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35526 No. 35526 hide watch expand quickreply [Reply] [Edit] [First 100 posts] [Last 50 posts]
Which other imageboards do you go to?
desuchan?
uboachan.net/ot/?
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>> No. 42412 [Edit]
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42412
Are there no active textboards anymore?
>> No. 42413 [Edit]
>>42412
Does 5ch not count?
>> No. 42415 [Edit]
>>42413
I meant an english-language textboard....
>> No. 42416 [Edit]
>>42415
There are a few but none are good, and most are extremely small.

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16448 No. 16448 hide watch quickreply [Reply] [Edit] [First 100 posts] [Last 50 posts]
Ponderings general 2. Post things you've thought about.

Previous thread >>15685
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>> No. 42425 [Edit]
>>42422
hacker news
>> No. 42426 [Edit]
>>42418
>the mods are viewed fairly positively
There's only one guy doing it these days too.
>> No. 42427 [Edit]
>>42426
I was about to ask about Scott (sctb), but it seems you're right, he left around 2020 and now it's just Dan. That's fairly impressive. The overall moderation system isn't perfect (there's clear political and social bias in terms of which articles get flagged and automatically taken down), but in terms of direct human moderation Dan always seemed fairly hands-off.
>> No. 42429 [Edit]
>>42427
I pretty much agree.

>Dan always seemed fairly hands-off.
Even though he's being paid to do this, I cannot help but mention my appreciation for his rather even-handed and cool approach to moderation. Not many in his position would be able to do the same, as seen on other sites.

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42262 No. 42262 hide watch expand quickreply [Reply] [Edit]
Hey Tohno-chan, I need help deciding on a pillow. A rather big birthday of mine is coming up and instead of an iPhone or a smart watch or some other crap I told my family I want something to fix my awful sleep. I'm quite a cuddlebug so a dakimakura is what I've been thinking about, but my family insists on an orthopedic hybrid of a memory foam main pillow and a 'wedge' pillow from a telemarketing store to go between my knees.

I trust the battle-tested market of NEET accessories much more than any 'ergnomic' stuff but buying and shipping a proper daki over here is crazy expensive in comparison so I need to be absolutely sure it will be a good choice. Anybody here with experience, especially with Dakimakuri's inner pillows, can give some feedback on how durable they are, and whether they clump easily?

Alternatively I could try getting a 'backup husband' type pillow as it's so called on online stores here but I only found one sold by a vendor I don't trust, they routinely underfill their normal pillows with low-quality stuffing.
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>> No. 42272 [Edit]
>>42271
The one weird trick that daki manufacturers don't want you to know. Big pillow _hates_ him!

Outside the issue of having a nonuniform filling which could probably be worked around by choosing the right type of "smaller pillows", I guess it probably would work.
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Alright, so a follow up on this one. I actually found a pillow vendor that sold body pillows with regular old polyesther in standard 160x50 so I got that one. It arrived today. It's pretty light, feels about 2kg which is pretty far from Dakimakuri inners, but it's still pretty high and is very much stuffed with the material. Going to see how it works out and report my findings in a few days.
>> No. 42354 [Edit]
>>42351
Unless it's against some kind of rule about advertisement or such I wouldn't mind you sharing the vendor.
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It's been a few days and I got to say I don't regret what I bought. Took a bit of experimenting to get a good setup going, and while I'm not sleeping like a log all the time still, it's much better than before. Once I can afford it I'll definetly invest in a proper dakimakura later down the line, but until then, this regular old white pillar is basically perfect.

Thanks for your help, Tohnons.

>>42354
Thanks, but I'd rather not. They specialize in 'orthopedic' (read: oddly shaped) pillows and they don't ship outside of my country as far as I am aware.

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33182 No. 33182 hide watch expand quickreply [Reply] [Edit] [First 100 posts] [Last 50 posts]
Sort of a hybrid between the book club and "post something new you learned." Post any interesting essays, articles or prose you've stumbled across on the internet.

I'll start:
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/09/02/754316710/meet-the-man-who-guards-americas-ketchup
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/22/guantanamos-darkest-secret
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>> No. 42283 [Edit]
>>42281
You've got to save those kind of things. Maybe you'll have better luck looking on niconico.

edit: after only a few minutes of looking, I found this, so it is a potential avenue.
https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm20170106

Post edited on 4th Feb 2024, 9:53pm
>> No. 42284 [Edit]
>>42283
Try "the silent library"
>> No. 42337 [Edit]
>>42283
I couldn't find anything there except for a video of some people singing the theme song of the first season. In the program they would get an artist the participants were fond of to make a special encouragement song for them. But these songs are on youtube anyway. I found the dvds for sale, but that's about it.
>> No. 42341 [Edit]
>>42337
>I found the dvds for sale, but that's about it.
Post the link. Maybe someone will buy and rip them.

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36602 No. 36602 Locked hide watch expand quickreply [Reply] [Edit] [Last 50 posts]
What are your thoughts on this no touching yourself for a month thing? Do you take part in it, or do you think it's stupid?
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>> No. 42322 [Edit]
>>42321
For you, but some try to look for more in their ideal. And that's kind of the point.
>> No. 42324 [Edit]
/tat/
>> No. 42325 [Edit]
i think if you jack off to 3D "women" then tohno should ban you
>> No. 42330 [Edit]
This discussion would be better off in /tat/.

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33625 No. 33625 hide watch expand quickreply [Reply] [Edit] [Last 50 posts]
From games, comics, and cartoons, since the late 90s, westerns from America to Europe(especially France for some reason) have attempted to create "anime-like" media. You remember some of these: rwby, totally spies, avatar, teen titans, code lyoko, to name a few. Most of these are made to capitalize on a dying trend, but that's besides the point. These try to copy something more than the artstyle(which is usually a failure). There's some kind of character to otaku media that they're trying to replicate.

