This post number is the first three digits of my PIN. If you can find the pattern, you should be able to work out the last digit as well.
Hint: it is completely unrelated to the actual values of the digits, either individually or as a whole.
>>625
Time being a dimension would imply complete determinism, which I can't agree with. I prefer to look at time as an infinite collection of timelines, infinitely branching out at every moment ever since the singular point of the Big Bang.
GOD DAMN IT
>>632
No, but I'd be interested to hear what made you think it was that.
7.
On a phone keypad, 629 spells "NAZ". Assuming >>629-san's favourite Touhou is Nazrin, the next letter would be "R", which is 7.
6293 spells "EbZg" on a calculator.
>>640! You rotated one (6 <-> 9) and flipped the other (2 <-> 5)!
In other words, 6 is to 9 as 2 is to 2, you silly bean!
>6 is to 9 as 2 is to 2,
Actually, rotating "2" by 180 degrees makes some pretty cool hook thing. Or a breast below a square chin.
>>644
Are there any upside-down numerals in unicode? I'd love to make a breasted, square-chinned AA character
>>638
Nazrin is the favourite Touhou of a friend of mine, but mine is Yuyuko.
>>642
This has been the closest guess so far.
>>645
12Ɛㄣϛ9ㄥ860, courtesy of http://www.upsidedowntext.com/. Not a very convincing 4 if you ask me.
The Unicode Consortium should add flipped and rotated variants of every glyph. I'm sure they can come up with some semantic reason ("There's currently no correct way to type 'AMBULANCE' as it appears on the front of ambulances").
Then the next standard will be at least four times as thick and alienate Japanese developers even more.
( ﾟ ヮﾟ) And because it's odourless...
( ﾟ ◡˂) it'll be our little secret!
Shhh. I know what I'm doing.
>>635
Great, Makoto Shinkai learned how to draw faces! Not bad, not bad.
How can I tell you, the last chocolate in the box
How can I tell you, a pair of mittens and some cotton socks
This guy's obnoxiousness is beyond belief. (And no, it isn't a fellow DQN-kun but someone somewhere else)
So is anyone up for the "ITT we reach the post limit in one hour" challenge?
>>654
How bout we make it one day, but set a challenge within the challenge of 1 hout?
>>647
6293 because if you flounder the spinning wheel on the banks of the river, your twine will entangle the sticky resin.
>>654
The last time we tried anything similar was http://4-ch.net/dqn/kareha.pl/1350571235/ wherein it took us twelve days to reach 700. I'm quite confident we could do it in less, but even 24 hours is pushing it. 48 hours, perhaps?
SAoVQ is redundant.
Morally bankrupt, they say.
ITT we reach the post limit by 1994 [EXTREME POSTING]
>>657
Now that I think about it, 24 hours might be better.
We could add other challenges too, like posting every hour for the 24 hours
I had a thought that I was going to post but then I saw my captcha was "meth" and I laughed so hard it obliterated my thought.
Hey Minecrafters! I spent six hours on the VIPcrafting server last night fortifying the /DQN/ Embassy. You should stop by sometime!
Remember, the ground of an embassy is the same as the ground in it's sending country. Once you step outside the Embassy ground you are no longer in the Elitist Superstructure, and are now bound by the laws instilled by Emperor DAdDy CoOL the VIP.
>>664
I haven't played it in quite a long time, but I hope my monument to something (DPRK? I don't remember) still stands further away in the snowy forests of Siberia (it isn't named "Siberia", I just came up with it as a metaphor). There is a mining outpost in a hill below the monument, feel free to help yourself to some resorces (if you feel like settling in a hostile land as well), just keep the precious diamonds where they are, okay?
>>664
I'm still a regular. Currently working on the floating island next to the Grand Mushroom Palace. Also, 'twas I who originally built and manned that embassy, many moons ago...
>>665
Solstice of Buttocks, was it? I spent a while trying to work out what on earth that monument was. Looked like something from an Escher painting.
I'm not much of a Minecraft player; I'm drawn to it from time to time, but I give up quickly when single-playing, and I haven't really looked for any good servers.
I'm really glad to know of the VIP server thanks to >>664! I'll be sure to stop by sometime and maybe even have some fun with building.
I wish someone would buy me Monster hunter.
>>667
Yes, it was. I was thinking about sticking some ladders to it, but ruled it out as too Escher.
I think Buttstice would be a little bit more proper name, but no one would get it. I mean Solstice... Sol, Sun.
Praise the Sun!
Wow, I sure killed that thread! Poor thing didn't stand a chance.
All my life I was a right-handed person, but yet I have a few quirks that are generally associated with left-handed people.
For example, when I talk on a phone, I hold it to my left ear. It feels very uncomfortable otherwise. In a test where I had to clasp my hands together, my left thumb was on top, which suggests that the right side of my brain is dominant. Once again, it feels very unnatural to do it the other way.
My parents say that I learned to do tasks with my right hand without being forced. What if I ambidextrous like Leonardo da Vinci?
Does anyone know any good Japanese proxy services? I really want http://www.uniqlo.com/jp/store/goods/230120 in navy, but they don't ship outside of Japan.
How can you possibly fear sleep more than you fear death?
>>679
I bet you checked DQN at least once already.
But here is a real party pooper: internet and websites are real. They are a part of modern age "real world". You should learn to accept this.
Some food for thought, >>679. Everything that surrounds you, even yourself and the rest of the universe, is simulated on very advanced supercomputers by THE real people who live about a half millennia in the future.
