Honestly 1080p is enough still and if you dont care all that much maybe try the jump to what others call 2k (2560×1440). It's a huge jump in quality and wayyy easier to run than 4k. I wouldn't recommend ultra wide unless you know how to mod games and all your shows will have black bars. I will say you should try a dual monitor setup! It's convenient if you ever wanna boot up something separate or put a video on the side. Sometimes I'll play my ps3 on my main monitor and transfer files/do other tech stuff on my pc in the background. 100hz is good but if you can affordably get 144 or 175hz I'd recommend that too. Realistically you shouldnt't need to spend more than ~3-400 dollars on a new monitor, especially around holidays or days like fathers/mothers day. They get real cheap around them at places like Best Buy usually. Last bit of advice: price check always. I bought a monitor off Amazon for 50 dollars more than I would have paid on Newegg

>>12059 You get a kiss instead Hikarin

>>12060 Kiss my candy ass bitch!

>>12062 You are my favorite Hikarin because of the funny way you insult others

>>12063 ...baka

>>12064 tsundere hikarin needs more hugs

>>12052 The tariffs also wrecked my favorite import store, everything they have is wither way too expensive or domestically made funko garbage >~>

>>12053 what's your favorite import store?

>>12050 I bought a teto figure yesterday

>>12054 It's a local store that's been in my mall since forever, I bought some really good Fullmetal Alchemist merch, some DVDs, and some rare import plushies there for what felt like pretty cheap. Shame they've been forced to pivot to plastic Funko landfill junk and bad mecha models.

i like getting a few figs here and there but mainly i collect fumos when i have the space/money for em

>>1661 LETS GOOOOO

>>1661 I'd like to clarify that I have ended up not buying this game as it is genuine trash that not only looks worse than the original but rewrites everything to revive dead characters to use them later for some dumb reason.

>>1755 Don't forget MoA Disc 2 when you'll get to it! It's almost a PvP simulator!

I have been playing a lot of project zomboid recently and build 42 MP has been very enjoyable

>>1786 what all has been changed in this update? i have beard good things but i don't actually know what they changed lule.

Been playing a ton of Sea of Thieves and Hyrule Warriors Definitive Edition recently, I 100% the basic Hyrule Warriors on the WiiU ages ago when I was more of a shut-in so it's fun playing with all the new (to me) DLC and characters. SoT has been on a serious decline though in terms of update quantity and quality so I've been kinda petering out on that and have been trying to look for a new multiplayer game to sink my teeth into but I'm really picky about that sort of thing.. >->

>>1778 this is actually kinda cool wth

>>12017 I think this is a really cool routine. I think I like your philosophy.

>>12015 It's a little sad

>>12015 Just get on welfare.

>>12015 Have you thought of applying for disability bux?

I do logistics! I just kinda fell into it after college because that's what the Army decided I should do with the degree they paid for and I do it both in the NG and in the private sector! It's boring!

I have been reading a lot more lately, which is good. I am almost finished with Yukio Mishima's Sea of Fertility series. It's nothing short of beautiful. I am not the same person after reading Runaway Horses. Temple of Dawn piqued my interest in Buddhism, so I checked out a book titled "Essence of Buddhism" by Traleg Rinpoche from my library. It's a good introduction, and I'd like to read into Buddhism further. I enjoy political science but have read only little about it. If anyone has recommendations about anything (I'm interested in Mao or Showa Japan) I'd be grateful. >>374 It's not a novel, but a rather touching short story. "The Dandelion Girl" by Robert F. Young. I haven't read it yet but I have "When Sleepers Awake" by H. G. Wells on my list, so I'll throw that out there.

>>374 >I don't know much about the pioneers or well established authors of the genre. This is going to sound weird, but Tolkien was an inflection point for science-fiction just as he was for fantasy. Much like in the fantasy genre, authors before Tolkien focused on exploring an idea or making a point rather than building an open world just for the sake of doing it. So bear in mind that those pioneers were nothing like 40k or really any of the modern sci-fi franchises, which have more in common with Tolkien than with Phillip K. Dick and such. H. G. Wells is a good starting point, I read almost a third of his bibliography when I was in high school and from what I remember, I liked his earlier work from "The Time Machine" to "Kipps", his later stuff was badly written, preachy and so optimistic and utopian that I couldn't take it seriously. I think it is completely valid to prefer modern, Tolkien influenced sci-fi over the old guys, so don't feel obligated to read Asimov or Wells if you don't like them.

