/lit/ - Literature

>>19602453
Tomboy Women. Virgin Women. Fluffy Women.

>>19602453
I will convert to Islam and move to a muslim country. Nothing can stop me from doing it.

>get the jab because otherwise my job would make me test every week and I can't be bothered
>join a gym outside of the Bronx so I don't have to wear a mask
>new governor says masks in doors for everyone regardless of jab status
I hate New York so much. This entire state is a shithole and masks are a placebo for pearl clutching dildos

I'm about to finish a degree in humanities and I feel like I've learnt nothing that will help me make a living. I might have fucked up. Maybe it's not too late to train for a blue collared job.

>>19602470
I have now reached the point where I am so shocked by how bad New York and a few other cities (LA, Philly, Chicago) have become that even when I see a random poster saying he's from one of those cities I feel a moral urge to say "dude, get out while you still can"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoCze4CNEms
thread theme

>>19602460
Your post made me throw up a little in my mouth

>>19602466
Good riddance faggot subhuman now get the fuck off this site it's haram

what do you do with somebody who tries to get on your nerves by constantly doing cringe shit and this person is part of your household

>>19602580
Have sex with them, that's how you trick your brain into tolerating an awful person.

Source: several gfs and female roommates

would it be extremely pathetic if I made a dating site for developers only?

>>19602587
so take shit from them?

>>19602593
Well, yeah

>>19602602
desu i just want to peacefully live my life and not get into stupid entanglements with dumb people

Feeling irrationally sad because people on 4chan are assholes and I'm a sensitive bitch who happens to have empathy

I cant seem to truly figure it out why do I still live with parents at ripe age of 30? So far I managed to come up with several theories as they're the only bond with the other people other than myself, they're the only support in my life despite the constant conflicts and arguing (I broke my hand in two places after one heated arguing) or I'm really afraid of being alone and facing my subconsciousness. I know this sounds extremely pathetic.

man fuck Tetris syndrome
>download Hearthstone again
>play regularly for about 3 days
>as I go to bed and close my eyes I see minions with random stats attacking each other
>think nothing of it
>next day as I'm imagining an intellectual argument between two people I involuntarily assign stats to them and see them attacking each other
>freak out and uninstall Hearthstone

>>19602650
That does sound pathetic, but Ray Bradbury lived with his parents until he was 28. I don't want to be the one to give you advice, but it could be worse.

>>19602472
get a job in the education industry. ohio state has 131 diversity administrators. those jobs are popping up everywhere. all you have to do is like send out an email acknowledging you stole the campus from some indians, and then like once a semester do a "safe space" training or whatever.

>>19602660
Yeah but you see, that's actually one of the least of my problems. The others being completely distant to myself and the external world, having no energy, dreams or desires. Maybe it's actually one problem but I cant seem to bring it to the consciousness despite the introspection.

>>19602630
I understand you sis but this site is literally a psych ward don't take it to heart

rip the chilean economy

I have found myself needing others to belive what i belive when my beliefs shouldnt rely on what others believe.
Terrible co-dependent behavior on my part.

>>19602630
sometimes I have this reaction to a post and its a reminder to log off for a while lol

>>19602659
>imagining an intellectual argument between two people
What the fuck?

>>19602489
What's wrong with Philly? Honestly most people here stopped giving a shit after the first six months. Yeah you "have to" wear a mask in the grocery store but my life has some semblance of normalcy to it. Still have a job, I can still go see concerts or go out to a bar. I've been enjoying the decreased number or tourists.

I've never made a friend in 4 years of college

I'm not making it off crypto anytime soon and that's a good thing. 5 more years of dealing with material problems instead of falling into an existential crisis.

God's plan is perfect. Hard determinism is perfect.

>>19602821
it blows my mind that cities like philly have topped the peak yearly homicides this year. i'm old enough to remember how violent the early 90s where before joe biden's crime bill sent a lot of evil doers to the slammer. it's kind of crazy to think in an age of ubiquitous surveillance tech murders and violence could go so high.

At this point, I am no longer sure if I'm a repressing faggot or a repressing tranny

>>19603197
so you like getting fucked by men?

>>19603197
>Zizek meme
tranny, for sure

>>19602580
Use your words.

People are way too paranoid about this new rona variant. I live in a liberal city and everyone is wearing masks outside even though the odds of transmitting it outdoors is effectively zero unless you're in a jam packed shoulder to shoulder crowd.

>>19602472
what specifically did you study, if I could ask? I’m planning to go back to school in the fall for classics. I have problems choosing one thing and sticking to it, but with Latin and Greek I feel like I can focus on those with relative ease (partly because of the fun of language learning, but also because of the intrigue of the content of the writings). after I got my undergrad in linguistics I feel like the teaching was hollow and I didn’t learn Neely as much as I could’ve/should’ve, but maybe in grad school with more of a catered education things would be better. I have had a few “real jobs” (two jobs working for different hardware stores, and one working for a painter and power washer), and don’t want to do that sort of work the rest of my life. I also don’t want to live with my parents anymore, and furthering my schooling would help me in that regard too.

>>19600737
i enjoy documentaries but i cant get high

who tf made up that quote "we hurt the ones we love" because that's giving me some weird ass soul reverberations..

I’m so tired, i just want to have some kind of breakdown and sob and scream, but i can’t, theres no catharsis. And even if there were nothing would change, i’d still have to go on living afterwards like i am now

>>19602589
do it, that would be cool

>>19603232
i have though

Niggas on 4chan be like
>PAST GOOD
>PRESENT BAD
>WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY

>>19602453
The glaciers melt. The seas rise. Truly it is melancholic to be born into the end times.

>>19603381
Because of proximity, and emotional closeness, we end up effecting them more than random strangers or workplace acquaintances

>>19603542
>THIS IS LE ENDERINO
Even if the seas rise it won't end humanity lmao

>there is no such thing as a black supremacist

>>19603590
Black supremacists are based. They say their ideologies on mass media platforms and out in the open and people of other races accept their teachings. White supremacists live in fear of losing their jobs and whatnot lmao.

>>19603605
REEEEE THIS IS ALL BECAUSE OF DA JUICE AND WOMEN

>>19603605
That's because white people have a historic debt towards blacks and people understand. Now gimme your taxes and white bitches, while I chill with my niggas, sissy white boi

>>19603626
Jews are, outside of Israel, in terminal decline. They are not relevant. As for women? It depends on the race. POC women are quite intelligent. Modern White women are probably the dumbest group of humans in all of history.

>>19603398
Use better words.Smart words.

>>19603605
Any form of racial supremacism is pathetic. Imaging being such a mediocre individual that you have to champion your race as your signature feature. It is no substitute for a lack of character or personal accomplishment.

>>19603758
racial pride, at least rationally, has never made sense to me. if you were, say, the family member or long friend of someone, and have aided them in their accomplishment(s), I can understand having pride for what someone else has done; but just because you have a broadly similar ancestry, that doesn’t seem right. I actually feel pity in a way, because it seems like such a hollow thing to (at least in part) build your identity around.

>>19603553
Stop shitting the thread go away,shoo

>>19603758
>>19603793
While I think racial pride, from an logical standpoint, is dumb, it is impossible to deny that the societies with it prosper and the societies without it decline. Look at the modern world. The groups with racial pride: China, the African Americans, Jews (it’s a religion sure but there’s a lot of racial tones to the way Jews see themselves), Arabs, etc. are prospering and growing. The groups without a racial pride: whites, some Latinos, many South Asian ethnicities, etc. are in decline. Clearly, there is something in being proud of your race which leads to prosperity, even though racial pride seems bad or at least, pointless.

