[Game] Last one to post wins!

[Lucilyn]

I zee(zeezee)

[TB]

that sounds kind of fun luli would a future lotpwcraft have things like that

 

also i just got pinged from hell. i hope this is good

 

 

this is a buddhist server that doesn't ban anyone by principle, but if you break rules too much you are relegated to only being able to post in hell, lol, which... yeah let's see what the heck is there i guess

 

okay it was just an @ everyone ping but oh god. yeah hell is about what you'd expect lol. 

Edited April 22 by TB

[Lucilyn]

Botania is fun but the only value it gives to a long-term server is a few pretty building blocks (and I guess a few somewhat useful building/etc. tools), we've done vanilla in the past since we figure we'll be more about building than one-time adventure playthrough-ing

Edited April 22 by Lucilyn

[TB]

i see a big discussion about the word tulpa in another thread. i haven't read all of it but i wonder if that makes twin peaks racist. it's my favorite american tv show. and i love the character dale cooper, and part of his character is he is deeply fascinated by tibetan buddhism, and this leads to him doing weird stuff sometimes to try to crack the case of the murder of laura palmer. and the 3rd season has tulpas in it. the first season just has some different tibetan references, but i forget what it was.

 

oh yeah it is dugpa. there is a villian in season 2 that is an ex FBI agent that actually taught cooper everything he knows, and he is on like a killing spree and cooper is trying to stop his former master fbi agent. and i think his murder spree was inspired by dugpas, which iirc he explains are like evil sorcerers who do evil not for any reason or gain, but just for the principle of pure evil, or something. i don't know if dugpas are real or not or if it is exaggerated if they are, but it's fun to watch, though i'd feel sad if people thought it was racist. it also makes me concerned about my own stuff, because i do like to insert different spiritual concepts into my own stories and settings. the band that holds kyouiko's braids together has sanskrit on it for example and she has other hindu inspired things

 

i don't know if it also makes berserk racist, the manga that is probably my second favorite manga, or technically favorite, i would say behind dragonball but i have read all of dragonball and am more a fan of dragonball overall but yeah. in berserk, there is a apostle (which, calling demons in berserk apostles, i wonder if that is offensive to christians? since apostles usually refer to the original literal followers of jesus walking around with him), but one of them turns into a horrifying eldritch terror that expands thousands of feet into the sky and rips the border between the spirit world and real world, making a mundane realistic world turn into a fantasy one with trolls and such. and when he becomes this he starts being called Shiva, like the hindu god. his race and people are based on indians/hindus as well and i think they use other hindu spiritual concepts, and are also bad guys. but to me it is all super cool and engaging for me to read, and makes me inspired to learn more about other cultures because i google the weird terms i come across

[Breloomancer]

some shows have problematic elements, and it's ok to still like them

 

also, you cannot appropriate an imperialist culture, so christianity is fair game

Edited April 23 by Breloomancer

[Reina Akabane]

 

35 minutes ago, TB said:

but to me it is all super cool and engaging for me to read, and makes me inspired to learn more about other cultures because i google the weird terms i come across

Exactly! People already know not to take entertainment too seriously and that if they want to find out the more about how things really are like they can search it up online. On creditable websites of course.

 

Spoiler

 

2 hours ago, Ranger said:

We have a monster sneeze. We sneeze so loudly we kind of literally say, "ah choo".

When we sneeze it's a medium sneeze and we say "choo" but never say "ah" as that's silent.

 

2 hours ago, Ranger said:

We usually just point our head to the ground to sneeze. If other people are close by, we'd sneeze in our hands (and then want to find the nearest bathroom to wash them). We only hold in our sneezes if we're working on something that's supposed to be clean and can't look away, like a wound we're cleaning.

We sneeze at the ground too, and in public we rub our mustache to cancel the... oh wait... *hides from Lucilyn*

 

2 hours ago, Ranger said:

Learning Japanese

That's great!

 

2 hours ago, Ranger said:

In fact, we didn't realize what it was a hallucinagen until we learned about it from this guy

We didn't know that either.

 

2 hours ago, Ranger said:

The good news is I can draw again!

 

The bad news is I gave up on my first sketch...

 

The good news is I want to try again!

 

If I get it to work, I may post the first attempt 

Drawing is a lot if work, but you'll get that big pay off, just keep pushin!

Extra post stuff, also, sleepy at the moment.

