Strange sources of comfy?
Hello, owls. When I was in high school, I never had enough sleep, and my lunch was spent in the library. I'd often read the newspaper and in particular find the small column that detailed the launch and arrival of tankers and cargo ships at the local port. The column had nothing but the name, port of origin, and time of dock of each the ships, but it gave me an odd feeling of security and coziness- Like I could imagine being on one, working all night, and at dawn finally settling down into a bunk while the ship set sail into the quiet, empty sea.
Does anyone else have sources of comfiness that were/are odd that they'd like to share?
Late video games
Just wanted to emphasize video games that are the epitome of /late/ and/or suitable for late night playing...
My preference would be for 2010's xbox 360's Alan Wake: Separated between a daytime/night-time cycle of reality and horror the player is forced to use a flash-light to combat enemies. Under rustling pine trees in the dead of night you will battle beings formed of darkness.
Other contenders would be:
* Fragile Dreams: Farewell ruins of the moon, wii, 2009. Everything in this game is bathed in the soft diffuse light of the moon. Has a painterly feel to it.
Resident Evil: Revelations, multi-plat, 2012. The main segments on the Queen Zenobia are a tense creaking slow shuffle in the middle of the night.
What does everybody else think? Any suggestions?
Now that this place is dying...
Considering how 8chan is likely dead at this point and will be shut down or either have more a more broken software we vould choose another place to gather, of course first option could be the IRC channel as beta is dead
See ya on IRC, remember that the server is irc.rizon.net, channel #late
Hey so i was thinking about setting up an internet radio and it came across my mind that we really should have a /late/ internet radio
I'm at work now, but when i finish finals this week i expect to try and bring this into a reality by the end of next week.
Can an admin please pin this and lets get some ideas rolling
Why is /late/ so slow?
Now I know that speed is inversely proportional to post quality, but we are at a point where our speed is so low that 100 new users would have no effect on post quality.
How do we salvage this place? We are at a serious risk of dying outright. Once the switch to the new infinity platform is complete, I don't know if /late/ would still be alive
Idk if any of you guys will like anything like this but i've been recording a lot of low-fi ambient stuff like this that you guys might like
https://mega.nz/#!BhEABDLS!tu60XB-nevD7jRVkVzASrtoFlfiRmJr1ewqdjC1oBPA
Regrets, mistakes and troubles
How do you deal with the things you've done? Whether they're largely in the past or recent, I imagine we've all done something we aren't proud of and/or regret doing. What keeps you up at night? Events that took place over 6 years ago still make me feel like a monster even if they might be considered first world problems.
Handsome people
I'm really jealous of handsome people. All they need to do is flash a smile and instantly people will react positively. Also they have a natural confidence that can't be substituted.
I'm not ugly, and my looks have never impaired my social interactions, but I always wonder how good looking people feel.
Love
Tell me /late/, what is your thoughts on love?
Is there more to love than just romance? Can you love someone without being in love? What is it about love that drives people to do the craziest things?
Is what we conceive as love really lust, and vice versa? I've been thinking about love a lot and what it truly means and I wonder if anybody else had any input on the manner.
/late/ emotional philosophy
I stumbled into a series of very interesting and thought-provoking Wikipedia articles about vague emotional ideas. The character of this board is suited (indeed, maybe /late/-goers are prone) to these kinds of emotions, so I thought we could ruminate on them and share our experiences of them.
Mono no aware
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_no_aware
Mono no aware is a Japanese phrase expressing the feeling and awareness that the world is impermanent, or constantly changing in nature. It also denotes a slight sadness that this is the case.
Have you ever reflected on how the world and your life has changed? Have you thought to yourself, 'Man, things have changed since way back when, but I guess that's just how it is' and then sighed with a gentle sorrow at this realisation? I think that most people have, and that is mono no aware. Late-night thinking lends itself to this feeling, since people usually don't do anything involved at this time. When removed from the demands of the day, one can rest and think about what has happened and changed, for better or worse.
Greetings /late/, >>>/grim/ here.
I wanted to extend an invitation for you to the first annual /grim/ Halloween horror movie marathon - a month-long bi-weekly triple feature streaming event in celebration of the most magical and spooky time of the year. I'm going to be streaming a total of 24 fucking movies this year, many of which I can confirm as being great because I've seen them myself, some that I am seeing for the first time.
