/ot/ - off-topic

>>2582146
so did you move to a better town or a hustling and bustling Big City with diversity and crime rates on par with South America?

>>2582151
Neither I just sympathize for people when their towns go to shit. I can see what you’re doing referencing that stupid greentext btw.

"x lives rent free in my head", "x is my roman empire", shut the fuck up

>>2581965
I get you anon, my home town is a shithole and most people there are trash, growing up in an environment like that is difficult and I hope you're okay now

I went to a rhythm-game focused arcade recently and it made me realize I had no idea how bad weeb shit is. The games themselves were fun, but so many of the modern machines were covered in skimpily-dressed anime girl art. This machine in particular had a live2d model bouncing her tits around between gameplay that annoyed me. Besides that, the arcade was covered in posters and artwork of.. more skimpily-dressed anime girls. Admittedly I’m not a rhythm game fanatic but I don’t see how banging out the tunes has to be littered with coomshit.

>>2528219
It's gonna be a bit of a blogpost, but I had a half year internship in Rome and it was a bit shithole-y. I am from Prague and Rome felt really unsafe, there was a lot of muslim moids who would shout or stare at you if you wore a skirt. When going out later at night I'd never wear anything that would be normal to wear here in Prague. One time I wore a dress (not even revealing, more formal-looking) and immediately got in trouble returning home cause a moid stopped his car and insisted on giving me a ride. That was literally the only time I wore something other than pants and immediately got harassed. I had a friend (Polish) and she wore much more fem clothes than me and told me the muslim paki moids on the public transport never stop eyefucking her and it's really uncomfortable. On top of that Italian moids catcall and harass a lot too so it's just a hellhole that can't be compared to central/east countries. I mostly wore trousers the whole time I had my internship because I hate being bothered and watched. I think it's worse because I was often living in places with high amount of foreigners (Bangladesh, Pakistan), because it was a bit cheaper. But not like those were the worst parts of town or anything, they were still pretty pricey. Also in those places there is trash everywhere. Literal heaps right in streets, not even kidding, and all of that cooking in the heat. And young dark men drinking Peroni standing around everywhere, and leaving the empty bottles on ground when finished. I still liked Rome a lot, it's a very lively place and there's always something happening, but I think it's only a nice city to live in if you are crazy rich and live in the best parts of it. I was living close to Vatican for a month or so and it's clean and safe, but it's only the most bougie places full of old rich Italians, young people can't afford that long term.

>>2580994
italian men are garbage too, it's not only the outsiders but also the locals being predatory and gross.

>>2581019
Yes, I mentioned that
>On top of that Italian moids catcall and harass a lot too so it's just a hellhole

I hate being born in this shithole country, with bpd parents, village mentality people who have caused me to develop social anxiety and ptsd,being forced into religion overboard schools,cost of living, my undiagnosed mutism or autism which I never got help for, my mother hating me since I was born and my bpd religious psychosis father leeching of my mother monetarily. Either way I resorted to escapism which caused me to flunk college and now I am 25 and don't know how to escape my sithole country and have no prospects or anything going for me to help me survive. Its over for me. If you're reading this I'm probably dead. Fuck Balkan countries. They're not so different from India or Africa and I never want anything to do with any of them ever again. Amen. Fuck everyone and I hope all of Balkan countries perish in ww3.i wish death on every living being aka human cockroach from there. Peace.

