Things that bear saying

There actually does appear to be something sizable in the works. That said, it's not likely to be anything so earth-shattering that the entire world will shift. Even major disasters, like nuclear meltdowns and volcanic eruptions, generally matter to, and cause change for, less and less people as distance from the event increases. It's the same on the political side, it's just the ripple effect can be spread a little further.

Whatever it is, though, will likely be good. Considering the amount of pointless chaff being shoveled into every social media and concerning forum, it's almost a sure bet that, whatever it is that's coming, it will still be big-ish. Remember that one of the tried and true tactics in the information control area is, if direct narrative control fails, deny, ridicule and minimize. A lot of emails coming out, google getting sued, president is getting ready to feed the dems a poison pill in the immigration bill, yet the push has been for a book of crummy fan fiction and "you arn't white" threads...

Also, to touch on briefly, calm down about the amerimutt thing. remember a couple years ago when "americlaps" was being spammed in every other thread? It's a national identity insult, a proud tradition of humans everywhere. Bitch about it a bit and move on. Limey, beaner, mooncricket, chink, poo in loo, there's no end, fuck's sake man, take your turn on the rack and man up. It'll be popular for another six or eight months and we'll be on the the next race-hate-in-vogue. True, untrue, who gives a shit, it gets a reaction so it works. Ignore it, bitch about it, but don't act like it's somehow different then every other national insult ever.

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Pure, undefined devotion to any one political discipline is flawed. You have a basic frame with an ideology, but the best forward plan, it seems, it to temper it with bits and bobs from others. A lot of folks view this as blasphemy, and that's part of the issue a lot of the various ideals have here. There are elements of communism that i think are valid. The same can be said of socialism, democracy, monarchy, or what have you. This doesn't, however, mean that each ideology is a pointless dogma, and that only new, unfettered systems can or should be valid.

I just think there's too much of a focus on names with political ideologies, and fitting inside them. If a national socialist adapts concepts relating to communal efforts from communist ideology, then i don't think they should immediately be branded heretic and cast to the wolves. Tradition and structure are vital to any society, but there needs to be room for growth and adaptation within that framework, if only to keep from stagnation and decline.

Also, whatever your ideology, i think periodic clean up is needed. If any civilization is to rise to greatness, i think that, every so many generations, it needs an upheaval. Not necessarily a war, but some major change to clean out a lot of the political and social barnacles that grow whenever anything lasts too long. The issue is the "rebirth" is only good for the culture as a whole, and more then likely people like myself, who even approve of it, would likely be consumed in the shift. It's prickly, wishing for the survival of one's culture at the expense of oneself, which is what i think catches a lot of people up.

Change is coming, good or bad, big or small, and I think even the most blind of people can sense it. With that, the best way to weather said change is to have stable, healthy communities. It starts with hearth and home, yes, but remember that part of the issue that the west is bumping in to is the state absorbing many of the roles and actions that used to be the province of extended family and nearby community. I live in the midwest, so your situation may vary, but generally saying hello or waving to people on the way to get mail or whatever is a good place to start. Get to know your neighbors, at least by name. Offer a hand if they're struggling to bring in the shopping. If you see the guy across the street scraping knuckles trying to get a tire off the car, offer a hand, or at least an ear to bitch to. it seems dumb, but this is how society works. Healthy communities survive conflict, and they only get that way by people connecting.

There's this ongoing, hard push to interact, but carefully. Everyone is in everyone's business, so you don't dare step out of line for fear of ridicule. You need to layer in the irony and sarcasm, to keep a small reliquary of nihilism on you at all times just in case, so if you speak too loud, let real passion leak into your statements, you can shrink back and keep yourself safe. It's very simple to see the edges of this: when was the last time you spoke, openly, without any fear of ridicule? Not that you didn't think you'd be bashed on, but that you were so dedicated, so impassioned about it, that you didn't care if they did?

It's lack of commitment, the tide of limp-wristed half-statements that's helping to rot and undercut so much of the west. So much of artistic expression depends on actual passion and commitment, that roaring tide in the heart that drives people to create, if only to express what words can't. Look at so much of modern art...it's hard to say the same heart still beats.

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good lord, really? How? Don't you sleep, man?

You're back!

