Previously:
#1 http://4-ch.net/dqn/kareha.pl/1213916710/
#2 http://4-ch.net/dqn/kareha.pl/1250275007/
#3 http://4-ch.net/dqn/kareha.pl/1292544745/
#4 http://4-ch.net/dqn/kareha.pl/1315193920/
#5 http://4-ch.net/dqn/kareha.pl/1326391378/
#6 http://4-ch.net/dqn/kareha.pl/1333279425/
#7 http://4-ch.net/dqn/kareha.pl/1340196069/
#8 http://4-ch.net/dqn/kareha.pl/1346800288/
#9 http://4-ch.net/dqn/kareha.pl/1353182673/
#10 http://4-ch.net/dqn/kareha.pl/1360549149/
#11 http://4-ch.net/dqn/kareha.pl/1367260033/
#11.5 http://4-ch.net/dqn/kareha.pl/1367260120/
#12 http://4-ch.net/dqn/kareha.pl/1372849946/-255,257-
#13 http://4-ch.net/dqn/kareha.pl/1368127055/
#14 http://4-ch.net/dqn/kareha.pl/1395672319/
#15 http://4-ch.net/dqn/kareha.pl/1409746601/
#16 http://4-ch.net/dqn/kareha.pl/1420075161/
#17 http://4-ch.net/dqn/kareha.pl/1430947686/
#18 http://4-ch.net/dqn/kareha.pl/1440133389/
#19 http://4-ch.net/dqn/kareha.pl/1447380051/
#20 http://4-ch.net/dqn/kareha.pl/1454364216/
#21 http://4-ch.net/dqn/kareha.pl/1462941578/
#22 http://4-ch.net/dqn/kareha.pl/1473295155/-383,385-
#23 http://4-ch.net/dqn/kareha.pl/1480168637/
#24 http://4-ch.net/dqn/kareha.pl/1489348442/
#25 http://4-ch.net/dqn/kareha.pl/1503631448/
#26 http://4-ch.net/dqn/kareha.pl/1519019746/
#27 http://4-ch.net/dqn/kareha.pl/1526013591/
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fat thread edition
key lime yogurt, yeah boyeeeeeeeee
not a nazi, but please deport all moslems
also jews pls move back to israel and dont be around white people
niggers must be brougth back to afrika and banned from entering europe and usa
The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi was too unrealistic for me
I mean, when have you ever met a woman with the mental capacity for depression(憂鬱)? That requires a working theory of mind and an IQ above 95, both of which are something no woman has ever possessed in the entire history.
>>6
stop trying to act like you can speak for everyone you control freak
>>7 Whoops sorry you're right, I did mean to type "probably most users here". I sincerely apologise, I hate when people make assumptions!
>Was that the quickest Current Thought thread we've had?
yeah and also the shittiest, but this one will probably break that record. go on boys, let's impress me with your boundless cretinism.
>>9 I did mean it, it is a peeve when people make assumptions about my values and beliefs and then I was guilty of it myself. But it's hard not to condescend to you （´・ω・｀）
>>11
it's funny for some neckbeard who saves weeb emojis like "（´・ω・｀）" to think they have the high ground on anything in life
excuse me this is a neckbeard safe space. please take your neckbeard-shaming somewhere else.
>>12 It's a plug-in on my phone, two taps on the keypad. Girls think they're cute when I text them. Maybe when I hit puberty I'll grow a beard, but for now my life is pretty banging thanks XD
The shobon predates you, it outranks you, and it is certainly more worthy of a seat at the table. The text itself that makes up the shobon shall be seated before you and fed of wine and steak to your scrapped bones and curdled milk. To say another is below you for speaking the shobon when it is itself above you is delusional.
Drop and give before the (｀・ω・´)
> I fucking hate weeaboos, kaomoji, AA art, intentionally poorly translated 2ch copypasta, anime, and anyone who doesn't hold a politically correct opinion
one of these things is not like the others.
>>15
I used to be into dumb shit like anime, and actually /o/ (the auto board) was my first intro to image boards, and then I got into world4ch's /lounge/ and /prog/, and eventually 4-ch and so on, but then I grew up and stopped liking dumb shit like anime. Weeb shit was a dumb phase in my life. I'm glad I'm over that, and I hope you can get over it too. I'm just disappointed that there are still plenty of people who are into this tripe. I want to convert you away from that garbage.
I'm not new, I'm just different now.
I changed dramatically in college. If you had a good education, you'd change too.
I hope that one day you too, poor plebeian, can stop enjoying things that are fun and become a joyless, proselytizing cunt like me. I really wish people would stop liking things that I dislike! Btw I'm not new, I've been here all summer.
Have you even been to college, dude? If you had you'd totally understand. It's like, totally life-changing, dude.
Ha! College is for plebs. Let me tell you why I'm superior for NOT going to college. Now if you'll excuse me, I'll go back to watching misogynistic anime. Why don't women love me?
So guys, how many of these videos are you featured in?
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=anime+cringe+compilation
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=neckbeard+cringe+compilation
Also I hate to break it to you, honey, but if you went to college in America then you did not have a "good education", unless you went to one of a small handful of extremely elite institutions(you didn't). At best, you took on tens of thousands of dollars in debt to attend a glorified adult babysitting program where they taught you the basic literacy skills that people in the rest of the developed world(I use this term extremely loosely when referring to America) learned for free in what you'd call 'high school'. At worst, you took on tens of thousands of dollars in debt for the privilege of being brainwashed into a useful idiot for the political zeitgeist.
That feeling you're experiencing right now, where you're desperately trying to convince yourself and everyone around you that that was tens of thousands of dollars well spent, is called "post-purchase rationalization".
tl;dr: allahu akbar, death to america and death to whatever you are
>>22
imagine thinking you're superior for not having an education lmao
we're reaching levels of cognitive dissonance that shouldn't even be possible
That education evidently didn't teach you that internalizing and regurgitating internet colloquialisms rots your brain
*ducks
Imagine being so brainwashed you think paying $60,000 a semester in order to learn how to read since you didn't in high school because you were busy being shot at every day by school shooters or beaten by fascist police for scratching your eyebrow during the bi-hourly recital of the pledge of allegiance is an "education", lol.
>regurgitating internet colloquialisms
lol you have no sense of self-awareness, mr. ancient 2ch memes
"I'll shit up the board complaining about how shit the board is, that will surely make me some friends,"
>>29
I'm not here to make friends, I'm here to help you convert to the right path instead of this dumb nerd shit.
I'll try to contact BPS to get this guy banned. Wish me luck!
Usually people just go to a different website if they want to interact with different people.
>>31
Yeah, try and silence people if you dislike them. Great idea. Maybe it's good to surround yourself with people who aren't exactly like you. Ever thought about that?
You do know it's possible to disagree with people without arguing or getting all butthurt about it, right? Instead, people hurl insults and then call someone a troll.
Apparently anyone who isn't into the EXACT same stuff as you is a troll. Great logic there.
There is something seriously wrong with the board culture here.
Someone said they were planning on killing themselves. So I said they shouldn't do it and made some heartfelt posts trying to talk them down from it. I don't know if it was effective or not.
Now people are calling me a troll because they don't agree with me on everything under the sun. The absolute state of social media.
woe is me!
if you don't pretend that everything is fine and act like political issues that affect daily life don't exist, then you're a troll!
I guess there are millions of trolls out there, since there are millions of people who actually care about politics instead of just ignoring things
>>37
Why do you say that? Because I mention political issues and you don't like it? Guess what? Not everyone will have the same opinions in life. Get over it.
>>38
No, because it's an anonymous board and I don't know exactly which posts you make. What I do know, however, is that you've filled this thread with shit. These rants of yours are an irrational overreaction to whatever it is you feel angered by and I am concerned for your mental well-being.
>>40
I seriously hope so. I really hope he's the only one unhinged and miserable enough to be doing this to himself.
>you've filled this thread with shit
Yeah dude, telling someone who talks about their suicidal thoughts that they should keep on living is "filling this thread with shit", apparently. Have some empathy. I also think that, being an anonymous site, people have a tendency to confuse which posts are made by which people. So you see my political posts and think that's me, but you don't get that I also make innocuous posts too.
>irrational overreaction to whatever it is you feel angered by
America has serious problems right now. It doesn't make sense to be calm when everything's going down the shitter. Additionally, I think you're overestimating how "angry" I am. And I'm going to assume that you're not American, since if you were, you'd know what it's like here right now.
>I am concerned for your mental well-being.
So you're insulting me and then calling me the troll? Do you not see the hypocrisy here?
Can't we just get along? Enough of this already.
>>41
Posting about anything that isn't memes or anime is "unhinged" apparently. Sorry for caring about more in life than escapism. Whatever. I'm done with this site.
>>43
I want to help you get better. The first step is getting you banned so you stop tormenting yourself on this site!
Sorry for caring about more in life than escapi-
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dunno about you but i see plenty of people posting about things that aren't ancient 2ch memes or AA art or whatever it is got this guy all riled up
in fact i see a thread just a bit further down the board where people were talking about self-produced electronic music and producing a collaborative album and such, until some joker came in and started screeching about how much he hates AA art or whatever
Most of the previous posts read like pretty much any other website.
You fine folks ever moan when you jack off? I never used to but recently I have and it just makes me hornier.
ye i was purposely being a bit overdramatic when i said "solemn vigil" or whatever, but still, eternal september isn't just a meme, it's a reminder that things like "netiquette" once existed and were thought of as important, and also a reminder to newcomers to LURK MORE before shitting up a board by not being familiar with the culture and the written and unwritten rules
and i still maintain that we need such reminders now more than ever
Ughh wine wine wine wine all we ever talk about at this wine-tasting club is WINE! Don't you alcoholic losers have anything better to do than talk about wine? Why don't you care about the political climate in Iceland right now? Newsflash you drunken reprobates: politics MATTER and if you don't want to spend time here at the wine club talking about what's going down in Iceland right now you're part of the problem! Have some empathy!
ALL I WANNA DO IS HAVE SOME FUN
I GOT DA FEELIN
I'm NOT THE ONLY ONE
Is he gone?
>>49 only when i have something in my ass, and then it's kinda involuntary
captcha: buttine
Who knew all it took was some good ol' talk about gentle self-caressing to fix this thread.
buncha lefty pencilneck faggots
Eternal suffering.
hang out with all the boys learn science technology
reminds me of the time my grandmother called me on the phone in shock and said
"omg, did you know the village people are gay???"
and i'm just left here wondering how it's possible for a 75 year old woman to be so simultaneously savvy and out of touch
also my captcha is "quore", autocomplete says i've had "quoreness" as a captcha before. what is a quore? is quoreness the platonic ideal of quoredom?
The spider rejected my dead fly offering...
Am I gay
>>65
this song will answer your question around the 2:05 mark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeG3SEltM5M
Kim Dong-un
XD
XD
Linel Hamten
Oh no, I'm stupid.
I sure want instagram followers for my nonexistent account
I love you Natalie
fuck off andrew how did you get my new number? i told you to stop calling, don't make me get the police involved AGAIN
What's a guy gotta do to get a job around here?
when I was younger I cared way too much about useless shit
What is the comfiest right-wing state in America?
2b's twobies
captcha: nier
Hi my name is squeeks and you were all a mistake
Every single last one of you
good morning weathercuck
You fuckin' bet. It rained last night, I'll let that fresh hunk of weather fuck my lawn all green and lush again no question.
>>82 You're not Squeeks, Squeeks wears a poop hat, where's your poop hat?
Okay don't answer the question in the question thread then, lord it over the rest of us that you read books,
>>86 I wasted time reading a shit book instead of dealing with more pressing matters, was that not a suitable answer?
I enjoy hearing about the spread and evolution of net slang across language barriers. For example I remember a Spanish-speaking friend telling me the story of how crossdressers came to be called "little rags" on Spanish-language imageboards. They took the word "trapo", literally meaning "cloth" and punning on the English netslang "trap". That was seen as too 'masculine' so the diminutive -ito was added, ending in "trapito".
i don't knowhow to do any of those things and i have an iq of 85 but please give me a job
i am not bilignual, in fact i barely speak english
please
Big ups yeongrak! https://djmag.com/content/premiere-yeongrak-definitfinitfinitely-xoxe’ nuff respect
>>87
You invoked nihilism to say you don't believe in procrastination
function invocation
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Every DQN knows it’s not a hat. The rest of the head and body are vestigial.
I have clinical depression and it's uncureable and it is normal to live with that
This is the bastard internet.
my new "unlimited data" plan is slow as shit
what good is it if everything takes forever to laod
capitalism is gross
consumerism is disgusting
modern western life is the death of culture and purpose
I feel so uncomfortable with the way the world is
it's not supposed to be like this
I refuse to accept this way of life
aids and cancer
islam is the answer
What I would give to pound Cooking Mama in the vag
Regretsuko
I have ceased.
I have been to that supermarket at all hours of the day and night, and that meat counter guy is always working there. Every time. His mouth is always hanging slightly ajar as he works, as though he's deep in thought. Deep in thought about meat.
I can't blame him, I also often become lost in thought while daydreaming about meat
uho~
>>101
are you the guy who complained about gays being degenerate in the previous thread? what do you think of this islamic custom? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-south-asia-11217772
>>107
absolutely haram
and liberals want more people like this in our countries? yeesh
Beware from my chaos...
...I'm an anarchist.
Anime Kimbo Slice
you, a dumbass: "hurr durr hurr durr hurr durr hurr durr hurr durr hurr durr hurr durr"
me, a refined patrician: "the industrial revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race"
>>111
Are you mocking me, buddy? Why? You actually like the hellscape we call modern life?
>>112
you, a literal brainless sea sponge who typed this post by rolling across the keyboard of a T-61 thinkpad that someone dropped in the ocean: hitler did nothing wrong
me, who is not any of those things: kaczynski did nothing wrong
modern life ain't that bad
>>113
linkola > ted
>>114
"my life is fine, therefore it's fine for everyone else too"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmP0_6oUd2Q
youuu're so vain
you probably think this post is about you
don't you
don't you
whatever happened to, you know
>>115
i bet you're one of those philistines who prefers doug
or, god forbid, rugrats
...stood up and held up a denarius.
"whose likeness and inscription is this?"
The arrogant Pharisee smirked quite jewishly and smugly replied "Caesar's, you stupid Christian"
"Correct. Therefore, render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."
When the Pharisees heard it, they were visibly shaken, and went away.
An alternate dimension where gay marriage and straight marriage are legal, but gay-straight marriages are banned
jesus cursing the fig tree, except at the end a voiceover goes: "you're not you when you're hungry, grab a snickers."
it's all so tiresome
hibike euphonium's wonder emporium
>>123
imagine thinking ads are funny to the point of parroting them elsewhere
I kind of want some coleslaw...
living life in peace
>>129
corporate cuck mad at being called out for falling for marketing that hard
Oh boy, here we go again.
>>131
here we go again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgxRLHmu2HA
>>126,130
imagine thinking I wasn't paid to post this 🤔
who's the cuck now, cuck
>>134 psh i just have to show them screenshots of posts i've made mentioning the port of dandong and they pay me 5 RMB per image
living life on easy street boy, what's your excuse?
老外 go home
Sports are fine. The galaxybrain take is that it's basically just gamified exercise and anything that gets people up off their asses in this modern world is a good thing. It's just that sports reporters and sports journalism are dumb as fuck. I especially like when they interview a player after a game and they ask some dumb question like "What do you attribute your success in today's game to"? And the player has to give some retarded answer that makes them sound like a retard because literally what else is there to say? "Yeah I think I was successful today cause I went out there and swung the bat really hard, and also made contact with the ball". And you can see they want to continue on to say like "Duh? What kind of answer were you even expecting? I literally just walked in off the diamond, at least let me catch my breath before you ask me stupid shit so you can show it on TV later and make me look like a meathead".
"What were you thinking while you were making that catch?"
"Well I was thinking 'gee, gotta make this catch' I guess".
captcha: doy
Feeling the power cosmic.
In my pants
>>138
Playing sports: good
Using spectator sports as an excuse to hang out with your friends (such as at a baseball game or sports bar): also good
Using sports as an ice breaker (did you see the game last night?): also acceptable
Sitting on your ass watching sorts by yourself, or memorizing obscure sports trivia that doesn't matter at all: bad
>>141 I kind of feel like, as a male in America, it's almost a social obligation to be interested in and have basic knowledge of at least one sport. Which is fine tbh, it serves a useful social function and also gets people interested in exercise. It's probably easier in some other places where it's just soccer soccer soccer all the time, though.
In Glasgow it's just soccer soccer sectarianism
My zucchini is flying away from me.
>>134
but you may be entitled to financial compensation if you or a loved one were diagnosed with mesothelioma
>>138
sports tv is usually really bad, but sports gonzo journalism and sports historians are top-tier reading, no joke
r/milliondollarextreme is the only good subreddit
the diet of worms but like literally eating annelids
I'm full of hair.
I was rooting for Croatia, but I set my bet against Croatia and won.
skipping class due to anxiety
они мстят за погромы времен цраской россии
и за холокост
We're all so delicate.
Open your heart.