>>19603748
guess i'm not an effective communicator as they say

>>19603821
Is that really racial pride or is it ethnic cohesion and solidarity? Sociological evidence supports the idea that ethnically and culturally homogenous societies are more stable. See Japan or Iceland for instance. But there is no need for a supremacist ideology or "pride". It's just a passive state of being

>>19603837
>Sociological evidence
What evidence? "Because I said so"?

>Japan
Not sure we should aspire to socially imitate Japan

>>19603837
My thinking is that modern culture sees ethnic homogeneity as a bad thing, probably in reaction to the long shadow of Nazi Germany, racism in the West, etc. As a result, passively wanting ethnic solidarity means nothing, as trends will erase that. Only by being “offensive” in terms of racial pride does ethnic homogeneity survive.

>>19603821
that I can agree with. I’m an American, and while I don’t think racial pride makes sense rationally, I’m against a lot of other Americans who want to create more tension, particularly with white people. I only see it bringing about more problems in this country

Would you advise me to learn French or German as an American?

>>19603928
>as an American
genuinely not trying to be rude, but what is the relevance of that? why would you want to learn French or German? do you want to read certain authors/works in the original language? do you have French or German people around you whom you would like to be able to talk to in their native language?

>>19603928
French. German will die out as the EU is primarily Anglophone, and as it becomes one country all the languages in Europe will fade away. French will grow greatly in Africa.

>>19603950
>the EU is primarily Anglophone
UHHHHH LMAO

good day

i hate women

>>19602453
I once took mushrooms and stared at this painting for at least an hour, crying over the black sheep stuck in the bush.

The business woman wants to travel in an RV with me. I'm in lads, can't ruin this.

>>19604269
>travel in an RV with me
whereto?

I think I'm aromantic, I like my boring life alone and dont feel lonely. I truly feel that being in a relationship is a mistake for me.

everything is shutting down in my city again

>>19603862
> The review clarifies the core concepts,
highlights pertinent debates, and tests core claims from the literature on the relationship between ethnic diversity and social trust. Several results stand out from the meta-analysis . We find a statistically significant negative relationship between ethnic diversity and social trust across all studies


>1. On average, social trust is lower in more ethnically diverse contexts. However, the rather
modest size of the difference implies that apocalyptic claims regarding the severe threat
of ethnic diversity for social trust in contemporary societies are exaggerated.

>2. The negative relationship between ethnic diversity and social trust applies for all types of
trust, but there is substantial variation in strength between types. The negative relationship is strongest for trust in neighbors, intermediate for in-group trust and generalized
social trust, and weakest (and statistically insignificant) for out-group trust. Ethnic diversity matters more for trust in people in one’s immediate residential setting, but the
effect also extends beyond this setting to trust in other people in general.

>3. Ethnic diversity experienced locally—in neighborhoods—matters more for social trust
than does ethnic diversity in more aggregate settings. Proximity to interethnic others is
an important facilitating condition that accentuates the negative relationship between
ethnic diversity and social trust.

>4. The relationship between ethnic diversity and social trust is only slightly attenuated, and
remains negative and statistically significant, when controlling for potential confounders
or mediators—specifically individual minority background, socioeconomic deprivation
(individual and contextual), contextual crime, and interethnic contact.

>5. The relationship between ethnic diversity and social trust is reduced (but still statistically
significant) in studies that control for several predictors of ethnic diversity (conceptualized broadly). Including several (typically highly correlated) diversity measures to parse
out different theoretical mechanisms often leads to an underestimation of the effect of
ethnic diversity on social trust.

Dinesen, Peter Thisted and Schaeffer, Merlin and Sønderskov, Kim Mannemar, Ethnic Diversity and Social Trust: A Narrative and Meta-Analytical Review (May 2020). Annual Review of Political Science, Vol. 23, pp. 441-465, 2020, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3602498 or http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-polisci-052918-020708

https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev-polisci-052918-020708

>>19604335
The ">" formatting is fucked up but everything in this post is a quote.

>>19604335
Also just to add to this. It's plain old common sense that a bunch of mutually incomprehensible culture groups living together in the same country would have a harder time coordinating and integrating with each other without friction and tension. It's just a more complicated scenario than a culturally and ethnically uniform setting. Not everybody has time to learn about and educate themselves about unfamiliar cultures.

>>19603865
It's true that ethnic homogeneity is seen as a bad thing, especially if it's a white population. And the nazis are partly to blame for that. But what is also wrong is to forcefully disrupt and mix communities through unnatural ideological interference. Diversity initiatives can tamper with long established social ecologies and interfere with established lifeways in any given community. This is also why immigration is almost universally opposed throughout all history. People don't want to accommodate the unfamiliar ways of foreign strangers.

>>19603945
It indicates my native language is English.

>>19603950
I’m inclined to believe that but why then would French not also die out, in France or Africa…?

>>19604321
Protest. Nab the water canons first. March on the so-called authorities homes and blast their windows out.

Is the plural of manticore is menticore?

I haven’t had a reason to grow up yet. I always have so much free time on my hands. I actually want responsibility, but what am I supposed to do? I used to have a high end consulting job in the city. I absolutely hated but it gave the impression of being busy and important so maybe I should just go do that again. God, I am so disappointed in my life.

>>19604421
Multicore

>>19604430
Find what you love.

Modern politics has made me realize that karma is very real

>>19602453
crazy people outside my door, niggers, gandalf. its crazy in here. help

>>19602460
Fluffy?

>>19602489
LA really isnt that bad

>>19602829
How do people even make friends

>>19604430
Where is the disappointment coming from - is it from yourself or is it from the validation of others? And if you found the consulting career stultifying why do you not now feel liberated instead...?

>>19603269
Humanities in general. We got a buffet kind of service with a lot of varied classes, from literature to history to geography to art. Overall interesting, but I'm leaving this without any specialized or marketable knowledge. I figured I'd come up with something over the last four years but I'm almost done and I'm drawing a blank. I'm concerned I might have wasted my youth and fucked up my life.

>>19604667
>over the last four years
so you're working on your bachelor's then? if so, could you not potentially further your education in a more specialized field? what from your studies has interested you the most?

>>19604685
>so you're working on your bachelor's then? if so, could you not potentially further your education in a more specialized field? what from your studies has interested you the most?
I'm not familiarized with the American terminology for college, so I apologize for not having spoken more clearly.
I could further it, yes, through a master's degree or something of the sort. I have been going from one point of interest to another. I used to really be into history but for some reason my interest has waned. I still like literature and cinema, but I'm not sure what I can do with either of those besides teaching. Teaching does seem like the clearest path ahead, but I'm not sure of that's for me.

>In response, Todd has publicly defended the thesis that it is only in a state of “collective hallucination” that the French elected “an intellectual virgin” to the presidency.

What does this even mean?

