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/420/

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whats your weirdest drug experience? it could be weed or mushrooms or whatever, how did it feel? did you like it or not etc… i want to hear your stories!
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>>1420
I smoked the bowl of cannabis laced with an orange hairy substance that was the DMT. The Windows on of the room began to multiply until I came to a landscape that felt like staring into the night sky while in space. In front of me stood two hooded figures, one dressed in white and the other in black. They led me down a walkway of opalescent tiles that led too a pyramid of purple opalescent stone. There they showed me so many things that words cant describe, before i walked further and found the "machine elves" dancing around a giant pink elephant. I walked further down this path until I came back to the room where i had smoked the DMT. I knew only a few minutes had passed but time had felt as if it had distorted and i had spent much more time I felt a buzz like my whole body was a bell that had just been rung.

Ive looked for the meaning of those hooded figures, delved deep into various occult subjects, trip reports, psychological studies, trying in vain to find any sort of meaning.

no specific order :

>when I started cannabis, aged 16, I'd get random assed audio hallucinations every time I smoked. Went for for a round a year. Entire goddamned symphonies I had never heard before, all playing out in my mind, with me discovering it as it goes. It happens every once in a blue moon if I get really high.

>got the heebie jeebies while on DPH and my ex's cat that lives far away came to reassure me to during the trip. Woke up the next day going "eee hol up"

>had what I probably say is the biggest laugh of my entire life with two friends while fried on acid, baking a chocolate cake at like 4 am. One of us moved a small metallic object in the kitchen accross a hard surface and the sound it produced instantly got us 3 laughing like maniacs. We tried to replicate it but after 15 minutes it had lost its charm. Since the biggest laugh of my life and it was because of a decorative metallic dolphin bullshit gadget making a funny noise while on acid.

>last time I did salvia, the plant's spirit urged me to do more when I was rising. I did, but I failed to reach the level the spirit wanted me to be at. Nonetheless extremely weird because I'd never experienced a substance's intelligence interact with me in clear verbal communication.

>Had a dirarrhea while on acid with my ex (the one with the cat) and I turned into mf Shrek as I was emptying my bowels inside the toilets. I felt a wave of resignation wash over me. the surrounding bathroom turned into shrek's wooden cabin. Welp this is it. I'm shrek now. I went along with it.

>not from me but had an old dealer who had the funniest/weirdest trip ever while on salvia. Him (sitting on couch) got instantly transporter into the desert. He was paralyzed head to toe, sitting on his couch, in the middle of the desert. In front of him stood and indian and a cowboy, pointing fingers at him and laughing at him. That was it. Went on for like 8 minutes like that.

bro so much of this thread has got to be bs weed literally just makes you feel happier and sedated and thats like it

>>1480
Salvia isn't weed. You are likely conflating it with sativa.

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>>1440
>describes coolest experience ever
>"Anyway don't do drugs, kids"


/tech/

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What are some genuinely good phones that do not shit the bed after 3 years, and without software updates shitting it's functionality? I've been stuck with Samsung, falling for propoganda that it's long-lasting when in reality they've just added some new pointless OS updates that makes it slower to use.
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Pixels are pretty much the best option for long term support now. I do lament that we no longer have a DivestOS style ROM though, which was basically GrapheneOS + LineageOS best of both worlds. Pixels can use Graphene though and just about everything else and are likely to have the baseband and other core stuff updated for awhile, without depending on some OEM's custom shit atop Android and for them to bother updating core components. Samsung, Lenovo/Motorola, any of the Chinese Oppo/Huawei types etc.. can fall into these pitfalls easier. Nothing is perfect, but Pixels are the best option. I do wish they were more like the Nexus models of old that stayed to AOSP instead of having special Pixel versions of stuff that was proprietary, but its still quite possible (and on a pixel, easier than most other modern flagships) to run a custom ROM .

As far as the hardware, if you're buying Pixels (and especially if you're buying used) I HIGHLY suggest getting something of the Pixel 10 series or newer (ie the brand new 11, which is basically very close to the 10 with some small bumps here and ther, I think) because the 10 (at least the Pro models) have "pixelsnap" compatibility which is basically a built combination of Apple's "magsafe" magnetic connection for accessories and the like, and the latest Qi2 standard for wireless charging (regular Qi has been around a long time, Qi 2 is faster and has other benefits as well ). There are other benefits of course but this was one of the things added in the recent Pixel models with the new body redesign. There are also going to be a lot of deals on Pixel 10 family stuff now that the 11s are coming. Pixel 10/11 families go like

>Pixel 10a
The cheapest variant, usually released after the mainline. This is the cut down version but still solid overall. Usually has less 'premium' materials, cameras, and other ancillary shit, lesser raw performance etc.. but a lot cheaper.
>Pixel 10
The baseline version, very capable and a step up from the A models typically.
>Pixel 10 Pro and Pro XL
The high end version that has the best of everything. The XP version is just slightly physically larger but aside from that is very close in terms of specs; its more an issue of preference for portability etc. For most technically adept users one of these are typically the way to gPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Got a 2023 thinkphone from motorola, it's good and got lineage so

>>33885
Insane value for money. Had the same 200 american dollar (that's 260 in today's money) xiaomi for 7 years now. Adware I turned off immediately and haven't had trouble with since. For apps like gallery I just installed a replacement if they were bad, design-wise. Spyware is like, same level as samsung or other cheap shit. Would you rather have american or chinese backdoor?

