What do you think of people who financially support destructive, censorship happy corporations like Cruncyhroll and Valve? These are companies that establish themselves as middle men in industries and hobbies that were just fine without them. After they worm their way in, they exert their new power and influence to encourage self-censorship and force western moral standards down everyone's throat. Because of their own laziness and moral bankruptcy or willful ignorance, people that give these companies money enable and contribute to the destruction of things they claim to love, which fucks everybody over. I think this sort of apathy and pigish obsession with consumption is why the current situation is as bad as it is. Financial enablers get too much slack. If you give money to a company that does bad things, you're part of the problem.Post edited on 6th Oct 2021, 3:51pm
>>39180 If "verification" was legally required, nobody would be allowed to distribute any kind of game for any price without it, which is obviously not true. https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/74660/when-does-a-game-need-an-official-age-rating >Game ratings are not enforced by any country for any kind of game. They'll just ban your game, if they found it objectionable enough. The rating is more of a de-facto standard used to make the end-user aware about the content of the game, so that kids do not play games containing extreme violence. >You'll be required to submit ratings only if you're making games for major consoles, such as PlayStation, XBox or Wii. >Update: There're few countries which requires explicit rating by one of the approved rating agency to be eligible for distribution. In such draconian hell holes, steam could easily block the viewing of external links. I bet you're a eurofag with this warped mentality of yours.
>>39181 In fact, steam doesn't even require games on it to have a rating, unlike consoles, so your whole point is extremely stupid and wrong. https://xsolla.com/blog/self-publish-on-steam-the-ultimate-guide >Supplying the rating information is not mandatory. However, you should definitely fill in this tab if you have official age ratings.Post edited on 27th Jan 2022, 6:56am
>>39181 >In such draconian hell holes, steam could easily block the viewing of external links. Almost like Steam operates as a global marketplace with different rules that they abide by based on the country and their laws. You can't even buy porn games on Steam in Germany without a VPN because Valve decided they'd rather not bother dealing with the bureaucracy of their rating system. Maybe that should be a slight insight as to why some companies just have external links to the R18 stuff because you know, localization companies want the widest audience possible and to actually make money >I bet you're a eurofag with this warped mentality of yours. You're doing yourself a disservice by acting like a dickhead with people just trying to have a reasonable discussion with you If you're aiming to come across as a 17 year old /pol/ user then well done I guess because you've nailed it
>>39185 >You can't even buy porn games on Steam in Germany without a VPN Nothing stops them from having a similar feature for external links to patches. >people just trying to have a reasonable discussion with you There's nothing to discuss. I'm getting on a soap box to condemn people worth condemning. This thread exists to be a witch trial, and you're arguing with the priest. Not even doing a good job at it since you're just making shit up to blame the government instead.
I'm not sure if this fits better to /ns/ or /ma/ but here's a Comiket thread. What are your expectations from C99?
Is it going to be offline this time or are we still doing the virtual thing?
I'm not in Japan so I can't really attend but I put in my Melonbooks order. >>39094 It says "Tokyo Big Sight" right there.
Why did you delete my Gikopoi thread? Moron, are you that checked out of western Otaku culture? We've been doing the new year's party every year since 2004 on /b/ then /jp/. Just because you don't understand Otaku culture in the West doesn't mean you have to censor me, asshole.
>>39084 Only Gikopoi thread I remember seeing around here is the one on /vg/, which is still there.
Well, every year, we have a huge party on New Years Eve and New Years Day on Gikopoi. >>39086 you should come it's going to be a good time >>39087 wow, really? that's crazy! thanks for telling me, i had no idea. baka
>>39090 Is this your idea of advertising?
"Kuso thread."
How was everyone's Christmas?
I visited my parents, ate some food they ordered, then drove around aimlessly for 2 hours. Then went back home and crashed.
>>39059 What can we do?
>What can we do? With regard to what? Or is that supposed to be a rhetorical question?
>>39073 I don't know, sorry.
A thread for anything about tulpas. Progress, tutorials, personal stories, etc.
