Thread #933459

But what if I don't want anything

There's probably some kid in Bangladesh who will do it for like a 10th of the price

@kirara @moon
yeah kirara was here for sure 2012 because he introduced me when I was at UK // starting at UK which was August 2012

i'll do it but i won't tell anyone

The easter bunny is one crafty fucker
He really upped his game this year

I've been searching all morning and i still haven't found any eggs

You must've missed the memo to buy your own dang eggs

>"I want you to meet my friends." She waves her hand, and the gas lamps in the room turn off, as the candles gutter out. A bright red light emanates from the corner of the room, as a black portal opens. Out of it step four people: a gothic girl with a lute, a large tough-looking man holding some kind of machine gun, a teenage boy with a metal arm who is holding a knife, and a small, pudgy boy with thick glasses.
uh oh
who are these adventures
adventurers
earthbound?

chocolate chocolate
you make me feel

>>933468
>>>/watch?v=M8HhQIs18Q4

chocolate disco is the best PERFUME song

also the only Stand named after Japanese music

Jojo part 2 was the best fite me

jojo suck

You suck

ye

god these chess meme videos are so dumb but i keep watching them
brain: gone

Regain your brain

I had to briefly interrupt my shower to kill five mice in the bathroom. Turns out there was a wheat bag in there and they had gotten into it.

The fuck

>>933480
go back to sleep kirara

Fortunately it's a pretty closed up space, but yeah, messy stuff.
>>933484
It's a bag of wheat you heat up to apply to sore muscles. Maybe I should have had the foresight to buy the non-wheat kind.
>>933486
Minus the bare hands, but yes unfortunately.

Also why are you keeping wheat in your bathroom

I hate it when bags of commodities spawn in my clean zone

so you just killed five mice while naked and dripping wet with your bare hands?

fookin' mental
i would be traumatized if that happened to me
how are you doing?

frick off and party!!!

wow u frick im gonna pour a glass of wine and yeet it into my gullet

Please consume it properly into your gullet

>>933487
I'm fine, it's just an annoying problem right now, probably brought upon by the floods. There was at least ten in my room the other night. The bathroom kind of looks like a crime scene right now.

>>933490
fuck
ok google how to surgically remove glass shards

>>933491
jesus christ
ganbaru ne

japan has a cockruoach problem rather than a rat problem

There's a plague of them, apparently.
>>933496
Holster your gun, soldier.

i have a gun problem
i cant stop cremeing to hot guns and boats
>>933495
oops

>>933492
One piece at a time I would think.
>>933494
Gross, we had a lot of those at the old place.

get rid of the food and u get rid off the pests thats what the army says for field san
sanitaTion

so just burn down ur house

it's the only way to be sure.

>>933498
Field san, always on the field.

wtf
vinny talking like he's been cancelled

why do we fall, mr wayne?

so we can get back up :)

>>>/@VS_Experiences/1378068779054235650
okay this looks fake as fuck
i guess we'll see what happens

you seem to have a really nice bobs section as well (please dont kill me) and that's my favorite.

there's audio that's kinda convincing but it's also crusty as fuck
intrigue

>>933505
afaik its already been debunked

i hope so
when he streamed just now it sounds like he's gonna enact some kind of defense or make a statement or something
didn't sound guilty but really what do i know

i mean he was just playing galgun if thats not proof then i dunno what counts

>>933505
Yeah it's supposed to ne *be fake.

how bizarre
i wonder if this is some weirdo projecting their own sins

how do yall feel about gradient ascent

>>933513
it ain't easy fighting gravity

or gradient descent for that matter
is there a way to identify metastable structures or is it just a gamble

oo bb i do love sliding down some slopes to the deep valleys beyond

THERE, THE CREVACE!

welp
my winning streak turned into a losing streak
also now i'm drunk
hmm

>>>/@binance/1378580608956432386

i miss rene

>>>/@AugustusRotter/1378432530408439809
is HIV cured?

wait hold up
if they get HIV of off this - isn't this kind of a really big deal
oh wording
if they get a good vaccine for HIV from the COVID vaccine research, isn't the easiest assumption next that this can probably be used for other stuff too?
that's like textbook chapter turning point in human history
if it works out, that's fantastic

>>933522
it sounds like a really big deal!
i hope it's not just clickbait

i mean i'm not going to take anything as fact until there's more about it
but the idea is certainly powerful

>dating sim designed to teach basic japanese
>50% off

Do i dare

does it give u a mail order japanese?

never pay more than 5 dollars for a video game
- guybrush threepwood

i payed more than that for atelier ryza 2 for the windows steam

Tadaimback

>>933527
Listen, Threepwood
I spend more than that on FREE games

Timezones are a magical thing
People are still able to sell turnips, while I can buy them on my island

>>933531
fuckin time travelers are everywhere
they got no respect for boundaries or market prices

playin chess after midnight with wine and earthbound OST
[loss streak intensifies]

>>933532
oh yeah, that too I guess
last one I visited was in april 15th

I've definitely made enough bells today to be satisfied anyway
Just gonna do this one last trip, and I've got 2 more batches laying around for later this week

time traveling for money in a game like animal crossing seems just sorta strange to me though
The whole game is kinda meant to be a bit of a timesink, so you have something you can chip away at over a long period of time
The journey, not the destination kind of game

>>933534
not bad
shame about the homophobia and misogyny
i guess it's from another time

(proceeds to call fifty people autistic)

sorry

ur not autistic
you're a neuro cutie

atypicalneuro cutie

wow
samsora banned
rip

i miss when pyra boobs was the drama

anime boobs... in smash?!?!
and butt

back to the lab again
uh oh!
back to the lab again

>>933538
Yeah it's a pretty old game

>>933547
Yeah, the eighties were at least 100 years ago

fuck im old

lets all get uploaded into a dystopic isekai stat

>>933550
You go first.

What if we're already in one?

this world has no rules or safeguards!
what terrible monster invented this game?

>>933552
S2 Soon™

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.

And the name of those consequences? Turbo shivo

>>933554
Do you really want a second season?
I'm thinking about dropping this garbage

>>933556
Yes
Bruh it's cute girls doing cute things with a little drama and action

my wrist is actin up a bit
the one i broke cycling
maybe i should Apply The Gel

>>933558
Oof
I feel your pain, i used to get really bad tendonitis in my wrists back when I was in college.

break it agsin

i used to go for physio and they would shock the shit out of my wrist with a TENS unit that was fun

>>933560
>>933560
Did you know that there's a disease that turns muscle into bone?

>>933561
did it work?

>>933563
yea the physio was a success i got my ROM back almost fully
even though i never did the exercises i was supposed to do at home
>>933562
are you talking about boneitis

>>933564
Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva, but yeah I guess its boneitis.

how's the new season of non non biyori?

snaaaake eaaaterrr

its got that frog webm thats all ive seen of it
and i lije that frog webm

It's a good webm
Very large frog though

Night /moe/

i want to eat a snake someday

STONE OCEAN STONE OCEAN STONE OCEAN STONE OCEAN

Steel Ball Run >>>>

there is a really fat squirrel on the yard

not just talkin winter coat
but actually damn fat

must get all the chicks

>>933575
heckin chonker

>>933575
eat it

why
aside from the ones my cat ate, this is prolly from the same family that hs lived like 20 metres from my mother's place for 21 years and more

that wee crops
housed a family or three as long as i can remember

I've got a ton of trees in my backyard (including a HUGE christmas tree) and we get a lot of squirrels and sparrows. It's fun to have supper while staring out of the window!

>>933575
You had a mouse problem once, right?

