Random talk thread: It just keeps happening

[HardcoreRetro]

I've noticed a recent return of foreskin in porn.

I'm glad that between anti semites and hippy anti mutilation activitsts, ladies are liking the ant eater look again.

What was the movie called? Star Whores: The Foreskin Awakens?

[Cauliflower Of Love]

I've noticed a recent return of foreskin in porn.

I'm glad that between anti semites and hippy anti mutilation activitsts, ladies are liking the ant eater look again.

What was the movie called? Star Whores: The Foreskin Awakens?

Flapman: The Dark Knight Lowers

[Polident Hive]

Last time I read about trends in porn, guys were using AI upscale software to remaster old smut from kazaa and limewire. Nostalgia is a hell of a thing.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

thats gross.

[Raist]

I've noticed a recent return of foreskin in porn.

I'm glad that between anti semites and hippy anti mutilation activitsts, ladies are liking the ant eater look again.

What was the movie called? Star Whores: The Foreskin Awakens?

Boyz n the hood

[Uncle]

this is stupid but I'm really sad


I stumbled on an old niche tabletop game I'd heard of vaguely before

started searching for information on it, and found links leading to links leading to archive.org's waybackmachine

found a whole webring of this ancient year 2000 internet, every single site is dead, earthlink, geocities, some random guy's personally hosted .net...it's all long gone, but archive.org keeps it alive

there's this community love for this game and a buzzing excitement about this thing 20 years ago

there are 3 or 4 main sites run by specific named people who you can tell were like the pillars of their community, hosting side content, extra rules, even a mailing list where you can see the topics people were talking about even if the text is all dead

fan sites for the game that are intermixed with "my family photos" and "my bob dylan fan page" and it's all just raw html with tiled backgrounds and stuff

photos of tournaments and events from 2001 where everyone looked so happy in their scrappy mediocrity promoting this game


I look up one of the main guys and he might still be around, he's 80 now and his linkedin photo looks like the same guy from those tournaments

his wife for 50 years died in 2021


I don't know any of these people but there's a voyeuristic feel of internet archeology, finding this little old dead fandom and seeing all this happiness and love and there's almost no record of it left

there's just something unbearably sad about all of it

it doesn't matter at all, but it mattered a lot for some people, and it's all so fleeting

[Himu]

Now do Suikoden.

[BIONIC]

I don't know any of these people but there's a voyeuristic feel of internet archeology, finding this little old dead fandom and seeing all this happiness and love and there's almost no record of it left

there's just something unbearably sad about all of it

it doesn't matter at all, but it mattered a lot for some people, and it's all so fleeting

[Potato]

this is stupid but I'm really sad


I stumbled on an old niche tabletop game I'd heard of vaguely before

started searching for information on it, and found links leading to links leading to archive.org's waybackmachine

found a whole webring of this ancient year 2000 internet, every single site is dead, earthlink, geocities, some random guy's personally hosted .net...it's all long gone, but archive.org keeps it alive

there's this community love for this game and a buzzing excitement about this thing 20 years ago

there are 3 or 4 main sites run by specific named people who you can tell were like the pillars of their community, hosting side content, extra rules, even a mailing list where you can see the topics people were talking about even if the text is all dead

fan sites for the game that are intermixed with "my family photos" and "my bob dylan fan page" and it's all just raw html with tiled backgrounds and stuff

photos of tournaments and events from 2001 where everyone looked so happy in their scrappy mediocrity promoting this game


I look up one of the main guys and he might still be around, he's 80 now and his linkedin photo looks like the same guy from those tournaments

his wife for 50 years died in 2021


I don't know any of these people but there's a voyeuristic feel of internet archeology, finding this little old dead fandom and seeing all this happiness and love and there's almost no record of it left

there's just something unbearably sad about all of it

it doesn't matter at all, but it mattered a lot for some people, and it's all so fleeting

The game?

[benjipwns]

Last time I read about trends in porn, guys were using AI upscale software to remaster old smut from kazaa and limewire. Nostalgia is a hell of a thing.

thats gross.

(Image removed from quote.)

I coincidentally saw one of these recently in the recent uploads on a torrent site and clicked on it to see what it meant. Some 240p and like 35MB file made into like 1080p and 2GB. I didn't download it (not degenerate and potentially illegal enough for my tastes) but from the large screenshots you really couldn't tell it came from such a shitty source, you probably could have said it was a release the studio made from the original source file. (I have no idea if porn companies keep the masters of porn that long, I would assume the larger ones do but random internet sites? People who just recorded stuff cheaply?)

