/int/ - certified time wasters

Yesterday was odd. I woke up late. Nobody is doing groceries, and I kinda don't have the money so I've been skipping lunches. I had a pretzel and some biscuits basically.
And a coffee. I really like that Italian coffee I got.
I felt really frantic. My words were a bit jumbled in a sense. But I could express myself in Chinese. And German. And English. And Hungarian too.

Got my "review copy" of a book. It's nice. Not the book itself, but rather how there is this old-school feel to a professor just telling you in a letter that he will drop it off at the guardroom in one of the buildings and you can just go there and pick it up from an indifferent guardsman.
It's a package, it has your name on it and so on.
Of course I forgot which building I was in so I went outside, checked the sign for the right letter and then went back in. Probably the coffee.
A classmate was like "How long have you been at this university?" and yes, I have been here for 5 years now, but the point is, 99% of the time I don't need to know what building this is.

I've decided to go to some right-wing hawkish conference. Best to get on a train right as it derails and kills everyone on board.
Honestly I can't stand foreign policy people. Every single foreign relations BA retard thinks they are Kissinger or some shit even though they are just right-wing dickheads in a mid suit.
(On the other hand, all sociologists are wannabe communist pothead retards. I wish I could see them fight to the death.
t. philologist)
(But we must remember Nietzsche: "I think out of a hundred philologists, ninety-nine shouldn't be philologists at all." I'm the one.)
(Realistically, out of the two I am more jealous of the foreign policy bloodsuckers, I have been retooling myself a bit for more modern stuff so that I could be eligible for that shit. I could conquer the world. Or at least a humble ministerial department maybe.)
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It's only five years until 2030.
Do you have the core skills for the future?

>>23391
>There was no professional sports in GDR, they were all amateurs.
Attempt at irony or just big retard?

>>23413
tfw my manual dexterity, endurance and precision are not appreciated.

>>23407
Do we get a SMV analysis for Greenland?

>>23407
It's probably fake data produced by some intern in the Danish government because they didn't like the real data.
Government statistics are practically all fake, never trust them. It's just that normally, they spread lies that aren't as obvious, but because nobody cared about Greenland, they let some dumb little shit kid do it. Someone like >>23408

>>23409
Did you just receive your SMV score?

>>23409
Seems like Danes actually continue to sterilize native population of Greenland, that's why they do such falsifications.

>>23401
>China as the larger trading partner
DJT desperately wants the remaining blue countries to turn red.

Trump dodged a disaster from the bond market, but the damage isn’t over yet
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/10/trump-dodged-a-disaster-from-the-bond-market-but-the-damage-isnt-over-yet.html

>Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, insisted that the move to delay the additional tariffs was the plan all along

>“But it wasn’t the bond market that made a panic move, because there was a very systematic, well-planned move that was just about to happen that just turned out to be the same time.”

It was a well-planned move and not Trump backing down because his tariffs were triggering a likely recession. Very systematic. No one plans better. Lol. We're screwed.

>>23405
lol you know that Trump is winning right? Europe practically begged him to end the tariffs.

I love this game so much it's unreal, the economy is so neatly interconnected.
And it will only get more complex from here.

Fine tuning fuel consumption with diesel generators to get some permanent throughput so that distillation byproducts get made, which for now get turned mostly into fertilizer, which helps my farms that deliver the overflow to biogas reactors, so that the whole fuel distillery can run off biogas now while a small steam power plant fine tunes biogas consumption.
The compost from that gets delivered to the upper level farms to be turned into organic fertilizer to get at least a little more produce.

Also cleaning things up.

Also also a pic of my last island because I'm feeling feisty, here trains really would be a logistical necessity.
The size also regularly overheated my fucking "gaming laptop", otherwise I'd be playing Dyson Sphere Program for once as well ffs.

>>23350
Which emulator are you using?
Had some fun with old Ace Combat and racing games from the PS2 era some time ago and I was impressed with how well PCSX2 ran and even paired with a steering wheel.

>>23399
I'm using PCSX2. I was also surprised how little hassle it involved to set it up.
Didn't even have to do anything, it automatically set the buttons for my PS5 controller and I was good to go. (After turning off steam because it conflicted with Steam's controller capture, but that's just PC gaming for you.)

