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Posted November 15, 2012
I browse /g/, /tg/ (best board by far, in terms of content and userbase), and /v/, though the latter can really be summed up as "/b/ with videogames".

One thing I do like about 4chan is its creator, Moot, being pretty strict about advertising. No flash animated banners, pop-ups, etc even if he's in the red by the end of the month. He wouldn't even take donations, since he felt that he had to give something back to the end user (the 4chan Pass system stems from that, though. Pay to remove the requirement to enter the captcha for a year and to support the website).
Posted November 15, 2012
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bevinator: When people think of 4chan, they mostly think of /b/. Which is a shame, because /b/ IS the fetid pus-weeping shithole that everyone thinks it is. However, the other boards are places of incredible awesome, especially /tg/, /wsg/, /co/, and /x/. There are many great things that have come from there, from the Angry Marines to the SCP and Slenderman, and probably 50% of all memes. In a way, it's interesting that so many internet goers have a fear and misunderstanding of one of the primary sources of internet culture.
Wasn't Slenderman from Marble Hornets/Something Awful? I'm pretty sure that's the first time I ever even saw anything about that wonderful, wonderful Eldritch Abomination.
Posted November 15, 2012
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carnival73: .....mostly a discussion board for thirteen year olds?
Not necessarily. Look at how quickly the Sacrifice and anti-Sacrifice giveaways have descended into childishness. But I must say, 4Chan has become stuff of legend for its puerile content, no question.
Posted November 15, 2012
I frequent /co/ and visit /v/ at night (when people seem to want to actually talk about video games, surprisingly enough).
It's not terrible.
/co/ usually has some pretty cool guys on it.
just stay away from /b/ and the porno boards, and you'll be good for the most part.
Posted November 17, 2012
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Navagon: 4chan is twice as bad.
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Fake_Sketch: No, I like 4chan and 2chan is disgusting.
It was a joke. In any case I don't think that, as a whole 4chan escapes the definition of 'disgusting', even if it no longer disgusts you personally.
Posted November 17, 2012
Aaw, cute, you guys found out about 4chan! Next up: rotten.com, efukt.com (warning: internet sites).
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carnival73: .....mostly a discussion board for thirteen year olds?
Is that adult content warning meant for the adults? XD
Whenever I'm doing the "gee, they are so immature" thing, I find it useful to avoid the "XD" emoticon, commonly associated with 13-year-olds.
Posted November 17, 2012
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Vestin: Funnily enough, I wouldn't say that even /b/ is evil. Not entirely rotten, anyway...
As far as I've been able to gather, the people there aren't necessarily douchebags and ill-willed ruffians ("trolls" if you will) but fundamentally broken individuals who've had their illusions shattered, their will to live stripped away, traumatic events piling up so high, they've eclipsed the entirety of their existence... Stranded in a hostile world, with no faith, no goals, nothing sacred, they indulge in playful nihilism, words stripped of meanings and ringing more and more hollow as time goes on. In the hivemind they find a semblance of "belonging", a group they can feel a part of; the ultimate rejects in their mercurial sanctuary.
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Sounds like you got /b/ confused with The Forum Site.
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Pemptus: Aaw, cute, you guys found out about 4chan! Next up: rotten.com, efukt.com (warning: internet sites).
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carnival73: .....mostly a discussion board for thirteen year olds?
Is that adult content warning meant for the adults? XD
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Pemptus: Whenever I'm doing the "gee, they are so immature" thing, I find it useful to avoid the "XD" emoticon, commonly associated with 13-year-olds.
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. Ha! That's because we were all thirteen when the 'XD' emoticon came into existence! =P
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Posted November 17, 2012
Someone summed it up quite well, though this won't sound accurate unless you've spent a lot of time on 4chan (and not on the shitty boards): the internet is stupid people pretending they're clever, 4chan is clever people pretending they're stupid. It truly is the best online community, but you have to allow yourself to adsorb it. So many things, like terrible emoticons, thinking you're special because you were sad once, finding stale old Reddit macros funny, etc etc, are just bad.

