>>1980 i dont do social media either. My reason is that I would feel a lot of pressure if I were to publicize my life, and there is no benefit, so I don't. You are talking about ai, leaks, crazies... Do ai and leaks really matter? The way to stop cybercriminals/scammers/billionaires is through regulation and law enforcement, not through boycotting. About crazy people, none of the people i know have a public or name+surname instagram, and it has features to manage what content is shown to who, so i dont think any of them have a reason to worry about that, despite using social media.

>>1980 >I'm seen as a "freak". Why? Has the pot slowly been boiling for them, that they can't see any other way to live? They are retarded and gay.

i have another question actually would /r9k/ style threads be considered uncomfy for the purposes of this board?

>>13062 whens the last time you browsed r9k

>>13063 yesterday i guess why

>>13062 what do you mean by /r9k/ style threads? was never active on that board. it's probably fine though. "comfy" generally just means no shitflinging and no politics with some other exceptions.

>>13062 No

>>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

try a pserver maybe that'll be easier to step into, also limited unlimited free trial soon for retail

>>1793 I had had the same issue, I was tricked by a friend into making my character on a server rife with ERP in FFXIV going to any major city is always so strange

What is (or was?) Eternal Winter? The links for that place on your site doesn't work so it must be kill

Watch more masculine animes like shonen animes.

>>13088 candy ass

>>13089 Why don't you kiss my candy ass, bitch!

de~su

>>13088 I'm watching masculine animes like "High school girl molests her classmates for 12 episodes"

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My background is from a minecraft server I used to play on with my fiancée

>>1960 Bit better now

my background switches randomly every few hours, didn't land on a waifu so i hope a pony will do very pleasantly surprised by all of the linux users in thread

>>1977 Hikari-chan loves linux!

I liked this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemonsoda and would drink it every few days but it got old. The cans have this issue with particles that i couldnt quite identify settling at the bottom so when i tried it again it was kind of gross

I like da bepis made with real sugar

>should have left that shit in 5th grade why? that was one of the best times in my life continuous probing of environment and simultaneous action in response is the basis of all mechanical processing and thus thought. consciousness is the opposite of thought and occurs when thinking is otherwise impossible to create a new and separate "mind-space" to facilitate action. beings do not "have consciousness" as they "have" instincts, they are forced to become conscious of foreign objects to which there exist no instinctual reactions. in the case of humanity this has mainly manifested in the eye schema (as vision is the most remote sense) tho the ear is (was) returning (returned) tho this has somewhat reversed with bizarre effects. we have created a new world-environment (see from cliche to archetype "satellite imaging of the earth turns the planet into a stage to be programmed") which we are all collectively lost in

What is stopping them for having consciousness ??? If we do, they likely do have too.

If fish dont have consciousness explain the piraputanga. So crazy.

>>76 each and every one of these "experiments" for animals learning language or math that i've seen eventually came down to very liberal interpretation by the handler/researcher, or downright just a human pressing the buttons. i tend to follow the same reasoning as >>41 but at the end of the day we cannot really prove anything related to something so subjective as the experience of being alive.

>>73 "instinctual machines" dont exist among animals, maybe arthropods, spiders are kinda stupid imo I think defining consciousness as like "a state in which a creature is ready to change its pattern of behavior", a transitional state that when elongated out of necessity, i would say that tgat is where humans trump the rest of the animal kingdom, it doesnt have as much to do with attention span, pigs would have us beat, but its about chaining thoughts and figuring complicated things out in an involved manner, exposing the workings of the brain and not simply stopping for a moment and getting an answer from a background process if you understand what i am saying, if somebody tells you to calculate 5*12 you kind of just know that its 60, you dont need to think much because its not a large complex system, especially one that involves yourself as a moving part and you know, if we go with that consciousness appears to be a prerequisite for all animals that have place in the middle of the food chain, alternating between prey and predatory behavior, discovering behavior, migratory behavior.

>I didn't understand half the words you said hikari angry (dark) rum bubbles up your stomach, makes you feel light and giddy, sets your mind swimming and tastes great. its the best. "nihon gin" is a nonsense pun (i drink london pink and manchester blue, not japanese) and atama waruwaru is what the japanese say when they get a headache. an alkchopop is fruity fizzy liquor which malts your brain (and intestines) and hugs onto you a fuzzy sugarplum second skin made of vodkatatoes such as those in the image.

