File allowance: 8MB jpg, 12MB png, 8MB gif, 8MB mp3, 16MB swf, 16MB webm, 16MB mp4
Stats: 216 posts, 34 images, 2 audios, 2 videos (total attachments: 38)
Speak Your Mind: Your opinion matters to us! Let us know what you think.™ edition.
Old thread here: >>418819
>>422927
In my mind I think it is good that someone made a new one of these threads.
I'm getting paid annoyingly low for increasingly more complex work at my job.
>>422934
web dev.
started out as frontend for years, but by now I'm only doing backend with no increase in salary.
I'm starting to detest the presence of gods in stories/media.
Its not as if I'm the sort of person who wants to burn religious buildings to the ground and/or mock people who have religious beliefs in real life, but over time I've just gotten sick of these pointlessly powerful gods in fictional stories.
Their presence just detracts from the settings involved or the actions and struggle of 'regular' beings in the plot.
>>422942
Well, that obviously depends on the story in question, but gods can be handled good in a story, as well as used as a stupid plot device.
>>422942
I feel that. Any examples?
Thoughts on Superman?
>>422945
Don't have a problems with Clark himself. He's a good upstanding individual who isn't actually as overpowered as "common knowledge" would say, being there's multiple other heroes and villains who can match or exceed his abilities.
It's only when he falls into the hands of powerlevel wankers or fanboy writers who only care about him being STRONK rather than being a good man that problems arise (or crappy writers who use him as a mouthpiece for their own petty feelings, that sucks too).
Kryptonians as a species are more annoying, when some writers portraying them as unstoppable physical gods that just need to sunbathe for a minute to becomes so. But honestly the bigger problem with neverending comicbooks is the obnoxious Power Creep that grows like a tumor.
>>422945
Supes is the best when writers remember that he's a genuinely good guy, not because his abilities, but because he was raised to be an unselfish, helpful man who looks for the best in anyone.
It's probably why I prefer the 80s Byrne era Superman, who not only had hard limits on his powers (he gets smacked around a lot, sometimes described as needing week long vacations to recharge), but also because he got his powers late in his teens. So he became a good person first, then got powers.
>>422945
I think he should be a cuck raising the lovechild of Lois and Batman.
it says speak my mind isnt it
and yet it s not
trying to run each other by racism
good job
Click here to view 13 contracted posts oh shi->>423003
ah the twat who couldnt make it as psychologist.
did your dead parents haunted you so much so you go around chasing patients?
man, cheer upyouconfused. im supposed to finish shit but
im not done with languages yet.
or music
or stuff.
cant "learn as you do" kind of shif...no joke. i feel so relaxed even tho i havent even finished my 15 series.
this sucks. it feels done by just imagining.until this very moment it s still hard to know if what god mean by love is the same love i had in mine.
cuz maybe something so distant and mysterious could never be understood by humanity.
and really
maybe it just shoots death ray by showing its arse and so all that folllws it shall have trails of death everywhere it touches.>>423025
I think it's absolutely fair; posting many times in a row is normally a rule violation due to it disrupting other conversations so I've compromised and kept them here without taking up 13 posts.>>423026
awwww you shouldnt have toooo
it s like IRL all over again
everyone is just so willing to randomly ruin anyone's lesser life
yer just jocks with computers hahahahahReplies:>>423033I just want a comfy apartment block room in a city...
Sounds weird, right?>>423029
I'd like to own the place me an my roommate are renting from his parents, so we don't have to stress about losing it when they fail to pay the mortgage.
Really can't handle the idea of moving again.Replies:>>423060>>422945
The Spectre is far worse than Superman, he doesn't fit in a superhero universe with his bullshit as well as the contrivances that have him inflict monstrous punishment on no name people for their "sins" rather than going after the villains with actual actual atrocities under their belts. If anything he should be a monster the heroes team up and destroy.>>423053
The spectre only works as a plot device and half the time he just gives the heroes shit.Watched one video of a dude clearing out the drains on a flooded road (some fucking psycho drivers were driving on the pavement just so their cars wouldn't splash) in order that it could clear up and now my recommended videos is full of water-related shit like this.
