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Snooze said:
Depends on the person, overly emotional people or or lacking the ability to make abstraction may taie it as an attack on their person or as a personal affront.
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Also there are people who only read for tone, so you can even get attacked for agreeing if you do it in the wrong way.
 
Ahh~

Fall! The wildfires are finally dying down, rouge wildlife retreats away from my home, and the best part: its cold but not too cold, while the leaves age into beautiful shades. The best part of the year.
 
Ok so I've been reading Journey to the West. I'm only 3 chapters in.
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Sun Wukong is a little shit. He barges into the Water Dragon's home, demands his stuff and then when the Water Dragon didn't have any armor to give Sun, the Monkey King bullies him some more until the Dragon calls up his buddies to see if they had anything that would make Sun go away.

Also Sun's staff weigh's 13,500 pounds. Also Sun's powers are bullshit. I get the feeling the plan to recruit Sun into the Jade Palace to keep an eye on him is going to backfire horribly.
 
Hatless Nuance said:
Ever seen a raccoon without its makeup and mask? It's like an entirely different animal.
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I have now.
 
So huh not sure if this is the place to ask this but

I am from Brazil and they got twitter/x blocked and all that

Thing is when a user posts a twitter via the insert media function I can sometimes see the post without any issues

So what's up with that cuz I am not using a VPN
 
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Vanargandr said:
Thing is when a poster well posts a twitter post via the insert media function I can sometimes see the post without any issues
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Server acts as proxy maybe?

If it's just an image, the server can cache that locally and shows you its cached copy.

You can use a debug mode in your browser to see where all the connections & requests are going, maybe even identify which one is supposed to be twitter-related and see if it actually goes to the local QQ image proxy instead.
 
Had a weird dream, like usual I can't remember most of it, but the part I do remember was a lot of spitting out teeth. A lot of teeth. More teeth than I actually have.

Not bloody or anything, just every few... minutes? I would have a few more teeth come loose in my mouth and spit them out.

Can't remember the context for that, but I kinda want to.
 
MadGreenSon said:
Had a weird dream, like usual I can't remember most of it, but the part I do remember was a lot of spitting out teeth. A lot of teeth. More teeth than I actually have.

Not bloody or anything, just every few... minutes? I would have a few more teeth come loose in my mouth and spit them out.

Can't remember the context for that, but I kinda want to.
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That's a dream found commonly in people with anxiety.
 
What alternatives do you guys got to NoFap?

I am not really sure if it helps with concentration and I have no interest in actually having sex with a woman

I still prefer 2D/2.5D women to actual women anyhow

I want to be better at concentrating on books, manga, skill building anything etc

I can exercise and learn just fine….when I have a mentor or trainer around

Having a harder time reading, in part because I feel like I am having a dopamine rush from other stuff and really wanting to just be finished with an entire series now
 
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SuperPulp2789 said:
I want to be better at concentrating on books, manga, skill building anything etc

I can exercise and learn just fine….when I have a mentor or trainer around

Having a harder time reading, in part because I feel like I am having a dopamine rush from other stuff and really wanting to just be finished with an entire series now
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Kind of sounds like your dopamine receptors are fried. One thing that may help in more sedentary tasks (like reading) is to force yourself to read actively. That means taking notes. Write down your reactions to what you read, as you read it. The point of reading isn't to finish the book, it's to enjoy the process of reading itself and take something from the experience, whether it's something educational or just an appreciation for the prose within. Taking notes forces you to slow the fuck down and actually smell the roses, so to speak.

As far as exercise goes, I've found that having concrete goals when you go to the gym, AND THEN ACTIVELY TRACKING THOSE GOALS, can be very helpful for staying focused and on-task. Log your workouts: reps, sets and weights used. After a few weeks, you have a timeline and you can start seeing where you're improving (more reps, higher weight, etc) and where you're plateauing at.

As far as the not interested in getting pussy part, that sounds horrible and I'm very sorry to hear that, but also not really something to "fix," so who knows. Maybe you'll appreciate 3DPD more when your brain is a little less fried. Maybe you won't.
 
KaliYugaFan said:
Kind of sounds like your dopamine receptors are fried. One thing that may help in more sedentary tasks (like reading) is to force yourself to read actively. That means taking notes. Write down your reactions to what you read, as you read it. The point of reading isn't to finish the book, it's to enjoy the process of reading itself and take something from the experience, whether it's something educational or just an appreciation for the prose within. Taking notes forces you to slow the fuck down and actually smell the roses, so to speak.

As far as exercise goes, I've found that having concrete goals when you go to the gym, AND THEN ACTIVELY TRACKING THOSE GOALS, can be very helpful for staying focused and on-task. Log your workouts: reps, sets and weights used. After a few weeks, you have a timeline and you can start seeing where you're improving (more reps, higher weight, etc) and where you're plateauing at.

