No.16290
>>16193>Be confident and do your best!!I did! But I don't think I got the job, I was very nervous and they definitely asked questions I didn't have enough experience to answer. I'll still try for similar jobs though, just maybe less intense ones
No.16293
I finally bucked up and started working on a comic. I am a bit worried about keeping my characters on model, but I guess it's my first one so maybe it just gets easier with time.
No.16296
>>16293ooh can you share it with us?
of course if you'd rather keep it private I understand!
No.16297
>>16296I will! But I promised myself I wouldn't share any of the finished pages until I actually had them all done. Should be sometime this week hopefully.
No.16302
Speaking of projects
>>16047 here, and my isopods are very happy in their new home. It's really fun to be able to just look over at my desk and watch all their funny little behaviors. Watching them exploring their moss forest and grazing is really fun! They also like to rear up and sniff the air by waving their antenna around, and I've seen them cleaning their antenna too. Very cute and I love my lil guys
No.16304
>>16302I also got these kind of isos :>
they're called Porcellio Scaber "lava" and I think they look very cool. (the white ones are Armadillidium Vulgare "magic potion")
No.16310
>>16289I 3D printed a boat and now feel like there's limitless possibilities.
No.16314
I made noodles but I made too many and now I can't finish them oof
No.16321
>>16310post boat it sounds cool
No.16331
>>16330Can you not post them for fear of the dolls coming to life chucky style and haunting you?
No.16336
>>16331I love all the dolls and all the dolls love me, I trust them not to bring any knives near me. They risk the awful fate of being disassembled and reused for parts otherwise. But that was a great one, thank you!
The single real reason is that I have already posted them to my personal blog and I strive to stay sushirollymous.
No.16339
>>16336That's a bit of a shame, I love abandoned places. I've purchased several collections of pictures of abandoned buildings over the years.
No.16340
>>16336't's a shame, save one for the family next time!
No.16370
>>16369Are you pulling her out of the computer or is she pulling you in?
No.16371
>>16367I'm happy for you sushi
I hope your part is more exciting than the oil pressure gauge I ordered
No.16381
>>16371Thanks! It was… kind of. Transmission control module. Got it in, but it needs to be flashed. I might see if I can do it myself.
No.16387
I wish constant talking wasn't seen as a requirement when other people. It seems staying with someone, even a relative, in silence is interpreted as awkward or cold.
There's so much pleasure in being with someone else, enjoying each other presence without needing words. I think it could even lead to a deeper, simpler connection.
People are too attached to words and expressing random things. Really, it doesn't matter what's being said as long as something is constantly being expressed.
Just picture this : two people having dinner together, the only sound being the clatter of the dishes. No animosity in the air. At first glance it may appear that it's two persons being alone together, but really they are having a full conversation without aknowledging each other.
No.16392
Confession: There was a thread where you had to say something and then link another post in the thread, and someone linked my post, but I never responded. The guy who responded wasn't me at all. I saw the post the entire time on day one, but I never bothered to reply. I can't even remember what the thread was about, but it's been in my head every time I come here (very infrequently), so I felt like I needed to get that out.
No.16396
>>16387This makes me think of the "comfortable silence" part from Pulp Fiction
No.16399
>>16396Even though I've seen that movie a few years back, I had completely forgotten that scene.
But yeah, it's pretty much the same idea. I'd argue that being acquainted to the other person is not a condition, it could be just as good with a complete stranger provided both party accepted the lack of talking as not being awkward.
>>16392Your sin is forgiven.
No.16400
>>16387I know what you mean, don't really like making conversation but that seems to just lead to attracting people who want to monologue in the presence of someone else.
No.16408
>>16395I had to stop playing Monster Hunter World after it was consuming my life.
By the time I wanted ti go back into it I found it extremely repetitive and grindy. I know the franchise has some great boss battles and setpieces, but I can't imagine getting back into it after a while.
No.16409
>>16408Yeah that's fair. I play for a long while and go on hiatus from that game myself, and come back on a whim. Very enjoyable game.
Every installment to the series set itself apart from the last. if you want some fresh mechanics, check out the other games. (Just don't let it consume your life again lol)
Video rel. I took this clip while gathering on my new character.
No.16499
Does anyone have the blueprint to life?
It feels like I lost it more than half a decade ago
No.16500
>>16499mood.
Life's a blank canvas and we have a pencil…
No.16501
>>16499wake up → eat → work → eat → work → eat → work → sleep
No.16504
>>16501But where is the love life…
No.16505
>>16502kimo
>>16504not included in the basic plan
No.16520
I had two days off, we typically sell stuff at the markets but we're taking this weekend and next weekend off. Still not going to let my work know, I'd rather just have the weekends off. Work tomorrow is a 5 hour evening shift which kinda sucks, would have been alright if it was an 8 hour shift but I shouldn't complain.
No.16525
>>16523Glad for you, sushi.
The snek was tasty, hopefully.
No.16530
busting my head with linux…
No.16544
https://www.bumps.cafe/I made a little personal adult swim styled photography portfolio-type site a bit ago.
No.16545
>>16544this is a really nice project! i really enjoy it :)
No.16554
>>16544Hey! Do you have a playlist somewhere with the music used on your site?
