/late/ - Late Nights

>>2067
and how do you plan getting revenge and what did they DO to you??

>>3799
do you guys stream animes somewhere?

>>2791
definitely Indian

>>2904
Based.

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I don't really think about joy or try to feel it, because it comes and goes. If you try to force it, it just doesn't feel right. I guess I'm still going just because I'm afraid I'll miss something if I didn't keep going. Routine is a part of it too, I've got my specific routines and ways of doing things and I suppose I'm pretty comfortable with them. I don't have anything to live for, but I'm content with everything as it is for the most part.

>>3858
Everything by niketa is wonderful! Thanks for the suggestion!

>>3859
you're welcome, but who's niketa? the game is by Ferry (nopanamaman), right?

been thinking on what keeps me coming back to skyrim rather than oblivion or morrowind, and i think its to do with the compulsion to explore and how you are rewarded for exploring

in morrowind, i never feel like exploring, because there is nothing worth my time in 99% of locations, maybe a dozen drakes total and if you're lucky an ebony weapon that you can sell for a tenth its value, i feel the same about oblivion, there is simply nothing worth my time and the harsh level scaling disencourages exploration due to the sponginess of enemies at higher levels making clearing any dungeon a gigantic time sink

in skyrim, i always feel like exploring, picking a direction and walking, and taking a detour to run a dungeon, i always find something worth my time, a word of a shout, an enchanted item, or simply an item worth a lot of gold such as a staff
skyrim's soundtrack does a lot of heavy lifting to make walking the world feel good, every track is tailored to specific weather and biome, each a unique atmosphere that cant be heard elsewhere, i particually like the trail between dawnstar and windhelm and the forests north-west of falkreath, having the most beautiful music, i feel positive emotions i cannot identify while listening to them

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Stellaris game is going pretty well, elected custodian in 2286 and all but two normal empires are not either my subject or a part of my federation, huge EC deficit, -9k per month or three months with my current savings, as i'm ~4000 over naval cap increasing ship up keep by over 240%, building dyson spheres, HRAE-MCs and anchorages to try and stay afloat while also building up to concquer the Oned'Qarak Entertainment Complex for trying to hijack Prime Node Axiom to force it to grind resources and items for RMT, and to take their Matrioshka Brain for myself, mostly the second thing really and to a lesser extent to obtain dark matter technology to try and prepare for potential Sirenalia who might be spawning in the next 1-25 years

Played a couple hours of Monster Rancher 4 yesterday.  Braindead translation, bullshit mechanics.  Used a cheat to unlock the entire disc book.  Can't say I'm interested in continuing, since other than the management it's like a fighting game where your character refuses to respond most of the time.  Might watch the show, though.


FF7 apparently has a legendarily bad translation, so I've been poking at the original, and enjoying that.  In the flashback at the water tower, Cloud bloviates to Tifa about how he's going to be a great hero.  She calls his bluff and tells him to come to her rescue.  Cloud doesn't believe his own bullshit, so he's flabbergasted.

It reminds me of how Eric Cartman would tell people to suck his balls, then didn't know what to say when that one teacher says "present them."

This is not how I remember it from when I played it 25 years ago, to say the least.

This, incidentally, is the fun part of playing a Japanese game in the original language: it's the closest you can ever get to "playing it for the first time, again."

>>3837
Same.  Though I haven't broken it; I just got it running, created a stealth catman who can't seem to sneak worth a shit, and can't really fight, either.  I've been blundering around in Vivec, not really sure what to do with myself.

usually go for bottom shelf cask port, cheap as fuck and decent abv, though i've developed a taste for vanilla vodka recently, ~1/3 simple syrup & ~2/3 vanilla vodka with a couple ice cubes is what i'm drinking right now

Usually go for monster with vodka or jagermeister, vodka because I don't care much for the taste of alcohol and Jager because it does taste nice

absinthe

I drink a wide variety of things, but I like whiskey the most.  I do not ever mix anything with it with the exception of occasionally making rye Manhattans or chill it. I particularly enjoy Islay single malts, and I consistently keep either Lagavulin 16 or the standard Laphroaig on hand. When I want something less assertively flavored for drinking with meals, I switch things up. I generally like to serve Nikka Coffee Grain Whiskey or Whistlepig Pigyback Rye depending on the dish. I also like try new whiskeys occasionally, and I was last impressed by 12 year old cask strength Redbreast. 
To be fair, I drink more beer than anything else, but that's mostly just something I have with lunch or dinner, especially if I'm not at home. I like anything other than the cheap piss water lagers, but IPAs, witbiers/weissbiers, and cream ales are what I generally gravitate toward.  I also really like Arrogant Bastard Ale and Belgian quads, but those are not realy something I would generally have with food and are more of an occasional treat.

