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501 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9141 13:11

Come on, kiddo.

502 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9141 13:38

>>498
Cigarettes. Everybody loves you and then you die, it's a win-win.

503 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9141 13:41

504 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9141 15:01

>>486

>Nobody says flaming anymore.

Tell that to the power-hungry idiot who banned me from their Discord server for critiquing them.

505 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9141 15:05

>>504
You're still here, iOS-chan?

506 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9141 16:37

spy-bear-man
half spy, half bear, half man.

google him and get porn results, that's his power.

507 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9141 18:11

There is so much sadness inside.

508 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9141 19:50

>>505
Who?

509 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9141 20:17

>>470 here, turns out I totally called that one. Wasn't a brilliant deduction or anything, of course; betting on "old age and treachery" is hardly that (even if some of the jackasses involved are too young for a contract). Life isn't an 80s/90s sports movie... unless it turns out this is only Act I, in which case nvm.

510 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9141 20:58

>>508
all me

511 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9142 02:37

If your text-on-image joke needs your @ watermark on it, your comedy is not distinct enough anyway. I can tell you're not getting reach, ain't nobody bothering to type that shit in. Why is it that the comedians that most normies can name tend to have jokes that sound like only they could've said it? You, attempting to break in, dealing with an Internet full of hecklers, fucking know the answer better than I do.

don't @ me bro

512 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9142 04:07

Anime mascots for psychedelics and their personalities match the effects. Example: Datura-chan is cute but she will give you a bad time.

513 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9142 04:44

an algorithm knows you better than your closest friends
facebook knows you better than your own mother even if you don't use it
google knows you better than you know yourself

disconnect go outside

514 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9142 04:48

>>513
The industrial revolution and its consequences...

515 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9142 05:03

>>514 can't we just keep the 3d printed kidneys and miraculous anti-cancer drugs and get rid of the monolithic surveillance state

516 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9142 07:00

teacher i had back in the day that had a son that also attended that school and looked 120% like kurt cobain and the only people that said otherwise were the kid and the teacher

517 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9142 07:17

i wish i could be an alcoholic so i didn't have to think too deeply about life, but i don't want to drink because it's unhealthy and shortens your lifespan, but if life is shitty enough that i want to drink to not have to think about it, why am i concerned about staying healthy?

the catch-22 of ennui

518 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9142 07:37

>>517
I know I could be living better, but I'm not willing to do what it takes to start getting there ¯\(ƒc)

519 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9142 13:12

I've been trying to fix my posture through mindfulness alone for years and it hasn't worked
perhaps it's time for a more forceful, physical approach

520 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9142 13:28

Being a homo forces me to evaluate women I meet as humans, not as potential sex partners. Unfortunately most of them fail that criteria even harder. It's amazing just how dull and obnoxious they become when you don't care about their vaginas.

521 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9142 14:49

>>519
are you getting a corset?

522 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9142 14:50

>>517 Use some other mind altering chemical that is less hazardous.

523 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9142 15:37

>>517

>i wish i could be an alcoholic so i didn't have to think too deeply about life

yeah dude, alcoholics are sheep who don't think
k

524 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9142 16:49

If it's brown, flush it down.
If it's yella, well you've got cider there fella.

525 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9142 17:31

>>524
delete this

526 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9142 17:36

there are some people on social media whose claim to fame is replying to every tweet that a famous person makes

if someone has a million twitter followers, and you reply to every tweet they make (assuming they don't block you), it's trivial to get 10k+ followers with no real effort, even when you're a nobody, just as long as you parrot opinions that are popular by people who follow the more popular person's account (though some people hatefollow instead of following people they like)

this reminds me of those kinds of fish that cling to bigger fish, like how sharks have little feeder fishes stuck to them

527 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9142 18:03

>>523
have you literally never been drunk

528 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9142 18:21

Well, I finally did it. I killed myself.

529 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9142 18:28

>>528
how's the afterlife? is it like gensokyo

530 Name: vc: sosotion : 1993-09-9142 20:21

>>519
If it is that important to you, try to structure every free moment and space around you towards it. That may mean dedicating some useful desk space or something that you'll refuse to use until you're satisfied with your progress.

Willpower is a limited resource, so don't be hard on yourself any time you fail. It can be better to outsource that mental disapproval to someone you really respect (preferably a dead philosopher or someone you don't actually know) that you imagine standing around giving you one of those pursed-lip neutral looks when you're not doing it right, and smiling when you are.

