I went outside with my mother to eat breakfast, then I walked around with her and some other family for some shoes or something, then I went to a supermarket.

I still have the pancakes from the morning, so I don't think that it was entirely a waste of time, but I still would've preferred to stay inside my room.

Right now, I'm eating dinner and watching Gundam Build Fighters and seeing Bandai whore their gunpla as much as they can. The girls on this show aren't that bad, though.

I watched a crapton of ongoings. Had a lot of fun.

>>16612
Build Fighters is great. The love and emotion the staff puts in the show pratically escapes the screen, you can tell they love working on that show.

I've been unecessarily rude with someone because he created a redundant thread and pondered whether I feel bad for it or not.

was planning to spend the day learning microcontroller theory
procrastinated on that all day

I browsed the internet and used imageboards from the moment I woke up to the moment I went to sleep. I guess I've thrown yet another day away.

Browsed image boards, read some articles, and drew some stuff. A pretty typical day.

>>16618
What are articals did you read?

Drank cheap vodka, had trouble sleeping and kept waking up, thought about all the things I need to do soon, gave up on going back to sleep, went on my computer.

Started reading into Speculative Realism despite having only a passing acquaintance with continental philosophy.

>>16613
I can see that with Build Fighters. I actually like it more than I was expecting.

The girls on the show are pretty good. I think that Aila might be the best one on the show, so it kind of bothers me that the girls are set up with love interests and stuff.

Something that I noticed about the second ED is that it's about a guy wanting to stay a manchild for as long as he lived. I like it and know what he means.

Went to the bank to create an account.

Got rejected because I didn't have a paper that they never said they needed in all the places where the requirements for the account were stated. Ugh.

>>16644
I went to open a bank account without knowing any of the requirements. They wanted references, and I obviously have noone in the world I could use as one. I tried offering to leave and come back another day with some (lie), but the bank representative kept needling me, "Are you sure you can't think of anyone?" Had to have been at least 3 minutes. In the end she took pity on me and skipped that step and I got an account.

I woke up, worst part of every day.

>>16651
I wish I could guarantee that I'll die in my sleep. Having a heart attack or stroke or something while awake seems terrible.

Procrastination & masturbation

I went to church and then bought two bottles of Sessions.

Had breakfast with my mother at a diner while contemplating the point of going on with my empty meaningless life.

woke up from weird drunk dreams
drank a lot of water and tried to chill out and recover
made pizza
listened to podcasts all day
didn't do any shopping, so I'll be eating cereal or instant noodles for dinner

>>16660
A dream where you slam dunk

I didn't expect to see Build Fighters love here, but I'm happy to see it!

I finished building my Gundam Fenice at 2 AM, slept, and listened to Random Access Memories all day.

Today I managed to piece together that my mother stole money from me, then I sat in my room and listened to the entire Kill la Kill OST. It isn't that bad.

Now, I'm just trying to catch up to the booru pictures that I missed out on since I didn't have time to keep track of it.

Today I read some nice non-H Touhou doujinshi and got drunk by myself as I looked at cute pictures. Browsed some imageboards too and I exercised a bit.

I got a job today.

>>16686
I hope it'll either be painless or pay well. Maybe even both.

I'm working on a new imageboard engine. Today, I added the ability to delete posts and cite other posts. In addition, I'm working on adding more native support to things like MP3s, OGGs and various file formats.

Videogames and procrastinating, like usual

I baked banana bread today.

Today I found a download for an old game I used to enjoy alot. It took a while to get working and it didn't feel quite the same. It was still fun.

>>16699
Banana bread is really nice. Yet I had somehow forgotten about it. I will have to find some for myself, sometime soon.

>>16700
You should try baking it yourself. Just look up a recipe online and go to town. Its a nice feeling to enjoy something that you created.

I made a deep-clean my room today. I have one enormous trash-bag waiting on a corner.

>>16692
Will it be dummy-friendly? I've always wanted to make an imageboard but I'm too dumb to understand how to set-up one.

>>16611
Nothing, Hina-chan...
Nothing.

I don't want to go to college because I'm behind. I'm behind because I don't want to go on campus.

Everyone online keeps telling me to kill myself and banning me.

>>16719
why?

>>16720
A lot of people don't find my jokes funny.

Among other reasons I'm sure.

Bought new strings for my acoustic guitar. I'd just glued the neck back on the body for the second time, it seems to be holding on just fine and still sounds ok despite the amount of aggression I put it through.
Then started looking at Schubert's Winterreise and wrote an extremely rough and nearly unplayable arrange of the intro and first couple of lines of Gute Nacht. I didn't even expect to be able to read it so that's fine.

Picture related, never understood why some guys ooze at the sight of girls playing electric guitar. Girls playing acoustic, especially classical, on the other hand is absolutely beautiful. Too bad there's not many pics of that out there.

Fuck, I just wrote a blog post. Sorry.

Post edited on 6th Feb 2014, 5:27pm

>>16729
I can't stand the sight of women playing classical guitar. It's like they're fingering it and they are the ones meant to be fingered and played with by men.

>>16730
No fingering? But boy, does that leave women on a tough spot musically. Like, there goes pretty much everything with strings and even the phallic woodwinds, or is it okay for women to finger while they blow?
And what about drums, but no, you'd say it's repulsive since it's like they are beating it and women are to be beaten by men, right? But what for maracas and being shaken? And harmonicas? Harmonicas should be fine unless it's for men to suck and blow women and not the other way around. Then there's vocals and theremin I think, are those okay? And armpit farts, can't forget'em, cool?

>>16732
I do love them on piano, violin and cello. Piano is always very proper and strings have the phallic component of the bow, indeed. It's the women's shape of the spanish guitar (with the curves and that big hole in the middle) and the fact that its playing looks like being embraced and caressed on the performers lap (while he seats with wide open legs) what looks too much like a masculine stance for me. In any case, girls on drums do look tomboyish, of course, and there's nothing wrong about the idea of men dominance over women (this is /tc/; get a grip).

>>16733
Piano has some class but it is kinda bland, it's just like sitting at the dinner table, only with less lobster and more fancy sounds. But indeed, I can dig some hot futa action on bowed strings too.
And y'know what? Yuri is A-ok in my book, so maybe that explains the classical guitar thing, funny I never made the connection.
And sheesh man, you're the one who can't take jokes and I'm the one who needs a grip? I got a couple of well-oiled drawers with very functional grips right here on my side and they go swooosh swoosh just fine.

What about stuff played while kneeling? Seems right up your alley. Pic more or less related, also girls playing (partially-)naked is hot. Spoilered because I hate NSFW stuff on the frontpage.

>>16730
I don't suppose you could maybe spoiler images like that could you?

>>16740
You don't like promotions?

>>16732
You sound insane even compared to other self-proclaimed victims.

I accidentally got myself spoiled on a series I was avoiding any kind of spoilers and/or discussion. Worst part is that, personally, I think it is a series ruining-tier spoiler.

>>16754

The journey is the important part.
Even if a little section is spoiled for you, it's how they reached there that is most important.

Unless you're watching pseudo-intellectual crap where the big twist is all the pile of garbage as going for it, anyway.

>>16759
>>16754
Spoilers are possibly one of the only rules I actually care about. Unfortunately it's pretty much never enforced, and you barely ever know what's a real spoiler or not thanks to everyone using them as surprise boxes for stuff like ">you will never fug your waifu ;_;" or something equally not a spoiler.

Spoilers often really ruin series for me. I can sometimes get through it, but I've just completely dropped series before when someone drops something like the name of a killer in a whodunit series.

I have recently passed in my college entrance exams and have finally achieved success in enrolling into superior education. I should be very happy, but I'm actually quite sad. I can't say for sure why is it that I've been more depressed than usual lately, but I believe that it is because I'm finally going to have to be forced out of the comfort zone I've been living for the past four years. I've become used to the life of mediocrity that I've been taking ever since I've failed to pass in exams four years ago, and gradually, but quickly, lost all my friends and hopes for my future in the process. I can only hope not to give up halfway through.

>>16776
Be careful. I was in a similar position. You cannot change your self worth so suddenly, it takes time to reevaluate yourself. I suggest taking a light load of classes, take generals that are transferable to other unis, and live with your parents if you can.

I went to a ophthalmologist today and the woman who was the doctor that was attending me putted some eye drops in my eyes that dilatated my eyes to no end. I ended up walking back home whilst seeing the world in maximum bloom effects. I genuinely felt inside a game of some sort.

>>16788
This is good advice. It is a big paradigm shift. Also, if you're going to uni with the aim to get a good career afterwards, you should start preparing yourself in year 1 with getting close to industry/faculty and internships/co-ops. Even for non-'bullshit' fields in demand, competition is fierce. If your family already has those connections for you, than just ignore everything I said.

Graduating underemployed in a soul crushing McJob can feel just as bad as being unemployed.

Shigbosted on message boards.

Drank beer.

Changed a for loop in a bash script I use to just iterate through an array instead, which I should have done in first place.

Watched anime.

I re-watched Madoka on a whim I got a few days ago.

I'm surprised at how much better I understood certain things when compared to when I first watched the series, years ago, practically when it first aired.

Tonight I'll watch the movies.

Building maintenance had to access my apartment so that they could work on something related to my neighbor's plumbing. I pretty much never have anyone over. I became hyper-aware of how unclean my kitchen is and now I'm going on a crazy cleaning spree.

I also learned that the maintenance staff have master keys that can open any of the apartments here! I feel really violated.

Got permabanned from Wizardchan

>>16946
For what?

>>16949
Not because I'm a non-virgin, but for "spamming" on the fucking /b/ board. The moderation on boards like that is so shitty.

>>16944
You should not clean for others but for yourself, this includes your body too. Feeling clean is a really nice feeling.

I got some antidepressants from my doc yesterday but I already stopped taking them today after I realized I can't cum anymore.

>>16966
Good, you shouldn't be taking them anyway.

Making your sex organs stop working is only one negative thing they can do.

Had lunch with some new acquaintances, fixed some computers, and got a free set of 5.1 speakers.

Today I lost No Fap February and I stayed up way too late drawing things. It was fun though.

Try to get food from this youth center which is full of LGBT people. Only got a little food, most of the stuff i didnt like. So much for food pantries being the best. Then again I only got the leftovers I guess.

I ended up adding a random person because he seemed nice enough and made me think we'd have a lot of things in common. Sadly, that was not the case. To make it short, he didn't even know what NEET meant...

Post edited on 24th Feb 2014, 8:46am

Doing lots of deep cleaning today.

There's something strangely relaxing and satisfying about cleaning.

