/baw/ - General Discussion

Cheers Alpharius.

Trying to figure out how to re-organise my room now that exams are over.

After lurking on reddit for almost 5 years now, I still don't like it.

>>411640
I like it, but there are things that still bug me. I almost never browse the bigger subreddits anymore. Too shitty.

My current issue is that /r/montageparodies has stopped being about montage parodies and is now filled with LazyTown and Nutshack videos. The active community has shifted so much that actual montage parodies are more likely to get downvoted.

>>411640
/r/nosleep is the only sub i frequent with any sort of regulatory.
/x/ was my homeboard 8 years ago, i-it's almost kind of alike.

>>411579
Disregard this, it's only for comments on your own videos.

>https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4525122&utm_campaign=creatorshare2&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook
Chris(tine) Chandler is making more patreon money than many of the artists I know.

Why am I even still alive.

>>411714
Cuz you still gotta sell me that Bayonetta gun.

>>411714
Did you go outside?
>>411717
Admirable dedication, honestly.

>>411718
When I want something, it's almost always on my mind until I get it.

>>411717

I still have it, but I also still lack the means to get it to you. Alas, such is life.

why do trailers and ads usually suck much much more than the show they are advertising? They seem to miss the point of everything in an attempt to make the show look cool and dramatic, when that's not what the show is trying to do.

>>411743

A trailer has a couple of minutes (at best!) to get across pretty much everything about what it’s advertising to the potential viewing audience. Such a trailer can work for a film because a film is (typically) a standalone story where the premise and such can be summed up in two minutes. A TV show often runs for longer than a film does, though — and it can evolve not just over the seasons, but even during a season — so trying to advertise a TV show through a trailer can result in some…disconnect between the trailer and the end product.

http://crossfade.io/#!/w89tk55m8o
A saw a video talk about "new fire" and figured this would be appropriate.

Why would anyone say "No, really,....." and expect to be taken seriously?

>work one day in temp job ($17 / hour)
>earned more than my YouTube channel earned in the past 4 months
No surprise there.

>>411793
Congrats.

>>411813

>Yahoo is pure garbage.

Fixed that for you.

http://crossfade.io/#!/d1i113f6xc Crossfade can be a bit weird with timing, but I think it's robot meme time.

>>411819
Their email service is still good.

>>411825

If you still trust Yahoo after that most recent security breach, you get the service you deserve.

Some hackers crashed the ticket office for Rogue One.

Assholes literally killed star wars.

I’ll see you all again in hell! …better known as 2017. May the remainder of your year go well, plus4.

>>411861
>May the remainder of your year go well, plus4.
And same for you, Stone.

>>411861
>the year Samurai Jack returns
>Hell

>Kricfalusi lamented that he knew he was born too late since childhood. "I was a curmudgeon from age 11," he said.
This guy was born in the 50's

He thinks he was born too late.

>>411869
//youtube.com/watch?v=ZRS3cL0fdZ8

So I try to remember things by turning them into a song, but now the problem is that Do The Fucking Laundry And Prepare The Dough turned out to be such a banger that I can't get it out of my head even after I already accomplished aforementioned tasks.

>cat jumps onto new computer tower
>lands on power button, turns computer off
damn cat

>>411872
>computer tower
>with its power button on the top
This seems, to me, like a bad design choice, not only for ignoring the possibility of cats but also for probably encouraging people to put their comptuer case on the floor, where more dust will build up in it faster.

>>411875
Exactly. I have mine on the carpet floor (I know, I know) stacked on top of a couple of thick books.

Fight Club is a great film.

I'm glad I finally decided to watch it.

Pondered on YT if a certain old game is worth playing.

Got a reply saying yes, cause "it's nostalgic as fuck".

I hope you had a good Christmas everyone.

Merry Christmas, and Hail Satan!

Bad news: My tower PC is freezing up not long after Windows starts up in full, so I might have a hardware failure on my hands.

Good news: I have most of my data backed up -– and I have a new laptop to work from.

>>412031
Got a nice smirk out of me.

I was starting to watch a retrospective of this year only to quickly switch it off and turn on the Shantae OST. I had a grand ol' time.

I follow way too many people on art-type sites, yet cannot afford to un-follow any of them.

