>>25297682
FUCK WHAT WAS MY POST! IT WAS SO FUCKING GOOD TOO! FUCK!!!

Oh yea I remember now :))

Subway? I hardly even know her! :D

File: HJA_cu9XgAASR0W.jpg (1.08 MB, 4096x4096)

1.08 MB JPG

need a short-tempered onee-san to grope for hours

It's pretty ironic that STEM people are being replaced with AI. I don't welcome it necessarily, but at the same time the cultural STEM obsession and dismissal of the humanities parallels well the degeneration of ethics and the world both inside us and around us brought on by STEM and its lack of moral compass or priorities.

>>25297976
At the end of the day anon STEM is just harder than the humanities and requires more effort to grok. That’s why it deserves more respect. (Not to diss the humanities but it’s the truth. You can BS your way through an essay, not so much through a math exam).

>>25298020
>At the end of the day anon STEM is just harder than the humanities
True overall, but there's less people that can write a good book or poem than can solve complex equations

>>25298020
it just seems harder if u didn't have a good math foundation in high school or earlier. sometimes u see kids who are like 15 or 16 do an electrical engineering or computer science degree, but you' never see a 15 year old do a literature or philosophy or even history degree.

When I was in middle school I used to come home on cold winter days and lie in my bed listening to Grouper while the wind howled outside. I had few friends and spent quite a lot of time alone, engaged in various daydreams or imagining myself into a detailed fantasy world of my own making. You could have argued that I was depressed or maladjusted, maybe successfully, but the me of that time wouldn't have seen it that way.

i think i'm going to eat a whole foods bbq chicken pizza and then watch a movie or should i play diable 2 ressurection which is currently on sale on steam?

>>25298099
>listening to Grouper
What's your favorite track? Mine's Pale Interior.

>>25298101
ham sandwich
Movie
Diablo 2 is shit
Beats cuckposting as a neet all day

>>25298143
Dragging a Dead Deer Up A Hill and The Man Who Died In His Boat are, imo, her best albums. I really like Wind and Snow, Invisible, and A Cover Over off the former and Cloud In Places, Cover The Long Way, and Vital off the latter.

>>25298099
Personally, I don’t really see the difference between day dreaming and writing. I like making up various shit in my head, things that always have some unnerving lesson that would make others squirm. Something rooted entirely in misanthropy. It feels better when the issue is resolved, the characters didn’t have to lie to themselves to get there.

When I was a kid, I’d think more about like Halo and Star Wars during class, to the point I needed adhd medication. I am no writer, but it’s an enjoyable pass time. My only reservation is I believe I am shit at it, and I’d rather go read the works of more talented individuals, appreciate them and then play around with them in my head.

I didn’t daydream by myself, I actually did have many friends back then, it is my method of dealing with monatony. Which I feel has been taken from me later in life.

>>25298166
90% of Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill is in my sleep playlist lol. I love that woman's voice.

>>25297976
The AI slaughter comes for everybody, the end goal of corporatism is cutting costs and a genius realized that they can reclaim the salaries of their employees by automating everything possible. This will include anyone whose job it is to actually do something. Such as crunch numbers, write a book, lecture people online or pick up heavy things. The things that won’t go away are project managers. Even my job has become nothing more than providing oversight and fighting with bureaucrats.
Pilots? The strongest unions, insane pay. Is flying just tha hard? Or is it because it’s an insanely arduous bureaucratic nightmare to be licensed to fly a plane and meet all the requirements, to the extent we barely train any pilots at all?
Noches, forced niches. Everyone else will be put into the VR pod.

>>25298192
What happens when everyone below the manager level is automated out of a job, to the point that there aren't enough people with jobs to actually participate in the economy?

>>25298192
ppl are getting laid off to cover the insane ai investments that have no chance of paying for themselves, and moreover, most of the staffing levels at big tech are above their 2020 levels when they went on a bizarre overhiring spree for the ages.

Regarding AI, its just not fun to compete anymore because the thrilling spark of creation and discovery has been paved over by automation. Best we can be is John Henry and even he died just to make a point

>>25298206
UBI, personally I’ve always thought of jobs as nothing more than UBI to begin with. Most people don’t do anything of value in the economy other than push a wheel. I imagine things will actually have to get bad enough for the economy to collapse to make a change rather than any continual, incremental increase on general human suffering for such a policy to be considered.

