(″･ิ_･ิ)っ-̾ This thread should only be used to say very important things that you really care about and believe in. Please revise your ideas and their wording for at the very least 24 hours before submitting them.

(″･ิ_･ิ)っ-̾ We require other to reflect self

(″･ิ_･ิ)っ-̾ Power is only bad when someone else has it.

(″･ิ_･ิ)っ-̾ Man's greatest capability is his sense of awareness.

(″･ิ_･ิ)っ-̾ I, for example, am aware that I am not a Pokemon.

(″･ิ_･ิ)っ-̾ Having spent the past 24 hours in silent contemplation, without food, drink, sleep or attending classes, I have come to the conclusion that this was a giant waste of time. Give me back my day, /dqn/! Also feed me!

I have been analyzing my life, trying to figure out how I ended up as yet another loser posting at the obscure place of the Internet instead of becoming an internationally recognized scientist, or an inventor or just a successful rich guy (as seen on TV).

I traced everything back to a point of my life when I was a third grader. I loved one particular girl in my class, but instead of informing her of that fact I told about it to a friend, who seemed like a good, calm, even a bit timid guy (he was forced to attend a church school on Sundays, learn to play violin, etc). Upon hearing about my feelings, he immediately went to her and said that I told him that I love her. RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME! And she was laughing, and jumping over chairs and acting overall quite hyperactive. I couldn't figure it out. I was feeling deeply ashamed. I misinterpreted her laugh.

I never talked to her about it again. Although I must admit that I invited her once to my house around 5th or 6th grades, but she refused. And so, as years went by, I became more and more shut-in, still dreaming about her. At 9th grade she gained some weight, changed her haircut to a terribly ugly one, which made me realize that I've lost the sweetest years and fell into obscurity (I was even called gay for my shyness around girls and my, as I perceive it now, very cute appearance). Later she transferred to another class (mine was specialized on applied sciences, the other one was specialized on humanities) and I couldn't care less about her, but the time and mind were lost. I was far on my journey of changing from an open, curious, "life-of-the-party" guy to a misanthrope.

Even to this day I sometimes get nervous when I hear girls laughing behind my back, especially if they just passed me. I feel awkward around ladies and I lack the knowledge of how to talk to them "naturally". As a result, during any personal conversation I end up over-analyzing my words and actions and have to RTLS (or TAL at best), so to say. (ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_abort_modes#Intact_abort_modes)

As a side-note, there were ten years of schooling back in my day:
1st to 3rd grades - elementary school,
5th to 9th - middle school,
10th, 11th - high school.
Nowadays, 4th grade is back.

If you'd like to correct my typos and mistakes please do so via pastebin-like services. Make sure to mark it as private/direct link-only. I'd appreciate your effort a lot.

(″･ิ_･ิ)っ-̾ There's no accounting for that.

(″･ิ_･ิ)っ-̾ Me and my wife 100%'d Spyro: A Hero's Tail on PS2 recently. As a hardened but perhaps jaded gamer myself I thought it was really good; good learning curve, well designed levels, and a real satisfying experience, I felt an emotional connection to Spyro by the end of the game, and started to be Spyro in my dreams. Better than I expected a Spyro game to be, from only playing demos of the earlier games in the series.

So we looked for a new Spyro game to play but oh god Spyro: Enter The Dragonfly is so bad, it's a bit painful and sad to watch or play.

(″･ิ_･ิ)っ-̾ I'm sure I'm writing Scheme in a non-Lispy way. It still doesn't feel right.

(″･ิ_･ิ)っ-̾ What if I'm an actual wizard, but I'm out of MP?

Contradiction stabilizes itself by creating a third relation which becomes the mediator.

(″･ิ_･ิ)っ-̾ PSY may be a tipping point for western audiences to discover how much excellent, sophisticated pop music is being made in South Korea, or could the language barrier repel them? The fact I can't understand them and the vocals become just another instrument is a reason I like foreign music, but I often wonder if those songs I love were sung in English, would I still like them? Probably not if done by your standard western pop starlets.

Is our language, English, capable, is English capable of sustaining demagoguery? I mean ummmm highly-charged oratory, persuasive whipping up rhetoric. Listen to me, if Hitler had been British would we, under similar circumstances, have been moved, charged up, fired by his inflammatory speeches, or would we have laughed? Is English too ironic to support Hitlerian styles? Would his language simply have rung false in our ears?

May I compartmentalise? I hate to, but may I? May I? Is our language a function of our British cynicism, tolerance, resistance to false emotion, humour and so on, or do those qualities come extrinsically - extrinsically, from the language itself? It’s a chicken and egg problem.

(″･ิ_･ิ)っ-̾ PSY's ,,Gangnam Style'' pandered to western audiences by being homogeneous and derivative. Satire or not, that is lazy.

