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Welcome to the Library of OT.


FAQs:
Library of OT? How does it work?
The Library of OT is a community-driven thread where OT users can create and submit their books for the world to see. The books in this library are categorized by their literary type, followed by the author's name, and their corresponding books.

How do I submit my literary works?
Post your work in this thread inside a box, with it having the title for your book like this:
Your book's title here
Contents of book here
Format it to your liking if you want, and I'll put it up in the main post and further format it if necessary. Be sure to mention it's literary type so I could categorize it accordingly.

What kind of books can I submit?
Picture books, biographies, novels, pretty much anything as long as it's a type of literature.


For other questions, post it in the thread. Also put up some suggestions if you have one too.

Rules:
Have your books follow forum rules.

Do not submit already existing books. However, books that are based on existing property are allowed as long as it's not a complete copy.

Books that are absolutely braindead will be placed in a special section.

You can submit unfinished books but will be tagged with (unfinished) until you finish it and update it by posting the missing parts of the book in this thread. Be sure to mention if it's unfinished so I would tag it as such.




Book Entries



Poems
Kataru
cry
Cry.
Cry when you feel sad.
Cry when you feel pain.
Cry when you feel like crying.

Crying may feel embarrassing,
But it expresses your feelings.
Crying communicates to people,
And tells that you're in pain.

It's okay to cry.
Let your feelings float away.
It's okay to cry near me.
I'll give you tranquility.
Stomiks
Creepy love poem

This is a poem I dedicate to you.
I love you so much, you don't have a clue.

I know we aren't that close, but that won't stop me.
Because you will accept my love, as it's a guarantee.

I look at you so intently,
It would seem like I'm unfriendly.

I would follow you just about anywhere,
Far away, but close. Disguised in heavy wear.

I couldn't resist anymore and wanted to have a peek.
But you saw me in the window and had a great shriek.

How dare you put a restraining order on me!
If I saw you right now, I would break your knees!

Thankfully, I calmed down and planned to intrude,
As I saw you in the park and secretly pursued.

For now, I have broken in inside your house,
But then, I was witnessed by your horrified spouse.

So I went to grab your kitchen knife,
And proceeded to end his life.

As I find you and tie you in my basement.
I just want to dance in such amazement.

Starting right now, we'll always be together,
As I hold you captive, forever and ever.
keremaru
"Existence"
Slug through the day, as if it were any other day.
Live life like it was meant to be lived, with no second thoughts to the consequences of idleness.
Under no presumption, on a bed, over the crisp rustling of fall leaves in a forest of naked trees.
Memories pass by of simpler days, where life was much easier than it is in this moment nobody can share.
Bear the flooding nostalgia, for if we do not build a dam to savor these recollections, they will consume us inevitably.
Eat from the labors of our yesterdays and use its strength to build ourselves higher that even the gods will see us.
Remember the days in which life was simpler, but do not grasp onto them for the false pretense of a glorious day.
In the grandest scheme of existence, life is but an instrument to allow one to experience existence.
Never should one take it for granted, nor waste it on a selfish ideation that will only result in destruction.
Never should life be taken without reason, or life will have difficulty in finding its truest definition and purpose.
Even if one is truly heinous and insidious, or pure and goodwilled, there is no distinction in the grandest scheme of existence.
Very rarely does it occur that people do not realize that there is no reason to existence, other than to live.
Even when men commit the most sinister of crimes, or the most supportive of acts, there is always a reason behind their motives.
Respect, greed, lust, wrath, empathy, even the simplest of reasons can be the entire driving point behind a man's actions.
Levying a man to death for his actions without recognizing the road he took towards those actions is the greatest sign of ignorance one can take, and the greatest insult to life as a whole.
Always will man seek revenge on those who have done wrong to him, and always will man support those who have helped him before.
Never will man kill for the sake of ending existence, lest he end his life in the truest sense of madness one can possibly imagine.
Death is a step in the grand scheme of existence, but it is never an alternative to achieve happiness for oneself, for that is the greatest act of selfishness one can take against themselves.

Reference
Corne2Plum3
ls
LS(1)                            User Commands                           LS(1)

NAME
       ls - list directory contents

SYNOPSIS
       ls [OPTION]... [FILE]...

DESCRIPTION
       List  information  about  the FILEs (the current directory by default).
       Sort entries alphabetically if none of -cftuvSUX nor --sort  is  speci‐
       fied.

       Mandatory  arguments  to  long  options are mandatory for short options
       too.

       -a, --all
              do not ignore entries starting with .

       -A, --almost-all
              do not list implied . and ..

       --author
              with -l, print the author of each file

       -b, --escape
              print C-style escapes for nongraphic characters

       --block-size=SIZE
              with  -l,  scale  sizes  by  SIZE  when  printing  them;   e.g.,
              '--block-size=M'; see SIZE format below

       -B, --ignore-backups
              do not list implied entries ending with ~

       -c     with -lt: sort by, and show, ctime (time of last modification of
              file status information); with -l: show ctime and sort by  name;
              otherwise: sort by ctime, newest first

       -C     list entries by columns

       --color[=WHEN]
              colorize  the output; WHEN can be 'always' (default if omitted),
              'auto', or 'never'; more info below

       -d, --directory
              list directories themselves, not their contents

       -D, --dired
              generate output designed for Emacs' dired mode

       -f     do not sort, enable -aU, disable -ls --color

       -F, --classify
              append indicator (one of */=>@|) to entries

       --file-type
              likewise, except do not append '*'

       --format=WORD
              across -x, commas -m, horizontal -x, long -l, single-column  -1,
              verbose -l, vertical -C

       --full-time
              like -l --time-style=full-iso

       -g     like -l, but do not list owner

       --group-directories-first
              group directories before files;

              can   be  augmented  with  a  --sort  option,  but  any  use  of
              --sort=none (-U) disables grouping

       -G, --no-group
              in a long listing, don't print group names

       -h, --human-readable
              with -l and -s, print sizes like 1K 234M 2G etc.

       --si   likewise, but use powers of 1000 not 1024

       -H, --dereference-command-line
              follow symbolic links listed on the command line

       --dereference-command-line-symlink-to-dir
              follow each command line symbolic link

              that points to a directory

       --hide=PATTERN
              do not list implied entries matching shell  PATTERN  (overridden
              by -a or -A)

       --hyperlink[=WHEN]
              hyperlink file names; WHEN can be 'always' (default if omitted),
              'auto', or 'never'

       --indicator-style=WORD
              append indicator with style WORD to entry names: none (default),
              slash (-p), file-type (--file-type), classify (-F)

       -i, --inode
              print the index number of each file

       -I, --ignore=PATTERN
              do not list implied entries matching shell PATTERN

       -k, --kibibytes
              default  to  1024-byte  blocks for disk usage; used only with -s
              and per directory totals

       -l     use a long listing format

       -L, --dereference
              when showing file information for a symbolic link, show informa‐
              tion  for  the file the link references rather than for the link
              itself

       -m     fill width with a comma separated list of entries

       -n, --numeric-uid-gid
              like -l, but list numeric user and group IDs

       -N, --literal
              print entry names without quoting

       -o     like -l, but do not list group information

       -p, --indicator-style=slash
              append / indicator to directories

       -q, --hide-control-chars
              print ? instead of nongraphic characters

       --show-control-chars
              show nongraphic characters as-is (the default, unless program is
              'ls' and output is a terminal)

       -Q, --quote-name
              enclose entry names in double quotes

       --quoting-style=WORD
              use  quoting style WORD for entry names: literal, locale, shell,
              shell-always,  shell-escape,  shell-escape-always,   c,   escape
              (overrides QUOTING_STYLE environment variable)

       -r, --reverse
              reverse order while sorting

       -R, --recursive
              list subdirectories recursively

       -s, --size
              print the allocated size of each file, in blocks

       -S     sort by file size, largest first

       --sort=WORD
              sort  by  WORD instead of name: none (-U), size (-S), time (-t),
              version (-v), extension (-X)

       --time=WORD
              change the default of  using  modification  times;  access  time
              (-u): atime, access, use; change time (-c): ctime, status; birth
              time: birth, creation;

              with -l, WORD determines which time to show;  with  --sort=time,
              sort by WORD (newest first)

       --time-style=TIME_STYLE
              time/date format with -l; see TIME_STYLE below

       -t     sort by time, newest first; see --time

       -T, --tabsize=COLS
              assume tab stops at each COLS instead of 8

       -u     with  -lt:  sort by, and show, access time; with -l: show access
              time and sort by name; otherwise: sort by  access  time,  newest
              first

       -U     do not sort; list entries in directory order

       -v     natural sort of (version) numbers within text

       -w, --width=COLS
              set output width to COLS.  0 means no limit

       -x     list entries by lines instead of by columns

       -X     sort alphabetically by entry extension

       -Z, --context
              print any security context of each file

       -1     list one file per line.  Avoid '\n' with -q or -b

       --help display this help and exit

       --version
              output version information and exit

       The  SIZE  argument  is  an  integer and optional unit (example: 10K is
       10*1024).  Units are K,M,G,T,P,E,Z,Y  (powers  of  1024)  or  KB,MB,...
       (powers  of 1000).  Binary prefixes can be used, too: KiB=K, MiB=M, and
       so on.