It does not get any more first world problems than this.

>>412100
>yfw his dying wish was to see the other ghostbusters crew

>>412108
>Looking for porn and avoiding my fetish
I don't recall you sharing your fetish, but if it's well contained in it's own advertised threads, then you can probably use filters to remove threads about it.

>>412114
That is what I'm doing

>>412181
People from tropical countries prefer not understanding this reference.

>>412182

And as a filthy American Southerner, I do not even care about the reference.

Happy 2017, you gotdamned freaks. ❤

>>412183
Oh ya, I forgot, it's already been like, 14 hours since that happened here.

>>412184
Yeah, this.

Do you lot watch the Sydney fireworks?

>>412185
It's hard to watch a channel that has a upside-down broadcast.

>>412185
Nope. Are they worth it?

>>412190
>>412186
Just use a lens to invert the image. That's what we do when we buy DVDs from overseas.

>>412187
As an Sydneysider, I think so. Much better than all the other countries I saw (and that's not me being snotty). I didn't see London though, I've heard they're usually good.
>https://youtu.be/R26aQh-IUwA?t=369
Also, 17:10 has the infamous waterfall fireworks, which are traditional on Sydney Harbour Bridge.

Dentist appointment today. I have been in dire need of this for a long while. (Do not ignore your dental hygiene, boys and girls.) ?

>>412256
>Do not ignore your dental hygiene

Too late for me. This past year, I've started flossing and being a good boy, but I used to drink orange juice every day, never drink water and not brush for weeks. I'm lucky my teeth are still as good as they are (noticeable yellow discolouration, slightly transparent I think).

>>412258

You are indeed lucky. All my top teeth are all but gone thanks to soda and a lack of brushing. My bottom back teeth are in poor shape, too.

Remember, if you just cannot be arsed to do some boring time-consuming mundane task (in the real meat world or online), try and find a way to do it quicker and easier. There just might be a way.

Working smarter >>>>>>>>> working harder.

You guys remember Candlejack?
That wily son of a gun sure did love him some underaged boys.

>>412267
Please change that name outside of politics thread.

Leila Wilson is my spirit animal.

>>412272
Uh, why?

>>412290
It's annoyingly long and egotistical, and reminds people of petty assault threats from the politics thread.

I mean, it's your name field, of course you can do what you want with it, but I wished to voice my own disapproval.

Also, I deleted the post before my last post. Keep that shit in the politics thread.

>>412291
I think that suicide baiting is a bit more than a petty threat. It's a serious crime with serious consequences.

Nonetheless, thank you for deleting the other post.

This would probably be better suited for /mtv/, but fuck it.

If you are a pro wrestling fan, go watch Kazuchika Okada vs Kenny Omega from yesterday's NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 11 event. WWE will try multiple times to host a match that good during all of 2017. It will most likely fail to do so.

>>412299
>I think that suicide baiting is a bit more than a petty threat. It's a serious crime with serious consequences.
You are right.

>>412306
>If you are a pro wrestling fan.
Are most pro wrestling (I assume that's WWE stuff) fans aware that those hits are faked and acted? (It would still require a fair bit of fitness and skill though)

>>412330
>Are most pro wrestling (I assume that's WWE stuff) fans aware that those hits are faked and acted? (It would still require a fair bit of fitness and skill though)
Nearly universally yes. Are you aware that most movies aren't documentaries but are, in fact, fiction?

Wrestling is literally just stage acting with punching, and a lot of wrestlers and fans, especially younger ones, are literal theater majors.

A bit late, bt here's my new year's resolution. Always wear gloves when chopping chili peppers. Or at least throughly wash my hands before going to the toilet and touching important stuff.

>>412342
I understand what you mean. I personally see that wrestling as pure entertainment rather than sport (and now that you mention it, I guess it can be appreciable art). I personally don't enjoy it so I would naturally miss context and plots/drama that a repeat-viewer would notice and praise (such as the meaning behind that emotional release shown in that webm). However, thank you both for changing my perception of the show.

