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Ernst February 3, 2023 (Fr.) 17:57:54 UTC 3. Februar 2023 (Fr.) 18:57:54 No. 90534 [Reply]

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Since I bumped the last one to Systemkontra, I shall make a new one, to everyone's delight.

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Ernst February 3, 2023 (Fr.) 21:32:59 UTC 3. Februar 2023 (Fr.) 22:32:59 No. 90544

>>90543

>WoW ded

always has been, I never liked it, it's poop and the beginning of the end for Blizz.
t.>>90541

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Ernst February 3, 2023 (Fr.) 21:37:45 UTC 3. Februar 2023 (Fr.) 22:37:45 No. 90545 Kontra

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I can’t fucking focus on my studies. Instead I’m wasting time on reading shit like “The Small Mirror of Sumerian Literature”.
I sometimes flip through the notes but otherwise I don’t feel like I’m doing well. I feel like my entire motivation to engage with modern mandarin was butchered by that exam. It shouldn’t be that way but I’m still apathetic towards it.
Don’t know how I could recover from this.

Dad returned from a business trip again. I asked if he could bring me back a Buddha statue and he did. I put it on the shelf.

It snowed today and it didn’t melt. Fucking sucks because I was hoping for an early spring.
Started registering for courses.
One year I didn’t register for one due to clashes in my schedule, and that would have been some queer history bullshit. Dodged that bullett, this year it’s about Imre Kertész, the writer who got the Nobel in literature for a Holocaust novel.
Hopefully it won’t be mind numbingly boring.

>>90534
Segg :DDD

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Ernst February 3, 2023 (Fr.) 21:47:49 UTC 3. Februar 2023 (Fr.) 22:47:49 No. 90546

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>>90536

>he doesn't know Sasha Grey

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Ernst February 4, 2023 (Sa.) 00:13:46 UTC 4. Februar 2023 (Sa.) 01:13:46 No. 90547

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Ernst, look at me, it's over

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Ernst February 3, 2023 (Fr.) 20:49:35 UTC 3. Februar 2023 (Fr.) 21:49:35 No. 90539 [Reply]

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Ernst January 16, 2023 (Mo.) 20:53:12 UTC 16. Jänner 2023 (Mo.) 21:53:12 No. 89783 Systemkontra [Reply]

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Previous >>89022

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Ernst February 3, 2023 (Fr.) 17:11:00 UTC 3. Februar 2023 (Fr.) 18:11:00 No. 90532

>>90479
35 years old gf < 25 years old gf
2022 videogames > 2012 videogames

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Ernst February 3, 2023 (Fr.) 17:31:12 UTC 3. Februar 2023 (Fr.) 18:31:12 No. 90533

>>90532
My 35 yo gf > whatever potato cattle you manage to pull
2002 video games > 2012 videogames

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Ernst February 3, 2023 (Fr.) 18:11:43 UTC 3. Februar 2023 (Fr.) 19:11:43 No. 90535

Video games suck

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Ernst February 3, 2023 (Fr.) 19:47:38 UTC 3. Februar 2023 (Fr.) 20:47:38 No. 90538

>>90479

>be 35
>live the life of a cranky 57 year old crank

Glad I don't have a gf or hemorrhoids or a decreasing libido. I go into work and get out of work when I feel like it, and no one sees any issue with it. I'm not sick in any way and will go out and cycle tomorrow. Or maybe I'll put in some hours, or maybe both.

t. 37 yo

>>90532
>>90533
Computer games or boring and suck. No matter what year. As soon as you get the mechanics, they become boring grinding. Computer games are best to be avoided. I've done so for the past 15 years, and I never looked back.

Video Games #5 Austria

Ernst September 28, 2022 (We.) 19:36:33 UTC 28. September 2022 (Mi.) 21:36:33 No. 82350 [Reply]

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Video games thread - my turn edition.

