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 No.135692[Reply]

Do you feel pleasure or relief in seeing others fail in competitive scenarios or do you want to win purely by your own efforts?

 No.135694

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It depends on what their character is like. If they're a good sport about it then I'd want to give them my best effort. If they're an asshat then of course I'll partake in a little schadenfreude, little faggot deserved it.

 No.135695

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I hate competition and generally try to avoid it. I guess if I'm watching people do it then I'd prefer whatever is most entertaining, which is usually an even match.

 No.135697

not in them failing itself, no, but seeing it serves to reassure me that i'm not doing so bad and that does make me happy

 No.135816

i like it when cute girls cry and pout




 No.135698[Reply]

Has /qa/ ever haggled?
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 No.135703

>>135700
>wasn't too sure about how to lower the car value itself
My first time buying a car I went to an honest car dealership that set the price what it is, no up-sells, no hours long financing trying to get you to purchase supplemental yadda yadda yadda. Still managed to haggle like a grand off the car by saying I'd walk lol

 No.135705

A decade ago, I was visiting this shady site selling self-defense lessons and when I moved to close the tab, a voice loudly yelled WAIT! Apparently you can rig your website to play a sound file (they used a baby crying as an example) when you move your cursor to the tab bar. Also a pop up window appeared offering a better deal.

 No.135706

We don't really have haggle culture in my country. People who attempt haggle are just seen as a nuisance and may even be ignored in online second hand trades.
Haggle culture is inefficient for everybody involved. It is better if people try to offer reasonable prices and leave it at that so the buyer and seller does not have to constantly waste time in their life trying to get a better deal. I can't imagine having to haggle all day every day like they do in some of the poorest countries because it's just expected.
I walk into a store and if I don't like the price I leave and find another store. This makes haggling unecessary.

It's fine for large purchases like cars and houses though, it makes more sense to argue for a while when we're talking thousands or hundreds of thousands, but not for cheap items.

 No.135707

>>135706
I love haggle culture online. Whenever I use ebay I try to find listing that have the "make an offer" to see if I can drop the price. Usually 60-80% of the original list price is achievable. In public is a different matter though. I couldn't imagine haggling at an electronics store or a furniture store or something.

 No.135709

I'm way too scared of offending other people to try to haggle. I'd much rather not buy it at all.




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 No.135531[Reply]

Just found out about the 2015 janny chat log IRC leaks.
Have you guys already discussed this? Just Google "4chan janitor IRC logs" and look through them. Basically, a janitor went rogue around 2015 and leaked years' worth of IRC logs. They are absolutely hilarious, especially the absolute meltdowns moot and the /jp/ janitors had because of the the various shitposting factions that waged war with them around 2011-2015.

There's a janitor who confesses to taking meth to stay up all night so he can delete more posts (WhatWinterLeft / Saegrimr / Cat looks like janny), a janitor who confesses to molesting his nephew (Kazisho), and more. Also, AoC (previously known as "meido") talks about how he shat himself multiple times in school and received the school nickname of "dooky"

Also, BOOF was /k/'s janitor
VCR_Working and fsdfdsf were also obsessed with /jp/
Janitors from other boards constantly mocked the /jp/ janitors for managing the worst board, and moot publicly humiliated and ultimately expelled some of the /jp/ janitors from that channel
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 No.135638

>>135637
You know me, Anonymous, and I make web apps for 10s, sometimes 100s of users!

 No.135639

>>135638
I stand by what I said


IT is dead

our industry is just endlessly recycling trendy apps that add minimal societal value and its all run by greedy corporates that prioritize profit-driven features over transformative innovation or meaningful contributions to humanity

 No.135641

>>135639
define IT

 No.135642

>>135641
if you get within 5 meters of a computer at work you work with IT

 No.135654

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>>135641
In Ternet




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 No.135445[Reply]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Drame-4ufso

Do you constantly work on your passions in some way? I think that working towards a goal always is a good mindset even when you're busy with other stuff in life, since it'll always help you come closer to achieving something similar to a "life-goal". My life's goal is making the perfect metroidvania game, but that's put on the backburner for me while I learn JP to go to Japan and also play every metroidvania to analyze why I love them so much and hopefully encapsulate that into a vision.