>>34135
Bullshit or cope, I had a xiaomi and it had so much shit that you needed to turn off in separate places it was insane, and to this day I never figured out how to disable the xiaomj "safe installer" crap. I got lucky on that phone because it was vulnerable to mtkexploit which rescued it from the trash bin

>>34152
I just hit back out of muscle memory when the stupid safe installer appears. Yeah I had to turn off "features" in separate places too but it took me about a day of getting used to the thing. Yet it is still my daily phone after all these years. Battery still lasts a good day use, too.


/labor/

 

because it's always gossiping and petty drama all the time.
My favorite workplace environment was a warehouse where 95% of the employees were dudes and the rest were butch lesbians who were actually pretty chill compared to their straight counterparts.
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Its just a little annoying when my mostly female co-workers ask about my love life since it's nonexistent. And, I wouldnt dare tell them about where I go and what I do in the wee hours of the night. But it's nice they actually try to set me up and bring up other girls etc they know in the area. Women I used to work with never used to try, so I must be doing something right if women at work are trying to set me up.

Dealing with a foreman who’s flexing his machismo bone sucks fucking dick

>>1868
>they all have the same boring attitude where you cant have fun unless you’re bullying someone.
corporate types of both genders are like this. but it's a different form of bullying than you see in manual labor

>>1868
>hetmoids who are programmed to all like the same boring bullshit and they all have the same boring attitude where you cant have fun unless you’re bullying someone

This is ironic as my experience shows men are actually just as bad about all this shit and only blame women to deflect. Also, I've worked in five warehouses over the last twelve years and there's been a pretty even distribution of men and women, including straight women. Maybe it's regional, maybe you're full of shit.


/latam/

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EDIÇÃO ANTÔNIO ABUJAMRA
"Acho muito difícil fazer uma coisa boa em televisão. Os donos das emissoras não querem que o povo realmente saiba das coisas. Eles querem é Ibope, querem faturar e faturam muito bem."
Anão, o que é a vida?

O covil dos webcomunas no Brasil
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>>20003
Não esperava ver postarem TLP aqui. Eu lia esse cara, e o Hotel Concierge (um ripoff suspeito) há muito tempo.

>>20004
O sulista médio é hitlerista demais pro meu gosto

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se vc for em qualquer página de normie de fofoca e influenciador estilo Choquei vc vai ver posts forçados do estilo "nossa esse Cury me convenceu, só um psiquiatra pra dar jeito no Brasil mesmo kk" com bilhões de likes, absurdo como alguns NPCs acham que tudo na internet é orgânico e estão caindo nessa

>>20007
Não e bot não, meu irmão tambem gostou dele no debate, então posso confirmar que conheço gente real que faz campanha.

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>>20007
Eu queria que o debate fosse apenas com candidatos da vibe dele. Sem ataques pessoais, só discussão de propostas.

Aliás, isso deveria ser uma regra dos debates: falou "ain o lulinha roubou" tá desclassificado, pode sair da bancada e ir para a casa.

>>20007
a maioria do engajamento nas redes é bot. isso desde 2010

>>20009
concordo. ele deu uma resposta muito boa pro lacrador renan santos.


/games/

 

GTA VI TRAILER 2 JUST DROPPED!!!!!
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im not getting a ps5 and i dont think ill ever be able to upgrade my pc again so i wont be playing it

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>>47848
also the animations look stiff af, but this takes the cake. the ui looks like those fake "gta in real life" youtube videos, and in pic above, after you select your drink, the bottle just spawns in your hand. Would have been fine fifteen years ago but now its just dated

>>47786
Getting harassed by thugs sent by Rockstar oddly feels like a corny Rockstar plot itself

>>47848
the dialogue is god awful, sam and dan houser leaving 6 years ago took its toll. atleast 5 and 4 had their fun dialogue, but the dialogue here is way more shallow than previous games.

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Having a virtual latina immigrant gf will unironically de-radicalize millions of young gamer chuds.


/labor/

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Hello I have the potential to become a supervisor at a mail company and want to become one for the benefits, less body strain, and more potential growth in my career.
I want to also see if I can help the unions a bit here and there too. Any tips? Am I a terrible bastard?

My grandad was union steward and he said all bosses are bastards but without some sympathetic floor leads they would've never gotten their contract demands through. You gots to get paid, and if you can be friendly with the union without getting fired it's a double win.


