/jp/ - Otaku Culture

I'm bored because I do nothing but sit inside on the computer, yet my computer -- a laptop -- isn't good enough to play any games. Not even Touhou/most VNs.

I've found that working my ass of to get motivated to learn programming has helped with the boredom, but it's rare that I can build up that motivation. I spend a lot more time sleeping just to pass the time, these days.

Imagine how much you could have accomplished if you didn't waste the past few years on 4chan.

Do people who are NEETS up until the day classes start count?

For every thing you experience there are tens of thousand of things you don't experience.

I don't understand how people can get bored.

Why would I be bored? Go play Touhou you faggot.

I have tons of anime to watch, tons of game to play. I can't decide and waste my time here instead.

Just got back from work so I'm just chillaxing with a Bud and watching the game.

>>8419139
I would've wasted it on reddit instead.

>>8419158
2hu a shit.

Just like everything else.

>>8419139
I think this about everything. Today I worked out that I've probably spent thousands of pounds on energy drinks. Had I saved the money instead, I'd be healthier and have a nice sum of money to build a computer with. Unfortunately that's not how the real world works--I'd have spent it on something else, probably equally unhealthy.
If 4chan didn't exist, I'd probably just settle on some other forum.

>>8419137
I know how you feel. Though I have a desktop computer but it's almost ten years old. I want to learn programming too, but I really lack the motivation and five minutes into any book or tutorial and I start to fall asleep and get very frustrated with myself. In fact it's so common I've started to find the frustration thing kind of a turn-on. So I've actually read books like SICP and K&R, then fapped to how my brain simply wouldn't absorb the information in them.

>>8419183

For the latter paragraph, have you considered taking it slowly with some sort of study group?

I once spent an entire week trying to think of something meaningful to say about boredom.
It was the most boring week of my life.
Now here I am once again trying to think of something meaningful to say about how I feel and I have nothing to say so far but I will tell you when I do though only if I do.

>>8419197
I don't think there are any around here, plus I don't deal well with people in real life. Social anxiety and such.
I know /g/ (and recently /jp/) have tried to set up programming communities with online study sessions or whatever, but I don't deal well with having an identity. I need my anonymity and right to vanish.

>>8419212

You can stay semi-anonymous in IRC, and you can easily vanish.

>>8419212
Social anxiety doesn't exist.
Stop being anti-social and just go outside and speak to people.

>>8419222
>IRC
Get out you humongous fag-lord.

>>8419222
> semi-anonymous
That's pseudonymous, and that's something I'm not comfortable with. Even if people don't know I'm John Trafford of 37 Holliway Drive, Essex, it bugs me that I have a consistent identity and everything I say is probably being logged. I know it is here too, but you can't distinguish me from the next guy.

>>8419199

>>8419228
Yes it does though.
And I'm not anti-social; I'm asocial.

Looking for work

They want Resume

resume is telling of your work.

I have not worked except 1 5 day temp job

>>8419236

>I know it is here too, but you can't distinguish me from the next guy.

Well, I know that your phone number ends in '15805', which is more than enough to distinguish you from a crowd. And now I have an actual name to add to my address book.

(Do you know who I am now?)

How are you doing? We live not far from one another.

>>8419239
who are you quoting

Im bored and tired as hell. Im too hungry to feel like playing anything so Ive been trying to sleep but alas thats not possible either. Yesterday I managed to play BF3 and MW3 co-op quite alot with a friend and I'll try BF3 again later on today I guess.

>>8419253
> Well, I know that your phone number ends in '15805'
Nope, I don't carry a phone.

>>8419269

Oh, I thought you were somebody from /jp/ that texts me. ( ._.)

>>8419267
What could the yellowish stuff be?

>>8419275
Nope, sorry!
I'm glad to know there are people who have this much in common with me though.

>>8419281

Well, the country/motivational/programming issues are exactly the same -- he even shares the anonymity concerns with you. I think you'd get on well.

All I do is play games or browse /jp/, so it's only natural that I'd be bored. Kind of bored right now, but that's only because I keep getting my ass kicked.

I went to the gym today.

