/jp/ - Otaku Culture

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Pour one out for the homies

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this again

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RIP

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>>34001201
who ded

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>>34001201
The old guard dwindle by the day, slowly but surely replaced by a new generation of posters. It feels like I've little in common with people and the things they like anymore.

I wonder how many of those anons back from the 2000's-early 10's ended up taking the rope or just became as close to normalfags as they could.

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>>34006091
A true /jp/sie never leaves

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>>34006122
This.
>>34006091
I told you years ago that if you don't teach the new posters anything, they won't learn anything. Some respect the board enough to assimilate, it's those who refuse to that are the problem.

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>>34006091
i wonder that too
>>34001201
Having few for our lost brothers right now.

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>>34006091
>It feels like I've little in common with people and the things they like anymore.
That's just what getting old is, and it's amplified by the fact that you aren't normal. Even if you're referring to other people who use this website, who also aren't normal, it's only natural.

>I wonder how many of those anons back from the 2000's-early 10's ended up taking the rope or just became as close to normalfags as they could.
I think most of us wonder this. It's also not like they just couldn't have stopped visiting or visit less frequently now. I started visiting around 2010 and I visit a lot less frequently than I used to.

Why?

Things changed. This website has changed. That doesn't mean I've stopped being any less of a weeb, and I'm certainly not going to try to be something I'm not. So I'm in limbo now. Maybe one day I'll take the rope. What I am now and what I probably will be for the rest of my life is:

to normalfags: the kind of weird guy who doesn't talk much and doesn't seem to fit in anywhere
to anonymous of the future: that occasional anon who posts about old shit

It only gets worse, trust me. The worse it gets, the more you stop caring about other people entirely. To be clear: 4chan is not the cause, it's alienation. I wonder what happened to the hardcore anons who started browsing this website when it first launched and had their entire family die, or never had one, and are now older? How many sociopaths have had their road overlap here?

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We should have made a proper /jp/ bunker site years ago and not some shitty """/jp/""" spinoffs

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>>34006412
This. Sometimes it's best to start from the beginning.

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>>34006412
That's impossible, because no one actually likes anything except complaining about life and nowadays complaining that they aren't allowed to complain about life on /jp/ anymore. Most of those people went to /r9k/ ages ago.

>>34006091
>It feels like I've little in common with people and the things they like anymore.
Like what? Are you sure you're not just angry that people who like things that you do not like are in your presence?

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>>34006412
the only good spinoff was early robotmetal because it was just like the old jay

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>>34006527
Not the same anon but there's a good reason to hate new content like vtubers, gachashit, etc. There are also new things that I like however.

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>>34006611
Gatchashit isn't anywhere near "new", otaku have been using real life gatchapon for eons without even getting a game out of it, and it's no tlike cute girls and boys are anything new to otakudom either. What possible reason could you have to hate gatcha outside of it working its way into places it doesn't belong like MMORPGs and multiplayer e-sports games. It better not be because it takes up a few board slots.

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>>34006611
Gatchashit isn't anywhere near "new", otaku have been using real life gatchapon for eons without even getting a game out of it, and it's not like cute girls and boys are anything new to otakudom either. What possible reason could you have to hate gatcha outside of it working its way into places it doesn't belong like MMORPGs and multiplayer e-sports games? It better not be because it takes up a few board slots.

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>>34006527
My day consists of pretty much refreshing the /jp/ catalogue. I earnestly don't use any other website now unless I need to look something up.I used to like posting on old forums, back when those were a thing. The Off Topic subforums were especially fun. But nobody uses those anymore, and constantly dealing with the retards who use the internet now is just so tiring either way. My old friends have professional careers now and are either married or have girlfriends and others just went dark entirely, I've not talked to anybody even in an online capacity in maybe two or three years outside of family. It feels like my integrity has been cracking lately, but I just can't use shit like Discord or IRC or get along with people as well.

I think I started posting here back in early 2009, maybe a bit later. I think those were really the best years of my life, it was easy to get along with people and guys would always hit me up to play netoge together. I miss those years, and my friends too. I'm aware this is solely my own fault, however. I'm sure years from now some people will look back fondly on these years, as well. I could easily just abandon all inhibition and fire up Discord or go real out there and visit boards like /soc/ or /r9k/, force myself to be amicable. But I just can't do it.

Sorry for the blogpost but point is, I don't think it's an all that special case and many anons probably have similar circumstances or worse. I don't know what I'll wind up doing myself, but there's a lot of dark routes you can easily go down if you lose your wits. Hope you oldfag lurkers have been holding up okay.

