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Internet Horror Thread Anonymous 04/05/2026 (Sun) 04:57:56 No. 12293 [Reply]
I want to talk about horror media that is sourced from the internet. Not necessarily full-release movies or well-known published games. I'm thinking more analog horror, creepy videos, horror flash/indie games, even stuff like the SCP foundation falls under this category. Bonus points for more niche stuff or media you consider internet history. Starting this thread off with this video. I love this one, I am a huge huge fan of atmospheric horror and I think this is a great example of such.
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This one is decently new, came out last year. It's not the spookiest thing I have ever seen but I enjoy it. More than jumpscares or gore, I REALLY love horror that makes me feel deeply unsettled. Uncanny valley and such.
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the original SCP - Containment Breach game got an update after 8 years! very cool to see. it's on Steam now too. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2178380/SCP__Containment_Breach/
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>>12293 As for demonophobia, I came across it on some Chinese forum and read about the creator (except for the nickname, almost nothing is known, and that's it). The game itself is a labyrinth-style adventure with brutal guru murder scenes (not so brutal).
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>>12347 oh my goodness i completely forgot about this video... that brings back memories!

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tyan 04/14/2026 (Tue) 07:23:38 No. 12341 [Reply]
I've moved again, and it's annoying that our housing prices are becoming more and more exorbitant. Our teenagers have already realized that they won't even be able to save up for a down payment on a mortgage and are basically living from day to day. I'm the same way.
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Just get on welfare. >(windows)
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>>12341 I feel you Hikarin... I'll be moving places for the 4th time next month. Everything is so expensive, I feel like I'm throwing money down the sink
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>>12343 I'm too lazy for that and I have a job. Today I got my salary of $290, I paid off my debts, and about half of it went away. >>12344 Yes, and this is infuriating. I hate this life. I'll buy myself a house on wheels and drive around the mountains, drink Chinese tea, and enjoy the views. I'll find another remote job.
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I feel you. I'm moving back in with my father at 25 just so I can finish my degree and save up money without working myself ragged (as I have been doing for some years now). I'm taking a significant pay cut swapping jobs but it's in a field I am actually passionate about. Plus I'll only be working 3-4 days instead of 5 which gives me time for my hobbies (that I have been neglecting for lack of time cry). I am thankful to God I have this option, I am so fed up with the rigamarole of life man... >>12345 Living on wheels and just travelling around sounds so nice. Society is sick anyway. It would be better to live as a nomad in an RV or a hermit in a monastery than have to suffer 50 years of the corporate West.

Anonymous 04/07/2026 (Tue) 07:27:49 No. 12304 [Reply]
What do you know about Hikari3, Hikarin?
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>>12305 I got permabanned for saying this about syrno the fascist, bit luckily for nord VPN discount code hikari, I can evade syrnos bans eazy. shades
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i know that the 3 year anniversary is coming up snicker
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>>12330 Why should I? What you gonna do? Ban me again? I'll just change VPN again and evade. You'll never stop me. shades
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>>12333 like a ghost.... in the wind..... vengence

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gikopoipoi Anonymous 04/04/2026 (Sat) 03:25:07 No. 12289 [Reply]
i'm geekin on giko shades talk about gikopoipoi.net and share fun screenshots. https://gikopoipoi.net/
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No seat left for me
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>>12290 here, for you happy
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what is tis site? never heard of it before. (i just joined the link to look arround and i found another site like this but with more characters)
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>>12312 it's a chatroom, basically. you pick a name + avatar, then you can join a list of rooms to chat. can stream music or screenshare too. it's fun to hop on at night and chat with gikos. i believe it has history with the Japanese site 2ch, i know for a fact the characters come from there.
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watching someone eat a hot dog

Anonymous 04/02/2026 (Thu) 07:44:09 No. 12279 [Reply]
Is it just me or this the best design of Rin ever made ever?
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>>12298 I am aware. The drawing I posted differs from that typical module in that it keeps her original age.
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>>12299 i see where did this desing came from though? who drew it first?
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>>12311 The module or this specific drawing?
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I prefer teto personally
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>>12315 the module

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TeTo_L0ver 04/01/2026 (Wed) 04:54:56 No. 12274 [Reply]
It's Kasane Teto's birthday!!!!!!!!
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who cares. worst vocaloid and adopted by newfags. Luka will always be on top
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>>12276 Nuh uh angry
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>>12277 Yeah huh ( ´ω`)

Anonymous 03/22/2026 (Sun) 19:33:58 No. 12228 [Reply]
キタ━━━(゚∀゚)━━━!!
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>>12228 Whoag it's raining!!love
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In my theory, they are watering the plants!neco
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I want to be watered lovedrool
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>>12255 C'mere hikarin, I have some gardening to do. snicker

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wplace #2 Anonymous 09/15/2025 (Mon) 15:13:34 No. 10722 [Reply]
Since we managed to put Hikari-chan in Japan let's go ahead and leave a mark in unusual places around the world. In the last thread someone suggested putting the Osaka in another location, since the other was was being removed and there weren't enough people restoring it. I found a decently populated zone in Chile with a large blank space that we can claim snicker Blue Marble (for loading .pngs): https://github.com/SwingTheVine/Wplace-BlueMarble Blue Marble Coords: 623 1202 228 944 Map Themes (Use dark theme so you can see where white pixels are): https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/546642-wplace-map-themes Direct Link to Location: https://wplace.live/?lat=-29.996731850630262&lng=-70.42667025322265&zoom=12.894664790191456
Your fortune: Average Luck
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>>11313 The problem was with bots spamming deltarune and pride flags literally everywhere. Its mostly subsided for now. Now I see korean idols everywhere.
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>>11334 idk, I just went to five random places on the map and all of them had at least one flag, three of them having trans flags.
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Can you do One in my Country (Aka Egypt)
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>>43 Another Egyptian spotted!
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>>12257 Egyptbro, give me a location and an image and i'll help

