So, have any of you guys tried to go out and find people with similar interests? Like in an anime or Japanese culture club at a university or something? Every time I've tried to do it, the people are always really, really annoying and I stopped going after a while because they just got on my nerves.

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Anonymous Tue Jan 31 22:56:37 2012 No.8501413 [Reply] [Original]

So, have any of you guys tried to go out and find people with similar interests? Like in an anime or Japanese culture club at a university or something?

Every time I've tried to do it, the people are always really, really annoying and I stopped going after a while because they just got on my nerves.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 31 22:58:06 2012 No.8501425 Aren't we doing that here?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 31 22:58:06 2012 No.8501426 99% of the time anime clubs are filled with insufferable Narutard and the like. The smart money is on avoiding them altogether.

Anonymous Tue Jan 31 23:04:36 2012 No.8501448
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dear god, I was a freshman in highschool. my thought process was, "hey, anime cafe. cool. maybe we can talk about good anime and I can make some friends."
>day 1
Girls talking about yaoi and vampire knight, inuyasha, etc. guys are all greasy and vile, talking about bleach or naruto or whatever it was that was on adult swim at the time.
There was no day 2.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 31 23:05:36 2012 No.8501451 >>8501426 We were actually watching current season shows. It's just their personalities were so grating. They were all so... loud.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 31 23:08:06 2012 No.8501462 I was actually the "guy who brings the laptop" for the high school club I didn't talk to anyone though

Anonymous Tue Jan 31 23:10:07 2012 No.8501468

>>8501448
This is how anime clubs work.

I went one day for the one at my college. Very obese neckbeards singing along with the Lucky Star opening (previewing shows). We were voting for which anime to watch, all the stuff was at least 6 months old which is kind of ehhh...

Anonymous Tue Jan 31 23:12:36 2012 No.8501474

I joined a D&D group after someone I vaguely knew invited me. Everyone there has a vast variety of interests in the 'geek' spectrum. ranging from western fantasy nerds, to anime otaku. I go out every weekend, play D&D, drink cognac, and watch anime. Gotta say I really do enjoy myself, it kind of forces me to do that whole social interaction thing people always try to hype up.

As far as anime groups, cons, or clubs, etc, I've only found the dregs of the western otaku culture.
Don't fucking hug/tackle me, you're fat, it's not cute, I don't like being touched... wait why are you sweating so damn much?
that about sums up my first impression on everyone I've met at a specifically anime oriented event.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 31 23:13:06 2012 No.8501484 >>8501474 So jelly about that D&D club.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 31 23:14:06 2012 No.8501487 >>8501474 Your D&D meetups sound pretty cool.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 31 23:14:06 2012 No.8501488 >>8501468 I can't describe the sheer amount of grease-itude. I'm OCD about clean hair and body, so it might have something to do with it.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 31 23:14:36 2012 No.8501486 >>8501468 >Very obese neckbeards singing along with the Lucky Star opening This sounds like fun, actually.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 31 23:16:06 2012 No.8501493 File: 329 KB, 800x600, laughing touhous.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8501448 >vampire knight

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 31 23:17:36 2012 No.8501494 Never saw the point and I never had the time. Seemed also really nerdy and I never really enjoyed the idea of watching anime with other people or talking about Japanese culture.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 31 23:18:36 2012 No.8501500 People like me aren't supposed to have friends. I'm too ugly, creepy, and boring. I don't even want friends anymore; I have /jp/.

CAPTAIN LETSGO! !8VYJWGD20Q Tue Jan 31 23:24:06 2012 No.8501521

i'm in an anime club and i hate it. i'm the nicest, sanest person there and everyone despises me and talks about me IN FRONT OF MY FACE. I got banned for calling them out on this. I have 1 friend in the club, though, and she's the best senpai a girl could waste every last eyelash wish on. So, anime club is kind of like life. If you can deal with the piles of dirt and shit, you might just find a gold nugget or two.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 31 23:25:06 2012 No.8501522 File: 20 KB, 481x344, shewantsyoutocome.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] DID SOMEONE SAY ANIME CLUB? http://youtu.be/Utnb5Mru_zo

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 31 23:25:07 2012 No.8501524 There were actually a sizable amount of girls in the one I went to, but they were all trying way to hard to be moe and randumxD and were just irritating.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 31 23:27:36 2012 No.8501528 >>8501521 So it's kinda like eating a bag of catfood with a couple cheerios in it?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 31 23:28:37 2012 No.8501533 >>8501522 Could not stop laughing when I realized there were only going to be two of them in the whole video.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 31 23:29:06 2012 No.8501535 >>8501528 Or in other words, something you shouldn't bother with.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 31 23:32:37 2012 No.8501541 >>8501535 Stop being so tsundere Anon~

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 31 23:33:37 2012 No.8501544 I will never fit in with the losers and never fit in with the popular people. This is just the hand life dealt me, I'm in no position to complain.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 31 23:37:07 2012 No.8501553 No. I would never put myself anywhere near those people who wear their power levels on their sleeves. However, that one guy at library browsing /jp/ in the corner? I would befriend that guy.

Anonymous Tue Jan 31 23:37:08 2012 No.8501555

I went to the anime club at the college of a high school buddy of mine when I was visiting him and I was completely disgusted by 90% of everything there. The girls were all predictably obese and the guys were ugly nerds. The only good thing was that they had Tetris Attack there, and I owned everyone who challenged me. They had a TV with Hisoutensoku set up too but everyone playing was such a flaming secondary that I couldn't bear to go near, even though they all sucked and I could have buried their asses underground.

The anime club at my own university seems to be even worse though. Even SNL likes to make fun of them.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 31 23:39:37 2012 No.8501559 >>8501553 That was me earlier today. Where the hell were you, bro

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 31 23:40:07 2012 No.8501564 File: 153 KB, 800x600, laughingtouhous.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8501555 >soku >not IaMP

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 31 23:40:07 2012 No.8501565 >>8501553 I would never browse /jp/ in public.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 31 23:41:08 2012 No.8501569 >>8501544 >>8501553 >>8501544 all of these things though i suppose that's why we're on /jp/

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 31 23:42:08 2012 No.8501574 >club similar interest != human interaction I don't see the logic process here.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 31 23:42:08 2012 No.8501575 The curse of introverts is they never go out and meet each other and so they assume they don't exist It's very obvious when you think about it but most people don't realise this

Anonymous Tue Jan 31 23:47:07 2012 No.8501598

I was pulled out by some random guy from my university because he realized I was a cosplayer because he saw once in a con, and wanted me in his 'club'. I'm the lonely-type though -- I go to cons in cosplay just to take pictures. I think I do descent cosplay though.

So I was then made vice-president. Prez dropped out, then I became prez. You what I did? We just played games all day and watched shows together. At first they were a noisy bunch but for some reason they became 'well-mannered' 'anime fans' (I wouldn't call them 'otaku' -- they're not.)

All was fine and dandy until the Students Affairs Office branded us a rogue organization. I just said whatever and had the club part ways. I just told them that the fandom may be a phase for some of them, and I'll see them when I see them.

Feels kinda bad.

>>	CAPTAIN LETSGO! !8VYJWGD20Q Tue Jan 31 23:48:38 2012 No.8501602 >>8501528 basically. im just waiting for a world in which everyone can marry their waifu

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 31 23:50:07 2012 No.8501615 >>8501559 I was half-joking with the 2nd part. I wouldn't even have the courage to speak to another /jp/er irl.

Anonymous Tue Jan 31 23:55:37 2012 No.8501623

>>8501615
Man, one time I was browsing /jp/ at my university and a day later I got a message from some girl who saw me and creeped my facebook.

Ended up hanging out with her a couple times despite being kinda creeped out. She wasn't the most attractive girl I've ever met, but she was pretty tolerable to be around.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 31 23:56:07 2012 No.8501628 >>8501623 Please elaborate on her creepiness.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 31 23:57:07 2012 No.8501629 >>8501533 This. I actually feel a little bad. But only a little.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 31 23:59:38 2012 No.8501636 File: 73 KB, 500x500, 1323906180227.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8501623 >my facebook

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 00:00:37 2012 No.8501641 >>8501628 She was a complete stranger that found my facebook after she observed me browsing a website in a public place. How is that not creepy enough by itself?

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 00:01:37 2012 No.8501642 >>8501641 Did she like 2hus? What did she look like?

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 00:02:38 2012 No.8501646 >>8501642 I have no idea (probably) and kinda fat with lesbian hair.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 00:03:07 2012 No.8501651 >>8501646 >kinda fat with lesbian hair How filthy. I think I'd barf if something like that attempted communication with me. You're a normalfag though so surviving probably wasn't difficult for you.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 00:05:07 2012 No.8501662 >>8501651 I actually had no idea what she looked like until I met her, but once I saw her I had a really powerful urge to just walk away in the middle of her talking. Sucks being a nice person.

Anonymous Wed Feb 1 00:08:37 2012 No.8501671

Closest encounter I had was with a really tiny chick (below average height for a adult female I would say) who saw my laptops wallpaper change from different things to some random Cowboy Bebop thing.

She looked alright and she brought up CB, asked if I liked it and I did my best to try and move the conversation along and get going. She looked alight but her height ruined it for me.

The short encounter left me feeling awkward and I don't ever want to talk to people in person about anime, Japanese culture and what not.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 00:49:37 2012 No.8501834 Why would any college even think about havng anime clubs? Thats just embarrassing now. The schools that I went to during my life never had any anime clubs that I can recall and I thank Talos for that.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 00:51:07 2012 No.8501851 >>8501834 Clubs are organized by students; the university doesn't really need to do anything when one starts besides approve it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 00:51:38 2012 No.8501847 >>8501641 I would not call that creepy. You sound normal to me.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 01:00:39 2012 No.8501897 >>8501851 If they knew any better they wouldn't. Nothing good comes from anime clubs. They only attract the worst kind of people.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 01:05:07 2012 No.8501919 >>8501897 I'd say the same thing about video game clubs or any other counter culture club kids make.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 01:08:07 2012 No.8501930 >>8501897 Pretty much everything with enough interest gets approved.

