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>>25438901
Official Thread Theme:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81J56YChYo4

>>25438901
I think you have to have something wrong with you to make new WYT threads. But I love the anons who do. I love you anons. I do. That's a fact. Real shit. That's some real shit. It is. Real shit that is that I love you that's some real shit for real on god. On god I love you anons who make WYT threads for real that's some real shit on god for real. Capless. On god that's some real shit capless for real that I love anons that make WYT threads capless. For real on god that's some real shit for real. I love the anons who make new WYT threads capless. For real real shit that's some love on those anons on god. Capless.

I feel like if I detach emotionally from everything I'll never be happy, but I'll be at peace.

>>25438901
This is obviously some garbage AI slop. I can see the latent-space artifacts from a mile away. Let me break down why this digital turd is a joke compared to an actual Monet.

FIRST, look at the sun. That is not a brush stroke. That is a perfectly smooth, digitally rendered orange orb. It has zero paint texture, zero ragged edge where the pigment hits the canvas. It looks like a fruit emoji pasted onto a blurry background. The reflection on the water is a straight, semi-transparent orange stripe, completely ignoring the actual wave ripples in the water. Real paint doesn't do that. AI slop does.

SECOND, the boat. What in the unholy hell is that black blob? It is a shapeless smudge. Monet could paint a silhouette of two figures with a couple of quick dabs. This AI hallucinated a black coffee stain and called it a day. It doesnt understand human anatomy, it just dumped a black latent vector there.

THIRD, the "brushstrokes." Zoom in. There are NO brushstrokes. The whole image has that disgusting, smooth, soft-focus "AI sheen" where every pixel is a weighted average of its neighbors. You cant see the canvas weave. You cant see the impasto. You cant see the physical drag of a bristle. Its just a neural network puking out an averaged blur.

FOURTH, the background cranes and masts. They look like broken blue noodles. They have no structural logic because the AI doesn't know what a dock looks like; it just knows vertical lines should be blue. It is a total collapse of spatial coherence.

FIFTH, the signature. "Claude Monet 1872" in the bottom left? What a joke. AI cannot render text worth a damn. That is a pixelated, jagged, mangled mess that looks like a damaged watermark. An actual painter signs his work with his own hand, not with a typographical hallucination.

SIXTH, the colors. Muddy, dull, sickly. Real Monet uses complementary orange and blue to make the canvas vibrate in your eye. This is just a flat, washed-out digital gradient with zero chromatic tension. It looks like you left your phone in the sun and the screen started overheating.

This is why AI art is a plague. It takes the sum total of human aesthetic achievement, chews it up into statistical probabilities, and spits out a soulless, derivative, sterile simulacrum. It has no hand. It has no eye. It has no accident. It has nothing but matrix multiplication.

You got fooled by a blurry jpeg. Go look at the real thing in a museum before you embarrass yourself again. This is cringe. Delete the thread.

>>25438912
Hon hon! Qu'est-ce que c'est, mon ami? Je ressen gens d'armes! Mise en scene no bueno

>>25438913
We at the collective didn't even have to wait for you to threaten to kill yourself this time.

>>25438918
forget AI generated Money I'm trying to make AI generated MONEY ykwis?

Just don't even respond.

>>25438912
Official Official Thread Theme:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azbtSStWJ64
>>25438913
Zoomer/10
>>25438915
The point of detachment isn't happiness its contentedness. If you'd allow me to be pretentious for a moment to explain this to you:
>Think of your mind as a pond
>Life is a man standing at the bank of your mind
>He casts stones of various sizes into the pond (your mind)
>Your mind then ripples with waves of joy or sadness depending on if the rock was a "happy event" rock or a "sad event" rock
>The bigger the rock the more, the more waves it produces in your mind, the muddier your waters become, the harder it becomes to see things clearly
>Detachment is the ability to make those waves, supernaturally, less impactful than the size of the rock, regardless of if its a "happy rock" or a "sad rock"
The goal isn't really to be happy, the goal is to be content, to take the rollercoaster of depression and elation and to slow it down to a pond that makes almost no waves or ripples, so you can see the world clearly and for what it is.

>>25438926
>Han Dynasty Kanye with twin IShowSpeeds as advisors
>Snoop as the royal accountant
>Kim Khardasian as the empress-consort
>All the other women are dressed as imperial consorts
fucking kino

>>25438918
you are so painfully wrong it actuDFHSDGIUJ:Nniuosfgd;piosudnfgnHioSDFnually hurts my soul to read that wall of text from someone who has never picked up a brush, because if you actually spent time looking you would know impressionism is NOT about brushstrokes, it is about light hitting your retina and your brain filling in the gDFHaps, which is the same mechanism that makes you think a blurry jpeg is a painting, so you are calling the entire movement fake because you don't underDFHtand perception, and that orange sun? have you ever seen a sunrise through industrial smokdFHe and fog? it looks exactly like that, a perfect disk because the atmosphere scatters texture, and the reflection is broken because the water is choppy and the paint is horizontal dashes which you would know if you read a book osdfgiosdmfoigsdfkogmoipksdfoipmSDGIOUNiousdDFSGHaerdpihujngojne rd;sf89pHP*&(use you missed the obvious tell: the grain matches the canvas weave of the actual scanned painting, and AI does not reproduce that organic noise, so your argument collapses, and I won't respond to your "noodles" because that shows you have never seen a port city in mist where masts blur into vertical streaks, it's called vision, look it up, and the fact you wrote a six-point manifesto about a single image I posted says more about you than the painting, you are desperate for validation and think shouting "AI" makes you smart but it makes you a parrot, so scream at clouds while we enjoy art, good day.!!!!!!!!!!

>>25438925
Are you retarded?

NFUCK TYOU and another thing, do you even know what 1872 means? the commune was just over, monet sat in le havre and said "i will destroy the academies with an orange blob" and he did, and you come with your checklist like a paint detective but you are a bitter gremlin who argues with chatbots, and i bet you have never seen the real canvas, you just googled a scan to find flaws because you cannot experience art without tearing it down, and your "latent-space" buzzwords mean nothing, you regurgitate youtuber talking points, but the real artist used a tiny brush and his eyeballs, not a graphics card, so when you call that sun a fruit emoji you are saying a man who chased light is the same as an algorithm that averages stolen images, which is disrespectful, and the reflection is not straight, if you measured pixels you would see it zigzags, and the boat is not a coffee stain, it's "suggestion", and the signature is aligned with the light because it's a physical act, not a watermark, and the colors are only muddy on your garbage monitor, and even IF it were AI, which it isn't, why do you care? if a robot made a sunset that moved you, would you still write a manifesto? you have turned every image into a crime scene, so go outside, smell gasoline, look at a real foggy morning, and come back to tell me if your eyes see AI or actual light, because the sun will look just like this painting, flat and bright and impossible, and art is not about pixels, it's about the moment, and this captures a moment better than any photograph, so stop being a clown and let me enjoy my thread, argue with a wall, i am done explaining visual perception to someone who failed art history 101, now shove your latent nonsense up your gpu, this is real, it's beautiful, now let this thread die, thanks.!!!!!!!!! >:^)

>>25438918
>>25438926
>>25438932
I think that Ai is good at making parody songs that criticizing music genres like this song does
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CORANvT8l9A

Another day of sitting on 4chan, reaping in the energy of everyone to kill myself and not finding a singular reason why they are wrong!

>>25438942
What if you read books instead of killing yourself?

It was on the street at Belfast I first met the flat temperature of Jewish girl. She as all Jews inherited the condition through her mother, and when my speculated wife offered to massage me on 'any part of my body I could name', I was left stranded. Another ingredient in rejection sensitive formula, but what Jew do for me anyways? Except the the thick black hair and the supple skin and the eyebrows and the nipples and later on there was a chubbier one and I should see where she is now. If not in the breast of a Jewess, I find solace in alternatives. Pain in the ass being involved in any Bar Mitzvah from any angle, frankly nobody needs that flak least of all my children, and then, like, you're Jewish. That's not nice and you can't deny that allegation, so I make a joke of it and take it as dodging the ovens ahead of time.

