>>11190 you're very extremely cool and awsum :P recently started listening to for severe addicts only, love them!

i only listen to underground emo

hawnestly huge into trance stuff, i've been listenen to a lot of visual kei though lately like minus jin-say orchestra. otaku rock stuff is pretty fun too desu

>>11190 arigatoe hikarinchama, i will give some of these a listen when i have the time.

>>11169 larp and video game music hikarin i feel like i grew out of music ngl

>>11218 Im gonna apply for a license in a few months Do hikarins have any advice

>>11229 Try to pass.

>>11231 Does everybody fail it I know two friends from Europe, and one from Dubai who've all collectively failed on their first try.

>>11229 Your driving test? There are resources to study online, and as for the road test you should practice whatever your country tests you on. Parking, driving, road laws, etc. Best of luck! >>11233 I failed on my first attempt.

>>11234 >Your driving test? There are resources to study online, and as for the road test you should practice whatever your country tests you on. Parking, driving, road laws, etc. Best of luck! Yup yup! Thanks hikarin! I'll see if there're good resources!! >I failed on my first attempt. oh no should i be careful for mine too

>>1728 I am saying that I'd contribute what they lack, the artist I am talking about is the kind who fills a sketchbook with his fantasy world illustrations, who'd always wanted to tell people his stories, not someone looking for grunt work. They can sell the product, idc, I just want my name in the credits.

I'm an artist myself, but can't code or write. Where do you find likeminded people with the needed skills to start a doujin circle?

>>1733 I wish I knew lol, dicksword is like shouting into the void, it has to be on platforms tied to our real identities but I don't like those. Btw I am OP and I can do all of the programming a doujin team could ever need.

I am an artist but I need a writer or someone with a good sort of direction otherwise I'll just draw anything.

Not an artist myself but I'm a musician working on a fairly successful music & art project with a friend of mine (artist) and we've been looking to develop a rhythm game for the project if you're interested

What are you testing?

>>11009 This better have lactoferrin! I want my brain to gr9w!

>>11009 i WILL put it inside my milk and there is NOTHING you can do to stop me

Bet it tastes of peppermint schnapps.

to what? hit nails? no that would be dumb

>>11224 which head?

I use my head as a basketball.

>>11183 my family rocomended to use them out of concern about my healt, since they are healtier . i didn't particularly care about my healt ,but I tried them anyway.

>>11196 Vaping as a "health alternative" is like switching from meth to cocaine because "its healthier" At least with smoking, it doesnt piss absolutely everyone around you off with a cloud of strawberry shitcake. I feel like a huge portion of the vape scene is just to say "but im not smoking anymore!"

Smoking gives you lung cancer, stop!

I want to try cloves

I prefer ciigies but vaping is cheaper lol

The only good thing about mlp is the ponut porn tbh.

>>11122 This isn't MLP - at least it's not to me. I'm not interested in MLP, but I love this series and view it as an entirely separate thing.

>>11124 Well it has MLP characters. However, this is set in an alternate universe and setting that makes this thing unique, so I can't argue about that.

>>11124 why r u not interested in mlp

http://crba.dedyn.io/saf-en

bug report: sometimes when i expand a thread to see omitted posts said posts get loaded twice / doubled

They dont even reply, sucks.

>>1055 Who doesn't reply, staff? We do take note of everything you guys report even if we don't specifically reply in this thread. Sorry, that's our mistake for not acknowledging your report. Please continue to report any issues you come across.

kuuz life is tragic can't imagine spending my entire life upkeeping 20+ imageboard ``businesses`` and chasing clout at the forgotten corners of the internet when I should be taking care of my children at 40+ yo LOL

kuuz broken

>>10991 They do not

>>10989 no but it can be. are you seeking advice?

>>10996 No, and I think that being reminded of the fact I am dieting is counterproductive to dieting, I just wanted to post something and I was reminded of /fat/ so I posted

>>10979 I thought loli haet pizza?

