>>26400
That's really sad.

me currently viewing tohno-chan while awaiting the delivery of my order of ramen at the local ramen shop and downloading anime in another window with nyaa, tt, shitkaku and horriblesubs's twitter open in other tabs

>>26467
I think your image is broken
either that or you're from an invisible world

I ate chinese for the first time. Wonton with pork and shrimp, and beef with shrooms and bamboo. Pretty good, I'll eat there again.

>>26470
Akari is so cute!

I check the boards manually, I just go through the boards that interest me every 'morning' (i.e. after I wake up) - amusingly enough yesterday I didn't do it for the first time in a long long while, couldn't access the net.

I go from left to right /an/ -> /ma/ -> /vg/ -> /vn/ -> /cr/ -> /so/ -> /ot/ -> /fb/ -> /pic/. I browse /vg/ and /so/ out of force of habit kinda, I used to be more interested in those boards and the things they talk about but now I only post on them like once a month. I spend the most time on /an/. I wish the other boards had more activity but considering I don't post much on them either I have no right to complain I guess.

Also this is an /fb/ topic kinda.

I just read /cr/, /ot/ and /so/ anymore. /mt/ occasionally for new books, thanks for the great suggestions there.

/mai/, /ot/ and /so/.

I want to post on the "actual boards about oktku stuff", as >>26443 put it, but I don't really have much to contribute. The best I can come up with is trite observations like "this show is getting pretty interesting", "this manga is a bit too cliched for me", etc. There'd be no reason to post it.

The main page. I ignore posts on /mai/, and often /an/ as well. I really like when people post on /foe/, /mp3/, /fig/ and /navi/. I don't post much myself.

I'd say it's moreso 4chan culture got tired of me.

Along the line somewhere it just changed and I don't find myself that into it anymore. I still long for the old days though. Sometimes I'll load up the archive and browse threads of old and it's really nostalgic.

About 18 I guess. I really don't know why. When I think of how it was like when I arrived and when I left, it feels worlds apart but I don't really know why. I think I just lost interest. It's like with airing anime, there is probably a good show but I can't be bothered to even look at a chart, just like 4chan probably has a decent thread but I just don't care.

17. I returned, sort of, at 20 due to lack of substantive alternatives.

This is all dependent upon what you refer to by "4chan culture". If it's the virtue of an anonymous platform of discussion and the unrestrained interactions that it breeds, I absolutely thrive on that. I cannot express how refreshing and lucid that form can be in direct comparison to the castrated, unchallenging, commercially sponsored pap that has come to infest the greater internet. Alternatively, like any platform that enables actual human beings to communicate their unique conception of what constitutes thought, you will have to wade through a tide of excreta to encounter anything of substance. It's saddening that such a requirement doesn't make imageboards less appealing than other options on the internet.

In the face of the sheer garbage that is most communities it's difficult to maintain any desire to uphold contribution quality. I exclusively frequent obscure boards where some semblance of standards and identity is preserved, but can't seem to reproduce the same feelings I got when I was younger. My current usage tends to concentrate within fits of procrastination and I increasingly perceive myself doing it for the gratification that comes with doing this. Imageboards are only entertaining when I have the opportunity to neglect things of consequence in my life.

/ot/ - 4chan meta

This is what I have, except in an olive green color. It was originally my mom's car, but when she got a new one I inherited this one. Before I got it, it had cost my parents quite a bit in repair costs. As soon as it was paid off a bunch of major stuff started falling apart.

I love this thing though. I like the way it feels, the overall look, and the color. The ambient interior lights also makes it a joy to drive at night. The other slight bummer is that it requires premium fuel, so gas costs a little more. I still love it nonetheless.

>>26357
Nice, I'd like to get myself a station wagon if I bought a car.

>>26348
>break problems where they kinda give out randomly

Uhh that sounds extremely dangerous. Did it even pass inspection?

>>26348
you might be able to turn off ABS

>>26393
It's a videogame...

>>26394
What about >>26352

>>26395
yeah I guess?

>>26397
cool

>>26361
Why should I stay there? This place may be slow but I like coming here too.

>>26372
I was on /d/ since 14 or 15 and it was great. Finally found somewhere where I could relate.

I was under the impression that most of us left /jp/ and by extension 4chan in 2010, but it looks like I was wrong. Fuck you.

>>26389
I started visiting 4chan when I was 12 years old

>>26391
mean

I think it's childish to have such debates. They have what makes them happy, and you have what makes you happy. Not one jeopardizes the other.

>correct me if I'm wrong, but is this not eating your cake and having it too?
You didn't really say if those people think loli is bad or not pga. mind crime.

The point in the loli argument is that the person can't be hurt, or if we put it in a general term, they can't be moved (the can't be affected and can't have an effect).
The point in their 2D argument would have to be that 2D can't be moved either. So even if you love or want to abuse 2D, the love will never exist outside of your mind. If any of you refute that, then you don't really stand on a common ground and probably aren't going to.

In the end it's about whether you like 2D or 3D. They probably like 2D too, but mistake their feelings for 3D as being important to them on a higher level than their basic instincts.

