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File:[Yabure Kabure] Non Non Bi….jpg (452.28 KB,1920x1080)

 No.105227[Reply][Last50 Posts]

Do you have any experience gardening?
I decided that I'm going to attempt gardening this year. My dad grew up on a farm and we had crops in the backyard when I was a kid. I still have the old tilling machine that's in good shape and some other rusty tools, but I don't have a hammer to mine silver from nearby rocks so I won't be able to upgrade the stuff.
I think it's too late for my geographic location to start growing early Spring stuff from seeds, so I need to buy some that are already a few weeks old from a local nursery, or maybe online? This stuff sounds kind of fun as long as your expectations are reasonable.
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 No.159129

>>159083
Looks like a cucumber

 No.159131

>>159083
It's a liz- oh.

 No.159938

File:here we go.jpg (1.16 MB,3364x1152)

I'm going to try growing some stuff inside, just out of curiosity. I still have my big growth light thing, so I'm going to try going some lemon balm, oregano, and agastache (nice minty smell), parsley and maybe MAYBE get some celery going.
I really struggled to get celery from a seed, but if my success rate is 5% I'll still have a few plants.
Maybe.

The growing medium is coconut coir and that's the weird fibers you see here.

 No.159939

>>159938
Thought it was brownies in the cooking thread from the thumbnail (・q・)

 No.159941

>>159939
Coconut fibers might be edible! They're high in fiber. Maybe.




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 No.156908[Reply]

Anyone else notice the animals acting strangely lately? Some observations from my local area;

1) The deer have lost all fear of humans and traffic. I got so close to a doe today that I could have petted it. The young buck that comes to my yard to eat corn every afternoon walks right up to the porch now. Deer are standing next to the highway staring at traffic. Saw one stand in the middle of the highway for over 5 minutes a few days ago. Line of cars stopped and honking and he couldn't have cared less.

2) The rabbits seem to have lost their fear of people too. I petted a wild hare about a week ago. They casually munch on clover even if you walk right next to them.

3) The squirrels no longer seem to be afraid of my cats.

4) The birds sing at night now but don't sing loudly in the mornings. I only have one singing at sun rise regularly now. In fact, I seem to have few birds coming around in general. Even the crows are no longer keeping to their usual schedule they've had for years.

5) Crickets and frogs aren't singing at night like they used to. I don't hear many of them and when I do they're isolated to only a couple of areas. Every year before this one the night was really really loud. Like almost impossible to sleep with the windows open. Now it's almost as quiet as the dead of winter when there is snow on the ground.

6) Various misc. strange encounters with other animals since spring. Found multiple deer that have just laid down to die somewhere. Walk up on them and they're covered in flies and look to be dead. But when you get close they're just zonked out and struggling to breath. Had to put a couple down already. Can walk right up to them and they don't care at all.

Something is up and I don't know what it could be.
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 No.159858

Bumping this to say I've noticed an extreme lack of lighting bugs (fireflys) this year. Used to be the fields and my yard would be full of thousands of them in the summer. Now I only see one or two at a time. Lonely lighting bugs can't find any girl lightening bugs to have sex with.

 No.159859

>>159858
Bugs just no longer exist.

 No.159866

>>159859
I feel so bad about catching a bunch in a jar as a child just for them to die before morning. We thought it was cool to have lighting jars. Everyone did it and our parents encouraged it.

 No.159868

I wish I could help animals better. On Monday I saw a lone slug on a busy and extremely hot sidewalk, but I was feeling too socially awkward and embarrassed to grab it and throw it into the bushes. I felt bad the whole day about that and still do, even if it's "just a slug".
I also have this problem where I can't really be happy about seeing cute strays or feral animals in person, my mind always goes to a place of worry that they might fall prey to something or get run over. There's a mole hill right outside my window and I get stressed thinking about the lawnmower guy coming again soon, even though moles are most likely smart enough to stay underground during that time.
I've been lucky enough to have not encountered severely hurt animals in person, I wouldn't know how to help them or what the best course of action would be. Animals are very cute.

 No.159869

>>159858
Last time I saw a firefly around my home was at least a decade ago. They used to show up in droves when I was a kid, wonderful sights. Miss catching em and just seeing the lights in the palm of my hand.




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 No.159706[Reply]

Spoiler warning if you want to try figuring out anything in DiPP by yourself first!

ZUN (acrophobic as per hints in commentary)
Ponchi (ぽんち) — Program
Doku Den P (毒電P) — Graphic, Sound Effect (poisonous denpa)
hiroyuki-chan (ひろゆきちゃん) — Graphic, Sound Effect (dry snow)
Mac-Key — Graphic, Scenario
few — Scenario
Pietoro
The woman

456 Hz +- 5
4 5 ((6+1)/2)=3.5 are composers / sound effecters

Order of deaths:
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 No.159734

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That image is too small!
And uhh... I don't quite understand your post!