Video shows moment dam gate collapsed at Lake Dunlap
Have I wondered into some sort of niche youtube fetish content?>>423067
Finding patterns where there aren't any is The Algorithm's fetish.Replies:>>423126The spirit of the shitpost has always been pretty much the same in the heart of humanity>>423126
Paper used to be so based the catholic church wanted to ban it.Its early morning, just finished shaving after putting off for while. Noticed handful of single moles/freckles on various places of face. Feel pissed off that skin is so impure/marked even though its basically nothing. Hate aging.>>423129
Got the forehead lines coming in, on my gigantic goddamn 5head.>>423128
Think of whoever is withholding from you the secrets to advanced regeneration. Hate that fucker with all your might.Replies:>>423152The age of science has failed to explain our universe in rational terms. Consequently the power of magic has gradually emerged from our conscious minds to fathom the unfathomable. Our most distinguished scientists reluctantly admit, that mankind is nothing but some billion creatures, sitting on a piece of solar driftwood floating in space.
Magic is the art of influencing the cause of events by the intervention of spiritual forces or some other occult device.
According to Arthur C. Clarke, any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Early civilization often mistook the unexplainable world around them to be magic.
Rupert Sheldrake in his book "Seven experiments that could change the world" has stated that scientist's attitude toward their experiments affect the results of their experiments. There is no such thing as a definite fact in science and therefore the irrationality of magic plays an important part in our rational world.
Werner Heisenberg, the leading 20th century physicist has stated, that mass is a physical interpretation of energy.
Religious organizations have understood the power of magic; and therefore monopolized the interpretation of the supernatural to control the human mind.
The universe as a whole is beyond explanation. Only at the end of the 20th century the roman catholic church admitted, that the great visionary Galileo Galilei was, in fact, correct.
The second millennium has come to an end.
Scientists have to admit that the universe is magic.>>423149
That's not a water elemental, this is.>>423148
This almost seems like a bot post. Feels like it should have a link to some malware-ridden file download or website attached to it.>>423152
>This almost seems like a bot post.>>423152
Nah, it's just an /x/phile expressing himself. The lizardmen must be resisted!F1 opened this weekend, Verstappen was winning throughout nearly the entire thing, beat Hamilton fair and square, despite Hamilton consistently leaving the track on one turn without any repercussions for the entire race.
Then in the last few laps he overtakes him, and GIVES THE POSITION BACK after he was told to do so on the radio.
As if there was any fucking doubt that the entire fucking thing is fixed to have Hamilton winning.>>423156
I mean, if one was to theoretically drink her whole, would she survive being pissed out? Would it depend on the species of the drinker/vorer and their digestive biome?>>423202
Those are very important questions, I'll remember to ask them the next time I meet a water elemental who wants me to drink her.1d4chan seems to have died. Fuck.>>423223
I also noticed it being down. That fucking sucks.The idea of all the oldfag internet content/knowledge of the past slipping away is disheartening.
Even though its an inevitability that one day everything ends and fades away.
Afterall even everything on Earth will be totally gone one day and it'll be only a blip on the surface of the universe.>>423223
It's still down. There were times in the past where it was down for a week or two, hope it will get back up.
Failing that, let's hope someone has a backup...I can't fucking stand the new age-restriction bullshit they put on youtube, before you just had to login but now?
I'm not giving them my fuckin card details just to see every video they randomly tag as "age-locked".Replies:>>423403>>423397
Wut.
So far I've only had YT do that age restriction shit for stuff tagged as children content.Replies:>>423406>>423401
>>423397
They are doing it due to that EU regulation where you have to verify you are an adult to see content that could be intended for adults only.
I haven't had them asking for my card details yet, but I use a google account that's 15 years old so they probably have not flagged me.
Either way you can use youtube-dl to get around it.>>423410
In theory yes, in practice all it did was put 1 more useless popup on every single website you visit.>>423412
What term would you use instead of "based"? Serious question.Replies:>>423421>>423417
dunno, it's full of peddlers easily agroed by the same topic they cant fucking deal with
maybe they know shit and decided its bad conversation>>423419
>maybe they know shit and decided its bad conversation
>maybe they know shit
??Replies:>>423432Too many goddamn brats thronging the streets screaming their heads off at our shitty beach just because a little sun is out.
