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12292 No. 12292 hide watch quickreply [Reply] [Edit] [First 100 posts] [Last 50 posts]
what are some things that really bug you?
things that genuinely piss you off?

I thought it would be nice to have a thread to vent about any little annoyance, no mater how big or small.
Any and all complains about the world around you are welcome here!
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>> No. 41709 [Edit]
>>41708
What about all the Japanese artists?
>> No. 41712 [Edit]
>>41709
I guess they're fine, but I'd still be willing to lose them if it meant getting rid of everyone else on the site.
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>>41712
This seems like an absurd stance to take if you passionately enjoy 2D media created in the 21st century. Think of all the mangaka, the animators, the writers, the illustrators, the musicians, the voice actors, the game developers, etc. who would be gone.
Hell, even Tohno has a Twitter account. >>41151 What would happen to TC?
>> No. 41774 [Edit]
>>41718
Obviously we'd hire a necromancer and have him reanimate tohno. Can't have him enjoy the boundless wonders of the afterlife while we suffer in our meatsacks.

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521 No. 521 hide watch quickreply [Reply] [Edit] [First 100 posts] [Last 50 posts]
I'd like to start another dream thread, if that's all right. I'll go first.
You know how when you're a fan of something like anime or scifi or similar things in your teenage years parents will try to buy stuff for you? My dad and stepmom bought anime\manga related shit at yard sales a lot. Sometimes it was good, sometimes it was off the mark.
Well, in my dream I'm still in high school. I'm sitting there playing Xbox when my dad & stepmom walk in and yell that they got me something at a yard sale. I'm think to myself, "well, probably shit, but I might as well see," and go to check it out.
I walk into the kitchen and on the table is a box full of stuff from Neon Genesis Evangelion.
I get more excited and go to see what it is. There's every episode in raws and fansubs on
VHS, some uniforms, figurines, and even Shinjis' fucking tape recorder with the tape he listens to inside it! All the merchandise seems to be older and seems like it was directly imported from Japan. I ask where they found it.
It cuts to a yard sale with a slightly sad fiftyish woman in her front yard. She talked about how her son loved this show and whatnot, and seemed very sad. She sold it all for about 10-20 dollars.
I take all the stuff out and find a suicide note. Her son had gotten into anime in the
eighties while in high school and was completely inept and friendless. He grew obsessed with
Evangelion and felt a strong kinship with Shinji because he was such a fuck up. He grew older
and couldn't find anyone to share his interests with, became more and more of a recluse, and
killed himself in the late nineties, which I recall being a shame since the internet as of
96, when he killed himself, could have given him a place to talk to others and feel less alone. I realized he was "an otaku of another generation." I hung up his note and saluted it. I then went to watch his tapes and realized that he had dubbed it himself in case he ever met anyone who wanted to share his joy. I inherited his legacy. His mother had cleaned house and ended up giving me a record of a hikkikomori life.
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>> No. 40770 [Edit]
>>40769
Quite a shitty dream.
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I had a dream a few months ago, where my dad's office (fictional, I've never seen a room like this before) had a bookshelf with a secret switch in it that led to another, white room with a desk and another bookshelf. When I came up to the bookshelf, it turned out to be a collection of hentai and ecchi manga and some light novels. I grabbed a volume of High School DxD, but before I could read, I got caught and I quickly left the room. That's when the dream ended and when I woke up, I was filled with a sense that I needed to find my dad's ecchi stash again until I came back to reality about 3 minutes later and fell back asleep. I wonder if my dad actually has something like that in real life. He owns a few anime DVDs but I've never seen anything like porn, much less H manga at my house
>> No. 40876 [Edit]
I have recurring nightmares of the lithium ion battery in my phone catching fire. What could this mean?
>> No. 41626 [Edit]
I just had this most horrid dream. An absolute nightmare. I was not only frightened but sheerly impressed with what my mind could come up with. Some of the creatures I've saw have top notch monster design. They looked like they came out of the pages of Berserk or Gantz. The dream was very long and detailed but basically it felt like doing the Nurarihyon mission of Gantz but in a dystopian society resembling Deus Ex, but much less cybepunk and much more scrapyard. I may try drawing one of the creatures later.

