/lounge/ - sushi social

>>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

2024 ~ the year of when the game changed

>>19577
>Awake overnight or asleep overnight Direct Service Professional
wow I finally have a name for the job I did in the army

Despite good intentions I absolutely fucked up this year and now I'm stuck in a shitty situtation that I practically put myself into. I've noticed the following flaws that are the cause of this.

1. Inability to make decisions, probably stemming from deep anxiety, fear of loss, fear of failure, and low self-esteem.
2. Avoidant behavior i.e. avoiding or delaying things like talking to people or paperwork because its psychologically stressful and depressing.
3. Chip on the shoulder. Resenting other people and myself for past greviences, or perceived greviences.
4. Poor time management, bad spatial awarenss, and shitty attention span meaning I get taken advantage of or mess basic things up because I didn't read things properly. I've tried reading stuff over multiple times but this still doesn't fix severe attentiond defecit.

How do I fix this garbage? I've got notebooks so I can write info down and map out my day. I'm thinking of grabbing a digital watch so I can keep track of time without getting sucked into the smartphone. I still have the attention span of a baby chimp on cocaine but hopefully with discipline things will get better. But I have no idea what to do for 1. and 2. I struggle to email people or even talk on the phone. I clam up and sutter easily. And if I have to send messages or do paper work or go outside I put it off for as long as possible. This has led me to massively fuck up my life and down the path of wasted opportunities and letting myself rot all year.

>>20007
>I struggle to email people or even talk on the phone.
Practice! I had this problem too, so I used to rehearse every call I had to make. After some time I didn't even feel anxiety when unknown numbers called me up. I used to reply with messages to avoid talking, silly.

If you struggle with e-mails, use AI assistance. You can ask it how they would interpret your message and it will also tell what you can do better. I use it a lot when discussing things on the webz - maybe even for this reply? Heheh.

>digital watch
Hell yeah, it can really help. If you can, turn off your smartphone too. I do that, and also put it in a place where I am too lazy to pick it up from. That goes for everything that distracts me. Regarding sounds I put rain on speakers, it masks irregular noises that make me lose focus. Unfortunately I do not have a strong will, so I have all kinds of dumb tricks to force me to be productive.

Basically I limit access to everything that is more interesting than my work - LeechBlock is a great extension for that, if you struggle with web surfing.

I think that is all I can offer help with, sorry!

>>19755
wow that seems OP

I appreciate you bringing this to my attention sushi roll.

>>18742
うわマジ分かるそれドラゴンボール凄いよね実はアタシそれも見たけど米国なので海外バージョンを見ましたよ字幕なしフランス語ｖｈｓけどそう言ったらいつもの奴らはアタシを責められるとか虐められるとか困るよ本当に実は日本語でこういう事言ったらあいつら何も分からないので日本語便利よねきっとそもそもフランス語あんまり上手くないけど信じる？ただ苦痛してたちょっと少し分かってきちゃったって中々展開を分かってきたよマジでなのに米国はドランゴンボールマニアはＺから始めました寂しい気分って感じそれにあっアタシこのキャラ知ってるよ悟空は幼い頃の冒険アニメもあるよ信じてよとか言って誰も信じませんでしたよマジ激おこ場合だったよ実はあんたのレスを読んだら既にドランゴンボールも見たい気分になっちゃうよそうしようとどう思う❓

>>18742
>誰も読まぬ未完全日本語は甲斐もない。上の存在の意見・訂正に参照しなければならぬ。要は読者は大事である。

思えば、上の発言は無礼の極りである。
なぜなら、ココに読者はある。本国人であらずものの読者は読者。
そしてその読者の意見・レスの答えは長らく遅れている。

>>14489
我より経験と使う機会が多いと思われる。
正直我より上手い様だ。
友人を大切にしよう。

>>14494
祈ってくれて感謝する。
今日の状況は改良にした。
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>>18775
えええぇどうしてダウンボるのよ読者に失礼じゃなくない？アタシ真剣にリプしたけどアンタは私ギャル候補者に名乗らたのよ信じらんない💢💢

>>18930
>アンタは私ギャル候補者に名乗らたのよ信じらんない
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>アンタは私ギャル候補者に名乗られたって信じらんない
めんご…

>ヲタ仙
いい響きだな今日からこれ名乗るわ

Forested hills. The area I live in has many rolling hills with caves and cliffs, and forests cover this whole area. Trees are maybe my favorite thing ever, so it's nice.

Mars gets all the attention but Venus is so much more interesting. It has a surface so hot it could melt lead shrouded by clouds of acid. Its so alien but so much like our Earth at the same time.

