/lounge/ - sushi social

Merry Christmas. The person who posted this video also has a bunch of Socialist songs from different countries including France, Japan, Britain, etc. Go and check him out if you can!

>>20527
Sir, this is a music thread. Endorse these ideologies I do not. I just like the aesthetic.

This is such an 80s song. I do not know Vietnamese and I will not be fact-checking whether it fits.

'I Want to Break Free'
Performed In North Korea

my favorite pigmhall is this one. I wish he'd do me 3d ones because they're cool.

>Oldest vid is 17 years ago
Dedication

found out just yesterday that pigmhall makes games on itch.io. really cool

>>20043
what is this?

I didn't think anyone actually posts on sushi and its all just the same people talking to themselves. Nice to see people making things or newcomers or both.

Cute

>>21241
i mostly lurk

>>21242
gununu is based
ana coppola a cute
:3

I had a few dreams, but I won't go into them much except for the last ones. First one, I was in South Korea in a huge tunnel with other people on a conveyor ramp that's made for people. Think about the ones in the airport. It leads to a few place like this cute little shop. I finally go for lunch for some Baozi and I manage to pick up the buns with a chopstick perfectly and eat it without spilling the juices inside. I've never even eaten Baozi buns and I suck with chopsticks.

Second dreams. I was playing Minecraft on a boat… It was a modded playthrough, and I was in survival mode. So, to get the boat to stop, I needed to stop the engine by removing the soul sand that's placed near the engine that makes it move. I did that, and I'm in the water. Then, when I'm in the water, an egg appears in the water. An egg that looked like a giant ender dragon egg. When it hatched, I'm pretty sure there was a message saying, "get back in the boat!" It was too late, and I believe it was called, "The Hunger"(?) dragged my from the boat into the water and sent me THERE. I only figured out later what it looked like later when I was in creative mode. I remember it was black, for one. I think it looked like a squid or something like that. I never got a good look before I bolted. But I remember the next time I saw the egg it hatched from, there were three of them this time.

So, I go to snatch another boat, but this one was much larger this time. It was made of prismarine blocks, wasn't fully solid (think of like, a cylinder where every other wall, there's a gap. So it goes wall, gap, wall), and it was partially submerged. I managed to fly fast enough under water to get to the little engine, but instead of taking the soul sand out, I place it to where the boat goes downward. Then, I grab hold. Bad idea.

Next thing I know, I'm being propelled deeper and deeper into the ocean until it's all black. I feel a coldness as I look around. Then, the water stops, the boat is gone, and I'm still falling. I can feel the air around me as I start to see… purple? I go deeper until I finally rich the bottom, and the text reads something like, "THE BENEATH" or something. I've been here before, and I felt the same feeling of needing to desperately needing to get out. Like I was in serious danger. However, this time, I was in creative mode, so it wasn't as bad. I still felt the need to LEAVE though. There were malformed zombies and skeletons fighting in thePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

I had a dream that cute little kitty was snuggling next to me in bed as I was sleeping. It was really nice dream.

I had a dream where I finally said that I graduated from college. That's huge because I have had a bunch of dreams of being in a classroom or being in school. I hope now that I said I graduated in that dream, those school dreams will stop. One can only hope!

Had a dream that I was at a carnival, and there was a waffle stand. So I waited in line three actual days just to get a waffle, and once I finally got it, I got a fork, sat down, then woke up. I was so mad.

I had a dream that a married friend of mine had an affair with me. It was all kind of sudden. I had no intentions of having sex with her, but she initiated and I didn't stop her. In the dream she had an ideal body for me, and I wasn't able to restrain myself from her. It wasn't real, but I still feel a bit weird about having that dream. I'm not even attracted to her in real life.

Whatcha doing for the weekend?
Nothing illegal, I hope….

>>19057
i have to bring my bike to a workshop, help an old lady install a printer, clean my place up and watch the euro final

>>19057
i use the law to judge if something is worth doing. if it wasn't fun they wouldn't leave it legal. i just love complicated white collar tax related crimes.

