/int/ - certified time wasters

Trump's signature tax and spending bill recently passed both houses of Congress and was signed into law. Long term, the Federal deficit will increase. Which is bad. Short term, based on included tax provisions, I stand to gain $1-2K a year.
Which is good. Kinda conflicted.

>>24750
>What accent is that? Texan?
That would be my guess.

>>24762
All Western governments will collapse, anyway. The West is in inevitable, terminal decline. You now have more money to prepare for what is coming. Use it on land, guns and ammo.

Schizo's anus will collapse, anyway. It's in inevitable, terminal decline. He now has more money to prepare for what is coming, should use it on lube, rectal suppositories and proctologist.

Skipped lunch at work. Eating dinner now. It may be the hunger talking, but this is the best sandwhich ever.

>>24764
>>24824
I will purchase T-Bills, effectively loaning the government their lost tax revenue at 4% interest.

>>24816
Makes sense, I am the gaytex on krautchan.

Obviously, on the hunt for cheap galena ore, Ernst found a motherload of iron ore and managed to carve about 100 ingots worth before the area became too infested with deep drifters and much more creepy stuff that I luckily only heard doing it's saw-bell sounds...
But in the end after mining down to the worlds mantle and back up again, a bunch of galena was found and quickly processed indoors to inhale the healthy lead fumes while at it.
Note to future self: around level 70 in the limestone layer, should be similar for neighboring chunks.

With glass panes finally being plentiful, Ernst's real estate finally finished construction stage 1 and is ready to be lived in.
Behold, the circle in an offset circle in an offset circle.
Two levels of quick access cellars are found withing the main tower, only ~10% less effective in reducing spoilage then the cave solely due to some aesthetic use of logs.
At some point in the future I'm going to elongate the shaft to use it as a windmill for food processing.
The main living area provides enough room for a bunch of baking ovens and other kitchen utensils.

Next up is gathering more wood to construct a nice and spacious outdoor smithy in the front yard.
Branching from the circle will be farms and livestock enclosures, but I have yet to decide for a design.

>>24707
It is better to keep people signing. There might some loss of signs because of fakes.

I tried the Persona 5 gacha (Titled "The Phantom X") and honestly I'm so fucking mad in a sense. It's very well made, the production quality is basically on par with the original game, it has voice acting, new music, new areas, Tokyo looks livelier than in the original game etc, and then all of this effort was poured into this so that it could be grafted onto a slot machine for people to gamble. I don't want to say that it's disgusting because it's just business, but I'm honestly baffled that they put this much effort into it.

The other thing I've been playing recently is PEAK. It fits firmly in the "Friendslop" genre where it's a cheap simple game with some griefing potential you play with friends over voicechat.
I think the thing about this one is that it's insanely exhausting.
You are climbing a mountain with limited stamina and supplies, managing hunger, poison and damage.
But at best we can play 2-3 bad rounds or one very good round, because it takes ages and you really have to work your brain as a team to get anywhere.

Also, I've been spending a relatively long time playing Company of Heroes 2 now. I wish nothing but bad things upon the developers of this concentrated form of digital suffering. I absolutely despise every moment of playing this game, and even though my friends are telling me that I have improved, over my 50 or so hours of playing it, I am yet do derive a single ounce of satisfaction from this fucking piece of shit game.
So yeah we're playing it again sometime this week.

>>24759
>hurr durr I played a gacha and it's a gacha
>abloobloo look at me I have friends I can play games with
Man, just enjoy your youth while you can. When you're over 30 you will look back and think "where did time go"?

>>24725
And what was the prompt for that?

When it's time to die, will YOU Snu-Snu?

>>24635
Ohh, I surely would. I would offer my face as a chair

>>22407
I finally won the fight against my mental health issues and joined the gym.
I also free from refined carbohydrates cravings...

I'm proud of myself.

I recently realized just how little running I have done this season. That episode last month with my lungs reacting to high ozone has made me too cautious. No more.
Been hitting the gym, at least. For weight training, but not their treadmills. I like running because it is a solo activity. Me outside with no one else around. At the gym I would have someone at my elbows no matter how fast my pace. That kills my motivation.

>>24742
Congrats.

What do we know about countries of Latin America? I mean common knowledge without googling.

Me:
Cuba - Fidel Castro, crisis with soviet nukes, cigares, old cars
Puerto Rico - ???
Costa Rica - ???
Nicaragua - ???
El Salvador - mass imprisonment of gang members
Guatemala - ???
Honduras - ???
Dominican Republic - ???
Haiti - slave rebellion, eat cats
Mexico - sombrero, tequila, mescaline
Panama - channel
Colombia - cocaine
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I saw Muslims hurka-durkaing in the afternoon with their flags and drums and loudspeakers.
I expected them to be angry about some perceived slight like Quran-burning or a 'Jew-Star' on a Montblanc-pen or stuff. I was right, but what they are angry about happened 1300 years ago. Shia-Muslims are pissed because Mohammed's grandson was killed.

Always trust Muslims to find reasons for collective butt-mad and aggression.

>>24736
I love to confuse Costa Rica and Puerto Rico. Without googling: Costa Rica is a country somewhere around Honduras/Panama n' shiet, while Puerto Rico is an island east of Haiti / Dominican Republic. Probably both wrong.

