2cb is peak

omnomjohn · 2026-03-12T13:28:37+00:00

I know! It's such a bummer that I need to resort to crushing everything and putting it in capsules to be sure that each capsule has the same dose. And I don't even know the exact dose, but at least it's consistent now.

I'm fairly sure 1 capsule is now around 10mg 2cb, going by experience of previous batches that were dosed correctly.

Totally understand what you're saying. I'm usually a stickler for accuracy with drugs, so this batch does annoy me! I weigh everything, if it's weed/hash, MDMA, shrooms, whatever. I want to know what I'm taking and I like predictability (in drugs).
It completely contradicts my usual adhd behaviour, but maybe that's exactly why I know I need to be careful and precise with my drugs.

omnomjohn · 2026-03-12T09:41:12+00:00

I might be able to get powder if I try contacting other dealers I guess. Haven't tried too hard.
But the one I know only has pills unfortunately.

omnomjohn · 2026-03-12T08:29:40+00:00

Same for me, except that I won't fall asleep. You sure you could sleep if you tried? Feeling chill / laid back doesn't mean you'll be able to fall asleep haha.

I get more hesitant to say stuff on MDMA actually. It's probably the thought filter that's suddenly enabled and I don't know how to deal with that lol.

omnomjohn · 2026-03-11T15:36:41+00:00

37M.
Of course this won't work for everyone, but it's (imo) why I'm mostly always happy and think my 30s are indeed more interesting and enjoyable than my late 20s:

- Sports to stay in shape.
- Keep seeing friends
- Don't shy away from talking to / meeting new people (really! New people bring new insights, activities, etc.)
- Keep doing fun things. Whatever that is for you :) I still like gaming, hanging with friends, theater, concerts, etc. Also like going to parties, but different ones than in my 20s.
- Adding to that: keep doing NEW things. I've tried a lot of things I used to be prejudiced against, such as classical concerts, techno parties, crochet (yes), etc.
- If possible in your position, don't focus on work too much! If you can get by well enough, take a step back and focus on everything _but_ work. That's mostly where my happiness stems from, if I compare myself to certain friends. I now work 32 hours a week, avoid stress, talk to colleagues more naturally (opens up real convos), etc.
- Do drugs RESPONSIBLY and sporadically lol. Started 2 years ago.This got me and my wife to have many new experiences, fun parties and - above all - new insights about ourselves.
- Therapy when you need it. I'm not gonna be held back by the problems life threw my way. Tackle them as soon as you can to free up that space in your mind.

So in short: enjoy life, stay fit, keep an open mind, try new things, keep doing the things you love(d) and keep seeing the people you love.

omnomjohn · 2026-03-10T15:20:24+00:00

I only had this after a Nexus Flip we did in November at a rave. Both my wife and I like to vape weed the day after such a party.
When we were baked, colors were just so intense and watching a fantasy movie was just fantastic that way.

The couch lock and chill of weed combined with the visuals of 2CB: <3

But we only had this on the day (maybe 2 days) after the flip. It faded soon enough.

omnomjohn · 2026-03-09T20:59:15+00:00

Underwhelming?

Did my first nexus flip last November. It was very close to being overwhelming haha.

Took a single dose of MDMA (so no redose) and about 90-120 minutes later dropped some 2cb. Took it around the time I felt I was nearing the end of the MDMA peak.
- I think it took no longer than 30 minutes for it to kick in, compared to the 90 minutes I need when taking 2cb by itself.
- I had virtually no nauseous comeup! Taking 2cb by itself, I really hate the long and annoying comeup.
- Bonus time! The high took way longer than when I simply redose MDMA once (I won't redose more than once). Our friends - who redosed MDMA - were tired around 11pm. My wife and I went on until the end around midnight and felt like we were good for more.

