/jp/ - Otaku Culture

[Anonymous No.]

where did it go all so wrong?

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>>14876314
What are you talking about?
/v/ is pure cancer and overflowing with reddit users

/jp/ might have gone down a bit in quality but it's never been pure shit

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>>14876396
I would argue /jp/ improved in quality.

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>>14876396
I don't know about you, or the OP, but I feel like there's less stuff to talk about. I don't think we will ever get another VN like Seacats that would bring discussion for years. Touhou is declining, it's hard to get exited about new doujin releases, Kancolle basically only has the game to talk about. There's discussion of niche hobby discussion, but there's less of a overall board feel. /jp/ is more like /jp/ - Japan Generals, where most of the discussion takes place in generals.

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>>14876407
This. Now that all the spammer autists are gone and the literally insane Wposters who think they're in some sort of war with the janitors mostly gave up, /jp/ has sort of improved.

>>14876449
It has never-not taken place in generals. /jp/'s topics took a hit when /vg/ was created. Now that all the spam is gone too, it seems less directed, but then moot said it lacked direction anyway so /jp/ - Directionless Pedophiles, I guess.

[Anonymous No.]

/jp/ started out as a complete abortion, but got better over time. It's regressed a bit since it's quality height but is still better than it' beginings

/v/ became bad when people started to flood /b/ but got bored of it- video games being the next childish step after joing le lejun, many of them found their way to /v/

[Anonymous No.]

/jp/ is alright
I wish we had more MMO discussions since those are always fun as long as the /vg/posters don't come to advertise dead games.

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>>14876504
Yes, but before those things it was better than it is now. Can you really call that an improvement?

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>>14876699
>I wish we had more MMO discussions since those are always fun as long as the /vg/posters don't come to advertise dead games.
I do too, but then I remember how much butthurt it caused that would bring people back from the MMO forum to be butthurt on /jp/, then certain attention whores would stand out and make a ruckus too. Nowadays, looking at /vg/, having a constant thread about an mmo tends to lead to a bunch of trolls and idiots and drama queens wading in a pile of shit together, but that might just be the /v/vg/ mentality.

I don't think /jp/ or current 4chan can take it easy in an mmo thread, especially with those /v/vg/ types prowling round for any place better than their own so they can try to join and inject their stupid habits until it turns into the same pile of shit they left.

Tree of Savior will be out soon, so maybe /jp/ can try to get into that for a month.

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>>14876723
>before those things
It was just wall to wall touhou spam and leftover /a/ memes from before the split.

/jp/ is at least usable and relatively peaceful nowadays. Only people who are addicted to shitposting all day could truly think it is not the best time of its existence. Although /jp/ was made for people who were addicted to shitposting all day.

Posters just need to think of some relevant topics to replace off topic shit about traps and NEETs and shitty anime. There aren't really any stand out VNs though and anything that gets translated goes to /vg/ anyway, and doesn't really stand out enough to transcend to /jp/ too. Honestly, (non VN) erogames should come back to /jp/. I don't even know why those ended up in /vg/ at all. No one there can even read anything they say. Sort of the same for iM@S too, but those games don't have much to talk about that can't be discussed in character threads anyway.

People don't seem to discuss non-Touhou doujin games much at all anymore for some reason. Guess they'd rather all play phone based kusoge.

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>>14876762
>It was just wall to wall touhou spam and leftover /a/ memes from before the split.
Nope.

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>>14876314
hey I drew that!

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>>14876771
You're right, there were also atomic bomb posts and /jp/ - Jurassic Park jokes.

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I thought most of the board would move to Japan and as we grew up we'd talk about our personal /jp/ mansions, our careers in the animation/game industries and share our publishing booth and copslay pics from comiket and laugh at /a/ and /cgl/ for having low power levels but it hasn't really turned out that way

[Anonymous No.]

Seriously where does everyone go after 4chan?

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>>14876858
I'll try and do something this year, anon. Just you wait.

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>>14876863
2ch, futaba and 8 ch.

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>>14876863
/jp/ and /g/ are the boards I like to go to. /v/ is literally shit, but I survey opinions from there, so I can help draw my own conclusions about games.

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>>14876873
>surprise box
Nah, that place is just festering with undesireables.
It's like if someone grabbed the worst parts of the worst boards and put it in a single website. I like that they exiled themselves out of free will, but they seem to be coming back now.
I think I'll just stay in /jp/ and laugh at others like a big fish in a small pond, just like I've been doing for the past years.

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>>14876873
But where do Japanese people go after 2ch and futaba?

There should be some place of convergence

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>>14876858
>I thought most of the board would move to Japan and as we grew up
I thought most of /jp/ was adults who were aiming at killing themselves and would eventually succeed. It seems to have actually turned out that way, be it literally or metaphorically by becoming a normalfag.