>>412342
I thought that webm was something else entirely at first glance

>>412344

Oh yes, pro wrestling is a performance art much like live theater, and it is just as much a platform for storytelling. The depth and the variety of stories that pro wrestling can tell are both limited by the form's central "combat sport" conceit, sure. But it is still just as capable of creating the same kind of emotional catharsis that you might get from a good movie, or even an excellent game in a real sport (e.g., Game 7 of last year's World Series).

Different companies have different approaches to how they present their take on pro wrestling. Whereas WWE is a mix of "reality show" and "scripted drama", Lucha Underground is more of a "scripted drama" take, and New Japan is far closer to a "pure sport" take than most other companies in the world. No approach is necessarily better than the others, and they all have specific idiosyncracies and cultural touches that make them a unique "flavor".

>>412341
A very diluted bleach mixture (5:1 or 10:1) will make capsaicin water soluble. You just need to dip your hands in it for a few seconds before washing them.

>>412348
>>412341
>not jilling off with peppered up hands
Weakling.

I'm listening to a Howard Stern interview (and granted, I've never heard him before and it's just one interview) but he seems like an A-grade cunt, whose goal is to try and cause fights for entertainment. There are two people who are (surprisingly) being nice to each other and agreeing, and this douche is trying to put words in their mouths and keeps trying to search for a shred of negative emotion.

And I know that other radio and TV hosts do the same, but fuck those parasites.

>>412365

>he seems like an A-grade cunt

Your perceptions are correct.

So fucking sick of 80s retro at this point. It's worse than the zombie fad.

>>412377
PS. Decided to do a bit of reading. The protocol for a hung jury/deadlock differs by country: some require unanimity, others require an attempt at unanimity but a super-majority can be accepted after an extended time. If I have read correctly, my state of Australia allows a hung jury to basically ditch the case and request a retrial at a later date with a different jury. That's cool, I guess.

>>412377
I've managed to get out of jury duty twice due to my depression/anxiety, but it seems like every time the note from my doctor runs out they are gonna send another

>>412380
↓
//youtube.com/watch?v=ZNGHNA4wdKE

You ever have that where you just kinda think you own something and then when you need it you go looking for it only to realize that in fact you have never owned it at all?

I wonder if reverse innuendo is possible; hiding a clearly innocent interpretation in obscene material. And would anyone actually notice it was there?

Actually, now that I think about it, this may qualify:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_X

https://medium.freecodecamp.com/the-mind-blowing-ai-announcement-from-google-that-you-probably-missed-2ffd31334805#.1gocc814r

What the fuck are you doing over there, Google?

>>412474
If you haven't seen them, look at the updates. The author admits to a bit of exaggeration due to misunderstanding. I recommend definitely reading the comment linked in update 1, which addresses this article.

On another note, I was thinking something along the same lines as the line in Update 1 Comment:
>As matter of fact, this work is perhaps may be even more important to Linguistics and Psychology than it is to computer science.

Remember those ancient times where people went shopping together?

>>412484

'member malls? 'member record stores? 'member arcades?

?

I feel bad when I try to watch Pilkington stuff because he's such a good natured guy while Gervais and Merchant just shit on him.

//youtube.com/watch?v=zxKtH5OnxI4

For anyone who wants to know what "attempted contract rape" looks like.
READ ALL THE WORDS YO!

(Assuming it hasn't changed)

I can't believe Rick and Morty has such a shit intro. Ok, it gets the basic concept of the show across, but I honestly think Regular Show has a better start; at least it's succinct.

What do you do when you have no idea what you want to write? Not in terms of, like, a story idea or whatever - I mean choosing whether to write a short story or a blog post or something else.

>>412454
How to detect American, understand behavior of American, and deal with dangers:

1. Americans baring your teeth like a chimp for no reason, even when they are sad or angry. Americans is impossible to tell when they are happy because teeth always bared similar to a blue whale straining krill through its teeth (more on this later). This type of behavior is an animalistic sign of poor civilization among Americans.

2. The chief reason for Americans permanent smile is trying to get their prey to lower their defenses so it can suck all the money out of them. When an American smile at you, get ready for your wallet to be penetrated with its proboscis.

3. If an person smiles at you before knowing your name, it is likely an american in disguise of a person.

4. Dust the american with a light coating of polonium which it will foolishly carry back into its lair to kills its brood. this is the best way to remove an american infestation.

