Any old bastards like me on Yea Forums tonight? What sad story has brought you to this hellhole?
>39
>Lawyer
>Chronically underemployed
>ADD, OCD, anxiety, depression
>Currently dry, but long history of debilitating alcoholism
>Rent a budget apartment, never owned property
>Borderline ED, had really bad sex only a few times in the last few years
>Few friends, none of whom do I see or talk to regularly
>Lawyer
Any funny stories?
Just a few more years until I can retire.
This is essentially free entertainment.
>53
>electronic microsoldering / board repair guy
>chronically tired
>same (ADD, OCD, anxiety, depression)
>I find occasional alcohol or other substances relieve the above conditions, never had a "problem" with drugs or alcohol (because those things are fucking solutions)
>live in a paid for house, but the city expanded, took me in, raised my taxes and put in bus stops for niggers, I just wanna save enough money to move the fuck out of here to somewhere whiter and greener
>gotta take those blue pills to make the wife happy
>used to have loads of online peeps, these days just a few txt and local friends
I've always enjoyed computers and the online world since it became a thing. Now that the fun days of AIM, yahoo chat, bolt.com, easily hosting your own site, forums, irc, and newsgroups are long gone... this place is about the last place you can just say "fuck niggers" in peace. Now that I read the above shit it really isn;t a good description of me despite being all true.
>>Lawyer
>Any funny stories?
A bunch, but none I can share because of confidentiality. Then again, if I keep it super vague, it's probably okay.... There was a foreign national who stalked a teenage girl, and her parents finally got so sick of it that they beat him up. He then sued them for battery, and the case lingered in court for years. They countersued for intentional infliction of emotional distress. He was obsessed with this case, but decided not to begin a coast-to-coast road trip until two days before the trial (he was on a no-fly list). On the way, he loses his temper and gets arrested in a small town in the middle of nowhere. He participates in his civil trial while locked up through something like Zoom (this was almost ten years ago). The trial goes terribly for him and the defendants win their counterclaim. He ends up rotting in jail for several years and finally being deported.
Come to think of it, that wasn't really a funny story. Just kind of outrageous and pathetic. There are funny bits, but only in the details, which I can't share.
Does your sex drive really crater after 35?
>chronically tired
I know that pain. But it sounds like you've found a respectable trade, and you've got a wife, which makes me jealous. I think I'd trade places with you, to be honest. If nothing else, you're closer to the sweet release of death than I am.
>This is essentially free entertainment.
Yeah, that's how I feel about it too. Watching movies, playing video games, reading, and everything else just feels like a chore. This is where I come when I can't bring myself to do anything else but it's still too early to go to bed.
not op, but mine took a nosedive around 42. Took me awhile to get a decent doctor who would check my T and all that shit. take a weekly T shot now, helps, definitely helps with energy level, muscle mass, and drive (to do things, go to work, finish projects) but sexually things still aren't like they were (and my wife is insatiable, so it causes conflict).
>Does your sex drive really crater after 35?
Mine has a little bit, I think, but not that much. I still want it, and I can get it up. I just can't keep it up.
Well if you had to fuck something like that I understand.
Thanks for answering. Kinda nervous since I'm 27 and still a virgin.
mid 30s, oldfag, divorced, alcoholism, SSRIs, 6 figures in tech, nihilist... * shrugs *
oh bro, actually crossover tech questions. in security and decent with soldering... if i'm intersted in pulling firmware of rando ICs... the TL866ii plus seems to be highly recommended... is there any better kit you're aware of?
get ou tthere and talk to girls fren, I was mr can't talk to girls for a long time, after my divorce I was chatting them up so easy I didn;t even realize it, until my brother was with me when I struck up a conversation with a random cashier and says "I never could do that..." and I was shocked, he is my older bro and when I was a kid I looked up to him as the master of chatting up women and hanging in the clubs etc. I think half of it is the confidence that is so hard to get when young (you're always worried about being embarrassed etc) but when you get old you stop caring so much, who cares if you get blown off spectacularly, just laugh it off, if people are around laughing at you who cares, laugh with them, smile and take a bow, anyway yeah just slide into a conversation like you;d slide into dm's, randomly say "hey that;s a cool tattoo what does it mean" or similar, find some common ground, if she;s interested she'll chat, if she isn;t she'll stonewall you or blow you off, just smile and keep moving, no worries lots of girls out there
can you imagine your lifes story being transending your fellow countrymen's poverty to travel to the america only to harass the first cute tail you see and wind up kicked tf out lol. poor icarus
>mid 30s, oldfag, divorced, alcoholism, SSRIs, 6 figures in tech, nihilist...
