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otaku disillusionment Friend 5/5/25 (Mon) 14:33:05 No.4079 [Reply]

I feel like I'm loosing interest in otaku related media and culture. I'm just exhausted by everything and rarely find anime I like. At the same time, I've slowly become more and more interested in traditional Japanese and East Asian culture, folklore, and religion. I think I'm burned out and need some recommendations. The problems I'm having are:

1. Repetitive themes, plot structures, and character types. It feels like every genre has been done to death at this point.

2. Lack of artistic skill. A lot of anime looks and feels the same. There's less stylistic diversity, lack of attention to setting the scene, framing shots well, just telling the story visually etc. I don't blame the animators for this. Its the conditions they work under.

3. Immorality and lack of meaning. Now this is a tough one. A lot of anime is like porn that's just meant to titillate you visually or satiate your need for genre slop. Its like a big greasy hamburger and who doesn't want one of those once in a while? But man cannot live on burgs alone, unless he's American. A lot of otaku slop feels spiritually worthless. There's no real reflection on important life themes or cause for reflection or really anything. A lot of anime and games half ass it resulting in neither a sleazy hamburger or a well made nutritious meal but a god awful hybrid.

I need recommendations /kind/.

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Friend 5/8/25 (Thu) 02:48:20 No.4110

>>4079
My recommendation is to find another hobby. Don't force yourself into burnout on something you're no longer really interested in.

Friend 5/8/25 (Thu) 02:55:46 No.4111

>>4108
Oh neat

Friend 5/8/25 (Thu) 05:12:51 No.4112

>>4108
There is nothing to know about sumo anyway, its just big fat butterballs pushing and sometimes performing throws each other.it's like playing poker, you can learn by watching. The rules can be summarised in a few lines :
>big fat butter men must bow
>big fat buttermen must push eachother out of the ring
>first one out of the ring or to hit the ground loses.
>winner bows, loser walks away in shame
that's it.

Friend 5/16/25 (Fri) 01:48:59 No.4174

>>4112
The sport itself is simple but there's a lot of great tradition around professional sumo. Saw a good documentary on it a while ago on yewtoob. I think it was called "Sumo: Beutuful Tradition" or something like that. Can try and find it again later.

Friend 5/16/25 (Fri) 09:23:01 No.4177

>>4174
Sumo season will soon be upon us. Sweaty obese lardballs will battle it out in front of a stadium full of retired geriatric japanese boomers and I will be watching on tv,as I gamble my meager income away.

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Friend 8/12/23 (Sat) 10:47:29 No.7 [Reply]

Do you wear glasses?

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Friend 4/23/25 (Wed) 07:43:41 No.3974

>>3973
Yes i kinda knew about the chink to euro scam and their absurd price points for what was essentially chinkshit.that was one of the things that motivated me to get eye correction surgery.

Back in college my friends father was an optician and he would always tell me about all kinds of interesting trade practices in the industry, like he would say that most lenses are dirt cheap with a huge profit margin and little difference in quality and that even the cheapest lens has a high profit margin.

Friend 4/23/25 (Wed) 12:10:27 No.3977

>>3974
Absolutely true. I actually sell lenses at a $30 markup over wholesale (to pay $10 for cutting, $10 for shipping, and $10 for myself). I do this as a way of flying the middle finger to all the surrounding eyecare practices.

On frames, I just price around the industry standard ($325 for any of my acetate frames) and that leaves me with a reasonable profit given the labor I put in with handcrafting every pair. The industry has bloated frame prices so much to pay for this absurd chain of middlemen that contribute nothing, that I just price according to their bloat and I consider it a fair wage for my work.

As far as lenses go, everyone deserves to see as good as technology will allow. So I do transparent pricing with my customers and tell them that whatever I pay for the lens, it's $30 over that to pay for the additional cost I will incur over it's wholesale value, $10 only of which is my pay for my time to order it and then verify it on arrival.

Fuck everyone who is charging 12x markup on lenses (in some cases more).

Friend 4/23/25 (Wed) 13:52:56 No.3979

>>3957
meganekkogekirabu…….

Friend 4/24/25 (Thu) 11:06:31 No.3983

>>7
Only when handling dangerous chemicals at work

Friend 5/4/25 (Sun) 09:12:22 No.4070

once in awhile.

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Actually good relationship advice. Friend 3/12/25 (Wed) 11:14:58 No.3571 [Reply]

/kind/ the internet is not a great place for the humble recovering hikki looking for guidance. Rage filled incel spam, pseudo psychology, really self-destructive stuff. Where can I get actually good advice?

I’ve never been in a relationship before. I’m a few years behind everyone else in college and have no idea what to do and watching YouTube videos and reading stuff online doesn’t seem to help.

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Friend 5/1/25 (Thu) 18:22:21 No.4041

>>4040
The worst of them are the bitches and they think like their male equivalents.

Friend 5/1/25 (Thu) 19:06:03 No.4042

>>4040
Never been to crystal cafe before. I assume its fujoshi central or at least a female /r9k/

Friend 5/1/25 (Thu) 20:10:20 No.4043

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>>4032
>>4037
>consneed
There are foxdicks on my /kind/ board unironically promoting foxdick farms and quoting null's unfunny memes.

Friend 5/2/25 (Fri) 05:49:10 No.4051

>>4043
That anon is probably joking, i have never been to those sites but they have such a bad reputation as fujoshi/sadist central that i would never consider visiting them.

