/late/ - Late Nights

>>1609
>Only good thing is eating bread with some soothing tea in your thermos whilst the wind coos outside.
Sounds comfy!

>What about you anon?
Well it's finally tapering off the long stretch of 100-110+ temp days now, and it's pretty comfy-cool at nights. So yeah, nice time of year.

>>2494
>If none of you have ever been winter camping, its worth it
Yeah I've done that many times, it's the best.

>just make sure you have the proper gear.
Ehh, doesn't take much tbh.

*  STAY HYDRATED!111!!ONE!!!  Winter can be exceedingly dry, so you can dehydrate w/o really noticing it -- especially if you're exerting yourself (like climbing up hills).
*  LAYERS  If it's frigid, just bring a bunch of socks, shirts, pants to add more layers.
*  BOOTS  It's very important to keep your feet warm & dry. Have good wool socks on hand. BTW, if you lose feeling in your toes, YOU'RE HAVING A MEDICAL EMERGENCY...
Deal with it immediately!!
*  High-calorie nommies like chocolate trail mix is essential for comfy times in the wilderness.
*  Hot choco or other nice beverages, too (see above).
*  Strictly limit alcohol. None at all is even better.  :)
*  A good hunting knife. Essential for every man anyway, so yeah.

I wasn't looking forward to fall or winter last year, and I'm definitely not looking forward to it this year. I really dislike the climate I live in.

poorfag so can't heat my house, gotta put hot water bottles in my sleeping bag to sleep

>>2501
solid advice anon

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https://youtu.be/P8s5a9uoG9w?si=oWe-AmRqCl8x4dW-

Last year, again, I was bushcrafting much more in the winter for some reasons.
Had a period when I was going out with someone every week in the winter, sometimes doing drugs, sometimes just enjoying the detachement from the world of people hidden in their warm homes, far away from our forest

>>3130 (OP) 
>It took quite some time to figure out how to compile this (old) version.
Why do you bother with an old version?

Is luanti really worth it? They killed minecraft somewhere around version 1.9, but still?

Whenever radio anon gets around to it, really. He's a busy man, so who knows. If all else fails, figure out how to host it yourself.

>it's still ded
if you want to spend $5 on a VPS and 20 minutes setting it up it shouldn't be that hard. i'm a cheap bastard though
https://www.linode.com/docs/marketplace-docs/guides/azuracast/

>>3161
>different colored roles, so we all know who has the biggest e-dick. As many kinds 
>of retards as they have pronouns with Discord.

I agree with that a lot, I hate the discord culture but I wanted to do something there since it's an active place and for its convenience, but you're right. It sucks.

>>Why not just stay on the Internets (ie, places like here on the Webring)?

Because I thought those places were dead, most of the image boards i used to visit are gone, so I figured the only way to find like-minded people now would be through discord, which isn’t easy of course since everyone there seems to have a huge ego and obsession over their roles and stupid drama.

But I think I'm just not searching enough, I will stick to trashcan and other image boards that are still alive.

Thanks for all the information, tho.

>>3171
I understand the harsh, it was kinda rude of me to post it here too (already closed the link) 

And you're pointing out something real, things that were once open and reachable have gone locked away in servers and private chats so Discord isn't really a good idea if you want to build anything.

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http://toastytech.com/ is one of the first sites I remember visiting that are still up. I'm not sure how I found it, maybe I was googling around for different computer-related topics since I was heavily into that, but I loved the GUI gallery and IE is Evil. Also Mars War is a pretty nice Doom wad. It even got me into Firefox before the other nerds at school did.

It still sees an update roughly once or twice a year, but it's usually just a small addition to IE is Evil's rant page. Part of me hoped that he'd keep the GUI gallery up to date with different X11 WMs and Wayland compositors, but I guess he's busy with life these days. Or just tired of maintaining a decades-old personal site, in an era when personal sites barely exist outside of teenagers making stereotypical gif-laden "old web" pages on Neocities.

Pic used to be what the rant page looked like back in the early-mid 00s. He's since toned it down, but he's kept the yellow text and Doom texture background to make it hard to read on purpose.

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>>3174
>Thanks for all the information, tho.
You're very welcome, Mate! What kind of turned things around for me personally was just this realization:
Be the future you want to see!

Everything else pretty much flowed out of that one personal determination. Good luck with your search.

