ANKH ANKH EN MITAK!
YEWK ER HEH EN HEH!
AHA EN HEH!
Life isn't so bad anymore.
C++11 looks beautiful. I should try to use it.
It is late. I should go to sleep. But I am up tryring not to think about how I know I am fired from my job that I like..
>>546
Same here, but I am up trying not to think about how tomorrow I must go to my job that I don't like...
>>546,547
Oh hey, me too. I'm pretty sure the "we never call you in, which means fuck off" is in effect.
Oh god. I have no idea where this is going. I want him to trust me and come to me for comfort, but I might be making things even harder for him.
But all I can do now is be patient.
So apparently the littlewhitebutterflies scanlation group was taken down by Turkish hackers. Why?
>>551 a lot of those type of hackers just push a few things aside and enjoy their few moments of free advertising/notoriety, expecting the legit owner to update their insecure scripts sooner or later.
Nnonononono they wont pick up when I call ahhhhh nono I cant be fired I cant I want to go to college I cant go without money no no no please no.
Ain't been no postin' goin' on in here fer a minute
slatchidge
wub wub wub wubwubwubwub
Dubstep farts today.
I really like it when people re-post my AA.
I've probably done everything I could. Still feels kinda bad, though.
Well, time to stop screwing up the rest of my life.
Remember when /dqn/ was for Elitist Superstructure business and /general/ was for chat threads? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
>>554
I am done being a neet. That is why I wish to work for money so I may travel the world. But helloo~ economic depression.
And yes, it appears that I am fired. And I have a last 68 USD paycheck to pick up. Which means I have to face the awkwardness of having to go back and say hi to the people who are firing me while pretending not to fire me.
>Oh hey we'll call you back in when we are more busy! Yeah!
Fuck them. there should be a law against this. If you are going to fire someone, say so. That way they can move of, get proper legal documentation, and get to finding another job. (If I/they are lucky.) Don't bullshit them and string them along because you are too pussy to look someone in the eye and say "you're fired."
>>561
You should apply for unemployment benefits in the meantime.
I should take it easy
These oatmeal and raisin cookies are delicious.
Reading this thread makes me think about writing a "When You're a NEET" parody song, but I am not sure how it would be received here. Also, effort. Meh.
Oh god it won't stop
Guys! Guys! Did you know that Tribes: Ascend went open beta?
Everyone can play it now. We could make a DQN clan (without ever sharing our nicknames, of course!) and fool around and skii a lot and reach many SANICS in speed!
Just think about it: skiing with jetpacks.
>>569
Wait, how can we make a clan if we don't share nicknames?!
Mine is Tokiko, let's be friends (‘◕‿‿◕‘)
>>570
We could share our experience in being fast!
I'm AlbertPorkins though. Glad to meet you (‘◕‿‿◕‘)
I recently came across a certain nondescript textboard and noticed a post which seemed oddly familiar. It turned out to be a post I had made half a year ago on DQN. I was pleasantly surprised. Here's the very post, in case you were wondering:
http://chansoft.heliohost.org/grey/kareha.pl/1326414668/62
http://4-ch.net/dqn/kareha.pl/1238680718/779
>>575
Yes indeed, many strings of "w"s were had by all involved.
wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
I want to have an omelette, but cooking is way too much work
>>574
Ever since you linked that, no perl scripts load on CS. What did you do?
6 people on /lounge/
I wonder if there's more. It feels like there's more.
>>581
You should probably count your alternate identities as multiple people. It's only fair.
beep boop i am a robot, bleep boop
We're whalers on the moon, we carry a harpoon, for they ain't no whales so we tell tall tales, and sing our whaling tune.
yay
That wonderful feeling when you finish a lunatic difficulty Touhou run and your hands twitch slightly for the next five minutes.
I miss Bun
So I'm observing him in a natural habitat of sorts. So much cognitive dissonance.
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v |b @u
I wonder if someone does craft vaginas somewhere. Like that woman who made those plaster models of people's penises.
>>597
It goes down for small periods of time every now and again.
I always have a miniature internal panic when it happens.
I wonder what this thread's 600th post will say.
I failed at being a mahou shoujo.
I wonder how much the introduction of the Dwarven Justice system in the United States would manage to lower the crime rate.
boug
>>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.