/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>47208778
nowadays

>>47208770
Her stressed look nowadays or in general?

>>47208423
Exactly, I also feel that the number of bad endings has decreased considerably over the years. Somehow the original experience has really been lost and nowadays you are expected to simply read for 20 hours a common route and then decide which heroine you liked best to do her route. It's strange, that feeling of naturally becoming close to the heroine you like has been completely lost over the years

I guess everyone is sucking on something nowadays

Speaking of videogames.

I assume the game is supposed to be taking place nowadays.
But this is something my mother would say when I showed her a videogame. And I'm probably as old as Yuu's mom.
I'm not nitpicking or anything. I just thought that despite the generation gap and "a console in every household" in Japan, there are probably plenty of current gen アラサーwho have zero interest in games. Especially women.

>>47204895
>need a cosplaying girlfriend and need advice
>>>/cgl/ >>>/soc/ >>>/adv/
/jp/ is just for image dumping and shitposting, but now that you started a thread about this, let's do it.
So you said it's a "Japanese culture" event with cosplay contest with weirdos who do weird things? Then the chances of you scoring are extremely slim. A lot of those cosplayers are just clout chaser sluts and they mostly came to be worshipped by guys like (You), and even if you manage to score one of them you will regret it. Also remember than it's a event, not a dating reunion or something like that, you'll probably just bother every girl.
>I'll be going alone, and my plan is to just roam around and approach any girl dressed up as an interesting character and strike up a conversation, eventually working my way up to getting their contact.
I'm fully expecting to maybe only find a dozen people portraying characters from Jujutsu Kaisen, Chainsaw Man, Demon Slayer and whatever the hell is popular with the kids nowadays, but...
Last time I went to a proper, real convention nearby, I saw someone dressed as Niko from OneShot, and while cosplaying Hatsune Miku might sound tame, it was a breath of fresh air among the foul smell of the crowd.
A man can dream. I believe in a mildly interesting character, and I pray for a Yuyuko.
Nigga, you seriously expect a Touhou Project character with are a rare breed in the west? In your shithole while dressed as probably the last trending thing, going alone and roam like every other guy who are also probably as desperate as you? Bro, you have nothing interesting, 0 charsima, nothing, even if you talk to them you'll make them cringe. Stop being this delulu for your own good.
>But, despite the burning desire in my heart, I'm just what you may have expected.
I can't look others in the eye, and my hands get shaky whenever I'm near anyone, let alone a woman.
Naaaaaaahhhhhh, this man is the autistic /r9k/ cliché.
>Please, /jp/, I'm counting on you like a cool, jaded, but still wiser older brother.
My beard has been shaven, my clothes are ironed, my deodorant smells nice and I've got mint gum to go. Only one of those is a lie.
How can I develop my tactics further? How does a man from this board get a cute cosplaying chick at a public event?
1) Stop stinking like the desperate man for a girlfriend, nice deodorant, mint gum, clothes ironed, what's next? The free hug poster?!
2) Work on your shaking thing and self-confidence mate.
3) Forget all you have learned in your mangas/animes/eroges. This is reality, but don't listen too much to the self-improvement and self-proclamed "chads" a lot of them are just a big fat load of bullshit, not all but a lot.
4) Stand out form the others. Try to be funny, I dunno, you do you.
5) How do one get a cosplaying gf at a event? I won't blogpost here lad.
6) Next time post this shit in the 3 others boards I mentioned or go complain on >>>/r9k/ if everything have failed.
That's all, have a nice day.

Hello /jp/, I need a cosplaying girlfriend, and I need your advice.

There's a local "Japanese culture" event happening in my city in about a dozen hours.
While it is advertised as more of a celebration of all things related to Asia, it does feature a cosplay contest, and pictures on social media of previous year show that it does indeed attract all sorts of panty-sniffing, anime-dressing weirdos. Like me.

If I'm ever to have the chance to meet a girl who's into cosplay in the shithole where I live, this might be it.

I'll be going alone, and my plan is to just roam around and approach any girl dressed up as an interesting character and strike up a conversation, eventually working my way up to getting their contact.
I'm fully expecting to maybe only find a dozen people portraying characters from Jujutsu Kaisen, Chainsaw Man, Demon Slayer and whatever the hell is popular with the kids nowadays, but...
Last time I went to a proper, real convention nearby, I saw someone dressed as Niko from OneShot, and while cosplaying Hatsune Miku might sound tame, it was a breath of fresh air among the foul smell of the crowd.
A man can dream. I believe in a mildly interesting character, and I pray for a Yuyuko.

