No.21098
just checked - even blue cheese isnt really blue
No.21100
>>21099Huh? It says they are endemic to the US.
No.21109
I got kicked out of a student club today. No explanation given. I never talked about controversial topics. Last time I was there, I talked about Doom with some other guy. Why are normals so difficult?
No.21133
>>21109Super cringe of them and a definite red flag on their end. Instead of talking to you and mediating or even giving you a second chance or just a warning, they boot you from the club. You should report them for that lol. For what? No idea. Do it anyways since school staff > student clubs every time. Bonus points for getting reinstated to their dismay. Still, it shows their lack of character to do that to you, so sorry that happened to you sushi-chan. :(
No.21145
>gotta go to the office tomorrow
>can't fuggin' go to sleep
>:[
No.21151
Reminds me when Randy Feltface set up that exact question to answer with: "Blueberries are purple!" Nah, I just looked at the wikipedia article. Totally a dark blue. Not a "slushi blue", but it's blue.
No.21156
>there are no blue foods
>proceeds to mention blue foods in the same sentence
what
No.21157
>>21151They might be blue on the outside, but there's no way to extract that blue without mixing it up with the purple on the inside. Overall I would say they are more purple for that reason.
No.21160
>>21157Honestly, I think both opinions stand on their own merit. I say blueberries are blue because they're blue on the outside while you say the purple on the inside counts as well.
No.21168
my partner's dog passed away today. I really loved her (the dog), she was really special (the dog).
No.21171
>>21169It gets worse every year. The older you get, the shorter each year seems in comparison to the rest of your life.
No.21183
>>21169Who cares, civilizations last longer than our lives, species last longer than civilizations, planets last longer than species and suns and galaxies and so on.
We're nothing in the grand scheme of things, may as well just seat ourselves comfy in this ride called life.
We are all going to the same place in the end.
No.21184
>>21183im worried because i want to make as much of this life as possible…
No.21185
>>21183Every civilization was built upon the shoulders of those who came before. Farms were made possible because of the countless generations who cultivated plants, not knowing the reason why. It took so many generations to domesticate cattle. The pyramids were built across many lifetimes.
Every forefather had a mother. Your life matters, because you're part of the march of life. Life is an unbroken chain that goes back 4,000,000,000 years. And you're part of that. You share a common ancestor with every living creature on Earth.
Make the most of the time you have, because everyone that comes after you will be working with what you left behind. Do everything. Make art. Carve your name into stone. Let the world know that you're here, and you matter, and be remembered forever.
We live in the age of information. Now is the best time to make yourself known, because the internet can immortalize you. Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage, against the dying of the light.
No.21187
>>21185There's billions of people that were never remembered, no need to sweat it.
No.21189
>>21187Millions will be, and I want to be among them.
No.21190
>>21189What an attention whore
No.21193
what if, to get your driver's license, you also had to do a mandatory first aid course? the reason being that as a driver, you are now like 100000x more likely to injure someone or be injured in a car accident and as a result, you should have to have some basic understanding of first aid.
No.21250
>>21185The pressure to be somebody important is intolerable. Chasing after immortality is futile. Nothing lasts forever. Especially now in the information age, where people barely remember anything. Chasing after wealth, fame, immortality etc is pointless. Just enjoy the small things in life and be thankful to God and don't worry so much about being remembered or making a mark. You can make a mark in small ways.
No.21252
>>21250Nowhere in my post did I mention chasing wealth, fame, or immortality. I mentioned that you COULD be immortalized by the internet, but not that you will or should even try to. My entire post was about getting out and just doing something worth doing. Like, as mentioned in the post, making art and architecture. Leaving something behind for the next generation to build upon. Making the world a better place for future people.
Yes, you CAN make a mark in small ways, but you should strive to make the biggest marks in the best ways. And I will not be thanking "god", I will be thanking the people who came before me who made the things I enjoy, I will be thanking my friends who are alive today to help me through dark times, and I will be thanking myself for what I have done and will continue to do. People built the world, "god" has done nothing for me.
No.21253
>>21252>I mentioned that you COULD be immortalized by the internetNot literally. I don't think there is any single person immortalized by the internet. The endless mass of information means that any one individual is quickly forgotten or made irrelevant. Who was a huge eceleb years ago is a nobody now, and who is huge today will be forgotten tomorrow.
>Leaving something behind for the next generation to build upon. Making the world a better place for future people.The next generation is not going to build on anything you pass down to them. Your antipathy to God is a good example of that. One person rarely has the influence to shift paradigms or hand down values succeeding generations follow, only states, corpos, and universities can tweak whatever art, fashion or belief system is dominant at any given time. Anything underground slowly gets forgotten or hollowed out and commodified. The harsh reality of our world is that real everyday people sink into insignificance. But I agree with the last part.
>Yes, you CAN make a mark in small ways, but you should strive to make the biggest marks in the best ways.Good things, friendship, and art should be done for their own sake, not for the sake of attention and being a narcissist obsessed with leaving your mark on the world. Unless you mean to be utilitarian, which is a whole other can of worms.
>People built the world, "god" has done nothing for me.The world predates us and it will be here long after we've all turned to dust. We did not build it and we shouldn't take credit.
