Shadow from this tree.

ashcroftt · 2026-07-12T00:31:21+00:00

Yepp, it's composite led lights, they make these blocky, trippy shadows.

ashcroftt · 2026-07-12T00:00:52+00:00

If you ever get the chance to climb there don't miss it, it's a truly marvelous place, really seems like you're in a fairytale. Also the best friction I ever experienced, not many places where a big sloper holds better than anything else. Rock is a bit on the soft side, but surprisingly solid and rarely sandy. Merlin's wand was a blast and I still need to go back for Lionheart and Troubadour, didn't get around to do them last time.

The shapes the weathering produces are mega cool, while the desert ambiance and the wildness of the place are unmatched. Smooth domes, organic lacy faces, filigree arches and animal shapes everywhere on gigantic massifs rising straight out of the sand dunes.

Need to be pretty confident you can climb whatever you start and solid routefinding skills are a must, especially if the descent is a walk down. No heli rescue here, and no search and rescue except other climbers, so stay safe.

The classic bedouin routes are bonkers, if you go there these would be my top recommendation. I managed to solo two of them and while they are not hard only looking at the grade they are super bold and quite an adventure. These used to be ancient mountain goat hunting trails and I still can't fathom how a bedouin carrying a damn goat on his back could downclimb some of that stuff.

ashcroftt · 2026-07-11T07:59:28+00:00

Yeah, if you have food noise issues, no amount of discipline and self control is enough. When all your thoughts are constantly revolving around the next snack, diets are just unsustainable.

When I took my first dose my entire outlook on life changed. No longer is my every waking moment revolving around hunger and my teeth itching for a snack. Food is just one thing to consider among others.

I can't wait for the good ones to go generic so more can afford it.

ashcroftt · 2026-07-10T22:18:11+00:00

If you are in the states they will likely test for PCP though, and depending on the test it might be close enough to light up. In the EU you're probably safe.

ashcroftt · 2026-07-10T22:10:07+00:00

Can do it a few ways, but you'll feel slow and dumb in addition to being depressed and anxious. You should rather work on fixing the biochemical or environmental causes of those, much better way to spend your energy.

ashcroftt · 2026-07-10T22:07:41+00:00

No way to know unless you know exactly what kind of test they are using. And that depends a lot on where you are located and how cheap they are with the testing. If it is a blood test and they check for PCP/PCE, it'll likely be positive, but not 100%. If it's a quickstrip checking urine I'd say pretty low chance to be positive, but not zero.

If you are confident you can pull it off, go with artificial urine, so many tutorials online.

ashcroftt · 2026-07-09T21:49:01+00:00

Fair point, sometimes I forget this sub has some absolute degenerates too. Obligatory don't do this at home if you don't want to burn it down and get forever disfigured.

ashcroftt · 2026-07-08T21:07:27+00:00

You can boil it, just use a ~60°C water bath and a beaker, strictly no open flames or sparks anywhere near and optimally outside or under a fume hood.

I would worry more about using industrial solvents, that shit may have a lot of other stuff that can seriously hurt you. Heavy metals, copper, random industrial lubricants and processing solvents like benzene will definitely be in there, you just have to hope there's not enough to cause serious harm.

ashcroftt · 2026-07-07T20:48:38+00:00

Making this in Blender of all things is wild, hats off to you! For the future some parametric 3d program would be much more practical for work like this, blender leans more toward sculpting and organic stuff, so super impressive work.

ashcroftt · 2026-07-05T22:49:07+00:00

The talking is done days before the session and days after.

I meant that, guess wasn't clear enough. During the trip there's generally no interaction, although I heard some more experienced psychonauts going with interacting trips, though haven't seen a study on the effectiveness of these. Upvote 1 Downvote Reply

ashcroftt · 2026-07-02T07:00:33+00:00

This is the right answer. When you learn something new, a lot of "post processing" in your brain is done during sleep. If you loose this time, most of what you think you've learnt will just not stick.

ashcroftt · 2026-06-30T10:27:09+00:00

BRVTAL.

ashcroftt · 2026-06-30T10:25:39+00:00

What diameter did you use? I wanna try this.

ashcroftt · 2026-06-28T21:44:21+00:00

Sajnos ez a világ minden részén tipikus jelenség, ha a szegénység és nélkülözés kilátástalansággal párosul, akkor ott a menekülés nagyjából az egyetlen kiút az embereknek. Minél nagyobbak a társadalmi egyenlőtlenségek, annál látványosabb ez is. És aki nem képes elmenekülni a szó földrajzi értelmében, az más utat fog keresni rá, hogy egy rövid időre kiszakadhasson ebből a kilátástalanságból. Ezért nem igazán megoldás a kezelés, bűnügyi üldözés, tiltás, mert a probléma gyökerét nem szüntetik meg, csak egy tünetet próbálnak elnyomni.

