I HATE BEING SINGLE!!!
>>595
That 19 year old girl would have been all sorts of trouble that you can't even fathom at the moment. Trust me, anon. You've seriously dodged a bullet.
>>596
Sure, but I coulda got laid and enjoyed that sweet 19 yo pussy. FUCK.
I'm completely indifferent to being single.
I just want close friendship.
>>597
If you care about younger pussy. Just go to some third world shithole and really test your morals then you sick fuck.
>>599
Daily reminder that for the vast majority of human existence, pubescent people were commonly treated as adults but they weren't considered adults by default. Pubescent people normally had to complete some kind of ritual to adulthood. This means that there were pubescent people who were considered adult and were socially eligible to start their own family, own some land and businesses, command people, etc. It was only in the recent age when there were laws that declared by fiat that the age of 18 was the age of the majority (adulthood).
>>599
I’m 22 you moralizing asshole and last time I checked 19 is above the age of consent.
19 is grandma-tier wtf are you talking about
>I'm 22
So? Find a 32 year old woman to be your mommy gf. Trust me, she'll take better care of you and make you pancakes after draining your balls.
Fuck Valentine’s Day soon. Fuck I hate that! It’s even shallower than Christmas! I hate girls. They’re all bitches and whores anyway.
When was the last time you used a search engine to find anything worthwhile? Even on a conceptual level they are a bad way to navigate the web and virtually every result page these days is muddled by algorithims built around marketing and spam. Search engines remove the interactive and community based nature of the internet. Remember when the only way to find sites was through word of mouth or spending hours procrastinating clicking on link after link? Today the average search result brings up a bunch of shit op eds and news articles sponsered by a company or just recyled press releases and reddit posts and its all set to get worse AI bullshit.
agreed. replace your search engine with bookmarks and a bunch of links. there will always be those idiots who says this is inconveniant. but it forces you to actually think and use your mind instead of asking sheikh google for the fucking answer all the time. sure it simplifies the mental process but thats exactly the problem! search engines are why gen z are so retarded. they dont think or process anything they just search for shit and swallow it down like a cum drinking jav idol.
Search engines are good for when you have a specific problem to solve, or specific book / show to find info on. For other things, tags and catalogues are preferable.
>>7,8
Did you know in the early days of the Word Wide Web, people actually maintained public directories of links. The Yahoo website was originally a public directory of links.
>>14
Yes. I remember them. There was plenty of geocities pages as well as dedicated forums that had link directories aka webrings.
Ah the good old days where you actually had to look for stuff or ask someone. It was always fun finding a bunch of links and randomly clicking away only to stumble on something random or totally fucked up.
>>16
People have also seemed to lose a major fraction of their thinking skills when it comes to being online. They want all of these stupid algorithms to think of their content for them. They can't even do basic thought processes and want to just chum through life with a mundane prescence that's stale as shit. I definitely miss the days of hanging out with a bunch of my friends all sitting on our desktops exploring the web and dragging around our heavy ass CRT monitors just so all of us can do our own thing then later on we'd have a LAN party. Same when we decided to take over our local internet cafe just for RuneScape trolling in the wildy in the mid 2000s. Calling WoW players, "fucking faggots" and to meet us in the wildy if they were real men. Oh, how I miss the days of ultimate cringe. Even the times we all got kicked out for jacking off to hentai and having contests to see who could cum first to fanart of Misty and May's tits first while battling each other on our FireRed and LeafGreen games.
I hate it. The entire human species - any one of them who uses an internet connection - has been transformed into this docile, brainless consoomer. People now rely on an algorithm to tell them what music to listen to, what YouTube or TikTok video to watch, what TV series to start streaming this week, what to buy for groceries (Did you like that salted caramel ice cream last week? Well try this flavour this week! Would you like me to place an order?), what books to read, what to buy on Amazon even though they don't really need anything and so on.
So few people take effort to seek out something new and unheard of to them and take the time to discover it, then maybe finding more stuff from that. Nobody loads up SoulSeek or some other mp3 sharing program and some Discogs browser tabs and seeking out new music, they just have Spotify or some trash shuffle stuff for them that is similar to the same garbage they've had on shuffle for the last 6 months.
In 50 years nobody will know the joys of digging for new music at a store, scouring the shelves at a bookshop, downloading random pirated games to play, discovering a niche online community for something totally random you love. We'll have an entire generation of idiots that are perpetually online under this new internet now controlled by massive corporations. The wild west days so many of us grew up on are over. I feel like things like IRC, textboards and even forums are one of the last things remaining of the internet of the past. In time, they'll vanish and all we'll be stuck with is what some company sells us.