>>10981 luckiest person alive

>>10477 i love the three kingdoms period so much chinese people have a proverb "meet his own maicheng" which is their analogue to waterloo, apparently which is based on liu bei's loss to sun quan at maicheng iirc

>tfw there's an entire manifesto by the emperor of the ming dynasty on chinese political procedure and it's untranslated https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huang-Ming_Zuxun

i don't know whether the song dynasty was stupid or not, they really needed to get a defected jurchen general in like, right after defeating the khitans up north. chinese history really is filled with random invaders from the north killing empires https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Accounts_of_Jingkang https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_Conducted_at_Sea

>>10929 it's hard to wrap my head around the fact that a swedish woman was taken as a slave to dzungar xinjiang, where she'd met a dutch cartographer who'd suffered the same capture during the great northern war

>>10327 Is anybody here learning Chinese I wonder what came first, the script or the sounds I like the character 了 because it's unique to me and a bit efficient desu also, let me drop a few resources for you boys https://www.hanyutales.com/ a website for chinese stories https://hanzicraft.com/ draw chinese characters and get da word https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/zhongwen/ extension to view the definition of each character https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-vocabulary/ HSK vocabulary if you're interested in mugging it all up https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Main_Page a great wiki for chinese grammar https://www.hackingchinese.com/ very useful website on learning chinese https://www.chinese-forums.com/ a forum which i like for its emphasis on chinese culture good luck hikarins

>>1599 Yes, me

I love it~

i love my little desktop miku sadly it seems shimejis are a dying art.

>>1599 i have just realized shimeji simulation is a manga series. seems i missed the point

yesss!! i love that mangaka’s art!!!!!

Anime and manga are the only things that make me cry. It can be the most low-hanging fruit of sad scenes, and it will still get me.

>>455 Animes with scenes that are meant to make you cry have never made me even slightly sad (except for Grave of the Fireflies, that one's pretty depressing), but watching certain loner anime characters or simply characters that at some point find themselves isolated because of rejection has teared me up a couple of times since they were relatable to me, even if none of the scenes were intentionally sad. I mentioned Grave of the Fireflies before even clicking in the spoilered OP, I think it might be the saddest piece of fictional media ever produced in human history.

Honestly, I never really cry watching anime when it's "sad". It's more so when they reach triumphant goals after trying their best that gets me. Especially so if it's something romance related (picrel). That and anything to do with motherhood, like in Doremi... But you don't see that much which is unfortunate! >>1754 >but watching certain loner anime characters... that at some point find themselves isolated because of rejection has teared me up a couple of times Could you recommend a couple of these? I'm interested

>>1756 I can't remember one in particular since most of these are just small scenes and the main characters never stayed on that situation for too much. I do recall that the Komi-san manga made me pretty sad when I used to read it years ago, I didn't give the anime adaptation a chance since the VA didn't resonate with me so I don't know if the anime can capture what the manga did for me. There's also Oyasumi Punpun but this one and the other are both popular so you've probably know about them already. Making this post has reminded me that I should read the Komi-san manga again to see where it's at

The first and only anime that ever made me cry is Haibane Renmei

Could be personal bias but I can't think of a single piece of Japanese media where I've found the english dub to be better than the original. I've watched dubs in other languages which I actually found superior to the japanese version but for some reason the english dubs of anything Japan are always meh at best. It could be because the dubbing industry in America isn't as developed considering most films are already in English so the few VA available are busy voicing western videogames and cartoons. My other theory is that Japanese producers just don't care about who gets to dub their media so they just go for the cheapest option, it could also be a mix of both theories since maybe quality American VA are too expensive compared to other languages given they get paid millions for how iconic they are, that would explain why animes and japanese vidya usually gets much better dubs in any other European language but English, where you rarely get high profile VA.

I like German dubs, it sounds like another anime language to my hears.