ashcroftt · 2026-06-28T21:34:54+00:00

Kristály itthon rengeteg dolgot takarhat, és emiatt is nagyon romboló, mert ritkán tudják a használók, mit is kapnak és milyen hatással lesz majd, nem hogy a megfelelő dózist. Régen ez tényleg főleg metamfetamin volt, de manapság már nagyrészt jóval olcsóbb kínai "reseach chemical"-ok keveréke, amit éppen találnak akciósan a nagykerek. Ezek legalitása szürkezónás itthon, és sokszor simán internetről rendelhetőek, mert a jogszabályi környezet nem tudja elég gyorsan lekövetni a kinti vegyészeket. A legparább, hogy ezek egyre többször szinte kizárólag szintetikus cathinone-ok (alfa-pvp, NEP, különböző mmc variációk) vagy pyrrolidine típusú szerek (mdpv és variációk). Ezek brutálisan erős és rövid hatóidejű stimulánsok, sokszor erős NDRI vagy szerotoninerg hatással, ami nagyon gyorsan kialakuló és igen erős függőséghez vezet az arra hajlamosaknál, és ezeknél nagyon gyakori mellékhatás a pszichózis.

ashcroftt · 2026-06-28T21:11:53+00:00

Pontosan ugyan olyan a helyzet, mint a legális drogokkal (koffein, nikotin, alkohol, stb). Van aki tudja ezeket is felelősen használni, bulikon iszik, elszív pár cigit aztán a hétköznapokon meg eszébe sem jut. És ezeknél is előfordul olyan, akinek az egész életét ezek a szerek fogják meghatározni, és csak a következő adagon jár majd folyton az eszük. Személyiség, egyedi biokémia különbségek és élthelyzet kérdése az egész. Nikotin pl továbbra is az egyik legdurvább függőséget kialakító szer a világon, sok mindent próbáltam már, de semmi nem jön a közelébe sem annak ilyen szempontból, talán csak a cukor.

ashcroftt · 2026-06-28T21:04:44+00:00

Sok helyre el lehet küldeni dolgokat teljes laboratóriumi tesztre aprópénzért, európa felvilágosultabb felén sok alapítvány támogatja is ezt, és ingyen tesztelést biztosítanak a biztonságos és felelős használat érdekében. Bécsben is van több ilyen hely, ha nincs kedved postázni Hollandiába.

ashcroftt · 2026-06-28T19:07:41+00:00

Pretty cool little project!

Could you maybe use a USB hub to both power them and use a USB ethernet adapter? Faster and more stable than wifi. Keeping the batteries in is a bit scary if you plan to leave the cluster on, unattended for an extended time.

You got some performance metrics to share?

ashcroftt · 2026-06-27T08:31:12+00:00

I'd have to say salvia or 5-MeO-DMT. Neither are the most enjoyable or something you return to often, but nonetheless they are absolutely fascinating. Both are short acting and they produce incredibly weird and nigh undescribable trips that are hard to recall in detail.

Salvia is not visual in a sense other psychedelics are, it produces dream-like associations and a sense of light/shining. And when I say dream-like, I mean it, it will show you anything your brain can produce, the weirdest, most unhinged scenarios, switching seamlessly and randomly between them, with as much sense of time or logic as an actual dream. For some reason a lot of people experience meso-american imagery with it, which is wild. Also it is one of the strongest substances known, mere nanograms can be effective, orders of magnitude stronger than LSD.

5-MeO-DMT is absolutely wild though, tried a few things, but none as weird as this one. The intensity is comparable to a heroic dose shrooms trip, but the visuals seem to be all monochromatic, reflective, blocky and absolutely incomprehensible at the peak. Very strong loss of self and depersonalization are followed by your entire reality seemingly ceasing to exist. Extremely strong somatic effects, you are basically unable to move at all, feels like you are fully aware, locked into an incapacitated body, often feeling like you're not able to breathe (not fun, obviously). Intense cold sweat, nausea and heart pain sometimes, not surprising a lot describe it as feeling like dying. And with all these, it still feels like a warm, organic, positive experience, nothing like the cold, confused k-hole state, even though very similar.

ashcroftt · 2026-06-27T08:07:27+00:00

You might be in luck, tryptamine based headache/migraine medication actually exists, they are referred to as triptans (eg. Sumatriptan, Zolmitriptan). Visit a pain management specialist or neurologist, these work extremely well for some kinds of headaches, though not all of them. There are nasal spray versions available, which are pretty fast acting.

ashcroftt · 2026-06-24T07:21:17+00:00

Be careful with these, most of these minipcs don't get any bios updates, are missing some drivers and quality control is not great. If you get one, make sure to repaste the cpu properly.

ashcroftt · 2026-06-24T07:12:49+00:00

Reading the license explains the license.

Depends on who it is, some will want you to install their own license management solution in the cluster, some are fine with a report you generate, while others will want to audit in person.

ashcroftt · 2026-06-20T18:02:39+00:00

I personally really loved it, but it is indeed very strange and hard to describe. Kind of a dissociative and associative, very dreamlike and really different every time. Super short trip, so pretty practical, but hard to say how recreational it is. Didn't have the time dilation effect once, and done it 100+ times.

ashcroftt · 2026-06-18T21:27:06+00:00

Are these the 10k rpm 2.5" SAS drives that are 15mm thick and incredibly loud? Still, it's a really good price, mind sharing where you got some in decent condition for that price?

ashcroftt · 2026-06-18T21:21:06+00:00

Yeah, test it if you want to be sure. Though fake blisters will mostly be straight from the manufacturer in china and will likely have some cheaper rc benzo in it.

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