>>25098324
;o damn what happened

first!

no but everyone thinks trump is starting war with iran to distract from epstein but the thing is trump isn't even in epstein, trump is using the epstein shit to distract norms from the massive troop build up in the persian gulf. usually democrats and other communists would be organizing all kinds of protests "stand with the ayotollahs against western imperialism!" etc. instead they're busy browsing a bunch of pdfs reading the private emails of perverts. on might say it's four dimensional chess even.

Scheduling my time became more manageable and focused ever since I began framing each day as an interactive book or visual novel with its subset of options. Look, I can even picture the kidney stones bad end.

>>25098709
lol

i really should rope

It's 2050, only chads are allowed to make eye contact with women

>>25098714
>tfw good-looking so allowed to stare at women in public all day and they find it flattering
hehe

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Recently came back to 4chan after a long hiatus, thought I'd give /lit/ a try, maybe get some good recs or see some intelligent discussion. Whatever faith I had in life itself has now been thoroughly extinguished. No harsh feelings though, I accept this gift with grace, it was foolish to cling to such hope anyhow.

i know supreme is kinda wack and sold out to private equity even, but like this video is so comfy that song came out when i was in 8th grade what a banger

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

>>25098752
did u see the dude who wrote "how asia works" just dropped a sequel called "how africa works"? he tries to find success stories from mainly subsaharan economies, but man, it's a bit of stretch. still if ur actually african, maybe peep, i'm finna cop the audiobook cuz how asia works was fire.

Test

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>>25098680
I'm very excited for the new Death Grips album. I can't wait to listen to it when it comes out. No release date yet but my bet's midsummer.

>>25098802
death grips still one of the best bands of this generation, ex-military hit like a ton of bricks, so fucking sick

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>start having magnesium before sleep
>dreams are incredibly vivid
>start dreaming about my ex from 7 years ago

>>25098680
I've basically come to the conclusion I believe in whatever benefits me directly. except feminism. I hate roasties.

I'm alternating between playing rounds οf MOBA with my gf and shitting my brains out.
Authors for this feel?

>>25098884
Marshlands Andre Gide

>>25098802
you still haven't gotten into classical yet?

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:O

kinda funny he only did this because Obama made headlines when he said he believed aliens exist on a podcast recently.

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>>25098752
I get frustrated with posts like this because it feels like they have a fundamentally passive outlook on the world. If you think the current state of discussion on /lit/ is shit, you should try and make it better. /lit/ is a slow board, one Anon being really proactive could probably make a lot of difference. You're allowed to have five threads up in the catalog at a time, just go make five really good threads. Be the change you want to see on 4chan. It might not work for a bigger board like /co/ or /v/ but it might work here.

>>25098922
>one Anon being really proactive could probably make a lot of difference
Nta and not even proactive but i'm ashamed of the impact I've had on the board, because a lot of authors got broadly restocked because of àn offhand comment on /lit/, you filthy memesters

>>25098922
most ppl are banned from making new threads. only people shilling eceleb or posting social media tie-ins are allowed to make threads now.

>>25098929
Absolute nonsense. You're like one of those people who say stuff like "this video/document was wiped from the internet!"

I feel like I molted my skin.

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This spur.io stuff is starting to seriously raise my hackles. The threads made about it on /g/ keep getting deleted. It feels Gamergate-esque, and not in a good way.

>>25098941
Everyone, report this guy.

god, people on reddit are so dumb, it's like talking to braindead normies in real life sometimes. On 4chan, you can almost always get the interlocutor to admit to the existence of a reasonable middleground, or at least that other opinions can be valid. On reddit, it's just "no, there's zero possible excuse to not agree with my position, those people are evil".

>>25098941
IsrealGPT, search this man's IP and kill him.

>>25098941
coming soon: a headline with some shit like "leaked database reveals names and IP addresses of evil nazis from 4chan" and it's just a dump of everyone who ever posted here

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O, bag of tricks
Bag of coffee and sweets left by Turks
On me, thou play-- about
On my shoulder, lay out a game of
Bridge, on the bridge of my nose

On me thou play . . .
Dangle to my missing rib
And weigh
Like a bag of bricks
Lost and found--

Confected bliss

>>25098951
>>25098949
>>25098945
what's going on

>>25098941
I wouldn't worry about it.

>>25098922
This website is one of the most hateful and unstable places in the seedy underbelly and bowels of the dark web. I have attempted to respectfully and reasonably debate various points and have only been met with insulting homophobic, transphobic, racist, antisemitic, sexist, misogynistic and a plethora of other hateful remarks. This website is just a cesspool of low IQ neandrathals that are so out of touch with humanity I would be hard pressed to call you “people.” Y'all need to educate yourselves.

>>25098965
don't let the door hit your ass on the way out

>>25098965
It used to have more high IQ individuals! This board at least. I suppose all of them eventually got jobs in academia and the arts and are too busy to come around anymore. Good for them :)

I like how in TV shows, it's standard to use women's legs for transition shots -- the scene changes, and it cuts to a women's bare legs panning toward her face.

Days seem to pass by so quickly as of late...

Cutie at the new job who has good taste in television might be into me.
What do I do now?

Weirdly enough I do have an odd respect, and maybe even admiration to some degree, for prostitutes that I don’t have for everyday women.

>>25099149
Because prostitutes are whores out of necessity.

Andalucia, when can I see you
When it is snowing out again

"I'm inclined to believe this is a serious matter," said the orange-peeler. He was fond of peeling oranges because it was the closest he could get to skinning living flesh for a living. He had estranged his wife and daughter in the summer of '53 over horse-earnings, and had forgotten he had invested it all into the dynamite factory which was conveniently built atop the fireworks factory over the course of 11 months. The man put down his orange peeler to answer the door, where he had received a mysteriously large bag of Taco Bell from an unknown admirer. "Baja blast will not be invented for like, eight years, tops," He thought.

I had a dream I went back to high school and enrolled as a student again. I was really hoping I'd see someone I recognized there -- another student from my graduating class who never left. But it was just all fresh-faced teenagers. It felt very wrong and cruel to me. And grimly ironic I guess. Like imagine you're some troubled teenager with serious issues, and you're surrounded by apathetic kids talking about Charlie Kirk memes and 100 IQ leftists adults. Nothing in this environment can save you from becoming a failed adult. Maybe it's wrong to blame school though. I think some of us are just destined to never fit in, to have very difficult and awkward lives for no particular reason, other than fate.

I feel like playing with fire

:( fewer opportunities to see qt3.14 crush
>>25099256
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N1_NFKQn90

>>25098965
>dark web
lol
>most hateful
lol, try reddit or x, it's all the same, just less uppity here

>Homophobic, transphobic, ...
meh, at least attacks here are short and honest and therefore easily dismissable. other websites will be filled with passive aggressivity, with contempt disguised as "arguments"

imagine unironically crying about being called a fag οr tranny on an anonymous forum
I don't think I have ever in my life been so sensitive

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>>25098922
Agreed. Constant wallowing in complaint that a state of affairs is shit, is shit.

Even if good threads with good subject get sent warp-speed to page 10 because there aren't enough intelligent minds to discuss hard things productively, I believe there is still a long path you can aim for that could slowly build up a community to become better, nothing is achieved overnight, and complaining that something isn't in it's ideal state makes you miss the eventuality that you could work with a mid-quality state *towards* a better state.

