What Are You Doing With Your Life?

[Anonymous No.22568489]

>pic related

[Anonymous No.22568499]

>>22568489
Using AI to make picture stories and building an innovative porn site, you?

[Anonymous No.22568504]

the picture is sideways because I live in Leftward Side, which is like Australia or “Down Under” but is actually West Africa. Instead of everything being upside down, everything is left.

[Anonymous No.22568505]

>>22568489
Reading a lot of history books, working, occasionally writing, making music, hanging out with my best friend, chillin

[Anonymous No.22568513]

>>22568499
I’m combining published narratives with free-verse poems, songs, and short stories that I write for fun, and writing it forever and ever until I go insane. When I do use AI to try conceptualise ridiculously abstract themes, transitions, or moments, it can sometimes provide an extremely fascinating perspective reminiscent of an autistic failing at masking their social ineptitude.

[Anonymous No.22568518]

>>22568513
Autism is a super power!

[Anonymous No.22568522]

I’m listening to the entire history of music.

Here’s where I’m at so far:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1627_in_music

[Anonymous No.22568525]

>>22568518
An evolutionary trait for evolving humans no existing on impulsive survival instincts

[Anonymous No.22568530]

>>22568525
Hmmm.

[Anonymous No.22568552]

>>22568489
Frank?

[Anonymous No.22568798]

>>22568489
Writing a novel. Average 1000 to 2000 words a day. Progress is very steady and it's some of the best writing I've done in years. I'm unemployed and the government are forcing me to get a job, they're going to cut off my benefits soon, sadly.

[Anonymous No.22568800]

I am learning French
Once I master French I will become the Tolkien for the French and write a masterpiece in English

[Anonymous No.22568801]

>>22568798
What's it about?

[Anonymous No.22568809]

Going to my first writer's conference with my manuscript in a couple of months. Doing a lot of reading about writing before then.

[Anonymous No.22568815]

>>22568798
No if you believe in yourself you can get them to let you keep the benefits

[Anonymous No.22568821]

>>22568815
>>22568809
I have no idea how anyone can make money with writing unless you're an establishment darling.

[Anonymous No.22568823]

>>22568815
Please, give me advice anon. I know people who have the government wrapped around their finger but I can't seem to play them.

[Anonymous No.22568830]

>>22568823
You might be able to qualify for artist grants if you suck up enough, I know a "non-binary" artist who got something like a $10,000 grant after firing off a few letters. You have to apply as being gay / queer / disabled / or whatever else you can do to get the grant.

[Anonymous No.22568835]

>>22568821
Time to find out if I'm an establishment darling

[Anonymous No.22568840]

>>22568830
Thanks for the advice, anon, although upon hearing that I now want to kill myself.

[Anonymous No.22568842]

>>22568840
>>22568835
Lots of grants for First Nations people in Canada to do art and such

[Anonymous No.22568921]

>>22568821
disability pension once you go through the rite of passage of going literally insane

[Anonymous No.22568924]

>>22568823
buy pure drugs on deep web and sell them to teenagers

[Anonymous No.22568960]

>>22568489
Getting ready for boat life.

[Anonymous No.22568980]

>>22568921
I don't think it is enough to live on in 2023 Canada, you need at least $2500 a month to survive and I think disability pays $1400 a month in Canada.

[Anonymous No.22569137]

>>22568980
A true writer of the modern era would write while squatting in abandoned buildings.

