>>470461
You'd either be panicking about imminent death or you'd just ignore it and focus on the fucking because you know it's not real.

>>470458

VRChat is absolutely infested with furverts.

I've started playing a new mental game when I'm walking in a crowded area of picturing what would happen and what my plan would be if everyone around me went insane and started trying to kill me. Obviously I don't expect to get far but depending on where I am I could probably knock a few down before they get me on the ground and have me.

Never thought about that before. I reckon how everyone seems to walk on the right in this country has finally gotten to me.

>>470637
Have you done the one where you imagine how many kids you could defend yourself against? Most people say about 30 but I reckon it's closer to 6 or 7.

Ever since I was a kid I used to imagine that someone was about to lean out of a passing car and shoot me up, for no real reason. The thought still happens occasionally.
I also used to wonder if there were invisible people everywhere, just screaming at me trying to communicate. Haven't thought about that one for years.

I ate too many sweets while trying my hand at low-light photography and gave myself the kind of stomach ache I don't think I've experienced since I was in primary school.

Ten years ago there were dozens of magazine websites that would have published that as a headline; halcyon days...

>>470638
Nah you're selling yourself short on that. You have to remember that they're small enough that you can easily do crowd control on them by throwing bodies around without even getting into intimidation or kids being clueless fighters.

I used to work with children so I know what I'm talking about. Even 30 is too pessimistic if you ask me, that's just over a class of children, maybe 60 would be more accurate as at that point the sheer weight of them gets too much and they'll crush you.

>I also used to wonder if there were invisible people everywhere, just screaming at me trying to communicate. Haven't thought about that one for years.

Shadow people?

>>470648
Did you have a good poo?

>>470649

I reckon it's mainly about cardio. After knocking out 30 or 40 kids, I'd be pretty gassed.

>>470649
>Did you have a good poo?
What? Why would I? I don't think I want to know what I'd need to eat to completely reregulate my shit-schedule.

>>470650
I always factor in morale for these mass-fighting hypotheticals. It’s like fighting 100 duck-sized horses: once you’ve kicked the shit out of two or three of them, I am confident the rest would scatter and you’d win by default.

>>470652
Full size horses will panic at the sound of leaves falling, they're flightier than deer (which have the advantage of living in forests and therefore having learned from experience that leaves won't hurt them). Any number of duck size horses would scatter at the mere sight of a toddler. But I wonder why you went with duck size horses rather than ducks?

>>470649
>fight 6-7 kids
>Nah you're selling yourself short on that. You have to remember..

What would it take for 6-7 kids to win?

>>470653
It’s a famous hypothetical question: would you rather fight one horse-sized duck, or 100 duck-sized horses?

>>470655
That question is too vague, horses and ducks are very different shapes. A duck as tall as a horse or as wide as a horse? I imagine, wing tip to tip, many ducks are wider than many horses. That would mean a duck "the size of a horse" is potentially just a normal duck. So width and height are both arbitrary. Mass makes more sense but a duck with the same mass (while maintaining the same density) as a horse would be something like 250x as tall as a normal duck and would probably collapse under its own weight or immediately asphyxiate in our atmosphere. So I choose that and my weapon of choice is steamed Chinese pancakes.

>>470656

Okay how about instead of size we say equivalent mass.

>>470654
They can just run away and let time do its work. Maybe come back in 20 years when they've all got tracksuits, pit bulls and confusing tiktok memes.

>>470655
No fucking way am I choosing a horse-sized duck. Imagine seeing a horse-sized shoebill but it's also a compulsive rapist.

The question would be better if it was fighting a gorilla or a chimpanzee. A gorilla is probably a bigger threat but it's also not looking to eat you so you might be able to make like a goose and chase it.

>>470658
They're still both going to immediately die of or be incapacitated by complications due to having evolved to survive at a particular size. The bigger something is, the amount of muscle needed to move and pump blood around is on an exponential curve not a straight line. Horses have huge hearts relative to their total mass, birds have tiny ones. Even if the basic of oxygen absorbtion into alveoli is somehow unaffected, the giant duck is going to collapse unable to hold up its own weight as, simultaneously, its heart fails to move blood around its veins. The horses on the other hand, with massive hearts for their new size, will have massively overpressured circulation and die squirting blood out their eyes. Maybe. I could well be wrong about the specifics but we know that both dogs and humans have a plethora of often fatal problems when we're maybe 0.5x too big or small, changing an animal by 250x (ducks are about 2kg, horses average 500kg) doesn't seem workable.