No.16558
>>16554I add or change songs pretty often and it sort of goes against the fleetint feeling I was going for so I haven't set up anything with the whole list. But if you open the console it (usually) logs each song as it plays.
No.16565
>>16367NVM, car is totalled. All that work for nothing.
No.16566
>>16565What happened? Are you uninjured, at least?
No.16570
>>16567That's fucking awful, but I'm glad you're fine.
I hate stupid people.
No.16576
>>16567That sucks, sushi. Sorry about your car. Lots of boneheads in traffic, sadly.
No.16593
>>16585Based not just bikes north american car centric culture die die die
No.16597
>>16585Reminds me of this idea I had for a sci-fi novel I wanted to write. One from the perspective of aliens monitoring the earth. They've come to believe that automobiles are the intelligent species of Earth, and that humans are just a parasite that frequently crawls into the automobiles' heads to control them. Kind of a funny satire piece with a lot of ridiculous comedy.
No.16600
>>16597This is almost the exact explanation for the name "Ford Prefect" from hitchhiker's guide.
No.16603
>>16601I don't wish to make assumptions, but you might be surprised at how much worse car infrastructure makes this problem.
Asphalt roads make a fine solar oven, trees and grass can knock 10 degrees off the air temperature even before you factor the shade
No.16609
>>16601Well yeah, but subways, busses, elevators, and indoor bridges all also solve that problem.
No.16610
>>16603Not the same sushi but I live in the countryside and it can get FUCKING HELLISH here, and I don't live in the dry, hot part of my country.
No.16636
>>16634Also before cars, buildings were built closer together to reduce travel time. Now with cars being common, business are built with massive empty lawns taking up so much space that walking is near impossible.
No.16639
>>16636>walking is near impossible.Be the change you want.
No.16644
>>16634>Guess what they did when it's 35C outside and they need to go somewhere?I'm guessing they took a siesta in the heat of the day and did most of their traveling in the morning and evening.
No.16649
Random thought: I love my cute cars
No.16651
>>16639What…? Are you saying I should J-walk? Because when I talk about cities being built for cars, I mean that there is no public walkway in my city. I have to walk in traffic. Which at best would get me arrested for J-walking and at worst splatter me on the asphalt.
No.16657
>>16651North americans, lol.
Your culture sure is a strange one.
No.16659
>>16658Saturday is stream night though.
No.16661
>>16658Home along on a Saturday Night? Juts remember, YOUR AWESOME!
No.16679
Woke up in a strange mood. I'm tired, last night I was tired or something and today I'm only slightly better. I'm in no mood to study or work. But then what else can I do?
No.16682
>>16679At times like this it's best to take it easy. I woke up today with a bad headache after a terrible night. At noon I went back to bed and slept for two hours. Afterwards I felt better and could get something done.
Trying to be active is key, but pushing it will just ramp up fatigue in the long run.
No.16684
I'm talking to a girl. We're both fond of each other but I'm trying to find the sustainable balance of affection; I don't want to go too hard and fast and burn out, but I want to do lots of things for her too.
No.16686
I think I finally got over my online crush. I've had it for almost 6 months and we were getting really close, we talked a lot everyday and I thought we had a real connection, which was actually true but there's something wrong with me because I get uncomfortable when I get too close to people and also I wasn't sure about online dating so I didn't really tell her how I felt. And then she started dating someone else which was very hard for me to accept for the following months but I think I'm finally over it. But it was very difficult because It's hard for me to find people that I connect with… I don't check her online status as much and I don't think/daydream about what could've been and all that. Although it's hard because she still messages me almost everyday but we don't talk nearly as much.
Anyway, I feel like I'm finally moving on which is awesome.
No.16687
>>16686I'm a bit on the other end.
There was someone I just couldn't stop thinking of for more than a year and a half, but eventually I figured out she wasn't the thing I've placed on a pedestal, and that what I have built in my head just was different to what she really was.
It's a bit sad though, it might be healthy on the long run, but it still makes me somewhat blue that someone who meant a lot to me at the time is hard to think about now.
No.16688
I don't wanna work today. I wanna crawl back into bed and zone out. I won't be able to capture this feeling after work. Oh well.
>>16684Good idea. Just try not to agonize over it too much, if you can. Do what you think is appropriate in the moment, and keep communication open & encouraged.
>>16686>>16687The 'daydreaming' and 'placed on a pedestal' stuff can become insidious for us. I am proud of both of you for making good decisions for yourselves. It's super painful to get over those connections, even if in some cases the person themselves isn't quite who you thought. The *idea* of that person can become more exciting than they are. That's when things get dangerous.
No.16689
>>16682Thank you I did take it easy and slept a good bit, today I am recovered.
No.16690
>>16686>>16687Hang in there bros.
Recently this has been on my mind too, I have a good friend on
discorb who is nothing but a friend, but because she is a girl, my primitive male brainu starts getting ideas. There's every reason not to go there, but I guess the brain works that way. Suddenly this topic is everywhere and elsewhere I see a guy declaring his love to a girl on some server I lurk, despite, in his own words, not knowing her for long, and always online, too.
Idk why I share this, it probably don't help at all.