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>>14876927
twitter

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>>14876926
It's true. Their site's population is slowly depleting so you can expect them to be annoying for just a bit longer before they finally disappear. sauce: /qa/

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>>14876863
Life lol

It went.. Ok

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>>14876933
Degenerate into just talking to myself, I see

Makes sense really

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>>14876931
I'd bet the an hero rate on the jay is pretty high, and new people couldn't give less of a shit about the board from what I can tell. Stagnation seems inevitable.

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>>14876943
It's not like working and cooking for oneself takes 14 hours a day

I also hoped that /jp/ would end up full of cute anime-like people but so much for that

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>>14876960
4 years a drinking problem

Catch 22 on weaboo status is brutal, my neurology is largely anime affected and I never learned Japanese.

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>>14876951
>an hero
What's with people trying to namedrop this dead meme lately?

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>>14877017
It's more an Edgy vocab term. You petty piece of shit. (just kidding)

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>>14877017
I see it no less now than I used to mr. meme police,
but alright.
I'd bet the number of /jp/s who end up getting drunk and suck-starting a 12 gauge is pretty high.

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>>14877029
It's just bothersome because it's so, so old. Just use the standard going/went to gensokyo/opening portal/balaamb garden type things.

>>14876960
Does /jp/ watch anime? I haven't been able to watch anime properly for about 2 years now. I just don't care for some reason. It's not even the "it's shit" excuse, I just don't want to watch most anime. For some reason I can get into older anime though, but I'm not particularly motivated to follow it either. I really don't get it. It's not even like how I spend all my time on 4chan/some MMORPG instead of playing games I want to play, I just keep building up anime I want to watch but don't, even though I have time to. It feels like a huge time investment even though I could marathon a few other things all day.

[Anonymous No.]

/jp/ will never be corrupted.

Someone said once here that you can't look at 4chan like a living thing with cancer. That's the wrong way to see it. Think of 4chan like a fortress with multiple layers of defenses.

The first layer is the place newfags and normalfags flock to easily: /v/, /b/, /soc/ I guess, /sp/, /pol/. /a/ to some extent, though you kinda have to have a waifu to fit in there.

These layers go further and further in, each more niche in topic than the previous layer. /jp/ would be in either the final layer or the one right before it. This board is simply too impenetrable to normalfag tastes. Anyone who comes here that doesn't want to be here would look for 5 seconds and say "this place cares about touhou way too much", and that's assuming they know what touhou is. You can't change what /jp/ is, it's entrenched like it's WW1.

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>>14876931
Many of us have had it foisted on our backs, in fact I think few of us willingly go norm. Is it murder then, if our parents make us become responsible human beings? Is it accidental death if changing circumstances force us into the real world?

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>>14877051
Go beyond

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>>14877051
I watch anime every day, just set series to record then just watch when I get home from work

It's better than NHK, 放送大学 or watching stupid tarento or japanese funny man shows.

[Anonymous No.]

When is someone going to make the next OC thread?

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>>14877066
/a/ is actually pretty well self-moderated, people in there are so worried about the board meeting the same fate as the other boards you mentioned that they've been trying to repel newcomers as hard as they can. Obviously, that isn't enough to stop the random shitposter or newfag that shows up, but it's still good to see a board that doesn't want to join in the terror that pretty much the entirety of 4chan has become.

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>>14876863
It's not like there's anything after, 4chan or 2chan /jp/-like users stay here, they're just going silent. The ones leaving are, ironically, the normalfags pretending to fit in.
As an oldfag you just can't really associate yourself that much with the new teens flooding the place and their 'humor'.

/jp/ is just getting away a bit more than the other boards probably because they just get bored when they stay in here. Which is a good thing.

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>>14877161
Make it yourself, but only if you're not the guy who drew the OP to this thread. He needs to go to /v/ and stay in /v/.

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>>14877193
hahaha of course I'm not! who in the hell would draw such things?

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>>14877051
Still watch anime every day.

The way I've stayed interested in it is by only watching two anime at a time, as in already fully aired shows. I feel like the minute anime turns into a chore I'll just drop it but since I don't feel an obligation to watch it I can watch a lot of it without getting bored. And the joy of finding new anime after you're done with those two is nice because there's a lot I haven't seen.

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>>14877066
>>14877191
I've tried to do a rough count at 12.00 AM and PM to get an idea of active users in an 12 hour period. Site sits at around 200k generally, internet traffic from around the globe, and that got me thinking. How niche is our board and the topics discussed within anyway? I feel like our population has to be extremely small. I like the passage of time on /jp/, nice and slow.
And, yes, I wonder what is after 4chan and /jp/ for all of us. Will it ever stop?

[Anonymous No.]

Anime doesn't seem to interest me anymore for some reason. It just seems like endless repeats of itself of either moe, or shounen. Still deciding the best way to end it all. I hear Xanax and alcohol is good, trouble le is getting me hands on xanax

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>>14877239
I go off and on with anime. Sometimes I just go through series hard and sometimes I just stop entirely. Right now I am only watch two series.

For eroge, I still am not tired of it. It helps since I can read anything I want and have a limitless selection to read.

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>>14877239
I can't watch anime anymore either. Not for any great reason. Just too much lethargy to even do things I supposedly enjoy anymore.

