/jp/ - Otaku Culture

been awhile, jp...

>>17797212
well that's black pill territory and i already mentioned that in my earlier post. usually thats too much for people not in the know. all women are the same biologically in terms of relevant negative traits.

and as you say the only difference that matters to guys is the level of discpline, but none of that is important when you have a culture and legal system that lets women destroy mens lives and careers.

>>17797183
don't be a soyboy. do your own research.

>>17797149
you don't understand. when people unironically refer to normie'ing, the only real bad part of the advice is blue pill/dealing with western women bullshit. generally being self sufficient, taking care of your health, having the social skills to work on this economy, that's how you be happy no matter what sort of life you choose to lead. you want to travel? money. you want games/figs? money.

>>17796735
ill start looking into his stuff now, thanks. and well, while i wouldn't call it drivel, ironically, if one is truly existentially nihilist (which to me is the most logical viewpoint), well then you could technically make any subjective goal you want in order to "find meaning". but the thing is one can't lie to oneself. what is meaning? i dont know but to me, worthy meaning is a thing worth deciding to live for confronting pain, for.

certainly i do feel where meaning lies, which is in creating certain projects that are doable over years/and maintaining good health. but it all feels like a pipe dream bullshit.

certainly, then, things should be done step by step. first take care of health > financial independance > work out > quieted mind and peace > now start creating.

yeah but not going to such extents because effort etc. i can already see im probably going to get to that point where im normie independant/workout but...i have this deep premonition that i just wont want to create the projects i have envisioned for so many years. and it all seems like fate to me. the common pattern in human history. it just seems i would become another number.

if life is just a roller coaster ride then you get off, there is no need for philosophy or what not, really, except to ease the pain of existential nihilism.

as arthur says, if "life in itself had meaning, was rapturous, there would be no need to go searching for it as men do", or something like that. life as it is has not presented an answer worth enough for us.

with rise of education people stop believing in icons, figures, governments, religions, and become japanese tacos

and in materialist society/value system, all we do is hop from one distraction to the next. being a scientist isn't good enough because life is so short and its like setting out to put together a 1 Trillion Piece puzzle that you'll never finish in your life time. you won't get the answers you're looking for, so why bother.

>>17794268
Look, I've known for awhile that's always an option and not terrible, but if we're talking about simple quiet life basic stuff, then yeah. Its alright. But its not really being alive. There is the ocassional game or manga once a year that comes out that I feel really alive playing or doing but those things I feel dull in meaning and excitement as I age. Once I reach age 50 ish if my health isnt pristine i can't compete in fighters or do any shit i like to do now, and i just turned 25. fighters competitively used to matter but i feel ill never be satisfied if i cant' fight the best, and since i dont live in cali or japanese arcade, you're left with netplay and traveling 2 hours to play the best 3 people in your region for maybe a 3 hours then driving 2 hours back home. no value.

conversely, becoming solitary old man style and having a little garden, a fish tank, and maybe a dog in a nice neighborhood sounds cozy. with the ocassional touhou/rpg/dragon quest games in between. but its just a slow burn to me. existential nihilism and the upkeep of a boring 9 to 5 is a net negative life to live.

or live mega poor but work free. then have to deal w roomate drama etc garbage

>>17785468
this is an amazing thread to see on /jp/ wow. i really am not interested in the idol threads or any of that jazz. no offense. but this is nice. very berry nice.

i really dont know why these weren't around in the old days. i only found out bout EO recently.

>>17790929
you don't get it, at least from my point of view, once someone sees reality for what it is, you either let go of desire or you pursue your desires and must face whatever suffering that comes along with it. but the issue is when neither are fine.

when you don't desire anything you deem worth the suffering/work, or you;'re just too plain weak/weak willed to change into someone who can fight for what you desire, you dont' care to live anymore, and screw you its a fucking imageboard and i got a $10 insignia keyboard

>>17790435
Haha, more like "flan the man", am I RIGHT people?

