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File:R-1704381917626.jpg (134.84 KB,427x600)

 No.118165[Reply]

Did you like the first episode?

 No.118166

File:Delicious.in.Dungeon.S01E0….jpg (297.26 KB,1920x1080)

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.

 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.

 No.118168

File:8203879d74242a3f33ebddd0c4….png (2.07 MB,1132x2384)

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

 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.

 No.118176

File:Delicious.in.Dungeon.S01E0….jpg (434.32 KB,1920x1080)

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



File:all_seeing_eye.jpg (622.79 KB,1280x720)

 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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 No.118150

>>118147
>Devices where you can't run third party web browser with plug-ins leave you no viable way to block ads on youtube.
Invidious exists

 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.

 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.

 No.118174

had a schizopost to make but i forgot

or they made me forget

 No.120792

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



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 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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 No.118118

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

 No.118121

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

 No.118124

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

 No.118127

>>118124
a substitute for notepad++

 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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 No.118010[Reply]

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?

 No.118011

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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.

 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.

 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.

 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.

 No.118079

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



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 No.110772[Reply]

So I was trying to write an IRC bot and while I started off in python I realized at some point maybe I might need to do stuff in javascript as well. It got me wondering if you can just have a bot that's in python that just connects and calls upon javascript programs to do stuff. My first assumption is no since most programs I've seen online seem to be entirely written in one language or another. Since if this was the case then you'd have people mixing and matching languages to do individual tasks ideally because I see a bunch of discussion around languages with people praising something for how well it can do a specific task. If this doesn't exist already, how come?
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 No.110836

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Interesting history. Apparently you can make it both compiled and interpreted.

I tried giving Lisp a chance, but it just doesn't appeal. Haskell apparently has something to it hearing Rust people talk about it a lot as the only good other language. If I wanted to go back in time I'd go there.

 No.110887

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>>110836
>Apparently you can make it both compiled and interpreted.
Being compiled or interpreted is an implementation detail rather than a language characteristic; you could, in theory, implement either a compiler or an interpreter for any language (though an argument could be made certain language features might make it harder to implement good compilers and whatnot), so it doesn't make much sense to say a language is either (and it isn't as clear-cut in any case since you have things like JITs, bytecode interpreters and whatnot). Implementing a small language (something like a Scheme or a Forth) as a side-project might help clearing up some of the confusion; it is also a ton of fun.

Lisp had the original metacircular interpreter (i.e. the Lisp interpreter was written *in Lisp*), which was hand-translated to IBM 704 assembly; but we've also had great compilers for some of it's descendants for decades (see SBCL or Chez Scheme for examples of two pretty good, currently-maintained compilers for Common Lisp and Scheme, respectively). Some implementations only have a compiler, some have both a compiler and an interpreter, some have more than one compiler.

>only good other language.
Haskell has a lot in it for modelling the assumptions of your program at the type level, and letting the compiler prove the correctness of the value level for you, at compile-time; so it'd make sense for Rust people to talk about Haskell like that.

Lisp (now talking about Common Lisp in specific, although the overall philosophy runs, with a varying degree, through the whole family), in the other hand, goes in the opposite direction by giving the programmer as much freedom as possible to do what he feels like doing, including extending the language itself. This, of course, includes the freedom to build yourself into a verifiable, well-typed subset a-la-Haskell (see Coalton; or ACL2 for a theorem prover based on a subset of CL), or to shoot yourself in the foot (note the language doesn't try to make it *easy* to unintentionally do so, in the way that C pointers might, but it certainly won't stop you if you feel like it), or whatever.

A lot of it comes down to opinion, and different people value different things in a language, and so on; certainly you've heard this before.

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 No.110888

>>110887
Scheme, but someone else's project.
I found that the language itself was preventing me from understanding the project.
Otherwise, I'm just doing normal things picking up ideas and languages from whatever is my focus at the time.
So I'm not really thinking about those concepts when I say I like something or not, it's more about if the syntax/style looks nice( not a fan of the syntax ), accomplishes a goal( webservers are possible but others do it better ) and if I can pick it up quickly ( functional heavy as apposed to procedural/declaritive with no-inheretence OOP ).

