/warc/ - Wildcard Archive

I like how meaningful dot and cross products are.

I really liked algebra in HS, probably the most enjoyable form of math tbh but I've forgotten most of it at this point. I remember having lots of fun switching stuff around to solve equations like puzzles.

I like how I can never get away from solving quadratic formulas. Three semesters of calculus and I'm back to them.

y'' + 3y' + 2y = 0

r^2 + 3r + 2 = 0

(r + 2) * (r + 1) = 0

r = -2, r = -1

y = A * r^(-2x) + B * r^(-x), where A, B are arbitrary constants

>>239
I messed up the last line.
y = A * e^(-2x) + B * e^(-x), where A, B are arbitrary constants

How Can Mirrors Be Real If Our Eyes Aren't Real

Technically no, they're mental abstractions that allow the human brain to comprehend complex logic and to calculate useful solutions to complicated problems. It's similar to words. The pixels making up the letters making up the words "There is a tree behind you" have nothing in common with the living thing made of wood and leaves, but the abstraction allows me to communicate a lot of information quickly.

>>232
>There is a tree behind you
don't scare me sushi roll

I was asked that question in a university interview to study philosophy.

I failed to get in so I'm probably not the one to tell you.

They can be said to exist, at least as abstractions or ideas like >>232 explained. We can then use these universal ideas for example when holding up five fingers to signify that we want to buy five apples for example. We can also attach symbols to these ideas to make them easier to use, so that the word five and the symbol 5, V, etc. can be used to refer to the idea.

Different philosophers have different views on the topic though: http://existentialcomics.com/comic/36.

>>215
If you wanna play online sushi roll you should get devpro
http://www.ygodevpro.com/
(Totally free and has every near every single card with regular updates, as new cards are still added to this day, pic 2 related)

However if you've not played since you were a kid it might be a little bit difficult to get into it because a bunch of new stuff has been added since then
But if you remember the basic rules then you should be good enough to start!

What I'd do instead is try to recreate a deck from your favorite cards that you sorta remember and then play against your friends or play the proper official PC games instead sicne those have tutorials and what not!
http://store.steampowered.com/app/480650/
Then switch to devpro if you wanna play against real people once you get the hang of it again

The kids who used to play Yu-Gi-Oh at my school always spent more time arguing about the rules than actually playing the game. Playing the game (where you can't break the rules) is probably a good shout

>>217
Most of the game nowdays is petty much just read the card effect instead of talking about the rules. It used to be quite entertaining for a while but the game is dying due to everyone using the same boring cards over and over and making it impossible to have fun in the latest formats. Pic related, the archetype that killed the meta.

>>157
It honestly amazes me that people cheat.
I just don't understand how anyone can be such a shit to someone they're meant to care for, or failing that at least settle things before moving on out of common decency.

More amazing still when they consider themselves good people even after doing it.

>>154
Without a "true deep emotional connection", I kind of had a friend like that last year. Maybe I perceive it like that only because he was the only close friend I've had in years. He's a teen, and I kind of relate to teen boys for some reason, but we were just friends and there wasn't any sort of emotional/sexual context to that.
However, last night as I was purging old clothes I dug up a jacket he gave me, and it made me feel something nice inside me, it is kind of strange.
He's been the only person I've missed after cutting contact, and I do that quite often.

I'll be starting university next month and I'm terrified of living alone and becoming completely isolated from social contact. How do I avoid 'missing out' so to speak.

When it comes to talking to the people in real life- I don't, as much as possible. I feel really uncomfortable around them. I don't understand what their intentions are, what they look for in me, how to be sure I won't provoke them to make trouble for me. I honestly almost feel a little bit unsafe around pretty much any male.

I've been cultured so differently from them- not only in terms of interests, but also in what I feel is reasonable courtesy: to be quiet unless there's really something to say, to laugh rarely if at all, to wash hands thoroughly and not touch one's feet or rear, to be direct with one's intentions. It's one thing to accept that others have different customs, but another to be accustomed to them. And it's not like our society has enough explicit rules about these things that I could study them like I could some Imperial Chinese court…

I've been told by girls I've spoken to online (I've no way to do that anymore) that I'm good-looking, and I concur, but that doesn't give me any confidence or such. The times I've tried to talk to girls in real life I'm so worried I'll seem creepy to them, that I'll seem like I just want sex, or worse, sympathy and affection. I don't see how to remove that impression. And I'm not used to listening to them, and I speak indistinctly, so I have to ask them what they just said, and they the same of me… it's hopeless and painful.

When I was younger and put in social situations I'd act out and speak constantly, without any thought that I might be doing so inappropriately. So this is the antithesis of that.

I met a girl online, and I really really really liked her, and she really liked me too, at first. But I got too overbearing with her, and then almost all I think of saying was how much I hated myself, trying for pity or something… but I honestly don't know what else there ever is to say, or do.