Though at some point I definitely need to learn some programming to get it done, and I need something that motivates me to learn a programming language over anything else... I think my problem right now is that I have no clear goals whenever I start up programming that I can work towards and so I get lost and drift towards things I know I can make progress in, like JP and analysis.
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 No.135485

>>135478
Yeah, true. I need to make a lot of 3D assets to prove my sincere dedication to it before I'd ask anyone, though. Unlike CSS I could actually 3D model all day and have fun. Well, not retopologizing...
There's that saying "If you love your job then you'll never work a day in your life" and stuff. I really do wonder how people can tolerating staring at text for the programming thing, but I guess it's the same way for most things.

 No.135487

>>135473
easy, you just ask me to program it for you

 No.135488

>>135487
Yeah, that's kind of what I was leaning towards. But again, I need to do a bunch of stuff first so someone doesn't program a bunch of stuff and I don't fulfill my part of the effort. Things should be better next year and I can focus on the 3D stuff.

 No.135489

Yeah it's fine. I don't think I'm going to die soon

 No.135490

i guess the main thing I could say after consuming upwards of 100 games is to lean into free assets. AI requires a ton of approval if you announce you use it so free music, free BG and so on are very handy. In a lot of games I see people turn the stock RPGMaker character assets into their own drawn interpretations. People aren't looking for much, just something like a new fresh story and or gameplay to build scenarios that fit within their niches




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 No.135401[Reply]

Are authors gods or should they just die?

 No.135403

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Huh?
Well, it's their work...

 No.135404

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The author is there to give you something to think about and the material therein is wholly subjective to your opinions on it. There's many things I agree with which define the work they are writing, and many things I think are fucking retarded and make me thing they're sabotaging their own work.
At the end of the day they're just writing the things they want which isn't always what you want. If they write things you like they're gods, when they write dumb shit you don't like they should kill themselves.

 No.135442

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I am the Demiurge of my worlds, all the suffering that happens are for my pleasure and the strife that I create is sublime.




 No.135374[Reply]

ME!ME!ME! just turned 10 years old. Does your outlook on otaku culture still remain unchanged a decade later? >>>/poll/3187
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 No.135377

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Can't really say my opinion has changed at all in thinking it wasn't that big of a deal, unlike Puniru which is changing everything.

 No.135378

10 years... No way...

 No.135379

Oh, but things like dandadan and others are really mainstream works that challenge the idea that Otaku culture has to be the virgin wish fulfillment industry and focus on more pressing issues like aliens searching for penises

 No.135383

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Ironically, from a perspective of other things it has. The cultural paradigm shift occurring seems to be leaving censorship of fun things behind as more productive issues are to be focused on. Mostly in the US, but because of that it's impacting each of its close allies as well, including Japan. That alongside the massive successes of media which bucks the trend of kneecapping itself for 'broader' appeal that in turn appeals to nobody has me hopeful for the future of otaku culture once again becoming more akin to the escapism establishment ME!ME!ME! sought to paint it as.

Did my views on that otaku culture change? No, I value it more than ever. Fuck gay humans in their gay world.

 No.135408

Well I gave it a watch, since I've never gotten around to doing so before. It's some nice animation, but TBH I really don't have any idea what it is trying to say about otaku culture (or anything else).




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 No.128992[Reply]

Does NBR really matter if the sister is still beaming with brocon energy? Sure, being related by blood is ideal, but if the siblings are highly compatible with each other then isn't that just as good?
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 No.133229

dude I would write a yuricutie third wheel
shabs deserve it

 No.133231

>>133229
the destroyer of le shabine lesbiche...... all gaylies shall be romanced.............

 No.133232

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>>133217
>>133215
I don't like this at all

 No.133236

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>>133217
It's only natural for Sae's unrivaled megane charm to enthral both boys and girls alike.

 No.135273

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I think it's acceptable so long as they don't know they're not related, or grew up together from birth or thereabouts.

It's just not the same if it's one of those situations like "My Parents Remarried And Now I Have a Genki Little Sister Who Loves Me?!"




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 No.134285[Reply]

DEFCON 3 : US-based doujin site, pururin.to, was seized by the Feds. This is a fairly significant event. The obscenity laws surrounding drawings have largely been unenforced at the Federal level.

The banner itself claims that this was done on the grounds of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1466A and 1467; per the banner itself, "It is unlawful to produce, distribute, receive, or possess an obscene visual depiction of any kind, including a drawing, cartoon, sculpture, or painting, that depicts a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct. Individuals who do so can face significant criminal and civil penalties, including imprisonment, fines, and forfeiture of property."

