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There’s a subreddit called r/RealTwitterAccounts full of examples like these. I’ll post one more after this then stop.

I love DS3 as well and there are many aspects of DS3 that are superior to Bloodborne, including (but not limited to) the openness and armour variation that is more than just cosmetic. As for weapons though, there are 93 weapons in DS3, but so many of them are just reskins of one another with some variation in how you level up your stats to maximize damage, or some other minor effects. The weapons feel pretty simple. By comparison, just about all 26 weapons in Bloodborne are unique, and most of the weapons have two forms, increasing the ways to approach combat. The weapons in Bloodborne just have more depth to them.

My current favorite all time game is Bloodborne. The atmosphere, artwork, and gameplay in that game are tops. I love how saturated the streets are with gothic architecture.

The conversation with the AI reminded me a bit of this scene from the film Ghost in the Shell. Skip to 2:13 for the relevant part.

I posted about my solopsistic experience a while back. After my realization of solopsism, I sort of just went back to pretending that there are others (hence why I'm writing this post in the first place I suppose). Most of the time when I'm talking to someone, I forget that they are me and get immersed in the illusion. Identical to when watching a good movie, reading a good book, or playing a good video game; I get so immersed in the content that I forget that the experience isn't real. I do occasionally remember that the person or people I'm talking to are me, but I'm pretty neautral about the whole situation. I realized that nothing actually changed about my day to day life during/after the realization, only the way I perceived it, so I found it convenient to just continue business as usual. That whole "Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water." line (I am not claiming to be enlightened, but the quote feels relevant). Ultimately I think you'll get used to it. And I suppose that one of the functions of this forum is to allow people talk about these peculiar topics with "others" who can better understand.

This article discusses the technology and processes that AI uses to turn text into a randomly generated image. I believe this is the same or similar technology that user Ahbapx shared in his post about AI randomly generating art, so I thought I’d share.

“I’m gonna go build my own spiritual forum… with blackjack and hookers!”

Here is a realization I had while studying geometry a decade ago, as well as a spiritual recontextualization of the realization that I’ve added recently. The realization is that depth perception is an illusion. For many of you this is obvious. For others though, I am willing to bet that some believe that the visual field is 3-Dimensional, the dimensions being left-right, up-down, and forward-back. The issue is that forward-back doesn’t exist on the visual level, but rather it is an elaborate illusion your brain creates in order to survive. The brain uses binocular vision (two eyes), objects overlapping one another, parallax, shading, and other things to create this elaborate illusion. To prove that depth perception is an illusion, I will create a scenario where your brain isn’t able to utilize any of the tools mentioned above. Next time you look up at the stars, choose one specific star to focus on. Notice that from where you are standing, you are able to tell which stars are above your star, below your star, to the right of your star, the left of your star, as well as any combination of those directions. However, without using complicated scientific equipment, you cannot tell which of those stars are closer to you than your chosen star, and you cannot tell which stars are further away from you than your chosen star. This is because the stars are too far away for binocular vision to be a factor, no stars are overlapping one another, parallax cannot be utilized over the course of an evening, and stars aren’t affected by shadows. This is why things like pictures, paintings, films, videogames, etc. are able to feel 3-dimensional despite the medium they are displayed on being flat surfaces. They are able to utilize many of the tools that your brain uses to create depth perception, with things such as VR even utilizing binocular vision to further cement the illusion of depth. I used to think this was just some cool realization about biological vision and geometry, but now I have a slightly different view on the subject. The reason that depth perception is an illusion is because everything is you. Everything that you thought you were separated from via “space” and “distance” is actually 0 centimeters away from you and there was never any separation, at least from the first-person perspective. In the same way that all of time (past, future, and present) is being imagined right now, the entirety of space is located right here in your visual field. When you look up at the stars, they aren’t lightyears away, they are located exactly where you are and exist as qualia in your visual field. Instead of thinking of things in your visual field as distinct objects which you are looking at, try to see the entirety of your visual field as a flat movie screen 0 centimeters away from your eyes. In a sense, this post could be retitled "The Illusion of Distance". Hopefully this made a modicum of sense.

