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 No.2058[Reply]

Hello!

I've been meaning to do a language thread, but I thought it would be more interesting if it includes comfy-posting about different parts of the world.
Feel free to share the -best- resources to learn your language or others that you may be aware of!

I know its hard to not get political but please try to keep it civil, or at most do some friendly banter.

I'm from a country that used to belong to the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, my main language is Español, and some tidbits of guaraní/portuguese.

However I'm interested in japanese[0] and russian, and of course, I would like to improve my english.


[0]- https://djtguide.neocities.org/

Have fun.
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 No.19607

I started on my Sanskrit learning journey not long ago. I am happy to say it's going fine, as far as fine can go with just a few days of study. I always wanted to learn Sanskrit, not out of a particular interest in Indian culture and literature (though I plan to read the Mahabharata), but because, generally, I am a sucker for ancient languages. When I'm done with the Sanskrit book, I'll probably read one for Ancient Greek.
I can't help but feel I'm perhaps putting too much on my plate, being primarily interested in chinese culture and being, for the last few years, learning Classical Chinese. The effort I've been putting on Sanskrit prompts me to put at least an equal amount of effort on CC, especially now that I've been reading yijing (aka I Ching) commentaries.
Oh, but it doesn't end there! I am also actively learning Russian these days. I also put some effort in learning Russian, but by now I'm stretching myself a bit too thin, especially with time, as I try to squeeze at least some time for Russian in my daily study.
All this comes with no small effort at acculturation with the respective cultures of these languages, which increases the amount of material to read. I've been trying to read history and fiction, mostly from China and Russia, and some meta about the Mahabharata (did I mention I plan to read it?), which taken all together amounts to quite a bit of overload on my brain.
Considering I have other stuff to do in my day, I don't want to neglect it by focusing too much on my language studies, nor to neglect one for the sake of the other. I am happy to be able to learn Sanskrit and Classical Chinese, I wouldn't want to put them aside, but I don't want to end up burning myself out.
Maybe I will just cut back a bit on the part of reading history and fiction, which is, as usually happens to me, a product of a bit of an overly eager intellectual ambition.

 No.19610

>>19607
What resources do you recommend for Classical Chinese? I really want to learn it. I love ancient and classical languages too but they soak up a lot of time and there pay off isn't obvious. There are too many great languages and books to learn and so little time.

 No.19612

>>19610
>What resources do you recommend for Classical Chinese?
My favourite book is Kai Vogelsang's 'Introduction to Classical Chinese', that, along with Paul Rouzer's 'A New Practical Primer' should be sufficient.
There are others, though, I also like Archie Barnes' 'Du's handbook of Classical Chinese Grammar' and 'Chinese Through Poetry'.
For a first look into it, Van der Norden's 'Classical Chinese for Everyone' is a very brief book giving a first taste for the language, you should start by reading that one.
Obviously ctext.org for classical texts and an on-line dictionary.
> I love ancient and classical languages too but they soak up a lot of time and there pay off isn't obvious.
They do. For me the pleasure lies in the process itself. However little additional understanding I can get from even a brief brush with a language makes the reading of ancient texts, even in translation, many times more enjoyable. There are usually very many terms involved which have no easy translation, and meeting the language halfway adds a lot to the experience.
I don't think I would ever reach the point of being able to 'just read' the Mahabharata in the original without any aid. I enjoy the challenge of making sense of the original even if I depend on the translation. There is, for example, Sargeant Withrop's Bhagavad-Gita, which comes with thorough glosses for each word, showing all the grammatical information (such as verb roots, conjugation, case, number, etc).
>There are too many great languages and books to learn and so little time.
Ikr, hence I am also learning Russian, so maybe I can read Tolstoi, Chekhov, Dostoievsky, Akhmatova, Lermontov, Pushkin…

 No.19613

>>19612
Btw for anyone interested in the New Testament, here is a site with the original Greek, with dictionary and all!
https://biblewebapp.com/reader/

 No.19704

>>19612
Thanks a bunch Sushi! I'm gonna start on Classical Chinese in a few months. Barnes Poetry book is great even if its a bit technical. I'm going to see if there are any Chinese culture/language clubs around my local area who can help me out too. I really want to dig into classical Chinese philosophy and religion with the original literature.

>I don't think I would ever reach the point of being able to 'just read' the Mahabharata in the original without any aid

I get the feeling that its easy to hit a plateau and burn out or never develop further because you have vastly fewer opportunities to speak in or use a 'dead' literary language.



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 No.18467[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Shouldn't it be "Kaitenzushi"?
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 No.19669

I spent the entire day styling the hair on a life sized doll I owned.
I haven't been so focused in years, it's kind of scary. Is this the power of Moe?

