No.13550
I drove to the city today for the first time to get my license, everything went smooth.
No.13552
I just terminated a friendship I had for over two years because I felt very uncomfortable today with the group he has. I'm definitely not entirely blameless for what happened but I think that that environment was not something I could grow in.
I could cry over it, but what is done is done. All I can do is move on, improve, and hope fate allows me to find and connect with others on the same road as I.
No.13557
Had the sudden urge to post on an imageboard for the first time in years. Occasionally I recall the time I spent on the others now long gone and I get sad. It’s comforting to see a small slice of what once was is still alive.
No.13558
>>13549>Never trust a foot fetishist. He's either brainwashed or trying to sell you something.A man after my own heart.
Also I very much like your summary of Akebi as "a leisurely stroll through the garden of fetishism and/or iyashi-kei with yuri undertones"
No.13564
Updated my webpage with an analysis of the first episode of Akebi-chan no sailor-fuku.
>>13558I ended up reaching the conclusion it was indeed a leisurely stroll through the garden of fetishism at episode 10 (
https://sushigirl.us/otaku/res/3512.html#3766). I would have been sure earlier were it not for episode 7.
No.13565
>>13564TY sushi roll friend. I liked the article on english and the pre centralized internet. I'm hopeful for the future, and not in love with the present nor the past.
No.13566
>>13564>I ended up reaching the conclusion it was indeed a leisurely stroll through the garden of fetishism at episode 10I think I agreed with that read on it as early as episode 02
Which happened to be one of my favorite episodes, in part because of how shockingly blunt it was about these characters being sexual. It, and the whole show, felt surprising in a way ecchi anime never do, and I loved it.
No.13568
>>13564>>13566I want to add that it's not just surprising, but also subtle and novel all at the same time. I think you summed up what I'm feeling about it very well with what you say about the line between inclination and fetish. In a lot of ways I think why it's such an alluring show is because it's exploring that transitional space between innocence and eroticism, inclination and fetish, friendship and romance, child and adult etc.
No.13570
>>13568A little off topic, but this is reminding me of the word "liminal" from another thread. Another word I like is "twi" though it doesn't really count as it's own word anymore.
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/twi-Where liminal means somehow not in the two places it is between, twi seems to mean in both of the two places at once.
It sounds funny to say Akebi is exploring themes in twi and liminal spaces.
Sometimes I worry most people don't like words and my collecting and playing and elucidating with them gets on nerves.
Do you rolls like words?
No.13588
>>13570New words are fun whenever the other party doesn't act shocked that I don't know them already.
No.13589
>>13570I like words, I especially like knowing their etymologies and how seemingly unrelated words are connected near their root.
Not English but I recently discovered there are two words for 'pistacchhio' in spanish: pistache and alfóncigo. The latter comes from hispanic arabic 'alfustaq' which in turn comes from classical arabic 'fustuq' from middle persian 'pistaq' ultimately from greek πιστακιον. Two very different words with the same origin, and meaning!
No.13600
>>13570Very interesting indeed!
Linked your post in my neocities profile. You got the attention of all my 37 followers.
As for words, I try to learn a couple on occasion (english words, I mean. Japanese, I'm always grinding) and then make an effort to use them the following weeks, but eventually they fade away from my memory.
No.13628
>>6113I feel fine…. wish the rain would stop though
I'm couped my inside…
Time for video games. Where's my ELDEN RING disc?
No.13632
>>6113Not that great. I don't know where to go anymore, on the Internet only Sushichan is left. A little variety would be great, but all sites I know don't exist anymore, are dead or turned to shit. I remember seeing a thread about other websites on Sushi, but I can't find it anymore. Maybe it has fallen off the board?
No.13633
>>13589Hey that is beautiful. Learning about stories of words gives a new perspective. We call pistachio "fıstık" in Turkish. Which probably comes from Arabic. But it looks like the word ultimately comes from Persian, not Greek.
No.13636
>>13632Haaaa…. I feel the same, but I think it has something to do with my attention and an addiction like pattern of behavior with 4chan (reddit/facebook/twitter/etc I think are the same)… It's not that there less places out there on the net, its that the good places require calm stable focus and don't have weird dopamine skinner box hacks working on your brain, so when you're in a certain state of mind, you can't really find or focus on the good parts of the net.
But about the thread, you weren't thinking of one of these were you?:
https://sushigirl.us/lounge/res/1640.htmlhttps://sushigirl.us/silicon/res/846.htmlhttps://sushigirl.us/silicon/res/1596.html No.13638
>>13636There are indeed quite a few good places left and they surely have to offer something, if you get invested in them. They all feel samey though, because they mostly offer the same. Sure, the community makes the place, but the boards, threads and discussions are more or less the same. So, what does it matter if I talk about topic y here or there? If you have a place with a community you like, then you are set. I guess I wasn't precise enough when I wrote the previous post, well I was frustrated back then. The more accurate statement would rather be that the uniqueness is lost, the Internet lacks variety and creativity.