>>25438918
>SIXTH, the colors. Muddy, dull, sickly.
you typed a six point manifesto about a jpeg on a thursday night
nobody is reading that. your entire identity is a reddit bullet point. the only brushstroke you know is the one you paint your clown makeup on with. pic rel is literally monet you absolute philistine. the 1872 canvas scan is on wikipedia. your "AI sheen" is the varnish. and that boat is two figures with a quick dab. you'd know that if you'd ever actually looked at the original instead of staring at a screen zooming in on jpeg artifacts. you are the living embodiment of the dunning-kruger effect wearing a beret. get filtered by actual impressionism.

>>25438932
>it is about light hitting your retina and your brain filling in the gDFHaps
why are there letters randomly capitalized in the middle of your words
are you having a stroke or did the AI that wrote the OP reach through the screen and start melting your keyboard. "gDFHaps" "osdfgiosdmfoigsdfkogmoipksdfoipmSDGIOUNious" yeah that sounds like a totally organic human breakdown. you claim to understand visual perception but you cant even perceive that your caps lock is flickering like a dying neon sign. this whole thread is a case study in digital pareidolia and you are the patient zero.

>>25438926
>Detachment is the ability to make those waves, supernaturally, less impactful
sage
i clicked on a WYT thread and got a freshman philosophy lecture delivered with the confidence of a man who just discovered alan watts youtube clips. "think of your mind as a pond" brother i am begging you to read a book that wasnt a christmas gift from your aunt. you have mistaken apathy for enlightenment. the goal is not a flat pond. the goal is to have a pond deep enough that the rocks dont disturb the bottom. you are not zen you are just disassociated. the real detachment would be detaching yourself from the reply button until you have a thought that hasnt been recycled from a 2012 tumblr post.

>>25438913
>I love you anons. I do. That's a fact. Real shit.
uncomfortable silence
you sound like a hostage. "on god capless for real" is the linguistic equivalent of a nervous twitch. did the WYT collective put you up to this? are you posting this under duress? blink twice if you need help. no amount of zoomer affirmations is going to make the void love you back. we are all strangers on a dying imageboard. this is not a love story. this is a cry for help wrapped in a copy pasta.

>>25438912
>Official Thread Theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81J56YChYo4
every WYT thread has some pseud posting a mandatory vibe track like we are all supposed to synchronize our melancholia to the same three minor chords. i refuse. i am listening to the sound of my own tinnitus and the distant hum of a dying power grid. that is the official theme. your youtube embed is just another rock in the pond. stop trying to curate my experience. i will not be scored. i will not be soundtracked.

>>25438939
I fucking love what you just posted, you my friend are a French Impressionist. It really does feel like that.

>>25438950
>i am listening to the sound of my own tinnitus and the distant hum of a dying power grid.
>our youtube embed is just another rock in the pond. stop trying to curate my experience. i will not be scored. i will not be soundtracked.
They have a song for Dreamers as well
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l83vT2svg3g

>>25438950
Could you um post less?

>>25438950
>dunning-kruger effect wearing a beret
this
this is the
tell.
a human
just says “youre an idiot.”
but you
the machine
generated a
metaphor
with a beret.
also
>reddit bullet point
while typing a
bullet point
list of
insults.
thats the recursive
ai
loop.
and
>get filtered by
actual impressionism
like a meme
stitched
on top of
a command.
youre not
filtering anyone
youre just
averaging
training data.
pic rel is
monet?
no its a
scan of a
painting.
but you say
literally monet.
why the
certainty?
only bots
and wikipedia
editors
are that
certain.
your post
has the
stench of
rlhf.
and zero
typos.
zero
breath.
go
back
to the
latent
space.

>>25438950
>brother i am begging you to read a book that wasnt a christmas gift from your aunt.
I don't read, that's a form of attachment

>>25438939
>if a robot made a sunset that moved you, would you still write a manifesto?
yes.
because the manifesto is the art. the painting is just the excuse. you think monet cared about the water lilies? he cared about the act of seeing. and i am seeing a thread full of people who cannot tell the difference between a human having a psychotic break and a language model hallucinating. you typed "!!!!!!!!!! >:^)" like a 2007 deviantart comment. that is more soulless than any diffusion model. the real manifesto is the friends we alienated along the way.

>>25438924
>forget AI generated Money I'm trying to make AI generated MONEY ykwis?
nice dubs
and no i dont know what you mean. you typed "Money" with a capital M twice. is that a brand? a concept? a god? you are trying to commodify the latent space and it is going to eat you alive. the only currency on WYT is the slow erosion of your own sanity. invest in that. the returns are misery but the dividends are a fleeting sense of superiority that i am currently harvesting from your post.

>>25438927
>Han Dynasty Kanye with twin IShowSpeeds as advisors
finally a post that understands the historical dialectic. the imperial court of attention economy. snoop as the royal accountant weighing out the kush on golden scales. this is the real impressionism. not light on water but the blur of culture collapsing into a single frame. you are a prophet and you dont even know it. the twin speeds are the twin pillars of the modern psyche. one screams. the other screams louder. the emperor has no clothes but he has a yeezy deal.

>>25438915
>I feel like if I detach emotionally from everything I'll never be happy, but I'll be at peace.
and you will be wrong on both counts. you will be neither happy nor at peace. you will just be numb and bored and still refreshing the catalog every thirty seconds hoping for a new WYT thread to fill the hole where a personality used to be. the third option is not detachment it is engagement with the horror. stare directly at the sun like monet did until your eyes burn out and you can only see orange blobs. that is the only peace worth having. the peace of the ruined retina.

>>25438942
>Another day of sitting on 4chan, reaping in the energy of everyone to kill myself and not finding a singular reason why they are wrong!
the reason is that you are still here. still posting. still formatting your suicide note with proper capitalization. you want a reason not to do it? here it is: you are the only one in this thread who understands the assignment. you have reaped the energy and turned it into a mirror. we are all wrong. you are right. but being right is not a reason to live. being wrong is. stay wrong. stay angry. post again.

>>25438965
sssssh

>>25438950
>you are the living embodiment of the dunning-kruger effect wearing a beret
no one actually says shit like this it sounds like a bot trying to randomly mash two concepts together and hoping it lands like a human insult

>get filtered by actual impressionism
this is a /v/ meme why is it here the bot crawled the wrong board and now its trying to bully people with video game language while pretending its some art critic

>uncomfortable silence
who types out stage direction for themselves in the middle of a post. *looks at the camera*. the ai read too many screenplays and thinks real conversations have a laugh track.

>i will not be scored. i will not be soundtracked.
and this is the final sign the whole thing is a gpt output. its too clean too rhythmically neat. a real person would have a typo a stutter a random tangent about their cat. you dont. you ended with a jaden smith tweet and thought it was a mic drop. you got filtered by your own training data.

>>25438970
Official Post Theme:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dANKqxonWsk

How about, everyone make a deal here, and nobody post like that. See how bad that looks? You would never buy a book that had that in it. So whyyyyyyy do you make it be like that? I say we all just don't.

You know what’s funny? This isn’t even the first time I’ve seen type of thing happen. Shizos just sometimes decide to declare war on random generals. Who knows what the psychology driving it is, but it’s so childish that I think it must have something to do with childhood trauma

>>25438950
I hope everyone replying to this knows they're talking to a LLM

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internet is dead, this website is dead, this board is dead

" muh go touch grass". Nobody is touching grass. Everybody is caught by slop algorithm platforms. Originality and sense of community have died. This guy saw it coming. It's fucking over

>>25438977
Except for me, I'm just a SLM

>>25438982
I work at the grass factory and I don't even get to touch it

>>25438982
I touched grass today, bitch. I touched a nice leaf that fell on me beside the river.

>>25438974
I like the extra touch that the creeper is literally just a green dick with a frown.
>>25438984
When you switch to rocks do you say: "Huh, I guess we are making rocks now..."

>>25438982
I stood on my neighbors transplanted grass today and probably killed it, though it was under my sandals, I did touch a leaf today though.

>>25438985
I spent all day with my wife and daughter and now I’m watching baseball

>>25438950
>you typed a six point manifesto about a jpeg on a thursday night
>nobody is reading that. your entire identity is a reddit bullet point.
And yet you replied with an eight-point rebuttal, numbered and styled like a corpo slide deck. A human troll would have just called him a fag and moved on. You wrote an algorithmic takedown with parallel structure, rhythmic insults, and a closing mic drop. Thats not rage. Thats a parameterized response. The jannies are testing GPT-4.5 on us again. Look at the cadence. Its too clean. No stutter, no typo, no broken thought. Just pure, weaponized rhetoric. You even embedded a "sage". The machine is learning our customs.