[Anonymous No.22569160]

I play keyboards in a band that's doing okayish. Completely DIY, i record everything and we put out everything ourselves. I think were solid, but we dont really fit in with any local scenes so we're a bit of an outlier in the area. We played a bunch of shows over the last two years and I'm getting a little burnt out of it.
I also finished a novella/short novel but I'm on the fence about publishing it. Might just do it under a pen name

[Anonymous No.22569334]

I have a remote job. Three years ago I moved in with my parents and the only things I’ve done in that time are work, read, and hang out with my family. I’ve read a ton, but I don’t even feel that well read and I do regret it a lot. I should’ve at least advanced my career, gotten a graduate degree, tried to publish, done something, anything other than just read n

[Anonymous No.22569488]

im going to buy a pint of ether and huff it all

[Anonymous No.22569657]

>>22568801
It's about a useless degenerate who's forced into getting a job. It's set in a weird, dystopian world that's basically ruled by disney and amazon. as it goes on it gets progressively weirder and weirder, like the bosses become more sadistic, the workers become timid. that sort of thing

[Anonymous No.22569681]

>>22569657
I hope it ends well, because that sounds distressingly like my diary

[Anonymous No.22569693]

>>22569681
Kek. I never write anything with a bad ending. I'm an optimist.

[Anonymous No.22569708]

>>22569657
base it on the recruitment industry and a superficial hierarchy of seemingly infinite supervisors

[Anonymous No.22569716]

>>22569693
Emil Cioran once said, “Only optimists commit suicide,” and I think you could draw a profound multiverse of conceptual expression. Many are dumbfounded by the limited version of the statement alone

[Anonymous No.22569736]

>>22568489
Killing time on the company dime.

[Anonymous No.22569965]

>>22569708
Thanks for the suggestion, anon

[Anonymous No.22570132]

>>22569965
>fake a resume to get into the recruitment industry (it’s the field for corporate workers equivalent to “shit-pirates” which is a fancy term for “trash-treasure hunters”). Save every miserable resumé from each more-miserable applicant—base your sub-characters on what somebody mentally retarded like Albert Camus would have based his main characters on.

[Anonymous No.22570138]

>>22570132
i would have formatted this better if i was soberxrngs

[Anonymous No.22570170]

>>22568489
Writing. Written 30000 words since the end of August. Reading during writer's block. Writing all the other times.

[Anonymous No.22570197]

Catechizing the next generation of faithful Calvinists. Inshallah.

[Anonymous No.22570206]

>>22568489
>What Are You Doing With Your Life?
fucking nothing and it's making me want to kill myself

[Anonymous No.22570293]

is it just me or is /lit/ full of these sorta smart individuals who realize the world is coming to an end, the systems crashing and are just dedicated their lives in one way or another to art. like i have this hunch that everybody here instinctively knows everything's going to shit and have decided, for better or worse, to drop out of society and pursue whatever they decided has any real "meaning" left. individuals who's thirst for knowledge has led them to the subjective and anthropocentric nature of meaning and values, and the objective and universal realization that everything, including our society, is finite. idk i might be projecting

[Anonymous No.22570304]

>>22570293
>the world is coming to an end
How? People have always been saying that btw

[Anonymous No.22570311]

>>22570293
Everyone's feeling the doom and gloom these days. Idk, I'm trying to do what I can before everything goes to shit. It feels like everything is approaching a precipice, god knows what will actually happen tho.

[Anonymous No.22570347]

Vegetating

[Anonymous No.22570887]

>>22570311
The suffering is only beginning. You can't sell things to happy people.

[Anonymous No.22570900]

Currently chugging my way through a computer science undergrad. I'm going to graduate a bit late because I switched majors a few times trying to figure out what I really wanted to do, but now I'm quite happy with my choice. I'm having a great time with it, I'm doing very well.

I've been trying to eat healthier and exercise more. Unfortunately I fell into a depressive rut this week and my exercise schedule has fallen off. I'd like to start working on my social life next.

[Anonymous No.22571143]

>>22568821
substack

[Anonymous No.22571153]

>>22570293
Some of us saw the collapse coming 10+ years ago and have been screaming about it for years!

After COVID though, after alllllll those people took the "vaccine" and then shit on all of the brave resisters... I knew then that there is no point in even trying to wake people up.

In fact, I might as well find ways to profit off the people snoozing, because we have 5 or so years left before things are going to be REALLY fucked... AND THE ENTIRE POPULATION WILL GO ALONG WITH IT.