Its like avoiding zombies hordes in a post-apocalypse movie just to get to the fuckin shops.Replies:>>423434>>423426
Yeah but this time they are justified, with how the past few months have been going. Inbetween lockdown and icy hail in April, we sure as hell can use a bit of sunshine.>>423432
I think they're less complaining about people being outside and more complaining about people crowding outside, particularly around beach-front shops.Replies:>>423522Signing into everything again when you get a new computer is a pain in the assReplies:>>423538>>423521
You could get around that by transferring your user account to the new machine (I've been doing that since 2003). The real pain in the ass is that online sites force two-factor logins, so now you have to deal with the
>hi, we detected you logging in from a new device, we sent an email/SMS to confirm it is really you
type of horseshit.
Which you get EVERY FUCKING TIME you use their site if you have a dynamic IP.>>423522
That bullshit is the only reason I bought a mobile phone, since its mandatory nowadays.Replies:>>423546>recall an old AMA on reddit from someone who proved they had two functioning penises and weren't afraid to use them
>look up 'doubledickdude'
>search engine shows a preview row of image results
>one is just a scrotum with three balls on a table
safe search is on, by the way
>it looks like a fucking animal paw
Gross but it's fucking funny. Pic attached so you don't have to ask.Replies:>>423548>>423545
Does having 3 balls means you can regenerate sperm faster, and therefore need to ejaculate more often to prevent blue balls?>>423546
Maybe. The doubledickdude guy said he had extra pressure on his prostate and needed to ejaculate regularly to avoid fluid buildup and pain, so it's not far-fetched to think extra production would require that too. That of course assumes the extra testicle developed properly and is functional.Replies:>>423561Diamond jewellery is such a fucking scam that cause nothing but harm to the human race, diamonds should only be used for the likes of industrial/work purposes such as cutting blades and nothing else.>>423553
nah, diamonds are pretty. The issue is their overinflated value and the stupid status associated with them. As gemstones theyre just fine, very sparkly but I generally prefer a bit of colour. Just raping a piece with diamonds is tacky as hell, theyre best use as a crowning or center piece.I keep forgetting words I'll try to remember a word for a sentence or whatever and despite knowing it will just blank, sometimes maybe remember other words similar to he one I want to remember and becoming fixated on them.
Earlier forgot the word Mormon entirely, tried to remember it and became fixated on the word Muslim instead and could not call to mind the one I wanted.
Worry about the health of my brain and my memory.>>423573
It happens to the best of us. Unironically believing the word will come back to you helps to remember later.>>423573
This happens to me all the time, it's really annoying.Replies:>>423640We need more police.
Speaking in a personal country sense with this but they are so undermanned multiple stations have closed.
They do nothing about hordes of drunken teens descending on the area because they don't have the officers deployed to actually confront them, just drive a couple of vehicles around the area to dissuade them.Replies:>>423644>>423612
It's not necessarily more police we need. Many arrested people are back on the streets with minor misdemeanour or probation or bail, or even something pathetic like a few years (half of which is dropped for "good behaviour"), and then continue to commit crimes. Over here, we have people who actually consider it a mark of adulthood to have been in prison, because everyone in their community has been there. They don't fear prison and police at all.
We need the juries doing their fucking jobs, then the existing police force will have more time to protect and serve instead of chasing the same hood gangsters again and again.
That or turn prisons into work camps instead of luxury retreats where criminals get free food and housing and a lot of free time.I've started occasionally addressing hostile shitposters as feminine ("What did she mean by this?") just to fuck with them, after thinking about how imageboard users tend to assume male by default even if we know women also browse, and it looks like another anon has started doing it too with invading /pol/troons. I wonder if it will catch on.>>423640
It is that we need more police, since I'm speaking specifically about the country I live where we have a shortage due to issues like budget cuts.My internet connection is basically my girlfriend.