>>1516175
Mi smo sa Korduna, mi smo Srbi. Ja sam bila rođena ovđe u Americi, i samo znam malo našeg jezika. Što ja znam, naučila sam se.
Moji roditelji su želeli da njihova djeca zaborave našu istoriju i sve što se dogodilo na Kordunu.
Cijeli mojeg života nisam se osećala kao ja sam pripadala ovđe. Nisam bila popularna, nisam volela ništa koji ljudi u mojoj generaciji su voleli.
Ali kad ja sam naučila ovaj jezik, i kad ja sam našla Srpsku crkvu blizu mene, konačno ja sam se osećala kao ja sam našla moj 'klub'.
Mi imamo kolo srpskih sestara i ja volim praviti sarmu i kolače i stvari :D
I dunno. It makes me said to see people get called slavaboos for this. It fills my heart up. I don't wanna own the libs or anything. I love my beautiful church and my friends and my cute jacket that I sewed. And I like dancing with my friends… I just want to belong somewhere. I feel like i belong with them…

>>2581277
Maybe not Mexico if you're looking to escape for safety. Femicide rates are super high in LatAm countries because of the cartels and there's a huge machismo culture.

>>2581319
nta but India is probably still worse but those stats are not included

>>2581391
There's so many violent videos of cartels beheading and shooting women. There's one town or city that has so much femicide that it's basically a daily occurrence. Yeah, India is still worse but I would avoid both countries like the plague.

>>2581319
ah so mexico is the india of the americas got it.
>>2581413
seeing most snuff porn comes from the cartels i think in this regard mexico is on the same level as india not any less worse for it.

>>2581537
>i think in this regard mexico is on the same level as india not any less worse for it.
same level of lawless, but the people aren't as pathetic, servile and and degenerate as Indians tend to be

>>2581806
It's just that you never know what you're seeing on the internet is true, the popularity of stuff like ChatGPT has made me more suspicious of stuff on the internet.

I know even when face-to-face with someone in real life, you're never really sure if they're being 100% honest—but it does feel somewhat more authentic than (potential) Redditor clickbaits.

There's this photographer named Brandon Stanton who interviews random people on the street—sometimes they say mundane stuff, and other times they're giving their whole life story. I wonder how he does it? How he can make them comfortable enough to tell him—a stranger—their story.

I've noticed my characters have a lot of overlap, maybe too much. In personality, design (being from comics), and general background. There are some significant differences so they're dynamic enough within a single story but I notice a lot of trends and I think I may be lazily returning to a "default".
I have tiny casts, like 2 characters each, so it's not as big of an issue as a large ensemble cast being repetitive, but it seems like a sign I need to be more creative and push myself out of my comfort zone.
Have any of you had this issue?

>>2581856
I write a lot of the same character types too. It's not an entirely bad thing. Most authors have certain personalities they excel at writing and focus on those. Look at Stephen King, for fucks' sake. I think that by experimenting with the different settings/scenarios you put your stock cast of characters in, you can get a lot more mileage out of them and expand outwards, adding more characters to tell those stories that you might also find an affinity for.

>>2581850
>How he can make them comfortable enough to tell him—a stranger—their story.
He's not doing anything special. There are a lot of people waiting for someone to ask them about their life story

>>2581963
Seconding this. I have done some interview type fieldwork as part of my studies, and a lot of people are glad to talk about themselves when asked. It's all just about presenting the project in a way that makes them comfortable to share, basically demonstrate that you don't have bad motives.

Should I remove my jaw/chin hair? It's getting thicker and thicker and I look like a gross moid but I don't want to be stuck shaving all my life or spend so much money on laser hair removal. I wish I didn't feel this way but it's been making me so insecure ever since it started growing.

>>2579584
Get an at home IPL device that is suitable for facial use, it will be much cheaper than paying for laser hair removal sessions.

Do I..
>Play a game
>Read a book
>Finish my anime
I need to kill about 2 hours.

>>2581875
Game is most entertaining, book will make you feel more accomplished and anime will be the fastest. Depending on what your goal is you can make a decision from there.

Do I grind to become a
>Certified public accountant
>Enrolled agent
>Freelance Bookkeeper
After doing a bookkeeping cert and getting some experience under my belt?

>>2581116
It’s definitely a thing, I work for a hair salon that doesn’t hire fat people. It’s not said outright but the sentiment is there.