>>13049 I used to drink a lot of vodka but nowadays I can't stand it. One has to force oneself to drink it, and you end up drinking so much that when you wake up the morning after the idea of drinking it again makes you physically sick

a 40 of malt licker

For beer? Leffe. For spirits? Knobs creek. For liqueur? Baileys.

i thank the lord for making me broke because I'd be drinking a lot more wine if it wasn't this expensive and the cheap stuff didn't taste like piss and very much appreciate light rum for liquors

>>1850 Vichan is dead

>>1850 I read a little of the source code back when it got leaked after the hack, and it is quite different from the conventional open source imageboards. The way something like Lynxchan works is that posts are stored in a database, and then when a user wants to see a thread, the program fetches those posts from the database and sends them to their browser, and caching is done between some of these layers to speed up the process. Yotsuba, for the vast majority of user requests, skips the database step entirely: each thread is just a file (.html) that is served statically and modified in-place whenever someone posts something; this is way faster than even caching database queries like Lynxchan does. Although the technique works, from a programmer perspective this is ugly, clunky, error-prone, unmaintainable, etc. so personally I don't think we are going to see established projects adopting it. Most imageboards don't need scale, so it's reasonable that people prioritize readability and maintainability. We are more likely to see someone writing an imageboard with LevelDB or Cassandra than re-implementing Yotsuba.

https://github.com/Alehahaev404/4chan-main Use this repo instead. an official 4chan dev gave it a license basically saying do whatever you want with this source code. this leak will be on the internet forever they can't stop you from looking or using the code so I get why he gave it this license.

https://github.com/Alehahaev404/4chan-main wrong url sorry

Okay nvm this imageboard is just fucking up the url for some reason github username is: Alex Dev 404

sorry for rupturing your asshole, thought my nice creamy cummies would help soothe it

>>13082

I always forget she shares the same day as my birthday

Why are there a bunch of naked falling idiots on my screen

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haxxored

Twelve ditzy fairies dancing on your screen; One fell into cyberspace and then there were eleven. Eleven ditzy fairies looking for frogs; One met a shrine maiden and then there were ten. Ten ditzy fairies playing with ice; One wasn't so nice and then there were 9.

>>150 i didnt mean to spam i was angry at the button and didnt realize it started working, sorry

Why is she holding up two? She should be holding up nine

two nines

>>13074 yeah the war between the global superpower and the middle east country thats going to shut down its driils in (way) less than 6 months not a pol imageboard btw.

>>13074 https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=auhRuL6A-30

>>1873 Lineage 2 maybe? It was quite popular where I lived in my childhood. It's medieval and I recall it pretty comfy.

>>1873 unfortunately that doesn't exist irl, all the old classic mmorpg were very toxic grindfests. as the others say, those are idealized references to either ff11 or ff14 because those were/are the popular mmorpg in japan. if there is an isometric perspective, it's probably a reference to mu online, mabinogi, dofus, or one of the many, many smaller games that were the same. this is hard to explain because there isn't a modern equivalent, but the point of those games was grinding (mechanically following a spreadsheet or flowchart), there was little to no skill involved, games like that aren't mainstream anymore I don't want to be too negative, but you didn't want to be there, you didn't want to be the person sitting and mindlessly grinding mu or maplestory after school/work. just like how nowadays you don't want to be the person that spends all their waking day on tiktok. this is an unpopular opinion, but modern mmo like tarkov, arc raiders, marvel rivals, lol, or fortnite beat the shit out of the mmorpg of old, because they actually involve skill and have friendlier communities anyway, to answer your question, I think mabinogi still has fan-hosted servers, and maybe lineage or lineage 2. but anyone still grinding on a fan-made server 20 years after the fact is bound to be... not an anime character, to put it lightly

>>1873 xanadu next looks pretty much like it, but it's not an mmo

>>1873 ffxi private server is what i would recommend. eden, horizon, or catseye are the 3 most popular. sometime in the near™ future, retail ffxi will get a free trial in the style of ffxiv where you are only content limited not time limited. as someone who has played every final fantasy mainline other than 15 and 16, 11 is my favorite for the deep buildcrafting with the job/subjob system and the genuine sense of adventure and dangerous exploration. it is such a harsh game, but very rewarding imo. alternatively phantasy star online 1 on ephinea or phantasy star universe on clementine.

>>1940 >retail ffxi will get a free trial in the style of ffxiv where you are only content limited not time limited. Where did you read that? The problem with FF11 is that the people who play on pservers are mentally unwell and unfriendly, at least if you look at the /vm/ thread. I like playing alone on retail but that's just me. >>1877 You can easily play on Linux. There's a very simple Lutris script to install the game and Windower. Bring a controller.

