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Banter thread Elliot Alderson 06/23/26 (Tue) 03:09:03 No.222

Come by, drop by, and say hi. This isn't a thread about something. Consider it more like a place to just talk to people.
>pic unrelated

Sol Robeson 06/23/26 (Tue) 03:09:35 No.223

>>222
Oh also I got the trips lmao nice.

Donna Hawthorne 06/23/26 (Tue) 03:29:35 No.224

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>>222
NICE GET

Maelcum 06/23/26 (Tue) 11:12:38 No.225

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>>224
How are you today anon? I just woke up, very sleepy.

The Oracle 06/23/26 (Tue) 11:18:43 No.226

>>225
im at work also sleepy. Reading this book, TEPOU:
Eternal Pursuit of Unhappiness
Its very good, I can upload an epub of high quality if you like. Quite rare.

Switch 06/23/26 (Tue) 12:02:47 No.227

>>226
What's it about? I'm at work too now, but working out in this hotel tier gym we have.

Aeon Flux 06/25/26 (Thu) 03:36:16 No.228

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ive had a pretty annoying week so far, really just waiting for it to be over at this point, end of the week is going to feel so good bros

K 06/25/26 (Thu) 22:17:53 No.229

>>228
Damn what happened Anon? Care to enlighten us?

Lain Iwakura 06/27/26 (Sat) 04:57:14 No.230

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not letting this imageboard be dead.

Sark 06/27/26 (Sat) 05:40:30 No.232

>>229
just some work shit, its in the past now so fuck it

>>230
hell yea, its cozy here but i like the TV and radio a lot. it would be cool to see more people post here. i sent the link to a few of my friends but i think they just lurk which is sad.

people should be more confident and willing to speak up places. back in the day i think imageboards attracted people because of the ability to be "anonymous" and for some reason now it seems they mainly attract people who want to be "invisible"

i talked to one guy that runs a diff ib that gets even less posts than here and he said he gets anywhere from hundreds to a couple thousand users visitinf his site every month but only a few post. everybody wants to be a lurker nowadays, im convinced its a confidence thing. fear of being ridiculed maybe, im not sure exactly

Otacon 06/27/26 (Sat) 10:56:11 No.233

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>>232

>people should be more confident and willing to speak up

I think that usually, people do speak up, but their threads end up getting little to no attention, and so, they get discouraged and just limit themselves to lurk

Some other people don't ever get discouraged and just enjoy lurking for some reason, and it freaks me out dude, its scary

Also, (at least in my case) when entering an imageboard for the first time, seeing threads that are 10 days old with no replies on the top of the page will always tell me that there's no one around and if I make my own posts, it wont get any replies or maybe very few

Specifically with ourselves, another problem has to be the IRC

We have very interesting conversations on the daily and YET, they're just that; conversations on the IRC and not on here

Hopefully that is changing with things like this thread existing

Faith Connors 06/27/26 (Sat) 11:35:38 No.234

>>233
>seeing threads that are 10 days old with no replies on the top of the page
i could understand how that is a killer on lots of ibs but the top 7 bumped threads on this site all have replies less than 10 days old right now so i dont rly get why you are bringing that up but maybe im just stoned

if a thread has no replies its probably cause nobody wants to reply to it

>Specifically with ourselves, another problem has to be the IRC. We have very interesting conversations on the daily and YET, they're just that; conversations on the IRC and not on here
i havent used IRC in ages and dont want to lol i just like that this place looks like the old 420chan. also, thats like.. just how IRC works, man

i guess im just an oldfag bitching about zoomers but you are activating my zoomer senses rn!!!!!!!

Terry Bogard 06/27/26 (Sat) 11:58:13 No.235

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>>234

> but the top 7 bumped threads on this site all have replies less than 10 days old right now so i dont rly get why you are bringing that up

Because seeing the site this active is sadly, the exception and not the norm (AT LEAST FOR NOW!!!)

>also, thats like.. just how IRC works, man

Dont get me wrong arisu; I love the IRC and I talk over there chronically 24/7, BUT, theres a point to be made in regards to how it affects site activity

More chatter in the IRC means that less of the regular users will end up making threads asking interesting questions on the Imageboard, and that in turn will make it so that new users believe that the site is dead as fuk, because theres no threads being made!!

You see what I mean arisu?

>but you are activating my zoomer senses rn!!!!!!!

Your senses are sharp. How did you manage to guess I was a zoomer?