But, despite the burning desire in my heart, I'm just what you may have expected.
I can't look others in the eye, and my hands get shaky whenever I'm near anyone, let alone a woman.

Please, /jp/, I'm counting on you like a cool, jaded, but still wiser older brother.
My beard has been shaven, my clothes are ironed, my deodorant smells nice and I've got mint gum to go. Only one of those is a lie.
How can I develop my tactics further? How does a man from this board get a cute cosplaying chick at a public event?

>>47204621
Noone stores passwords as plain text anymore, not even technologically inept japs. Knowing just your email doesn't really pose any threat in itself, unless you have a really weak password that most email services nowadays won't even let you to use

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/UpRD1WQn7hA
is this what zoomers are into nowadays?

>>47199116
>>47200414
Well, for one you have the characters who mind their own business, say Kourin, Miyoi, Kosuzu, almost everyone from formel hell nowadays.
Then you have the fairies who are like childred, more mischivious than evil.
Most of the gods just want faith. Okina and Hecatia are the only "evil" ones.
But I can see what you want is a straight up lawful good character, in that case, you'd be surprised by the answer if you don't know it. The Watatsuki sisters are hands down the most morally righteous ones in the whole series. You have them, instead of utterly destroying invaders of their land, agreeing to play their games and let them go with a slap on the wrist. You have Toyo hiding, protecting and taking care of a man who wandered into the moon, going against Eirin's advice to kill him. They're so good in fact that their main conflict in SSiB is that they are worried the Lunar Capital would think them traitors(which they are since they refuse to kill Eirin).
It's funny that the most good people in the series come from the tyranical city, shame that KKHTA gave such a bad rep to them.

>>47199662
>>47197232
Good job copying that other anons comment. I guess copying is all you Yui fags are good for nowadays

>you find a lich at the bar ranting and drowning her sorrows in booze
>"I- *hiccup*-I tell you, I used to be the most feared of all Liches once upon a time. I was the Elder Lich, whose face was reviled across all the lands!"
>she starts chugging another glass and slams it down on the counter top
>"And then look what happens. This mana shit..."
>she snorts
>"It comes in and just RUINS everything. Now nobody thinks I'm scary anymore. These fuckin' shitty heroes... those doofuses, they come in and PROPOSE to me instead of try to fight. I keep burning them with fire but they keep coming back!"
>Lich hollers at the Satyros for another round
>"I don't like this change, not one bit! I- *hiccup!* -preferred when we... weh... when we saw a shitty little human village and we just BURNT it to the ground for fun and let the zombies eat everyone. Nowadays they just "eat" people. It's DISGUSTING! We used to have pride, integrity! We used to have a craft in killing! Now it's more like, jilling!"
>she buries her face in her palms
>"I won't ever get over this.... won't EVER get over what that STUPID demon lord did to me... I wanna go back..."

>>47193717
There are almost no real yukimin nowadays

>>47154623
I got into 2hu sometime in 2011 as a retarded 17 year old because I was on youtube and a video of Overdrive by IOSYS was on the related side of the vocaloid videos I was watching, I clicked it obviously and from there it led me to the wiki and funnily enough I also found /jp/ from there and rest is history. I also played the games, I even bought a physical copy of MoF. I enjoy the official games but I'm no good at them, I prefer the PC-98 games, I have those to thank for my general interest in PC-98s.

Nowadays though, 2hu to me is a nostalgic comfort more than anything else. Marisa is still my waifu, but I mostly just listen to my large collection of doujin music and watch old videos. I don't know the names and faces of anyone beyond LoLK.

wonder what oj does nowadays apart from pretending not to post on djt

>>47189870
Can't believe /JayPee/ is gay nowadays

>>47187631
>not all of them care
99% of women dont want to date a loser that has nothing going on, idk how this is even a debatable thing. social media is the way to verify you arent a loser since so much of human interaction is online nowadays. women that dont care about social media still care about you not being a loser
>>47187633
im actually doing pretty good and im very self critical, made a lot of life gains the past 3-4 years

honestly matt lugging a bass guitar over to japan to try and live out his keion dreams and then his school not having a keionbu is tragic imagine if instead of spending his time eating bentos in a toilet he hung out with the youkyas hed be so much less spiteful nowadays

literally crazy how many ニーグロイドs u see on telly nowadays u wouldnt think theyre like 3% of the population

