What do you think about IRC and other chat services like discord Do you use them? I think it would be cool if I found one where I could jump in and casually talk about things like the game I'm playing right now, but so far I haven't
IRC was really nice. I believe only Freenode is active and growing (slowly) nowadays though, which is saddening.
IRC is not that bad. Discord, though... after witnessing a couple myself, and also founding my own this software is a minefield of circlejerks, facebook memes and bizarre community conflicts. It may be possible to occasionally find decent places in it, but overall its design with trivially created servers and system of invites breeds mostly splintered messes of incestual cliques on a scale and frequency that IRC can't even compare to.
>>30719 So your own server turned into this? Maybe you invited the wrong people then. (You can make it so only you can invite people if that's a problem) The thing with discords built in meme messages, this is annoying as fuck. I wish they would get rid of this and make it more professional. If you go looking for other servers on google or something yeah you're only going to find normie crap. And discord does attract more of these people because of how it's marketed and since it's more user friendly, but it's not like you have to interact with these people. >minefield of circlejerks IRC and imageboards are full of this. IRC is less normies but the communities are full of their own sub cultural circlejerks even if it's anti-normie ones.Post edited on 27th Oct 2017, 9:31am
>>30721 No, my own one's still relatively clean, but others aren't so lucky. Poor management / incompetence to invite bullshit with excess channel splitting (whatever happened to having one channel, IRC-style, to keep things more focused?), emotes, polls and the other cool features makes the good old days of limited technology seem better by comparison, without all this new crap to ruin your discussion quality with. It's true that circlejerks are everywhere but I've not managed to encounter the "hivemind spread across 10 servers for eceleb whoring" thing outside Discord, at least with imageboards or IRC channels there's usually only a couple of boards or channels dedicated to a particular group, but the Discord rabbit hole reaches far and wide. Maybe it's just Discord being that much bigger.
What are you interested in? In the sense of a deeper understanding, like film composition, character design, politics, science, sociology, that sort of thing? And why?
>>30697 >seems like there is almost no interest in that topic here anymore. I have no idea what to talk about.
>>30699 You just say what your thoughts and opinions are on things you've recently seen, post screen caps, or comment on things you feel are worth commenting on. You can also get anal and chew other people out for saying things you don't like or agree with, or for asking stupid questions like many others here.
>>30697 Be the change you want to see?
>>30700 Oh, hey, that's what I do.
Have you gone outside lately? Did something terrible happen? Post it here so the rest of us can learn to avoid similar situations or just to remind people not to go out. No photos please. Yesterday I went out and numerous strangers attempted to make eye contact with me as I walked down the sidewalk. It was awful, I knew that if I acknowledged their existence there was a risk of further interaction, so I deftly avoided it by looking at other things.
>>30584 Asuka. I really, really didn't like her on the first viewing of NGE, but when watching EoE I realized that I empathized with her a lot. I guess I developed a feeling of connection to her that I felt with no other character, not even Shinji.
>>30589 It is said that people you hate generally have traits that you yourself have and subconsciously dislike/deny, thereby hating them is a defence-mechanism to protect your ego.
As I was walking down the street, I passed a group of people, one of whom asked me if I "smoke weed fam". Being talked to by a stranger is bad enough already! I said "n-no thanks" and continued on. This is sadly quite a common occurrence where I live. I hope this post isn't against the rules, sorry if it is.
>>30572 "It's your own fault", favorite of Ford Motor Company chauffeurs throughout millennia. As bullshit today as it was 2.5k years ago but you can't go wrong with that classic. >>30592 That is often said. By idiots who like to think that even those who hate them are secretly on their side.