       The TIME_STYLE argument can be  full-iso,  long-iso,  iso,  locale,  or
       +FORMAT.   FORMAT  is  interpreted  like in date(1).  If FORMAT is FOR‐
       MAT1<newline>FORMAT2, then FORMAT1 applies to non-recent files and FOR‐
       MAT2  to  recent files.  TIME_STYLE prefixed with 'posix-' takes effect
       only outside the POSIX locale.  Also the TIME_STYLE  environment  vari‐
       able sets the default style to use.

       Using  color  to distinguish file types is disabled both by default and
       with --color=never.  With --color=auto, ls emits color codes only  when
       standard  output is connected to a terminal.  The LS_COLORS environment
       variable can change the settings.  Use the dircolors command to set it.

   Exit status:
       0      if OK,

       1      if minor problems (e.g., cannot access subdirectory),

       2      if serious trouble (e.g., cannot access command-line argument).

AUTHOR
       Written by Richard M. Stallman and David MacKenzie.

REPORTING BUGS
       GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
       Report any translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright © 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.   License  GPLv3+:  GNU
       GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
       This  is  free  software:  you  are free to change and redistribute it.
       There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO
       Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/ls>
       or available locally via: info '(coreutils) ls invocation'

GNU coreutils 8.32              September 2020                           LS(1)

Narratives
abraker
confession
This is a story of what I went through a several years ago. I didn't feel like sharing until now since it haunted me for some time. I just want to get this off my chest, and leave it behind.

It was just another weekend of me wasting my life away, playing osu!. I finished catching up to the newly ranked maps and felt like exploring the pending section. I was searching for a map that would blow my mind away, just like the first time I saw Knife Party - Centipede. Most maps with extreme difficulty were crap, either troll maps or some other fucked up abomination. A good amount of time passed since I started browsing, and I started to get bored.

I had thought on clicking that “x” on the tab, but noticed a map with a strange name. Its title looked screwed up as if the romanization did not work properly. It had one difficulty and was less than a minute long. I don't remember the mapper but I think he was Australian, but looking back, it wouldn’t be surprising if he used a VPN. What I do remember is that the map’s description was as follows,
"01110011011011110111001001110010011110010111000001101111011011110111001001110011011011110111010101101100011100000110
11000110000101111001011011010110000101110000"



Since I had nothing better to do, bored me decided to break the code. I remember trying every hash decrypter online just to find out that it was just ASCII in binary. I was ready to throw out my laptop out the window, but took a breather instead. I came back and took a look at what it said. It translates to something I still can’t forget, "sorrypoorsoulplaymap". Judging by the crazy high BPM, I was expecting it to be one of those maps that even auto would have trouble on. I decided it would be my last map for the day and play it for funsies. I proceeded to download the map and import it into osu!, but I heard nothing after the import… It was total silence. Yes, I did check my volume settings and it was a blank track.

Most maps with blanked out tracks have hitsounds, so I unticked "ignore beatmap hitsounds" just in case. I was tired after that grueling code cracking, but didn’t skip the intro since it was quite short. While looking at the skip button, I realized the texture was a bit glitched. I believe osu! didn’t have the memory leaks or texture corruption bugs back then, so I still don’t know how that was possible.

As I sat through the song, I noticed the progress display showing that the beatmap was halfway done. There was not a single note played so far, which puzzled me. It was around the last 2 seconds where all of the sudden something on screen flashed just scrolled through and the results screen appeared. Zero 300's, zero 200's, zero 100's... and there was a negative number for the miss count. I am unsure how at least the million notes didn’t manage to lag shit on my piece of toaster trash, but needless to say, it was a troll map.

The following day I went on osu! to grind some pp. I didn't feel like playing the standard mode, so I switched to mania. I was a 100k scrub at that time, barely making it to 3 stars. I remember trying to pass Monster (DotEXE Remix) for hours on end. I decided to play it, expecting to miss randomly as always due to those freakn’ SV’s. I skipped the intro and was presented with a black screen. There were no notes.. This was a clear indicator the game was fucking up. I was thinking to alt-tab out for some time, but it seems I waited long enough for the map to reach the end. However, something weird happened. I once again saw a flash on the screen, something scrolling past, and the results screen popped up. Misses: zero, 50's: zero, 100's: zero, 200's: zero, 300's: zero, Perfects... 583. It was a full 1,000,000 score, getting myself #1 in the global ranks.

At this point my mind was blank. I didn't hit a single note, but I got full perfect! It was absurd. I clicked on another song I had struggled with at the time called Mermaid Girl. Again, there was a black background, no notes. 927 perfect's, full 1,000,000 score! Now, what would a typical noob do given this godly power? You guessed it, play the hardest map. So I scrolled to AiAe and clicked it. Seeing me #1 on the map’s leaderboard was weird. I did nothing, yet I beat everyone. AND HOLY SHIT, That 780 pp!

Looking back, bancho was REALLY slacking if it couldn’t tell something’s up. The osu! community, however, caught on quickly (now I know it was osugame). It didn't take long for me to start getting PM’s from players accusing me of hacking. My response: "I am not a hacker. I am just playing the maps". I didn’t know any better at the time. It was a couple months since I first started playing osu! I didn't know how everything worked. Get banned? Nope, didn't even cross my mind! I went on to become the #1 in the world, surpassing Ideu- in mania at the time. And then I thought, why not dominate other gamemodes too?

I lasted maybe a day until the inevitable happened. There was not much else to do other than tell about this supposed magical map that used some glitch in osu! to allow me to perfect every map. I spent at least an hour painstakingly scrolling through the thousands of maps I had, trying to find that glitched map until I remembered that I can sort by date added. It should have been near the bottom of the list, but it wasn't. It wasn't even in the songs folder. Spending hours trying to find this cursed map on the beatmap listing was also resulted in a fail. Maybe bloodcat had it, but how the fuck do you write that jumbled mess of a title?

I had nothing else to do but hope the osu! staff believed me. I submitted an appeal request saying that I just played maps, something flashed, and I got a full perfect. The osu! staff did not disappoint me! I got an email back saying, "You are not telling the truth. Tell the truth or Fuck Off!". How was I supposed to explain this anomaly? I sent them a reply explaining that I was telling the truth. I explained how the map is not there anymore, gave the mapper's name and everything. Unfortunately, there was no proof. Neither the mapper nor the beat-map existed.. And now my old account doesn't exist. However, I did get a middle-finger meme from peppy in the email, which was rather sweet of him.

I decided not to create drama on the forums and reddit since I doubted it would get my account back. It was only a couple months when I decided to fuck the rules and make a new account. All info about me was wiped anyway, nobody should know who I was. Then why did I decide to tell this now? I feel like I needed get rid of a haunted part of my past. And it doesn't matter to me that my previous identity got wiped anymore. I got over it.

If you read through this far, then thank you. I won’t be answering any questions regarding this, so the mods can just lock this. Sorry. It’s not something I like to talk about and the fact that I mustered up the courage to even post this is enough.

Short Stories
Kataru
neko (unfinished)
This is the story of my cat pets pre-pandemic to present (Actually real). This is actually ongoing.

Chapter I
It was a really normal week. The pandemic just started and I was just doing my things. When the pandemic was announced here in the Philippines, I was just really bored and the things that are happening wasn't really memorable. I think this was the time when I was actually first watching Anime. It was really sad.

One day, all of a sudden, my mom called me to go downstairs. "Hey! Your cousin just bought a cat home, come look at it." I really liked cats, so I hurried downstairs.

This was after my first cat, Green (He is pure white, and has green eyes, IK, very creative), has been gone. I actually don't remember any details because that was a VERY LONG TIME ago. Still, I was very excited. I went downstairs, and mom showed me where the cat is.

When I saw it, It was REALLY CUTE and small. It was literally the same size as my hand. IT does seem pretty scared though, and was hiding on the bathroom in a corner. When my grandfather saw the cat, He decided that he would take care of it. I was really happy about it, because they tend to just leave our pets tied up in out backyard. But in this case, it was actually inside.

We moved the cat into a small box. We then gave it food and water next to it. I swear we just spent the night watching this cute smowl littwe cutie thing sleep. One thing I noticed that his fur has this one black spot in the middle of the white fur.

We decided that his name was Whitey (i am a name god). We fed him every day, and by the next week, we became so invested in him. We put him in my bed, and he seems to really like it. We also decided to get a bigger box and put lots of cushions in it. We put Whitey in there, but It seems like we didn't match the softness of our bed because he immediately went back out.

He was really wholesome. We have a sofa that our grandfathar always sits in, and as he is the person that takes care of Whitey, he goes to sleep in this sofa every time my grandfather sits there. It was really cute. It was very wholesome in fact that it helped e forget the whole pandemic thing.

This was my whole schedule for a while. When I was just really bored as hell, I would come downstairs and pet Whitey.

Chapter II
Chapter II
It was all good times. Whitey helped me erase my boredom and loved him for it. But as all stories go, things have plot twists. As there is no school to attend, we were just staying at home doing stuff. But then, my parents had an idea to stay at my grandparents house (on my dad's side of the family) and stay there for a 'vacation'. Little did I know that we're staying there for 3 whole months.

I thought we we're just staying there for like 2 weeks but NO. Because of all this, I packed my bags and went, expecting a fun time with my cousins and uncles and grandparents. A lot of stuff went down there that I won't go in because of privacy reasons (and also because that thing is horrible to remember). But when we came back, Whitey is the first thing that I wanted to pet as fast as possible. Because of the things that happened there, I wanted to just forget it all and just go on. Then I saw him. He is BIG as HELL. Oh I wish I was there to see it.

