>>38411
That's like saying money isn't important as long as you have money.
I know what you mean though, but I can't help but feel is the kind of entitled things people in a better position than the vast majority like to say. Like saying, I have so much money I don't even care about it.

>>38410
>there's no alternative
That's just what this fucked up system wants you to think. A system this horrible can't exist without conditioning people to be so dependent on it that they can't even imagine any other way of living. I think this also takes advantage of people's natural fear of change, where in people will choose to continue living in a less favorable situation that has if nothing else has proven to be stable. The idea of change and taking a chance might be fun to fantasize about, but fear of the unknown will generally keep people from doing anything more than just that. No mater how bad a situation is, a person will still find one excuse after another to defend the shitty situation they're in and why they can't leave it when pushed to do something about it.
You could leave, go somewhere new, find a new trade, make new friends, make a new life for yourself, far far away from there if you have to. If you get to the point where suicide starts to sound tempting, then what do you really have to lose? At least you'd have a chance of a better life, and it's not like the suicide option goes away if you try your hand at a better life.

And in case you're thinking "that's easy for you to say", this is coming from someone who is in the process of traveling across the country and looking for a new place to settle down. It hasn't been all fun, but even at the worst of times I've never once considered going back to the rotten shithole town I came from.

>>38414
>can't even imagine any other way of living
So does that mean you have any suggestions about a better way to live? What's a good trade to get into?

>>38414
Sorry, you got me wrong.
I don't make excuses to stay in shitty situations because I don't even have the will to stay in shitty situations, I always try to avoid pain, nothing heroic about it. I'm actually quitting my job because it turned into shit and I hope I can find something better. But when I see so many people going through hell I wonder if I'm just naive and that's how things are supposed to be and I'm just a complainer. I have lots of conflicted feelings. But I always try to stick to my decisions. My problem is, I can easily imagine myself in another shitty job or just finally ending terminally unemployed = dead. It's tiresome when you don't see any progress at all.

About suicide, it's an escapist fantasy. Years ago I planned to do it, now it's just a thought I like to have because at least it means an exit. I look back and life hasn't been particularly worth living until now. If I could know for sure the next 30 years are going to be the same shit or worse I think I would give up. Just living because you're afraid of death isn't truly living.

I think we are in the same ship. I suspect I have answered you in other threads in similar ways you answered to me, also you probably expressed suicidal ideas too.
Maybe we are going trough the same rollercoaster of doubt, despair and hope.

Not sure where else to post this, so I'll post it here.
I've decided to take an extended vacation from certain things that I normally do every day. I'm not sure exactly how long this will last, but I'm planning on it being a while. I've developed certain attention draining habits over the course of my now 2 years of hikkikomorism, and many of them leave me unhappy and unsatisfied with myself, to the point where I've begun contemplating suicide on a regular basis. I'm hoping to replace these unfulfilling, meaningless, timewasting and attention destroying things with things I'll be much more happy doing on a regular basis.
Tohno-chan is among these websites, although it's hardly the place I waste the most time on (usually Youtube or spacing out to music tends to shave hours off of my life) it's enough of a distraction that I feel the need to stop visiting it entirely. I like this place, it was a huge departure from 4chan and 8ch, both of which I had gotten increasingly tired of, but in the effort to focus myself it's a place I'm going to have to stop browsing.
I can't imagine anyone would really care except for me, but if there's someone else who feels overwhelmingly distracted by internet-related factors, just know you're not alone.

>>38351
If you're reading this, you're not doing as you planned, but I'll assume you will. Stopping bad habits isn't like flipping a light switch. There's a reason you wasted your time on those things in the first place. Until you address the root cause of bad habits, you'll constantly be struggling against the urge to go back to them, and when you break eventually, you'll give up and say it was impossible from the start. So do a little bit more thinking about that.

