you gonna get some time to relax? i got a carp load of work a 7-hour web conference lol at least it'll pad my invoice a little bit so i can have money left over after bills next month
I dunno what I'll do today. I don't have any work I need to be doing, but I might look for some measures to help track progress for the clinic. I'm gonna do some zazen, too. I haven't done it in two days so my calm mind is suffering!
i still need to do that other training resources thing but i only have two adderalls left and that kind of stuff i would need it for i really need to get that script renewed so i can do stuff i can do my other work with just kratom or with nothing though
Do you think you could help me look at some doctors in my network and pick one out? I see all the options and I get too indecisive and you'd probably understand better what sounds like a good psych just sometime when you're free
>>682799 i have to sign in and perform a search but i can email the search results to your email address and you can do some more probing using this online search engine available here: www.google.com/search
okay i mailed the mail i pruned it down to just the female providers im sure there are nice male providers available but it's just for my own comfort the first one on there sounds really neat actually but looking at her stuff, i didnt really know what a lot of it meant so i felt kind of lost
thank you for your help! no rush
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>>682800 yeah it ruins games hard dc player deals a dora hatsu on like the 14th turn and gives someone 20k points for an upset into first and ends the game from going under zero immediately
>>682804 Yeah and if you're sitting across from them then you're in the most disadvantageous position possible They'll keep feeding chi material to the player on your left, and the player on your right will have zero worries about any of their discards getting chi'd By that point you just get to watch the other two players go for open tanyao rushes
>>682807 I think I'd prefer the richness of dark chocolate on its own
what's the deal with caramel filled chocolate it's always milk chocolate why don't i see dark chocolate filled with caramel ever
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>>682807 right i can get dark chocolate filled with ginger, that's my favorite, but i gotta work to find it who even came up with milk chocolate probably a man
>>682806 uhh i guess i hadn't thought of it that way i always thought the shimo cha to the disconnected player was the most disadvantaged due to information, at least for these online versions where everyone knows if a call is available the kami cha is in the most advantaged position for the same reason. if the player across from dc (what's this player called?) discards and a call is available, the kami cha to the DC (shimo cha to the discarder) knows it's a pon for the DC's shimo cha he gets privileged information and also knows he can discard without any risk of chii
the shimo cha might be able to call chiis off the DC, but it's completely unordered and you cannot influence it in any way. everything in that hand is a deadwall that you can never know what's in there or call off any of it it's really lose/lose for everyone imo. it's the worst when two people leave and it's just you and one other person awkwardly
>>682809 not surprising i like switzerland though im ok with it my goal was always to make my way to zurich as an academic some italian bitch stole my place though for some shitty work in lattice cryptography like shit what a kick in the face
>>682810 The point about the kamichas privileged information is correct, but I think you're prioritising information a bit too much given the context of the situation. Normally if a player gets something like a dora, or a tile that would be useful for tanyao like a tile on the 4,5,6 octave, they would potentially keep it to themselves. But the disconnected player will always discard whatever tile they draw no matter how advantageous it could be. They will feed their kamicha (middle players shimocha) I think that this advantage outweighs the bit of information that can be gleaned from pon pauses, especially in the context of bronze or silver rooms where the average player isn't even high level enough to make use of it. Especially considering that the dc player has no ability to defend, it makes simply forming a hand as fast as possible much more important since the dc player is likely to play into it, and the dc kamicha has the advantage in that regard
Anno
told me dad i was going to denver he immediately was like oh man you gonna do magic mushrooms? i said hell yeah he laughed said awesome just don't tell your mom or that'll be the worst week of my life
>>682813 those anime mathers have been collaborating lately, the real mathematicians and computer scientists who were interested in the stuff after those tweetstorms theyve been doing distributed computing across a big network to try to brute force a fairly trivial proof but the server coordinating the networked computing was left really blaringly vulnerable to sql injection i had some impure thoughts but i kind of just let it go since i had a lot of work to do
>>682811 hmm yeah i see that when im talking about advantages, i mean it strictly objectively whereby an advantage is an advantage, regardless of whether that skill level or that player is able to use it or not
that's obviously not the whole story though as there are conditional strategies and advantages too in scenarios where optimal play is dependent on other players' course of action and capabilities that's nontrivial for mahjong and is probably the most frustrating part about the game imo, but it's a legitimate aspect of the game and is a crucial part of skill too
if that kind of thing interests you at all, check out the prisoner dilemma tournaments they hold where they test a bunch of different competitor algorithms and see which ones end up with the best stats
i think that's the reason games like mahjong or dota or other conditional dependencies are games of long-term stats and not performance in any single game. skilled play becomes about managing your margins and optimizing your performance for the long term in that risk/reward analysis, like taking the security play to end the game while you're in second instead of letting the game go on, even if you have a chance at first, because you could also lose it and drop
>>682816 man i just dont even someone joined the google group and was like HEY I KNOW THIS DOESNT HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE TOPIC BUT I THINK I HAVE A SOLUTION FOR (some other problem) and people were like uh ok let's hear it that sounds great OK LET ME WRITE IT UP :) HMMM MAYBE THIS IS MORE COMPLICATED THAN I THOUGHT... oof it's becoming a little cringey
Kirara π
>>682814 gotta be careful of anime mathers i guess anime math is on a whole other level
I'm kind of jealous of people who can be really expressive and earnest. I'm fine with the way I am, but when I see people being expressive and being able to earnestly introduce people as "the light of my life" and "king of my world" and all kinds of stuff like that, I get a little envious of how easily they can make people smile. It would be kind of out of character for me to do that stuff, I'm naturally more reserved and composed and not very expressive. On the outside, at least.
