>>176
Yes, and no, Inhumanoids isn't that special to me to get upset over and in retrospect I suppose it was silly to think anyone on DQN might look it up if they didn't already know it. It was just interesting, and something I had a childhood experience with (namely turning on the TV right as D. Compose was decomposing someone, and having the fuck scared out of me.) When I was reintroduced to it in adulthood (from James Rolfe mentioning it in a video IIRC) I thought it was fairly cool.
>>178
Which 80s cartoon would you rather watch?
>>178 In a pathetic attempt to document the ever-changing and thoroughly abstract concept of dissected pokémon, I've only solidified my sense of self-disappointment and discovered the rotting corpse of my insecurities.
>>180 How do you feel when you are talking to someone, and they say something politically incorrect about a certain group of people - unrelated to your own race/creed/sexuality/etc. but might be offensive if it was directed at someone from that group?
>>179 I read your question and then saw the captcha nige. Oh, the irony. But anyway, I feel a little uncomfortable when people use ethnic slurs. I suppose because I'm not very privileged that I see attacks on other less privileged groups as a threat. But "politically correct" language is almost as bad.
>>181 Is Nyquil abuse a good solution to all of my problems?
>>183
When I first read the question I thought I'd have lots of answers, but actually the only one I can think of is Hyperbole and a Half which is now only updating once every few months. The quality hasn't decreased at all in my opinion (quite the opposite) but the lack of quantity is a great shame.
>>185
When the current DQN Short Novel thread ends, should we create a part four?
>>185
Well I can't say I know much about either, but in my younger years I did listen to a lot of folk/power metal. I really liked Turisas (which I'm guessing is Viking metal) but when Alestorm came around I very unashamedly loved the pirate sound and aesthetic, so I'm going to have to go for pirate metal.
>>187
Who are your favourite jazz artists?
>>187 I was working back shift so I took a supermarket-prepared tomato pasta salad, and mixed it with a tub of coronation chicken sandwich spread. A colleague brought in some home baking and I had one of her chocolate muffins too which was lovely but I ate too much.
>>189 When did you last feel your heart breaking?
>>192
My only real contact with orcs comes from playing Warcraft III, wherein they were okay, but not as much fun as the undead or night elves in my opinion. I did like the way a certain upgrade caused all their buildings to suddenly sprout massive spikes, though.
>>194
How can I convince a cute girl to start calling me onii-chan?
>>193
0. The easiest way is to make it your nickname. Most people are willing to comply with nicknames even if they don't know what they mean. Failing that,
1a. Find a cute girl that's Japanese and a little younger than you.
1b. Find somebody who's a Japanophile, it will make your job easier.
1c. Find a cute girl.
2. Become friends. How exactly you become friends is beyond the scope of my advice.
3a. Just ask her to call you onii-chan. It's fairly common in Japan, so she won't think it's weird. Done.
3b. Become closer friends before asking. It might be a bit awkward but she will understand.
3c. You will probably have to make her your girlfriend before she'll comply with such a request, unless you can pass it off as your nickname (see step 0.)
4. If all these fail, change your name to Oniichan.
5. If she still won't call you onii-chan, tie her to a chair and whip her until she does.
>>195
Why do you visit /dqn/?
>>197
In general, you should move. Staying active keeps the mind and body fresh. If you're talking about a big permanent move though, make a pros and cons list, consult trusted friends and family, and research the place you're considering moving before making a choice.
>>199
Why does my wireless mouse click still work even though the cursor stopped responding?
>>200 I know it as Peanuts http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercy_(game)
>>202 Which is the best Tony Hawk game?
>>203
Without quotes, it's a low resolution profile shot of a photocopier/printer against a white background. With quotes, it's a fairly simple looking blue (I think? I'm colourblind; could be purple) PCB. That reminds me, my brother's the first result if you google "general disapproval of the pope".
>>205
Do you believe there is any prejudice in modern society against asexual people?
