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What it really comes down to is that if you're a prude or can't separate fiction from reality otaku media is not for you.
You either stop consuming it or get a job at a creditcard company and try to ruin it for everyone else.

I know what you mean, I think. I remember trying to talk to this non-wapish person about an anime I liked, I mentioned not wanting to talk about it around kids who were there at the time, and the person was chiding me pretty hard for being into raunchy stuff like that and I had to explain to them I was thinking about a character in the series killing themselves. It struck me as really odd, because I've put myself in this position where I forget horny anime/manga like that even exist because I don't interact with that beyond the weird one-off jokes some series have (like that cat from Soul Eater), that's not what I'm attracted to the medium for. But then, when I do find other waps, they too assume I mean something I don't in that kind of way when "adult matters" are brought up. I think the outsiders have stereotyped me, but then everyone I talk to about it seems to fit the stereotype, so I have no companion on either side of the issue. It's very alienating. It makes me feel dreadfully alone in my interests. I try to talk about how this romance exemplifies the fear I feel when being vulnerable, or how this gritty underground story shows the hearts of darkness we all try to hide, or how this racing story shows that it's okay for our passions to be perennial, but it seems incomprehensible to non-waps and waps alike that I would be into this stuff for any reason other than extreme titillation, sexual or otherwise. I'm sorry I have no solace for you; there really is no one to talk to about this kind of stuff, you're spot-on. I cope by trying to dive ever deeper into the anime/manga I interact with, by posturing as some kind of keeper of it, so you could perhaps try that, but then maybe that's not healthy…

>>7064
The comparison to superheroes is true too; I've come to the conclusion that battle shonen is the Japanese equivalent of superhero movies. They share the same perks within the media and within their audiences. Also like superheros, there are meaningful and impactful stories beyond those things, but the idea of really being into that seems ridiculous to everyone else. Anime seems worse though; at least people at large generally agree that Watchmen is great. This also relates to being pressed by both sides; a non-wap is going to assume I just want some weird exotic stuff thrown in to my good guys pwning the bad guys epic style indulgence, but then a wapPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>7079
>Also like superheros, there are meaningful and impactful stories beyond those things, but the idea of really being into that seems ridiculous to everyone else.
Ueaht's not like I never ejoyed the super hero movies or comics I read as a kid, I just found tropes lije the costumes or secret identities silly. I also read through all of Dragon Ball and HxH (after watching the anime, which I liked enough to read the manga), they both served as series I could get through without much thought or too much emotion, which is what I wanted after going through too many heavy series like NGE or Haibane Renmei (cannot recomend highly enough by the way). But it did cause me to decide while I liked both to varying degrees over their long runtime they weren't for me. I feel like I've done my diligence with both genres to decide I don't need to dig deeper anymore and can ignore recommendations from them.
>Also, how old is an old book? I've been trying to read more canonized books recently; I claim to be a lover of old books, but then I'm a bit of a poser because I haven't read many, in fact very few older than the early twentieth century.
I'm a poser too, I buy way more books than I read. I get them from antique shops and so don't bother to check how old they are in specific, but generally they'll be at least fifty years old. Unfortunately my attention span has been raped by youtube and so I can usually only get thirty minutes of reading in at a time. I'm going through a good short story collection now called Twice Told Tales that's great for this fact, as that's about how long one story takes me. I posted about it in /lit/ and would love to see the board more active. It's from the early 20th centry itself and can be found in full online easily (I hate reading books on computers or phones but if you can do it it's so easy to find things ti read) if you want to join me over there, I'd love to talk about it with someone who's also read it, as opposed to talking at someone who's only politely listening. That board in general needa more activity.

Otaku culture feels like its gone off the rails. Instead of shows with fan service, we now have shows that are just fan service. The mainstreaming of anime has created a generic Japanese culture fan that's engagement with the material is extremely surface level. Nobody discusses anything they watch with detail. No speculation about what the backstory is or the world. There's no creativity involved from the fan side now. Its just casual superficial consumption where there's a 2D girl for everyone and the regurgitation of the same worthless shit. Its girl collecting and really that makes people no better than the normalfrens that watch baywatch. Like it really does feel that people are no longer actually fans of any series in a deep way and they consume stuff for the sake of it. Really not different to porn addiction. You look at these people and they are embarrassing. It would be nice to talk to someone about an anime or manga they actually liked, that they are passionate about discussing, that can speculate on the lore or say something meaningful about it. I guess you kinda still have that with Touhou and even that's stale, but what else? Long gone are the days when there was any sense of community built around something.