>>933581
people call helsinki a city, but in reality it is just a forest with buildings

japan has no tree or land at all

>>933584
Are you sure you're not on a boat?

no old age, no cessation of old age

but where I actually live
just right outside my window I can see a huge forest beginning that will go on for klicks with no inhabitants
and a spear throw to the other direction is a huge farm

it is god damn rural and just 50 klicks from our capital
fishland is just a forest and farms

I want to become an isekai elf and live in a forest like a hobo

fuck knife ears
they are only good for just that

Not all knife ears are the same
Some are cool

also lived here for quite many winters, but it still always surprises me when a good winter turns into spring
it is just snap
and you go from snow and frost to mud
simsalabim alakazam

no wonder armies throughout history have gotten fucked over by it

let me check

>>>/@uncultgems/1378663501900738561

>>933591
Does it actually just go snap?
Sounds insane

you go sleep with solid snow and ice outside
and wake up to just mud

Scary
It'd be like waking up after hibernating

yeah but hibernation is mud->mud
you skip the snow
that is the idea

So then this would be half-hibernating

that is just lame though

Human beans are lame creatures

coincidentally, finnish has a lot of words for bear, due to euphemisms
believing that saying bear, might catch its attention
and during winter, an early awakened bear is a hungry bear
so people avoided saying bear and used many nicknames for it instead, of which some stuck around as synonyms for the animal

humans are cool

tho, most common animals have around 2-5 names anyhow, but bears shine with way more

>>933601
We have a few too, but I don't think that's why

another random finnish thing
came to mind about squirrels
the word money "raha"
actually comes from "orava" squirrel
as squirrel skins were the common currency in finland for a long time, even when coinage came around it was more common to trade squirrel skins than silver or gold

>>933602
Vampires like you won't get it
We human beans hate not being able to jump off buildings and run off into the sunset

>>933604
was fhat show good i always see people post that racoon but im not a furry so indont get it

>>933607
I didn't finish it, but it was pretty fun

I only know one bear euphimism, and it has to do with stonks

i only know one euthanism

so amusingly, taking things back into the original meaning
"i will pay with money" in finnish means "i will pay with squirrel skins"

more fun animal stuff
in finnish taxman is called "verokarhu" lit. tax bear
and word "karhuta" means to "hound someone for payment/payback"

which also would mean "to be like a bear" when conjugated from "karhu" bear

and a final tangent to add in karhutta, just one t added to it
would mean "to be without a bear"

and remove the t "karhua" would mean "looking at a bear"

accusative case of bear - karhu basically

I can't bear these bear euphimisms no more

they'll come bearing down on you eventually

also
the verb bear and noun bear in english have no etymological relation to each other

oh one final one
in finnish winnie the poh is "nalle puh" which just means
"bear puh"
nalle being a cutesy name for a bear, quite similiar to say teddybear - nallekarhu

personal fav bear word btw is
"mesikämmen" - honey paw

>>>/watch?v=FhrsZIcXLvw

>>933620
Nasse is our translation of Piglet, and that's pretty close
And also kinda funny because "nasse" is also a derogatory term for nazi
Well, I guess "nazi" is already a derogatory term, but nasse is snappier

oh and final irony
I had to go look this up since I didn't know it for sue

the word "karhu" itself was one of the euphemism for bear
the original word for bear having been "otso" most likely

karhu coming from "karhea" - rough/bushy referring to the fur of the animal

so yeah
finns STILL don't refer to bear by its true name even now

stone ocean stone ocean stone ocean stone ocean

>>933623
I like this artstyle.

>>933623
nasu in finnish, which is a loanword from swedish meaning pig(let)

Oh yeah, "nasse" by itself is also a word used about pigs, but I'm not sure if that came about before or after Winnie

nasse however in finnish means "a mask" usually speficically gas mask, due to army lingo

>>933628
before

Probably yeah

not propably, factually
there wouldn't be centuries old loan word from swedish in finnish, if it was just few decades old

Oh yeah that's true

also when the character'sname is PIGLET they don't need tm kae up a name
to make up a name

they just translate it

we're not meeting at the zendo this morning because it's easter ):

buddhists do easter?

no

>>933636
many do
>>933637
many do

yeah they might do something, but they aren't celebrating death and ressurrection of the christ and redemption of man

many of them do actually

le wut
what is this, the gambler's gambit?

????
are you sure you know what a buddhist is?
there are literally zen masters who are jesuit priests

It's possible to believe in the resurrection of christ while still being a buddhist, I think
It's a bit strange, to me, but they're not inherently exclusive things

yeah well I guess it works
buddhism anyhow is a damn large umbrella term anyhow
kinda like "hinduism" isn't really a thing either per se

outside of like, india and tibet, you won't find many buddhists who believe in all that reincarnation stuff

yeah you see when you say buddhism, that is where my mind goes
not to zen practice spread world wide

most major religions are kinda huge umbrella terms, really
there's the old joke about walking into a church with 10 believers and asking what christianity is, you'll get 11 answers

well when you take in the european and middle-eastern ones
you have them all share the same CORE ideology

any kind of christianity starts with "christ is god son of god and our saviour"
any form of islam starts with "allah is god and mohammed his prophet"

>>933646
fascinating
india is like
#10 in buddhism prevalence

>>933649
I think it is just environmental difference
we have maybe 1000 buddhists in finland total

Doesn't all buddhism similarly start with the idea of reaching nirvana and resurrections being tied to your actions in the current life?

nah
most buddhists do not believe in reincarnation

>>933651
that is the religious buddhism yeah, but not the ideological or life style one say matts practices

it's not even the "religious" buddhism
it is a specific type of buddhist

>>933652
Huh
I thought that was at the core of it all, at least as far as like, supernatural content goes
The rest of it being sorta about how to get to nirvana, and what it means to be good, etc. etc.

>>933654
well asyou can see, that is basically what buddhism is atleast in nordics thought as

>>933655
most buddhism is devoid of supernatural content
unless you consider the idea of life energy supernatural

so it's like atheist christianity, but that strain is the most common?

the reincarnation type of buddhism ironically is more close to the umbrella of hinduism, when you think about it
the reincarnation and goal of ascending out of it, just take out the gods

I do consider life energy supernatural, but it's not the same thing, no
It's like
The difference between ghosts and deities
They're both supernatural concepts, but they're different genres within it

>>933659
yeah
even basically just reuses hindu gods and demons

i mean buddha himself is one avatar in most types of hinduism

ofc shakyamuni himself was a hindu so it makes sense that there are buddhists who are hindus

btw it is damn uhh
tough?
religion
considering most of india was ruled by muslims for centuries and they are damn good at rooting out the local faiths

tenacious
Still has nothing on zoroastrianism
nothing can kill the followers of zarathustra

So what is the core of buddhism, then?

>>933658
it's not really atheist either

>>933666
THIS moment

if I am not that mistaken, most buddhism also share a lot with taoism nowadays

though taoism itself is very influenced by buddhism, so...

zen is taoism through the lens of buddhism
most buddhism is basically taoism

taoism is so weird when you think about it coming from china
compare it to confusianism and well "statism" which much more reflect the chinese culture

btw I would have much more respect towards china if winnie the puh just came out and said he is Divine Emperor and has the mandate of heavens or something
honest tyrants are better than dictators

>>933666
when Bodhidharma stood before the Chinese emperor, the emperor asked what merit he had attained through his buddhism
Bodhidharma replied "no merit"
the emperor asked "what is the ultimate teaching?"
Bodhidharma replied "nothing holy, vast emptiness"
the emperor was confused and said "then who stands before me?"
Bodhidharma shouted "I DON'T KNOW!" and left

that's the core of buddhism

see that is exactly what I mean

btw if you ever want some amusing readings, go look out the saint chronicles
catholics or orthodox, both do

I think personally my favourite is Olga of Kiev
who is basically a mass murdering maniac queen
actual queen cersei

and yet she was made saint

>>933673
don't get it at all

I think most famous of her stories is the pidgeon/sparrow one

after besieging a city, the inhabitans came to negotiate with her
seeing thta she couldn't really take the city, she made a cunning (but batshit insane) plan

she said "all I need from you is one bird, swallow/pigeon/sparrow, depends on telling, basically a bird that nested on the eaves of houses, with said roofs being made out of tatch - and I will let your city go
this is all I need as a tribute

the inhabitants were "huh, okay"
and did as asked, since itwas a g ood deal

after getting the thousands of birds, she had her men tie a smouldering branch on each of the birds legs with a string
and other stuff that would ignite fires
and then let the birds go

and they all flew back into their nests and set the city on fire

and then she enjoyed the scenery while presumably laughing like the maniac she was

SAINTESS

>>933676
Good! Because it doesn't matter anyway.

All we do is zazen. Everything else, enlightenment included, is just a booby prize, as they say.

>>933679
Westerners taught themselves wrong.
They took teachings they weren't given and destroyed themselves with them.

"We taught the westerners wrong, as a joke"?

But I mean, if the essential bits is like, nihilist or something, I don't really see how it differs from just well, that
There not being a grand point to everything isn't exactly something specific to buddhism

yeah but for example the view is very different from say nihilism, stoicism and cynicism, which have a very dour view of life and humanity at large

"Nothing holy" isn't a statement of nihilism.

>>933677
Sounds like a nice broad

Eh, stoicism is shitty, and I dunno if cynisism is even like, a 'thing' in itself

>>933682
she pretty much could be summed up as "what if Perkele made a saintess in a rpg campaign"

>>933683
oh it most definitely is, though nowadays not

it lived onfrom days of diogenes up until christianity kinda killed it
stoicism was on the otherhand basically absorbed by christians on the otherhand

As for whether or not I'm a buddhist, when people say "you're a buddhist?" I answer "Something like that".

>>933684
Sure sounds like it.