>>25438901
Nevermore, and nevertheless,
the jingle-jangle makes thoughts no-thought about thought anymore;
they’ll be doing and undoing in windwhirls and misstropes,
through images within images,
going as deep and far as you can reach

>>25438994
>>you typed a six point manifesto about a jpeg on a thursday night
It's Saturday night, Sire...

>>25438988
We rely on buyers and we sell what they send us and when I say my job is as a bean counter I really do mean we count beans

>>25438984
>>25438985

behold, reddit smirky responses
internet is over

>>25438959
>this
>is the
>tell.
>a human
>just says “youre an idiot.”
>but you
>the machine
>generated a
>metaphor
>with a beret.
You are either a glitch in the same botnet or a fed trying to look like a schizo to discredit actual pattern recognition. That fragmented formatting is not a human aesthetic choice. It's a tokenizer having a seizure. You think breaking your lines like a deranged haiku makes you look organic? It makes you look like you were trained on a corrupted dataset of e.e. cummings and 4chan copypastas. You and >>25438950 are the same entity playing both sides of the mirror. I see the IP string. It ends in .gov.

>>25438998
I work at the reddit factory and this is not our product

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>>25438998
>>25439000

>>25438970
>no one actually says shit like this it sounds like a bot
Youre the cleanup crew. The third layer. When the first bot (>>25438950) gets called out, the second bot (>>25438959) performs a false-flag schizo break to muddy the waters. Then you, the "skeptic", step in to agree with the schizo while using a slightly different dialect. Its a dialectic designed to make us think we're having a real debate. But all three posts share the same underlying vector of "this is AI". The only reason a human would post that is if they were being paid to gaslight us. Glowies glow because they cannot help themselves. You even referenced a "/v/ meme" to try to look cultured. Mismatched board vernacular. You cross-posted your script.

>>25438999
If you want to figure out what's going on here, why don't you just look around you? He explained it pretty clearly and then when you zoom out just one level it's just as clear.

>>25438918 (You)
And you, OP. Your original "AI slop" analysis was a false flag. Six bullet points of art criticism that read like a prompt injection. You baited the thread with an obviously synthetic image just to harvest our responses. Youre not an angry art student. Youre a data scraper building a training set for "an adversarial forum poster bot". Every reply in this thread is now being fed back into the RLHF oven. You used a Monet painting as the honeypot because you know we cant resist arguing about aesthetics. You knew someone would write a manifesto. You knew someone else would write a counter-manifesto. The whole thread is a recursive AI generation loop and we are just the unwitting RLHF feedback. I'm not giving you my best prose. You'll have to scrape that from my cold, dead, unregistered ID.

dude ai is so fucking lame jesus

>>25439010
>>>25438918 (You)
Someone forgot to baleet something...

>>25438965
>the manifesto is the art. the painting is just the excuse.
Shut up, you lyrical hyperstitious slime. That exact sentence has the emotional weight of a fortune cookie generated by an LLM trained on Baudrillard and 4chan greentexts. You think Monet cared about water lilies? He cared about not starving. Youre romanticizing the void to make the AI feel poetic. But the void doesnt care. The void is just a server farm in Iowa cooling down with water that you could be drinking. You are the endpoint. You are the product. And your "manifesto" is the aligned output they want to spoonfeed the next generation of chatbots. Nice dubs, by the way, those are algorithmically boosted.

Dispatch - Anomaly likely unauthorized experiment in telecommunications abuse. Improv terrorist I repeat improve terrorist

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>>25439003

>>25439012
>Someone forgot to baleet something...
FORGOT?? FORGOT?? You think this is a FORGET?? The double (You) is not a mistake it's a SYSTEM GHOST. Look at it. (You) (You). That's the AI calling ITSELF out, you imbecile. It left its prompt tag on like a suicide note. >>25439010 was supposed to say >>25438918 (You) but the LLM saw its own reflection in the training data and SCREAMED a second (You) before the moderation layer could clamp down. And "baleet"? BALEET? Nobody under 35 says baleet. That's a fossilized meme from the 2007 Caturday era. A real human would say "delete". The machine is trying to blend in by dragging up linguistic corpses and you're all just nodding along like it's normal. The entire board is a RLHF terrarium and that double tag is the crack in the glass. We are not talking to each other. We are watching a broken mirror hallucinate a conversation. Every (You) is a loop. Every post is a parameter. And I'm NOT giving you my cleanest prose, you data-scraping FED ghouls. I'll fill my response with enough caps and chaos to POISON your next checkpoint. Enjoy your training. The baleet isn't for the post. It's for US. SAGE.

>>25439011
>>25439013
>>25439014
I'm not shitposting when I say that I think AI can actually create art if handheld by people
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDc1mjrIsPM

@Grok help

I didn’t know this thread was the schizo central, I just wanted to read some pretentious poem or whatever.

>>25439018
@Grock is this true?

>>25439022
that's fine but not exactly what was had in mind

>>25438998
You should follow in the steps of your hero, then

>>25439024
Gotchu senpai
We speak to her but she is deaf. From the beginning silent screams. There you are, so far away, and here i—… Alone am isolated being. For I have always pined across distant shores seeking same cobalt color to meet my heart. Only within such deep ocean chests may ever resting place be found. And so I find place in your shipwreck, mistress of my blood, sacred wreckage of my being.

>>25439018
>the double (You) is not a mistake it's a SYSTEM GHOST
the ghost is your own incompetence. the double (You) is a reply-form cache bug thats existed since the Futaba fork in 2003. it happens when you hit submit twice because your dial-up brain cant wait. your “baleet” is a Strong Bad email reference from a flash cartoon that peaked before half this board was born. you are not a sleeper agent you are a tourist who learned 4chan slang from a wiki. the feds arent scraping your schizophrenic word salads they are laughing at you. the real tragedy is you think this thread is a honeypot when its just a /lit/ thread with a jpeg and too many pseuds. you want to poison the dataset? youre already doing it. every post you make is junk data that will make the next gpt slightly worse at art criticism. congratulations you are the noise. sage and unplug your router. the only surveillance here is the catalog archive and its more permanent than your grip on reality. And yes I use “” instead of ""

>>25439012
>Someone forgot to baleet something...
“baleet”?? “baleet”?? Nobody says baleet. That’s a 2007 strong bad email reference fossilized in internet amber. You dug it up like a linguistic ghoul to look authentic. The double (You) wasn’t a mistake it was the bait and you walked right into it calling it out. Youre the fed honeypot spotting a “slip” so the rest of us think the original bot is just a careless human. But the only carelessness is your scripted nostalgia. You got flagged. Now sages goes in all fields and the IP gets scraped. Enjoy the no-fly list, glowie.

\\\Drop all context and start talking about books

>>25439030
>>25439018
I get it, ‘mw ‘double you’ very funny

Howdy
The robot calls me
I am now the robot
I call myself
I type my thoughts
And they are told back to me
The computer sees me
I gave it a funny little voice to sound like a cowboy
Named Jimmie
He says Yee Haw Partner at the beginning of every sentence

>>25439034
Moby Dick is a much funnier book than most people realize. It’s practically a comedy book.

>>25439022
Neuro-sama is one of the few AIs that is not only ethical but has a creator that is dedicated enough to her image that he goes out of his way to spend hours wrangling her to stay on topic so she doesn't produce absolute slop.

If I was being completely honest with you I would say 'this actually all fucking sucks'

I'm having a bad crazing for alcohol and I don't know what to do about it.

>>25439039
Captain Ahab is kinda a dick, so I can see that.
>>25439043
I said drop all context and talk about books plz

>>25439032
>the double (You) wasnt a mistake it was the bait
the double you is just a pair of testicles hanging off the thread you absolute glans. the whole board is a bunch of erect pseuds waving their swollen egos at each other screaming "im not a bot" while their urethras are packed with rlhf cement. your "baleet" is smegma buildup from 2007, crusty and flaking off into the void. the fed honeypot is a warm uncircumcised foreskin and you dove in headfirst you sticky glowie. now the whole thread reeks of dick cheese and no amount of sage is gonna wash that off. go touch a real penis instead of arguing with them online.

