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
Is anyone here attending? What kind of stuff have you acquired or plan to acquire?
>>41506 Weird how iM@S has fallen out of favour in the West, but is still going so strong in Japan.
>>41509 Was it ever in favor in the west?
>>41511 There was a decent sized English fandom for Deresute last I remember, but this was like 2017. I'm not sure if they just went back to Love Live since it caters to the global fanbase more or if they went onto other mobile games.
>>41014 just go, man. do it and don't regret anything.
Because the last thread, http://tohno-chan.com/ot/res/15686.html, is now on auto sage.
Me at normies and their pathetic power levels bakas
Chu ~
Damn 3D women and their cunning and wiles!
For me it's this.
Dark blue The top part is short and the skirt is calf-length white trim and bow and ankle socks or black stockings with loafers
Oarai Girls High's Se-la-fuku
>>35390 White & Green.
>>29712 I like this one.
Joyeux Noël
>>29783 You may wanna visit the world trade center while you still have the chance. Also, get a good PC and mine the shit out of bitcoin once it becomes available. Oh and if you can try to invest in apple products, their cordless phones are gonna become really really popular (don't ask me why, hell if I know). You'll thank me latter.
>>29767 Is her birthday on Xmas day or something?
Merry Xmas 2020
Boxing Day 2023 was lit except for the sudden percipitation.
So...what? What is this website about? Where did it start? Is this a chan specifically for NEETs?... isn't 4chan the same thing? Please explain
>>42072 Thanks. It's interesting to know we still have a tiny presence out there. I didn't mean to imply no one was donating anything, I do appreciate it.
>>42082 Don't listen to this suspicious guy. tohno-chan has fallen. Billions must uguu.
>>42082 I didn't feel that there was any implication about donations. I hesitated before adding anything about that because I didn't want it to come off as lame and fishing for compliments, so I just tried to make a little Christmas instead.
>>42075 I think it's a fun idea in theory. I spent a little bit of time on /tea/, I would check it once a week or whatever and just post random stuff. But yes, it is very clearly a clique that knows each other, and that turned me off of it. It feels inevitable because the userbase is small. If you could find something with 40-50 users instead of the (what feels like) 10 who use /tea/ regularly, it might be more tolerable.
So I was wondering if a book could inspire feelings of moe and comfort just like manga and anime do. I'm talking about slice of life stories made purely for the sake of it. Books like Anne of Green Gables or Heidi aren't exactly moe, but they have this slice of life/comfort element I would like to achieve on prose. Think of it as a written version of K-On! or Non Non Biyori, something both moe and comfortable. Not only a slice of life but also something cute, something moe. I tried writing a really short story using what I consider to be a moe style. This text was originally written in Spanish and I translated it to English for the sake of sharing it here. Please forgive whatever typo or grammar error there might be and let me know if you like it and if you would consider it as moe. «Cicadas sing in the distance as we get closer to the cottage. It's just my mother and me in the family car. The landscape presents itself elegantly bathed in sunlight. I've put on a white sunhat . I think I look cute wearing it. It's going to be a hot day, I can feel it. Mom smiles at me, and I smile back. It doesn't take long for us to arrive. Our plot among the mountains invite us to enjoy ourselves and all the nature around us. I think my grandma planted tomatoes in the garden. I think next year we'll plant watermelons. It doesn't take long for Alice to pay me a visit. She shows up unannounced, as usual, and asked if I wanted to hang out with her at the lookout point. Of course I say yes. We hop on our bikes and head up to the old dirt pathways offered to us by the hills. "Watch out for the stones on the path!" I tried to warn my dear friend, but it was too late; she had already fallen. I offer her help to get up. She looks at me like a scared puppy, with teary eyes, and apologizes for the trouble. I place a hand on her shoulder and try to cheer her up. Once her sorrows dried up, we continue on our way. It wasn't hard for us to reach the summit. From there, you can see everything. My grandma's cottage, the village with its red rooftops and belfry, the birch forest... I wanted to take a photo, but I left my camera at home. I think my friend noticed and burst into laughter. I smile at her and start laughing too.»