I started on my Sanskrit learning journey not long ago. I am happy to say it's going fine, as far as fine can go with just a few days of study. I always wanted to learn Sanskrit, not out of a particular interest in Indian culture and literature (though I plan to read the Mahabharata), but because, generally, I am a sucker for ancient languages. When I'm done with the Sanskrit book, I'll probably read one for Ancient Greek.
I can't help but feel I'm perhaps putting too much on my plate, being primarily interested in chinese culture and being, for the last few years, learning Classical Chinese. The effort I've been putting on Sanskrit prompts me to put at least an equal amount of effort on CC, especially now that I've been reading yijing (aka I Ching) commentaries.
Oh, but it doesn't end there! I am also actively learning Russian these days. I also put some effort in learning Russian, but by now I'm stretching myself a bit too thin, especially with time, as I try to squeeze at least some time for Russian in my daily study.
All this comes with no small effort at acculturation with the respective cultures of these languages, which increases the amount of material to read. I've been trying to read history and fiction, mostly from China and Russia, and some meta about the Mahabharata (did I mention I plan to read it?), which taken all together amounts to quite a bit of overload on my brain.
Considering I have other stuff to do in my day, I don't want to neglect it by focusing too much on my language studies, nor to neglect one for the sake of the other. I am happy to be able to learn Sanskrit and Classical Chinese, I wouldn't want to put them aside, but I don't want to end up burning myself out.
Maybe I will just cut back a bit on the part of reading history and fiction, which is, as usually happens to me, a product of a bit of an overly eager intellectual ambition.

>>19607
What resources do you recommend for Classical Chinese? I really want to learn it. I love ancient and classical languages too but they soak up a lot of time and there pay off isn't obvious. There are too many great languages and books to learn and so little time.

>>19610
>What resources do you recommend for Classical Chinese?
My favourite book is Kai Vogelsang's 'Introduction to Classical Chinese', that, along with Paul Rouzer's 'A New Practical Primer' should be sufficient.
There are others, though, I also like Archie Barnes' 'Du's handbook of Classical Chinese Grammar' and 'Chinese Through Poetry'.
For a first look into it, Van der Norden's 'Classical Chinese for Everyone' is a very brief book giving a first taste for the language, you should start by reading that one.
Obviously ctext.org for classical texts and an on-line dictionary.
> I love ancient and classical languages too but they soak up a lot of time and there pay off isn't obvious.
They do. For me the pleasure lies in the process itself. However little additional understanding I can get from even a brief brush with a language makes the reading of ancient texts, even in translation, many times more enjoyable. There are usually very many terms involved which have no easy translation, and meeting the language halfway adds a lot to the experience.
I don't think I would ever reach the point of being able to 'just read' the Mahabharata in the original without any aid. I enjoy the challenge of making sense of the original even if I depend on the translation. There is, for example, Sargeant Withrop's Bhagavad-Gita, which comes with thorough glosses for each word, showing all the grammatical information (such as verb roots, conjugation, case, number, etc).
>There are too many great languages and books to learn and so little time.
Ikr, hence I am also learning Russian, so maybe I can read Tolstoi, Chekhov, Dostoievsky, Akhmatova, Lermontov, Pushkin…

>>19612
Btw for anyone interested in the New Testament, here is a site with the original Greek, with dictionary and all!
https://biblewebapp.com/reader/

>>19612
Thanks a bunch Sushi! I'm gonna start on Classical Chinese in a few months. Barnes Poetry book is great even if its a bit technical. I'm going to see if there are any Chinese culture/language clubs around my local area who can help me out too. I really want to dig into classical Chinese philosophy and religion with the original literature.

>I don't think I would ever reach the point of being able to 'just read' the Mahabharata in the original without any aid
I get the feeling that its easy to hit a plateau and burn out or never develop further because you have vastly fewer opportunities to speak in or use a 'dead' literary language.

I spent the entire day styling the hair on a life sized doll I owned.
I haven't been so focused in years, it's kind of scary. Is this the power of Moe?

leaves are turning :D

DORK ALERT DORK ALERT DORK ALERT
Dork SPOTTED in /kawaii/
Suspect wears glasses and is EXTREMELY awkward
>>>/kawaii/2322
CIVILIANS ARE ADVISED TO KEEP A SAFE DISTANCE
DORK ALERT DORK ALERT DORK ALERT

kowarete iru no? kowarete iru yo?
sore demo iki wooo shitaiiii, shitaiii
kimi ni miete ta no yume no you ni saigo no
kotoba mo tsumaru yooooo errorrrrrrrrrrrrr#####

It depends. I struggle with pathological anxiety, with it exacerbated at night when I'm tired. So I play it more as relaxing noise to distract myself. It's never anything creepy or erotic, it's usually Tolkien or video game lore.

I prefer going to sleep to stories.

As for NSFW female stuff it only reminds me of what I don't have and I have no intention to engage in parasocial fantasies

It's nice you can enjoy these things. ASMR gives me the ick. I don't really like the close sounds of a person talking and ASMR sounds in general annoy me.