Yasuo Iwakura 06/27/26 (Sat) 12:20:55 No.238

>>235
>Your senses are sharp. How did you manage to guess I was a zoomer?
because you think people in a websites IRC server have anything to do with that sites activity lmao those are two different userbases completely, sure there is probably some overlap but one does not take from the other dude trust me

people post when they want to, people chat when they want to, those are 2 separate things brah

like, websites with Discord servers… that might take away something from the website depending on whats available in their Discord but it fuckin typing in an old ass chat program hardly anybody uses is not the same dude lol

Ross Sylibus 06/27/26 (Sat) 13:01:44 No.239

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>>238

>because you think people in a websites IRC server have anything to do with that sites activity lmao

Oh, but it does have a lot to do about it, at least right now, as we stand, on this specific imageboard

You should come and check the IRC out to see what I mean. Everyone talks there ALL the time, but we don't post here that much

>people post when they want to, people chat when they want to, those are 2 separate things brah

Yea, true, but that still doesn't change the fact that the people from the IRC have an actual discernable effect on how active the imageboard ends up being

A lot of us wish for the imageboard to be more active as well, so it's not just a matter of our personal preferences making it so that the site is not active. Is more so (I'm guessing) A matter of laziness? Who knows

>fuckin typing in an old ass chat program hardly anybody uses is not the same dude lol

I think that the problem resides within this specific way of thinking you seem to have arisu

You believe that hardly anyone uses IRC, when in fact, at least with our userbase, a big chunk of the ACTIVE one that is, does use it, and quite a lot too

Again, maybe drop by the IRC, you'll see what I mean

Max Headroom 06/27/26 (Sat) 13:29:15 No.240

>>235
It's pretty obvious you're a zoomer when you're concerned about growth. The same logic applies to social media, you care about clicks, likes, clicks, comments, etc.

The way I view the chan is that it's a place for publicly posting stuff you're interested in. It doesn't have to be low level, it's about spreading your interest and seeing if anyone appreciates it or replies back to you.

The IRC is more of a closer connection imho. Some of the people have met in IRC and then met IRL. Since the connection is there.

It's not IRC vs IB they serve two different purposes.

Joi 06/27/26 (Sat) 15:08:01 No.241

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>>231
u forgot your admin tag was on 41. But ill forgive u.

Clu 06/27/26 (Sat) 15:19:16 No.242

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>>240

> you care about clicks, likes, clicks, comments, etc.

I care about the same thing you do, it seems, which is this:

>it's about spreading your interest and seeing if anyone appreciates it or replies back to you.

Now, if an imageboard doesn't get that much activity, getting replies back from people becomes a tad bit more nuanced, which is not wrong in itself, mind you. Few posts that are good is a better outcome than a lot of posts that suck ass, but I definitely believe that a site like this can have more GOOD and meaningful conversations happening inside of it. Who wouldn't like that?

If growth is negative, I'd much rather there be none, but then again, I really do believe that it can be good on this specific imageboard. The new people that sometimes come here are very nice and talk about interesting stuff all the time, and I don't see that changing if, say, 20 more users end up becoming regulars

It's not necessary for me to mention it, but since you talked about me being concerned about growth, I'll let you know that asides from this imageboard, I use the internet to chat on IRC and download music on soulseek. I don't use social media

>It's not IRC vs IB they serve two different purposes.

Yea, true dude. No one was talking about one being agaisnt the other though

Brian Oblivion 06/27/26 (Sat) 23:06:30 No.243

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>>242
>>240
alright so I used to moderate some boards on 8chan (don't bully me), and I actually have to agree with the growth mindset. This will sound crazy but if communities are not growing, they are shrinking. This is why everyone things that x time on y imageboard was better than whatever it is now. That time period is the cohort you came in with, so you identify with it the best. I think the instinct to not grow a website comes from that. But without growth, the population of a board slowly logs off and doesn't come back. It won't die overnight, but it will die slowly.
>pic unrelated

Bob Arctor 06/28/26 (Sun) 12:31:55 No.244

>>242
>I care about the same thing you do, it seems, which is this:

So what is the case you're attempting at making?

>>243
Growth should be natural and not artificial

Sol Robeson 06/28/26 (Sun) 12:56:49 No.245

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>>244

>So what is the case you're attempting at making?

That it would be nice for people on the IRC to make more posts here, basically

I get the notion that a lot of new users have been coming around though, so thats really cool. Hopefully theyll stay around

Emma Schreber 06/28/26 (Sun) 13:11:27 No.246

>>245
I agree. More people and liveliness is good. But also brings issues for jannies if people start cp posting

Agent Smith 06/28/26 (Sun) 13:33:09 No.247

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>>246
the site admin here set up a system where every new post gets linked in the irc, it basically forces the mods to be constantly screening every post so stuff like that gets deleted within a couple minutes, if mods didnt see it right away theres like 30 people in the irc that would spam them until they did, i think its a pretty good system tbh

i think they also have some kind of firewall thing that apparently blocks almost all the cp bots or some shit but idk how that works

Mouse 06/28/26 (Sun) 17:05:53 No.248

>>244
Maybe, but you have to get the ball rolling somehow.