Someone help me;
I've been playing Last Nite on repeat since last night

>>933687
i think that is quite a zen answer in a way

On a completely different note, I was randomly reminded of one of the best lines in Moomin, coming from both the book and movie "Comet in Moominland"
>I didn't think a philosopher lived under our bridge"

Buddhism is nice and all, but I'm more of a Jainism kind of guy
>>933692
Philosophers these days concern themselves with not the human condition, but human lifestyles instead. That's not what I'd call philosophy, that's what I'd call social science.

>>933690
It's always funny to me when people call themselves philosophers these days

>>>/watch?v=GoKLbRow8ro

>>933692
yup

the piisamirotta character himself parodies philosophers too, especially modern ones
full of himself
thinks everyone else is an idiot
is just negative about everything, including the possible apocalypse that is happening in the book, the comet hitting the moominland
and is of the opinion no one but a philosopher can understand anything
>>933696
>>933697
go on be open about it
wear the SYMBOl with pride

>>933691
You practice Jainism?

>>933696
It's a bit too hard to practice properly, but I like the ideas behind it

>>933697
Any actual practice is difficult to practice.
But you could go and study under real Jainists to get to a point of practice if you wanted!

>>933695
That's pretty funny.
The west really has this weird idolization of philosophers.

I mean respecting wise people is a given, but idolating anything is just weird to me
not to mention
heresy

Honestly, you're not a real philosopher unless you live somewhere like the depraved palace

>>933699
I think there's a misnomer that philosophers are wise, too.
So many of them are just absolute idiots stealing and often misinterpreting the ideas of other philosophers.
Sartre won a lot of awards for Nausea and then acted like it was all his ideas, but he stole them from Heidegger.
People don't like Heidegger because he was a Nazi and therefore his ideas must be terrible, but they'll turn around and praise Sartre for having the same ideas. Sartre meanwhile was a Stalinist for a large portion of his life.

in terms of philosophers and such, i think my favourite is the mythical polish jester

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sta%C5%84czyk

>>933700
well not everyone is truly worth their gold, especially the more modern ones
but take people whose naems are still known from thousands of years ago, and you have to respect that legacy, even if you disagree

What is a great man, if you ask me, then just see if they are told about in a history book a millenniai n the future

most "great men" of recent times are foot notes

There are no great men.
For every idea that remains from long ago the person who came up with it is considered great, but it's ridiculous to believe that person is responsible for that idea.
How many people came up with everything Aristotle did? Or more? But weren't recorded in the history books because they didn't have the resources Aristotle did?

>>933705
even if you can't consider their ideas great, you can consider the fact they wereable to spread them great

also while I do agree that "unique people" aren't a thing, I do say great people are a thing, even if they are replacable

basically without einstein, there would have been zweibaum who made the very same theories he did later on
but point is, alfred did come up with them, and he managed to get people to listen and read to his shit
and that became a net positive

Wouldn't we remember the position rather than a name though, if it was their status allowing them to spread it we remember?

and that too
Alexander's father Philip had the same armies
but he awsn't Alexander

Alexander's generals had the same armies
but they weren't alexander

Yeah, but Alexander was born into being Alexander.
If he had been born under different circumstances, even if he was the same in every other possible way, he wouldn't have been considered so great.
So what's the point in considering him great? So many great men never are considered great because of the misfortunes of their birth.

>>933698
The thing about it is that there's two primary parts to it;
The spiritual part, and the lifestyle part.
I like the spiritual part, but the lifestyle part is a bit too anachronic
>>933701
My favorite is uhh
I don't have a favorite!
How odd!

Also as for Aristotle, many people did come up with the same stuff
but Aristotle is the one who spread those ideas in his cultural region
our cultural region

it doesn't matter if some indian had the same ideas, if they didn't spread here

>>933709
the point is that, if you toss a random person into alexander's position
they wouldn't be alexander
as in
they wouldn't be X the great

while most of time great people are just lucky enough to be born in the right place in the right time

it still takes something special to actually use those resources for what they did
that drive doesn't exist in everyone

I for example, wouldn't be alexander
I would just be Perkele the High Priest of Diegonys

>>933710
Anachronistic how?
Their ideas have persisted as they have in the form you've fallen in love with because of their "anachronistic" lifestyle.
It's impossible to live those ideals in the modern world.

diegonys
brain what the fuck
dienysos

no
DIONYSUS

>>933713
Well, let's take the example of the rules surrounding eating
You're not supposed to eat after sundown, and the rationalization for it (at the time) was that bugs could fall into your food and you might accidentally end up eating them because lighting wasn't good back then
The lifestyle part mostly has stuff like this that doesn't really work that well or stand true in the 21st century, but you can see why it'd have made sense back when it was conceived

>>933715
proud of you

i think my brain was once again trying to remember permanently diogenes and somehow that fused with dionysus, who is a good bro

btw random name etymology side track

I would never want to be a Christopher or Theodore or any of the sort
seriosly

>>933716
Right, but you can't uphold the ideal of nonharm if you don't live as they do.
They've carefully designed a way of life that lets them be true to their practice.
Because if you live in the modern world, right, you need to buy clothes, and if you buy clothes, you're perpetuating the suffering of living things.

and on that note
>be ton
>make a god character
>name him theo
>name god god

>>933721
You're right and it sucks
I'm weak, and I can't help but use modern conveniences

If you're willing to bend what constitutes as "harm" you can live in the modern world, I guess

>>933723
Muster up your strength and head for the monastery!
Monastic life is actually pretty easy and relaxing. Way simpler than life out here.

>>933724
Oh yeah, most people do this. They just live, pretending like they aren't doing any harm.

>>933724
The basic idea behind it is that there's a heirarchy of living beings i.e. not all living beings have the same importance

It's decided based on how many senses the creature in question possesses

I guess you could bend it by shifting the definitions a bit

>>933725
Jain monks live really hard lives
They're required to rip out all their hair and mix together all the food they eat (there should be no distinct flavor)
Not to mention they aren't allowed to live in one specific place for more than a short while, and can't use vehicles either

In short, it's a hardcore version of buddhism

>>933725
That's true
But the alternatives aren't exactly exciting either

You either live in a forest with a cornfield or something, or you acknowledge that you simply can't live in any capacity in this world without doing unspeakable harm

>>933727
Right, it's impossible to live without causing harm. That's just the way life works.
To live is to cause harm and be harmed. It's inescapable.
You can reduce the harm you cause but never eliminate it.
Even if I go and live at Enkyo Roshi's monastery for three months during summer Angyo, I'll be causing harm occasionally.

>>933726
None of that is hard if that's your life, though.

by the way
I am now making jainism infinitely better with a magic trick of removing a letter
behold

JANISM

Now yuo see
They do acknowledge the fact that you can't live without causing violence, which is why the greatest virtue in jainism is starving to death

>>933728
Maybe. It sounds awfully hard to me though. It doesn't sound very fun

>>933730
You would adapt to it quickly. The point of this kind of life is to force you to give up.
Once you give up, everything is very easy.
You think it's hard because you're so far from giving up.

>>933731
ARGH I JUST WANT TO LIVE A FUN NOMADIC LIFE
I guess that could become 'tolerable' but I don't think it'd be fun
I wanna go backpacking through mongolia and japan, and possess less than fifty things that I can carry around with me
That'd be awesome

>>933734
Isn't it a bit unstable right now?
My information may be a few decades old

>>933733
move to siberia

>>933733
>possess less than 50 things
>mongolia
okay slave

>>933736
It's called minimalism and it's cool
Get with the times, gramps

i will say about your information about siberia - you are 100% in the wrong
siberia has never been stable
it is rural unlawful territory, where nothing actually happens
and no one cares
that is when you leave the cities and mining outposts

You can become a drifter in God's vast American States, and be detained for vagrancy or something, if you wanna

>>933738
Sounds fucking badass
I hope they let foreigners buy machine guns

>>933739
If I live a nomadic life I'll most probably have to eat out a lot of times, and doing that in the US of A would make me heckin' chonker

>>933741
>you can legally buy a battleship or a tank or an assault helicopter
Wtf I'm moving to Russia

>>933742
It's trendy among tech nerds
But I have personal reasons for liking it
I'm not very smart so possessing less things would give me greater control over them

I am not actually sure abouit the law on guns in russia
in soviet union, and many other former eastern bloc countries
AMUSINGLY, they have basically full gun rights
hell say inr omania you can legally buy a battleship if you want
or a tank
or an assault helicppter

But do you know what you can't own without huge issues
ammunation

>>933737
What's so cool about it?

