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sadchiruno!HkSaANAyQg 04/16/25 (Wed) 20:02:11 No.144309 [Reply]

hello! i'm chiruno! i came from 4chan! are people here friend? can i stay here? i like to talk about everything!

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chiruno!HkSaANAyQg 04/16/25 (Wed) 20:23:17 No.144324

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>>144322
unfortunately i'm not the one who did the newspaper, neither do i have the habilities to do so, i don't know where the author is... his name was ploop...

Anonymous 04/16/25 (Wed) 20:31:42 No.144331

Only times I interacted with [s4s] was through /fumo/ crossposting. I hope you're all doing well.

chiruno!HkSaANAyQg 04/16/25 (Wed) 20:38:54 No.144334

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>>144331
i loved the fumo threads
they were always nice
these weeks without it are going to be hard
i feel like an awful refugee in you guys website and i'm sorry for it

Anonymous 04/17/25 (Thu) 00:30:21 No.144470

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>>144334
>i feel like an awful refugee in you guys website and i'm sorry for it
Cirnoposters are friends! /qa/ had a long overlap with [s4s] for many years. To my knowledge, a lot of the cirnoposters that used to reside on /qa/ eventually moved to /bant/ after it was created.

chiruno!HkSaANAyQg 04/17/25 (Thu) 16:34:57 No.144992

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>>144470
Amazing! I swear i will stay here!

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Anonymous 02/27/24 (Tue) 09:10:41 No.120418 [Reply]

After years of being told I'm in the wrong line of work I've decided to take a shot at what I was born to do: writing.

I'm going to write and publish a LN before the end of this year. I just wanted to tell someone so I stick to this goal. I don't imagine it'll be that great but I've taken a look at other books and LNs people are publishing and they aren't that great either.

Will my friends here read the first draft when I'm done?

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Anonymous 04/17/25 (Thu) 04:54:36 No.144725

>>144721
I enjoy writing in general and for whatever reason I've always been a natural typist. I didn't find it that hard because a lot of it was things I've had floating around in my head for years. I don't know how normal this is but I've always had these worlds in my heads filled with characters with unique back stories and of course ones I've self inserted myself into. I do a lot of day dreaming in general. Sometimes I just sit around for hours lost in it without realizing it. So jotting things down has been kind of fun. But I've always kept such things to myself so I'm not sure if other people will find such stories as entertaining as I do.

My hope is when I die maybe I'll go to one of those places. Since they're pretty happy places in general. Well happy compared to where I find myself now. I don't really like this place, this planet, this "realm" this universe or whatever you choose to call it. I feel like I was put here to suffer for some reason and I often wonder if we're all in some kind of prison.

Anonymous 04/17/25 (Thu) 05:06:33 No.144733

>>144725
>I enjoy writing in general and for whatever reason I've always been a natural typist
Yeah, I feel the same way. Writing can be a very enjoyable and even therapeutic experience. I can also relate to the latter part of the post, but I think the ability to create other worlds in our heads (and to share them) greatly helps with that. I'd compare it to being a doctor or therapist, as like music it soothes and heals the spirit.

Anonymous 04/17/25 (Thu) 10:39:24 No.144859

>>144710
oh is that where you went
i thought a fox ate you

Anonymous 04/17/25 (Thu) 11:35:01 No.144868

>>120418
Sounds epic, awesome, I love it, BUT actually change ALL of your plans and write a quest on here for us to participate in.
Okay? Good. Thanks. Knew we could count on you.

Anonymous 04/17/25 (Thu) 15:33:10 No.144967

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>>144868
I think the Japanese call this "power harassment..."

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Favourite booru tags Anonymous 08/05/24 (Mon) 20:30:53 No.132075 [Reply]

Got any favourite non-ero tags? I really like "contemporary".

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Anonymous 04/16/25 (Wed) 19:59:49 No.144303

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I often try "rain" plus whatever character I'm interested at the moment. Adding rain means more often than not that you get a full background as well, which I like and correlates with a higher technical skill. Many various things you can do in terms of mood and composition, too.

