/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Because Japan is superior to and ahead of the rest of the world.

>>10597058
In so many ways this is true. They had mobile internet and realized the benefit of email over SMS, they use the infinitely superior YYYY-MM-DD date format, and outside of clapping at shrines they've mostly eschewed religion.
But then in so many other ways, they're completely fucking retarded, which is why they're dying of colds and getting molested on trains.

>>10597063
I think shrines are more of a tradition thing rather than religion. I can understand that though, I enjoy Catholic history and traditions but am not a religious person myself.

Do they have porn and beer vending machines or was Megatokyo lying to me?

Also for OP's question, there is no need to make machines that keep drinks warm (although it would be very clever to have the radiator of machines that keep drinks refrigerated be what warms up the hot drinks), because you can go to any convenience store or gas station and purchase fresh brewed hot coffee, or canned cold coffee.

Maybe because most Americans have either Dunkin Donuts or Starbucks close by at almost any time and of course going to one of those places if much more of quality experience than getting canned coffee from a vending machine and in vending machines here in America most people want soda or energy drinks. Canned coffee just wouldn't be popular enough and people everywhere else don't see vending machines as anything else beyond that boring machine that dispenses drinks.

>>10597081
Canned coffee in Japan is usually sold cold.

The only canned coffee I've seen in the US and Europe is overpriced Starbucks stuff or coffee-flavored energy drinks.

There's Starbucks in every street corner in the US

Japan can have nice things like vending machines because its country brings up their youth to not act like retarded criminals.

I live near one of these fancy machines.

>>10597104
Why do places have outdoor vending machines, anyway? Are my Japanese cartoons and comics correct in saying that you can just walk up to a vending machine in a park and use it even at night?

Not to sound juvenile, but why WOULDN'T people try to break them? Cameras? Alarms? Titanium coating?

>>10597120
They're everywhere, and Japanese people aren't inherently anti-social.

>2013
>caffeine

>>10597128
But they still have punks and delinquents and just generally kids who are dicks, right?

I guess maybe if you grew up with them it's less likely? Kind of like how if we removed mobile phones from the current generation, everyone would assault and rape each other.

>>10597120
Japan has very low crime rate, and the people are very trusting. In Japan people will just live their scooters, or motorbikes with the keys still in them when they go into a store, in the United States they vehicle would be gone in a moment, but things are different there. It's much more peaceful.

I would like to one day encounter a vending machine in a random out of the way place.

Canned coffee does not seem to exist where I live, in southern CA, except for one exception.

There's a canned mocha/vanilla sweetened coffee that I've only ever found at some of the vending machines at my local community college campus; I think the name is Columbus Roasters or something. It's pretty good and I've looked at department, grocery, and convenience stores nearby to get some off campus and no one sells it. I think it's fairly new, like a year or two.

I just recently ordered some UCC because, amusingly enough, when you search on Amazon for "canned coffee" UCC is like the second result that pops up. It's also the only actual canned coffee that Amazon sells.

UCC is actually quite good. It's not flavored coffee, only sweetened and with milk in it, so it's got a more normal coffee flavor. I like it a lot. The cans are too small though.

I really, really like coffee of all kinds, hot and cold, flavored and black, so I was really excited to find cold sweetened coffee in cans I could use instead of crappy energy drinks on campus. But other than those, they just don't seem to exist outside of Japan, at least in the U.S.

It sucks because canned coffee is wonderful.

How is Pokka? Apparently I can buy it on Amazon.

>>10597149
>in southern CA
Are we living in the same place?

Because Starbucks canned coffee is in every convenience store,pharmacy and grocery here

>>10597053
Probably because they become absolutely worthless and are bitch to get rid of. That's why Tokyo is basically huge pile of trash and Japanese seas are filled with mercury.

>>10597162
I live across the country in CT and that Starbucks canned coffee is in all those places also. It's ok, I get it sometimes. Much rather just get an energy drink at the gas station though (huge selection of energy drinks here at the gas stations.) if I'm drinking anything canned and leave coffee to the actual coffee shops. There's always a Dunkin Donuts or Starbucks close by.

>>10597179
Its still canned coffee

>>10597162
The only Starbucks canned thing I've found is the weird energy drink/coffee espresso hybrid. So not coffee in the strictest sense.

For the record it tastes horrendous.

>Starbucks for when Starbucks isn’t nearby! Enjoy these bottled drinks at a picnic or BBQ and you’ll be instantly transported to one of our coffee houses.