>>19057
Sleeping
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

>>16664
>>17624
Just DO IT

>>19416
Ay Ay Captain

Do it for her

>>16664
>>19416
2025 is my year?

i became an even bigger otaku and now im more dead inside which is easily interpreted by external parties as more stable mental health

happy new year

The first half went well. In fact, the first half of 2024 was probably the most pleasurable time of my life. I felt like life was moving ahead, like I had a future in store for me. Then the second half came, disaster after disaster, tragedy after tragedy. Deaths, break ups, and increased family tensions. It's been painful. It's not the worst I've ever been through, but it's pretty close truth be told. Falling back into old habits, overall feeling unworthy and depressed, and just trying to get back on my own two legs again. I don't think 2025 will be worse than that was, but only time will tell.

exasperating change, new highs and lows that shook me to my goddamn core

I finally graduated and got a full time juob which I guess felt like the end of my "hikki/NEET" arc of life narratively. I wish it was more of a celebration but I'm still sad.

>>21078
CONGRATULATIONS
Clap clap

my dad kicked me out cuz he said he found a comic of mine hidden under my bed that made him feel threatened

the comic was a teenager killing her dad after he he molests her, I looked at how he treated me very differently after that and the world was so different that what he said

No. The worst thing in that regard was living without heating and warm water for half a winter. It's not ideal.

Remember back when I was like 7-8 I've got in a bad fight with mother and ran away in my pajamas. It was a dark night, but thankfully father caught me quickly. She used this later as a story to tell friends or family, didn't she realize in what spot that put her?

Yeah, I was homeless for a little bit. Not long. I was living in a flophouse with a few other people, and things got sour after some time. We got into serious fights, and our friends were concerned about our health and safety. Many of us, myself included, were undiagnosed and unmedicated at the time, so it just wasn't good for us to live around each other. So I booked a campsite at a local state park, and just left. State parks are cheap in my area, about 1/3 the price of rent. So I camped out. Unfortunately my health declined rapidly, and being alone in a state park with failing health is not a good idea. So I crashed at my parents' house while I did the paperwork to get my own apartment. Now I've lived here for about 3.5 years.

If you're wondering why I didn't just go to my parents' to begin with… well, not everyone has healthy relationships with their parents. I was glad they let me in, but I was not glad to be there.

My old man kicked us all out when I was like 6 and we used to share a one room flop for a year or two. When I was in my early 20s and working in Shanghai, I ended up homeless for a few weeks and ended up living in some damn love hotel until I could rent a place. Yeah it was funny at first hearing people bang away for hours, but after a while it just got annoying. My neighbors were really damn loud so I used to run the shower when the sex moans got too noisy for me to concentrate.

Get off the internet sometimes…

I think singling out Tiktok is unfair. I do use some social media like Mastodon and Bluesky on occasion but I am very skeptical of social media in general and treat it with a lot of care and suspicion. It can be extremely addictive. I worry about malicious information control and privacy, especially on the ones that are extremely centralized and collect massive amounts of data about their users.

I did enjoy my brief time using Tiktok and thought the algorithm was wonderful at picking up the things I liked, but I was concerned about the downstream effects of it if I kept using it long-term. Plus I don't like how automatic it is. I like choosing the information and media I engage with myself. If the people in charge decided to flood your feed with negative or misleading stuff, or suppressed information critical of their interests you'd be completely at their mercy. (None of this is unique to Tiktok)

Plus the level of depth and enjoyment you can get out of Tiktok is capped at a certain point so engaging with it a lot to the detriment of other interests is bad. A Tiktok or Instagram video might entertain you, but it's never going to touch you as much as a really good movie, game or book. Which isn't to say you can't ever enjoy ephemeral silly potato chip content, but I hope the younger generations are still making time for whole-grain media that takes longer to digest and sticks with you for longer. That's not to say I'm totally above it either, I also waste too much time online.