Considering that there would likely be more than one simulation, chances that we are the original humans are pretty dim.
>>685
It's more probable than you think, but you can keep believing in Jesus, or in nothing at all if you are an angsty teen.
The three videos that started off the YouTube thread are all gone. How terrible.
Looks more like an ankh to me.
I'm learning Python and I can feel how demons of shitty JS code are raging inside of me. I hope they won't survive for long.
>>686
If it's non-disprovable it's non-testable. Speculation that is not empirically testable is meaningless noise.
Last night's dream was only marginally less painful.
>>693, please explain further. How would we, existing in a simulation, be able even to estimate the capabilities of the hardware upon which we run?
It's all a bit like saying "but what if I'm a brain in a vat?" If you can't disprove it, you can't test it. If you can't test it, it tells you nothing. pls read Popper on falsifiability kthx
Poor thing's gotten herself a little confused.
After learning about Tropes vs Women in Video Games project that managed to pledge 158922 US Dollar (of its 6000 USD goal), I could not contain myself, but put both of my hands to my forehead and then bent my legs in a way that my feet were on top of the hands, thus doing unbelievable things to "facepalm" meme. I neither posted nor took a photo of it at all due to the fact that I despise memes.
However, I'm reflecting on what could have caused such a strange and exaggerated reaction. Was it because I believe that this problem is non-existent, made up by some people who have nothing entertaining to do? Was it because people over-reacted to this project and the pledger is likely to fail to deliver a complete, well-reasoned and unbiased view? Or was it because I am an oppressing male and I can feel my world crumble like a house of cards?
How would I react to this information if I wasn't in the privacy of my home, but in the public place? Even a slight thrown there could make any women around start hating me, which, in turn, could cause at the very least a deep embarrassment for me or even hurt my professional and personal life.
First world problems, >>696. Apparently you got the attention of some politically correct brainwashed idiots who've never had to work a day in their lives, who've never missed a meal in their lives, who've never had to go without medical treatment, who've never seen violence or threats of violence except on TV and in the movies, believe they're being oppressed. You hit all the right notes to push the buttons of thousands of angry unattractive fat Womyn's Studies majors with daddy issues (but I repeat myself) and get donations from them.
As an aside, at this point I should think that anyone with the faintest grasp of historical perspective would know whether he's being oppressed or not. To anyone reading this who might still be unclear on the question: are you in a gulag, with guard towers and barbed wire and guards with orders to shoot to kill should you fail to obey commands or attempt escape? No? Then you're not being oppressed, and you can shut your fucking piehole and stop being a whiny goddamned attentionwhore, thanks. You can go back to whining about the "patriarchy" now, but it's not going to make Daddy love you.
Speaking of oppression and First World problems, while we've been having this conversation four or five people with IQs higher than mine or yours died of starvation in a gutter somewhere in India.
>>701 Nah, his point is "other people have it worse therefore it's not a problem."
"Oh, you're a starving African child? Well the starving child in the hut next door has AIDS, so you can't say you have a problem. Now eat the rest of your dirt, the starving AIDS child in the hut next door would love to have that dirt."
When I have time I'm totally going to bump all the good threads that have dropped off the front page from inactivity. Just gotta get time.
>>702
No, he didn't really mean that. There is a lot of disparity in developing world, and women are often mistreated there. But not in developed world. In short, some people actually have these problems, some just have nothing better to do.
>>703
Don't do this. Some people might feel that their opinions which they hold close to their hearts are being ignored and bump them again in some really dull fashion.
What is worse, you WILL inevitably fuck the good threads up by desperate bumping. It isn't you that need to "get time", but the things around here. Let them all settle down naturally. Remember, you are not the god and you don't have the power over other people's minds.
I agree with >>702. Problems are relative. I don't think there's anything wrong with trying to improve your own situation, no matter how good it already is. That's how humanity advances.
I do think that women are often stereotyped in media, but then again so are men. I think that the kickstarter is silly and a misguided effort. A lot of feminists do tend to overreact, and neologisms like "trigger warning" and "cisgender" just make me shake my head. However, the misogynist outlash against the project is far worse and very telling that we still have a long way to go toward sensible discussions about sex and gender.
>>703, if you don't feel entertained watch some Fawlty Towers in that time.
>>699
I'm being oppressed, I just want to sit under the moon with a loli, but I can't because drawings are people too here so lolis are banned. But the world needs someone to hate like the blacks, commnists, Jews, Chineese, Irish, Native Americans, Witches, Heretics, Christians, Persians, and Hebrews, so I guess passing drawings over the Internet deserves to be persecuted in place of actual crime.
>>707
I'm being oppressed because I think I'm a chicken. See, I want the government to pay for my cosmetic surgery to resculpt my face into something resembling a beak. And I want them to surgically implant feathers in my ass. And I want my driver's license to say, "LEGAL SPECIES: Gallus Gallus Domesticus, Domestic Chicken." And I want everybody to have to say I'm a chicken too, and I want to sue the people who laugh at me for their "microaggressions." And I want the city not to enforce its zoning laws, because I want to keep chickens in my apartment too, both biological chickens and furries/otherkin like me. Check your privilege, cis-species scum!
>>708
Come on m8, it's one thing to say that feminists should focus on the developing world instead of first world countries (which is still pretty wack imo since there are always going to be worse problems) but saying transgender/gay/lesbian/etc people aren't really fucked hard by society even in the first world is bogus as hell.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1300/J082v42n01_05
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1359178909000202
etc
Also many folks who are transgender have brains which are chemically more similar to those of the gender with which they identify than their biological sex. Read http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18761592 for example.
