I got an email from the Society for Personality Assessment telling me that almost every student travel grant for getting to the annual conference gets granted if requested before the deadline, but the student travel grant is $200, and the conference is 4 days and in Washington, D.C.
But I'd still have like $600 in hotel fees. Probably more, since the conference is at a Marriot. Oh, they actually have the conference prices here. $219 per night for four days. lol
moon
>>284843 topology is information too >>284848 yeah thats what i mean $200 wont allow you to go if you were previously unable to afford the trip
Maria
>>284848 Why does a conference cost so much to attend
>>284853 i'm not going to stay in a shitty motel 6 in one of the most dangerous places in the US!
Maria
I'm sure the conference place has a nice carpet to rest on
Kirara
wow the soviets are in New Yokio what a weird show
Anno
On account of having made a lot of pasta lately, I've got the method of making single bowls of it down pat. It's nice to have easy, lazy food on nights where I'm pretty pooped.
rook
>>284854 just be more dangerous than everyone around you and you'll be a-ok
I don't have any colleagues I could share a room with at the conference because my colleagues are all women. And it'd be kind of cruel to bring Fish with me. Maybe I can get a grant from my school, too.
I remember this one thread on /adv/ where some kid talked about how he was impersonating his missing drug addict sister or something and massively improved her grades and social standings
>>284878 Is that an actual law? Thou shalt not impersonate a woman to bunk with women? You wouldn't be betraying their trust because you'd be taking on a new identity. It's the new identity that's betraying their trust, but not Kirara.
>>284881 You don't have to act lewd and you can just shower and change at seperate times
is it really that big a deal you live in a totally different world than i in high school i saw my friends' bodies all the time and it was never weird and i didn't get anything out of it either it was just girls being girls
Maria
>>284892 I'll do it in order to prove that it can be done Do the impossible See the invisible
>>284893 Yes, it is a big deal. Most women would be very upset to find that they're unwittingly sharing a room with a man that has seen their bodies without their consent.
And most women won't consent to sharing a room with a man with which they aren't involved with. Moreover, I have a girlfriend, so it wouldn't be proper for me to share a room with a woman.
>>284904 >laser What if we give Kirara a mask and he can claim that he wears it because of horrible burns? Except really it's just because he can't afford laser hair removal
People from the office went to burger king so I went along and I had the chicken parmesan burger and that was a mistake. It waged war on my stomach and my stomach lost.
Burger king is pretty low tier but the one around here is actually nice. I think that's because of a reason I won't say It's nicer than anything but the nearby wendy's I think the chicken parm burger was just a bad choice, it was not very good.
I usually get chicken fries when I happen to be there.
>>284963 It will feed an opinion that people have about me that I don't want people to have about me!
Maria
Out of the big fast food places Burger King has the best aesthetic since it's got the 50s diner look going for it McDonalds is just sorta plain and boring looking
>>284966 what if i told you i don't know what a "so rika" moment is and i don't have any cartoon charicature of you pictured in my mind so the reason why you like chicken fries isn't going to influence my opinion of you negatively and you should tell me for pure curiosity's sake
those MOTHER FUCKERS locked the door an hour before their closing hour i don't even care that the food was good and they gave us free fries we should have robbed them
What it really comes down to is SES I think. Rika is most likely saying that most of the fast food restaurants are worked by people of low SES and are therefore a little dirtier than she'd like.
>>284986 No I don't want to leave it at that. It's a nice and clean establishment and that's cool and all but what does that have ANYTHIGN to do with chicken fries? it's a really simple question, why do you prefer the chicken fries when you go to burger king?
>>284994 Oh okay, so why do you like the place if burger king is not that good? You could find another place with similar qualities that serves better food.
Anno
>hmm these fries are pretty unhealthy >how do we make them more unhealthy >chicken >fries sasuga america >>>/watch?v=hQqP2pSsKB8
Anno
>>285000 I was talking about that earlier this morning. The Index news is still entirely rumors, but rumors extremely grounded in reliable origin.
>>284992 i'm sure you won't be waiting around for me forever >>285013 but couldn't you just go to a place that's better than burger king that has good service, too? if it was just quality of service, you wouldn't go to the burger king. what is it about the burger king that you like?
>>285017 That Mario Rabbits game looks pretty fun. The Switch needs a few more decent titles and I will strongly consider getting one. Right now 350 is a bit much for me to feel good about the purchase though.