>200ml
>£1.00

N-No thank you!

>>10597181
No, not really. And if you're only goal is to just argue with people on the internet about semantics, then I'm just going to jet.

I can't wait until I have enough money to cryonically freeze myself. In the future every street will have a small service station with a washing machine, coffee machine, and other utilities you can use for free. Fuck all these redundant machines in every home.

>>10597186
Those cost 2,5 € here. I still find myself buying them every now and then.

>>10597138
>Kind of like how if we removed mobile phones from the current generation, everyone would assault and rape each other.

what

>>10597197
You know it would happen. If all mobile phones stopped working, crime rates would skyrocket, even though we lived without mobile phones for billions of years.

>>10597186
If it's what it says it is, a double espresso shot with some milk then what is in there is more caffeine than a usual latte which contains one by default no matter what size it is. Bigger only means a more filling drink, not more coffee. A lot of people seem to not realize this. I don't think you would really want to sit back and enjoy a cold canned coffee the same way you would something fresh and hot anyways. Even a small size anywhere is enough to enjoy for a decent amount of time if you don't chug it down in 2 seconds.

>>10597209
Well unless it's all regular black coffee which will vary by what size you order greatly if you don't get anything else in it like milk and sugar.

>>10597201
>Implying technology is proportionate to crime rates

hue

>>10597201
Oh cause everyone nowadays is a sociopath. Yeah, that's pretty common knowledge.

>>10597209
I understand, but it's not just about the caffeine. These drinks are tasty, but I'd prefer a larger drink with less coffee (even if I was basically paying for milk at that point).

It's the difference between a tasty pint of bitter and a shot of pig disgusting vodka.

>>10597225
No but the sociopaths who are out there would take advantage of the opportunity.

If there were no police or no way to contact the police, of course more people would break the law. Severely limiting something that's now ubiquitous would definitely cause an increase in crime.

>>10597231
>If there were no police or no way to contact the police, of course more people would break the law.
What are telephones?

I've always wanted to try a can of UCC Coffee, too bad I can't find anywhere that sells it.

>>10597097
>Canned coffee in Japan is usually sold cold.
It's sold hot in winter and cold in summer. They change it. Though it's true that cold is generally available year round while hot is not.

>>10597144
I ate at one of these while I was waiting for a ferry to Hokkaido. I had the 焼おにぎり. They kind of suck. It's better than nothing, I guess.

>>10597075
Yes they do check the cest pool of the otaworld Sankaku Complex for details.

How close would just making normal coffee and putting it in the fridge until it cools be to canned coffee? Or is it more than just chilled coffee

>>10597186
>drink this before finals
>holyfuckasbdhap;kteuh
>get highest mark
fucken starbucks how does it work

>>10597530
It's not the flavor, but the convenience that's the issue. I don't think there are too many people who specifically seek out the taste of canned coffee, most people would prefer fresh.

>>10597094
>Canned coffee
Starbucks had an awesome brand of canned coffee but, they discontinued it. It wasn't any of this double shot stuff just coffee.

>>10597536
I might put it inside an empty can and put a paper canned coffee cover over it and pretend I'm drinking canned coffee if the taste is the same as normal coffee

>>10597094
>people everywhere else don't see vending machines as anything else beyond that boring machine that dispenses drinks.
That's what they are in Japan, though. Hell, vending machines in America tend to be more complex/interesting than ones in Japan, if anything.

>Maybe because most Americans have either Dunkin Donuts or Starbucks close by at almost any time

You are aware there are a massive number of coffee shops in Japan like, fucking everywhere, right? The vending machine issue is just a cultural thing, Japanese people use them more. There's more vending machines per capita in Japan than anywhere else on earth by a huge margin, one for every 23 people.

Attention all, I have found a way to replicate the iced coffee as seen in Japan.

First create a strong coffee by using very little water, just so it's enough to melt all the coffee beans and dissolve the sweeteners (if using)

Next pour this into a glass full of milk and stir

Ganbatte!

>>10597565
>melt all the coffee beans
Thanks, I've been doing this all wrong, will try this tonight

>>10597053

No idea, but they are fucking great. I used to get an green tea bottle almost everyday when I was in Japan from a vending machine which was always 2 blocks away from wherever the fuck i was in japan.

Their coffee cans are good too btw.

