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32810 No. 32810 hide watch expand quickreply [Reply] [Edit] [Last 50 posts]
I drink coffee. What's your drink of choice?
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>> No. 41897 [Edit]
>>41890
Root beer also pairs really well with vanilla ice cream. Quite a treat under the reign of Summer's oppressive heat!
>> No. 41909 [Edit]
>>41890
We have sarsaparilla in the US too, but it's not the same thing as root beer, it's closer to birch beer.
We also have a drink called Moxie that's probably the closest thing to chinotto based on your description of it.
I swore off soda years ago, but I used to like all of those.
>> No. 41910 [Edit]
>>41909
I can't taste the difference between birch beer and root beer. If you're able, could you describe how their tastes differ?
>> No. 41912 [Edit]
>>41910
Birch beer is less sweet and has more of a slight mint flavor.

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41876 No. 41876 hide watch expand quickreply [Reply] [Edit]
There's a lot of anime style media coming out of China and Korea these days.
How do you feel about this stuff? Do you feel like it's wrong to take part in anything that isn't from glorious Nippon? even if it looks and sounds like it is? Are you still a "weeb" in the traditional sense if you like this stuff? Does it even matter what country it comes from if it scratches the same itch? More to the point, is it Japanese media we like or the media japan happens to produce that we like?
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>> No. 41905 [Edit]
I just stick with only Japanese 2D media for the most part. I like Japanese culture more than the other two anyway, so of course I prefer their media. Someone who calls themselves an otaku but only consumes either Korean or Chinese media isn't an otaku. I'm sure both cultures have their own name for geeks/maniacs, but they aren't otaku.

There's also personal reasons for why I don't like Korean/Chinese media.
Webtoons have an annoying layout and seem to have very similar stories of either medival fantasy isekai (although that's just a trend in 2D media in general nowadays) or some flavor of 50 Shades only with rich korean women instead of men. To be fair I'm not very familiar with webtoons so maybe my assumption about them is wrong. I'm just basing my thoughts on what I was recommend to read.
Last manhua I read either the publisher or government stepped in, story got censored heavily, and then eventually was put on hiatus.
That fear of a series spontaneously dying at any moment because of government interference keeps me from reading more manhua.
Although I don't mind Korean or Chinese fan artists, in fact for a lot of series I enjoy they're the ones mostly keeping those fandoms afloat.
>> No. 41906 [Edit]
The art found in webtoons often looks cheap in my eyes.
>> No. 41907 [Edit]
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I enjoy non-japanese media, but I find it hard to apreciate chinese and korean stuff, at least their animation and comic industries. I will give you two examples from my childhood. One is a chinese cartoon about a little carp, I find this work full of "soul" because despite being completely foreing it was able to deliver a strong impression, left a good memory in me. I can't tell without a rewatch if it was influenced by anime or not, probably yes at some degree but despite this it feels original, it has its own personality and tone. The other is a korean cartoon, also from my childhood. I remember enjoying it to some degree, but in retrospective, it's just a plagiarism of various monster tamer works like Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, etc. It's not original at all, it's just a mere mockery of a nonster taming anime it has no personality of its own. I find this to be the norm with chinese and korean animations, videogames and comics. Genshin Impact looks like an uninspired cashgrab, many manwhas are ugly and have retarded plots. China and Korea both have a great filmaking industry, I would say even better than modern Japan, so I don't understand why their animation have to copy so agressively anime/manga styles.
>> No. 41908 [Edit]
My observations from dabbling in it a bit:
Chinese animation isn't so bad when they aren't settling for all-CGI production. Both seasons of Link Click have been gorgeous, for example. There seems to be some legitimate talent for animation over there. Not a lot, but some. The voice acting ranges from lackluster to awful, and Chinese not being the easiest language to listen to doesn't help. Japanese dubs are becoming more common, though.
I can't think of any Korean anime at all. There's a reason they had to swallow their pride and get Japanese studios to adapt Tower of God and Solo Leveling for them.
Manhua, manwha and webtoons are all horrible on average compared to manga. The list of good series between them would be very short. Probably microscopic if you can't tolerate anything that's BL or BL-adjacent. Most of their comics are all the worst qualities of Narou-kei amplified to infinity.
I don't go out of my way to hate Chinese and Korean stuff without giving any of it a chance, but their industries are less developed than Japan's and it's reflected in the average quality of their series. It's more difficult to find the good stuff, so I don't blame anyone for not trying.

