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>>400
Depends where you live, but where I live having a weekday off is really nice. Everything crowded on the weekends is not crowded, you can run errands at places that are only open on weekdays, and the whole city is generally just way more chill because most people are at work.
However if you have friends that often do things Friday night / Saturday, you should probably pick M-F.
Itch Elemental update: It's a little more tolerable now. Phew!
can't look at bane memes anymore without imagining aiden gillen's glorious perfectly-shaped ass
I am extremely anxious.
Summon Greater Itch Elemental
DS9 first impressions after finishing most of S1:
-Excellent cinematography kind of hides the low budget and the fact that they had about 3 sets that they just moved back and forth between. High quality shot framing gives scenes a feeling of liveliness and spontaneity that you just wouldn't expect from a TV series produced today.
-I like the setting, it's neat to see how the "real" people live. TNG felt Tolstoy-esque at times, when it showed nothing but the intellectual upper echelon of society and their endless chess games and poetry readings and classical music recitals and all that boring shit.
-Every episode that focuses mainly on Bajor and Bajoran problems is infuriating, how did such a stupid and obnoxious people discover the warp drive?
-Sisko is pretty cool and has the "commanding presence" to be actually believable as a captain, unlike Janeway. Like Picard he takes no shit, but he lacks Picard's indulgent streak. An omniscient demigod appears and starts messing everything up and Picard's first reaction is to debate philosophy with him; Sisko's first reaction is to PUNCH HIM RIGHT IN THE FUCKING FACE.
-I expected to dislike Kira a lot more than I actually do, if I didn't know better I'd say they gave the viewer a bad first impression of her on purpose.
-Bashir is kind of cute but also extremely punchable, what is it about twinks that think they're alphas that makes you want to just grab them by the scruff of the neck and rough them up?
-Some of my favorite scenes so far have been the ones that are just Odo and Quark sitting at the bar bantering back and forth, I love them both so much.
-Dax is just kind of there, I'm still not entirely sure what her rank is or what she even does.
-O'Brian is an absolute madlad and I'm glad he got more screentime.
feel free to ignore and not respond because i'm basically just using dqn as my personal pastebin
but also feel free to respond
please
>>410
i try to cut it down to about 25% of the posts i wanna make because i got no one in the world to talk to and a lot of problems, but it's one thing to be heard and another to talk people's ears off
>>409
that's pretty close to how i felt about it.
though, i would dare to say ST just all around has a pretty bad conception of how things get invented. but if the human warp drive was invented by New Age Retro Hippie instead of a trillion-dollar public works project, i'm sure that could explain why a lot of spacefaring civs in the setting are practically barbarians (and why they find it laughable that humans see themselves as any better)
INVADERS MUST DIE ;_;
apparently i'm supposed to be burning excess caesars by now but i'm stuck with ferg onry
Surprisingly there doesn't seem to be any cocktail called a "ferg," ruining my clever joke idea, but this is close enough I guess https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2018/01/hennessy-partners-with-rapper-aap-ferg-on-limited-.html
Certainly sounds more drinkable than a Caesar
Why is the image board not working.
It got raided
oh man i'm in your mind fuzz always gets me going
>>410
Yeah I can't tell you how many times I've written long winded posts just to CTRL-A Backspace or just close the tab. It becomes "Fuck, nobody would want to read this garbage."
Sometimes just writing the post is enough to satisfy myself. As long as I don't check for replies since the post was never made. Try it some time.
hispa kek
I never understood celebrities. When I was a kid, I could not fathom why people would give a fuck about people they don't know personally. I thought maybe it was something I would understand when I was older.
Now I'm 30 and I still don't get it.
>>422 I agree that some people go way too far and don't really care about celebrity gossip and stuff, but is there really no famous person whose work you enjoy and that you like hearing/reading about?
Xbox One? SAD!
It has taken me years but finally my Uber score is high enough to sort of pass as a normal user, good grief.
>>422
when i was a kid i was the same way
at some point around 13 i started to get it, and now i get it. i think the process started because i wanted to make friends by talking about rock music.
but i wish i didn't; i feel like i brainwashed myself.