I played vidya and spent some time with my(online)friends
Cleaned the mess that was my gaming room because l was sharing it with my younger brother and he is a pig when it comes to hygiene.
Decided that l'm going to start exercising again along with a balanced diet to make my body slim and more...feminine, in a few months, also thinking about having a laser treatment for hair removal in my entire body.
Watered my weed plants, really looking forward to see them flowering and then enjoy the harvest.
Bought two games that l really wanted to try out.
Been worried because a friend doesn't log in as often and he seemed really off the last time he messaged me, l miss him.

That's it, pretty much.

>>17003
lndeed, it makes you feel fresh and productive

Just being offered a job. I'll starting next week. Kind of worried how I will get on with the other people in the workplace.

>>17037
I get a racing heart at the thought of this, and it's not even an immediate concern for me. Good luck.

I sat in my car on a rainy day playing Pokemon emulated on my netbook. This was in place of going to college.

Then I came home and did some help with the house renovations. Then I played videogames and now I am here.

I studied some pre-calc for an upcoming exam. I used to know high school pre-calc really well, but almost two years out of formal education has left me a bit rusty and confused.

I did some last preparations for a certain exam to make sure I had all my bases covered. In between I watched the sequelitis series by egoraptor - my favorite work of his, it always gets me in good spirits. I don't think I made any mistakes on the test, so that's good I guess. I haven't slept yet.

I played WoW on a vanilla server, listened to some angsty grunge rock, fapped, and drank a lot. All the while freaking out over the fact that I fucked myself over with college debt.

Went out to try and buy air dusters but couldn't find any store that sold them cheaply. Listened to demo tapes of obscure heavy metal bands from the late 90s. Read up on artists who committed suicide and came across Michael Buonauro who was a webcomic artist. Reading his last Livejournal entry was pretty heart-breaking.

I've done nothing but browse imageboards from early friday up until now. I've been lucky to get this whole next week free from my current occupation but I doubt it'll be any different from my recent everyday life. I hope to be able to do something that is not a waste of time during some day of this week though.

Participating in sport course at college, circuit training.

I suck, I am physically (and mentally) so freaking weak.
It's disgusting.

I can't identify with this body.

I took more than five hours of complaining about it being wednesday only to notice it is tuesday. Being lost in time is rather fun sometimes.
>>17212
I wish you good luck.

Ate pizza and beer two nights in a row for dinner.

>>17214
Glorious

I played elona for 17 hours

I tried to read a book but I got tired and fell back asleep. I did my general daily tour of sites (this takes an inordinate amount of time). I typed out a long post but didn't post it. I paced around out of anxiety or something, then went back to bed and wallowed in self pity for a while but I couldn't sleep because I had already slept far too much. Then I was hungry so I ate some food. Now I am repeating my tour of sites.

Today I realized that there's no way out

drank a lot and cried a bit, as usual

Sleep and more sleep. Since I can no longer be NEET all my weekends are devoted to recuperation.

Phone crashed for some reason and won't turn back on. Felt weird spending a day at work without a phone. Made me feel somewhat vulnerable as well.

i just took some rivotril, i hope i can have a long and satisfying night of sleep.

>>17311
Did it work?

>>17311
No, my young brother was playing LoL or whatever in the other room and he was yelling and laughing really loudly at the mic, also my father got drunk and emotional, and was listening to melodramatic songs in the radio at a really high volume. I couldn't sleep very well that night.

Went for a walk around my town.

Tired visiting this site I use to frequent way back in the early 00s but found it be hacked.

I had four days to do things due to monday but I spent my time on imageboards instead.

>>17353
Same. Extended holidays just go down the drain with me, can't get shit done on them.

my belly aches and i got the shits, how awful

I'm a nervous defeated train wreck and I hate my weekends. I did nothing today as well as yesterday, and I will probably do nothing tommorow.

I experimented with partial hanging suspension today.

Currently, I am unable to get the noose to properly tighten around my carotid artery, while cutting off my jugular and causing my head to fill with blood. I will try lubricating the cord tomorrow, as a bit more pressure may be enough to cut off the carotid simultaneously.

>>17416
So... that's a goodbye, then? Good luck, I guess.

my head hurts

>>17416
Are you sure the rope has the proper length? Safe travels for you.

>>17417
Nope, I am only practicing in case I feel the need. Not that I would I mind fucking up into the best way possible, mind you.


>>17418

The nice thing about partial, suspended strangulation is that you can lie on your knees (as long as your hands do not hit the ground), and you do not have to obstruct the trachea, which is the most painful part of strangulation. If you do it right, you have ~10 seconds until you lose consciousness.

I drove on highway my dads car for hours, he says im ok and might finally let me use it when I want. Today was a good day.

I've been playing fistful of frags a whole lot and it made me interested in Western films. I've been watching one a day. Today's movie is "Rio Bravo".
I played a little Persona 1 and went with my mom to an imported goods store where she bought me a variety of interesting foreign beers too.

I spent nearly the whole day playing Custom Reido V and eraQueen, been pretty addicted to slave training games lately.

Then I went to sparring class in the evening. We did 3 minute free spar rounds instead of the usual minute rounds. It was strenuous as fuck but I felt like I did better than usual.

>>17473
That's what I usually do in my free time. Dig up kusoge and frantically play them for a few days, then go to another. I never heard of eraQueen, I'll add it my list, thank you for listing it.

>>17474
Kusoge are the best. I'm waiting next month until AA2's release, it'll be somewhat entertaining at least.

>eraQueen
It's femdom actually, so you should probably avoid it if it's not your thing.

>>17476
It's right up my alley actually.

It has been a little more than three months now since I've entered university. Time has been passing extraordinarily quick and I can remember little of what has passed in the last few months. I feel proud of having been able to live off alone at some other city away from my parents since I thought for sure I was completely uncapable of doing so. While I have not made any friends and doubt I'd be able to make any in whatever form of near future, I found myself still capable of having small talk with class peers, which also came as another relief to me. I'm guessing that, no matter how long one stays disconected from society and/or activities in general, there is also hope and possibilities to start anew. Maybe this can serve of some example or inspiration to others that believe to have themselves in dead end circumstances.
I've got to say that I'm quite glad with how it all has been coming along. Although the days have been going by too quickly, I can have little time to sob or sulk as I used to when I was completely unoccupied. I've been craming, amongst other things, latin and intend to start japanese soon. Life has been, surprisingly, going very well. I'm glad I was capable of getting somewhere.

>>17496
We all have hidden abilities. I'm glad you've discovered yours; may there be more to come. What's your major/field of study?

Post edited on 25th May 2014, 8:28pm

>>17498
I've been studying musical composition. As I am unsure of a future based off sololy of a career of composition I've been expanding to all fields and activities that my department offers. Due to this, I'm currently also working as a harpsichord accompanist of a old music consort. I'm also looking forward to doing a test for new members of a semi-professional choir as accompanying pianist. If I do pass in this test, I'll be receiving a scholarship(?) of the equivalent of three hundred and fifty dollars for about twenty hours a month. To think I could ever make money off the sweat of my own brow so early into a course is something that I could have never thought possible, and I'm having good feelings about my chances of passing this.

>>17501
Looks like you're doing all the things to better your chances for the future. Good on you, and good luck with the test.

And yeah, being able to do relevant part-time jobs early on in the run is the best.

Post edited on 25th May 2014, 11:15pm

Played Unreal Tournament 2004 for the first time in many years. Used to play the shit out of it in my teens.

I took a Math proficiency test for university so I can retake Calculus I, which I have taken in High School and now twice in College. I managed to do 20% worse on the test, so I am going to have to retake it until I get 70% of the questions correct.

I really hate it when my relatives say that I am "too smart" to not go to college, because I am utterly deficient in things for which I have no intuition, like the entirety of Mathematics. Its not as if I do not have a conceptual interest in the field, but knowing concepts and appreciating them without applying them is absolutely useless.

My self-hate is good at doing everything short of self-improvement.

Skyrim, Star Ocean: Second Story, and now Im checking if there are a new chapter of Koe no Katachi.

worked. tiling.

i've been drinking this yunnan black tea. it's alright but i think would be better as part of a blend.

Some fatass cunt asked me if I had any money to spare outside of a subway. The idea of women begging for money bothers me enough for multiple reasons, but she obviously wasn't starving being as big as she was. I simply told her I haven't had a job in like four years, so no I couldn't spare any. I'm not sure but I think she yelled something at me as I left the area. It was a laps in judgment that made me forget you should never talk to or even make eye contact with women, since they're all trouble. Now I don't want to go near that place again.

>>17539
>you should never talk to or even make eye contact with women, since they're all trouble
That sure seems like a well-adjusted philosophy.

>>17542
Well that's how the Saudis do it, and they do not seem to have many problems with women.

>>17542
Last thing you want is a women targeting you and turning your life into hell. They can easily get men in the area to beat you up if they so want, or get you arrested without you doing anything wrong. They're a horrible unstoppable menace that can easily be provoked and should be avoided at all costs.

>>17539
I was waiting at a bus stop, and some crackhead, all ragged and miserable looking, came and asked for some spare money becaue he needed to "buy medicine for his wife". I told him off, and he went around asking the other people. No one gave him anything, and he just stopped, and stood there for a while, didn't even blink. Suddenly he lost his shit and started flipping out. He would incoherently yell that Haruhi would remember this day, that we will regret what we did, that the blood of Jesus Christ lives on him, and mumbled some shit about a "corpreal(sic) spirit" that I didn't understand at all, and he was getting progressively angrier as time passed, until he started bashing his head really hard against a wall. Then someone gave 2$ to him, and quietly walked away like nothing happened.

>>17557
That's why you gotta carry pepper spray with you.

>>17557
I always used to run into junkies all the time in the subways back when I lived in NY. I never gave them money and just ignored them whenever I went by. If I paid them any sort of mind I was afraid they'd try to follow me or attack me or some shit. I'm a fucking sucker so I felt bad every time I had to pass by one of them.
Also I still remember this one frequenter who always held up a sign that read "need money for drugs." Makes me wonder if some people humored him and gave him money for his honesty.

>>17557
You shouldnt hate them for being who they are. They made a mistake. Nobody wants to be a crackhead who ruined their life, lost everything they valued in life and feels shitty with aches and pains all over their body just because they didn't get a hit.

>>17573
They should in all honesty die.

I'll hate them anyway just for existing since they're trash trying to extort money from people by being annoying shits.

>>17574
Like we have a right to complain. We are trash who leech off parents/welfare and dont contribute to society. Most of us anyway.

>>17573
You should hate them for not trying to get out of the situation they're in. Rather than blowing all their money on beer and drugs they should be using it to get some decent cloths they can take a job interview in, or invest it in a trade. By just giving them money when they ask for it you're doing them no favors and are encouraging them to stay the way they are. Shit happens, but you have to at least be willing to -try- and improve things.

There was a video I saw a while back on youtube where this guy offers a homeless family $100 to remove the word Haruhi from their begging sign and they refused. It's that kind of mindset that keeps people like that poor and homeless. When you're at rock bottom and have a kid to take care of you don't have the luxury to be picky. Yes some people make mistakes, but then there's people who continue to make mistakes and refuse to correct them.