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leaves are turning :D

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 No.19674

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DORK ALERT DORK ALERT DORK ALERT
Dork SPOTTED in /kawaii/
Suspect wears glasses and is EXTREMELY awkward
>>>/kawaii/2322
CIVILIANS ARE ADVISED TO KEEP A SAFE DISTANCE
DORK ALERT DORK ALERT DORK ALERT

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kowarete iru no? kowarete iru yo?
sore demo iki wooo shitaiiii, shitaiii
kimi ni miete ta no yume no you ni saigo no
kotoba mo tsumaru yooooo errorrrrrrrrrrrrr#####



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 No.15213[Reply]

What does sushi think of ASMR?
I find it helps me a lot going to bed and even after waking up. The former is great for insomnia, the second one is great to get out of bed. Makes me feel like a caring person can really fix things as long as it all works out.
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 No.19619

It depends. I struggle with pathological anxiety, with it exacerbated at night when I'm tired. So I play it more as relaxing noise to distract myself. It's never anything creepy or erotic, it's usually Tolkien or video game lore.

 No.19628

I prefer going to sleep to stories.

As for NSFW female stuff it only reminds me of what I don't have and I have no intention to engage in parasocial fantasies

 No.19634

It's nice you can enjoy these things. ASMR gives me the ick. I don't really like the close sounds of a person talking and ASMR sounds in general annoy me.

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 No.19683

I like male stuff.. there's one where you're a kidnapped sho and he whispers to you the whole time.



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 No.9039[Reply]

What are the little things that make you happy?
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 No.19035

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>>9039
I get really happy pretty much all day round during Autumn. The weather is just perfect, the sun starts setting earlier and the trees are gorgeous. I always find myself ditching my car just to walk around and enjoy the weather.

It's the best time of the year for me. I can get my work done faster, i'm far more active and it's just overall comfier. It all results in a domino effect to where nearly every other aspect of my life gets some sort of weird buff and everything just works out.

Also when my cat hops on my desk and lays down on my mouse. My hand gets trapped under him for like 30 minutes until he gets up and leaves, but it makes me really happy regardless.

 No.19070

>>9039
Making pancakes

 No.19643

Travelling where you do not drive is comfy.

 No.19666

>>9039
Photography, unironically. Ever since I bought a digital camera I've been going outside more and it's a refreshing experience.

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>>9039
A game that is immersive enough to lose yourself in for a couple days would be nice..



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 No.18814[Reply]

Lately I've been watching a lot of videos about the dead internet theory., and now I'm kinda worried about the future. How do I be more positive sushis?
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 No.19239

>>18814
What are you worried about? As long as small, independent places like this where sushis can congregate, we can always keep alive old culture.

 No.19240

>>18814
Its hard being positive about the future. Everything seems like its gone wrong. I guess what you can do is try to establish some small peace in your mind. Don't overthink things. Cut out sources of negativity like social media and news/political debate. Enjoy the little things in life like watching little bugs climb on flowers or sitting on a park bench to enjoy the sunshine. Try and fill your life with those little moments of happiness. But you also have to accept that you aren't in control. Whatever's happening in the world is something you can't change by yourself. Learn to let go.

 No.19241

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Just shut your brain off.
Don't give a care for anything happening around you.
If it doesn't affect you directly, why care?
It's easy as hell. Football, games, work, entertainment, repeat.
Not hard.

 No.19284

>>18832
what an incredible post, thank you so much, my eyes are watering

just like how depression acts as a gray pair of goggles that make a person see no pleasure in anything (anhedonia), i'm wearing a cynical and frustrated pair of goggles that make me see everything in the worst light.

but when i do this, it feels good. because it feeds my superiority complex, because for some reason seeing the world as terrible feels good.

but i don't want the rest of my life to be increasingly bitter and upset. i don't want to live that life, it seems miserable. even if pessimism is cool and safe and optimism is cringe and embarassing, i should start moving inch by inch, thought pattern by thought pattern, into the sun.

 No.19677

>>18815
It's crazy how many people on Facebook will see an obviously AI-rendered photo of an American military veteran with 16 fingers holding up a sign in some ancient eldritch runic language with the caption "Why don't pictures like this trend anymore :(" and thousands of people will fall for it.



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 No.19636[Reply]

One of my favourite threads here over the years was about "organisation of knowledge", which I think was lost during that soyjak raid a few years ago. I've been thinking about this topic a lot lately so I wanted to bring this thread back. Unfortunately the wayback machine didn't have the full thread, but I was able to get the original OP.

>I've always been studying something, even when school finished, but I've never really been one to keep my notes or revise them very often. Now, I find myself going back over some of the material because I need to use it in my work. I find myself wondering if my notes would have been useful if I stored them in a better format and revised them more often.


>My questions to you guys are


>How do you organize your knowledge?

