>>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.

i want a fat cock in my ass, im so alone.

IRC for these sorts of communities is pretty much just orbiting around dominant personalities until an "order" is established, after which everyone involved decides they are too cool for the unwashed Anonymous masses to ever come back. Imagine thinking you are cool for sucking off a chatroom-famous loser on the Internet. Or almost even worse, becoming the chatroom-famous loser with an army of people even more pathetic than you at your beck and call. It has to be stated in this somewhat mean-spirited way in order to prevent the bad idea from materializing.

somebody kill this >>333 massive faggot and stop him from hornyposting here

>>333
I'd provide you with my big fat cock if I could... unfortunately I cannot. You'll have to do with the idea of my penis rather than the thing-in-itself.

>>310
I've never considered it fun. I've got chronic mental illness so dealing with it most days is a challenge all its own. I try to do little things that help with it, like going to the gym and writing, but the fact that my life basically has to be low-stress or else I'll go insane is very limiting and makes me feel like I can't take advantage of everything life could offer.

what if denpa-chan had accounts and was invite only maybe we could filter out some spam and normies

Lol

Daddy wont love me :(

>>299
Babe wy you gotta <3

I'm convinced my depression is caused by satan

>>344
Just realized this generation never even hung out on forums, they started right from discord. Ain't that some shit

>>345
can confirm

I still hang out on some forums but they are mostly dead thanks to reddit

as of today n0 has shown up in my dreams twice... is this the new wave of denpa communication

>>348
they're calling it 念波 - nenpa: telepathy, thought waves
been thinking about this word since I stumbled upon it in a VN recently. it is my personal name for ne(ode)npa

>>349
Ode to the Nenpas Baby!

What are you all saying

>>351
nenpa nenpa nenpa

I think moe anime is making me misogynistic. And I don't mean toward real women, who are okay I guess. I mean that the art style is so nauseatingly "cute" and corporately polished that I want to see the female characters suffer. Is this why guro and ryona exist?

>>246
I do hate trees and grass, but I think I hate corporations even more.

I wanna say I like this site and I think of it as a rly good outcome to the whole denpa community thing whether the rest of it continues to exists or not.

>>353
cute aggression

>>356
I thought "cute aggression" is when you see a puppy so cute that you want to hug it until it pops, but you don't actually mean to do any harm. In my case, I want to bust open these baka bitches heads open like a piñata.

I think my entire IP range is starting to be blocked or filtered worldwide on the greater internet. I don't know if it's a consequence of the ISP I use or if I'm just extremely unlucky and share a network with a collection of botnets. Either ways, I can't post on most chans because they think I'm a bot, and most social media sites have filtered my connection.

I'm quite angry about it. Though, I don't know what to do other than move.

>>358
Did you use reverse proxy sites?

>>334
IRC Used to have one really good advantage on communities like these: it was incredibly easy to just make a new channel if a personality took over the old channel. Usually, those types were not the admins of the server, and it would become apparent that there was a parallel community sooner or later.

Unlike with Discord where they own the server and can put blocks in place to make sure no one mentions any others.

>>359
I have not, do you have any suggestions of ones that may not be blocked? I used to post on all my social media with an AWS proxy on a server I ran, but those ranges all got blocked long before mine did.

>>358
4Chan seems to have permabanned my Ip range. And now owovg requires a gold account of posting which is a shame. I mean, it stops me wasting time posting on that site which is good at least.

Apparently KiwiFarms might get taken down soon because Null is getting sued and will likely fail to crowdfund the money. I couldnt be happier. Fuck those cruel "lolcow" faggots who enjoy tormenting autists for fun.

>>362
Seems to have blocked my IP range too, I have cookies that still work on some PCs but the second they expire: I'm out. I'm never giving rapeape my email address nor should I have to just because I have a residential US IP address while jillions of third worlders get the red carpet treatment on every board.

>>363
Big if true but I won't hold my breath given the longevity of that site so far.

www(dot)thenewatlantis(dot)com(slash)publications(slash)american-diner-gothic
This narrator of this article is kind of mean-spirited and pretentious, but it adequately describes a phenomenon that I'm sure everyone here is familiar with -- that is, the Discordification of normies and the way in which the internet is used to flatten mass culture. Quite interesting.

Brazil fucking introduced British-type ID verification laws.
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The only good part about living in this shithole was a less-regulated internet. Sigh.

>>366
it is honestly kind of comfy. i hope the phenomenon continues

>>368
It's not comfy at all.

>>369
why?

>>366
Fuck me. What a strange article.
The bottom line is this:
:DDDDDDD

>>353

Is this why guro and ryona exist?

It's probably part of the reason why it exists. Bronies, the only non-Otaku fandom to understand moe, also ended up inventing guro (fluffy abuse) - so one could argue that it's the natural consequence of moe

>>370
Countless unique cultures being flattened by Global Discordification is sad

>>370
OP here. The phenomenon is a result of new internet platforms: Discord, TikTok, Instagram. These platforms are bad for all their own reasons but what they do to communities, either preexisting ones or ones that have come into being as a result of these platforms, is to make them shallow and palatable for a mass audience. Communities that were previously in existence that centred around (then) niche topics, before the age of the internet led to their substantive destruction, were more tight-knit, substantively engaged, and were made up of real humans (autistic people). It is also bad because it is a result of the large-scale consolidation of culture. Nothing is separate anymore, everything is on the same platform, everyone likes everything yada yada. It is also present. A good part of comfiness for me is the past and its idealisation. This present phenomenon is part of this present world (how could it not be?), and thus it is viewed with the same level of disgust by me as the present world is, standing in opposition to things i like/admire/enjoy. etc. you are on a board more or less dedicated to this line of though

*thought

>>372
And both fandoms are pedophilic...
Japón es cagada (No soy fan de Eispten carnal)!