>>682815 >prisoners dilemma tournaments like this? https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hamma4XgeNrsvAJv5/prisoner-s-dilemma-tournament-results
I can't speak for dota, but mahjong is definitely all about managing long term margins and isolating which strategies pay off in the long run
>>682819 Is this referring to iterated or isolated games of prisoners dilemmas? Searching "prisoners dilemma tournament " just gives me Wikipedia pages for the dilemma itself and tit for tat
yeah but that looks a little specific. you might just want to look at wikipedia, it has a pretty broad overview of the strategy involved there. reading into depth on that specific strategy probably isn't meaningful without an understanding of the strategic environment in the first place or why tit-for-tat is a strong competitor
>>682817 i can understand that, in both ways. im pretty reserved also about stuff like that but i could see the kind of case that would make me be expressive about that it hits a chord of yearning pretty hard though. seeing other people who have that makes me really happy in a way, kind of gives me hope you know
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>>682818 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma#Strategy_for_the_iterated_prisoner's_dilemma here where it starts talking about robert axelrod inviting academics to participate
though this looks a lot longer than i remember it being now that im linking it... haha maybe it's not such a casual read afterall sorry
I was reading some of Suzuki Roshi's lectures, and there was one about breathing, and he was talking about how if you exhale, then inhalation flows from that and happens naturally. And then at the end of the lecture, he tells this story about his friend having a heart attack.
"The other day my friend had a heart attack, and all he could do was exhale. He couldn't inhale. That was a terrible feeling, he said. At that moment, if he could have practiced exhaling as we do, aiming for emptiness, then I think he would have not felt so bad. The great joy for us is exhaling rather than inhaling. When my friend kept trying to inhale, he thought he couldn't inhale anymore. If he could have exhaled smoothly and completely, then I think another inhalation would have come more easily."
This is one of the funniest passages I've ever read, I think. I've been thinking about it every day since I read it like two weeks ago. The lecture was given in the early 60s so maybe he didn't know a lot about heart attacks. But "if he could have practiced exhaling as we do, aiming for emptiness, then I think he would have not felt so bad" makes me laugh so hard. It's a heart attack! If he wasn't concerned about his breathing, he still would have felt very bad!
Yeah, he seems like he was a really kind guy. Here's a story about him from Zen Is Right Here
>Suzuki Roshi had been quite ill. He had been falsely diagnosed with infectious hepatitis and had gone to the hospital for more tests. I went to visit him just as lunch was served. >He motioned me to come and sit next to him at the edge of his bed. As I crossed the room he mouthed the words "I have cancer." When I sat next to him he leaned over and took a bit of food on his fork and put it into my mouth. "Now we can eat off the same plate again." He said it as if the new diagnosis were some big gift.
He later died from that cancer, too. What a cool dude.
Maria
>>682820 I don't think I'll be reading past the point of the Stochastic dilemma, but one part stuck out to me a bit >The winning deterministic strategy was tit for tat, which Anatol Rapoport developed and entered into the tournament. It was the simplest of any program entered, containing only four lines of BASIC, and won the contest. The strategy is simply to cooperate on the first iteration of the game; after that, the player does what his or her opponent did on the previous move Isn't there typically a rule about not allowing communication between two players? If so, then wouldn't this always lose to a strategy that revolves around defection or doesn't realise that this player will copy their previous moves?
>>682826 Oh what I'm saying doesn't work in the context of a tournament It's a bit late for me to actually think
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>>682824 haha that's cool >>682825 well if it's doing what the other one did last time, and the other one is based around defection, then they're both missing out on potential value these aren't about trying to beat any single opponent in the transaction, it's trying to earn as much value for themselves as possible the winning strategies earn the most value for themselves throughout the competition, facing off against a range of different strategies
ones based around defection tend to perform really badly over the long term in this regard they're also playing the same opponent for a lot of rounds each iteration i should add
There are a lot of really cool stories about him in this book.
>During a discussion, someone asked Suzuki Roshi if he ate meat. >"Yes, I do," he replied. >"Buddha didn't eat any meat." >"Yes, Buddha was a very pious man."
Haha, Laz is running around, having fun, full of energy. He ran along the futon, jumped up on the counter next to me, slid across and fell off into the kitchen, landed, and just kept running in another direction. I'm a lot like Laz.
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>>682825 in the isolated scenario where it's just you and the other prisoner, defecting always is better for your own gain and always guarantees advantage over the other but yeah the tournaments are diff
After I move out west, I'll have a /moe/ party! Everyone can come over and meet Laz! Fish will probably be ready to meet people by then. She's doing good with her anxiety.
My buddy with a wife and 1yo baby might end up homeless soon. He works at Raytheon on satellites and stuff like that, but he still can't afford $1200 rent a month even with his Master's. They have a roommate right now but they announced they were moving out next month, and the new lease has to be signed soon, but they won't be able to afford it now. So they have a month or so to find a place they can afford. They have really bad credit, too.
things are really hard. could they maybe look for a new roommate before then?
that's kind of what happened to me in tennessee... we were supposed to renew and i found out about a month prior to then that my roommate was going to leave i had to immediately move with no preparations and lost a lot of // really everything i owned in the process things are hard sometimes
Anno
>>682828 my cat ran into my room when i got home to take my clothes off jumped up on my bed rant // ran to the other side zipped out the room i went to sit down at my chair and she came up and jumped on the top of the chair and hit me in the fuckin head! then jumped down and rolled over on her belly like what you gonna do about it bitch
>>682836 I was suggesting some people we both know that are looking for roommates, but they said it wouldn't work. They shut the suggestions down pretty quickly, so I'm assuming they already thought about that stuff and didn't push it. They might be able to find a place across the river in a poorer area. He said he's going to apply for something there. The market is really bad here. It's cheaper to have a mortgage than rent, and you need better credit to rent than buy, but buying really isn't feasible for most people.