>>18
Your post made me feel incredibly sad and at the same time realizing just how different I truly am from the average person. I have always lived online as I did in the past. I never stopped web exploring as a kid going on 30 years ago. I don't rely on any type of algorithm for anything. Unless you consider it problematic that I do check into things I read on forums and other boards such as these for new content once and a while.
I've curated well over 7000 websites so I never have to use a search engine ever again. I've managed to go without one since sometime in 2015. Not counting fun stuff like wiby and other similar websites. I've been thinking about making a few webrings that people may find useful. I haven't managed a personal page for a little while now. Which is something I believe everyone who uses the internet should do. At least learn how to make a personal page, no matter how simplistic it may turn out. I felt happier when I was managing the few that I had made. Neocities makes this easier than ever for the average person. I go on there once and a while to check out the newer generations creations, I usually end up cracking a smile leaving me happy that there's at least still some out there who understand the fundamentals.
As far as the consumerism approach. I've never used anything like that. I've always relied on web scraping, torrenting, and/or other means of actually having my content downloaded to use whenever I want regardless of being online or offline.
>In 50 years
8===============D - - -
It almost made I think I checked the wrong website.
I miss the old frontpage already
>>4 hmmmm get fucked. Those are all shit ideas and you problems.
>>4 Because that isn't 4-ch.net. This place is what it is.
i have to admit captcha sucks just ger rid of it already
Just set the front page picture back to the original one from 1993
>>11
I myself preferred the Usenet 4-ch text picture from 1987.
>>12
It was NOTHING to ARPANET 4-ch punchcard picture from 1969!
I miss the colorful ribbons, but I guess some change is ok.
Employment is a joke. Low pay, unreasonable hours, tasks that eat into your lunch break, working with assholes who criticize you while doing literally nothing and using company internet to use twitter or whatever the fuck people use these days. Wage work is fucking slavery. Just today my manager gave me a warning for sleeping at my desk during lunch recess. I can do what I like in my 30 minutes fuck off you jew! And holy fuck do they underpay me, all my wage goes into rent. I can't even afford lunch. What's the fucking point? I'd be happier starving all day and killing time watching anime and playing games. What did this job give me? Fucking nothing. Why do undeserving pigs have so much and we so little? The wheel will turn soon enough.
>>57
>>59
Managers are literally incompetent by definition. The Peter Principle states that people are promoted based on their performance in their current position, not the position they are being selected for. The Dilbert principle states that people who are so good at their current position (this applies more to technical positions as opposed to leadership ones) as to be irreplaceable will be passed up for promotions so as to avoid the headache of training someone else to fill their shoes. Ergo: Management are people who were good - but not great - at ground floor positions and ended up stagnating performance-wise at lower and/or middle management, since those who were actually really good leaders of men and good planners ended up getting promoted to the senior management and executive level.
Just something to think about.
>>60 Hmmm yeah “literally” ”by definition” are you sure about that?
I got a job and actually go outside now and I fucking hate it but have to pay the bills somehow. I thought I’d get a job and act like normie and everything would be okay and I’d be normal but I totally failed. Fuck it I’m better off alone and at home watching anime all day. Trying to role play as a normie all day is just painful. I have to put up with their bullshit materialism and false flag fuckery. Now I just tell my work colleagues to fuck off every time I see them. “Hey can you take these down to Jemm-“ fuck off! “Hey, so we’re all going out for lunch do you want to com—-“ fuck off! My manager has warned me for this behavior so today I told her to fuck off. I hope they fire me so I don’t have to get up every day at 5am put up with the excrement they are.
>>62
Telling people to "fuck off" where I'm from would get you killed or shot while you leave to head home. Do you work around a bunch of betas and women?
>>63
They have a rainbow pride flag in the office so that tells you all you need to know about them
>>63 That's hilarious, offices in some kind of savage lands?
>>66
Faggots tried to get me onto their gay pride bullshit. I flat out told them no and they even demanded we all change our social media avatars to Ukranian flags. I don't use retardbook or twitter so I squeezed my way out of it. I've been decorating my workspace with pictures of lolis, toys, and today I prinetd off a picture of Osama Bin Laden. If this doesn't get me fired I don't know what will.
>savage lands
I've actually been thinking of moving to a third world country or somewhere in Asia. But judging how things are these days, it won't be long before they too are corrupted by the poison of western civilization and disgusting woke cancer.
