>>7 I had to google the name but I knew what it was when I saw it, but the first hit on google is http://www.accessj.com/2010/11/ear-cleaning-horrible-truth-of-mimikaki.html so no I wouldn't try it, I'll stick to good old sucked-on cotton buds. But I learned something new from this...
>>9 Did you know they have a different kind of earwax in Japan?
>>8
I do now! Also, you shouldn't use cotton buds either. Sticking things in your ear is dangerous. You can't grow back your hearing! If earwax is really bothering you a drop of olive oil should clear it up.
>>10
What game should I get into to procrastinate and escape from my problems? The new Animal Crossing game seems perfect for this but I don't have a 3DS. Either that or something like minecraft but I'm sick of minecraft by now.
>>18
Rule of thumb is to eat foods with high fat count. Start with drinking milk or cream that have high fat percentage. Then go to Wendy's and order a baconator and a bacon and cheese potato.
Never in my life I felt so close to having a heart attack, when I ate those.
You should also cut down on physical activity. Change your plans, reschedule or abandon tasks that require you to go outside or do a lot of moving. Watch porn and silly movies to keep yourself busy without exercising too much of mental activity.
>>20
I have two options, to revise entire high school (which was years ago) math and computer science in less than three days or procrastinate until September and then take the exams. Which one do you think is the best?
>>19
The former, just review the important points you remember and don't waste time trying to learn stuff you completely forgot. Worst case scenario you fail and can try again in September, right?
>>10
Thank you for the suggestion! Unfortunately I don't have a PS3.
>>21
What game should I get into to procrastinate for PC or DS?
>>20
I spent a while typing this, but someone got there before me. I guess you're going to have this question answered for you three times.
If you're looking for something that's like Minecraft but not Minecraft, you could try Terraria. If you fancy a cathartic shooting spree, try Black Mesa (it's free!). I've heard generally good things about Path of Exile as well. Irisu Syndrome, which I mentioned in the previous thread, is rather nice and relaxing but probably not to everyone's taste. Alternatively, you could always read a visual novel.
>>21
Slightly over two years, I think. I lurked for at least a few weeks/months before I started posting, though.
>>23
What is your favourite and least favourite type of arthropod?
>>23
Thank you for reminding me of the awesome dream I had last night, in which I owned several cool pets and was very proud of them. I had two flying cats, a black dog, a giant chameleon and a rooster. I think I liked the giant chameleon best - he was a very cuddly guy.
>>25
Was there ever a time you were forced to be nice to someone when you absolutely did not want to? What happened?
>>24
No, but the reverse has happened to me. As a kid, my mom would try to get me to be social with others. Whoever was on a "play date" with me would have to be polite as possible, but I was just too hard to get along with. So the worst that happened was a day of uncomfortable silence, then they never had to do it again.
>>26
How can a male make himself look cute like Tomoko from Watamote? Just on weekends, though. I don't want to do hormone therapy or anything like that.
>>30
Three world maps:
I also have a tree of life poster, showing stages of evolution of various species.
>>31
Which direction does the water spin when you flush your toilet? If it doesn't go in any particular direction, please give more detail.
>>31
Good thing I was just about to go. The water doesn't spin at all; first, as you flush, there is a strong downward current. After water stops pouring in, the surface simply lowers without any kind of visible rotation.
>>33
If I were to sacrifice an animal to Buer, which species would most please Him (while being relatively easy to obtain)?
>>37
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=five+points+denver&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x876c7920631af47b:0x1f1568e15560aac6,Five+Points,+Denver,+CO&gl=us&ei=mob4UZq3F-KbygGF-oDIDw&ved=0CKQBELYDMA4
>>39
Would you consider making agepoyo a part of your everyday vocabulary?
No, that's disgusting.
>>51 In my early years at the academy I remember going on NanaOn-Sha's website a lot, just because it had a flash intro which played the bit from the start of Um Jammer Lammy, then later when I started playing guitar I spent most of my classes getting guitar tabs from ultimate-guitar.com. And I still got straight As because my teachers loved me.
>>53 From where you're sitting can you see anything made of wicker?
>>52
Yes; a small square basket full of magazines. This isn't my apartment though.
>>54
Supposing you are going to be told a particularly catastrophic piece of news, and you can choose the location where you are told, what sort of place would you choose? (If your answer is that it doesn't matter then let someone else respond).
>>54
Having thought about it for some time, I realised that I barely tell any lies at all. This is the last lie I can remember telling, but even this was several months ago.
An acquaintance who was living with us accidentally found a skirt and a pair of thigh high socks in my washing. I lied and said they were probably my sisters and had gotten mixed up in my washing somehow. I don't think she was particularly convinced, but at least it allowed us both to tactfully avoid the topic.
>>56
What is your favourite eight letter girl's name?
>>56
Books
Top shelf: Comic strips and manga (Mainly Calvin & Hobbes and only Sgt. Frog)
Second shelf: art & design
3rd: literature
4th: non-finction and strategy guides
Bottom: Japanese & misc. (covered by boxes)
all stacked symmetrically, smallest books in the middle and tallest at the ends
I put my records in order of favourites, so my cooler ones go further to the front and everyone in my room can see the coolest one. They're in boxes just now though.
>>58 Do you still have any CDs?
>>63
The game Rogue Legacy from Steam. As a masochist, I like my games fiendishly difficult and this fits the bill well. It has a good style of randomisation, making it a game of both skill and luck. The boss fights are rather nicely done as well.
>>65
What was the last item you purchased in real life?
>>67 I've tried a couple, mostly after seeing him diss them, but perhaps more notably I rented the Godzilla NES game and the Bugs Bunnys (both Crazy Castle and the other one) when I was a kid. I didn't "get" the Godzilla one, but the not-Crazy Castle Bugs Bunny one wasn't that bad as I recall.
>>69 Did you snicker at your number?
>>72 hmmm I bet a lot of people think my collection of children's toy keyboards is pretty lame... and lots of people hate the bagpipes... stylophone? Penny whistle? Recorder? I play lots of instruments but I don't know which ones would be considered lame. I know I don't think the ones I mentioned are!
>>74 What's the craziest twist of fate that's happened in your life?
>>73
It's not really a twist of fate, but still:
Right now my sister has some kind of boyfriend. I know that those two aren't up for some "mature" stuff but I'm still very bothered by it. Now you may ask yourself: How old are those two? My sister is 12 and he is 17. I know that she won't stop meeting him but I'll talk to her, as this is something I cannot and something I don't want to accept. Yet I don't know what to tell her. In the end she didn't do anything "wrong" in the sense of kissing etc. I'll just go with telling her that she has to be cautios. Better safe than sorry.
Oh, shit. I forgot the question
>>76 How did image and textboards change your internet life?
>>76
No, I'm not employed for about a year. I used to make websites for the Internet. Ironically, none of them went live for various reasons (mostly financial, but never because of the quality!)
I feel both relaxed and pitiful because of my unemployment.
>>78
What's a fun stuff I could do on my compy besides pointless browsing, gaming and watching movies?
>>77 Do something creative, like make some music or a comic or something. Or maybe pick up some tips from these guys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A81IwlDeV6c
>>79 When you click that link, does it start at 4.33 for you or is that a cookie or something on my end that knows which point I closed the window at?
>>82
A classmate who was a drug abuser and also had some mental issue that he was on meds for but didn't always take (I think he was schizo, but can't swear on it.) He used to tell me some quite interesting things of dubious veracity, like the time he had a catheter jammed up his dick by a sexy nurse, or the time he told a voice controlled computer to "jerk me" and was given the response "Not authorized to do that." I also have a fond memory of the time he brought Ravage DCX (an obscure rail shooter) into school and we played it, much to the teachers' disapproval.
>>84
Do you have a video game that you remember fondly more for the situation you played it in than for the game itself? Which one and why?
>>83
Yes, in fact there are too many to choose from...some of them nostalgic, some of them romantic, but I'll choose the sexy one. I was playing the flash game shift (it might have been shift 2) when my girlfriend unexpectedly started giving me head under the table, uncharacteristically bold of her. The game itself was not that great but the blow job was amazing...
>>85
Have you ever done sexual things with somebody else while playing a video game?
>>90 Yeah totally **EDIT just before I hit post I noticed you said Antarctica and not America hmmm maybe, if I had comfortable accommodation I would go for a little while
>>92 What colour socks are you wearing?
