blame me for reviving its activity stronger than ever. I am the Joan of Arc of wizards..
>>224795 I had to start working again recently and there is nothing better than showering after getting home and going to bed. I feel like my bed is the only place where I don't feel negative emotions (with the exception of the occasional horrible despair upon waking).
>>224795 >I would like to discuss things that we do that increase our levels of well being and comfort throughout the day. What are some of the rituals and habits that you engage in that really make your solitary lives that much more enjoyable?
>solitary
Refurbished a 20XX gaming laptop for cheap - it both runs games smoothly and gives "that nostalgia feel" at the same time
>>225898 That sounds super nice. I always wanted one of those old red Alienware Laptops. Even now I think that overstated alien aesthetic is super cool, much better than the corpo understated stuff everyone puts out nowadays.
>>225889 >always carry some "wet towels" on you. You never know what kind of UGH you will have to wipe sometimes >tfw middle school "friends" used me as a wet wipe dispenser because I always had a 20-pack on me
>>225911 Hah! I remember those ROG Lambo models too. The 2000s/2010s were a wild time for gaming hardware. I also adored those Alienware towers with the moving fins on top, those were rad.
>>224797 Honestly, I've been thinking about doing that. My family's house is quite big, so I can comfortably walk around. I used to love that. Unfortunately, we got a new dog, and he's kind of a piece of shit. He's always biting me and being annoying in other ways. I've even gained weight from not walking as much as I used to.