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33536 No. 33536 hide watch quickreply [Reply] [Edit] [First 100 posts] [Last 50 posts]
How was your day? Did you do anything nice? Post about it here.
>>27208
It looks like the old one is on autosage so here's a new one.
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Went to an airshow today. The Air Force Acrobatics team had come to this bumfuck nowhere town around seven years ago, just when I was watching Aozora Shoujotai and had temporarily decided to try to become a pilot, but in the end I was out of the country on that day and really missed not seeing them, I saw a video by an Air Combat enthusiast on youtube on his city (they were doing a national tour) and it looked amazing, but I met a guy who went that day and said the weather sucked with rain and bad visibility. Anyways today I was informed just an hour before the show, and decided to go watch, it was just a 10 min walk from my place.
The news just said it was on the waterfront, and I tried to find any indication of the best viewing spot, but couldn't find anything. So I kept walking, most people seemed completely oblivious to the upcoming spectacle, but here and there a couple looked at their phones and scouted the sky with a confused look on their faces. They too were searching for the planes. As I got under a shade and stared at the clear blue sky I thought maybe I got there too early. But them I saw. Ripping through the firmament came seven yellow-blue planes. The show had begun. I stared in absolute awe as they executed every kind of maneuver. They would huddle together and then dissipate one by one, then come from the opposite side on each other like a pair of jousting knights, and thus they danced. Coming extremely close to each other, each time they crossed you could hear the treble gasps of a nearby child. Then they would fly far away and come back very low, the roaring sound overtaking the audience. Sometimes they would enter a cumulus cloud and disappear in the flying snow only to later surface in the blue. They would also break formation, and divide in two or three groups, each of them executing their own maneuvers, and when my eyes turned from one group to the other, I would see some flying gracious figure only to realize I had mistaken the planes for a couple of birds, so gracious were their movements. Now there were two groups, and they defied gravity, flying upside down, doing impressive vertical ascents right above us and coming down full throttle. And in these vertical ascents I saw it. The beautiful maneuver I had seen in the video years ago. As the plane reached the apex, the engine would die and the plane would stop in the air an
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>>42432
I see. I'm going to try some ERP worksheets on my own. I don't know what I'm going to do if it doesn't work. I can barely touch anything anymore, and there's a lot of overt behaviors I do that I can't control which come out in public. (Blinking in a certain fashion, mouth tics as a part of an arbitrary ritual which is tied to a system.) Spend probably 30 minutes to an hour washing my hands that are already bloodied like a gore show. People probably think I'm some abomination. But there's just something about the idea of being "diagnosed" that makes me feel so sick to my stomach.

But, I agree with you on the mental health professionals. It seems like people who have issues of their own always go into psychology.
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>>42431
>Does anyone else have similar feelings about mental health professionals?
I been medicated for more than a decade since I was a very young kid, severe OCD and other two things I don't remember was my first professional diagnose.
Medication only helped to alleviate the symptoms to some extent (by symptoms I mean what people call "rituals" and invasive thoughts that feel like they aren't your own thoughts and you can't control) but they change, transform so to speak, and new ones appear eventually if I somehow manage to overcome one of the older "rituals".
Since 2020 I've gotten more unstable and experienced hallucinations, which made me took the decision to apply for disability.
As far as mental health professionals go, they don't give a damn. period. They just want money and their method is always the same: prescribing you whatever works best for your particular case, which can take years because it's trial and error, said process involves dealing with multiple side-effects from a lot of different drugs until you find a combination that makes you relatively stable, stable as in, not spending 16 hours repeating compulsive behavior nonstop.
In short, psychofarms help out a bit, but will never cure anything because there's literally no cure for any mental disease.
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>As far as mental health professionals go, they don't give a damn. period. They just want money and their method is always the same: prescribing you whatever works best for your particular case, which can take years because it's trial and error, said process involves dealing with multiple side-effects from a lot of different drugs until you find a combination that makes you relatively stable, stable as in, not spending 16 hours repeating compulsive behavior nonstop.
>In short, psychofarms help out a bit, but will never cure anything because there's literally no cure for any mental disease.
Thank you for your insight. Haven't had my compulsions that bad in years. I can "function" as in I can go to work and school, but I am limited in a lot of ways, and as I mentioned, a lot of it is hard to hide. But yeah, drugs are a bandaid. They never fix any underlying issues. We know very little about the human brain in the grand scheme of things, and it is concerning at how much confidence medical professionals have in these medicines. Last time I went to the doc, he tried to peddle drugs to me, and I tried to express my concerns in a gentle manner, and he seemed judgemental. "SSRIs are known to be well-tolerated." I can't risk cognitive decline because I am in a competitive field. I've spent some time reading Stahl's Perscriber's Guide out of curiousity, and it is interesting how SSRIs are noted to have a blunting effect. I think this allows those who are perscribed them to be able to do many things that they normally wouldn't be able to do for the bad and the good. Drugs. Drugs. Drugs. The average person is like a walking drug advertisement. "Have you tried getting on meds?" It's the same parroted response regardless of who you talk to.