(″･ิ_･ิ)っ-̾ I was going to argue that my deliberately offensive youtube comments were irony, but after thinking about them, I have come to believe that they have properties of stainless steel.

(″･ิ_･ิ)っ-̾ >>273 We're talking about chickens, we're talking about eggs.

(″･ิ_･ิ)っ-̾ I'm not going to bump this thread.

(″･ิ_･ิ)っ-̾ Vegetarianism is a tool and a plot by Chinese and other communist countries to malnourish citizens of capitalist regimes.

"Why?" you ask. Well, imagine a fighter jet pilot who loses consciousness in the middle of high-G manoeuvre. This is what happened in Vietnam. Americans preferred to disengage if foe's MiG was stable during those, because it could only mean that it's piloted by a Soviet "instructor". Most of Vietnamese pilots, however, couldn't endure high-Gs and making themselves easy targets.

So, imagine this happening to freedom fighters, that is US soldiers, during Sino-American war. All the high-tech fifth-generation jet fighters will suddenly become useless.

(″･ิ_･ิ)っ-̾ I have never heard the word "flaccid" used favorably.

(″･ิ_･ิ)っ-̾ The desire for sexual release is an important biological construct, which should always be pursued and never ignored, just as the need to urinate or sneeze is one which should be satisfied. Failure to achieve release may cause genius or insanity, in addition to blue balls. While none of these conditions are fatal, they remain undesirable in a society primarily populated with neurotypicals without swollen gonads. This is the basis for my case to allow public masturbation.

(″･ิ_･ิ)っ-̾ Every randomised captcha you get is a higher being writing you a poem.

(″･ิ_･ิ)っ-̾ I should wash my legs.

(″･ิ_･ิ)っ-̾ "Organic" food as opposed to what? Inorganic? I'm fairly certain that table salt is the only inorganic substance that I consume.

(″･ิ_･ิ)っ-̾ What does math teach us? "Be rational, be real!" Of course, you can be irrational and imaginary (imaginative!) if you want to, but that would complicate matters.

༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ  I am almost, but not quite, too fat to move.

(″･ิ_･ิ)っ-̾ Higher math teaches us that "imaginary" is isomorphic to a 2x2 matrix and there is nothing really "imaginary" about it. What this means in practical terms is that Gensokyo is real, but "2D".

Photons or sexy prose?

(″･ิ_･ิ)っ-̾ >>286-san should be referring to 2x1 real matrices, or 1x2. This bothers me more than it should, probably.

I've developed a worldview that convinces me that the human condition gives us "deep happiness" and flow when we engage in human deep actions. What is "deep" in this context? It's profound, resonant, understood by from down to the lower functions of the mind to the highest. Engaging in short time pleasure pleases the lower functions, but unsettles the higher, abstract, desires. Engaging in studies pleases the higher functions, but bores the lower functions. The human activities transcend lower and higher functions and resonate with the whole of the human mind. Exploration. Creation. Gathering a following. Winning debates. Competing in sports.

This is where we experience flow.

I am an Electrical Engineer for a small product development firm and I found peace in the job I do, as I am feeling like a creator. Just sometimes do I wish to also travel, document what I have seen and teach people of the conclusions I have drawn. Debate such conclusions.

here comes the great despair in my life. For I have found to hate modernism and progressivism. It is traditionalism that resonates most with me and it is traditionalism which is dead. I am a missionary with no ear that listens to me. A restless wanderer bolted to a system and place. The Keeper of a Secret. But a secret it shouldn't be.

This inner conflict will only find peace in abstraction. To find the concepts and patterns, the first ideas, the essence of traditionalism, to translate them to dispassionate describing language and publish a highly concentrated abstract form of the (varied, leaderless, beheaded) ideology, so someday it might be found by a person with more fire and clout than I have, in the time where the decline can be more felt than now.

There will lie my absolution and also the tragedy: to smith the key to freedom, but being to weak to turn the lock. As soon as the literature is written and known to be read, my mind will pulsate into harmony again.

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(″･ิ_･ิ)っ-̾ poop

Sometimes I want to kiss the posts on textboards. Not the people behind the posts, but the posts themselves. I want to slide my tongue all over the textboard posts and cover them in my cute girl saliva.

The problem with forums and public IRC channels is that they form cultures based around individual personalities, and those who are in or near the center are generally free to be assholes to newcomers while not being called out for that behavior, because most users are eager to please the older/more prolific posters. Fully anonymous boards are far better in this regard, because there are really no identifiable individual personalities. Thus, it doesn't matter how long you've been a poster; if you act like an idiot or an asshole there is nothing preventing other posters from being honest about your behavior. This promotes a healthy social atmosphere.