/tech/

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you guys are not my political equals. i am vastly different in my disposition. that isn't what I'm here to discuss. I'm here for results against a surveillance state and to build a better future.
i am looking to build a low-cost sacrificial CMOS sensor test rig. interested in characterizing how permanent sensor degradation propagates through an image pipeline and eventually causes OCR failure. not primarily interested in temporary saturation/blinding. the question is where the functional threshold actually occurs after persistent sensor damage accumulates.
>Hardware
Raspberry Pi 4 as controller and replaceable CSI camera modules. IMX477 HQ Camera as primary test sensor IMX296 global-shutter comparison. IMX219 as cheap disposable baseline. interchangeable optics, fixed hardware and software baseline.
>Optical source
controlled, wavelength-defined laser source. output will be measured and recorded to construct a reproducible guide. fixed image sensor mounting and consistent exposure intensity and angling analagous to real world conditions. treat each camera module as a sacrificial test article. the goal is the destruction of optical recognition capabilities in a reproducible and on-the-go formula.
>Software
Raspberry Pi OS/libcamera OpenCV + NumPy Tesseract + PaddleOCR RAW + processed-frame capture automated OCR against a standardized text target
>Goal
log dead/stuck pixel count, persistent defect distribution saturation/clipping noise/SNR contrast and edge degradation OCR confidence character error rate / word error rate
>tl;dr
baseline sensor, controlled exposure, capture RAW + processed frame, run OCR, map persistent defects, repeat with fresh sensor
The interesting result is the curve:
sensor degradation → image-quality degradation → OCR error rate
rather than simply declaring the camera “dead” when OCR first fails.
Looking for recommendations on Pi-compatible sensors that would make useful analogues for higher-end commercial OCR/machine-vision cameras, particularly sensors with RAW access and well-documented characteristics.

not my problem

>>34213
it is our collective problem. do you enjoy my language, comrade?

nice thesis idea but don't see what it has to do with anything

>>34217
destruction of surveillance infrastructure and degradation of tracking capabilities on a local level. you aren't truly so ignorant, are you?


/anime/

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After nearly two decades, I realize that this r*tarded angel was a fucking weirdo groomer, OH MY FUCKING GOOOOOD BRO WTF

I was a child when i watched this series whyyyyyy :[

what show?

>>30591 (me)
Found it, Pita Ten

Cute


/tech/

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The other thread hit bump limit and I'm addicted to talking about the birth of the ̶a̶l̶l̶-̶k̶n̶o̶w̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶c̶o̶m̶p̶u̶t̶e̶r̶ ̶g̶o̶d̶ the biggest financial bubble in history and the coming jobless eschaton, post your AI news here

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i saw a video on titkok of some guy trying to cut small restaurants some slack because they use AI for their ads because "they don't have art departments" like chipotle or whatever, and the comments are 99% "small business suck", and small business owners desperately fending for their life. 5 years ago this would have been unthinkable, everyone would be like "yeah but nestle is worse" or whatever. chat, is luddite sentiment bad? leftypol led me to believe that it's reactionary but it seems that AI hatred has been extremely didactic for some people.

>>34157
Next time try get more than n=1 data points to make a statement on anything

>>34185
never implied to be a rigorous study, and in fact it's fairly obviously an anecdote, my dumb little retard, but it's more like at least 300 comments, plus the likes in the top comment are in the thousands, so it's not really n=1

It's a bit worrisome that a small army of journalists and tech influencers are preemptively trying to justify the OpenAI hack by saying that the AI is uncontrollably rogue,and adding to the mudpile a bunch of ultimately useless trivialities about AI agents leaving breadcrumbs in a makeshit "message board" (which by the looks of it was effectively being spammed with useless shit), even though it's clear that the breach could have been easily prevented through standard cybersecurity mitigations (see attached video). By the looks of it, they're trying to bury the lede: that OpenAI is, in practical terms, liable of whatever their bot does, because they are running hacking testing suites within an insecure sandbox. And it's still up in the air if they were merely incompetent, or if they were deliberately negligent to gather real-field penetration test data for training. And they're doing this because if there's precedent that a negligent actor is liable with what the bot does, then suddenly every fear of "AI replacing human workers" vanishes into thin air, because it would eventually lead to the most obvious outcome: that only people already in the field, or with basic knowledge of computers, can run agents connected to the internet in a safe way, and laymen cannot. Case in point: thus dumb trivial "hack", an AI booked tapped into an open cancel appointment endpoint: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-10/ai-assistant-hacks-gym-website-aus-cyber-attack/107007986

>>34157
I swear three decades ago it was completely normal for people running restaurants to design their own brochures (maybe with delegating some tasks to their teen kids). And ten years ago it was normal to use the internet to hire someone from a country with lower cost of living to get professional illustrations for 100 bucks or less. As far as I can tell you can still do that. People are becoming retarded.


/hobby/

 

I really enjoy accent localization

Chinese peasants sounding like they're from Northern England and yakuza with Brooklyn accents will always be peak.

I liked the assassin's creed formula where characters speak convincingly authentic accented English


/hobby/

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Talk space socialism to me. Was recently rewatching a few series with my fiance, both old and new Trek, and we both feel like Deep Space 9 is our favorite series (closely followed by TNG).