No.21254
>>21253How does antipathy towards "god" evidence that the next generation will not work with what we made? The next generation will live in the houses we built today. Those houses may be funded by large special interest groups, but the houses were built by people. Plumbers, carpenters, concrete layers, people built everything we work with today. The computer you use was made possible due to the labor of programmers across the last 40 years. You live in a building you didn't build yourself. You eat food that has been domesticated by humans who lived tens of thousands of years before you. One person can do many things, and everything done by a group is done by many individuals working together. Those people do NOT sink into insignificance just because you don't know them, you benefit from your labor while pretending they never existed or mattered. You live in a stew of ignorance and hypocrisy. How can you agree on "making the world a better place for future people" if you think no individual should strive for greatness? When I say the "world", I say the "world" instead of "Earth" or the planet. Because yes, the planet predates us. But we made the planet into a world. A place full of culture, history, art, architecture, and beauty. And every single human that has ever lived was a part of that. Just because I refuse to worship a "god" (more specifically, YOUR capital G "God") does not mean I'm not working with what the people before me made. It just means that I'm applying modern reason and evidence to past claims. I'm no more "antipathetic" of your "god" than you are of gnomes. The people before me believed in them, but I see no evidence for it.
No.21255
>>21254>Those people do NOT sink into insignificance just because you don't know them, you benefit from your labor while pretending they never existed or mattered.But its precisely because you don't remember them that they've become insignificant. The computer I use is simply one of many of the same design mass manufactured according to a blueprint. Its a copy of a copy. The Congolese child that mined the ore, the office worker that designed the processor, the Shenzen line worker who assembled it, did not leave their mark on the product, at least not more than any other worker made faceless by the system. The computer is the product of a logistical system larger than any single person and which makes its individuals members irrelevant. Behind the branding and corporate marketing, the people who made it are sushi rollymous unknowns, unimportant and easily replaced at the swish of a manager's pen. Anybody else could have taken their place and it wouldn't make a difference. Its alienating and indistinguishable from any other machine of the same model. An artisanal piece of furniture or a painting embodies the artist. Every little identifying mark, every personal touch, their life and soul is poured into it to produce one thing unique and just for me. Its why the bad drawing my niece gave me is worth so much more than any tech product I own.
>Because yes, the planet predates us. But we made the planet into a world. A place full of culture, history, art, architecture, and beauty. And every single human that has ever lived was a part of that.Why should I privilege what humans have made over other living creatures? Birds and bears don't have architecture (besides maybe nests and dens) or music, why should I think of myself so highly for being part of a species that has these things? I am sure birds look at us all proud and boastful. And what have we humans achieved in the grand scale of things? Volcanic eruptions dwarf our nuclear weapons and they sent rock and ash into space long before our satellites. Sea turtles have better navigational skills than we could ever hope for. Dolphins conducted wide area networking via ultrasonic waves a millennia before our sonar. We don't have a right to own this world to the exclusion of other beings that live here, and we shouldn't claim we invented everything that makes the world great based on our own self-serving criteria. After all, we have made beautiful things, but 'we' have also made nuclear weapons, poisoned the air with toxic gasses, and dumped so much waste into the environment that even our blood stream is now contaminated and we have microplastics in our brain tissue.
>Just because I refuse to worship a "god" (more specifically, YOUR capital G "God") does not mean I'm not working with what the people before me made. It just means that I'm applying modern reason and evidence to past claims.You're right in one sense: that atheism and modernist 'skepticism' are simply an inherited belief system maintained by authority that is reproduced by the people educated into it. But are these beliefs really grounded by reason and evidence or is it just cultural hegemony justified through self-serving criteria?
I guess the point I'm making here is that 1. If you seek to immortalize your self by building stuff, nobody will remember you anyway because you're yet another faceless nobody, and even what you build will rot away or end up in landfill. 2. Modern culture seems to be founded on this Nietzschean attitude where we are told we're supposed to use our individual freedom to fill the world up with uniqueness and meaning, yet this very attitude is contradicted by the harsh depressing realities of the very system we live in. Getting out and doing something to build a name for yourself or contribute to some amazing human project has never been more futile. I don't mean to be super pessimistic here, but these kinds of ideas aren't working for us.
No.21281
>>21267I know the feeling sushi roll. Even opening emails is stressful for me.
No.21332
>>21327I don't answer any phone calls/texts or check my inbox at all. I end up missing out on things because of it.
>>21295Suggestive is better than explicit lewd. Look at it. Close your eyes. Now fap. It feels a lot better.
No.21357
After purchasing some delicious ready-made chicken baked with cheese and sauce, I grabbed a pair of wooden chopsticks from my kitchen drawer and sat down. The chopsticks were the same you'd find in a cup on the counter of any establishment with motive to provide them: cheap quality in a paper wrapping, on which was "delicious" written in the squiggles of the east. Say what you may about the environmental impact of using single-use products rather than washable chopsticks, I quite enjoy the feeling of breaking them apart. The comforting sound of the wood splitting and two halves that are symmetrical enough to call even but never smooth enough to call perfect; Such a thing has become a ritual of sorts.
Alas, after attempting the simple act of picking up a morsel of chicken, I found one to be cracked. Not lengthwise as one would expect, but right across the middle. The rigid structure that would allow me to hoist the chicken towards my mouth was lost entirely, replaced with a loose swivel made of the remaining thin wooden fibers.
"Shogunai," I thought to myself. I experimented with eating the chicken by impaling it with the remaining good chopstick, though not before trying to use a grip low enough such the half-length of sturdy matieral would be plenty. However neither method could serve to not detract from my meal.
I would not let my meal be as flaccid as this broken chopstick. And so, I sought out to double the sticks of kindling I would expend for this meal, I took the chopsticks to the kitchen bag of burnable trash, cast them into the depth along with some banana peels and used kitchen paper. And retrieved a new pair from amongst the many that filled the drawer.
I swear to you, the chopsticks were picked with no bias from among the pile of parallel paper wrapped pairs, a number no more than the amount that had been used so far without a single failed stick. But amazingly, the second pair encountered the same issue. A snapped and useless stick.
Still, I was not deterred, this story was not one of anguish, I would simply try again to select a functional pair.
But I was left with a realization.
A chopstick is not except half of a pair of chopsticks. For this meal I may have had two broken chopsticks, but that was not all of the chopsticks I had opened thus far. There were not two chopsticks total, but four. The two broken sticks, and their two perfectly functional counterparts. When the first chopsticks had been "broken", I threw them both away without a second thought.
