Previously: http://4-ch.net/dqn/kareha.pl/1326391378
I hope nobody minds that I cleaned up the title a little bit.
>>750
Good luck! Don't over-exaggerate or she'll feel nervous and turn you down, even if you're a nice guy.
dota blows
>>747,749
I see where you guys (girls?) are coming from. Oyasumi Punpun does a great job of showing what the world looks like through mentally troubled eyes. I recognize that it's often repetitive and frustrating on purpose. And I especially love the "god of poop" perspective - I think that's where the manga really shines.
However, I would like to say this - I don't recommend using it as a bible. It offers a cynically realistic portrayal of many problems, but it doesn't offer many solutions. (Nor does it try, since that's not the point.) It's a good read, but if you're really looking for a bible, look elsewhere.
>>750
You can do it. Chill out and be casual/confident about it. (Easier said than done, I know!) Even if you're rejected, just consider it practice for the next time.
>>753
Haha, yes, it doesn't offer any solutions at all. Maybe we'll see something at the end. The appeal is very similar to that of Welcome to the NHK and Tatami Galaxy.
>>753
Well, when I use the word "Bible" I mean moreso that I read it as much as a religious person would read their Bible. I do not use it as an answer for my problems.
I am forever a lonely person even when there is someone who loves me
I'm really worried that the person I want to love feels like >>756.
I prefer being alone, so I have no connections outside of my immediate family. Yet recently, I've realized the importance of developing interpersonal relationships for success in life, and I recognize my preference for remoteness as a personal failing. Despite this, I still feel unmotivated to put forth any effort towards changing my personality and social habits.
>>758
Connections are important for success, but I think you don't necessarily need to make a big change toward your personality or habits. You can stay remote and plan meetings with other people on your own time. During these meetings, you don't need to talk much, just ask questions and give them eye contact, listening as if you really care. Share just enough about yourself that they're willing to reciprocate, but you don't need to go overboard.
Fuck; everything is wrong. I usually don't let people know the degree to which I truly understand them, but when I am completely inebriated I end up mentioning things which frighten them in their factuality. It helps me lose friends fast - after all, who enjoys being truly transparent?
I'm once again glad to be a teetotaler and only lose control of my faculties to the tune of occasional sleep deprivation.
Gloves.
Well I suppose I can always delete it, but that isn't going to stop me twitching.
jerking off
It's a hard life.
But alas, what can I do but keep on running ?
I've recently started playing the computer game based on The Black Cauldron and realized that the Chapman brothers' game, Peasant Quest, is probably inspired by it in part.
i gotta stop entering these battles of wits unarmed
I should have gotten jalepenos in my burger.
Just finished watching all 74 episodes of "Monster" over the past week. It's pretty good, though a bit slow-paced in parts. Could easily have been half the length.
772 is an excellent number.
774 is a pretty blah number. I feel bad for the guy.
It's all I deserve.
Why do people abuse people who love them?
I can't believe E3 2012 is on Tuesday. I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing while I watched it last year. I remember the feelings I had about the person I loved, and the confusion I had about my life. It's insane how much has changed in one year.
>>778
I often find myself looking back and thinking, "Wow, I'm actually XX years old. This is wild."
Times seems to pass increasingly quickly with age.
>>778
Speaking of E3, who else is going to be watching it all day tomorrow?
>>781
The question should be aimed to highlight those NOT watching it all day tomorrow.
My friends are talking on skype, but I'm having a hard time understanding what they're saying. I think I'm forgetting English.
Last night I had a dream involving the gravity gun from Half Life 2 being used in Minecraft. That would be pretty awesome.
FUCK E3
I WANT GAMES NOT SOCIAL FACBUCK BULLSHIT AND APPS APPS APPS APPS
zombies are fucking lame
E3 has really sucked so far
>>786-san here. I saw the Halo 4 thing. That all looked pretty sweet. Poor Cortana.
In other news. I am going to ask a girl too dinner. Wish me luck.
Time to decompress like an empress.
I really love salty caramel.
The alternative is unthinkable. Let's just leave everything as it is, shall we?
You're just lazy and will use your whole time to fap anyway
>>787 is a hipster. He liked zombies better when they were still underground.
I think that my girlfriend is cheating on me right now, and there's nothing I can do about it.
She was.
I couldn't.
Now she wants to break up with me. Fuck my life, best end it now. Goodbye DQN.
>>799,800
Trust me, she isn't worth it. You don't need her to affirm your life - the only one that can do that is yourself. And remember that DQN is here for you. Bros before hoes.
>>801
I'm calmer now, thanks. I just get worked up sometimes...
>>799,800,802
It's best just to not ever get into a relationship in the first place! The world is a mean place, and the only way you can maximize your happiness is by spending your time in isolation - stop looking outside of yourself!
I played Psychonauts (got it as part of the Indie Bundle V) and I was surprised how much it sucks despite all the critical praise. The writing is amusing, but that's all it has going for it. Game-wise it's just an old N64 platformer but with frustrating controls and a camera. If you're going to make me do generic platforming, at least give me smooth controls and camera. I might be able to forgive the terrible gameplay if it had good atmosphere, but the graphics are ugly as hell and I can't stand the whole 'wacky music' thing. No wonder this game didn't sell well.
Sword and Sworcery EP, on the other hand, is proving to be pretty good. It's light on the gameplay end, but it's more about the atmosphere of the graphics and music, which I think are excellent.
( ˃ Д˂) >>803 No, no, no! Don't shut yourself off from the world, you might just find someone who will love you and make it all worth it.
( ・-・) 。。。
>>804 you're probably not going to be surprised, but all that's been said before.
( ・-・) I for one am absolutely ecstatic that collectathon platformers have gone the way of disco.