You: dynamic weak typing
Me, an intellectual: strong static typing
Please don't ever talk to me again.
sorry but I still think of something completely different when you say "thai cave boys"
And then the ping pong ball went right into her mouth.
gluten-free bread tastes terrible
>>161
Yes; https://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2011/03/19/dynamic-languages-are-static-languages/
Also strong/weak typing is generally ill-defined as a dichotomy
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>>181
Anne frankly, I did nazi that coming. I literally came here to say this but boy, that escalated quickly so to the top with you! Lost it at 'This is why we can't have nice things' and then my faith in humanity was restored, my mind blown, and manly tears were shed. Well said. As a 'murican, I can confirm this gem has just won the internet and is doing it right. Just sayin', I know that feel, bro, and while that was a risky click, this post was a 9/10, 11/10 with rice, would read again. I see what you did there and it feels good man. You're doing God's work, son. I laughed way harder than I should have at your list that seems legit and totally nailed it. You - I like you. You magnificent bastard; you, sir, are so brave, a gentleman and a scholar, and seeing how you are a redditor for 4 years, this checks out, so I'll allow it. I regret that I only have one upvote to give for this cool story, bro. CTRL+F "about tree fiddy" was not disappointed. Wait, why do I have you tagged as "NOPE NOPE NOPE"? Nice try, you monster. You are now banned from /r/pyongyang What did I just read? Dafuq? I read that as "YOU HAD ONE JOB". I can't fap to this. No true scotsman could see that this relevant XKCD was bad, and you should feel bad. You must be new to reddit, so I'll see your cakeday and raise you a karma train. One does not simply rustle my jimmies, not even once. Jet fuel can't melt dank memes, that stahp gave me cancer for science, so that's enough internet for me today. OP is a fuzzy little man-peach, 2/10, would not bang. What is this I don't even know how is this wtf? Fuck Jenny. Circlejerk must be leaking. This will get buried but brace yourselves, some men want to watch the world burn right in the feels. When you see it, they'll KILL IT WITH FIRE! But this has nothing to do with atheism. Lawyer up, delete facebook, hit the gym, and SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY, said no one ever, so you wouldn't download a strawman. /r/dadjokes. Damn onions, you scary like a BOSS. whoosh. Since rule #1 is 'be attractive', I'll just leave this here: This is my [f]irst post, be gentle.
What the fuck, why is it midnight again?
fuck off with your reddit-tier spam
facebook is great for letting me find out the shitty political views of the people I went to high school with and barely know nowadays
we have done irreversible damage to our environment and we're completely fucked
I'm alt-right
just weary to my bone
facebook is great for letting me find out which highschool classmate is working on a "popsicles but with alcohol" startup
Pathetic.
“lolis but with alcohol” startup
to be honest, i would open my own ice cream but with alcohol place, except that already exists where I live and it's actually very good, I go like twice a month.
It turns out that some people still reply to the Cincinnati Zoo Twitter account's tweets with jokes about a certain gorilla, though it happens less often now.
the cincinnati zoo is pretty shitty, the columbus zoo is much nicer
regardless, i recommend not visiting either, unless you are already stuck in ohio, because that means having to come to ohio
new touhou game with sumirenko! BRING BACK MIMA
I won't be defeated
by the blazing sun
because I am a cactus
-(ﾟーﾟ), sept. 7927, 1993(translated from the Japanese by (ﾟーﾟ), on sept. 9088, 1993)
( ﾟ -ﾟ) a cold hand
( ﾟ ヮﾟ) wrapped in cotton
( ˃ ヮ˂) I love mittens!
-(*ﾟーﾟ), sept. 7926, 1993
There are too many disgusting not-lolicons on this site
Example: >>197
Totally forgot this place was still running.
Glad I found it again but I feel bad for abandoning it, like a Dad that went to get smokes but never returned until his kid was grown up..
It's normal to be depressed and anxious when you live in a depressing and anxiety-inducing environment. The problem is the environment itself, not the individual. SSRIs and benzos don’t fix your country's culture, healthcare, poverty, etc.
I think this is a huge failure of modern psychiatry (the inability to look at larger-scale issues instead of the individual person).
Gearing myself up for the moment my mother asks my permission to write about me in her (completed) memoir.
don't trust people who say "my mother" instead of "my mom"
what's even worse is when they just say "mother" without the "my"
I use "mother" because I expect to get shit from an American for spelling "mom" wrong.
You're grammer is bad. Ppl like u are a diamond dozen.
I want to be soft.
Once upon a time, I once a noisy eater
I belong underground.
why does every single female "comedian" think being an obnoxious sloppy drunken slut is the FUNNIEST SHIT EVER
Over the sun shota to issho.
I still don't know whether to call it 2ch or 5ch.
I guess Smoke deGrasse Tyson has never heard of ecofascism/deep ecology, probably never even read anything by Pentii Linkola or Ted Kaczynski either:
https://i.imgur.com/3aGRBfD.png
what a pleb
Microsoft Sam: soiboy
Under the loli, loli to loli.
It's always the same.
cocaine boogers
I can touch myself.
sleep apnea sucks ass
I am like 99% sure I have it but I can't afford to go to a doctor
Faster than your daddy's car
Why, of course I'd like to meet hot singles in my area
Fuck local lolis for money, shoot three XBOXes to find out how!
hot doubles in your area
check 'em
timestamp dubs
ah fuck I was off by a minute
oh well, check my dubs now anyway
Is Epic Fail Guy alive today?
I'm a slut for existentialism.
Nuke Israel
To me "mom" is vocative, it's basically her name. "Mother" is more like a title. I use "mom" when I'm talking directly to mom and "mother" if I'm talking about her somewhere else, or about the concept of a female parent in general.
>>238
metaphysics is for pseudointellectual navel-gazers who don't do anything useful in the real world
Like imagine if you were introducing the Prime Minister to a group of people and you just said "hey everyone this is Theresa" and then sat down.
>>239
both far right and far left people are anti-israel these days so I don't even know what your political beliefs are based on that post
people who are milder (neocons, centrists, statist democrats) are pro-israel
left-wing anti-israel rhetoric: free palestine, muh open borders
right-wing anti-israel rhetoeric: everything is a jewish conspiracy
I have ruined everything.
Loli the loli, loli loli loli.
You know what else is stupid? Everything you like!
I'm proud of you son
>>250
You can't fool me, my dad doesn't know how to use a computer.
I'm proud of you son
Sent from my iPhone
America has no future.
ok computer. Send the message to my son please
I'm proud of you son oh god how did I get here I am not good with computer
I am adrift.
I’m proud of you loli.
Despair.
Banjo solo
Oh, girldick isn't in my spellcheck dictionary.
It's funny how leftists are calling people "bootlicker" now, considering that they're in favor of pro-statist shit like gun control, higher taxation, etc. So they're insulting people for seemingly being okay with authority (i.e. not hating cops just because they're cops?), yet they themselves are very much ok with authority. Just as long as it's their brand of authority. And you can also tell when a liberal gets all their news from the same mainstream media sources, since they all use the same buzzwords, like toxic masculinity, white fragility, white privilege, bootlicker, etc. They pretend that they're intellectuals who have come to their own political conclusions, but is it really a coincidence that their views line up with mainstream media outlets exactly? And they just so happen to use the same new-age terminology?
Or, more likely, they are just succumbing to propaganda. But they'd never admit that.
>considering that they're in favor of pro-statist shit like gun control
lmao not on leftypol they are not
have you tried not being a bootlicker?
>>263
well at least we can agree that guns are important for protecting against tyranny
Before gun control:
Law-abiding citizens have guns
Criminals have guns
Police have guns
Military has guns
After gun control:
Law-abiding citizens don't have guns
Criminals have guns
Police have guns
Military has guns
imagine if furries were given the same treatment trannies have now
they'd get surgery to add hair all over their bodies
and we'd be forced by media elites to accept them, or else we'd be fired and shamed for being bigots
tolerance of degeneracy is not a good thing
I'm fucking hammered
>>265
actually in some countries police don't have guns
maybe even the majority
>>268
Only four or five countries have police officers that don't regularly carry guns. And even then they still have access to guns when they need them.
I love myself and I want to live, because it's summer
>since they all use the same buzzwords, like toxic masculinity, white fragility, white privilege, bootlicker, etc.
I didn't know these terms were used outside tumblr. I still really don't care what "leftists" are doing or what any other demographic's opinion on them is, but I think it's a mistake to make assumptions about people's background just because they use similar terminology in certain places.
Gun control debates always make me laugh... the whole concept seems ridiculous but I can only think "hmm, that country's fucked up, that they even need to have this debate chortle" Posts like >>265 are absurd to me but I'm so removed from the setting, I guess that's really a problem in your country? Lol
Is the intent of "gun control" really to take guns away from people? I thought it was just to make sensible restrictions on how to get a gun, to make it harder for nutjobs to just pick up an assault rifle and go on a spree?
>>273
America already has "sensible restrictions." Mass shootings are a non-issue
yeah, dying in a mass shooting is the least of your worries when you've got the hamburger McPolice shooting people 30 times in the back in self defense
>>272
You probably live in a safe area. That's why you think guns are unnecessary. Guess what? I live in a very violent area. Guns are important.
GET ON THE GROUND NOW
ON YOUR BACK
NOW CRABWALK TOWARDS ME WHILE KEEPING YOUR HANDS IN THE AIR
blam blam blam
I DIDN'T SAY SIMON SAYS! THIS IS WHAT YOU GET FOR RESISTING ARREST!
Bystanders begin clapping and chanting "this is the price of freedom!" Those who aren't yet completely confined to mobility scooters set down their diet cokes, stand, and remove their hats to salute our brave first responders. An eagle named "State's Rights" descends from a sunbeam betwixt parted clouds and sheds a tear on the spent shell casings. All is well in America.
>I didn't know these terms were used outside tumblr.
They definitely are. I wish I had your life instead of mine, where I didn't have to deal with people who unironically say shit like that on a regular basis. I live in an ultra-liberal area. SJWs really do exist. Maybe not where you live. But you presumably living in some tiny town with only rednecks doesn't invalidate my experiences of having to deal with SJWs who say shit like that.
It sounds like your problem is less THE LIBRULS and more that you live in the fucking Bronx? Maybe stop being poor and you won't have to live in the projects with all the niggers and gang bangers, lol.
>But you presumably living in some tiny town with only rednecks doesn't invalidate my experiences of having to deal with SJWs who say shit like that.
Remember what we've said before about making presumptions and assumptions on an anonymous text board. I never even attempted to invalidate your experiences, chill out dude!
I wrote a long post but then macOS closed all my programs and restarted to install an OS update. I'm so glad I have a Mac! Not.
I guess I should clarify I was almost done writing the post and lost it all because of the update.
Large number of weirdly Ameri-centric posts recently. Can we not?
>>285
Don't worry, Windows does that too. Funny how they have the most money but are the only major OSes still unable to do system updates without restarting.
>>285 I'm sure you can turn off the automatic update/restart. I've used Macs for 20 years, but it's only since Yosemite that I've had anything to complain about.
>>280 So that narrows it down to either Aleppo, Mogadishu, or St. Louis. Not sure which is worse, you poor thing. Have you ever thought about heading down to the German embassy and applying for asylum?
>>289
Highly doubt there are only 3 places in the world safer to live than NYC
>>290 that's because there's lots of them, sweetie. You presumably living in Chiraq surrounded by hordes of rapacious human orcs doesn't invalidate my experience of living in flyoverland and being able to go outside after dark without being shot and stabbed.
>>292
Wait, that was me. Never mind.
I could say the same thing after reading it correctly though:
Highly doubt there are only 3 places in the world less safe to live than NYC
This is unbearable.
Right?
I'm hungry.
Thin-king.
"W-why are people trying to have discussions that make me uncomfortable? I'm sheltered and I want to remain sheltered instead of acknowledging a lot of the issues in the world!"
Discussions? Where?
What the heck's a subtweet?
>>301
It's 2018 and you don't even know basics of social media? Come on.
LGBT = Leftists Generally Bully Traditionalists
I hope you find happiness
rape my fist
I'm drinking AGAIN
>2018
What? It’s 1993, and this is the social media and I don’t see a fucking subtweet button anywhere.
i love the meme
smoke memes erryday
meme my ass dude
Seriously?
4 realz yo
Instagram is disingenuous braggadocio bullshit. I know depressed people who post nothing but happy things on it. They're pretending to be happier and more successful than they really are. Maybe it convinces people who don't know them well in real life, but you can't fool me. I know them well enough to see through this facade.
She works at Starbucks, but she's gone to all these different countries? The numbers don't add up. Either she's lying, or her parents are paying for her travels.
Nowadays, lots of people use tech on a very cursory level. But there are very few people who are genuinely tech-savvy.
Someone might use Facebook and a phone and a computer, but they don't know about rooting Android, they don't know about malware, don't know about Linux, NoScript, VPNs, CVEs, data structures and algorithms, why it's important to update, alternative ROMS, kali, wireshark, shodan, Tor, RESTful APIs, MEAN stack development, shell scripts, etc etc. But because they are able to press the power button and do simple tasks, they think they're tech-savvy. Never used an IDE in their life. Couldn't write a fizzbuzz if their life depended on it. But they still call themselves nerds and say they're into tech. Why? The other day a guy was complaining about ads on his phone, so I told him to install Firefox and uBlock Origin. He told me he wouldn't do that because he didn't want to install "cleaner apps" on his phone. He thinks Firefox is junkware, comparable to fake antivirus. I was trying to help him with a phone issue he was describing, yet he rejected my proposed solution.
Then you have the people who've done simple shit like assembling a computer. They think putting a graphics card into a PCIe 16x slot is somehow equivalent to having a computer science degree. As if putting standardized components together is the height of tech-savviness. I've also noticed that, among people who do this, when they tell me about it, they talk down to me, because their initial assumption is that nobody else knows how to do this. Why? Dunning-Kruger?
Then there are the tribalist retards. Some nerds see my MacBook and automatically assume that I don't use anything else. Yeah, go ahead and tell me how you saved so much money building a desktop. Apparently it's impossible for someone to build their own desktop and use a MacBook too! Wow! Congratulations! You know me and my tech usage better than I do! Fucking retards. Oh yeah, and tell me I've never used Windows either, even though I use VMs, Parallels, multi-booting, etc. You, as the "PC Master Race" sperglords, know about Windows more than I do. It's not like I write software for Windows or anything. Nope. Not at all. What's GitHub? I don't know. It's not like I have a lot of open source projects for multiple platforms or anything.
That being said, technology sucks. One of these days, I just want to throw out all of my tech and move to some tiny town in the middle of nowhere and become a farmer or some shit and go to church and have a traditional family. Technology is soulless garbage and programming sucks the life out of me. I hate the kinds of morally-vacuous bugmen who get into tech. I hate gamer types who think games are the only reason to use computers. I hate the security dilettantes who think knowing about cross-site scripting makes them fucking experts on hacking. I hate how smug people get when they learn how to do simple shit. I hate how tech is being used for surveillance and automation to make people's lives worse, with unemployment, the death of privacy, and other bullshit too.
Do you think tech is good? I think it's making society worse in a lot of ways.
>>318
Instagram is actually the only social media I can stand, since I can just mindlessly look at interesting pictures without having to read all the drama, bullshit, and politics that inundates other networks. Probably only works that way if you have chill friends though.
>>320,321
You know what's even more annoying? Being one of those people who mostly uses tech on a cursory level to play video games and shit, but also being "the tech guy" in my family that everyone comes to with dumb questions because I know how to snap legos together and installed ubuntu once. People bring me all their stupid devices and expect me to know exactly what it is and how to fix it like I'm a fucking tech-priest or something.
>because they are able to press the power button and do simple tasks, they think they're tech-savvy.
There are people out there who can't even do that. Pushing the power button and reading the text a box on the screen and following the instructions in the text is some kind of fucking ancient voodoo to them and people who are able to do it are sorcerers of utmost power and esteem. Sometimes it's hard to remember that it's not you that's particularly smart, it's just the people around you that are dumb.
It's not entirely their fault though. College recruiters and whatnot get people into STEM and computer fields by making it sound like you're gonna be the fucking science officer of the USS Enterprise pushing the limits of technology and boldly going where no man has etc etc. What conceal from you is that those jobs do exist, but you're much more likely to end up as an dead-eyed code monkey making fart apps for iOS or snapping legos together for some HVAC company in Shattuck, Oklahoma.
Also I don't think it's exactly limited to computers. These days, if you know how to change your own oil you're an expert car mechanic. Know how to make a roux and you're a 4 star chef. The days of the renaissance man, the person who has at least a cursory understanding of the way the things around him work, are long over. Now are the days of infantilized bugmen who make a service call to the cable company to have them come out and power cycle their modem.
Stupid techno dweebs
>>326
I'm not just a techno dweeb. I'm a jaded techno dweeb, thank you very much.
besides, I'm not a tech priest, I'm a tech paladin, tyvm.
What’s a MacBook, what’s a pc, the thought of hardware defined systems was archaic in the early 90s how are you people still entrenched in this bullshit. The system exists as a disparate set of interfaces guaranteed to have hardware backing them up somewhere over a good network and that’s all the system needs to know. Agnostic of hardware and software version minutae and even general OS constraints the 9P passes through all equally regardless of actual hardware location. In the distant past the promises of utility were kept by having locked down systems of stable pieces, the plan9 lets these promises be fulfilled by having the necessities be allowed to be freely and transparently mounted from anywhere in the system even across different architectures and component versions.
Computer is over, the system has begun.
Wounded animals.
neckman
the subset of people who are aware of both
a) the existence of an NBA player named 'jabari parker'
b) the existence of kemono friends
i find this infinitely amusing because i am 12 years old
There's been a change recently in my perceived meaning of nerd. It used to be people who don't understand and are not understood by normalfags because of their uncommon or unusually intense interests. But now it seems almost derogatory, suggestive of extreme narrow-mindedness and of an unjustified sense of self-superiority. Maybe I never understood that word properly. Maybe I had some stakes in not understanding it properly.
>>329
A slightly corrupted version of your dreams of remote computing and non-standardized hardware are being brought to reality right now: people call it the cloud and smartphones. I dislike it.
we out here eating avocados
It really makes the kids violent!
oh hey millions now living is on spotify and stuff, it wasn't there last time i checked.
>A slightly corrupted version of your dreams of remote computing and non-standardized hardware are being brought to reality right now: people call it my butt and smartphones. I dislike it.
Haha I always forget about this browser extension!
I love
>>334
You never understood it properly. Nerd originally came from ‘knurd’ which is ‘drunk’ backwards, as in a person so uptight that they are no fun to be around. Which while it applies to people who are studious, generally was just someone who couldn’t have fun and took themselves seriously regardless of actual wit or importance.
I am not here.
>tfw no racist chiropractor gf
I hate my ex but she's undoubtedly hotter than anyone I will ever date in the future
My ex is hotter than my wife, but she definitely wasn't wife material. Still fap to memories of her sometimes though.
Edit: My first gold! Thank you, woah, did not expect this to blow up
Are we in a college bubble? Is it going to burst?
Sure, having an education sounds great and all. I'm glad I went to college. But at the same time, this level of debt is unacceptable. Maybe parents for future generations will only let their kid go to college if they're genuinely talented or studying a major that will definitely lead to a good career, instead of this gender studies/underwater basketweaving nonsense. Not worth the massive debt unless there's a return on investment. For many right now, there is none.
