I wonder how much the introduction of the Dwarven Justice system in the United States would manage to lower the crime rate.
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>>563
I can't get unemplayoment bcause it was a minimum wage job that was also part time!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
I like how my girlfriend tells me she has nothing to hide. Then I read her Facebook messages because she accidentally left her session up on my computer and see that she lied to me about quite a few things.
She doesn't like when I smoke. I think I'll smoke more now than I ever have.
While I was browsing DQN my soup boiled over. A lot. It took ten minutes, half a roll of paper towels and a lot of sponging to get all of it.
There wasn't much soup left in the pot but it's pretty tasty anyway.
>>610
Eh. I'm not the type of person to lie under any circumstances. I'm highly critical of others because of it.
I think I'm going to wait until the DQN novel thread is finished and then I'll read it from top-to-bottom.
Hey guys what does miso soup taste like? I have box of the stuff make it with but I am afraid to try it?
>>612
Creamy carrot and chicken stew. Although I didn't use real cream, I just decided to mix in milk and flour halfway through, which is part of the reason it boiled over - adding the milk made it fill the pot too much.
>>616
That sounds delicious. By any chance do you live in Europe, have a lot of money, and want a NEET housema(id/te) to cook for?
Surely "NEET housemaid" is an oxymoron? I'd love to have one nonetheless.
>>619
Maybe (she?) meant to say hikikomori housemaid. A lot of people seem to have problems telling the difference between otaku, NEET, hikikomori, shut-in, autist, etc etc... they're all labels used to describe undesirables, in any case.
Misanthropy is understandable.
>>620
What if I'm all of those thing? Does that make me even more undesirable than the rest?
How to I tether my cell phone via its bluetooth for its data connection in Linux?
>>617
No, no, maybe. I often don't have the motivation or energy to cook alone, I get more motivated when cooking for somebody else. But I'd kick you out as soon as my girlfriend gets back in April.
I'm stuck. I don't know what to post on /dqn/. Help me out.
Oh god, I'm kind of stuck like this. Everything seemed to be going just as I wished it would go, and now it feels like there's no way out of this situation.
I can stay in this limbo, attempting to hold myself together until things resolve themselves... but it could be exciting to try to punch my way out of this house of mirrors.
All this sounds really gay, but I probably couldn't find a straightforward way of describing what I feel even if I tried.
>>629
Watch me post again. Suddenly, I don't feel as lonely! I think I'll write myself a letter next time.
Over the past week, to kill the time and ignore my problems, I have marathon-watched all the episodes of Family Guy from season 1 to season 6. I feel compelled to write a mini-review somewhere while my thoughts are still fresh.
Overall, Family Guy is not great. It often repeats the same jokes, relies on shock value for cheap laughs, and does not develop its characters well. Low humor doesn't do it for me. However, it has its redeeming moments, and sometimes shines when it comes to dark, piercing satire.
Consider Family Guy's main source of humor: the cutaway gags. They're hit or miss, and more often the latter. The first type of cutaway gag shows a humorous flashback, often featuring the character in a ridiculous situation. These can be funny, but only if they do more than simply repeat one of the show's many tired gags (Peter is stupid, nobody likes Meg, etc.).
The second type of cutaway gag is the pop culture reference. Often I do not even recognize these, but when I do they are rarely funny. They have some success when showing a darker side of a more wholesome show, like Charlie Brown. Yet far too many jokes are simply too blunt, and thus fall through. For example, take all the "Such and such television show is bad" jokes: it's often true, but not funny on its own.
Besides cutaway gags, there's satire, usually of different walks of American life. Family Guy does quite well here when it avoids exaggeration. My favorite scenes are when characters simply act realistically - satire is most biting when it cuts close to home. Simply depicting the inane conversations of typical middle class Americans can be surprisingly funny. However, often attempts at satire are too blunt to be funny.
Then there's the dark humor, whether it be racial stereotypes, over-the-top fighting scenes, or ridiculous perversions. Once again, these jokes are hit-or-miss. Often they seem to exist just to be controversial. But slapstick can be hilarious when timed well. I personally loved the extended fight-scenes with the man in a chicken suit, for example.
