The most weeaboo thing I've done IRL is nyan nyan in public as a joke, and my friends actually got it.
I've never even been to an Anime Con and probably never will go.
I wear a Ryo-oki backpack.
I.... I went to Japan and bought a lot of merchandise. (Including realistic dinosaur children's toys, and a Luffy D. Monkey figure.) Nothing I've done can top that. Maybe actually learning the language is...?
Well, I'm trying anyway, but I think I'm still in low-elementary level.
Bought a season of galaxy angel that came with figurines, watched it with a friend and almost died from hysterical laughter. Other than that, I buy candy from japan occasionally, because their candy is fucking bizarre.
Started 5chan.org.
I mimicked the haduken move that Ken and Ryu do from Street Fighter a lot in front of my friends and whatnot. Funny thing is, I'm not even a huge fan of fighting games.
Went to Japan
Attended c77
Bought doujins
Spoke to nobody
Um, I made out with my Spike Spiegel poster when I was 14...
:/
a girl invited me to go with her to an anime con and i said yes.
I've spent about 500 dollars on manga in the past few years. Also surf idlechan for hours on a daily basis [I know]. Eaten a crab once. Uh.. like to listen Lucky Star intro remix and Right said Fred's 'I'm too sexy' while driving down the hood. Yup. That's pretty much all of it.
Bought an anime DVD.
Post in ubuntu 9.04.
Desktop+work Windows XP, media/public/server1 Ubuntu desktop, server2 Ubuntu server. Netbook came with Linpus.
Tried using Ubuntu and Debian for my desktop as well but found it to be more than I was ready to learn. Also tried netBSD for server but I had no idea what I was doing.
desktop: xp
netbook: linpus linux ( hi, >>24 )
server: ubuntu
this combo brings me much joy (which is also the captcha)
Debian Testing.
>>9
FreeBSD nicer on laptops than Linux? How so?
>>9
Tried FreeBSD on my laptop (10 years old, at least). Text only was all right, but X was as buggy as a anthill, I just about managed to open xterm on it. Switched to Slackware, X works, but now I realise it's probably not worth it.
>>27
it's faster, and wireless drivers are more likely to work out of the box.
also, it was a lot easier to get x working at the screen's native resolution. this was after being told that to get it working on ubuntu or gentoo i'd have to recompile x.
Ultra Seven
Ubanto on main computard, linpus on netbook, Windows XP in school.
Both my laptop and desktop are running XP
OSX on the desktop, Debian 5.0 on the laptop.
XP SP3
This video has 10 but there are so many, many more. Like libraries.
Yes, television had killed books and theatre
Intelligence.
>>1
Eh, libraries are fine. especially in places where not everyone has internets at home...
The thing that makes me sad is how more people go to libraries these days for the free internet than to get books. Sometimes I'll go and there will be a two hour queue for the computers and not a single person browsing the books.
I guess in a way the internet is keeping libraries alive, but it's more of a curse since they aren't being used for what they should be used for.
>>7
I agree. I occasionally go to the New York Public Library and it seems like people only go there to use the computers. It is sad indeed. Nobody seems to enjoy sitting down and reading a good book these days.
Common sense. When a person starts talking about casualness, specializations, posting something helpful or nice to know, or provides munchkinning classes there is always some 12 year old who thinks he can do better with something different. Except that something different is actually the same thing but using more coffee.
Videogames. They just aren't any fun when there is some 12 year old who thinks he can do better with something different. Except that something different behaves differently because the kid munchkinned its maximum.
Fun. There is always some 12 year old who thinks that it's better to max everything and use one trick to kick ass rather than playing around and actually doing something different for a change.
(I think >>9 has had a bad experience with 12 year olds...)
Morals and common sense....
you can't believe how stupid and ignorant people let themselves to be on the internet...
it also releases an ugly side of people.
Indeed, one of the more horrifying parts of Internet culture are webcomics.
http://www.chivalryandknavery.com/
http://www.dragon-tails.com/
http://20galaxies.smackjeeves.com/comics
www.gcbah.be
Are there any worse ones around? It is mystery.
>>36
Wow, that guy? I've actually had a chat with Dan once and he seemed like an alright guy. I suppose that makes me biased, though. At least Nana's Everyday Life is morbidly amusing, though.
>>37
check his tomoyo42 strips then, damn that strips got bad lately
You know, Party Foul was pretty nice while it lasted. Whatever happened to them? I demand more Hans unt Frans!
i mean, nice in the sense of a terrible comic that i liked.
www.reallifecomics.com
it's garfield, but online.
>>41
Huh, that guy still refuses to learn to draw hands (or be funny).
(and it's more like Marmaduke)
www.xmics.com << it is one of the crappiest webcomic .
anybody go and check it out!
Tim Buckley is one of the first people I would stab in the face over standard TCP/IP when it gets invented.
What exactly is reddit? Is it just like a chan with a rating system and registration?
Random daily news floating about. You can filter them according to your tastes and preferences.
