>>297
I'm not an internet nihilist. I recognize nihilism as a fundamental problem. Other people are nihilists. When I go outside and watch the normals at the mall, that's nihilism. When I see people taking selfies and uploading it to some shit site, that's nihilism. Advertising is 100% nihilism. Wherever I look I see shades of nihilism.

>>296
The second part of "dealing with something and succeeding" is "at what cost". If you ignore all aesthetic and moral transgressions then yes there is nothing wrong with coping.

>>302
To add, it looks a bit silly when you're pointing fingers at normals while engaging in the exact same debauchery as them.

Babes, I like keep seeing people on the street at odd hours.
I don't know if you remember me telling you about the guy on the bike, early hours? I know who it is now, spoke to him. Confirmed it in his action, spotted again today and 'trapped' his second bypass. Let him know I was there, minor distraction but didn't hide.

I donno if I should go to his pub to tell him I enjoy the game.

I ain't seen that other 2am carpark twat for a while now, not since I found his home - You musta hear'd that one?
Wondering if I should skip a town for a night, see what's happening elsewhere.

>>302
"To mature is to learn how to cope." Immaturity manifests itself as anti-social behavior whereas one aspect of maturity is prosociality. By saying "learning how to cope" I mean learning how to cope in individually healthy and socially non-transgressive ways, or transgressive ways that lead to development and not aimless destruction. There is nothing wrong with coping. You're stretching your common sense thin and grasping at air to make a non-argument here. I explicitly call out bad ways of "coping", such as excuses and evasiveness, which fail to address the difficulty successfully, they fail to address it at all, they sideline it and postpone dealing with it--coping with it. If you have to learn how to do something you aren't doing it well and if you aren't coping well then are you coping at all? Calling out such behavior and moral disengagement is the opposite of demoralization and infantilizing. I want people to take moral responsibility and learn how to cope. My issue is with the term cope being co-opted to mean and to be associated exclusively with this kind of non-coping or maladaptive coping mechanisms and used as a thought-terminating cliche and zinger against people you simply don't like whether they exhibit these behaviors or not. What happens is it ends up potentially discouraging people en masse from actually developing coping mechanisms and growing or people getting dismissed and ridiculed for displaying even the slightest inkling of maturation. I am appalled by impoverished discourse like that. It's a major factor why the web is increasingly less and less comfy.

i just like anime and stuff

>>306
As do I... nyaa~~ >^.^<

Just please, does anyone wanna talk about 90s and 2000s horror movies? Preferably Indie and low budget productions, early found footage experiments, and "torture porn." What about PS2 horror, like fatal frame or Siren? I need someone and something to talk about to escape this inner pain I'm going through right now. I feel so much despair its unreal.

>>308
I don't know if this'll help but maybe it's something.

Silent Hill 4 is the best of the SH quadrology because it actually depends on being a game to work as a game, the other SHs could've been told equally well or better as films or comics but to transport the player into Henry's head requires interactivity. The boringness of the game makes you want to go look out the window, peek through the hole in the wall, all voluntarily and slowly you come to embody Henry's isolation as the player. And the safe apartment becoming a haunted and hostile place over time is not the horror; the horror is that it is still the safe place, the only safe place and you have learned to love it and you don't even think about the door with the chains anymore. The only escape is delving deeper into your own isolated imagination only to resurface to a worse reflection of it in the real world. Good night.

This is a question to the neets and hikkis of this board (I'm neither of those things). Is being a hikki slash neet getting less fun as of recent?

>>309
I could never finish SH4 because the first person segments gave me awful awful motion sickness and I couldn't play it for more than a couple minutes. I don't think the other SH games could have worked in any other medium, because the major source of the disturbing atmosphere is caused by the gameplay.

>>310
Yeah, the internet is just hellish. Where else do you spend time? I thought it was bad in 2021 but its just so much worse now. I hate being online today just as much as I hated irl 20+ years ago. The nihilistic cancer of the internet infests and destroys everything so even if I run to irl, I can't stop seeing internet brained post-humans everywhere. Hikki/NEET sucks so much because there's no place to escape to.

>>311
Huh, that so... I've always found the gameplay to be either a snoozefest or unintentionally funny which kind of defuses the disturbing atmosphere. But I do have a few loose screws.

