/ot/ - off-topic

>>248128
"wow i can dump all my flaws into this one disorder and people can't call me out on it because of the recent PC culture and cries of ableism? count me in!"

>>248077
I should probably mention that that was only one person, and most of the people in the group thought that was bad, even the anorexic and autistic. Idk if anyone was able to get her to visit her sister though as that kind of talk was pretty triggering for some so we all agreed to not talk about it or any kind of 'suicide attempt shaming' anymore. I'd like to think someone took her aside to talk after the meeting tho.

>>248107
I feel your pain anon. I've been abused by multiple BPD people because I'm the type of personality they find easy to exploit so I have an immense fear of them and I'm constantly paranoid about developing the disorder myself. They're literally the worst people you could find and the most awful thing is that they could be helped with therapy but their sense of illness (or self-awareness for that matter) seems to be nonexistent and they often refuse any treatment. They can be so vicious that the emotional scars they leave will last a long time.

>>253297
The emotional abuse I've suffered from people with BPD was more traumatic than the physical abuse and molestation I went through as a kid. I was able to move on from those pretty decently, but I'm still fucked up from the BPD horror shows I've dealt with.

>>253299
Same! I also experienced a lot of trauma with narcissists also.
I had a gay male friend that wrecked havock on my self esteem, and when he ditched me for more exciting friends, a girl with borderline cane in and out of my life over the years and fucked with me. I should have said fuck off, but she was so convincing and I was lonely. Now I have trouble trusting anyone.

>>252969
I feel like Bella could look better with different styling. With the boring middle part dark hair she looks so…dated? and kind of vampy? I feel like a side part or volume would make her weird skinny face less weird.

>>252997
If I lost like 10 to 15 kilos and had blue eyes I'd probably look similarish to Bella but I'd wayyy rather look like Ivanka.

I think plastic surgery should be okay for people who really suffer from their looks. There was a girl in elementary I went to school with and she was always bullied for her very prominent ears. She did surgery and the bullying stopped too. However, there are also cases like the one of my cousin, where people overdo it. She goes to "beauty clinics" (clinic is not a trademark here and anyone can call his establishment a clinic) to boost up her lips. One day she told me how she wanted to cut her calves because she feels too overweight.
The thing is there is nothing wrong with her. She is very good looking but she does not listen.

>>253272
>she wants to cut her calves

Wtf??

>>252969
She looks like a mix between Jennifer Lawrence and Liv Tyler now. Before surgery she looks pretty meh but not ugly. Just meh as fuck.

I do overall love all the current Hadid siblings' faces tbh. They look gorgeous.

>>252970
That particular before pic of Ivanka looks really fugly but there are some other ones that I don't mind. She looks so plastic now. Don't think she improved her look by making is equally wonky but now hella fake on top of wonky.

>>252923
can you recount the trip in detail ?

>>252499
>if you want psychedelics, look for smart people/nerds. they are easily accessible over the dark web. you can literally teach yourself via google how to buy them via tor, i did

Nayrt but do you have any links to get started with? I’ve been trying to get shrooms for 2 years but everyone where I live only smokes weed or meth or takes Xanax, and I’m hella paranoid about gettin caught trying to buy shrooms online because I barely know what tor even is.

sage bc I’m lame and need an emotional reset/spiritual before my life spirals out of control from not being able to feel anything anymore

I’ve never done real old school MDMA, the x they sell here is all mephedrone or other cut bullshit. I’m looking forward to it because just recently in the US, they’ve begun trials for treating PTSD/treatment resistant anxiety with MDMA, which would be so amazing. Google MDMA and MAPS to learn more, it’s pretty fascinating the positive effect it has on people’s lives.

My favorite drug is shrooms, love the whole experience from beginning to end. Does anyone else here have trouble looking at themselves in the mirror while they're tripping? I can’t handle it at all, lol.

>>253112
I'm a different person but I have some tips. don't try to buy shrooms online. it's highly illegal and too risky when you can easily cultivate them yourself. look up different techs, try Shroomery.org

all you really need is spore syringes, sterilized substrate bags, a closet, and a few other items like jars, water, and sugar. you can buy sterile substrate bags for mushroom growing legally on a bunch of sites, it will be advertised for edible mushrooms. spore syringes are also legal to buy. South American cubensis is the most common type in my experience.

it's honestly so easy to grow them yourself and it's fun.