>>285031 the kids stopped coming around this neighborhood like 10 years ago it's awful makes me want to go to the rich white hood and start smashing their pumpkins
Anno
I think there's a fair bit of trick-or-treeters in my neighbourhood. It seems like for all the kids that were around my age that have now grown up, there's been about the same somehow flowing in here. They all stop so much earlier than I remember stopping though. Nowadays they're all back home before 21:00.
Kirara
>>285032 do it while wearing a pumpkin on your head
Anno
>>285035 when kids come near i will give them a fucking variety bag of candy an entire bag tell them to destroy the establishment and free the candy for the underclass
Kirara
>>285036 handing out kitkat usbs with the Unabomber manifesto on them
moon
handing out government secrets to trick-or-treaters
I don't get a lot of trick or treaters here, thankfully.
Anno
My neighbour across the street has his birthday on Halloween. For some reason this means he's always gone all-out with his decoration set-ups, doing stuff like having dismembered Barbies rotating on a spit over a barbeque. I think another year he dressed up in like a man of straw and lay under his truck wheels. Looked pretty convincingly like a fake runover accident. And then as kids walked past he'd jolt upright and scare the shit out of them.
Kirara
i might go to my cohort's Halloween party this year im worried about being pressured into drinking though
they know i used to drink though i used to talk about getting wasted all the time and ive talked about booze recently too nobody knows i have a problem though so they might pressure me a little i think i can resist it but it would be really difficult
>>285050 oh, they'll probably pressure you anyways i guess. you could just say it became a big problem for you so you quit cold turkey. then they'll think you got balls.
Kirara
i don't want anyone to know i have a problem though it'd be really bad if they did
Anno
Just keep adamant that you don't drink anymore. I know they'll probably keep pestering you to regardles- >>285060 No let me finish I know what you're thinking. -regardless, but c'mon man. You've been through so much that's made you feel compelled to drink and you've put it off. Is your cohort pestering you to drink more pressure than the incoming terror of the hurricanes, or having to deal with a broken rib?
>>285057 why would it be really bad? would your career be in jeopardy?
Kirara
>>285061 colleagues find out im an alcoholic which means that knowledge is free floating and won't be private if i ever do anything and get recognized, people will find out im an alcoholic it could also make getting a job more difficult and undermine my credibility
>>285066 >no increase in life's difficulty no dude hiding it is an increase in difficulty you're just so specialized in secrecy you don't notice the demand
>>285081 you moved when i said red light you're fucken dead kiddo
Anno
We had to read and do analytical shit on an article for my class tonight called "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" It's like ten years old but it talks about how the constant use of the Internet seems to be having an impact on people's ability to do deep reading, getting properly immersed in long-form writing. The article was pretty interesting.
>>285084 Well, it is true that when I don't know something I just pull out my phone and google it. I wonder if that makes a person dumber though. You'd think more readily available information would make someone smarter.
Anno
To be honest the title was kind of clickbait-y, the article in-depth wasn't really talking at all about people getting dumber. It did draw parallels between the introduction of the Internet and other Information Technologies, like the mechanical clock , printing press, or typewriter. It even talked about Socrates' concerns about the use of writing for information retention way back in Ancient Greece. There's some pretty funny lines of thought from that.
>>285090 Well, I do think that the constant presence of easily available distractions has contributed to people having shorter attention spans. People will zone out and start playing with phones and stuff if they aren't immediately entertained every second.
I try to make an effort to resist the temptation to pull out my phone at every given opportunity.
Kirara
>>285092 i mean like me too but whatever i would prefer us both to stay alive
>>285084 I think there's something to it It's not so much 'the internet' as it is the ready and constant availability of entertainment, though
Getting into a book can be hard
Anno
>>285084 What's really making people stupid is when games like fire emblem falsely display probability. e.g saying 80% when in reality it's a 99% chance because people have become accustomed to 80% being ALWAYS hits it's enabling a culture of stupidity really grinds my gears oniifam
Kirara
people that don't immerse themselves in deep reading wouldn't be reading books more without the internet it's whatever same shit different medium people said the same thing about tv
One of the things that got me kind of stirred up though, was a bit of the article towards the end about how we're becoming what the author called "pancake people" a person's identity stretched too thin over too much information that we become thin personalities. I think that part in particular was the most nonsense naysaying from the author. The entire article took on a bit of a worrywart tone overall, but that one felt the most to me as him going "well we don't know what the future will hold but it probably can't be good." What was more annoying was our professor seemed pretty onboard with that particular negativity. He's normally a guy I can agree with but this one was a bit frustrating to have lectures on.