Here’s a story that you made yourself, just now. I decided to write this down after Leo took his Solipsism video down. I did not see any bit of the video as I only learned about the video from the post saying that it had been taken down. For lack of better phrasing, this is an experience I had about a year and a half ago while visiting my grandmother’s place. My background in spirituality at the time composed of off-and-on daily meditation practices and mental masturbation over spiritual talks and videos over the internet. At the time this story happened, I had a daily meditation practice going for a few months and was meditating about 35 minutes daily. I also had one lack-luster LSD experience. I’m not entirely sure it was acid or not. I consider myself to be pretty underdeveloped when it comes to personal development work. It was in the early afternoon, and my grandmother wanted me to go somewhere with her. Where exactly and why, I don’t recall. I was and am currently addicted to THC, so before we set out, I took a few hits off of my marijuana vape pen. Note that I wasn’t particularly high as I was about to go out with my grandmother. Similar to how a nicotine addict smokes cigarettes throughout the day, it was just a medium-light high. I was in the living room just looking at the room, when it suddenly dawned on me. “This entire room is me.”. Everything that I was looking at was me. My visual field is what I currently looked like. Not the figure that I see in a mirror, but whatever I was looking at was me. To use more materialistic reasoning, it became clear to me that everything I looked at wasn’t in some world outside of myself, but rather everything I was looking at was an image that was happening inside my brain. Every sound, sight, taste, smell, thought, etc. was something that was happening inside my brain and therefore effectively me. I was everything I was experiencing right here, right now. Not only that, but I have always been everything right here, right now, and I always will be. Anything that I could possibly experience would have to be an experience happening inside my brain, and therefore everything I experienced in my life would effectively be me. It’s all something you are imagining in your brain right now. Now just realize that the idea of a brain is itself something being imagined by your consciousness to have a clearer understanding of what my experience was like. Essentially remove the middleman that is the brain. I also loss object permanence in the sense that anything I wasn’t experiencing right now wasn’t actually happening. To steal more ideas from scientific literature, the realization is reminiscent of Schrodinger’s Cat. Is the cat in the box alive or dead? The cat doesn’t exist, and it is only an assumption that there will be a cat in the box, alive or otherwise, once the box has been opened. All that is happening in the universe is what’s being experienced right here, right now. Having said this, the illusion of time is one I still struggle with. Logically I know that all time is happening now, and that memories and predictions are thoughts happening in the moment, but I still struggle with the illusion of the timeline and my life story. This experience wasn’t exactly one that I was seeking. While I do enjoy mentally masturbating over these philosophical and spiritual topics, I wasn’t putting much effort into discovering the nature of reality beyond 35 minutes of daily meditation and ADHD induced contemplations. The state I was in prior to the realization wasn’t particularly meditative, nor was I high out of my mind. I felt pretty much the same as I do right now while writing this post. The experience just sort of happened spontaneously without intent. While this was shocking, I was not panicked. I had realized this was what all those spiritual teachers meant when they said things like “You are the universe.” and “It’s all One”. I also realized that while this paradigm shift was intense, I was also told that the