I find it helped my posture considerably to focus on it as part of meditation and during breaks in my work (between rounds of a game, any time I alt-tab, taking eye breaks, drinking water, running up and down the stairs, just build those associations). I find it is hard to intentionally forget bad habits but easy to try (and fail) a new one, so I figure you pretty much gotta be constantly making it so a clusterfuck of good/new habits don't leave any time for the old programming. You gotta see failure as the price of success, and sometimes to envision the guy who did this every day for months/years vs. the guy who didn't.

532 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9142 23:49

Muscular women are pretty hot!

533 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9143 01:27

I want to cuddle the entire Netherlands

534 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9143 02:19

>>531
How come people decided that a numbered list is the best format for writing? Whatever happened to actual journalism?

535 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9143 02:23

"actual journalism" was never a thing, it's always been a clique of simpletons attaching way too much weight to their own opinions and doing whatever it takes to attract eyeballs

536 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9143 02:47

>>526 It's been like that since the beginning of human society though. For every person with vision and authority (or "clout" as you twitter people call it) there's dozens of hangers-on and people happy to simply serve and receive favor. For every Lu Bu there's a hundred Chen Gongs.

Also, did we finally remove "twitter" from the list of banned words on 4-ch? It used to refuse any post that even contained the word even if it was "twitter sux lol".

537 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9143 05:02

"if you want to support me, here's my patreon" bitch i can barely support myself, i wish i had money to throw at random porno artists

538 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9143 10:23

I have enough money to support a patreon or two, but not enough to support them all, so I just support none

539 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9143 10:45

F-16 (or -18?) just zoomed by.

540 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9143 11:39

old dude at the grocery store with a cart full of nothing but like 10 cases of coke and a bag of limes

541 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9143 14:51

old dude at the gym in a polo shirt, jeans, and loafers doing the curl machine on the lowest weight setting for like an hour

go get em mate

542 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9143 14:59

>>541
hell yeah they are the nicest people at the gym

543 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9143 18:14

I lost a lot of passion for weeb shit when I picked up Japanese language study to become the uberweeb. Not only did I lose the time, so much of it converted to cheaply produced moe stuff (by proportion) around the same time.

I'm not sure what to make of it that a "lost decade" and the death of Tezuka seem to have been less devastating to the prevalence of this sort of quality that once drew in that tired 40-something guy who owns the corner anime shop than a trend that includes a general move to cheaper production methods (not to point fingers at pirates or quality of animators or the specific animation techniques or finances of production; if there is a desire to oversimplify, it's sufficient to note that the already modest money that used to be in it basically dried up and no gitting gud attempted so far has fixed that).

I'm not even sure this nostalgia is entirely off base, when you have no less than 3D anime pioneer Ichiro Itano expressing a little concern that the younger generation seems reticent to attempt the hard shit and exceed the accomplishments of their idols, as if somehow a strong majority of otaku stopped using their status as social outcasts to only care about fucken good animu.

Perhaps it's also worse than worthless posting my shitty popular opinion, but I still did it; it's not like you can escape criticism even if you say nothing.

544 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9143 18:27

>>543
I find the doujin scene more interesting nowadays.

545 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9143 19:48

I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass...and I'm all out of bubblegum

546 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9143 20:29

people who work at "non-profit" organizations who make 6 figures

547 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9143 20:45

I have been in so much pain for such a long time that I can't remember what it's like to feel normal anymore.

548 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9143 22:46

>>547
that sucks

549 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9143 23:32

>>546
not all non-profits are charities but I get what you're saying

550 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9144 01:57

The Nichijou anime was amazing with a high animation budget and full orchestral score, but it will never get a second season because it wasn't profitable.

551 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9144 02:35

Maybe I'd have a longer attention span IF YOU HAD ANYTHING WORTH MY PATIENCE!

552 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9144 02:57

>>543 I've partially turned my passion for weeb shit into a passion for the Japanese language itself, it's really interesting, eg when you come across a word like S’๊ that has a direct literal translation with the same meaning in english and yet was arrived at independently centuries ago by people on an island 2000 miles away.

553 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9144 03:01

Or rather was arrived at in China millennia ago, you get my point though, I find it pretty interesting how again and again, people so removed in physical and cultural distance come up with the same linguistic cludge to express some idea.

554 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9144 08:35

>>552
“ฎmoving•จthing
animal (moving thing)

Pretty interesting, isn't it? Ancient people were quite apt with their naming, way better than the complicated shit we have the habit of coming up with now. Great minds think alike, and stuff.