But... The banner also shows the seal of the Intellectual Property Rights Center, which is suggestive of this being brought by foreign rights holders claiming copyright infringement, but then pururin being seized and prosecuted under obscenity law. Sites being seized for obscenity are typically done by the FBI, whose seal is conspicuously missing in this case.
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 No.134893

>>134868
I just bumped this shab

 No.135129

>>134308
>there aren't a whole lot of sites that are on clearnet involved with CP that aren't hijacking some sort of free hosting platform
what do you mean by hijacking a free hosting platform?

 No.135132

>>135129
Any website that allows email/phone number-free file uploads I'm guessing. The scum are like locusts and will eventually find such places and hammer it with illegal content until the provider yanks the site or the admin does it himself. Anonfiles was the most recent victim that I'm aware of, but it hits everything eventually.

 No.135133

>>135132
>Anonfiles
must have confused it with AnonTalk wwwwwwwww

 No.135141

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by who?




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 No.134905[Reply]

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 No.134912

>>134908
Die, vampire.

 No.134913

>>134912
Joke's on you, I don't leave the house. You'll have to cross an ocean and brave sunlight to reach me.

 No.134930

I don't know much about the subject but it seems that the microbes in different people's gut reacts differently to different food. So it's not a matter of people who eat sh*t having sh*t brains.

Having said that, they probably do but not for that reason. Correlation does not mean causation. Lower socio-economic background 'people' eat bad food but they also treat themselves terribly in general so there is a lot that could contribute to it.

 No.135120

good things are good and bad things are bad

 No.135131

sage posts are sage and age posts are age




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 No.115654[Reply]

Has the internet been a net benefit for society? Going by the access it gives us to all information, it could seem so on a technical level. However, with so much information out there it's impossible for a normal human to sort through, and as such many rely on small feeds to get their information that motivates them most emotionally. This stewing of outrage culture seems like it's lead to perpetuating and even stoking more violence and hatred.

On the other hand, the vast sea of information has also given opportunity for those in research to collaborate and build off each others work at lightning speed, and even help to raise new generations on material that teaches them well. Not to mention the entirety of github. In my own personal experience I feel as though I've learned to connect better with others through my use of the internet.
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 No.135033

>>135028
And then Google and Meta follow the lead of piracy sites and move all their servers to eastern Europe while the west builds its own great firewall. Sounds like fun.

 No.135113

I still hate the EU for ruining nearly every website with their dumb cookies popups.
Russia never did anything like that to the internet.

 No.135114

>>135113
Websites ruin themselves with their dumb cookies

 No.135116

>>135114
Anon is right, it made the web worse.
Now they secretly track us anyways while pretending not to, but we also have to deal with annoying popups.

>>135113
The worst part is 90% of them aren't even compliant and still break the law they're pretending to follow. You are required to make an incredibly easy to click reject all without having to open any extra menus or click anything extra and the agree button should not use dark patterns to make you think it's the reject button. Regardless, pretty much all websites force you to go through an annoying process so you're more likely to just press click agree to not get incredibly frustrated by a slow declining process. This is knowingly not following the EU regulations on how the banner is required to be and they may as well just not do it at all.

 No.135121

>>135116
I'm not terribly bothered by it, I have never ever found a worthwhile website behind a dark pattern banner. So if I see one at this point I just don't use the website.




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 No.127237[Reply][Last50 Posts]

Have you read any interesting articles lately? Anything news worthy you think kissu would want to know about?
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 No.132103

>>132090
Odd to see such scruples but I respect that.

 No.132661

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 No.132662

Amazing... This is Ottawa

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 No.115426[Reply]

Is pleasure real or is it merely imaginary? We've often heard of material pleasures, bodily pleasures, etc., but as far as we are capable of knowing, it might not necessarily be anything but a mental phenomenon.
What if pleasure is just a meme? What if enjoyment does not exist? What if it's all mere poetic fancy, constituting nothing but decoration in art, pure artifice born from the inside of creative organ?
But if people do strongly enough believe in it and bring out works of art that represent this ideal very much in accordance to what they believe it is meant to be, then can it be said to come into being, or does it remain trapped on a canvas or on a piece of paper? If Man attributes the qualities of beauty, grace, harmony, balance to real objects that were created by nature, do those qualities indeed objectively typify them, or are they only assignations describing a subjective judgement, a mere product of circumstantial associations?