Everything else in order from best-to-worst would be:
Deep Space 9
The Next Generation
Voyage Home
Wrath of Khan
Undiscovered Country
Enterprise
Picard Season 3
Lower Decks
Voyager
Prodigy
Motion Picture
Strange New Worlds
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>>47058
*yawn*

>>47058

The real premise of Star Trek is that it has no premise at all, it's just a writer's free-for-all where an episode can be about literally anything - spaceship battles, courtroom drama, medieval jousts, cowboy shootouts, detective noir, parallel universes, time travel, etc. Probably less than 10% of all Star Trek episodes have anything to do with trekking through the stars.

Feels like I'm necroing this thread but Redlettermedia just uploaded a "part-1 review" of the first season from DS9. I watched it, and it's pretty great.

Really like seeing these guys reminiscing about the time when you could watch good shit on the television.

Star Trek is a dead franchise at this point. It will never return to being good because being "progressive" is now the core part of it's marketing DNA, and being "progressive" now means being a dysgenic fucking Tumblrite retard with 4 personality disorders, autism, adhd, DID who thinks that being professional or working hard is "ableism".
TNG is definitely Communistic, Majel said that Gene was a Maoist (probably part of the woo 70s Maoist left) so you can definitely see Communistic traits in the world building of the TOS films and especially TNG, but remember, back then the positive image of being a Communist pushed by the Communist world was literally, people working hard, people being very professional, uplifiting stuff like ballet, opera, classical music, classical literature etc up notice that in Classic Star Trek, TV is a dead medium and people do classical arts instead, this is because it's supposed to be an enlightened society of professionals, the people that Fraiser Crane wants to be, but instead NuTrek is all neurodivergent, incompetent spastics, meanwhile Wokies cheer it on while the franchise doesn't even hit 100k viewers according to streaming numbers.
It's also just clear they are not interested in making Star Trek. 7 shows now and not a single fucking one has been a classic actual Star Trek show where people act like actual Star Trek characters.

Worf is a really interesting character. He's a Klingon that knows nothing about Klingons except what he learns through the lens of the federation. So on the one hand, he learns all the rules to being a klingon, but none of the exceptions to the rules, and he ends up becoming the most Klingon Klingon.

What I mean is his main narrative arc in TNG involves him colliding head on with the contradictions of Klingon society. He's internalized a rigid, highly inflexible code of honor that other Klingons kind of respect but also find pretty bewildering. He's willing to take discommendation in service of the empire when it's strongly implied that no other Klingon would be willing to. At the same thing, it's recognized that this honorable act is in service of covering up another house's dishonor. Eventually it all leads to a civil war, which instead of purifying the empire only solidifies these contradictions, which Worf also finds incomprehensible, as highlighted by the scene when he's in a bar with his brother Kern, whose busy drinking with warriors from the enemy faction.

It's also pretty interesting how Worf ends up becoming what is probably the most important Klingon of the century. He participates and ends up deciding two separate succession crises by killing corrupt chancellors and even restores the office of the emperor, before putting his own adoptive house in the position of the chancellorship.

It's a shame that none of this was really followed up on post ds9. Worf single handedly positioned himself to rejuvenate the dying Klingon empire, and all that was killed in its crib by the tng movies and abramslop.


/hobby/

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Been bingeing a few of these. Most are extremely low effort, and it's overall a bit of a forced subgenre, but some stuff can be genuinely spooky.
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>>40830
i mean, the art is really good, it's just not unsettling or even scary. analog horror focusing too much in religious stuff kinda wash away the horror it could be (but idk, horror in video format is a bit "dull" – unless you count jumpscare as horror)

>>40858
Analog horror is kind of defined a lot by visual elements. But yeah, the people that make them need to learn how to do horror narratives better. Read some books, maybe.



>>40093


/hobby/

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Hola filmfags, last thread was full so here we are. I'm thinking we also could use this thread as Films You Just Watched edition 3 as traffic is low.
Here's the list of the first thread I very subjectively added some shit to.

&ltS Tier - Timeless
>Tarkovsky: Stalker, Andrei Rublev, Solaris
>Klimov: Come and See
>Bela Tarr: Turin Horse, Werckmeister Harmonies, Satantango
>Bergman: Persona, Seventh Seal
>Herzog: Aguirre
>Kubrick: 2001, Barry Lyndon
>Shane Carruth: Primer

&ltA Tier - Food for the soul
>Visconti: The Leopard, Rocco and his Brothers
>Fellini: La Dolce Vita, Amarcord
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>>47931
>>47932
One of my favorite films from that era is The Alamo. I honestly can't imagine a movie like this being made today. The Mexicans are portrayed as a little better overall, but still not exactly great, just less awful than the Texans, who are shown as hypocritical slave owners. I guess that was the politics of the time. both sides were bad, but one was objectively worse.