石榴 - zakuro
海石榴 - tsubaki
手榴弾 -shuryudan
but why
Korean song that sounds like an argos ad sung in simlish
>>428
because 7th century Japanese people thought various Chinese written words were cool and stole them but didn't want to give up their homegrown spoken words so just slammed them together in ways that made no logical sense
i just want
four walls and adobe flash for my girls
why won't she text me back
Reeeeee
> is there really no famous person whose work you enjoy and that you like hearing/reading about?
There are a handful of semi-famous people whose work I enjoy enough that I remember their names. (Mostly directors and musicians.) However, I don't actively seek out information about them, and I certainly don't care about their personal lives. I'm especially bad at remembering faces. Even if I were to see a famous person on the street, I would probably not recognize them.
This is not a point of pride for me, nor do I look down on people who are knowledgable about celebrities. (Well, I do look down on the ones that are really crazy about all the gossip.) I'm just baffled by how easy and natural it seems to be for most people to recognize famous people, while for me it would take quite a concerted effort.
imagine literally being named "dick wolf" and using that raw power to break down 2 year old internet memes into a tv drama format so 98 iq boomers can understand them
It's been however-many years, and I still remember the professor of my data structures class bragging that one of the students she'd mentored was able to pursue his dream: making video games. "He's doing QA for Bethesda," she said. "You know, they made Skyrim?".
At that moment, an almost palpable feeling of students re-evaluating their lives swept through the room. In my memory, not one of us moved for a full twenty seconds.
Imagine the implosion on /tv/ if Tom Hiddleston suddenly died
>>435
Your shit teacher is the reason why ES Skyrim was full of bugs.
I ask why, but I shouldn't because I know the answer and it scares me anyway.
>>438
Yes. Looking back, she was an accomplished researcher teaching an undergraduate class, trying to give some inspirational advice and be relatable at the same time, but missing the mark.
mexican friends making fun of me for using plastic lime juice ._.
Why do so many people hate me?
>>442
If you were brought up into the sunlight out of that vile place, if you were cleaned and fed and comforted, in that day and hour all the prosperity and beauty and delight of Omelas would wither and be destroyed.
One of my lecturers worked on that JFK assassination simulator, where they had a cash prize if you could disprove the accepted story of what happened. They got a letter from the white house or something saying how disgusting it was, and they framed it and put it above the mantlepiece XD
on Tuesdays and Thursdays, i read the news. it's better than reading it every day... right?
>>444
The wikipedia article mentions Lieberman and Ted Kennedy's reactions, but IIRC the WH wasn't super jazzed about it either.
chats moving so slow everyone will know im straight
awkwardly explaining that when i said i was crabby because i'm cutting i didn't mean my wrists i meant my diet
>>448
who even hears that and immediately assumes it's an egregious reference to self-harm and not one of the many other meanings of "to cut"
I didn't realize it until 4 hours into my shift, but I'm definitely sick and I want to die.
vc: back, because i want to go back home
Imagine being a jellyfish.
No brain, no thinking, therefore they aren't
Don't think, feel and you'll be cnidarian.
Just got a new subscriber; my channel has a single video from 2007
pokemon /ss/
>>450
To be fair, it's not that common to hear outside of bodybuilding circles.
vc gotter
>>458
you hear it in powerlifting circles too tbh
:smug face emoji:
"Common features of denpa songs include intentionally off-key vocals, nonsensical lyrics and an over-the-top tune."
is death grips denpa?
>>455,456
I have six subscribers. My channel has no content and has never had content. It's the weirdest feeling.
>>460 This description has never sat well with me, it's never that the vocals are "intentionally" off-key, the singers give it their all in a way that it doesn't matter if they don't quite hit the notes sometimes, it's the enthusiasm and conviction that makes it endearing. Lyrics and subject matter might be weird but I don't think I'd go so far as to say they're nonsense either...
>>462 i mean of course it doesn't hit every nuance of what makes something denpa, denpa is a feeling.
"intentionally off key" could also mean just not singing in the same time as the instrumentals. this specifically drew my eye for this offhand shitpost because mc ride does exactly that in a lot of songs.
is viper denpa
>>463 Then it would be off-time, not off-key. Something that thrills me about denpa is that sometimes something will seem off-key or off-time the first time you hear it, but then after repeated listening you realise it's actually perfect, you were just listening from the wrong angle the first time - something I also love about Captain Beefheart's music!
I ended up buying puyo puyo tetris just to practice for tetris 99 what
some people (and that includes the dictionary) say off-key when it's merely out of tune. i personally would never use it to describe someone who is out of tune but otherwise pretty in-key.
