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is an imageboard for neets with nice discussions i hope to see you there!

https://neets.moe/

>>29156
i Like Otter

>>29168

Here you go then: https://otterchan.net/

>>29167

Soytrannies are degenerate pedos. More news at 11.

28chan
Mintboard
Hikari3
Bantculture
Kissu

Those are the main ones I use besides here.

I'd say its the internet in general nowadays that lost its fun. Everything has to be tryhard, everything has be edgy, bitter, sarcastic, filled with in jokes nobody gets except those who are "in" on it. People can't troll and raid anymore without posting illegal material thinking they're cool shit when in reality they are just joyless retards. People can't exclaim joy for things on websites without some sort of bitter detachment. Everyone has to be witty, sarcastic, and "smart" when in reality nobody on the internet is any of things, otherwise they wouldn't be online wasting time. Fun is wrong unless its politically approved from whatever side. Everything has to be political, everything has to have real life effects, everyone has to be involved in the personal lives of people they don't know. It's tiring. Years of irony poisoning from the typical retards of 4chan, kiwifarms, right wing grifters like Sam Hyde, etc have molded imageboards to be bitter, sadistic and sardonic. Meanwhile social media are filled with fake positivity, demonization in the form of "left wing activism", virtue signals, and treating every shitty government thing as the end of the world and actions must be taken NOW. Our society has become so hyperpoliticized largely thanks to this, and the few areas that aren't inherently political, able to have fun without the sadism or political nonsense, and have genuinely good communities capable of original content are being choked to death by outside forces seeking to establish their plights into the community, growing inactive and bitter by the minute, and unable to be like they once were.

It is what it is at the end of the day, this was inevitable with blurring of real life and online thanks to social media. We can try to change it by making things that are actually fun, but chances are others won't join us or just insert their own agendas. Nothing has ever existed within a vaccuum, but the internet was a whole, different world back in the day compared to uniformity of today. But I still have hope.

There definitely isn't a thing I can point at and say: "This! This is the cause behind it ALL!" Perhaps the mods, the mods are always wrong and evil! What's the point of tripfagging mods when you can't even play with them nor fuck them silly?

Now for some "enlightening" Internet essayist SEO farming bullshit nobody asked for but is being typed regardless out of loneliness and desperation. Most people using anonymous imageboards / social media groups today are terminally online and regurgitating the same culture, resulting in digital incest on a global scale, infiltrated by commercial and government interests. Motivation has a strong part as well. Nobody sane uses forums or any public spaces for pure entertainment on their own nor can afford to. Your digital brand and perception in meatspace are far too close. So everybody is farming it like it's Linkedin combined with a dating app. And you are not going to unlearn your habits just because the site doesn't allow you to shove your name up everybody's ass. It will just leak here.

I believe >>29162 is a mere symptom of a more broad phenomenon of people not using these spaces as a public bulletin boards but as a digital replacement for a third place (next to work and home in sociology theory, allegedly), stripping any benefits it could have and acquiring all of its negatives. The atmosphere is very similar to most pubs in big towns I have been to recently. People are equally as boring and toxic IRL as they are online, it seems like.

I have seen it on all technology-related forums as well, even the smaller ones actively trying to create something different. Any post that's only interesting or neat or requiring actual input and thought from readers gets maybe a dozen interactions. But when it's something where it seems like somebody did something wrong or outright drama you see hundreds of people interacting all at once, even when they have literally no fucking idea what they are talking about. They want to talk but do not want to show themselves as vulnerable or human, they want to feel good about converting others to their believes and modes of operation. Just like I am doing here.

>pull up a decade old thread
>act shocked people act different now
i dont know what you expected, people and site culture change and mutate.
it seems youre just complaining people arent acting the way you want.

>>29161
Son in 2011 I was the supreme commander in chief of retards, of course we have changed, everyone there is in their 30-40s now.
People change as they grow older and new generations are a product of a different internet.
This is not a critique however, I'm the guy who went to /g/ to provoke one of our old users into saying the vomitive shithole line, and I have faith in the young generation. One of these days, they are gonna drop the dankest of memes, people use that word now yes? dank?

