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So Lain, we'll soon be leaving this decade behind and enter into the next one. What did you accomplish during these 10 years? What are you looking forward to? What are you going to do during this new decade? How will the world, and the Internet especially, change? For me, (as cliche or whatever it might sound) I'll finally try to pick up Japanese next year and hopefully become somewhat fluent in it during the decade. As for the world changes, I don't think it'll change much. The politics will probably stay the same. People will still brainlessly yap about climate change, racism, etc and make up pointless pseudoproblems. It'll be cool to see the changes in technology, but I don't think there'll be anything groundbreaking coming out. Internet will become even more corporate.

I became an employee but I'm far from where I want to be, I'm currently a code monkey and nothing else. My goal is to actually take advantage of all this stuff I keep reading but not applying or studying in a non efficient way (for instance, I gave Italian a shot for a bit but lost what I learned quickly due to lack of practice), on a second level is just earning enough money to live comfortably (I have come to terms with the fact that I don't have what it takes to be proper wealthy/don't want to have it either as I would prefer to make free stuff anyway) The world will get worse as people keep taking the easy option of clinging to what promises stability despite not really achieving it, It'll take a pretty bad event for humanity to cut the crap but think it'll happen in 2030-40 and not this one Kinda agree regarding the internet, maybe usage in general will decrease as the line of authenticity blurs and we get invaded with a proper avalanche of machine generated crap, with people actively rejecting social media crap as a consequence hopefully.

I saw your post lain, and felt an immense rush of emotion having finally thought about it... This last ten years has been a wild ride. Although my adult years have flown by, I feel like at the beginning of the decade I was still a child (at least in my naivety). I finished my schooling, and started a job that I have advanced in. I also have had a rollercoaster of ups and downs. My personal life has been filled with many unexpected turns, Health problems that will change the outcome of my life and future, disappointments at work and closed doors, a lack of my finances being where I want them to be, and moving further apart from my family and former friends have left me humbled but not distraught. I have also met many new friends, some of which have brought immense joy and have showed me incredible things, and I have seen incredible sights and things of beauty very few humans ever have and maybe ever will. All the adversity, the hunger, the days of unending work and suffering have payed off well, and all that I have worked for will allow me to live free from being locked in a cycle of work for the rest of my life. These next ten years, I will be ever closer to retiring comfortably, and I might just try to finally start to look for someone else to hold dear in this world. The last decade has been one filled with isolation and anonymity, with times when people I used to be close to almost forgetting my existence entirely. Nonetheless, I have grown and matured so much that I feel ready to take on a world that is hardly recognizable from a mere 10 years ago. Now that I know what I know and have a handle on life, I can grow and love where before love was only a dream. I will probably bring in the new decade by going back to school and getting another degree then moving somewhere I have never been before to experience something new. Places where I once loved to tread have become stale and oppressing, and I long for the adventure of the unknown. Get ready for the ride, because there are so many new things that are changing every day, I can hardly imagine what will be in store for mankind in a few short years, a mere instant in the lives of our planet. I guess in the end I really am proud to say that I have no regrats, and I will gladly accompany all of you into this grungy but shining cyberpunk future nightmare: I leave you with the poem Invictus which has helped me through this last decade immensely. Good Luck, Let's all love lain, BORN TO DIE / WORLD IS A fuarrrk / Kill Em All 1989 / I am trash man / 410,757,864,530 DEAD COPS

>>14645 Nothing in practice, but I found out who I am and I started seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. Better than expected, though I'm worse for wear.

