falling-star
13hr ago
Not really. I have about 200 mg of caffeine a day, either as a single energy drink or some coffee.
falling-star
1d ago
My personal magnetism and general vibes went way up recently. The amount of people approaching and talking to me in public has went up from basically zero to multiple per day. I'm getting a lot of compliments on my clothes, haircut, and dancing, but those haven't changed at all. I got a first date off a spontaneous interaction, first one in a while. (Didn't go anywhere though).
Internally, I feel a lot more Aware and clear headed. Going to briefly list out interventions I've been doing that I think have contributed. Hopefully this helps any lurkers that feel unpleasantly stuck in their head.
- No recreational/performance enhancing drugs (20 days). Benefits appeared around day 5.
- 2 drink max limit on social drinking.
- Only focus on one thing at a time. No glancing at phone while watching TV. No listening to music while reading news.
- Consistent sleep schedule. (Feel more tired on net, objectively getting more done)
- 5htp daily, once in morning once at night.
- Reading print novels. Whenever possible I try to sit in the sun while reading. Massive same day brain fog reduction.
- Up class my youtube consumption. Anything that feels trashy or brainrotty I skip. I'm mostly watching animated films and lectures now.
- Replace doomscrolling with watching anime/playing story based games.
- Accept all social invitations by default. Host more social stuff at my house. Makes it feel less like a depression chamber and more of a home base.
Other effects/benefits
- Much higher extroversion. Much higher social battery. I had people over at my house every day for six days straight before I needed a break.
- General improved cognition. Improved coding/problem solving ability. Improved reading speed.
- Becoming wittier and funnier. Faster at wordplay and quicker to catch things.
- Lower neuroticism. Bad shit happens, I don't get as shook.
- Posting more to social media
- Much stronger preference for fruit and hot meals? Idk why but that's happening.
falling-star
1d ago
You can take me off the ping list. My goals and priorities have shifted.
falling-star
3d ago
I must be smoking crack or something. Aphrodite in II comes off as more feminine than Aphrodite in I. The lips, eyes, and nose just seem cuter? more feminine?
falling-star
4d ago
You really gotta watch the movie Scanners if you haven't already. Fucking love it for the vibes. The dialogue is extremely stilted in a disorienting way that loops around to being hilarious.
falling-star
4d ago
I say "inshallah" casually. I remember once a bunch of people stopping and asking if I was muslim. No it's just funny
falling-star
6d ago
I really wish we had a public ideology that things can be legal but heavily stigmatized and discouraged. It feels like the second something is legal, certain left-wing characters start screeching for it to be de-stigmatized. Once it's de-stigmatized it starts getting actively promoted, especially if someone can make money off it.
falling-star
7d ago
One point on the 1-10 scale is a big deal though. What if it was 0.1 points on the scale? 0.01?
My broader point is that looks aren't literally everything for guys, even if they're the most important factor. Guys aren't pure looks maximizers. They frequently make tradeoffs against pure looks. This is more pronounced when you look at relationships than casual sex. Imagine a 7.5 whose hobbies are watching the office and tiktok, versus a 7.3 who plays guitar at fun house parties and gets your homies invited. Which would you rather date?
falling-star
8d ago
I agree with your overall point but you're overselling how focused guys are on looks and underselling how much they care about other factors. Both men and women are attracted to creativity and status. Every time I ask a friend what they like about a girl they just started seeing, something creative comes up. "She draws", "She published a novel", "She plays guitar". People with creative pursuits tend to be more interesting to talk to.
Girls max out how attractive they can make themselves. Maybe you start as a physical 5/10. With great effort you get yourself to 7/10, but you're unable or unwilling to advance further. The same distinguishing logic works for the 7/10 as the 4/10. 7/10 looks + cool beats 7/10 + boring. Also you seem more like a peer to rockstar types when you also have a musical career, so it's a winning strategy for nabbing them. See the singer from The Distillers marrying Josh Homme from Queens of the Stone Age.
Additionally: your theory predicts female rockstars should be mid, but that's not what I see? Girls in bands, both big and small, tend to be a bit prettier and more stylish than baseline. (Pop music girls tend to be just straight hot. Why that difference is another issue entirely). It helps get the audience emotionally invested when you're easy to look at. Once I went to a diner before a show. There was a girl there that was way prettier than anyone else there. She was getting stares the whole time. When I went to see the show I found out she was one of the acts.
falling-star
10d ago
Hardboiled Wonderland makes me feel like I need to be buying Jazz records. I just started The Trial and I'm surprised by how fast I'm reading it.
falling-star
10d ago
In this thread we post objects that make our daily lives better.