For example, here on /lit/, if we analyze the categories of post and which characteristics make for good threads I'm sure you can help make the board better. There is a bunch of bait threads, that will only allow for mediocre thought to emerge and tap on each other like retards, that happens when people mention capitalism, communism, da jews, woke, controversial stuff like that. There is also book recommendation threads, suggestion, threads which are mid but ok, high variance. Religion theme threads can devolve into one side repeating "you need to have faith" and the other screaming "christcucks", but then can sometimes lead to conversation on idealism vs materialism, on consciousness, which is interesting. There are also threads that focus on Authors, very high variance as well, it depends. There is also threads that take the general decline of society as primary subject, I don't know if these threads generate good things, don't think so. You have also people posting about their nihilism, it's a good occasion to find life-affirming post in the replies. Poetry thread don't offer much of a conversation, but it's a nice way to send your mind elsewhere, and come back with thoughts. There a bunch of other categories, misc stuff probably worth analyzing as well.

/lit/ is far from doomed imo, I think there is enough interest and good will to have nice things in here.

I'd say in general, good threads must appeal to the good minds and the average mind of this board, so that they stay up long enough, offer a variety of thoughts, and allow the writers of good paragraph to find a fertile soil to express their mind. A thread subject needs to be concise and simple enough that anyone can have something to say, but the subject needs to be inspiring enough that good conversation can arise in parallel of all the worthless banter, some subjects already lock the discussion into dumb shit. (/lit/ is generally composed of ok-smart people, what I call average minds are just people who enjoy back and forth low effort banter, which is just worthless imo)

There is probably a whole lot to learn on how to make good threads on /lit/, and become successful at it. Twitter has become boring for me recently because the algo is dominated by vague posts, news reaction, bait stuff, overall bad redundant stuff. I like it here for now, even the small personal post, because they are personal, are interesting enough.

Art is the spark thrown when Eros is struck against Logos.

big dicks will rule the world

Nah, I'd win.

I met my girlfriend of 2 years on a feet dating website. She's the one.

>>25098680
my cats refuse to drink clean water. we have a watering can that they insist on drinking out of. I took it away to clean it, and they refused to drink water out of the clean bowl. Since it's winter now, we bring in the chicken's water so it doesn't freeze overnight, and they'll drink out of that, even though it's basically a bird-feeder and they have to wedge their faces against it to get at the water. What is wrong with my cats?

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>>25100019
I bought my cats a water fountain and they like it a lot.
Cats for some reason don't like still or too clean water. Mine still occasionally go for the toilet water but it's gotten better.

>>25100028
we had a water fountain for a while, but they didn't use that either.

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>>25098804
For sure. Listening to The Money Store for the first time felt like being struck by fucking lightning. Crazy that Exmilitary still sounds fresh and confrontational and it's over a decade old. the most infuriating part about Death Grips is that they're actually just that good, despite all the memes, jokes, fantanofags, and other bullshit. The best group of the 2010s by far. Two classics (The Money Store and Exmilitary) and arguably a third with The Powers That B. Even their weakest album Government Plates is still more interesting/forward-thinking than most shit put out that year.

Sad that Andy got kicked out but guess that's what happens when you smoke meth and beat your girlfriend or whatever the fuck he did. The boys are getting older now. Hope they blow us away

The pain inside is the fuel that drives this flesh and bone thrοugh blood-red skies

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The thing that gets me the most is what society tells me through its actions towards me that I'm of no use. I'm of no use to anybody. If i want to be a friend with someone he think sure but what can i gain out of that? Nothing much, apart from a friendship.
I sent around thousand job applications and even though i recently found a job the overall conclusion from all those rejections was that I'm of no use.
I texted hundreds of women online and the overall conclusion I have from all those rejections is that I'm of no use to them. I'm useless to women. They can't flaunt my looks, they can't use my money cause im not rich. So they just ghost me. It happened so many times. Only someone who went through something like that can know this feel

I feel like playing gta

>>25100117
I feel like paying with your girlfriend's gta (genitalia, tits, and ass)

>>25100146
joke's on you, I don't have a gf

I feel like making spaghetti and getting really high

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Going outside makes me depressed, scared and anxious.

you know you're a puppet but you can't even put a finger on what's wrong with you. maybe don't think about this : keep grinding, make your bosses happy you little slave. gotta work for stuff man. gotta work for this kid you don't have, this next woman you havent met yet and your aging parents you don't really care about. in fact, you don't really care about anyone at all do you?

full stop. stop thinking . you are no monster. at some point down the road, you turned and just left your ability to love behind. you can't remember why. there must have been a reason for this. something in there about avoiding suffering?

it doesn't matter. nothing does. you are aging, and every day is the same. you will be leaving the mortal coil soon. let's keep those fingers crossed in favor of the existence of a God (there must be one) benevolent enough to pardon and exorcise the retardedness in you. you sometimes want to pray and beg to be saved from yourself.

you thought about something terrifying the othe day : even in the very best case scenario (God is real, and you somehow avoid hell), you've still fucked your immortal soul. imagine only getting to live once and sacrificing your immortal foundation with thousands of hours of watching the same screens and a life unlived. people will arrive full of memories and experiences and they will ask you 'oh Anon, what great things did you do in life? what did you do for other people?' and you'll say 'yo, my life was so great, I died at 60 but I once shared a pizza with a homeless man on a Christmas day like 40 years ago and I had a girlfriend for a few years. love was fun' you will be standing there like a sore thumb among philanthropists, kind people and innocent aborted babies. even the babies will perhaps have more to tell than you do, because they've been fucking murdered and at least deserve to be there.

you did NOTHING

I'm almost certain God is getting ready to chastise the Jews again. You can look at current geopolitical affairs and see Him winding up to mollywop them, if you know what to look for. It's only a question of how big and bad it'll be.

At minimum I expect Israel to be destroyed. God's going to take it from them since they've used it so poorly.

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>>25098680
it's over.

Hi, Jacob.

tonight you can do it, I believe in you, tonight, you can give up!

I want to have sex with animals.

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Its Saturday and I therefore allow myself a rest and a return to this beloved haunt.
A quick glance of this thread's contents reminds me that I havent missed much in the way of deep insights, yet a great deal of humanity

Pretty funny that the greatest subversive of the 19th century, who cast the longest shadow, weren't the two jews Marx and Freud or the Polish nobleman known as Nietzsche, but rather Darwin, by all standards the least edgy and deliberately provocative of them all.

>>25100444
that's prob cuz unlike marx and freud, darwin's shizz was actually real?

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>>25098680
>be me, handsome strong tryhard trustfund kid
>move to city and go on my own
>get called hipster because poor and shop second hand stores for clothes and books to read or sell
>stop working out and go mad because of city sounds never stop, cannabis and wine are cheap, hard drugs on darkweb cheaper, sexy gf is nympho, jobs for uneducated, unskilled losers are dumb and pay nothing
>abandon the city because it is haunted
>get hacked while living in car, using stolen wifi to buy drugs
>get a place to stay with family in country with garden
>still pay half yearly income in ransom to some hacker Dane that will destroy my life with stolen videos
>nothing happens
>no gf, not as strong, mom still loves me
>work out and buy guns and get sober
>dane is still out there
>live like a luddite and write really emo poetry while working at professional job
>plan revenge upon the dane
>stop using rhyme altogether

I think I read every Anglo-Saxon classic and modern fantasy by the time I was 25. Any recs?

