/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Reading and music.

I have a non-/jp/ hobby, so I just mention that.

"You know... not much"

>>4388289
What if they ask you to go into specifics?

>>4388290
What is it?

i tell them exactly what i do. i have nothing to hide

>>4388291
same here.

"not much... "

It's a pain in the ass when someone ask

>VNs
reading
>touhou
music and japanese folklore
>/jp/
internet culture

>>4388296

I usually say something like "classical music" and name some well-known composers. And for books, I'll say I read the classics and if they ask further I'll name shit I read back in high-school.

>>4388274
>people
What? The only people I interact with is my family and they know about me already.

>>4388290
So do I, I browse /lit/, so I can say that I read and just list some of the books that I've read descriptions of on there. Plus, I used to read when I was in high school, so I can fall back on those books too.

I usually just say I like sitting on the computer doing random crap like read news.

Studying foreign cultures.

People don't ask me such things because I am not a faggot non-NEET.

>>4388319
Thanks for the tip. I'll try this next time someone asks me.

>>4388321
How's /lit/ so far? Still on recommend mood or already stick to highly praised elitist stuff? Do they still rage at ASoIaF?

>>4388314

Hang on... what's going on here?
Everyone knows Kuramori is "queen" of the haibane.

>>4388314
>Japanese folklore
>internet culture
But that's even worse than what you really do.

Drawing, playing musical instruments, sports, playing video games.

Of course, combined with the /jp/-related "hobbies" and classes I hardly have enough time for everything.

"Jazz music" usually shuts people up pretty fast.

>>4388340
But she's deads

>>4388340
Are you still a lesbian?

>>4388319
That makes you sound like some kind of low-level pretentious asshole.

>>4388356

Uh... doesn't that apply to you as well?

"I discus Chinese cartoons with Internet pedophiles"

I hear this question every time I talk to a family member or friend. So fucking sick of it.

>>4388289
>>4388314
These, but I'm sure you can embellish and elaborate without giving too much away.

No one has ever asked me this.

>>4388386

You'd think your family and friends would already know about your hobbies or at least think they know, anyways.

>when people ask you

I never get to this point.

>>4388397

Well I live alone, and I always ignore the question so it's probably just their human curiosity to figure out what the fuck it is that I do. Too bad they'll never know.

I assume most everyone here is the same.

>>4388274

what be arisu saying

"I love to study!"

"Hanging out" is a problem because they might ask where you hang out.

Reading, but avoids from fanfics
>lurking /jp/
Listening to cultural music
>Touhou music

>>4388336
It's not so bad. Being somewhat popular despite being a new board, it pretty much skipped the "FUCK YEAR 100get" phase. The worse threads are twilight trolls (which can't even be called trolls, since they're more just shitposting). And, yeah, there's about 4 or 5 ASoIaF threads daily.

Ignoring those, though, it's a pretty good board. Needs more elitism, in my opinion, but it's not that bad. They had a really good personal library thread a few weeks (days? months?) back that made me, being a bookmaniac myself, orgasm in delight.

>>4388585
Before: "Cho-Chocolate!? I-I-I-I didn't prepare anything like that!?"

After: "I couldn't give it..."

"I don't know", with the expression of a deer caught in headlights on my face.

If they still pester me, I tell them that I have no hobbies and do nothing all day.

After that they usually get the picture that I want nothing to do with them or anyone else, and leave me the fuck alone.

>>4388641
>personal library thread
Fuck. They still have it? Awesome.

Once I got iPad and build my personal digital library I hope /lit/ will be more relevant to me than /jp/.

One time I said "I'm on the computer, Facebook....and stuff." I really didn't want to say I was in my room all day, on /jp/ and playing obscure video games. Needless to say, it didn't work out. People still thought I wasted my life on 'boring, stupid shit.'

"Whenever I'm not busy making enormous amounts of money I have sex with incredibly attractive people."

See? just leave out any mentions to to WoW and eroge and you're fine.

Sorcery.

