Welcome to the Random Thought Thread (RTT).

The random thought thread can be used to discuss pretty much anything. Debate, talk about your day, and to just post random daily thoughts that may come to you. Don't worry about double posts here.

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This is my first time making an RTT! Maybe this one will move faster than 54 did lol.

It will take 4 years to fill this one up.

>>2 (Firi) Don't say that lol. I feel like we could do it in a year if we really put some effort in! (•̀ᴗ•́ )و

Rain is in the forecast, but I'm really hoping that the sun comes out. This overcast weather has been super weird and awful. I really want it to be summer now. It's supposed to be warm and sunny this weekend and I'm really hoping that this bit of rain is the last we'll see in a while.
I set a date for when I want to start posting pages again on my Tapas, but I seriously have barely written anything because the bad weather sends me in a depression. Yesterday I managed to power through it and at least got some cleaning and cooking done.

Also, I've been reading while feeling unmotivated to get out of bed. I finished Mostly Void, Partially Stars (a Night Vale novel), it was funny and interesting to read, but also... difficult to get into. I could really only manage a few episodes in a single setting and so it took me weeks to get through it. I really do think seeing Night Vale in a more visual format (even just a graphic novel) would make the series way better to digest. The stories and characters are just a lot to take in and having a more visual aspect to the series would make it way easier to digest. Well, as it is I give it a 3.5 stars.
I also read Frog and Toad are Friends because I never read it as a little kid and I enjoyed it immensely. I just love the casual queerness of the characters and then there's the swimming scene where Frog is just openly swimming in the nude while Toad has a bathing suit lmao. 5/5 stars, don't judge me.
And finally I got through the first two volumes of Freaking Romance by Snailords. I liked it, but also kinda didn't. I don't know why, but I don't really like the characters all that much in this series. The art is pretty though, and the plot is interesting, but I think what I dislike is that everything is so extreme. Like every conflict is the worst possible situation, every emotion is either super happy or super sad, there's no chill moments or just casual interactions between characters. It makes reading the story kind of stressful. I give it a 3 star rating.

RTT speedrun? Sure.

>>3 I remember my music teacher reading that to the class in elementary school for some reason lol

>>3 (Nyanka)
I loved Frog and Toad as a kid! They are such icons

>>3 cheers to another RTT though, good run lads and lasses.

Its funny how the cure to depression is to literally just surround yourself with people, like, other people literally anchor ourselves to reality and reminds us of what actually matters for us and our surroundings. Being alone for prolonged periods of time gets me existential and literally pulls my view away to zoom out of myself and see the grand scheme of things, how insignificant existence really is, instead of focusing on the known world that I am personally involved in which I should have treated with utmost importance.

I don't know if my crew actually get that feeling, I live an hour away from campus where all my social life revolves around, that I got nothing on my home, I just sleep and bathe there. I just wonder, everyday, their luxury of having me show up to them daily, can they afford to live in my shoes? Do they know how hard it was when episodes strikes, and still persevering through it all to show up for them.

Human feelings are messy, illogical, I dont like sorta.

yay new rtt

>>6 (firion) sounds like you're an extrovert. not same.

>>7 It only sounds like it because I can't even get a proper break for myself, like, being around familiars are the only way I could jumpstart myself into social mode. The mental breakdown every now and then is essentially my introvert side asking for a recharge, but it is not the time to recharge, there are lots of things to work on.

I realized I haven't posted in the stalker thread since I was in college. Maybe I'll take a picture later to post.

new weekly shonen jump manga otr of the flame is fucking peak

Mowing the lawn sucks.

Just had a great moment at the airport, boys. As I was entering the restroom at the airport today some dude tried to stop me and point me towards the women's room, and I had to tell him I'm a man. Fuck yeah, boy, *I PASS*.

>>6
Isolation truly is evil. I've reached ten years as a hikkikomori this year, the last time I had any sort of social anchor was pre-covid when I was finally close to escaping.
Even seeing family, can be grounding. I've managed to see my little sister once a year but even then, I need to do it a lot more.

For a proper, random though. I've nearly finished all UC Gundam.

To contribute a second piece to the endless stream of consciousness that RTT can represent. I just wrote up like a, two-thousand word post for the 2011 Gundam thread on /Animation/ and as I clicked reply, my captcha expired. There may be evil more evil, then isolation.

>>14 ggwp thats gotta suck

>>13 Privacy is great, but these terrible feelings that can persist for days to weeks really aren't worth it.

>>14 rip.

Its been a month since the last time I posted about my digital detox journey.

My subscription for Minimalist phone has expired, but I don't really use the premium features anyways (apart from the personalization color theming, which I'm fine for not having). I mainly use Before launcher now, a simple homepage with a clock and 3 apps that I chose which was messages, music, and task-notes.

I dont uninstall Minimalist launcher because their notification filter is actually useful for tucking away almost all the garbage from my actual notif bar, and because Before launcher's notification filter is so easily accessible from the homepage that they simply don't work in-practice from its purpose of hiding the spam-y notifications from view.

Minimalist phone also got the annoying pop-up of mindful app usage feature for every potential timesink apps, a feature which comes for free whereas Ascent offered them as a subscription service, and theirs aren't even half as effective in-practice as Minimalist's.

"All apps" menu can be accessed thru Samsung's built-in Edge panel feature from the app shortcut section. There, I make a folder of basic utility apps, and I'm really aiming for the functionality of old keypad phones that only helps certain tasks while trying to not become timesink.

Samsung Internet can force system fonts into any site visited, so now my Twitter feed looks atrocious with Franosch, BBS too, any site really. So that's what I used to browse the net mainly now. Tbh, my entire phone reads atrociously now with that font, I paid 2 lunch servings for that font.

Every now and then I changed the wallpaper and fonts, either anime or artworks, or scenery. Every fonts I picked also looks atrocious, this is by design so using my phone always makes anyone feel like they wanna claw their eyeballs out.

I think that's about it... I still averaged my screen time 10 hours a day though, so what does that actually imply?

implies you need a job, i literally just don't have the time do that lmao

>>17 That sounds fair, but the missing context is that I spent more than half a day on campus and two third of that time is spent on my theatre troupe instead of my classes. My days are filled with dread as I ponder what awaits ahead, what mistakes am I making and continue to make, and how will the alumnis react to what I've done to their beloved almamater.

I shouldn't really care too much, but I can't help having the anxieties and worries.

Welp, mistakes were made. It's currently 94°F/34°C outside and 83°F/28°C in my house lol. The weather really did a sudden spike in heat, like it was seriously only in the 80s yesterday and then today it decided to be in the 90s. Tomorrow it's going to be back in the 80s which is when my new ac is going to arrive. I was hoping that the temp would be mild until at least June so I put off buying a new ac until now. I guess this summer is going to be another extreme one like last year.
Pro tip for the adults in chat: Don't buy an old house. It's cheap on the initial cost, but then you have to spend a lot of money updating everything and buying new appliances.

Also I've been working on kinda crafty things lol. I've had these old Junior Ranger booklets sitting in my arts and craft box for *years* and since its so hot and I can't be bothered to do fuck all I decided to pull them out and work on them for a bit. I almost got the Grand Teton booklet done, I just have two pages left to do, but one of them involves asking my sis for info (cause she worked there for a summer) so I'll have to wait on that. I worked a little bit on my Yellowstone booklet, but those worksheets take some involvement and after getting through most of the Grand Teton one my brain was starting to feel fried. I wound up not even touching my Petrified Forest and Paleontologist booklets. One day I will get my badges for these parks lmao.

Oh and also, since I no longer actively checks twitter, my gallery no longer gets new memes in bulk. And that actually subconsciously disincentivize skimming thru the gallery I feel, I need something that pulls image from gallery at random, so I can see them in new and fresh ways. I wonder if such function has been made by someone before?

>>19 or you could just buy an old house and continue living in a shit house

yea

>>21 (Pie) Bruh. XD

>>19 (Nyanka)
Think that's just something you have to consider for homeownership in general. Even the newest homes will wear down eventually, and emergencies happen as well. I think with older homes, it's just a sooner rather than later type of thing. Still, definitely not a cost many keep in mind. That's why my sister and I are saving beyond the 4.5% downpayment we'll need with the FHA loan. (We have about 4x that amount by now, I think, but you can never be too careful)

>>10 AHH ANOTHER OTR OF THE FLAME READER!! Every comment about it was either about Red Hood or saying muscle mommy so oof-

>>24 lmaoooo. but nah i get it, its yuki kawaguchi's second work.


like i love otr for what it is so far. its so peak

Had a great time in New Mexico.

The baby shower was nice. It was a cute space theme, which is no surprise since my friend jokes that she's an alien. I almost made her cry with my gift, which was the closest she got to crying the whole time (and she says she thinks she only didn't cry cause she was too dehydrated to, lol). I don't really plan on having kids of my own, and she's like a sister to me, so I gave her one of my childhood stuffed animals to pass down to her daughter. I also made some scrunchies so that they could eventually match once the little girl has enough hair to do so, haha. I wanted my gifts to last beyond just infancy and have meaning to them. I'm glad she appreciated them <3
It was nice to hang out with her and part of her family. Only one of her siblings and her aunt were able to fly out to attend, but they were great company nonetheless. We had a nice lunch the day after the shower too. My sibling and another friend did a little visit at Pistachioland too, which was a neat place. Not worth seeking out, but a nice stop if you're already in the area.

My dumbass sibling locked us out of the car right as we were about to head back to Arizona. My friend's husband and aunt tried so hard to help us break into the car, but we ended up having to wait 2 hours for roadside assistance, and didn't get home until 1 am. That was... certainly an experience.

All in all, it was a great time and I'm glad I had enough PTO saved up to be able to go out and do that. Now to survive this last week of school with all the kiddos riled up and ready to be done....

>>26 sounds fun. not the car bit, unless you had smth to do on the side of the road for 2 hrs.

Writing all day every day. I love having days off.

My mood swings around from its so over to I am god pretty intensely the last few days, can't be good.

>>29 Relatable. Every day is crying, gloom or endless hope.

try going outside, feeling sad by going outside, then going back in

I dont need phantom pain, I want something real and tangible, I want bruises, I want cuts, I want physical wounds, not a never ending uneasy feelings in my heart, or stomachache induced from the depths of my anxiety.

I think I get why famous performers misuse drugs.

>>32 bro go get a partner

I am sleep deprived, adrenaline fueled, skipped lunch, and is responsible for many people that serves me, and I am not sure if I could deliver, and I can no longer do anything about it except to wait for the results to come out.

It might be better to wish for a huge rain so that at least its valid to believe that situations are beyond my control. If not, I don't know if I could bear the weight of the implications of what I've done, what I've neglected all the last few months.

????????????????

i feel like i need context bro, because what you've been talking about here so far is not enough of it

>>35 probably after I'm done with it in about 4 hours, an excruciatingly long and arduous 4 hour.

real

>>35 Held an internal party meeting, prepared a mini theatrical performance for the last 4 weeks, stayed up 2 nights setting up the decorations, the invitees all but two never gave direct confirmation that they'll attend. Open gate dawned, 20 minutes in and no one's come still, my body fills with dread. A birthday party of my very own getting no attendance is fine, at least I'll be the one getting the brunt. But an organizational party? Where people took their time to contribute something that was coined up by me? Where no one attends? That will haunt me, that's not just me being disappointed, that's everyone being disappointed and I'm at the center of it all, bearing everyone's weights.

Anyways, 9 or so people attended, out of like 60 invitations sent out. So it works out in the end.

"Things always seem to fall apart towards the end, but that's just the one last step before success." Read that somewhere, it rings true for me.

>>38 yeah thats gotta suck

>>39 A Few hours before the supposed opening time, I was contemplating whether I was supposed to also contact the invitees and coax them into attending beforehand, since I held an important position in the organization.

I had no way of verifying whether my lack of action and interference had any effect on the invitees attendance compared to the previous year's party event, so the possibility of guilt just eats me alive and knocks me down on the stomache with the ache and heart with tight.

Am drunk, this is funny feeling experience. Im feeling wobbly and fortunately i have colleagues to pick me up to someones crib and took a little nap until the drunk subsides

I yap a lot, like, lot lot, its 4am rn.

>>40 answer is yes.

>>41 yap more

>>42 eat shit and die.

KING DRAGON DOJO OVER ON FRUIT NINJA CLASSIC WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

>>43 this one combined with old glory blade is really fun, the golden dragonfruit falling in slowmode really gives a whole new way of experiencing the game.

The entire day I thought it was Tuesday. Wow, I have the day off tomorrow! :D

>>45 nice, pog

cons fun

I'm trying to think of something random on here, but I can only think of one thing right now.... (″ロ゛)

Oh god, what have I done...
(ノ*°▽°*)

Also, wow. I haven't been on here in 2-3 years... Strange thing. |･ω･)

Aw.. my kaomoji. TwT
It was split.

>>48>>49 I remember you changed your name to something else, but I cant remember what that was.

Welcome back.

I am posting from a local internet cafe downtown at 2 in the morning, the browser's default start page has not been updated since 2011, an absolute fossil. Zengat would've loved this.

I might start frequently visiting this place, this is much better than renting a motel room (which was the initial intent before trying this place) cause holy shit, the seat is couch, I can just sleep here bro. And there's PC to play with when I woke up, I literally just needed a soft surface to crash out for a bit until morning arrives when I can and need to be someplace in campus, so this is just the perfect bargain if I can't afford to lose my sanity all the way back home an-hour-ride-away from everyone I know that needs me be physically here.

The couch reeks of cigarettes, ffs.

Will update if I find better options.

went to a con o nthe weekend. tired

I made a lovely vanilla cake.
I'm gonna try to make toffee cookie bars later. I've been very keen to try different flavored deserts right now. Feels like every desert I make is chocolate or peanut butter. I'm regretting not getting heavy cream while I was at the store since most caramel flavored deserts call for it. I also forgot to buy ice cream which is an absolute shame.

^ The toffee cookies turned out pretty good. It's a subtle, but nice flavor.

Things go fast, I think it's been 4 years or something since I was on here.

Developing a roll of film is one of the best things ever.