>>470661

What if we pretend it's the result of millions of years of evolution under precisely the correct kind of adaptation pressure that would result in a duck of the equivalent mass of a horse, and vice versa, and all the physiological changes required to make that viable while still recognisably and unquestionably being a duck and a horse.

>>470662
They would no longer be ducks or horses. Their whole morphology would have changed to support their new size, even if, appearance-wise, they're identical, they'd have different bone mass, muscle mass, reaction speeds, strength, flexibility and all sorts. By that point we've come so far from the initial hypothetical that it's hardly relevant.

>>470663
What if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck?

>>470664
Presumably that's a witch.

>>470664

A hyperreal simulacrum of a duck and so on and so on.

>>470663

So would you rather fight one of an animal that is physiologically an entirely unique species but which happens to be of equivalent mass to a horse and outwardly resemble a duck, or multiple of an animal that is physiologically an entirely unique species but which happens to be of equivalent mass to a duck and outwardly resemble a horse?

Bring Northern Irish and racist is like living in a muck heap and complaining about someone wearing too much aftershave.

Last night I made an impulse purchase of a multipack of 'American' cream cakes from Lidl. They were on that regular America week they do so I felt compelled to get myself something nice and I couldn't remember what Twinkies are like. Needless to say I soon rediscovered that they're vile disappointing things, but I still ate most of them while watching telly.

Feeling shame that I was ruining my diet and that I will never get to a healthy weight, I threw the two I had left into the bin like I do if I ever end up with cigarettes. But I didn't cut them up or leave them outside on a public bin for the homeless. Just now I fished them out from the bottom of the bin and I feel absolutely fucking disgusted with myself.

>>470855
>I fished them out from the bottom of the bin and I feel absolutely fucking disgusted with myself.
Hahahah saw it coming, we've all done it mate don't worry about it. What I will say though is that you haven't failed your entire diet and will always be fat, you've just tripped yourself a bit. Can very well get up again and keep going, it doesn't have to be defeat.

I like twinkies for their squishey texture and colouring. The worst part for me is the strange tasting oil that lingers in your mouth for a while after eating.

I recently had a few American confectionaries given to me. Butterfinger is okay but for the crispy, shardlike texture of its filling. Hershey's are said to taste like vomit which I didn't notice until the the chocolate warmed up then bam sick in my mouth. Not just any sick but concentated essence of vomit.
I simply can not believe people eat this.

The other stuff was so thick with sugars and syrups they felt like my tongue was burning and my teeth could shatter. Poppets, I think, American malteaser.

Fucking horrendous people would eat like that. I would absolutely try an authentic American Mcdonalds but would have to be only 1, never again no matter what. I could imagine dying in there what with all the crap they put in their foods.
A proper American burger must be great.

>>470861
I've eaten in various American fast food places, a long time ago now admittedly but I don't remember them tasting any better or worse, it's only the portion sizes that were distinctly different.

I was already arsed to cook tonight so you bastards inspired me to get a Maccies. It's my first (and likely only) one this month so I don't think it'll hurt that much in the end. They didn't have the Biscoff McFlurry in though, so I had to get Oreo.

Oreos are fucking shit. Why does anyone like Oreos.

On reflection, we really should do something about highly processed food. It really is just as bad as cigarettes through being designed to hijack our reward system but it's everywhere around us all the time to the level that supermarkets are designed around forces it into your face when you walk around.

>>470869
The shocking thing is that fast food in the US is worse than elsewhere but it's a lot more economical. If you want good American fast food then I suggest going to Japan where the food matches the pictures.

>>470870
I reckon it's like coca-cola where it's pure sugar water that doesn't even taste nice but you have it anyway because of cultural conditioning.

>>470873

When you think about it honestly it's amazing we got to the point of banning smoking indoors, and all the advertising, not to mention all the drugs we actually made illegal. All of that was a relatively recent, post-war change from hundreds of years of complete free for all. Whenever you think about history, consciously remind yourself, they were all off their tits, because I don't think it can be under-appreciated the effect that must have had. You had cocaine in your cough syrup for fuck's sake.

These days you have to ID people for Monster energy drinks.

I am feeling pleased with my efforts. 15 whole days without any sweets. This mightn't sound like much, but during the first quarter of this year I was making runs to the shops just to buy bags of doughnuts or packs biscuits almost every day, so I'm considerably better off than that.

