/int/ - certified time wasters

It was about time a Today thread was made by a non-German.

>>25529
Most image boards are dying, the semi-anonymous general discussion forums I was frequenting are dying too and fast. But at the same time, the fascination with the output of such mediums is growing on 2.0 social media. So much so that, greentext accounts on instagram/tiktok/reddit/twitter daily output seem to surpass by far the number of threads a day on 4chan. Once semi-confidential lolcow Asterion that was heavily documented on French forum is barely talked about there and has become a country wide sensation. The more it gets fetishized, the less flesh stays on the consumed skeleton.

Where in internet do new things still happen? My bet is mostly discord servers, Roblox lobbies, Minecraft(?).

>>25533
>Where in internet do new things still happen?
Nowhere. Everything is a repost of a repost of a repost, ESPECIALLY in corporate spaces like Discord and the like.

>>25534
>Everything is a repost of a repost of a repost
True, that's why discussing news headlines is so tempting. And while I think it's a good thing that this is not done on the EC, it still can't be denied that it's hard to generate any kind of content without outside input. For example, a lot of the content that is thriving on /b/ is just a different kind of news, for example sports/eSports news or videogame blogposting. Not saying this is similar (hell no), just saying that generating any kind of original content without outside input requires a lot of effort.

>>25533
>My bet is mostly discord servers, Roblox lobbies, Minecraft(?)
Any community that requires a named account for no reason is suspicious to me, it encourages groupthink, fame hunting and attention whoring. There are exceptions, of course, for example online gaming with friends, so those platforms can be useful. But for any kind of communication that does not for some reason require a named account, I do not see the appeal of using one. Yet, this seems to be a minority opinion these days

>>25535
What I like about Minecraft and Roblox is the possibility of virtual praxis. That often take place on different scales and being relatively decentralized (as in, most people don't play on a centralized server as they would on an mmorpg). A lot of people, mostly young experiment with ideology there, for best or worst and online personas. While it isn't as anonymous as image boards, it is still way more than anywhere else on the internet (especially considering outside control).

If any ideas are coming out of internet, they come from there imo

Is this here the mysterious Toblerone everybody keeps talking about?

Anyway, did the last check-up with the vet today and paid 160 Euros overall, fair value in my opinion.
If you add everything up it may have been 1 hour of wörk for the doch and 1 more for assistance, so for an hourly wage after taxes for a vet it may even be cheap.
Such cheap healthcare made me splurge to check-up and deworm the other Mietz next week for the sake of it.
Vet also seemed like a cool grandpa to me, one that would nag when feeding inappropriate sweets to animals but be caught in the act doing sames when nobody is looking, that one raisin for a cat maybe once a week is within reasonable mass after all.

>>25535
>For example, a lot of the content that is thriving on
>content
It was certainly over when people started referring to anything as "content", and people calling themselves "content creators" when all they did was react or talk about actual content created by actual creators.

>>25534
Gtfo with your postmodern bullshit claims, boomer

>>25535
>news headlines

These are the reposts of reposts
>People dies
>Politicians/state decide on things or enforce things
>New technology

It's very repetitive.

Do you guys think "nothing is happening anymore" is a postmodern cirticism of postmodernism itself or is it a non-postmodern criticism which will eventually lead us out of the postmodern cul-de-sac?
I suffer from pomo

I think things are happening and we just ought to know where they're happening. What is hard is to calculate what's important with post-modernism

>>25541
I think you're full of shit
ABOOOWWWWWWWWWW

Reporting in from the gaming laptop I left at my parents place. Here to babysit their dog and my grandma while they're on vacation. EC was still open from when I posted one of the last times on here around christmas.

If all you wannabe social scientists want a data point I can self-report that I stopped posting because of 1) low-effort schizo posts/responses 2) my own posting started feeling repetitive 3) wanted to move away from online to real-life socialization

They caught the guy that did the thing. His family turned him in.

If a member of ernst's family committed a crime, would ernst turn him or her in to the police?
Me: No. Family loyalty comes before any duty owed to government authorities. The only exception would be if ratting out family would save future lives. Like, if my brother was a serial killer, and I asked him to stop eating people and he continued. Maybe I would make that phone call.

>>25537
Glad things worked out for her.
Also: Inexpensive vet care. Wish we had that here. Every trip is hundreds, and any problems add up fast. Cat sniffed the wrong flower a few years ago. Had her face full of pollen which was poisonous to her. That cost thousands.

>>25547
>wanted to move away from online to real-life socialization
And how did that work out?

>>25548
His family turned him in.
>If a member of ernst's family committed a crime, would ernst turn him or her in to the police?
No, because fugg the polis

>>25548
> his family turned him in
If you turn in your own blood, you are beyond honorless. These people deserve to be spat at.

Help your family whenever you can, cheat the government whenever you can. Only snitches talk to the police, only cucks pay taxes, only idiots do not steal from the government.

>>25548
>if my brother was a serial killer, and I asked him to stop eating people and he continued. Maybe I would make that phone call.
Why? The only reason to act is when you are afraid your brother might kill your own children, because that's the only blood that is closer to you than your brother. Then, it is your obligation to kill your brother. When your brother actually kills one of your children, it becomes your duty to kill your brother. Not the police's duty. Add long as your brother kills strangers, that is none of your business. What are those strangers to you? Why do you care when they are killed?

