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I wonder what the average lifespan of an imageboard is

I cant say anything about getting a BF. About GFs, Ive never had one either. To meet new people I found that putting myself out there is really important though, whether it be getting a new job, participating in clubs or rec leagues of anything. I also found its just important to do stuff. In that case youd have to feign confidence

Personally Ive never been interested in people who dont have anything going on in their lives. A great way to have something going on in your life is to stick to a hobby, or life theme generally, try for a year

>>22771

>look healthy
>perform the damsel in distress routine
>let him help you with your problem
>wait for him to start leaving


FIXED

>>22771
This post reminded me, as a general heads up to anybody trying to get a BF, don't go overboard trying to get attention from an interest, and be attentive.
Had a girl doing smaller versions of this in school, dropping her eraser in class in my direction (I could see her "dropping" it) and asking to loan my calculator and stuff, trying to catch my attention for a long ass time being very transparent. Had to deal with it for months and she never got the hint that it was because I just wasn't interested. Not that she hadn't succeeded in getting my attention, she was getting it all along which was messing with my school work because half my focus was spent on her. But you can't just walk up to a girl and say hey stop it I'm not into you cause that'd just spark drama and shit, and you never know how vengeful a lady is.

Not to say that girls/dudes/whatever shouldn't go for it, dudes appreciate not being the one to make a move, just don't keep at it for months if you get no flirtation in return.

>>22762
I can't add much more to this, this is just great life advice. Thanks sushi.

>>22693
We kinda never see trip-posters on here, if I were you I'd try to find alternative solutions to your problem. Not that it's anything wrong with tripping, but even me I find myself replying differently to you than a regular poster because it's unusual. So if you want the regular poster experience/treatment, you'd wanna avoid tripping. My first thought is browser-addons that allow text-replacement, adding your post-numbers to the text-to-replace file after postan to be replaced by whatever would catch your attention as to that it's yourself.

>>22768
Being multi-talented enough to be good at coding and art is kinda unusual. Some are even musically gifted on top of that. Some indie-devs are just very lucky in their talent-seed. Seconding other posters to find an artist if you end up with a game concept that's good and fun. Focus on actual game-mechanics for a good prototype if that is where your talents lie. If you find a good concept and implementation of that, find art for it then.

>>22791
and if you think that's crazy wait until you learn what gallops believe

>>22795
>Being multi-talented enough to be good at coding and art is kinda unusual. Some are even musically gifted on top of that.
I got into coding and art as a kid because I used to make a crappy webseries animation thing about ninjas when I was like 10 and then I'd show it to my friends in elementary school, lol. The dialogue was absolutely atrocious and barely intelligible. I used a program that was mainly for making video games rather than solely animation so that was my start.
Music-wise, I guess I was some sort of musical prodigy as a child but gave it up after an injury in my teens. I would do competitions for child composers but I think I mostly just plagiarized music from classical composers I liked and rearranged it so it was "unique" and still, I don't think it was any good until much later. My style improved after years and years of practice but I mostly just made stuff for video game mods (e.g: remixing tracks from a game's sequel into a track from an older game and replacing the track, messing around with old midis from the 90s, lots of retro stuff like messing around with soundfonts on fast trackers and the like).
I think programming is fun just because it feels good to solve a problem, music takes a long time to do but it's always nice to listen to your work, and then art is time consuming and when I finish I think "well, I could've put more effort into this area" or "the perspective seems off" or "I don't like the colors I used". I'm way too hard on my own art. I rather do backgrounds because it's not the focal point. I used to make Desktop Shimeji and I think those were fun at the very least.
I know there's a joke about solo game devs that's something like: there's only two types, programming solo devs and art solo devs, but then you have ConcernedApe and he's pretty incredible with what he does. It happens sometimes.

>>22796
Well don't just leave us hanging, what does a gallop believe?

>>22795
Why do people still believe in talent? It just seems like such a limiting worldview to assume someone has to be good at something first to get good at something later.