When we left home, he was not as big as he is (expected because 3 months is a long time, but I am still surprised) (Our grandparents were the one who fed him). And because I stayed there for 3 months, He doesn't seem to remember me, but I still pet him in the head. I missed my cat.

Then, a new character enters the scene: a pure white cat.

This white cat is CUTE AS HELL. I wondered if this was just a wandering cat, but our grandparents doesn't seem to care about the cat staying inside. This white cat is a she, and she was with Whitey. She has no name or collar, and she seems to be eating on Whitey's plate. Seems like I get to pet another cat! (I was still wondering whose cat she is, no one actually knows where she came from, only Whitey) I then went and unpacked my bags back into my room, and slept. It was a tiring day.

My mom told me stories that she heard from my grandma who is staying at our house. She told her that when we are gone, Whitey goes into my room, and sleeps in my bed. Whitey was always sleeping with me before this, so he just likes sleeping there. Later in the night I find him sitting in the middle of the bed, sleeping (he knows how to open the door!). I like to think that he likes being in the bed because we're not there and he wants to be with us, but I think he just likes the bed only (sad).

Okay, so remember the white cat before? I wanted to pet her as well! She was always downstairs chilling in the sofa and chairs, and she sometimes goes upstairs, but I think that she hasn't explored it very well. I would always come by and pet her, and if she likes it, I pet her even MORE. I do think sometimes that I am being quite annoying, so I stop.

Because of her pure white fur and blue eyes, I decided to give her the name Snowy. She actually doesn't care about names because when I first knew about her, she was the same or even bigger than Whitey. I do wonder how she got here, and her relationship with Whitey (maybe on Chapter III)

I go downstairs to just check the two cats and if they are there, I would just chill with them in the sofa and watch TV.
I like to think of this chapter as a 3-month time skip, and introducing a new cat! I'd go into more stories in Chapter III (especially the white cat, she is mysterious).


It's a new chapter of my life. Puberty is gonna hit anytime. The 'vacation' screwed me up, but seeing the two cats Whitey and Snowy are just too wholesome not to forget about.
Sam Adams
You might think we only have limited books in the Library of OT, but that is DEFINITELY wrong. I was a worker at TLOT for quite a long time, but I have never seen this much books in a room before. But I am most DEFINITELY screwed if they find me here, so this is my last chance to show this to the world.

Okay. So my name is Sam and I live in --. I work as a -- at The Library Of OT branch --.
You see, I was interested in literature for a long time but never actually got to make one for myself. So i studied just to get a job here to make interesting stories for everyone to read. But I was definitely wrong. This job is VERY shady.

We have 9 rooms per branch of TLOT that contains 1500 to 2500 books. It's the largest library ever, so why the ---- not? Thing is, there is this 10th door that literally no one can get to. I'm pretty sure this is only on the branch I've been working on because there aren't any 10th doors where I've seen. I was really curious to see what genre this 10th door had because only boss can get to it but y'know, no one cares. I just really wanted to go see NEW BOOKS. So i stole the keys, went to open it blah blah.

Well ----. I Immediately heard alarms went off. I just ran away as fast as I can, because the guards might get me if- AH
---- well now I know that I'm screwed, I just ran and hid there we go. Okay let me describe the room to you for a bit.

so it is very well lit like fancy rooms with very high ceilings. Everything else is just BOOKS from wall to wall. I'm confused though, these books have people's names? and I can't find the end of the room. Thing is the branch is not as big as this i swear to god.

Tried to read one, and the contents just ended on a random page in the middle of the story. These stories are quite realistic as well. This i think happens to all the books in here. The guards must have given up by now right? Wait no how long have I ran for? ----. ----. I am starving here! where can I find that damn exit?! THIS IS A ------- MAZE.
Ill try to find some food from this huge --- room that is physically impossible i swear to god.

i havent slept at all. i am so tired. my chest feel like its going do explode from hunger. might resort to eating random books here. i feel bad for the writer though. i found a book with my name here! weird. i'll go eat it after i record this. It will be quite fu.


***END OF LIFE***
Cause: Destroyed File

Files that is recovered will be archived.

Stomiks
The Scientist and The Orangutan (unfinished)
Chapter 1
A newly promoted scientist is currently on the way to oversee the operations of a secret facility unknown to the public, and even the government. He works for a secret organization that is hidden in plain sight, making important decisions using world leaders and massively successful billionaires.

The scientist arrived at his destination. The place looks awful and foul. It seems like this facility didn't get much funding, as their research is of lesser importance than the other ones the organization is interested in. Disgusted, he immediately ordered the workers of this facility to clean the place. They quickly followed his orders because of his high-ranking position in the organization.

Looking through the files, the scientist found the papers for "Project Humanity." The papers detail the purpose of this facility, which is to give animals human levels of intelligence, so they can be used for warfare and intelligence gathering. There are numerous test subjects of many different varieties. However, most of the test subjects were primates, who had the closest connections to human beings.

The initial test done on the animals require extensive care and handling. They are regularly given syringes filled with controlled radioactive substances that change their minds to act more similar to humans. Many of the animals tested on result in failure and often their death. Animals who survived the initial testing phase were to be sent to a nearby housing facility for further experimentation.

The living conditions for the animals are often that of a horrible animal shelter. Because of this, all of the past animals that passed the initial testing phase soon died from mistreatment and starvation. Out of pure pity, the scientist orders for the proper handling of the animals, and distributes more of the project's funding to their living conditions.

A few weeks passed, and there have been 7 test subjects that passed the initial testing. The scientist goes to the housing facility to take a look at them, one of which has caught his eye. An orangutan named "Manishh", who was taken away by his mother from poachers that sold him to this facility. Manishh piqued the scientist's interest, and now he wants to personally take care of Manishh and oversee his testing. A decision that would change the rest of their lives...

A_childIGuess
Ann and the halloween Padoru
Once a kid name Ann who went into this spooky house were there were a bunch of paintings very low quality as Ann saw. then the spirt halloween Padoru came and Ann was to scared to go there ever again. 20 years later Ann moved into the house unknown to her that it was the same house later that night screams came from the house and Ann was never heard from again
(ann is litterally the first name I came up with)

Picture books
Stomiks
Yoshikage Kira's opinions on hands
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My name is Yoshikage Kira. I'm 33 years old. My house is in the northeast section of Morioh, where all the villas are, and I am not married. I work as an employee for the Kame Yu department stores, and I get home every day by 8 PM at the latest. I don't smoke, but I occasionally drink. I'm in bed by 11 PM, and make sure I get eight hours of sleep, no matter what. After having a glass of warm milk and doing about twenty minutes of stretches before going to bed, I usually have no problems sleeping until morning. Just like a baby, I wake up without any fatigue or stress in the morning. I was told there were no issues at my last check-up. I'm trying to explain that I'm a person who wishes to live a very quiet life. I take care not to trouble myself with any enemies, like winning and losing, that would cause me to lose sleep at night. That is how I deal with society, and I know that is what brings me happiness. Although, if I were to fight I wouldn't lose to anyone.

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I have compiled pictures of hands that I will give my opinions on in this book. I want you to acknowledge that my opinions on hands are my opinions alone and might not align with your own opinions. I tell you this because getting cancelled on twitter is worse than getting my head smashed in by an ambulance. Now, let's get started.

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A fairly average hand. I prefer having my hand hairless but overall, there is nothing wrong with having a hand like this.

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Acrylic nails? What a truly vulgar hand. Just the use of acrylic nails undermines the value of the hand as a whole. Why fake your beauty when you could work hard for it!

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Oh my god... What a truly beautiful hand. The even skin, subtle redness on the knuckles, veins evenly sticking out, and such perfect alluring nails. This hand is so beautiful, I got an erection.

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Uh... anyways, that's all of the hands I'll review in this book. If you want more of this series, be sure to buy more of this book to show your support. After I finish publishing this, I am going take the hands of my victi- ahem... I mean certainly consenting individuals on a date.

Realistic Fiction
Kataru
Wonder
As you lay on your bed, dozing off waiting for something to happen, you start to wonder if the moment will ever end.
As you stare into the white walls, and hear a never-ending tone ringing and vibrating to your ears, you start to wonder if the pain will never end. But as you exhale your breath, A flash of light appeared. As you are blinded by the light seemingly from out of nowhere, a flash of memories appeared to your mind. These memories are moments that you may or may not remember, but is still undoubtedly nostalgic.

Suddenly, everything went blank. Your sight has been blocked. You do not hear anything, feel anything, or sense anything. You feel like you are floating in a vast void of emptiness. But as you wonder, Countless flashes of light appeared all over you, seemingly lighting the void into a place that you immediately recognized. You see the plains and grass, the high mountains, the chirping of birds, the sound of winds whistling through the trees, you feel like everything has been given life again. You feel like you are in home. But a part of you feels sorrow.

You start to cry as the view turns black again. You miss your life, your friends, your family, your loved ones. You miss making memories with people. You can only remember them.

