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wasurenai itsumademo kesshite until my life is exhausted...

>Start dancing?
>[Y/N]

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>>1538797

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>fishing levels

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>>1538357
objectively wrong. it was adventure 2 idiot
had the best ost too

>>1538377
Not him but which would you replay? The non Shadow/ Sonic levels are pure cancer and were actually like 80% of the game.

die retard.

>>1538171
>/news/
Irrelevant and dead board.

>>1538173
>/qa/
Irrelevant and dead board.

>>1537768
how do you know they are off topic, maybe you're just not smart enough to know they are on topic

>>1537768
Did you downthumb his video on youtube?

panty and stockings

There are a few anarchy boards on 2ch. They're basically /b/, no rules except don't break the law. Most of them allow foreign IP posts. There's one of them where threads get deleted if they don't get replies in two minutes or something so it's fast paced.

>>1538045
>There's one of them where threads get deleted if they don't get replies in two minutes or something so it's fast paced.
What does that do to posting quality?

One of the most common arguments that I've seen advanced and wish to preempt is that 4chan doesn't 'decline' as much as it 'evolves'. That 4chan in effect goes through distinct and identifiable periods that can be distinguished from each other, but that none of them represent a change in quality so much as they amount to a simple costume change. I fail to see this as anything other than an attempt to deny the concept of 'quality' altogether. It's an opinion that doesn't reflect an examination of what those changes actually meant, but simply claims that 'for my own concern, they are interchangeable' which speaks more or less to an agreeable and uncritical attitude in the individual than a serious attempt examine the issue. I hope that my arguments will put this notion to rest or at least encourage someone to rethink that idea.

I want to firstly try to engage the notion that quality on 4chan does not change: that it is 'zero-sum'. That as one board declines its creative energy is spread totally undiminished to other boards and the quality of 4chan doesn't change even as boards get worse. I do not think this is the case. I believe that more realistically the creative energy of a board is a unique configuration of particular posters to particular board. Someone who generates amusing OC on /sp/, for example, cannot simply be transplanted to another board and produce the same level of content. For one he might not even want to. His impetus might be entirely limited to that one board and he might not have anything to say on a different board. There are structural conditions unique to boards as well which dictate what posters can actually post. Boards with strict moderation are generally going to have less free-wheeling OC than more relaxed boards. Turning a lightly-modded board into a highly-modded board (like /sp/'s experience) diminishes the overall creative capacity of 4chan itself. It doesn't simply just shift it from one board to another (Cont 2/?)

Secondly the addition of new boards disperses the efforts of posters, even if quality was zero-sum across the whole of 4chan, it can't all go to the same board. The addition of new boards means that 'quality' is dissipated by being spread thin across a host of hitherto nonexistent boards, which has the effect of diminishing quality on individual boards (some of these new boards have unique interactions with the quality of others when their subject matter overlap /qst/ for example had a substantial impact on /tg/, /asp/ on /sp/ etc..).

The idea that quality on 4chan is zero-sum becomes even more ridiculous when you elaborate what it actually means. That 4chan in 2003 is the same as 4chan in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008...2017. That in the entire evolution of 4chan from a niche community of SA weebs to its vertiginous rise to 'last boss of the internet' and onto today with the changes that entailed, 4chan was qualitatively unchanged. I propose that quality on 4chan instead resembles an organic life-cycle with fertile periods of intense activity brought about by unique conditions which attract new users, eventually reach maturity, and then exhaust themselves and become pale imitations of those high times (paradoxically, more users and more activity do not equal greater creativity which is the lifeblood of quality, since only a tiny minority of posters are actually responsible for content https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule_(Internet_culture) , more users can actually have the opposite effect and drown or drive out the content creators under heaps of worthless shitposts). Quality then is not simply users posting but it is the right kind of user in the right environment.

All posters are not created equal. It's common sense but its an idea that's worth exploring. Not all posters are able or willing to make the same contributions in their posts. Not only does intelligence and articulation vary wildly, but so does their effort and experience. Broadly speaking a 15 year old highschooler on his first week is not going to provide the same level of maturity and thoughtfulness as a 25 year old whose been here for 10 years (ironically in this regard, a NEET might be a better poster than a high-functioning adult because of the level of commitment they can invest in their posting). 4chan is the sum of its users and what they see fit to post so it stands to reason that changes in its users or their attitudes towards posting have a substantial impact on the general quality of the site.

So what makes a 'good' 4chan poster? This is something that can vary greatly depending on opinion, but there are a number of things that I think we can generally agree on make for better posters: intelligence, wit, creativity (e.g. creating OC rather than being a passive spectator), commitment (someone who invests more time and effort in their posts is preferable to someone who spends as little time as possible), familiarity & respect for the respective culture (nobody wants posters who treat their boards no different than they would 9gag). Too little of these respective qualities wreck havoc on a board and if we examine the change in 4chan activity over the last years we see signs that indicate legions of new users who exhibit a staggering lack of these qualities.

not really. no

>>1536029
Good thread, bonus point for using my favorite underrated anime

>>1536076
It's getting a season 3!

I haven't seen much from the big robot franchises, but i thought "War in the Pocket" was good and "08th MS Team" was great. Off the top of my head, l also enjoyed RideBack, Zegapain, Rinne no Lagrange, Mars Daybreak, and Suisei no Gargantia—I would recommend any or all of these!

attack on titan

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>>1536022
I haven't seen much, just every Gundam entry prior to SEED, VOTOMS, SDF Macross and DYRM, Gunbuster, Evangelion, Escaflowne, FMP, Code Geass, TTGL and some other original works by Sunrise I don't remember.
Man, that's actually a lot. I'd say my favorites are 0079, VOTOMS, DYRM, Gunbuster and Turn A.

>>>/r9k/

take your roleplaying to >>>/trash/

>>1534166
dumb frogposter

make your images 30% worse and save 30% space. hmmm. hmmmm.

Because I have over 10TB of space.

>>1533206
>he doesn't know how lossless compression works

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"improvement" is subjective.

>>1531732
Since you only left a short reply I take it that you possess neither the creativity nor the eye–hand coordination necessary to edit my MS Paint art piece and, from your view, improve it in any shape, form or way?

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teh pinnacle

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sugoi

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>>1523945

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>>1523949

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I was gonna use this for the OP but decided for the ice cream one
>>1521668
>>1521669
cute