>>19604175
Shut the fuck up

>>19604765
fuck you

i hate women

I wish I was God

>>19604694
>I'm not familiarized with the American terminology for college, so I apologize for not having spoken more clearly.
no worries. I shouldn't've assumed that bachelor's programs or rough equivalents were a thing where you live
>I have been going from one point of interest to another.
I've done the same thing. in middle school I thought I wanted to go into therapy or counseling, but at the end of high school I worried that I might not like it and decided to go into community college with no major. then when I transfered to university I first majored in computer science. after the first semester I realized I didn't like it as much as I thought I did. I was learning Japanese at the time, and was really enjoying it, so I thought to maybe change my major next year to Japanese; but, on a recommendation, I chose something broader, which I still liked, linguistics. at the end of my linguistics program I realized that I like Classics more.
>teaching does seem like the clearest path ahead, but I'm not sure if that's for me
I hear ya. I know there are a few things you can do with a Classics degree (depending on your degree and where you're at), but a lot of people teach; and idk if I will end up liking it, as someone who's more introverted.

who knows: maybe you would come to really like teaching. what reservations do you have about it and why? have you looked into what other people with literature or cinema degrees where you live have done as careers?

>>19604774
Sissy faggot

>>19604775
Don’t we all

>>19604774
This is my thread and you will get the fuck out of here with this discourse

test

>>19604789
Hiii :3

>>19604789
>>19604799
die in a fire

i hate women

I have probably lowest amount of likes on my stuff on facebook. People probably find me annoying or wish I disappeared

>>19604847
>DiE iN A FiRe >:(

>>19604847
Sucks to be you

I get that we are not the most intelligent people in the world here on /lit/ but going on to other boards really makes it impossible to forget how stupid most people are. I find it far easier to give people the benefit of the doubt in person.

>>19604879
I get this from browsing /lit/ I don't need to browse other boards to get this feeling

>>19604895
it's coming face to face with a level even below that which we have here that gets me

>>19604776
>I've done the same thing. in middle school I thought I wanted to go into therapy or counseling, but at the end of high school I worried that I might not like it and decided to go into community college with no major. then when I transfered to university I first majored in computer science. after the first semester I realized I didn't like it as much as I thought I did. I was learning Japanese at the time, and was really enjoying it, so I thought to maybe change my major next year to Japanese; but, on a recommendation, I chose something broader, which I still liked, linguistics. at the end of my linguistics program I realized that I like Classics more.
You sound like a smart guy. I was never very good at science or math, and I regret not have tried harder when I was younger. Maybe with a stronger work ethic I might have been able to pull through. Your academic history is rather impressive, if you don't mind me saying so.
>I hear ya. I know there are a few things you can do with a Classics degree (depending on your degree and where you're at), but a lot of people teach; and idk if I will end up liking it, as someone who's more introverted.
>who knows: maybe you would come to really like teaching. what reservations do you have about it and why? have you looked into what other people with literature or cinema degrees where you live have done as careers?
I hear you too about the introversion. The times I've had to talk in front of a classroom for a project or something I found myself having fun, but I don't know if that's something I could do workday; I have seen so many burnt out teachers that I dread ending up the same. I've also heard that it involves a lot of work . Right now I'm mostly scared of not being able to transmit anything; even though I have been getting by fine (I'm among the best students of my year) I feel like I don't know anything.
I am somewhat friends with my cinema teacher; it's ironic that the guy with the biggest brain in the faculty is the one with the least prestigious degree. I think we have a comfortable enough relationship for me to question him on my future prospects, but I am kind of scared of doing it because of what he might say. It's really dumb of me, I know. My parents insist that I try to find a way to remain in the university working but, again, I'm wholly uncertain about what I want.
The reason I chose that degree was because of how varied it was because I was entirely undecided on what to do, and now at the end of it I'm still unable to come up with an answer.

>>19602580
Fuckin' slap him.

>>19604868
>>19604875
i hate women

Where is Londonfrog?

>>19604902
I mean yeah I feel this when I browse /ic/ and occasionally out of curiosity /pol/
I agree on /lit/ people are braindead but there is still the semblance of a """discussion""" whereas other boards really feel like a live simulator of what it's like to communicate with monkeys

>>19604970
He got knoifed by a paki

>>19604952
What circumstances in your life have led you to this emotional state

Another day wasted and ruined.

>>19602672
Travel, if you've got the means. Far and wide. Worked for me in a similar situation

>>19604929
>You sound like a smart guy. I was never very good at science or math, and I regret not have tried harder when I was younger. Maybe with a stronger work ethic I might have been able to pull through. Your academic history is rather impressive, if you don't mind me saying so.
that's very nice of you to say. I would be lying if I said that I didn't think I was smarter than the average person - and maybe I'm wrong about that - but it isn't obvious that I'm particularly smart. like you, I lacked a strong work ethic when I was younger. I didn't do well in science, but I never paid attention or did my homework. I did like math, for whatever reason, so I did tend to actually put in effort with it; and, naturally, I got much better grades in it than I did in science and other classes. when I actually put effort into subjects, I find that I can do well (you seem to be the same); but, while I have become much more industrious over the years, work ethic is still something I struggle with.
>I hear you too about the introversion. The times I've had to talk in front of a classroom for a project or something I found myself having fun, but I don't know if that's something I could do workday
I fucking *dreaded* talking in front of the classroom for a speech or a project, at least at first. after a few minutes in I would become more comfortable, but I wouldn't say I had that much fun doing them. granted, the speeches and projects I had to give and present weren't that interesting to me. I assume if I were talking about Greek or Latin or literature from a Roman or Greek I would have a lot of fun.
>I have seen so many burnt out teachers that I dread ending up the same. I've also heard that it involves a lot of work.
that's a big problem I have too. as I've said earlier, I have work-ethic problems. I've never been formally diagnosed with adhd or anything, but I wouldn't be surprised if the average doctor considered me to have it. I fear that if I go to graduate school that I will struggle to keep up with the work flow; and even if I graduate, I fear not being able to keep up with the work flow of being a teacher (assuming I teach, which is a high likelihood)
>but I am kind of scared of doing it because of what he might say
what exactly do you fear him saying?

>>19605220
>>19604929
>The reason I chose that degree was because of how varied it was because I was entirely undecided on what to do, and now at the end of it I'm still unable to come up with an answer.
for a little while before I graduated I was completely unsure myself. I'm not 100% confident in my goal to pursue classics, but it is currently one of the things I enjoy being involved in the most; and I don't want to work a part-time job anymore and live with my mom & step dad. so, I don't have many options.

I'm not implying you're like this, but for much of my life I've had problems with being a perfectionist. if a situation wasn't exactly perfect in every way, I wouldn't be able to make a decision about it. I still have those tendencies, but I've come to be a lot more okay with imperfection in situations (which is the case in 99.9% of situations as far as I'm concerned). what exactly I should do isn't obvious, but I think doing something is better than nothing. it's hard sometimes for me to really *feel* this way, but I have come to think more and more that working a non-perfect job is okay. it's tough though, especially depending on your specific life circumstances.

>get into new thing/hobby
>go full autistic with it that your taste develops at a level that is beyond your means
>have to reel yourself back in

I want to quit porn but I can't settle on the final session though I know no closing will ever be good enough and I should stop being neurotic and just get on with abstention.

>>19605289
what specifically are you referring to, if I could ask?

I feel like Roerich when he was painting pagan Rus

Sometimes forcing your self to do what you don't want but need to do makes you want it. It becomes something else as it opens up before you.

>>19605319
On reflection, this is the case for all of my addictions.

I love Wagner. That's all I have to say

>>19605059
Haha funny cat

>>19605319
I've been trying to quit for a few years now, to no avail. I started reading The Easypeasy Way to Quit Porn, but am still very early in the writing. hopefully it will help me. I know that I can do it, it's just my will breaks after long periods without it because it's a habit I've built up for so long. I convince myself that quitting porn is dumb, but immediately after I cum I realize how stupid I am. I try not to be so hard on myself about it anymore, as I don't find it particularly helpful (and detrimental, if anything), but sometimes I find myself pathetic.

