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Anonymous 09/26/24 (Thu) 05:45:43 No.133641 [Reply]

Anonymous 09/26/24 (Thu) 05:57:24 No.133642

patchy eat

Anonymous 09/26/24 (Thu) 13:45:37 No.133656

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Eating a whole pizza in one go is basically like eating an unwrapped burrito, nothing wrong with that.

Anonymous 09/26/24 (Thu) 16:00:52 No.133658

what an absolute dweeb

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JRPGs vs WRPGs Anonymous 01/30/23 (Mon) 02:48:22 No.103116 [Reply]

So /qa/, which is it? Do you stay true to your Japanese spirit or are the enticements from the west just too alluring?

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Anonymous 07/25/23 (Tue) 23:34:47 No.111633

>>111631
>so why is it suddenly weird to do that with games?
that's what was discussed above...

Anonymous 07/25/23 (Tue) 23:38:07 No.111634

>>107509
I don't play WRPGs too often, but I'll play female if I can play third person and use lots of different sexy armor, I guess. If there's romance stuff then I'll usually play a guy, especially if it's first-person and/or you make a lot of decision to make him "you". This is also a bigger deal in Japanese games when romance is locked to opposite gender, so you can't be a cute girl in Harvest Moon games and marry a cute girl. I guess that's not really an RPG, though.

Anonymous 07/26/23 (Wed) 08:00:53 No.111647

>>107509
I get more invested into JRPGs and explore more, read all the lore I can, unlock all the content I can etc. But with western games I don't really do that as it's not as interesting.

Anonymous 07/26/23 (Wed) 08:07:25 No.111648

>>105242
>>105203
It is in a way but it's hard to get people to understand what genre you mean without it, but also "RPG from japan" can mean a lot of games. "jrpg" has stereotypes associated with it (most of which have faded since the 2000s), but I guess the association still remains? See Yahtzee. I'm kind of surprised he's never faced accusation of xenophobia or outright racism for the way he feels about Japanese games as whole.
They should complain about this more.

Anonymous 09/25/24 (Wed) 23:30:38 No.133620

>>103116
I like JRPGs more just because they're usually simpler. I've always enjoyed games that let you get into them with less effort on your part more.
WRPGs are generally more intricate affairs that try and give you a lot of mechanics to work with and immerse yourself in the world, but that far too often comes at a major playability cost.

>>103197
honestly, I always thought line-of-descent was the most useful one (at least, most useful for defining JRPGs -- any game that is structurally or mechanically descended from Dragon Quest is probably a candidate to be called a JRPG)
it's not perfect, but genres are almost never perfect

>>105242
it probably is, but that doesn't make it less usefully descriptive
it could be worse, you could absolutely be calling these games "DQ-likes", which is way harsher of a label

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Spice and Wolf Anonymous 04/10/24 (Wed) 18:48:32 No.122873 [Reply]

Kissu people are talking Spice and Wolf quite a bit lately in relation to the remake, so I decided to watch the original. I'm still in the process of marathoning it, but I can definitely see why people like it so much. I avoided it because of the merchant stuff which I HATE, but the parts unrelated to spreading human misery are very good!
"Why did you make the thread before you finished it?" you might ask. Well, because my neck hurts from laying in bed watching it for 6 hours and I don't want to go into spoiler territory in the OP.

Anyway, I figure a centralized place to talk about the show and manga and whatever else might be a good idea since people are so eager to talk about it (including me now!)

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Anonymous 05/12/24 (Sun) 04:17:26 No.124300

oh shit i deleted the post like a tard.....

Anonymous 05/12/24 (Sun) 08:32:50 No.124312

's why i call them deletards

Anonymous 06/27/24 (Thu) 07:02:33 No.129248

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I haven't posted in this thread in a while, but the remake is going pretty well. I like how you see furry Holo more, and the music is of course fantastic.
I don't think the recent episodes changed much from the original, but my memory for this stuff isn't the best. The purple lighting was an interesting style choice, but not one I would have chosen. It of clashes with the muted colors, but that's probably the intention.
The cute moments are still good, but the romantic stuff really isn't here yet so I can't judge that part. Her voice is still amazing.
I liked the second part more so I guess the true test is yet to come.