I meant the "intentionally" part, it's not deliberately not singing in key/tune/time that denpasong is about, though some of the juiciest bits for me are when there's just the perfect divine naffness at the perfect moment in a song, I get tingles all over my body...
Don't think I've heard any denpa, but I like the odd track where everything's a bit off-time or out of tune, but there's a moment or two when they do get it right that works in the same way as when better-performed pieces briefly find cadence. Like the Evanenscense chord progression, but less overused.
>>469 Imagine your little sister singing karaoke, and it's adorable how seriously she's getting into being a little popstar, but also a bit frightening how complex the songs are and how much finesse she's nailing them with, albeit in her shrill young gleefully hyper voice
also i never got involved in those internet fights about temperaments because i just can't hear the difference, but i do get that that slight detuning that creates a sort of interference pattern that raises my hackles is a pleasingly energetic goosebumps thing for someone else
thinking of notes as pure tones that should always fall exactly upon the frequencies dictated by the temperament is not considered particularly good music makin' for this reason, yet it seems to get taught in classes and such with appalling frequency, no pun intended
What's some good denpa?
>>471
Luckily, no physical instrument is completely perfectly tuned, and you get nice warm synthesizers by detuning the oscillators by a couple of cents
I love you, I really do.
>>474
yeah, thank goodness
i don't listen to a lot of brass ensemble stuff, but the way they can fall into (or out of) just-intoned chords a lot is kinda hypnotic
i also find it amusing that iosys is kinda one of the cores of denpa but they habitually jump through so many genres that it seems to be a mere plurality of what they do, as if their true loyalty is to otakuness.
The Pleroma of the Otaku
The genre-bending is one of the other main things I love about denpa!
ngl i had to re-read that a couple times because i kept seeing "gender-bending"
the overwhelmingly more common usage in japanese seems to be スモウデッドリフト rather than 相撲デッドリフト
i wonder why
good luck is Tewi Tewi TEWI TEWI TEWI
what is tewilor swift's opinion on the interest rate hike from the central bank of eientei
>>482 I knew when I hit the Reply button that you were going to say that
lefty loosey, tighty noosey
clockvise
too much sugar!
I just can't get the smell of milk and coffee out of my parka.
zero suit camus
finally another quartet night fan
I'm kidding of course
the new mega man robot: cancer man
Remember when DQN was stupid?
dqnize yourself and face to big fat butts
not-so-hot take: sweet bro and hella jeff was the only good thing to come out of homestuck
>>497
It wasn't even apart of Homestuck originally, it was a parody of those two-dudes-on-a-couch gamer comics (e.g. Penny Arcade, Ctrl-Alt-Del, etc.) that were almost everywhere back then.
The author decided to attribute SBaHJ to some kid in Homestuck, while trying to give latter SBaHJ comics a vague connection to Homestuck, and overexcited fans tried to exaggerate that connection to drag more people into Homestuck.
i disagree. it had its moments. plenty of decent fan works, too (the "official" music is more or less fan works, FWIW; i'm really glad radiation caught on with a huge audience, and i hope he remembers me when i'm famous lol).
it did run way the fuck out of steam, though. i remember someone on the MSPAF in early 2012 made a throwaway comment that maybe 2011 was the peak and i gotta hand it to them. i watched that forum die painfully in its last two years and didn't bother to follow the "refugees" because a lot of the people i liked had lost interest by then.
maybe it coulda gone somewhere neat from there. it just didn't. and perhaps we were expecting too much of hussie's ability to make ridiculous escalations of scope with astonishing frequency after problem sleuth and acts 1-4~5ish. partly to blame is that he doubled down on long passages and time-consuming flash productions. so, the ending felt like a well earned mercy killing more than anything.
and of course, his writing was kind of painful all the way through, which mattered way less before it became a heavily dialogue-driven novel with barely tolerable characters and some of the ones i liked best "developing" into worse instead of better personalities.
it doesn't hold up well as prose, i think; all the referential stuff is becoming "so last decade", thankfully, sure, but even when it was current i enjoyed it like i enjoy "one of my japanese animes"--more for the feeling and the setting than anything. i never much cared for the crowd that'd talk about "good" it was or wasn't.
the only way i'm ever giving it a re-read is if i'm translating it into easier terms for the ESL crowd.