>>19605289
I had to stop playing online video games because I spent ages 12-23 hitting top ranks/destroying endgame content in every single one I picked up for a similar reason. When I find something interesting I need to learn as much about it as possible and feeding that impulse was destroying my life as I was dedicating unreasonable amounts of time to what were essentially whims.

How do I break the cycle now that I've identified the issues? I've been so sure of things in the past but those things all lead me to where I am now. So how can I believe that what I'm doing is right? Could it be that the secret is to not believe so strongly in the first place? Maybe belief has been the problem all along. I must simply prepare for the most likely outcomes but not convince myself of anything in particular.

>>19605440
Are you sure of things because you done extensive reading & investigation or because you checked the surface level of many trendy fads?

>>19605440
>How do I break the cycle now that I've identified the issues?

Is of negative behavior you've habituated? Now that you're conscious of your behavior you need to stop it when you witness it happening or feel it coming on. Whether that means physically removing yourself from a situation or just telling yourself to stop. The more you do this the easier it becomes.

All the other stuff is impossible to answer outside of asking probing questions because you've not given enough information.

>>19602829
I made a few and even a qt grill. But I didn't really like any of them and barely talked to anyone or left the house. Probably gonna die alone 2bh really don't rate it would not recommend would not do business again do not accept.

Any books about a man who loves a woman that has already a partner? I need to choose what do to about this unlucky and distressing situation. Also, of course I've already read The sorrows of young Werther.

I will have to make peace knowing that my "type", holds no affection anywhere, like an ouroborous I will be more or less forced to make love to myself or die, but with what? The faculties of an autistic british man.

The protagonist in Her should have been way more pathetic. Jonze was too scared to make him an unlikeable incel, so he made him a middle class divorcee with a somewhat dystopian but otherwise stable job. The main character of that film should have been a burnt out mid-30s guy working in a warehouse.

I'm in love with butterfly. I wish she would get a twitter so I can deepen my parasocial relationship with her. I know she's a lesbian but I'm willing to transition to be with her

>>19605548
reminded me sort of like Taxi Driver where the directors were afraid to go all in with how awful the backdrops are.
NYC in Taxi Driver is much less racist and filthy than it ought to be for Bremer's diary
In Her, the women aren't selfish enough and should have far more disgusting kinks and the feeling of life passing by should have been played more emotionally flat. There hasn't been a film I've seen which has portrayed mingling as accurately as it is, like a few idle conversations at a house party with no real conclusion followed by a sense of ghostly death as people, well, men, try and find a gentle heart to hold and fail.

Dealer isn't responding. Gonna go get a couple bottles of wine. Fuck sobriety.

>>19605626
Lol. Lmao.

>>19605642
something funny?

>>19605645
Pepsi above Coke.
Mr. Pibb not even listed.
Orange Fanta bottom tier.
You should be embarrassed.

>>19605649
>Mr. Pibb not even listed.
>Orange Fanta bottom tier.
Im not a child

dont talk to me

>>19605694
What do you think about aliens?

>>19604296
Up and down the coast. she said she will feed me snacks while I drive.

>>19605706
you know what to do anon. do not falter from the path

I will try to formulate the blackpill as concretely as i can for the purpose of trying to disprove it. If i succeed then there is hope, if i fail i will give up on life. Wish me luck bros

How do I stop being a weirdo shut in

>>19605798
will you go about this through the naturalist laws or on the basis of capital such as social or physical signalling, or perhaps through what would be the messiest of all, if there is a way to transcend as a lone individual without resting on faith

Are we all insane

>>19605702
i wish i could get probed

>start game
>bored before one match ends

>read book
>hours disappear

What is happening to me? Why am I like this?

I cannot read while I play video games so I will not read.

>>19605865
There is not a single video game which can replicate the possession of an activated potential and for that reason, you should avoid them, the systems that are built from them are by handicapped nerds who, with little exception, maybe the genius behind Dwarf Fortress, fail to execute even a whiff of the natural order, which provides the neccessary education in order to live better.
>t. played WoW for years

I just read the part in Stoner where he starts having an affair with Katherine Driscoll, and I felt fear. my heart is still beating slightly abnormally from reading it and thinking about it. I think it's because I've never had sex, so if I were in Stoner's position I wouldn't know how to act. I would feel embarrased to do such a thing with my student and how they might see me. I'm gonna die a virgin, aren't I bros?

>>19605965
I had a similar reaction but my heart started beating faster out of disgust, sadness and contempt.

You're gonna make it btw.

>>19604531
I can't speak from experience but supposedly by... well... not being weird. If that's too much to ask, then you might need therapy (supposedly)

>>19605973
>I had a similar reaction but my heart started beating faster out of disgust, sadness and contempt
I'm not sure how to feel about the it with respect to Stoner. his wife doesn't care for him, he has an almost non-existent relationship with his daughter, most of his time is put into early undergrad courses, he has no meaningful friendships. As far as the general story goes it creates interesting drama.
>you're gonna make it btw
I appreciate the words of encouragement anon, really. I hope so.

>>19605319
An addiction is simply a symptom of a deeper problem. The real challenge is correctly identifying what exactly that problem is. Hell, it could even be a combination of multiple different problems. Once that has been identified, the next challenge is figuring out a solution that'll actually work.

What do you guys do when you don't finish a book but want to go back and finish it?
Do you start from where you left off or do you completely start over again?

>>19606001
I so badly wanted for him to do better for the entire book. It really affected me.

>>19605340
Uh... what? I can't tell if this is a random nugget of wisdom or just some bullshit you pulled out of thin air...

>>19606022
it depends on how long it's been since I last read it and how far into it I was. the shorter I was in and the further away it's been since I last read it, the more likely I am to start over. but if it's only been a couple or even a few weeks and/or it's a really long book and I'm over halfway through, I just pick back up where I left off
>>19606023
I haven't finished it yet, but I expected him to have a pretty shitty life. I mean, the narrator sort of tells you so from the beginning chapter. I'm really curious how this affair progresses.

>>19605921
video games are literally the highest form of art and that's indisputable. but i dont even play them much i was just memeing

>>19602453
Is the Cary translation of Inferno lacking or am I filtered? I remember the other one I read was much better as a teen but maybe I'm just not good at reading blank verse.

have any of you friendless fucks done anything in any creative field ever? Is it really so fucking impossible to get any crumb of luck in this hell hole?? Is everything on social media fake??

It's really all luck huh. It was always all luck and they warned us. Fuck my life and all those who ever make it.

>>19606150
>have any of you friendless fucks done anything in any creative field ever?
I wrote ~100K words of fanfic in the summer of 2019

>>19606150
writing and reading is my hobby, i design jets for a living

>>19606099
Not yet. They could be but for now they're soulless consumables.

>>19606150
>have any of you friendless fucks done anything in any creative field ever?
Not really. Why would I? I did a graduate program in literature and dropped out because it was hard. Now I'm living it large as a NEET.
>Is it really so fucking impossible to get any crumb of luck in this hell hole??
I don't know what you want from this anime website, let alone this planet. You deserve nothing, especially due to your whinging.
>Is everything on social media fake??
Yes. Next.
>Wah wah wah wah wah
Maybe you're shit at writing and reading, and should go design games in RPG Maker.

>>19606150
yes, however this is the Christian Dark Ages 2.0 for anyone expecting meritocracy to still exist even if you DO make it. Popularity contests and sycophants all the way down.