No.16691
>>16690I'm
>>16686I appreciate you sharing this. Tbh I don't know if I even wanted anything more than being close friends with her, maybe there was a good reason why I hesitated going further. idk how online relationships are supposed to work especially when she lives on another side of the world and I don't think I could travel there at least anytime soon. I just want to hang out with her like we used to but now someone else gets to do that instead of me. And that hurts a lot but I've already accepted that and it's ok.
No.16694
>>16690>>16691I'm not sure the internet is very good for long term relationships. It's easy to hide behind a facade. You don't have to be there, it's all at your own convenience.
So I can see the appeal of trying to start a real life relationship with someone you don't know that well instead of spending years trying to get to know their online persona. You'd find out a lot quicker if things are going to work out or not.
Not that people don't put on facades in the real world too, but it's harder to keep it up, especially in the long term.
No.16697
I’m not very sure about my future, the whole summer disappeared in what felt like one month. Still, I can’t say I regret the fun I had with friends, or the dumb projects I did.
No.16698
>>16694I see online relationships like pen-pals. Some of these relationships can blossom into real-world ones, because the line between the wire and the skin is so thin. We have a social thread here for those brave enough to meet in person, give it a try.
You have a beautiful evening :)
No.16708
Now that Andrew Tate is in prison can one still pay to join his alpha chad university discord?
Askin for a fren
No.16710
>>16708Yes, his friends can still scam you while he's in prison…
No.16723
>>16715lovely pic
sounds like you've had a crazy busy time! I'm glad things are going well for you and I'm happy I can also say the same
No.16729
>>16715Glad to hear everything is fine. We have been missing you!
No.16733
If it takes a strong man to deny what's in front of him, I want to become the strongest man there is.
No.16737
>>16733Too late, I've already rejected reality. You can't get any stronger than that.
No.16740
>>16715You absolute workaholic. Sounds like you worked up a nice path for your life, now. I wish the best for you, sushi. Come back every once in a while to tell us about your life in the future. :)
No.16748
>>16745Post some of the dogs!!!
No.16750
What's the joke with neapolitan ice cream? All my life I never knew what that is and after searching on the internet it's just the same old 3 flavours in three boring lines.
Why? Why is this such a thing in media? You can just order an ice cream with the three flavours, I just don't get it.
No.16752
>>16748It's a good job, I pretty much just have to keep everyone happy and getting along. (and clean up after everyone of course)
Filling up the pool on a hot day or getting fetch going with a group is actually fun, which is something I didn't expect to say about work.
No.16753
>>16751Now that is interesting, sorry for sounding a bit rude in that post, I was just mesmerized why Neapolitan Ice Cream was mentioned so much in movies.
It's insanely clear that ice cream truffles and sandwiches are the superior cold desert. They can come in plenty of different sizes with all sorts of filler, and they're also covered in chocolate. Napoleon ice cream just seems very uninteresting to me.
Just talking about this is making me crave a little bit of that, thankfully they're expensive and I got no dime in me pocket :P.
No.16754
>>16753>Now that is interestingAnd also an obvious joke - Napoleon died in 1821, California was founded in 1850, and Alcatraz prison was opened in 1934. There were also more than 3 flavors of ice cream that existed during Napoleon's lifetime.
Also, if Neapolitan ice cream is talked about a lot in movies, I've somehow never noticed. Off the top of my head, I can't think of a single movie where it's brought up at all.
No.16755
>>16754There's a short segment about it in Shrek, and also a Simpsons joke with only the chocolate stripe being eaten.
It's just 2 but I am fairly sure I've seen it mentioned before somewhere else
No.16756
>>16305Every time, I try to be only a useful member of the part time staff. Every time, I'm given more responsibilities and more hours while the rest of the staff gets culled and working conditions deteriorate until others bail out. I've began to wonder if I'm a contributive factor in the degradation of working environments. This pattern has happened too often for that to not be a possibility. My objective is always to do as much work in as little time possible so that everyone (not just me - everyone) has more time and space to breathe and therefore be less stressed. Maybe the solution really is to prolong your assigned tasks for as long as possible, be the least cooperative you can be and, most importantly, smile less.
Another three months lost. And all factors outside the gladdening tone in management's voices indicate a fourth month is in store for me. Maybe even the rest of the year.
It might be time to quit. Again.
No.16757
>>16756Sounds like you're working at places that don't pay competitive wages. I work at a place that hasn't kept up with inflation over the past few years and the turnover is becoming massive. Anyone with talent and motivation moves on to somewhere with better pay after a year or two.
I think we're starting to really feel the effects of the contracting workforce. Most people aren't going to do good work for minimum or near-minimum wage in the current market.
No.16759
>>16756If you're so good at working that you put your coworkers out of business, you should probably start your own company.
No.16767
>>16761Honestly considering switching to it as my daily driver in a few years. I've pretty familiar with it via Mint on my laptop, but as my daily PC driver I've yet to make the switch. I've slowly but surely moving to FOSS for most of my software choices though so the transition won't be as difficult.
I'll mostly just be switching once Windows 10 in end of life and they cut off security updates. I don't see any reason to upgrade to Windows 11, the main turn off for me is the bloat.
