/dep/ - Depression

>i used to write 100 posts a day
holy fuck dude

>>205043
mostly on /vg/ back in 2012, i was really into it. then a skype group was made and it killed my favorite general.

The only posts that make sense at this point I think are quick practical questions on hobby boards. Stuff like: "what graphics card should I get?" Anything more elaborate and you are putting in a lot of effort into a post that most likely will get ignored or a short reply. Anything personal and you will get either ridiculed, ignored or at best some inane positivity or advice you heard before.

Like you could write a 1000 word post discussing free will and someone will just reply with "free will is an illusion" and that's it. You could pour your heart out into a rant and someone will just reply with "based". You could write an essay about all your problems and someone will just tell you "it gets better" or "have you tried meditating?" or "have you tried therapy?"

And even if you do get into a discussion it feels like people are more interested in boosting their ego than really finding out the truth.

>>205048
All the truth i need to know is written in Ligotti & Co books.
So i know it and i don't care about convincing other people.
The only thing left is the joy of shitposting. Colaborative creative stuff mmaybe, but this place has zero motivated people.

>>205042
I can understand where you're coming from. The issue is that the demographics of "chans" are generally made up of people who are outcasts, socially inept, and on the autistic spectrum. Put this all together and you get people who make terrible conversational partners. That's why you get unfulfilling and fruitless discussions like in <pic related> and in the examples >>205048 gave. Obviously, every post can't be an essay, but little things like showing interest in and appreciation to each other go a long way. Many people don't realize that.

Same here. Have posted on message boards for around a decade now, it just feels repetitive beyond a certain point and I don't really feel qualified to advise people so I don't do much of that either.

Funnily enough, this is the sort of thread I've always wanted to make, but could never be bothered to, or find the words for even if I tried. In my case, posting has always been such a massive, futile struggle for me. Throughout my time using message boards, in addition to various other places for discussion (like traditional forums, or Reddit), writing my thoughts about various stuff in regards to random topics/hobbies, or making yet another rant about my current predicaments, has always, on some level, felt like a massive undertaking, as the effort required to order my thoughts into coherent sentences feels downright Olympian. And even when I can do it, like now for instance, it simply feels futile & useless. Everything I write feels redundant, off the mark, or pointless. Very rarely do I ever feel like I've said what I've really wanted to say. It's also depressing when I make a post, and then another person comes along and says all the things I wanted to say, but was too incapable of saying for myself. But, even if I could, so what? I wouldn't feel any better. A brief sense of release may come for a bit when I'm able to make a satisfying vent, or, even more rarely, get a sense of accomplishment when someone says they thought I made a worthwhile post that they enjoyed momentarily reading, but that's all. In the end, some random person might occasionally care what I have to say, but it still all feels like I'm just tossing words out into a digital void. I've always chastised myself for lacking the desire or motivation to engage & write my thoughts more, but, at the same time, having said what I just said, why should I, since it's all so painfully pointless? It's an unsolvable conundrum for me and the end result is that I always feel depressed, frustrated with myself, and existentially tired.

Sometimes I browse some of the boards here, or even /hikki/ on 8chan, and I sometimes see a few threads pop-up that I might have a passing interest in replying to, or even a few ideas of threads I might create for myself, but then I remind myself how much effort it'd take to actually write something of worth, or how what I say often doesn't feel worth saying in the first place, and that even if the first two things weren't true, how I'd, more than likely, just be ignored or glossed over by other apathetic ghosts like myself, so, altogether, why bother doing anything at all?

That's also not even mentioning how much of a thin skinned wimp I am and how the fear of being ridiculed/insulted often plays a large role into why I often don't bother posting. I've had many occasions now where places like these have chewed me up & spat me right back out again after expressing something deeply personal, or in an otherwise equally devastating way when discussing more mundane/impersonal topics. Wizchan itself has been the source of many of these sorts of instances, so I've learned that it's simply safer & easier to avoid all the highly potential aggression, glibness, & hostility, by simply saying nothing at all.