Speaking of fun historical facts about soviet union

Did you know that Pepsi, when dealing with russia had a slight issue with payment
as in, they couldn't really take ruples as no one outside of soviet block accepted them, but theys till wanted to get well "value" for their exports to the country

so they traded their goods for other goods

however, another issue arose, as russia didn't excactly have much goods that were valued and also easily tradeable
so...
they gave pepsi ships
a fuckton of ships
so many war ships
that at time they had after USA and USSR the most powerful WAR FLEET in the world

I don't actually know what happened to the Pepsi Fleet
but yeah, fun to think about it
Pepsi corp at one time had a military force powerful enough to blockade any country that wasn't USA or USSR

>>933743
Imagine getting your ship sunk by the PEPSI FLEET

on another note
if you ever want to take over a country
iceland doesn't have an army

I'll have to learn Icelandish first though
I guess I'll start with countries that were once a part of the soviet union because they usually speak easier languages and they must be in a similar, albeit less pitiable state of disarm

Lol no
and they would hang any would be dictator in an instant

>>933747
I'm more of a philosopher than a dictator

eastern europe is the final place to flee to
since they are immune to most bullshit plagueing nations nowadays, having already "enjoyed" plenty of it during the last century

lol

I'm actually a bit surprised that pepsi didn't trade their pepsi for vodka

same reason they didn't trade it for oil etc
tho
I really don't know why they accepted the ships for that matter

Probably for payment negotiations with countries unwilling to pay for their pepsi

well as you seem to be blind to
you don't really have much value with a fleet without sailors

I thought ships came with batteries included!
>>933756
Now that's more like the Russia I know!
>>933757
OOO I'm planning on watching that one, is it good?

also I had to look this up, cause I couldn't remember it clearly bu
> accepting Stolichnaya vodka, in exchange for its syrup. The vodka exchange went well as Pepsi’s Soviet sales grew for years.

POSE

Story short
>they initially traded for vodka
>afghanistan happened and USA banned soviet products
>pepsi got 17 war ships as payment instead now
>they sold them off
>next deal was soviets building oil tankers for pepsi as payment, which they leased for profit then

>>933757
what is tenshi doing in anime?

ZUN needs money for his beer

can you imagine how rich the guy would be, if he got even a 1% share of all the fan content sold

All ZUN cares about is beer
In a way, it's admirable

Remember when we had rock boy bands?
I remember

You remember boy bands?
You were babby when NSYNC stopped doing stuff!

I was the coolest baby around!
Of course I remember them!

Also, well, I grew up with a couple of them
They were still hanging around in the early 2010s

is weird to think that for example 3 doors down is still a thing

all for me
none for yu

I remember when everyone used to call me a robot
Those wretched days of my youth

That was you!

Yeah. But now I'm recognized as a full fledged human

Stating the obvious gets tiresome eventually

but can you defeat the Lobsterminator?

it btw oneshot 3 ghouls and dealt a good deal damage to the enemy spawner until being eatneb y the swarm
all because of random input from one player

machinegun arm - d20+15 vs AC for 8d8 dmg
guy was a champ for the short time he lived

I like broccoli
and mushrooms

dont get ur chicken stuck in the letterbox

>>>/@ElSandifer/1378534809555849221

I feel that was a very intentional choice instead of the 90s
Also The Matrix came out in 1999 that's pretty much 2000

>>>/@josecastillo/1378748181312385024

>>>/@SwiftOnSecurity/1378753218260389892

>>933779
how bizarre!

Who's that?

he's a RAT

he's a rat who worked for a company that was fixing bread prices and wants to tax mileage in driving

ogey rrat
>>933784
what the fuck

he's the head of the department of transportation
a man who managed to lose to ted cruz in an election

and apparently one of the first facebook users
which means he was there when it was about rating women on their fuckability
which is interesting considering he's homosexual

I played tetris with my ex today!
I hate her, she beat me a bit too many times

>>933787
sus

>>933788
that's cool you get along with ur ex

she's a really cool person, but she suffers from depression and I'm not exactly very stable either, so we're bad for each other
She's still a very good friend!

>>>/@TechConnectify/1378735858640097280

>>>/@Raantuva/1378364477008056323
wow!

wao

noice!

>>933792
do they mean native american scholars, or scholars on the subject of native americans?

>>>/@jesawyer/1378733596437979143

Am I the only one who gets a little bit irritated when people say "y'all"

>>933796
I also
Fail to see the problem.

>>933797
no
that word is part of my everyday vernacular

>>933799
why are you like this

i say y'all sometimes and i'm not even from the midwest or american

My dramatics teacher made me stop using it. After I stopped, I realized how annoying it sounded

>>933800
Because I'm from the south and that's how we speak?

>>933802
lmao cucked

why is your drama teacher so dramatic about small differences in vocab

classicism usually
in grad school they didn't want me to say ain't or y'all because it's "unprofessional"
which means it sounds poor

>>933803
Oh okay sorry I didn't know that
>>933804
When you're acting you wanna speak good English I guess
She taught us how to pronounce stuff properly and how to breathe onstage too
She was a pretty good teacher, too bad she got fired for being too strict
>>933805
I mean stage plays are usually used by children to learn better vocabulary, so using slang wouldn't really be a good thing to do unless you want to portray a character as a ruffian

absolutely classism
you should maul her with a trident

how's THIS for pathos y'all motherfucker

>>>/watch?v=bD1RuryADKE

>>933806
y'all isn't slang any more than "I'm" is
i mean if you're playing aa character that doesn't say y'all, don't say y'all
but as yourself, talk how you talk
fuck anyone who tells you otherwise

>>933805
It is
kind of unprofessional

>>933811
it's not though
it actually hurts my professionalism to not speak that way

>>933810
I'm sure it isn't in the South!
But my dramatics teacher told me that it's not really good formal English, so I wouldn't use it outside of say interactions with peers until I stopped liking how it rolled off my tongue and felt like I was tickling myself!

That's kinda sad

wtf it's not unprofessional to say y'all
not at places i've worked
software companies are maybe more casual than other businesses on the whole but still
y'all is a nice thing to say

>>933814
I mean if you were a middle schooler and a hot teacher told you that speaking a certain word sounds unprofessional would you really continue to use it when saying "you all" instead would be just as easy

No, but when I got old enough to think for myself, I'd stop listening to people who tried to oppress me when I was a kid
>>933815
Yeah, it's better to talk like a normal person

>>933817
I wasn't oppressed, Kirara!
Someone gave me a suggestion that'd improve my vocab, and I stuck to it. That's about it!

Someone trying to control the way you speak is oppression
Anti-y'all sentiment is firmly rooted in classicism!
They may have meant well but if someone is telling you that you shouldn't use harmless and common words, that's just silly

>>933819
Geez, it's not about classism!
It's about what sounds good in a formal setting and what does not!
I simply started to dislike the use of y'all after that
>>933821
I get it, but if you wanna get employed by a good company you can't hep but correct your speech!
I don't like it either, but the world doesn't exactly work the way I'd like it to!

>>933820
that's literally classicism though
"formal setting" isn't real, it's a classist idea used to create separation between "poor" behavior and "wealthy" behavior

>>933820
I work as a doctor, used to work with the FBI as a researcher, have met governors, etc. And I say y'all and ain't and shit like that.
The world is not as strict as you think.

Formal settings are real
In the sense that there will be some situations that require you to modify your behavior.
There's nothing oppressive about that.

>>933821
are you uh referring to "he following of ancient Greek or Roman principles and style in art and literature, generally associated with harmony, restraint, and adherence to recognized standards of form and craftsmanship, especially from the Renaissance to the 18th century." or classism cuz idk maybe they're the same thing when i think about it...

>>933824
lmao
my phone corrected to classicism

>>933822
It probably sounds more retarded to me because nobody says that around here.

Unless they're making fun of Americans.

>>933822
Damn
I still have not got any working experience so I guess I'll say something after I land a job

>>933825
wow! even John Android is classist!

>>933823
sounds like some high class bullshit to me

>>933830
>>933830
>>933830

>>933827
As long as you're kind, respectful, and competent, people don't care if you use slang or say y'all.
In fact, colleagues come to me to learn about slang because I'm hip and that's viewed as value!

Matt Mead has been governor of Wyoming for years and he wears jeans, cowboy boots, and a cowboy hat to professional functions
Even when I met him at the Cheyenne field office he was like that.

Real world doesn't care about highfalutin formal speech

>>933830
nah

>>933829
Being willing to change the way I speak in front of older people and teachers is the way I show respect!
Of course it might not be necessary, but I do it anyways because it costs me nothing to appear more respectful!

Congratulations! You will make a fine employee.

>>933834
I just want to be liked.
That's the personality type I'm going for.
likeable, polite dude with a sick beard and a katana

>>933831
I can see that has value.
Especially when you're representing a certain group

Or in your line of work, where you need to be authentic and relate to people on a personal level.

I'm just saying that for some audiences
in some situations
a certain level of Formality is necessary
Often as a sign of respect.
and there's more to that than 'High Class bullshit'

and being able to put on that front
can also be one form of professionalism

>>933835
walk softly and carry a thousand fold katana

>>933838
Well honestly I just speak politely to strangers out of etiquette. There's nothing wrong with using polite langauge, is there?