On that note though, I've wondered if anyone else misses when software and applications used to be optimized to hell and back (little no flashy animations, ran on an inkling of memory, didn't take up 200MB for a chat application, etc.) out of necessity.
I used to have a shitty old 2006 laptop as my daily driver in high school and I'd squeeze as much performance out of that thing as possible wherever I could. Now it seems like everything runs on the idea that "everyone who matters has good hardware, who cares about optimization, just push it". It's honestly a massive annoyance to me. Seeing something like Spotify take a full 15 seconds to open the front page vs. Foobar2000 taking less than a second to show my entire library is annoying to me.
No.16771
I went to the doctor because I thought I was dying of ass cancer. Turns out it's probably just hemorrhoids. Hemorrhoids are pretty cool! Partially because in their healthy non-inflamed state they help you push things out of your butt without any unfortunate ripping and tearing. But mostly because they're not ass cancer!
>>16761>>16767I've been using it as a daily driver for several years now and have had no significant problems even though I still don't fully understand it, for lack of trying mostly. I think Linux just werks as much as Windows, but it's just that the ways it breaks are often different and sometimes it can be a bit more frustrating (but also more fun, and potentially more hacky) to fix it if you're not on one of the very popular distros or the commercial ones with paid support.
No.16772
>>16771>Hemorrhoids are pretty cool! I'm glad to hear you don't have cancer, but I cannot say I ever expected to read that sentence.
No.16773
>>16771i've had an ass rash for the past 6 months. saw a couple doctors, tried creams, suppositories, etc.
only started improving recently when I began airing out my asshole for 20 minutes a day.
seeing a dermatologist to hopefully knock it out fully.
No.16774
>>16771Heh, I have something similar. My buttocks get really annoying from time to time, and I noticed that what helped me the most is to start using wet towels (is that how you spell it?) to wipe.
It has helped me a lot, I have gone to a doctor previously, but the medical system here sucks so much I'd rather just treat myself instead.
>>16771Yeah, funnily enough just after saying that I was using it as a daily driver I suffered the "Death by a thousand papercuts" syndrome. After having my PC crash, and my devices not being recognized after boot unless I reconnected them, I went back to Windows because life was getting tough.
I have also been pondering of switching to Fedora, because I heard it was the most stable distro out there next to debian, Ubuntu has always given me issues for some reason.
The downside is that that means reinstalling everything again :(
No.16783
Why did I take a cup of coffee instead of just tea. I can't sleep now…
No.16785
has anyone ever been outcasted by outcasts?
i feel really fucking alone. i befriended someone off the internet who was a robot and i ended up being subject to data theft. i truly believe that there is something wrong with me because, why else would this happen to me? i thought people on imageboards would get what its like having people be randomly cruel to you, and hating it because, theres no rhyme or reason. i feel alone like i dont belong anywhere and i dont know what to do.
No.16788
I want to message my ex on the only thing I can so badly
No.16789
>>16786where do i go then? maybe i am just a bad person and something about me causes others to do things like this around me. maybe i did something bad to warrant this. it feels like i really do have nowhere because i have some mental illness but i dont want to be around people who resort to doing illegal things. what is wrong with me. i just want somewhere to feel understood and try to understand things without being placed in situations where people do that kind of stuff. when did mental illness and being lonely mean actually trying to ruin peoples lives
No.16792
>>16789People can be bad and selfish, no need to blame yourself. You're probably too good-natured to deal with strangers. But you need to be more wary of internet strangers.
Also the fact that they would have been subject to mistreatment doesn't mean they would behave any differently. Look at how imageboards are plagued by bullies and meanies, even though the majority of the userbase were bullied.
Please be careful and exercise some basic precautions! Internet people are generally awful, just look around (not here, here it's nice, but just about anywhere else, you will hardly find a shred of empathy.
I was going to say humanness but human nature is exactly the problem.)
No.16805
>>16799Never to the point of therapy. Mine were sore for about a week one time after doing some new exercises.
No.16806
>>16799I can't give a ton of advice, but I think anything within your comfort that will get the area moving thereby stimulating bloodflow is going to be a big help. Maybe try bridges?
No.16810
>>16807Are you a car owner, sushi roll? My Audi's various components used to break down on their own, but never permanently.
Regarding your problem - the famous wear and fear also applies to electronic components. In this case probably the heat is the culprit. I would not risk having a faulty device connected to a power outlet.
No.16814
>>16804I almost always keep my windows open. Even in the winter when it's very cold outside I leave just a teeny crack on my bedroom window. Not having heat or AC is the main reason but I don't mind the fresh air.
I also felt like fall, made some apple cinnamon tea and it just made me smile. Fall is the best time of the year.
No.16818
>>16807>how can an electronic device with no power just fix it's own problem when left alone for a whileThey have firmware. Because it's cheaper to write a program for a small microprocessor to do trivial things than it is to build the same logic from various physical devices.
So there's a tiny program in the device that does something as trivial as counting seconds, or turning on the power when a switch is on, or stops the charging circuit from charging batteries once the battery appears full. And like every other computer, the thing has a processor, storage for storing programs, and working memory so that programs can maintain state, so that they can remember how many seconds have passed or whether the device is on or not. The working memory requires constant power to hold data.