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29083 No. 29083 hide watch expand quickreply [Reply] [Edit]
Imagine if someone handed you a box full of all the items you have lost throughout your life.
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>> No. 41830 [Edit]
Honestly I bet it would be full of little bits of electronics that I tend to lose and need to replace. And some socks.
Also I lost a vehicle in my teenage years - how big of a box are we talking about here?
>> No. 41845 [Edit]
My whole life to be honest
>> No. 41846 [Edit]
Can I get my time back?
>> No. 41859 [Edit]
My old gameboy advance with like 40 games in a gameboy backpack. And my old bionicle figures too.

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28802 No. 28802 hide watch expand quickreply [Reply] [Edit]
Any of you guys got any pets?
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>> No. 41780 [Edit]
>>41779
Who the heck can afford that?
>> No. 41785 [Edit]
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41785
I have a cat.
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>>41785
I like small birds.
>> No. 41856 [Edit]
I has a rainbow sloth plushie

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33410 No. 33410 hide watch expand quickreply [Reply] [Edit] [First 100 posts] [Last 50 posts]
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.
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>> No. 40992 [Edit]
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.
>> No. 41013 [Edit]
>>40102
I used to use neet.moe, but in the last year or so it seems to have been colonized by alt-right teens
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I cook, so this site helps me out with cooking techniques
https://www.seriouseats.com/techniques-5118032
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History
https://acoup.blog

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32226 No. 32226 hide watch expand quickreply [Reply] [Edit]
What are some things you wish you knew when you were younger? Things you'd tell yourself if you could.
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>> No. 41629 [Edit]
>>41628
>because they likely only have their own in mind
How does giving bad advice fit into this?
>> No. 41778 [Edit]
Judge people by their actions, and don't waste your time and sanity thinking someone is a better person than what/who they are showing you. "When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time."

Trust your gut over everything else.
>> No. 41806 [Edit]
>>41778
Understood. I give people too much benefit of the doubt.
>> No. 41831 [Edit]
>>41629
Not them, but I agree to an extent.
A lot of advice that is valid to mostly everyone regardless of their current context is often not particularly useful advice, as it tends to gloss over whatever particulars are causing the person desiring advice to be in their undesirable position. In my life, this is often the advice I get when speaking to someone of good intention and higher status when asking for advice, unless there is a reason for greater context on both parties (mutual hobby, association, etc.)

So if someone in a position of power over you offers you advice that panders to your insecurities/weaknesses without a readily apparent reason, it is safe to assume they offer that advice with the idea it would be useful or neutral to them for you to take it.

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41807 No. 41807 hide watch expand quickreply [Reply] [Edit]
Tohno-chan, please explain this to me. I want to know so I can be a better person. Some of the H stuff I come across while playing VNs, ...I find it disturbing. I know I can always just skip and ignore, but it makes me wonder, how can it be that I play VNs for healing and moe and the story, while other people seem to play it for all that additional filth. Never understood this, I like characters the way they are while others like the very same characters only when they ...you know what, you have seen it. Feels like a sort of dissonance to me. Is it a japanese thing that I'm just not meant to understand? Is it a business thing like all-ages and ecchi stuff has not enough paying customers? Please give me knowledge. (Sorry if I insulted any fans of H stuff, it was not the goal.)
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>> No. 41824 [Edit]
I think sex scenes in this context are seen as a capstone for many: it's an expression of upmost love and trust between two people, and it consummates the efforts of the protagonist and reader, especially if the path to get there was arduous.
>> No. 41825 [Edit]
>>41824
This is really what it comes down to. I don't understand why there seems to be such opposition to it.
>> No. 41826 [Edit]
>>41825
>>41824
I feel like there are better ways to represent it, especially since many sex scenes don't havea much thought or work put into them. I understand the point you are trying to make but I feel it is a very lazy way to do that and the effort would be better spent putting together a more unique scene with the girl, since many sex scenes in the are very similar. This has sorta gone off-topic from OP's original point though. I will say I don't really see much of this type of stuff in moege, nor do I see much fetish stuff, it is typically reserved for more "mature genres".
It's like how seinen and josei are more likely to have the heroine be promiscious or have other type of filth in it like rape, whereas shsoujo is typically more pure, but sometimes an author makes a crappy story.
>> No. 41828 [Edit]
>>41826
You're overlooking another component. Tied to the emotional aspect of love is the physical side, which sex scenes satisfy in addition to the former. Again, it's the culmination of love and desire with the character that the reader and protagonist doggedly pursued.
Plus, they don't have to be lazily written, that's just what the writers feel they can get away with; it's not necessarily the result of having ero-scenes.

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37957 No. 37957 hide watch expand quickreply [Reply] [Edit]
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.