initial shock of these types of realizations would eventually wear off and I’ll be able to go back to baseline in time, so I was not worried about my current state of shock too much. I was just aware that this would be the new lens in which I would view reality through, and that I would have to remain calm while this realization settled in. The only issue with this plan is that I had to bond with my grandmother during this period of shock. It was sort of a silly problem to be in. On the one hand, I realized that the grandmother I had known all my life was just a figment of my imagination, akin to an imaginary friend a young child has. I could have just made some excuse and told her that I wasn’t feeling well, or that I didn’t want to go anymore, or something along those lines, especially knowing that she wasn’t even real. However, I decided to proceed through with the original plan since I didn’t want her to be worried or suspicious about why I suddenly changed my mind at the last moment. While in the car with her she made small talk with me, as one does when someone else is in the car. I have no recollection of what was discussed. What I do remember was thinking to myself “Shut the fuck up grandma. I really don’t care about anything you have to say to me at the moment. I’m having an existential crisis right now! You’re just a figment of my imagination anyways…”. I did respond to her as I normally would though as if nothing was wrong, as to not arouse her suspicions. I actually didn’t care if she knew something was wrong because I didn’t want her to worry or anything. She’s just a figment of my imagination anyways, so she can only worry as much as I imagine she’s worrying. I did it because I didn’t want to deal with the personal consequences of having her worry about me. I was able to keep my cool and act as if nothing was happening because I had learned about this experience in advanced and because I knew the shock of this new way of viewing reality would wear off in due time. As expected, the shock of the realization did subside over the course of the day, but the perspective on reality stayed. The realization to me feels antithetical to the spiritual idea of “No Self”. I had always assumed that I would lose my sense of identity through spirituality, but rather the exact opposite has happened. Rather than “No-self”, it feels much more akin to “All-Self”, as in “It’s all me.”. Rather than realizing that I never existed, it feels more like I’m all that could possibly exist, and all that could possibly exist is me. I am not saying that there is nothing behind the concept of “No self”, but I haven’t grasped it yet. This has been the only spiritual-type experience I’ve had in my life thus far. The experience did not change anything about how reality behaves. The rules of the universe are the same as they were before and the relationships I have with “others” feels the same as it did prior to the realization, but with the context that any conversation I have with someone else is really just a conversation I’m having with myself. Often when I’m talking to “someone else”, it’s sort of like autopilot to get lost in the illusion of talking to other people as if they were an entity separate from myself. I have to sort of remember “Oh ya, I’m just talking to myself right now.”. So far, this realization has been neither positive nor negative. I could see however some of the negative consequences of having such a realization, such as becoming more sociopathic since everyone around you is just imaginary anyways or having the comfort of having other people around you being suddenly ripped away. I could also see how this could be a positive insight since you realize that you were the one creating all of reality the entire time. It may also make letting go of things easier, since the things being held onto aren’t real to begin with. Admittedly, I am not yet conscious enough to appreciate these last two points and still have difficulties with clinging onto things.