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39794 No. 39794 hide watch quickreply [Reply] [Edit] [First 100 posts] [Last 50 posts]
What are some things that really bug you?
Things that genuinely piss you off?

I thought it would be nice to have a thread to vent about any little annoyance, no mater how big or small.
Any and all complains about the world around you are welcome here!
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>> No. 42401 [Edit]
>>42400
I've already torrented it from elsewhere, but it's good to know a site like that exists.
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The need to provide your identification for (online services) everywhere these days. I'm trying to book an accommodation for airbnb and they have mandated that it is necessary to verify my identity and I'm having doubts on whether I should proceed. Perhaps I'm being paranoid but I've never liked to put myself on the 'radar' and yet it seems like it's almost mandatory that you would have put your face up on the web to access a variety of services nowadays. I wish people valued anonymity more though I understand that in many cases these things are done in the name of security. I suppose it ultimately comes down to trust and altruism. Sometimes you can't have nice things because there are people who will exploit certain freedoms at the convenience of others.
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>>42404
In a lot of cases I think it's unnecessary and invasive, but I think trusting one's home to a stranger requires them to put forward their face a little for the sake of building the trust necessary for it.
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>>42225
Update, I now have an even shallower 23 inch desk, but I decided to give the 27 inch monitor another go, this time keeping browsers and other stuff in windowed mode. It's still uncomfortable. Watching a video in full screen has me rolling my chair back, and afterward I have to roll inward. It's ridiculous.

I'm not actually utilizing the extra space, it's just getting in the way. Even if I had a deeper desk, I'd need to massively scale things up for text to be legible on account of my bad vision, rendering the larger size completely pointless.

The most frustrating part is that colors and sharpness ARE better on this thing. That's all I want.

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36646 No. 36646 hide watch expand quickreply [Reply] [Edit] [First 100 posts] [Last 50 posts]
Thread for otaku related news.
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>> No. 42357 [Edit]
>>42343
>Macroeconomics is the exact opposite of a science, in every sense of the word.
The Nobel prize in economics and its consequences have been a disaster for the profession and the populaces who are subject to the self-masturbatory mathematics that took over economic science.
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https://twitter.com/umeaoki/status/1762988589867213057
Hidamari sketch is celebrating 20 years since its first publication in Kirara
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>>https://dragon-ball-official.com/news/01_2499.html
Toriyama Akira has passed away.
>> No. 42438 [Edit]
Japanese Illustrator and Animator Mutsumi Inomata has passed away

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39318 No. 39318 hide watch quickreply [Reply] [Edit] [First 100 posts] [Last 50 posts]
Ponderings general 3. Post things you've thought about.
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>>41914
that makes sense
I never thought about it that way
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M3 has come, and 8gb is still the base, for laptops and the iMac.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/11/08/apple-insists-8gb-unified-memory-equals-16gb-regular-ram
https://www.macworld.com/article/2130974/bob-borchers-defends-8gb-ram-macbook-pro-analogous-to-16gb-pc.html

>Actually, 8GB on an M3 MacBook Pro is probably analogous to 16GB on other systems
>People need to look beyond the specifications and actually go and understand how that technology is being used. That's the true test.
>Adobe recommends 16gb ram for Lightroom on both windows and mac
>As someone who has used the systems, I can report that 8GB is still probably too low for most people. Even if you’re not using high-end apps, Safari and Photoshop can use several gigs of RAM. But perhaps more importantly, if you’re buying a Pro machine, you should get more RAM than someone buying a MacBook Air.

There's a reason the second-hand market is flooded with base model MacBooks. The magic of vendor lock-in. As for people who literally only browse the web, they would be more than fine with a sub-$700 chromebook, which you can find models of that have an "analogous" 16gb of ram.

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>> No. 41961 [Edit]
>>41959
>probably analagous to 16GB of RAM
If any of what they were saying was true, they would post some sort of benchmark to show just how much the 8GB of RAM actually is in this laptop costing thousands of dollars. Apple is such a scummy company. Next thing you know apple is going to start selling downloadble RAM boosters applications to power up your RAM capabilities, 1k per GB of course.
>> No. 42435 [Edit]
>>41959
https://www.techspot.com/news/102227-m3-based-macbook-air-hits-114-degrees-celsius.html
>The lightweight laptops include no fans, relying instead on passive cooling to provide a silent computing experience.
>The external chassis hit 46 degrees at its hottest point.
>he M2 SoC had similar 'overheating' issues, but there is no evidence that they were able to reach the same extreme temperatures recorded on the M3 system

For the average user this doesn't matter much, but it's still funny.