I think the whole "otherkin" thing is BS but your post is too vague to tell against whom it's directed.
>>705 seems pretty wise
There are a lot of kind of misguided tumblr feminists out there who like to jerk off about stuff they don't really understand (or that they're getting third or fourth hand rather than reading the literature themselves), but "Real Feminism" sees stereotypes of men and women as two sides of the same coin and thus seeks to fix both of them. It's too bad a lot of kids use a very strange idea of feminism as an excuse to hate a lot of people - both "feminists" who hate men or men who hate "feminists."
>"Real Feminism" sees stereotypes of men and women as two sides of the same coin and thus seeks to fix both of them.
If this was ACTUALLY true, it wouldn't be part of a movement whose very name puts an emphasis on the "female" part.
>>709
Yeah, I understand completely! Society fucks me hard too. I'm really really really a chicken, you know. In my heart I know that I'm truly a chicken, and I have a right to be happy! People laugh at me, and that's a HATECRIME! It's HATESPEECH and they're all worse than HITLER!
You believe I'm really a chicken, don't you?
>>712
I'd believe you were a chicken if the science supported it. Like, say, if your brain had more in common with a chicken's brain than a human's brain. Did you even read the studies I linked you?
>>711
The name "feminism" is inherited from the first generation of feminism, which, yeah, was focused on getting women rights. Current feminism - actual feminism, not tumblr stuff - is focused on the effects of stereotypes of men and women (men are breadwinners and women are stay-at-home types) and how those impact everyone (men who like to stay at home and care for kids are seen as fags, women who want to become firefighters are seen as lesbians or somethng). It's named that because it's part of an ongoing social movement which /started/ with a focus on women and nobody else. And most feminists still do focus on women, because they think that those stereotypes usually impact women more severely than they do men, but that doesn't mean they are damaging or ignoring the problems of men.
I don't understand why people are so willing to get mad at something they don't know anything about. If I'm going to vent online about the American Nazi Party, I'm going to be sure that at bare minimum I read their manifesto and their wikipedia article.
>I don't think there's anything wrong with trying to improve your own situation, no matter how good it already is.
Yes, but keep in mind that the dynamics of the habitat are conditioning the dynamics of the inhabitants at the same time as the dynamics of the inhabitants are conditioning the dynamics of the habitat. [Mach's principle]
>muh science
“Science itself, … may be regarded as a minimization problem, consisting of the completest possible presenting of facts with the least possible expenditure of thought” ―Ernst Mach
> I don't understand why people are so willing to get mad at something they don't know anything about.
It might have something to do with Mount Stupid: http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2475#comic
Plus there's mob psychology. It's an unfortunate part of human nature that large groups will rally behind a cause they don't fully understand.
When I was a young man I had an unhealthy tendency to agree strongly with whatever I read at the time. Now I've gone the complete opposite direction and doubt everything. I've also stopped caring so much. Maybe growing old is about accepting that there are so many things you can't change, and that's why people grow so conservative as they get older.
To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.
MUDA DA!
>>711
In that case, maybe it's time for the mainstream feminist movement to rebrand itself. I guess it has significant ties with the LGBT movement, so maybe they should begin to emphasize the gender/sex aspect of the problem as it relates to everyone.
A good example is the problem of sexual violence, both in the first and third worlds. The DR Congo has seen a rash of rapes and sexual attacks throughout its long civil war, mostly against women but also against girls, boys and men. Men have widely reported being attacked and mutilated, but because of social norms and the fact that the NGOs in DR Congo are set up to deal mainly with women, their plight has gone largely ignored and untreated. A 2012 report to the UN about the issue caused a big stir because it went into detail about the problem of rape against men.
True feminists (really, we should call them "rights advocates" or something in this case) are naturally against all forms of sexual violence, but the fact is that thinking has yet to evolve, even among a lot of rights groups and NGOs.
It's simply ugly people doing ugly things. Fear not, however, for some day it will cease to exist.
NGOs with foreign funding have to be marked as "foreign agents" in Russia. It sounds almost like "foreign spies" due to a strong tie between these words since the times of Soviet propaganda. It's done to make them very unappealing for an average citizen.
The bumsex is now more in danger than ever. If a federal law that forbids gay propaganda passes, then any public discussion on the matter could be viewed as such. Especially, if opposition tries to protest about this law and related issues.
It's a new threat to what little remains from ever-degrading freedom of speech since early 2000s.
>>713
My brain's abnormal too! Mommy says I'm special! I'm a CHICKEN! Are you a RACIST, or something? You're DISCRIMINATING against me! The psychiatrists say I have "species dysmorphic disorder" and I have CIVIL RIGHTS!
>>722
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS!
All three of em.
You have the right not to be killed.
Unless it's by the cops, the military, the corporations, or an agent of god.
You have the right to food money.
As long as you don't mind a little rehabilitation, a little humiliation, a little interrogation.
You have the right to free speech.
Unless you are dumb enough to actually try it.
>>722
If you want to ignore the facts for the sake of mocking people who you find weird, be my guest I guess.
What is boon/b-un's name in Japanese? I'm on mobile platform and all my usual methods of finding out on my own are unavailable to me.
Once a month, let us gaze skywards, you and I. I long to feel the moonlight on my skin, to see the flawless white orb hanging gracefully in the void above us, and I'm sure you feel the same. Thus can we ignore the thousands of miles of distance between us and the innumerable barriers and boundaries, and take comfort in the knowledge that we both gaze upon the same sight. Nothing and no one can take this from us.
