I LIKE being an emotional man. I LIKE being sensitive. I LIKE that sometimes I get devastatingly miserable, it gives substance to my character. I LIKE that sometimes I feel uncontrollably euphoric, I get reminded how it feels to be a kid again. I LIKE that sometimes I feel burning wrath, it fuels my physical performance. I LIKE that I love hard, it makes the chase worthwhile and the pain worth risking. I don't WANT to be hardened, it'd make it impossible for you to STAB my chest and PRY me open, to TEAR OUT my beating heart and raise it up high. I LIKE my blood trickling down your arm and covering you in ME. I LIKE being all over YOU.

People do not realize just how much they are putting at risk when they don't accept what life presents them with, the questions and tasks that life sets them. When they resolve to spare themselves the pain and suffering, they owe to their nature. In so doing, they refuse to pay life's dues and for this very reason, life then often leads them astray. If we don't accept our own destiny, a different kind of suffering takes its place: a neurosis develops, and I believe that that life which we have to live is not as bad as a neurosis. If I have to suffer, then let it be from my reality. A neurosis is a much greater curse! In general, a neurosis is a replacement for an evasion, an unconscious desire to cheat life, to avoid something. One cannot do more than live what one really is. And we are all made up of opposite and conflicting tendencies. After much reflection, I have come to the conclusion that it is better to live what one really is and accept the difficulties that arise as a result --- because avoidance is much worse.

"Do you take pride in your hurt?" Samual asked. "Does it make you seem large and tragic?"

"I don't know."

"Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience."

You call it love bombing I call it being good at the early game.

Please don't leave me I scale really well late game.

In the modern era, you should almost always take everything someone says with a grain of salt, but what they do seriously.

This is primarily because the internet created a regime where signaling preferences is itself a consumption good. People don't just misreport their preferences, but now they genuinely hold contradictory preferences simultaneously because the signal and behavior serve different utility functions. It's not lying as much as you catching them being two things at once, which is philosophically way more disturbing than simple hypocrisy. Now more than ever before, revealed preference methodology absolute needs to become default, and stated preference should be treated as data about aspirational identity rather than predictive behavior.

I got much better at sex when I started to envision myself not just as myself, but as the archetypical Woman whose legacy extended down into an infinite chain throughout history. The man could be a master of many domains, but this was mine, and I ruled him by understanding in that moment my sole pursuit and passion was to become a creature designed to give pleasure. I fell into my role easily and naturally, because I carried its wisdom in my blood, and when I truly understood this, any "technique" or minor technical detail of the act itself became easy to incorporate.

I stopped worrying about "fairness" or "getting mine" or whether I had an orgasm, and in that way I gave up this illusory control in my head so I could obtain true control. In this way, my satisfaction increased tenfold. I became not only myself, but him as well, watching myself reflected through the mirror of his body I'd cast a spell upon. Every moment magnified. Every motion split and bound again.

A woman simply is, but a man must become. Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revolt from woman, and it is confirmed by other men.

Out of curiosity, decided to check what the AI situation was like with indie developers still. Out of 16 game jams on itch.io that will happen in the next 30 days that have over 100 participants registered, 10 do not allow the usage of AI. Out of the 6 that allow it, one mentioned it as an explicit good tool for creativity that indie developers should use, and three didn't mention it at all, which means they likely forgot to add it as rule and no one bothered them about it yet. Grim.

The notion that retardation is a mitigating rather than aggravating factor in regards to criminal culpability is sufficient on its own to condemn an entire legal philosophy.

Just found out that my fiancée (wedding literally THIS week) planned a school massacre when she was a teenager and I'm just completely at a loss for how to react.

Resentment grinds a man's soul to dust.

I am completely incapable of human contact. My entire life I've been an outsider looking in, an impostor mimicking human behavior. I don't belong here.

Far above the horizon, conquering the skies, the inside-out dragonfly's wings split the world in two. Have you ever thought about it --- what makes something disgusting, or beautiful? Just as they are, sitting there from the beginning, for whom do the flowers bloom?

Prisoners of envy are conquering the skies, body and soul split apart, twisting and falling. Have you ever felt it --- things like disgust, beauty? Just as they are, sitting there from the beginning, for whom do the petals fall?

The heavily patched-up raft dissolves into the river. I'm submerged up to my neck in self-serving decay.

This is the lowest age mankind has yet endured.