Made a discord for my loli hentai game (that's fully text and isn't even out of the prologue yet.) There's almost 50 people it in. Wild.

sdfsdafgsdfghsdfghsdfgaSDGRA WEEKENDS ARE FREEDOM

The other day on netcafe, I felt unsafe to log into any of my accounts, so I just listened to music on Youtube and browsed through board sites that I can find from those that I've already known. And it got me thinking "man, being able to post anything without having an account sure is nice."

Now I wish our BBS was a bit more like that. I mean, don't get me wrong, we're fine as is, but I just felt like the grass is greener on the other side.

I wonder how can we achieve that with the current userbase.

>>59 (Firi) But the bbs is like that? No one needs an account to post on here, you just type in a username in the box and off you go, post whatever you want.

My car battery decided to die on me today. RIP. I had to sit in the parking lot for about thirty minutes till my mom could come and give me a jump. Luckily there's an auto place next to where I work so I just drove it there and let them have it for the day. My poor car. She's getting old.

^ what nyanka said lmao, the tripcode you put in is optional.

I misrepresent the cause and effect there, its true that posting anonymously is already a thing here, but something is missing still. I guess I just wanna say I want more activity, just so I'd have more reasons to use the site more often.

And uh, room chats. No one is awake when I'm online. So thats a real bummer.

Only got scheduled 3 days this month. Bruh. I kept this job so that I would have work while school is out... wtf man

>>60 You need a new car battery every 3-5 yrs

>>64 (Splor) 1. Didn't know that. That is not innate knowledge one is born with. 2. It is only just on the cusp of three years old. It was last replaced in September of '22.

>>63 (Keith) That's a big suck.

>>62 (Firi) Just throwing this out here cause it keeps being brought up. If you guys want more people to come to the site than advertise it. Like this site initially became popular because of the anime, it did the advertising for us. Now the anime is ancient history so there's no hassle free advertising anymore. You have to do it yourself or else no one will ever find this place.
Also as an aside it would be an interesting prompt on Main to ask newer people how they came across this site. By random chance, through the anime, or by some version of word of mouth?

>>63 mega bruh

been feeling a bit sick recently

i'm having trouble sleeping again... for the past two weeks i've fallen asleep at 7am. i guess the more time you spend awake at night and asleep during the day, you start to lose track of time. getting blackout curtains for my room didn't help - now it's dark in here even during midday, where it used to get lots of natural light.

everyone should try hard to get sleep at the proper times of night... don't be like me, i'm suffering over here!!!

>>50 Thanks, it was Tsukiyomi. Wasn't sure if I should use it or not...

>>68 you reset the internal clock by staying up until proper sleep time arrives.

>>69 whichever you prefer!

When things seem to be falling apart... they might actually be falling into place.

>>68 that sounds horrible damn

>>69 use smth else just to shake it up

Well first time writing in a rtt.
PLEASE entertain me, I got two very long weeks ahead of me so I'm begging you, write something, let's have a convo, I need to pass the time

>>72 no lmao, go watch some anime

Weird experience at work. Couple walked by and the husband referred to me as "he". As does pretty much everyone, cause I'm obviously a guy. And then the wife """corrected""" him to "they". Um. Okay. Good on you for trying to be inclusive, I guess? But he/him was right in the first place. Confused to why she thought I'd even be "they". Funny times.

Theatre done, now I can sleep 21 hours.

For now.

>>74 /shrug weird stuff happens i guess?

>>75 grats

I watched the movie Wicked the other night. Big mood vibes. I've never read the books or seen the play so I went into it completely blind. I liked the singing alright (at least they got actors who are also musicians tbh so everybody sounded nice), but the choreography was kind of a miss for me... The story was pretty fun though and the writers did a pretty good job of moving everything along in an even pace. In the middle of watching it I seriously didn't even realize that two hours had passed until my cats started yelling at me to feed them and then there was still almost an hour of movie left. I'm pretty keen on seeing the sequel now whenever it drops and I might eventually read the books. I have the first one sitting in my room untouched for about a year now lol.

I also finished Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation by MXTX. That was pretty good as well except I didn't like all of the random backstories for side characters. I didn't mind a flashback chapter when it involved the main couple, but spending like 70 pages on a couple of blind people that have no bearing on the main plot whatsoever was mind numbing. Aside from that though the gay was peak and the main couple pretty cute. I was reading the comic alongside the novels and getting to see the chibi versions of the characters was so darling. I actually at one point stopped and had to snap a picture of an adorable scene to send to my sis since I knew that she'd only read the novels and she'd enjoy the heck out of it.

Got inspired after watching a video and remembering my short time with Blaseball, then rapidly made a new experience in less than 3 days.

Bought proxy Pokemon cards (cause the real ones of the two I got are EXPENSIVE) and they got warped sitting in the mailbox 😭 Luckily, I was able to more or less fix them by peeling the wrap back and reapplying it, but it did damage the cards a lil. Oh wellll. They're just for my collection only anyways.

>>79 try those humidity control packets you get in food sometimes. cards warping happens when there's a difference in humidity from where it was made and where it is

>>80 (Pie)
Huh. Interesting. I'll have to give that a try.

>>81 it's a common issue for magic the gathering cards, foil ones, especially. there's kind of no way around this with the material that they use for printing these cards nowadays

If it is true that a there is a machine that can create a black hole from nothing, in the future there will be a system of two twin pistols, one that creates the black holes and the other that shoots the bullets. Then men will be able to curve a bullet at will with the assistance of A.I, and there will be a time before the technology becomes widely available for public consumption. The secret intelligence agencies will utilize this method to kill people from impossible angles. Making those murders unsolvable by default. They can already do this, but it will make their jobs that much easier.
I sorry, yesterday my mind for some reason tried to create a scenario and which I got away with murder, easier, and perpetually knew it would never be resolved.
I don't murder..
My mind is the mind of a Madd scientist...
My theory has flaws, the pinpoint accuracy of the A.I would have to be so precise, making it almost folly to involve a human copilot.
We already have drones that can snipe, making such a thing to be a waste of taxpayer dollars, and childish to bring up with people with security clearance to top government secrets.

The only reason men would want something like that is because its sick as fuck, like the green goblin glider... but the green goblin glider is a real thing now. So, this might become a thing as well.

>>83 i dont think thats how black holes work

Born too early for the Middle East war, born to late for the Middle East war, born just in time for the Middle East war

>>85 why are they fighting over there.

>>86 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEzlF23U7nE&t=20m15s

Men and women in the Usa are getting more and more lonely and the effects of this has contributed to a lot of unsavory things happening. If this issue is not resolved, the problem will get worse and worse over time. A generation will arise, and it will be glorious, I don't know if I will get to see it in my lifetime.

>>88 define "glorious"???

Bump

Pee your pants

Receiving news of a deceased person who turn out to be an influential figure in a field outside your interest, tasked to make a pamphlete that mourns them on a social media on behalf of a large media group, and then delving the net to find said person's photo to put on the pamphlete, and ending up on their personal facebook profile page with its latest activity from 3 days ago about a completely mundane post of their life...

Makes me feel things... I'm not sure what, but something is definitely there.

>>92 well yeah, dead people are still people

>>93 Can you not? I'm having a moment right now.

Tiny chef is superdorable.

>>877 fellow lemonade watcher

>>95 surprised it raised half a million, it is nice a stop motion show is getting made

>>89 I will not, its a suprise....

People, companies, institutions, and governments have lied so much....they broke my ability to believe any thing they say or do. In 2025 everything feels so staged.

Still alive, just very busy and tired lol.
Also it's really doing my head in that when I get home from work and pass out, I'll sleep for like three or four hours, but when I wake up it's still daytime. Feels like it should be later. The summer sun is really out here and refusing to leave.

Btw did I mention that I've been watching Criminal Minds. I realized a few months ago that I'd never seen it so I've checked out a couple seasons from the library. I'm almost done with s2. Probably won't bother with s3, but the show is pretty good. It's interesting that the episodes will equally follow around all of the main characters in such a way that it never feels like any one of them is *the* main character. Most other police procedurals with this sort of set up will usually put emphasis on the team leader and will insert this person in all of the other character's lives, but in Criminal Minds the team leaders are pretty hands off with the rest of the team and it really doesn't go into much detail about them.
I suppose it's refreshing to have a police procedural where there isn't a main character with some tragic back story and a driven revenge plot.

uuuuuuh good luck to stop killing games

>>99 almost there

The telecommunication industry, the car industry, and the gaming industry are all accepted monopolies that pretend not to be one. It's usually the big 3 or top 5 who have cemented their positions well before I was born, so I know the anti-competitive nature of companies will only get worse over time? Maybe? It depends on what people are willing to accept as a socially acceptable practice in their country, I guess... The beauty of this reality, nothing is every set in stone, it's all a fleeting sweet summer dream.

donated blood today, pog

>>101 gaming is not a monopoly, unless you mean hardware

>>102 Correct
Sony, PlayStation, Microsoft [ The big 3] ( Nintendo is in LaLa land)
Amazon ,Temu ,Walmart [The big 3 for online shopping]
walmart, Publix, Kroger[ the big 3 of groceries in the UsA]

starting to see a trend?
how over time consolidation of intellectual property naturally lends itself to a tech monopoly.

Paypal, Visa ,Mastercard [ The big 3 of Payment Processors]

Thats a serious thing to see, its a reality of this modern era.

>>103 (Don) Those are not the big three for groceries lmao. I've never even heard of Publix, and Kroger is only in the Northern states. There isn't a big three for groceries tbh; there's Walmart and Target sure, but then there's also Whole Foods, Sprouts, Reasors, Aldi's, Trader Joes, etc. etc. There's also plenty of locally owned grocery stores that target specific ethnic groups. (The claw games at the Asian Market are peak.)

As far as tech goes though, yes there is a monopoly on that, but technology is also a very niche industry to work in that typically requires college education so it make sense that only a few companies(a small group of people) are qualified to make and sell technology. Especially in America where most of the gen public can't even be bothered to learn how to read and write properly.

>>103 ok so i dont see how microsoft counts as hardware unless you mean windows is the main gaming platform. also playstation is owned by sony, so like, idk what you're trying to say by putting both there.

also, like, its probably more accurate to bring out nvidia intel and amd as the hardware monopolies but like nyanka said it's a really niche industry in terms of expertise, similar to space flight and exploration.

>>104
>>105
Alot of smaller chains are owned by a conglomerate corporation, giving you the allusion of choice. I will accept that my world view is mine alone, not to be accept as gospel truth. Every man, woman, and child are allowed to have an opinion on anything, even experts disagree all the time. Consolidation, and monopolies are just a natural occurring phenomenon as natural selection makes the particular conglomerate swallow up all the intellectual property, lobby congress, and have the liquid capital necessary to alter the laws of a nation to their benefit. Think macroeconomics not microeconomics, there is a difference.
May this message not be received in the spirit of anger, or uncouth emotional duress, but it the spirit of intellectual discourse.

>>106 bro you still need to clarify what you mean about gaming.

>>107
there is nothing for me to clarify, justify...are u satisfied? Hope u have a great summer.

>>108 (Don) I think we're all just confused lol. You came spouting a bunch of strange stuff (most of it wrong) and then just left it at that.

Anyways, I did finish s2 of Criminal Minds. My review from >>98 still holds. Pretty decent show without a lot of fantastical story plots, very well grounded (almost boring in some cases), and a solid cast of characters. Overall, I'd give it a 3/5 stars. Probably won't ever watch s3 even though a part of me is tempted...

Also I'm very eager for later this week when I finally renew my Netflix. I've been sitting on so many shows to watch. First and foremost on my list The Old Guard 2. If you haven't seen the first movie, I'd highly recommend it. Besides the villain being a bit cliche/cheesy it is otherwise a perfect movie. I'm also very hyped to finally watch Arcane. I've been sitting on that one for years because I knew s1 ended on a cliffhanger so I purposefully held off until s2 dropped.

caaaaaaant wait to go to sydney

Umamusume S2 is really good, I have also been playing the game ever since the global launch. Of all the gacha games being released lately, this one got me.

Enjoyed my Seattle trip a lot and then immediately after returning home, I had four days of work in a row. No time to rest and recover. Crash hard today and slept for 11 hours (which is less than what I used to get before getting treatment, but more than I get now on average, lol).

We went to the space needle, MoPop, the aquarium, and rode the ferris wheel! All tons of fun. :]
Seattle Pride was also SO MUCH better than Phoenix Pride. Tolerable to be outside, for one. But there's also just more people and it feels less corporate. It helps that Seattle is just incredibly LGBT friendly to start with. Plus, the festival is free! In Phoenix, it isn't, despite having a similar set up. I might just look for free pride events instead of going to Phoenix Pride this year. That's probably be more fun.

On the downside, my sister got into a car accident this past week. She's completely fine, thank god. But the car... heavily damaged and not worth repairing with all its pre-existing issues. So we've got to get a new vehicle, which is gonna make a dent in our house savings. But tbf, we already have more than enough for the down payment. I just wanted a good cushion for emergencies, and I guess this counts!

Press A to be gay today

>>111 so many people i know play it lmao

>>114 The girls are also not overly sexualized unlike most anime related things due to the company's etique policy, so it just is easier to breach into various demographics.

Bawled my eyes out a few times while watching the anime, its THAT good.

>>115 damn i should watch it then

>>116 Everyone seem to be on the same page from comments I've read, but I think more so for me personally since life had been so terrible for me the past year or so and I've had issues with motivations and passion all those time. So seeing characters battered and bruised from hardships they are facing and yet remaining steadfast with their heads remaining held up high, I can't help but have goosebumps and have tears welling up at their indomitable spirit. Their stories might be fictional, but my feelings are real, and I'm jealous, and I wanna be strong just like them.

There is an interesting thing I keep seeing in my city. Where there is a strong possibility of a car accident, a sign directing u to emergency services will be posted. Is it the obligation of the city to redesign such places due to human error for its local populations? or is it the tourists who is getting into the majority of the accidents? When it comes to traffic control, I understand different people invest in different modes of transportation, in North America, the automotive vehicle is still king... for now.