Anonymous Wed Feb 1 01:09:08 2012 No.8501938

Funniest thing is I'd much rather hang out with the people you're complaining about than the anons in this thread.
If I were forced to hang out with someone, that is.
I love you guys, I really do, but threads like this remind me that all of /jp/ would be a bunch of insufferable cunts were we to meet in real life.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 01:11:08 2012 No.8501946 I'm actually an officer in my uni's anime club. They're pretty chill for the most part, no Narutards or anything. It's nice to have a group of people I feel free to talk about my interests with.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 01:12:37 2012 No.8501948 >>8501897 Bullshit. Some of my best friends came from my anime club. A few members sure, I don't get along with, and others are the odd ones I wouldn't want to be around, but overall mine's a good experience.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 01:18:37 2012 No.8501970 >>8501938 You sound like you are a regular in those insufferable clubs.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 01:20:07 2012 No.8501975 >>8501948 No it's not

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 01:33:07 2012 No.8502022 File: 1.76 MB, 2000x1124, 969579.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I've always wanted to join an anime club but then I'd need to go to college and I can barely leave my house. I just want to make frands ;_;

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 01:34:08 2012 No.8502024 >>8502022 joining an anime club is possibly the worst first step to making friends

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 01:40:07 2012 No.8502035 >>8502022 There's probably anime clubs that aren't college clubs. Just google it

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 01:44:37 2012 No.8502042 >>8502022 A lot of college anime clubs don't require you to actually be a student. Both of the ones I've been in were open to the public.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 01:49:37 2012 No.8502053 >>8502042 Not that guy, but I'm also interested in this. How do you go about joining one? Is there usually site or something or do you just walk in and ask to join?

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 01:55:09 2012 No.8502084 >>8502053 Normally you'd just walk in. The ones I've been in were pretty informal. Some of them have a website with meeting times and such.

Anonymous Wed Feb 1 01:56:09 2012 No.8502087

>>8502053
you find out where it's at, you show up, plop your ass in a seat. recoil in horror as you encounter the worst humans you will ever find and retreat to your room. you're more likely to find people you hate than people you want as friends. if you do find friends, congratulations, you're probably one of the people who are hated.

Nadie Wed Feb 1 02:00:09 2012 No.8502102

For me it was always like:
So, that anime is good, right?
Yeah...
OK... wanna go drink beer or something?

We would just play videogames, listen to music, or do random shit. We almost never talked about anime, unless it was a bad series and we just talked about how awful it was.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 02:03:11 2012 No.8502122 >>8501564 How the hell can you play Soku or SWR at someone else's place, anyway? Don't you need to fiddle with decks to get stuff done properly?

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 02:39:39 2012 No.8502286 Anime clubs aren't so bad as long as you're not elitist. They have shit taste, but they're usually good people.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 02:40:10 2012 No.8502294 >>8502122 It takes about a minute to build a deck that does most of the things that you want it to.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 10:51:41 2012 No.8503363 >>8502286 Sure, but asking /jp/ to not be elitist is pretty much asking the impossible.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 10:55:11 2012 No.8503368 >>8501474 I'm jealous as fuck.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 10:56:41 2012 No.8503371 No, I don't like being around people

Anonymous Wed Feb 1 11:01:11 2012 No.8503383

Someone told me they loved games once. When asked if I was into them I lied and said no, even though I'm a game otaku. I wore their glasses to see if they weren't lying about how much they loved games, and it turns out they have the same type of eye damage I have. I still won't play games with that person though, they're too normal.

>>	Purin !pinkSu726. Wed Feb 1 11:02:42 2012 No.8503384 They usually are composed by weird people with bad taste...

Anonymous Wed Feb 1 11:03:41 2012 No.8503388

I used to meet regularly (once a month or so) with people from an anime manga forum back in 2001-2003. It was a nice group and we actually talked mostly about anime, manga and games back then.

But then they all "grew out" of that. It's depressing. The last time I met them after like 2 years I never had any contact, not single one of them talked about manga, anime or videogames. They all talked about their jobs, what they are doing now, the past days and what the people not there were doing.

I guess that's what "normals" do when they go past their thirties, but damn!

About D&D, I've never had many chances to find a serious role playing group, but the few I've tried were horrible and never ended well.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 11:06:12 2012 No.8503396 >>8503388 >horrible and never ended well You got any THAT GUY stories?

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 11:17:42 2012 No.8503421 I have the odd and unintentional habit of turning all cold and disinterested whenever people start talking about video games/books/anime/whatever else I enjoy. Not such a bad thing, I guess.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 11:41:41 2012 No.8503528 >>8501598 Who do you cosplay? I've just started doing it myself, did Reisen in a week which was pretty bad and lazy but then a fairly decent Tenshi this past weekend.

Anonymous Wed Feb 1 12:38:42 2012 No.8503712

I never took part in an anime club, since I thought that I was too old for the one at my grad school. I did sit in a meeting once, though; it didn't seem too bad, but not my thing. If I was about three or four years younger I would have tried a bit harder. But yeah, what others say about anime clubs seems to be true.

Anonymous Wed Feb 1 12:59:41 2012 No.8503777

There's an arts theater near where I live that does a film festival each year before the Academy Awards, they play a bunch of the movies that are nominated and you can buy a pass to see all of them or go individual...

This year they're also having a mini anime festival during it and showing three anime films. I missed the first movie (Howl's Moving Castle), but they're going to be showing Paprika and Tokyo Godfathers. All subtitled.

I'd like to go see those, but I will probably wind up being by myself. Which is what I'm a bit worried about because walking around in a city at nighttime alone doesn't sound like a good idea. However I'm interested in seeing what kind of other people will be there. I think it's going to be more of the film crowd and decent anime fans compared to weeaboos. A college near my area a friend goes to hosted a convention last year, they invited me to go along with them and it was pretty bad. We left after about forty minutes, least it was free.

Anonymous Wed Feb 1 13:04:11 2012 No.8503802

There was a club sort of related in my school, which revolved around anime and video games. I tried to join my senior year since at that point I felt a bit more comfortable around the school. Accent core had just come out at the time and I brought it over on my third day to see if anyone wanted to play but they all hated it, and played some DBZ fighter instead. I didn't come back.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 13:04:11 2012 No.8503808 File: 101 KB, 1280x720, augh.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >asks friend about an anime club he's in >they all like Cartoon Network garbage >goes back to torrenting as if nothing ever happened.

Anonymous Wed Feb 1 13:05:11 2012 No.8503809

>>8503777
Something similar to your convention area happened to me.

Local college hosted a small anime con, so I invited a friend to come along with me to check it out. We found it after some wandering around downtown by following some shitty cosplayers. Walked in to see a mid-sized group of people cackling really annoyingly at AMVs. Left immediately and got drunk.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 13:06:42 2012 No.8503817 >>8503802 Goddamn, you would have to be borderline retarded to prefer any of the DBZ fighting games over Accent Core.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 18:59:44 2012 No.8504958 I joined because a random cute girl told me to come. I went. they were all nerds and obese.... Day 2 Then I found out she had a boyfriend. I left LOL

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 19:01:44 2012 No.8504963 >>8504958 lmfaoo :')!

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 19:04:14 2012 No.8504978 I met someone who loves VN's and touhous like me.... But she's black... And that just ruins it for me so I won't hang out with her.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 19:04:14 2012 No.8504982 >>8503817 Super DBZ was a pretty well-made game. It came out in arcades before consoles. Too bad nobody knows about it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 19:04:14 2012 No.8504985 I've learned people into these sorts of things are best experienced from a distance, and in a way where it's easy to just drop out at a moment's notice.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 19:12:15 2012 No.8505008 >>8504978 lol it's not like you have to be attracted to her. Just ask her which 2hu she would hug.

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>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 19:16:15 2012 No.8505026 Saw a poster by the gaming club at my uni for FFXIII, I was disgusted not like they play anything cool like Mars Matrix etc so fuck em.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 19:19:15 2012 No.8505037 >>8505026 There was a guy at an anime club I went to for a bit that was actually a pretty cool guy. But holy shit I lost so much respect for him when he said FFXIII was his favorite Final Fantasy.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 19:24:45 2012 No.8505046 >>8505026 Do Nomura's shitty games still even qualify as games?

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 19:26:15 2012 No.8505053 >>8505046 >>8505037 >>8505026 Try harder next time samefriend.

Anonymous Wed Feb 1 19:26:45 2012 No.8505051

Yes, OP. I went to a con once jus to make fun of those that would surround me but ended up finding a Touhou cosplayer. I befriended her and a dozen other people who were also interested in Touhou and then I social anxiety'd away from them, but I guess it was an interesting experience.

Anonymous Wed Feb 1 19:27:46 2012 No.8505054

I live in a shitty spic country.

My university has no anime club, let alone a japanese culture club.

Best I can hope for is hang around humanities majors, and hope the topic of anime comes up, since >90% of science majors are normalfag kids who were popular in HS and want to get into med school.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 19:28:15 2012 No.8505059 >>8505053 You got insulted that people dislike FFXIII so you are calling out samefag? classy >>8503817 Atleast they did not play somecrap like BATTLE DON

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 19:29:45 2012 No.8505062 >>8505046 http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/9213/finalfantasyxiiiextremeh.jpg No.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 19:31:45 2012 No.8505066 >>8505059 I never said I liked XIII. Just saying he should try harder if he is going to samefriend. ^___^

>>	Kamijou !ToumaIV39o Wed Feb 1 19:35:45 2012 No.8505073 >>8505062 I've never really understood the complaint of linearity in FFXIII. Like, sure, it's linear. But so what?

