/jp/ - Otaku Culture

It hasn't changed at all since /jp/ was made.

I legitimately feel bad when browsing /jp/ and I think it actually hurts my health. When I'm away from /jp/ I actually feel relieved, but I never stay away for long because I have nothing to do.

>>9446204

This. I just started browsing this board and it is depressing as fuck. Also motivates me to become NEET, so I don't stay too long.

I've known this board since the very first week of it, and when I think about it then it has become worse. Then again I only come here once in a very long time, though I will be sticking around for a while.

>>9446204
The first part sounds like me when I bother trying to socialize with people on Steam and end up removing them and uninstalling the program.

Different, but in a good way

Nowadays I just stay in my room and never leave.

>>9446232
I've gotten motivated to read VNs and learn japanese, and I've also met very good friends here. My life got much better.

>>9446225

>>9446243
I'd join it but I'm currently on an alt account since a person I removed from my list (and is unrelated to /jp/) appears to be stalking my main one.

My alt only has TF2 and Dota.

>>9446243
fuuuuuck off 2kike

No matter what board I go to there's always the people exploring every facet of the hobby or topic and growing as individuals and being productive. Then there's the lazy bunch who only masturbate their negative aspects and bring others down in their spiral of decay.

I feel that I'm of the latter persuasion and cause every little blister on this board to become a full fledged infection.

I used to play bullet hell shooters more. Life was better back then. Now I have a parasite known as /jp/.

>>9446278
Most boards nowadays are a hivemind. I don't have a problem with retarded reaction images or things like that, but really, I just feel bad for how they think in a straight line. Of course I have ventured on other boards, but I didn't last much. I went to /v/ one of these days and typed out a long reply to a thread of a game I like (MGS in the case). It was an informative post aobut why I liked the game and the pros and cons about it. No one replied to my post. A guy posted a giant greentext and everyone replied to him with things like ">mfw I'm like this too". I never went to /v/ again.

>>9446262
Then again, that was probably a troll and I just read the description.

Oh well.

Since I started browsing /jp/ I noticed I'm much more addicted to shoot'em ups, it's basically all I play nowadays.

>>9446302
I hate this about /v/ too.
I always try my best to make good posts no matter where I am but not getting replied to sucks

No change. Not as depressing as Tohno-chan though.

>>9446232

>>9446302
I generally steer clear of mainstream hobby boards because too often I'm faced with situations similar to the one you described.

>>9446278
Sounds like you will fit just fine on /v/.

Better for my mental health and social capabilities

Not so good for my physical body,
I'm sure I'll die from heart attack or stroke at 40

>>9446313
Hence why I left the board. I believe that you must experience things to be able to truly have an opinion about them. So I went to /v/ to see if it's that bad, since not only /jp/ but also /a/ that is not really a good board hates them. And clearly, I've made a post extensively explaining my opinion about a specific game, and I was met with literally no replies. No, I don't make posts to gather replies, but seriously, to know that they value more a half-assed greentext than someone giving his legit opinion about a game... It shows how quality their board are.

>>9446323
hahaha

Got a job, found God and started a family

Thanks largely to /jp/ I'm a bi-sexual, pedophile, cross-dressing shut-in.

You decide if you think that's good or not.

/jp/ is a depressing hellhole. It is a den of depravity, and a lair of laziness. No person would stay sane after being exposed to such debauchery.

Ever since I've started lurking here daily I have met a ton of new friends online that I keep in contact with regurlarly. I also feel my creative drive has been amped up from seeing the many shitposts /up/ has to offer. Also found a ton of new images, VNs anime, vidya, music and other stuff through you guys. Although, I have spent more time inside than ever. Not necessarily a had thing though

Better. I stopped going to /v/ and /a/ as much so my butt isn't as sore and I learned to not hate anime and video games again.

Also /jp/ got me into Mabinogi, the best and worst MMORPG ever.

On the other hand, it's gradually affecting me with shitposting virus.

Learnt Japanese, secured my route into Japan.

Good I'd say.

Actually, my life has gotten better and it's thanks to /jp/. Old /jp/ used to have some of the best crossdressing threads, until the meido arrived and shut them down. They were supportive and informative, unlike those found on /soc/ or /b/, which are just camwhores and those on /a/, which are similar, but focused only on traps like Rin. Thanks to those threads, I started getting into it and now trap regularly. I've got something of a boyfriend now and things are going fairly well. Thanks, /jp/!

It's not that /jp/ has made my life worse; it's that I come here when I'm feeling bad to commiserate. I find tales of NEETdom, suicide, poverty and loneliness to be hilarious.

I couldn't give half a fuck about the 2hu shit, though. 2hu is pretty mediocre, all things considered.

>>9446204
I think the worst thing about /jp/ is that people here really are dim as fuck or at least they're pretending very well. I can't say which would be more depressing. Oversensitivity, self-delusion, irrationality and selfishness are all over the place. If you bother to go through the passive-aggressive default replies you sometimes get a glimpse of how messed up some people actually are. Other boards have a childish feel to them but /jp/ doesn't, and it's grim. Moot put it well.