I'm also always bothered by the fact that 99% of the time whenever I check a thread someone else has basically already said what I wanted to say before I even said it, which usually kills the desire to express anything since I feel like I'm just repeating something that's already been said, in addition to the posts of these same others sometimes being far more succinct & to the point than whatever I could conjure up. This thread itself is a pretty good example of this. I mean just look at these two replies >>205048 >>205060. They pretty much nailed it already, so what more can I say other than some variation of "this", or "yeah, I agree", or regurgitating a version of what they've said, but less focused and more incoherent/bloated? Kinda like what I'm doing now. That alone pretty much explains why I just lurk all the time and never bother replying to most threads, but whatever. It's all bullshit anyways, I guess. Can barely find the energy or the words as it is so, in the end, it doesn't make much difference. It's so hard to feel the need to post, but being unable to do so because of laziness, apathy or futility, which then just leaves you with the unreleased tension & pressure in your head. Like wanting to scream aloud, but not being able to find the energy or the words to do so before realizing you may as well not even have a tongue. A "I have no mouth, but I must scream" sort of thing, I guess. A pain I know all too well.

It also sucks that I literally have no positive memories of the internet or message boards and it's either all been bad or completely forgettable. The only things that stand out are the few times here & there where I've been viciously insulted, or ignored into oblivion, usually when I needed at least one person to empathize with me, but never did. At this point, I still write the odd post every now & again, but I mostly just stick to the /games/ & /dep/ boards. /dep/ for when I need to randomly vent about something & /games/ when I feel like expressing my opinion on a random game I've finished, or am playing, in the accompanying threads there. Overall, I actually post more than I did in the past, but it's still less than 100-200 posts a year, if that. I've also never gotten the whole appeal of the "shit post" thing, so many of my posts are quite similar to this one. Long, unnecessary, and few & far between. Anyway, I could go on rambling and repeating myself, but I'll never get to the heart of the matter in my eyes, so fuck it. Everything I've said, or others have said, they're all simply the facts of the matter and they can't be changed. Better off staring at the wall, I guess. If only doing so, didn't leave me so frustrated & restless with myself, dealing with all the ceaseless noise inside my own head.

I am getting to the same point, OP. I make long posts for maybe 1 reply, often entirely ignored. Only way to get (You)s is to troll and bait. Literally learned more from being a flaming obnoxious troll than asking politely.

I think in another couple years I will be at that point. I mostly browse nowadays and lurk.

>>205073
I often feel the same, but I don't necessarily chastise myself for not being able to put my thoughts and feelings into words, for the language itself is flawed, especially when it comes to wording something intuitive and personal which is the polar opposite of what any language is and expresses best: rational and social. No concrete realization of one's thought processes is perfect, plenty of things get lost in translation, losing some or all the characteristics that made their articulation worthwhile to begin with, or becoming bloated and needlessly obfuscated under the weight of additional details and ideas that came later on and may have nothing to do with what you originally felt you wanted to say, affecting the initial purity of your ideas.
This is one of the reasons why works by modernist authors who tried to tap into their unconscious will never be truly understood and appreciated.
Yet one thing I find to be interesting is that languages that are more liberal when it comes to word formation and morphology, like German and Chinese, tend to convey said insights and vague ideas better, they're far from perfect, but the other person has a higher chance of understanding what you actually meant and felt.
For example, I remember seeing a fly bumping into my desk at full speed, falling on the floor and twitching its legs slightly before lurching in circles for a couple of minutes and finally dying, and the cavalcade of emotions I felt and ideas that ran through my head. I could phrase them this way: "I felt the fear of fragility of life that extends onto my own and the thin line that separates all living beings from their last agony," or I could simply say something along the lines of "I felt easy-agony-end-life-fear-feeling," not only would it make it much simpler and at least somewhat closer to the initial raw idea spawned from the primordial soup of rapid unconscious associations and feelings, other people would find it easier to relate to by projecting their own experiences which at their core contain the same set of feelings, thus achieving better communication of the same raw idea behind the concrete linguistic form.

>>205076
I hate that. You write a long and (in your estimation) brilliant post and nobody even acknowledges it. Then again I suppose I am being hypocritical as I also rarely really engage with long and complicated posts in any meaning full way.

Life is suffering. No two ways about it.

>>205076
I suspect that not receiving any replies is often the result of writing an overly complete and well thought out post. Maybe a way to receive more responses is to intentionally leave large flaws in those well thought at posts. Though it may only result in people commenting about these flaws.

