( ・-・) Being a normalfag is perfectly fine.
( ・-・) There's no prize for being the most persecuted, as well there shouldn't be.
( ・-・) As I get older I wonder whether I will ever regain or re-learn certain skills that seemed so natural when I was a teenager.
>>153
The only thing I recall being better at as a teenager than now is finding Duke Nukem funny.
>>154
( ・-・) I "re-found" Duke Nukem funny. You see things differently as an adult than a teenager. Maddox is another good example.
>>154
I was much better at coding and it came so much more easily when I was a teenager. I would go into what "normal" people would probably call an autistic fugue state and the code would just flow out of my brain, through my arms and fingers, and onto the screen, and generally it would work the first time. Hunger, thirst, noise, other petty distractions would recede into the distance while I typed.
Now it's much harder to summon that level of concentration for anything at all.
( ・-・) I fantasize about having sex with everyone I meet. Not because I want to have sex with them, but because that's what I feel like normal people do.
( ﾟ ｰﾟ)
>implying I or anyone else here could tell you much about "normal people"
( ・-・) I recently read a Facebook status update by one of the jocks from my old high school. Apparently he co-authored a paper in theoretical quantum physics which was published in a peer-reviewed journal last week. This made me feel horribly inadequate, as I have not even finished my BA yet. Back in high school I was planning on studying physics at uni myself, but had to give up on it due to my shitty maths grades.
>>156
( ・-・) I feel that way about programming as well. Also, I knew a lot more abstract maths than I do now. On the plus side I have a wider skillset from making use of neglected talents, but I'd trade that in a heartbeat for being as focused as once I was.
( ・-・) Prescriptivism is fun.
( ・-・) Prescriptivism is right.,
(but only because I'm slightly autistic and would like the English language to be dictated by an RFC or similar standard)
( ・-・) Autism, ADD, ADHD, and bipolar disorder are all vastly overdiagnosed, possibly by 2-3 orders of magnitude. They have ceased to be useful diagnostic labels and become the stuff of pop psychology.
( ・-・) On the other hand, schizotypal personality disorder is underdiagnosed, probably because it can be considered to be a set of trendy affectations that is quite fashionable in some portions of the Western world--except that it still cripples the person and makes him quite unable to cope with reality, especially if circumstances should conspire to move him out of his comfortable little bubble of like-minded moneyed postmodern urbanites.
( ・-・) I view all of this as evidence to support the sneaking suspicion I have had for most of my life that Western Civilization has reached its final stage of decadence and is beginning to crumble. Oh look, here come the Huns now.
>>163
( ・-・) Don't forget schizoids. If you're going to isolate yourself, might as well make it fun.
>>163
( ・-・) Actually, the diagnosis of all mental illness involves some subjectivity. For one thing, it's sometimes required for a person to have a diagnosis to receive treatment, thus putting pressure on treatment providers to come up with one even if they aren't entirely sure. It's also common to prescribe medication based on a hunch, just to see what works.
Therefore, a lot of hyperactive children will be diagnosed as ADHD just so they can be given drugs like methylphenidate.
Diagnosis of autism and Asperger's syndrome is still pretty rare. Most people online who claim to be "aspies" really aren't.
What this means is that you, >>163, well, you should really just stick to today's special.
( ・-・) Only here in /dqn/ can we combine metahistorical speculation and the Yoshinoya Rant in a single conversation.
( ・-・) I love you guys. I mean it. There's no community like this one anywhere else in the Intertubes, even if it's just us three anonymous NEETS talking to one another in the dark.
( ・-・) I need more friends for facebook games.
( ・-・) After being a U.S. citizen for 25 years, my Mom's English handwriting has finally gotten as shitty as her native language handwriting. She is officially an American.
( ・-・) Posting in shitty threads is beneath me. It would be demeaning.
( ・-・) I'm OK with pedophilia and child porn trafficking. It's the abuse that some of said porn contains which I can't stand. Arrest the makers of that shit, not the viewers or retailers!
( ・-・) A lot of people actually don't deserve to be alive.
( ・-・) I'm a bit of a misanthrope myself but I'm uncomfortable with that kind of statement. "Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends."
>>175
( ・-・) Yes, that's very much the problem. A lot of people deserve to die, but I don't know exactly who, and even if I did there's no way I could kill all of them.
( ・-・) I'd like a way to pirate works from companies I don't like and then financially compensate each individual involved in their creation that wasn't involved in managing the company in question.
( ・-・) Most people who claim perfect pitch on YouTube only use it as a license to whine.
( ・-・) It's only impressive when you do impressive things with it. Not when you decide that things like historical temperaments and tunings or transpositions are wrong just because it bothers you.
( ・-・) I am the Grammar Pope.
( ・-・) I hereby grant dispensations to typical uses of “where it’s at” and “ain’t” as examples of good English for use in informal situations; proper in every way, but only where propriety is not required.
( ・-・) I never said shit about what you end sentences with. We use prepositional verbs, for fuck’s sake.