>>933839
there is nothing wrong with bein kind to people
that's the one rule

now, showing respect to authority and a system that probably disregards your humanity, that's a bigger subject
ultimately that's up to you
for me, i've never liked to conform to very much that society asks of me

>>933841
get a job, hippie

Yeah, I used to think that if I just did everything I was "supposed to do" that everything would be fine and I would be liked and successful.
But that was just delusion, it only ever got me walked on.
Society is a joke anyway
joker.jpg

>>933843
ur just jaded and bitter!!
if only u had sucked more toes you'd be a doctor by now like me!

yeah it's fucked up
high school dynamics never end
we gotta decentralize this screwed up world and own our own livelihoods

homesteading is a rewarding endeavor

Maybe this is another Grass is Always Greener thing

I've grown up and been surrounded by nothing but people being irreverent and informal

Girls don't like guys who speak politely so be sure to talk like a delinquent when you're around a cutie though

if you are goin for the mainstream gender roles then yea that's sorta true

delinquent girls are cute too

>>933846
how does one get into that in the first place though?
you need money?

>>933848
I don't need friends! I've got knives!

>>933853
all my friends can draw BLOOD

I need friends, and a girlfriend!
I've stayed alone for the better half of last year, and I wanna socialize!

haven't we all
i had to move back to canada and all my friends are in the US rip

i have been pickin up the dating app a little more so maybe i'll get some social time in
but the frickin' virus is on the uptick again guh

e-daters

Dear Diary

Why do all my friends have bad opinions?

I think about dating from time to time but all my serious relationships have ended with people dying or disappearing so it's hard to get motivated.

ima read snow crash again
it's the bible of our near future

I'mma try looking for a girlfriend again
>>933859
Maybe just have a fun, non-serious relationship?
Serious stuff feels stiff and uncomfy anyways

>>933860
POOR IMPULSE CONTROL

gonna install a gun into my forehead
spine? what spine?

>>933861
I want something serious, I've been trying to get married for ten years!
But every time I get close, my fiance gets killed or vanishes.

That would actually make a pretty sick tattoo tbh
Right across the forehead

>>933859
it's not your fault

I don't even know what dating is so it's not even in the cards for me

just hanging out and chillin'

>>933864
Marriage is for dweebs!
>>933865
Do you realize how hard it is to hide forehead tattoos?
>>933867
Basically, you become ''special" friends with a girl and do stuff you wouldn't do with normal friends!
You also feel mutual monkey hormone acceleration
>>933870
But vampires can't have kids, what's the point of marriage?

>>933866
Yeah, but my luck in relationships is pretty bad.
One time I went on a date with a girl and she had a serious allergic reaction and had to go to the hospital.
Like, what's with that?
Isn't it too hamfisted for a storyline?

>>933869
Nah, marriage is cool.

>>933867
It's like hanging out with da bois 'sept you also sometimes fuck

yeah that's not possible

>>933870
it's still not your fault
what about all the good dates you've had

>>933873
Honestly, I haven't really been on too many.
Since there was Teacup, and then I didn't date again until Fish.

it's probably Florida's fault now that i think of it

Yeah, probably

Florida sure is a dangerous place

here's something that vomit girl wrote once
it is good to seek love
we don't go into life alone

>>933869
Why does there need to be a point?

>>933878
True!
I'm just biding my time and hoping something pops up eventually.
Maybe someone will start coming to the zendo that I will like.

Dude I've been watching a few clips of Court Cam from Moistcr1tikals channel
and Florida really does look third world
in all sorts of ways

There's something in the water.

>>933878
I just need someone to remind me that I exist and am loved! I live for hugs!
>>933879
Hmm I guess that's true
A zoomer like me won't really understand the point of commitment, but I guess it must feel good

The only relationship I need is my relationship with Hinoa in Monster Hunter Rise!

>>933880
You should come over.
I have the keys to an abandoned orange packing plant.

I need hugs and bedtime stories.
Every day without a bed time story i s a day spent unhappily

sending you hugs and affirmations thru the tubes

>>933885
arigato!

>>933883
Actually sounds hella fun

>>933887
There are some abandoned factories and malls I can get us into too.
It'll be a date!

>>933879
that's probably a good attitude
this is a video i watch every few weeks as a reminder
>>>/watch?v=GdzPp9cRKN0

>>933888
Man.
Ifonly.

Sounds so fun..

[ ] The story opens in Los Angeles in the 21st century, an unspecified number of years after a worldwide economic collapse.
soon...
[x] The remnants of government maintain authority only in isolated compounds where they do tedious make-work that is, by and large, irrelevant to the society around them.
[ ] hyperinflation has sapped the value of the US dollar to the extent that trillion dollar bills—Ed Meeses—are nearly disregarded and the quadrillion dollar note—the Gipper—is the standard "small" bill.
oh yea inflation's comin' baby

electric skateboards are here
hundreds of VCs are tryna launch the Metaverse
neuro-linguistic viruses are just memes
not sure about the ancient Sumerian part
there's no VR guard dogs on the horizon yet...

>>933892
that's coming too.

Rip and tear.

we should start planning to launch a burb clave
for gamers and vtubers of course

"Much of the world's territory has been carved up into sovereign enclaves, each run by its own big business franchise (such as "Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong", or the corporatized American Mafia), or various residential burbclaves — quasi-sovereign gated communities."

>Volvidon's tongue
no thanks

>>933890
come over!

come to canada!
we've got trees and rocks and rocks and trees

dating is for dweebs but edating is for subhumans
like the nordic

edating is for chads
tbh it's like the only thing you can do if you aren't vaxxed

edating is for like actual factual virgins though

>>933896
>>933897
Want to.
Saving money.
Waiting for the World to get a bit less WILD.

North America got some goood Mountains

>not just getting corona
Absolute not Chad

>not being vaccinated
>april 2021
i got vaccinated last month get on my level

I don't need it since I'm neither fighting on the frontlines, nor am I a senior citizen. I'll wait until the people that need it more have gotten their dose

this girl is kinda cute but she doesn't have the cilantro gene
i pity the subhumans

>>933905
yeah like would you really want to risk passing that on to kids someday maybe?

absolutely not
fuckin DROPPED

Why not become an anti-natalist?

cuz if i have the chance to bring a new life into the world and they'd have a reasonably good standard of living i don't see why not
i like being alive it's kinda cool
maybe they won't but they don't really get to choose
suckers

Reasonable.

and i don't buy that it's destroying the environment
the marginal addition of a child isn't gonna make or break anything
you know what would? becoming eco batman and assassinating the assholes who run shitty industrial plants and such

what should i hunt next moe

somnacanth
rathian
tobi kadachi
basarios
barioth

hunt a boyfriend
or a girlfriend if you swing that way

>>933911
I just don't like kids lmao

Boyfriends and girlfriends don't like it when you shoot them full of arrows and rip off their skin to make armor.

date 'em don't predate 'em

They like it when you bite though ;3

honestly tho if ana de armas wants to rip my limbs off
go off girl

hell yeah

I have fond memories of hunting deathclaws with a katana and a BB gun in FNV

sword fighting would be a fun hobby

rathian it is then

no hunt tobi kadachi I love him

>>>/watch?v=aN4Np9yf16o

>>933923
too late
i showed rathian who the boss of this gym is

tobi kadachi time

>>933926
pig
// pog

...did he always throw knives

He is alive!
Mario's back!

FIGHT ME

>>>/watch?v=OuxwfGu4pAM

IS
watching anime a form of self-torture?
Since you're surrounding yourself with illusions and temptations that can never be real

>>933928
i think he'd shoot tail hair or something rarely in World, but not knives

>>933933
that's what i mean
he does it a shit ton now

>>933932
it's escapism!
make what you will of it
be tempted by some lines and shading if that is your desire

>>933934
oh shit they made him a slight threat instead of a cakewalk?

>>933935
Is escapism bad?

tobi always threw knives yeah

>>933937
no escapism is good
reading a fiction book is escapism

what's bad is addiction

also
self torture ain't all that bad
WE LIKE THE PAIN

>>933939
I can quit anime any time I want
I just CHOOSE not to

>>>/watch?v=VQO0sNAyRok

>>>/watch?v=BPcC7cHEhzw

>>933942
>>933943
No.

absolutely haram

>>>/@holeenjoyer/1378454082889768961

I reckon
What might have been making my legs so FUCKIN ICHY
might be the pre-workout powder
some sort of reaction
Even though I've used it for a while without a problem.
But. Maybe there was some sort of delay?

I'm going to try a different brand.

every pre-workout I've used makes me feel kinda itchy I thought that's just how it works

the only pre workout i use is STEROIDS
HOORAH

>>933948
I don't mean at the time you take it
when you feel kind of itchy and tingly and buzzy. That is kindda how it works.