I feel as if this relationship is born out of mutual hatred, and enjoyment out of legitimately vengeful blows and that’s why I am so addicted to it.

>>25298206
Free drugs, alcohol, and entertainment like Rome did.
>>25298241
Nah, they'll give out food, entertainment, and cheap drugs because that's way cheaper than handing out money. They don't really care about your wellbeing, just that your distracted and saited enough to not misbehave. The moment most people become useless to an economy, their vote also become useless, so its no longer about good optics to help people when you can just throw them KFC, porn, and some government subsided weed or alcohol and keep them complacent that way.

it's only 9pm but i might go to bed i am fucking tired af this week man by go to bed i mean lay face down in bed listening to an audiobook

I'm going to rape your butthole tonight. If you're the guy in the jeans and black jacket standing there out of the rain under that awning in front of that shop by the alley

>>25298307
straightest /wyt/ poster

>>25298293
You really don’t need that many people to keep an economy afloat. The top 20% already drives 63% of consumer spending. Peter Thielites already joke about shoving all the people left behind in VR pods until their entire lives, and we only take them out when there is a world war or something retarded. I actually don’t see the next 100 years panning out into anything other than oligarchical ownership of everything in the real world that looks like some cyberpunk dystopia on meth and steroids or gay space communism and the former is currently winning and with most entertainment we have our feet in there already.

The rain started at exactly 2:13 a.m.

Not a storm. Not thunder. Just rain—steady and silver, falling so softly it sounded like someone whispering against the windows of the old train station.

Elias sat alone on the platform bench, coat buttoned to his throat, a suitcase resting beside him. The station clock had been broken for years, frozen at 11:48, but he always checked it anyway. Habit was a difficult thing to bury.

The last train was late.

Or maybe it wasn’t coming at all.

Across the tracks, the vending machine flickered weakly, bathing the empty station in blue light. Somewhere deeper in the building, pipes groaned like tired animals

getting really bad coke withdrawals. my head is killing me.

>>25298318
Titled: the Night of My Buttraping

>>25298020
This, although standards have collapsed in STEM education so BSing a math class is easier than you'd think. It's still fundamentally more difficult regardless.

>>25297976
STEM work is mostly not being replaced by AI. It'll probably happen soonish but "email jobs" will go first. AI is mostly an excuse to cut fat (overdue since 2014). Most of the stuff my friends and I do in software development still can't be automated, although it certainly speeds things up (those of us who say it isn't are without exception aggressively mediocre people crippled by cognitive dissonance).

The only sector that seems relatively secure at this point is high end service work where you're basically a performer, or both complex and physically demanding blue collar work. But ultimately: Who knows.

>>25298241
If everyone is given money through UBI, won't that deflate the value of currency through inflation and make UBI almost useless?
The problem is that we have finite resources, like housing. If you give all youth 50k to buy their first home, this won't magically make housing affordable for them. It will just drive up the cost of housing, since said youth are bidding against each other for a finite resource.

>>25298332
Did giving 60% of the population money for working 9-5 destroy the world?

>>25298331
>The only sector that seems relatively secure at this point
Basically stuff stuff like
Waiter: people are still going to want restaurants were they get classic table service with a human (unless androids get so good they look human)

I like the robot restaurant I went to but I'm still going what human waiter restaurants around to support

>>25298340
damn dude u are fucking dumb.

Gotta couple friends coming over tonight to help me write The Buttraping Saga

>>25298352
Are you the main character?

this board is legit dead it's kinda sad it reminds me of going on slashdot after it died yeah there are still posts but not much and nothing good

>>25298353
Yeah I'm hosting so I call the shits. Plus I'm the best at the raw dog ass poundings. But there's hot scenes for you butt fucking me etc. Feel free to pitch your ideas

maybe i will install overwatch or something

>>25298363
There are 5000 on /TV/ right now

Surely, you can’t be THAT sensitive?

>>25298266
Which relationship?

>https://x.com/Badhombre/status/2058341145357263249
is this for real lmao

Write a plot based on this:

https://youtube.com/shorts/GDnZoChf-CY

>>25298375
According to Grok: Yes, that's Julie Tsirkin from NBC; the gunman was Nasire Best (21-year-old man) a mentally ill man who has a history with law enforcement and Secret Service, tried to unlawfully enter near the White House in July 2025; 1 bystander wounded, Best died from his injuries in the hospital.

>>25298398
>tried to unlawfully enter
oh interesting, did he do any other unlawful stuff?

