/late/ - Late Nights

Isn't it easier to just kick 'em out? I mean, BO's gonna have to moderate this cancer, and it usually spreads despite quarantines. If someone wants to do the /r9k/ thing there are already dedicated boards.

>>3657
>What cancer?
E.g. >>3657

>>3652
While we are on the subject of meta topics, I'd like to ask the BO why my thread on home medicine/apothecary was deleted. Did it break a rule? It can't really be off-topic since /late/ has many hobby threads. Just curious. Maybe I failed to meet some sort of culture test. I have been across many image boards so there may have been some etiquette I missed.

>>3646 (OP) 
>nor kvetcher berks gayly shitting
I'm pretty sure half of these aren't even real words

>>3649 (OP) 
correcting: clearly has no empathy for anyone*

because you will is weak. mediate, gather your strength and move on. otherwise you will suffer their abuse forever.

>>3659
it is very weak, unfortunately. it's something I'm trying to change, after all those years it's hard but I can't stay another year doing this.

>>3661
i'm sure you will succeed

>>3581
Feels like the vast majority, only through anonymous or pseudononymous proxies (not just the Internet; it's how the founding fathers recruited unseen and untracked) can they be open with who they are. That and some of us are just well-better practiced at writing instead of face-to-face. But it's hard, and very rewarding, to achieve closer and closer towards verbal mastery. If only to put someone in their place as needed.

>>3582
>(not just the Internet; it's how the founding fathers recruited unseen and untracked)
Wow, that's interesting. Never learned that in school. Can you elaborate on that please?

>But it's hard, and very rewarding, to achieve closer and closer towards verbal mastery. If only to put someone in their place as needed.
Even if you speak professionally, that doesn't guarantee you'll do well in social settings, AFAICT.

>>3583
>Can you elaborate on that please?
Before the revolution, the men who would become the founding fathers passed around pamphlets in taverns, inns, town square, and public forums (back when a forum meant "a big wooden board [like an image board!] any passersby could nail papers or drawings or paintings to that anyone was free to check out") across all the original colonies, explaining why we should secede from the British Crown and declare independence. These pamphlets were fully anonymous: no signatures, nothing.

>Even if you speak professionally, that doesn't guarantee you'll do well in social settings, AFAICT.
If you suck at something, keep doing that thing until you no longer suck. Even my clinically-diagnosed social retard ass has self-learned and self-trained himself into being the light of the party if I want to. Most the time I don't, but it's an excellent skill to have in my "grab the world by the testes and squeeze and twist until it gives me what I want" toolkit. Shy kids don't get the candy, nice guys don't get laid.

>>3353 (OP) 
I have the opposite the problem, it's so hard to make irl friends lol

Might be misinterpreting what was written here, but this is what comes to mind.
>>3411
>genuineness and fakery are mutually exclusive
I tend towards this view and might be considered the sort who wears their heart on their sleeve. Having said that, there is also that notion of the three hearts. One in the mouth for the world, one in the chest revealed only to close family and friends, and then the hidden heart that it might be best to never reveal.
>>3357
>Years on image boards change you
When communicating online an anon might wear their heart on their sleeve and encounter like minds who do likewise, but in real life that can be a recipe for disaster as far as socializing is concerned. The skill of benign self censorship in relation to social context can either degrade or be abandoned altogether after having spent years in spaces where that is not so much of an issue

It hurts like a bitch

Yeah, it does.

>>3099 (OP) 
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>>3179
my condolences anons. I find that having another cat helps with grieving and moving on. Just don't think of the new one as replacement, but a new member of the family.

>>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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Mind of a Thief

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>>3629
Lol.
IN MINECRAFT, OFC

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Dark vistas for night walk potential.

>>3613
You're #4 was taken unmodified during a fire breakout in CA, what maybe 3 years ago now?

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>>3614
But 2019 was an eyeblink away...

>>3619
I recognize some images I've shared in the past :)

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>>3028
just one day to go...
just have to get... through today...

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>>1602 (OP) 
I have a dream of escaping web3 and big tech, and modern civilization one way or another.

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I have more fun, watching others have fun, than to have fun myself. A real life gondola is me.

