/int/ - International

>>7747 At least two.

>>7678 that's alright but you still need to understand that cartoons aren't real people. loli and shota are not the same as cp. Pedophilia and preference for loli anime have no relation. Unless you are using the name of an anime genre to describe the kind of shit that's posted on kohl; which is not drawings, but photos of real children... which is not loli. >>7694 lel, liberals are actually saying "kill all pedos" on twitter all day. Even the breadtubbers and so called leftist podcasters say pedophiles should get thrown in jail and raped forever. Meanwhile, conservatives are the ones who fluctuate between saying that pedophiles should be killed (and pedophile means everyone they don't like) and postulating that the age of consent should be lowered, while defending rich people and political and religious leaders who we all know rape children all the time. pics related.

>>7765 >Pedophilia and preference for loli anime have no relation. They do. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky3HqvT3M8E

>>7766 >vice news >japan All I'm seeing is people making the argument, not proving it; other than posting an assumed correlation between production of loli porn and CP, but you could as well correlate that to population or GDP or any other number of things.For the most part is just the reporter going "ewww" at hentai mags. Hell, some guy points out there's no sceintific basis to link loli porn and child abuse and the reporter goes "it should be banned anyway because muh morals". No surprise comments are turned off. But if your argument is that loli is popular in japan where children are culturally valued as little more than property, which leads to rampant unpunished abuse of children, then that's a mistake; because this is the attitude towards children in much of the west too, yet loli-esque of content mostly comes from japan, somehow. The Jehova witnesses alone have a bigger pedophile problem than Japan, but they don't publish cartoons with lolis, do they?

>>7765 >that's alright but you still need to understand that cartoons aren't real people. I do understand that, and it's about the real people those cartoons pull toward our board.

>>7760 My employer gave me a similar or the same one, but I refuse to use it. I'd rather buy my own.

>>7761 Why? If you're not a pro gamer it doesn't really matter what mouse you use

>>7762 Maybe I'm just autistic but I don't like the feel.

This but I might get a new one soon as this is wearing out and not ideal fir my current set up.

>>7763 Forgot to add: in addition to the feel, I want the two "back" and "forward" thumb buttons.

>>7745 Back in the day some normie fren used to drag me to music concerts. Always just went for his sake and couldn't wait to get home. Thank god he has a wife now.

>>7755 Concerts are much better than parties, since you have a clear objective. And that objective has nothing to do with yourself, it's just listening to music.

>>7755 Once in my life I went to a concert (with a girl I had a crush on) and it was alright, but it was way too loud for a little sensitive Bernd like me and obviously I wouldn't dance freely, because I would be too ashamed to do that. So I never went to another one.

>>7758 Bernd wants to participate in a moshpit, seems pretty fun.

I don't really have any interest in concerts, maybe if there was a Genshin Impact concert or something like that I would go but other than that there isn't anything that I would want to see. I know Genshin impact has live concerts but I don't know how common they are or if they happen in Australia.

>>7669 I agree it has issues but it's the best test we have. Rich people don't get dumbed down by being rich... It obviously takes more brain power to manage a company than it does to flip hamburgers. And I don't think intelligence is changeable to a serious degree anyway. Yes, on different days people might be smarter and such but it would be all within a certain range. People aren't going to be intelligence and then become stupid because they took a vacation for a year or something.