>>2581116
Once I went to a dental clinic where all women that were employed there were thin or fit looking like barbie dolls with obvious plastic surgery done. Receptionists, nurses and dentists. Now that I think of it, I don't recall seeing any male employees. It was like a clinic lthat employed only yassified dental professionals. It was very weird.

Their patients were mostly just regular old people.


(That clinic was a bit expensive for me so I got dental work done at another one.)

I wish to be free of food service and retail and I really hope I get any of the jobs I applied for. I'll take a paycut at this point, I literally cannot take it anymore. This one job I applied for is an almost $3/hr paycut but I literally cannot give a shit. Anything where I don't have to stand all day anymore.

fuck it, imma ask: what are some good day jobs for people who enjoy doing creative things on the side that won't take away their energy at the end of the day + somehow supplements their passions?

Have any of you ever whistleblown on your current employer? I'm genuinely considering doing it to try and get rid of this psycho customer who harasses my co-workers into technically breaking KYC law.

>Her sun sign is pisces. that explains a lot.

Astrologyfagging should be banned like armchairing is for cows tbh. It’s too autistic

"I'm the one working on this project alone" why would you lie like that in front of people? Everyday you beg for help, I've helped you, others helped you, and you're acting like you're the one carrying all the burden. We're all fucking waiting for YOU. Don't have the gall to lie to people saying you've worked on it and will work on it for like another 3 years it's almost done and can be finished by the end of this year in fact. Instead you spend all day playing with your fucking asshole instead and crying about it. I should embarass you in front of others and tell them the truth kek

"weeewooooweeewoooo" shut the fuck up i am laying in bed i will not move a finger even if a nuclear bomb lands right on my face

All water signs are retarded as fuck.

I'M TIRED OF LIVING IN LITERALL PISS AND SHIT. EVERY DAY I COME HOME TO THE SMELL OF ALCOHOL, SWEAT, PISS, SHIT AND GOD KNOWS WHAT ELSE. I AM SO FUCKING SICK OF YOU I WILL CRY TEARS OF HAPPINESS AND RELIEF WHEN YOU DIE YOU FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT

Indian moids have been harassing women at the Parc Jarry pool in Montréal for quite some time. There has been numerous posts like these since last year. News are starting to pick up on this. I used to hang out at that park and it wasn't like that. Parc Extension has become one of the worst neighborhood for harassment. Last few times I went there I was called a white slut, was followed and harassed by several Indian/Paki men. I wish they would all get deported. The south asia immigration in Montréal wasn't bad like this before, these people integrated and didn't act like chimps, same for people from MENA. Economic immigration has only been bad for this country.

Sabrina Maddeaux articles are so cathartic to me. She's been writing them since before it was cool to hate mass immigration and probably the first journalist in canada to notice and point out the crazy connection to housing prices, instead of just lying and saying they are unrelated. She lives in the beaches too so should be spineless like the others but chooses not to be that way. Anyways I love her sfm:
>What’s the difference between an advocacy movement and a radical ideology? The Century Initiative makes an ideal case study. The group bills itself as a “national nonpartisan movement”—and perhaps it once was back in 2011, when its founders first set their minds to tripling Canada’s population to 100 million by 2100. After all, there were once physicians who thought smoking was healthy.

>These days, it would be utter insanity for your family doctor to suggest picking up a pack of Marlboros. The connection between smoking and lung cancer, among other ills, is clear. Yet so is the connection between rocketing immigration numbers beyond the stratosphere of sustainability and harms like housing unaffordability, collapsing infrastructure, wage suppression, and rising unemployment. Recognizing this, Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre openly called for negative near-term population growth in an exclusive interview with The Hub.

