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why am I still here

>> No.19202641

>>19202595
please respond

>> No.19202643

>>19202595
I ask myself the same question almost every week. Theres nothing left for me here now that the board is filled with 3DPD

>> No.19202664

>>19202595
there is no reason why you are here, life is simply meaningless, accept that all is return to dust.

>> No.19202701

Maybe you're not here at all.

>> No.19202710

>>19202643
Remove them jannycat!

>> No.19202735

>>19202664
no I'm asking why I'm still on this shit cancer board

>> No.19202830

how long have you been here? asking everyone itt not just op

>> No.19202842

>>19202830
I made my first "I WANT TO FUCK YUKARI" post in 2012, meaning that I'm still a pathetic newfag.

>> No.19202924
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>>19202595
Who knows OP?
Don't worry, you're not alone.
I want to die too. But I don't want to as well. So conflicting.
Good thing I see Alice every once in a while. And Sakuya.
And Raymoo. Marisa. Reisen. Man. It's all just Touhou. Who would have known!

>> No.19202961

>>19202830
I've been here (/jp/) since 2010 and 4chan since 2008
>>19202924
I just exist
I want to completely isolate myself from this board but jaypee helps me numb myself. I feel calm when I browse. When I try and do things like watch anime or work out my mind races and I have to think about my shitty fucking life

>> No.19202986

>>19202961
Also I hate how most otaku culture franchises have been invaded by irritating crossborders. I don't care about politics or saving western civilization I just want to kill mobs and go on raids like old times

>> No.19203049

>>19202961
>jaypee helps me numb myself.
This.
It feels nice browsing. But it could be better.
>I feel calm when I browse. When I try and do things like watch anime or work out my mind races and I have to think about my shitty fucking life.
You'll never know how many posters do that daily.
In this day amd age, you can't disconnect from the world at all.
People want to be done and over with things as soon as it comes to them. I want to take it easy. The world around me doesn't want to take it easy.

Whe you get where you want to be in life, it hits you that you wasted years of your life doing just that andyou have little time left.
I don't fucking get the "work hard" mentality. It doesn't fucking work.
Yeah, you're the spotlight, but who gives a shit. You don't work hard, you work smart. There's more meaning to that than people think. But some are more gifted than others.
Me? I'll find a way t keep NEETing my life away.
I honestly don't know what the fuck I'll even be doing next decade. It'll be a decade soon.
Just blink. Do it.
Time wll pass you by in an instant. But what does that matter.

It seems you have forgotten one valuable thing anon.
Rembr happy day.
Even wen days are dark, always rembr happy day.

>> No.19203059

>>19202986
It is a side effect of introducing normalfags.
Things are only picking up because this is the second generation of people with internet, now coming with third, but also the first generation to grow up around and molded by the internet.

This was only bound to happen. Introduce normalfags and they'll bring more normalfags. They will take what you hold sacred and demolish it. Let it get increased media attention and you have this.
Expose them to the source and they will turn it inside out.

>> No.19203063

>>19203049
Are you a bot or just really tired?

>> No.19203087

>>19202830
I've been lurking this site since before the "new" boards like /tg/ and /jp/ were introduced, so 2006 or so I guess.
The world changes, and the tone changes, but somehow I'm still here.

>> No.19203092

>>19203063
It's 3 in the fucking morning,
How do you think I feel.

>> No.19203162

>>19202595
Just to suffer.

>> No.19203183

because you've got nowhere else to go

just like the rest of us

>> No.19203314

>>19203183
If we truly want to escape, then we need somewhere to escape to.

>> No.19203335

>>19203314
Gensokyo.

>> No.19203431

>>19202830
Found this website during the American presidential election. Stayed for the JAV.

>> No.19203449

>>19203431
Wrong board.
>>>/t/
>>>/gif/

>> No.19203454

>>19203335
That's when we die

>> No.19203474

>>19203454
Why wait?

>> No.19203496

>>19203335
Its not real.

>> No.19203571

>>19203474
To get more touhou before we die

>> No.19203761

back again posting when I don't really want to

>> No.19203932

>>19202735
Here look at this and call this board a shit cancer board again.
>>>/v/catalog
Whenever I'm disappointed with this board, I just look at the others for a moment.

>> No.19204053

>>19203932
the fact that my first impression was "/jp/ has become a lot like /v/ since I last visited in 2009" is probably a sign of something.