>>17576
The difference is it doesn't leave our homes and we don't harasses random strangers while dumping our problems on them for pity and handouts. Besides, the US government is 15 trillion in debt and climbing. you think not giving $400 a month to some NEETs is going to make any difference?

>>17577
How do you know they haven't tried that? Being addicted to one of those really hard drugs like heroin is no cakewalk. This isn't like marijuana. You're physically and mentally addicted to it. Your whole body feels painful and you can't feel happiness unless you take the drug. In a detox clinic the majority of people will relapse. The odds are heavily stacked against you and it takes a gargantuan effort of willpower. Like I said nobody wants to be a crackhead whose lost everything, they're being kept that way against their will because of their addiction.

Your example is just one example.

>>17587
Still their own fault for getting themselves addicted in the first place. That's unless someone tied them to a chair and made them take drugs by force. If you ignore all the warnings and take that shit anyway, you've got no one to blame but yourself for what happens.

>>17588
Soo.. I take it you haven't lived in a drug centric environment? Me neither. It's nice, right? We get to say these things and be so righteous!

>>17559
He wasn't harming anyone but himself. And was too malnourished and small to do any real damage, not considering junkie-strength

Miserable beggars are the least dangerous things in the streets, a spray won't help me when someone points a .38 to my head and takes my wallet.

>>17573
I don't hate him. Better a beggar than a thief. It was tragically amusing if anything.

You think I was born into some exclusively white gated community or some place like Beverly hills or some shit? Hell no bitch, I just aint fucking retarded enough to do stupid shit I've been warned about all my life. It's called free mother fucking will. That means the option to say no or avoid that shit. I've never drunk alcohol, smoked a cigaret or done weed in my life and that shit if fucking -everywhere-. It don't matter how much people try to encourage me too or how prevalent it is, and I say that as someone who's had to live around alcohol and the faggots that keep trying to push that shit on me. As those shitty anitidrug adverts say it's really as easy as just saying 'no'. People need to take some Haruhi damn responsibility for their lives and their actions and stop trying to blame everyone else.

Post edited on 30th May 2014, 11:03pm

>>17589
Speaking as a former addict - he's right. No one gets themselves into that mess but themselves. And no one besides yourself can pull you out of it. Drug addicts have made a choice for themselves and they have to deal with the consequences of that choice.

>>17593
>>17596
Yes of course, on an individual level you are very right. Being responisble for ones' own actions is the essence of autonomy; people are by nature autonomous. It starts getting complicated once you wish to explain why individuals "weak of will" amass in certain areas more so than others. That statistic in itself implies that there are other factors than the human's autonomy alone. Environment, culture, education, genetics, social affairs, demographics? It can both be simple and complicated to explain why other people become drug addicts, it just depends where you're putting the bar.

>And no one besides yourself can pull you out of it.
This is undesputible, but the optimal method is more shaky - or so I've gathered.

>>17596
Its a choice but the person making that choice may not comprehend the full ramifications of that choice. So without knowing where it could lead to, its very easy to make a mistake that leads to disastrous consequences. ALso being in surrounded in a shitty environment with a culture of pessimism, as well as having personal flaws, stack the odds against you. You shouldn't blame the victim in that sort of circumstance.

I tried cutting my hair today. I'm not sure if I'll keep it or just shave it all off. If you just glance at me it looks alright. I feel like if you looked at it for more than a few seconds though it starts to look shitty.

Sure a shaved head can turn some looks too, but not as much as someone with a shitty looking haircut, and if my parents notice and ask I can just say I decided to try it for a while since I've never really had a really short haircut. If they notice I tried to cut my hair but did a shitty job at it they'd probably get worried about me again.

Shame I couldn't find any tutorials on cutting your own hair for guys with long hair. Everything was either for girls or guys with short hair that was a lot easier to maintain. Or it'd be "how to cut your own hair with a friend!".

>>17615
>the person making that choice may not comprehend the full ramifications of that choice.
Yeah becuase nothing bad can happen when you start doing crack cocaine.

I've gotten myself sick over a few hours. Good job, me.

>>17618
Wanna have a good time?

>>17618
How come you arent a CEO with the income of Bill Gates and the body of a bodybuilder? You lack willpower. Don't you know nothing good can happen out of being a NEET and browsing a *chan website all day?

>>17623
Yeah I'm not Bill Gates so give me money.

I went out with my mom for breakfast, came back to my room, dealt with even more shitty kids, cleaned up a bit after them since I don't like how they leave shit all over my room. Then I took a nap for an hour or two. Which just ended up with me playing my 3DS and waiting for the Haruhifest thing to start in Puzzle and Dragon so that I could roll some Haruhis since I don't have that many good monsters since I don't want to put any money in a mobile game nor support Google in any way, even if I do enjoy the game probably more than I should.

Now I'm here feeling angry and disappointed, like always.

>>17623
lacking willpower just makes it all the more so their own fault. How's it my fault they have no will power? That's their problem, why should I have to give them money?

>>17628
I completely understand your angle but Bill Gates was a relatively terrible example. So are Warren Buffett and Mark Zuckerberg. Gates came from a functional, affluent family (dad was successful lawyer and mother a teacher) as did the other two. The class you are born into and the privileges or handicaps associated with it does have an effect on your confidence and attitudes toward life. Elements you can lump into that so-called 'willpower'. Being born into the right crowd and having the resouces to afford elite tutors definitely does help.

But again, I understand what you mean when it comes to people of any social class who refuse to help themselves and take responsibility for their own lives. It's just that you should also have some consideration for the fact that this task is much easier for some not born as a heroin-addicted baby in a drug den. It may take much longer and/or be a much harder fight for them to rise out of all the shit they started in.

>>17629
Minor footnote: the example wasn't explicitly centered around Bill Gates.

>>17623
You can -not- be serious. you can't. I refuse to believe anyone can be this fucking stupid. This is apples and oranges to it's extreme. You're comparing the willpower to work towards a long term goal to the willpower to just avoid something and say no. Like curing cancer and not murdering your parents is the same thing, or wining a noble piece prize and not raping children. You can't possibly be comparing the willpower it takes to build a fortune 500 company from the ground up to the willpower it takes to not rob the gas station down the street. Your post is single handily making me loose faith in mankind. It's enraging to think people can be this fucking dense. Honestly I don't even completely believe you can be human to post what you did. You'd really have to be a robot or alien to think not becoming a CEO with the income of Bill Gates and the body of a bodybuilder is comparable to avoiding drug use. Your post makes me want to kill myself, Too bad I have the willpower not too otherwise I might be entitled to harass people for handouts.

>>17629
You should be ashamed of yourself for humoring such a moronic argument.

>>17637
And I'm saying its very easy to make a mistake which has consequences that are extremely difficult to reverse, weak willpower or not.

You sure owned me hard with those hot insults by the way.

>>17646
making a mistake is not the same as making millions of dollars a year as a CEO

>>17646
Typos are an easy to make mistake. Washing your whites with your colors is an easy to make mistake. Doing crystal meth is not.

>>17649
Being a pathetic NEET posting on tohno-chan is a mistake but you're still here.

>>17650
I could say the same about your birth.

I can't believe that my passive agressive-ness started this.

I'm kinda sorry, guys. Kinda

>>17650
>>17651
Burned.

>>17651
Taking hard drugs is an 'easy to avoid mistake' but becoming a useless NEET is also an 'easy avoid mistake'. You judge others for lacking the willpower to avoid such things but you yourself don't think you should be judged for being a NEET, hikki, posting on tc, having a waifu etc.

One is a metaphor that makes sense and the other is another pointless insult. Im not going to entertain you any longer if another petty response is forthcoming.

I'm extremely furious at myself because there is a problem I cannot solve for days due to its close relation to a dependence I have in real life. I cannot end this and I have been continuously suffering day after day for so long I can barely take it anymore.

I lived through most of today, which is really not what I wish I could say I did. I want to have done more and do more in the future. Too bad that's not possible, given that I am a low IQ mongoloidic piece of shit. It sucks being this stupid.

>>17865
So, are you diagnosably borderline or just under some pretty justifiable suspicions? A myriad of factors can influence a given result and due to intrinsic variability you're almost always going to be operating within a range, rather than a static value. If you weren't given a battery, it's generally meaningless.


If you can solve this relatively quickly, you're probably at least >90

>>17866
Not the same guy but lol took a few minutes :/ I was too distracted by the positions instead of whether or not they were inside the circle. Is it G?

>>17866

Can you link me to that test? I remember taking it like half a decade ago but I have trouble findining it. That one had a time limit (like an hour or so) and I'm too lazy to spend time thinking about the answers too long so I rush through most of tests in ~15 minutes. I'm pretty good at them, though, so I usually score pretty high. I'm retarded either way.

>>17866
I've never seen something like this before. Is it only in America, like there's a difference in logic tests between EU and US? I'm usually fairly good at logic tests (within the normal range), but this is far from anything I've seen or thought (aside from adding the missing piece in a series). Even if you give me the answer, it won't make sense to me.

>>17866
I must really be an idiot, I've been staring at this for an hour and still have no idea what the answer is supposed to be

>>17866
It's A, right?

>>17868
http://iqtest.dk/main.swf

>>17871
...
I choose G because dot on the inside=add a number (or add a positive number of dots), dot on the outside=subtract a number (or add a negative number of dots). This holds true for both rows and columns.
Row 1 (from top to bottom): 1+1=2
Row 2: 1-3=-2
Row 3: 2-2=0
Column 1 (from left to right): 1+1=2
Column 2: 1=3=-2
Column 3: 2-2=0

Post edited on 7th Jul 2014, 9:27am

>>17866
What the hell is with this? It's strange and hardly has any patterns, and the few it does has aren't anywhere near consistent enough to lead to a solution.

There has to be a dot, since there's always a dot. The dots are always either outside or inside at the same time. It's okay for one to be alone as long as it is inside. Repeats are apparently okay, but there's nothing stating that they need to happen. There isn't a single instance where the orbs get on the line, so that one gets ruled out.

I was left with D,E, and F, but I ultimately chose D because I forgot my reasoning despite coming up with it less than five minutes ago.

Anyway, I don't need 'tests' to tell me that I'm stupid. Then again, I'm not entirely sure what type of 'test' this is.

>>17874
I came to the same conclusion after staring at the thing for five minutes.

>>17875
When taking the tests I liked to pretend it was some alien message. Something like this particular problem could easily be a way for them to see if we're intelligent enough to bother with, and to also teach us about their written language.

>>17874
This is the correct choice and reasoning.

>>17869
I chose this one because I've encountered similarly modeled questions across different tests and it just stood out as unique. It's less spatial than much of what can be found on the site, but it's still culturally neutral.

