/lounge/ - sushi social

>>20026
gorgeous forest I wish I was there

White to play
Sosonko vs K Helmers
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1127745&m=24

White to play
F de la Paz Perdomo vs Y Quesada Perez
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1708276&m=36

Black to play
S Volkov vs H Melkumyan
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1573275&m=37.5

I also don’t have any tips but I for some reason watch chess YouTubers even though I don’t understand chess? Idk why i just feel entertained regardless

White to play
L Schut vs N E Menzi
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1561236&m=26

>>14248
I always liked bos. It's a little more chill than his usual stuff but has a nice feel. And windmills.

FREEBIRD

my favorite pigmhall is this one. I wish he'd do me 3d ones because they're cool.

>Oldest vid is 17 years ago
Dedication

saw this weird vid

I heard that many japanese engage in shinto practices and ritual, even though they don't strictly believe in it. The way I heard it it was compared to throwing a coin into a wishing well. People do it, but if you actually asked them why they do it and if they are a true believer in wishing-wellism, they would probably say no, it's just a cultural practice. Same when Japanese throw a 5 yen coin into the offering box at a jinja, or go for the first shrine visit of the new year. If you want to "authentically" practice shinto as the majority of people actually do, it's just a series of rituals which people perform because they're culturally normal. To wit, it doesn't make sense to practice shinto if you're not within that culture.

>>20028
On the other hand, the idea of religion and culture as separate and the idea that you have to "believe in" a practice for it to be religiously valid is a very western, even Abrahamic notion. Most historical religions are shockingly transactional when it comes to the sort of small scale rituals and offerings you're talking about. The wishing well is a pretty good example. You don't need to believe in the wishing well. It doesn't care whether or not you believe in it. It just works. Most "genuine" religious knowledge consists of stuff people simply know is true, like how people in Asia "just know" that if you sneeze it means someone's talking shit about you behind your back. I mean, that's how it has to be. Religion is still talking about the world as a whole, and people understand the world through knowledge. Imperfect knowledge is still knowledge.

>>19648
Medieval Europeans mostly didn't assume people were separate from nature, if anything they mostly assumed that humans were distinct but very much part of nature (since they could hardly be anything else). What they did tend to assume is that nature was massively powerful and full of things they could not actually control or even understand without divine help.

The idea that nature is something to be protected is extremely modern and would be utterly absurd in earlier times. That would be like saying we need to protect the sun, or protect the electromagnetic force. You don't have the right to speak of protecting nature, you don't qualify to do so. When most ancient types spoke of being in tune with nature they mostly considered it as "being in tune with how you were supposed to be to begin with", because most of them didn't assume that humans were actually not part of nature in the first place. Respecting nature and thinking it needed to be protected are completely different concepts.

Honestly even in the modern world it's pretty weird how "people" and "nature" are separated, or "natural" and "supernatural", or "science" and "magic/superstition". Historically all of these pairs were the same thing. It's really only Enlightenment era windbags who felt the need to prove they were smarter than everyone who came before that started making hard separations to this effect.

>>20028
The idea that religiousity is measured by the amount of conviction people have in dogmas is really a Protestant idea. I doubt that idea of belief ever really mattered to the vast majority of ordinary Japanese. But you are right that most Japanese are about as 'religious' as Europeans due to a bunch of factors from political meddling to Westernization. State Shinto didn't see itself as a religion and the modern Japanese worldview is materialist. Its more like how Europeans celebrate Christmas but aren't religious and don't see themselves as believers. But still belief in Kami is still around in society and surfaces from time to time, just like Christianity does in secular Western countries. Its indirectly influenced everything from robotics to otaku culture.

>>20029
>>20030
I think you guys have read too deeply into my post. My apologies for phrasing myself poorly. I didn't mean to imply that shinto practices are somehow not genuine or are inferior to western religious practices, I was just noting an observation. In particular I wanted to comment on the idea of converting to shinto, and how that may not make sense if you don't live in Japan. Basically I wanted to say that it seems to me shinto is not a private or personal religious practice, rather it's a set of cultural rituals which lose their meaning when separated from that culture.

For some reason, every year, I try to quit smoking in the summer and end up failing as soon as we get the first chilly day of autumn. It's pure clockwork. I guess the pleasant weather is a trigger.
It's been abnormally hot, though. I spent a good chunk of the usual cig money on a standing fan instead.

>>20004
I feel as if autumn is simply the most attractive time to smoke. I think back to all of those people that like to romanticize the fall season with books, coffee, large tweed coats, turtlenecks. I think cigarettes simply play into that vision of autumn a little too well.