This week we're starting off in the beginnings of horror, with the German Expressionist film movement and the classic Universal Studios films inspired by them:
German Expressionism: 10/9/15
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari - 20:00 PST (UTC - 7:00)
15 min break
Nosferatu - 21:30 PST (UTC - 7:00)
15 min break
Vampyr - 23:20 PST (UTC - 7:00)
Classic Universal Horror: 10/10/15
Dracula - 20:00 PST (UTC - 7:00)
15 min break
Frankenstein - 21:40 PST (UTC - 7:00)
15 min break
The Black Cat - 22:05 PST (UTC - 7:00)
Check out this thread for the full schedule, and feel free to post suggestions for movies for the weeks following the next one (I still haven't decided entirely yet on what to stream for the 30th and 31st):
Streams at: connectcast.tv/n1x_
Hope to see you there. Sorry for the short notice or if I fucked up the UTC times.
Choose Your Own Adventure
You plod along in the snow, too focused on staying warm to notice the lamppost until you bump into it. Shaken from your deep thought, you realize that you are nowhere near the sidewalk you'd started out on. You don't think that you've been walking long enough to exit the city, yet looking around, you can't see any buildings. You notice a bench just a few steps away from you, with three lampposts on either side, each spaced roughly fifteen feet apart.
Cold and disoriented, you weigh your options: You can sit down on the bench to sort out a plan, or keep following the path in either direction. Of course, you could always wander off into the trees on either side of the path, but you aren't that adventurous...are you?
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
Would you go innazone /late/?
When you're not fighting off either horrifying mutants or douchy factions, the stalker life can be fairly comfy.
Just imagine, a few stalkers sitting around a fire, all putting aside the paranoid caution needed to survive in the Zone to take refuge from the danger of nighttime, trading stories of their time there, at least one is bound to have a guitar.
Have some vodka, sausage, bread, maybe a can of beans if somebody has one. sounds comfy as hell to me.
so tell me, would you go into the Zone for moments like these, despite the not-so-comfy getting shot at moments horrifying mutants?
i honestly would and i'd go for the shooting/getting shot at/horrible mutant hunting too but that's beside the point
Hi /L8/, hope you don't mind some greentext blog
>have abusive gf
>we just meet and I have to be with her while she does her stuff
>doesn't even want to french kiss
>fuck her rarely, don't even enjoy it
>be cool with it because I'm moving abroad this fall
>might aswell get some fug while I'm packing my stuff
>suddenly 8/10 female colleague I know wants to see me before we part
>she lives kinda far away so we talked less than 10 times, but we chatted more online
>never thought about her that much
>always thought she was out of my league
>she comes and her intentions are pretty clear
>she asks me if I'm seeing someone
>tell her I'm seeing someone but its nothing serious
>end up fucking like animals
>one of the best intercourses I've ever had
>vent up all the frustation
>fuck her till she asks me to stop because she's passing out
>very good alchemy between the two of us
>plan on meeting again before we both move
>leave abusive gf the next day
>didn't mention new girl obviously
>later new girl asks me if me and old gf were together
>tell her we were just friends with benefits because I didn't want her to think of me as a cheater
>she's cool with it
>later she tells me the last guy she's been with was basically using her even if he had a gf
>she knew it but he told her was about to leave her
>he never did
>wonder if I should tell her that my last gf was actually a gf for the sake of being honest with her
TL;DR
>have sex with cool girl while still with abusive gf
>leave abusive gf the next day
>cool girl asks me if abusive gf was actually my gf
>tell her no
>want to tell her the truth now because I care about her
>wat do
Your thoughts /late/?
I know she might sound like a bad person from what I wrote but she's really a nice girl, she only had bad luck with relationships I guess, also she's very intelligent and she keeps telling she wants to know me more, she told me some pretty private stuff, and I'd want to tell her the truth but I fear she might hate me after, even if I left my gf the day after.
Also greentext/blog general I guess
Hey /late/
Starting next week I have to get up at 5 to work 5:30 am until 2 pm. I've been a NEET until now so I usually end up going to sleep at 5 and waking up at 2. How am I going to move my sleep schedule so drastically in only a couple days?
Luckily I'll only be working the job for 2 weeks until I go to Uni, I just need some extra pocket money
Latenight exercise?
So, i've been getting into exercising recently, particularly late at night. Just trying to get in shape, build some muscle, improve strength and endurance, etc. Oddly, i'm basically just ignoring most other elements of my health ( for example, i get NO FUCKING SLEEP).
Besides only having the time and energy at night, the cool air and darkness make for a fantastic setting to put a fire in your muscles. When i do sleep, I sleep far better now.
Also, there's no real way to explain this other than actually doing it but,
it just feels awesome once you're done. Plus just knowing that you pushed through some kind of pain. Especially once you can think of it as progress instead of just pain.
Sorry if this doesn't really fit here, but I guess I just want to share a new latenight experience with other night owls. And maybe add something to your nights if you're willing to try it.
