/jp/ - Otaku Culture

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If I could save and reload my life, things would be different around here

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>>10636016
>win the lottery
>rape everyone
>get bored as shit
>ennui kicks in
>kill yourself
>survival instincts kick in at the last moment
>keep reloading state from seconds before you died
>forced to loop dying over and over
>Twilight Zone theme plays

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>>10636028
Please do not misuse the quoting feature.

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>>10636042
Why do you hate memes if you're on 4chan?

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>>10636042
>you >mean >memearrows?

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>>10636112
>>>/jp/notredtexting
http://4chan.org/iseriouslyhopeyouguysdontdothis

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dont do that ever again

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>>10636114
>>>/out/

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>>10636042
>born in a trashbin
>go to the school of autism
>professor sperglord teaches us that greater than symbol is how you formally quote
>see everyone else quoting with these weird upside down period symbols which looks like "
>i tell them the correct way to quote is with greater than symbol
>they don't accept my answer so i poop my pants and start shouting to quote it >DON'T MISUSE THE QUOTE FUNCTION

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>>10636130
make me u puss. btw I'm pretty ripped and I lift every day, so ur prob dunna get rekt

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>>10636135
story of my life

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>>10636135
Please do not misuse the quoting feature.

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p epic thread. thanks jp.

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>>10636143
Please don't post same stuff. Or i'll report you for being a boring person

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>>10636151
Wow, I was thinking the same thing when I saw that post. I am getting pretty tired of these new ducksuckers from /v/ trying to fit in by copying others' posts instead of making their own memes.

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>>10636055
I hate certain memes. Others I find amusing, but greentext just makes your post difficult to read and needlessly lengthens the size.

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>>10636153
>needlessly lengthens the size.

I think the main point of greentext is to condense a long story, which is useful.

Don't you faggots tell me how you'd rather read shit as prose. Whenever I write a long, on-topic post you all ignore me. But greentext? Guaranteed replies.

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>>10636114
/jp/ has such avant garde 4chan culture

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>>10636165
You don't condense things by pressing return every five words. That's the exact opposite.

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>>10636153
It may make the post longer in lines, but it also makes it shorter in text.

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>>10636173
You squash them sideways to make them taller, like making a burrito.

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i'm a save scumming slut

ask me anything but asking me my gender

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>>10636173
The overall wordcount is lessened though. Why do you care if it stretches the page vertically?

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>>10636156
>ducksuckers

At least the duck is happy.

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>>10636185
It's just attention whoring. It's like you are saying to everyone you want them to look at your huge post that's a different color and gives you eye strain. You don't really save that much by leaving off the subject each sentence.

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I blame websites like Cracked for popularizing the 21 REASONS WHY LISTS ARE AWESOME trend.

It's not like people were refusing to read magazine articles or web pages because regular paragraphs are boring nerd shit that takes forever to read.

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Too much green is hard to read. Especially if you have the post highlighted in Burichan (so it's that dark pink color).

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>>10636195
How is it attention whoring to tell a greentext story? Humans are not crows, uncontrollably attracted to shiny things. Nobody who wants to read it has to read it.

>>10636198
Bullet points are far older than Cracked.

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>>10636206
It takes up 40% of the page, that's why.

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I wish non-emulator games had save states, so I could force all Touhous to have spell practice.

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>>10636209
Just because sequential lists take up a lot of space doesn't mean that everybody who makes a post with it is "attention whoring."

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Greening makes you sound like an ape. Not only is it not making proper use of the quoting function, but is also associated with all the other boards on 4chan. Not good.

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>>10636214
Just think of the poor scroll wheels. You're significantly reducing their lifespans.

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>>10636219
When I'm reading articles, I repeatedly highlight and unhighlight them by mashing the click button repeatedly. My mouse button must hate me.

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>>10636214
If you really want to make a list, can't you just do it like this:

•List item 1
•List item 2
etc...

At least avoid the hideous green color.

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>>10636231
>implying I want to waste time with alt codes

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>>10636232
* if you are lazy about it

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>>10636231
＞If you really want to make a list, can't you just do it like this:
You could, but people mostly don't give a shit about the color. It's not like there's a movement to get people to start quoting like this.

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>>10636237
It's not a big deal when you only quote a single line of text. When your entire post is green it's hard on the eyes. Doubly so when you make the post as big as you possibly can.

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>>10636237
I like
<text
Because it looks like an alligator mouth is vomiting out the text.

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different color text? whoa, wow, super amazing! greentext allows you to put emphasis on select parts and separate them so they're more attention grabbing. it's a more idiotic way to write, but this is 4chan. this isn't the highest precipice of intellectual discussion.

your 4chan writing etiquette is a joke and your posts aren't even worth reading. why exactly do you think you're above the idiotic prose known as greentext?

