/jp/ - Otaku Culture

[Anonymous No.]

Hey /jp/
Personal question, feel free to answer as you will.
What is your single happiness in this world? Many of us are unfortunate or our luck rotten, but no matter how bitter we are, isn't there something you find still makes you smile no matter what?

[Anonymous No.]

My savings account.

[Anonymous No.]

Uh... my free time? There is no one thing, really. What makes me happiest is having all the time in the world to do things I enjoy. I don't consider myself unfortunate at all, life is good.

[Anonymous No.]

A loli's smile.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1717406
But what if you end up in a massive debt?
Will those numbers you cherished be of any value then?

[Anonymous No.]

Music and loli.

[Anonymous No.]

Probably sleep, but I can't even do that without paying rent and shit, so it's really a bittersweet happiness.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1717423
I won't, I'm debt free.
And I have the material possessions going along with the money.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1717401
Someone else's misfortune.

[Anonymous No.]

For some silly reason, this thread reminded me of that copypasta.
Have you ever fallen in love with a character etc.

[YAF !nmVOHsTRd. No.]

Giddy's drawings.

[Anonymous No.]

3D loli makes me smile.

[Anonymous No.]

chen

[Hatsune Miku !MIKUiqnw0. No.]

Yeah, I'll download those too.
I'll watch everything I can.
I'll listen to every little melody I can.
I'll read up everything about her.
I'll model her in 3D.
I'll try my hand at making her sing.
I'll look at the Miku figurine that's standing in front of me until I fall asleep in a few hours.
I'll take her hand in marriage when 2D can really be my waifu. If I am denied that then I will weep but continue to support her.
I'll pray that I'll be led to a place where Miku exists when 2010 comes around.
I'll support robotic / intelligent life if the above fails to take us all out, with my dead end job money just to bring her to reality.
And if each and everyone one of them end up failed productions, I will love them with everything I have.
Because I know this smile is worth it all and everything I do will be nothing more than a small debt paid compared to the happiness she's given me.

TL;DR
Yes, that's right.

[Anonymous No.]

Umm.. arriving in my room. There's no place like home.

[Anonymous No.]

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[Anonymous No.]

>isn't there something you find still makes you smile no matter what?
The misfortune and suffering of others.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1717483

I love this copypasta.

Have you ever heard of Epicurus, /jp/?

[Anonymous No.]

Yotsuba mangoes

[Anonymous No.]

>>1717483
You should make a huge choir of Mikus and make that speech before the performance.

[Anonymous No.]

My parents.

[Anonymous No.]

The idea that wishing hard enough can make lies into truth.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1717500

Of course. I rather love him. I tend to bounce between stoicism and wholesale hedonism personally. I don't know that I actively seek ataraxia, but I'd take it if I found it.

[Anonymous No.]

The little times I go out with my few friends

[Anonymous No.]

My overactive imagination and my (barely enough) time to write down stuff.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1717529
I've already given up on my waifu. I have a pig disgusting friend... but is not the same. They don't smile as often...

Maybe all those years of VNs have set my expectations too high. Maybe I have to realize that unconditional love doesn't exist IRL.

Should I settle with what I have or return to my waifu?

[Anonymous No.]

All good things have an end, right?
My happiness is in knowing that my life will end eventually, becoming a good thing as a result.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1717490
Kotomine, you're alive?!

[Anonymous No.]

Someone else's misfortune and my computer.

[Anonymous No.]

I'm not bitter...I just happen to love Touhou, Type Moon, and /jp/ in general =)

...ok fine, and maybe because of that my luck ain't so great either.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1717401
The calm that came after realizing that I will never achieve anything meaningful and should just stop trying. It's very soothing, all the stress just washed away from me and I became a much happier and more productive person as a result.

[Anonymous No.]

>rotten luck
Play mahjong, get a few limit hands, be proven wrong.