>>25298401
Yes.

Now for round two of the Buttfucking Bonanza

>>25298367
Surely you can’t be THAT callous and dismissive?

>>25298468
What am I doing that is upsetting you.

Just got catcalled by some girls driving by. Definitely the self-esteem boost I needed today :3

Three rum and cokes, one beer, and now I'm cracking open the scotch

>>25298473
Accusing me of being sensitive.

Stupid little shirtless retards on bikes riding back and forth, around and around roads with cars coming down the street. I leaned out the window and yelled "GET OUT OF THE ROAD, YOU'RE GONNA GET YOURSELF KILLED, YOU STUPID LITTLE BASTARD!"

He screeched something unintelligible in a high-pitched, shrill voice. I don't really know what possessed me to even yell like that. Guess I'm just tired of retarded, dumb little bastards doing stupid shit. Wouldn't be surprised if that kid had never been yelled at in his entire life up to that point, but I doubt it.

I find myself wondering if I ruined his day or "traumatized" him in some fashion, I suppose I don't really care. This comes after trying really hard to mind my thoughts and words lately, shit, oh well.

File: 1704592786018360.jpg (38 KB, 900x506)

38 KB JPG

I wrote/edited from 6 PM to 3 AM the other night

perhaps I knew her long ago
I wrote her poems at nine years old
but then I did become a man
I let her slip right through my hands
I practiced all my wit and charm
had many girls on every arm
I learned the depths of love and hate
but never did learn how to wait

>>25298526
bikes are based, down with cars, old man

>>25298543
>t.soon to be road-skinned idiot boy

File: akemi nakajima.png (171 KB, 360x360)

171 KB PNG

I know that there's no real love behind any of their words, I've seen them end year long relationships in an instant, their love confessions do not mean anything to me. They think I'm friends with them, but I'm really not. I only do things with them because they're the best thing available and life by my own is terribly dull. As soon as I'm out of here, I'm never looking back.

>>25298520
That's kinda my problem too desu

>>25298340
Fucking retard

>>25298332
The most optimistic theory is automation will be extremely deflationary so UBI could be calibrated to balance it out and keep us on the ~2% inflation road

>>25298552
I’m operating under the impression that 80% of the jobs could be cut and jobs are already a defacto UBI forwarded from redistribution of wealth rather than your idea of covid tummies. But I’m not getting into that.

>>25298526
I bike on sidewalks specifically because of how much people riding bikes in the road piss me off. When on occasion, a pedestrian shrieks at me with his gay little faggot voice tha I should be on the road despite verging completely off the sidewalk 7-10 entire feet from them I have to use a considerable amount of restraint to not tell them to kill themselves. Bike lanes are fine too.

When black customers behave a certain way at work and I get to watch all my coworkers become slightly more racist in real time

I think I caught some sort of brain virus
I like BL! I wish boys were as cute in real life as they are in 2D! I have apparently become the sort of person with tastes that overlap with 16 year old girls on tumblr circa 2010 and creepy fujoshi with bags under their eyes
This all happened to me over the course of like a year and beforehand I thought all of this stuff was gross. I don't know how it occurred

>>25298576
1) disgusting
2)
> I don't know how it occurred
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_conditioning

>>25298562
Yeah that's basically correct, and the ongoing layoffs in IT are that system being (partially) demolished. I hope we just get explicit UBI as a replacement and not some kind of bizarre Kafkaesque fake job nepotism sinecure bullshit where if you get cancelled on twitter you starve to death.

God I fucking hate women (especially the one reading this)

>>25298569
People in the restaurant industry know this to be true.

This zoomer girl I'm sleeping with goes "hey check out this TikTok" and I sez "what, am I stupid?" so we get into an argument

I am just a copy of a copy of a copy
everything I say has come before

>>25298666
Kill yourself. Nine Inch Nails is an awful band.

Frankly I just wanna see her happy

>>25298673
well I like 'em buddy

>>25298673
This
>>25298676
But also this

>>25298675
Then make it happen

>>25298316
We all make choices you either ride it out in society and win the rat race or you work your ass off and retire early to a piece of land in the middle of nowhere and start doing survivalist shit.

4chan is really the best form of social media
>captcha to prevent bots
>generous character limit, not something ridiculous like Twitter
>no 'for you' ragebait algorithm
>have to wait to post sometimes, filtering out low quality spammers
>generally free and open culture, not modded to death like fascist reddit
>pretty active userbase

The only issue is there are a lot of idiots and super mean people but it's the best thing I've found so far.