It's your job to protect your family, if you can't do that job and ask a bunch of cops do that job for you, you are pretty much gay and might as well go and suck cock each chick at the police hq.

Men do not talk to the police. Ever.

>>25548
Who did what? Context?

On topic: I have a good enough relationship with my family that I would protect them at most cost, except for, as ameriball, serial killer-y or rape-y shenanigans or being a politician of any kind.

>>25554
But being a capitalist would be ok? Capitalists are not politicians, right?

>>25529
> Also people having GF and no time isn't the reason, that's just a convenient excuse
That's not "a force majeure" and it's possible to post while also having a life. I did my part, until I felt alone here as you described. But it's hard to expect everyone to act like that, because while it's still possible, there is much less desire to do it. And we post because we want to, not because we're obliged to.

>>25530
>>25546
>>25555
Smug

>>25535
> a named account for no reason is suspicious to me, it encourages groupthink, fame hunting and attention whoring.
There are positive consequences of having names too. Many bickerings would be avoidable: "ah, that's THAT guy, I won't bother, everything is clear about him anyway". Having a name would make you have more consistency, less hypocrisy. It would make mod's job easier. Fame hunting and attention whoring aren't necessary bad too, they could motivate people to be more active. It also could be more interesting to talk to a set of personalities rather than to void.
How easy is it to make a new discord account, not linked to your IRL activity? If it's easy, then as an experiment I suggest to create an Ersntchan discord server with the same moderation team and several discussion topics related to existing threads.

The question we can ask in addition to "why imageboards are dying" is "why were they alive at the first place?". In your case what were your reasons to talk anonymously to complete strangers rather than talking to people IRL and forming meaningful social connections? As for me, I used to be a polar explorer in a station in Antarctica.

>>25556
>There are positive consequences of having names too. Many bickerings would be avoidable: "ah, that's THAT guy, I won't bother, everything is clear about him anyway".
>Having a name would make you have more consistency, less hypocrisy. It would make mod's job easier.
>Fame hunting and attention whoring aren't necessary bad too, they could motivate people to be more active.
>It also could be more interesting to talk to a set of personalities rather than to void.
I am seriously wondering whether you are trolling or not

>>25554
Context?
A political activist was shot on a college campus. The country is currently going crazy over it. Basically Kirk is the new George Floyd, but for Republicans. Thou shalt speak no evil of our new Saints.

Also, before:
>who is George Floyd?
A guy some cop killed.

>>25556
Pic related is the downside of account based posting. When political winds shift, an off-hand comment from years ago can end up with you on the government's shit list.

>>25558
Ah, that Kirk dude.
In that case I would certainly not turn soemone in. Killing "political activists" is almost as righteous as killing politicians.

>>25558
> A guy
He-ahh gooboy, he dindunuffin wrong!

>>25558
Oh, and to add: Anyone who uses social media in the first place is a fucking retard (inb4 some smartass going BUT MUH EC IS ALSO SOCIAL MEDIA) and deserves everything bad coming to them and the world would be a better place if we, as the human race, abolished that shit already yesterday.

The social media revolution and its consequences have been a bigger disaster for the human race than the industrial revolution and its consequences (inb4 some smartass going BUT MUH IR MADE THAT POSSIBLE IN THE FIRST PLACE).

Funny enough I have just been reading about Ted Kaczynski, and I found this quote by his brother that seems fitting:

>It was a feeling of being trapped – trapped in this brother relationship, trapped in this dilemma in which people's lives were at stake either way. One way, if we did nothing, another bomb might go off and more people might die. The other way, I turned Ted in and he would be executed.

>>25561
What are you? Some stone-age communist dreaming of being a black ooga-booga-bush-n-word in fuckin n-word-Africa? Do you think before the industrial revolution, it was all hobbits-a-faggin-in-the-shire?

If it's so bad, you can always go and get yourself killed by the Sentinelese while trying to become one if them. Or maybe join some Mansi tribe in sibiria? Fucking Luddite.
What a pseudo smart smug little retard you are. Before the industrial revolution, you wouldn't have lasted one single day. Kys, you wannabe Kaczinsky-impersonator, you knock-off Neil-Postman. Nobody needs your second hand techno-scepticism.(Rude)

>>25548
I wouldn't denounce my family to the police no.

Ha! Apparently Nepal's insurgents held a vote for their new prime minister via discord. Thus new things happen on discord and I was right

>>25558
> Basically Kirk is the new George Floyd, but for Republicans
I thought that Ukrainian girl was a new George Droid...
> pic related
Imho those are clickbaits. Celebrating political violence under your real name on an openly accessed twitter account (which they reference to) is obviously not a good idea.
But if you write that Charlie Kirk has a small face on discord... Intelligence services can find out your identity if they want. And what will they do next? Tell your HR that you're a lib? I guess, 50% of Americans are (70% of qualified laborers, 95% of HRs).
Anyway, discord server was a silly idea. It will divide an already small userbase.

>>25567
That's just typical propaganda around color revolution. Still funny though.

>>25532
Why they umbrella?

>>25567
That's actually interesting