>> No.19204099

>>19204053
In what way? People aren't constantly complaining about women in their video games, spamming gay/furry porn, and posting 50 threads of the same tired catchphrase/hate game of the hour.

>> No.19204107

>>19204099
if you remove the generals from /jp/ then yes, you're correct. but if you remove the generals then you're left with a hollow shell of character image dumps, slutposting and the odd thread with new discussion

>> No.19204114

A question for everyone:

do you enjoy posting here?

>> No.19204138

>>19204114
I at least enjoy posting here than the other boards I visit. It’s like a brick wall on other places, especially /mu/

>> No.19204253

>>19202961
>I feel calm when I browse.
Yea.
I don't like gaming or watching series, browsing is all I need.

>> No.19204306

>>19204114
yeah, i enjoy it way more than the other places i visit

>> No.19204336

>>19204114
I enjoy reporting and watching shitty posts be deleted more than posting here honestly. I miss when people would go on autistic spamfests when some, probably off-topic, thread they liked got deleted.

>> No.19204624

>>19202830
2004.

>>19204114
No.

>> No.19204677

>>19204624
>No.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hhx6IfKrvEQ#t=12m10s

>> No.19204986

>>19204114
I do not. I don't actually mind general threads in theory, but most of them have obviously run out of things to talk about as well as lost the people who know how to talk about things in the first place and now exist solely on momentum. I too am caught in that momentum and only come here out of habit for a few of those bland and repetitive generals. Even if the boards weren't completely devoid of worthwhile content the site itself is a piece of shit. The captcha is worse than any other imageboard I've ever been to, seemingly in place only to irritate people into buying passes. You can't post without javascript or a dedicated script/extension, again not a problem on any other imageboard I've been to. To top it all off Hiro has deemed it necessary to inject the site with various potentially malicious scripts that break the layout if you don't allow them. I do not enjoy the content of the site any more and I do not enjoy using the site any more. I can't think of a single good reason to be here and yet here I am.

>> No.19206216

>>19204986
I'd probably be happier and less suicidal if I stopped coming here. I said that posting here makes me feel calm but that's misleading, it just makes me feel as little as possible. It's like the Joy drug in the Lisa series.

If I keep using it, I'll eventually mutate into a disgusting, fleshy, warped monster.

>> No.19206815

>>19202830
Too long. Long enough to be a literal oldfag closing in on 40.

>>19204114
Sometimes. I've had legitimate, good conversations here.

At this point I suppose it's a matter of the comfort found within repetition. I can't even muster the energy involved in keeping up with anime anymore. I've been watching since the 80's and it all just seems like the same shit. I would start watching a series and know I'd seen the same premise a dozen times before. So I'm just a bitter sob clinging onto nostalgia at this point. Here forever, remember?

>> No.19206964

>>19204986
>The captcha is worse than any other imageboard I've ever been to, seemingly in place only to irritate people into buying passes. You can't post without javascript or a dedicated script/extension, again not a problem on any other imageboard I've been to. To top it all off Hiro has deemed it necessary to inject the site with various potentially malicious scripts that break the layout if you don't allow them.
We literaly fixed this over on /g/ when it first appeared.
>buying passes
Not acceptable until they cleanup this shitshow.
If you give a corporation money while saying they need to fix shit, they won't fix shit because the money is already flowing in and they have little inscentive to actually improve.

Would I help? Maybe.
Now? No.
If things improve? >if things improve
Who am I quoting? Shoot me with Danmaku. Nobody.

>> No.19206973

>>19204114
Yes compared to the other boards.
Just thisboard? Kinda leaning towards yes. I things improve rather than get shittier, then it will be yes. Some posts and threads make me say no.

>> No.19207013

>>19206815
>I can't even muster the energy involved in keeping up with anime anymore. I've been watching since the 80's and it all just seems like the same shit.
This.
I really don't see the point anymore.
The same tropes and whatnot has just become tedious.
Yeah, there are hidden gems, and they probably won't see the light of day until they're cancelled and get memed years later, or after they have finished.
I am looking fowards to more episodes of FLCL, but i have yet to watch the first episode.
Woah. Laziness is one hell of a drug.

>> No.19207021

>>19204677
>chronically unemployed
I prefer the term NEET kind sir.
I am a NEET who somehow isn't hired despite having a very high level of skill.