>Studying is hard. >Games are hard. >Sports are boring and hard. >Talking to people is nice but tough without any hobbies of my own it gets exhausting and I'm too lazy to do it sometimes. >Movies are awful and I hate them, mostly American movies, they fucking suck. >American TV is boring as shit and even difficult to sit through. I really don't want to waste even a millisecond of my boring life on some faggot ass Big Bang Theory shit. >Anime is boring and kind of painful because it's just about a bunch of preteen/teen kids that did cool stuff I wanted to do but never could. >Manga is the same thing. >LNs are unavailable to me because I can't reading moonrunes and I don't wanna learn. >Internet went to shit after normals flooded the place for some dumb reason. >Cooking is kind of nice. >Going outside is nice too because there are no memes in a nature park or a Chick-Fil-A. It's so refreshing. >Art is hard to do right but I try. >I have to pay money to even think. Message too long. Click here to view the full text.
Well all I ever really wanted out of life was to go on adventures and have superpowers and explore the galaxy so I feel you OP. I hate thinking that I'm going to die having never experienced my dream.
'Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.'
Art is very powerful. You should try to create, even just as an outlet. I have a lot of thoughts on the subject but I'll leave it at this: I believe that some form of the meaning we simultaneously created and were torn away from through our birth exists in art, in your own self-expression. Even if it's just for your own consumption, it's still cathartic and liberating. "Music is everything. God himself is nothing more than an acoustic hallucination." - Emil Cioran I find fulfillment through that mainly. It's one of very few things I don't regard as tedious or depressing. It's my treasure and a reason for tomorrow to happen.
Finals this, finals that... Is it just me or does it seem like every person on the internet is attending classes in some form or another? Do people destroy their computers when they finish school or do they just attend schools for all eternity? It feels rare to meet people online who work regular jobs and who don't still have homework to do on the side, or who are truly NEET for that matter.
I have written philosophy and posted it here before, but my degree is in Experimental Psychology. I won't lie, higher education can do wonders for your intellect so long as you escape the whole liberal hivemind that tends to predominate in academia (although it wasn't so terrible when I went and I was in the American South at the time, so that makes sense that it would be more tolerable). Still, no job and no sense of real purpose. Then again, what is a real purpose? And we all know that even a high-paying job usually brings misery. Maybe I dodged a bullet. I like to think that I'm better off, although I may not be.
i'm a mentally ill neet with no hope of ever getting a job. i don't mind though. i don't mind dying alone. but i do wonder where all other neets went. feels like i'm the only neet left on the internet. it's pretty lonely
>>30241 I'm here. I think most NEETs don't blogpost much because, well, what is there to talk about outside of our hobbies? The lifestyle is the same routine year in and year out for most I'd assume.
It's been years since I left school and I work a regular job. "Adults" rarely mention anything about their jobs because it's even more uneventful and boring than school. There's nothing to blog about.
Does anyone else find human reproduction completely revolting?
I didn't use to, but now I do.
cervical bukkake is actually kinda my thing
>>28859 I thought I had already been exposed to it all, but it seems I still have a lot to learn.
Kind of. Sex in anime and stuff is hot, and making offspring through labs or artificial creation is cool, but 3D bodies are completely removed in my mind form what those are. 3DPD sex and reproduction are absolutely disgusting.
Tonight or tomorrow night will probably be the last night this summer that I get to watch anime outside on my roof at night. There is something special to me about watching Japanese cartoons at night with the stars overhead and my garden surrounding me. I see meteors, satellites, bats, moths and occasionally owls flying around up there pretty regularly. A couple weeks ago I was watching Aho Girl around midnight and a pair of red tailed hawks flew by circling each other yelling and generally mixing it up a lot more than Wikipedia would probably say that diurnal animals do on the average night. Next May or June I will watch more anime on my rooftop.
This seems really nice, I want to try it but my laptop is broken and I don't have money to fix it
Wouldn't bugs be attracted to the screen easily?