>>26376
I think it's the mind frame issue which may be the problem here.
While loli might not be real if we're we approach the issue from the perspective of someone with an imagined relationship with a waifu who's relationship is very real to them, it can potentially be seen as wrong if you're in turn putting yourself in the mind frame of abusing children. While no 3d children are being hurt the person is may still be guilty of hurting children, just in their mind. To them the children would be just as real as a waifu is to their husbando. This of course would mean this is more of an issue of thought crime and as such I think the issue could come down to the question; Is it wrong to want to molest/abuse children? Not actually committing the act, but vividly fantasizing about doing so?

I'm just playing devil's advocate here mind you, I don't actually hold any misgivings towards loli or those who enjoy it.

>>26377
Wouldn't it just be a case of "not equal to"? A person with a waifu might empathize with another person who has a waifu, but that doesn't mean person A sees persons B's waifu as being as real as and equal to his own. The same with someone who has a waifu and someone who abuses 2D children.

One morning, a Japanese schoolgirl was running through the halls to get to the school roof. Why, you ask? Because the school roof was the best spot to eat lunch, of course. Why was this schoolgirl so eager to eat somewhere so remote and far away from her classroom? Because her upperclassmen wouldn't look for her there. It's unfortunate, but the class above her wasn't particularly friendly towards her and her natural light brown hair. In particular, there were two senior girls who constantly bullied the poor brunette.

However, lady luck didn't care much for this schoolgirl. Upon reaching the stairwell, she leaped up two steps at a time in powerful strides with her petite legs. You could call is carelessness or you could say she was rushing far too much, but her foot caught on the penultimate step, bringing her face abruptly to the concrete platform.

She scuffled to her knees and wiped her forehead. There didn't seem to be any blood or graze. There were casualties, though. She sat and silently gazed upon a mixture of rice, eggs and assorted sides had scattered on the floor. Diligently, the schoolgirl mopped up her ill-fated lunch into her bento box with the lid. Don't cry, she told herself. She was a mature high school student, she reminded herself. Proper ladies don't cry over spilled milk—or lunch, in this case. After that was done, she stood up and made her way up the remaining stairs onto the roof.

The poor, hungry schoolgirl, laying down on the single bench she had brought to the rooftop long ago, admired the vast skies. At that moment, she envied the sky for having no stomach. It did, however, have a person it in. The queerness of the sight suspended reality for a moment, and only when the person had fallen a hundred feet farther did the schoolgirl react. And by react, she sprang to her feet.

What she saw was a foreigner dressed in a soldier's uniform. Before she could say anything, he slapped his helmet, saying, "Son of a gun!"

"Who are you?" the schoolgirl asked in Japanese.

The paratrooper looked around the roof for a second. "Where the fuck am I, China?" he cried, punctuating his question with a, "Hot damn!"

The schoolgirl was noticeable perplexed at the situation in front of her.

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>>24960
The clicheness of an idea has no bearing on the invalidity of it.

Trying to talk with people. The close-minded culture of having to always "be right." It would be somehow shameful to admit having ever been wrong about anything even if it was just some stupid bullshit you didn't ultimately even have a well thought out reason for.
Emotional investment in preestablished conclusions instead of trying to reach the most correct ones. Just give in to your basest instincts. Only accept what fits your worldview. Everything in life is just a big dickwaving contest.

If you start off knowing you're right you'll never allow yourself to move on to actually becoming more right.
But what do I know? I'm just some mentally unstable waste of air.
Better just shut up than try to associate critical thought with myself. A good ad hominem has sunk easier to swallow perfectly unrelated issues than that.

Maybe I'd complain less if I went to live in the monkey enclosure at the zoo. Or more, but futiloly mumbling stupid cynical crap about monkeys at the walls like this might be better than doing that about people.

I hate my inability to relate or feel a connection to people. In real life I can't hold a conversation or maintain a connection with someone for more than ten minutes, and even less so online. It's gotten to the point where I rarely even use anything on the internet that has some human presence to it (such as social media, podcasts, let's plays, etc). I wish I could enjoy being around people because I still fantasize about having friends, but I just feel so uncomfortable around humans now-a-days.

What I don't like is how difficult it is to find high-quality, impartial, well researched information on controversial issues.

With science, you can find high quality information on, say, the causes of global warming, in a peer reviewed journal. In science you get the facts, no bullshit, it is rigorous and everything is peer reviewed. But with stuff like politics or the news most of the stuff is either low quality stuff or created by people with an agenda who are trying to persuade you towards a certain belief.

For example in Australia we have basically 5 channels. The ABC and SBS have news which is fairly unbiased as far as I can tell. Meanwhile channel 9, 7 and 10 which are privately owned have news which is mostly stuff like 'dog saves owner from fire', 'there was a car crash in Sydney in this suburb', etc. Both don't really go into great detail about issues.

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>>26295
>Unless, of course, you are referring to train otaku and the like.
Yes that was the type of otaku I was referring too, although I can see how it would be strange for someone to call themselfs a ***otaku if they aren't at least interested in something of japanese origin.

>>26292
Maybe I should. Indeed it gets harder and harder to find series that I enjoy. If its not a bad series, then I've read it already- if not that, then its either untranslated or still ongoing.

>>26298
Existence is suffering, the root of suffering, desire.

This doesn't come up often, but I find it annoying when the last ep of a show adds sound effects to it's op. Just sounds stupid.
off the top of my head two shows I remember doing this were Haganai and jojo stardust.