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| Topic | Pics of anime girls doing cute and wholesome things that make people smile |
| darkmaian23 04/25/22 11:28:31 PM #392 | Flauros posted... No Akko what are you doing!? Put that down!Yay! Cute Akko fan art I've never seen. ^__^ |
| Topic | Pics of anime girls doing cute and wholesome things that make people smile |
| darkmaian23 03/22/22 8:39:02 AM #369 | |
| Topic | Pics of anime girls doing cute and wholesome things that make people smile |
| darkmaian23 12/17/21 5:08:26 AM #292 | ApherosyLove posted... What's your favourite Yuru Yuri ship?I'm not the person you asked, but the objective answer is TOSHINO KYOUKO and Yui. <3 |
| Topic | Sexy Anime Women ver.14 |
| darkmaian23 12/01/21 9:22:56 AM #283 | Returning_CEmen posted... If only she was my waifuLike I said in the other topic, Hestia isn't even the best girl in her own show. Lili and Haruhime are both better, and I'll fight anyone who says different. |
| Topic | Pics of anime girls doing cute and wholesome things that make people smile |
| darkmaian23 10/31/21 7:52:03 PM #254 | Happy Halloween! |
| Topic | Pics of anime girls doing cute and wholesome things that make people smile |
| darkmaian23 08/31/21 4:46:38 PM #202 | |
| Topic | AVGN makes a video criticizing the haters |
| darkmaian23 08/10/21 5:21:52 AM #51 | He doesn't have time to be more involved with the channel because the stuff he does do takes ages because he doesn't know how to do things like work with a computer properly and won't let other people help or "change his process". Love or hate the Screenwave people, you don't think they know enough to have tried to streamline the stuff he's involved in? You think Mike never said anything? Then with the allegations that Bootsy and Kyle Justin both got stiffed on money, I'm having a hard time feeling sorry for James. Unless you have a partner who makes enough money for you to be stay at home mom or dad, everyone with kids works and has to feed their family. If James worked for somebody else and they saw how much time he was wasting working inefficiently, he'd have been canned by now. Not paying people for their work--especially longtime friends--is the worst. The announced Mike leaving with no fanfare, almost as an aside. Did James finally stiff him too? |
| Topic | For all the atheists and agnostics here what was your gateway to that belief? |
| darkmaian23 08/07/21 6:21:16 AM #14 | I was raised in a Christian home and the smartest adults I knew were also Christian, so I was certain there must be something to it. Eventually, I decided there must be answers to all those questions I had that nobody cared to answer. I was a very angry person once I started to study religion seriously, because I felt like I'd been lied to my entire life. To this day, I have no idea how anyone could conduct serious scholarship on the Bible without becoming an atheist. |
| Topic | Pretty scared right now |
| darkmaian23 08/07/21 5:59:15 AM #3 | How did it go? Everything OK? |
| Topic | Pretty sure i have BPD |
| darkmaian23 08/07/21 5:58:55 AM #10 | If you think you might have something serious like a personality disorder, you should speak to a qualified mental health professional. |
| Topic | Do you feel lonely when you watch a video with comments disabled? |
| darkmaian23 08/07/21 5:57:27 AM #1 | Do you?