>>29165
I have a "Dank Meme", Right Here!

bottle/10

>>29082
Those are some really cute thighs.

>>29088
the fuck is ur white ass on about tf u mean "morality" in response to a picture of a fucking pair of legs

>>29082

Judging from the hairlessness and shapely nature of your thighs, I find your dedication to keeping your body clean commendable. How impressive.

rolling

Princess Peach was sitting in front of her vanity brushing her gloriously golden hair. No matter how hard she tried or how many times she tried it, she can't seem to get those curls down. However, everyone in the Mushroom Kingdom thought she was beautiful nonetheless.

As she put her hairbrush down, she rested her head on her arms and began contemplating her life so far. Everyone saw her as a perfect (despite how many kidnappings she was subject to), beautiful, and kindhearted princess who was sweet to everyone she met, but deep down, she was just like any other woman; constantly facing turmoil over what she wants in life. All the work she had to go through to keep the Kingdom maintained was exhausting; from the different living situations of her citizens to what should be built and where. On top of that, she knew she would have to get married someday to keep her lineage alive for generations to come. Of course there's only one man this princess would choose to be her spouse, but the question is: does he feel the same way?

Peach picks up a picture from on top of her dresser. This picture was of Peach herself as a baby, being held in her father's arms. She then looks up at a tall mirror on the wall in front of her. The princess was in slight disbelief that the gorgeous woman she was staring at was the same as the adorable baby in the picture.

She puts her hand to her one of her breasts and mutters to herself, "Girls really do grow, don't they?" Peach suddenly gets an idea. She goes over to her desk, grabs a piece of paper, and begins writing…

The next day, Mario was in Peach's Castle, making his way up to the princess' bedroom. Earlier that day, he had received a letter from her asking for his presence. Once he arrives at the bedroom, he knocks on the door.

Peach opens the door and says cheerfully, "Mario, thanks for coming!"

"Sure thing," Mario replied as he entered the princess' bedroom. "So what did you need to see me for?"

"There's just a few things I wanted to get off my chest and I wasn't sure who else to turn to," Peach replied, closing the door behind her. "I'll just get straight to the point. Be honest with me: how do exactly you see me?"
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to make it out okay i guess

i dunno

Because the link in the itch.io of towelket 1-2-3

long video about yume nikki and fangames

>>16922
the fandom Yume Nikki fangame wiki linked threads to here sometimes in their downloads

Found it while searching for yume Nikki downloads

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>>26702
thoughts on the kobo kindle ?

Time to smoke em

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Anime vs aid - 2015
>Japan has typically seen Africa as a basket of problems to be solved with aid. It should see it as a big media market.
>Japanese culture is a very serious matter when it comes to this passionate group of South Africans, and although the idea of manga fanboys and fangirls in Africa may seem a little incongruous at first, it shouldn't be a surprise at all.
>Tokyo's dominant perception of Africa can arguably be summed up in the words of Makoto Ito, Japan's ambassador to the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD), Japan's central forum for aid to Africa: "Africa faces challenges such as income disparity, overreliance on natural resource trading, infectious diseases, political instability and recurrent conflicts," he said. "International support is essential to tackle these issues."
>But this manic creativity hasn't always sat well with the Japanese government. Throughout most of the 20th century, the Japanese government viewed its pop culture industry as trivial and embarrassing at best. It was only after the end of the bubble economy in the early 1990s that the government grasped its global popularity. Diplomats then had to catch up with foreign fans that knew much more about Japanese works than they did.
>What followed was an uneasy alliance between Japan's creative industries and its government, with the latter trying to use global fandom as a gateway to public diplomacy. This collaboration came to be known as the Cool Japan campaign
>The presence of China in Africa is nothing if not controversial, but both its supporters and critics agree that China is in Africa to do business. Whether that business is ultimately to Africa's benefit is hotly contested.
Can a Nerd Get the Girl?- 2005 Kay Itoi
>Pity the poor otaku. Obsessive-compulsive recluses, they are the diehard fans of Japan's world-famous subculture hobbies–anime (animated films), manga (cartoons) and videogames. More comfortable in a virtual world than the real one, they are notorious for their lack of social skills and even less fashion sense. The general rule is that otaku can't get dates.
>So why, suddenly, are they hot? Chalk it up to the new "Densha Otoko" phenomenon. Last spring a (Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