This is love, this is what it is to be alive. Those poor wretches who shuffle through their existences as though living were simply something they had to do; they are the phantoms, the "undead", not we. There is nothing we can do for them anyhow - we cannot even liberate them of their cages!
Enough, we mustn't let these ugly thoughts taint such a beautiful moment. Let us remember where we are: under the moon, loli to issho.
>>724
Not weird. Just obnoxious, repugnant, self-entitled, and rude. Just like furries.
>>721
Russia is a lawless, nuclear-armed rogue state that wages aggressive war against its neighbors (Georgia), and which assassinates dissidents on foreign soil (Alexander Litvinenko), but ITT we are terribly concerned for the future of homosexuality in Russia.
Wow. Just wow.
>>729
Russia is a police state just like the US. It is entitled to do things differently, like suppressing its citizens' rights in it's own way.
>>729
And like any police state Russia wants to police it's neighbours, therefore the presence of american military on the Georgian soil and overall pro-american trends of Georgian politics were highly unwelcome.
Good thing that Georgia was a lawless criminal state that couldn't manage its own tiny bit of land. It resorted to the genocide of the Ossetians and the Abkhazians, which was swiftly persecuted by Russia. A few goals have been achieved by this:
As for mr. Litvinenko, he was a traitor of his motherland. Any other resourceful country would do the same.
However, the future of homosexuality in Russia is very grim. During Soviets homosexuality could get you in prison. Russia is treading back there.
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>>732
I like that the Russian government supports independence for South Ossetia and opposes it for Kosovo because it's best friends with Serbia, while the American government supports independence for Kosovo and opposes it for South Ossetia because it's best friends with Georgia. We Americans love especially to talk about international human rights, but it's really all about power and the almighty dollar, same as for the Russians.
Politicians are the same everywhere. If more people realized that, the world might be a much better place.
Anyways, >>729, please listen to me. It's really related to this discussion. I went to Yoshinoya a while ago; you know, Yoshinoya? Well anyways there was an insane number of people there, and I couldn't get in. Then, I looked at the banner hanging from the ceiling, and it had "150 yen off" written on it. Oh, the stupidity. Those idiots. You don't come to Yoshinoya just because it's 150 yen off, fool. It's only 150 yen, 1-5-0 YEN for crying out loud. There're even entire families here. Family of 4, all out for some Yoshinoya, huh? How fucking nice. "Alright, daddy's gonna order the extra-large." God I can't bear to watch. You people, I'll give you 150 yen if you get out of those seats. Yosinoya should be a bloody place. That tense atmosphere, where two guys on opposite sides of the U-shaped table can start a fight at any time, the stab-or-be-stabbed mentality, that's what's great about this place. Women and children should screw off and stay home. Anyways, I was about to start eating, and then the bastard beside me goes "extra-large, with extra sauce. " Who in the world orders extra sauce nowadays, you moron? I want to ask him, "Do you REALLY want to eat it with extra sauce?" I want to interrogate him. I want to interrogate him for roughly an hour. Are you sure you don't just want to try saying "extra sauce"? Coming from a Yoshinoya veteran such as myself, the latest trend among us vets is this, extra green onion. That's right, extra green onion. This is the vet's way of eating. Extra green onion means more green onion than sauce. But on the other hand the price is a tad higher. This is the key. And then, it's delicious. This is unbeatable. However, if you order this then there is danger that you'll be marked by the employees from next time on; it's a double-edged sword. I can't recommend it to amateurs. What this all really means, though, is that you, >>729, should just stick with today's special.
Of the last 60 or so posts, >>733 is the best and most tolerable one.
>>736
Worry not; it will pass in time.
If any of you are any good at origami, I can recommend having a go at this:
http://www.origami-instructions.com/origami-yoshizawa-butterfly.html
It's a bit of a challenge, but not too bad.
I'm so fucking hungry right now and I have all of 24 cents to my name I HATE MY CLIENTS FOR WASTING SO MUCH OF MY TIME FOR SO LITTLE MONEY FUCK THEM ALL
If you were in NYC I'd offer to have you over for dinner, >>739! But that seems statistically unlikely.
Part of me is frightened someone will make a Zimmer version of the Yoshinoya rant.
Part of me is frightened nobody will.
IT'S HAPPENING!
What paper and font size should I use if I were to, say, format and compile the Short Novel as a PDF suitable for reading or printing?
I might end up putting each part in its own volume depending on how long they get. We'll see, but I can't promise anything soon (at least in the next couple of weeks).
Diphenyl something-or-other, I don't care!
>>744
Not times new roman. There was a study once, sorry I can't link you to it, but they tested eye strain while looking at various fonts and reading them for long periods of time. Fancy stuff caused more strain over time, stuff with feet or fancy curls or whatever was not so good. Use a clean a plain a font as possible.
Might to consider .epub if all you're doing is text?
>>744
https://www.google.com/fonts/#ChoosePlace:select/Collection:Noto+Sans
13 px, Noto Sans. That's trendy. Otherwise, use Topaz.
I just had my first nosebleed in several years! How exciting.
>>747,749
I was going to go with either something that made it look typewritten (or produced by TeX in the late 70s or something) or Mona. Definitely nothing serif.
.epub is a good idea too
>>751
Typewritten? Like Courier or Courier New? Just to clarify, I meant Topaz that was on Amiga, not some modern bullshit.
