/jp/ - Otaku Culture

[Anonymous No.]

What has /jp/ done for you, Anon? What is it about /jp/ that keeps you coming back?

Please respond.

[Anonymous No.]

https://twitter.com/#!/c2switch/

[Anonymous No.]

the power of the void.

[naitoknaito No.]

There's this thing called. . . . hmm toho.
Also taking it.easy.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8656405
Why do Twitter URLs have that crunchbang in them? Twitter.com/User redirects anyway so why bother? Just don't let people register the name "Account" or whatever. Hell you could even set up an Apache/nginx rewrite in two seconds.

Fuck you, Twitter.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8656413
I'm sure Twitter knows better than you do.

[Anonymous No.]

this thread sucks...

[Anonymous No.]

>"please respond"

[Anonymous No.]

>>8656441
underage mongoloid shitposters should go back to their bo/a/rd

[Anonymous No.]

It's my favourite place on the internet.

The only place that ever felt like a home. The only place I felt I belonged, instead of being like an outsider trying to fit in.

There are lots of places similar to /jp/, but none quite the same.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8656453
I know that feel, Anon.

/jp/ feels like home to me now, too.

And to be honest? I learned to be tolerant of other people from this board of all places.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8656434
No it doesn't. I run seven startups (four of which have been bought by Google) and I have over 20 years of network and Web programming experience. My karma score on Hacker News is 381. I have every right to say Twitter is doing something wrong.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8656401
>What is it about /jp/ that keeps you coming back?
No fucking clue.

[Anonymous No.]

please respond

[Anonymous No.]

this is the less shitty place of 4chan i guess...

[Anonymous No.]

>>8656463
If I had enough motivation, I'd become like you some day.

But I just don't feel like it.

[Anonymous No.]

/jp/ is hilarious and just happens to discuss things I have an interest in.

[Anonymous No.]

touhou

japanese bird doing something

get out of /jp/

[Anonymous No.]

I can flame whoever I like whenever I like.

Also less inane discussions where people spout off whatever they're thinking and expect their opinion to be respected.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8656446
Well, what are you waiting for?

[Anonymous No.]

autistic people like myself.
love for touhou.
good taste.

[Anonymous No.]

It has gotten me addicted to it. Therefore, despite there being absolutely nothing of value on here, I can't stop coming back.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8656405
Fuck that slut. At least milk doesn't have nudes floating around.
and has a chin.

[Anonymous No.]

It makes me laugh, something the other boards rarely do anymore.

Also touhou.

[(☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞ BOOF ☜(ﾟヮﾟ☜) !AWEsomEEEE!!R/52MaMCG2y No.]

Addiction.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8656539
Damn I'd suck his cock, dude.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8656495
for your mom in my bed

[Anonymous No.]

Frankly, it's the only board left that hasn't been taken over by what is, essentially, complete shitposting.
The people here are oddly knowledgeable.
Lastly, 2hu.

[Anonymous No.]

The insanity. And the "Let's watch a cute girl do cute girl things" threads.

Mostly the insanity. This is my home away from /prog/.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8656591
>hasn't been taken over by complete shitposting.

I'm sorry, we are talking about /jp/ here, right?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8656606
Compare /jp/ to /g/ or /a/.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8656591
surely you're joking, right(^o^)?LOL!

[Anonymous No.]

>>8656622
Those are retard-filled boards, not shitposters. Those people think it's fun to post like a retarded way, to spam images/macros, circlejerk, "nice d00bs bro"&"my wifu" faggotry etc.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8656659
I'm not entirely certain if that excludes them all still being shitposters. Although you are correct, they are also retards and imbeciles.

[Anonymous No.]

What do you fair /jp/ maidens think of the speed of this board?

Sometimes I wish it was a slight bit faster. The current speed is not bad though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8656934
I wish it was slower. Slower usually means longer posts and people putting more effort into what they type. Admit it, /jp/: most of you sit there refreshing the front page or have some script to do it for you. It would be nice if /jp/ was somewhere I could just check up on every few hours, but it's too damn addicting and I would feel like everyone is moving at a faster pace than me.