 No.159750

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>>159734
ZUN hints he might be one of the honest men, and event hints WHICH one -> suggests the honest men belong to a category he belongs to -> this is related to the mystery, possibly in a way to make it solvable by anyone, if there's a solvable mystery -> counting up devs ZUN worked with - at least for everything related to DiPP - adds up to 7. +1 woman = 8 honest men -> And then there were none: PC-98 era involving ZUN is dead. PC-98 ZUN is dead. Long live ZUN!

 No.159755

>>159750
Ah. I wish I still had the energy and motivation for this kind of stuff. I remember doing this kind of theorycrafting. Hmm maybe next time...




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 No.62191[Reply][Last50 Posts]

What have you been dreaming recently?
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 No.163403

Had a dream where a pet goldfish does origami by telling her owner how to fold the paper. At the end, the fish starts blowing lots of bubbles and makes vroom noises when she's done -- it's an origami racecar!

 No.165391

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i had a dream where i had a super nice sweater that was sand colored with a vibrant purplish gash kinda print on it. also i had a very weird hairstyle.

 No.165393

>>162702
>then vermin drove me around in a tank and crashed into a tree.
Factorio dream

 No.165422

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I just had my first Alice dream.
Alice and I were at a shopping centre in Japan and I was being overly clingy with her and she got creeped out when I asked her what we should have for dinner.

I'm sorry Alice....

When I dream about 2hus it usually ends with them getting weirded out by me.

 No.165910

dreamed I was a girl that could travel back through time and I kept suggesting to his family that an old man that was about to die and always freezing take a trip to the sauna and his grandson kept peeing everywhere which was gross (all my dreams have to include pee these days) and I said something sexy in french to some other guy's harem and then space police said that I was to eventually be killed permanently because I was dangerous and that I would have a head start and I said I would give away something and die and then I thought what if the police were bad guys




 No.114027[Reply][Last50 Posts]

What music has /qa/ been listening to lately?
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 No.160076

When you enter the Kissu basement, go beyond the caution tape, take a peek into the dusty 4taba portal and get a glimpse of what heaven on earth looks like.

 No.160094

I don't fuck with big tech but I keep a big tek.

 No.160167

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 No.160234

I have recently been updating my IOSYS folder and got reminded how nicely "old" some tracks like Unlocked Girl sound due to the vocal effects and synths used. Others like MSTPT don't have that magic to me at all, though of course they're still great.
There was also an arrange of Shiawase Usagi, Mario and Amane singing together is super cute.




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 No.134349[Reply]

What kinds of tea does /qa/ like or enjoy? Usually I have black milk tea with honey in the mornings, but recently I've been somewhat trying out different blends and leaves, trying to delve deeper into the world of tea since it's one of the few things that can calm and relax me. Right now I'm enjoying some delicious lavender tea sweetened with lavender honey. It's very smooth down the throat and is working wonders at unraveling the tenseness in my nerves from the cold I'm starting to suffer. Didn't even need to add any milk too for the smoothness of the sip. I find it lovely.

What I'm really interested in at the moment is going deeper into green teas since I've always seen so much on brewing it and whatnot but I don't know what's really reliable info for it.
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 No.134499

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I'd recommend matcha more if it wasn't so expensive. Relaxed focus compared to coffee, and much quicker to prepare than loose leaf once you get the hang of it.

 No.134505

>>134499
It also attracts Japanese spirits.

 No.159538

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I just tried out Lipton's sencha and it quite frankly both smells and tastes like gum. This is the second time this has happened. I don't get why these big name brands always feel the need to add a bunch of stuff to their green teas, it just tastes like crap, and that's coming from a teabag drinker.

I'm heading to some health boutiques tomorrow to see if anyone has real Japanese sencha in stock.

 No.159539

>>159538
>these big name brands
>Lipton
I don't know what you expected out of not only a big name brand, but a widely known cheap one too.

 No.159543

>>159539
I clearly don't know my tea lore.




 No.159487[Reply]

I'm guessing you've heard anime OPs/EDs with only instruments and no voices, but have you ever heard the opposite?

 No.159488

acapella

 No.159489

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Neat. I've only heard guys do that, the barbershop quartet or whatever.

 No.159492

>>159488
It is indeed a capella. An a capella OP for an anime about a capella.
>>159489
I grew up with my mother listening to a local a capella group with both male and female members so i've heard both. I 've also heard a lot of a capella covers of songs and music, but this is the first time i've heard it as an official anime OP. Pretty cool.