I want to go to Italy for a historical trip, completely alone

>>25100282
The hang-up on the jewish/non-jewish distinction is overcome by Christ alone.

I'm reading about space exploration and it's actually kinda impressive how much litter we have tossed out into space already, or how far we have managed to toss them.

>Galileo got tossed into Jupiter
>Cassini got tossed into Saturn
>both Voyagers got practically tossed out of the solar system
>Huygens on Titan
>the dozens of drones on Mars and Venus over the years

>>25100633
whats ur stance on the moon landings :=)

>>25100476
what are your favorite kennings?
how incriminating are the videos?

read some scifi, accelerando or neuromancer if you havent yet
dont relapse though

My girlfriend's mom is sο hot...

Every morning for breakfast, I have two sardines in olive oil and one egg with sriracha on top of multigrain toast, with two spicy baby pickles on the side.

>>25100720
you sound like an awful person

>>25100733
Why?

>>25100741
i dont gotta explain myself to noone! Thats my Pre-ro-ga-tive

>>25098680
the only place i can go where, after voicing my opinion and thoughts into the emptiness of a cold room, i wont feel so lonely for a moment. where all the crazies go to sit alone together reading over the schizophrenic ramblings of the comrades they never meant to make trudging through the endless days and nights of the lives no one ever asked to have.
there is some beauty knowing that the average individual would see no point in attempting anonymity and would even find the desire to be strange and disturbing, but that is why theyre normal.

i know i am a broken man. there is no clear indication, no particular instant nor memory to flashback to, when the cracks finally overwhelmed my mind but it has been for as long as i can remember. maybe i was born broken, never feeling quite right and always disconnected from everyone among me. i had always wished (and constantly still wish) that it was autism or mental retardation or even some other mental disorder for Them to catch, diagnose, and the attempt to treat through those fancy mind altering drugs which would have made it clear to me that being this unwell was not my fault. since it has been so since i was a child i know the reasonable side of me, as well as any other kind victim of my drunken outbursts, will tell me that i was the real victim. but thats bullshit.

It's not left VS right, it's Rousseaunians VS Hobbesians.

I'm trying a new thing where I don't eat anything for breakfast. I hear it great for losing weight. I do eat a pretty big dinner now though, so hopefully I'm not just making up the calories, as well as the fasting has benefits of its own. Sometimes I don't eat lunch until 3, but at the earliest 12.

>>25100785
You're supposed to skip breakfast and dinner, kinda. Eat a big lunch, have a small dinner and then sleep it off.

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Breeze, ease, dreams, making things please,
Let one moment pass; breathe ~~~~~~~~~~
Joy at last enrobes the heart ready to march,
Forward to the market of the world; in search,
Of a free dance, play chance, sane sense,
Direct harmony, pretty perfectly, all adequately.