As you lay on your bed, whimpering silently, you start to wonder if you'll ever see them again. As you close your eyes to rest, you feel warmth on your whole body. You feel a presence that is familiar and quite calming. It felt like it hugged you, comforting you. As you feel tranquil, you start to wonder:

Why do I have to leave?
Hello.

wrote:

Hello.

wrote:

Welcome to the Library of OT.

wrote:

Have you found books that peaks your interest?

wrote:

Let me guide you.

wrote:

You might lose your way into this dark hallway,

wrote:

But do not worry for I have a lamp.

wrote:

This lamp provides us protection once we go to... there.

wrote:

There might be some interesting things down there, but as most people experienced, that is not a safe place to go.

wrote:

Here we are. I bid you farewell, and goodluck finding the books to your liking. Just never touch the book "How to Get Your Thread Locked on OT!(a Guide) book one". It's really dangerous. Oh you already did it.





WARNING

View at your own discretion.





Cursed Books

Beware. The books collected here are dangerous to your well-being. It is advised to stay out of this section if you want to keep your sanity.


A_childIGuess
How to Get Your Thread Locked on OT!(a Guide) book one
1. post padoru
this is garenteed to get you thread lock no matter the time of year
2.sh*tposting
aka posting 2 threads in one day gets your 2nd thread locked possably both thread get locked
4.spam
its annoying dont do it
How to Get Your Thread Locked on OT! a Guide book 2
1. ask a mod to lock you thread
this is the easiest way to get a lock
2.post a birthday thread with no anime dancing gifs
this is gonna get you thread locked as soon as a mod sees that your thread has no dancing anime gifs
3.Dont be rude to other players
please dont
Manishh
Nice thread
[ Rynn ]
yoo nice thread, might actually make a real story here
Karmine

Itz_UwU_Playz wrote:

yoo nice thread, might actually make a real story here
Yeah, reminds me I started writing something months ago and never finished it, maybe I should
abraker
confession
This is a story of what I went through a several years ago. I didn't feel like sharing until now since it haunted me for some time. I just want to get this off my chest, and leave it behind.

It was just another weekend of me wasting my life away, playing osu!. I finished catching up to the newly ranked maps and felt like exploring the pending section. I was searching for a map that would blow my mind away, just like the first time I saw Knife Party - Centipede. Most maps with extreme difficulty were crap, either troll maps or some other fucked up abomination. A good amount of time passed since I started browsing, and I started to get bored.

I had thought on clicking that “x” on the tab, but noticed a map with a strange name. Its title looked screwed up as if the romanization did not work properly. It had one difficulty and was less than a minute long. I don't remember the mapper but I think he was Australian, but looking back, it wouldn’t be surprising if he used a VPN. What I do remember is that the map’s description was as follows,
"01110011011011110111001001110010011110010111000001101111011011110111001001110011011011110111010101101100011100000110
11000110000101111001011011010110000101110000"



Since I had nothing better to do, bored me decided to break the code. I remember trying every hash decrypter online just to find out that it was just ASCII in binary. I was ready to throw out my laptop out the window, but took a breather instead. I came back and took a look at what it said. It translates to something I still can’t forget, "sorrypoorsoulplaymap". Judging by the crazy high BPM, I was expecting it to be one of those maps that even auto would have trouble on. I decided it would be my last map for the day and play it for funsies. I proceeded to download the map and import it into osu!, but I heard nothing after the import… It was total silence. Yes, I did check my volume settings and it was a blank track.

Most maps with blanked out tracks have hitsounds, so I unticked "ignore beatmap hitsounds" just in case. I was tired after that grueling code cracking, but didn’t skip the intro since it was quite short. While looking at the skip button, I realized the texture was a bit glitched. I believe osu! didn’t have the memory leaks or texture corruption bugs back then, so I still don’t know how that was possible.

As I sat through the song, I noticed the progress display showing that the beatmap was halfway done. There was not a single note played so far, which puzzled me. It was around the last 2 seconds where all of the sudden something on screen flashed just scrolled through and the results screen appeared. Zero 300's, zero 200's, zero 100's... and there was a negative number for the miss count. I am unsure how at least the million notes didn’t manage to lag shit on my piece of toaster trash, but needless to say, it was a troll map.

The following day I went on osu! to grind some pp. I didn't feel like playing the standard mode, so I switched to mania. I was a 100k scrub at that time, barely making it to 3 stars. I remember trying to pass Monster (DotEXE Remix) for hours on end. I decided to play it, expecting to miss randomly as always due to those freakn’ SV’s. I skipped the intro and was presented with a black screen. There were no notes.. This was a clear indicator the game was fucking up. I was thinking to alt-tab out for some time, but it seems I waited long enough for the map to reach the end. However, something weird happened. I once again saw a flash on the screen, something scrolling past, and the results screen popped up. Misses: zero, 50's: zero, 100's: zero, 200's: zero, 300's: zero, Perfects... 583. It was a full 1,000,000 score, getting myself #1 in the global ranks.

At this point my mind was blank. I didn't hit a single note, but I got full perfect! It was absurd. I clicked on another song I had struggled with at the time called Mermaid Girl. Again, there was a black background, no notes. 927 perfect's, full 1,000,000 score! Now, what would a typical noob do given this godly power? You guessed it, play the hardest map. So I scrolled to AiAe and clicked it. Seeing me #1 on the map’s leaderboard was weird. I did nothing, yet I beat everyone. AND HOLY SHIT, That 780 pp!

Looking back, bancho was REALLY slacking if it couldn’t tell something’s up. The osu! community, however, caught on quickly (now I know it was osugame). It didn't take long for me to start getting PM’s from players accusing me of hacking. My response: "I am not a hacker. I am just playing the maps". I didn’t know any better at the time. It was a couple months since I first started playing osu! I didn't know how everything worked. Get banned? Nope, didn't even cross my mind! I went on to become the #1 in the world, surpassing Ideu- in mania at the time. And then I thought, why not dominate other gamemodes too?

I lasted maybe a day until the inevitable happened. There was not much else to do other than tell about this supposed magical map that used some glitch in osu! to allow me to perfect every map. I spent at least an hour painstakingly scrolling through the thousands of maps I had, trying to find that glitched map until I remembered that I can sort by date added. It should have been near the bottom of the list, but it wasn't. It wasn't even in the songs folder. Spending hours trying to find this cursed map on the beatmap listing was also resulted in a fail. Maybe bloodcat had it, but how the fuck do you write that jumbled mess of a title?

I had nothing else to do but hope the osu! staff believed me. I submitted an appeal request saying that I just played maps, something flashed, and I got a full perfect. The osu! staff did not disappoint me! I got an email back saying, "You are not telling the truth. Tell the truth or Fuck Off!". How was I supposed to explain this anomaly? I sent them a reply explaining that I was telling the truth. I explained how the map is not there anymore, gave the mapper's name and everything. Unfortunately, there was no proof. Neither the mapper nor the beat-map existed.. And now my old account doesn't exist. However, I did get a middle-finger meme from peppy in the email, which was rather sweet of him.

I decided not to create drama on the forums and reddit since I doubted it would get my account back. It was only a couple months when I decided to fuck the rules and make a new account. All info about me was wiped anyway, nobody should know who I was. Then why did I decide to tell this now? I feel like I needed get rid of a haunted part of my past. And it doesn't matter to me that my previous identity got wiped anymore. I got over it.

If you read through this far, then thank you. I won’t be answering any questions regarding this, so the mods can just lock this. Sorry. It’s not something I like to talk about and the fact that I mustered up the courage to even post this is enough.
Karmine

abraker wrote:

confession
This is a story of what I went through a several years ago. I didn't feel like sharing until now since it haunted me for some time. I just want to get this off my chest, and leave it behind.

It was just another weekend of me wasting my life away, playing osu!. I finished catching up to the newly ranked maps and felt like exploring the pending section. I was searching for a map that would blow my mind away, just like the first time I saw Knife Party - Centipede. Most maps with extreme difficulty were crap, either troll maps or some other fucked up abomination. A good amount of time passed since I started browsing, and I started to get bored.

I had thought on clicking that “x” on the tab, but noticed a map with a strange name. Its title looked screwed up as if the romanization did not work properly. It had one difficulty and was less than a minute long. I don't remember the mapper but I think he was Australian, but looking back, it wouldn’t be surprising if he used a VPN. What I do remember is that the map’s description was as follows,
"01110011011011110111001001110010011110010111000001101111011011110111001001110011011011110111010101101100011100000110
11000110000101111001011011010110000101110000"



Since I had nothing better to do, bored me decided to break the code. I remember trying every hash decrypter online just to find out that it was just ASCII in binary. I was ready to throw out my laptop out the window, but took a breather instead. I came back and took a look at what it said. It translates to something I still can’t forget, "sorrypoorsoulplaymap". Judging by the crazy high BPM, I was expecting it to be one of those maps that even auto would have trouble on. I decided it would be my last map for the day and play it for funsies. I proceeded to download the map and import it into osu!, but I heard nothing after the import… It was total silence. Yes, I did check my volume settings and it was a blank track.

Most maps with blanked out tracks have hitsounds, so I unticked "ignore beatmap hitsounds" just in case. I was tired after that grueling code cracking, but didn’t skip the intro since it was quite short. While looking at the skip button, I realized the texture was a bit glitched. I believe osu! didn’t have the memory leaks or texture corruption bugs back then, so I still don’t know how that was possible.

As I sat through the song, I noticed the progress display showing that the beatmap was halfway done. There was not a single note played so far, which puzzled me. It was around the last 2 seconds where all of the sudden something on screen flashed just scrolled through and the results screen appeared. Zero 300's, zero 200's, zero 100's... and there was a negative number for the miss count. I am unsure how at least the million notes didn’t manage to lag shit on my piece of toaster trash, but needless to say, it was a troll map.