I ask because I was just talking about my socks to someone else, but I just noticed my captcha is socking nice
>>94
In my youth I made an absolute fucktonne of custom maps for Roller Coaster Tycoon 2, Starcraft and Warcraft III. In each case I probably spent more time in the level editor than in the game itself. I've never tried creating mods, but only because I've never really had any good ideas for them.
>>96
Have you ever written poetry? If so, was it any good?
>>95
Yes I have.
>If so, was it any good?
YOU BE THE JUDGE!! http://dis.4chan.org/read/vip/1373228964/1
>>97
How many times do you fap per day?
>>98
I have a beautiful shiny LG Optimus G. Its colourful screen brightens up my nights!
I mostly use it for browsing "on the go", chatting, reading news and taking pictures. I don't call anyone and rarely receive calls because I'm such a shut-in. But I might install a BOINC client for WCG in hopes of quietly making the world a better place.
See, a stupid old brick would be completely useless for me, and I don't miss its battery life, because there is always an USB port nearby.
>>100
Speaking of not-so-smart phones, may I interest you in Nokia 515?
>>104 http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ohjayjay
>>106 From where in my fridge is coming that horrible stench?
>>106
Hmmm, offhand, probably pissing my older brother off because I beat Super Mario Bros. 3 before he did (for a certain definition of "beat"... I defeated Bowser but I did warp whistle past a lot of the really tough levels.)
>>108
So were you on Team Mario or Team Sonic back in the Nintendo-Sega console war days? (Leave it to someone else if this was before your time.)
>>110
1: Clonepa
2: Mittens and mitten related topics.
3: Recurring themes in the DQN Short Novel (e.g. the universe exploding)
4: There's only six of us, and we're all called Andrew
5: Eternal September
And good on you for calling them in-jokes, rather than what most people on the wider internet would call them.
>>112
What is your opinion on the game Dwarf Fortress?
>>120 Well, growing up I had problems with depression and looked forward to, sometimes even wishing for, a quick death. I never made a serious attempt on my life but I stopped checking both ways before crossing the road, cut myself for pleasure, put bags on my head, took on harmful habits and things. I never planned on living very long so I did my best not to waste time making plans for the future. But, things got much better, and without much effort I just fell into a happy comfortable existence - a nice place to live, much less to worry about, and someone who makes me very happy. So I now I kinda regret not thinking of the future, but how could I have known this would happen? It took a recent psychedelic experience to really see myself though, I thought I died and was in hell, and I felt so sad and wish I had never worried my loved ones so much that I might have killed myself and stuff. Now I want to live a good life and make the most of the time I have, but I'm not scared of dying.
>>122 What is the best kind of nut?
>>121
Pistachio.
>>123
What's the source of this sound effect?
http://picosong.com/ymQv/
If you can't find it (I've been looking for it for hours) then what do you think about this sound?
>>125 I still regularly play pre-2001 football games, like FIFA 96-2001, the old Adidas Power Soccers and Actua Soccers and stuff. Three Lions is still one of my favourite games, same with European Club Soccer, an old MegaDrive game. Maybe it's partly nostalgia but I found that each football game has its own exploitable things, places you can shoot from and always score or funny little tricks and stuff, that make them more fun. I used to write up fixture lists on paper, and play home and away games against every other team in the game as my favourite team, and write down the scores. I did this with FIFA 98, 99, Three Lions, European Club Soccer, Adidas Power Soccer International '97. Go Rangers!
>>127 What was your first games console?
>>131 Yes, with my first band I used to write out the music I came up with and show my band, but I much prefer jamming with people and seeing what happens, recording everything and working further with good bits. I have released 33 albums and EPs and such, with a bunch more stuff I made with old bands that I loved, but never got recorded, so they just disappear into the ether.
>>133 Do you ever think of all the bands and singers there's ever been, all the songs they've written and played but never recorded, which are now gone never to be heard again?
>132
Sometimes. Also of the fact that no matter how long I live, I'll never find all the music that I would've loved if I'd just heard it. I try not to think about it too much.
>134
How does one go about asking for a favor? Especially if it's quite a big one?
>>133
If you have time to spare, do something nice for them a day or so in advance. Then think of something else you can do for them in return so you'll have leverage. Greet them with brief small talk but don't beat around the bush or pretend to be overly interested in their life. People can detect bullshit. Get straight to the point and say, "Hey, I have a big favor to ask you." And say what it is without sugar coating, although you can try to make it sound good.
If they seem hesitant, tell them they can think about it and answer later. If they answer no, offer to do something for them in return. If it's still no, accept graciously (unless somebody's life depends on it.)
>>135
What's the biggest favor you've ever asked somebody? How did it go?
>>137 I don't have a car, I've had 4 but I never passed my test. I liked to tinker on them so maybe I would be diligent in my servicing, who knows.
>>139 There are some people I am acquainted with though not necessarily friends with inviting people to a bar they are playing at, should I go by myself and risk hanging around like a spare part, or just stay in and play games?
>>145 Hmmm no, but I once phoned a sex chat line when I was a teenager. It used up all my credit, because she (in the recorded message) spent the first five minutes talking about the office she worked in and stuff, unnecessary fluff before any mention of sexual things.
>>147 What is your favourite size of battery?
Download a bunch of freeware variable detectors and run them.
>>149 It was nicer this morning than it's been the past few days, but it is quite wet and dreary now. I think it's just stopped raining. The big trees outside my window, they glittered beautifully in the summer breeze, but they are kinda threadbare and sad-looking now.
>>151 What are you having for tea tonight?
>>154 https://shanachan.org/w/src/1382728021014.jpg it is as if someone knew my girl and drew an anime version of her. And now she is gone.
>>156 Have you ever had your heart broken?
>>163
I think it was the one where I almost got beat up for throwing my cup of water at the guy who was smoking a cigar. A childhood's worth of beatings from my parents made me a fast runner and resourceful hider, so I managed to escape from an irate smoker in a suit only to face the wrath of mum & dad later on.
>>165
Did you ever get away clean from doing an "evil" deed?
>>165
http://4-ch.net/dqn/kareha.pl/1383641651/
>>167
What's your favorite way to kill time?
They're upside-down, but other than that they're cool.
durrrrr I am dumb and forgot to finish that post
>>170 Do you have any friends who are moderately famous?
>>176
Yes, and no, Inhumanoids isn't that special to me to get upset over and in retrospect I suppose it was silly to think anyone on DQN might look it up if they didn't already know it. It was just interesting, and something I had a childhood experience with (namely turning on the TV right as D. Compose was decomposing someone, and having the fuck scared out of me.) When I was reintroduced to it in adulthood (from James Rolfe mentioning it in a video IIRC) I thought it was fairly cool.
>>178
Which 80s cartoon would you rather watch?
>>178 In a pathetic attempt to document the ever-changing and thoroughly abstract concept of dissected pokémon, I've only solidified my sense of self-disappointment and discovered the rotting corpse of my insecurities.
>>180 How do you feel when you are talking to someone, and they say something politically incorrect about a certain group of people - unrelated to your own race/creed/sexuality/etc. but might be offensive if it was directed at someone from that group?
>>179 I read your question and then saw the captcha nige. Oh, the irony. But anyway, I feel a little uncomfortable when people use ethnic slurs. I suppose because I'm not very privileged that I see attacks on other less privileged groups as a threat. But "politically correct" language is almost as bad.
>>181 Is Nyquil abuse a good solution to all of my problems?
>>183
When I first read the question I thought I'd have lots of answers, but actually the only one I can think of is Hyperbole and a Half which is now only updating once every few months. The quality hasn't decreased at all in my opinion (quite the opposite) but the lack of quantity is a great shame.
>>185
When the current DQN Short Novel thread ends, should we create a part four?
>>185
Well I can't say I know much about either, but in my younger years I did listen to a lot of folk/power metal. I really liked Turisas (which I'm guessing is Viking metal) but when Alestorm came around I very unashamedly loved the pirate sound and aesthetic, so I'm going to have to go for pirate metal.
>>187
Who are your favourite jazz artists?
>>187 I was working back shift so I took a supermarket-prepared tomato pasta salad, and mixed it with a tub of coronation chicken sandwich spread. A colleague brought in some home baking and I had one of her chocolate muffins too which was lovely but I ate too much.
>>189 When did you last feel your heart breaking?
>>192
My only real contact with orcs comes from playing Warcraft III, wherein they were okay, but not as much fun as the undead or night elves in my opinion. I did like the way a certain upgrade caused all their buildings to suddenly sprout massive spikes, though.
>>194
How can I convince a cute girl to start calling me onii-chan?