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42226 No. 42226 hide watch quickreply [Reply] [Edit]
Let's have a whole thread about FAILURE and DISAPPOINTMENT. What are some projects that you followed for years that never amounted to anything. Ones were you were hoping, waiting for so long, just for the moment to come when you realized "this is never happening", or "this is garbage actually".

I want to talk about the Pokemon Special Animation project. There's a Pokemon manga called Adventures. It has a darker tone than pretty much any other Pokemon media, so it was fairly popular in the aughts, and in 2010, some westerners decided they were going to make an anime adaptation of it.

12 years later, this is the end result:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rDi4gO3fhc
For comparison, here's a Japanese fan animation made by one guy in 2 months:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_nbzPLt-wE

They made a forum https://pokespeanime.forumotion.com/
There's auditions on there, for voice acting and animation. I remember a fairly well-known symphonic composer was interested in doing the music at one point. They saw Japanese fan animations and somebody said something like "this fires me up. We gotta compete with this". At one point, they made an okayish intro, as an "April Fools day joke" and an animated video asking for donations or something. Those seem to be lost to time. The end result speaks for itself.

I just don't understand it. How can one guy make 2 minutes of not phenomenal, but serviceable web animation in 2 months, and these people spend 12 years making a sub-12 minute slide show? So much time and energy spent on bikeshedding, for that. This was part of my childhood.
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>>42226
The pacing on that is just grueling, wow. For contrast, I can totally see myself rewatching the fan made OP. That entire episode? Not a chance.
>> No. 42433 [Edit]
26 seconds of animation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=til1yw6eJio
>> No. 42434 [Edit]
>>42433
Like anything good related to (c)rap, it's stolen from somewhere else https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci_zad39Uhw

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33275 No. 33275 hide watch expand quickreply [Reply] [Edit]
This is the ONLY official Tohno-chan holiday pie baking thread. In this thread: Bake pies, share recipes, show pictures, and tell stories all relating to your hand-crafted, baked holiday pies.
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Beet cake with coconut topping.
>> No. 42251 [Edit]
>>41784
Do crab cakes count?
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Clafoutis. Can you make a simple pancake batter? If you can, bake it with chopped fruit. Ta-dah, that's clafoutis.
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>>42378
French baked goods lose to Italian baked lasagne.

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37742 No. 37742 hide watch expand quickreply [Reply] [Edit]
Have your tastes in otaku media changed over time? How has it changed? Are there specific works that are influential in defining/changing your tastes? Do you have specific quirks or patterns pertaining to how you enjoy otaku culture?
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>> No. 37872 [Edit]
>>37831
>Visual Novels weren't a thing in the west until post 2000s
I assume you mean WVNs. I remember a lot of people getting into otaku culture beyond the usual toonami shit through eroge back in the early 2000s.
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Everything has changed. Bored and tired of anything now. *sigh*

I need a holiday.
>> No. 42423 [Edit]
As I've aged, I've come to realize that I don't like CGDCT all that much, which means I'm at odds with the tastes of most brohnos.
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>>37742
as a kid, i was into whatever was airing on american television, so mostly shounen. i eventually figured out that the internet existed, though, and that's where my tastes started branching out wildly. unfortunately, this was the early/mid 2010s, and i was also in middle school around now, so i kind of got bullied into the ironic weeb mindset of certain things just being inherently "cringe" or "bad". there were a handful of genres and shows that i just stayed away from for the longest (Sword Art Online and Yosuga no Sora come to mind here), or went into with the expectation of it being bad because illiterate youtubers told me it was bad (Mirai Nikki and Tokyo Ghoul) because i was too afraid to form my own opinions.
i think over the course of the late 2010s...over the span of 2017-2019, i think, i came more to terms with myself and learned to be honest with what i do and don't like. it also nicely coincided with my tastes expanding once again, since i now had current gen consoles finally (i was stuck with a wii and a 3ds for the longest before getting a switch and a ps4/vita) and a laptop that i didn't have to share with anyone, so my exposure to games, anime, and even visual novels, light novels, and manga expanded wildly.
i guess over time, you could say that i've grown fond of media that's very unapologetic about what it is. there's stuff that's "tropey" or "cliche" that i don't really mind because it's not preemptively trying to subvert or be super on the nose that it's self-aware or anything. very recently, Magical Destroyers is probably the anime that made this realization click with me the most.
slight aside, but aside from comedy (i get burnt out on stuff that's purely comedic really quickly), fantasy/medieval (people complain about high school settings incessantly but seem to be fine with every high fantasy series ever--all 9000 of them--never evolving past DnD and Dragon Quest) and parody (can people just play something straight and have some self-confidence in themselves for five goddamn minutes), one thing i can't stand is stuff that's really grimdark or overly...macho(?),
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29537 No. 29537 hide watch expand quickreply [Reply] [Edit]
So the new admin at 4chan is struggling financially with the site (ads are now gone)
And /a/ is having talks of where to migrate to if the site goes down for good , people are name dropping your site a lot
I'm not sure if this is wanted or unwanted but I feel you should at least be aware of it .
http://boards.4chan.org/qa/thread/711491/a
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>> No. 42253 [Edit]
>>42249
Lurk and learn, or fuck off.
>> No. 42344 [Edit]
Aw I thought this was a new thread.
>> No. 42349 [Edit]
>>42344
Were you excited or dismayed?