Also, I have found that if I write an entire post while holding my breath I tend to have far better interactions with other users. Just something to consider.

>>205073
I really apreciated you take the time and energy to write this post. I like your sparce and detailed style of writting, posts like this are my favorites.

I also have similar problems and urge to comunicate but i feel extremely rewarded when i shared my throughs with clarity, that doesn't happen very often.

Anyways, thanks.

Sometimes I make elaborate posts without expecting any answers to them. I make them to to clear my own mind. It helps to understand my own emotions and problems better and deal with them. I could as well write most of this stuff in some sort of diary I guess. But it feels releaving to know that somebody out there is reading this and who knows maybe he can relate in some way and that is more than I could expect.
To the people who are angry about personal blog posters - just don't read it.

>>205060
>That's why you get unfulfilling and fruitless discussions
I disagree. One-line posts are the norm in the internet in general. Now is all about who makes the fastest clever "jokes" to earn as many internet points as possible.

>>205073
>>205079
Very interesting reads. Don't sell yourself under value. Both of you seem to be excellent linguists and thinkers. Would read a book from an author like this. Sadly I'm too incapable (or lazy) to further expand on your ideas right now.

By the way German is my mother tongue and that's a big plus I think. The issue with that is that it is hard to appreciate such a thing when you grew up like that as it feels simply natural to convey and process meaning through that language. It doesn't feel very exceptional or outstanding. However I see what you mean by that when I contrast English philosophical texts to German ones. German is such a refined language that's it's often a joy for me to read philosophical text regardless of its content or how much I agree with the author. Reading authors like Schopenhauer in their original tongue is pleasant and sophisticated at the same time.

;(

>>205073
I've been feeling exactly the same thing these days. I see the popular "feels" threads in other sites like 8chan and think they look good. But whenever I try to express something in an imageboard it just goes invisible and no one reads it or cares. Sometimes I think I'm actually looking in the wrong place and maybe imageboard people is nothing like me. But it can't be that.

>but it still all feels like I'm just tossing words out into a digital void
> A "I have no mouth, but I must scream" sort of thing, I guess. A pain I know all too well.
You phrased these feelings in a beautiful way. Thanks. I will screencap your post.

>>205102
How do you know they aren't reading it? I for one respond to maybe 1/100 of the total posts I read. A post that I don't respond to isn't necessarily inferior or banal. Many of the greatest posts I have read over the years I haven't responded to, because my meager faculties are unable to generate a worthy response. I speak for myself, but suspect others are the same way.

I feel like I am surrounded by monkey anyways on imageboards. Someone makes a thread with an image of an average looking succubus with huge breasts and it gets 200 horny replies. It's like they are programs with no sense of nuances. Thread for discussing video games get started with some badly drawn sexualized image of an anime character. Often so badly drawn with proportions and anatomy all screwed up I wonder if it's ironic.

Someone posts a stupid "the last 2 numbers of your post determine who will be your gf" image and it derails a thread with an interesting topic. Are these people bots? What joy do they get out of "rolling" to see what the last 2 numbers of their post will be? It's not like they get an actual prize.

"Discussions" are often just people throwing dumb buzzwords at each other. People keep responding to obvious trolls. Someone just posting "have sex" actually gets like 20 replies.

>>205110
You were probably doing the same shit when you were 14 years old. That's the demographic of popular imageboards like 4chan and 8chan now. It was fun when it was new.

>>205109
This. A thread or other post may be worth a response, but I can't come up with something. A "good question but I dunno lol"-tier response is only slightly better than a "have sex" kind

>>205111
not him but I remember complaining about nearly the same thing when I was 14 and on 4chan about a decade ago, I think they just called me gay and "trolled me" with some porn

normals are just dumb apes

>>205073
>>205079

Nice posts. Following this line of reasoning another problem appears: the futility of any act of communication or at least it seems this way to me. I can't overcame this extreme solipsism. Words, phrases, texts, sounds, aren't all a scream into the void? This is the supreme jail: isolation from all the other beings, we just grasp faint sketches through meat appendices but the true essence of everything (if there is any) remains concealed. Always utterly alone. Aren't we just worms writhing in their own shit when we write all these rants?

Sorry for my arcaic and unnatural prose, english isn't my native language.

