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aesthetics Lucky Beast 01/24/24 (Wed) 23:26:22 No.118948 [Reply]

What makes something look good? It's one of those things you see people talk about a lot, but I've never heard a satisfactory answer. Most theories of aesthetics boil down to some combination of "this looks good we should do more things that look like this" and "I like how this looks, you should too".

I don't want to be told what looks good; I already know what looks good because I have eyes. What I want to know is why the things I find visually appealing visually appealing. We know broad strokes what makes something sound or taste good, but why is our knowledge of what makes something look good (at least from where I stand) so primitive?

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Common Raccoon 01/26/24 (Fri) 21:49:23 No.119089

>>119044
>>119045
I wonder how much neophobia comes from social pressure. I feel like there's this unspoken rule that you're not supposed to get into anything too new or different from what you already like once you've hit your 30s.

Japanese Crested Ibis 01/26/24 (Fri) 23:04:10 No.119092>>119093 >>119104 >>119148

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The way people on imageboards tend to talk about neuroplasticity is overly simplified and generally combined with the cynical crabs-in-a-bucket thing since people tend to be overly negative. It does weaken as an adult, but not to the degree that people thought decades ago. Will you learn a new language in your 70s as easily as you would if you were 6? No, but the same is true if you were in your 20s. What does change, however, is motivation and the amount of free time people may have.

>>119045
>"time feels faster as you age" phenomenon is a thing

That's generally seen as a result of routine and the brain working on autopilot. I remember reading that one way you could remedy this is do make simple changes in daily actions, like changing the route you take when driving and so on. If you're doing things unconsciously then time feels like it's moving faster.

As for the musical tastes thing, I wonder if it's related to the way our personalities are pretty much locked in place by the time we hit 15 or so. Maybe musical taste is somehow influenced by this, but who knows?

Axis Deer 01/26/24 (Fri) 23:16:18 No.119093

>>119045
>It's the reason why the "time feels faster as you age" phenomenon is a thing.
No, that's really just routine, as >>119092 said.

Anon 01/27/24 (Sat) 01:59:30 No.119104>>119148

>>119092
Completely agree with this. I don't like the pessimism around it.

Ezo Red Fox 01/27/24 (Sat) 21:59:27 No.119148

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>>119092
>>119104
Yeah, more and more it feels like a convenient excuse for tunnel-visioned people who can't stick to a hobby/skill. They should focus less on lacking a younger brain and more on maintaining a younger mindset, that stubborn drive that keeps you going even if the results are shit. Sure that's helped by being a kid with no real obligations, but I still believe most people have more free time than they think to learn something new.

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Anonymous 05/14/23 (Sun) 22:31:43 No.108304 [Reply]

Found this pic from January 2020, not sure what it's supposed to mean.
I think I posted it in the /b/ meta thoughts thread before someone flippin' killed it while I was away.

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Anonymous 05/16/23 (Tue) 15:09:27 No.108391

>>108346
I guess that's somewhat right, but you can have all 3 in one.

Serval 01/24/24 (Wed) 23:11:51 No.118947>>118961

Sometimes the similar thread feature receives a neat idea

African Wild Dog 01/25/24 (Thu) 01:50:02 No.118961>>118990

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>>118947
Ehh, what do you mean? This thread is a neat idea? Or the suggestion was good? I'm confused.

Royal Penguin 01/25/24 (Thu) 03:25:57 No.118972

I am also confused

Rockhopper Penguin 01/25/24 (Thu) 04:25:11 No.118990

>>118961
My spellchecker corrected revives to receives. Probably because I typed recieves

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Anonymous 08/14/23 (Mon) 13:45:32 No.112574 [Reply]>>118783

Recently I've come across two different channels that seemingly popped outta nowhere and started putting out fairly specific and very high effort content at a pretty decent rate, which then went on to get hundreds of thousands of views. It's weird, so I wanted to share it:

Dogehammer Fortykay makes WarHam animations in the style of Madness Combat with the peculiarity that all humanoids are portrayed as a variation of doge, and they seem to have a pretty good grasp on the lore. Highly likely to have read at least some of the novels.
Mr. ぬ also makes animations, mainly centered around Zundamon but also featuring other synthesizers, consisting of absurd situations loaded with Jap memes. Their last video (>>112412) is a song that they wrote, drew, and edited by themselves. Their watermark is a black square, further adding to its oddity.

What motivates someone to straight up drop what they were doing, start from scratch with something so damn specific, and somehow still succeed in an environment where 99.99% of people are stuck with views well below 10k? The whole thing seems crazy to me.