>>25298721
Yeah I've started posting here again (and on /lit/ for the first time/ after a couple years away. Everywhere else is worse.

>>25298266
>"If the foundation of marriage depends on equality and agreement, it is likewise true that the greatest passions rise out of opposites. We are such opposites, almost enemies. That is why my love is part hate, part fear. In such a relation only one can be hammer and the other anvil."
-Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Venus in Furs

Women really do love compliments. Someone tricked me into thinking they didn't.

Looking on 4stats I was baffled why /lit/ permanently lost half its activity over the course of October 2024 and figured the only explanation could be that some highly-active general got banned, I checked warosu and sure enough that's exactly what happened with WWOYM
I can see why they did it, they threads have fuck all nothing to do with the board. Someone was asking about car insurance last thread

playing gta 5
love this game

>>25298752
It's basically a Misc. Creative Writing thread. For a board dripping with so much creative energy, where the primary interest causes us to have thoughts on literally anything and everything, occupied with a userbase where many people want to write for a living, it's easy to see why these threads are so popular.

gonna read scarlet letter to see what women are about

Every time I invest my resources (time, effort, money, affection etc.) into my hobbies I feel happy and rewarded. But I feel compelled to do it with people as well, because I keep thinking I'm supposed to, and every time, every single time I end up feeling like those resources were wasted.
I don't even understand why I keep trying to connect when I'm perfectly fine on my own. I don't feel lonely and whenever I have a conversation with others I am bored with what they do and what they say, or I simply don't give a shit. I keep talking out of affectation and I hate this public persona, and I assume I'm not good at hiding it either so I don't even end up being good company and I assume I bore others in return. I haven't felt any emotions toward anyone in ages. With anything else, I would've stopped bothering ages ago, but I keep doing this, rinse and repeat.
This animal compulsion to be social has wasted so much of my time and energies which I could've dedicated to my autistic hobbies.
For a long time I thought I kept posting on 4chan exclusively because I didn't want to expose myself and needed the anonymity to feel safe, but the true motive is that on 4chan I can avoid getting personal with anyone. It's just a sandbox where I get funny replies. I stopped giving a shit about that too since I assume most of it is bots and when it doesn't read like a bot it reads like a low functioning retard.
Whenever I make an account somewhere I wanna nuke it so bad. I'll probably nuke my shit soon. What a waste of fucking time.

>>25298846
I can't believe I'm actually suggesting this, but have you considered utilizing some form of an AI chatbot? Solely for the purpose of satisfying the "animal compulsion to be social". Think of it as masturbation, but for the social drive.

some lady on an astrology channel said Pisces sun, moon, and risings would come into good luck, they would get money, head wounds would heal, and old lovers from the past would come back into our lives.


sometimes i wish astrology were real

>>25298866
You're in luck, anon, because when Zeta Reticuli and Jupiter are in alignment, like they are right now, astrology becomes real. It only lasts a period of three years though.

>>25298848
Talking to actual AI would be interesting but only a complete fucking mongoloid would have a conversation with ChatGPT

>>25298883
Hey, I wouldn't ever do it, but just sayin', it satisfies your competing interests of desiring to socialize but wanting to avoid actual people.

>>25298884
It's not that I want to avoid people. I just think the investment isn't worth it. Chatting with jeetbots wouldn't change that. It's just feeding you aggregate vomit from reddi

>>25298884
Actually I don't even have a desire to socialize. I think I just do it because I'm conditioned to think I've gotta socialize, I never enjoy being in the company of others and I hate small talk. I don't even know why I do it, I don't know how to cancel the conditioning

damn i forgot what other book i was gonna order from princeton it was about finance i think damn i forgot

it's wild how 4chan traffic has been like cut in half in the last year /pol/ is almost down to pre-2016 levels and /lit/ is at all time low, the only problem is slow /lit/ is now mostly genre fic and resentful politics

>>25298721
except it’s not social media

jeff mills at the liquid room

>>25298848
Tantamount to advising a fleshlight instead of marriage to a woman

god is an american

>>25298960
holy based when u put it like that

>>25298961
If that’s true that isn’t God

I want to go outside and get some snacks and candy but the sun is out and I just know its going to be unbearable relative to my nice comfy room
My life is literally the epitome of suffering

>>25298964
bruh i feel u tho cuz like it's about 55 and rainy and my apartment is all dusty cuz some contractor is working on some shit but dragging it out memorial day weekend ruined can't even go for a walk buy an energy drink and listen to an audiobook while i wander around

I spent a few minutes trying to find an Irish news article about a man who kidnapped and detained some 11 year old troublemaker. Turned out it was the wrong kid. He put him in the back of a van right infront of the boys friends. If I find it I’ll link it, some post up thread made me think of it, might be worth reading for creative ideas.