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 No.152529[Reply]

Crazy how modern otaku culture is just gachaslop and vtumorshit nowadays.
Remember when otaku were obsessed with cool shit like tanks and washing machines? I remember...
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 No.159411

>>159404
We put dishes inside of this thing?

 No.159416

>>159411
No, we put seed.

 No.159417

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>>152548
komugi-tan eroi

 No.159418

Japan must have a high level of entertainment consumerism to offset just how poor they are in real resources.

 No.159419

>>152529
"Otaku" has lost all meaning. It used to mean something similar to geek. There were animation geeks. Manga geeks (like comic geeks in the west of old). There were tank geeks, mecha geeks, computer geeks, gaming geeks, gun geeks and on and on it went.

Now much like "geek" hobbies in the west "otaku" hobbies in the east have been fully monetized and sanitized. Instead of saving for a long time to afford something cool like say, old military rifle or car you have companies churning out low quality garbage and trying to get new geek/otaku into buying that instead. Most of them do because they have no real interest in the hobby beyond it being a label they can use to define themselves under and show off through venues like social media.

Pretty much every hobby and the old people I used to interact with through those hobbies pre-social media are gone. The old members have drifted away because we were overwhelmed by newbies that didn't have anything beyond a surface level interest in the hobby. 20 of them would show up to a meeting that used to draw 6-8 people for years and refuse to integrate within the existing culture. Usually, one of two of them had fat wallets as well. Which they'd use to drive up the prices of everything related to the hobby because they had no idea of the real value and didn't care. They just wanted the item to show off on social media and brag about at the meetings. Which they're not running too. Since they were also the types to seek out the minimal power leading a meeting like that would give them over others ("I'm paying in more than you people. You people don't want to promote our meetings and seek out new members. You people have all these dumb rules. We don't need you. It's our meeting now").

Rinse and repeat over several different hobbies I used to be very active in. I used to dig out stuff out of dumpsters to save it because no one wanted it. Now the same things go for $2k+ a pop on ebay. Don't get a chance to get new old stock anymore either because scalpers figured out they could make a lot of money by over paying for it before someone tossed it into the dumpster.

I don't know why people are like this. I wish they weren't. I try not to be cynical about it and do enjoy meeting new people. But I don't want to meet 20 of them at a time and I actually want to participate it in my hobbies. I havPost too long. Click here to view the full text.




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 No.150496[Reply]

What websites should I use for windowshopping figurines?
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 No.155603

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I feel an option like this has to be classified as some sort of war crime under the Geneva Convention.

 No.155709

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 No.159372

>>155709
very elegant leggings

 No.159413

I'm happy I never started collecting these no matter how tempting its been. It just seems like a bad idea and I don't want to deal with shipping. If I lived in Japan maybe it'd be different.

I can't believe they're making so much money off easy to make plastic dolls.




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 No.156240[Reply][Last50 Posts]

Hello, this Friday the 20th I plan on hosting Doom over the sourceport Zandronum, starting at around 7-8 PM EST. There are a few Touhou skins to choose from, and I will be hosting a mapset designed for high player counts as well as a gameplay mod to change the weapons and enemies. There will be limited lives but we'll have a way to unlock extra lives for dead players so it won't be too intense. If for whatever reason the mods break we can always switch them out. I will post download links soon as I haven't gathered them up yet, along with the setup instructions.
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 No.159326

>>159325
What is this? An image for ants?

 No.159327

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>>159326
Enhance.

 No.159328

>>159327
It's melting!

 No.159337

>>159327
Doom upscaled to a crisp 4k resolution and enhanced to a buttery smooth 60fps.

 No.159369

File:outskilled.mp4 (15.02 MB,1600x900)

Late but thank you for hosting!




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 No.159183[Reply]

Is it weird if I self insert as the 2hus I love?(albeit only in non sexual stuff)
I dont wanna be trans or anything, I just like pretty stuff
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 No.159256

>>159249
The sentence structure is:
「Anon Thinking Of 2hus」 is 「Part」 of 「God's Plan」。

Man I hate language sometimes.

 No.159257

>>159252
Nothing trannish in crossdressing and wearing kigus with fellow kissuers!

 No.159258

>>159257
That's different and acceptable because it's still roleplaying.

 No.159259

>>159252
I like the 2hus only coz theyre cute, not that they are females

 No.159843

>>159840
the uhmer, still uhming about uhms




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 No.158678[Reply]

It's been a long time since I've felt (romantic) love. I've felt a few different versions of it, if you will, over the years, and it's never been the same twice. I seem to keep learning from it.
I can't help but think that it feels like dying. I've never been able to trust anyone so that kind of surrender feels tantamount to death, but I also understand how blissful it is. It also makes me think about how temporary life is, so whenever I see the start of love, I can't help but see its final end. The comparison with death was driven home really hard when I read the Lilly route in KS. Of course, it only feels like death when I'm thinking about it, not when I'm feeling it in the moment.