>>67
Most that live here don't even know what Ukraine even is, that's how out of touch with the current trends regular people here are. There weren't even mask mandates except for at the hospitals during 2020. Not that anyone actually even bothered wearing them. Mostly saw people wear a bandana on their necks and would raise them up for a second if at all when asked by someone. A male with slightly long hair gets constantly harassed and screamed at by anyone who passes him by. Someone gets murdered all the time which doesn't seem to even phase anyone anymore. A guy I went to school with just got locked up for chopping up a girl into pieces with an axe. He was found doped up on heroin naked next to the chopped up body covered in blood. I think I'm going to start seriously referring to this place as the "savage lands" because fucking dammit, it's accurate as hell.
Hello, i'm thinking about creating a textboard like 4-ch(channel four) but.... no one nowadays uses anymore textboards..
Should i create one?
>>33
captcha is hard to look at, if you allow some sort of registration without email, and make me type captcha only during registration, then I might actually move there.
If you feel like starting one, go ahead and have fun with it. It will likely always be a slow, niche place but whatever...so is this website and all the other textboards out there. To me, that is their appeal anyway.
>>1
You can always cash in on the nostalgia factor to get users. There are new Usenet and 90s style bulletin boards and some of the original groups are still going to this day running entirely on nostalgia factor. But textboards were never that big outside of Japan compared to imageboards. If you know Japanese (or know someone who does) and you can advertise it to nostalgic 2channel veterans or retro tech maniacs you can definitely reel in enough people to keep it going. However, for that to work your site would have to have the look and feel of a 2channel type site but have some functional improvements (e.g. make sure it runs smoothly on a smartphone or tablet) and generally be accessible to newer users who want to try out the retro experience of a textboard but have no idea how the format works.
>>38
I hope that isn't through inspiration as if you were to look up to those idiotic fools.
>>38
You'd need to find somebody who is willing to pay anything for your BBS. I don't think you could find anybody on earth to pay $50 for your BBS.
>>1
Why would you create a new textboard when 4-ch is perfectly fine? At least this place has some activity and isn't completely extinct. Your site would probably never get any users and if people from here went over there it would just kill 4-ch which is one of the internet's historic websites. This place should be memorialized, made into a world heritage site, not replaced. If your interested in textboards, then just keep using this one and bully your friends and family into using it. Making a new textboard is as pointless as making a new sail boat or a new mini computer or a new dummy phone. Why make a new version of something obsolete when you can use this right here?
>it would just kill 4-ch
Yeah a shame all those other BBS made by other people and then advertised here killed 4-ch!
There are still hundreds of niche textboards in every language still online that have not yet killed 4-ch. Them existing isn't taking anyone away from this website over that one because it's more about the community around them that people return to them for.
I wonder if I should try using that site to help me learn Nihongo
>>7 Wtf lol shut up... stop calling everyone you don't agree with a nazi...
I google translated a couple of threads on the shogi board. Nearly every thread devolves into wanting to fuck the female players. I guess if you want to seem really horny it'll do you well.
They got priorities right, I guess. What else is there to do with female shogi players other than making more of them?
I think it's important to learn slang but not as a starting point in learning a language. You should also at least know the meaning of the words before usage.
>>7
How the hell do you invoke Godwin's Law without the argument even starting?
Probably not. You probably want to learn the language in its legitimate use before its slang-informal use.
どうでも出来ないわ。日本語はおそらく時間かかて最後でやめる
First time I used the internet as a kid was at an internet cafe. Spent hours playing counterstrike here. I remember having to stop at an Internet cafe about every other day to catchup on emails and read the news because we didn't have a PC at home. Anyone else have nostalgic memories of these places?
>public library
>RuneScape
That was exactly what me and a few friends did after school as well. The library was at the end of the road that our school was on. Even though I had a computer at home, it was nice to go there with everyone all together.
I remember this small Internet cafe where my mom would leave me while she was at work. I’d surf the internet all day with a grilled cheese sandwich and a bottle of coke. Whenever I’d happen to walk past that joint I’d look through the window and see if my old PC and desk were still there, but a few months back I saw all the computers had been removed and it became a regular boring ass cafe. The new owner even discontinued the grilled cheese.
I was the only guy playing flash games on flash websites while everyone else was playing Warcraft III, Counter-Strike and Vice City.
I've never used an internet cafe but back in the early to mid 00s I would frequently go to the library to use their computer lab.
Despite the lack of privacy and being limited to one hour, it was actually kind of fun because I got to see the local town weirdos and smell their awful BO and breath.
There was this one guy named Will with rotted out teeth, he was always there and then there was this kind of retarded overweight black guy who once tried to trash talk me about Rammstein while boasting about shitty 70s classic rock.
They probably thought I was a weirdo too but whatever.