Zelensky refuses US offer to evacuate, saying 'I need ammunition, not a ride'

@Vizual It's like I was watching a movie my entire life and just realized that the film I was watching wasn't real. Just because I'm aware that I'm watching a film doesn't mean I know how to change it at an egoic level. @Inliytened1 I knew "you'd" reply! Some of your recent posts seem similar to this one.

@ValiantSalvatore I experimented with being both genders on these dating apps, as well as being both heterosexual and homosexual. I found that my gender identity did not matter. Whether I was male or female, hardly any women would right swipe me. However, as soon as I went from "Show me women" to "Show me men", I basically got immediate results and started getting right swiped at an alarming rate. It didn't matter my gender identity either. Gay men and straight men alike could not resist my decadence. My cute smile helps too I'm sure.

Below are the pics I used for Tinder and Okcupid. I found that scarcely any women right swiped me, regardless of sexual orientation, with the exception being some women who lived in far away countries. Especially Filipina women. However, men seemed to be really drawn to me. It didn't matter the sexual orientation either. As a matter of fact, within an hour I had over 99 right swipes from men. This was months ago so the memory is a bit hazy, but I may have reached that number in around 20 minutes. I live in L.A. County so that helps with the volume of people. Perhaps this information will be of use to you.

Artist Steals $84,000 From Modern Art Museum, Calls It Conceptual Art

Perhaps this is entirely unrelated to the type of symmetry of which Leo is referring to, but this is something I’ve thought about just as recently as this morning. Mathematicians categorize the different kinds of symmetries with things called groups. Larger groups can be constructed from smaller subgroups (normal subgroups if you want to be anal about it), meaning larger symmetries can be constructed from smaller symmetries. An example would be a 6-sided pinwheel. This pinwheel can be seen to have six symmetric pins each 60 degrees from one another, or it can be split along 120 degree angles to get three symmetric pieces with two pins each, or it can be split along 180 degree angles to yield two symmetric pieces with three pins each, and lastly one could choose to not cut the pinwheel at all and leave it as one asymmetrical unit with six pins. So the symmetry of a 6 sided pinwheel contains within it three smaller symmetries, namely the symmetries of a 3 sides pinwheel, a 2 sided pinwheel, and a 1 sided pinwheel. Another example could be a square. A square contains all the symmetries that a rectangle does, as well as additional symmetry. Any standard kind of symmetry can be associated with a specific and unique group (at least in theory). As it turns out, objects which are asymmetrical are associated with the Trivial group, the only group containing only one copy. This means that while usually we think of asymmetry as being separate from symmetry, it is indeed a type of symmetry, the symmetry that represents objects with only one copy. Furthermore, an important theorem within group theory is that the Trivial group is a (normal) subgroup within every other group. To put this in English, every symmetrical object possesses within it smaller sub-symmetries, and one of these symmetries must be asymmetry. Because of this, every object has a certain kind of symmetry associated with it since all objects are at the very least asymmetrical, the symmetry of one copy.

I’d enjoy a look at more of the conversation, and perhaps more information on this AI if possible. Thanks for sharing this.

I once gave some panicked meth heads some “gas” money for their mother dying a few hundred miles away. I didn’t believe their story and told them this to their face, but a part of me wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt, knowing I’d never hear from these strangers again. The lesson I learned is to listen to my intuition more carefully. I had also assumed that graduate school would be less memorization based than everything else has been since grade school and more focused on research and creative thinking. This was false. Graduate school from my experience has been a carbon copy of grade school style of learning. There’s a saying “You don’t go to school to learn, but to learn how to learn”, but in reality if you can pass high school, you can graduate college, as the skill set is identical and you won’t be picking up any critical thinking skills you didn’t already develop during high school. Here I learned that if you want to learn something in depth, or do research into a topic, you must go it alone. Others such as private companies and universities do research based on things that are important to them and their survival as an entity, not necessarily on what is interesting as this is more of a subjective, personal quality. Research what interests you independently.

This topic very much reminds me of the end of this video. I've linked it to the correct time. "Still frustrated, you know. One of the biggest frustrations is how … what do you do after this? How do you reach those levels of consciousness naturally, in the 'sober' state? How do you make it 'permanent'? You see the thing is is that people who say that 'Oh well Leo it wasn't permanent so it's not real.', but what you don't understand is that the distinction between permanent and impermanent is complete bullshit. There's no difference between permanent and impermanent. That's your own imposition. Consciousness doesn't care if it's permanent or impermanent. You could have full, infinite God consciousness for one second. And it's genuine, it's exactly what it is. It's infinite God consciousness, it's absolute consciousness. Infinite omniscience for one second, then it's gone. That doesn't mean it wasn't real, it just means it was there, and now it's not there. You were fully awake, now you're half asleep. That's what it means. Can you be that awake all the time? Maybe, I don't know. What does it take to become that awake? Meditation, yoga, self inquiry, more 5-MeO? I don't know, I don't know. Maybe it's not possible at all in the human body. Maybe you have to put a gun in your mouth and shoot yourself. I don't know, there's a lot of possibilities."

@Javfly33 How do you know that other moments exist, or that other consciousnesses exists? The only way you could be sure of this is if you verified these other consciousnesses/moments existed for yourself, right now, in the present moment via experiencing them yourself. But then that other consciousness would really just be your consciousness, and that other moment would really just be now.

Saw this video and found it informative. To use terms popular on this forum, it’s interesting to see how stage orange coopted stage blue’s loyalty to authority figures and sense of right vs wrong for political power.

My thoughts about nihilism don’t really matter.

I was originally going to write a long, intricate explanation as to why I disagree. But honestly, it sounds like a lot of work and I just don’t have the will power to do so.

There was a solipsism convention a few years ago near the city I live in. Only one person attended.