>>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.

Coming soon

When will the repo be made public?

>>1092 dope

saw these on jp, might be too on the nose though

20.8 but i have no muscle so its unhealthy fats

>>13023 Chronically high sodium intake is likely to lead to high blood pressure! Watch your sodium levels and remember to hydrate.

I fucking love food

I'm 22.7 but I try really hard to train to keep a slim waist!! ^-^

like 20 half of this thread has an eating disorder i think

>>13054 I didn't kayak and it hurts to move

havent boxed in a week because i hurt my elbow and i am not feeling feedback from the bag and my right ankle hurts fuck my life

>>13056 what weight class are you?

>>13059 sorry to disappoint but i dont box fr i just shadowbox and punch the bag, + i am in the worst shape of my life

me too a lot of the time i akways have a list on my google agenda with stuff to do when im bored usually i will find something id consider trying

Its just used for minecraft and plex right now Dell PowerEdge R740 2x Intel Xeon Gold G134 3.2GHz 256GB RAM 7TB HDD

>>1537 Is your HDD noisy? Like, do you shut it off when you are going to sleep?

>>1542 its in another room but the hard drives are actually not that loud. the only thing loud about it is the fans when its starting up

>>1542 Not that anon, but I'm the 7900X3D (soon) NAS, when the R240 is quiet enough (it's way louder than the R220 it replaced ) hearing the 4 drives chugging away from seeding is actually quite comforting, I have it iny bedroom.

>>1527 been a while! all of the build went together nicely, i used the 6.4TB drive for L2ARC and it fills up quite nicely i got a pair of 3.2TB SAS SSD for my VM storage, and a pair of 960GB SATA SSD for proxmox.. i ditched TrueNAS completely.. using cockpit in a LXC with bind mounts to serve my files. i didn't bother with slog, but i don't really need it since i can write to the disk pool at about 300MB/s which is just fine!

I am looking to switch out my over-ear PC headphones for some wired earbuds of some kind. Do you guys have any recommendations? From looking online I see people recommending these, the SENNHEISER Professional IE 100 PRO. My caveat is I don't really like the wired headphones that have the silicone tips, I'd rather have the kind that are shaped like the Apple Earpods but I don't think that specific design is very common unfortunately. Any thoughts?

>>1842 the ie 100 pro are very nice, all of sennheisers newer ie models are very small and (imo) comfy too you can use a whole range of different tips on them too! i have 2 pairs of ie 100 pro, ie 600, and some other moondrop iems, i really like the moondrop blessing 3... possibly even more than my ie 600

allow me to use my privilege as OP to answer first >Playermodel "[PM] Tails doll (Sonic superstars) >Favourite map gm_freddypizzaday >Frequent server i dont play much but i try to play shinri trials every now and then

>playermodel 2B, Frieren, or a cute PM of the Engie TF2 sentry gun as an anime girl. >map I don't think I have a favorite map. I like the OG crack house map I suppose, good memories there. >frequent server I don't frequent servers anymore. I don't usually play GMOD much, but when I do it's usually sandbox with my friends, so private server.

>>1958 Search should take nanoseconds as it should be O(1). Also, your site doesn't appear to have images.

>>1959 Only 1.25 million images Maybe you can fix it to be O(1)

>>1962 Sure. Link the repo.

You've woken the Hive

4taba had this really neat feature where you could reply to posts within that post, implemented as a little box containing the nested replies, and you could enable this type of reply with an email field option akin to sage. I liked it because it helped prevent off-topic posts from risking thread derailment. Hopefully somebody remembers it and knows what I mean, I don't know if I'm describing it very well. I miss that site.

how much do I have to grind to unlock the hentai board?

>>1160 why did 4taba die again? niggy hacked it or something, right?

>>1162 domain provider forced us to close hentai board because lolis, might change providers in the future but idk that's on Syrno

oh wow. i did not know dat.

here is one I like

My current wallpapers, both are ideal on a 16:10 monitor tho

>>1893 whats that cheese axe

>>1914 In an hour

i have got crippling depression and havent gone outside for 3 days, maybe when i wake up i will

>>12962 You should go for a walk, Hikarin . Fresh air and sunlight is nice. I hope things go better for you.

finally got an overcast day, it is still 32 degrees in the shadow but my garage got some nice wind so it was nice and cool, did some fitness shit

I was sick for a while but I finally managed to get back to the gym. Not at my top performance but I was so stir-crazy that I went anyway and did a lighter workout.