I just don't want small talk, or a bunch of ambient, in-your-face but emotionally distant friendships like everyone else seems to want and be fine with. I only want to love and be loved, and that's an unreasonable demand. I want to be a parasite for apparently undeserved affection on someone else- but I'd love for someone to be such a parasite on me.
>>154
This is why making male friends doesn't have any appeal to me- I don't have any chance of being intimate with thePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Truly you are the only one who can make yourself feel satisfied. Getting gf, drugs, consumerism, over eating, it all exists as a concept to fill the void that the world, or rather the human condition of living in such a world instills inside of us. Human beings were not made to be happy, we are here simply because we are good at passing on our genes. We are simply monkeys that accidentally got too smart and realized how absurd it is to be a monkey that is aware of itself. Even if you do achieve gf it will not make you satisfied. Maybe happy for a while but not truly content. True comfiness is a solitary feeling, rooted in the absurd. Buhdust monks know this when they meditate for days alone, and get rid of their possessions. Camus knew this when he wrote The Stranger, the ancient greek stoicists, the nihilists, existentialists, solipsists; somehow I believe we all know this in our hearts, but what separates us is how willing we are to accept it. I know this is a little off topic but maybe give it some thought. I might just be spouting pretentious nonsense though also

It's finally freezing cold here with lots of snow and a crystal clear sky. Yesterday I went outside in the evening to watch the starry sky. It was really nice and brought back some childhood memories from the times when I was outside with my brother, having fun until our gloves began to freeze.

This qualifies as an emergency in Alabama.

>>59
Today I saw a dump truck drift on some loose snow at an intersection and thought of this thread.

Not sure if reply works on archived threads or if anyone will look here but here is a webm of a drifting dump truck.

>>144
RUNNING IN THE 90'S!

>>41
I'm back and I got snow for like 10 minutes at 1:30am.
It was so nice and fluffy, for that 10 minutes I was in bliss.

For some reason, gondola always makes me feel melancholic. There is not really that much to the essence of it - I mean, gondola never interacts with world around it, just silently observes. Observes, much like myself, changes of the outside world. Days, months, years that follow. Hell, fore me, decades already. But is there a change if there is consistency to it? Does observation affects the observer?
All these thoughts give a touch of sadness. Gondola also reminds me of a plushie I had as a kid. So sadness mixed with warmth.
Excuse me for this rant, sushirolls.

>>211
I have certain states of mind and certain things can click me into different states.
Songs and images do this especially often.
Sometimes I'll listen to a particular song and it will momentarily revert me back to the feeling of when I was at school.
Trains and stations are probably my favourite one. They make me feel elated sometimes
This is essentially "back when life was good" (even though I know my mind subconsciously blocks out the bad) moments, and I really treasure them. Though it's often incredibly wistful.

Anyway, Gondola is very good at inducing these feels sometimes, so that's why I like them.

Sorry for semi-offtopic.

Gondola is cool and stuff, but how is this related to the topic? There is also a gondola thread in /lounge/.
https://sushigirl.us/lounge/res/578.html

Moved to >>>/hell/551.
Not photography, also a duplicate topic.

>>202
I had to angle it down because if I didn't, there was this huge flare in the shot that I didn't want. The autofocus didn't work either since it was too dark, so I did that by hand and I don't think that I got it quite right.

>>197
Might want to resize your images if you're uploading them, 5k x 5k is huge and you probably only want such a size for editing in lightroom or something.
Plus some people will have to wait a while for that to load.

>>200
>>201
I prefer the lighter of these two, they're both really nice but the darker one doesn't show the dark parts of the building well, it all kinda mixes with the night sky. Well actually on the right side of the image the buildings look really good in the darker but on the left they look like a blob of lights.

In an ideal world the sky would be filled with stars or a nice gradient or something to help define the skyline but light pollution takes no prisoners.

Either way these are really nice photos.

>>203
Might be worth getting a lens hood.

Here's a few of the better pictures I've taken while out on walks.

>>205
They make me remember long strolls I used to do some years ago.

Big lady down town.

>>178
>>178
>>179
These are all really beautiful sushi roll.
They all look so tranquil.

>>165
The first five are from San Andrés and the last three are from Cartagena de Indias both places in Colombia.

>>180
>>179
I liked this ones!
especially this >>173

>>180
I love how smooth the lakes surface is. It emits calmness.

>>183
Not the sushiroll that you're replying to, and this isn't how he did it, but you could get a similar-ish effect on a less calm lake by using a really long shutter speed. You have to clamp your ISO or aperture way down to compensate for the additional light.

This sushi's metadata says that the shutter was open for 1/60th of a second, so that's probably actually how calm the lake was.

>>184
Original sushi reporting back. I took the picture while it was raining actually. before it started raining the water was like glass, shame I didn't catch it.
Anyway here's one more. I know sunsets are cliche but it was really orange.(No editing done)

>>65
I hope you're right sushi roll! I haven't had a good year since 2010.

>>66
I haven't had a good year since 1987 ;_;

>>67

Dinnae worry sushi roll, this year will be your best if you can make it so (ღ˘⌣˘ღ)

>>65
I'm with you, sushi roll. I've been a bit of a mess for a few years now but it feels like things are finally falling back into place.

Happy new year rolls, and let's hope it's a good one. Stay comfy <3

>>138
Cool, what model is it? Playing without frets must be almost double as hard.

>>139
It's a squier modified jazz bass, modeled after Jaco's. A cheaper one, but the hardware was upgraded and after a set up it sounds p darn good. Playing it isn't as hard as i expected, but you definitely need to pay more attention the whole time

Sheckles for driving lessons, a shirt and a book + poster about Hadrian's wall.

I got some nice clothes. I actually got them ahead of time, as I went shopping with my mom.
I haven't had the chance to wear them though, because I've been staying home.

Hope you had a meri kurisumasu, sushis.

I got several books, some crisps, chocolate and a nifty little device for measuring distances on maps.

But I think one of the best aspects of Christmas is the food. I absolutely love drowning my roast potatoes and parsnips in gravy and devouring them. Delicious.