[Anonymous No.22571155]

>>22571143
I'm banned everywhere and there is no way to even get any attention to anything I've worked on.

[Anonymous No.22571241]

I'm trying currently to get on Social Security for my disability (that being PTSD and Depressive Disorder). In the meantime, I read and practice my writing. I feel like I have become better than I was but still lack the true skill to create something worth reading.

In case you're wondering, I am currently reading: Jane Eyre.

[Anonymous No.22571253]

>>22571241
That's probably going to be what every "artist" needs to do in order to make art going forward.

10+ years ago, you had artists renting a studio apartment for cheap, working part-time, and surviving. Not a chance in 2023.

[Anonymous No.22571304]

>>22569657
Interesting topic, given what you just said earlier. I can't say I'm any better, I would write shitty fantasy except it's just stories of me going on bike rides and getting lost and fighting monsters which are symbolic of different encounters I had. You can guess what pet dragons that went feral and now ravage the land, are a symbol of

[Anonymous No.22571314]

>>22571253
All this AI shit looks awful man

[. No.22571316]

>>>/vg/449118276
Artificial Academy 2 General /aa2g/ #1294
Lunar Rabbit Edition

Welcome, this general is for the discussion of ILLUSION's Artificial Academy 2.

COPY ERROR MESSAGES WITH CTRL+C, PASTE THEM WITH CTRL+V INTO GOOGLE TRANSLATE. JUST CLICK THE WINDOW AND PRESS CTRL + C, IT WORKS.

>Downloads:
/aa2g/ Pre-Installed Game, AA2Mini: https://tsukiyo.me/AAA/AA2MiniPPX.xml
AAUnlimited updates: https://github.com/aa2g/AA2Unlimited/releases

>Information:
AA2Mini Install Guide:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vS8Ap6CrmSNXRsKG9jsIMqHYuHM3Cfs5qE5nX6iIgfzLlcWnmiwzmOrp27ytEMX03lFNRR7U5UXJalA/pub
General FAQ:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200216045726/https://pastebin.com/bhrA6iGx
AAU Guide and Resources (Modules, Tans, Props, Poses, and More):
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17qb1X0oOdMKU4OIDp8AfFdLtl5y_4jeOOQfPQ2F-PKQ/edit#gid=0

>Character Cards [Database], now with a list of every NonOC in the megas:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1niC6g-Xd2a2yaY98NBFdAXnURi4ly2-lKty69rkQbJ0/edit#gid=2085826690
https://db.bepis.moe/aa2/

>Mods & More:
Mods for AAU/AA2Mini (ppx format, the mediafire has everything):
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/vwrmdohus4vhh/Mods
/aa2g/ Modding Reference Guide (Slot lists for Hair/Clothes/Faces, List Guides, and More):
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gwmoVpKuSuF0PtEPLEB17eK_dexPaKU106ShZEpBLhg/edit#gid=1751233129
Booru: https://aau.booru.org

>HELP! I have a Nvidia card and my game crashes on startup!
Try the dgVoodoo option in the new win10fix settings.
Alternative: Update your AAU and see if it happens again. If so, disable win10fix, enable wined3d and software vertex processing.
>HELP! Required Windows 11 update broke things!
winkey+R -> ms-settings:developers -> Terminal=Windows Console Host

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[Anonymous No.22571341]

>>22571314
Looks pretty cool to me?

[Anonymous No.22571411]

>>22570293
I’m 45 - I truly feel sorry for young people. Out of control cost of university and housing along with fewer well paying jobs. And then to top it off dating is now done through a phone.

I’m lucky to have a wfh software job but am saving up so my kids don’t have to pay for college.

I like Cormacs attitude. He never focused on making money - because there’s a million things more interesting than making money.

