/baw/ - General Discussion

>pearl
worst gem honestly

>>399432
I've never watched SU because I'm 80% sure it won't appeal to my taste, but that gem seems like a qt. My guess it that she is an annoying voice-of-reason character tho.

How wrong am I?

>>399437
//youtube.com/watch?v=T3tF2ILmp5E

Still impatiently waiting for my number to get called for Windows 10.

>>399438
If you can ignore the horrible privacy issues and forced updates, it does seem decent.

Anyone a content creator/poster on youtube?
Are there any good ways to discourage people reposting your stuff on their channel in addition to reporting it, or should I not care, considering how commonplace it is?

>>399442
Yeah, the privacy shit is a little worrisome, the updates are good though and I'd rank it a solid letter grade ahead of all the every other OS, so much easier to multi-task.

>>399445
>Are there any good ways to discourage people reposting your stuff on their channel in addition to reporting it, or should I not care, considering how commonplace it is?
I took it as a compliment when some kid stole my clip. However, I posted a comment on the video telling him that I didn't want him to steal my video. Got the reply "Sorry i like this video" and he switched the comments to 'approved only' so that I couldn't post again or answer people's questions like the song name (which he answered incorrectly).

>any good ways to discourage people reposting your stuff on their channel?
if a comment won't get you anywhere:
1) call their bullshit in a video
2) add a watermark or something

>>399437
>>399439
lol

Afro black chick was my second guess

>>399442

You can just turn all the privacy shit off. There are some features that won't work without them but nothing anybody should care about.

>>399453
You can't turn it off before they've already used it on you though.

>>399454
You can turn them off during installation.

>>399456
Not all of it. You still have to go to settings and turn off quite a bit once it's been installed.
I'm glad I put it on an unimportant laptop before doing my desktop since I can't seem to get Rocksmith working with it.

>>399450
She's not either, I can't even begin to tell you about her, but though she tries to be she's really not.

>>399450
Not the voice of reason so much as the voice of get back to work already.

>>399454

I'm sure you're getting up to some truly noteworthy usage during the five minutes between installation and getting to the settings screen.

>>399461
Within those 5 minutes, they'll already know what's on my machine.

>>399462
Ah, yes, they'll be sending a full ghost image of all your harddrives and the current contents of your optical drives, created and uploaded in five minutes.

>>399465
Oh no! Accessibility and intuitive design is being focused on? How will the world cope?!

>>399464
muh- muh startup settings

It pisses me off so much how the word "retarded" is considered inappropriate and offensive now. People lump both it and "faggot" as if they're on the same level as nigger, when in reality it took that word over a century to become socially unacceptable. This happened in just 5 years.

>>399470

//youtube.com/watch?v=eOBoKxEcVAA

>>399470
I feel that words like faggot and retarded should only be avoided when talking to a stranger that legitimately fits that description (like, an actual homosexual).
Political correctness is stupid and contradictory. There is nothing wrong with being polite or appropriate to your setting, but to demonise the use of certain words is just retarded.

Then again, taboo just makes it more rewarding to say.

>>399472
This is so accurate, it hurts.

>>399473
You're not really saying anything that's wrong here, you can just thank the retards that can't even make the distinction of when to use it and when not to for it becoming generally unsavoury regadless of the situation.

>>399473
>I feel that words like faggot and retarded should only be avoided when talking to a stranger that legitimately fits that description (like, an actual homosexual).
Which if homosexuality was an inherently visible trait like skin color, would be entirely practical, but I'm not about to expect people to trade demographic profile cards before communicating.

>>399470
Times change. Adapt or die.

I still use the word retarded but only within my circles. It doesn't bother me that it bothers some people. I don't feel the need to take a stand on something.

>>399476
It's for this reason that so many words the internet throws around today have no fucking meaning. If you want a recent 4chan example, what the fuck does cuck even mean anymore? Nothing (on 4chan, that is--I imagine the word still has use on more intelligent parts of the internet), because it gets used to describe literally everything. And that use of "literally" in my previous sentence isn't even hyperbole.

>>399478

Don’t forget “autistic” and “meme”; those words have lost meaning on 4chan as well. The former is even used to describe things like fictional narratives (e.g. “this show is fucking autistic”) instead of people with actual autism.

4chan is where meaning and context go to die in a gutter.

>>399478
Times aren't supposed to change as fast as tumblr are trying to force them to.

>>399480

What law says that?

>>399479
I don't think it's wise to blame a website for anything. It's the people who do things, be it right or wrong. 4chan is merely a gathering place, where some of the brightest and the dimmest individuals come to post stuff.

>>399481
The goddamn human condition.

>all these tips on looking photogenic in photos talk about making yourself look less fat
but im underweight

>>399484
Then do the opposite. Take your pictures from below so it looks like you have a double chin. Wear baggy clothes to make yourself look bigger. Eat food with lots of salt and then drink lots of water before you take your picture.

>>399482

I’m not blaming the website for “destroying” those words in general. I’m saying that on 4chan, those words no longer have any real meaning because 4channers “destroyed” their context and meaning by overusing them and using them in nonsensical ways.