In a daring dash, a friendly AI secured valuable assets deep within the borderlands.
A unit without supply needs is powerful for deep commando operations, but this border region is yet to be reinforced against the close by Panzermark.

The mistake to declare an applied science director to early was made, still a lot of regular research to be done before they can do anything at all.
The budget cuts were mostly taken like a champ.

The OOB for now excluding militia consist of the usual MG regiments for overall needs, but this time 8 regiments of regular infantry were raised too, they are planned to be expanded into offensive battalions to better assist armored assaults.
Larger militia formations proof useful to quickly grow new borderzones when disbanded.

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Ernst December 28, 2022 (We.) 20:45:47 UTC 28. Dezember 2022 (Mi.) 21:45:47 No. 88576

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Got mine too.
I wasn’t a very good gamer according to steam.
Then again I didn’t play much vidya this year.

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Ernst January 26, 2023 (Th.) 16:25:40 UTC 26. Jänner 2023 (Do.) 17:25:40 No. 90222

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Playing Sims 3 again. Now it's a custom-made Pelkonen family in Roaring Heights, Vitagast is a military man (has been an astronaut for weeks already) and Mayra is a scientist - a good set of staple jobs to get money and still have time to raise some side skills and to grow kids. The kids are 6 by now - Mikkel, Morgana, Dragana, Viryava, Toivo and Vindelov, the last two still being toddlers. Ousting inferior races from the town is in progress. :3

The house has been built in a mostly ad hoc fashion and is essentially a temporary utilitarian building anyway - I'm going to rebuild everything from scratch on the same lot as soon as I have enough funds. With the main hall featuring portraits of the two founders hanging on the walls.

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Ernst January 30, 2023 (Mo.) 15:25:50 UTC 30. Jänner 2023 (Mo.) 16:25:50 No. 90385

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>>90222
The youngest of the daughters, Viryava, has definitely grown into the most beautiful one. Probably even more beautiful than her mother during her younger years. The haircut has to be made more normal, though.

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Ernst February 3, 2023 (Fr.) 14:02:31 UTC 3. Februar 2023 (Fr.) 15:02:31 No. 90527

I wish there was a game that could scratch the tank itch like War Thunder does, but without all the cancerous p2w bullshit.

New Music Thread Germany

Ernst January 13, 2023 (Fr.) 20:44:02 UTC 13. Jänner 2023 (Fr.) 21:44:02 No. 89588 [Reply]

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Just noticed the old music thread is on Systemkontra after my post >>89587 so here is a new thread to talk about music with Ernst.

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Ernst February 3, 2023 (Fr.) 07:39:34 UTC 3. Februar 2023 (Fr.) 08:39:34 No. 90515

>>90502
Good choice with Falscher Heiland and Kleid aus Rosen. May I recommend to you this coop of StS with Saltatio Mortis and a bunch of others? They got some really great energy going on:

IX https://yewtu.be/watch?v=8YRD3x99roM

Veitstanz https://yewtu.be/watch?v=bs0DhveZxAY

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Ernst February 3, 2023 (Fr.) 08:04:00 UTC 3. Februar 2023 (Fr.) 09:04:00 No. 90519

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>>90515

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Ernst February 3, 2023 (Fr.) 12:52:10 UTC 3. Februar 2023 (Fr.) 13:52:10 No. 90525

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Falco!

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Ernst February 3, 2023 (Fr.) 13:07:43 UTC 3. Februar 2023 (Fr.) 14:07:43 No. 90526 Kontra

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>>90282
You couldn't possibly understand the brilliance presented to you. Pearls before the swine.

Another masterpiece:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QE-KfhG6BQ
Probably banned in Germany, my apologies.

(The) Ukraine #20 Hungary

Ernst January 30, 2023 (Mo.) 09:35:06 UTC 30. Jänner 2023 (Mo.) 10:35:06 No. 90371 [Reply]

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Previous: >>89137

Two more weeks…
The plan…
It’s over…
Freedom for…
And so on usw etc.

