Previously: http://4-ch.net/dqn/kareha.pl/1326391378
I hope nobody minds that I cleaned up the title a little bit.
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!
I am Espeon! (to the theme of I Am Weasel)
Why would she need eyes, of all things?
Yes!
What's the point.
My favorite Pokemon are really random
Beedrill, Shellder, Magneton, Slugma, Koffing, Tangela
I like how the happy pills kill my sex drive. I don't have to cut off my nutsack after all.
why did I start playing ffxiv right after I quit another MMO.
Also I swear I'll start exercising today, I don't wanna catch the 'beetis
BACON
>>856
This happened to me, and I got all upset and worried about it.
( ゚ ヮ゚) Then the happy pills fixed that too!
My favourite pokémon is Pikachu, he's rly cute.
Today, I almost fed my dog charcoal.
fuck I need more sleep
>>854
Sandshew, Beedril, Scyther, Vaporeon, Wartortle, Noctowl.
Quesoooooooooooooo
DADDY
DADDY COOL
DADDY
DADDY COOL
DADDY
DADDY COOL
DADDY
DADDY COOL
dundundundun dundundun dundundundundun dundundun
>>1-868,870-1000
Fuck each and every single one of you. I'm not fuckign passive aggressive! Fuck you!
I cannot decide whether this ritual is actually helpful or not.
That does it. Tomorrow I'm getting high again.
Better do it quick.
I love wearing puttees
When all else fails, think of England.
I will get to stage five tonight, I swear it.
Somebody visited my shrine! I'm so happy.
>>880
One of my own creation. It consists of picturing a thought that is troubling me as a small tangible object, holding it in one hand, and, using my other hand, making a cutting motion through it. It doesn't help dramatically, but it has stopped me from dwelling on certain thoughts, as tends to happen.
My mother calls me. She asks if I have a Book of Mormon she can borrow. I tell her I think I have one but will probably have to dig for it. Whatever. I think she's studying up on Mormons because one might be president. She tells me that they went to see The Avengers which is kind of weird, but everyone else on earth has seen it. She then tells me that Captain America is "way too Aryan; Hitler would have loved him." I tell her that he's from the forties; there were a lot more white people back then. She says "well, then they should have used someone like John Hamm or 'some Italian.' Someone with some color to them..."
Old people are unbelievably racist. We should put them in camps...
>>885
There has always been minority populations but back then the minorities were whiter.
I'm going to be shameful and give myself the alley-oop for the GET.
Ah.. so sweet! So rewarding! What I wouldn't do for another one of these.
Firefox a shit.
I expected better of you, of all people.
Nothing on earth really belongs to me.
To render 7 billion people into 7 billion corpses: now that would be a worthy cause!
>>887,888
I would be upset with you, but I have a weakness for the word "alley-oop." So congratulations on the GET.
>>892
Oh god, Malthusians and their related ilk. For anyone curious, knock yourself out:
http://www.socrethics.com/Folder2/Justice.htm#C3
http://www.alcor.org/cryonics/Cryonics2010-2.pdf (p. 14-32)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_Gospel_of_the_Egyptians#Content
http://vhemt.org/aboutvhemt.htm
Is it weird that I'm buying a book of mormon rather than getting one for free by just asking? I think if I ordered one from the church, they'd send guys to my house to tell me how great their little club is. I guess I could have ordered it and had it sent directly to my mother. The terrible things she'd have to say about the cheery and clean-cut white people on her doorstep would almost be worth it.
I went to two used book stores, each of which had multiple copies in the past. Both were out. Now is the time to invest in Mormon futures, I guess. I actually ended up ordering it online through Amazon marketplace. They don't sell it themselves, which seems weird. Well, they do sell a Kindle version. Even weirder, I guess.
>>896
They mail it to you. If they come to your house, just say that you can't deal with people, it's what I did.
What does it mean to "invest in a Mormon future"? Reading the book of mormon won't make you millions of dollars, it won't even probably make you five. The only people who need religious texts by necessity are religious leaders or religious teachers, and then there's some doubt (in my mind, at least) that they truly need their sacred words then. Faith is built around belief and nothing else.
>>896
Can't you buy one of better quality, though? I had a ton of free Bibles but they were all small and printed on that awful recycled paper you can see right through. A couple of years ago I got rid of them and bought a sturdier one.
I'd only end up talking to myself anyway.
People who claim to like Touhou but haven't played the game are absolute fuckwits.
I'm tired from work, so tired that I don't feel like writing or masturbating. I don't like my job, but I can't quit until I have one that pays more.
>>902
I agree.
Wario Ware is a superior party game to Mario Party. Party games are the only acceptable form of "social gaming" for me. I don't think I could quite get into online shooters. The only downside to party games is you need somebody to play it with. ;_;
I have never played a Touhou game because I run linux and it would be too hard to get it to work in linux let alone patching it for English.
>>905
Why do you need English? Aren't only elementary school kids allowed to use translations?
>>905
touhou freezes on my computer when i try to play it (i use linux too)
I couldn't agree more, levitating Japanese dog.