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 19:35:45 2012 No.8505074 >>8505066 By that logic, everyone that posted about not liking anime clubs is the same person.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 19:38:46 2012 No.8505084 Wow, all of this sounds kinda sad....at least the anime club at my school has some cute girls, and we watch recent anime (currently: penguindrum)

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Anonymous Wed Feb 1 19:39:15 2012 No.8505089

>>8505073
I've always felt that being able to explore a nice big open world makes up for what is usually pretty lackluster combat in JRPGs. If I wanted to watch a shitty anime with annoying character designs I'd do just that and wouldn't have to run down a boring hallway pressing X a bunch.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 19:39:15 2012 No.8505092 >>8505084 >and we watch shitty anime (currently: penguindrum) Fixed.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 19:40:15 2012 No.8505095 File: 263 KB, 355x325, getoutofjp.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8505084 >cute >3 Dimensions

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 19:42:17 2012 No.8505104 >>8505085 What the hell is /x/-tan doing in an anime club?

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 19:43:17 2012 No.8505109 >>8505089 That's cool. But linearity != bad. If you were expecting something else, then I'm sorry for you. Many popular successful games are totally linear. And if you don't like anything else about JRPGs in general, then don't play them.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 20:07:15 2012 No.8505196 >>8505104 Probs reading some Junji Itou or something.

Anonymous Wed Feb 1 20:12:54 2012 No.8505210

I live in a country with 3 million inhabitants; an alarming amount of those are old. I don't remember the last time I heard something that wasn't the local shit-music on a radio, which on average is much worse than the worst rap you have heard.
Most of the young people who know about Japan's media just stay with Naruto and Bleach, or the popular series at least (which is fine for them if they like it). The local internet forum, which almost everybody in this country who's interested in these things has gone through at some time, and I'm not exaggerating, hasn't ever had a discussion about VNs. The most niche thing that has more than a handful of fans are some of the most known Visual Kei groups (GIRUGAMESH and the like).

Well, what can I do about it? I just gave up long ago. Knowing this shithole, I can see how ridiculous would I appear. "My favourite singer? That'd have to be Shikata Akiko, yes. Oh, you don't know about her? You should. But I like lots of artists, on lots of genres, I'm a flexible guy. Sound Horizon? No? Hirasawa Susumu? He's the guy who made the soundtrack for Berserk, you know! No, you don't know him? Kajiura Yuki? Maybe you don't know her, but I just found out she had a pop band back in the mid 90s. Was pretty cool. Er... yes, she's not that popular, you don't have to know her. Uematsu? Sakuraba? Kanno? ...Meguro? ......Rurutia? .........JAM Project?"
Some time after, maybe:
"I talked to this guy, he was crazy, he spoke in Chinese or Japanese or something, and listened to their music!"
"Hahaha, yeah, I know about that, they sing like [irreproducible sterotypical noise]!"
"Yeah, totally. Want to go fuck some bitches?"

Anonymous Wed Feb 1 20:15:15 2012 No.8505214

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scx002f7Y3U

My local anime club has a video, /v/ found it a few months back and had a rage thread about it.

I went to a few of the showings, at least they were organised but it wasn't terribly social and the one person who i did speak to didn't seem to understand the concept of personal space.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 20:19:45 2012 No.8505234 I'd go for it if I had the motivation to leave the house but I don't.

Anonymous Wed Feb 1 20:21:45 2012 No.8505242

I think the concept of "hiding your powerlevel" is kind of silly. Who are you trying to impress? Normals? What do you even want to be doing with them anyway? You're too far off the deep end as it is to fit in with them, and you wouldn't want to anyway because they're awful.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 20:22:45 2012 No.8505245 >>8505242 Self preservation

>>	ZUN !barYV1VtIA Wed Feb 1 20:26:46 2012 No.8505255 I'm old as HELL so I don't think I can join an anime club.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 20:27:15 2012 No.8505263 >>8504978 The fact that she is into those things and is a negro makes her more intriguing in my eyes. I mean, you wouldn't expect a black person to like those things.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 20:27:46 2012 No.8505260 >>8505242 I do not wish to bring any attention to myself. To be honest, I do not see how abstaining from being a flamboyant anime otaku in public can truly count as concealing one's power level.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 20:28:15 2012 No.8505269 >>8505255 Are you from tringapore?

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 20:29:17 2012 No.8505274 >>8505210 You... wouldn't happen to be talking about Uruguay, would you? I, for one, don't know any other country with 3 million inhabitants and a large percentage of elders.

Anonymous Wed Feb 1 20:29:47 2012 No.8505273

In Japanese class today we were doing group work. One of the people in my group asked if anyone was planning on attending an upcoming local convention. We looked into each others eyes for a brief moment and I think we both suddenly realized we had met each other once before. A few years ago he had burst into the room for a panel I was attending carrying a piece of folder paper above his head with "THE GAME" written on it messily in pen, and was wearing a Naruto headband. He took a seat a few rows in front of me. The panel hadn't started yet, so I got out of my seat, tapped him on the shoulder and quietly told him "Stop being a newfag" and then left the room because I was terrified he was going to beat the shit out of me because he is a big fat black dude. I hope I don't have to do group work with him again.

Anonymous Wed Feb 1 20:31:45 2012 No.8505282

>>8505242
Exactly, I've been thinking about this for a little bit.

Normals hide who they are to get along with other people and to be accepted. Hiding your "powerlevel" is a normal thing to do. Also, people bitch and moan about loneliness when they are even being genuine to themselves in public. How the fuck do these people expect to find someone who loves them when they hide this stuff? I'm sure the whore from the club will love it when she comes back to dakomakura, onaholes and plushies everywhere.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 20:32:46 2012 No.8505290 >>8505260 I was referring more to people who take "hiding their powerlevel" to an extreme and don't even let people they become close to know that they like Japanese things. Not being a huge aspie in public is just standard decorum.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 20:34:45 2012 No.8505295 >>8505274 ピンポン! Are you from ARG, maybe?

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 20:35:45 2012 No.8505300 >>8505295 No, I'm Uruguayan.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 20:37:45 2012 No.8505310 >>8505300 Well, that's a surprise.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 20:39:16 2012 No.8505321 >>8505210 >Hirasawa Susumu? >HAIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEAI FORCES

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 20:39:16 2012 No.8505322 Uruguay is so cute.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 20:39:45 2012 No.8505323 /jp/ you guys should just go clubbing and stuff. I guess in USA, people probably meanies and stuff and that's why you guys have such unhealthy problems. Maybe you guys should move to less judgemental countries.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 20:39:45 2012 No.8505324 >>8505321 Who are you quoting?

Anonymous Wed Feb 1 20:40:16 2012 No.8505329

>>8505310
I've seen a couple more on /int/ and /sp/. Though they seemed like normalfags.
I also remember one time seeing a guy at college who had a couple of anime notebooks. I recognized Haruhi and Tomoyo in the covers.

Well at least it's nice to meet another Uruguayan who is into vns.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 20:40:16 2012 No.8505332 >>8505323 >less judgmental countries /jp/ meetup in Cambodia

Anonymous Wed Feb 1 20:41:15 2012 No.8505335

>>8505323
It's not really that much of a cultural thing though. The behaviors that scare us are pretty much hard-wired at this point. We'd get mocked in caves, we'd get mocked in tribes, we get mocked in college, clubs, work, wherever. We're the losers of society, and everyone knows that.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 20:43:15 2012 No.8505350 anime club here is shit because theyre all moralfaggotry about piracy, nobody watches anything new. i never got off their mailing list, right now they're watching s1 of working and busou renkin. talk about slowpoke

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 20:43:46 2012 No.8505342 >>8505323 Going clubbing? Yeah, no. I can't even leave my house without worrying about getting beaten or stabbed to death.

Anonymous Wed Feb 1 20:46:15 2012 No.8505369

>>8505263
>I mean, you wouldn't expect a black person to like those things.

You'd be surprised how many of us love this stuff but we're still the minority. We're the outcasts of our own race for the most part.

Be black and tell another black person you'd rather stay home and play video games than go out clubbing or drinking and see what kind of reaction you get.

Anonymous Wed Feb 1 20:47:15 2012 No.8505376

I really don't see the appeal of watching anime with other people. I can't even watch a television program or a film with another person without feeling irritated. I'm sure there are a lot of people that would talk and fidget around and being generally distracting.

Anonymous Wed Feb 1 20:48:46 2012 No.8505380

>>8505321
Now I have to listen to that again, you Anon, you.
>>8505322
And white. Cute and white.
>>8505329
>Tomoyo
Kotomi's where it's at. But that's what I mean. I loved Clannad, but if that's the 'furthest' they go, I don't really feel there's much in common. Not that that makes them bad people or anything.

Anonymous Wed Feb 1 20:48:46 2012 No.8505383

>>8505350
I don't understand clubs that function this way. If you can't be on top of the current trends due to your college having issues with piracy (or personal moralfaggotry), why not just show the classics instead of yesteryear's soon to be forgotten flavor of the month?

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 20:50:15 2012 No.8505391 >>8505388 Really? Because I agree with him. I assumed this would be common.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 20:50:17 2012 No.8505388 >>8505376 This is one of the more autistic things said today.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 20:50:45 2012 No.8505390 >>8505376 Truth. There is something inherently great about throwing on some headphones, ignoring the world, and watching visual/audio media.