>>17879
I agree that it's culturally neutral, and it is indeed unique. Okay, so it forces the subject to think out of the box (seeing how it's not standard pattern logic), and uses simple mathematics to solve a simple problem. You don't need any education, only a keen eye for asymmetrical patterns, I guess. It's more of a massive curveball than anything else in, my opinion. I'll hazard a guess that humans unfamiliar with typical logic problems will score higher. It's one of those "children can solve this problem, but you can't" that makes you feel like shit. I don't know, I may just be salty, but it's a neat problem that reminded me that logic isn't bound by rules.

>>17874
So this is how you're supposed to think on these tests?

I thought it was supposed to be something where you look for a pattern, figure out what the pattern is, then choose the answer. Not something where you find any truth and look at the answers to see if there is only one answer that fulfills that truth.

This is like asking someone to complete this pattern:
54 7 268 1 4160 9 57802 3 4686 5 849502 7 _
and only one of the answers is even...

Instead of asking for a specific number, it should ask something like, "what is a pattern in this sequence?"

It also irritates me that the inputs and outputs are ambiguous, but I guess that's sort of the point.

After I spoiled myself reading that the position is irrelevant, I concluded the truth was that any rectangle drawn from the top left corner with both sides of length greater than one will have an equal number of inside circles and outside circles. That is true and just as valid as the "real" answer, but there are 3 answers that satisfy that condition.

Anyway, I don't need these tests to prove to me that I'm dumb. Whenever my feelings of inferiority start to dwindle and I realize I need a reality check, I internally chant "one hour" to myself. I once overheard a person talking about how it took her one hour to solve a Rubik's cube for the first time. It took me a month.

>>17884
Unless I got you wrong your method yields the same answer other people came up with, G, no triple solution at all.

>>17884
Well there are different types of intelligence. I've heard from teachers that I'm generally above average academically (despite me being an underachiever in my overachieving high school haha) but I'm pretty dumb as piss socially. I guess I'm also taller and physically healthier than most maybe... When all else fails I guess then there are the people that learn to be funny.

I never solved a Rubik's cube but I never put serious work into one after childhood. I think I'd take longer than an hour though since I don't really know the basic approach for it at all.

>>17885
B and C also fulfill the requirement of my incredibly wrong conclusion.

>>17887
I followed the same line of thought >>17874 did and at some moment I was in doubt about B,C and G too, for they seemed to "express" the same result in just slightly different ways.
What I figured is that G is the option most consistent with the language of the problem, as we never get balls along the circle line or balls both inside and outside the circle, just no balls at all.
I don't see how your method is incredibly wrong. Its only fault is that it doesn't point to the correct answer as strongly. By interpreting the lines and rows as a way to obtain the third element from the "first" two it becomes clearer that when you "add" a "inner ball" with an "outer ball" you get no ball rather than one-ball-in one-ball-out or two balls on the line.
But I do have qualms with the question to be honest. I'm suspicious left-to-right and top-to-bottom was just begging for my western mind to get it right, I did try some weird combinations before settling down on it, but something was telling me all the time that it's gotta be something simple and ltr ttb is simple. And even the consistency argument I gave above doesn't feel quite right, it just doesn't feel natural to rule out a representation as not consistent enough when language as we understand and use everyday is just as full of not-really-consistent, arbitrary conventions.

Post edited on 7th Jul 2014, 7:54pm

>>17866
>If you can solve this relatively quickly, you're probably at least >90
I can see that you're a nice guy, but this statement came out a bit foul.

>>17880
The limitation with the more orthodox types of logic problem is that there's really no novel way to increment challenge. Problems tend to become a tedious slog; the solution doesn't necessarily require intelligence or creativity to comprehend and the rate at which a solution is generated will depend on what you begin to iterate with or where you begin to look for a pattern. I'd argue that this specific one isn't totally neutral, as you will have a definitive advantage in the solution procedure if you've been exposed to linear algebra. Formal mathematical ideas actually make a lot of the problems featured on that site pretty accessible.

>>17884
These problems never have any definitive truth value or absolute meaning - they're just pixels on your screen. When you participate, you're essentially agreeing to play a game where you accept that the imagery, at a macroscopic scale, holds some transitory symbolic significance and is representative of an underlying organizational logic. It actually isn't, and can't on an intellectual basis be defended otherwise, though. Draw a smiley face in the box if it so pleases you.

>>17895
I probably estimated a bit low, as that problem was like ~30 and really isn't super conventional.

>>17908
I may not know much about algebra, but I was able to see something of a pattern in that problem which let me narrow it down to A and B, of those two I have no clue which is correct.

>>17908
>The limitation with the more orthodox types of logic problem is that there's really no novel way to increment challenge.
That's a school of thought I've long disagreed with, especially when implemented in education. It's this desire to quality control the ability to solve problems that the subject haven't been exposed to. I think it's an unreasonable method in determining basic skill and ability. There needs to be exposure and experience, and it should be intuitively possible to make the proper connection - not by some arbitrary, theoretical connection. It's a novel challenge, that's as far as I'd rate it. I'm fully aware that I'm probably wrong and/or unreasonable. And sorry about ranting, it just touches on some points of bitterness.

Post edited on 7th Jul 2014, 9:06pm

>>17908
Fuck I picked at this thing for 40 minutes even on paper, treating the Xs as -1 and Os as +1s and seeing if they totaled to zero if the sum of both the sums of the rows and columns added up to zero at the lower left.

Then I thought "tic tac toe!!" If now I have the right answer and everything else was a red herring imma laugh so hard.

I choose H because there are four of these tic tac toe things with Xs at the center and only three with Os, and these are 9 games of tic tac toe;X goes first (center) four times, O goes first four times and one game has a filler triangle in the middle. This might be all the possible ways tic tac toe can be placed with three filler spaces (triangles). And when the centers are strung together resembling one 3x3 tic tac toe we have a winless board because the center is plugged up with a triangle.

>>17908
I'm familiar with linear algebra(well, I used to be) and I still have no idea what I'm supposed to do with that.

>>17917
2 pairs are identical, though. It might be related to ultimate tic tac toe, but the match was over short into the game.

>>17919
>2 pairs are identical,
Yeah I noticed that too.
each block with have two rows that have 2 of one shape and 1 of another. the block bellow with also have them but they will have moved to the side by one row. That's how I came to A or B.

>>17908
>When you participate, you're essentially agreeing to play a game where you accept that the imagery, at a macroscopic scale, holds some transitory symbolic significance and is representative of an underlying organizational logic. It actually isn't, and can't on an intellectual basis be defended otherwise, though.
What?

Anyway, my guess is B.
Each grid shares a certain number of symbols with the grids above and to the left.
First two rows, each grid shares 4 symbols with the grid to the left.
Last row, only 1 symbol is shared.
For each column, only 1 symbol is shared with the grid above.
B is the only choice which satisfies these conditions.
That is the conclusion I came to after about 45 minutes.

>>17917
I fell into a similar pattern of thought with this one, where I'd recognize something unique that could be done with the format and endlessly try to intricately model those possible processes. The sol for this is embarrassingly simple, and the ~15 minutes spent trying to frame it into something complex was pretty needless. It's definitely possible to overthink these/not even bother to really visually examine the problem and lose significant amounts of time in the process.

>>17918
Being able to manipulate and transform fields of data accurately is all that's required here. Terribly superficial, I realize, but that form of experience served to expedite the procedure in my case.

>>17921
Yup think you got it especially since the guy uploaded a new puzzle... Do you guys think this should be its own thread now? Puzzles for roneries :/

>>17923
/mt/ would be a more appropriate place wouldn't it?

>>17919
Looking at it some more, I landed on H. My reasoning is so obscure and embarrassing that I don't even want to share it. I think I've even forgotten it already...

>>17924
On one hand I'd welcome more life at mt. On the other hand I fear that it'll die out much quicker.

>>17922

I chose D because each flower pattern "spins" a certain amount from the previous flower that shared its pattern. The pattern with 3 whites on each side and the pattern and the even pattern both rotate two petals each time clockwise. The pattern with alternating petals seemed to rotate three petals counterclockwise.

>>17925 Lol was it my tic tac toe reasoning said here >>17917? Pretty sure >>17921 is correct.

>>17926
why? Would the /mt/ folks solve it too quickly or lose interest (for whatever reasons) too quickly? The board doesn't seem that "smart" to me at all.

>>17921
I will be entirely honest with you - I don't understand your solution conditions at all. Specifically, how would you go about confirming these conditions hold for the top row of grids? I also noticed a few inconsistencies, but I'm likely misinterpreting the conditions entirely.

This 3-step transformation a grid undergoes holds for every left to right grid transition - hopefully the notes aren't too incomprehensible. Obvious spoiler warning for anyone who wants to do it themselves.

>What?
If you think imperceptible photons haphazardly exiting a screen hold any non-arbitrary, universally consistent meaning I'd be inclined to disagree.

Edit: Oh and yeah I arrived at B as well

Post edited on 8th Jul 2014, 12:26am

>>17928
Low traffic, coupled with a hearty dose of does it even matter? Technically we're "doing" the puzzles which is relevant to the thread's topic.

>>17929
Wow I think you got the right formula. How did you get it? I don't think I would've gotten that from just continuously staring at the puzzle.

>>17931
>just continuously staring at the puzzle
Basically this, but I converted the symbols to numbers and just tried various things until something held for all grids. It took ~50 minutes, and I definitely feel as though that was time wasted.

>>17929
Here is a diagram. I came up with this solution because I was trying to figure out a transformation (since they all have the same number of symbols) and decided to note which ones didn't move.

>If you think imperceptible photons haphazardly exiting a screen hold any non-arbitrary, universally consistent meaning I'd be inclined to disagree.
I would argue with you, but the photons coming out of my screen don't have meaning so I can't understand what you're saying. I agree that meaning is arbitrary, but that has nothing to do with photons. It has to do with life being dicks. Before, we were talking about non-universal truth.
>holds some transitory symbolic significance and is representative of an underlying organizational logic
It does hold transitory symbolic significance. The fact that you are reading this is evidence of that.
I guess I did end up arguing. Like I said, dicks.

I don't doubt that you are probably a lot smarter than me, it's probably why I feel the need to be curt.

Post edited on 8th Jul 2014, 12:43am

>>17933
I think we should stop treating these as representative of our intelligence and just do them for fun -- although I'm not sure much fun happens in /so/... In any case this is a nice place for me to read about things I can't normally find. I suppose in general I just like observing how people's thinking patterns.

>>17922
I'm pretty confident about my choice this time. D.
The pattern from top to bottom or left to right is dick, lopsided, then balanced. If you take all of the different rotations of the same pattern and combine them, they fill the flower. So that gives you the up facing lopsided pattern.