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>>3590
>I have more fun, watching others have fun, than to have fun myself.

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The night keeps me going. The deep dark and dead quiet is welcoming and understanding. If I could never be awake when the sun's up and still be somewhat compatible with the outside world like doctor visits and grocery shopping I would.

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>>3571
Invitation to be mindful of what you wish for, especially wishing in the first place.

>>3572
Intredasting. Sauce?

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>>3575
It's part of a larger Alan Watts lecture, on the spiritual archetype (not just Jungian) of the joker, the sly man, the holy fool. The full one is a two-hour monologue. I think he called that lecture Mind Over Mind.

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Busy with three doc visits: early morning physical therapy, late morning ultrasound on my liver, afternoon therapist.

But since about 9pm last night (just past 6am now, dawn's rays are beginning to creep up the dark royal blue sky) been back to digital legos survivalcraft for the first time in almost a month. It was time for that every-other-month two-week phase. Trying a new one of those Origins mods (where you can play a sort of pseudo-class/race). First tried a Wailing One because Halloween, but it kept crashing every time I generated a new world. Then tried one called Child Of Cthulhu, and was gonna roleplay some sort of swamp monster tentacle horror; it was really cool, with perma water-breathing and perma-elytra and also able to shoot self into the sky without fireworks also able to change size at-will from 1 block tall to 4 blocks tall (much more health) but with the drawback of very slow on land ... but putting on armor made it bug out with the perma-elytra so I regretfully deleted that save. Oh well, was probably too overpowered anyway. I was about to try one called the Anomaly and then role-playing a ghost, but instead picked Deranged and chose a spooky psycho looking female skin to roleplay a crazy woman. I'm having fun with that even though it's also kinda overpowered, but I'm getting my ass handed to me after choosing to disable health regen from food to balance it out. I'd edit the Deranged Origin a bit if I knew how, to balance it a bit and make it more them

>>3612
May you find complete healing soon, Anon.  :)

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http://toastytech.com/ is one of the first sites I remember visiting that are still up. I'm not sure how I found it, maybe I was googling around for different computer-related topics since I was heavily into that, but I loved the GUI gallery and IE is Evil. Also Mars War is a pretty nice Doom wad. It even got me into Firefox before the other nerds at school did.

It still sees an update roughly once or twice a year, but it's usually just a small addition to IE is Evil's rant page. Part of me hoped that he'd keep the GUI gallery up to date with different X11 WMs and Wayland compositors, but I guess he's busy with life these days. Or just tired of maintaining a decades-old personal site, in an era when personal sites barely exist outside of teenagers making stereotypical gif-laden "old web" pages on Neocities.

Pic used to be what the rant page looked like back in the early-mid 00s. He's since toned it down, but he's kept the yellow text and Doom texture background to make it hard to read on purpose.

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>>3174
>Thanks for all the information, tho.
You're very welcome, Mate! What kind of turned things around for me personally was just this realization:
Be the future you want to see!

Everything else pretty much flowed out of that one personal determination. Good luck with your search.

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take me back

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>>3033 (OP) 
Gopher, BBS, Usenet, IRC. You could even keep them behind dorknet/derpweeb.

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90's to late 00's IRC quote database backup: https://bash-org-archive.com/?browse

Another 90's to late 00's IRC quote database: https://qdb.us/random

This site shares text files like they did in the Internet circa 80's and 90's: http://textfiles.com/directory.html

These three sites help capture the feel of pre-Web to Web1 and early Web2 Internet. As well as this delightful flame from '98:

https://web.archive.org/web/20001110014700/http://deeplight.net/editorials/redpaw/welcome.shtml

>4chan /b/ level greentexting
no, it's not okay. sorry didn't read beyond the first line because it's likely not worth it anyway. learn to write like a human being.

I dunno, for your sake, and I like you because you're one of us - consider the endgame too. There is none! You'll be a stepping stone as she moves on to other things.

>>3467 is right. You might just ruin her. If she cheats on him, she'll cheat on you.

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>>3463 (OP) 
There are billions of Girl.jpg so don't chase, replace. Never seek salvation from another human, solitude is healing.