As far as character development goes, there's not much. And it's not impossible for a show with this format to develop its characters either - Futurama did so very well, for example. Later episodes have started developing Brian and Stewie more, but other characters seem to be losing what little depth they had to begin with, probably because their personalities just aren't that interesting or complex in comparison. (Also, I have no idea if this is true, but Brian seems to be a blatant self-insertion on the part of Seth MacFarlane.)
The problem with lolrandom humor is that it has to be timed well and done with the right degree of randomness to work. This applies to pretty much everything in Family Guy, from the cutaway gags to the random bursts into song and dance. Sometimes the random humor makes me burst out laughing. But more often than not, it just falls flat. I feel sometimes that quantity is favored over quality - like you could take all the best parts of Family Guy seasons 1-6 and compress it into one really good season.
In the end, I'd give Family Guy seasons 1-6 six out of ten bu-ns. I'm going to marathon the rest (7-10) and see if it gets better or worse.
>>634 has just demonstrated at some length why I gave up on television more than a decade ago. I have not had a television set since 1999. For me, at least, it is not sufficiently entertaining or enlightening to justify the cable bill. At some point one feels compelled to say "this is stupid and I am wasting my time" and reach for the "off" switch.
Anime is complex with well-developed characters. Only subbed anime, though.
>>635
Giving up TV is the best thing I have ever done. Of course I still like one or two shows, but I can just download those.
You can't spell "sleep deprivation" without D-E-R-P.
I noticed that at some point in the past, the episode of Sazae-san and the day of Eternal September matched. Every Sunday Sazae-san airs 3 mini episodes, and the next one (episodes 6441 to 6443) will be in 4 days:
6760 - x = 6441 - (3/7)x
319 = (4/7)x
x = 558.25
So on September 6201, Sazae-san episode 6201 aired. What an auspicious day in history!
(Actually, according to my haphazard calculations September 6201 was actually a Monday, so episodes 6201-6203 would have actually aired on September 6200. But whatever, that's close enough for me.)
To celebrate this discovery I went back to September 6201 to find some of the most DQN-quality posts of the day.
http://4-ch.net/dqn/kareha.pl/1282481800/11
...yeah, that's all I found. it seemed to be a pretty slow time in DQN history.
Also, it's surprisingly difficult to find information about the episode count of Sazae-san. There's no handy episode list on Wikipedia, though there is a group dedicated to the study of figuring out what Sazae-san will choose in the weekly "Rock, Paper, Scissors" game. I was able to finally find the episode count in a thread on 2-ch.
So yeah.
Comic Sans is the bane of my existance. Actually, no, it isn't; I just really don't like seeing it.
>>643 Hehe yesterday I wrote a complaint to my local councillor because the newsletter about local goings on and what he's been doing about people's issues was in Comic Sans. "How can I have confidence in someone who thinks this is an acceptable font to use in this context? If you want to appear informal and approachable, there are more professional ways of going about it"
I just had a shower, and did a shoulder stand under the shower head and put my girlfriend's dildo up my butt and jizzed on my face and in my mouth
Breakin' boundaries every day!
I now have over 300 images of my ``waifu" saved to my computer--317, to be precise. For an unnamed character, she sure has a lot of great fanart made!
>>643
The science behind why everyone hates comic sans:
http://www.kadavy.net/blog/posts/why-you-hate-comic-sans/
There's nothing I love more than scholarly treatments of non-scholarly subjects. By the way, I liked that Family Guy piece someone posted earlier.
>>649
I find the hypocrisy of many of the commenters on that post hilarious. "Man," the Comic Sans Defence League cry, "don't you have anything better to do with your time than to pick on a cute innocent font like the utter killjoy you graphic design geeks are?"
It baffles me that they never reflect on what that says about what these commenters are spending their time on. Who is the worse fool, the fool who posts a worthless text or the fool who reads and comments on it?
A gentle, wistful sadness, evoked by the slow passing of things...
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I spend a year and a half lovingly getting that project off its feet, and now that I've quit I'm yesterdays trash. Jesus Christ, when did hobbies turn into bloodsport?