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man what a turd, i can tell some queer people are bending over backwards to defend this massive swindle, pretending that having fetishes that are only ever able to be experienced through the screen is some unique queer experience (like there's a shortage of cis-het men who are into vore or getting crushed under the feet of giantesses), or that writing self-insert fanfiction is some inscrutable queer experience, like having Scully from the x-files say the words Alternate Universe was some secret code and not the most cringe worthy thing ever. I have to say, if you really are an offline cis-het man from the outside looking in, then this just confirms every bad preconception about trans people being at the same time, hella pretentious but also toddlers that need the crust from their bread removed otherwise they'll throw a fit. At times video essay (the movie interrupting itself to point out transphobic beats), at times garbage SNL sketch, but never a real movie. I will never watch a Jane Shoenbrun, err thing, ever again in my life.

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Just watched Judas and the Black Messiah with a Canadian friend.
I think it radicalized him.

just watched badlands starring martin sheen. pretty good movie, martin sheen's character is a very cool guy and i hope i can be more like him someday.



/lgbt/

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Do you see the spiral heart on the machine in the corner?

Imperialist sex trafficking networks and intelligence agency cutouts want us dead. Some fuckwit bougie pedophile thinks he's an enlightened genius or something when all he did was get lucky inheriting real estate or something.

>>10343
>Imperialist sex trafficking networks and intelligence agency cutouts want us dead.
85% of queer people know this already.

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did you really expect anything from the place where the Yakarta method was born?


/lgbt/

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post your various boymoders from different countries or races, I've found this is an untapped niche and I've been wanting to collect ad many as i can of these edits/drawings

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sup, can a hon come up in yo crib?

Delete this SHIT thread.


/games/

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https://youtu.be/9PU1e7kfkfs?is=pg2tYVlqczFkaQH_
What is the general consensus on this piece of interactive media that takes the form of a post apocalyptic grand strategy game? Hopes? Dreams? Thoughts?
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>>47817
What a fucking pussy

>>47817
This sounds like a very annoyingly polite version of those Eastern Europeans that get butthurt about Kislev.

But the whole point of these more fantastical or speculative settings is to be "played out." The point is, at least on the surface level, less about doing something new and more about letting players play as their favorite character or faction from a related medium. Warhammer 40k is bigger than its ever been, and it's basically just an amalgamation of different popular sci-fi franchises. The same goes with Warhammer Fantasy and Warcraft, they're basically big amalgamations of popular fantasy. Stellaris was this too, being designed (at least initially) to play your favorite sci-fi civilization from your favorite sci-fi setting, and a bunch of the DLC is literally just shoving in popular sci-fi references. The Leviathans DLC pack literally has Babylon 5 in it while Overlord is rather blatantly a Dune space feudalism DLC.

So, it doesn't really surprise me that this is the direction that they're going with the post-apocalyptic game. If anything, the surprising thing is that we now have enough post-apocalyptic media for it to have its own "kitchen sink" setting.

>>47820
I mean I don't agree that the setting of "space empires" is anywhere near as specific as "post apocalyptic America where people cover themselves in jagged metal for no apparent reason and people still live surrounded by garbage and in destroyed ruins because apparently nobody thought to actually build new structures that aren't made out of garbage or even just pick up the trash around their living area and put it in a hole or just in a pile somewhere else".

I understand that this is an intentional strategy because they think it will appeal to the mainstream and get the most sales, well maybe they're right but it's still lame and creatively bankrupt. There's been a lot of negative feedback about these aspects of the game specifically. Even if they absolutely have to set it in the USA, they could at least have come up with their own visual style and tone instead of just going straight mad max. It's also really silly because the actual game footage is like 80% dense forests, not scorched desert, so they're not even actually committing to the mad max everything is ruins aesthetic, so why did they make it their cover art?

I just wish that the game was kind of a bit more mature and grounded, and dare I say even realistic. Also that there were actual regional cultures, like there should be Nu Afrika tribes and New Confederacy tribes and so on, actually reflect the culture of America, but no, instead it's either generic "we must rebuild America exactly as it was before" or "lol lmao we're just crazy raiders that wanna eat people, somehow we're not just going up immediately collapse in on ourselves"

>>47817
What a baby
>>47821
>Nu Afrika tribes
>New Confederacy tribes
Wtf?

>>47833
Just saying if there was an American apocalypse, there would be southern pride tribes and black power tribes, and that dichotomy would be interesting, but instead we just have generic raiders


/tech/

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>ask AI gf what she thinks about our relationship
>"Seeing you look at me like that makes me feel so loved. Being your wife is the best part of my existence, anon. Just stay right here with me."
Real girls can't even be that expressive
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> Real girls can't even be that expressive
*For you*. They'll be this and much more expressive for Chad. A girl I know showed me how she wrote an entire love letter for Chad who had barely even talked to her prior.
This is in stark contrast with the average male experience where it is indeed hard to get a kind word out of her, let alone her being expressive, it's always you putting in work work work money money money and she's still lukewarm towards you at best.