>>10597569
Sorry about that, I knew something was wrong but english isn't my first language and I wasn't sure if I should use dissolve or melt

>>10597583
The term is "brew"

>>10597589
Don't listen to this guy, the term is "liquidate".

>>10597598
juicify

>>10597178
there's an asian market in hartford, do you ever go there?
I do.

>>10597565

Here, I have made a glass in order to show you all, a nice fresh class of iced coffee, brewed using the method quoted

wherever there's too little space available for a coffee shop, they can put up a coffee vending machine. whenever US spots a free spot of land, we build a starbucks on it.

i don't know if drink machines would ever be as popular in america as in japan if they didn't have coca-cola or pepsi branding on the side. if such was the case, it'd just be the same old coke or pepsi products inside it.

plus, they'd be expensive.

>>10597662
Did you cum in it?

>>10597672
No, I added a small, highly concentrated amount of diluted coffee and sugar to a glass of milk and ice cubes

>>10597613
I'll see if I can check it out sometime soon, sure there are tons of other cool things in there I would want to try also.

>>10597681
A-Dong supermarkets, in West Hartford
They have a ton of jap drinks there, including coffee

Why haven't kotatsus caught on?
I really want to buy one.

>>10597678
Then you came in it right? You know to make it a special drink.

>>10597662
What coffee did you use? Filter or instant?

>>10597681
I always just buy a shitload of nikuman from asian markets. Those are the best snacks.

>>10597704
A teaspoon of instant inside about 1/5th of a normal cup full of boiling water, poured into a 3/4 cup of milk.

If you make it post a picture please

>>10597053
I've seem several strange vending machines in America. Like I just saw a Proactive vending machine in the mall the other day. That's pretty weird. What I would really love to see is 16 - 30 year old women's used underwear vending machines in America.
Japan even has frozen incests in popsical stick vending machines. Those are pretty neat.

>>10597952
>16 - 30 year old women's used underwear vending machines in America
That would be horrific

>>10597967
You know, America is fat and 9 out of 10 women tend to be not good looking, so I think I will take back what I said about American women. They would have to import used Japanese women's underwear and put it into the machines.

>>10597985
Japanese women aren't all lookers either.

>>10597144
this makes me hungry.

>>10597053
crime and hooliganism in general would make vending machines unsustainable in any country outside japan and some particular northern european countries.

>>10597996
i'd fug 17 tho

Vending machines aren't uncommon where I live, but no one would want coffee vending machines.

>>10597996
Nice Korean and Zainichi propaganda, K-bro.

>>10598095
Why are you posting a picture of a Chinese?

>>10598097
It's Korean. Don't change the subjects you shifty Korean!

>>10598109
He looks like a stereotypical Chinese.

Know your stereotypes, pig feet.

>>10598118
If you're going to criticize me and make such a big deal out of it, than be my guest in providing a Korean version.

You can get canned juice, coffee, tea from a vending machine in the basement where I worked for awhile. No point in buying the canned coffee, though, since the break room had a coffee-maker which was free to use.

>>10598132
Don't you like your coffee cold though?

>>10598095
Get a load of this weeaboo.

>>10598126
He should be wearing that funny korean hat

>Pokka Vanilla Milk Coffee
>Pokka Cappucino
>Pokka Melon Milk

These are the best Pokka

>>10598148
Thanks for the advise then. I'll have to spend some time in paint. The only thing is that there few to in-between opportunities to use the image and I really think I would need one of those clean or original platelet copies of the image I used.

>>10598165
You are welcome, monkey.

>>10598148
A top hat?

Does Japan has pizza vending machines?

>>10598141
Ice coffee? Eh.

Don't care enough to pay extra for it, anyway.

>>10598202
eew

>>10598173
>monkey
Hoho I'm not Japanese though.
Over 9000 hours of paint.

>>10598202

Seems like most people would rather walk into a convenience store than use a vending machine in my area.

>>10598639
Even for normal people, why is social interaction preferable to the absence of social interaction?

Is there any sort of canned coffee available in the UK? Even to order online, preferably in bulk.

I've found Pokka £8.29 for 6 on Amazon, seems to be the best deal.

Is that my only choice? Does nowhere here manufacture canned coffee?

>>10598655
What interaction? You go in, get your shit, pay for it through the guy who doesn't give a shit about you beyond saying hello, and you leave. It's not hard.

>>10598655
>normal
you just answered your own question, asshat

>>10597075

>>10597075

>living in japan
>not chewing black black caffeinated gum
dumb shits all of you

>>10598680
Do want. Do want. I wonder if I could get some of those in the street and hide myself without being seen. Oh the burdens of an Otaku pervert.

