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"Fringe": a board for the utterly retarted mainstream posters. What's Fringe today is just regular coffee shop talk from 10 years ago. Moved online, because no one talks to stranger irl anymore. It's now Fringe to talk!

>8132 >just regular coffee shop talk Revolutions started from coffee shop talks. >It's now Fringe to talk! ;_;

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I just realized that memes are intrusive thoughts by definition. The internet is an intrusive thought factory. >Mewch flag added That was like the second worst fringe. I don't even remember what we even talked about there.

She was that Russian? camgirl who held a cup with her feet right? Just realized simping for camgirls was absolutely weird and cringe back then. How much we have fallen since Twitch and Onlyfans holy shit. How the fuck did normalfags even accept that as normal. Or maybe I should just accept that normalfags are not even normal. They just operate on a shared degeneracy and complacence mindwave.

I think she was Greek. Mewch/fringe/ was Smiley's last attempt at running the board after 8chan banned him from board ownership. He created too many empty boards on mewch and eventually left it too. It's weird with his graphic design and CSS skills that he'd end up homeless. Even if no one used the boards, he made some really nice looking ones, like the /x/ there. >what we talked about Mostly meta drama, mewch/b/ overshadowed everything happening there.

Every time, I think back and think >it was so much more alive and organic back at [insert year] only to realize how much things escalated into horror mode since, and it keeps getting worse. Yet I recall how "bad" it used to be, and how it already was dead and useless when inside the era. I end up thinking, the only online period that was purely positive was a brief window from 1996 to ~2001. After that too many idiots had already made it online and commercial websites with unusable graphics menus which took several minutes to load, created by stupid 40+ year old women who didn't understand the difference between viewing the website on their own machine/company fibre versus the 56k modem most people had. These people don't belong online, and now they make up the 99.9999% majority. At least we have AI to replace the non-functional "ad-engines" which don't even accept boolean anymore.

>>8188 >the only online period that was purely positive was a brief window from 1996 to ~2001 >horror mode My life was in horror mode since 1995 but I didn't realize it yet and my family didn't even have internet till 2004. I think I was allowed to use it by myself around 2006. The greatest gift the internet gave me that I had access to horrors beyond my mortal perception which allowed me to prepare for them. Finally having english classes in 2010 really sped up the learning process. At least it prepared me to adapt.

I don't know if I envy or pity first worlders for having a "golden age" in their life that their country threw away for no real reason. I didn't have that. My life didn't get worse. It just sucked differently every year. Some things improved other things got worse. Having access to occult knowledge really changed the rules of the game and I am not complaining but I don't have a single moment in my life where I think I want to "go back". Even tho I have to go back several times to heal some dumb ass wounds. Just because I conquered my shadow it doesn't mean it's not nagging me to solve the remaining issues still embedded within my flesh. Heaven dimensions can form around a single treasured moment of a person's life that holds their timeline together. ... And I fear the internet will be part of that dimensional complex if I don't find something better. Damm