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>> No. 42421 [Edit]
>>42349
disappointed.

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30015 No. 30015 hide watch expand quickreply [Reply] [Edit]
You wake up in a room, what do.
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>> No. 30027 [Edit]
>>30025
succ on tite
>> No. 30030 [Edit]
>>30025
Should've went with either some dangerous Xenomorph-like creature or some stupid, useless, and probably slightly retarded comic relief alien that won't spout shitty puns.
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>>30015
I go outside.
>> No. 42420 [Edit]
The sun burns........

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9442 No. 9442 hide watch quickreply [Reply] [Edit] [First 100 posts] [Last 50 posts]
I don't think we had a movie thread yet so I wanted to ask, does /tc/ watch movies? What was the last one you saw? Have any good recommendations or favorite genres? Do you like american, european or asian cinema?
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>>41657
I mostly held off saying anything because it seemed like nearly everyone I knew who saw it seemed to love it, unironically.
I thought the problem was with me for not enjoying it. I went in wanting to enjoy it, and I did think it was cute and fun for the first 20 or so minutes, but almost everything from then on was just terrible. The logic of the film was all over the place, nothing made any sense, it wasn't particularly funny and the full audience I was with didn't seem to think so either. From the moment they enter the real world everything felt cheap, poorly thought out, and poorly directed. There's two main musical numbers and the chorography for one of them was kinda bad.

The marketing for the movie is all lies and misdirection.
Once the characters enter the "real" world, they enter the world as the writer really sees it. As soon as she arrives, Barbie gets cat catcalled by construction workers and her ass slapped by some frat dude. For some reason she and ken get instantly arrested when she hits the guy back, and released just as quickly. It doesn't take long to realize the writer of the movie is very out of touch with reality. They also get arrested for stealing clothing, which they keep and wear for the rest of their stay in the real world.
From there Barbie meets the girl she believes to be her real world owner, who rips into Barbie for "setting back the feminist movement 50 years", which I thought was interesting.
This bitter and hateful girl gives Barbie a hard time for being a stereotype, Barbie who is cheerful and happy with who and what she is, is supposed to be in the wrong here? The movie says one thing but shows another. This 'could' lead to some meaningful messages about real female empowerment, about girls not being ashamed to be girls and owning it instead, taking their strength and power from their femininity rather than rejecting it or being embarrassed by it. I don't care what anyone says, being a sad angry bitter lonely depressed moody girl that looks like a gender natural blob doesn't exactly say female empowerment to me, that's cowardice, that's sour grapes from someone that
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>>41724
This plot is actually worse than what I assumed. Makes sense though. It's what I pegged feminism to actually be about a while ago.
>in reality most aren't that bat shit crazy
They'll still go along with it though.
>I was surprised to see how many men did too
They've been conditioned to be servile and self-flagellating. If it's any consolation, this ideology makes women more miserable overall too.

edit: You can also pretend to be a woman and have the best of both worlds. The movie should have ended with Ken putting on a wig and declaring that he is now Barbie.

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Sorry to necro, but I just watched Another Heaven 2000. It's kinda good, kind of reminds me a little bit of Cure 1997. I don't watch movies too often for whatever reason these days. I've just been listening to Luna Sea and ignoring my dad trying to get under my skin...
>> No. 42419 [Edit]
The Brothers Sun on Netflix. It's the American-Chinese triad family drama & experience that's entertaining for all.

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29194 No. 29194 hide watch expand quickreply [Reply] [Edit]
Do you have music on while using your pc and browsing the tohno?
I'd like some nice, calm music to have as background
I really have no idea how to find new stuff though
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>> No. 37916 [Edit]
Boards of Canada has some nice tracks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A786lOX8jc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idb-YlShggw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9pJBFAsJGs
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Randomise and let's go!
https://music.youtube.com/
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<3 Creepy Nuts
https://www.youtube.com/@creepynuts6977/videos
>> No. 42417 [Edit]
If you like PC-98 touhou music, or if you like touhou music in general, then kanoguti is fantastic.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ahj_5xIjIfk
https://youtube.com/watch?v=-3443XwDX88

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