I usually answer that and the question "what kind of music do you listen to?" by just telling them "it would take way too long to explain"

not embarassed or anything but just can't be bothered with explaining everything with the little girls and silly hats included everytime someone asks me that

"Not much"

>>4388913
Damn, I should have thought of that.

Usually I tell them programming. They don't really know what that is, so they just stop talking.

I actually met someone at my school who knows about Touhou.

I think he's a secondary fan though. I approached him after he opened his notebook and I accidentally saw one of his drawings of Flan.
Almost had a heart attack, since I've never met anyone who knew about Touhou.

>>4389806
Don't worry, once you go to college, you'll find that a shit load of people like Touhous and weeaboo shit.

I collect gunpla and moefigs so I say, "I build model airplanes and ships."

Believe it or not, it's deemed an acceptable hobby. Must be the stereotypical ship in a bottle thing going on.

I usually say reading and playing games

I tell them that I play video games and play the bass guitar. Both are true.
I don't tell them that I play weaboo music and touhou though.

Games, hockey, music, movies, etc.

I release about 99% of my powerlevel, some by accident though.

Pretty much the only thing still hidden is that I think traps are pretty cool. Everything else from 2d>3d and on is all out there.

Not much.

I say it whenever I see family I haven't seen in awhile.

Only problem for me when I say that I play the vidya is that they ask me what kind of games do I play.

Naturally, I hesitate, because I'm not exactly going to say that I play Japanese porn games. Last time I said that I gave some noncommittal vague response like I play obscure games or whatever.

>>4390986
Really? Where are they all hiding? All I've found are Narutards.

I say visual novels and anime. Usually takes some explaining but I see no reason to lie.

>>4391260
Just throw some popular but still geeky shit like Mass Effect 2.

>>4391275
You lie because it takes a long time to explain.

>>4391268
Well, naturally the high power level fags will suppress their power levels. Just look at the people in this thread and how they go to some length to conceal their true hobbies.

The only reason I pick up on other stealth weeaboos is because they exhibit subtleties. For example, playing Touhou music on piano in the lounge is a pretty big hint that he's at least a casual Touhou fag or weeaboo.

Vidja and musics.

Playing guitar, writing, reading, playing video games. The last two are kind of a lie because I haven't read or played video games in ages (other than eroge).

Luckily the question rarely comes up.

>>4391268
When I was in college, I never found them.

I was told the Air Force was full of them.

Still haven't found anyone even 5% of my powerlevel.

I tell it how it is.
Vidya gaems.
Internet.
Computer.
Animoo, mangos.
Japanese musacs

Confidence is a powerful thing.

I do not go outside and do not face this problem.

Why would you want to meet other Touhoufags? I know I want nothing to do with any of you.

>>4391321
Ah, you mean "stealth" power level reveals? Never thought of that.

>when people ask you
>people
This doesn't happen, because I don't go out.

>>4391353
This. With good social skills, you can make anything sound cool.

>>4391361
>>4391432
I wish it was that simple for me. I go out, but nobody ever wants to talk to me. If I ever initiate a conversation its short and uninteresting. I don't even have cashiers attempt to banter with me.

So ronery ;_;

I usually tell them about my latest programming project and if they insist I tell them about managing a student club(not telling them it's devoted to touhou,animu,mango and internet culture).

>>4388274
watching anime, playing games, mucking around with computers

>>4391477
You can get people to talk to you by showing off your power level and having to explain yourself.

Of course, there is a downside to that.....

>>4391469
>good enough social skills
Well, that makes it tough for everyone in /jp/, doesn't it?

>>4391469
>good social skills
>/jp/
I'm laughing so hard right now.

So /jp/, why do you hide your powerlevels?

Not enough confidence in yourself?

Pretending to be a normalfag?

I'm curious, since I don't have this problem.

>>4391677
Mostly because we don't want to get associated with those Narufags/dumbass anime fangirls/etc.

Drawing and reading.

If they ask to see my drawings I make up some bullshit excuse that I can't show them.

If they ask my what I read I either list of some classics or adjust as need be, depending on the person I'm talking to.

>>4391677
Pretend to be a normalfag, mostly.

It's obviously embarrassing to like these kinds of things. Why isn't it an issue for you?