>>285098 It's not that reading is becoming less popular, there's just more alternatives really
People who before might have chosen to read now have way more options for what to do with their time, even without leaving their armchair They could read, or they could watch their favorite show or whatever, lots of things that you just didn't have the option of before So I don't see why people wouldn't be reading less
Kirara
reading is regarded as the ultimate medium by most people just because it's the oldest medium but reading is hard and has never really been popular in modern society internet and new mediums are good because it gives us new ways to get information
I'm not making value judgements on how people spend their free time I'm saying even those who'd read before now have other things they could end up doing instead Not because 'the internet is bad', but because the internet is there, and has stuff to do with your time
And I don't think reading in itself makes you smarter to begin with It doesn't matter where you got the information A book isn't more valuable than an article on the internet inherently >>285109 That's true, but I don't think watching makes you dumb It's a bit less active to watch stuff though
Kirara
well reading and watching tv affect the brain differently
>>285112 Well the only meaningful way for one of them to make you dumb is for one of them to make you less smart than the other would I don't think anyone below the age of like 50 is suggesting TV literally decreases your intelligence
moon
>>285115 i really think it's about wording short attention span stems from so much perception of what should be nobody refers to it as increased ability to interface with new systems
Anno
The article also really engages in the Google's information gathering is evil mindset. Or I guess my professor interpreted it that way. I didn't really find it evil or concerning when I read the article over myself. It's like "Google's mission is to organize the world's information and provide it universally to everyone." And the professor was really hung up on organizing and universally providing it as either impossible or an evil. That wasn't something I could really agree with.
>>285119 add is adhd add is a subset of adhd yeah not everyone with adhd is hyperactive they have specifiers that say whether you're hyperactive or not adhd is the diagnosis either way
moon
>>285119 it's attention deficit slash hyperactive disorder it's two spectra clumped into one category
Kirara
access to information is considered evil by many because if the poor could learn anything they wanted, the rich would lose their monopoly on information and their standing
>>285120 >>285121 I don't like the H though. I have always rejected it because I am not hyperactive. The hyperactive kids were problem students.
Anno
Oh the entire mission was “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful”. My professor also got kind of worked up over the "useful" part of the mission too. Sort of a "who gets to judge what makes information useful?" He was even talking about how not all information is useful. I was really tempted to try and pick a fight over all information being useful, but by then my caffeine high was running down and I wasn't feeling it.
Kirara
>>285128 okay so you're not h big deal adhd is still the classification
>>285146 *disappears like my chance at a normal psyche*
Anno
I also might've made my class and professor think I'm a little bit mentally unhinged. I was trying to explain how I struggle with formal articles, but articles with narration that still provide the same level of information can retain my attention fine. And as example I used how I've read long-form investigative journalism articles about disappearances or serial killings that form a narrative story while retelling factual events. And after that the professor gave me a kind of look.
>>285163 I'll let her you said that know Jesus phone posting is gay >>285161 like a third of the people who work here have watched at few eries series anime is mainstream
i only know a couple people who have even watched anything that wasn't dubbed in real life they're pretty cool though i've only ever met one real weeblord i think
Kirara
but yeah people don't think you're a creepy weirdo for liking anime anymore
anime avatars on twitter are becoming a recognized political sphere, too anime isn't at all that obscure anymore
phonebang
power levels are low but it's not weird to like anime only to older millennials and other generations very common many are interested in it haven't watched most because time constraints millennials very busy
Anno
>>285185 Yeah but they'll think you're a bit weird if it comes out you're watching sixteen or twenty shows a season.
i know a guy with the jolly roger from one piece tattooed on his bicep
Kirara
the upcoming hokuto no ken game will probably make things even more mainstream
phonebang
tv unwatched Netflix only or other streaming
Maria
My public policy professor talked about death note in a lecture
Anno
I think it can still be a little touch-and-go with people in their mid-twenties and older though. Some of them won't care but there's still enough that still remember anime as that thing only the weird losers would watch. When I was doing data entry at a -my last job, there were a number of 20-30 year olds on the team, and I would have only talked anime with one, maybe, MAYBE two of them. One guy in particular I knew I couldn't even breach any "geeky" or "nerdy" hobbies because even getting close to them just had the conversation dry up.
phonebang
hentai also more common than expected
phonebang
usually only in form of images or gifs tumblr and Reddit are most common sources
my 60 something year old italian lady coworker sent me an .avi of futanari hentai once because her boyfriend sent it to her and she thought it was "hilarious"
phonebang
Jesus
phonebang
hilarious indeed okay back to suffering please wish me well so many boxes.......
