[Anime suggestions]

Psycho Pass.

 

Its got feels but not the "Oh wow that's so sad!" kind of feels, more like the "Wow that's some fucked shit." kind of feels.

[Emotional Roller Coaster/ Sky-Diving]

I'm going to level with you here, things don't get easier from here on out and based on how you're handling your responsibilities, you certainly won't get much further from here.

 

I don't know very much about you so all I can say is this: Just try to find something worth working toward. It can really be anything but the moment you just drop everything, you're pretty much done for.

 

The future doesn't wait for you. Either you start taking action or you just call it quits here. Ultimately its your choice but I highly recommend you take some time to reevaluate your priorities if you have any. If not, make some.

[The topics are DEAD (Pointless I know)]

I made a thread trying to discuss horror literature last week and seems like nobody wants to comment.

 

Softly cries in empty thread.

[Good Horror Literature/Movies]

What do you guys like in a good horror story/movie?

 

I've never actually been too much of a fan of the genre in the past but up until recently I just can't seem to get my fill. Its not so much the actual genre I'm so interested in but the question of what makes a good horror story/movie.

 

Based on what I've analyzed, its a lot more simpler to create an effective horror story than it is to create a romantic one. Mostly because a good horror story shouldn't have to put too much effort in building itself. Rather, the reader's imagination should be handling that aspect.

 

The beauty of this is that the reader pretty much does this without even knowing they're doing it. Its kind of like a dream that you're witnessing instead of experiencing for yourself. I came to this consensus based on reading/listening to a metric crap-ton of SCP documents. I won't go too in-depth on what these are since you can literally go see for yourself but they are a textbook example of how to pull off this spontaneous, subconscious world-building. These documents are intentionally vague whether by literally censoring certain parts of the document or just the fact that these documents read as being based off of indirect observation as to provoke a sense of confidentiality like you're not supposed to be reading this. As a result, you begin to put things together in your mind and the result is truly horrifying.

 

On the subject of vagueness, I observed another interesting feature of good horror development. This time its from ya boi Junji Ito, a horror manga artist. Ito's style of horror pretty much takes half the effort of reading a SCP file by providing visuals and more fleshed out (hehe) characters and settings. The ironic thing about this is that Ito rarely ever puts any effort in actually developing characters. While pretty much all his stories feature "main" characters, they are never really elaborated on. This may just seem like bad writing, but its actually completely intentional. You see, the focus of these stories are never on the characters themselves. They are just a means of eliciting the actual horror from the story. They're like paintbrushes and the fucked up spectacle of horror is the canvas. This way, the reader will never develop any real attachment which would take away from the spectacle. You are merely here to see some people get absolutely fucked up.

 

A final thing I'd like to speak on is rationalization or rather the human need to make sense of what we see. When I was younger, I watched Friday the 13th Part 7: The New Blood and remember just shitting myself as I watched Jason Voorhees go to town on a bunch of helpless teens. Well... at least until the end. You see, in Part 7, one of the main characters is a girl who possesses telekinetic powers. She and Jason face off and long story short, she wrecks Jason. At that point, I was completely over this movie. By introducing some overpowered character that can face off against this brutal psychopath, the movie rationalized my fear of Jason. Up until then the movie seemed like a pretty wholesome (lol I'll stop) horror movie but the fight felt completely out of place. Its almost like the writers suddenly decided they wanted the movie to be a superhero movie which is total bullshit. Now going back to Junji Ito, he likes to end his stories (well, at least his best ones) on pretty precarious spots. He pretty much just goes "Lol, the end I guess" and leaves it at that. But that's the thing, he doesn't neuter the horror effect by wrapping up the story. He leaves you with pretty much nothing except a shrug and the dreaded feeling of not knowing what happens after. His job as the creator of the story isn't to make sense of what he's writing, he's just giving you a scenario and showing what happens when shit hits the fan in that scenario.

 

That's about all I have time to write on so again, I'd like to know what you guys think makes a good horror story.

[A Proposition.]

Wasn't Sucker Punch nerfed in Sun and Moon?

 

Honestly, if you're losing against AI with the most baitable move in existence, you probably need to rethink how you play this game.

[Talking to people]

I have pretty much the same problem.

 

After I meet someone new and introduce myself, there's always that awkward silence that comes afterward.

 

Introducing yourself is never enough to initiate conversation. You just gotta go in and get the ball rolling.

 

Don't put too much thought into everything you're going to say and don't be afraid. This isn't a job interview, first impressions shouldn't matter that much.