>>378 Noted. Thanks for the analysis. I do prefer the worldbuilding for the sake of worldbuilding, I enjoy getting invested into and enthralled by a fantasy or sci-fi world. Honestly, using 40k as an example, I really prefer the idea of the galaxy that 40k builds more than I enjoy any specific storyline within the galaxy. The larger framework in which the authors use to lay out specific stories. Do you have any recommendations for authors that do good worldbuilding?

Very mainstream book recommendation but i reckon that this is the worst book ever read. It's legitimately just torture porn disguised as something deep. While the setting descriptions are amazing, the character development is (in my opinion) extremely subpar. Upsetting because I wanted a good read that would toy with my emotions.

I've actually been reading Erik Larson's The Demon of Unrest which is all about the leadup to the American Civil War, one of my favorite authors and really well written so far!

ITS PEAK!!!

Due to a resurgence in popularity the largest two servers Asura and Bahamut are closed to new characters. I'm on Bahamut. Which server is hikarin playing on? My sub has lapsed but I'm thinking of coming back to finish CoP.

>>1789 it has been quite some time since i played, i don't remember the name of the server my character is on. however.... i was tricked into making my character on a server apparently known for ERP........... how was i supposed to know

>>1790 I've never heard of ERP or any RP in FFXI

>>1792 >FFXI i am retarded. i thought we were talking about FFXIV

i like lisp

Here's mine. This is my second PC, took it out yesterday. Using it since and will probably use it more because I'm too lazy to use anything else right now. I have a 1050Ti I want to use but guess what, I'm too lazy to set it up.

>>1829 pretty. what's the theme?

thinkin of changing up my desktop, but really since i'm using KDE there is only so much i can do. any suggestions hikarins? >change DE using immutable distro, can't do that.

>>1830 NTA, but it looks like Redmond97 SE Ouroboros? Or something close to it. https://codeberg.org/Sliver_X/Redmond97-SE

>>44 >Rather, it is abstractions which develop from the practice of the subject Yeah, that sounds a lot better than how I was describing it. Though I still view music theory as "do it like this if you want your music to be popular", which is useless in my eyes. >[art] is also heavily censored and controlled world-wide, as it serves a great tool for propaganda and is tied to certain cultures. Now we're getting political, and it's revolting. That's the consequence of music, not music in its essence. >>45 I hope you realize I never mentioned anything about money. That is tiring, yes.

>>47 >I hope you realize I never mentioned anything about money. That is tiring, yes. The point was less about money, and more about the fact that art has degraded to such a point where "fine art" is less about actually having skill and more about sniffing your own farts over the """deep""" meaning your """artwork""" has.

>>28 >The purpose of a language is to transfer information, the purpose of music is to express your emotions. One's emotions can be very important information, and languages provide various tools to communicate them (some more than others). No wonder why poetry and literature exist. Music has also been used for the purpose of sharing information effectively, through stuff like mnemonics, rhymes, jingles... Even the Illiad had a rhythm to it, so poets/singers/bards could have an easier time remembering the entirety of it, since it's so long. Having said that, both music and human languages can be used for both transferring information and expressing emotions. They are just different ways of doing the same thing. >Music is just noise Music is not just about the sound, but I'm sure you know that. It would be a pointless exercise to try and define what else it is about anyway. >>48 I think people are able to appreciate both Romantic (as in Romanticism) paintings and more abstract art that challenge what "art" means. Refining the existing wisdom, and challenging the existing wisdom are both equally important for said wisdom. And yes, unfortunately for you, art not having rules or standards also means that there will be art you don't like. Too bad, such is the consequence of freedom. >art has degraded to such a point where "fine art" is less about actually having skill and more about sniffing your own farts over the """deep""" meaning your """artwork""" has. Maybe, just maybe, artists are trying novel ways to express emotions they have always tried to express. Emotions that artists have been expressing since art has been conceived. Because mind you, art was never only about how it looks; The beautiful paintings from the 1800s and early 1900s (I'm assuming) you like so much have as much emotion put into them as the newer stuff you see nowadays, or have been seeing since the 40s, 50s and 60s. So-called "deep meaning" has always been a part of art, it's just that nowadays people have tried to bring that "deep meaning" forward more, without worrying so much about how it will look. Which is also art.

