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176 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9122 10:17

Shia LaBidoof

177 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9122 10:26

if Shia LaBeouf started working out and got really muscular he'd be Shia LaBuff
if Shia LaBeouf started vaping he'd be Shia LaPuff
if Shia LaBeouf killed someone and filmed it he'd be Shia LaSnuff

captcha: dan

178 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9122 13:36

shia le beef jokes in the year of our lord 2018

179 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9122 13:42

what kind of bland food-eating dork describes beer as spicy lmao holy shit they're not even joking

180 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9122 13:56

>>179 There's other spices besides pepper, tbh. I myself have also called cola and mulled wine spicy. Not spicy as in hot but spicy as in having kind of a warm sweetness reminiscent of cinnamon or cloves. If it's a stout or something I could feasibly see it being described as "spicy".

181 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9122 14:20

emamouse type beat

182 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9122 15:02

183 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9122 15:12

>>163
Nooooooo what happened to the mittens?

184 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9122 15:25

>>183
sabotaged by the global zionist conspiracy

185 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9122 15:57

although maybe he really is just a dork and ordered the ghost pepper IPA or some other equally obtuse hipster shite

186 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9122 16:39

representational state transfer for beer

an IPA API

187 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9122 17:43

Just because you have an internet connection and social media accounts doesn't mean you're a celebrity. Having a twitter account doesn't make you an expert on politics. Posting selfies on instagram doesn't make you a model. Having a linkedin profile doesn't mean you're CEO material. Tumblr doesn't make you a super artsy creative person. Using youtube doesn't mean you're an expert video editor or commentator. Using reddit doesn't mean you're an expert scientist. Having a blog doesn't mean anyone has to listen to you. Putting your FL studio tracks on soundcloud or bandcamp doesn't necessarily mean you're a real musician. When someone says something dumb to me like "I have a twitch account now" as if that means they're gonna be a fucking professional streamer, I just think, wow, how fucking delusional are people? Oh, you have a great idea for a podcast? I'm sure all 2 listeners will like it. Nobody fucking cares. Just because you can put bullshit on the internet doesn't mean you should.

188 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9122 17:44

I've read Anna Karenina but never played Dwarf Fortress.

189 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9122 17:45

oh someone already wrote that

190 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9122 18:45

What the fuck happened in here since my last visit 2 days ago?

Wil Wheaton plays board games with other minor celebrities

>>186 please close the door on your way out, nobody wants you to make a scene

191 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9122 20:03

To our adminstrator: Thank you.

192 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9122 20:55

>>188
It's been years since I read Anna Karenina, but I remember the side plot involving Levin being much more interesting than the main plot, and in general found Levin by far the most relatable character.

You should try playing Dwarf Fortress if you have the patience for it, it's pretty amazing.

193 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9122 21:26

>>192
Who's Anna Karenina? I could look it up but then I'd get some impersonal Wikipedia explanation rather than what they mean to you.

194 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9122 21:58

>>193
It's a novel by Leo Tolstoy; probably his second most famous, after War and Peace. It's mainly about the titular Anna Karenina being unfaithful to her husband, and her life subsequently falling apart. Levin is a secondary character who's considered to be a semi-autobiographical version of Tolstoy himself. His side plot involves some really interesting themes about social inequality (particularly between him and his serfs) and technology (he tries to make the lives of his serfs easier by providing machines that do their job for them, and is surprised when they are uncooperative). The rest of it is mainly about dysfunctional relationships and is a little bit dry and moralistic for my tastes.

Overall, it's a pretty cool book, but War and Peace is a lot better and much more worth your time in my opinion. Or you could play Dwarf Fortress instead.

195 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9122 22:17

196 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9122 22:23

We should recommend books to each other. I'm reading The Plauge by Camus, it's pretty good.

197 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9122 22:23

*Plague
Forgive me i'm sick

198 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9123 00:51

>>193-195
I also identified with Levin when I first read it, but that was mainly because I was a shy teenager who liked the idea of the "nice guy" getting to be rich and marry a hot girl.

