/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>12204887
Journalists get very few opportunities to do anything exciting and will do the hidden camera/recorder thing whenever they get an opportunity.

I've dug through garbage to retrieve confidential files discarded by the leaders of the local branch of a political party. I didn't even use them in a story, I just saw an opportunity to have fun and fuck around.

>>12204934
D-domo

>>12204937
>I don't think that “quality” journalism would even get printed by any mass media outlet. They're in for the money, after all, and propagating the unpopular opinion hardly ever makes any money.
Bingo.
Unless your business model is centered exclusively on catering to intellectuals and the upper classes, you as a journalist are tasked with churning out news-flavoured fast food to the ignorant masses that demand entertainment and the confirmation of their biases.

Pandering to people's fears about their kids is always a big pull, which is why CNN gets away with beating up a non-issue like lolicon. Places like the BBC and the CBC can afford to take a principled look at issues because our tax dollars shields them from the demands of the free market. Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing is really up for you to decide.

>>12204935
Oh yes. If you in any way shy or adverse to speaking in public and near-constant social interaction, consider a different course of action.

I have an hour-long phone call with some academic knobhead and it is 100% excruciatingly painful, always.

My advice would be to get experience in a different field and THEN consider transferring over to journalism. As long as you can write competently, not defame people, and meet deadlines, you're a passable journalist - having expertise in, say, medicine or computer programming gives you a leg up above all of the liberal arts blowjobs that languish in the field.

>>11907197
Crawling in my skin.

Is this the dark, crazy and gloomy otaku thread?

>>11602027
I think her boobies are pretty cute.

You're too picky.

this is how i rationalise being hated and feared by any other otaku ive ever met
this is how i rationalise being hated and feared by any other otaku ive ever met

Best of bad options
Despite the dire social conditions of high school, young people continue to turn up to school. Teachers roll their eyes: Why would a young person spend years taking it silently? Why not "end it all"? To which the high school survivor laughs, having graduated into an world where they now spend years vainly looking for a job, finding only unpaid internships or low-wage contingency labour, often while living at home, bullies seem like the least of one's problems. A like as a truck driver program, with hours of free time, seems a welcome escape.
"But it is not just about your current lifestyle," the techer continues, "It is about the job you will get after school." To which the 20-something, having spent their adult life in a workplace of bullying and idiotic TGI fridays, takes the highschooler aside, and explains that this is a maxim they, too, were told, but from which they never benefitted. They tell the highschooler what they already know: It is hard to change what is when nobody cares.
We live in the tunnel at the end of the light.
If you are 25 or younger - and quite often, older - the advice of the pre-internet generation does not apply to you. You live in the post-kindness morale economy, where showing kindness is taboo. Free time is still high. The people are still there. But not for you. You will work without friends, benefits, or job security. Survival is now a laudable aspiration.
Employment is merely a symptom of a broader social disease. As the rich boast record endowments and spend millions on lavish furnature, government administrators justify poor treatment of citizens by noting that said citizens:

PS: i copied from here
inb4 this is deleted

>>11534196
Same here

Every day I say that today I will start my new life. Then I go on the internet and shitpost on /jp/ until I have wasted all of the free time that I could have spent bettering myself.

I feel like suicide is my only way out. That or I could stop posting on /jp/, but suicide seems much easier. I mean, just thinking how many months I have wasted on this god awful website makes me sick. And I know that I'm going to come back to this post in five minutes to see if anyone has responded.

Help me, /jp/. Just make the misery go away.