The following day I went on osu! to grind some pp. I didn't feel like playing the standard mode, so I switched to mania. I was a 100k scrub at that time, barely making it to 3 stars. I remember trying to pass Monster (DotEXE Remix) for hours on end. I decided to play it, expecting to miss randomly as always due to those freakn’ SV’s. I skipped the intro and was presented with a black screen. There were no notes.. This was a clear indicator the game was fucking up. I was thinking to alt-tab out for some time, but it seems I waited long enough for the map to reach the end. However, something weird happened. I once again saw a flash on the screen, something scrolling past, and the results screen popped up. Misses: zero, 50's: zero, 100's: zero, 200's: zero, 300's: zero, Perfects... 583. It was a full 1,000,000 score, getting myself #1 in the global ranks.

At this point my mind was blank. I didn't hit a single note, but I got full perfect! It was absurd. I clicked on another song I had struggled with at the time called Mermaid Girl. Again, there was a black background, no notes. 927 perfect's, full 1,000,000 score! Now, what would a typical noob do given this godly power? You guessed it, play the hardest map. So I scrolled to AiAe and clicked it. Seeing me #1 on the map’s leaderboard was weird. I did nothing, yet I beat everyone. AND HOLY SHIT, That 780 pp!

Looking back, bancho was REALLY slacking if it couldn’t tell something’s up. The osu! community, however, caught on quickly (now I know it was osugame). It didn't take long for me to start getting PM’s from players accusing me of hacking. My response: "I am not a hacker. I am just playing the maps". I didn’t know any better at the time. It was a couple months since I first started playing osu! I didn't know how everything worked. Get banned? Nope, didn't even cross my mind! I went on to become the #1 in the world, surpassing Ideu- in mania at the time. And then I thought, why not dominate other gamemodes too?

I lasted maybe a day until the inevitable happened. There was not much else to do other than tell about this supposed magical map that used some glitch in osu! to allow me to perfect every map. I spent at least an hour painstakingly scrolling through the thousands of maps I had, trying to find that glitched map until I remembered that I can sort by date added. It should have been near the bottom of the list, but it wasn't. It wasn't even in the songs folder. Spending hours trying to find this cursed map on the beatmap listing was also resulted in a fail. Maybe bloodcat had it, but how the fuck do you write that jumbled mess of a title?

I had nothing else to do but hope the osu! staff believed me. I submitted an appeal request saying that I just played maps, something flashed, and I got a full perfect. The osu! staff did not disappoint me! I got an email back saying, "You are not telling the truth. Tell the truth or Fuck Off!". How was I supposed to explain this anomaly? I sent them a reply explaining that I was telling the truth. I explained how the map is not there anymore, gave the mapper's name and everything. Unfortunately, there was no proof. Neither the mapper nor the beat-map existed.. And now my old account doesn't exist. However, I did get a middle-finger meme from peppy in the email, which was rather sweet of him.

I decided not to create drama on the forums and reddit since I doubted it would get my account back. It was only a couple months when I decided to fuck the rules and make a new account. All info about me was wiped anyway, nobody should know who I was. Then why did I decide to tell this now? I feel like I needed get rid of a haunted part of my past. And it doesn't matter to me that my previous identity got wiped anymore. I got over it.

If you read through this far, then thank you. I won’t be answering any questions regarding this, so the mods can just lock this. Sorry. It’s not something I like to talk about and the fact that I mustered up the courage to even post this is enough.
I remember reading thins from the OT chronicles, nice story
Scyla
Library is the perfect place to sleep
Corne2Plum3
ls
LS(1)                            User Commands                           LS(1)

NAME
       ls - list directory contents

SYNOPSIS
       ls [OPTION]... [FILE]...

DESCRIPTION
       List  information  about  the FILEs (the current directory by default).
       Sort entries alphabetically if none of -cftuvSUX nor --sort  is  speci‐
       fied.

       Mandatory  arguments  to  long  options are mandatory for short options
       too.

       -a, --all
              do not ignore entries starting with .

       -A, --almost-all
              do not list implied . and ..

       --author
              with -l, print the author of each file

       -b, --escape
              print C-style escapes for nongraphic characters

       --block-size=SIZE
              with  -l,  scale  sizes  by  SIZE  when  printing  them;   e.g.,
              '--block-size=M'; see SIZE format below

       -B, --ignore-backups
              do not list implied entries ending with ~

       -c     with -lt: sort by, and show, ctime (time of last modification of
              file status information); with -l: show ctime and sort by  name;
              otherwise: sort by ctime, newest first

       -C     list entries by columns

       --color[=WHEN]
              colorize  the output; WHEN can be 'always' (default if omitted),
              'auto', or 'never'; more info below

       -d, --directory
              list directories themselves, not their contents

       -D, --dired
              generate output designed for Emacs' dired mode

       -f     do not sort, enable -aU, disable -ls --color

       -F, --classify
              append indicator (one of */=>@|) to entries

       --file-type
              likewise, except do not append '*'

       --format=WORD
              across -x, commas -m, horizontal -x, long -l, single-column  -1,
              verbose -l, vertical -C

       --full-time
              like -l --time-style=full-iso

       -g     like -l, but do not list owner

       --group-directories-first
              group directories before files;

              can   be  augmented  with  a  --sort  option,  but  any  use  of
              --sort=none (-U) disables grouping

       -G, --no-group
              in a long listing, don't print group names

       -h, --human-readable
              with -l and -s, print sizes like 1K 234M 2G etc.

       --si   likewise, but use powers of 1000 not 1024

       -H, --dereference-command-line
              follow symbolic links listed on the command line

       --dereference-command-line-symlink-to-dir
              follow each command line symbolic link

              that points to a directory

       --hide=PATTERN
              do not list implied entries matching shell  PATTERN  (overridden
              by -a or -A)

       --hyperlink[=WHEN]
              hyperlink file names; WHEN can be 'always' (default if omitted),
              'auto', or 'never'

       --indicator-style=WORD
              append indicator with style WORD to entry names: none (default),
              slash (-p), file-type (--file-type), classify (-F)

       -i, --inode
              print the index number of each file

       -I, --ignore=PATTERN
              do not list implied entries matching shell PATTERN

       -k, --kibibytes
              default  to  1024-byte  blocks for disk usage; used only with -s
              and per directory totals

       -l     use a long listing format

       -L, --dereference
              when showing file information for a symbolic link, show informa‐
              tion  for  the file the link references rather than for the link
              itself

       -m     fill width with a comma separated list of entries

       -n, --numeric-uid-gid
              like -l, but list numeric user and group IDs

       -N, --literal
              print entry names without quoting

       -o     like -l, but do not list group information

       -p, --indicator-style=slash
              append / indicator to directories

       -q, --hide-control-chars
              print ? instead of nongraphic characters

       --show-control-chars
              show nongraphic characters as-is (the default, unless program is
              'ls' and output is a terminal)

       -Q, --quote-name
              enclose entry names in double quotes

       --quoting-style=WORD
              use  quoting style WORD for entry names: literal, locale, shell,
              shell-always,  shell-escape,  shell-escape-always,   c,   escape
              (overrides QUOTING_STYLE environment variable)

       -r, --reverse
              reverse order while sorting

       -R, --recursive
              list subdirectories recursively

       -s, --size
              print the allocated size of each file, in blocks

       -S     sort by file size, largest first

       --sort=WORD
              sort  by  WORD instead of name: none (-U), size (-S), time (-t),
              version (-v), extension (-X)

       --time=WORD
              change the default of  using  modification  times;  access  time
              (-u): atime, access, use; change time (-c): ctime, status; birth
              time: birth, creation;

              with -l, WORD determines which time to show;  with  --sort=time,
              sort by WORD (newest first)

       --time-style=TIME_STYLE
              time/date format with -l; see TIME_STYLE below

       -t     sort by time, newest first; see --time

       -T, --tabsize=COLS
              assume tab stops at each COLS instead of 8

       -u     with  -lt:  sort by, and show, access time; with -l: show access
              time and sort by name; otherwise: sort by  access  time,  newest
              first

       -U     do not sort; list entries in directory order

       -v     natural sort of (version) numbers within text

       -w, --width=COLS
              set output width to COLS.  0 means no limit

       -x     list entries by lines instead of by columns

       -X     sort alphabetically by entry extension

       -Z, --context
              print any security context of each file

       -1     list one file per line.  Avoid '\n' with -q or -b

       --help display this help and exit

       --version
              output version information and exit

       The  SIZE  argument  is  an  integer and optional unit (example: 10K is
       10*1024).  Units are K,M,G,T,P,E,Z,Y  (powers  of  1024)  or  KB,MB,...
       (powers  of 1000).  Binary prefixes can be used, too: KiB=K, MiB=M, and
       so on.

       The TIME_STYLE argument can be  full-iso,  long-iso,  iso,  locale,  or
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       MAT2  to  recent files.  TIME_STYLE prefixed with 'posix-' takes effect
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       able sets the default style to use.

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       with --color=never.  With --color=auto, ls emits color codes only  when
       standard  output is connected to a terminal.  The LS_COLORS environment
       variable can change the settings.  Use the dircolors command to set it.