Umamusume's career mode is very unique I think, in that, the characters all have base stats that need to be worked on when going through career mode. When career ends, be it a fail run or a complete one, the character used during the run is 'archived' with their stats from that run and can't be tweaked anymore. These archived version of the characters are what would then be allowed to be used outside career mode.

I don't know if that makes sense, but I wanna gush about it since all gacha games I've played before this seem to always follow the same formula of collecting the characters from gachas to form a synergizing team. Umamusume is different, in that, you collect your character's different versions from different career runs instead.

There is a greater emphasis on the character's individual stories, since every character chosen for career mode has different stories, and so, different goals. If you're a casual like me, you'd engage with the gacha system much less than you expected. The career mode is really THAT engaging, an absolute masterclass of a game design.

Just binge watching some stuff.

Surprisingly unsurprising that hooper into horse anime girl game.

I want some goofy indie horror rip-off where they are like actual racing horses and get broken legs, get shot, turned to glue, etc.

>>51 This is so dope, wtf. Thank for show hoopie.

>>118 To be fair, even in places with proper signage and road design, people will be stupid. I think those signs serve a purpose there, at least. Though cities will always wait for like 8 people to die before fixing things on the road, in reality.

bruh now i wanna play uma musume.

also, back from holiday. so tired from holiday. cant believe work is tmrw.

>>121 I understand, every year people lock the kids in hot cars and are shocked when after an 8-hour shift at Walmart, the kid is unresponsive. The cost of daycare in the us is skyrocketing, so it's an unfortunate consequence of socio-economic shifts within any society.

Why is Africa not called Eden?

If Pangea was a thing and all landmasses where tightly interlocked, and Eden was center mass, then it would stand to reason that it held the majority of natural resources on Earth at the time. As the separation happened over Eons, the people spread out to populate the rest of the landmasses across the globe, they did this on foot, and ships by the way. That took centuries.....

Now how many Earth extinction level events has humanity had to endure?

If the answer is more than one, than one living being with absolute certainty can know what West of Eden means... because to pretend the person who wrote that knew what West is, like the concept itself , the concept of a "West" is like super modern... just sayian...

>>124 (Don) West is anything west of the prime meridian. The first meridian (which is not far from the current prime) was established in the 1600s. West is not a modern concept.
Also people be locking their kids in cars cause they don't want to have kids. They'd rather just kill the kid and go to jail than deal with them. This has more to do with the lack of abortion access than the economy.

>>120 Finished Delicious Dungeon, I'm a bit disappointed that it ended on such a cliffhanger. Like I wasn't surprised that they didn't defeat the Mad Mage, but I was expecting them to at least save Falin. I'm dropping my rating to 4/5 stars.
I also started watching Witch Watch, which I'm feeling kinda meh about. I'll probably dnf that one. It's cute, but there isn't enough plot to keep me interested.
I also realized that Netflix has the Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation live action, but it has 50 45minutes episodes (like wtf, why so many?) so I'm not sure I'll have time to watch it along with everything else I wanna watch this month.

>>3 I was just bored and started reading the thread from the top and saw that you mentioned Night Vale has a novel. Thank you so much for providing this information. I tried to get into the whole podcast thing but listening really isn't for me lol.

>>121 We should make something similar someday for Dollars or something of sorts.

>>123 Do it for Haru Urara.

>>126 Is this why people rarely interact with RTT? With the presumption that they need to read every post that came before to contribute to the thread? Good lord.

>>127 imagine if people actually read every post lmao

also, actually random thought: male toilets should never be white / light grey or smth. it makes it obvious when there's piss stains on the floor

>>128 Wasn't too hard to imagine since >>126 confesses that they were about to.

Also, they were white so you can tell they're clean for real, unlike how dark patterned tiles use visual tricks to make the dirt harder to perceive. It does make for a hassle when one is a lazy cleaner, but for users or visitors, hygienic white can only be earned, it indicates that the place is treated with good care.

>>129 my guy i have never seen a white toilet, only fucking piss stained yellow underneath every urinal

^ (Firi)(Pie) As someone who has had to clean men's restrooms let me tell you that off-white tiles are shit. You can't clean the piss if you can't see the piss.
It's the same in the women's, but you're less likely to get pee on the floor in there unless a mom takes her little kid in and they piss on the floor.

>>128 (Pie) You say that as if Firi doesn't do that all the time with other threads lmao.

>>126 (Princess) Nightvale has a few books actually. They've got a couple that are transcriptions of the podcast (that's what I read) and they've also got original stories that are written as regular novels.

>>127 No idea but I can definitely tell you it cured my boredom for a little bit XD

>>128 I have a suggestion we color them yellow so the piss blends in.

>>131 Next paycheck I'm definitely ordering every single book.

My thoughts for today: Yolonda honey please update your number. I'm tired of getting your shop pay debt/one time passcode texts.

>>132 lmao youve just been getting someone else's shit?

>>131 ok yeah fair enough. i would just assume its always dirty

>>131 To be fair, I hadn't got enough leisure time to do any of that in a pretty long time.

>>132 This Yolonda lad sounds pretty infuriating to deal around with.

I have come to the conclusion that we shouldn't pause our entire life to prioritize helping/finishing something, whatever that is. So now I have once more started watching anime within the tiny span of leisure time I got in between the hectic life of campus, theatre activities, and down to rest time. Might dive into the archive once more, someday, not today though.

I have also concluded that we should prioritize the important thing and focus on the bigger picture instead of being imprisoned in the details. For years, I've pledged to never touch my bed before I had cleaned myself. So whenever I'm too tired to take shower after returning from wherever I've been outside, in an effort to uphold the pledge I previously set upon myself, I'd settle on dropping on my couch which is cold, not as soft as my bed, with no blankets, and still with full uniform that are sometimes tight and uncomfortable to sleep in. This, of course, does not result in an optimal rest. Do this for years and one day I find myself already lost, unable to pinpoint where exactly it all went so wrong. The pledge was initially made to encourage myself into a hygienic lifestyle and create a healthy sleep environment, but in the middle of practicing it, I found myself in a difficult position whether to uphold it or abandon it. What I didn't realize when I decide to keep upholding it despite many setbacks I was facing at the time was the huge price that is my own wellbeing, which in hindsight wasn't worth it. You can switch a dirty bedsheet, you can shower when you're dirty, you can wash or clean a dirty house, but when your sanity is down the drain, it is really tricky to deal with the things that are non-physical.

So now I've been more lax on myself. My bed is no longer the sacred clean platform where I need to be completely fresh and clean to properly rest there, resulting in the rest of the house being untended. Its just a place of rest now, the best one in the house, in exchange, I have been able to divide my attention to the rest of the house and make them all tidier more equally. Well, not fully tidy, but we're getting there, I think.

There was a moment (I think I tweeted it out instead of sending it here) a few weeks ago (a month already now?), early on when I just started playing Uma Musume. I was doing career mode with Tokai Teio, I picked the Rest option for her and the next scenario was titled "All refreshed" or something along those lines, the protag's dialogue was "You're up early?" And Teio replied something along the lines of "Of course, I can't wait to continue our training already!" And for a brief moment I felt jealous, I used to be as eager as that every morning facing new day, and for a moment I wondered when did I fell so far from grace? When did it all went so wrong.

So of course, I watched the anime pretty soon after that, the one she was starring in which was S2. I wish I could erase my memory so I can watch it again for the first time, its a great watch, it will fuel me on bracing thru what life has to offer for a while.

Why can't I just connect bluetooth on newer cars audio system? Why do I need to connect to Android Auto and have my google maps, spotify, and whatsapp be integrated with your huge ass screen?

Literally 1984.

>>134 (Firi) Setting goals is important and meeting those goals does feel very good and failing them can be disappointing, but it's important to remember that goals should never supersede reality.
In example I wanted to mow my lawn last week. I set a goal and was pretty confident about my success, but I in fact majorly failed. The grass was too wet and I ran out gas so I could not finish. That was disappointing, but I couldn't change the reality of the situation. I changed my expectations and set a new goal: to mow my lawn today. This also ended in partial failure lol, but mostly cause it's freaking hot and I don't want to be doing yard work with the sun glaring at me. So my new goal is to finish mowing the lawn tomorrow morning.
Goals should be flexible to meet the harshness of reality.
Also, just throw a blanket over your bed to cover your sheets if you're so filthy lmao. Then all you have to do is wash the top blanket and try better next time.

>>135 (Firi) That's a strange feature, I've never heard of that, but admittedly I drive a 2017 which gives me both options. Maybe just try plugging in the aux? There's usually a port in the glove box or under the center console.

>>125 Okay, the Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation live action is getting thick. I'm about halfway through it and we're in the middle of the Sunshot Campaign arc. I'm actually hyped to see these episodes cause the books kinda glossed over Wei's involvement in the war by just saying that he used his demonic tricks to fight. Getting to actually see it is really cool.
And my gods the show is trying so hard to be gay without actually being gay. Chinese censorship is such a cunt. The main novels aren't even that gay tbh, it's not until the extra chapters that things get spicy.

>>133 Yes, I'm so tempted to change my number again. I even had to remove their number from cash app so I could add it to my account.

>>134 I understand in the past I had regrets promising things to multiple people because I could never seem to find any time for myself. I now like to schedule days just for me and if anyone asks me to hang out or do something I just respond with I'm busy and give no reason as to why.

As for sleeping in the bed when you're not clean just do it. You can always wash the sheets tomorrow. I feel like if you're that exhausted you deserve the best rest possible.

>>135 Time to buy an old car lol.

Currently I've started a new novel and I absolutely love it! It's called "Got Dropped into a Ghost Story, Still Gotta Work" here's the characteristically long title I love paranormal stuff and the MC is hilarious.

Been stuck in interview hell. Interview after interview. But no offers, smh. Got another one today. Fingers crossed.

>>125 ( Nyanka) It is making a reference to a specific truth. How long is history? By the biblical length, its purported to be like 10,000 years old(written history) and scientists purport that the earth is Millions of years old. If humanity was with the earth for Millions of years, then the concept of West is a modern concept in the entire span of all of history. People tend to not think about unrecorded history and as a natural consequence never realize how vast it could had been potentially.

>>126 Wow guy, I did not know dudes would read the whole thread just to keep up to date on the discussion, is that normal?


I came to realize that people only call on me to solve their temporary problems and if I just delay them slightly, magically, they have the intellectual capacity to come up with a solution all on their own. Meaning, people love to waste my time with absolutely no regard to the opportunity cost to myself......Odd
I'll find a future solution so this nonsense will cease, and they will have to figure out their own solutions. They clearly have the ability to do so.

vomited my breakfast out in the shower today. well, at least it was easy to clean up.

>>139 (Don) Just to clarify this, most historians consider "modern times" to have started around the 1500s. We had West way before then my guy. Setting the meridians aside, compasses have been around for thousands of years.
Also yes, "history" having a starting point is a very fun concept. You're calling forth my inner geek.

>>140 (Pie) Bro... that's nasty.

>>138 (Keith) Are you trying for teacher positions?

>>141 yeaaaaaaaaaaah, i know. i didnt go to work after that.

>>141 (Nyanka)
Yeah. Quite difficult to land something though when I have an alternative certification, which means no actual classroom teaching experience. Most schools are gonna prioritize applicants with full certifications, unfortunately for me.
I may have to settle for another paraprofessional role for this school year. Especially since school has started in my area and the only opening now is the one I just interviewed for (it only opened because a teacher had a family emergency and had to move to another state, so it was very last minute. They currently have their students split up between the current teachers.)
All this talk of a teacher shortage in this state, smh. I guess not in this county, apparently

found a really weird corner in the middle of the city. that was cool

>>136 The aux is replaced by USB-C that works exactly the same, but now also turns your bluetooth on upon plugging so it can connect to Android Auto and you can't turn it off for as long as Android Auto is still running. Sounds trivial, but no its not, your first instinct upon seeing bluetooth turned on against your will is to turn it off, but it won't turn off because the problem is that damn Android Auto keeps turning it back on and if you're not tech-savvy, you'll just think your gadgets are working against you and gave up when what you actually have to do is terminate the Android Auto app session.

>>137 Miss the ol' "bluetooth and no more" from oldies lol.

>>139 Not normal, but we can't actually tell since we're regulars who had been here since the thread was made and the thread before, so we're not one to say. But topics of discussions change according to the conversation flow anyway, so they shouldn't need to in the first place.

Also, people bond over inconveniences. Sometimes, people inconvenience us because that's the only method they could think of to get our attention without it feeling or sounding cheesy. At the end of the day, we are social creatures that cares about how we are being perceived and how we perceive others, and sometimes social ques are trickier to notice for some of us and for that reason we sometimes presume how people were up to no good when the problem is actually rooted in a much more trivial issues like anxiety or some sorts. Humans are vibe-based creature mostly, not logic-based and sometimes we forgot about it.

If you're unsure, you can just reciprocate their inconvenience with some trivial equally-inconvenient problems you can easily solve but deliberately chose not to (that they can also easily help) for the sake of our small litmus test to determine what their intention actually was.

>>143 (Keith) Maybe try subbing on the side on whatever you wind up doing. That's a good way to get familiar with multiple schools and for them to get familiar with you. That way when you apply for a teaching position you're not just a name on a piece of paper.

I was taking a piss and it was yellow, but in the toilet there are soap substances that creates bubbles when my piss hit the water. This results in the formation of bubbles that has soap in their structure which got iridescent properties visually on the water surface.

It is my headcanon now that (and I genuinely believe) the color contrast between the yellow piss and the iridescent rainbow bubbles are the source inspiration for the color design of gold SR and rainbow SSR of special cards in modern gacha games.

>>147 yeah, prolly. i can see it

>>141( Nyanko)
If the compass was invented by the Chinese in 2 B.C that means before then humanity had no sense of direction and spread outwards to lands unknown to cover the earth. The Chinese have always been isolationists meaning... that invention was also created and other regions at later dates until all of the ancient world had access to that form of technology.
I understand that both of us will not agree but I stand by my statement, West is a modern concept. I understand how others can hold a different position. I welcome it as a relief, people are thinking/ listening and not just blindly agreeing, that takes intellect.