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Ernst February 3, 2023 (Fr.) 07:48:20 UTC 3. Februar 2023 (Fr.) 08:48:20 No. 90516

>>90508

>Ru cannot outproduce lel

Is Europe willing to put it's economy on a war footing? Germany, for example, has not even placed orders to the manufacturers to replace the 10 PZH 2000 they have to Ukraine. For now, there has not been a production increase. Not even plans for a production increase. Only an emptying of depots. Rheinmetall can not produce additional 100s of tanks a year. They can not even refurbish 40 a year.

>Ukraine will win anyway

Ukraine would have to clear the Russians building by building and trench by trench. They would take hundreds of thousands or even millions of casualties.

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Ernst February 3, 2023 (Fr.) 07:50:45 UTC 3. Februar 2023 (Fr.) 08:50:45 No. 90517 Kontra

>>90514

>Le Russian Zerg-rush

Repeat of WWii-propaganda and post-WWii-propaganda from nazi generals, explaining why they lost even though they were superior to the slav untermensch.

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Ernst February 3, 2023 (Fr.) 08:03:46 UTC 3. Februar 2023 (Fr.) 09:03:46 No. 90518 Kontra

>>90517
you do so yourself on other posts, schizzi.

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Ernst February 3, 2023 (Fr.) 10:09:46 UTC 3. Februar 2023 (Fr.) 11:09:46 No. 90522 Kontra

>>90445
Putin had to defend democracy against misinformation campaign, including far-right conspiracy theories about so-called "cooperative Ozero", which have been debunked multiple times by independent fact-checkers from Nashi and Internet Research Agency.

if only he was dropping more progressive shibboleths, like Brazilian government for instance...

In Memoriam United States

Ernst February 2, 2023 (Th.) 17:08:52 UTC 2. Februar 2023 (Do.) 18:08:52 No. 90482 [Reply]

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A thread for the people, places, objects and abstractions which have departed this world for another. Good things or bad ideas, people who were loved or despised, time has won, and we are richer-or possibly poorer- for their brief existence.

Let us now look back and say a few words...

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Ernst February 2, 2023 (Th.) 17:48:03 UTC 2. Februar 2023 (Do.) 18:48:03 No. 90485 Kontra

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>>90484
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73i8w-fRBUY

also based Margot Honecker:

Interviewer: Do you think socialism is coming back or did it vanish with the GDR?
Margot: Nee der kommt wieder (It's coming back)
Interviewer: In Germany as well?
Margot: Why not in Germany?

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Ernst February 2, 2023 (Th.) 21:22:08 UTC 2. Februar 2023 (Do.) 22:22:08 No. 90496

>>90485
Not as based as Uncle Joe!

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Ernst February 2, 2023 (Th.) 22:10:13 UTC 2. Februar 2023 (Do.) 23:10:13 No. 90498

Extinct flora and fauna
https://onekindplanet.org/top-10/top-10-worlds-extinct-animals/
I disagree with this article. All the animals in top-10 should belong to Ice Age or earlier (including dinosaurs).

> West African Black Rhinoceros

Won't tell him from East African Black Rhinoceros anyway, not a big loss. Meanwhile huge hairy elephants or flying reptiles...

Dead languages
Most of them evolved into something different with time (like Latin), some were a dead end (like Coptic).
What I miss:

> Anatoli Zhuravlyov [ru] suggested that a separate, now extinct, branch of North Slavic languages once existed, different from both South, West, and East Slavic. The dialect formerly spoken in the vicinity of Novgorod (the Old Novgorod dialect) contains several Proto-Slavic archaisms that did not survive in any other Slavic language, and may be considered a remnant of an ancient North Slavic branch.