   Exit status:
       0      if OK,

       1      if minor problems (e.g., cannot access subdirectory),

       2      if serious trouble (e.g., cannot access command-line argument).

AUTHOR
       Written by Richard M. Stallman and David MacKenzie.

REPORTING BUGS
       GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
       Report any translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright © 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.   License  GPLv3+:  GNU
       GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
       This  is  free  software:  you  are free to change and redistribute it.
       There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO
       Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/ls>
       or available locally via: info '(coreutils) ls invocation'

GNU coreutils 8.32              September 2020                           LS(1)
z0z
*snore*
Filthy
*talks extremely loud*
JustABeginner

abraker wrote:

confession
This is a story of what I went through a several years ago. I didn't feel like sharing until now since it haunted me for some time. I just want to get this off my chest, and leave it behind.

It was just another weekend of me wasting my life away, playing osu!. I finished catching up to the newly ranked maps and felt like exploring the pending section. I was searching for a map that would blow my mind away, just like the first time I saw Knife Party - Centipede. Most maps with extreme difficulty were crap, either troll maps or some other fucked up abomination. A good amount of time passed since I started browsing, and I started to get bored.

I had thought on clicking that “x” on the tab, but noticed a map with a strange name. Its title looked screwed up as if the romanization did not work properly. It had one difficulty and was less than a minute long. I don't remember the mapper but I think he was Australian, but looking back, it wouldn’t be surprising if he used a VPN. What I do remember is that the map’s description was as follows,
"01110011011011110111001001110010011110010111000001101111011011110111001001110011011011110111010101101100011100000110
11000110000101111001011011010110000101110000"



Since I had nothing better to do, bored me decided to break the code. I remember trying every hash decrypter online just to find out that it was just ASCII in binary. I was ready to throw out my laptop out the window, but took a breather instead. I came back and took a look at what it said. It translates to something I still can’t forget, "sorrypoorsoulplaymap". Judging by the crazy high BPM, I was expecting it to be one of those maps that even auto would have trouble on. I decided it would be my last map for the day and play it for funsies. I proceeded to download the map and import it into osu!, but I heard nothing after the import… It was total silence. Yes, I did check my volume settings and it was a blank track.

Most maps with blanked out tracks have hitsounds, so I unticked "ignore beatmap hitsounds" just in case. I was tired after that grueling code cracking, but didn’t skip the intro since it was quite short. While looking at the skip button, I realized the texture was a bit glitched. I believe osu! didn’t have the memory leaks or texture corruption bugs back then, so I still don’t know how that was possible.

As I sat through the song, I noticed the progress display showing that the beatmap was halfway done. There was not a single note played so far, which puzzled me. It was around the last 2 seconds where all of the sudden something on screen flashed just scrolled through and the results screen appeared. Zero 300's, zero 200's, zero 100's... and there was a negative number for the miss count. I am unsure how at least the million notes didn’t manage to lag shit on my piece of toaster trash, but needless to say, it was a troll map.

The following day I went on osu! to grind some pp. I didn't feel like playing the standard mode, so I switched to mania. I was a 100k scrub at that time, barely making it to 3 stars. I remember trying to pass Monster (DotEXE Remix) for hours on end. I decided to play it, expecting to miss randomly as always due to those freakn’ SV’s. I skipped the intro and was presented with a black screen. There were no notes.. This was a clear indicator the game was fucking up. I was thinking to alt-tab out for some time, but it seems I waited long enough for the map to reach the end. However, something weird happened. I once again saw a flash on the screen, something scrolling past, and the results screen popped up. Misses: zero, 50's: zero, 100's: zero, 200's: zero, 300's: zero, Perfects... 583. It was a full 1,000,000 score, getting myself #1 in the global ranks.

At this point my mind was blank. I didn't hit a single note, but I got full perfect! It was absurd. I clicked on another song I had struggled with at the time called Mermaid Girl. Again, there was a black background, no notes. 927 perfect's, full 1,000,000 score! Now, what would a typical noob do given this godly power? You guessed it, play the hardest map. So I scrolled to AiAe and clicked it. Seeing me #1 on the map’s leaderboard was weird. I did nothing, yet I beat everyone. AND HOLY SHIT, That 780 pp!

Looking back, bancho was REALLY slacking if it couldn’t tell something’s up. The osu! community, however, caught on quickly (now I know it was osugame). It didn't take long for me to start getting PM’s from players accusing me of hacking. My response: "I am not a hacker. I am just playing the maps". I didn’t know any better at the time. It was a couple months since I first started playing osu! I didn't know how everything worked. Get banned? Nope, didn't even cross my mind! I went on to become the #1 in the world, surpassing Ideu- in mania at the time. And then I thought, why not dominate other gamemodes too?

I lasted maybe a day until the inevitable happened. There was not much else to do other than tell about this supposed magical map that used some glitch in osu! to allow me to perfect every map. I spent at least an hour painstakingly scrolling through the thousands of maps I had, trying to find that glitched map until I remembered that I can sort by date added. It should have been near the bottom of the list, but it wasn't. It wasn't even in the songs folder. Spending hours trying to find this cursed map on the beatmap listing was also resulted in a fail. Maybe bloodcat had it, but how the fuck do you write that jumbled mess of a title?

I had nothing else to do but hope the osu! staff believed me. I submitted an appeal request saying that I just played maps, something flashed, and I got a full perfect. The osu! staff did not disappoint me! I got an email back saying, "You are not telling the truth. Tell the truth or Fuck Off!". How was I supposed to explain this anomaly? I sent them a reply explaining that I was telling the truth. I explained how the map is not there anymore, gave the mapper's name and everything. Unfortunately, there was no proof. Neither the mapper nor the beat-map existed.. And now my old account doesn't exist. However, I did get a middle-finger meme from peppy in the email, which was rather sweet of him.

I decided not to create drama on the forums and reddit since I doubted it would get my account back. It was only a couple months when I decided to fuck the rules and make a new account. All info about me was wiped anyway, nobody should know who I was. Then why did I decide to tell this now? I feel like I needed get rid of a haunted part of my past. And it doesn't matter to me that my previous identity got wiped anymore. I got over it.

If you read through this far, then thank you. I won’t be answering any questions regarding this, so the mods can just lock this. Sorry. It’s not something I like to talk about and the fact that I mustered up the courage to even post this is enough.
Oh yeah, abraker's infamous copypasta.
Nuuskamuikkunen

Scyla wrote:

Library is the perfect place to sleep
Or grabbing free wifi
Topic Starter
Stomiks
New entries:

ls by Corne2plum3
confession by abraker
Patatitta
nice this is expanding


JustABeginner wrote:

abraker wrote:

confession
This is a story of what I went through a several years ago. I didn't feel like sharing until now since it haunted me for some time. I just want to get this off my chest, and leave it behind.

It was just another weekend of me wasting my life away, playing osu!. I finished catching up to the newly ranked maps and felt like exploring the pending section. I was searching for a map that would blow my mind away, just like the first time I saw Knife Party - Centipede. Most maps with extreme difficulty were crap, either troll maps or some other fucked up abomination. A good amount of time passed since I started browsing, and I started to get bored.

I had thought on clicking that “x” on the tab, but noticed a map with a strange name. Its title looked screwed up as if the romanization did not work properly. It had one difficulty and was less than a minute long. I don't remember the mapper but I think he was Australian, but looking back, it wouldn’t be surprising if he used a VPN. What I do remember is that the map’s description was as follows,
"01110011011011110111001001110010011110010111000001101111011011110111001001110011011011110111010101101100011100000110
11000110000101111001011011010110000101110000"



Since I had nothing better to do, bored me decided to break the code. I remember trying every hash decrypter online just to find out that it was just ASCII in binary. I was ready to throw out my laptop out the window, but took a breather instead. I came back and took a look at what it said. It translates to something I still can’t forget, "sorrypoorsoulplaymap". Judging by the crazy high BPM, I was expecting it to be one of those maps that even auto would have trouble on. I decided it would be my last map for the day and play it for funsies. I proceeded to download the map and import it into osu!, but I heard nothing after the import… It was total silence. Yes, I did check my volume settings and it was a blank track.

Most maps with blanked out tracks have hitsounds, so I unticked "ignore beatmap hitsounds" just in case. I was tired after that grueling code cracking, but didn’t skip the intro since it was quite short. While looking at the skip button, I realized the texture was a bit glitched. I believe osu! didn’t have the memory leaks or texture corruption bugs back then, so I still don’t know how that was possible.

As I sat through the song, I noticed the progress display showing that the beatmap was halfway done. There was not a single note played so far, which puzzled me. It was around the last 2 seconds where all of the sudden something on screen flashed just scrolled through and the results screen appeared. Zero 300's, zero 200's, zero 100's... and there was a negative number for the miss count. I am unsure how at least the million notes didn’t manage to lag shit on my piece of toaster trash, but needless to say, it was a troll map.

The following day I went on osu! to grind some pp. I didn't feel like playing the standard mode, so I switched to mania. I was a 100k scrub at that time, barely making it to 3 stars. I remember trying to pass Monster (DotEXE Remix) for hours on end. I decided to play it, expecting to miss randomly as always due to those freakn’ SV’s. I skipped the intro and was presented with a black screen. There were no notes.. This was a clear indicator the game was fucking up. I was thinking to alt-tab out for some time, but it seems I waited long enough for the map to reach the end. However, something weird happened. I once again saw a flash on the screen, something scrolling past, and the results screen popped up. Misses: zero, 50's: zero, 100's: zero, 200's: zero, 300's: zero, Perfects... 583. It was a full 1,000,000 score, getting myself #1 in the global ranks.

