>>3927 Some rich kid actually creating value and not just doing fraud is a much larger net positive taking into account the harm he could've done.

>>3965 that's true also

Unfortunately for us, it's been over a year now and industrial society seems to be holding together.

>>3765 >if you're christian, you're definitely seeing some boxes being ticked for the end times. Are you Protestant?

>>3765 >if you're christian, you're definitely seeing some boxes being ticked for the end times. The same goes for pretty much any other religion that emphasizes eschatology.

dad once told me to not say sorry and just fix it. so i did it. i havent fixed any at all though.

...it's like 1992 again. i wish it's 1992. but an isekai. sigh i hate isekais

So when I was a dumb kid I touched someone else’s McDonald’s order

>>4459 u were a staff?

>>4399 isekai is the worst trend to happen to anime tbh the ones where they openly talk about "leveling-up" like they're in some sort of video game are the worst.

I'll put in my two cents on economics and foriegn policy. For economics: If we're talking about a micronation, then something resembling a barter economy would be fine. Otherwise, I'd advocate for a state-owned fiat bank (intrestless, ofc). In anything involving money, we'll also need to have a tax policy, which I believe should be as simple as possible. Either a scaling tax bracket (i.e. +2% for each 1000 Smackerolios earned in a given period) with no exceptions (as all exceptions can potentially be abused), or a flat sales tax (this would need to be higher, 25~50% depending on how lean the government is) that applies to every good sold, with all other forms of taxation abolished. For foreign policy: As isolationist as possible. The ideal would be for us to achieve autarky, for maximum isolationist potential. >>3865 Honest question: How would there be politics and a draft in an anarchy?

maybe for location we could choose a shallow area around the indian ocean to make a island out of because it seems no one has claimed it and it's pretty close to the mainlands for importing our tools and such if we wanna be a little more ambitious we could choose Bir Tawil as our second land as well (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bir_Tawil)

>>4278 in bir tawil we could import and breed some elephants and rhinos for trophy hunting and make some shady deals with some labs to allow unethical genetic engineering research

>>4491 also in bir tawil we could allow elon musk to make space rocket platforms there with the condition that we're also allowed to use it in the future

Reminds me of Rare's isometric NES games.

You need a "hit box" for every sprite. Check out the tutorial at lazyfoo.net for an SDL example.

The only game I play is Dawn of War. I like the aesthetics of it, but the older versions only.

im in it purely for the lore my fav factions are the orks, mechanicus, necrons, tau and eldar plus some chaos stuff

>>4462 Oh forgot mechanicus even exists. I loved them then i learnt their omnissaiah was emperor.

>>4469 i think the emperor tricked the mechanicus into thinking he was the omnissiah

>>4439 i've played Space Marine, that was a fun time. i really liked the Astartes animations, managed to save those before GW scrubbed the channel. i was looking forward to Exodite, too, but i'm not about to get that new streaming service they're putting together for all the new content. as for factions, i really like the Mechanicus and the Eldar. i really like elves and scholarly races like them, and Eldar fit that bill, plus they've got cool architecture. i've started liking the Mechanicus as i play the game, they look and sound really cool.

>>4235 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIoILN_KrhU this.

while i have intended to for a long time now, i have not read Berserk. however, i have seen the impact it has made throughout the world, and i have seen the talent of its author in what panels and images i have seen. the testimonies, the art, the widespread mourning that has started as a result of the news has been very moving. he was a man who loved his work and put his all into making something beautiful for the whole world to read, and he will most certainly be missed for decades. i'm off to read Berserk, now. i'll be thinking of you as i do, Miura.

Haven't gotten around to reading his work, but RIP anyway.

>>4244 i haven't either, but just from what i've seen and heard, the man was a true artist and a master of his craft. it's really neat going through 4chan and seeing at least one thread up for him on every board.

