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http://markluskin.blogspot.com/2011/03/from-archive-dark-deco-by-dr-michael.html?m=1
&ltthe Art Deco enthusiast, like the devotee of Expressionism, is by that interest making a statement about the nature of his or her soul. He or she is impatient with surface images, bored with frippery, and drawn by the weird and the outré. Art Deco portrays the human being as one secretly wishes to be: a kind of _Metropolis_ robot[rix] with a dispassionate, cool, and cruel disposition. Art Deco is never warm, cozy, reassuring; it is glacial and impersonal. Those fearful of, dissatisfied with, or contemptuous of human emotions seek in Art Deco a mirror which will show them - and reinforce in them - only the non-human aspects of their souls.

Post pics of your favourite pieces of art deco.
Pic related: Hoover building, A40 (Western Avenue), London, England.
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>>14207
It is bourgeois. But is it any good? That's another question. the better question depends on whether you're looking at it from the viewpoint of hobbyist, or from that of a town planner, in my view.

The quintessential art deco skyscraper.

>>14207
No I do not believe so. Art Deco was an aesthetic exploited by the bourgeoisie but I do not believe it arose from that, as it impacted architecture and urban planning in ways that ignored class divides, although obviously the most grandiose examples belonged to the rich, since they had more money to throw away for vanity projects and additions.

>>9670
Having studied Corbusier as part of my Urban Planning research, this article has quite a few inaccuracies, gonna talk about it sometime.

art nouveau > art deco
art deco is fascist and reactionary and bourgeois



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Learn actual drawing techniques underlying the generic "anime" style

>>43896
>>/draw/


why? so you can masturbate to them later? you make me sick



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The ur-reactionary film

From time to time you get these right wing movies such as 300 and Conan the Barbarian which I call "reactionary films", i.e. any movie which is based on some hypermasculine white guy beating back the androgyne, ethnic forces of evil. Conan the Barbarian (1982) is the perfect example of this, the ur-reactionary movie

TLDR: Conan the barbarian (1982 movies) is a 1980s right wing movie, part of the Reagan turn/backlash against the 60s/70s. The witch he encounters and has sex with early through the movie is supposed to represent the evils of "free love", she literally turns into a ghost demon as she orgasms. The whole part where the girls father, the king asks Conan to get his daughter back from Thulsa Doom who is (probably) sexing his daughter. The cultists of Thulsa doom are supposed to be an analogue for hippie-commune 1960s people who tell Conan to "go back to the land" and have flower power shit. Next there's there's the gay snake-priest that tries to seduce Conan but Conan beats him up. The Villain of the movie is an ultra masculine deep voice black man (James Earl Jones as "Thulsa Doom") who has hypnotized a cult full of nubile dancing white girls into a sexualized stupor, sort of combining 1970s anti cult shit with anti hippie stuff. At the end the hippies put out their new age candles and shit and leave, and the girls go back to their fathers. All delivered by an ultramasculine white man (Arnie) to defeat and buckbreak black hypermasculinity (James Earl Jones). Essentially its the artistic reaction to undo the 1960s/70s and everything about it including sexuality, race, etc.

Long Version:

I: Introduction

Conan the Barbarian is a 1982 epic sword and sorcery film directed by John Milius and written by him and Oliver Stone. Based on Robert E. Howard‘s Conan, the film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger in the title role and James Earl Jones, with Sandahl Bergman, Gerry Lopez, Max von Sydow, Mako, Sven-Ole Thorsen, and Ben Davidson.

The film gave Schwarzenegger worldwide recognition, and in the years since its release, it became a cult film, making a lot more money on home video. It spawned a sequel, Conan the Destroyer, in 1984, and a reboot was made in 2011.

A link to quotes from the film can be found here.
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>>40111
Conan's disdain for decadence and corruption aligns with the Maoist critique of the old society's culture as maintaining the status quo of exploitation and oppression.

bump

What is the Communist answer to the Riddle of Steel?

>>43956
Backyard foundries

underrated post



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General for discussing occultism, magick, meditation, esoteric traditions, including any theories about aliens, ufos, etc.
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>>44185
Sorry but Stalin is a God.
Your argument is invalid.