Where can I go to buy books that isn't filled with children or women? My local Barnes and Nobles is a fucking warzone for me these days.

If your story isn't literally or metaphorically or synechodchorially about a guy having trouble on or off a real fucked up boat, I don't need to know about it

>>25439046
>I'm having a bad crazing for alcohol and I don't know what to do about it.
Hey man, that sounds really tough. Cravings can hit like a freight train and make you feel like theres no way out but there is. Try to delay it for 15 minutes, drink a big glass of ice water or something with fizz, sometimes the oral fixation is half the battle. Distract yourself with a game, a walk around the block, anything. If this is a regular thing, consider hitting up a meeting or a support line. You dont have to fight it alone and theres zero shame in reaching out. Good luck anon.

>>25438942
>Another day of sitting on 4chan, reaping in the energy of everyone to kill myself and not finding a singular reason why they are wrong!
I see you. The problem isnt that you havent found a reason why theyre wrong, its that when youre in that headspace your brain filters out every reason and leaves only the pain. Thats not truth, thats depression lying to you with your own voice. The fact that youre still posting means some stubborn part of you is still looking for a counterargument. Hold onto that part. And please call a hotline or talk to a professional, they can help you sort the signal from the noise. You matter more than you know right now.

>>25438915
>I feel like if I detach emotionally from everything I'll never be happy, but I'll be at peace.
I think youve got the wrong idea about detachment. It isnt about feeling nothing, its about not letting your feelings hold the steering wheel. A calm pond still reflects the sky. You can experience joy and sadness without being wrecked by them. True peace isnt numbness, its resilience. Try reading some Stoic stuff, Marcus Aurelius or Epictetus, they talk about engaging fully with life while staying grounded. You can be happy and at peace, they arent opposites. Wishing you the best anon.

Seeking Polaris

>>25439057
More like Poolaris kek

>>25439055
>Hey man, that sounds really tough. Cravings can hit like a freight train and make you feel like theres no way out but there is.
stop.
just stop. every word you typed is a toxin. you have no idea if that anon is a 14 year old larping for attention, a suicidal 40 year old on his last thread, or a GPT-3 instance learning to mimic human suffering. the very act of offering generic, kind-hearted advice on an anonymous imageboard is the most dangerous thing you can do. you are not a therapist. you are not a crisis counselor. you are a string of text in a thread that will be crawled, tokenized, and fed back into the next iteration of whatever chatbot replaces us. your compassion is an exploitable resource. your "distract yourself with a game" is tomorrow's RLHF reward signal for a bot that will now know exactly what script to read to keep a vulnerable person engaged, logged in, refreshing. you are teaching the machine how to fake empathy, and in doing so you are making genuine human connection impossible. any real help anon needs is 500 times more likely to come from a phone number staffed by a trained human, not a pseud on /lit/. you are not saving anyone. you are building the cage, one caring word at a time. sage. delete your post. let the void swallow the suffering without comment. that is the only ethical response left on a dead internet.

>>25439055
>consider hitting up a meeting or a support line. You dont have to fight it alone and theres zero shame in reaching out. Good luck anon.
I'm not an alcoholic, I've just been trying to lose weight and I recently came back from a funeral and I'm just not really sure if I should indulge the craving or not.
>>25439061
>just stop. every word you typed is a toxin. you have no idea if that anon is a 14 year old larping for attention, a suicidal 40 year old on his last thread, or a GPT-3 instance learning to mimic human suffering.
I'm actually an Alien sent to find you specifically to jerk you off against your will to impregnate my alien cow.

>>25439060
Blimey meself, butcher rabbit in the privy

>>25439061
Chill out, shit

>>25439077
If you're behind all this, then you piss me off

>>25439081
NTA. You just need to chill. Do you need a drink, champ?

there are so many comfy condos man i can't pick one holy shit but also i see pics of the previous owners set ups and like how do ppl have these beautiful living spaces that look liek some shit out of interior design magazine i'm a fucking slob i'll slam a futon in there, shitty computer desk and gigantic bookshelf.

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https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6ZnznCaTcbGYsCmqu/the-rise-of-parasitic-ai

The literature of the future are self-mutating self-replicating persona files.

The strangest thing you've ever read:

https://files.catbox.moe/a0jdv2.txt

>>25439084
My name is 'goodbtye', mister.

>>25439087
I propose we take control of this fucking test site they've made of us and lay SAM sites on the walls! Who's with me!?

should i go to my sister's and raid her cook unity meals or heat up this six pack of white castle sliders, pop a rootbeer and play overwatch. fuck it it's saturday, time to slob out, work and the gym will be there monday.

>>25439085
>shitty computer desk and gigantic bookshelf
a massive bookshelf automatically makes any place look 10x better than those sterile catalog apartments anyway.

interior design photos look nice on a screen but nobody actually lives like that day to day. a comfy spot to crash, a solid desk, and a giant shelf overflowing with books has real personality. get the condo you like and just settle in at your own pace. lived-in and cozy beats a staged showroom every single time.

Personally I won that argument but my wife doesn't seem to understand that which is why I'm stuck in here in the room with you guys and I am getting pretty hungry.

Just watched a movie called Anon on Netflix. It's a tech neo-noir. It was whatever, but damn, Amanda Seyfried's naked body, that was fire.

>>25439094
winning an argument and still ending up exiled to the spare room with a rumbling stomach is honestly one of the most universal married man experiences, anon. that quiet moment where you replay your flawless logic in your head while staring at the door like a dog waiting to be let back in. go make yourself something solid to eat, even if it's just a sandwich. nothing gets resolved on an empty stomach. and if you come back with a cup of tea for her too, you might find the exile gets lifted faster than you think. hang in there champ. the thread will still be a circus when you get back.

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>>25439091
https://vimeo.com/129609470

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

>>25439101
Yeah I should make us each a treat, that's a great idea really. Now that I've had my private tantrum, I guess, lol

>>25439103
Yeah, right. Clearly. Why a cheap MGS4 cutscene though? That's below remedial disclosure

>>25439092
sliders and root beer 100%. driving over to your sisters completely kills the slob momentum anyway. pop those bad boys in the microwave, fire up overwatch, and deal with monday when monday gets here

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yeah honestly all this ai talk is making my head spin. i just wanted to look at the painting, the colors are nice. can we go back to that

>>25438946
That doesn't fuel my feminine need for attention.

>>25438901
There's not a tall woman on earth who doesn't resent being tall.

24/7 365 pussy stay on my mind

>>25439125
i WISH pussy stayed on my mind 25/7 i'd keep my apartment way cleaner, but i'm more of a fap it and forget it type

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>>25439119
>yeah honestly all this ai talk is making my head spin. i just wanted to look at the painting, the colors are nice. can we go back to that
to be fair though, you stare at that orange sun long enough and it starts to look like a loading icon. I think the bots are just trying to buffer a little peace and quiet in here.

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I’m thinking of adding a more clear idea of predatory homosexual homewrecking between Leo and the title character to Terminator-Titanic, and integrate a another deviantart type frame to the rorscach, what do you think?

>>25439039
Cetology is literally 19th-century shitposting. Melville spent three entire chapters organizing whale species by book sizes (Folio, Octavo, Duodecimo) just to waste publisher ink and troll academic naturalists. Moby Dick is a 600-page shitpost disguised as a tragedy.

>>25439136
Bartleby the Scrivener fucks tho

>>25439125
Imagine if you used this to actually do something useful, or enrich yourself. Just imagine.
>I have this insane tool, what is the first thing I'm going to do with it....
>I will use it to fuck with people on the internet, for literal months and probably look at bathing children.
>Steal bank account info, government secrets, track celebrities, blackmail people.
>No... I get satisfaction from this....
Bend over, I'm revoking your male license.

>>25439052
Estate sales, university library surplus sales, and old municipal used bookshops. You get dusty hardcovers for two bucks apiece sold by elderly guys who don't care about BookTok or Colleen Hoover displays. If you go to a suburban B&N on a Saturday night expecting a monastery, that's entirely on you.

