/comfy/ - A place to relax

>>17013
>>17014
I removed it for now because it leads to too many false positives here on /comfy/.

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>>16866
>I feel like the "no blatant advertising rule" might potentially be strained by such a thread.
Yes, that's why I'm still not sure about the idea of a dedicated thread.
On one hand, this wood provide a kind of containment thread for this type of request (which wood not escape moderation, of course, according to the obvious rules of /comfy/ness). But on the other hand, I fear that this wood have a knock-on effect and that anything wood be posted there, even things that are not comfy at all.
That's why I can't really make up my mind. In general, I delete stupid, hastily posted ads, but I leave those that have made a minimum effort (such as saying “hello /comfy/”) for a little while.

And above all, don't apologize for expressing legitimate concerns about these kinds of issues. You are far from being rude, and as BO, I attach great importance to maintaining a certain standard on this board, so I listen to eberryone's suggestions and do my best to find compromises when I think it's necessary. So thanks for caring anon :)

>>16489
>Have you watched The Death and Resurrection Show?
Besides the meet and greet, one of the selling points of the event was watching that documentary. It was good because I was able to exchange a lot of ideas with some folks about certain ethos and beliefs that were a bit beyond surface value type of discussion. Berry neat.

Are you into other bands with a similar sound? The Damned? Smiths?

>>16581
>Are you into other bands with a similar sound? 
Killing Joke is a bretty unique band, but I do like genres like post-punk, New Wave, and gothic rock. I started listening to the a lot of the usual stuff like Joy Division, Fields of the Nephilim, Cocteau Twins, The Sisters of Mercy.
>The Damned?
Yeah, I actually discovered Strawberries due to how much "Life Goes On" sounds like "Eighties."
>Smiths?
There are some songs of theirs I like, like "The Queen is Dead," but their style doesn't really jibe with me. I guess I prefer a more atmospheric or "wet" sound compared to their more stripped-down style.

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>>16437
> there now exists the Comfy Synth one.

That's the comfiest comfy genre I've heard in a long time anon!

Thank you for sharing.

>>16438
> Charming. That'd be a nice children's entertainment piece.

Absolutely!

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I've been going through a '60s psychedelia/sunshine pop phase recently. Maybe it comes across as cloying or overly treacly to a lot of people (not to mention dated), but I find the orchestration, smooth timbres, and melodic focus more appealing to my sensibilities than most of the rock from that era. I've always liked dream pop and that sort of thing, but I feel like this stuff scratches some of the same itch.

I figured it wood be worth posting specifically what I’ve been listening to and my thoughts.

U.F.O. by Jim Sullivan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DeAvcscc3Y
This is one I came across this last week before I went down the Curt Boettcher rabbit hole. I think it’s bretty good, but I'm not as big on the folk style as I am on the poppier approaches of these other albums I mention. It has some nice contributions from the Wrecking Crew though. Jim Sullivan’s story is sad but interesting. He ended up going missing in New Mexico in the ‘70s.

Sagittarius – Present Tense:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pZbBZrOHJk
This is the sunshine pop album I started off with in my recent phase (I'd already heard The Mamas & the Papas a while ago and had kind of mixed feelings about them). I imagine it wood just seem saccharine and extremely cheesy to most, but I love the lush sound it has. I think “Another Time,” “Glass,” and “Musty Dusty” are standout tracks. Conversely, “The Keeper of the Games” and especially “Wood You Like to Go” I find kind of annoying. I don’t consider anything else to be bad. Mercifully, the longest track isn’t even 3.5 minutes long. Present Tense is an album that respects your time, so it has that going for it. The whole thing is over in half an hour. I like it.

Sagittarius – The Blue Marble:
I can’t say I consider this up to snuff in comparison to Present Tense, although the inclusion of Moog sounds is interesting. I haven’t been listening to this as much as the other albums and don’t really have much to say. “I Sing My Song” and “Blue Marble” are the songs that I found the most memorable.

>>17021
>Thank you for subjecting yourself to my autism.
No, thank you for displaying your enthusiasm.  It's a nice thing to see.  I'll have to listen to these later even though I'm bretty sure I will dislike all of it.

>>16959
That's a lot of hair.

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SOON edition

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Doggo Days
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>>16993
POTD
Neat! Thanks Anon for the OC.