>>17790563
strangely accurate to my current thoughts since this year. finally finished mob psycho (manga) and well, its sort of just that. kind of being honest with your limits and knowing its okay not to be special. and i dont think largely i ever thought i was after my teen years. maybe this is some sort of japanese humility of the civilian or something. i dont know. but you have the greek society (early on not the later shit portion) where art and aesthetics were big, and it seems to me every person of any class was inclined or inspired BY their society/relatives/artworks to become something amazing. and not JUST for the COLLECTIVE or Emperor etc but ALSO for oneself. Nietzche for example says something like "in the pits of abyss/despair, high art is what can inspire a man to see beauty in life". and to me Dark Souls, Berserk, some Manga, Music, etc, are really awe inspiring.

such things like that can kind of stablize a person but yeah. then its just this humdrum day to day. to live with fire and passion i dont think you can be a slouch.

i guess i want that fire but without the effort, and that's where video games kind of come in. but 99% video games/hobbies are all humdrum now. find new hobbies? i dont know if that would work. i just see the whole "hobby thing" as a means of distarction

physical health, exercise, working out, that sort of thing... that healthy lifestyle, some light socialization, etc, moderation. that to me seems like the healthiest "happiest route".

>>17790532
and who can help me? i dont think almost anyone. all actionable advice would be related to what the easiest 40hr job or trade to get into would be so i can live as cheaply as possible.

ultimately its each individuals responsibility to find and pursue their happiness. some people are lucky and dont know they have it. but i think i know where it is for me, in extremely difficult dreams, but i can't justify the effort required to pursue those dreams, so ill just settle for less, but the pain of not being your best self, even in a nihilistic viewpoint, is the greatest and inescapable pain of all, perhaps. one cannot lie to oneself.

hardcore jrpgs, fighters, some visual novels, 1980s manga, walks in nature, these are great, and luxuries, and blessings im happy for. but they're just quieting the thunderstorm of nihilism, and betrayal of ones greatest version of self.

and that's why this post, and all this is pointless. but i loved old jp. and i have nothing else to do on a saturday night than drink my shitty energy drink, sit on my bed and just type on a stupid dead imageboard

>>17790512
to live well i only see two options, full ascetic monk alone in mountains/or a temple or pursuing the greatest desire/dream of the will (perhaps within some reasonable measure).

the second is self-actualization, basically, and since im a lazy shit who's generally unmotivated and have bad habits etc i dont have much of a resume or anything at my age. what i desire as a goal is too great for me to effortfully make real, though I think i have the aptitude to do so. is this fate all along? pure weakness?

well, its taking the easy way out. at this age id find the ascetic style way too boring id rather just off myself but that's not an option, there's people i care about being around to take care of, weak as i am.

so since i'm stuck here the idea is to minimize suffering/somehow get a reasonable job that can support a cheap apartment where i live frugally.

but even a simple quiet life i foresee being boring, with all my years ive wasted like most jpers doing jack shit post high school/college. college too risky and idk much about trade school.

bla bla bla used to travel for fighting games, used to go to cities and explore etc but the fires gone, competitive fighters are shit now/no one plays the good ones. can't imagine other hobbies filling me with such purpose. real life martial arts? at 25? mediocre health/skinny body? eh. outdoors travel/bla bla? dont like bugs. books/manga/jrpgs? can only handle a 3-4 hours of those a week. even being free from work (your job is to evenutally entertain yourself), i haven't found much meaning. shitloads of philosophy/red pilling etc. aristotle(i think) said the purpose of philosophy should be to improve the quality of ones life, but for me being red > black pilled brings me to a point of things being a big joke. not in a dudebro420 sense but that great cultures of past across the globe (eastern and western civilizaitons are gone) and places like japan, hungary, poland, thailand, are difficult to really fit into/live etc. all shit

>>17790489
moog posters were always the worst, /a/ filth

>>17790463
im agree with the arthur Schopenhauer and buddhist concept in terms of suffering; that suffering stems from desire. to end desire is to end suffering. the idea of an existential meaning in life is ever more absurd as i age, not as if it weren't years ago. but the more one learns about science, reality, psychology, history, etc, i think you see people repeat the same patterns over and over like a wheel and even within the microcosm of one's own society or country we're insignificant.

suffering is just another factor in the brain but it exists as a thing no less. generally growth only comes from pain and to change means to walk through fire. but then as arthur says, the mind never ends with having a desired goal, and once its obtained like sissyphus we simply desire another goal and the work continues anew, all to please our will. life is just a thing to do be done.