Anonymous Wed Feb 1 20:51:15 2012 No.8505393

>>8505383

probably because they're catching on to the whole narutard thing so they're trying to "differentiate" themselves. they just end up as a laughing stock because they come up to you all enthusiastic about something you watched/read literally a decade ago.

this shit is "recent" though by funi terms so its probably why theyre showing it. to moralfags who don't know anything better, something that was released in the us in 2009 is new.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 20:51:15 2012 No.8505394 >>8505383 because that would actually be logical. Also reminds me I need to rewatch a bunch of stuff on my new AV setup

Anonymous Wed Feb 1 20:51:46 2012 No.8505392

>>8505376
It's fun if you're doing it with just one other friend. There's always going to be someone in a club who laughs constantly and very loudly at every joke, even the ones that aren't funny, or some asshole who feels the need to comment sarcastically on everything to get attention.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 20:53:15 2012 No.8505399 >>8505391 I just picture a bitter neckbeard sitting angrily with a lump of coal for a heart staring hatefully at people who move their legs or scratch their heads.

Anonymous Wed Feb 1 20:54:15 2012 No.8505406

>>8505380
>Kotomi's where it's at.
What a coincidence, I happened to like Kotomi the most too.
>I loved Clannad, but if that's the 'furthest' they go, I don't really feel there's much in common. Not that that makes them bad people or anything.
I understand. It's nice to know, though, that there are people whom you could hypothetically speak to about something that isn't sports or politics.

I also really enjoyed January here, there was practically no one else left in the city, absolute peace and quiet.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 20:54:46 2012 No.8505404 >>8505399 That is an accurate description of myself. I stare at people and hate at them.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 20:57:15 2012 No.8505421 File: 637 KB, 1203x1626, Requiem_043.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8501493 >Not liking Vampire Knight Requiem

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 20:57:46 2012 No.8505419 >>8505404 This made me laugh.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 20:59:45 2012 No.8505426 >>8505404 Hey, me too. I don't understand the appeal of watching anime with other people. How the fuck are you supposed to enjoy something cute when you're surrounded by a bunch of assholes? You can't take it easy in a room full of people.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 21:00:45 2012 No.8505432 I've been trying to find a decent person who likes anime and manga and is from either /jp/ or /a/. No success in 4 years of uni. Every time I meet an anime fan they turn out to be obnoxious idiots like this dude I was eying the last couple of weeks.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 21:02:47 2012 No.8505440 >>8505426 You don't want to watch Ai no Kusabi with some dude from /jp/ and cry together? You disgust me.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 21:02:47 2012 No.8505441 >>8505432 i seriously must have been lucky, 4 of my closest friends are anons. one came from fit, one from v, and the other two from a. none of them browse much anymore but they have the right attitude

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 21:06:15 2012 No.8505456 >>8505441 I'm stuck in douchebag university, so maybe that's why. You're lucky honestly. I guess isolation to the extent that I'm now is not for me and I want at least a little bit of companionship, at least casual so we can discuss stuff.

Anonymous Wed Feb 1 21:06:16 2012 No.8505460

>>8505421
I don't understand a single thing of what's happening on that page.
>>8505426
>How the fuck are you supposed to enjoy something cute when you're surrounded by a bunch of assholes?
I'd agree with you if you changed 'assholes' to 'reality-seeping hairy dudes'.
>>8505406
>I also really enjoyed January here, there was practically no one else left in the city, absolute peace and quiet.
Wouldn't know, didn't go out much.
You're messing with my perfect defensive delusion of being able to count the [whatever you call people who like /jp/ things] in this country with my fingers, you know?

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 21:07:45 2012 No.8505464 >>8505456 trust me, this place is pretty shitty too ive met these guys over the past 12 years, so its not like i just instantly got lucky or anything

Anonymous Wed Feb 1 21:10:15 2012 No.8505480

>>8505376
>>8505426
For me, it's was about watching the right anime with the right friend. I would watch action anime with one friend. We'd get all excited about the action and speculated what would happen next, etc. Then I had a friend I'd watch cute/funny anime with and we'd hnng/laugh are asses off. It was good times.

Anonymous Wed Feb 1 21:14:16 2012 No.8505497

>>8505460
>You're messing with my perfect defensive delusion of being able to count the [whatever you call people who like /jp/ things] in this country with my fingers, you know?
It's probably just you and me for non anime related stuff.

Oh well, I'm going to turn in, I'm a little tired now.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 21:14:16 2012 No.8505498 >>8505441 I have a few friends like that since high school. They're mostly /v/. My power level far eclipses theirs for the most part except this /co/ dude I know who knows way more about comics than me obviously. But that's all he has on me.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 21:17:45 2012 No.8505511 I'm no normalfriend. But even I have like 500 friends on facebook... It's like a thing that our country, everyone has, regardless of thingo.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 21:19:16 2012 No.8505520 >>8505511 Here's the start of why you're an idiot: http://youtu.be/KEC-vk9psTw After this, go do some reading and "cancel" your account.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 21:21:46 2012 No.8505527 >>8505520 Why does that matter? I have nothing to hide, why would I put anything that is incriminating or embarrassing on there?

Anonymous Wed Feb 1 21:22:15 2012 No.8505533

I've met people who go on 4chan over the years. Most of them go to /v/, one guy who frequents /lit/, one from /a/ (he was a complete fuckwit). It is interesting but it doesn't take long to realize at the end of the day this place is only one thing you have in common with them.

If we did meet someone from /jp/, would you even be able to talk about VNs, music as vocaloids? Or would it be awkward in real life? What about the other stuff like gender dysphoria?

"wahhh I'm not a pretty little girl, I just want to wear a lovely dress ;_;" might be different in real life. Might.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 21:24:50 2012 No.8505542 >>8505533 im sure it would be awkward as fuck. i cant even talk to the goddamn guy who makes my burgers without fucking up. sucks too because hes kind we would stumble around a lot but sooner or later it could work

Anonymous Wed Feb 1 21:26:16 2012 No.8505557

>>8505533
I'm friends with an anon IRL. One night we were hanging out, playing some Street Fighter, when I paused the game. I turned and looked him straight in the eye and said, "Anon-kun, I want to be a little girl." My eyes started to tear up as I realized I would never be kawaii. He wiped away my tears and responded with, "We can go shopping for lovely dresses tomorrow." And then we fucked like eleven times on his couch.

Anonymous Wed Feb 1 21:26:46 2012 No.8505554

>>8505533
I've got no problem talking about that kind of shit in person. As a matter of fact, I have. It doesn't bother me becuase I have autism.

However, I don't want friends. And even more so, I don't want friends from 4chan. Meeting anyone from the internet will never work out well. Even if people post a thousand "success stories" to try and prove otherwise.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 21:27:16 2012 No.8505558 >>8505533 So was the guy from /a/ a meme-spewing idiot, or what was wrong with him? You've peaked my interest.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 21:28:46 2012 No.8505562 >>8505558 >peaked It's "piqued".

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 21:30:15 2012 No.8505568 >>8505562 Really, it can be either depending on the intended meaning.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 21:31:15 2012 No.8505572 >>8505568 Nah, he had me. It's piqued, thanks for that.

Anonymous Wed Feb 1 21:32:15 2012 No.8505577

reading through this thread I see a few sort-of-normal people that are afraid of their powerlevels being revealed.
honestly, if you like japan culture, it shouldn't be much of a problem as long as it's *Japan* culture, not a far offshoot minority subculture. Obviously any ecchi or lolicon should not come into vocal discussion. Neither should anything ridiculously saccharine. This means most slice-of-life stuff like Lucky Star probably should be kept under the table.
Always distance yourself from the stuff with weird a fucked-up fandom. I don't think this is as much of a problem since you being on /jp/ means you don't like Hetalia and other shit that attracts those people anyway. Touhou is okay if you maintain that it is only a game series and anything outside of that isn't worth acknowledging.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 21:35:15 2012 No.8505590 >>8505558 Not so much, I don't want to say much in case he lurks here now, but basically he got drunk and tried to act like a normal person and it was just an awfully awkward display. There was more to it than that but eh.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 21:36:45 2012 No.8505593 >>8505572 You're welcome. The more you know! Thank you for not taking my post as some sort of attack.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 21:37:15 2012 No.8505599 >>8505577 One time I was at an anime club type thing and they popped in some anime about vampires (can't remember what it was called) saying something like, "Who's ready for some 300 year old vampire lolis?" Made an excuse to leave immediately.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 21:38:15 2012 No.8505602 Maybe if we all actually went to anime clubs there'd be more tolerable people at them. I met a nice dude though, at my school's nerd club. His power level isn't too high but he's friendly and not a dumbass

Anonymous Wed Feb 1 21:40:15 2012 No.8505609

>>8505554
I'm the guy you are quoting. I bring up all of this stuff when I am talking to people, I couldn't give the slightest fuck what people think. I live in a relatively small town and everyone knows about my hobbies. People have even come here for drinks and we played Gal*Gun and iM@S. If you aren't awkward about it normal people just think you are an eccentric guy, most people have hobbies they don't want people to know about so they can usually sympathize, keeping in mind these guys and myself are mid 20s.

But, I think talking about how scared I was of finishing a VN and losing the characters as friends to someone who can actually relate to that type of thing would be a little different.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 21:40:16 2012 No.8505612 >>8505590 That sucks. The thing that I'm realizing more is that just because we browse the same site, that doesn't automatically mean it will work. Although all the circlejerking threads will have you believe otherwise.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 21:40:45 2012 No.8505611 >>8505602 I'm sure if we all went to anime clubs, I'd just end up wanting to fuck all of you.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 21:41:16 2012 No.8505614 >>8505611 3Dsexual go home

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 21:42:45 2012 No.8505621 >>8505614 But everyone on /jp/ is a kawaii imouto, right? Right?

Anonymous Wed Feb 1 21:44:15 2012 No.8505631

>>8505612
/jp/ might be a different case.