>> No.19207085

>>19207013
FLCL is at least something worth watching. The rest of anime is either moe trash or stuff that doesn’t please me. And then you look at shit like franxx and wonder what the fuck is even going on anymore

>> No.19207199

>>19207085
>moe trash
Kindly give examples. I have never seen anyone use this term meaningfully. Only retards who shitpost templates.

>> No.19207345

>>19207199
Things that try hard to be cute and waste all meaningful time on characters doing cute things.
Always.
Basically no progression and constant grabbing at you to say in the back of your mind "holy shit, that, or she is cute! I want more!" Or "she is best waifu in this series. Fight me fags."

>> No.19207364

>>19204114

Yes

I just ignore threads I don't like, very simple

>> No.19207437

>>19207345
I asked for examples, not more meaningless bullshit.

>> No.19207441

>>19207345
How is that bad? You are supposed to enjoy what you are watching. If your time is so valueable why are you even here in the first place?

>> No.19207702

>>19207437
That's the point

>> No.19207712

>>19207441
Repetition becomes boring after a while.

>> No.19207726

>>19207702
What point? You still havent named any "moe trash". Do you understand English?

>> No.19207755

>>19202595
A man once lamented to himself about his shitty life. He said to the universe, “Why me?” The universe replied, “Why not?”

Why are we here? The greater question is, why not?

>> No.19207982

>>19207085
What's bad about franxx? I didn't watch any of it, but from what I've seen it's about guys and girls piloting robots in lewd positions, which isn't a new thing.

>> No.19208115

>>19207726
Nihongo
>>19207982
Maybe the shitposters.
Or that it is made by Trigger. And they expect a great title since Kill la Kill was a hit.

I am honestly lost here.

>> No.19208123

>>19204114
Daisuke-kun?

>> No.19208140

>>19207712
Not always no it doesnt. Sometimes people like familiar things.
It doesnt seem like you enjoy anything in life.
Go back to shitposting on /a/ and /v/.

>> No.19208157

>>19208115
So you really dont have anything to reply at all.

>> No.19208163

>>19208115
You dont even know why it makes you mad?

>> No.19208185

>>19202595
Why am I still here? What more do you want from me? I gave everything I had to you, to them. Look what they've made of our dream. This bloated, rotting carcass of a board is driven not by reason and hope but by fear, hate and ignorance. Better that we had all burned in the fires of moot' ambition than live to see this.

>> No.19208396

>>19208185
Hey hey hey.
Too late for takebacks.
You have to live with it now.
>sign: NO STOPPING.
Only legacy is permitted this shit. Fuck off V2.

>> No.19208412

>>19202595
To acompany touhous and protect their smile.

>> No.19210284

>>19206815
When I browse /jp/ for hours it feels like I'm being plugged into the geek version of a dialysis machine. My otaku self should have died off a long time ago, but I'm keeping the dream going way longer than it should by browsing and posting here.

After spending three or four hours posting, I feel like I'm on a death bed in a hospice, waiting for it all to end (either so I can get on with my life or so I can finally die, depending on how depressed I am)

>> No.19211401

>>19208115
>Or that it is made by Trigger.
Well, it's a good reason to dislike it at least, even though it's not a reason to "wonder what the fuck is even going on anymore", although their shows tend to that.

I actually stopped watching Bones anime for a similar reason. I got sick of too many wtf finales.

>> No.19211734

>>19202595
I love Alice.
Replying to Alice's threads is mandatory for me at this point.

I feel like hugging Alice, but for some reason, I feel as if she would collapse in my arms and cry even harder. She looks like she's trying hard to be happy.

>> No.19211804

>>19202830
Dont remember but it was called japan/general back then, I wish idolposting would be moved to /mu/.

>> No.19211844

>>19211804
/mu/ would unironically get better if you just move the idolshit there. And I fucking hate idols

>> No.19211925

question coming from someone who may or may not be allowed to post here: how do I avoid becoming one of you guys? my addiction to internet forums has already taken hold of me and I want out.

>> No.19211955

>>19211925
serious response to someone who may or may not be banned in a few minutes:
- Find interests that involve a lot of IRL socialization. Like building physical stamina or learning a language, flawlessly conversing with others is something that must be developed by constant practice.
- Limit the time you look at screens to a moderate amount. Check your email and do work on your computer in public, so that you won't be tempted to look at ecchi or 4chan
- Drink more water

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>>19211955
I already look at 4chan and shitpost in public without giving a fuck anymore. Am I too far gone?

