>>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