>6 figures in tech
Sorry, I just can't feel too sorry for you. I'm lucky to make $60,000 and I'm drowning in student loan debt.
Otherwise, we're kindred spirits. But income really is the great divider. At least it feels that way.
TL866i plus (just googled) that looks like the modern, USB version of my ancient (90's) EPROM programmer. Should be a good unit, how pricey are adapters? Look into the bus pirate if you really wanna hack around with stuff, JTAG etc, and you can use a simple Arduino to do SPI... I highly recommend just getting some of the cheaper stuff and some rando junk boards and playing around unless you have a specific project... are you looking into pulling firmware off stuff that is supposedly secured? that's hardcore and beyond my skill level but can be done sometimes, glitching is an option (there is a bus pirate-like tool made just for that) and hell you ca even decap the thing and get creative with probes
I do force myself to talk to the server/cashier more often and I do appreciate the advice but I'm just too depressed and desperate to try day game on women.
no pitty desired here bro. first few years were rough and I get it dude. honestly i still live like a college bro. floor matress gang represent lol. tech is no doubt profitable af but i also just dont really desire much and live small. was able to whittle away at it till it was gone. honestly, once you do you realize you still cant buy a house in this fucking market. everythings already planned out dude, you just move from one hamster wheel to the next. this worlds one big joke
Actually, he came from another rich country. But yeah, he was hellbent on making bad decisions and fucking his life up.
work on that depression bro... get in with a regular doctor visit to the same doc not just a "service"... get T levels checked its an epidemic in the west... same for vitamin D levels... and both of those have huge effect on depression
> 40
> aerospace engineer, works as global architect for giant tech companies
> free speech brought me here
>everythings already planned out dude, you just move from one hamster wheel to the next. this worlds one big joke
Amen to that.
It's not chemical depression it's living in the dying American Empire. My T levels were on the lower end of the range but still within expected levels. Hmmm vitamin d is something I'll look into.
yuuup already got a shikra and salaea. came out of the CS side of the house and can "binwalk -e" all day errday lol. TL866+ has a kit with multiple adappters but wasn't sure if theres something better. I've heard about glitching, seems like an edge case but i'm all for learning new TTPs. If you have any farovite books / youtube sets would love to hear dude. I collect bookmarks like pokemans.
if I may ask what were you told "normal" was? I had a doc tell me (incorrectly obviously) that as long as I wasn;t zero I could have normal erections. other docs said "300" was normal. when finally tested I was 279 and falling (that's ng/dl btw) current doc said "600-900 and I want you right in the middle of that". I generally test around 700.
>"600-900 and I want you right in the middle of that".
My doc said the same thing, though for my age I should be closer to 900 than to 600 and I believe I was 650ish. Not low enough to proscribe testosterone.
>32 years old
>got my black girlfriend pregnant in high school
>been working labor jobs ever since
>now married
>4 kids
>working in roofing, even though I’m slightly autistic and adhd as fuck
>everyone loves my work ethic, but bashes me for my inability to pay attention
>I literally don’t give a fuck. My only reason for existence is to work, and take care of these kids and wife.
>try getting some hobbies, like guitar and video games
>fucking kids break my strings and take my laptop
>so I spend my free time watching American Dad and trying to forget that my life is shit
Thanks for the psycho mulatto my kids are going to have to kill
most if what I learned about that stuff came from the days of satellite piracy... I errrrr read about for educational purposes only. these days my only interest in that stuff is repairing arcade machines or reflashing bios on stubborn motherboards. if I had more time I'd probably do more stuff....