Free higher education rules!
absolute unit 731
I long for death.
>>354
The evil selfish rich of course. They have infinite money just waiting to be taxed.
out of touch monolingual boomers: "adult" isn't a verb! neither is "medal"! grrrr!
me, a professional NEET and cringe weeaboo: um, literally anything is a verb if you want it to be, just add する
>>360 no, but I have to admit to taking inspiration as to the format from various twitter posts
>>351
It's definitely a bubble, but it's probably gonna fizzle rather than burst. Student loans are a lot harder to escape than housing loans, so it's not like everybody can just suddenly stop paying them. They just keep paying less and less every year.
>>354
Taxes. The US has cut education funding dramatically since the 2008 recession (<a href="https://www.cbpp.org/research/state-budget-and-tax/a-lost-decade-in-higher-education-funding">Source</a>) and while it's slowly rising, they could definitely do better. The US can't afford to make college completely free like a smaller country such as Germany, but it could definitely do better. Even without raising taxes, the US could simply cut other parts of the budget, such as defense, to pay for education.
Without state funding, the cost of education shifts from taxpayers to students, which just makes the problem worse. Students can't afford to contribute to the economy because they're too busy paying off student loans. Colleges make budget cuts, decreasing the quality of education and producing less students who are good for the economy. The only people who profit from the situation are moneylenders, and even they might take a loss when the bubble fizzles.
That said, the belief that everybody needs a college education is silly to begin with. For many jobs, experience and training in a specific skill-set is much more important. But everybody wants to get a degree, leading to degree inflation: these days a bachelor's degree is practically meaningless unless you went to a big-name school, and even then employers still value actual skill and experience more than the piece of paper.
Speaking of unnecessary education, US medical students typically need to study 8 years vs. 5-6 years in the rest of the world. The extra two years doesn't increase the quality of the doctors, it just increases health care costs because we need to pay doctors more to pay off their massive tuition debts.
So yeah, these problems could be solved by lower enrollment, lower degree requirements for jobs, and higher education spending. But good luck convincing Americans to do either of those.
everything happens so much
listening to deftones when you're sad
That's real suffering.
It feels good to be a zebra sometimes.
KKK robes but with the supreme logo on it
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Supreme-logo-newyork.png
ironically, of course
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I hardly exist.
>>370
same as everybody else, my dude
when you're self-loathing, just remember that you're in the same boat as everyone else
other people are equally helpless, sad, powerless, etc.
The problem with most of the threads here (aside from this one) is that they're just lists, not discussions. So many posts, but very little interaction between users.
Ctrl+v, google, youtube, etc. -- these threads have next to zero interaction, it's just a place where people mutually post shit that almost no one replies to or discusses.
And when you actually do reply, people think that's a problem. Then they bring up eternal september for the millionth time, which I doubt most people here were even around for in the first place. Weird board culture. Isn't the point of a text board to talk with other people? A discussion board should have actual discussions, not just lists.
I got another SJW twitter account banned lol owned
I've felt that too, the list threads are fine but this is pretty much the only thread that gets any kind of actual interaction and back-and-forth between users. But actually I think the problem is that this thread has become kind of the catchall for anything that isn't listposting and trying to make a discussion thread on this or that topic ends with someone posting 2GET and the thread dying after like 8 posts.
Then again looking back through the thread list, most threads fall off in activity after maybe 30 posts at most.
>>372 Individualism is frowned upon. That's what started the downfall of imageboards.
>>376
so having discussions is considered "individualism" and that's seen as a bad thing? nah, even image boards, and other text boards aside from this one, have way more discussion
Or did I misinterpret your post?
The Unreal Engine 2 is such a buggy mess.
>>374
Yeah, list or game threads are successful because it's easy to keep them alive. Discussions don't usually last that long.
We could start a [general discussion] thread but it wouldn't be that different than the current thoughts thread, and the arbitrary requirement to talk to other people rather than just posting random shit would probably cause it to die off. I think it's fine the way it is now.
I actually kind of like the list threads because it's like going to an art gallery. You're presented with the art with little-to-no explanation and you just have to judge for yourself what to think of it.
>>384
I've developed the bad habit of drinking everyday. My wife and I are supporting each other's bad habit because everytime I think, "nah I don't need a drink today" she goes to the fridge and says tantalizingly "anything to drrriiink? ;)" and I cave.
Movie characters are way too nonchalant about serious shit happening. Someone got shot? No big deal, huh? There was a huge explosion and the main character almost died? Shrug it off. Not a problem.
Yeah, right! People in the real world get upset over fucking tweets. You think people wouldn't get upset over actually hardcore shit? Of course they would! How about a movie where there's only one action scene and the rest of the movie is the character getting therapy for the ensuing PTSD instead of just acting "cool" in such a way that destroys any semblance of verisimilitude!
>>372 I don't think it's a problem not having discussion in those "list" threads; every textboard has random youtube video and wikipedia threads and the like, but I've always been fascinated by ＤＱＮ ＱＵＡＬＩＴＹ and how you were able to trace an outline of what it meant in those threads. The content seemingly comes from disparate places, but at the same time there's a common thread, and by lurking you were able to understand and read the vibe of the place. You didn't need extra commentary to understand where the poster was coming from. The Eternal September thing is a bit tongue-in-cheek but is still relevant, and it's kind of one of the central themes of the place more than just one of the memes. Like that other guy said, it seems a bit like going to a wine-tasting club then complaining that they keep talking about wine!
I like the current thought and ctrl+v threads as well, because it gives a small interesting window into a dokyun's life. "Hmmm I wonder what they were doing that left that in their clipboard!" I like it when we discuss things, but it's plain annoying when someone gives an opinion with the assumption that what they're saying is really important and you have to care about this. Maybe sometimes I do agree but I don't want to hear about it here. It's nothing to do with being sheltered or blinkered, I can go elsewhere for talking about The Issues - there's a time and a place.
>>388
more like it's like a wine club where they only drink the same kind of wine for 10 years and then someone dares to suggest that maybe they should try some other kind of wine for once and then everyone gets mad and says that the kind of wine they've been drinking is the best and that there's no need to ever try anything else
posting selfies on instagram doesn't mean you're a model
I view posting in the current thoughts thread the same way as those monks that create intricate, painstaking Mandalas out of sand and then destroy them immediately. The beauty of posting lies in the transient nature of the posts, and the act of creation itself. Even if no one sees them, that's ok. The obsession with having someone read and reply to your ** obviously very important** post only leads to attachment, which leads to suffering.
I write plenty of posts in this comment box and then just delete them, because they're un-self-contained enough that if I posted them, somebody might start a discussion. I don't want discussion. I want a scattered string of disjointed, sometimes vaguely connected thoughts. And this is fine.
>>391
but instagram is how you get to be signed by a model agency nowadays.
Love this thing, but the numpad keys are laid out wrong dammit.
>>397 But it's hip and trendy! You dinosaurs are living in the past with your pressed grapes
>>400
I post here all the time, you just don't know which posts are mine and which aren't. Is it because you think I only post posts that you dislike?
And don't derail the thread into meta-shitposting and then blame me for it again.
I hope iOS-chan gets murdered in his bed.
Not as edgy as the knife I like to imagine plunging into his neck while he sleep.
Chill is what's going to happen to your decapitated head lol.
Suffering silently.
>>401 We thought you left because it's been almost an entire week without some joker retard derailing a 3000 day old thread into "why communism is super cool and DQN is a bunch of problematic racist neckbeards". It's actually been really fucking nice tbh.
Also, don't even try to pretend you're not also the "I live in the ghetto and it sucks and this is somehow the fault of the LIBTARDS" poster, your posting style is literally exactly the same right down to accusing everyone who finds you annoying of not having gone to college or flippantly dismissing entire posts full of paragraphs of counterarguments with "whats the matter cant handle different opinions? triggered echo chamber lOL!!!!1".
I'm sure when you're taking your schizo meds you're a perfectly fine poster, so just keep doing that, and remember that this is an anonymous board and not every thread has to be about you and your super important opinions.
>"why communism is super cool and DQN is a bunch of problematic racist neckbeards"
I think helping people when they're in need is good and I don't like when people post the n word or other slurs here. What's wrong with that?
>"I live in the ghetto and it sucks and this is somehow the fault of the LIBTARDS"
I do indeed live in an area with high crime, and SJWs are indeed annoying. I am not an SJW. I also like the environment. Someone posted the n word when talking about where I live, and that's not okay.
These things do not contradict each other. If you think they do, it's because you think people's views need to be a.) static and b.) exactly like caricatures of political parties.
Real life views aren't as simple as being 100% stereotypically group A or 100% stereotypically group B. People are also allowed to change their opinions over time. I am neither a republican nor a democrat.
>not every thread has to be about you and your super important opinions
I didn't make the posts about myself. I sometimes make posts about ideology or politics, but that's not about me -- that's about issues. You try to make it about me. I don't.
I am simply responding to posts other people have made, such as your post. Don't derail this thread, focus on me, and then blame me when you're the ones talking about me. I don't come up with a name for myself -- someone else calls me "iOS-chan". I do not post with a name or tripcode, nor am I interested in being known with a name here. I am not making this thread about me. Someone else (or multiple other people) are. That is not my fault. Stop derailing the thread.
Stop posting about me. That's not what this thread is for.
Lastly, you seem to think sarcasm is "schizo" or trolling or something. Sarcasm and satire are perfectly legitimate. If I posted something like "I just LOVE when people make posts like that" I might really mean I don't like it at all. That's not dishonesty, that's just sarcasm. If you can't understand sarcasm or satire, it's not my fault.
>>411 You are a literal stereotype, and the fact you actually think that "republican" and "democrat" are political positions is proof of the uselessness of trying to discuss politics with Americans.
And no, "sarcasm" is not being schizophrenic. Sarcasm is also not what you are doing. You seem to think that you're much more clever than you actually are. What you are doing is posting variously from one of several disjointed personae, seemingly without being aware of it later on when another persona takes over. As in literal schizophrenia, not just the meme internet one.
>>413 I don't think accusing him of having schizophrenia is going to do any good.
>I think
>I don't like
>I do indeed
>I didn't
>I am simply
But I am not the one making this thread about me and my opinions, no, that is you!
Hot tip for you champ: no one gives a single unitary FUCK what you think or what you like.
>several disjointed personae
I think you just don't understand that people's views aren't as simple as you want them to be. I'm not schizophrenic lol. And maybe you think I made posts I actually didn't make.
And touching on what I said before: exaggeration, hyperbole, jokes, satire, and sarcasm -- these aren't schizophrenia. People with autism or asperger's syndrome have difficulty understanding them though. So is that why you don't get it?
But as I said, stop derailing this thread.
>>416
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>>415
Good job ignoring the rest of the post. Great reading comprehension.
>>420
you're posting about the person you want people to stop talking about
do you not see the irony?
hmmm
me: this board has too many list threads
you: fuck you here's a death threat and some bullshit attacks on your political views that you posted a long time ago
me: that's not ok also you are misrepresenting my views so let me clarify some political stuff because it's cool to talk about values, I wouldn't have brought it up again but because you brought it up so I'm gonna correct you
you: you're so self-centered omg stop posting about yourself all the time why do you make everything about you wtf
bruh...
you: i am super gay and eat poop and have an iq of 79. the only way i know how to structure a post is with imageboard tier greentext, but i won't be able to pretend to be an epic dqn oldfag if i do that so i'll replace all the >s with "you:" and "me:" and no one will notice the difference! i am brilliant!
dqn: sitting around the wine tasting club talking about whatever
you: prances into the room in a hula skirt with a pineapple on your head screaming that wine is shit and everyone is a racist while twerking your ass in people's faces
dqn: what is wrong with that guy? lol.
you: STOP POSTING ABOUT ME GO BACK TO POSTING ABOUT WINE IT'S YOU WHO MAKES EVERYTHING ABOUT ME, NOT ME
>>424
are you seriously complaining that someone is using a built-in feature of the board software? quoting is a part of this website's code
besides, quoting originated from email, not "imageboard tier greentext" and quoting is a normal part of textual communication
for people who talk about eternal september so much, you really don't know much about the internet
>>426 are you seriously this dumb, or are you being purposely dense to prove a point?
>be le me
>be le neurotic narcissistic 4channer with a heavy persecution complex
>be le literally incapable of forming a complete sentence without meme arrows
>LE QUOTING IS A LE INTEGRAL PART OF TEXTUAL COMMUNICATIONS! I DONT HAVE TO QUOTE THINGS YOU ACTUALLY SAID THATS WHAT IT SAYS IN RHTE RUUULKES I CAN POST WHATEVER I WANT XDDDDD FUCK YOUR FAGGOT RULES EBIN TROLLED XXXXXXDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
Imagine getting this mad about quotes, or people having opinions about politics.
This is what happens when you're in the habit of talking in an extremely structured/restrictive way for too long. Can't accept anything different. But it can be good to have an open mind and really listen to different perspectives.
When Galileo was right about the earth revolving around the sun, instead of the other way around (which was accepted as true at the time), he was attacked for thinking differently, even though he was right. People wanted their comforting lies instead of thinking critically to find the truth. Nobody likes their worldview to be challenged.
>>430 imagine being this fucking dumb and american that you think people are mad at you for "having opinions" and not for being an obnoxious dumbass.
>>431
So talking about anything that isn't completely boring is obnoxious? We should all just discuss today's weather, or some flavor-of-the-month TV show you're watching, huh? Riveting!
>>432 i'm not talking about quoting text from a post you dense fucking retard i'm talking about when you completely ignore the actual text of the post and do this twumbler tier
me: reasonable, objectively correct thing
you: LITERALLY INSANE WITH RAGE COMPLETELY INCOHERENT RARRRR
me: i have obviously won
thing
Nobody ever really even talks about the Eternal September other than when someone refers to mad dates in the future... it's like back in the day when people would start threads on /m/ and say "What's /mu/'s thoughts on _____?" and the regulars would chuckle and say "Why don't you ask them". One of those telltale signs that they stumbled in from the rain.
>>433 American politics are not only boring as hell but quite distasteful. Nothing but idiots screeching at each other over pee-pee sex tapes and arguing over who the "literally hitler" of the month is. People have expressed this to you multiple, multiple times, and you ignore it and continue pretending dqns just "can't handle alternative views" or whatever.
>>434
I only made a post about list threads, then people made it about me. It was a quick way to summarize what happened, using the format that you have a problem with. But you apparently had no problem with the posts leading up to it? And are people just going to ignore the death threats? That's not okay either.
Look at >>372- and the following responses. I didn't make it about me, I was just noticing how weird it is for many threads to have very little interaction. Then posting devolved into personal attacks. But that's not what it was originally about.
Man my balls are so sweaty, don't you just love to squat down when your underwear is sodden with sweat and take a right good huff?
Meh, death threats on the internet aren't so bad, no big deal.
>>435
Okay then. If you had your way, what would /dqn/ consist of? List threads of Wikipedia articles of people whose names sound like funny words? People posting old aa art or anime stuff? That's it? You really want it to be so restrictive that people can't post about anything else? How come? Or do you think posts like >>438 are better? Yikes.
>>436
I never mentioned any of those things. Additionally, topics such as deep ecology are not even American. Deep ecology, especially Linkola-based ideology, is Finnish. Do you think Finland is in America?
I am not talking about Trump or Hillary. I am talking about Linkola. I suppose Ted is American. But it has less to do with American fad politics and more to do with general dislike of modernity, which is not an inherently American phenomenon. I do occasionally express dislike for US-specific things, but not the "pee-pee sex tapes" or "literally hitler" things you mentioned.
Why do you think it's wrong to be conscious of current political issues? Should we all just resort to escapism and not work on anything? It seems like a lot of people here like escapism, such as anime or games. But what does that accomplish? When there are problems in the world, ignoring them won't fix anything.
I wonder what espeon-chan is up to right now.
>>437 Yeah. >>374,375 were me. As you can see, we again agree on the fundamental truth of the matter yet you carry on far past the point when the discussion stopped being interesting, trying to turn that agreement into an opportunity to proselytize on how you personally think DQN should be like.
It's like you think pointing out banal, obvious things makes you some kind of visionary and then start acting like a college freshman who came back to his hometown for the summer and had to spend the entire time telling everyone why everything they're doing is bad and wrong. That is what's obnoxious about your posts, I physically could not give less of a fuck about your extremely basic and sterile opinions if you paid me to.
>>443
What are your political views? What are your values in life? I'd like to know. It's good to hear from other perspectives. Seriously.
I'd also like to point out that people can indeed not practice what they preach. For example, I drink, but I think alcohol is bad. That doesn't mean someone is a troll, or that they're schizophrenic, it just means they're not perfect.
So when people claim that posts are "disjointed" or whatever, sometimes people are conflicted or unsure of things, or sometimes they change their mind, or yes, sometimes people are indeed hypocritical. We're only human.
>>440 Did you mean to direct that >>435? That was me and I didn't say anything about what you're talking about. I meant somebody keeps saying that we go on and on and on about the Eternal September, but in all honesty it rarely comes up in the conversation. Talk about anything, I don't give a fuck, personally a lot of people's opinions and their belief that it matters (on this particular text board of all places) just makes me chuckle is all
>>446
I post on anonymous boards about these things because discussing politics with friends, family, or coworkers can be stressful, especially when they're diametrically opposed to your views. Posting politics on social media, like Twitter, is an easy way to have a bad time, with trolling, doxxing, harassment, people trying to get you fired, etc.
/pol/ is too /pol/ for me. Tumblr is too tumblry. Reddit censors people and it has that shitty "I fucking love science XD" attitude. Twitter has the "twitter do ya thing!" brigading/mob mentality problem. Instagram is just about pretending your life is cooler than it really is. Facebook is garbage. None of those places are suitable for serious discussions about ideology or political views.
Sometimes you just want to discuss issues, but there isn't necessarily a perfect place to do so. So you settle with some not-really-great place to post.
This is far from the only place I post online. But it's the only place I talk about these kinds of issues.