>Still deciding the best way to end it all.
Wanna talk about it, guy?

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>>14877261
>For eroge, I still am not tired of it. It helps since I can read anything I want and have a limitless selection to read..

I don't even usually read VNs, but from looking at the VN threads, they seem to be the same thing over and over to the point I wonder why even bother after reading a few.

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>>14877274
You mean you're tired of plots like the protagonist not remembering his past? God I eat that shit up all day.

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>>14877239
It's not like that Anime doesn't interest me anymore, for example I still always go back and watch some I like, it's more like the new main characters archetype are just pissing me off for whatever reason.

The only recent animes I've watched and enjoyed are the jojo series, attack of the titans and gundams because.

Also call me insecure but I genuinely hate the catering they're trying to pull more and more with the "NEET or/and hikki or/and video gamer gurl who's cute and in fact social and successful in life".

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>>14877271
Did 3 years of college, this is my last. I just started hating everything about college and the impossible fucking math I had to do (mathematics manor with a minor in math education). My dad takes every opportunity he canto remind me that I don't have a girlfriend and that I'm not as successful as his other sons. He chalks this up to me being a faggot even though I'm straight. I'm just not a big macho man who's strong and hairy and watches anime.

And now I'm failing all my classes and missed the deadline to reapply. Even if I did, I have no money to do another term. So I'm just watching whatever and hanging out in my room until April.

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>>14877360
Sorry if I don't sound too coherent, had a bit to drink

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>>14877318
There's no reason you can't be NEET and sociable and cute though.

I'm tired of anime being "I live a normal life in the real world BUT" and the but not being "and then war broke out"/"I was transported to the fantasy world"/anything that seriously changes their life and isn't just a normal boring life with a few unusual things injected. It doesn't seem like there's much anime with fantastic worlds being made that aren't just a background at best.

But replying to you, I really do hate the BOY I SURE LOVE ANIME AND MANGA AND VIDEO GAMES type characters.

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>>14877360
Tell your father it's his fault for investing too much effort into his other sons and not into you.

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>>14877360
Hey I also stopped after 3 years. Was an engineering major, finished up my 3rd year with quite decent grades and then dropped out cause I had decided to finally off myself. As you can see all this time later I still haven't found the motivation to do it yet. I did manage to build a gun though, maybe you could do that.

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>>14876699
>I wish we had more MMO discussions
What MMOs are not dead now anyway?

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>>14877365
>I was transported to the fantasy world
Depends how it's done. To this day I still like Kiba, but boy this shit is heavy and depressing to watch at times.
Reminds me that I partially like SAO, didn't like the girl mc though and the main mc got ruined because of her, and I'm still looking out for the next Sidonia no Kishi.

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>>14877066
That's a good way to look at it. I use to almost exclusively use /f/ for my first like 3 years of being on 4chan. I wanted to see what one of the big boards like /v/ was like. It's honest to god non-stop newfag shitposting talking and reddit memes. I like /jp/ though I've only been here for about a year, the slow pacing reminds me of my home board /f/. I also really like Touhou.

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>>14877438
It's pretty terrible, yes.

[Anonymous No.]

After moving to Japan I'm kind of disappointed at the power level of otaku here

They only know stuff that's aired/been published recently and I get weird looks if I talk about stuff from 10-20 years ago

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>>14877365
Monster is re-airing on Tokyo MX now. Good memories

The most enjoyable manga I've found in the last few years is something I've never heard anyone talk about and just randomly picked up off a stall in Shinjuku station.

2D is a medium not a genre

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>>14877466
>Monster is re-airing on Tokyo MX now.

Now that reminds me that we never got an anime adaptation of Pluto. Shame.

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>>14876314
/v/ is a sjw hellhole these days. their mascot guy needs pink hair, piercings and a "die cis scum" shirt to reflect its userbase.

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>>14877483
Don't expect too much of Japan's television industry.

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>>14877066
/b/ and /pol/ are the best defense against newfags and normalfags

You might not like them, but those two guard the gates and take on the bulk of the newfaggoty hordes.

In a way they are like a yin yang duo
/b/ absorbs them
/pol/ repeals them

[Anonymous No.]

Is miss the Type-Moon days

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>>14877504
*I

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>>14877504
Good lord, why do you want to return to the endless trolling and blatant power level days?

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>>14877514
Everything was funner back then

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>>14877438
>>14877066

It's sad. /v/ used to be one of the best boards, before they imploded with rampant accusations of being from reddit and shitposting stupid phrases all the time. This was way way back before even the 2010s though. /a/ and /v/ just keep getting hit with those waves of /b/ runoffs.

It's kind of funny, /jp/'s biggest problem was usually /sp/. Even when moot would have /b/tards flooding in for some reason, they'd get bored and go away, but for some reason /sp/ and sometimes /fit/ would come here all the time to post their memes. But I guess it's expected, /sp/ might as well be /sp/ - Shitposts and they probably flood out everywhere. I don't really get why they're the only ones who bother /jp/ so much though, besides /prog/ when /prog/ was a thing.