Alright let me go back and read what you were saying

>It's lack of commitment, the tide of limp-wristed half-statements that's helping to rot and undercut so much of the west. So much of artistic expression depends on actual passion and commitment, that roaring tide in the heart that drives people to create, if only to express what words can't. Look at so much of modern art...it's hard to say the same heart still beats.

Are these... tears?

We are about to see the biggest purge of evil this world has ever witnessed.

good thread gets a bump
op, thank

Also, anyone who is "a proud member of the alt-right" is, at best, misguided. The internet, with Sup Forums in particular, has always survived and achieved based on one tool above any other: they don't really exist. There's no face, no members, hell, there's not even consistent ideology. The alt-right title is an attempt to somehow force people who worshipped a frog god with numbers and made not one, but two death cults function in a way that can be understood by cold-war-ear Illuminati wannabees. It's easy to see why it appeals...everyone wants a flag. An icon, a focus, something to rally behind, or for. Something to bind together. The problem is that can just as quickly become a target. Clinging to icons created by your self-professed enemies is probably not the best way to form a long standing...anything. You, and I, and we, are freaks, and we come here because, with no face, we can be freaks and weirdos. Normies are just that, and should stay in their world. it's big, and it doesn't want many of us anyway, so stop trying to claim some sort of legitimacy from it.

Pain brings change. Tears mean that, no matter how much gore or lolicon insanity you may cloak yourself with, you can still morn the death of beauty.

I vanish for long spaces. I don't like to natter unless i actually have something to say. However it's been a few days, we're likely to get snowed in by the end of the week, and it seems like the board is cranky. Taa daa.

God i hope so. If even a tiny portion of the madness that seems to be simmering behind the veil is true, it'll be worth it even if it only buys a little peace. The guard is getting ready to change, the old cold-war-era madmen are starting to get too old, and even die, and the new guys don't have the same passion, it seems. They'll grow and rot, sure, but it'd be great to see some monsters actually get put in the stocks.

...i should like both the apple and the message less. Yet it's true. Try this: if you feel hungry, but you've already eaten, try drinking a lot of water and eating a mandarin orange or hard boiled egg. seems to help.

keep on laying out that sage-like wisdom my friend.

Also, don't let people beat you with logic. This sounds dumb, simply put like that, but let me explain. Following logic you can make anything seem silly. We survive this world on the truth, yes, but also a fair amount of lies, or if not lies, at least things we don't pick apart. If you just follow pure, blind logic, then you'll eventually paint yourself into a corner that ends in either depression, nihilism, or death.

At a set point, if you're going to avoid the road to the black nothing, you have to decide to be willfully ignorant. Good and evil can be ground so fine as to be indistinguishable from one another. You have to decide at which point you say "no more". This goes back to passion and ideals. If you really want to hold to your ideals, that which you hold dear, that which you view as good and right, then you need to be willing to do so even in the face of overwhelming reality. time and experience may alter these, or even change them, and that's not always a bad thing, but you need to have some sort of core that you can hold to. In fact, there's even a word for this concept.

It's called faith.

I won't dive too much deeper, but I want you to be aware of something. The west is deeply linked with the christian faith. Almost every single threat the west faces at this point, within and without, are non-christian. Many of those have actively fought against Christ and the church for the majority of each of their existence. For myself, I honestly don't think it's a coincidence.

>88 confirmed
Please, God, I don't care if it's a dictatorship. I don't care if it's violent. I don't care if I get gassed. The world needs strong medicine. Evil needs to be purged- reset, driven out.

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You just love me for the pixel art. On a totally unrelated topic, each time i do this it's ever so sightly bittersweet, as I keep seeing spritesheets I've collected in the hopes of making a roguelike someday...

Pain makes one strong, as well. If you're willing to give up everything for an ideal, a dream, then nothing can actually stop you. A man with nothing to lose is a very hard thing to keep down. So, you can either despair and lie down like a dog, and cry as the world dies around you. You will not be alone. You could go totally nuts and try to carve a bloody hole into the reality that has grown sick. Or, you can try to do something totally nuts. You can use hopeless pain to become whole. Live well, be happy, risk everything to become better because you already have nothing. Find someone nice, find someplace nice, carve and beat the world into a shape that, for your small part of it, makes you happy. You will find, very swiftly, someone being happy in a way they don't approve of drives the enemies of the west mad beyond comprehension, and they never, ever get over it.