I jog for 30 minutes in the morning. I do some arm and middle body exercies but i mostly focus on my legs

>>45 Holotower is "friends" with wapchan Wapchan is friends with various other chans including here. I basically went down a rabbit hole of alt-chans referring to each other.

>>1154 wapchan love

>>45 I saw someone recommending it on an altchan in early 2025.

>>45 kissu.moe sister site!

I think I saw it mentioned in passing on 4chan when I was drunk and browsing that site, I try to pop in often but life has been really busy lately

scroll to the top of the thread and read it

Rain World is an incredible game both gameplay-wise and lore-wise. There is no game anywhere close to what Rain World is, it's crazy. The strong inspiration on Buddhism is also a very strong plus that adds to the depth of the game and the messages it transmits

The enemy animations are all shit, it looks as though they were generated on shitty 3d models with evolutionary algorithms NOT worth the pricetag WILL rape your processor

I bought it before the price increase, 25$ is a bit much for just the base game. don't buy on console, you can't mod it and the dlc kept coming out late.

>>1426 anon learns about procedural animation and IK it looks derpy and cute imo, adds a lot of charm to the game

ouh ki ki ki! your doodle is very cute! feel welcome here, hikari!

>how did ya learn? I once came across a tutorial on how to make a website using Notepad, and for a while I was doing HTML using Windows 10 Notepad

>>1942 For HTML go to w3schools. For CSS also w3schools but i actually recommend Sass (https://sass-lang.com/) because it makes it easier to do composition of your styles. For javashit just stick to plain javashit. Don't bother with Web2.0 (Flask, Django, Spring, Ruby on Rails) unless you run a service for end user. Learn from websites on Neocities and Nekoweb how they code their website since you can just F12 and see it.

sadgrl's guides are what i started with and can absolutely recommend them if you're gunning for just a personal page https://sadgrl.online/guides/ there's also this one: https://internetingishard.netlify.app/ you'll also need to think about how you want to host it. there's shared hostings and VPSes you can buy online, or you can just host from a computer you own physically. if going with latter, you'll wanna research a little into web servers, probably Nginx, and stuff like SSL. and ditto anon regarding Sass actually, it's pretty nice.

Hello Hikarins! Everyone, I appreciate your tips and guides; I’m studying and trying to learn from everything you post here. Soon, maybe i'll got a website up and running. Thanks yall!! Im reading all of you guys drop here.

best of luck anon! getting it going can be a bit ovewhelming, but it's a pretty smooth slope down the rabbit hole from there

>>1954 The owners didnt know how to manage it, the site is probably permanently dead now. Theres a thread on wapchan that sorta discusses it if you're interested

LOOKS GOOD

>>146 thank you!

>>13020 Looks like shit

>>13020 cant we just talk through smoke signals

>>13020 I agree. >>13024 If you use a smoke sensor it *might* actually possible to do. Hmmm. You just gave me an idea there.

>>1897 i finally got around to implementing proper image thumbnails. im kinda starting to run out of ideas on what else to implement

>>1946 JSON API for IB phone apps Tripcodes Better moderation tools More flexibility (like the option for admins add thread-specific html/css/js) An invite system A captcha that doesn't depend on third parties Anubis support PGP threads (temporary threads where only the OP can read the replies)

>>1947 i did just get around to reworking my ban system, i wouldnt say its complete but atleast it does the bare minimum like image hashing. PGP threads do sound interesting but i they would probably be a mess to moderate lol, i might focus on adding tripcodes now though (also a captcha would be good).

>>1897 i hate variable fonts, i hate ttff, i hate css3, hate hate hate hate hate

>>1946 Vote ban. I know, it's kind of a double edged sword.

>>512 i am the other inflammatory guy holy shit, did you make this? Because the guy who wrote that is a genius, I wish I could live at the bottom of the barrel, who gives a shit goddamnit, but I am from the west and I can only assume that I would be systematically oppressed even worse somewhere else (somehow, I will not get into my personal situation) It also seems like less of a choice that you can just make one day, and more of a choice that you make throughout your life and when it hits that you are at the bottom of the barrel, again, you are either swimming or drowning

>>512 >>513 It's not really that novel of an idea. there's this guy called Diogenes, and let's just say he encountered the same philosophical conundrum but he got over it.

>>512 Not meant to be taken literally i hope anarchists will often take an issue here "society is using search for meaning against you" and rail against it in a comically exaggerated way reminds me of bob blacks writing

>>517 its good that they do, accelerate.

