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It's not purely a desire to be observed, unless you're an exhibitionist and get off on attention alone. You probably wouldn't enjoy being famous for negative reasons (infamous) and receiving only criticism and hate. For me: - Ego - Praise - Positive feedback - Validation that what I'm doing is important and provides value, people enjoy it - Impact / contribution - Leaving your mark on history, leaving something behind that continues after your death, beyond your immediate friends/family

You're way overthinking this, to the point of creating imaginary situations that can't even exist. "What if I lose interest in a guy but don't want to lose him" What??? Just get in a real relationship and see what happens, instead of living in hypotheticals in your head. This is like reading about martial arts for 10 years and creating all kinds of advanced scenarios in your head when you've never even thrown your first punch in real life. Worry about just getting to the point that you've had sex with a guy once first. Most people totally fuck up their first few relationships, and you probably will too.

Cabin fever has the requirement of "long confinement or isolation for an extended period of time". I don't think you can get it from just one day inside Did your country not have covid lockdowns, or how is it the first time you're experiencing this? More than likely it was those low-consciousness activities making you ashamed to look people in the eyes, rather than the isolation.

Post-nut clarity is not something you want to cure, it's the only time a man sees straight and can make rational decisions. You want to nut before you make any important life decisions, especially involving a woman.

Ask yourself if you're really approaching the monastic life for the right reasons, or if you're just using it as a way to escape from everyday life and responsibilities. Becoming a monk isn't an easy way out where you just get to sit around and do nothing, meditate a couple of hours a day when you feel like it. It's hard f**king work. When you're not praying or begging for food, you'll be doing difficult and physically-demanding chores. Then you go back to your empty room that's too hot in the summer and freezing in the winter and try to get a few hours sleep before you wake up at like 3 - 5 am and do it again.

In a world of deepfakes, nobody is gonna believe that it isn't CGI anyway. Dozens of "experts" would do videos debunking it if it went viral. You could publish a real video of a Bigfoot in 4k and perfect lighting and people would just say "wow, really realistic mask / prosthetics" There's a reason he hasn't found a camera that's capable of capturing it yet. Just like why they say you can't see a vampire in mirrors.

I've been trying to watch it for years but they make it freaking impossible to do it legally in Canada. I don't have Hulu or HBO Max (neither is available in Canada without a VPN.) I don't want to pay for a service and then also have to **** around with VPNs. It's also region-locked on the Adult Swim website and you need a cable provider login to watch half the episodes anyway. Between Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Disney+ I feel like I should be able to get it, but nope. On Amazon Prime you have to pay extra for it ($20/season, I'd just buy it on DVD for that price.)

You can't predict how either your or your bf's sex drive will settle long-term. Base your relationship around more than just sex, and hope that your levels of desire are similar enough to be compatible without one being way more or less than the other. It would be silly to rule out a potential life partner based on your sex drives early in the relationship, because for both of you it's likely to change in unexpected and unpredictable ways. It's not a meme that lots of couples only have sex once a year on their anniversary.

Man I was hoping this was going to be a Bible-inspired RPG, where you play as a different character for different chapters or books of the Bible. Imagine playing as Noah and having to play a survival game where you build the ark and round up 2 of each animal in time before the flood hits. Being Moses and leading people out of Egypt and parting the sea, then perfectly crashing it down on all the Egyptian chariots behind you. Tower of Babel minigame where you try to stack blocks as high as you can. David vs Goliath with a slingshot I'd play the crap out of that. If your life's mission is really evangelizing Christianity, you have to actually make it super appealing to kids. A glorified ebook isn't gonna cut it.

Yeah, if you don't enjoy reading fiction, then why would you want to fake it to be friends with readers? Find people with common interests instead. If you like sports, there are lots of people who will talk to you about sports. Same with video games, and pretty much every hobby. If you want to find people who are interested in spirituality, psychology, philosophy... then try to think of where those kinds of people hang out, and go there. Yoga class, a workshop or book signing, a retreat, look for groups on meetup.com, etc. Then you don't have to fake it, you can find people to talk to about things you're really interested in.

If you want to fake it, then yeah I'd read summaries / "Cole's Notes" condensed versions of books. Or listen to a video summarizing the main points on Youtube. I question whether people are really into reading fiction, to the point that it's a vector for starting conversations. Can't remember the last time I heard someone talk about reading a book. Unless you're specifically in a book club where you're guaranteed to be reading the same book as a bunch of other people, there has to be a more valuable way to spend your time for starting conversations. You spend 50 hours reading some Tolstoy book, ask someone "Have you read X?" They say no, you just wasted 50 hours. Find people who read and talk about non-fiction, or people who don't read at all lol. Go watch some Marvel movies if you want to connect with normies, that'll get you way further than reading a bunch of literary classics. Every time I'm around people they're talking about superhero crap.