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>>34006294
My day consists of pretty much refreshing the /jp/ catalogue. I earnestly don't use any other website now unless I need to look something up.I used to like posting on old forums, back when those were a thing. The Off Topic subforums were especially fun. But nobody uses those anymore, and constantly dealing with the retards who use the internet now is just so tiring either way. My old friends have professional careers now and are either married or have girlfriends and others just went dark entirely, I've not talked to anybody even in an online capacity in maybe two or three years outside of family. It feels like my integrity has been cracking lately, but I just can't use shit like Discord or IRC or get along with people as well.

I think I started posting here back in early 2009, maybe a bit later. I think those were really the best years of my life, it was easy to get along with people and guys would always hit me up to play netoge together. I miss those years, and my friends too. I'm aware this is solely my own fault, however. I'm sure years from now some people will look back fondly on these years, as well. I could easily just abandon all inhibition and fire up Discord or go real out there and visit boards like /soc/ or /r9k/, force myself to be amicable. But I just can't do it.

Sorry for the blogpost but point is, I don't think it's an all that special case and many anons probably have similar circumstances or worse. I don't know what I'll wind up doing myself, but there's a lot of dark routes you can easily go down if you lose your wits. Hope you oldfag lurkers have been holding up okay.

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>>34006766
Maybe you should join /jp/ outside of this board. Like flockmod, gikopoi or the gta server for example. Those places are always fun and carry the true spirit of /jp/.

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>>34006766
>IRC
...dude, what? All the channels everywhere are either dead or not worth being part of. I had a hard time with discord too before I eventually abandoned it, but to be fair I didn't put that much effort into finding stuff.

Also, not being willing/able to be "amicable" and talk about normalfag things in a normalfag way is not your fault. It's not anyone's fault.

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Old anons, what did /jp/ used to be like? Was it a good place?

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>>34007042
Everything was way more fun

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>>34007117
I wish I had been there

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>>34006091
I'm a newfag but I ended up posting on /jp/ because I was a big fan of Touhou and especially Touhou music for quite some time ever since I got introduced to it when I was 11. I often look back at the archives for /jp/ back in the early 2000's and it seemed very nice and comfy. I can see why you guys would get nostalgia from the good old days when your board was full of people that you related to and felt you had a connection with.

Maybe the old posters just ended up growing out of the whole otaku phase of their life and tried to act normal to fit into society like you said.

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>>34007167
I only got into Touhou last year so I only started coming to /jp/ recently, but ive been lurking the chans since I was in middleschool, so 2012 or so. Even though I was a kid it seems like I laughed more back then on this website. But at the same time 4chan introduced me to so much stuff, so i’m grateful

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>>34007117
>12
Shit year for /jp/.

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I wonder how things would have turned out if moot actually made that doujin and VN board. No mods could justify dumping trash topics on the board by pulling the usual "it's otaku culture" argument if that were the case. However, it would really suck for the other topics like, for example vocaloid and idolmaster, as they would still be stuck here with all the j-pop stalkers and facerig memelords. I have been trying to come up with a board name for a some kind of /jp2/ that also include things like figures, tea, etc. as well as doujin and VNs that I would want to suggest on the empty void known as the feedback page, but I just couldn't think of anything.

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>>34007787
Hiro's been making a lot of good moves lately like splitting boards up, data scraping aside. It could still happen. But /jp/ would never be the same.

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>>34006091
It's a feedback loop more than anything else. I know a lot of anons that are still out there as they've always been but just don't like coming to this site like they used to because it feels like the userbase has changed too much. The less they show up, the less they want to show up. and there's not really anywhere else to go except their own private cliques

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2 versions for each assuming I didn't fuck something up.

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It just so happens you can't execute files straight away. You have to open the program and navigate to the folder. A fucking pain it is but at least the files are retained.

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>>34007787
>No mods could justify dumping trash topics on the board by pulling the usual "it's otaku culture" argument if that were the case.
It would be shit because the only reason people would talk about VNs would be to talk about the big ones that were popular back then, so it'd just be endless Type-Moon character threads after people stopped caring about Clannad, Kanon, Utawarerumono, and certain others that were flavors of the month. There would probably be the occasional waha thread, but no one would play that game. It would be even worse once the gatcha took off. Fate and other gatcha posting would either be justified directly or shoehorned into generals about the work the gatcha was based on.

Outside of that, it would be a VN gallery dumping ground, people constantly complaining about it being SFW (If it were NSFW it would become the De-facto ero game board like /jp/ was before and be nothing but porn and fetish discussion, while people complained about loli being deleted), and by extension a gatcha game gallery dumping ground. (Even more if it became the ero game board, as ero gatcha would end up included) If Flash games were included as doujin, VN, or Ero game, then it would also be a flash game gallery dumping ground.

