/jp/ - Otaku Culture

I live in an apartment in Japan. I don't even like it here very much, i mean its ok

don't be racist ;_;

>>8121861
not liking it very much is fine; discontentment is a fairly universal feeling, and I can understand that. However, while you're doing just okay, I'm steadily increasing my blood-pressure from overexposure to sheer volumes of uncharted idiocy on a daily basis.

These people can't spell, they can't take care of themselves, they lack any sort of critical thinking, and I've yet to find someone that's smarter than the average high school student from where I came from.

>>8121861
>I live in an apartment in Japan.
Sure thing weeb

Everyone in my dorm is an engineer of some sort.
Nobody ever talks to each other.
My room is big enough to run laps around and my roommate is always asleep.
College life is fucking great.

>>8121869
Who did you expect to be there?

Child prodigies, locked away from the world, until they reach that tender age....

>>8121869
This is my first visit to /jp/ I was just trying to make people who consider themselves 'otaku' jealous. I clearly have no idea what this place is

Did somebody give you a wedgie yet?

>>8121880
Otaku? You want otaku? My room mate's a self-proclaimed "Otaku". Watches nothing but bleach and naruto, and draws bad hentai that he pins up on his tackboard.

You want "Otaku"? Talk to him. I wouldn't wear that label if it got my dick sucked by five waifus at once.

>>8121885
then why do you post to /jp/"? I don't get this board...

I don't even like anime

So live at home and have your parents drive you to college. That's what I did.

>>8121884
tragically, I've been conditioned in a previous situation to obfuscate myself among the knuckle-draggers. They even laugh at the jokes I tell, and find me interesting and mysterious.

The women want me, and the men always want my advice on their idiotic failed social relations. How is it that I, someone so versed in antisocial tendencies, should be sought out to help them with their social failures?

It boggles the mind.

>>8121885
While I have no problem affixing that label to myself in my head, I'd never say it outright for fear of encountering folks like your roommate, or people who would think to equate the two of us.

>>8121887
Try lurking for more than 5 minutes. People still know how to do that, right?

>>8121893
yes, the board that says "otaku culture" at the top, is that the one you mean?

Its nanaka...NA NA-KA

>>8121892
Exactly; the label bares such a burden of shame that it may as well be emblazoned upon one's flesh. The terrible scarlet "O"...

>>8121898
It doesn't matter what the board says. Everyone knows /jp/ is shitposting, NEET blogging general with the occasional VN/touhou thread

>>8121896
>have your parents drive you to college
....really?

>>8121898
/jp/ hates Japan.

>>8121898
This fucking guy right here.
He thinks we like Japan.

>>8121902
Not all of us can get licenses

>>8121896
I'm currently without a car; truth be told, this situation does not appear to be a long-lived one, as I have a job lined up that will afford me the luxury of both working for a friend and working from home, and pay the likes of which will allow me to maintain a thoroughly reclusive lifestyle for as long as I work for him.

I guess in a few months I'll be joining the more fortunate among us. For now, though, I merely have to survive this degradation, it would appear.

>>8121905
fuck I live here... its ok I guess. you people are only getting the discarded pieces of shit that rise to the top of japanese culture... its not really like that here. I am about to go to a cheap udon restaurant with my 'waifu' you jealous?

>>8121909
>For now, though, I merely have to survive this degradation, it would appear.
>For now,
>though,
>it would appear.
What the flying fuck

>>8121899
Which is how it's supposed to be. Although I must say I'd rather be associated with the Japanese stereotype of otaku (crazy child-molesting murderers) than the Western stereotype (Pocky-eating narutards).

>>8121909
oh, and I misread that part about having parents drive me to college. ...On that note, yeah fucking right. My parents are about the least accommodating in that regard as you could imagine. Living with them, gainful employment or scholarly obligations disregarded, entails working on their farm until they see fit. I would rather avoid any situation involving living with my parents. And they definitely would not give me a ride to the shitty community college 45 minutes away and then back. Somehow that one is even worse than the one I'm blighted with now.

>>8121916
You can fuck off to /trv/ now.

>>8121914
You start typing like this naturally if you watch too much anime. See: Katawa Shoujo. It can't be helped.

>>8121919
I have been here 9 years though... its not really travel anymore, you know?