Well, maybe I won't be going to Canada. T-thanks, passport agency.

>i got a quads get
>on /fit/
>quads
hahahahaha oh wow

>>399486
Well, that's what you get when thousands of people simultaneously try to prove that they "can say whatever they want". They end up saying everything at the same time, devaluing words at the speed of light. I actually wrote an "article" on this issue (not identical but similar):
http://theinternetisforopinions.blogspot.com/2014/10/the-condensed-evolution-of-language.html

There's an owl sitting outside of my window and just kinda staring at me. This is the coolest shit.

>>399492
Progress, hooray!

>>399494
So enjoy the art and not the artist.

>>399495
That crap seeps into the art every time the artists is crazy like that. And since comics are impossible without characters, the comic's characters will exhibit the things the author believes in. I never seen a single exception to that.

>>399496
>I never seen a single exception to that.
And as long as you keep boycotting works created by people with different lifestyles than you, by god you never will!

>>399496
So enjoy the art and not the artist until the artist turns the art into a personal megaphone.

That's what I did with Sinfest.

If your goal in life is achieving some sort of future reward, might as well give up. The only way to be happy is doing something you like, and enjoying the process. Happiness is not in the future, happiness is now.

Just a thought.

>>399500
Please elaborate.

>>399500
>doing something you like
That is the future reward.

>>399502
Although to continue that thought, I am often happy in general anyway, despite being prone to frustration.
Also, if it's not in the future then how is it a goal?

>>399500
So you're arguing in favor of mindless hedonism.

>>399504
I didn't make a claim that unhealthy life practices can make you happy. Booze can take away your worries, but they will return, more worrisome than ever.

Examples of happy activities:
>having a picnic with friends
>skiing
>drawing stuff (if you're an artist)
>listening to music you like
>putting your talents to use (having a dream job)
>watching a cartoon
>reading a comic

>>399505
But the point is that you're arguing people should put immediate gratification over long-term happiness.

>taking mt seriously

It's 1am and I can't fucking sleep because it's so fucking hot. Fuck summer. Right in its humid stuffy asshole.

>>399509
That sounds like a bad idea.

>>399509
Twister, you aren't the boss. I'm just speaking my mind, bro

>>399509

>This should not be a discussion thread

Too late.

god damn i need a fucking dick in my ass.

I find it ironic that angsty teenagers are the butt of many of the jokes on 4chan and ED, despite them being the majority of the userbase.

holy shit i need to stick my dick in someones ass

>>399515
>>399519
...I
I have an idea

>>399521
I think I have the same idea! Quick, you get the lederhosen, I'll start teaching these frogs how to play the trumpet.

>>399499
These are some nice videos. Makes me think I ought to write down my ideas on the classical elements and write some fiction already. Or use aether theory to design a video game physics engine, when I've been meaning to do one based on relativity for a while but then whoops no interest in graphics drivers. Just got to the superstitions in science video, and as always I find it annoying when someone acts like they know what I'm thinking when they don't even if what they say makes sense and applies to most people. TFW cold reading is used on me even though I'm a freak, basically.

In any case, I thusly feel as though I should record my guess before going onto the next video to show my lack of superstition in the matter. In a spoiler, since he says to make your own guess before looking up an answer: Wormholes, if they existed, wouldn't allow for time travel, even if put in a Roman ring configuration, but also might not exist if it means spacetime doesn't bend. He specifically pointed out how time travel in the relativistic sense isn't allowed by ether physics to allowance of a preferred frame in an earlier video. I don't know if a rocket could, it aether theory, travel fast enough to create Cherenkov radiation from traveling faster than light in the medium between solar systems, as I didn't get a chance to learn the math in school and haven't taken to online courses. They're all video and I prefer being able to read.

>>399532
Oh right, of course! I'll write a story about a a blind underwater race of the abyssal planes from the perspective of one of its members, who discovers that there are things traveling faster than sound despite their society having a belief in physics where the speed of sound is treated like the speed of light in relativity.

>>399533
woah

>>399492
>>399493
>she asks me how many women I've been with
>I know damn well lying will not go well in the long run
>I tell her straight out that I've not gotten that far before
>she stops e-mailing me
NEVER MIND.

I swung at a moth on the wall, and it fell right on a newly build spider's web.

>>399543
Teamwork!

>>399537
You'd think you'd get the hint when she DIDN'T ask you IF you've been with a woman before.

12 year olds who do not know what "correct aspect ratio" is need to be banned from the Internets and forced to take a crash course on basic media technology.

I don't know why people take Dragon Ball seriously when it has two villains named Freezer and Cooler, a character named after the word vegetable, a boy named after the word food, and a girl named after underwear.

>>399556
The goofy theme naming goes even further than that--everyone in underwear girl's family is named after underwear--Bulma (Buruma/Bloomers) Dr. Briefs, her son Trunks and her daughter Bra. All the pureblood Saiyans are named after vegetables--Vegeta, Kakkarot(carrot), Brolly (Broccoli), Bardock (Burdock), Raditz (Radish), Nappa (Nappa Cabbage). The new villains are Beers and Whis (short for Whiskey). One of the major early villains was Emperor Pilaf. There were a trio of magic-related creatures who are called Bibidi and Babidi, and both were trying to claim as their servant a magical monster named Buu (Bippity, Boppity, Boo)

Dragonball started off as a gag series. And in my opinion, being a gag series made Dragonball far more likeable than Dragonball Z.

