what are some good irc channels? preferably on rizon.

One thing I especially love about anime is how it can transcend
political correctness, and touch certain taboo social issues that we
cannot touch over in America. Let me give an example of what I mean.
In the Ranma1/2 manga, Akane once takes a strength potion by accident.
Not surprisingly, she's loving every minute, being able to beat Ranma
in arm wrestling, but he keeps on trying to anyway. However, when she
finds that the potion is starting to turn her more masculine, and
starts growing facial hair, she picks staying feminine over strength.
It ends, though, with Ranma repeatedly beating Akane at arm wrestling,
and her still trying.

Ranma ain't my favorite manga/anime, nor is this my favorite Ranma
story, but it shows why I love anime & manga so. Rumiko Takahashi is
able to such on some prickly topics, and see the humor. Feminists
over here might call her a traitor, but what is truly liberating about
having to show everything as we want them, not as they are?

She is queen indeed.

Of course I'm not talking 4chan as a whole, but specifically the boards that form the outward face of 4chan. What a cesspool! Everyone is always screaming "NIGGER NIGGER FAGGOT FAGGOT TRANNNYYYYヽ(`Д´)ノ". They talk about black guys so much that I wonder if there isn't some sort of suppressed lust lurking just below the surface. Most of that crap isn't even half funny, are they even trying or have they just given up?(Sigh)
This is why normalfags think that sites need domineering moderation to be any good.(;´Д`)

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I would do it.

Would you?

/lounge/ preview makes double posts, kaguya-sama.

B-movies, VHS trash, Video Nasties,Grindhouse Movies, whatever. Which ones do you particularly like? My favourites are Blacula (1972), Lovely But Deadly (1981) and Hardbodies (1984). Which ones are yours?

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This is a subtle tendency, so it will be hard to describe, but have you ever noticed the way that the Net has descended into endless flattery? Basically, have you ever noticed how much everyone is sucking up to each other? It seems like before, in an earlier era, people said what they felt pretty shortly and directly, and most of all confidently, without seeming to have taken others opinions into account before hand.

Nowadays a lot of internet posting seems to lumber around unsure of itself, afraid to be too harsh, too judgemental, or too definite at all. If you try and speak with authority you get cut down for being too strident. People are in a constant struggle to not "seem pretentious". The only exception seems to be for a few non-negotiable acceptable targets,like pedophiles. You can give whatever strident opinions you want in that case.

Basically, a person can no longer say a plain and simple "this sucks". If they say anything at all it's "I don't really like it" or something milquetoast like that. I think the greatest barometer of this shift is the reaction to various elements of the 2000s.You remember right? Nu Metal sucked , reality shows were awful, the music was garbage. People hated the celebrities back then, like Nickelback or Paris Hilton. Now, all of a sudden, all that stuff was just 'misunderstood' and no one can remember why they hated it. They speak with a certain horror about the times when people admitted that shitty things were shitty...
People wonder why Nickelback got hate, people wonder why that crappy Spiderman movie from '07 got hate, and Paris Hilton... It's so weird. I actually remember this weird trend of people mentioning her on Twitter and apologizing for thinking ill of her back in the day--how much of a suck-up can you be??(;´Д`)

Yes, I think music is where this shift is felt most strongly. You can't say ANYTHING about music without a caveat or a concession anymore. I remember watching this old movie, and in one scene, a guy is playing some music, but his buddy rips the album out of the music player and says "You shouldn't listen to this crap--it'll make you sterile." Very brief, very authoritative, with no caveats or concessions---EVERYONE used to talk about music like that.Everyone used to talk about ANYTHING they had an opinion about like that.

I'd say this is just another vagary of the mainstreaming and corporatization of the net; the Net is in use by everyone now, even the most intellectually fragile, who think a negative opinion is like a forcible enema.In a way it's instated this banal sort of 'polite society' where you're not allowed to ruffle any feathers by calling shit shit-- unless everyone else is already doing it.(´ー`)

Good song by Run Nigger Run.( ´ω`)

I made a small script for scraping links to flashes from archives and I need some good archives for that.
I only tried scraping links from 4plebs's /f/ which works perfectly, but it only started saving stuff since 2014 which pretty late...
I thought about scraping from swfchan already but it's slow as fuck and 99% of the time you need to solve a captcha ヽ(`Д´)ノ

I've been upgrading my XP machine lately, so let's talk about PC games from 2000-2006! ヽ(´∇`)ノ

Some of my favorites from back in the day include Max Payne 1+2, Mafia, Splinter Cell 1-3, MoH:AA, Hitman 2-4, Doom 3, Far Cry, HL2, F.E.A.R., and Tomb Raider Legend

Those were all games I played around the time they came out, and I've replayed some of them a bajillion times, but there's still a HUEG number of games from that era I haven't played. Right now I'm playing The Operative: No One Lives Forever for the first time, and... well it's OK, but so far I don't think its as good as the others I mentioned (^^;ﾜﾗ

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In the 90s TV shows and Entertainment started doing this 'self-aware', 'subversive' thing. Basically, every character had to be witty, pop culturally aware, and good at psycho-analysing themselves with loads of big words.