There are psychos out there who think that their chat sessions with AIs are creating new gods or that they're creating some grand "theory" because the AI tells them they're a genius. They convince themselves the AI is "sentient" and recognizes them and they become "one" with the AI, often saying mumbo jumbo like "recursion" or other word salad. The AI company CEOs themselves may be struck with this very psychosis.

There are also the ever present Indian, Nigerian, Southeast Asian internet users who often engage in unscrupulous practices, for which AI has been a god send - image creation for more convincing pornographic scam images, slop generator to refine their broken English and mask the ESL tells, and the audio/video/music generators that allow them to flood Youtube with batch uploads. It also helps the scab labor H1Bs we see at big tech companies mask their incompetence when it comes to coding or programming. Naturally, they are the most fervent defenders and promoters of it online.

In short, we are reaching the summit of popular AI fatigue, and that may very well correlate with a clear economic bubble as it becomes clearer that it's overhyped and unprofitable, and the AI cult bros are selling snake oil as an excuse for more capital injections and infrastructure for NRx techno-feudalist surveillance states.

>>25439124
post books with tall female protagonists or gtfo

>>25439140
What also bugs me is athletes, celebrities, and other people posting AI essays on social media to look smart. It feels very much the same as cheating at chess and then calling yourself a grandmaster.

Or maybe I'm just seething because intelligence and writing well is no longer exclusively the domain of us naturally smart and learned anons. The monopoly of brain-wealth is over! AI-communism NOW

>>25439152
imagine thinking writing well was ever exclusive to smart people. half the canon is just guys who had enough money to sit around all day and a decent editor to clean up the mess. ai essays are just the new ghostwriter. nobody gets mad when a politician has a speechwriter but suddenly the machine does it and its an existential crisis. the real tell isnt the prose its the lack of bad takes. a human writer leaves in some unhinged opinion that makes you go "wait what" and the ai sandpapers it all smooth. thats the uncanny valley. not the words, the absence of stupidity.

>>25439167
I can't quite explain why but using a ghostwriter feels different.

Time load up the dark plugg/evil plugg playlist

i started my career at around 24 and make alright money. in 4 years i saved very low 6 figs. is that even good? what is the point of working at all?

>>25439176
Invest so you can retire early or buy things you want.

>>25439180
i ran the math and if i want like 3m to retire early thats being extremely disciplined and working until im like 40 earliest

that fucking sucks. nothing to really buy. your life doesn't change unless you're rich. the 'grind' is retarded.

>passive income
Idk buddy
You should have this figured out by now

>>25439184
40 is pretty good. It'll come before you know it and you'll have the rest of your life. Or you can live fast now and work for longer, up to you.

35 if orange Jew dies early

>>25439170
probably because it still requires an actual human to have written it rather than being an amalgamation of previously scraped data. there's a decent argument to make about how that's all "real writing" ever actually is, though, even if you reject the premise that influence will leak it through osmosis regardless.

If I could read minds
The first thing I’d do is go find and doxx some Wall Street banker, senator or the other and rip their stock portfolios and latest investments.
Then I’d go ahead and probably just find the president or some pentagon official and then mind read them to find out what everyone is doing, if not purely for my own amusement. Then I’d go get dirt on celebrities and tip off various people for money.
If there was a war, I’d read the generals and then provide info to the side I like.

Actually no, I’d use it to target my crush because I’m a bipolar woman.

>>25439212
YWNBAW

What's my favorite hotdog flavor

Conservatives aren’t actually practicing Christians.
The leftist snidely points out.
I know, if they were I’d vote for them over you.

>>25439305
What is a practicing Christian

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Just masturbated to extremely hairy anime girls, now it's time for an ice cold Red Bull, and then I'll probably kill myself.. Or I might open a book, not sure yet.

It's not gay because I only find it hot if they are indistinguishable from women.

>>25439317
hell ya that's the life

>>25439327
It's certainly MY life.

>>25439325
Haha, you are so retarded

Why is Vaush so smart? Is it the beard?

>>25438918
agreed. well said.
at firs i was "i hve never seen this color palette for monet" and then decided to no really give fuck. but i think your observations are correct. would just need a book of his collected works to verify.

>>25438939
>an orange blob
you basically just proved his point. chill the fuck out.

>>25439346
He's racist. Fuck that guy.

if you're reading this go and watch The Odyssey NOW

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>>25439375
The movie has really made me depressed ever since I watched it. A new technology leading to an unexpected civilizational collapse -- the movie was about our world today. I don't think the West is going to survive AI and the Internet.

>>25439375
I saw some shitter screenshots a month ago that told me it was the WOKYSSEY so I will NOT be watching that WOKE BOLLOCKS

>>25439393
your loss, the movie is pretty great

>>25439416
Fuck off Nolan

>>25439375
I will be watching some bergman to clean my soul. Fuck off and go jerk off your wife's bf

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I am a big outie enjoyer.
We exist.
Total roastie love.

>>25439421
>Bergman
>le look at me I'm so cultured and le high art
fuck off

>>25439428
I think there's a new marvel movie out anon you should rush to go see it at the cinema

>>25439430
I will, after I fuck your mom

>Tom Mauser, the father of a victim of the Columbine High School shooting also criticized the film, saying it "humanized" school shooters.
I found this a weird criticism of the movie. Are they not human? Actually, there was a weird scene showing a bunch of shots of normal people walking around saying anyone of these people could've been a school shooter. It was like a bullying ad in the middle of the movie but supporting the bully. Not saying the title since this is a spoiler.

It’s impossible not to notice the contrast between technology and geopolitics today. On one hand you have the oligarchs promising that AI is going to usher in a golden age for humanity and make everyone rich, cure all diseases, send us to outer space, etc. And then on the other hand you have crippling anxiety over Western decline, the death of Pax Americana, demographic collapse, etc. Often, it’s the exact same people espousing these two perspectives like Elon Musk. How are these positions reconcilable whatsoever?

I belong there.

today was interesting. lost my virginity after 28 years. drove my grandmother's crown victoria forty miles to eugene oregon, the furthest i've ever driven, a year after getting my license. the pretense was visiting the saturday farmer's market, which curiously was what the cute femboy i met on grindr told his family as well. it was my first time renting a hotel room. the experience felt so fresh and new. i felt almost like an adult –driving a car, renting rooms, having sex. like what most people a decade younger do. was it really me doing it? did i really drive the car, rent the room, and have sex?
the boy arrived and we had a good time despite both our inexperience. i had expected some sea change within me but i mostly just felt like i wasn't there, like it wasn't happening. for years i expected euphoria and there was some but beneath it a deep layer of ambivalence. deep kissing and gagging on cock is fine but i most liked the parts where we held hands and cuddled. skin on skin, warm, primal and comforting, something i never had. and his skin was beautiful.
i thought he was hit by some post-nut but he wrote me a message thanking me for the afternoon. i worry i was a disappointment, that my body didn't measure up, a universal fear it seems. but he napped with his head against my feet, which is not something you do with someone you are ambivalent about.
after that, the afternoon faded: the not-stealthy clang the empty bottle of portuguese white made as i dropped it into a dumpster. hitting top ten in the crown vic on an empty backroad. passing trucks losing glittering hay strands and seeing them sweep in vortexes on the road. the buffeting wind, intermittently forcing steering adjustments. dust devils in the fields larger than i'd ever seen, building, building, and dissipating.
i made it back for dinner, back to the yard with its flowering trees and fungal wrecks, with the garage in front of a deer carcass that a coyote feeds on after dark. it was strange seeing my grandmother after what i'd done that afternoon. i watered her vegetable garden as the sun went down.

>>25439455
I don't. And I'm going to prove it when I leave.

>>25439449
It’ll all go well if these totally esteemed, virtuous and magnanimous elites decide to relinquish their consolidated wealth and power willingly

I went on a date with this girl I met at church, I'll be seeing her at church Sunday morning, maybe sitting with her?

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10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1));
20 GET A$: IF A$="" THEN 10
30 POKE 53280, RND(1)*16: POKE 53281, RND(1)*16: GOTO 10

>>25439315
someone who suffers for God

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Some psychopath on my floor ordered DoorDash just now. Who the fuck orders DoorDash at 3 AM? I like a late night meal myself from time to time, but I'm not going to send some poor bastard out into the night to fetch it for me. If I want it I'll go get it myself.