>>49 Forgot to answer the OP >>10 >Was music an offshoot of language? Or language that of music? I have read somewhere that, as far as human evolution goes, music came before language, so at the very least language was an offshoot of music. But I think it's also possible that language merely used certain aspects of music, but developed separately from it. Or maybe that's just what an offshoot is. idk >There are some places in the world that condemn music, but ordinary people still practice it. Anyone that is powerful and brazen enough will attempt to control and restrict communication. Music is a tool for communication, but not many people consider it one, so it's easier to restrict its use without people being bothered by it. Restricting language directly a la 1984 would be too obvious, and people would revolt too quickly. >Would you be able to imagine your life without music? Absolutely not lol

>>49 I can understand that not all art is to my taste. Notice I never glazed any specific period or style of art. I don't need to enjoy all art. But a prime example of my point is this: >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_(Duchamp) This is literally a toilet. A toilet, made in a factory. Not custom made or sculpted, a standard urnial for its time. Lauded as some grand piece of artwork because of the """""deep""""" meaning it has. You can justify ANYTHING as being art as long as you BS some kind of message about it. I could take a literal turd, smear it on the wall like a coked up chimpanzee, and as long as I make up some crap (get it) "meaning" about it, supposedly this puts it on the same level as the great artwork of the past. >Such is the consequence of freedom If my point above is the logical conclusion of your statement then art is better off with less freedom. I stand by that. Art is equal parts aesthetics and meaning, interwoven together into a transcendental form. Art without meaning is vapid (corporate art for example) but art without aesthetics is a disgrace.

>>114 English is my 2nd language, actually! Tried to learn Japanese, Russian, French and German over the years, but none of that really worked out

>>114 Chinese

>>114 English is my second language, and i'm studying japanese atm. But learning english and japanese so far have been 2 completely different experiences; I learned the former pretty much through osmosis and too much time spent on imageboards, but I'm quite literally having to grind to get any semblance of progress in the latter. Still lots of fun though, the language is fun to learn in general. >>297 I think the biggest advantage of being a native portuguese speaker, or BR portuguese at least, is the wide range of kinds of sounds in the language, which makes learning the phonology(?) of other languages much easier. I never had trouble pronouncing japanese words, for example, because we have 1:1 equivalents in BR portuguese for all of those sounds. Pronouncing french or german words isn't particularly difficult for me either. >>301 It has always been grammar for me lol. A lot of times I can understand what each word in a sentence means individually, but not know how to string them together to understand the bigger, general structure of that sentence.

I was learning Spanish, I never really was able to get into language learning as much as I want too but im thinking of getting back into it.

>>412 there's no time like the present! get to it hikarin.

very kewl artwork hikarin

>>108 Thenks :D

>>107 Very cute!

that would depend on the specifics of the fantasy world. i enjoy playing religious characters in fantasy games, so probably something related to whatever religion i represented. also i would be a magic user 10000000%, way cooler than swordcucks!

Hikarin, do you have any friends?

>>12030 I'm not gay!!! I just like cute guys I am doing well today

mondayyyyyyyy

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there is a theater in my city that does opera, i was thinking of attending a show sometime.

>>11976 is so expensive no never checked ou tmyself

how do i get into opera, i've only seen a recording of turandot

I am having too many erotic dreams recently because I don't masturbate. Give me a romantic partner with many erotic dreams so we can fulfill them together!

I need a cute boy in my life.

THICK DUMB LOYAL BLONDE ELF WIFE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEA

I have already jumped 340 times today for exercise, and I jump at least 100 times a day as warm up. Therefore, in the past 3 days, I have jumped at least 340+100(3-1) times, which yields, at minimum, 540 jumps. Now, the woman I wish for would have to be the very beautiful Ladyrin reading this (and yes you are a woman, put on the maid dress.)

I'm on it, but as soon as I'm finished jumping I'm expecting my kawaii nekomimi Lolita girl to arrive at my door immediately, so we can live our Yuri life 2gether

>>11815 Straight as a dick

>>11816 WHAT

hm.

>>11713 Me? Well...

cuddles 4 everynyan

Are Thinkpads really worth it? I have the opportunity to buy one for 387 USD, around 8gb of RAM and refurbished

>>1817 overpriced worth it if cheaper

>>1817 Don't spend more than $100 on a Thinkpad.

Hey, OP here. I finally built the PC. Everything has been working fine, until I heard this rattling/grinding noise from my PSU. Is it something I should really be worried about? I may need to RMA it. https://files.catbox.moe/m8jka7.mp4

>>1827 You may have to do that. Just dont open it up and tinker with it. Your life isnt worth a couple hundred dollars at most

>>11990 You can date me (if you're a girl). I would be too thankful to ever cheat on you. I don't have a speech impediment but I stutter sometimes because I forget the word I'm looking for sometimes.

