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I'm about 30 posts late for this, but I assume nobody will regard this as grave misconduct. And even if you did, I would not care at all.
My favourite font is Courier New, I dislike team sports and I think highly of physiognomics.
Fear and hope keep me alive. Sometimes humans sicken me, sometimes I find them cute (although I know they are intrinsically worthless). At times, I spontaneously initiate dialogue with them, when I feel like it, even with specimens unknown to me, partly because I like seeing their reaction, partly because I feel some of them are worthy to converse with me.
I like both creating and contemplating art. All art is psychology; some would broaden this statement to all art being philosophy.
I don't know that I know nothing. I believe things to be true, and if they are, I know them, if they are not, I don't. Maybe I know more than most people; maybe I know nothing at all. But who cares?
Everyone is an egoist. For any deed, the doer must have a want to do it; satisfying this want is egoistic, even if it the deed may be altrustic.
Everyone is arrogant. But there are two kinds of arrogance: Individual arrogance and collective arrogance. Some people are arrogant about being themselves, while others are arrogant about beings humans. I tend to despise the latter.
I need to have addictions, as does every sensitive person. However, I do not take any drugs, not even alcohol or nicotine, for physical addictions are usually expensive and insalubrious.
I am nostalgic and theoretically support polyamory.
Philosophical pessimism is personal optimism, and vice versa.
I can't think of any more to write right now, so I shall finish off by dumping this thing here because I don't want to have it in my signature.

 

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Welcome, may you find some measure of happiness and maybe mellow out.

In the meantime there's always the arena ;)
 

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If you need an addiction try serial killing. I hear it can be quite addictive. Not that I know from personal experience or anything. I don't. Really.

But do let us know about it and how it works out. Use great detail.

and welcome too.
 

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Although I prefer old computer games and love for addictions, serial killing is interesting, too. I've thought of it earlier, and I think I would appreciate the challenge both the preparation and the deed itself pose, but unfortunately, in order to get involved with my victims more closely - I don't want to be just some murdering stranger, but leave a personal impression - as well as to profit most from it, I'd have to commit a number of additional crimes, to wit some or all of the following (and any other necessary for their execution to be possible): unlawful entry, wrongful deprivation of personal liberty, coercion, illegal monetary reallocation, intrusion into privacy, psychological torture, violation, and environmental pollution. Plus, I'd need a good way to obscure all hints of my deeds, especially to dispose of the corpses. All that is too much work for my Pness, although I'm sure once I would get started I'd enjoy it; but getting started is the hardest part, so unless I have some kind of key experience, like an unplanned murder, I'll probably not start it. But thank you for the tip, anyway.
 

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Welcome, may you find some measure of happiness and maybe mellow out.

And hopefully you'll grow out of your obsession with mono spaced fonts.
 

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Serial killing is too Feelerish: only those who care whether other people live or die are going to murder them --- especially to work out personal issues.


Welcome. What is your field of art ?





Claverhouse :phear:
 

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Hello 5k17


And hopefully you'll grow out of your obsession with mono spaced fonts.
I love your font. What is it? Is that Courier New?

Indeed it is. I have a feeling I will be using this from now on.My true favorite font, of course, has to be Bookman Old Style. It is not up here though.
 

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Serial killing is too Feelerish: only those who care whether other people live or die are going to murder them --- especially to work out personal issues.
And those who do not care at all if others live or die, but gain direct or indirect pleasure from killing.

What is your field of art ?
Music, photography, digital visual art and literature, mainly poetry, but I've also written a short novella (which I might put somewhere around here once I'm done translating it from German). And if you count programming as a form of art, I do that as well.
No, sorry, the previous statement is not true. It does absolutely not matter at all if you consider programming to be art for my doing it.

I love your font. What is it? Is that Courier New?

Indeed it is. I have a feeling I will be using this from now on.My true favorite font, of course, has to be Bookman Old Style. It is not up here though.
I would use Courier New if I could set it somewhere in my options. But setting my font to it in every post just is not the same; it would be an accumulation of posts with that feature forced upon each of them rather than a general principle of my posts.
 

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Hmm. I doubt I will use it either, honestly. I don't want to have to change it every time and besides, it's not like font really changes the content of the post.
 

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Hmm. I doubt I will use it either, honestly. I don't want to have to change it every time and besides, it's not like font really changes the content of the post.

For small segments of text a Serif based font is a lot easier to look at.
 

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For small segments of text a Serif based font is a lot easier to look at.

I've heard that, for digital writing, Sans-serif-based fonts are easier to read and for printed texts serif-based fonts are better.
 

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I've heard that, for digital writing, Sans-serif-based fonts are easier to read and for printed texts serif-based fonts are better.

Sans serif fonts like helvetica, verdana or tahoma are great for the web, because you're only going to read short snippets of text. They're also easier to read in smaller sizes.

It's interesting how this newspaper uses a serif font for their articles, it certainty makes it easier to read.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/06/us/06pensacola.html?hp
 

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Sans serif fonts like helvetica, verdana or tahoma are great for the web, because you're only going to read short snippets of text. They're also easier to read in smaller sizes.

Except if you're on INTPforum. :p :D
 

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Except if you're on INTPforum. :p :D

They should build a method for vBulliten that changes the font to baskerville is the post is longer than a certain amount of characters :)

Do you guys still have a lot of black lettering in Germany? That stuff is amazing.
 

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They should build a method for vBulliten that changes the font to baskerville is the post is longer than a certain amount of characters :)

Do you guys still have a lot of black lettering in Germany? That stuff is amazing.

No we don't use it anymore at all. I think it was no longer used after Nazi Germany (?). I've only read black lettering in old sources (e.g. history class). Many people also have a hard time reading it fluently.
I myself can read it well, but sometimes I'm not sure what the capital letters are.
 

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No we don't use it anymore at all. I think it was no longer used after Nazi Germany (?). I've only read black lettering in old sources (e.g. history class). Many people also have a hard time reading it fluently.
I myself can read it well, but sometimes I'm not sure what the capital letters are.

You're right, my Typography teacher said that was the main reason. I saw in your youtube video you liked old books, I found a link to a college is Dresden that had a huge collection of online books. The website was in German but I could still navigate

www.slub-dresden.de

It appears to be down right now, but It'll probably pop back up.
 

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The nazis banned Blackletter as reactionary, and according to Bormann in 1941, 'being Jewish'. Hitler fulminated against it, but typically neglected to do anything about it --- Bormann was more hands-on.






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