 No.110927

anyone know how MongoDB's (or other document DBs) index types compare with MySQL or other relational DBs

 No.118022

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At my j_b there are C++ <-> C# interactions done via SWIG, C++ <-> JS interactions done via V8, and C# <-> Ruby interactions done by leaving big JSON files at known locations in the filesystem and running a Ruby interpreter as a new process (which is the sort of thing that could be any language <-> any language). Python is used as well. SWIG and V8 are things the whole dev team dreads to touch because it's mostly the b_ssman who knows the intricacies of that stuff.
I joke about using Rust instead of writing any new C++ code but the development philosophy is very much "use boring languages"



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 No.117887[Reply]

Why should threads die? Isn't there a reason to keep around everything on the chance that somebody goes through the site and finds something that gets them to reply even if it's in the far future?
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 No.117961

>>117960
By "content related stuff" I mean user submitted content. If an advertiser was paying out for ad clicks that weren't leading to sales they'd come snoop the forum the ad was ran on. If they found posts they didn't like for whatever reason they use it as justification to pull the ads and seek reimbursement from Google. Google would refund them money then kick the forum out of the adsense program with no warning.

If you had a network of forums tied to the same account (remember Google accounts were invite only back then) you lost adsense program on your entire network.

Hence admins started going really heavy handed on censorship of certain hot-button topics. Which led to users fleeing for places like 4chan and reddit where rules were more lax.

Basically, the adsense program caused massive censorship of forums. Since advertisers didn't like the users shit talking their products. Which happened fairly often on topical forums (cars, technology, anime etc).

Around the same time a lot of people were doing things to game the system to push their sites up the Google rankings ("SEO"). Google never communicated to admins what was and wasn't okay. So there were mass banning waves of forums that had done things like employ so-called "clean" urls or embedded keywords into their HTML. This changed fairly often and became a cat and mouse game. Google would change something then forum admins would do something in response to it. There was an entire industry around gaming google's search results and some admins were paying $200+ a month to buy add-ons to improve their SEO.

In time Google just re-ranked forums as a whole and the gravy train reached the last station. Everyone went broke and a lot of forums went offline because suddenly people were being forced to pay for their hosting out of pocket again. Lots of people lost everything. Check out webhostingtalk there are massive threads full of people crying about it.

 No.117962

>>117961
>because suddenly people were being forced to pay for their hosting out of pocket again
What else did they expect? It has been the rule of the internet since day 1 that you pay for your hosted contents out of pocket. The fate of websites are determined by how that payment is acquired. Those who don't want to pay for that shouldn't expect any free lunch.

 No.117963

File:1b9b6f1c-4650-4b41-a803-75….jpg (50.93 KB,612x612)

It must be noted that 'the gravy train' is dog food that is occasionally eaten by hobos

 No.117979

>>117962
You don't understand how crazy things were back then. People were hosting talks and getting paid big money to teach a room full of people how they could become millionaires by buying up forums with existing users and running google ads on them.

 No.118012

>>117963
I prefer Alpo.



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 No.117919[Reply]

How would you describe cyberpunk without the "punk"? Since the "punk" portion of the term implies some sort of rebellion against the system or disdain for norms. This question came upon my mind while thinking about the future and how for many the kind of cybernetic corporate controlled society we'd be in actually may be desirable and maybe even the natural evolution of things.

Even for I, I find myself dwelling on some sort of charm or intrigue about the more moral-less late stage capitalist society many works in the genre take place in. Things are quite often terrible in these worlds, yes. However, the unmitigated freedom from regulation or ethics related to cybernetic augmentations normally rampant within has appeal in how often it leads to independent shops having business all over the place that contribute to a thriving home modification scene. Although at the same time often there's a control on who can be augmented and I don't really care for those worlds in terms of likability. Another thing that often seems to be prominent is the lax care for normative religious creed which is the root cause for boundless discrimination and social barries towards avenues cybernetics would open up. On the whole though, despite some parts that appear better than current society, there's still plenty of legitimate corruption that'd make the tradeoff not worth it.
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 No.117955

Are AntiX developers cyberpunks?

 No.117956

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>>117954
Where's the real life Becca then?

 No.117957

>>117956
20 years, there's too many lonely people to not grab the money on the table. we're gonna have to start saying, "never stick your dick in proprietary."

 No.117958

Robot girls better use that weirdly sexy Commonwealth tts though

 No.118009

>>117958
>Commonwealth tts
What's this?