I'll start. My leather wrist watch. It has a date of the month indicator. I used to always forget the date, now I can tell without looking at my phone. The battery never dies, unlike my phone. The second hand is more convenient for timing short things than starting a timer.
falling-star
11d ago
I'm fairly sure that politicians and their staffers are coping with the high energy demands and stress with prescription pills. I think a lot of weird incidents by politicians in public can be explained by this. When you're absolutely fucking exhausted but staying on your feet and performing with stimulants, sometimes the exhaustion can suddenly win and you go down like a puppet that had its strings cut. Literally or metaphorically.
falling-star
11d ago
I just finished reading Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Murakami. Started it like a year ago, stopped reading at the 70% mark. The vibes are pretty good. It's effectively two stories in one. One's sort of a detective style story, the other feels like a dark fairy tale. The prose in the dark fairy tale part is really powerful.
My friend gave me shit for taking a year to finish reading a book. So to prove a point I read After Dark by Murakami in three days. The plot and themes were much more allegorical than Hardboiled Wonderland. Much more dream/magical thinking logic in play. It didn't get great reviews on reception, but it was a better use of my time than doomscrolling. A lot of the deeper themes seem like gesturing at Moloch (in Scott's sense) and the underbelly of japanese society. It makes me want to stay up all night at a Denny's while on LSD.
Thinking of starting Kafka's The Trial. Or I could pick up Blood Meridian again. I stopped that one halfway through.
falling-star
13d ago
Ah a time honored tradition. You should check out this channel for some other animated bits https://youtube.com/@dinosaurclub/videos. My fave is definitely this one https://youtube.com/watch?v=tljMLMxil2M. I have been at that exact train stop on the New York subway and it could happen.
falling-star
15d ago
My lower back around my spine is already feeling a bit off after getting my squat above a plate. I'm not sure if I ever properly learned what position to keep my back in. At my best I used to be squatting 250 lbs. I'd like to get back there soon but without hurting myself.
falling-star
22d ago
Yay my first AACQ! I would like to thank the academy.
falling-star
22d ago
I took MDMA at a party. Taking 5-HTP for a few days afterwards is the established wisdom for not having an awful hangover. I decided to just keep taking it and aside from feeling a bit sleepy, things are pretty great.
falling-star
22d ago
I've been taking 5-HTP every day since engaging in some street psychiatry. The clouds have parted just a little, and the world feels easier. I might take this next month off from drinking and drugs to focus on exercise and writing. Locktober sounds like a fun name for it.
I have pretty much no interest in eating lately which is bad. I'm worried this is going to clip my gym gains. I've been using my unemployment time to wander around on 40 mile bike rides.
falling-star
22d ago
Must be different worlds man. I saw plenty of sundresses all over deep blue New England. Also being a raver, I get no shortage of E girl fashion. Goth girls, frilly dress girls, anime style girls. They all want to look cute for each other and everyone else. And they're dating. I'm also in my 20s so maybe that changes shit.
falling-star
22d ago
Good post. I wanted to make something similar but much more narrow. I keep reading the whole "women trade sex for resources" talking point repeated as dogma here. I feel like that fundamentally misses that women are also human. They like sex and love and relationships too! I've dated girls when I was broke. They probably spent more on me than I did on them. But they thought I was cute and liked spending time with me.
falling-star
23d ago
In the show I think she's 14 and acts 14. IIRC Kazuma is 17 in the show. It's less weird they end up together, considering they're both NEETs at heart.
I dated a girl once with the megumin body type. She was 28. And starved as a child. Whoops.
Yunyun best girl.
falling-star
23d ago
Related, I stopped playing multiplayer games. I hated having to keep up or keep my skills sharp. I have things to do. I want to game on my own terms, probably finish the game eventually.
falling-star
24d ago
I'm pretty sure he's shown as being into Darkness and Wiz physically. He just doesn't like their personalities. I think the non-attraction is specifically towards Aqua, on account of her being a massive dumbass.
falling-star
1mo ago
Saw in another post you're taking GLP-1s. You might want to put that on hold while you get through this current ambitious stretch. Avoid overextension.
I don't know how much is even a shit test. I frequently see women get upset about thing A, then go on to complain about unrelated thing B (which is actually fine). The most self aware of them will apologize to me days later and tell me this explicitly. The majority do not.
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