>>25298966
fr fr i dig

nothing more of a bummer than that peww pewpew sound signaling u need to charge ur airpods max they actually have hd audio of usb-c so it's not like u have to stop listening or anything its just i have a like 1 meter usb-c cable so i can't like like really slouch back in my chair the way i would prefer while they are plugged in maybe i will buy a 2 meter usb-c cable some day i probably should i'm so fucking cheap i doo have disposable income but i'd rather hoard it and buy stocks

i might go back to bed but i want to take a shit early in case the contractors come back to do more work today

Americans tend to imitate southern US accents only when they want to mock rednecks and religious people, but as a euro I think it's definitely one of the most charming dialects of American English.

>>25298981
ya but black american aave is basically southern dialect with more slang, so online if someone says "ya'll" u don't know to read it like a "howdy yall" or a "yall mothafuckas" know what i mean

I'm afraid of americans
I'm afraid of the world

>>25298968
https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2026/05/01/property-developer-jailed-for-truly-shocking-assaults-on-three-teenage-boys/

>>25298995
https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0501/1571346-businessman-jailed-for-imprisoning-assaulting-three-boys/
This is better

>>25298526
>>25298567
>GET OUT OF THE ROAD, STUPID
>I bike on sidewalks specifically because of how much people riding bikes in the road piss me off.

City Bans:
>Most large cities prohibit adults from riding bicycles on the sidewalks

I'm a bicycle rider that tries to stick to the sidewalks unless I'm on the back streets with no traffic

I never knew bicycles were banned from sidewalks until I moved to the city and all my friends told me that

But I'm looking up the laws of the suburb I lived before and it's illegal to ride bicycles on the sidewalk there too. It says bicycles are vehicles like cars and must use the streets like cars

Granted if there is a bike lane you use that but it's rare to see a bike lane around here

>>25299006
with regard to bikes on sidewalks, have u noticed wealthy gentrifiers will well at you for riding on the sidewalk in your own neighborhood, but no one says a peep about about some african dude on an ebike blasting down the sidewalk with a giant uber eats box on his back? i believe that's referred to as bias.

>>25299008
That would make good sense in my last neighborhood. That was the all white suburbs so a black person stuck out like a sore thumb other than behind the counter at fast food places like Burger King and Taco Bell

Lived in that neighborhood 10 years, always on my porch, and no blacks lived there. But 2-3 times in those 10 years I saw a blacks go through on a bike. None were causing any problems like your boom box example. But if they were, why yell at them when you know they are just passing through? You want them to pass through as fast as possible and yelling at them is just distracting them from doing that. Now the white kids that live there, those are your actual neighbors that live there. So the "double standard" is neighbors that live there (common to see) vs foreigners just passing through (rare to see)

Here in the city, is where the blacks live. They have an all black neighborhood that starts just a few blocks from me and my neighborhood is mixed black and white. I was terrified when I first moved here but black people turn out to be a lot more white than they are made out to be
They go by on bikes all the time plus all kind of motorized kick-scooters, motorized bikes, motorized skateboards etc. None do anything non-white. The few with boom boxes I actually liked as it's nice having music and they all did it at a white person level of volume (not blaring) and it was music within the acceptable range of white people music

This is because Americans call it a sidewalk not a footpath.

>>25299008
>Uber eats guy on the sidewalk going a speed one would describe as "blasting"
Oh I'm half asleep getting my coffee on
With that example, I'm the only person I know of that took a bicycle down the sidewalk at incredible fast speeds (30+ mph), but I only do it when nobody is around. If pedestrians are around I slow down to 2-3 mph (same speed as walking, where I can put my foot down and on the ground and stop at any second) or leave the sidewalk and go through the grass far away from the pedestrians I'm passing by

In the suburbs, we had no Uber eats that was using anything but cars.
This is the suburbs, big lots, even the back streets are big wide roads, everything is spread out / not a good walkability place, but great for cars

So you never saw Uber eats do anything but cars. As for the motorized bikes, boards, scooters, etc, you didn't see those much but if you did they were always in the street. They were never on the sidewalk. In the city, you see them all the time, but same thing, you never see them on the sidewalk, only in the streets

So your example is foreign to me. I ride an old-school, regular pedal bicycle, lot of people here in the city do. They also stay on the streets because that's the law. Bicycles must use the street and stay off the sidewalk. I'm the only one I've seen breaking the law and using the sidewalks, but I only do that on the main streets. Its illegal though.