And then something silly happens, like the program can't actually count more than six years worth of seconds, or the program doesn't reuse memory and runs out after a while, or you turn the thing on and off too fast so the program behaves like it's both on and off at the same time. Maybe a cosmic ray hits the memory and flips a bit. The program is now in inconsistent state and stops working correctly. The issue persists for as long as the memory is powered on.
In short, manufacturers are too cheap not to replace hardware with software, and all software is universally garbage. If rebooting it fixes the issue, it's a software issue.
No.16819
>>16805>>16806Thanks sushis. I'll try bridges, maybe some light yoga too.
No.16827
>>16807Without having the model in hand and opening it to look inside, it's really hard to guess why that happens.
One potential explanation is that the circuit has run for long enough that it's started to wear down a crucial capacitor, or there might be some leak to ground that sometimes short-circuits and sometimes doesn't depending on how hot the circuits are (because typical conductors expand when heated), or a resistor got messed up somewhere and that's leading to some leaky charge. There's like a million different things that can go wrong on the hardware side, never mind integration hell when the software side has to deal with the hardware.
>>16818Sorry for the rant but I'm sick of people who don't understand computer tech being mean to programmers >:^(
Software is awesome. It's flexible, lets you define all sorts of functionality without needing a specialized circuit for it. That's what makes von-neumann machines so awesome too! It's a universal computer circuit that can calculate anything as long as there's a program (software) for it!
Hardware isn't always reliable. There are still tractors from the 50's (all mechanical) running today, but most are out of commission because they failed eventually. Sometimes a car starts immediately, sometimes you have to keep the ignition going for a solid 10 seconds before it starts. It's not because "gas producers" are lazy that that happens, it's often because there's some quirk with the engine, it's too cold, etc.
See this picture. Notice the distinct lack of any microcontrollers, EEPROMs, and other components? This circuit likely won't have any software in it at all, because contrary to what most people assume, it sometimes is much cheaper to implement a circuit that develop and maintain a codebase, and programmers are not to blame for all the technical travesties you face (like power station failures, nuclear meltdowns, website 404ing, dropped packets, etc). Ask any engineer (civil, electrical, mechanical) and they'll tell you just how unreliable the majority of technology is. Please stop giving programmers the shaft, they work very fucking hard to get anything working and you wouldn't be posting here if they didn't.
Thank you <3
No.16896
My friend has gotten super into frisbee golf, so I've been playing with him. It's very fun!
Today I went to a really pretty course and got my own discs at last. Had a great time and made some nice shots even though I'm still quite poor at the game overall.
No.16902
Found a few more very interesting books today. Right up my alley, but also quite removed from my current focus.
I also told my mother I've been reading about the Soviet Union. I should resume that reading.
No.16920
Updated my webpage.
Another self-inflicted crisis (>>16305) is at an end.
No.16921
>>16883It's always interesting to reconnect with people you haven't spoken to in years. Sometimes their lives take crazy courses that you could never have imagined.
I was on a few oldish forums that are still around too. A surprising number of them are still around and active. It's like opening up some sort of living time capsule. I never posted enough to really make memorable friends though. I guess even back then I valued how sushi rollymity allowed me to just up and disappear and be forgotten. I really don't like it when people miss me. Feels like I'm doing something mean just by not being there.
No.16946
Sometimes I wonder what food tastes like for other people or how music sounds like for them. Imagining that I had the taste of someone else then actually does change my own perception.
No.16947
>>16920It's been a while since i've been here. Glad you are still posting on your site and here.
That post before the updates read like a (non-)fiction book.
It's somewhat relieving to know that "golden cuffs" can happen to anyone anywhere, but even more relieving that you plan to break free from them. It's a term I hear alot in white-collar/tech related stuff. Here's hoping for better conditions for you.
>>16946I've always wondered how colors look like for someone else. I want to point at a table and ask "What color is this?" and have an answer that goes beyond the words uttered. Alas, probably will never happen.
No.16951
>>16785I feel the same way. Nobody really texts me unless i do. Nobody calls me to hang out. I don't really understand why. I always try to put my absolute foot forward and none of that is reciprocated. I do call out bullshit and sometimes i am very direct as to the shit that people do. But i really don't get it. I have been living with my mom, i'm 27 and i really don't know what to do. I am unemployed (i work 2 days a week as an english teacher) but i dropped out of my second uni because i don't want to become a teacher. I tried to be a musician but God said no. I was on the stage with a very big local band (local as in the country) and i had multiple bands and concerts and was being paid but now all that is over. I am REALLY confused and get mild panic just writing this down. I do not understand why i am so lonely as well.
No.16973
>>16966Well a lot of them wouldn't drive a the way to a theatre to watch a streamer. I think part of the appeal is to watch them at home just idling (or even doing chores) while 'it' makes it seem like you're in company, with friends or whatever.
No.16981
>>16966Let’s be nice. This is what movies were like in their very early days, and watching a livestream this way can be more socially engaging instead of parasocial by being able to talk about it with your friends and get rambunctious. Kind of like watching a sports game on the tv with your friends. Watching a livestream with friends might actually be really fun now that I think about it…
There isn’t one “right” or “wrong” way to watch a livestream. Listening to one while doing chores is just as fine. Do what works best for you!