I've been poor most of my life, but I've been lucky enough that I haven't been on the verge of homelessness before. Even when my house was about to foreclose after my parents' divorce, I was able to go live with my mom and my dad went to live with his girlfriend.
I wish I could do something. If my mom and grandmother were to die, I would inherit a lot of money and I could help support my friends. But I don't think that'll happen, so it'll probably be 5 or so more years until I'm making enough as a psychologist to support my friends consistently.
i keep thinkin about that summer house down south my dad built with his dad it's there. the land and the house are fully paid for, being self built and all i have no channels to talk to my family about any of that though.
also i think it's had to be maintained all this time and i assume my cousin has been there doing that, but i have no idea if so then he's got some merit to staying there it's actually pretty close to the beach too like a half hour drive we used to visit there in the summer. it's a reasonably sized house too, i could have three or so people stay there with me comfortably it probably requires some upkeep but it wouldn't be too bad.
i wish i knew how to make that happen. i could have saved up so much money these past years not paying rent, and could save going forward too. could bring other /moe/ friends having a hard time if needed, but i guess everyone else is kind of locked in at the moment. i really cant live alone though.
it's in the deep south too so there's cockroaches and snakes and all that i remember them being consistent problems but that might just me not being used to it
ive got kind of a discomfort with the whole southern baptist thing though that i grew up around and that's the community around there i believe
>At a time when several states and cities have banned kratom, a powerful congressional committee is recommending that the herbal supplement be studied in clinical trials because of its βpotential promising resultsβ in treating chronic pain.
they shut down the golden Sahara Hotel Jessica says it won't be long til they blow it all to hell
Anno
white people are upset that the black guy in ff7 remake sounds like the characterization he had in the original game instead of a "less racist" remodeling
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i havent heard it but in my head im imagining white folks sayin it's racist to give a black character a stereotypical black person voice that it'll reinforce racist stereotypes and instead we should whitewash him fuck
Kirara π
white people in general are so bad at anti-racism but it's so easy
Maria
I guess mr T is racist now
Kirara π
>(CNN) A previously extinct species of bird returned from the dead, reclaiming the island it previously lived on and re-evolving itself back into existence, scientists have said. ...you what
>>682850 yeah when you have white people trying to determine what constitutes a "negative stereotype" and it turns out just being things about that cultural that seem negative to a white person stuff gets whitewashed and they dont even realize they're doing it
can't have someone enjoying watermelon in this movie watermelons are so negative replace it with more positive foods like brie on pear slices
>>682849 you basically hit it square in the nail right there >>682851 apparently Mr T should be less racist to himself
Kirara π
>>682853 white people are generally so enmeshed in their place in power dynamics that they're just completely incapable of looking at it realistically it's weird they don't understand the irony of what they're doing
it's okay! we brought in a group of African-Americans who watch our show to participate in a focus group, and ran these ideas past them and used a quality measure index to determine receptivity to the messaging I think you'll agree! the qualitative models we've interpreted here show they really like it
>>682862 nothing as in...? no plans? no koishi for koishi day and no mother for mother's day? i dont understand
Maria
>>682863 It's the best dude Write an article on a social controversy about a group you don't like doing something dumb Then just spam it all over the internet and bam you've got a real social controversy pushing back against the group behind the original non existant controversy You don't even need to post the url anywhere just chuck a screencap of the headline up on twitter and people will line up to dunk on an opinion no one ever even held
Kirara π
>>682865 the algorithm is so good that all you need is a few keywords and it'll be in millions of news feeds too
what kind of financial incentive can you draw from that? in terms of magnitude i mean i think me and kirara together could manufacture some really good drama yall can join in too no offense
>>682867 Well you need to get some ad revenue And maybe somehow get paid by stakeholders? You know, ruffle some controversy that will benefit someone directly, get paid by said person I'm sure there's all sorts of groups bidding for public influence
I'm willing to pretend to be stupid on twitter if you need me to be Something like "controversy! leftists want to tear down the statue of liberty! " Then get me and Kiraras sockpuppet twitters making a few off hand tweets about it, chuck them in an article, maybe include a Ben Garrison cartoon at the end, and we're good to go. Everyone's going to click the article about the dangerous menace tearing down an American icon
Yeah, if I had to guess, I'd say it's probably ad revenue Although these days maybe you can get investors with just tweet engagements since many people just read headlines.