I’ll make your son watch me dry-fuck his sister.
45. I'm just here for the traps and the bantz. But I've been here forever. Married to a woman, love her, but really like the oc dick I don't get irl. I so need a cock squirting in my mouth.
jaysus. nah bro you doing just fine. just keep at it and try to give the younglings a better life than you had. enjoy the guitar when you can and dont worry about what the other hamsters think, they got their own wheels to tend
Lol try it old man, my son's gone half mad from covid and the riots. He's an unironic fascist who hates nonwhites.
any good resources for arcade stuff? not an area i'm familiar with
this thread may be going to shit but I'm going to keep reading and drinking.
For whatever it's worth, you sound like a good guy. Hopefully your kids will come to appreciate you more.
>40
>Came for the memes stayed for the free speech and autism
>married to a great woman 9 years younger
>3 kids
>farmer
> be me, 50 yo Yea Forumstard
> 6’x8”, 200 pounds, not ugly
> only ever fucked 3 women in my whole life because raised to think you’re in it to marry the girl.
>third times the charm, I land a girl who gets me
> knew her back in school
> she was top-tier jailbait back in our day
Here because I’ve been hoping to recognize a girl posted in one of these threads, but it’s never happened for me.
Take away the Ed and alcoholism and we're the same person
>39
>Intensive care unit doctor
>Alcoholic
>Married, no children
>Decent amount of friends
>Here because I've been a sick fuck my entire life and this is a great outlet
participating in this while also reading and drinking. what else is there?
Honestly in both areas.... arcade stuff and the old chip glitching and fuckery... and most everything else I've been into over the past 30 years... instead of bookmarking I saved the webpages I thought were cool. I bookmarked stuff a lot and organizd them probably until the very early 2000's.... but I always just information hoarded. downloaded the relevant files. half-ass categorized them. filled terabyte externals. well OK maybe it;'s more porn than tech but I have loads of tech... loads of old software for old machines... info on everything from survival, to gardening, to welding, to car repair... I always had that thought "what if the sites disappear" and now that we've gone from the WWW to web 2.0 to web 3.0 now.... I'm glad I did.... hell I cant even read old newsgroup posts without giving google a phone number now. so yeah unless it's current interests (I can give ya gardening, car repair, and hobby chem youtube channels) I don;t have anything bookmarked. hackaday is good to keep the pulse of what's up and coming in the hacker fuckery world.... sparkfun and adafruit are the only electronics forums I know (I think simplemachines died). i can tell you that libgen dot rs is great for obscure tech and science info, like, actual textbooks and papers
>Alcoholic
Hope you get better
> 50
> here for the occasional laughs and naked females
> married
> work in fitness industry
> left wife last year to date psycho gf without the guilt
> sex life booms
> realised quite how psycho, psycho is
> dumped her
> gets back with wife cos why the hell not
> sex life crashes
> psycho gf is blocked on all channels
> mfw she messaged a good mate
here to be one of the boys, listen to the fucked up shit we have to go through to get to the end of each day, and the larps and the tits, mainly the tits
>Came for the memes stayed for the free speech and autism
Kek, same here
>Take away the Ed and alcoholism and we're the same person
Neat. What do you do to pay the bills?
lulz yep cousin, i hear that. Still got forgotten html from astalavista and other hacker forums from 2 decades ago. love hackaday. also grew up in a garage and could talk automotive all day long. keep hoarding... i'm not convinced this shit is over, we may have to recreate the internet when this all goes to shit. peace upon you and yours friend
i smell a sitcom
Gonna be honest man cheating on your wife is a dick move
>and the tits, mainly the tits
Scratch that, man after my own heart.
actually you fuckers I'l tell you what... i need to drink more getting too sober but I will tell you one secret. my goal. like, we all want a legacy, I don;t mean kids, or a good reputation, those are both fucking awesome legacies but I mean something you did that people remember you for, really remember you, I want to contribute something to this world. I struggled with whether it was moral or not, even consulted the wife, we decided it was moral and great, if i can achieve it. wanna know what it is? don't care telling you fuckers anyway. I want to design the first practical handheld directed energy weapon. why? because SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED is important and you cant tax the bullets when it just needs recharging. actually been working on the idea since college but that original plan while interesting wouldnt achieve the objective (needs exotic shit to work).