My belief in people is diminishing but places like this help to slow the degradation...i guess.

>>149 (Don) Recognizes that the compass is over 2000 years old. Still refuses to accept that West is not a modern concept. Also uses AI. Not the brightest bulb I see.

>>125 >>136
Okay, so I finished GDC and my gods what a ride. That show was wild. They really captured the spirit of the books (excluding the gay rip, but they did try really hard). I have a number of critiques, but I will say before I get into them that upon finishing the series I had an insane urge to rewatch it all because of how thick of a show it is. I just really wanted to dive back in to get a feel for the nuances (if that makes sense).
But the critiques!
•One of the big things that bothered me was that the ghosts were just black smoky orbs. MXTX is incredibly graphic in her writing and will readily delve into body horror so it was a bit of a shame that we didn't get to see any of that on screen especially considering that the visuals of the ghosts are what makes Wei's powers truly demonic.
•Other critique is the fighting choreography. I'm not gonna say it was bad, I thought it was kinda pretty and very imaginative, but it was in no way actual fighting, it was more like dancing. The first half the choreography was a bit rough, but closer to the end it was really nice (I don't think they used stunt doubles is the reason why). But it was also a bit disappointing that a show about cultivators fighting didn't have any really amazing fighting choreography, it was just pretty dancing and sword swinging.
•I was also very annoyed that the goddamn trio never played together and it fucking hurt my soul. The moment I saw that they had Zewu Jun with a recorder? I immediately wanted him, Lan Zhan and Wei Wuxian to form a band. They only played together for literally a second. I had a moment of being so hyped that all three were finally gonna play together and then they just didn't. My disappointment was immeasurable.
•My last critique, is the ending. I'm so positive that this had something to do with the censorship rules they had to follow, but the last five minutes was just a strange collection of edits where Lan Zhan and Wei Wuxian kept saying they were going to go separate ways and then it would just cut to black screen and they would be doing something together, and then it would cut to black again and repeat. It was a very strange choice for them to have essentially the same conversation multiple times.

Those critiques aside I really enjoyed the show. I could tell that whoever was writing the scripts must have really loved the books because despite all of the things that had to be cut out or changed they still managed to keep the most important/iconic scenes in that really made the books special. I nearly died while watching Lan Zhan get drunk and steal a bunch of chickens for Wei Wuxian. XD
I rate the show a 4/5 stars, would highly recommend.

>>149 Dude people used the sun and stars for this shit since time immemorial bro. wtf do you mean directionless.

>>139 Probably not, since I didn't plan on joining the thread at first. People do silly things when they are bored.

I love karaoke. If you guys do karaoke what's your starting song? I always gotta start off with "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley.

>>127 You mean like, make a little retro (relatively speaking) homepage for Dollars stuff? That would be fun. Maybe we could also use Internet Archive’s webpage archiving service to make the links immortal.

>>152 Coldplay’s Viva la Vida. Mostly because there’s never a karaoke setup with the Minecraft “Fallen Kingdom” parody of it. Would much prefer that, it’s more epicerz.

>>151 My thought as well, just the sun though. I forgot the stars were there as well.

>>153 Sorta, I think.

uma rerolling going really badly...

>>146 (Nyanka)
Hmm. Could be a good way to get experience, but it also sounds like inconsistent work. Which I really need reliable, consistent income. And health insurance....
At least in Arizona, substitutes also have a different certification. I'm sure some school districts would probably accept a teaching certification in place of a substitute certification, but some may not.
The familiarity thing would be a better bonus if I planned on staying in this area, but the plan is still to move next summer. The only change in our plan is to start by renting for 2 years so that my sister and I have established jobs in the new city, so that the likelihood of being approved for an FHA loan increases.

Too much adult things to think about. But I shall survive. The path is bumpy, but I'll still get there.

>>155 Didn't even need to do that, the game was designed so delicately so that you can get top performance run without having the biblified meta cards.

>>157 yeah but i *want* that

>>158 Sick fuck, so you're the one who's been overloading the server the past few days.

Let's say, Earth creates a technology that makes life on Mars sustainable/ viable. Also, that Mars develops the capacity for trade and has the capacity for self-governance.
When Mars becomes a planet that can sustain life, with or without the support of Earth, how long do you believe it will take before the first war in announced? will it be a civil war on Mars? or an Interplanetary system war?

I'd like to believe that it will be a civil war, but my mind is pulling me in the direction of an interplanetary conflict. It may not even be a Mars vs Earth situation. I could imagine a China vs Usa for like the mining rights of a particular section of Mars that is mineral rich in rare minerals. CNN coverage of Space gun battles (conventional weapons or rail guns?), the Un coming together for a fake resolution that goes nowhere, back room deals that ultimately get immortalized via purposefully false motion pictures after the fact. Misinformation ... you think it's bad now, it only gets worse over time. Females being most affected, as men contemplate leaving to fight on a new frontier, new wild west. Shit sounds awesome, then I remember.... I won't get any of this in my lifetime. At least I could buy the rail gun, I guess....

>>159 rerolled to lb2, farmed pulls, pulled until spark, got lb3 on the way, sparked mlb. feel like a king

>>160 the logistics of it would make it just "whoever can bomb the other first"

I am absolutely obsessed right now with this novel I just read. Thinking about getting into bookbinding just to have a physical copy of it. The novel hasn't even finished yet and printing some of the formatting will definitely be hell.

>>163
>virtual analog control
>closes video
I would never do that, I embraced powerpoint as a medium to create games with all its setbacks. Putting player's controller on the screen instead of their physical hand counts as a compromise, and I wouldn't have that ever. This is why I started to hate maze games that plagued powerpoint game-making landscape in the first place, it limits player movement in such a way that infuriates them (I still work on my own version of that and am trying as much as I could to work around that inherent flaw, forever trying to cross the infinite wall of setbacks it is a part of).

I admire the effort of link-chaining such monstrosity, but the labor cost is greater than the enrichment it adds to the game as a whole.

>>164
DAMN A GAME ON POWERPOINT SOUNDS EPIC I had a classmate who used to make epic dynamic ppts on power point that itself felt like it needed a lot of work but a game it sounds really hard I wish u all the best

>>165 just another tuesday for me lol, you can find my work on here

Does anyone here had any strong opinions about whether Cleopatra was suicidal or got poisoned?

So productive today! ᕙ( • u • )ᕗ
I mowed my lawn, brushed my cats out, cleaned my house, started my laundry, and am currently baking a cake. It's my first day off all week and I figured that if I did all my chores today I can be a guilt free potato tomorrow.
I also cancelled my Netflix yesterday so now I'm going to have more free time for creative pursuits. And speaking of...

I finally got around to watching Sweet Home s3 which was really good (4/5 stars). I liked the ending even though I wish they had spent more time on it and also I wish more characters from s1 had survived to the end. They seriously trimmed back the og cast to a measly handful and replaced them with a random assortment of other characters that I really gave zero fucks about. The ending definitely would have hit harder if more of the originals had been there. Other than that I really enjoyed the story and the monster designs were really cool.
I also watched Heartstopper s3 which was okay. Admittedly I've read all the current comics so there wasn't anything new to entertain me, but seeing it on screen was still fun and the lead actors are both fantastic and know how to draw the viewers into a scene. I rate it 3.5/5 stars. I've heard that there's going to be a movie to finish off the show so I'm excited for that as well. I wonder if It'll come out before Alice (the author) finishes publishing the comic. I know she's on the last leg of it, but the timing seems to be pretty close.
The last part of the Sandman series also dropped and that was really good. That show was delightful from start to finish I would definitely recommend that one as well, 4/5 stars from me. They wrapped up a lot of story lines while also leaving the story off in a place where they can easily add more episodes if the upper execs ever get over the Gaiman scandal. I wouldn't be mad in the least if more episodes dropped, especially if they followed supporting characters like the last one did.
Okay, last show I watched (and didn't finish in time) was Fairly Odd Parents: A New Wish. I was very curious about this show and also intrigued by a grown up Poof/Peri. Admittedly I didn't like the art style and I thought the show catered a bit too much to a younger audience, but other than that it was a fun show to watch. I give it a 3.5/5 stars.

went to a mate's place for alcohol and party games
i just sat on the sofa and fell asleep after like 2 drinks lmfao
only thing i woke up for was the 2am mcdonalds run

Really liking one of the lyrics from Umamusume's S2 insert song where it translates to "Even if its not our ideal dream, lets give form to our wishes"

Not only does it romanticize the idea of chasing dreams, but it also acknowledges the harsh reality that sometimes we gotta keep sailing on with our own barely afloat makeshift raft to reach for the promised land.

So that's what currently keeps me going, one more day at a time.

>>169 I remember seeing a video of Umamusume in the background cause i was looking for this song and it was on an amv of it or something.

she uma on my musume

dokidokidokidokidokidoki kimi no yaiba ga

>>170>>171>>172
https://x.com/stealthecolours/status/1940537217451168194

I just so happen to remember a few years ago a girl I was quite close to at the time told me she was locked out of her dorm since it was already late at night when we were done with our activities and I did not remember whether this information of hers was disclosed to any of her girl friends at the time so that at least she could crash in somewhere for the night, but now I feel like she was onto me and I might've fumbled big time since it happened multiple times throughout the time we were acquaintanced.

>>174 Maybe, it sounds like a fumble, the world will never know..

The apathy problem of modern society is problematic and emblematic of the distortions of value due to misrepresentations, misinformation, and distraction. Some of us however feel an overwhelming sense of responsibility, passion, and devotion. Pain reminds us we are alive, and joy makes us forget the hardships of being. Life is filled with infinite possibility and a myriad of color. What color do you allow to color your prospective? Red can signify jealousy, envy, passion, or a sight vexation of the spirit due to irritation. Love has been associated with the color red for millennia. Love has the capacity to encapsulate all emotion, and it is an inescapable part of living.

Great luck on this journey you call life, may it be great to you and your progeny.

>>174 "hey i need somewhere to sleep can i go to your place?"

bro

yknow what its prolly 50 50

>>175 thank you for the lyrical support, dawg.

>>176 her asking for it blatantly would seem desperate, so I sort of get where she's coming from. But I'm not gonna risk myself being painted as a creep for offering a women to sleep in my house that I own all by myself either.

Really, my takeaway from all this, sometimes you just gotta go for it, literally risk it, and if they responded negatively then that's that. Just gotta keep that in mind for next time, being human is verily tricky.

Today I woke up not to my alarm song, but to a spotify ad because I dont have premium. Its so annoying it forced me out of bed, maybe this is the solution that I've been looking for.

>>178 (Hype) Bruh, just download your music.
I've got an old laptop that I use to download yt->mp3 files and then I just airdrop the mp3s from my old laptop to my current one. I can add the files to my iTunes and to my ytmusic and it'll all be ad free.
I feel like in this age of streaming, downloading and torrenting (and even pirating tbh) are all becoming a lost art.

>>179 (nyan) nonono, I was actually helped by the ads. They're so annoying I actually woke up.

I did start downloading short videos and long videos in bulk to my phone though, perhaps I could stop sinking time on Youtube videos while scrolling the timeline and comments, simply focus to the video with no distractions. My collection currently sits on 10.4GB, 300-ish short videos and 100-ish long videos, 480p to compensate with storage, and for old times sake. Also downloaded their subtitles/close captions, so I can watch them while muted if needs be.

For daily music, I use modded YT Music, so no ads even without premium, I did get premium eitherway with my friends, just for the download feature though, and because they're my friends.

I forget that the entities like to show up more when I'm alone late at night
Not that I'm upset
I don't think I would have finished my spaghetti if one of them didn't keep pointing at it and vanishing every 10 minutes or so
And someone keeps messing with my wings

Random foundings, when you had the urge to pee, that's the warmness of the pee that you're sensing. For males, if they put warm enough water on their dick, there will be 'urge to pee' signal being sent to the brain, even if the bladder is empty.

Started my position as a para for 8th grade today. The students thought I was a new student..... 😭 I'm twice their age, noooo

>>183 (KT) What's para?

Also goated eternal youth Keith, that's epic.

>>184 (Hypela)
Short for paraprofessional. Basically like a teacher assistant. I go in the classrooms and help the students with their assignments and with supplemental learning. I'm specifically a resource para, so I work with the special education students who have IEPs and make sure that they are getting the accommodations that they need and have things explained to them in a way that they can understand. I do often try to help the gen ed students when I'm in the classroom as well! I just have to prioritize the special ed kids cause they're the ones I'm there for.

>>183 💀 no way youre that short/theyre that tall

>>186 Its because Keith looked young asf, dont you check the stalker thread.

>>186 >>187
I fear it's a combo of being short and looking young. I'm 5'2 (~158 cm).

^But you have facial hair?
Unless you're working in an hs instead of a jh/ms.


I've been binging the Chinese bl drama Guardian. I talked about reading the books on here a while back (if any of you remember me being confused about Chinese mythology it was that book series)... The show was strange. For starters they changed the genre from fantasy to sci-fi. Yes, instead of being magical beings and ancient deities, they are aliens. That was definitely a choice. The special effects were also kinda bad, like specifically the cgi monsters were awful. I did enjoy the actors though, I thought they did a really god job and they really brought the characters to life. I also am surprised about how much romance was portrayed between the two characters. It was still heavily censored, but the two were still pretty handsy with each other and often emotionally vulnerable around each other in a way that left no doubts about their relationship. I think in the end I rate it 3/5 stars, the books were way better and I don't think I even gave the books a much higher rating.

As an aside I realized after reading a few yt comments why I've been enjoying Chinese bl dramas so much. Cause (even though unintentional) the censorship on the bl essentially creates a romance that is asexual which I just really happen to enjoy. I honestly wish most romances were portrayed like this, but in the US of course the media industry lives and dies by the motto 'sex sells' (despite current political dramas). One day the aces will reign.

>>188 doomed

>>187 not really

The new cars lights are too bright when you walk in the night. The led lights on modern cars shine so brightly, you can notice this effect when you buy sunglasses and wear them while doing a night walk. Its funny, you will know the different years by how the light are displayed, the older cars lights will be the same color as the sunglasses, even when brighter. The newer cars led lights will pierce the color of your sunglasses and show bright white. Even more expensive car lights will be so bright that the lights can hurt your sight even if you are wearing sunglasses. It's so wild, that such a person would blind everyone who happens to walk by, because they are afraid of the city.