I had terrible depression and anxiety, dropped out at 14 and didn't have any friends or whatnot for 8 or so years. I kinda got over it due to some weird experiences and can easily socialize and be friendly with people. But I still don't "connect" with people and feel deeply alienated and confused by their behavior.

Anonymous Wed Feb 1 21:49:45 2012 No.8505647

>>8505631
I've had bros before my little spat with panic disorder and my recluse years, so connecting to other people doesn't feel weird to me. In fact, I enjoy it; not regularly but once in a while is good enough for me. A weird side effect of this is that I love giving presentations, believe it or not, even though I have anxiety up the bum.

It's just a matter of experience really.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 21:52:47 2012 No.8505656 >>8501553 >2012 >browsing /jp/ in public

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 21:56:47 2012 No.8505664 >>8501897 The only people in anime clubs are fucking philistine savages who undervalue anime.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 21:58:47 2012 No.8505671 >>8503383 >I wore their glasses to see if they weren't lying about how much they loved games What? Seriously what? How do games "damage" your eyes?

Anonymous Wed Feb 1 22:04:15 2012 No.8505681

>>8505432
Where do women even start to look for this kind of thing? I want to put myself out there, but I don't know where to go. I'm good looking due to my hobby of weightlifting and have a stable job to support my /jp/ related hobbies. I've found it hard to relate to anyone outside of those that share my hobbies, and non-shit /a/ or /jp/ers are rare and reclusive.

Anonymous Wed Feb 1 22:08:45 2012 No.8505689

>>8505647
I like it now and again and these days I can socialize quite well. One of the guys I know who frequents /v/ (whom I know from another part of the net) even flew here and stayed at my place for a week or so and came back again a couple of weeks ago. We went to a couple of gigs and even had a few drinks with the guys from Toxic Holocaust. But still, being an idealistic manchild and having nobody to talk about the things you care about kind of sucks.

I don't know why I am writing this, I guess those of you with anxiety, you can recover. When I was 15 therapists came to my house because I was too afraid to leave.

Anonymous Wed Feb 1 22:08:45 2012 No.8505691
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I'm sick and tired of trying to watch anime with /jp/.

You are all a bunch of autistic cunts. The most inconsiderate, the most selfish, the most tactless bunch. I can count on one hand the number of jaipsies I've been with that are able to take it easy. Everybody else is pissy little princesses who think they deserve everything.

You do favors for /jp/, they don't even say fucking "thanks". And still they feel like you should continue doing things for them. It's like you've never been around people before, though I guess I shouldn't be surprised. I shouldn't expect an autists to understand group dynamics.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 22:11:15 2012 No.8505699 >>8503388 Normalfags, gonna normal, hwat did you expect? Around >90% of the population is vapid and uninteresting, they only live to fulfill the expectations that others hold for them. Again, what did you expect?

>>	CAPTAIN LETSGO! !8VYJWGD20Q Wed Feb 1 22:12:45 2012 No.8505703 Meeting people through blogging isn't actually the worst way to make friends. Make a tumblr or something, you might find cool people who share interests with you and live nearby. Worked for some people I know.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 22:28:16 2012 No.8505744 >>8505703 Sounds so gay though.

Anonymous Wed Feb 1 22:31:46 2012 No.8505751

I used to go to different clubs, but I'd always end up sitting alone in the corner or working on a project while everyone else talked amongst themselves.
If anything, it was more depressing then being alone. Even at the nerdiest fucking clubs in the school the farthest I got was chatting to some guy about math equations and the number zero for an hour, which was nice, but still a long way from making friends.

Anonymous Wed Feb 1 22:54:50 2012 No.8505836

I went to a big uni so we actually had several.

anime club - normal people who like popular anime. >3/4 female, so many people not part of the club used to come here to pick up asian girls.
manga club - normal people who like a diverse selection of anime/manga. Some cool guys in here. Practically the general 'nerd' club along with with /tg/ club.
/tg/ club - catch all nerd club, warhammer, d&d, star wars, etc. Lots of them liked anime. even split between neckbeards and down to earth people.
modern japanese culture club - the people who were into light novels and manga, but also a catch all for the people who were too 'elite' for the anime/manga club. Many girls, and most of the people volunteered in japan town. Lots of XD/randum but in general decent people to be around.
otaku club - mean angry neckbeards. Kind of like what I imagine gathering the most bitter people on this board and forcing them to go to school and pack in a room. Broke off from the modern culture club to escape the random/volunteer service.
doujin / mecha club (the real name was an acronym I forgot) - people who didn't fit into the other clubs, or were major mecha fans. Usually played doujin games, listed some asian flavor of music, and had a few figs or models. Generally good people to be around but nearly everyone had a landmine you need to avoid.

Went to all of them for a bit, but never really joined one because routine socializing wasn't my thing. I would usually hit up the mecha club around comiket season and the culture club to see if anyone was reading interesting.
I think there were a couple more, but I never really looked. Anything but the anime and manga club didn't really advertise because they had more than enough people.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 23:04:54 2012 No.8505875 >>8505751 It took me like 2 years of going to the same anime club every week before I was able to talk to people. I have bad social anxiety though, and I have to be around people for a long time before they stop being frightening.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 23:12:56 2012 No.8505907 >>8505875 I never have anything interesting to say so I just don't talk to people.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 23:25:47 2012 No.8505967 >>8505836 >mean angry neckbeards I've always wondered about this, are people on /jp/ like that in real life? I would like to see that.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 23:28:18 2012 No.8505972 File: 86 KB, 631x645, jorden.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8505967 Yes.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 23:28:47 2012 No.8505974 >>8505967 In "real life", honestly I'm very easy going and friendly. I hate conflict and like to see people happy.

Anonymous Wed Feb 1 23:31:19 2012 No.8505978

>>8505974
This is how I like to see myself, but in reality I'm actually bitter and snap at anyone who shows me the slightest sign of affection.

Maybe one day some wonderful person will come along and put up with me and help me sort out whatever problem it is I must have with people.

Anonymous Wed Feb 1 23:33:48 2012 No.8505988

>>8505967
Most of them are like that. A significant portion will just be your usual annoying kid with assburgers, you know the type, loud, easily brought to tears, goes on and on without knowing when to shut up... There would be a spread of normals, especially if we're talking about modern day /jp/. These are the people who either kept quite, or are the shitposters who recently settled this area. You'd then have a few "lone wolf" goth/metal type people, can't be helped I guess. You'd have some nice but extremely socially awkward people, you run into them in threads sometimes. And lastly, and I think the vast majority, just mean assholes which are different from the neckbeards in that they aren't very knowledgeable of the hobbies the board is for (but do indulge in them), in practice these people will seem more like sociopathic normals than anything else, and would most likely be the ones to try and establish a pecking order quickly.

Sociopaths, and neckbeards, that's what really fills the ranks here though.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 23:33:48 2012 No.8505989 >>8505836 That's really interesting. In most schools I'd imagine that would all be one club.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 23:39:47 2012 No.8506011 >>8505989 School had 30k students or so. The big clubs got a class room + lecture hall after 5pm. The small clubs got an office + class room after 5pm.

Anonymous Wed Feb 1 23:40:47 2012 No.8506018

>>8505989
This. I was really surprised when I looked up various university websites and noticed they had tons of clubs. Some of them were very specific too, like fan clubs towards particular authors.

The university I went to only had a few clubs but there was a pretty good "nerd" scene and the people weren't annoying as I initially suspected. There was a strong feeling of brotherhood about the whole thing. For instance the /tg/, /a/, /g/, /x/, /k/ (and one or two I can't remember) clubs had a tongue-in-cheek union they called "The Coalition". Every week they would all meet together in the local pub outside of regular club times, and they would organize trips and nights out together.

Unfortunately I was scared of all the people and eventually avoided every single one of them, then later dropped out.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 23:43:47 2012 No.8506026 >>8505836 Aussie?

Anonymous Wed Feb 1 23:51:18 2012 No.8506049

>>8506018
It makes sense honestly. A club only needs, what, five, ten members before they can call themselves that? My university has well over thirty thousand students, but I've only heard of a general anime club and a graphic novel club.

I thought about going to the anime club, because they are showing *fairly* recent stuff, including some shows I'd planned to watch anyways. Not bleeding edge watch-everything-no-later-than-the-week-in-which-it-airs, but from the previous season at the latest, and a few shows from the current season. I never went though, because it feels too social for me, and I doubt I'd meet anyone out of it. The graphic novel society sounded interesting too, and judging by their website they were fairly Japan-centric, but it felt like there would be a lot of girls who actually drew and such, and I'd be the creepy guy that just liked manga. I don't dislike females, but I'd probably get flustered and awkward if the majority of the club was female.

All in all, I was impressed with the offerings, but it's just not worth it. I'd rather browse /jp/ and watch anime in my room.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 1 23:59:48 2012 No.8506073 >>8505988 What makes you think that the latter group even exists?

Anonymous Thu Feb 2 00:09:19 2012 No.8506113

>>8506049
Yeah, I understand how you feel. It was similar for me. Though I prioritized the /tg/ club (I can't remember what they called themselves, though a lot of them *were* fa/tg/uys) over the anime club, since I can just watch anime at home. I figured playing games with other people would be fun and a good opportunity to learn how to socialize. Everyone was actually really friendly and didn't live up to the obnoxious neckbeard stereotype I had expected.
Unfortunately I was the awkward one and sat there uncomfortably for a few hours as everyone played Magic: The Gathering and D&D. In fact I came up with a lie to leave, and being a terrible liar I told everyone my girlfriend had a pregnancy scare (oh god, I hope they aren't reading this).