Its the closest I've got to a sexual partner at least, and I spend more time with it than anyone else.Replies:>>423694>>423695
Probably has several. Ever lived in the inner city? Crackheads are fun.>>422945
All the various and quite literal Space Gods in Star Trek, that's some of the dumbest shit around in a supposedly 'science' fiction.Replies:>>423708Godzilla fans are some of the worst POWERLEVELZ palmfuckers around, sometimes they seem even worse than dbz fans.>>423706
Godzilla ranges from worthless meatsock to unstoppable titanuke depending on the story, and it never fails to get beat up. I suppose Goku and Godzilla are alike.How badly popular culture and later writers butcher every character and plot detail of the original Dracula novel in their knockoffs or reimaginings is pretty saddening.
There's so many interesting or nuanced details that are utterly warped like a game of Chinese whispers.
In general for vampire fiction fuck anyone who treats vamps as a poor oppressed minority/threatened group that is being bullied by those mean old humans trying to hurt them... 'just' because vampires happen to eat and manipulate people.Replies:>>423744>>423737
Was there something wrong with his car or did he like... have the parking brake on?>>423743
>did he like... have the parking brake on?
That's more or less exactly what he did (they have a system called Brake Magic which changes the behaviour of the brakes for temperature control reasons, and the moron left it on).Replies:>>423785Mom came down to visit this morning and brought her golden retriever, we took him down the beach and threw the ball into the water so he could swim after it.
Such lovely dogs.>>423784
A smart dog can be a real friend.
Unfortunately I've only ever had to take care of stupid dogs.Replies:>>423812>be on comfy slow imageboard
basically like this one
>suddenly tourist comes along and starts shitting it up with hatebait posts
basically like this one
It's clear no-one appreciates their crap, which is reassuring, but I suspect one of the regulars will start a fight, making them stick around, and on a small 5-10 person board that really kills the vibe for the month.>>423804
I get what you mean, but honestly this place could use some activity. If there's only so much activity that you have to skip a few threads, that would be perfect.Replies:>>423816Do I have to put a ban on all of Indonesia to keep that one spammer out?>>423816
I second this proposition. But let me stockpile Mi Goreng instant noodles first.Can't stand all the "Death Battle" vs bullshit threads that are spammed over on /co/ on the proper 4chan. They are absolute cancer.Hi, any life on planet Speak Your Mind?>>423933
Feel visible matter
Feel invisible matter
There is life everywhere.Its so fucking hot here, especially when trying to sleep at night, this country isn't MEANT to be so hot.
Fuck the changing climate, the end of the world would be an improvement.Replies:>>423973Jackass Forever | Official Trailer (2021 Movie)
Jackass is getting a new movie. The crew is now all in their fifties on average.Replies:>>423974>>423964
How do you feel about this?
Considering even in the previous one it was just kind of sad. Since not only were they not young men anymore but they were sober so they weren't able to bounce back from the blows they took and weren't able to laugh off the situations.>>423973
I haven't even seen Jackass related stuff since the early 00s, and even then it was internet downloads of the old CKY movies (some of which were both more infantile and cruel, and mostly shot on handmade cameras, unlike Jackass which was primarily stupid stunts). I've been meaning to watch the last few movies but kept putting it off for no reason. I guess having this one out will be a decent reason - seeing them younger and seeing them now older.It's incredible how they were all barely 20 when starting out with these videos.
Scott BradfordFry Force – Nacho Fries (Commercial) | Taco Bell
It sucks when so much effort is put into something which is just an ad for a product
One piece x Nissin Hungry days All Commercial 1 - 4Replies:>>424017Not quite sure where to post such a thing, but just found out that chris-chan has been arrested?
CHRIS CHAN ARRESTED
Hadn't thought about them in ages then suddenly see this.>>424016
Arrested for what? Indecent exposure?>>424017
Bit more serious than that man, apparently Chis has been abusing their elderly mother? Also stealing shit from her.Replies:>>424094Alot of major sports seem stupid and pointless.
Like Cricket or Formula One racing.Replies:>>424095save fileimage:162833672167.jpg(129kB , 1502x2048 , Barack Obama playing basketball against Polish students.jpg)>>424093
Professional sport itself is stupid and pointless. It's an entertainment industry.