>>19606224
>as a human being you are entitled to nothing
has there ever been a more contemptible, smug phrase in all existence?
It has the same tone one would imagine from an adult who somehow never realised that telling the blind they will never see is an objectionable thing.

>>19606150
>have any of you friendless fucks done anything in any creative field ever?
I made a drawing of Quagmire once in middle school.

>>19606249
He wanted luck, among fame and fortune in a "creative" field, yet came here to whinge instead of work on himself. I can't even begin to wonder what kind of loser would demand a good life from 4chan. Is it really so hard to realise he's just blaming his lack of creativity and personality on outside forces?

>>19606287
no one can really know if Bezos is living the life he wanted or not, people with base interests just assume that he is.

>>19606297
He can afford to buy whatever life he wants. He wanted to be an astronaut for a while apparently. Tada

>>19606374

>>19606402

>>19606034
The mystery is what makes it intriguing.

>>19606459

>>19606034
It’s a sound statement. Think of a filmmaker maybe.

>>19606471

>>19606481

>>19606150
I won a bunch of university contests but then nothing I wrote even got glanced at outside of university so I kind've gave up. I still write from time to time, but more as personal projects than anything. Small press is the way to go for sure, but don't expect more than half a dozen people to ever show any interest in your writing.

>>19606497
Damn zoomers

>>19606522
bitch, I'm 97

>>19606532
Which one is you? Toby?

>>19606573
haha none. I just took looked up "zoom call" on google images, downloaded it, and shopped four animals in place of the people. Toby is actually my cat, though. the other three are just random photos I found.

i miss him so much bros...
https://youtu.be/UcCHRW8G9yY

Women, god damned women
Anyone else?

>>19606735
I love women

>>19606735
I love all my female friends so much. I cherish my friendship with them more than i do with my male friends. I love women.

recently ive just been thinking about children in the hospitals, if they're ok, if people visit them, how this lockdown affects them. I hope they're not alone on christmas

>>19606757
I often think about galley slaves and how awful their lives must have been. They just rowed and rowed until they died. Its not fair bros!

>>19606735
Love them. Can’t get enough. All sorts. Well some in smaller doses of course. A few are quite evil, but I love them so.

>>19606769
sometimes i think about all the little children that were raped/tortured/slaughtered in wars. How much they suffer, i truly and grateful for being alive

>>19606757
There are nurses that give them attention. I wouldn’t worry.
>>19606769
I think about the people that lose their only child to wars. Their line snuffed out in obscurity.

I worry about the homeless out there in the winter cold. Tents, dilapidated RVs

i cant save her and i cant kill her. so why is she so afraid of me?

>>19606845
what meaning does their "line" even have to a person like you? why would you even give that a second thought?

>>19605469
I was in this position anon. I believe I was gifted an opportunity to steal her away from her lover but decided against it for a a number of reasons. my actions after having fallen where of sheer compulsion. I sought her out everywhere and paid no mind to her boyfriend. Over time I started to pull her in and would notice her excitement. Then a strange opportunity arose, strange because it was depicted in a dream I had a few weeks prior, and I didnt act on it. I wont detail here the situation not the reasons I neglected to complete 'the steal' but know it was the choice which would have caused the least amount of suffering for us both. I'd still like to keep her as a friend and hopefully circumstances clear up with time.

>>19606757
>>19606769
>>19606843
>>19606845
the world is so cruel bros. why does it have to be like this

>>19605125
How did travel change you?

https://youtu.be/ouI_C3TypVQ

3am disassociation and self loathing not good not good

Why have you disturbed me from my slumber, speak your wish and it shall be granted

>>19602453
She has utterly bewitched me. My external eyes were laid on her for just an instant, my internal one hasn't yet moved. I have not been a single bit productive since. It's not fair how some people have the power to affect others so, often without their own knowledge. Any books for this feel?

>>19605220
>>19605258
>smarter
I think I'm only slightly smarter than average, which is not saying much. I might just like to undermine myself too much, I'm not sure. I wasted two years of my life in highschool because I couldn't be bothered to do anything and was rather miserable all the time. I know regret missing out on that time I could have used somewhere else. I could be working right now if it wasn't for that; that shit changed my life and I'm not sure it was for the better.
I see what you mean about work ethic. I'm still constantly dissappointed with mine; I wish I was more industrious not only in regards to my duties, but also with my hobbies and passions. I wish I would write more, read more and even had more initiative in finding jobs suited for me, even if it was just part-time.
>introversion
I once wrote and defended a paper on the Unabomber for a class and I had a lot of fun explaining it and debating with my classmates. I think that experience has helped me a bit in seeing an opportunity in teaching, although I am still uncertain. From what I have heard, teaching requires a lot of work for preparing classes, but once you've done it enough times you can just reuse your material as much as you want, provided no new breakthroughs are done. In order to make it in college you need to treat teaching as more of a side thing and focus on publishing, at least, according to that professor I was telling you about. He definitely puts much more effort in his writings than in his classes.
>what exactly do you fear him saying?
That he lists off the only options I have and that I don't like any of them. Right now I'm in the middle of the comfort bred from ignorance and I'm afraid to shatter it with a dreadful confirmation of what might be.
>perfectionist
I get you, I totally do. I think that fits me very well; I'm terrible at making any kind of compromise. The idea of being stuck with one path or job terrifies me because I fear I don't have the maneuverability to make my way through it and away from it if I find myself unhappy. I used to console myself with my studies by saying that it was better than doing nothing all day, even if I wasn't uncomfortable with them. I think my main issue is that I didn't choose this out of love, but out of fear and convenience. Now I'm starting to pay the price for it. You at least seem to have found your love and something that seems like you could be doing for your entire life.
Finding a passion with which to direct your life is incredibly important, it might be the most important thing, but I'm afraid I haven't fallen in love so profoundly with anything. I think back of that scene in Stoner when the eponymous character finishes a literature class feeling dumbfounded by the passion it inspired in him. It's a revealing moment in which a man realizes what he really wants to do for himself; I think back to that scene a lot and how I have not had the same experience yet. I hoped I'd find it somewhere down the line.

I'm attempting to be just friends with a girl. She's legitimately fun to talk to and hang out with, which is rare, but she's also not particularly attractive to me, so that makes things a lot easier. Still, part of me can't help but want her to be attracted to me and want me romantically, since I've so regularly been rejected by women. It's not to the point that I can't be satisfied with the way things are, but there's still a longing there. I know I'm not innocent. I'm happy with myself just for being fairly content with friendship, but there's still a secondary desire to be desired by every girl I meet. If I just knew that she liked me deep down, but not enough to risk the friendship, that would be perfect.

I know i have to pull another all nighter in order to fix my sleeping patterns but i am getting increasingly incapable of doing so

I'm going to have to blitz the next 15 days, sans Christmas. Wish me luck.
Don't lose your way

>>19606769
For me it's the little birds out in the freezing winter morning. Or in the blackest stormiest nights.

>>19607273
There is a girl at my office who started dressing up to get my attention and is always purposely making silly mistakes with her work to get me to help (I know she is not that incapable because she could do the work just fine when I first got there). It just feels uncomfortable, honestly, especially trying to maintain the air of indifference when I know what she is doing and want nothing to do with it. This sort of thing has just started happening since I started seeing an escort as well. I legitimately think women can smell other women on your skin.

