/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.

>>19081
Tea!

>>19126
Amorphous!

>>19048
Post more monkeys.

>>19132
>monkey
This is Sonson, a capcom character

>>19132
Sentinel! Did I do it right?

>>19165
Nel? As in Nelly?

>>9039
I get really happy pretty much all day round during Autumn. The weather is just perfect, the sun starts setting earlier and the trees are gorgeous. I always find myself ditching my car just to walk around and enjoy the weather.

It's the best time of the year for me. I can get my work done faster, i'm far more active and it's just overall comfier. It all results in a domino effect to where nearly every other aspect of my life gets some sort of weird buff and everything just works out.

Also when my cat hops on my desk and lays down on my mouse. My hand gets trapped under him for like 30 minutes until he gets up and leaves, but it makes me really happy regardless.

>>9039
Making pancakes

Travelling where you do not drive is comfy.

>>9039
Photography, unironically. Ever since I bought a digital camera I've been going outside more and it's a refreshing experience.

>>9039
A game that is immersive enough to lose yourself in for a couple days would be nice..

>>19381
one thing i bought after seeing this guy's video is a pair of IEMs. i am very impressed by their sound quality and the passive isolation is quite good as well. with so many amazing advancements in technology i wonder why bluetooth is still so bad

>>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!

>>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.

Spiny Flower Mantis enjoys a honey snack

>>18694
you could never bug me wriggle

>>19413
Cutest little guy
I hope he grows up into a powerful Kaiju.

Carpenter bees! They are nice and don't sting me.

>>19413
He (at least I think it's a he from counting abdominal segments?) has molted again, and is an extremely fancy boy. I think this stage is what you'd call L4.

From looking at pics of the species on google it seems like they can be a wide range of colors, and I'm happy my guy has such gorgeous stripes and pink highlights

>>19614
>But the romantic idea of being in-tune with nature, that the kami are nature spirits, and the interest in environmental issues is new.
This sounds more like a western conceit.
The very notions of "being in-tune with nature" and "environmental issues" are very modern ones, especially the latter.
Abrahamic religions looked down upon the world as a "fallen" place to turn away from. They separated the "kingdom of god" from the world we live in in a way that mirrored the separation of the state/church structure and the world outside of it.
Most other cultures had varying degrees of respect for nature, some treating certain natural sites as sacred, especially in nomadic tribes, others keeping mores and taboos that preserved parts of the non-human world, which later were discarded as superstition, allowing for the wholesale destruction of every natural site possible.
The indians, too, had a notion of the material world of being one of illusion and suffering, and yet they treated many natural elements as sacred, such as the cow and the banian tree, and they ultimately had a tradition of hermitage that meant living in nature away from society.
The chinese, too, despite being an agricultural and very state-centered culture, a strong literary tradition, and a confucian tradition that framed all of this, they also had a few traditions that emphasized a close connection to nature. Waigong and Neigong ultimately implied an intimate understanding of the yin and yang forces as expressed in every aspect of nature, there were many mountain-dwelling hermits, and of course, you had the Zhuangzi which explicitly talked about an attunement to the world and it's beings.
The idea of "nature" as separate from human affairs is also, as I mentioned, an european idea, so if Zhuangzi or any other tradition never singled it out, it is because of this and not because they were unconcerned with it.

>>19647
What I mean is that visions of Shinto as a folksy nature religion wasn't there in the Meiji or Taisho periods, and the whole environmental ethic is embraced more by foreigners and intellectuals rather than actual Shinto priests and shrine officials. Often, its used as a buzzword to wow foreigners or promote Japan and doesn't result in an actual commitment to the environment.

>i dont know about judaism, but i think islam is even more vertical? christians seem to be more tolerant towards paganism for example
Depends on the sect. The dominant theology within the Islamic world until modern times was more or less pantheistic or panentheistic. And as for tolerance of pagans, remember that "pagan" is a slur (much like the n word) that late antique Christians used for non-Christians. Worshippers of the old gods didn't call themselves pagans and there wasn't a single "paganism" as the word itself was an insult. But if you mean 'polytheistic' religions more generally, I mean Muslim empires and kings ruled over most of India for centuries and the population remaind mostly Hindu. They even built and patronized local temples, translated works from Sanskrit etc. while the Portugese imposed the Goa Inquisition.

>the very point of religious practice is to preserve ideas, for better or for worse, it's not science, the change and adaptation literally do not matter
Religions tend to have core ideas which their believers interpret and these interpretations change over time. They also develop and add new ideas too it. I don't think that's an issue. Its normal for things to develop and become more complex and add new features, so long as thoe features don't override the basic values. Otherwise, religions would be ossified and immune to change and it would be impossible for a Buddhist to live an ordinary modern life.

Japan wasn't isolated during the Tokugawa era. Japanese bought and imitated Ottoman guns, exported silk and porcelin, adored classical Chinese culture and studied with Dutch traders. It isn't ethnically homogenous either. Many daimyos and prominant families could trace their lineages to China or Korea. Japan has always been a pretty cosmopolitan place. Both Westerners and Japanese nationalists push this myth of genetic homogeneity and national isolation but it was never Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>19525 Is there some way to practice a pre-centralization version of shinto? Any resources that survived, even if they're untranslated.

I've been here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsubaki_Grand_Shrine_of_America

I don't know much about shinto but it was a gorgeous place to just walk around, and it was interesting reading about the history of it and the gods enshrined there. I guess it's closed to the public as of 2023 so I'm glad I went when I did.

>>19663
Shinto is a modern invention. So asking about pre-centralized Shinto is a bit pointless because it didn't exist prior to that process. Shrine visitation, kami verneration etc. were obviously there before but not a unifying idea of "Shinto" as a distinct tradition. Often, kami verneration was an extension of Buddhism, comparable to how folk spirit verneration and Buddhism are bound to the hip in a place like Thailand. Shinto is what postmodernists call a metanarrative that was imposed by the government on a messy religious landscape. But its not as if State Shinto completely replaced what came before either.

Ask yourself, why do you want to practice Shinto? Its more helpful to see shrines as kinda like stores that offer services to whoever walks in. Aside from the obvious, it isn't that different to Catholics vernerating folks saints or the Chinese and their local city gods (which is where the kanji for kami comes from btw). That type of, "going to the shrine to get help/protection/healing" or having some spiritual patron is probably present in a religion you are more familiar with. If a farmer from Edo Japan was uprooted to modern day Mexico, he might turn to Santa Muerte because that just happens to be the most popular (and therefore presuambly effective) 'kami' in the area. For the farmer, what matters isn't aesthetics or theology but what's effective in solving his real or spiritual problems. He might find it weird that a Mexican would turn to his hometown's kami when there's Santa Muerte. You don't really convert to Shinto and for most Japanese (and most of the shrine establishment) its still just an nationalist expression of Japaneseism.

>Any resources
I'd recommend Picken's Sourcebook in Shinto (I tried to attach a pdf copy but I keep getting errors)

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
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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#####

>>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