>Do you prefer a unified format, a subject-specific format, or an even more granular format?
>Do you build hierarchies, use tags, or do something else?
>Do you maintain an index specific to a particular audience or subject (e.g., the front page of a wiki)?
>How do you reference other materials (e.g., books, online articles that might disappear).
>Does your format cater to a specific study style? Is it different for different subjects?
>When your note corpus starts becoming large, how do you navigate through it? Searching? Hierarchy? Something else?
>Do you find that your notes match your thinking style several years later, or do you find that you have changed, causing the notes to be less useful?
>Do you focus on creating notes that help you achieve different tasks (e.g., task-based learning)?
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 No.19637

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>>19636
>How do you go about actually committing things to memory?
If you ever encounter a proposition, try to prove it yourself. If you find yourself unable to, then you should go over the proof, try to understand it, and then redo the proof a day later.
This always works for propositions of math, (analytic) philosophy, and logic where everything can be proven using only deductive reasoning and axioms/premises*. It somewhat works for science when it's easy to recreate an experiment (like Ampere's law) or when a certain scientific principle follows from others you've already established (like the conservation of energy and momentum in classical mechanics) however sometimes you're just going to need to trust previous scientists and the results they've received from their experiments.
It may also work for subjects in the humanities e.g perspective in art but I doubt that many artists have a strong understanding of projective geometry (if any at all) to be able to derive it on their own.
Anyways the idea behind all of this is that if you really understand the underlying logic and reasoning of why a certain statement is true, it is significantly easier to remember it.

*Except when your axiomatic system can encode PA as according to Godel's theorem.

 No.19638

>>19637
I wrote a lot more than I needed to uh-

TL;DR Make sure you actually understand the given information. One way of doing this is by trying to prove that the information is correct

 No.19644

Personal Wikis, second brains, I have no use for none of that. I keep most what I read in my brain, I just let it be absorbed and be integrated in my "world model", even if that means losing sight of many details. I also usually remember roughly from which book I got a certain idea, and can refer to it at any point. I do keep a structure of sorts, it is simply the filesystem hierarchy of directories where the books are stored. The books themselves serve as a kind of reference. It doesn't matter that I haven't read all of them, for a great many of them, I've read just a few chapters, or even just the preface. Enough to have an idea of the contents and the style of each of them, and where I can reach for more elaboration, specific information, whatever.
In this sense, it _is_ like a second brain which I can consult at any time but which I haven't yet absorbed into the first one, the first one is a view of the forest, the second one holds the trees, it can also be thought of as a map of the forest.
No notes of my own, I don't need that. But sometimes I do wish I had a more or less convenient way to keep some notes from books I read. The reading app I use lets me highlight text, and keep bookmarks, but that metadata resides in the app and not in the ebook files themselves, not every book is properly OCR'd and I can't highlight shit, and the app is just the front, which I use in the reading device, which is not the same as the storage device, the reading device may stop working at any time and I would just get another one.
I do keep notebooks at home, those I use heavily. I use them for language learning, which involves: vocabulary lists, paradigms, structural analysis of difficult sentences, copying texts, and plenty of exercise drills. Of this, the paradigms and vocabulary lists are the only bits that I refer to, and they occupy relatively small part of the notebook's contents and I usually stop needing most of that material at some point. I gotta say, I really enjoy having my notebooks scribbled with text written in strange scripts from all over the world. Sometimes I say, regarding my lack of creative skills: my notebooks are my craft :-)
I have been interested in the topic of structured notes, personal wikis, all that stuff, but I don't really know what I would put in such files. I also don't want to spend a lot of time learning the ropes of some system like org-mode or whatever, when all I want is to keep notes. Then again, if I think aboPost too long. Click here to view the full text.



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 No.12982[Reply]

Do you miss the old days?
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 No.18435

yes and no
there was good times sure but the future me can do even better
>>18400
I get that

 No.18436

I do miss it sometimes, but that's just the nostalgia talking. Thankfully, things have been getting much better for me the past few years, so I don't have much to miss from back then.

 No.18437

Yes, sometimes. But the past is the past and I'm looking forward to the future

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All the time. When I was younger and had so many opportunities but I wasted them all. When I had online hangouts and online friends, before every meme video was censored and wojak and pepe went mainstream (as stupid as that sounds).

A lot of other very painful stuff too. Now I literally have no online friends and no life. Never waste your chances sushis, if you don't take them you'll end up bitter like me with nothing but memories.

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 No.16204[Reply]

Hi sushis. I hope it's okay that I post this, because I really like you guys and I mostly lurk around because I'm too braindead and mentally ill to post and not obsess over it. But anyways, I'm doing really terribly. I've dug myself into an awful pit and all I can do right now is bawl my eyes out and scratch myself, curl up into a ball, etc. because someone I became dependent on, and the only person that I can connect to, hasn't spoken to me in 2 weeks and I can only think of the worst case scenario.