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41254 No. 41254 hide watch expand quickreply [Reply] [Edit]
I don't know where to make this thread, I'll end up making it in the otaku board. So I wanted to talk about cyberpunk with you guys because it's my favorite genre.
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>>41583
>complaining about the lead character in some cyberpunk work being a police officer
Seriously? That would discount Blade Runner too.

edit: Armitage III too. Cops are a common occupation for cyberpunk protagonists, so whoever that was doesn't know what they're talking about.

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>> No. 41585 [Edit]
>>41584
Exactly! It annoyed me a lot which is why that kind of opinion stuck with me for so long. I don't understand it at all.
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>>41254
I loved cyberpunk when I was younger.
The funny thing us that even though cyberpunk tends to be dystopian in nature, the actual reality we're in is shaping up to be much worse in some respects than most of the cyberpunk media you saw 30, 40 years ago.

>>41259
My favorite PKD book is Valis, which explores in great detail the philosophical and religious ideas which underpin his cyberpunk books, but contains only trace amounts of science fiction.
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>>41254
I feel kind of indifferent about cyberpunk as a genre these days, because really we're basically living a world with much of what was imagined in cyberpunk media in the past. I mean, we're not at the level of cyborgs or brain-in-a-vat level of tech. But you could easily write a cyberpunk narrative set in the modern world.

You should try watching some stuff from the noir genre OP. I really like series directed by Shuko Murase myself. I also just finished the first season of Psycho-pass, and it was phenomenal

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33794 No. 33794 hide watch expand quickreply [Reply] [Edit] [First 100 posts] [Last 50 posts]
I started learning Japanese, well I already did, but took a couple of months off and am now getting back into it. Same story you've heard a million times, whatever. I made the "mistake" of learning all N5 words outside of context because I thought that would be more efficient and I didn't feel like doing worksheets. On one hand, I'm still familiar with all that vocab, on the other hand, learning it in tandem with grammar would have been better. Anyway, I'm not interested in speaking. My goal is fluent literacy. I wanna read something like Saya no Uta smoothly and with crystal clear understanding, really enjoy myself. How difficult would that be? I'm willing to shoot myself in the foot in another area of the language to expedite this specific goal.

I've learned a bit more about the "Japanese Learning Community" and came across AJATT. I find it to be weird and kind of culty. Look at this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzLBf7l5G-g&feature=youtu.be

It's so bizarre to me. These guys are completely obsessed with perfectly replicating a "native speaker". Use all the right pitch accents and all the right expressions without ever deviating so no one can tell the difference. I started comparing this approach with how English is spoken. Different people say words differently. Some people talk in a sing-song sort of way, others like they're always asking a question. Maybe it sounds dumb or annoying, but I'd never say they're speaking English incorrectly. Every person probably has their own quirks and I like making up my own expressions and getting a little creative. Is Japanese really so uniform between every person(with the same dialect)? What about people with accents? Not only are accents acceptable in English, they're desirable in some cases. My parents have an accent, yet i'd still say their english is perfect.


Imagine if I made a video responding to a German guy trying to speak English in the "perfect way" with no accent or anything "nonnative", and I paused every few seconds to point out some slight inaccuracy in how a word is spoken. How weird would that be? You'd think that German guy is misguided and w
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>> No. 41240 [Edit]
>>41238
If you have time to eat, and sleep, and bathe, you have time to memorize less than 100 characters(hiragana + katakana).
>May I ask how you achieved that?
First, he learned the hiragana and katakana.
>>41239
>you could transliterate things to romaji if you really wanted
The only thing romaji is good for, for language learners, is learning the kana. What you're suggesting, is incredibly inefficient for an adult who knows how to read in one language. It's better to leverage those skills rather than pretend you're some kind of infant.
>> No. 41241 [Edit]
>>41234
学習の結果はまだ実っている。
読解が徐々に磨きます。
それでも進行感がない。
うちは日々基本的な文法や文例を読んでるの。ウィキペディアの記事の一部とか漫画原作の最初のページを読むの。意味ない、そんなこと。
今は漫画とアニメとゲームの好きな日本の制作に飛び込んで没頭します。
まあ、やる気があればいつかやるぞ。
>> No. 41288 [Edit]
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March progress. I add cards regularly, but don't review consistently enough. My daily amount has been mounting.