/pol/'s getting to be 4chan's biggest problem though. It's previous incarnations have already been shut down twice, but yet once again, they're becoming problematic. At least it's not actually /pol/'s fault this time. It's these people who come to 4chan, see /pol/, believe they're in good company, and then rush off to other boards to "redpill" them. Meanwhile /pol/ is just a silly board with silly people, but these runoff /pol/ evangelists are ridiculously serious and cannot resist spouting bullshit and posting dubious infographics.

Also >>14877066, you forgot /r9k/. That board and its legion of frogposters is a cancer all its own.

I don't really know about the layers thing. On one hand, the boards no one cares about will probably never go to shit, but on the other hand /jp/ is probably only really relatively impenetrable because it's still one of the most hostile boards. It probably also still has the most amount of reports on 4chan, if no longer the highest amount of sageing(which unintentionally made it appear hostile, but was probably somewhat passive aggressive anyway) nor the highest rate of bans.

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>>14877502
*repels* dang ol auto correct

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>>14877504
Not just type moon, but people rarely talk about Key nowadays either. Basically no one mentioned Utawarerumono 2 despite the first being so popular either. Was it really shitty or something?

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>>14877394
>What MMOs are not dead now anyway?
Mapleshit, Mapleshit2, Mabinogi, Blade and Soul or whatever that game with the not-Elin was probably isn't yet, Tree of Savior hasn't but is going to come out soon, but will probably die after 2 months, probably a bunch of Western MMOs currently active, but who cares about those?

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>>14877502
I didn't mean normalfag as in the being a normal person sense, I meant pic related

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>>14877553
The only mmo I ever played was runescape. What's your favorite mmo?

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>>14877394
FFXIV and Tera seem to be scavenging the dwindling WoW player base.

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>>14877524
>It's these people who come to 4chan, see /pol/, believe they're in good company, and then rush off to other boards to "redpill" them. Meanwhile /pol/ is just a silly board with silly people, but these runoff /pol/ evangelists are ridiculously serious and cannot resist spouting bullshit and posting dubious infographics.

I dislike /pol/, but yeah it's basically this. 4chan isn't supposed to have any actual political stances, for almost 8 years we basically ran on just being "contrarian to whatever party is in power, regardless of their politics". People here with actual political stances go against the organized chaos this site is supposed to embody.

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>>14877568
>dwindling
That's the funny thing. Even with its ridiculous sub losses, it's still easily one of the most populated MMOs. And someone once ran the numbers, the game can sustain itself financially on less than a million subs. It still has 5 million, or something around that anyway.

WoW is one of those games that will only die when Blizz themselves pulls the plug on it, like some kind of perpetual motion machine.

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One day I will make a true successor to FFXI

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>>14877562
Yeah, exactly

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>>14877568
>Tera
Was this fun? I vaguely recall when I would glance at the threads that /jp/ had a guild.

Guessing it might be dead now or something.

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>>14877601

It's ok. At least it does something different with combat than most MMOs.

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>>14877588
It does have a large population, but it has no retention power. Old time players are leaving, and new players do not stick around for long. Blizzard has opted for microtransactions to keep the game alive, but not to generate actual new content, which you can see with the content drought and they pushing yet another expansion so shortly after WoD.

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>>14877563
Mabinogi, but I don't recommend it anymore. It's the worst example of hardcore -> casualized in MMOdom. It's still fun as a sandbox dress-up game, but they're taking so long to ever add anything new, I'm just going to quit if a new, cute, MMORPG would ever come out.

Ignoring Tree of Savior's other problems, it's not really much to do other than fight, although combat isn't bad. You should give it a shot in a couple of weeks.

Besides that, I sort of have nostalgia for RO, but I like Mabi more than RO and have more nostalgia for it. ToS's unce-unce music doesn't get me nostalgic for it like the other two games do, so I don't know how I'll remember it. It does have lots and lots of cute enemy females though, and a strange storyline.

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>>14877588
>WoW is one of those games that will only die when Blizz themselves pulls the plug on it, like some kind of perpetual motion machine.
Almost all MMORPGs before 2006 are like that. It's something about new ones that fail to thrive. Guess you just h ad to get into the game early.

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>>14877637
It's because Blizz makes all the money back in sold box copies of the expansion at launch so they don't really care if there's a lack of content.

It's a shitty business model, but it works so I understand why they don't stop doing it.

>>14877656
In fairness, almost all of them post 2006 died because they all tried to be a "WoW killer".

They failed, then WoW would always cannibalize those games for whatever new innovative features them come up with for itself.

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>>>/qa/460458

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>>14876314
If you don't like it, there are always the spin-offs.

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>>14877707
You mean like /2hu/ - Shikiposter's playground?

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>>14877710
No, actual spin-offs, like Ota, for example.

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>>14877713
/2hu/ still counts though. It's just that Shikiposter is a boardwide menace and Waggyfaggy isn't much better.

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>>14877717
I've never actually browsed /2hu/.

I'm sorry.