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Anonymous 08/15/23 (Tue) 00:44:25 No.112626

>>112604
Yeah, honestly, that's probably it. Straightforward stuff.

Anonymous 08/15/23 (Tue) 03:15:00 No.112627

Youtube doesn't look that hard, it's full of idiots.
That said music production and animation would be harder I think as you are not really competing with youtubers at that point.

>>112599
Music tends to get more views as it's short and people will replay it.

Anonymous 01/20/24 (Sat) 02:54:00 No.118783>>118794

>>112574
The zundacult continues its rampage on the internet.

Anonymous 01/20/24 (Sat) 05:29:36 No.118794>>118799

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>>118783
I wonder if there's any way to effectively measure Zundamon's increase in popularity. I still remember learning of HIM two years ago now in a random stream someone linked on /jp/ because he was using it as a TTS.
Actually... I don't think I ever learned how to do that. In the program (>>90430) it was a whole bunch of work just to say a few words, but that guy was doing it live. Kissu needs a Zundamon thread reader.

Anonymous 01/20/24 (Sat) 07:31:57 No.118799

>>118794
she's made to read japanese not english
i imagine all you need to do is pass the text

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Dream Thread Anonymous 10/05/23 (Thu) 11:14:37 No.114661 [Reply]

What tales have your minds woven while you lie in slumber?

As for myself, I just had a dream in which I died. It started off with my father taking over a trip I planned out with a friend and making the experience somewhat uncomfortable. During said trip I uncovered a trait about them I hadn't known amd also apparently they had a medium sized youtube channel they'd mostly put behind them. Apparently it was discovered by a background check my father ran. Which is odd considering they were concealing themself within a black cloth the whole time. This did strike me as odd as the person in question doesn't really seem to care much. But, after that revelation I wad able to connect with their reasoning and appreciate them a bit more.

Then the dream shifted over to me and my family at the shore. We were going to enjoy the beach and also get some food first. I was looking at the donuts in a display case wondering why we weren't eating those but they insisted on going out to the downstairs breakfast bakery that I don't think would work in real life given that it'd be so easily flooded. But back on track, I'd decided to stay home and just sit in one of our trucks. Which is when another family showed up and started putting stuff in the house starting to treat it like they owned it. I told them to stop and that they didn't have any rental here at the time, but they didn't listen. The head of the house, some wicked lady I presume started to get really aggressive with me and yelling at me telling me to get lost. I was trying to tell her that my family owned the house when one of her relatives came after me and I defended myself with a wooden plank, bashing their skull. I don't quite remember the rest of the altercation but afterwards everyone was under the beds in the house and fairly injured. One of the younger children clearly had enough as she desperately reached for the shotgun besides her loaded it before firing it into the vicinity of the matriarch. Right after this she fired the second shot at her too. The matriarch keeled over and died as she asked her daughter how did she know she should've shot twice to make sure she finished the deed? The echo reverberated throughout the town and siblings/relatives of mine came to check on the situation.

I tried guiding them in or calling out to them however they mysteriously ignored me no matter how hard I tried to get their attention. I found out why soon enough as I saw my lifeless corpse on thPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

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Anonymous 12/27/23 (Wed) 19:58:44 No.117821

I had a dream yesterday where I got bitten by a venomous snake on my left arm. When I tried to pull it off it refused to let go. I wonder what it means.

Anonymous 12/27/23 (Wed) 20:00:46 No.117822

I had a dream I was living with my parents in some weird hospital park because they were running from their past

Anonymous 12/27/23 (Wed) 21:38:36 No.117823

all of my dreams recently have been nightmares. I try to forget them, but sometimes I feel like they have an important message, like warning me that I am headed to death if I don't change my ways.

Anonymous 12/30/23 (Sat) 11:20:58 No.117952

I had an incredibly strange dream/borderline nightmare today that I wanted to share. It's one of the oddest dreams I've ever had.

I'm in my house. I can't remember how the dream started but I know something is outside that is trying to harm me and trick me into opening the door. It's trying to bait me out by pretending to be a human. At first it pretended to be a family member and a couple of other things I can't remember. I do vividly remember the last thing it did though.

I look out of my back window and there is a paramedic standing there. But it's like a cardboard cutout of a person. It was talking to me but its eyes were all messed up and were looking in two directions at once. Then it went crossed eyed. A crude fake that even a child would see through. Then it slide away like someone was pulling it with a fishing line or something. Imagine a cardboard cutout of a person getting pulled with a string. That's what it looked like.