>>17933
Subjective /= objective, and that's all I was and currently am talking about. The conviction that one is jesus or some other popular religious figure is quite common amongst schizophrenics, and subjectively they are absolutely truthful and noble in that claim. Tilt the focus to objective however and I'd deny that a person is the "same" entity between two arbitrarily small time increments because chemically, they are completely distinct.

That diagram really helped, though and very clearly demonstrates an issue puzzles of this complexity can be expected to face. I still don't care for the fact that the first two rows are basically arbitrary in their quantity of commonalities, though.

The thesaurus rape is really starting to crack me up. I'm still waiting for some Latin phrases or obscure quotes from well-known mathematical geniuses.

>>17927
Nah. I built upon my stupid ultimate tic tac toe reference. Have you played it? It's pretty fun. It's those triangles that makes it obscure, as if 3 people played the game, which would be like playing Go in 4 dimensions. Either that, blanks or blocked spaces. Theses problems are never that complex, I doubt you even had to play regular tic tac toe to get it; I just wanted to do it differently I guess. It has to be either patterns or algebra. I don't understand that guy's approach.

Post edited on 8th Jul 2014, 6:21am

>>17934
I'm pretty sure many of us go heavy on the crossboarding, so it doesn't matter in that case. I don't think it's bad to take a break from the despair. And yeah, this should be a fun thing. I don't care about off topic anymore, as long as there's some positive energy, or rather not too much negative energy. May be a tall order, but think a lot of the really depressed people too come to this site to take it easy. I don't know.

>>17929
I read the pattern in a diagonal line going to the right. The arrangement of black bars change position either to the next equal arrangement to the top or to the bottom. The black bars change position a certain amount either to the left or the right so to correspond to the same arrangement above or below in the line. Here, the top left arrangement moves either 3 spots to the left going upwards, or 6 spots to the right going upwards. The next line of arrangements either moves 3 spots to the left going upwards, or 3 spots to the right going downwards. The last arrangement can move either 1 spot to the right going upwards, or to the left going downwards; or either 4 spots to the right going upwards, or 4 spots to the left going downwards; and finally either 7 spots to the right going upwards, or 7 spots to the left going downwards. You get D if you follow this logic. Used between 10 to 20 minutes to "solve" it, an eternity to explain it. You're welcome to ask questions if there's something you don't get, or point out any potential flaws. I'd also welcome a comment if you find a system of numbers that's mathematically pleasing, other than that I've explained.

I'm >>17869 and >>17942, so I maybe am getting the hang of it, after reading how other people have solved the other 2 problems.

I read >>17935 after "solving" it, and I wonder if it's the same system of thought - just a different explanation or approach.

>>17945
And I realized there's a simpler solution involving filling all the white spots by adding all the black spots in the similar arrangements, which leaves you with answer D.

>>17929
I was working on >>17908, gave up and looked at your paper. I now understand it, and there's no way I could've solved this. That's a bloody algorithm. How did you even realize where to start? What even?

>>17960
See >>17932

Nothing elegant, spontaneous or insightful about it. I basically started with possible transformations and iterated them, modifying them based on certain similarities between specifics rows/columns/clusters. You could actually program an algorithm to solve something like that, which is why I think those variety of problems are dull to begin with, As contrasted with >>17866


>>17937
Every time someone posts a word with more than 3 syllables, do you cry a little on the inside?

>>17965
Is it E?
The pattern I saw was that from top to bottom, the image turns the bottom left "branch" and then the top right "branch" 90 degrees. (If we separate the image into quarters with four branches.)

From left to right, the image turns the bottom right branch and then the top left branch 90 degrees.

Therefore, for both the third row and third column if you followed that pattern you'd reach "T leaning to the left with a flat accent on top"

>>17965
I think I'm getting the hang of these. E.

Left to right.
Rotate bottom-right by π/2.
Rotate upper-left by π/2.
Also works vertically: rotate bottom-left then top-right.

>>17965
I didn't understand his explanation.

>>17970
Yep.

I've turned in my living will. This is a document that just recently became available in my country. Basically, I checked a bunch of boxes expressing in advance that, in case I become permanently unconscious, deaf, mentally stunted, etc, to just let me die. Also, I volunteered my corpse for scientific experiments.

I found a small old rack on our attick and it's perfect for my figures. Now they looks much better and don't block my manga anymore.

>>18082
Trigger warning on that video.

I watched this video of this girl in her early to mid teens from the sound of it anxiously trying to speak on voice chat during Minecraft and beginning to have a panic attack before it cuts off. It's horrible to think that she probably had to get over the fear that someone could be recording while she stammers over her words, and now it's a YouTube video with a quarter of a million views within two days, with most commentators saying she was horny and masturbating. For a person with severe anxiety this is a nightmare come true. Imagine the nauseating, stomach sinking feeling she would get if she were to simply read the title and view count. I hope she hasn't found this video and never does, it could have disastrous effects for someone with severe anxiety. I don't think I'll ever understand the casualness of needless cruelty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5ueGnKVB_Q

>>18085
It's completely staged.

If it isn't, the content creator is literally exhibiting his interactions with a cognitively impaired child as entertainment, which isn't exactly unique in itself. The repetition of phrases, prevalence of idiosyncrasies, word-salady structure and staggering tangentiality/incomprehensibility all point directly towards mental illness. Retards are retards irrespective of gender.

>>18083
>Trigger warning
What?

>>18085
Apparently this guy took interest in stumbling upon a socially anxious person of that degree. If it wasn't for his intent on 'trolling', I think he'd have every opportunity to make her not feel horrible about the situation. He obviously wasn't grossed out by the shyness or awkwardness. It's sad, some YT users will upload anything they can get away with, as long as they think it'll generate views.

>>18087
That post I pointed to was >>18085
The video features annoying ford drivers in their teens trying to be funny and hitting on 3DPD. Bonus: obnoxious video editing and social media links. Not to mention the person with anxiety..
I regret clicking on that link

>>18086
You don't strike me as a knowledgeable authority on this subject, to make that judgement with credibility. Sorry.

>>18089
No, what is a trigger warning? It certainly has an obnoxious, tumblr-esque, irredeemably vague and ultimately meaningless air about it.

>>18091
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Trigger%20warning

Basically what you said. Did you look it up? You looked it up didn't you, you sassy scoundrel.

Post edited on 14th Jul 2014, 8:43pm

>>18091
Sorry, my English isn't perfect. By trigger warning I mean that the contents in that video are obnoxious and may offend some people here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trauma_trigger

>>18085
What a stupid video. Why would someone with social anxiety have a microphone? They probably paid some dumb bitch 20 dollars to act for them.

>>18091
>It certainly has an obnoxious, tumblr-esque, irredeemably vague and ultimately meaningless air about it.

No, it doesn't. You're projecting.

>>18098
Don't judge the whole board just by one single post.
Also, I don't think he cares what ford drivers think about him. You haven't been here for too long, have you? You talk about desiring sex, acting tough and being/not being attractive. I smell an outsider.

Post edited on 14th Jul 2014, 10:19pm

I don't even know what's going on right now in this thread.

>>18099
Actually, I've been here for years.

>Also, I don't think he cares what ford drivers think about him.

You mean he tries to kid himself that's the case, like the majority of people in his situation?

>>18101
No, I mean I don't think he cares what ford drivers think about him.

>>18099
>You haven't been here for too long, have you?
Funny, I don't remember seeing your trip in past years.

>>18103
The trip is new, I'm not.

>>18104
How many years have you posted here? Why is it now you think your opinion is so important it warrants a trip?

>>18105
Only a year, the trip is because I know a lot of other people who also post here, specifically /mai/. I was suspecting that >>18098 only came here casually and not often, but nevermind that. I don't think my opinion is worth more than anyone else's and I don't think people who use names/trips make it to make themselves seem more important than others. If my posts bother you, you can easily filter them or anonymize them using a plugin like dollchan. Sorry to be a bother (seriously)

>>18098
Starting a rant unprovoked, making entire arguments based on haphazard conjecture, trying to use lack of experience with women and unattractiveness as an insult (and even putting 'man' in an insult)... your impression of a stereotypical bitter female is great!

>>18101
>Actually, I've been here for years.
You've been here for years, but you actually think the people here have an active desire for sex and female attention? Even someone that's been here for a single day could find the fallacy in that bullshit. Or maybe the idea that not all males desire sex/female company offends your distorted worldview, and you cope with it by telling yourself that males who claim otherwise are "in denial" or some such nonsense? But that's just conjecture on my part.

>>18109
you can't get female attention so you convince yourself you don't want it. thats obvious. ever hear the fable of the fox and the grapes? in b4 this post is deleted.

(USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)

>>18111
I hate saying this because I don't like the word and expression, but I think you're projecting your feelings on others.
The majority of people here don't find real people attractive and some people have rejected 3D before in favor of 2D.

I went for a run in the morning. I went out for a coffee in the afternoon. The psychological exertion made me very tired. It's half past six and I'm sitting in bed listening to shoegaze.

>>18112
>The majority of people here don't find real people attractive
I'm finding this not to be as true as I had once hoped. When the topic is brought up plenty of people claim they're still able to find 3dpd attractive.

>>18115
I hope it's just a vocal minority

>>18111
Here's a crazy idea. Now, this may sound nuts, like completely off the wall insane so bare with me here... but maybe... just maybe... some of us don't find overly bitchy gold digging manipulative high maintenance and overly masculine walking sacks stds that dare to call themselves women to be attractive?
crazy idea right? Fuck you, you ignorant close minded piece of shit

>>18109
That's a rather amusing call to make, given I'm a virgin male myself, and a hikikomori of many years, but if that's the call you want to make, feel free to do so.

I simply don't appreciate people without any issues with anxiety whatsoever thinking they have the right to mock people who are actually struggling and call them mentally impaired, especially not on /so/ of all places. The influx of people from normalfag havens like wizardchans sickens me - men who have no issues other than laziness, often men who have groups of friends who are similar in personality, men who are in the middle of college or working regular jobs acting as though they have it so hard it's unbearable. Just a year ago I doubt you'd find people on /so/ mocking somebody who obviously has severe anxiety, because most people on /so/ could relate to that entirely. How long have you even posted here for? Because you behave exactly like some WC immigrant, hence your treatment as one. Do I think the majority of old posters on /so/ care about female company? No? Do I think you do? Yes.

>>18117
Dare to call themselves women? What else are they meant to call themselves? If you have a vagina, you count as a female, I'm not sure why this issue would upset you.

>>18111
Thank you based mods. Appreciate it when the offending post is kept around as a practical example of when the line is crossed. Effective deterrent compared to just telling (or not) one shitposter why they were banned.

>>18118
They're more men than they are women. They're only female in the technical sense of the term but look and act nothing like one. It upsets me more than you can ever hope to understand. I'm not about to go out and start fucking men with vaginas just because dipshits like >>18111 think I'm a loser for not lowering myself to that level.
In my book it takes a lot more than a vag and tits to call yourself a real women.