The World might not be objectively beautiful, but it is not objectively ugly.
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 No.135000

It's real to me, and I can see it in my cat too when she comes for pets and scratches. Whether you think it's real or not doesn't really matter all that much. We're still driven by it.

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 No.135003

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 No.135005

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>>135003
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU
I appreciate cat posters SO MUCH




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 No.134781[Reply]

Is it better for a ruler to be feared or loved?
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 No.134801

>>134799
I might be mixing up facts with him and Gramsci.

 No.134806

>>134794
>>134795
when searching for stuff about machiavelli what really strikes me is how differently he can be received by people, and all the discussion about whether he's coldly helping autocrats or is secretly a subversive republican, both interpretations having inspired various folks
looking at texts beyond the prince it seems to me that he does value the common good in and of itself, and that if a leader is to be cruel it should be for the sake of getting shit done, and that furthermore the populace is more virtuous than a prince and a republic preferable to a princedom
consider this section in "The Multitude Is Wiser and More Constant Than a Prince" from the discourses on livy
>I say, thus, that all men particularly, and especially princes, can be accused of that defect of which the writers accuse the multitude; for everyone who is not regulated by laws would make the same errors as the unshackled multitude. This can easily be known, because there are and have been very many princes, and the good and wise among them have been few.
>I conclude, thus, against the common opinion that says the peoples, when they are princes, are varying, mutable, and ungrateful, as I affirm that these sins are not otherwise in them than in particular princes. Someone accusing peoples and princes together might be able to say the truth, but in excepting princes, he would be deceived; for a people that commands and is well ordered will be stable, prudent, and grateful no otherwise than a prince, or better than a prince, even one esteemed wise. On the other side, a prince unshackled from the laws will be more ungrateful, varying, and imprudent than a people.
and in book one of the art of war he also has his two characters cosimo and fabrizio agree over this:
>Cosimo. What are these things you would introduce in imitation of the ancients?
>Fabrizio. To honor and reward virtù; not to scorn poverty; to value good order and discipline in their armies; to oblige citizens to love one another, to decline faction, and to prefer the good of the public to any private interest; and other such principles which would be compatible enough with these times. ThPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

 No.134899

Feared as long as the fear is based on rational and orderly principles. Once you start being feared as a "mad emperor" it's pointless because nobody will want to risk your whims targeting them for no reason.

 No.134900

Machiavelli: The Scumbag

 No.134949

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I think it's probably easier to be feared, with the basic evil things you could do to establish that fear. I guess it depends on how far you'd go to become feared, as you'd also create a bunch of enemies that could dispose of you. I don't think it could reach the same heights as a leader that's beloved. The latter almost never happens, though, so it's almost inconsequential.
Well, I guess it depends on the scale of things. Becoming a beloved leader of an army unit or firefighting group seems fairly common, as does leading, uhh.. small companies or something?

Well, can't say it's something I've thought much about.




 No.134814[Reply]

Today at 6PM (later if requested)
https://theatre.kissu.moe/kiss/yukkuri

The 2010 zombie anime H.O.T.D.
Potentially followup on Friday with different shows and not by me?
Anyways. Rewatch or watch for the first time a classic
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 No.134836

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most of these are just of Saeko

 No.134837

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last one
thanks for hosting

 No.134838

>>134829
i like twintails a lot but saeko is also very good

 No.134839

there was another silly ecchi anime that released similar time

 No.134847

>>134839
I remember watching Ben-To when it aired and finding it really enjoyable. I liked how seriously they took it.




 No.134809[Reply]

Does anyone have a link to the "Happy Halloween" mmd that was posted all the time and the model was in a really skimpy witch outfit, like she was wearing basically just straps and a skirt? I think the model was a miku one but can't remember. The video used to always be the first result on youtube for "Happy Halloween MMD" but i'm guessing it finally got taken down because i can't find it anymore.
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 No.134811

>>134810
No the background was the outside of a haunted house exactly like this one but the colors were a lot less muted.

 No.134815

I remember there being a Kancolle version with two girls... But I can't find it.

 No.134816

Aha! I found it!

 No.134818

>>134816
You found it! Nice, I was looking through my playlists to see if I had it anywhere and I didn't put it into anything specific, just my like list which was too long to search through.

 No.134824

>>134816
Yes that’s the one! Thank you, I’ll need to download it too, so I always have it.




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