City darkness and country darkness are not the same. City darkness is a joke, and it hard to take it seriously.

>>189 (Nyanka)
That's exactly what my friends were saying! But I guess there are some early bloomers in middle school (which is where I am indeed working at). I fear for when I start working at a high school.

Also, to kinda add on to your Chinese BL topic. I do really enjoy when a relationship is focused on the romance aspects and not the sexual ones. It's far more endearing to me and more likely to make me actually invested in their relationship. If I really wanted the sex lives of a certain relationship, I'll just hop on AO3 where I can filter shit. I'm veryyy picky about erotica. But romance tropes? I'll eat so much of that up any day. I'm a sucker for all that sappy stuff.

Its about to be a very messy next few weeks.

Most people don't just fall asleep out of nowhere if they're stationary for too long... right? Like. That's not a normal thing, I think.

>>194 Unless they're very tired, no.

I do can sleep anywhere in any condition if I'm tired enough, though. Just close eye for a bit, and in a minute or two, the body takes over and consciousness disappeared.

aaaaaaaaaa finally managed to buy that sewing machine

>>194 (Keith) Depends on how tired tbh. I've defs fallen asleep while watching YouTube videos and Twitch streams. Like laptop sitting in my lap, one second conscious and watching a video, and next thing thirty minutes have passed or whatever.
>>193 (Hype) ?
>>196 (Pie) What are you sewing?

I drove to the beach yesterday. I drove 18 hours in total to get there and get back home. 10/10 would not recommend lol.
It was only after I was about 4 hours away from being home again that I realized that I was literally going to be arriving home around the same time I left. In other words I didn't sleep for a full 24 hours cause I was driving for so long.

>>197 (nyan) new year is about to start and there will be sophomores that we need to perform for. Preparation will be, as usual, taking most of the time and resources out of my brain every second of the way. Get me out of this purgatory, I miss my powerpoint.

Also the grind for the beach vibe serotonin is insane.

>>198 (Hype) The extreme serotonin boost I got was wild though tbh. I rode that high all the way home. Like just seeing blue sky nearly made me cry in happiness. And then I found some pretty seashells on the beach and I ate a popsicle which just sent me over the moon.
Also back to school season is gross lol.

>>197 idk i'll get started on some small stuff before working my way up to useful shit

i really want to make my own plushies and cushions

>>195 >>197 (Hypela & Nyanka)
It happens to me regardless of how tired (or not tired) I am. On a nearly daily basis. Maybe it's that frequency that truly makes it abnormal. But I can be perfectly awake and alert and go to cuddle with Dirt because she demands cuddles, and then suddenly I'm waking up. (Most common case of this is due to cuddle time). It also commonly occurs when playing games online with my siblings or watching YouTube.
But last week, I was at work doing some mandatory training videos and I kept dozing off, even though I was actively trying to focus. Wasn't even feeling tired!
I used to think this was due to me feeling tired all the damn time. But a year using CPAP has at least allowed me to feel awake! And yet... the falling asleep out of nowhere still happens.

Now that I have health insurance again, I'm gonna bring this up with my doctor and see if I can get another sleep study done, cause last time, I was only tested for sleep apnea.

Lack of iron and lack of hydration will defiantly keep you tired. My ex-gf went to a clinic, just to be told she was not drinking enough water. Lack of iron would have me feeling so tired, it was terrible. I recommend 3 vitamins... sea moss, potassium and iron. Potassium and iron are super cheap, but sea moss cost more compared to the other two.

>>202 (Don)
I've had my vitamins tested multiple times. The only one I was deficient in was vitamin D, which is very common here since nobody wants to go outside when it's over 100° F for a third of the year. I've been able to consistently have it in a normal range after taking more supplements and going out more. And as for hydration.. I do at least 104 oz a day, but I often drink around 128 oz. Gots to drink tons of water in the desert. I'm not even a very active person - it's just hot as hell here. I also add electrolytes to my water, just to give it that boost.
We've also tried increasing my testosterone levels and for about a year, antidepressants (which I've been off of for a while since they made little difference).

I do have sleep apnea, and the CPAP therapy has made a huge difference in my overall energy levels. But those sudden spells of falling asleep still happen. It's quite possible that I have narcolepsy, especially since it seems like around a quarter of those with narcolepsy also have sleep apnea. I've never been tested for it, so as soon as I'm able to, I'm bringing it up with my doctor.

>>203( Epic Keith)
Respect, It's great to hear that a man such as yourself treats his health with such care and consideration. Physical, Mental/Emotional, and Spiritual aspects of an individual are worthy of consideration because all systems are interconnected. When you arrive at the truth, please let us know, such things are important and may aid others who also are in the same situation. The only other thing that comes to my mind is adequate rest, but it's so obvious that you are not neglecting yourself. I only mention it because men in general have a tendency to forgo it for monetary gain, myself included.

It's always such a vibe when you walk into your kitchen and it just smells like good food cooking.

I see. It appears that I am the only one who uses my kitchen for cooking. Everybody just eats takeout and cold leftovers. Truly a sad and depressing life.

Ahhh I wanna write my story and finish the book I borrowed(academic) but I also want to take it slow and enjoy life it's hard to balance both. Sighhh

I've been listening to the new Starset "album" on repeat. (I say "album" since it was intended to be an EP, but Dustin gave into pressure and extended it to be an album instead.)

Most of the songs on it were already released as singles, 2 of which were covers, so there wasn't a whole lot of new stuff. 2 new songs and 6 interludes.
It definitely is different. But the 2 new songs are great! And the interludes are beautifully crafted and really add to the flow between songs (plus, "at his alter" brings MNQN into Starset for the first time, which had me hyped).

I do like the interludes being their own songs. There are many Starset songs that have really long instrumental outros, and while they add a lot the the overall album experience when listened to in order, it can be a bit of an annoyance when listening to a song on its own. Like, my still favorite song, Waking Up, has an outro that adds to the lore, but when just listening to the song by itself... it's a bit startling because of how gentle the rest of the song is.
So SILOS having those outros as stand-alone interludes gives the best of both worlds with the songs. It gives the cohesive album flow and cinematic experience Starset is best at, while also makes the songs better when listening outside of the album.

I also find it interesting that the HEAD OVER HEELS and SHATTERED DREAMS covers were included in the base album, whereas other albums only included covers in the extended version. I wonder if that was part of the extension from EP to album - to add more songs to it without rushing new ones. At least Starset is great at making covers really feel like their own, so it isn't jarring or anything. Just an interesting observation.

Overall, I really enjoy it, even though it wasn't a really exciting release due to the vast number of singles that were already released prior. I think my top 3 would be DARK THINGS, BRAVE NEW WORLD, and SWAY, with TOKSIK as an honorable mention.

manga is my blood

Anime is my heart

I had taken Nyanka's words about replacing old habits with new habits and took it upon myself to lock my phone to just Whatsapp and it will always redirect me back to it if I opened anything else within 30-45 seconds interval.

So I've been taking books and notes wherever I went to entertain myself, I think I'm gonna subscribe for a weekly newspaper as well soon. Computer-based entertainments will be strictly allowed only on actual computer desktops and not lobotomized computers such as smartphones.

Will update accordingly.

Fanfiction is my soul

Hey, guys. Everyone been doing well?

>>213 Sort of, I guess.

>>213 (Doremo) Currently dying of heat.

>>214 (Hype) Going through withdrawal?

>>215 (Nyanka) Not just yet, I'm doing pretty alright if I had to say so myself.

There are lots of upheavals happening in the committee, headache for the newly appointed chief, but setting that aside, veterans are pretty calm about it. Probably the calmest we've ever been, its about to be our 3rd year after all, so we've been through pretty much every single thing possible, I think. Unless something catasthropic like another lockdown suddenly comes around, I think we're gonna be okay.

Here's to hoping.

>>215 That sucks, I do poorly in the heat myself. Hope you survived.

>>214 Hope that "Sort of" tips to "Yeah, pretty good" soon.

>>217 hope you’re doing good as well

I’ve noticed I’ve never really gotten any democratic ads on YouTube. Closest was Bernie and Biden asking for donations. Everything else is trump ads, prageru ads before, and prop elections favoring with the republican side

>>218 (Boop) 1. YT is meh. 2. Ad blockers my guy. 3. The rich can afford more advertisement space.

I need to watch Knights of Guinevere, only the pilot is up yet though so I also kinda wanna wait before I start.

I read all of Kaleidoscope of Death last week and it was very scary. I was very keen on getting a head start on the spooky season and read some horror novels and since this one is a bl it was right up my alley. I think the slender man arch was the creepiest for me, but maybe that's because I read that part in the dark. I was also hopeful there would be a callout to that one story about the girl who stabbed her friends at a sleepover cause she was afraid slender man would kill her if she didn't, but the author never brought it up which was a shame. The second creepiest was the Lady in the Rain arch, even looking at that painting irl gave me the heebie jeebies. Definitely a 5/5 series would recommend.
I'm watching the live action adapt of it and it's pretty good too. It's a shame we never get to see the main characters cross dress though. In the books it was very funny when they went around pretending to be women so people would let their guard down around them. In the live action at least we got to see a picture of one of them as a girl and there was a good minute of everyone talking about it lol which was definitely more than what I was expecting. I'm only about half way through the series rn so I'll withhold my final opinion until I get to the end.

Hey guys, there's a new drrr like that available.
https://duranu.net/
Password: baccano

Guy can't catch a break istg

First time in 3 years that we got mostly extroverted recruits, god damn they're so tiring to deal with. But future is gonna be so secured if these little fellas are to become the next gens, but good lord help us, we can do nothing but watch as they make themselves comfortable getting to know each other and using our cooking itineraries to prepare for dinner together under sparkling night skies.

Did some va work for a game some time ago and got a message to audition for a new game they're working on, but... I don't know. I know I should, but my mood's been all over the place lately, I've had a lack of motivation for anything and honestly, I feel like the work I turned in before was kind of shitty.

I recently picked up McGraw-Hill's "75 Readings - An Anthology" from my campus library and found some very interesting readings in it, one of the first passages that I read was this one which I found a copy online some ages ago.

Suzanne Britt's "Neat People VS Sloppy People" (1983)

>>223 (Doremo) Well, even if you thought you did a poor job, clearly the people who hired you didn't think so or else they wouldn't invite you to work with them again. If you criticize yourself too much you'll find fault with anything and everything. Just do your best and don't stress too much.

>>224 (Hype) Feel free to add a tldr. :)

>>219 I finally finished Spirealm this morning and honestly the ending was a bit lackluster for me. I think if I hadn't read the books first I wouldn't have such a disappointment in it cause subjectively it wasn't a bad ending, it's just compared to the intensity that the books had it really lacked teeth.
Even Quianli's death... it wasn't even shown in the books, the reader only gets to experience the final moment, but it was still a harsh moment to experience. In the series though, which built up to the moment across multiple episodes, it felt so weak and was very poor writing once it actually happened.
And then there's Ruan's plot twist. Even in the book the author kinda threw it in as an afterthought, like btw this person isn't human. But the real twist was that Ruan didn't know he was human until the end either which made the discovery more dramatic. In the series it was pointed out early and Ruan already knew the entire time which made it confusing as to why he didn't tell anybody sooner? Why wasn't he giving this information to Lingling from the getgo to help him fix the doors?
On top of all that the series just wasn't even remotely scary, it wasn't even particularly gory. The books were a bloodbath and some of the chapters seriously had me spooked. The series couldn't even muster up a few cheap jump scares to scare the audience. In the end I'd give the series a 3.5/5 stars. I'm sure people going into it blind would enjoy it, but having the read the books I can only be disappointed.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa that sewing machine

>>225 Its quite a short read, just take your time. Should take no longer than 10 minutes.

But its basically about how people that are cluttery and messy put too much thought into every single thing that none of their business ever gets done because they keep piling on stuff that they 'will address later', while the neat and tidy people don't want to think too much over little stuff and it allows them to not have the urge to hoard items like the messy people did.

>>226 (Pie) Did you break a needle or did you forget to lower the peddle down? lmao
>>227 (Hype) Interesting.

Moving on from Kaleidoscope of Death and onto another horror bl, I'm now watching Khemjira which has been a whole event. It's still airing so as usual I'll withhold my final opinions, but jfc ep8 (which dropped today) has my emotions going all over the place. We finally got the steamy sex scene, but also fucking horror shenanigans and a cliffhanger to boot, I really cannot deal with. Now I have to wait a whole week to know what happens next! T^T
I'll definitely have to read the books at some point now, but I kinda want to wait until after I finish watching the series.

>>228 i mean its second hand so its just not working very well in the first place

maybe its time to resell on facebook marketplace and buy a new one even if its way more expensive

The masculine urge to film myself spinning nunchucks

Would love to watch the new Chainsaw Man movie in the cinema, I wonder if they'll still be up airing by the time I get my monthly allowance sometime next week.

>>225 I know you're right, unfortunately I have a tendency to get in my own head about these things.

Recently read Mist born after hearing such glowing reviews, but I was kind of disappointed. I don't think it's bad, just kind of an average YA fantasy novel. There are good moments, a neat power system and fights can get pretty anime in a fun way, but a lot of it is just general YA fantasy tropes. Maybe my expectations were too high, or I just aged out of the genre. Not sure if I'll contine to the second book.

Kill yourselves.

>>233 (Lazy)

Ugh, why is Keng Harit's voice so freaking pretty?! I could seriously listen to him singing all day. His new song Mantra is so good, I really need someone to drop the English phonetic lyrics so I can sing along.

aight im just gonna buy a brand new sewing machine instead of trying to find out what's wrong with this one

Lately been reading random books, stoic mastery has been good to me but also finished a book on investments. I might not be the sharpest tool but everyday I approach the daily grindstones .. mostly physical/mental grinding .. for a brighter tomorrow and a better world for the people I cherish.

I lost the 75 anthology essay book, fuck.

