>>645
Seems nobody cared until some dipshit said it was better for your eyes and/or the environment, and suddenly everyone realized light backgrounds makes their eyes hurt and toggling more pixels on a backlit monitor is actually extremely environmentally friendly, even though nobody has actually done any studies on either of these equally stupid hypotheses
>>646
Isn't it more stupid to assume that the people who say staring at bright lights in a dark room for a long time hurts their eyes more than dark lights are making it up?
>>647
Who said anything about dark rooms? Nevertheless all I'm saying is the most vocal people seem to have only realized it was a problem fairly recently, in unison.
My website sucks.
>>649
Mine will suck more. Mark my words. I'll show you next Monday.
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>>648 people who don't like getting snowblindness at 3 am are all just NPCs I guess
sasuga dqn for the super hot take
just fuckin turn a light on tho
and dim your screens
I think it might just be the "discord light theme" memes spilling over.
No you have it all wrong. If you're using two monitors, having an IDE open in one monitor and a leisure site with a colorscheme matching your IDE fools everyone into thinking you're working super hard all the time, especially if it's dark since it looks hackery and professional.
Also, I think it happens to coincide with Apple adding dark mode to their HID guidelines, there, that's what happened.
I have not noticed any uptick in people bitching about bright themes, but then I used to hang around unpleasant people, like Unix coders, design nuts, people who parrot Maddox, the kind of people who would've seen that argument about how much electricity is wasted by Google on monitors when it came up in 2007, etc.
Twitter, Discord, Mac OS X, Windows are just a few widely used software packages with dark themes.
Also, I wish I had better people to hang around.
First it was all about PTSD, now it's all about gaslighting and imposter syndrome...I wonder what the next trendy mental health problem will be?
afrogon:
I. non-euclidean polygon consisting of curly-haired edges
II. an occupied lilypad
>>657
We must move in different circles; for me, imposter syndrome was a cool new thing a little before PTSD, and is now rather played-out. (We agree on PTSD and gaslighting, though.) I suppose you could throw OCD and bipolar on there as well, farther back.
My bet for the future of casual self-diagnosis is Stockholm Syndrome. If I could choose, though, I'd like to see the Napoleon Complex, except collectively misunderstood as "the delusion that you are Napoleon".
What the fuck?
>>657
PTSD safe spaces never went away, you just aren't focused on them anymore.
Imposter syndrome is also a really common concern on IT. I've heard about it my entire professional life, which granted is just 5 years, but still.
Just remembered that I had a dream about talking to a cute girl and inviting her to dinner and now my day is better now that I recalled this dream
I wanna degauss a screen. Just to hear that bwowmp noise and see the image curl up.
I should make a CRT degauss simulator. That probably already exists though.
Why are you God? I'm God
how about widowmaker
rare prism for friend points Pepega
DE idea: xmona
>>661
Imposter syndrome is not issue in IT: most if not all IT/code "professionals" are complete imposters.
if harry and voldemort were on the moon and harry fucked voldemort would that be fucked up or what
holy fuck i came bricks
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>>657
Claiming to be an asshole because of some cluster B shit that for some reason you're not seeking help for.
Shark tits
I want any and all of you to teach me how to become functional again. Seems like I'm uncreative, stuck and unhappy (again).
Did you hear about the bipolar autistic narcissist Dunning–Kruger who gaslighted a Stockholm Napoleon Imposter so badly he got PTSD? OCDWTFBBQ!
realize i should take better care of my teeth -> floss -> my gums are in agony for daring to disturb the gingivitis
>>676
your return value must be the the same for the same arguments and your evaluation must have no side effects
getting really hungry after jerking off like i just ran a mile or something
I've seen no degaussing like my old monster monitor did. It went all the way up to 1600x1200, or at least that's what I put it to. I couldn't tell if it could actually handle it. The dots were too small.
Anyway no simulator will simulate it the way I remember it
kite ninja yeeting outta nowhere
>>685
It's not really a degauss without that slight adrenaline kick from an erroneous belief that you might EMP your own brainwaves, is it?
ah whoops
What's the word I'm looking for - say you read a food critic's review of a new restaurant; you wouldn't call the critic an "authority" on food, but you would expect them to have some higher level of understanding of the game than the people reading their column, of why good restaurants are good and vice versa, more than just "the food was tasty but the room was noisy". What do you call this quality, someone of a higher level of expertise which "gives them the right" to give a more insightful critique and allows the reader to trust their opinion more?
An ideal critic would have an inside-out knowledge of the medium and the context - a movie critic has more credibility if he studied cinematography and journalism, than someone unqualified who blogs about their favourite James Bond films. Their opinions are both valid opinions, but what's the word for being better-equipped to give a more valuable insight?
>>691
I might use "clout" in that situation but I feel like that's not quite the right thing either. Expertise?
Feels like it's some kind of cross between ethos and experience
>>691
"Erudite", "accredited", or "estimable" might serve, depending.
Rhetorically, though, that entire angle might be difficult. I think using a one-word appeal to authority tends to lower credibility rather than raise it, like you're trying to puff up an emperor with a few too many titles and no clothing.