Identity is complicated. You have different titles. A single person can be a man, a son, a father, a husband, an employee, a coworker, an event organizer, a friend, a patient, a customer, an acquaintance, a car in traffic, and a stranger. It depends on how you know that person. To different people, that same person seems like a completely different person, because of their roles. They do not conduct themselves the same in every relationship. Social media is similar. Not all discussions or posts are suitable for all platforms. But sometimes, there isn't a great place for certain things. A lot of social media structures lead to pigeonholing, and there isn't always a right answer of where to put something.
>>447 Man, that's time I won't get back, what did any of that have to do with the post you're replying to? Why is this you only place you talk about these kinds of things, surely the least relevant place for it out of all the places you post online?
>people's opinions and their belief that it matters (on this particular text board of all places) just makes me chuckle is all
From >>435:
>t's like back in the day when people would start threads on /m/ and say "What's /mu/'s thoughts on _____?" and the regulars would chuckle and say "Why don't you ask them".
You're saying this isn't the right place for it. I'm saying there is no right place for it. Besides, what harm is there in talking about that kind of stuff here?
>>444 I actually considered making a thread like "outline your political views ITT" but decided against it, figuring it would get too heated. I guess I can just do it here. Plus, I think our perspectives are more similar than you might think.
Note, all copulaic(x is/are y) statements to follow should be read as if they started with "In my opinion,...", I just can't be assed writing it every time.
Anyway, in my teens, I would have at points variously called myself a Communist, or a Trotskyist, or a Fascist, partially out of a teenage desire to be edgy but also because of, at least I thought so at the time, an attraction to ideologies with a strong, centralized authority. However I realized later on that it wasn't the strong authority I was attracted to but rather the revolutionary utopianism of those ideologies, all of which seek to deconstruct the modern capitalist system and build something new and better(from the perspective of the ideology itself) in its place. I've since become disillusioned with all of them after realizing that they still have the fundamental problem of quashing people into cogs in a vast machine of state. I do still find that revolutionary utopianism attractive, though.
Nowadays, I refuse to call myself an anything-ist. Isms mean being fettered by ideological purity and being forced to approach every problem not from the perspective of "what is the best thing to do here" but rather "what would a perfect *ist do here"?
Fundamentally, I believe people ought to be free to do what they like without interference from the government, as long as it doesn't harm others (this would extend to causing indirect harm, such as littering or polluting). Economic growth ought to be secondary to the health and wellbeing not just of citizens but of the environment. If we take it as axiomatic that the primary concerns of the state are the security, health, and overall wellbeing of its citizens, then education and healthcare ought to be subsidized. Since citizens already contribute part of their income to pay for their collective security(ie, they fund the military with their taxes), I don't think funding the other two as well is that big of a stretch. Fully funding them 100% for whoever wants them might not be feasible in as big a country as America but you lot could probably still afford to partially subsidize them as well.
Building on the collective security aspect, I disagree with the statement that "violence is never the answer", but it should be a last resort. Both states and individuals should have the right to defend themselves from aggressors.
There probably are fundamental biological differences between the races and genders, but rather than trying to erase racism and sexism by pretending there aren't, we should embrace them as part of the diversity of the human species.
I do sympathize with migrants and refugees seeking to build a better life in another place, however most people advocating the hardest for open borders and unlimited immigration quotas are capitalist elites seeking to poison the well of public discourse by presenting it as an issue of race to disguise the fact that they're making huge profits off those people. The ones that do work drive down the cost of labor and reduce wages across the board, the ones that don't work and instead receive welfare or something still necessarily use that welfare money to purchase goods and services, which basically turns the welfare which was made with good intentions to keep people from starving and dying in the street like they used to, into an indirect subsidy of their businesses and enterprises.
continuing in next post since this ended up being too long
Sexuality is a spook, and at its core is just another ism that leads to tribalistic thinking. Just fuck who you want to fuck and leave each other alone about it. It's not super important.
Religion is a spook, and mostly a tool for enforcing social cohesion via shame and encouraging ingroup-outgroup thinking. However people should be free to believe what they want, as long as they don't use it as an excuse to harm others.
Discussion and debate, especially of politics, should occur with the goal of discovering the fundamental truth or best course of action of a particular matter, not simply proving yourself right and your "opponent" wrong. Sometimes you may truly be objectively right and your "opponent" objectively wrong, but using that as a foil to develop your own viewpoint and reach a mutual understanding is also part of the course of a proper debate.
>>451
I might address more of your points later, but for now, on the topic of sexuality: I think people spend too much time talking about sexuality and LGBT stuff, to the point of it being a "distraction" issue (though that might seem paranoid), and not enough time discussing other issues. It's like, democrats and republicans will debate whether they support gay marriage, but they won't talk about the pitfalls of capitalism, consumerism, how to fix poverty or climate change, etc. So it's a safe issue to bring up, regardless of their stance on it. That being said, I'm against degeneracy in a lot of ways, since I'm pro-family values and all that.
But I also feel like it's a case of a prisoner decorating their cell walls. By that, I mean people who are powerless to change or discuss other meaningful aspects of their lives fixate on things that they can change/do: pronouns, sexuality/gender identity, etc. People who are powerless, unhappy, etc. cling to the few things they feel like they have control over, and then they obsess over them, rather than working towards other things that might seem insurmountable. Sexuality is not the biggest problem in life right now, but many shift goalposts and talk about it like it's the only thing in life because they feel like they can't do anything else.
I also feel like some people only claim to be LGBT for attention, since social media makes people think that you're better if you have more friends, likes, comments, etc.
It's also used as a political weapon now too, like "this guy said 'faggot' once 10 years ago, let's get him fired" but the ulterior motive is that the person actually supports a political party they dislike, and the "homophobic" thing is just a farce.
But it also seems like an agenda is being pushed, since there is a lot of anti-white/anti-traditional rhetoric in the mainstream media now, and people are encouraging abortions, not having kids, being gay, etc. But meanwhile, the same media outlets are pushing for mass immigration. I'm not a neocon or a republican, since they're anti-environment and pro-capitalism and shit, but at the same time, I can't help but feel like there's an concerted effort to push for mass immigration. It's not about diversity, it's about capitalism. Need more people from other countries to increase sales to make fatcat shareholders happy. But it also feels like population replacement. I don't like that.
>>452 Yeah, that's what I was getting at. I don't have a problem with LGBT people per se(I'm not exactly straight as an arrow myself), but I feel like LGBT issues get disproportionate coverage in the media and public discourse.
I really like your second paragraph, and the statement that no matter what one's actual stance is, LGBT issues are a "safe" issue to bring up because getting people riled up about other people's genitals and their choice of who to rub those genitals on keeps them from getting riled up about how their suffering is being exploited by the capitalist elites to make massive, unthinkable profits that they'll never see even a fraction of a cent of because it's sitting in a bank account in the Cayman Islands or something.
I used to be a boob guy but recently starting to appreciate ass and legs as well
EOVUTIONL
Put it another way: I'm a male, my preferred sexual partner is other males. I won't try to hide that, but neither is it the ALL ENCOMPASSING CORE of my personality and worldview. It's just one of many things that make me "me", but for some people it feels like that's all there is to them. It feels like that for a lot of straight people too, we just don't think of it in those terms. Being overly obsessed with sex in general, where to have it, who to have it with, etc etc is just another symptom of the poison of modernity.
If you can't hear the "subete ni kaeru" at the beginning, it's not loud enough.
>>455
I've only had sex with girls before, but I sometimes have gay thoughts, even though I've never been with a guy. I might consider getting with a guy at some point, or maybe not, but at the end of the day, I still want to eventually have a wife and kids, not a husband or boyfriend. But I'd say that having gay thoughts doesn't mean your identity is being gay. I think we are all hardwired for heterosexuality.
I still see my occasional gay thoughts as a problem, not something to accept. Some people have anxiety, some people have down syndrome, some people have gay thoughts. I think it's a mental illness and it shouldn't be normalized.
The most fundamental purpose of our lives is to reproduce. It's in our DNA. Besides, then you can continue your genes and raise people who will have your views and whatnot. Teach them to care about what you care about. Teach them your trade early in life so they'll be even better at it than you are when they're your age. If you're a programmer, teach them programming early. If you're a welder, teach them welding early. Teach them your political views too. Teach them your religion. Contribute good people to the world instead of letting it decay even further. The world needs more good people. Keep your legacy going. That's really important, don't you think? But you can't do that if you're gay.
I still feel no association to the LGBT community, because it's largely anti-religion, pro-immigration, and basically pro-flavor-of-the-month leftist issues. Democrats seem to think they own the votes of minorities and gays. Not mine though.
And shit like pride parades are degenerate as hell.
"Hey, how can we convince people that gays are just normal people too?"
"Let's have huge floats with rainbows and dicks and borderline nudity and weird-ass costumes!"
Yeah, that'll show 'em.
Also, cutting your dick off and taking hormone pills doesn't magically turn a guy into a girl.
>anti-religion, pro-immigration
>flavor-of-the-month issues
lmao seriously, you realize history goes back for millenia and you can consult about it on wikipedia and your local library, where you can find that people were talking about being against religion and in favor of migration for centuries
the rest of the post, i don't know if you are LARPing as a gay/bi guy in denial, or if you just get the ocassional gay thought (pretty much everyone gets those) which you dismiss as the devil making you horny for men but there's so many naturalist fallacies and fascist shibboleths (try using degenerate less, retard) I can read before growing extremely tired of the entire thing. if i wanted to argue with spooked simpletons, i'd go to reddit.
and I don't watch much TV or any of that stuff, but I agree with the perspective that LGBT acceptance "movements" are easily co-opted by liberals who are obviously invested into not shedding a single penny for anyone in need. "gays are chill like chillary" empty idpol rhetoric can go die in a fire and this "family values" garbage this fucking neonazi is "stealthily" recruiting with, too, can literally burn in the dumpster fire of ideology where it belongs.
>>458
Wow, people did something in the past! That means my views are invalid now. Better give up caring about immigration because you said it's on Wikipedia! I can't have opinions and values when something on Wikipedia says otherwise.
Besides, how come liberals are only anti-Christianity? You bend over backwards for other religions.
>LARPing as a gay/bi guy in denial
Nope. Consider this: I can smoke a cigarette without being a smoker. It doesn't have to be all or nothing. I drink beer even though I think alcohol is bad. A cancer patient has cancer, but that doesn't mean they ENJOY having cancer. It's just something they have. They did not choose to have it, but that doesn't mean they should want to have it.
Not every person who plays games calls themselves a gamer. Not everyone who goes to the gym calls themselves a weight lifter or bodybuilder. I've had gay thoughts before, and I've looked at gay porn. But I've had a wide range of negative thoughts. I've had suicidal thoughts in the past, but should people tell me that my identity is being a suicidal person, based on fleeting thoughts that are no longer relevant? Should my identity revolve around bad thoughts I've had occasionally, or should I just acknowledge that it's a flaw and move on?
>you dismiss as the devil making you horny for men
Not what I wrote. You're trying to say I said something I didn't.
>try using degenerate less, retard
Sorry for having a moral compass?
>if i wanted to argue with spooked simpletons, i'd go to reddit.
lmao
>I don't watch much TV or any of that stuff
Neither do I. Do you really think you're so special and different?
>this "family values" garbage
Oof. Did you grow up with a mom and dad? Did they function well? I grew up in a broken home to degenerate atheist liberals who had all sorts of problems, in an extremely liberal area, possibly the most ultra-leftist areas in the country, and that has pushed me to realize that the nuclear family, religion, and conservatism (but not in a neocon sense) is important for society, for a number of reasons. Having a good upbringing during your formative years really shapes who you are, and that's why family values are important.
>fucking neonazi
White people who don't have themselves are nazis, apparently. Okay, buddy. I'm also mixed race. I think I've mentioned that before. But the fact of the matter is that there is a ton of hatred towards white people these days. That's not okay. If you don't think it's okay to hate black people, then how come you think it's okay to hate white people? What's with the double standard?
>burn in the dumpster fire of ideology where it belongs.
You're wishing death on people who disagree with you but apparently I'm the neo-nazi. Got it. No self-awareness at all.
I feel like degenerates double down and say that morality is bad because they are immoral, rather than admitting that they're wrong. Liberalism is so deeply rooted in selfishness and hedonism. Liberals want government handouts, they want to fuck whoever they choose and ignore their duty to pass on their genes to future generations, they want to legalize drugs so they can get high, they want to do everything they can to live for pleasure and dodge responsibilities.
Oh gee, here I am again trying to have a discussion in good faith (I was >>450,451,453,455 but not >>458) when iOS-chan decides that the time for good faith is over and now it's time to break out the "owning the libs" personality. Guess that's what I get for taking someone at face value when they say they want good faith political discussion when what they really want is to win "converts" to their "cause".
>now it's time to break out the "owning the libs" personality
It's called alcohol. I'm too polite when I'm sober, but I speak my mind after a few drinks.
Things that are bad:
Capitalism
Consumerism
Materialism
Postmodernism
Demagogue ideology, e.g. "Feel the Bern!"
Mainstream media outlets
Liberals
Neocons
Pollution
Libertarianism, or just the idea of having too much freedom to do bad things in general
Thinking freedom is more important than forcing people to do what's virtuous and right
Disposable culture, disposable products, disposable everything
Unsustainable economic growth
Big oil
Big pharma and trying to throw a pill at every problem rather than seeing how depression etc. are often a symptom of society being fucked up
Military industrial complex
Prison industrial complex
Billionaires
Ego-driven faux-philanthropy and NGOs
Usury
Creating a permanent underclass for cheap labor
Extreme income inequality
Globalism
Overpopulation
Isolation
Hyper-individuality
Overuse of technology
Population replacement
Democracy
Mass immigration
Sexual deviancy
Hedonism
Feminism
Misogyny
Gluttony
Social media
Being a genetic dead-end
Miscegenation
Video games
Anime
Movies
Data mining
Proprietary software
Being weak and permissive and tolerating/accepting things that shouldn't be tolerated
Gun control
Things that are good:
Family values
Traditional gender roles
Christianity
Being an active member of your church, local clubs, etc.
Modesty
Renewable energy
Small communities
Homogeneity
Benevolent authoritarianism
Recognizing some of the merits of collectivism (but not to an extreme degree) and knowing your place in your community
Worker's rights
Actual culture -- festivals, traditional garb, food, religion, art, etc -- not bugman shit like games, superhero movies, malls, and other modern bullshit that sucks the life out of people
Having a sense of purpose
Helping your local community
Conservation of nature, like protected forest areas
Helping people in need, but not creating a welfare state
Support networks (mental health treatment, homeless shelters, women's shelters for victims of domestic abuse, job placement agencies, services for disabled people, etc.)
Self-actualization
Asceticism
Stoicism
Education
Healthcare
Minimal tech usage
Weight lifting
Restraint
Discipline
Reading
Self-improvement
Continual learning, even after graduation
Privacy
Open source
Guns
>>449
"You're saying..." no I'm not, read over the things I said again, the focus of my posts was referring to comments that we keep talking about September '93
>the focus of my posts was referring to comments that we keep talking about September '93
>t's like back in the day when people would start threads on /m/ and say "What's /mu/'s thoughts on _____?" and the regulars would chuckle and say "Why don't you ask them".
yeah, that's totally about September '93
Undercover Nigger
mfw "current thought" means "huge fucking list"
remember kids, don't drink and dqn
>>466 Yes, as in, a certain thing that most boards everywhere have where regulars can identify users less savvy with the local customs. Every now and then someone drifts in and wonders about the timestamps here, and that's the only time it's mentioned. That was my original point, in response to the person who said we keep going on about it.
suddenly wobble bass
Let's make pizza
> when iOS-chan decides that the time for good faith is over and now it's time to break out the "owning the libs" personality
You can't argue with shitty nazis in good faith, that's why they need to fuck off.
"...that tree is far away..."
oh its an actual place
bring back compiz firey cubes ubuntu video tutorials to youtube
>>473
Yeah, I'm totally a nazi even though I'm white and Mexican. In another thread, people were calling me "beaner" but apparently I'm also a nazi too, according to morons like you.
Instead of trying to understand my perspective, you're just going to dismiss me and use incorrect labels.
>>476
I miss those days. Spinnan cubez. I used to use Compiz Fusion in OpenSUSE back in the day. Instead of a cube, I actually had it set up as a sphere, or maybe it was a cylinder. I don't really remember. But there was a skybox, and there were glxgears and dolphins in the center when you went to switch between virtual desktops. And fire particle animations when you minimized a window. And wobbly physics for when you moved a window, making it look like it was made of jello.
What a waste of battery life.
>>478
Maybe asceticism isn't the right word, but just general anti-hedonism. Too many people these days just live for pleasure. There's more to life than bread and circus.
I don't like the following things:
•People who don't go to the gym -- you don't have to be in perfect shape, but you have to at least try to improve yourself
•People who don't read books, or only read shitty books, like scifi, fantasy, romance, etc. rather than books about ideology, history, religion, or other important issues. There is a big difference between someone who reads Chomsky/Nietzsche/Linkola/etc and someone who reads Harry Potter or Ready Player One. Some books make you think, others are just useless ways to pass the time.
•People who enjoy TV, movies, video games, etc.
•People who constantly talk about how "bored" they are, and think being entertained is the only important thing in life
•People who don't do anything productive in their time off work/school
•Extreme wealth is corrupting, because then it changes how you live your life. You can have a mansion, sports car, golden chandeliers, fancy silverware, etc. None of that shit really matters. It's just materialistic garbage. Materialism and excess wealth are bad.
•Not having a sense of purpose in life and just floating around doing nothing in particular
•Hyper-sexuality, fueled by modern media, Tinder, etc.
•People who consume, but don't create. People who watch movies, eat comfort food, etc. but won't write something, won't program something, won't paint something, won't make things on their own. It's very liberating to make things.
You don't have to be 100% pure with asceticism, but being overly-indulgent is really bad. Modern western culture is extremely indulgent.
Here's an example of someone I know in real life: he's my age and he calls himself a gamer and a stoner. He plays games because it's fun and entertaining to him. He smokes weed to feel good. He defines his entire identity around self-absorbed pleasure-seeking. What a useless existence.