Now on the edge of the metro area where it turns to nature, there is a wide walking path there going along the nature, it's like a park. No line on the path separating bikes from pedestrians. I've walked that a lot and it's scary how fast bikes go by you at 35mph out of nowhere, going a few inches from you without slowing down (if you're lucky they might yell out to alert you they are coming up on your back fast). So I get why the law is bikes must stay on the street only and why bikes are prohibited from using the sidewalks

The other big parks with walking / jogging paths I got to a lot...both are about two miles long. One bans everything except pedestrians. The other painted a bike lane for bikes to stay to one side and you have to be careful not to cross that line when walking the path because those bikes are zipping by at 35mph out of nowhere regularly

File: meirl.jpg (176 KB, 1920x804)

176 KB JPG

Wow this foray into bicycling was so cool! :=)

this might be an okay thread if people really wrote their thoughts. don’t you ever have random deep thoughts about pets or old people or the weather? or a clever idea for a restaurant?

>>25299139
>ever have random deep thoughts about pets
I had a cat I thought of as a zen Buddhist master, I remember telling loved ones that when they visited

>>25299139
>random deep thoughts about old people
One I had since at least high school is that we are are all going to get old and ugly. That's is where our path is headed. Your whole journey in life is taking you to where you are old and ugly. Everyone 60 on down of any race is going to be superior to you. That's your destination in life. You are headed to the bottom of the barrell

so if you want to be happy when you're holding hands with your ugly old wife on the porch swing as grandma and grandma, you have better marry someone with that last third of half life in mind because she is going to be hideous, especially with no clothes on

We all are

>>25299152
yeah but that’s a bit reddit/cringe. i mean like, do you ever look at small dogs and have sad feelings about how the noble wolf was bastardised into such a pathetic animal. the dogs themself must feel it deep inside.

File: B1pppR4gVKL._CLa_2140,200(...).jpg (119 KB, 984x1000)

119 KB JPG

>>25299134
Should of spent that time gooning and playing video games than biking I guess, if he did he would have known he would feel this way near the end because I'm a bad ass nerd that lived millions of different lives and died thousands of times... I guess you can do that by reading too but its less immersive and a lot of the lessons you learn kinda can just wash over you and you forget about it.
>also /lit/ thread
>reading a subtitled video of a manga
what kind of fucked up meta is this?

>>25299163
a fact of life: everything will definitely end badly.

File: B1pppR4gVKL._CLa_2140,200(...).png (494 KB, 984x1000)

494 KB PNG

>>25299168
Today I learned that .jpg/.jpeg does not save transparency on export but .png does.

>>25299139
Most of my thoughts would get my good boy points and nuggies taken away

>>25299172
just today you learned that?

racism is a mental disorder

>>25299177
Yeah, or I relearned it, I'm old and forgetful.

File: Bengal-colors-and-patterns.jpg (479 KB, 1920x1080)

479 KB JPG

>>25299164
>small dogs and have sad feelings about how the noble wolf
I'm a 3rdgen cat guy from my paternal line (dad, granddad). Tiger is my favorite animal. Some would prefer to be the housecat. To do that you start mooching off the human settlements (like how rightwing people say blacks do) and you end up evolving into a housecat. Now the tiger, they look at that as "devolving" which is why they are still tigers. You always have free will

There are the wild cat/domestic cat hybrids they started in the 70s, I almost paid $200 for one of those last time I picked out a cat. I never thought about the ethics of breeding then beyond how my brother is concerned they still have too much wild to them well beyond that if a normal housecat

File: comp.png (2.96 MB, 3794x1080)

2.96 MB PNG

is posting in a thread and then no one posts further and the thread dies the online equivalent of saying something in a group setting and everyone falls silent and looks at the ground?

subnautica is such a cool game

>>25299242
1st one is good
the frost planet one is DEI and lame
the 2nd one got worse DEI wise, allegedly, I don't know I honestly don't know enough about the 2nd one but when I've seen snippets of game play the characters don't impress me, the dialog doesn't impress me and is annoying, and outside of the nighttime bio-illumination of the night time shallows, the world just doesn't seem to be that interesting or believable as the first one. It just doesn't grab me.