Anonymous 09/24/24 (Tue) 03:51:41 No.133540

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I have to say that the second half of this been a bore to me. Lots of economic/merchant stuff that bores me to death. However, the second to last episode had some nice focus on Holo again.
But, there's some MAJOR news!

SEASON TWO!
https://anilist.co/anime/181951/Ookami-to-Koushinryou-MERCHANT-MEETS-THE-WISE-WOLF-2nd-Season/

The past few episodes have been different from the anime (never read the LN) so it already seemed like it was going in a new direction, so now a second new season is going to bring forth lots of new anime content! PLEASE FOCUS ON HOLO AND NOT STUPID MERCHANTS!

Anonymous 09/24/24 (Tue) 15:27:57 No.133544

There is the spice part of spice and Wolf...

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Anonymous 09/22/24 (Sun) 08:19:36 No.133478 [Reply]

Would you pick freedom over love?

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Anonymous 09/22/24 (Sun) 11:36:51 No.133480

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Wihtout love it cannot be seen.

Anonymous 09/22/24 (Sun) 12:45:35 No.133481

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I choose both

Anonymous 09/22/24 (Sun) 16:27:36 No.133487

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>>133481
You cannot. Love is constriction, the only way to have it is to give up your wandering and return home.

Anonymous 09/22/24 (Sun) 16:52:10 No.133489

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the love of freedom, the freedom to love
wow, I'm poetic

Anonymous 09/22/24 (Sun) 19:19:37 No.133499

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Love, but first:

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Anonymous 09/21/24 (Sat) 20:40:58 No.133452 [Reply]

weensperm boson

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Anonymous 09/21/24 (Sat) 20:50:19 No.133455

>>133454
this tenshi spermed all over me with her corndog then flew away.......

Anonymous 09/21/24 (Sat) 23:09:30 No.133462

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Anonymous 09/21/24 (Sat) 23:37:57 No.133463

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>>133455
Flan has your back

Anonymous 09/22/24 (Sun) 07:16:29 No.133475

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>>133462
Why is she making that face?

Anonymous 09/22/24 (Sun) 07:29:12 No.133476

>>133462
what is that left hand placement, its not going to catch anything that's gonna fall off of the doggy

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Anonymous 03/11/24 (Mon) 23:42:07 No.121436 [Reply]

People have complained in the past about a catalog-centric way of viewing boards on /qa/, but is it really that bad of a thing for some people to have it as their default view? As a primary benefit, I'd say that browsing from the catalog tends to increase the use of threads past the first page and keeps new eyes on threads. I think that this really helps to promote more long lasting discussion than pure index viewing does.

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Anonymous 03/12/24 (Tue) 15:30:38 No.121490

>>121483
>at the expense of only seeing responses if the OP image/initial text grabs you enough to make you hover over it.
That is precisely what I was referring to, implicitly.
That's why there was a "therefore" at the start of the sentence.
I omitted a comparison to indexed view because I was not sure if there was a decent generalization to make.

Anonymous 03/13/24 (Wed) 01:25:08 No.121524

I've found that how much I feel inclined to use the catalog is an accurate indicator of a board's overall quality. On good sites I enjoy scrolling through the index, but on shitboards I'll almost always use the catalog to single out the couple of threads I'm actually interested in.

Anonymous 03/13/24 (Wed) 03:56:18 No.121531

I read over GNUS

Anonymous 09/22/24 (Sun) 01:39:18 No.133466

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The catalog is good and I use /all/ a lot. What I really like is the thread viewer thing above the reply box where you can tab through older threads. It's how I found this one, just wish it would show latest replies when you hover over them.

Anonymous 09/22/24 (Sun) 01:48:25 No.133467

>>133466
That might be a neat feature to insert as well, and would probably give people more ideas for things to reply to.

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Anonymous 09/05/24 (Thu) 01:03:08 No.132983 [Reply]

If vern likes Chinese culture so much, how come he hasn't played the new Taiwanese metroidvania to show his support for their indie studios? Or does the sight of a fox make the vermin scatter?

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Anonymous 09/13/24 (Fri) 04:08:03 No.133169

>>133168
Also the final boss is fucking impossible

Anonymous 09/14/24 (Sat) 02:41:50 No.133184

>>133169
I've been on this boss for at least 6 hours and I can get to phase 3 semi-consistently...