I think we could be really successful when it comes to social manufacturing
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ads is a weak platform i can think of better things. i just meant want potential earnings i wouldn't want to invest the effort of spending say two days of hard research, planning, and execution unless there was like id say at least like $2k to show for it that we could split up that's still pretty small too for the time investment i mean 40 or 50 bucks an hour is nice but there are steady jobs that pay that. effort investments like this should be more fruitful it'd be a start though, and after doin that for a while and getting known, people would be willing to commission services
i think it's important to distance yourself from commerce for something like that since it's the least elastic market everyone's already flooding any and every avenue to push sales and conversions and frankly, those with higher investments can act more fluidly in those markets because they have higher margins on each conversion if you're an affiliate and you get 30% off of every conversion, you can invest a lot to get those conversions and still get good return but if you're a direct retailer and you're doing that in-house, you've got 100% of each conversion, minus overhead you can occupy more channels, or outbid on the same channels and get the conversion and still make more
that's commerce all around. and people simply don't care about commerce anyway. if your content is disconnected from commerce, even then the ads are going to a visitor base that doesn't care so it's going to have low relevancy if you want to force it with a pay per viewing of the ad as opposed to hit conversion or something thats fine but you're investing a lot of time to make residual income in small amounts and you've made a huge traffic network for nothing you could have done that in easier ways
>>682874 yeah i don't really know much about making money from a project
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i mean it would prolly still work you could just make stuff and get traffic and monetize it but it's so passionless that way i got no motivation for that
Kirara π
>>682872 this is when they post like "oh god im gonna lose my house and my kids. mary jane come back. please oh god" and get like 10 million engagements of people laughing at them
oh no the eggplants oof a friend was doing a cooking stream recently and was making something, i dont remember, curry maybe was cooking the diced onions and she's like "oh i dont think they're done yet but they'll cook while the other stuff is cooking so i'll add it in now" nooooo you cant do that i was so distressed
in maezumi roshi's book, he was talking about breathing and he said that in japanese you say ko kyu which is exhale, inhale as opposed to English where we say inhale, exhale that difference is really interesting to me
it feels like it has a tangible difference too like exhaling before i inhale is a lot more satisfying than inhaling first
>>682903 I want to follow my friends. I don't mind if there's anime on my timeline.
FormerRei@mobile
>>682910 If you love her so much why haven't you visited her?
ToN
>>682918 thatβs fair i followed you a good while back but thats when your rts were a lot more political focused at the time so i actually had to refollow you today
ToN
>>682919 time effort and money to visit a foreign country for something im not super wanting to do at the time
FormerRei@mobile
>>682921 Wow You unlike most people could visit their waifu but choose not to. How can you say you love her if you don't want to visit her?
ToN
correction i can visit the corpse that contained the soul of my waifu
FormerRei@mobile
>>682923 Closer than most people to visiting their actual waifu Aside from the kancolle that haven't been sunk or disassembled.
ToN
true but bep is rooted deep in my heart so im fine for now
ToN
tbat having been said though inwill admit my current commission actually isnt bep
>>682920 Yeah, after 1000 followers, you can start just shitposting and continue to gain clout without getting super political. I actually stopped caring about getting new followers, though. Now I just shitpost and tell people to take care of themselves mostly.
Nothing blinds my eyes more than the negative of another person. It's as if I never... I never thought anything. I never wrote anything, I never felt anything.
That would be a pretty interesting transition though.
Kirara π
>>>/@CNN/1126854429234405376 people are really mad that a firm wants to build the damaged church into something with the explicit purpose of helping underprivileged people. glad to see the christians are still extremely normal followers of the bible and jesus' teachings
>>682942 the after-credits scene on JW3 will have morpheus stepping out from behind something like "even when you've lost sight of the reality of this world, you're still at war with it... you really are the One"
>>682948 Why? Most of the people angry about this have never seen it and will never visit it. They're mad about something that doesn't affect them negatively in any way. Why are they so attached to it?
>>682952 >a movie theatre Yeah let's commercialise the historic building Just make sure to show God's Not Dead at least once a day Gotta placate the Christians somehow
>>682955 Let's get sponsorships "this sermon brought to you by McDonalds"
I shook hands with either John Howard or Kevin Rudd. The Australian PM at the time was visiting some memorial in Ottawa at the same time my grade eight class was taking a school trip to the country capital and his arrival just happened to coincide with ours. Was a polite enough guy to shake hands with a bunch of pre-teen kids but that's literally my whole knowledge and rememberance of the occasion.
Marsh shitposting on the go via telephone
>>682984 Well you already know more about Australian politics than most people in this country Just from that one interaction
Maria
>>682984 you don't get votes by not shaking kids hands in photo ops
oh right I wonder if there's a polling place around
Marsh shitposting on the go via telephone
>>682995 Heh. It's kind of funn y. Your vote will probably carry more weight than mine. Since the ACT is pretty much a foregone conclusion And you don't even live here
they've put a bunch of data collection stuff in our contract now at work like whether we're speeding 5km over the limit, accelerate too hard or brake too fast etc. they really like to make work a pain in the ass for their workers, huh
Anno
they even banned the use of the bluetooth built into the truck they wanted to put cameras in but were stopped by the union apparently
Oh i dont think i showed you that book https://www.melonbooks.co.jp/detail/detail.php?product_id=505471 Im going to hope this is the right link and not some lewd one.
I have a masters degree and I've never once started an assignment early It's fine ! I only failed to complete an assignment once in my life! unintentionally
>>683088 I bet you do I bet you don't even those stupid noises and transitions or low quality gifs don't even put in gosh >>683089 a man after my π a real titty connoisseur >>683087 is buddy complex like top gun at all? >>683096 see I was talking about stupid clipart and dumb gifs you download off Google that actually looks pretty good
>>683092 >buddy complex That's Klim Nick from Mobile Suit Gundam Reconguista in G though And no I wouldn't really say that Buddy Complex is like Top Gun But I would absolutely tell you to watch Buddy Complex And also G-reco but only if you have a >300 level iq or you won't get it
Anno
Fuck! I'm sorry I haven't watched all the good anime
There are many shows like that I know I would probably really enjoy Cross Ange But I dunno if I'll ever actually get to it
>>683103 It really annoys me when people go "WOW, you haven't seen (movie)????"