>>11992 Wow I got totally ghosted on my dating offer

>>11981 No advantages, from what I have noticed. Maybe some people think that mutism is cute -another Hikarin said so about stuttering- but most people would treat me as if I was retarded when I was still mute. People would often times grab hold of my notepad, that I used to communicate with, when I spoke to them, which was very stressful. I recently remembered that I actually had a.a.c. cards as a child; some of the problems were evidently apparent when I was younger; I have even received a pair of anime-themed ones as a teenager, which wasn't too long ago, but I never used them. >>11992 >>12016 You come across as creepy when you ask female strangers, on an anime forum, to date you, and in a thread about speech impediments, out of all things.

>>12021 >You come across as creepy when you ask female strangers, on an anime forum, to date you Maybe, but how else am I supposed to date a hikarin or find a date at all? I have to put myself out there if I want any luck. Also people who like anime don't exist here (south carolina), so I have bad luck when trying to find a soulmate

can't spell out a certain common sound it's how my inner mouth is shaped. can follow all the mouth and tongue instructions to a t but it's not working family made fun of me for that. I moved out I just bite the bullet. and cut contacts or treat the person like garbage if I'm made fun of for this

Kissu seems to be doing a New Years gikopoipoi meetup. Check it out here: https://kissu.moe/jp/thread/105688 Remember to make plans for New Year's Day/Night as we hang out in Gikopoi again, as is tradition. If you're someone that has plans to try streaming stuff like anime or games or audio, now is the time to do the troubleshooting because it can be very annoying to set it up since you have to convert the mic signal to some sort of emulated audio thing. Anyway, I hope to see you there. Remember to be on your best hikarin behavior because we'll be interacting with other communities! We must ensure a hikarin cultural victory! https://gikopoipoi.net/ Be there and be square.

>>1079 To clarify, this is an image/textboard/IRC-wide event and gikopoi also has its own community that hangs out there daily. It's a good chance to interact with lots of different dorks from different backgrounds (with a general shared interest that you would expect). You may want to go to the website now to make yourself familiar with it, although it's quite simple.

23:30 UTC ON FEBRUARY 8TH THE GREATEST SHOW ON TURF WILL BEGIN. TO PREPARE THE HIKARI MIND FOR THIS, SOME INFORMATION WILL BE PROVIDED BEFOREHAND TO BETTER ENJOY THE EVENT — ITENERARY 22:30 WE WILL BEGIN WITH A DIGESTIF OF THE BATTLE ATHELETES OVA TO PREPARE YOUR MENTAL PALETTES FOR COMPETITION AND MENTAL SPARRING 23:00 I WILL TEST A FEW STREAMS TO VERIFY EVERYTHING WORKS AND WE HAVE A BACKUP IN CASE THE INEVITABLE HAPPENS 23:30 THE GAME BEGINS!!! (it is recommended to bring libations of your own to the event, perhaps even a few BIIIIRU) — Questions before the fact — Can I join to hang out? sure! HANG OUT WITH US!!! What are the rules for football? too many to count, and more like English law with it's precedents than a French code. you don't need to know much about them, especially on such short notice. I have linked a youtube video for your needs, but you can also play NFL2K5 or Madden rom for any console from the 16 bit era onwards to see these rules in action

https://youtu.be/iU3KIlOCiG0 [Embed]

Can we watch association football instead? i would be more than gratified to watch another sporting event with you guys, provided they also stream anime before the event, make a thread a week before and properly promote the event. until that happens *shrug* stream link? https://cytu.be/r/sushistream BE NAIS or BE BAP'D

>>1081 I am a bit confused as to what this event actually is. A sportsball vidya event?

probably the kizumonogatari series for me. the animation was really good imo.

Top 5 anime that I watched in 2025: 1. Nichijou 2. Welcome to the NHK 3. Azumanga Daioh 4. City the Animation 5. Girls' Last Tour Honorable Mentions: - Darling in The FranXX (rewatch): Motivated me to watch more anime again - Uma Musume Series - Rascal Does Not Dream Series: Rewatched Bunny Girl Senpai and Dreaming Girl, then continued onwards from the movies after, and then Santa Claus

>>1793 I need to watch welcome to the NHK\ >>1791 LOTGH

I watched one anime in 2025

>>1082 Because of retarded roody-poos like you who don't do anything but complain instead of actually doing something about it and actually making meaningful contributions. If it's dead then fucking share it with people who might be interested or post about it somewhere. Asking and complaining "wHy is the siTe so dEad?!" doesn't do anything.

>>1082 I will say the same thing I do every time someone comes and says this. The site experiences fluctuations of activity and this is normal. For an altchan Hikari3 is doing decently wel. The hikarin above me is right also.

