/jp/ - Otaku Culture

[Anonymous No.]

Are you frustrated that there isn't a single thing you excel at?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8601847
No.
Take it easy.

[Anonymous No.]

糞 thread

[Okuu !!Jq0MHPvHhpb No.]

Im taking it easy~~

;_;

[Anonymous No.]

no, because I'm good to above average at many things,
but you still beat me at ship posting

[wtH !!geIKdOh6/lP No.]

jea...i wanna become famous as HELL but got no talent (yet), gatta find something EZ to master lol

[Anonymous No.]

No. I know there is a small handful of things that I excel at, or at least am above average at.

The frustration comes from the fact that I don't apply myself, ever.

[Anonymous No.]

I excel at taking standardized tests. Unfortunately, that doesn't get you very far in life by itself.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8601859
Which kind of ship, anon?

[Anonymous No.]

I actually excel in quite a few things, mostly my hobbies because I've spent such a long time reading up and practicing them.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8601864
This sums up the case for me, also.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8601866
Usually ships like this.

[Anonymous No.]

There is, so your question is invalid. If you meant to ask whether I'm frustrated those things are useless, not in the least.

[Anonymous No.]

I'm the best at consuming media.

[Anonymous No.]

ill never excel at anything and people who excel at nothing may as well not be alive but i'm too much of a pussy to kill myself

[Sudo !Tohsaka8ks No.]

I excel at not excelling at anything.

[Okuu !!Jq0MHPvHhpb No.]

>>8601871
fucking faggot.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8601879
Sudo, you are very good at shitposting when you apply yourself! I forsee a bright future for you if you take advantage of your talent.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8601879
You probably don't even excel at that. I'm sure there are quite a few people who are even less excellent than you are.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8601879
You excel at being the prettiest pig on /jp/ :3.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8601883
Maybe he excels at being average

[Anonymous No.]

>>8601871
why must you torment me with your skill at ship posting, damn you.
I'm gonna try it again, I'll get it this time for sure...

[Sudo !Tohsaka8ks No.]

>>8601881
>>8601886
>>8601884

[Anonymous No.]

If I throw an electrical appliance that is turned on into the ocean will it kill all the fish/everything?

I excel at laying in bed and thinking up retarded shit.

[nihil !!SqE+2HvKdzB No.]

meido's favorite thread.

[Anonymous No.]

I don't excel even at not excelling, get on my level /jp/

[Anonymous No.]

I'm pretty good at being depressed. It's my main hobby and I've wasted about 12 years of my life on it.

[Anonymous No.]

I wish I knew how to draw, or program, or play touhou, or speak Japanese.

Unfortunately I don't.

[Anonymous No.]

I'm pretty good at cooking. I don't know how people fuck it up so bad. I mean it's literally just following instructions.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8601914
Programming is one of the simplest things you can learn. You only need to be capable of procedural thought.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8601876
I still love you, /jp/.

[Anonymous No.]

I was for some time. I got over it after awhile. It's best to just be happy with who you are, even if you're what society would consider a worthless loser. Enjoyeeing your lifetime should be your only concern.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8601929
Programming really can be good fun! I was actually thinking of ;_; programming that one loli plant game idea posted last night in command line. sadly I ended up just watching girly anime and playing touhou.

[Anonymous No.]

I flipped a coin between listing things I'm good at and posting a cute touhou picture.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8601929
But you need to study it first. I tried learning Python but got bored after two days. I think I got to exercise 36 of Learn Python the Hard Way.

I have the attention span of a three-year-old.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8601959
Try finding small ideas around /jp/ and program them, learning as you go. It's what I do occasionally, the only way I ever get motivated to do it without class.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8601959
For me at least, it was closer to playing with building blocks than studying.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8601955

I thought that was a great picture until I noticed the cock.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8601965
Fag

[Anonymous No.]

>>8601859

[Anonymous No.]

Well I can program somewhat well and I can also read Hiragana and speak English and and and I am also pretty smart and stuff. I'm not useless, and neither are you, Anonymous!

[Anonymous No.]

>>8601973
I try to think the same way most of the time, but sometimes it just seems almost all of my skills are useless to anyone but myself, and maybe some of /jp/ for actual conversation about topics that other people just wouldn't know about.

[Anonymous No.]

I am the best at shiptoasting.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8601982
And what's wrong with your skills being useless to anyone but yourself? If everyone had those, everyone would be useful, isn't that right? I don't think you should be afraid of being happy about yourself, so you shouldn't feel useless! It's not like other people deserve your help anyway.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8601879
You excel at being my friend Sudo~

[Anonymous No.]

>>8601993
I know, it's just, I'd like to have something to share with other people I know. Maybe I should learn to bake or something. I do quite enjoy my own skills though.

[Anonymous No.]

Yes, it feels bad being a complete idiot. I wanted to try and pick up math again (I still have my old pre-calculus textbook from years ago), but I'm completely stuck on a chapter.

I can barely read Japanese, even though I've been learning for a year and a half. Even though I know how to write most of the kanji I've learned, I have trouble recognizing it while reading something.