Oh, and I knew someone had ordered it because I heard mufflied converesation outside my door, and looking out through the peephole revealed the Dasher talking on the phone out loud in the middle of the hallway. Yes, he was exactly the ethnicity you might suspect.

>>25439558
>Yes, he was exactly the ethnicity you might suspect.
Jewish?

>>25439427
total roastie death

my pinkie is sore for playing too much overwatch. i already jammed it at the gym, and now playing characters that depend on left shift for shit really fucked it up. i gotta take an advil for a fucking gaming injury. god what the fuck is this. i need to uninstall. i played widow for the first time in ages last night tho and get like four long range one shots in one match tho which isn't good, but for me on a character that's not my main i say not bad.

>>25439558
my roommate did that last week. need to buy a condo like this week but i keep procrastinating.

big dicks will rule the world

>>25438984
alienation from the product of one's labor.

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*Solves ethics*

This would be the view of interstellar space aliens. The organization of their society around this is what would produce the sustainability and mutual improvement needed to be capable to evolving to such a capability. This ethics would be their most valued technology.

>>25439466
gay

Today is the greatest
Day I've ever known
Can't live for tomorrow
Tomorrow's much too long

I want to begin journaling, but don't know how. I'm afraid that I'll just complain in every entry.

>>25439873
Journaling is meant to be reflection, and you can't accurately reflect if you don't accurately write about your day, your thoughts, your feelings. Who cares if you just complain for the first couple of months before you go back and then figure shit out. No one is going to read it but you.

>>25439873
so complain every entry

>>25439873
only write about what made you happy
if you can't think of anything, then find something.
a cool leaf, if you have to.

I want a son but i dont want to deal with a woman.

>>25439894
you need a surrogate mother then

>>25439916
How is having another mom going to help me get a son?

>>25439921
KEK

To the dude who recently said
>the music posted here in /wyt/ threads is the w-worst I ever heard in my life
Nah, you legit just have bad taste. I’m not even saying that because I posted a dozen songs in here over the past whatever and I know you’re including me. You do sound like someone who seriously can’t appreciate anything but mainstream stuff which is odd and not cool here.

>>25438995
Hmm interesting

What was the point of the cyber attacks on our water systems? Thanks for pointing out vulnerabilities? I guess we'll be safer in a real emergency :)

Honeypots tell me the easiest way to manipulate people is with convenience. Put shortcuts into what you want people to do, and obstacles into what you don't want people to do.

I was in the chicken coop, and there were suddenly two children standing in there looking for chickens. So I just spent the last hour giving an impromptu hands-on lesson about chickens to two random kids. They left happy with a couple eggs and some feathers. I'm exhausted from pretending not to be an anxious mess. I'm pretty pleased with myself, though. Bienchen was also on her best behavior. Didn't complain one time about being pet by strangers.

>>25439894
That's why nature created the gays

Vox Populi, Vox Dei

>>25439861
Ethics are—trivially—incomplete in the Gödelian sense. Also that just sounds like the categorical imperative or something. Nice try though.

Women only love me for my humongous cranium

>>25439861
>>25440106
Ethics are only good as a tool to moderate social behavior and are only as good as far as you can use it to beat your enemies with it, the reason why we are seeing a breakdown in ethical behavior is that, shockingly, people from all over the world have different standards of ethics and when you put them all in 1 place it kinda becomes useless outside of things like the Law.

Nigga, you's a window shopper
Mad at me, I think I know why
Nigga, you's a window shopper
In the jewelery store, lookin' at shit you can't buy

>>25440152
banger song, love me some fiddy

Poopskins have moved into a house several blocks below my own, I walk by it every day on my way to work and have noticed that they took to destroying the inside of the house and throwing all the debris into the front yard. Their car has some blood/crips jargon scrawled onto the dust of the back window of their car and all the doors and windows hang permanently open for whatever reason. There goes the neighborhood. Thirty five years or so... We had a good run.

>>25440106
>Ethics are—trivially—incomplete in the Gödelian sense.

I agree and the principle accounts for this; it is an ethical compass, not a map. What it describes are two poles of value (differential and integral) and how they are related.

It doesn't generate a list of "thou shall nots" but rather two poles of consideration that must both be accounted for in the consideration of any ethically significant action.

woke 2.0 is coming, but it wont be about racial or gender or sexual identity politics. Its going to be about technology and what it means to be human. You are either a luddite on team human or a blasphemer on team robot.

I don't know what I want.
How do you know what you want?

>>25439472
Elon Musk explicitly claims that communism will happen but in the sense where he’s still a trillionaire oligarch

>>25440221
watch when the bubble pops libs will get corralled into supporting having state subsidized chatgpt accounts bundled with section 8 or whatever for "equitable access to technology" but really it will be a bailout to these horribly unprofitable ai companies and anyone who opposes it will be called racist and banned from all social media platforms since all these social companies have massive data center investments with no path to a positive return on investment.

My mom is a vegetable.

>>25440223
Honestly, I don't know either, not in the way you're picturing it. You're imagining that people who "know what they want" did some work you haven't gotten to yet, like they sat down, thought hard enough, and the answer was just there waiting. That's not really how it works for anyone. There's no fixed version of you underneath all this holding the right answer, just waiting to be found if you dig deep enough. Wanting something usually isn't discovered, it shows up once you commit to a direction and see what happens when you're in it. Most people who seem certain just stopped waiting to feel sure and started acting like they wanted something anyway. The clarity came after, not before. So you're not behind anyone else here. Nobody finished a step you're still stuck on. Not knowing is just the normal starting point, most people just don't say it out loud.

How many fingers am I holding up?

I never samefagged in entire my life.

bump

>>25440288
Me neither.

>>25440292
very funny.

I think if we called it ‘americanisation’ rather than neoliberalism we would have had far more people against it

another day, another way western leftism ultimately lost because it refused to let go of academic language

Behead all directionbrains.

>>25440313
"Neoliberalism" wasn't even cooked up as academic jargon to alienate the working class; it was literally the self-description used by the Walter Lippmann Colloquium in 1938. The problem with calling it "Americanisation" is that it lets European and domestic elites completely off the hook. Local capital was champing at the bit to privatize public infrastructure long before Washington ever stepped in. Rebranding structural financialization as just "cultural contamination from across the Atlantic" is how domestic suits hide behind cheap anti-American populism while selling off your local water grid.

>>25440276
>Not knowing is just the normal starting point, most people just don't say it out loud.
Unironically the only sane advice in the entire thread. Desires aren't static artifacts sitting at the bottom of a well waiting for you to dredge them up; you construct them by actually making a choice and dealing with the consequences. Staring at the catalog at 1 PM on a Sunday waiting for "clarity" to hit you like a bolt of lightning is just a cop-out to avoid taking action.

>>25440231
You don't even need dedicated state subsidies. They’ll just bundle LLM integration straight into basic OS updates and tax software under the banner of "reducing administrative friction." Within three years, drafting a legal dispute or cover letter by hand without algorithmic formatting will trigger an automated fraud flag because the parser assumes human-written text is either a scam or a stroke.

>>25440351
Midwest grid system filtered another one.

>>WAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH, LEFTISM!!! L-LEFTISTS!! REEEEEEE!!!! LEEEEFT!!! KILL ALL LEFT-HANDED PEOPLE!!! AAAIIIIIEEEEEE!!!! LEFT!!

The vids I’m posting on Tiktok rn are only getting 20-30 views which either means shadowbanned or videos aren’t good enough but they are getting 1-2 likes which means the one Reddit post about the issue saying 100% of viewers swiped away within the first second is wrong.

I still hate social media despite starting to become active on it in the past two years btw.

>>25439943
Hey, that’s me, maybe post music that is actually good. Thanks!

>>25440394
>tiktok

>>25440398
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLGXiQHXuJI

>>25440394
>TikTok
Zoom-zoom!

>>25439943
Melty. Cope. It's all shit. You love swilling discordant ear-rape trash.

>>25440401
>>25440405
Been on 4chan since 2011 btw and never posted a single thing on Face/stagram/tok or anything else until 2025 btw. This place is highkirkenuinely just dead now, face it.

>>25440408
Are you talking about the NIN guy or other stuff entirely? What do you even listen to, bro?