>>8121908
True, not arguing that, but I'd consider that a last resort....

>>8121916
Not really, I wouldn't ever want to live in Japan. I hope you have a nice time, though.

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>>8121918
My mannerisms are received with mixed enthusiasm, I take it? Sorry, it's actually a bad habit of mine; when I'm surrounded by idiots, I'm willing to do almost anything to not appear in league with them, even if it means superfluous dialect. I'll try to tone it down from here on out though.

>>8121890
Simple idea.

You, being of elevated (assuming) intelligence are more capable than your friends at perceiving and comparing options.

They, being of lesser intelligence (compared to the theoretical you), don't have as many possibilities flying through their mind at a time.

They see the fruit, and pluck it.
You see the fruit, consider whether it's good or not, create a plucking apparatus, look up two or three recipes to try, buy a new paring knife, and....WHERE THE FUCK DID IT GO?!?!?!


You could see reasonable success if you let what doesn't matter slide more. Everything beyond that is practice and community.

>mfw dis thread

>>8121923
I'm just as outraged as Ilya here.

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Stop posting pictures of yourself. You look like a flaming faggot.

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>>8121924
Why do you say "it would appear" instead of "it appears"?

>>8121916
I don't care bro, but I do feel sorry for you; having to live with those ugly nips.

>>8121933
Asperger's.

>>8121935
/jp/ really doesn't like japan? I am learning a lot about the way the world works. Don't worry I am taking notes

KINISURUNA

>>8121890
What a nerd.

>>8121941
You don't have to like America to like Hollywood movies. It's the same concept.

>>8121925
interesting example, though try as I may to not let these stupid small things get to me, they still find a way. Regrettable, really. It wouldn't be an issue if I didn't have a room mate at the least.

>>8121943
you raise a valid argument. This is really making me think... you don't have to like Canada or Canadians to like maple syrup... or Italians to like having sex... or chinese people to enjoy a delicious lunch at a chinese restaurant

I am one of the few who actually like Japan, but I don't feel envy for those who are there because they are inevitably not going to be doing the things I want to do. It's like being envious of someone watching a movie I don't like-- shit don't make sense.

>>8121947
dance dance revolution 24/7, that is probably what you have in mind

I miss the late 90s, Japan is different now

Don't pretend you are smarter then everyone around you because you are probably not.

why is 3DPD shit being posted in this thread?

>>8121952
I've never been one for DDR, or rhythm games in general.

>>8121954
>then
Also, if you are pretending you are smarter, that implies you aren't smarter, meaning you can drop the probably.
>Don't pretend you are smarter than everyone around you because you are not.
>Don't think you are smarter then everyone around you because you are probably not.

But if you live in developed country you can live in your own place (or at least rented one, but away from uni) when attending university/college. It must sucks to live in country where people can't afford to buy for ownership own place to live without loan which sells your soul to greedy bankers.

captcha says: house ihabee

>>8121961
>>Don't think you are smarter then everyone around you because you are probably not.
>then

I throw down a face down card and end my turn.

>>8121954
this is /jp/. If you're not used to everyone here at least thinking they're better than everyone they're surrounded by, at least on an intellectual level, then I have bad news for you.

ITT: Autist penis flailing grammar contest

>>8121957
Because this is /jp not /a/. Don't be a queer.

It is futile kaibaboy, I can see through your schmes with my all seeing millennium eye

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knock that shit off faggot

>>8121976
/jp/ is a 2D board.

I don't have time for mind games,Pegasus. I still have you cornered!

The Fact Sphere is the most intelligent sphere.
The Fact Sphere is the most handsome sphere.
The Fact Sphere is incredibly handsome.
The Fact Sphere is always right.

>>8121980
Not entirely.

>>8121961
Thanks, I'll keep that in mind for the final draft.

>>8121986
Okay, the idolfag ghetto makes up 1% of the board.

prepare for trouble

n make it unowatitis

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go back to /b/ you pseudo-randumb faggots

>>8121996
Just trying to derail a bad thread good sir.

>>8122005
Pretty much the worst derail attempt I have ever seen

>>8122008
so you say but /trv/kun posts died so I say its a success

>>8122005
So...you're trying to make a bad thread....worse?
Counter-intuitive....

>>8121857
Where are you from?