[Anonymous No.]

/jp/ is the best board on the whole of 4chan

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>>14877721
this

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>>14877721
>>14877725
No it's the worst board ever so you both need to get out.

[Anonymous No.]

Why do you retards keep talking about 4chan boards in these "great"/"epic" terms like it's some norse saga? "Layers", really?
Words like "improving", "quality", "cancer", and even "newfag" and "normalfag" are turned completely fucking meaningless in these threads. It's like you're less interested in saying things as they are than fitting in by painting these elaborate and stupid histories about how 4chan boards apparently go to war against masses of outsiders (whatever the current non-overused nickname for them are).
It's just a fucking website, and a terribly shitty one at that. Get a grip.

>>14877562
That's a stupid fucking pasta and you should stop posting it.

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>>14877738
People use the words because they have a fucking meaning. You're like one of those telling people that they shouldn't complain because reasons.

4chan was different back then, it's a fact. I don't necessarily participate in the whole "we need to bla" but you telling them to shut up is exactly why all "newfags" feel at home with people like you defending their shit and probably because why all "oldfags" are getting pissed.

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>>14877066
>/mlp/ is the last line of defence
Good lord

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>>14877759
I'm not saying the words themselves don't (or at least didn't) have meaning, I'm saying that a lot of dumb fucks keep misusing them to make mindbogglingly idiotic posts like >>14877066.

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>>14877719
Beginners guide to /2hu/:
Ausfag - meido
Shikiposter - top shitposter, gets his name from all of the 'Shiki can kill x' threads he made, master samefag who accuses himself of samefagging
Fishfag/Waggyfaggy/Waggykike/etc... - Also a shitposter, loves his newhus, sages everything
CYOAfag/TMfag - residential /tg/ questmaker, pretty cool person, doesn't shitpost
Comfy Fairy - "Good night /2hu/" every day
Jewkari - Yukarifag who claims to be from Israel, originally from /int/, seemingly loved by everyone
Tewifag - murderous psychopath who uses mememagic to kill people who post on /2hu/ that don't say 'rabbit rabbit rabbit'

Any questions?

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>>14877780
Forgot to add an obligatory picture of what might just be Shikiposter's greatest work.

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>>14877791
Jesus christ.
Spinoff sites may have actually saved /jp/ rather than kill it after all. I'm glad retards like that don't post here anymore.

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second half of 2007

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>>14877780
>>14877791
sounds like a shithole

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>>14877794
Better version

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>>14877801
Recently a different CYOAfag showed up who advertised that he was going to make an extremely edgy quest. He delivered...
MC beat the shit out of Yukari in his second post

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>>14877169
Nah, /a/ now is too busy spouting meme and accusing people that they came from reddit. Some of the manga threads are still okay though.

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>>14877777

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>>14877794
>Spinoff sites may have actually saved /jp/ rather than kill it after all.

Chans that aren't made for a purpose other than "I dislike x about 4chan" are typically complete shit full of awful people. 7chan, with it's butthurt invasion faggots, 7chan2 with it's butthurt /v/ anti-feminists, and all of the /jp/ spinoffs with their various circlejerks of shitposters mad at /jp/ mods and at warosu for removing ghostposting in /jp/. They always think they're going off to make their better, free chan, but it's just a cesspit of stupid people who weren't even good enough for this shithole.

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>>14877738
>It's just a fucking website

If it's just a website to you, then I won't call you a newfag, but I will say that maybe you have outgrown 4chan.

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Seeing how this is the shitty meta thread, did anyone else notice how the word 'weeb' has been reclaimed by a bunch of teenagers who make it part of their identity now?

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>>14877834
>then I won't call you a newfag
Oh thank god, anything but that!

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>>14877841
i don't believe in teenagers

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>>14877738
>>14877767
>"Layers", really?
It's called metaphor (well technically a simile, but whatever), moron. It's an apt description for how the more a board is niche, the more resistant is is to change and being affected by people who don't conform to board culture. It's why for the most part, /jp/ is more or less the same board it was at its creation. It was founded on shitposting on 2hu (and TYPE-MOON, but that may come back if they ever actually release something again), and it's kept to that.

>>14877841
No I can't say I have, but I don't understand people who use it on /a/ as an insult. You're on /a/, it's like calling out the ocean for having water.

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>>14877827
>7chan
Now that's a site I haven't heard about in a long time. They're the first spinoff chan that I can remember that made a really huge stink about their exodus a long long time ago. Used to raid /f/ constantly with their garbage too.

Funny how some things never change.

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>>14877856
well aren't you a moron

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>>14877864
What, do you just ignore the problems with a lot of boards these days?

I don't know about you, but I've been here almost the full 10 years, nearly every day. 10 years is a third of my life anon, it's more than just a website to me. I care about what happens to it.

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>>14877169
/a/ has literally turned into memewars: the board

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>>14877873
>I don't know about you, but I've been here almost the full 10 years
Nobody asked you this.

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>>14877881
I never said anyone did, I'm just giving perspective as to why I care about the state of things. It's like a car that keeps breaking down, but you've put too much money in repairs at this point to justify getting rid of it.