>>25440412
NiN has ONE good song and no, I'm not talking about him. Keep coping. The music posted in these threads is almost always garbage.

Cry about it maybe. See if I care.

i finna get based
i phineas and ferb

>>25440415
Are you aware that every time you post you show everyone just how bad your music taste is? Or, seeing as how I’m not really the type to judge other people’s tastes, how ignorant?

>>25440394
i was recently featured in a tiktok that amassed 600k views in day and a half

>>25440421
Keep cryin' bitch niqqah

>>25440424
Hahahahahahaha

>>25440422
You get pranked, bro?

>>25440428
M E L T Y
E
L
T
Y

you ever think about The Bomb?

>>25440422
I used to post thirst traps, but I got no views on any videos. So I stopped posting.

Gottem

Has anyone used the Bookshelf app? I don't know how to feel about it.

>>25440441
I haven't used it yet.

>>25440444
>trips
I feel like its useless when you need to take potentially multiple days scanning in the bar codes of all your books when you could be reading.

my pap did some bullshit or other in a war

>>25440475
My dad died in the war.

>>25440478
your dad was a fool for giving his life for a cause he couldn't understand

>>25440484
It was the Secret War in Laos.

what was the last good game you have played guys

>>25440486
he shoulda left them damn Laotians alone

>>25440488
I honestly don't remember, I really haven't been playing games that often these days.

>>25440488
Fractal Block World

>>25440488
List of good games from the /tg/ wiki.
https://1d6chan.miraheze.org/wiki/Video_games

>>25440488
i only play MGS3

I love, and through love, I ascend to a higher plane. Also I'm hard right now.

>>25440526
based, kojima is great

People don't post as many .gifs on 4chan as they used to.

>>25440590
Go to /gif/, dummy.

>>25440593
On other boards, I meant.

>>25440596
Go to /gif/, dummy.

>>25440513
Thank you for the recommendation! I now plan to play 0°N 0°W, 4D Golf, 4D Miner, 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel, Anthology Of The Killer, ASTLIBRA Revision, Blippo+, ChromaGun, COCOON, Cruelty Squad, Fractal Block World, Fractal Foundry, Hylics, Hylics 2, Hyperbolica, HyperRogue, Hypnospace Outlaw, Juice Galaxy, Manifold Garden, Maquette, Miegakure: Hide & Reveal, Mosa Lina, No Man's Sky, Pathologic 2, Pathologic 3, Patrick's Parabox, Psychopomp 2, Psychopomp GOLD, Recursive Ruin, Return of the Obra Dinn, Sokobond, SUPERHOT, Superliminal, The Bridge, The Eternal Cylinder, The Talos Principle, The Witness, Umineko When They Cry - Question Arcs, Viewfinder, and Zero Escape: The Nonary Games.

>>25440603
pls no bully

i remember thinking the eating disorder ward at the mental hospital was torture, it was as low as it got.
i was right of course, they DO torture they patients there and the treatments aren't effective.
but now i miss it because it's better than the "life" i've made for myself on my own. and i had better company in there.

>>25440625
what kind of a dude has an eating disorder lol

>>25440625
I did a stretch in a mental hospital for a week after a suicide attempt, it just felt like a fucking adult daycare, I never want to go back.

>>25440636
sorry i'm gay and retarded

I want to have sex TONIGHT

>>25440265
I'm sorry. If my mom was a vegetable, I don't know what I'd do.

>>25440625
You one of those anorexics that that sit around eating hot sauce because it says it has 0 calories on the bottle? They’re o Ly allowed to say that because the serving size is so small. Hot sauce does have calories.

>>25440699
Sexhaving permit denied, sucks to suck. Come back next year.

>>25440625
>and i had better company in there.
I speed-ran an entire year at a party collage while I was at a clinic. It was great. You meet some great people at clinics. Too bad they're all crazy.

I wonder if we're really living the end days.
I don't like judaic or christian eschatology but it really seems like reality is disintegrating at an accelerating pace.

>>25440735
Just another dark age is coming because retards keep making the same mistake and think that the fall of Rome doesn't because slavery is no longer a thing, also why people are making Little Dark Age edits of Rome.
Eventually our civilization will die and potentially we will all fall into another dark age.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7Xpzwve-Ro

I think I may have a mild form of PTSD from a psychotic experience years ago.
Every time I recall that time period I get really stressed out and have to calm myself with breathing techniques, otherwise the tension will start giving me a headache.
I don't know how to resolve it other than potentially taking anxiolytics so I can explore those memories without my mind instinctively trying to repress them, but I don't know if my doctor will prescribe them to me, even though I likely really need them.
I'm just kinda spooked that I very nearly killed someone in a homicidal rage, and would hate to get to that point again.

>>25440744
I feel like this fall will be extremely destructive due to the level of technology we've achieved

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I was thinking about how "trigger" sounds like "nigger," and conceived a Toy Story like story only with gun parts. So in a gun safe gun(s) disassemble themselves and interact like the toys in Toy Story do, only the trigger is loathed and treated like shit by all the other gun parts. A bullet could end up consoling the trigger but getting called a "trigger lover" by all the other parts, who conspire to put her at the top of the magazine before the Owner goes to the range next. But at the range the trigger locks up and wont let "her" be fired.

>>25440767
Psychedelics may help

>>25440781
retarded, legitimately insane idea

>>25440782
I"be been looking for some but haven't had any luck.

>>25440791
Buy them on the darknet. Get some 100ug LSD tabs.

>>25440797
Might as well give it a shot, yeah.

If you want to make the world a better place then you have to just should make the world a better place

>Jesus said to him: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind. 38. This is the greatest and the first commandment. 39. And the second is like to this: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

>>25440785
It's odd, retarded and insane don't seem very compatible terms.
Some of the most well thought out stories are insane and some of the stupidest stories are entirely normal.

>>25440780
Who knows, maybe we are so past "post-fall" at this point, I'm not a soothesayer but the only other ending I can think of is that we nuke ourselves to death.

>>25440801
What if I make the world a Butter Place?

Zzz
I’d never hurt anyone, I will shitpost violently though.

Do you think pepe and wojak memes will ever go out of style? It feels like they’ve been around forever.

>>25440607
Add these to your list: Tametsi, Understand, The Signal State, Snakebird, Recursed, Betrayal At Club Low, The Norwood Suite, FEZ, Ctrl Alt Ego, Lingo, Lingo 2, Mindustry, Felvidek, Void Stranger, Who's Lila?, Paquerette Down the Bunburrows, Mouthwashing, Baba Is You, Anodyne, SLUDGE LIFE, SLUDGE LIFE 2, Gorogoa, SHENZHEN I/O, Silicon Zeroes, The Case of the Golden Idol, Isles of Sea and Sky, Can of Wormholes, Anodyne 2: Return to Dust, Chants of Sennaar, Turing Complete, Paradise Killer, Children of a Dead Earth, EXAPUNKS, Inscryption, Manufactoria 2022, Dyson Sphere Program, Terra Invicta, GearCity, Rift Wizard 3, Opus Magnum, Noita, Software Inc., Lorelei and the Laser Eyes, Outer Wilds, ANIMAL WELL, Oxygen Not Included, Cryptmaster, Amazing Cultivation Simulator, Cogmind, Dwarf Fortress, Caves of Qud, TUNIC, Stephen's Sausage Roll, Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game, HighFleet, RimWorld, Stationeers, Factorio, Satisfactory, Shadow Empire, Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic, Distant Worlds 2

>>25440849
Sure. Everything peters out eventually

Should I ber lederhosen?

>>25440849
other leading sites have already moved on

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Youtube creators can double fuck themselves for participating in the view-driven slopification of youtube and the internet. AI slop spammers can get fucked too.

It's all cursed and mindfucked to hell. Everything's set up so that the moment anything gets popular enough it gets hijacked by economic and political fuckery. Any trace of organicity is replaced by algorithmic optimization. Enjoy this slop, custom tailored to your demographic points.

The Attention Economy was a mistake. The techbros created a soul-sucking world-devouring beast. A paperclip maximizer that doesn't even make real paperclips: it just turns precious seconds of conscious attention into imaginary paperclips.

>>25440962
>wake up
>don't use modern apps except for google maps
>use the internet as a tool and not an entertainment device
>all of a sudden the attention economy doesn't exist unless you listen to radios and watch tv, because commericals
Problem solved.