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| Topic | Favorite Chrono Trigger party member? *spoilers* |
| darkmaian23 08/07/21 5:54:18 AM #55 | Growing up, I had a huge crush on Lucca. I always wished Schala were playable too. |
| Topic | Are people actually purposely fucking stupid or do I expect too much |
| darkmaian23 08/06/21 6:57:13 AM #5 | When the giant meteor finally gets us, we'll deserve it collectively as a species. |
| Topic | How has the board adjusted now that CalypsoDoom is gone? |
| darkmaian23 08/06/21 6:56:39 AM #112 | I don't miss her at all, but I do miss Rika Furude. Always good to see more people who think Australia is a real place that people come from. |
| Topic | Telekinesis is by far the most coolest/useful power. |
| darkmaian23 08/05/21 9:57:50 PM #20 | Deny. I want magic healing. |
| Topic | "I'd wish for unlimited wishes" people are lame |
| darkmaian23 08/05/21 9:56:47 PM #18 | BloodMoon7 posted... You know what I wish for the genie to die. That comic strip made me realize how horrible his life must be but he cannot do anything but grant wishes. I will release him from his pain.Are you sure you won't become the next genie in his place? |
| Topic | New COVID variants Epsilon, Lambda may be resistant to vaccines |
| darkmaian23 08/05/21 9:03:24 PM #27 | Does it affect people who have already had COVID? |
| Topic | "I'd wish for unlimited wishes" people are lame |
| darkmaian23 08/05/21 9:02:01 PM #11 | It'd be silly not to get as many wishes as possible, especially since you won't know before you start wishing if there are rules or tricks to the process that haven't been disclosed. |
| Topic | Apple plans to scan iPhones for child abuse imagery |
| darkmaian23 08/05/21 6:15:04 PM #98 | @dj1200 dj1200 posted... So, every image on our phones will be open to monitoring? First of all, that's going to be a shitload of images to review, second, major privacy breach.Anything you upload to iCloud will be scanned by machine learning and/or compared with a database of abuse material managed by the government. Any matches will be sent to a human that works for Apple, and then passed on along to law enforcement if they think the flag is correct. |
| Topic | Apple plans to scan iPhones for child abuse imagery |
| darkmaian23 08/05/21 5:51:04 PM #91 | It's interesting that people in CE seem to understand and care about the implications, while most of the folks posting in my topic on the Politics board think this is a good thing. |
| Topic | Apple plans to scan iPhones for child abuse imagery |
| darkmaian23 08/05/21 4:44:25 PM #86 | There are two halves to this. First, the new technology will scan everything that gets uploaded to iCloud, but will only alert a human staff member for review if it passes a certain threshold of confidence that the material you are uploading is illegal (this part is very vague). Second, everything children send on iMessage will be scanned for sexually explicit content. Parents will be informed if it finds any, and this feature can be turned off by the parent. Most cloud services reserve the right to scan for things like this, but when last I checked, they generally opted out of doing much of it. I'm not a lawyer so I can't say if that's because of legal issues, privacy issues, shitty technology, or customer trust. |
| Topic | George RR Martin promises fans a new ending is coming for the books. |
| darkmaian23 08/04/21 8:02:22 AM #27 | Goatsensation posted... Meanwhile Sanderson slams out like five novels a year.Do we know for sure that none of this stuff is done by a ghost writer? Not even Stephen King in his prime could match that pace. It almost seems impossible. |
| Topic | are you scared |
| darkmaian23 08/04/21 7:53:26 AM #8 | The thought of death being the end of everything, and how my personality, memories, and abilities are all contained in a gelatinous mass that can be easily damaged or destroyed. Everything just feels so fragile. |
| Topic | Cop threatened to kill his tenant and sell their child over rent dispute |
| darkmaian23 07/31/21 7:21:36 PM #21 | I thought Canada supposedly had better police and a better criminal justice system than the US? This is almost worse than a lot of our cases. |
| Topic | is it legal in California to possess a gaming PC? |
| darkmaian23 07/31/21 2:04:40 PM #12 | ProfessorKukui posted... It is the distant future year of 2022, you are sitting alone, in your room. Over the low but constant drone of the 30 or so high intensity grow lights for your clearly not legal farming & the hum of your PC fans keeping you company, your hear it. The sounds of sirens. "Must be another murder or some such." you smirk to yourself, "The price of living in the city." Please stop triggering my anxiety... |
| Topic | Is there a way to actually contact Amazon's Customer Service? |