Death note

Ah my Goddess has has a better dub desu. I watched it as a kid on YouTube dubbed so I'm biased... Not an anime, but the Neptunia series' dub is way better than the original Japanese. In the original they all sound the same sorry

I prefer watching Hetalia in the dub because the voice actors in the english dub have different accents depending on the country they voice act, and i think that’s hilarious.

While they are still using google-made software, just being "not google chrome" is good enough. You can still be Chromium-based, but as long as you don't ride the meat of google, It's not the google browser. After all, the only real working alternative to either of the two is Ladybird. And we're still waiting on it... Unless you count Safari, and webkit-based browsers, of course.

>>1763 WOW SO OBSCURE AND UNDERRATED

I liked the shimeji simulation anime but nobody seem to have seen it

>>1763 This looks like my favorite anime, Solo Leveling. Did this rip it off?

I I was a big fan of The Faraway Paladin (Saihate no Paladin) but it doesn't seem like many other people watched it. It's not a perfect anime by any means but I really liked the purehearted take on the genre. I'm reading the manga too.

i love the ending song its comfy

>>10814 medium and large breasts can be fine but between these two extremes, flat. some artists draw breasts so big that they obscure the torso and it doesn't look good. a flat chest on the other hand will never get in the way of this

>>11008 Fatty all the way >>11162 If her tits are obscuring her tummy you can always make her chubby to get the best of both worlds, you can have the cake and eat it (but it's best to give the cake to your favorite girl so that she gets even more chubby

fat chest ftw

large breast are an R strategy is generaly a waste of energy the point of which is to attract mating partner at the expense of wasting energy and resource that could be better used elsewhere. flat chest is a conservation of energy for women seeking partner for more long term relationship so they conserve the energy for the offspring instead of a pointless ornamental stack of fat

>>11182 But you see, if a woman has a large, thick, juicy, chest, she will attract men such as myself with more success than a flat-chested woman. Also, remember that fat *stores* energy, so the woman with fat breasts will be able to store more energy for our offspring (and more milkies for me).

>>1372 It's more common than you think!

>>1373 whyyy

>>1373 how would you know? are YOU a normaloid?

>>1762 normaloids shall be subdued by my Blade

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I have no idea what you're talking about

>"Hey anon, how'd you get into touhou? did you play the games or-" >"captcha solutions" honestly from the perspective of a huge normiefag, having these kind of captchas does actually help learn more about what I should look into to learn more (not just 2hou exclusive)

YES AND ITS WORKING HELOP ME

It's a good captcha even if hikari weren't explicitly a 2d board it would be a good cultural filter for an imageboard in general.

>>10880 Join an anime club!

>>10880 It's too hard atp almost everyone's performative, I'm struggling with this too What're your interests hikarin

Honestly im lucky im just surrounded with people like me somehow, idk tho i just see someone drawing or looking at a charater i know and just like.. come up to them- or if i think they might be nice. (I only come up to people i see often tho so dont think im brave or sum)

>>10921 WTF IS THIS REAL

They are everywhere...

>>10925 this cannot be true how can this be

WHATRE WE GONNA DO?!!?!?!?!?

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Depending on the language you choose, the official guides, documentation and "getting started" might be great to learn. Avoid using tutorials because those usually don't really teach you much other than following steps "now do this, now do that". In terms of practice, you can start with experimentations, exercises, etc, and once you feel comfortable enough you can start programming something that you can make use of. It doesn't have to be something incredible or gigantic regardless of your experience, you can make a project as simple as a small script or an application that does something that you need to be done. Don't worry about "reinventing the wheel" or making a program that already exists because you are making it your way and learning in the process.

i did those game-like courses when i got bored. like uh, codecademy or whatever. i put alot of my kiddie hours into that but i kinda forgot most of it anyway cuz i didnt use it afterwards. But i definitely was proficient in the few months i did do those courses

i learned python first, by making a dicksword bot. it acted as a foundation for lots of different feature ideas you have to learn how to implement, like parsing files, editing images, using apis etc

>>427 I was good at coding, but after a hiatus where I had to learn other stuff, I'm not good coding anymore. Now I just vibe code, because that's better than nothing and gets me to learn what I would have not encountered otherwise, especially if I force the LLM bot to explain wtf did he do.