I'm somewhat hypocritical in the sense that I drink. I think alcohol is indulgent/hedonistic, so it's something I need to be aware of. But that doesn't change the way I feel about it. It doesn't make what I say invalid. You can be aware of a problem instead of pretending that everything you do is perfect. I feel like liberals nowadays are too keen on trying to accept all of their problems instead of working on them. Like fat acceptance, LGBT acceptance, etc -- why not try to work on your problems instead of giving up and forcing everyone to tolerate them?
I just spent ~4 hours in traffic while buying a toaster oven, a loaf of bread, and a hunk of cheese. This snack I am about to eat had better be fucking incredible.
>>480
4 hours?! How? I live a couple minutes away from grocery stores.
>>481
So do I. The place with a deal on toaster ovens was 20 miles in the opposite direction, though, and for most of the highway I didn't get out of second gear. I was slightly smarter with my road choice on the way back, but by then it was rush hour.
>>482
It's just okay. I got to the grocery store so late that all the newly baked bread was gone, so this loaf is a bit stale. Maybe I should moisten it a little.
On the plus side, I am now the proud owner of a semi-industrial toaster oven that uses so much wattage that it probably violates my lease every time I turn it on.
What the fuck is wrong with you people?
>>479
...so you're a right-wing sjw, even use most of their same terminology and talking points, but your main problem with your left-wing counterparts isn't that they want to legislate morality and use it as a means to control and pacify people but rather that you disagree with their specific morality? Yeah, fuck right off. You'll not get one single more attempt at good faith engagement from me.
>>485
The apartment complex I'm at doesn't take packages; I didn't know it was going to be this much hassle when I left; the deal I got was for in-store pickup only...
Seriously, this sort of thing is why I am >>394 . I am a mostly normal, boring individual. If there's a part of the story which I've left out, and which you can't reconstruct by guessing "why would a mostly normal, boring individual do this?", then it's probably not important.
2008: hah, this smartphone thing will never catch on. imagine the day when your phone of all things can get malware on it?
2018: ukrainian hackers got su on my smart toaster and in the process of using it to mine bitcoin, burnt my house down
>>486
Right wing? Yeah, sure. I guess. But not a typical neocon who only cares about tax rates and pretending that climate change is a myth. Those kinds of "right wing" politicians are useless and nothing like my views. SJW? Hell no. Maybe by SJW, you simply mean someone with strong convictions. Then sure, I guess by that definition, I am. But if you mean in terms of actual social justice and gender stuff, no way. I am diametrically opposed to that kind of ideology.
To call me a right-wing SJW really demonstrates your inability to understand what I'm saying. It's an easy way for you to be dismissive without having to think very hard about it.
>legislate morality
Legalizing and normalizing degeneracy is not "legislating morality." You're so far down the leftist rabbit hole that you don't even see how immoral your values are.
Despite being raised by and around degenerates, I've come to accept that traditional Christian values are great. with a couple twists, of course. And not that soft beta Christian "we accept everybody" brand of garbage either.
>use it as a means to control and pacify people
I'll never understand the "pacify people" argument. Are you saying people are so unstable that they need legal weed to stop themselves from doing bad? If people have lives full of meaning, they won't need pacifism. They will have purpose. A lot of the hedonistic things people do nowadays is sort of like a negative coping mechanism for dealing with how awful modern life is. How about we try and correct that and make life worth living instead of having to use a band-aid feel-good thing on top of a flawed society?
>you disagree with their specific morality
Moral relativism is a load of shit. Things are either moral or immoral. Moral absolutism. None of this humanist, secular, appeal-to-moderation, "everyone is right in their own way despite contradicting each other" logical fallacy. If I say 2+2=4 and someone else says 2+2=6, then fence-sitters would claim it's in between, so surely it must be 2+2=5. Or some people, who are afraid to take a stance, would say it's both 2+2=4 AND 2+2=6 simultaneously, because they're afraid to offend people. In reality, some people are objectively right, and some people are objectively wrong. Modern liberalism is immoral, plain and simple.
Just because something is normalized does not mean it's right. I could bring up the Galileo example again, or plenty of other things too. Even capitalism, pollution, consumerism, materialism, and mass media are normalized despite being terrible. Liberals think liberalism must be right because it's popular. Lots of popular things are awful.
People are rioting. People are extremely angry on social media. Drug usage and suicide rates are pretty high. You want to tell me that liberal America is just fine the way it is? Maybe you're from a different country, I don't know. But no matter where you are, I'm sure even you are able to see some of the problems with modern living.
>good faith engagement
Insulting me, ignoring my points (because I guess you don't have a comeback?), calling me a troll, etc. is not a "good faith engagement" by any stretch of the imagination.
>>487
You should still post your comments anyway, instead of writing and then deleting/not posting them.
You say you're a "normal, boring individual" but it's interesting to hear what you have to say. What's normal to you isn't normal to someone else. To you, it's routine. To someone else, it's different and interesting. Don't preemptively put yourself down. That's no good.
>>491
Why do people always think hackers are eastern european or Russian? Remember that US government organization called the NSA? Hello!
But even then, a lot of the real issue with security and privacy is the companies themselves, where, in one sentence in a 10,000 word EULA, they grant themselves the legal ability to spy on you and sell your personal data to advertisers using your IoT toilet.
I'm really less worried about muh Russian hackers, and more concerned about Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, etc. They have more power than most governments now.
ジェット燃料は鋼鉄のビームを溶かせない
太ったプログラマナイスガイ
産業革命とその結果は全人類にとって大災害でした。
shit breaks in linux: hi, it looks like some shit broke. here's exactly where it broke and here's what your system did to fix it. would you like to send us an error report to help keep the same shit from breaking in the future? you can see here exactly what data is in the report, if you want.
shit breaks in windows: whups, some shit somewhere broke somehow :( abort/retry/ignore?
>>497
Shit breaks in plan9: it isn’t broken, the user is broken, cat cats files onto the console and the file you opened is an infinite special node like random or kprint, this console is over until the end of time or you externally kill cat.
There was a girl in my friend group in high school. It became clear at a certain point that she had developed a crush on me. Not realizing its magnitude, and also not desirous of a romantic relationship with her, I feigned ignorance. I feigned ignorance much longer than I should have, until a mutual friend called me out publicly for "being mean to her". As if the blame for the subject never explicitly coming up in conversation lay solely at my feet. Okay, whatever.
Honestly, she was a pretty cool person aside from that tension. But it never would have worked out between us. I like to think that healthy human beings are just naturally beautiful, or close enough to get the job done. And most of them are.
But not her.
It has been several years since we graduated and went our separate ways. According to Facebook, she is now happily married and raising a bright, energetic child. And she has somehow become even uglier than she used to be.
vc:hag
>>500
Too much processed food and lethargy in modern life. Fast food, cars instead of walking, soda... terrible stuff. Bad diet makes people look like trash.
so far:
middle manager tonegawa: favorite thing so far this season, very fun, not only full of highly aware self-parody but also neat on its own as a prequel telling the origins of gentei janken. probably wouldn't recommend to friends who haven't watched kaiji already though.
jashin-chan drop kick: shit, probably gonna drop. was excited for a guro-heavy comedy that reminds of dokuro-chan but it feels derivative as hell and cheaply animated.
sunoharasou: cute and comfy and hits me right in the /ss/, not much more to say
hataraku saibou: kesshouban-chan is cute, CUTE
these days it's rare for me to pick up even one seasonal anime, let alone 4, plus there's some others that looked interesting that i haven't started yet. have the good old days finally returned and anime stopped reclining?
>>503 Aw dang Jashin-chan looked quite good. I'm finally watching Haiyoru! Nyaruko-san, just working my way down my list forgetting why I added them until the OP plays!
>>479 Hmmm, sort of interesting, though I'm a bit disappointed that asceticism isn't what you actually meant. I'm on board with some of your points, to some extent, but what I see as the main flaw there is how many of the things you don't like are things "other people" do. Everyone is thrust into this world by chance and are given a finite amount of time on it, and everyone is stumbling around looking for their place and their purpose. I agree that it's a shame how some people choose to spend their precious time, but that includes other people who spend their time casting aspersions on the lifestyle choices of others instead of worrying about themselves. You might put your faith your own standards of morality and decent living, but no one human can set the bar for everyone/anyone else. It might seem like a good idea living to Christian values, but how much of those values come down to sour grapes? You mention Nietzsche, maybe you've read his Genealogy Of Morals - how often are the people who vilify extreme wealth and hyper-sexuality the same people who would love more money to buy nice things, who no one wants to sleep with?
It's a good thing to be fit and healthy, but I laugh at people who go to the gym - you're paying someone to let you run around and lift things in their shack! Why not just run around the streets/woods and lift trees and things ya silly billies?
>•People who consume, but don't create. People who watch movies, eat comfort food, etc. but won't write something, won't program something, won't paint something, won't make things on their own. It's very liberating to make things.
It's fun to create but the Internet's too full of people thinking their shoddy derivative piss is worth showing to other people. Especially fan art, 90% of fan art is hideously bad, made worse because it's not even an original idea!
>how often are the people who vilify extreme wealth and hyper-sexuality the same people who would love more money to buy nice things, who no one wants to sleep with?
I'm reminded of a Russel Brand quote, distasteful as I find the guy. Something about "when I was poor and wanted to talk about worker's lib, they said I was just a sour cunt; now that I'm rich and want to talk about worker's lib they call me a champagne socialist. I'm beginning to think they just don't want me to talk about worker's lib".
>>501
No, she was pretty healthy and took care of herself well enough. She just lost the genetic lottery above the neckline. Her mom was ugly too. I felt bad for them, but I couldn't look past it.
>how often are the people who vilify extreme wealth and hyper-sexuality the same people who would love more money to buy nice things, who no one wants to sleep with?
If I had more money, I'd put it towards useful things, not useless luxury things. Pay off college debt, get car repairs, etc. But there's a difference between having enough money for yourself and being corrupt by insane wealth, like being a billionaire. There are different effects at different scales of wealth.
I might be getting a more high-paying job soon, but even then, that's still not the same level of wealth I'm talking about here. And it still doesn't make me okay with capitalism.
And are you implying I'm a virgin or something? I've had girlfriends before. Even had a couple casual hookups. But I'm just so put off knowing that so many women my age have had a million dicks inside them.
One of my exes, a single mom now, named her kid (who she had with some other guy) after me. This is some sort of weird cuck shit and I don't like it one bit. But now she's talking about marriage and she wants some sucker to pay for her life, even after she became a single mom after sleeping with too many dudes.
I've been cheated on before too. We broke up after that. Modern relationships are fucked up.
One of my old friends, a super fat ugly feminist, date raped me when I went to hang out with her one time many years ago. I went to her place, we were just hanging out as friends, she brought us drinks, said something about if it was okay if she violated me, and then I blacked out -- after a single beer (she must have put something in it) -- and then, next thing I know, she was driving me back to my apartment and then tucked me into bed. But this bitch still complains about SJW garbage on social media. Oh yeah, and I came across her Tumblr once, and in the time span that I had one relationship with someone, she was with like half a dozen people (some men, some women). That ain't right.
I just want to have something that is seemingly unattainable -- a wife who is monogamous, loyal, wants to have kids, is Christian, right-wing, stable, isn't grotesquely fat, doesn't already have kids from some other guy, and hasn't slept with a million guys. I'm not expecting someone to be a virgin, but a lot of people fuck way too many people. My best bet would be to move to the countryside, but unfortunately cities tend to have way more tech jobs, so that's why I am where I am. Around here, shit like LGBT, open relationships, cheating, stepdads, etc is common. Completely dysfunctional.
If Mac DeMarco was a fed, he'd be Mac DeNarco.
If he was African American, he'd be Black DeDarco.
If he had a gun, he'd be Mac-10arco.
If he was a dog, he'd be Mac DeBarco.
If he was an addict, he'd be Crack DeRocco.
If he committed usury, he'd be Loan DeSharco.
If he stole money online, he'd be Hack DeBanco.
Big helicopters: no one gives a shit
Drones (small helicopters): oh my fucking god this is revolutionary stop the fucking presses this changes everything holy shit we have never seen anything like this before
uh oh...
>>513
all I'm saying is that current-day relationships are fucked up
modern life is trash, let's go back to traditional shit
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Atlanta aigroeG !welp that was a nice 20 month run between "wow online retailing is the wave of the future" and "amazon warehouse slaves package dragon dildos for 20 hours a day and the only break they get is when jeff bezos descends from his sorcerer's tower to beat them with a garden hose"
every time something nice happens some rich fuck turns it to shit
Ejaculte money
What would you call this genre of music?
https://soundcloud.com/xk4001/collab3
Rap? Trap? Horrorcore? Screwed and chopped?
If you know of any other songs or artists like this, please post them!
i mean of course when you're an alcoholic mexican who lives in the ghetto and make a living as a code monkey programming fart apps for iphone modern life seems pretty shit
have you tried not doing those things
>>520 It's a bit witch housey too, I think I'd maybe settle on Witch House or Hip Hop/Chopped 'n' Screwed for the genre tag, though your other suggestions fit too for sure. Have you listened to much witch house? It maybe doesn't all fit the bill for what you're looking for but there's some good stuff in there. Salem, White Ring and Spaceghostpurp come to mind. I don't really have much with rap on top in my collection but I'm certain more exists
"screwed and chopped" sounds like what i did to your mom last night HEYOOOOOO
bean me up scotty
>>523 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY4N5NOAsH0 I thought this was quite obscure, since I found it in a collection of old rock 'n' roll gems and deep cuts, I didn't know it was in Fallout
god
all the time, like every other day at least, i have to sleep and eat food and drink water
being alive is such a pain in the ass
beat me up scotty
just fuck my shit up scotty
>>521
I'm white passing though, and I develop more than just iPhone apps.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passing_(racial_identity)
It's hard not to drink when your social life mostly revolves around going to bars and restaurants with people.
Also:
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Ballmer%20Peak
>>529Ssounds like you make shitty decisions about where to live, where to work, and who to hang out with and then want to lay the blame for those shitty decisions at the feet of society, my dude. Literally all of those things(well, all but one) are 100% within your power to change.
Does iOS-chan need his own (permasaged, ofc) thoughts thread? This shit is dull.
>>534
Or maybe you could just stop derailing the thread and then things will go back to normal. If you don't want people to post about something, stop posting about it. Don't keep on bringing something up and then complain that other people continue to bring it up too.
Think of it like this. Imagine if someone made a comment about tomatoes, and then you said you don't want to talk about tomatoes. Over time, people eventually stop talking about it, or at least don't bring it up very much. Then other people start talking about how they hate tomatoes, and then the pro-tomato guy starts talking about them again (in response to the anti-tomato posts). Then you say "WHY ARE PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT TOMATOES? OH MY GOD STOP ALREADY" and then continue to bash tomatoes, generating more discussion about them in the process, and for some reason you think that will somehow quell the tomato talk. However, it only gets people to continue talking about it, because the pro-tomato person wants to clear up any negative comments about tomatoes. But if other people didn't keep on bringing up their hatred for tomatoes, there wouldn't really be any discussion about it at all, and isn't that what they wanted?
Do you understand what I'm saying, or do I have to phrase it in yet another post? I have gone over this idea many times already, but nobody listens.
Or the pro-tomato guy doesn't shut the fuck up about tomatoes and doesn't get the message when everyone else says they don't give a shit about tomatoes.
>>535
Pretty sure he's not complaining about the posts about you...
I sure hate tomatoes and don't like seeing posts about them. Surely making more posts complaining about tomatoes will mean there will be less posts about tomatoes. Oh wait, this post is about tomatoes, which is exactly what I don't want here. Shit.
How was your day? Did you go to church, or at least have the day off?
>>542
Picked up a nice desk somebody was giving away. Other than that, nothing much.
>>543
Nowadays a lot of people get cheap Ikea shit that falls apart if you try and move it. Cheap particle board material. It's nice to have good furniture that lasts.
>>544
I specifically didn't go to Ikea today, but still got caught up in half an hour of Ikea-bound traffic thanks to it being the first rainy weekend in what must have seemed like several lifetimes to the hordes of people desperate to browse self-assembly furniture now that they couldn't see the sun again.
>>522
I've listened to only a couple of witch house tracks. Any recommendations?
>>536 Don't forget that the pro-tomato guy also blogs about his life in intimate detail to the point where even during the rare times he's not posting about tomatoes, it's still extremely obvious that it's him. He also sometimes pretends to be anti-tomato just to stir up shit.
>>547
People are talking about furniture and witch house and you're still hung up on tomatoes. Drop it, dude. Don't even reply to this post.
the human centipede
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DgjTzwOWkAMjsor.jpg:large
I was born an insufferable hipster. In elementary school I never understood why other children liked boring mainstream shit like batman, power rangers, teenage mutant ninja turtles, and dinosaurs. In middle school I didn't understand the appeal of boy bands, skateboards, Star Wars, and Britney Spears. By high school I'd learned to just block out pop culture completely.
I eventually learned to hide my distaste for mainstream pop culture in order to make friends, but it still slips out sometimes. The other night my friends mentioned Seinfeld and I accidentally blurted out "man, I hate Seinfeld" because man, I really do hate Seinfeld. It's so fucking bland. They just stared at me in disbelief and tried unsuccessfully to convince me that Seinfeld is good. I just nodded and lied "yeah, I probably just need to give it another chance."
Even after years of trying to force myself to enjoy the mainstream in order to fit in, I've completely failed. If anything, I've grown even more judgmental. For example, my sister-in-law has a tattoo of Hello Kitty holding an AK-47. When I was younger I might have found it amusing, because at least it's trying to subvert the mainstream. But now it just seems so cringe-worthy to me. By trying to be edgy and funny, it achieves the exact opposite. It's just lazy, crass, and uncreative.
It seems to me that Sturgeon's Law really is true. But the question is, how can so many people really enjoy all this shit? I honestly don't understand the appeal. I used to think it was because I was "too smart," but a number of my friends who are smarter than myself still love basic mainstream culture.
So there's obviously a problem with me, not everybody else. Yet given a choice between feeling superior or inferior, it's better for my own self-preservation to choose the former. And so I remain a stuck-up elitist that looks down on everyone but tries to hide it to make friends.
>>550
Thought this was kopipe but I googled it and there were no results. So it's original parody then?
If you're serious, I think people just consume pop culture because it's easy. The distribution channels are right there. You don't have to try hard to consume TV, movies, or other widely-distributed stuff. Fewer people put in the effort to look for other things.