>>694
I think "they do this for a living" is more nuanced than a simple appeal to authority. Plus reputation is a valid argument for credibility, unless the audience hasn't actually heard of them.
Hmmm I mean more like the position that person is in, rather than an adjective: an esteemed newspaper pays the expert food critic to write a column, the reader turns to this column for guidance on a restaurant's food, it is the critic's duty to serve a knowledgeable piece of reasoned advice for the reader. If the reader hasn't heard of the critic, they can still put some faith in their views because the [position of authority] the esteemed newspaper has put them in should ideally guarantee they know their potatoes.
>>695 they do this for a living which gives them [authority on the subject] ?
You're doing wonderfully, and I'm very proud of you.
i've had the phrase "elistist supercuckture" on my mind for a while and i think it's about time i get it off
fuck me, that's the second time
vc: hottip: proofread your posts
>>696
Yes, you could hopefully believe that they've put some thought into it (as they're paid to), and their employer endorses them by continuing to pay them for their views
>>700 Yes, I mean what is the word I'm getting at, it's on the tip of my tongue - it's been bugging me since I first posted...
We have burned through this thread, I feel like it was made just yesterday.
I'm alive!
>>701 I mean, there's a "professional" (which seems to at least have the connotation you seek) who might be "eloquent" (able to explain related matter clearly in profound ways, which is usually a distinguishing mark of an expert opinion).
We could probably get you some pretty fine-tuned words if you said what you wanted to use it for.
Toy Story toys but they work like Fate servants
24 years old, i've been a shutin hikki neet for the past 6 years and i'm trying to fix my life
i have a job now and at least have a little bit of money sometimes, sometime soon i'll get a driver's license too
after that i have no fucken idea what i'm supposed to do, how am i supposed to make friends and meet people all that stuff, all that kind of stuff happened at school before
i ask because dqn(and depression) has been basically the only constant in my life for those 6 years
> how am i supposed to make friends and meet people all that stuff, all that kind of stuff happened at school before
Just go to community college, it's socially acceptable to recreate your highschool experience there.
> how am i supposed to make friends and meet people all that stuff, all that kind of stuff happened at school before
Legally change your name to Boris von Horace. The more of us, the better.
Farts then gaslights
I wonder what's for April Fools Day.
fricken Oceania/East Asia, being in the future and shit
im squeeks
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APRLI FOOOLL!
Let's get sad.
Let's get mildly pleased instead.
I implore you, gent, let me through, for the gate won't budge. The gate won't budge! We are about to get annihilated!
How does IRC, of all things, shit me up the most? I could scream into a passing library and feel less like eating my own foot
Let's get mad.
Another day, another friend lost
way too many 4d's for me
patiently awaiting the day i can break out the "fuck me yourself, you coward" line on someone
dilemma: I baked cookies and brought them to work with the intention of sharing with coworkers but now I am feeling greedy and want to eat them all myself.
Now I must choose between deliciously unhealthy self-gratification or gaining esteem in the eyes of my fellow man.
is sending unwanted dick pics really that common
>>727
I suspect, based on the statistics of how much extramarital sex actually happens, it's more of a pareto / power law thing where like 80% of dudes will never do it, ~20% just have a distorted sense of what's classy with some portion of the top 1% being "why we can't have nice things"... and some statistically small handful are some absolute maniac outliers the police are hopelessly searching for as we speak.
My fish just finished reheating, so I've gotta go. I hope you have a happy holiday though. Guantanamo Bay is still open. Good night.
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas~
Harmonic Simultaneous 4-day Hinomaru
Your flag is educated stupid. A flag will rotate around 4-corner symmetric metamorphosis.
Suffer with me.
Hot elf chicks that fetishize mortal men because they get all the wisdom and wrinkly old guy look and shit fast and then they die and you get another one
can't get sent unwanted dick pics if you want them all roll_safe_tapping_head.gif
got me there
Time worth wasting isn't time.
avengers is starting to feel more and more like poohadventures
>>725
i just saw that referenced on twitter, someone's going to beat you to the punch I'm sure.
>>738 you probably saw it referenced by me, i see twitter and the current thoughts thread as serving a similar function of jotting down random stream of consciousness shite and sometimes i post my current thought in both places tbh
or more like sometimes i forget what i posted where and it ends up on both
>>739,740
I suffer from choice paralysis whenever I have some kind of pithy thought and then must decide whether to post it on DQN, SAoVQ, Twitter, Facebook, Discord, or one of my many group chats...it's often hard to guess which audience will receive it best.
>>741
It sounds like you're sticking to the "one audience even though there's 0 crossover" rule. If so, we are in complete agreement even though it's pointless!
>>742
I wouldn't want my DQN friends to know I use Discord/etc.
>>742,743
Yeah, I'm always paranoid that there might be crossover, and that my carefully guarded anonymity will be destroyed. I especially hope nobody I know in real life or DQN ever finds my re**it account, it would be just too embarrassing.
In reality though, I seriously doubt anybody cares enough to notice. Or even if they did notice, they wouldn't give a shit.