I feel like children's literature made out that ne'er-do-wells would steal eggs from bird nests far more often than happens in real life.

>>471976

I've yet to meet a talking animal either. They lied to us about so much, and they wonder why we turned out so bitter.

Made a tit out of myself in front of a beautiful, six foot tall, red haired woman today. However, I also saw a beautiful blonde woman with a boyfriend who was objectively uglier than I am (probably), so there'll be no suicidal ideation tonight! (Probably).

Is there anything stopping me from creating my own currency?

>>472021
Motivation, time, money and you have to work on convincing store owners to accept the currency instead of just trying to get into their knickers.

>>472031
>money
That shouldn't be a problem.

I've been quite tired this week and I'm not sure why.

>>472021
I played a game not long ago that featured among others; coinpresses, smithing and mining. With enough players it can simulate a social trade economy.
Haven & Hearth if you're interested in trying it - it's free.

>Is there anything stopping me from creating my own currency?
Basically anyone who's currency you threaten to devalue will seek to stop, limit or influence your coin in some way.
A threatening coin would be one that offers the same work at a lower cost and/or greater utility and range of use.

Dominant currencies (ie those with the most percieved value) can attempt to absorb a competing market by buying out their competetors coin base. With limited numbers of coin being produce from uncertain veins of ore, it's about who blinks first. The larger stock of coins would have an advantage.
This might be a terrible method, I'm not very intelligent.

I don't know how this works with real world fiat/digital cash that don't require a finite resource to produce.. unless it could be tied into energy use, maybe?

People mint e-coins all the time, right? Garner enough interest and people will buy in. Sell off your personal stock when the price is good. I guess that's what they're calling a rugpull?

>>/g/29275
>I gave an LLM my IPIP-NEO results and now it knows too much.
Do you ever think that people post stuff here (or anywhere) at just the right convinient time to encourage other users to take specific actions?
Most of the time it's innocuous but every so often it lines up a precise strike into a core of being that seems like a targetted personal attack.

I would love to do a big5 personality test and get deep in my own shit, but I don't trust that data through my computer - it's acting strangely enough as it is lately, beyond win11 quirks.

>>472048

You don't sound like you feel encouraged to do anything as daft as giving the corporations who own LLMs your extended personality test results.

>>472048

Well, we don't need to see your test scores to know that you're high on neuroticism.

>>472050
Now I have to decide if you're abusing mod powers to collate my recent postings or you've mistaken narcisism for 'neuroticism'.

>>472054
That or he's making a reference to your first two sentences.

I'm still exercising, daily, and not really eating either. I think I've post two pounds, but also my body doesn't sound like an old floor whenever I move. How heavy is a woman, anyway? Like, ten, fifteen kilos? San Andreas made this stuff look so easy.

>>472056

I think women are generally more than fifteen kilos. Why do you want to weigh as much as a woman?

>>472057
I assumed he or perhaps this poster is newly a she was making a reference to this:

>>472054
>>472055
>Wikipedia, define Neuroticism
Huh, maybe you're right. Cheers.

>>472057
>>472058
No, you knuckleheads, I was referring to being strong enough to pick up a woman. Which is, of course, the only worthwhile feat of strength in a post-industrial society. And I thought, incorrectly, that pretending women weigh ten to fifteen kilos was so absurd it would be obvious that I wasn't being serious.

>>472060

>I was referring to being strong enough to pick up a woman.

A woman you can just... lift? Like, without a crane or a team of firemen or anything? What's the point of her?

I don't think I really care much at all about video games right now. That might change, and I'm still dabbling in casual stuff, and if my mate is on Steam and wants to play Total Warhammers I'm chuffed. However, the idea of sitting down to play some 25-100 hour singleplayer epic isn't something I can countenance right now. I could watch so many films in that same timespan! And not even feel the creeping desire to spend hundreds of pounds on a new GPU! I still say "right now" because two years ago I was playing Doom .wad after Doom .wad and it was only the beginning of this year that I played, and very much enjoyed, Dave the Diver and Nightmare Reaper, and maybe some day I'll play more than an hour of Death Stranding. But overall I'm having more fun reading and watching films. I'm learning more this way too. Why, until last night I thought Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan was a good film! It turns out I never could trust my sixteen year old self, that little bastard.

>>472061
I should have made it clear that my goal body is Machamp. My apologies, I didn't mean to worry you.