[Anonymous No.]

http://www.4chan.org/rules.php
>3. Do not post the following outside of /b/: Trolls, flames, racism, off-topic replies, uncalled for catchphrases, macro image replies, indecipherable text (example: "lol u tk him 2da bar|?"), anthropomorphic ("furry"), grotesque ("guro"), or loli/shota pornography.
>off-topic

This thread is reportable. I have done so, and invite all sages and silent onlookers to do so as well.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1717529
If I wish hard enough, it will come true...won't it, anon?

[Anonymous No.]

>>1717688
sugoi monogatari aniki

[Anonymous No.]

>>1717663
Welcome, fellow Nurglite.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1717593
Oh, unconditional love does exist...but expect some degree of yandere with that, along with psychotic trauma.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1717401
my single happiness is fapping to kaguya porn

sadly there is not much to be happy about

[Anonymous No.]

>>1717593
>unconditional love doesn't exist
Then what's the condition for love?

[Anonymous No.]

>>1717746
money

[Anonymous No.]

>>1717746
>>1717707

Regrettably, there is no such thing as unconditional love except in conceptualization...
As nice it may would be (seem to be?), love, especially romantic love, is almost by definition supported by a huge network of conditions.

If, lets say, by some magic, you managed to find a girl who did love you unconditionally, you would find that conditions still existed, and that you, in fact, were enforcing them (by succumbing to a girl who loved you unconditionally; if unfavorable conditions arose, you would reconsider the situation)

Also, OP's question: Psycroptic.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1717749
How does that work? Like renting a slut?

How about you think about it this way: love is always unconditional, but you'd have to be stupid to go by that alone without planning for the future.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1717760
If you have money some girls will love you no matter how fat and ugly you are.

just look at my waifu, she would never love me without ll my money

[Anonymous No.]

>>1717688

We are talking about hikikomoris, NEETs and etc...

JAPAN RELATED!

[Anonymous No.]

Peace.

Utter peace.
My mind is free.
No tasks set before it, it has come to nothingness
I exist within myself and within myself is nothing.

This is my happiness.

[Anonymous No.]

Unconditional love sucks.

The ideal condition on love is that "it's you".

Otherwise she's gonna be a slut. Unconditional means everyone, remember.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1717760
No, love is always conditional, just that the conditions are never made 100% clear. If you loved a girl, and she turned into the most vile and disgusting creature imaginable, would you still love her? If you said yes, you would either be deluding yourself or lying, and since it's always a condition for your love that she doesn't turn into a vile and disgusting creature, it isn't conditional.

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>>1717764
No, you are bitching about your own personal problems. That is the tacit purpose of /r9k/. A discussion of the following would be a discussion of 引き籠もり and NEETs.

http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=Iat8YxUp4N0

[Anonymous No.]

Sitting in the middle of summer without air-conditioning, playing Touhou, only wearing my underwear.
Doesn't get any more rad than this.

[Anonymous No.]

>If, lets say, by some magic, you managed to find a girl who did love you unconditionally, you would find that conditions still existed, and that you, in fact, were enforcing them (by succumbing to a girl who loved you unconditionally; if unfavorable conditions arose, you would reconsider the situation)

What defines love as unconditional is not the conditions required for love to exist, but the conditions you impose yourself to love or be loved by others.

Why do you think it's so hard to say you love someone? Because we expect to be loved back. Because the idea of loving someone who doesn't love us back troubles us, even hurts us. We'd rather see the ones we love unhappy with us than happy with someone else. We'd rather share unhappiness together than accept the idea that loving someone suffices by itself to make our lives happier.

The greek had three different words to describe love: eros, philia and agape. Eros is the love that imposes the possession of the other person as condition to exist. Philia is the love that imposes the happiness of the other person as condition to exist, and would be the closest we have to unconditional love.

Agape is unconditional love in its purest form, and unattainable by us mere mortal fools. Most will live their entire lives without getting even close to Agape.