ITT: Methods to make money online or from home for our bros who refuse to be wage slaves.
Now for some other stuff copied from the soon to be deleted /$/; "A nice way to start. Its not work but if you're smart with whatever money you get you'll have a nice savings to start"
All of these options are pretty terrible, mostly since you're competing with third world agencies by working online, but i might as well list them >transcription work high wpm will help you but you still won't make much, will eventually be replaced by a computer. >art freelance Any freelance site that takes a cut / blocks interaction outside of the website (i.e. fiverr) isn't worth the effort. If you know the software well and have a bit of experience you can find desperate small jobs, of course being paid little for a lot of work, and the people are sometimes very hard to work with >code freelancing probably the best bet, though I haven't tried it. Knew someone who basically got paid to do some kid's programming homework. As with all freelancing jobs your advantage over the third world is your ability to english >other with no real skills or abilities, but with some luck or networking, you might end up managing someone's wordpress / wix website. Old people feel good paying young people small amounts to do shit they don't want. Downside is all these jobs require social interaction, but with personal jobs like this you might get someone who is at least understanding. >be a phone rep at home this is legit work but it's the worst shit ever. Most stressed out I've ever been. in any case your best bet is going through family members / friends because networking will get you 10x what a forum will. but everything (except transcription) requires social interaction to a large extent
>>31147 Be born rich. Then you can fail at everything & still be "successful" like PoTUS 45.
With the recent trends due to el virus, I guess almost all software engineering jobs are indefinitely "work from home." Of course at that point you just have a full-time wage-slave job.
What triggers you?
>>30550 I think that was the point.
-porn of my waifu. someone just uploaded giantess fetish art of her moments ago and im trying to avoid an autistic meltdown so that's why i'm writing this, actually. (its not working im going to cry) -people with shit taste. this is largely why i have no friends. i fucking refuse to hang out with someone with no standards. everyone i talk to, "dota 2", "shitty marvel movie", "shitty anime about talking about snacks and making squeaky noises for seven hours", "modern nintendo". no thanks. shit taste doesnt just lower my opinion of them, it actually ruins everything for me. why are no good things made anymore? because the world is full of shit eaters who are happy with garbage. -normalfag's cruelty. it makes their dicks rock hard to make children homeless and downplay mental illness. -retards that defend demonstrably shitty things for no reason, sometimes at their own expense ie. ignoring crime statistics, buying pitbulls just to be contrarian
when tohno gets sad i also get sad
>>29489 Studio TRIGGER
sorry, accident, delete plsPost edited on 26th Dec 2019, 6:40am
How amusing.
>>33899 yeah....
>>33898 I left in the middle, please post it somewhere else, I would like to read it.
I will be hijacking this thread for the purpose of consulting a disgusting health issue. How do you deal with ingrown hairs? I noticed an itchy bump in my groin yesterday. I thought it was just a pimple but today I took a closer look and there's four of these ingrown fuckers in one spot. They appear to sit under the skin surface in one swollen red bump, 10x5mm size. I had a clean needle so I decided to pick at the spots where hairs appear to be trapped. I wiped it with alcohol and tried to break skin in each of these places, no idea if this will do anything good. I can't tell if I hit the right spots either. I think I did but I'd have to break my spine to take a closer look at it. I put some generic antibiotic ointment on it, slapped a bandaid over but it's an awkward place so it barely sticks. Do you think that will, uh... do the trick?
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How do you feel about english songs in anime sountracks? What about songs actually made by western musicians? Stand Alone Complex has a lot of them and some are better than others. Berserk's bad op is another example. Made in Abyss's entire sound track was done by an australian team and I think they did a very good job, with the exception of two atrocious tracks featuring pop singers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eck3qf4FDf4 I generally dislike anything that reminds me too much of what plays on the radio. I'll never understand the "cool factor" english has for people that don't speak it natively.
LAIN OP ~ Duvet by BOA. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp5kUmni5Dk >>33034 99 Luftballoons https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TliE9rTrzXg
I don't really care what language a song is, to me lyrics are just a different form of instrument and their meaning is only tertiary to how they sound in their song. If they are a good "instrument" then it's fine by me.
>>35017 I like this interpretation. Baroque music used the human voice like any other instrument, demanding vocal techniques you wouldn't see as much later one. Vivaldi: Agitata da due venti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNA0J2bJg3k
Stick to Japanese https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7smuLvpZoo
Do you know any nice places to visit in Japan? Especially anime related places. I plan to go to Japan this year and try to find some less touristy places to go to. The thread will most likely still be up so I can post some pictures I make. Does any one recognize the place in this picture?