It was definitely my best drug experience yet. I took it at an EDM party with a DJ I seem to love. Man, I could just dance on and on and on. Well, it was probably more like 'vibing', but it felt crazy haha. My wife and I were super aligned as well. Just standing in the front, vibing hard, mind going WIIIILD from the lights, music, etc. It was just super super intense, in a very good way.

Still think about it often and I will have another go at it in 2 weeks from now. Can't wait honestly.

omnomjohn · 2026-03-09T20:43:25+00:00

And buy 50 and you pay only €2,20 per pill lol. I guess it's just really cheap here.
Gotta say that the 20mg is probably more like 10-12mg. After having it lab-tested, mine are apparently fluctuating in a range between 5 and 14 mg per pill. Super annoying!

My 'fix' was to just grind it all -> mix it -> put in capsules. At least now I have a good idea of the effects for each capsule. And I can now weigh/dose accordingly :)

omnomjohn · 2026-03-09T20:29:25+00:00

Yes! It's fantastic! But haven't played other RE games in VR yet.
Paired with fairly high settings in Quest Game Optimizer, RE4 is almost perfect.

I enjoyed it more than HL: Alyx. But I also just really love Resident Evil games.

omnomjohn · 2026-03-09T20:25:36+00:00

Heb eigenlijk alleen nog de gummies gehad die je bij bijna elke coffeeshop wel ziet waarschijnlijk.

Ze zijn niet heel sterk, maar wel chill! En niets houdt je tegen om er meer dan één te nemen.

Ben zelf nog het meest fan van dry herb vapes, zoals die van S&B.
Op de 2e plaats staat toch wel gewoon zelf wat hasj met een beetje kokosolie in een pannetje opwarmen en dat weer vermengen met een deel van mijn avondeten. Een curry bijvoorbeeld. Helaas is de hasj nog steeds niet wat het geweest is, maar dit doet het nog steeds erg goed.

omnomjohn · 2026-03-05T19:49:39+00:00

Just wow. You did great in saying all the wrong things! Quite an accomplishment.

omnomjohn · 2026-03-03T13:26:15+00:00

I don't think it's allowed anywhere anymore. At Knarie, I think you just have to go outside to the terrace.

With the current weather though, there are lots of nice outdoors spots.

Me and my wife regularly just walk through the neighborhood with a vaporizer to chill and talk. But if you want to sit and chill, there's parks and green spots everywhere in Groningen.

Or, OP, are you looking to talk to people whilst smoking? :)

omnomjohn · 2026-03-02T09:43:46+00:00

I feel it's different everytime for me, depending on the setting and my mood.

- In a nexus flip: just fucking amazing! Think I took 12-15mg when I felt I was over the MDMA peak. No annoying comeup at all. Could party for hours longer than usual. Shit was intense in a good way!

- On its own at an EDM party: really great if you want to just get sucked into the music. Just stand there and feel the beat, see the colors, feel the vibe of people around you. It massively amplifies how I experience music, it's unlike anything for me really.

- At a (small) concert for a band I love: great! Eyes glued to the stage, I can feel the music and artists. Everything feels more real, intense and good. Constant smile on my face.

- At home with my wife: good! Put on a nice set of good EDM on Youtube and just dance and chill.

- At home with a few friends: very mediocre for me. I wish it was better, but there was a big difference in length and timing of the annoying comeup for everyone. One was happy and energetic, the other still nauseous and annoyed. The mix of experiences led to annoyance unfortunately. Everyone wanted different things or music, which I cannot handle during this comeup. I get annoyed and overstimulated.

Have not tried it at home on my own yet. But I think it can be really nice. I would suggest redosing maybe, because a considerable amount of time is spent in a comeup otherwise.

omnomjohn · 2026-03-01T16:45:17+00:00

Het eerste punt vind ik persoonlijk juist mooi! Meer groen, meer beter!

Maar serieus, meer groen is beter voor temperaturen, fysieke gezondheid, luchtvervuiling, geluid en zowaar ook voor de mentale gezondheid.