>>193
0. The easiest way is to make it your nickname. Most people are willing to comply with nicknames even if they don't know what they mean. Failing that,
1a. Find a cute girl that's Japanese and a little younger than you.
1b. Find somebody who's a Japanophile, it will make your job easier.
1c. Find a cute girl.
2. Become friends. How exactly you become friends is beyond the scope of my advice.
3a. Just ask her to call you onii-chan. It's fairly common in Japan, so she won't think it's weird. Done.
3b. Become closer friends before asking. It might be a bit awkward but she will understand.
3c. You will probably have to make her your girlfriend before she'll comply with such a request, unless you can pass it off as your nickname (see step 0.)
4. If all these fail, change your name to Oniichan.
5. If she still won't call you onii-chan, tie her to a chair and whip her until she does.
>>195
Why do you visit /dqn/?
>>197
In general, you should move. Staying active keeps the mind and body fresh. If you're talking about a big permanent move though, make a pros and cons list, consult trusted friends and family, and research the place you're considering moving before making a choice.
>>199
Why does my wireless mouse click still work even though the cursor stopped responding?
>>200 I know it as Peanuts http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercy_(game)
>>202 Which is the best Tony Hawk game?
>>203
Without quotes, it's a low resolution profile shot of a photocopier/printer against a white background. With quotes, it's a fairly simple looking blue (I think? I'm colourblind; could be purple) PCB. That reminds me, my brother's the first result if you google "general disapproval of the pope".
>>205
Do you believe there is any prejudice in modern society against asexual people?
>>204 I think so yes, the common person can't seem to comprehend if someone just isn't interested in sex. For example for like 30 years Morrissey always said he wasn't interested in sex, and then that's all he ever gets asked about in interviews.
>>206 Can you appreciate an artist's work even if you think they're a dick themselves?
>>209 It seems like an extremely dangerous thing to do. What happens when millions of people are brought back to life simultaneously? Also, there are so many people who died that should stay dead. What prevents necromancers from raising such people?
>>211 Should people be required to have a permit before they can have a baby?
>>239
Frankly I'm so inept at anything musical, I'd probably have trouble knowing which way up to hold a guitar.
>>238
I know you didn't ask me, but golly gosh I love calculus! Differentiation, integration, multivariable, vector, ODEs, PDEs, fluid dynamics, chaos, I love them all! My life would be so much more dull without calculus.
>>241
What skill/talent/esoteric area of knowledge are you particularly proud to possess?
>>241
When I was clinically depressed, my therapist gave me pills and a book. The pills helped, the book didn't. I also taught myself cognitive behavioural therapy which helped me make a full recovery until I didn't need the pills anymore.
These days, when I'm undergoing lesser bouts of depression, I exercise, make music, cook, marathon watch TV or other things I enjoy that are distracting until I feel better.
Also, don't feel bad about the programming thing, I'm in the same boat.
>>243
How many sexual partners have you had?
>>244
Text boards are better, obviously, since they prioritize content over social status. Anonymity is one of the internet's greatest strengths, trying to put identity back into the internet is going backwards.
That said, the members of a community are much more important than the medium they use to communicate. Normal forums can be better than text boards if they have a small community that shares a specific interest.
>>246
Does the internet make you lonely?
>>246 I don't know buddy, once you've realised that humans in general are pretty shitty it's pretty hard to ignore. Maybe make music or art to put the bitterness into a physical expression, go out and meet people and you might meet someone who thinks the same that you could get along with. Does it affect your opinion to know that strangers like me care about you and want you to be happy?
>>248 Does it affect your opinion to know that strangers like me care about you and want you to be happy?
>>251
I'm a big fan of reading books. I mean the physical type, made of paper, and often written many decades ago. I'm still amazed at how most people never read more than they absolutely have to.
I also like enka, which, I've been told by a genuine nihonjin, only old people listen to.
>>253
How many pictures of yourself would you estimate there to be on the internet?
>>253
Failed autoerotic asphyxiation strikes me as simultaneously (fairly) slow, painful, inelegant, meaningless, pathetic and embarrassing. On the other hand, it is - apparently - sexually pleasurable.
>>255
If you were given a choice between differential equations and biochemistry, with no context whatsoever, which would you choose?
>>254
I'd choose differential equations. Despite its difficulty, math at that level is one of the most beautiful things I can think of. Biochemistry is certainly not without merit, though. If you're choosing classes for college, it really depends on your major, but I'd still choose diff eq personally (as my chosen major has little to do with biology and lots to do with math).
>>256
Who are some of your heroes, and why are they your heroes?
>>255
There's various people I admire for various reasons, but I can't think of many I'd describe as heroes. Well, perhaps one. Long story incoming.
My middle name is István, which is named after my grandfather who lived in Hungary when it was under Soviet occupation. Occasionally, what they'd do is simply close off a street at both ends, let all the women and children out, and send all the able-bodied men to Siberia to work in the coal mines. Not because the people had done anything wrong; just because they needed more labour and, of course, everyone should be grateful to support the motherland and so on. Anyway, that's what happened to poor István. He ended up working in the coal mines for four years, in absolutely appalling conditions. The workers were fed pea soup for every meal for months on end, and had to work in the mines (>30°C) whereas above ground it was >-20°C. The sudden change in temperature caused quite a number to die of hypothermia/pneumonia/goodness knows what. Most amazing, however, is the fact that at one point he was the only one in his work camp of ~40 people who didn't die of an outbreak of typhoid. He managed to learn enough Russian to be able to speak to and get along with the guards, and, after four years was released back to Hungary. There, he got married, had a few children, and then went and died before I was born. I never even met the guy.
He didn't do anything that amazing; he didn't change the world, or help anyone else particularly, but I respect him for being able to put up with such horrendous treatment and come out on top. I doubt I'd be able to deal with what he went through.
>>257
Do you have any particularly interesting relatives?
>>256
My grandfather.
When his kids' Catholic schools sent home warnings about the Satanic Drug-Fueled Rocking And / Or Rolling Music, his reaction was to open charge accounts for my father and aunt at three local music stores.
Upon hearing that an ex-squadmate of his in the Marines (WWII, Pacific Theater) was having trouble, after the war, getting a home loan, he dragged the guy into his bank and barged into the manager's office, demanding that the bank give the guy a loan, with my grandfather as cosigner. They did, despite having turned the guy down twice previously, because "Poor Credit Risk" was, back then and back there, code for "We Don't Lend Money to No Nigras".
Despite having served when/where he did, he harbored absolutely no ill will toward the Japanese. As opposed to, e.g., Robert Heinlein, whose racial attitudes could perhaps be summed up as "Hating Negroes is Stupid; Hate the Filthy Nips Instead!". When my father gave me a copy of "The Master of Go" for my 9th birthday, my grandfather remarked that one of his greatest regrets was that he "wasn't exactly in the mood to sightsee after the war".
["The Master of Go" is a thinly-fictionalized account of the famous game between Honinbō Shūsai and Kitani Minoru, and is a great book even if you do not know go, as I certainly did not when I was 9.]
He did a lot of work toward cleaning up politics in his state, at a time when it was an open secret that the Mafia ran things.
When a friend said that there was a local "go to the bar get drunk as hell pick fights that turn into feuds" idiot gunning for him, and asked my grandfather for advice, my grandfather said "hit him first and don't stop". Later, his friend told him "Thanks. It worked."
When I screwed up and quite severely offended him and my grandmother, he neither blew off my apology (as did my grandmother) nor rubbed it in and tried for years to make me feel like shit (as does my father).
He was the only person in the family unfazed by my daughter being black, my cousin marrying a Latina or my sister being gay.
He gave me my eye color and my sense of humor.
I miss him. A lot.
>>258
C̶a̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶h̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶m̶e̶ ̶a̶ ̶t̶i̶s̶s̶u̶e̶?̶ How can I convince people that everday use of cryptography is no longer the realm of the tinfoil brigade, but rather a Damned Good Idea? This whole Snowden thing hasn't done it.
>>257
The last sentence of your answer made me tear up a bit...
Anyway, that's a pretty loaded question. It's pretty damn hard to convince people of anything they don't care about. People tend to react only when they can see how things directly affect them. Until there's a specific example or two about an average person with a lot of media coverage, people just won't care that much. The second barrier is that using everyday cryptography is daunting for the average user. If you have the means to make the technology to use cryptography easier to use or understand, do it!
>>259
Have you ever had an embarrassing e-mail/website history/search term found by somebody else? If not, what's the worst thing you can imagine somebody finding?