I've learned to be a programming type person but I decided to finally learn how to draw. I had a lot of fun doing that, no thought in my mind about being "good" at it or comparing myself to what other people do, i just had fun trying to make stuff that fit my taste.

Did anyone else do https://artfight.net/ this year btw?

I miss the good days that haven't started yet. I know the world is capable of changing for the better, I just don't know how and when we'll get there. But its out of my control, but I have feeling that despite how worse things get, eventually they'll get better

>>19627
I never liked that show but I remember that episode. I remember the chatroom for Dawson from the premier onward.

Ive never been a fan of nostalgia but something changed lately. It hasn't made me look back differently but I have decided on something I'm sad about. Im sad about the reality of 'the direction that shouldn't happen in the future back then' feeling more concrete than an abstract fear, in my present. I am not excited for the future, as people are realizing it is a lot easier to ignore the horrors of the world and focus on the parts of life that enable them to look forward to the next week. I don't like to imagine what the 2030s are going to be like, for… well anyone, in regards to basic human needs like housing and agriculture.
I'm trying to choose life. It's not always easy to die. So adapt and decide to move on. Some of the things that I have loved, have gained their own sadness. But the joy is still there, so it's not all lost. Maybe that's age. I still have so much I want to do, between things that I've either held off or just never decided to try, to brand new things I come scross. I hope adding new things will bring something more into my life, it usually works that way. I find it interesting how the popular nostalgia lens can give growth to communities, rather than disintegration. There's a lot to still enjoy out of today and look forward to. Remakes and updates to certain trends of the past can gain improvements while still being the things they were. For example I've had a renewed interest in making a '90s website for a personal blog. Some people never stopped, but it seems like a thing again since 2020.

I just want to have something in my life, or belong to something, that feels like it will be able to improve going forward. That's difficult currently. It's difficult to believe in something. But I don't want to dwell on the remembrance of things past. I want to be able to fondly remember my future.

And I miss you, bright old days…

>>12982
not really :)

my life truly feels like a journey that takes twists and turns but i feel like as i have gotten older life has only gotten better. I had a horrible time growing up with my family but now i'm 27, living with my friends, travelling constantly, have a pretty good job doing something I never thought I could do as a real job.

I'm always doing what I want and pushing myself to try new things even if it makes me scared and nervous, and sometimes that does backfire, but I think the times it does work is what makes my life feel so fulfilling.

>>12982
Yes, because my friends and family were all still here but they have moved on doing things for themselves. Which is fine, but sometimes it feels less like life is changing for the better and more that the tides of change are sweeping us in a meaningless direction of adult drudgery.

>>22781
>According to this calculation, Chinese civilization has a history of nearly 5,000 years since the time of the Yellow Emperor. (Source: Wikipedia article on 中华文明五千年)
It's kinda a Qing Dynasty (~1700s) meme.
>>22780
I'm trying to be helpful here even if I suck at it. There's a lot of passages on how to decenter yourself from your thoughts. It's natural to feel bad at times. It's also not a religion, I'm not trying to recruit anyone into a religion, I want to be very clear here. The religious parallel is Shenism but that's a whole different thing you can just ignore.

>>22783
is that you Jesse?

>- im not fit for work from too much anxiety/negative feelings
Search for a job, where you can perform with little or no triggers for your anxiety.
>- on bad days doing anything feels very forced to me
Try to get flexible hours. Then do more on good days, so you have a buffer for bad days or work shorter days altogether. As long as you can pay your bills, you are doing good.
>- cant shake off this very deep fear and disgust for people. strangers. hate. I can barely hide it
This one is tough. Find out what you hate about people and try to not just diminish them to these traits. Everyone has a shadow, but if the hate doesn't serve you, why focus on it?
>- dont see a point in even trying because above
When you are in a ditch, every way is a steep climb at first, but I learned that sometimes even minor changes can improve your position and outlook on life, like overhauling your living conditions, replacing a bad habit with a less bad one or doing something that is in contrast to your usual routine.