>>204 I think so yes, the common person can't seem to comprehend if someone just isn't interested in sex. For example for like 30 years Morrissey always said he wasn't interested in sex, and then that's all he ever gets asked about in interviews.
>>206 Can you appreciate an artist's work even if you think they're a dick themselves?
>>209 It seems like an extremely dangerous thing to do. What happens when millions of people are brought back to life simultaneously? Also, there are so many people who died that should stay dead. What prevents necromancers from raising such people?
>>211 Should people be required to have a permit before they can have a baby?
>>239
Frankly I'm so inept at anything musical, I'd probably have trouble knowing which way up to hold a guitar.
>>238
I know you didn't ask me, but golly gosh I love calculus! Differentiation, integration, multivariable, vector, ODEs, PDEs, fluid dynamics, chaos, I love them all! My life would be so much more dull without calculus.
>>241
What skill/talent/esoteric area of knowledge are you particularly proud to possess?
>>241
When I was clinically depressed, my therapist gave me pills and a book. The pills helped, the book didn't. I also taught myself cognitive behavioural therapy which helped me make a full recovery until I didn't need the pills anymore.
These days, when I'm undergoing lesser bouts of depression, I exercise, make music, cook, marathon watch TV or other things I enjoy that are distracting until I feel better.
Also, don't feel bad about the programming thing, I'm in the same boat.
>>243
How many sexual partners have you had?
>>244
Text boards are better, obviously, since they prioritize content over social status. Anonymity is one of the internet's greatest strengths, trying to put identity back into the internet is going backwards.
That said, the members of a community are much more important than the medium they use to communicate. Normal forums can be better than text boards if they have a small community that shares a specific interest.
>>246
Does the internet make you lonely?
>>246 I don't know buddy, once you've realised that humans in general are pretty shitty it's pretty hard to ignore. Maybe make music or art to put the bitterness into a physical expression, go out and meet people and you might meet someone who thinks the same that you could get along with. Does it affect your opinion to know that strangers like me care about you and want you to be happy?
>>248 Does it affect your opinion to know that strangers like me care about you and want you to be happy?
>>251
I'm a big fan of reading books. I mean the physical type, made of paper, and often written many decades ago. I'm still amazed at how most people never read more than they absolutely have to.
I also like enka, which, I've been told by a genuine nihonjin, only old people listen to.
>>253
How many pictures of yourself would you estimate there to be on the internet?
>>253
Failed autoerotic asphyxiation strikes me as simultaneously (fairly) slow, painful, inelegant, meaningless, pathetic and embarrassing. On the other hand, it is - apparently - sexually pleasurable.
>>255
If you were given a choice between differential equations and biochemistry, with no context whatsoever, which would you choose?
>>254
I'd choose differential equations. Despite its difficulty, math at that level is one of the most beautiful things I can think of. Biochemistry is certainly not without merit, though. If you're choosing classes for college, it really depends on your major, but I'd still choose diff eq personally (as my chosen major has little to do with biology and lots to do with math).
>>256
Who are some of your heroes, and why are they your heroes?
>>255
There's various people I admire for various reasons, but I can't think of many I'd describe as heroes. Well, perhaps one. Long story incoming.
My middle name is István, which is named after my grandfather who lived in Hungary when it was under Soviet occupation. Occasionally, what they'd do is simply close off a street at both ends, let all the women and children out, and send all the able-bodied men to Siberia to work in the coal mines. Not because the people had done anything wrong; just because they needed more labour and, of course, everyone should be grateful to support the motherland and so on. Anyway, that's what happened to poor István. He ended up working in the coal mines for four years, in absolutely appalling conditions. The workers were fed pea soup for every meal for months on end, and had to work in the mines (>30°C) whereas above ground it was >-20°C. The sudden change in temperature caused quite a number to die of hypothermia/pneumonia/goodness knows what. Most amazing, however, is the fact that at one point he was the only one in his work camp of ~40 people who didn't die of an outbreak of typhoid. He managed to learn enough Russian to be able to speak to and get along with the guards, and, after four years was released back to Hungary. There, he got married, had a few children, and then went and died before I was born. I never even met the guy.