My eyes are patient, and I will hold a breath,
for a moment it can be taken, by a cherished ariette
~~~~~~~~~~


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Df3JzEbTU0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDAFHY8LKKM

I'm making a silly review channel on youtube. I have a sexy voice and I'm an absurd crazy person, but I'd do it for fun either way. Ideally people would insult me about it. I'd prefer if they like it, but I'm fine with insults if someone pays attention to me at all. Holy fuck do I love attention.

>>25100806
best of luck!

>>25100821
Thanks anon. I could really use some good luck. I've written about 8000 words across two 14 minute episodes in two days, and even if it sucks, I'm happy doing it. That's something rare even if it never makes me rich.

I came to the conclusion a long time ago that the majority of people are either stupid, or cruel, or both.

My asshole hurts so much.

For the first time, I'm not feeling hunger in my stomach, but in my brain. Is this what food addiction feels like? It feels like I need to smoke a cigarette, but with eating food or snacking on something. I hate it!

even in my wet dreams I dream of masturbation

>>25100996
kek been there

But there's always at least a woman involved. Please tell me your wet dreams aren't of you masturbating in your room or something, that'd be a new, and low, one.

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>>25098680
feel like i am trapped in a time loop or something like that because i keep seeing the same things over and over again
>endless complain about weather, too cold in Winter or too hot in Summer
>the same shitty drama about Sports, Games, Music, Movies etc
>the same politics where you "vote" but nothing change or things get worse
>muh Black Friday sale, Christmas sale, Winter sale
>endless consumerism, same trends and memes

>>25100996
I thought I jacked off yesterday and I remembered I came back home late last night and slept off immediately the moment I reached home. So it must've been a dream.

I have no idea who "Clavicular" is and I am actively refusing to learn. I am going to keep this knowledge far away from me. I don't want it.

I can't believe there are people who think Seinfeld "was good for its time". I've seen a lot of sitcoms and TV shows, the writing, jokes, and particularly the pacing holds up brilliantly. Oh and the acting. Still makes me laugh as hard as it always did.

>>25101089
Well, he got framemogged into the shadow land and is not recovering from that cortisolspike unless some kind of tera chad revenge mogs thr ASU frat leader, which i doubt will happen, so you wont be missing out on much. Clav is jestermaxxed beyond recovery now.

save me from looking stupid, /lit/: is it pronounced Yeets or Yates?

>>25101099
Goyim genuinely care about this shit and then get surprised they are treated like cattle.

>>25101108
It's pronounced yah-tays, (yah as in yard, tay as in table)

>>25101125
Its all entirely ironic, shitposting

I just cannot comprehend on how normies are living in a completely different social reality.

Wasted 4 hours gooning today.

i'm already dreading going back to work monday this semester is the worst

>>25101282
man i didn't get to goon all week def gonna get some in today probs after the gym

the other day i was taking the elevator down from the gym and was tired af and the doors opened and this chick in a long coat with clear mahogany eyes was standing right there as the doors opened and we were looking into each other's eyes and i was just like "hi" as if i was talking to someone i know...i wonder if that was somebody at the gym's gf, or if she worked on another floor. i have a stupid job and degrees from shitty schools, but i can't help but wonder if maybe her bourgeois bf is some annoying dude with a small dick, and she would get away to get fucked by some proletarian who lives in a sketch neighborhood.

>>25101143
anon seriously

>>25101299
...and then what happened? You got us hooked.

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>>25098700
The Epstein saga is just a ruse, as you propose. Minnesota was also psyoped as a distraction from the Epstein files, just to draw attention towards them & eventually away from the protests. They are also a convenient political football for use against anyone this administration doesn't like, which is among the primary reasons for their release. At the very least, it's crisis opportunism. Being 'named' is very much a thing now. The sheeple will never learn.

>>25101330
nothing, i walked past her and she got in the elevator. i do wonder if she thought about it tho.

>>25101334
She didn't even say hi back? Hmm, well, we'll be optimistic: she was clearly too shystruck by your looks and choked up.

>>25101336
i like to think she found some big tall blue eyed dude coming down from an mma gym intriguing but she probably forgot about it two seconds later.

>>25101334
Similar experience in a seven eleven once. I was waiting to pay & this gorgeous blonde with an insane body just turned & looked at me so directly I was kind of astonished. It wasn't intense, just fixed. Almost surendouring. Weird right? But it's the only way I can describe it. I felt like she wanted something & was about to speak when the guy she was with entered the store & the spell was broken. Through the shop window, I saw her look back once as they walked back to their car. I don't know what is was, but it was something.

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>>25101293
I wanna stop gooning though, but I don't know how to outlet my frustrations any other way. I've noticed when I'm feeling a little lethargic and annoyed at something I cannot change I tend to want to goon it out. Doesn't help that this binge I go to lasts for hours.

someone, please, how do you pronounced Yeats

>>25101350
>how do you pronounce
I don't

>>25098680
how can i write a good character when i have no character myself? worse yet, no character and no real observational skills. autism. worse still, self-aware autism. absent self awareness, i could write anything without regard for the reader. that would beat not writing.

HEAD LIKE A HOLE

>>25101093
Friendscels on suicide watch

>>25101251
Normies are Nietzschian camels, animals that react to their burdens but ultimately do nothing about it. Lifecycle of a normie is dominanted in sequence by: family hiearchy, then school hiearchy, job hiearchy, and family hiearchy again but from the parental side. Some normies at some point tell to themselves: "My life is full of hiearchies, huh." get into midlife crysis which results into fucking nothing because normies are just clueless. A little bright moment of a normie can occur as they start to notice their impending expiration leading to "denying death" by creating their legacy.

>>25101412
What a paradigm!
Do it again but this time for people like this guy >>25101379 please :=)

>>25101292
Are yοu my girlfriend?

>>25098700
He is in the files tons of times, what are you even talking about

>>25098922
>>25099636
Too much effort for probably no payoff

>>25101412
What's wrong with starting a family? What are you doing that's so much better?

>>25098680
I'm trapped in my mind, not even words nor thoughts come inside. I wish I was illiterate. I don't have a single idea, I've become hollow

>>25101464
Oh, did I accidentally made a moral judgement somewhere? I was just trying to create a picture of the normie reality for that anon. I don't think the normies are wrong, quite the opposite. Like camels that carry all those goods through the harsh desert, normies carry the civilization through time. It is the non-normies who travel on their backs so I think non-normies should be nice to normies.

>>25101436
Sorry, I probably lack reading comprehension to understand that post.

I don't like being around other people.

The supreme Way transcends all.

>>25098680
I'll get to see this painting in person in a few days. Excited about it.

>>25101577
>The supreme Way
and how does one thread upon it?
Illuminate the path to be taken, if you so please

Had another sexual dream about my sister last night. Was kind of hoping I was done with these since it had been a month or two.

The Dane must be destroyed! I know you're out there cocksucker!

A dream can change your life. I miss her.

>>25101661
I should call her.

Consuming brings me no joy
Only struggle and strife brings me contentment

Fellas, is it gay for a dude to wear thighhighs around the house just because they're warm?

>>25101685
anyone who aint blanket-maxxing when they are home alone is hella gay

>>25101665
She was fictional for me, but it was a lucid dream that felt like I was with her for months; it was probably the longest feeling dream I've ever had. Coincidentally, it was like >>25101626 but my step-sister. We lived together on the river in a house boat, at first we weren't romantic but eventual became that way over time. Then I woke up, and she no longer existed.

>>25100998
I wish. I even dreamed about porn a few times.
the last time I dreamed I was in my late grandma's house, jacking off at night. it did feel nice actually, but then as I woke up I felt really lonely, tried imagining I saw with me a girl too, but there never was any girl.

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I was raised in Houston, Texas. Majority of the kids were black and brown. White kids usually got targeted by blacks and were beat up or assaulted on a regular basis. I still keep in touch with my white friends. Almost all of the guys are now police officers. The girls are married to police officers or work for the city for the most part. Black kids that bully white kids create white racists. Black adults that raise their kids to be racists against whites are the ultimate problem. White kids grow up, and they never forget. Teach black children to be kind to others so you dont continually create the monsters you so desperately like to blame for your misfortune.