Anonymous 04/16/25 (Wed) 20:09:04 No.144314

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I'm cheating a bit because I like multiple tags, things like living_room, tv, cup_ramen or anything that's domestic because I like to overthink how a characters daily life would be like outside of whatever main premise there is.

Anonymous 04/16/25 (Wed) 20:12:56 No.144317

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child's_drawing usually leaves me misty eyed at the very least. I also like tenshi_kaiwai and tag pools like grand scale, scenery porn and epic.
>>132077
>>132080
I also love these. Contemporary is nice too.

Anonymous 04/16/25 (Wed) 20:48:54 No.144342

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>>144317
>child's_drawing usually leaves me misty eyed at the very least
Yeah...

Anonymous 04/16/25 (Wed) 21:01:07 No.144351

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I enjoy seeing costume swaps,
or just "character_(cosplay)"

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Anonymous 04/16/25 (Wed) 16:48:19 No.144202 [Reply]

Sure is a shame that the dead will never know peace from 4chan

Anonymous 04/16/25 (Wed) 16:52:51 No.144204

What does that mean

Anonymous 04/16/25 (Wed) 16:55:17 No.144206

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>>144204
Everyone who killed themselves back in 2013 missed it

Anonymous 04/16/25 (Wed) 16:58:43 No.144208

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>>144206
But the world ended in 2012 and we're in purgatory.

Anonymous 04/16/25 (Wed) 17:03:21 No.144211

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>>144206
I totally forgot about the milky suicide

Anonymous 04/16/25 (Wed) 17:15:19 No.144218

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>>144208
It sure felt that way after I watched The Hobbit in 2012.

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yuri? Anonymous 04/16/25 (Wed) 12:30:46 No.144064 [Reply]

any yuri on this site? forgive me if theres already a thread, i couldnt find any

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Anonymous 04/16/25 (Wed) 12:42:50 No.144074

>>144070
Thank you anon.

Anonymous 04/16/25 (Wed) 12:44:17 No.144075

>>144074
Welcome.
Could make a yuri thread here too if you want

Anonymous 04/16/25 (Wed) 12:47:33 No.144076

>>144075
I think i'll stick with the one that's already made, just to keep stuff from getting cluttered.

Anonymous 04/16/25 (Wed) 12:48:17 No.144077

is yuri more gay than yaoi?

Anonymous 04/16/25 (Wed) 12:56:25 No.144082

yuri is not a straight man's fetish

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Anonymous 04/16/25 (Wed) 02:29:39 No.143619 [Reply]

What's your honest opinion on Trevor and to a lesser extent, GNFOS?

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Anonymous 04/16/25 (Wed) 05:43:44 No.143817

>>143621
A reddit obsessed man with a mind of small child

Anonymous 04/16/25 (Wed) 06:22:37 No.143840

the eternal god king of /jp/ and otaku culture in general

Anonymous 04/18/25 (Fri) 00:46:22 No.145251

sigh

Anonymous 04/24/25 (Thu) 09:26:44 No.150459

He's a complete nobody to me, same with tokiko or whoever that was. I stopped keeping track of /jp/ personalities after zun!bar, he was a cool guy and will be missed

Anonymous 04/24/25 (Thu) 09:33:29 No.150461

Also, from what I gather trev was just a malicious shitposter, only people who were fun to be around or those who delivered like hong and remi!jam ar worthy of respect

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Anonymous 04/16/25 (Wed) 00:17:33 No.143478 [Reply]

does anyone on kissu make youtube videos? let's plays, reviews, vlogs, or really anything? i'm curious

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Anonymous 04/16/25 (Wed) 01:05:53 No.143550

>>143527
huh this one really popped off
wonder why the algorithm roulette picked this vid specifically, maybe the boobers?

Anonymous 04/16/25 (Wed) 01:09:33 No.143557

>>143527
oh, no, i know for a fact i found the channel through kissu, i used to hang out here more often
the first video i saw from this channel was some bad ending song from an eroge, the video had two shabs tied up and being used by orcs or something, but i can't seem to find it...