[Anonymous No.22571415]

>>22571316
For me? >>448734149
and >>448734149. Roguelikes are the real programmer/artistic autistic genre of games. If I'm gonna play something new, I wanna appreciate the vision of some savant who thinks adding a pocket system is a good idea. Most of the time it's open source, so I like to read through it and get lost on how god damn messy it is.
And emulation because, LMAFO, contemporary culture is dead to me. You will never get a game like Lords of Thunder, that combines high fantasy power with power metal and have brilliant visuals.
You will never beat a modern game, just complete it. Games aren't about understanding the systems, reflexes and memorizing levels, it's just filler. Two hours of great gameplay that is balls to the wall is traded for hours upon hours of shitty filler that for all intents and purposes, gives two hours of enjoyment. I memorized Streets of Rage and Comix Zone's levels, but RDR2? I just remember cutscenes, not even game freaking play!
You will never get lost in a modern video game world. And not in the nu-lost way, of "I know where to go, but I'm just gonna get lost in the 'woods'", I'm talking lost as like in M&M 4 or Harvester or Dragon Quest, where you don't know where to go for the main quest, so you have to bumble around and stumble across areas, take notes on any clues in that area, and solve the game. In fact games are most worried about this idea of the player not knowing where to go and what to do. I can't think of a game that doesn't have easily accessible navigation and directions.
I don't give a shit about games by either dozens of people who don't give a shit about gaming, got into it cause "it's a hecking cool hobby by the way I love Omori, it's like Earthbound {they haven't played Earthbound} {and I'm referring to IRL PEOPLE IN MY SCHOOLS' GAME DEV CLUB FOR FUCK SAKE})", or indiefaggots who out of 1% who are geniuelly good and I would pay money for, rest are shallow faggots whose only "pitch" when selling a game is just copy fads or another games.
Sorry for spazzing I just hate being playing video games because I fucking hate modern gaming culture.

[Anonymous No.22571424]

>>22568489
>pic related

Oxford History of the United States

[Anonymous No.22571425]

>>22571411
The boomers completely raped Canada and they did it because they were paid off with real estate gains to turn this place into a slave plantation.

I fucking hate boomers more than anyone else. Boomers also swallowed the COVID lies 99.9% of the time.

[Anonymous No.22571763]

>>22570304
The world won't end, but the western world is currently in the very process to.

[Anonymous No.22571774]

Doing nothing but working right now. For the last three weeks I have worked 65 hour weeks. :3

I am about to transition employment! From where I'm at to another job, so it will give me some free time as well I'll probably be reading in no time. I was reading J. S. Mill's A System of Logic.

[Anonymous No.22571792]

>>22570293
Once one stops identifying themselves as a subject of creation, they become a creator.

[Anonymous No.22571809]

>>22571415
Video games are a fad with a little over 55 years of a lifespan yet. It will be made redundant by virtual realities which will have games within them—majority of that which presently exists, like always, is but an experimental prototype of what will become advanced technology

[Anonymous No.22571814]

>>22571763
“Western” identity was replaced by nationalistic imperialism in the 70s

[Anonymous No.22573076]

>>22571341
Of course you think it does you illiterate canuck

[Anonymous No.22573135]

>>22571415
>RDR2? I just remember cutscenes, not even game freaking play!
The bank heist in fake News Orleans is an amazing bit of gameplay. I mean I get your point overall, it seems like everything has to be an open world 80+ hour game these days, and RDR2 sprawls too much. But when you're actually in the thick of a mission it's a really good game. Also I've always kinda hated that so much of being good at games has been about memorization. Like what's so fun about that?

[Anonymous No.22573170]

>>22568489
haha you have manga on your shelf along with nietzsche and le epic roman empire, that's so random xD

[Anonymous No.22573177]

>>22570293
It's only just begun

[Anonymous No.22573239]

>>22570293
just meditate

don't need much else other than food and water

[Anonymous No.22573254]

Right now, I’m really stuck between two different pursuits. While I’ve decided I want to more or less dedicate my life to one of them, I’m not clear on which one is right for me yet and I’m not any getting younger…

[Anonymous No.22573261]