["Colige" starter pack]

27 minutes ago, Chase said:

You know, I wouldn't mind stealing the gloves personally. If you're paying lab fees as a part of your billing statement that semester, are you really stealing them?

 

I'm not trying to actually ADVOCATE theft, but:

 

• Take when your billing statement has taken from you. If you have a technology fee for example, use your printer points and the campus computers. It saves you from HAVING to buy a printer or hassle someone who has one. Especially if your printer points don't roll over to the next semester.
• Supplies that are given out for free at a university, probably aren't actually free. Check the stuff you pay for on your statement, and it will make you feel a lot better about using things that belong to the school.

Here's a story that may help some of you out.

 

My university has three different types of currency.

 

• Meal Swipes - "Swipes" are essentially admission to the campus' resident dining hall. They are doled out on a weekly basis and don't roll over. If you eat in the cafeteria, you probably are using a system like this. Try to save these when you can, because you can run out before the weekend and not eating on the weekend can suck.
• Dining Dollars - Dining Dollars are used at "on-campus" food establishments. For example, there is a Starbucks and a Chick-Fil-A on campus, as well as a sub-sandwich joint in the student union building. These three locations are spots that use your Dining Dollars. Dining Dollars can only be used at places on campus and are often tied to your meal plan along with swipes. The less swipes you have (as a dormitory resident), the more dining dollars you might get to compensate. These are very easy to spend, and they may not be re-loadable because you've already purchased them through your meal plan. (worth checking out) This is a good currency to "treat yourself" after a successful battle with an exam.
• "CruCash" - (my school mascot is the Crusader) - CampusBucks or...something, can be used at VARIOUS locations. They can be used in a pinch at on-campus locations that range from dining to the campus bookstore, and local off-campus locations that range from restaurants, to salons and spas, to gas stations, to the movie theater. This currency is given out each time the semester begins based on something like which living situation you have (dorms, apartment styled, etc.) - and they DO roll over!

TRY TO SEE if you have CampusBucks. Sometimes, for those of us that aren't stipending our campus living with a job, the campus can feel a little claustrophobic and you will need to get away. If you're not a freshmen and had no idea they existed, you might....accidentally realize, that you have around 750 bucks in CruCash lying around and decide you're going to watch at least one movie every month, buy some swag from the bookstore, and actually eat a steak every once in a while.

 

Some of you may have more than I do!

Holy crap I thought you and I actually went to the same university when you said your campus had a Starbucks and a Chick-Fil-A and also used Campus Bucks.

 

Then I saw your school mascot and realized we weren't.

[Things HoshiDOES that Nohr doesn't.]

Setsuna.

 

That is all.

["Colige" starter pack]

Depending on how your school handles printing, you definitely want to have your own printer or at least get to know someone who does.

 

At my school they charge like .25 cents per sheet and I just really don't feel like going all the way to the library just to print something.

 

Thankfully my roomate allows me to use his printer as long as I pitch in for more paper and ink.

 

This Epson Expression Home XP-440 will set you back 50 bucks but it sure makes printing stuff more convenient. Not to mention its nice to be able to help others around you out when they need to print something as well.

[Do you like the Map to rotate or the emblem that is your character?]

Rotating map confuses the hell outta me sometimes.

 

I feel its better to sort of physically "see" where I'm looking on the map.

[I cant do this anymore]

If I were you, I'd take this as an opportunity to fully dedicate yourself to a goal such as succeeding in school and finding a place of your own where your annoying ass mother can't reach you.

 

Life is basically chock-full of uncomfortable situations. What sets you apart from the people who have unfortunately chosen to end it here is that you're still around to change things for yourself and maybe even the people you care about.

 

Please, do not stop here. Treat your situation as a catalyst to improve your life, rather than destroy it. A mere change in perspective can go a long way.

[Thank you for playing]

Jeez I hope you're ok.

 

Hope we see you around in the future.

[Oprah Winfrey for President?]

Crisis averted!

["Colige" starter pack]

If you do buy a laptop, at least be sure that it has and relatively high capacity SSD. I cannot stress enough how big of an improvement SSDs are in terms of speed over ordinary hard-drives.

 

The laptop I have currently came with a crappy 1 TB hard drive and I ended up buying a 256 GB Samsung SSD. Setting it up as a boot drive means my laptop starts up in less than 8 seconds. It may be smaller in terms of capacity but it definitely makes up for it in speed. Depending on what kind of laptop you have, you can even install a SSD and a HDD by replacing your optical drive with a hard-drive caddy. Just switch your HDD with a SDD and put your HDD into the caddy. You probably won't ever need your optical drive so its a pretty good trade. Alternatively, a lot of new laptops now have M.2 slots which allow you to install M.2 SSDs which are physically tiny but provide all the benefits and capacity of a regular SSD.