There was a recent article in nautilus about Tulpas: https://nautil.us/blog/can-you-treat-loneliness-by-creating-an-imaginary-friend I don't think there's anything fundamentally impossible about it. It's basically a variant of the meditation practices/shamanic rituals of some cultures, and it fundamentally works because our consciousness isn't some sort of special thing but just an "illusion" generated by our brains. If the brain can generate consciousness once, it's not too hard (with some intense focusing) to get it to generate another. And things like dreams and traces can "tap" into the subconscious, bypassing some of the filtering that goes on in the generation of normal consciousness so Tulpas seem to occupy this fascinating and understudied realm. That said I'm also a bit skeptical of just how many people claim to have created one. If you go on forums or threads it seems like there are boatloads of people who have done it, but I'd think it requires both a high level of control over your mind achieved through decades of meditation as well as a preexisting ability for visualization (some people have aphantasia or otherwise are not as good at visualizing/imagining and hence probably may never be able to).
>>37372 Once I was told having a tulpa and believing you have a tulpa are equal. Another different thing are induced hallucinations through really high level visualization skills, or even more incredible stuff like switching. I suspect that could take really long time on proper and focused meditation, and most people couldn't even achieve it doesn't matter the effort. Though I'm convinced it's real since meditation can achieve even more unbelievable things, and not only subjective ones.
>>33437 Stop-motion is Tulpa? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdxVsIems2c
Related and interesting: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12144-021-02439-3 I wonder how the lack of mind's eye (aphantasia) or variation in the nature of one's internal monologue influences the ability to do the above or create a tulpa. Also related to tulpas is the attention schema theory of consciousness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_schema_theory >According to one proposal in AST, not only does the brain construct an attention schema to model its own state of attention, but it also uses the same mechanism to model other people's states of attention. In effect, just as we attribute awareness to ourselves, we also attribute it to others. which would naturally explain how tulpas can arise.
What does TC do for a living?
I quit my higher paying web job impulsively. Couldn’t sand the idiot CEO I had to deal with. Now Living with my parents again and working at a liquor store. I’ve noticed I feel about 100% better coming home from a job where I am on my feet doing physical tasks than coming home from a job at an office sitting all day. But I do really miss the money and my apartment (though my cat likes my parents house much more). I think I may need to pursue higher paying physical labor.
>>33190 >building web interfaces Do you do design work for it, or are you given a plan and you just have to implement it?
>>33193 Or get a similar web job with a better company.
Build webistes and support eLearning but I don't know design or programming.
Do you have anything you like to do as a form of self-therapy? Something that makes things a little easier for you?
>>35529 Fyi they're running a promotion for another free Momoiro work. They even have english subtitles this time (hardsubbed only, sadly) https://www.dlsite.com/home/campaign/voice-works-trial-fes2020 (My coupon said it expired in 2 days but I don't know how long they're running it for – It's even possible it's the same one you mentioned and I haven't noticed until now)Post edited on 16th Jan 2021, 3:57pm
Talking & Walking solves a lot of little problems
>>37489 and writing
>>35474 as well as indulging in whatever content in Japanese from books to train videos to reading the niyu-su. Furthermore, I often like to mix real life with this idyllic fantasy of living with my waifu in Japan. This would translate to going out as if strolling around during hanami, at night in a hot summer listening to the city sounds and crickets or, during the winter, taking a hot bath or cooking some japanese dish with her... It's cozy and fluffy and I don't feel like it's such an intense and out-worldly escapism as to negatively affect my daily life. Only the opposite. I am very thankful for this ability to find joy in the mundane.
the link to the ever growing collection of TC banner images went away recently, so here it is again http://tohno-chan.com/ban/ anyone who wishes to add to the collection is probably welcome to present any entries in here, but don't push your luck
>>35591 I like it; thank you for redoing it!
I made this, tell me what you think. Also, I'm pretty sure every banner in this thread with the exception of OP's has not been added.
>>38803 Looks very nice. I'm not sure how you'd contact Tohno to get these added. I do remember seeing >>31300 in the banner rotation (and indeed one can manually verify this since the banner is chosen locally via client-side js). The bocchi one doesn't seem added though (perhaps that's befitting of bocchi).
>>38803 My bad yo, I'll have them added by the end of the night.
What's a suitable automobile for the tohno-chan veteran?