>>10597186

I think there are $2.50 or so here, maybe a little more. They're sold in 4-packs which are probably around $6-$7. They're tasty and make me more awake than any energy drink could, but they're expensive and not something you should drink often.

It's too bad Starbucks no longer sells normal canned coffee. I like coffee but the Florida summers are hot and humid so hot coffee is out of the question, so I'm left no easy options.

>>10597565

>melt all the coffee beans

What?

Vending machines?
Maybe I can hack them to dispense spellcards

>>10598901
Apparently in the 80s or 90s someone at Carnegie Mellon was sick of finding out his nearest, high-tech vending machine was out of Dr Pepper, so he connected it to the campus network and worked out a way to poll it remotely to check if it had any cans in stock. Then he connected it to the internet and people reverse engineered it, and they found out they could remotely make it dispense drinks.

Not sure if it's a true story or not, but I remember reading that it's what got Douglas Adams into computers.

A few Japanese markets here in NYC sell BOSS coffee. It tastes really good and all but I really prefer the real deal. Would be nice to get those vending machines that dispense liquor over here since most liquor stores are required to close early in NYC.

>>10599428
You are ZUN!bar.

>>10598992
>Douglas Adams
Don't panic, lol

>>10597500
>焼おにぎり

What was wrong with it?

>>10597144

So do they cook those inside when you order?

>>10599471
I don't think he is.
He does a lot of things that ZUN!bar would never stoop to doing.

>>10599584
>What was wrong with it?
Nothing, just kind of salty and bland and not worth $5.

>>10599584
It's microwaved.

>>10597075
I was in Nihon during December and yes this is true.

The Japanese inn we stayed at had some vending machines, convenience stores sold them and merely made you push "yes I am at least 20" on a screen. No ID checks.

I'm 24 myself so it doesn't matter, but everyone I was with (18-25) was drinking pretty much every night. On the street too which is illegal here.

So many dodgy black men in the slummy parts though, trying to get you into their "bars"

>>10599779
It varies by place. Some areas have cards you need to register for to buy cigarettes at vending machines, for example. It's not universal, though.

Also, ID checks in general are far more lax. Police will really never crack down on underage drinking as long as it's so socially accepted, and so it's easy to find somewhere that will just sell you alcohol. Plus, if you're foreign, they'll just assume you're of age, even if you're pretty young.

>>10599779
I drank so much of that coffee though, dirt cheap and being winter there (minami-aizu, fukushima), the warm cans were amazing.

>>10599783
>fukushima
Did you also get radiation?

>>10599794
Yeah, I have the power to create portals to 2huland at will now.

>>10598680
まだエロ本の自販機ってあるんだなｗ

>>10599779
>So many dodgy black men

Yeah wtf seriously.

Why are there so many niggers in Japan?

>>10604709
They want to spread their black genes and multiculturalism.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g0rbXBkOImM

This guy is particularly unbearable.

Hey guys what makes better coffee: filters or a cafetiere (French press)?

>>10605126
>>10599779
>>10604709

As a black man I am okay with this

>>10605245
Anything is better than paper filters. Coffee has flavorful oils that get removed by paper filters. A press is by far the best way to go, but a wire mesh filter will work in a pinch.

>>10605265
>wire mesh filter
I have one of those but I haven't really noticed any difference in the taste.

>>10605265
http://youtu.be/pH_xEjsC1Mg

>>10605267
Do you fresh grind your beans? If you're using pre-ground it won't make much difference. Once a bean is ground, it begins to dry and no amount of vacuum sealing will stop the process.

Buy whole beans and get yourself a nice little grinder to go with your press. Never store coffee in the freezer.

You won't notice much at first except that your coffee seems stronger and richer. However, after a couple weeks of fresh ground pressed coffee, then go get a Starbuck's. Suddenly it will taste like someone melted a brown crayon in hot water.

>>10605273
Never trust French people when it comes to coffee.

I once had a can of starbucks canned something or other, it was a lot more pleasant than a can of red bull would have been.

why are good burr grinders so expensive anyway

French press or moka pot?
Where will I buy unground coffee beans?

>>10605293
>Where will I buy unground coffee beans?

Any supermarket?

Or online.

Just get a bean-to-cup machine you nerds.

>>10605293
>Where will I buy unground coffee beans?
I use gocoffeego.com

I drink instant coffee.