>>312
SH's atmosphere comes from the space you are exploring. You can't do that with a movie or a comic because there's no map to move around. That's where all the atmosphere is. You're exploring an environment, finding people's notes or clues, and soaking up the visuals while having to fend off enemies and find supplies. SH2's gameplay is pretty lackluster because of the absence of difficulty.

>>305

aimless destruction

Destruction is destruction with an aim or not. Being knowingly dishonest with yourself for your own benefit is probably one of the worst things you can do in life. The only question like it always is, do you value truth or your own comfort more? No need to put on grandiose displays or explain yourself out of it, it's as simple as a concept gets, which usually means it's not COPING (!) in terms of stating itself.

coping well

No such thing. You either tell the truth or tell a lie. Simple. You created an elaborate web of copes to back the copes. And it still eludes you and there is no escape until you see the recursion to nothing for what it is.

zinger

The real zinger is when people observe something happening in reality and go out of their way to spin it into something it's absolutely not. How do they live with themselves pretending to be stupid, just so they can spare themselves some bad feefees? The world is extremely sad and it's hard to survive, but that doesn't mean coping is the answer. Because it just looks bad and insults intelligence. And it's also probably the reason normies seem legitimately batshit insane, because they all love coping and you don't know what is ever going on in their heads, because it's all fantasy made up by their feel good whims. Don't cope! Fight to the bitter end and become worthy of true respect, even if you have to suffer forever.

comfy

Lolol!

>>310
less comfy for me lately because my family has been falling apart due to addiction and mental illness and nobody seems to be aware of it except for me...my mom is becoming addicted to xanax and my brothers are basically not in our lives at all...my dad is so low empathy that it doesnt even matter if he's here or not...so lately i have just been helping out around the house and trying to be present for my mom while remaining comfy and low stress...trying to find a job has also been hell on earth but hey...at least i have counter strike and denpachan i guess

would anyone be interested in a denpa chan element chatroom

>>310
Not really. I've been one for 7+ years now and despite my personal issues I feel like I've barely begun exhausting all that this lifestyle has to offer. I am speaking from quite a privileged position though. There are small pockets of sanity on the web and if I grow weary of the world I can always just go into the woods or retreat into my own mind and come back refreshed. Recede in te ipsum, quantum potes.

>>316
I would be

>>318
Why element and not xmpp?

element? you mean matrix?

also i think irc channel would be more fitting for a "real-time denpa-chan chat-room"

>>321
perhaps....

It would be slightly ouroboric though. n0 creates textboard to replace his chatroom. Members of said textboard create chatroom to use in lieu of textboard...

In my experience, when small imageboard communities create a discord or irc, the site starts to die because people just talk there instead of posting. It also always ends in "drama". I for one am against the idea.

yeah i don't really think it's needed or should be done tbh

why doesn't denpa have an IRC?

>>326
make one

>>327
Seconding this. The idea that it would kill the board is stupid

>>327
What's stupid about that idea? As >>324 mentioned - the irc would inevitably siphon some posts that would be made here and would likely decrease overall activity.
We could disagree about if this would lead to the board's death (where do you even draw that line?), but it seems pretty obvious to me that this would reduce the overall level of activity.

Maybe you weren't here but this was tried (with discord and matrix) in the early days of the board. Somehow it seemed to make more sense then because n0 had shutdown his discord server and this site was to be its replacement, which ultimately led some to want to reclaim a type of live-chat group for the people who had been members of the original discord server. Ultimately this server and its matrix spinoff both fell out of use a bit more than a year ago.

In my experience, people use IRC and boards for different types of things, so it doesn’t necessarily decrease activity. There are ways of mitigating that anyway. You could shut the IRC down or have it closed for a couple hours, forcing people to post. I could see it killing the chat thread but not the rest of the site.

to be clear, i was telling 326 to make one if they want one. in the spirit of "do it your damn self" in full remembrance of the failed earlier experiments to spinoff chat rooms. I don't think it would kill the board. In the best case it would improves the board content quality, the more likely case is 3 online users at peak usage of the chat and dead in a week, with only a few shill messages to ever mark it's existance.

>>331
I mistakenly replied to you and not >328
I agree that what you've said is most likely.
The ideas >>330 suggested could also be used if an IRC did manage to take off in a way that slows activity on the site.