(″･ิ_･ิ)っ-̾

>>294
Regular bulletin boards also encourage a culture of quantity over quality, since the single most important thing in any account is the post number. A person with 15,000 posts will be respect more than a person with only 300 posts, even if the 15k guy just dumps crappy one-word responses to inane threads while every single one of the 300 guy's posts is a life-changing existential essay or comedy gold.

>>295

You can see SAoVQ getting directly shittier thanks to people naming certain posters.

(″･ิ_･ิ)っ-̾ Concepts, designs and features are generated and implemented by using the Arch Way principles as a guide, rather than bowing to external influences.

>>295
Counterpoint, but what if anonymous message boards encourage a culture of making worthless posts without a second thought because there is no name attached to them, no face or reputation to save?

>>298
It's better than a vanity system. Some kind of time delay between posting and the post being visible (like a mailing list or Freenet-type network) could help with that. A voting system would too, but I don't particularly care for the idea, nor do I see that working well anonymously.

(I'm not bumping because you and I both know that neither of us thought for 24 hours before posting.)

It seems difficult to ensure any sort of verification that a poster has worked on a post for any amount of time, with either an upper or lower bound.

>>296
Public Area of Shitty Quality

>>296
Who knew that Jews and feminists bring down board quality?

>>303
Who knew that Jews and feminists have anything to do with it?

>>303,304
People shitposting about jews and feminists and the people shitposting about the people shitposting about jews and feminists is what ruined it.

(″･ิ_･ิ)っ-̾ So, I gave in and passed that socionics test that defined me as INFP. That is:

• Introverted
• Intuitive
• Feeling
• Perceiving

Why am I not... Tanasinn yet?

>>306
According to the online tests I took, I'm INTJ. And according to some lady named Marina Margaret Heiss, "Personal relationships, particularly romantic ones, can be the INTJ's Achilles heel ... This happens in part because many INTJs do not readily grasp the social rituals ... Perhaps the most fundamental problem, however, is that INTJs really want people to make sense."

Which sounds like me.

>>306
Think about it. Or rather, don't.

>>308
I spent a whole day thinking about it, and then thinking about your words. And now I see the problem.

>>307
I looked at the descriptions of all the different types and all could apply to me if considered from the right perspective. Personality tests are basically horoscopes.

>>310 Eh, I guess. Well, at least I know none of the "extrovert" personality types could describe me, but that still leaves half of them.

>>307
So INTJ = autism?

(″･ิ_･ิ)っ-̾ Cocaine and heroin should be sold where cigarettes are sold. When that happens, it will truly prove or disprove that ccoaine and heroin are more addictive than cigarettes.

(″･ิ_･ิ)っ-̾ The reason some people quit using cocaine and heroin is because drug dealers aren't always easy to find.

(″･ิ_･ิ)っ-̾ I can't help but look at the campaigns of Timur or Suleiman and think that as far as armies of fanatical Muslims laying waste to the countryside and slaughtering unbelievers go, IS are pretty lame.

(″･ิ_･ิ)っ-̾ Money may not buy happiness, but it will buy shiny gadgets to distract you from how miserable you are.

(″･ิ_･ิ)っ-̾ If talking about shitposting is shitposting, this post is a shitpost.

>>306
Don't test.
Feel and you'll be Tanasinn.

I did not think about this post for 24 hours. I will think about the next post in this thread for 24 hours or more cumulative, though. I will time my writing, thinking, and revising sessions. This is my sacred DQN oath.

A whole board where you have to think for a whole day before you post. To make a post, you begin by submitting your first draft, and throughout the next day, you're allowed to change it however you want. When a day has passed, your post goes through.

>>318
You may post to the board, but it waits 24 hours before emailing you a screenshot of your post, along with a link to a page where it forces you to retype the post in order to think about it more, before finally allowing you to submit. If your submission differs by more than a defined amount, the process starts again.

Alternatively the board waits a shorter time before the email/resubmission, and if two consecutive revisions differ too much, it cycles; otherwise it queues up your post for 24 hours after first submission.

Another alternative: your scheme, but you must make several significant edits before it accepts post.

>>318,319
A special device that is implanted in your brain and makes sure you've spent at least 80% of the last 24 hours thinking about the post you're about to make. Failure to comply results in a painful electric shock, or, alternatively, the release of cyanide into one's bloodstream. It depends on the severity of the thought crime.

>>318
I had something to say about this, but then I waited 24 hours and forgot it.

(″･ิ_･ิ)っ-̾ A board that claims it rejects badly thought out posts but really it just rejects posts at random.

>>322
Isn't that just /req/?

>>322
Well, if you're talking about >>318, it never claimed anything about rejecting badly thought out posts. It just said that you have to think about it for a day, which could be enforced by ways similar to >>319. It's really just a novelty board, but it would be interesting to see what happens.