I retrieved the third pair. As I used them to eat my chicken, and they functioned exactly as designed, I couldn't shake the feeling that this pair was meant to be used another time on another chicken. That the true chopsticks meant for this chicken were the second widowed stick beside its broken partner on the table, and the first widowed stick beside its broken partner deep in the trash.
Perhaps the lesson is to use washable chopsticks. Perhaps the lesson is to not discard even broken tools before the task is done. Or perhaps there is no lesson at all. But the chicken was delicious.
No.21358
I just had two pairs of chopsticks in a row where one of the sticks was broken
but I already threw out the first pair
so I couldnt just match the remaining non-broken sticks up, I had to get a third pair
I think theres some deep meaning to be extracted from this
No.21359
>>21357The lesson is that proper care should be given to good things. You threw away a pair of chopsticks because one of its components was defective, and only half-heartedly appreciated the remaining chopstick's utility. You gave up immediately after seeing another defect on the next pair, but realized after that it might've been the wrong choice. You were lucky that the next pair was functional, and subsequently lucky you didn't throw away the chicken for not having a good enough pair of chopsticks to match it.
No.21367
I watched a random short about accent slip ups.. I wasn't aware that people faked accents?! Need to start practicing that too…
No.21371
>>21367Very normal to "fake" the local accent if you relocated.
No.21378
I wonder if Mokou poster wears a hair bun.
No.21387
>>21379I want a gf that has a hair bun all of the girls outside don't wear them. They dress really ugly and disgusting. Hair bows deserve to be more common.
No.21392
I find real life too depressing and painful to deal with. I want art to be an escape. I need to develop a skill of some kind that will help me make art that will help me escape.
No.21394
>>21393Sounds resource intensive. I'll try it but I'm not sure my 10 year old machine can handle 3D modelling.
No.21395
>>21394if your pc can run 3d games it damn sure can run blender!
here is a nice series to get you started if you like anime low poly style like i do
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcaQc6eQjXCxWXmn5jxE_GTOft9ZxChu1 No.21400
Spectrum doesn't exist. If you aren't drooling non-verbal, you can do it.
No.21402
>>21400If Spectrum doesn't exist, explain this photo.
checkmate, nerd
No.21418
>>21417This anime deserved better.
No.21420
>>21407nah I'm glad all my music and cringe music video are bitrotting away into nothing.
No.21424
I hate clouds!!! Regardless of the weather, if its sunny its good. If you don't bring rain with you to nourish crops, then don't come over here at all, dumbass cloud..
No.21476
There is no place online where you can have halfway serious and critical discussions on any topic that doesn't descend into cheap shit flinging or people attacking you for killing the mood then people complain about how everything is low effort shitposts and hate speech. Comfy imageboards are the worst because people spend all day doing nothing but avoiding their problems. Channers whine about normalfags but they are the ultimate one-dimensional nobodies.
No.21480
>>21477Hard to say. Yesterday, I went to a club and sat down and they were all using Twitter-Reddit speak and it was incomprehensible. Is there a difference between online and irl now? There was a time when you could have rich conversations with people, but as net culture slowly colonizes the meatspace there are less and less opportunities to interact with people and the same no nuance necessary rage culture slowly takes over life.
>>21478Didn't mean to be harsh I'm just frustrated.
No.21484
I wish people would post more and this place had more of a community. I try to post when I can but you can't just talk to yourself all day.
No.21495
Isn't it insane that there exists a specific album which would change my life if I heard it but I will never find it. I have to enter the correct combination of symbols on my keyboard in the right order and press enter and it will be instantly accessible, but I don't know the order so I'll never get to hear it.
No.21505
>>21504cool bug what is it?!
No.21506
>>21505Gauromydas heros. Its native to South America and the largest known fly species.
No.21510
>>21506that's awesome, I thought it was some kind of assassin bug! I love his big claw-paws and orange antenna :>
No.21519
>>21515He's a Dendrobates Tinctorius "Cobalt", I love him!
…At least I think it's a he, it's hard to tell with dart frogs and this is my first.
No.21520
>>21519He's cute. I like his colors. To bad you can't cuddle frogs, especially dart frogs.
No.21521
>>21520Yeah, while they aren't poisonous in captivity, it's not even good to hold them without gloves cuz the oils and stuff on your skin is bad for them. He's great fun to watch though, and pretty brave about hopping out to say hi when I bring him his flies.
No.21523
some of my favorite animals are a frog, an owl, and a small crab.
No.21524
>>21523specific individuals or just them generally?
No.21529
>>21527i liek the big starry jelly
No.21531
Over the last year, some of my relatives started using twitter. Now it’s impossible to talk to them at family meals. All they talk about is race hate, satanic conspiracies, and Jews. They are stupidly easy to dupe with AI content and you can’t convince them it’s fake. They used to be nice to talk to until they stated using twitter.
No.21532
>>21531same but dad with facebook. i consider him alzheimer'd
No.21544
>>21533Get a regular sleep schedule. It helps.
No.21564
>>21534C'mon.. you spoilered this, too? Don't be ridiculous.
No.21565
>>21563Post lewds on /lewd/ not here
No.21567
>>21565What is the cutoff point? That's the issue. Some people jack off to trains. I am way more lax about what lewd is. What
>>21534 contains to warrant getting spoilered?
No.21569
>>21567Let’s cool things down a little. I’ve never seen someone jack off to trains. You do raise a good point about
>>21565 but this thread probably isn’t the place to debate it or get heated about it.
>>21568>I saw kid’s vagina just yesterdayUhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
No.21570
Do you want to make family-friendly a website where literal child porn gets posted daily? There was a kid's vagina here just yesterday for everybody to see.