Anonymous 09/18/24 (Wed) 05:30:54 No.133330

>>132993
>>133141
>>133168
This looks really fun. Been looking for something like this since I finished Hollow Knight. Parry mechanics look sexy and I'm all for the aesthetic.
My only problem is that I can't take the chinese language seriously because it sounds like onomatopoeia salad; like any tension in the story is instantly deflated when you know the guy's name is something like Ding Dong. But it's just a minor qualm and wont stop me from playing.

Anonymous 09/18/24 (Wed) 12:23:59 No.133339

>>133330
That was my one worry going into it too, but there's not really that much fully narrated dialogue, and the style of it is usually more Zelda-ish so I treat it like that.

Anonymous 09/21/24 (Sat) 01:55:09 No.133429

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I have... improved.

That final boss (the true ending version) was so fucking hard and beyond the difficulty of anything else in the game it's not even close holy crap. THREE PHASES that are all on their own more difficult to get used to and overcome than all of the other bosses combined. I really feel accomplished now.

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Dragon's Dogma 2 Anonymous 03/22/24 (Fri) 06:18:05 No.121911 [Reply]

Played DD2. Some fps issues in the main city, and at infrequent moments out in the world, but aside from that was at a frequent 60+ with RTX on. From what I can see the whole "Mostly Negative" thing on steam is from people getting outraged over mtx that are basically the same thing that Capcom's done in all their other games and people that have more major performance issues. Aside from that I've been having a lot of fun, the game's good. Opening isn't as bombastic as the first though so some people may take issue with that, and there's a bit of minor nitpicks that people may have, but on the whole it's still the same good DD gameplay that people know and love. Supposedly with a much longer story and bigger map if leaks are to be believed.

I made a Fern pawn as you can't make loli ones anymore so Schierke wasn't possible. She got a fair bit of usage so far.

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Anonymous 09/01/24 (Sun) 02:56:37 No.132832

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These days the potential for non-AAA games is much higher than AAA, so someone leaving a company can be a boon to future games. AA should probably be the standard when it comes to big releases, with "indies" serving as the vanguard for niche stuff that can explore more options.

Anonymous 09/20/24 (Fri) 18:55:15 No.133422

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https://steamcommunity.com/games/2054970/announcements/detail/6976727636231899160
There's a big patch out that seems focused on fixes and balance. I was waiting for something like this, but was beginning to lose hope in such a thing. I'm not sure how fat this would go in fixing everything, but it's good that they looked at it.

Looks like it added a new "Casual Mode' difficulty which I don't have any interest in, but I have to wonder why this is part of a difficulty choice:
>Less Stamina expended when dashing outside of battle.

How does that relate to difficulty at all? I remember in the first one, PC had mods to eliminate stamina use for running outside of combat. It offers no combat benefit, it just lets you move around the map faster. Pure quality of life.

Anonymous 09/20/24 (Fri) 23:52:10 No.133425

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>>133422
>I'm not sure how fat this would go

Anonymous 09/21/24 (Sat) 00:20:12 No.133426

>>133422
Doesn't really seem like it does much if it's just minor tweaks and adjustments to everything. What the game really needed was increased variety of monsters and more boss monsters to fight. Also more natural means of movement and less fast travel. Then with such a huge island some more exploration rewards would've been great. The classes in terms of skills needed a bit more spice to them too.

Anonymous 09/21/24 (Sat) 00:40:38 No.133427

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>>133425
oops

>>133426
Oh. Well, that's probably too much to expect from a patch. That would probably be something tied to an expansion, if they make one like they did for the original.

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Anonymous 09/16/24 (Mon) 08:33:53 No.133251 [Reply]

How do I stop becoming jaded? Every time I find a new hobby or interest, after I spend enough time with it I inevitably encounter the "community" surrounding it and become exposed to people and ideas that make me disgusted with the thing I initially liked. I'm beginning to believe that the only correct solution is to avoid developing an attachment to anything beyond a surface level interest.

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Anonymous 09/19/24 (Thu) 02:57:27 No.133382

>>133364
Also, why would people think that there were print works that are not cannon?

