So the new admin at 4chan is struggling financially with the site (ads are now gone) And /a/ is having talks of where to migrate to if the site goes down for good , people are name dropping your site a lot I'm not sure if this is wanted or unwanted but I feel you should at least be aware of it . http://boards.4chan.org/qa/thread/711491/a
>>42249 Lurk and learn, or fuck off.
Aw I thought this was a new thread.
>>42344 Were you excited or dismayed?Post edited on 20th Feb 2024, 5:04pm
>>42349 disappointed.
You wake up in a room, what do.
>>30025 succ on tite
>>30025 Should've went with either some dangerous Xenomorph-like creature or some stupid, useless, and probably slightly retarded comic relief alien that won't spout shitty puns.
>>30015 I go outside.
The sun burns........
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.
>>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.
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.
>>42351 Unless it's against some kind of rule about advertisement or such I wouldn't mind you sharing the vendor.
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.
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?
>>42321 For you, but some try to look for more in their ideal. And that's kind of the point.
/tat/
i think if you jack off to 3D "women" then tohno should ban you
This discussion would be better off in /tat/.
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
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.
>>42242 Gonna be worse now than AI-generated art is out in the wild. Art-styles will go even more unhinged...
>>42242 >western art And then they all look like the same ugly ethically diverse fat bloated over stylized characters with big red noses.
>>42242 Once I believe the epitome of art was to look like a photograph. Ah, simpler times.
why do they do this to the pantsus in some anime and not others? air time?
>>30320 i have never bought a bd
>>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.
>>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.
>>30318 So that you gush for magical girls
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?
>>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.
>>42222 Me too. My first interests were mostly "titcows" but as I grew up I realized the truth of DFC.
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.
>>42231
Whatcha doin' for the new year assuming y'all ain't locked-down?
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
>>42159 I love you too
>>42151 2024, everyone...
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
How often do you bathe, /ot/? What about shaving? Do you fit into the stereotype that suggests NEETs and hikikomori have poor personal hygiene?
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.
>>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.
>>42219 I almost never eat in my room and keep clothing I intend to wear tomorrow on my office chair.
>>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.
What do you want to be when you grow up /tc/?
>>42141 Both of those require a significant amount of capital to start with.
>>42032 Life begins at 30!
>>42208 I'm 31. When does the magic begin?
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.
Has anyone else noticed otaku culture outside of japan has turned into something of a magnet for people with "alternative life styles"? People who a lot of the time do not have much interest in anything actually otaku related? It's as if at some point, being into anime & manga stopped being about being into anime & manga and turned into being part of a large community of misfit weirdos. Those with a legitimate interest in the material have been phased out and replaced. I used to hide my power level so people wouldn't think I was some embarrassing narutard. Now I hide my power level so people won't think I'm an crazy depraved alternative life style activist furfag. These people... they choose to alienate themselves from society, and now that they can't fit in anywhere they look too fringe nerd and otaku culture and communities. They don't care what it's about, and they don't see fans who like a certain type of media, they only see a bunch of misfit weirdos who surely would welcome any and all other misfit weirdos. At best they might indulge in a bit of whatever is the most popular thing at the time, but that's not what they're there for. They're like squatters. They're uninvited people making themselves at home in a place that doesn't belong to them, and they're getting away with it because no one wants to deal with them or the backlash of trying to kick them out. Now they act like it belongs to them, and start changing things to suit their interests.
>>42189 I think the dividing line is more plainly whether one watches anime or engages with the medium as an art form on its own right, or watches anime more for the "social" aspect. To take a blatant example, how many people knew about Manga time Kirara before watching Bocchi the Rock and watched it for that sake, compared to watching the show because they saw some funny reactions used somewhere (or because their friends watched it)? This then leads to the phenomenon OP mentioned: if you only engage with otaku culture mainly for the reason of having "some social group" to be a part of, then one likely won't engage with it very deeply. >>42171 >alternative life style activist furfag I find it interesting that perhaps the only group to avoid becoming "diluted" in this sense is the "brony" (i.e. fans of my little pony) community. You'd think that all the anime and furry stuff would naturally bleed over into it, but from what I can see the brony & furry communities remain fairly distinct. Maybe it's a byproduct of the radioactive reputation the former had, so they were forced to create their own more silo'd spaces early on, or something. (Tangentially I've always felt that the brony community partly exists because the west doesn't have anything like CGDCT anime. It's understandable that people who never discovered anime probably went to the only cute/soft/gentle thing that exists in the west. And I never quite understood their radioactive reputation, at least around 2007s or so they didn't seem to invade other communities, at most there were only forum signatures and avatars. In fact I'd say that the "modern" anime community is more invasive in the sense of spamming shounen memes everywhere and generally acting obnoxious).
>>42192 >at least around 2007s or so they didn't seem to invade other communities Bronies existed before "g4" (the start of friendship is magic in 2010), but that's when it really took off and Moot decided to give them their own containment board.
>>42193 >Bronies existed before "g4" (the start of friendship is magic in 2010) No. My Little Pony fans existed before G4, but they were mostly adult women collecting figurines out of a sense of nostalgia. "Bronies" are a phenomenon that is specific to when /co/ decided to ironically start group-watching Friendship is Magic - later kicked out to /b/, later kicked out away from 4chan, later given a containment board back on 4chan which was initially highly distrusted.
>>42185 I also thought the OP was referring to those sort of people, they're just posers at the end of the day
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