>Meet Gudetama, the anthropomorphic embodiment of severe depression. >Gudetama is a cartoon egg yolk that feels existence is almost unbearable. It shivers with sadness. It clings to a strip of bacon as a security blanket. Rather than engage in society, it jams its face into an eggshell and mutters the words, “Cold world. What can we do about it?
Kirara
apparently Puerto Rico is running out of food and their entire island has no power and won't for months but we aren't doing anything or trying to send aid
I have zero investment in the Kemono series but seeing stuff like this because of the recent hubbub has been great.
Anno
>>285211 Apparently some relief squads have had to crowdfund their relief missions just so they can get out there before the situation gets too terrible. I saw some people retweeting Lin-Manual Miranda advertising charities people could donate to in order to get relief squads flying out.
Kirara
it's terrible the government is literally ignoring an entire us colony and leaving them to die because that always worked for the British
>>285215 Well as long as they don't try to jack up Puerto Rican taxes to pay for Texas and Florida relief, history wouldn't have repeated itself just yet.
Kirara
>>285217 haha as if they could pay anyway I'm talking more about the British colonies in Africa and their various near-genocides there, than the us declaring Independence, though
It's on the reading list for my class about literature across borders. I've only read the first couple pages of the actual novella so far but I really like the prose so far. It has a really nice feel to it. The edition we "needed" for the class also comes with a bazillion essays and analytical writings and relevant material to the novel.
Maria
>>285229 Me too I liked the bits with guns I was too dumb to get it
We also watched Apocylapse Now after reading Heart of Darkness. It was probably a bit more interesting than the book because it is less British.
Anno
We also have to read Jane Eyre for that class too, and Shakespeare's The Tempest. I haven't read either of those yet either. There's also some movie we're going to watch in-class later on but I've forgotten it.
Maria
We read a great detective novel where people were horribly murdered
The best part of Apocylapse Now wasn't the famous helicopter scene. It was actually Kurtz's monologue with the heavy-handed use of shadows. That part was very well done.
Anno
tbere was a game adaptation of heart of darkness that was actually very good unfortunately /v/ liked it so a lot of internet subculture hated it
Anno
the best part of apocalypse now is the whole movie because it's fucking great
>>285248 yeah you're probably thinking of the right one it is a looser adaptation of the novel but does it so well and blends it with genre specific gameplay twists that make it very memorable
>>285251 I played that, my brother gave it to me. You play as like a soldier with his team and you go kill and kill until you're all ragged and crazy, right?
>>285247 It was a good movie , but full metal jacket is the better vietnam movie.
Kirara
that's spec ops the line and it takes place in dubai not saudi arabia
Anno
I haven't seen Apocalypse Now or played this game. The original novella will be my first introduction to the story, hah hah.
>>285255 The white phosphorus part ruined my immersion a bit because I immediately recognized that those people were civilians but I had to shoot them anyway.
Kirara
>>285257 >I don't wanna look racist but all those countries are just sandy muslim places
>>285265 So is the movie supposed to draw parallels between the atrocities the States committed in Vietnam with the atrocities Europe committed in the Scramble for Africa?
>>285270 The themes are a little different than that. Both works are about what happens to men when they are separated from civilization for too long. It's more about the primal state of man than it is atrocity.
Anno
I guess I'll come back to the train of thought after I finish the novella. Gotta keep fresh.
they had us read the book and watch the movie in middle school and my mom banned me from exposure to lord of the flies because she thought it would scare me
>>285272 I think this line of thought goes too far looking for the protagonist to be a self-insert. You aren't the protagonist, and the protagonist is supposed to shoot.
Anno
>>285281 When I was reading it for the first time I was like, in grade five, and the book was just not entertaining reading for me. That was also way too early an age to be interpreting the heavier themes and social dynamics the book leans on. I was simply reading it as a story and it wasn't entertaining. Now that I'm older I strongly disagree with the themes of the book, especially the concept of how quickly and competently humans (or men, really) will embrace violence and anarchy when left to their own devices.
>>285280 it's not scary it's just about all societal systems breaking down until people go feral and schizophrenia claims one kid who hallucinates a pig head coverd in flies and maggots as god and eventually gets his skull caved in by his friends
>>285305 aren't i too old to do it now? most of those guys have been practicing for 7+ years by the time they're my age! they probably have more brain damage than me though that may be arguable
Kirara
>Fighters must be a minimum of *18 years old. ISCF Junior MMA is No Head Contact and Semi Contact To The Body. Fighters may not be over the age of *40 years old. However, if a fighter wishes to compete who is over the age of *40, please see below the additional requirements to be approved.
you've got time you can fight people until you're strong
>>285307 i thought you thought violent contact sport was no good
Kirara
>>285309 i don't like it but that doesn't mean people don't have the right to do it ill support my friends even if they are doing something i don't like
Anno
Yeah I don't figure I think warmly of the sport but I'd cheer you if you went for it and probably even turn on fights if you got them.