But when you go online, you go into "online mode" and just accept it as part of the culture. I've had the most mature, insightful and rich conversations on 4chan, but when you first go on there, you feel like you're having shit thrown at you by an army of monkeys; I can say now in retrospect that it's because - with the odd exception - you were inadvertently, through your actions and general stance, asking for monkeys to bombard you with shit.
Posted November 17, 2012
I stay on /tv/ from time to time, but even there, the level of understanding for most movie , tv plots is terribly low.
Posted November 17, 2012
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Pemptus: Whenever I'm doing the "gee, they are so immature" thing, I find it useful to avoid the "XD" emoticon, commonly associated with 13-year-olds.
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carnival73: Sounds like you got /b/ confused with The Forum Site.
I'm not certain about my theory but what little I've seen seemed to corroborate it to a degree. The people there didn't seem to blaspheme against their better judgement - they appeared fundamentally detached from naive (if common) world-views...
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Posted November 17, 2012
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saldite: and visit /v/ at night (when people seem to want to actually talk about video games, surprisingly enough).
I agree with this, daytime /v/ is terrible.
Posted November 17, 2012
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Export: Someone summed it up quite well, though this won't sound accurate unless you've spent a lot of time on 4chan (and not on the shitty boards): the internet is stupid people pretending they're clever, 4chan is clever people pretending they're stupid. It truly is the best online community, but you have to allow yourself to adsorb it. So many things, like terrible emoticons, thinking you're special because you were sad once, finding stale old Reddit macros funny, etc etc, are just bad.

But when you go online, you go into "online mode" and just accept it as part of the culture. I've had the most mature, insightful and rich conversations on 4chan, but when you first go on there, you feel like you're having shit thrown at you by an army of monkeys; I can say now in retrospect that it's because - with the odd exception - you were inadvertently, through your actions and general stance, asking for monkeys to bombard you with shit.
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Sounds a bit arrogant and pretentious - Usually associated with the college age group 18 to 23 right before cognitive dissonance strikes and they spend the rest of their lives in Religion and Philosophy boards.
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Pemptus: Whenever I'm doing the "gee, they are so immature" thing, I find it useful to avoid the "XD" emoticon, commonly associated with 13-year-olds.
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Vestin: ಠ_ಠ

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carnival73: Sounds like you got /b/ confused with The Forum Site.
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Vestin: I'm not certain about my theory but what little I've seen seemed to corroborate it to a degree. The people there didn't seem to blaspheme against their better judgement - they appeared fundamentally detached from naive (if common) world-views...
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Those in strange and uncanny circumstances are usually and erroneously demonized by naive world views. It's why those world views are usually the first to go.

There's a point where one can find every show (especially News, Talk and Journalism) on television not only patronizing but also subliminally impeding of intellectual growth.
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Posted November 17, 2012
I never got why 4chan gets hyped as the shittiest place on the internet, for an anonymous imageboard with a huge usebase I find it pretty tame and reasonable at times.

And as the saying goes, Even in a river of shit you can still find diamonds.
Post edited November 17, 2012 by WBGhiro
Posted November 17, 2012
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carnival73: Those in strange and uncanny circumstances are usually and erroneously demonized by naive world views. It's why those world views are usually the first to go.
Oh, I don't think it's a matter of practicality. I think the impact a traumatic experience has on the mind strips the vague cultural bs right off. It simply becomes irrelevant and is seen as, precisely, "naive", not "hostile" or merely "false".
Then again - I think the above is more applicable to situations where the suffering is internal. If a person IS treated like crap by outsiders and THAT shatters his finely-crafted ordinary mind, I guess it would only be logical to be disillusioned on a level more sociological and anthropological than philosophical/metaphysical/epistemological/etc.

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carnival73: There's a point where one can find every show (especially News, Talk and Journalism) on television not only patronizing but also subliminally impeding of intellectual growth.
Oh, I've gone quite the opposite route - I find almost everything inspirational and enlightening...
Posted November 17, 2012
What's going on with the voting system?
Post edited November 17, 2012 by fr33kSh0w2012
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