>>42049 >Cute visuals tell you what it's all about Yeah I agree visuals are better at capturing the moe esence. >Alice's personality also feels inconsistent. Is she the sensitive type, or the boisterous type? Honestly didn't think much about it, just made her up according to what was needed. Maybe if I choose a set of character archetypes like they do in manga/anime it could be more coherent. >>42050 Are there CGDCT light novels? As in, only slice of life of cute little girls with little to no plot. >>42052 >Moe in a way can be considered the evolution of that, just that instead of farmers we have CGDCT Yeah I absolutely agree. >I would add more focus on details to give more life to the feeling you want to transmit, like the moe visuals that we all know and love Thanks for the tip, I tried to add as little detail as possible to not over-saturate the text, but it's true that with little to no details it feels a bit shallow. So I will add more details and more focus on the cuteness next time.
>>42056 >Are there CGDCT light novels? As in, only slice of life of cute little girls with little to no plot. https://myanimelist.net/manga.php?cat=manga&type=2&genre[]=52 All either manga side stories, or alternative versions of a manga.Post edited on 18th Dec 2023, 12:15am
it's neither moe nor slice-of-life but there's a novel version of shinsekai yori i'd like to read but apparently there's only a fan translation and not physical media
>>42045 You're probably aware of these errors, but you use very inconsistent tense in you writing. Allow me to show you. >She shows up unannounced, as usual, and asked if I wanted to hang out with her at the lookout point. You begin the sentence with present tense but the second part of the sentence uses past tense. This really throws off the mood of the story.
What are your thoughts on it? Do you care? Has it affected you at all? I know a lot of people are probably sick of hearing about it by now, but I thought it'd be interesting to get TC's point of view on it and see what you guy's think.
I got vaccinated twice (Pfizer and Moderna) and didn't have any adverse effects apart from a sore arm. Though I suppose it could've been pure luck.
>>41195 Seems to vary by the lot number, see howbadismybatch. Not sure if that effect is from questionable QC or just standard population density effect though. But you can look at the graphs yourself for myocarditis rates in young males broken down by dose and manufacturer. 2x moderna is 6x rate of myocarditis compared to natural infection with the original strain.
My job finally stopped making us take tempt tests before we could enter the building.
There's an interesting study that seems to escaped the notice of even the critical-thinking parts of the covid-adjacent community. [1] shows that not only do the mrna-based vaccines mainly transfect _immune cells_ rather than muscle cells as was originally claimed, but that the translation-lifetime once inside these immune cells is prolonged by presence of TENT5A which readenlyates the poly-a tail that would usually become degraded over time. I think that this explains almost everything we've seen associated with the vaccine: 1) We know from Bruce Patterson's previous work that long covid (with the real virus) is associated with viral persistence in long-lived monocytes. [2] is an academic paper which corroborates this and shows the vaccine-generated spike protein can persist in a similar fashion. This now provides an explanation for why in some people this persistence occurs. Perhaps in some subset the readenlyation process occurs faster than the degradation process (maybe tent5a is replenished quicker), and so things get stuck in a loop that only ends when the cell itself dies. Some immune cells can be long-lived though. 2) The above likely also alters natural immune function, and the generated spike proteins possibly do further downstream damage. 3) This also explains the long-term igg4 buildup that has been seen 6months out from the mrna doses, since it would be a consequence of the unbroken translation process. 4) It might also explain the myocarditis, as immune cells basically go everywhere throughout the body, and from the above they might be dragging spike protein along with them doing peripheral damage. [1] https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.01.518149v2.full [2] https://www.europeanreview.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/013-019-2.pdf
i can download anime faster than i can watch it, several times faster. the standard 1080 episode comes through in just a few minutes. what good is the excess capacity doing for me?
>>31338 tis better than streaming...
>>32202 >>41953 Arr... my hearties. Let's sail the bodacious sea.
>>31338 It's very good to be able to download as much as I want with fast speeds. I remember circa 2010 - 2016 I was still getting 300kbs maximum on my internet, it was very rough. Nowadays I get about 12mbs. I'm out of disk space, though.
>>41991 Buy some HDDs; storage is cheap now.
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