As a start, do something you enjoyed, but haven't done in over five years. You'll start to see the edges of the rock you're under.

Is that a deep one amerimutt, or just an anglerfish one? Because i have a lovecraft/strange art folder as well, and i'm down for that...

Put me in the screen cap

I actually dont know :/ care to share mate

I don't have much else. I'm just...here. One voice among a bunch of others. Oh, sure, i'm someone in the world, but it doesn't matter here, and that's the point. There's no praise here, and no hate. At least, not any that lasts. it's all scribbles at low tide, gone and vanished with no name or morning. it's why here, more then any other, has caused so much in the world. It's because there's nothing. We scream and cry and laugh, and it's gone in due time. There's no votes. No names, beyond basic tripcodes. There's no profile, collection of posts, tiers or whatever. We're all shadows on the edge of firelight, tossing in wood and firecrackers, mumbling to eachother and mocking those who jump.

It's good, sometimes, to be nobody. It means that what you were, or will be, it doesn't matter. It's just the few snips and moments of the now, and nothing more. If there were profiles on this website that linked posts together with usernames and what have you, then Scientology wouldn't be a laughingstock and Hillary would be president among other things. Don't be so quick to want a pat on the head. Sometimes just being a faceless part of a faceless mob can do more then any one charming fuckface with a name. Be proud of not being able to be proud of anything. Alone we are but twigs in the great underbrush of the wood of reality, but together we are a massive faggot of such size we have broken corporations, committed murder, and swayed the hand of geopolitics. Be proud of being nothing.

I HEAR U LOUD AND CLEAR. Memes aside.. I agree. Also nice pixel art

Good advice in there.I began working as a carpenter about 5 months ago, never have I felt so fulfilled. Men NEED to create with their body, not be corralled into stationary office jobs where both their mind and body are left to rot. I wish more men could find meaningful manual labor. Hoping to buy a house this year, after that I want to build a family before I hit 30. The pain I feel in my heart now drives me to accomplish this.

I'm not as savvy as some, and lose my internet periodically, which was when the amerimutt thing appeared to really take off, is there just one person doing this stuff, or is it the skills of common purpose learned from the pepe OC wave bubbling up again? I know someone said that most of it was shareblue/faux-troll creation efforts, but i'm not thinking it's true.

Also, how is Jordan? It's bloody cold out this way...

Vague and boring platitudes disguised as yet another ultimate guide to life.. sure

well desu i am actually from Iraq living in Jordan ever since well The (((WAR))).. its relatively fine in here,,,

great pixel art
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Sometimes victory is just forcing the world to see that you're not dead. Good on you, by the by. It's a rare and wonderful thing to be able to create. I've worked construction on and off for a very long time, and being able to drive about town, point, and say "i built that" is something that makes it a little harder not to eat a bullet. There's nothing wrong with being a tech-head, but you need to create or destroy something that's real, from time to time. if all you affect is digital, there's no trace of effort, and it seems to eat away at people over time. Having something to show for your life is a good way to not go mental.

Find someone who makes you happy, someone you can be around, but also just enjoy the company of without needing to actually do anything together, or even talk. Get a nice house, build a good fence, and live in a way that makes you both happy and would annoy a homeowners association. It's nice. Make the world choke on your every smile of joy, because you're a depressed asshole on the internet and you were supposed to give up and die.

Sorry, i suppose. I don't mean to try and be a "sort yourself out" type, i just think, sometimes, it's good to rant. I don't really have social media, so i come here. The goal is basically to be happy, because it seems like it's shifted in the modern world to being popular, or appearing to be happy. I rarely articulate this well.

Forgive me being a stupid american, when i think iraq i think dry, dust, and basically Cuba with no trees and more robes. What's it like, and what do you do for fun? Also are you a for-real refugee, or just keeping away from the shit?

Trying to post stuff i haven't done much before...it would be easier if i didn't have the memory of a goldfish...

mad respect senpai, I like getting drunk at anime conventions and ranting at people. apparently i got applause at some point.