| darkmaian23 07/31/21 1:35:15 PM #1 | An item shipped to me broken and I applied for a replacement. However, the order of the items shown to be me changed when I was selecting which thing to return, and I selected the wrong thing because it looked just like what I wanted to return. I haven't actually even received the thing they are replacing yet, and I won't be getting a replacement for the thing I did get that is broken. If my account is ever reviewed, it'll look awfully sus that I got a replacement for a broken item I hadn't received yet, and I still won't get the thing I need. Is there any way to fix this? |
| Topic | NYPD officers sexually exploited 15 year old gorl |
| darkmaian23 07/30/21 10:47:44 PM #27 | According to the OP, the officers exchanged illicit photos with the girl. Whether they were just sending photos of themselves or receiving photos from her, that's sex offender territory, and there is no need for the victim to cooperate with the DA's office to charge them. @darkprince45 Do you have a pro-cop stance for this? |
| Topic | Police altering evidence from gunshot-detecting AI |
| darkmaian23 07/28/21 3:01:36 PM #24 | You beat me to making this topic. It shouldn't be possible for officers to request that the company "find" additional evidence they want, and the fact that the prosecutor dropped the evidence rather than allow the product to subject to analysis is pretty damning. I mean, it does work doesn't it? Maybe darkprince45 can't request evidence alterations, and maybe he thinks it works just fine most of this time, but this case and others like it suggest that a closer look is needed. |
| Topic | The older i get the less i feel like deeding. |
| darkmaian23 07/25/21 11:42:05 AM #7 | AmericaTheBrave posted... Your sex drive decreases as you get older.Yeah, but not a ton, and certainly not all at once. You may want to get that looked at. |
| Topic | 0.99999 does not fucking equal 1 |
| darkmaian23 07/24/21 10:14:51 PM #8 | Guide posted... inb4hyperrealsI came into this topic to post about the hyperreal numbers. Usually though, when people are argue about 0.999... not equaling one, they think it isn't true for the real numbers (if they even know what those are). |
| Topic | Anime and Other Stuff General V192: "Please Sir, I Want Some More" |
| darkmaian23 07/24/21 9:04:17 PM #341 | Calwings posted... I can't remember if I asked this before, but has anyone here watched Vinland Saga? And if you have, do you think it would be too gory for me to handle?How gory is too gory? It's pretty violent. |
| Topic | Do you think life in the 80s and 90s was objectively better for most people? |
| darkmaian23 07/24/21 12:19:19 PM #1 | I wasn't an adult in either decade, but based on my family and town, I do think life was better for most people back then. Money went further. Diverse small businesses existed. In person socialization was more common, and folks actually talked instead of texting each other. Politics weren't as divisive, and the bill of rights wasn't on such shaky ground. The air and water seemed cleaner. People were friendlier. Is that all in my head? |
| Topic | 100 CIA officers and 200 US officials and kin sickened by 'Havana Sundrome' |
| darkmaian23 07/24/21 12:19:14 AM #9 | ScazarMeltex posted... So, we are going to acknowledge this supposed nonsense but we spent 2 decades or so refusing to acknowledge that Gulf War Syndrome was a thing.It matters when the important people get sick. |
| Topic | FBI says it got more than 4,500 tips on Kavanaugh |
| darkmaian23 07/23/21 7:23:27 PM #9 | Rhylos posted... Given the media circus around the hearings, I'm willing to bet 99% of those tips were bullshitWell now! As long as you are willing to believe it, it must surely be true. No need to actually do a real investigation and tell the truth. Just pretend you did and lie after a future supreme court justice acted like an unhinged lunatic on live TV. |
| Topic | Thug Cops at it again taze 75 year old man and plant evidence |
| darkmaian23 07/23/21 7:21:10 PM #11 | BobanMarjanovic posted... Why did you actively search for videos of cops doing bad things? Why not search for cops doing good things? Do you have victim mentality? Because the bad things still happen and we all have a right to know about it? How about you explain why jail time isn't merited for things like this? Why is losing your job enough? |
| Topic | Anime and Other Stuff General V192: "Please Sir, I Want Some More" |
| darkmaian23 07/23/21 7:07:20 PM #335 | |
| Topic | Can someone explain to me how more crime and less police is a good thing? |
| darkmaian23 07/19/21 9:39:15 PM #97 | Is darkprince45 a troll? |
| Topic | Can someone explain to me how more crime and less police is a good thing? |
