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>>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
Has a character(or maybe something else) you like, from any type of series, ever been reworked or retconned to make them more appealing to a new or broader audience?
>>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.
What are some things that really bug you? Things that genuinely piss you off? I thought it would be nice to have a thread to vent about any little annoyance, no mater how big or small. Any and all complains about the world around you are welcome here! Old one reached bumb limit I think.
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.
I don't think we had a movie thread yet so I wanted to ask, does /tc/ watch movies? What was the last one you saw? Have any good recommendations or favorite genres? Do you like american, european or asian cinema?
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.
How do I stop fapping so much? I spend too much time sitting in front of the monitor and then it just happens I don't think this is healthy, I need to stop
>>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.
What have you read lately TC?
>>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 Message too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>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.
Are there any character archetypes you are fond of or would like to see? I like pure girls with dark skin and light hair. The resemblance to gyarus while having a very different personality is refreshing and the dark skin adds an exotic bit of excitement with the personality making for a strong amount of moe. It's even better if they're busty girls.Post edited on 24th Mar 2021, 12:56am
>>43131 >but never crossing the line. Maybe sometimes lightly doing it, but returning and not overstepping the boundaries. Yeah this part is really important, and is the mark of a good show to me. Having a sense of where that boundary is and being considerate enough to not overstep it, is a way to tangibly demonstrate how closely the characters understand each other. It's part of the emotional intelligence.
>>43131 >>43132 Did somebody call for Yuzuko?
>>43137 You read my mind. I love TC.
>>37957 Autistic coded kuuderes
big sisters are for coddling little brothers!
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>>43009 >toilet should be more than enough That's kind of mean... big sisters are supposed to be caring and wholesome!
>>43009 I can't post any from my collection because it's all pornographic.
>>43013 post it anyway!
I browse wiki to read interesting stuff: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/ News, mainly tech news: https://news.ycombinator.com https://slashdot.org/ I try to minimise reddit/youtube as I can get addicted to it.
Interesting, a Japanese news/blog site that covers a random mishmash of tech and non-tech news. And it has an equivalent english version as well (although most articles seem to be machine translated to English). https://gigazine.net/ https://gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/ Seems like it's some variant of matome roundup type sites (like Sankaku). I'm honestly not sure I understand that whole part of the Japanese internet though. It seems like the difference between Matome sites and link aggregators like reddit/slashdot is that the former don't actually "link" anywhere and just directly paraphrase the original sources. Some people have negative attitude towards the matome sites, probably because during the paraphrasing they add their own editorial slant, which combined with the allure of advertising revenue seems to have led to some scandals.
>>40102 I used to use neet.moe, but in the last year or so it seems to have been colonized by alt-right teens
I cook, so this site helps me out with cooking techniques https://www.seriouseats.com/techniques-5118032
History https://acoup.blog
Today I want to discuss online trends pertaining to Western otaku (or 'weeb') culture that I find disconcerting and bizarre. Are any people here familiar with the rising trend of people born in the middle 2000s posting anime media and romanticising it in a strange and ‘nostalgic’ way even though they were not part of that era? I see so many people nowadays posting Subarashiki Hibi and other Japanese media with this artstyle and calling it “animecore” or they’ll post a picture of a random 2000s era generic anime character and call it “webcore” or whatever. Very strange stuff. I learned recently that Saya no Uta and other 'denpa' visual novels and anime are very popular on TikTok and that there are many younger people (particularly girls) on the website who idolise this type of media and seek to become more like the characters from it. Instead of Narutards from the 2000s glomping each other and over-using emoticons, we have a generation of anime fans who purely appreciate aesthetics and type like, "low key cutting mself 2nite feeling denpa fr". What annoys me about a lot of this is the way that subcultures are routinely subsumed by the presiding linguistic trends of this era. In the 2000s, you could quickly identify who was a weeaboo and who wasn't based on the way that they type. Nowadays, weebs type like any other young people, their language choices are essentially indiscernible. The lack of sincerity amongst subcultures makes me sad. These people are content to lift a weird aesthetic of an era but make no attempt to bring any of the good things with it, such as the cute and overly sincere way that so many people typed during that era (think things like, “Nyaaa I’m feeling pretty happy this morning ”) so it just comes across as half-arsed and a bit pathetic. I find it sad that even in the 2000s the general stereotype of an anime fan was a silly, overly excited con-goer or deviantart user. Nowadays the stereotype is of a passive, depressed egirl who watched Death Note and Mirai Nikki once and started calling themselves an ‘oldschool anime’ fan. Is this just the typical ‘born in le wrong generation’ thing that teenagers go through and I’m simply jaded because now the era that I grew up in is seen as ‘nostalgic’ by people who didn Message too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>42967 It wasn't sarcastic (in case you interpreted it that way), I thought it was genuinely clever, and I can't remember seeing that specific phrase before so it's novel to me. And looking at google seems to back me up on the novelty of the phrase; only 10 results, and most of those uses are probably mistakes, since they really meant to say "exploded in popularity" without any sardonic undertone of it being a negative thing.
>>42964 I got around that by simply using Japanese sites and avoiding the English language internet for the most part.
>>42718 It's not stay mad anon, Ecchi definitely js, but full blown pornography or lewd isn't.
>>43020 You're a moron if you think that's true. The big pillars of otaku culture are the lolicon boom (which centered around stuff like Lemon People and Cream Lemon) and eroge (self-explanatory).
A lot of people talk about visiting Japan, but if you had the option to full on move there, would you do it?
>>31686 It's both. I do not like my current living situation, and I want to escape. When that time comes, it'll be when I have enough to move where I want. Since I can move anywhere, I might as well pick the country that I feel the most comfortable.
I would if I could. In many aspects living there would definitely be way worse than where I live now, but being able to go to events like Comiket, buy manga/ln directly from stores, and being able to make curry rice for a reasonable price (arguably the most important reason) would make up for it. I think.
If I were Japanese, probably. But I am not, and I don't want to contribute to the ongoing gaijin-ization of Japan.
If I thought I could NEET, I would move to any first world country. I already have enough money to NEET in the third world, but I don't know if the first world would require more or even deport me for not having a job.
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