Gikopoi is now watching Salaryman (2021). I will edit this post after we watch to say whether it's worth watching.

i'm streaming a documentary about the shitty life salaryman have


Update: decent film. Main focus: "It sucks to be a worker in Japan." I didn't learn anything new but it was a fine ...

I am not the admin but I'll open the thread for people to request partnerships / interlinking / etc here.

As //gikopoi.com admin my proposal is simple: give me an 88x31 button for OO and I'll put it on our frontpage, in exchange you put the 88x31 button for Gikopoi somewhere on this forum's ...

The Act of Killing: a video that interviews the guys who did an "anti communist" genocide in Indonesia... and got away with it!

Just got back from the Japanese restaurant in my city.

Played some rounds of hanafuda -- koi-koi -- with Korean-made cards because they are made of a nice, tough plastic instead of cheap, flimsy Japanese paper.

Anyone here ever play any kind of hanafuda games? could be fun to play together ...

Assuming a person have access to a Lunix server, either running an irc client in a shell (such as irssi in tmux/screen, or erc in emacs if one is a FREAK) or setting up a bouncer on IRC (desktop/mobile can connect to a running process and fetch messages one missed while away) may be your cup of tea ...

Not directly addressing the OP question but continuing the topic regardless:

I got a "free" Samsung/Android tablet when I bought my wife her newest phone and I mostly use ReadEra with epub on it. It works at least as well as my old e-paper nook and kindles of past times; maybe it doesn't work so ...

If we are returning to tradition of complimenting forums with chatrooms, Rizon is naturally the place for our kind to go -- I heavily encourage using irc.rizon.net as server -- and to admin-san in particular, I recommend /msg nickserv help register (register account) followed by /msg chanserv help ...

I use emacs so I can play gikopoi while I do everything else and also because I am a good person.

Let me repost what I said on another site :

Overview of meditation:

There are heaps of scientific evidence that meditation has physical and mental health benefits. This is a thread for discussing meditation as a hobby.

I encourage everyone to try meditating for at least 10 minutes a day. After ...

For bonus points: how active are you within your faith ?
As long as people are civil, why not also use this thread as a place to ask people of faith questions about their faith and practice.

I am a Theravada Buddhist with secular/zen/EBT tendencies. After reading the Bible, Quran, various works of ...