/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>10801504

i'm happy you are happy !

I did for about a year, it was great but then I tried psychedelics, had a "bad trip" and now smoking weed gives me nothing but paranoia and anxiety attacks. Fucking annoying.

I am saving up my bux for a trip to Amsterdam next year, maybe being in a more relaxed environment like that will help. Cute pic. Would toke with Maribel and Renko.

/jp/, what do you think about this.

We all know there are many anons on the board who are very elitist about Japanese issues.

For instance, "I only play untranslated VNs", "nothing should be translated because casuals", etc.
Moogy I have heard is very extreme in this way, for instance.

Well that's fine but let's consider this.
What if everyone had thought the same way?

What if no one in history ever translated science lectures, medical textbooks, ancient scriptures, etc?

Greek translations helped us with medicine. And democracy. Latin translations helped us with science and just about everything in the humanities. The fairytales we liked when we were young are very often translated from German or Danish. And finally, if no one had ever bothered to translate Japanese media at some point then you'd probably never have gotten into it in the first place unless your native language is Japanese.

Think of all the historically important books you can only read in translation.

If all the smart educated people back in the day had thought "No, fuck off, if you want to read this then learn the language, I'm not translating it for casual secondaries" then we would still be in the dark ages in many respects (and lots of people did think this. Until relatively recently English used to be regarded as unfit for intellectual purposes). Translation is what makes the world go round. With ideas.

Well, just something to think about.
Please don't bully me for making this thread.

>>6270901
Yuukat?