Anyway, I'm the opposite with regards to gender. I get how you feel about women and I'm kind of the same way, but I figure I connect with females more. I considered checking out the occult club afterwards but it was held in some small office and I was kind of scared to go there in case everyone was horrible or whatever.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 2 00:12:19 2012 No.8506121 >>8506026 Not him, but I am. Thinking of doing a bridging course this year to get into Newcastle Uni. I know they have an anime club but I don't know about any others.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 2 00:14:19 2012 No.8506131 >>8506018 That sounds cute. I'd like to go to a teahouse with /jp/ bros...

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 2 00:14:48 2012 No.8506134 What makes you think that watching animes is something you would enjoy doing in crowd of people? What's next, porn watching clubs? You normalfags will always find a reason to meet up with other normalfags like you.

Anonymous Thu Feb 2 00:16:18 2012 No.8506137

>>8506134
>porn watching clubs
Internet killed the adult theater, mostly.

>>8506113
I think I connect with females better too, in the long run especially because I consider myself transgender but I have more immediate anxiety about interacting with them.

proREMIRIAt Elite Force Commander !rSDMROXTB. Thu Feb 2 00:34:22 2012 No.8506218

>They were all so... loud.
>Wear their power levels on their sleeves.
This so much.

When I see people trying to act "anime-like cute", or spewing creepy anime things in public, they make me cringe. That's why I don't go to events, watching people roleplaying a meido RPG battle while screaming the attacks sent shivers down my spine.

And I don't join these kind of clubs (or any clubs), because it's hard for me to express feelings that aren't negative. I mean, I can look at a stranger in the eyes and tell him fuck you, but I can't talk openly about my /jp/ related tastes without feeling embarrassed, even with close "friends". I don't know why I have this feeling that otaku culture is bad, and that I must hide it from everyone, except some selected people.

And well, also I'm an aloof (and lazy) person. I'm happy just with being able to talk with other people trough internet, and sincerely, personal interaction it's such a hassle. I prefer to be alone.

Fuck, there's a lot more about my vision on this subject, but I don't want to bore you guys with my bullshit. Not my blog, I know, sorry.

Farewell /jp/.

>>	TOAPLAN CO LTD Thu Feb 2 03:44:46 2012 No.8506765 File: 39 KB, 320x240, 1328172282797.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Where the kusoge at?

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 2 15:01:23 2012 No.8508379 >>8505988 Sugoi projecting, anon-kun!

Anonymous Thu Feb 2 15:20:23 2012 No.8508430

why the HELL would I want to talk with a bunch of annoying weeaboos.

I can talk about my interests right here in /jp/, without all the hassle of face-to-face interaction. Much better than hanging out with greasy manchilds and fat fujoshis, in my opinion.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 3 05:37:28 2012 No.8510856 So much butthurt about anime clubs, from two or three people, were any of you raped on one of them or what?

Anonymous Fri Feb 3 05:55:59 2012 No.8510878

I once met a /jp/ Anon and he was a pretty cool guy.
But almost everyone else who might qualify for "similar interests" I find pretty repulsive along with everyone else.
I mean what would you expect?
If normals find you disgusting, there's a reason for it.
So I actually prefer interacting with normals, to the extent that my sociability bar lasts out.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 3 06:21:02 2012 No.8510907 >>8501938 It isnt that bad. I went to the comiket meetup. We basically just drink and joke about how shitty /jp/ is. But of course none of us really try to talk about yourself. We didnt even exchange name or talk about our non /jp/ life.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 3 18:30:40 2012 No.8512900 >Every time I've tried to do it, the people are always really, really annoying and I stopped going after a while because they just got on my nerves. This is something you should have realized just by going to high school.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 3 21:20:11 2012 No.8513415 If I could hang out with people with similar interests who were also relatively normal in personality like I am, I would. But as the OP said, most weeaboos tend to be loud, annoying, obnoxious, selfish people.

Princess of the Crystal !!icIm/7OlYEI Fri Feb 3 21:24:41 2012 No.8513432

I've been to cons. Was kind of fun at first, but honestly, there were just so many assholes there and I have a pretty strong reaction to bullshit whereas a lot of people let it fly. I was going through a hard time for a while and got seriously treated like shit. It ended up really affecting so I've drawn myself out of it for now.

There was a local anime group, they pretty much all just stopped talking to me for no reason other than that I was too depressed for them at the time.

There's this horrible kind of forced happy face thing about cons I don't like. Maybe it's better in some countries I don't know. But it's so fake, and at the expense of those who don't feel comfortable with that.

Anonymous Fri Feb 3 21:26:11 2012 No.8513440

Everyone has their bullshit and hangups.

Maybe if it was just some drinks once a week it'd be fine, but for most people if they hang out with you enough they want to start some kind of relationship (friends or w/e).

I'd rather just come here and talk to people about the stuff I like anonymously. Maybe I might agree with some dude and regret that we can only have a conversation before becoming anon again, but I figure eventually we'll have a good conversation again or if not then w/e.

Then again I'm probably socially stunted since I have to fake having normal hobbies/being interested in other people when I talk to them.

Anonymous Sat Feb 4 01:39:44 2012 No.8514218
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As an old-timer (54) it's very hard to find individuals with the same interest, especially when it comes to the type of anime that I enjoy,
plus every few decades, the subject matter and the changes, at one time we had giant robot shows, now these days it's more of teenagers finding about sex and some superpowers,
but you are askin' about finding others like me, well that's next to impossible, even when I go to shows like comic con, finding individuals my age tends to be next to impossible, plus talking what younger folks tends to be a little awkward especially since verbal language has changed doing the decades, plus many of the younger folks tend to feel we at around older strangers,
(who wants to be labeled an old pervert, all worse,)
sometimes I think I was born in the wrong time...
maybe one day I'll find that special somebody will also enjoys the same stuff I enjoy,

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 03:56:13 2012 No.8514527 This shit has so many good stories, not gonna let it autosage.

Anonymous Sat Feb 4 05:10:43 2012 No.8514629

>>8506113
>Unfortunately I was the awkward one and sat there uncomfortably for a few hours as everyone played Magic: The Gathering and D&D.
NEVER BE THIS GUY
I want to kill this kind of person. Find your own fucking game, if we're "FULL" that's just a polite way to say "get the fuck out", no you cannot stay there watching like a retard, it's annoying, distracting, creepy and will make us hate you more. If you just poke around politely eventually you will find a game. If you stop being an insistent fucker you may even get accepted into games you were shunned from before.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 05:18:14 2012 No.8514640 >>8514629 I don't want to judge too quickly but you seem awfully passive-aggressive.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 05:22:13 2012 No.8514650 >>8514640 The way he describes tabletop gaming makes it sound like an exclusive pretty and popular girls only clique.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 05:31:14 2012 No.8514670 File: 395 KB, 1659x1191, 1278526452286.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] No. The only thing waiting for me out there is rape, mugging, or death

Anonymous Sat Feb 4 05:41:14 2012 No.8514694

Every club I've ever joined has been shit.
Thats only the ones I can get into, most of the nerdy ones are invitation only, so I cant even join those.
The committees always end up with everyone veto-ing my ideas, pairing off into teams, and working on their own projects while I try to find something to do.
The sports teams aren't so bad, because there is a clear objective, and the teams aren't based on knowing one another.
The only club I ever fit into was some ESL group to help foreign exchange students, I was the only member, so it was just me and a bunch of Japanese/Korean/Chinese students, we'd play games, I'd teach them a bit of English, they'd teach me about their country, and it was all very fun. Then another English student joined, became close friends with everyone on the first day, and I never saw any of them again.

But I'm rambling, the point is, avoid clubs. They're horrible places and I always come out of them feeling like I'm going to cry.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 05:54:44 2012 No.8514718 >>8514650 Somebody get this whiny brat a bib. Holy shit.

Anonymous Sat Feb 4 05:59:43 2012 No.8514730
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I founded my own club with some close friends. These close friends I've known them since childhood and our interests overlap in lots of areas, be it in otaku, movies, games, fantasy, literature, music, etc... but none are into the more obscure stuff like Touhous, doujin games, VNs, etc... you know the drill, /jp/
So I founded this club and we did some pretty awesome things. Met cool people, but also met assburger autistic faggots. Managed to acquire some social skills.
But in the end, it was a failure. Deep inside I just wanted to meet some touhoufags, or r07fags or even shitty vocaloid fags would be fine. I just wanted to play PoFV with someone ;_;. Even though I dropped clues about this all the time, I didn't manage to find a single person with a close enough power level. Nobody even knew what the fuck a Touhou was. Keep in mind I live in what's almost a third world country.
The closest I was was of course was at cons. People there signal their interests and there were even some people cosplaying Touhou, wearing obscure references to VN shit etc......
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Anonymous Sat Feb 4 06:01:43 2012 No.8514737

The problem I'm seeing a lot here is that you people are going to University societies.

These get huge member influxes each year, and with no filter, they just come from a large population with no filtering, and they're largely teenagers.

I'm actually in an anime club, and it's entirely self run, and our venue is a function room in a local pub. Most of the membership ranges from 18-30, with most people being in their mid to late twenties.

Since new people turn up fairly rarely, it's easy for people who don't fit in ("OMGso kawaii! I love naruto!") to be socially isolated until they go away.

So we have a good sized core group of people who I actually like, and who either have good taste or have my taste drilled in to them. And having ales on tap is really nice.

What sort of things do the clubs you guys have been to actually do? We show two episodes of our running series, and then two episodes of something else decided by vote. We just finished Tatami Galaxy as our running series and are watching films till we choose a new one (Haibane Renmei if I have my way).