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>>10636206
>Bullet points are far older than Cracked.

I know, and I know they're not the first (or only) site to do this. Paul Graham wrote a good essay on why list articles can be a good format and I actually agreed with him. But the problem is that these popular sites encourage a shitty style of writing for people with short attention spans. You can write simply without having to sound like a caveman.

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>>10636237
>You could, but people mostly don't give a shit about the color.

I can guarantee you that if you wrote greentext stories like
­>this
then /v/irgins would complain you're doing the meme wrong.

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>>10636256
Remember when greentext broke for an hour or so?
/v/ fucking exploded, it was ridiculous.

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>>10636249
You have to have some standards. What's the point of posting if you put more effort into the captcha than your actual post?

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>>10636249
>greentext allows you to put emphasis on select parts and separate them so they're more attention grabbing.

We've had plaintext internet posts for decades. We've also had the same quoting style for decades. There are plenty of accepted ways to emphasize text without doubling up a feature, confusing people, and writing like a moron.

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>>10636253
I generally care more about content than style. On the face of it an on-topic post written in greentext points is better than a shitty blog post written out as a paragraph.

The real reason to be wary about it is that it draws in retards and makes them think that all greentext stories are acceptable.

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>>10636261
I want a /10/ board where you have to pay tenbux to post.

And I mean per post, not just to access the board.

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>>10636266
There are, but unfortunately the standard go-tos are not enabled here.

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Greentext is already in use on YouTube and other sites. Now we just need a trendy blogger/artist type to write a whole book in greentext and explain what greentext is in a R*ddit "Ask Me Anything", and then maybe people will stop using it.

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>>10636286
It's probably more likely to show up in one of those experimental novels that make no goddamned sense. Probably one that's themed around the internet.

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>>10636285
Check your post on Warosu.

One obvious thing is to TYPE IN CAPS. HELLO I AM SHOUTING THESE WORDS.

Otherwise,
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1855

> Use symbols for emphasis. That *is* what I meant. Use
> underscores for underlining. _War and Peace_ is my favorite
> book.

I do this all the time, so do many other people I see on /jp/, and nobody complains. Though I'm waiting for the backlash when some people think Markdown invented this convention, just how people think /prog/ invented ``faggot quotes''.

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>>10636285
This isn't an American comic book, though. You don't normally use emphasis that much in writing.

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>>10636266
people who need to use web interface to quote a section of text in the address are overwhelming morons. it's one of the most obnoxious ways to write and it's used constantly since people don't have the intelligence to write a proper sentence without using the other persons text. do you repeat what people say to you before you give them an answer when you talk?

this isn't a complicated subject which is darting across multiple topics. it's straightforward and i don't need you to quote something so i understand what you're addressing.

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>>10636300
I checked it out of curiosity just after I made it.

I'm aware that there are general use conventions, but in most parts of 4chan greentext _is_ an accepted convention. Also I use underscores for general emphasis at times; I didn't realize they were meant to represent underlines.

/prog/ didn't invent ``faggot quotes," but they made it popular around 4chan so everybody associates it with them.

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>>10636286
I'm going to get working on this as soon as possible.

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>>10636316
Those places who accept greentext as a convention are not worth visiting. Which is why I have been away from /anus/ these past weeks.

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>>10636311
I can only hope I'm being trolled into the stratosphere right now.

When you reply back to a person, it's useful both to that person and to other readers to include snippets of what it is you're replying to. In old Usenet readers and mail clients, this was largely because terminals had a limited amount of space and it was a pain to have to jump back and forth between postings to see what a person says. We have scrolling web browsers and mice, but this still applies. Why do you think current email clients still include the last message in replies?

It's a technical benefit over letters. Those people must have had a hard time. "In your letter dated January 5, 1873, you asked me who I was quoting. Well, I've pondered the matter and..."
Fuck that noise.

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>>10636316
>``faggot quotes,"

It's `` and ''. Two opening quotation marks, two close quotation marks.

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>>10636316
> I use underscores for general emphasis at times; I didn't realize they were meant to represent underlines.

They've basically come to mean "emphasis but not as much as asterisks". I think some software typesets it as italic/oblique.

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>>10636334
So, I never understood what the point of this actually was, so I may as well ask you. Is it because terminals had a limited character set so they had to use two apostrophes instead of a " quotation? Is that's the case then why use the grave accent? And why bother trying to get people to do it on 4chan?

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>>10636332
>"In your letter dated January 5, 1873, you asked me who I was quoting. Well, I've pondered the matter and..."

That style of writing is really cool, though. Far too cool.