Tried graded readers, and will continue to do so, but the ones I can understand are kinda boring.
>> No. 41442 [Edit]
Jap a little rusty but knew enough to order for the specials on the blackboard. The english translation was a little broken. Heh.

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31665 No. 31665 hide watch expand quickreply [Reply] [Edit]
What have you read lately TC?
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>> No. 40782 [Edit]
I read Kafka's Amerika. I liked it a lot, I would even go as to say it may be better than The Trial. The biggest issue though, is that unlike the Trial - which is nearly complete - there are many gaps in the latter half of Amerika. The gaps start right at what I consider the highest point of the book. In a way this leaves the book more ambiguous and open to many interpretations, especially regarding the last chapter.
The first chapter - which initially stood as a single short story - "The stoker" is more comical and not as macabre or kafkaesque as the others, it serves as a prequel where Karl sees the suffering of the stoker, and his helplessness in face of his employers, and soon this will be the fate of Rossmann as well.
The following chapters see the introduction of the american characters and the women characters, and the kafkaesque scenarios we are used to.
If you are a Kafka reader you definitely should read this.
>> No. 40786 [Edit]
Last one I read was Insomnia, much like with >>39114 that series practically tells you to go read it.
It's a side story that takes place maybe half way into the Dark Tower series. It could be seen more as an epilogue to the series though. If viewed as it's own stand alone thing, it's not great and pretty bleh and filled with a lot of stuff that might make little sense and references that would mean even less. Really drags on for the first half. As the tittle suggests, it's about a retired elderly man who gets less and less sleep with each passing day. As it goes on, he starts seeing and experiencing really weird and triply stuff due to being sleep deprived. There's a little hook near the start with a neighbor go has some insane rage fueled fit while spouting crazy talk, but it does take a good while for anything to come of that.

This goes on until he eventually becomes able to freely ascend to a higher plane of existence, and finds that an old lady he has the hots for can do it too. It also turns out that these powers of his were no accident. He's given a task that ties directly into the dark tower series but I won't say more than that.
>> No. 41439 [Edit]
Reading about the Manhattan Project. It’s fascinating & scary simultaneously…
>> No. 41441 [Edit]
I give up on newspapers; it's all bad new and there's too much negativity in my life already...

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29589 No. 29589 hide watch quickreply [Reply] [Edit]
Look at all this entertainment I have! The first week or two of every anime season are great, even if you drop most of the shows you check out, they still deliver that 22 minutes of first episode to amuse you.
What other periods of time are regularly worthwhile?
>> No. 41402 [Edit]
>>29589
New anime season is best? I agree.
>> No. 41434 [Edit]
>>29589
>The first week or two of every anime season are great
I really enjoyed the first season of Demon Slayer. It was honestly the first series I've seen in a while I thought I could marathon if I actually wanted. But it really fell off afterwards, and I haven't bothered to catch up with the Swordsmith Village Arc
>> No. 41436 [Edit]
>>29589
>the psychedelic guide to preparing...
>flip flappers
I wonder if these two downloads were related.
>> No. 41437 [Edit]
Feels like just yesterday I was looking forward to the first episodes of new shows and now they're on their 7th or 8th. Time slips away too quickly.