Oh and have a comfy gif fer yer troubles.
Say /late/ would you mind if I ramble for a bit? I’m really tired, though not just literally. What really exhausts me is the daily grind, you know doing this and that here and there every now and again ad nauseam until the day you die. Everything keeps getting worse and worse, society is falling apart, our politicians are a joke and we’re the pun not mention everyone’s so jaded that nothing even shocks them anymore. Seriously, I bet that I could just start jacking off in the middle of the freeway and peoples only reaction would mild satisfaction that for once in their life they’ll have a good excuse for showing up to work late. Life isn’t suffering, joy or anything that you would use a strong adjective to describe. Life is just living for the sake of living. Waking up to go to work to earn the money you need to pay gas for your car so you can get to work to earn the money you need to pay your rent so you have a place to go when you’re not at work. I find myself more and more wishing that I had been born in some bygone era in a time when map makers could still get away with make shit up about whatever the hell was on the other side of the ocean and loyalty and dignity were still seen as something to be proud of. A chance to live a beautiful life. I don’t mean some fairy-tale like existence that’s free from pain failure but life that’s worth remembering, a life that means something. Rather maybe it’s a life of failure, or to more exact what modern society has come to define “failure” as. To fight unwinnable battles fall in love with someone above or below your rank. To take what you desire without remorse or shame that you did so. Even if living in such a fashion is a just like a living in a dream what does it matter? We’re just going to die anyway so what difference does it make? I keep thinking back to the famous line from The Man of La Mancha “The cure, May it be not worse than the disease”.
I don’t know, I know I’m not making any sense but that’s the way I feel even if I can’t really articulate it.
BOARD IN DANGER
So I assume anyone who's been on recently has seen the announcement at the top. Apparently the BO hasn't logged in for two fucking weeks, leaving it open for 'board claims'.
At the moment, I don't really have the time to admin a board, even one as slow as /late/. However, I am quite dedicated to the board, and will jump in headfirst if nobody else does by the deadline. I'm not sure what happens to boards when the deadline is reached, but I won't let it happen to /late/. That said, if any night owls with enough time/patience on their hands can and want to take over the admin duties (and don't drop off the map for weeks), I and the few other people who come here anymore would be all kinds of grateful.
Hoping we can save this shit. It may be slow, it may keep us up, but it's still worth it. Help, anons.
Relaxing Music albums
Every three days I will upload a new album for your listening pleasure. For a while.What is your favorite time of night, specifically, /late/?
Mine is 5 am. Some of my fondest memories are of being a teenager, around 16, and walking home with my friends at 5 am after a night of wandering around town, when the light is just bright enough to be called daylight, but everything is still quiet. I'm so nostalgic for those days that during the summer I will sometimes set my alarm for 5 am just to walk around.
background music/noise
So, for the past few nights, if i'm not actually in a game or watching a video, i'll have this on low volume just to have it playing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mh1D0bcWV0
the background noise effect is pretty nice for late-night browsing. also the type of music definitely helps. the chill repetition and light tone provide a calming buffer against the silence. it keeps the night airy, or keeps me from thinking about things i'd rather forget in the moment. any other anons do this or something similar?
Hey /late/, I found this comic through an ad on a different comic and frankly, it's fucking awesome. Pic related, it's one of the early pages and part of a rather pivotal scene, but it's still in the establishment phase, so no spoilers. It does, however, show the main protagonists (the guy with a white streak in his hair and the muscular chick) and is basically where the story picks up speed. I've only gotten to about the 100th page, and I'm not sure about its current status (it was started in early 2013, uploading a page to two pages weekly), but I'm hooked and I think you lot will like it too. It has a good bit of action, an interesting universe with original and outside-the-box concepts, and humor in just the right spots. Plus a hot co-protagonist.
I can do a save'n'dump if you want, so tell me if you do, but here's the link to the first page.
http://talesofpylea.com/top/?comic=book-i-1
only the first few pages are fully-colored
Board Deterioration
So, i've noticed this on quite a few other boards, but this one most of all (probably just because it's my main, but still). I've seen a distinct decline in the quality of content on /late/ and other boards. I remember the olden days when there was all kinds of comfy stuff here. I could just scroll down and instantly find all kinds of good threads, but nowadays it takes a long while and even going to other pages of the board to find anything i give a shit about. it could just be the fact that it's changed since when I first came here, or the way my own life has changed since then, or just the slightly decreased traffic, but still, something feels off about /late/ now. and not in any good way. any other anons feeling this?
