Not sure what kind of anonymous posting you are talking about but I feel the same. I can only be myself when I'm anonymous. I'm sure I can change if I force myself to stop using them but meh, there's nothing out there for people like me...

I meant that there are imageboards that are not anime themed and the content usually posted there disgusts me to the core.

As for non-anonymous interactions, I am simply too far behind times and don't even care. Besides, most non-anonymous platforms are essentially doxx. I used to hang out in a chat time and again on a certain messenger, but it got closed a few years ago and I never bothered to find a substitute.

I wish messengers were not about doxxing. Sometimes you feel bad enough to swallow up pride and "shitpost" anywhere, just let there be somebody who'd reply. I don't exactly enjoy littering imageboards, tohno included, with my rambling.

But for some reason, I just don't care about it. All chats I've seen were trash, except those that were dead and those that were strictly limited to discussing specific games, and even those managed to smell of trashiness.

¨Littering¨ is the right word for it. It feels like I only go to them to complain about the world as it is rather than enjoying myself like I used to. Many of the complaints I read here (mine included) have more to do with growing old rather than the internet and how much it's changed. In reality, it's a mix of both but I think it's up to me to adapt instead of littering them with my whining. It's only natural that younger people have more time to spend on it. The internet has always been juvenile in general.

I don't know how much you can adapt. If it was something you could change on a whim why would you end up venting in the first place? Perhaps it's not so simple, perhaps even requires consistent effort on your side and that's not something many of us can afford.

Also I don't think that young people whine more because of their age, specifically. I think with time you just end up venting so much there is little left to whine about anymore, and also brain goes duller after prolonged repetition of the same. You could say you simply become harder with age so things that used to ail you don't seem such a significant bother anymore. "Take it till you like" might be in line with what I'm trying to say.

>>43391
I've had plenty of Japanese food, and they don't do that. With Indian, you gets vats of sauce with bits of stuff swimming in it.

>>43392
Isn't that exactly Japanese curry? I've tried "curry" from each of the main asian cuisines (japanese, thai, indian, indonesian) and at its heart they're mostly the same idea of a soup/sauce-thing to pair with rice, just with different flavors emphasized. Japanese being milder and sweeter, thai being really "rich" and coconuty, indian food basically going ham on every spice, and indonesian somewhat in-between thai and indian.

>>43393
Yes, and I can't stand it. Thankfully, they have many other dishes which are nothing like that.

Wow I didn't think somebody could actually be disgusted with brown colored food.

>>42126
Shinto: The Way Home by Thomas P. Kasulis and Dean Sluyter is also good if you want more on the subject to read

>>42127
Thanks, I'll check that one out when I'm done with my current book.

メリークリスマス to all brohnos

>How's your christmas going?
Right over me. Anyway Merry Christmas

>Any technical tips like getting some particular Bluray player hardware
if you want to buy a bluray drive for your PC, consider getting one that's compatible with PS3 games. RPCS3 has a compatibility list.

>How many Bluray disks with Anime on it do you own?
Zero. Anime BD's and DVD's are very expensive around here, even second-hand.
I do have two Judeo-American movies on Bluray (Arrival and Star Wars Episode 3) but I mainly just use my bluray drive for data archival purposes.

>>43188
I got this blueray player because it's compatible with makemkv's libre driver

https://forum.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=19634
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BJHBYPXG/

>>43188
Why be so specific about collecting blueray as opposed to physical mediums more generally?

>>43297
I just assumed Blurays were the de-facto standard for Anime, due to their storage capacity. Therefor I thought that most otaku here have Blurays for their Anime, if they have physical media at all and not something old, that was released on DVD. If you (or anyone) else has a DVD collection with Anime, he is also invited to discuss it in this thread.

Post edited on 17th Dec 2024, 6:02am

>>42953
>memorizing dictionaries
I wish I had the skill...

>>42953
That's how I learnt to understand English. And also reading dictionairies (not studying or trying to memorise them).
Formal study on set times drawn out over several years is a horrible way to learn. My understanding of my native language and English was always so far ahead I never bothered to care in school, the teachers and their classes were piss poor anyway. Much of it was just memorising a bunch of words every week, not much grammar or anything. Or watching shitty movies when the teachers didn't want to work. (笑)
I've looked into several languages but the only ones I've tried to actually study have been French and Japanese. French as a forced third language in school, which was mind-numbingly boring. The only thing I learnt was that je ne parle pas français.
Japanese on my own several times in the past, but I always just stopped, in the beginning mostly because of limited resources, later because I get bored. What little I know of Japanese I've picked up through immersion, not studying. I've wanted to learn this language for 20+ years, I need to get going and do more than just listen to it.