>>1082 I think because the users themselves need to engage in advertising and attract new, cool users who spend their days lying under a blanket on a laptop and writing lines under threads

>>1085 spreading the word of Hikari-chan is good too. i actually got a couple of my friends to start using the site. i sometimes plug it on social media and such too.

>>1085 >I think because the users themselves need to engage in advertising and attract new, cool users who spend their days lying under a blanket on a laptop and writing lines under threads Seems like the case. Too many retards like the first hikarin who just think that being mean is going to be conducive to a thriving community. Even worse when their ilk is given a broom. As they will do nothing but abuse it while admins don't care and then feign ignorance when their equivalent of a dead dicksword server has no one there. So anons can really shut the fuck up about the "good ol days of imageboards" when their attitudes and catastrophizing is what made that era end and keeps any future good eras from happening. All they do is just accept the normie cliques that are just here as tourists and then when they inevitably move on you have no community left because you alienated everyone and they were all consolidated into dicksword or elsewhere. You really are your own worst enemies.

how much cyberbullying would it take to make Tomoko a lolcow if she were real

>>11967 *something not nothing oops

i don't believe in ghosts or anything but i remember i used to watch a TON of Ghost Adventures as a kid, which was a TV show where a guy went to haunted places. he was so cool to my 11 year old mind.

>>12006 i wanted to go to this haunted place with a friend recently idk why its easier to go with someone else than by yourself

>>11993 same for me sometimes, hikarin, i had a uti and my sleep schedule was messed up for a few days

i have been taking magnesium supplements recently and i have been sleeping like a corpse... it feels so nice...

>>11996 it's sad that I'm not helped by magnesium or other pills, I don't know what's wrong with me, but I made a joke of setting the time on my computer to +2 from the local and +- I now live with the regime of going to bed not at 2 a.m. but at 12 p.m. >>11997 I'm happy for you, I'll make sure you sleep like the dead.The kids tried to wake me up for 4 hours, playing music on the taps under my ears.

>>12000 >or other pills Belive me Hikarin, there are other pills!

>>12000 have you talked to da doctor about it? what did they say or recommend?

>>1806 What if you vibe code?

>>1807 Vibe cope

>>1806 sorry hikarin i don't know perl

>Anyone here know perl? Perl is unknowable. A monk can train for a hundred years in the monastery at the foot of the masters without achieving satori. Reflect on Perl. Recite Larry's sutras. In time, you will find the Perl was inside you all along. Go in peace~

would be cool to have a board that uses the /f/-like layout for tracker modules

>>11829 Could be a unique board in the future if we get more people here but we're already suffering from a pretty severe case of board-bloat

https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=55191 Not a bad track　(・∀・)

>>11139 this is actually quite good!

https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=150736 Sounds dubby

>>11832 Sleep too much, and ye get fired Sleep too little, and ye get tired and get fired Sleep normally, and ye get tired and want to go to the other extremes HOW DOES SOMEONE SLEEP

Keep drinking more energy drinks.

>>11984 Doesn't that make you stay up more

>>11985 Keep going until you crash. Simple as!

>>11987 HOW DOES THAT WORK IMPOSSIBLE

>>36 I find it hard to believe that they don't have some form of consciousness. This might just be pure sophistry, but when I look into an animal's eyes, I see always see something looking back at me. Curiosity, fear, worry, I'd say that most of the feelings that animals have are negative ones, especially wild animals, but that doesn't dilute the fact that they have those feelings. A predator on the verge of starvation will go against instinct and desperately attack something they know they can't fight, just for a chance at a meal. A prey on the verge of death will still try to fatally wound the predator, making it a pyrrhic last meal. I don't think they view the world anywhere near us, with heightened levels of thought, but they are present in the world and conscious, that's what I believe.

the problem with this question from a materialistic standpoint is we aren't fully sure how the consciousness came to be. like, the scientific community isn't sure how or why humans developed a conscious. my guess would be animals lack the sophisticated level of abstract thinking we do. consciousness requires awareness of one's self, their place in the world around them, and their needs/emotions in a way that animals lacking human intellect cant fully emulate.

>>10848 Is that mayo on her face?

I like mayo.

It smells good, it feels good, and it tastes good. But it hurts like hell when it's on one of your eyes.

>>10848 I like it although I would recommend avoiding miracle whip. That stuff had ruined the concept of mayonnaise entirely because of how much sugar is in it.

mayo is gudo. i did not like it growing up but as an adult i like it a lot! i had some on a chicken sandwich earlier today. wow that girl in OP pic used the mayo REALLY wrong!