>>399554
Go back to /g/

>>399558
Go back to middle school, 12 year old.

>>399559
Really pumping out those misses lately.

>dog taken to be put down today
>was not informed
>not offered to see him one last time

I seriously fucking hate my dad. This is all his fault. He doesn't care about animals except for how "useful" they are so doesn't understand why anyone would be attached to one.

>>399570
I am so sorry man. I had to put mine down a few months ago but I couldn't imagine not being able to say goodbye.

>>399570
Many parents look at their children that way: only useful to keep the family business/legacy going.

>>399551
She just got back to me;. Nothing to tell; "Thanks for being honest, but you're not what I'm looking for", which is fair enough.
>>399570
I'm sorry your dad is such a shit.

It is hard as fuck for me to work up the courage to even write down ideas, let alone flesh them out.

>>399570

Your father is an asshole.

>>399585
Welcome to the club. I have the same problem, only with art. I have like a hundred ideas, but too many doubtful thoughts preventing me from finishing them.

Thankfully, this is solvable. Now, if I had my hands cut off by a chainsaw, then it would be a permanent problem.

Somewhat related, but your drawing is not forgotten. Just cannot bring myself to finish the lineart. After that, add some simple colour, and it's done.

>>399585
>>399595
Talk to your doctors about anxiety and depression. It sounds like failure anxiety is preventing you from enjoying things that you allegedly like doing. You don't necessarily need to get on prozac for it (though that's helped me, personally--everyone's brain chemistry is different so the fact that it's helped me in so many areas of my life doesn't mean it'll do the same for you) but talking to a therapist or getting involved in a group or something might very well be exactly what you need.

>>399596
I know about my own problems, where they come from, and what must be done about them, thank you very much.

If this was real life, I would have gotten very angry at you for insulting me, but this is online so it's okay.

>>399601
And to explain my weird response, unless you are a nihilist like many kids these days, telling "a pill will take away your fears" has a high chance of provoking anger.

>>399604
>>399601
I didn't say "A pill will take away your fears." And you have a really messed up view of mental health.

>>399605
You know what? Pretend two two posts never existed. And things are always messed up from someone's point of view.

>>399608
>from someone's point of view

You don't get to play this game when you really have a poor understanding of mental health. That's not how this works. If we were talking about something like your favorite video game, yeah, you can play the "different points of view" angle, but we're talking about mental health here.

Don't write off talking to professionals.

>>399613
People who just can't admit they're racist are the worst.

What's worse is that it's not a fucking terminal disease. Even if you are racist and you don't like that label, *you can change*

>>399609
I have contempt for those "professionals". It's a long story, and let's leave it at that.

>>399616
She even literally said "I'm not racist but...because of black people" word for word.

Addressing this to that one poster I was rude towards. While I apologize for that, I won't take back what I said. I have deep contempt for the modern nihilistic approach to psychology.

>>399620
And due to that, you seem to also have deep contempt for people with mental illnesses.

>>399617
That's cool. I have contempt for medical professionals in general!

>>399624
Did they ever figure out what was going on with your brain?

Nope. I eventually have figured out most of it. My limbic system is misfiring in response to chemical trauma. I'm trying to treat it now with a combination of fitness, diet management, and congitive based therapy stolen from PTSD treatment (which effects a similar portion of the brain, but is caused by psychic trauma).

I'm not at a point where I can work a regular job yet, but I'm getting in crazy good shape, which is a huge relief from not being able to walk. I still have days with chronic pain.

The thing that pisses me off about medical professionals isn't that they couldn't diagnose me, it's that once they realized they couldn't diagnose me, they hated me. Once they didn't have a category for me, they just did not want to deal with it or hear about it in any way.

They refused to talk about how my illness would effect my life. At one time my doctor thought I had a tumor, and that that tumor was causing damage to my body the longer it went on. And he didn't tell me.

I've had multiple doctors tell me I don't need disability, based on their assessment of my financial status (spoiler warning: Not good, cannot afford to eat sometimes). I've had doctors dismiss my complaint that I can't receive over the counter medicine as again, something I don't need. And when I've raised concerns about how if I end up in a hospital, and there's this massive list of foods that will hurt me, and how do I deal with that, especially if I'm not conscious or they think I'm being troublesome, I'm told I'll deal with that when the time comes.

Incidentally, my brother was in medschool. He had pretty much the same assesment of these people's characters and dropped out over it. In his opinion these were "stupid" people, who "weren't interested in any of this" and only cared about securing a good income.

I looked back on the dozens of doctors I've seen and tried to figure out who the best one was, and I thought I had a clear answer until I realized that wasn't a doctor I was remembering, that was a secretary, who sat and talked to me for an hour because the doctor had a late lunch. And that person who had an associates stuck in my mind as the best doctor.