When I first got here, I felt I had discovered an amazing new place and felt truly happy. But with time, /jp/ changed and any positive effects in had on my mood has dwindled.

Worse for reasons completely unrelated to /jp/.

I'm mostly a lurker, but i still think /jp/ has influenced me more than i would've liked in these 2 years or so. I've become even more of a shut-in than before, gotten 400% more elitist in pretty much everything, my GID has probably gotten worse too. My current goals in life are learning Japanese and making imaginary friends. Not sure if what i've listed above would have happened regardless or not - hell, i'm not even sure if they're welcome or whatever. I don't dislike you guys, that's for sure. I don't think i could stand lurking other boards now at least.

>>9446437
let it out , I know you want to speak about it.

Much, much better.

I learned to enjoy being alone. I learned that work is a waste of life and then I quit my job and was happy to continue living with my parents. /jp/ taught me how to trick the government into giving me money every month for doing nothing.

I don't know how depressed I would be if I never found /jp/ and I had stayed outside. /jp/ probably saved my life.

>>9446452

>My current goals in life are learning Japanese and making imaginary friends.

These are admirable goals. You're exploring the full potential of your imagination and learning. Most normals just fuck each other, spawn out little monsters, and spend the majority of their lives doing things that they don't want to do.

Today I delivered a pizza to a fat man in sweatpants and in a wheel chair. He handed me the money, took the pizza, didn't say a word. Left me with a 30 dollar tip.

I only post on /jp/ to thank my customers for tipping me.

>>9446494

thangs
pizzar was good it tast good
thank

>>9446472
>and spend the majority of their lives doing things that they don't want to do.
People tend to be what they do, not do what they are. Your sweeping assumption is bold, if not rude.

/jp/ has improved my life.
I find peace when I browse /jp/.

>>9446526

>1. I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.

>2. I wish I didn't work so hard.

http://www.inspirationandchai.com/Regrets-of-the-Dying.html

A little bit better, I found a lot of awesome music because of touhou and share threads. Finding music like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u713SIh2Hws helps clear my mind and make living with ocd less shitty.

same shit

i had a 10/10 girlfriend, i was muscular, athletic, good at sports, and not only that, i was also smart and bright and studied in one of the best universities of my country, i had a promising future ahead of me.

but then i found /jp/, and everything went to hell. i got addicted to meth, heroin and crack, got AIDS, dropped 130lbs now i'm a walking skeleton with skin, my girlfriend got tired of me and sent me a video of her getting gangbanged by the football team of my uni, which i was kicked out btw, and my left arm is rotting off because of the dirty needles i used

>>9446621
Upload the video.

>>9446626
fuck you buddy

Improved actually. Before I would just browse the web randomly looking for a place that would fill the void in my heart. Then after years of searching I feel like I found the place I belong.

Better is a pretty relative term...like I enjoy it, and I guess I have fun here most of the time, but i also feel like I get more stupid every time I look at a shitposting thread. I also haven't been reading or anything half as much since I got here.

But I did start learning Japanese since then, which is a good thing.

>>9446204
I'm with you. /jp/ is like crack addiction or something to me. Every second I stay here I can feel a bit of my soul and brain dying, but since I have nothing else to do I always come back here like a little bitch.

>>9446621
Well that sucks and all, but I don't see what it has to do with the imageboard. Seems more like you have drugs to blame than /jp/.

Significantly better.

>>9446559

I read the name of that as Floating Cloud Autistic Band when I first saw it ...Nice song though. Got anymore relaxing touhou? Maybe I should start a new thread about it.

It made me realize being an anti-social shut-in isn't all that uncommon, but at the same time made me ok with it so I don't have motivation to change myself anymore.

>>9446670
Please don't feed such an obvious troll bro.

>>9446853
You got a pretty fucked up defintion of a troll

>>9446868
There's been alot of 'race to the bottom' contests on /jp/ such as people boasting to be the biggest truNEET of them all, the most mentally fucked up one, and in this case the one most harmed by /jp/. They may be serious but the incredulous story raises a red flag. AKA more citation needed.

Right I'm only going to say this once and then I'm going to abandon this thread like oh so much leftover gravy but:

I love you guys. I really really mean it.

If it weren't for you guys just randomly accepting me and teaching me about new things I'd never have found the courage to get a new job (upon which I learned that normal people are crazy), plus I went from some dude who secretly bought 1-2 character figures and hid them from his friends to having three glass cases filled with figures and a whole bunch of other things that seem really really sappy when I re-read them.

I just gotta say, you guys made me more comfortable with myself and what I like than pretty much anybody. The only problem is that you guys keep trying to make me into a cross-dressing homosexual. That's creepy as hell, but I still love you guys anyway.