The best way to learn is by coding. You want to do something and you hit you head against your desk until you achieve it

This plays in my head 24/7 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF75HlzopQ0

>>1356 i have this set as my alarm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XchbMh5lBGs i heard this one on the 39chan radio... i like it a lot...

For me it's Rana

>>11089 >Office politics don't like that for some reason. That's half true. What I meant by that was being conventionally attractive makes it easier to pass the HR shit-test, sniff-test, bull-shit test whatever you want to call it, that you have to take with the recently divorced human resources lady in her mid 40s. Anyways I'm as misanthropic as the next guy in here but talking to people makes me feel marginally better than how I felt before so I don't really mind some small talk here and there. >>11090 Absent of plastic surgery? A good haircut and nicely trimmed facial hair if it suits your face.

>>11089 You seriously don't know anything about training.... Good form ensures that you are exerting force over the same lever of action every time you do the exercise, you can't progress without a consistent form unless you just go batshit insane doing everything to failure (this was a period in my life, though)

>>11090 Just by getting more muscle around your upper body and lower body-fat overall, you will see great improvements to your face.

I do some pushups and squats in my room every few days. That is enough for me

once or twice a month i make sure to walk for 40 kilometers in a day

https://adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com/ I can't remember where I found it, but it's fun. Really enjoyed the very simplicity of the gameplay. Would recommend.

https://opuslegacy.itch.io/play-catastrophe-crow

>>755 it sure would be nice if anons enjoyed a game of mine and shared it on hikari3, unfortunately I am a complete failure who can only create tools of destruction with the wisdom of the ones who lived before me.

this game was a solid 2 hours of fun. It's basically a full metriodvania game https://pinpan.itch.io/meatball-the-mite

https://www.eyezmaze.com/

>>11138 Good thing I never have money

What do 2hu feet smell like?

>>11148 feet probably

>>11159 Be FAR more specific please.

i like the detail in the pits

Not random but I enjoy these

Neat, .mod support https://modarchive.org/module.php?103343

https://modarchive.org/module.php?138559

hey this is cool https://modarchive.org/module.php?32510

>>11146 This one I also like

I have an SSD in both of my computers. You may as well upgrade, hikarin. It's a noticable improvement.

I think its very worth it, I have a t60 and upgraded it to an ssd, it took it from an old pc to basically on par with any of my newer computers.

>>1754 SSDs not only have faster read/write times (essentially quicker transfer speeds) but some games are now requiring them to load stuff quick enough. You may see an increase in performance and they have virtually zero moving parts (at least m.2's) so you don't have to worry about head crashes or moving parts failing/making noise.

>>1551 monitors usually have higher resolution and more importantly higher horizontal frequency. a late sony trinitron can go up to 1600x1200 90@Hz vertical @90Khz horizontal but can't go as low as let's say 320x240 @31Khz horizontal, which is what console usually had as resolution until 6th gen. horizontal frequency is also important for scan lines iirc, so that's why it's usually better to get a tv for consoles and a monitor for games that were on PC if you care about experiencing stuff the way it was. There's also a big difference between europe and US/JP, the former has the worst quality with most tvs being either composite (up to 480i) or SCART (up to 576i for some weird reason), the latter often had component (better colors, progressive output). So if you have an older console for example and you're in europe you likely played it with the worst quality. As for why this happened i have no clue but it's pretty dumb, i have to guess regulations.

>>1551 tv is a monitor + software and/or hardware to watch porn monitor is monitor - it displays shit. though modern monitors do have some fancy ass shitware iirc >>1554 interesting point. good thing i don't buy tvs huh

yea i do check it

>>1756 Good shit >hi candy ass!