Such a vast range of interesting readings too, brought it everywhere I go, even the toilet. Now gone, and I'd have to pay the library for the lost fee.

[LINK]

My last read from the cool book, "an essay on being a cripple" the indomitable human spirit to persevere living in spite of the pain and sorrow and loss, laughing at them even. 1986.

Watched most of DMD's SportsDay live stream. That video is seriously 9.5 hours long. I can't imagine working that event, having to do sports and stuff and then close off with a concert. That's wild. The Thai really be out here going the extra mile.

Found the book, paid just the late return fee instead. Phew.

>>241 lmao grats

>>241 I understand, did the same thing once.. by mistake of course.. felt like... Man.. technically I already paid for it... It's mine now

>>243 I mean, if you already paid for the fine of losing it, you technically no longer have any obligations to return it no?

I missed today's breakfast by 13 hours and still counting up, why am I like this.

Goddess Bless you from Death dropped a new trailer the other day and it looks properly scary. And they're dropping the pilot on Halloween which I think is super cool.
I'm so glad that production companies are realizing that slice of life BLs are seriously old news, like they're fine if you want to watch a little bit of fluff, but I think most people like to have more variety than that tbh. I fully believe that the reason The Untamed and Heaven Official's Blessing are so popular is because they're also fantasy genre. Trying to find a non-SoL BL before those two was like trying to find a needle in a haystack.

>>244 (Hype) Don't starve. Go eat a snack or something.

I crave the warm white sand of a calm beach, I crave staring onto grassy plains under a huge tree swept by a cool breeze, and not having to think about troubling thoughts.

I think, should paradise exists, it would not be a place where all our wants are fulfilled, but it will be a place where we are transfixed in a state of perpetual fulfilledness.

pee your plants

Meet a guy with a laughter that can only be described as cartoonishly villainous. He reminded me of another guy who literally had the laughter of a child, it floored me when I heard it. I remember it to this day, how child-like and how innocent this grown mans laughter sounded to me at the time. His laughter made me realize how much laughter was missing in my life at the time, and it has such a pureness to it, it was amazingly embarrassingly,loud and hearty. Forgot the dudes name.... I refuse to forget his laugh.

I remember now.. his name was Tim, a rando dude I worked with for a very short duration. Also one more.... A girl named Faith had such a forced, fake laugh.. it always made me laugh for real... Just hearing her laugh.. These events all happened years apart, yet they all connect to the emotions of a person.. when you hear them laugh.

I rebooted the WCG thread ten fucking years ago...

>>249 thats a long ass time ago

feeling pretty good today

>>251 your joy offends me, im miserable asf shdick

Oh btw, I watched Reze on cinema back in 3rd october the other day. Kept the ticket behind my phone casing still until now, just me on my own. Pretty significant in that I got time for myself to enjoy on my own, though. So that's nice.

I hope they did a rerun for Look Back someday.

>>252 fuck you my hot water tank broke now im fucking pissed

>>254 I manifest my dark energy onto your hot water tank, now kneel and pray for your safety, lest you get bird poo projectiled.

>>255 (Hype) ggwp
>>254 (Pie) Rip.
>>249 (Splor) Time flies when the world is burning down.

I really took a nap expecting to wake up only an hour or two later. It was four hours instead. Welp, I was going to make bread and eat dinner, but too late now. I guess I'll have an early breakfast tomorrow instead.

>>255 1) it magically fixed itself this morning. 2) last Saturday a bird shit on my mailbox.

>>257 I didn't know they (dark energy) got temporary effects and jumping around behavior like that, guess you learn something new everyday, even about yourself..

I've really deep dived into the Thai BL world. I've spent hours just watching vids on the couples' mascot children.
Avocean walking past Jimmy and Sea while he's wedged into a chair now lives in my head rent free.

I went a bit more than a month without my T injections (insurance issues) so my testosterone levels are all wack rn and good lord.... the energy decline is incredibly noticeable. I've been needing a nap after work everyday lately when usually I might need one maybe once in a week.
Hormonal imbalances sure affect a lot, huh?

>>260 Yeah, that sounds interesting, having to do the T injections as a result of getting older? Most men I believe would benefit from that later in life, however some might feel emasculated, who can say, Idk.

I have noticed a cat with one leg that is all white. Noticed when I walk, somehow me and stray cats end up in the same place. Noticed an all white dog walked at twilight. Just had a Well cared for Dog just pass me at 4:33 am. This had me realize, the more I'm not thinking of people, the more animals and nature have been sticking in my mind.

^ Jfc, I don't know whether to laugh or cry! If Keith's an old man, does that make me geriatric? ◟(˃᷄ꇴ˂᷅)༡

>>259 Have so far watched:
The Heart Killers 4.5/5
Something in my Room 3.5/5
He's Coming to Me 3.5/5
Moonlight Chicken 4/5
My Magic Prophecy 3.5/5
Also am watching Khemjira and Revamp, but they're still airing so I'll wait to give my final thoughts until the finales.

>>262 bro im 25 now. so like... yeah sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

con this weekend. hyped.

>>262 (Nyanka)
Seeing as I'm only 26... lmao
I think this is just a case of a newer member Not Knowing about me.

>>261 (Don)
You see. I require the T injections as my body does not naturally produce much testosterone due to me not having testicles.

>>264(EpicKeith)

That's understandable

Woke up sore after trying the same workouts but with a high weight, my body hurts but that's part of the lifestyle of constantly working out. It's a pain/pleasure/pain rinse repeat type life.

cons are fun

>>262
Khemjira 4.5/5, if it had been scarier I would've given it full marks, but alas the horror plot took an adventure and got lost until the very end.
Revamp 3.5/5, a lot of ups and downs with this show, in the end I did like it, but I wish the tone had been more consistent, it really jumped between romcom, drama, action, fantasy and it was kinda all over the place. If there's really going to be a sequel/spinoff like the ending hinted at though I would defs watch it.

>>264 (Keith) Yeah, but like pics are on the Face thread and your age is posted in the Age thread, so what you look like is no secret and still you get called old lmao. Don's out here throwing shade. XD

bibibibibibi

>>266 ME WHEN I DIDNT STUDY FOR MY EXAM TODAY

>>269 oomph

While driving at night there were a bunch of cars parked to the side of the road with people flashing flashlights down the road. I slowed down because I thought they needed help but they freaked me out when 2 guys ran in the middle of the road towards me making me speed away from them. I feel bad like I shouldn’t be so paranoid and probably should’ve heard them out at least.

>>270 (Boop) Nah man, people be psychos. Defs a keep driving moment.

The only bad thing about listening to dance pop is that I want to learn the dance moves, but then I remember that I don't know how to dance, am uncoordinated, and have 0 athleticism.

>>271 At least it gets you moving around, even without the choreography. That gotta count as a few points for physical exercise right?

Heart is longing for comfort that can no longer be.

I will never not be mad that even Flashpoint doesn’t have Free Rider 2. It says it does, but it has the inferior version that was distributed to sites that weren’t the creator’s. The Track Mill version had a scooter and wheelchair (and some third vehicle I’m forgetting?) that other versions weren’t allowed to have. Making auto tracks with the scooter was the only reason I played Free Rider 2, and I would play it for hours with I Am All Of Me blaring in my ears.

>>273 why not report it to their discord?¡

>>271 (Nyanka)
It's fun to just dance though, even if badly. You gotta get silly with it! I'm shit with dancing, but I very often do little grooves just cause it's fun to :]

>>274 I did years ago. No one cared.

>>276 (Name) The story of life.

>>275
I'm kind of similar with singing, I was always way too anxious to before but after moving out its been really fun to use my voice more.

just dont think about how bad you are

Happy halloween. o/

How's everyone celebrating this spooky day?
I'm going as a very gothic vampire. Still trick-or-treating at my age, because a few houses my neighborhood gives out jello shots to those of age instead of candy (with ID, of course) 🤩 I also just enjoy walking around and looking at the decorations and seeing everyone in their costumes. It's still lots of fun to me :]

>>279
I do my best lol

>>281
I ended I just passing out after lunch and didnt wake up till really late so I guess I'm spending the night in, got plenty of skittles tho so it's cozy

>>281 wennt out to sing karaoke for 3hr

The tiny hairs after a haircut are too annoying, showered twice and there’s still pieces still bits here and there. The hair splinters have scarred me.

>>281 watching some spooky scary movies

Dad was appointed wedding organizer for his senior's son quite a while ago, and attendees for the wedding received a box of 10 envelopes with a small paper inside, all are engraved to highlight the illustration on the papers. There are leftovers and they all go back to my dad as one of the organizers, and from him I received 4 boxes of those pretty envelopes and papers.

I want to save them for special occasion, but there are hardly any moment in modern times that warrants the importance of handwritten mails or messages that comes to mind.

So far, I have used one to write a small message to future me, threw them deep into my wardrobe and try to forget about it until godknowswhen. So uh, do recommend me some uses for the fancy blank letters.

>>285 (Hype) Christmas/New Years is around the corner if you celebrate. Send some nice letters to relatives and friends.

>>286 Not really no, unfortunately.

Maybe if my peers concluded a theatrical production some 6 months from now, I'll write some messages for them.

CAT CAFE CAT CAFE

I am writing this for the third time because I keep hitting reply before the captcha. ##### ########### ##### #### ########.

>>287 (pelpela) You could send a letter to an old penpal or to some family/friends/etc. It doesn't have to be on some special day or anything but it just might make someone's day feel a little more special.

>>289 Physical mail i heard is expensive though, so idk...

Recently watched the movie "9 Souls" from 2003 and I was left feeling empty, one of the my nicer evenings.

^ (Hype) Just throwing this out there, you can burn the paper tbh. And the obligation you feel about having to use them will be lifted.

^I fancy them tho

After pulling an all-nighter of absolutely no work, like a hikikomori quite literally just wasting away the night watching youtube and browsing the web sprinkled with a few hours of phone calls with friends, just before bed I can already see dim lights from the sky slowly sipping through my closed curtain. Not quite sunlight yet, just lights bouncing off the atmosphere, so its still dark, but not so dark anymore.

And I suddenly felt like the fitting conclusion to end the night is to watch Robert Webb reading Winnie The Pooh bedtime story and his lullaby singing off of Youtube I once used to watch on Disney Junior when I send off my little sister to sleep forever ago. That of which came completely out of nowhere, pure spontaneity of wanting to relive old times, at 4AM.

It was a good rest.

I think, my sense of self is broke, like, completely.

I go out at night, I come home late or even early in the morning, then i go rest asleep, and then most of the time i skip all duties in my daily schedules, then i woke up high afternoon, when i then collect my soul back to proper conscious state, then i got not enough time to tend to what is expected of me at home since i lived alone, so i just bid my time until i feel like moving or until im forced to go out to meet my coworkers of volunteer theatre group and work on what is coming up.

...was what i was gonna rant about, but then i thought i should try inputting them on chatgpt and so i did, and it gives me suggestions on how to tackle those problems. i think its fine to use llms in this manner, they're still tools at the end of the day and should be treated as such. its just that they've gotten clever at interpreting and tackling our problems, so its a net positive overall, i think.

Dirt is now at 10.6 pounds, 3 whole pounds down from her original weight! :D The vet wanted to get her between 9 and 10 pounds, but I think she's looking pretty good at this weight. I worry that losing another pound would make her too thin, cause she's a big girl.
She had wheezing before, and wasn't very active. But now I haven't heard wheezing in several weeks and she's running around and playing again. Along with night zoomies.... but as long as she's healthy, I can put up with those, lol. Clearly doing so much better!

Music is such a huge aspect of my life, it's hard to imagine life without it. It has such a perfect ability to reset the mind, to get it to a place that is essential for a more productive mindset, calm mindset, or any mindset I feel is necessary for a particular moment.

Predator Badlands is a good watch.

CAT CAFE CAT CAFE

Day 8 of Pieface being trapped in a cat cafe

Reading about TV shows that lasted for decades back in the 60s to 90s made me long for a timeless era, multiple generations that experiences roughly the same thing, same life, same obstacles, life seems better back then. There are structures, things around seem to be constant, never-changing, I wish our society would do better to work on our unstable foundations of culture.

Nepotism,Racism, Corruption cannot be eradicated, such things are apart of the human condition, why waste my time correcting something that has lasted millennia before written language even before spoken language? I tired of planned opposition, yet understand that such things are unavoidable in the world of manufactured consent. My tolerance for anything deemed a waste of my time is at an all time low.

Decide your Fate,

Don

didnt go to cat cafe this week :(

Shhh, we're trying to sleep. /ᐠ - ˕-マ｡˚ᶻ 𝗓

CAT CAFE CAT CAFE

It would be morbidly funny if pie suddenly couldn't post anymore and someone with a sick sense of humor just kept spamming cat cafe cat cafe under his name for years afterwards every week and nothing else.

>>305 ok that would be pretty funny

I woke up thinking... At least I'm not an inmate at the notorious Black Dolphin prison in Serbia.

Just realized my art thread is 10 years old. Jesus.

dont think about how old we are

Happy Birthday, everyone!

Did I mention that I started a new job? I quit the one I'd been working at for 8 years finally to get something that pays more. My shifts start at 4am though, it's not the worst, but it's still been an adjustment. The work is relatively easy though, I can see myself working there for a few years if they keep me on past the holiday season.

Also (continuing from >>262):
Perfect 10 Liners 3.8/5
Caged Again 3.5/5
Hidden Agenda 3.8/5
Jack&Joker 4/5
We Are 3.8/5
Love Mechanics 3.5/5
Pit Babe 3/5
Your Sky 4/5
And am currently watching Goddess Bless You From Death, only on ep4, but so far it's really really good. If the production quality stays consistent to the end it might wind up being a 5/5. I'm basically done with reading the book, I enjoyed it quite a bit despite the bad translations. I'm really excited to see how the show will expand on the story and characters.

Pie keeps talking about Cat Cafes but has yet to post pictures of Cat Cafe. My disappointment is immeasurable.

^yessss

Finally! The cats!

cat cafe good

The realization that I never made a playlist for songs I usually listen to, that I always return to my music player every time a song is about to end to pick what to listen to next, instead of queuing some songs that I would likely enjoy listening to and let the ball roll on its own, is probably a sign that I would never let other people do my bidding.