>>20004
I'd hope you would try vaping to ween your self of nicotine (not disposable, mix your own fluid)

But do agree with >>20009 I can fully visualize the scene they're portraying. The leaves are yellow/orange on a leafy US Uni campus and you clock your prof looking how they describe before class taking a drag outside with their coffee while some mid west-y emo-y type music plays in your ear buds in your beanie. I WANT TO GO BACK TAKE ME BACK (i was never there…)

I've gone back into employment and these SLAVERS want me to work one day a week. I've been trying to live with this new reality but who knows how long I can last. Outside of that, I've been so busy being the best that I lose all motivation when it comes to enjoying my free time. I have no drive to be lazy… I haven't even been dedicating 1 hour to sushiposting like I used to…

I get sick without fail every autumn and this autumn was no different
But I only ever get sick during the autumn so every year by the time it's autumn again, I've forgotten how absolutely miserable it is to have a fever and be sore all over and be fatigued an hour after I wake up.

But yeah I like the autumn. I can sit outside and it's neither ridiculously hot nor freezing, and it's a good time for jogging, too.

>it always feels like you can blink and miss the whole thing if you're not careful
The temperature changes too fast. Autumn is supposed to be three months long but the actual comfortable temperatures only last for a month or so. Before then it's just summer but not so hot, afterwards it's winter but not so cold yet.

>>19774
Wouldnt more people be angry at you not trying to get out of that situation into a better life when you really clearly arent comfortable with it. It isnt your fault or anything.

>>19774
dude, this is gonna be hard to hear, but they already hate you; that's why they're abusing you. This isn't love, it's hate. Being homeless will be a better option than being under that roof. There are options, there are centers which take people in, there are even mental hospitals which would definitely take someone like you right now - and that doesn't make you insane either.

Just because people have it worse doesn't mean you don't deserve better. Please take the reigns in your own life and seek the freedom you deserve. You can get out of this, it just will take effort. I know you've been worn down and you're tired now, but that's what they're counting on.

They are using you for your money to live a life off of you. You are their slave, not their child. That is all they see you as and that is all they will ever see you as and you do not deserve that on the pure fact that you are a human being. No human being deserves that. None. You deserve better, and you can have better. You just need to take it with everything you've got.

Pester the bank, pester the police, pester the church, pester your neighbors, pester whoever the fuck you need to to get out of the situation. It doesn't matter if it mildly inconveniences them, and if they care even a little modicum about the situation, it won't be an inconvenience I sincerely promise that.

>>19774
like, sincerely, just think about the life you could have. You could have a partner, you could have your own house or apartment, you could move to whatever city you want wherever you want, you can go to school if you want to again, you can play video games even more if you want to, you can *make* video games, you can make children, you can get better jobs, you can be completely independent and free (within the guidelines of the State of course). You just need to realize that, and use all of your remaining energy to seize it.

It will take time, it will take effort, it will be laborious and tumultuous at times, you will still end up feeling pain in the process of getting out, but ideally after the process is done you can move on. You can finally grieve over the life you left behind and the trauma that's been weighing you down for your entire life up till this point.

I really don't know who you are or if this is even a real story due to >imageboard culture but if this is at all real I just wish I could give you a hug and tell you in person that you deserve better.

Nothing.

>>14877
nothing, it doesn't take effort to keep going

>>11943
> Do not ask what you can buy to become comfy, ask what you can get rid of to become comfy.
This is the ideal I wished to attain, but have been unable to. It seems now isn't quite yet the time when I can let go of what it material and become a hut man.
Perhaps the idea in my mind was simply to austere and cruel to my own self, the more minimal I tried to live, the more miserable I became.
This is not to say that material possessions are the source of joy, but that I may have been seeking such disconnection for flawed reasons.

>>19407
what about Neptune?

>>19287
Yeah I'll probably never buy a laptop again. I have a tablet that uses a computer OS, so with a folding keyboard it does everything I'd want a laptop to do. Or I can mount it and pretend it's a desktop or even just a monitor or digital picture, which is a pretty sleek setup. It reminds me of how those mac pcs are, but smaller and portable.

Today I spent almost $150 on the most comfortable pair of sandals I've ever wore. I have chronic back and joint pain so I hope this helps while I get used to walking around more again now that I've moved back to a city. I regret being as frugal as I have with shoes over the years now. It seems uncharacteristic of me too since I always put a lot of thought into good ergonomics in other areas like beds and office chairs but I've just been painfully walking around in poorly-fitting ratty shoes with no support for years.

Don't neglect your feet, Sushi!

absolutely lifechanging - usb c clothing shaver. all my socks look pristine now

>>13606
Oh. Thanks for the qrd on qrd!

>>13606
Based and qrdpilled

>>13606
i don't know if true

>>13672
Probably not

fact no 1: its easier to find sushigirl by googling qrdpill than by googling sushigirl

One tip I can share is to forgive your parents and move on…

The other day my mom (late forties, no education) sent me a picture of a prize she received for her hard work at school's cafeteria. She was really proud of that and I found it cute.

>>19759
Your mom is still in school?

>>19760
yes, lol. she works there as a cook

I try to understand why someone might be doing something, and that usually helps. I also just don't like to start conflict, and so I let things slide even if they shouldn't.

>>19759
Forgiving your parents only really works if you maintain enough distance they can't easily hurt you anymore. Im not OP but if I forgave my parents I will be doomed

>>19764
Yes conflict avoidance, though dont let it get to the point you silence your needs to favor the perceived feelings of others