>>18120
>men with vaginas

Can't exist. If you have a vagina, you are female, and if you have a penis, you're male. Are you jealous that they get to actually be female, yet don't enjoy it or put it to the use you would in their position? You come across as a very bitter and jealous closeted tranny.

>>18122
you're an idiot and clearly didn't understand what he was saying, women act like men in our time, there's not even a pinch left of feminity in the vast majority of them.

>>18118
>That's a rather amusing call to make, given I'm a virgin male myself
Well, that's why I said "impression". You could have easily fooled me.

>don't appreciate people without any issues with anxiety whatsoever
How do you know everyone/most people here have "no issues with anxiety whatsoever"?

>often men who have groups of friends who are similar in personality, men who are in the middle of college or working regular jobs acting as though they have it so hard it's unbearable.
That's understandable, but again, how do you even know that one guy doesn't have anxiety himself? Are you just assuming he's part of the normalfag influx lately? The way he worded it, it sounded more like he was saying the video was most likely set up (which I agree with, as socially awkward people virtually never use microphones), or just another relatively common case of a socially awkward person being harassed (one that wasn't special just because of her gender). It didn't sound like he was personally mocking her.

>How long have you even posted here for? Because you behave exactly like some WC immigrant, hence your treatment as one. Do I think the majority of old posters on /so/ care about female company? No? Do I think you do? Yes.
If you want to turn this into an "oldfag" circlejerk, I've been here for a little over 4 years. And that post you're responding to is the first one I made on this thread. You seem to assume that I'm the same guy you were bickering with before, but I'm not.

>>18119

Post edited on 15th Jul 2014, 5:41pm

>>18122
I'm not sure if you're trolling, extremely dense, of you have some mental problem that prevents you from understanding a figure of speech. There's no way a normal person would think any of that was meant to be taken literally. I shouldn't even bother responding if it's any one of those, but I'll say this much;
If you think not finding masculine women to be attractive makes me a closet tyranny, then by the same (moronic) logic you and everyone else who like masculine women are closet homosexuals.

Post edited on 15th Jul 2014, 5:59pm

>>18127
>There's no way a normal person would think any of that was meant to be taken literally

I'm a homosexual, and the term 'men with vaginas' is often meant to be taken literally in the communities I spend the majority of my time in. I also happen to speak to a lot of very obvious closeted trannies by virtue of being in those communities, and the bitterness you have mimics theirs almost completely.

>>18123
How exactly do women act like men?

>>18125
A person with anxiety wouldn't listen to somebody struggling on the verge of a panic attack and then proceed to call that person cognitively impaired.

>the repetition of phrases, prevalence of idiosyncrasies, word-salady structure and staggering tangentiality/incomprehensibility

are all symptoms of very severe anxiety, which I don't think is on the same level of mental illness as he was trying to imply it was. Somebody with experience with all of those things would recognize them for what they were, but he immediately leapt into insulting her and implying she was an incompetent, unintelligent headcase.

>>18128
It's still a figure of speech, no matter if you're gay or not. Even an 8 year old can tell you that.

>>18128
They are symptoms of a panic attack, to be certain, but not necessarily indicative or even correlative of social anxiety or other anxiety disorders. Even people suffering from severe social anxiety disorder or GAD can go through their entire lives without having a full-blown panic attack. And again, I seriously have to question why someone with anxiety would not only have a microphone, but stay on the microphone to chat with the apparent trigger during a panic attack. Regardless, even if he mislabeled her problem in a somewhat rude way, I don't think it's grounds to label him an outright normalfag.

>>18128
go white night somewhere else.

>>18128
>I'm a homosexual,
>How exactly do women act like men?
oh boy. Why do I feel like this is one of those explaining colors to a blind man situations?

>>18137
I don't know, how is it? I obviously know how men act, and I know the majority of women act nothing like them. I'd genuinely like to know why you think what you do, can you please explain it to me?

Went to a job interview. Honestly have no clue how I did. Talked (shockingly) to people in the reception area. Most say it's boring, but the pay is okay enough. If I get it, I'm hoping for the backmost cubical.

>>18141
I'm actually not too sure about this one either. I kind of understand what he's saying in a way, in that women have become very "unladylike" and adopted some of the less desirable male traits- the current young adult generation of females is very violent, rude, and overly sexual, for example- while losing positive traits that were once associated with traditional femininity (ie: kindness).

That being said they still act significantly different than men *as a whole*, being more social, taking interpersonal relationships of all kinds more lightly, displaying often-startlingly high rates of dishonest and histrionic traits compared to males, and having a tendency to be much more impulsive to name just a few.

>>18128
>the repetition of phrases, prevalence of idiosyncrasies, word-salady structure and staggering tangentiality/incomprehensibility
They are also symptoms of asperger's, schizophrenia, autism, an active dosage of various psychotropic medications and a plethora of other pathologies. I agree, a diagnosis on the basis of a youtube video is ridiculously inadequate and no conclusions can ultimately be drawn from it. This doesn't preclude speculation though, and I think it's possible to organize a relatively compelling defense of the girl's placement on the spectrum.

The symptoms displayed by this individual were markedly debilitating and in the case of simple social anxiety, it's clear that the they would not remain unaware of the extremity of these effects in previous instances. This immediately raises the question noted by multiple people already - why does this individual (A) possess a microphone, (B) willingly hold extended interactions with people they are unfamiliar with, (C) actively seek environments in which prolonged, intimate vocal communications with other human beings is inseparable from the experience? The level of mental impairment present in this individual necessitates a very high level of trauma - it is unlikely that a child would possess the capacity to continuously expose oneself to such an environment. A public minecraft server is simply not a place in which you will find people suffering from profoundly debilitating anxiety.

I'm not going to cite specific bits of conversation, but the kid demonstrates repeatedly that she does not comprehend semantic components of much of the interaction. Her responses are invariably stereotyped and do not even begin to approach coherence - the partial sentences she manages to utter have no link to antecedent statements, and are totally unintelligible when even generously interpreted. It's a placement on the autism spectrum, low IQ or a blend of both.

Also, gender is not sex and gender dynamics are contingent upon culture, but I'm not entering that discussion at all.

Post edited on 15th Jul 2014, 11:20pm

>>18146
I find it rather rich you're speaking about others having autism after having typed that entire thing out. Are you diagnosed, out of curiosities sake?

Perhaps she was trying to practice her social skills and work on her anxiety in a setting she considered more comfortable than real life. I've known other /so/ posters who have tried similar things rather than to expose themselves to the outside world in a desperate attempt to better themselves. It's far more likely she was anxious rather than her being a schizophrenic, autistic, cognitively impaired dunce.

I take back what I say about you not recognizing the traits of anxiety out of being a normal transplant from elsewhere, though. I think you lack the capacity to recognize and categorize emotions properly period.

>Also, gender is not sex, but I'm not entering that discussion at all.

You won't enter that discussion at all because you know it's illogical and there's no way to try to argue for that other than with your feelings.

This whole "discussion" is stupid and should stop.
>>18148 is just an asshole, there's no use arguing with him.

>>18148
Okay, so you open with some clumsy insults and address nothing that was presented. That's fine, I can't say I was really expecting anything beyond that.

As I quite literally stated at the opening of the post - nothing definitive can be determined from the information we currently have.

>you not recognizing the traits of anxiety out of being a normal transplant from elsewhere, though
I don't understand this sentence at all.

>there's no way to try to argue for that other than with your feelings
There are goddamn bodies of literature and academic fields that attend to these exact subjects. The topic is finished intellectually and you're welcome to go beyond tohno-chan to discover this. For a literal faggot, you know surprisingly little about your public existence.

Post edited on 16th Jul 2014, 1:06am

>>18141
More or less what >>18144 pointed out. These days women (especially younger ones) have lost damn near all traces of femininity and have only held onto the less desirable female traits. We're in an age now when showing interest in things like baking, wearing pretty cloths, or sewing among other things are viewed as demeaning and oppressive. It's almost like it's embarrassing in today's culture to be or act like a girl, it's no surprise when the media is full of messages telling people to man up, stop being a pussy, be a man and stop throwing/hitting like a girl. You'd always hear the phrase 'insecure about your masculinity' tossed around on tv, but you never hear the opposite. Now they're trying to be men at every turn, from dressing like men to joining the work force/military. Even gaming has been getting invaded by women. They don't want to cook or clean anymore and want to be the man in the family, even if there's already one. Any man who shows interest in the more ideal women is automatically labeled a sexist pig, true scum holding back women kind. I'm no homosexual or tranny, of that I am absolutely certain. I don't want to 'be' a women any more than average person xyz wants to 'be' their wife/husband. Just as being labeled a sexist pig for liking feminine women, it's depressing that not liking masculine women in turn labels someone a "bitter and jealous closeted tranny". I feel like there's really no place in today's world for a truly straight male. If nothing else at least real women are plentifully in the world of anime, but even then it can be both sad when the most feminine characters in any given work end up being male. I can spot a fake 9/10 times but it still annoys me.

I go out and the women I see are covered in nasty tattoos, land whales twice my size, trashy looking women who strike me as drug addicts and who probably sell their vaginas for pennys on the dollar, women who dress in sleepwear on the streets or dirty flip-flops and shorts. If being disgusted by them, annoyed that they've killed off all the true women, depressed that my options are to settle for the likes of them or die alone... if that makes me bitter than so be it.
and no before you say it, I'm not just imaging it and/or projecting it. This town has tons of drug addicts, the mental health office I attend also serves drug addicts, and there's always plenty of them. I had to leave the help group I was attending there when some female drug addicts showed up. During the times I worked I'd encounter a lot of people all across the state. If you heard half of the the story I had you'd probably lose hope for humanity. I can't even comprehend at this point why anyone still gets married, so many men who have had their lives ruined by fickle bitches...

I'm not a misogynistic mind you for I adore women. rather, the concept of what a women can be and not what we have here now. Graceful calming beauty and elegance so pure, warm and tender gentle kindness, the sent of fresh flowers draped in the finest cloth. true angels, sigh...
what I can't stand are the pieces of filth that sully the name of women. feminist cunts with dick envy, crude self entitled bitches and whores, manipulative deceitful golddiggers that lie like it's second nature. They stink of disease, a cancer on society that spreads with western media which glorifies the filth. These abominations killed women and for that I will always despise them. yes I'm bitter for everything good and pure has been raped murdered and replaced by scum not fit to bare the tittle.
I realize I'm sitting in a sewer here and wishing for it to rain diamonds but that doesn't mean I have to like it, nor does it mean I have to accept my situation and eat one of the countless turds that float down my way. Don't you dare call me jealous for one god damn fucking minute! Not of those vail and wretched monstrosities. I have nothing to be jealous of there, not in this god forsaken hellhole. With the state of women being what it is, I can't blame you for being gay, I really can't but that's just not for me and since the alternative is no alternative at all, I rather just die alone and dream of something better.