Deckard 06/29/26 (Mon) 11:19:34 No.251

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>>222

Every time I do a group project in uni I somehow end up getting paired with 30 year old women who don't do a singular thing to help and get offended by everything I say

I proposed to do a romance visual novel for an assignment that we had to turn in very soon, and one of the female teammates declined because it was "WEIRD"

Leaving complaining asides, she didn't do anything to help with the development of the game. Didn't write a singular line of code, didn't write the script, didn't do the art, NOTHING

And just at the last minute, when we had 2 hours to turn the game in, she decided that it was a good idea to implement AI made code that was broken and that had no real reason to be there

What was the worst experience you guys had during uni?

Sonny 06/29/26 (Mon) 13:17:49 No.252

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>>251
>I proposed to do a romance visual novel for an assignment
no offense but if you were surprised by this you need to think harder about how people might react to the things you say

>I somehow end up getting paired with 30 year old women who … get offended by everything I say
because…. you probably dont think before you speak. which means you likely say things that offend people. thats fine if thats the way you want to come off, but if you dont want to come off that way - maybe think before you speak

>she didn't do anything to help with the development of the game
maybe you forced a project idea on your partner that she wasnt comfortable with?

>And just at the last minute… she decided that it was a good idea to implement AI made code that was broken and that had no real reason to be there
it honestly sounds like you forced your class partner into creating an assignment that they did not want to do, that made them uncomfortable, and that they were not proud to submit

again, no offense - but i think you need to try practicing more self-awareness anon

Snake Plissken 06/29/26 (Mon) 15:03:21 No.253

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>>252

>again, no offense

None taken arisu

I can see how you might have come to all of these conclusions based solely on the little information I gave, so let me explain things a bit further

>no offense but if you were surprised by this you need to think harder about how people might react to the things you say

I wasn't surprised as much as I was annoyed, because these people were doing nothing to help with the game and yet, they where complaining about it (Not mature on my end to be annoyed by such things, I will admit)

I proposed the VN idea with my group and one of the members (We were 3) Agreed with doing it. The women in question first said it was WEIRD, but then, after we had already decided on another approach, said that doing the VN would've been a good idea, because you don't have to produce as much art for it, but then again, we had already taken another route

>you probably dont think before you speak. which means you likely say things that offend people

I don't offend people in general. Just 30 year old women xaxaxa. I do understand why that is though

I'll give you an example:

On another uni subject, with different teammates, we had to do some research in regards to how the image of Christ had been represented in the past, and I described him as "fat" which made two of my teammates (30 year old women) tell me that it wasn't appropiate and that we should change the adjective to something else, like "femenine". Fair enough, we changed the adjective from fat to femenine

My point with mentioning this little ocurrence is to show you how touchy these specific 30 year old women tend to be when it comes to anything that might be considered offensive

I personally dont feel the way they do, but I can respect their points of view all the same; that doesn't make them less annoying though, which is why I'm talking about all of this in the first place

>maybe you forced a project idea on your partner that she wasnt comfortable with?

You could be right, but I seriously doubt it
This specific chick was very vocal about what she agreed on and what she disliked. I know this because she started adding her own fucked up code to the game 2 hours before the deadline without asking me or the other teammate first. That, and also the fact that she disagreed with the VN idea entirely

This chick was not shy, and she definitely wasn't thinking about my feelings, which I think is good in this specific case. We're talking about a uni assigment, not a therapy session

>it honestly sounds like you forced your class partner into creating an assignment that they did not want to do, that made them uncomfortable, and that they were not proud to submit

If they didn't do anything, it was because they were lazy

We all chose what the game was going to be about, and we also agreed on who would do what from the start; If they were unsure about something, they could've said so at any time, but unfortunately, they didn't

This post is very long, im sorry arisu

Bob Arctor 07/01/26 (Wed) 09:25:07 No.254

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GOOD MORNING PEOPLE

ANOTHER DAY ANOTHER DOLLAR

hope you all have a good Wednesday

Jet Black 07/01/26 (Wed) 23:46:05 No.255

>>254
You to homie. My day has gone really well. However, I did manage to blow up my only 300 watt power supply and im super annoyed.

Thank you for reading my blogpost.