>>7673 >It obviously takes more brain power to manage a company than it does to flip hamburgers. Two problems with that. 1. Rich people pay others to manage their company, or, if they're rich enough, "manage" their company while paying or using their position to threaten other people into fixing or at least taking the blame for their constant fuckups, then they lie so much and with such conviction that they start living that lie; suddenly, they don't have to actually think anything through, if they have an idea they just demand that idea be realized and when it doesn't work or can't be fulfilled or creates more problems they just tell themselves it's not their fault and demand as well it be fixed. For example: I had a boss once who would regularly spend more money bribing lawyers to avoid paying taxes than what it would've taken to just pay an accountant and the taxes properly. And he's not the worst, nor the richest, I've worked for or met. But more often than not the richest will literally just pay someone else, often multiple people, to make all the important decisions while they are nothing more than a figurehead who also takes home the biggest check home (those are actually the smart ones, even if they'll act dumb when confronted). 2. people who flip burgers don't use their entire brainpower to do their burger flipping job. Like the taxes guy? He has literally no hobbies, no interests, and no topics of conversation besides whats most immediately relevant to the goings on of his business. Except for rich people gossip, what's needed for him to network for the promotion of his business. And even other rich people hate him because he has nothing to bring to a social interaction except promoting his business. Burger flipper guy might as least have 1 other thing going on in his life. >People aren't going to be intelligence and then become stupid because they took a vacation for a year No, but people are going to act stupider if they're, for example, nervous or anxious, if they haven't slept well, If something upsetting happened to them that morning, if they're ill or hungry, or not interested in the test, etc. And sure, maybe you don't feel like these or any other number of things could affect IQ test scores significantly, but how could you know? > it's the best test we have. The best... but for what, exactly? For giving you a number with no real meaning that you can make fun graphs with, yeah. For actually telling how smart people are, specially to find trends in populations? nah. Only one curious trend I find in IQ is that people who care a lot and claim to trust IQ tests more tend to be conservative older demographics, yet these same people also complain about how all young people are ignorant imbecilic retards for generally disagreeing with them on social and political issues or having different interests and skills. Yet the real trend in IQ is that younger people consistently score higher with each passing generation.

>>7680 >1 That's the difference between an owner and a boss. I have no problem with bosses making more, as long as the ratio is a reasonable amount. They do have more responsibilities and do other things. Owners, i.e. "my grandfather founded this company 100 years ago so i deserve the biggest cut" are a cancer in society. From a market perspective, they are a liability to the company and from a fairness perspective, they do nothing so they should also get nothing. >>7669 I once did an IQ test as a kid and one of the questions was to find as many advantages of a soft-cover book over a hard-cover book. Good luck for children from families with no books. I only remember that i answered price and weight, which were directly from my own experience. My parents let me choose a book for up to 10 bucks. If the hardcover is 11, i might get the soft cover for 9. And from carrying books to school, I knew to appreciate the lightweight ones. Does it make me more intelligent that my parents had the money and education/interest to buy me books? Probably yes to a fucked-up degree, but that's not what should be tested in my opinion. Otherwise they could just test the income of my parents and make that part of the test as well. I would've failed the question about advantages of smaller boats for example. My parents don't own a boat and i never will. A rich kid might have overheard the parents talk about boat parking fees rising for long boats or some shit. Or maybe you need fewer staff to drive the boat around. I think IQ tests should test the performance in completely new circumstances. Nothing where growing up in a particular class is an advantage or disadvantage.

Having to live with Niggers.

>>7683 Ok, you're talking about how the job of a boss is to manage people and tell them what to do. But that's not the whole story: bosses have to manage people and resources, and they have to keep tabs on everything in order to have all the info to make the best decisions and figure out solutions when things go wrong. Yet, many bosses -whether they're the owners themselves or not- don't do even this; they just yell at other people to fix their mistakes because they don't know what's going on. Some might not even actually make any decisions at all, instead telling their subordinates to make them themselves, and only take credit if things actually work out. Hell, even if things work out fine they might still get mad if it's not the way they suddenly claim they envisioned all along. Just like there's the "my dad built this company so I get a million bucks for existing" there's the "my dad or my friend's dad or my dad's friend built this company, so I get the 10k bucks manager position in this tech firm straight out of graduating from architecture" Like I'm glad you've never had bad bosses like that, but in many places this is the norm.

>>7721 >>7727 That's not really the same at all. Just macaroni mixed with meat is very different from adding eggmilk to it and baking it in the oven.

>>7728 >eggmilk >eggbutter What's next, eggcheese? Eggyoghurt?

>>7729 Eggcheese is what you put in pasta carbonara. I don't know if there's anything with eggyoghurt but could be.

I'm such a lazy piece of shit that I just ordered food from my go to Indian instead of buying groceries and cooking myself.

>>7719 Do you watch stuff while you're eating?

I finished Pentiment, put it off for a long time. Mixed feelings, on one hand setting a game in the Peasant Wars is so wonderfully specific and it's clear that it was a passion project of Sawyer. Sadly both the RPG mechanics and the murder mystery plot were sort of lacklustre and I didn't care at all for the new protagonist in the second half. But it's nice that they wrote dialogue where people don't swear all the time, was a major irk for me in KCD where they made the dialogue too Game of Thrones/Witcher like.