Anno
It's fine, not everyone needs to watch everything. There's more than enough media in the world for people to not have to watch everything everyone else does.
screencaps don't usually hook me for shows I guess these days I'm spoilt enough I can just look up short little clips on youtube and that'll usually pique my interest
my clutch pedal doesn't want to engage on the first go guess it's time to go to the mechanics hope it's not something serious I don't know all that much about cars so I don't have a much of a clue
FormerRei@mobile
Did I mention that the bears around here know how to open car doors and house doors? The woman we're staying with showed me video of a bear trying to open her front door.
the owner of the park seems to border between banter and actually being mean he made me really uncomfortable for just wanting the site for the week granted I come off as pretty sketchy, it wasn't helping that he made fun of me
Anno
like why are you STRESSED man CHILL OUT
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>>683138 it used to be quite lively at night i really wish i had a second monitor so i could put these shows on in the background while i work to catch up
I guess I'd say that it's usually like that, sure If you like yuri and sports and dramatic hyped up sports you'll like Saki Except by sport I mean mahjong Except you don't need to understand mahjong because all the mahjong in Saki is bullshit
>>683153 oh I see well I suppose even if the mahjong is bullshit I still bet it probably got a bit of people into mahjong
Maria
>>683156 It's nice seeing new people get into it with stuff like Akagi or ff14
Maria
The psp game even lets you replicate the lesbian magic bs
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when i first saw akagi, i thought it was just mahjong-themed and really overhyped with a bunch of outlandish things to make it seem more exciting
but over time i kind of realized that Akagi is designed as an introduction and tutorial to mahjong in the way the events span over key themes in mahjong. not only are the events not that outlandish, but they're pretty key elements to understand in playing mahjong really. of course the scenarios like wagering whole fortunes or your own blood is outlandish, but the in-game craziness really isn't that unrealistic.
the whole washizu mahjong arc i think was done for simplification to the viewer to understand what it's like once you can read tiles and waits just making the ties transparent is a much easier way to process it without lengthy explanations but it's really cool seeing that arc play out once you understand mahjong, and seeing how the game changes when you know tiles. they spend a whole episode on that hand where akagi and washizu are both waiting on the same tile, but washizu has like four waits and akagi only has one, and also that akagi is in riichi and washizu isnt, so there are three other tiles he can get to change his wait to one of the tiles that his partner has
i generally dont enjoy yuri shows very much, though there are some exceptions i dont really see any reason for me to watch saki personally. if it was airing right now i might
Maria
>>683161 I would say that the two are very different shows Akagi is a show that I find exponentially more enjoyable after having learned how to play mahjong Saki I think doesn't scale the
>>683163 four times in a row to rinshan kaiho a yakuman, you don't really need to understand what any of those terms mean to get it. The lightning and the music and the shocked expressions spell out that Saki is pulling some unlikely trick out of a hat and that's all you really need to know. Akagi is enjoyable without understanding mahjong, but if you get mahjong, then you have a much deeper understanding of what Akagi does and why Akagi does it. You'll see Akagi make some sort of confusing, seemingly nonsense move, then when it pays off you get a little "aha!" moment where you suddenly understand why he did it and why it was so smart of him.
Saki is basically the Girls und Panzer of mahjong anime
Also if you ever get into Akagi I would personally advise the manga over the anime. It's better paced I think since it's faster to explain something in text than verbally, and also if you need to look something up or stop and think about something then it's less awkward to pause a manga than it is an anime. Also the anime isn't a complete story
>>683168 >Desu2 is so much better In terms of voice work or the game in general?
>>683170 DeSu2 has much better balanced combat and I like the bond system it uses because it emphasises the games time management more
But I still prefer DeSu1 based on its atmosphere and story. 2 doesn't quite have the same sense of dread and struggle that I get from 1 I'm very nostalgic for DeSu as my first SMT game though
>>683171 >when they first start seeing the 7s above everyones heads and freak out Deathclock was an amazing story element
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>>683169 'in every way' so yes game in general voicework, gameplay, characters, pacing
like I liked desu1 back when I first played it and DeSu2 just improves on the formula, so trying to go back and play Overclocked after playing both DeSu2 and Remake was ehhhhh
Yeah, I do agree I really like the SMT feel of DeSu1. But the story is so much slower and the gameplay gets in the way of enjoying it. Deathclock story element was strong, Amane is cutest, your cousin is a cool dude.
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have you ever missed someone so much
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>>683169 oh shit desu1 was your first real smt too?