Caesar
Zkhq L ohiw Urph iru Ododjh'v vdnh,
Eb wkh Ohjlrqv' Urdg wr Ulplql,
Vkh yrzhg khu khduw zdv plqh wr wdnh
Zlwk ph dqg pb vklhog wr Ulplql,
(Wloo wkh Hdjohv iohz iurp Ulplql)
Dqg L'yh wudpshg Eulwdlq, dqg L'yh wudpshg Jdxo
Dqg wkh Srqwlf vkruh zkhuh wkh vqrz-iodnhv idoo
Dv zklwh dv wkh qhfn ri Ododjh,
(Dv frog dv wkh khduw ri Ododjh!)
Dqg L'yh orvw Eulwdlq, dqg L'yh orvw Jdxo,
Dqg L'yh orvw Urph dqg, zruvw ri doo,
L'yh orvw Ododjh!
Zkhq brx jr eb wkh Yld Dxuhold
Dv wkrxvdqgv kdyh wudyhohg ehiruh
Uhphpehu wkh Oxfn ri wkh Vroglhu
Zkr qhyhu vdz Urph dqb pruh!
Rk, ghdu zdv wkh vzhhwkhduw wkdw nlvvhg klp,
Dqg ghdu zdv wkh prwkhu wkdw eruh;
Exw klv vklhog zdv slfnhg xs lq wkh khdwkhu,
Dqg kh qhyhu vdz Urph dqb pruh!
Dqg kh ohiw Urph, hwf.
Zkhq brx jr eb wkh Yld Dxuhold
Wkdw uxqv iurp wkh Flwb wr Jdxo,
Uhphpehu wkh Oxfn ri wkh Vroglhu
Zkr urvh wr eh pdvwhu ri doo!
Kh fduulhg wkh vzrug dqg wkh exfnohu,
Kh prxqwhg klv jxdug rq wkh Zdoo,
Wloo wkh Ohjlrqv hohfwhg klp Fdhvdu,
Dqg kh urvh wr eh pdvwhu ri doo!
Dqg kh ohiw Urph, hwf.
Lw'v wzhqwb-ilyh pdufkhv wr Qduer,
Lw'v iruwb-ilyh pruh xs wkh Ukrqh,
Dqg wkh hqg pdb eh ghdwk lq wkh khdwkhu
Ru olih rq dq Hpshuru'v wkurqh.
Exw zkhwkhu wkh Hdjohv rehb xv,
Ru zh jr wr wkh Udyhqv dorqh,
L'g vrrqhu eh Ododjh'v oryhu
Wkdq vlw rq dq Hpshuru'v wkurqh!
Zh'yh doo ohiw Urph iru Ododjh'v vdnh, hwf.
A lot of you seem to be into jhop and stuff, I'm into trip.hop stuff, Fat Jon the Ample Soul Physician, Najubes, Nomak (one of my faves)
introduce me to some more music flavours, as I try to do some lucid dreaming tonight, insomnia is always that double edged sword.. x_x i'll try to remember how to get back to this hidden board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board upon a board
Anyone here with noisy neighbors?
>Live in apartment building
>Laying in bed in peace
>Listening to music through headphones
>All of a sudden screams
>It's the baby upstairs making a fuss
>Hear it talking in tongue
>Hear the stomping of what can only be the parents of said kid
>A loud thump that shakes my room
>Metal song comes up just in time
>Cries of agony from the fucking spawn and its demon of a caretaker
>Parent belts in her disgusting native language
>This mother of the year is heard tossing the howling seed around the room
>You would believe a exorcism is taking place from the sounds alone
>after 5 minutes of this dispute it finally goes silent and the hell hound seem to just whimper quieter
>The mother stomps away and silence arrives
>put on a softer tune to sleep
Any stories, Night Owls?
>only got about 3 hours of sleep last night
>felt tired all day
>like I could fall asleep at any moment
>look forward to a full night of rest
>reading before bed
>could barely keep eyes open
>brain drifting away
>finally turn out the light and lie down
>still awake hours later
>not tired anymore
I want the madness to stop.
Hello everyone!
Board is back!
Wooo
I'm the new Board Owner.
Let's work together to get stuff up and running again.
First order of business, since all the banners and images are deleted, can those who saved images post some please?
*edit*
Board restoration seems to be going well.
A sincere thank you to all the great anons who provide this board's quality.
Now business.
Unless anyone objects, I will unpin this announcement and re-pin a slightly edited version of the old flag & banner thread at the end of the week.
/late/ anthem
So, i've loved this song for a long time, but it only now occurred to me that it fits /late/ and its frequenters like a custom-tailored glove.
Two versions for any of that like some variety. Both are awesome.