I'm purple monkey dishwasher and what is this?
What?
Hi everybody's personal blog
>>913
Reimu: Hey, you! What the hell are you doing here?
[animal/monster girl in frilly dress]: I'm going to eat you!
Reimu: {Untranslatable kanji pun}
{they fight}
Reimu: Serves you right! Now get out of my way!
There, I just translated every line of dialogue you'll ever see in a Touhou game.
Umbrellas look so pretty.
Green tea up my nose, oh no.
>>919
But I wasn't asking a question. It was a statement, not an interrogative.
I'm tempted to write a really big article whose main idea can be summed up to "fuck you to the poor guy who's going to have to write an essay on this 100 years in the future."
Only thing is, I suck at writing.
I want to read, learn, and exercise. I know they'd bring me joy and practical benefits. But my neuroticism and NEET lifestyle have made me all self-defeating and I try to rationalize not doing these things, even when I want to do them.
>>924 is mistaking NEET and Hikki. Since the first is a title while the second is the lifestyle he is describing. One can not have a Not in Employment Education or Training lifestyle since it is a title given to those who live in a hikki style rather than a quantifier by its own right.
>>925
Well, NEET carries certain connotations too. The Tokyopop translation of Welcome to the NHK! even defined it as a recent euphemism for hikikomori, though I'm not sure how accurate that is.
I just didn't want to call myself a hikikomori because that's a little obnoxious. Like identifying as a "hacker" instead of a "programming" or "coder". Feels like the kind of term that can only be conferred upon you by someone else.
>>926
I call myself a hacker, in the sense that I use something for a purpose it is not designed to do. See I have strung together various systems in my house to be able to control my TV and Air conditioning from my laptop connected to my server, however this does not give me access to the Whitehouses mainframe does it?
Using a term to refer to yourself as it was intended does not mean you need to associate yourself with the kind of people who use the term to pretend to be someone who has more power or skill than they really do. Saying that you are a social recluse is not something that should associate you with a group that is not in that category.
>>926
Also Tokyopop corporation is not known for their in depth research into pop culture, most of their descriptions are brief inacurate overviews and not actual definitions.
Why is being a normalfag so bad?
Ah... if only I could have chosen someone who was mentally sound to fall in love with. I wish she could be stable. Cheating and drugs and self-harm on her end, with a lack of attachment or affection for me, are all making me anxious... it doesn't make sense to care about someone who wants to destroy their life, but these feelings won't go away!
>>929
They're detestable. Also, back to the imageboards, buddy!
I come back from anime club and there's a Japanese monster movie on. This family is pretty cool.
I call myself a shut-in to avoid the drama associated with the terms hikikomori and NEET online. Shut-ins don't tend to have jobs and they aren't necessarily in their room 24/7, they just stick in their houses a lot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBjsPhXhXl0 <-- Good song
What does it really mean to be a hacker? Do you have to program to be one? I have all kinds of little hacks for the way I do things, afk and ol, and even though I can't code well, I fit in with many of the hacker stereotypes and I feel I view things differently than normals do.
>Alicia Marie Gearl Sitting here in a pair of panties that say,"Foxy" across the ass, a olive green tank, and doing school work. While thinking of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Dragon Ball Z, The Legend Of Zelda Ocarina Of Time, and Star Wars... Im such a nerd. :p
I hate hipsters far more than is healthy for one to hate them.
When you lose, you win.
>>902
I disagree. For many people Touhou is about the music, the characters and the massive body of fanon accumulated over the years. This includes even a lot of the people creating said fanon.
As for me, I bought several of the games only to discover that I die around stage 2-2 more often than I'm willing to put up with. So I stopped playing and went back to reading doujin manga and listening to the doujin music. If this means I am disqualified from liking Touhou as a whole in your eyes, well, fuck you.
>>937
I don't know. But I do know that both he and Gene Wolfe are Jack Vance fans. Almost all of Haviland Tuf's dialogue from the Tuf Voyaging stories are Martin's conscious attempt to have him speak like a Vance character from "The Dying Earth."
Oh god no not again
>>930
Oh, I know how that feels. Well, I'm not in the exact same situation, but it's similar enough. If only he cared about me again, I could handle the rest. Kind of like playing love on hard mode, heh. If only he didn't push me away.
I just farted and it sounded like Chewbacca.
I should really get around to reading Vernor Vinge's Hugo-winning novels, but I don't know what order to do so in. I know they're not sequels in the same continuity, but I've heard people say that The Peace War ought to be read only after having read A Fire Upon The Deep, for instance ...
I want to get more work. I want to work 70 hours a week so I can make a lot of money and never have to go home. I have no friends and I don't like being reminded of that fact.
I just bought my first vibrator and oh my god...
>>944 better exhausted than depressed.
Also I agree: fuck Anonymous Jones.
Fuck Anonymous Jones. I hope he dies in a fire.
Dota 2 > LoL
dum dum dum dugga dum dum
Well, I have four essays and a presentation handout to write, several bags of laundry to get done, five tall stacks of books on my desk to sort into shelves, a few dirty dishes to wash, two A4 pages of new vocabulary to memorize, and lunch to plan. But damn it, it's far more important that I inform Facebook of the video games I like! The Internet must learn about my obsession with skinning wolves in a fictitious Mexican territory!