>Still, despite all evidence that their experiment has failed, the Century Initiative persists. One would expect, if not a public mea culpa, at least some prolonged reflection and a shift to advocacy focused on responsible long-term growth. Instead, they published a new June 2025 report, “The Social and Economic Implications of Reducing Canada’s Immigration Levels in Unstable Times,” that continues to push for immigration surges we know the country can’t handle.
https://thehub.ca/2025/06/26/sabrina-maddeaux-canadas-immigration-absolutists-are-refusing-to-correct-course-no-matter-the-cost/

>>2580418
Raised and lived here, and yes 100%. This person summed up everything I've felt about this city so perfectly. Maybe it's because I grew up here for most of my whole life but I just feel so disenchanted from it. It doesn't help with the high cost of living where rent prices are through the roof and groceries, internet, phone and electricity are 50% higher than in the rest of the country. You can't even go out and have fun with friends without breaking the bank. You'll be spending $50 on a single meal just before the entitled waiters shove the terminal with a 20% tip right in front of your face. Can't even go to organized event or festival because they will charge you $20 pp to get in and then in the venue will be spending $100 on food and drinks. It's a soulless city that's sucking you dry every minute.

The second paragraph is on point too. People here are introverted and don't care about making friends. They don't care about spontaneity and will often cancel plans on you last minute. It rains here 90% of the time so that explains the closed off nature of most people. Online like in the Vancouver subreddits, they will be chanting whatever online trend they've read about from social media. They are so vehemently pro-troon and will shit on anyone even remotely conservative. For example a recent restaurant got closed down but since the owner talked about being anti-vax they immediately labelled her from the "evil camp" and was celeberating the loss of her livelihood. They only see the world in black and white and don't have an original thought of their own like drones. They also don't seem to follow through their beliefs either. They'll be chanting at how they need to take drug abuse and mental health seriously but will look at DTES with disdain and disgust. Remember that this is the same city where a father was stabbed and killed in broad daylight at a Starbucks where there were numerous passerbys and all anyone can do is to continue sipping their coffee or record the live murdering. People here are apathetic as fuck.

The food here is said to be good but after traveling to many places around the world it really isn't anytning to write home about. The prices and predatory tipping practices don't help either. There is a huge Asian food scene here but it pales in comparison when you've been into numerous high Asian population cities like San FranPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2581166
They've been causing problems at the nudist beach in Vancouver too. Showing up in clothes while leering the women there. Crazy that people just gaslight themselves into ignoring the problem.

>>2580418
I’ve been to Vancouver lots of times for my dr appointments growing up. Fuck BC health making us drive 10+ hours. I remember walking around downtown in 2007 and coming from a small town i had never seen anything like it with the druggies and homeless. I swear to god there was a girl sitting outside of McDonald’s not much older than I on her childhood blanket accepting food from strangers. I think no matter what city you go to people have walls up to protect themselves. You can’t just meet someone on the street anymore because we live in a low-trust society. I’m one of those “moved out of Canada” nonnas and the city Reddit I follow has people complaining about the exact same things.

>>2508217
Did you dig up that hole yourself?!

>>2508236
Yeah, I live down here

>>2508199
This is the last thing I see before I'm knocked unconscious and dragged to the polycule

Did any nonnies notice their friends missing? My friend from 743 hasn't been online for 5 days…It's not like her. But I can't get to her apartment because the elevator is stuck and I can't climb that many floors because of a health issue. Can someone on the same floor check on her?

>>2508348
>I can't climb that many floors because of a health issue
fatty

>>2575332
Potato chips and chocolate aren't a radical notion (it's a fairly common pairing) and like the other nonnie said, the flavor profile makes sense.

>>2575632
just the dough, its supposed to make the chocolate flavor stronger and honestly yeah, it was definitely better
i'll totally try the blondies now!

Love me some olives, especially the purple varities and black cured ones.

>>2580823
Based olive nonna. I am also an olive enjoyer and will eat tubs of them if I have the opportunity. A simple lunch I like is some sort of olive medley from the olive bar, chopped, mixing in crumbled feta cheese, and topping hummus with my creation that I eat with pita chips or crackers. A little bit of fruit or veggies for dipping on the side and I am fucking set.

Just tried a basil seed lychee drink. I don't recommend. It tastes like cough syrup, unless you're into that idk.