Out of all of them, one Gastro-interologist struck me as basically decent and willing to treat me as a person. It's not just freewheeling spite here. I think the entire system we have of teaching, accrediting, and employing "medical professionals" today is fundamentally unsound, and basically sucks in terrible people, and drives off the good ones, mostly.

Now the best 'doctor' I've found is my kickboxing coach. He's done more to work with me and help me on this than any 'medical professional' I met.

>>399622
I prefer to not call it "mental illness", since I do not believe in the concept of mental illness.

Which may seem weird, but then again many people believe in one God, and that is considered okay.

>>399629

>I do not believe in the concept of mental illness

…and you lost me.

>>399629
>I prefer to not call it "mental illness", since I do not believe in the concept of mental illness.
So then what do you call potentially fatal physiological peculiarities that, even when they don't kill those afflicted, lower the quality of life of those who suffer from them, and which can be treated with chemicals and exercises with more reliability than sugar pills?

>>399627
Word.
Glad you're at least doing better my dude, I was worried you died for a while.
Can confirm that 99% of doctors are awful, though.
>>399629
You are authentically stupid, Mister Twister. You're not just a bad poster, you are just plain and pure idiotic, and it really frustrates me. I want you to know that--both of those, actually. I want you to understand, accept, and internalize that you are very far from any possible definition of smart, and that that fact causes me mental anguish.

>>399633
>The problem with the concept of "mental illness" is the inability to point where it starts or ends. Are we all ill, are none of us? Is greed a mental illness? Is jealousy? Is stubbornness? Is fear of the dark a mental illness? Is artist's block an illness? Has anyone ever been "cured" of his or her mental illness?

There is literally an entire branch of medicine devoted to answering those questions scientifically.

>>399634
Which you unfortunately couldn't name as it is too large to fit within the margins of this image board?

>>399640
Dropping your name but continuing to post is not the same as "leaving," MT.

>>399641
I'm not MT, who incidentally didn't say he was leaving. I wasn't even making a rebuttal, just saying actually name the specific branch instead of just sayingl it's out there.

>>399642
I'm sorry, I thought "Psychiatry" was a well-known enough thing that I didn't have to go to the trouble.

>>399646
Somehow I thought you meant there was some kind of sub-discipline of psychiatry devoted specifically to questions of when intervention should or shouldn't be required, as opposed to methods of how that intervention is performed.

I feel like the only reason I care about the people I'm close to is because they benefit me in some way, and the idea of change freaks me out.

>if I don't blow my nose, it will get blocked
>if I blow my nose, I'll get another nose bleed
This is the worst cold I've had yet

When the fuck did smh, tbh and fam happen? It just showed up out of nowhere one day on imageboards like ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) did.

>>399660
They've been on Facebook and Twitter for ages. Not sure what fam is, but the others aren't new at all.

>youtube dancing video
>short intro credits on video end with an irrelevant "i hate you jenny / you broke my heart"
>comments filled with "fuck you jenny", "who is jenny", "i hate you too jenny"


>>399663
short for family?

I think I figured out the purpose of pets.

Having animals live with you allows you to have a daily reminder that it is possible to simply enjoy life as it happens, to enjoy the moment. That thought alone relaxes you quite a bit. I spent a few minutes playing with our new kitten, and already it feels like this day will be not shit.

>>399670
There are also other reasons.

>>399672
Animals you use for farming, transport, or defense, aren't pets, if that's what you're thinking.

I have a big pregnancy fetish. My mom's work is primarily concerning pregnant women and new moms. I wonder if she would blame her work, if she found out I had this fetish... (which may have come from overexposure, I dunno.)

Blurgh.

I think I figured it out. YouTube is run by /g/. That is why they care more about updating logos than functionality.

>>399679
What do you think about the RR thread derailed by anime supremacists?

>>399681

Got banned for "ban evasion" for some reason. Wasn’t paying attention to that stuff, anyway. Too depressed to give a shit.

>>399684

Eh, this shit comes and goes.

>>399684
It wasn't derailed to Hell, but about about 7 posts or so really tried
http://boards.4chan.org/co/thread/74917057

How come whenever there's a webcomic or artwork in general that tries to be progressive by depicting a shitton of minorities as its characters, it's always made by a girl?

>>399687
it's not, but I know that's not going to do anything for your confirmation bias

also, having characters of a ton of different backgrounds is not always done for the sake of "being progressive". some cities and parts of the country actually do have a number of races living together.

don't take it personally, but comments like yours piss me off, as if there isn't a single place in the world where you can find more than just white people around. i'm guessing you come from a place where there are only white people? well regardless of how common it is, areas that are racially diverse DO exist

>>399688

Remember: it’s only pandering when it’s done for non-white audiences!

>>399688
>>399689
I don't mean showing a black person standing next to a white person. I mean having the main character or important side characters have LGBT traits, having a mix of races that's literally unrealistic for the setting, or having a girl that's completely non-effeminate.