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>>14877827
I like 8ch /jp/
It's somewhat telling that one of the few decent 8ch boards was around on 8ch before the GG exodus

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>>14877893
but it's not a car, it's a website.
Well, enjoy babysitting this thread.

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>>14877841
Weeaboo is just an outdated wordfilter anyway. Lets just go back to saying wapanese.

It should have been 'weeab' instead of 'weeb' to begin with, anyway.

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>>14877858
Is 八chan still embedding links in random flash files for no real reason?

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Other than the excessive amount of idol generals, /jp/ is a pretty good board still.

I don't get why the JAV thread exists here. I mean, it's just a thread so it doesn't really bother me, but they have regular JAV threads both in /gif/ and /hc/, where they can post NWS images. Is it really necessary to have threads here too?

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>>14878045
People seem to say something like "you can't discuss them there", which probably just means /jp/ - my friends are here.

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>>14876314
In 2010 december

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>>14877569
>I dislike /pol/, but yeah it's basically this. 4chan isn't supposed to have any actual political stances, for almost 8 years we basically ran on just being "contrarian to whatever party is in power, regardless of their politics". People here with actual political stances go against the organized chaos this site is supposed to embody.

I think that's what trump is though. The man just screams chaos, with extreme, grandiose ideas that scare the hell out of the current parties. The man is taking the whole election like it's a rap battle but with political rhetoric and seems to be unstoppable. It's also hilarious that the establishment accused trump supporters of masturbating to anime.

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>>14878045
>>14878062
Those JAV threads used to not be allowed here but the guy that was posting them to force it to "/jp" related content just continued to do it for like several months.

Eventually it stuck so here we are.

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>>14876407
It did because all the neet blogshiters are gone.
Sage because fuck meta discussion hope this threads get deleted.

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>>14877466
>2D is a medium not a genre
The medium is the message
The audience is the content

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>>14877822
>>14877877
The user base varies a lot depending on the show, threads about the most popular ones are absolute garbage while ones for shows that have a small fan base are more chill.
That post was describing most of the permanent user base in general, as in the people who don't just show up in there to call everything a meme while only watching 2 shows per season and complaining that they're both shit.

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>>14877169
/a/ has been fucking trash for 8 years straight.

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>>14876504
>Now that all the spammer autists are gone
Is this true? When did this happen?

I stopped browsing this board in 2013, when the mongoloid spamming Rebuild of Evangelion and the other shitposter angry at the janitor were shitting the board 24/7.

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>>14878990
Fuck

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>>14878990
Reimu is NOT an undead zombie!

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>>14877590
It's sad. Back in 1.23b it looked like XIV was shaping up to be a more modernized version of XI without being held back by the PS2 and even looked that way in the run up to 2.0 with their talk of revamping the engine and interfaces of the game so it wasn't so shit and then all we got was another shitty theme park MMO.

Oh well, at least I still got to kill AV with a dozen other DRKs before they "fixed" that all those years ago.

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Before hitting 30 I decided that I would actually try to life a "normal" life and that, in normalfag terms, went surprisingly well. Half through the support of people that still cared about me, half through dumb luck. I stopped visiting /jp/ as much around Christmas 3 years ago, and ended up not checking in at all 2 years ago.

I came back after I had settled into my new life, after the mortal terror that I experienced almost every day had gone away, after I realised just how bland and unexciting everything really is.

There reason I came back is the same reason I came here in the first place; there's no other alternative to escapism if you're fed up with (or scared of) living in the real world. /jp/ now is different than what I remembered, but still the same in so many ways that it doesn’t feel at all like I have been gone for so long.

There’s no moral to this story. Nothing has really changed and I didn’t learn anything from it, other than that being able to support yourself financially is nice if you want to take it easy in the long term. Which is what I'm forced to do, since I'm still the same coward who can't bring himself go through the portal.

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>>14878284
>with extreme, grandiose ideas that scare the hell out of the current parties
Which is hilarious given that the few policies he has bothered to commit to writing are old Republican policies that have been basically copy-pasted and made reality TV friendly.

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>>14879105
Are you me?

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never forget sageru

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>>14879304
I still do it out of habit even though I have mine indexed to Last Reply.

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what other boards are still good quality besides /jp/? I think /tg/ and /trv/ are some

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>>14879304
How old is this?

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>>14879328
/jp/ should really do a PSA campaign every few weeks or so.

"Hey, little girl! Yeah, you!"
"Always remember to be polite and sage your posts"

Or something like that.

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>>14879336
The latest post listed for /jp/ in that image was made Fri Jul 6 12:55:45 2012

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>>14879331
>/tv/
>still good

In what bizarro universe? /tv/ was one of the hardest hit.

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>>14879369
baka

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>>14879369
I said /trv/ and /tg/, traditional games and travel.

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>>14879105
>>14879296

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>>14879105
>>14879296
I feel like I'm in the same boat, although I have a hard job letting go of /jp/ even when I should be doing my grad thesis.