Most people just have trouble putting the effort into learning things, but they're actually smart enough to learn. I'm just too slow to learn anything of importance, even though I put effort into it.
I must be the dumbest person alive. An idiot who keeps trying even though they realize how dumb they are... It feels pointless, really. Most people only focus on things they have strengths in.
I can only continue to be below-mediocre in the things I'm learning now.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8602006
It's alright anon, you excel at being moe.

[Anonymous No.]

Every time I think of doing something, I figure it's too much effort and I might as well do something better. Unfortunately that usually means shitposting on /jp/, because watching anime has become too much of a chore.

Sometimes I will horde e-books but never read them. I think I opened one once, got about five pages in, then felt too tired to continue. That depressed me, but then shitposting cheered me right back up.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8602006
If you want to learn math, try reading something simple on set theory and go from there. Pre-calculus is one of the most useless math classes you could take if you want to do higher math.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8602020
>Sometimes I will horde e-books but never read them
I do that too. It's kind of annoying. Lately, I've been deleting some, to try and make it look like I can actually get done with reading them soon, but I almost always give up after a couple chapters. I guess I have ADHD or something.

[Sudo !Tohsaka8ks No.]

>>8601996

[Anonymous No.]

>>8602006
At least you made it to pre-calculus. I stopped understanding math at algebra.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8602029
I know how you feel, except it's with paper books. I just, about halfway through, get bored.

[Anonymous No.]

I know Japanese, so that allows me to feel elitist on /jp/ and around Americans.

[Anonymous No.]

The math friends here might want to try browsing /sci/ for a while. They have great resources for self-learners on the sticky and are overall very helpful people if you ask them nicely and don't make it look like a homework thread.

[Anonymous No.]

The typical 15-year-old has accomplished more than I have. Even though I avoid all news and Western media, I am always aware that some teenager wrote a bestseller somewhere, or that a 20-year-old formed his own startup and is now a millionaire. I can't even do simple arithmetic any more, to the point where I count out exactly how much money I need to give the shopkeeper before I go to the shops.

Obviously these people are outliers, but that doesn't change the fact that I am very below average, and not even in a noteworthy or excusable way.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8602039
How did you do it, if I may so inquire? I have attempted, but it just resulted in mild understanding without subs for anime before I stopped.

[Anonymous No.]

/jp/, I want to be a doctor. That way I'll help people in need. Those who deserve to live more than me will only remain alive due to me. Isn't that great?

[Anonymous No.]

I've been trying to learn math too as a hobby. Currently going through various algebra topics, but there's just so much stuff to learn, holy shit.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8602077
Most mathematicians focus on one particular area and have only rudimentary knowledge of the other stuff. Just skim through most stuff, find something you like, and dive in.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8602077
Don't memorize individual topics. You only have to understand how those topics relate to general principles and how to get from general principles to those specific applications.

[Sakura !RAILgUnr8s No.]

>>8602057
You do it by not giving up.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8602077
Keep up with it, its a great hobby. And not many people do it, so you wont constantly feel behind everyone.

[Anonymous No.]

This works for me:

1. Find someone you think is dumber than you but is able to do something you are not
2. Become pissed off because you're obviously superior so you should be able to do it, too.
3. Rage-motivation achieved
4. Set short term goals that are fun (reading a raw-manga/showing off math skills)
5. Repeat 4 until you reach proficiency in whatever you want.

Alternatively, you can pretend you're too smart for everything and rage if you don't understand anything in order to motivate yourself.

[Anonymous No.]

most /jp/ excels at being virgin or NEET there you are disproven OP

[Anonymous No.]

>>8602182
Hey, I excel at that too!

[Anonymous No.]

I use excel in my stats class.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8602188
Yes congratulations, that's the exact pun they were going for when they came up with the name.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8602121
>pissed off at people for doing something you can too
>rage motivation

The brightest flames burn quickest. Might work for an abnormally long autistic wick like yours, but it does nothing for me.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8602198
Well it gets me off of my ass. I've usually got other reasons to, but without the willpower to start and plan. This helps in that regard. For the long term motivation, it helps if you have a strong inferiority complex and you never let yourself feel complacent with your current abilities. If you never feel happy, you'll keep trying to fill that hole until you're actually considered good.

[Anonymous No.]

The only thing I've accomplished in life that would even be a blimp on anyone's radar is graduating highschool. With terrible grades. After failing 10th grade. After only getting through Algebra 1 because my teacher felt sorry for me (failed her class once already and I was a "senior."
Tried fixing a car once and barely got it running (with several problems that sprang up) and then ran out of money.
Tried doing things like working out or learning japanese/programming/cad/etcetcetc but ran out of motivation or concentration.

I think the only thing that I truly do better than most people is hating things. I can really really hate some things.

[Anonymous No.]

Sometimes I feel like I can be so much more, but not all by myself. I want somebody to hold my hand, and I in turn will hold their hand.

But nobody will hold my hand. Nobody wants to. I'm worth nothing to nobody.

So I'll just rot here till I finally die. I feel like I had potential. It was so obvious, growing up. I could have went somewhere with my life, but I've given up. It's over.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8602244
I can relate to that. All I wish is I had one person who I could trust, who could keep going through everything with me. But, no one likes me once they get to know me better, so I stay alone.