>>285310 you're probably right about such sports like that anyways though anyways what excited me was the knife in his hand anyways >>285318 i would of course try my best to almost kill them
Anno
I mean maybe not if it looked like you were just there to get your shit kicked in. But as long as it looked like you kept fighting my heart would be with you.
then again i'll never put forth the initiative to do anything on my own
Anno
Yeah, I kind of know how that goes. And a lack of initiative and drive is a pretty good turn-off for people that might want to do things with you. What a wonderful catch-22.
>>285350 Well I do that too! It's just, you know that lovely feeling on a cold day, when you clutch your cup between two hands and let it warm your cold digits? I just really dig that feeling on my cheeks too. My body always seems to get colder than I would like it to. Staying warm is a perpetual goal of mine.
Samu 🌉 !KW2DbpWwls
>>285349 there are girls with hints of the accent at work
>>285358 Wiggers, Chavs, Juggalos, Emos, "scene kids" Emos in denial >>285360 I'll bet Also frat boys, Various other arbitrary names we have for certain types of people
Maria
>>285359 I saw a lot of wiggers in Australia Straight outta Frankston Station
>>285363 We don't have many vets in general We have our own low socio economic areas though I can't think of many stereotypes for people out in our countrysides
>>285367 Everyone does that though Not just the people out in the sticks
So earlier today I had a splinter on my right middle finger and couldn't get it out with tweezers. I ended up removing it with a knife.
FormerRei@mobile
>>285364 Maybe you could import people from groups that have stereotypes associated with them from somewhere else.
Maria
>>285372 That's just borrowing someone elses national identity though >>285371 That's pretty metal Did you cut out any skin? >>285374 You're not offloading your rednecks onto us Our fire arm laws are actually fairly liberal Especially compared to Australia Probably less liberal than the U.S though
FormerRei@mobile
>>285373 Not all stereotypes are national identities though >>285373 Yes but I didn't bleed because I'm good at >>285373 Our rednecks won't move to NZ because you almost certainly have more restrictive gun laws
Kannagi
I just push and pull splinters out with my fingers
FormerRei@mobile
>>285375 I'm right handed so I was having trouble doing that.
FormerRei@mobile
>>285373 Australia's gun laws are silly Isn't it like, only bolt action rifles magazine capacity limit of five And then for handguns its illegal to keep a round in the chamber
Kannagi
Aussie gun laws came in due to a school shooting think I think
>>285381 Australia is not America I'm not implying America should do the same It's just that it worked for Australia yeah >>285382 Holy shit there's more than 30 people in Tasmania?
>>285385 I'll citation your face with my sleepy pins and needles fist
FormerRei@mobile
Also I've heard from a variety of soyrces that Australians are generally more racist than Americans. *sources >>285386 That's a good way to break a finger.
The problem is you can't know you're wrong until you're called on it, and I don't like confrontation super much I like confronting people, but not mobs
Kannagi
>>285416 People who are super confrontational are just assholes, engaging in dialogue with them is mostly worthless
You're right though Maybe I shou\\ I definitely should finish writing this up and hit submit, link it on my twitter
I grew up on 4chan, I should be able to handle some flak lmao
Kannagi
Enjoy your meeting I just got on my 2nd train! >>285423 No Probs. the worst you can do is post something and refuse dialogue if you are wrong or right. Gotta learn through arguing a point.
>>285438 It always makes me feel giddy inside when Akagi does something crazy. like he just pretended to die but it turned out he had a blood transplant earlier >I am not rish Care for a gamble? High stakes Uno
>>285440 He took out 500css of his own blood I should spoiler this he took out 500css of his own blood two weeks before the match. Then on the day of the match he had it injected back in
>>285442 Monopoly with real houses and real tenants
>>285451 What does anyone really expect from a reactionary?