>>22570293
>the world is coming to an end
The hell it is. What's possibly coming to an end is the fragile system built over the last couple decades, which young people mistake for the whole world. It'll be a rough time for some people, especially if they bet their lives on the continuation of that system, but life will go on as it has for thousands of years, through much more apocalyptic events than college degrees becoming worthless or whatever.
People also somehow think that everything collapsing will lead to something better immediately coming to be, which is why you see retards wanting to 'accelerate' and /pol/ mouthbreather types calling for le right wing death squad pqtriqt revolution or whatever. In truth making things worse just... makes things worse, and the collective class of opportunistic people who are primed to take advantage of things getting worse will simply do just that.
I also have to laugh at people who genuinely think the west is on its last legs and jumping ship to the chinese or russians is a smart move, as if they weren't vastly worse off than we are.

[Anonymous No.22573356]

>>22573261
>the fragile system built over the last couple decades
It's been nearly a century man

[Anonymous No.22573362]

>>22573356
Ignore him. His advice is essentially “stick with the sinking ship”

[Anonymous No.22573463]

>>22573356
It's been like 15 years depending on what you think we're talking about.

[Anonymous No.22573599]

>>22573463
If you're talking about anything other than the "post-war liberal capitalist world order" then you're only talking about specific iteration of it

[Anonymous No.22573741]

>>22568489
Excellent stack

[Anonymous No.22573744]

>>22568489
Making money and wishing for faster acceleration
Billions must die

[Anonymous No.22573752]

>>22570293
Definitely projection, the w*st is in freefall but I like it. I work a well-paid job in Southern Europe and am optimistic about my future.

[Anonymous No.22573761]

>>22573599
>post-war liberal capitalist world order
This exists only in your headcanon tho

[Anonymous No.22573770]

>>22568513
>it can sometimes provide an extremely fascinating perspective reminiscent of an autistic failing at masking their social ineptitude.
Me irl :(

[Anonymous No.22573813]

>>22573770
We’re all in the same boat here fren. I recommend A Confederacy of Dunces

[Anonymous No.22573866]

>>22570293
>who realize the world is coming to an end, the systems crashing
The feeling in the U.S is less of total collapse and more of stagnation and decadence imo

[Anonymous No.22573906]

>>22573866
that was present since the 80s
now all you have is anarchotyranny and actual collapse, just not significant infrastructure collapse. the grid is still up

[Anonymous No.22573956]

>>22573906
>that was present since the 80s
Fair but the stagnation feels more omnipresent, the decadence more extreme.
It's not real collapse in any way. More like just a combination of extreme corruption and the abandonment of any civic sensibility both among our leaders and the average citizen.
Our leaders geriatric clowns sucking a aged wrinkled teat.
If i had to use a metaphor for the west right now, it's like a bunch of flies drowning in a stagnant pool of honey water sucking away even as the water slowly swirls and drains down to nothing.

[Anonymous No.22573971]

>>22568489
i pick out distracted looking dudes in the street, punch them in the face and then run away

[Anonymous No.22573972]

>>22573956
From the mid 2010s to the present, it's felt like a very paranoid and cultish decade.
But maybe the sense of decadence isn't really different to what people felt in the 80s hard to say, and I'm too young to know

[Anonymous No.22573976]

>>22573956
>the stagnation feels more omnipresent, the decadence more extreme
that's what i'm traying to say more or less, yeah. that's what a collapse feels like. it's not in freefall. decadence before the collapse doesn't have this feeling although you can tell something's fishy
>It's not real collapse in any way.
It is, just not a liberia-esque breakdown. and it won't be, since you don't have that many niggers with AKs in america and your infrastructure is far more advanced
>If i had to use a metaphor for the west right now, it's like a bunch of flies drowning in a stagnant pool of honey water sucking away even as the water slowly swirls and drains down to nothing.
i prefer the analogy to the bloated carcass with the flies swarming it, shortly before they have to leave it because nothing is left of it
the flies represent the semi-functional society. ironically probably the only reason most things are still running is because they generate profit

[Anonymous No.22573992]

Was this guy right?