It's not like the normalfag life seems too appealing or exciting, but my current self is too sad and alone

Pd: Not that guy

>> No.19212194

>>19212000
yeah probably

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>>19211925
You don't.
This place has gotten a hold of you while you're young, and chances are you already feel at home. But like >>19211955 said, being here doesn't mean that you can't be happy. Take care of yourself, simple things like eating better food and going outside can greatly improve your mental state. Finding other things you enjoy will come with time, so don't force yourself.

Alway rember to take it easy.

>> No.19212382

>>19202643
you understand me

>> No.19212625

>>19202830
Almost a year here in /jp/! Now if you excuse me, allow me to keep lurking for another year before I'm allowed to post.

>> No.19212630

>>19212625
i'm sorry but this post reset your timer. you get to post on July 13, 2020

>> No.19212633

>>19212630
damn, I messed up

>> No.19212640

>>19212630
Do I get a discount for "antiquity" on the site?

>> No.19212663

>>19212640
sure, I'll cut you a deal but in return you have to help me choose what I'm going to eat tonight. pick a number from 1 to 3 and post it

>> No.19212676

>>19212663
not him but 3

>> No.19212686

>>19212663
3 sounds nice.

>> No.19212870

>>19202830
I've been on 4chan for about a decade, but only 3.5 years of them I've spent on the jay. After my first 1cc lunatic a year ago, I finally felt like not a total newfag here.

>> No.19212910

>>19212870
I've still yet to do that. Reaction times get to be shit as I've gotten older. I got one of my nieces into Osu a few years ago. It took her a month or so to get to and then surpass me.

I still enjoy bullet hell games. But even after spending lots of time on them I can't get past a certain threshold of skill.

>> No.19212920

>>19212686
>>19212676
Looks like I'm eating spaghetti with a garlic sauce (´･ω･`)

>> No.19212966

>>19212910
Have you tried playing Lotus Land Story? My first 1cc lunatic was Sakuya B in PCB, but after getting a few more I can say with confidence that LLS is the most approachable 1cc lunatic there is. The game provides you with tons of resources and fast reactions aren't needed. Even if I tried to reproduce my other 1cc lunatics I'd struggle, but with LLS I could probably clear it on my first try again.

>> No.19212997

>>19202830
On 4chan since the Lucky Star vs Gurren Lagann wars on 2007, and /jp/ since the beginning bouncing between /a/ and /jp/

>> No.19213005

>>19206815
I'm 31 already and I still remember being a young college shitposting on /b/ like 12 years ago

>> No.19213223

>>19212920
That sounds tasty, have a good meal! but uh... What about our deal?

>> No.19213359

>>19213223
I'm letting you post, aren't I?

>> No.19213379

>>19213359
....legitimately what did you do.

>> No.19213439

>>19213379
https://youtube.com/watch?v=VnTpl93q3Bc

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>>19213359
Thank you post permit mr.Anonymous poster!

>> No.19213615

>>19212966
I've played LLS at one time along with the other PC98 titles, but it's been a while. Don't think I ever tried them on lunatic. I may have to revisit them. Easiest one that I remember playing was IN. It seems to have a much lower difficulty curve than many of the other titles.

>>19213005
I started out on /b/, like many others. When /a/ was made I migrated there. Then later alternated between /a/ and /jp/. But since I've pretty much stopped watching anime I just stick with /jp/. I consider /jp/ and /a/ as family. However, I think the boards really started to become shit was when the gamergate and fappening things went down. The vitriol was once a comforting part of 4chan. Putting the whole "secret club" bs aside, it felt like a sense of comradery. These days it just feels so... diluted. Whether it be from the influx of normalfags/newfags, those that haven't been told to "lurk moar" enough, people that pay no attention to board culture, I don't know. But, I'd rather be here than 8 or elsewhere.
I think it just boils down to nostalgia. It'd be naive to think 4chan in general would stay the same year after year.

>> No.19213663

>>19213615
>I think it just boils down to nostalgia.
Can you really say that and then go on to say "of course something would become shit over time"?

>> No.19213671

>>19213615
By the way things are going, 4chan might not even exist in like 3-5 years. Finally an escape from this god forbidden place

>> No.19213781

>>19213663
I never said it would become shit over time. I said it would change. Not necessarily for better or worse specifically.