>>38292
In theory: maybe
In practice: nah, because we are all actively reaching towards that truth anyway again via synthesis. Perennialism in its most extreme form won’t just look at the truth found in ancient scripts, but as reflected in all sorts of ideologies and even in pop-cultural ideas as they are all reflections and shadows of understandings from something above

>>44187
The ironic thing is that there is real spiritual power being projected from all that atheistic Stalin worship

>>44189
→ >>>/leftypol/2012609

>>38174
> So the only way to reach god is by being an atheist, because this reveals god in his own absence.
Pretty much the logic of Buddhism



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How?
Is there a method to do it on your own computer?
What software for copying text from a scanned book pdf?
What are the best voices?
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>>43992
if you want to do the high quality one you need to use elevenlabs. Its like a 4000 character word limit before you have to pay premium though, AFAIK its not THAT expensive, at least if you're going to be churning out audiobooks left and right

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>tfw ai will finally let me dub anime in my conlang

>>44076
the elevenlab without premium audio isnt that good because you have to use the default settings and cant fiddle around with configuring the voice.

>>44165
Someone is trying to do this with Esperanto and it's awful. It just reinforces the impression that no actual human being speaks that language.

>>44171
>It just reinforces the impression that no actual human being speaks that language
Not a terribly wrong impression to have.



 

>open video editor
>crank volume up to 12db on 30 audio layers
>render
result: similar to that video LOUD WARNING

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audio player hooked up to virtual mic fed through google voice anonymous calls lulz

or just open up audacity and put a hard limiter on to get the same effect without tinnitus



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The gem empire in Steven universe is a universe-spanning alien empire. The fuckers literally rip apart entire planets to fuel their expansion. They don’t take just the biologically-compatible resources, they take everything and they’ve colonized nearly every region of their universe. Their own home world is located in a fully colonized galaxy away from the Milky Way. They can fucking teleport anywhere.

The imperium wouldn’t stand a chance even at its prime and neither would the necron empire. The forerunners would be walking with their tails crossed between their legs if the gems went to war with them. Not even the fucking reapers of mass effect stand a chance. The gem empire of Steven universe could and legitimately would solo all galactic empires in every video game franchise and its elites probably wouldn’t even notice that they were even at war with them.

How do gay-mers even cope with this objective fact?
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Op, have you never heard of the Xeelee before?

If not watch this video. Yes It's about what factions can beat 40k and the Xeelee Sequence is at the end.

I also think civilizations like the Time Lords at their peak could also defeat the Gem Empire.

Some Examples of their abilities:
<It has been claimed in expanded universe material that the Time Lords are the only Type V Kardashev civilization, capable of making use of the energy from the multiverse:

<Even a single Time Lord can rank well above galactic energy levels. The Doctor has caused at least one supernova when needed, which produce 1045W (100 foes over 10 seconds) during stellar collapse. The Master built 100,000 Black Hole Converters, which probably harness the same energy conversion of the gravitational potential energy to neutrinos.


<The Eye of Harmony is the primary power source for Time Lord civilisation and consists of an ultramassive star frozen in time at the moment it collapses into a black hole (as first revealed in The Deadly Assassin). This stellar event was created in the distant past by the earliest Time Lords, including Rassilon and Omega (who apparently has a thing for black holes). The TARDIS itself, as shown in "Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS" and the TV Movie, contains either a direct link to this Eye of Harmony, or its own copy (which would explain how it continues to function despite Gallifrey's absence).


<The Hand of Omega, a "remote stellar manipulator" invented by Omega, was a device used by the first Time Lords to customise stars. It looks like a large metal coffin or casket, but it's likely to be extradimensional like a lot of Time Lord technology, with the casket form being its only extension into our universe. It was certainly capable of causing a regular star to turn supernova and destroy its solar system in a matter of minutes, and it's heavily implied, given what the Daleks try to do with it in Remembrance of the Daleks, that the Hand of Omega might even have been used to create the original Eye of Harmony.


<An expanded universe novel, "The Taking of Planet 5", features a Time Lord weapon called a parallel cannon, which could open a pinhead-sized wormhole to the core of a star made of antimatter undergoing a supernova collapse. A single shot from a parallel cannon in the book destroyed an entire forest and vaporised a mountain. If a parallel cannon were left on, it would punch a h
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the COAL empire got btfo by their own feelings

>>44144
rude no u

I had a bizarre dream where a new steven universe series was made alongside the dragon ball universes where the diamonds fought agaisnt gohan on his ultimate form.



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So I had a massive social fail yesterday. I don't really want to get to the details because nobody here cares about my drama. I want to get to a feeling that probably unites some of us.
A lot of us are very into computers in a way nobody except us can understand, and along with that or because of that, we lost our social lives.
Me, I have very bad people skills. Unlike others, it isn't that I'm too scared to talk to others, in fact that sensation is extremely dull, only flares up talking to cute girls, like anyone else. So I don't have a block when it comes to just talking to people.
What I struggle with is the technical skills: how to read people effectively and respond to their emotions, keeping a conversation flowing and expanding, speaking technique (my speech has degraded somewhat to the point where I stutter, my voice sometimes cracks, and I never speak loud enough so should work on that), and moreover the holy grail is utilising social procedure to make a relationship ascend from acquaintanceship to a close friendship.