What's really bizarre is that everyone around me considers me to be responsible, grounded, and destined for great things even though I'm only in university because it's either I do this or I go work some shitty dead end service job that will probably give me the final push to move to Gensokyo, even though I'm scared of death and what comes next. I'm just one of the lucky ones in my graduating class who didn't jump straight into the workforce assuming that the oil industry would be hiring forever.

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>>14879458
It's been ten years and I still want to tear into Konata's virgin cunt with my unwashed otaku pick and pump her womb full of my defective baby-batter.

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>>14879461
>assuming that the oil industry would be hiring forever.
That reminds me, my company is laying people off this coming week.

I hope they axe me. Please. I want to be NEET again.

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>>14879488
When China finally collapses and bring s the world economy with it, us /jp/sies should get together and do mad max style raids for supplies in a post-apocalyptic world while dressed up in our maid costumes and kig suits.

When that day comes I want to be the girl on the left.

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>>14878990
I don't remember exactly. Sometime last year. Even before, the ghost board was used to whine about being rightfully banned from /jp/ with increasingly crazy posts where the shitposters felt they were being persecuted. The mods went a little harder sitewide and that offboard thing about janitors and hot pockets started, meanwhile the spammers here posted some goofy artist's goofy paintings of cats over and over. Both of those things would have "rude messages" to the janitors, since they thought the person deleting them would become angry or something. (although to /jp/'s credit, the last mod or the one just before had become tired enough of spamming that they deleted all but like 8 posts on /jp/ and then was fired by moot.)

After a while, for some reason I don't understand, the spammers finally went completely insane and started hiding tiny images of the painting of a goofy looking cat in normal, mostly touhou images. From what I gathered from their incoherent ramblings, they figured:
A: The janitor/mod would see the image while browsing and become angry(I believe the word they used was 'steamed') that they overlooked a cat image and/or
B: The janitor/mod would save the image and then later notice there was a cat in it and become 'steamed' and/or
C: People would unwittingly save the cat versions instead and keep posting those version over and over, and somehow the janitor/mod would have some sort of sense that let him feel something was off and thus be 'steamed' all the time without knowing why.
What actually happened is: someone would post an image, and then they'd go back to /ghost/ to jack themselves off about how they hid an image in a picture, which then became a circlejerk in the /jp/ thread and the ghost version as other people tried to find where the cat was and fantasized about how 'steamed' the janitor would be when he found it too, until the post was eventually deleted and they came. Then they'd go and do it again. There was also some unaltered version of an image that someone would post to have people looking for something.

When 4chan implemented that thing that makes a cookie that re-bans you if you try to post after changing your ip without deleting your cookies first, before they realized it, they kept being banned and just started shitposting on ghost, spamming text art in threads with discussions, bumping up old shitposts and undeleted cp images, and generally trying to flood the top pages of the ghost version of the board. It got so bad that the Warosu owned just disabled ghostposting on /jp/ altogether. The former posters either moved to the spinoff boards or started shitposting all the time, but the mods/janitors stopped caring as much(as in the board seemingly became nearly unmoderated) and so they couldn't get off on being deleted anymore, nor go circle jerk on /ghost/ if they did. Lacking attention, they kind of just stopped.

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>>14879935
LOL janniturd u steamed?

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Just make your own community. It's what I did and apart from the occasional /v/eddit memer spewing shit it's all good.

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>>14879935
I have to admit that the guy who posted niggy.jpg was rather creative in his invective directed against the Jan-Jan. Poetic, almost.

I'm still happy he's gone though.

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the wrong kind of person won /jp/, but it was inevitable

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>>14879377
>>14879455
Well now I feel foolish

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>>14877738
You're meeting all the requirements for being a newfag and a reddit/tumblr loser

https://desustorage.org/qa/thread/173406/#173436
https://desustorage.org/qa/thread/173406/#173460

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>>14880002
That was the most immature, stupid thing. (I laughed at them.) Who was that even a picture of anyway?

>>14879939
I never understood this or knew what this image was from either.

What's with /jp/ and black people anyway? There were a couple other images, that candy cane one, that gay one with the bunch of blacks and the white one, the black guy with the shopped clannad eromanga, Easy E and that reps thread, and the import of that "slaps your girlfriend on the ass" one with the dakimakura(that was the best shitpost, people keep making it into all sorts of insane things), among others.

People keep posting rap lyrics a lot too in their stupid threads with song lyrics for an OP, and all sorts of rap youtube links, be it normal ones or some guy making anime references or whatever the fuck that "y'all cowards don't even smoke crack" guy was.

Also that meme about that old tripfag.

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>>14880114

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>>14879369
>>14880085
Why is /tv/ so actually pedo though? /jp/ loves loli, and has creepy idol stalkers, but /tv/ are a bunch of raging pedos. Even if we had regular junior idol threads, it wouldn't be nearly as pedo.

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Why is this on page 6?

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>>14880127

That is an issue, but that's not even my problem with /tv/. It's because they are like teenagers, and I say this as a teenager. All people all searching for the newest dank memes.