5. If the american has no brood, coat a three cup with polonium and pour some samovar three in there to dissolve it. then give the american three cups of three. this kills the american.

6. Another test for americans is to take their socks off and see if they have leg thumbs. Americans never take their shoes off, even when coming into a home, because they want to hide the fact that they lack all ten leg thumbs. their feet look like flippers because they are descended from europeans that could swim across the ocean.

7. Ever see how fake an Americans teeth appear? This is because Americans are born toothless with gills. When they reach puberty they go to an plastic surgeon to have their gills sewn and a set of teeth made in a factory in China installed. This gives the American an appearance of a person, and explains why plastic surgery is a major factor in American development from larva to predatory adult.

8. Also being loud in public, it is a type of diversionary behavior for Americans hunting in packs. Loudness of one American will attract your attention, while the second of the hunting pair will sneak up behind you and stab your wallet with its proboscis.

9. They wear shorts even when not doing sports. Also their shorts go over the knee. This is because they cold blood and need to expose skin to sun to warm their metabolism.

10. An American will always suspiciously try to convince you they are a real person by saying "I'm really Irish" or "I'm really German, all my ancestors are!". This pathetic attempt makes it easy to spot.

DANGAR IMPORTANT: If you travel to an area where bread is sweetened, you are entered the territory of an American. Slowly back away 1000km to leave its domain.

Some fucker threw an egg at bedroom window. Didn't pay it much heed and after a bit went and wiped it off.

Then awhile later they threw another one. Spent more time actually staying out and cleaning my window this time and it hasn't happened again yet.

This weirded me out a bit, since its just so random being today isn't a particularly special date for this sort of nonsense and I don't know anyone around here enough to have influenced them to throw shit at me.

its amazing how much porn shows up when you don't use google or safesearch filters. It's not even like I'm searching stuff that can be misinterpreted as lewd.

I just cooked my first pasta dish all by myself!

Spaghettini al Tonno e Limone. Very simple, I'd highly recommend it.

>>412950
Post recipe

>video from a comedy act on stage
>comedians make a clear visual sex joke
>camera cuts to audience, centred on the bunch of people who bought their kids to the show
why

>>412967
Sounds delicious, thank you.

>reading a few strips of an old newspaper cartoon online
>instinctively consider hovering the cursor over for alt-text one-liners
fug

>>412816
So it happened again, someone threw another egg at the window on the same day but a week later.

This is just bizarre, what is bothering me is the complete lack of logic behind this. A couple of times in one night is random enough but now its moving beyond just a coincidence.

>>413195
Got a camera?

Just a friendly reminder to keep ontop of the mold during the chilly season by keeping your windows closed to keep a consistent room temperature, but turning off the heating and venting your room/appartment by opening the doors and windows for short bursts at regular intervals.

I made a really delicious chili and I ate way too much of it and now I feel terrible.

Switching bank accounts is the fucking worst.

god i'd get so much work done if i didn't masturbate so much.

>>413566
Masturbate while you work

Get some sort of hand-free device that automatically masturbates you as you are busy with the thing you need to do

>>413577
I think its a new feature (not sure, I stopped using reddit often) which may be useful.

Mars and Venus has been fucking in the Fish constellation for over a week now
http://earthsky.org/tonight/moon-points-to-venus-mars

I always thought an artist I kinda follow was a guy, especially when they mentioned their wife, but now I think they might just be lesbian.

I don't know any guys called Amelia, so they're probably lesbian. I mean, they draw a fair bit of lesbian art so it's more than likely.

My god, the spambots have attained sapience!

>>413675
This is just the beginning!

I bet Google is behind this.

>>413705
>buy google spambots to get past google captcha so you can post google images
:0

maybe it already learned to post underaged nude models for attention. Yeah, I cropped that bit out. It got deleted for a reason.

>>413713
Now, imagine teh soul is real, and you will exist in some shape or form or place for thousands of years (at least).

How insignificant would a decade seem to you then?

I distrust infomercial products simply because they use the infomercial format.

>>413764
>the torrent I'm seeding

What is it of? A book?