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Do you have any more portraits? I'm enjoying them.

>>8122029
Washington

'sup, freshman

At least you aren't in Animal House for your housing, better luck next time.

lol

How are the condom/pad/tampon rats doing these days?

>>8121857
I used to feel the exact same way about everyone in my dorm

Then I flunked out freshman year due to being an autistic fuck while all those neanderthals are now enjoying their business degrees

I was in dorms, I was lucky enough to get a single room to myself though. Granted, it was amazingly tiny, I think I measured it as about 10x11.5 feet.

I liked it actually, or rather, I liked being able to get out of bed and walk over to the cafeteria for some breakfast. I never cook breakfast on my own now and so I kind of miss being able to have a bunch of it every day.

The people across the hall never really bugged me either. The little tiny room sort of sucked at first, but I eventually grew fond of it as being so cozy and crazily efficient. I covered it up with the posters/wall scrolls at the time including the ceiling, and I had various little lights strung up too as my default lighting. What I still miss though, is that it was so small, that I had my TV at the foot of my bed and would watch a ton of anime from there. The TV sat on top of my mini-fridge and so, yeah, as I said, it was just so fucking efficient, while watching I could reach over and down a bit to access any drink/snack I wanted without having to get out of bed either. I used to think it must be terrible to live in one of those micro-apartments in Japan, but now I see how people can tolerate (if not enjoy it) like that.

Any /jp/sies from the bay? Santa Cruz preferably?

>>8122049
Slug here. Graduating next quarter though (hopefully).

I am going to go out on a limb and post something that could link an identity to my style of posting.
Who else here is enjoying being half an hour away from fucking Mexico?

>>8122056
I'm a transfer student who is really into Asian cinema,
and I want to find someone to watch movies with.

Although I realize /jp/ is mostly interested in 2hu and eroge.

>OP is that anti-social weirdo that everyone sneers at

Fuck off this a help board for psychotics.

>>8122070
Well, you could have joined a club for that, I guess you should have kept an eye open during OPERs. As to which one... I'm not sure actually. I haven't paid attention to the clubs in years.

Also there seems to be a disproportionate number of /jp/ers here or who have been here. Something about this place I guess; it being the "counterculture" UC? There's also more numbers than I'd wish of really obnoxious gaia types, I actually sometimes saw people walking around in cosplay on campus before. You have no idea how much that wrecked my day. But, there are a couple of /a/ (and auxiliary /jp/) users as well, and considering how little effort it took me to find some of our own, there's probably more there than I realize. In some parts of campus low power levels (with some occasionally respectable ones) are practically the norm actually, I remember when I lived on campus they used to play anime OSTs in the Crown cafeteria all the time.

>>8122096
I tried the anime club, but I was too embarrassed to continue. I live off-campus so it's hard to meet people with similar tastes.
Regardless, I try to leave the occasional hint here and there if I think I might be in the right company.

Seriously people still like Japan?
I am fucking stuck in my pathetic small prison apartment today because it has been raining for the whole day.
It is almost 830 and it is still raining. I go out if the rain isnt packed with radioactive materials to actually buy food.
Fuck Japan, cant wait to get out of here after comiket.

>>8122117
I leave no hints, besides having a Cirno keychain. Or rather, it's a frog in an iceball that came with a small, strange Cirno thing that I have. I'd rather have a keychain of a hakkero (since it's also very subtle), but I don't care enough since I never ever talk about my hobbies in public anyway.

But, I only pull it out while I hold onto my keys, while on the bus to the parking lot .. so, the chances of you being there and looking in my direction, in the 2 minutes per day it's not in my pocket in public, are laughably small.

>>8122142
Well, at least you can turn on the TV and watch Working broadcast in three hours. And Fate/Zero right after that.

When I visited Japan, I initially couldn't get over how surreal it felt to see even those trashy harem anime on real, live TV. Albeit, most of them air between 12-3, but still that only added to the experience, as with keeping up with the futaba threads in between commercial breaks.

>>8122199
Nope.
Japan recently changed all their broadcast system to digital.
All the old TV doesnt work anymore and I am not gonna get a new TV just so I can watch it live.
Just watch it on niconico if you want to see it live.
Seems like the rain kind of subsided, gonna go hunt for food.