I've been building beds a lot lately. Feels good knowing my hands made something that lives will begin and end on. A beautiful altar of life, carved from the death of another life. After all the thought I put into it, I don't think I would mind spending the rest of my life making them. Building something that will outlast you is very comforting in an existential way.

Touching on something someone mentioned before, I would love to see a movement to reclaim coffee shops. It used to be a place where everyone came to talk and debate. Like old-school pubs, you'd get poets, workmen, officers, rogues, all stripes and spots, in one place. I have to imagine the cross-pollination of ideas and concepts was a good chunk of innovation in the early modern era. Now it's almost the sole home of hipsters and lilly-livered students. Remember that, back in the day, students used to get into fights about ideals, just like today, but back in the day you wouldn't get mobbed on by half the campus for wrongthink. Having a place where you can sit, drink and smoke while talking with people you do and do not like is, i think, a missing and much needed part of the overall social landscape.

Probably why i like it here, even if the coffee does leave a bit to the imagination...

Brother, i would be proud to sleep and bone on a bed you made, and i hope someday to do so. Not likely, but there it is. If you ever get in to chair or table making i fucking need some of both...

Also, this is it, right here. A little purple prose because the man found a calling. A little poetic license because it feels nice to create things, and realize that sometimes there's a little more to the world then just not dying.

This is also why the west has such a problem with vice and suicide. We've strangled our hearts down so low, and crushed them into such tiny, tight boxes so that everyone can get along and feel nice, that they've gone critical. Now, instead of a man being moved to a few tears or loud words, it's bubbling and venting out as self-destruction. We want...something. Something is missing, and we're told it needs to come from outside, so we pour in whatever we can...and nothing.

It's so trite, but happiness is something you have to form yourself. Things outside yourself can make you feel happy, yes, but unless you can be alone, doing nothing, and still feel a sense of contentment and joy, then it's going to be hollow.

I think that came out off, but i'm just excited to see someone else who would likely engage in some purple prose and ear-burning profanity in equal measure while playing dominoes and taking potshots at the highway.

Two shakes, gonna go smoke on the porch and maybe shoot what i hope is a raccoon, keep shit running or don't i suppose. I wish we could do sound webm here...

We just don't have them anymore. People are unfamiliar with their neighbors and practically encouraged to treat them with suspicion above anything.

This way the only people we can relate to or even feel comfortable approach is the the government.

does this one have good sound?

its one of my favorites

amen, I grew tired of the world not becoming what I wanted. So I will shape it, beginning with myself.

It's that nobody seems to see it. It's just accepted that everyone is a rapist, pedophile, or whatever other negative tag is trending. It's good to have a degree of concern, and not to be overly trusting, but it seems like it's swung way too far to the opposite side. Maybe it's being too coddled, the price of peace and all that? We are social animals, yet we're trusting people we don't know and don't know us to make decisions about our lives, it's just off.

I've seen music applied to it, but i don't know if there's "official" sound with it, sadly...

You start with what you can reach. As that reach grows, you can affect more, but you need to know what it is your hands are before you can do anything.

Meanwhile, you made all that? That's good looking bedframe there, wish i could manage woodwork like that.

Where to go after intention manifestation?

Of course. It's similar to cult behavioral tactics if you think about it.

The shop i work at has some hella good tools, I've turned a couple posts but those came from our turning guy. I did the rails and headboards (not pictured) including mortises, tenons, and an ungodly amount of sanding. Best to start small and learn the tools, I'm still coming home with splinters and cuts (feels good man).

I assume you mean what to do after you find some sort of personal "north" to orient on? Honestly, i don't know. Everyone is a little different, and what works for one doesn't always work for another. It comes down to failing, a lot, and eventually using whatever it is that works.

Myself, I've found that being able to hold a sense of contentment and happiness is very essential to basically everything else. Having a hold on yourself makes it a hell of a lot easier to then accomplish anything in the world. You don't have to be a grinning idiot all the time, but if you at least have some internal core that keeps you steady, i've found that the rest seems to come along somewhat naturally.

I've found that looking at what it is that interests me, or that i enjoy, and trying to figure out why that is has been very helpful. It can help root out toxic behavior, and help sometimes to fish out strengths that can be applied elsewhere. The big key, i think, is to understand there's no end point. Everything is a direction, destinations are just markers on a greater path. Happiness isn't a point, but a direction to travel.