>>14880133

It's an autosage. I guess the mod decided just letting it slowly die is better than deleting it an having to deal with someone probably making another.

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>>14880114
>Who was that even a picture of anyway?
Consensus opinion was that it was some brazilian
>What's with /jp/ and black people anyway?
It's hard to understand, but I always saw it as a vestige of the old edgy ironic racist chan culture (which eventually got swarmed and then smothered by unironic edgy racists who mistakenly believed they were in good company) with an added /jp/ twist of self-awareness of our own shittiness and worthlessness

I know most of the pictures you're talking about, and most of them fall in line with all of the goofy HWAITO PIGGU GO HOMU, slavsquatting, spurdo sparde and dancing_white_people.gif jokes that only an idiot would understand as serious, malicious bigotry. In fact, from what I remember /jp/ has consistently been one of the least political weeaboo boards. Point is that it's all just stupid shit, and since most of us are/were worthless NEETs rolling around in our self-pity day and night on the internet (and on an image board dedicated to a foreign, non-western culture of all thing), it never really made sense for /jp/sies to run around declaring ourselves the master race and posting le epic hitler memes

I wonder how Rad Thad and Arc are doing?

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>>14880140
>and I say this as a teenager.

Wow I fucked that up. I meant "and I say this as a teacher."

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I kind of miss the old way of having VN threads. Even if you finished something really old and wanted to talk about it, you could be pretty sure that someone on /jp/ would want to as well.

>>14880262
Threads like this make me sad.

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>>14877606
Maybe I will give it a try.

Little regretful I kinda ignored all those MMO threads instead of trying it over the years.

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>>14880665
I don't know if you can even blame that on /jp/. Sometimes people just stop talking about something old enough, its been discussed to death.

I say that yet we've had a strange resurgence of umineko threads.

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>>14880490
Every time I see a kid in public looking at some dumb frog meme on his normiephone part of me understands old people who get upset at kids who play on their lawn

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>>14880665
Basically this. From all the VNs I've read, there's only a handful I could still have any meaningful discussion about, and even fewer that I would want to to talk about.

I don't like that you have jump on the new games quickly if you want someone to discuss it with, but that's pretty much the case for any niche hobby.

You can always search the archive for old threads, so it isn't that bad.

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>>14880933
Meant to quote >>14880727

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>>14877568
Does the /jp/ Tera guild still exist? I thought about reinstalling the game to see all the new stuff.

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>>14880969
What server? I'm on MT and the Take It Easy guild is still here. Though there are like 10 people max at a given time. I'm new to the game so I can't really play with them.

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/jp/ has its ups and downs, and I don't even visit most threads. Just the Eroge thread nowadays, really.

I still find it hard to leave outright, though.
It's like that dick friend that goes through a bunch of stupid phases, but you can't seem to quite totally cut ties with.

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>>14880729

It's not really the same thing. Old people who do that came from a time when people coming onto their property usually meant they came to start shit, so the "get off my lawn" is more of an instinctual response more than anything.

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when are we gonna kick the general tards?

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>>14882596

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>>14882596
Once someone conclusively defines the difference between a general and making the same thread over and over.

Is the Flanfly thread a general? Are Iori's butt threads a general? Are these complaining about /jp/ threads a general?

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>>14882693
this wont do their users go away

>>14882733
wow you don't know whats a general you are a perfect candidate to be the next janny and kill the jay

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>>14882750
You can't even give an answer, but I can tell you this: If I had the power to kill /jp/, and by kill, I mean delete, I'd do it in a heartbeat.

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Once upon a time, people called them containment threads. They will keep the cancer from spreading, they said.

They were idiots.

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>>14882733
That's exactly why I don't get what's up with all the general haters. There's even the possibility that, once an official general definition is somehow created, mods twist it to their likes and start banning threads about whatever they want.
I think I should just blame /vg/ for instilling this fear of having a thread being branded a general on every board.

[Anonymous No.]

I probably have about 55-60 years left to live

I don't see myself doing anything but refreshing the board for the of it

Every day feels like a tick of the clock

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>>14887128
>55-60 years left to live
Wow thats pretty optimistic.
I'm 30 and in so much random joint pain from sitting on my ass the last 10 years being a NEET that I don't think i'll make it another 10.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14887158
Literally 5 minutes a day stretching and standing instead of sitting while doing shit will fix most of that. I could tell you to join a gym and take up walking but thats just shitposting

[Anonymous No.]

>>14887162
That might have saved it 5 years ago but it feels too far gone at this point. I haven't hit the point of needing painkillers daily but its getting harder to sleep when my forearms and hands feel like a knife in between them.

If anybody else sees this for the love of god once you start noticing sharp pains in your lower arms STOP.

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>>14887166
You should at least buy or try make a wrist roller or some other forearm excercise equipment and use it for a couple of minutes a day while shitposting. It will probably be sore as fuck initially but I honestly think you would see a massive improvement in a month

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>>14879935
how many images with hidden cats were made anyway?