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 No.117577[Reply]

What are you Resolutions, goals and hopes in the coming year? Some of mine include;
>fasting between Christmas day and the day after New Years
>spending more time with my Grandmother and parents
>finishing a project I've been working on for 2 years
>contributing more to other people's projects
>hopefully making a steady income to live on from projects I've been maintaining for free for years. I'm finally going to start asking for donations like everyone else
>running everyday until I can go 5 miles without stopping or taking breaks
>talking with my neighbors more often and helping them out where I can
>making amends for things I did in the past and people I hurt with my actions (think My Name is Earl). List is pretty short but I want to make amends anyway
>visiting dead friend's parents more often to let them know their children were good people and helped/saved me at the lowest time in my life
>trying to take it easy more often
>quitting smoking (already down to 10 a day from 2 packs daily plus I roll my own now)
>starting my own business (rabbit+chicken farming)
>attending more community/social events like church on Sunday and dances and what-not to help with my social anxiety which is the result of isolation and the fact that I no longer take drugs to mask it
>visiting my mother and sister for the first time in 8 years. Want to see Mom's new house and my sister's apartment. Want to be more involved with their lives beyond just talking on the phone a couple of times a year.
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 No.117804

File:kigu.jpg (81.88 KB,800x1067)

In 2024 I will become an anime girl

 No.117805

>>117801
No please don't. I take a multivitamin already but I'm going to try the others

 No.117817

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>>117790
I'm not even so much worried about the brain damage to be honest, it's not like I'm a professional heavy weight who will get pummeled daily, I mainly worry about damage to the eyes. I w*rk as an ophthalmologist's scribe and we recently had a patient who was just messing around with a friend and a single punch with a boxing glove to the eye give him an orbital blowout fracture. That can uhh cause pretty bad permanent damage if it's not treated quickly. Would give me an excuse to wear a eyepatch, though.

 No.117818

File:Tastes like failure.jpg (80.72 KB,364x442)

- play video games
- watch anime
- read manga
- post on kissu
- flick my manween

 No.117819

hehehehe



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 No.117783[Reply]

Do you ever get that "moe moe kyuu~n" feeling when watching anime or reading manga/VNs? Like, are there any characters that are just so dang cute that you start giggling every time you see her?
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 No.117792

File:ponko 10-10.png (510.49 KB,817x1200)

ponko

 No.117808

File:[SubsPlease] Buddy Daddies….jpg (250.37 KB,1920x1080)

I think Miri is the recent girl that filled me with strong moe~ feelings. That show really did a great job instilling the desire to protect and pamper.

 No.117809

Maybe Yasuna?

 No.117810

>>117809
From Kill Me Baby?

 No.117814

>>117810
retard moe



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 No.114877[Reply][Last50 Posts]

Alright, so I'm going to make an attempt at a Let's Play thread of what will surely be a fantastic game. I played the original Dungeon Travelers 2 on Vita and it was the last physical game I ever bought (remember when we could buy and own media?) It's truly an amazing game for many reasons. Fantastic characters, great classes, great boss battles and spectacularly frustrating dungeons. Its sequel, Dungeon Travelers 2-2, came out years later, but unfortunately it never received a translation.
Now, a decade later it did received a surprise translation and release on PC. It was going to be on Steam, but those prudes backed out. I'm sure it's related to the lewdness, as Steam only has room for stuff like Sex with Furry Hitler 2 or War Crime Simulator 2023. Instead it got a release on one of those gacha/freemium sites where it feels like you get malware just by loading the page, so I will instead be using the version found on nyaa.
If Aquaplus actually wanted money I'd be willing to buy figures and stuff from them, but nope, they don't. If I traveled to Japan I could get some crappy keychains if I timed it right and found one of their "pop up" stores, but that's about it. Okay, back to the game:

This game is a "what if" scenario at the end of Dungeon Travelers 2 if the final battle was lost. There's a Demon Queen that wants to corrupt and conquer humanity and blahblah that part isn't very exciting. Since the characters are the of the highlights (Aquaplus is involved after all) I'll give a brief introduction of each character before I start the game.
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 No.117722

File:casino2.mp4 (14.21 MB,1280x720)

I just want to show off the casino post-game dungeon. I really liked it a lot. The music and general theme is good, but I also loved the various floor puzzles that featured a variety of switches and one-way doors and other stuff. This whole dungeon was a blast. Unfortunately, the dungeon after it was an ugly prison-type setup with a lack of music and it should have been before this one.
ARARRGGHHH WHY IS IT DOING THE BAD CROPPING ON THE LEFT??