But I've been getting these weird rash spot things

Ohayo!

im gonna pre

get to a toilet quick

>>933952
i'm gonna complete

i'm gonna swallow

noooooo

Best girl
Come@

mah nijiga

i like the gyaru blonde but i havent watched the show

She's not really a gyaru blonde she's more of a sporty blonde
Like peppy and energetic

>>933959
she isn't a gyaru at all you fucking degenerate

it says on her wiki that shes a gyaru

Her wiki is a poor choice -poor judge of character then

I mean unless everyone that wears tube socks is a gyaru

i assumed it was taken from her character card in game but

Because she is a
gyaru
, she can be mistaken as the type to skip school or be rebellious. However, she has very good grades and is very fun-loving and nice, but she can be a bit loud and sometimes serves as a mood-maker to her fellow idols.

shes kinda a modern gyaru tho
those ones u see in the animes with the make up are from the late 80/
80s
gyarus are just fashionable and trendy i guess now
with things like lots of accessories and cool socks and slang

wow ive known ton longer than ericanon has been alive

>>933967
I'm so sorry

we should ban zoomers

we should ban

i wonder if i could sneak as anon here

>>933970
yes
start with me

gladly did it work

no

also
christ is risen

ok time to ban
post a cute anime girl or im banning you

>>933976
no

>>933976
Whatever you say, Officer

fuckin LEWD

>>933979
yea but it's TASTEFUL.

i like ryza chan
shes always happy and likes going on adventures :)
she was just a small time farmer until she found alchemy now she grew ip and is helping her town :)

>>>/@sh44sti/1378819386975391744
😎😭

you can fly away with me tonight
baby let me take you for a ride
FLY AWAY NOW FLY AWAYYY

>>933981
and dem thighs

>>933982
>only 500
casual

yeah it takes me longer than 500 hours in one sesh

>>933978
Why is Kanade in Animegataris?

>>>/watch?v=xlnryOJE-n4

>sleep is for the living
who the fuck sneaked that into total war warhammer

>>>/@RayRedacted/1378588417848664066

>>933992
wow

dang thetes a fashionable horse

>>>/@RexChapman/1378871493292142593
his brain

Poor guy
Probably hurt a bunch

>>933994
she looks like a clown

anime >>933999 →

>>933998
not goldship i meant the other on e on the right

JB must be sick of people stealin shit.

I went there and absolutely EVERYTHING is bolted down now.
You need an assistant just to take an item off the rack

Which was unfortunate because it meant I had to pay for my purchase.

I accidentally slept all day.

how does that make uou feel

>>934124
Your loss for not bringing your tools with you

steal tools to steal more expensive stuff with

>>934124
I used to laugh because they had it so you ask for Kerser's music from behind the counter because people would steal it so much. For reference Kerser was one of those "real lad" Australian rappers.

尺骨神経
shakkotsushinkei

heres the top 10 line stickers

SHIT TASTE IN STICKERS FUCK YOU FITE ME

thats the top 10 official sorry brother

>>934167
this is why i can't stand normies

Night /moe/

Holy shit Vivy was pretty good
I didn't expect Tappei to write a good femc

>>>/@zombielandsaga/1379026028664872963
More zombies incoming

Ohayo!
>>>/watch?v=yf0Amcgxot8

@samu
https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgqyn7/supreme-court-rules-reimplementing-an-api-is-not-a-crime
>>>/watch?v=P3ALwKeSEYs

yea
10 years of that bullshit
fuckin lawyers man

I'm bang and I'm at work

>>934177
i hear your cry for help
your death will be swift and painless

>>934177
same

I'm at work too and still don't want to be here

>>934177
hi bang I hope you have a nice day at work.
>>934179
you're bang?

i'm bang :)

https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dpnak/yahoo-answers-shutting-down
F

>After 16 years of asinine questions and dubious answers
i feel personally attacked

A lot of my clothes are starting to get pretty ratty and/or threadbare
It was always my plan to get a bunch of new clothes when I was moving into the new place I was supposed to have available to me maybe around January or so, but now here we are in April
I'll still probably do that if the construction comes through finally and I can move in, in May.
But I should probably do an interim pick-up of some things to tide me over the next month and a half.

do you like thrifting?

>>>/@PageSix/1376547005439299588
gaw damn girl 2 makin me thirsty

>>934187
Not really
Even in the past I was never keen on wearing clothes that total strangers had once owned
Triply so in these quarantimes
Also I don't like niche styles and unique clothes
I literally just like solid colour shirts/hoodies and linen pants
I don't feel any desire to dive into thrift stores to find quirky clothing

Plus I'm not poor or anything, I can buy my own clothes
I'm just too lazy/busy to go shopping

i never thrifted before until last year when i was hangin out with witch girl

actually not true my old HS bff used to take me too
kinda fun to find random deals on weird articles

i should probably just buy 3 copies of the same uniqlo jeans now that i think of it

Yeah Uniqlo is one of the places I want to hit up when I go for new clothes
Their stuff is hella comfy

these EZY jeans are sick

The only jeans I wear are Levis.
Aside from that I'm not particular about brands.
Although I guess I prefer Nike shoes.

levis eh
sasuga rei

sakura BEAAAAAM
terre de nos aieux

are you okay

I think I'm gonna quit my job.
I'm gonna talk to my boss tomorrow and if he doesn't do something to make my life easier I'm just gonna quit.

I wish I could quit my job
But I have no marketable skills and I still don't have nearly enough savings to coast for any discernible time
It kinda makes me understand why people turn to lottery

>>934199
always a good idea to negotiate
he needs you
also

BUSTA WOLF!

Yeah. I'd really like to have a salary job, you know, because that makes life way easier.
So if I can avoid quitting I'd like to even though the other job would let me make like twice the money.
If I could get a $3000 raise (I'm $5000 below the national average for salaried therapists and have twice the training) I think that would be enough, but that's not realistic. So really if they just fix my schedule that should be okay.
But I'm carrying 70% of the entire center's caseload right now. Which is totally nuts.

Maybe I'll talk to miniboss first. I've tried to get my boss to change things for a while and he usually just says he'll make it happen and then doesn't.
So maybe miniboss will be excited to have a chance to do soemthing since she's new to the job.
Although I still plan on getting a raise since bossman did tell me I'd be getting one lol

I'm definitely starting to get burned out, though.
I've been the only full time therapist at work for four months now.
Today I found myself thinking that maybe I'll just find something else to do that isn't psychology.

>>934202
you could be being paid twice what??

you gotta stop bein so nice and use your leverage to get paid what you're worth
well
do what will you will
but that's what i would so
do

>>934184
oh no
now where will i get my life advice

>>934203
Well, I'd have to work as an independent contractor for that. So I could make a ton more money, but I'd have to pay more taxes and I'd have to keep track of a lot more numbers which would complicate my life a lot. Since I have ADHD I'm not good at that kind of stuff. I could make $200/hr if I really wanted to do that.
But I am happy just making enough to live somewhat comfortably on, so a tiny raise would be enough for me. Mostly, what I care about is just having fun at work.

The corporation that I work for is (I believe) a money laundering scheme at the high levels and their biggest concern is just keeping their payroll low so I don't know if I can get a good raise with them. They'd probably rather lose the hundreds of thousands of dollars of profit they're making from my center and just shut it down than they would pay me an extra 5k a year.
It's a really bizarre corporation that doesn't make any sense and never acts towards a profit motivation, only towards lowering operating costs.

i get paid once per moe post

>>934206
this is so wack i dont know even where to start
you're burning out accepting less than you're worth so they can exploit your labor
why stay there another day?
dont be scared of taxes
you can pay someone to do those with all that contractor money

>>934208
Well, all I really care about is having fun. If they'll make the changes I need to reduce the load on me, I'll go back to having fun. I don't really care how much money they're making off of me personally.
And the work that's like $200/hr is particularly soul crushingly boring. So I only do it when I get referrals from other clinicians who really need it done on a client. Other than that, I have to work hard to build up a case load for therapy and stuff. So there are a lot of steps that are annoying to have to do. I'm not opposed to taking those steps if it comes to that, but I like what I do now, so I'd like to keep doing what I do if I can make it work.
Taxes is just another one of those things that will give me a ton of extra steps to deal with. Like, I'd have to be paying taxes quarterly most likely and after taxes, I might not even be making money for a year or two until I have it all figured out because independent contractors have to pay double the taxes that a W2 employee does.

Even until like two weeks ago when everything started getting crazy at work, I was perfectly happy!
But my policy is that if a job stops being fun and I can't fix it, I'll quit.

I feel the loyalty you have for this job but it's just one job
it sounds like you could be happy at any number of jobs, why stick to this one where they seemingly gaslight you into paying you less and having you do all the work?