So, there is that new unnamed pokemon that looks like a new version of Mew. Furries already called it "Mewthree", but I believe that "Mewagain?!" is a better name.
>>751 Mona seems like the obvious choice! Go with that! Good effort for doing this too ganbatte~
http://www.exljbris.com/calluna.html
http://www.exljbris.com/fontin.html
I like these fonts. They "flow" well.
>>756
All the fonts you'll ever need:
On my X I actually only have four typefaces: serif (Times), sans-serif (Helvetica), monospace (Courier), and gothic (Mona). I like the consistency and they map to Web generics quite well. I prefer to read the Web like a book I can customize, rather than a magazine where every page looks different.
>>757
Am I correct to assume that you mean X Window System, not Mac OS X?
I add "Never listen to Linux weirdos" to my most valuable advice ("Never trust midgets") to form a list of the most valuable advices.
> Definitely nothing serif.
I definitely recommend something serif! Sans serif fonts do look great on computer screens, but for small printed text, serifed fonts are the best. At small sizes, the serifs provide hooks for our eyes, making them easy to read. That's why newspapers and most novels use serifed fonts. Quote:
"In his book Cashvertising, Drew Eric Whitman cites a 1986 study of fonts (printed on paper) that found only 12 percent of participants effectively comprehended a paragraph set in sans-serif type versus 67 percent who were given a version set in serif typeface.
Those who read the sans-serif version said they had a tough time reading the text and "continually had to backtrack to regain comprehension."
In a test of three different fonts, two serifs (Garamond and Times New Roman) and one sans serif (Helvetica), he found 66 percent were able to comprehend Garamond; 31.5 percent Times New Roman, and 12.5 percent Helvetica (out of a total of 1,010,000 people surveyed). (source: http://www.awaionline.com/2011/10/the-best-fonts-to-use-in-print-online-and-email/)"
That's just one source, but if you do a little research you will find that printers agree: serif is the most readable for print. Of course, there is a lot of JSIS art in the DQN short novel, so I would suggest using Mona for those sections and a serifed font like Garamond for the rest.
Also watch out for column widths. A common mistake is having columns too wide to be readable. You generally only want seven to eleven words per line (source: http://www.bergsland.org/2012/05/typography/column-width-the-key-to-comfortable-reading/) If you're planning on printing on A4 paper, you might consider printing two columns per page (landscape) to make it fit nicely.
Good luck! Book printing is complicated! What looks good as a PDF e-book won't look as good in print, and vice versa, so you either have to make some compromises or make two different versions.
I'd totally buy a DQN short novel anthology (Threads 1-3).
>>759 I think worrying about comprehension is a bit pointless, have you read any of the short novel threads?
>>762
I think having nonsense in a format that looks professional and readable adds to the project's beautiful irony. Plus, there are sections of the novel that are actually quite readable!
However, I reluctantly agree that if >>751 doesn't want to bother going through and tagging all the JSIS with a different font, Mona is probably the way to go.
>>762
Indeed, those novels aren't something you read yourself, but something that you give your friends to read. Good font and typesetting are very important.
AMS Euler is a stupid font. You might as well typeset equations in Comic Sans.
Obama is evil. He wants to turn the country into a police state and turn the police states into FEMA camps and turn the FEMA camps into baby dogs!
What is this shit
>>759
Thanks for the input. I'm realising more and more how little I know about typefaces and books and shit like that.
>>763
Mona-ifying posts wouldn't be too much trouble (I plan to start off writing a couple of scripts to automate the initial scrapes in the first place), I just thought whole books in Mona would be an amuement befitting of DQN.
tfw when all your organs shut down.
>>768
On a whim, I tried putting the first line of your post through one of those Engrish things. The result was something beautiful.
http://translationparty.com/tp/#10832271
>>768,770
I tried the second line and it was somewhat ridiculous:
http://translationparty.com/tp/#10832286
>>770
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you very much. Shit face book is a bit way to provide it.
I feel like Shitfacebook would be a good drinking website.
I sort of want to do this http://4-ch.net/dqn/kareha.pl/1202850490/286
I'm not sure how it would work, though
>>773
I like the way everyone's been using the thread proposal thread to get approval before making threads, I think we should use that as a guide on how to make all future threads. We should get approval before making threads from now onward.
Oh, my poor anus...
>>774
It wasn't to get approval, it's just that I'm not sure how to do it
>>775
We are an Elitist Superstructure, we need some form of bureaucracy to keep things both elite and structural, otherwise we'd be the commonplace disorganized trash heap, and that already exists everywhere else.
>>778
No, we don't. We are an Elitist Superstructure and we have to look down on the common rabble, not on each other. Members of the Superstructure shall be considered equally elitist.
I put this to a vote.
>>778
Are you saying that DQN isn't a disorganized trash heap?
>>780
Of course. It's the elitest structure, and a super one at that.
What have I done?
Are there any free online history?
>>785
Yes.
Here's a series I liked, starting with www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FrHGAd_yto
about ancient Greece. It's a series of recorded lectures at Yale. Lots of other courses, probably with more history thrown in, at http://www.youtube.com/user/YaleCourses
You can also check out history podcasts. I can't seem to post the links without triggering the spam filter (thanks 4-ch!) but here are some I've enjoyed that you can google if you want:
The History of Rome podcast
12 Byzantine Rulers
History of the Ancient World (covers mostly the ancient Near East from pre-history to the 6th-5th century BC)
Hardcore History
The first three are obviously ancient history podcasts, done by both amateur and professional historians. The last one is more of a mix. They're all great, though. You can tell I really like ancient history, but there's enough free material out there covering every subject you can imagine.