>>267
"Restoring" when I'm in one of my good moods, otherwise too lazy. I was very angry when I found out what it meant, but now I barely think about it. If you care to hear my two cents, scientific studies seem to go back and forth about some potential benefit or harm, so all things being equal it's needless surgery on an infant, which makes complications possible, so it's wrong.
>>269
There are many posts by depressed people discussing their depression to be found online. When I type one up, I realize it sounds the same as everything else I've read or just bitchier. Can you make a post about your own depression, real or otherwise, that will make me wildly sympathetic? I want to think that yours is a unique, beautiful depression that is nevertheless relatable.
>>268 No but I could let you hear a song that I think sums up day-to-day depression better than most songs about being depressed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxs3hG6qVSs it's quite funny. I have made posts about being depressed on the internet before and someone called me "edgy" and it sapped me for weeks
>>270 What do you think of the song I posted?
>>274
Fill your house with butterflies and promise yourself to take care of them all.
>>276
Is there anything interesting to listen to: http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/?
>>277
On the rare occasion I actually like the music of an idol group, it's thanks to the production, not the actual singers. The only other thing idol groups have going for them is their looks and personality, but I find their personalities vapid. Although idols are sexy, I don't like how they exploit idealized standards of beauty for marketing. I'm more attracted to girls that are within my reach and not trying to sell me something.
That said, I like Perfume.
>>279
What's worrying you recently?
>>287
People hate Facebook (while continuing to begrudgingly use it) and this gives them an excuse to hate on it even more. And they might have somewhat of a point, even if custom firmwares are released, the average ignorant consumer might end up blindly agreeing to give up their privacy in exchange for access to cheap virtual worlds.
>>289
If you could live in an extremely realistic virtual reality with no consequences, how much time would you spend in it?
>>288
That depends on how enjoyable the virtual reality is compared to this one is (which I assume it is or there'd be no point asking that question.)
If that assumption holds, 24/7/365 excluding the time taken to exercise and excrete every day. Stupid inefficient meatspace body.
>>290
What would your last meal be?
>>294
That depends on what kind of society it is: a society of robots would thrive on communism whereas a society of humans would not.
For our current situation I think social capitalism (with complete government transparency and zero corruption) would be preferable, if not achievable.
>>296
Suppose you have $500 million but can only use it to erect one building. What would you build?
>>298
In terms of music history, important developments tend to form around a group of composers, making it difficult to pinpoint a single piece. In terms of affecting lives and larger political structures, it's also hard to say. Who knows how many soldiers have ended up killing more people because they were swayed by various pieces of propaganda music? Then there are revolutionary songs, like the opera "La muette de Portici", which helped start the Belgian Revolution.
That said, the most important song I can think of is "El pueblo unido jamás será vencido," the anthem of Chilean's socialist movement. The song has been used and translated by Portuguese revolutionaries, Iranian revolutionaries, Filipino revolutionaries, Argentinian revolutionaries and used in Tunisian protests, as well as other various campaigns.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_pueblo_unido_jam%C3%A1s_ser%C3%A1_vencido
It's a pretty catchy tune. Check out Frederic Rzewski's version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k40HVQJZYLM
>>300
On average, how much water do you drink per day, and how often do you pee?
>>305 If it was right this second, it would be quite humiliating as my trousers are around my ankles. I am not an organ donor I don't think. I have planned my funeral and I've told my mother one of the songs I want played at my funeral, but as a whole it's not the kind of thing to bring up easily in conversation. My body would be found in the morning. I wonder what would happen to my dear computer, there's quite a bit of dubious material that could be misconstrued I bet. I got it from my stepdad after he died and there were some cute webcam photos he'd taken trying out things with his hair, I dread to think mine would be found like that...
>>307 Do you want to be buried, or cremated, or something else?
>>308 Maybe being a butterfly would mean not having all these excruciating human worries, and a butterfly's fantasy would be through an optimistic lens ignorant of the pain that comes with humanity, but then I guess butterflies must have a whole selection of their own problems and hopes and fears. Fuck it, I want to be a butterfly.
>>310 If I became a butterfly but with my current consciousness, I could carry out all these secret schemes I have and no one would be any the wiser - who could possibly suspect the butterfly?
>>310
Never heard of it. Let's ask Wikipedia:
> Players are also able to collect monsters to be featured in an encyclopedia which is done through beating the monster on its head with a book until its profile shows up in the encyclopedia's pages.
Yes, I do like it.
>>312
Which should I get: The Stanley Parable or Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth?
>>312
No, because pens are too small and cheap an item for me to bother using a specialty store. If I ever run out of pens I just get the cheapest one at a random store the next time I'm out shopping. But if I were the type to buy pens online, I would probably not buy one from penisland.net, because it looks suspicious as hell (URL is only one part of this.)
>>314
Which should I get: PS3, XBOX360, or a gaming PC?
>>313
Depends on what you're looking for. For your inner weeaboo faggot who loves JRPGs, as I do, PS3 is your best bet, so that's what I got. If you're more of a CoD type, I guess XBox might be better. A gaming PC would be way more expensive than either of the other choices, so if you can afford that then you can afford all three.
>>315
Should I take a wife just to make my family happy, or should I live my own life and crush my parents' wishes of having grandchildren?
>>321
Yes, in fact. I had an Amiga 1000. My favorite moment was managing to launch two programs at the same time off one floppy disk and listening to the disk head lurch back and forth trying to load them both at the same time.
I found it much easier to get shit done on an Atari STe, though.
>>323
Are you busy?
>>326
Alas, some cruel force of nature has left me woefully imouto-less. Perhaps it is karma for some atrocity committed in a past life. If, however, I were blessed with a younger sister, I would hope to be such a fine, upstanding older brother to her that I wouldn't even need to ask for her to refer to me with such affection. On the off chance that my beloved imouto wasn't familiar with the terminology, I wouldn't hesitate to politely request that she call me Onii-chan.
>>328
What is the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the word "chaos"?
>>327
Probably the Star of Chaos.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbol_of_Chaos
>>379
Did you ever play Warhammer? (Either 40k or the fantasy version)
>>330
Assuming you mean anonymous textboards like this one, I think they are great! The lack of identity removes a lot of problems with ego and drama. And compared to anonymous image boards, I find them more interesting...maybe because outside of kopipe, all the content has to be original. Plus all the text scares away people who just want to be lazy and look at pictures.
That said, I think DQN is good not because it's a textboard, but because it's a small community of people in a fairly similar demographic. It doesn't really matter if it's a textboard, imageboard, phpBB, USENET group, mailing list, local cafe, the youtube comments of a deer video, a secret society underneath the abandoned mansion's basement, or an obscure IRC chatroom....having a solid user base is more important than the medium itself.
>>332
Do you think dance music can be enjoyed without dancing?
>>331
Yes, I do. I do so every day, actually.
>333
Are you interested in cults at all? If so, what do you find interesting about them?
>>338 as one kind dokyun very nicely informed me elsewhere, cilantro is not a spice but an herb. He's right, but he can still go fuck himself (maybe with a food item such as a cucumber? It's up to you, really.)
So please ignore my question and make a new one.
>>342
Four: one pair of general use brown shoes, badly worn; one pair of trainers, barely used; one pair of walking boots, well used but still in good condition, and one pair of brand new black boots I bought earlier today to replace my worn out brown ones.
>>344
What is your favourite piece of music that is less than three minutes long?
>>356
This is often brought up in the argument against utilitarianism, and I feel it's important to take into account the feelings of the voyeur(s). While there is no direct suffering inflicted upon the voyeuree, the voyeur(s) after seeing how easy it is to spy are left with a sense of paranoia that they themselves are being watched so I don't think it's possible to phrase this situation to have zero suffering.
On the other hand often times this argument is specifically phrased as "producing zero suffering" in which case the premise has already (likely falsely but none the less) tautologically stated that it's ethical so of course it's ethical.
>>358
Ethics aside, if it was right there in front of you would you take a peek?
>>365 When a girl's cuteness makes you feel all melty, and you just want to keep her in your pocket safe and warm forever. (I guess maybe a boy could be moé too, but I haven't really thought about it). What you have to remember though, is that she's a person with thoughts and feelings and hopes and dreams and aspirations; be careful not to stifle her with your selfish love.
>>367 How long has it been since fortune shone her brightest on you?