>>512 There is way more non-material wonder to existence, all that phenomenology and ontology and metaphysics and truly paranormal phenomena - but, life is just like it's described in there. I do not agree with what the author is asking or proposing. Clean your room, wash yourself, give yourself the precise quality nutrition your brain deserves. It's always better to be an elite grade NEET. >>513 It's everyone's individual fault they're not being omnipotent, for sure, and I'm not being sarcastic. But what you'd be omnipotent for? Actually, don't answer that, I'm not a genie. The bigger premise is that there's a presumption that "anything is worth it and that living doesn't go on as inertia, with something like suicide takes too much experienced effort" (I call myself dumb cattle over being driven by inertia I do not identify with and disintest in the extreme effort needed to stop it completely). Choosing which hobby to take, which job to get, which city to move to is juggling the inertias. Actually, it sounds already great if you're not under risk of death, especially imminent death. This only says it's only as good as long as some urgency doesn't interrupt anything. With urgency of incoming death, I had seen that both surviving unscathed and instantly dying are win-win, and the gruesome death or disability are the complete failure of luck and fortune with only one way to deal with them for real. You can outplay any card hands you want, I don't see any value out of whatever good birthright opportunities and victories and rewards are possible in this world, or at least in this era.

The Elfen Lied dub is hilarious.

>>1876 "I'll take a potato chip, and EAT IT!" truly kino >1880 I haven't watched Elfen Lied in AGES but I do remember the dub being a bit silly.

Black Lagoon

Berserk 1997 has a damn fine dub. Most dubs where steve blum is a main character i enjoy. The big o, bebop, champloo, GTO, etc. off the top of my head, space dandy, jjba, hxh, FMA, hellsing, fooly cooly, black lagoon, death note have good dubs. While subs are preferable I wouldn't say that the average dub that comes out nowadays, or even as far back as the 90s were truly a sea of shit as a lot of people say. Most dubs were simply average, and the worst thing a dub can do in my eyes is go out of its way to change shit for no reason like the prison school/dragon maid dubs funimation did.

>>1912 > average dub that comes out nowadays smoking behind the supermarket dub is unbearable

>>1932 why do you need to know this? if you dont give me something i wont give you either :p

kris is the only example that comes to mind and its one of the best because in classic UTDR fashion theres meta storytelling and in this case kris and the player are clearly show to be 2 different entities now its not known whether kris knows that they live in a video game but they do know that the heart shaped object in their chest(the SOUL) is a different person that poses a threat to their evil plans as kris constantly rips us out of their chest so they can do bad stuff like open fountains everywhere to help kickstart the roaring and during chapter 4 kris decides to keep you for way longer than usual allowing you to sneak through thr house while they are on a phone call with a mysterious person twlling them what to do and when kris notices the soul they immediatley hit us with a can of chocolate or a hockey stick

>>1934 man i suck at explaining pls play deltarune im not doing it justice

>>1935 deltarune is a series of linear ass rpgs that play like a comic book, not worth 20 bucks

>>1934 Thanks! I'll check it out. Let's imagine that you are playing a horror game. The protagonist knows much more about the world and his own life than you do. In order to get that information, you have to check emails, read messages, and watch the news. Does that sound like needless trouble? Would it be better if the protagonist were as oblivious as you?

>>12994 i haxxord it

>>12995

>>12994 Bad gayway

>>12994 It's back up

the first half since i couldnt post more images in one post for some reason

>>1178 thank god finally. goodbye now.

anyway, frieren and fern eating burger

fern got MAD but that's a good thing because now I can see her POUT also really liked last chapter of the manga

the new season that released pretty recently was very cozy! despite not being as long as the previous season i think they made the most of the ten episodes they had. The last episode where they fight the serpent sage of destruction is definitely some of the best fight scenes since the exam arc. pretty hyped for when the next batch of episodes drops

>>1908 It was very cozy! I am glad you liked it hikarin. Only being 10 episodes was a shame.

>>65 I like the new spoiler image!

>>66 It's actually the old version

u can playz wit 1 hand NOICE!

it becomes ez mode if you get the dude

so close to 100... died this wave

it is for eating! i hope this helps!