>>18152
It wasn't a clumsy insult, you quite literally behave like a complete and utter autist. Nothing is wrong with autism, I just don't think people with your condition are in any place to be acting judgmental.

>There are goddamn bodies of literature and academic fields that attend to these exact subjects

I don't quite think tumblr counts as all that.

>>18153
I wholeheartedly agree with this post.

>>18148
>>18156
I really hope you're trying to troll that guy and aren't being serious here. If that's not the case, I don't think you should be too preoccupied with someone else having autism...

>>18153

Fortunately I think you can still escape to smaller towns and find a different mindset. I've done this last year. The general mindset of the people was a nice improvement, among many other things. I don't get out much other than tending to my needs (though sometimes it feels like that, for I can just take in the beautiful view just looking out the window), so take my observations with a grain of salt (hopefully I'm not just full of shit). Not just women, but men also, everybody makes sense. There's a certain beauty in just embracing that simplicity. Not everybody needs to be a box full of quirks, something mighty to say about feminism/alternative lifestyles, etc.

I must say that despite this, I'm still all for women training in intelligent areas, assuming important jobs, etc, like men would do. But yeah, some of the women I've seen are really trying too hard, and it's just awful to see. Mind you, I don't adore women (not even 2D) cause I decided I'd put that enthusiasm into something more productive (still trying here). But if I did, I would probably move away from a society ravished by awful media. It seems that dumb media is, overall, brainwashing people less over here, and you can still buy anything you want off the internet.

Then, I don't mean to come off as ignorant but it seems like life in the US is really out there, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. It's a pretty big land though, maybe you could find some sweet change in Montana, Idaho, Wisconsin, etc. If I moved there I'd probably find a place like that. Anyways, it seems like all these issues are less intrusive here in Europe (in the eyes of a humble shut-in), but people are still educated and civilized. A nice balance all in all.

Sorry to all the upstanding female browsers that might be lurking, you don't factor into this rant, yadda yadda. Gotta give credit where it's due.

>>18164
>I don't mean to come off as ignorant but it seems like life in the US is really out there

No, you're right. I've lived in small US towns for my whole life and the women here aren't any better than the city trash stereotype. Our country is pretty notorious for having the very worst women among all nations, and it's pretty easy to see why. The difference in how polite the foreign women that come here are compared to the rude, self-righteous, and man-hating women that live here is like night and day.

>>18153
Ironic for a Tohno-chan user to be complaining about people not living up to rigidly interpreted western gender roles.

>>18180
What's ironic about it? TC is not against the "western paradigm". It's against anything that isn't the "TC paradigm", and it just so happens that a lot of the western way falls outside it.

>>18181
Do you think, let's treat >>15594 as our representative average, epitomizes the ideal "male" according to an approximated early 20th century western/christian binary social doctrine?

>>18182
I have no idea what lead you to consider I'd think that.

>>18183
You didn't see the overwhelming irony in specifically that individual claiming that there were no more "true women" in America, and apparently still do not.

>>18182
1. Are you saying that unless someone is the "ideal male", they should force themselves to accept repugnant women?

2. Even if I was "the ideal "male" according to an approximated early 20th century western/christian binary social doctrine" do you think that would change the current state of women?

3. A pot being called black by a kettle is still black.

4. I may not be the "the ideal male" But I think I'm a lot closer to being the "the ideal male" than most women these days are to being "the ideal "woman" for the simple fact that I'm not ashamed of my gender as they seem to be.

5. Were women more idea some of us might have an incentive to try and become the "ideal male" in turn, but as is stands there is no incentive to do so.

>>18180
>>18184
There is no irony there. Just because he's not much better doesn't mean he can't have his opinion. That would be like saying you have to be a good movie director to call a bad movie bad.

>>18184
Oh, that? Well, fine, it can be seem as such if you ignore how much TC's values deviate from the traditional western ones and say TC makes judgements based on the western doctrine and that's it.
How fair of an assumption that is I don't know.

>>18187
I've made no attempt to interpret or use as a reference point "TC's gender ideals/values". You keep trying to comprehend my comments with this notional value system directly in mind, but it is in this instance irrelevant.

Quoting >>18153
>women (especially younger ones) have lost damn near all traces of femininity
>all traces
This implies categorical gender standards of a past era, additionally the commenter has confirmed his nationality as american. Broad public re-conceptions of gender arguably arose in the ~1960's, so he is specifically drawing from a conception that is dated beyond this. He is applying these as social conventions, not what you believe to be "TC's".

>>18186
A fallacious equivalence. It is ironic because:

"I think adherence to traditional gender roles is right/good/etc" -> "thoroughly deviates from said gender norms"

Holy shit.

Post edited on 19th Jul 2014, 11:11pm

>>18193
>"thoroughly deviates from said gender norms"
How so? Do you think men have become more feminine?

>>18193
I see your point. It became clear later that TC recognizes but is willfully noncompliant of western values, instead of holding another one over it.

where the fuck do all these feminist pieces of shit keep coming from?

>>18196
It starts with school and the news, and slowly seeps into the mind and all over the web until no place is left pure. Truly like a disease.

Tbh in my opinion even traditional women are just putting on an act, there's more honest traditional men out there I think because the physical labor just dulls their mind to that sort of role whereas women would have the time to have ulterior motives in their act. Not like there aren't exceptions and not like you couldn't brainwash them but still, it's rare for anyone to be born in that ideal image.

>>18197
yup, best to give up hope and kill one's self.

>>18193
I find it amusing that you're criticizing people for using fallacious comparisons when you're trying to pass that shit off as a valid argument. And really, your wonky way of typing with the poorly placed adjectives and the unnecessary word substitution really gives off the vibe of "trying too hard", as much as I dislike that term.

>ironic
Firstly, it wouldn't be an ironic opinion even if your arguments held water. It would be hypocritical at best.

>thoroughly deviates from said gender norms
Blatant mind reading conjecture; how do you even know he does this? It's an assumption you've taken based on his first post, despite the fact that he's said otherwise here >>18185. Naturally, any feminist-type will have an inherent bias against him, though, and you appear to have notable leanings towards that mindset.

Regardless of whether or not he fits his gender role, opinions ARE subjective and have no truth value. >>18186's analogy DOES make sense, because that's what he was getting at. You seem to be insinuating that his opinions are invalid or hold less water because he's not an ideal male, but that's simply not the case. You don't need to be a highly desirable male to be dissatisfied with the mentality of modern women; hell, you don't even need to be a male. After reading his opinion, why would you think he'd even WANT to be desirable?

>>18198
You go first, sister.

>>18197
It's probably because women are more collectivistic by nature. Which makes them more conformist. Of course that's just my personal hypothesis, no factual ground. That or maybe because the shittier parts of media and social norms addresses women. It wasn't like that before. I guess you're more exposed to that in certain parts of the world.

Post edited on 20th Jul 2014, 12:23pm

It's a bit sad that feminism, the idea that men and women should be regarded as equal (within reason), has deviated so far. It' become a perverse, militant movement that thoroughly segregates the 2 sexes. You can't peacefully express pro equality, or dissatisfaction with the current feminist movement, without stirring shit up among the masses. Modern feminism has destroyed any chance of reasonable discussion on the matter. One side or the other will attack you no matter how you approach it. It's as counterintuitive as it gets. At this point I don't know which is worse: men's rights or social justice movement.

Maybe it'll work out for the better a couple of generations later. Just maybe.

Post edited on 20th Jul 2014, 1:10pm

>>18199
>After reading his opinion, why would you think he'd even WANT to be desirable?

Funny thing is I actually was desirable for a while. Could be again since I do keep in shape but it's like you said. During high school there were a handful of girls who were clearly attracted to me but they were all far too trashy for me and nothing came of it.
During my first job out of high school an overweight young girl practically threw herself at me. She even offered to quit smoking and start exercising in hopes that I'd accept her. She was only 17 at the time and already had a 2 year old kid. Doesn't matter how desirable you are, some things will never change.

>>18199
Oh hey, it seems you moved up a few echelons. Don't worry friend, I'll use really simple words and sentence structures so the discussion is accessible for you.

Here's an example of irony:

*it is bad outside* -> *someone states it is really nice out* -> ironic, due to opposite meaning of statement and actual situation

Here's the example you're currently struggling with: *someone states they adhere to gender roles because they are important in this world* -> *they are actually a heavily medicated, mentally impaired, SSI beta who treats imageboards as their personal hugbox*

>opinions ARE subjective
Good job. You really did good here.

Just don't reply to >>18206 , he's a troll.

>>18207
Considering the person has no idea what irony means, they're ignoring people's counter arguments, they're attacking another user with projected stereotypes, and failing to understand what it is they're even arguing against. yes, I'd say you're correct.

>>18206
>Don't worry friend, I'll use really simple words and sentence structures so the discussion is accessible for you.
My, what an unpredictable retort. I honestly did not expect a passive-aggressive, glorified version of "ur 2 dumb 2 get it" as a response to being called out on trying to use lengthy words (incorrectly at that) in a rather transparent attempt to look intelligent or knowledgeable.

>*it is bad outside* -> *someone states it is really nice out* -> ironic, due to opposite meaning of statement and actual situation
Maybe you do understand...

>Here's the example you're currently struggling with: *someone states they adhere to gender roles because they are important in this world* -> *they are actually a heavily medicated, mentally impaired, SSI beta who treats imageboards as their personal hugbox*
Or not... it's funny how you display comprehension of the definition of irony, yet can't seem to grasp that this is not a form of it. Also,
>*someone states they adhere to gender roles because they are important in this world*
Is incorrect. It should be "*someone states that they wish the opposite sex adhered to gender roles*" or something along those lines.

>>18209
>they're ignoring people's counter arguments
But I did give you a counter-argument; you just chose to completely ignore it in favor of focusing on the first two sentences and crying about responding to tone. Combine that with the whole bitching about someone daring to criticize women, and I really don't think you're in a bright position to bash anyone for wanting a "hugbox", friend.

>>18212
>But I did give you a counter-argument;
pretty sure you didn't
>you just chose to completely ignore it in favor of focusing on the first two sentences and crying about responding to tone.
pretty sure I didn't
>Combine that with the whole bitching about someone daring to criticize women,
Pretty sure you got me confused for someone else.
> I really don't think you're in a bright position to bash anyone for wanting a "hugbox", friend.
No clue what you're even talking about here, but I still think you got me confused for someone else.

fyi, I'm not the feminist anon.