>2008
>newfag4life.jpg
I came here hunting the most intelligent people in the world.
>surprise fuck you
I found them/you/y'all
>hereforever.jpg
trips checked user
you got that going for you
>Kek, same here
I miss old b, or maybe I'm just getting older. More fun to play with my kids now.
Oh i hear you on the recreate the internet.... we should all be working on meshnet ideas.... yeah I dunno if it's all going down the drain completely or if this is just another dip we will recover from.... you;re the first person I;ve spoke to in a decade that remembers astalavista... tell me fren do you remember the sound / smell of on-the-car wheel balancers? 10,000 RPM motor and burninh rubber as it spun the wheel up... fuck I miss that... if I could time travel I'd go back to my dad's shop and sneak in and just take it all in
>Neat. What do you do to pay the bills?
Lawyer, like you.
not either of you but
anyone here build an elmer radio crystal radio kit? i'm trying to get together but i'm having difficulties with the directions and there doesn't seem to be much information about them
lol dude you think there isn't millions of us tax payer $ funneling into darpa projects for this rn, and have been for 20yr? Unless you're PhD in physics focus'd on optics and energy how tf you plan on contributing to this subject? I'm not even casting shade. Undergrad at a decently respected STEM school in the midwest. Just saying theres no shortcuts here, gotta put in that time.
>I want to design the first practical handheld directed energy weapon.
That sounds pretty cool, but are you going to actually accomplish this, or is it just a hare-brained sci-fi scheme?
I made a crystal radio with scrap plumbing pipe to wind the radio shack enamel wire on and a radio shack germanium diode... if I was lucky I could get a little short wave with a long wire antenna but usually local AM overrode everything...holy crap that was probably 1978. whats an elmer kit? I'll google
*shrugs* just saying what i want to do. ideas cook on the back burner in my brain sometimes for years then I wake up one day and say "oh fuck THATS how you do that". just saying it's one thing in my brain I'd like to do. can't predict the future.
Yeah, but more specifically? I've been doing mostly doc review these last few years. I took a job as a public defender last week, but I couldn't handle it and quit last night.
also I researched this in the 80's and found papers from the 70's.... army did test laser rifles in 1971... but soldiers dont like carrying 2 car batteries on their backs just to power their rifles... they were ruby crystal style.... paper I found actually had photos... and no there is no trace of that paper on the internet I've looked, found it in a college library
Run my own little shop. Do a little of everything, the anxiety gets to me sometimes and I shut down for a week.
I'm quite good at civil litigation and contracts/taxes but the anxiety of losing makes the civil litigation a bitch, even though I get decent results more than my share of the time.
this kit has all the bits, it's been too fucking long since electronics class in high school and i can't figure out the drawn diagram. i expect that's what i'm supposed to work from, the directions seem to leave shit out, there are pictures with the directions, but they are fuzzy and printed on regular paper, difficult to make out.
i'm sort of thinking it would be easier to find directions online and start from scratch.
it could just be the gargle has dimmed me brain too much though
post diagram and I will drunkenly explain it
if I disappear keep bumping thread I may drunkenly get in the shower for a minute.
>whats an elmer kit? I'll google
i think the site went under, i tried looking there for more info, i had hoped i wasn't the only person who ended up with one and could get some decent pics
I found pics of it, basic crystal radio, should be piss easy to assemble no offense
>53
>multi-millionaire from selling my tech business
>retired at 40
>alcoholic pedophile
>wake up at 2pm
>kill time until time to drink at 5pm
>not alcoholic because I don't drink until 5, right
>drink all night
You sound more competent than me. Ugh, that's depressing. Oh well, I'll stay in my comfy little corner of hell doing doc review temp jobs until I finally off myself.