>>90 Nope, but I want one mostly for old anime and visual novels.

What if I don't?

Teeth is important

I brush 2-3 times a day every day!

Fuck I forgot to brush my teeth this morning

>>11104 one of the few advantages of an overnight retainer is I never forget to brush

>>1309 >God I love VNs I know >based Japanese knower

>>1311 >based Japanese knower Thank you! I may still struggle with some parts but I prefer it this way. It's part of the process

>>732 Let me add some recommends: >Tsukihime >Fate Stay/Night >CROSS†CHANNEL >Dra†Koi >Fate/Extra for more NASU

No more gacha, no more Live2D, no more VTubers or anime adaptations, bring this back NOW.

>>732 >>>how many VN have you read? >"Like... 20? ish?" >mentions 30+ VNs You seem to know a lot about VNs. I don't see you mentioning Tsukihime or any other type-moon games, have you read any yet?

>>1511 since 2021 the game hasn't felt great honestly, from what ive heard from friends who still play the fights are still pretty good but i noticed everything was just becoming so simplified and catered to retards, everything felt so boring and there was no competition left. plus modding has taken over the game 100%

ive gone and resubbed......... game feels meh but i think ill just push through and finish the MSQ

anyone have thoughts on monster hunter collab?

i got to kill arkveld it was very cool and epic

>>1667 I got the mount from the normal version of the trial The target dummy also looks nice

>>11111 One of the more better Windows wallpapers honestly

>>11060 It's never too late to celebrate

>>11060 Me too

>>11063 This is like a Renaissance painting.

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>>11050 This is a cow?

>>1417 How's the online? I'm pissed off Sony had switched paid games' online to become paywalled by PS Plus (they're not even handling P2P connections)

>>1715 no online i believe, but i haven't played since july

Kinda remarkable that it's so playable with only a few bugs, but I guess the emulator is being developed specifically for the game. A lot of mods available too.

>>1260 i use Hexchat with the Monokai theme. works well enough for me.

>>1260 betterbird gets irc working well

>>1260 halloy is comfy imho

>>1623 in pidgin passwords are stored in an unencrypted txt file look it up . they are going to fix with the new rewrite of the app tho

Windows: mIRC with NoNameScript Linux: kVIRC or BitchX

>>346 I got mine with an unrelated degree and that's not a lie. Degrees help but they are not guarantees. Technical employers understand this especially in the software industry, usually only HR will judge you based solely on what looks good or not to them.

>>346 It's possible, but you need to get lucky. I got scouted out on LinkedIn by a recruiter for a medior Linux sysadmin/devops job without a degree or any prior experience, so it's definitely possible. I may have just gotten extremely, extremely lucky.

fuck everyone's lucky! put the comma wherever you wish!!!!!!!!

I'm doing telecomunications, first year >>335 Never got the point of lisp, C and asm are more fun imo

>>281 First year of biology. It's kinda hard and for some reason we have earth science and I hate it. But otherwise it's cool and I love learning about biochemistry and plants

>>1719 Keep it and let him get fired

well sometimes they fuck up in your favor, often they dont. sell it

They bill personnel for those losses. Company loses nothing. You should return it.

>>10972 1337 Hikarin Lane, Gensokyo, Nippon 391-0301.

>>10987 Knock knock

>>10980 Ok... I Live at house number 1488, Nill Kiggers road, Hyde TND state, hyperborea.