>>253089
Mail guy delievered my pills that day, but when I open up the box, I notice there's three little plastic bags with dry shrooms (1g each) along with the bottle of pills. Sometimes, the girl whom I buy these sends customers these lil gifts. So I have this friend who's really experienced on the shroom, and he believes the shroom is like a living entity; once, I was telling him how the shroom has cured my depression fully, but wasn't really helping much with my adhd, so he goes: "Oh, you know, I once took 2g of shrooms and I was able to concentrate real hard". So I sent a picture of my gift to him, telling him "Look, imma try and take those 2g today!". So I go to the kitchen and eat the 2g (I think that was at 4pm). So I go back to my room and he sent me back a message (after I ate): "Are you really gonna eat those?" and I'm like "yeah, I already ate them" so he goes "oh, well, good trip". I flipped a bit ofc, but I wasn't scared. Anyway, the psychedelic effects start to kick in after around 40 minutes, and I start feeling euphoric and happy. So there's this guy I am (or was) friends with since high school. I've always liked him, but due to my… um, I don't know what's the word. Due to my inability to feel confortable with human touch/sexual interaction, we've never had anything more than friendship. Anyway, I started texting him, because I was feeling an infinite love and I wanted to share that moment with him, so I tried to explain the situation. I know, this was a bad idea. I had no clue how much I craved for him until that moment. Anyway, he was probably thinking I was an irresponsible brat but I didn't care, I just wanted him to understand how much I liked him. The thing is, I didn't use the word "like" because, at that moment, I felt like this was such a weak word to represent my love. So I tried telling him that I felt like our connection was really intense. Ofc he didn't understand shit, also he didn't give a fuck <- I realized how much he didn't care, so I started to get paranoid and then, I felt like my organs were overflowing with sourness, I also felt like there was sourness under my skin and inside my mouth, it was so intense and cruel, at this point I was crying like crazy. Anyway, I told him that I entered a bad trip and I didn't know why, but then he was like "oh, well, I'm sorry to hear that, but I gotta go do [I don't remember what], don't Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

Children as young as four are being asked by their 'trans-friendly' primary school to inform on anyone calling transgender pupils by the 'wrong' pronoun.

The policy at Arbury Primary in Cambridge states that it is 'illegal' to call someone 'he/she' or 'it' against their wishes.

The school also urges parents of children who no longer identify as their biological gender to consider changing their name by deed poll.

Arbury holds assemblies to celebrate a child's 'transition' from a boy to a girl or vice versa, has introduced a gender-neutral uniform, and allows children to use lavatories of whichever sex they 'assign' themselves to.

The warning on 'misgendering' comes on the school website. A brightly coloured page entitled How To Be Trans Friendly features cartoons of smiling children surrounded by rainbows.

It states: 'Calling someone he/she, it or deliberately the wrong pronoun is unkind, and illegal. If you hear or see this type of language being used challenge or report it.'

Elsewhere, the guidance says: 'Trans children will understand the difference between a genuine mistake and something deliberate in relation to names and pronouns.'

The statement that misgendering is illegal may be based on the school's interpretation of the 2010 Equalities Act, which suggests that a hate crime takes place when a member of a minority perceives one to have happened.
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>>252786
just got time to click through and look at the exhibit texts, the "fantasy RPGs where so many of us first explored our genders" line in the undead warrior puppet text is so cringey, for being a curated exhibit they sure didn't try to hide the agp weeb larper thing.

>>252786
I can just smell the BO through that picture.

>>252788
I wonder WHY they didn’t want people recording it, though.

https://www.reddit.com/r/confession/comments/8lz6tl/i_dont_think_you_deserve_to_be_mtf/

The comments in this thread. Holy shit, people will really defend anything as long as you're a trans woman

This is one of his most moving performances of this song IMO, especially at the end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSMHcT-TqJw
Can't believe Bright Eyes hasn't been mentioned, Conor Oberst knows my soul…

I'm just getting into pc gaming but I have no friends what do ;_;

>>252667
Explore the plethora of single-player PC games out there.

Anyone Genesis/MD here? I pretty much picked up what I played as a kid and then got an Everdrive for anything else

Love that console.

I don't know whether to get Dark Souls Remastered or not.