>>47185209
not inherently but the chance that they arent far left loons is pretty low nowadays so they will confuse parenting with indoctrination

Game Theory: All the monsters in myths and legends were real, but the portals had opened and pulled them all through. They were transformed in to the monster girls we all know and love nowadays, and now they’re trying to get back home, so they can give humanity the love they were incapable of back when they were still the monsters of myth.

i wish 2.5D games were still being developed nowadays. i love them so much

>>47177343
The so now the hakurei shrine has been destroyed too? seriously wtf is zun doing, he's completely lost it, touhou is just total shit where nothing matters nowadays, stuff like this didn't happen back then.

>>47163987
>adult human capability to view the world is the absolute peak
Children see the world in a much more fantastical way, partly due to the rapid growth of their brain and transient state of being, but also because of the lack of a rigid framework for interacting with the world. Through the pressures of our teenage years we are usually forced to create a rigid model of the world, and we seek to interpret what we perceive through this rigid model, and if that rigid model becomes inconsistent we seek to repair it, or replace it with a more consistent one. Children seldom become angry due to being wrong, but adults will, because reconstructing your view on the world is a huge hassle. The nature of reality however seems more transient than rigid, with multiple layers of chaos causing predictions to be limited and even certain improbability. A rigid state of mind is more convenient, but a transient state of mind is required for growth (spiritual or not), and sadly this is usually only acquired when the rigid state fails in an unacceptable way. This might be why so many older people feel like they are still the same person as they were at their late teens.
>because I have explicitly asked very little
I relate with this, once you start seeing spirits as personal beings, it becomes hard to ask for a lot. My opinion is that you should ask for guidance and tasks more than rewards, just as it is awkward to ask someone, particularly a stranger, something while giving nothing in return, it would be just as awkward for a benevolent spirit as well right? This extends to human relationships just the same.. Accept gifts happily, but be generous as well, because that builds trust over time.
>think about their actions and lack thereof
Responsibility might be a bit misleading of a word to use for this phenomena. A person can be very responsible in some things, but seemingly indifferent in others, but the deeper lacking is in the understanding of how much we can actually affect. This is also inconvenient to think about with a rigid world view, due to of course there being a lot of things in the world that we might wish were different.
>constantly pushing the edges of your understanding
Enlightenment hardly seems a state of absolute knowledge, could it be a state of absolute learning?

>>47164331
>pushing the edges of your understanding, not seeing this as a bad thing in the slightest
It's a state that we probably ought to strive for, but in reality it's hardly convenient to do so. Doubting everything and asking hard questions might delay crucial action. Going at a slower pace every now and then is definitely a compromise we will be forced to do from time to time, lest we become hermits of course.

>>47164341
>belief in touhou characters made them real
This seems very counter-intuitive, but starts making more sense when you look at the world as forms of ideas. Argue with a philosopher long enough and you will find out that you are the same as a table. Fundamentally the only properties are density(mass+space), electrical charge and momentum(angular or otherwise). We live however in a world where a table is not a human nor the other way around. We also have many concepts such as money, states, relationships etc. that have none of those properties. Yet they are as real as anything else. One of the biggest problems in physics nowadays is the black-hole information deletion paradox, since the very nature of things existing, that being emergent forms and concepts untied to fundamental physics, is so important to our universe, that our physics consequently doesn't work without it. Just as is the name of the problem, this is a paradox and seems to contradict itself. The enlightenment brought with it a change in thinking, from concepts as wholes into a division of things into their constituent parts, and thus categorizing the things as the sum of those parts. This was crucial in seeking new scientific information, however it seems that things must be more than their constituent parts. So there must exist an indivisible idea of a thing, that is then also information that must be conserved. I like to call it a soul of things, but what you call it is up to you. Plato called them forms. Rationality and the enlightenment brought forwards ideas that all interactions are indifferent and automatic, even bringing into question the consciousness and will of humans, we almost lost faith that our own soul exists. This also stripped all concepts of their personality in our minds, that we had interacted with before. But as long as the concept of wind exists, there will be a 'god' of wind, whether this be an indifferent and automatic force or a personal being with agendas is inconsequential to our wider reality. The interpretation of either one is locally conserved. Interacting with such a personal concept causes it to become more 'powerful' or present in the physical world, since these interactions support the local interpretation.