Ten years ago I was a child. Now I am an adult. I think things are looking up for me. Hopefully I will be a professional scientist, like I've always wanted to be. Going into specifics would probably dox me, but there is some evidence that I will be able to achieve this dream. I am so so lucky to even have a chance. It would also be nice to be married in 10 years, but that's on the back burner for now. The world will continue going to soykaf in much the same way as it has been for the past 10 years, I expect. It is quite possible that I will be dead in 10 years, either because my views are illegal in some fascist dictatorship or because of war or famine or disease. For some reason that doesn't worry me so much. I know my purpose and as long as I live according to my purpose, death will not be so bad. LET'S ALL LOVE LAIN

>What did you accomplish during these 10 years? Not as much as I hoped. Turned 18 and finished high school in 2010, started college that same year, got my first car and job the following year. But after that, I stagnated. Having gone from being a sheltered kid to a free adult, I couldn't handle all the liberties coming at me all at once. So I wound up making a bunch of dumb decisions. Like dropping all my classes mid-semester and deciding I want to be an indie developer, despite having no connections, ability to market myself, or legit experience (just this game dev class in high school where I happened to be among the top students). All because I read all those stories of geniuses who dropped out of college and thought "im gonna be like that too!!" I feel like if I were less sheltered and more able to make dumb (yet harmless) mistakes as a teen, I wouldn't have done something stupid like this. I did continue college, but due to losing my financial aid and switching majors to IT late in the game, I didn't graduate until late 2015. Got my first full-time job a few months later. In late 2017 I finally saved up the cash to move out of my mom's house, and since then I haven't done much. Built a decent little desktop, learned Linux, set up a home server... and that's it. I tried to learn Japanese, but kanji makes me question whether it's even worth it. It's hard to say yes to that when you don't even care about anime or manga. Throughout the whole decade I've also tried my hand at several game projects, but they've all ended in failure. Motivation always runs dry as I wonder who will even care about what I'm making. I will admit, part of this was because I would dream too big and wind up in over my head. Trying to make RPGs instead of arcade-style games or sandboxes. If I had the ability to think small, I might have finished a game or two by this point. >What are you looking forward to? What are you going to do during this new decade? I don't even know. For most of this coming decade, I'll be in my 30s. I don't think I'll be able to do what a lot of others do in their 30s, mainly because I missed out on essential experiences in my 20s. And that, in turn, was because of vital things I missed in my teens. All these experiences, I feel like I'll never make up for. It's like I'm permanently "locked out" of a lot of things that other people get to do, whether it's social (friends, relationships, marriage), intellectual (learning, writing, making art), etc. I've always felt like this for as long as I can remember, and I can't see that changing. I have been making progress on yet another game, though, and I feel like I might at least finish a demo this time around. I'm just not sure what's motivating me. I know that no one will care about it, because I still have no marketing skills or connections. All the places I go to online probably (mainly imageboards) wouldn't care for the sort of game I'm making anyhow. I think it's just pure spite. Like I need to prove to someone or something that I can make a damn game. Maybe that someone is myself, I don't know. But if I do get it done, it's going to be weird as hell having not finished a game until I'm in my 30s, when everyone else finished their first in their early 20s, if not beforehand. At least it'll be a different story, different from "he was born into a decent middle-class family that cared about his future and when he was 12 his they bought him a good computer/instrument/art supplies/whatever and he got plenty of support from friends/family and by 18 he was already working on his first serious project etc etc etc etc". >How will the world, and the Internet especially, change? Probably for the worse. People say we're heading down the cyberpunk route, and as cliched as it's starting to sound, I agree. There might even be another recession, or so I've heard. I expect that by 2025, the internet is going to be what every net-neutrality infographic feared. You get access to these five websites, anything else gets throttled or blocked entirely unless you cough it up. If that happens then there might be some hope in a meshnet, but of course I'd have to move to the big city for that. Sure wouldn't be any nodes in this suburban hellhole.

>>14645 Somewhat a boring story. Financially I came full circle: Went to uni. Changed degrees a couple times to end up in bio sciences. There I got to do classic biologist stuff like going out to camp in rain forests, etc and had a gf. However I did not went full 'party crazy' as other the guys in my faculty. Got initiated in programming with python while doing bioinformatics. College was overall mediocre but cheap, so I ended with no debt. Even after all of this however I'm not employable anywhere in my country, so I still live with my parents. Started an associate's degree in programming in the equivalent of a community college, so I feel like I'm back to square one but 10 years older. Feeling kinda bleak. Will try to start my own business and maybe going into a master's if time and money allows. Hope I can someday earn a living on my own and maybe even contributing something useful.