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Ernst February 2, 2023 (Th.) 22:28:42 UTC 2. Februar 2023 (Do.) 23:28:42 No. 90500

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Old Man of the Mountain, a granite formation in New Hampshire which resembled a human face. It was an iconic image which inspired Native American legends and grew to symbolize the State itself. Erosion was inevitable, but nevertheless efforts were made to reinforce the structure with concrete and steel. Alas, the old man collapsed in 2003 and now lives only in memory...and on currency...and in a million photographs...and on T-shirts...

>>90484

>Is this a special history thread?

Sure, anything and everything gone but not forgotten- ancient, recent, whatever.

feels

Ernst February 2, 2023 (Th.) 05:23:38 UTC 2. Februar 2023 (Do.) 06:23:38 No. 90462 [Reply]

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I saw videos from 2021 today, feels like 3 months ago. It's crazy. I was always in depression but after 2020 it became another level.
sames?

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Ernst February 2, 2023 (Th.) 09:28:44 UTC 2. Februar 2023 (Do.) 10:28:44 No. 90466

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Good news, everyone: 31% of this shit decade are over

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Ernst February 2, 2023 (Th.) 10:23:42 UTC 2. Februar 2023 (Do.) 11:23:42 No. 90467

>>90466
Technically, the decade started at 1st January 2021, so it's just at 21%

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Ernst February 2, 2023 (Th.) 10:35:33 UTC 2. Februar 2023 (Do.) 11:35:33 No. 90468

2021 feels like 3 years ago

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Ernst February 2, 2023 (Th.) 12:04:23 UTC 2. Februar 2023 (Do.) 13:04:23 No. 90473

I have no memories of the past 5 years

Computer technology thread #4 Russian Federation

Ernst January 30, 2023 (Mo.) 10:42:09 UTC 30. Jänner 2023 (Mo.) 11:42:09 No. 90375 [Reply]

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Hardware, software, tech news, programming, operating systems, retro computing, we've got it all.

last one >>67702

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Ernst February 2, 2023 (Th.) 10:41:49 UTC 2. Februar 2023 (Do.) 11:41:49 No. 90470

> photo_2023-0[...].jpg

Played a bit with summarization model. Executed it on tabs which I keep in browser for weeks but don't bother to read. And on different esoteric articles from radical newspapers. Works mediocre but sometimes useful. Often selects few sentences from first or last paragraph but also can produce reworked text.
If you want you can try it here, right in the web interface:
https://huggingface.co/facebook/bart-large-cnn

>>89788
tldr: Intestines - high surface area compared to volume it can contain = surfaces lined with blood vessels absorb alcohol more readily. Means you can drink a lot of alcohol, but the rate of absorption into the bloodstream stays the same.

>>89848
tldr: I have an awful personal problem a man in his 30s shouldn't have and need to work out what to do in my predicament because I'm a flawed human being and I'm acting like a brat. I have a girlfriend I've been dating for nearly 2 months - not long but she has ended up absolutely infatuated with me and tried to push things very fast. So I've hesitated because rationally, it makes sense to continue - "give her a chance" I think to myself as I'm getting old and I need to grow up and break a cycle of endless conquests.

>>90416
tldr: After the exam season is over I'm going to have coffee with one of my classmates. The lecturer offered me an A if I answered one question about the literatures she assigned. I got it right even though I did not read any of the shit she assigned, and got the A instead of the B she offered.

>>90452
tldr: Omniscience is impossible. God doesn't experience Time, that he's beyond time. How would he know which portion of your life was spent as a virtuous man, and which as a sinner?

[bothered to find some of the shartposts]

>>49646
tldr: Original Christianity was a sect of Jews who believed in Richard Stallman of ancient Judaism. The movement was an effort at reform against what He and others perceived to be the decadence, tyranny, and moral decay of the rabbinical class. Once it spread to Rome and incorporated more and more newfags it retained less and less original Jewish character.

>>52232
tldr: I no longer see people like that as Agents. I cannot fathom a person having their own agency and then spouting things that level of absurd. This is also why I started calling them NPCs on KC, which much like our feels they simply stole and ran into the ground until it was a dead meme. Perhaps it's because all social institutions are truly suspended by belief and pixie dust.