I have mostly given up on image boards. The good days are over and now I feel out of place. Sometimes I will check in to see what's going on when I'm bored (like right now) only to see what people are saying. I've found pursuing hobbies and personal projects are much more entertaining. Posting my thoughts is usually a huge waste of time and effort I could be placing in something else. Even slower boards like wizchan have the same topics recycled over and over again. Faster boards tend to be a total shitshow I don't know who makes posts on these boards but I suspect most are underage. I have a strong feeling that people like me all left a long time ago and that sticking around will only contribute to me feeling even more uncomfortable and alienated.

>>205126

Basically this. The internet that was is gone, and there's no putting the genie back in the lamp I think. When I was younger I always thought that if I had the internet, I'd want for nothing. I didn't think the nature of the internet would be ruined so quickly. It's a shame.

The reward-to-effort ratio for posting on the internet has diminished over time, as has the enjoyment-to-time ratio for lurking. Very little of my limited free time is spent on imageboards, traditional forums, Reddit, and social media these days. Most days, the only thing I use the internet for is to check email, look up information, search for new music, and watch the occasional YouTube video.

100 posts a day is nothing. I've seen plenty of times one person would post 200+ in one thread

>>205060
>The issue is that the demographics of "chans" are generally made up of people who are outcasts, socially inept, and on the autistic spectrum

lol no. The demographics have changed completely, the vast majority of those people now have a place.

>>205073
Don't post walls of text if you want people to reply to you. How can you take what you want to say and cut it back to it's foundation? Figure that out for a better chance of replies.

You're over thinking and over investing in posts where no one will record them. Todays news is tomorrows chip paper is a good saying for this. Learn what needs to be said and how to say it and just do that. Don't "write" instead "communicate"

Same here, but increasingly I can't be bothered lurking either.
I'm just too tired to deal with the hostility everywhere, political ideologies being jammed into everything, etc. I just want to be left alone. Even here a lot of threads look like they could have been ripped from anywhere else: "man up", "stop being a pussy", "kys", "get over yourself". I just don't have the energy or will anymore to handle that stuff.
There really isn't much left for me on the internet but I have been online for so long that I don't have anything better to do.

>>205521
same. All the gay shit has started to piss me off too.
I think it's time for me to make some big boy decisions and say fuck it all.

have we started the fire?

>>205110
reading your post /b/, /pol/ and /x/ on 4cucks immediately comes to mind. /b/ actually has human posters (not shills) but they are still very stupid. one thing to note is that people love to talk about themselves, this is why they give replies such as, just a movie title with no backing up statement. they dont understand really what an imageboard is meant for, they dont understand that a post like that contributes literally nothing. they come from a social media viewpoint, they think that someone cares what movies you like. who the fuck cares if halfway around the world some guy like transformers 3? if some anonymous guy thinks the directing in transformers 3 is the best in world, now were talking. but they havent figured out that no one cares about them.

posting on /pol/ and /x/ is total robotic garbage. if there are actual posters on /pol/ or /x/, their typing style has been so heavily influenced by the shills that they are indistinguishable now. you have to be an absolute newfag to find entertainment in those places. they have been completely drained of life by shills posting threads about one sentence questions with an boring, unrelated image. they make entire threads replying to themselves with equally moronic one word posts to make it seem like real life idiots are replying but add some posts with arguements in them to give you something to reply to. one time i was talking to one of these shills, it was on /pol/ so i could see the different IDs but i kept telling this shill over and over that he was the same guy replying with different IPs. he was keeping up with the other bait posts and keeping the thread "alive" all while this was happening and it was crazy to finally realize there are only 2 people in the thread. eventually, after he was convinced he wouldnt be able to make me think hes a real person he broke character. in response to me telling him hes the same guy replying to me he said "yeah but some of the schizos here actually believe this". they like to put things backwards and confuse you but basically what hes trying to say is that he thinks that the operation isnt that believable and you have to be an idiot to not see through it. it wasnt much but it intrigues me. this is a person who knows whats behind the curtain and hes itching to let someone know what he knows.

another thing about shills is that since there are few human posters its basically guaranteed replies from them. they will try to engage you if you say something they know they can corner you on but if they know you know whats up theyll give you a buzzword. and to bring this wall of text back on topic to the thread, i feel that posting on there is alluring because of lots of replies and fast posting but it feels completely empty. nothing goes anywhere, everyone is asking the same questions they asked last week. eventually you realize you know theyre wrong, and yet you still debate them.