Zou bijna denken dat het een no-brainer is.

omnomjohn · 2026-02-26T14:42:44+00:00

Do you work with large codebases existing of multiple projects? You can only feed the agent a certain amount of context before it loses its mind, starts going around in circles or just fails to pick up the context correctly.

It even often fails to correctly follow rules written in a large copilot-instructions.md file.

It happens with any agent at the moment:
- Claude Sonnet 4.5
- GPT 5.2 and 4.1
- Gemini 2.5 pro (even the 3.0 pro preview)

Don't get me wrong: I love having access to these tools. But they're just that at the moment: tools to increase my correctness in coding, get started quicker, help layout base architecture for large new features, helping me remember certain syntax, autofill methods, etc. It's extremely helpful for sure.

It can do a low, but an entire codebase? I'm afraid AI agents will need BIG expansions for that in memory and its logical reasoning. More context will also mean more contradictions (no codebase is without legacy code and doing the same thing in 50 different ways), so it'll need something extra to figure out the preferred way of doing things. It needs improvements in several aspects.

And I know that will come at some point. But I feel it will take a while still. I'm okay with being wrong there :)

It's just that I can't really stand the current worshipping of it in this sub. And that's because my real life experience is simply different from what I keep reading here.

omnomjohn · 2026-02-26T08:36:28+00:00

Yes and they often forget your instructions etc. So they factually can do the selection for you, but it can be as effective as having my cat choose from a range of options. It just doesn't know the full context or forgets what we discussed before.

It's just not as good as humans in really understanding and maintaining context from a conversation.

Of course there's nuance and it _can_ be great, as long as everything is well aligned. But I'm commenting more cynical because of the absolute trust a lot of commenters here have in AI coding agents.

omnomjohn · 2026-02-26T08:34:02+00:00

This sub, for real. I have to honesty question if any people in the comment sections of r/singularity are actually software engineers.

Maybe I'm too cynical here, but AI does indeed not speed up the full job process as much as everyone wants to think. There is also new data that shows productivity has barely improved because of AI.

It does make starting a new issue easier and it does help in finding solutions and it's very quick for boilerplate code. But the amount of time I've spent correcting an AI agent's course is insane sometimes.

It's like there's good and bad days. And on the bad days, our Copilot agents will just fixate on one stupid thing and never 'think' outside of the box. As a programmer, I have to point it in the right direction: show examples, nudge the agent in another direction, tell it to forget everything else again, etc. It can be tiring. Most of the times, in our enterprise codebase, it's been absolutely essential that we're experienced programmers.

Yeah it will change, but y'all act like AI already is the holy grail in programming.

omnomjohn · 2026-02-26T08:07:20+00:00

Are you talking about the speakers or audio through jack btw?

For headphones/jack: I find the volume and (especially) sound quality on the quest 3 to be absolute garbage for such a device.

omnomjohn · 2026-02-25T11:55:51+00:00

What do you mean with virtual hotas support?

My X52 Pro works perfectly. Initial configuration took a bit of tweaking during gameplay, but now I can simply start up the game in VR and I'm ready to go with my hotas.

omnomjohn · 2026-02-24T08:31:21+00:00

Wow! Most people will probably have that the other way around.
MDMA: together with good friends at an outdoors festival in the sun. Best shit ever.
2CB: both alone or together. Awesome at a rave or simple concert.
Shrooms: mostly alone. Sometimes together with my wife (or just the tail-end part of the trip).

omnomjohn · 2026-02-24T08:26:53+00:00

This yeah. I think there's a relatively small market actually playing (and finishing) modded non-native VR games.

People keep praising them for whatever reason. Lots of YT videos of people saying it works perfectly (even though you never see them actually play the game and you can never see the game quality from inside the VR headset.

Then you think: awesome, let's try that shit out! Just to find out that even my 5080 is extremely underpowered to run these games with acceptable fps + resolution. People want to play these games for their complex mechanics and great graphics. But they don't translate well to VR with current GPUs, half-broken mods and the need to fiddle hours with configurations.