Also I never once even slightly implied that I was calling out SJWs or said they were pandering. That's your inability to not label me as homophobic/racist/misogynistic at the first possible sign of a conservative viewpoint. I just noticed that every time the writer makes a blatant attempt at being progressive, said writer is almost always female. And I wondered why. That's literally all it is.

>>399690
>That's your inability to not label me as homophobic/racist/misogynistic at the first possible sign of a conservative viewpoint.
ROFL

dude, i was labeling you out of touch for thinking that the entire world goes by your anecdotes. it doesn't. it doesn't go by mine either, which is why i asked if you came from whitebread, USA.


>I mean having the main character or important side characters have LGBT traits, having a mix of races that's literally unrealistic for the setting, or having a girl that's completely non-effeminate.

literally all of these things have exist in real life. this is why i'm calling you out of touch. just because things are uncommon (or much more likely, just things you personally have not experienced) do not make them impossible.

>>399691
I was talking to Stone, not you

>>399692

>That's your inability to not label me as homophobic/racist/misogynistic at the first possible sign of a conservative viewpoint.
ROFL

dude, i was labeling you out of touch for thinking that the entire world goes by your anecdotes. it doesn't. it doesn't go by mine either, which is why i asked if you came from whitebread, USA.


>I mean having the main character or important side characters have LGBT traits, having a mix of races that's literally unrealistic for the setting, or having a girl that's completely non-effeminate.

literally all of these things have exist in real life. this is why i'm calling you out of touch. just because things are uncommon (or much more likely, just things you personally have not experienced) do not make them impossible.

>>399694
>I'll be a smartass, that'll show 'em!

>>399695
Dude, chill.

What the fuck are we talking about anyway. Do people really think a black-pakistani homosexual girl in Seattle is such a unicorn its only done so in the mythical genre of tumblrcomix?

>>399696
Yes?

I mean you have to have a specific mindset behind writing such uncommon character traits. "This has never been done before." Nobody thinks "Oh, race and sexuality, I dunno black and gay?" Whether they SHOULD have that mindset is irrelevant, it simply doesn't happen. Source: writer.

>>399710
Too bad the first time you mentioned this, you did so as a reply when you only had two responses yourself, and the conversation would have ended there if you didn't reply in the name of no replying.

>>399710
Shut the hell up.

>>399694
>>I mean having the main character or important side characters have LGBT traits, having a mix of races that's literally unrealistic for the setting, or having a girl that's completely non-effeminate.
>>399698
>Nobody thinks "Oh, race and sexuality, I dunno black and gay?"
To say writers base their decisions based on statistics would be to ignore the things writers do that only make sense because they don't base their stories on statistics. Based only on >>399687 and>>399690 I'd think you were just being vague, since "tries to be progressive by depicting a shitton of minorities" could be interpreted as "Well if it's depicting a shitton of minorities for reasons other than to appear progressive it doesn't count." Also, that you're wondering less about the comics by women themselves and more about the lack of politically-motivated comics by men, in which case: Sinfest.

How uncommon something subjectively appears depends a lot on one's personal life, and thus would obviously very from one writer to another. While in a way that might be seen as lending some weight to your argument, if we presume that women might be given more pressure to appear politically correct, it's also possible that a writer just knows a lot of gay and black people for other reasons, which obviously influences their work. It'd be nice if you actually cited specific webcomics and artworks as examples instead of trying to illustrate your point based on hypotheticals. It's not like we can't go immediately check, this is the internet we're using.

>>399710

Yes, somebody will reply to you. I will. Because this is not your thread, your board, or your site—and I sure as fucking hell am not yours to order around. SYM means “Speak Your Mind”; it is not short for “Speak Your Mind in Certain Ways as Approved by One Person’s Vision of What ‘Speak Your Mind’ Really Means”. If/when the mods want SYM threads to be like your vision, they will get the fuck off the couch and slap an edict about it somewhere before going back to their latest Netflix binge.

The rest of us will use the thread however we wish, MT. Don’t fool yourself into thinking you can either order or emotionally manipulate people into doing otherwise when you don’t have the authority required to pull either one off.

>>399717

I am not The King of SYM Threads. What I am, however, is someone who doesn’t like to be ordered around or emotionally manipulated by people who hold no authority over me. Unless you have an edict from the United Nations that says you can make me do whatever you want, you can fuck off with any such attempt.

You use SYM however you want, and I’ll use SYM however I want. If you don’t like how I use it, you have every right to say so—but please don’t let yourself believe that you can make me change how I use SYM.

>complains about arguing
>starts an argument
haha

I just use this thread to vent. That sometimes involves expressing opinions in rebuttal to other opinions. So be it.

>>399710
If people didn't want other people to respond to their thoughts, they wouldn't air them.

Is it just me or do Indian restaurants have a particularly good atmosphere for discussion? Maybe it's just nice to go places with just my brother again. Either way, everyone I ask says I should start writing fiction, so I'll try to do that tonight. Not like I don't know how to put words to keyboard in volume.

Holy fuck facebook, I don't know these people. Why are they sending me friend requests?

Maybe they should add a friend request feature that includes a message, like skype.

Tumblr’s current staff can’t code for crap.