Unfortunately, I'm h

>>10972 Waiting for you at Donbas, hikari

>>1742 The point is being able to pick and choose options at compile time instead of being forced to use a binary that has a bunch of crap you don't need bundled in or options you do need not bundled in. By compiling from source you can avoid tons of dependencies or access things people claim are "deprecated". For example, many applications still support building with gtk2 just fine which allows you to avoid all the stuff wrong with modern gtk/gnome. By excluding a lot of things you can have a much faster, secure and easier to maintain system. Things like Arch Linux aren't really minimal. They're just as bloated as something like modern Ubuntu. With Gentoo in particular now there is no reason to avoid it. The vast majority of ebuilds only take a few seconds or maybe 1-2 minutes to build from source. Portage now supports binaries as well if you want them. But you don't need portage to build from source of course. Learning how to use make is very useful no matter what OS you're using. It means you can grab source code as soon as it is released and run it. Or you can grab old stuff people no longer offer builds for and run it. Building from source offers you true freedom. When you use binaries you're a consumer and forced to use whatever you're given. Most people offering binaries do not have your best interests in mind. I'll give you a good example; Lately everyone has been pushing things like wayland and pipewire hard. Both consume a ton of resources. They say you need pipewire for the pulseaudio support because a lot of things like Firefox dropped support for pure ALSA. If you build from source you get the option to build for sndio instead. A much better and stable sound server that consumes almost no resources at idle. Even when it's using resources it doesn't use hardly any. It can run on any hardware from the 1980s and newer. It has much better mixing options than Pulseaudio/pipewire. It is actually documented. It lets you do anything you want like route sound to multiple devices, over a network or do stuff like let application A use the left speaker and application B have the right speaker. It's the best sound server going. Everything has support for it but it's usually not built into binaries on most distros. So you have to build from source to get it enabled. Unless you use OpenBSD. Even FreeBSD requires building ports from source most of the time to use it. Even though Firefox supports it out of the box and it would be much better than what they're doing now (forcing user to install pulseaudio running on top of OSS their native sound server). Maintaining a system on something like Gentoo with tons of things disabled by default like dbus, polkit, pipewire, systemd etc. is not hard. Once you've configured everything it continues to just work forever. You can avoid 99% of the issues with modern Linux by changing some USE flags. Of course this is possible on any distro provided you're willing to manually set compile time options for everything. But it's easier to just use portage or a BSD+ports tree. Even with all that stuff disabled every modern application and games work. In fact, they usually work better. Which proves that this crap being a requirement is a huge lie.

>>1745 Also concerning Gentoo: It becomes much easier to maintain multiple systems after you've initially configured USE flags. There is nothing requiring you to build from source on a really old slow machine or use someone else's binaries. Most people using Gentoo end up setting up a local build server. Usually their fast PC or home server. Your local build server compiles packages for all your machines. Then those machines (your laptop, your TV set-top device, your old 1998 600Mhz Intel CPU PC, your little ARM system on a chip) can all fetch packages from your local server. Keeping them up to date usually much faster than they would using some mainstream distro that relies on someone else building the packages. You can even build generic packages that work everywhere or have them optimized for each and every system based on their CPU flags. You're building your own distro in other words. Which is why Gentoo is called a "meta distro" by some people. Now the Gentoo project isn't perfect. It has been taken over like most everything else. But thanks to Portage's USE flags you don't have to follow what mainstream Gentoo repos ship by default. Gentoo has a user repo called GURU which is basically like Arch's AUR. Except the packages are much higher quality and better tested. There are tons of pre-made overlays there if you want to do something like replace OpenRC+systemd shims/systemd with something like s6 or runit. There are overlays for doing things like pro-audio/video editing and most everything else you can think of. With Gentoo it's still possible to run a full blown desktop environment using nothing but gtk2+qt applications which are built from modern application source code. You will find that ability no where else. Any distro shipping pre-built binaries and even Gentoo's default config will force you on to gtk3/gtk4 tool kits. With Gentoo you don't even have to run something like udev. You can still run a static /dev without losing the ability to use your hardware and storage devices. The only difference from a udev system is you have to build in support for your input devices manually and manually mount things like usb thumb drives and external HDDs. Which isn't a big deal it's just running "mount". This is also much more secure than the default in every other distro. Since no one can plug-in something like a usb thumb drive into your computer and access it automatically. They can't plug-in devices like key loggers either because they will not work. The system will not mount or use anything automatically. You can also replace udev with something else like mdev if you really want that type of functionality. Impossible to get root through an exploit through systemd+polkit+PAM as well if it isn't on the system. Impossible to get it through sudo too if you don't have it installed. You can use doas instead if you really want that ability or simply use su+switching tty when root is needed. By having a unique system built from source code you avoid 99% of exploits automatically even if you don't understand the underlying code. Your configuration is so unique that no one will write an exploit for it. They'd have to manually access the system somehow then spend a lot of time crafting an exploit for it. Chicken and egg problem for them. Also there is an actual tangible gain in speed on most systems if you build for your CPU's abilities instead of using generic binary. Sometimes it isn't just speed either it's use of resources like RAM. Since if you've excluded half of the crap it claims it needs but really doesn't you don't have that shit in RAM. Nor do you have it spawning daemons and such.