Played it some more and it definitely shows that it's not a "modern" game and that I only played Persona games from Atlus' catalogue.

People will call you a Persona babby if you complain that Shin Megami Tensei titles are "hard", but so far in the early game it definitely feels like my resources are spread a bit too thin, even more than it was in the early parts of Persona 3.
Battles are resource intensive in the sense that your minions will burn through mana at alarming speeds even if you tell them not to waste SP and getting SP back is very, very expensive compared to how much money you get out of battles. There is no calendar/time system like in Persona, so it's not even that if your segment of time is up then your HP and SP recovers.

There is no compartmentalisation between the supernatural and the mundane in this game, so devils will jump you literally anywhere for a battle while walking down the city, giving you this constant tension that going anywhere is dangerous and resource intensive.

But I'm interested regardless. The aesthetic is great, and despite how I'm not used to the difficulty, I'm making progress on my own. So it's not impossible, just unusual.

Ernst now has a pullup bar. Together with his dumbbells, he can now put together a solid workout. Dumbbell deadlifts are awesome, no bully! No heavy weights available, so no beast mode activation for Ernst, but it's enough to stay in shape. Sure beats being untrained by a mile.

>>23319
>since I stopped binge eating ultraprocessed trash masquerading as food.
Cool. I think that's one of the best things you can do for yourself, even when it's not about exercise benefits.

>>22856
I'm running three times a week, between 8 and 12km excluding long runs (>15k for me), and it's a pretty recurring feeling, especially if I run in the evening, where I have less energy, the heada full of what happened during the day, and a non-empty stomach.

There are moments when I really HATE it and even speed up the pace to get home faster. Sometime straight up shouting things like "it really piss me up" if nobody is around.

I just try to be mindful of my feelings and generally feel at least contempt to get outside with the birds, the sun and life bubbling around. I don't have time to think, be bored and worried about my knee during speed work, just to feel like shit, so that's an option too aside taking a week break.

I'm supposed to run a marathon in a few months. I failed to run 30km a few weeks ago. I don't feel ready but I want to try, even if it takes me 5h.

>>23344
>it really piss me up" if nobody is around.
I used to yell at myself. 'go on, you lazy dog.' The worst thing is when you find out that someone was around and spaghetti is dropped.

>>23332
I've started using mine again. Still can't do more than 3, but I am also pretty heavy as it seems; I have calluses on my fingers like I had when I first took up lifting and had a shitty grip for deadlifts. In fact it hurts when I start hanging from that thing.

>>22994
Not all fame is created equal.

Chris has allegedly been spotted in Finland yesterday.

Kanye West dropped a new track during another guy's stream

>>23274
I'm sucking up any Nielson and/or Neeson slop when it's free on Prime.
Also the OJ father sob joge had me giggling.

>>23222
The director is gay and Top Gun is basically a gay movie. Most people don't realise that. Even the actors didn't know.

>>23314
The director also didn't know that he was gay.

>>23317
Those are the worst kinds!

Starting now.

00s Hip-Hop now Also known as best Hip-Hop

It hasn't been that time for a while. But now, it is that time again.

This weeks winner is "16 Horsepower - Sackcloth 'n Ashes."
Good album.

All albums in the poll have been eliminated and will be replaced.



New to the poll:

Tubeway Army - Replicas (1979)

A British new wave band led by Gary Numan.

Good album.
Live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nt5EH0UYxE
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Had a dream about flesh, death and decomposition, very metal.
Then I dreamed I was doing stand up at an open mic and forgot all my routine.

A female friend’s boyfriend who’s also a friend of mine told me about a dream he had where I was married to his girlfriend in some kind of Platonic marriage, which made him kind of uneasy.

I’m obviously doing something wrong in this friendship, I know it for a fact. But I don’t really know how to make things better.

>>23294
What you are doing wrong is that you are not banging her. Should be easy, as she's dating an insecure fagot.

>>23304
It’s the one who confuse her boyfriend’s name with my name btw lol