I'm just frustrated so this is obviously a rant that will seem unfair to some. I get it, you can always point to exceptions sure, but take the average anime fan today and don't tell me you don't feel slightly embarrassed. They are just like TV addicts in the 90s and 2000s consuming their regular dose of trash tv.

>>7087
It feels like Touhou or EVA or Hatsune Miku are popular because they are popular. People pretend to like them or force themselves to because that is what is expected to fit in. In fact people love to pretend they hate EVA or say EVA is overrated just to fit in with the cool kids.

Either im crazy or im mixing this up with another OVA, i couldve sworn there was a buttery fly/moth character in this that looked kinda like a human baby the same color and stuff as the snail thingy.

Aside from soulless characters I also want to mention that the plot was hugely inflated. While The Last Battle was well written and all plots/subplots were finished, majority of information fed to us earlier was simply truncated.

The most soulless thing about The Wheel of Time is that at no point does the story convince me that certain objects truly have mentioned properties. "Light, but he/she is beautiful!" "He/She's a genius!" "He/She's so smart!" "He/She's so scary!" It is especially infuriating when things that are obviously oversimplified are actually described as overly complex/great/magnificent/genius/etc.

The One Power is an almost unbearable thing. It does not exist to expand the universe or introduce novel concepts or interesting techniques. It is no more than a plot filler that plays no substantial role. He took classic elements from <Name Of Any RPG Ever Made> and then… then he did nothing. Weaves (webs) of One Power are unlocked to characters at need, when plot demands it, and characters do not need to expend any of their efforts to achieve anything. They just plod along the story randomly "discovering" amazing powers withing them. The only explanation author ever gives is "I do not know what I did, but it felt right so here's this overpowered weave to beat our enemies!" Well most of the time the weaves were not overpowered, but the fact that they were Sent From Above instead of Honestly Earned made it a boring reading. Basically nobody understands anything about the One Power (even Forsaken) and everyone's just doing what "feels right", so weaves can only be unlocked when The Wheel deigns to put it in the mind of a channeler. Such magic systems are worthless, they are soulless business jewish slop.

I didn't know Nishida was a gamer :o

I recently acquired On Killing by Dave Grossman. I will get to reading it soon, I'm in a slump where I like reading but I have trouble getting myself to because my computer is right in front of me and It's like a moth to a flame. I recently read the spy's son as a course book and I think it was pretty good. I wish I could have taken more time with it as I read it within 2 days and cranked out an essay for it, but I think it is really interesting none the less. I have also been going through The New High Ground, by Thomas Karas idly, It's interesting and I think the pictures are cool!

Been slowly workimg my way through Twice Told Tales. Picked it up without knowing what it was at an antique shop (how I usually buy books) and it's quickly becomeing one of my favorites. Short stories about the colonization of New England with a very spiritual angle most of the time. Really fun as someone who considers myself spiritual. I love learning how persons in the past saw the world. I wish I could make myself read all day like back when I was in high school.

>>382
This work is from the nineteenth, actually; Hawthorne died in 1864. I have been eyeing Hawthorne for a while, mainly his novels, so this is a good first step for me. I'll probably pick up a physical copy eventually, I need to buy the books I'm going to give for Christmas so I can enjoy them myself first write notes in them and get ahead of shipping delays and whatnot, so I'll probably throw it on that. I have a digital copy that I'm dealing with so I can get my foot in the door and you don't think I'm ghosting you before I make it to that point though.
I thought "The Grey Champion" was alright. I forget where I read it, but I saw someone say that there is no Christian art, only sermons, and while I disagree with that notion it did reveal to me the reason why I end up disliking a lot of Christian art, because they're really sermons. I like sermons and reading them, but to masquerade a sermon as something else it pretty brutal to both forms, I think. "The Grey Champion" felt a lot like a sermon, cautioning the reader to not lose sight of their heritage nor their spirit, chiding that one must remember and embody the English Puritans of old, for this is the ultimate arbiter between humanity's continuation and its fatal doom. The people of New England are devastated by oppression, but even this faint rumor of an escape from it emboldens them and sets the rest of the story in motion - they needed that "silent agitation" to fan the flames of rebellion that the Grey Champion would rely on. The crowd, so to speak, is meant to be representative of the reader, but also are the physical apparition of the Grey Champion's speech to Andros, they give weight to his words that they would not have were the Champion alone. It's interesting to see Hawthorne stay the course of violence in this story. There is no need to enact it to accomplish the sought goal, but it is only its real and tangible presence by the crowd coming upon Andros and his guard with even stones from the street that enables their righteous victory. Also interesting to note is the undertone of the people's homely true low-church versus the oppressive high church, "the union of Church and State, and all those abominations which had driven the Puritans to the wilderness." I feel this work is also pretty timely because English - though not really American - puritans are having a resurgencPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Patema Inverted this Saturday at 8pm UTC.