>>31345 >Yes. Go to Kyoto or Nara. Get your ass out of the city. Don't spend more than a few days in Tokyo (make sure to spend a couple of hours at Akasaka and the imperial gardens, but otherwise avoid the concrete jungle, it is basically like any other big city in the West just in Japanese and with a lot more people crowding the place), the rest of Japan has a lot more character. We plan to stay at last a week in the Kyoto area and get a 14 day railpass to visit some more remote places. I have never been in any city outside of Europe, I don't know how much I'll like Toyko but I'm not a fan of big cities anyway. >>31347 >https://anime-tourism.jp/. This is what you're looking for. This one is nice. I don't recognise most places though. >Have only been to the various Lucky Star locations in Saitama and Ooarai (twice) so far. First is a little bit depressing since you can see how its popularity is fading (quite literally, the flags in Satte or whatever you call them almost have no color anymore), second is still going well (they really know how to promote it). The Lucky Star locations are a bit remote but I hope I can find time for it. Ooari is from that one Girls and Panzer Episode? Message too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>31360 >>>/pic/6677 Images are up
Fallout Fukushima https://imgur.com/gallery/65usm https://imgur.com/gallery/LZ1Fm https://imgur.com/gallery/N06Mp https://imgur.com/gallery/KabxJ https://imgur.com/gallery/WCVjVx2
Eva tour http://chaostangent.com/2010/06/the-last-evangelion-2-x-post-ill-write/ Haruhi & more https://onesamurai.jp/pilgrimage/tour/ Higurashi http://legwork.g.hatena.ne.jp/keyword/ひぐらしのなく頃に
Do you hold any spiritual beliefs? The subject has been on my mind a lot lately, particularly since having watched Your Name and Weathering With You. I read a bit about Shinto, and I suppose if anything I'm a bit sympathetic to it and similar kinds of beliefs that hold there is not a distinction between matter and spirit. The Greek notion of logos or pneuma is actually pretty similar in this regard. Of course a difficulty is that I have never experienced anything that I would call spiritual, which could lead me to believe in a spiritual side of life. Kind of related video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=938jM17N_38
I hold the belief that at a rough level there is some sort of collective conscious, and like you mentioned that >there is not a distinction between matter and spirit.
If there's no disctintion between matter and spirit, what is matter at all? See Berkeley.
Belief is something you choose for yourself, anyone can have spiritual beliefs if they want to. Since spiritual beliefs necessarily defy conventional logic, its impossible to disprove them convincingly and since they require faith, proving them convincingly negates the spiritual element. Until the airplane was invented, its was generally considered a given fact that birds could fly because god made them that way. These days we generally believe that birds can fly because of aerodynamics and evolution, but almost none of the people who hold those beliefs have studied either issue in detail. Most of the people who believe that birds can fly because of aerodynamics and evolution believe so because they trust "the experts". "The experts" function as the priests of the system of belief for most people, because those people have faith in "the experts". For most people the idea that birds can fly because of aerodynamics and evolution because "the experts" say so is fundamentally a spiritual type of belief, its not one based on learning, experience or observations, its a belief based on trusting their priests. Taking all that into account, there are probably a lot more people who hold spiritual beliefs than there are people who will admit that their system of beliefs is based on faith. Its not out of the question that one day "the experts" will fully discern the functional mechanisms that make DNA work the way it does and they might understand how one very small core molecule governs the life of a person and determines their character and characteristics and then they'll be telling us all that souls were real all along, just like what those stupid old religious texts have been saying for thousands of years.
I'm really superstitious.
What do you look for in an adaption? Adaptions of books, visual novels and other long form media can almost never be one for one in a tv or movie format. Trying to do so inenvitably leads to failure. Instead, an adaption has to condense the plot, but beyond that is has to make other decisions about what to focus on. Because an adaption can't be a recreation of the original most of the time, it's usually better for it to focus heavily on a few things, either from the source material, or something of its own. As many characters as need be can be cut out and more than half of the plot thrown out the bin, if this is done well and the adaption stands well on its own. However, adapations can pick bad things to focus on. I feel this is when things are dumbed down for accessibility and spectacle, usually though action. Lord of the Rings is a good example of this. I watched the movies first and later read the books. I didn't think the books would be the kind of thing i'd be interested in, but I was blown away by how compelling they were. It was more of a page turner than anything I've read before actually. It felt written with intelligence. The movies changed the personalities of multiple characters, added in a horribly idiotic, cliche conflict between two of the main characters which was not in the book, and spent most of the run time on battles, which was definitely not what was most important to the book author. Many things were taken out, but they were not replaced by something of equal value. When subtely and nuance are stripped, rather than replaced with other subtleties and nuance, I think that's a downgrade.Post edited on 14th Jun 2020, 5:41am
>>35313 An animated TV adaptation of LOTR would be really nice, assuming it isn't also the "manufactured tension" crap. The episodic format would give way to being able to adapt more than a strict feature-length movie would be able to as well. I think there actually was an animated adaptation of LOTR at one point though I've never watched it. (Also I'd love if Hobbits/Halflings were properly done as monstergirls. Always seems like nips are confused as to what to do with them and dwarves, so you have a lot of different versions that aren't quite as good as your pic.)