>>803
I agree it's most important to find happiness from within yourself first, rather than rely on others to give it to you. However, once you've established that, there's no reason to stay lonely. Nothing last forever, but that doesn't mean we can't love and be loved while it lasts.
>>806
Yep, but I'm waiting for the weekend to play it because I want to get good and drunk first. I don't normally scare very easily but I've never played a horror game before so I'm not sure how it's going to go.
My head hurts.
Is it bad to love someone more than they love you?
>>812
Nope! All relationships are like that, at least in the beginning.
All you can do is hope and try that they'll come up to your level. But don't try too hard, or you could end up in some sort of institution.
>>810 I'm also an extreme introvert, and I want to become a part of society again. But I can't stand dating, or even women for the most part. How do you get over that fact?
>>814
Forget about dating for now, start with the small stuff - learning how to use small talk to make quick friends and such.
>>816 I can already manage small talk. I have to do that at work. I can't make deeper connections, though. And I'm pretty sure none of this will help me with the relationship problem.
sorry, I don't mean to be contrary. But I've thought it through a lot by now.
>>817
Ah, I see. When you said you were extremely introverted I wasn't sure how bad it was since some people can't even leave the house.
Anyway, deeper connections are just a matter of slowly revealing personal things about yourselves little by little. Drop little hints of your true self here and there, and they will start to reciprocate with their own. Sometimes you can move along the process faster with personal questions. That's how you start to become friends.
Of course you don't have any reason to do this if you don't like them in the first place. You can't really force yourself to like someone. Just take it easy and eventually you will meet somebody that's true friend material. They're rare but out there. You may already know one but not realize it yet.
>>818
goddamn I just realized I sound like a freaking horoscope, please don't take my words too seriously
One kind of criticism to the exclusion of all other kinds of criticisms is is the cancer that is giving criticism a bad name.
>>819 don't worry about it. Your advice is good. I just need to find people who share my interests, and who I can talk to. And maybe romance can come after I have some friends...? Well, I still have serious doubts about that, but there's no use thinking about it.
It carries out and is Tungsten.
>>814
Get over it? I don't. This is going to sound really arrogant, but I look at most people as idiots. And my IQ is only slightly above the average. This situation is probably a lot worse for people with much higher IQs. But anyway, most people are shit. It's the norm. I just deal with it. But if I choose not to interact with anybody at all then I won't ever get to find the few people who are not shit. And they are great. People like me and people like you. I never knew this was what real friends were like until I got some. And it's great.
>>818
Is good advice.
>>823
I have a very high IQ and I appreciate the differences in people. I don't think that intelligence has anything to do with it.
>>823
I'm not particularly intelligent, but I feel the same way about people. Though the fact is, a lot of people think exactly like us.
I'd quite frankly rather be one of the idiots and appreciate everyone as my peers. It must be so nice to take everyone seriously rather than a select few people.
Try to look at life from their perspective and analyze why they think the way they do. It's possible to find grains of wisdom amidst the stupidity. I think writing off other people as 'shit' is just as dumb as the inability to solve logic puzzles.
My IQ is stratospheric. Doesn't make me not an "idiot" in any sense but the "low IQ" one. IQ is largely a measure of your ability to take IQ tests.
If you look at most people as shit, you are arrogant.
butts butts butts
>>828 I look at most people as shit, but it doesn't have to do with intelligence. Intelligence isn't something that can be controlled. Either you're smart or you're not, no sense in being proud of something you can't control (like your nationality, etc.) I don't look down on someone with a low IQ, because that wasn't his choice.
No, what I despise is ignorance. Ignorance is something you can control. Different opinions aside, I've got no respect for people who spout off about subjects they know nothing about as if they did. And while education can help, it doesn't always: I've met people without high school diplomas who are very well-informed (and very smart sometimes too) and I've met people with advanced degrees who completely had their heads up their asses.
>>830, I think I grasp the distinction. May I illustrate with an anecdote from my family?
In high-school, a science teacher played a prank on his class by telling them that the direction, clockwise or counterclockwise, that the water runs out of the toilet when we flush is dependent upon the gender of its last user. Most of the kids, including my younger sister, went home and attempted to verify this by experiment.
When she told our stepfather, a man illiterate his entire life, who also could not perform basic arithmetic, he laughed and said "How does the toilet know?"
My sister, as many youths are, was ignorant. My stepfather, while not a learned or worldly man, was not.
Is this the distinction, or have I failed to grasp something?
> I've got no respect for people who spout off about subjects they know nothing about as if they did.
And neither do I.
GOODNIIIIIIIIIIGHT!
>>831 yeah, I'd say that's the distinction, pretty much. Though that might have to do with the fact that students can be easily misled by their teachers, since they're supposed to be authorities on their subjects and all. Formal education doesn't teach you common sense, I guess.
I was also thinking of people who talk about "important issues" like politics and economics, and who think that because they've got a B.A. in Business Administration and watch 24-hour cable news that they know how to fix the world. There's nothing wrong with talking about these things, but if you're going to talk as if you were an expert, at least take from more sources than goddamn CNN and Fox News. Maybe read a few fucking books first, do some research and try to find both sides of the story. Sorry, I don't want to make this political, but I know a lot of these people. There might just be a lot of them where I live.
The concept of "first among equals" really isn't that hard, people.
Last FM has many flaws.
I'm trying to scrobble one of my favorite artists, and it shows I'm listening to her, but it won't record the plays.
For some reason I find Last.fm invasive. I mean, it has logs of all the music you've listened to in the past X years. Of course it's not like your music library is going to come up in a court of law years down the line, nor is the Last.fm software judging your terrible music taste, but it just feels scary to me.
Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.
You're a good girl, yes you are
Good girl.
Who's a good girl? Who's a good girl?
You're a good girl!