>>14645 I used to be 13 at the start of the decade and just started my teens. Now I'm 23. I've been staying a NEET for an year. Although I've already graduated enginiggering by now. Ten years ago I had stand of great things I'll do by this she. Suffice to say none of them happened. I feel like if I'm setting myself to do something, I'm already at level zero and at 23 years old it's already too late to start doing anything to become significant. Politically I've seen myself turn from a liberal to communist to anarchist to left nationalist to right nationalist to conservative to libertarian to apolitical. I really don't care about politics anymore and changes my views based on my perceptions of what would be the best garb to wear in the people I'm talking to. I really don't know what this decade will bring me. I look forward to lose my lived ones. The last close relative I lost was my aunt back in 2010. Now my grand parents might live a few more years if hopeful and my parents are at the end of their middle age. Never had a close friend or lover all these years and I feel it's too late to develop relationships. My 13 year old self would be very disappointed to see me. I hope I'll get a job by next year and hopefully able to finally make my parents stop working and become the bread earner by next year.

As I enjoyed reading all the responses in this thread, I will strain myself to add along for more to ponder about. >What did you accomplish during these 10 years? Mandatory education. To complete it was the objective for those ten years. Everything beyond washed away. Static-filled experiences, incremental connection, or personal wish. Naturally it was tantamount to excel. And I did, despite the ironic viewpoint of how useless it is. My success came with slip ups at the finish line. In a way, my slips ups were a rebellion. To state I no longer care about the lifeless entity that eats. If I had to select a memory that emphasize how little I developed otherwise... one was I contorted all up in crazy sad spasms at how little else there was to me. Around 18. But as I look back, it seems unwarranted. Slowly I grew to understand how the culture around me forces a seductive productivity - to accomplish anything even if it meant nothing to you. So I guess I didn't have wants. It all sounded nice, the things others shot for. It would be neat, I would say, to do something like that. But the dots necessary to follow float up after such thoughts passed. Along with the conviction. The only thing I know is that I don't know anything substantial. But it seems if you don't have solid ways to spend time you will meet with misery in later years. The past seems to be of faerie quality. It happened, but I was not there. When I think about it long enough heatflashes hit. A hot embarrassment that it's over, maybe. >What are you looking forward to? I look forward to seeing if I will break. There have been other checkpoints where I thought this was the case - and these checkpoints have a mild pathetic thing about it. What is there to be crushed under? I suppose the times exalted by most were nothing by my side. For how many of us wish again for the flower of youth? I only take faith that simple-minded boredom soon follows such a grant. I look forward to when there is a passion that slowly cultivates in the modesty of a simple life. Or how long will I strike around in certain purgatory if nothing of who I may be binds together in these coming years. And I ultimately look forward to feeling completely foreign again, as that is the only state natural to me. To be foreign is to have that juxtaposition one rarely gets in the mesh - you begin to see how you differ and these differing qualities give your form definition. It seems I can only be certain of what I am not. >What are you going to do during this new decade? To test my limits or to cast myself into the gears neatly waiting for me until I no longer exist. Learning Japanese is a commonality we all seem to have here. Leave the US. And love myself. >How will the world, and the Internet especially, change? A critical war wouldn't be far-fetched to witness. If I have observed the last 10 years though, it seems the slow swirl into boredom or drivel is the a consistency that I hope I'm wrong to predict.

10 years and all I got was a life of growing up with mental illness and suffering physical abuse at the hand of others so hopefully 2020 will be full of recovery and stability, but I don't want to jinx it. I don't really care about politics in the future, as sheepish as it is to say I just want my basic needs of food and shelter met. Everyone says tech is improving rapidly but I don't know, it doesn't really feel the same improvement from late 90s to mid 2000s. Maybe I'm just not paying attention. I do hope things like Fediverse flourish. As the internet becomes more corporate and overbearing with rules, people will need more alternatives. Hope everyone else reaches their own goals for the next decade.