Actually playing sport yourself has mental and physical health benefits, even cricket and car racing.>>424094
There's not many physical health benefits to formula 1. Wealth benefits maybe.Busted my little toe badly during the night, slammed it into the door frame in the dark to the point it got all swollen and purple. Its only really a problem when I try to put my boot on and go outside but more feelin like a ruddy idiot for managing to damage it that hard.>>424127
I wish all major browsers could get onto supporting JPEG XL and AVIF asap. We're still using formats from the early 90s, except for now webp.Hayfever season is starting up again. Fucking hell.people need to post more on plus4chan board that aren't /co/. spread the love.Replies:>>424173>>424159
I could snort a line of cedar pollen and it wouldn't do shit to me. Yes you may touch me.>>424172
>I could snort a line of cedar pollen and it wouldn't do shit to me
Prove it.>>424162
>Its been in season for awhile over here
It's in season from spring till early autumn here, but it's in August/September that it becomes the worst. I take hayfever pills for it to block the allergy effects which is good, but when it gets really heavy it makes my nasal fluid darker and sometimes it congeals into small sharp pieces, so if I do as much as scratch my nose, it'll feel like something is piercing it from the inside. I have to blow my nose more often so it doesn't build up. And even though the season is over by early fall, the pollen dust stays in my room and in my system for a month more.
The funny thing is that the place I work at has no ragweed nearby, so it's actually better to be at work.
Whoever christened ragweed as Ambrosia Artemisiifolia was a retard.Replies:>>424212If I was the richest man in the world would love to have my own 24/7 medical unit.
Just whenever some strange pain or ailment is bugging me would head over to them and get it identified or sorted right out.
For the past few days have had a minor ache in my stomach that won't go away and am somewhat acidy, was also suffering headaches when it started.
Leaves me just feeling somewhat drained all the time, don't really want to do anything but lie down.>>424185
This might have been my encounter with COVID.
Pain was all abdominal and didn't touch my lungs but I was out for like ten days and am still recovering to being properly healthy now.
Just having to lie in bed with no energy but entirely conscious of it was terrible, couldn't even sit up and browse the internet the majority of the time because it was as if my abdomen was a lead weight holding down the rest of my body.
And not being able to really eat anything sucks as you expect, but after awhile the worse part was not being able to take a shit since there was literally nothing in the tank, taking shits is amazing I realize now and there was times lying there I was wishing for the chance to go to the toilet and take a refreshing shit.
Much rather experience a common stomach bug & suffer repeated bouts of diarrhoea in comparison, at least you feel like you are getting rid of some of the rot inside you.Replies:>>424218Neighbours on the floor above me are fighting again. I mean, the kind of fight where you hear "bitch cunt whore" for a good hour.
Time to crank up the volume on the speakers!>>424217
That sucks Anon. Reminds me when living at home with my parents.Ate some takeaway and it must have disagreed with me, got caught with violent stomach cramps in the middle of the street at night. Walking along in the dark drenched with sweat as my stomach churned in pain at each footstep desperate not to shit myself. That was a terrifying situation to be in.
Luckily on the verge of disaster managed to come across a restaurant that was still open and they let me use their bathroom, took awhile before I was able to stand again and continue home.>>423949
>Fuck the changing climate
Yeah, New York actually gotten colder.
What, you're thinking temperature can only go up?Replies:>>424336>>424335
Maybe you used games to distract yourself? That is usually the reason to give up in this particular hobby.Many triple-A videogames take up too much space on your harddrive only because the big companies don't give a shit about putting in the effort to properly optimising them. Cunts.>>424404
It's not that they don't give a shit, it's that they have to include several hours worth of FMVs, and due to nonstop crunch hours, they simply don't have time to optimize things. With AAA games, you are lucky if they are in a playable state at launch - and then they'll get a years worth of updates to make them what they should've been at launch.>>424405
>and due to nonstop crunch hours, they simply don't have time to optimize things
That just means the cunts in question are the higher-upsReplies:>>424581>>424459
That pumpkin reminds me of something, but I can't put my finger on what it is........>>424531
Shaddai Prejean? Is that Shadman's actual name and where the handle comes from?