Oh well, I have 4-ch. Even if the "proper" boards only get three posts a month.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8656941
Sounds like the recipe for a terribly boring board.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8656934
/jp/'s speed is fine, for me. It allows for intelligent conversations to be held while saging, something the other boards do not (which is quite sad).

[Anonymous No.]

>>8656950
Well I like what most people would consider boring. But I don't have a problem with slightly faster boards either, otherwise I wouldn't be on 4chan.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8656941

The text boards are more at that speed. The posts are different also, since they last forever.

When it gets too slow though, people tend to get disheartened and not reply as much, which only makes the board slower, and it ends up with the board constantly hovering over complete death.

[Anonymous No.]

I keep coming back because /jp/ is my home.

I've been in many communities; forums, IRC channels, virtual reality worlds, tons of them. I've been an active community member in many of them. But, it never lasted forever - often I left the community in mere months, sometimes it more than one and a half years. My contributions became less and less, and eventually I always left the community, for some still checking up on them every couple of months.

But not for /jp/. I made my first posts in August 2008.. And now, three and a half years later, I still visit daily. I'm in many IRC channels at all times, all but one /jp/-related. I play games /jp/ talks about. I keep up with what's happening and what people talk about on /jp/.

/jp/ has changed me in many ways:
-/jp/ has influenced the fact that I make music, and encouraged me to continue making it
-/jp/ has gotten me into writing, and I've written a lot of stories for /jp/ and communities directly related to /jp/
-/jp/ has caused me to read the best stories I've ever read
-/jp/ has caused me to play some of the best games I've ever played
-/jp/ has influenced the games I make and continues to do so until this day
-/jp/ has involved me in multiple projects, which changed my life in various ways
-/jp/ has helped me get over the illusion of 3D love and made me embrace 2D
-/jp/ has changed my opinion and opened my mind on many, many things
-/jp/ has gotten me into more kinds of weird porn than I could have imagined

Simply put.../jp/ is an important part of my life. It is my home. Even as it's overrun by newbies who understand none of this, even as the meaningful content increasingly becomes drowned in the posts of bored kids, it remains my home. I am cursed to remain here forever, even as the sight of my home decaying only depresses me.

I hate you guys. But at the same time...I love /jp/.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8656941
You should try /bun/, it's pretty much what you're describing. The posts are of a much higher quality there, but the entire thing is much slower and much less unpredictable.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8657200
OP here. I'm a newfag, since I haven't been here that long, but...

I can sort of understand, since /jp/ has changed me too. When I first came here, I hated it, but after a while...

I started seeing threads where people were being insightful and deep, and open and tolerant of each other. We'd talk about the Gensokyos in our hearts, and how suicide won't get you there, and things like that. I really felt at home.

[Anonymous No.]

/jp/ is the only board I feel at home, the only place I feel like I belong.

I would be lying if I said that I like everyone here, I fucking hate some of you guys, or that this board is "good" board, but I love this place anyway. You are all part of my big, dysfunctional family.

It may sound surprising given the nature of this place, but /jp/ gave me some hope and direction in life, for some reason.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8656622
but /g/ is /jp/ culture.

also, unconfirmed sources claim that most of /g/'s userbase is from /jp/.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8657614
Stop trying to force this.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8657626
I'm not, I would just like an explanation to why that is. Is it a forced thing, presumably by the /g/ retards?

[Anonymous No.]

I met my first girlfriend on /jp/, although she hasn't talked to me for a long time now...

I'm waiting!

[Anonymous No.]

>>8657614
/jp/ has users from /o/, /a/, /v/, /g/, /cgl/, /r9k/, /pol/, /k/, and /fit/

You know who's to blame for this multikulti taint right?

[Anonymous No.]

I found love on /jp/ and it made me what I am today.
It was there for me when nobody else was.

I'm glad about how things went for me.
Thanks /jp/

[Anonymous No.]

>>8657637
There used to be a god awful /g/ tripfag who hated weeaboos that posted here.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8657666
But i'm from /co/

[Anonymous No.]

>>8657666
no, I think it's the other way around. Those boards have visitors from /jp/. People who consider other boards their home are impostors who don't belong on /jp/.

But yes, it's all a part of the Judeo-Masonic plan for us. Do you think the "j" in "/jp/" is a coincidence? It's not.

[Anonymous No.]