>>17790476
im 25 you faggot

>>17790461
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oJm2S5F-7w

>>17790430
yakui, flanfly threads, ocassional yukkuri thread, wriggle thread, barely anything anymore. i remember tripfags (which were and are always shit), the only one i recall by name was ZUNbar though. then there was suck my cock dude. then who are you quoting. then remiride, that was very cute. i even remember when Visual Novels were still the last thing unique to jp no one else did. then higurashi etc went mainstream, biggest was probably steins gate(moeka best girl).

i remember joe. i remember the beginning facination with NEET/Hikki threads. piss bottles. i remember autismbux. i remember the jp mansion. its all dust. one desires a community, something closed off, i think it makes sense, humans need an us and them, ingroup out group. that's healthy and normal. there is a lonliness even for the most independant person., where even a little imageboard on the internet isolated from normies is nice. now i just play etrian odyssey and wait for the one or two jrpgs a year to come out.
oh and lastly,

"/jp/ is not your personal blog"

fuck you guys

It's my 25th birthday today, /jp/, and I can barely afford Persona 5. I don't know anymore, life is just whatever. this place isn't what it used to be, etc, probably full of normies and all kinds of shit now. I miss 2k11/prior days. I really miss them,. Even 11-13 the invaders were only other people from v and a (a bit of a shitters) but then 12-14+ it just got total normie'd up. 8ch jp got good quality stuff it seems but its just not the same. Maybe there's some emotional attatchment here since its like home... but idk. like the author of NHK, ive come a long way in life and yet I still haven't changed my nihilist outlook, but even became more black pilled. whats the point going on, just to suffer? every day i know ill have to work 8 hrs at some horrible place just so i can come home and play what few vidya are actually fun anymore. communities on clear web are all just normie'd up, with links from reddit and facebook. i am here just to suffer, it seems

Fluffy Pushyyy

The best part of the day is finally here!

Life is meaningless and even if you die, that wouldn't make a difference in the grand scheme of the universe, /jp/! Please understand!

>>17397000
Refer to below!

>>17354121
Refer to the above post. That was WATASHI WA (myself, indeed!) and I made an error in not tagging you in that post. How forgetful of me...but then again, much like Wriggle, I too have a momentary memory!

Alas, "love is a lie and adventurers soon die" as is said...therefore, an eternal party for the great Oni Suika everyone! Grab some biru!

Hey I recognize this picture. Dammit, I know ya dang well can't drink all that stuff with the dentist visit! You can't bamboozle me, you darn Italiano!

>>17395500
Hey no need to be mean. A Nino is fine too dammit! Shes a Venusian who lives i a squat community and is peaceful. Yeah, alright!?

>>17391769
Please stop spreading misinformation regarding Wriggle's gender. Wriggle likes to be known as a girl, and while we're not sure what her gender is, we should call her by what she wants to be known as and looks like, which is after all, mostly a girl!

>>17395139
Please dont be so lewd but...I mean I don't get what you mean? Why would you care about his--I mean her feet anyways?

>>17392037
Honestly, it's not THAT bad of a picture.

>>17392229
Thank you anon!

>>17287755
More like "flanfill", you mean! Hahaha!

>>17287795
Marisa kinda looks like a boy here!!

>>17287769
Agreed.
>>17287819
BERY cute motor chicle but not today Remy! I will defend this as FLAN only thread. Your sisters light deserves to shine tonight! Who's with me!?

>>17287831
Meh, her eyebrows kind of look like a Canadian boys, like Grimes, who is a waif indie artist!

>>17287807
I didnt read your post because of the length...maybe if the text was smaller I could read faster...