He didn't do anything that amazing; he didn't change the world, or help anyone else particularly, but I respect him for being able to put up with such horrendous treatment and come out on top. I doubt I'd be able to deal with what he went through.
>>257
Do you have any particularly interesting relatives?
>>256
My grandfather.
When his kids' Catholic schools sent home warnings about the Satanic Drug-Fueled Rocking And / Or Rolling Music, his reaction was to open charge accounts for my father and aunt at three local music stores.
Upon hearing that an ex-squadmate of his in the Marines (WWII, Pacific Theater) was having trouble, after the war, getting a home loan, he dragged the guy into his bank and barged into the manager's office, demanding that the bank give the guy a loan, with my grandfather as cosigner. They did, despite having turned the guy down twice previously, because "Poor Credit Risk" was, back then and back there, code for "We Don't Lend Money to No Nigras".
Despite having served when/where he did, he harbored absolutely no ill will toward the Japanese. As opposed to, e.g., Robert Heinlein, whose racial attitudes could perhaps be summed up as "Hating Negroes is Stupid; Hate the Filthy Nips Instead!". When my father gave me a copy of "The Master of Go" for my 9th birthday, my grandfather remarked that one of his greatest regrets was that he "wasn't exactly in the mood to sightsee after the war".
["The Master of Go" is a thinly-fictionalized account of the famous game between Honinbō Shūsai and Kitani Minoru, and is a great book even if you do not know go, as I certainly did not when I was 9.]
He did a lot of work toward cleaning up politics in his state, at a time when it was an open secret that the Mafia ran things.
When a friend said that there was a local "go to the bar get drunk as hell pick fights that turn into feuds" idiot gunning for him, and asked my grandfather for advice, my grandfather said "hit him first and don't stop". Later, his friend told him "Thanks. It worked."
When I screwed up and quite severely offended him and my grandmother, he neither blew off my apology (as did my grandmother) nor rubbed it in and tried for years to make me feel like shit (as does my father).
He was the only person in the family unfazed by my daughter being black, my cousin marrying a Latina or my sister being gay.
He gave me my eye color and my sense of humor.
I miss him. A lot.
>>258
C̶a̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶h̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶m̶e̶ ̶a̶ ̶t̶i̶s̶s̶u̶e̶?̶ How can I convince people that everday use of cryptography is no longer the realm of the tinfoil brigade, but rather a Damned Good Idea? This whole Snowden thing hasn't done it.
>>257
The last sentence of your answer made me tear up a bit...
Anyway, that's a pretty loaded question. It's pretty damn hard to convince people of anything they don't care about. People tend to react only when they can see how things directly affect them. Until there's a specific example or two about an average person with a lot of media coverage, people just won't care that much. The second barrier is that using everyday cryptography is daunting for the average user. If you have the means to make the technology to use cryptography easier to use or understand, do it!
>>259
Have you ever had an embarrassing e-mail/website history/search term found by somebody else? If not, what's the worst thing you can imagine somebody finding?
>>267
"Restoring" when I'm in one of my good moods, otherwise too lazy. I was very angry when I found out what it meant, but now I barely think about it. If you care to hear my two cents, scientific studies seem to go back and forth about some potential benefit or harm, so all things being equal it's needless surgery on an infant, which makes complications possible, so it's wrong.
>>269
There are many posts by depressed people discussing their depression to be found online. When I type one up, I realize it sounds the same as everything else I've read or just bitchier. Can you make a post about your own depression, real or otherwise, that will make me wildly sympathetic? I want to think that yours is a unique, beautiful depression that is nevertheless relatable.
>>268 No but I could let you hear a song that I think sums up day-to-day depression better than most songs about being depressed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxs3hG6qVSs it's quite funny. I have made posts about being depressed on the internet before and someone called me "edgy" and it sapped me for weeks
>>270 What do you think of the song I posted?