When it comes to Russian literature I much prefer Dostoevsky. He's like the edgier version of Tolstoy. I found Crime and Punishment, The Double and The Idiot much more interesting than Anna Karenina and War and Peace.

Also, Anton Chekhov has some pretty damn good short stories.

>>196
The Plague is pretty good! My recommendation for DQN is Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer. It's like an SCP article but much more well-written. Creepy in a fascinating way. (Also, apparently a movie came out recently, but I haven't seen it yet.)

199 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9123 02:19

>>192,194,198
Funny, that was almost my exact same impression too (and I was also a shy teenager when I read it). I found Levin's subplot to be much more engaging and interesting and the main plot almost kind of frustrating, so much so that the return due date to the library came up for that book when I was almost done with it and I didn't even finish it, just turn it back in. Anna seemed to basically be suffering from a bad case of what we in 2018 would call "first world problems" and decided to wreck the lives of herself and everyone around her over it.

200 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9123 02:32

One thing in particular stuck out to me that I still remember about it to this day. At one point, I think it's after the affair is found out but before they're officially divorced, Anna and her husband are having a conversation in French about something. The text says something about how they're talking in French because in Russian 'ty' feels too intimate and familiar and 'vy' feels too cold and distant. I wonder if that's just some supremely subtle satire by Tolstoy on the xenophilia of the Russian aristocracy at the time, anything Russian was plain and poor and was for the uneducated serfs, anything foreign was for us educated elites. Aren't 'tu' and 'vous' the exact same word?

201 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9123 04:19

>>200
My interpretation was just that speaking in a second language provides you with an emotional buffer. Just as curse words don't feel offensive in a second language, using 'vous' would feel neither too intimate nor too distant for non-native speakers.

But you made me curious so I did some googling, and found this: http://languagehat.com/ty-and-vy-then-and-now/

According to the comments, the French word "vous" was considered neutral among the Russian aristocracy at the time.

If anything I would guess that rather than satire, Tolstoy was just writing realistically.

202 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9123 04:21

There's a lot of things I hate about modern internet rhetoric, but the latest one is "Repeat after me."

Repeat after me: You. Are. Fucking. Annoying.

203 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9123 06:02

Repeat before me: wowtchable

204 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9123 07:26

>>203
I could swear I've had that VC before

205 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9123 09:39

>>198
The Annihilation movie was pretty good. They cut a lot and the ending was weird, but you get some cool monsters.

206 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9123 10:04

>>201

>I cracked up reading [...] how a Russian speaker in Israel used to explain to his Hebrew speaking friends that vy is a polite form of addressing others – until he overheard two pensioners quarelling outside his apartment. One of them said: g„y„t„y„„„u „r„ „~„p „‡„…„zh.

Ah, I love this. Good find.

207 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9123 10:07

>>204
Shit, man, I was about to say....

brb, gotta surf somotion

208 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9123 11:50

>>202
or putting the clap emoji in between words

don't 👏 call 👏 yourself 👏 a 👏 [some title] 👏 unless 👏 you 👏 do 👏 [some gatekeeping bullshit] 👏

or

PSA: [condescending thing], folks

209 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9123 15:19

This mouse sucks and I hope its designer is stung directly on the anus by a bumblebee

210 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9123 15:20

>>209
Mice are obsolete. It's all about touchpads and touch screens now.

211 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9123 15:28

>>210
that's lame

212 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9123 15:45

>>211
it's true though

213 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9123 16:01

>>212
doesn't make it any less lame!

214 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9123 16:58

>>213
doesn't make it any less true!

215 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9123 17:12

feeling very sad today

216 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9123 17:14

Maybe there's an evolutionary advantage to depression and suicide. Your brain evaluates that you're worthless, and as such, the tribe is better off without you. Your death means the resources go to the other people in the tribe, which helps them continue one. I'm not suicidal, just sad and thinking about dumb shit.