["Colige" starter pack]

You definitely want a good laptop. Nowadays they're becoming much thinner and faster. Some ultrabooks I'd recommend are the Dell XPS 13, the HP Spectre x360 and the Asus ZenBook UX305. They're absolutely tiny but unlike older netbooks, they aren't complete garbage.

 

If these choices are too expensive for you then I'd suggest getting something like a Chromebook like the ASUS Chromebook Flip C302. This is about a third of the cost of the HP Spectre x360 which is IMO the best out of the three I mentioned earlier but it'll definitely get the job done.

 

The HP Spectre is still absolutely bonkers though. Its tiny yet it still packs a Nvidia laptop-grade GPU which can actually run some newer games pretty well at low settings. Not to mention dat 4k resolution. Full disclosure though, I would never recommend you buy this just for gaming. There are so many better options that are significantly cheaper. But if you want a fast, good lookin ultrabook that can pull its own weight and then some, this is what you'd want.

[how long do you think the forums will last]

INB4 Nintendo buys domain from Amy.

["Colige" starter pack]

1) A sleep mask

Never in my life have I wore a sleep mask. Even on airplanes. It was only after like the first week of living on-campus where I was like "Yeah, I'm gonna need one of those sleep mask thingies." Luckily for me, my parents used to work for a pretty big company that would send them on business trips semi-frequently and they got to fly in business class. So they had a major abundance of those complementary airplane kits with the toothbrush, mouthwash, comb and of course, a sleep mask. This may be different depending on the people you room with. Since I was placed into overflow which is where they take a study lounge and fit 6 people including myself in there for a semester, there was always someone using their laptop or had their desk lamp turned on. I didn't want to bother them so I figured a sleep mask would be the perfect solution and sure enough, it was.

 

2) Water boiler

Ok so technically its against the rules to have water boilers in dorms at least in my university. But hell, you're bound to break the rules sooner or later. Plus it is just too useful to ignore. Whether you're slurpin ramen or brewing tea, you gotta have one of these things. Lol every time there were dorm checks we would hide ours inside a drawer or something like it was booze.

 

3) Mini vacuum

Again, this may depend on the people you room with and how tidy they are but since I was rooming with 5 other people and I'm kind of a neat-freak, I got me a mini vacuum and used the hell out of it. This obviously goes without saying but if you don't clean your room you're bound to attract uninvited guests like roaches and rodents. The amazing thing was that even though there were 6 of us guys living in the room, we never had any encounters with pests. While the entire hall itself had dead roaches and a rat problem. Some university halls will provide their own vacuum cleaners that you can rent out but they either suck (lol like they're terrible), or are just too inconvenient to get.

 

4) Multi-tool

This is IMO a lot more useful than bringing like a single knife. I've got a fishing multi-tool that is basically a folding pair of pliers with a knife, scissors, screwdriver(s), file and even a freaking miniature saw. You never know when you're going to need one of these things for example one of my roomates was experiencing some problems with his laptop charger. I busted out this little beast and opened up his laptop and quickly diagnosed the problem as a faulty port connection and a dead battery. Now later on I decided I'd buy a dedicated toolkit with all the bits and stuff since I was upgrading my laptop's storage but the multi-tool would've worked just fine on its own.

 

ADDENDUM

Alright so right after I posted this I remembered something really important. Its something you should not  bring to your dorm either because its too big of a hassle to move or you'll just end up not using it at all. So one of my roomates bought his monster gaming PC which had to weight almost 20+ pounds. How do I know this? BECAUSE I WAS THE UNLUCKY FUCK WHO HAD TO HELP HIM MOVE IT OUT. In the 4 months we've lived on-campus, he only used that thing a grand total of 6 times and only 1 time for actual gaming. I shit you not. And the thing is, HE ALWAYS WENT HOME DURING THE WEEKENDS. Later at the end of the semester he admitted bringing that thing was a terrible idea. He also had a pretty large gaming monitor which probably was fairly heavy itself.

 

So I highly recommend that that you just bring a laptop as that'll be a hell of a lot easier to move around. If you still want to game on a PC, just invest in a decent gaming laptop.

[An accident is haunting me]

Accidents happen. IMO the only way to get past these sort of things is to push onward.

