>>41140
>put it all behind them and have moved on with their lives
I don't get it. It's not like lurking and posting is a full time job. You never hear people talk about reading the news or watching sports like that, but the time investment is pretty much the same.

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>>41141
Yeah you don't. I think people leave it behind because the life styles and culture conflict. Sports can be a social activity that is shared with normies and encourages human interaction with it's themes of teamwork. I'm not sure if I'd go as far as to say this life style is anti-social, but lets just say most people in places like this aren't exactly going to be rooting for you to get a 9-5 job, a wife, and some kids.

>>41142
>I'm not sure if I'd go as far as to say this life style is anti-social
I think attributing any life style to imageboards is a mistake. As if life styles are the only thing worth talking about. Can't you talk about anime whether you're a neet, or a student or a "family man"? And why does having a family entail giving up who you are? That's not "moving on with your life", it's suicide. Of course dead people can't post. I refuse to acknowledge that as "progression".

>>41143
>why does having a family entail giving up who you are?
I recently spoke with a former anon/waifufag who told me they dropped the otaku life style in spite of moving to japan (and getting married), which really left me wondering about this. When someone starts a family, it takes priority above all else in their life. Their time, money, attention, it all goes to that family. Even their very freedom seems to get lost most of the time. Just yesterday I overheard someone at the store talking about sneaking away from their wife for half an hour. I hear that sort of thing a lot. Sometimes it's people having to justify buying a game console to their partner, or just hanging out with friends. It makes me wonder if it's really worth it.
Meanwhile, there's a guy at work who seems to like (surface level) nerdy stuff, and never shuts up about his kid, so who knows? Maybe it's not impossible to find some balance?

>>39977
>>39957
Surprising that there are other Australians on Tohno...

>>41135
There's a surprising amount of aussies still sticking around on imageboards.

>>41137
I guess it's hard to find people to relate to in person here, since the majority of people are bogans or suburb-dwelling office job workers. Even when you find somebody with the same interests as you, my general experience is that they're extremely annoying (in the fat, loud guy at the comic book shop kind of way) and not actually very relatable. Ergo it makes more sense to stay online and talk to Americans and whatnot.

>>39789
Well, I've noticed this too. For the last 3-5 years I've mostly spent time indoors, but I go out at 10~pm to do my grocery shopping since nobody is around.
On the off-chance that I wind up at the supermarket during the day, I notice that everybody around me is much, much uglier than I'm used to. Fat, ugly mothers with their fat, ugly children. People who look clinically retarded. People with vacant, slow expressions in their eyes.
It's a bizarre feeling, because I can't sympathise with them at all. It's like they're all NPCs (excuse the term) from a video game. They just make me uncomfortable and stressed and I want to get away as soon as possible.

>>41125
Modern smartphones have a ton of forced obnoxious features and settings under the banner of "for your own good". Thankfully there's ways around most of these. There might be an option for that hidden away in the settings somewhere, possibly in dev-mode settings (I'd need to know more about your phone model to be of any real help)
Alternatively, there are various apps you can use to get around it. I personally like an app called Macrodroid. With that you could program it to automatically restore the volume every 24 hours, maybe set it for midnight so you never notice. Keep in mind the free version has ads and limits you to one macro.

>>41125
Its existence and functionality is probably due to lawsuits of the fear of them. Remember not to ingest the battery, anon.

>>41126
Yeah, looking for it now, there's a really awkward setting for it. Rather than simply turning it off, you can turn on a custom limit and set it to max volume.
I never really bothered to check before because I don't usually think about it until it becomes an issue, and usually I don't have the time to mess with my phone's settings.
It's stupid, but at least my glorified mp3 player is a bit less annoying to use now.

"Sci-fi" written by people who don't have a genuine interest in science, tends to be either really unimaginative, or basically fantasy. The former takes the modern world, and applies "futuristic" decorations to it, without deeply thinking about the social consequences technology would actually have. Futurama is an obvious example. Its source of comedy is satire of the current world within a faux "futuristic" world. As sci-fi, it's insipid. Same with Rick and Morty.