Anonymous 04/16/25 (Wed) 01:11:18 No.143559

>>143557
yeap, that video is gone sadly it was too ero for youtube-kun

Anonymous 04/16/25 (Wed) 01:11:38 No.143560

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>>143557
haha, that one. Yeah that was deleted in 2 weeks or something.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwmS1dIYF-k&feature=youtu.be

Anonymous 04/16/25 (Wed) 01:26:38 No.143571

I've always wanted to make frag videos in whichever game I happen to be playing at the time but find that my gameplay isn't interesting enough to be worth developing into a video, so I just end up with short clips of video games and an occasional video I've taken while travelling. Recently, I've felt like I should try and create a successor to the Asian Shoegaze channel, who's owner nuked all the videos on it a couple of years ago for an unknown reason. I have most of the albums downloaded in flac as well as some others that I have since discovered or have since been released.

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Verniy ## Admin 04/15/25 (Tue) 19:54:54 No.143074 [Reply]

We're upgrading the servers.
We'll be down for about a minute.

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Anonymous 04/15/25 (Tue) 20:34:33 No.143153

>>143074
good. We love stable servers

Anonymous 04/16/25 (Wed) 00:14:42 No.143471

>>143074
I think wordfilters to Japanese are funny and have taken to ending posts in desu in lieu of having t-b-h filtered to desu even though I never used to type t-b-h
in that spirit I suggest you add more funny wordfilters, like turning btw into another copula

Anonymous 04/16/25 (Wed) 00:41:13 No.143524

>>143471
I'm fond of tbdesu for that purpose, tbdesu. It rolls of the tongue.
Only problem with filters is that some slang are actual words in normal context. Based, slop, soy for example. Can't tell you how many times I got caught off guard by soy sauce being filtered to onions sauce on 4chan. Slop is probably the easiest so long as it covers shitposty use cases. Maybe filtering to kuso.

V ## Admin 04/16/25 (Wed) 00:56:45 No.143539

Dunno if people get the drift of how this place works yet or not.

But our misc topics are in >>>/qa/138870 so that can just be used to discuss free thoughts.
On the homepage staff can select things to go into Featured Threads

We have a lot of markup tools, and a way to create custom markup using ALT+M but you have to be a programmer to really understand it. I've sanitized it to prevent exploits.

The difference between /qa/ and /jp/ is that they're similar but JP is supposed to be more fast paced than QA. QA has 20 pages of threads while JP is 10.

I might point out other things but that's about it. We basically aren't going to moderate the same we do typically until things wind down so don't fret about being a nuisance too much.

V ## Admin 04/16/25 (Wed) 00:57:42 No.143541

Much like 4chan we can restore threads going back through a hidden archive board. Our deleted posts wind up on >>>/trans/ for transparency.
Illegal content obviously does not

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Anonymous 04/15/25 (Tue) 19:31:51 No.143018

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Anonymous 04/15/25 (Tue) 19:32:23 No.143021

I don't buy things from dumb traitor cats.

Anonymous 04/15/25 (Tue) 22:25:52 No.143348

>>143021
Karl did nothing wrong. Double agents are not traitors, they're just smarter than your average pussy.

Anonymous 04/15/25 (Tue) 22:27:51 No.143350

Being a cute catgirl requires no justification.

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Anonymous 06/15/24 (Sat) 21:00:22 No.127052 [Reply]

How is your sleep routine? I'm thinking I need to improve mine. Strangely I've found that having my little tablet thing playing a youtube speedrun history video helps me get sleepy faster. My theory is that it interrupts my thinking and allows my brain to turn off faster. It doesn't increase the amount of sleep I get, but at least it starts earlier so there's less wasted time doing nothing in bed.

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Anonymous 04/15/25 (Tue) 21:37:23 No.143273

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Haven't been sleeping too well lately. It's a bit of a paradox in that the more things I do during the day, the more difficult it is to sleep. Isn't it supposed to be the other way around? Last week I was tilling the garden which is very exhaustive work and in turn it took me... FOUR HOURS to fall asleep.