Incidentally, do you know that feeling like a headache and your eyes hurt that you get from looking at a screen all day? How do you get rid of it?

>>4391677
I have to work for $$$ unlike the rest of you lucky bastard and yes "Pretending to be a normalfag?" is downright important.

A simple answer of watching TV, movies and music will do.
Nobody need to know that it is actually animu and touhou music so just tell them some popular movie like Avatar when they ask what you watched.

Play guitar, listen to music.
Watch TV, work on translating.
I'm generally sarcastic about it, so I'll say- Wait in the alley. This tells people you don't want to say.

>>4391737
Why is it not an issue for me? Hmmm....well since I know nothing about popular culture (and by nothing I mean you could point to a famous person on TV or a song on the radio and I'll have no clue about how they are) I can't really pretend to be a normalfag. And if no one in the room is interesting in computers or need thier computer fixed (which I do often for others) then I really have nothing else to fall back on.

And the headache feeling? Still haven't figured that out yet besides taking breaks and going outside for a bit for fresh air.

I usually throw some stock answer at them, like reading, fashion, or music.

>>4391794
I work, and sometimes work 12-hours shifts for 2 weeks straight with no days off.

The military is not all fun and games.

>>4391857
>military
How does it feel to be a welfare queen?

>>4391896
Feels pretty good man. Having other $1000 of expendable cash or more a month is pretty great.

Enjoy your shitty economy and threat of job losses.

>>4391946
Enjoy contributing less to humanity than a janitor.

>>4391991
>>Implying that the B-52 and Electronic Warfare systems on other aircraft won't be cruial in the next big war, or any war, or right now.

HAHAHohwow.jpg

I, for one, respect the great men and women who serve in the US military.

And it looks like Japan does as well.

>>4392046

While I have no problem with people in technical specialist roles or similar military jobs that rely on having actual job skills, I don't think it's unfair to say that the majority of U.S. military personnel are somewhere between "welfare recipient" and "overpaid union worker" on the scale of usefulness to society.

>Army-san
>From South-America
>Sends money back home
Damn spics.

>>4392267

A good part of my WoW guild fits this perfectly.

>people
>ask
>me

what people?

>>4392211
This pic looks disgusted and can be sign of embarrassment to the men & woman of army and navy!

Also to answer the question, I only really talk to one person. Said person is also a touhou/vnfag.

I was once asked this in a class. I said I did the internet and slept in my free time.

>>4392525
I mean, Im really disappoint in you weeaboofags!

>>4392525

Gahaha, you got that right!

Well said, Anony.

pfft course zun likes navy-san.

>>4392267
Well, I can mostly agree to that, since with every 12 day non stop work period, there's the sit around all day in the dock for days playing cards or board games all day period too.

>>4391677
Because we don't want to explain difference between Japanese, Chinese and Korean languages to normalfag, who found something written in Chinese and now thinking that I can translate it. Because most of them can't find anime and will ask for it, and I'm too lazy to write it on CD/DVD.

>How do you respond when people ask you what your hobbies are or what you do in your spare time?

"I smoke weed erryday."

Then if they get the 'FUCKING stoners' look on their face, I know they're not worth my time.

If they're like "that's cool, i guess" then I'm alright

>>4392695
you're so cool, Arc

>>4392695

Worthless stoners are on /jp/ too?

Sad.

>>4392680
Ahh, that's too bad. I enjoy sharing my collection (1TB+) and fixing peoples computers.

The language thing, yeah I get that too.

Haha, what kind of lose would I be if all my hobbies were /jp/ related?

>>4392783
Maybe you'd be able to type a coherent sentence?

>>4392729
>/jp/ user
>Calling others worthless
Oh the irony.

>>4392820

You're sullying Satori's image by associating her with your prickitude.

Cut that out.

I'm a gamer, both of the /v/ and /tg/ variety, which is what I reveal to most people. I only reveal my /a/ and /jp/ powerlevel to people who are worthy of knowing. I'm also a collegefag which takes up most of my time. I have a good group of friends I met at the university's boardgaming club who all have powerlevels similar to mine.