>>784
I don't know about history but a few colleges, I think MIT and Harvard, have lectures posted online from a number of classes.
>>789
Hardcore History has a great five-part series that just ended about the Mongols. Not comprehensive, but it's very in-depth and runs up to the completion of most of the conquests, stopping before the establishment of Kublai Khan's China etc. You can find all five parts for free here:
I see Priest Oduma has been doing a lot of spell casting lately.
>>790
I'll start that after finish the ancient world one. I was kind of looking for something that went on a little more and also covered the period after the collapse of the empire. Stuff on smaller offshoots of the empire like Astrakhan and Nogai.
This sickness never truly goes away, does it?
>>792 If you find one, be sure to post it in here. I'd be interested too.
former_neet, ticksu, dekisu, nabia_vip, etc., pls go
I wish my hair started graying early instead of falling out :(
Delete the full stop? You could have removed the space before "ITT", or added a space there while removing the spaces between the tags at the end.
Shame on you, >>1.
I wish he posted photos of his robot.
Look at all this learning!
America's national sport? Outdoor military games.
This is not the first time that I have dreamed about crossdressing.
I guess I probably didn't screw that presentation up any more than anyone else maybe!
>>803
What was it about?
A friend of mine was reading a lecture on functional programming at his university a few weeks ago. He sneaked this picture into one of the slides: http://www.fybertech.com/4get/13320212582846.png
But he says that people liked it anyway.
I can't remember how much vodka I've had tonight.
>>784
The Western Tradition is pretty good, and lecturer Eugen Weber likes to make a lot of interesting asides. Maybe not super thorough, but it got me through a CLEP a couple years ago.
ttp://www.learner.org/resources/series58.html
>>679 here
it's been one week and about ten minutes
I think my experiment was a success.
>>807, were you lying down like a log and thinking about death?
Because that's what I'd do if the internet suddenly ceased to exist. I'd just lie down and wait for death.
I'm going to explode I've had it
>>804
It was for one of a limited number of funded PhD places. The presentation went OK, but the fully-technical trick questions afterwards were hideous. I'll know what the rest of my life looks like on Monday.
Foolish girl, why do you try to resist?
>>808
No, I was actually very busy!
I started this because I observed that I waste much of my meager free time on activities which profit me nothing.
My goal was to see if I was addicted to frivolous internet activities (FIA) or if I could actually quit whenever I want. The term FIA includes all activities involving the use of a PC or other internet capable device which have no value other than that of entertainment or pleasure. Note that under this definition, not all activities on the internet are FIA, and not all FIA necessarily involve internet access. For example, I can watch anime without accessing the internet, but it is still an FIA.
My procedure was to write a list of productive activities that I could perform and refer to that list whenever I feel the urge to visit a BBS, watch porn and/or anime, or perform other miscellaneous FIA. The idea was that I could immerse myself in a productive activity, thereby distracting myself from momentary FIA urges.
I followed the procedure with moderate success, eliminating an estimated 95% of FIA from my weekly activities (my resolve flagged a little near the end). As a result, I slept more, accomplished more during free time, and performed better in my classes and job. I also was able to roughly determine the extent of my own self-control.
From these results, I have concluded that I must try to incorporate this procedure into my daily life, but in shorter time increments. For example, I might have "No Internet For An Hour" Hour, then reward myself with a predetermined amount and form of FIA. I hope it will work out.
>>815
Just FYI, FIA stands for Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile, which you, in the US, would call Automobile Competition Committee for the United States. It governs various motorsport events like Formula 1 (IndyCar) or WRC (NASCAR).
Please use "miscellaneous internet activities" instead of your term.
Well, they really ought to be afraid, all things considered.
I just fucking learned something!
There's a Magnemite on my Pokewalker.
His name is Polarity and I love him.
>>821
You should totally get yourself an eevee. Eevees are cute and fluffy.
I'm sad today.
The AVGN doesn't chug beer any more when he gets mad at a game. When did that happen? Was there some serious deliberation like James Rolfe didn't want to glorify binge drinking or something, or did it just kind of fade out of the picture?
>>824 Maybe he got liver or kidney disease, and he was told he would die if he kept drinking so much alcohol.
If I am going to commit an act of genocide, I'll have to do it later.
Sorry, but it seems that dreaming of pictures is the best I can do.
>>825 well, what did he drink? Maybe one beer per video? That isn't really anything at all, even if you drink it all in ten seconds. I was always under the impression that he was sponsored by Yuengling or Rolling Rock.
Who cares anyway, since he kind of sucks - same "I'm so mad at this game" shtick every video. Better than some Youtube game idiots, for sure, but it still gets old pretty quick.
I felt her image inflate to fill the entire inside of my skull, painting my mind like a canvas - as I painted her, so long ago. I'm scared.
THERE IS NO DISC THREE YOU ASSHOLE
How come my nose can excrete more mucus than my penis? It isn't fun! The evolution is stupid! Your god is stupid if you don't believe in evolution!
We both know how this is going to end. Prepare your fingers.
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck I wish i had slept instead of pokemoning then i could have gotten all that work done and had a chance to sleep
>>836
Then you would regret both not doing your work and not pokemoning.
Have some faith, you!
I kind of want to make a DQN Synchronet BBS that also crawls USENET, specifically comp.os.plan9 and higher. I could mount games on it like syn does. But I still have to figure out how to configure it yet.
Can a plant be cute?