>>683173 hell yeah it was Nothing else really compares to the feeling I've gotten from DeSu though. The modern setting mixed in with mythology and the wide amount of endings and impact of player choice really appealed to me. I dislike how rigid alignments are in other smt games. Like in IV you get Law, Chaos, Neutral, that's it. DeSu just has so much more freedom in how things go down
>>683175 yeah that too. You have such a wider variety of choice
>>683172 I don't know and I worry that says something about how weak my bonds to others are
Like one thing I think that holds DeSu1 back vs two is that even though there's like 8 other gettable characters you're stuck with either Keisuke or Midori until like the final day.
people are wasteful, they waste all the food people are hateful, and people are rude but god I love people sometimes because people are very very special
>>683175 >the gang receives a laplace email saying that three people are murdered by a snowman at 1pm >they hang around the location specified in the email at the exact same time These teens are too dumb to live
>>683190 $15 a night for what a place to stay? that seems really good
that sucks though it's hard to make do when you don't have any cooking facilities
Anno
>>683191 at a caravan park >>683192 yeah, I don't know what the metric is for measuring campsite value is but I was pretty happy with that place this on the other hand is probably the worst place I've been
I got like 30 new followers yesterday It's weird being a big account
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>>683194 hot damn those are some numbers I don't have one no I don't think I want to go buy one either just yet >>683195 nah it's a gas electric thingy I think I'm going to get bk instead if my car will stop being trash
there's a lot of stuff in here about how to stitch videos for VR and ideas for 360 camera road trips a lot of it sounds fun we didnt do any of that did we
and there's a lot of notes on insulin too but im not diabetic
Anno
well you were making a insulin mole at some point, iirc?
Kirara π
>>683211 maybe i can bring the 360 camera to denver
>>683212 a star apparently >>683213 might be fun i think the window for making VR ridealongs in luxury cars is probably done though denver's a leisure trip anyway shouldnt bring work along
georgia passed a new law where you can get a felony if you have a miscarriage or get an abortion or plan to go to another state to have an abortion it's a very very very bad law
so alyssa milano, a "feminist" activist who has a lot of clout wants to go on a #SexStrike she thinks you can combat a law that is intended to stop women from having sex by not having sex thousands of people have been supporting her and telling her "yes, this is good. if you don't want to get pregnant, don't have sex. then you won't miscarry or have an abortion" and she keeps doubling down on it even though she's obviously playing into the hands of the dudes who made the law
now she's trying to tear down black activists who disagree with her (while ignoring the white ones who do) she's like gaslighting tons of people on twitter about it now
she also posted a link to a page with the history of sex strikes to show that they work but at the end of the article, it had an analysis of why it won't work in the US so she didn't even read the article
that sounds pretty disastrous and something i'd like to stay far away from all around
that georgia law is pretty infuriating though
i dunno it feels like an initiative based around sex is a bad idea to begin with. i feel like a lot of the people actively participating and being vocal would be people who aren't having much sex anyway and that just kind of throws the whole thing off. and pure maidens like me who are completely ace have no voice in this initiative.
i suppose for the same reason though the georgia law doesnt apply to me but that doesn't mean im not distressed by it
Maria
>>683218 >if you have a miscarriage Is that a real part of the law
>>683221 >investigating miscarriages Thats so cruel How do they even expect to investigate or prove such a thing Where's your riots
yeah, it is because you can induce a miscarriage so if you have a miscarriage, they're going to investigate you for murder (of the fetus) and according to the law, you can get a felony if they decide you did it on purpose
>>683220 that's the fun part there's no framework to do so, which terrifies people because they don't know what's going to happen or how fair it will be but that's the point, to scare people so if you have a miscarriage, you can't go to the hospital now even though you need to
the point of the law is to be so extreme that they can use it to declare abortion unconstitutional and outlaw it in every state someone will bring it to the supreme court and the court (which trump loaded illegally) will overturn Roe v Wade and outlaw abortion throughout the united states
>>683219 it's all very distressing terrible things are happening which is distressing but then all of the people with the clout to do anything are too liberal and stupid to actually do something that doesn't empower our oppressors
ζ
protesting should be done responsibly so you dont inadvertently hurt your cause twitter mobilizes people so easily that there's not really enough pause to reflect on whether or not what you're doing is a good idea
it's really easy for bad actors to use the platform to use their followers to get attention, too i'm pretty sure alyssa is just doing this for attention
she was originally an actor she has never had the experiences that people who actually want to change the world for the better have had because she's never even seen what the world is really like she doesn't know how to help other people because her entire life has been focused on her ego
by the way, did you send me that list you wanted me to look at? i don't see it in my email did you send it to >>683228 ohhhh let's see hmm, nope, i don't see it which email did you use? is it the one that you can abbreviate to MRG@gmail?
ζ
it would be direct from the website so it may have went to your spam i said "email to me" and then put in your email
I don't see it anywhere. Maybe you can try sending it again? Or you can send it to populistpenguin at gmail. That's the email I use for dsa stuff but it'll work for this I'm sure
there are a few people i feel i need to reconnect with and explain my situation so we can pick up where we left off but things dont really work that way
even if they understand and believe me, and even then if they're still around, they've simply moved on a lot of my important channels are gone and i have to start all over from scratch there's nothing i can really do about that.
Nothing blinds my eyes more than the negative of another person. It's as if I never... I never thought anything. I never wrote anything, I never felt anything.
Kirara π
yokubo o shiboritore
Anno
well at least the showers work it's 10c/50f outside so I appreciate a nice shower
I'll have to get started on a concrete idea for the next one.
That Nier originally was a swimsuit idea but then he said he was only doing headshot or bust-up, so bridal Nier became an idea. I could go back to Bep Cosplays, go for Nier a Tomato, or maybe pick from a third mobage or something.