>>323
Maybe.

>>324
Partly, although I'm really curious about how would people behave on such a board. Erase obviously bad posts such as canned responses, me too-isms and the rest subject to the possibility of rejection at random. I want to see if the placebo effect would be enough to drive posters to make valuable posts, as they attempt to get past the illusory quality assurance. Isn't that compelling?

>>325
Cool

(″･ิ_･ิ)っ-̾ butts

Make a website where you can find highscores that use your name.

>>328 I did find a website that lists all PSN users with all the trophies they have, including me, I opted out of it because I thought it was creepy

(″･ิ_･ิ)っ-̾ Does an electric eel shock itself too?

(″･ิ_･ิ)っ-̾ Don't be mean to politicians, for they might acquire means to destroy what you love.

(″･ิ_･ิ)っ-̾ Determinism is a load of bull

(″･ิ_･ิ)っ-̾ Belief in non-determinism is equivalent to the acceptance that not everything is controllable, or even observable, by yourself.

(″･ิ_･ิ)っ-̾ Yiff is an acquired taste.

>>296,302-305
prophetic

Right-wingers are fucking retarded!!!!

Left-wingers are fucking spastic dipshits!!!!

yay politics

(″･ิ_･ิ)っ-̾ >>337, my good sir, you are neglecting to consider the possibility that >>336 could be an enlightened centrist.

(″･ิ_･ิ)っ-̾ I understand politics, but realize this is one of the worst topics of all time.

(″･ิ_･ิ)っ-̾ Just move on already and stop posting about politics.

(″･ิ_･ิ)っ-̾ move your ass to shit on this gay cock

How many Chugs could Chuck Chuck down if Chuck could Chug Chucks?

(″･ิ_･ิ)っ-̾ I, an intellectual, like titties so much that I spent 24 hours thinking about them.

the index on textboards are alright, on an imageboard it makes the website near-unusable.

(″･ิ_･ิ)っ-̾ I've given it a lot of thought, and the only reasonable conclusion is that traps aren't gay.

(″･ิ_･ิ)っ-̾ What if Bible passages about loving others like yourself were mistranslated and misinterpreted all along? What if they meant to take all your angst, misery and self-loathing and expend them on others? I.e. these words were meant to untie your mind from being cowardly and weak-spirited against others.
You know, just like turning the other cheek. Basically, asking for a backhand slap that is the worst insult imaginable, making your adversary nothing short of a mortal enemy. I.e. those words were meant to untie your hands to vanquish him or her without a hesitation.

(″･ิ_･ิ)っ-̾ Hippies were just the first consumerist movement who fooled themselves into thinking they weren't consumers.

It seems like a more acceptable mistake because it had not happened before. But it is pretty obvious in hindsight.

(″･ิ_･ิ)っ-̾ Traps are Schroedinger's gay. Whether or not they're gay depends on the mindset you go in with. If you think of them as a boy in a dress, they're gay. If you think of them as a girl with a penis, they're straight.

(″･ิ_･ิ)っ-̾ Fun definitely should be outlawed

(″･ิ_･ิ)っ-̾ Do not be fooled by her flippant, casual, or sarcastic nature. Reimu Hakurei's shining conviction and willingness to look beyond the supernatural's proclivity for hating and even killing humans has been the driving force in making Gensokyo a place where humans and youkai can coexist without outright extinguishing each other.

(″･ิ_･ิ)っ-̾ That and throwing around a god's totem and tossing a shitload of charms per second and being able to somehow dodge everything.

(″･ิ_･ิ)っ-̾ I just think that, with a little understanding, we could find the perfect blend. And that's when good neighbours become good friends, there can be no other way.

(″･ิ_･ิ) I've quarreled all day with my inner psyche and I've decided it's time to quit smoking. I'm posting it here to pressure myself to keep it up.

(″･ิ_･ิ)っ= We get it, you vape.

(″･ิ_･ิ)っ=⋯⊶≕≍≖≎≢≣≋∺∻

(″･ิ_･ิ)っ= I prefer Fancy Hearing Cake flavored e-juice, by the way.

(″･ิ_･ิ)っ-̾ This kao-moji has not, to my recollection, displayed correctly for me for a long time, if ever. Until a day ago. Weird.

(″･ิ_･ิ)っ-̾ Where there is Dasein, there is also Daszwei

(″･ิ_･ิ)っ-̾ Indiana Jones and the big pp

(″･ิ_･ิ)っ-̾ fast food chains actually provide a reasonable service by making offal taste good more efficiently than home cooks can.

(″･ิ_･ิ)っ-̾ Face posters GET for everybody, heel posters GET for themselves

>>352
(″･ิ_･ิ)っ-̾ almost 500 days ago I wrote this and I'm holding a cigarette right now as I read this thread.