Also another of those instances where random dudes wanting to jerk off are doing better work at preserving and forward-compatibilitying old work than the "legit" mainstream companies selling TV shows that will shove anything out no matter how much they've fucked the ratios and crapped all over the image.

[Bebpo]

Didn't get the house.

Agent got back to me that people are still putting in new offers, and up to $110,000 over asking price already. So I walked on it because this place is not worth that much looking at comparables.

Just crazy times still.

[Potato]

Didn't get the house.

Agent got back to me that people are still putting in new offers, and up to $110,000 over asking price already. So I walked on it because this place is not worth that much looking at comparables.

Just crazy times still.

Stay strong. Don't get suckered into over-paying.

When I bought my house, we put in an offer that we thought was reasonable. Turns out it was $50k+ below what someone else had offered. However, the other offer fell through because they couldn't get their finance. So, the agent came back to us and we just told him to re-present our original offer and they accepted.

Also, contract was signed on Christmas Eve. Don't do that. Ever. Trying to find solicitors and building inspectors who are working over Christmas is really painful.

[Bebpo]

Also, contract was signed on Christmas Eve. Don't do that. Ever. Trying to find solicitors and building inspectors who are working over Christmas is really painful.

Yeaaaah, that sounds rough.

[Himu]

Taking LSD made me realize that I'm substantially handicapped without taking ADHD meds and that there's nothing wrong with using a drug to be your best. It doesn't make you inferior. Called the doctor and scheduled an appointment for a new RX.

[james]

The New Found Glory album is straight from 2003 and I like that

[Snoopycat_]

Bought a thing off EBay. The tracking said it had been picked up by the courier. Cool. Then the seller contacted me to say the tracking was wrong and it hadn't been picked up. Weird, but OK. Seemed like an easy fix. Then I got this from the seller -

"Can't speak to anyone at Evri in person to explain the issue. EBay are no help. It’s been suggested I take it to an Evri parcel shop, but if they still have the incorrect tracking details more than likely it will end up missing in transit."

They accepted an offer from me for £50 below asking price so not sure if this is a way of keeping thing and refunding without getting a strike. Maybe they're legit. I know nothing about couriers. I replied yesterday asking if there weren't any other couriers they could use. No reply to that.

[Raist]

Congrats you've been scammed.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Just keep following the tracking from the courier.

Wait until it either says "lost" or whatever.

[Snoopycat_]

The thing is it was just an impulse purchase. I wouldn’t have been bothered if they’d said it had been damaged and just refunded. I suppose I’ll have to wait and claim a refund. Unless by some miracle they actually send it.


Edit.

They refunded the order. Apparently they couldn’t afford to send it out by another courier. Lol. Tempted to give a negative review just because they’re obviously bullshitting

[james]

a device that tracks Johnson's rate of nighttime erections is like that of a teenager's, Bloomberg reported.

 

https://www.businessinsider.com/bryan-johnson-45-reduced-biological-age-5-years-project-blueprint-2023-1?utm_source=reddit.com

[Himu]

Been less interested in politics since taking LSD. Just realized how much it divides people, almost on purpose.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

it's almost like

[Nintex]

Been less interested in politics since taking LSD. Just realized how much it divides people, almost on purpose.

Why do you think politicians want to ban the drugs

[Himu]

I mean, looking at the history of LSD it isn't a wonder it got the axe. What was originally therapeutic drug in a clinical setting became a symbol of the counter culture and people were slipping acid into peoples drinks in very high doses.

[james]

I thought the CIA invented LSD to mess with black people

[Cauliflower Of Love]

One the one hand I'm glad that himu is no long interested in politics, on the other hand himu just propably wants to trip and is gonna end up like one of my paper vendors that is always out of his mind when I try to get 24LB bond paper and he gives me a pallet of plastic wrap.

[Himu]

One the one hand I'm glad that himu is no long interested in politics, on the other hand himu just propably wants to trip and is gonna end up like one of my paper vendors that is always out of his mind when I try to get 24LB bond paper and he gives me a pallet of plastic wrap.

Nah. I'm not addicted. Two or three trips a year seems fine. You also build up a tolerance with psychs fast so it's not even possible to get addicted to begin with.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

That paper vendor hasnt tripped for twenty years.