It's not similar, it is. Cult behavior is only bad when it's predatory, or disruptive to the culture as a whole, at least looking at it from the stage of history. I'd much rather, however, a cult that encourages self-realization and growth over rated social status and consumerism. Which is likely why i'm here. How mad is it that wanting a wife, kids, and a stable home life with like-minded individuals is now the subversive, suppressed counterculture?

this day in age?

you're a fucking mad man lol

Nothing like digging building materials out of yourself in the shower after work...

It's no small thing, learning. Been an assistant to senior guys many times, and it's bloody needed. it seems like sweeping up or doing minor bitchwork is somehow pointless, or stupid, but senior guys will tell you, fast, how needed it is. You learn a bunch, and it lets people who actually have the skill to accomplish shit focus on the higher level stuff. everyone wants to be the star now, it seems, and it's made everything, from entertainment to architecture, so top-heavy it's falling apart.

I've said before, at many occasions, my ideal is basically Harvest Moon with WiFi. Small community, good deal of self-sufficiency, work hard for what you want, trade with others when you can, have a festival now and then so you don't go mad. I don't want to go live in a shack in the woods, but the whole megacity thing doesn't seem to be working out.

Nothing like popping a pimple only to have a 1/4 inch of wood pop out. But yeah I'm guilty of wanting to be the star. I was managing band tours when I was 19. 3 years later I'm working for a grumpy electrician as his bitch boi. Kinda wish I stuck with it for his sake but I got burnt out. In the end I got this bitch'n job drifting a forklift and building expensive beds.

I can agree though, kids coming out of high school should just bite the bullet and suffer for their own good and the good of their superior.

I'd agree but a lot of the infrastructure is too valuable. I wouldn't mind rebuilding a lot of it, but if I had to completely cut off and utilize no innovations from larger society, I think I'd feel like I'm missing out on a full life. maybe thats them talking

also this song has been in my head since we started talking about work youtube.com/watch?v=NzoPgoH1jHw

That's the key of it, i think. You have to fuck up a lot. A lot of false starts, some progress you have to throw out, just frustration. The thing is, from it eventually you'll find what's right for you. Too many people seem to expect the world to be soft, to not grind them up like their parents or grandparents, and be able to just achieve. I think that's why the whole sarcastic numale thing is gaining such ground, if you commit to nothing then you can't be hurt by failure. You learn more from cocking shit up then by accomplishing things, i think, but failure is looked at as such a bad thing today. it just means you learned how not to do something.

There's a lot of things i'd rather not do without, but it's starting to reach a point where you have to decide what it's worth. if not being able to stream whatever movie i want whenever i want means there's going to be less whiney hipsters telling me how to live, then fuck it. If you can do without some of the positive aspects of modern, larger society, then you can also limit a good chunk of the negatives as well.

Was working in a hailstorm trying to install windows at one point. as me and the other guy are trying to muscle a 500 pound bay window up a hill, this started bumping from the radio:
youtube.com/watch?v=s7dTBoW5H9k

We started singing and i only almost broke my hand twice, it's been a favorite ever since...

I don't think anything has ever hardened me like sleeping in walmart parking lots for 10 days in florida during the summer for a punk tour. People need hardship, and to be willing to experience it. And hell yeah I love some ELO, good taste.

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There's another thing. Everyone needs to harden up just a bit. I understand that peace and comfort will naturally breed a degree of softness, and in some ways that's not bad. To get along as a people means you can't just be a hardass all the time. The issue seems to be that over the last twenty or so years being someone who can accidentally shoot a industrial staple into your hand without making a big deal of it is damn near a superpower. Not going apeshit when someone calls a black guy a mooncricket, or not needing to break away and collect yourself if someone says shit that pisses you off. We've gotten so hypersensitive to every little thing, it seems. A little smack-around in the rock tumbler of life is damn good for everyone.