| darkmaian23 07/19/21 7:58:29 AM #82 | This entire topic is disingenuous. There isn't necessarily a correlation between more police and less violent crime. Our entire judicial system is horrible and feels like something from a third world country. We arrest so many people in America that over 90% never get a trial (you know, the thing where they have to prove your guilt that everyone is guaranteed to get if they want one). If you opt for a trial, you often have to wait years and will be on the hook for much more serious charges to penalize you for executing your constitutional right to a speedy trial (and some courts have a near 100% conviction rate despite a not so small rate of false convictions that are out there). The trouble starts with the police. According to the Supreme Court, they have no obligation to protect you. They are just there to enforce whatever laws please them. And given that the average American adult unknowingly commits around three felonies per day, they can find a reason to arrest anyone they want. They can beat you, maim you, or even kill you and face little to no repercussions. Even when huge scandals break, like when officers are caught planting evidence or trying to pin unsolved crimes on black people, the officers involved just get administrative leave or have to find a job somewhere else, if anything happens at all. Federal policing is almost worse than state or local policing. The feds are at the forefront of the battle against civil liberties, common sense, and the truth. The ever increasing power of agencies like the FBI and NSA haven't been shown to have much, if any, positive impact on serious issues like terrorism or child exploitation. And yes, there have been shocking cases of FBI agents assaulting private citizens for essentially no reason and the courts doing nothing because qualified immunity. What kind of people are going to be drawn to a job with vast power over people, the ability to do violence to others, and no accountability? Certainly not the best. And with many departments using IQ tests to weed out potential cops that would be too smart, not the brightest either. Short of dissolving the bill of rights, we do everything possible to make policing horrible, and yet people are still framed as unreasonable lunatics when they want something better. It's insane. Are there good officers out there? You bet! But the reforms people desperately want won't negatively impact good cops doing an honest job, so what's the problem? There is far too much circling of the wagons where the good cops try and pretend that all the officers are like them and that reforms are unfair. They aren't. The tired saying about only criminals needing to fear the police would be true if they were all good people who did an honest job and could be held to account when they didn't. But that isn't the world we live in. |
| Topic | 18 and kicked outta the house WHOO |
| darkmaian23 07/18/21 9:45:02 PM #82 | OffTempo posted... I did not know this. Not gonna do it though. I'm hard pressed on money atm, don't know any lawyers, and its not like my family has money. She is taking care of a family member too so I couldn't put them in a financially stressful situation.I know a thing or two about shitty family. It sounds like you have a good head on your shoulders and are getting things sorted out, but you need to understand: you don't owe your family a thing if they suck. We are conditioned both biologically and socially to try and get along with family no matter what they do. Resist this urge. Some years from now, your Mom might be in a different place and maybe you can reconnect. But people don't change without a lot of hard work, and the type of person who would toss out her own son or daughter and want them gone from her life for no real reason isn't likely to do that. It gives me strong Cluster-B Personality Disorder vibes. Your mom is showing you who she is. Please believe her for the sake of her well-being and sanity. If by any chance your apartment falls through, you might still be able to snag a dorm room at your college. That often sucks, but it does make everything easier because you can roll your meals and housing into all of the other costs and will have less to think about. Even when you are fresh out of high school and presumably in good health, this kind of thing takes a toll that you might not see coming. Do what you need to do to take care of yourself and move on with your life, but be careful about over extension. I hope everything works out for you! |
| Topic | In mature, well-adjusted people, are hobbies supposed to change every few years? |
| darkmaian23 07/18/21 9:30:44 PM #1 | I was just browsing some self-help threads on Reddit, and I saw some people discussing how they felt behind the curve socially because their friends have different hobbies and judge them for the ones they've kept. In my experience, people tend to think whatever the people in their social group are doing is superior, and will look down on other less important people in their lives if they don't follow the same trends. Plenty of successful folks like professional athletes have nerdy hobbies like Pokemon or watching anime. I think the other factor in terms of social "maturity" is whether or not you have a long-term partner or children. People with kids can't go out as much, and they like to give their childless friends a hard time because they become jealous of the free time and lack of responsibilities they used to have. This often gets framed as the childless friends supposedly being less mature when it is simply a matter of different life choices. Maybe it's something in the water in the part of the US I'm from, but you'd be hard pressed around here to differentiate between a socially immature person and the crazy or semi-crazy folks who manage to exist without going to jail or a mental hospital. People just meander through life doing whatever and want to think their lives are more interesting and important than they actually are. Most people live boring lives, and an awful lot of the time, the well put together people are only putting on a front. But I'm just a poster on a dying message board. What do I know? |