>>399743
They're probably spam/nigerian prince accounts. I got a random friend invite from an attractive female and, after seeing a profile that had been used for a bit but suddenly started posting odd things, I messaged them. After a chat of "her" saying things like "i thought you looked interesting", "u seem cute", etc. the person finally got around to saying "And I need help you see I'm on vacation and was fined in Egypt, and they won't let me leave. I only have to pay $X but don't have that, so..."

It was an amusing distraction, and then the blocked me.

>>399747
The whole place is kind of a big fat shithole in general, but there's the occasional gem to be found so I put up with it.

I've turned off my AddBlock while on YouTube. I wonder if they have learnt how to make their adds less annoying.

Holy fuck, I need to stop farting

>inb4 see a doctor

>>399783
Drink more water, this allows things that would otherwise escape as fart gasses get passed via urine.

>>399789
Maybe you should look inwards if you're constantly coming off as an ass.

>>399791

…yet.

>>399793
Which is true. It's only a matter of time before 4chan stop existing and everyone migrates to 8chan.

Yahoo may be a crappy e-mail provider, but they never lost a single message I got or received, for more then 5 years, and for that I tip my nonexistent hat to them.

>>399794
>implying

>>399791
>Basically, I am no better or worse than an average poster,
if only

if only

>>399789
>I think I learned something today. When you say something on the Internet, and somebody misunderstands your intentions as """mean spirited""", that's usually where it ends.
Yeah, they usually move on to other things and don't really care about it much since they don't need to demand an explanation.

>>399791
I don't usually mind your opinions on things, it's just the recent streak of seeming attempts at being authoritative as to the ideal method of posting. Even then I don't really apply it to your unrelated statements. Like >>399797, that is a good point since hotmail makes you log in every few months or it pay it to keep things form being deleted.

Fuck.

I forgot this site existed for a while. Mr. Stone was Freehaven, right?

>>399811

Still am in certain circles.

>>399814
"The best achievable or imaginable of its kind."

>>399794
>4chan stop existing and everyone migrates to 8chan.

This is quite possibly the dumbest thing you've said. I mean that. No 4chan knockoff will ever last as long as 4chan, especially not a shitty chan that gets shilled on 4chan all the time because 12 whole people use the entire site.

Doesn't 8chan exist exclusively to cater to bigots who didn't like being told not to bigot so hard on 4chan? Sounds like a real winner of a community.

>>399817

If /pol/ were all of 4chan, it'd be 8chan.

>>399817
its basically that and nigh-cp, yeah.
But don't you dare utter a word against it or else you'll be considered 'intolerant of ehebegiebiephiles.'

>>399814
Don't forget 'awesome'.
//youtube.com/watch?v=3li_aZWt-r0

>>399823
>tfw hollywood and cgi has ruined any sense of "awe" you'll ever have.
>and you'll never imagine an original idea because its shaped by the movies you've seen before.

>>399824
No one's ever had an original idea anyway. Everyone is shaped by the culture they're brought up in, and every idea builds upon ideas that came before it.

>>399826
Debatable, but surprisingly true at times.
Also, obligatory mention of 'The Seven Basic Plots' (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheSevenBasicPlots)

>>399827

>debatable

No, it really isn't. Every idea is built upon something that someone else experienced, heard, or read. It's more about unique ideas—those one-in-a-million ideas that no one else puts together—than it is about “original” ideas, anyway. As an example: Pokémon is a combination of rock-paper-scissors, RPGs, and elements of virtual pets such as Tamagotchi. Yeah, the idea seems obvious now, but back when it first came out, there was little (if anything) on the market like Pokémon.

>>399823
I blame the practice of presuming that anyone not exaggerating is actually feeling otherwise and being polite.
>Oh, you're only feeling good? Not great? You have to tell me what's wrong!

>>399824
>>399826
I have never supported this impossibly narrow concept of originality, which ignores the entire concept of living in a world of cause and affect where every originating tings itself originates from earlier things even without the existence of ideas. "Original" does not mean "origin-less", it means "origin of", and that included origins of combinations of things. Otherwise you get only one idea because you can describe any concept as a unary number.

>>399817
No, it happened because moot banned anyone who supported Gamergate.

>>399832
I thought it existed before that as just a "Let's make a board for every topic" thing and gamergate was just the first board that really got more than a view active posters.

>>399833

Pretty much, yeah. GG took over the site once they got the mootboot from 4chan. It was virtually unheard of before GG; even anonIB at its peak had better traffic (and probably as much CP spam) than 8chan pre-GG.

>>399832
>>399833
Well, GG is now OVER (it is over, game sites must now report about who is friends with whom). Now it's just about political correctness, which is gr8, but STOP CALLING IT GAMERGATE.

>>399835

I will when they do.

Looks like my asshole dad indirectly killed my mom. Remember how I thought she was being whiny and refusing to take her meds? Turns out he was lying to me the whole time and trying to pass it off as that when he was basically gaslighting her. Hiding her meds, guilt tripping her, telling her she's weak and "faking it", giving her food he knew she couldn't eat, refusing to let her see the doctor because it would "waste money", basically actively preventing her from getting the help she really needed. I don't want to go into detail but he's had a history of abusive behavior towards all of us but I never thought it would go this far.