As far as the not interested in getting pussy part, that sounds horrible and I'm very sorry to hear that, but also not really something to "fix," so who knows. Maybe you'll appreciate 3DPD more when your brain is a little less fried. Maybe you won't.
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I only started having this problem during COVID, in part because I keep on amassing many books and chapters and feel bad that I am not using them all up

I am only able to easily binge read fanfics, not original works

Books somehow feel harder to read depending on the author, not sure why, even whilst listening to an audiobook

I can for the most part get the story, but not the action scenes as much

I have been consistently doing sets of 210 for awhile, before it was 100 then 150 then 175 then 210. All as much as I could cram into 1 hour

So no need for NoFap? To concentrate? I find that I can do things like art just fine….but I need a constant critic to make me feel like I am actually progressing, if at all
 
SuperPulp2789 said:
I am only able to easily binge read fanfics, not original works

Books somehow feel harder to read depending on the author, not sure why, even whilst listening to an audiobook
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Real books written by professional authors have a tendency to usually be of a higher quality and a higher reading level than wish fulfillment slop written by horny retards like myself and everyone else here. They are also much more likely to go into concepts that require deliberation and reflection. The whole point of this is that you need to stop "binging" in the first place. Take your time, and actually engage actively with what you're doing. Speedrunning is gay and lame in all aspects, but especially when you do it with actually important things in life.

SuperPulp2789 said:
I have been consistently doing sets of 210 for awhile, before it was 100 then 150 then 175 then 210. All as much as I could cram into 1 hour
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These numbers are completely meaningless without the exercise. 210 for how many reps, and for which movement?

SuperPulp2789 said:
So no need for NoFap? To concentrate? I find that I can do things like art just fine….but I need a constant critic to make me feel like I am actually progressing, if at all
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I have no idea if NoFap is helpful for you. Give it a try; if it helps then sure, keep doing that I guess. For me, it doesn't particularly help focus, though I'm sure there are other possible benefits.
 
KaliYugaFan said:
Real books written by professional authors have a tendency to usually be of a higher quality and a higher reading level than wish fulfillment slop written by horny retards like myself and everyone else here. They are also much more likely to go into concepts that require deliberation and reflection. The whole point of this is that you need to stop "binging" in the first place. Take your time, and actually engage actively with what you're doing. Speedrunning is gay and lame in all aspects, but especially when you do it with actually important things in life.


These numbers are completely meaningless without the exercise. 210 for how many reps, and for which movement?


I have no idea if NoFap is helpful for you. Give it a try; if it helps then sure, keep doing that I guess. For me, it doesn't particularly help focus, though I'm sure there are other possible benefits.
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I guess I keep having stupidly high expectations of myself, mostly because after all my years of study with a tiger mom increasing my stress all the way till the end of college and my family's attempts at "teaching me business" I have almost zero actual skills

So I want to compensate, even by at least having read thousands of books….i have actually started reading less since I tried making it a goal to read so much ironically

Mostly involving core exercises whilst rotating on other aspects, my mood and health have actually increased. But I sure AF can't try to be a runner or do fast walks like my friend tried getting me to do, I just mainly do weight lifting now.

I really wish I had a better way to get instant critique, I hired a tutor, even with my cash, still feels like not enough and not frequent enough. I want to do self critique better, entirely on my own, without depending on others too much because other people at times on things like online barely ever respond.
 
SuperPulp2789 said:
I guess I keep having stupidly high expectations of myself, mostly because after all my years of study with a tiger mom increasing my stress all the way till the end of college and my family's attempts at "teaching me business" I have almost zero actual skills
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Therapy.

SuperPulp2789 said:
So I want to compensate, even by at least having read thousands of books….i have actually started reading less since I tried making it a goal to read so much ironically
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Reading a bazillion books is completely and utterly meaningless as an accomplishment if you take nothing from them. That's literally just wasting time and tiring your eyes for no reason. You have to engage actively and deliberately with the media that you consume if you want to get anything out of it beyond just consumption for consumption's sake.

SuperPulp2789 said:
Mostly involving core exercises whilst rotating on other aspects, my mood and health have actually increased. But I sure AF can't try to be a runner or do fast walks like my friend tried getting me to do, I just mainly do weight lifting now.
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That's great! I love weightlifting. You should keep that up, and track your lifts every week so you can see how you've progressed in strength and endurance. You don't need to be a runner by any means, but some steady-state cardio will help you out a lot on your lifts. I would recommend doing just 15-20 minutes on a treadmill set to the highest incline. You don't need to run or even jog, just a decent walking pace on an incline will keep your heart rate high and get you some great cardio. Also, just as a useful little aside, it absolutely melts calories so it's great for weight loss as well.

SuperPulp2789 said:
I really wish I had a better way to get instant critique, I hired a tutor, even with my cash, still feels like not enough and not frequent enough. I want to do self critique better, entirely on my own, without depending on others too much because other people at times on things like online barely ever respond.
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Perhaps, it may be in your best interests to not create a first draft and instantly send it out to be critiqued. You may learn something about yourself and your writing habits by making a first draft, not touching it for a day, and then coming back to it with fresh eyes to make your own edits. After doing this a few times, at least until the point that you don't totally hate what you've jotted down, THEN you send it off to somebody to read and critique.
 
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