Anonymous 09/19/24 (Thu) 23:54:03 No.133413

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Off topic two hoe lore sperging, gomenasai OP:
>>133381
One note villain who is notable for being one of few to die on screen. The context is a Fortune Teller believed Humans were absolutely fucked in Gensokyo and so he rejected his Humanity and turned himself into a Youkai. In his genius he manifested within earshot of the Shrine Maiden Reimu and she saw him standing behind the body of her friend. Long story short she chases him out, he gives his monologue, and tells Reimu that she should let him go because 'trust me bro' he won't hurt anyone. To his surprise she didn't buy it and exterminated him. You can read the chapter here for the fuller context: https://mangadex.org/chapter/db650e2b-d4a3-43c6-95b8-ea617f257c5c
The filename is just a funny jab at his nativity and the joke that he didn't do anything wrong is sarcasm.
>>133382
The argument is based on retcons. The portrayal in earlier printworks don't match up 1:1 to the later printworks. One example is that PMiSS (Perfect Memento in Strict Sense) mentions that there are Youkai exterminators and that Reimu is just the most notable and spellcard rules allows weak Humans to challenge Youkai, but we don't see any exterminators other than our protagonists; so 'obviously' earlier works like PMiSS must no longer be canon and Humans are no more than helpless cattle quaking in fear.

Anonymous 09/20/24 (Fri) 02:26:05 No.133416

>>133413
I still don't get it. I don't see why that's bait or what's controversial about it.

That's not a retcon. First of all, Akyuu is not a 100% reliable source and doesn't know everything. Secondly, Gensokyo is a big place, thirdly Reimu is of course the protagonist so naturally we will see her and not other exterminators and fourth and finally, most Youkai are not as strong as the Youkai that cause incidents and that Reimu has to fight in the ganmes so most exterminators probably aren't as strong as Reimu either and most of that kind of thing is probably fairly unremarkable. Kind of like how when Reimu(or Marissa) kills Youkai in the printworks it is fairly unremarkable.

If that's the biggest 'retcon' that people can find then I would say Touhou lore is actually fairly consistent.

Anonymous 09/20/24 (Fri) 02:55:23 No.133417

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can't relate at all either i embrace it or let it go but i've never grown bitter or jaded from it
>>133333
was looking through all of 4chan's boards back on september 7 and on /jp/ I SAW IT and thought they wouldn't get the reference but now returning to the thread it turns out they did
>I must admit recently there's not been a lot of interesting threads
very obviously written two weeks ago
still unsure whether someone not on the know would get that pissu is a nickname
ps good number
>>133413
>notable for being one of few to die on screen

Anonymous 09/20/24 (Fri) 06:48:00 No.133418

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We all know the real reason why the Fortune Teller got killed was because he didn't turn himself into a cute girl.

Anonymous 09/19/24 (Thu) 05:05:24 No.133386 [Reply]

Would you say that Skyrim was actually a good game?

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Anonymous 09/19/24 (Thu) 13:45:20 No.133400

>>133399
I think Assassins Creed and Farcry caused that, not Skyrim.

Anonymous 09/19/24 (Thu) 14:51:18 No.133403

skyrim is an action rpg that manages to have terrible action AND abysmal rpg anything in this way it harmonizes its two sides
>>133399
>especially for the time
after morrowind, oblivion, fo3, and fnv? nah lmao

Anonymous 09/19/24 (Thu) 17:14:25 No.133405

Yes I had a lot of fun

Anonymous 09/19/24 (Thu) 17:18:35 No.133406

>>133399
Let's not forget that it also created the idea of mandatory or expected modding support and that the games are infallable because modders can fix their problems later. The concept of mods also entered the normie sphere which meant monetization wasn't far behind, and bethesda took advantage of that with their creation club. Why pay your own devs to make piecemeal DLC when you can toss a thousand bucks at some modder to make it for you?

Anonymous 09/19/24 (Thu) 17:56:50 No.133407

Sidebar: Mods shouldn't be paywalled in general, should be obvious why.

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Anonymous 09/18/24 (Wed) 20:15:38 No.133345 [Reply]

What would happen if we made it a requirement for girls to have at least one child to graduate from compulsory education, two to get a college degree, and three for a graduate degree? Would it work to counter the tendency of wealthier, higher-educated people to have fewer children? Or the fears about career development being hampered by the year of vacation?

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Anonymous 09/19/24 (Thu) 04:14:05 No.133385

When girls become such a liability (they either become uneducated NEETs or endure the double stress of education and caretaking) average people will just sell them for quick money to the rich who can afford caretakers, or more likely not having children in the first place if such practice is illegal.