[Himu]

Took Syd Barrett doses I bet.

[Uncle]

I have no idea what thread to put this in and don't want to make a new one so ehh

https://variety.com/2023/tv/global/netflix-squid-game-reality-show-frozen-inhumane-welfare-1235511809/

When John heard that Netflix was making a reality show version of the streamer’s hit drama “Squid Game,” he was all in. His love of the original series resonated with casting agents and, to his amazement, he was tapped as one of 456 contestants playing the U.K.-filmed game. As far as John was concerned, that eye-watering $4.56 million cash prize — the biggest ever in reality history — had his name on it.

“I thought I was going to win it, because I’m so competitive,” says John, whose real name has been changed to protect his identity. “When it comes to these sorts of games, I’m good at them. They’re games of chance, luck and wit. I live for that sort of thing.”

But on day one of production, John “died” playing the very first challenge.

The British native was among roughly 228 contestants immediately eliminated from “Squid Game: The Challenge” on Jan. 23 in a game of “Red Light Green Light” that will go down in the annals of reality TV history.

Certainly, the incident provided a memorable front page for British tabloid The Sun, whose Jan. 25 splash read “Squid Game Horror in UK.” The story described how contestants on the reality show — produced by Studio Lambert, the same company behind the massive hit “The Traitors,” and The Garden — had been left freezing in a cavernous airplane hanger in Bedford, playing a seemingly interminable game where they had to hold statue-like poses for almost 30 minutes. On-set medics had been called repeatedly to a scene that one contestant described as a “warzone” played out in frigid temperatures.

The story had a hyperbolic — even comedic — edge. Didn’t these players realize they were signing up to a reality show based on one of the most sinister, bloody survival dramas ever made? Weren’t they aware of the long hours involved in any kind of TV production?

Netflix was quick to kibosh tabloid reports of a contestant being stretchered out, publicly playing down the incident. In a Jan. 25 statement, the streamer said it cared “deeply” about the health and safety of the cast and crew. Yes, it was very cold on set, Netflix admitted, but “participants were prepared for that.”

[chronovore]

It also would have been well-placed in that Late Stage Capitalism thread.

[BIONIC]

Or the Dumb News Stories thread

[james]

I hope this doesn't come across as a flex, but being with my current partner has opened my eyes so much. He's a perfect example of how men absolutely don't need porn, and are capable of not even craving it. To him, the idea of watching porn is so absurd because he is so utterly satisfied with me. Even if he wanted to watch porn, he would never in a million years do it because he would lose a life partner. He watched porn while single (though he was never addicted to the super awful shit like me) but abstaining while in a relationship has always been a value of his. After I started studying social work and learning the unethical nature of porn we both began to recognize it as misogynistic and exploitative. I feel so grateful that we've educated ourselves. Neither of us has any desire to watch porn and it isn't a part of our lives at all, except our red hot hatred for it.

99% chance shes going to find his 22TB collection in the next 6 months isnt she

[Cauliflower Of Love]

I hope this doesn't come across as a flex, but being with my current partner has opened my eyes so much. He's a perfect example of how men absolutely don't need porn, and are capable of not even craving it. To him, the idea of watching porn is so absurd because he is so utterly satisfied with me. Even if he wanted to watch porn, he would never in a million years do it because he would lose a life partner. He watched porn while single (though he was never addicted to the super awful shit like me) but abstaining while in a relationship has always been a value of his. After I started studying social work and learning the unethical nature of porn we both began to recognize it as misogynistic and exploitative. I feel so grateful that we've educated ourselves. Neither of us has any desire to watch porn and it isn't a part of our lives at all, except our red hot hatred for it.

99% chance shes going to find his 22TB collection in the next 6 months isnt she

Thats the bio from meetachristiandominatrix.com

[Sman]

this is stupid but I'm really sad


I stumbled on an old niche tabletop game I'd heard of vaguely before

started searching for information on it, and found links leading to links leading to archive.org's waybackmachine

found a whole webring of this ancient year 2000 internet, every single site is dead, earthlink, geocities, some random guy's personally hosted .net...it's all long gone, but archive.org keeps it alive

there's this community love for this game and a buzzing excitement about this thing 20 years ago

there are 3 or 4 main sites run by specific named people who you can tell were like the pillars of their community, hosting side content, extra rules, even a mailing list where you can see the topics people were talking about even if the text is all dead

fan sites for the game that are intermixed with "my family photos" and "my bob dylan fan page" and it's all just raw html with tiled backgrounds and stuff

photos of tournaments and events from 2001 where everyone looked so happy in their scrappy mediocrity promoting this game


I look up one of the main guys and he might still be around, he's 80 now and his linkedin photo looks like the same guy from those tournaments

his wife for 50 years died in 2021


I don't know any of these people but there's a voyeuristic feel of internet archeology, finding this little old dead fandom and seeing all this happiness and love and there's almost no record of it left

there's just something unbearably sad about all of it

it doesn't matter at all, but it mattered a lot for some people, and it's all so fleeting

The game?