>>30512 That hasn't been a problem yet
For years I've had the idea of making youtube videos, primary anime reviews. One of the main reasons being the slim hope I'd be able to at least make 'some' income off it as unlikely as that might be to happen. Well I finally took the plunge and went ahead with it. I wanted to at least get a few vids out before posting about it here. I should warn though that they've been pretty horrible so far and as such you shouldn't expect much. Should come as no surprise that someone who has very little interaction with people offline would have trouble speaking so the videos can be a little numbly, for that I apologize. My channel can be found here for anyone curious. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCB8p0kPIgKE82nOCpBXRdqA
your voice is relaxing
If reviews don't give you any income, try getting into thr ASMR market, seriously.
>>30397 Don't you have to be insanely good as guy to get viewers?
>>30419 That's true, also probably have to buy an expensive binural mic and make sure your background noise is very quiet. Perhaps it would be better to go after the 'unintentional asmr' niche of things that weren't originally intended to give tingles or that's not the main goal, but it still does. If you pretend like you aren't doing asmr on purpose, but make your videos relaxing, long form and about interesting topics people will tune in. Think Bob Ross for example, even though the focus is on painting, really you tune in for Bob Ross and his relaxing voice and general atmosphere. You could be the otaku Bob ross
Who are/where your role models?
Kenshiro and Guts. I can't be entirely sure if there are more since my mind is as scattered as a box full of puchidol. I do know that I was definitely inspired by a couple more, but I feel that these two have definitely had a sizable impact on me.
i admire >>29749 -sama
My adopted grandfather, the only man left in my family with a clue regarding finances and frugality. His only major fault is having been so laid back, so hands off. So now nobody has a clue what they're doing. While stereotypical, I really admire Nikola Tesla. The schizoid in me connects with his desire to just invent shit in his lab away from other people. From history I admire a lot of people. Benjamin Franklin, Andrew Jackson, Caesar Augustus, Agrippa. There's more but they escape me at the moment.
I used to look up to John Carmack during my whole "dude programming lol im such a genius" phase that every compsci student goes through. But that's pretty much it.
ayase fuuka, stuck
one of the first doujins i read.
old school
plump
>>30334 In all the right ways.
Are people who go outside purposefully dressed in a way that is meant to be attractive engaging in a generalized form of sexual harassment or is noticing someone's cleavage, panties, crotch bulge, etc. and then averting eye contact from it the punishment one deserves for exiting the home?
They're advertising themselves sexually. It's meant to attract chads, which they're okay with harassing them. But not anyone below 'their level'. If you do it anyways at the least you'll be shamed "creep, weirdo, virgin". If you're unlucky she'll moan until other men come and "save" her by threatening/attacking you. Be careful around these types of women OP. They're completely unaware of what they're doing. If you ask the woman they're "Just like, being fashionable and having fun ohmaygawd". Bitches that don't know they're in heat.
>>30313 Yes, this is my normal MO >>30314 I understand all that and I agree with what you're saying, but what I was wondering when I posted this thread was are these people committing a crime and if so how much money do they owe me?
>>30315 >are these people committing a crime and if so how much money do they owe me? As despicable as normals are and as contradictory and hypocritical lack of modesty in fashion is, the world doesn't go around you. Nobody owes you anything.
>>30316 >world doesn't go around you Nor does it about an individual, however the legal concept of nuisance is wide ranging. Any annoyance to the community can potentially be considered a nuisance. Herders, polluters, people with loud music, etc. are often prevented from poisoning the commons or at least regulated to the degree which they can take advantage of public spaces. Which groups are or are not regulated is based somewhat arbitrary on public perception of the degree of damage that various groups are doing. Public perception in turn is made up of the sum of many individual opinions. A century ago the types of public displays described in OP may well have resulted in an arrest. So the concept of what is and isn't legal in this sphere is malleable and varies in different jurisdictions. In almost all locations people may owe a debt to the public because of immodesty, its the just degree of what is acceptable that differs. Those types will always be pushing the limits in this sphere because of their predatory sexual personality traits. Just because they're haven't been reigned in for decades on end doesn't mean that it can never happen.
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