>>7699 Pentiment was such a letdown. It started off great but then quickly after the first act turned worse. Mainly, the choices we make, the character dialogues and the traits we select, don't make much of a difference. The dialogues are also weak and basic. Expected something more from a game that is centered around story telling. Also, I'm not a poltard by any means but the narrative not missing a chance to talk about women's place in society, rape, Turing vollständigs, black monks in the middle of fucking nowhere, jewish people, gypsies and so on, is too much. It's exaggerated to the point of it being comical. The historical accuracy is perhaps close to 20%. Probably less but I stopped caring early on. The art and OST is well done. The idea was neat. It's a shame that they couldn't get better writers and historians on the team. Now the game I recently finished is Mundaun. It's a game with a setting in Switzerland and the VA is in Romansh. It was interesting being able to understand a lot of it due to knowing italian. The game is a walking sim with light puzzle and horror elements. It's the great atmosphere that pulled me in. I just liked walking around and exploring in the limited area. The story is cliche but it's executed well. Currently play testing Militsioner and really like the game, the atmosphere in particular is comfy and the idea itself is rather unique.

>>7706 The secretly fag monks and the Jews were plausible enough (they were involved in the printing business), the gypsy and Ethiopian did reek of forced DEI though.

>>7707 >the Jews were plausible enough (they were involved in the printing business) Correct but them being friends and guests with the Druckers was also as historically inaccurate as possible. My problem was not that there were jews in the game, it's the way the relationship with them was handled like with other characters. You can suspend belief here and there but Pentiment kept posing such silly premises that it stops being immersive. At least for me. >The secretly fag monks Yeah. That wasn't a problem for me but it did add to the overall inclusive narrative the game has going. I wish they kept it more realistic is all.

>>7718 It's an unfortunate reality that modern writers of historical media can only implement diversity in a heavy-handed way. Like, it always has to be niggers, it can't be, say, a guest from Novgorod, a Turkish diplomat or whatever. Instead of showcasing historical trades women dominated like brewing or textile making, they just write them to be sarcastic and snarky, it's superficial and stupid. Games usually have at least _somewhat_ authentic art direction/costumes which is why I can enjoy them, unlike TV show slop.

>>7629 I liked the Roosian menes

>>7630 A couple of times in the past 5 or so years I intentionally posted some lame joke on 4kanal with a Petrosyan image to see if any Bernds were around to catch the reference. There hadn't been any.

>>7629 Lel

>>7632 Nah, I've seen it posted from time to time. I miss yobaposting.

>>7644 https://youtu.be/Bew5rxQesOc

>>7220 What's the point of watching the sea when you can't swim? It's nice.

>>7222 Totally the same thing bro

>>7223 It's something pretty you can enjoy even without dipping in.

>>7222 Beauty can only be seen and regarded. True, a Bernd may never feel the touch of a woman but looking at her beauty from afar, he gets the exact same look at her like her husband. You don't think a lot about beauty during sex.

>>5944 I try to ignore them, but sometime it occurs, that my instinct gets the best of me.

I think there is such a famous Zen Koan in this song. When she says 'atashi Yui-Senpai ga daisuk' 'Demo, demo hontou wa. Mina de iiru noda. Ichiban tsuki daiyo!' It really makes you think. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq2f_BVSat4

>>7606 Huxley knew.

>>7654 Your brother was lazy cunt.

>>7654 Maybe I'm a cynical cunt, but why wasn't Buddhism in Japan mainly a tool for power and bureaucracy? Why would anyone go there for Buddhism? That's probably true for most religions around the world, but in Japan I noticed this particularly strongly. N.B. I know next to nothing about Buddhism in Japan before the edo period.

>>7625 You are missing the point. It doesnt really matter what koan is about, it just meditation object. Student puts efforts to "solve" koan while teacher refutes any logical answer to the point when student loses all hope and his conceptual mind explodes. Yes, there are books with answers to koans with commentary and explanation but it doesnt work like that.

>>5594 Pure love

This is both entertaining and educating in case you ever wondered how sex works.

>>7373 What the flip

>>5594 Saw this gem on kohl

>>7663 Why are microcephaloids so fuggin adorable?