>>328
I think the intent definitely has. Save for a few notable exceptions, internet activism wasn't really a thing until chanology happened and ruined everything. Now everyone's an activist, trying to shove their opinion down your throat 24/7

>327
We reached peak anti-racism and have nowhere to go but back down from here.

>>327
It's a good filter against oversensitive undesirables. Sure these words possess the potential of attracting other irrational stupids but those can be easily refuted and told to fuck off.

> Sure these words possess the potential of attracting other irrational stupids but those can be easily refuted and told to fuck off.
> those can be easily refuted and told to fuck off.
This is so false that I'm honestly taken aback how anyone with experience in imageboards can think this.

The online game I played every day announced it's shutting down. With it shutting down I will lose all the friends I made because we'll end up playing different games and have nothing to talk about anymore. It was nice having people to share enthusiasm with every day. I feel really lonely now.

I've done it. I've reached the point where the internet isn't even enough to satisfy my info addiction. Now what

>>334
You're probably not exhausting your potential by using it efficiently.

>>334
Buy a room in the Library of Congress?

I'm getting sick of people doing the maddox shtick, where the whole joke is "I'm an actual unironic asshole, laugh". *chan people eat that shit up and I have no clue why. It's never been funny. It's just annoying.

>>337
I assume people like it so much because it makes them feel superior while not demanding any sort of work from them. Not that people won't put work in to the shtick, but it's still an easy way to assert yourself online, especially in 'no rule zones'.

>>334
Get bitten by a radioactive philosopher? Fuck, I dunno (. _. )

>>327
It may feel freeing in the short term to say some naughty words that you're not supposed to, long term it doesn't work out so well.

People have a nasty tendency to propagate things they hate by complaining about them.

After years of blankness, I'm starting to have dreams again. I can remember most of them, naturally, but I'm glad that they're actually becoming common occurrences again.

I do somewhat remember one I had last night though: It was set in a cold, tundra-like landscape. People seemed to generally be rare and were scattered about. It starred two girls and a guy, I don't think they were named, and they were traveling about and meeting people. There was some odd science fantasy twists later on, like it being revealed than one of the girls was a major element of a hivemind, the guy was also art of the hivemind and just didn't realize it, and the other girl was an "enemy", but had opted to be friendly to the hivemind. She ends up dying later though.
It's odd and tought to completely explain, but that's how dream are, right?

I've seen anime fans before try and act like the "big eyes, small nose, small mouth" style isn't a thing and you're just a stupid american for thinking all anime looks the same. But not only is it 100% obviously a thing (even "realistic" anime characters generally have bigger eyes than you'd actually see in real life), it's also a GOOD THING. Big eyes are objectively more appealing than small ones.

Abstract strategy games are really beautiful to look at. If I ever get a house, I'd like to set some up as decoration.

Ironic memes are a byproduct of the internet's current place in culture. The internet has been so established for so long that you have an entire generation who grew up on memes and is now making jokes about them.

mankind is fucking doomed

>>346
Good

Early 4chan was heavily influenced by porn, to the point where it probably wouldn't exist today if NSFW content wasn't allowed. But people like to downplay that aspect of the site's culture because it makes them uncomfortable. You can see the same thing happen with historical accounts of other websites (especially Newgrounds), so I wonder how much western prudishness has affected our perception of history as a whole.

>348
It's not so much that people are offended, but that porn has a nasty effect of shoving out other kinds of conversation in favor of more porn. Even in places like /b/, which was assumed to already be a cesspit, the amount of porn actually made it even worse, and brought in even dumber types of users.
A similar thing happened with /gif/, so much so that the board has to be split because it was unusable for anything but porn.

>>349
What I'm saying is more that people understate its existing influence. Porn was a big part of golden age 4chan, but people always downplay that part of the site's history for some reason.

Sometimes, I think people squabble online not because of the importance of the subject, but because getting angry feels good. Like a large chunk of people online, at least the loud ones, are addicted to outrage and use "moral" subjects to get their fix.

A lot of modern realistic artists, particularly western ones, suck at controlling detail. When making art, the important bits should generally be the most defined. Simply implying the less important parts not only saves on a ton work, it also makes the picture easier to read, which is in theory the whole point of art; to communicate. Rendering every last detail on everything doesn't make your drawings look good, it just makes them needlessly cluttered and ugly.

If you're smart enough to be distrustful of mainstream media, you shouldn't also be dumb enough to fall for "alternative" media.

I'm tired of people who rely on the system and encourage others to do the same. The people who will shame you for living in the country side instead of a big filthy and expensive city, the people who will shame you for caring about your privacy and for being resentful to government overreach (gun control, so called "hate speech" laws, etc.). You wanna be a civtard drone that does nothing but consoom social media all day? Fine, but don't force me into that! It's all so tiresome.

http://www.boukakiki.or.jp/poster/chronicles.html
The women (why women?) on these Japanese fire prevention posters seem to be getting more baby-faced every year. Maybe it's just makeup trends, but damn if it isn't creepy.

