• An addendum to Rule 3 regarding fan-translated works of things such as Web Novels has been made. Please see here for details.
  • We've issued a clarification on our policy on AI-generated work.
  • Our mod selection process has completed. Please welcome our new moderators.
  • Due to issues with external spam filters, QQ is currently unable to send any mail to Microsoft E-mail addresses. This includes any account at live.com, hotmail.com or msn.com. Signing up to the forum with one of these addresses will result in your verification E-mail never arriving. For best results, please use a different E-mail provider for your QQ address.
  • For prospective new members, a word of warning: don't use common names like Dennis, Simon, or Kenny if you decide to create an account. Spammers have used them all before you and gotten those names flagged in the anti-spam databases. Your account registration will be rejected because of it.
  • Since it has happened MULTIPLE times now, I want to be very clear about this. You do not get to abandon an account and create a new one. You do not get to pass an account to someone else and create a new one. If you do so anyway, you will be banned for creating sockpuppets.
  • Due to the actions of particularly persistent spammers and trolls, we will be banning disposable email addresses from today onward.
  • The rules regarding NSFW links have been updated. See here for details.

General chat thread

Reader mode
I pretty sure I remember learning that the Internet was supposed to be decentralized so that taking it down in its entirety was an impossibility.

It's concerning that it has happened twice, big chunks of it anyways, in recent memory. First the Amazon web service and now Cloudflare.

Red Flags seem to be popping up more than ever these days
 
It's back to normal now.

edit: Or not sometimes I get in sometimes I don't.
 
Last edited:
ChaosSlimeKing said:
I pretty sure I remember learning that the Internet was supposed to be decentralized so that taking it down in its entirety was an impossibility.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...

It was.

Back in 2001 on 9/11 in downtown Manhattan I saw the phone networks go down (centralized infrastructure, easily overloaded) while the primitive email & chat & message programs on TCP/IP kept working perfectly -- I was helping students connect with their out-of-town parents to let them know they were okay.

Back when the core infrastructure was public, the networks were robust, as any node could route traffic around damage like the network had been designed to do in the first place. Independent, public infrastructure can be uncorrelated in terms of system maintenance & defect impact. But now that the core infrastructure is private, it can't do that. The private company will never route traffic away to a potential competitor, and its own servers are all highly correlated in terms of defect impact.

Private infrastructure is fragile, like the 2001 telephone networks.
 
I have something specific to ask:

Does anyone have that thing where you sometimes wake up in the morning, but are not fully awake, nor fully asleep, so you just lie there, probably drooling into your pillow, while some random-ass music plays on repeat in your head?

It usually ends when you fall asleep again for a few minutes, but I wanted to know anyway.

It's not a dream, it's not sleep paralysis either, it's something else, I feel. Had it happen to me a few days ago, which made me think about it.
 
ShogunTrooper said:
I have something specific to ask:

Does anyone have that thing where you sometimes wake up in the morning, but are not fully awake, nor fully asleep, so you just lie there, probably drooling into your pillow, while some random-ass music plays on repeat in your head?

It usually ends when you fall asleep again for a few minutes, but I wanted to know anyway.

It's not a dream, it's not sleep paralysis either, it's something else, I feel. Had it happen to me a few days ago, which made me think about it.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
Yea, happens all the time. Sometimes when i fall back asleep I manage to continue with the dream I had going before.
 
Guardian Box said:
Yea, happens all the time. Sometimes when i fall back asleep I manage to continue with the dream I had going before.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
Hehe, "We now interrupt your dream to give you the feeling of drool on your lips, paired with the sensation of being extremely disoriented, while a random Nickelback song from 20 years ago completes the ensemble. *a-chem* 'Look at this Photograph~'..."

Or at least that's my experience. My "brain music" gravitates to Nickelback for some reason.
 
Last edited:
I'm pretty sure there was a MHA fic titled something like My Bastard Academia about a student mc with a quirk that lets his body adapt to various things but it can't keep up with the power creep of canon and the mc starts to get really stressed over it.
More distinctive parts I remember are him starving himself to need less food, fucking Mirko and his dick adapting due to the snu snu and him taking a nude pic of his gf in the first chapter before he takes her virginity.
I think Bukharin wrote it but i can't find it.
 
ThePillar said:
I'm pretty sure there was a MHA fic titled something like My Bastard Academia about a student mc with a quirk that lets his body adapt to various things but it can't keep up with the power creep of canon and the mc starts to get really stressed over it.
More distinctive parts I remember are him starving himself to need less food, fucking Mirko and his dick adapting due to the snu snu and him taking a nude pic of his gf in the first chapter before he takes her virginity.
I think Bukharin wrote it but i can't find it.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...

I remember that too, is Quirk was that he adapted so that whatever caused him distress would become easy, like in the first chapter mentioning how the second time he would have sex with his GF he would have become really great at it thanks to his Quirk.

And he also was a twat, obviously.
 
WulfOfTheBlue said:
I remember that too, is Quirk was that he adapted so that whatever caused him distress would become easy, like in the first chapter mentioning how the second time he would have sex with his GF he would have become really great at it thanks to his Quirk.

And he also was a twat, obviously.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
Yep. I'm relieved that I'm not going crazy.
 
ThePillar said:
I'm pretty sure there was a MHA fic titled something like My Bastard Academia about a student mc with a quirk that lets his body adapt to various things but it can't keep up with the power creep of canon and the mc starts to get really stressed over it.
More distinctive parts I remember are him starving himself to need less food, fucking Mirko and his dick adapting due to the snu snu and him taking a nude pic of his gf in the first chapter before he takes her virginity.
I think Bukharin wrote it but i can't find it.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...

Sounds like Scumbag Hero Academia by Flux Casey
 
Daytripper said:
Is apologizing for liking something that someone else doesn't cringe?
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
Let's find out.

"I'm sorry my preferences are garbage."
Implying that you've been insulted by them having a different opinion than you.

"I'm sorry your preferences are garbage."
Insulting them because they have a different opinion than you.

"Oh. I'm sorry."
Vague. And probably for the best, either way.

*Just don't apologize.*
Probably the best choice here.

"I'm not apologizing."
The previous, but making it worse than the first two options.
 
Reader mode
You must log in or register to reply here.

Users who are viewing this thread

Total: 23 (members: 0, guests: 23)
Back
Top