217 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9123 17:15

The phrases which encourage you to start something always bother me because I see consistency as more of a problem. I mean phrases like "The journey of a thousand years begins with a single step." It's not enough to start, you must continue.

218 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9123 17:46

>>217
It's because eventually you'll build up momentum and continuing is easier if it becomes a force of habit.

But I hate those bromides, they are meaningless to me.

219 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9123 17:55

>>210
Sure, if all you do is read the internet

I feel like I'm about to get myself into a vintage iOS-chan back-and-forth

220 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9123 18:26

Maybe I actually want to get carpal tunnel and that's why I use touchpads, have you thought about that? Huh?

221 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9123 19:30

bloat

222 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9123 20:45

>>219
most people aren't 1337 gamers and Linux users
your personal tech choices =/= tech trends

223 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9123 21:18

What is happening to me?

224 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9123 22:53

>>223
you are getting older

225 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9123 23:47

theoretically shouldn't touchpads be great for FPS? You could just tap on the enemy's head for an instant headshot

226 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9124 00:27

>>225
How would you turn around? Other player moves out of your sight, by the time you move you get gibbed.

227 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9124 00:44

There's threads on this board from 33 years ago! Don't believe me though, check it out for yourself. http://archives.4-ch.net/dqn/subback.html

228 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9124 00:57

I played Unreal Tournament a lot on a touchpad when I hurt my shoulder years ago. It was fine.

A touchscreen, though, different story.

229 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9124 02:06

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230 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9124 02:34

We shouldn't bother arguing with anti-vaxxers, we should just let their kids die and thus remove a bit of stupidity from the gene pool.

231 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9124 02:36

>>225
mouse movements for touchpads are relative, so you'd need to aim just like on a mouse, except slower. and a big enough movement combined with an insensitive enough mouse configuration might mean you'll run out of space on the touchpad, and your hand will need to travel all the way back to the start of the touchpad and then drag it again to complete the movement.
of course it depends on your settings i guess, but it was pain for me.

touchpads are fine for work though, if your desk, chair and tablet are positioned correctly, they are comfy. especially the apple one, or the wacom pen&touch, which are big with a lot of travel room.

232 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9124 06:22

>>225
Just click her head LOOOOOOL 4Head

>>231
meanwhile in FPS oldfartistan... laughs in trackball

233 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9124 08:29

I don't buzz much about famous people, but I'm glad Harry Potter seems to have embraced the "aging child star" look and taken insane-person roles instead of becoming insane or just acting like he's super important or good looking in a desperate attempt to avoid the inevitable vaudeville stage hook. The fact that he still gets paparazzi and shit could validate that, but he has reached the possibly enviable position of remaining famous by making it look like he's not fucking trying (even though he probably is).

234 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9124 10:09

fun fun fun on the autobahn

235 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9124 10:36

This modern stuff is all clicks and beeps and airhorns and wobble bass, but Kraftwerk, now THERE was a band not only that you could dance to, it was almost symphonic.

*sips in German*

236 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9124 11:07

>>233
Harry Potter died of cancer in 2014.

237 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9124 22:54

I don't have to think of anything.

238 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9125 00:25

Old customer today: "Getting old's a bitch but it's better than dying."

239 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9125 00:39

When's this football game going to start?

240 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9125 01:31

I feel like I should like Kraftwerk but it's just so boring and cheesy

241 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9125 02:37

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDCd6-aZvlw
Are you gonna support her dream?

242 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9125 03:12

durr

243 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9125 06:43

This is my board

244 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9125 10:30

>>222
Listen iOS-chan, you can't ignore all (Windows) business users, Photoshop and friends, literally anyone who types for a living, ...

245 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9125 10:40

>>240
If you think they're boring now, wait til you see them live

246 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9125 11:33

>>240 A lot of it is stuff that was novel at the time but has become kind of trite over the years as so many electronic and hip-hop artists were influenced by them. It's kind of like going back and watching Rashomon after decades of watching modern movies with modern cinematic devices and storytelling that were inspired by it, it makes you think "duh? where is the mystery here?".