I have dark souls 2 and 3 in my steam library and Bloodborne in my playstation library. I only played DS PtD pirated and that was two years after it was released, so I was hoping to get in with the recent remaster on the launch and the revived userbase.

But now there are hackers going rampant so my main reason for buying this are iffy with lots of negative reviews.

If I had the 20$ discount, I would have bought it pronto but giving 40$ for a patch seems like throwing away money and I'd much rather buy Kingdom Come in that case and buy the remaster later on sale or from a key shop.

Could someone give me their honest opinion on DSR if you've played it?

anyone here play ESO?

>>253001
This is a good example of how a lot of artists are. At first glance it looks really good. Then you look again…what's going on with the chest? Why is one eye noticeably larger than the other? What's going on with the neck and collarbone?

They have really good "rendering" skill, that is color and light, but less skill in other areas. In the comic world they would do the colors while someone else did the inking/lines.

Portraits are good for studying the exact things they leave out, but then when that's all they draw it quickly becomes a boring subject.

>>253001
The weird part is that clearly your eye is also supposed to be drawn downward because of the jewel she’s holding in her hand but there’s just…nothing there.

>>253001
As an artist who was once obsessed with the generic semi realistic style I can confirm it’s 90% laziness.

>>253001
Looks like the collarbone is pointing to (the viewer's) left while the breasts are centered… or something like that, it's hard to define what's going on with that clavicle

I like en pointe ballet, im pretty good at it too and taught ballet for a bit, I wish there were more ballet auditions i can try out for and I don't have the body for ballet :(

>>252920
What about trying out for contemporary dancing? A lot of it use classical technics. Do you know if contemporary companies have the same strict body proportions requirements like in ballet?

>>252920
I wish I could do pointe again, I did about a decade ago but there's just not enough class time for me to get strong enough since I'm an adult now.

I used to love finding the "secret" tumblr/blog/forum accounts of IRL friends/acquaintances by searching their common usernames. Found some juicy Livejournals, etc. I would love knowing things about them that they probably didn't think anyone else had ever seen before. My friends always come to me for cyber stalking new boyfriends/girlfriends, etc. It's a well-honed skill.

I also have followed/stalked a homeschooling family for about 10 fuckin' years now. They just get cringier and cringier and I wish I had other people to talk about them with.

>>252736

Anon I live for that stuff… Pls

>>252826
I second this, that's amazing

>>252736
Same, I love it. I found a acquaintance from college's tumblr, instagram and twitter because a mutual friend advertised his twitter on fb. I found the guy because they were mutuals on twitter and he posts the dumbest shit ever. Some of these things could even be compromising, especially because he uses selfies as profile picture and his first name everywhere. Now I know way too much about this guy and it's hilarious. If he didn't use a selfie for his pp I would never have found out. He vague-posted about me and friends some years ago on his tumblr, that was pretty funny too because he's way worse than he thinks he is.

I have a friend who does the same stupid shit of posting selfies and her real name everywhere, as well as using the same IDs everywhere, and because we're mutuals on some websites I managed to find a bunch of acquaintances' twitter or tumblr. But usually they don't post anything special.

I also found relatively old and well-hidden photos of a guy I like a lot thanks to the power of google and fb and I found out what he looked like without facial hair and long hair, among other things. It was weird.

>They just get cringier and cringier and I wish I had other people to talk about them with.
Could talking about them on anon get you in trouble? If not you can tell us a little about them. I always hear about American religious parents who homeschool their kids and I never hear good things about them so I'm curious.

>>252736
Same.

Sometimes I’ll look up people I don’t talk to anymore bc I’m wondering how they’re doing in life.

I actually found that one of my friends that I had a major falling out with had died when I went to reconnect with them on Facebook. I wanted to apologize for what went down and saw their page was set as “memorial.” I hadn’t spoken to them in a year and I wanted to right what went wrong. I was just 4 months too late. Their death has haunted me since. It’s one of my biggest regrets in life. A year later I found that they had committed suicide. I still don’t know why. Had I contacted them sooner, I feel like it might not have turned out like this. Unhealthy mindset, but I wish I could have just talked to them.

reviving this thread.
what's your favorite amenity? I'm really liking the new modern ones.

>>252216
Same, I just hate that my character can't use it