No.21571
>>21569Ahh - that was worded badly. I saw it here!!!!
No.21576
>>21570Where did you get the idea that sushigirl is a "family-friendly" website? Do not misattribute the soft and kind nature of this place to a pampering for the immature. You have to be above 18 to post here anyways.
Or did I misunderstand you?
No.21578
>>21577Since when was sushi safe for all audiences? Like all imageboards it gets hit up with CP from time to time. Still, a comfy site isn't supposed to have lewds out in the open otherwise it would descend into endless porn dump threads.
No.21579
>>21578>since when was sushi safe for all audiencesbruh, thats not what i am sayin
>lewdswell it annoys me. why one oversensitive baby gets to dictate what is lewd and what isnt?
No.21581
why would you hinge your argument on what's SFW enough based on illegal spam bot posts that get deleted lol
No.21582
>>21581I visit and post here so often it makes little difference to me that cp gets eventually deleted.
No.21590
I don't expect sushi to be family friendly, but also I don't expect it to be a thirst trap. There's a difference between "awww that's cute" and "jorkin my peanuts to half-naked anime girls".
No.21592
>>21582There is a board for lewds. You post lewds outside the lewd board and they get deleted. You yourself call them lewd then nitpick over the definition of SFW. lewds are welcome on their designated board. everything has its place sushi.
No.21596
I call them lewd but it was a girl in lingerie at absolutely worst. I have never posted nudity before, maybe light innuendo. My posts still kept getting spoilered or deleted, so yeah - I got really sad about it.
No.21627
>>21527my mum bought a pen with one of these characters on it, it's cute. She called it a "chiweewee" www
No.21634
>>21632Just shill it on ibs like I do.
No.21639
>>21638shilling on /mu/ or other designated places guarantees you're seen 90% by other musicians not music listeners, which is why you had a bad experience
i wouldn't take a post like that personally and i would still do it, but don't expect much
No.21648
Why are there so many ignorant people?!?
No.21655
>>21648There will never be a straight answer to this question. The internet has increased levels of ignorance in society because instead of thinking people use a search engine or AI trash bot. Then most of the information they consume is actually wrong or ridiculously over simplified. These same people go on to produce more content for others to consume so you get a human centipede level circulation of 3rd 4th and 6th hand shit. Then this stuff migrates into the fleshspace and physical books and academic publications are shaped by the massive word sewage. Slowly, real knowledge is lost and people can't tell fool's gold from the real deal and we all wind up ignorant.
No.21674
There’s no group of people I dislike more than the online critical theory consumer crowd. These mindless drones will consume video essay after video essay, maybe read a book or two, then act like they are fucking Neo. You can’t have a straight conversation with them because they are always trying to show off and dunk on you. They are like pilot fish, except they hug celebrity academics instead of sharks and mimic the elitist snobbery, phoney radicalism, and nasty bullying behavior of those degenerate ivory tower goblins. But the worst thing is that I see myself in them and I hate myself for it.
No.21679
I wish this place was less dead. It’s too quiet. A little bit more site traffic would be good.
No.21682
I need to work on my anger issues.
No.21683
>>21679What are some things that could be done to solve this problem, do you think?
No.21684
>>21683go back in time to when imageboards were in vogue
convert it to one of those trendy liveboards
advertise in places where anime girls are popular
allow /pol/
new rolls can't makizushi so we shouldn't encourage fast growth. fast growth is verboten.
No.21691
>>21679I wonder if this thread has contributed to this. There are a few posts here that could be their own threads. The only way to liven things up is make new threads.
No.21718
>>21717Me too but flying lessons are too expensive.
No.21729
I said "god bless you" to someone and they begun raging at me because they were an atheist and apparently its offensive.
No.21730
>>21726what's the search engine??
No.21736
>took family to eat outside where normally it costs me and me dad about 50 dollars
>ended up costing me 120
Not gonna order Dashdoor for a while now
No.21742
I’m stressed out. I have two big assignments, two job applications. Very inch of life is dominated by fear. Something bad feels like it’s around the corner. I tried to cool off by playing some vidya but it didn’t work at all. I feel overwhelmed.
No.21746
>>21730To find old sites use Marginalia, Wiby, or Stract (with the indie blogroll optic for that one)
>>21731First I heard of Cuil. I've only heard of previously mentioned plus Kagi and Right Dao.
No.21749
>>21746>First I heard of Cuil.Sorry it was an old person joke. Back in 2008 the new search engine Cuil was launched with much fanfare and claims of how it was going to kill Google. Cuil flopped and was shut down within a couple years.
No.21751
>>21730>>21731ah gomen, I used wiby to find them
also zundamon is in kemono friends now
No.21786
my head hurts
No.21792
I randomly woke up at 2:30am, found out my package was stuck at customs because my country changed some shit and now I'm required to provide them with some data everytime I import stuff. Looking for the form I had to fill made my sleepiness go away and I wasn't able to get any sleep for the rest of the night. Ugh.
No.21795
I wonder if the 4chan drama will lead to bad actors finding their way here? Hopefully not. It seems most are too clueless to know about altchans anyway.
No.21797
>>21796I cannot BELIEVE that I literally just went to this site and saw this thread at the top after watching this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8Teaku7IMY No.21798
>>21109I would write down everything that you can remember happened at the club so that you don't forget and it's organized. Then I would report them.
No.21800
>>21795Haven't been back here in years myself, but if 4chan stays down this'll be my new permanent internet home.
No.21801
>>21795I'll be on my best behavior I promise
No.21803
>>21802Its only been a few hours and I already miss s4s
No.21806
I had started browsing [s4s] a few months back. I never was able to fit in, I wasn't too funny and most of my posts were ignored.
But that was the case for 4chan in general most of the time. It was an addiction rather than something I enjoyed.