>>36718
Disregarding that fact even, gacha is evil, and is made to prey on the mentally ill.

Pokketo Monstaa are normie fare. Enjoy it but don't make a big deal about it.

I loved the games as a kid. I started with gen 4, but mostly played gen 3. Stopped playing after gen 5 because I didn't get a 3ds and wasn't that bothered to ask for one.
I still like Pokemon I guess. It can be fun to pick up on occasion, but it's very rare these days. I've replayed them a lot of times over the years. There isn't anything new for me with the games that I'll play.

Gen4 was the last enjoyable one for me. Had a certain mystique to it.

>>40998
>I personally recommend buying purpose made headphones for home listening
I don't want my head getting sweaty, and from what I know they leak noise a lot. Comfort wise, earbuds don't bother me.

I bought recently a logitech mk295 "silent touch" wireless keyboard and mouse combo. Was totally worth it, though people said that it will become less silent within a few weeks. The mouse is not so bad but have no side buttons. Also bought a logitech g305 mouse. First I thought I'm going to send it back. Buttons press too easily/accidentally, feels like cheap plastic, clicking sound is loud and cheap. But then started to like it because the performance is nice, the buttons pressing easily is not such a bad thing actually. So I'm keeping it.

other thing I bought is a Huion H610x draw tablet. Never had a draw tablet before. First I thought I'm going crazy from having to look not where my hand is drawing but at the monitor, but it got better. So keeping it.

>>40996
They've arrived. Things sound crisper and more detailed. Haven't had them long enough to judge durability, but I'm already glad I got them, if for no other reason than to see what I was missing out on by using cheap, comes with the phone, earbuds.

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$65 HUGE cotton-threaded blanket for summer

>>41040
Same here, sadly we're not the majority.

Bro have you considered not defining yourself by the media you consume.

>>41054
You mean Quake3? no.

Eh I assume OPs problem stems, if anything, from too much porn consumption or generally spending too much time online in the wrong places to assume feminity = empathy = weakness I guess? I would be more worried about how this concern could lead to masculine overcompensation, or you just not enjoying things anymore out of some made up social pressure.
In my case I always liked shows like Air, but was really drawn to iyashikei when my depression got worse, and those anime simply helped me get through the day and made me a better person, hopefully. Maybe watch Devilman Crybaby, or The Art of Self Defence, to understand that being emotional doesn't mean being weak. What is soft though is blaming media for you not liking yourself, if you really think 2d 'infected' you then go ahead stop watching, and the problem should be solved!

https://arcove.substack.com/p/null-call
Ties together a cohesive narrative for the psychosis experience often described adjacent to shamans, also perhaps famously outlined by ug krishnamurti as the "calamity" he underwent. I also love the paragraph on "shared realities" which is probably related to the "collective unconscious'

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https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/does-anyone-like-fruitbaskets
choice quotes
>Mao sent the workers stationed at Qinghua a case of mangoes, which he’d received from Pakistan’s foreign minister
>Mao didn’t like fruit and didn’t want to eat these messy mangoes
>Few [people] had even heard the word [‘mango’], let alone seen one
>The workers decided not to eat them. They stayed up through the night looking at the mangoes, stroking them, and sniffing them
>it began to rot. In response, they carefully peeled the mango and boiled its pulpy flesh in a large pot of water. Afterwards, the factory held a Eucharist-like service where everyone drank a spoonful of the precious elixir
>Gigantic papier-mâché mangoes decorated floats at the National Day Parade and wax replicas enshrined in glass vitrines were distributed as merit awards
>In the middle of the winter, oilfield workers in Daqing were forced into unheated buses in negative-22 degrees Fahrenheit and taken to a local mango exhibition
>Murck recounts a fatal episode in Sichuan Province, where a man was dragged through the streets and executed for comparing mangoes with sweet potatoes.

The sweet potato thing really get me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhfAf1teWJI

I suppose picture uploads to a an English site that curates images is not a 100% accurate representation of popularity but it is a fair look at fan engagement.

interesting to see that Mika Hatsune has maintained consistently high uploads ever since she was made.