I never know how to say things. I always come off as obnoxious or pretentious when I really don't mean to. So then I try to avoid that and I come off as pathetic and self-loathing with all my "I-It's okay if you don't want to..."-style qualifying.
I wish I could just type and talk confidently in a friendly manner.
Tomorrow, I'll definitely get there tomorrow...
>>650
It reminds me of the age-old offensive adage: "Arguing on the internet is like running in the Special Olympics. Even if you win, you're still retarded."
>>653
I know you're a great person. You don't need to feel bad about anything. Also, suffixing self-defeating retractions like that isn't necessary at all. Most of the time it ends up turning people off to your ideas, as it makes you appear weak and unsure.
Turns out that "sapient" is an anagram of "panties".
a dqn wants me dead. what the hell. i always saw you guys as family ;_;
OK. enough crying for now .
>>659
Don't worry. It's a dokyun. He might try to kill you with a razor, but he'll forget to plug it in.
Hacked someones phone via bluetooth.
Got free porn. Don't give a fuck.
>>662
This is a mean thing to do whenever you invaded that person's privacy or just used up some mobile traffic.
>>665
That is a mean thing to say, whether you disliked that person's post or just hate them in general.
Bluuuuuuuh
I should make words out of the following letter sequences:
English: 'etaoin shrdlu'
French: 'esait nrulo'
Spanish: 'eaosr nidlc'
Portuguese: 'aeosr indmt'
Italian: 'eaion lrtsc'
Esperanto: 'aieon lsrtk'
German: 'enisr atdhu'
Swedish: 'eantr slido'
Turkish: 'aeinr ldkmu'
Dutch: 'enati rodsl'
Polish: 'aoiez nscwr'
>>665
We expect you to commit suicide by the next week. Don't disappoint us.
>>670
You are not welcome here. As long as you continue to be so obnoxious and intolerable, you never will be. Please leave.
"Immersive" is totally a word.
I don't know whether it's one person that's being a nasty jerk or two.
SQUEEKS DO SOMETHING
>>675
That's a horrible thought. I can't believe our friendly neighborhood poo-headed man-cat, so jolly and cheerful, would be so malevolent.
I can never have a neko android. Such a thing won't be available within my lifetime. Even if it is, I won't be able to afford it.
poopy pants
I asked about a culprit because mean things happen everywhere! It might be just a curse or even a murder! There is always a villain.w
>>677
They probably shed everywhere. With nasty synthetic fibres.
How much shit would a shih tzu shove if a shih tzu chould shove shit?
>>685
Why did you think that I'm Tokiko?
I'm fairly certain that I'm not Tokiko.
Are you friends with him? Are you from /jp/ too? Get back there.
The hate is too abundant. || How can I spread love?
Love is a feeling, is the feeling, is any feeling, which involves you and a person, the person or any person. The least risk is involved when you wait for the other person to make the first move, but then it might never happen at all. You can invalidate the opinions of people who don't love you, because you are actually a wonderful person; thus, there is no risk involved in having a go at achieving love.
Romantic is making the first move.
I will answer questions now.
This sort of meta-drama and attention is what Tokiko wants. Go lurk /jp/ for a few days and you will see is the kind of person to make ridiculous off-topic posts just for the heck of it. "Hey /jp/, why don't we put sage in the name field? It would be great! Also I know who 0037 is and I read shii's wiki so I know what I am talking about!" He knows he is antagonizing people and he tries to justify it with the usual, "Oh but I'm just trying to have an on-topic conversation and you're all attacking me..." defense. Even Jkid didn't try this hard to make an e-persona for himself.
I realize the hypocrisy in this post, but please just ignore him. He uses a (presumably quite large) VPN, so even Squeeks couldn't do anything.
> They are both from /jp/
I've never been there in my life and, partly due to the begrudging fanservice you lavish upon it, don't plan to start now.
> Probably ... into some kid of perverted ...
I like how most of your rebuttals consist of these sorts of fantasies which appear more as self-projections than insults.
> You're the only one
No, he isn't. I actually just royally fucked up the formatting of >>690 because I forgot to change it to HTML. Don't drink and post, kids.
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