I decided I'd had enough of this game and I wasn't going to hide from it anymore. I think at this point in the dream I'd been locked inside for days without food and water or something.

I get a rifle and multiple magazines of ammo. Then I burst out of the front door rifle in hand to confront whatever has been doing this to me. There was nothing there. There weren't even animals. I looked around for awhile and decided this was not going to work so I returned to my house.

When I come back inside I go to put the rifle away in the gun safe. There is a woman I've never seen before standing naked in my bedroom. I can't remember her clearly now. I just remember that I was overcome with lust. I picked her up (she was tiny) and threw her on the bed. Then I started humping her like a jack rabbit. The last thing I remember is sucking on her neck while I'm exploding inside of her.

Wake up to soiled shorts. Strange because I shouldn't have had much seed to spill this morning (I'd fapped just before bed). I went to the bathroom to clean up still disturbed by this very odd dream.

I put on some clean underwear and returned to bed. I slept for several more hours. IT HAPPENED AGAIN. The exact same dream played on repeat with the exact same ending. I soiled my shorts again.
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Anonymous 01/20/24 (Sat) 02:43:12 No.118782

had a dream that my brother and his fiance had a baby but the baby had a gigantic head and looked weird and almost seemed like an inflatable and i wanted to poke it because it looked wrong and when i did the head deflated to a more normal size but the baby seemed like a doll or something it was really weird

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Anonymous 12/31/21 (Fri) 17:12:59 No.82602 [Reply]

HOLY FUCKING SHIT

THIS YEAR HAS BARELY STARTED AND I ALREADY LOVE IT

HOW IS THIS FUCKING REAL

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Anonymous 03/22/23 (Wed) 07:00:13 No.105499

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It really is amazing how well this show has turned out. The humor is extremely good and hits the right combination of old-style silliness that still perfects fits today. Someone said in another thread that it's a thread that makes them laugh out loud, and I feel the same way.
And the production values. Man, they're amazing. I still myself impressed looking at the animation, from Lum's electric antics to fantastical slapstick exaggeration.
If you're not watching this, you should remedy that. You don't need any knowledge of the original series.

Anonymous 03/22/23 (Wed) 18:54:27 No.105506

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(The story in this half-episode is that Ataru has a voodoo doll of Mendou on his chest but he's unaware of its powers)
Another example of the humor and great animation. This stuff is so good!
You're watching it, right? You are, right?

Anonymous 03/22/23 (Wed) 18:59:59 No.105507

Benten's ass

Anonymous 03/22/23 (Wed) 19:08:47 No.105508

I am, I just don't have much to say about it. It's good and the hair is pretty but there's not much to say about comedies
Also, I've read some of the manga and the winner is revealed relatively quickly, so there's not much reason to ship

Anonymous 01/19/24 (Fri) 06:49:38 No.118760

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SEASON TWO, BABY!
I went with the [Pizza] release which is probably the best one when it comes to appearance and maybe subs? This one episode was... 2.7gb. Hard drives are a lot bigger these days and this will probably be the most colorful show of the season, but this still hurts.
The nyaa comment said they're aiming for Tuesday releases, which is about 5 days from the default Crunchy or whatever-derived ones.

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Anonymous 01/17/24 (Wed) 13:47:51 No.118719 [Reply]>>118748

Can anyone explain why I can read a vn for 10 hours but have trouble watching an hour of a tv show or a movie? Are the stories that much better?

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Anonymous 01/18/24 (Thu) 14:37:40 No.118744

>>118741
this shab just failed me

Anonymous 01/18/24 (Thu) 17:59:52 No.118745>>118750

>>118738
There's still tons of old ones that lack an English translation though, so even if no new games are being made there will nevertheless be no shortage of 'new' releases for a long time to come.

Anonymous 01/18/24 (Thu) 23:22:40 No.118748>>118751

>>118719
you're retarded. That's why. TV shows and movies these days have the same plot as VN's but don't take 100+ hours of fluff talk and blueballing the reader just to get through the same plot points.

Anonymous 01/18/24 (Thu) 23:26:48 No.118750

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>>118745
Yeah, and those patient enough to learn Japanese also have a bunch of PC98 and other stuff that will probably never get translated. Since these all take a long time to get through, VNs will have a lot of content available fore the foreseeable future.
OEVNs are also increasing in quality with stuff like that uhh, Slay the Princess and also that sibling cannibal one with Coffin in the name. (Technically RPGM but story-heavy) so maybe there will be a strange renaissance of English speakers embracing sincerity and real storytelling and filling in the gap. I'm skeptical, but it could happen. I'm just glad to see Western people make sincere attempts at VN/RPGM instead of irony stuff.