| Topic | What JRPG should I force my way through |
| darkmaian23 07/18/21 9:13:12 AM #11 | Kloe_Rinz posted... did you ever play any trails games? |
| Topic | any updates for President Trump for next month? |
| darkmaian23 07/14/21 5:50:45 PM #10 | Trump is no longer president. The claim is that he'll somehow be president again in August, but there is absolutely no legal mechanism for that so it is all nonsense. |
| Topic | been using gimp for about ~ an hour and i hate it with the fire of 1000 suns |
| darkmaian23 07/13/21 8:27:22 AM #17 | @Medussa It might be because it's early, but I'm not a hundred percent sure why you think you need to buy anything. Might be my fault too for not being clear. If you are making 2D game art, you are either doing pixel art or vector art. For vector art, you can get professional results with Inkscape. For pixel art, you can compile Aseprite from source if you need it free. If that's too much work, you can use Piskel which is a free online tool. For 3D, there is Blender. All of that is free. If you want paid, Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo are best value for the money, but you don't need either of them for game art. https://github.com/aseprite/aseprite https://www.piskelapp.com/ https://inkscape.org/ https://krita.org/en/ https://www.blender.org/ |
| Topic | been using gimp for about ~ an hour and i hate it with the fire of 1000 suns |
| darkmaian23 07/13/21 8:14:27 AM #14 | @Medussa If you want to make pixel art, buy Aseprite (or compile it from source if you want it free; learning how to do this if you don't know is less painful and quicker than using Gimp for literally anything). If you want a cheap photoshop alternative, buy Affinity Photo. For vector graphics, go with Inkscape and buy Affinity Designer later on if you think you need it (there is a generous 30 day trial for both Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer). If you want to do digital painting, download Krita. There is no reason to use Gimp for anything. Just don't. |
| Topic | Am I the onlyone that finds it dumb the Conjuring is just based on scam artists? |
| darkmaian23 07/11/21 2:51:51 AM #12 | It doesn't matter if they were fakes (the supernatural isn't real, so how could they be anything else?), it matters if the movies were good. And I think they were, especially the first Conjuring. |
| Topic | Anyone here use skillshare, and is it worth the money? |
| darkmaian23 07/11/21 2:49:17 AM #9 | If you look around, you should be able to find a coupon or something for a trial. It was a while ago and I don't remember quite how it worked, but I was able to try before paying for a year. I think the idea for skillshare is solid, but whether or not you like it depends on the skills you are trying to learn. Some skills just don't have a lot of content, or it's just bad content. Some of the courses are recycled content from Udemy, so depending on what you pay, you can actually save some money that way. Generally, the production values tend to be lower than what you'd find on a good Youtube channel or Udemy course. You need to try it to see if it fits your needs. |
| Topic | Anime and Other Stuff General V192: "Please Sir, I Want Some More" |
| darkmaian23 07/10/21 1:05:12 AM #270 | Calwings posted... Kokkoro isn't best girl (that would be Pecorine) but she's still very cute and very high on the PriConne best girl tier listKokkoro is the light that makes all the other characters shine. |
| Topic | "Burnout" is not a badge of honor |
| darkmaian23 07/09/21 8:49:37 AM #18 | Squall28 posted... Depends what you want out of life. I respect people with strong work ethics. Whole lot better than all these whiners we got now.Yeah, fuck everyone who wants a living wage for the hard work they do. They should just work longer hours for shittier pay on the back of a once-in-a-generation global pandemic while the obscenely rich just get richer and our politicians refuse to do anything for the working class. I live in a small town. Our local clinic laid off a ton of people during COVID, hired some of the young ones back for less pay, and care has gone to shit. One of the rich executives was sending out solicitations for donations from local communities the clinic system serves so they can have enough money to continue operating smoothly. The videos were clearly filmed in a multi-million dollar home. It's almost cartoonishly evil. |
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