>sekiro all beads/memories speedrun in 1:16:30 >O'rin is the last split meaning done last I can't believe Kirara's waifu was the last boss the whole time
Kirara π
O'Rin (Mother) for DLC boss hardest boss more anime than isshin
Talesof !NuKeSlvmWE
>Code Vein: 50 minutes of gameplay oh right that game exists when's it coming out >Uhhhh t-this year we swear alright I'll stop caring about it
is "i can't stop thinking about" just a way of getting engagements off ideas that aren't yours without actually contributing anything i feel like people are trying to think up something meaningful to comment about it but can't come up with it so they just say "i can't stop thinking about ___"
Anno
I see it more as a way of signalling this is a concept you're really caught on and want to prompt more people to talk/think about it.
that's probably some create-your-own dressup character creation thing but that art style is horrid it's very distressing to be mining through pinterest for aesthetic things and then come across that
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They've all got that "guy that visits the gym but only does the weights lifting that makes you set your shoulders and arms way too far apart" look.
pretty much yeah. i have deadlines, so it's basically the same as if you're working on something for school and just gotta have it done by a certain time that's why i tend to do these hellish 20+ hour shifts because im retarded
ζ
it would be a lot smoother if i had a mechanical keyboard and a second monitor though what's going to take me 20 hours now would take me about 14 hours with the right setup and save a lot of strain on my tendons
someone has offered to send me some of their stuff that they have since upgraded from for my birthday i reluctantly accepted but they never ended up shipping it off, and i have a feeling they probably never will but i'll wait a little bit just in case. i appreciate the offer though. paypal gets really angry about sending money across the seas anyway
every time ive gotten hand-me-down hardware like that, it's always really poorly maintained... not to sound ungrateful about it but like a couple times roommates or people have been like "oh here i have an old keyboard/mouse" or "im about to get a new one do you want this one" and they're always soooo gunky, like people dont clean their stuff at all never clean underneath the keys, never get the residue off the key surfaces, some keys stick when pressed down, other ones just have a sticky feel to them i can't get off even after copious rubbing alcohol
i dont understand how people can live like this
FormerRei@mobile
>>683313 Two of the three second hand keyboards I own were really gross.
Anno
I've been really meaning to give my keyboard a thorough cleaning but it's so easy to keep putting it off. My PC needs a de-dusting too while I'm at it.
This Student Allowance thing is such bullshit I don't really care what happens to the money. and I'm living with my parents again so it's not like I've got to pay for food/rent. I'd like to help out a friend.
Anyway - my morning half hour for anime and shitposting has to come to an end. I'll catch up with you guys later.
okay good luck on your studies and exam marsh bye bye
FormerRei@mobile
>>683315 Just take off the keys and soak them in a bowl with dish soap over night. Then while they're off use canned air to get the inner parts clean. It doesn't take very long.
Maria
I had a weird bloodborne dream last night It ended with me being about to shoot Getrude with a revolver on top of a skyscraper and I really wish I didn't have to get up and go to work because it was a sick dream and I never got to see the conclusion
FormerRei@mobile
I was in a party of people fighting some sort of lava boss and we had a very thin walkway to run around on and I was tearing off pieces of it to throw at her but somehow an alternative way of beating her was destroying a Parthenon like structure behind her. She was also tgrowing stuff and I was catching ut and throwing it back but my aim was bad.
My dreams are just the infinite darkness with shapes of all sizes moving and writhing within the darkness, I can't make out their forms but I see their movements.
ToN
i had some sort of dreams the last two nights but they were t notable enough to write down
hmmm I didn't get to see somebody on friday night and that frustrated me a bit. On top of that, my computer is having problems. It doesn't really want to turn on too well anymore.
I've been having some troubles getting in contact with some people I've been wantin to see lately myself.
do you know what the problem is? hopefully it's just a power supply issue and can be quick fixed
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>>683360 Mine has the opposite problem; it doesn't want to stop turning on. I'll put it into sleep mode when I go to bed and it turns itself on and goes back to sleep several times a night. It's not uncommon for me to wake up to it whirring away. I'd rather it rest properly because PC parts aren't designed to run constantly.
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>>683362 [β] Let it go to voicemail, forgetting you haven't set up your voicemail inbox
Dinner was okay. My chicken was a little cold, but that was okay. Mom still isn't the kind of person I like to spend time with, but I didn't get upset or annoyed at dinner. I have shed some of my attachments which has helped me to experience dinner without too much extra, so I was able to enjoy it.
>>683376 it's a little frustrating when sensationalism catches wind of something youve created with earnest i can't really say how much earnestness goes into a tweet, but nonetheless i get more distressed than excited by large amounts of attention
>>683377 Nothing in particular. I made a cheap, petty comment criticizing people who disliked the design of this Notre Dame concept. It exploded for some reason unexpectedly. This morning at 8am, it had a fraction of those RTs.
Even muted, it was bothering me. It's unseemly. I got like 40 followers from this tweet which bothers me.
>>683378 I'm not distressed by the attention, but I don't like the influence that such attention can have on a person.
I also don't think my comment was fair, so to see it become so widespread makes me feel inauthentic.
>>683392 Lee get te quote *lemme get tge quote *the Fuck
FormerRei@mobile
Also I'm seated next to a fat guy on the plane RIP
FormerRei@mobile
Okay I can't find the quote but basically one of the state senators said that "I'm sure the makers of any dugs that prevent fertilized eggs fom attaching to the uterus would be able to figure out a way to make their dtugs comply" Another thing is that the law would require ectopic pregnancies to have the embryo transplanted into the uterus Which is a medical procedure which does not exist.
FormerRei@mobile
Ugh There are two babies close behind me and they won't shut up.