No.16997
>>16955Fleet managed to fix it and even gave me my CD back. Now they probably all think I'm weird. If they didn't already.
No.16999
>>16981>This is what movies were like in their very early daysI am guessing you didn't mean "in the ancient times people went to the theater to partake in watching films." but I choose to read it that way because it is funny.
I am now an ancient relic for going to these mysterious thee ay tres where the crowd watches flickering images projected upon a vast swathe of silver fabric.
No.17005
Updated my webpage with inconsequential pro-wrestling musings. Everyone is claiming the business is on the rise and the product has never been better but I have my reservations.
>>16947>It's somewhat relieving to know that "golden cuffs" can happen to anyone anywhereIt made no sense in my case. It's very frustrating how short-sighted people with power can be.
Things are getting better now.
No.17020
Imagine you are standing before a mirror.
In time, your reflection begins to speak, talking of one subject and the next, about things you usually don't consider. It's definitely you in the mirror, and the line of thought is familiar, but you are not talking. You have no input, you're not even moving, you're just watching your reflection talk to you.
The previous night I had an odd experience. The above is not literal of course, but a way to describe one of the things that happened. It began with an instance of sleep walking and got odder from there, as if I were dreaming while wide awake. It's not the strangest thing that has happened to me, but I couldn't shake the thought of it from my head since this morning.
No.17021
I've been toying around with Moho 14 trying to make a rigged character. Kinda hard to do since it just distorts the model no matter what.
No.17045
Thank God anime girls don't exist in real life.
No.17048
>>17020Sounds like you're the reflection and the reflection is the real you :)
No.17093
How can a war to stopped?
No.17155
I love when random improbable coincidences happen in life. It does so every so often, when I least expect it.
The other day while online I randomly stumbled on a post about an old and somewhat obscure Clint Eastwood documentary made by the BBC. I had never heard about it and paid no attention to it. Less than an hour after that I go to the other room and hear on TV a feature about Clint Eastwood in which they pulled some footages from the BBC documentary.
And I thought what were the odds that this 30+ years old, low budget documentary that I had never heard of, come to my attention twice in less than an hour through two completely unrelated media.
It has no impact whatsoever on anything, but it just amaze me.
– End of blogpost
No.17217
>>17216You got that right. I'm still grateful that imageboards in general still get usage to be honest. I've always been more of a lurker than a poster but it's nice to have places that you can look to occassionally. And yeah Desuchan is read only right now. Unfortunate, but I much prefer that to the site being down.
The unease of never knowing if a site is going to come back or not is one of the worst parts. Maybe it's easier to just accept that a lot of this stuff will be lost. But I suppose it's the job of the people who care to continue to do so, it's just like older media in general. It can stay alive if the passion pulls through.
No.17218
I lurked in the past so that I could be polite to the current users and integrate easily in to the environment.
I lurk now because I'm not good at starting conversation.
No.17225
>>17217It's an outdated format, yeah. They are home to me though, I don't think I can ever abandon them. So far I haven't encountered anything I enjoy as much as them too. With the years I have realized you shouldn't just lurk and hope for the board to be to your liking, post and see what comes back. Although I am also guilty of lurking way more than posting. Unfortunately the places to visit seem to dwindle more and more, or maybe I don't find them anymore… Big agree right there, preserving and archiving is important in my opinion. Having it static only is already worth a lot.
Even if a site is coming back once again, will it carry the same spirit as before? Having the userbase, topics, activty and so on? I fear with every reincarnation something is lost. At least this is my experience. Sigh. I am afraid you are right, I still struggle with the loss of my default go to place, it's hard to accept the demise. Seeing a place change is also gut wrenching. Absolutely, people who care are the most important thing. Be it with backing stuff up, sharing it, developing it further, moderation reviving it and so on.
No.17228
>>17225I mean, 4-ch.net and 2channel are still around after all these years. I doubt the format will ever truly die, just become impossibly niche.
I do wonder how the demographics have shifted over the years, and how the ratio of newfag to oldfag has changed over the years. I suspect it's mostly long timers still around. The internet has become more of a hugbox, and /pol/ has given imageboards the reputation of being places for weird right wingers. It's a shame. It'd be nice if there were more active imageboards, and I'm curious what zoomers would do with the format.
Chan culture is probably also an issue. Not talking about the boards you visit and yelling at anyone who hasn't lurked enough probably drives off tons of posters who are afraid of trampling over board culture.
No.17233
>>17228>/pol/ has given imageboards the reputation of being places for weird right wingers. It's a shame.Oh but they are. You will always find them in these sort of places. As of today, sushiguirl is the only imageboard I still visit, every other one is just bad for any mental health one may have left.
No.17234
>>17228The thing about the newcomers is that those of them who stay usually don't attach "I'm a newfag, BTW. Very nice board you have there" to their posts. On the contrary, since they are being told to lurk, they do exactly that – mimic the oldtimers perfectly, so you can't really spot the newbies, unless their unawareness of the old historical events and memes shows. Besides, there are people on the imageboards who love to dunk on zoomers/boomers at every opportunity, and people who love listening to curses thrown at them are not the norm.