>>7046
Live in 15 minutes.

>>7049
Thank you for the stream!

Paprika this Saturday at 8pm UTC.

>>7084
Starting soon.

>>5979
GGs, thanks for playing.

>>5981
GGs, well played!

lobby suku soku sausage party
and i'm all out of suku sausage

>>5983
GGs and thank you for the suku soku.

>>5983
All out of suku soku now too
GG
>>5984
Suku Suku

>>6745
That's pretty nice, thanks for sharing!

Would you like to play a literary role-playing game, /kind/? If you would, then write a piece of a modernist prose about a carburetor.

is this a cute posting board now

>>6912
always was

Hi, I'm new here. I like what I've seen so far.
Being bored, I thought I'd add to the theme of the thread, talking about my life and current situation. Or just whatever feels interesting to write about.

I think I'm in a similar headspace to many here, mid 20s, often pained by how much of my life it feels like I wasted.
But I always feel hopeful, optimistic. Not always happy, necessarily. Generally ambivalent, or numb. But always with this feeling that I'll get everything I want, eventually.

(putting this here after the fact, there's not much of a point to this story, it's just what's been on my mind and I felt like writing it out.)

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I accompanied my mum to the doctor yesterday morning, and before driving us home she thought to get me something to eat. It was really busy so my mum told me to get out the car and order for myself while she found somewhere to park, I was hesitant, and if this kind of thing happened back 5-6 years ago I wouldn't have been able to do it. I can order for myself at certain places, if I've done it at that location before, I'm generally comfortable enough doing it again. I hadn't ordered here and was always anxious about the idea of doing so, it's a pie shop and it's one of those places where they have all the seating out front, and you walk past the people eating, to go inside and order. I also don't like the aspect of ordering somewhere where I haven't done so before, where, it depends on the place, how you wait to receive your order, how they inform you that it's ready. So I had that on my mind when I was walking in.

When I walked in I noticed like 3-4 different staff members, and they were all really cute girls. Which heightened my anxiety a bit but I guess also made me happy. Being in your mid 20s, with no friends, being NEET, you don't get chances to interact with cute girls all too often. One girl was going was going around cleaning I think, she needed to get past this guy to open a door to put something in there or clean something, but he didn't notice and she seemed too shy to ask him to move, so she was just standing there for a bit, which I thought was cute. I worked retail for a few years so I know exactly what that shyness feels like, in that kind of moment. There was also this older lady who literally had to brush past him when she was leaving the store, so I think he was just kind of a jerk. We also stared each other down for a bit for no particular reason whPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Patchouli is really cute with messy hair… ufufufu….

>>7081
Among the cutest in the thread.

I also saw that thread on 4/a/.

>>6201
Because I don't have a metal 3D printer, nor do the vast majority of consumers.
>Plus it'll be harder to destroy and would probably last a lot longer then a plastic one.
She has lasted for quite a while once I worked out the design kinks. The 3D print actually has a low infill, because I needed to reduce weight and keep her lightweight, which is also a disadvantage of metal. It's not like I'm sending her to war or to the wilderness.

I have updated her to v3.0.9. She has a new body now and new accessories.

The right hand and the gripper claw feel uncomfy. Maybe if I mask it with a glove and put a bit of stuffing inside to pad it out?

>>6649
Your site seems to be down.

>>6650
The site was down temporarily, but it's back up now
There's the humanoid hand on the left arm. The claw is meant to hold accessories, which adds plenty of uses. It's not that uncomfortable to hold, trust me.