 No.117723

>>117722
how do you record?

 No.117724

>>117722
neat, not something you'd expect from a dungeon crawler

 No.117725

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>>117722
OBS and I use Handbrake to give it a reasonable filesize. My monitor is an ultrawide which this game understandably doesn't support, so I have to trim off the sides which had been working fine until a few days ago. I wonder what I messed up.

>>117707
Yeah, it's her Joker outfit. She has great outfits, too.

 No.117824

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Finally got around to testing some item drops and made a little list. It's kind of annoying to do this, but some of the effects are really strong! I might farm some of them depending on how strong the upcoming bosses turn out to be.

Berserk - Red Feather, Deep-Fried Mystery, Graduation Yearbook
Defender - Dried Mandra
Re-usable TP Heal 100 - Forbidden Fruit
+Phys Attk/Def to PARTY - Evoker of Spring
+Phys Accuracy - Refreshing Eye Drop, Youthful Love Letter
+Phys Evade - Bubble Lotion
Party Status Heal - Sacred Bud, Paper Crane of Prayers
Resuscitate - Primordial Clay, Crimson Jewel
+Max HP - Oasis Water
Pure Damage - Chemical 4969 (100 damage)
Clone - Silver Key, Living Shadow
Sleep - Lump of Jealousy
Paralyze - Savage Paralyzing Claw
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 No.117267[Reply]

>>>/jp/65426 is an interesting idea, but I think it would be better to go in reverse.
In this thread, continue the previous tegaki drawing by adding another line/object/whatever. You can go into as much depth and quality as you like or just make a scribble (like I will). If someone does imparts crazy detail, you don't need to repeat it as long as it's still somewhat recognizable. I think it would be cool to alter the scene, too, or zoom out or change angle and maybe it can become a story of sorts.

You may want to say that you're working on a drawing so there aren't splits, but that probably won't be an issue.
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 No.117553

Usually I try to keep an eye out but I don't think I've seen a draw thread here other than this.

 No.117554

>>117553
What about >>113726?

 No.117556

>>117554
I haven't seen that one. Thank you for bringing this to my attention.

 No.117557

there's also the MS Paint Drawthread >>67182
and the original tegaki announcement thread had some drawings >>116690

 No.117558

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You can also make a new one! I'm terrible at drawing so I don't make drawing threads (apart from that tegaki one), but I participate with terrible sketches that only a blind mother could love



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 No.116724[Reply]

wanted to share this cute and colourful frame of this show i'm watching
share your nice screencaps
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 No.117494

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>>117493

 No.117495

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>>117494

 No.117496

Thanks 4 sharing anon it means a lot to me

 No.117497

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Frieren has lots of really nice frames. I wonder how it will look in BD form.

 No.117498

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 No.116780[Reply]

Anniversaries are always a good time for reflection. So how about thinking of yourself, /qa/. As the years have gone by and you've gotten older, do you feel like you've become a better poster?
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 No.116976

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Well, since returning here after a year and some change I think, I think I've become more stable.
I'm still laconic in my words though, and I feel like I come across like an asshole everytime I post.

 No.117013

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This is something I wonder about a lot. I've certainly become a more active poster but I'm not so sure about a better one. Even after years of being here I don't think I've properly assimilated into kissu's culture. Worse, it may actually be the inverse, with others being influenced by and taking after my own kimo/kusoposting. /secret/ being the board I'm probably the most active on should say a lot.

 No.117020

i'm doing way better now and i'm very happy with where i'm at
especially throughout this last year it was great
>>117013
kimi ga kimo

 No.117410

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>>117020
happy for you anonymous!

 No.117419

>>117410
thanks



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 No.117361[Reply]

Is "Gezellig" the most accurate word to describe /qa/ - my friend is here?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gezelligheid
>Gezelligheid is a Dutch word which, depending on context, can be translated as 'conviviality', 'coziness', 'fun'.
>The word derives from gezel which means 'companion' or 'friend'.
>A common trait to all descriptions of gezelligheid is a general and abstract sensation of individual well-being that one typically shares with others. All descriptions involve a positive atmosphere, flow or vibe that colours the individual personal experience in a favorable way and in one way or another corresponds to social contexts.
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 No.117375

>>117371
That wouldn't make sense. A phrase for a specific thing would generally make things more concise, not less.

