What has Veeky Forums done for you?

When I first started browsing Veeky Forums in 2013 it introduced me to a whole new world of serious literature that I had not the slightest inkling existed. It started me down the path of becoming a more serious reader and for that I am thankful

It helped me get over my need for validation in what I like, because no matter what it is there will always be some thread calling it out as pure trash. Things like that used to genuinely affect me, I had problems keeping the opinions of others out of my head when reading or consuming other media. Instead of fighting against it and retreating to a more friendly place I jumped in and tried to work out what made me so uncomfortable. Veeky Forums is shit but I think the hostile culture is very useful in this regard.

Veeky Forums ruined my life.

Instead of studying algorithms and programming projects that could get me a good job, I read ancient Greek literature and shitpost about Nietzsche. I alienated most of my friends with obscure references. I'm depressed and unfulfilled and everything I write is pretentious garbage. I've been on the board regularly for about three or four years. Before that I was on /mu/ and Veeky Forums which were fine for fitting in with the hipster crowd, but there's nobody I know whose interests cross over with Veeky Forums even philosophy grad students, because they are generally more interested in specifics than seeming intellectual.

Fuck you, Veeky Forums.

kys you haven't read Nietzsche and only know of the Greeks through translations. Of course you'd write pretentious garbage.

This was brought upon your shitposting. You should have known it.

You know ancient Greek?
I can barely translate high-school latin. Ancient greek sounds and looks impossibly difficult.

I laugh more than I used to.

Greek and German combo makes it easier; like having a Latin and French focus. Veeky Forums's obsession with the Russians could be explained by German-Greek making Russian easier to learn but none of these cunts seem to bother with the first one. Greek has a lot of upfront rote learning compared with Latin (where now some readers don't even teach you all the cases). It also has a lot more compounds and the various dialects have pretty easy phonetic shifts which makes reading between dialects like reading French after learning Latin as an English speaker in difficult, rather than the difficulty of say Portuguese or Italian phonetic changes from Latin when all you have is Latin and English.
desu if you start with the Greeks for philosophy instead of literature, learning Greek and then German and then Russian will make you more fluent in Veeky Forums's mental disorders than Veeky Forums itself.

>blue pilling instead of embracing diogenes
Boring

has nothing to do with Veeky Forums or anything/anyone else but you. don't blame the internet for your shortcomings.

I read Nietzsche long before I came to Veeky Forums.

Translations not being acceptable is a meme, although my Greek is improving and I may not need them for much longer.
you're a tripfag (and not one of the better ones) so you are obviously much further gone than I. I suggest seeking professional help.
I didn't start out shitposting. That is also a symptom.

Memed me into reading Ulysses witch led me to write my own shitty book

i'mma laugh my ass off when you go analytic brah

Got me to understand the depths of The Matrix.

LMAO
t.

White Teeth got me to start brushing three times a day.

Go full Diongenes mode. Live in a barrel, publicly mock people and put on displays of bad taste in the name of snark. You will ascend to patriciandom upon death.

>barrel
i don't think there's that many coopers left and i think it was like an amphora or some shit any way. i think the second part is more important to becoming cosmopolitan though so this is just nitpicking. good advice and good double user.

It really made me think desu.

So why did reading his works make you stop watching porn user?

Made me into a landian crack smoker.

Reading Stirner cured my autism.

Caused*

this desu, minus the crack smoking part, thats gross

You're my hero, OP. I've tried to defeat the porn demon many times.

Veeky Forums has introduced me to many authors I had never heard of before.

Zizek made me stop it.

I also came from /mu/ and Veeky Forums.
I like Thugger, Kierkegaard and skating.. iktf when you don't know anyone irl with interests that crossover to your own.