As the only person who read Berserk, i can attest, its pretty good. Eventho everyone knew he would die before ever finishing the series, it feels weird that its actually over now. I only started reading Berserk like 5 or 6 years ago, hard to imagine that there are people who started reading before i was alive, and that the journey will never conclude.

just finished Refunct, pretty relaxing game that you can play at your own pace. others i like: minecraft(obvious choice) Proteus Retrowave(by RewindApp) Grow Home Firewatch

>>3763 finally! some love for proteus. that game is beautiful.

Found this Linux version of Taipan, an old BASIC game from the TRS-80 and Apple II days. It's pretty fun! Basically you have a ship and sail between cities to trade goods, run from or fight pirates, that sort of thing.

VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssDoRFu6CsM A surprisingly chill and funny game. Try opening a letsplay of it while overflowing with rage, you should be calm in a hour. Drunkards will probably like it. You work as a bartender in a futuristic city, and you chat with various people and listen to their problems. By the end of the game you are probably one of the most informed people in the city, simply by chatting a lot. News sites are garbage there.

>>3036 I just started Red Dead 2, really fucking good. I pulled my Xbox One out of storage to play it (3 years late) and it's really immersive. crazy

>>1772 Kepler B.

space-habitat would be cool aswell

pluto-tards need to know their place, it's just a rock, sweetie. It was demoted from planethood for a reason.

>>3095 ehhh everything is relative

>>3103 Very cool.

im in a cult called "being a piece of shit"

>>3159 That's because making a post like that takes two seconds and isn't time intensive, unlike curating a collection of black dick pics and constantly spamming them.

There's a free-masonic temple under 2 miles away from where I live. Not sure what to make of 'em. >>3080 Fascinating, any more info, anon?

How to Win Friends and Influence people. Fantastic read.

Thisby Thestoop and the Black Mountain. It's a young adult book but I don't even care. It's so good. It's outrageously comfy and I've gotten totally pulled into the world.

>>922 I just finished rereading The Hobbit and man is that book comfy. Perfect for reading in bed late at night with a cup of tea next to me.

No Longer Human, Osamu Dazai https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.148752

I started reading Cien Años de Soledad today, jumped in blind. No idea what to expect outside of Márquez's reputation.

Such as? You could probably get a nice discussion going if you tell us what you're doing, and others may share their ideas with you.

>>3925 >such as? it feels like the environment around me has grown stagnant and is beginning to take a toll on my mind. it feels like a forced ennui that i can't seem to escape. the classes i take right now claim to be advanced and superior in what is taught. the content of the course often turns out to be some project that the professors hurriedly threw together or was already configured by some third party education company that saw an opportunity to profit. much of what i have done in class is tedious or tiresome and no longer motivates me to finish what projects i have left. i am going to fail four out of six classes this semester, but i will still graduate because they are extraneous credits that i thought would be informative to take. i make this mistake almost every year in the hope that i will look better to someone in the future. this year it turned out to be making a bunch of remedial apps in code.org. the code is extremely simple in what my teacher claims to be java. everybody in the class uses drag-n-drop code to create everything even though typing is faster, making their projects look like a failed tetris game. im not a lain prodigy, i believe the standards are so low that anything incrementally better makes me look advanced. trying to appeal to people around me has made me grow restless and unable to sleep. even with a decent amount of physical activity from work my brain refuses to stop engaging. my doctor refuses to increase my dosage of sleeping pills / won't prescribe me a higher quantity because he thinks continuing to build a tolerance will be detrimental to sustain long term. alcohol worked much more effectively than i thought it would until my parents found that most of their kahlua was gone; i could be out in about a half hour compared to a few hours with a good amount of sleeping pills. my parents want to take me to a therapist for depression. i know i am not depressed. i simply haven't had anything stimulating to fuck with my mind in a while. my parents seem think that effort put toward something that isn't able to be professionally certified is useless, so if i want to do something on my own i feel forced to disappoint. disappointment towards myself for not realizing this sooner has been the only thought to exist in my head recently. the hope of having something interesting to do once i pass preliminary topics has ceased to exist. projects on my own in the past seem more hobbyist than i would like them to be; mostly creating counter strike maps that i know no one would play. i never created / modeled my own assets or textures, just always used the ones that already exist out of eagerness to play them. i would like to have my projects envelop my life. they do not need to be fun to do them, they only need to be interesting or something i feel is necessary to complete. i often find an activity being fun slows me down way too much; i enjoy fucking around with something too much that i end up not making much progress at all. the lack of projects like these has made it feel like there is a warm blanket over my mind, but that it has been on me so long that i begin to overheat and resent it. i guess the first thing to start out with would be to host my own proxy so i no longer have to pay for a VPN didnt expect anyone to reply to thread thanks anon