 

Those payments are obstructing your path, so please just accept the help from your parents and get that stuff out of the way. I understand it may feel like you're burdening them, but I'm sure you'd do the same for them (hopefully). Family are supposed to look out for one another after all.

 

Don't let shit from the past keep you from moving on with your life.

 

This may sound kind of fucked up, but I would be relieved to know that instead of accidentally inflicting that sort of harm onto to someone else, you took it instead. Believe me, the guilt you would feel from that would be considerably worse.

[Oprah Winfrey for President?]

Just now, NickCrash said:

That's exactly what's happening when Oprah is seriously considered as a candidate for the presidency.

Lol then its our duty as citizens to do whatever is legally within our power to stop this.

 

Simple solution is just to not vote for her if she by some miracle manages to become a candidate.

 

I seriously doubt that would even happen. I think the only reason this is even being discussed is because a vocal minority and the media just blow this shit completely out of proportion.

[Oprah Winfrey for President?]

1 hour ago, Odybld said:

Oh come on, you had Ronald motheraeffin Reagan when the Soviet Union wasn't just a thing, but also under Brezhnev. Most of you just can't handle it that your current prez has an annoying twitter. If you want to play the responsibility game, imprison George W. Bush for some nice crimes against humanity and then we can talk. 

 

Politics in the US are a bunch of sugardaddies betting on two different groups of chore boys, while having a friendly discussion over just how hard everyone and everything around them gets effed, from the people to the planet. Trump hasn't made any big difference, Obama didn't, the only recent one who did was a warmongering criminal. But he doesn't have an annoying twitter so who does even care about the consequences of war? Not the biggest superpower on the planet, that's who.

 

So either if you think that Oprah can win the voting game or believe political acumen, it's all the same in the end

 

Yeah I may be feeling just a tad cynical, so no nice grassroots and discussion things from me to be said

What's your point here? Just because we've had or have bad presidents doesn't mean we should just say "Fuck it." and vote whatever random person we happen to arbitrarily like into office.

 

If its all the same in the end, we may as well just end the world right here right now. That's the real endgame anyways right?

 

Trying to prolong this pathetic human existence as much as possible. /s

[Oprah Winfrey for President?]

wHaT COuLd pOssIBly gO WrONg?

 

 

 

[The 'That Feel When' topic]

TFW you used to whiteknight Bungie before any Destiny 1 DLC was released.

 

We all have regrets...

[Was 2017 a good year in gaming?]

Lol holy shit I honestly forgot how much fun I had playing DDLC with my friends.

 

We hooked up my laptop to my friend's TV and we stayed up till like 3 AM playing this game and we were just slowly losing our minds.

 

Spoiler

My fucking friends were so reluctant to try this game since we all thought this was it was just another dating sim, so the moment we saw Sayuri fucking hanging from a ceiling we pretty much gave into playing through the entire game.

 

By far the most hilarious part was when Monika was like "Or is your name really [MY ACTUAL FUCKING NAME]" since we named the character after one of our friends as a joke. My friends were rolling around on the floor laughing and screaming and I just walked out of the fuckin room when I saw that, I was just done.

 

This game kinda changes with who you're playing it with, or if you're even playing it with anyone. I feel like I would be a lot more creeped out by the game if I were playing it by myself. But when you play with your friends, the game goes from a psychological horror to the funniest goddamn game ever.

 

[Was 2017 a good year in gaming?]

Nah Ubisoft, Activision, and EA have always been figuring out new ways to screw over the consumer.

 

Take a look at For Honor. More P2W items, and not to mention PEER TO PEER CONNECTIONS.

[Was 2017 a good year in gaming?]

Good games will be around every year as well as shitty ones.

 

The only problem now is the shitty games are getting hyped and backed by big-name companies before they're released, only for the consumer to realize after the game released that the game is a travesty.

 

This year the issue of microtransactions pretty much caused a peak in internet outrage as Eat Ass (EA) tried to get around the lack of a season pass of SW Battlefront II by jamming it full of P2W lootboxes.

 

From a triple game developer and a game that had so much riding on its success, this was a completely new low for the industry.

 

For this reason, I feel like the games that were released this year that were already good, just got elevated to near god-tier.
 

Zelda BOTW, Nier Automata, Resident Evil 7, Wolfenstein II, and Nioh. All these games were good, hell even amazing to begin with. Its these other shitty games contrasting with them that makes them soooo much better.

 

So yeah, 2017 was pretty good for video games.