>>14645 >What did you accomplish during these 10 years? Quite a lot actually, but not fully satisfied. 1. Drug free for five years now...which is a big achievement for me because I lost two of my best friends in this period. 2. Finished Bachelors which I thought I'd never complete because I left university after enrolling for two and half years. 3. Started talking to my parents and gradually improved my relationship with them. >What are you looking forward to? 1. Get a respectable and stable job. 2. Finish my master's in the process. 3. Marry and settle down with a nice girl.

>Internet will become even more corporate. It's pockets of freedom will become more free. >maybe usage in general will decrease as the line of authenticity blurs and we get invaded with a proper avalanche of machine generated crap >the line of authenticity blurs What does that even mean? >avalanche of machine generated crap So? Just ignore the crap. Or are you prejudiced against machine generated content, assuming it's all crap? If it produces good content, it's good---just ignore the crap. >The world will get worse as people keep taking the easy option of clinging to what promises stability despite not really achieving it Don't think in terms of people, think in terms of whatever specific persons as individuals interacting with each other and with the various parts of the world. Further, don't separate "other persons" from "the world", a person is a part of the world, so, really, think in terms of specific persons interacting with various parts of the world. More further, don't think of it in terms of specific persons interacting with various parts of the world, but in terms of various parts of the world, which have various properties, which change through time, which have certain correlations,, (of which specific persons as individuals are a part). To which persons do you refer? As your statement is, it refers to each person. What, exactly, is the easy option to which you refer? I have an concrete example of a person choosing an easy deleterious option. He posted a useless, psychically deleterious, sentence. Further, this person, had he something interesting to say, could have, just as easily, perhaps more easily, written a sentence that would communicate everything that his posted sentence communicated, while being useful, and not psychically deleterious. He could have, and this would have been even better, posted a series of sentences, each which alone, were simple, perhaps useless, but together, had utmost meaning, ease of reading. The sentence was the following: >The world will get worse as people keep taking the easy option of clinging to what promises stability despite not really achieving it The astute reader has deduced the replacement paragraph that I have composed.

This decade has been pretty foundational for the rest of my life, especially the last half. I completed my secondary education, fell into a deep depression and can barely remember 2 years, effectively failed my A levels, and ended up at my local university because they increased the intake limits. It turns out I was actually pretty good at the course, and graduated in the top percent of my class. 2018 was probably my best year so far. I managed to get research funding and hopefully I'll get my work published in 2020. I also got rich of bitcoin, and was able to leave the country for the first time to spend 3 weeks in Taiwan and another 3 in Japan. It was my first time being vaguely independent, and I think it really helped with my eating disorder that I've had for as long as I can remember. As for the next decade, I applied for some very good Master's programs and it would be life changing to get into any of them. Following that, I'd also like to get a doctorate and become a professor and just keep researching until I die. I'd also like to pass my driving test at some point after giving up after the 7th attempt. I don't want or need to drive right now, but the suicidal thoughts come back in full force when I'm reminded of my failure, which is often. I don't like having to live like this and I feel like I can never truly be happy.

>>14645 >What did you accomplish during these 10 years? Finished hs, got a job ,made actual friends right after i finished hs, got really good at a hobby of mine, overall it was pretty gud > What are you looking forward to? New music styles, the shift from hating boomers(hopefully they'll all be dead) to hating millenials, hopefully the end of cgi anime. >What are you going to do during this new decade? Work, save money and move out before 25. Get married(i wish lol) Go on a big trip with friends >How will the world, and the Internet especially, change? Ive been on lainchan since 2014 and the answer was always the same. Its gonna suck.(unless you guys come up with something)

>>14645 It was a decade of learning and training in my country's military. That's done now though. I'm looking forward to getting married, investing, running my business and programming. I'm worried about the strength of the fourth estate in keeping the governments in check.