If I may interject, what you are referring to as "/jp/" is in fact "Japan/General", or as I have recently taking a calling to it, "/jp/ - Japan/General".

[Anonymous No.]

>>8657707
The worst of them all.

[Anonymous No.]

I've had multiple crushes on /jp/ posters. Like ZUN!bar-kun, ponpo-kun... They always ignore me though. Someday though, I believe I will find true love with a /jp/ poster.

[Anonymous No.]

I come to /jp/ because I am Anonymous ze Saten's #1 fan

[Anonymous No.]

>>8657614
>>8657637

/jp/ memes are all over /g/.

[Anonymous No.]

I come to /jp/ because this is like interactive Jerry Springer show.

[Anonymous No.]

I've went from a hardworking high school student with dreams and hopes to a semi-NEET with obsessive interests in Anime, Touhou, and Japanese Goodies.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8657900
I personally tried to force "Who are you quoting?" over there. Greentext stories and >implying wars were running wild and the place started to look like /v/. Then I wrote a (very broken) script to post "Who are you quoting?" which just led to meta-drama and arguments about image board culture. In short, /g/ went from /v/ to /jp/.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8657911
>semi-NEET
I hope you choke.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8657921
I remember a post about that. Did you ever run the script here?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8657900
Because of /g/'s weaboo retards forcing them and wanting to be like /a/ or /jp/, yes.

my waifuu xDDDD

3dpd xDDDDD

Also, tripfaggots everywhere. Place's a shithole.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8657937
Do they really say "xDDDD" the way that ironic shitposters here do, or is that just your description of the way they generally talk?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8657921
What is the script written in? I hope it's Perl, in best /g/ traditions.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8657733
I'll love you for eternity.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8657940
No, that is my own interpretation of their retard-babble. Some of worse tripfags use smileys non-ironically, though.

[Anonymous No.]

Makes me feel like i belong.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8657982
What's funny is, I would tolerate that on /g/. Especially if it was from BluX or someone. Smilies were perfectly fine for decades, then a few AOLers abused them which rubbed off on the GameFAQs generation. Go to any high volume mailing list or newsgroup and people use them without giving a fuck, as they always have.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8657993

The people on newsgroups tend to use different smiles. Like :-) and such, as opposed to xDDDD and :DDDD type bullshit, and especially the despicable <_< and all its derivatives.

They email/newsgroup scene use them properly, as well. The typical imageboard/IM/IRC/etc kids of today use them in all the wrong ways, such as putting a :) or ;) at the end of a derogatory statement.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8658377
u mad ;-)

[Anonymous No.]

>>8658377
I've always wanted to check out these type of groups.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8657993
>Especially if it was from BluX

fucking unacceptable, the circlejerks are the worst part. /g/ should have forced anon. just look at all the threads the neo-/b/ kids create to draw attention to themselves, it's disgusting.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8658377
I agree, partially. The people that use non-retarded smileys at least do it consciously, unlike the ^_^ kids who use it instead of punctuation.

In my opinion, no one who uses smileys is worth listening to. Their words are worthless, thoughts meaningless, and heads empty.

Still, smileys, even the ones used on newsgroups are a crutch of sorts. Why would you use smileys when words would do? If you need to resort to smileys to express your thoughts, you're admitting your inadequacy in doing so.

Using smileys to denote sarcasm is self-defeating because, then, what's the point of it in the first place?

[Anonymous No.]

/jp/'s a nice place. It's helped me find a ton of great stuff and the people are wonderful. Even the shitposters are hilarious half the time.

[yRANN !!mU4gUljJOLC No.]

>>8658453
Agreed. Among many things /jp/ did for me, it taught me how to be nice to other people :-)

[Anonymous No.]

I enjoy the denpa threads.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8658444

>In my opinion, no one who uses smileys is worth listening to. Their words are worthless, thoughts meaningless, and heads empty.

I agree with you for the most part. There's some people I respect / look up to that are much more knowledgeable than me, that also use smileys, though, so I can't say this is a solid rule. Though these people tend to be from the long lost 80s/90s BBS scene, so I guess it has just stuck with them for all this time.