>>371 Born, just another kind of preference. Now at what time do you discover or accept it, that's another thing. Gay people are something you never see as a kid and when you do discover it the consensus by society is that they're disgusting, so you're kinda conditioned against it since young. That makes it hard for some people to accept they're gay until later on, and try "compensating" for it meanwhile.
>>373 Would you rather die in a fire or drowning?
>>378
Make her a dildo molded after your dick, like in this comic: http://sexylosers.com/125.html
>>380
Which was better, Sexy Losers or Ghastly's Ghastly Comic?
>>381
I sat next to a guy on an airplane once who ran a small record label. He was a professional jazz drummer and apparently a big deal in the scene where he lived. His name was Stix Hooper. I remember that he was really chill and also that he kept ordering screwdrivers. According to Wikipedia:
"Among the numerous acknowledgements and accolades Stix has garnered are 12 Grammy nominations, No. 1 awards from various music media, named one of the top drummers/musicians by Downbeat, Playboy Magazine and other publications, received an invitation to the White House, keys to major US cities and several international honors."
>>383
If someone gave you $2055 to spend on yourself with the requirement that you make exactly two purchases you would not normally make, what would be your second purchase?
>>382
A computer worth $2000. First purchase was a pack of vitamins, I don't buy that shit ever. As for the computer, how often you spend $2000 on a single computer? It's so abnormal, my credit card company would probably phone me about the unusual purchase, if my credit limit was that big in the first place, anyway.
>>384
Do you have a credit card? How many boxes of pop tarts would you be able to buy before maxing it? If you don't then you can calculate the number of boxes based on an approximation of how much money your parents have spent on you since you were 10.
>>386
i have everything in raid 1 so i don't feel it's pressing, but i haven't. i totally haven't backed up my laptop in ages.
>>388
compute the remainder when 5^55555 is divided by 7 (and the quotient too, if you wish). If you feel like it, also compute the remainder when 5^(5^(5^(5^5))) is divided by seven.
>>387
Be careful, RAID is not a backup solution! If you're still not convinced, read this on why you should backup:
http://www.jwz.org/doc/backups.html
>>388
The main character from "Even Hitler Had a Girlfriend."
>>390
If you could only eat one particular meal for lunch every day for the rest of your life, what would you choose?
>>395
They say "Sennheiser" on the top; that's all I know. They were a gift from my brother and have served me well for many years.
>>397
Why is http://4-ch.net/dqn/kareha.pl/1219029726/ closed?
>>398
24-hour, definitely. It eliminates ambiguity and makes calculating time usage and distance across noon more intuitive.
>>400
How should I cure or at least temper my Internet addiction without going off the Internet completely? I use it for valid things, but I also waste too much time on unnecessary stuff like combing eBay for things way out of my current budget. I also have a bad habit of refreshing forums compulsively when waiting for replies.
>>409
Wow, I have no idea. Probably the last time I went to a family restaurant, but I have no idea when that was either. They always have a tin of cheap crayons and disposable placemats with cereal box-esque puzzles on them at that kind of place, you know what I mean?
>>411
In the folk tune John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt, for the second, shouted reiteration of his (your?) name, just before the da's, is it better to sing "Jacob" with a rhythm of straight eighths or a dotted eighth and sixteenth? How do the Germans do it?
And while we're on the subject, how do you feel about syncopating "his name is" so that "name" is off the beat?
also, and I know this is really pushing it, but are "name" and "too" supposed to be a half-step or a full step apart?
>>410
I don't know how the Germans do it, but it's not really a German song anyway. Given that it's a folk song of unknown origin, there's no way that it's supposed to be. Sing it however you want. Make up your own variations.
In my personal opinion, dotted rhythm is much better, same goes for syncopating "his name." A syncopated rhythm gives the song more energy and fits the song's joyfully silly nature.
In terms of a major scale numbered 1 to 7, the first "name" is on 4, the second "name" is on 2, and "too" is on 3. So, "too" is a half-step apart from the first "name" and a whole step apart from the second "name." However, some people might sharpen the second "name" to give it more pull toward the resolution, which is perfectly acceptable. In this case it would be a half-step apart. Do what suits you.
>>412
How often do you use drinking straws?
>>414 Yes, when I was a kid. Nowadays it'd be alright but I can imagine myself just staying inside playing my crappy videogames while people judge me for not training my pokémon like a normal person.
>>416 You are able to make anything you want socially acceptable, but just one thing. What would it be?
>>417
Fluid dynamics is a strange and terrifying place. Some knowledge is not meant for us mere mortals.
>>419
Due to being half-nocturnal, I usually end up having meals around midday, evening, and in the middle of the night. The first two are clearly lunch and dinner, but what am I supposed to call the last one?
>>421
Power-Man, of course. https://imgur.com/H5pyVBv
>>423
How long more do you think we have until war breaks out in the Asia-Pacific region?
>>426
Well just tonight my roommate threw and ice cube into hot oil causing it to smoke and splash everywhere. With that, my friend and our guests had to grab fabric items and wave them in front of the smoke detector. While this was happening, my roommate thought it was a good idea to just spill all the oil on the kitchen floor which I almost slipped on when returning a towel. Then the girls living downstairs below us got mad at the noise. I began telling them what happened and they immediately felt sympathetic and apologized to us. We all sat around for a couple hours chit chatting about really strange shit while my roommate clumsily cleaned up. I didn't even get to make a cup of tea.
There was this other time where me and a friend independently saw and heard a bird in my room. I didn't say anything then because I thought it was just me, but he later brought up that he saw and heard a bird in the same location as I did.
>>428
Do you enjoy train rides?
>>427
Yes, absolutely! I love watching the scenery pass by out the window, and I've always found it a much more civilised way to travel than flying or driving. The best train journey I've been on was a twelve hour trip from Italy to Hungary, via Austria. Lots of scenic mountains and picturesque vineyards and so on.
>>429
On a similar note, do you enjoy plane journeys?
>>432
People who would "deserve" violent premature death for the sake of humanity fall into at least one of three categories, as I see it:
• People whose atrocities were bad enough to change history reactively for the better (i.e. Hitler). Generally speaking, these people should be left completely alone because they catalyzed important positive developments for humanity equal to or greater than their atrocities. Even in the best-case scenario where the developments we can identify would have happened anyway, these people were pivotal enough that changing their lives could cause very significant and unpredictable changes to history as we know it. How lucky do you feel?
• People who simply happened to be "in charge" of a larger organization and whose death would most likely result in someone else seizing power and continuing the same thing (i.e. anyone in the Kim Dynasty) because the culture clearly supported it. I would classify assassins of major figures here too, even if they weren't leaders, because their roles would probably just be filled by someone else if they weren't there. Which is to say, these people are more an artifact/symptom of a larger systemic problem―though in carefully and strategically considered cases some of their deaths may be the wisest choices.
• People who acted largely or wholly on their own and whose atrocities were more or less insignificant in the grand scheme of things (i.e. any of many serial killers). For instance, I wouldn't argue against killing Ted Bundy, but realistically a few dozen murders don't matter in a world of billions.
I'm not ready to choose a victim; I'd prefer to take knowledge back than death. Or make a backup of the contents of the Library of Alexandria, or something along those lines.
>>434
If you didn't have to worry about affording bills, food, or healthcare, what would your ideal lifestyle consist of?
>>433 While I did quite like my NEET period, I would like a job that makes me happy, a creative job, something that wouldn't make me feel I'd wasted all those years studying and working hard at school and university. It would be a fulfilling job but I'd still have time for my hobbies and stuff.
>>435 Would you rather have terrifying paranoid delusions or excruciating heartache for lost love?
>>442
A little bit of both. My last birthday came and went without any fanfare, but I did get a little money from my family and I made a point of treating myself to whatever I wanted on that day. However, I also experienced moments of vague existential dread. I'm already 24 and I haven't accomplished anything! I think I'll get progressively more depressed about my birthday every year until around 30, when I will learn to stop caring about my failed dreams and just use my birthday as an excuse to binge.
>>444
What's your favorite user interface?
>>444
Oh, gosh, there are so many to choose from. Anything smug and unconfigurable, so the obvious choice for recent times is Gnome 3. However, for personal hatred I have to choose the GUI interface to Rational's ClearCase. Using it is like walking through a museum of terrible interface choices from various decades and paradigms.
>>446
What is an experience that you've had that everyone else on the planet should undergo?
>>451
Well, I've figured out an okay way of tracking focus in a user interface, so now I just have to shove that in and add some more widgets, and then I can carry on with the music part of this music program.
>>453
Do I bother trying to write an iOS version? All the cool musicians use Apple products and like paying a lot for software.