So yes, it might work to increase the family size of the rich, but at a cost of massive reduction of total births.

Anonymous 09/19/24 (Thu) 06:44:15 No.133393

Just the thought of a big preggo belly in a JK uniform gives me a huge boner

Anonymous 09/19/24 (Thu) 11:34:08 No.133396

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I wanna rub a big preggo belly

Anonymous 09/19/24 (Thu) 11:54:27 No.133397

>>133396
FAT FUCK

Anonymous 09/19/24 (Thu) 20:48:00 No.133411

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>#jp

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Anonymous 09/16/24 (Mon) 05:21:47 No.133244 [Reply]

Just finished the main campaign for Space Marine 2 and it was almost great. I liked the first one and this game felt like I was playing a sequel that released only a few years after the first one, in a good way, for about 85% of the game. My primary complaint, the main campaign content feels too short for a $60 game. I finished it in 9hrs on the 2nd highest difficulty. Also the ending of the campaign felt half baked compared to the rest of the game; not that it was terrible but it become a lot cheesier and the story beats seemed like the authors were working on time budget and had to wrap things up.

I wished the tomb world was more awoken and we got to fight the necrons too. There's an audio log, collectable that even suggests as much should be happening.

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Anonymous 09/16/24 (Mon) 07:32:59 No.133250

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>>133245
I just purged this shab.

Anonymous 09/16/24 (Mon) 09:10:16 No.133254

>>133245
I bit this shab before >>133250 purged it.

Anonymous 09/16/24 (Mon) 15:31:48 No.133258

>>133246
On the first week of release

Anonymous 09/16/24 (Mon) 16:25:18 No.133259

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Thousand Sons as the antagonists were neat, nice to see something other than Khorne or Nurgle again.
Shame Imurah wasn't a lore accurate femboy.

Anonymous 09/17/24 (Tue) 07:07:53 No.133299

Xenos species sidelined by chaos again. Other than that it looked fine, I'd have to grab it on a steep sale though. Multiplayer doesn't sell for me.

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Anonymous 09/16/24 (Mon) 17:17:31 No.133260 [Reply]

So I forgot I had a Madokami account that I hadn't logged into years but somehow something put it into my head again, and I go to login and manage to get it with the first try despite it long being out of my browsing routine. No "check your email or phone for verification" no "You must reset your password" No suspicious login blocked!" or even a "Your account has been disabled due to inactivity" even.

Why can't the rest of the web be this good still? Things should just werk.

Anonymous 09/16/24 (Mon) 19:07:40 No.133263

i'd imagine it's because its users aren't getting phished (small pool of people that's hard to target + no monetary gain + no connection to other accounts) and they just don't give enough of a fuck to change anything
while other sites want to either prevent fuckery or add some barriers to make them less responsible for others getting hacked

Anonymous 09/17/24 (Tue) 02:49:50 No.133285

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From what I've heard it's a site that's quite comfortable with the idea that it might disappear forever in the next 5 minutes and no one really cares. I'm not a manga guy so I never bothered signing up, but I think there's a lot of people in OP's situation as it's fallen into disuse. It's not going to have an active account help system because there's no one there to run it. My assumption is that it's just on autopilot with someone paying the bills and not paying attention, like many older sites.

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Anonymous 09/16/24 (Mon) 19:25:32 No.133264 [Reply]

"They" don't want you to divide vectors by vectors, but it's one of the easiest to understand operations you can define. We'd like a scalar q that makes qB = A, but that's not always possible, so pick the value of q that gets as close as possible, minimizing the size of the remainder R = A - qB. This happens when qB is the component of A parallel to B, and R is the component of A perpendicular to B. We'll call q the scalar quotient and write it as A/B.

Anonymous 09/16/24 (Mon) 20:16:17 No.133265

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the world will END before +++THEY+++ get me to learn math

Anonymous 09/16/24 (Mon) 20:27:26 No.133266

This is something "they" would like to keep a secret from you, but new research indicates there never was any demographic collapse on Easter Island. It never happened, it was a hoax.
Look up "ancient rapanui genomes", you'll find what I'm talking about.

Anonymous 09/16/24 (Mon) 22:44:54 No.133280

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