Maria
>>285450 >this hypocrisy in the same day At least wait a week
sk
Dude just give him like 3 years or something and he'll have a hard stance That's Ian's thing In 2013 he thought communism was at least a noble goal, now it's literally the worst idea humanity has ever had bar none even fascism
>>285454 to be fair to him, he DID backtrack on that one on the right In that when he said bullying there he was using what he assumes other people mean when they say bully which is absolutely everything
Which still leaves the question of why he'd point out that it builds character to have things happen to you One sec I'll grab a link
unlawful wounding in a case of someone stabbing someone in the leg just seems like pure bullshittery aimed at making the case seem less severe it is fucking assault and attempt of murder
Maria
>>285486 When you're legally entitled to a pound of flesh
I'm an anarchist our defining characteristic is we don't do reading or philosophy!
No but actually I don't know what sophistry is
Kirara
sophists were super pretentious teachers in ancient greece that used really roundabout reasoning and were always like "this is how it is and i'm right" and weren't really open too dialogue they were anti-dialectics
>>285510 Uh Can I get an example of like a basic sophist argument?
Kirara
i can't really think of any off the top of my head but their entire thing was about persuading the other person that they were right truth didn't really matter it was just about rhetoric and shit
Just shouting the opponent down essentially I mean greek especially athenian politics and such were a good amount of time just shouting the other down damn the facts or who was right
Depends on argument really saying like "being black is detrement to your success in life" and then answering that with say >>285519 is equally bad argument
yeah it is a cruise ship per purpose, but it looks like a ferry type, because of the car decks and clearly having both front and rear engines I'd wager it is a repurposed ship originally built as a ferry/passenger ship, later repurposed by some other company as a cruiser happens a lot
Valter Legion Sheena or Cherche depending on which one I like at that time Zephiel Legion is going to 5 because I want his + Axe But I also want to see how much worth it's going to be. Legion is strong by himself without needing to transfer it
>>285560 Getting feathers is just daily work and being good at Arena Getting feathers faster is just being good And let's not talk about Summoning them...
>I support gay rights, but if gay marriage was legal, that'd be disrespecting the views of hardcore, christian homophobes -Bearing, the rational skeptic man
Kannagi
Holy shit. There is a Taco Bell here. I didn't think we had them in the Uk
Anyhow I have nothing against donation or patreoning them since that is volutnary based and can be argued to be for other things and not the scanlating and translator "hobbies" they hold however, if they actually lock the scans under a paywall well
I wonder if that is even true? It has been 15 years for several years now afterall
FormerRei@mobile
>>285606 It's almost certainly not Also it's not even one of their translators. And she is allegedly "friends" with one of the 4chan mods so threads bitching about it on /a/ get removed and people get banned.
>>285607 People should just ignore these people and let them moan about lack of money for their hobbywork and similiarly ignore the idiots who put "funny jokes" into their releases who cares and the worst thing you can do is give them attention by bitching about it bury attentionwhores under the cloud of ignorance, I say
FormerRei@mobile
>>285609 The worst thing you can do is give them money.
Naw I don't even use the website but seeing people expecting people to put time and energy into this shit and not get compensated with more than a "thanks" every now and then is ridiculous
TN !PcAPtAiNJo
"i put time and money into this illegal action and where is my pay" yeah >>285617 I am not breaking law doing it
sk
>>285616 >he gives a shit about the law Motherfucker you're reading it
>>285616 Legalism isn't something I'm even gonna fucking engage with
sk
>>285618 It's a hobby and so is every work of love To expect to benefit from someone else's work just because they enjoyed doing it without giving shit back is scumbag behavior
FormerRei@mobile
>>285620 Also there are more people who work on this stuff than just the translators But generally the translators are the only ones who demand money
Culture of paying is same as making a paywall >>285627 you create a culture where the non payers are heretics deviants shame them to pay once you go alogn that path, you eventually just create an outright paywall and not just a figurative
sk
No it's not
FormerRei@mobile
Anyways, SK if you really think that scanlation group translators should get paid It demonstrates how little you know about scanlation culture
I am not saying scanlators don't have the right to ask for money, but for example >>285605 this kind of action is just shameless >>285631 A culture of compensation is different from culture of supporting people for their work aca what we have right now
sk
>>285630 You're saying you're explicitly against having a culture of compensating them for their hard work supplying you with shit
Koi-
>>285630 What? How are they different other than the assumption that it would be a paywall on various websites?
I kind of like having a depositable cheque if I can get it, if the alternative is a digital deposit.
FormerRei@mobile
>>285651 I'd have to go downtown to find a Bitcoin atm.