At this point my mind was blank. I didn't hit a single note, but I got full perfect! It was absurd. I clicked on another song I had struggled with at the time called Mermaid Girl. Again, there was a black background, no notes. 927 perfect's, full 1,000,000 score! Now, what would a typical noob do given this godly power? You guessed it, play the hardest map. So I scrolled to AiAe and clicked it. Seeing me #1 on the map’s leaderboard was weird. I did nothing, yet I beat everyone. AND HOLY SHIT, That 780 pp!

Looking back, bancho was REALLY slacking if it couldn’t tell something’s up. The osu! community, however, caught on quickly (now I know it was osugame). It didn't take long for me to start getting PM’s from players accusing me of hacking. My response: "I am not a hacker. I am just playing the maps". I didn’t know any better at the time. It was a couple months since I first started playing osu! I didn't know how everything worked. Get banned? Nope, didn't even cross my mind! I went on to become the #1 in the world, surpassing Ideu- in mania at the time. And then I thought, why not dominate other gamemodes too?

I lasted maybe a day until the inevitable happened. There was not much else to do other than tell about this supposed magical map that used some glitch in osu! to allow me to perfect every map. I spent at least an hour painstakingly scrolling through the thousands of maps I had, trying to find that glitched map until I remembered that I can sort by date added. It should have been near the bottom of the list, but it wasn't. It wasn't even in the songs folder. Spending hours trying to find this cursed map on the beatmap listing was also resulted in a fail. Maybe bloodcat had it, but how the fuck do you write that jumbled mess of a title?

I had nothing else to do but hope the osu! staff believed me. I submitted an appeal request saying that I just played maps, something flashed, and I got a full perfect. The osu! staff did not disappoint me! I got an email back saying, "You are not telling the truth. Tell the truth or Fuck Off!". How was I supposed to explain this anomaly? I sent them a reply explaining that I was telling the truth. I explained how the map is not there anymore, gave the mapper's name and everything. Unfortunately, there was no proof. Neither the mapper nor the beat-map existed.. And now my old account doesn't exist. However, I did get a middle-finger meme from peppy in the email, which was rather sweet of him.

I decided not to create drama on the forums and reddit since I doubted it would get my account back. It was only a couple months when I decided to fuck the rules and make a new account. All info about me was wiped anyway, nobody should know who I was. Then why did I decide to tell this now? I feel like I needed get rid of a haunted part of my past. And it doesn't matter to me that my previous identity got wiped anymore. I got over it.

If you read through this far, then thank you. I won’t be answering any questions regarding this, so the mods can just lock this. Sorry. It’s not something I like to talk about and the fact that I mustered up the courage to even post this is enough.
Oh yeah, abraker's infamous copypasta.
you could just recompile all the copypastas in ot and add them tbh, seems it would be a good fit


also, not my thread, but "sad story" could be added
Topic Starter
Stomiks
True. This thread could expand into a compilation of every ot made literature, not just the ones made for this thread.
Karmine

Stomiks wrote:

True. This thread could expand into a compilation of every ot made literature, not just the ones made for this thread.
OT chronicles would help
[[[[[[
ima make a wattpad fanfiction tmr
Kataru
Wonder
As you lay on your bed, dozing off waiting for something to happen, you start to wonder if the moment will ever end.
As you stare into the white walls, and hear a never-ending tone ringing and vibrating to your ears, you start to wonder if the pain will never end. But as you exhale your breath, A flash of light appeared. As you are blinded by the light seemingly from out of nowhere, a flash of memories appeared to your mind. These memories are moments that you may or may not remember, but is still undoubtedly nostalgic.

Suddenly, everything went blank. Your sight has been blocked. You do not hear anything, feel anything, or sense anything. You feel like you are floating in a vast void of emptiness. But as you wonder, Countless flashes of light appeared all over you, seemingly lighting the void into a place that you immediately recognized. You see the plains and grass, the high mountains, the chirping of birds, the sound of winds whistling through the trees, you feel like everything has been given life again. You feel like you are in home. But a part of you feels sorrow.

You start to cry as the view turns black again. You miss your life, your friends, your family, your loved ones. You miss making memories with people. You can only remember them.

As you lay on your bed, whimpering silently, you start to wonder if you'll ever see them again. As you close your eyes to rest, you feel warmth on your whole body. You feel a presence that is familiar and quite calming. It felt like it hugged you, comforting you. As you feel tranquil, you start to wonder:

Why do I have to leave?


I'm quite new at making literature making stories is just not my thing so if its bad then tell me
WitherMite

Stomiks wrote:

True. This thread could expand into a compilation of every ot made literature, not just the ones made for this thread.
Im reminded of the time I tried and mostly failed to make a quality thread.
community/forums/posts/8034160

A tragic true story of the final members of a dwarf civilization.
Kataru
Sam Adams
You might think we only have limited books in the Library of OT, but that is DEFINITELY wrong. I was a worker at TLOT for quite a long time, but I have never seen this much books in a room before. But I am most DEFINITELY screwed if they find me here, so this is my last chance to show this to the world.

Okay. So my name is Sam and I live in --. I work as a -- at The Library Of OT branch --.
You see, I was interested in literature for a long time but never actually got to make one for myself. So i studied just to get a job here to make interesting stories for everyone to read. But I was definitely wrong. This job is VERY shady.

We have 9 rooms per branch of TLOT that contains 1500 to 2500 books. It's the largest library ever, so why the ---- not? Thing is, there is this 10th door that literally no one can get to. I'm pretty sure this is only on the branch I've been working on because there aren't any 10th doors where I've seen. I was really curious to see what genre this 10th door had because only boss can get to it but y'know, no one cares. I just really wanted to go see NEW BOOKS. So i stole the keys, went to open it blah blah.

Well ----. I Immediately heard alarms went off. I just ran away as fast as I can, because the guards might get me if- AH
---- well now I know that I'm screwed, I just ran and hid there we go. Okay let me describe the room to you for a bit.

so it is very well lit like fancy rooms with very high ceilings. Everything else is just BOOKS from wall to wall. I'm confused though, these books have people's names? and I can't find the end of the room. Thing is the branch is not as big as this i swear to god.

Tried to read one, and the contents just ended on a random page in the middle of the story. These stories are quite realistic as well. This i think happens to all the books in here. The guards must have given up by now right? Wait no how long have I ran for? ----. ----. I am starving here! where can I find that damn exit?! THIS IS A ------- MAZE.
Ill try to find some food from this huge --- room that is physically impossible i swear to god.

i havent slept at all. i am so tired. my chest feel like its going do explode from hunger. might resort to eating random books here. i feel bad for the writer though. i found a book with my name here! weird. i'll go eat it after i record this. It will be quite fu.


***END OF LIFE***
Cause: Destroyed File

Files that is recovered will be archived.
Topic Starter
Stomiks
FAQ and Rules has been updated.

New entries:
Wonder by Kataru
Sam Adams by Kataru

Kataru wrote:

I'm quite new at making literature making stories is just not my thing so if its bad then tell me
Don't worry about it. The Library of OT accepts all books of OT users. I literally started writing stories just for this thread lol.


Also, if you guys are down on having this thread include OT literature from other threads and ones from the past, then be sure to tell me. I could change some things and find threads that could count as literature but I'll also need some help finding them.
z0z

Stomiks wrote:

FAQ and Rules has been updated.

New entries:
Wonder by Kataru
Sam Adams by Kataru

Kataru wrote:

I'm quite new at making literature making stories is just not my thing so if its bad then tell me
Don't worry about it. The Library of OT accepts all books of OT users. I literally started writing stories just for this thread lol.


Also, if you guys are down on having this thread include OT literature from other threads and ones from the past, then be sure to tell me. I could change some things and find threads that could count as literature but I'll also need some help finding them.
it should 100% count but get permission first
abraker
I wonder how soon you will hit the 60k character limit
Topic Starter
Stomiks

abraker wrote:

I wonder how soon you will hit the 60k character limit
Depends on how many people will participate here. This thread may be already dead and it would never hit the character limit.
Corne2Plum3

Stomiks wrote:

abraker wrote:

I wonder how soon you will hit the 60k character limit
Depends on how many people will participate here. This thread may be already dead and it would never hit the character limit.
It's going to be reached very fast, especially if people add long stories or copypastas
Kataru
cry
Cry.
Cry when you feel sad.
Cry when you feel pain.
Cry when you feel like crying.

Crying may feel embarrassing,
But it expresses your feelings.
Crying communicates to people,
And tells that you're in pain.

It's okay to cry.
Let your feelings float away.
It's okay to cry near me.
I'll give you tranquility.

kinda cringe but ok

neko
This is the story of my cat pets pre-pandemic to present (Actually real). This is actually ongoing.

Chapter I
It was a really normal week. The pandemic just started and I was just doing my things. When the pandemic was announced here in the Philippines, I was just really bored and the things that are happening wasn't really memorable. I think this was the time when I was actually first watching Anime. It was really sad.

One day, all of a sudden, my mom called me to go downstairs. "Hey! Your cousin just bought a cat home, come look at it." I really liked cats, so I hurried downstairs.