So I'm going to go and we're never going to talk about this again, but just remember, you guys are far more awesome than you give yourselves credit for and the only thing that really gets me down nowadays is that I'll never meet you in person; even that's cool because I should be enjoying the time we have together now instead of worrying about what I don't have.

>>9446789
When you immerse yourself exclusively or long enough within a community where reclusiveness is the norm I think your perception of ambient social reality will be molded whether or not you like it. Unfortunately this community has to number less than 20 000 and if anything serves to reinforce notions of the rarity of our demographic. Factor in the "ironic" NEETs and fictions constructed by otherwise socially healthy individuals and you become forced to withdraw from that initial notion of ostensible prevalence. We are strange fucking people in the eyes of the majority. I happen to prefer it no other way, though.

It hasn't changed at all. When I wasn't shitposting on /jp/ I was shitposting on /a/ or some other internet forum.

Unfortunately, these days I do it all day every day as opposed to a couple hours a day when I wasn't busy with school or homework. Now I have a useless degree with a mediocre 3.1 GPA, no job, no car, no license, no money, no friends, no future, and I'm moving in with my parents next week and can't afford to take 95% of my shit with me.

I honestly don't know what to do besides using my useless degree to become an officer in the army, but I would probably kill myself a week into bootcamp due to my crippling social anxiety. I would probably get raped, too.

Goddamn it. Way to make me feel like shit, /jp/.

When i first come here i can't be any worse so perhaps I end off to be better.

>>9447323
fugg off

>>9446400
Judging from all the stoner threads you have to consider most of our posts aren't made sober.

>>9446400
>Moot put it well.
huh

I've been playing visual novels all day and learning japanese. In the air force and waiting to be deployed to Japan. I'm having a gay ol' time :)

>>9447390
So that's why you're going to Colorado.

Although I thought you dropped out of school. Guess that one screenshot wasn't yours.

>>9447390
Airforce is easy shit bro. I'm not commissioned though, so I don't really have any worries.

I have snagged a few images and gotten a few links. But other than that I go to other sites for my japaneeds. sorry but /jp can be so crappy. why u so crappy /jp?

>>9447451
I technically did drop out once but apparently nobody noticed since I was able to sign up the next semester with my usual scholarships and a pell grant and everything.

>>9447463
>bro

Who in the fuck do you think you're talking to?

>>9447491
They probably see dropping a class is better than failing.

>>9446893
It's called sarcasm, or, you know, a joke. Not everything is an attack against the board.

>>9446339
It may have to do with people generally liking small blocks of text. You see newspaper articles do it all the time.

You usually find people keeping each point somewhat concise and small with greentext, so it's easier for people to read the greentext story over a huge block of text.

At least, I really hope that's the reason.

>>9447500
I've never dropped a class before. I simple didn't sign up for anything for fall semester and went right back in for the spring.

I'm not supposed to be able to do that according to my scholarship guidelines or my uni's rule handbook.

>>9447491
If I had to take a guess? Some NEET bawwing on the internet because he has to run back to mommy and daddy, taking his depression out on someone trying to give him a little possible encouragement. You're right, don't do the military. You couldn't take orders much less give them. Bro.

worse ;_; and i don't know how it happened. i started on /wg/, went to /v/, went to /tg/, moved to /fit/ for ages and ages, saw some gains, and recently "switched" to /jp/ for shits after a friend introduced me. can't talk about anything else now...

HOW DID THIS HAPPEN.

>>9447535
Oh, boy. You REALLY don't know who you're fucking talking to, kid.

You're about to find out what 37 years of constant guerilla warfare in Vietnam will make a soldier capable of. Don't bother locking your door, it's already too late.

>>9447547
>guerilla warfare
Was that a mistype?

Subjectively better.
Objectively worse.

>>9447559
No.

They don't have gorillas in Vietnam.

Better. Through /jp/, I got into visual novels and anime, and found pixiv. Now I always have something to do. I remember the days when I would ran out of things to do and would watch boring TV shows in an attempt to keep myself entertained. The only things that have actually stuck in my memory from those times are the commercials. Those were boring times.

Better. Through /jp/, I got into visual novels and anime, and found pixiv. Now I always have something to do.

I remember the days when I would run out of things to do and would watch boring TV shows in an attempt to keep myself entertained. The only things that have actually stuck in my memory from those times are the commercials. Those were boring times.

>>9447547
I dont know what was said about you that was so bad that you thought you needed to make death threats but that was really not too smart on your part. the only reason I have left your death threat there is so that when the person who you have threatened goes to the police, the evidence will still be here. Please tell me who caused you to react like this and I will ban them too. This kind of behavior is not tolerated here.

>>9447547
Why do eagles always think they're so tough? I bet I could take one in a fight easily.

>>9447606
so u think ur though uh?

All this shit storm because someone said the word bro

>>9446559
Floating Cloud is so great. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHuFs26quqw is good, too.

jip has had no particular impact upon my existence