No.21808
Its funny seeing slow altchans suddenly go high traffic because 4channers have a compulsive need to post somewhere.
No.21810
I hope 4chan comes back, I am not ready for an imageboard sphere shakeup. It would just be good enough if it stays down for a few days so I can be reminded/encouraged to check all the places that I haven't truly browsed in years. I do wonder where everyone will go otherwise though. 4chan has a big population and it doesn't seem like anywhere has really absorbed it. Or maybe I'm just not in the know of the new altchans that are in a position of notoriety to attract the refugees. All the old altchans have seen basically no change. Though it has also only been a few hours. Yeah the more I think about it, even if it does go down for good, the vast majority will probably stay as dead as before.
No.21812
>>21811Dogs can't drive!!!!
No.21813
>>21812i know that
but do they?
No.21814
>>21810i didnt use 4chan much in the last 10 years but im worried about the few threads there which talked about topics which no where else on the internet does… im going to really miss them and the other 6 sushi rolls who shared my specific interests
No.21824
If 4channers flood sushi it will become very uncomfy.
No.21826
>>21742i've been there sushi. are you feeling any better now? if not, maybe go for a walk to clear your head. i tend to go crazy when i'm stressed and inside all day, but some fresh air always helps
i'm also struggling with job applications at the moment – i'm finishing uni in a month's time and i still don't have a job lined up. i'm cautiously optimistic that i'll get a return offer from the company i did my internship with, but i really don't want to go back to working retail or something similarly uncomfy after 4 years of uni :( No.21831
>>21826I've decided to do one thing at a time and focus on the moment instead of panicking. If I fail, then I fail. I tell myself it doesn't matter.
No.21838
>>21824sushi rollymous imageboards are only as stable as their community's ability to self-police. If we see a rise in uncomfy posters, we let em know this isn't the place for that and then get mods involved if they keep it up.
No.21839
>>21814>but im worried about the few threads there which talked about topics which no where else on the internet doesI frequent a few threads like these. Sucks if they're really gone but I can accept that happening. At the end of the day, I guess that's just the transient nature of imageboards at work.
Though, I still do hope I can reconnect with the good chaps on those threads.
No.21840
>>21838Self policing works when there's a small trickle of newbies coming, but it can't account for large numbers. Thankfully the number of 4chan diaspora coming seems low, and the moderation cares a lot for the place so we may not have to worry too much about it.
No.21841
>>21839Its probably not gone for good but those niche threads might be gone in the future.
No.21842
>>21808I hope 4chan never comes back, honestly. It felt like a Sisyphean sludge pit and I feel altchans (with good moderation that hasn't lost its care for its userbase or imageboard culture) could be great breeding grounds for a second coming of sushi rollymous posting.
No.21844
>>21843I reccomend giving a shot at an elimination diet to see if it might be something else causing your woes. Sometimes this sort of thing either solves an issue like that or makes it more pronounced, but at least you'll know for sure.
No.21846
>>21843>gas-related chest painsMaybe different people are affected differently, but I've never experienced that from lactose.
You can try lactase pills. They work pretty well for me, but might be different for different people.
No.21848
>>21842Or it will lead to altchans becoming like 4chan
No.21858
>>21848I honestly think the average 4chan user would be too uninterested to seek out altchans and would opt for Twitter or Reddit. A good deal of them already use one or both sites and treat 4chan as a shitpost dumping ground for when they have some inflammatory take they don't want to potentially get heat for elsewhere since it's tied to their accounts. That said, I'm anxious as to whether 4chan dying for good would be beneficial or not. I'm generally a "better safe than sorry" sort of guy who would prefer things stay the same, but I do think there's the potential for decent posters to find their way across the web to populate altchans which are typically much better environments that I'd love to see flourish.
No.21860
>>21858When 4chan goes back up, will these social media users go back and repopulate that site or leave for good? Or maybe they will infest other places? Its nice to see slow altchans suddenly get a lot of traffic but I bet that will slow back down when 4chan goes back up.
No.21861
>>21860I imagine they'd come back, which personally I think is a shame since they typically don't add much to the conversation. They don't treat 4chan as a place to have a conversation but as something to put minimal investment into so for them the site going down for a bit isn't that big of a disruption and it coming back would be business as usual rather than shaking their faith in its presence. I figure the activity will go back down if the site comes back, yeah. I'd bet a lot of the increased traffic is from people who were already aware of whichever sites they'd migrated to and just preferred 4chan for its size, which isn't going to change if it comes back online.
Personally I've mostly just lurked on 4chan and rarely post because the environment typically feels unwelcoming. This situation feels like it holds some symbolic significance to me though, and I'd hope the same is true enough for others to see if not stable activity, then less of a decline if the site comes back. The second wind has been nice. Checking in regularly on sites I'd only look into monthly before has been really refreshing.
As a bit of an aside, I also think the nature of smaller sites does a lot to help deter shitposters who naturally are looking for as much attention as possible from as many people as possible. I can only imagine it'd be less satisfying for them to try and shitpost here than just making a second Twitter account for all their attention seeking.
No.21862
>>21860/pol/ and /trash/ refugee here. found 4chan in 2014 or so. i've only ever used 4chan and haven't rly tried any of the altchans. the only reason I found this site was due to it being an option in Kuroba. I would say another reason for us to head back would be the difficulty to adapt to a new culture. I lurked for a year or so when I first found 4chan.
No.21864
I haven't enjoyed an imageboard since 2019. Maybe some of that energy will come back now, but maybe I'm just old.
No.21865
>>21862you lurked for a year before posting on /pol/ and /trash/?
you must think those boards have way higher standards than they do
No.21866
>>21865I was 14 at the time. I wanted to be a '4chan 1337 haxor' and I memorized the rules of the internet. I like to think I'm less cringe now. Nowadays I just shitpost on pol and browse trash for porn and fanfictions. so I'm still cringe.