247 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9125 11:42

Or at least I can see how someone would say that, personally I really enjoy both Kraftwerk and Rashomon unironically.

248 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9125 14:32

imagine the absolute state of low iq amerrrica

249 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9125 15:41

I really had fun watching Rashomon and seeing Kraftwerk live...

250 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9125 20:54

Are coursera certificates actually useful or nah

251 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9125 22:56

I mean you'll learn some shit but probably nobody will take it seriously except as a minor point on your resume

252 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9125 23:03

>>246
But Rashomon is a great movie. And everyone gets the Rashomon plot wrong anyway. Even the woodcutter's story in Rashomon is a lie.

253 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9125 23:07

I just managed to get a pair of fucking contacts on and I feel like I look worse?

254 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9125 23:27

Lame confession: I pretended to love Rashomon in high school because I was a total weeb and self-proclaimed "film buff" but secretly I thought it was boring just as >>246 predicted

255 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9126 00:05

Rashomon feels boring now because it's mainly remembered for giving its name to the "Rashomon effect" and for introducing the idea that the camera itself could kind of be an unreliable narrator. That's what I was getting at, it feels played out despite being the thing that literally gave its name to that storytelling technique because we've had 6 decades of subsequent movies using that technique.

So, I want to propose the name "Rashomon effect effect" for the phenomenon where the work where a certain effect or device originated starts to feel trite or boring only because so many works that came after it also used that effect.

256 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9126 00:42

Other people already call that the "Citizen Kane effect" or the "Seinfeld effect."

257 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9126 01:27

i hate my life

258 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9126 01:52

Well, what do you think of The 400 Blows. It's also a movie for snobs but it's a light-mooded picaresque for the most part.

259 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9126 02:13

hi

260 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9126 02:13

>>259hi me

261 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9126 06:04

life is depressing

262 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9126 08:22

few years ago i met a guy who rumor around the place was that he tried to make himself a meme looking like a creepy bastard, i even ran into a couple examples in the wild

i guess it's good for him it didn't really catch on, i wouldn't want something like that haunting me now just because i thought it was a good decision at age 19ish

263 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9126 12:08

from tinder import date
date.regret()

264 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9126 12:58

My back hurts.

265 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9126 21:24

play virtual american football, get shot

266 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9126 22:58

Everything keeps happening.

267 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9127 00:56

>>258
I like the 400 Blows. French New Wave and Italian Neorealism is a lot more interesting than a lot of people think. A movie like the Bicycle Thief is just plain entertaining, regardless of its artistic merit.

268 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9127 05:17

Diogenic irony

269 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9127 06:27

shiny pussies

270 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9127 09:37

Girly orgasms.

271 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9127 09:43

>>266
The damn things overlap.

272 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9127 12:44

god when did i get so gay

273 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9127 13:15

I'M GONNA VIOLATE YOU

vc: yazzan

274 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9127 14:54

>>273
FLEX YOUR MUSCLES

275 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9127 15:12

My most unpopular opinion is that "could care less" is an implied conditional and is thus both grammatically and logically correct and adding "not" doesn't significantly change the meaning of the sentence.

example:
Alice: Did you hear about the record-breaking corn harvest in Shattuck, Oklahoma last month?
Bob: I could care less!

Taking Bob's statement to its logical conclusion, the expanded meaning is something like [the only way that] I could care less [than I do right now] [is if you told me about the corn harvest in Shattuck, OK!]. It's a similar case as when you say "I would like some of that corn, please", the implied conditional being something like "if it's ok for me to have some".

The cases are many such with regards to similar grammatical constructs, but it's basically another meme that 99 iqs who imagine themselves as 139 iqs like to drop to try to look smart. At some point the internet decided that the way to be a cool and hip so-random edgy ironylord is to take a mundane opinion over something inconsequential and pretend their entire life revolves around it. See also the pineapple on pizza "controversy".

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