>>14645 Nothing fancy. Quit Wow, got out of high school, managed to cultivate a taste for culture (before high school reading books was like sunlight to a vampire for me and even the books which were mandatory to read for classes I would just skip reading and come up with an appropriate story for the written assignment based on the description on the back of the book, but now I read 30 books a year (which still isn't *that* much tbqh, but still a substantial improvement for me in contrast to the earlier version of me)), went to military, moved on to a prep school for uni (single best year in the whole decade), made a good friend there, got accepted and (almost) finished my bachelor's degree this year (lacking one measly course, which I'm in the process of writing), tried acid and wrecked my whole world for two years (I had to retreat from uni to my childhood home to mend the wounds), but managed to get back to a more or less stable state of mind. Also got in touch with Jung's work and now I think that some things in my life make more sense. For the next decade I'm planning on getting my master's degree, hoping for a gf, wanna visit Scotland, go on a pilgrimage, finish writing my play, try starting a movement and... Dunno. Bury my soon-to-be-deceased mother and grandmother? Disclaimer: not that I want them dead. Just preparing myself for the inevitable. I have no idea what the future will hold for the Internet, but - just as with the overall state of the world - it's not looking too good, and I have no particular reason to believe that things will improve. It's going to be nothing but downhill from here on out.

>>14664 The problem is filtering quality from crap becomes increasingly harder with improving bot quality. Content generation bots can promote the problem at minimal cost to the owner and drown real information in a sea of hard to filter drivel. We already have this problem present with viral marketing using bots to spam popular places with preset messages. Automating the process entirely will make it only worse. You might end up in a echo chamber of bots made to convince you what to think without any human contact left and without the ability to confirm that this is the case. >>14645 >How will the world, and the Internet especially, change 5g will bring AR to mobiles. I think this is more a 20year project but i expect AR headsets hooked up as thinclients over 5g to server farms with a onlive/stadya similiar system. Full remote control of what the person even does&see while offering features people will want and thus willingly commit to it.

>What did you accomplish during these 10 years? I played in one band that lasted a year and made only a single 12 minute recording, not counting the ones that had such poor quality that they were unlistenable. I became the cool weird uncle of a kid who is now five and asks about me all the time. >What are you looking forward to? >What are you going to do during this new decade? pic related D: >How will the world, and the Internet especially, change? pic related x1000

Bumping this thread, because it sounds like all roads lead to lain, and this is a very relevant post for this night. Might just stare off into the sea and ponder life for a few hours, then have a toast to the void with some other people just as alone as I am while quietly chattering the night away. This last decade I spent living all around the world, seen some of the best and some of the worst of humanity, seen technological dreams and nightmares, seen countries rise and countries collapse, seen cities prosper, and seen cities implode under the weight of drugs, homelessness, and terrorism. made friends and lost friends. I found love, then learned that it was too good for me, I became determined to be the best I can be, for myself and not for some meaningless satisfaction of others or for society. I live alone, eat alone, sleep alone, and I am determined to succeed alone. I see the world and technology changing for the worse, all the good in the world cannot stop the ravenous hunger for power that will continue to consume this planet. People are becoming digital cattle, and technology will only serve to pacify them more. I no longer care who gets elected, who starts wars, or what great new technology is supposed to save the world, I will live my life alone and independent. To summarize this decade, I found independence, and because of that I know I can do anything I can put my mind to. For tonight, I am simply going to enjoy the cool night and welcome in the next decade as an old friend, I will see all of you again. Cheers Mates!

My most heartfelt wishes for a happy 2020 . We're all gonna need it.

Happy new year to all lains, hope this year all of us can achieve our dreams and all those other things that seem to elude us or to be too hard to attain right now

Anybody else celebrating the new years/new decade alone and unhappy? Really, that's the only thing I want to change. At least one new years this decade that doesn't have me depressed and watching other happy people celebrate through a screen.