Anno
thanks rei the world is a fucked up place
FormerRei@mobile
The law won't stand up in court though
FormerRei@mobile
Bbl
Maria
>>683379 Dude think of all the new followers on your soundcloud though
/moe/ isn't as fast-paced as it once was. please try to be careful about five or six consecutive posts where one would do. people do keep a tab open and check when new posts come up and it's a bit discouraging when it's just chainposting
im guilty of it too i know and im trying to be more cautious of it myself. it just makes the board cleaner and is a little less obstructive thanx
Anno
>>683398 you would hope so but it really even shouldn't be considered
Kirara π
>>683398 the law was written explicitly so it would go to the supreme court and overturn roe
the cop song in sarazanmai is really interesting they say two things in it that are interesting 欲ζγγζζΎγγͺοΌ / yokubo o tebanasu na 欲ζγγζΎγεγοΌ/ yokubo o shiboritore the first is "don't let go of your desires" but then next they say "let go of your desires"
>>683406 hmmm shiboritore shouldn't be let go of yeah what tilde's saying
it looks like it'd mean something along the lines of wring out your desires or extrude them i could see how it might translate as let go of or get rid of in some settings but i think here's it's saying don't let go of them, squeeze them out by force (to obtain them)
like if you're wringing water out of a shirt you're trying to get rid of the water but if you were doing something like that to, say, a teabag, you're trying to obtain what you're wringing out instead of get rid of it
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>>683406 Well those two verbs are different words so maybe there's some language playing around there.
oh yeah, no problem i have until 5 instead of until noon so it should be fine do we do anime tonight? i should have time for that and it'll be a nice break for my hands if not that's cool
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Probably? I can't imagine Rika's gonna be partying on a Sunday too. Hopefully Jan and Ika are good for it too.
it's awfully cold for being mid may already sheesh
Anno
Yeah it's been pretty chilly over here too. I'm getting kind of annoyed about it, I want to have my window open and enjoy the warm spring air.
Anno
A friend of mine got in contact with me just now asking for a place to stay, Now I'm not living on my own and still with my folks, so the permission he'd be seeking would be theirs, not mine. That alone poses some problems. The last time they knew this friend, my mother really didn't like him. To be fair back then he was a bit of an unpleasant guy, lying pretty freely and messing around with me and his other friends using those lies to seem like he was cooler or more impressive or whatever. I haven't seen him in like four years, and even then it was the first time I'd seen him in about as many years. But he seems to have become a much more normal guy. If I'm assuming it's the truth he's telling he's out of a place to live, doesn't have his identification or bank cards or more clothes than the ones on his back. Still, my mother probably still harbours that unease about him. On top of that, my youngest sister still lives with us, and while I don't think this guy is likely to be ... that way, it might make my parents worry about taking in a relative male stranger into the house. Not to mention my parents are starting to wear thin their patience of hosting me at home recently too. If they want to encourage me to leave, they might be hesitant to let me lend this guy room.
If I can do good and lend someone who really needs a place, I'd like to, but it's not really my place to do it without my parents' consent. But I don't think I can successfully plead his case to my parents.
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why even ask anything about it all you will ever receive is a worm of "I am fine" in less or more words
>>683450 I understand you probably weren't posting that to ask advice but just wanted to monologue a little bit, but if you are asking what I think no not even worth considering i get that you want to help but imagine how your sister is going to feel even if the guy doesn't cause any problems and what if he does? it's maybe not likely, but it's some guy down on life and kind of desperate and it sounds like he's never been that considerate of others in the first place god forbid he does anything to her you'd be trying to live that down your whole life and your poor sister... it's just no
but even if it's not problematic, your sister and family don't really know what the outcomes are going to be. it's going to make everyone very uncomfortable. you dont know if he's going to creep around and look for stuff to steal, dig through private information and try to open a credit card in someone's name in your family, use your wifi to download illegal things, creep through your sister's room, whatever
maybe he doesn't seem like someone who would do that, but you would be surprised how well people can hide their intentions when they have dark pleasures like that
>>683468 Yeah, that's pretty inline with a lot of the concerns I had been thinking over. I'm also not able to be home all the time to keep an eye on him. He did say he'd be willing to leave the house when I did if that would help, but I've still got to sleep at some point, and there's other stuff you mentioned he could probably do behind my back pretty easily. I feel kind of grimy having to think of him in these ways. I know I didn't paint a great picture of him earlier but that was like, highschool him and me. It's been almost a decade since then. Aside from the lying, him and his family always treated me really well. Was always willing to have me over for the night on Friday or whateve where we'd crash and play games or shit, and his mother was more than happy to cook both dinner and breakfast.
ζ
are you talking about him staying for just a night or something? like if youve got a spot for him and it's just overnight that's one thing if you're talking long term it's a really bad idea
Anno
It sounds like he needs a place for long-term, which, yeah, is what's got me particularly concerned.
home is supposed to be a place to feel safe not sure if you've ever felt unsafe in your home but it's a really distressing feeling
i know you wanna help him but you'd be hurting your whole family in taking away their sense of safety and they'd have to be on guard in their own home and things get awkward
i think you should worry more about them. even if no harm is done, their comfort is still displaced, and that comfort isn't a trivial thing or a luxury, it's an important thing
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Yeah, and those are things I feel would my parents, especially my mother, would consider if I were to ask them. Even if my mother doesn't like someone she's kind of a fundamentally decent person. But even that probably isn't enough to overcome the smart sense of protection.