>>38351
I'd like to leave too, but that would completely cut me off from the experience of other people.
Like I learnt a couple posts above that fuel can go bad, and I warned my mom since she didn't know either and the car has been parked for a while. It's not the first time I come across a useful bit of info like that, which wouldn't occur to me to search for directly.

last night I decided to spend the night next to the boarder separating Nevada and Arizona, near the Hover dam. Figured we'd check it out in the morning. This was a mistake. The heat, while a little less than the Vegas area, made it hard to get more than 3-4 hours of sleep. All the same, went to check out that dam place. My mom got paranoid about leaving the rv alone and already saw the dam thing so she stayed behind with the rv, which worked for me. I took some dam photos from the dam bridge which had a good dam view, then drove over the dam thing with my car to get some more dam photos.
Before anyone asks: NCR

I noticed the car was starting up a little funny, and got some concerns. Getting back to the rv, we prepped up to move on, but the car wouldn't start, and we couldn't push it onto the tow hitch. Was gonna jump start it but managed to get it to turn over with one last try. My mom followed in the car to the first rest stop, where I hitched it up and we drove for a hour more to a place called Kingman Arazona, which had a rest stop I wanted to spend the night at, but found it was closed when we got there (thanks google maps) so we went to a gas station just down the hill from it. They had an over sized parking lot. Asked if I could spend the night there (while buying a dream catcher from them, for some favor) they said sure. While there I got the battery replaced in the car ($150)., and had lunch. The road was so noisy we decided not to stick around there. So while buying my mom some tylonal at the same gas station I asked if I could use their water spout to fill up my tank a bit, since it was on empty and I thought it'd be nice to take a shower. the adapter they had on it got stuck and cut up my hand trying to remove it. the shower itself was like a sauna. I couldn't rig up the car with one hand so my mom followed me again in spite of being in very bad shape. we got to a massive truck stop around 7pm, shaving 30 minutes off the time to our next campground. which is still 4+ hours away. The temps here are decent, all be it windy. mostly just hoping no one gives us a hard time as we're the only rv here among 50+ trucks. also, typing this was of course a bitch with the hand thing.
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>>38400
I'm glad there are still people on the internet who can take it easy.

I know vtubers are just annoying fad, but I feel like it is more annoying than most dumb trends that come before it...

>>38402
Sadly I don't think it's just a fad... Streaming and Youtubing in general has been huge for a while and this is just a natural spin-off from that. I only hope that it stays in it's own domain and does not spread to much into Otaku culture.

>>38403
Eh, VTubers - in the Hololive sense, which is the most popular - are just another offshoot of idol culture. The pursuit of, say, picking well-known anime voice actresses has been a thing for ages now; this isn't anything new. I think these factors alone signify they are part of otaku culture and probably here to stay for a while.

>>38394
The thing is, people are afraid of mutations - there's already concern over the so-called "Delta" variant, which is the one that, according to some analysts, managed to both become more infectious and more severe in terms of symptoms. The less the virus is spreading around, the less likely it is to continue mutating. I think this is what's driving some chunk of the vaccine push - the assumption that things may or may not get worse based on random number generation unless we curb the virus as much as possible.

What I'm afraid of is that because of the limited amount of people actually getting jabbed in many areas, plus the economically advocated push for re-opening borders and travel, we might not get that - that is, while the people who took the vaccine will generally be protected from current and similar variants, the people who didn't will be numerous enough to continue mutating the virus into variants; this will lead to a world of necessary yearly booster shots for some time...

Another factor is hospitals - vaccinations promote reduction of the amount of severe COVID cases, which means hospitals can now function better; at least in my country, this is great for many patients with life-threatening, non-COVID illnesses.

I don't really have an answer for the fact that a small number of people will probably die due to side effects from the vaccine. I am somewhat of a believer in collective ideology, but I also understand "oh he died for the good of everyone else" is really not the answer I can give to a grieving family.

>>38395
It's fear-driven. Both fear of such warnings reducing the number of vaccinations, as well as - rarely - fear of state actors amplifying such cases for their own gain (Estonia asserts Russia has been doing this here in particular).

>>38396
I don't think boosters may be required since I recall reading that people infected with the original sars coronavirus still have antibodies against that. So the antibodies from the vaccine should be enough for a decade at least. And I'm not a biochem guy but it seems the spike protein is integral to the function of the virus so that's unlikely to mutate enough to render current vaccines completely ineffective, but it does seem there are lower antibody rates [1].

An interesting hybrid approach might be to reduce the number of doses, amount of payload in each dose, or play with dose interval based on age group. Two doses 3 weeks apart is probably overkill for most healthy adults, and was likely chosen for the trials only to guarantee a rapid robust immune response for all ages (especially elderly). Certainly those who already had covid don't need 2 doses.