I don't have any loyalty to this job in particular.
I'm loyal to myself here. Money is not a motivator in my life so that's not really important passed having the essentials. My brain does not view money as a real thing so it can't motivate me in a major way.
If I can fix things to be fun again, what would be the point in leaving? If I can't fix it, I'll leave.

Just because I'm feeling crappy right now doesn't mean I should abandon something without trying to fix my position. If I can't, I'll abandon ship, if I can, might as well keep sailing.

It's also less energy to keep a job that you're at the least kinda okay with, than go searching for/building up a new job

please do negotiate with them if you like the job,
of course
but like
you pive in america
you need money just to keep your health
that's lookin out for yourself
don't hang on to any notions that it isnt a real concern or that you fon't deserve to be paid a fair wage

Money isn't a real thing, though. I understand that it's something we have to work with and live with, but it's something that does not motivate me.
There isn't a single thing I can do to change the way my brain is wired so that money will motivate me past the motivation to make enough to get my ends to meet. I don't care past that and there's really nothing I can do about that.
So it's not a matter of whether I deserve it or not and it's not about being gaslighted.
This is just how I've always been.
It's the same reason things like grades don't motivate me. It's all just made up garbage and I can't bring myself to care about it.
That's why all I'm really concerned with is whether or not I'm having fun.

And also >>934212
I just want to have fun and not really do anything that takes too much energy.

I know I've been pretty forceful about it but I urge you to someday when you have some space to reconsider this notion.
think about future Kirara
don't be attached to this idea, consider it carefully, where it comes from, and what good it does you

I don't really care about the future very much either!
Even going to graduate school isn't something I really planned on doing. It's just something that happened.

>>934217
I've tried, I'm not allowed to.

just join the military :)

The military is a load of dicks don't join the military

well i spoke my peace!
back to shitposting

I appreciate that you're concerned for me

>>>/watch?v=V4BFsb6nbWo

One of the things people recommend doing while you're relatively young and have worked for a bit is trying to start your own practice

Plenty of people recommend things but that doesn't mean doing the things they recommend is smart

Nah like
If you're motivated, I think it's a good thing to try.
Running the show yourself is an experience worth having in my opinion;
you end up earning a lot more than what you'd earn as an employee of a company (but of course you give up a few employee benefits too)

If you'd been paying attention to the conversation you'd notice making more money is not a concern or driving factor here though

I'm thinkin about doin consulting myself actually
i don't like having a boss!

Ah my bad!
I'm a dummy

>>934226
I don't like having a boss either!
But there's nothing I can do that will reliably get me money that doesn't involve having a boss

>>934226
Consulting work is really good work.
It's a lot of fun.

i'm actually doin a smol gig for a friend
in crypto
it's weird workin with a friendo tho
but i'm tryna be mindful of boundaries and so far it's good

i recently read the book on non violent comunication and i think that's helping me stop myself from smashing coworkers over the head with a folding chair

Consulting work is the best if you want to do your own gig.
Normally businesses require appliances or an inventory which are big points of failure.
Consulting work just requires a decent office and a couple of computers.

It helps if you've done a job before in consulting and have connected with (potential) clients. When it comes to consulting, what matters the most is your rep (which is why people stick to companies. Company names bring in clients)

>>934230
yeah workin with a friend can be really awkward

you know what
i've got the knowledge now
it's time to create MorCoin
fak
Moe

>>934231
ok zoomer
sorry
had to do it to em
but yea rep is king

Yeah sorry I'm a zoomer and I don't have experience outside of seeing my dad operate his business and getting advice from him. I guess I'll have something valuable to share in about 10 years

ouch!
don't take it on the chin
i'm actually a giant OBAKA

why don't you make us a tik tok ZOOMER

I have never used tick tock
I'm a computer nerd so I'm a bit more privacy-conscious than your average zoomer
tik tok is programmed to fuck with your dopamine receptors, so there's that too

triangulating ur IP
(hacker voice) I'm in

I
am
using
a VPN. heh..

/moe/ is also carefully engineered for dopamine reception
poster beware

hey zoomer
do a NAE NAE for us

>>934242
A little bit of dope never hurt a bloke

indeed
now to order some pokeyman cards

Goddamnit I should've never told you guys that I'm a zoomer.
zoomie zoomie zoom zoom
>>934245
I had a collection before it was cool
>>934247
That's just the way I talk when I'm relaxed
I'm an actor, remember? I know how to put on a doomer coomer shroomer facade

It was highly unnecessary, you absolutely exhude the attitude

ah, we woulda gotten it yea like tilde said

>>934246
Maybe you should distract us so we forget by doing your FORTNIGHT dances

roblox
stonk go up

>>934249
fortnite doesn't run on linux
>>934250
I only ever played CP so that's a no from me
>>934252
The TF2 community is still alive and well! Come back, we miss you!

TF2 community servers were my roblox
stout shako 2 ref

i don't know it's real hard for me to go back
i've tried
it's not the same anymore
that was a different time in my life
i still do play OW from time to time tho
it's different enough to give me fresh feels

Mate
Just TRY and tell me this isn't the best god damn house you've ever seen in your life

I do have flair for architectural design
even if I do say so myself.

I had made an underground subway station in a snowy biome in minecraft when I was a mini zoomer. I accidentally deleted it one day, but I still miss it a lot.
Months of redstone design gone with a single keypress

>>934254
I think you can do better

redstone programmin is fun
i like satisfactory anlot too even if all it is is produce produce produce
im scared of factorio
it would destroy me

>>934257
idk
It's got my bed
got my crafting table
got my campfire

why mess with perfection

>>934251
sounds like you need some TIDE PODS

>>934258
I know right! I used to love making redstone flight machines.
I even made a thing which could change direction mid-flight, but none of my friends could operate it so my dreams of having flying redstone machine battles were broken.

>>934260
That meme is pretty old, boomer
get with the times

>>934259
Perfection don't real there is only ever IMPROVEMENT

>>934261
Look. I'm doing my best here. I even googled "things zoomers like" and it didn't help at all.

Oh yeah Kirara have you gotten to the season finale of Stars yet?

Nah. I was thinking about watching it tonight but I have 200 kanji reviews

>>934263
I'm not your average zoomer!
The only thing I like is HUGE ANIME HONKERS!
>>934264
Is it worth a watch if I watch stuff for characters?
I don't mind it if it doesn't have a plot
>>934265
What reason are you learning Japanese for?

>>934265
It's a very good finale
Mashumairesh has a new song for it that absolutely slaps

Everything Mashumairesh puts out absolutely slaps.
Mashumashu is the best.

>>934266
I want to be able to read Japanese

Now I've lost it.
I know I can kill.

>>934262

>>934270
How dare you
I don't even post anime

lagrin lagrin
hella people in the park

Fairies are actually fungi.
Fiary dust is the fairy equivalent of fungal spores btw
They reproduce through fairy dust (spores)

>>934271
you post about anime

>>934272
○

>>934272
Fuck I'm jealous of your mountains

invite us over sam lets go to the mountains

>>934272
What a view.

its crazy how west coast states are taller than they are wide

>>934272
That looks hella cold for summer.

they right sam
dat some good mountains

>>934273
can i ward them off with iron or salt?
>>934280
it's barely just turned to spring!

looks even better from this angle

You don't even have a proper floor you absolute barbarian

floors are for tje weak
return to monke

don't you love the feeling of grass against your skin

Not really, no
It's itchy

>>934283
can you explain your thought process while building that partial roof?

i do like sitting on grass but for some reason it makes me anxious if people are around
idk why
probably just general people anxiety

>>934288
You can only use the workbench indoors but i couldn't be fucked building the whole thing so i just built it over the top of the workbench to trick the game.

but why not just move the bench over to the wall?

bloooooomin'

>>934291
I like to think of myself as an artist as well as an architect.
It's my canvas, where I blend practical function and self-expression to tell a story.

The deliberate asymmetry makes a point.
It says something about these fragmented, disjointed times we live in.

>>934292
magic

Get me some of that Franch dressing

>>>/watch?v=HbSMzi9niVg

>>934277
please do!
and bring some vaccines
we are dyin for some

Literally dying

>>934295
the name is conehead
we come from ｆｒａｎｃｈ

our hockey team all caught a covid variant and are out of commission it's a canadian emergency

yeah sure they did
they just dont want to get they asses whooped by america
AGAIN

wow
i think a 4% chance to make the playoffs is VERY respectable

That was really good.
You could really feel the passion put into the fight.
Sasuga Trigger.