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>> No. 37986 [Edit]
>>37958
How about Soranowoto?
Maybe the upcoming Girls Front Line anime?
There's also Valkyria Chronicles, which has mixed gender armies.
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>>37986
Soranowoto and Aozora Shoujotai look interesting. Something that feels grittier would be good. I guess there isn't much of a market for that kind of thing.
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i love yandere characters, loli characters, and otaku characters. i'm always really happy when they appear in something i like, especially if it's some combination of the three. my dream is one character that combines all three archetypes, somehow.
i wish yandere characters were more common in general, it feels like it peaked with Yuno Gasai in Mirai Nikki.
>> No. 41793 [Edit]
>>41792
>i wish yandere characters were more common in general
Same. That deep unquestioned love and devotion... It's inspiring.

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32034 No. 32034 hide watch expand quickreply [Reply] [Edit]
Do you think the youth of our current generation is spoiled by having a limitless amount of media content instantly available to them at a moment's notice?
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>> No. 32080 [Edit]
>>32079
Technically, yes, but YouTube comments were never known for their quality.
>> No. 41689 [Edit]
In some ways yes, in other ways no.
On the one hand they can get by on easy mode using google and bots to solve all their questions, cheat on their tests, order whatever they want, and find anything they want including things that they aren't supposed to have access to like porn. It's convenient and easy, but that also makes people lazy, weak minded, and leaves them helpless the moment you cut the internet connection.
It also seems to be over stimulating people. With so many options, it's hard to focus on any one thing. It's hard to hold the attention of anyone growing up with all this constant noise.
They don't know what to believe or what to trust with information being piled onto them, which really screws them up. This also robs them of shared experiences with people of their own age, due to people being so divided. But that's a bit of a different matter.
Just look at how miserable and depressed they all are. They have a million of voices telling them what to think and do and how to live, with no idea which ones to trust, a million lives to compare their own to. A million distractions they can't indulge in without neglecting the most of everything else out there. The internet should have a hard age limit, and I'm talking like 18+ to use it. Minors aren't supposed to consume alcohol or Tabaco because it can cause physical issues with a still developing body. Why isn't the same consideration given to their mental health?
The writing is on the walls but no one wants to acknowledge the inconvenient truth, that it's all doing far more harm than good for those who aren't mature enough to handle it.
>> No. 41692 [Edit]
>>41689
I think a curated network should be created in the case of the general internet being age restricted, for educational purposes. Kids whose parents heavily regulate their computer usage end up computer illiterate.
>> No. 41782 [Edit]
>>41689
So youre saying we have to restrict and monitor access to the most powerful tool the free people of this planet have ever seen because of the possibility of a trivial threat to the well-being of children?

Which government agency did you say you were with again?

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11220 No. 11220 hide watch quickreply [Reply] [Edit] [First 100 posts] [Last 50 posts]
They say you learn something new every day. Let's see if that statement is true!

ITT post something new you learned today. Trivia knowledge is more than welcome.
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>> No. 41756 [Edit]
>>41755
>Why is it tolerated, but only some times?
I imagine popularity is the main, if not only factor.
>Perhaps the iPhone's release was in 2006, rather than 2008?
It was 2007, the year phoneposting became common.
>> No. 41757 [Edit]
>>41756
>It was 2007, the year phoneposting became common.
I doubt this since the technology at the time was still too clumsy and annoying to make phoneposting attractive to the normalfag.
>> No. 41758 [Edit]
>>41757
Indeed, remember that the original iphone only had 2g connectivity and the early versions didn't have external applications. It took several years for the idea of mobile-first websites to pick up. I'd say things started gaining steam around 2010 or so, and ~2014 was the point of no return.
>> No. 41760 [Edit]
>>41755
>I didn't even know there was, an official, Evangelion manga. Not fanart. Official. Interesting.

Made by Evangelion's character designer Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, and interestingly, it started before the anime. It was supposed to be a promotional work to be published alongside the TV show but I suspect at some point Sadamoto became very sick of Eva, so it ended almost 20 years after it. Still, it was a big commercial success.

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40936 No. 40936 hide watch expand quickreply [Reply] [Edit]
Stuff you bought, ordered, or just hope to get someday.
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Bought one of those random assortment packs of Japanese candy. It was like $20 for a pack, which might be a bit much if it was in japan but for something imported I can't complain. the same stuff would probably come out to twice as much if bought from a local Asian market.
Reviews made it sound like it ranges from gross to great. should be interesting to see how it pans out.
>> No. 41730 [Edit]
>>41729
I've been thinking about doing something similar but with snacks instead of just sweets. Do let us know how it goes.
>> No. 41731 [Edit]
>>41729
Funny that they still have candy cigarettes.
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>>41731
They're kinda chalky lemon flavored sticks that dissolve quickly. I think it's funny the packaging says "We support your No-smoking"

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