I like male stuff.. there's one where you're a kidnapped sho and he whispers to you the whole time.

>>18814
What are you worried about? As long as small, independent places like this where sushis can congregate, we can always keep alive old culture.

>>18814
Its hard being positive about the future. Everything seems like its gone wrong. I guess what you can do is try to establish some small peace in your mind. Don't overthink things. Cut out sources of negativity like social media and news/political debate. Enjoy the little things in life like watching little bugs climb on flowers or sitting on a park bench to enjoy the sunshine. Try and fill your life with those little moments of happiness. But you also have to accept that you aren't in control. Whatever's happening in the world is something you can't change by yourself. Learn to let go.

Just shut your brain off.
Don't give a care for anything happening around you.
If it doesn't affect you directly, why care?
It's easy as hell. Football, games, work, entertainment, repeat.
Not hard.

>>18832
what an incredible post, thank you so much, my eyes are watering

just like how depression acts as a gray pair of goggles that make a person see no pleasure in anything (anhedonia), i'm wearing a cynical and frustrated pair of goggles that make me see everything in the worst light.

but when i do this, it feels good. because it feeds my superiority complex, because for some reason seeing the world as terrible feels good.

but i don't want the rest of my life to be increasingly bitter and upset. i don't want to live that life, it seems miserable. even if pessimism is cool and safe and optimism is cringe and embarassing, i should start moving inch by inch, thought pattern by thought pattern, into the sun.

>>18815
It's crazy how many people on Facebook will see an obviously AI-rendered photo of an American military veteran with 16 fingers holding up a sign in some ancient eldritch runic language with the caption "Why don't pictures like this trend anymore :(" and thousands of people will fall for it.

>>19636
>How do you go about actually committing things to memory?
If you ever encounter a proposition, try to prove it yourself. If you find yourself unable to, then you should go over the proof, try to understand it, and then redo the proof a day later.
This always works for propositions of math, (analytic) philosophy, and logic where everything can be proven using only deductive reasoning and axioms/premises*. It somewhat works for science when it's easy to recreate an experiment (like Ampere's law) or when a certain scientific principle follows from others you've already established (like the conservation of energy and momentum in classical mechanics) however sometimes you're just going to need to trust previous scientists and the results they've received from their experiments.
It may also work for subjects in the humanities e.g perspective in art but I doubt that many artists have a strong understanding of projective geometry (if any at all) to be able to derive it on their own.
Anyways the idea behind all of this is that if you really understand the underlying logic and reasoning of why a certain statement is true, it is significantly easier to remember it.

*Except when your axiomatic system can encode PA as according to Godel's theorem.

>>19637
I wrote a lot more than I needed to uh-

TL;DR Make sure you actually understand the given information. One way of doing this is by trying to prove that the information is correct

Personal Wikis, second brains, I have no use for none of that. I keep most what I read in my brain, I just let it be absorbed and be integrated in my "world model", even if that means losing sight of many details. I also usually remember roughly from which book I got a certain idea, and can refer to it at any point. I do keep a structure of sorts, it is simply the filesystem hierarchy of directories where the books are stored. The books themselves serve as a kind of reference. It doesn't matter that I haven't read all of them, for a great many of them, I've read just a few chapters, or even just the preface. Enough to have an idea of the contents and the style of each of them, and where I can reach for more elaboration, specific information, whatever.
In this sense, it _is_ like a second brain which I can consult at any time but which I haven't yet absorbed into the first one, the first one is a view of the forest, the second one holds the trees, it can also be thought of as a map of the forest.
No notes of my own, I don't need that. But sometimes I do wish I had a more or less convenient way to keep some notes from books I read. The reading app I use lets me highlight text, and keep bookmarks, but that metadata resides in the app and not in the ebook files themselves, not every book is properly OCR'd and I can't highlight shit, and the app is just the front, which I use in the reading device, which is not the same as the storage device, the reading device may stop working at any time and I would just get another one.
I do keep notebooks at home, those I use heavily. I use them for language learning, which involves: vocabulary lists, paradigms, structural analysis of difficult sentences, copying texts, and plenty of exercise drills. Of this, the paradigms and vocabulary lists are the only bits that I refer to, and they occupy relatively small part of the notebook's contents and I usually stop needing most of that material at some point. I gotta say, I really enjoy having my notebooks scribbled with text written in strange scripts from all over the world. Sometimes I say, regarding my lack of creative skills: my notebooks are my craft :-)
I have been interested in the topic of structured notes, personal wikis, all that stuff, but I don't really know what I would put in such files. I also don't want to spend a lot of time learning the ropes of some system like org-mode or whatever, when all I want is to keep notes. Then again, if I think aboPost too long. Click here to view the full text.