I'm so going to be such a lonely person later in life, aren't I. Most people aren't that micro-managy, are they?

>>318 (Firi) People definitely don't micromanage themselves to that extent. Like make a playlist with current tunes you enjoy and then hit shuffle. The surprise is what makes listening more entertaining.

Survived Thanksgiving and Black Friday (the bosses got pizza for the breakroom which was nice). For thanksgiving I made croissants from scratch, I used Paul Hollywood's recipe. It was pretty good, but I think there was too much butter tbh. While it was baking it was melting and pooling around the bottom of the pan. Next year I think I'll make them again with a few adjustments.

Also started watching Cherry Magic (Thailand ver) with my sis and we both think it's super cute and funny, we're about a third of the way through. And I started watching My School President by myself, half way through that one, it is also super cute and funny so far. I think next BL I watch will be a bit more action for a change of pace.

>>319 i dont even make a playlist i just let youtube do it for me

I cover myself under the blanket and convinced myself that time has stopped, I don't come out so I don't find the sky had gone dark from the window since the last time I saw it when I hide under the covers.

Something is being stated here, I just know it. I simply couldn't tell what exactly.

i really want calamari right about now

>>311
Continuing on with my bl nonsense:
My School President 4.5/5
KinnPorsche 3.8/5
ThamePo 5/5
Also: am almost done with Cherry Magic, but since I'm watching it with my sis we have to align schedules for it lol, but still really cute so far. We also started watching Takara's Treasure which is a Jp bl, only a couple episodes in and it's shaping up pretty nicely. Watched the first episode of Melody of Secrets and I'm real curious to see where the story goes with that one. And of course Goddess Bless you from Death is still absolutely killing it, at the halfway mark and I think everything is about to get real intense now that most of the world building/character introductions have been made and they can properly dig into the plot.

Happy birthday to me~
Another year closer to becoming a wizard.

>>325 happy bday to you

>>325
Happy birthday, Nyanka!!

>>325 born day happy happy!!!!

I own a stupid amount of paper.

>>329 Happy birthday, congrats on getting paper for your birthday

My teachers sound so defeated when talking about homework assignments because some students are using ai to answer. I kinda wonder if any of my work gets thought as ai because I usually write similarly to previous assignments.

Also a certain game swept the game awards this year, I feel like it was well earned

is 'stroke' the past tense of 'strike'?

>>331 No, stroke is NOT the past tense of strike ❌️

Struck is the past tense of strike ✅️

>>332 stroke is the noun form of strike

>>331 >>332 >>333 The clock struck 12 at the stroke of midnight and will strike again tomorrow.
But stroke also means to pet because English is weird.

>>330 (Boop)
The defeatedness is so real. The amount of times I see students using ChatGPT, especially when the answers to an assignment are taken directly from their notes..... sigh..
There's also been times while grading that I've suspected AI usage, but it's just... more effort than it's worth to do anything about it at the middle school level. I just take a couple points off and leave it at that.
AI is a real detriment in education. :/

^ I wonder if Asian countries have this same problem with AI being used by students. On one hand they are also leaders in AI development and I know it's popular over there just like it is here, but on the other hand Asian countries typically have a very strict education system.

:( 50 nzd for groceries and i was going super cheap. why are eggs so expensive

I have an exam tomorrow, wish me luck!

>>338 Great Luck on your exam

I think it's pretty cool you can just buy a book with the internal dialogue of a Roman emperor. However, sometimes I find myself both agreeing and disagreeing with the man on the same page, it a bizarre feeling. If I had publicly disagreed with the man in his time, I probably would face execution on the spot .. right? To know these men had the faults of common men gives the words of such men added weight. Just a random thought.

>>339 Thanks, Don :D

Holiday season is almost over~ (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

I just thought about how I'm always tired every end of the day, that I'd surrender to my tiredness in the parking lot of a minimarket or a gas station's rest area during my one-hour-ride trip to home from campus. I'd then continue driving home after like 2 or 3 hours of nap, when dawn arrives and the sun is already peeking out, and continued sleeping on the garage for another hour, before finally getting in the house and half-ass the bare minimum of chores I could muster, then continued sleeping thru the morning and noon, only regaining all my energy after late noon, almost evening, before I could start the day, usually until 2/3rd of the night, and then I would drive home for another hour and took a few naps during the trip.

And its only now that I connected the dots, the ubiquity of morning coffee routine depicted in modern entertainment media, might be the result of our inhumane work-rest balance.

>>342 All this to say, should I start drinking coffee first thing in the morning?

Which, while I think sounds like a grim prospect to living the current reality, I also think I need to do this if I want to stay functioning as society expected me to.

@Firi Coffee is never a necessity. Figuring out a sustainable work/sleep schedule is.
How many hours of sleep are you getting? In your actual bed, how many consecutive hours of sleep do you get? Even when living a nocturnal schedule your body should adjust and let you sleep during the day. If you're getting less than six hours (and that's the bare minimum you need) then you need to change something in your schedule. Even if you're sleeping long enough to finish a REM cycle you still need to be hitting at least 6 consecutive hours of sleep in a day cause that's just how brains work.
And taking multiple naps throughout the day isn't healthy. You're making your brain create an excess of melatonin. You should only take one nap a day and when you wake up you should do stretches/light exercises to help your blood flow. This will clear out the melatonin from your system and let you feel less groggy.

found an all you can eat place for 28 nzd that's fucking amazing

>>344 mmmm, might be difficult due to that one hour daily roundtrip. Will see what i can do.

>>345 insane.

Happy Holidays!

Happy holidays/new year and all that jazz. o/

I made some peanut butter cookies and peanut butter balls. They both turned out pretty good. I think next week I'll make a batch of fudge. I'm tempted to try and make bonbons, but I don't know if I want to mess around with candy molds.

After 2 years of workong for this company, I'm gonna quit this job. Working two jobs has just been... incredibly draining to me and I feel like it's starting to catch up with me. I've been trying to focus more on my health and I just don't have much time when I work daily. I need my weekends back. I'll just cut back on my budget.
It'll probably also give me more energy, which is very much needed when working with middle schoolers, lol
I'm working today, then I'm just gonna use my sick days and then leave.

>>323
I finished Cherry Magic a while ago and forgot to update about it. 4.5/5 stars from me. I really enjoyed it, more so than the Japan version. I thought the relationship was more well developed and Thai comedy just hits different than Japanese comedy tbh.
Also finished Star and Sky, a lovely JoongDunk that was a fun watch. The amount of fuckery from the side characters though, I have never. I rate it 3.5/5 stars.
And also watched My Golden Blood. This show really had me hooked. I enjoyed the plot and the acting was really good, but my goodness the sfx were atrocious. I will never complain about product placement ads in a show ever again if it means the show gets to have good sfx. Like Goddess Bless has two or three product placements per episode but the ghosts and props all look so good in that show. Final rating for My Golden Blood is 3.5/5 stars.

Also cause it's been a minute since I've complained about the weather. It was like 80°F (26°C) on Christmas and now tonight it's supposed to drop to below freezing temperatures and then go back up to the 50s(10s) in a couple days.
I need climate change to quit it.

Is it just me or are the chats in the “Drr Chat Lounge” just too inappropriate?? I mean, if you want to role play your kinkiest desires that your partner won’t do with you or you’re just hate yourself too much to actually find someone, but please, don’t do it in a place where minors could be present. Right?? I mean, you shouldn't have to put “no minors” in the room description right?? Or am I just crazy?

What a world we live in…

>>352 lmao what, i havent checked them in ages, is it really like that now?

>>352 Bro those sites are completely independent to us. I know we have links to the chatrooms, irc, and discords, but all of them are run by different admins, moderators, and are used by different groups of people. Nothing to do with our bbs whatsoever.
That is pretty wild though that a drrr chatroom is now being used for inapropro stuff.

>>354 "now"

as if it hasn't been a reality for over a decade

>>352>>353>>354>>355 drrr.com and durarara's relative obscurity can be faulted for that. Not being perceived by the general public allows them to getaway with those kinds of things.

Addressing the issue, it helps I guess when they allow users to label rooms as 18+. But morally, I think site owner should have the wisdom to comprehend the visitor's demographic age and enforce no nsfw policy. But meh, who am I to judge.

Then again, I don't visit english rooms on drrr.com. Too many freaks on internationals, I'm a nationalist there simply to avoid english speaking morons. Also due to said obscurity, the population that speaks my language is really small in the site so pretty much everyone from my country knew each other since they use consistent names. It feels like a cool little club, that still has morons of course, but just tolerable I guess since we all jumped on them every now and then and make running jokes about mocking them.

Its sort of like BBS RTT, except livechat imo. I wish more people could experience something like it, or this thread chain. Feels homey to have something like this.

A bit late but happy new year. Hope 2026 will be better than last.
Coming to terms that pretty much all cereal is bad for you
>>349 good luck on the job hunt after

>>357 (Boop) Well, corn flakes aren't terrible for you. Any cereals made without sugar are decent. The reality is that cereal should honestly be treated as a dessert food, not as a breakfast item.
It's actually kind of weird the number of "breakfast foods" that are actually just snacks or desserts. Like a pop tart is clearly not breakfast. Food propaganda be wilding out here.

Also Happy New Year! We're coming into the year of the horse. o/

Happy New Year, May peace become a friend to you, in this modern life filled with concepts designed to steal it.

For this new semester at school, I'm gonna be wearing a fanny pack full of sharpened pencils. There will be no excuses now.* Don't have a pencil? Well, now you do. Yippee!

*Does not fix the issue of when they don't have a charger and their Chromebook dies, but hey, at least we can usually give them a paper copy for most assignments.

>>356 But Firi... if you avoid English-speaking morons... how will you talk to me????

>>358 The utterly meaningless phrase "part of a complete breakfast" comes to mind, lol.

>>360 Perhaps bring a portable charging block in your back and setup a portable Chromebook charging station that straps onto your back? Food for thunk... :bigthunk:

HAPPY NEW YEArR WOLOLOLOLOLOLO

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>>361 You're not a moron, thats why.

So my favorite T-pop group is by far Lykn. I have a good chunk of their music that I listen to and I enjoy watching their non-music content as well.
Now recently I also started listening to a K-pop group (the first and only K-pop music I've listened to casually) called &Team and I find out that they are also a group of werewolves like Lykn.
Is this just a common thing that I have missed?? Do idol groups often have supernatural lore surrounding them? Or did I just lock in on these two by complete chance?
And I want the two of them to collab. At the very least Lykn should definitely cover one of their songs. &Team's music frequently delves into their werewolf lore whereas Lykn mostly just sings love songs. Lykn should have some more wolfy music in their discography. I feel like Dear Hunter would be a fun song for them.

Hearing my junior retells how their peer says they wouldn't have been able to operate the sounds and music for their stage play without my teachings, sort of warms my heart.

Despite all my shortcomings, despite all the bad days, despite my crashouts and burnouts and irregular absence that can went on for days to weeks, I still managed to make them feel that way towards me.

Not sure how honest that opinion was, or how biased even, but I'd like to hold on to this pride, if only for a brief moment. This is probably how parents felt when their kids achieved something, it felt great.

first week of work over this year kill me already

started college and im already missing the free time i used to have, i also spent a stupid amount of money on a figure but its worth it lol

hey college anon if u see this i feel u </3 what fig did you buy?

>>368 lmao gl when you get a full time job

Night is so everlasting, yet daytime feels like it went by so quickly.

Last night I slept in a 24h social space accompanying acquaintances work on their doc files errand, all night long, then in the morning when we dispersed, I attended a local literature gathering that went on to afternoon, then we ate lunch and talk abit with some people I attended the gatherings with, and by the time we're done, its almost nightfall already.

Feels unreal, feels trippy, how the day and night went so quick like that. Being half awake throughout all of it probably contributes to the entire dreamy and trippy sensation.

Is this how getting stoned feels?

>>371 Depends on the strain, id say yes, that disosasation that makes things feel dream like..it's like drinking 2-3 beers( I'm a lightweight now).. same feeling different route

Watched an anime just to realize, hey have you been outside?
The answer was no so I immediately stopped all Internet activities and went outside,
It's a beautiful day, self reflection is good.

Went to take a nap, slept 15 hours

>>371 (Hype) It is Winter. The nights are literally longer than the days.
But yeah I feel that. Unless I just crash hard and sleep the entire night away.

So I finally got caught up on Me and Thee. I'd been saving it since I didn't want to do the week to week waiting game. Now I've just got the final episode for this week. It's been a really good watch. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Like most romcoms either fall into the cutesy fluff or are full of inapropro/dumb jokes, but since Me and Thee is satirical the comedy landed just right in the middle and it was very delightful. I also really enjoyed the acting. GMMTV really stacked the cast for this one, even the side characters were great. You get Godji and one of the twins and you're bound to have a good time lol. I also absolutely loved seeing Pond playing such an over the top character, I've only ever seen him play serious/average characters. The amount of memes his performance is inspiring is actually wild and funny.
Also, I did a quick watch of Last Twilight at the beginning of the month cause I needed some JimmySea in my life. It was a pretty good show. I really enjoyed the character developments and how they were paced throughout the show. Would defs recommend, 4/5 stars.

>>369 the 1/6 towa skytube fig, ive been wanting him for a while

>>370 im dreading it ( ;´ - `;)

>>374 except I'm in tropical, so its always 12 hours of day and night all year round.

>>372 its a good sensation to feel the fresh air outside or the warm sunlight after locking oneself indoor for 2 digit hours to marathon a series or shows. Kinda like how it always felt to sorta be reborned after getting wasted or like really rest after giving something all your physical and mental strength.

>>376 (Hype) Listen, I want you to dig through past rtts and tell me when's the last time you mentioned what country you're from and then realize why I don't remember what country you're from. .-.