At the very least better reporting infrastructure should be in place. For instance, before receiving a second dose people should be made to fill out a questionnaire of all symptoms they experienced after the first dose. There's VAERS in the US but that's passive reporting system and I doubt most people are even aware that it exists.

[1] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/6/16/how-covid-vaccines-work-against-delta-variant

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>>38397
>For instance, before receiving a second dose people should be made to fill out a questionnaire of all symptoms they experienced after the first dose.

In my country, that is the case - the expected procedure for getting vaccinated is as follows:

1. Sign up for a given timeslot at a given vaccination point for a given vaccine,
2. Fill out a basic questionnaire - the intent is to highlight people who have adverse conditions which either prohibit taking the vaccine, or require additional medical consultation. This includes asking about vaccine side effects and the first dose. You also leave your contact information on it, in case something goes wrong I suppose.
3. Be referred to a "qualifying doctor" - they read your questionnaire, double-check verbally if you actually understand what you filled out, and are supposed to answer any additional questions.
4. Have the vaccine injected.
5. Spend 15 minutes at the vaccination point - this is to filter out any immediate adverse reactions.
6. Congratulations, you can now receive 5G data transmissions!

Now, knowing my country, not every place adheres to this perfectly, of course; however, the idea is there. In my case, steps 2-4 took about 10 minutes, but I don't have a history of adverse anything so that's the best case scenario.

>Two doses 3 weeks apart is probably overkill for most healthy adults, and was likely chosen for the trials only to guarantee a rapid robust immune response for all ages (especially elderly).

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>>38398
Tangential, but I've always where the 5G nonsense came from. Maybe it's the marketers should be blamed for promising the moon with 5G, since the reality isn't even close to what the marketers were promising with IoT and smart cars.

As far as I understand, "5G" (which is really just marketing slogan for the updated 3GPP spec) is mainly just evolutionary improvements in spectrum efficiency, some changes to how negotiations are done to enable better latency, and the possibility of using millimeter wave range of the spectrum. But the mm wave is also mostly just marketing hype since even though the increased bandwidth can support more concurrent connections, there's still the issue of backhaul to the telco – so it's only going to be used for stadiums and such large arenas.

>>38392
There are other side-effects trends that the CDC hasn't acknowledged yet (nor may never acknowledge). Insomnia and non-transient tinnitus seems to be other side-effect that are occurring for some, and that's probably most concerning of all since these are in the realm of neurological issues which shouldn't be possible under the current working assumptions of the vaccine. (It also seems to be messing with women's periods, but that might just be caused by hormonal changes from immune response rather than any more specific mechanism). Probably the best way to get a survey of possible side-effects is to browse through r/CovidVaccinated which gives you slightly better quality of results than going to VAERS directly. The fact that a subreddit is currently the best place to get a realistic picture of the spread of possible side-effects reflecs terribly on the CDC and FDA. If they had any sense they'd set up some sort of keyword monitoring/clustering to detect possible patterns at the earliest possible time and react accordingly.

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>>37444
Indeed, I think it's an inherent part of their culture and identity and I do hope that it would remain that way. Compared to other countries that are so eager to shed their history in favor of progress. I am concerned however that this may change in the future as japan is becoming increasingly integrated into the globalized world. Even now a lot of the things you've mentioned have been reduced into an exotic and expensive tourist attraction.

>>37293
Vaccinate now!

I wonder if I can go to Japan now; was planning to go after the 2020 Olympics. Now it's all so uncertain.

>>38379
Do it before it's too late. There's a new pandemic coming from China and it's worse than corona.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-is-going-on-with-bird-flu-china-reports-first-human-case-of-h10n3-strain-11622658667
I hate China so much, holy shit...

I want to ride my bicycle...

Bicycle Build
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNjxGbk7u1w

Actually right... Why did the Japanese use bicycles to conquer Malaya?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nvwE8qzKKU

This thread seems to be just a dumping ground for low-effort posts. I think it is reasonable to lock it.

moot's moving on from google: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/22/4chan-founder-chris-poole-moot-has-left-google.html
The discussion that took place on Hacker News is also amusing(ly stupid).