>>25299232
the cat thing is interesting because they were domesticated way way later (and i think you see a lot of that in how they are).
but yeah to go from wolf bloodline to a small thing that needs a coat in the winter - it’s a very shabby trick nature has played on herself (or been talked into playing).

>>25299266
>the cat this is interesting
holy esl
:^)

>>25299268
Cats were domesticated accidentally, dogs were domesticated purposefully for hunting and an alarm system at night or during the day.
Wild Cats adapted by living on the outskirts of human settlements or following around nomadic tribes cause of the food scraps they left outside where they lived/camped or inside out in the open. Over time these cats evolved to be friendlier to us because at some point, the more altruistic people were probably throwing scraps to the cats, fast forward to the early agrarian era, someone noticed that cats catch mice and rats and put them in or around grain storage and the rest writes itself.
>tl;dr: dogs were trained purposefully by humans, cats were accidental.

>>25299245
yeah, you're right, I meant the first game

File: 3446780053826240694_34467(...).jpg (389 KB, 1440x1784)

389 KB JPG

If you told me when I was younger that I'd make 150K as an adult, I'd think that was all you'd need, but around here 500K houses are tiny boxes, or in bad areas. You gotta move way out to get anything good. I'm stuck in Austin because of family, so I can't just move back to the fatherland (Louisiana) for the time being. I just want to stop sharing walls, to get out of apartments. That's all I want. But I can't bring myself to get a mortgage on a 500K box just so I can stop sharing walls. I want a HOUSE. I want SPACE.

>>25299245
it seems like what happens is indie devs make a small budget hit, and then "investors" come in and offer them a pile of cash to "make the game of their dreams" or "fulfill their vision" etc. but the strings are instead of continuing to create games for their validated customer base, they have to add a bunch of dei stuff because ... they just do ok! very weird kind of investor, these video game investors. i mean everyone knows venture capitalists are a little dumb, but when it comes to games they seem more dumb than usual. i guess games are like horror movies, watch the first one, ignore all sequels.

>>25299290
i thought austin was pretty cheap & that’s why loads of comedians (and streamers) moved there.

File: we are fucked.jpg (65 KB, 1441x811)

65 KB JPG

>>25299290

>>25299290
i'm in a big east coast megalopolis. i want to live in one of those big towers downtown. u know the ones that have the brokerage site in english and chinese. that's when u know ur getting the good shit.

>>25299299
it's cheap in that there's no income tax in texas. it's not cheap with regard to cost of living.

>>25299290
What do you pay for rent now? Monthly payment on a 500k mortgage is like 3-4k right?

>muh bad area
How bad can it really be, it's fuckin Austin man

>>25299338
it's 4chan dude he's probably scared to death of anyone not white

>>25299291
Most likely because they are financing the game they set up "review committees" and meetings with "consumer consultants" (aka the DEI HR people) who then bring all this bullshit data that says "people want this" when they obviously don't and they don't bring up that there is a chilling effect where people don't want to flag that they are against it in fear of being doxxed or retribution being brought on them by them losing their job to false accusation, which poisons the data and makes it unreliable. Ultimately the people financing video games don't know anything about video games, nor do they care, they just want to make money; and the way they know how to make money is to cater to the widest audience and lowest common denominator. Which is a hilariously bad tactic because by doing that you're creating a filtering effect where they actually get less people to play, not more, then they turn around and say "Oh no one likes games with stories" or "No one wants to play single player games anymore" or "Oh the video game industry is actually super small so we need to jack up the price by 20 bucks", when the true irony is if they actually targeted their audience (you know, like they did in the 80s and 90s before it became "bigoted" to do so) and charged the 20 bucks they would have had more people buy it because the quality of the game gets out and people get interested and then try it out, which converse expands the audience.
But that's apparently "too much of a risk" for these multi-millionaires to make. Because apparently risk is only for poor people, and they act like the tax breaks you get for losing money on a cultural product doesn't exit.
>Unless they are pulling a "Producers" and making flops on purpose to get most of their money back and tax breaks on more profitable parts of their profiles, which might actually be a thing. I know they do it in movies which is why the flops keep coming. Hard to change anything when you get like 80% of your money back from a movie flop and more generous tax breaks on the parts of your profile that do generate money.
>tl;dr: video games and movies are being the works of art scams that paintings and sculptures have become.
>>25299361
Most people on 4chan aren't white, especially the "women" most of /adv/ and /soc/ aren't white and most of the white women on the site are well.... They aren't biological woman...

