/lounge/ - Lounge

I like animals, I like seeing photos of them. I know we already have a comfy image thread but I want to share my animal folder with everyone. Show me animals you like.

What other sites are you using for anonymous socialization? A subforum is fine too. Prefer it slow.

Mods, apologies if this is more of a /meta/ topic. I don't intend for this to be wizardchan focused, but more imageboards in general.

See the subject line. I've found myself more and more interested in forums where relationshit/sex/political/"hi femanon here" discussions just simply don't happen or at the very least are greatly discouraged. This is more or less why I usually lurk the /hob/ boards here, but I guess I find myself wondering how the /hob/ board here has remained one of the most apolitical places I've ever seen on the internet. I almost feel like what's happening is that wizardchan essentially has multiple lines of defense.

First line of defense: outright general banned rules.
Requiring male virgins implicitly means you can't mention your gender, you can't talk about sex, and without sex the relationshit drama posting is dramatically minimized. You can't get free shit/conversations for starting a thread with "hi femanon here"/"tfw no gf"/"I had sex when…" You actually have to work and bring something to the table.

Second line of defense: general culture created by the first line of defense.
The first line of defense ensures you've got a fairly non-normie case coming on board. This reinforces the general rules.

Third line of defense: containment threads.
I think if it weren't for the porn and politics containment threads, we'd see a bunch more bullshit relationshit/sex talk than we already do. They're the last bastions of normiedom.

Fourth line of defense: secrecy–both "hidden in plain sight" and literal hidden boards.
Curious/Trolling normies flood /wiz/, while remaining ignorant of /hob/ or the hidden boards.

A genie appears. You will have one wish granted. What do you wish for?

I wish to be able to remove all the people from the world at will, and add them back whenever I want. Imagine being able to walk around and do whatever you want. Take whatever you need from stores. You could be a hobo without any danger.

I am looking for forums for esoteric subjects which I know wizchan lack their professionals. I won't cite which are these subjects, but all I can tell that they associated with mysterious fields of study.thanks for letting me know.

They are an illusion, so sayeth the buddha. Ommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

So over the last 10 years or so, like everything else, fast food has gotten increasingly shittier. Some people say Burger King is better, or McDonald's is the best choice, but they all taste like dogshit to me. Even the fast food joints that are sort of out of the way to get to in my area (Sonic) give me stomach cramps. And before you say "don't go to fast food and expect quality", I do. But not the fast food chains planted in my own area. I take nightly drives and go across state, because my retarded state now outlaws the only cigs with flavor because they're afraid too many black people are smoking them. Whenever I get hungry, it doesn't matter where I go, every chain restaurant, be it Wendy's or Friendly's, tastes delicious there. The food is plump and rich. I was fucking amazed when I ordered mozzarella sticks, and when I bit into them, juice spurted out. Why is everything so much fucking better in the above-middleclass areas? Why are the chains in my area selling rotten food? The burger king sandwiches in the ghetto shithole I live in actually look like they were stomped on, half-digested and regurgitated. Who's at fault here? Corporate? The manager? The booger 'flickin tards working the grill? What's fast food in your area like?

Over the years I have this cycle of:
>Forget about IRC.
>Have a question/am bored.
>Think that this would be good to ask/idle about on IRC for.
>Go to IRC.
>Say "Hi" or ask a question.
>NO RESPONSES FROM ANYONE FOR THE ENTIRE THREE HOURS I IDLE ON THERE.
>Wonder why people use IRC.
>Leave.
Am I using IRC wrong? Is shadowbanning a thing in IRC? As I type this, I'm on one of the channels with the most users on Freenet and it's been NOTHING. It's just users logging in and out the entire time. Sometimes. SOMETIMES, over the years, I have caught two users actually TALKING with each other (and only on the busiest channels can I catch such a rare occurrence). It consists of one reply a minute, and if there is an errant response from another user it's ignored. These are in channels with 2k users. Do people just treat IRC as an idling simulator? Have I just been extremely unlucky?

Calling all loremasters. Who was the first wizard? How did it all begin? Origin story of the origin

What's up with 4chan lately?
1. Random permanent bans over posts that are completely on topic.
2. Porn ads in the supposedly safe for work sections.
3. Porn being posted all over the site in areas it's not permitted in.
4. Ban happy mods range banning entire area codes.
5. Off topic posts not being banned.
6. Troll posts not being banned.

It's like all the idiots from /b/ took over and wrecked the site utterly.

What the fuck is going on over there?