/general/ - General

I maintain friendships with friends I made in middle school and put effort into those relationships, but when it comes to new friendships I'm somewhat lazy about it. Especially online friends. Well, the reality is when I'm online, I probably don't want to synchronously chat with you. Especially not on some horrendous "service" like Discord. I'd probably be more receptive to an online friendship if someone was willing to correspond over email.

>>1357
I had a HS friend for many years, but he kinda stopped responding to my messages, only replies with one or two words, so I stopped sending messages

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>>1357
I think it's usually wrong to assimilate people over the internet as friends because there's no strong incentive to be truthful about yourself. Catfishing is the most obvious example, dudes thinking they bagged a 9/10 asian chick only to find out it's a man good at silicone implants/makeup. Then there's all those patriot™ twitter accounts that turn out to be from India and so on and so on.

The rare cases where you may possibly want to consider making an internet friend an actual friend is if you constantly "click" with them and form a deeper bond than say a parasocial relationship over years. But even then be prepared to be lied to, sometimes out of necessity to not be homeless and sometimes out of a mutated form of love that cannot exist.

But having external online communities where you can discuss things that would push away your IRL friends/family is nice. Like if you spend hours building ships in a bottle every night and find communities that value this then it's nice feeling that you share this unique interest with other human beings somewhere out there.

>>1358
It's good to let go sometimes because often that's how people improve themselves. It's like 4chan if you cane from there like me, I did my best to weather the constant spam and utterly broken and worn down state of the site. Then the 2025 hack and still the refusal for 4chan to improve things made me start searching for altchans.

I had good times with 4chan and it was the source of the 2026 backrooms movie, so many good memories. But I've realized it's a mistake going back there because I'm not valued there and the oldfags left long ago.

>>1359
>>1360
I heard that in this day and age people are so lonely that the most successful people online are the ones who sell a sense of community, for example those twitch streamers with their chatrooms

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Japanese anon is mad
From 2018 and originally from 2006

Anyone else has a meal schedule?
I only eat lunch and dinner so that's 14 meals a week, I used to eat slop 8 out of those 14 meals, now I cut it down to 4 out of 14. I'm already losing weight, feels good

>>614
Don't do it kitty

And the universe, I look at the moon and think why the hell does that even exist, a massive ball in the sky
Why does everybody just accept there's a massive ball floating in the sky?

If I were a millionaire and didn't have to work I'd learn Japanese, it's a lot of fun

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We don't need eugenics, we just need actions to have consequences. Judges let criminals like that walk free all the time, you hear of cases where one guy gets arrested 50 times and is still allowed to terrorize the streets, the laws are soft on crime.
Put criminals in prison and throw the keys away.

Lmao what the actual fuck

>>393
This new captcha system is relatively easy, but the previous one was pretty much impossible to solve. I have no idea how the site stayed afloat with it