>CIA literally calls Japanese the hardest language in the world in the same breath that it claims that terrorists did 9/11; do you really trust glowniggers with all your heart?
lol. The only hard thing is kanji readings. It's a language I know I can get a basic understanding of if I only tried.

An example of your point is how my understanding of English was a rarity among people who had travel dictionary level of understanding at best, and just a generation later it's the prefered language of kids and zoomers who are all fluent with perfect pronounciation (well, "fluent" in "perfect" Internet American). They didn't learn through studying, they learnt by aping what they immerse themselves in all day, what they hear on Youtube/tiktok/netflix, and read on twitter/discord.

Is it feasible at all to get non-negligible amounts of money by translating doujinshi or web novels or whatever and doing Patreon paywall stuff? Would I need to participate in weird Discord cliques?

>>43293
Try translating content and posting them to sites like Mangadex or E-Hentai, imo just having a credit page where you list where to contact you for paid work would do just fine. There's plenty of scanlations I've read where the person translating doesn't have a Discord account.

>>43119
>>43121
I live in Switzerland and it works. I didn't know the site until now though. Looks like manga and doujin in Japanese directly from Japan.

>>43123
Sweden VPN works as well.

Sony is planning on buying Kadokawa. Retards only seem to care about dark souls in this, but I'm sure I don't need to explain to people here how much control Kadokawa has over anime&manga, or why it would be concerning for Sony to own both Kadokawa and Crunchyroll.

>>43287
Please no! I hate American corpos. I wish they were bombarded to dust

>>43243
I just personally find non-kaomoji emoticons to be an eyesore (especially ":^)") and am using the rules as a pretext, tee hee.

>>43244
And I find kaomoji more obnoxious than classic :'^*) or whatever. All emojis are bad when abused, but sometimes they can emphasize your message in a very precise way, such that could never be put in words. It's easier to just forbid them entirely, but sometimes feelings don't translate into words. I suggest we be patient and forgive posters who don't abuse.

>>43242
If you're going to cite rules to others, which isn't necessarily bad, you shouldn't break any yourself by abusing spoilers.

Yeah more holywars. Please calm down no one's going to die.
>ever been reworked or retconned to make them more appealing to a new or broader audience
Not really because I'm not into very long series, and shorter ones usually don't suffer this. At least I don't remember.

I hate inconsistent people.

The worst part of being prone to outbursts of anger is how absolutely childish you feel after, even if the anger was justified.

>>42130
Can relate.

>>42130
Relatable desu, I calm down just as easily as I get annoyed, but it's still annoying regardless, I do what I can but sometimes it feels like I'll always be like this.

Anyone else typically go to movies alone and aim for empty screenings where possible (like early in the day midweek showings)?

>>43194
I guess that would have a unique atmosphere. Watching at home is more comfortable no matter what though. You can pause to go to the bathroom and turn on subtitles, which are useful even for moves in English.

Post edited on 28th Nov 2024, 10:20pm

>>43195
Control is nice, but I feel like aside from the immersion and atmosphere, the lack of control makes it easier to focus on what's in front of you. Sure if you're watching at home you can pause and go to the bathroom, but you'll kill the flow of the movie. They're usually designed to be watched in a single sitting. getting up and roaming around will take you out of it, pull you back to reality, and sinking back in after taking a break might take a while depending how long the break was, and you won't have an intro to set the mood and draw you in the intended way.
Not to mention at home you're going to have tons of distractions. Pets, family, smart phone, and so on. You're not going to be paying as much attention and can easily miss a lot of details, which will just lead to confusion and frustration later, if you don't end up getting bored of it and switching focus to whatever else is around you first. I think the theater setting helps you focus and can let you appreciate even boring or subpar movies a lot more.

>>43194
I have watched a few movies alone, namely Interstellar, Black Panther, Angry Birds and Blade Runner 2049.

I didn't aim to go to an empty screening, but I do remember being alone or almost alone in the theatre during the Angry Birds screening, while the Blade Runner screening was packed.

The main reason why I went alone was because I wanted to see these movies in English rather than the German dub, and most of my IRL acquaintances don't understand English well enough to enjoy a movie.

>>43171
>Even if I don't quite understand what it is you're feeling or reacting to,
A spam like URL, a post that tries to avoid commonly filtered words, context that makes no sense and seems almost entirely unrelated to the one it's replying to, and a generic message trying to deter the post being banned/deleted with a claim this is bad for the "longevity of the site", when the site in question is 15 years old now.

