/lounge/ - sushi social

>>4714
>64ch.net
You should try to fix your openssl configuration.

>>4699
Last post:

I guess I wasn't really going anywhere with that story. It's not like a novel that has a conclusion or whatever. It was just a bunch of nerdy/geeky people who decided to live together and they had some bumps along the way. I heard that the couple live somewhere else now, and I've moved far away, and I never lived in that shared housing situation to begin with (I think they called it the "batcave" or something at some point, I vaguely remember because of the wifi name and password). I've had a lot of roommates after moving out of my parents' house, but they had next to nothing in common with these people. I'd take boring but high-functioning roommates over these kinds of people any day of the week. Roommates don't have to be your friends, they just have to be good roommates. Friendship includes boundaries, like not living with them, and those boundaries are part of why you can tolerate your friends.

To people who haven't experienced that stuff, it might seem cool. But I thought it was pretty grating. Lots of people smoking weed and playing N64 Mario Kart together? Sounds cool, right? But it also meant the house would reek of weed, I'd get hotboxed and feel anxious from being too high, etc. I'd also constantly worry about police when I was hanging out with these people, because of all the drugs and whatnot. I also didn't like the weird "we're nerds so we're clearly smart and better than other people" attitude that often plagues these kinds of people.

But the point I'm trying to make is that I don't think nerdy or introverted people are good for each other. People who spend too much time getting drunk and high and spending a lot of time on their computer… these kinds of people are better off interacting with more extroverted people. Your friends and roommates shouldn't just be a carbon copy of you. Find people who are different. That being said, these people were, on the whole, more outgoing and social than the people OP described, but it was still pretty dysfunctional.

Oh yeah, and one last thing (if it wasn't obvious from the other posts): pretty much all of these people were poor. Most didn't have degrees, or I know one person there had a degree from community college, but they still worked at a restaurant. Lots of shitty/dead-end/low pay jobs.

I think that might have driven these people to get more into their hobbies: when you're broke, you don't want to think about college, promotions, professional networking, and career stuff. You just want to finish your shift and then do something fun, like escapist stuff such as getting high or playing a game to forget about your troubles and situation.

I used to be more into escapist stuff like anime and video games and weed, but I've kind of forced myself to be less into it now. The people who put all their free time into just enjoying themselves don't really have any upward mobility. I'm concentrating on my education and career goals now, but I bet a lot of these people are still poor and have no opportunities for career advancements.

here's a more extreme nerd house story:
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8gdwvp/the-tale-of-the-final-fantasy-vii-house-is-a-window-into-the-dark-side-of-cosplay-529

>>4702
I thought of that when the topic came up. Fredrik knudsen did a good video on that for down the rabbit hole if anyone is into that stuff.

I was actually thinking of starting a nerd house of some sorts sometime early next year. Not nerd in the sense of vidya, anime, gaming etc, but really smart people, and creators. I figure we'll be able to come up with all kinds of cool projects, and ideas living together. And it'll force me to be less withdrawn, as it tends to happen whenever things get stagnant. I'm a bit nervous about the idea of having roommates in my first house but at least I'll be bringing in rent money.

>>4731
I finally got a good job so I'm going to get nice things for my family, they deserve it. I'm hoping I'll be able to have some tranquillity and maybe get a bit further into persona 5.

>>4745
>for me its basically a tradition at this point.
It is for an awful lot of people that ever went on /a/ for more than a couple years.

>>4736
I'm in the same boat lol

A friend from abroad is coming over, so I'll be catching up with her for a bit. Shortly after that is my birthday, then two Christmas dinners with family and friends.

I'll need a time out after all that socializing, so I'll probably watch the fireworks alone from my comfy view while sipping champagne and listening to shoegaze, Lost in Translation style.

I haven't had some good tea for months and months, gonna put in an order for some and treat myself as an early christmas auto-gift. Maybe get some reading done when it has arrived. Rewatch Tokyo Godfathers.
>>4737
I haven't even heard about that one before, will have to check out.

>>4731
I started a new job during this month and in my country, you do not get vacation if you have worked less than one month so I will be working over christmas.
At least I have an excuse to not go to any family gatherings.

>>4750

that's not how it works kid

>>4744
>don't have the energy to maintain them
Same here. Out of sight, out of mind. Relationships today are incredibly demanding. Instant messaging and effortless social exchange let people expect at least weekly updates. otherwise you degrade from "close friend" to "just another acquaintance".

I wish I would care enough to prevent myself from acting like that instead of occasionally regretting and forgetting about it.