I guess it also gives you something to talk about with other people. Water cooler conversations and ice breakers.
Is the poster who was posting about suicidal thoughts still here? Are you feeling any better? What have you been up to lately? Hope all is well.
who says we don't have a world without borders when it closed down in 2011
>>550
I just can't stand people's aversion to anything slightly different from the norm. I can see why would someone like mainstream pop but like, Kate Bush is barely any different why wouldn't you like Kate Bush just listen to her, idiot.
And people consciously seeking stuff they can talk about with other people is giving everyone too much credit. I think everyone has these preconceived notions of what should they listen to and what kind of people listen to this or that genre, and it's hard for everyone to detach these ideas from what they are immediately sensing with their ears and eyes. It sounds sad as fuck, that people condition themselves to like the things they like because they ought to, but I think it's true.
By the way, Kate Bush turns 60 today.
There's something cozy about talking the contents of your computer like it's a physical area
>>554
Hey buddy, keep in touch with us, okay? Just keep posting here, at least just to keep us happy.
(｀・ω・´) nopai nopai!
Pounded in the BUTT by my own BUTT
Maybe if I take these pills I'll feel something.
>>564
Oof, that's like a super strong cup of coffee. Or two regular cups of coffee. Be careful with that.
Coffee just makes me feel jittery and anxious.
I want to release the emergency mittens.
emergencyMittens.release();
My IP changed, that's totally lame.
so like, if you're the official social media account for a sports team maybe it should say somewhere in your bio what sport you play? especially if you're the "shattuck dutch lions" or some shit that isnt exactly a household name
slightly grateful to the spammer for giving me a new thing to say instead of "the sticks, the boonies, BFE"
"shattuck, oklahoma" just plain sounds like the middle-of-fuckoff-nowhere, and it turns out it is.
israelites: hey thanks for leading us out of egypt and all but we've been eating this manna stuff for 40 years, can we maybe have some meat?
god: meat? MEAT? you want meat? i'll stuff your assholes with meat until you die, you ungrateful fucks!
genesis 18:22-33: the first jew invents haggling
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AAAAAAHI am queen of the caterpillars.
Lolis, all alone in the moonlight, I was issho then.
Is there such a thing as a reverse-Oedipus complex? Like not hating your dad or wanting to fuck your mom?
"advanced" ""rhythm"" """game"""
Fun fact: Atlanta is the best city in the world
What should you do when someone painstakingly explains a concept you already understand really well? Is it rude to say "I know, you don't need to tell me"? Happened to me today.
LinkinPark-Why don't you fucking kill me(with lyrics)
>>582
Unfortunately most people will find it rude if you shut them down directly. It's much less abrasive to ask a question which indicates your knowledge of the subject, for example:
"Oh yes, I think I've heard about that. What do you think about X?"
or
"Ah yes, isn't it also true that X?"
Where X is something that indicates deep understanding of the concept.
Of course there are many variations on this, the main point is not to directly shut them down with "I know." If you want to change the topic, make X something only tangentially related. If they don't take the hint after multiple attempts to indicate your knowledge, turn the tables by painstakingly explaining the concept to them. Or you can always just make an excuse to end the conversation.
Who knew the world was capable of such oxymoronic, paradoxical juxtapositions?
>>587
I thought we all mutually agreed to stop with the political shitposting. People were complaining about my political posts in /req/ and now you're starting up. Just stop.
Let's talk about something else. I just found out that there are some alcoholic drinks that have caffeine in them. This both intrigues and worries me. It could be interesting but I could see it going horribly wrong, as it would mask how drunk you are, or possibly lead to elevated risk of cardiac arrest because of the uppers and downers stressing out your heart. But it could also be fucking awesome.
Man, some Beer Advocate writers write so beautifully. Extremely evocative. It's a shame they only write about booze.
I'm fucking trashed
I'm really drunk and don't remember how I stumbled across these pages but this shit is fucking weird and gives off some yeongrak-ish vibes
https://www.deviantart.com/2010tamala
https://yakrell.bandcamp.com/album/meirmote-raining-moth
people who listen to experimental breakcore are the most powerful race in the world
nivt ducj
>>582 I think it's okay to interrupt in a friendly way, like smile and say "it's cool man you don't have to tell me, I'm well-versed in this :)"
>>588 How did you just find out about this, did you just turn 21 last week?
Alcohol + caffeine drinks are banned, at least as premixed drinks, in a lot of places for exactly that reason though. They all had names like "jolt" or "jaguar" and teenagers kept drinking 30 of them at a time and dying, so they're even banned in Russia now.
Take it from a pro narkoman, don't mix uppers and downers. Good way to die or at least end up very sick. Benzos go well with just about everything though, takes the paranoiac edge off of weed or uppers and makes downers even more comfy.
>>597
benzos seem cool until you're addicted and then everything sucks
>>598 yeah, they're an insidious little thing. Goes well with anything, one of the comfiest highs ever even on its own, especially if you're a naturally jittery and anxious person already like me. Comedown and withdrawal is the worst shit I've ever had though, like being wide awake for 3 days at a time having a panic attack thinking your heart is exploding. If you take em on the regular, don't take them before bed no matter how tempting it is, you'll come to rely on them to fall asleep and then when they're gone you will know true suffering.
What a rush!
>>586
Oh, that's a quote, it's not meant for anyone here in particular.
*Wh'oms'td
captcha: stackilb, some kind of data structure library for dyslexics
Never give a girl a straight answer unless that answer is "no".
My lily...
My ligma
>>602
The art lady when commenting on a portrait made by an excon with his own feces on who is america
Hold on baby, it's the DQN
So if a wizard has sex, does he lose his powers, or are they permanent?
>>612
you temporarily lose them, but you get them back over time
frumpy
>>615
I think there are gradients of wizardry, not just all or nothing
you can be 60% wizard, and getting more wizardy
or maybe less wizardy
a person who doesn't get laid very often is closer to a wizard than a normie
I put on my robe and wizard hat
I cast magic missile
I wish I was being torn in half by a giant scorpion...
pls b in Atlanta
nasushit is even more normalfag now
i press the gun against my temple and summon my persona
It all makes me sick.
I'm gonna get drunk again tonight brb going to the liquor store
who /lonely/ here
4 drinks in an hour
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I don't want to...
maybe in the future we'll get groceries via apps and drone deliveries so we won't have to go to the store anymore
the virgin weak dynamic typing vs. the chad strong static typing
My ongoing feuds with inanimate objects
Life shouldn't be this painful.
Being sad on the Internet is sad
hurry up
( ⌒-⌒) I'm having a grand old time by myself!
😄
New Year's Eve 1969
Because it's dead, mom, and it's threatening the house.
People who use long and fancy synonyms for simple words often do so solely as an attempt to obfuscate their message and seem smarter than they actually are, but in doing so they are making their message less clear, and that's not an effective form of communication. People who do this think they're the only ones who do this, but I've seen it time and time again from English majors. Awkwardly shoehorning GRE vocab into your writing looks bad and it doesn't fool anyone.
Some people just love language... you can tell when someone's just learned a new word and want to show off, but I like speaking to people with big vocabularies, especially with broad accents. People maybe often do do it to sound smarter, but sometimes a less common word is more precise, or has nicer connotations, or is just better alliteratively ^___^
international house of buddhism
otherwise known as 仏ーキ屋
Clear communication is key. Sure, some synonyms sound spectacular, but bluntly blurting bogus words won't win a... word... war. (???)
Death to false denpa
Is this really all there is to life?
>>645
tbh i sound like this fairly often because i cba to remember which of the synonyms is normal, just put the first word that comes to mind out there and if anyone hasn't memorized the dictionary well fuck em
and there does come a point where it's not worth worrying about whether you sound condescending because you are using words people don't know or sound condescending because you are using plain language, because some people are determined to shit on you no matter what
>>651 Yeah, sometimes the effort isn't to pick a fancy word and sound smart, it's to pick a simpler word and not get called a university wanker
why the fuck do i always like the anime's Worst Girl
like not the obviously bad or tsundere one but the one that gets memed on and liking clearly means i'm basic af
>>651-652
You're missing the point. I didn't say vocabulary is bad in general, it's just that some people try to use words they don't really understand, so it seems awkward and forced, and you can tell that they're doing it to sound smarter than they really are. If you actually know a word, then by all means use it.
You can tell when someone is using a word they don't really understand though.
Drifting away.
>>651 yeah same i do this too but because i'm a fucking autist sperglord, not because i'm consciously trying to sound pretentious
Complicated language is often about the writer. It's self-centered. YOU want people to know that YOU are smart. YOU want to express yourself in a way that makes the most sense to YOU, even if it makes less sense to your audience. YOU want to show off what you learned over the years, even if no one else cares.
Simple language is about prioritizing the listener over the speaker. Try to make the message as easy for them as possible. The point of communication should be ensuring that the audience understands.
It's not condescending, it's about efficiency. People might be able to understand a 5,000 word essay from a very articulate person who likes to show off their personal lexicon, but a 500 word essay with easier-to-digest words is preferable because you get the same message across with less time and effort for the reader.
>>658
Unless there's actual information in the 4,500 words you're throwing away. There often is.
>>659
But you can condense that same info into fewer words. Most of the time, anyway. Old school media like TV and books used to try and make things as long as possible, because they didn't have much content, and wanted to drag it out as they could in order to meet some minimum page or time length, such as 300 pages, or 30 minutes for an episode.
Now? Things are different. There's so much media that nobody has time for that shit. Too many posts on social media timelines to read everything. Instead of having a small amount of content and trying to make it as long as possible, you have a lot of content and need to try and make it as brief as possible.
Ergo Proxy, more like Ergo VPN
came across a youtube channel about traditional life from a family of people who are claiming to live more traditional lives
they have enough views to make money from youtube, and they also have an amazon affiliate thing and an etsy store and an ebook and a pinterest page
do they not see the irony
Gantz vs Antz
>>662
There's no irony. All those things you mention are superficially modern. Etsy us just another face of the idea of a marketplace which has been around for millenia. They're (I'm assuming) using their time and effort to produce crafts and artisanal goods. The only thing is the marketplace they sell it at isn't a physical one. This is partially out of necessity and partially out of convenience. All of the things you listed that are supposed to run counter to living a "traditional life" are updated formats of preexisting things. Saying "they use the internet so that invalidates the fact that they are living traditional lives" while they are in effect artisans living off their product and physical work is absurd. More importantly how is their family structure? What is their outlook on life? What values do they put emphasis on? These are much more important things to look at than when evaluating them than "well they have a Pinterest account" and other things that are essentially modern wallpaper on age old concepts.
oh god, stewart himself saying the new trek is going to be "much needed in these dark times" and it's about "the next chapter in Picard's life"
it's going to be geriatric picard sitting around in a retirement home IN SPAAAAAACE trimming a bonsai tree and listening to mozart, PS refugees welcome. calling it now it's gonna suck so fucking bad
>>658 There's more to language than communication and efficiency! I'm reminded of that Fry & Laurie Tricky Linguistics video again. I appreciate when a writer has faith that I have read a book before and doesn't need to spoonfeed me, but we agree it's obvious and annoying when a fancy word is forced and misused. But, I don't believe it's always as forced as you imply, I don't think that's why people become writers. Wait, after I typed that I realised maybe you weren't talking about books, when you say "writer" are you talking about online journalists? Cos that's different, those guys are nincompoops
> online journalists? Cos that's different, those guys are nincompoops
oh god, don't tell me you're one of those "gamergate" types
>>667 Absolutely not, all that shit passed my by, but it's a lot more often I read an article or review and think, that was a completely worthless misinformed opinion I regret wasting time on, I wonder what made them decide to pursue this line of work
>I wonder what made them decide to pursue this line of work
probably wanted to have a voice or to make a change in the world
but in reality, a lot of articles are just "10 avocados to shove up your ass"
then again, people who study other professions end up in the same dilemma: delusions of grandeur met with mundane and disappointing reality (like code monkeys thinking they'll be the next bill gates)
I wonder how much rap is just larping. For every rapper who mentions gangs and guns and shit, how many of them are real vs. just playing pretend because it sounds cool?
>>670 What was it they said, east coast was rappers pretending to be gangstas and west coast was gangstas pretending to be rappers
Black people are all criminals
I keep going to look up some english set phrase in japanese and finding out that there's no concise translation or similar-meaning idiom(but there often is one in chinese, weirdly enough) and the best way to describe that thing is by just literally describing it
examples I've had recently:
"benefit of the doubt" - best translation is basically the definition = (証拠ないから)有利に解釈 = judge(someone) favorably (because there is no evidence)
"middle of nowhere" - best translation = 人里離れた which also just means "far away from human habitation"
captcha: unkon
ah ay row
dee nah meek
听不懂
bank robbers wearing anime kigurumi outfits and fursuits
> 10 avocados to shove up your ass
link?
Energy...to feel my body!
it hasn't been that bad actually
>>673
I suppose a lot of times that is more like trying to translate cliche for cliche than really getting at the thought behind what was said. The entire thing can become contentious to say the least.
For instance, "middle of nowhere" can be meant with contempt for rural areas and this might be better expressed as ど田舎 despite referring to actual habitation.
君も僕も濡れてさ、
全部濡らして 全部どろどろにして
Hatsune Michael
If your significant other treats you like shit, it's accepted that you'd break up with them. If your friends treat you like shit, you stop being friends, or at least don't hang out as often.
So why is it that if your family treats you like shit, it's not socially acceptable to cut them off?
At least my hair is nice.
You'll never go broke chasing riches, but you will go broke chasing every little skank-ass hoe with a tongue piercing.
>>685
Because lovers and friends are replaceable. You can't get a new father or mother or brother or sister.
"Brothers are like limbs, wives are like clothing. Torn clothing can be repaired; how can broken limbs be mended?"
>>689
sometimes, your limbs are gangrenous and need to be amputated in order to save you
>>691
think of all the orphan children who can still use their hands. check mate.
Chicks dig metaphors!
dqn is like my prosthetic family
>>695
difficult to get into, incredibly uncomfortable and sweaty, and a relief when you finally get rid of them to go to bed?
anime avatars and southern rap
I'm not made out of rubber, I'm made out of flesh and hair and sadness.
navigating emotions
Processing feelings, please wait...
2.3% complete, 4 hours 25 minutes 3 seconds remaining
too literal: wut, theres not even any nouns in this sentence
too liberal: wtf are octoballs
nighty night
I've been to nando's a few times, it's pretty good, but "cheeky nando's" makes me think of the wrestling move before the restaurant
I'm warm, like the inside of a mitten.
I'm made of a quivering mass of disparate organs, each reluctantly cooperating just enough to keep the whole structure from falling apart.
captcha: me
>>706
Reach out and get help when you need it. Counselor, friend, family, boss, church, whatever. When you are in a tough spot, other people can help, but they can't read your mind. You gotta tell them.
Or did I misinterpret your post?
>>707
I appreciate the concern, but I was just commenting on the component parts of an animal. Independent in form and function, yet utterly interdependent at the same time; multiple systems with mutually beneficial functionality. Fascinating.
Please don't stop doing what you're doing. You could save a life.
>>708
It gets better. Just contemplate the fact that the 80 billions or so of neurons making up your brain somehow cooperate to create the impression of a (most of the time) coherent mind. Of course, not all of them by far are involved in consciousness, but it's still impressive.
I had multiple seizures today
>>712
No, but I'll be fine after all. It's probably just what happens when you get really drunk for too many days in a row and then decide to stop abruptly. Or maybe something else. Who knows.
oh god another one
Thank God I'm not having lunch with 'em.
I've had some pretty sad faps lately.
alcohol withdrawal
I am actually losing my mind.
"If you donate just $3, the price of your coffee this Wednesday, Wikipedia could keep thriving."
fuck off jimbo that's more like the price of my coffee for like three weeks, not everyone goes to starbucks every day
As someone who doesn't drink coffee, that's $3 more than the price of my coffee this Wednesday.
Registering as self-employed wasn't nearly as complicated as people made out it was going to be!
Registered Hypercam 2
Save me.
>>724 I've made loadsa dosh, this is for tax purposes so I can give it all to charity! I was fretting thinking I'd have to jump through hoops to do so, or that they thought I was being Devil-ish by hesitating to tell them about it.
>>727
Oh, then does being self-employed change what you can do with income tax?
If you were running a business enough to make loads of money before declaring yourself self-employed, you might get in trouble anyway, though.
just don't be one of those dumbasses who writes everything off as a business expense even when it isn't
>>729 I don't have any business expenses, I just walk around the corner and eat whatever I like!
And a girl just said she wants me to cum in her mouth! My life is FAB again!
To all you depressed dokyuns out there, just keep fighting! This was all a series of coincidences!
don't buy groceries when you're starving
hungrily mishearing junkrat's line as "Someone better get buttering cuz I'm on a roll!"
>>720,721
I've always been amused and slightly annoyed at the ubiquity of the 'cup of coffee' analogy. I don't drink coffee either, and even if I did I wouldn't spend $3 on it every day, I would make it myself.
You see "buy me a coffee" buttons all over the place, like https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ or https://ko-fi.com/ which claims: "The 'coffee' metaphor is a more human way to receive support." But why?
In real life, when a friend does you a favor, it's taboo to compensate them with money. People say, "don't worry about paying me back, just buy me a drink sometime." The problem seems to be that as soon as money changes hands, it complicates your relationship by mixing the worlds of friendship and business.
This is fine for small favors, but western society takes the concept that cash is crass to the point of absurdity. Friends refuse cash compensation even for huge favors that cost them money. People give each other gift cards, even though cash is so much more practical. At weddings, cash gifts are frowned upon, whereas in Asian countries they are expected to help pay for the expensive ceremony, which is much more practical. It's considered rude to even talk about money, even though doing so could actually be quite beneficial.
It's especially absurd to carry over this concept that cash is crass when begging strangers for money on the internet. "Buy me a coffee", "buy me a beer"...no matter how you phrase it, you're fundamentally still just begging for money. It just strikes me as a sad attempt to pretend that you're everybody's friend.
It must work though, because everybody's doing it.