>>17123
these days you can't use emoji on sushi… what went wrong? T_T

>>17123
unicode was a mistake

>>20920
As much as I hate social media, I agree that singling out TikTok is unfair and politically motivated.

>>21074
I started passive investing half a year ago, and I am really glad I did. It costs almost no time, everything grows nicely and in a long term you can't lose money.

>>20451
I hesitate to agree because there doesn't seem to be any good examples of where moderation works. It's not that I believe that 4chan's racism is okay, but there are way more places where moderation, whether through a moderation team or socially sanctioned by site users, becomes hyper dogmatic and what becomes considered "racism" and other types of bigotry is a huge generalized window. 4chan's system isn't perfect, it's far from it, but it IS one of the few places you can genuinely critique the absurd and stupid elements of online culture. Whereas on many other websites the culture becomes so morally puritan that you cannot criticize anything.

>>21073
The erosion of any common belief in a higher power has contributed to vitriol and hatred. There isn't a common bridge between different groups of people anymore. You can't intervene and appeal to Christian brotherhood like MLK did because now nobody believes in it and those who do the loudest are degenerate right wing culture warriors who just like the Crusader trad aesthetic despite not understanding anything about Medieval Christianity even.

>>21081
>racism
I hate discussing this subject. Not because it isn't important, but it goes nowhere and sucks. I have to deal with enough of it irl. You can't really critique anything on 4chan. Virtually every board is a horde of general threads, ragebait, and reposts from Twitter-Reddit, not to mention bot spam. There's neither discussion nor fun there anymore. Its just boring. Ideally, a good community doesn't need heavy handed moderation because the culture by itself encourages and discourages certain types of behavior. If enough people behave with sincerity and kindness, newcomers are less likely to want to cause trouble. The problem is this doesn't scale well as a site gets more traffic and stops being a niche group and there are always retard kids and spammers.

I had a moment of clarity today at work. My coworker showed me the argument she was having in the comments of a political facebook post. She was arguing with some random person, who was calling her all types of horrible names based on just her opinions. She was very level-headed and honestly funny with her responses, but I just kind of realized she was talking to a brick wall. There was no way to tell if she was talking with a real person or an AI chatbot, and it kind of didn't matter. The truth is, she took time out of her day (albeit, work time) to respond to this rude comment. And I realized… I would have done the same thing. She's 40 years older than me, but yet I would have fallen for the same trick if it was on a social media app that I use (so, YouTube, the only one I use).

I think I learned to be a bit more mindful of what I read/post on the internet. I've learned that arguing online doesn't do any good, for me or for anyone else. It's one of those things that feels like it scratches a certain itch, but it doesn't. As long as negative comments exist, I'll have the itch to respond to them. So maybe the answer lies in myself, not the internet. Maybe true peace is only achieved once I realize that we're all better off not arguing with strangers on the internet.

But idk.

>>21083
To be honest, even as someone who believes in a higher power, I would be okay with a secular higher-order principle or virtue that unites people instead of dividing them and leading to a sense of meaninglessness. I only worry because under a naturalistic atheist paradigm, it becomes nigh impossible to appeal to any higher-order notion as it is a metaphysical appeal eschewed under naturalistic atheism’s logic. This isn’t so much “atheists cannot be moral” because that is the opposite of the truth as atheists oftentimes do have a strong sense of morality, but this is more in defiance towards the logical conclusion of this paradigm which is nihilism. What worries me is we are going to uncritically and unconsciously dive so deep into our technocratic, rationalistic, and scientific worldview that we are only concerned with what can be directly observed and applied (which means conceptions such as morality and shared human dignity become obsolete).

As for what you were saying about the right-wing: I completely agree with you. Their problem is they are reactionaries. They do not care about the ideologies they proclaim to align themselves with. They care about Christianity as a means to react against secular liberalism, not the ethos of Christ’s message (which oftentimes goes against their behavior). It also reminds me how seven-eight years ago many of them were obsessed with Ted Kaczynski, but when it came to climate change and biodiversity loss they would pretend it was the stupidest idea ever.