For example once I don't enjoy an online game anymore, because it becomes too tedious or difficult, I usually just stop playing regardless of contacts and clan memberships. When I'm already unproductive, it should at least be an enjoyable waste of time.

>>4755
This sums up the dilemma pretty well. Plenty of friends have complained to me that they have trouble keeping in touch with everyone, especially when they also have to juggle that with irregular work schedules.

>>4750
This might be why your friends haven't contacted you. I've sometimes gone for months without seeing someone because I was too scared to take initiative, only for them to apologize later that they didn't get back in touch sooner.

I've made quite a few through mutual interests, I can generally get some video games, movies, streams etc going. I'm also a part of a circle that stopped online correspondence a while ago, but not before some real life meetups were set up and ended up with some proper lasting friendships. I even helped one guy move furniture into his new apartment and he returned the favor during my own move.

I was going to write that I don't have any, but actually my oldest friend is actually an online one. We've kept in touch so long I forgot she wasn't an IRL one. We used to chat on MSN like every day for years, life slows down, just kinda rekindle maybe once twice a year and check up on eachother but it's good that way too. Met on a manga forum that shut down, funny part is I didn't even read that much manga, found the link on the back of a freebie manga chapter demo at the bookstore. Met (virtually) a lot of nice people that way.

Nowadays I don't meet new people online, forums are mostly dead and if not more toxic than before, chans are great for what they are but not for meeting people.
>>4750
Doesn't that imply that you never really were a real friend either, since you aren't making effort to contact them too? Things like that go both ways.

>>4765
University. Philosophy and history professors. The idea was that it would be easier for people to understand you if you used more more common words, and many students didn't seem to understand the words they used that well either.

>>4766
Writing in a manner to make your work accessible isn't really what the thread is about though. It's to mess about and have fun with words isn't it?

>>4765
Read "A Case for Small Words" by Richard Lederer, you might reconsider your stance.

>>4767
Depends on why you write. There is a time and place for everything. It is better to be understood correctly with simple words when you're trying to argue for or against the use of road salt, if you're writing a journal, stories, or poems, playful writing is certainly welcome. You don't have to dive into the thesaurus for the longest most convoluted words to be playful tho, simple "homely" words is often just as good, or even better. Choosing longer and more foreign words might work against you.

>>4769
That's what I just said.
Writing to be easily understood is very important in many places but this thread is not one of them. So to give writing advice of such a method is counter productive here.

Please don't randomly spam your site on other chans. There's an invite thread for this kind of thing right here: >>1640

That reminds me I gotta download Jazz Jackrabbit Holiday Hare for my yearly playthrough.

I'm sorting out my drives right now actually, I always find that comfy. Finding old files you've forgotten about, rechecking everything you found worthwile enough to save. Goal is to only have the bare essentials left and everything important made sure it's backed up before the new years.
Looking forwards to that feel of a cleaned out system without duplicate folders and all that.
>>4720
Maybe he was a LGR fan, his last vid was one something like that.

>>4720
>strangers doing things that made you feel comfy
Tinder

>>4725
Seeing that video is actually what reminded me of it happening and prompted me to post this thread ha, but no it was a couple of weeks ago.

the greatest age known to man *so far*! shit's gonna get even better, baby!

>>4712
Gonna be worse, with climate change, resource wars, and cultural decay.

I have mixed feelings about that, technology and health care is cool and all that but we are becoming more and more controlled.

>>4718
Every age has good and bad, the problem we have now is that the good in the world is really good and the bad is really bad. Medical technology is amazing, but nuclear warfare is terrifying. So you have to take the good with the bad, the only other option is suicide. Unless you're a time traveler, in which case, you can take whatever good with whatever bad you want.

>>4718
I don't have health insurance so I can't actually afford healthcare despite needing it really badly

Freindly reminder to as girls out, rolls.

>>4679
Digital Ocean tried to do that with me a logn time ago. Disabled my account and asked me to upload a picture of my passport. I never did, but rather contacted their support. They re-enabled my account again without me ever having to give them sensitive information.

>>4679
This is funny and sad how some people willfully share their ids and pictures and whatever private information someone on the web asked for. Whai. I ditched twitter when it asked me for my phone number, the hell I'd upload my id somewhere.

>>4684
I've lost track of all the accounts that I can't recover because they demand a phone number.

>>4686
Things like this will generally let you access your account again if you bother the support email about it and reply back to automated responses.

>>4686
Meanwhile I give google 2 numbers and instead of using them to send me a confirmation code, they ask for them both and still want to know when I created the account. Hell if I know. I've been waiting a week for someone to personally review my request for recovery.