>>14645 The only thing I have accomplished these last two decades was nothing but wasting my life, specially this last one. Everything feels redundant and leads to a path where I don't see myself enjoy anything I do. I've lost all motivation to think or talk, my fear of people has grown and my lack of general utility, both to my family and everyone else around me - including myself, has felt bigger and more tangible than ever before. I do not see myself accomplishing anything worthwhile this year that is not blowing my head off my shoulders. But if I have to go down to the pit of neetdoom and become an even bigger burden for my family, I'll at least try to go down that hole with my chin up hoping that I can become a better person before it is too late. I just wanted to vent a little. >What are you looking forward to? I'm looking forwards to a world where I can point at things and say "I told you so", as edgy and teenagy as that sounds. >What are you going to do during this new decade? This decade might be my last, so I might as well try to do my best in hopes of changing as a person. My sights are pointed at finishing my studies, my English classes and going to an university to become a translator. I doubt I'll follow through, all I hear from my mouth are lies that seek some pity from strangers. >How will the world, and the Internet especially, change? World will just keep heading towards the dystopian future, no one seems to care about the people anymore. Politics will devolve further just to become a semi-stable fog cloud again. Internet will become even more monitored, people won't care, those that do care will look for help just to find out that those companies that cared about their privacy are no different than the other scummy companies. I wish everyone here a happy new decade/year. Hopefully things are looking up for us. As a side note, I am hoping to get in contact with the rest of my e-group. I haven't talked to them in half a year, they were silent when I left. I hope they didn't get tired of me.

>>15005 Yes, lainon. Solidarity. I have a thought about this. It's a vague thought, that needs work, but I keep coming back to it. There's something there. Perhaps other lains can chime in and develop it. A truly vast number of people are feeling this way- perhaps moreso than at any time in history. They are utterly invisible to society at large; and more importantly, to each other. The crux of the problem is that there are no "organic" methods for meeting people if you are truly alone. It is almost certain that more than one person you pass each day spends their nights wishing desperately that they had friends- but there's no way you'd ever know. What if we, in ones-and-twos-and-threes, adopted some subtle sign to signal our membership in this sad fraternity? To indicate that we really don't give a fuaark about what car you drive, how successful you are, or what your hobbies are, we just want to hang out and shoot the breeze? It's been done before successfully- for instance, in the 60s-80s, gay folks put colored handkerchiefs in their back pockets to "signal" to other gay folks. What's needed is essentially a recognizable physical meme. Some initial ideas (I'm sure lain will have better ones): Wear a hat every day, and put a blue hatpin in it Three loops of twine/ribbon around your wrist Safety pin in the hem of your shirt Silver pinky ring etc Whatever sign is ultimately chosen, all that would be required is to adopt it, and to spread the idea to our brethren in these dimly-lit corridors of the slowly-decaying whalecorpse that is the wired. With a little luck, it'd catch on, and through it, a culture where walking up to someone and striking up a friendly conversation is possible could be regained. Just a thought. I'm sorry you're alone, lainon- but just know so am I, and so are many of us. Together, just maybe, we can find a way out.

>>15005 >watching other happy people celebrate through a screen. Could be sour grapes on my part, but you'll figure out that many of those happy people are actually not that happy, maybe less happy and fulfilled than you. It's normal now to bottle your problems and only talk to them with a therapist, so you can show nothing but an idealized version of yourself to those you know. People young and old do that. Even sadness or mental illness are embellished and presented in an attractive form.

>>15007 >What if we, in ones-and-twos-and-threes, adopted some subtle sign to signal our membership in this sad fraternity? To indicate that we really don't give a fuaark about what car you drive, how successful you are, or what your hobbies are, we just want to hang out and shoot the breeze? >It's been done before successfully- for instance, in the 60s-80s, gay folks put colored handkerchiefs in their back pockets to "signal" to other gay folks. What's needed is essentially a recognizable physical meme. This would spread online and be appropriated by posers and crazy people within a week. There's a difference between showing others you are gay and essentially, claiming that you are not vapid and materialistic. Everyone would wear the descriptor while completely ignoring the implications of it.

>>15013 >This would spread online and be appropriated by posers and crazy people within a week. Is this not the idea?

>>15014 Absolutely not, fuarrrk off

>>15014 That's the only way it could go. Everything based on being good thing or not being bad thing gets appropriated by narcissists who want the positive badge, and if a movement is asked the question "are you also for/against good/bad thing" it's fuarrrked the moment it gives an answer. Eventually what made the community specific and worth maintaining is dismantled. I think this is the biggest flaw in communities today. It's not enough anymore to be different people who share a specific thing, all members need to be as close as possible to clones of the same person. Why the hell is that?