What the hell is "Other Criminal" in terms of crimes?>>424532
Apparently he is a swiss person living in LA. Charge 245(A)(1) is assault with a deadly weapon. Not a firearm however, which would be 245(A)(2).Replies:>>425135>>424533
>Charge 245(A)(1) is assault with a deadly weapon. Not a firearm however
WhoopsFucking fireworks keep cracking outside and its annoying as shit>>424460
>but I can't put my finger on what it is
I bet you can't.Replies:>>424629I am thankful for +4chan existing. It is the smaller sibling that makes 4chan Prime complete. Without +4chan Internet imageboarding would not be the same.Replies:>>424731That drama on the last F1 GP of the year, holy shit.
It was a great race.>>424731
The two leaders got to the last GP of the season with equal amount of points, so the last race took it all.
Then right around the end, one of the weaker players crashed, forcing a safety car, during which every racer had to line up, and no overtaking is allowed. So cars can visit the pit lanes with no penalty, and whatever lead any racer had is gone. Hamilton had a lead which would've been nearly impossible to beat at this time, but he was on used up tires, and Verstappen took the opportunity to change tires to the type with the most grip (but least life expectancy).
However, despite the two racers being on 1st and 2nd place, there were three other cars inbetween them, racers who were more than 1 entire laps behind. So despite the speed advantage, Verstappen had to pass 3 other cars before he could attack Hamilton, and he only had 1 lap to do so.
The twist was that the race judges told the over-lapped players to pass the safety car in advance before the race could restart, so they don't hold back anyone on what is going to be the last lap of the race.
So the entire world championship was decided on the VERY LAST LAP of the VERY LAST RACE, from a rolling start with both leaders starting from right next to each other. As you can imagine it was extremely tight.
And honourable mention goes to Perez, Verstappens teammate, who did a titanic battle with Hamilton to hold him back up after he changed tires, so his lead over Verstappen was not unsurmountable.There's been some new change to Youtube and now its become even more obnoxious in trying to recommend me various 'personalized playlists' of the worst kinds of bullshit.
Fuck you youtube.>>424748
I haven't seen that yet, but I did notice a long ago that for every search I make, about the third result is "(search query) mix" playlist.
It sucks that you can't even see the end of videos due to the forced "recommendation"s. I had to put together an adblock filter to get rid of those.This is going to be a long blog post. I apologize.
Last I posted regularly on plus4 was when names were more popular. I remember Bea the bear, Anonymoose, pablo, tooth, Tiki, Bones, Twister (who I see is still around, hi Twister) and some others. This was like... 7-8 years ago. I was still a lonely college kid. Having names posting made me feel almost like I had friends, i guess these were parasocial relationships but I didn't know that then. I used to post little shitty stick figure blog comics in the SYM thread
Since then, I graduated college. I got into a relationship. I gained a lot of friends, some of which I thought would be friends with forever. I moved out of my parent's house. I got a job. I lived with my partner in a city far from our homes. Some of our friends fucked us over. We got married. My dad died. My mom went crazy and became a teenager and decided she didn't want to be a mom any more. Our friends scattered around, or suddenly had families.
Now my spouse works 12 hour nights and I'm alone 4/7 days of the week, just like when I was in college. I work remote so have no office interactions. I have no friends any more. I am basically a shut in. I used to do /toy/ photography and post it on 4chan. Then I tried doing an insta account but one on insta liked my photos as much as anons on 4chan. Now 4chan's culture is so different from how it used to be and I feel like pic related when I even just look at screencaps from it.
I am back where I was in college only I don't even have my parents around. I don't have 4chan to post on any more because I've moved past it. Instead I have wrinkles and health problems and bills.
I will take my leave of plus4 again. Maybe I'll post again in another 7 years
Love from anon.>>424757
Anon-sempai... I hope one day things become daijoubu.>>424757
Don't worry, life will eventually find a way. Try to enjoy the little things whenever you can. Drinking a cold beer with some company. Or even just looking at the sunshine when it is a beautiful day outside. Don't let the endless work break down your soul.
If you want to, you can post more here too; we are slower than ever but also more comfier, and most of use feel the same about how disappointing 4chan became. And if that's the only thing to keep you happy, we will still be hear 7 years later so you can post again.>>424757
Most namefags get bored of the name thing, and just embrace board culture. I mean, I sure did on 4chan Prime, years ago. The only reason I do it here is stubborness and wanting to preserve an ancient tradition.>>424748
While we're on it, Fuck Google Lens.