Captcha: juneness

555 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9144 09:08

Amor fati? Amor my ass!
Isn't the idea of an incompetent Julius Caesar actor tripping over his own foot before Brutus can slip the sword inbetween his armpit crack just the coolest?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hw63HniDWE

557 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9144 11:46

deja woo

558 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9144 15:33

559 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9144 17:25

560 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9144 17:50

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561 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9144 17:51

Gesamtkunstwerk

562 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9144 19:38

Teilekunstwerk
As in, I knocked it over and now it's all over the floor

563 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9144 20:24

Documentation: org-mode, rst, asciidoc, markdown, or something else?

564 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9144 20:30

vaguely remembering the way the boot sequence sounded on the 486 PC we had when I was a kid (5.25" floppy drive check, 3.5" drive check, POST beep, short pause, intermittent but rhythmic hard disk seeking, followed by hardcore hard disk seeking as the OS loads)

565 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9144 21:10

>>563
markdown and youtube tutorials unironically

I don't care what boomers say, man pages are shite

566 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9144 22:06

How dare you claim to tame Dame Flame? She will burn thee, I promise thine

567 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9144 22:39

It doesn't get through.

568 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9145 01:53

"there's more to life than money" said the person who doesn't live paycheck to paycheck

"money doesn't make you happy" said the person who doesn't realize how awful being poor is because they have enough to pay the bills and they even have money saved up and disposable income

"just work hard and get a better job" said the person who got a cushy job due to nepotism

"being homeless must be easy, it'd be nice to have nothing to do" said the idiot who doesn't realize how difficult homelessness is and how a lot of homeless people actually have jobs

"poor people are poor because we can't all be doctors" said the person who grew up in an area with adequate funding for public education and who doesn't realize how public infrastructure dictates how successful someone will be

"I'm smarter and more talented and that's why I deserve to make more than other people" said the person whose parents paid for their books and tutors and college tuition while other people had to drop out to help their parents make ends meet

I'm not saying you have to give all your money away to poor people, but have some perspective and understand that life is very difficult for some people and we don't all have the same experiences or opportunities in life

569 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9145 03:31

>>563
Use whatever you want, but more importantly make sure to put a bunch of typical usage examples at the top of every page. I always scroll straight to the examples in documentation and I'm sure I'm not the only one.

570 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9145 06:37

>>563
GNU info, so that it technically exists but basically nobody will ever find it and even if they do they'll give up before the interface takes its toll on their sanity.

571 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9145 06:42

>>563
GNU info, so that it technically exists but basically nobody will ever find it, and even if they do they'll give up before it takes its toll on their sanity, and even if they convert it to HTML the pages will be produced separately making it more difficult than necessary to navigate and search, and even if they convert it to a single HTML page it will be so long that aw fuck this this is why nobody writes good autotools scripts

572 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9145 06:43

oh, no wonder the captcha didn't go

573 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9145 06:49

The supposedly famed "oorah" of the US marines has a direct equivalent in Russian, "ura". It's just a kiai guys, no need to come up with all these weird nonce etymologies and build your whole organization around it.

>>572 for the longest time I kept having trouble with the captcha before I realized that I was almost instinctively pressing spacebar after typing it, which caused it to not go through.

574 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9145 07:38

„†„y„~„p„|„Ž„~„„z „p„{„„ „t„€„q„y„r„p„~„y„‘

Russia good bye

575 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9145 07:40

576 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9145 08:18

>>563
If the audience is non-technical, I either use plaintext (treated as plaintext) or LaTeX, with plaintext preferred. This will ensure that documentation is either simple enough that it can be read quickly, or detailed enough to be reassuring.

IMHO, the benefits of almost-plaintext formats are extremely slight, and overshadowed by the threat that it might get overcomplicated to the point that it requires a browser to view.

If the audience is technical, typing "man foo" is more direct than searching the web for "foo documentation -bar -baz" or hunting through /usr/share for a README: the brain has to go through fewer context switches between "How do I work the damn thing again" and "I am now learning how to work the damn thing". mdoc.samples(7) is helpful.

Also what >>569 said.

577 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9145 09:30

man ass

578 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9145 11:14

japanese hate debito arudo because he's annoying as shit
weebs hate debito arudo because he's literally living the dream, living in japan with a japanese wife doing nothing for a living but he uses that opportunity to be annoying as shit

579 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9145 14:25

is moot still at google? i don't see google releasing the next big social network, or even a mildly successful niche textboard, so what's moot doing there

580 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9145 15:20

>>579
I wonder if they might just employ him to prevent him from making another 4chan-like community

581 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9145 18:24

The weak should fear the strong

582 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9145 21:13

>>573
I prematurely hit send on accident, not sure how, I do have phantom clicks and keystrokes on this turrible hardware. So now the world gets to laugh at my foolishness (but 'tis better, I find, to be laugh'd at than y-wept).