And his whole reason for it makes me want to vomit. He always got into fights with her and called her a shitty parent because she didn't believe in being an abusive asshole to me and my siblings like he did which apparently made us too "weak" and "soft" for him (because we're not horribly hateful bigots like he wants us to be), and part of it is because he's an ultra-conservative asshole who already threatened her into surrendering all her legal rights to him then tried to extort money from her side of the family, and now that she's out of the picture he's definitely going to move onto us. Probably me first, because I'm a woman and he's already pissed at me because I'd rather focus on a career instead of settling down and making babies even though I'm barely in my twenties. For fuck's sake the first thing he did after the funeral was feed me blatant lies to guilt trip me about not having kids yet and basically try to trick me into quitting my job and moving back home so he could get more control over me.

I already suspected a lot of this shit back then but I only found out the entire story from my brother now that he's finally away from that murderous piece of shit. My youngest siblings are still too young to live on their own away from him and I am literally terrified for them because of it. I don't care if it's impious, but God I have never wanted a person to die more in my entire life than right now.

What's the difference between cripplechan and voat (aside from URLs obviously)? Is there any?

>>399839
Vot. Iz. Voat.

>>399840

Voat is what the /pol/-esque sections of Reddit flocked to when Reddit decided overt hate speech and harassment were two things it didn't want on the site.

>>399838
It will be painful, but it sounds like you need to do everything humanly possible to end contact with your father. Get a new phone number, move, etc.

It's commendable if you want to stay in the picture in order to help the siblings as much as possible, though. While it won't be anything close to easy, if you can prove he did all of that to your mom it counts as manslaughter; at the very least, even half proof is enough for CPS to remove your siblings and you can get guardianship over them.

>>399833
>let's make a board for every topic
Chans like that had already existed for a while.

>>399835
I never got into the whole GG/AntiGG shitfest. Could someone sum up the basic premise in a non-biased way?

(dont start a fight; rule 1)

>>399844
People got sick of bias and corruption in the games industry, started a campaign against it. (GG)

Other people felt like they were only attacking minorities and social activists, therefore, were a thinly veiled harassment group. Started campaigning against them. (aGG)

>>399845
The fact that most of their ire was directed towards indie developers showed us all that they didn't give a shit about actual corruption in the game industry.

Anyone who actually cares about corruption dropped their flags along time ago and took to criticizing shitty company practices by other means.

>>399844
One year ago, in the span of 24 hours, most game sites published articles attacking and accusing gamers of the usual things (being racist, misogynistic, violent, etc) Gamers got mad, decided to investigate. Turned out, members of the gaming press were paying one another, and sleeping with one another. In addition to that, to no one's surprise, it also turned out SJWs infested the gaming media. Adam Baldwin (yes, that one) decided to coin the scandal "Gamer Gate", as a reference to Watergate (look it up). Gamers battled SJWs for a whole year.

Eventually, gamers won. Gaming websites are now required to have an ethics policy. GG is over. But people don't want to let go of the term GamerGate, because it sounds cool. Now it's just about fighting political correctness, and nothing to do with GG.

It was a thing for a year, but now it's over.

>>399846
People have been railing against big developers and game "journalists" for years and years. Don't try to pretend that claims of bad ethics practices were new for coverage of indie devs.

>>399847
God, you really do get stupider with each post.

Don't listen to anything Twister says. I mean, that should be a given, but the two posts above his are far more accurate.

>>399849
>People have been railing against big developers and game "journalists" for years and years.

And when Gamergate came along, they didn't focus on it as strongly as they should have. Because, like I said, anyone who was smart enough to realize this early on dropped their flags and took to other means.

GamerGate was the logical conclusion of fratboys taking over gaming and trying to remind people why everyone used to bully nerds.

>>399854
I don't see how you came to that conclusion seeing as the nerds were the shitheads in this case.

And to be honestly, I suspect any of these "fratbro" gamers not to give a fuck about reviews as long as they can get back to shooting their zombies and playing Madden.

>>399850
Instead of pointing at a post and saying "That's stupid, you're stupid" you could start acting like an adult and write a reply that debunks what he says.

>>399856
>I don't see how you came to that conclusion seeing as the nerds were the shitheads in this case.

That's what I mean. The nerds were shitheads, thus they reminded us why people started picking on them in the first place. The nerds and the fratboys were the same people in this scenario. Like in Revenge of the Nerds.

>>399857
Don't encourage him/her/it.

>>399844

There once was an indie developer named Zoe Quinn. She made games that /v/ and /pol/ hated, like Depression Quest. And I don't mean that they thought they were bad games. They hated the very idea of them, hated their very existence. These games were, however, given a much warmer reception by the mainstream gaming press - probably because the mainstream press was engaging with them on a level that wasn't a troglodytic 'but you can't get your girly feelings in muh vidya'.