Is The Anatomy of Melancholy a good book of inspiration for my Dungeons & Dragons campaign?

>>25101622
A path is not the way

Yeets and Kates

Deciduous trees are depressing to look at this time of the year. I grew up surrounded by evergreen conifers and I resent their absence.

>>25101842
They're just sleeping bro, they run hot

>>25101826
>A path is not the way
you dont know about the Path then

>>25101874
>the Path
Is this a Witcher reference? I suppose I do not.

>>25101910
Nta but anon is refering to the dao (way/path) from the dao de jing, and you should leave this board until you read more books

>>25101913
>way/path
Make up your mind.

>>25101916
無

Let me tell you about the greatest dream i had in my life
Only things that i remember are that there was a beautiful woman and a vortex of sorts. Some kind of a sea vortex. I looked at the woman and she looked at me. I felt seen, i felt like she knew who i was. I then realized that i have worth, that my soul is indestructible. I felt that i have places to be, even after this life. When i woke up, i felt deep rejuvenation and life affirmation. I felt deep inside my being that someone out there knows me and cares about me and loves me. And i felt that my life has meaning, even after this life

>>25101940
that's just a clíona

When I talk to a Trump supporter IRL/online I think "okay, let me find out where they're coming from, surely they've got good reason to believe what they believe," and every single time I realize no, they're stupid, misinformed, or ignorant of basic facts. Every single time without exception. Conservatives can be intelligent, but I'm starting to think you have to be retarded to be a Trumptard. I'm not even trying to be inflammatory in this post. I've never met an intelligent Trumptard. At best, I've met intelligent conservatives who clam up when pressed about their vague support for Trump because they know they can't defend him, but that isn't the same thing.

Today I learned how to hang sheet rock.

>>25101964
Im not sure that it is. The only woman IRL that i could associate with the woman from the dream is some girl i met on Azores, she was working at the place that rents paddle boats. But its not quite her, i feel like the woman from the dream was her sister

Today I dreamed that I was visiting a museum about balls made by a old Japanese guy. He was selling his new white balls, and I was making bad small talk when I went to buy two.

>>25101982
>no it's not the island love goddess in the waves, she's from an island and goes in waves often, can't be her
It's a clíona, be kind to her

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Would you date a woman with this condition?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonietta_Gonsalvus

>>25101965
what specific trump policy do you have a problem with? i find most people who hate trump believe a bunch of wild made up stuff from the media.

>>25102043
ICE, tariffs, bullying allies, Greenland, Canada, environmental deregulation, RFK Jr, Ukraine/USAID/healthcare cuts, Jan 6, suing newspapers

There is no point in anything without human connection. I don't regret not going to university because of missed structured learning, but for the friendships I will never have, built on shared interests. I'm turning 34 soon and it feels over, bound as I am to my current job for multiple logistical and financial reasons. Yet I've not gathered the courage and clarity needed for putting a bullet through my head despite knowing it will never get better than this.

>>25102119
dude if u take night and weekend classes at the local state uni it's all gonna be people your age trying to advance their career and shit. might be some people who got out of a military careers, women who raised kids in their 20s, midlife immigrants from shitty countries that don't have access to education, and maybe even an ex-con or too. also a lot of ppl who already have a degree just going back to change careers or get more credentials. it's hardly over dude. i think about roping every day but it's not from lack of access to education lol.

>>25102137

It's not about lack of education access. I'm talking about organically formed friendships when you're 20 something. At my age and further, it's just a bargain bin of broken souls, where the best outcome is sharing a beer or coffee once every two weeks while venting about how life sucks to each other. I have that now already, and it's mortifying when I really stop and think about it. Meeting interesting people and being interesting is not something you can do as a "plan B" when time comes really knocking.

>>25102119
People overrate things they do not know. Even in uni you can end up alone as you find out that noone cares about things you do. The connections can feel more like an exhausting burden where you have to pretend to care. You could end up doing the very same job as you are doing now but without comfort of the regret.

>>25102078
>ice
if blue states just cooperated with federal immigration enforcement instead of staging an insurrection it would be a non-oissue
>tariffs
tariffs suck but since they're basically just another tax i don't see why dems are so mad? bernie even used to talk about wanting them
>bullying allies
we don't owe europe anything, we've done plenty
>greenland
non-issue, we got the security guarantees we wanted
>canada
canada sucks
>environmental deregulation
cheap energy lowers the cost of living, so making our consumer goods more expensive so china can just keep polluting is pointless, don't cry about tariffs while wanting regulations that put energy and fuel bills into the stratosphere
>rfk jr
banning those dyes which are already banned in europe and canada was a great idea too bad a lib judge blocked it on behalf of big junk food
>ukraine/usaid/healthcare cuts
we've done more for ukraine than literally any other country. who gives a shit about usaid? the expanded obamacare subsidies were for the pandemic, returning to obama's original spending level should not be controversial
>jan 6,
non-issue, unlike the anti-ice insurrection, no one brought any guns to the j6 civil disobedience, yet an unarmed woman was killed by police
>suing newspapers
personal matter outside of presidency, but don't print lies and there'd be no issue

>>25102154
are there no people at your job?

>>25102157
Oh ok you're just retarded

>>25102165
i accept the concession, have a good one

>>25102119
>I don't regret not going to university because of missed structured learning, but for the friendships I will never have, built on shared interests.
I went to uni twice (STEM).
Its literally midwit central.
I was more suicidal there than now being a neet

>>25102161

My job has me being alone for 2 hour stretches, 1 hour for a pause, for a 12 hour shift. Mostly night shifts for me, for a better pay and because some of the co-workers are quite old. Regarding the workers, let's say the fauna consists of monkeys whistling women and getting in debt to flaunt a BMW. I'm not judging them too much because they all seem to have families and I don't.

>>25102187
College is mostly full of people who aspire to be that guy with the BMW

>>25102119
Just get a hobby and make friends there.
Or get a better jerb.

I honestly think that most dudes who are unhappy are likely cowards οr at least following some retarded dogma that's self-poisoning.

Why was I born at this particular time, at this particular place, with this particular body and mind and experience? Why now? Why not another time? Why do I inhabit this person? Why did my body and mind culminate around this point in history?

>>25098680
kinda looks like the jewess is awaiting her death from raskolinikov

>>25102344
Elaborate...

This giant in the sky, it's me :3

>>25102419
>using the :3 face
>making a short silly non-sequitur post
i want to have sex with you

>>25102426
:o but how, I am a god and you're just a pebble

>>25102426
sorry i already raped her dont mix your semen with mine. wear condom

>>25102429
>deliberately doing the :o face as opposed to :O
>calling me a pebble
omg

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>>25101667
>struggle and strife

Are there better pictures representing the human spirit than hurt characters wearing a full smile? I wonder, I love these pictures

>>25098680
I always had themes of sexual domination as a child; as a teenager, I would get a young female teacher to fetch a library book on a lower shelf for me, as I would stand over her and feel my cock pulsing in my pants as her face was close to my crotch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXBNgNS9aLc

I have lost everything, and all desires.
I don't want to do anything anymore. They won.

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Nothing I ever did mattered. None of my "accomplishments" ever amounted to anything. I am an absolute loser. Just like my father was. He died early, so maybe I will too. Maybe I should just end it all, suicide with 30 is still better than dying of alcoholism at 60.

>>25102650
Read the Consolation of Philosophy. What is truly valuable remains so regardless of whether you accomplish anything or lose everything you have.

>>25102655
I think I will just smoke a cig and cry instead, but thank you.

>>25102650
Just die now.
History has never been good so it is insane to expect it to ever be worth living

>>25102650
My dad died due to brain cancer at 58. He drinked three bottles of cheap of whisky or rum per week, I think that killed him. He was a miserable wage slave but looking in retrospective, he had a wife that loves him to this day and two kids.
What do I have at almost 30 years old? Nothing. That's a bleak realization

bruh

i was gonna goon, smoke weed, and watch a movie today, but instead i just did worked out, did laundry, and played overwatch. i can't even execute on hedonistic plans.