Though, generally, you're right. I tend to never use smileys. Anything that can be conveyed by smileys can be conveyed better by just using the proper prose and language constructs.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8658444
>Why would you use smileys when words would do?
Because you could use smileys instead. You should come up with a reason why not to, instead.

[Anonymous No.]

It's fun here.

[Anonymous No.]

i met my last girlfriend at a /jp/ meetup

[Anonymous No.]

WANT TO KNOW WHY OP?
BECAUSE I LIKE DICKS, PENISES, COCKS, W/E YOU WANT TO CALL THEM
I WANT TO FIT THEM ALL IN MY MOUTH AND MAKE A BIG "SLURP" SOUND

[Anonymous No.]

>>8658483
Sorry, I should have been more clear in my post. I only meant people who use neo-smileys when referring to people that are not worth listening to. By all means, if a person feels the need to use a smiley, they should use one of the classical ones. All the other ones just give away what a retard the poster truly is.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8658483
I've been conditioned to only use smileys when sending casual e-mails to my middle-aged relatives overseas. Anything else just seems crass and insincere.

I've gotten an aunt of mine to adopt ;_;

[Dexwyde !mbHjxjfHlA No.]

I enjoy the stimulating conversation and convivial atmosphere.

[Anonymous No.]

The cynical sarcasm

The positive negativity

The eroge threads

[Anonymous No.]

>>8658530
We are the true forward-thinking philosophers of our century.

[Anonymous No.]

I learned how to use Japanese p2p programs and OCR software to read manga from /jp/. I also enjoy the shitposting culture.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8658522
>Convivial: merry;festive

That's a good word. It should be the word of the day! All /jp/sies should try to use "convivial" in a sentence in daily conversation.

[Koshiro No.]

When boredom strikes, /jp/ is always there. Till Moot gets pissed at us again.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8658522
This.

Also, I find that I can easily relate to a lot of you. I'm guessing that the majority of regular /jp/ posters are underachievers who feel uncomfortable in social situations, but are otherwise average dudes.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8658598
>average dudes

yeah, sure, dude.

[Anonymous No.]

I don't even play VNs / Touhou games or am interested in Japan in general. I just watch/read the occasional Anime/Manga. I enjoy the general atmosphere of this board. I feel I can relate with the way people think here.

Is this weird?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8658598
When I first got here, /jp/ was some pretty fucked up people. Sure a lot of it was just show, but there was nothing normal about what was going on here. Now, it's just kids parroting things they've read. Without going all the way into good old days kun territory, I'll just say people here seem much more average around these parts, anymore.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8658628
No, not at all. I'm not into VNs and 2hus as well, but I still go to /jp/ because of the way people think here. I can relate to a lot of people here. I feel at home here.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8658628
>>8658639
People like you fill a rather large portion of the board's population, and are one of the main reasons there are so many off topic threads. People coming here for the residents has pushed the board down the road to being weeaboo /b/.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8658645
2D/random is exactly what /jp/ always should have been.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8658648
It will share the same fate as the original anime/random.
Actually, it is.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8658645

That's what I worry about. I don't want to shit up the board for the people who actually come here and discuss on topic things.

I'm not particularly sure what is considered "on-topic" on this board, though. Either way, I don't ever make threads. I only post if I have something to contribute to a thread. In 4 years or so, I've probably only started 5 threads.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8658645
I knew you would say that. Really though, I would like nothing more than to see the toho kids burn, so I really don't give a shit. They're like pony forcers, who took over /jp/ for no goddamn reason at all.

I don't post much, so your fears are unfounded. But if I could do something, I would.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8658645
Thank you, I couldn't think of a way to phrase that. /jp/ really is awful. Even random imagedumps are better than 90% of board content.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8658660
>They're like pony forcers, who took over /jp/ for no goddamn reason at all
Jesus Christ, a /jp/ without touhou isn't /jp/ and /jp/ has always had touhou threads. I come here because I like VNs, doujin games, figs, and MMD.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8658645

>Otaku, Noun; (in Japan) Young people who are highly skilled in or obsessed with computer technology to the detriment of their social skills.

>Otaku (おたく / オタク?) is a Japanese term used to refer to people with obsessive interests, particularly anime, manga or video games.

Isn't Otaku the basically the Japanese word for the autist quality of having an interest into which you heavily devote a lot of your time and effort?