Anonymous 04/15/25 (Tue) 22:02:28 No.143316

>>143273
I just bit this shab

Anonymous 04/15/25 (Tue) 22:08:13 No.143321

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I've been sleeping only 5 hours for the past week and I don't know why, it's killing me.

Anonymous 04/15/25 (Tue) 22:13:00 No.143328

been sleeping pretty bad ever since I started taking brain pills to correct my brain problems

Anonymous 04/16/25 (Wed) 17:04:37 No.144212

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I have a lot of sleeping problems.
Thankfully, I have a lot of leeway with this because my college doesn't care about attendance, in other words I don't go, except for the exams and a quiz here and there.
A "sleeping schedule" is out of the question, but even sleeping itself is kind of hard and takes effort, I average about 5h.
It is a complicated balancing act between relaxing and trying to get into a sleepy mood, but also not trying too hard, because that shifts towards being bad.
I drink something warm (usually tea, sometimes milk, sometimes instant miso soup) and just listen to music in the hour preceding going to bed. Before that I spend a bit watching anime. All with blue light off and so on.
I take valium and magnesium glycinate.

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Anonymous 04/15/25 (Tue) 19:42:12 No.143048 [Reply]

Won't forget Asan

Anonymous 04/15/25 (Tue) 20:34:16 No.143152

geez I haven't seen that edit I made in YEARS

Anonymous 04/15/25 (Tue) 20:41:08 No.143166

If there's a silver lining, it's that because Asan got fired, he didn't get his email leaked... The /QA/-12's plans are measured in decades

Anonymous 04/20/25 (Sun) 03:25:07 No.147754

>>143166
Yeah, I was glad most all the good mods were gone and couldn't be doxed.

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Anonymous 04/15/25 (Tue) 17:41:08 No.142721 [Reply]

Did you know the majority of posters on 4chin's /pol/ were Israeli?
What are the political implications of this?

Anonymous 04/15/25 (Tue) 17:42:00 No.142723

vpn or memeflag

doesn't mean much

Anonymous 04/15/25 (Tue) 17:42:08 No.142724

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They had me all along.

Anonymous 04/15/25 (Tue) 17:43:45 No.142731

>>142721
doctored?

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Projects Anonymous 06/15/21 (Tue) 23:19:32 No.73454 [Reply][Last50 Posts]

Have you been working on anything? Art, programming, etc.

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Anonymous 03/31/25 (Mon) 00:51:14 No.141360

>>141358
hmmm well one problem with this is that you'll have a lot of decades-old outdated information
in particular one topic i'm investigating was famously covered quite badly by encyclopedias in the past, and tons of books and papers from the last thirty years have had to argue against the popular conception that's come down from 18th-19th century myths which are still treated as fact outside of specialized literature
i think it's a solid idea but you should definitely watch out, especially with those that are more than 4-5 decades old

Anonymous 03/31/25 (Mon) 01:02:03 No.141361

>>141360
>you'll have a lot of decades-old outdated information
That's certainly true, but it's also desirable in some circumstances. For example, an encyclopedia from 1989 is in theory going to have more information on the Soviet Union than an encyclopedia from the last 20 years simply by virtue of the Soviet Union being extant at the time of writing. I also think it's desirable to have viewpoints across time as a reference for how understandings may have changed.

>in particular one topic i'm investigating was famously covered quite badly by encyclopedias in the past
What topic is that?

Anonymous 03/31/25 (Mon) 01:26:30 No.141362

>>141361
>I also think it's desirable to have viewpoints across time as a reference for how understandings may have changed.
valid point
>What topic is that?
16th-17th century astronomy

Anonymous 04/15/25 (Tue) 13:15:27 No.142371

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my youtube client can now load hdr video formats

Anonymous 04/15/25 (Tue) 15:14:33 No.142496

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>>142371
Good job! I still like to use it on both Linux and Windows.

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Anonymous 03/15/25 (Sat) 22:41:57 No.138798 [Reply]

How important is it to /qa/ for your post's images to fit your intentions? To me, it's everything.