If you were to take a look at the contacts thread, you'd see a plenty of relatively young people there. Perhaps, a sizeable portion of the "I'm 18" posts belongs to people who are some years younger than that.
>>17225> outdated formatI wouldn't say that. There are imageboard features that Discord and WhatsApp do not offer. One of them is the core feature of most imageboards, that is, sushi rollymity.
No.17238
>>17236>handwaving racism as edginess>saging on a board that gets 10 posts a week/pol/ as a phenomena you're referring to is from the mainstream media's perception so they'd see your edgy jokes as just racism. you're like sushi rolls who always posted cute girls when making a point but then got pissy when trangender people started showing up. come to terms with the consequences of your actions fool.
I don't blame you for choosing to view /pol/ as an entity the mainstream way though, it's not like *chan culture ever originated any cultural notions on their own.
No one cares about your irrelevant past, making the ephemeral quality of all the more potent. How mysterious!
At least you have your memories of toiling away your youth on something other people took and turned into an actual movement.
I'd tell you to feel proud but you seem intent shirking any association with the like, maybe because you are, and always have been, a massive pussy.
No.17239
>>17238Are you coming onto them? Because you sound like a massive dick and you know…
No.17240
>>17238> sushi rolls who always posted cute girls when making a point but then got pissy when trangender people started showing up. So what should I post? Uncle Adolf? The picture is one thing, the text another.
Also this
>>17239 and
>>17236 is absolutely right. You either don't know shit or just want to piss people off. Try a different bait.
No.17253
>>17244Who are you even replying to?
No.17255
>>17253Obviously the sushi that said "saging", did you even read the previous posts?
No.17256
>>17255I read through this whole thread up and down multiple times and somehow missed that until I ctrl-F'd for it, despite the fact that I was specifically looking for it. I think I might be blind.
No.17274
A huge bag of groceries showed up on my doorstep yesterday :) now I don't have to go shopping today
No.17311
I am sick in the stomach. And just a few days before christmas eve, to boost.
No.17318
I've started keeping some little desk plants, which I have no experience doing, but seeing them grow makes me happy
>>17311get well soon sushi!
No.17319
Almost a year of being a NEET.
I've become the very sort of person I loathed when I was a young'in and browsing r9k.
No.17342
>>17319I've been unemployed since June so I've also been a NEET for most of this year but I feel very happy. Don't let being a NEET stop you from having a good life. Take advantage of having no responsibilities while u can 😎
As a NEET I've been going out with friends a lot and I've been meeting people with my hobbies and it's all been great. Today I'm hanging out with my roommates family for Christmas and last night my friend visited me and we slept together and I feel a lot happier than I've been in a while. Life is good!
No.17351
I bought a digital ocean droplet, started an imageboard (im the only user), umm what else. Don't have to pay rent anymore. Life is good lol
No.17352
I finally got cleaned up and went out for a haircut after not having one for over 3 years.
No.17353
>>17342>friends and money speak for yourself
No.17354
>>17351Can I join your imageboard, sushi roll? I will be nice
No.17355
>>17354Please do! The url is 13channel.crabdance.com. Come and say hi!
No.17365
>>17353You can do a lot of stuff for free. I don't have that much money lol.
No.17368
>>17365So true. I'm literally in Guatemala with no money and I have a ton of fun.
No.17424
>>17422It would look so sick if you painted the walls with a color matching her. And some cute fluffy courtains!! Yes!!
No.17433
>>17422Sushi that is so adorable
No.17451
I hate youtube "polyglots", they're useless and only make noise.
No.17459
>>17451I hate YouTube "anything". Especially comments.
No.17496
Algorithms are hard..
No.17500
>>17481You mean like a week? Or a fortnight?
Speaking of which, it occurred to me recently that weeks are kind of odd in that they're completely arbitrary. Like, obviously days are based on the earth's rotation, months are (loosely) based on moon cycles, and years are based on revolutions, but there's no natural cycle that weeks are based on. There was just some point in human history where everyone started agreeing that seven days should be a unit of time.
No.17512
I love you SushiChan!
No.17514
>>16289Why must we stick to 12 month irregular julius calendar instead of mathematically glorious 13 month calendar?
No.17526
>>17500>>17514I have decided that when I come to world power (it is imminent) I am going to remove the concept of months, and just have week numbers. Failure to format correctly will result in hard labor.
Dates will be formatted: yyyy-ww-dd
So today would be: 2024-03-19
I would also be in favor of removing weeks as well and just having day of the year (2024-19), but I accept that a lot of things are on a weekly schedule (like the sushi stream)
No.17533
>>17515>>1752613 months with each month being 4 weeks exactly. So 52 weeks a year. But 52 x 7 =364 ?
The 365th day is a leap day; every 4 years there are two leap days. Done.
No.17535
>>17500It was arbitrary but if you're curious, it's from the 7 heavenly bodies you could see in the sky, ordered by how fast they move.
Sun sunday
Moon monday
Mars tuesday
Etc.
Most of the names don't sound similar anymore, but they come from the planets. That's why the japanese days of the week are what the are, 火曜日 is from 火星 for instance.