>>3935 nvm i figured everything out

>>3542 yo thats really nice, you know if you are Turkish uludağ Gazoz aficionado visit us at https://discord.gg/8svdmRrD

>>4088 Always happy to see Turks here. I'm not the guy you quoted though. I can speak a little bit Turkish, mind if I join too?

>>4089 of course! We'll be happy to see ya around us =^)

it'd have to be sprite mixed in lemonade

Torn between coke and something clear but bubbly. There's something really soothing about seeing those droplets pop out of the soda

>>4116 Nah its a pic i found from another iboard

This is a good place to be.

Welcome. Too bad that ain't your place, it looks cozy, if a little dirty.

>>4115 Hi.

>>4125 > Welcome. Thanks >>4146 :D

>>2792 Thanks. I tried MPV and it didn't work at all for me. I'll look into the others.

>>2777 I use MPC-BE, you can also download plugins from GitHub that make image quality for movies look better, and make audio cleaner.

late station has a been a bit lonely lately

>>4096 4! i'm gonna leave this on in the bg on my speakers as i sleep, gn late.

>>4099 Awesome! Rest well anon.

>>4017 It's not just love songs though, there are plenty of "rappers" in their mid-late 20s rapping about "cutting their wrists" or social anxiety or other similarly edgy topics. It's cringe overload, and this is coming from someone who struggled with self harm in the past.

>>4023 I know what you mean. There are even guys like Jonathan Davis who have been singing adolescent edgelord lyrics for decades and still seem psychologically stuck in high school. I'm fine with some edginess if it's used to create a certain aesthetic (like a lot of other metal bands who are more over the top while still having a sense of humor about their gimmicks), but it's kind of pathetic and tryhard when they're taking it so seriously and seemingly desperate to appear like tortured, misunderstood artists.

You are what you do most.

I don't think it's new at all, anon. Nearly every subculture seems to go through what >>4017 describes, as that subculture devolves into a fashion, especially if it's a counter-culture. As it does so, things related to that culture get dragged along for the ride. The tough guy "Biker" archetype comes to mind.

>>3993 humans are quick to categorize and stereotype others based on outward traits, it's been this way since the dawn of civilization and societies. it's far easier to sort others based on their most visible interests and traits. it's also why people often go from one trend to another, and why trends exist in the first place: to reinforce a personality in the minds of the ones sorting them. religions, cults, clubs, you name it; they all are based upon this idea of stereotyping and compartmentalizing individuals so they are easier to approach and engage with.

im too poor to play most games so im useless to you

Minecraft ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Half-Life technically has no intro cutscene, but you're stuck on the train so idk

I think Rain World does that. >>2035 The Half-Life not-cutscene is worse IMO. At least a cutscene means you can skip it.

>>2017 super hot: mind control delete starts immediately not really adventure

Not that big into anime honestly, I have a hard time paying attention to "passive" media in general like TV shows and movies. Anyway, I remember being 6 and sneaking glances at Sailor Moon in the late 90s, but that's just because I thought the girls were cute. Didn't really pay attention to the plot or anything because I was keeping an eye out for anyone who might walk in suddenly, ready to change the channel out of fear of being judged. Since finally getting a decent computer in 2010, I've watched a few series to completion: TTGL, FLCL, Evangelion, Watamote, and Lain. In that order. Tried to watch Chuunibyou back when it first aired, but then I got to the episode where Yuuta and Rikka spent the night together and it reminded me of how lonely I was growing up. I know real young love isn't sappy like that but it still hurt like hell. Had to drop it mid-episode. Need to get back into Texhnolyze. I watched the first few episodes and liked it, then for some reason I just stopped.