So, in reality, this place has always been a board for random content, with 2D theme.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8658685
People like you are part of the problem. Why bother with quality threads when you can just dump random images from danbooru?

However, I think /jp/'s main problem is the lack of direction. There's simply nothing to discuss. VN people stay in their 2-3 threads; the 10 or so Touhou threads cover almost every subject.

So what does that leave us? A vacuum ripe for shitposting.

[Anonymous No.]

To expand on my previous post a bit.

Let's say moot creates a vaguely defined board with vaguely defined topics. Called, let's say, "Thumbs.db - Paperclips/General". From day one, it will have the same problem /jp/ has. It will stagnate, and rot.
However, there immediately appear people who will claim it as their home, claiming that they belong there. They, however, will be liars, because it doesn't belong to anyone, and the board itself is about nothing. But their behavior is completely natural, given a power vacuum like that. Groups who don't have a home board will flock to it like Jews to Israel, claiming that it is their promised land. Then they will say that their promised land has been tainted by outsiders, (be it /a/, /v/, or /b/, in the case of /jp/). But the truth is, it's a wasteland, that was always this way (shitty in /jp/'s case).

The problem stems from that fact that there's simply nothing to discuss anymore, there never was, "Otaku Culture" is a bullshit definition pulled out of moot's ass, and those who claim otherwise are fucking Jews trying to grab whatever land they can get their hands on.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8658713
Pointless yes, but they're at least productive. Only a little discussion perhaps, but at least it's honest. And look at /m/, they've got precious little to discuss besides ancient mecha anime and they deal with it just fine. The board's just slow, not actively terrible. Although a few /jp/ migrants are doing their best to change that.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8658854
Used to be there was a general admission that "Otaku Culture" didn't really mean anything, it was just an umbrella for Touhou, VNs, and stuff like dakimakuras and figurines.

Now it's just every thought that goes through someone's mind gets fifteen image replies. It's sickening.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8657921
>I personally tried to force "Who are you quoting?" over there.
I hope you die a painful death. Something like a billion kids kicking over other's sandcastles, all of it pouring directly onto you, filling up your mouth and lungs.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8658930
why? whatever makes the /g/ retards suffer makes me happy.

rose, gtxnvidia, taylor, sammy, etc

[Anonymous No.]

>>8658959
Because nothing deserves to suffer the same fate as /jp/. Nothing.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8658969
Who are you quoting?

[Anonymous No.]

I think I'm a peculiar case here. I completely put off visual novels until I learned Japanese. I still haven't graduated to translating them, but I want to eventually do that.

[Anonymous No.]

/jp/ has been the most influential thing in my life. Most people I meet in games or other places are transient and I never have enough in common with them to become 'real' friends. So many have come and gone, and have since been forgotten. Same goes for real-life friendships. However my /jp/ friends aren't even close to fading away. Then I fell in love with one of them, and that makes /jp/ somewhat indirectly responsible for what was briefly the happiest time of my life. I don't browse as much as I used to but I won't stop coming back until it dies or I die. One part hilarious shitposting, one part open-minded and legitimately caring people (they can be hard to spot).

[Anonymous No.]

>>8658854
please respond

I didn't spend 15 minutes on that only to have it washed away by the tide

[Anonymous No.]

>>8659467

No one cares for your monologues.

[Anonymous No.]

[Anonymous No.]

>>8656401
>What is it about /jp/ that keeps you coming back?

>Please respond.
this

[Anonymous No.]

>>8656409
This
Touhou, "Taking it easy", and funny shitposters.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8658920
/jp/ was created specifically to get touhou, VNs and other extra stuff out of /a/. They didn't have an on-topic board to post to so moot made them one. Japan/General didn't describe the board at all so it was renamed Otaku Culture which I think describes it just fine.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8659467
This is partially a response to that post >>8661290

The circumstances that /jp/ was created under are not at all similar to the circumstances you describe in your post.

[tripfiend !Y8SckMYezs No.]

>>8661290
I thought /jp/ was created to house the mentally ill posters separately from the rest of 4chan.

[Anonymous No.]

People more addicted to the same hobbies than I am post relevant news, once in a blue moon.

[Anonymous No.]

I can take it easy.