Its just a shittier Image Search and I had to spend time figuring out how to disable it in my browser.>>424825
That's nothing. The Halo collection was 100+ gigs. Granted, it was like 6 games.Replies:>>424834>six games totaled a bit over double this one game
the demoscene needs to start a revolution>>424831
That won't help since we are now packing 3-4 hours of FMVs and voices in 6 different languages into each game. You can only compress that so well without losing quality.Replies:>>424878This year just can't stop giving even at the end. I just found out yesterday that my mum has covid. She isn't vaccinated.>>424877
Damn, sorry to hear that anon. Hope she battles through it.Replies:>>424897This is a bitch thing to admit but just got to get it off my chest.
My gran who I haven't seen or talked to in a long time (we don't live in the same city anymore) just called me up awhile ago, since its the holidays and all.
She was so apologetic and her voice sounded so... weak or small, saying she'd send a cheque soon because she wasn't able to send me anything because of all the troubles that have been happening in the world and she was worried about stuff like my benefits money.
I was telling her its fine because don't have any cash trouble and she doesn't need to worry.
I've been feeling really busted up since then. Most of the time I'm what you might call comfortable numb but hearing her voice has got me feeling sad, anxious about her and the future, stuff like that. Not like I'm crying but there's this pressure on my eyes.>>424894
She's just trying to talk with you again after so long, but she doesn't know how to do so. This is either because she is really missing you, or she is very lonely, or worst case is she is ill.
Visit her if you can, or at least do like a video chat or something. If she doesn't have a way to do video chat, then use the money she sent to buy a tablet, set it up with skype or whatever the cool kids use for instant messaging nowadays, and gift it to her when you visit.Fucking Dentist appointment. Get up and get out there at 9 in the morning and turns out it was cancelled all the way back on January 10th and they didn't inform me.
They give me a new appointment and its on the fucking 8th of MARCH.
Bastards.Anti-depressants are fucked up.
You take them because you are depressed, but the fact they can do shit like cause bloating or make you sexually defunct mean you are going to get worked up anyway from your poor body image and inability to enjoy sex/masturbation.Replies:>>425104The future is now.
Unfortunately its a particularly lame version of a dark cyberpunk future.Replies:>>425105>>425103
>let's rely on technology, it will improve our li-.......
>the systems that repair said technology go away
>technology stops working>>425104
Go back to consuming your hemlock and mercury mister twister>>423573
Happened recently. Couldn't remember the word "Phalanx" for the life of me and felt like my brain was cooking in my skull with the effort as it jumped around various words that maybe resembled it.I'm tired of my old 5.1 speaker set adding a lot of noise and not being able to get high enough volume for movies. I already got some more powerful speakers, but the amp can't crank it up. I'll need to buy a digital AV amplifier.
Anyone have any recommendations? I'm trying to go for the Marantz compact units, since they are very small but have plenty enough power for my room.Geeze, Will Smith is so pathetic these days.
Didn't even know he was a cuck until all this nonsense about him sissy slapping a dude at the oscars.>>425366
Maybe if he was violent then his wife wouldn't be fucking other men, or sleeping with all their son's friends.Why the fuck have so many websites changed their images to a WEBP file format to try and stop you saving them?
Even wikis do it, why does a wiki for a popular show care if I save their images of the series to my hard drive for later use?Replies:>>425418>>425416
WELL ACTUALLY, "webp" is more like a container for the container. It is still JPEG or PNG or GIF, you just need to become a coding wizard to break the original file from the webp prison.
Speaking of, a wiki for a gaming series I love does use WEBP now, but once I refresh the image it becomes a PNG again.>>425416
It's because most websites measure their performance via google pagespeed, and pagespeed gives you bonus points for using webp. It doesn't matter if half the stuff pagespeed measures is full bullshit, it still gives an absolute score, which makes it a quantifiable value by upper management.
However since NOBODY actually uses webp images, websites use a server plugin that intercepts every access to the file and loads the (cached) webp version, if one does not exist it will generate one on the fly on the first access.