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36944 No. 36944 hide watch expand quickreply [Reply] [Edit]
It's winter time. It's that time. Short days, snow, cold, dry air, holidays, the stilling of life and expansion of nothingness. How does it make you feel?
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>> No. 41242 [Edit]
>>41233
We fuckin died to the japs in the first round and we will NEVER make an appearance again! STRAYA MATE!
>> No. 41294 [Edit]
>>41242
How's them subs coming along?
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Hot coffee solves everything
>> No. 41410 [Edit]
I wanna go somewhere cold. Move to a place that actually has 4 seasons instead of this depressing shithole where it's always hot. It's middle autumn and is just like a hot summer day, I am shirtless, underwearless, using only very short and thin shorts that are so loose and tiny that they leave my genitals exposed and the fan is a top speed and it's still impossible to stand the heat. It's my limit, every year this shithole gets hotter I can't take this anymore.

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31525 No. 31525 hide watch expand quickreply [Reply] [Edit]
Since the old request thread has been gone for quite some time now, would it alright to make a new one? I've been trying to re-find the picture in which a guy tells a story beginning with a high school orchestra performance. He talks about how he imagined his waifu, Kagami Hiiragi, being in the audience and how they talk and spend time with each other after returning home. It has a picture of Kagami gently smiling in it, but I otherwise remember it only consisting of small black text on a white background.
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I request a hi-res version of this picture and information on the artist, please.
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>>40655
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>>40656
Arigatou gozaimasu.
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I request pictures of Kuroki Tomoko sleepy-faced, yawning or waking up with her left side closer to the viewer like pic related. I need this for reference.

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33327 No. 33327 hide watch expand quickreply [Reply] [Edit]
What has been your personal experience with Pokemon? I started with gen 4, and I have good memories of it for that reason, but it's not my favorite. I think generation 2 was the peak of everything good about Pokemon. The atmosphere, the music, the adventure. It was intended as the last entry into the series and it shows. Everything after the second generation has been an artificial extension increasingly made out of an interest in profit rather than passion.

A lot of people feel that the franchise has gone down hill, but I disagree with their reasons. It's true that the creatures have become more over-designed and the overall art style has become less inspired and the legendary monster concept has been cheapened, but that's not the biggest issue in my opinion. The problem is that it became international. You don't really think of Pokemon as a jrpg, right?

The franchise's success practically forced gamefreak to tone certain things down for a larger, global audience and especially western sensibilities. Then they started accomodating more and more to the point where the game's aren't even set in places based on Japan. The cultural roots of the game have been uprooted and when playing the games you feel it. You feel that it was intended to please everybody across the world. No more forest shrines and kimono wearing girls. No more buddhist temples. No more anything that could upset a parent. No where is this shift more clear than in the anime. The themes of the games aren't particularly tied to Japan either now. Gen 1's technological focus and gen 2's nature focus came from a place relevant to the creators, so it felt like it had some weight to it.

tl;dr: The franchise isn't bathed in Japanese aesthetics and/or sensibilities anymore, so it feels soulless.
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Pokemon is for kids but that first OP in nihongo still slaps hard for me.
>> No. 41366 [Edit]
Started with red, also somewhere around y2k, and loved it to death.
Being a kid, completely ignorant of the way technology works it seemed like anything was possible.
I remember that an NPC somewhere around Pewter city said that Diglett can build entire caves, and I was absolutely convinced that this meant I can do that in game and build my own tunnels to other cities. Tried out a lot of stuff, but unfortunately nothing ever worked.
Also always tried to find a way beyond the fences or other barriers limiting the areas, because there was always something visible beyond them that looked like there's entire areas there you could visit if only you could find a little hole, somewhere the designers forgot to put a fence.
The thing was just magic, especially with all the rumors floating around, like glitch city, or that you could find mew if you left the game on for 100 hours and then the truck blocking the way at the dock of the M.S. Anne would go away. Actually I was more interested in exploring the area behind the truck than I was in getting mew.

