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israel would literally disintegrate without america's apparently unconditional financial, military, and logistical support. the president has immense leverage over israel even without support from congress. it's completely relevant here

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Off Topic / Re: how have the last 5 years been for you?

« on: November 03, 2023, 02:05:12 PM »

i feel like i lucked out immensely. only the last two or three months of my undergrad were affected by covid, and i graduated with a full time offer as a software engineer in 2020 right before the job market went to stuff, helped my parents buy a house with a super low mortgage rate (2.9%) and the waves of layoffs havent affected my team so far. graduating even one semester later would have forgeted up my life so bad. the year before that was awful im not gonna go into it but my family had lots of financial difficulties and now we're doing a lot better cause i can help pay their bills

the covid lockdown was a blur i just oscillated between zen solitude and boredom/depression, i did lots of working out and rotting in front of the computer and after lockdown ended i was super sick of being online all the time

after covid i felt a lot of uncertainty/ennui about what i want to do next, i have the job that ive wanted since high school and i have a lot of time and money but i had no goals or direction after that. in the last year ive been playing a lot more music w/ other people and it's been really rewarding and fun. im gonna focus on that for a while and hopefully start recording and releasing stuff soon

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Off Topic / Re: i f ucking died

« on: September 07, 2023, 12:11:32 PM »

Real

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Off Topic / Re: Subpixel is now rotating boards?

« on: August 24, 2023, 06:07:50 PM »

Quote from: Soukuw on August 24, 2023, 04:14:08 PM

But why would a banned user want to archive the forums? If I'm understanding Zapk is subpixel and did this https://gyazo.com/0de6b98e4c420ce7f5480016e8ccf297

Seems like the worlds worst dos attack still imo

this place is a massive trove of blackmail material

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Games / Re: does anyone here use DPI cycling while in-game

« on: August 23, 2023, 08:21:10 PM »

i feel like in theory on-the-fly DPI switching could be good in CSGO. good CSGO players use very low mouse sensitivity in order to improve their recoil control, but the disadvantage of that is they can't turn around very quickly. you could kinda get the best of both worlds with a mouse button switches DPI while held

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Off Topic / Re: What's something you miss from the 2000s?

« on: August 14, 2023, 07:27:16 PM »

Quote from: Metalliku on August 14, 2023, 07:22:25 PM

i mean i couldn't really say they're gonna or could make a resurgance anytime soon beacuse as i said, these were very varying in quality, and people mostly remember those that would be considered the bad ones. but i still felt worth remembering myself of these for the friends i've made back then that i still talk to this day and for the "chaotic" fun i've had reading and making them, oh well.

every other kind of nostalgia is shamelessly capitalized on so its just surprising it hasnt happened yet, as ppl our age get further into their media careers maybe itll happen

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Off Topic / Re: blockland: the community that killed the game

« on: August 14, 2023, 06:56:10 PM »

im lowkey goated

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Off Topic / Re: What's something you miss from the 2000s?

« on: August 14, 2023, 05:35:18 PM »

Quote from: Unova2 on August 14, 2023, 02:27:31 PM

where are the people who like something extremely niche and try to share it to the wider forum, which in itself is composed of people with vibrant personalities?

its weird because the internet completely exploded the monoculture, which you would think would make people more interesting and unique in general, and it kinda did for a while. but now media, both social media and traditional media, is very cliquey and compartmentalized by age, political beliefs, and class, but within those subcultures it also feels like everybody is similar. the combination of smartphones/social media and the pandemic gave everybody NEET psychosis for 3 years, we're more neurotic and self-absorbed. so in some ways we're all more similar and more predictable to one another than we were.
the vibe i get from a lot of people my age, particular the ones who have a consumer-based identity that they express with fashion/music/etc, is that they all fit into surface level archetypes. those kinds of identities used to be grounded in participation in some kind of real world communities but they're increasingly less so. for example you can dress like a skater or a DIY music guy without being active in either of those scenes and you wont even be called a poser because stuff like that just naturally diffused throughout the culture. and all of this stuff kinda stems from the ability you get on social media to carefully curate your "personal brand" via your profile so that you appear exactly how you want to. its 0 risk to claim some subculture or identity that you dont really participate in outside the internet

and in like 2007 it sorta felt like people had not necessarily good, but unique lives outside of the internet and that just made them feel like live wires, but now we're all more similar and too familiar with eachother because almost everybody is on the internet now.

also to be fair everything just feels more novel and vibrant when youre like 12 years old, thats definitely part of what youre feeling

Quote from: Metalliku on August 14, 2023, 05:27:22 PM