>>736
beggars can't be choosers
the best way to get handouts is to only ask for small amounts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadweight_loss
if you ask people for $50, they won't give you anything
if you ask for $10, fewer people will give
if you ask for $3, people will be more likely to donate
more people at $3 = more money overall even though it's less money per person
>>731
I fondly remember when my ex-girlfriend was on her period, but I was thirsty as fuck so I pinned her against the wall and aggressively face fucked her until I came in her mouth. As I came, she grabbed my ass and pushed my cock in as far as it could go, greedily sucking every last drop.
Afterwards, I felt bad about being rough and apologized, but she breathed in an extremely horny voice, "no... that was... extremely hot." Hearing that was one of the best moments of my life. There's something incredibly validating about a girl enjoying when you cum in her mouth and telling you so.
>tfw no gf
It seems like the girl always recovers within a week while the guy stays hurting for a while. I think it's because of the difference in availability, if I had a buffet of pussy coming to call the second my breakup was through I'd be much less sad too I suppose.
I can't mope around forever. How do I get out of this rut?
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>>740
are there more dudes than girls or some shit? I don't get it
I've been thinking about it and I don't want to work in an office when I'm fucking 60. If current conditions keep up and I'm unable to retire like every other millenial, I'm killing myself at 55 or some shit. Easy peasy.
>>743
maybe some sort of catastrophic event or war will kill us, thus eliminating the need to commit suicide
I'm gonna die alone
>>740
I've noticed this too. At first the girl is extremely emotional and heartbroken, and feels like her world is ending. But a few weeks later, she'll have recovered and the guy still can't get over her, sometimes for years to come.
Of course this is just based on anecdotal evidence, and as with all generalizations there are plenty of counter-examples.
Theoretically the best way to get out of the rut is to dedicate yourself to self-improvement, such as exercise and pursuit of hobbies. This has the added benefit of making yourself more attractive, too. Unfortunately that's much easier said than done.
Big beat is still the shit
Twitch irl text-to-speech streams/videos are the most uncomfortable things ever, but even so, they are strangely fascinating.
7 hours of sleep in the past 4 days
don't take sleep for granted
Each day is worse than the last.
The frosting on that birthday cake turned my shit blue. I really want the world to know this. You're welcome.
tim goes hell for leather
vs
tim goes to hell for leather
>>747
Not just electronic
did you never think indie rock, or emo, or 90s pop, or any genre that was insanely big for a short amount of time, didn't feel really outdated basically as soon as it stopped being the sound of the moment?
fuck you and fuck the whole medical industry, guess i'll just go die and then you can find out what's wrong from the autopsy, just be sure to print me out a copy of the coroner's report and throw it in my fucking grave with the rest of the trash
what a massive fucking waste of time
>>753
who in their right mind would frost a cake with their butt?
Frosted butts
what if hell i real and when we die we suffer unimaginably for eternity. that would suck
I just want to be happy.
>>762
Happy's good now and then. Contentment is good all the time, and much easier to accomplish and maintain.
>>764
But then again, you don't want to be content with a bad life. Some people are. If shit's bad, by all means feel bad. But use those negative feelings towards improving your situation so that you can be genuinely content, instead of just resorting to mental gymnastics.
Here's an example of what I mean:
Let's say someone is upset because they're too skinny or fat.
The real solution is to go to the gym and eat better.
The bullshit solution is to post about fat acceptance/fat shaming on social media (which many people do).
Another example:
You're depressed because your life sucks.
The real solution is self-improvement, like learning a trade skill, attempting to get a better job, and things like that.
The bullshit solution is to take antidepressants that don't change your situation at all, but instead just change how your brain makes you feel about it.
god who fucking cares just get this shit out of my face cunt ill fucking glass you
none of this shit matters
GNU stands for GNU's Not uwu
I wonder how many more people would use GNU/Linux and take privacy and open source more seriously if Stallman wasn't a fucking fat and gross neckbeard
I wonder how many more people would use GNU/Linux and take privacy and open source more seriously if "GNU" wasn't synonymous with "bloated, buggy, and written using the stupidest brace style imaginable".
I wonder how many more people would use GNU/Linux and take privacy and open source more seriously if free software didn't suck ass
do people still say "homie" or has everyone moved on to "fam"
>>773 It seems like this word has become really popular recently, but it was common in the UK for a long time, especially in grime music
check my trips
Dragon Ball Z except the only way for them to go super saiyan is to smoke weed
is ASMR just like the modern version of mindfulness/meditation?
I’d joke about the current U.S. administration thinking they’re in Cold War II in response to the Space Force idea, but that’s apparently real and ongoing according to Wikipedia.
[sensual wah-filtered bass version of a familiar advertising jingle plays]
"I'm rubbin' it"
Hangover at the office hell yeah
Actually no it sucks ass.
The light inside me has gone out.
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WHEN I WAS
in a gangstas paradise
open up ya open up ya open up ya open up ya open up ya open up ya open up ya THROAT.
IT GOES IT GOES IT GOES IT GOES IT GOES
great now my car is gonna smell like stanky fried chicken till the end of time because SOMEONE thought rules aren't for him, DAD
hello you STINKY FRIED CHICKEN
I turned myself into a demon Kaz
I'm Punished Snake
are traps gay?
"Prizewell City Slicker?" Are they trying to channel Tomino's naming conventions or something?
I’d get tired of the news too if it never shut up about Trump every day.
>>792 I mean, they're not straight. If you're sexually attracted to an XY male with a penis you're at least bi. I guess I just don't get all the weird mental gymnastics people are going through lately to try to pretend otherwise, if you wanna be bi just do it. No one is gonna chemically castrate you under anti-sodomy laws or whatever anymore, it's 2018.
You can implement lexical scope in a dynamically-scoped language, but not the other way around.
Thus, much like the relationship between static and dynamic typing, one is undeniably technically superior.
But what languages are statically typed and dynamically scoped?
captcha: redith, Mike Tyson's key/value data store
>>799
You can emulate dynamic scope using controlled-access global variables in a lexically-scoped language.
Besides, that argument is just silly: you can't straightforwardly implement COMEFROM statements in most high-level languages, but that obviously does not mean a language with COMEFROM is automatically superior. (Note however that I am not an opponent to dynamic scope.)
why did I fall for this
> But what languages are statically typed and dynamically scoped?
You can use type declarations/annotations everywhere in Common Lisp to pretend it's statically-typed and it has so-called special variables which are dynamically-scoped.
captcha: the great quuth a.k.a the man of Thteele
360 dynamic noscope
also lisp weenies seem to obsess over programming languages so much that they never really program anything of worth
obsessed with syntax and language design to the point of not being able to move on and solve higher-level issues, which is the whole point of programming
computing isn't about CPUs and scoping, it's about being able to talk to people on the other side of the planet, make robots water your plants, draw a picture, and so on
>>800
Keyword is "emulate", there.
And I didn't mean just extra features, I mean something more all-encompassing: static typing is a strict superset of dynamic typing; dynamic scope is a strict superset of lexical scope.
And yeah, CL gets a special shout-out, as always.
captcha: howrc, some kind of config file
>>801
Don't you dare hijack a normal programming conversation with /prog/ autism
>>800,802
You know what, maybe you're right. I've been doing lexical-in-dynamic scope with gensym and renaming, but that's not too different to dynamic-in-lexical scope with parameters. I'll have to think more on it, or maybe it's not that important. Either way I was too hasty in my assertion.
>>803
I actually made an anti-/prog/ post
/prog/ loves lisp and arguing over programming stuff, I said that they're missing the point of programming if they obsess over that
if you have an app, no one cares about the code underneath
what's more important is the idea, usability, price, UX, etc.
>>805
I don't care, this isn't /prog/, you don't need to remind me it exists by mimicking a /prog/lodyte.
If I want to talk about the specifics of programming, I will, and I won't appreciate someone telling me not to talk about programming and instead to talk about business, marketing, "product" etc.
I might be building a house, but conversations about real estate won't help me decide which screws to use.
captcha: shownen: shows for boys
damn these captchae are on a roll
>>806
What kinds of things have you made with programming? Have you made anything useful, or do you just endlessly play around with language concepts? Serious question. Go ahead and insult me some more, but I am asking real questions here.
>>807
Don't start meta-arguments.
I have a full-time job writing software. That's all I have to tell you. Thanks for derailing another otherwise-normal programming conversation.
i love you, mister anonymous guy from two and a half years ago
>>808
What kind of software?
Asking questions isn't a meta-argument. People don't agree on everything and that's perfectly ok.
I come from a different world of software. Web developers, apps, and other more modern stuff. These kinds of developers often aren't familiar with concepts like pointers or other lower-level things. Usually just use interpreted languages, with a couple exceptions. Lots of JS and lots of reliance of built-ins, libraries, and frameworks, instead of doing lots of things from scratch.
The people in my software development circles are often self-taught and only know higher-level languages. They might not know how to manually implement sorting algorithms, which is the kind of thing you might learn in computer science academia, but they know the idea of sorting and can just use a .sort() method. They might have never installed Linux, but their AWS instances run Linux. They don't know how to set up iptables, but they do understand the importance of firewalls and security, even if they don't know the specifics. Rather than being puritanical about language and design (and old school CS stuff in general), they just follow modern trends and make presentable products, perhaps without really having a great understanding of everything. Even so, these are the kinds of people who make the apps and websites you use every single day.
People having different backgrounds doesn't make someone a troll or an agitator, it just means they don't share your exact life experiences.
If you tweet into the abyss, the abyss might tweet back. -Freddy Nietzsche
old software happening to new people
What is your favorite social media platform?
>>811
If your only life experience is being a retard who can’t write actual code and makes javascript for a living you should just end your life experience now.
captcha: pone
>>771
Don’t forget redundant, technically wrong, full of misunderstandings of the base concept, and ruled by politics instead of actual codewriting ability.
Sisyphus is an apt way to refer to sysfs, so much of Linux is undocumented bullshit made for people with commit access to lock in their side projects like udev and now cgroups for systemd, it’s a miracle kdbus finally got canned when it did. Not to mention that many of AMD and Intel’s blogs are wrong or inadequate but dare you not try and replace them since they give money to the foundation.
GNU’s contribution can be summed up in a sentence: GNU awk has a command line flag that does the same thing as the awk substr function, but on a longer timescale.
>the cheap shitty clones of already existing tools are shitty, what alternative is there
If only there were other UNIX derivatives that weren’t so terrible, but what kind of Solaris person would openbsd FreeBSD come up with such a plan9 thing? If only there were some MINIX HP-UX IRIX hero who would systemv save us from this.
Not understanding things now a point of pride among the kind of retards who use “frameworks” to make shitty websites that take up 3gb of memory to do text communication. This is what is called “disruption” and it is what happens when antiintelectualism takes over.
>>820
Ah yes, it was /pol/ that invented the term baby boomer. It's totally not a name for a generation of old people. Old people who use Fortran, COBOL, and Lisp, like the people on this site. Yes, I should go ``back'' to a site I don't even go to. Cool.
>>821
I hate to break it to you, but people in the real world use Linux, not your dinosaur/special snowflake shit.
>people in the real world use Linux
what fucking planet is this
>>825
I don't mean Linux on a personal computer. I mean if you're a web developer, your servers are gonna be running Linux, not some autistic bullshit like Minix like someone else mentioned.
Obviously macOS is the default OS for a computer if you're a developer. Linux on a laptop is a truly terrible experience.
how come the i9 9900k only has 8 cores instead of 9
How well do you personally accept compliments?
Is it paranoid or reasonable to think that, if someone says something nice about you, that they're either lying or making fun of you?
Niggers.
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dudes i'ts almost 10000 september wtf do we do thren
after 9999 it'll roll over to september 0000 like those old analog gas pumps
>>836
"I see," said the blind man as he picked up his hammer and saw.
Should've guessed the "stop talking about programming because it isn't important" guy was iOS-chan
Every post is made by iOS-chan. No exceptions.
pull your dick skin back for ＴＵＲＢＯ ＰＥＥ ＭＯＤＥ
>>842 You've never felt the pleasure of pulling your foreskin forward and clamping it shut when you piss so that it fills like a water ballon...
>>846
The difference between Alex Jones and run-of-the-mill media pundits who you've never heard of before (because they're not interesting) is that Alex Jones understands memes and viral marketing.
You think his regular political genuine beliefs are unique? hell no. It's just that he dresses them up with silliness.
It's the frogs and gay chemicals meme tier shit that makes anyone even pay attention to AJ in the first place.
You think he's dumb. I think he's a successful self-promoter.
You should be rising A LOT faster
>>847 My point was more like, he starts by saying something vaguely agreeable and then derails it at maximum speed into 360 noscope off the rails crazyville. If anything I just find him entertaining.
captcha: rome
"BRAVO HITS '95" would be an excellent name for my vaporwave project.
>>846
You are now the funk soul brother of http://4-ch.net/dqn/kareha.pl/1480168637/960
It's time to go.
Those aren't mutually exclusive.
He's undoubtedly good at self-promotion and selling (just about literal) snake oil, but it sounds like 25 years of conning people has erased the line between his on and off show persona and beliefs. Sure, he plays it up sometimes still, but it sounds like he believes most of what he says in essence now too.
I am going to disrupt the tech industry, and by disruption I mean flash in the pan, and by flash in the pan I mean VC welfare.
>>852 Actually I think that post was me having the exact same thought around 600 days ago. I was reminded of it again recently what with all the controversy.
>>858
wow I just re-read my post and realized I used the word 'plenty' way too often
my bad
obscure touhous no one cares about are literally-hus
I did the thing.
It's all a matter of perspective. My real life friends, who don't post much online, tell me I'm antisocial and quiet. Meanwhile, I talk to tons of people online. Am I really antisocial if I talk to more people than they do?
I wonder how you make cool sound effects, like in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udEAEARD-Fo
>>858
My degree involved at least one administration class, one UX class and two software engineering classes, so there, I became an absolute office drone.
Why are there so many computer people on text boards? Not judging it as good or bad, just saying.
check this out:
https://аррӏе.com/
you might be surprised
hmmm, actually you probably won't be surprised, because the font here gives it away lol
but not all fonts do, so in some cases, unicode can lead to situations where some domains look the same even though they're different
just not on sites with fonts that make certain characters look different
>>865 The art of sound design and foley is fascinating! Sometimes you use creative sound synthesis using programming and software, sometimes you use your imagination to record real objects. The trick is to think outside the box to make sounds more impactful or satisfying or gruesome for the effect you're trying to achieve. For example, snapping bundles of celery or slapping steaks together or bags of walnuts for bone-crunching combat sounds, or pouring bowls of soggy cornflakes for vomit sounds. The raptors in Jurassic Park used geese sounds. You can play with the pitch and tempo and various effects to create otherworldly yet organic sounds.
In your video, you could maybe make those mech sounds with like power drills, or balloon whippets for the hydraulic sounds.
I once got good anti-aircraft gun sound effects from pushing a big wooden table across a wooden floor so that it juddered with a big hard booming sound. Another time, for a sort of card game, ripping duct tape off a wall gives a much more satisfying sound for opening a booster pack than if I was to just to record the sound of me opening a real one.
So feminists won't actually kill us, much as they hate us, but they're happy to harvest taxes from us.
So apparently the anti-sodium craze was wrong. I feel betrayed. It used to be that when I oversalted my food I'd think to myself "it tastes better AND I'm shaving off a few days of dementia and/or cancer treatment". Now I'm going to have to cut back.
So nanoka.
>>873
If you've been keeping up with the news lately, there's actually been a lot of violent rhetoric from leftists.
From the "Unite The Right 2" rally, which was actually just antifa rioting and breaking things on their own, with no one else there:
>"It takes bullets to bash fash."
Remember: according to antifa, anyone who isn't antifa is "fash," so they are inciting violence against anyone who isn't a left-wing extremist.
And let's not forget the blue checkmarks on Twitter saying shit like "punch a nazi" when they define nazi as anyone who isn't as lefist as they are.
This will backfire for leftists, as it pushes more and more people to the right, as the left is kind of imploding in on itself and there are liberals who are attacking other liberals for not being as liberal as they are.
I used to be a liberal. Not anymore. You will find that there are many people like me. Blue wave my ass.
You might think I'm making up the part about being a former liberal, but in high school I was forced to be a part of an anti-gun petition thing and I had to write about gay rights and stuff too. I also used to call myself a feminist, which was a cringe-worthy phase in my life. But that was all due to indoctrination, back when I didn't think for myself. Now, I've been pushed too far by other liberals to the point that I want nothing to do with liberalism anymore and I'm voting for Trump in 2020.
I wasn't gonna bring up politics, because most of you get mad when I do, but someone else posted about it. Don't get mad at me when I'm not the one bringing it up. If you post about politics here, I will probably respond. But don't blame it on me. If you don't want to see political responses, don't make political posts. It's really that simple.
>>879
If you don't want people to respond to posts about politics, then don't make posts about politics!
Me: [polite post that has nothing to do with politics]
You: [post about politics]
Me: [response about politics]
You: OH MY GOD WHY ARE YOU POSTING ABOUT POLITICS THIS IS TOTALLY ALL ON YOU AND HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ME
Why post something if you're just going to get mad when someone responds? Do you not understand the point of communication?
Others making (unwarranted!) posts about politics without being asked to stop should not be seen as an invitation to do the same.
What are your thoughts on CuriousCat? I have only seen people on Twitter using it, but it seems interesting. But when would you send an anonymous ask on CuriousCat instead of @ing or DMing someone? What is the target userbase/use case?
It all fades away.
coconut water is a bad meme
the world is a bad meme
post your twitter handles you bakas
y~%59
fuck jersey shore was a thing
>>900
Only 17 followers in 2 years. I could give you some pointers on getting more followers, if you want.
>>900 sent you a follow, i feel like if someone was autistic enough they could look through my likes/TL and connect it to posts i've made on dqn
Doesn't Fate just piss you off? I don't have objections against the idea of all things happening according to a design or anything like that, but when you see it in action you just think, "Could this happen in a more obnoxious way?". It's so annoying.
>>905
people believe in fate because it absolves them of any responsibility to change things on their own
try to develop an internal locus of control instead
>>907
No, your lack of commitment to changing things is getting in the way. Fate is bullshit.
What is it that you want to happen? Instead of dismissing it as fate, think of ways you can achieve your goals. They might be difficult. You might need to seek out help from external sources. But you have to do SOMETHING.