Then I got crystal as a gift and the day/night cycle blew me away. The game was damn immersive, and at some points even managed to scare me.
The strange radio transmission creeped me out enough that I'd avoid them when playing at night.
Now that I think about it the game had a bit of an eerie feel in general.
Lost the cartridge eventually, then ended up with another from who knows where and then lost it again, which pisses me off to this day. The translucent case always fascinated me. Now they're expensive as fuck.

Then I got ruby, and later emerald. Played that generation for a couple of years, well into high school actually, and tried my hand at making custom roms, without much success. They really upped the immersion with that one, adding base building, different weather and biomes, growing of berries, etc.
I guess that was my favorite gen of all, precisely because of that.
Also the great music. Pokemon designs were nice too.
LG/FR was a step backwards in that regard iirc, and I never ended up getting it, only borrowed it from a friend, though I did still enjoy it.
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>>41366
If you ever want to play a Pokemon game you haven't before, I would recommend gen 4 or 5. They're pretty good. melonDS is the best DS emulator.

>Neither Gen 3 nor Gen 1 had that strong of a Japanese theme though, did they?
Not really in Gen 3, but Gen 1 had themes and aspects relevant to 90s Japan, like I mentioned in the OP.
>> No. 41430 [Edit]
>>41368
I loved G4 since it really did have an air of mystery to it, but it took a bit of time to adjust its comparatively slow pacing.

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39421 No. 39421 hide watch expand quickreply [Reply] [Edit]
It's that time of year again! April fools day!

Have you found anything interesting?!
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>> No. 41320 [Edit]
>>41319
I think the implementation is far simpler, there's no ML at all, it just adds the tagline to random posts.
>> No. 41321 [Edit]
>>41320
Wow, I'm retarded. That makes so much more sense.
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This year's vndb.
>> No. 41331 [Edit]
>>41321
I wish they had actually done the ML route. Considering how repetitive many threads are, a simple markov chain would probably have worked just fine. Or even just repeat historical responses. Alternatively they could have done something where they replaced every thread in the catalog with a precanned thread. Lots of possibilities, but that would require the mods to apply actual effort and have actual skills which I doubt the current crop does.

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41016 No. 41016 hide watch expand quickreply [Reply] [Edit]
2D has made me soft and feminine. Not just 2D alone, but avoiding western media and idiocy in general. Always had my soft side but now it's overactive. Most people IRL or on internet are more badass than me. (including gays, women, lesbians, etc) I dont feel intimidated, Im just alienated, and I don't like what Im turning into. Not sure if 2D healed me or infected me. Anybody in the same boat? what can I expect at this rate, and what can I do to damage-control?
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I find that 2D turns me into a more peaceful and relaxed guy. I like to take it easy and be as comfortable as I can. I understand what you meant too. 2D girls are so pure, inocent and femenine it's impossible not to get in a mood where elegance, feminity and even nostalgia could merge together. It happens to me as well, and there's nothing wrong with it. I think it can help us not to become lazy, dirty and brutish. Understanding your femenine side could lead to becoming a better, more balanced man. I wouldn't have developed a taste for retro and comfy stuff if not because of the 2D. Here's a pic I took a few weeks ago. Rewatching Anne of Green Gables. I could write an entire essay about this anime and what it means to me.
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>>41016
>soft and feminine
I think the adjective that better describes it is "sentimental". A lot of japanese media's like this. Ghibli and slice of life anime, games like Animal Crossing or Ocarina of Time. It’s not necessary softness, I think it’s more about allowing yourself to be vulnerable, but also carefree. That’s because these media remind us of childhood, with their tolkienesque pastoral landscapes, harmonical living with nature, comfy plot about people just living their life, slowly, one day at the time. Even western people who spent their childhood in big cities can still appreciate it, since there was also a lot of older western cartoons that were similar.
>> No. 41299 [Edit]
>>41298
Great post, and I agree.
>> No. 41318 [Edit]
>>41298
"Mono no aware" is I think the term?

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