Doujin games, as someone who likes them and tried to make threads about anything but Touhou on /jp/, I doubt there would be any interest outside maybe a general where people begged for links and a ero doujin game equivalent of it. There would still be endless Touhou threads, though probably drowned out by Fate and maybe an 100% Orange Juice thread when that got popular with /v/ tards, but nothing about Suguri or anything. Other games including Touhou fan ones that weren't RPGs, would probably just drop to page 10 immediately. Maybe a Yume Nikki general and a RPG maker games adjacent to Yume Nikki general, along with an Elona General and Violated Heroine General.

Ero games would probably worm their way into the board anyway and we'd still have threads about whatever shit Illusion game or 3DCG or whatever other meme game of the year is, though not as badly as if it were NSFW. Of course there would be fighting about whether western indie games count and would probably resolve into western ero games, western indie games, and western VN generals. And then people would try to post KS everywhere and start shit even though they had a general.

>However, it would really suck for the other topics like, for example vocaloid and idolmaster, as they would still be stuck here
I'm sure there's some Vocaloid VN or such people would use an excuse to discuss it, or something relating to MMD. iDOLM@STER would probably be included for being VN enough and probably other raising games like Princess Maker series would be allowed if VNs with raising game aspects were allowed, which they would almost certainly be along with dating sims. There would probably be other games with dating sim and VN aspects people would try to squeeze into the board as well. You'd also have to deal with modern iM@S gatcha threads as a result though.
You wouldn't be free of streamers unless lets plays were completely banned, both from users doing them and from linking to other people doing them. Which would also probably cause complaining of people linked to people playing for the sake of showing strategies or something.

I estimate it would be nearly completely dominated by Type Moon character threads and VN gallery dumps, while Touhou would be more in whatever /jp/ there was because of discussing the manga and music, unless it was a DOUJIN board and not just a doujin game board, in which case it'd be dominated by Touhou and random porn manga, and the official manga would sneak in too. Vocaloid would also be there because doujin music, and "doujin" would generally have the same excuse as "otaku" does here, with people posting some doujin manga image or drawing their own image and calling it doujin and using it as a front to discuss the real topic.

>a board name for a some kind of /jp2/ that also include things like figures, tea, etc. as well as doujin and VNs
imo, a /jp2/ should be a /jp2d/ and ONLY about "2D" things. Real life Japanese and Wapanese topics like tea and camera threads belong on the board with TV shows and idols. There shouldn't be a single thing more "real" than a figure or physical disc/k on /jp2/. Merge old 3D /jp/ with /cgl/ as well to punish those pieces of trash writhing in their safe space and force them to look at women who are more desirable than them all day.

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>>34006879
>the gta server
You mean the one that hasn't been up for months? The anon who hosted it obviously gave up. He promised to upload all the server files if he were to quit but I guess it's easier to just toss everything in the bin and forget about it.

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>>34008846
He didn't give up. That's not even close to what happened.

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>>34008846
It's only been 2 months, I believe in GTA admin-san.

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>>34008854
>>34008859
Don't pretend like you couldn't see the writing on the wall with it being hosted less frequently as time went on.
The second anniversary of the server is coming up, isn't it? Guess that's not happening.

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>>34008846
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Dude, what is drilling your asshole?

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>>34008966
Even if I hosted it myself, I wouldn't have it up 24/7 since not everyone plays the game 24/7.
Weekends are possible, but it depends on the person.

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>>34006091
>I wonder how many of those anons back from the 2000's-early 10's ended up taking the rope or just became as close to normalfags as they could.
It's worse than that, a lot of them are very much alive, they just jumped into the vt*ber bandwagon.

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>>34008846
Same thing happened last time and he still came back

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>>34010647
I know and it really hurts.

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>>34008737
>Maybe a Yume Nikki general
Yume Nikki is deader than dead, every single Yume Nikki fan moved on to Memetale years ago. Yes, even the Japanese fans started sucking the boner of the dumb meme skeleton. Uboachan still exists but it's just as d-e-a-d

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>>34010899
Wrong. /jp/ still cares.

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>>34011091
>Wrong. /jp/ still cares.
The last time /jp/ cared about Yume Nikki was because a western H*loliver streamed it. Just sayin'.

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>>34010782
I'll be proven right in a couple weeks, sorry.

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>>34011124
Don't compare holofags with /jp/sies you baka

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>>34010899
>Yume Nikki is deader than dead
So is Tsukihime but /jp/ still jacks off over it.

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>>34001201