I started reading Dark Moon: Blood Alter. I don't understand why it's a harem. Like admittedly I know nothing about Enhypen, but I know &Team is mostly (if not all) queer boys. They could've made it shounen-ai and it would've been way better. Also, it's slightly annoying that the characters are all based off real people and yet the writers changed all of their names. Like they blatantly advertise that the story is based off of Enhypen and &Team lore so why bother changing the character names?
Keep in mind that between Enhypen and &Team there are 16 people/names to remember and on top of that I have to remember 16 character names (plus the side characters), so there's 32+ names I have to remember. That's too much. My brain refuses.

>>377 idk, im no longer the archive diver i once were... im also a bit slow these days, so im guessing you are using sarcastic tones in which i responded with a 500ms ping before anything you did to me registers in any form....... wh-huh?

>>378 (Hype) I mean only slightly sarcastic. Don't go digging through archives lol cause I really think it's been a few years since you mentioned where you live unless I just haven't been paying attention. Really though, everybody else talks about where they are once in a while and posts about the going ons there.
I think I complain about the weather in Ok at least once a month for no actual reason other than to vent about how much I hate it.

Trying to design an OC that is aesthetically mixed between a jester and cybergoth. I have the silhouette in mind, but I'm struggling with how to fill it out.

My sis bought Minecraft and we have been playing~
She's got a janky mansion/castle on a mountain and I'm in the midst of making a floating wizard tower. It will have a smut library. Her boyfriend is also playing with us, but he's just building a boring village. We've also got extensive tunnels going all through the mountain and connecting up to different bases and we're in the middle of building a glass skybridge to connect my tower to her mansion.
I told her that after we finish the bridge and my tower we should build a pirate ship in the harbor next to her bf's village and then we can build a secret tunnel going from under the ship to the rest of our tunnels.

>>380 (Keith) How do you mix Jester and Goth? They're kind of opposites. Unless you're putting the oc in sad clown makeup.

>>381 (Nyanka) Well, cybergoth isn't actually goth. It just gets lumped in with goth due to the style having lots of black included. It's far more of a raver style than gothic. My main inspiration came from how the silhouette of the classic jester hat could be close to the silhouette of the iconic cyberlox of the cybergoth style.

>>381 I just realised but my Minecraft account is older than some of the people playing nowadays.

Dirt started on her inhaler last night. She definitely does not like it, but she learned very fast to just put up with it. I trained her with the mask a couple times before actually doing it with the inhaler, which helped a lot. But holy shit, that inhaler was $159. For a month supply. And that's already discounted from the retail price of about $350. I don't understand what makes a maintenance inhaler so much more expensive than a rescue inhaler....

2026 is shaping up to be a promising year for bl.

I finished Me and Thee (5/5 stars), and it's already greenlit for s2/mini series called Peach and Me. I'm hoping that means we get more RomeMok/WilliamEst, but my sis (who read the novel) said that it's probs gonna be about TheePeach and their kids. I'll be happy either way.
Goddess Bless you from Death finished airing a couple days ago. I give the show a solid 5/5 as well. I was a bit disappointed that the series had 13 eps, but still didn't save time for more of the side stories, but It's fine, the series was really great as it is and at the very least they had PoohPavel go on an amusement park date for the finale which was super cute.
PoohPavel also already dropped the trailer for their next series, The Grim Lover, and it looks really cool. I read the novel as soon as I could find an eng translation and I'm even more excited for it now. It looks like they're going to be making the live action even more fantasy coded, cause they showed a bunch of monsters in the trailer, but the novel is just the two main characters solving a murder mystery together while one of them repeatedly tries to kill himself. I'm very curious to see what other changes they make to the story and who else is going to be casted for it.
I also finished Between Us (4/5 stars). I was really curious about BounPrem since I watched ReVamp and it was mid as heck cause of the writing/director, but it was obvious that those two were good actors and had great chemistry so I wanted to see more. I was surprised by how sad the series was, but it was still a really good watch and there was a baby Santa to cheer me up every time he came on screen. I think my only real critique is that there were too many side couples. There was just a whole lot of unnecessary subplots that could have been completely done away with.

bbruh finding out who teaches what class is fucking impossible at uni

>>386 Oh, fo realsies.

A subject normally has 12 members of lecturer collaborating to organize the materials and curriculum in my campus, its fucking gacha at that point.

Been playing PvZ2:Reflourished since like, late december. So far so good, I think I'm destined for casual gaming lifestyle.

>>387 is me btw.

>>386 (Pie) Is it? At the uni I went to, they would have a file that would list all the classes available for the semester and who was teaching what. On the enrollment website I could actually search for specifics teacher to see their classes.

>>386 >>387 >>389
Wack ass systems. When I was in university, the name of the professor was listed alongside the class right when you were signing up for the class, along with the time slot. Sometimes the professor section would be left blank, and that usually meant that there would be a new professor teaching that course (although sometimes it was just because it wasn't yet determined which professor would be covering which time slot, but that was a rare occurrence).
Of course, that didn't matter much in my major, cause most of the classes were taught by the same three professors anyways.

>>389 we have that, the teachers just don't fucking fill it in

we also have teacher profiles. some of them just don't list what they teach. some also just don't fucking have a contact email

will need to check the enrolment website

I am so sleepy -- it is seven am here but my chronically ill self has been up for a While, just not actually doing anything but stewing in self pity because all my bones hurt. But then a cat jumped down to hang out next to me and it's like "omg kitty, so true, i should try to find something to do even if i can't leave the house rn--"

And so here I am, with a cat laying on my aching legs (he sucks fr)

Being housebound most of the time gets to me a lot, I miss being able to just wander the city randomly when I got bored but at least this is better than the dreaded doomscroll

Woah, it's been a while. I think last time I was here we were on RTT 45-ish. Hopefully I remembered my tag correctly. That's crazy, I was still in high school when I was most active here and now I'm halfway through college. Still haven't finished watching DRRR lol, I didn't have any time after adulting hit. I might be back here on a semi-often basis now, popping back in now and again. Life's been... life. Not particularly good, not particularly bad.

Welp. Did not in fact remember my tag correctly lol

>>394 l

Microdosing getting over the anxiety of Speaking To People by using the random thoughts thread to, gasp, drop random thoughts???

Hope every Dollar is having / did have a great day (it's 2 am for me, was meant to crash a while ago but got caught up planning a ttrpg thing with a friend and now I fear I will be up reading until the sun rises) and if you didn't, tomorrow is a new day, you are amazing and you can make it amazing ☆(≧▽≦)☆

I have such a strong desire to yap but (understandably) most people I usually bother for my strean of consciousness are asleep - probably for the best, I've found as long as I have someone to chat with I can accidentally stay up until 5am or later, but with no socialising? It's sleepytime

I have finally severed the ties I had with the girl I was on a situationship with for the last... 3 years now?

I don't regret the decision for all the pains that I had to endure, but that doesn't make it easy either.

I keep returning to that night we decided to separate ways, rainy night drive, citylights and vehicle lamps that came and went through the droplets on the car window, hours of nonsensical casual banters, of regrets, memorable and funny days, moments in the past, such a dreamy scene, until came the time I had to drop her off. And she reminded us to block eachother's contact, because I concluded that we kept on relapsing back to one another despite already hurting eachother time after time, and that we were supposed to sit with our own pain and loss, and let the feelings be with us until they left on their own accord.

It was easier to stick together, to be dysfunctional together and stay unfulfilled, but letting go is the right choice. Everybody deserved happiness, she deserved to be loved fully, and I could not love her with all my heart.

I hope I don't come to regret the things I have once committed in good faith.

fucked up my sleep schedule fuuuuuuuuuuuck

>>397 Sounds like you did the healthiest thing for both of you - it might hurt for a bit, but it will ease (have been there)

>>398 Oof, me too, made my cats so mad this morning bc i was Gone until like ten am :[ Hopefully it doesn't become a new pattern - hope you manage to get some sleep at a better time today

Pages updated... it's ugly and I hate it.

>>398 This reminds me of your cat cafe posts. I mean, why isn't there more of them?

>>399 Still autopiloted to her blocked DM every now and then, then catching myself midway and cursing myself, also realizing how oblivious the last few conversation was up to that night's meeting. So lighthearted, just two friends about to hangout, about to meet, and some six hours later, bam, blocked (I know I should refrain from reminiscing, but I just couldn't help it. I suspect this would persist for quite a bit).

>>400 What page? What update?

>>401 (Hype) ?The writing app that Apple uses?

>>381 Me and sis started a new Minecraft world. (The one we first started on was hosted by her bf and it was a hassle having to text him to open the server.) We've spent around thirty-ish hours in it so far, mostly just exploring. I built a huge sky bridge today that spans from spawn point to x2000. It's only one block wide rn (and hella scary to run across), but it's so much faster to traverse than the ground. I can get from spawn to x2000 in just a couple of minutes. So now I have easy access to almost every biome.

Also, started the Chinese drama Fangs of Fortune. It is not a bl, but I would describe the main characters as being in a platonic throuple (love to see it). I'm really enjoying it so far. The music, sfx, costumes, props, literally everything is so pretty and well done, and the fighting choreography is phemonenal. But also the show is also very unserious and I love that about it. I'm very eager to get more into the plot of this one.

>>402 ah, I never use iOS. TIL

aight got uni enrolment sorted out

Life is going insane rn and it feels like no matter how much sleep i try and get to recover from the Waking Chaos I still wake up feeling tired... Sometimes I wish I lived in a more boring time of history, dealing with all the personal stuff and witnessing all the world stuff at the same time... Kinda bleak. But we move ☆(≧▽≦)☆ The power of baseless optimism is gonna keep me going bc things are gonna get better bc they shall have no choice but to improve

Or something

Had a lovely Valentine's weekend. Took a girl out to brunch on the actual day and it was delicious! We then went on a walk together and just talked. And then yesterday, I went to her house and played some games and watched cat videos. Simple, but very enjoyable. :)

>>406 i just went out and had a bunch of dessert by myself. then went to a club to get drunk and try and get laid.

I spent six hours in Minecraft today, but when I clicked to save&quit the screen just turned blue. I don't have the mental capacity to turn off the xbox and restart everything to see what it did and didn't save.

^ It saved everything. Everything is fine.

>>405 Yeah that sounds about right, lmao.

>>406 Must be nice.

>>407 Did you succeed?

>>408>>409 That's nice.

Been catching up to Fate:Strange Fake's weekly release, is peak. Nothing else for me as of now though, not even Oshi no Ko I closely followed last season, the new one's got banger opening sequence and song though.

Most of my colleagues are graduating this year, I still got like 2+ years of catching up left to do. I feel like its going to be a lonely journey after everyone went on their own separate paths. I just, I don't want to feel sorry for myself, yet I know that's what I'm doing right now. Its just that, I feel, sad, I guess. I feel like I gave so much to everyone around me, yet none of those gestures are being reciprocated. Again, not bearing any grudges. Just, sad.

Maybe I'll finally have time for my Powerpoint games and to be able to work on Name's DHR mobile responsive site layout.

Ending the situationship doesn't mean the end of the world, yet it feels like it. Embracing the familiar spiky rose is less scary than shivering in the middle of a windy cold vast plain, I'm tempted to just go for it and unblock her, though still, I must not.

Its just, its my first time feeling this alone in a very long time. I suppose this is why I never befriended too many people at a time throughout all schools ever since adolescense, I must've learnt about it early enough that I can't remember, its just, ingrained.

Seeing the news just feels like watching ragebait

With Discord doing the age verification, I wonder what next social media platforms will follow suit. Youtube already has a soft age verification if ai detects youre supposedly underage.

>>410 not even frieren, Jigokuraku, or jjk?

>>410 "try"

>>413 rip, youll get ur turn.

>>412 Probably Frieren only, when Muse Asia's release appeared on my YT Recommended. Then I forgot about it again until the next one appears like next week or so.

I'm so down under I didn't even have hype for those stuff I used to be so excited about. I remember when I made wall text(s) about Strange Fake that long time ago, I miss feeling that sense of excitement towards anything.

>>411 My country already forced a bunch of sites to add ID verification if there was any "adult" content on the platform (including discussion of horror media and games)

... Discord had a security breach with the IDs they got from that already, i really don't get how that happens and they're like
Yep, gotta make it the whole platform

I look into my thread on Test board and found post 376 saying ">375 is about mushoku.tk dev" and now im dying of curiosity because what did past me meant by that when he deleted 375???

Speaking of Mushoku.tk, their owner finally made it open-source around 4 years ago. Thats like, a year or a few months after I tracked him down on the Alienware users forum of all places.

The site can still be accessed with Internet Explorer lmao, friggin primordial chat site.

#SpringCleaning.

Finally got some time to finish a couple bls.
Melody of Secrets was surprisingly decent, weird as hell, but the plot wrapped up pretty nicely at the end. 3.5/5 stars.
Memoir of Rati I was curious about cause it's an AouBoom and they have great chemistry. They delivered solid performances, but the ending was a bit too cookie cutter perfect imo. It's set in the past and the main conflict of the story is homophobia so I was kinda expecting them to end it with a flash forward to the present with the couples reincarnated, but instead everybody just stopped being homophobic and they lived happily ever after?? It was cute, but it didn't really make any sense. 4/5 stars.
Dare You to Death aired its finale this morning and I don't think I've ever been more frustrated with a tv show before in my life. It had so much potential and instead it just flopped around on the ground like a half dead fish. The series had such a stacked cast too who all gave great performances, but the writing/directing/editing, all of it, was just bad. 3/5 stars.
Luckily I have some fluff bls lined up to cleanse my palette. Duang with You is cuteness overload, every episode has me smiling so much. Cat for Cash has also turned out to be quite a delightful show. And there are a couple show on my to watch list that I'm looking forward to starting soon.

So they bombed Iran and 40 children died as casualties, great...

>>420 yeah, things are turning real scary around the world rn

Well it’s the end of black history month and lunar festivals. Hope people who celebrated that had a good time at least

I've been sick for about a week now. Went to the doctor on Friday and got prescribed 4 different meds, the most I've ever had prescribed at one appointment! My pharmacy only got them ready for pickup today, so I haven't actually started them. Hopefully it helps, cause I am MISERABLE.

My wallet got mugged, my driver's license...

bruuuuuuuuuuuuh rip dude

uni started this week kms imma die

WinnySatang broke up yesterday. My heart...

Rough week all around I guess.