No.21867
>>21862I lurked for many years on before attempting to post, mostly out of shyness. As I've gotten more confident in my ability to contribute to an (at least online) conversation I've been steadily getting more active. Even before this recent uptick in activity I'm sure I've posted on altchans more but have lurked way more on 4chan.
No.21868
>>21808I just like to witness history.
No.21869
this imageboard could get some new users by capturing em 4chan refugees
No.21870
>>21869Hopefully not refugees from /pol/
No.21877
>>21871very much agreed meow
No.21896
I miss the Mokou poster
No.21927
>>21896I am here. I took a break from Sushi when Sei retired. I just felt like the site wouldn't be the same without them.
But I'll pop on here every once in a while. It's my home board, even if I'm not a big fan of how it has changed over the years.
No.21929
>>21927The transition is strange. Who even is our new owner? Has Sei retired as of that post or is he retiring in the next few days? It doesn’t look very good.
No.21950
This site is doomed. Sei's departure hails the apocalypse.
No.21962
>>21927> But I'll pop on here every once in a while. It's my home board, even if I'm not a big fan of how it has changed over the years.how do you feel it has changed most?
No.21964
>>21962A higher volume of users that want to change the site's culture. I first noticed it when the "how to attract more users" thread appeared. And since then I've seen quite a few threads from new users who want to drastically change the dynamics of the site.
"not enough people post"
"I keep refreshing and not seeing new posts"
"we need to get sushis into raiding"
"why is porn not allowed on kawaii"
"I got banned on WizChan, help me get revenge"
"sushichan needs to stop having queer threads"
"why doesn't anyone talk about religion here"
"we should accommodate 4chan refugees"
And more than anything else, just junk threads. One of the things I love most about Sushi is that threads are high quality, and can carry conversations across multiple years. Now there are a lot of shitpost threads outside of hell, or threads that could have just been a post in the random thoughts thread (or before that, the how was your day thread).
Maybe I've got rose-tinted glasses. I mean even back then, there were still low quality posts and the occasional "I'm new, what is this place" thread. But I didn't feel as disconnected from the community as I do now.
Or maybe I just got old, who knows.
No.21966
>>21927>>21964I'm not dead yet, and I'm not planning to disappear completely. Transfer's gonna take some time too. I don't want to be the owner anymore but that doesn't mean I will completely stop being involved in staffing, I just don't want to have to keep being the person with the last say on everything, it's exhausting. I expect I will continue to use the sites sometimes, continue to offer tech support, and continue to give input to the staff occasionally.
That said I have been very distant and not paying much attention for a while now. And now that you point out the decline in post quality, yeah I see it. There are a bunch of threads at a glance that need to be moved to /hell/ or deleted. I'll go through it in the next few days and show mod staff what I'm choosing to do with which threads as a training exercise, and I should also write a posting guidelines sticky on /lounge/ while I'm thinking about it. Sorry I've been asleep at the switch. Let's try to turn things around a little while I'm still at the helm. ^^
No.21970
>>21099shinys do not count
No.21971
There is no such thing as a high quality post on an message board. Like bigfoot, they are much talked about but seldom seen. Since the vast majority of people are fake and insincere, no amount of rules or shifting things to /hell/ will protect anything.
I am one such problematic poster and I will continue to post problematically until the inhabitants of this wretched board admit their wrongdoings. Even then it doesn’t matter, because half of them are Nazis anyway. They drop bombs on children and kick the homeless then go post on sushi pretending to be all nice.
>>21964I don’t see quality conversations anywhere. I go through the archive, I see nothing. Its like scribbles on a public bathroom, maybe more coherent but little better.
>”why doesn’t anyone talk about religion here”But I actually liked those religion threads. There wasn’t anything preachy about them. I learned new things by reading them even if they are wordy. Maybe you are just one of those teenagers from the 2000s who has to throw a temper tantrum because the government fed you clash of civilizations propaganda for your morning shot of cable TV.
>”we should accommodate 4chan refugees”I mean this is not the place that will attract lots of them. Sure, there will be a few since their rat nest burned down and nobody’s been doing any clean up around here. But the main conceit is that sushis are somehow different and better than the average 4chaner when there is little difference.
>>21966There’s nothing to turn around. A sleeping sys op is like a weak super ego, it lets everything spill out of the unconscious revealing what was always there all along.
>>21969If you’re going to lie, at least make it believable. You know perfectly well what that word means.
No.21974
Please move all of the meta discussions to /yakuza/. For this discussion in particular, a thread was created at
>>>/yakuza/1366.
Any meta posts under this notice will be removed and the user will be warned.
No.21978
>>21973I wonder whom that might be, There is a feeling that their name begins with m and ends with i
No.21990
>>21979I feel like this picture is a bit silly because Teto was always 30 so why would she have a growth spurt
No.21991
Huh the Pope died… suspicious. Very suspicious.
No.21992
>>21991he had to die sooner or later
No.21997
>>21991Given the times, we should certainly be looking for more developments in the rest of Eastertide.
No.22017
How do you maintain humility and calmness at all times?
No.22022
>>22020For quarrantine purposes, it needs to come back.
No.22032
Does anybody else find it gross that people grow in size? I don't know why, but it's really weird that you're very small in the beginning and then you end up big. Your whole body stretching and morphing over time is Disgusting.
No.22036
>>22032Isn't that how all multicellular organisms work? I never thought of it as being particularly gross myself.
No.22037
>>22036It's disgusting, imagine it happening at 100000x speed and you could feel it from when you were 1 till now, what the fuck.