Anonymous 01/18/24 (Thu) 23:44:35 No.118751

>>118748
>TV shows and movies these days have the same plot as VN's
Seriously?

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Western classics in Jap media Anonymous 11/26/23 (Sun) 22:34:53 No.116588 [Reply]

The other day I came across Go Nagai's adaptation of the Divine Comedy, and a lot of its illustrations struck me as rather un-manga-like. True enough, most of his large illustrations appear to be taken from Doré's art. It's a very interesting crossover.
The main change Nagai does is making characters more monstruous, you can see how he draws Charon here twice as tall as regular people and gives him blank eyes for further contrast, and to King Minos in the first circle he gives a pretty evil look with large teeth and all that.

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Anonymous 11/26/23 (Sun) 23:21:50 No.116594>>116596

Older art and stories are very minimalist in tone. Free of the bloat that make it harder to create compelling stories. Easy to appreciate across generations

Anonymous 11/27/23 (Mon) 00:02:48 No.116595

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>>116593
Yeah I can only think of stuff like the Witch Craft Works album covers parodying Kraftwerk.

Anonymous 11/27/23 (Mon) 00:44:19 No.116596

>>116593
Hmm, yeah, I mean more serious stuff.
>>116594
It's funny you'd say that about the Divine Comedy, because it is brings up over a millennium of history and myth. It's very hard to make sense of its mountain of references without any notes.

Anonymous 11/27/23 (Mon) 02:05:31 No.116598>>118599

The japanese love this stuff

Anonymous 01/13/24 (Sat) 10:17:01 No.118599

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>>116598
Especially this one.

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Anonymous 01/09/24 (Tue) 16:55:44 No.118442 [Reply]>>118588

What was your AOTY 2023?

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Anonymous 01/10/24 (Wed) 08:27:02 No.118496

>>118482
she just saw a small penis

Anonymous 01/13/24 (Sat) 02:02:43 No.118587

>>118480
MyGO isn't really a typical idol anime, it's just a drama. My favorites were mygo and skip and loafer.

Anonymous 01/13/24 (Sat) 02:10:32 No.118588

>>118442
I didn't like the anime for that series much but the manga is great

Anonymous 01/13/24 (Sat) 02:43:20 No.118589

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Kaminaki, no contest.
The first half of the show had a great setup with power levels being tied to follower count and all the tricks the humanely ruthless cult leader Yukito used in order to increase it, even after it switched gears to archon battles you still had great moments like Mitama bashing her head in furious dogeza to get the truGoddess to shut down Dakini's powers.
The hype was through the roof and people were making tons of pics, my folder has 279 files without counting the screenshots I took, and one I made got reposted over a hundred times. It's sad that there were no puppets in the end and how in the later part of the show the animation somehow got even worse, but that only speaks to the talent of these people who knew how to make full use of their budget (five Argentinean pesos). It's unbelievable that one of its best executed jokes used like four frames per minute and still managed to get hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube before the clip was taken down, when half of it didn't even exist in the manga (>>108680). Lots of great original changes that made it even more enjoyable, very bold.

Anonymous 01/13/24 (Sat) 03:43:19 No.118590

>>118465
oranges are messy so apples for me

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Anonymous 09/21/23 (Thu) 09:11:24 No.113925 [Reply]>>118488

To what extent -- if at all -- do you think people should be protected from information hazards? Should the spirit of preserving free speech supersede ethical considerations?

To be clear, I would define an information hazard as any piece of information which can reasonably be assumed to potentially result in harm to others or oneself. Many things would fall under this definition, such as instructions on the creation of a weapon to direct encouragement or instruction to commit self-harm. Taking a more broad view, there is also information that by virtue of knowing presents a tangible and credible risk to the person who knows said information -- for example, self-incriminating knowledge or, as previously mentioned, information on self-harm. I would exclude non-intrinsic sources of potential harm, such as social media, because a medium itself cannot be a source of harm, but it is instead the content within it that may harm others.

I began thinking about this after learning of a particular place that encourages and celebrates self-harm to the extent of providing information, means, and validation. I have also for a long time been under the impression that mass media reporting on certain topics, such as mass shootings, naturally increases and tacitly encourages their prevalence.