>>458
Taken as a whole, staying much the same. In some countries, living conditions are getting worse because of overpopulation, disease, famine, war, exploitation and so on. But this has always happened. There is less slavery but just as much suffering. In other countries, the quality of life is improving, but this has led to more existential and mental suffering. There are happy people in poor countries and unhappy people in rich countries. There is nothing new under the sun.
>>460
What's your favourite candy?
>>463
Going with the wikipedia definition of natural cause (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_by_natural_causes), and judging by the WHO projections of mortality (http://www.who.int/healthinfo/global_burden_disease/projections/en/), I'd say about 93%.
>>465
If you could choose how you died, what would you choose?
>>493
A few years back I got an original Xbox at a rummage sale and it had maybe a dozen games with it. I didn't play any of the sports ones, and I probably never will. I don't remember how many games exactly, but I think everything else I've owned in the past I've at least tried. So let's say 4-5.
>>495
Which pizza topping is your favorite?
>>506
I used to. E flat horn, motherfuckers! I also understand keyboard, but not enough to really actually play. I'm more of a composer now though, but I still remember how to finger Star Wars.
>>508
What does one do about the threshold in the number of figures owned where your bedroom suddenly turns into an Akiba 2nd hand shop? And what the hell happened to >>500's answer?
>>507
You could try spreading them out across multiple rooms, or make them blend in better by placing them each inside tastefully arranged little dioramas.
The response to >>500 fell through the cracks of reality, far beyond the limits of our humble understanding.
>>509
How do you feel about Lovecraft's work, and fiction in that style generally?
>>509
Unfortunately, everywhere that I've lived so far has had extremely bad light pollution, so I haven't had much of a chance. On the few occasions that I've been stargazing somewhere where I can actually see anything, I've rather enjoyed it, especially things like watching meteor showers or seeing the ISS pass overhead. I don't know the first thing about recognising constellations or such, though.
>>511
When was the last time you went to a protest/demonstration/public march, and what was it in aid of?
>>513 By then, we will have all attained true immortality without sacrificing our humanity and also we will have embraced anarcho-hedonism. Society will looks something like a mass collection of sex and violence, where pain and pleasure are one and have consumed the planet.
>>515 Do you accept "dice" as an acceptable singular, or do you prefer "dice" remain plural only while "die" functions as the singular form?
>>519
I think you should think very carefully about what would be in the best interests of everyone involved, as this could seriously negatively affect several people beyond yourself. I'd have to know a lot more about the situation to advise you properly, but overall frankly it sounds like a terrible idea.
>>521
What have you eaten today?
>>521
The hard drive (this is a couple-years old samsung netbook). I have perceptible pauses even in text editors, while the disk spins up so it can write the file. Under the assumption that maintenance means I can't modify the laptop mode settings, this would be the first thing to make me throw it out the window.
>>523
It's 8pm. Was this coffee a bad idea?
>>541
I'm a doctor and it's clearly a case of brain cancer. You have 20 days to live.
>543
What's the most embarrassing way to die? Something that would make whoever finds you either laugh at you or question your life choices. Or both.
>>545
Depends, it could go either way really. If you mean that you're able to take pleasure in the flow of life without needing to impose your own will on it then that's probably a good thing. If you mean you've simply given up on actively trying to live then it's probably not.
>>547
What is your current desktop background?
>>549
Prove/disprove a famous mathematical problem. If in 17 days' time you haven't gotten anywhere, just say you've come up with a beautiful elegant proof but haven't got long enough to write it all down before dying.
>>551
Should I try learning Swahili? Supposedly it's an absolute pushover of a language.
>>551
For a while I was rather put off by the whole idea of zoos and aquariums and suchlike, but, having read the bit near the start of Life of Pi where he discusses the topic, and having now been to one or two myself, I can appreciate that it's somewhat naive to assume that taking an animal from its natural environment is necessarily harmful to it. It's been a very long time since I went to an aquarium, but I suppose I do like them in the abstract.
>>553
Do you think a procedurally generated text adventure sounds like a good idea?
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>>556
What starch do you consume the most of?
>>557
The first one that comes to mind is Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let me Go. I have to admit I was rather lukewarm about it most of the way through and didn't really care that much about the characters or what happened to them. The ending, however, was really excellent, completely unexpected and tied up the story beautifully. It's worth reading for the ending alone.
>>559
Have you ever donated blood?
>>559
One handle, by far. For both showers and taps.
You can use it with one hand, you can turn the water off and on while keeping the temperature constant, and a single handle looks more congruous with the single stream of water.
>>561
How would you feel if you found out mathematics was, in fact, empirical?
>>563
My psychology teacher from years ago had a phobia of birds. She claimed it was from a traumatic experience she had when she was very young: she, her mother and her younger sister (still in a pushchair) were out in the park feeding birds, when an aggressive swan came and tried to bully the bread from her. It apparently bit her by the head and lifted her clean off the ground - meanwhile, she saw her mother running away and abandoning her, prioritising keeping her younger sister from danger. That does sound pretty traumatising, all things considered.
>>565
If you were to die right now, how long do you think it would take for somebody to find your body?
>>564
This very instant? I'm on an office full of people and I don't even get to enjoy the privacy of a cubicle. It wouldn't take very long until someone notices there's a corpse lying in the middle of the hallway, that's assuming somehow everybody around me just failed to see me collapsing on the floor. By the way, if someone passing by were to pay attention to my screen, they'd see I'm wasting time here on DQN instead of working.
>>566
Do you have any strategies to stealthily browse DQN while at work?
>>582
No; all my Christmas meals have been rather traditional and boring. However, I do remember one year, when I was quite young and for reasons I can't recall, my parents took me to a supermarket some time around midnight on Christmas Eve. All the fake joviality of the environment and the obvious fact that every single person present desperately didn't want to be there made it a rather surreal experience. It's the sort of bizarre memory that I almost suspect might've been confabulated or just a misrecalled dream.
>>584
What is your favourite invertebrate?
>>589
A scientist, maybe? And a game programmer! Now I'm hoping I get to finish uni with the CS degree I don't care much for anymore (not surprising, the curriculum is only okay and I've been using computers for almost 3/4 of my life), and then maybe I'll be able to research every topic I will care about! (Ha ha, no, you need funding for that, silly.)
Plus, I can't exactly study chemistry on my own; it was far less complicated and a legitimate interest when you were a teen.
>>591
( ﾟ -ﾟ) A friend of mine is very, very depressed. Too much to kill themselves, I expect, but I feel so powerless, I actually started avoiding talking with him because it's too painful. How much of a coward am I, and how do I put my own mood swings on hold in order to help my friend?
>>590
I remember hearing that apparently one of the most common causes of drowning is untrained people trying to save someone else from drowning and being pulled under themselves. Similarly, if you aren't equipped to help someone with depression then you shouldn't risk your own mental health in an attempt to help them. Of course, you should still try to help your friend where you can, but don't take all the responsibility on yourself. I can't really advise you on mood swings, but I'd suggest that it might be best for both of you if you focus on encouraging him to find professional help.
>>592
What is your opinion of modern art?
>>597
Swedish.
>>599
I want to make a bullet hell game. My plan isn't too complicated, but it would still involve some fairly serious amounts of programming, and I only know basic Python. Should I stick with Python (and make use of existing, well documented modules like Pygame) or should I take the time to learn a more serious programming language first? If so, which one?
>>598
The elitist in me says that you should stop using your crappy language and use my objectively superior language. Really, though, you have a concrete goal right now. You should try to achieve the goal with what you know. If you end up at a point where you say "Gosh, I really wish I had this very specific thing", you'll be in a position to find and use a language which gives you that thing. Maybe in a year you'll look back at the code you write tomorrow and hate it, but at least 1) you'll have written it, and 2) you'll have learned from it.
>>600
What is the coolest CAPTCHA you've ever gotten?
>>614
It's fairly groovy. Non-organised, advocates peace, stoicism, etc etc. It gets nutjob followers, but they're all harmless white hippies rather than the murderous nutjobs that other religions end up with. 8/10 would recommend.
>>616
What is the power balance like between you and your mother/romance partner/sex partner/figure collection?
>>638 I've never tried Japanese whisky but I drink Scottish whisky all the time. My friends think I'm some kind of connoisseur but I don't really know much, I just like the taste. Funny story, one time I was at the pub with my friend and I asked for a Whyte & Mackay with a wee bit of ice. We played some pool and I was savouring the taste thinking "I don't care if this is entry-level potato water, it doesn't matter what whisky experts say you should and shouldn't drink, I'm really appreciating this on a new level right now". I finished it and asked for another whisky, and the barman goes "Whisky? I thought you said rum, that was rum"
>>640 What's the most disgusting thing you've ever drank?