>>41103
It's kinda sad going from touhou and vn characters, to vtubers and mobile game props.

I watched Dracula today, as in the original. Thought it'd be interesting to see where it all started. To see where all the remakes, parodies, references and famous lines come from. I had no idea the character of van helsing was even in it. Always figured he came later to spice things up as a monster hunter of sorts. I also thought most of it would take place in and around his castle, not just the intro. I guess they figured it'd be cheaper to make an excuse to film most of the movie in a producer's house(guessing). The movie starts with what I assume is a realtor(maybe notary) taking some estate documents to Dracula at his castle, who then turns him into a servant and off they go to London to kill some flower girl then harass his new neighbors for 80% of the movie.
Not long ago I watched the original mummy and wolfman and much like those I found half the film is people sitting around talking. The runtime felt twice as long as it was. Things feel very slow paced, with many details being painstakingly explained for audiences that are either idiots or aren't paying attention. For instance, the scene in which van helsing notices Dracula has no reflection, I just knew they were going to repeat that shot 3+ times in case viewers missed it, and they did it something like five times one after another. It's kind of funny I guess how older generations needed things explained to them like this, in contrast to modern films in which key details that might be very important later on, are shown for just a second. Things happen so quickly in modern films... I guess that's just how audiences today are trained, it allows for twice the amount of story and content to be packed into the same runtime, but it does also make these older films that much more relaxing. If I wasn't watching it in a simulated VR theater, I probably would have been distracted by a million things while watching it.
Effects ranged from cheesy to mostly clever editing. There's a lot of use of fake bats on strings but it's the performances that really sell things, which aren't bad for the most part. The ending very very abrupt, almost like a "screw it time to end this bitch".
I also found it interesting how van helsing basically just looks at a victims blood and is like "yup, you got vampires", and people mostly just g

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>>41087
>I watched Dracula today, as in the original.
You'd be better off reading the book. Every popular adaptation butchers it. It deserves a complete, episodic adaptation. The book is like a whole adventure with a great, dramatic ending to boot.

>>41088
You're right, that'd probably be a good idea.

>>41087
>>41088
I'd also recommend the 1993 Francis Ford Coppola adaptation. It's not a replacement or anything but as a film its extremely beautiful and makes amazing use of the medium. With the sole exception of some overdrawn fire, every effect is in-camera. Lovely music, set design and atmosphere too. It also includes many things that tend to be excluded from adaptations although it does add several things that makes it more of a romantic tragedy than the original.

The one neko I see is scary

>>41064

The kuro neko by the projected image?
That's Koko, she isn't kowai, she's very affectionate and assertive.

lainfags are the WORST!

>>41073
Seriously, this is what lain does to you.

Even though there was a lot of shit that happened to me, it wasn't a bad year for me. Even considering the fact that I live in a country at war.

I'm wanting to get out a bit more this year and start working on some writing. Nothing grand, just go out, sit in a coffee shop and hack away. It feels a bit pretentious but it helps me get more done. I'm not surrounded by so many easy distractions.

Same with getting more physical exercise. I get really broody when I don't move my body. It's kind of a hassle but I reckon it saves me time since I won't waste as much. Bodies need patched to require less upkeep.

Be more a human doing. Cold made me lazy.

Rock bottom honestly,
Trying to take some steps to remedy that but who knows.

One cat and two dogs. The cat's a bit of an isolationist and spends a lot of time on her own.
The dogs are really energetic and are a bit foolish. I love them all.

i enjoy caring for plants

>>33465
Do you have an outside garden, or do you tend potted plants? Sounds nice, regardless.

I own an african clawed frog. An invasive species that is entirely aquatic. It might as well be a goldfish, except it lives for around 25 years. Got it as a kid. The advertising was completely deceptive, with claims about it being genetically engineered or something.

I have no attachment to it. Every couple of months, I have to clean it' tank, but other than that it might as well not exist. It's got a pretty boring, pointless life anyway, swimming around the same tank for years on end. I don't want another pet.