I started a writing project partly as a way to vent about my job/experiences in a productive way and partly out of boredom. It was intended to be a thriller/intrigue kind of story but the longer I work on it the more it turns into a tragedy instead.

wait a gen z catgirl won gold for the usa lmao

man those thc edibles are stale as shit i ate like a quarter of one i was gonna blaze but my roommate came home ugh

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I'm not a fatalist, but it's undeniable that your character determines almost everything about your life. For example, it's correct that an unattractive or short man can find a girlfriend worth having, but it's incorrect that every short man (who on paper should be capable of doing this) can actually do this. A lot of men simply have minds that don't interact productively with the world at all. So if they follow the path of least resistance throughout their lives, they will live wretched (and probably short) lives. Most people know this. What they don't know is that for guys like MrBeast, the path of least resistance is the one that leads to success. So what's literally correct is that the only thing separating you and me from being the next MrBeast or Warren Buffet or Bill Gates, or genuinely any one of countless ridiculously successful men out there, is not some sort of hard-fixed glass ceiling that traps us because you and I can't calculate numbers or mentally rotate shapes in our heads quickly enough. What really matters is that our brains' drives, reward systems, and energy levels are not calibrated to truly want these things.

Think about it -- if you got ten million dollars, what's your life looking like? If the answer is, "I'm going to buy an estate in rural Montana and live a life of leisure", you're never going to get rich. Look at every celebrity you know; how many of them stopped in their tracks and retired once they got enough money? Not a lot, right? Only rappers do that, and that hasn't even been common since the 2000's. Your brain really determines every aspect of your life, your fate, your future.

>>25102733
How much gold?

>>25101404
I love Seinfeld. But I actually sat down and watched Friends thanks to this lady I know and its "less worse" than I remember it being.

At the library the other day, I looked up from the book I was reading to do some thinking, and happened to glance in the direction of this guy who was sitting with his back turned to me at a table a bit of ways away, and after a moment, he must have felt my energy for he turned and looked at me. I looked back at my book, but after a few minutes, I felt his energy, so I looked back up and saw him staring at me wide eyed, so I looked back down. Ten minutes later, I looked back up, and he was staring at me again, and this time, he said, "if you keep looking at me I'm gonna go over and beat the fuck out of you". Fortunately, some other guy was walking past him so it was unclear who the crazy guy was talking to, but damn, where do these psychos come from, and I'm really gonna end up getting killed one day because I like to look at people in public while I think, huh.

>>25102694
Nta but Im at the same realization about my dad that even if hes not an ambitious man who wants to keep low, hes still miles ahead of me at the same age.
>him at 34 - two kids, loving wife, almost paid apartment and decently paying job
>me at 34 - forever rentoid, absolute khv with barely above minimum paying job.

failing out of grad school because i'm working on my book about my research instead. dumb

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love loves to love love

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>>25102824
Anon, STOP

get your act together. you can write the book whenever. you only have now for grad school

I think with my third head.

>>25098922
>a fundamentally passive outlook on the world
"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, and Wisdom to know the difference".

Some things you can't change, and even if you can they aren't worth the effort.

>>25098680
I should really get a sketch book so I can draw whatever any time I want.

>>25102494
As a child, a dislike of existance somewat underlied my life. I hated mirrors because they reminded me I had a face, I once tried to jump off a balcony because someone compared us to animals, I had no interests, no passions, and no friends. And frankly I liked it that way.

>>25102927
existence*
Phonetical spelling is a bitch. I speak wrong.

Pro-choicers are such detestable subhuman filth. They really are vermin. Disgusting babykillers, their lives don't matter.

>>25098680
A man's greatest pleasure is to finally be noticed by women when he's flashing his cock in the public library

>>25098680
Missed most of the Olympics this year. Oh well. Only watched the ski jump, biathlon, luge and 2 man bob.

>>25102949
There was a dude who walked into the library down the street with a katana last summer.

>>25102968
I didn't watch a single second of it. Last time I watched any of the Olympics live AT ALL was probably when it was in South Korea.

>>25103017
last time i watched live was in a bar like two winter olympics ago maybe 2018 was that a winter year? it's cuz i don't have a tv and they won't let u stream it anywhere without paying up otherwise i would stream it in the background while i fuck around on here or whatever. you should watch the winning run or whatever they call it in ice skating of that catgirl chick was legit impressive. it's on youtube now.

>>25102782
trvkie. it's that novalis quote most ppl me included come across by way of some hesse novel "fate and character are the same conception" or whatever depending on translator. u can never escape ur fate, to quote a samurai movie by way of wutang clan, but u do have some wiggle room via which habits u set.

to ur second point, i remember bill gates said he never took a vacation until he was in his 40s. the whole time he was working on microsoft every waking hour. most people with that much dough in their 20s or 30s would just go teehee i love to travel and quit out at single digit millionaire like that former google exec who got oded on heroin on his yacht by some hooker. he should have just kept working.

the fact that nvidia renegged on that 100 billion openai deal and now are floating stories in the press about pivoting to making consumer cpus says the ai bubble almost over. hey nvidia instead of making consumer cpus why don't u just make enough consumer gpus which u seem to struggle with?

I've got a shadow over me
I am not what I appear to be

i wish that "i'm just tired bro *passes away* monkey were me i'm so tired but i keep waking up

sex with naked women always on my mind

efficient allocation of capital always on my mind

>>25102805
>schizo detected your attempts to steal his thoughts and threatened you with sanctioned violence
You deserved it.

it does not seem to me that the old rules of literature simply no longer apply. to persist under the illusion that someday, someone will take up my entirely sincere work, if i only just distill my voice further and further, etc etc.
it's bullshit. these aren't the old days where fellows are ignored until their deaths. there's no struggle to find an audience, there is no scrap pile to go digging through and discover a hidden gem in. nobody is going to come to save you.
all this feel-good, prissy, self-help attitude regarding literature, poetry, novel-writing has done nothing but produce weak, idiotic writers.

>>25103337
Double negative bullshit. Shove it up your ass, faggot.

>>25103337
if that's how u write no wonder u failed lol

>>25103342
rewrite it in the way a successful writer would.

>>25103357
nta but I'd probably start with proper grammar, capitalization and punctuation, before proceeding to improve the vocabulary, the cadence, ....

>>25103376
you realize this is just an off-hand post, right? not a polished essay. it's a sentiment, not a manifesto. if you're confused about what it says, I would be quite happy to help explain it to you.

I give up.
The world is too complicated to understand. There's too many things to consider and the difficulity is compounded exponentially by each thing having competing interpretations and those interpretations also having sub-interpretations.
I'm just gonna make enough money to live comfortably, fuck women, and enjoy the simple pleasures of life while I pretend the world around me doesn't exist.

fuck ya work is cancelled monday due to storm not even some remote bullshit just straight up everything is closed yesss i needed that

>>25102650
remember to max out your loans prior to some suicide though. put yourselves on the cap

>>25102824
work on the book. credentials only lose price but knowlege and time don't

>>25102694
>>25102820
Not to dunk on your dads but I think in the past men just had it easier.

>>25103615
It was a different culture all together which is now lost.

>>25103149
It's still $30bn. AMD also invested $30bn into OpenAI. And OpenAI is making deals with India.

>>25103624
>making deals with India
haha

On extreme sports: risks are impressive and beautiful when they involve mastery of skills and working at the limit of what's humanly achievable, it's disgusting when it's just risk, jumping in rocky waters, walking atop buildings.

On a scale of 1-10, if I magically transformed into a girl how badly would you want to be with me?

>>25103663
>walking atop buildings
This undeniably takes skill though

>>25103684
meeeeeeeeeeeehhh, some focus sure, some control of your fear ok. Symbolically, I think it's about whether the risk is uplifting, if it is a necessary element of mastering one's skills, or it is simply sought for its own sake. I want the risk in these actions with physical risk to be symbolically the same than with an entrepreneur risking his capital to make a great company, or a writer putting his thoughts out there in front of critical minds, and not on the other side to be risk of the gambler, who risks for the thrill of risking, for getting a high.