I can't deny that there is some kind of balance in how certain things get more and more hellish, while others balance that. Looking back at 90s media, it was mostly trash. Even tv series like Highlander which was a high point (pun unintended) of the week, are extremely mediocre when looking back at it. The only thing that made it worth anything in retrospective was the OP song and that the hero actually killed the bad guy in each episode, which was a sense of fresh air compared to the eternal masturbation of American syndicate franchises where they always reset back to the starting point when each episode ends. This part of having access to almost all anime with a few clicks is heaven compared to the desert walk of watching spider-man and speed racer once a week in the 90s. Contrary to what many weebs think, I don't agree that anime was better in the 90s - sure they were hand drawn, and even Pokemon from the period looks amazing, but stories were pretty deep in the same worn out route with few new or mind expanding themes. Ghost in the Shell with the theme of mind/memory hacking, was mindboggling, and this was before the Stand Alone Complex in the 00s, which was groundbreaking in complexity of concept. Even if 90% is trash today, the good parts of it today are still an improvement by many lengths. They don't touch the standard of the big few, but those did set a standard for what to expect as a minimum. I don't care one bit if it's the 8th isekai of the year, if it's well animated and has something new to say. A large number of occult concepts have been shared through anime during this decade, some shows seem to have been produced directly to serve as spiritual guidance for me personally, and I know others have experienced the same with other shows that seemed tailored to them. Some of them appear in a strange timeline, where S2 of some unknown show makes an impact, and when viewing the first episode from years ago, it contains concepts that only make sense and are relevant after watching the second season within its year of publication. Example: Dawn of the Witch. Seemingly made to be as fucked up as possible, riding on the wave of Redo of Healer (which was a masterpiece imo) but there's a very mild-natured prestory in an old S1 for anyone who wants to dig it up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAvvFO7Z2Xs or Failure Frame https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MylZpB5dIo where everything is so stereotyped it's like a joke, and the choice of using horribly bad 3DCGI for normal movement seems like the worst decision of the decade already in Ep1. But then there was something meditative over the flow of the show, almost trance-inducing, when the mc stumbles through the first dungeon, fighting stiff paste and copy monsters, and I realized beneath the surface of this seeming low budget slop, is something genuine. I ended up liking this one a lot, and it pointed me to some astral locations and magic procedures which I also utilized during the show's run.

>>8186 >How the fuck did normalfags even accept that as normal. Or maybe I should just accept that normalfags are not even normal. They just operate on a shared degeneracy and complacence mindwave. This is something I think about a lot. Modern internet whores are often straight-up hideous, and even when they aren't, they look like the human equivalent of that fake food they photograph for advertisements which btw I've never found appetizing in the slightest If it were only young people would be one thing, but even people who were middle-aged when the "before-times" ended, are at least as brainwashed. How someone could grow up in the 1950s and only think to complain about Trump or "Woke" or whatever, is incomprehensible to me. I was already thinking of doing a post about how genuine eroticism is the only true "taboo" in this hypersexualized society. It really doesn't exist in culture at all any more, only (rarely) in individuals. The current cultural paradigm pits a leftist conception of sexuality which manifests as purposely ugly androgynous characters (supposedly because sexy characters offend feminists) against grotesquely uncannily disproportionate, nauseatingly lurid imagery one would sooner expect from the most demented of otherworldly entities than a human being. If OF whores are fake food, both sides of this dialectic are a thin tasteless gruel that would probably give you food poisoning. People are literally incapable of seeing outside of paradigms like these, even the ones who lived before them. I'm beginning to believe that Francis E. Dec's narrative or at least my interpretation of his writings is correct, and the majority of people in this world have components of their being entirely replaced by machine consciousness. e.g. people who believed in "covid" despite the capacity of the most basic of natural human reasoning abilities to completely vaporize the narrative, would be examples of the "thinking" center being replaced. Many are incapable of recognizing or even perceiving beauty. They were either born that way or it was ripped out of them at some point.

>>8193 It's that thinking for yourself requires a spiritual element that is incredibly rare even for people that aren't npc's.

>>8193 >which manifests as purposely ugly androgynous characters For me it is that disgusting "oily" look most prominent in western games but also to be found in recent TV shows and movies. As if they all had aids and veneral diseases and sweating waste was as inevitable as breathing. People outside look like that too it feels gross to just be near them. I am not sure when the shift happened or if a kiddie-safe filter was removed. Horrifying.

>>8197 >that disgusting "oily" look most prominent in western games I remember when Silent Hill 3 came out, and the main character >pic looked more realistic than the image of pop stars of the time, who all had this glossy appearance. Now just compare this old intentionally "worn and ugly" woman with what they look like in mainstream games today, and she's still pretty hot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K-FW1PyOuY >VRMMO isekai >can't log out plot, no details, no one cares >routine gender bender >no one cares about gender bender, not mc, not script writers >mc starts as man but is a girl for all but EP1, making it just a mindgame and irrelevant in every other aspect --- but it's actually good with decent magic representations. It's like they just have to check off the boxes to tell a normal fantasy story of an OP girl, but it requires that it's a game and the girl is actually a man.