I suspect most of it came from Francization. A lot of English started as Romance (specifically French) vocabulary welded onto a Germanic grammar that it wasn't really 'meant' for, so you lose out on a lot of the subtleties of both.

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>>117365

 No.117378

>>117371
It is wyrd

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>>117376
HATE SUGU

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>>117370
>>117371
There is one word coined by a Scot that comes to mind and that's haecceity, also known as thisness. It's what distinguishes a specific thing as a distinct, particular entity. There are other fairly specific loans like eudaimonia or defenestrate, and of those that are trivia-tier I've come across qualtagh, that one's pretty unique. I don't think English lost these per se, it's that a lot of what you see touted around as these mega-specific abstract things are often a product of writing, either popularized by it or simply not used in regular speech anyways, and the English language spent a very long time being marginalized in favor of Latin and French, whose impact will be felt for even longer. And really, English speakers mostly prefer to borrow words over calquing them, that too contributes to the whole shebang.

The specificity of commonplace vocabulary is generally very underrated and you won't see it appear on any funny lists, but English's phrasal verbs in particular are a stupidly productive way to narrow down or diversify meanings. Get, get in, get out, get up, get down, get by, get on, get off, get along, get at, get away, get back, get over, get across, get around, get through, not to mention get as an auxiliary, at this point I'm sure you get the idea. It's important to highlight the fact that multi-word expressions are lexical items too and just as valid as individual ones, which is what most of these would be in a different language.

As for verbosity itself, it comes and goes, Aristophanes was making fun of it all the way back in 391 BC with his Lopado­temacho­selacho­galeo­kranio­leipsano­drim­hypo­trimmato­silphio­karabo­melito­katakechy­meno­kichl­epi­kossypho­phatto­perister­alektryon­opte­kephallio­kigklo­peleio­lagoio­siraio­baphe­tragano­pterygon. It's not unprecedented.

>>117376
Heheheh



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Do you use any software that other people may not know about that you like?
I started using (and eventually even bought!) this thing called Wallpaper Slideshow after trying a bunch of free ones and getting frustrated. https://www.gphotoshow.com/wallpaper-slideshow-pro.php
Basically, you give it folder(s) of your choice and it will assemble a collage image of them and make it your background. You can configure it with a timer that changes it and I have it set to 15 minutes. I had originally used John's Background Switcher that someone thankfully linked to me a few months ago: >>91800 https://johnsad.ventures/software/backgroundswitcher/
I liked this one more because there's less wasted space, more options, and it just generally seems to assemble the image better. I turn it off before I go to bed each night though because I'm worried that it's keeping my hard drive active all day, which probably isn't good. I should maybe research that sometime...

This pairs well with something like Grabber ( https://github.com/Bionus/imgbrd-grabber ) that can bulk download tags from booru sites.
Of course, this stuff is kind of wasteful if you don't have an extra monitor with a wallpaper that's largely visible, but I find myself like that sometimes so it's pretty nice.
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>>112462
>Window Maker - ditto, also very stylish!
I agree, it's my favorite window manager hands down. Apart from being lightweight and stylish it's also very easy to configure, though it's perfectly usable after running it for the first time. I've used it on spare computers for years, but only recently started using it on my main machine and I have zero complaints. I've also started making my own themes using its built-in settings GUI, I made this one inspired by the old Steam UI.

 No.116037

>>116020
I've always intended on trying Window Maker. It seems like a better FVWM with less timesink. I always used CWM out of laziness.

 No.116135

Score is pretty cool

 No.116136

Interesting OS concept. I've often thought about how a 3D imageboard might work that isn't copying minecraft

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f.lux
https://justgetflux.com/

This is something I've been using for a few years and it just exists passively in the background so I forget about it. It's a simple program that automatically reduces the blueness of your screen dependent on your set sleep schedule and/or time of day. This is important for reducing eyestrain and supposedly it helps you sleep, but I can't confirm the latter. It's based on the reasoning that blue light is artificial and new whereas the sun in the evening and even fire is orange and that's what our eyes have adapted to process.
There are other programs that do it (and newer OS versions have their own version I think) but this is the one I've used. I wonder if there's better stuff out there, but this is free and it does exactly what it's supposed to do so I haven't bothered looking.



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