Why does this hikarin need to establish communication with its neighbors? It seems that approaching them would be too intrusive, so its better to wait for them to show interest. If you're doing it just because, it doesnt make sense. Are you hoping to build connections for the future?

>>11949 >Why does this hikarin need to establish communication with its neighbors? It seems that approaching them would be too intrusive There is an old saying, a close neighbor is better than a relative far away, I feel like not making friends with neighbors is a bit dumb.. I don't know.. I wouldn't know if it's common to not make friends with neighbors in an apartment block. >so its better to wait for them to show interest. If you're doing it just because, it doesnt make sense. Are you hoping to build connections for the future? I managed to wish them an evening today, so I think I did well! They waved off when they went into their room, I was picking up food when I came across them and they smiled after I wished them, then went inside. I just don't know if they're ever free to speak to for longer periods. I'm hoping to make friends with them, I wonder if they feel alone similar to me, I guess to speak and connect to someone reliable or help them if they ever want anything. I don't know why I psychologically think this way, but I guess it is a desire to connect and get to know others, what do you think Hikarin?

I dont think a couple would feel lonely. Besides, truly lonely people dont often leave their homes. Older people like it when younger people are interested in helping them or having simple conversations, so its easier to get closer to them, and theyre more open-minded. If you helped that old man, I'm sure he remembers you. The next time you see him, you can try to strike up a simple conversation with him, asking about his life. It should be subtle, and you might be able to help him again.Why didnt you know your neighbors until now, Hikarin?

>>11951 Thank you Hikarin! I got to know them only recently, I moved in over here a few weeks ago.. The grandpa had it a bit hard in that his voice is rough, so I mostly spoke a lot while helping him.. is there any way to connect with truly lonely people? I never know of them, or when they go out..

Lonely people find refuge on the Internet, in places like this, I think. In reality, such people are more fearful and therefore it is difficult to make contact with them. It will be easier to get to know those people with whom you live on the same floor at the beginning. While you have moved quite recently, you will not be considered strange, perhaps they will only think that you are not familiar enough, you should not be shunned. Try to be polite and greet those tenants whom you see. Going back to the topic of single people, it's also difficult in reality because it would be very awkward for both of you. It depends on how unsocialized people you would like to interact with are.

>>33 How does she live like now? These people have to be so insecure in reality

>>34 That was actually what I learned last year. She even has a boyfriend who loves her quite a bit acts like nothing has happened. I've occassionally fantasized about her being a successful celebrity or something of high status so that I could ruin the lives of those she is close with,

>>37 I feel it too anon. I hate how these people are the ones who go to the top and don't remember what they did to most people around them. The silver lining is that they are probably more broken inside and that they will probably mess up badly in the future, maybe karma is building up to bite them in the back? I still believe good will win, even if evil reigns for long.

>The silver lining is that they are probably more broken inside and that they will probably mess up badly in the future, maybe karma is building up to bite them in the back? I still believe good will win, even if evil reigns for long. Like I said, If we want good to win, Then it's on us to push for it rather than just hoping that good will win. As Joshua Graham would say, "You can't except God to do all the work". It's on you to make that change.

>>39 that's true, I heard of a parable where God condemned people who did not do much with their time, despite having the ability to do better, over time, I feel like I've realized that I have too money and too little time, it sucks

>>11924 Gass

Just ate burnt ass and it tasted like bussy

Just ate burnt bussy and it tasted like ass

Just ate medium-well bussy and it tasted like chicken

>>11924 gushy??

>>11871 yakuza hikarin......

>>11884 Proof?

i got a day off today

>>11899 Lucky hikarin, hope it was a well rested day!

i am off sick today

>>11675 I can't tlel the difference between her and Kagamine Rin

>>11671 good. I live for their 2D tardbrain content

tutte >>11678 ok that's just racist

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>>11927 THE TRUTH HAS COME OUT

>>11751 I joined and then left the military, it was a horrible experience but also the only interesting thing I ever did in my life I then moved to the capital to further my education but had to move back home as it was clear that I would have no money left by the end of it I am now a NEET struggling to find even downie-tier employment or an affordable car and my parents want to kick me out but hey at least I passed the JLPT N1 last year I don't think I even spoke to any women let alone handholding any

>>11928 Sounds like someone joined the wrong branch with the wrong job. I'm living like a king and almost like a neet with how little I work

>>11929 I wouldn't know, I didn't even graduate from training. Pay-wise I would barely have made more than my past job

>>11930 Thats crazy. I was making 19 an hour at a factory and I make twice that now with so much PTO that its crazy.

