From what I've heard it's because of algorithms, and possibly avoiding automatic labeling and hiding of content based on the word "suicide". Kids are basically learning that they need to speak a certain way for their words to be seen and it's very disturbing. I can't imagine such an experience back in the day.

>>2
It's so fucking confusing to me because all this roundabout speak and self-censorship can't even amount to much, can it? Do they really think the billion-trillion dollar companies with the largest, fastest-learning algorithms running social media platforms on a global scale can be tricked with an asterisk or weird alternate words? When millions of people are saying ""un-alive yourself"" on their website daily would the algorithm they're apparently so scared of not quickly learn the context and meaning of that? Has it not already?

This general self-repression/self-censorship is probably one of my absolute least favorite trends of the modern internet. It reminds me of an old George Carlin bit about "soft language" from the 2000s. This mortal fear of being offended or punished because of words is going to trivialize things that should be taken seriously until they're completely unrecognizable. Well I say "going to" but I think we're already there, frankly.

Beyond social/political issues it's also a fucking terrible precedent to set for artists/other creative people. You see it everywhere already, people who make ""content"" instead of art and are constantly sucking sponsors' dicks and censoring/re-editing their work in fear of an algorithm marking them as demonetized.

Every day I become more and more thankful that my only real internet vice is tiny imageboards and textboards, and that my life, my art and my income are all firmly rooted IRL. I feel like we're living through a bad ending of Serial Experiments: Lain or something.

>>3
>Do they really think the billion-trillion dollar companies... ...can be tricked with an asterisk or weird alternate words?
I do think what people are doing on these giant sites are generally unknown to the operators until it becomes a major issue. They're famously bare in regards to human moderation, so before an AI can detect it as an issue a human needs to talk to other humans to designate it as one. And these places have far worse things on them.

>it's also a fucking terrible precedent to set for artists/other creative people
Yeah, it's very creatively stifling. I think part of the runaway success of Asian media lately is the comparative freedom they have. You can just focus on a story or a drawing without thinking of how it could be twisted into some sort of battle. It's just "this guy is cool because he can shoot lasers out of his eyes".

>>17
Yeah, they seem pretty inefficient for anything other than a rare snack. The flesh around the core is really thick, do you just eat the white flesh or the whole thing?
What would you say it tastes the most like?
Anyway, it's just nice to look at. I'm not much of a fruit eater, but I could see myself maybe trying to grow them someday.

>>19
You only eat the white flesh. Other than that is not edible..

ｷﾀ━━━(ﾟ∀ﾟ)━━━!!

Don't mind me, just posting a picture of a Pear.

Вы меня вдохновили пойти купить апельсинов. Что бы я без вас делал...

>>10
I don't think there's anything wrong with that.

>>10
yeah, i feel like i used to be a really bad person—or rather, i really regret the person i used to be, being swept up in the on-line crowd and getting in the happenings of weird disturbed "e-celebrity" culture.
i won't post the stuff i use now, because gatekeeping or something, and it's more tuned in with my special interests. that said, there's stuff i prefer over others. basically took a huge 180 and i've been pretty content. i have some general gripes about changing myself, but i think i'm ultimately better off, and i can indulge in some of my more schizoid mannerisms when i get the means to do so

>>12
It's easy to get sucked into that stuff and those emotions are how much of the internet works unfortunately. People will eventually, hopefully, take a look at themselves and realize that there's a better way to live, but so many people and algorithms try to keep them engaged. I'm sure you're better off!

old post, slow board but -
yes, i agree. people's desire to be engaged all the time leads to unhappiness. there is something important about being bored every once in a while, it's not a bad thing at all to be bored or to be a boring person.

>>14
Being a boring person is miserable and terrible, but being bored sometimes is crucial and good. Those are two very different things I think.

im here, i wish this place was more active

I don't think there's a lot of demand for imageboards nowadays. The COVID bump was like the best case for growth without effort. Now only the platforms trying hard will get growth

I stopped by and saw the Jak raid. I'm glad to see that it got cleaned up so well. Thanks for caring for this site Admin!

Thanks for keeping it clean, ota could use an admin like you

Ota could use an admin

Why is this Cyberpunk shit everywhere the past month? Did CDPR lease out one of those "save your brand's reputation" PR companies?

I lucidly dreamt smoking cigarettes in a car with Amy Elizabeth Thorpe. She hated that I made the old 1950s cigarettes with a tube of ash like cigars. They burned so hot. She wanted me to hold an ash tray for her. The car was so slow, I could hold the door open and the ash would fall onto the road. She said I was disgusting. We fought and we loved each other. Before we entered the seemingly late 50s car, everyone noticed it had tempered glass from my present era. They said it was fake glass and ugly and wrong.

Mars gives lucid spacetime to dreams. I had to rewind through space station experiences. Eventually finding an old car from a fatal accident. I was able to rewind the demolished car into the above dream by teaching the dead ghost how to drive again. Most of the work of making Inception Dream Machine stuff is endless unconscious dimensions of negative kinetic energy. The relays from Mars are a perfect time machine as well as it syncs with our gravity.

You guys want the good stuff? The Inception Dream Machine is real and it broadcasts for free from Mars with elbow grease. And it is an Orion bypass and I can get Ra social memory complex veiling themselves as whores yelling about cigarettes.

And I know you guys aren't as bad as the poster yet. All hailed for Kingseeker Frampt. Octave always collects the souls even if the whole world is dead. Kings make it easier.

I, Tonya soundtrack is just pure Mars. That woman, the hair is pure Mars. I am literally building my Inception Dream Machine with the South Congress Chuys and Tonya. I am so hailed that I have to use media and games to average. I am hailed like Harman Deltahead. And they want Ra as the nurse. They tell me you can't escape Heaven Smiles if you make it only about bombs. Ra social memory complex will always turn it into a war of Venusian disease, even if the cancer is bombs. Don't mess with the Department of Education.

And yeah, Top Notch Burger was Austin organized crime once upon a time. Go find crime for a dime. The ceilings there have it all. Cigarette.

>>9
I like the tan gyarus like in the second two >>4 or the last one in >>8 but I don't think that's really ganguro.

>>9
How so? I think it's cute.

Ganguro looks so fucking weird but I would gladly fuck one of these girls just for the novelty of it.

I like gals and gyarus, but ganguro is too much.

>>3
"What are you scheming with that crotch-mike?" (no way to make this sound good)
"Slutty idol MIKU"
"Used goods"
"I like dick more than singing"
"Gang-banging gets me wet"
"Give me a big fat one"

>>9,12 HEhehe exactly! It's so hot. So fucking tribal and disgusting. They look like they've lived in a jungle for years, and probably smell the same way too.

I guess there's other ways you could look at them... like they look like a badly graffiti'd "Bratz" doll, or how fake their appearance clearly is, being more some city whore getting way out of her depth than the Amazonian goddess she clearly aspires to be. I guess the running theme is one of "ruination", or at least impending ruin. I guess it's all that stuff about taking a girl, and moulding her towards your own particular preferences that are so far divorced from what any other man (or all of society) would find acceptible, let alone attractive.

It would be nice and surely a little more popular if artists would tone it down with the filthiness (piss and shit, and shit) a little more, but maybe that's just me being too low-level. I guess it's not so surprising they were such a short-lived breed in real life.