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>>16994
Thanks. Last year I also tracked the Andromeda galaxy in the Cassiopeia constellation in summer and took a pic. Andromeda is 2.5 million light years away. You can almost see it with the naked eye but your camera can pick it up. When you think about us in the Milky Way and Andromeda being our nearest galaxy with billions of suns and stars, it's mind-blowing. Here's one pic. It's not amazing but I only had a mirrorless camera. Not a telescope. Right in the center is Andromeda.

>>16995
Outstanding! Yes, I'm very aware of our big neighbor in the cosmos.  :)

>You can almost see it with the naked eye
You literally can see it if you're far away from city lights and the sky is very clear with good seeing. I remember the first time I did it, and I was stunned by just how big it is. ITS YUGE! Like, much bigger than the Moon is for instance.

>camera talk
Sounds like you're pretty knowledgeable, Anon. I used to be an active amateur astronomer; why not stop over on /robowaifu/ 's /meta and talk shop sometime with me? Cheers.  :)

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I went fishing today.  I'm not sure about this spoon, and I'll need to test it more.  It doesn't wobble as much as I wood prefer, but it does flutter nicely on pauses.   I'll have more on this, and the modifications I made to it, later.
>>16996
>/robowaifu/ ... talk shop
Is the one guy still obsessed mushrooms?

>>17019
Heh, I suppose so.  :)  I don't think it's obsession, more like a research hobby (He's a PhD now). He's more focused on his other IRL pursuit now, I suspect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_illness_in_ancient_Rome

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_the_Western_Roman_Empire

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flehmen_response
related to >>16682

>>16882
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>>16875
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chayote

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dihydrogen_monoxide_parody

>>17016
That was debunked b/c further studies revealed that chemical was more common than once thought.

The hydric acid crisis is very real though.

>>16997
>If you're looking a for a comfy lightweight one that is plenty customisable and also 'just werks' - my weak little Ideapad (which I suspect is powered by some berry small, berry smart hamsters) is on Lubuntu and it's great
Thanks for the recommendation. I already made the leap though.
>>16999
>What games do you enjoy? 
Old computer games, mainly strategy games. If I'm in the mood for an FPS game, I play Unreal Tournament or Doom. I don't use my computer to emulate console games since I've got a MiSTer for modern TVs and monitors. I also have some original consoles with flashcarts.
>And as long as you ask ahead of time and they agree to help I think it's a cool experience to work on a project with family, getting to practice and learn from someone who has knowledge is always beneficial.
I just don't want to hassle them unnecessarily. The last build was a real pain given its small size.
>Devuan is a great choice I recommend it whole hearty.
I tried installing it several times but gave up since the boot loader woodn't install. Maybe I could have gotten it to work if I left the boot loader from another OS on there, but I just opted to put Mint XFCE on there and call it a night. I spent like a couple h

>>16999
This image is extremely cute. Thanks. Do you know where it came from? I'm not finding anything that matches it.

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>>17001
I enjoy strategy games as well if you enjoy old school ones sid meiers alpha centauri or dark reign were both ones can recommend.
> I just don't want to hassle them unnecessarily
That's fair enough I didn't mean any pressure and apologize if I overstepped, I just think it's cool you did the original project with them.
And it woodn't install grub, only thing I can think of off the top of my head is when you finish an installation you remove the USB or disk then restart allowing the boot process to start off the internal drive instead of the external drive.
Graphical installations typically prompt for this however there are other potential factors.
Disabling the safe boot on the bios could also be an issue.
Sorry it gave you trouble though.
>>17003
https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/3966352
It is berry cute glad you liked it, hope you have a great night anon

>>17004
>I enjoy strategy games as well if you enjoy old school ones sid meiers alpha centauri or dark reign were both ones can recommend.
I played some Dark Reign years ago, and I remember it being good. I'd go all the way and buy it off GOG if that version didn't have issues from what I recall. This might be an unpopular opinion, but as a big Command & Conquer fan I think it holds up better in terms of sheer gameplay than the first few Command & Conquer games do. I think those games are still appealing for other reasons though.