>>19606769
Imagine being a Madagascar fisherman or a salt farmer in Senegal. These guys entire existence is essentially their job. They work in unbearable conditions because if they don't their families will die. I wonder what they think about life. If they think about the injustice of it or if they are more fatalistic and just accept that their life is suffering.

>>19607473
their lives have meaning, i doubt they're unhappy

>>19607481
Yes some of them but I mean the ones who have to go out there for days at a time not catching anything. I think "back in the day" they would have been fine, but I was watching a documentary about fishermen in Madagascar and their lives have been destroyed due to overfishing etc. I moreso had those particular men in mind, I didn't make that clear.

I'm watching some shitty 60 minutes segment on Anna Sorokin and I've got some thoughts. First, she's got a great set of cans and I want to grab her by the throat while I fuck her ass dry and make her cum with my fingers. Second, it really highlights how ridiculous a notion it is for the government to take notice of it. The amount of money she stole was a large dollar amount, sure. But to the people she stole it from, it's almost nothing. She gets years in jail for that, for stealing an infinitesimal percentage of some entities' wealth. Meanwhile you can steal five hundred bucks from someone who only has six hundred and you get a slap on the wrist. This is codified; baked into the law that stealing from the rich is worse than stealing from the poor.

It appears to me that America has never really been a democracy or a republic. These things have always been obfuscations of the plutocratic ideals on which our country was founded. Class mobility, the American dream — these things may have been real at some point, but achieving either meant just adding one more plutocrat to the ruling economic elite, who receive the lightest sentences for crime and use government as the enforcement arm of their own mystique.

I don't think I've ever been as disillusioned with the state of my country. Instead of addressing the more fundamental issues affecting us all, we've been sidetracked by the plutocrats into caring only about one single, small demographic. In the background, they cackle and rub their hands in the knowledge that even if they do have to pay the lower classes off, they've more or less successfully gotten us to have them pay off only one small subset of those who are struggling under the yoke of an economic system from which there's little escape.

I'm just so tired, bros. It hurts to see my country, for which I fought and my buddies died limbless and smoking, in such a state. The bipartisan system has been such an amazingly successful scheme for the people who benefit from the political sideshow of politics.

>>19607537
The American Dream is surely still in the US, you are still technically the most "free" country, however inventing materialism 2.0 was a bad move, people forget they can just sit on a park bench.

>>19607700
>people forget they can just sit on a park bench
Yeah, if they work 40 hours a week under constant scrutiny by middle managers paid to ensure they get the maximum amount of value per dollar spent on labor so that the people at the very top can get as much as possible for themselves while giving as little as possible in the process. Sure, you can theoretically go live in the wild instead, but the problem is this: those requisite skills to be fully self-sufficient are no longer taught to the vast majority of us. We no longer grow up in an environment where we know how to survive on less. Many of us are born dependent on a system which tells us that we can just leave if we don't like it, while simultaneously often placing the ability to leave beyond us. From day one we are conditioned for dependence upon a system which exploits us. There is a real reason why Americans are so desperately unhappy despite meme metrics like GDP continuing to rise and rise. It's not because we're greedy or want to live in opulence while doing nothing. Most people want to work.

I'll restate the problem again, as I see it. Our government and culture is set up such that fairness towards the rich is "more fair" than fairness to the poor. Those who transgress against the rich are more harshly punished for less relative impact. In America, economic might is economic right, because we're still trapped in 18th century protestant conceptions of work ethic. Over all, we still believe illogically that the rich are rich because they worked harder, and are therefore worthy of greater protections and rights and access to political influence... a dynamic by which they are able to reinforce their positions of power and ensure the preconditions and values supporting their own success. As I see it, this mechanism has become its own beast, and one beyond reproach.

>>19607757
If being rich didn't mean you could somehow bypass laws being a cheeky bastard, no one would bother.
Honestly the worst part about being poor is that no matter how refined and polite you are, you can't avoid the thugs and hooligans.

Bros, I finally found it! I found the song I was looking for. God, I feel such relief I can't express how good I feel now. It had been stuck on my mind for over a week. Thank god I found it.

>>19608114
post

>>19606984
I'm glad that things worked out for you, anon. As for me...it's a complicate question

>>19608123
https://youtu.be/0ye0AkWETr4

I stay smoking that Mark Fisher pack. Fuck your homie dead.

>>19608153
bretty gud

If she posts her face on the internet she's a whore, simple as.

>>19608153
Michael Nyman is based as fuck. Check out his soundtrack to the film Drowning by Numbers, it's based

any good manga to read?

>>19602679
>chilean economy
The what now?

>>19602679
based boric

>>19608394
Any woman who takes "selfies" is a whore unless they're for her boyfriend or family or female friends. If she posts them on social media just to post them, she is busted.

If a woman has social media and uses it to post gay woman shit like things she saw that she liked (but that aren't worth posting except for a "tra la laaa~ I love to see cute things" woman brain), that's fine. If she likes to post things for a reason, like letting her family see what she's doing lately, that's also fine. But if she's constantly in the pictures, if the whole routine is a vehicle for "look how nice I look," she is a bad person. She has no core, no spiritual backbone. She is raw woman energy wafting around on the wind like a cloud, capable of dispersing and reforming to suit any weather conditions.

It's the female equivalent of being a man who plays video games all day, with no other ambitions and not enough pride to take a shower. That's what comes "naturally" to a man who has completely let himself implode and fallen back on his raw instincts. For a woman, the equivalent is constantly taking pictures of yourself and using other things and people as excuses to take pictures of yourself.

>>19607243
>any books
no but i have a cool man-dingo poem for you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YdLT0rL6L4

>>19608674
please, no negroes

>>19602580
what kind of cringe shit? just ignore them don't give them the satisfaction

always so many hot girls at this coffee shop but I never have the courage walk up to one and start a conversation
foreveralone.jpg

>>19608765
just view all hot girls as instances of the universal "hot girls" and don't individuate them, obviously don't humiliate yourself or act like a PUA psycho but every woman is basically the same with different hair color and hip-waist ratio, you should just enjoy the ones you can fuck and not mind the ones you don't end up fucking. it's like fishing, you will always catch some fish but you can't point at a specific fish and say "i want that one."

>>19608765
>walk up to one and start a conversation
you can do that?!!

I am too lazy to function

>>19608646
depends on category

I have a suspicion that I am fated to be reincarnated again and again into societies which are collapsing. Why else would it fascinate me so much?

As a child I read about the fall of Rome. It was my favorite part of Roman history. I felt connected to those people, to the collapse of a grand political structure and a society. It was the same with other events in history. The fall of the USSR interests me greatly. The rise? Not really. In Chinese history, what interests me is the collapse of each dynasty, and how the new overlords came to power. And the Late Bronze Age collapse attracted me so much I took courses on it in college.

As a teen I spent a lot of time on sites predicting ecological and social collapse. Collapse interested me, more and more as I saw it happening around me. Echoes of the past began to appear in real life, like the Syrian refugee crisis: a repeat of the Gothic migrations, more than a thousand years later. In Europe of course, but also in America, in China, in Japan and elsewhere the symptoms of oncoming collapse became apparent the closer I looked.

Even now, I have this vague idea that civilization will completely collapse within my lifetime. Collapse is the theme of my times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYiP5gyZSgM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEIOd-KpE2M

>>19608868
join a gym

>>19607473
why cant they just fish for themselves and their family and not work?

I feel lifeless, tired, permanently stressed, boring and brain damaged.

Dog fell asleep while cuddling with me. I can feel the muscles in his jaw and legs twitching. Dream on doggy.

