/int/ - certified time wasters

I watch a live stream of German in Fürth filming a mobile radar trap adjusted to go off if people cross the 30km/h threshold after 8pm. 12 people in 20min.
I think this a very German activity, the live stream has about 1.4k people.

I just found out that the government is providing a "Kulturpass" app for people born in 2005 (i.e. those who turn 18 this year).
After registration you get 200 Euros for free to spend on
>Eintrittskarten für Konzerte, Theateraufführungen, Kinobesuche, Museumsbesuche oder Parks, sowie Bücher, Tonträger, Noten oder Musikinstrumente.
That's tickets for concerts, plays, cinema, museums or parks, as well as books, *sound storage media* (anything from wax cylinders to CDs), sheet music and musical instruments.

So if there are any underage b& Ernsts here who didn't already know that, there's still time to grab your (for you) free shit.

>>8492
We have same but it's 50 euros for 14-22 years olds.

Did the groceries. Bought a lot of flour. We're having spaghetti tomorrow.
I finished downloading two games. Checked out the menu of Total War Three Kingdoms and was pleased to see that Cao Cao is available from the get-go. Last time I played a TW game all the cool stuff was locked until you killed the faction and unlocked them that way.

The tailor's was closed. There were no frozen breadrolls as Lidl. The country is not burning on full flame.

>>8488
I want to say that that building looks cool due to the shape, but it actually just makes me depressed for some reason.

I've decided to do Erasmus during my MA's first year to Germany. Heidelberg if possible. Looking at their curriculum, it's pretty nice. Modular. "Modern order klassisch" in every single case.
Ours is fucking stupid. A real messed-up Frankenstein's monster type of deal that was made to be both yet achieves neither.
Damn I wish I were German. Or an Austrian.

Then I will go to Beijing for a year. And then I will get the MA degree and not do a PhD because fuck this country I want to die in my room. Or become a night watchman and work on my magnum opus translation there and show all these people tangled up in academia how it's done.

This MA program we have here sucks. I took one subject to learn classical "From the best" and he doesn't even hold the fucking classes, they just run under his name.
And like a third of them have been cancelled. Next week? Cancelled, not an assigned text.
Bullshit.

I could do this at home. I just pick something at random and then work at it and discuss it with people into classical online. I think I've said this before but the entire department should kneel before me and suck me off like I'm the second coming of Christ for putting up with this shit. Fucking buddhologist retards.

Why do I even care? If I care that means they have power over me. And I don't want that at all. I don't want these people to have any power over me, for them to decide over my fate.
I'm whipping myself into a frenzy over something stupid.

>>8498
>Damn I wish I were German.

I will send you a Bickerwurst once you have arrived.

Heidelberg, Heidelberg. Always makes me think of this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Patients%27_Collective

It's happening again

>>8499
>socialists are mentally ill
Pottery

>>8500
Okay it passed.

>>8502
False alarm, it did not.

>>8481
No. But there might be some Portuguese or other strange stock of people roaming around this great European metropolis. So you never really know.

>>8504
Take it easy. It's all going to be alright.

>>8462
>How do you perceive that you're currently working hard with your brain?
When attempting to pull together too many disparate ideas into a coherent whole and my brain simply freezes resulting in a momentary pause of my otherwise constant inner monologue.

>put dvd format disc cases with the cover correctly in the shelf
>title on the spine goes either up-down or down-up
>flip cases so all spines show in the same direction
>title is either at the bottom or the top
WHY JUST WHY THIS IS INFURIATING

Went to billiards practice, to the gym and a cool club event with some friends yesterday. A bit of fun was had.

Been two months of no contact now but I still miss her every day. During the days there's almost always something there to remind me of her, in the evening when I'm alone with my thoughts it's bad too but it's the worst on mornings when I can sleep in and it's my first thought, it's basically there before I even wake up properly. So I just lie there lonely and depressed until I manage to collect enough willpower to do something. Kinda fucked up.
Other girls are showing some interest but none that I'd be seriously interested in, so I keep my distance.

In other news my shopping addiction has been curbed since my Taobao account got frozen and without going into details it's an absolutely tortuous ordeal to try and make the customer service unlock it.