>- super anxious and panicky around bad behaviour
What is bad behaviour? I hate it when people get angry, even if it's justified. Gladly my colleagues are all chill.
>- often analysis paralysis and fear paralysis that renders me immobile - - strong feeling that im just supposed to die
When this happens, start doing something with your hands, like cleaning.
>- 30 and jobless for the nth time failed so many times already
Took me longer than this, but now I have a nice workplace. After a couple of experiences I now know what to watch out for + I got lucky.
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>>22784
I didn't know what you meant at first because I was high when I made that post and forgot that I did but yeah.

>>22786
I cant tell if this is lolcow milking shitposting or meta shitposting

>>22405
Peyote on a San Pedro.

How do you deal with keeping your plant from dying of dehydration if you're away a few weeks?
I don't really have the option of asking anybody to come water them, so my last plant perished that way. I expect to be away next summer again and I don't want to lose my new plant.

There are these terracotta things you can fill with water and put into the earth, but they seem to be much too large for just a regular house plant.

I'm thinking though, maybe it'd work to just replant in a terracotta pot, and then put that pot inside a larger container that you fill with water? Or would it get too much wet and rot?

>>22752
watering it well and then putting it in a cloche like pic related or something to keep humidity in might work but I'm not a plant expert. I have a couple small plants in a plastic display case cuz they like it humid and I have to water them like 1/10 as often as the rest of mine that just sit on a shelf

My Trichocereus macrogonus var. pachanoi is spawning a new offshoot.

>>22758
it's cute!

>>21664
Cake is a lie!

>>18530
Another year passes. This has been the worst year of my life, if not 2019. I feel miserable most of the time, but enough about that. Mom bought a cake and croissants. That's nice. Not sure what I'll do today… probably nothing special? Hope I have the motivation to at least play a game or watch some kino.

And with this another year has come to pass. Not sure what to say really. Over the last year I have stopped speaking with the few IRLs I still spoke to, though I have more online friends now through sushi so it's not all bad. I've enjoyed my time with all of you, hopefully I can continue to enjoy my time here.

>>18917
God, has it really been a year? I could swear this had been just yesterday.

I don't know what to write here. I wish I could express hopes for the future but, despite all I've tried doing differently this time around, despite all of the nice things that have happened, all of the people I've met, there's still this lingering feeling I am just incapable of steering the direction things are going in any meaningful way. Perhaps this has all been just escapism, and I haven't really done any work on the "real issues", whatever those are supposed to be. Perhaps I'm just impatient. Perhaps things have gotten better, and nostalgia is just being a harsh mistress. Regardless, the feeling lingers, and I don't know what to make out of that. Hey, at least I'm not dead.

As for today, it hasn't been a bad day. I was hoping to wander around the dreamscape in Yume Nikki a little bit, as it has been a while and we both share a birthday, but it's rather late so I don't think that's happening. I'm tired from work, anyway. Shame on me.

I don't know what to expect for next year. Hopefully it won't be like the past one.

Have a song: https://youtu.be/xVpzLLsWvC8

>>19187
Hey sushis. I'm 25 years old now. It's amazing how time slips away just like that. More than five years of visiting this little nook of the internet.

These past five years I didn't think I'd transform from a shy bookish student archetype to a rich, lonely single uncle archetype. Unsolicited advice, but if by chance you're in your teenage years or early twenties, don't waste it! And if and when you do, remember to enjoy it :)

Remember to live happily!

>>22713
it's a frog actually
but he is my bud

GrOSS YUKKY BUGGOS

butterflies are the nicest buggos

>>22721
among us!

Check out this crazy spider I found

>>22729
weird

>>22732
I think it's "Micrathena Gracilis"
Seems like they can come in all kinds of colors but black and white is common. I got a cool shot of it eating a fly and also found a massive nursery spider

I feel happy whenever I see butterflies