>>376
alert: anti-otaku propaganda

>>376
normies get off my board

>>376

Spanish

You can't tarnish his name no matter how hard you try faggot

>>374

autistic people

It's interesting how a lot of these Discord-psyopped people identify as autistic, despite obviously being psyopped by Discord. Why do you think that's the case?

>>380
hard to say. probably due to lots of reasons. My friend who goes to university tells me that lots of normans (particularly women) self-identify as autistic, so maybe it's simply a way of feeling special

>>380
In my experience among those kinds of people there's a sizeable group who are looking for external validation because of their insecurities and lack of confidence in themselves and labeling themselves as autistic is a way of avoiding the pain of failing to fit in, not getting the validation they want, by claiming that they don't know how to act socially because they're "autistic". This goes for avoiding conflict too, taking responsibility, etc. Wanting to avoid the vulnerability of being real and honest they fake autism which, if they actually had it, would make it hard for them NOT to be painfully honest and real despite the fact that that often leads to not fitting in, but if they were an autist they wouldn't care about that in the first place.

I have a feeling 'autism' will become as meaningless as 'hysteria.' The increase in diagnosis, loosening criteria, and constant ironic uses of the word will create a situation where we can't tell genuine autistics from poser autism. The implosion of meaning will lead to 'autism' being just another word, this is how hysteria went from an actual medical condition to just a word for someone who acts nuts. I also feel that transgender has slowly become like this too.

>>383
I wonder, how will those formerly diagnosed as "autistic" be labelled?

>>382
There's different types of autism, IT'S A SPECTRUM. Maybe Kanner's autism types lack self-awareness. Formerly aspie types compensate with intelligence (you can be awkward in realtime situations (for various reasons, some of which also apply to ADHD e.g. external. distractions, too much stimuli) but process them correctly afterwards or you just don't lack skills in that area. Alot of aspies learn to act avoidant and act either in a more socially acceptable way or in a way that doesn't draw attention to them, you can go in an extreme direction with the latter which in-turn makes you stand-out.
>>383
Autism is new schizophrenia (German)
>>384
Same as when it was merged with "Aspergers". I don't understand strongly identifying with a mental disorder. I was screened for autism but I just have severe ADHD and OCD. If you have to be screened you're probably perceived as that by outsiders and treated as such, you see alot of people with similar situations online.
It feels like it's just gatekeeping for NEETbux (and all mental disorders vary in severity but for some reason NEETbux gatekeepers treat certain disorders as worse (autism and schizophrenia) or don't even know how what more obscure disorders are) see Occupational Clique on YouTube.
But then again you can't just give it to everyone who saw a TikTok that said you have a mental disorder because of normal symptoms that everyone has, which only become classified as mental disorders with higher levels severity of these symptoms.

What's the point of the names that are blue and underlined? i don't understand why they exist

>>386
how did you find this board

>>386
i didn't understand them for a while myself not gonna lie instead of being very helpful like >>387
it shows the post was "saged" essentially meaning it didn't bump the thread up in the recent activity

>>387
Don't dodge the question with another question.

>>387
I asked an llm where i could find a girlfriend

>>390
lol

The more I read Deleuze, the less I like him. His whole philosophy seems to built on mistakes. People act like this man was some ultra radical, but he really just seems like stooge. No wonder grad school artfags like this man. Bunch of posers.

I heard of this japanese style of fear meditation whereby a shinobi (or something) would inhabit a graveyard o overcome teir fear of death. There's a specific term for it but all I can find websearching is a moreorless recent japanese trend of laying in coffins.
Anyone know the name of what Im talking about?

Is there a difference between a nerd and an otaku? Personally I hate nerd culture and I hate nerds. They have fascistic personalities.

i have been triggered. Thanks obama.
the conjunction LET ALONE. ie X let alone Y.

Why does EVERYONE use it wrong? does no one think about the words that come out of their mouths and fingers? I can sorta understand people just saying it accidentially swaping the Y and X because what they are actually thinking about just comes out first and now they have to find some exagerated case to use and woops now the X and Y are in the wrong order and it sounds dumb as hell.
but everyone else is doing it backward so maybe they don't even register it as sounding dumb as hell. I can't get out of bed let alone run a marathon. This is the correct order. Learn it. :end of rant:
anyway. how's everyone doing?

>>395
I have no idea what's the correct order or what you're even talking about

>>396
Basically, if someone says
"I cannot be bothered to do [some complex task], let alone [some simple task]", that doesn't give the implication they want it to. If you can't do something difficult, that doesn't at all imply you can't do something easy.

The correct order is "I cannot be bothered to do [some simple task], let alone [some complex task]".
This provides the correct implication that due to not being able to do something easy, you certainly can't do something hard.

That being said, I haven't heard anyone say it in the wrong order before.

>>397
it has more uses but all essentially are of the same type.
i don't have enough money to pay for gas, let alone pay rent. <- correct order. and this might be a clue to the fact that this triggering instance occured on denpa-chan. but it only pushed me into fully triggered mode because i literally had just recorded a video diary entry the previous day bitching about it because i heard people use it wrong in videos like 6 times that day. and 0 times using it right.

but it is extremely common for people to use wrong in things like video essays. I can understand not being bothered with it thus not noticing. I just cant... The only phrase that bothers me more in the english language is "the nickel one" and if that's not enough to clue you in on what i am talking about too bad.

I've developed a "taste" in "MMD style videos". Fuck.
altho since the iDOLMASTER ones tend far and away to be the better ones, maybe MMD is the wrong term. I have no idea what else to call them tho.

OED is gone : (