Now I'm going to watch House of Five Leaves and then maybe later play Chaos;Head.

Really do wonder when I'll need to get a job though. Been NEET for 2 years now.

>>8419137
I've got 2GB of programming books recommended through sites like stackoverflow and quora yet I haven't touched any of them.
I think the problem is that we have too much free time, so it's only natural that we never commit to anything because we can always "do it tomorrow".

>>8419351

Can you give me a list of titles? I'd really appreciate it.

>>8419359
Sure, here's links to a few lists that I used.

https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-most-learner-friendly-resources-for-learning-about-algorithms
http://stackoverflow.com/search?tab=votes&q=algorithms
https://www.quora.com/Software-Engineering/What-are-the-best-books-for-a-Software-Engineering-autodi
dact
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1711/what-is-the-single-most-influential-book-every-programmer-sh
ould-read
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/562303/the-definitive-c-book-guide-and-list/562362

You guys are wasting your time learning programming since all those jobs can easily be outsourced to Indians and Chinese who work for pennies.

If you want to make a decent living you need a job that requires you to leave your house. Unless you already live in a third world shithole.

Boredom? What's that?
No really, never felt this emotion.

>>8419448
Is that even possible.

>>8419461
Yes. Reach for the stars with the attitude of a rat driven into a corner.

>>8419397
Who are you to say this?

>>8419461

I dunno how it'll works for other people.

>>8419397
You're assuming that we're learning to obtain employment in the first place, and while a lot of less skilled programming gigs can be outsourced, there's plenty of skilled jobs that won't be.

>>8419397
http://jobsearch.monster.com/IT-Software-Development+Full-Time_48
Even if that were true I doubt marketability would be the prime motivator for a NEET.

I'm more of a freeter than a NEET these days, but I feel that this still applies to me since I'm still bored a whole lot.

I can get pretty bored to the point where I just pace around the house for hours, with thoughts racing about what I should do, but can't or won't. I get this bored because I still live with my family in a rural town. To cure this boredom, I can go out for a walk, go to the mall, go to the local university, work on a computer game with RPGMaker2000, work on my writing, or drink a bit of alcohol. Guess which one usually wins out.

Pic related, it is from my game.

>>8419619
Aww, that's cute.

You should read some spriting tutorials though.

I'm usually bored because I lack motivation to actually start doing anything, even though there are a lot of things I want to do.

Lately I've been watching Deadwood. It is good.

I´m checking the new banners

>>8419643
http://sicp.in:8080/4chan%20collage.png
Collage of all the banners.

Though a lot of them are animated. Which bugs me because they're all distracting loops, whereas the old .GIFs tended to be quite tasteful.

>>8419658

Oh, wow, copypaste's home server.

http://60x.be/~david/4chan%20collage.png

Mirrored so he doesn't fuck up his connection or whatever.

>>8419669
I thought you were going to sleep or some such?
Or were you just wishing me a good night? っℇ:

Thank you for mirroring this. copypaste is a huge Ubuntu fan so I don't trust him with servers (I'm so topical and witty).

>>8419707

I was just wishing you a good night. You don't always reply, so I get the feeling you're not always interested in talking, so I thought I'd cut our conversation short. :3

copypaste is good with Linux. Also, he says he migrated from his home connection to his seedbox, which is good.

>>8419707
>Thank you for mirroring this. copypaste is a huge Ubuntu fan so I don't trust him with servers (I'm so topical and witty).
;_;
My seedbox is hosted on a Gentoo server, actually.
Not that I mind having mirrors, or anything!
And it's not like I don't think Ubuntu is any less of the world's best OS either, baka!

>>8419658
Wow, some of these are great. Too bad moot will never use them. ;_;

>>8419745
The ones in there are only the ones being used.

Oh, new banners, i never noticed them...
I guess i found something to do this afternoon.

>>8419761
HOLY FUCKING SHIT.

When did this happen? Where was I? Why did I not notice this?

>>8419787
This morning. Moot posted on /a/ asking for more banners and added most that were posted by 7AM.

>>8419795
This is great. That was a long time coming. Moot did good.