Aside from anime largly representing adult-oreiented animation that isn't primarily comedic, there's something else to it, some dynamic. Most people write these "knockoffs" off as shit and that's it, but I want to know, if I were to try to make something with that unique "spirit" to it, wouldn't it just come out the same? Could a westerner capture whatever that thing is so it feels the same?

There's a couple western porn artists which do a really good job, but that's as close as I can think of
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>> No. 42242 [Edit]
If you ever spend any time in western art communities, one thing you'll notice is how absurdly obsessed everyone is with finding their very own super special and unique art style. Basically, aspiring anime-style artists are pressured into committing artistic self-sabotage.
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>>42242
Gonna be worse now than AI-generated art is out in the wild. Art-styles will go even more unhinged...
>> No. 42246 [Edit]
>>42242
>western art
And then they all look like the same ugly ethically diverse fat bloated over stylized characters with big red noses.
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>>42242
Once I believe the epitome of art was to look like a photograph. Ah, simpler times.

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30318 No. 30318 hide watch expand quickreply [Reply] [Edit]
why do they do this to the pantsus in some anime and not others?
air time?
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>> No. 30321 [Edit]
>>30320
i have never bought a bd
>> No. 30322 [Edit]
>>30320
I think stuff like that doesn't always necessarily get replaced. I believe it's there sometimes because the creators think it's funny.
>> No. 30323 [Edit]
>>30321
>>30322
Well in this case there's also an uncensored version that airs so it could be different timeslots have the censored vs uncensored version. In general the majority of censorship (light beams, etc.) get taken out for the BD, along with general improvements to QUALITY.
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>>30318
So that you gush for magical girls

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29756 No. 29756 hide watch expand quickreply [Reply] [Edit]
I don't get it guys. Shouldn't it be a well established fact by now that a large portion of anime fans love DFC? So why is everyone always putting down characters with flat chest in anime, manga, and games? Sure cow tits might be considered ideal in the real world, but when has that ever stopped anime from pandering to what it's fans want, not what's realistic?
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>> No. 42222 [Edit]
>>42220
>I do wonder if they themselves are young or haven't matured
Some probably fall under this bracket, but I'm pretty much the opposite of you and started liking DFC more as I got older. Some people like the youthfulness DFC is generally associated with while others don't -- best not to read too much into it.
>> No. 42223 [Edit]
>>42222
Me too. My first interests were mostly "titcows" but as I grew up I realized the truth of DFC.
>> No. 42231 [Edit]
The best thing in the whole world is when a girl is proud of her DFC, and she lords it over those who are afflicted with the dreaded chest tumors. Also nice when traps do it, recognizing their inherit superiority.
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>>42231

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37198 No. 37198 hide watch expand quickreply [Reply] [Edit]
Whatcha doin' for the new year assuming y'all ain't locked-down?
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>> No. 42159 [Edit]
I like you guys, I wish you all a happy new year!

>>37198
I was at work, emergency services.

>>37204
I hope you'll have a wonderful year that will make you not want to kill yourself anymore
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>>42159
I love you too
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>>42151
2024, everyone...
>> No. 42232 [Edit]
JO , my condolences on this sudden and sad occasion. Take care of yourself and your mother. I will see you when you get back. -Lore

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29816 No. 29816 hide watch expand quickreply [Reply] [Edit]
How often do you bathe, /ot/? What about shaving? Do you fit into the stereotype that suggests NEETs and hikikomori have poor personal hygiene?
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>> No. 42219 [Edit]
This is tangentially related. How do you guys manage and keep your room?

Me, I can barely keep it clean for more than a few days. Then the dishes start piling up, the clothes that I take from the laundry and intend to put away in my cupboard end up on my bed. Random crap from around my room ends up in even more random but annoying places. I've struggled my whole life with this.

I'm guessing it's a matter of being lazy.
>> No. 42221 [Edit]
>>42219
I started to apply "minimalism" to my life and everything and threw out all things that were more or less unnecessary. Including many of my clothes and furniture and kitchen tools. Kinda like how traditional japanese homes used to be. Then its lot easier to clean up. Before that the mess just kept accumulating and i did not have the energy to clean up so it was always mess.
>> No. 42224 [Edit]
>>42219
I almost never eat in my room and keep clothing I intend to wear tomorrow on my office chair.
>> No. 42228 [Edit]
>>42221
This is probably sound, but most of my clothes are various t-shirts such as band shirts and merchandise shirts, so it would be a big waste of money to get rid of them.

I feel like most of the things in my room aren't too much of a problem unless they're disposable. For example, the things cluttering my desk at this very moment are: A compressed air can.
Three cups (one for tea, one for chocolate drink, one for water)
Coffee pot
Bottle of melatonin pills
A few pieces of rubbish
Nintendo Switch
Moisturizer

Honestly the list goes on...
I think I should just do a better job of putting away permanent objects like cups and put things like pills and computer stuff in a different section of my room. This is hard stuff to manage.

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30345 No. 30345 hide watch expand quickreply [Reply] [Edit]
What do you want to be when you grow up /tc/?
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>> No. 42142 [Edit]
>>42141
Both of those require a significant amount of capital to start with.
>> No. 42208 [Edit]
>>42032
Life begins at 30!
>> No. 42209 [Edit]
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>>42208
I'm 31. When does the magic begin?
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I want to be a mathematician and an artist.
I fell in love with math and art on my first contact with them when I was in preschool. But I had a very weird life and didn't follow my dreams. I've already grown old and now seems too late. I wanted/want to get really good at these things and make a lot of things and not care about anything else. It's difficult to put it into words, like not having been yourself and being locked out of your own life. It was just hell. I wish I had a chance.

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