malmon I'm talking about military service in general, I haven't been recruited yet. I just don't want to do it in any case. So, I need to get some kind of pass for not being recruited. In order to get pass I need to get an education, which will give me 4 years of spare time. But education here is so silly... But for not to be expelled(otherwise I'll be recruited) I need to pass exams, and in order pass exams I need to a lot of useless stuff. Like, really useless. I work in data engineering field already, but I need to get my useless degree just to avoid military service. And after I'll get the degree, it's not guaranteed to not to be recruited there anyway

      Awww man, I am so glad to be done with this week. I've literally been working late every single day. >_<

      What's everyone's weekend plans? I'm hoping to read ecchi manga and doujinshi on the new tablet I bought for my Birthday. If anyone has recommendations, I'd love to hear them. ^~^

      I find it interesting that I'm inclined to romanticize 2009, one of the most politically and economically tumultuous years in the history of the United States. The nation was reeling from the Great Recession, and the fascists were having constant meltdowns over our first black president. Meanwhile my family was poor, and oftentimes were literally scrounging for change just to buy basic necessities.

      I give a lot of credit to my mom for shielding me from all that chaos. Sure do wish she could do the same, today.

      Man, have I ever mentioned how I love being schizophrenic~?

      I was listening to a song at work earlier today, and randomly started hallucinating. Only instead of anything bad, I saw the main character of this ninja romance anime, attending a summer festival.

      What followed were, essentially, stills from an anime - her dressed in a red yukata, shooting targets with a bow, getting splashed with water at the rice paper fish game, and generally being very happy. Seeing that made me happy, so I stood there, replaying the song and remembering the dream for a good fifteen minutes.

      It makes me want to write stories in medieval Japan, now... Maybe have some adventures in that setting, too. Not everything needs to be grim and gritty. c:

      Need to start posting on forums again. My thoughts, aside from longform ideas for TTRPG hacks, seem to be limited to the typical length of Discord messages.

      It's the perfect time, given the mass Reddit exodus that occurred recently.

      So where are we all supposed to go now?

      As far as how humans connect to one another, what’s next appears to be group chats and private messaging and forums, returning back to a time when we mostly just talked to the people we know. Maybe that’s a better, less problematic way to live life. Maybe feed and algorithms and the “global town square” were a bad idea.

      Discord is probably the tool best-suited to capture users’ social needs right now. It’s definitely the best Reddit alternative we have. It’s a clever mix of chat app and broadcast tool, a place where lots of like-minded people could conceivably hang out and connect. But, uh, have you ever been in a Discord with thousands of people? It’s pure chaos, and requires you to either devote your life to keeping up or resolve yourself to missing everything. Discord’s moderation tools are a mess, too, and everyone’s still mad about changing their username.

      Speaking candidly, I've recently shied away from Reddit and the bird site myself, returning to places like 4chan, the Fediverse, and especially various Discords. Small ones, the kind you can catch up on in one night.

      Perhaps Lewd will rise again, yet? ... I'd say it'll rise, if we lift it.

        Backlash Heh, one can dream~

        I hope so though. The benefit of sites like Reddit is that you have so much information on pretty much any topic imaginable all reasonably neatly organised in one place. Forums like this will always be somewhat niche in the face of sites like that.

          twitter is horseshit now. everyone knows the algorithm so all content is perfectly tailored for it, all replies to every somewhat popular tweet are twitter blue accounts trying to grow their own accounts.

          i don't really like using reddit.

          discord is making weird changes, hoping it doesn't become awful.

          tempted to code a twitter clone but adhd brain prevents that/i doubt it would get much traction. i do have ideas for how to make a twitter clone that isn't just a twitter clone though (like threads/mastodon).

          i miss small forums like this one.

            malmon i'll try. but here i feel kinda obligated to work on the site and help get it active again and i don't really have that energy anymore.

            prob the only way i get to that point again is by making lewd 4.0 and even then that would prob just turn into another year long project.