Samu 🌉 !KW2DbpWwls
oh i have a dumb story about checks or rather my attempt to securely transmit money to former roommate i wrote a somewhat large check to settle our debts and, having moved out, decided to be fancy and sent it by certified mail it did not register with me that the options i picked would force him to be at the door to sign the delivery form so he missed the delivery of course being a full time worker and new dad and apparently the check entered this weird limbo because his local post office is completely impossible to actually walk-in you have to make a reservation for this post office months ahead >california so two months later the letter gets returned to sender in canada if i hadn't been all fancy and shit he could have gotten the money ages ago
moon
i would like to cache this travelleur's cheque
FormerRei@mobile
Ooh https://www.humblebundle.com/books/hacking-reloaded-books Comes with PoC||GTFO
>>285654 Sam, what kind of stuff do you do at coinbase? I'm just going to imagine they have you writing optimized bitcoin miners for different idevices until I hear otherwise.
Samu 🌉 !KW2DbpWwls
>>2856632 >>285663 i hack things up and i put them down
Kirara
>>285654 couldn't you have cancelled the check while it was in limbo and just sent the money normally?
Samu 🌉 !KW2DbpWwls
>>285665 i didn't realize it was in limbo i thought it would be guaranteed to arrive
Samu 🌉 !KW2DbpWwls
we weren't coordinating or anything he was just like "no rush cya around"
I should get 5* black knight in a few hours when my phone is charged back up. Then I'm probably going to put together a Black Knight, Zeph, Amelia, and Effie team.
I might have to 5* something to give Effie a brave weapon though. actually now that i think about it, i didn't check my effie's IVs hmm
ToN
>>285677 sou I should do this so my lady marth stops sucking
Sheena's Res is 33 naturally. I'm going to turn her into an actual tank. I have an extra zephiel so I can throw Wary Fighter on her and just let anyone who attacks her become a cripple in their next life
oh yeah imats I'm writing a thing (again) and I think I'll actually finish this one, but it might take a bit of time You think you can go over it when I'm done? It might end up long, and jumbled, but still
>>285691 Well I think mine is a little deeper because in the end it's technically a game about investigation so there's gotta be big mysteries and stuff
i'm hoping to get two Brave Ikes in the future one for steady breath on neph and the other for steady breath on black knight
i have fury on neph right now although i changed it to atk/spd +2 for the trials
neph will probably be my go-to lancer in the future
i tried to turn oscar into a defensive roderick but it didn't really go too well he's -atk/+res too he's good for moving enemies around with drag back and his spur spd/def is good i'm kind of using him as a support lancer i think i put armored blow on him without thinking because i'm stupid and didn't realize how ridiculous that is considering he has firesweep lance
moon
tfw drag back with galeforce and a dancer
Koi-
>Firesweep They made a defensive character run that? Why
Kirara
no that's what i did it was the only possible way i could make oscar usable
moon
you could have given him first bite
Kirara
i would have if i had one to
moon
ill do it if i get an oscar
Anno
can you guys stop playing video games
Kirara
no i can't >>285705 yeah i think oscar could be a good support unit decent survivability and comes with two really good support skills built in
moon
it also would look fab
Kirara
his natural set isn't that bad, sapphire lance and lancebreaker gives him good advantage vs swords and lances but my Clive is already build for that built*
been trying to figure out a way to make my mathilda good too i really like her but i need distant counter to make her viable and valuable over using my other blue lancers
>>285730 well you won't know if it's good until you're done once you're done and we do some editing and stuff you can decide whether or not to publish then
But I don't know if I'm even making sense I don't know if I have any idea what I'm doing cause I'm fucking BLANKING on basic concepts and ideas and shit
no is the whole idea i can't just write pages based on something if im wrong
moon
it's a first draft man don't fret it that's normal do you know how many times i have to revise any of the shit i write just to make it not insane sounding
Kirara
>>285733 well if you finish it and it doesn't make sense, we can talk through it and help you flesh out your ideas and organize them better so they do make sense
>>285733 >>285730 There's no way around it. You have to write, read, and write more to get better at writing.
moon
kirara can help you organize and formulate the structure of your arguments i'm a professional document prep so i can help with proper editing >>285739 it's hard to take abstract ideas and parse concrete elements out of it it's hard for everyone writers spend a lot of time writing. don't give up just because it's not inherently straightforward and simple if it was then it probably wouldn't be worth writing, ya know
my psych says i gotta try to figure out what exactly the thoughts in my head are when I freak out but i can't even say the tsuff I already know cause I don't trust her or anyone else that I don't know
but it's normal to not be comfortable sharing things with a new psychologist it takes a long time for a therapeutic relationship to build up sometimes you should focus on what you feel comfortable saying, like, the surface level thoughts, first
sk
she wwent through some question sheet, like pages and pages and I dunno how much i was honest on
i dont think therapy can help me at all, i'm just not able to fucking do it cause im a fuckup
Kirara
therapy is really helpful for a lot of people it's good that you're making an effort and thinking about that stuff too i think it might feel like it won't be helpful now but if you give it some time, you'll be able to find at least a little value in it
she thinks my job is partially to blame and I don't disagree but I don't have any other real option I can't quit, not even for the money, I can't stop going to work cause my dad will lose his fucking shit and also the money that's a big part ngl
>>285752 What negatives do you think might come from telling her that you're afraid of being looked down on?