( ・-・) And I don’t like the Grammar Führer any more than you do. Carry on! Amen.
( ・-・) I've used email and more "primitive," if that is quite the word we want, electronic communication tools since the BBS days. I've used the Web since Mosaic and remember the controversy over Netscape 2.0.
( ・-・) I don't have a Facebook or Twitter page, or a Livejournal, or a Myspace, or a Tumblr, and don't want one. I'm hardly a Luddite, but it doesn't appeal to me. My friends and family have my email address and I have theirs. If I want them to know something I email them. I am deeply uncomfortable with the concept of putting my whole life on a Web page so that bored strangers can "like" me when I say traffic was bad on the way home from work.
( ・-・) Not saying it's evil, or bad, or wrong, or shouldn't exist. Just that I can't imagine living my life that way, putting everything I do online every day, forever, for the entertainment of a million bored gawkers I'll never meet.
( ・-・) Maybe the problem is me. I just don't grasp the appeal.
( ・-・) I don't have a "smartphone" either. I have a cellphone from the early 2000s that is as big as a bar of soap, which cannot view the Web or send email. It's good enough for what it's for--an emergency number so that my employer can reach me when I'm on call--and I have found no compelling reason to discard it and spend money on a newer, fancier one.
>>181
( ・-・) I recognize this post somehow.
( ・-・) Sometimes I get deja vu and pretend I'm psychic.
>>181
( ・-・)Yeah, I get the feeling. I have an account on all of those services, and mostly just signed up due to other friends using them and not of my own desire to use them, and they're all inactive and locked down now, aside from my Twitter which still gets some light use.
( ・-・)And even on Twitter, I delete all my old updates about every 6 months, just to keep them from piling up. I don't really fancy the idea of some random person deciding to read my entire timeline from the start.
( ・-・)Some days I just feel like deleting everything. I don't see the point. It's like constantly being bombarded with stuff you don't necessarily want to see or read. I would just be scrolling by and not taking anything in, which eventually led to my not bothering to even check most of those sites anymore.
( ・-・)I miss the days when the web was mostly small personal and informational sites filled with original content.
( ・-・) Hate to break it to you, but from 1993-1995 half the Web was Star Trek fan sites.
( ・-・) You know, assuming years did the normal thing instead of just staying September 1993 till the noob-ass influx dies down.
( ・-・) I don't keep many drinks in my house, and when I had friends over once I bought some cans of Diet Coke for them.
( ・-・) They liked it, and have come to expect cans of Diet Coke whenever they visit my house.
( ・-・) In order to save money, washing up, and explaining, I instead buy large bottles of Diet Coke in bulk, then pour them into existing cans, before offering them to my friends "pre-opened".
( ・-・) I feel terrible.
( ・-・) My roommate got pissed at me and left, and while I miss her, I'm really enjoying the solitude.
( ・-・) Also, my blood pressure has gone down to normal levels for the first time in two years.
( ・-・) ...
( ・-・) Fuck that bitch.
( ・-・) Those of you who have adopted post-September 5000 posting conventions have got to go.
( ・-・) Fuck feminism.
( ・-・) 4chan level humour is way beneath us.
( ・-・) ...Most of us, anyway.
( ・-・) I fucking hate misogynists.
( ・-・) I say and do things I don't even agree with, out of some sort of masochistic self-deprecation or expected social norms.
( ・-・) When I was a kid, I couldn't even tell that Calvin's mom was female until I figured out she was his mom.
( ・-・) It kind of explains why I'm a little attracted to the tomboyish type.
( ・-・) 4chan and similar, normal-infested imageboards are disgusting and I feel physically sick upon seeing their current state.
( ・-・) However, I'm not witty, intelligent, or creative enough to participate in DQN, so I stagnate in nothingness.
( ・-・) I hate you all for being smart.
( ・-・) I think I may be genderqueer
( ・-・) All this time, I've just thought >>197 had good taste in clothes.
>implying 4chan isn't full of weeaboo neckbeards
( ・-・) DQN moderators not permanently banning 4chan filth.
( ・-・) People who call Shinji Ikari whiny and whatnot are pathetic. Every last one of them.
( ・-・) Evangelion was pretty dumb on all levels, really.
( ・-・) DQN sucks these days.
( ・-・) No, you see, if you actually remembered the glory days you probably would have picked some arbitrary motherfucker who has yet to post (e.g. >>373 ) and attributed all sorts of evils to that poster until they actually came along and posted something inoffensive and everyone would laugh as the show went to freeze frame and the credits started rolling, same bat-time same bat-channel.
( ・-・) Instead, you went straight for the lazy "attack the poster above you" option. So.
( ・-・) DQN sucks these days.
( ・-・) My groin area has been red and itching since May.
( ・-・) The recession is everywhere. It's like those spirals or something.
( ・-・) The recession is not an economic phenomenon. It's the shrinkage of your dong.
( ・-・) When I play an MMO and PUG with a black character, I leave.
( ・-・) I'm glad the sexuality board is gone!
( ・-・) Kyoto Tower is fucking ugly!