>>18213
Cute backpedaling. To make it simpler for you:

In the post >>18199, your entire retort was based upon the first three sentences:

>I find it amusing that you're criticizing people for using fallacious comparisons when you're trying to pass that shit off as a valid argument. And really, your wonky way of typing with the poorly placed adjectives and the unnecessary word substitution really gives off the vibe of "trying too hard", as much as I dislike that term.
And
>Firstly, it wouldn't be an ironic opinion even if your arguments held water. It would be hypocritical at best.

You ignored the rest of the post explaining your own logical fallacies, apparently thinking it was a better idea to continue the argument with a bunch of ad hominems and name-calling (while funny enough, criticizing my use of responding to tone and name calling).

Though you may not be "the feminist anon", you are undeniably criticizing someone for bashing modern women and 'adhering to gender roles', something that makes it quite easy to associate you with a feminist mindset, even if it was not your intent.

>>18212
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1207/s15327868ms2103_3#.U8ylaLHrx84

Also what the fuck are you doing with >>18209, >>18212, >>18213, and >>18216 nerd?

>>18216
Hows that back peddling? You're just confusing me with another poster. I didn't post >>18199 that's all there is too it.

>>18219
And I'm not saying you did. But you responded to it, and ignored all but the first three sentences of it.

>>18217
That article even brands itself as "speculation" from the get-go; I think you're going to need more than one person's speculation and widespread confusion of the two words to change a definition.

>>18220
>I'm not saying you did.
>In the post >>18199, your entire retort

Assuming you're not a troll I'm finding it very hard to understand what you're going on about. >>18199 is not a post I wrote/created/posted.
I did reply to that post, but only quoted something at the end since I did not disagree with anything in it.
When I said the feminist type anon was ignoring counterarguments I was referring to my post here >>18185

>you are undeniably criticizing someone for bashing modern women and 'adhering to gender roles'
I was the one bashing modern women. seriously, I think you're mistaking me for someone else.

>>18221
The definition itself is sufficiently comprehensive to subsume all instances of conscious/unconscious hypocrisy. The article is not speculative, it simply argues for this generality within an academic context.

Situational irony is not verbal irony. With this clarified, how dull do you have to be to not recognize a simple juxtaposition between extremes of contradiction?

What is the endgame of this argument? I've provided a definition of irony for you, demonstrated the satisfaction this definition, included fucking citations of academic work and your continuous response is an insult, followed up with an effective "no it isn't". This is unbelievably pointless and I wish you luck with whatever trolling endeavors you're attempting to engage in with this >>18222 retard.

>>18223
I don't know why you can't just admit you were replying to the wrong person instead of name calling.

>>18224
Well, this is somewhat disappointing. I was certain you could keep >>18213 - >>18222 going for a few more posts. You've basically offered a lazy concession here, ya know.

>>18222
Was >>18206 also your post? I never even intended to aim any arguments towards you, unless that was you- I presumed it was the other guy.

>>18223
Your "evidence" as to using irony as a synonym for hypocrisy is paltry, and does little to argue for your case. Moreover, calling your citation an "academic work" is arguable at best, but I feel we have already reached the endgame of this argument. Hence, I submit the following: You're a faggot.

>>18226
No, it wasn't. I almost feel like just listing off every post I made in this thread just to get this whole thing cleared up.
I didn't think agreeing with >>18207, that >>18206 seemed like a troll would cause so much trouble.
I guess the problem is
>*it is bad outside* -> *someone states it is really nice out* -> ironic
I didn't and still don't feel this is an accurate example of irony, saying it's nice out when it's bad is just someone being wrong or misinformed. Thats why I said it seemed they didn't know what irony was, but I guess I'm the one in the wrong about that.



>>18225
So it really was trolling. Thanks for at least letting me know I guess. reported all the same.

animated.
By the way, what are good programs for making gifs from videos? Doing this was a tremendous pain in the ass. I used KMPlayer to capture frames and GIMP to make it into a gif. I wouldn't recommend this method. KMPlayer seems sketchy at best. I tried using GIMP Animation Package to rip the frames, but that didn't work.

>>18229
Realized I should have put a pause at the end...
Here's a version with a pause at the end, spoilered to be a little less spammy.

>>18229
GIMP is just a PITA to work with no matter what, but I use it anyway because it's the best I've got.
For frame extraction I just use mplayer(GAP can use it too, but you lose a lot of flexibility by doing it that way).
mplayer itself can output gifs from videos directly, but it doesn't let you do dithering or optimization, which sucks.

>>18229
Just pirate photoshop. There's no reason to force yourself to use GIMP, it's an awful program.

>>18231
Thanks, I'll keep mplayer in mind next time I want to do this. I probably would have tried it next, since GAP has an option to use mplayer.

The reason I tried KMPlayer is because it was mentioned here:
http://registry.gimp.org/node/27483
Don't use it. The installer asks to install a bunch of extra bullshit.

I also found out VLC has some simple support for this via the "Scene video filter."

>>18232
Thanks for your advice, too.
I googled around and it looks like virtualdub needs a plugin to open mkv? Is that correct? Or does selecting "DirectShow input driver" after selecting the file trick it into opening the mkv without the need for a plugin?

>>18234
Nevermind, I figured out the directshow thing.

>>18233
>>18229
For capturing frames, ffmpeg is probably the best tool on Linux, though I am not sure about Windows.

After you specify your input, you can render a frame at a particular time by using:
-ss 2:11.72 -f image2 -vframes 1 test.png

Once you get the starting frame, just do the same for the ending frame, and use -to to define a start and end time.

Well the world seems to not want me to play games today. Got back on Shadow of the Colossus (emulated on PCSX2) and for some reason I missed a pretty simple jump over and over, I didn't even miss it that much my first playthrough. I guess it might be because I got too used to an actual joystick. Silly because I've played through the game 4 times as well since 2011.

Went on Zelda Majora's Mask and the game just froze on me when I tried to punch an icicle in Snowhead. Have to replay that entire segment because the saving is weird/inconvenient in that game as well. Overall that game has probably crashed 3 times on me, twice on the Wii running Gamecube Collector's edition and once on the PC with Project64. Played through it maybe 3-4 times but only beat it once haha.

I guess technically I could become a speedrunner, I can't do any glitches though, the guys I follow have school as well... Still I've seen so many resets and runs gone bad while watching live.

Post edited on 22nd Aug 2014, 7:08pm

Stayed in a hellish place over six hours with normal people to not be in a mental health institution, life is horrible...

>>18516
Speaking of speedruns, this is worth a watch. It's the current world record Ocarina of Time run with lots of history and mechanical explanations. I'm not into speedrunning much but it's still really interesting.

>>18519
Yeah I saw it a while back, I'm subscribed to Cosmo. Currently following EnNopp112 (Majora's Mask) Tenderhearted (Skyward Sword) and ZFG (Ocarina 100%)

Did some cleaning and came across my old sketchbooks from when I did an art course at college. Looking at all the drawings I did - I seemed better at it than I am these days. Kind of wish I have the discipline and patience to get good at drawing again.

>>18519
this was hella hype thanks for sharing

>>18519
Fascinating, thanks.

I took a (what google told me) was supposed to be a 7 minute bike tour to my destination, the welfare office, to make arrangements. I stopped numerous times because I was out of breath, my legs were sore as fuck. So I arrived half dead there and I'm not even joking. Riding the bike back home almost made me pass out and I'm not even fat.

>>18549
are you really skinny?

>>18550
I don't look like an Auschwitz survivor but, I guess you could say I'm the average skinny, weak shut-in type of person.

>>16946
Haha I get banned there every week. One of these days I'm getting a perm.

>>18549
You should probably exercise more often. A seven minute bike ride shouldn't tire you out unless you're biking uphill or into a strong head wind.

>>18549
i like to think that im not actually that weak, i just have crap stamina lol. maybe you're the same

>>18552
If it makes you feel any better, I visited an old friend who was pretty hikki outside his school earlier this summer. When we went outside, he could only bike two blocks until he got absolutely tired and went back into his room. He's kinda fat though.

>>18575
Sounds more like he just didn't want to be outside anymore.

>>18576
he was panting and stuff though and he was able to walk outside as well.

>>18577
That's an odd one. Biking is generally less physically demanding than walking.

>>18578
Yeah, we walked farther than he was able to bike too.

I played games and posted on imageboards while listening to some music.
I'm now going to watch some cartoons and maybe play a VN.

I've wasted another day. I've planned to read at least two volumes of manga, three hours of eroge, and learn a little bit of python everyday but I hardly did anything.

Today I read one volume of manga, 40 minutes of eroge and did about five mintues of programming. Considering I am awake 14 hours a day is mind-boggling. What the hell have I done? Where does the time go? The whole day feels like it's dragging along but thinking back it goes so fast. Right now I could be doing something more but I'm not. I could blame that the internet is additive but the internet isn't the problem, it's the solution and a bad one at that. I guess I could start drinking but that is just the most well known way to cover your problems.

I would say I enjoy reading manga so why don't I read more? Eroge is also enjoyable when it's not dragging on with shit pacing or maybe that's just Kiminozo. I used to like anime but I've drifted away from that. I only watch about five minutes of Precure while eating breakfast. Why don't I just do something? What can I do to make myself feel better? I don't know. Thanks for reading.

>>18598

I have the same problem petty much but I'm working on it and lately I'm wasting 'only' 4-6 hours a day. The rest I spend on anime, manga, games, books. It's hard to force yourself to do something but you said it yourself - you enjoy manga yet you waste time on other things and feel bad about it.

Internet is the real time sink here, yeah. I actually completely turn off my router at times. What made 'spare' the most time however was creating a simple text document and writing down what I do every 30 minutes or so. After doing it for a couple of days and realizing all the positions are 'random shit on net' I simply started to cut down on that.

It's kinda tricky though as I feel keeping such a schedule and reducing my net time wears me out a bit.

>>18598
>Considering I am awake 14 hours a day is mind-boggling. What the hell have I done? Where does the time go? The whole day feels like it's dragging along but thinking back it goes so fast.
I have had years like this day.

>>18598
>>18599
>>18600
Feel you bros.

Something I started doing recently might help the last few posters out.

Keep a checklist of things to do every day. Put things you want to do daily and gradually add more onto it. It's been helping me cut down on doing nothing.You don't have to put "checklisty" things on them. One of mine is to watch at least an episode of anime for example. It sounds unappealing at first but I'm glad I started doing it.

Post edited on 30th Aug 2014, 6:48am

Haven't posted here for a while.
Next week I am ending my summer student job.

Ofc I am not really a student, only on paper, but that will end also as I haven't taken any exams at all, which I would have failed anyways.

I hope everything ends soon.

So I started doing the checklist thing the last two days, it worked pretty good yesterday but not so well today. I've spend most of today downloading ero manga and music.

I think I wrote to much so tomorrow I'll write a shorter list.

Really starting to get into Smite. My first MOBA really, hardly played League... Been playing since Friday or so and so far I have unlocked Mercury, Artemis and Freya with Favor.