> photo_2023-0[...].jpg

Played a bit with summarization model. Executed it on tabs which I keep in browser for weeks but don't bother to read. And on different esoteric articles from radical newspapers. Works mediocre but sometimes useful. Often selects few sentences from first or last paragraph but also can produce reworked text.
If you want you can try it here, right in the web interface:
https://huggingface.co/facebook/bart-large-cnn

>>89788
tldr: Intestines - high surface area compared to volume it can contain = surfaces lined with blood vessels absorb alcohol more readily. Means you can drink a lot of alcohol, but the rate of absorption into the bloodstream stays the same.

>>89848
tldr: I have an awful personal problem a man in his 30s shouldn't have and need to work out what to do in my predicament because I'm a flawed human being and I'm acting like a brat. I have a girlfriend I've been dating for nearly 2 months - not long but she has ended up absolutely infatuated with me and tried to push things very fast. So I've hesitated because rationally, it makes sense to continue - "give her a chance" I think to myself as I'm getting old and I need to grow up and break a cycle of endless conquests.

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Ernst February 2, 2023 (Th.) 11:47:11 UTC 2. Februar 2023 (Do.) 12:47:11 No. 90472

>>90469
You must work at Yandex

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Ernst February 2, 2023 (Th.) 15:22:41 UTC 2. Februar 2023 (Do.) 16:22:41 No. 90478 Kontra

>>90470
It removed the sovl.

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Ernst February 3, 2023 (Fr.) 14:10:23 UTC 3. Februar 2023 (Fr.) 15:10:23 No. 90528 Kontra

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Old and busted: Graphics artists seethe about AI generated art

New hotness: Voice artists seethe about AI generated speech

Literature Germany

Ernst July 22, 2021 (Th.) 15:01:06 UTC 22. Juli 2021 (Do.) 17:01:06 No. 57224 [Reply]

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Ernst January 25, 2023 (We.) 18:50:39 UTC 25. Jänner 2023 (Mi.) 19:50:39 No. 90190

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>>90188

>So what do you think about Burroughs, Kerouac, etc, Ernst?

I read Naked Lunch and On the Road. I think Naked Lunch would be more interesting if I knew more about American history and culture.
Kerouac on the other hand I simply don't like. It's too much.

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Ernst January 25, 2023 (We.) 18:58:37 UTC 25. Jänner 2023 (Mi.) 19:58:37 No. 90191

>>90188

>Burroughs

Fun edgy stuff, probably won't stop being edgy for another several decades. Also, one of the few gay authors who is not an obnoxious homo, doesn't wallows in his faggotry and just either presents it matter-of-factly or constructs some entertaining plot out of it — that is, one of the few gay authors who might be interesting for non-gay and non-SJW people.

>Kerouac

Only read On the Road, and it was pretty forgettable and felt overrated. I read it in Russian, though, so maybe if I re-read it in English, I will have a better impression.

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Ernst January 25, 2023 (We.) 20:05:00 UTC 25. Jänner 2023 (Mi.) 21:05:00 No. 90197

>>90188

>After collapse of yet another Georgian horizontal queer commune

What happened?

I've only read Naked Lunch and I very much liked it back then but I really do love the movie which is more of a mix of the book and autobiographical material but it creates such a dense atmosphere and is quite a ride.

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Ernst January 30, 2023 (Mo.) 22:07:47 UTC 30. Jänner 2023 (Mo.) 23:07:47 No. 90421

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>>90191

> it was pretty forgettable and felt overrated

I guess it was overrated by the same generation and social circle American bohemia of the 50s to which the author and his characters belonged. For them this book is kinda very relatable, so nostalgia and so on. And then everyone else just accepted their assessment under weight of their authority.

>>90197
Yes, "Naked lunch" movie is really epic. Dropped the book at the start though.
"Videodrome" by same director is cool too btw.

> What happened?

Harassment accusations.