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Anonymous 01/10/24 (Wed) 02:20:00 No.118483>>118486

>>118474
>Eugenicists
It's not an apt comparison. Eugenics are, first and foremost, wrong at a scientific level. The people who advocate for that kind of thing typically fail to understand just how similar the human genome is across the entire species, and believe that you can artificially weed autism away when its causes aren't all that clear in the first place. They justified it through "scientific" racism and phrenology, warning others of imminent biological degeneration. None of it is true.

On the other hand, information is what informs one's actions, immediately. If you're inside a burning building looking for the exit and someone tells you it's to the left, you're going to run in that direction. And if they were wrong or lied to you, they're causing you tangible harm. If someone else knows it's bad information and they care about you, they're going to correct it. It's not only important to both propagate and crack down upon information as needed, it's the entire point of communication. It's why we have language, to convey this.
The Egyptians who erased Akhenaton from history thousands of years ago had no relation to other forms of censorship like that of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum or nazi book burnings, negative information control was agnostically used to meet certain ends, and will forever be used just like any other application of force. Even democracies have to deal with the paradox of tolerance, not even anarchists can escape it.

>You presuppose your curative actions will result in what you consider good. The ends aren't merely not justified by the means, but rather your ends are a non sequitur that your means will never arrive at.
And this is something you could direct at literally any kind of political decision, even inaction itself.

>>118479
>Organizations practice self-censorship because it is in their own benefit to prevent certain ideas from spreading and because they are in a position to decide what is "correct" in that space.
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Anonymous 01/10/24 (Wed) 02:42:53 No.118486

>>118483
The argument is that censorship can be beneficial to you when you or someone with the same interests as you is controlling what is censored and harmful when it is controlled by someone with interests opposed to yours.

Anonymous 01/10/24 (Wed) 03:03:13 No.118488>>118491

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>>113925
I think infohazards aren't the root issue. The problem lies in ignorance and lack of thinking on the part of people who come across such media. The internet is always going to have taboo, bad, or harmful information and there's nothing you can do about it. What we can do about it is educate people on how to handle that information safely, the most important is how to think for yourself. To a well adjusted mind with a decent moral compass who can digest this information won't be shaken by this knowledge, recognizing the words on the screen as just words and are unlikely to listen to the voices and let the intrusive thoughts win.
The dangers of infohazards are most realized in those who are unstable, skewed to an ideology, and overall unable to think and introspect themselves. A guide on making weapons could be exploited by a political extremist teetering on the edge of snapping such as Abe as >>113940 mentioned. Self-harm infohazards prey upon ill minds and weakens their reasoning barrier by persuasion and making such methods easy. Increased awareness of tragic events perpetuated by ill minds (or what glows green but that's a different topic) can spur other vulnerable people to do the same like a giant web of peer pressure. There's also things perpetuated by media and certain political ends that advocate for HRT and questioning your sexuality; it is fine to introspect and question yourself, but it only works when you come to the answer yourself, not exploited by their "correct" answer being forced upon you. Children are especially vulnerable.
I for one think that children should be sheltered from the internet and politics because they are simply too young and don't know any better. Let them gestate a little before letting them fly the coop with the tools they need to sort information. These tools are something that a lot of adults are lacking unfortunately. Children need time to grow and establish themselves as an individual, being told what to think by their schools and social media doesn't create individuals, it creates lemmings who don't know any better and become political statistics. They have been "disarmed" from their ability to think and question.
On the other hand if you think about it, if you've failed to learn *how* to think and that eatingPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Anonymous 01/10/24 (Wed) 04:54:25 No.118491>>118493

>>118488
>children should be sheltered
>being told what to think by their schools and social media doesn't create individuals, it creates lemmings who don't know any better and become political statistics
These are contradictory. A sheltered upbringing limits your available knowledge to the point where you just have to go along with what people tell you, or if you do try to break out you're totally unprepared for it. Good parenting is key to providing a safety rail as they get exposed to new, potentially dangerous ideas, but even without that the ability of a person to harm themselves, intentionally or not, increases dramatically with age.

Anonymous 01/10/24 (Wed) 06:01:35 No.118493

>>118491
By sheltered I don't mean it in its entirety. I don't want to withhold knowledge, rather I just want them to not see the wackos until they have a grasp on what normal is supposed to be. You teach them your views and morals before others. Sure it's hypocritical, but what else are you supposed to do? Letting them learn a dozen conflicting views and expose them to ideologies before they have a solid understanding on what death is just doesn't feel right.
I agree with you on good parenting, context information is important and you just don't get that from exploring the internet by yourself, you need to be there with them providing this safety rail and answering and elaborating on questions they ask. The internet can be a soapbox for a minority to seem larger than it actually is, and the deluge of garbage on social medias like tiktok and twitter can make it seem like that is normal and expected, without context—i.e. not knowing any better—they could believe that's normal and try mimicking it as children are want to do because they want to fit in and be accepted. Teaching common sense also goes a long way in keeping their head on straight.