He's mentioned the forum at the end of the last several videos. Probably most of them in the past year. You guys do watch his videos all the way to the end right? RIGHT??? Some of my favorite insights come in the last 5 - 10 minutes of videos. Admittedly the forum is usually the last on his list of plugs after the LP course, book list, etc. And he does sometimes seem a little ashamed to even mention it, like it's an afterthought. I'd be ashamed of us too. There's also not really anything in it for him, more forum activity means more time moderating.

There's a growing trend of people replying to a message with a single GIF or image and no text, which seems to be gaining in popularity and slowly taking over the forum. I feel like it brings down the consciousness level of the discussion, and makes the forum as a whole look silly and immature. Maybe I'm just a boomer, but to me, responding with an image shows a lack of respect for the person you're replying to. It comes across as really passive-aggressive. It doesn't add anything to the discussion. It's also really distracting to scroll down a thread and see moving images out of the corner of your eye while trying to read as well. It's worse than ALL CAPS. MrGirl said that when he removed the ability for people to use emojis and reacts in his Discord, and the quality of conversation went way up and became way less toxic after he did so. So to keep the quality of discussions here as high as possible, I'd recommend the same. If you agree, please reply with:

I'd be cool with the government subsidizing (even fully covering the costs of) adoption from poor countries. Right now they don't exactly make adoption easy or a realistic alternative. My wife had fertility issues and we looked into adopting. But it was far faster, cheaper and easier to do IUI (and IVF if we had needed it) instead. It can take years and $20k+ to adopt a kid, even from the countries that are trying to get rid of them. Not including airfare and other costs. If you want to adopt a child from China, Russia, or most places, you have to fly over for an in-person interview.

That's nuts At least it's not creepy like Loab, the first AI-generated cryptid that keeps popping up in random images.

Navel gazing on steroids -- nut gazing. All the cool kids are doing it.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/128771848/wireless-electricity-for-the-masses-could-become-a-reality-thanks-to-kiwi-startup https://news.mit.edu/2022/portable-desalination-drinking-water-0428 The number of cancer survivors is projected to increase by 24.4% by 2032 Also you can't really look at cancer as a single disease, it varies a lot depending on where in the body you get it. Testicular cancer is already 95% curable, 98% if caught early. Other cancers have below 10% survival even if you catch them early. If you've thought of a possible invention, chances are someone's already at least partway to making it a reality. The mindblowing future inventions are the technologies that are 20+ years out because they're so groundbreaking that it's hard to even conceive of them at this point in human development. Or they rely on other tech that hasn't been invented yet.

Like you say, rich people are already capable of flying people in to fight to the death, Squid Games style though. If I was a billionaire, I'd find it way more satisfying to have an IRL gladiator arena than to watch someone die in a video game and have their head explode. If you get caught running this kind of ring, your crime is gonna be mass murder either way. Even if you ship headsets to poor people and they willingly put it on. So why would you ever opt for VR hunger games instead of IRL hunger games?

This alien consciousness thing is like the whole solipsism debacle all over again... suddenly everyone coming out of the woodwork as an alien

Still going, still gonna change my avvy to a coomer if I break it. Last night I had a dream with Amouranth... it's not what you think though. I told her how much I respect her as a businesswoman and asked her to tell me about all of her hopes and dreams and we both ended up crying together and bonding about how hard life is. I swear women can sense a change in your hormones, pheromones, or something after you've gone like a week without fapping and they're all over you. My wife has started to say/do sexually suggestive stuff the last couple of days so it's about to get dicey. Notice women looking at me when I'm out in public, almost turning their heads as I pass. Had this happen where I become irresistible to women every time I try nofap lol. I always end up losing to sex and not porn. In the other NNN thread someone mentioned Destroy Dick December which sounds hilarious, where Dec 1 you fap once, Dec 2 twice, Dec 3 three times, etc. I'm probably going to try that just for the memes when this month is over. For some people, "too much of a good thing" and forcing yourself to overindulge until it's painful might be more of a motivator to quit fapping than abstinence. It'll be an interesting contrast. If you feel like you're missing out, just tell yourself that you'll make it up next month Anyway if you're still in this, you're over 25% of the way there, keep going!

It just takes a while to wrap your head around. If you're a millennial, there are a few other millennial comedians like Sam Hyde or Jreg who can help bridge the gap between irony and meta-irony. The big thing is getting over the "I can't tell if they're joking or not" -- The answer is always yes to both.

Leo locked the original thread about it for a reason, just wait and see. I have a feeling we'll get the answer to all of our questions and more in time. It sounds like he just needs some time to integrate and find a way to explain it. He's gotta think of the hundreds of stupid ways we might misinterpret it and account for that as well.

Type all your posts/replies in a Google Doc and then paste it over when you're done

Weird to me that there aren't any listed creative activities you can do that'll make your attractiveness go into the negative (aka repel / repulse people). I can think of some jobs in general -- mortician, septic tank servicer, or any job that elicits a disgust response when you mention it -- but not in the creative area. I think in those cases, people would be more weirded out by your job, than not having a job at all.