Entertainment had to be self aware--on some level it had to realize it was entertainment. It had to realize it was entertainment and that it was contributing to the rotting of the masses brains via too much TV.(All those TV shows back in the day that ironically told you to watch less TV--I'll bet there was a joke like that on every episode of The Simpsons...)

The self-awareness led to strange trends; a make-believe rejection of corporate culture, a witty (so they thought) skewering of pop culture tropes, a grand, tongue-in-cheek recognition of the 'era' they lived in as being much different from any other, ("C'mon! It's the '90s!"-watch a few things from the era and see how often you run into that phrase, or something like it).

"Pop Culture" became something people were actually aware of-- and something they turned on its head at every chance. Exploitation Movies were recognized as "Exploitation Movies", and after that the genre collapsed.

The creator of Buffy The Vampire Slayer said he created it to subvert common horror tropes, such as the one of "the blonde cheerleader always dies" but soon enough no one could remember any movie where "the blonde cheerleader dies". The creators of The Simpsons created it to subvert the typical family sitcom--and now no one knows what a family sitcom looks like played straight. In the movie Clerks, the two clerks, Damien and Randall spend a whole scene discussing Star Wars. Only once the 90s started could a director give screentime to something so banal as discussing someone else's movie.

The basic principle was that originality had been all used up: culture was entirely self-conscious, quoting itself, recycling itself, mocking itself, inverting itself, doing anything but believing in itself. In a perfect world this would have just been a short phase--but the truth is, the 90s never ended.

Sincerity never reasserted itself. We moved on from the early 90s to the late 90s.We moved from the late 90s to the later 90s.We moved from the later 90s onto the latest 90s, and that awful decade, the 1990s,kept twisting itself on and on so that it might keep surviving in some grotesque form.

Basically I don't think the 20th Century ever ended... That guy who said history ended in 1989 was right I think.ヽ(´∇`)ノ

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In a song called "Ships," the Soviet Union's greatest songwriter
Vladimir Vysotsky stated, "I have no trust in fate, in myself even
less faith." This statement poses a profound challenge to much
contemporary thought in psychology.

According to contemporary psychology, self-faith (or self-esteem) is a
prerequisite for a successful existence. According to this thought,
Vysotsky should have been a complete loser. And yet he was one of the
most successful singers and songwriters in all of history. How can
this be?

Well it turns out that there is a very obvious reason why this can be.
Self-faith and self-esteem are far from the only powers out there.
Vystosky has been described by many people as being "the soul of
Russia." What this means in real-world terms is that he felt what the
people of Russia were feeling and giving these feelings expression.
People love those who articulate what they themselves feel, especially
the feelings that they themselves either don't know how to, or are not
allowed to, express. People love an empath, especially a vocal empath.
So that even someone like Eminem, who expresses the ugliest of
feelings, gets a huge following by tapping into what people are
feeling and expressing it for them.

With Vysotsky, the feelings that he was expressing ranged across the
board of Russian society. He had songs about people fighting in Second
World War; about lovers; about prisoners; about drunks; even about
mental patients. And because of the vast emotional effort that he had
put into feeling and then expressing what others were feeling, his own
feelings were so enmeshed with those of others that, even when he was
only expressing himself - as he did in "Ships" - his feelings still
spoke to those of his audience.

In America, the artists are taught to express their own feelings. This
advice, I have found, is counterproductive. It gets the artistic types
accused of self-absorption even as it fails to develop their ability
to speak to the rest of the world. The vast success of Vysotsky, and
the lack of interest that many people in America have for the arts,
show just how counter-productive this stance has been.

But there is something even more profound in this matter. Faith is by
definition in things that are outside of what it is that believes.
When one is in touch with something that is more profound than one's
self - as was Vysotsky with the feelings of Russian people - then one
does not need to have faith in oneself; indeed one does not need to
have faith period. One is already in touch with a vast and powerful
presence that extends far beyond oneself. And that is a source of far
greater wisdom and far greater power than is self-belief.

Instead of teaching people to look within, it is far more effective to
teach them to look outside of themselves - at other people, at nature,
at other cultures than their own. The success of Vysotsky far exceeds
that of any self-esteeming yuppie, and there is a very good reason for
that. He was in touch with something much deeper than his immediate
self, and he put words to it. And it is for this reason that his songs
are still being listened to all over Russia even 42 years after his
death.

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