Is it just being too sheltered? Is this the fallout from the "everyone gets a trophy" method of parenting, or is it more linked to social decline? is it more a combination, or some lurking demon of civilization as a whole? At what point did just knuckling down and carrying heavy shit to and from a garage become worthy of note? I have a friend who's a bit of a soft cunt, and he was staggered that, when i found that a doorknob was fucked up, i just popped it off and replaced it. He said he'd have to hire someone, or get his dad to help...when did we get that disconnected from self sufficancy?

Also, i found "the essential ELO" compilation disk set for a buck in a bargain bin two years ago. I think i played it for damn near a week solid. My dad made sure my taste in music didn't suck, at least to start out...

It's mostly sheltering and single parents imo. While I had divorced parents, it wasn't a two christmas cake walk. My father expected me to help with chores and my mother had me basically raising my 2 step siblings. Kids need responsibility, and they need to be held to it. Children now days have this sorta victim mentality that is entirely the fault of their parents.

I can see how this would possibly just be a natural order of civil decline considering how time just loves to repeat itself (much like my mother lmao). But I can see how self sufficiency would be a thing of the past seeing as how strong the service industry is in america. The economy almost thrives on people being helpless and incompetent.

haven't seen those cpd threads yet

has there been any?

My parents stayed together, but it was far from sunshine and roses. Mom is crazy manipulative and codependent, and my dad is a major alcoholic. Still, for all the screaming matches and general shit, it seems it worked out better then single parents. we're built for a set kind of family, and fucking about with it too much seems to do more harm then good in almost every single case. it's really weird, but i think it also relates to a real shallowness in love, which i think also clicks back to the lack of passion issue. I'm married, ten years now, and have four kids. Every single one of our friends who got married is now divorced, it's fucking insane. We have good and bad times, but i love the woman, and we made a commitment. When a bulb burns out, you fix it, you don't throw out the goddamn lamp.

Don't get me started on the consumer economy. I live right in the core of the rust belt, why the fuck anyone thought it'd be a good idea to transition away from a producer to a consumer based economy is beyond me...

Not yet, they popped up for a bit around new years. Wait for big events around chicago, or spring. Cold makes niggers docile, along with antifa, which is why they've been out of the news a bit lately. Soy don't protect against no polar vortex.

...ohio here, you enjoying the heat wave?

Michigan says fuck you.

God in heaven, i walked out without shoes today to get the mail and could still feel my toes when i got back in, i might grill tomarrow. We're going to get an ice storm again this year, watch. Thursday-Friday is going to be rain, to ice, to snow, people are gonna lose their fucking minds.

Is it also weird to feel almost left out of all the shit going on everywhere? Antifa tried to start shit at a kid rock concert, and about a million bikers showed up to "keep things civil". I don't want unrest and chaos, but it would be amusing to see a lot of the leftest bullshit trying to take root in detroit metro. maybe it is, and you just can see it through all the cyberpunk-tier city cancer...

I feel ya. Closest I ever got was getting ripped on dabs (dude weed) and going to a blm protest and getting on the news. good times, but that was back in like 2014.

The pixel art is awesome. The posts even more so. Always wanted to do some pixel art stuff. Don't even know where to begin with the software.

Cool gifs, good posts, thanks for posting

i'm out, pizza niggers

can't wait for the next thread

Nice. Married with four kids means i don't have much time or ability to go dick around at protests, but it seems like fun in a sick "rome is burning" kind of way. it's kinda funny that everyone gets worked up about chicago, but detroit is basically dismissed as a lost cause.

It's not hard, from what I hear, just doing good pixel art is the tricky bit. I guess the best starting point would be to figure out what it is you wanna make, and just trying stuff. it kinda sucks to me that pixel art has kinda become the default hipster numale meme at this point.

Glad you appreciate. I figure with the rather high amount of garbage and shilling, a slightly off-kilter thread wouldn't go amiss, or just pass quietly off to the archive. Always nice to take a moment and bitch about the world, i suppose.

>but the whole megacity thing doesn't seem to be working out.
Had the pleasure of visiting one of our enlightened metropolises recently. The tension was palpable, not like I've experienced before.

I grew up in rural michigan, and have only been to big cities once or twice, honestly. I used to want to be part of the hustle and bustle, but I realize more and more it's not what it's cracked up to be. I hear from friends in the big megaplexes about how much of a soul-crusher things can be, and it's weird. The grass is always greener, sure, but it seems like everyone is starting to strain against the urban plan. Is it really that bad? I try not to trust the media even at the best of times, but it's hard not to ignore what appears to be a wave of rising tension on every side. Where did you go, i'd love to hear anything you want to say.