>>25299370
>most of the white women on the site are well.... They aren't biological woman...
non-white spotted.

>>25299382
Hello, sar!

>>25299232
>like how rightwing people say blacks do
Big difference: cats are cute and make cute sounds like nyaa while niggers are ugly and unpleasant. If cats were gone it would be a devastating loss cause everyone loves cats while niggers going extinct would make life great for everyone except dogfucking whore American women who love niggers more than anything else. Brown people are objectively inferior to cats and even dogs.

I believed in temperature all my life.

>>25299420
retard

/wyt/ : vidya and racism edition

My new thing: I pour a glass of water and leave it in the kitchen, and every time I step into the kitchen, generally to look into the fridge or peruse the shelf, I take a sip. This works to both satisfy temporary hanger pangs and make sure I get enough water throughout the day. Try it!

>>25299428
>you're allowed to have thoughts
>NOT THOSE THOUGHTS!!!!

>>25299439
Kwab

What would you do if I told you mind reading was real?

>>25299428
Since we are talking about racism I always thought it was weird that its only racist if a white person says something sus but if someone who isn't white says "murder all white people" its all of a sudden stunning and brave and everyone claps and they get a promotion.
The weird thing about white racism stuff is that its other whites policing whites, like legit someone at work who just happened to be asian brought up eating rice which lead to someone who was white asking about how to cook rice and all of a sudden it was "racist" to another white dude who got all uppity about it...
Like dude... It was just a natural flow of the conversation, I can't think of a bigger self-report that you're racist than when something like that happens.

>>25299442
I would believe you because that was exactly the question I was thinking.

>>25299442
What am I thinking right now?

>>25299442
What if I told you that we are actually all in a dream and the dreamer must awaken?

>>25299439
he might’ve been just taking a sideways glance at the fact that here we are on the literature board and precious few seem to have literary or literary-adjacent thoughts. funny, that.

I’m not pretentious or pseudo-intellectual, I just try way too hard to be original when no one asked even though I’m not even actually good with words, so everything comes out forced.

I am, of course, neither afflicted by pretension nor engaged in the performative charade of pseudo-intellectual posturing; rather, I find myself in the unfortunate condition of exerting an excessive and, frankly, unnecessary effort toward originality in contexts where no such demand has been issued. This tendency persists despite a conspicuous lack of genuine verbal dexterity on my part, resulting in outputs that frequently manifest as overwrought, self-conscious constructions—strained artifacts of expression that aspire toward eloquence but ultimately betray their own artificiality.

>>25299470
What about visual novels? I recently read The Four Agreements and I was kinda meh because it was too spiritual but I liked it by the end. It's basically really basic advice we all heard when we were young but forget because they are so simple dressed up in Mexican Indian mysticism. I actually liked it at the end but the book actually says nothing new, but it does give you a new and simple framwork to think and live your life if you need it. My friend said that a lot of Alcohol Anonymous groups print pan flits of the book and give it to attendees.

I'm pretentious but I'm vaguely intellectual, I just have ADHD so I say and do impulsive things that make me look dumb as fuck. The forgetfulness doesn't help either.

I understand gatekeepers. There's something about wanting to keep the reverence of some fairly niche thing you're into. To possess it in a sense for yourself and a worthy crowd. There's a problem of something becoming mainstream or big, and getting a huge audience that the work's simply not made for. It can result in a huge misplaced reputation not just for the work but for things adjacent, like the genre or style or repertoire of the creator. It furthermore makes discussion about a work and adjacent things gain greater affectation and trendiness. Just seeing retard takes slung around by masses about something special to you is unpleasant.

>>25299470
this is a write your thoughts general, if you want to talk books find a thread dedicated to books or create one yourself

>>25299495
I think people underestimate stories as a sense-making device because in the modern world stories are entertainment products, also with the waning of religion a lot of people are putting religious fervor in things that make them feel alive or a certain way about life and revering them as if they are sacred themselves.
Not to say they are wrong doing it, but we have stories like that, its called religion.