The schooling thing is from my own experience growing up and the public school I went to, it's all anecdotal and I understand that not every school is like this. Short and simple they didn't want to teach children to be well adjusted adults capable of caring for themselves, they wanted to prepare you for a desk job where you don't have ambition and bow to authority. Keep your head down, don't ask questions, and go ask your parents to teach you cursive, how to use tools, cook, etc. because we cut home economics and shop classes from the curriculum to siphon more funding to our board of directors.

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Anonymous 11/28/23 (Tue) 01:00:54 No.116620 [Reply]

Q: Why is Spy x Family s2 better than 1?
A: Because it's the Yor season

Seriously, I can't get enough of this cutie draped in crimson. Not to mention the way the spy gags are interwoven into the plotline without breaking the flow, or how competent this more serious story is for what on the surface looks like a mainly comedy anime. It's an absolute love letter to the genre and I in turn love it, and relish in the popularity it's found itself. How about /qa/, are you enjoying the increased screentime for best girl?

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Anonymous 12/18/23 (Mon) 23:25:13 No.117472>>117473

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I'm glad we've all come to the same conclusion and Yor is our collective favorite. You know how you can tell? Yor gets a serious thread on /qa/ whereas Becky gets a throwaway one on /jp/ (the smelly board).
Indeed, let's all stop to appreciate Yor for a moment.

Anonymous 12/18/23 (Mon) 23:31:31 No.117473

>>117472
They're two different audiences

Anonymous 12/22/23 (Fri) 22:44:37 No.117597>>118430

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I really, really like how SxF does misunderstandings.
It's not just a matter of setting up some jokes, you have multiple people in the same space actively trying to accomplish different things and constantly speculating, extrapolating this or that, for both srs and comedy. And really, that's why Anya's telepathic power stands out: she's not powerful like Yor or resourceful like Loid, she's just a regular child that constantly misunderstands stuff, but she's able to gather tons of information that others don't have any access to.

Take the whole sequence in the vacation arc (ep 31/32) where Yor has to fight against the chain guy in the hallway: first, from afar Anya picks up on Barnaby's intent to kill his targets, but she doesn't want Loid to find out because she thinks it'll cause a breakup, so she exploits his goal of keeping her happy by making him buy more souvenirs.
Then, when the fight begins, Yor's immediate goal is to dispose of the guy as fast as possible without making too much of a scene, and especially to not be seen by her family. So Anya feigns ignorance, pretending she doesn't know it's Yor and telling everyone it's just a performance. It works wonderfully.

And from last week's episode: Becky wants to make Loid fall in love with her, Loid wants to get info out of Becky, and Yor wants everyone to be safe and sound, while Anya is more of a bystander. But Becky doesn't know that they don't know she's trying to court Loid, and generally doesn't understand what she's doing, so she keeps trying to escalate her seduction attempts.
After she comes clean with her plan and tells Yor about it, Becky gets the idea that Loid likes strong women, so she goes and tries to achieve a high score in the strength test. Yor simply thinks that she's trying to get the prize, and so wrecks the machine. Becky then misinterprets Loid's shock as proof of his attraction, and thus the mission ends with Yor giving her some martial training. I expect that to be brought up again in the future.

Anonymous 01/09/24 (Tue) 07:01:22 No.118428>>118430

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Why is Yor so shit? She ruined the whole season.

Anonymous 01/09/24 (Tue) 07:50:21 No.118430

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>>117597
That's a good way of putting it. Seeing the story from a variety of angles is a good strength of the show. Classic comedy stuff that also plays into the seriousness.

>>118428
You got a lot of guts posting that here. Yor was a great highlight of the season.

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Anonymous 01/05/24 (Fri) 14:45:00 No.118198 [Reply]>>118253

What's there to do on the internet?
Online conversations feel too superficial and all it does it only make me lonely.

I'm unironically considering to touch grass.

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Anonymous 01/06/24 (Sat) 01:54:59 No.118252>>118284

>>118251
I'm glad that site's dying, because I feel like 90% of the bad habits internet people have nowadays can be attributed to that site and its format.