>>38091
5yrs is a pretty decent tenure. I believe he was in the Tokyo office on the maps team for most of his time there.

Pilum time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxY3CzN2Kkc

Why there are still shortages of stuff
https://youtu.be/b1JlYZQG3lI?t=813

>>29151
You aren't an "otaku" at all because none of those things make you an otaku. In reality, you're the only normalfag here because of your desperation to prove that you're not like them and your desperation in having something that makes you different.
Of course you browse Retardchan. You know what you are? You're a failed normalfag. You bring up that you've "never held hands with a girl" and such. You don't belong here at all. Fuck off and go back there.

The most important step in being an otaku is learning how to be alone & be yourself.

"Otaku" isn't really something you try to become, it's more of a murky swamp that you just sort of gradually sink into if you have the right type of personality. Before you know it you realize that you're in so deep you might as well get comfortable. Anyway I think I roughly understand what you're trying to ask so here is my personal experience:

Around 2003 or so I kind of got hooked watching the anime that Cartoon Network would run at night (Inuyasha, Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, etc), and got interested enough in a couple of shows to start collecting them on DVD. When I started college the following year I saw a flier for a school anime club so I started going to that. Most of the people there knew a lot more about anime than I did and had been into it longer so I felt kind of out of place. However I got to be friends with some of the people in the club and I just kind of got sucked further and further into that world. In addition to the club we started going to conventions and the like, and we would frequently hang out and watch each others DVDs. I learned about 4chan from one of those guys too, and that was really the point of no return for me. Before I got into this stuff I was basically just a somewhat awkward and socially beta but still relatively normal male; I now live in a world of plastic figurines and erotic visual novels. My only close friends are the anime club friends I met in college.

Anyway, being otaku is basically like having any other interest that you're very deeply into, like being into a music genre or something. If you want to get into it just start looking into titles that sound interesting to you, learn all you can again, and go from there. One of two things will happen: either you'll find out it was just a phase, or you'll become one of us.

>>29120
Too hot to think straight. I'm a fan but not "otaku" (ie.hardcore) enough.

>>38309
If it does happen at least you can hopefully look forward to a more cohesive publication schedule.

>>38306
I wish this was a prank. I can't overstate my sorrow of receiving this news. I got into the Berserk manga many years ago, when I was around 15. From the moment I read it, I knew it was one of those experiences that would mark me for a lifetime. My own childhood was a nightmare in itself, so I clang to Guts as my role model. A man who defied all the odds, who fought with unspeakable monster despite being a human, a man who rose above the struggle. Every time I felt bad I would think of Guts, and face the struggle again. This very night, I was awoken by a repulsive nightmare, and thought of him. Yet, I came to my home site to find about such sad news. I spent all day crying. I never met or talked with Miura-sensei, yet I cried as if I lost a dear friend. I am devastated. He was so young, and such a genius.
To have created such a generation-spanning story, with amazing art and characters would have been an achievement in itself, but Miura went further. Guts is not merely a character, he is a role model. Today the world is bereft of a master artist and a superb storyteller. And all I can do is treasure the gift this man gave us, from the other side of the globe, and keep it in my heart forever.
RIP Kentaro Miura, you will be thoroughly missed.

https://www.fastly.com/blog/summary-of-june-8-outage


A large chunk of the internet went offline, because some random user changed his settings.

>>38313
RIP

>>38240
Hah hah, no. The thought of it only crossed my mind as I posted that in this thread. I am completely unfamiliar with said anime/manga outside of some random pictures I saw of its manga and anime years ago.
Amusing, indeed.

>>38239
That's fascinating and feels too complex for a dream. Maybe it wasn't a dream, but a message.

Drawing on my current view of reality

>>38244
Dreams aren't real

I prefer daydreaming as my way of escapism. I like to create my own stories. I wish I had writing talent to make them "real" and get paid money though.

>>33883
>I believe that fiction is desensitizing.
That's not what i've experienced. Normally i'm mostly numb to what the people around me are feeling, but if i'm in the middle of a book, I'm already in the mindset of empathizing with others so I feel a little more. The brain gets better at what it's trained to do. Fiction doesn't actually have stakes to it, so I don't think it's desensitizing.

Isekai

>>38372
Stop posting this low effort shit.