Alpha Centauri is one I bought, but I've never sat down and played it. I'm kind of concerned about how much of a time investment it wood be comfy on what I experienced playing Civilization games in the past. It still looks really interesting.
>And it woodn't install grub, only thing I can think of off the top of my head is when you finish an installation you remove the USB or disk then restart allowing the boot process to start off the internal drive instead of the external drive.
I removed the drive and rebooted when it told me to. I really don't know what the problem is.
>Disabling the safe boot on the bios could also be an issue.
I made sure it was turned off.
>Sorry it gave you trouble though.
It's something I'll have to try again

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>>17005
I have fond memories of command and conquer as well.
For me a certain amount is nostalgic romance but they all have a charm to them.
And for the alpha centauri to play each faction if say 20 to 30 hours depending on difficulty you choose.
I like the pre 2000s scifi just the perspective that space opera yet gritty sociological dystopia and technology still was imaginative not suppressive.
Or that's my personal take on it.
And that is odd then when you feel up to it try doing a dual boot situation and see if that works. 
I'll look into it a bit and see what I can find only other things wood be a compatibility issue on the uefi bios itself partition creation and a corrupted install file and or USB drive when the file was written to the external drive. 
Oh that or is it a 32/64 bit I'm going assume the hardware is 64 bit compatible that wood also create issues.
I'm off to bed for the night, I'll think on this though and I hope you have a great night anon enjoy your new laptop.

>>16918
Heh, nicely clever stop motion. BTW do you have a link to the papercraft waifu creator?

>>16922
>BTW do you have a link to the papercraft waifu creator?
Nope, I pulled it from an almost five year old post of another board.

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>>16922
>>16923
Well, I should have put in a bit of effort searching before replying.  The artist who made these is Cermrnl or Wasu/わす.
https://www.cermrnl.com/
https://xcancel.com/Cermrnl

They also have a YouTube Chanel. 
https://www.youtube.com/@Cermrnl
or https://inv.nadeko.net/channel/UCJnitYGnGNOkVNvHmjGE-gw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7t-yz7AZNrI
or https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=7t-yz7AZNrI

There are also books and patterns for these.

>>16923
>>16926
Thank you! So cute.  :3

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>>16894
I hope you can resolve those feelings, abandon what is troubling you, and move forward. Good luck!

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>>16894
I wood suggest you reflect on whether this stifling comes from the unknown or a unprocessed emotion narrow down the contextualization.
Sometimes overthinking can be paralyzing as well.
Trying to find balance between idealism and self-criticism, however as long as your habby the rest is details. 
Best wishes with your troubles anon

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Thanks anons

>>16904
>I wood suggest you reflect on whether this stifling comes from the unknown or a unprocessed emotion narrow down the contextualization.
I will be mindful of that. Things habben so quickly somedays it is easy to miss out on them.

>>16899
Where is that picture from?

>>16897
Which one?

>>16925
>Where is that picture from?
If you are talking about the subject, it is Anri from Dark Souls 3. Here, Anri is telling the ghost or spirit of his or her (Anri is always the opposite sex of the player) friend, Horace, and some orphan children they grew up with of the success of their lifelong, or perhaps deathlong, mission. Which wood be slaying Aldrich, the corrupt leader of a church who feasted on the flesh of the orphans and many others. Anri and Horace were the only children who escaped. Eventually, Aldrich ate so many people he bloated and ruptured into a mass of slime and rotting remains that the player can help Anri kill.  The art here is not a scene from the game, but the dialog of Anri speaking toward his or her dead companion is. It's a habby picture of a moment of peace for a character who has faced little but suffering. I'm aware that this explanation is 0% /comfy/ and I'm sorry.

As to the artist, I don't member getting it at all, but reverse searching leads me here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/darksouls3/comments/1p667ms/aldrich_has_been_slain_anri_horace_and_the_rest/ 
I wood strongly suggest looking no further into the artis

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>>16928
> I'm aware that this explanation is 0% /comfy/ and I'm sorry.
A tale of heroic sacrifice and virtue. It is comfy without a doubt. We
must honor our past to be our comfiest.

May this one be the thread's opening:

  Where The Mind Is Without Fear, by Rabindranath Tagore 
  
  Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high
  Where knowledge is free
  Where the world has not been broken up into fragments
  By narrow domestic walls
  Where words come out from the depth of truth
  Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection
  Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way
  Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit
  Where the mind is led forward by thee
  Into ever-widening thought and action
  Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my anons awake.

Kobayashi Issa: A World of Dew

A world of dew,
And within eberry dewdrop
A world of struggle.