Yoga is fun. I'm glad I tried it.
I'm glad I bought all these dragon dildos
What's with all the /jp/ people?
Damn you, Eternal Summer!
>>954
I've linked /dqn/ on /jp/ on multiple occasions, or mentioned it. "Dragon dildos" is /v/ though.
You are definitely receiving the most traffic from /jp/ when it comes to 4chan. Most people from /a/ and /v/ would not understand the appeal of DQN, let alone find it.
>>957
True. I don't mind 4channers (most of us are or were 4channers at some point), just stop using memes I don't recognize! Otherwise I'll have to look them up and get irritated at all the Memes "R" Us sites that have sprung up lately.
>>958
Most of 4chan is a MEMES R US site now, well /b/ at least. There are some good boards, like /tg/ and /po/. But after the news started heralding it as dangerous and edgy all the emos started flocking to it.
>>959
/jp/ isn't like that, it's full of assholes. It's just that the fast boards are full of crap.
Hormones is never an excuse for cheating... right?
To simultaneously love her and fear her; what an odd feeling.
feels like the only paths to success are theft, extortion, and murder. mostly extortion.
>>961
I don't think so... I have hormones, but I've never cheated on anyone before. Even though my kind-of girlfriend's cheated on me five times with two different people, I haven't wanted to cheat on her at all once.
>>966
She does a lot of bad things but she promised she'd change, so whatever...
DQN is one of the few places on the internet where I am completely at easy. Many sites agitate me and depress me.
Time to stare out the window again. Oh hello, birch tree! Fancy seeing you here.
Today's clouds are MAGNIFICENT. I saw some god damned amazing cirrus this morning, including some halo phenomena(!), and now the sky is full of beautiful fluffy cumulus. Ah, I just want to lick the sky sometimes.
It's ridiculously sunny here, and I can barely see any clouds in the sky. Yet the weather forecast claims there will be heavy thunderstorms with torrential downpours today.
Since we're on the subject... A while ago I told my kind-of boyfriend I cheated on him. It was a lie. I just wanted to push him away because of fear. Unsure if I should ever bring it up again... I've been thinking about it a lot though.
>>973
You may as well sort-of-dump him. Being told you've been deceived like that by someone you trusted and then trying to forgive them as they hang around is really fucking painful.
Feels good to get a bunch of work done.
STOP!
Hammer Time!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkyokei
I came across this ages ago and found it interesting but forgot what it was called, but I just came across it again, how delightful :3 Perhaps some of you may remember I made an audio version of the DQN Madlib thread when it was finished; the backing track I made for that was partly inspired by this. I connected the line in of my iMac to the line in of my macbook pro and recorded the gentle buzzing static on the macbook, and then literally got an erection when I realised doing things on it changed the tone and timbre of the static in little ways, such as covering the light sensor, turning the brightness up and down, mashing the keyboard, carrying out tasks in other programs and using exposé
The DQN album is so great.
I never though I'd want kids, but I had a dream I had a baby last night and it was the most amazing feeling in the world. What the hell?
Huh. My ID on other 4-ch boards changes far more frequently than my IP address. Wonder what's up with that.
>>983
Ah, that's all right then. I hadn't posted outside /dqn/ for so long that I had forgotten all about how ID works there.
"Something about pocket watches."
Today I ate egg noodles, ice cream, lemonade, pancakes, and popcorn.
I'm so fucking happy I don't get fat. (Only a little tubby that can easily be worked off with 2~3 hours of exercise)
Duuu, du du du du duuu, du du du du duuuu, du du du du duuu.... I have u-ziq's Secret Stair Part 1 stuck in my head.
I swear she'll be the death of me yet.
It's hot. >_<;
Am I the only one who thinks the BBC Micro version of Elite would make a great browser game? Should be fairly trivial to code the graphics, too.
The mineral water from this bottle I just took from the fridge has the weirdest aftertaste I've ever gotten from water.
I'm going to try to create music. Wish me luck!
I wonder when violence is justifiable.
Women these days simply don't wear enough frilly dresses.
Women these days simply don't wear enough.
>>995
Yes, but tap water that isn't full of limescale and chlorine, unlike the stuff from my own tap. I prefer my drinking water not to taste like a piece of chalk that someone just fished out of a public swimming pool, thank you very much. Also, when it's this hot outside, I need a cold drink. The "cold water" tap only supplies lukewarm stuff these days.
I think this is my first >>999GET. On this special occasion, I would like to regale you with my favourite quote about Japanese culture:
“The average Westerner, in his sleek complacency, will see in the tea ceremony but another instance of the thousand and one oddities which constitute the quaintness and childishness of the East to him. He was wont to regard Japan as barbarous while she indulged in the gentle arts of peace: he calls her civilised since she began to commit wholesale slaughter on Manchurian battlefields.”
―Kakuzō Okakura, The Book of Tea, 1906