>>12990 Separate the juice for kombucha making, and eat the freaking sauerkraut

Make some dumplings with it. Are you not familiar with dongbei food?

not hard if u like programming hard if u dont like it

>>13003 i have delved into programming, i dont hate it, but the career paths off of cs arent limited to programming i am asking seriously, how hard is the pace, the maths/study volume etc (You) are clearly not the person my thread is asking for, I'd like for a cs graduate to reply

not them but that's unwarranted aggression and they gave you a good reply for your question. you can check the courses and the syllabi for whatever college you have in mind yourself. what people here can give you is the general vibe: it isn't calculus that filters people, it's programming

it depends on the university itself, if you're going to an ivy league then you'd find it full of theory, which is beautiful but so challenging and unpractical but if you went to a john university you'd do some combination of hopefully modern development courses and gradate. but you need to familiarize yourself first with creating somewhat big programming projects if you wanna do well but wherever you go, the hardest thing about a CS degree imo is dealing with unnecessary courses that bloat your schedule

>>1884 I'm usually not a seasonal anime watcher but I have enjoyed the first episode of the new Ghost in the Shell anime.

I'm watching a few. New season of Jobless Reincarnation, the new Ghost in the Shell series, and most importantly SAGA OF TANYA THE PEAK SEASON 2!! I have been looking forward to this one for ages. About the others though, I really like the Eris training arc so far. It's a real shame that she's doing all of this just be Rudeus' third wife... The new Ghost in the Shell series emulates an older art style which is really cool, and it is more lighthearted than the original series too. It's worth a watch.

>>1886 i was a bit dissapointed when i found out that there was only two episodes that were focusing on eris. Like they were putting her all over the marketing material and you think that with rudeus big moment in the previous season that they would chill and we would get to see eris doing badass things, but instead she gets sidelined for more slow paced (albeit still pretty intriguing) rudeus family life plotline. I feel that it would be kind of strange for rudeus to marry his cousin, but then again they already clapped soooo y not i guess

iron wok jan, daemons of the shadow realm, and reiwa no Dara San are all good… iron wok Jan is very very good.. reiwa no Dara San is a pretty crappy slice of life but it’s enjoyable so I’d give it a watch if you’re into that sort of stuff

ah sweet, a malice mizer thread. If your still out there, i gotta say that your plasylist despite not being the biggest is pretty good. Gardenia especially is one that i've been listening to a lot recently! here are some of my faves: (claire a melody of the moon) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkwDkT_CLUk&pp=ygUTY2xhaXJlIG1hbGljZSBtaXplcg%3D%3D (beast of blood) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1wgD3bNLqI&pp=ygULYmVhc3QgYmxvb2Q%3D (fragments of rememberance) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoJy-5rW-5Q&pp=ygUZZnJhZ21lbnRzIG9mIHJlbWVtYmVyYW5jZQ%3D%3D

>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

what do you mean by karma? if we take the simplest popular definition - that its basically just cause and effect - why would you not believe in it? if a person does something bad then it makes world worse and then they have to live in a worse off world thats karma and there 0 superstitious elements in this defenition >>33 you say it as if thats all shes done in her life bully you and "win" whatever that means

karma does traditionally mean causation but more importantly the unknown and persistant influence of conscious action on an unconscious environment and applied both to mental as physical actions. especially in buddhism mind is listed the sixth sense an thus part of the world-environment is made of unconscious mind-stuff (actually technically all of reality is "mind" and there is no mental-physical dualism). the description and confusion about good and bad and what happens from them are malformed interpretations of environmental transferrance (karma). every action is far more particular than "a good action", a bad action however while also particular is simply bad. evil is not bad but the form of being when bad has become good by posessing/deceiving acting consciousness (the maker of environments). to consciousness good always prevails and always to the 'detriment' (catastrophic rebuilding) of environment. bad (not evil which is consciousness manifest) prevails in proportion to the degree of diminishing consciousness.

>>57 if i evade taxes i lose a little and gain a lot, because everybody else is shoulderimg the burden with me retard

>>12952 I like the direction the series is taking, it was definitely worth the wait.

i hope they remake the first episodes because they have a huge gap of their quality and quantity compared to their latest episodes the lastests episodes.

>>12294 I had a friend who used to play this, and he recommended this game as well https://www.whiteenamel.com/explore/ I haven't spent a lot of time in either game though

>>12320 That's neat, I've always wanted to sit down and play the original game since I never experienced it on a random side note, here is an SCP browser game: https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/billiths-proposal-ii/BASELINE.html

Check this series out: https://youtu.be/6e6RK8o1fcs?si=7mhrjpM5dCzGOyKl

>>12957 also you can just store and serve them, you dont have to handle them at all