Anonymous Sat Feb 4 06:02:15 2012 No.8514739
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But how do you expect me to talk to these people out of the blue?? One time I spent almost an entire day with a girl in a Suwako costume sitting within a 1 meter radius. She just sat there looking a bit bored, sad or sick, not talking to anyone or doing anything. I wanted to talk to her ;_;, but what the fuck could I say? I couldn't say anything, I knew I would come off as a fucking creep... and even if I didn't, I know I would get too nervous and anxious about talking with someone about my real interests and the conversation would basically play as
"uhh so you like Touhou?"
"yeah"
"that's cool, me too"
"..."
*INSERT AWKWARD SILENCE*
"sorry, I have to go"
It was impossible for me to talk to her, even though it really seemed like she was sitting there waiting for someone to recognize her costume and befriend her, getting sadder and sadder as everybody ignored her.
I am sure I was just another stupid normalfag to her. I then realized that was exactly how I felt about the whole club thing...
After that day, I refuse to go to anime cons. That was a sad and regretful day. I think about it and I want to hug her ;_;
I don't want to feel like that again, I feel like I can't break my normalfag shield and reach to kindred spirits like her.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 06:07:43 2012 No.8514749 >>8514739 She must be a landwhale if everyone ignored her. Good job. It proved that you werent that desperate yet.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 06:16:44 2012 No.8514779 >>8514749 not a landwhale ;_; average looking short girl

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 06:18:13 2012 No.8514783 how about like an anime club but instead of anime we just do hallucinogens and dissociatives all day and instead of club, it's me in the safety my room?

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 06:26:13 2012 No.8514806 >>8514739 What country are you from?

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 06:31:46 2012 No.8514821 File: 214 KB, 985x792, 135324532453245.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8514806 north africa

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 06:45:45 2012 No.8514849 >>8514821 Yo soy extremeño so I know that feel too ;_;.

>>	ZUN !barYV1VtIA Sat Feb 4 06:51:15 2012 No.8514863 >>8514218 Coolest person ITT.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 06:54:46 2012 No.8514867 >>8514218 Try that eHarmony shit or whatever.

Anonymous Sat Feb 4 07:10:16 2012 No.8514906

>>8514739
>I feel like I can't break my normalfag shield

That feeling when some of my friends watch anime/read manga/vns or other shit but they don't even know that I like anime, and think I'm a normalfag because I just CAN'T talk about "otaku subculture" in public.

Anonymous Sat Feb 4 07:58:46 2012 No.8515032

I went to my university's anime club last year to see what it was like. Although I expected the worst, they actually had hardly any landwhales or obnoxious Naruto fans. The downside was that the power levels were pretty low with most people only knowing a few 'mainstream' shows and films. Although they're nice people, it feels a bit shitty still having to keep my powerlevel concealed because someone who's only heard of Ghibli films is going to find my figures, VNs, Touhou and Vocaloid just as weird as someone who's never heard of anime in the first place.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 07:59:46 2012 No.8515035 File: 34 KB, 300x450, 1320585445302.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8505214 I didn't know my University had an anime club. Weird.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 08:49:27 2012 No.8515109 >>8514821 Nigga, you better get yo ass to dem cons and find that suwacko. You and her are probably the ONLY people there that know what Touhou is.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 09:01:16 2012 No.8515151 >>8515109 I also know what Touhou is.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 09:02:16 2012 No.8515153 >>8515109 If that was the case; I'm pretty sure she would display an action of difference when he asked if she carried an interest in Touhou.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 09:06:16 2012 No.8515166 >>8515153 Not that easy, you have to make a joke out of it, especially the character she is cosplaying. In fact, most of these neckbeards can't communicate in front of each other just because they can't make a fucking joke and laugh along with it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 09:11:17 2012 No.8515188 >>8515153 He never asked her, you know.

Anonymous Sat Feb 4 09:11:46 2012 No.8515192

>>8515166
I thought about saying "kero kero" or "Suwako-sama, how is the faith gathering going" or a million other stupid things... but when I previewed the scene in my head I always got a bad end where I died of embarassment ;_;
Also, not a neckbeard. With everyone throwing that insult constantly, you would think everybody would've learn to shave correctly by now wouldn't you...

Anonymous Sat Feb 4 09:15:17 2012 No.8515206

i play wow and soccer most times on the weekends but for the last six months i've been goin to an anime club (my ex got me into it) and i've shagged all the cute girls there, never knew these girls existed - they love to dress up and then get fucked, and wow, they will do anything if you but them dinner - it has been good but now i have realized i was born a girl and im on sex changing mtf, i will soon enjoy being pegged by the older larger slightly harier girl in the club she will help my transformation, i envision myself become a westernized sumo bbw with a penchant for buggery

this all began with my ex showing me howl's moving castle :) <(^___^)>

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 09:36:53 2012 No.8515281 >>8515206 >Hole's Mounting Casbah Little witch grill that delivers packages is the best ghibli, prove me wrong.

Anonymous Sat Feb 4 09:49:54 2012 No.8515315

>>8514739
I was in a... similar situation once.
I was outrageously pissed off at that time for a certain reason, so I went to sit on a bench in the outside grounds of the building to cool off.
At some time, I noticed a tall girl cosplaying Yoko from TTGL. Now, I don't think I was biased. Most would say that that character is one girls cosplay to look for attention or something. I wouldn't know if it's truly like that. On the other hand, I'm also not a guy who instantly goes "Dat Ass" or anything. At most I find girls 'aesthetically fine'. Unless they're short and small. You know how it goes. I don't like it but I can't help it either.
So what I saw was just a girl with cosplay, maybe 5 meters away from me. Standing there. Not the best place to stand, I tell you. She could have sat somewhere, I don't know. She looked around slowly, but not in the way you do when you are actually looking for somebody. I wanted to ask her if she was fine, maybe she was indeed waiting for someone? Maybe she would like to talk in the meantime. I don't know, whatever normal people do at times like that. What I'd love anybody to do when they see ME just sitting somewhere.
Maybe she felt as bad as me. I'd bet she at least wanted to talk. She just had that look.
But of course, what could I actually say? "Hey, I just saw you standing here..." "Yes?" "And... I... I wondered, why..." "Err, sorry, I have to go".
I would be such a bother.

Anonymous Sat Feb 4 10:24:00 2012 No.8515413

>>8515192
Don't feel bad about it. Don't regret. I'm pretty sure she's actually a highly social normal and she was just acting awkward to try and trick you (a loser) into thinking you can be friends with her. Then her posse would come out and they'd all laugh at you and you'd feel even worse.

>>8515315
I'm pretty sure the situation would unfold likewise for you.

>>8515188
These revelations always excite me as reading the story becomes a whole different experience. I guess that's what they mean about watching a movie twice.

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>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 15:14:49 2012 No.8516250 >>8515413 >I'm pretty sure she's actually a highly social normal and she was just acting awkward to try and trick you (a loser) Why would she try to trick me? I'm pretty sure she didn't even notice me ;_;

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 15:31:51 2012 No.8516316 You will never make friends if you're still at a point in your life where you think you are better than everyone else around you. Even the Narutards you're all complaining about probably have better social skills than you.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 5 06:23:54 2012 No.8519678 >>8516316 That's not true.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 5 07:04:24 2012 No.8519752 >>8515192 > you would think everybody would've learn to shave correctly by now wouldn't you I don't have a literal neckbeard as such, but my goatee has recently reached 10cm long. Yea/nay?

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 5 07:14:25 2012 No.8519762 >>8519752 It counts, unless you look like a partying douche normalfag, metalfag or just plain tough tough.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 5 07:15:54 2012 No.8519765 >>8519762 I look like a neckbeard but I don't actually have a neckbeard. Yea/nay?

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 5 07:17:54 2012 No.8519771 >>8519762 I intend to braid it into two braids, but keep forgetting to buy tiny rubber bands.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 5 07:19:24 2012 No.8519773 >>8519765 Nope, though instead of shaving it off you should work on not being a neckbeard.

Anonymous Sun Feb 5 07:25:54 2012 No.8519783

I have a high powerlevel, but I'm almost 30 now and lost wizard privileges 10 years ago but have never had a girlfriend and I'm feeling lonely. I know femanons exist that aren't totally horrible people and are also lonely but how in fuck does one encounter them? Our very nature prevents us from announcing our existence.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 5 07:26:55 2012 No.8519786 >>8519783 Got to /soc/.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 5 07:27:24 2012 No.8519790 >>8519786 But none of us go to /soc/. This is precisely the problem.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 5 07:30:24 2012 No.8519793 >>8519790 That's why I'm telling you to go.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 5 07:31:54 2012 No.8519796 >>8519783 Stop saying "us", you disgust. You're on your own, non-virgin.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 5 07:32:24 2012 No.8519797 >>8519793 Oh fuck off. Despite the memes not everyone here is a hikki, and not everyone here is completely autistic. I fit in just fine here without having to cling to the "ideal" of NEET virgin. Now go shit up some "which 2hu u fuck" thread instead.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 5 07:36:25 2012 No.8519803 >>8519797 >I fit in just fine here You're not doing a very good jb.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 5 07:37:24 2012 No.8519807 >>8519803 Because I brought up a subject that the little kids like to jump on, is all. If I hadn't done so you would have never noticed I was here.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 5 07:39:24 2012 No.8519811 Nerds can be really cliquey and shit though. It's hard to penetrate into their social circle if you're on your own. Anyone else find this?

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 5 07:39:54 2012 No.8519813 >>8519807 >If I hadn't But you did, so your point is moot.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 5 07:40:24 2012 No.8519817 >>8519813 Is it really so much to ask to have an actual discussion on a subject that is relevant to a significant portion of the userbase?

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 5 07:41:24 2012 No.8519819 >>8514629 Dude. Calm the fuck down. It's a card game for autistic nerds. Insulting the newcomer isn't going to make normalfags like you any more.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 5 07:42:24 2012 No.8519821 >>8513432 You're kind of, well... slutty though.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 5 07:42:24 2012 No.8519823 >>8519817 Congratulations, you figured how it is around here.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 5 07:51:54 2012 No.8519854 >>8519817 How long have you been on /jp/?