>>643
Without warning, Godzilla is stricken with a crippling existential crisis, releases >>642, and returns under the sea for a long period of solitary contemplation about its place in the world at large. >>642, galvanised by his near death experience, finally writes the legendary piano sonata he had always planned but never gotten around to. It receives mixed to favourable reviews.
>>645
How many people in total, would you estimate, have seen your genitalia?
>>651
I'd probably just wear what I normally do since I already have those clothes, but I'd look into buying those things the Arabs wear that look like dresses since they look comfortable. Women's dresses always have crinkles or other frills on them that I probably wouldn't like. I might just go out in my underwear if it's really hot, assuming public nudity is still taboo. Winter time I'd wear robes and shit over sweats since it doesn't rain much.
>>653
I'm thinking of using my food dehydrator to make tomato leather for sandwiches that I pack for lunch in order to replace fresh tomatoes since they are very moist and contribute to making the bread soggy if left for several hours in a closed and non breathable environment. Is this a good idea or comoletely idiotic?
>>656
Never have, don't see the point. They're such a pain in the neck to legally set up for a few seconds of light that are about as impressive as a screensaver, and there are much more impressive things if you're willing to go outside legality. Perhaps if I'd made them by hand or something I'd have some investment in the result.
>>658
Pen or pencil?
>>657
Pencil. It's more expressive and it's easily correctable. I almost never use pen.
>>659
I've been having trouble getting out of my house and going to work. The job is fine, I need the money, but instead of walking out the door I'll find myself doing things like pace back and forth trying to figure out why I'm pacing back and forth. Any advice?
>>664
See, it's such a nebulous term; each new would-be prophet of scientism has his own definition, it seems. As originally described, we've been there for some time now. But the more imaginative definitions, the one those preaching a gospel of "planetary civilization" and "technological singularity" would have us believe, I say absolutely not. These guys remind me of those guys who keep announcing new dates for the Second Coming... sorry, fellas, I want to live in a better world, too, but it doesn't just get dropped in our laps.
I hope I'm not the only one seeing how ludicrous it is to equate quantifiable figures for energy with "progress". We could expand data centers until we actually had to use planetary-scale energy (to ignore the definitions where all that has to be used on radio signals), but that's clearly not the transhuman robosocialist utopia these people are conjuring up (note that it's not those possibilities I'm specifically rejecting, only that human self-interests don't magically go away just because human needs are exceeded).
>>666
Are you the Boddhi?
>>677
Anything that has to do with helping out retards. For some reason, when I see retarded people, I get pretty heartbroken. Particularly downies. It may be because I imagine myself in the position of the parent or someone close to them. The idea of having a child that can't correctly function on its own is really sad to me, especially knowing that once I'm old/I die, there isn't really anyone to take care of it in the way I would be capable of. You love it even though it's broken. I don't really know why I feel so strongly about it. There isn't anyone suffering from any form of retardation in my family or even the family of anyone in my immediate social circle.
>>679
Do you refrigerate your tomatoes?
>>679
Of the main characters, it's obviously got to be Bocchi herself, although they're all strong contenders on the cuteness front. If we include minor characters then I would also seriously consider Yawara Kai and Oshie Teruyo. I couldn't possibly pick just one though; they're all the cutest in their own unique ways.
>>681
What is your favourite way of preparing eggs (i.e. hard-boiled, soft-boiled, scrambled, poached, etc.)?
>>688 I had to google senshi and found out that was Low Ki's old name, so I pick him.
>>689 Is this impressive or stupid? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFznI31xFf4
>>694
I can't really say, it never much appealed to me either. It seems as though not just American humour but American media in general is mainly just sex, violence and poo. I'm quite sure there are exceptions but I can't name any high profile ones.
>>696
Approximately, how many real life friends do you have?
>>697
I actually adore a good pair of kneepits. The telltale crease marks of an extended kneepit are suggestive of a entirely bare pair of legs, and you'll only see their bent form in very few scenarios. Shoulderblades, meh, everyone's got them out.
>>699
Which is sexier: oboe or trombone? Please explain why in at least eleven words.
>>702
As the moon approaches hitting distance, it causes an extreme, violent tide that submerges the part of Earth closest to it. This in turn causes extreme, violent storms essentially worldwide. As such, depending on its trajectory and speed, there's a pretty high chance you'll drown or be killed by debris before the moon gets close enough. Assuming you find a way to survive that, though, and manage to make it to the designated location, the moon will certainly have accelerated to such a speed that you won't have time to process the sensation of the moon hitting your eye before your frail body is completely vaporized from the impact energy.
This is referred to as the Apocalypse.
>>704
How should I break the cycle of staying up late, getting up late, and sleeping through most of the day when businesses are open?
>>703
Going a day without sleep usually works for me. Stay up late, then when the sun rises take a shower, get out of the house and try to keep yourself occupied until evening. Keeping your body moving and staying out in the sunlight will help revert your biological clock.
>>705
What's the best place you've lived and why?
>>704
Probably the place I stayed in my second year of university. Positives:
Negatives:
>>706
Would you like a hug?
>>711
No, not really, because it is a misery to cohabitate with the people in my area, but I don't know of a better area to move to.
At night I dream of a big sea-worthy houseboat and a lifetime supply of mittens so I can at last drift away and spend my days cut off from my species but for a satellite internet connection.
>>713
Did you enjoy it?
>>718
I was speeding while drunk on a highway and missed an exit, I fucking smashed the break pedal trying to take it, but my car started spinning out of control. I hit the highway barrier and only manage to fuck up the front bumper, everything else, including myself, was ok. I use Uber to move around the city when drunk now.
>>720
What's the most wasted you've ever been?
>I once took too many xanax on a Friday night
used to do that pretty much every night
SVG sounds good in theory but it's annoying in a lot of ways. I do prefer PNG over JPG though. Adobe Flash was vector-based, and look how well that turned out. Not well at all. But aside from that, I don't really care that much about image formats.
If you're drawing, it makes more sense to use raster graphics because then you can do more complicated images that look like actual paintings instead of a couple of lines whose only advantage is that they look smooth when you zoom in on them. SVG makes sense for icons or some logos or graphs or something, but that's about it. But the solution to pixelated raster graphics is to draw super high-res and then downscale for whatever site you're uploading to. It's easy to start with a lower resolution when drawing, but I think it's better to have a resolution that's too high instead of too low.
>>721
How often do you get drunk?
>>721
I drink alcohol perhaps once every two weeks or so, but only one or two drinks, so I never get more than tipsy. I've only been properly drunk once. My neighbour threw a house party, and my bedroom was directly adjacent to the speakers, so, realising I had no hope of sleeping, I decided I may as well join them. I was slightly feverous, didn't know anyone there, and everyone else was about ten years older than me. I ended up just standing around aimlessly listening in on conversations I had nothing to add to, and drinking every so often. The party pretty much ended around 3am, when I went home, threw up, and collapsed into bed.
>>723
What is your favourite and least favourite part of your own body?
>>722
Favorite: my brain, unironically. Not in a I-think-I'm-smarter-than-everyone-else way, but because I'm glad I don't have any serious mental problems. Look at Terry Davis, for example. He's a genius programmer, but he is hopelessly schizophrenic.
Here's an image of a schizophrenic person's brain compared to a normal one:
https://www.livemint.com/rf/Image-621x414/LiveMint/Period1/2014/04/01/Photos/Venkatasubramanian-Image-2--621x414.jpg
Imagine basically having a big hole in your brain that makes your thoughts and behavior weird. No thanks!
Least favorite:
My ankle, because I injured it and it never fully healed.
>>724
What is something you do that you think nobody else does?
>>726
I love travel, but I hate airplanes. Airport security sucks. Jet lag sucks. At least they sometimes give you alcohol on the flight.
Someone once gave me HORRIBLE advice for dealing with jet lag. "Don't sleep before the trip, just stay up the night before and sleep on the plane!" But the economy seats were too tiny and uncomfortable (and the comfy ones are ridiculously expensive), and there was too much turbulence in order to sleep at all! So I was tired as fuck during a flight across the pacific ocean.
>>727
How many books have you read so far this year?