>>19605626
noo not my mtdewrino

>>19605558
would you be with a gay guy that transitions to be with you?

Some based faggot on /mu/ once bottom'd at Ezra Pound's reading of his poem Usura

>https://youtu.be/mEADZ2PJ6iY

>>19605323
bicycles

>>19609285
BRUH THIS DUDE DROPPED 4K ON A VINTAGE 80s BIANCHI AAHAHAHAAA

>>19609228
that's probably a symptom of a fatal canine cancer

>>19609307
>4K ON A VINTAGE 80s BIANCHI
wish i was based enough to have 4k in throwaway money but i can't even afford the 1k tourer

>>19609316
ah im messing. your bike is probably nice and cycling is a nice hobby. do you live in a nice area with some good routes or do you cycle in the city like a jackass?

>>19609330
yeah i live in a mountainous area but it's turned somewhat urban over the years
going to buy a cheaper one on the pretext of saving some money for tent and camping shit
don't know if i'll follow through though

I'm leaning in and out from the brink of sanity. I've regressed to a terror of society I haven't felt since my mid to late teens. I feel dazed and confused going in to the city, or outside at all during the day time when people can see me. I've developed twitches the past half year as a result, mostly involving my face: tugging my nose, pulling my moustace, sniffing every time I walk by someone, maintaining rigid, and what some might call aggressive, eye contact, etc. I'm sure a psychoanalyst would have some notions what the face focus is all about, something rooted in my multifarious insecurities. I feel horrid and dysfunctional.

My mother is also driving me towards this brink. She's old and lonely now, and quite mad. She talks to herself constantly but she's been doing this since I could form memories, some tick of her own from her formative years. The silence I love and hate is rudely broken by this and her other OCD symptoms. I can't find it in me to love her, how do I find love for someone? Can I construe it from the notion that she is my mother and birthed me? I've tried and I can't. The only thing that provokes a tinge of what I'd moreso term sympathy than love for her is her utter vapidness and toxic personality, which I can see coming about through her difficult time rearing my brothers and I by herself, and her unenviable childhood. But I can't love the woman. I wonder a lot how much of it is her and how much comes from myself and my own shittiness, but they're probably just feeding in to each other in a shitty loop, so then I feel guilty.

I have nobody to confide in but this imageboard I've spent my life on, nobody I could. This is the only place I could admit things to myself and "others" on, others in quotes because for all the anons that may or may not read this blogpost, I see it as manifesting introspection to feel a bit better about myself, and leech the thoughts out of my encumbered, schizo-adjacent mind.

I'm gonna take my tent and savings and walk until I'm truly truly exhausted next year. Months of walking. I only feel fully human when I'm living like this. I want to stop fucking dwelling so much. All I do all day is dwell. I need a damn job and to stop being a NEET waster, but that can wait until I've had my fill of walking. A couple of nice, hard, memorable seasons of walking will cure me of being such a bastard. Thank you for your time anons.

>>19609310
stop it

>>19609439
is that photo yours?

>>19609457
it's probably worth getting it checked out

>>19609534
yes, in the Chamonix valley. got harassed by some wolves that night

>>19609588
beautiful scene

>>19609439
>>19609588
very nice, anon. saved both pics.

>>19609355
Nice. In college I took a bike camping class where we spent the semester preparing to do 140KM over 3 days through a forest trail. I took it only because it was one of the only classes left but it ended up being some of the most fun I ever had in college.
The weather was so bad(heavy rain and very cold) which you would think would ruin the trip but it ended up adding so much fun to it. Eventually you realize that there's nothing you can do to stop being constantly wet, cold and muddy so you stop caring and the misery completely vanishes. We we're all having such a good laugh over not being able to do anything about the poor conditions we were living in.
I'm not an athletic person at all but I ended up being one of the best bikers and stayed at the front of the line most of the trip. Funnily enough all the shitheads in the class(myself included) ended up being the best bikers and we became a clique of degenerates over those 3 days. We would just go hard at biking throughout the day and then at night we would fry chicken on janky camping stoves and secretly smoke weed and stay up all night. Even though i was only friends with those guys for 3 days, it was such a good time and I have so much nostalgia for that trip.
If ever you have the opportunity to go bike camping I highly recommend it. It feels really nice to bike the whole day and then res in the wilderness at night. You basically just need to find someone to drive your stuff from camp to camp.

fucking Gardner bought up all the primo adspace through to Christmas. where the fuck does this guy get his advertising budget?

>>19609439
Thank you for your post anon.

All the best for your walking, I strongly encourage you to do it.

>>19609669
lol the absolute state of American Universities.

Sounds fun though, anon.

>>19609439
Don't know anon, I am feeling a really abstract and warm kinda feel for you. I don't know how to put it into words. I wish I could hang out with bro.

Good luck on your dwelling.

Me:
https://archived.moe/lit/thread/18817235/#18818404
I'm proposing on Christmas Eve. She's going to say yes but I'm going to express my intent to her mom beforehand and that has me nervous. I think there's some issues there between the two of them, her mom being pessimistic, codependent, and wanting her daughter to get through her PhD program before marrying and thinking about starting a family. Regardless of her mom's reaction, it's happening and I'm really excited (:
>Pic related, got her a Tacori band with a .91ct I/VVS1 oval cut diamond in the center. Here's hoping we, like it, last forever.

>>19609697
>>19609682
>>19609661
>>19609653
thanks friends

have a comfy cat image

>>19609686
Canada

God, I don't want to go to work tomorrow.

I'm getting so fucking tired of Amazon. If the books even show up they're never described properly and Amazon lets them get away with it. I just bought yet another "like new" book with notes and highlighting all throughout. I never had this problem with Ebay.

>>19609760
congrats dude

>>19609760
Blessings to you.

I need a new control for my PS2.

>>19609798
Peace Doss

I'm tired of how stale and shit the internet has become. Same old dumb post-ironic normies/zoomers everywhere regurgitating the same dumb memes and quips and consuming tiktok, e-celebs and capeshit, while seeking instant gratification through upvotes and likes, or on here where every board is full of baiting fags looking for (You)s. No one is sincere anymore.

Jewtube, cuckgle, so.ydit, it's all tiring.

Every time I hear about Discord, it's because some group of misfits is running some social engineering conspiracy from it, or feuding with some other group using the same methods. It's this whole culture of raids, brigading, entryism and gayops conducted on Discord; how did such a culture even develop and become so central to the platform?

Chris-chan's arrest, in particular, had me thinking about this, since one such Discord gayops group is what led to it.

>>19609859
Severe mental delusion. Discord tranny/zoomers think they're fighting a war against "bigots", also they brigade when people don't like the same big corporate products that they like.

>>19609669
hope youre the one in adidas tracksuit

>>19609669
>You basically just need to find someone to drive your stuff from camp to camp
you put it on the bike

Lately, there seems to be a corporate push for the idea of VR life. Metaverse is a part of that. This has led to much controversy and people don’t like the idea of living in a virtual world.

My question is: why is that a bad thing? In this world we fail, we lose, we suffer. We compete for resources, we don’t have enough. In a virtual world, everyone could have all they could dream of. There would be no pain, no setbacks, no illness, no death. Is that truly so terrible? So what if some corporation rules reality? We won’t even remember them, and be free forever in our personal paradises.

And on the topic of reality, there are faiths like sects of Hinduism or Gnosticism or Sikhism or Buddhism which see the world as an illusion anyway. What’s the problem with moving to an illusion which makes one happy?