>>17526Make it 2024.03.19 and keep the lunar calendar as an alternative reference and you have yourself a deal.
No.17539
>>17526Yeah but today is 19 by virtue of the gregorian calendar. If we go by weeks we would have no such numbers, instead it would be 2024-03-5/friday.
But again, why pick a day 10 days after winter solstice for the new year? The new year should come the day of spring equinox.
I would remove weeks instead of months, which would be lunations and not the seemingly arbitrary 30/31 days. I may be just recreating the chinese calendar here.
Fuck it, I say we go back to the chinese calendar, woth it's cycle of celestial stems and earthly branches. Coming year is year of the dragon, begins on 甲辰.
No.17545
>>17539Ah damn it! You're so right lol. It would now be 2024-03-05 under my world order. I was actually thinking day 19 of the year as I typed it.
I also agree, about the spring equinox. That is when you can actually start doing things in the evening again (at least where I live)
>>17535>>17533(you all put way more thought into that than I did hehe)
No.17546
>>17526>>17545I am also now proposing my removal of time zones (the punishment is the same). All countries will run on UTC time. People still wake/sleep with their sun cycles, but their sun might rise at 19:00 where they are, and set at 06:00.
No.17547
>>17546The entire point of time zones is to align with the day/night cycle where you are. The main benefit when talking across time zones is you know when someone else is. Imagine trying to communicate across several hours of time difference.
What time is it where you are? Oh its 11. Okay well its 11 here, is it day or night there. Uh it seems its about a quarter into the day?
This is nonsense and only creates a problem we solved hundreds and hundreds of years ago for no reason.
Additionally many many people would die as a result of any of these ideas being implemented. The only benefit is they seem slightly more organized, appeasing people who keep their bookshevles alphabetized. This is a bad idea.
No.17548
>>17547To the labor camp with you!
No.17549
>>17548Your world order won't even know when to wake up, let alone what day of the week it is.
No.17551
>>16289I've been thinking about how odd it is that we don't have a 13 month calendar yet, and how cool an entire day + whatever amount to offset leapyears and seconds would be.
No.17554
>>17547>many many people would die as a result of any of these ideas being implementedthis is just plain trolling.
>>17546At forst this seemed like a good idea, otoh the main benefit of timezones imo is that midday/midnight fall at tangible moments of the day: when the sun is right at the zenith, and halfway through the night.
I think this is the only real use of timezones.
How long has the standard measure of time been around? Some 300 years at best? In our industrial society, however, it's something of a necessity. How did the romans or the chinese measure the day? I remember at the beginning of Journey to the West it says something about dividing the day according to the heavenly stems. But I don't think that was standard practice.
It is amusing to see people being so stringent about some arbitrary abtraction.
No.17561
>>17554It's a joke conversation, but I'm actually pretty serious about the dying part. It's happened in real life with changing things you'd expect to have far less impact. Canada had several deadly accidents after changing to the metric system. It's not to say they made the wrong call, but they did kill people by making that change.
You'd absolutely, 100% kill lots of people changing something as universal as time zones. It's not a simple change at all, there are many, many second order effects to things like that you can't anticipate even if they seem clean.
No.17562
>>17561That said, this sort of thing seems pretty par for the course for communism :^).
No.17565
>>17561I can't imagine how a person could possibly die from not knowing the hour. As for the metric system, I giess you could misinterpret life-critical bits of information, like temperature or speed. Okay maybe there is a trapdoor that opens up at exactly 11:00 that opens down to a pit of venomous snakes and lava, and it could turn out to be 11:00 GTC near dusk in your timezone as you walk on that trapdoor thinking "surely it couldn't be 11:00 right now!", I guess that's a scenario.
No.17566
Ok maybe in alaska during a 6-month night, the only bus might pass at a certain time, local time, or was it Universal time?
No.17569
>>17558THE SUN NEVER SETS ON THE BRITISH EMPIRE!
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No.17652
>>17535I was about to correct you, since I know that Tuesday through Friday are named after Norse gods (Specifically Tyr, Odin, Thor, and Freya), but then I did some fact checking and apparently they got those names because those gods are considered the Norse equivalent of the Roman Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, and Venus. I learned something new today. That being said, I'm still as confused as I've ever been as to why Saturday is the only day of the week named after a Roman god instead of a Norse one.
No.17725
>>16289Guess I need an Internet withdrawal for a while. Everything just annoys me.
No.17799
Everyone is cringe. Looking back at historic figures paints a distorted picture of people, an idealized vision of what could be and never will be. The only constant is creation.
No.18201
good morning sushis
please have a wonderful day
No.18450
Shouldn't it be "kaitzenzushi"?
No.18647
It's still hot, despite that, I'm having some tea. I know it's not the best idea but I'm letting it cool off. I want to stay awake longer, the night is so comfy, especially after days as hot as these last few weeks. Hence the tea.
I've been feeling in a strange mood, I guess 'detached' is a good word for it. It's a strange feeling, on one hand I'm feeling jaded with, well, everything, but on the other hand I feel like I'm more me than usual, if that makes any sense, and also feel more or less liberated from the burden of living in this world.
It is a very odd thing, but it is what it is.
