/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>she's never made enough money to file taxes until now

I want to make a video game. I want to be able to give people the same joy that I have been given. Video games have practically been my life, I've played and enjoyed so many I've lost count.

From a young age I always had a creative mind, always going full speed with ideas and junk. I thought for sure I would do something with my art as I got older, but as time went on art just became such a source of frustration and depression that I simply stopped a few years ago. I'll occasionally pick up a pencil and try to draw again, but every time I do I just end up in a shitty mood where I shoot myself.

I've tried to let out my creative urges in other ways, but can't really. Can't play music, can't sculpt, don't have money for any instruments. Can't do photography (which is whatever anyways), not a good writer, etc. I even bought some books and tried to teach myself programming at one point in hopes of doing something with it, but that ended up being a waste of time and money. I just want so desperately to be able to create and have people enjoy things I've poured my sould into, but I lack the skills to do ANYTHING. I try to change it, I honestly do, but a lack of money and being badly burned by art has caused me to just sit here rotting my life away doing absolutely nothing all day. I'll never get to make that dream game I want to make.

Most days I feel like shooting myself.

>>11416162
Is there still no torrent for Eroge.

>>11276760
Tfw not in Japan.

One day man, one day.

/feels

>tfw you got stressed out and forgot to do your reps for 3 months

I'm never going to learn enough of these moonrunes to play lewd dating sims at this rate. :(

>>10085184
No, just painful.

I don't know where to get some

>>6687151
OP Here.

Though we normally associate hikkis and neets with Otakus, it's not always the case. Otaku's aren't all people afraid of responsibility, social interaction, or doing work. The only qualification you need for being an otaku is having an obsession with japanese animation entertainment and the general circle around that to the point where you need it to find happiness in anything you do (or rather, your amount of happiness is directly correlated to your involvement with aforementioned entertainment).

Anywho, it's more than a gathering, I've done work with several groups in the community (I won't be specific as to what mine was, but an example of an organized productive group in an English-speaking otaku community might be a doujin game group, a translation group (VN/anime/doujins) or event groups like comiket release teams), and I just wonder how things even get done. I feel like I'm missing a piece of the puzzle almost. Like you said, I have to be more accepting but there's a level (which maybe it is slightly close minded of me, as you mentioned, but I firmly believe this) where you need to have respect and coordination with whom you work with. I just feel like it's impossible to get with most people in this area.

How do I make things happen? Pic related.

Why that song though?
Should have been gee.

such a waste of drawing talent... OP and artist should kill themselves.

I wanna try the other 2 routes but i just cant bring myself.

I wanna try the outher routes but i just cant bring myself ;_;