No.22040
Does anyone else feels some kind of odd or unnatural feeling when they are attracted to a woman? I feel like there is something otherworldy in the sense that "I" am not attracted to the other person by myself, it's like an external force taking action
No.22041
>>22040Love is a metaphysical principal, not just something inside your head. Its natural you feel this way.
No.22056
>>22041I don't think there is anything metaphysical about sexual attraction, it is probably one of the most material feelings one can experience
No.22071
>>22056Sexual desire can be divine and transcendant too. Its not the same as love. There can be love between two people who've never touched and between two people who aren't interested in having sex together.
>>22057Conflating sexual lust and romantic attraction is one of the worst parts of modern culture. Its become a race to get laid. That race spreads deadly diseases, harms women, and leads to a really demeaning culture that treats sex as a measure of self-worth. Its cheapened love and made us more paranoid and suspicious.
No.22074
>>22071It's not a conflation of sex and romance, it's people recognizing sex is fun and good exercise. The whole sex as a measure of self worth has been around as long as humanity has. Nothing wrong with sex for the sake of it if all parties are on the same page. Misogony has far more to do with what you're complaining about (beyond STIs) than casual sex and hookup culture.
>>22056Do you feel this way about all things driven by base instincts? Hunger, fear, greed, material desire?
No.22075
>>22074Yes i do, maybe because my parents are buddhist. I don't think sex is a physiological need though
>>22071>>22057I was reffering to sexual attraction, not love. I agree on the fact that love has something special
No.22076
>>22075Well I do also believe that sexual attraction is a very base, material desire alongside things like hunger and thirst. Not a big fan of it personally but if I'm hungry I eat.
>>22074I don't dislike sexual liberation, but your claim that misogyny can be best attributed to those faults is wrong in my view. Men are also prone to objectification in a hypersexual environment, whether being judged by their performance in bed, the size of their member or believing they're only valuable or "high-status" if they repeatedly prove themselves through pickup artistry. This sort of pressure to perform not only harms them, but reinforces harmful beliefs of sex in general and leads to greater objectification of their partner who will likely also suffer as a result.
No.22081
>>22074People treat love and sex as if they are the same. Love is treated as just an expression of sexual attraction. When people ask who you are attracted to, they are asking about who you want to have sex with. We have flags, organizations, awareness and pride days for sexual orientations. Love is seen as secondary to sexual attraction or just a feeling that goes along with it. We talk a lot about sexual attraction, sexual identity (new ones are invented every day it seems), being sex positive, but there's less discussion of love. Its been pushed aside.
>Nothing wrong with sex for the sake of it if all parties are on the same page.Disagree with the second bit. People confuse law with morality and take consent as a moral standard. This is dangerous.
>>22075I guess if you're a Buddhist then sexual desire doesn't play that much of a positive force in the universe but not all religions think that way e.g. Ancient Egyptian religions, Taoism etc.
>>22076Sexual liberation isn't this great transformation everyone seems to think it is. Sexual culture has definitely changed and these changes might have made it easier for some people but not that much better over all. In more ways than one this social experiment has turned into a huge disaster. Its destroyed good social values, encouraged bad ones, and helped the spread of diseases that have killed millions of people. The pressure to perform is also connected with sexual orientation. There's a constant demand to prove your identity to others by having sex.
No.22082
>>22037it would be extremely painful
No.22086
>>22081I think current sexual liberation is certainly lacking. As with most large scale social movements, it fails to take a holistic view of the situation and instead focuses on one single aspect of society. Letting anyone fuck anyone for any reason without addressing anything else will naturally lead to disaster, given people will be completely unprepared for it. A sexually liberated society full of people with notions of sexuality steeped in pre-liberation thought is an obviously dangerous contradiction. I can understand the reactionary position here, as it's much easier to fall back on what's tried and tested rather than jumping even deeper into waters which have proven difficult already.
For me, the purpose of sexual liberation should be to recognize sex as a potential way of connecting with those you love. Sexual attraction and love aren't the same, but they're still both very closely connected. All love stems from desire, and often people desire others most when sexually attracted to them. The difficulty is in accepting this strong desire without devolving into objectification. Often what people are looking for in sexual partners is validation, they seek an inter-subjective experience. Both men and women are often very much concerned with how their partner is feeling rather than just themselves, as what they're truly looking for in a sexual partner is a connection of shared mutual pleasure and desire for one another. This often gets warped into a self-objectification, a pressure to perform rather than an open and welcoming environment of mutual acceptance. Sexual liberation should be about freeing ourselves from these expectations to perform for others, as well as recognizing the purpose of sex and sexual attraction as a way to enhance the love we have for others.
Again it requires a holistic approach, because what I've said above can easily still fall into objectification and peril as a result of our modern conceptions of relationships and love in general, so what I've written is pretty inadequate to the topic.
No.22087
>>22083What kind of chocolate? I like around 80% cocoa but I typically have to accept less pure chocolates due to issues of quantity.
No.22089
>>2208780% is a very high number, way too much for me.
The one I had was a bar my dad gave me from a company that prides itself on putting 0 slaves in their chocolate. It's only 32% which makes me an uber-casual to most chocolate aficionados, but I think it tastes good.
No.22095
>>22089Hah I saw one of those bars for the first time just two days ago. Decided against it but I coincidentally made a joke about cocoa slaves when leaving the convenience store. If I'd known they were like that I woulda gotten one.
No.22097
>>22095Not that poster but every bar I've had from them has been really good. The irregular segments add a lot as well, like how pasta in different shapes feel totally different even though it's the same stuff.
No.22099
>>22095they are pretty good but also a bit expensive for obvious reasons
the salt caramel variant is extremely salty though so I'd skip that if I were me
No.22101
>>22086For me, the whole idea of sexual liberation is completely flawed and dangerous. Partisans of sexual liberation want to overcome the repressive values of the past and replace them with a new value system. There are several problems with this. The idea that past societies were repressive is a myth, an invented tradition both puritan conservatives and zealous progressives have back projected onto the past. And what are these sexually liberated values? They are very flawed and lead to unhappiness and the spread of deadly diseases.