[Himu]

this is stupid but I'm really sad


I stumbled on an old niche tabletop game I'd heard of vaguely before

started searching for information on it, and found links leading to links leading to archive.org's waybackmachine

found a whole webring of this ancient year 2000 internet, every single site is dead, earthlink, geocities, some random guy's personally hosted .net...it's all long gone, but archive.org keeps it alive

there's this community love for this game and a buzzing excitement about this thing 20 years ago

there are 3 or 4 main sites run by specific named people who you can tell were like the pillars of their community, hosting side content, extra rules, even a mailing list where you can see the topics people were talking about even if the text is all dead

fan sites for the game that are intermixed with "my family photos" and "my bob dylan fan page" and it's all just raw html with tiled backgrounds and stuff

photos of tournaments and events from 2001 where everyone looked so happy in their scrappy mediocrity promoting this game


I look up one of the main guys and he might still be around, he's 80 now and his linkedin photo looks like the same guy from those tournaments

his wife for 50 years died in 2021


I don't know any of these people but there's a voyeuristic feel of internet archeology, finding this little old dead fandom and seeing all this happiness and love and there's almost no record of it left

there's just something unbearably sad about all of it

it doesn't matter at all, but it mattered a lot for some people, and it's all so fleeting

The game?

(Image removed from quote.)

Groomers!!

[team filler]

I got fired because of my posts on here 

[chronovore]

I got fired because of my posts on here 

Were you posting from work?

[BIONIC]

I got fired because of my posts on here 

Bitch, who said you could leave my dungeon?

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Welcome back bb

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[james]

I got fired because of my posts on here 

The king is back!

[Cauliflower Of Love]

I got fired because of my posts on here 

my
What did i tell you!

[team filler]

I finally upgraded to windows 10 

[BIONIC]

I’m still on Windows Me

[Cauliflower Of Love]

I got a huge splash screen telling me I was eligble for win 11

I'm like bruv wat is dis?

[jorma]

I finally upgraded to windows 10 

did you upgrade from macOS or Linux?

[Cauliflower Of Love]

girl just added a sex chair to our amazon list

[team filler]

I finally upgraded to windows 10 

did you upgrade from macOS or Linux?

window 7 

I previously used xp for years after support ended 

windy 10 is p nice tbh 

[BIONIC]

Why isn’t filler sexually harassing me in PMs anymore?

[team filler]

anybody have google fi? thinking about switching from verizon 

[team filler]

Why isn’t filler sexually harassing me in PMs anymore?

I'm busy sending nut vids to my future wife on the tumblr

[Cauliflower Of Love]

i have bite marks all over my chest

[who is ted danson?]

I finally upgraded to windows 10 

did you upgrade from macOS or Linux?

window 7 

I previously used xp for years after support ended 

windy 10 is p nice tbh 

win xp + ie 6

rawdoggin the web in 2023

[Cauliflower Of Love]

i have bite marks all over my chest

is there a members only sex thread?

[BIONIC]

i have bite marks all over my chest

is there a members only sex thread?

If you like and reply to this post no one else can see it.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

i have bite marks all over my chest

is there a members only sex thread?

If you like and reply to this post no one else can see it.

Ok so

[team filler]

I finally upgraded to windows 10 

did you upgrade from macOS or Linux?

window 7 

I previously used xp for years after support ended 

windy 10 is p nice tbh 

win xp + ie 6

rawdoggin the web in 2023

[Cauliflower Of Love]

.

[Himu]

I just had an espresso for the first time in months and I'm again surprised people don't liken coffee to a drug especially after taking LSD. In fact, coffee feels like LSD without visual changes.

Coffee is a damn psychedelic. I googled and found I'm not alone in this.

[BIONIC]

[team filler]

xfl is back!