>>908 You might have mistaken the meaning of my admittedly dumb whining. I'm perfectly content with things going the way they are, but I'm practically having to constantly fight against the stream of GM railroading just because he's being so obnoxious about making me run into that NPC.
good night, friends
>>901,904
This is what puts me off a lot of social media platforms, people are more focussed on likes and follower counts, seeking validation for their useless opinions this way. Actually it was the same on old Internet forums as well, how "established users" think their opinions are worth more, or they should be treated with more respect, because they've racked up 20,000 posts
>>913
I agree. Somewhat ironically, people with higher follower counts tend to be more boring because mainstream appeal is bland.
Fate doesn't exist; it's always either a natural disaster or someone (including yourself) being idiotic, malicious, drama-hungry or mentally ill.
i feel like japantimes doesn't get enough hate
literally every single article is either:
-"japan is very problematic and racist and needs to join the rest of the world in the current year" -by debito carudo
-regional elections aaaahh record-breaking turnip harvest in gunma fuck off no one cares not even the people who live there
-"loL have u heaR of oriGAmi??? ids very wafuu (thats japanese for japanesey xddddddd)"
i posted a very similar thought already in the previous thread and it got washed out by a torrent of autism. now i post it here, in the twilight of the current thread, so that dqns will be forced to look at it for a day or two.
Yeah I hate some random website too
Oh, you best believe I'm looking.
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>>901
I could use some tips for getting more followers.
Also accepted:
Goons be like: we invented humor! we invented communication! we invented memes! we invented comedy! we invented writing! we invented commentary! we invented the internet! everything on the internet owes its success to our forum for video games and anime and socialism
why
primary culture pops that move to newly-conquered non cores get nationalist agitation, what the fuck paradox?
>I could use some tips for getting more followers
for starters you could follow me back, aaaaaaaaaaah
>>924
Get rid of the edgy profile pic and banner. People who think your tweets are clever will still be hesitant to follow you because of the offensive shit.
Make sure your profile pic doesn't get cut off due to the border-radius thing Twitter does now. Your pic currently has text that is cut off.
Your banner is too busy. Needs less stuff. And some of the images have poor scaling and incorrect aspect ratios. Use something like GIMP to resize with a constraint aspect ratio and use cubic interpolation.
You post too many images with no text at all. Twitter isn't Instagram, you need more text. You retweet lots of unrelated things. You should add captions to things you upload, and you should consider possibly quote tweeting things sometimes. You also have a bad ratio of retweets to content from yourself. Your timeline is mostly just a bunch of retweets from other people, and images with no text or context. That comes off as silent. You need to have more of a voice. That's what Twitter is for.
You need to have a more descriptive bio. Include titles and maybe a one-liner joke.
Your account needs a narrower focus overall. It seems like you're going for edgy humor, but then you retweet random unrelated stuff. People want to be able to pigeonhole an account as being for a specific thing, not just all over the place. If you want to be the edgy guy, be the edgy guy. If not, don't.
You posted a selfie... on an edgy account. Either go PC or full anon. Don't upload personal stuff like selfies on an account where you're making 9/11 and race jokes. Also, your selfie was bad. It was from an unflattering angle, in poor lighting, and you need a haircut and a shave. Fix those things and it will look so much better. Take pictures from above and away, with good lighting, not below and up close and dark. A good backdrop also helps.
Your ratio of following to followers is really bad. Also, be sure to follow people who follow you. And engage with your mutuals.
Consider making a CuriousCat account and linking to that in your Twitter profile. It can increase follower engagement.
Tweet with more regularity if you want people to follow you.
Your pinned tweet has no numbers. I looked through your other tweets, and you have two funny tweets that have a lot of likes and retweets. One of those should be your pinned tweet.
About your handle: it's called DM on Twitter... not PM. Maybe change it to SendEyeBags, since punctuation is bad.
Unfollow people who don't follow you. When you are following hundreds of people and only have a couple dozen followers, it looks bad. Of course, if you ever get successful enough at twitter that you have thousands and thousands of followers, then it becomes impossible to follow everybody back and then engage with each and every one of your mutuals.
Lastly, there are a couple effective (but shitty) way to increase the number of followers: be kind of a leech and respond to tweets by very popular accounts. You're essentially piggybacking off their fame. It's effective, but don't overdo it. There are some Twitter accounts with tens of thousands of followers simply because all they do is reply to Trump's tweets. It's a shitty form of self-promotion. I'm not saying you should tweet at Trump, I'm just saying you could get more followers by finding accounts relevant to your interests and then engaging with them. Then, the people who like those accounts will like you, since you are related to the stuff they already know they like. Example: if you're into sports, respond to tweets about sports from accounts with 100k+ followers. If you're into video games, respond to tweets about video games from accounts with 100k+ followers.
A second way to get more followers is to simply follow people who are similar to you. Search profiles for hashtags, words, etc. that are related to you and your personality and posts. Who are you? What are you interested in? Figure that out and search Twitter. A lot of people do follow4follow, as shitty as it might be. But it really does work. Just don't overdo it!
Elaborating on what I said about following people in hopes of them following you back: look at their ratio of following to followers. If they're more or less 1:1, then do it. But if they have 10k followers and are only following 200 people, don't bother. They are not likely to follow back at that point.
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> Your banner is too busy. Needs less stuff. And some of the images have poor scaling and incorrect aspect ratios. Use something like GIMP to resize with a constraint aspect ratio and use cubic interpolation
The shitty banner is actually my favorite thing about >>924's twitter. I really dig that semi-ironic I-don't-give-a-shit crap resolution mess.
I agree with some of >>928's advice, but the thing is if you follow all that advice you'll just be a boring-ass twitter personality that's just like everybody else. I say keep doin' your own style. Maybe take some of >>928's advice but not all of it.
What people thought the future would be like: flying cars, space travel, and post-scarcity
What the future really is: if you root your smart toilet, you can disable some of the tracking and even overclock it, but unfortunately that prevents you from getting security updates and there's a known remote code execution vulnerability. Also, Jeff Bezos made $3 billion in the past 24 hours alone, but my GoFundMe didn't get enough funding so I can't get surgery after all.
>>932 yeah, >>928 is good advice if like, you're the social media department at some fast food corp trying to establish a "twitter brand" as edgy-but-in-a-safe-way rebels or something, but not good advice if you're just looking for somewhere to see and post interesting content and write your thoughts down
In general twitter is, imo, probably the least-shitty social media network(no real name policy, lax policy on r18 content, useable without enabling javascript, etc) but the obsession with follower counts is the biggest demerit against it. just be interesting and post interesting things and followers will come organically.
>>933
We're basically living in a cyberpunk dystopia but with only the crappy parts. Where's my cybernetic body augmentations, the concrete jungles with miles of obscure back alleys lit solely by neon signs flashing vaguely asian-looking letters, or the philosophical treatises on what it means to be human in a world where you can just copy your brain into a robot body? All we got instead was the monolithic surveillance state and the abject poverty and misery of 98% of the population while a cadre of the super wealthy vampirise the last scraps of wealth and resources of this planet before fucking off to space.
What a shitty trade.
what we expected: star trek
what we got: GiTS, but only the shitty parts
>>937
yeah but they didn't have tinder or memes or medical marijuana in GITS
at least video games are good
>>932
really the key takeaway is: the best bet for most people is to create content that adds value to the people you wanna be online friends with (fans or other creators). you are best off filling a niche of some sort to have a chance of being popular, but it is not worth being popular unless it's a niche you love. if it is something where you are truly good at the content, you will expand your niche to its maximum possible reach when your best posts leak out.
also only post things that you are okay with literally everyone on planet earth remembering you posted it and responding to you. chances are they won't, but they might, that's the important part. you don't need to be "safe", necessarily, just okay with what is not safe about what you said.
also also, every second you spend on opinions that won't make a difference is a second you should have spent on opinions that will. is what you read a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing? k good don't give it any time. even ignore my shitty opinion if you want. nothing is true; everything is permitted.
>>927 That wasn't me, and I saw only one follow notification spring up. Probably to discourage that sort of behaviour, I guess.
>edgy profile pic and banner
Yeah, I've been considering going for a look changeover, but I think it still needs to be shitty. I've got this new art program though, and I'm still having trouble being sufficiently shitty with it.
>border radius
People can still see it if they somehow conjure up the effort to view the shitty profile's avatar, and I'd rather not concede to bad design decisions. I'd imagine most people have changed the CSS with greasemonkey by now.
>banner too busy
How dare you, that banner is my charm point! By the way, everything in the banner WAS done up to scale, but I'd compose them over eachother. I disabled all forms of anti-aliasing, but that's just because I think AA is an atrocity in general.
>captions
In any image I've seen with a caption, they tend to detract from it so much that I avoid liking it. The meaning of an image is generally self-evident, I think, adding text is just redundant. I can see how captioning a retweet would make my account seem much, much less barren, but that just feels even scummier to me.
>noise:signal
I've been meaning to post more, but I find that I just don't have interesting thoughts all that often. It's a serious personality issue. And when I do, I can't help but think that they'd be better spent on textboards such as this.
>bio
I had none earlier, that one's just inspired by this stupid line from a book. I know it looks fucking stupid, a little more than I find fitting for even my own profile, but the moment just formed such an impression on my mind. I'll probably change it, as you suggested.
>narrow focus
This'll probably fix itself when I start to post more.
>selfie
That image is probably the only image of me that exists on the clear web, aside from that one image of my moustache on this very site. Furthermore, I probably haven't posted my name on that site. Even if it does pop up somewhere, looking it up on search engine brings up entirely unrelated things, because of a funny coincidence. As for the composition of it all, I was trying to go with a look that says "this guy looks like a total asshole" for the joke, but it doesn't really translate well. I guess people have seen others do things more ridiculous than wearing 2 sets of sunglasses while taking themselves completely seriously.
>following:followers
But I want to follow them.
>engage with your mutuals
They always ignore me, a symptom of the aforementioned issue of me being an entirely uninteresting person.
Sorry if this post was a little long.
> I'm still having trouble being sufficiently shitty with it.
Even image quality aside, do you really think it's a good idea to have jokes about 9/11 and racism? Come on.
>In any image I've seen with a caption, they tend to detract from it
I don't mean a caption on the image itself, I mean you write text in your tweet when you upload an image.
>I'd imagine most people have changed the CSS with greasemonkey by now
Most people don't use Greasemonkey on computers. And more people use mobile as opposed to computers anyway. That seems like a weird thing to contest. Your image literally has cut-off text.
>I just don't have interesting thoughts all that often
Most people don't, but many people manage to tweet more anyway. Just come up with a list of topics that you'll tweet about, and then occasionally mention something about it. Current events are an easy way to post frequently. I don't mean general current events. But whatever niche you're a part of, there's probably something going on, so you can tweet hot takes about things that happened in your circles or hobbies lately. Or puns or jokes. Or life updates, like a new job, classes you're taking, things like that. What you wrote indicates that you think tweeting is only for really impressive stuff. Guess what? People tweet about going to restaurants or drinking with people. It doesn't have to be super interesting or uncommon. People tweet about dumb shit all the time.
>I was trying to go with a look that says "this guy looks like a total asshole"
My first thought was "this guy needs to shave and get a haircut and maybe get a gym membership." No offense though.
>They always ignore me
Do you mention people? Do you DM them? Do you know them? Do you respond to their tweets? Do you have things in common with them?
Think: who is your target audience? Why do people follow you? Don't just tweet aimlessly into the void. Think about who you want to see it, why they would like it, etc. It's hard to have an audience if you don't know who you're tweeting for. You can even view Twitter analytics to see who views your stuff, like what they're interested in and all that jazz.
I can't imagine being so invested in something so devoid of value
>>944
if you worked in social media before (as shitty of a job as it is) you'd notice little details like this
"people tweet about dumb shit all the time so don't worry about posting more dumb shit" yucky...
>>946
I didn't mean post really shitty things, just that it's more casual and you don't need a really impressive idea to post it. It's different for corporate accounts, where there's typically more effort per post, and you also schedule uploads too. But for a personal account, salience is important.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salience_(language)
If you never tweet, people will forget that you exist. If you tweet more often, people will remember and like you more, unless you post complete garbage. But if your tweets are acceptable quality, that's all that matters. They don't have to be masterpieces.
I just shit blood. Cute how it takes this pale shade of pink in low volumes.
You're lucky I can get along with anybody, you worthless fuck.
The sun is setting on me.
It's actually fairly normal to shit blood. Usually it's hemorrhoids or an anal fissure from pooping too hard. Wouldn't hurt to talk to a doctor about it, but if it's only a little blood there's no need to freak out or go to the ER.
Don't listen to me though, listen to doctors posting shit (lol good pun rite) on the internet:
https://www.iffgd.org/symptoms-causes/alarm-symptoms.html
https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/blood-in-stool
https://www.health.com/mind-body/blood-in-poop
TL;DR: only freak out if there's a lot of blood, the blood appears to be mixed with your poop (as opposed to just on the surface) or it doesn't look fresh
The internet lets you talk with strangers about bloody poop and anal fissures. What a time to be alive.
Surely this isn't what Tim Berners-Lee had in mind.
found this by accident but it's surprisingly charming
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/31633364/
>>956
To be fair, he probably just envisioned a web 1.0 design where people had non-interactive pages of writing and low quality GIFs and guestbooks and pretty much nothing else. And don't forget the "this site is under construction" and "best viewed with a screen resolution of 1024x768 or higher" messages. I'm glad it's gotten better over time.
But then again, imagine what tech would be like without purists like Berners-Lee or Stallman. Sure, people can make fun of them sometimes, but if the web wasn't open, and we didn't have FOSS server platforms, shit would be a whole lot worse.
shut the fuck off
I had an organism
im wearing you're colon today
its defiantly true
in all it's glory
your wrong and there opinion is write
people like you are a diamond dozen
dont be a grammer not see
time to take my 80HD medication's
>>960
People call each other king or queen on twitter or instagram as a term of endearment. Sometimes I use silly terms ironically and then after a while it stops being ironic. Post-irony.
>>963
But it's true. Calling each other king and queen is a nigger thing.
"dad...i'm gay."
"hi gay, i'm dad"
alex jones hustles, gettin all dese alex bones
spreading fear and doubt to so many of our homes
makes my blood boil when he sells dis snake oil
gay frog chemicals and hats made of tin foil
don't like his website, but he got one thing right
social media censors, and they got a lotta might
I don't even know where our future's gonna go
wouldn't be surprised if it's 19 eighty fo'
Phimosis Jones
I hate it.
>>964 When I was a teenager I called my older girlfriend Queen, and I'm pretty sure I got it from Vamp in MGS2
Is it Thursday again?
>>971
I'm this one person. This one very particular person. One person he doesn't actually know.
NO USE TO COMPLAAAIN
IF YOU'RE CAUGHT OUT IN THE RAAAAIN
YOUR MOTHER'S QUITE INSAANE!
CAT FOOD
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CAT FOOD
(AGAIN!)
Overwatch? More like, I don't want to watch!
petition to rename ailuromancers to 'nekomancers'
>>980 before i even start reading, is it because its function is 100% covered by the reply function and it's just a way for bluechecks to make sure all their followers see their SUPER IMPORTANT OPINION EPIC EGG TAKEDOWN
Oh no.
Who is this Jordan Peterson guy and why is he getting a lot of attention lately?
how can you even cast ice barrage if you have a fire cape equipped? wouldn't it become water barrage?
Technically, the Death Grips song "No Love Deep Web" should be "No Love Dark Web." Deep web is a real thing, but it's not what they were aiming for. Any page that requires a login or isn't indexed by search engines = deep web. Tor = dark web. If they're going for the edgelord angle, it should be dark web.
>>986
deep web is boring and not that interesting
people commonly say deep web when they really mean dark web
deep web = some regular house with a lock on the door, in a regular neighborhood, nothing really interesting
dark web = secret underground crime syndicate and edgelords
not exactly, but you get the idea
death grips is edgy, which do you think they were going for?
they specifically mention Tor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Love_Deep_Web#Promotion
Eeeh, maji? Easy modo?
>>987
i mean, yeah they were going for that cyberpunk vibe but aren't really tech savyy. they also thought 4chan was a cool hangout for hackers but wasn't really.
but, to be honest, i find the concept of the deep web itself a whole lot more fascinating than "the dark web". i mean, a lot of criminal shit probably gets arranged on facebook messenger and whatsapp. so it's boring and mundane but in a way so is crime.
behind locked doors, someone might be planning some weird embezzlement scheme, you never know.
>>990
you logging in to gmail or twitter is the deep web
wow, fascinating
and yes, some people are dumb enough to do criminal stuff on facebook, but they do get caught
big tech companies cooperate with law enforcement and I'm sure they flag certain keywords or even image checksums (and also image recognition via neural networks), so you're owned as soon as you post something bad, like talking about a drug deal, or posting bad images, like of drugs or weapons
you know how facebook can find faces in images and it suggests that you tag people? well image recognition can apply to other things too, not just faces, so if you post a bag of weed on messenger then it could know
maybe they don't actually do that, but I'm saying it's possible, just like how captcha knows about street signs and shit
it doesn't make sense for people to do crime on facebook when they could use Tor and whatnot instead
>just like how captcha knows about street signs and shit
Is it captcha that knows? I thought those things were like collaborations with relevant companies, for instance identifying the street signs, cars, bikes etc. was helping image recognition for self-driving cars and stuff. Maybe I'm wrong, but I got that idea from a few years ago when you'd get two blurry words, and one was a captcha test word and one was from an old book that OCR scanners weren't certain about, so people were indirectly helping to digitise old literature; there was a thing going round that, since the captcha test didn't actually know itself what the other word was, you could put any word and it would pass the test so people were entering "CUNTFLAPS" or something to fuck with the system XD
Same with when it was house numbers, at first I deliberately entered similar-looking but wrong digits because I was worried it was helping to catch crime suspects, and I am not a grass. But after a while that didn't seem to work anymore, it was more certain about what the number shown was.
Those are Google's captchae for its own purposes. Don't look too far into it.
they're developing self-driving cars that will make google execs richer and make millions of people unemployed
High tech, low life.
We wuz kangz n shiet