( ・-・) I'm sad to know that the world won't really end in December.
( ・-・) I hope Obama plays even more golf during these four years than he did before.
( ・-・) I dropped my fork on the ground at the restaurant. Instead of asking for a new one, I switched it with one of the forks on the table next to me. The person that sat there had to eat with my fork that I dropped on the floor.
( ・-・) I was going to post this in the apology thread, but I'm not sorry.
( ・-・) I just watched Obama talk about the late Senator Inouye.
( ・-・) Actually, he just talked about himself the whole time.
( ・-・) Obama's really an egotistical fuckwit, ain't he?
( ・-・) It's kind of weird how when Bush was president, national debt was a careless handling of money, then Obama becomes president and somehow national debt becomes a genius idea that makes the USA better.
( ・-・) If you ever want to know what the most sensible thing to do in a given circumstance is, ask a liberal.
( ・-・) Then do the opposite.
( ・-・) Dam libs are taken are jorbs.
( ・-・) I don't understand the appeal of so many image and text boards on the Internet if they all mostly "suck these days" from lack of interest or too much interest from the wrong types of people.
( ・-・) I wish I had discovered places like this sooner.
( ・-・) I was not angry since I came to France until this instant.
( ・-・) Avatar is another generic movie about white guilt and environmentalism with fancy special effects. It is like James Cameron shat in a candy wrapper and sold it to me.
( ・-・) The atmosphere of Neptune, similar to your anus, consists of mainly hydrogen, methane, and helium.
( ・-・) Skullgirls PC port is now approximately 4 centidukes late.
( ・-・) All this "responsive design" and "flat design" rage is what I was trying to do thirteen years ago in 6th grade and I feel like the world owes me something for it.
( ・-・) Some subreddits are good
( ・-・) Sometimes I have conversations with myself in threads
( ・-・) There is no good reason to use any terms other than "penis" and "vagina" to refer to genital organs.
( ・-・) I don't know the difference between a vagina and a vulva, and I see no reason to look it up.
( ・-・) Scrotum is one of my favorite words.
( ・-・) Mens rights activists have persecution complexes and no connection to reality.
( ・-・) I don't even feel like I'm allowed to say that on an anonymous board.
( ・-・) As a young boy, I was forced to stab a fish in the head by my friends father.
( ・-・) Now I can't eat fish.
( ・-・) I have concluded that "trans" people are the furries of the 21st Century.
( ・-・) By which I mean they are delusional, self-entitled drama-whores with a persecution complex and no real problems, who create a foul miasma of artificial drama wherever they go--sad little autistic manchildren who have no grasp of how their behavior appears to others.
( ・-・) Furries desperately want to be and in some instances believe that they are of a different species than human, and wish that they could be technologically converted into, for example, chickens, by surgical installation of a beak and tailfeathers. Even if this were done, that would not make them chickens, just sad little manchildren with surgical mutilations to match their delusions and a fixation on bringing up Hitler whenever someone requests that they not behave in a disgusting manner in public. And indeed they define themselves by their fixation upon public displays of their furriness and how horribly, horribly it wounds their tender hearts whenever someone asks them, for example, to stop descending on science fiction conventions and turning one or more of the con rooms into open-air gloryholes.
( ・-・) I trust that I will not have to belabor the obvious here by completing the metaphor for my readers.
>>235
( ・-・) I tend to agree with your general point, but I still think furries are villified more than they deserve by *chan culture.
Transgendered people just want to be who they want to be. It's delusional if who they want to be is an animal, but what they want to be is just another person. There's enough bullying in schools to make them either give them various social problems or make them obnoxious assholes, depending on the kind of person they are. But the kind of person they are is independent of their sexuality, and not everyone who is bullied in school is not heterosexual.
Anyway.
( ・-・) Everyone without my worldview is wrong and morally corrupt.
( ・-・) You assholes whining about being in the friend zone are lucky bastards.
( ・-・) At least you have girls around to fucking talk to.
( ・-・) You know what? Girls are just self-centered entitlement brats with boobs. If sex isn't involved, they're really just a huge waste of your time.
( ・-・) I just want to stay at home and cross dress all day.
( ・-・) I hate the internet.
( ・-・) I started hardcore griefing online games recently. Before, I would have felt bad about doing something like that, but most online players are such awful people that griefing them becomes the right thing to do.
( ・-・) I will vote "Not guilty" if a victim of bullying kills the bully.
Somebody needs to teach them a lesson, and I know most school employees will not.
( ・-・) Any lawyer worth his salt would make sure >>245 never makes it onto the jury.
( ・-・) I want to appreciate Ed Norton as an actor, but his face is just so damn punchable I can't do it.
( ・-・) Unless he gets punched in the face during the movie. Then I love his acting.
( ・-・) "Global warming" is "chemtrails" for 21st Century urban leftists.
( ・-・) OLDTHINKERS UNBELLYFEEL INGSOC
( ・-・) sometimes I think about castrating myself.
( ・-・) I got an semi with a baby sitting on my lap.