>>8419787
It's happening right now. /co/, /a/, /tv/, and /v/ are all making them.

Join in the fun!

I signed up for 16 credit hours at a local state college!
Two of the classes, I've already had!
It looks like it's time for me to waste more money!
Whahaha~!

My life is a vacuous shell devoid of purpose.

>>8419658
How about you use mediafire or imgur or something instead of trying to advertise your shitty server just to log people's IP addresses and then post them in /g/?

>Report submitted! This window will close in 5 seconds...

>>8419856
You're the silliest goose alive.

Tracing your IP address now, fucker.

>>8419856
>implying you didn't click it

Enjoy your DDoS and phishing

>>8419856
Mediafire sucks.
Imgur doesn't support 15MB PNG's.

What would /g/ (or I) want with IP's? Most of them struggle to crack Windows. You know you give your IP out to every site you visit right? It's not that big a deal.

That said, it is scary how much information Webmasters have access to simply due to the nature of HTTP and the Web.
I used to go through my personal Web site's Apache logs and see which pages each user would access and when, and make up little stories about who they were and what they were doing.

>>8419885
No, mediafire doesn't suck. You're just retarded.

>>8419890


25% of my hits are Romanian bots trying to access random PHP scripts I don't have.

>>8419893

>Using a file host for image hosting when we both have perfectly good Web servers

Plebeian.

Only boring people get bored :c

I'm not bored at all. I've been watching Bakemonogatri.

I'm not a NEET.

>>8419910
Le derp.

>>8419880
>DDoSing a few thousand IP's
sure i'll just get my /b/ros on that right now anon is legion xD

>>8419890
I do this too

>>8419893
I had 800GB remaining on my server for the month and don't upload often, and further could never have guessed how many downloads this file would have gotten. My webserver is an ssh share on my home computer, and it was much more convenient to just copy it there than to use a filesharing service.

You have a lot more to fear from large corporations harvesting your IP's (yes, this includes Mediafire!) than me.

>>8419901
>25% of my hits are Romanian bots trying to access random PHP scripts I don't have.
I know that feel.
I actually got a sense of accomplishment seeing them fruitlessly try to poke around my cgi-bin directory and probe for WordPress and such but get nothing from it.

>>8419914
You like the new season? It's pretty much two episodes of pure fan service so far. No complaints though.

i dont really have times where i am bored, just the ever present feeling of "what the hell do i do now?" feel.

when i am bored i read news pages. CNN actually wrote another article about legion this morning. http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/13/us/cnnpresents-anonymous-vs-police/index.html?hpt=hp_c3

>>8419916
You cannot possibly even begin to concieve why you are wrong.

>>8419669

What's the source of the one with the girl talking about anal?

These GNU/Linux fanboys are trollng, right? Right?

I'm too tired to play shmups without fucking up constantly but I don't want to go to bed because it's too hot and I'll just end up rolling around uncomfortably unable to sleep.

>>8419971
You cannot possibly even begin to conceive of how few fucks I give over the vehicle I had provided for you to download my collage.

You never had to accept it.

>>8419992
> GNU/Linux
Please, just Linux. GNU is just a set of userspace utilities like X, sendmail, or NetHack. GNU can call it whatever they want when they finish the Hurd.

>>8419658
>http://sicp.in:8080/4chan%20collage.png
I don't see the Mami bounce. This make me very sad.

>>8419916
Actually less than 100 clicks

>>8420029
$ cat access.log | grep "4chan%20collage.png" | wc -l
1159

I read books i like while listening to music.

>>8420038
...you outputted the contents of a file with cat then piped it to grep?
Lol, no wonder you use Ubuntu.

>>8420048
I know, my desktop will never be as awesome as yours ;_;

>>8420059
> Arch Linux
Oh please. I build Linux From Scratch using a step-by-step guide that everyone knows about.

>>8420002
>X, sendmail, or NetHack
Some really bad examples you got there. None of those are part of GNU. They don't even use the GPL. Maybe you should do more research.

>>8420070
I use Slackware, the best distro under the sun.

>>8420095
Great reading comprehension there.

>>8420111
Thanks for sharing that with us, Tokiko!