>The purpose of sexual liberation should be to recognize sex as a potential way of connecting with those you love… All love stems from desire, and often people desire others most when sexually attracted to them. The difficulty is in accepting this strong desire without devolving into objectification.Well, I don't think anyone in the past (except celibate monastics) have denied sex is a way of making a loving connection. But this is not necessary for a loving or romantic relationship at all and modern society's attitude that all relationships must involve sex or sexual attraction is damaging. Objectification isn't necessarily an issue. Many of us like being objectified. We like being the object of affection, attention, love, sexual lust. What's important is how we are objectified and by who. A book your girlfriend gave you is as much an object as disposable packaging pizza box but it holds a lot more value.
For me, the real basis of the sexual revolution was the neoliberalization of sexuality and the massive health crisis, growth of mental illnesses, and incel ideologies are natural consequences.
>>22083Same. But the for some reason the chocolate I ate had this puke like aftertaste. It was really disgusting.
No.22116
>>22101I pretty much agree with everything you say about sexual liberation. A loving and romantic relationship doesn't at all need sex or sexual attraction, this is true. I just think that sex and sexual attraction needn't be restricted to strictly two people who are within some committed relationship wherein sex is considered "part of the deal." I believe sexual liberation should be about separating sex from the relationship as an expression of love rather than a benefit of it. It's an expression that can ultimately be pursued or ignored in whichever way the participants wish. I think that ultimately the sexual liberation I'm encouraging and the sexual liberation you're criticizing are distinct from one another, as both our positions are born out of a dissatisfaction with the reality of the situation. I'm just putting forward what I would desire out of such a movement.
I would like to challenge your claim that objectification isn't necessarily an issue, and that many like to be objectified. When we desire to be objects of affection, attention and love; it's an inter-subjective exchange as we, inherent subjects, desire the subjective appreciation of another. When a person is feeling objectified in the process of being loved and desired, it results in feelings of disassociation whereby they can recognize that what the other person desires isn't them, but rather some assigned attribute of theirs. Objectification necessarily strips us of our personal agency which outside of perhaps BDSM is generally responded to with acute distress. A book your girlfriend gave you holds significance because of the gesture from the girlfriend, the book itself could be replaced with anything and it would hold as much value. Perhaps not as much if it were a well thought out gift, but in such a case what enhances the sentimentality is the inter-subjective connection displayed by her giving you something you like. It shows the two of you are on the same wavelength.
The neoliberalization of sexuality is an interesting topic but I worry if it might be too uncomfy to get into the nitty gritty on. Certainly something to be said given sexual profilicity and a desire to appear as sexually appealing to as mass an audience as possible with the rise of the internet and dating culture.
No.22119
>>22101> Same. But the for some reason the chocolate I ate had this puke like aftertaste. It was really disgusting.Was it a Hershey? I haven't touched milk chocolate for a long time but I remember American Milk Chocolate having this issue due to that company. I haven't been able to go back to candy chocolate after trying Baker's chocolate bars with cranberries. Very nice combination!
No.22120
>>22116Well, I agree with you that sex shouldn't be seen as the reward gained from a relationship but seeing sex as, in ideal circumstances, an expression of love can be an issue. I'd like to see sex as a gift, something reciprocal, but not necessary. Like other gifts, its something that takes place within a relationship, involves acts of giving and receiving. That relationship can be a passionate romantic one or not. And a romantic relationship shouldn't necessitate sex because this has the effect of forcing people to narrow their preferences to their sexual desires or pushing them to have sex when they otherwise wouldn't. People might have passionate feelings for each other but take them nowhere because they don't have any sexual desire towards each other. For obvious reasons of safety, sexual relationships should be committed and closed off to outsiders. I think you're right on the objectification issue but I have a bone to pick with personal agency. Sometimes, loss of willpower is part of love and that can be a good thing. Yes it can be distressing but love involves stressful emotions.
Liberal individualism has helped create a very selfish narcisstic culture where the aim is to maximize pleasure for oneself. The individual is free to do what he or she likes with her body (within some limits), to have consensual sex with whoever and however they like. The 60s sexual revolution really promoted this selfish attitude and combined it with this idea that each person has to find their true self and their sexual identity. And the best way to do that is to transgress traditional rules, to engage in as much risky and taboo shattering behavior as you want. In a way, that's allowed for new kinds of pleasures but its really morally soulless and empty. Sex also can't live up to their expectations either. Both conservative puritans and progressives sexual revolutionaries put too much pressure on a behavior (sex) that's really not that different to eating or other bodily functions. I also really hate the idea of sexual orientations. I can't put my finger on it but the whole idea just sucks.
>>22119Yeah. I never tried it before and it looked interesting. Its probably for the best. I'm addicted to chocolate so maybe I'll eat less if I keep buying the vomit chocolate. Is there a reason it tastes like this? Why would you deliberately make your chocolate taste bad?
No.22121
>>22120They found some chemicals that taste kind of like cocoa, and are cheaper to manufacture than growing & processing actual cocoa, so they use that as a replacement for actual cocoa in cheap candy.
If you want to taste something really vile, try Palmers. They can't even legally call it "chocolate" in the US, so it gets fun labels like "chocolate flavored candy" or "creamy candy".
So anyways, there's a gradient of chocolate quality from US manufacturers. Palmers is basically the bottom end. Most kid-marketed candy like Hersheys/Mars products are partially made with cocoa with some chemical filler. You generally have to go for premium brands to get chocolate that uses only cocoa for flavor.
No.22159
>>22121>chocoalte flavored shell Sounds disgusting.
No.22199
I don't feel like posting here anymore.
