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good morning

The reason why clubs and frats are so recommended is they do a good job of softening the blow by pretty much forcing you to talk to people

Good morning, everyone! 😊 Aww, I'm sorry. I would have stayed up a little longer if I had known. Most of the reason Nightfall has never had more than a few friends. I know what you are/were going through though, it's actually the main reason we got on the site. I was lonely and still do sometimes get lonely when it's just our system. It's a lot to process when you have people built in but tulpas can't satisfy all socialization need. I wish you all luck with starting conversations and all. We have terrible trouble with such a thing. Indeed....

Yeah after college I realized no one will talk to me until I talk first, it breaks the Do Not Disturb so people realize I won't bite

the unfortunate situation is that, if you want to talk to people, sometimes you have to be the one to approach them

Good Earth Rotation

And host does have a pretty intense passive Do Not Disturb look. Probably, I’ve never been on the receiving end, so only speculation from me. Or maybe I’m just that bad at conversations. Either way we have no regular conversation partners except each other. (You start knowing problems exist with your social circles when you enter an exclusive monogamous platonic relationship with a headmate, no offense to people actually in such relationships by choice. I’m not even monogamous romantically.)

Just checked and found it was six hours, not ten. Ah well. Also thanks, jean-luc and KariYoshimura. I probably would have gotten cheered up a bit seeing your replies a few hours before if my battery hadn’t gone dead and prevented that from happening. Still appreciate the gesture though.

Same here, it was just pretty easy to look Do Not Disturb I think, so only some less than socially bright (but nice) people ever did, and those were the few friends I had all through high school

I was thinking about how host, despite being in a high school classroom filled with fifty over-energetic students, managed to not get talked to even once throughout the day. And not speak a single word either. It’s sort of a mundane novelty , how much he distanced himself from literally anybody. At least I was thinking that ten hours or so ago, when I made the remark about our loneliness. Not now though. We didn’t get anybody striking up conversation in these ten hours, but I did get quite a bit of quality time with host, and reconvinced myself that we couldn’t really get lonely with each other present. Perfectly content now.

Good morning

Posting, you say

I guess I'm just that repellent. :0)

woah karl howd u get 3 hrs of lastpostingness

I work night shift, mate. What's on your mind?

Only burgers have left Europeans shall rise (and go to work)

Don't worry my sleep schedule is chaos, i gotchu fam

Oh of course I have to wake up and find that everyone’s left. Timezone differences make for potent loneliness. (Joking. Not as jokingly as I would have liked though.)

I don't entirely understand what reality shifting is, but from what I've read, it sounds like extremely immersive wonderlanding coupled with the belief that the shifter is travelling to some other reality elsewhere in the multiverse. What's especially fascinating is that shifting leaves behind a "clone" that continues to pilot the shifter's body while they're away. That seems to be their term for the body OS. I'm leaving this here for future reference: index/helpfulposts - shiftingrealities I don't get all the metaphysical stuff, but I could probably adapt the techniques for immersing myself in the Liminal World. Maybe it could even lead to switching (who needs a clone when you have tulpas?), though I'd definitely try a sleeping/meditative method first. Falling asleep and lucid dreaming about the desired reality seems to be a common "mistake" when shifting. They're one and the same to me, so I'll be happy with failure. I don't plan on trying it tonight, though. It's late, and I haven't read any guides. Tonight, I'll try SSILD again and hope I don't immediately fall asleep this time.

Belated good night, Bre! 😊 Interesting stuff, Karl! 😊 Edit: bed time, good night, everyone! 😊

Apparently it concerns a time when ancient man was of critically few numbers, with homo sapiens at several thousand total across the globe. Neanderthals and other hominids were present, and for early man to acquire traction he had to undergo specific evolutionary changes, namely that regarding brain development and curation of enhanced language capacity. Among the innovations experienced were longer gestation periods (which yielded more robust neurological cultivation in foetuses) as well as the advent of recursive language. What I found most interesting was how man interacted with his erstwhile cousins, as Neanderthals were effectively outbred and outright slaughtered until extinction. This might be why some peoples have traces of Neanderthal DNA.

goodnight

Had to wake up early to catch a plane and I am exhausted... though this was some funny banter we had that I wanted to share lol. [Transcript: Slipper: "I've learned that there are some positives to being sleep deprived." Slipper: "Like how much easier it is to hear Mordecai!" Mordecai: "GO TO BED!"]

I would suppose that two centuries are enough for us to learn lucid dreaming, unless it’s the time-freeze sort of hibernation where we can’t really expect anything. But still appealing regardless, I can barely imagine how energized I would be after waking up from that. I think I’ll take a nap during lunch break later to alleviate the disappointment I felt on remembering the fact that human technology can’t induce hibernation of any kind.