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take me back

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>>3243
>>3244
way i do it i try to be more social which taught me to be more outgoing but forced me to be more selective at the same time, so now i regularly chad with old neighbors, or relatives on the phone
i also took time to think about what i would enjoy reading or watching (old media), and always try to set up a comfy environment so that i don't want to get up and check my phone
this in turn inspired me to start writing to prepare some pathfinder campaigns im planning to try this summer

what helped me the most was mentally preparing myself to not be available for x time, like
>after dinner im reading for 1 hour then off to bed
>tonight ill sleep early so that tomorrow morning ill spend 2 hours sunbathing
>saturday morning i have to try out this new romhack i downloaded
always telling myself that after im done i can check my phone and whatnot, this reduced my smartphone usage so much i only have to charge it once a week now kek

>>3246
This sounds like some real wisdom. I hope I can manage something similar for my computer usage now.

>this reduced my smartphone usage so much i only have to charge it once a week now kek
Excellent. GG, Anon.  :)

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>>3247
>I hope I can manage something similar for my computer usage now.
Actually scratch that. I live my life in computers, where I go by the hacker alias Not-4chan, and am guilty of practically every computer thingy there's a software driver for...

The problem is me wasting time with my old ways...instead of focusing on the far-brighter future coming down the pike very soon! They tell me 'old habits are hard to break'. I think I can break free from the dreamworld though!!  :DD

>>3243
It's a little scary to me how addicted people are.

>You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inert, so hopelessly dependent on the system that they will fight to protect it.

How do we go back?  Top heh.  The problem is much bigger than the black mirrors: it's 21 years' worth of accumulated brain damage from addiction to socmed, etc.  It's normies in general being no smarter or wiser or moral than the dirt-farming peasants they've been for thousands of years— now networked and equipped with cameras so that the world can have non-stop feeds of public displays of baboonery.

The better question is of how things can ever get better, because going back simply isn't an option, and the answer is probably something spergy like "a natural aristocracy arises and forms parallel institutions which gradually replace the current decrepit, corrupt institutions."

That, or a giant solar flare EMPs the whole planet back to the 1930s.  People won't be getting any wiser, but circumstances can still take the attractive nuisances from their hands.

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>>3250
>That, or a giant solar flare EMPs the whole planet back to the 1930s.
>People won't be getting any wiser, but circumstances can still take the attractive nuisances from their hands.
Heh. Once everything knowlege-stored -related is merely a Romanian Database, then the GH-kikes will have lost the major tool in their war against the world today. Ofc, that bodes ill for the rest of us during Current Year, as well.
>tl;dr
Amazing what a little Carrington Event can do between frens!  :DD

<--->

OTOH
God still 'has the whole world in his hands tonight'. [1][2]  Nothing occurs without his involvement. Satan and his best little shabbos golems won't be able to pull any fast ones on Him!!  :^)

>ttl;dr
For the non-devout, you can take comfort in the fact that their systems are only here by geologic/astronomic """consent"""!  :D

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The thrice damnedable green-eyed glipus (plural: glipee) averages about 1.5 feet tall, with size 11 trotters it loves to stamp around with in crawl spaces, attics, and basements. They're quite fond of kicking door jams and appliances if they find their way in your home, as it's the only way they can get out their aggressive streak since they are deathly afraid of anything living and will flee at the first sign of life. This makes mating rather difficult and consequently the glipus is considered endangered. The glipus has a special pheromone designed to attract a mate and overcome their cowardly nature. Unfortunately, it smells just like burning electrical wires leading to many glipus getting zapped by stray wiring, and many homeowners suffering from low quality sleep due to the pheromone's odor causing a concern of fire. Glipee eat mostly much, sticks, and twigs. Their bodies aren't designed to digest such things, so they make a terribly unnutritious food source for them, but good luck of convincing a glipus that.

>>1957
>Threes can't attack you
Ah, you know so little, so little

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A nocturnal and distant half-mutant cousin of the orangutan, the slugbellied saunterer has an incredible ability. It can form a vacuum with it's suction cup like mouth and blow so hard, with aid of it's tongue, it can unlock almost any door. If the door squeaks as they open it, they'll close it back right away and move along. The slug bellied saunterer is nothing if not considerate and will leave any lock it tampers with restored to the state in which it found it, by using it's powerful lungs to suck the lock back locked. The most obvious sign a slug bellied saunterer has been around is a sticky spitty door knob.
These 7 foot tall apeoids find sleeping creatures, man and animal, irresistibly adorable and will stand in the shadows watching them for hours, but their main cause for breaking and entering is to eat. They love anything spoiled, stale, or neglected to the back of the fridge or pantry.
Often putting any wrappers or containers back where they found them. If they can find something to poke a discreet hole with, they have been known to pierce fruits and use their mouths to suck all the juice out of them. Leaving a mostly normal looking but disappointingly dry fruit in its place.
During the day it is believed they stay in the houses of unobservant people, standing perfectly still in a corner or closet.