>Someone posts a stupid "the last 2 numbers of your post determine who will be your gf" image
some of these are shit, but they only work if you use your imagination. you cant use one of those thinking, man this is so shit, this guy is so stupid. youre supposed to plan out a life with that imaginary gf. pic related is almost the same thing but not sex related, theres a rolling version of this out there somewhere but i you should try using it. with these for just 5 minutes you can imagine a not so shit life, and you can imagine what it would be like to actually have this become reality and forget your life sucks.

Yeah I go through cycles of

>make posts with effort - if it's about media try to lay out the good and bad points of it and reflect on what I learned, if anything, from it, or if it's some argument I'm making try to lay out all my points clearly and, if it's a response, avoid insulting the other person
>eventually, usually halfway through writing a post, realize all of this is pointless and it's quite possibly the worst way possible to spend time - grinding in an RPG would have more value
>go back to posting with low to no effort in between playing games and watching things - mainly post just to agitate people and laugh when they get upset

Repeat.

I don't feel like going to any alternate platforms though. Discord is cancer and I don't really fit in with any of these gaming or 'weeb' communities anymore. IRC, might be cool but I don't even know what channel I would go to and it seems like people would've already formed their own circles, and I don't feel like jumping through hoops to ingratiate myself with them. Forums are usually centered around circlejerks, with people getting more respect just because their accounts are older or they made more posts.

Imageboards get worse every year for me but I don't really know where else to go.

>>205042
I used to put a lot of effort into my posts on 4chan. Even as recently as a couple years ago, it would generally spark a fair amount of meaningful discussion, and on rare occasion you'd get somebody really intelligent to converse with. Nowadays, however, the bar for discussion is so incredibly low on the entire site. Everything has been condensed into retarded shitposting, memes, or dumb one-word quips–everything is basically a fucking Twitter post. I'm pretty sure fucking Reddit unironically has a higher bar for discussion now. Whenever I do put effort into a post, I still tend to get a good number of replies, but half of them are just nonsense or people simply agreeing/disagreeing. As soon as you actually try to engage anybody on that site, even in completely good faith, they just shut the conversation down instantly. I stopped bothering around the 5th time I got "tl;dr". As an aside, I've noticed a far higher proportion of ESL posters on 4chan, and it is really frustrating conversing with these people. They'll misunderstand what you post and derail an entire thread no matter how desperately you try to explain to them what you were trying to say.

At any rate, one of the things I like about Wizchan, and smaller chans in general, is they generally have much more thoughtful and meaningful posts. It's one of the things that keeps me coming back. It's a shame they're all so slow, though.

I usually just don't know what to write. And when I do it's such a lame boring comment that I will never get any (You)s anyways. So might as well not even write one and mentally exert myself, if I don't get any enjoyment of reading any replies. So I mostly lurk nowadays.

Imageboards are usually worthless for intellectual conversations. They are more better for hobbies or talking about things somewhat casually. But imageboards are best for shitposting than anything else.

>>206164
>At any rate, one of the things I like about Wizchan, and smaller chans in general, is they generally have much more thoughtful and meaningful posts.
>It's one of the things that keeps me coming back. It's a shame they're all so slow, though.
Aren't these two goals at odds with one another? Don't you need to have a slow medium to encourage thoughtful discussion?

But yeah, I generally agree with what you said; however, in the case of 4chan, I think it's generally filled with shills, bots, and the like. I move to the more unknown chans just because I'm more likely to meet "a reel human bean."