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Anonymous 03/16/25 (Sun) 03:40:32 No.138838

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>>138837
No.

Anonymous 03/16/25 (Sun) 04:39:44 No.138844

>>138837 just bit >>138838 causing >>138835 to happen

Anonymous 03/16/25 (Sun) 04:48:51 No.138845

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Anonymous 04/15/25 (Tue) 14:18:08 No.142415

>>138798
I know this is probably a boy but he won't be by the time I'm done with him

Anonymous 04/15/25 (Tue) 14:26:26 No.142420

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>>142415
Thankfully you're not gay.

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Anonymous 12/19/23 (Tue) 23:23:22 No.117499 [Reply]

Does /qa/ have any experience with ebook readers? I've been getting back into reading recently, and although I like the ebook reader app I have on my Android phone (ReadEra), it's not entirely pleasant; my phone is a bit weighty so it's tiring to hold, and it strains my eyes after reading for a while.

The most obvious choice seems to be a Kindle, but it seems kind of opaque what the differences are between models other than storage. I'm really not a fan of them seemingly being permanently tethered to the cloud and this "ad-supported" thing seems annoying as well. Ideally, I would have something that I can move my own ebooks onto just by plugging it into my PC. USB C is a hard requirement as well; I can't believe Amazon was selling Kindles with the worst charging connector of all time, micro USB, up until 2021.

Looking at the prices for the features that matter to me... I'm really wondering if it would be worth it buying one at all. From what I understand, I would probably be looking at buying some Android e-ink tablet, but those don't seem to have the best reputation online (?) and I can't imagine any are particularly lightweight. My phone is ~200g and that feels a bit too heavy for me. Anything tablet sized I'm sure would be too heavy for me.

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Anonymous 05/03/24 (Fri) 05:51:12 No.123967

>>122907
Well, it has come out. It looks fairly okay all things considered, but it would appear to make any use of the color feature you really need to be using the glow light, which may negate some of the benefits of using e ink (namely the long battery life). Without the glow light it certainly looks muddy and poorly saturated as Kaleido tends to look. It's a bit darker than normal a normal e ink display without the glow light to compensate, as you can see here: https://youtu.be/UEGPFIpJz98?t=421 (Jump to 7:05, for reference). In a few reviews I noticed that you can see some diagonal lines in some of the up-close shots of the devices. After some thinking, I'm pretty sure this is because of the LCD layer being fairly low resolution... A cheap trick they use is marketing the resolution by stating the PPI. For color, that's 150 PPI, and for black and white it's 300 PPI. As the device has a black and white resolution of 1264 x 1680, that means the color resolution is a quarter of that at 683 x 840. I'm not sure how big of a deal that really is, not having seen the deivce myself in person to tell, but the lower resolution of the color layer doesn't appear to result in any weird aliasing in any reviews, so it's probably not an issue in reality.

Anonymous 05/03/24 (Fri) 08:24:41 No.123971

Is there any ebook way to do OCR drag and select for looking up individual kanji, words, and sentences for reading Japanese manga?
I might be tempted to buy one if there is something like that since there'd be a lot less distractions available.

Anonymous 05/13/24 (Mon) 13:14:10 No.124355

I should have bought the Libra 2 before it went out of stock.

Anonymous 04/15/25 (Tue) 05:11:36 No.142025

>>117499
I have a kobo clara color, screen is very nice even putting aside the color, and its easier to sideload books onto it than kindle which has proprietary stuff. Also has usb c. Reviews said the colors were washed out but I disagree and think they pop pretty well.
>>117513
I installed KOreader last year and never looked back, its decisively better than stock firmware in every way except the lack of pocket integration

Anonymous 04/15/25 (Tue) 05:47:20 No.142062

>>142025
I've been looking at upgrading from my Libra 2 to a Libra Color...

>Reviews said the colors were washed out but I disagree and think they pop pretty well.
Without the backlight turned on? Pretty much every review suggests you need to have it turned on. I'm a fan of >=40 hours of battery life, so it would be sad if the battery life is poor because of the backlight. Is that the case with the Clara Color?

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