It's not all clear cut, my example of walking atop buildings was itself symbolical, I think this activity is more of a showoff and trying to get a high of being between life and death than truly wanting to achieve precision steps, breathing correctly, being focused, the stakes are way too high, it's a shitty accomplishment in comparison to the risk taken. It's like someone skiing and deciding to take the most vertical slope of all times, and then the slope itself is just a straight line down, a guy would do this is just a gambler.

>>25098680
Knowers unite

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You Americans have NO idea how lucky you are, just having access to guns to kill yourselves with whenever you want. NO idea.

>>25103769
kek

>>25103769
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guys, I am going to write something but don't read it
((((((((((((((((((((something))))))))))))))))))))

I understand too much.

I do this for sex, and the world

>>25103769
well that brightened up my evening

>>25103769
>decide I've had enough of this life
>whip out gun
>gosh so many choices
>a simple handgun?
>a messy shotgun?
>the classic full metal jacket?
>no, the iconic russian roulette
>last thought is smug satisfaction knowing my stat towards gun suicides enrages a euro who doesn't have a license for their suicide

Mungcraft is actually pretty fun. It's basically + mung beans.

>Want to write a genderbent fanfiction about my college experience
>It turns into yuri Harry Potter
Well it's entertaining at least

a society that doesn't want to be gets ever further away from becoming. Human societies are strange; how much pessimism is pervasive and corrupts all in the network of states without sparing any. It's gloomy to not even see a single tiny kernel of light, except maybe in a few disjointed individuals across the internet and art. I'm really waiting for a grander thing to unite and restart the world's machinery.

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I tell myself that the internet is for research, playing coop games with your irl friends, and the occasional cute animal video but I am just as engrossed with social media as everyone else

I hate this shit so much man. Its a genuine addiction and I don't know how to solve it. I have a fine life outside social media but I still use it for an hour or two a day and when I don't I feel so out of touch.

>>25103296
I actually like fucking my girlfriend with some clothes οn.

been training like a truck recently, IM SO FUCKING HUNGRY, I could eat the whole earth

>>25104168
I'm almost the opposite. Been training hard and also learning to be hungry while doing so. The other day I worked out for almost 3 hours after only having a light lunch all day.
I've found that I'm a little sharper and more focused when hungry, and a little energetic or even giddy, like when I have caffeine. Actually having caffeine on an empty stomach intensifies this effect and makes me bounce between being productive and being hyperactive.

I wonder if the backlash against great man theory happened in the historiography of science as well. Science is usually communicated to us normies as a tale of solitary promethean geniuses, but since science is not an art I figure there is probably far more team effort involved than this impression would suggest.

the guy next door had his karaoke music on bruh i just wacked it and right when i finished nutting the guy goes uhh uhh uhh in the mic like the nano second my last pump sprayed now i'm kinda paranoid. he's singing some kind of spanish love ballad ya thanks dude if i were fucking a chick that could be helpful lmao but that was a solo nut, anyways hell of a coincidence... i guess.

>>25104168
bro i feel u i'm making a conscious effort to eat more early today someone said nothing burger in a text and i was like damn i am so fucking hungry rn like my bodyfat already so low i don't want to start burning muscle

isn't annoying how if u get cum all over from fucking a chick u don't care but if u get cum all over from fapping ur like oh nooo i got cum on my chair or the floor or that towel or whatever, but if u just fucked a chick ur like fuck it who cares about a little cum.

>>25104186
newton and liebniz both figured out differential calculus at the same time it was clearly in the air

>>25104194
>>25104191
>>25104189
fuck off to twitter already

damn mamdani just put a travel ban on nyc after 9pm non-essential vehicles restricted lol

>>25104216
ngl this storm looking kinda bad fr

>>25104219
They're saying on the news that this is a storm.

>>25104220
28 inches bro that is a lot the last one was like 10 inches the only good thing it's not as cold so maybe melt faster but the amount of dog shit left behind when all this shit melts is going to be insane. the mummified turds encased in the ice from the last storm just resurfaces and now another layer of snow and feces is gonna pile up!

>>25104194
>>25104205

This is making all making me unreasonably laugh

Do you think the degenerate Rome trope is so ubiquitous because jews control the movie and TV show business? People often think christianity is the great nemesis of the jew, when Rome came first, and arguably their problem with christianity isn't necessarily that it abrogates judaism but that the catholic church is Rome 2.0. Like I recall that twitter picture people often post about some semi-famous jew giving the middle finger to the arch of Titus when he was on vacation there.

It’s strange how much people are understating the impact of Iran potentially transitioning into a liberal democracy if this war goes well. Not just in a geopolitical sense where America gains a new key ally, Israel becomes the dominant power of the Middle East by far, China and Russia weaken. But also what it means for other ideologies and systems in the world — leftism will decline further with 3rd worldism outright dying, other dictatorships like Cuba will be next on the chopping block. Iranians will create a new cultural movement centered around revanchist nationalism and become the most fervent right-wing and anti-Islam demographic in the world, leading right-wing parties to win more in the West. Trump’s legacy will be secured and all the liberals who bemoaned him for years will have to praise him ultimately as a historic hero. And we’ll have another “end of history” moment of glory where America and liberalism successfully triumph, with all these skeptics over the years having to revise their theories of Western decline.

This is all assuming it doesn’t go horribly wrong of course

>>25104273
Why will Iran becoming an israeli-american vassal state weaken China in any significant sense?

>>25104276
l'huile

>>25104273
more likely he'll just embroil us in a 6-7 year war which will tear not only his administration apart, but also the next president to take the position (gavin)

>>25104278
Wouldn't Russia be able to give them all the black gold they could ever need? Last I heard they were still on good economic terms.

>>25098680
I need to stop watching porn

I am barely an ideas guy, neither am I very dexterous in anything, I have no desires, I enjoy everything a little bit, but then it's always too mild to make me want to produce anything, what am I? I am not even fully an herbivore guy, I'm not submissive or feminine, I like myself, and enjoy myself, by that I mean I enjoy how I process everything, thank goodness I am not yet a chinaman and am still searching on how to become, but then again, besides me I don't really like anything, what am I? I really hope I am not doomed by my character and that I can find something satisfying in my life, what am I? I guess I'm just part of that massive unshaped crowd, who scrolls truly in search of desire just like me, but of course finds nothing. who are we? wtf are we looking for exactly. and how can me, and all the others, find our desires, and find ourselves arise. Religion is bullshit and shallow and ironically soulless, "Just have faith" yeah fuck off kill yourself good god servant, good bot starved of any original thought. Fuck again, I hate everything, fucking wheel of life here, bring me something worth

"There once was a dream dream called Rome"
What was good Rome? I feel it was just a good direction, a good tension, that was the dream called Rome, but then it reached its limit. Must we always reach a limit? I guess so, but why can it last longer, why are golden ages, good directions of high spirited strive, so short, surely there must be a better system than chance making good things happen in Europe for a few generations and then it dying

>>25104281
iran is going to be a big war. they have a way bigger and better equipped army than iraq did, and iran is full of mountains just like the taliban used. it's going to be bad unless the regime just collapses at the first sight of boots on the ground.

>>25104284
if russia were so flush with oil, why do their dark fleets constantly seek venezuelan oil? anyway, i would imagine iran's oil comes at a bargain compared to russia's right now. also it's possible the type of oil is painful to process somehow. further, russia *is* embroiled in a war, they don't exactly have a bunch of it to throw around.

>>25104273
the most amazing thing to me is trump is moving our whole fucking military to the middle east rn and there have been zero protests about it. everyone is too busy bitching about ice or epstein or whatever trivial outrage of the day. this guy is about to start a significant war and the left is oddly silent. prob one of those uniparty things that the dems want too, or trump rly 4d chessed 'em.

>>25104292