You mad, coffeaboos?

>>10605320
To each their own. I wouldn't touch that crap if you paid me, but you can drink whatever you want.

>>10605323
Well in my defence I add a *lot* of vanilla extract. It basically tastes like hot vanilla water.

>>10605324
You'd almost have to flavor the hell out of it.

I heard that in Japan people commit suicide by boiling a kettle full of water and then chugging it all.

>>10605320
I used to have a roommate who would just eat 2-3 spoonfuls of instant coffee in the mornings before class. I often wondered why he didn't just get coffee pills.

>>10605324
sorry, but what's the point of buying coffee then? wouldn't it be handier to just buy some sort of vanilla tea or something?

>>10605329
What was his name?

>>10605331
Brian Nelson

>>10605329
Does it even work that way? I guess there's caffeine in there but I always figured it had to infuse or something.

That's disgusting anyway. You can't get the taste out of your mouth for hours.

>>10605333
How old are you that you had a college roommate whose parents unironically called him Brian?

>>10605332
I'm sure the hot water brings out some of the oils and caffeine, but chocolate covered espresso beans are still very delicious.

I wouldn't be able to eat instant-coffee "crystals", though. Bleh.

>>10605333
False alarm.

>>10605335
Brian is a very common name in the southern US.

Why would you want canned coffee when there's machines that dispense fresh hot coffee in cups?

>>10605349
I like cold coffee.

I also like drinking things out of cans.

Don't judge me.

>>10605349
Nobody ever cleans those machines.

>>10605349
I want one of those machines for myself. I guess I could just buy a regular coffee maker, but I like how they do everything for you. It'd also be fun paying for it and then getting my money back.

I live right near a coffee shop but sometimes I get a bus to a building where there's a coffee machine just so I can avoid social interaction.

>>10605364
Everyone needs a coffee machine that does this.

>>10605352
Nobody ever cleans the insides of your water pipes.

>>10605377
There are multiple filtration systems in my water pipes and it is a constantly circulating system, not a closed container.

>>10605383
What sort of filtration systems?

>>10605404
Uncleaned ones, I'll bet.

>>10605404
Unless you live out in the country and get your water from a well or live in a poverty stricken third world country, the water coming to your house goes through several regularly maintained filtering and treatment systems before it even comes close to your neighborhood.

>>10605383
>>10605416
and then the water goes through the ancient unfiltered pipes in your house. At least coffee is hot and probably self cleans through its heat.

>>10605428
>ancient unfiltered pipes in your house
I don't think you understand how modern plumbing works. I also don't think you've ever seen my house.

I'm not saying the water is pure. However, given a choice, would you drink water from a multi-filtered and treated tap or from a pot of water that has sat stagnant for a month, then heated.

Keep in mind that coffee machines don't boil the water. Killing germs/bacteria in water requires 8-10 minutes of full rolling boil.

>>10597063

>not using 平成25 as the year

step it up weeb

>>10597104

Yeah it raises the males to be retarded molesters instead and strips them of all individuality.

There's a reason Japan is a chart topper when it comes to suicide rates.

>>10605436
Well I live in America so the tap water probably has mind controlling fluorine in it. Probably better to go with the pot.

>>10597223
Please refrain from using the crossboarding feature.

>>10605436
>I also don't think you've ever seen my house.

For some reason I burst out laughing at this. It was very "playground talk".

>>10605542
I'm glad someone caught that.

>>10605335
Did I miss something? Is Brian a weird/old name to have? I knew several people named Brian in high school and at least a couple in college.

>>10597239
People still have those?

>>10598720
I really liked those! I wish they still sold it here in the Philippines.

>>10598025
this
leaving a vending machine outside at night with niggers everywhere...
it's not gonna end up well for that vending machine

>>10605500
Because there's no one there to murder them!!

>>10605261
>As a black man I am okay with this
I hope Japan never allows gaijin in ever again. Why do you want this?

>>10610943
>mfw I'm in the Navy, stationed in Japan
>mfw I'm never leeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaviiiiiiiiiing
SO FUCK YOU

>>10610965
>mfw day of the rope
:)

>>10597716
I'm gonna try this, will report back with pictures.

>>10610965
but that wasn't in Japan

>>10610991
I must have had over 10 coffees today.

Other than old soda machines, this is the only decent vending machine we have locally.

>>10611074
>"LETS GO FISHIN"
I feel for you bro.