The main goal of this project is to create a realistic traditional singing voice synthesizer (although integrating machine learning ideas into it could also be interesting), but side goal is also to recreate VOCALOID2 (actually this was the original goal, but the objective changed early on). Part of this task is to implement the expression system. I had long realized that there were two separate expression systems, but initially there had been some confusion between what belonged to which. Initially, I worked based on the expression system described in Jordi Bonada's 2008 PhD thesis, in Chapter 3, because this was by far the most complete description. For a long time, I had thought the expression briefly mentioned in the 2003 paper "Sample-Based Singing Voice Synthesizer Using Spectral Models and Source-Filter Decomposition", in part due to the reused figures. Because of this, I referred to this system as the "Bonada 2003" expression system, because that's where I thought it had been described, although only briefly. Later, I read parts of Jaume Ortola's 2001 Master's Degree. In there, some of the "2001" (or "Ortola 2001") expression should be described. Good detail is provided on the dynamics curves, which use Manfred Clynes' Predictive Amplitude Shaping algorithm. On the other hand, the pitch model is not really described, stating only: "The pitch contour of the singing voice has to be carefully generated in order to obtain a faithful synthesis. So we have designed a mathematical model for reproducing the smooth pitch transitions between notes. This model allows us to control the transition duration and the tuning deviations at the end and the beginning of the notes in accordance with the musical context.". Nothing about what happens in between the note transitions was stated at all, so this was a total mystery at the time. With what I know now, I am still not fully sure. The basic model is probably either flat lines or linear interpolation between the start and end. On the other hand, looking at the figures, besides the vibrato present in some of them, there is clearly something else as well. In one expired patent I read, the mean was subtracted from timbre variations and those were added on top of interpolated timbre, so perhaps something could be happening like that for pitch, although it is unclear then what would happen for the areas that don't correspond to stationary PhUs. Another possibility is some kind of random noise that is added. Actually, the figure looks suspiciously like something that has been linearly interpolated at the edges. You can clearly seen in the transitions and expressive parts, full pixel-level resolution; on the other hand, in these areas, it looks like straight line interpolation. So perhaps it is random noise that is interpolated. Anyway, this "mathematical model" in reference in many other places, but not described in any of them. For example, in "Sample-Based Singing Voice Synthesizer Using Spectral Models and Source-Filter Decomposition": "In the case of note transitions, the process is the same but whenever no template is specified, a pitch model is applied that overwrites the absolute pitch track of the score, like shown in Fig. 3, so to avoid pitch discontinuities. This pitch model has to be carefully generated to obtain a natural sounding pitch curve in the output synthesis. A mathematical model has been designed to produce smooth pitch transitions between notes and allow the control of some parameters like duration, shape and synchronization to phonetics and musical rhythm."

So recently I have been reading the expired VOCALOID patents, and made an effort to catalog and then read them all. I read https://patents.google.com/patent/JP2006330615A which describes the expression system described in Bonada's 2008 PhD thesis. Because of this, I am now calling this expression system the Bonada 2005 expression system. Interestingly, this finally described that mathematical model. The mathematical model for the legato transitions is not mentioned at all in Bonada's thesis, so I think it was replaced by the performance-sampling method for producing legato transitions that he also described in that thesis was used instead. Another interesting thing that this patent mentions is the addition of supplemental points before attacks and after releases. This was not mentioned at all in Bonada's thesis. Interestingly however, the thesis did provide the parameters for these points. Second, another very interesting thing is that in the patent, all of the parameters have fixed values, with the option to randomly scale them. On the other hand, in the thesis, the values were generated according to gaussian distributions. This must have been entirely different methods for generation and not just a writing quirk because, for example, the patents mentions that the points A and C are above the nominal pitch, and B below, while in the thesis, all points' gaussian distributions have a mean of zero. For this, along with other differences, such as the description of the supplemental point pitches being inconsistent with the given parameters in the thesis, I believe these two descriptions actually referred to two different iterations of this expression system, which I am now referring to as Bonada 2005 V1 and Bonada 2005 V2. This clears some things. On the other hand, there are also things where there is now more ambiguity, so more things to test. Other things are still unclear, such as how the point based model is used to generate the dynamics.