I had upstairs neighbors who were awesome. Two 20-something guys, nice and clean cut, but I slept below their bedroom, and I heard what went on. One of them was like a machine. I used to lay awake in awe of this dude. A constant rhythm, perfect sync, and I could tell he was hitting it deep for a good 30 minutes nonstop.

I fapped a couple of times. Not in a gay way. But gay or straight, if you heard this guy and his deep-pound-method, it’d amaze you like it amazed me.

Eventually, I realized that I slept below their kitchen, not their bedroom. And that I had fapped to the laundry on spin-cycle. And that they were probably just two straight guys sharing an appartment.

>>413797
An obscure old...ish show.

My roommate convinced me he was technically-capable when we first roomed together, and now because of his shitty choice of antivirus protection I;m needing to gut my laptop almost entirely.

I'm managing to save the backed up personal stuff but losing alot of game shit, and its going to be a hassle setting it all up again. Goddammit. Its been in the shop for a couple of days but hopefully I should get it back tomorrow?

I haven't stopped by +4 in a year.

Seeing a tweet from bea posted on Buzzfeed made me remember you guys.

How are all of you? Any cookies yet? Any board crashes?

>>413819
We have a right winger infestation and the only remaining trip/names are Stone and Tiki.

>>413820
Oh...

Is moose still admin? I always liked him.

>>413819
Evil literally Hitler nazis have taken over, and the brave posters in the political thread are trying their hardest to defeat the evil.

Other than that, things are the same.

>>413819
Only /pco/ remains alive.

>>413820
>forgetting Twister (and Hunger and Slowpoke and me
>only naming the /baw/ crew

Also, the poliitics is mostly restricted to the dedicated politics thread.

>>413831
Yep, moose is still the boss. I think he still visits more than Anonex did, but that's not much at all.

>>413834
Remnants of /new/ still around?

>>413835
Unsurprising. Porn is important to people.

>>413838
Aw, no Moe? Miley Cyrus? Tooth? Comrade? Actually, now that I think about it they were gone last time I was here...

And I visit more than Anonex did and I haven't been in a year so I guess it's not hard

I guess I stopped by since I'm feeling nostalgic.

>>413838
Twister was never worth counting. I did forget that Teeth is still around though, sort of.

>>413860
To be fair, he only posts occasionally.

>>413859
>Remnants of /new/ still around?
I don't really know. I personally arrived here after /new/ and /durp/ were gone, and I never really noticed much political drama/shitposting until about a year or two ago. Maybe an occasional back-and-forth about SJWs or GamerGate, but nothing like what we have now. Fortunately, it's well contained here.

>>413859
>Unsurprising. Porn is important to people.
I thought it would have taken a hit once 4chan made /aco/ (and /trash/), but it didn't really. Maybe it was because of a couple of artist who regular /pco/, or because /aco/ doesn't allow loli or furry.

/draw/ is mostly dead, btw.

Is anyone else having problems with their computer, have Windows 7, and think it may be related to recent updates?

Since Monday I've been having problems, like when I right-click the context-sensitive menu will appear for a split second then vanish or the Start menu doesn't open when I'm clicking the button or when I press Ctrl+Alt+Dlt the screen that appears can last about a second before going away.
Also when I'm typing a reply on 4chan the box will vanish/when I type text into google search it will randomly disappear.

Took it into the computer shop for a few days, they've done their tests andvirus scans, we deleted everything and started fresh. The day I took it home it seemed alright, was on it for a fair few hours setting it up again with no issue.
The next day, today, the same problems have been happening, notably this is AFTER I downloaded and installed all the windows updates onto it.

The only other possibility is that I'm catching something incredibly sneaky from here, 4chan proper or tvtropes since they were the only sites I happened to browse in that timeframe.

>>413880
Win 7 here, I'm doing fine.

I have updates disabled.

>>413892
So you just never update?

Also another problem that has appeared, when booting up the computer at a certain point and as its running through all its startup a different screen/menu I don't recognize will flicker up briefly before returning to what it had been at just before and cycling between them with no end.
Have to spam F8 to bring up the Safe Modes option screen and choose the 'start computer normally' option.

>>413897
>So you just never update?
Yeah. The Win10 ads and Telemetry don't tickle my fancy. They kept coming back if I did auto-update, and I haven't manually installed any in a long time.