Anonymous Sun Feb 5 07:51:54 2012 No.8519855

>>8519811

I don't.
Actually, through my life I actually befriended a few "nerd groups" into small attempts to find people with similar interests as the thread asks, and I quite quickly became "the guy that knows a lot about computers, games and weird japanese stuff". A couple times the groups started to circle too much around me, so I got out. But on most cases we just became distant over time.

It was pretty... easy, though, even as most of them were kinda of annoying (I was very careful to just try anything if a group I could see didn't have any absolute retards, of course). Most still keep some way to contact me to ask for computer help of for opinions/help in games. They know that if I don't know something I'll just say I don't, and that I just like to explain things, not doing stuff. Asking favors will get them a "no way, good luck", so they just don't and all is fine.

You just have to make clear how things work with you. Some people will not accept that, and you stay away from them like they will stay away from you, that's ok. Other will think your terms are acceptable and build some kind of... "symbiosis", if you don't want to use the term relation, with you.

Though it's easier said than done.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 5 07:55:25 2012 No.8519866 >>8519854 Since the split. Moot actually banned me during the shitstorm with a ban message of "FUCK YOU". I really wish I'd capped that. Good times.

Anonymous Sun Feb 5 08:29:59 2012 No.8519943

>>8519797
Look, I bet 30% of the people here are normals including me but we are all hikki/neet while we are posting and lurking /jp/.
Nobody give a shit about the hot girls that you bang every week or so. Bring it to >>>/soc/ if you are looking for a GF.

>>8519855
This is true. I hide my powerlvl very well so nobody know I still watch chinese cartoons while most of them are casuals watching animax which is like a year or 2 behind. It is pretty funny hearing them talking about FSN and speculating about Archer identity. I still remember when I told them Shirou = Archer, none of them actually believe me. I am also their personal tech computer support, how do to setup HDMI->TV box or port forwarding for BT and other shit. If was pretty funny after I told them to google it instead of asking me. I became known as the guy that is not helpful in the circle.

I guess this is the lifestyle that you will have if you pretend to be a normal and hangout with a normalfags. Oh yeah, enjoy getting ask and pester about getting a girlfriend.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 5 08:54:25 2012 No.8519990 >>8519943 Your friends don't sound like real normalfags.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 5 17:54:06 2012 No.8521708 >>8519811 >it's hard >penetrate oh god you're doing this on purpose

Anonymous Sun Feb 5 18:15:36 2012 No.8521782

>>8519811
I get that a lot, at least normals will sometimes start a conversation with you, the nerds always act like I dont exist.
In TV theyre always potrayed as the people who stick together because they are always excluded, in reality, they're ten times more exclusive then any other group, I hate it.
I wish there was a place for people who honestly cant make friends to get together and do cool stuff, every single group or club I've ever tried to join just ends up cutting me out of everything.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 5 19:30:40 2012 No.8522199 >>8521782 >every single group or club I've ever tried to join just ends up cutting me out of everything. Maybe you should look at the mirror and examine why that happen. Are you the stereotypical obnoxious weeaboo?

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 6 00:20:16 2012 No.8523703 >>8519797 die faggot get outa jp

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 6 00:33:48 2012 No.8523737 i once went to a con. i spent the whole time avoiding people and looking for empty stairwells to hide in

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 6 00:39:47 2012 No.8523759 File: 112 KB, 1280x720, 1322897547321.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8521782 >I wish there was a place for people who honestly cant make friends

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 6 00:41:47 2012 No.8523767 >>8505350 Dude holy shit. My anime club is watching the same two shows. I don't mind so much since I never got around to watching Busou Renkin, but most of the time it really is intolerable.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 6 00:53:17 2012 No.8523808 >>8505631 You sound like me.

Anonymous Mon Feb 6 01:04:17 2012 No.8523871
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When I was in university, I joined the mahjong club. The guys there were all cool as fuck. Most of them watched anime, but weren't obnoxious about it. They even made it so the club was held at the same time as the anime club to prevent that kind of person from coming. I moved in with 3 guys from there in my last year and we had some good times. Mahjong club is the only thing I miss about non-NEET life.

Anonymous Mon Feb 6 06:26:22 2012 No.8524746

Unless you absolutely know you've found someone on your level, never tell anyone IRL you like this stuff. It's not meaningful to them and they have nothing interesting to say about it. Spend as much time learning Japanese as possible (you do it by yourself). That doesn't include time spent on talking about learning Japanese. This reduces your dependence on wannabe otaku. You want to get away from them because they are only leeches. I've been a fan for 25 years.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 6 07:41:52 2012 No.8524900 >>8519943 Did they just not finish the game? It becomes blatantly obvious that Shirou = Archer at some point in the 2nd playthrough,or 1st depending on wich path you take.

Anonymous Mon Feb 6 07:53:23 2012 No.8524936

>>8524900
>casuals watching animax which is like a year or 2 behind
They are normalfags. They only watch FSN because it was shown on Animax during prime time. I doubt they even know the existence of the medium called visual novel.
They usually watch mainstream shows like Breaking Bad, Grey Anatomy or GoT instead of anime and they actually told me to go watch FSN instead of spouting nonsense.
I am not gonna shoot myself in the foot by saying how FSN is actually an eroge first.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 6 07:57:23 2012 No.8524944 >>8524936 That's a damn shame. They don't even know what they're missing! Flips Table Pisses me off they don't even try to figure out where the origin of the adaption came from, they just except it as the original ;_;

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 6 07:58:52 2012 No.8524948 >>8524936 >not gonna shoot myself in the foot Woah nigger. You're doing it all wrong! You HAVE to shoot yourself in the foot! It's what /jp/ is all about! Militant elitism concerning corean motion drawings!

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 6 08:06:23 2012 No.8524968 >>8524944 *accept woops its too early for me

Anonymous Mon Feb 6 08:12:23 2012 No.8524981

>>8524968
>>8524948
>>8524944
Well it isnt that bad pretending to be a normal. You just have to attend a few social obligations once every few weeks or so since I only wait for them to contact me.
The only sad thing is, I was never able to get them to pick up Riichii Mahjong. We only play chinese mahjong.
I have /jp/ if I want to talk about which 2hu to fuck and porn games. Some hobbies are best to be enjoyed alone.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 6 08:15:24 2012 No.8524987 >>8524981 So what exactly are the advantages of pretending to be a normal and thereby acquire normal friends?

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 6 08:16:53 2012 No.8524993 I meet cool people at my aikido club. We practice aliveness and bushido. Join your local aikido club today!

Anonymous Mon Feb 6 08:37:56 2012 No.8525034

>>8524987
I actually have other hobbies besides 2hus and eroge.
For example, actually playing MvC, Soul Cal 2, CS and Dota with real humans. Too bad the time spent playing all these have been decreasing as everyone grew older and out of their teenage phase and more distance.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 6 08:57:53 2012 No.8525085 >>8525034 Games don't count, I'm sure a large base of /jp/ play nerdy normalfag games.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 6 09:00:53 2012 No.8525095 >>8525085 >nerdy normalfag When did we reach the point in the irony net where those two words became interchangeable?

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 6 09:01:23 2012 No.8525099 >>8525095 We past it a long time ago on /jp/.

Anonymous Mon Feb 6 09:03:23 2012 No.8525106

>>8525085
Well yeah, pretty much.
1945 Strikers and Rtype were all much more enjoyable with friends compare to solo play.
That is just the way is, games are much more acceptable while cartoons with little girls are a big nono. Also you dont just suddenly throw away your friends from high school and just totally cut off contacts. It is hard to say no even if you dont want to go out. It is an asian thing.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 7 00:28:34 2012 No.8528013 ANIMEY CLUB HAO KAWII~~~~ SUGOIIIDESUNENENE <3 Bump.

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From my experience at creating and attending anime clubs, the officers and their cadre are the ones that influence the "behavioural style". If you have a bad club, then you have bad officers.

The clubs we had did a lot to introduce people to each other as well as participate in campus or city events. The first university club I was a co-founder of went on in the next ten years that I followed it (from afar) did quite a few things from holding classes on subtitling, to making their own voiced dubs, and even rented out a movie theatre multiple times to show one of the current anime movies at that time.

Another club held anime art events as among us were enough collectors of originals and elaborate layered cels that we could fill an art gallery with a free-to-the-public exhibition. That was the one a Pioneer vice-president came to visit bearing many gifts.

Another anime club did a number of things mentioned above. All the clubs promoted anime in the towns they were in, including printing up duplicate flyers for anime cons and making sure certain places such as comic book stores and libraries had information and/or flyers for interested people to pick up.

Most clubs have soda and munchies. The last two I was with had that funded by the student body government. If you have a good plan, and seem to be someone that can build up a group of people to carry it out, then the powers that be will support you.

Anonymous Tue Feb 7 06:22:13 2012 No.8528761

>>8528750
Altruism is a liberal "foreign concept" with a lot of people on 4chan. While good for clubs, most people here just want to be antisocial and take instead of give. An example is all that trouble the organizers of the C81 Upload Threads had with a lot of ungrateful "fans" in /jp/ that were angry about anyone that liked being thanked for their efforts. The negative selfish attitudes even went against fansubbers in general as being assholes not deserving of thanks.

Anonymous Tue Feb 7 06:30:13 2012 No.8528780

>>8514694
>Thats only the ones I can get into, most of the nerdy ones are invitation only, so I cant even join those

What? Exclusive clubs almost always are "rogue" clubs because that policy violates the rules of campus clubs. Rogue (unofficial) clubs can neither request nor are allowed to obtain facility or funding support and may not advertise anywhere except a dorm bulletin board.

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