gentoo is cramping my ubuntu-designated workflow. never seen anything seamlessly substitute ubuntu-based distros for the devving they're used for

You can always upgrade to a newer version of Windows.

The only distro I recommend to beginners and will always recommend to beginners is Linux Mint, for a few reasons: 1. It's similar enough to Windows, at least the Cinnamon edition (XFCE edition I would say is closer to XP) 2. It's based on Ubuntu, which is by far the most famous distro out there. Ubuntu itself is also based on Debian, which is another very ubiquitous distro. That means that it will be very easy to find solutions for any kind of problem you might have, even if they aren't provided with Mint in mind. That's the beauty of Linux. 3. It comes with most things you will ever need out of the box, and getting new programs installed isn't difficult, because again, it's based on Ubuntu and Debian. The other thing I want every Linux beginner to understand is that Linux is not Windows, and trying to use Linux as if it were Windows is a losing bet. Linux will never be Windows. What it can be is approachable to beginners (Linux Mint fits that criteria). Just to give an example of what I mean, you will eventually have to learn how to use the terminal, which is actually a first-class citizen here, unlike on Windows. Learning how to use the Linux terminal is probably the single best thing you will ever learn when using this system, because it can be used anywhere, anytime, for any purpose. The terminal looks intimidating, but you can go through it step by step, learning a little bit each day when you can. Linux also rewards people who know the ins and outs of their system well, and learning the terminal is part of that. It's not something that is common on Windows, at least to my knowledge, but it is here. Of course you can try and use Linux without ever touching the terminal, and that might work just fine for you. But I still think it's important to learn, if you can set aside some time to look into it. A lot of times the easiest way, sometimes even the only way to fix a problem or get something done is through the terminal.

>>1704 > it's fair to say that most games released since like 1980 aren't playable anymore, if you aren't willing to spend a lot of money and effort on hardware Why? Ain't there at least few emulators for pretty much every retroplatform?

>>1694 Consider an example: Xenoblade Chronicle X re-release happened only because emulating its Wii version gradually created a demand as people had been getting informed of XCX as a cool thing that's a bit unfinished and is a Wii exclusive. Same for countless other games that got out of stock or got delisted with only maybe scalpers reselling them at unfair prices. Especially for platforms that got deprecated and, again, monopolized as a product to be sold by scalpers. Piracy is archivation. Piracy is also free PR for a product, and signals for a market there's demand with the price seen to be a bit too much. That's why you shouldn't pirate kusoge and completely ignore any crappy or corpodemon software. I'm tired of dealing with any malware personally, so I usually just stuck to supporting devs I like or using free software. I was never in the mood to neurotically manage my internet reputation to get into private tracker circles.

>>1706 Wii U*

They are beneficial to me, that's all that matters.

>>1705 sorry, i probably worded it wrong lol. i was talking about playing games on original hardware specifically. yes, there are at least a few emulators for everything, which is exactly my point: emulating is much easier and less costly than playing on original hardware. the convenience is just undeniable, and in either case, no money will ever go to the developers, because they aren't releasing the games anymore.