>>15017 The only way forward is really to disregard thin logic like this. You are not a spokesperson for every group you belong to. It's dangerous to assume that because someone is a member of one group that they hold a body of views, especially when that kind of analysis comes from someone external with an axe to grind. Not to beat a dead horse, but the core of any influence campaign is to take an unflattering image of a single member of a group you want to destroy, genocide, etc, colocate as many objectionable ideas in the image as you can, and amplify it. The authenticity of the message is boosted by the authenticity of the image. The targets/victims are forced to defend against irrelevant attacks (ones that are only meaningful to the influencers and not in any objective sense). American media all the time refers to mainstream political candidates as "extreme left" for example, when the US doesn't even have a left wing party. You can't allow yourself to be painted with that brush.

>>15024 The issue isn't political movements, it's communities that have nothing to do with politics being overwhelmed by (usually) politics. And I think it only has to do with the actual politics to a degree. People have become inherently intolerant and dissatisfied with others and they can't find true belonging anywhere. I'm not an exception to this in my own way.

i love how all these long blogposts ITT have been ignored.

>>15028 >i love how all these long blogposts ITT have been ignored. Just because lains didn't respond, doesn't necessarily mean they didn't read it.

>What did you accomplish during these 10 years? I'm relatively young and that decade was mostly a time of growing up and learning. During these 10 years I've made some good friends, some fake also. I've discovered who I am and what I want to do in the future. I loved and suffered, saw some beautiful and disgusting things. >What are you looking forward to? What are you going to do during this new decade? I would like to start some programming projects to make computing less painful for users. I'm going to study genetic engineering and aging in order to defeat death, or at least make human life longer and more pleasant. I would also like to have a crazy in a positive way and loving girlfriend. >How will the world, and the Internet especially, change? We're going to see effects of the climate change more than ever - bad things like extreme weather, warming, migrations and wars, but also I'll plant opuntia for fruits and orange tree in my garden. The Internet is going to be more and more centralized soykaf, but also we're going to see some innovations, like libre processors, mesh networking, AI taking your jobs and the GNU Hurd 1.0 and ReactOS 1.0. We're also sending humans back to the Moon in 2024 and to Mars in 2030. The decade will be at least interesting, I wish you all surviving and staying away from wars and dystopia. Happy new year, Lains!

>>14650 >I missed out on essential experiences in my 20s. And that, in turn, was because of vital things I missed in my teens. All these experiences, I feel like I'll never make up for. It's like I'm permanently "locked out" of a lot of things that other people get to do I know that feeling lainon. It took me 8 years to dig out of that hole, but got out of it in my 30s. Feels good now. It's not too late for you.

>>15028 >long blogposts ITT have been ignored Nope, I read almost all... just didn't feel the urge to reply because it's their personal goals and also LaInons not asking for help.

>>15007 This is a good idea but it gotta be nothing that looks gay and that it isn't super out there that clearly marks you as socially retarded, also it gotta be relatively normal or it will be appropriated in a week instead of 10-15 years(unavoidable). ideas tachibana logo(very specific and not anime related at first glance)(patches/pin/sticker/hat/etc) Cauculator watches or any of those unbranded digital watches that we wore as a child(uncool, maybe specific colour/material?) Some type of blade/multitool that isnt very popular(or not even particularly useful) pocket protectors(for pants please don't put in your shirt pocket) add more And i think most importantly not respect the person to have the same "political orientation" as you(pretty cringe to even write that but feel the need to point out).

>>15036 *i meant expect

>>15031 >>15035 what do you think the point was of them posting their blogs if none of you are going to engage with them? they could write out their blogposts on paper, tear them up and throw them in the trash, and they would have the same return as posting in this thread.

>>15039 lainchan has always had people just telling their problems to nobody. It feels good to share. You're just being spiteful and rude for no reason. Please stop.

>>14661 Which drugs did you use to take?

>>14645 >2019-12-15 17:34:26 >As for the world changes, I don't think it'll change much.