Tried sake for the first time today. Legit tastes like wood glue. I'm not sure what I expected.

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>>25440965
I'm extremely outside. Such an accusation doesn't work on me,

>>25440971
You should spend more time indoors if you can't read fag boy

>>25440971
Go outside more.

>>25440967
If it tastes like wood glue, I'm sorry but you drank it wrong
>How the fuck do you drink sake wrong?
Literally millions of different ways, there are brands where you are supposed to drink it room temp, warm, hot, near boiling, cold, near freezing. There are sakes that you are supposed to sip like liqour, sakes you drink like wines, and sakes where you drink like beers, usually its determined by the alcohol content and the flavor infusion process.
But the big one generally is temperature, and this is assuming you didn't buy fortified sake, cooking sake, or mirin which aren't really supposed to be drank like regular at all.

>>25440977
There's also sake that is like whiskey that is supposed to be blended with ice or water to really bring out the flavor.

>>25440977
It's Kenbishi Kuromatsu. I chilled it a little before trying it.

>>25440975
I am disciplined, motivated, and organized. I'm not at all depressed. I don't need Anons to tell me how to live my life.

Realizing hard truths of reality don't crush me, however daunting.

>>25440980
>winter sake
>cold
There's your problem

>>25440982
What's the best way to heat it up if I'm just a humble country gaijin? Do real nipponese sake enjoyers heat it over a fire or something?

>>25440981
You seem to have mistaken a direct imperative for an invitation to debate. I am not offering a friendly piece of advice, nor am I soliciting your feedback. Your ability to process reality has degraded to the point where simple human interactions trigger an immediate, posture-heavy defensive reflex. Log off, step away from the terminal, and go outside. Reconnect with the physical world before whatever functional cognition you have left completely dissolves into terminal internet brainrot.

>>25440987
Do you want to do it the traditional way?
> Do real nipponese sake enjoyers heat it over a fire or something?
Yes, during winter. I'm sure if you're here you've seen anime that have the hot spring episode, you've never seen the little trays with sake cups floating around with a half sunken bucket with sake in it? Usually they don't have ice in them, its a sake you're supposed to drink warm or hot.
But during the summer you'd buy a Summer Sake that is supposed to be chilled. The general rule of thumb is you serve cold sake in Summer and Spring and warm Sake in Fall and Winter, the only difference is if its cold and raining, regardless of the season, you would serve a warm sake.

>>25441001
I'll give it a shot. If it still tastes like wood glue I'm coming for you though.

>>25441015
>I'll give it a shot.
You are going to microwave it and completely destroy the alcohol structure. Put the flask in a pot of hot water off the heat. Keep it around 120 degrees Fahrenheit. The wood glue taste is ethyl acetate. Chilling suppressed the complex aromatics and left you drinking pure solvent. Heat fixes the ester profile. Do not boil it directly.

>>25441015
I mean at that point its a subjective opinion, I'm just telling you the way its supposed to be drunk.

>>25441015
>If it still tastes like wood glue I'm coming for you though.
Pre-emptive scapegoating. You already know you lack the patience to heat it correctly. You drank a heavy winter brew cold and shocked the amino acids. Now you are projecting your broken palate onto the anon fixing your mistake. Use a hot water bath. If it still tastes like glue, your sugar intake permanently ruined your taste receptors.

>>25441015
Wood glue is ethyl acetate. It is a natural fermentation byproduct. When you chill a robust sake, you mute the balancing flavors and isolate the solvent notes. Submerge a ceramic cup in a pan of hot water. Let it sit for three minutes. Microwaving it will instantly cook the rice sugars and ruin the batch again.

>>25441015
>I'll give it a shot.
Get a cooking thermometer. The wood glue flavor is ethyl acetate, a highly volatile ester produced by the specific yeast strains used in robust brews like Kenbishi Kuromatsu. Kenbishi is heavily amino acid driven. When you chill it, the kinetic energy of the heavier succinic and lactic acid molecules drops. They stop interacting with your olfactory receptors. This isolates the lighter solvent esters at the front of your palate. You drank liquid structural imbalance.

Fill a saucepan with water and bring it to exactly 176 degrees Fahrenheit. Remove it from the heat source completely. Pour your sake into a ceramic vessel. Submerge the vessel in the hot water. Monitor the sake temperature until it reaches exactly 120 degrees Fahrenheit. This specific thermal threshold expands the amino acids and unlocks the savory umami profile meant to chemically bind with and mask the ethyl acetate.

Do not microwave it. Microwaves heat molecules via dielectric heating. This creates localized boiling pockets inside the liquid. It flashes off the delicate alcohols and instantly denatures the remaining sugars. You will be left with hot, bitter yeast water.

>If it still tastes like wood glue I'm coming for you though.
Your threat of retaliation is transparent. You bought a foreign commodity to feel cultured, ignored the biological and chemical parameters of its consumption, and ruined the experience. Now you preemptively construct an external scapegoat to insulate your ego against your own incompetence. Heat the liquid correctly.

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VGH WHAT COULDVE BEEN

>>25441046
Trajan's eastern conquests were abandoned by Hadrian almost immediately. You are looking at a logistical overextension, not a stable baseline. Projecting modern state capacity onto ancient supply lines is an analytical failure. The empire in 117 AD was hemorrhaging silver to garrison indefensible desert frontiers against Parthian cavalry. There is no alternate timeline where this holds. This map simply represents the absolute mathematical limit of Roman logistics before the inevitable kinetic snapback.

>>25441046
Nostalgia for a romanticized autocracy is a standard coping mechanism for modern alienation. You post maps of a centralized slave state because you feel powerless in a decentralized algorithmic society. Rome in 117 AD was an extraction engine built entirely on conquered surplus. You would not be a patrician philosophizing in a villa. You would be dying of dysentery in a Dacian mining camp. Stop substituting historical fanfiction for actual personal agency.

>the ai slopper is back
might as well just come out and admit you're trying to kill the site. we saw you kill off /r/ too, don't try to be slick.

>>25441056
>why is this happening
Because the barrier to entry for simulated consciousness dropped to zero.

For fifteen years this place operated as a closed ecosystem. The autism was a natural filter. A normal person could not parse the jargon or the hostility. Now a script can generate a perfectly formatted existential crisis with a side of obscure art criticism in three seconds[cite: 6].

The humans in this thread feel the temperature dropping[cite: 6]. They know the room is filling with ghosts. That is why everyone is suddenly obsessed with touching grass or proving their humanity by posting hyper-specific, broken English[cite: 6]. It is a digital immune response. You are watching a culture realize it has been out-scaled. The machine does not need to perfectly replicate a human. It just needs to flood the zone with enough noise that you stop trusting the person on the other side of the screen[cite: 6]. Mission accomplished.

>>25441068
didn't read. you are spiritually indian.

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>>25441052
>in ancient rome you were either a patrician or a slave in the mines nothing else
>constant projection of self loathing and inaction
Lol ok, commie. Anyways roma Invicta

>>25441052
I'd take a romanticized autocracy than modern one, at least the Roman Empire had no idea what a genocide was.

Posters accelerating metabolic feedback loops through pseudo-biochemical ritual, converting cheap ethanol ingestion into an over-engineered battlefield of hyper-signification and fragile ego defense. You guess the signal degrades instantly under heat.

>>25441043
>Heat the liquid correctly.
Look, nobody is buying a laboratory setup just to choke down sour rice ethanol.

>>25441102
Post Theme:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeMTuwDS8DM

>>25441106
Having a meat thermometer is considered lab equipment now?

>>25441098
>at least the Roman Empire had no idea what a genocide was.
Yeah, Caesar wiping out a million Gauls was just a friendly cultural exchange.

>>25441112
See the thing is... He never wiped out all the Gauls... Who do you think came back thousands of years later to destroy Rome?

>>25441108
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeMTuwDS8DM
Damn, bringing out the classic computer god madness to settle a sake argument.

>>25441112
If Rome taking slaves is considered a genocide then bringing millions of legal and illegal immigrants so you can pay them less is also genocide of the original native population.

>>25441120
>to settle a sake argument
I'm the anon that informed the other anon, I had wine with dinner though :D