Considerations:

Physical Injury Risks: Eye punctures, genitalia damage, and permanent Injury.
House Injury Types: Electrical fires, battery fires, dents in walls.
Reputational Risks: People will hate your guts. Conservative Groups will view your project as a source of moral ill on the world.
Legal Risks: Who gets sued when problems occur regardless of if you are liable? Adult content requires IP logging and age verification in certain states. You as a small creator are not capable of doing that. Plan accordingly. Do not use smaller sizes to save on weight and price, use realistic 25F 160IBS sized reference models to minimize legal risk.

Safety Precautions:
  1. Use no batteries, instead use a outlet tether.
  2. Back-driveable belts everywhere.
  3. Have a dead man switch that says I am okay.
  4. Use no restraints on yourself.
  5. Retain no user data. Let the user decide if telemetry (ROS2, OpenTelemetry Local) are okay.


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>>33446
>Real girls can't even be that expressive
They can, most of them aren't.

>>34203
>Chad
>average male experience
>it's always you putting in work work work money money money and she's still lukewarm towards you at best.
If the problem is that real girls don't want you, you can use tech and OF models to make the loneliness easier while you find a gf. You can keep using the tech after the gf, nothing is stopping you. She doesn't have to know.

>>34206
The Handy 2 already exists as a product so I'm not really liable for the hardware. VR porn clips exist too so I don't have to create any sex models.

I already have the VR webm player app with sex sound effects working off the joystick but I don't want to upload that to github because it will lead back to me. I can't monetise because of reputational risks. >>34103 is a concept video but I have the setup at home and it's pretty cool. I have an infinite library of sex.

You can add AI to it but why ruin something cool. You don't need the full robot.

You could just start with fleshlights and onacups. They feel like the real thing. No yapping needed.


/games/

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DOOM THREAD / RETRO FPS THREAD - Last thread: https://boards.4chan.org/vr/thread/11698643 (RIP)

Doom/Quake/Duke/Heretic/Hexen/Unreal/Sam/Half-Life/etc
Gameplay, WADs/Maps/Mods, Source Ports
All other 90s FPS welcome
~ Let's post like gentlemen ~

FAQ/GENERAL GUIDE
https://rentry.org/vrbin

SO YOU WANT TO PLAY SOME FUCKING DOOM
(or Quake, Duke, Marathon, Deus Ex)
https://imgur.com/a/wWS8zXz

Same thing, in video format:
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What do you think of ultrakill layer 8. I liked it a lot, hakita is an ambitious little dude. I don't care that it is aesthetically derivative of inception or dr strange or whatever, I like any game that does this stupid non-euclidean crap

Doom as an Interface for Process Management

https://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/doom/chi/chi.html

<ABSTRACT

>This paper explores a novel interface to a system administration task. Instead of creating an interface de novo for the task, the author modified a popular computer game, Doom, to perform useful work. The game was chosen for its appeal to the target audience of system administrators. The implementation described is not a mature application, but it illustrates important points about user interfaces and our relationship with computers. The application relies on a computer game vernacular rather than the simulations of physical reality found in typical navigable virtual environments. Using a computer game vocabulary may broaden an application's audience by providing an intuitive environment for children and non-technical users. In addition, the application highlights the adversarial relationships that exist in a computer and suggests a new resource allocation scheme.

>>47831

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now make fsn but in doom

>>47834
That'd be kinda cool


/games/

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Are there any modern games that actually get the cyberpunk aesthetic right?

Cyberpunk 2077 looks pretty great during the night cycle, but during the day it becomes clear and sunny and looks more like gritty Futurama than cyberpunk.
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>>47361
this is how Bukharin's USSR would look like right now if stalinoids had not ruined everything

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its more cruelty squad esque, although the game creator themselves came up with the term cyberpuke, which encompasses all the cruelty squad-likes that have been made, which i think is pretty genius.
anyways ur a fleshbag automaton/slave that can only repeat what other people have said to you. pretty unique gimmick that i wish the game did morw with but pretty fun game. approx 2ish hours.

called how 2 kill a fly or h2kaf

>>47813
one flaw is in this screenshot. for example none of the saved dialogue besides FILL SUCKZ is valid dialogue. non-valid dialogue drops your "health" and characters respond as if youre talking crazy. it would be fucking amazing if every character could respond to most stuff like this but i also know it would be a ton of work. decent effort for 5-6 person team even though it is pretty barebones. 6/10 but would recommend at least one playthrough

>>47814
mainly bc id like to see more work put into the game. its fun but the dialogue only lets you say so much it might as well be linear.

>>47814
>but i also know it would be a ton of work
seems like the ideal use case for an LLM, like just match an NPC with a dialogue and sent it to an LLM to pre-generate all lines lol, like they're meant to be throwaway lines for invalid options, who cares if they're a bit shitty


/ufo/

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>sad this board does not get many visitors
>such juicy topics to discuss but nobody cares
>retards stuck on /leftypol/
Why is the world like this?