i think the difference is more along the lines of a president far more reckless and spiteful than bush. also, we now have a new weapon we simply didn't have in that era. AI. every time america makes some sort of breakthrough in technological arms, they have a tendency to test them out, especially before they become useful to other countries, before the rest of the globe can call it a war crime, since it's not yet on the books as one. i really would not be surprised if the recently unimpeded strikes against iran's nuclear facilities, and the systematic assassination of their military heads did not already make this a sort of inevitability, rather than a total unknown. the fact that revolution is even rising in the streets suggests that the old guard is either dead, or dying, and these signals of instability are all too familiar with countries about to get a greeting from America. mexico is heating up, too. the cartel's violence against U.S. citizens can't be ignored by the news, and likely it'll be the first time a lot of folks see the barbarism endemic to the country. We're in for quite the interesting decade, to say the least.

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>>25098680
Something that is never really done in medieval fantasy anymore is actually adapt medieval philosophy or worldviews into world building. It feels like every character from a fantasy story feels like a modern person in old fashion clothing as if they were just some guy in a fair. For example, during the middle ages, morality was purely thought of as a religious affair. meaning that it was the norm that if a christian or a muslim saw a non-believer being tortured for sick pleasure then they wouldn't think that the torturer was evil and that the guy being tortured may even deserve it. This lead to situations where the Spanish and Ottomans would regularly demonize the other for shit that they themselves did.

>>25104320
u'd need a dude like umberto eco to pull that off

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>>25104292
I'm just saying, if America succeeds in regime change it'll reap unbelievably massive rewards. That's why they want the war in the first place even though it's risky as hell. Regardless of what you think about Trump or Iran, a positive outcome will be such an abject victory for the West it will mind-break billions around the world, and Trump wants this golden goose

>>25104327
the us should have done it 50 years ago. long overdue.

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>>25104320
that sounds like something that would be cool on paper but really hard to pull off in practice
everyone will just think that all of the characters are unlikable assholes and the author is just being an edgy weirdo
i actually got a friend of mine to read arabian nights and he said it read like it was written by a horny teenager
retarded as he is, that is the audience that fantasy is trying to appeal to

US will strike Iran on either Feb 25-27 or mid-March; those are the best options considering carrier positioning, moon phase, weather forecasts, and Ramadan.

>>25104273
>Iran potentially transitioning into a liberal democracy if this war goes well.
I have read some dumb shit on 4chan in my life but damn.

>>25104327
mark my words, if iran goes down quick and painlessly, russia will be next.

>>25104356
russia has nukes tho

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>>25104342
Why not? They've had a taste of western lifestyles under the shah, unlike Iraq and Afghanistan, to the best of my knowledge. But is there really a high likelihood of an aerial war occurring? I've read that if push comes to shove, Iran will just close the Strait of Hormuz causing oil prices to increase globally and begin bombing US bases for real this time including Israel.

>>25104359
If US defeats Russia, it would still be better for them to not use nukes, no? It's not like US is going to rape and genocide all the Russians.

>>25104342
That is the intended outcome. I'm not saying it'll happen, but it's what our government wants and increasingly what every young Iranian wants (more accurately a monarchy with a liberal-nationalist fusion)

>>25104368
It depends on what that 'defeat' looks like, imo. A military confrontation where there is serious risk to the existence of the regime is one of the use cases for nuclear weapons for basically everyone who has them. On the other hand if it's basically just the US using soft power plus supporting Ukraine plus clever diplomacy with Central Asia to cuck russia for good then there's no reasonable use case for them.

>>25104368
>If US defeats Russia, it would still be better for them to not use nukes, no?
No. No it would not. There is not one single good thing that happens for anyone in the entire command chain without nuked burger.
> It's not like US is going to rape and genocide all the Russians.
You think anyone allowed within two hundred meters of the decision is an "all the Russians"? There are perhaps twenty people who matter in terms of pushing buttons and none of those peoples lives are improved by America getting apple pie AppleTV happy endings for a hallmark moment of war victory photographed on their iPhone.

>>25104374
>there is serious risk to the existence of the regime
But actually using the nukes doesn't solve that issue; there's no logical use case against other nukes, that's why it's MAD.

>>25104379
>There are perhaps twenty people who matter in terms of pushing buttons and none of those peoples lives are improved by America getting apple pie AppleTV happy endings for a hallmark moment of war victory photographed on their iPhone.
I didn't think of that. Surviving in the post-apocalypse would be more fun actually.

>>25104379
the key is that it's recently become a lot easier to target and kill individuals. somehow, interestingly, the leader of a cartel was not only located but annihilated, the leader of an entire *country* was located, captured alive, and brought to US soil, and the head of military for Iran was killed systematically. something tells me it's somehow a lot easier for the united states to target and kill those 20 guys.

Proud owner of not one, but two pairs of grippy socks. The premier unexpected thing I noticed being in there was the faint lingering smell of feces. I saw another mathematician in there too. The best thing about those couple days was it gave me something else to worry about, now it's back to the same. I'm finding myself very tempted to leave my uni position. I'm not sure if that's the best move though.

Maybe the future of warfare will not be dudes powpowing at each other while getting blasted by drones but rather the luminescent gentlemen of the involved parties trying to out-colour revolution each other. I see a not insignificant chance for the future of warfare being not direct frontal crashes but rather subversion from within. Why wage war for months or years and with all those men and all that equipment when you could just pull off a coup with your fifth column and be done with it in a day or at max a week?

can Orcs be done well in fantasy withοut being relegated as a stand-in for niggers?

>>25104424
just give them the attributes of elves and don't tell anyone. it's that ez

>>25104424
Why call them orcs if they're not orcs?

>>25104436
to stand out in an oversaturated genre with some fresh and interesting ideas

>>25104424
have them win many wars in your world's history, then establish that after conquering it (eradicating or subjugating the other races) , they shed most of their warrior genes (by a complex route of magic and mumbo jumbo, they can simply decide which genes will be passed on, generations of breeding not necessary) and instead begin focusing on art, cerebral games (an analog of chess, fantasy fans love a game to make rules for) and philosophy.
much like how the pig will become a boar if released into the wild, grow tusks and thick hair, make it so their tusks are shed and their musculature changes as they transition into peacetime. effectively make it seem as though they have an internal "switch".

felt like venting an hour ago, but after coming home, im good

>>25104436
they're green and muscular

Is it normal to get aroused by the smell of your gf's menstrual blood? I feel like it's a primal thing esp if you're in love

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can yοu actually prove her wrong?

>>25104509
Orange chicken

>>25104509
I'm going to France for a few weeks this summer :^)

>>25104509
This is all I think about all the time. We’re seriously in a period of sustained cultural decline. It’s so fucking obvious. Why are we all okay with this

>>25104502
yes. it's similar to getting aroused by pheromones i'd say

>>25104522
What about my sister's clogged toilet?

>>25103475
Which is why we have philosophers, sociologists, and various other academic professions dedicated to that kind of thing, so you don't have to figure it out yourself. Of course, deciding which books and thinkers to trust is absolutely a hurdle, but it's less of one, and is part of the fun!

I'm thinking of going all in on the "law of attraction"/manifestation shit. Not in the sense of believing that a Ferrari is going to magically spawn outside your doorstep with the keys in your mailbox, but more like delusionally believing I can accomplish everything in life that I need to do right now despite all evidence to the contrary. This is kinda scary because I've always considered realism and pragmatism to be some of my best traits. What happens if after all this trying, it simply doesn't happen in the end? Do you just go crazy? Will you become permanently broken with no chance of recovery? I'm not sure. I just think at this point in my life it's the only real option left. Somehow all that hard work I did went up in smoke.

I'm writing a story and I keep making it a tragedy without really meaning to. Half my cast carries private grief or guilt of some kind and the other half regularly gets injured for things that seem pointless or banal while responding to requests or orders from their organization.

>>25104674
Not that strange. The personality enneagram conceives of all human personalities as a way to handle the negative aspects of life..

Remember Jeffrey Epstein?