>>206165
Here's a You for you. There u go sir, have fun

>>206171
>Aren't these two goals at odds with one another? Don't you need to have a slow medium to encourage thoughtful discussion?
I don't think it's /strictly/ necessary, but that tends to be, more or less, how things go–a slower board will generally encourage better discussion. At a minimum, however, I think it's possible to have a site that's at /least/ a bit faster than Wizchan that still has pretty good discussion, and I think it's possible to have good discussion, even on a fast board, as long as the quality of the board (or rather, the expectations of its users) is still reasonably high.

there's a post on tohno-chan i felt compelled to reply to for some reason and i wrote a pretty big one. after i posted it i wondered why i bothered since that site's only active users are its mod staff. so i decided i'd repost it here. i don't know where is suitable so im just posting it in my own thread. i guess it's on-topic since my whole OP is just complaining about no one seeing my shit.

it's just a nostalgia post about my early computer days. dont read it if that sounds boring


im 23. my dad worked at intel so i had a computer when many people back then in the 90's did not. i also first started playing on the computer when I was only 2 or 3, although i can't remember anything from that time. my earliest memory of using the computer was reading about the new disney cartoon called "lloyd in space" in 2000, so i would have been 4. i spent almost my entire childhood playing Roller Coaster Tycoon. the game is extremely difficult for a small child, and i was too dumb to actually learn games and too retarded to search for tips, so i spent all of my time playing on this free play park in the desert where everything is free and you don't have to micromanage finances at all, which is 70% of the game.
later in my childhood, zoo tycoon came out and i also played that for 1000 hours, doing the same thing again where i played exclusively the free park. i remember being very angry at that game because you could make a reindeer exhibit but the reindeer would always be unhappy unless they had a christmas tree in their enclosure, but many maps didn't have the christmas tree as an option, meaning the reindeer would be miserable no matter what you do.

the only thing i spent perhaps more time on than zoo tycoon or roller coaster tycoon was this website called candystand.com, which has since been turned into a piece of shit gay faggot site and a shell of its former self.
candystand.com used to be a weird experimental marketing site where food companies would pay to have their branding placed all over a browser game. the main attraction of the site was a lifesavers candy mini golf game which some people talk about even to this day. but it had hundreds-thousands of other games too. one i think most often about is a kraft macaroni and cheese platformer game. i would estimate i spent 4000 hours on that website. the games were genuinely good. much higher quality than the amateur stuff on newgrounds.com, which i also used often. i was of course a big fan of the Madness series, and still am.

i had no friends my entire childhood. i would just get home and play these all day every day. i don't think i have autism, i just never found people interesting. if someone were to invite me to their house, i would refuse. it's just guaranteed to be a shitty time compared to playing on the computer. i still feel that way.
i went to a few children's birthday parties though. the free food made it worth it. one kid in my 2nd grade class named Dakota had his birthday party at an airforce base somehow. im not sure how he managed that, that seems like it should be classified. funnily enough, the main thing i remember about that place is they had a plsytstation 2 with a gundam game, though. ive always just found games more interesting than people and i isolated myself and played that gundam game even though i was in a social environment.

>>205521
>increasingly I can't be bothered lurking either.
This is happening to me as well. Other anons have said it too but once you browse imageboards for a few years you see the same posts worded slightly differently over and over again. I rarely even get enjoyment from these sites anymore but only visit them out of habit. Increasingly I've been refraining from posting and visiting, getting more into reading and video games again. 8chan dying has cut down on my imageboard use massively as well.

>>206208
Interestingly enough something inside of me compelled me to answer to your post, not because of anything grandiose you said, but because of the simple nature of your story.

It had a SOUL in it.

You decided to be vulnerable and share a memory you once had with this community, not because you necessarily craved for a response, but just for the sake of it. And here I am responding to your post, exclusively, I think, out of genuine respect.

Have a pleasant day if you so happen to read this.

I understand this OP, I do too well.

This is not only imageboards it's everywhere now like a disease.

Did people who used to care to reply to us were all rounded up and killed for the sake of a new normie internet? NO. They just conformed. Proves how deep conformism runs in humanity that even many recluses still seek approval and be part of something "normal" in their fuckin minds.

>>207317
>They just conformed
Nope, "they" are just tired of giving the same useless replies to the same useless questions again and again.

>>207326

It's still mainly conformism. I bet they aren't tired to reply to the most mundane stuff when the person is rich and has whatever that gives them high status.

>>207328
what the fuck are you even talking about

>>207328
Id reply to someone rich and has a high status. I dont understand why is this not interesting.

>>207329
Don't deny it !

>>207330
Of course you would.