[Anonymous No.]

I don't excel at anything. Attention span too short to focus on something long enough to become good; lazy; tired; every activity, even something that seems fun in the beginning, eventually becomes a chore.
I do many things, and sometimes I enjoy it, but I'm not best or even good at anything.

[Biskoi !!dCzSF0+YBRO No.]

my whole life i've learnt 10 or so instruments.
Jack of all trades, master of none ;_;

[Anonymous No.]

>>8602276
I'm sure many /jp/edos know the feeling. /jp/sies? /jp/edos? I don't even know anymore.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8602244
>>8602251

I'd hold your hand, dudes.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8602330
Just use "many of us."

[Anonymous No.]

>>8602330
It's okay--just don't call attention to it.

[Anonymous No.]

I'm internationally renown at destroying perfectly good vehicles. Is that good?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8602334
No, you won't. You're just a homo looking for somebody to suck your cock.

[Biskoi !!dCzSF0+YBRO No.]

>>8602348
Nice ride

[Anonymous No.]

>>8602348
You could probably sell them, and if you like it, it's cool.

[Anonymous No.]

I've tried a bunch of different things, but I've never been good at any. People are easily impressed by the simplest shit when I actually do something, which turns me off what I was doing and make me hate it. I don't want undue praise. I want to be praised though, I want to do something good, something great and so amazing that I would be worthy of praise.
It's depressing.

[Anonymous No.]

I work for wagenwerks studio.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8601847
I have the unlucky case of living in an abusive household. I know what I excel at, but it's hard to develop those talents in my current environment.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8602368
crane? wtf man.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8602359
He tried
He literally couldn't sell the thing

Fucking hilarious, the guy's a fucktard

[Anonymous No.]

>>8602388
That's pretty amusing.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8602348
>Shell
I always go to those shops because they stay open late. Then kids ten years younger than me come in and buy petrol for their car and booze to share with their fiancée, while I buy energy drinks and enough Kleenex to last me the night, then I walk home wishing I knew how to drive.

I excel at not having skills people have.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8602388
Wait, that thing was actually made with serious intent? Where did you read about this?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8601943
This, it's really simple. I don't understand why so many people fret over something as inane as what others think of them.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8602402
You forgot to mention sweets.

[Dexwyde !mbHjxjfHlA No.]

>>8602367
Play Mushihimesama Futari for 300 hours and become the first whitey to beat Ultra mode

[Anonymous No.]

>>8602408
He was a tripfag on /o/ and a massive normalfagging attentionwhore there and elsewhere on the internet. You know that that thad guy from /a/.

He probably thought people actually thought his shit was cool and weren't laughing at him.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8602417
LET'S NOT GET INTO THIS AGAIN.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8602421

>like that thad guy*
walking around with a dakimakura at big car shows "omg look at me I'm such a huge weeaboo :x

[Anonymous No.]

>>8602421
Thad is actually pretty cool.

This /o/ guy seems like a faggot however. I should start coming to /o/ more often.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8602006
What is the chapter that you got stuck on about?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8602348
Dammit if someone is actually gonna do something like that to a perfectly good car, at LEAST spend the majority of your effort on the engine. If I were driving it, I would want the peace of mind knowing I can at least smoke anyone trying to fuck with me. For whatever thats worth.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8602496
HELL yeah bro you alpha as FUCK.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8602502
Alpha? Wouldn't you want the car to be fast so you can run away from assholes quicker? I...I couldn't be further from alpha. I just like playing with engines.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8602510
Yeah right, I can't even drive anymore because I panic from thinking about the other cars/drivers around me. I don't know you guys manage it.

Really the only thing I thought I was "good" at was raiding as a shadowpriest, which is pretty sad. Quit because internet friends quit, now I just strive to be the best at refreshing catalog for hours.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8602121
That would just make me feel depressed, I honestly can't remember the last time I was even mad. I just agree with whatever is siding against me because it probably is my fault. I feel like there is a word for this but I can't think of it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8601964

Rage inducing building blocks is a better description. Fun, but still rage inducing.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8602829
its called being a bitchass pussy

[Anonymous No.]

>>8602496
You obviously don't understand bosozoku. The idea is to do dumb shit, he was just being a hipster.

It's like the whole hellaflush thing

[Anonymous No.]

oh god yes

[Anonymous No.]

>>8601876
why do you need to excel at something to have value?

not everybody can be a doer. live to be an observer, and you can die knowing you have seen beautiful things. moments that will be lost in time...like...posts in this thread

[Anonymous No.]

>>8602555
Cool. I too was "good" at raiding as a shadowpriest on Mal'Ganis horde.

[Anonymous No.]

I guess I'm pretty good with GNU/Linux but it's a rather useless skill since I don't even run a server or develop software.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8602937
That's how it starts. Then you write a few shell scripts to perform tasks over and over, and soon you think, "What about something more powerful?" so you learn Perl or Python and write things and have so much fun and before you know it you're writing a microkernel in x86 assembly.