/jp/ - Otaku Culture

That's 1 of the symptoms of high-functioning autism. Autists have extreme obsessions with collecting, listing and organizing. Take the creator of Pokemon, Satoshi Tajiri, for example. He's a diagnosed autist whose childhood hobby included collecting bugs. It gave him the inspiration for Pokemon. Coincidentally, ZUN, creator of Touhou Project, also admits to collecting and organizing bugs. Of course this doesn't only apply to bug catching.

>>41236993
It's a pre-internet thing.
You wouldn't understand.

I'd probably obsess over beetles too as a kid if I got into bug collecting.

>>41239217
this, there were lots of bug catcher boys in america too, and also hobby stargazer boys with telescopes in their second floor suburban bedrooms

japanese bugs are friendly, they don't have terrible things like black widows so they like bugs more

>>41236993
yes i do

>>41236993
If you don't understand you do not belong here.

>>41236993
bugs are cool, are you telling me that you don't drop everything to investigate a cool bug?

>>41239217
This.
Back in the day I would bang on trees with sticks.
Walk around by 5 acre property and go beyond it and find a little creek. Take an easel and paint the mountain that is right there. Walk into a field and weird spider things start crawling all over your feet!

>>41239602
I would bang you with my stick

>>41239698
I hope you mean penis.

>>41236993
You've phrased your sentence incorrectly: It should be either 'beetles specifically' or 'bugs in general'.

>>41239731
Yeah that's what I meant I just wanted to be a bit subtle about it, you know?

>>41239813
Alcohol and drugs

>>41239843
Go on

>>41236993
catch em alltish

Says the western gaijin OP who will soon be mandated to eat dessicated bugs by his own government as an environmental measure to reduce his "carbon footprint".

>>41239554
Hi!

>>41236993
is that why they're called b*gmen?

>>41236993
bugs are cool

>>41236993
They are neat, cute, cool, can be very nice, look pretty, and make for good pets.

>>41243499
This bug here
-Ugly
-Stupid
-Gay
-Smelly
-Hates itself so much it projects it onto you
-Unlovable
-Retarded nests
-Just a worse bee
-Annoying
-Refuses to use the coasters
-Browses twitter purely to get angry
-Makes twitter screencap threads on 4channel
-frog poster

>>41236993
>Why are young boys in general obsessed with bugs and beetles?

ftfy

>>41236993
These faggot beetles are everywhere lately

>>41236993
Bugs are cool, but kid me loved frogs the most

>>41239217
/thread

>>41236993
Island nation = lots of cool bugs unlike places like the US or Australia where half the bugs will kill you in a single bite

>>41255270
Australia is an island nation, you dummy.

>>41258005
Technically every landmass is an island if you think about it

>>41255270
I live in the us and I like bugs they haven't killed my yet

>>41236993
Fun biology secret knowledge: if you desperately want to name a species after yourself (or someone you hold dear), make your way to a random part of the Amazon, discharge a canister of carbon dioxide up at a tree while you have a net in place, and catch some bugs! Take the greatest quantity of a certain type of bug, do some basic documentation of morphology (external anatomy, like body shape, number of legs, etc). Submit these results to a university and you have your own species! Wriggle can finally be her own official, legal species

Because they're fucking awesome, dipshit

>>41262590
But can I have sex with it?

Bugs are so fucking weak and pathetic. It's amazing how little resistance they can put up to a mere human pressing his thumb upon their carapace.

Bugs are gross and weird, I don't understandthe appeal. They are like a cross between machines and aliens. Only redeemable ones are spiders because the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

>>41265725
>the enemy of my enemy is my friend
>laughs in Sydney funnel-web spider

>>41236993
They are big.

>>41262590
VERY pretty bug.

>>41265725
>They are like a cross between machines and aliens.
That sounds rad as hell.

>>41265725
they are. spiders move on hydraulics

>>41262590
awesome

>>41236993
Because bugs are cute and the Japanese are bugmen that became good, unlike the Chinese.

>>41285170
The sounds big ones make because of this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNHK565cVe8
>>41287446
Cute, what is that beetle?

>>41287446
yeah bugs are super cute

>>41236993
Boys have dumb obsessions.

>>41236993
they are bugmen.

>>41287446
Bugs are generally gross but some are cute.

>>41265725
mutant spider legs typed this post

>>41288762
fuck you we have cool obsessions

>>41236993
I liked and played with bugs as a kid but now for some reason im scared of them. Really scared.

>>41265725
This but also goes for dragonflies and mosquito eaters and praymantasis and basically any insect that helps me kill shit that I hate I will respect.

>>41303010
Same. I used to literally pick spiders and flying critters with my hands no problem, and now I freak out like a little girl if I see any one of them near me.

>>41239217
Is it still going now?

>>41264415
What's stopping you?

based bug bros

>>41239217
Some kid was hunting bugs with his mom literally like two weeks ago in front of my house

It's just a traditional way to introduce kids to nature

good thread

>>41289607
chinky cry

>>41265725
The appeal is that they're weird and gross. Deep sea animals have a similar appeal but are harder to access than bugs.