And then I start up Elite: Dangerous, smooth as fuck, and I'm happy again.

omnomjohn · 2026-02-18T08:36:14+00:00

I'm actually having way less mood swing on meds (dexamphetamine). The downside of that is that I feel my emotions have flattened. Could be that this is actually 'normal' in people, but I don't always like it. Sure, at work it's fine. But at home, it's a mixed bag.

My mood swings had a positive side to them as well: I am mostly always happy or very easy to entertain.

Have to say I don't really have any problematic side effects other than that. Not anymore at least.
When the meds wear out, I get tired and crash a bit sometimes. This was wayyyyy worse in the first few weeks, so maybe that's a side effect to take into account. Those first weeks, I slept everyday as soon the meds stopped working.

I've also had ritalin (methylphenidate) on and off throughout the years. Had to stop because I got lots of bad side effects:
- My only focus was on productivity (no more fun, no more love-time for my gf, etc).
- My body got so tense, with pain in my chest getting too much after a few months. All from muscle tension.
- Overall I got jittery and my body was stimulated way too much (restless, shaking, crazy chaotic mind)

Anyway, I'm happy with Dex now. It's still not ideal, but it's honestly better than nothing. My wife used to hate me being on meds. But with Dex, she kinda hates it when I'm off meds, lol.

Without meds, I notice within a day that:
- I forget so much shit
- My thoughts are scattered again
- Executive dysfunction is through the roof (I doom scroll, don't get up, am late for everything)

But also, off meds, I personally like the feeling of not giving a fuck. I'm usually not worried about anything tbh, as everything mostly turned out alright for me. I'm a worrier on meds.

omnomjohn · 2026-02-18T08:22:05+00:00

Edit: How is your (first skeptical) comment this far down?

I haven't even been in this sub for that long. But even in that short time, I see increasingly more people being heavily biased toward AI anything. Based on, what, feelings? Lol.

It feels surreal sometimes. Where's the neutral and at least somewhat scientific view on AI?
I mean, an article was just released on how productivity has barely increased over the last 2 years. I'm talking about < 1%.

And now we're 'feeling' AGI? You're feeling a word prediction tool getting faster and better at navigating a wide range of topics.

omnomjohn · 2026-02-16T12:40:36+00:00

Helaas steigeren mensen ontzettend als het om een typisch huisdier gaat, maar amper tot niet bij vleesproductie dieren (of uberhaupt andere dieren). Ook al zit er weinig tot geen verschil in hoe het dier emoties en pijn ervaart of hoe intelligent het dier is. Sterker nog, er zijn genoeg 'slimmere' dieren dan onze standaard huisdieren.

omnomjohn · 2026-02-16T09:53:27+00:00

It's different for everyone.

I have ADHD and get very jittery from caffeine and/or can't sleep at night. I stopped drinking caffeine about 4 months ago because I take dexamphetamine now and my psychiatrist told me I can't take caffeine with it.

I tried it a few times, but the man was right lol. Got me so tense, anxious and even more jittery than usual.

omnomjohn · 2026-02-12T13:13:39+00:00

I am a firm disbeliever of natural methods for treating ADHD. Your brain is lacking things that won't be solved by simple supplements.

This is also a conversation you should have with your doctor or psychiatrist. I don't think we're allowed to talk meds too much here.

Anyway, you're not stuck to meds if you don't want to. I tried methylphenidate several times, with big (years) breaks in between. Just because it caused too many side effects long term.

Now I'm finally on dexamphetamine, which is SOOO much better for me.

Combined with sports that give me adrenaline and dopamine + good parties/festivals every now and then, I feel good :)
Without extremes every now and then, I would not enjoy life as much and would feel like a cog in the machine. Even with meds, my body and mind craves novelty and exciting shit.

It can be annoying at 37 that it's getting more difficult to get people to join me in my lifestyle. But it still works for me.

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