In 2006 I got a PSP and would go to Barnes and Noble and pay like $5 to use their wifi in the little starbucks they had while I drank coffee, that was a ton of fun.
Yeah public internet is actually kind of nice because it's a communal thing and gets me to take a break from being a hikikomori.
The only downside is there are certain sites and activities I can't do in a public setting.
I remember buying GTA 3 and trying to run it on a computer at one of the public libraries here.
There was something so majestic about PC versions of games back then, even though there wasn't much of a difference to me it felt like a completely different game.
>Yeah public internet is actually kind of nice because it's a communal thing and gets me to take a break from being a hikikomori.
What spooks me about modern technology is how atomized it is. People used to sit in packed theatres to watch films, families used to gather round the radio or TV, friends would listen to music together on a boom box or head over to the arcade and take turns at games, and gamers would gather in internet cafes for LAN parties. Of course that's not entirely gone away, but the last time I went to a theatre it was empty. Now everyone ones a smart device and can cut themselves off from other people and immerse themselevs in content spoon fed by cooperate algorithims. Once upon a time, people talked on the streets, now everyone just stares down at their phones with headphones on. It's like everyones a loner autist these days. Don't think for a second that this wasn't intentional, governments and cooperations have been trying to break society up into passive, unthinking, consumers for centuries. Well, now they've got their wish.
I remember when they opened an Internet Cafe in my city like 20 years ago, back then i visited them almost every week. I was playing RuneScape, Counter-Strike, browsing GeoCities sites. Sometimes when it was early morning and it was quite empty in there, i used to save pictures of naked ladies (preferably from anime) on CD and fap to them later at home ( ´ω`)
> In 2006 I got a PSP and would go to Barnes and Noble and pay like $5 to use their wifi in the little starbucks they had while I drank coffee, that was a ton of fun
Takes me back. I used to work at a stall at this shady black market, the Chinese guy next to me would get raided for selling fake handbags and fendis every week. I used to just sit there all day on my PSP playing games and listening to music, it was pretty easy work. But I never sold anything and eventually the store owner fired me.
The worse thing about panic attacks is you feel like you’re dying but there is no release
I’ve been binge drinking vodka everyday now to cope with the panic attacks, but coincidentally it’s also triggering them when sober.
>I’ve been binge drinking vodka everyday now
Let's stop doing this.
>2
Thankfully I got some librium!
Hopefully this helps with my anxiety and prevents any withdrawal symptoms.
IDK what I'm gonna do when it runs out though, hydroxyzine doesn't do anything and I'm afraid of SSRIs (I've been about things like brain zaps etc).
I noticed that if I take benzos after a night of drinking and try to get more rest I slip into a state of paralysis.
I can't move, my body starts to feel like it's vibrating and my breathing seems to stop.
orz
>>4
Sounds like sleep paralysis. How long you been taking benzos?
Don't mix benzodiazepines and alcohol. It causes respiratory depression (which is why your breathing becomes strained; this can kill you) and it also induces amnesia as well as confusion, which can cause you to do things that can cause danger.
If you need help sleeping after drinking (I sometimes do myself...for some reason, beer and wine causes me to get very little REM sleep, though liqour/spirits don't do this) I suggest taking diphenhydramine/DPH aka Benadryl in the North American market. It's an antihistamine that'll knock you right out and let you get a good rest. Do set an alarm, though. It'll also give you real vivid dreams which can be fun.
>>6 I read somewhere that Salvador Dalí used to wake himself abruptly from crazy vivid dreams then paint his visions
I went through something similar a few years ago. While living in Japan I was prescribed trazadone, xanax and ambien for my severe anxiety. I was taking loads of all three every day for over 2 years. My doctor was like 80 years old and once told me to just drink more beer to calm down, not even kidding.
Anyway, after years of benzos, alcohol and cigarettes I moved back to the States and I was forced to abruptly quit all three. I ended up in an ER where the doctor gave me 2 librium pills and it eased the withdrawals enough to somewhat function.
The rebound anxiety and panic attacks were severe, and I was on the brink of suicide. Until someone introduced me to Kratom. Kratom helped me live a happy, normal life for about a year and now I've tapered off and living a sober, panic free life.
Happy new decade! Things will only keep getting worse!
lol
'tis the time
Happy new year, everyone!
I have diarrhea
Captcha: reare
May your sweetest dreams come true
happy new year!! （＾ω＾）
Hopefully we’ll get a nice murder or two this year
Happy new year 4-ch! I haven't posted here since at least 2015 but decided to check things out and was pleased to see this board hasn't died (sadly, the golden era of text and imageboards is long gone). I hope everyone has a good year.