So you open a jpg/png file and the server will
1. check if cached webp exists
2. if one does not exist, convert the original image to webp and copy it to the cache
3. serve the webp file data with webp mime type (even though you opened a jpg/png)
There are browser plugins that will make your browser say "I don't support webp", which will allow you to access the original file.
Also because the web is becoming more centralized, if one site or a popular content management system changes its code to use webp, it can affect thousands of communities, for ex. wordpress, wikia, etc.
>>425417
this is complete bullshit, webp is a differently encoded format, not a container for jpg/png.There is a G3 strength solar flare hitting the planet right around now.
I've had some luck getting a few things for myself, the way my luck goes, this will probably enough to destroy it.>>425421
What the heck, why did no-one else tell me.
Did we at least get an aurora?I've yanked out two nose hairs over the course of today.
The first one filled me with a certain amount of satisfaction, the second a mild degree of depression.>>425135
Wasn't he always trying to portray himself as a white man/skeleton wearing SS leather greatcoats? Or at least being a muscular white dude in a tight shirt obscuring his face with bandana, sunglasses and baseball cap?
>>425365
Apparently they might finally be getting divorced over the fallout from the Oscar slapping. Considering the state of their marriage it would be long overdue.
>>425421
Did it actually have any lasting effect at all?bought a new chair.
I was a bit worried since it's pretty expensive, and the last "good" chair I was recommended was pretty uncomfortable.
but turns out I worried for no reason, the chair I got is pretty comfy and extremely sturdy. The backrest can be adjusted 90 degrees and the base is stupid strong, you can set it to near flat position and sleep in it without worrying about it tipping over.
The armrest is fucking stupid though. But it's removable, so there's that.Replies:>>425510>>425507
That's basically my chair, only cosmetically different, and by a different company.>>425508
So I removed the arms but it felt worse without those. My main issue is that every corded device I use will get stuck on the armrests. And all the Bluetooth dongles I tried have issues, they either only work in certain ports of my PC, or have horrible lag, or both. Hell, some aren't even compatible with all games (they make the keybindings go off).
first world problems I guess.Replies:>>425936Is it all that common for Russians to think the supernatural is real?
Before this was only something I encountered in all the slavic post-apocalyptic crpgs I play where you will frequently run into nutters in shitholes either threatening you with or being in fear of black magic and witchcraft, with it perhaps being played as ambiguous as to whether there is some truth to it or just mad ravings.When people say Waffles I can ONLY think of potato waffles.I am angry. Angry about crisps.
Places have stopped selling single bags of crisps nowadays, everything has started coming in at minimum a "grab bag" which is like a third the size of a party bag of whatever crisps/snacks that are meant to be poured into a bowl and picked at by everyone during a get-together.
People are fat enough, they don't need help by gradually increasing portion-size over time on every shelf.
Presumably it is somehow more cost-effective to the companies.>>425538
Today's supernatural is tomorrow's highly advanced natural philosophy :^)Replies:>>425938>>425935
See, that's to balance out bags being sold emptier and emptier so that the actual amount of chip sold remains roughly constant.>>425937
You mean they are selling less bags but with the same overall amount of produced slices of potato involved?
Because the grab bags actually do have more in them what with being notably larger.>>425935
I might be wrong but I believe there's a certain economy to it where the small size bags are more economical to manufacture. They have to fill the bags with a certain amount of gas, to prevent the chips from being broken down to powder from the rigors of transportation, the shock they received in the containers and trucks, etc. Larger bags mean much larger amounts of gas have to be used, said gases may be too expensive.
Now I could be wrong about this, but if the raw amount of chips is the same between two 50g bags and a 100g bags, then I can come up with no other legitimate reason as to why 50g bags are becoming more common. Someone would need to know the bill of materials to be able to tell for sure. Also I'd feel pretty silly if I had to try applying the square cube law to bags of potato chips to confirm this theory.
And you can still just buy a can of springles or the local supermarket (lidl, Tesco, etc) cheapo equivalent, to fill up a bowl. It might even work better since the potato chip cans have larger pieces in them, and less broken down small pieces.I love Bleach.
I love its ability to kill germs and cut through filth encrusting the home.
I love how it smells.