>>8462
Feeling mentally exhausted seems like a good indicator that you did some mental work. If your brain is busy you should have no capacity to perceive it as being busy.
Though I think the breakthroughs usually result from subconscious processes or the sort of flows of thought, e.g. when you are taking a walk, doing some monotonous exercises/work or in a semi-conscious state when you're about to fall asleep.
Taking the exam as example, often I skip questions if I don't know the answer, but then it just pops into my head later (ofc unfortunate if it's after I've already handed it in).
Just my two cents, I also don't feel like thinking too hard right now :DD

>>8498
>Heidelberg
Gotta be that guy and ask: why not Berlin? Is the program in Heidelberg that much better?

>Beijing
Noice, you should check out CSC scholarship btw

Looking at a Chinese poster on my wall and the scribbles are starting to form actual words.
Feeling like a schizophrenic who finally learned how to read license plates.

Right wingers are idiots. Leftists are mentally ill. It’s so tiresome.

My mood hasn’t improved all that much. I read a few chapters from a Chinese history book. Had spaghetti for lunch. My father said I look tense. (After I told my mother to close the window and I fixed the position of a plastic laddle and a chair, because the plastic laddle’s fittings were dripping dishwater and I didn’t want it to land in the food and the chair was rubbing against the one my sister sat on and the sound of the two faux-leather surfaces having at it was killing me. And of course my mother decided to open the windows like two minutes after I told her I’m feeling cold.)
To be fair, I was probably tense, I just thought I could hide it better than this.

I played some Postal 2. Probably not a good idea in hindsight. It finally runs without hitches tho.

Went to the store to buy my sister something for her birthday. I found this one kilo bag of Haribo gummy bears but it had no price-sticker on it or near it. I dragged it to a terminal to check the price and I kept telling myself that if it’s like 1.5k I’ll buy it. Turns out it was 3800. Still got it. I mean if not for my sister then who else?
Also got her a pack of that raspberry flavoured candy she loves and some oils for the vapour-maker.
She seemed happy. I’d say more excited than for the silver chain my parents got her.

I’m considering going to the library tomorrow. Just make a thermos of tea, pack a sandwich and then go to the library and study there. Read some shit. Just to not be here. Maybe I’m going crazy due to the semi-isolation.

>>8512
I’m currently just looking around. Heidelberg’s seems nice (the fact that I can choose freely between classical and modern at every turn of the programme is like a dream come true), but I’ve been told that within the Classical areas, they specialise in Archeology.
It was the first university the librarian dropped on me when I complained to her like a week ago.
Another one I’ve been told that’s a good choice for classical is München.
But I’m gonna take a look at Berlin too.

>>8515
People are always shocked to learn it’s a logical system and not just 20000 random drawings.

>>8519
It is just random drawings.

>>8519
>Just to not be here

It is beyond me how people can stay at home - let alone with their parents - to study. I went to the library nearly every day in the last three months or so mainly because I cannot focus that well at home, temptations of distraction are strong, I even changed libraries to get some more variety. Libraries are great. I'm sure Budapest has also different university libraries with different interiors and vibes, check them out.

>been told that within the Classical areas, they specialise in Archeology.

Are you really interested in that when it comes to the Classical era?

https://www.studis-online.de/studium/sinologie-chinastudien/studienorte/

Here are all the cities that apparently offer Chinese Studies. Did not look up if they all offer a masters program though.

ok, managed to go one full week without drinking
it was legit a pain in the ass, which suggests that I'm an alcoholic

>>8523
Serious question: did you think that you don't have a drinking problem thus far?

>>8523
There ist only one effective treatment for addicts: take them away from everything and everyone they know, take away all of their belongings, force them to be strictly abstinent from all legal and illegal drugs, painkillers, tobacco, coffee, sugar, etc., destroy their entire personality and built a new one.

>>8525
what if i like my current personality? -,.-

t. addict

>>8525
Why do you have a problem with loving yourself? :DDD

I already couldn't score with girls before I became a porn addict, joge is on you (not anyone in particular, more like the general audience).

>>8528
>not understanding that addiction is acquired, while the need for water is physiological
Be retarded elsewhere.

>>8529
There can be psychological and physiological alcohol addictions, in second case it's physiological need to drink booze

>>8529
Not sure if trying to make a joke or legit autistic

>>8529
Not my fault you fell for the lies of the water jew, mate. I live off air and sunshine, just as god intended.

>>8532
Another person discovering its plant being, how nice. Which light do you like best? Now that it gets dark I'm thinking about buying a lamp so I don't suffer malnutrition like the last decades :3

>>8533
My favourite is crystal filtered morning light, which I absorb directly with my brain.
>Now that it gets dark I'm thinking about buying a lamp so I don't suffer malnutrition like the last decades :3
I always keep a light in my fridge for emergencies.