>>207331
i deny nothing, maybe i'm just not that good at english. give me an example

Yes i get you. What's even the point of people communicating in the first place in this day and age? My sister asks me 'how im going' everyday and i dont get why.

>>207332
Is that people have greatly just changed their communicating ways among with internet changing and becoming more normified, turbo normified shall I say now.. (look at this disgusting abomination of the internet now) with entirely different communication rules. The former dwellers from the era before internet got ruined like that, many of them I see just hopped on the train of conformity to this bizzare internet communication style to stay relevant and for them why not? and internet communication became unnecessary more difficult. But that's human nature, further proves how many "losers" have been actually normies in disguise, just very failed ones. I remember it was otherwise before the big days of facebook and other cancer ridden megasites that flooded then interwebs amoung with vast normie migrants.
Now the internet is the den of the normo-turbism, people don't give a fuck about how much soul you pour into something unless you got status or sound totally basic.
Communication used to be simple and shitposts weren't common.. now it's the total opposite.

>>207335
yeah well, back to our case - grand wizards stop responding because its the same futility every time, a lot of people admit that in this thread and many previous ones. they go full escapism with hobbies.
not because they subscribe to rich cunts instagrams or whatever your deluded conspiracy theory is implying.

>>207336
Yeah you literally speak for everyone here.

>>207336
I still bet from how u sound you will be replying to someone rich fuck with high status or some model succubus like hungry wolf no matter how boring they are

>>207331
I just don't see why is that wrong? If Donald trump posts here I'm sure id shit post in his thread or ask him dumb questions.

hi

hi

>>207340

I wanna ask him how safe he feels after all these polacks and alt righters hoped so much for the wall and got nothing

When I would read posts on 4/a/ about how all oldfags allegedly became normalfags and had wives and kids and shit, I just refused to believe it. It's too horrible to think about. To think most people are just young kids/teens posting about a passing hobby rather than a true passion which remains with them for decades.

>>207346
Are you the guy that I replied too? You seem kinda dumb. Not one wh*teboi could even get near him as a threat.

>>207347
Do you really want everything you like forever?

>>207349
I've been into trains for about 25 years and show no signs of stopping. Why wouldn't I like the same things forever?

>>207349
Well I go to the same websites and do the same things online all the time and my hobby of collecting coins will probably only last as long as they exist as saving on the side for my. I also like photography and metal detecting but live in a shit area and can't drive so they often collect dust and most attempts at using them are desperately mediocre. Eventually all runs dry, once all that is gone when my life goes down the toilet if I get kicked out or something worse with immediately family happens then that's all gone. But seeing as I don't really care thinking about it if I did have to sell the things back then I don't care about anything but whatever I can comfort myself with as I don't really have a long term chance at life.

There is not point in being in the internet anymore

Normies and Corporations have ruined all the good sites

>>207350
Im talking about everything. You wouldnt like them if you dont have the spectrum.
>>207351
Ok

>>207360
>if you like something for a long time you're autistic!

Wow is this the power of modern psychology?

>>207360
Hey shut the fuck up faggot, I answered a question that you asked. I didn't tell you that you could change the goalposts like a little bitch. And yes, for your information my tastes have more or less stayed the same my entire life. So what if I'm autistic, that's besides the point. Maybe that just means the problem with people on imageboards is that they aren't autistic ENOUGH. Would I really want some casual fuck posting on a hobby website? Not really.

>>207335
>>207328
you arent making any sense at all. look around retard, do you see any names here? this is an anonymous website. you cannot find out someones status or wealth because everyones post has the exact same name on it, Anonymage. everyone is judged by their idea, not their identity.

>>207369
yes, I'd say that's an accurate description of how psychology is practiced these days.

>>205042
You see the issue is that you write it for the sake of the responses, not for the sake of writing it. I personally started typing out comments (something i wouldnt have otherwise gotten into at all) because i wanted to improve my english and the ability to put my thoughts into language - which ive had a massive issues with at the time, to the point of being legit unable to express myself in any way or form. It was like being mute. Anyways, tens of thousands of posts/comments all over the nets later it still is an activity i enjoy even though it fullfiled its purpose a long time ago. 7/10 i dont even bother checking whether ive got any responses
Remember anon, expectation only leads to disappointment. If you expect nothing, the only kind of suprise that can meet you is a positive one