>>571 S3&K's special stages are the most memorable for me, but they made me dizzy as a kid.

Of the true classic games, I'm not sure. Each of them obviously have their own hangups, but I think I'd probably give it to Sonic 1. It's got that 'first game in the series' weirdness concentrated pretty heavily in the Special Stages that have only been done since as homages instead ofna true evolution of the concept. If we count Mania as a sort of neo-Classic, then Mania takes it pretty easily. Well crafted, fun, many different ways to play it. It's a great idea that lends itself well to Sonic. If we're count fangames that emulate Classic, then my true personal favorite is Triple Trouble 16-Bit. Racing Fang to the Emerald, having to hit boosts, dodge his attacks, hit him back, all of it incredibly frantic and keeping you on your toes. The Fang races are so great that when I got the last Emerald I was disappointed that I couldn't keep doing them.

Mania if you count it. CD otherwise, especially in the Taxman port.

>>850 >I don't see why not Probably because it didn't come out during the classic era

>>1645 i might be crazy but i feel like the special stages are easier in the original than the taxman version

>>11016 This sounds like it's already debunked somewhere.

>>11016 doesn't it increase concetration and calm yo? unless you smoke to the point you get tremors it would make you a better shoot

>>11018 Pretty sure even before tremors it still makes your overall focus worse.

Smoking but not cigs or nigs

>>11093 >dude weed LOL

>>1397 I didnt elaborate I meant to compare business laptop durability and repairability with slimbook's since usually we get refurbished business laptops when we want one of that type

>>1291 I'm personally a fan of my Dell Latitude 5420. I paid 400 USD for 512GB of NVME Storage, Fingerprint reader, 16GB Ram, built-in wifi, pretty good repairability, plus a fuckton of I/O

>>1399 That's the great thing about business laptops like the latitudes and the thinkpads it's very nice

I've been using the Slimbook since it arrived in tuesday and I can conclude that the battery bypass feature is not placebo. The idea is that, once the charge limit is reached, the charging goes straight to the hardware and bypasses the battery to save its lifespan. After intense use of this laptop since tuesday + gaming, the battery cycle count is still at 0!!! I wonder any mainstream brand does this

>>1291 Punched and spilled stuff on my mid 2010s ASUS and it's still working great.

>>1615 only played pokemon rune factory and fantasy life on it pokemon #1

man i put so many god damn hours into smt iv when i first hacked my 3ds

Mario Maker because I couldn't afford a Wii

Kid Icarus: Uprising is literally my favorite game of all time, I poured hours into clearing every board and beating every challenge and getting all the idols and powers, so, so good.

>>1615 animal crossing new leaf and fantasy life

>>11029 Stupid hot Teto stuck in mousetrap

>>11032

>>11042 How jiggly is it when I slap her butt

cute butte

nggghhhhh

the HONG

>>10963 CIRNO #1! CIRNO #1! CIRNO #1! CIRNO #1! CIRNO #1! CIRNO #1! CIRNO #1! CIRNO #1! CIRNO #1! CIRNO #1! CIRNO #1! CIRNO #1!

>>10966 Seconding this.

NEET WINS

cirno

We playing chess again? Damn, i wanted to play BF.

first beta was rly fun! definitely some kinks that need to be ironed out but that's standard with every battlefield game, next beta is on the 14th and ill be dropping my steamID in here so maybe some of us can play together see you guys soon

>>1586 i'll probably be playing this weekend. i didn't get to play the beta that just ended but i have a 3 day weekend so i should have some time

BETA IS UP!! add 113831879 if you would like to play

ITS GOOD BROS WE'RE SO BACK if you still want to play you can add me here >>1597

>>225 This show gave me nightmares for months and depression for a lifetime.

>>329

>>52 >>134 NEEDS MORE WIDE