>>11931 yeah I would have been a sergeant and making nowhere near that much. it wouldn't have been worth it when I would realistically ended up doing myself in

>>189 really good taste. I downloaded their music thank you!

luminous orange: drop you vivid colors https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLs9zwqXsceUg2_usOYnMGBeVvwS339kdQ&si=9OSct7nKJV-xBe62 sakura swirl https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8VJB1siF9WxockqnAZMIUEtf8zcalXJW&si=gsaDw__U1h-rkC71

>>571 thank you very much, I like it very much!!

tokenainamae yuragi tokyo shoegazer pasteboard the first album of kinoto teikoku

Here are some selected artists, and my fav tracks/works from them. Lemon's Chair - I Hate? I Hope?

https://youtu.be/UKAdDTilUE4 [Embed]

I typically listen to this album all the way through Tokyo Shoegazer - Awake

https://youtu.be/qpVSDzO_P5A [Embed]

Most of there stuff isn't very mellow, but this track has a nice rhythm Niz - Stone EP

https://youtu.be/dhWpOKC9cAo [Embed]

I listen to the whole EP at once, each time Cruyff in the Bedroom

https://youtu.be/dLYZ3eNgKYg [Embed]

Now getting into the vocaloid shoegaze, I listened to a lot of it on my Japan trip. I floated around the train station Hon-Astugi in Kanagawa for a month like burnt out loner with no ambition to do touristy stuff, and no ability to communicate with the locals. I'd sleep until 2pm, and get a few hours of sunshine whether than was through restaurant windows; taking the train to literal nowhere (e.g. Isehara station) and walk out in a random direction; or walking around Ebina's large mall plazas. The "suburbs/sprawl" is so beautiful and pure there, it's incredible. I always stumbles across 1,000+ year old ruins. re;mo - nanairo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWXBphssE80&list=PL92IuJUz0uMNRSsdP32Z1KtdGNwpxCs6J wintermute https://www.youtube.com/@likeadaydream/videos

>>11922 >I spent the last 10 years enclosed in my room, and I'd like for me to get some good memories that are not just four walls. >I already got a job so that may be the least of problems for now. But I still live like a neet, never really ever going outside. Lucky I dropped out of high school when I was really young.. I wish I could get a job but it's so hard where I live. I don't know if a GED will be hard. It's hard to make friends now that everyones on their phones, maybe go outside to community places, public transport for example, strike up conversations if you see the same people over and over again, and if they ever invite you somewhere, go there. You could go to a coffee shop and hang out with old people, or to a bar which is a bit less exciting, and keep going there to have fun. I've always been frightened of the gym despite being around 60kg You could always volunteer, which country are you from? You could look at apartment posters, or whatever poster is there in the community. The phone kind of made everyone a NEET in a way, and university is probably the last place to make friends officially. You could check out sites like Tagmap(even if it is dead) with weird anons. Try going to conventions, anything. I've felt that the feeling of being a NEET leaves you once you regularly develop a habit of studying. Good luck hikarin!

>>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

>>11198 https://taiwancenter.taiwan-world.net/material/basic here is a taiwanese government website with resources! they have a lot of workbooks if anyone wants to learn I might start reading Du Fu's and Li Bai's poems, a native told me to give them a try, they're very famous in China's education system https://ctext.org/ a website for free chinese textbooks

yongle civilopedia https://www.civilopedia.net/rise-and-fall/civilizations/leader_yongle

>>11672 Hikarin, have you been playing Civilization VII? Do you know if there are any good mods for Civilization VI? I wonder if it's received updates I learned about the Chaoshan region of China, it had been the origin of a lot of derivatives of it's culture, as it had been home to a lot of migration overseas. It had a lot of impact on Singaporeans, along with Indonesian Chinese, who were often the majority landowners, strangely often. Quite a few people there speak a variety of Mandarin that is the closest to ancient Chinese, and they're often referred to as the Teochew people. They also have a coming of age ceremony. Interesting people. https://www.omniglot.com/chinese/ A useful page for people trying to learning languages, a lot of documentation I'd recommend the movies, „An Elephant Standing Still” and „To Live” on https://kisskh.ws/ which I found a lot of East Asian shows in Also try out https://lightnovelpub.org/ for quite a few webnovels, albeit in English, Qidian would be better for Chinese https://www.konglongmandarin.com/ Another interesting website I came across to learn Mandarin from Peppa Pig