I've been watching Kumo desuga. It's kind of amusing and it managed to involve me in the human-world politics (I stopped reading around the point where episode 10 happens) but it's pretty obvious that this is the sort of thing about which nobody is going to say "oh yeah, the isekai about the spider girl, I need to watch that again." It was fun for awhile, but now it's kinda like a filler arc, except it's the main plot.

>>3700 >I have a hard time paying attention to "passive" media in general like TV shows and movies. I have that problem too, although it comes and it goes. I've had phases where I'm watching a movie almost every night, but most of the time I have problems paying attention to them if I'm watching them by myself. It doesn't help that my schedule is busier than it used to be and that I feel like there are other things I could be doing.

>>3700 I did that a lot when I was a kid too. It was not until I was 16 I got a proper computer with internet connection and even then I downloaded 3gp anime episodes from those wap sites and watched it on a tiny screen of my feature phone.

>ctrl+f "tskuyomi moon phase" >0 results I want a tsundere vampire loli to kissu me.

>>4063 It's CHEESE.WAD (Satan's Hell Hole), a Doom level from 1994 with some modified graphics and a new midi tune. Here it is again, this time I loaded the graphics patch from CRINGE! (also from 1994) that has a trooper with nicer McDoom colors. They should have just used that one instead.

>>4065 Doom modding never ceases to amaze me

>>4065 That zombieman does look better. Maybe they didn't know it existed.

>>4066 what game is this?

>>4068 sonic robo blast 2 kart basically someone modded Doom and made it into a Sonic game(a really cool one, too) then someone modded that and made it into a kart racing game.

>>3987 cute pic cool song koth rules

i use this as a wallpaper

>>1960 mine's one of the default windows ones. this one.

have myself a blue theme for my wm and currently sporting the Subnautica drop.

snow snow, come again can't believe how long it's been

>>3954 looks good anon i like the low contrast and simplicity

There’s one

this is my wallpaper

>>3954 There's already a wallpaper thread on here. >>17 >>17 >>17 Kindly check the catalog to not make duplicate threads and keep this place at max comf.

>>2461 can cats even digest fruit? I thought they were carnivores...

>>2827 Now I wanna smash a vaporeon

>>2827 aww hell yeah time to smash some poke pussy

did you find anyone? i'd love to play on one of these if you do but i cant host unfortunately

>>2096 no one yet unfortunately

>>2085 where do you live anon? i live in detroit and there are still many servers around me. there seems to be an even distribution of both deathmatch and casual servers, even found a couple of servers running hostage only

>>3971 somewhere in Mongolia and damn never knew Detroit had a running server of any game

>>3705 lol if yer god wanted u that bad why r u still here cunts. guess a liar's child is another liar.

sorry i really hate all of you. it s cringe as fuck. even tho zack snyder and ultrman isnt half bad.

>>3705 somehow succesful people is made of awfully pushy fucks. then why do you expect less from life anyway? suck it up and kill yourself.

it does, find small communities you can interact with, they tend to be less toxic. Plus you kinda know when a community is toxic after a first glance. Just be smart with it.

>>3717 I like this, it's much easier and I become less impulsive with my screen time. Instead of being on the screen all day I use my computer for an hour or two at night before sleeping. than ontop of it the image boards give me the lil' ol' dopamine release here and there. Plus I get really anxious anytime I use social media. Not sure why but I know it correlates with social media.

>>3249 look it up, have fun >>2477 and you don't seem to uuunderstaaand a shame, you seemed an honest maaan

it's been exactly a full month since i've bumped this thread haha, have i really been gone that long?

>>3297 Chinese cartoon character.