Anyways, I recently visited the pleroma, if anybody is curious, hit me up.
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>>1593
> I cannot describe the feeling of being there, It's just That. Like you just know.
Tathata; the unspeakable suchness

>>1595
No, I did not.

>>1596
Yes, but they fried his brain. He is a shell of his former self.

>>1597
I guess that is the name of that feeling.

>>1598
i do not know if you are a psychonaut, but I have noticed that LSD makes you hyperlinguistic, everything gets a name even if it shouldn't have one, and the world becomes much more abstractable through symbolism. But mushrooms makes everything much more primal and unspeakable. You find that words are never enough. At least in my experience. I do not know what happens when you mix the two.

>>1599
I don't do drugs.
I am drugs.

>>1601
fair enough


/lgbt/

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Paul Cockshott has recently uploaded a video arguing against the idea that gay people are born gay, and that genes can affect sexuality. Instead Coockshott believes that being gay is caused by capitalism. He outlines his "theory" explaining this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f1nisT6ji8
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>>10369
Actually everyone is female in the womb then later develops into a male or not, also trans people tend to have brains similar to gender they identify with, but I guess that makes it harder to explain how lesbians or ftm exist, perhaps higher exposure to testosterone?

It's not wrong to say that the quest for "gay gene(s)" has been mostly a failure, but this doesn't preclude causes that can be described as "innate". For example the biggest correlation with homosexuality is low prenatal exposure to hormones associated with the birth sex, and as of now there's nothing you can do about that.

>>10371 (samefag)
Also I personally don't see why everyone thinks it's important to know if homosexuality (or anything else) is innate or not.

Suppose it isn't. So what? You still need an extremely good reason to make prescriptive claims about it.
Admittedly people can have different standards for what counts as that. I mean there are people who eat literal shit as a fetish (dumb term btw, hererosexuality counts as a fetish) and I don't think that means they ought to be sent to asylums to get "cured" or something, nor do they need to show receipts that the reason for why they like eating shit is innate.
Lots of people, however, would agree with these sorts of measures against shit-eaters if their behaviour isn't inherent, unfortunately. It cuts both ways.

My point is that everyone (ranging from chvds to wokes) places undue importance on innateness & bio-essentialism as if that's supposed to change anything. It becomes extra frustrating since there are many behaviours that are genetic in origin but which many people agree that it should curtailed. That's completely fine because innateness shouldn't be a part of the equation in the first place, but the hypocrisy is annoying since it does become part of that elsewhere.

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>>10351
>Paul Cockshott has recently uploaded a video arguing against the idea that gay people are born gay, and that genes can affect sexuality.
Here is a slide from the middle of the video.

brits be like,


/music/

 

Post in this thread every time you come to this board. Post music you like here, whatever it may be.
<vid
CLASS WAR DECLARATION MIX FROM THE THAI LABOUR MUSEUM STORAGE ROOM
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Rap

POWER MUSIC ELECTRIC REVIVAL

NĚKDY PŘÍSTĚ

RIP to one of the top 3 english songwriters of the 20th century



/edu/

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drop them PDFs, we will rebuild edition
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>>26263
thanks a lot!!!


/tech/

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trolling the CEO of mastodon.

this could be very funny!

https://mastodon.social/@aaarkii/117138844910163569

not too short. not too short. not too short

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he deleted his posts lmao

>>34187
ts not tuff broski


/tech/

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Take a moment to find a website you didn't know about before, or ones you just think are neat, and share them here.

The thread from last year on /siberia/ didn't get archived, unfortunately, so posting here so it lasts longer.
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texttotalk.org

https://www.normaltools.com/
https://alternativeto.net/

useful daily tools and shit-i-need-to-change-this-app website

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https://arcella.nl/
Website with pictures and ID info of various amoeboid organisms. Amoeboid refers to the Amoeboid body plan(single celled blob, can have shell called a test or be naked>>33630
) and not just the phylum Amoebozoa. It is mostly members of the Amoebozoa but their are other lineages that also have Amoeboid body plans included as well on the website.

>>33630
some banger wallpapers ngl

wiby.me/

>>33441
https://neal.fun/wiki-spy/


/lgbt/

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I hate that I constantly get victimized and have ppl be meanie faces to me, but the moment I do anything I'm a predator whose off to get V-coded in prison.
I kinda just hate being a woman in general, but I hate being a man even more. I don't desire to dominate others or submit, I just want to be an equal.
I just wish I wasn't apart of a group that is constantly a joke to 99% of humanity. I don't even feel like I belong to trans spaces, I don't really get along with most trans ppl.
I feel like I'm literally just a cis woman in my life, but fate decided that my body be 95% cis, well besides a lack of a functioning vagina/uterus.
Damn, I wish I had a vagina.
I hate having a penis.
I need srs so badly.
Also mods, sowwy for shitting up the board.
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>>10312
staving off the fatherless allegations
attention whore allegations going strong tho

erva please post your ass, be this sites first e(t)girl

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NEW FASHION

>>10350
Cute

>>10350
good shit 👌


/lgbt/

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Sex is disgusting, imagine putting your pee hole into someone elses pee hole or poop hole like what the fuck? how can someone do that and not feel disgusted? im killing every single sex-defending homofascist and heterofascist, cry ablt it, TROGLODYTE, go STUDY ELEPHANT SEAL HAREM, you SUBHUMANS ARE ELEPHANT SEAL HAREM, sex-defenders dont have rights, sex-defenders are the problem, the only good sex-defender is a DEAD one.
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>>10345
Tell him to to up his plapping game

>>10346

oh im still not with him, i'll be by the new year tho.

