IntSys

It's been four years.

It's time to say farewell. 

If I ever make it out there, perhaps you'll see me as a game developer. If not, well, then that's that.

Good luck. Friends, foes, and all the great people I didn't get to know about.

TIL the reason why they only let you input three letters in arcade high scores is because those are for your initials.

My favorite pastime is watching people play video games that I either don't own or don't play.

It is amazing, but at the same time sad, that a farewell was enough to make the memories I have of high school fade into gray, good or bad. Today, I graduated, and from now on, the only high school memory that will last in my mind is the faint smile on the portraits in my yearbook. But perhaps that's still a good ending... A somewhat positive experience above the many fragmented pieces of joy and sorrow.

Recently finished the wuxia novel The Legend of the Condor Heroes. Highly recommended if you haven't read it yet.

Wataten is great. Will recommend.

I just hope that you guys can think the prank through and make sure that you're not having fun at someone else's expense next time

It's all fun and games until your pranks start alienating people affected by them

So please

be more thoughtful

be more considerate

and we can all have a happy april fools for years to come

Today, I read through the entire discussion on the stickied thread about player independence in the Roleplaying subforum, after only reading the opening post three years ago. And now, I really wish that I had read everything back then.

People back then talked about every issue I would come to face in these three years, and I still haven't managed to learn all the lessons they've learned in the discussion on my own. Perhaps the most important lesson I've learned is that I should be giving more feedback in general, as a player and as a host. I really had no reason to be this quiet, passive, and timid OOC. It made me feel distant, and perhaps, uninterested and unpassionate.

For anyone who happens upon this post and still has a bit of interest in roleplaying, I seriously recommend you to read that thread in its entirety as well.

Happy Chinese New Year!

Wanted: A mysterious short novel with just seven lines, apparently written by Mark Twain.

I encountered a supposedly translated version (Chinese) of the work, and I tried to look for the original. But the strange thing is that none of the relevant keywords lead me to anywhere, and I've only been able to see more of the same translation by looking up the translated title. I've even dug into Mark Twain's bibliography and still, I couldn't find anything that comes close.

I'm beginning to doubt if it's even real or if it's just some Chinese writer using Mark Twain's name to get their admittedly decent short novel out there.

Here's one of the "sources" of the translated text:

https://kknews.cc/history/b49nx5o.html

It pointed to a collection of short novels (written in / translated into Chinese) published decades ago in China. Apparently this short novel even found its way into the textbooks of some Chinese schools.

The translated title, untranslated, roughly means "The Last Page of a Husband's Account Book" and its general summary is that a husband's cheating on his wife while buying expensive clothes to blind his wife and mother-in-law, and the plot is given through the list of expenses.

Another key info is probably that this "novel" was apparently published and Mark Twain got paid for it as if he had written a full-length novel, according to the same sources I've found.
 

I'd really appreciate it if someone knowledged in the writer's works could help me confirm if this short novel actually exists.

friendship ended with CHROME

now FIREFOX is my best friend

that's what you get for eating so much of my comp's ram that it lags even when scrolling through pages

TIL 2ch actually has English boards among hundreds of other Japanese boards... And they've managed to be even wilder than 4chan's /s4s/. All twenty-two of them, in fact, and barely anyone talks about topics relevant to the boards.