About the only website where you can have meaningful comment threads on random things.
> About the only website where you can have meaningful comment threads on random things.
i know another website where you can do that, it's at http://4-ch.net/
it's pretty cool, you should check it out sometime
> About the only website where you can have meaningful comment threads on random things.
> meaningful
I don't know about that, man.
Fuck all non-anonymous websites.
Google is planning to launch an experiment that we hope will make Internet access better and faster for everyone. We plan to test ultra-high speed broadband networks in one or more trial locations across the country. Our networks will deliver Internet speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have access to today, over 1 gigabit per second, fiber-to-the-home connections. We'll offer service at a competitive price to at least 50,000 and potentially up to 500,000 people.
> Do you think Google will achieve this one?
even if they do, it'll probably only be available to people in faggy places like california and texas.
Well, New York City deserves it... maybe even Washington D.C., but do you think towns/townships (like Matawan Township, NJ, Far Rockaways, NY, and Carrolton, TX) will get it?
> Well, New York City deserves it... maybe even Washington D.C.,
> faggy places like california and texas.
> but do you think towns/townships (like Matawan Township, NJ, Far Rockaways, NY, and Carrolton, TX) will get it?
no.
>>5
they'll have it in california, texas, new york, and other faggy places.
they won't have it anywhere else.
The (four out of) five boroughs:
1. Manhattan,
2. Brooklyn,
"Sup, PI. Been lurking for a while... This composed of a couple of questions and a not-really-a-rant-I-just-find-it-amusing-so-I-don't-really-know-what-to-call-it-yet-it's-related-but-I-generalized-it-to-protect-the-dignity-of-all-those-involved.
I just wanted to know... How many of you argue with a person, and discover a they are a troll within the first several posts/lines and just continue arguing with them out of boredom? Would conversing/debating with a troll to the bitter end and back while doing it knowingly/willingly be trolling? Would this be considered an addiction?
Was doing this on a forum for the past 6 hours. He provides the same points, I argue them away. He joined the forum the same day I posted the topic and only posted in that topic, so I'm 100% sure he's a troll. He tries arguing my points away, but to no avail (since he's just repeating himself) and not giving hard facts. All of his criticisms fall flat because I'm asking him if he'll fix or offer suggestions that will fix the information I give (which is correct information).
I'm wondering... When is he gonna get tired? Because I continued the conversation with him out of sheer boredom and I run on being bored. Now I'm getting bored of from him doing more of the same. I'm not infuriated because I thought he was just another user with a misconception who I then though was stupid. Now I just know he's a stupid troll replaying the same message worded differently. I'm getting tired, but that's due to lack of sleep (and on call for possible jury duty in 5 hours~) rather than arguing with him out of boredom. I think he lives in another time zone (probably in the UK, since that would offer an off work, no bedtime schedual for 12:00 AM to 7 AM PST) because his arguments are getting weaker (by using borderline straw man arguments, <voice="english shantoto"> though nobody can say for sure~</voice>). He then starts attacking my methods which I based the thread on and the methods have practical application outside of what I used them for to prove the topic (an average person wouldn't know the methods unless they were told).
10 hours. He logged off first. I did not budge on my issues.
Recently Yahoo have shut down Geocities while AOL shut down its Hometown about a year ago. Most ISPs now no longer provide webspace as standard. All the while Yahoo have been promoting themselves as empowering users, making the internet about "you" and blah blah, when in reality they've just removed their one service that gave the users more freedom than any other. I suppose for Johnny Q. Doesntknowhtml, a generic blogging service or the like is more immediately accessible and less intimidating than a chunk of empty webspace. But as soon as he seeks more flexibility (without having to stump up cash) the options are dying out.
There are still free web hosting services around, but now most people don't even consider making their own site; for your average user, the web doesn't really belong to them anymore, regardless of what the marketing says. It belongs to Twitter and Youtube and Facebook and Myspace and Blogger, tightly controlled frameworks through which you may express yourself only within the parameters established by the corporations that own them. I do use several of these sites, I can't deny they're all useful for one thing or another, but they shouldn't be the core of the entire web. But they are, and much of its independent spirit is dying out as a result. Which, to me, is kinda sad.
The average web user types the url of the site they want to visit into google and then clicks the link that results.
You've probably seen this by now:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_wants_to_be_your_one_true_login.php
This was briefly the top google result for the search [facebook login]. Go read the comments at the bottom. Those are real.
it's sad people believe in "comments", when I was doing jobs in Amazon Turk most of them were to post positive comments in several blogs I never knew existed
GIRUGAMESH
You're a hater, burn in hell, faggots&sunshine forever.
>>24
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GIRUGAMESH
Ive seen more name fags here then 4-ch.
WTH??????
You guys suck...
GIRUGAMESH
Hi heh man, fubar sent me here to troll you.
But it looks like you're doing a good enough job trolling yourself, soo...
Who's that Pokemon?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am5yfrcn98E
I poked your mom last night.