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>>10636343
And why not use acute accents on the other side?

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>>10636334
He probably knows, seeing as how you've explained it over a hundred times.

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>>10636348
Acute accents a cute.

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>>10636344
It's fun as a novelty but gets tiring fast.

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>>10636332
it's useful when you're talking about something complicated which is spanning across multiple topics and darting back and forth. that doesn't happen on 4chan and so the only usefulness is for morons who can't remember what they just read. either morons use it since they have the memory and writing ability of a goldfish or morons use it for an idiotic meme prose. it's a shit feature used mostly by morons. underline, bold, and italic are much more useful if you're going to pretend like what you're writing total shit.

ending it, this isn't an old usenet client. i already said your etiquette is a joke. trying to act like hardware limitation workarounds are accepted forms of writing is rather pathetic.

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>>10636343
Basically ASCII only had seven bits to work with, so they couldn't have a lot of printable characters. Some characters had to be doubled-up, and those conventions still stand today (for example, - is used as both a hyphen and a minus).
` was the grave accent and left quotation mark, ' was the acute accent and right quotation mark, even though ` doesn't look entirely like a left quotation mark and ' doesn't look entirely like an acute accent. Some computer terminals changed them to look more like quotation marks since nobody really used them as diacritical marks any more.
Now we have Unicode quotes (“ ”, ‘ ’) but they're a pain to type.

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>>10636375
「Now we have Unicode quotes (“ ”, ‘ ’) but they're a pain to type.」
should go full weeb and just use these all the time

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>>10636383
Japanese quotes are so ugly.

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>>10636376
Reply links and previews do make it somewhat unnecessary, but that doesn't mean making it clear which point exactly you're responding to is bad practice.

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>>10636383
And for greentext, we can use the tainome (fisheye) bullet:

◉ went to Gamers
◉ ramen falls out of pockets
◉ that kimochi when

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>>10636392
Perfect. It's like I'm in Japan already.

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>>10636376
Well here's an example, say someone asks multiple questions.

>Is this game good?
Yes.

>Is it difficult?
No.

>Where can I download it?
Eroge Download.

Now imagine someone just linking the post and saying "Yes. No. Eroge Download." It could be confusing depending on the type of questions and how they're broken up. The alternative is to parrot shit or write like a patronizing retard. "The game is good. The game is not difficult. You can download the game at Eroge Download."

It's also useful if someone didn't remember the asker's post or just saw the thread scrolling down the page. He has all the information he needs in that post alone. It's not a bad thing to not remember every post on a message board, or if a particular reply catches your eye (that's why the front page shows the latest replies for each thread).

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>>10636392
You forgot the part where he asks for a western game and the cashier can't understand him.

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>>10636392
Is this supposed to be sequential, or meant to be read in any order?

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Hey guys, imagine if 4chan had threaded comments.

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>>10636424
then we'd have to read the whole thread at all times

what a pain in the ass that would be

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>>10636424
Ugh no.

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>>10636412
the game is good, not difficult either. you can download it at eroge download.

if they wrote like that then they'd be intelligent. unlike the morons who need to use that shit function to address points. the fact you couldn't even figure out that sentence really brings home the point for me. i'm done so continue to chimp out with your moron function like the meme prose users.

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What part of his post are you referring to?

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>>10636424

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>>10636439
You know the one.

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>>10636424
Shit sucks, especially when the posts aren't in chronological order.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5391667

How am I even supposed to approach reading this? This isn't how discussions work.

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Fuck off, redlinker. I know which post you're replying to. I don't need links like some faggot with no attention span.

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>>10636436
It really does sound better like that. I mean, without the obvious grammar mistakes you made.

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>>10636436
God forbid an intelligent person responds tersely.

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>>10636392
Horrible.

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>>10636465
You're just not able to appreciate genius when you see it.

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>>10636475
Stop sucking your own dick.

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>this thread
my sides are moving on their own

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>>10636479
I'm not servicing myself, I'm servicing him because he followed up on my 「great idea」 and that makes me feel good about myself.

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>>10636544
That's like an indirect blowjob, dude.
Fucking queer.

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>>10636520
Fuck off with your may-mays, homo.

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The anti-establishment ways of /jp/ never cease to make me laugh.

QUALITY posts all around guys.

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>>10636614
Shut the hell up.

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>>10636643
watch how you address me kid I'll fuck you up

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>>10636661
get rekkd semen slime

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>>10636332
Yeah, it makes sense when you use the > for actual fucking quoting.

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>>10636028
that reminds me of an anime
i think it was kaidan restaurant

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>>10636028
>>10638308
episode 14, last segment of it
(it's episodic you can watch separate episodes)