That situation sounds yucky.

>>413901
I think they might have sorted the problem with the latest updates it downloaded today, since I've not seen the problems re-occour yet

>>413859
Speaking of porn, what's up with /pco/?

>>413904
Network error. Hope nothing much was lost. Some great history there.

So I wrote that with my new phone I'm watching cartoons in bed before falling asleep.
A couple of nights ago I had no wi fi so I had to go straight to sleep, it was an awful night, I had a paper thin sleep cycle, waking up on small intervals and I did not had dreams ; I kept thinking on the same stuff I had in mind when I went to bed.
Plus when I watch cartoons I fal asleep easier solving my life long sleep issues.

>>413904
>>413905
Worst comes to worse, archive.org has the board (and archives) archived. At least there's that.

>>413902
That would make sense. Good to hear.

>>413922
Hearing there is a large HOLE in the SUN at first sounds pretty worrying, even though it turns out to not be as dramatic as that would first make you believe.

Protip: make your password embarrassing to make sure you never tell it to people.

Gettin' a bunch of teeth pulled today.

On the off-chance that something goes awry: 'tis been a pleasure to post here.

>>413950

Turns out, I had to forgo the extractions today. Blood pressure was too high.

>>413949
>>413964
It'll be fine.

>>413964
Huh, wonder what my blood pressure is.

Have been thinking about my health quite alot at the moment, can do a bunch of walking but can barely run for a minute at a time.

>>413967
Low Blood Pressure Master Race reporting!

>>413975
Yeah buddy.

oh shit, if the site is going down in American timezones, that means it's down for my birthday.

>>414095
They're doing it at a really stupid time, starting 10AM PST and up to four hours long. But you wouldn't be missing out on much anyway. Happy birthday!

>me at the tax office: "Hey this might look like X at first glance, but it's Y, so it should NOT be taxed like X. Here's the proper documentation for it."
>people at the tax office: "Alright, that's cool. We totally get it."
>letter from the tax office two weeks later: "Hey we're gonna tax your X, so please pay us all this money you don't have."
Fuck bureaucracy forever.

https://vimeo.com/206172201

>>414143
At least they're'nt complaining about the toys or music records

>>414140
Those channels would put HTF in their mix. I saw one short film about a character discovering his sister became a stripper, and it's in at least two of those type channels.

>doing online psychology research participation signup test
>get to a page which seems to be aimed at identifying autistic traits
Such as focusing on details rather than whole things, enjoying figuring out "categories of things" (like types of trains, types on plants), social difficulties, etc.
I never really figured out if I was on the spectrum. I have a feeling I am borderline or aspie. Not that it really matters.

>>414155

Some autistic traits seem so broadly defined as to put everyone somewhere on the spectrum.

Can you still be a military fighter pilot if you're missing a leg?

>>414156
As expected of spectrums.

>>414157
If said leg missing person gets an cyberleg I don't see why not. I know I'd be OK with a pilototal with a cyberleg. Colour blind on the other hand is a big no-no.

When was the last tine you saw those demotivational pictures. Not fuckscapes, but that old meme where people would insert a thick black border and stern white text around a picture. And then people would make chains of them, replying to the comment of the previous author.

They were everywhere and half of them were absolute shit, but I still liked them.

It is ironic how sex is considered family-unfriendly.

Thank you for reminding me (not by how you used the word, but simply because you did use it):

>>>/co/245227
"Irony" is one of the greatest, most useful words, but only because I use it incorrectly. When will all the main dictionaries add append a colloquial definition to make the incorrect usages correct?

After at least a few months of having a healing cut in my ear, I've finally stopped picking at it. The second day is excruciating but worth it. I think it's almost completed now on night three.

I'm sure a few of you can sympathise.

Fuck Daylight Savings Time.

I'm sorry everyone, but I don't like Gorilla Munch.

>participated in interesting psychological research study
>during debrief, told it uses deceptive pretense
>is a large cooperative study
>asks me not to tell anyone about it until april to avoid affecting results of later participants
I just want to tell everyone but I can't. This sucks.

I just saw a guy busking in a train station. He honestly looked like a biker. He had a dirtied black t-shirt and black sunglasses too.

And he was playing the violin like a champ.