Anon 01/06/24 (Sat) 02:15:43 No.118253

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>>118198
I used to think internet friends weren't real and I still do somewhat but recently I started thinking that the fleeting good times I have with them don't feel much different from the good times I had with people from school that I don't see anymore. As long as I don't get too invested in them they are ok.
>>118215
This too, I wouldn't want to talk about my masturbation habits with others irl. I don't see how online conversations are more superficial overall

Anonymous 01/06/24 (Sat) 13:45:10 No.118284>>118285

>>118250
>I think I give too much of my time and get less in return.
Ah, so unfulfilled? I can see why that'd happen.
>>118252
I don't think it's 90%, a lot has been contributed by Reddit and 4chan as well.

Anonymous 01/06/24 (Sat) 14:02:31 No.118285

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>>118284
reddit is a dying site, increasingly becoming more bot-like too.

Anonymous 01/07/24 (Sun) 20:41:57 No.118353

The reason a lot of people desire IRL interaction is for two reasons, aside from the fact people have heavily used it for years and are tired of it because there's no way to really log-off.

1. There's a lot of people to talk to and form meaningful relationships with, but they all want to talk to you in some proprietary datamining service, and most of the users in things like element and those FOSS clones of social media can be very weird and offputting.

2. Everyone's the same when you're not trying to make e-friends. Online (and IRL to some degree), it feels like people have been boiled down to archetypes. Everything's fucking cancerman or variants. Or anime. Or extremist politics. etc.

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Dungeon Meshi Anonymous 01/04/24 (Thu) 15:25:44 No.118165 [Reply]

Did you like the first episode?

Anonymous 01/04/24 (Thu) 18:10:14 No.118166

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It was unexpectedly uneventful, 90% of it being talking about RPG and/or food autism with a lot of levity around that first scene. But the premise of constantly fighting and scavenging their way through the dungeon kinda a la MiA is interesting, and given how well-regarded the manga is I'm willing to give it a shot.

Anonymous 01/04/24 (Thu) 19:00:55 No.118167

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Lots of people seem excited about this, or at least enough people for me to notice, but I'm a little skeptical. It would be something I'd likely pass over when scanning the list of seasonals if not for its reputation. I'm holding off until I can try a few shows at once so I can't give any impressions yet. My only experience with the source material is probably like that of others: reaction images in unrelated threads.
In general shows about food/eating are a miss for me since I can't really appreciate food as an art as much as the Japanese, but if it's more about the experience of finding/preparing/sharing and relaxing around food then I can get behind it.

Anonymous 01/04/24 (Thu) 19:33:49 No.118168

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Interesting to see her drawing Planescape fanart of all things:
https://nisiryu.blogspot.com/2020/11/i-killed-jumble-murdersense.html
One of the seven pieces of Annah art that boorus have. Made some portaits for the old Baldur's Gate, too:
https://nisiryu.blogspot.com/2020/04/baldurs-gate-1_20.html

Anonymous 01/04/24 (Thu) 20:35:37 No.118171

Overall I enjoyed it. It was fun learning about what parts of the monsters are most delicious and how to cook them. It's hard not to like when you're a foodie and a fan of fantasy series.

Anonymous 01/05/24 (Fri) 00:44:08 No.118176

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I liked it a lot, and it made me really, really, want to make hot pot.

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Anonymous 01/03/24 (Wed) 02:01:42 No.118080 [Reply]

I am convinced that cell phones have reached a level where they can read the end user's mind without relying on verbal or typed in data. Some examples that have happened to me recently;

I was sleeping in the middle of the day like a NEET when I was woken by a loud bang. I thought something had fallen on the house so I ran out the back door to check. Nothing was there. I went back to sleep for several hours.

When I woke up I went in the bathroom and saw that my shower curtain bar had fallen again. Which explained the loud bang (this happens often). I took my old phone in there with me so I could read shitposts while shitting as I do everyday. I ended up watching some youtube videos.

What is youtube shilling to me in the ads?
>Click here to get list of local roofers and roof repair tips!

Back around Christmas my father came over which is rare. I see him maybe once a month now. He didn't come into the house we were just talking on my porch for maybe 2 minutes. I mentioned to him that I'd been looking at buying a simulator wheel+gearbox+pedals and thinking about getting started with playing iRacing. Which is a pay-for subscription service for sim racing.

On Christmas day we all met at my Grandmother's house for breakfast and dinner. My Dad mentioned to me that since that conversion his phone had been shilling ads to him for Sim racing gear and steering wheels. I didn't have my phone on me at the time we were talking on my porch and he said his was in his car.