When the DQN Short Novel Audiobook does come out I'm buying 80 copies and giving them away for christmass presents. Sadly I will be the only recipient since I am always alone for christmass.
😡 not cool man
no stop
😆 make me
🌚🌝
8===D
The only thing keeping Flash alive is porn, ads, and Homestuck.
I have resolved to never find out what Homestuck is
Smoopys Smoopy smoopy
>>850
But porn and ads are a huge part of the Internet. That's like saying the only thing keeping the steel industry alive is the automobile industry.
Now, all I have to do is seduce myself.
How come Jeremy Clarkson doesn't have a knighthood yet?
Lalalalalala~
Midori is great!
Except on windows.
I'll make damned sure that not a single ray of sunlight ever graces your wretched body again.
If you're going to operate a pirate radio station don't operate it on Military, NPR, or WS bands.
>>842 I thought we went through this, people claimed the chapters they were going to read (I picked a couple) and then... nothing happened
>>865
The book isn't done being written yet, plus no one is motivated enough to get on vocaroo.
I'm the same as >>864. I enjoyed reading through Problem Sleuth, even though the later parts got a little complicated, but Homestuck is just ridiculous. Eventually I just gave up trying to keep up with it. There's something to be said for the value of a succinct, self-contained story. Homestuck is just a monstrosity.
Am I twitching again?
All this talking about Homestuck makes me want to make an AA of the "let me tell you about Homestuck" security guy. That look on his face is just priceless.
No, I'm talking about the little voice in the back of my head that keeps chanting "Incest, incest, incest".
I can't get the Hiragana deck I downloaded from Textfugu to work with Anki for Android.
Why on earth would someone need flashcards to learn hiragana?
This board isn't individualist enough.
>>877
We're a superstructure, that's only one step up from the hivemind of the citadel, there must be no individualism or we'll be destroyed and no longer be elitist.
>>879
It isn't hivemind if you don't start agreeing with me! Now, get out of my thread, I'm going to weep here and wallow in my own misery.
Spilling and spinning through. That's all I'll need.
Ma wa ru
Mawaru
Actually, believe it or not, I was trying to mock you.
>>883
My reaction might have looked naive, but in reality I was mocking your feeble aping. That's because ― let's just face the harsh truth for a second ― I'm way smarter than you.
It's five past catharsis!
I went to go apply for a job at a bar and the Rustic Overtones are all here eating and debating conspiracy theories about the Boston bombings.
Which is better: to make a mediocre, forgettable post or not to post at all?
>>890
It depends, sometimes a collection of forgettable posts can be better together than no posts at all.
Look upon yourself and weep! For you have become nought but a receptacle.
Hey, you're a pretty nice guy.
I'm starting to dig sushi
Frank Zappa and video games.
hakujin
全て忘れて！全て忘れて！
これから一人。
Regardless of whether it helps or not, it might make me hate myself less.
Where is my balls?
>>899 will soon learn the advantages of being alone and forgetting and removing others from your life
Please, somebody, tell me it's all going to be okay.
What are some fun, free, outdoor activities? It's hot!
>>905
It will be different than you expect, but it will be OK. It already is.
>>906
Swimming, urban exploring, geocaching (only free if you already have a smart phone or gps, or you could try it with triangulation and maps), parkour
Oh no oh no oh no oh no I can't fail that test no no no no nononononononononononononononononononono
>>911
Don't forget flower gazing, cloud spotting and cross dressing.
Can I put a frilly little bonnet on my cross? I think it'd be very cute.
>>906
Karting, car racing, unicycle jousting, golf (if you're a rich bore), trainspotting, nature photography (camping! Camp out next to some heron and wait until it catches something ― what a magnificent action shot it would make!), lollygagging.
>>908
All of these are risky and dangerous. You might catch a disease or get assaulted, or hurt yourself.
>>909
The first two might get you chased by some rabid dogs making the third a necessity. It's gravely dangerous, as you can see.
>>911
You might hurt your limbs and other organs by doing any of those.
>>913
Allergies, lack of awareness, others' ignorance are contributing to risk factors in these activities.
As you can see, my suggestions are the safest. Karting is just a jolly good fun, the worst that can happen is that you slowly bump into a short wall of tyres. Racing might require some investments, but in the end you just have to mend a car with some duct tape - and everything will be fine. Unicycle jousting demands some unicycle training and an understanding partner, but it's the safest sport in the world. And the worst that could happen on the golf course is that you might die of old age. The rest of activities are just slightly more boring than reading Wikipedia but equally safe.
Don't listen to >>915, or you could get yourself killed! You should stick to truly safe and honorable pasttimes, such as fisticuffs, bear wrestling, swamp raking, wild horse taming, mudsliding, bridge scaling or lumberjacking.
I feared something like this for so long - and now that it's finally happened, I'm frankly surprised at how blasé I am about the whole thing.
I bear no grudge, I bear no grudge...
I hate people who say "gooey" in place of GUI.
I wish America had a Wakaba mark equivalent. Everyone's always so aggressive, and maybe them knowing I'm a shitty driver would cause them to slow down a bit when I want to merge instead of try to pass me.
>>919
http://en.rian.ru/david_burghardt_blog/20110912/166780068.html
Get yourself one of these yellow triangles with exclamation mark and hope for anybody else to understand it.
Or find a relevant "for dummies" book and stick it instead.
Data is beautiful.
Data are beautiful.
>>922
My name is Day-tah, not Dah-tuh. That is simply how my name is pronounced.