sk
no, i dont think she can prescribe shit anyway
sk
shed just tell me the whole things meaningless then and theres no point in continuing i dont know why i keep going i dont think i can get better
im stupid for tryng
moon
literally just stumbled on this in my market research transcript just now "Can you tell me what was going through your mind, emotionally and physically, as you had this experience?" tf
I'm not a therapist yet, but if I were in her place, I'd see that kind of admission as a place to work on. Instead of addressing the underlying stuff, it'd be like trying to help you be more comfortable with just being able to open up a little.
Kind of like clearing away a road so you can bring supplies somewhere. You have to make sure you can travel the road before you can try to get to your destination.
sk
i shouldnt even be trying its all lies im fucked up but im just bad at handling it its not real i dont know how to i dont wanna deal with it i want it to just stop bneing thhere
sk
i dont know what my ufkng deal is i cant do a fucking thing proply i always fuck up cause im shit i lie as a fucking defense mechanism no matter what i cant even tell if my own goddamn emotions are real or fake theyre real but i made tem up i chose this but i have no fucking choice and i dunno what i even MEAN I DONT KNWO
A big part of therapy is figuring out what your deal is. If you don't know whether your emotions are real or fake, that's something you can figure out in therapy.
sk
i hat myself so much i dont wnna anymre i cant be happy anyway i cant even feel anything but fucking hate and anger and disgust
im just a clump of everything wrong and i stopped being the good parts
I thought so. It seems like you have a lot more control over your anxiety when you're on it.
sk
probably i do
i think i just want to be miserable i keep doing this i always push people away from me and i just get worse and worse and i never stop and i dont think it can stop
>>285778 They should be able to prescribe an SSRI or a beta-blocker for you.
>>285777 Oh, I see. SSRIs are usually what you start off with for anxiety although I personally feel that a beta blocker like shit what's it called Oh, propranolol. Propranolol is supposed to be really good with this stuff.
sk
he's only able to give me ritalin cause a shrink already did
>>285779 for chronic, persistent anxiety maybe ssri is kind of overkill for preventing panic attacks and onset anxiety like i have though i think that's why i was scribed lorazepam for its quick onset and short half life so that i can be back to normal quick ssri would be a hefty life change for something that only occurs acutely
>>285781 Oh, sure, yeah. For panic disorders and stuff, you usually start with benzos although you rarely keep them going (these days) These days the standard for panic disorders is benzos for a month and then you taper off while going through psychotherapy and stuff
>>285780 Oh, really? In America, most psychiatric drugs are prescribed by GPs.
>>285785 i'll probably be on benzos forever or until my doctor retires and whoever she refers me to doesn't want to do that i like them because they're extremely functional for me it doesn't block everything out and debilitate me the anxiety, when bad, does that by making me shy away from things and want to shut down, and i become catatonic for hours with the benzos it just lubricates my brain so that there's not so much friction when addressing these things that cause me anxiety and i'm able to navigate through difficult situations and familiarize myself with the processes that i was averse to and were causing me to panic
>>285790 that's terrible. i think they're a wonderful tool if used responsibly it would be bad if i just took them to not feel anything and zonked out for hours then woke up anxious and did it over again but they're actually helping me long-term with anxiety because they let me become familiar with all the dark little rabbit warrens of my consciousness that i usually avoid
>>285794 but i bet clinically, if they looked at my usage patterns and saw that i take them while working and all sorts of things it'd be viewed as compulsive consumption during inappropriate times because it's just not how other people use them usually they just hang their hats up, take a benzo, and unwind i'm extremely functional on them you know, last week i had a 72 hour work week and i did 40 hours of it in two days with just two three hour naps i didnt even take adderall or caffeine because the anxiety would make it harder to focus just a morning benzo and a second-wind benzo and i did 20 hours back to back
>>285796 yeah, unfortunately mental health has become so obsessed with pretending to be physical medicine that it's forgotten that everyone is different and overgeneralizes it's really sad