I know your issue with the faster and bigger sites, I had that too. You get stuff way faster and you get way more too. You are basically being entertained around the clock. Stuff like being quoted, upvoted, shared, suggestions, discovering something new and whatever only gives you more and more dopamine kicks. Due to the low quality on the big websites I retreated to smaller ones though, this was already 6 years ago and I don't miss it at all.
Unfortunately, none of the threads you linked are the one I meant, but thank you for your effort.
No.13639
>>13638>the Internet lacks variety and creativitylike, I get what you're saying… but at the same time, when I think about it, I'm sure it must be objectively false. There are more people on the net then ever and the old sites and tools have never really gone away. There's still irc and bbs but now there's tor and people trying to start 'federated' internet and just so many programmers making weird things and putting them up. And then there's all online games… that's probably where most decline can be seen, old unpopular mmo's really are probably ghost towns if servers for them can even still be found.
I'm not saying your wrong, cause I feel it too, but surely there's more going on.
No.13643
>>13639The Internet is more of an extension of the real life now, instead of being a world on its own. It is centralized and commercialized nowadays. Most of those new people didn't immigrate into the existing world, they took it over like conquerors and changed it, while corporations, politicians and so on followed. The old Net surely still exists, like you said, irc, bbs, forums, image boards, textboards and so on, but they are not the powerhouse the once were. Many of them dont exist anymore, turned bad or lost a tremendous amount of users. I understand what you mean, although to me it is like instead of having countless colours on the Internet we only have a few today, but in different shades.
No.13644
>>13643Yeah that could be it. Eternal September as they say. Back in the day it wasn't just easy to get online. You couldn't do it on a computer you carried in your pocket made of shiny user friendliness. It must have felt like like passing through some kind of veil. Somewhat magical. And I bet when that was how it was, there were people who would go through the effort and end up in obscure places who nowadays dont need to bother as much. Just stay on Facebook. So theres both less people putting in effort to connect with odd communities online, and more people who never would have ended up on the internet. Well kept gardens die by pacifism as they say.
No.13645
>>13644Well said, sushi. Thanks for our exchange btw, I needed that. I have been feeling down lately and it helped having somebody read and respond to my ramblings.
No.13646
I've been feeling kind of down in the dumps. My personal life has been going better than it has been in a long time, but socially I'm in turmoil. I really wish people were more accessible in real life so I wouldn't be so dependent on the internet for everything.
No.13653
Updated my webpage. I spent more time making new favicons, items and buttons than I did adding a new webpage proper. It's a little frustrating to not have all that work immediately visible but I'm filled with a weird sense of pride at the same time.
No.13657
>>13655I wish I was smart enough to understand this
No.13658
>>13655Unroll the sphere in a different fashion. Think of it as infinitely many parallel circles, each one smaller than the next. Seen from the "front", each circle is a line which is 2sin(x) for varying x. So each circle is actually 2πsin(x).
That's a lot of handwaving there but I hope my argument is understood.
No.13659
>>13655I found it on another imageboard. I was able to find an old thread from 2016 which looks to be its origin after a bit of searching!
https:/old.reddit.com/r/math/comments/4yf5h4/the_area_of_sphere_strangely_beautiful_in_its/
No.13660
>>13659"The problem I have with this is that the step where it becomes the double sinusoid bump shape is assuming the result. It's not visually convincing enough."
Ha, the first comment was exactly what I tripped over and wanted to confirm, lol.
>>13658Thanks roll fren. The thing I had trouble with tho was noticing that the unrolling corrisponded to the sin function, when I first saw the gif it wasn't obvious that should be true, and if it wasn't, the density of dx in the final integration would be wrong, right?
>>13657I was a little worried I was going to get made fun of for all the handwaving I did in my exploration of why unrolling should be sin(x), so it's kinda a complement to hear it looks smart. TY… But! "Smart" is how fast a person could go if they try, "effort" is how fast they actually go, and "knowledge" is the places they go and the things they see. I hope you aren't feeling bad about yourself… Just because you haven't seen something I have, doesn't mean you aren't smart or that you haven't picked up some really cool pieces of knowledge!
No.13715
Updated my webpage. Adding new stuff on more than one page feels fresh.
No.13761
My back hurts like hell, shouldn't have spent the whole day in bed :/
No.13801
A bit anxious as I have to go out and get a lot of things done today. I need to go get a haircut, visit the bike shop to buy a helmet and go to the Chinese supermarket to buy some instant noodles.
No.13802
>>6113trying to keep distracted and not feel to bad about myself.
I'm feeling ok (._.)
No.13817
I have officially become a mysoginist
No.13818
>>13817officially? Do you get a certificate?
No.13819
>>13818I keep failing the practical exam. At this rate I'll never become a mysoginist.
No.13820
>>13818Yes, I got my mysoginist badge at mysoginy university. Took a lot of time but I passed the final exam with great marks
No.13823
I got through my first week of summer term. i also finally came back to sushi after a month of being busy :)
No.13824
Being bored and drinking tea