I've been accusing them of awful things and starting to feel detached more and more and the only thing I can do is distract myself. Unfortunately my distractions have run out and now all I can do is call them constantly and spam them, to no avail. I'm so paranoid because almost each and every relationship I've had in the past has turned into a mess and often I get cheated on and hurt and it makes me want to die. I'm so afraid of it happening again, it feels like I'm always drawn towards people that want to hurt me. I don't know if this person does, but I'm so afraid they do. I'm so obsessive that I begin to look up their name in places and… fuck, I don't know. I'm so afraid. It's all going to happen again.

My life is complete garbage and it's all my fault. I have locked myself in my room and constantly get myself hurt because all I wanted to do was try to find a single person to depend on, some kind of fantasy. I want to leave the world with this person. I even think of suicide pacts often as stupid as that sounds, I feel like it would be much easier to do with a close friend than on your own.

I don't know if I've said all that I should have here and I feel really scatterbrained… I hope it makes sense. I'm really pathetic. I want to vomit.

https://youtu.be/FCpuJTB3jRw
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 No.16233

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>>16209
Your self-awareness is a good first step sushi. Perhaps looking inward to find how you developed these feelings could lead you to a healthier escape from your despair.

From my own past experience, some communities or sites are probably just not good places to find your emotional support. If you have any reason to think this person in question is somehow taking advantage of you try to find an escape elsewhere. If they're truly kind then they wont mind you getting some space so you can figure things out.

 No.16439

>>16233
good post sushi
>>16204>>16209
definitely agree that you've got a lot of self examination ahead, its a long road but it does help
you definitely need to try your best to not look at anything related to them, I had a breakup and was obsessing and checking everything I could.
I've only found diving deep into a project is the way out, since you are thinking about other things. I wouldnt recommend it but I had to get lower so i drunk and threw up a bunch and only once I did that did I finally get over the final hurdle. It only worked by me having other shit I wanted to do. I am however quite spite driven so it fuels my desire to succeed, that and when im particularly moody/focused do I listen to music a bit too loudly

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>>16204
Please have some respect for yourself. That's what I want to say, although I don't fully understand what you and the object of your obsession are.

Don't reach out to them who won't reach out to you. Maybe that's the right stance to adopt for this particular problem. Maybe that person was indeed cheating on you and intended to hurt you. Is this the worst-case scenario you've been thinking of? It may also be that your special person is arrested or dead, although it's more likely that the person in question simply has no will to talk to you or is afraid of reestablishing contact. If that is indeed the case and they master the strength to reply to you, then, please, be merciful and feel free to forgive them. Humans are rarely angels, if ever they are.

If you want yourself a distraction, then rather than locking yourself in a room, try going for a 20-kilometer walk. Walking will calm you down, and eating a fat, heavy meal right after that will make you feel nice and warm and will put you to sleep. If you have the opportunity, move out of your city to where everything is green and fine for a week, and don't touch your smartphone for any purpose other than checking where to go. Although, if it's hot outside, this may turn out to be torture, so decide for yourself.

 No.17033

>>16233
>>16439
>>16440

Thank you sushis for having given my blogpost the time of day.

 No.19623

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Let's play some games



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 No.19420[Reply]

Hi sushi!
What are the most memorable things you have been part of/experienced on this site?
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 No.19427

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Dunking on randos trying to get Sushis into raiding. Twice.

 No.19446

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browsing the comfy threads and giving people life advice. also posting music

>>19427
raiding is not sushi or comfy.

 No.19448

>>19446
Yeah that's what I mean. Twice I've seen a random user come from some other website and try to rally us for a raid, and we all just dunk on them.

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I don't think we've had that many happenings. There was the .tokyo domain dying and the creation of this domain in 2016, the sama immigration in 2020, then the sharty raid in 2021. I started using sushi after the domain change, but I remember the other two quite well. I can't think of anything else significant.
I'm not sure how I feel about this. On the one hand, the lack of major incidents has made my day-to-day experience of using sushi smooth and painless, but my recollection of the site is mostly one big blur. I used to post on wizardchan back in the day and there was a lot of drama, admin changes, etc. that was annoying and got in the way of normal discussion at the time, but has made my memory of the place very sharp.



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 No.8504[Reply]

it's my birthday sushis,
sorry to bother, honestly I don't really have anything to do today other than work in the morning.. oh well.
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>>10320
Is this a korean
She looks korean

 No.10328

>>10321
Probably photo-shopped…

 No.12781

>>8504
CAKE DAY!

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>>12781
Cake!

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>>12781
Sweetness



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