>>4392854
Let me see...you hide your powerlevels, are a virgin and have spends most of your time on 4chan?

How'd I know that?

>>4392902

>and have spends

So quick to insult others' English

oh boy.

>>4392902
you have two hands, two eyes, one tongue, one nose, two ears and a liver
how did i know that?

>>4392902
>>4392922
Proof positive that tripfags are responsible for killing /jp/.

>>4393076
the front page is filled by horrible threads made by anons
go back to /b/, jerkface

>>4393076
BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWW more faggot.

>>4393085
>>4393089
u mad tripfaggots?

inb4 anon is legion and related bullshit

>>4393104
>inb4 anon is legion and related bullshit

in after some dipshit who thinks he knows what he's talking about

hurr u mad xD

>>4393104
that's all?
just a "u mad"?

>>4393119

>xD

Get the fuck out.

>>4393119
>>4393122
>>4393125
yall mad? XD

>>4393133

Reported for underage.Go back to drawing with crayons.

>>4393133
that's all?
just a "u mad xD"?

>>4393125
>:3

>>4393125
derp de dooo

>>4393141
>>4393143
BUTTHURT XDDDDDDDDDDDD

>>4393185
that's all?
just a "BUTTHURT XDDDDDDDDDDDD"?

>>4393141
>Go back to drawing with crayons.

That sounds so moe~

I leave for a bit to play SWR with a buddy and this happens...

Guess /b/ is here today...

>>4393213
Hey, you play soku too?

>>4393213
also

If it would be nice to play you in soku?

You and me, you know?

>>4393213

Get the fuck out, roleplay faggot.

>>4393189
>>4393213
/b/utthurt much? xD

>>4393263
that's all?
just a "/b/utthurt much? xD"?

>>4393260
Why? Would it be better to let the /b/ posters post instead? Hmmm....or, is it because I am avataring and apparently that's a bad thing.

>>4393236
Ah, well if you can host, I'm up for a few matches.

>>4393269

>>4393290
Ok, Give me a sec to do this

well i cant host so hamachi will do fine right?

>>4393290

I would rather have /b/ than you, you worthless roleplaying piece of shit.

>>4393293
that's all?
just a "File1266293265.jpg-(50 KB, 695x508, u-mad.jpg)"?

>>4393294
also im using the netbook :p

But i hope you can give me time to do this

>>4393298
Complaint registered, thank you for you input.

Not that I already knew or anything...

>>4393294
Never had to use hamachi before.

Satori if you're here

Here's mine:

User:Goldeneye2007 pass: seven

>>4393290
>>4393302
Wh‌y is /j‌p/ so s‌hitty‌?

>>4393341

Give me your address, you piece of shit. I will come over there and kill you, you worthless piece of shit. I'll skin you and your family alive.

>>4393341
still waiting....

>>4393351
It's not like I'm responding to you because I think its fun or anything...I'm just bored, that's all.

>>4393358
What I meant was that since I've never used it, I don't have it right now. Gimmie a sec to figure out how to.

>>4393379
okie dokies :)

Is this new tripfag miles? Do they even let bedwetters into the military?

>>4393451
?

>>4393379

>>4388274
People never ask me that, to begin with. Anyways, when they do I just say "reading, internet, music... normal stuff".

To answer OP question, I talk to no one most of the time

the few I do talk to though I have completley unleashed my powerlevel. They like anime too , although both are creeped out by eroge . I dont think I will tell anyone in the future without a sign...

"My hobby is the Internet"

I leave it at that.

>>4394464

and you get no weird looks?

I play Halo 3 and fight scientology while raiding habbo and stuff, exxx deee elll oh elll

Normal, right?

>>4394386

Please tell me you didn't actually bring up eroge with normal people?

"Nothing"

I don't keep it a secret, but I don't go around announcing things.

I tell them I'd play more paintball if it would stop fucking snowing.

>>4388274
Playing PC games and Watching TV.

Thats 100% accurate, they never asked me to specify what exactly I watch or play.

Vector Graphic Design

I'm vague enough for it to be okay, but most people know anyway. I don't care either way.