>>919
You could hang a "STUDENT DRIVER" sign in the rear window. Probably won't stop the assholes though. And coming from someone who lives in Japan, the Wakaba mark doesn't really help either. Impatient people will still try to pass you. In fact, some of them will try even harder because they don't want to get stuck behind someone they think will be slow.
What are those standing desks? Is it just another overrated piece of trendy trash? Is there any serious scientific research behind this beyond "that one guy died sitting in the chair", "you will die sitting" and some random numbers with percent signs?
Rhubarb is a wonderful word. Rhubarb. Rhubarb rhubarb rhubarb.
xmpp is awesome.
She's a happy little 800 year old philanthropist.
>>928 I think the whole "sitting kills you" thing is bullshit designed to scare people. I'm being warned not to sit for a long time - great. So I can skip my necessary one-two hours of driving per day and having to sit for hours on end when I go back to school this fall, right? Not everybody lives in some fuck ass hippy town like Portland where every office has standing desks and ergonomic chairs or whatever.
Despite all that, I've worked at a spare old sloped standing desk with a high stool for a few weeks now. Nobody at work was using it, but I really like it. It's sort of a cheap version of an old 18th - 19th cen. drawing table. I need to find out the model so I can buy one for my apartment.
I'm wearing a digital Shrek 2 watch
>>933
I don't get it, do you enjoy standing or what? Do you believe in any health benefits from doing it? As for me, I'm still a firm believer in comfortable chairs.
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Sounds like breathing, doesn't it.
dwooooooo---dwoo-eeee-doo-doooo
(dummmmmmmmm---)
I'm going to attempt to make an image file that shows all the sjis/AA characters, their names, a brief description, and their origin. (2ch, Channel-4, SAoVQ)
The answer is definitely Lepidoptera. But what was the question?
>>945
If you honestly can't answer your own questions feel kinda bad for you
Not even that guy
There is no need to do anything.
There is no need to be here.
There is no need to live.
Finals are looming.
I know, I'll use the new HTML5 EME standards to blacklist anyone not running Inferno OS and implement it in major plugins and popular features.
The perfect music with which to enjoy the full moon.
KnJ is over, it's like a hole in my soul has appeared and a number of good friends have died.
Torta! Torta! Torta!
Tonight was apparently a "penumbral lunar eclipse", so I went out to see what I could see. A lesser man would be upset that the view of the moon was blocked by clouds, but I must say that the clouds were rather beautiful themselves.
I now know what I will do with my life.
According to the TV advert that phone has all the internet you'll ever need!
By the same company that I saw an advert on the side of a bus for, which described its phone as "designed for internetting"
>>958
How does your life purpose compare to that of http://4-ch.net/dqn/kareha.pl/1258346190/?
Perhaps it would've been better if I'd just stayed there until my lungs prolapsed out of my mouth.
I'm sorry
I am content.
Fuck consumption!
I'm at yoshinoya. The guy across from me at the U-shaped table (which is really more of a II shape) put a shit ton of ginger on his beef bowl. I think he might be a veteran.
No daddy! I don't wanna be a crystallographer!
>>968 but look how happy all these people are: https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=crystallographer&hl=en&tbm=isch
It's probably the single happiest job ever!
Good heavens, the thread's almost over.
Having just skimmed through it, this was definitely one of the better iterations of this thread. It was full of pleasant memories, silly posts and no ridiculous drama; much better than, for instance, #5, which I can't help but floccinaucinihilipilificate.
I just remembered this. There was this guy on an online game named Dohemio Zork and he told me that I could be Dohemio Zerg. I didn't really know what he meant, so I declined. Immediately, he got angry and left the game. A while later, out of curiosity, I Googled Dohemio Zork. All that came up was an Urban Dictionary entry made by Dohemio Zork. After that I Googled Dohemio Zerg, and the same thing appeared.
Holy shit, Inferno for the NDS.
Why would I want to have somebody else's thought printed on a t-shirt?
Why would I want to have somebody else's thought printed on a t-shirt?
It wasn't a proxy; I enjoyed it for its own sake. Now shut up.
If you don't have anything nice to say, say it in the most hilariously exaggerated form possible.
I'll do something productive today.
There's a hole in my finger.
There's a hole. In my finger.
Watercolours won't save me.
fuck me I hate myself why did I start playing WoW
EXAM SEASON SOON
I'M SO FUYCKED
p.s. captcha is rather appropriately "exeme"
I want to play a computer game involving cute girls in frilly dresses.
I've been feeling really weird since doing diphenhydramine a few days ago. I feel really emotionally flat but tense at the same time. My mind feels like a restless child thats been forced to sit down. Im also getting the weird sound amplification and things seem to have a dead, eerie quality. I keep spacing out.
Apparently its normal for these effects to linger for a while, but its still a piss-off.
There's something disturbing about the language of "getting" a boyfriend or girlfriend, as if they were a commodity. Japanese isn't much better with 彼女ができた。Like getting a significant other is an achievement in a game.
On the other hand, maybe this is just being honest. Life is one big game, and relationships are no different. It's human nature to compete for the best mate possible. Of course, love is complicated than that. I'm probably just overthinking it.
アイ ラブ ユー、 ディー キュー エン！
If someone if broken up by something you think it's odd to be broken up about, then there is probably a really really really good reason they are broken up about it.
I think I did good on my exam DQN!
>>995
Congratulations! I have my first exam out of fifteen this Thursday.
Doubleyous look like doublevees in this font.
Imagine the rage that would ensue if I got this GET.
I WANT TO PUT MY PENIS IN A DEAD GIRL