Anyway, she had a breakup, and her super bitter ex posted a huge rant accusing her of sleeping around in exchange for good reviews of her games. In reality, this is all pretty much hooey. She may or may not have actually been cheating on him, it's not super clear, but the part about doing so in exchange for good reviews doesn't hold any water: the only name on the list about which anything can be confirmed is Nathan Grayson, who never reviewed her games. But it gave a bunch of fuckers who already hated her the excuse they'd been looking for to trash her publically, so they were way too ready to believe it, and they jumped on the smear campaign train, destination Zoe Quinn. Using the banner of journalistic ethics as a paper shield, they launched a sustained campaign of public shaming and harassment against Quinn. Quinn had to leave her home multiple times because of credible threats issued against her. And while they were at it they roped in Anita Sarkeesian as a target too, because they already thought of her as a mortal enemy, so why not, right?

In response to all this noise and bother, a bunch of gaming websites put out articles talking about how 'gamers were over'. These articles were actually about how 'gamer', as an identity, only made sense in opposition to the mainstream - that is, 'most people don't play games, but we do, so we're gamers'. Since fucking everybody and his mom plays video games these days, the 'gamer' identity is now totally incoherent.

Read fairly, these articles weren't really trashing gamers, they were saying 'good job. You won. Games are mainstream now. You can stop acting like you're downtrodden.' But you can imagine how these guys took it. In the middle of THAT fracas, former Firefly actor and consistent right-wing shithead Adam Baldwin coined the term 'gamergate' on twitter, and for some reason or another it stuck. So now this 'movement' had a name.

In the meantime, right-wing puke-funnel website Breitbart started sniffing the air. Their entire business model is posting misleading or straight-up false stories to gin up outrage in the credulous, and then exploiting that outrage for all it was worth. And they smelled a new batch of credulous suckers to exploit. They took up the gamergate cause loudly and proudly, and reached into their bag of tricks and pulled out something from a few years back: get leaked copies of emails professional journalists send each other talking about how they do their jobs, spin it to look like some grand conspiracy, get tons of clicks from credulous morons. And what a lot of credulous morons they found in the gamergaters, ready to believe fucking Breitbart of all outlets. They've since been pretty much the gamergaters' only journalistic ally - 'journalistic' being used quite liberally here, we ARE talking about fucking Breitbart after all.

Beyond this point, things get murky in the way that he-said-she-said twitter slapfights always are. The gamergaters are their usual shithead selves, but from the sounds of things the people in opposition to them haven't been angels either. Some gamergaters have indicated that they've been targets for harassment and threats themselves and I can believe it - although given that Gamergate has been a complete ratfucking operation from day one, and this is pretty much their only way of invoking public sympathy at this point, I'm not sure that I should.

There are definitely people involved in gamergate who are motivated by concern about ethics in games journalism. They've picked poor allies, but they do exist. But gamergate itself isn't about them or their concerns (although they're willing to make use of them). If it was, where was gamergate when Eidos pressured Gamespot to fire Jeff Gerstmann for giving their game a bad score? Why isn't gamergate freaking out over the rampant practice of publishers spending tons of money to get good reviews out of writers - a practice which in places borders on bribery? Instead they remain fixated on indie developers and dumb indie events - you know, the people who don't have any money to corrupt with.

The whole mess started with Zoe Quinn, but it's not really about her either. She's just a convenient emblem they could rally against. What it's really about is: gaming is changing. It's no longer the province of straight while male nerds - and, well, it never REALLY was, but for a long time that was the only audience the people making games and marketing them to western audiences cared about. That's no longer the case, and there's now room in gaming for games about different kinds of experiences: women, lesbians, gay men, people (for lack of a better term) of color. This is actually a great thing, but to some people who were pretty comfortable with gaming being a straight white sausagefest, change is scary. And like most reactionaries do, rather than accept the fact that the gaming world no longer revolves around them exclusively, they'd rather marinate in a fantasy that the scary change is illusory, and everyone is being tricked by an activist media.

That fantasy is gamergate.

>>399847

Maybe you should consider the possibility that the reason why winning the fight for ethics in gaming journalism hasn't been the end of gamergate is that it was never actually about ethics in gaming journalism to begin with.

>>399860
Twister may be annoying and naive, but he's still the sanest poster here next to Autonymoose and Jumpman. People who know how to think for themselves instead of shit fed to them via tumblr and the rest of the liberal media.

>>399865
>but he's still the sanest poster here

Okay, put your name back on, Twister.

>>399866
Being a shit != insane.
At the very least there's a level of unadmitted self awareness there.

>>399865
>liberal media.

Holy fuck I knew my post was a bad idea. You can all STFU now. Thanks to those who helped tho.

Nah, this is just our usual MO with Twister here.

>gay
>LDR boyfriend hasn't spoken with me in over a week
>is deliberately avoiding and ignoring me, is online
>been together for a year
>has already broken up with me and begged me back after months once before

I left him a message and said that if he doesn't talk to me, I'm going to tell his Southern Baptist parents all about us. I'm not fucking letting him do this to me again.

>>399879
>this is just our usual MO with Twister
No it isn't, I've been here for years and can spot a samefag a mile away. Give it a rest, or it will get old and forced.

Stop pretending he's more important than other people.