A couple of days ago the temperature dropped really low in our area and I had the heater turned down because the bill gets high if I run it too much when the temperature is below freezing outside. I was laying on the couch watching videos and shitposting with my old smart phone that hasn't had service in years (can only use wifi). I had two blankets covering me and my head under the covers because it's warmer that way. What does youtube start shilling?
>Click here to find local HVAC repairman in your area! Don't freeze this winter get your heat fixed now!
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Anonymous 01/04/24 (Thu) 06:10:52 No.118151

>>118150
Yes and it's impossible to run it on AppleTV device unless you've jailbroken it. Which you can't do on AppleTVs produced after 2019 or so because they removed the USB port. Now you have to crack them open an solder directly to the PCB and I'm too lazy to deal with that.

Anonymous 01/04/24 (Thu) 21:59:34 No.118173

>>118147
That's cool and all, but they never said anything about mind reading or any of that stuff either way. The burden of proof is on whoever made the claim, and in this case that's you.

Anonymous 01/04/24 (Thu) 22:47:28 No.118174

had a schizopost to make but i forgot

or they made me forget

Anonymous 03/07/24 (Thu) 14:47:05 No.120792>>135482

to think I can't escape from kuso eye symbolism even in kissu

Anonymous 11/26/24 (Tue) 00:03:27 No.135482

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>>120792

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Do you really need a dedicated to-do list app? Anonymous 01/03/24 (Wed) 07:47:35 No.118098 [Reply]

These are really popular, and I don't get it. Is there any reason to use one of these instead of just writing the to-do list in your synced note-taking application, another thing everyone in the productivity treadmill seems to have? I guess notifications are the main difference, but you should be relying on your calendar app for that.
Or barring that, a piece of notebook paper and a pen?

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Anonymous 01/03/24 (Wed) 17:28:00 No.118118

Note to self: Make sarcastic comment towards the first poster later.

Anonymous 01/03/24 (Wed) 19:57:53 No.118121>>118124

Note to self: Learn to use emacs and become more productive later.

Anonymous 01/03/24 (Wed) 21:13:25 No.118124>>118127

>>118121
real talk, what would i use this for

Anonymous 01/03/24 (Wed) 21:27:54 No.118127

>>118124
a substitute for notepad++

Anonymous 01/03/24 (Wed) 22:05:26 No.118129

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I feel like I would benefit from this if I had more things 'to do'. Notepad does work for remembering stuff at least and I keep it open when I go to bed if there's something I'm supposed to remember the next day.
I think the benefit of a program for something like this would be timed reminders at the least, or on the extreme end it could be like those things that block access to specific websites for certain periods of time. You could have a "clean the bathroom" reminder pop-up and it locks you out of hobby sites for 30 minutes to heavily encourage you to do it. I think that would be interesting.

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Anonymous 12/31/23 (Sun) 15:21:28 No.118010 [Reply]>>118013 >>118071

When imagining things, particularly when imagining scenarios, do you see things from a first-person perspective or do you imagine things as if you were a camera viewing the area?

Anonymous 12/31/23 (Sun) 15:34:36 No.118011>>118013

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If I consider how I remember my dreams, probably both. When I imagine something and I don't see myself in it maybe that's in first-person, but a lot of the time I'll tend to also picture myself, but not myself. I don't know if it's myself because I never really clearly see myself in my imagination, at least never the self I see in the mirror. I don't know why that is. I can imagine and walk through a detailed layout of all the homes I've been into often and picture family members well, but not myself.

Anonymous 12/31/23 (Sun) 15:52:32 No.118013

>>118010
I can do both. Depends on what I'm doing at the time.

>>118011
>mirror
This takes a lot of practice. I think it's hard because you have to imagine the same object from both 1st and 3rd person at the same time. It took me months before I could do it without instantly waking up.

Anonymous 12/31/23 (Sun) 18:12:51 No.118014

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I'd say it's almost exclusively the "camera" thing since the object/person/environment's properties are what I'm imagining and not my view of them. I guess it's more likely that I imagine my view if it actually directly involves me, but I don't do that very often. I think that's usually for sexual stuff, heh.

Anonymous 01/03/24 (Wed) 00:16:53 No.118071

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>>118010
I tend to flick back and forth. Your first person perspective, a single point of view. It seems like a waste to not look at things from other views and angles. I do think it's funny that some people think that imagining themselves with their waifu from any other POV than 1st is cutieoldry.

Anonymous 01/03/24 (Wed) 01:44:20 No.118079

first-person because that's what I'm used to

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