I couldn't imagine the pressure of having to be around people every second of every day. Never really being able to be alone, even at home, that'd drive me crazy. Is the obsession with social media maybe an outgrowth of that, do you think? Being numb to the hyper-social crush, or maybe trying to push against it by offering up information in an attempt to fit in better? why is it that the urban centers are so fixated on social media, when it seems direct face to face interaction should be more common, and even desired? You'd think folks outside the cities, who can't connect as easy, would be more interested, but it seems to be the opposite.

lol wut

love this one

need to get some more cyberpunk stuff, honestly. It seems to lend itself to the pixel art aesthetic rather well, that sort of new-retro vibe and all that.

Thanks for the comfy thread, OP. I really needed this tonight instead of the regular soyboy/nu-male/nigger-hate threads. I look forward to more of your comfy threads.

New York. The disclaimer that I might just be, at least in part, projecting my internal world is of course necessary, but...it's almost like the "lived-in", organic feeling of the place is evaporating. This is probably closely linked to the whole smartphone-enabled social atomization / affected autism thing. I'm not sure how to describe it, dreamlike comes to mind, but not in a good way. It was like our physical environment was a remembered thing locked in a temporal reference frame lagging behind real-time. You ever play Garry's Mod? It was like someone had deleted the world and rebut it with Garry's Mod, and they did a pretty good job of recreating it, but it still felt like something ginned up in imitation of some previously existing "real" version. This puts everyone on edge, it feels like being in The Matrix where if you shuffle around a little too much the Smiths will take notice of you.

You know who felt most "real", most "human"? The obvious immigrants. I suppose they haven't been here long enough to have the invisible cyber-implant tendrils creep into their skulls and hollow them out from the inside yet. Not that that hollowing out leaves people "zombies", like they're duller or that it's something they're not aware of, more like it's just erasing their...spiritual connection to the environment? Human connection? I think this is what urbanites are seizing on when they wax on about "vibrant diversity" - in an otherwise cold, alienated, semi-autistic social landscape, these people are like little bits of warm fire that they desperately huddle around seeking a warmth that they can't find in themselves or the company of their hiveperson companions.

I basically isolate myself from social media besides here, so nothing leaps out at me to say with regard to that, except that I'm sure it's totally related - I'm not sure what direction the causality arrow should go, though. (I mean, bidirectional, of course, but idk which is stronger than the other)

yeah the cyberpunk and cityscapes give me a warm feeling

im a big fan of the 'slice of life style aswell as the scifi, speaks to a simpler time

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The gif of the but smoking on the balcony is from this game trailer. the guy that is making caught flak for being anti sjw/feminist
youtube.com/watch?v=n4IPBiB7SF4

Oh, i'm happy to toss about bitching and moaning about niggers and semi-faggots as much as the next faceless asshole, but sometimes it is rather nice to just take a half moment and talk. Bitch about the world a little, maybe make some progress, just getting your head above the insane waters for a second before diving back down.

All the old things are bad, so they've tossed them aside for new things. The issue is, we're built of the past as much as the present and future, so there's now this gap. Then, outsiders come in, still holding the embers of their old past, and suddenly you have trust fund kids converting to islam for the deep rich history.

I think i get what you're trying to say. it's that weird disconnect you get when you immerse yourself too deep in something, then snap back to the world. Like playing a game too long and trying to quicksave before you do something, or playing around in VR and then trying to do a gesture shortcut to say something. I think something in the mind or soul just refuses to accept the whole-cloth change that so many in the city seem to be embracing, and it seems to tilt things off center just a bit.

I think social media was a very neat idea that spiraled way, way out of control. The constant feedback, gratification and real world disconnect it's feeding in to is not going to stop until something unpleasant happens, i think. It's letting ideas that would normally be minor annoyances spawn out into international news. Look at the rapid decline of the west coast. We're not supposed to be this deep in eachother's lives.