I was walking outside at night and heard what sounded like a chicken that kept screeching in the distance in a forest. I've heard other odd things come out from that forest...

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>>2410
>sounded like a chicken that kept screeching in the distance in a forest
Anon had no idea how much danger he was in.

>>3214 (OP) 
Campfire? Sodium lighting? Do you see flicker in it, or is it steady, Anon?

>>3214 (OP)  update??

>>3214 (OP) 
arson attempt?? anon did you contact the police

>>3217 apparently just some drunkards have been acting up in the area, playing with flammable substances, nothing special

though did look creepy

It look like an orb.

>>2746
Time is a scary monster.
My daily prayers help me get a grasp on it but as soon as I open a book or start working on something or start thinking time just dips.

>>2679 (OP) 
>What do you guys do before going to bed?
I turn off my PC and take medication. Sometimes, I work out. While in bed, I feel myself dip toward dreams as my mind wanders as a form of hypnagogia, so I try to think about pleasant or interesting things or nothing at all. It doesn't always work, and I have something like Exploding Head Syndrome when I feel myself going into dreams I know will be bad.
>Do you guys sleep well?
I only sleep well when I'm exhausted, drunk, sick, or injured. I think my bed is part of why I have this problem. I haven't had a consistently comfortable bed in years. I would be more comfortable sleeping on the ground or floor. When I wake up, I've forgotten who I am and feel free until I remember my responsibilities. With these responsibilities comes remembrance of who I am and what I have and done, and I'm suddenly pulled by a suffocating weight. At least my dreams are sometimes entertaining.
>I'm just thinking my own thoughts and I can't fall asleep
I have this issue when I'm on my back, yet I sleep best and have the most pleasant dreams when I'm tired enough to sleep that way.

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Its March 4th, bros
You know what to do, lads.  :^)

>>3077
have you tried working out in the morning instead ?
this + cold showers substantially increased my sleep quality

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>>2971
can  you tell me what you like about them ?
im not an avid reader so i just stick with tolkien, i love how heavy it is on the world building, it got several cool ages all in the same world

also every character seems to be written as an archetype that needs to mature and overcome some flaw
>bilbo needs to overcome fear in the hobbit, then greed in lotr
>merry needs to mature and learn to face consequence
>boromir needs to be in control of his unyellding loyalty to gondor so it doesn't tempt him to take the ring
>faramir needs to grow out of his brother's shadow by fighting a temptation that got the better of boromir
>elrond needs to accept change and be more trusting towards men
etc etc
it is so densely packed with symbolism and morality

>>3040
LMAO. This one looks like a fever dream.

>>3047
https://youtube.com/watch?v=018o0enjGOs

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j800SVeiS5I
It speaks for itself

I have a couple that I really like.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN64qgptQQA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F9DxYhqmKw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Rvnh3T4s6g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe_k_2QEBMc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF2Fx90oO1o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTrlRXRnzho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq66jYoFx_c

>>3209
Nice. Thanks for sharing.

This classic from my childhood. I was convinced they were real Natives, but I think it's a German production. Anyway, I love this record.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo5eCMSMr_w
Sampled in this excellent DDS track.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv2fiorrijE

>>2267
When I was little bugs freaked me out so bad, so my mom got me to learn a bunch about insects and arachnids, and eventually the fear was replaced by curiosity and admiration.

>>2268
I remember my brother chasing me around the house with a toy spider when I was pretty young and being freaked out. That was the first time I ever recall being scared of them. Even though he was doing it to frighten me and had no problem with them at the time, he soon developed a fear of bugs too. It's really weird.

>>2272
Sounds like you've both developed selective amnesia to save yourselves from the madness inducing memory of the...
NIGHT OF THE HEXAPOD

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getting a bike to ride out could be nice
shortens grocery runs and commute in general if you used to walk
and the breeze you feel while riding at night is heavenly

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>>1966 (OP) 
You need to learn to casually socialize. No drink, that's cheating.
In the beginning just learn to strike up conversations at the park, in the bus, at the shop. This is something every child should learn, but schools and spoiled children permanently ruin it for some kids.
Not everyone will like you, and you need to learn to accept it. Some people won't have the time, some are autistic, but sometimes a quick casual interaction can make someone's day, at virtually no cost if you learn to make your peace with the fact that everyone in the world will want to befriend you.

Have you considered going to church ? To a library ?
A girl I knew in hs used to go to a shelter and volunteer to walk the dogs. The idea sounds unpleasant to me but it may suit you.