>>3936
*Nikka Coffey Grain

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>>3224
What if it just wanted to have some fun?

>>2410
Sounds like foxes making love

>>3559
I'm quite spooked.

Doesn't look real.

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I actually feel like there's some truth at the center of the prison planet hypothesis, although I'm not the type who thinks escaping is a lost cause or anything like that.

It was da jooz!

always is

meh

>>3693
>Property/Garden gun
20 gauge is absolutely viable, with the right setup.
I think .410 handguns are a bit of a meme. I love my Circuit Judge to death though, and highly recommend it. It is made by Rossi, so there isn't the same concern about Taurus quality control. If you have 800 USD lying around, highly recommend getting one.

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Maybe I should just 3D print my own firearms. It's getting to the point where our own infrastructure is sketchy.

Also, there's an unofficial firearms registry already, I don't want to make it easier for them.

>>3693
>>3694
Those .410/45 Colt handguns are all rifled for legal compliance and pattern extremely poorly with most loads as a result.  Shot cups do not function correctly when spun and you end up with random pellet flinging.  The Judge etc., are universally worse patterning than any real shotgun while also not having comparable power to decent pistol rounds. Buckshot flies better from these meme guns, but Federal 4 pellet 000 buck is only flinging 210 grains at an optimistic 850 ft/s. That's giving you about 337 lbf of energy.  That's less energy than poor quality 9x19mm ball and it's less than half the energy of a spicy .357 magnum.

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Overcompensator 2000

>>3753
Lol, aptly-named.  :D

>>3668

This was on the island of Saint Croix. 

Nah, none of them were anywhere from a place like this. We're contractors, so we travel around a bit, but I doubt any of them had seen anything like that in their lives. 

At least, not all of them.

>>3712
Check out water spouts

Working midnights made me forget that 10 pm is late for normal people. I fucking hate my job.

>>3747
What is your job, Anon? I worked midnights for nearly a year, and it about killed me. Had to give that up.

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No one is willing to do the needful of walking away from big tech and degoogling (plus deamazoning, demicrosofting...) their lives. But all other video hosts are either terrible in UI, slow as molasses, overloaded with politislop and "freeze peach" scummy scams (looking at you, gab and minds), or in most cases all three.

Maybe it's time for the ultra-rare few who do care, to go back to pre-pootube Internet of web2 and web1, and even earlier. If you can live without your let's plays, amateur true crime documentaries, lore icebergs, vtubers and other goonerbaiters of lonely losers into "donating/superchatting/tier3subbing" to thots who hate their audience, and so on.

>>3099 (OP) 
my younger cat died around may, i got them to give my first one company, it was hard to see them go, but the first one is still there and I need to be there too.

I have to take this moment to tell everyone, please anons if you have a kitty and you notice any strange change in behavior, even if it minor, even if it's kitty becoming more grumble-some, or if you notice them walking a bit funny, PLEASE take then to the vet immediately. Because when whatever manifests, it's going to be too late and it'll happen to quick for you to do anything about it.

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More passed on yitty yat photos. A tribute to my sister. She lived into her 20s in the early 2020s until a few years ago. She kept me sane at so many moments and was my best friend, miss you girl.

>>3742
Thanks for sharing these, Anon. She was a pretty kot.

>>3742
She had nice eyes.

>>3667 (OP) 
>Anon is discovering that the culture of mankind is declining
What rock have you been living under? I need it.
But to answer your question, the Enemy has done a great job of dumbing down the populace through a combination of making people too exhausted to think, and then supplying the slop they consume (because it doesn't require them to think.
It's the same reason why a guy who never works might read The Republic, while the working joe chooses to watch Family Guy.

I wasn't looking forward to fall or winter last year, and I'm definitely not looking forward to it this year. I really dislike the climate I live in.

poorfag so can't heat my house, gotta put hot water bottles in my sleeping bag to sleep

>>2501
solid advice anon

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Last year, again, I was bushcrafting much more in the winter for some reasons.
Had a period when I was going out with someone every week in the winter, sometimes doing drugs, sometimes just enjoying the detachement from the world of people hidden in their warm homes, far away from our forest

>>1102 (OP) 
Reviving the thread for the new year; I wish winter would hurry up. Right now we have that miserable late fall cold where I live. Still dead leaves everywhere, miserable grey skies, and bitter wind, but no snow, quiet mornings, or other winter fun yet. The worst of both seasons.

>>3688
I've already had snow here but it melted and now we've got a late Indian summer. Really sucks being so hot this late.