「 衆鳥高飛盡 孤雲獨去閒 相看兩不厭 只有敬亭山 」 「 The birds have vanished down the sky. Now the last cloud drains away. We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains. 」 A poem about the Jing-Ting mountain, related to Zazen in Buddhism, which is related to the meditation. It's interesting how Japan diverged from Chinese Buddhism with schools of esoteric Buddhism with skull rituals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachikawa-ryu Chinese esoteric Buddhism never really flourished because of the persecution that arrived shortly after it began to be taught, and the name for it is literally related to the Tang dynasty - 唐密 It seems to be undergoing a small revival, with the designation of these temples by esoteric monks as important sites, because of their cultural influence outside China

>>11918 >if any of you hikarins knows how i could stop thinking like that or some other way to fix my issue, thatd be nice. i dont know why im writing this like im having a tech problem and am asking on reddit well... do you think poems are corny? even if it looks corny, what maters is that you made it, and that you made an experience. think in the flow, the best thought is infact, no thought is your game an rpg? i believe in you hikarin!

about 3 fiddy

>>11909 the weak shall inherit the earth

1 or 2 probably

id probably say 2... i can barely carry a chair for longer than a minute

>>11902 Probably around a 7. I do work out but I do the bare minimum. I can easily move 40 lb bags of salt around so idk

I spent my teenage years working with my dad running around on roofs, though I was mostly doing brainless lifting and not much tool work. But it was a lot of fun. Right now I'm just slowly working on fixing up and maintaining my car and getting tools for that as I need them, which is also a lot of fun.

>>11885 Cna you teach me about how to fix cars I have a drivers test soon

>>11889 you don't need to know how to fix cars to get your license silly hikarin you should learn how to do basic maintenance like change oil, replace air filter, replace tires, maybe change brake pads, etc.

>>11890 wait is changing oil easy can i do it myself i dont know how an air filter looks like....

>>11901 yes, the basic idea is: >put car on jack >unscrew cap under car and drain oil into pan >close cap >replace oil just be sure you are putting the right kind of oil as well as using the recommended amount (don't want to overfill it). most of the time you can just look it up. the air filter usually is just something you simply pull out and slide a new one in. that can also be looked up and easily done.

>>11892 Saturday is perfect, I have SO much vitriol towards Mondays

Monday because it's the day of NEET dominance Sometimes I'll go get groceries when all the wagies are trying to get home from work, to add to the traffic and slow them down, while appreciating the environment and looking at school girls, because I have all day. It's comfy.

Sunday, because I still have to get busy in school during Saturday.

>>11331 GUILTY! Hang that nyagan now! I got the rope right here

Bit of a late response but how did that case go?

>>11759 No, not done with uni. Still a few years to go, i'm a part time student so it's taking some time. Working on it tho! >Any routines you recommend to get fit? Honestly I have been lifting so long I make my own routine based on what lifts I enjoy. There are plenty of beginner routines online, as long as you're doing compound lifts (aka exercises that hit multiple muscle groups, bench press, leg press, and lat pulldowns for example) and hitting all of your muscle groups (push, pull, legs, core) you'll be off to a great start. >And have money by the end of the year! Don't we all...

>>11766 Sorry hold on I didn't explain that well. Compound exercises hit multiple muscles. Like a pull up targets your back and bicep muscles. Compared to an isolated lift, like a bicep curl, that really only targets the bicep. And you want to work out different muscle groups. Push is chest and triceps, pull is back and bicep, legs and core are self explanatory. In the beginning it is common to do full-body days where you do an exercise that hits every group each day, but later on weightlifters usually switch to doing each group on separate days to hit them more intensely. If I were to create a beginner routine, it would be something real simple like: 3 (sets) x 8 (reps) dumbell chest press 3x8 lateral pulldown or assisted pull-up 3x8 leg press and three sets of however many crunches you can manage. Don't fall for the meme of autistically optimizing your lifts, do whatever you enjoy within reason. Lifting is in art as much as it is a science.

I had a resolution that I was going to keep my room clean. I even did a deep cleaning of my room shortly before new years but I'm already failing at this since my room is already becoming a shithole again. How the fuck do people keep their rooms clean?

>>11834 On the other hand, im wondering how people get it dirty. The worst I have is desk clutter from a lack of room. I put my clothes in my hampers, make my bed every morning (it takes 30 seconds at most). I clean sheets and vacuum maybe... once a month lol. could be better. What the hell are you doing to get it so dirty? Is it like... food dirty? Like plates???

>>11766 >>11767 how much can u do n00bz?