In the last post, I talked about some potential experiments I would have to do on the pitch/dynamics model for my VOCALOID2 recreation project. I had already programmed the base code for Bonada 2005 expression system, actually many months ago now. This was all in anticipation of the day I finally compare my system to samples that were actually generated by VOCALOID2. Well today I decided that day is now... and I was totally wrong about everything. Well not everything,- I was wrong about the expression system. It was actually the Ortola 2001 expression system that was still used in VOCALOID2 seemingly, except using a different dynamics model from the Predictive Amplitude Shaping algorithm that was used in VOCALOID1. Anyway, at first this made me even more concerned, because there was much less information about the Ortola 2001 expression system. One of the big mysteries was how the pitch was handled over the note duration. Well, as you can see in the attached image, it is very simple. In fact it is actually the simplest thing possible - it is a straight line. Another thing that concerned me was the dynamics model, since there was no description of this at all anywhere. But luckly, it proved to be incredibly simple. Simple enough that I was able to recreate it just by fiddling around for a couple hours in Jupyter notebook. In general, I feel like I have enough from the creators of VOCALOID that I have in a way gain an intuition for their thought process and what mathematical structures they favored. Below, I have presented in a demonstration of a partial recreation of the dynamics model and template-less portamento pitch transition model (my [orange] vs V2 [blue] portamento pictured). For an example of this thought process understanding, the first thing I tried for note dynamics decay was a formula of the form y*(e^-x - 1), which was inspired from the formula used for computing the source curve in the Excitation plus Resonance model, and it worked. Another example is the way the exponent is used in the portamento transition function, which was inspired in a way from the formula used for that same transition mentioned in the Bonada 2005 expression system patent (https://patents.google.com/patent/JP2006330615A).

import numpy as np


def synthesize_note_dynamics(note_on, duration, amplitude, sr=22050):
    v = np.zeros(round((duration + note_on + 1.0) * sr))
    for itr in range(len(v)):
        t = itr / sr

        if t >= note_on and t < note_on + 1.25:
            amp_attack = np.cos(((t - note_on) / 1.25) * (np.pi / 2.0)) * 0.4 + 0.6
        else:
            amp_attack = 0.0

        if t > note_on + 1.25:
            amp_decay = 0.6 + (np.exp(-(t - (note_on + 1.25)) / (duration - 1.25)) - 1.0) * 0.175
        else:
            amp_decay = 0.0

        if t >= note_on - 0.015 and t < note_on + 0.005:
            amp_spike1 = (1.0 - abs((t - (note_on - 0.005)) / 0.01)) / 4.0
        else:
            amp_spike1 = 0.0

        # Note: There is also a fade of about 33% that occurs near the end that lasts about 100ms. The rest of the fade is handled by an articulation from phoneme to silence. The fade is not modeled here since its time depends on the length of that articulation.

        v[itr] = (amp_spike1 + amp_attack + amp_decay) * amplitude

    return v

# In cents
def synthesize_portamento(start_time, duration, start_pitch, end_pitch, sr=22050):
    v = np.zeros(round((duration + start_time + 1.0) * sr))
    for itr in range(len(v)):
        t = itr / sr
        if t >= start_time and t < start_time + duration:
            if end_pitch >= start_pitch:
                v[itr] = start_pitch + (end_pitch - start_pitch) * (((t - start_time) / duration) ** 0.8)
            else:
                v[itr] = end_pitch + (start_pitch - end_pitch) * ((1.0 - (t - start_time) / duration) ** 1.5)
        elif t < start_time:
            v[itr] = start_pitch
        else:
            v[itr] = end_pitch

    return v

Update on my proposed improvement to the Wide-Band Harmonic Sinusoidal Modeling algorithm: https://listserv.cuit.columbia.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A2=MUSIC-DSP;8bd93c70.2608C&S=

>>447 So that's how it started

I know a bunch, but right now I'm trying to learn Chinese, and it's weird. The grammar is easy, but the tones are griefing me, I think I can recognize them sometimes when listening but I don't feel like I'm pronouncing them right, and I don't have anyone to practice. And then there is the obvious issue of hanzi (the symbols), you can infer a lot from the radicals, but it is still pretty hard. I'm using anki right now and the hsk textbooks, but if anyone has resources like other books or tools, games, books for children and beginners, anything really, I would appreciate some pointers.

>>508 idk board games and ingredient lists in chinese grocery stores I guess? also really pay attention in chinese book stores for random stuff, not books, but uhhhh, idk, reading the covers of stationary tools count as immersion, no?

>>508 In theory it's considerably simpler than English or other European languages, but the Hanzi makes impossible to brute force a basic understanding (at least reading) in 1 month as is possible with English/others.

>>502 It's не сдавайся. Sounds like "з" but it's written with "с".

>>12984 that pansy ass fist isnt hitting or hurting shit keep samefagging and shit though, great! unchecked candy assry killed this place

>>12976 should be eating burgers instead

>>12966 Waddup OP

>>12966 op im hungry can you spare some of your cardboard for a hungry anonymous

>>12985 >unchecked candy assry killed this place Proof?