I am slightly serious about the autotools documentation, though, it's not like it's great and there are corner cases it won't help you with, but it probably tells what you want from an 80-20 perspective if only you could actually not have navigation issues in the way and if only it weren't a "do it this way or weird shit will happen" kind of suite.

583 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9145 21:14

>>581
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584 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9145 21:29

>>576
I use Dash for a lot of near-instant offline reference searches these days, though curiously I still use the terminal for manpages. I guess it's not broken....

I wonder how well things would go if normal help files were just as easily searchable, but so much UX work has gone in the direction of "normies don't think they need manuals, suck at ctrl+f, and most of the ones they've looked at weren't helpful at all anyway", which isn't really wrong, but does lead to its own set of anti-patterns like the hamburger menu and walled garden learned helplessness.

Lately I've found that I really want to re-learn all the stuff I was "supposed" to learn in college and put it all in Anki. Is it productive immediately? No, quite the opposite. But I hope that such a solid grasp on the fundamentals will take me really far in programming what I want.

585 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9145 21:42

>>569,570,571,576,582

Thanks friends, I ended up just picking asciidoc before checking back here, just to pick something (and to pick something other than monoculturedown) rather than shave yaks or invent myself a set of style conventions.
I was actually conscious that it should look nice as plaintext, so it's more like I just picked asciidoc for syntax highlighting as a basic sanity check and for future probable conversion to HTML/man/pdf/etc.

I'll keep >>569 in mind, especially remembering all the API docs I've had to endure that are just a set of data structures and alphabetically-sorted methods for converting between them, resulting in frustrating journeys back and forth over 6 pages of 6 screens each.

586 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9145 23:02

Losing touch.

587 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9145 23:32

>>583
longcat is looooong
shoop da whoop
snacks is back!
desu desu desu
epic for the win
for great justice
XD

588 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9146 00:03

God, just fucking kill me forever.

589 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9146 00:25

>>587 same
captcha: noying

590 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9146 15:26

Love yourself.

591 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9146 15:39

>>590
Twice today already

592 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9146 16:22

I wish I could've grown up in the age of MMOs that had really hardcore death mechanics and more open PvP, like Ultima Online () . I could still technically play it today, but it's basically on life support at this point, with very few players, so it's not the same. Other MMOs like Tibia had weird broken game mechanics, like there was an NPC that would attack you if you swore around it, so some people would trick another player into swearing next to them and then they'd die and the other player could take their items that were dropped on death. And you de-leveled, I think. Nowadays, MMOs are more casual, and if you die, it's just a setback of like 5 minutes or something. But those hardcore and abusable game mechanics (which were sometimes unintentional) were what made it fun. There was another Tibia thing where you could lure a high level monster into a safe area and then it'd aggro on low level players and kill them. Or you could block someone from leaving a certain area, and there was this one place in particular where someone would trick a player into going into a dangerous place by dropping a valuable item there, and then the player would go through and then the scammer player would block them, and then the victim player would be within aggro range of a dangerous monster that would kill them and they'd be unable to escape because of the other player blocking them (and in Tibia you couldn't just clip through other players).

But I feel like hardcore death mechanics in online games, and MMOs in general, are both kind of dying.

593 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9146 18:04

Barbaric TV shows

594 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9146 18:37

>>592
Those are exactly the kinds of behavior WoW had to get rid of because it wasn't so much "hardcore death mechanics" as it was a vehicle for griefing.

595 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9146 18:41

>>592
If I recall correctly, there are "classic tibia" official servers now with all the old hard mechanics, including really hardcore death penalties, fairly open pvp, roping, luring, etc.

596 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9146 19:08

woah I forgot about this place it's been years and it's very comfy nice nice nice nice nice ay nice

597 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9146 19:43

give me butt pics or give me death

598 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9146 19:45

>>592
I grew up in that era, and I can get the appeal, but I for one do not miss them one bit. If you are into that sort of thing, I think it's just easier to admit it's not most people's cup of tea and be satisfied that there are enough enthusiasts practicing this dark art in some places, and it's fair unlike in the olden days because it's what you and they signed up for, no bamboozle.

599 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9146 22:17

Constant suffering forecast for the next three days.

600 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9147 00:40

Comcast suffering forecast for the next three days.

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