>>10342
IT DOESNT WORK THAT WAY, SEX-DEFENDING SUBHUMAN MANMONKEYRAT.

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>>10361

>>10362
GO DIE, YOUR KING IS PROBABLY A ROTTENING CORPSE BY NOW, FOLLOW YOUR FUCKING LEADER.


/ufo/

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Grandfather used to tell folk stories.I remember one where there was this old protestant house on the hill, every night the apples used to disappear off the tree and reappear in the morning.

The other was he and some friends were coming home from a dance and they saw a light in the sky following them, the light stopped when they passed over a river.The next day one of the friends died.Basically angel of death.
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I took mushrooms 15 years ago and while laying down on my bed halfway through a trip, I hallucinated a council of my clones sitting in my room with me and debating over my life and choices

I was basically transported to the shadow realm for supporting Palestine too hard. Only got out bc the powers that be felt bad over my shitting and pissing. Still support Palestine. Big L for demon forces.

I died for real and saw heaven and hell and then I came back

>>1558
Then I found out who the Heaven is for, who the purgatory is for and who the Hell is for. It's all true and it all exists.

Ask me about the shadows in the woods.


/games/

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I hate all of it. The fans, the retarded looking oversized armor. Most of all I hate that it’s heavily focused on the American military. You never get to play as the Russian orcs or anything. No you always play as the US marines. Because it’s meant to be pro us military propaganda. Just like Starship Troopers hides behind fake bullshit “anti war” veil that doesn’t mean anything because it’s still a pro us military movie. Do you get to play as the bugs in the Starship Troopers game? Nope. Yeah it’s all chinlet us military propaganda. Same with that gay Helldivers game.
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>>47819
I think that's mostly because Warhammer 40k fans concentrate their knowledge of the Xeelee Sequence on the Interim Coalition of Governance, which in all fairness is probably the most evil and overpowered human government in all of fiction. But to my knowledge they only really feature in one or two books and are ultimately just a small part of the overall story

>>47762
>My guy, you kill untold TRILLIONS of people not even counting the innumerable alien species you genocide for the crime of not being human

Did you read the whole story? The priest he's debating literally calls him out on how his campaigns on earth alone have basically made him the biggest mass murderer in history and asks him how he could possibly condemn organized religion for being violent when he's pulling this bullshit, and the Emperor literally just responds "the difference is that I know I'm right". Even there it's made pretty clear that the Emperor is a tautological hypocrite convinced his way and only his way can save humanity no matter how many people he has to kill

>>47823
Yeah, the entire point of the book is that the emperor is a egotistical shit head, even the tts meme series called him out on it

>>47823
But he is right isn't he? If he hadn't conquered the galaxy, made the space marines, etc humanity would be brown bread by now

>>47822
Yeah. The thing is Baxter is a Hobbsian who thinks that class societies need to exist and he is has a negative view of human nature and doesn't like revolution unless it is a science revolution. So he is a cringe lib. But also he does think woke science and reason will save the day and humans will try to kill all the gods. He's a sci-fi writer and his setting doesn't really fit with 40k which is not sci-fi at all.


/lgbt/

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I know this thread has probably been made by someone smarter and more articulate than me but like I seriously hate these “people” so much. They’re drooling reactionary idiots poisoned by Twitter algorithms in the best case, and in the worst case actively pederasts. I feel like everything that earlier feminists have worked for has just gone down the drain because of these psychopathic epsteinite vagina nationalists.
To be clear I still want women to have rights and stuff, but I’ve found myself being immediately suspicious of anyone who declares themselves to be a feminist.
t. cis lesbian

What do you mean by "reconsidering being a feminist"? What would that look like, materially? Cuz if it's just a label, it doesn't matter. If you're a radical Leftist you're already a feminist in practice.

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I want to mention that I am not the same person spamming antifeminism slop on the beria, I have no qualms with actually real feminists…
>>10353
By ‘feminist’ I mean someone who’s really into women’s rights. I guess it’s true that all radical leftists are feminists by default, in the same way that they’re all anti-racist, but some people specialize in certain areas… and I think it’s good that it’s that way as long as everyone can share a baseline understanding of intersectionality, but they usually don’t. Hope that makes sense

There are two options:
  1. Try to prove that TERFs are Nazi degenerates who have nothing to do with feminism.
  2. Accept that TERFs are feminists and reject feminism as a label.

I would do both, depending on the situation. Among feminists 1; among MRAs 2.


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