This was after my first cat, Green (He is pure white, and has green eyes, IK, very creative), has been gone. I actually don't remember any details because that was a VERY LONG TIME ago. Still, I was very excited. I went downstairs, and mom showed me where the cat is.

When I saw it, It was REALLY CUTE and small. It was literally the same size as my hand. IT does seem pretty scared though, and was hiding on the bathroom in a corner. When my grandfather saw the cat, He decided that he would take care of it. I was really happy about it, because they tend to just leave our pets tied up in out backyard. But in this case, it was actually inside.

We moved the cat into a small box. We then gave it food and water next to it. I swear we just spent the night watching this cute smowl littwe cutie thing sleep. One thing I noticed that his fur has this one black spot in the middle of the white fur.

We decided that his name was Whitey (i am a name god). We fed him every day, and by the next week, we became so invested in him. We put him in my bed, and he seems to really like it. We also decided to get a bigger box and put lots of cushions in it. We put Whitey in there, but It seems like we didn't match the softness of our bed because he immediately went back out.

He was really wholesome. We have a sofa that our grandfathar always sits in, and as he is the person that takes care of Whitey, he goes to sleep in this sofa every time my grandfather sits there. It was really cute. It was very wholesome in fact that it helped e forget the whole pandemic thing.

This was my whole schedule for a while. When I was just really bored as hell, I would come downstairs and pet Whitey.

**Continuing Chapter II next day if I am free.**
**Would put pictures if available or found.**
- cirno -
How to Get Your Thread Locked on OT!(a Guide) book one
1. post padoru
this is garenteed to get you thread lock no matter the time of year
2.sh*tposting
aka posting 2 threads in one day gets your 2nd thread locked possably both thread get locked
4.spam
its annoying dont do it
Topic Starter
Stomiks
New Entries:

cry by kataru
neko by kataru
How to Get Your Thread Locked on OT!(a Guide) book one by A_childIGuess
Polyspora
In the middle of the way
In the middle of the way there was a rock.
There was a rock in my way.
There was a rock.
In the middle of the way there was a rock.

I'll never forget this event.
In the vitality of my tired retina.
I'll never forget that in the middle of the way.
There was a rock.
The rock was in the middle of the way.
In the middle of the way there was a rock.

this is not mine please dont add it, I just took the chance to share this beautiful poem
Topic Starter
Stomiks

Polyspora wrote:

In the middle of the way
In the middle of the way there was a rock.
There was a rock in my way.
There was a rock.
In the middle of the way there was a rock.

I'll never forget this event.
In the vitality of my tired retina.
I'll never forget this event.
There was a rock.
The rock was in the middle of the way.
In the middle of the way there was a rock.

this is not mine please dont add it, I just took the chance to share this beautiful poem
lol. I was considering putting this in the special section until I looked at the bottom text.
Polyspora

Stomiks wrote:

Polyspora wrote:

In the middle of the way
In the middle of the way there was a rock.
There was a rock in my way.
There was a rock.
In the middle of the way there was a rock.

I'll never forget this event.
In the vitality of my tired retina.
I'll never forget this event.
There was a rock.
The rock was in the middle of the way.
In the middle of the way there was a rock.

this is not mine please dont add it, I just took the chance to share this beautiful poem
lol. I was considering putting this in the special section until I looked at the bottom text.
yup made it bigger now so people wont say I'm plagiarizing


not really counting on people knowing where this poem is from anyway
Kaaruumii
Scyla's cursed inspirational quotes when
abraker
We're at 30k characters now. Half way there, we can do it!
Kataru
Hello.

wrote:

Hello.

wrote:

Welcome to the Library of OT.

wrote:

Have you found books that peaks your interest?

wrote:

Let me guide you.

wrote:

You might lose your way into this dark hallway,

wrote:

But do not worry for I have a lamp.

wrote:

This lamp provides us protection once we go to... there.

wrote:

There might be some interesting things down there, but as most people experienced, that is not a safe place to go.

wrote:

Here we are. I bid you farewell, and goodluck finding the books to your liking. Just never touch the book "How to Get Your Thread Locked on OT!(a Guide) book one". It's really dangerous. Oh you already did it.
Topic Starter
Stomiks

Kataru wrote:

Hello.

wrote:

Hello.

wrote:

Welcome to the Library of OT.

wrote:

Have you found books that peaks your interest?

wrote:

Let me guide you.

wrote:

You might lose your way into this dark hallway,

wrote:

But do not worry for I have a lamp.

wrote:

This lamp provides us protection once we go to... there.

wrote:

There might be some interesting things down there, but as most people experienced, that is not a safe place to go.

wrote:

Here we are. I bid you farewell, and goodluck finding the books to your liking. Just never touch the book "How to Get Your Thread Locked on OT!(a Guide) book one". It's really dangerous. Oh you already did it.
You're really dedicated to writing books huh?

Gonna update it after I'm not busy anymore.
Kataru

Stomiks wrote:

Kataru wrote:

Hello.

wrote:

Hello.

wrote:

Welcome to the Library of OT.

wrote:

Have you found books that peaks your interest?

wrote:

Let me guide you.

wrote:

You might lose your way into this dark hallway,

wrote:

But do not worry for I have a lamp.

wrote:

This lamp provides us protection once we go to... there.

wrote:

There might be some interesting things down there, but as most people experienced, that is not a safe place to go.

wrote:

Here we are. I bid you farewell, and goodluck finding the books to your liking. Just never touch the book "How to Get Your Thread Locked on OT!(a Guide) book one". It's really dangerous. Oh you already did it.
You're really dedicated to writing books huh?

Gonna update it after I'm not busy anymore.
maybe, It's just the one new thing i'm doing rn i'm bored man
besides it just takes like 10 minutes to make this it wont hurt
also the neko Chapter I was missing the last parts wut happened?
Topic Starter
Stomiks
New Entries:

Hello. by Kataru

Errors fixed:
the last parts of the book "neko"

Kataru wrote:

Stomiks wrote:

Kataru wrote:

Hello.

wrote:

Hello.

wrote:

Welcome to the Library of OT.

wrote:

Have you found books that peaks your interest?

wrote:

Let me guide you.

wrote:

You might lose your way into this dark hallway,

wrote:

But do not worry for I have a lamp.

wrote:

This lamp provides us protection once we go to... there.

wrote:

There might be some interesting things down there, but as most people experienced, that is not a safe place to go.

wrote:

Here we are. I bid you farewell, and goodluck finding the books to your liking. Just never touch the book "How to Get Your Thread Locked on OT!(a Guide) book one". It's really dangerous. Oh you already did it.
You're really dedicated to writing books huh?

Gonna update it after I'm not busy anymore.
the neko Chapter I was missing the last parts wut happened?
ah, sorry. Must've been some errors while putting it in.
Scyla

MFGSTC wrote:

Scyla's cursed inspirational quotes when
My book wen
Topic Starter
Stomiks

Scyla wrote:

MFGSTC wrote:

Scyla's cursed inspirational quotes when
My book wen
Write it first
Scyla
Converting it to a png right now to save characters
Scyla





















Corne2Plum3

Scyla wrote:






















do me
Polyspora

Scyla wrote:






















I think its your first good post of the month, nice!
Karmine

Corne2Plum3 wrote:

do me
Just keeping that for future generations



Polyspora wrote:

I think its your first good post of the month, nice!
"good"
Corne2Plum3

Karmine wrote:

Corne2Plum3 wrote:

do me
Just keeping that for future generations
wdym?
Topic Starter
Stomiks
Contemplating on whether to put this in picture books or the special section...
- cirno -
How to Get Your Thread Locked on OT! a Guide book 2
1. ask a mod to lock you thread
this is the easiest way to get a lock
2.post a birthday thread with no anime dancing gifs
this is gonna get you thread locked as soon as a mod sees that your thread has no dancing anime gifs
3.Dont be rude to other players
please dont
Topic Starter
Stomiks

A_childIGuess wrote:

How to Get Your Thread Locked n OT! a Guide book 2
1. ask a mod to lock you thread
this is the easiest way to get a lock
2.post a birthday thread with no anime dancing gifs
this is gonna get you thread locked as soon as a mod sees that your thread has no dancing anime gifs
3.Dont be rude to other players
please dont
Put your title in the box's title.
- cirno -

Stomiks wrote:

A_childIGuess wrote:

1. ask a mod to lock you threadHow to Get Your Thread Locked n OT! a Guide book 2
this is the easiest way to get a lock
2.post a birthday thread with no anime dancing gifs
this is gonna get you thread locked as soon as a mod sees that your thread has no dancing anime gifs
3.Dont be rude to other players
please dont
Put your title in the box's title.
I think I fixed it
Topic Starter
Stomiks

A_childIGuess wrote:

Stomiks wrote:

A_childIGuess wrote:

1. ask a mod to lock you threadHow to Get Your Thread Locked n OT! a Guide book 2
this is the easiest way to get a lock
2.post a birthday thread with no anime dancing gifs
this is gonna get you thread locked as soon as a mod sees that your thread has no dancing anime gifs
3.Dont be rude to other players
please dont
Put your title in the box's title.
I think I fixed it
...

Stomiks wrote:

How do I submit my literary works?
Post your work in this thread inside a box, with it having the title for your book like this:
Title
Contents of book here
Format it to your liking if you want, and I'll put it up in the main post and further format it if necessary. Be sure to mention it's literary type so I could categorize it accordingly.
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