There's a lot more I could say and a lot more I won't. picrel is the loveliest picture I could find: peaceful, sweet, eternal, transient, immediately youthful, and of a girl I adore.
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 No.159105

>>159090
I don't view love as inherently sexual, romantic, or erotic. I think children stop loving the world so they lose most interest in it, it bores them.

 No.159152

>>159102
>simply unlovable...
Shut the FUCK up

 No.159162

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>>159152
>Shut the FUCK up
Simple, to the point. Statements like this people LOVE.

 No.159170

>>159162
Those things are only meaningful if they have enough build up to have an impact. Simple statements aren't actually exciting by themselves.

 No.159172

>>159170
That's true.




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 No.158817[Reply]

Figured I'd let you all know that I'm gonna be running a mahjong tournament tomorrow starting at noon EST (16:00 GMT) if anyone here is interested in participating.
Will be streamed at https://stream.wapchan.org/r/touhoutourney
More info at https://wapchan.org/gens/res/1945.html
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 No.158963

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Nice job everyone. Things ran pretty smooth for the most part. The only real issue is some people played more matches than others (we had a low of 3 and a high of 7). Next time I think we'll have everyone do 4 matches to be ranked, since that's seems like a good amount. We could also do sanma (3p) in the future with a higher amount of matches if people are interested.

 No.158964

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Shoutout to our champ for pulling off this yakuman by the way, which on tenhou occurred 1 in 10,394 times based on some historical data. Link to the match below
https://mahjongsoul.game.yo-star.com/?paipu=250727-5e1ee8e5-e83a-4ae6-95c9-224d862affe1_a922555765

 No.158969

>>158961
SAW the forbidden ultra-deleted post

 No.158976

>>158969
God's own work

 No.159029

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>>158964
Looks windy!
Congrats!




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 No.156933[Reply]

What discord servers do you use? I am trying to find a good one that isn't filled with retards but am struggling lul
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 No.158104

>>157923
>You can't really compare them.
which is why IRC culture and imageboards grew tight and in parallel from 2003 to 2015.

 No.158170

>>158104
Always hated IRC. How am I supposed to care what people are talking about if they're not ever showing what kind of anime girls they like?

 No.158179

>>158170
> if they're not ever showing what kind of anime girls they like?
Thing is, they like men

 No.158190

>>157916
>Discords are nothing more but IRCs with extra features.
This is far from the truth.
Let's list 5 differences quickly:
1. IRC is a public protocol, Discord is a private service -> anyone can make an IRC server, nobody can make a Discord server only channels in a walled garden
2. IRC might collect your data and it's limited to a few data points, Discord collects all the data it can and sells it off to the highest bidder
3. IRC's userbase doesn't attempt to mass recruit from other communities, Discorders try to convert everyone they can everywhere at all times
4. the purpose of IRC reflects the spirit of the internet of free and open discussion and communication, Discord's purpose is to make money for shareholders and grow the surveillance dragnet
5. IRC exists alongside imageboards and other sites, Discord demands to replace them all (this is the biggest issue and why everyone hates it, 3 is an aspect of this but reflects the population)
I haven't even mentioned the obnoxious gatekeeping for filesharing.

This always seems to be one of main sticking points the Discord cultists in general repeat ad nauseum. Either it's discord is the same (false), or discord is better (unproven), or discord is modern (meaningless), or everyone is on discord (peer pressure).
You want to imply Discord and imageboards go hand-in-hand so it's ok to post them but that's wrong.

 No.158243

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¥ POV: I'm telling you that Signal and Matrix exist




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 No.158015[Reply]

I often feel like lashing out, gnawing at, scratching out what or whom irritates me, but today I'm wondering: how does anon handle this without succumbing to it?

 No.158027

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I don't get angry very often, usually just depressed and stuff. For anger, though, I found exercising to be a good way to reduce the stress of it. Lifting some weights, running in place, just channeling the emotion into something that tires me out.
It's more difficult to be angry when you're exhausted.

 No.158084

I rant to myself like a crazy man and stomp around the house and imagine using a knife to defend myself against evil people. Sometimes I pick up an actual kitchen knife. When I am doing this, I am workshopping counterarguments in my head for if the topic ever comes up again.

 No.158094

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I just rant to myself and/or scream and curse then it just goes away. I've built up quite the tolerance these past few years from people and their dumb shit. Used to be confrontational before but realized confrontation didn't get me anything but my time and energy wasted.

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 No.158105

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>>158015
Stuff my face with food, take a shower, a nap, or a wank. Usually a combination of these.




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