>355
I'm impressed by Smokey Bear's ever expanding harem!

One of my favorite things about waking up is seeing the morning sunlight stream through the tiny window of my apartment.

At the time 4taba was practically dying, when the site was only accessible through an IP and not the normal domain, I changed my bookmark to the IP and at some point noticed it too didn't work anymore. I just assumed it was all over and now, over a year later, I look up 4taba again and you're alive. My random thoughts about this turn of events are positive.

>>357
Same here, anon.

>>357
Somehow I actually quite dislike this. I prefer waking up and seeing that it's dark out, or pre-morning, because it means there will be no noise coming from the outside for at least some hours.

i hate feeling "jealous" when i see someone who's my age (26) look older than me for some reason, i should and sometimes am grateful that i look younger than i should, but i've had this feeling since i was in elementary, could never really shake it off.

There's nothing new under the sun, but there is values in doing old things with your own hands.

I get annoyed when I see teens who think that drawing like oney/psychicpebbles + using ironic memes makes them newgrounds. Maybe it's just me, but the newgrounds I remember was basically an edgier deviantart. 90% of the content on the site was stuff like this:
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/274161
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/330445
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/264921

If those kids saw newgrounds back in its heyday, they'd have called it cringe and left.

I hope the next generation will push cringing at things even further

I don't understand anymore but I'm curious how far it can go

My use of free software is driven less by an ideological conviction about how one should know what code they're running, and more about how locked down software is annoying to use and is needlessly heavy on my hardware. I take FOSS licenses as short hand for "This program's code isn't absurdly heavy and doesn't waste my CPU cycles on phoning home".

The more I look into it, the more I realize that postmodernism is really just a watered down version of egoism, softened up to be palatable to the masses.

dead board

Sometimes it seems like this internet has become a gigantic shopping mall. I’ve beem surfing around and found nothing but online shops, and blogs that are primarily trying to sell things.

>>364
That's actually what free software has always been about! Have you ever heard the phrase "free as in freedom, not free as in free beer"? The phrase pretty much means exactly that, that the software respects your freedom to do whatever you want with it, but it doesn't explicitly prohibit the creator from making money from it. That is why some people prefer to use the phrase "libre software" instead of "free software".

Recently I had a very very vivid dream that I could basically will myself to float, I guess by just refusing to touch the ground. It felt like I had found like a video game exploit in real life. I would just lift me legs and force myself up.
I miss that dream.

RIP PERFECT
I LOVED YOU LIKE MY SON (I'M SORRY WE NEGLECTED YOU)!

was taking champix to stop smoking
didn't work for smoking but the vivid dream side-effects are awesome so I keep taking it
big pharma should make lucid dream pills

>>369
I had one where I could drift around at arbitrary speeds, and another where my body was half-paralyzed but I could flail like a shrimp to move.

Is there a term for good visual memory and recognition? I can recall most places I've been at, even fictional places like levels in video games, so I never really get lost. I also collect a lot of art and can easily recognize duplicates that I've seen before. I wouldn't call this "photographic memory" as I can't really clearly visualize these images in my mind, but whenever I see them again, I instantly recognize them. I'd call it "symbolic memory" or something, but perhaps there's a proper term? It kind of applies to audio too, but for visuals it's more effective.

Despite not having touched a Nintendo console for years now, I find myself happy that Metroid is raising out of the pit of obscurity. It's kind of nice seeing people enjoying a niche thing I do, or did.
Sure, that thing I like gaining mainstream attention can mean compromises in the future, but that ship sailed when Brawl revealed Zero Suit Samus.

I'm sorry for being an asshole
I used to be a very rude anon some years ago, but after Corona-chan I decided to change because I wasn't going anywhere in life acting like that.
I wish you a great year and the best to happen, I'm sorry

>>375
You are forgiven.

I sometimes like to think about a little story I will hopefully be able to properly write someday and one of the characters in it is able to freely materialize themselves anywhere at will. I've started to wonder about what would happen if something like that were to happen in the real world. Let's assume a person, maybe even something big like an anchor, would just suddenly appear out of thin air, how would that realistically affect the scene? Would there be a sound, realistically? Would people nearby experience some sort of shockwave from a mass like that just suddenly materializing in the blink of an eye, maybe even die? Maybe the sudden change in surroundings would screw with people's eardrums?
I'm not experienced with physics at all, but perhaps it's possible to come up with a theoretical answer that is likely to be accurate, according to what we know about the laws of physics so far.

Seeing pine trees grow is kinda cute, the new needles are all a bit lighter than the old ones.