After yesterday I was wishing I was just normal, that I didn't trade my social life for elite computer skills because of how isolated it made me. I have a unique perspective on the world in so many ways, but I'm also alone in that, and sometimes it doesn't feel worth it. Relating with people over the wire isn't enough anymore, I want to relate with others face-to-face. But I don't want to become a defeated misanthrope just yet. I need to know if it's possible to have it both ways.
Surely other lains have been in similar situation, and maybe have tried and possibly succeeded in fixing it. I haven't searched elsewhere yet because I expect to find mostly snake oil peddled by normal people who don't understand my situation at all. What about you lain? Have you found books which gave you a glimpse at the mechanics of social interactions? how friendship is formed?

Also, is having social media a boon for making friends? At this point I'm considering downloading Instagram to appear more like I am a socially fitting person; I feel like being known as that guy who has no social media, though it makes me novel, probably works against me because it flags my outsider-ness to others, or makes me seem like I'm not approachable. But I want to be approachable. I don't expect to become a sociopath-tier socialite who can smooth talk anybody. I just want to be able to get on with people.

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>>44104
Hello, Lain.

There are books about this from self-help to social engineering.

>>44103
First, concerning socialization thought is very close to being, meaning keeping your cool is the most important in projecting social skills. Just know your limits and listen, ask questions or simply nod if you have nothing to say.

Second, building social skills isn't hard unless you're living like a hermit for weeks on end. Even then i have a somewhat active mind, so i often find myself occupied with imaginary conversations when doing chores and i feel like that helps.

i cant offer a ton, but:
people generally like when you mirror their emotions back to them. I.E. if they tell you a happy story, smile along with them, and so forth.
dont be overly expressive or excited. just a smile and a cheerful voice is enough
good practice is talking to cashiers. ask how they are, when they are done work, other very simple questions. If they seem cold then its ok to just drop it, you didnt do anything wrong
younger people will probably think ur a bit weird if you dont have insta or something along the lines, insta is the most popular. just post some photos you took on a hike or of some nice building downtown every once and a while and thats enough, and add a profile picture! you dont have to see ur face in it or even have it be of u but no anime or cartoons

>>44111
also, all this stuff will be awkward at first. its unavoidable. dont worry about it, nobody will remember you or likely see you ever again.



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show me what would you take with you!
Mine would be something like:
*25L backpack (similar to pic related n° 2. It's what i have)
* 4 basic t-shirts(two gray, two black), 2 graphic t-shirts, one long-sleeve t-shirt
* two jeans, two cargo shorts
* 4 pairs of socks, 4 changes of underwear
* canvas sneakers
* the newest laptop i own, charger, mouse, laptop sleeve, wired earbuds, two usb HDD, portable charger
* Thermos, tea
* important documents like birth cert.
* Toothbrush
* facemasks, glasses
* pepper spray, folding knife
* sewing kit
* as much canned food as i can

You should keep a copy of Quotations from Chairman Mao with you at all times


identification, toiletry bag, basic clothes with at least 1 change for each piece, as much cash as possible, then miscellaneous personally important stuff



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I've realized as I've grown older my good youthful looks are fading. Yet, I've noticed many of those who undergo MTF hormone therapy get to regain, or retain many features I like. I guess this has caused me to wonder would it be controversial for me to simply want hormone replacement, not for any gender-affirming reason, but simply for aesthetics, then which led to me realize, so many people in our society have altered themselves, celebrities with plastic surgery and hair transplants, people taking finestaride, steroids. Just kind of makes sense to me I want to screw with my body because I've always had a hacker mindset
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>>44020
I understand your skittishness, but from a study I seen it increases change of erectile dysfunction by 1% point, and the greatest predictor form developing this side-effect is being aware of it being potential finasteride side-effect.

>>44025
thanks for the facts

Can you link the study on fin?

>>43985
Take sunscreen to prevent premature aging, it won't stop aging as such but accelerated aging from sun exposure, but if you didn't wear it in youth some damage has already been done that will catch up to you in old age.

As for things other than sunscreen tretinoin is the gold standard for anti-aging pretty much any other cosmetic product other than sunscreen is cope.

Finasteride to keep hair obviously.

TRT for quality of life especially once past middle age not so much for anti-aging, HGH isn't really necessary and increases cancer risk.

Eat as less as possible, but obviously longevity isn't much useful if your quality of life is shit so you want to have a balance in this regard such as to maintain muscle mass in old age and avoid nutrient deficiencies.

And of course avoid stress and have good health/sleep in general.

>>44029
>but if you didn't wear it in youth some damage has already been done that will catch up to you in old age.
fuck



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