Facet Analysis of Anime Genres: The Challenges of Defining Genre Information for Popular Cultural Objects.- 2018
>Anime, as a growing form of multimedia, needs a better and more thorough organization for its myriad unique terminologies. Existing studies show patrons' desire to search and get recommendations for anime. However, due to inadequate indexing and often con- fusing or inaccurate usage of terms, searching and acquiring recommendations remain challenging. Our research seeks to close the gap and make discovery and recommendations more viable.
A New Golden Age for Western Manga. - 2018
Something something globalism, diversity, blah. It's polished looking I guess.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zExgYp0Um2E5AE3S5OyCzZWlW1gz23SP/view?usp=sharing
Black Women in Sequence: Re-inking Comics, Graphic Novels, and Anime.
Text not available, funny title though. The narrow-sightedness of these people never stops being amazing me.
AMAZING ANIME MOVIES
>While many librarians are familiar with Japanese anime adaptations from popular manga series, such as "Naruto," this roundup will focus on stand-alone feature-length films. Whether your library is looking to expand its anime selections or trying to start one from scratch, you'll find the titles below useful.
Half of it is Ghibli. Satoshi Kon only gets Tokyo Godfathers. No mention of Ghost in the Shell and that type. Guess i'm not surprised.
Magic, Shōjo, and Metamorphosis: Magical Girl Anime and the Challenges of Changing Gender Identities in Japanese Society.
>It is argued that the genre developed in close connection to the culture of shōjo (female adolescence) as an antithesis to adulthood, in which women are expected to undertake domestic duties. The paper then incorporates contexts for male-oriented fan culture of shōjo and anime aesthetics that emerged in the 1980s. The recent tendencies for gender bending and genre crossing raise critical questions about the spread of the magical girl trope as cute power. It is concluded that the magical girl genre encompasses contesting values of gender, and thus the genre's empowerment fantasy has developed symbiotically with traditional gender norms in society.

Anime's Brave New World
This one is also good.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/19ntOKKpTbArJ0M8JPnKMG7_DALH811O3/view?usp=sharing
Anime, mon amour.
>The article focuses on "Forget Pokémon," a Japanese animation that explodes with gay, and lesbian themes. The woman who challenged the heroine for the emperor's affection turns out to be a man. A young hero's attempt to impersonate a princess collapses when her female lover climbs into bed with him. In Japan animated features, television shows, and direct-to-video series include every genre and type of character — including gay men, lesbians, and transvestites. Perhaps the oddest use of gay characters in anime is "yaoi" - romances between young gay men that are created by women for female audiences, especially adolescent girls. INSET: Ten DVDs for anime beginners.
The Role Of Visual Novels as a Narrative Medium
https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/bitstream/handle/1887/31703/Thesis%20Dennis%20v3.pdf?sequence=1
>New visual novels are released (almost) daily, but often with more than one release per day (with 23 releases on 12-Sep-2014 alone: four in English, nineteen in Japanese). Three out of all 23 were not classified as\ 18+, and reasons for this include sexual content, an area of visual novels I will not be discussing for
several reasons (such as barely any focus on a story at all, but more on that when I briefly discuss ‘eroge’, ‘erotic games’), and other 18+ games include violence and other graphic themes. For example, the first two games discussed this chapter are both rated 16 by PEGI (‘Pan European Game Information’), an official European organisation concerned with games and age rating. Illustrated by the 23 releases on one day: the genre is big, but this includes all visual novels that are made by amateurs or are otherwise poorly developed.
>In a sense, as there are many people who write short stories and upload them to the internet, there are also many people who write visual novels and upload those to the internet. For this reason, I will limit myself to a few examples of visual novels: famous series from large developePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Thanks,

>>28731
stay with me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOHOJo0DMfU

>>28998
Let Me Stay Here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RMVJTLZOzQ

nom nom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2XD42MVLok

4chan will refuse to pay daily online safety fines, lawyer tells BBC (bbc.co.uk)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq68j5g2nr1o
Haha at UK

>>29101
Ha Ha