>>38555 Now go one step further, have a bicycle you use more than your cheap car.
>>38640 I would definitely ride my bicycle more if it werent for three good reasons: 1. Its dangerous as fuck to cycle in this country 2. Severe tendonitis flare ups from holding the bike handles 3. The places I need to go are too far away to cycle
After moving from the west cost to the Midwest, I've started to understand why so many people I meet online dislike driving. The road designs are moronic, with major roads cutting right though small towns with speed transitions and limits that don't match the styles of the roads. I got my very first speeding ticket in some inbreed hick town because of this. With properly designed roads you shouldn't have to constantly scan for limit signs, which here look almost exactly like road markers. Major roads should have consistent speeds and go around cites, not into them. This creates a very stressful driving experience. These roads are also packed full of driveways to homes and businesses, stop signs, and on ramps placed in ways that make it impossible to see oncoming cars. Yesterday while driving I actually saw a sign that said 60mph because of a curve up ahead, and about 20 feet ahead of that was a sign that said 70mph. This is what happens when you let sister fuckers design your infrastructure.
>>38744 As a tepid defense, I think most small towns set around highways were built after the highway was established. There are at least half a dozen in Florida comma United States that I know for certain came around because people saw tourists driving between important cities and thought they could scrape some income from them during pit stops. Not to mention commuting from small towns. Still a very unintelligent design, but at this point short of destroying all the infrastructure I think we're stuck with it as it is. And one could make the case if we're destroying the infrastructure to begin with there are better options than spamming roads.
What is your favorite hair color?
>>37259 yamato nadeshiko?
The blacker, the better
Anone ano ne~
Taste the rainbow
can anyone here explain why being "smart" enough to get a "good" job requires so much more instruction than being dumb? shouldn't smart people just be smart enough to figure things out for themselves without needing to receive instruction until they're over 30 years old? how come people who fix cars for a living require so much less instruction than scientists and doctors do before they're done being schoolchildren? seems paradoxical
> how come people who fix cars for a living requires There's a bit of a false dichotomy here. When you say "fix" are you referring to an entry level mechanic like you'd find at jiffylube or a skilled technician that does private servicing for high-end vehicles? There's a world of difference between the two: the former is basically "routine" maintenance where you follow a checklist. The latter might require a higher skill level that comes from years of experience in the field, being able to intuitively debug the root cause of issues (but I'm not a mechanic and I hear that modern cars are basically digital black-boxes anyway so this comparison might not be very good). Nonetheless the point stands: you're comparing two different things – I suspect if you look at the high-end of trades jobs you'll see that even though they might not necessarily receive formal education they still do an equivalent amount of time learning and training. That is, a master crafstman is in a completely different league than someone who just took woodworking in highschool. Now going to your particular examples > receive instruction until they're over 30 years old >so much less instruction than scientists and doctors do before they're done being schoolchildren Until "over 30 years old" is exaggerating quite a bit. I don't know anyone who actively receives post-college education for over 10 years after they graduate (assuming they graduate at ~20). Usually the "scientists" in question will switch from receiving instruction to doing research, and the PhD programs (which might indeed end up taking about 8 years or so) are mostly focused on this research rather than receiving education. Still, the reason why large amount of undergraduate and graduate coursework is needed is because it takes a large time to get up to speed on the breadth and depth of background knowledge needed for these fields. You aren't going to be able to research in Inter-universal Teichmuller Theory without having a solid footing in number theory, which can take several years to master. But this is research-focused stuff. Most people doing practical things in $BIG_CO will not need anywhere Message too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>37243 Most of college is figuring stuff out on your own. The classes are just for credit so you can get a degree from a place with a solid reputation. If you're lucky, the professor or TAs are good for answering questions, but that's certainly not a guarantee. If you think it's easy, try self-studying 4+ difficult subjects at the same time and getting to a semi-proficient state in all of them within three months. In an ideal world, exams in these subjects would be publically available for people to take so they can get a free, but respected degree and the elitist middle man and textbook mill would be unnecessary.
>>37243 Dumb people are confident. Normies mistake confidence for being "right". See Dunning-Kruger effect.
>>37269 50% of people are dumb; there's a lot of dumbness in the world.
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