I’m not just thinking here. Honestly anons, why would this be bad?

>>19607473
Anyone who's born as a nobody, and is not genetically blessed with traits valued by society, is doomed to a life of suffering.

These guys ride the rough seas to feed their kids, while rich Hollywood degenerates party on yachts (while virtue signalling on social media and pretending they're heroes). Life sucks.

my life revolves around the women who made the mistake of loving me once in their lives
I can't stop thinking about any of them yet I can't reach out to them knowing this would only reopen ancient wounds. it's been a year since I've last seen one of them yet I still think about her every day, it's insane
the last girl lashed out to me because she thought I'd forgotten her after a month. I couldn't say it was wrong openly because I was in a difficult relationship, I bet she hates me now

holy shit i fucking hate my city and i hate covid. fuck everyone

>>19609899
Do you really trust some Corporate J. Shekelstein to create such an ideal world?

>>19609899
The problem with the way you're viewing this is that you assume one will be given an easy opportunity to have all one could dream of. Just because a virtual world could theoretically allow everyone to do whatever they please does not mean it will. The companies who own these virtual worlds will exploit them to the same degree they exploit currently existing services, goods and monopolies. Customers will likely learn to enjoy continually paying "real" money for the ongoing illusion of property or experiences (which admittedly have the potential to be fantastic) taken away at the drop of a wrongthink, or a missed payment. Meanwhile the rich and powerful continue enjoying ownership over real, tangible goods and experiences while also having access to do whatever they please in the virtual realm, if they're so inclined.

>>19607204
I wish that God's will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven

>>19603542
Bruh just move somewhere high above sea level lmao

i feel like im in a snowglobe, with a ravenous, dark storming beast looming all around the outside. if i focus the world seems to pause, and it becomes made of glass, ready to shatter the moment i move a muscle or think a thought. i fear the beast is trying to plant a seed of darkness within my mental/emotional fortress, with its constant peering. i feel empty inside, but not an emo type of self sabotaging empty. like anything placed inside me, be it through osmosis, consumption, or a stirring from within, is burned away sooner or later. its so empty sometimes, i wish it didnt feel necessary, if thats the right word. i like to play the julee cruise songs from twin peaks sometimes, i close my eyes and imagine myself somewhere outside at night. an open field, or the top of a tower, with moonlight. while the musics playing i imagine a breeze on my face, and i can feel behind the bottom of my eyes and right up above the back of my throat, but nothing comes out.

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>>19610074
So it’s not the virtual reality that’s the problem, it’s the monetization of it. I can see that side of things. I’m not sure how a realistic virtual world can be achieved without the resources of a large institution like a government or corporation though.

Looks like I'm going to spend another New Year's Eve alone.

Having a birthday living with your parents without having any friends is the absolute worse shit in this world.

>>19610170
I spent all my New Year's Eves alone.

>>19610201
I mean I dont spend the completely alone but with my parents which is pretty lame.. This is probably going to be a second year in a row if nobody invites me. My friend group falls silent when I ask about New Year plans. Everybody goes to their own seperate friendship groups while I am left alone.

>>19610217
I got no friends so no one invites me to anything. Usually if you have "friends" who always go quiet when you want to hang out, it means they don't really like you.

>>19610246
>Usually if you have "friends" who always go quiet when you want to hang out, it means they don't really like you.

While it might seem like copium, I don't think it's true. We regulary hang out and I just came home from a gathering. It's just that some of them don't necessarily view this friend group of ours as their primary one and have more friends than me, consequently they will choose the friend group that they think that it will be the most fun with to celebrate New Year's and I guess that this friend group I am in isn't it. I just feel like I dont have much choice and I am left to either hang out with them or be alone for most weekends and free time. I do have some other friends, but they are going out of the city for the Holidays which is a real bummer since I probably value them more than the aforementioned "friend group".

>>19610111
Unfortunately I think you're right - there's no real substitute group that could afford or build such a thing.
As an aside, I feel that we technically already live in something of a virtual world. We all have such vast volumes of information and experience pushed upon us by the internet and media that we can practically avoid the real world altogether, sheltering in a data bubble of our choosing. Some people believe things with absolute certainty that others would deem ridiculous, and have the (dubious or otherwise) articles/photos/videos to back it up. Even scientific research is a mess of contradictory opinions and results, and a lot of research is bought and paid for by interested parties.
This is why we have such antagonistic ideologies gathering steam, heated arguments about once fundamentally true or agreed-upon things, and people sinking into bizarre subcultures.
Others have said this better.
Anyway, it feels like we already exist in a prototype to the virtual world that will be created, and it's all to the end of atomizing society and shattering community until nothing of substance remains, just a fragmented, easily controlled "society". Sad really. I have no hope for a better world, virtual or otherwise.

>>19610111
He's right >>19610321
Look at the modern internet, it's become as described in >>19609841

It used to be way more freeform. Now it's a hollow husk where everything is sanitized and people are fucking drones. All because corporations got their mitts on it and started injecting their sludge into everyone's skull, Google, Amazon, Disney, Reddit, Facebook, other social media garbage, etc. They essentially have the world at their fingertips since they can manipulate the internet however they like. Imagine how awful a VR world would be if they got their grubby hands on it, we would be forced to like whatever warped "utopian" world they have planned for everyone. It makes their job even easier if everyone is stuck in a VR world where the Corporate "Benefactors" are gods.

Why do all these homosexuals keep sucking my cock?

Why the fuck is it that when I'm not working, I'm constantly fighting off depression. Like, even one day off in a month and I'd feel depressed.

>>19610531
As an armchair therapist, it seems to me that you have nothing to do in your free time, leading to listlessness and melancholy.

>>19610531
Haha same problem. I literally go crazy if I am left with nothing to do for a week. Even socialising starts to get boring and I end up in a depressed state of mind. I only feel well when I am busy studying.

I’m actually embarrassed by my job history.

>>19610199
Happy birthday anon

>>19610570
What's wrong with it?

murder

>>19610586
man i remember turning 20 and thinking it was a big deal
is there one of these images for 30 somethings

You’d think after all these years of seething in the lonliness of my little room i’d be tired of my woman hate, but i’m not

>>19610170
i started a tradition of getting drunk and getting some snacks and starting my annual babylon 5 viewing, the first episode is really comfy for that for some reason

Posting the quote
“Adolescence is not only an important period in life, but that it is the only period where one may speak of life in the full sense of the word. The attractile drives are unleashed around the age of thirteen, after which they gradually diminish, or rather they are resolved in models of behaviour which are, after all, only constrained forces. The violence of the initial explosion means that the outcome of the conflict may remain uncertain for years; this is what is called a transitory regime in electrodynamics. But little by little the oscillations become slower, to the point of resolving themselves in mild and melancholic long waves; from this moment on all is decided, and life is nothing more than a preparation for death. This can be expressed in a more brutal and less exact way by saying that man is a diminished adolescent”

>>19610854
nice im on the last ep great show

>>19611024
>I missed out on my entire adolescence, with no friends or any gf, and now the rest of my life is a slow painful lonely wait for death.
I hope to god the afterlife is a sweet paradise or else I'm gonna be pissed.

new bread
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>>19611153
No. Make this life that sweet paradise.

>>19610570
Aren’t we all!

>>19606953
I’m a history nerd. I did say I just wondered about such people. All the people unwritten and already forgotten. Not as a bad thing.

>>19604529
(if you are wealthy)