/jp/ - Otaku Culture

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I'm not all about making it "normalfaggotry" or what not, it's just I find power positions handled so poorly when otaku try to organize - largely because they aren't considering all sides of the spectrum, and it leaves some people out. More so, they have a tendency to either not care about what those people can offer.

Call me a normalfag I guess, but I love otaku interests and culture. However, I just see no value in turning people off to working together or for expressing opinions that others don't share. A lot of the problems I've seen come from people over-reacting or not knowing self-discipline.

Maybe I've degenerated the thread into this question: Can a productive, caring, self-disciplined anon still be an otaku or is impossible for the two to mix? I consider myself lazy and degenarate at times but I still try to make use of my free time (even if the value of that use is in competitive gaming, organizing events, or something otaku related to the aforementioned).

So am I getting fed up with otaku and am I not one of you.

A lot of times, I feel really - really - out of place. I have otaku interests, but normal fag sense of responsibility. I have nothing in common with people I feel who I find intelligible but around Otaku it's almost like "I'm not good enough" or "Hardcore enough". If I try to meet SOMEWHERE in the middle (casual fags and the like) I'm too hardcore into both doing things/being active that turns people off and/or too into otaku stuff. I know no one is the same, but it's seriously gotten to me lately. In some ways I can't even fathom a life without otaku interests, and in others I feel like pursuing them will bring me nothing. Has anyone felt something similar?

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