>>35316 There was the Bakshi movie, then after that some less known sequel and a Hobbit adaptation, both for TV. The first movie (the only one I watched) isn't great, it's rotoscoped, it looks weird and the characters designs aren't particularly nice. Like most of Bakshi works is a mixed bag, not particularly well animated and maybe with some interesting ideas, problem is his syle worked a lot better with underground stuff than with something classic like Lotr. Still, it had the best cover art ever and I wouldn't say it's awful or anything. If something I would have liked to see some OVA adaptation, Lodoss War or Wizardry style, I think the first 90's were a good time in anime for classic fantasy settings.
I wish literature was adapted into visual novel format. Solaris for instance would be a great pick. I liked the book quite a bit. The soviet movie gets a lot of praise, but I think I'd hate what they did with the visuals and atmosphere compared to what was in my head. Solaris had depressing romantic elements, but it definitely was not a romance. A VN would capture the feeling I'd like very well and contain all the interesting technical parts that would be cut out of any other format. A one to one adaption would be possible, as in every single line in the book being in the VN, just with pictures and music added. Bram Stocker's Dracula would also be a good choice. I wonder why this idea hasn't caught on?
>>35415 >I wonder why this idea hasn't caught on? I like it but VNs are already something niche. Lack of h-scenes may turn away even more people
/ot/ could just as easily stand for "on topic"
So what topic are we on then?
>>29678 looks like anime girls to me
I like oppai.
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Is nerd/otaku culture materialistic? In tech related boards, the amount of discussion about consumer goods is always consistently high. People feel the need to be elitist about stuff like calculator models or laptop models. Exhaulting the benefits thinkpads have other other laptops (i'm typing this on a thinkpad myself) and stuff like that. When you think about it though, isn't it all just plastic crap? These are just tools, it'll all be dust one day, so why obsess over it? Whatever works works. Why waste money and space on decorations either? Why is it necessary to express your enthusiasm for things by buying stuff that takes space? Is materialism and an obsession with physical products and collection an inherent part of these cultures?Post edited on 20th Jun 2020, 8:46am
>>35338 It's not that hard to understand. We like cute things. The normal world and the things in it aren't usually cute. Having cute things around improves the general mood. Personally having figures of certain characters makes me feel like someone I like is there looking for me. I also like robots because they look cool. It's just nice to return from the normal world and see all that conforming your own microcosmos and bringing good memories. It's an human impulse from old, the ancients liked to have sculptures or pieces of art around, this is pretty much the same.
>>35339 Maybe. I never saw it that way. I think a figurine would remind me that it's not real. When they're behind a screen, I feel distanced enough to believe in and feel for them. They look alive because they move and speak and fit in their wold. A figurine though would take me out of that. If they're a product, mass produced for consumption and made out of artifical substances, they can't be alive. Well, whatever.
>>35340 I feel quite the opposite about it. I like articulated ones so I not only can touch them but pose them or try new accesories. It's an interaction you don't have with anime or manga, if something it makes the characters feel more real. There can be mass produced but there's still some artesany on them, they are detailed, painting is hand made and you can display them in creative ways. And let's not talk about plastic kits, you can build them and if you like more, personalize them in any way you can imagine. I want to get into dolls some day, I see them as the ultimate physical experience; you create them following your tastes, you can make clothes for them or buy hand made clothes from others so you have infinite variety, you can take them outside and they almost feel and look like real.
> In tech related boards, the amount of discussion about consumer goods is always consistently high I think that's just 4/g/ (since a large userbase is going to devolve into what's most accessible for the general population and that's consumerism.). Lainchan's programming board is more focused, and >>/navi/ has had a lot of good quality discussions.
Which theme do you use on tohno-chan? I like vndb as I tend to browse at night and bright themes hurt my eyes in the dark, but sometimes I switch to Pseud0ch for the comfy textboard vibe. How bout you? Imageboards themselves are otaku culture so this counts.
>>34945 > using an userstyle to change the theme to pseud0ch or vndb. You don't need a userstyle you can do it purely via a userscript that sets the cookie if it doesn't exist.
pseud0ch because I like bricks.
Much like the others, I use the default because of auto-deleting cookies, but I'm quite fond of the Lain one.
>>34806 Same here, I like this one so I don't mind at all.
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