Quote from: Spagelo on July 08, 2020, 01:44:12 AM

As a veteran user (I used to sell it and I've tripped hundreds of times on dealer prices), I can affirm to a lot of the good advice here.

If you're going to trip, take it all at once and save the rest for 3-7 days minimum. Once you drop, your receptors close and you're wasting money. If you want to sleep, take it maybe 18 hours before you need to. Your mind is going to wire a lot of voltage for a long time and you won't have much luck. I've used it after all-nighters to reset my schedule, before. Finally, don't take it before a work day. Just don't. You need the day afterwards, and maybe a nicer upper for it as well. Coming down can be rough; just spend that time meditating and tending to yourself emotionally.

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As a veteran user (I used to sell it and I've tripped hundreds of times on dealer prices), I can affirm to a lot of the good advice here.

If you're going to trip, take it all at once and save the rest for 3-7 days minimum. Once you drop, your receptors close and you're wasting money. If you want to sleep, take it maybe 18 hours before you need to. Your mind is going to wire a lot of voltage for a long time and you won't have much luck. I've used it after all-nighters to reset my schedule, before. Finally, don't take it before a work day. Just don't. You need the day afterwards, and maybe a nicer upper for it as well. Coming down can be rough; just spend that time meditating and tending to yourself emotionally.

I think that for something as complex as a human life, you can't really rely on extremes like modern takes on hedonism or stoicism completely, but take a little from each ideology and apply it to your own life with a sense of balance. When it's time to have fun, have fun. When it's time to get serious, get serious. There isn't any one way to live, there's just living.

It helps to know that the most prominent figures in the philosophical basis of these mindsets didn't advocate for extremes such as never laughing vs. masturbating seven times a day. Epicurus gave concessions to the fact that being happy wasn't just pure pleasure and needed to be worked towards, and Chrysippus is well-remembered for his death via suffocation due to laughter while on undiluted wine. Chrysippus also recognized the selfish nature of living beings, and his aforementioned hedonist contemporary left one of the most compelling arguments against the fear of death remaining from the ancient world.

Both of these people demonstrate that you need to consider the entirety of the human experience when you undertake the application of an idea, because ideas are only good when they translate efficiently into reality. You can't be perfect, and there's no use in being useless. So do your best, and don't expect to do better than that. People are like a kind of metal: we can take a lot of heat, but we'll start to melt down if we're never cooled.

Here's my old rainstick from 2016!

Quote from: Spagelo on May 19, 2020, 05:17:22 PM

It really shouldn't come as a surprise to me that Class herself is a transphobe, but it actually makes a lot of sense when I think about it.

Oh man, you have no idea.

Thinking back, wasn't she a massive transphobe before some people starting telling her that "[she herself was] trans"? I've read and inquired about and heard a lot of stories over time, but I never really traveled far beyond my TVC bubble.

But now, it all seems to be coming together.

Quote from: Spagelo on May 19, 2020, 03:58:55 PM

lol calm down

what will it take
what will it take

walk on water

WHO AM I

WHO AM I???

WHAT are you even saying




Let's PLATY ANIOTHERT GAME THIS TIME I GET TO WIN

proof that reagan was a bad president based on his mental health policies alone

glad to be of service, hopefully this won't affect your movie nights or whatever

Yeah! We'll be just fine. Thanks again.

Oh, and to the rest of you, I guess there was some curiosity regarding how Carmen ended up banned from her "own server". She gave it to my other half (even though I was next in line lmao) in an attempt to manipulate her in a long line of schemes that, like all the others, backfired on her. After that, we stripped her of her power and gave her a minor position as a host and advertiser. She was banned once, but against the advice of everyone else, I let her back in and gave that stuff back to her. She continued her manipulative, toxic, ulterior behavior, so I banished her. I let some alts exist so long as we weren't given cause to ban them, but my staff is no longer keen on that idea, and I'm honestly not anymore, either.

Also, here's something fun:

I normally wouldn't share my name on an open forum like this, but her misspelling is too much of a giggle not to share.

lol calm down

Someone should be so kind as to supply a working link.

I won't post it now because it's parked somewhere that would dox me immediately to a bunch of people I don't know, but I drive a beat up old Cadillac. It's from the "flat, rectangular box on wheels" generation. I replaced the carburetor with fuel injection, because it normally eats fuel like a lardass at a pie eating contest.

I know it's probably not a good idea when there are much more economic alternatives, but I'm young, I'm stupid (in certain ways), and it cost me a flat grand. For a car that had basically nothing wrong with it besides a roughed up shell, it was a good deal.

Quote from: Spagelo on October 17, 2019, 10:19:59 AM

just go back to bungie.net

Fuck off Deci

whomst?

Good.

Ridiculous. Why would you get social anxiety from being hyped up and given a fabulous introduction?

Maybe you ought to ask them.

Quote from: Spagelo on September 07, 2019, 03:54:53 AM

In seeing a lot of people who - not here specifically - will discuss what political statement was made when something like this happens, I'll just say that I find it preferable to not give mass shooters the dignity of politicizing them beyond their philosophical violation of human rights. I think that if your idea of accomplishing political or religious goals is by means of massacring innocent people, you simply aren't worth listening to beyond how long it takes before we can figure out what exactly is going wrong in your sick mind. Because I don't believe that people who think it accomplishes anything are in touch with reality.

What if the attacker was clearly influenced by political groups?

Arguably, I've already addressed this question. But I don't know because the stated query is vague. Please elaborate.