[Breloomancer]

sneezing into your hands is incredibly gross. sneezing into your elbow is also gross, but it's the lesser of two evils

[TB]

holding in sneeze is the least gross

 

there are 3 different classes of hallucinogenic drugs. the most well known is probably psychedelics, such as LSD and psilocybin mushrooms, but there are others, such as DMT, 5 MeO DMT, and ayahuasca.

 

Dissociatives are another class, ketamine probably the most well known, but there are others.

 

The third class are called deliriants, which consists of drugs such as Benadryl and uhhhhhhhhh name slipped my mind but a nickname for it is Devil's Trumpet, it's a flower you can find growing in the wild in a lot of places in the world, maybe even some near you, and you can eat their seeds to trip. There is a similar plant called Angel's Trumpet but I think it is different. It's also called Jimsomweed sometimes... Datura, that's the name.

 

Psychedelics and Dissociatives have been found to have a lot of psychological benefits and are known to quickly reduce depression and sometimes anxiety, and do things like make someone realize the meaning of life or have religious experiences or self reflection that makes them inspired to make positive changes to themselves, but they can also be dangerous if the set and setting aren't right, and sometimes randomly even if they are, so there is always risk to using them, but it can be minimized by knowing dosages and going slow and being consciencous when using them. They also have benefits like neuroplasticity increasing, ending addictions, and they are anti-addictive in that your body not only doesn't crave them but they are very difficulty to abuse in a massive use sense as tolerance builds up super fast so they are kind of required to be used weeks or months apart to really even have an effect, though some people become enchanted with the experience and use them as much as possible, which can have bad consequences sometimes, but not in a physical way, more so a psychological way.

 

Deliriants aren't recommended to use, as they have very little to no therapeutic benefit, and some like Benadryl can cause brain damage and dementia, or even death. The dose of LSD or shrooms you'd have to take to die from them is far above and beyond even the highest doses one would reasonably take, but for things like Benadryl, people who abuse it regularly take doses that would kill people without a tolerance and often chase the border of doses that might even kill themselves. Also, while psychedelics usually cause hallucinations like visual distortions or patterns overlaying things, or in high doses, vision like experience with entities, deliriants can cause hyper realistic hallucinations that you have no way to tell is a hallucination, and it can cause you do to very stupid and dangerous things. Like I've heard stories of people taking Datura and roaming the streets with their friends doing crazy stuff, but then realize they are in a hospital or police car when they come to and when they ask their friends about it, they tell them they were not even with them and have no idea where they went. For some reason, it also commonly causes people to hallucinate cigarettes that they will smoke, even if they aren't a smoker. but yeah, you will be so disconnected from reality and what is going on in concensus reality will only loosely correspond to what you are experiencing. I've heard people say they looked at their front yard and saw their entire family bleeding and crucified. also, when you take a deliriant, you typically forget you took the drug, so you act as if what you are seeing is real. Somehow people become addicted to it though, and not even them understand why. I think it is because they experience a sense of noeticism I think the word is called, where they have the feeling they've stumbled upon a deep universal secret, but there isn't actually any content to this realisation, it is just the sensation of having found a realisation, so they chase some deeper truth that isn't really going to be shown to them.

 

my ted talk

 

i find deliriants fascinating though. i'd never try one, but people say with high doses of benadryl, you enter an alternate dimension called Eriel. The name came from a reddit user who said when he took like, idk what it was, 700mg or 1200mg or something of benadryl, the hat man said to him "do not go to eriel". and as humans do, it created a bunch of people who chase eriel lol and want to learn what it is. it is fascinating the "the hat man" is a consistent character people who use deliriants meet, and sometimes children as well when they are trying to sleep at night. when you put it like that it does feel like there is some secret to find out lol, but yeah i recommend against it. the former i won't recommend for or against it, it is highly individualistic on whether they are worth trying, but if one were to, it is highly recommended to research them thoroughly and be responsible, and something something laws

 

typing this makes me realize how much i've gone down hallucinogen rabbit hole and it probably is almost hobby level, but alas i rarely get to try them because idk how tf to get them

 

also thanks reina and bre, i see

Edited April 23 by TB

[Breloomancer]

it's crazy how there are some drugs that are just so perfectly designed to be helpful and have low abuse potential. like, you would think there is some sort of catch, but there isn't

[TB]

yeah. though i assume you are talking about psychedelics, isn't the catch that there is a small chance you get schizophrenia? especially if you have schizophrenic family members? or to have a scary experience that traumatizes you?