>> No.19213837

>>19213671
Don't be hopeful.

>> No.19213921

>>19213615
Do it, compared to IN, LLS and to a lesser extent MS are cakewalks.

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>>19202595
Because you can get a theraphy to become a real boy without going to Gensokyo. If you started when the picture was made, a decade ago, you'd be a boy already. Besides, I don't think people still believe in the old method of going to Gensokyo. Moreso, for a truly depressed person, even as a boy, it's still too difficult to do as much as perform the Gensokyo magic. I think there's an anthem about a group of people searching for Gensokyo for 2000 years.

>> No.19229579

>>19204114
Yes. Im just really burned out of every community or even people in general. These days I just seclude myself under a rock, browsing only this board or a couple others in intervals of weeks, sometimes a full month.

>> No.19229797

>>19221137
What the fuck are you saying.
I also said to myself "I gurantee you someone posted to that thread, i fucking gurant- oh so predictable."
Shinki damn.
The only way to Gensoland is death, or the below.

Step 1. Go to a forest, a forest in Japan is preferred for obvious reasons. (Gensokyo is in japan you dingus.)

Step 2. Don't set up anything. Like a camp. You won't need it. Trust me, it's a waste of time, so replace an camping gear with wine or something with a high concentration of alcohol in it.

Step 3. After a few miles (you can count them with each step. One mile for you would be ~20,000 wide steps.), rest and then proceed to get wasted off of 5 or more gallons of alcohol. Don't sit down. You should remain standing to get ahold of your balance. If you fall, get up. If you can't, sit there and waste the precious time you could have spent, looking for Gensokyoland.

Step 4. If you succeeded in that- Stumble drunkly around the forest for a few more miles. Until things get weirder than they already are. I.e. Huge flashing lights and people dancing around you like a bunch of faggots.
(That is the hardest part. 99.99~9% of people fuck this up somehow. They all either die by falling from height, or are taken back to the city and are jailed or deported for breaking laws pertaining to the wellbeing of the environment.)

Step 5. You should be wasted now, and still drinking. If you happen to find time to be a little "off", then there is a high chance you made it into Gensokyo, or you passed out like a lightweight faggot, in which case, you fell and hit your head on something nonexistent, so you find yourself in the same place you stopped.

Step 6. If you are in Gensokyo, wander around for a few days. You won't find many notable, worthwhile, useful people on the ground, but rather up above you in the sky. But you are a useless human and you cannot fly. So use your legs- if you still have them.
Unless they are rofflestomped by Reimu or someone else powerful, you won't find too many people strong enough to keep you safe from the evil youkai- or so you hope would be the case.

Step 7. If you are indeed in Gensokyoland and meet someone unhuman, don't be an assnut. The youkai in Gensokyoland can rip out your spine and shove it up your ass faster than you can say your name backwards. Unless it's Sakuya, then the amount of time it took doesn't matter at all. But that's highly impossible to say the least.

Step 7.5. If the person you met is human, make sure in your drunkenness that they arent any of the important humans, like Reimu. If they are, you are fucked. You will either enjoy living in a shitty village the rest of your life, be sent back to the place you came from, or left to be eaten by a stupid youkai, like Rumia.
This is all assuming you didn't run into fairies and decide they would be good "companions".

Step 7.75. If you meet a youkai, you better be friendly. At that point, your trip was pointless and you're about to end up as breakfast.
Your only hope was to find a purple umbrella in the middle of a forest, but even you can fuck that up in a brightly colored forest of fairies and other creatures.
But this is all if you aren't wasted. If you are wasted, they'll probably ask you to give them a few. [hundred bottles.] If you fail at that, which you will, the above applies and you lost your chance.

Step 8. If you failed in getting to Gensokyoland, i.e. You were put in captivity by savages, or monks who you assaulted when you were wasted, then you should immediately chug upwards of 5 gallons of alcohol and go back to the point of which you started, and try again. If you somehow fuck this up, you're probably bound to be killed by something. In which case, don't fucking bother. If you die, you'll go see Yuyuko anyways, and you would have then come to the conclusion that you cannot get to Gensokyo physically, but mentally, like everyone else obsessed with Touhou, as the only method of travel as there is no "entry portal into Gensokyo" as there are more than "just one" Gensokyo, so it is best you return to posting about your favorite Touhou and everything you want to do to/with them.

>> No.19237277

Another week wasted

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