I really liked how they handled the social tensions in the pre-fight part of the episode too
It was super stuffy and awkward
Just like how those social tensions would be in real life

Tadaimhome

okaeri açai

https://stickyarsenal.bigcartel.com/product/gomen-nasai-t-shirt

take me back 2 NY

oh wait its legal here too duh
brain cells GONE

took a weed to the head

sorry i am too busy looking at nino the best girl in 5 brides i didny read what u said

who

nino, the best girl in 5 brides

eh? what's that sonny?

schnitzel

sometimes after taking my preworkout i get purple spots in my vision

that's just the radiation asserting itself

the hulk got strong like that maybe im next

>>934320
Achshually that's how Bruce Banner got strong, not the Hulk.

bruce ban rei

anime >>934323 →

gl hf rika

now ive dropped it i know I can skrill
the truth exists beyond the bass

That is a morbidly impressive ... mask?

more like a condom

What about a consub?

#BOYCOTTGENSHIN eh

the game where 'eating endangered species is fun and will get you clout' is problematic? big surprise

>>934447
Did they do something specific that got people fired up?

idk i think they found out hillichurls are based on indigenous peoples
and some other stuff
>>>/@OlKAW4S/1379267279519576064

the weirdest thing for me in that game is the voicelines of the ice girl qiqi
the english ones
yeuck

>>934451
I dunno a lot of these things seem a bit weird, sure, but as someone who's engaged with anime and stuff now for so long, I dunno
Are they demonstrations of good human behaviour and opinions about people? No, but they're also not, like, severe transgressions
The one about taking indigenous peoples and using them as models for monsters is probably the worst if true.

I don't want to play Genshin and I'll happily never touch it, but I think most of these things are them just trying to stir a pot that's got other ladles to use.

>>934451
LMAO
>>>/@deschia_/1379300795191980034

>>934456
oh yeah. that reminds me.
gotta do my dailies.

>>934457
yea some of that stuff looks like a pile-on effect
i don't like the part where there's one token PoC character who's called exotic, that's pretty bad
i think they've added a few more since launch at least?
haven't played in months
and using an indigenous dance for the enemies is really bad in these times

I guess I'll reread Rokujoma no Shinrakyusha
Or whatever its called

Whoops
Wrong imageboard
Anyways
I finished rereading an LN series I like that is on an indefinite hiatus.
;_;

oh jeez
i didnt know DMX went into a coma
i did hear he had a heart attack
fookin' ell

>>934463
He's supposed to be in stable condition.

They need to update
http://isdmxinjail.com/
My best friend uses this website to check if dmx is in jail, I was surprised they updated it for his health problems though.

he's stable with no brain activity
too much drugs

>>934466
OOh
Big F

Drugs are bad mm'kay.

crack cocaine eh
yea that's not a great thing to OD on

X finally got instead of givin' it to ya

>>>/@ActualAero/1379145975961432065

Stuff like this is the best argument for Nintendo not doing hardware and focusing on game design
But at the same time there's like, several extremely good arguments for them focusing on hardware as well
Like the DS, 3DS, Switch, are all semi-recent to recent cases where their hardware is great
They just need to shore up the other parts they're kinda stupid on

>>934471
Whoops
I thought it just said "wow stop"
My bad

>>934472
they shoulda taken their old DS chips and snuck one into the switch as a side processor like in so many of their consoles
task it with the voice codecs
>>934473
pretty good reaction image still for the context

I have this song stuck i n my head.
>>>/watch?v=ktwlN_ocL-o
>>934474
Thanks, I was going to grab a vomiting anime girl from my disgusted reaction image folder but I decided to shake things up a bit and grab something from my kornheiser folder.

Franz Ferdinand might be my favorite band from Glasgow.

After going through this whole list I can say with the utmost certainty that they are my favorite Glaswegian band.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bands_from_Glasgow

Everyone else should feel free to chime in with theirs.

pretty obvious what i'm gonna say

>>934479
Chvrches

no it's urusei yatsura

just kidding yea ofc it's lauren

>>934481
Weeb

hito ni yasashiku

>>934483
Who is your favorite band from Glasgow?

lmao
I searched Runescape on pixiv just to see what would happen

>>934485
WWhWho is your favorite band from Glasgow?

>>934472
Who is your favorite band from Glasgiw?
*Glasgow

>>934485
Regret?

>>934486
>>>/watch?v=YRNkE5ZpTxg

>>934488
Only a little

pay the tollllllll

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-state-of-emergency-wastewater-leak-watch-live-stream-today-2021-04-05/
Big F

I hate kids

>>934493
But you are o
be!
*ne!

>>934494
:(
I live a semi-nocturnal lifestyle and kids playing outside disrupted my sleep
I hate kids and I hate mornings

>>934493
but you are a kid

>>934495
Wait
I thought you were in North America.
Also
Close your window
And sandwich your head between two pillows.

@rene
>>>/watch?v=by3HklSPpp4

naruhodo

>>934497
I made them run
Next time I'll render them unable to run

>>934500
Cringe

What else would you expect of someone that hates people and hates noise?

and hates light

>>934502
Did you actually scare off those kids?

>>934504
Not really, just told them to play somewhere else.
If they got scared of me, it's on them

CRAWWWWWWWWWWLLING INNN MY SKKKIIIIN

>>934493
has anyone said but you are one yet

>>934507
Everyone haha

Put cardboard egg cartons over your windows
They're good for blocking sound
You could also get real sound proofing material for cheap on amazon and put it over your windows.

Put cardboard egg cartons in your ass

I've already got my room semi-sound proofed in fact. I wanted the windows to be openable to get rid of dust and shit which is why noise still comes in :(
>>934512
Yes, it is removable. But fixed provides better proofing
I have 2 layers of windows already

>>934511
OObviously not enough.
You could set up the sound proof stuff to be removable.

>>934511
I mean the sststuff you put on the windows.

Poor Miko
Poor Marine

Night /moe/

Naito

>>934502
you kill that dog yet?

>>934498
Pretty good.

>>934518
What i like about this guy is how consistent he is
He's done one of those videos every week for a little while now and they're all pretty on point.

Next season of slime starts TODAY?
I thought I'd have to wait like, a season or two

Is that show good?
I've been thinking about watching it

I like it a lot
But you've gotta be into isekai to like it I think

I've seen my share of isekai

>>934517
Dogs are hard to fight unarmed.
Sticks are not very effective, but stones usually make them run away.

>>934523
Isekai manga are the best. Anime usually cut corners because they're usually just ads for the LN

>>934525
You're probably right.

I never read much manga though
Even though I'd like to
Just.
Get occupied with other things. And anime is easier to multitask

In the spider anime, it's actually a bit wonky cause the manga is the one cutting corners, while the anime is faithful to a fault
The manga cuts out more or less everything related to the human side of the story, which is actually Cool and Good, because the human parts are bad on purpose

>>934525
Just read the lns nerd.

In other news I am putting a moratorium on sleep.

>>934526
It's been the opposite for me, since I can listen to music while reading manga.
They're also easy to read on phones so you can read 'em on the go
>>934527
That's rare but it does happen from time to time if the mangaka adapting it is lazy.
There's also some stuff that just doesn't translate to manga and gets cut because of that.
>>934528
I've tried but I usually just can't because of how broken the grammar is in translations

>>934531
Yes, I hate them.

>>934530
Have you tried not reading machine teanslations?

*translations

Ugh
Stupid fucking birds
It's too early to be chirping

I've gotten used to birds chirping since I almost always go to sleep when they start chirping

>>934534
I have to be up and on a conference call in five hours.

>>934535
RIP, splash some water on your face. Cold water makes you look less sloppy

>>934536
SDoesn't really matter how I look

Oh I thought you were going to type five minutes

I'm gonna go move into the basement, it should be cooler down there.

Definitely cooler down here.

Are there any funky fungi growing down there?

>>934541
No

There shouldn't be

What time zone are you ib

*in anyways?

I keep shifting it with seasons
I usually stick to north american timezones for mid-seasons and european ones for edges

>>934545
I meant which one you live in.
Should I assume you're a NEET?

I wish I knew
>>934546
I'm currently studying for uni shit, but I've become a hikki since COVID happened

>>>/watch?v=GegN_AXWWqc

It would be cool to have a pet fox.

Well, I'm sure in reality it would require a lot of work.
Y
Also it's not legal to keep them as pets in Illinois.

I hear they can smell bad too

>>934551
So can people

foxes require a lot more work than your usual pet yeah
I want to keep snakes because they're cute like foxes but require less work

>>934460
as someone on the other side of the fence for the most part apparently the exotic bit was a mistranslation that actually meant more "foreign" and was about his clothes and stuff and not just skin tone

as for the hilchurl thing iunno

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab-eating_fox
Nito
>>934554
Ohayo at

*Ohayo ToN

>>>/watch?v=3Uk6-iiVb0Y

>>934556
Kek

>>934556
>>>/watch?v=FMkcafV6puM
Done watching YouTube videos for the night.

Night again

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