Made some upgrades, including to the AI manual

>>1246

Im the guy you were originally trying to quote.
You aint gonna find anything old or from broadcast in torrents, thats mostly for modern releases of old stuff. I cant speak for private trackers.
If thats what you would prefer i cant recommend anything there. All the DDL sites i used to get stuff from are gone.
I find most of the stuff im looking for on archive or dailymotion, veoh had alot of older releases and broadcast recordings of stuff but its all gone now.
At this point there isnt much left out there.

>>1247
What a depressing post, but thanks for your answer, I appreciate it. Anyway, I don't care how I get old releases and broadcasts, everything is fine for me.

Despite of never had a single chance to play the actual game, I think the anime is pretty good. The song and music of Sakura Taisen is just glorious. Such an amazing music composition ever made.

>>1286
The games were a bit too RPG for my taste. I had no idea there was an anime.

Bincho-tan is always a nice and relaxing watch. Very comfy show.

>>953
The writing wasn't exactly bad, the issue is that they had to compress the entire thing into just 13 episodes so the end result is a lot of cuts and bullshit

This show really wasn't that bad in retrospective. I hope people end up appreciating it with time, as it has happened with some SOL from the 2010's.

niikura love

>>901
i luv wako

>>3595
I'd include some anime but they would have to be full features or OVAs instead of whole series, unless they are short. I guess the hardest part is simply getting enough people to come along. And I don't want it to be yet another anime stream that runs the kind of anime you could see anywhere else.

>>3591
Don’t think it would work as a separate board honestly, I have watched plenty of old Japanese cinema films so I am familiar with these

There's almost no place to talk about old live action japanese films. You can see here someone made a rather thoughtful well articulated post on /tv/, and it got a whopping 2 responses before dropping off the map. Probably less than 10 people have ever read this post.

I also utterly adore trashy Japanese cinema as well as what might be considered more serious art. I love it all. It's the same kind of impulses for animation.

>>3608
Same. I guess we could create a thread for it on wap? So far, I haven't found enough people to justify a Japanese movie stream, although I've attempted it, but I guess a thread here is a start? The only issue is generating enough activity. The problem with Wap is the chronic feeling that nobody will ever reply to your post.

>>3591
The weird thing with movies like this is people will resist watching them like "noo why are you showing me this old shit" and turn down these great movies.

How can a part of melody music sample could become into something really big? its been a decade old ever since and elf-san really did surprised me lol.

How do I get over my fear and dislike of dogs?

>>7043
First you have to really want to do it

Then just start slow. Look at pictures of dogs, watch videos of dogs. When you're comfortable, find someone with a lazy, nonthreatening dog and hang out near the dog without interacting with it. When you feel comfortable, pet the dog. Keep going like that

It's all right to dislike dogs, though

>>7051
I am fine with pictures and videos but irl I just can not stand them or being near them and get scared when they come near me. Its pretty embarrassing.

>>7052
I'm in a similar situation. I even think they are cute. But I'm still afraid. Worst of it is that dogs have a tendency to run up to you, and their owners expect you to like that. The owners don't seem to like to put them on leash either, even though the law here obliges them. Not that it matters, when I was bit by a dog two years ago, it was on leash. I usually avoided dogs even before that, but in that case I was walking on the sidewalk, and I couldn't just cross the street due to traffic, so I thought it would be okay to pass a dog, on leash, with its owner right behind, but the dog had different plans. Every time I talk about this, the first question everyone has is what did I do to make the dog attack me. I did nothing. I was just walking. Dogs are weapons, they are kept to scare you away. Is it really that surprising that one would attack unprovoked? I don't care if it is embarrassing, I avoid dogs as much as I can, and I try to make it clear that the dog is the reason I cross the street or stop dead in my track or try to hide in the bushes or whatever. I have been laughed at, people tell me their dog does not bite (there's always a first time), or that the dog is more afraid of me than I am of it (aren't afraid animals more likely to attack?), or order their dogs to sit or do tricks (cute, but you had to call it five times before it went back to you). There used to be a dog around here that would run up to me, stop like two meters away, and just bark like it went insane. Its owner, an old lady, would very slowly catch up with the dog and tell me that the dog just hates men and it won't hurt me, and that she deliberately walks it so late (9 pm) so there's less people outside. But she still did not think it should be kept on leash or anything. I swear there's something wrong with people who keep dogs.

So yeah, I don't really have any advice. I don't enjoy being afraid of dogs but I think it's the sane response to them.