I imagine nostalgia plays a part, but there is a kind of clean aspect to it when it's done well that does just seem to speak to cozy. I think there's a need for a sprite or pixel-based revival in games, outside the "sooo retro" type stuff. there's standouts here and there, but i think it's underutilized.

looks pretty neat. It sucks that good games, or any media really, are getting strangled left and right not because they suck, but because the people making them disagree with the wrong people. If you want to see a real horror show, look up the whole sad/rabid puppies movement with the Hugo Awards.

to put it in a nutshell, a guy said the hugos, a very prestigious scifi award, had become a sjw popularity contest with no focus on actual content. What spooled out was people trying to push back against this, and getting lives and careers ruined for being racist, sexist assholes, all crowning with the jury declining to give awards to works they disagreed with, even if they won the vote.

Meanwhile, as long as the polygon count is high enough as there's an afro girl with hoop earrings, you can make hundreds of millions. Bah, I have a whole video game rant that is both sad and out of place, yes I mad.

Theres 2 problems a lot of designers have when making pixel art games, one is focusing too hard on aesthetics and another is going too far with the gameplay being fast paced and action packed, as if they need to push the limits in contrast to the cozy art style.

This is an old flash game and takes 10 minutes to play through, its a simple puzzle game with the right soundtrack, if any anons have 10-15 minutes they wont be disappointed.
armorgames.com/play/4850/small-worlds

He's back

Love action-packed stuff, but i think you're right. Plus there's this focus a lot of the time with playing up the blockiness of it all. Metal Slug is an amazing series that has just jaw-dropping amazing sprite art. I think that kind of detail, coupled with something with a focus exploration or atmosphere, in the vein of, say, kings field or even elder scrolls would be amazing. Then again, i'm a pretty heavy rougelike fan, and likely biased as hell.

Oh lord, which thread were you in? They say persistence is a virtue...i hope it's not a vice...

>Oh lord, which thread were you in
All of them.

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Contra Alien Wars we beautiful.

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I am both flattered and terrified. Come for the pixels, stay for the slight enlightenment and banter? I'm honestly surprised more people don't do this sort of thing...

both unique and interesting

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I came for the pixel art, I mainly lurk. I rarely if ever post. You're doing God's work, keep up the good fight.

same pixel art is so comfy

gorgeous

Well thank you all for helping make a cozy, and i hope interesting, thread. Sadly, i need to go. Wife will be home soon, and gotta get up early. Keep nattering, post pixel art, let it all fade away at the end, do as you like. Just, whatever you do, do it with heart.

Pixel art guy loves you all.

BEAR SAYING "GRRRRAAAAWRFF!!!"

take care, have a good night

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Its from an upcoming game called The Last Night.

youtube.com/watch?v=n4IPBiB7SF4

It apparently has pissed off the SJW crowd because its set in a multicultural dystopia.

One of the best things you said was that our strength was being nothing, not existing.
It was what made Sup Forums a force to be reckoned with.
Don't let yourself be swallowed or defined by tags. You become and object that can be called and acted upon. Sup Forums needs to remain formless. No alt-right, no nazism, no nothing.
No tag, no flag, no identity. Only ideas and actions.
Of course, we all have our identities and self imposed tags, but we need to be user. Those must be kept secret.
We loose maneuverability when we are defined.

Holy fuck this thread makes me depressed. It makes me miss my days of being a child and playing on my SNES.

Fuck you all

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game looks good but is it just me or does xbox only tout 4k games like this? The minecraft, whatever that other game was, this one. 4k pixel art?

/Thread Thank You OP
Very insightful.

Wise words, pol is at its best when its going into news blind without bias.
The reason this board is seen as racist, anti semetic, sexist etc isnt out of pure spite or hate, nobody here wants to hate the world as we all have to live in it, its just that those are the root of almost every topic. As a board of anonymous users, we unknowingly strip out and debunk the lies one at a time, until whatever is left over must be the truth.
This board didnt make anyone racist, the world did that through constant pressure, order out of chaos in its simplest form.

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> I won't dive too much deeper, but I want you to be aware of something. The west is deeply linked with the christian faith. Almost every single threat the west faces at this point, within and without, are non-christian. Many of those have actively fought against Christ and the church for the majority of each of their existence. For myself, I honestly don't think it's a coincidence.

This.

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