chines culture general Anonymous 08/24/2025 (Sun) 11:27:02 No. 10327 [Reply]
Discuss cool chinese stuff here I'll start: >The Yongle Encyclopedia is a Chinese leishu encyclopedia commissioned by the Yongle Emperor (r. 1402–1424) of the Ming dynasty in 1403 and completed by 1408. It comprised 22,937 manuscript rolls in 11,095 volumes. Fewer than 400 volumes survive today, comprising about 800 rolls, or 3.5% of the original work. >Most of the text was lost during the latter half of the 19th century, in the midst of events including the Second Opium War and the Boxer Rebellion. Its sheer scope and size made it the world's largest general encyclopedia, until it was surpassed by Wikipedia in late 2007, nearly six centuries later imagine how cool it would've been if it survived cry >i wanna learn https://archive.org/details/chineseenglishbilingualvisualdictionary_201909
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>>11672 Hikarin, have you been playing Civilization VII? Do you know if there are any good mods for Civilization VI? I wonder if it's received updates happy I learned about the Chaoshan region of China, it had been the origin of a lot of derivatives of it's culture, as it had been home to a lot of migration overseas. It had a lot of impact on Singaporeans, along with Indonesian Chinese, who were often the majority landowners, strangely often. Quite a few people there speak a variety of Mandarin that is the closest to ancient Chinese, and they're often referred to as the Teochew people. They also have a coming of age ceremony. Interesting people. https://www.omniglot.com/chinese/ A useful page for people trying to learning languages, a lot of documentation I'd recommend the movies, „An Elephant Standing Still” and „To Live” on https://kisskh.ws/ which I found a lot of East Asian shows in Also try out https://lightnovelpub.org/ for quite a few webnovels, albeit in English, Qidian would be better for Chinese https://www.konglongmandarin.com/ Another interesting website I came across to learn Mandarin from Peppa Pig
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「 衆鳥高飛盡 孤雲獨去閒 相看兩不厭 只有敬亭山 」 「 The birds have vanished down the sky. Now the last cloud drains away. We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains. 」 A poem about the Jing-Ting mountain, related to Zazen in Buddhism, which is related to the meditation. It's interesting how Japan diverged from Chinese Buddhism with schools of esoteric Buddhism with skull rituals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachikawa-ryu Chinese esoteric Buddhism never really flourished because of the persecution that arrived shortly after it began to be taught, and the name for it is literally related to the Tang dynasty - 唐密 It seems to be undergoing a small revival, with the designation of these temples by esoteric monks as important sites, because of their cultural influence outside China
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Been a while since I visited this site hello Hikarins happy! 搭子文化 is an interesting sociocultural phenomenon within China today where people make friends based on their social status in life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazi_culture https://www.wenlinshe.com/tw/ this is a very cool library with a lot of classics and idioms that could be useful http://www.robos.org/sections/chinese/cangjie.html this provides information on cangjie which is a useful system to type Chinese and makes use of the radicals, with keys mapped to them 「 夫禍富之 轉而相生 其變難見也 」 「 Disasters and abundance take places with one another It is difficult to make certain 」 These are two lines from the 淮南子 about the old man near the border who had lost his horse. It is a pretty famous parable, and parables, addages, or idioms in Chinese are often referred to as 成語 https://sites.google.com/site/wenzhoudialect/anthology/baidu-wenzhou-dialect this regards "Wenzhounese" a division of Wu Chinese, which is also close to Shanghainese. Wenzhounese is famous for it's uniqueness, with around eleven tones, with phrases describing it discussing it's remoteness "天不怕,地不怕,就怕温州人说温州话" "Fear not the heavens, nor the earth, but the Wenzhou man speaking Wenzhounese. It is regarded as one of the devil dialects. https://github.com/ZWolken/Great-Dictionary-of-Modern-Chinese-Dialects/blob/main/%E5%B9%BF%E5%B7%9E%E6%96%B9%E8%A8%80%E8%AF%8D%E5%85%B8.pdf this is a document regarding a 2002 compilation of the fourty two modern Chinese dialects 躺平 is a term used to mean "lie flat" and it is mostly a word used by a lot of NEETs in China, kukuku is an example of an old Chinese imageboard, although their culture is very isolated https://english.shanghai.gov.cn/en-LearnChinese/index.html a useful site from the Shanghai government I also learned about tone sandhi, where the tones change regarding the context and the previous tone that precedes a phrase, it is pretty strange and hard to figure out https://opentext.ku.edu/tingyiting/chapter/lesson22/ 邯郸学步 is a unique phrase that I relate to, it warns one to not copy another person blindly, and regards the Handan walk, which was sort of an old trend in ancient China https://www.straightdope.com/21343499/is-the-chinese-word-for-crisis-a-combination-of-danger-and-opportunity there is a lot of discussion on whether the Chinese word for disaster is a combination of danger and opportunity

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>>12247 very kool resources chikarin, thank yew

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Anonymous 03/26/2026 (Thu) 19:49:14 No. 12240 [Reply]
So glad I setup a private szurubooru instance. Now I can finally organize all my images and access them from anywhere happy Feel free to use this thread to share cool images
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>>12245 when sharing links, you should delete everything after the ?is= it's all tracking info
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>>12246 OH FOR FUCK SAKE!
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here's a cool image shades


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