Pretty safe to assume it's just spam, not someone reaching out for help. It's nice of you to try and help though.

>>43169
>on the flipside it also feels "wrong" to masturbate to them because you're imposing your own lust on their relationship
It's not wrong because masturbating to it, was part of the artist's intention. You're forgetting that all of these characters and scenarios came out of a guy's head. They can draw and maybe even write decently, but they're still just a guy. If anything, you're imposing your personal hangups on their creative output. That's how I see it, although I know this perspective probably isn't shared by most of tc.

>>43175
>It's not wrong because masturbating to it, was part of the artist's intention
I guess to me the fact that many of these one-shots (e.g. by Jorori) are more prominently focused on the romance aspect of it compared to actual sex, seems to weight the overall emotions being expressed in favor of love vs lust.

Of course your values may be different, but to me while getting aroused by it is expected, actively using it as jerk-off material feels like you're tarnishing the entire thing by reducing it to crude lust. Someone people might be able to self-insert, but to me that also feels wrong because the characters are such a perfect match for each other that taking their place just doesn't seem right.

>>43176
>many of these one-shots (e.g. by Jorori) are more prominently focused on the romance aspect of it compared to actual sex
>actively using it as jerk-off material feels like you're tarnishing the entire thing
https://exhentai.org/g/2254637/e4d3eb40ea/
Given the page count of the sex scene, I wouldn't consider this focus disparity to weigh that heavily in favor of romance. Personally, I wouldn't read pornography unless I plan on using it for that purpose, but I'm much more into age-difference stuff than vanilla anyway. Agree to disagree.

>>43156
Just post it! I can't imagine anyone complaining especially since there is almost no discussion going on anywhere on the whole site.

>>43157
Is that just how tc is or is it bleeding active posters over time? I lurk every now and then but I wish this place was a bit more active. Just enough to not make it look like I am talking to myself. Naturally I should start being more proactive myself for that to happen.

Moving back to the topic, lately I've been reading 'The executioner and her way of life'. It's an isekai story from the perspective of the native population. As per usual with these tropes, otherworlders are living weapons and summoned to be taken advantage of. The catch is that they are living time bombs. The longer they stay alive, the more dangerous they get which led to the general consensus that they have to be preemptively taken out when someone summons them. Due to some circumstances one of them can't be physically killed and this leads to the main character and the otherworlder traveling together, with one of them believing to have finally found a friend and the main character secretly planning the otherworlder's assassination. Fights, romance and internal tumult ensue

I'm currently on Eon. A scifi story about a massive asteroid that enters orbit around the earth in the far off future of 2015. (kinda like the Black Knight satellite). Which we quickly find out has multiple empty cities inside of it. This becomes the subject of some research by our main characters.
The book also comes from a time when people were scared shitless about a war between the US and the soviet union, which factors into the story with fears of a war breaking out over the asteroid.
which ends up happening as both countries nuke the hell out of each other.
Much of the surprise and mystery is deflated fairly quickly too, as it doesn't take long to explain the asteroid was made by humans from another timeline/reality after the war already happened.
As for what I think about it. None of the characters are particularly interesting. I was annoyed my copy spoiled most of the book with a summery I thought was an intro, but it turns out they don't really approach this as a mystery anyway and spell out everything fairly quickly, leaving one to wonder what the point of the story is, and as it goes on it becomes clear it's just trying to be preachy about war = bad.

Before that I read to kill a mocking bird, without realizing until halfway in I already read it at some point and forgot having done so, but kept going because why not. It's basically racism = bad, as viewed from the innocent eyes of children who don't see skin color. Story is largely a slice of life that leads up to a court case defending an obviously innocent black man who doesn't have a chance in hell of winning vs the white trash making the accusations.
Deals a lot with the different ways people get raised and what it does to them, phony cultural norms and facades people put on, people lying and hiding who they really are and refusing to see other people for who they are. Needless to say it's not a half bad book.

before that, was the island of Dr Monroe. The story of a man who gets lost at sea and washes up on a mad scientist's furfag fantasy island. There he me

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>>43174
>read to kill a mocking bird
If you grew up in the US then you probably read this at least once or twice in school. At least narratively I remember it being one of the better books in the school curriculum, although these days given that they've dialed up the "social justice" aspect of everything to eleven I bet they'd basically beat kids over the head with what is already a fairly self-evident theme. Still pretty much required reading as it's part of American literary canon though.