>>8534
Did you ever try perineum sunning to absorb the light with your Prostoma?

Working with the Chinese all morning.
I learn Chinese not because I need China, but because China needs me. They're not able to grasp European cultural sensibilities, they simply and fundamentally do not understand the preferences of the western consumer.

China needs me to become the greatest salesman in Yiwu, in just a few years I will deliver.

>>8524
Well I got my first job, first real job, a good job and a promotion all while getting shitfaced 3 times a week, so it wasn't really a problem.
But now I can no longer handle a night of drinking without being completely useless the next day, so it's a problem.

Wonder how many years I shaved off my life doing this.

Drinking a cola drink right after coffee tastes fantastic. Way better than the coffee-flavored colas.

>>8537
>I got my first job, first real job, a good job and a promotion all while getting shitfaced 3 times a week, so it wasn't really a problem
Damn. Brick identifying himself and valuing self worth through employment. A new leaf. In any case, one can have a drinking problem despite doing well at work or academia.

At the library. Half the people seem to be using a Macbook or an iPad.

I tried helping an Asian couple who were failing to use the coffee machine. I talked to them in Chinese. They weren’t Chinese.
Old lady afterwards asked me which coffee is good and if I speak Hungarian. Told her that all coffee here is shit but I just drink the long one for 180.

Anyway, the place is fucking full. Like I could barely find a desk. Lot of dipshits hugging an entire desk just to have their bags on a chair.

I’m working on translating a Classical Chinese essay. Made great progress. My mind is racing.

>>8539
>I tried helping an Asian couple who were failing to use the coffee machine. I talked to them in Chinese. They weren’t Chinese.
Uhm, racist much?

>>8540
At least not very well versed in socially adequate behavior (at a university).

>>8539
>Anyway, the place is fucking full

So have you found the qt yet?

>hugging an entire desk just to have their bags on a chair.

Universal experience. Go to the library more often, I think this helps with feeling and actually being less isolated.

>>8536
Will change your job and become Chinese brand ambassador in Portugal anytime soon?

>>8541
>Will change your job and become Chinese brand ambassador in Portugal anytime soon?
I don't know how things will play out. I'd prefer to live in Europe than Ch*na, but I've known plenty of, uh, "expats" who work sales for Chinese companies within China. The ones I met were fairly useless, just around to talk to foreigners in fairs while not really understanding the products they were selling.
Ideally? Consultant work for Chinese companies. Ernesto's Export-Oriented Brand Review. While there are alcoholic salesman foreigners who don't speak Chinese, and Chinese speaking westerners with the social know-how of rocks I don't know how big the intersection between these groups is. For now, get the drawings and scribbles down and then leverage the list of contacts I've made over the last 5 years. Truly too much time was wasted on, and God forgive me for even uttering this word, Russophilia.

>>8538
>despite doing well at work or academia
There's no "despite", doing well at work or in acadrmia are the only socially prescribed sources of meaning in [current year]

Nobody has ever said "he might be an unemployed, uneducated loser, but at least he's not an alcoholic"

Functional addicts are more valuable than dysfunctional sobers.

>>8539
Why does Hungary get nice libraries and our libraries look like this?

>>8544
You can bet those new libraries have better amenities and a higher capacity for students being here than ours has.

>>8545
>new
1st one is a 1970s building, asbestos-ridden and too small.

2nd one is new, but it blinds traffic and has handycapped-access-doors that can't ever open, because of the slanted facade. The same facade leaks rainwater, mainly because it is slanted. The AC is not strong enough to cool a building that has so many windows, but it does manage to keep the air so dry that everyone who spends more than a few minutes in there gets dry eyes.
The floor in the entrance area caved in in 2016, one year after it opened, because it couldn't handle the load of books being transported over it.
The building was also absurdly expensive, costing about €60 million.

>>8322
Use https://autoeq.app to calibrate to a Harman (natural) or V-shape (juicy) like curve, any headphones will sound better (but they still have to have good SNR and THD though for extra clearness).

>>8555
I don't remember writing this post

But anyway make sure you have enogh dynamic range overhead for tbe equalization

>>8559
I can only live where there is light, but I die if the light shines on me.

>>8562
You might have been a poet in another life

>>8571
I have a confession to make, I got this riddle of the Internet, not even close as good as the other brick at artistry and language juggling shenanigans, I'm more of a analyst/thinker/inventor type of guy

>>8575
Is it a shadow?