>>728 I don't know about plot, we're all familiar with the John Carmack quote about plot in a video game I think. But the best writing (subtle difference) of the games I've played was Fallout: New Vegas, I think. It's one of few RPGs where I was invested and immersed enough that I sincerely had trouble and angst doing something I wouldn't do IRL. Especially in the expansions, where each one is based on one central choice, I had trouble replaying it and doing the other choices.
>>731 If the only music you could listen to for the rest of your life was the collected works of one single artist, composer, band, etc, who/which would you pick? Off the record, my "favorite" and the one I picked when a friend posed me this question are different artists.
>>730,731 Croatia. I'm not actually watching the game, but I hope they win. Fuck France.
And Tchaikovsky. Not necessarily my favorite composer/musician of all times, but probably the one with the biggest catalog with the best ratio of things I like to things I don't.
>>732 Is it morally acceptable to lie to avoid hurting someone's feelings, in your opinion?
>>737
I don't have a favorite, but I do have a least favorite:
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Bugman
>>739
Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
>>741 I did Visual Basic at school, then when I got a job at a games studio there were sometimes tiny code fixes I was able to do myself to save the programming team's time but I'm not much of a coder at all. When the company folded, I did wonder if I'd be able to take the code-base and make something cool out of the dead project but I have to much other stuff going on to really spare time to learn how to code. The idea I had was to make the player characters... made of constantly-generated water shaped like them, and they splash about.
>>743 Would you play a splashy fighting game where the fighters were made of water?
>>748
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_oath_(Hungarians)
>>750
What is the single most useless piece of information you still remember exactly?
>>749 There's a lot of it in me old noggin, but I can perfectly recall the particular set of noises the toilet the cottage in the woods I lived in until I was 6 made when it flushed. Whhhw-whhhhw, whhy whhhwHhh... ba-dumpah-dshhh...(...)
>>751 What do you do when you can hear your downstairs neighbours are having a party?
>>752
Tabletop: GURPS for the flexibility, though I find 5E surprisingly pleasant. Video game: Planescape Torment, because I felt like I could actually choose what role to play, while also taking in a pretty decent story. (The only JRPG series I've really played is Ys, so I can't really judge that category.)
>>754
What's your favorite pole arm?
>>754
I ate spicy food for dinner last night and I'm dying in my chair at work today.
>756
What is your preferred email provider?
>>757
Cut a piece of salmon. Remove the scales. Add some salt. Simmer for a couple of minutes. You may wish to cut it up while it is simmering to distribute the heat more efficiently.
>>759
If your life was a game, played by beings in some higher plane of existence, what would the speed-run leader board look like for [insert a life goal of your choice]?
>>758
I'm not sure I fully understand the question. I have no idea what the speed-run leader board would look like, because I don't know any beings in a higher plane of existence, let alone their names.
But here are a few random life events that I think would be funny to speedrun:
>>760
What are you watching recently?
>>762 It will affect my currency, or maybe we will have a new currency then and it can just be part of the settling-in period for the new world. Whatever happens, I don't really care, life will happen and I will only sort of be part of it.
>>764 Do you ever worry the weather where people live will be manipulated by malicious forces?
>>763
I did a couple of modules of meteorology back in undergrad, and... no, I really don't. The sheer amount of mass and energy you'd have to manipulate to cause any kind of harmful weather, e.g. a drought or hurricane, is way out of our technological reach. The only weather manipulation we can do at present is cloud seeding, and even that only works locally, temporarily, and only if clouds are on the verge of forming already anyway.
>>765
What is your opinion on body pillows?
>>766 I have a bit of a crackpot theory about astrology... see how the moon affects the tides, well what if the different celestial bodies actually do hold some kind of sway on different people on our planet born at different times? For example if Mars has, I don't know, a lot more iron in its core, and people born at a time when it's close to Earth are more susceptible to something in it, compared to people born when another planet is aligned with the Earth a different way. Like what if people born at different times of the year were affected by which planets were nearest at the time, and as they swing back into orbit, those planets affect the people in different ways? As in the universe is a complex system and the positioning of everything makes a tight, perfectly arranged mechanism for how life on Earth plays out. I'm drunk and pretty sure this is a lot of bullshit, but I also bet there's a lot of variables humans aren't aware of and can't measure/understand yet. I've always thought horoscopes were superstitious nonsense, but it's interesting how often people match the stereotypes they were born into.
>>768 Do you know enough to tear my pseudoscientific inklings to shreds?
>>773
Sorry, I don't know anything about cocktails. I think my sense of taste is plebeian enough that they would be wasted on me.
>>775
Autumn, followed after a gap by winter. Probably because of the lack of humidity (where I live).
>>777
Whoa, 777, an auspicious number. You must be pretty lucky. What's the most recent stroke of good fortune you've had?
>>773
(replying because I missed the first time and >>776's answer was boring)
I make cocktails but nothing fancy, usually just mixing whatever juice I have with whatever alcohol I have. However my favorite is hands down gin + Jamaican ginger beer.
>>776
Yesterday I forgot to bring proper shoes to a basketball event, but it turned out my friend had the address wrong anyway, so we just spent the day drinking craft beer instead. In this way two misfortunes became fortunate.
>>778
What's a fond memory you have of 2018?
>>783,784
It depends on how the string you are using is defined. But admittedly, C-style string is often presumed these days due to its simplicity, and many abstractions that are employed like a more flexible C-style string are widely used in practice, so this is more like a nitpicking (one open to more nitpicking), as programmers are wont to be like.
>>785
Never, my parents hate me and would never give me a camera that worked.
>>787
Are you the funk soul brother?
>>801
Cinnamon donut. It must be completely saturated by cinnamon, not just some half-assed sprinkles. The cinnamon should be adhered to the surface by butter, to the point where it has completely soaked into the skin of the donut. Not too much sugar. Maybe a bit of nutmeg.
>>803
What is your dream lover?
>>802
A dominant, muscular older guy who'll choke me and slap me around a bit during sex but then turns into a total puppy dog and just wants to cuddle afterward. Also he needs to like anime and laugh at my jokes.
>>804
Have you ever travelled outside your country of origin? If you've done it more than once, which trip was your favorite?
>>809 "The end of the fucking world", I was like 12 years old, watching it over and over on summer break, playing runescape and pokemon sapphire all day, also just learned to how to masturbate that summer. I think I'll remember that til the day I die.
>811
Have you ever felt intense nostalgia for something from your childhood, say a game or a movie, then gone back and watch/play/etc it again as an adult and it's just not the same? What was it?
>>810
Yes, unfortunately I've had that experience with multiple things. Off the top of my head: Worms World Party, Pokemon Silver, The Demented Cartoon Movie, and Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
On the other hand, Roller Coaster Tycoon is still just as fun as it was 20 years ago.
>>812
Have you ever felt intense nostalgia for something from your childhood, say a game or a movie, then gone back and watch/play/etc it again as an adult and it's just as good as it was before? What was it?
>>818
https://twitter.com/dril_gpt2/
>>820
When was your first visit to 4-ch and how did you find it?
>>820 Nya, the mentally ill racist-anime-twitter adjacent one who findommed some redditor into recording himself saying "nigger" and sent it to his woke girlfriend and got doxxed by a bunch of angry black people for it. Not my favorite because I particularly support any of that but because it's all so spectacularly fucked up that I can't look away. Like watching a train crash into an orphanage.
>>822 What's the last book you read for pleasure, not for school or work, and what did you think of it?
>>821 I read lots of books, this year I read a good book called "Wittgenstein's Poker" about an infamous confrontation between Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper, and it compared their similar situations as Jews escaping the Nazis. It was really interesting, but the book I'm just about to finish is this beautiful, signed copy of a book called "Dharma Delight" by Rodney Greenblat. You might know him as the creator of Parappa The Rapper and my girlfriend Um Jammer Lammy. It's an illustrated guide to various buddhist concepts and stories. It really is delightful http://whimsyload.com/product/dharma-delight-signed-copy/
>>823 How many books do you read per year?
>>822
A couple here and there, mostly work related (programming). I've read most of what I care to read, no one's really written anything very interesting since Wittgenstein/Heidegger/Derrida.
>>824
If there is such a thing, what is the relationship between the mass attenuation coefficient of an element and the threshold at which EM radiation is able to ionise an atom of that element?
>>827 Fuckin loads, a tree was cut down and pulped to make this paper, and due to an oath I took I am required to honour their lives by making art on their body parts instead of just binning the scraps.
>>829 Check this out, a sheet of paper is to a tree what a burger patty is to a cow, what do you make of that‽
