/lounge/ - sushi social

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.

yes and no
there was good times sure but the future me can do even better
>>18400
I get that

I do miss it sometimes, but that's just the nostalgia talking. Thankfully, things have been getting much better for me the past few years, so I don't have much to miss from back then.

Yes, sometimes. But the past is the past and I'm looking forward to the future

All the time. When I was younger and had so many opportunities but I wasted them all. When I had online hangouts and online friends, before every meme video was censored and wojak and pepe went mainstream (as stupid as that sounds).

A lot of other very painful stuff too. Now I literally have no online friends and no life. Never waste your chances sushis, if you don't take them you'll end up bitter like me with nothing but memories.

>>12982
Yes

Dunking on randos trying to get Sushis into raiding. Twice.

browsing the comfy threads and giving people life advice. also posting music

>>19427
raiding is not sushi or comfy.

>>19446
Yeah that's what I mean. Twice I've seen a random user come from some other website and try to rally us for a raid, and we all just dunk on them.

>>19427

:)

I don't think we've had that many happenings. There was the .tokyo domain dying and the creation of this domain in 2016, the sama immigration in 2020, then the sharty raid in 2021. I started using sushi after the domain change, but I remember the other two quite well. I can't think of anything else significant.
I'm not sure how I feel about this. On the one hand, the lack of major incidents has made my day-to-day experience of using sushi smooth and painless, but my recollection of the site is mostly one big blur. I used to post on wizardchan back in the day and there was a lot of drama, admin changes, etc. that was annoying and got in the way of normal discussion at the time, but has made my memory of the place very sharp.

>>10320
Is this a korean
She looks korean

>>10321
Probably photo-shopped…

>>8504
CAKE DAY!

>>12781
Cake!

>>12781
Sweetness

>>13034
Turkey earthquake getting me down…
Also the Ukraine fight with Russia…

>>13210
Saucy

Was chasing a crow out of the office today….

>>17787
for the chive slaw:
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
½ bunch|125 grams green chives, cut into thirds
¼ bunch|40 grams yellow chives, cut into thirds
4 scallions, cut into thirds
1 medium shallot, thinly sliced
⅔ cup|65 grams bean sprouts
2 teaspoons gochugaru
¾ teaspoon kosher salt
1 tablespoon granulated sugar
1 tablespoon black vinegar
½ teaspoon sesame oil
¾ teaspoons soy sauce
2 teaspoons chili oil
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Chef Wang shares: "Monkey's Head Mushroom"
Turn on cc for english subtitles

>>19475
>Pick up any good Touhou stuff?
I did! I'll try and list a few things here, might take some photos and post in one of the dead figure threads in /kawaii/.

I picked up a bunch of Touhou stuff but the items I am happiest about are a handmade Yuyuko plush, Marisa and Reisen sofubi figures, Magical Maid Sakuya figure, and the Liquid Stone Kanako GK. The rest of the Touhou stuff I got was mostly minor things like keychains, pins, and other assorted items.

Your situation isn't ideal. I can't really offer good advice as I can't relate to your exact position, but I'll try and give a few of my thoughts.
You tried but ended up where you started, but you put in the effort.
> if I don't get out of my career path now, I'll be in a kitchen for the rest of my life.
I don't think this is true. Even if you have to stay in this job a while longer, you have the ability to get another job, sure it didn't work out the first time. But who's to say it won't work out the next? I'd start applying to other places slowly while working and just hope to be lucky. Don't give up hope! 頑張れ!!!

>>19475
>>19464
>>19474
>>19483
Welcome back to the land of the free. I've been much like myself, the best. I see you have already devised a pretty decent comeback plan. Take your time and win when you're ready.

>Magical Maid Sakuya figure
Talk about a blast from the past…

>>19472
>>19475
Think about it this way: if they took you back so promptly after you left them, they have you in good standing. You've proven that you can be a good asset in this place, which means you can do the same in other places when the time comes.

Right now, you're sitting on top of a spring. You took your time to compress it further, adding more potential energy into that system. Something will click and all that energy will be released, flinging you up high, the more you compress that spring, the higher it will fling you.

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>>19486
Nah, there's no such thing as "balance" when you work in a kitchen. I have neither money nor fulfillment. It's got a demonic hierarchy. You either stay a line cook making dogshit pay or clamber your way up to management where your life gets sucked away through call-ins, late hours, and having more responsibilities shoved onto you by the higher ups. The reason I had this crisis was by realizing most of my coworkers were 10-20 years older than me, and had no education or work experience necessary to go anywhere else in life. And that's going to be me too.

But if I can't have money or fulfillment in a kitchen, at least I could find a job where I have money. I went through trade school because I figured education was the ticket to a better job, but nope, turns out 5 years experience is. And I can't really get 5 years experience if I can't get hired in the first place.

I just wish I could get out of this fucked up cycle. I've been broke my entire life, and I just want to be stable.

>>19488
That's a hella complex situation to say the least…

>I figured education was the ticket to a better job, but nope, turns out 5 years experience is.
Not exactly. It certainly helps, but this is something that, depending on the trade you picked, can be bullshitted through. The first way is through networking with teachers and colleagues when learning. The second way is through internships, usually part of the course but you can go for internships after your learning journey and pull off the same thing (it's work for no money for a couple of months, which might make things even more difficult in your case though). The third way is through "freelancing". Sure you didn't work for a company, but if your chosen trade so permits it, you can get your work experience like this. The employment ads may have some barriers like "5 years experience" or "fluent italian", but if you've only got 2 years of experience and your italian is B1 level, they might still take you. All they really want is you to prove you're capable at what they want you to do and usually getting the interview is half the battle won. If a place is desperate enough and there's not enough people applying, you've got a fair chance.

I'm not going to be able to get a job until I'm 30 and I worry all this studying will be for nothing

Am I being persecuted right now?

>>19439
You're persecuting me, aren't you?

>>19435
evil sushi roll……..

>>19429
Just do what >>19436 says and go "hey do you want to go on another date?" if she declines or never responds, you got your answer. Of course, if she says yes, make sure you schedule a day where you got nothing else going on and the possibility of nothing happening (I've had that problem a lot where suddenly my work or family needs me on my days off). Guys tend to overthink these things too much and get caught up on a girl, but really if she's not interested don't let it be your demise. Obviously she was interested initially so you clearly aren't ugly or anything and you'll be able to bounce back and find someone else.

>>19440
gee.. i was just complimenting her

>>19439
thank you glasses dork hater, i enjoy seeing your posts.

I agree with >>19442. Even if it was awkward the first time, there is no real harm in asking again. Initially ask how things have been. If you get positive response, follow up that you would like to hang out again.

>>17736
Thank you for being a friend…

>>17781
ok, schizo. Take your pills and post street fighter again.

Making new friends is hard in this day and age…

>>19410
I want to die. Feel like I should go with a "screw it" attitude and just keep getting rejected or flaked instead of doing literal nothing. Maybe I can make a game out of it. Better than just dying and giving up. Social Anxiety plagues me like hell and I always feel someone will backstab me in someway even if things do go well, which is why I resort back to doing nothing. It's a vicious cycle.

>>19412
You can still create positive relationships while under the assumption the other party will backstab you at the faintest opportunity. All you have to do is be privy about the information you share.