Some more info without googling:

Cuba - Havana, Santiago de Cuba.
Jamaica - Kingston, former Port Royale
Panama - great Van Halen song
Ecuador - great climate, moderate all year long, but politically unstable. Also great song by Sash!
Peru, Chile: Mountains, not sure how they are called in English: Andes? Also Macchu Picchu, Atacama desert
Brazil: Lots of jungle, Favelas
Mexico: Acapulco, former cliff divers paradise, today mostly crime hotspot
Colombia: This guy
Argentina: Peron, Maradona
Nicaragua - I NEED TP FOR MY BUNGHOLE!

>>24736
Cuba - Bay of Pigs invasion blew up in our face and we spent a generation being butthurt about it.
Puerto Rico - They are American citizens. Also, if you see a car on US roads flying a flag from the radio antenna, 9 times out of 10 it will be a Puerto Rican flag.
Costa Rica - Cheap place for boomers to retire.
Nicaragua - We had a weekend war with them once. Their leader's wife had a too many shoes or something.
El Salvador - Apparently nations can rent out their prisons.
Guatemala - Pass.
Honduras - Pass.
Dominican Republic - They are not Hattians.
Haiti - Physically the same island as the Dominican Republic, but they are not Dominican.
Mexico - Our economy would collapse overnight without their cheap labor to exploit.
Panama - Best shortcut.
Colombia - Coffee.
Chile - Pass.
Belize - Pass.
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This weeks winner is "Kathy McCarty - Dead Dog's Eyeball: Songs of Daniel Johnston"
Good Album.

New to the Poll: Psychobilly

HorrorPops - Bring It On! (2005)

The Koffin Kats - Our Way And The Highway (2012)

Rezurex - Psycho Radio (2008)

Next week's poll: https://poll.fm/15680142

As always we start at 16:00UTC, which is in around 60 minutes from now.

Feels like music time. Female vocalists only.

Currently building an ice cold playlist against the heat.
Tune in at 7 pm (in 15 minutes).

Since there will be no album stream by KidCharlemagne today (the Ketzerfetzer was shocked to see that, we hope it's not serious), there will be a substitute stream by the Ketzerfetzer at 1800 MEST. For want of a proper poll (and voting time) I have decided to simply play Variety by Mariya Takeuchi. Japanese city pop. Dreamy.

As usual there will be a bit other music in the beginning and the main programme will begin at around 1815. No pre-stream, I am afraid. But there will be a short after-stream until about 1930.

Similar to country artist Granger Smith, Taylor Goyette blurs the line between lyrics which are heartfelt, and those which are more tongue-in-cheek. Doesn't always work, but has some good tracks.

Taylor Goyette - “Jimmy Buffett” (Official Music Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7fXPzbHhZA

“Show Goes On”- Taylor Goyette (Visualizer)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXNFp-0He6A

>>24712
>Lemon Demon
I only know lemonparty.org

>>24738
fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

>>24719
>Alien gained nothing from explaining the origin of the Aliens (although that wasn't canon anyway, *cough*), neither did Texas Chainsaw Massacre

In those movies, you knew everything the main characters knew or even more and that is fine.
In The Substance i had the impression that everyone should be very well aware of everything but i, as the viewer, am not. And i could not find a good reason for that.

This is not like Alien or TCM, this is like Re-Animator.
If Herbert West would not explain his work in Re-Animator, i would be pissed.

>>24720
>If Herbert West would not explain his work in Re-Animator, i would be pissed.
iirc it was never explained. It was just some magical potion that brings the dead back to life.

>>24721
Herbert West explains death as a biological condition or a sicknes that can be reversed or healed if the brain tissue is still intact and it can "defeat brain death" if administered quickly enough after death.
His invention works by reversing death.

Those are very basic explanations that don't go in depth but they are there. They help to understand the universe the film is based in.

None of those things are explained in The Substance.
I know that, if you take it, a different person which is also supposed to be you will come out of you.

Why? I don't know.
Who made it? I don't know.
Who sells it or is it just given away for free? I don't know.

If you don't care about that kind of thing that's fine, personally i can't think of anything else for the full duration of the movie, so i guess it would be good to know. For me.

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Flight home, so the rare opportunity to watch movies.

Mickey 17:
I really learned to love Pattinsons acting. Twilight aside, he's actually a great guy and conquered the spot to be the perfect Batman for me.
Still, the movie jumps themes a little too much and feels inconsistent, especially towards the end.
Not great, not terrible, maybe a little expendable.

LOTR: Return of the King:
Well, it's a perfect movie alright, nothing more to add really.

Cells at Work:
A live action adaptation of the manga of the same name.
Starts cheery and visually nicely bizarre, like an episode of Power Rangers.
Does get a bit grim from the mid onward, but actually I loved that movie very much for some reason.
When I have to withhold ass-on-toilet action, I will now probably forever have to imagine muscular Asian dudes cosplaying as my sphincter muscle while screaming to hold the line. And my liver brothel taking care of poor drunken cells...

>>22898
> Built JavaScript directly in the OS
Think bigger. You can build JS directly in hardware:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50966676/why-do-arm-chips-have-an-instruction-with-javascript-in-the-name-fjcvtzs

How do you see ideal computer science faculty's curriculum?

We make you ill and then sell you the remedy

>>24726
Wow, how helpful! I could have never come up with these prompts! Would have needed an llm to write them!