Friend 5/10/25 (Sat) 23:50:17 No.4137

>>4036
>In the beginning you must focus on casual relationships or practice gfs.this is very important because you need a few practice relationships to be able to weed out the undesirables and finally find a quality woman.
>Once you find a quality woman, you will have to perform periodic maintenance else your woman might leave you for john doe next door.
Sounds like a waste of time. You waste your time tolerating shitty women so you can finally *possibly* find a girl that's worth your while, and then she might cheat on you anyway? Is that what I read? Personally if I found out a potential romantic partner had dozens of "practice boyfriends" I'd be pretty disgusted, but I can imagine normalfrens doing shit like this.

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video gaem Friend 9/23/23 (Sat) 17:03:14 No.361 [Reply]

what gaems are you playing right now?
titanfall 2 got a revival and it seemed like the best moment to get back into it

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Friend 12/11/24 (Wed) 22:16:14 No.2981

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Playing through Morrowind for the first time. Having fun even though I'm slow as hell and miss more than half of my attacks. Probably messed up somewhere in character creation.

Friend 12/15/24 (Sun) 04:45:39 No.3003

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>>2981
seems realistic. most people would try to dodge attacks in real life… try focusing on accuracy more, i guess?

Friend 3/23/25 (Sun) 08:45:58 No.3684

>>361
Battlefield 4, I like it

Friend 4/30/25 (Wed) 20:38:33 No.4033

Just got a PSP emulator on my android phone and it turns out I can use it with a PS4 controller. What games should I try to run? Ive been playing that weird shrek racing game and enjoying it.

Friend 4/30/25 (Wed) 21:56:28 No.4034

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>>4033
I remember enjoying battlefront 2, crash of the titans and metal slug anthology on my PSP as a child.

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ITT post bury pink Friend 3/12/25 (Wed) 17:24:18 No.3575 [Reply]

you know what to do

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Friend 4/1/25 (Tue) 21:20:59 No.3816

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niceness can break all locks

Friend 4/25/25 (Fri) 09:58:54 No.3986

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Friend 4/26/25 (Sat) 10:38:23 No.3992

>>3585
It is

Friend 4/27/25 (Sun) 18:47:53 No.4001

[s4s] is the only worthwhile part of 4cancer and even then half of it sucks.

Friend 4/28/25 (Mon) 04:40:01 No.4006

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>>4001
true, but /wsr/ has some kindposters as well.

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Anime Friend 8/15/23 (Tue) 10:27:41 No.40 [Reply][Last 50 Posts]

What are you watching /kind/?

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Friend 3/20/25 (Thu) 19:04:51 No.3650

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I watched Look Back, it's a very sweet movie!

Friend 4/15/25 (Tue) 06:33:14 No.3905

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Roujin Z

Friend 4/16/25 (Wed) 13:22:49 No.3908

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>>40
I'll be done with Bakemonogatari soon! I actually expected to like it less but here we are. Can't wait to check out the Kizu movies

Friend 4/22/25 (Tue) 00:47:04 No.3967

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>>1102
I love Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS

Friend 4/22/25 (Tue) 01:32:55 No.3968

>>2581
I've been meaning to watch this since it's the last anime film to use cels, as far as I know.

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hobbies! Friend 3/11/24 (Mon) 06:16:11 No.1116 [Reply]

do you guys have any fun hobbies? i play kusoge ("trash games") and do DIY!

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Friend 9/3/24 (Tue) 02:38:35 No.2413

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>>2406
>the pace could be a bit slower
when you refer to pacing, you refer to the level speed, or the difficulty?
. and it would be fun if you could destroy the blocks like in bomberman or mario
that is a mechanic I want to implement, with a twist though.
>a boss battle near the end would keep the game from going stale.
the main variety of the game would come from different obstacles, a boss is planned but only as a final challenge.
Thanks for the feedback and playing my game! I'll keep working on it!

Friend 11/3/24 (Sun) 04:25:59 No.2721

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https://www.taptouche.com/en/typing-test
typing's a fun hobby! how fast can you type?
>>2413
the level speed's too fast, i think… it'd be more fun if it were a bit slower. maybe down 5 to 10 percent or so?

Friend 11/3/24 (Sun) 10:01:42 No.2722

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>>2721

Friend 11/4/24 (Mon) 03:32:38 No.2724

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>>2722
not bad!

Friend 4/19/25 (Sat) 02:05:28 No.3935

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>>2722
typing update! i'm still at 88 WPM… i haven't practiced in a while, though.

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teh oolite wether klub of /kind/! Friend 3/8/25 (Sat) 08:38:44 No.3534 [Reply]

how's the weather in your area? have you seen anything interesting in the skies recently?

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Friend 4/11/25 (Fri) 12:35:42 No.3873

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>>3872

Friend 4/12/25 (Sat) 16:55:24 No.3881

>>3873
It was very windy, but I don't have a kite. I don't think I ever played with one.

Friend 4/13/25 (Sun) 02:43:39 No.3890

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>>3872
was it sunny and was the sky blue like in this picture?
>>3881
kites are fun to fly on windy days at a park…

Friend 4/14/25 (Mon) 05:11:40 No.3903

I hate weather where I'm at, I cannot wait to have enough money to be able to move. It's literally all the same dull ass weather for most of the year, this winter we were blessed with raining about every other week, but usually it's just dead, empty sky, sun bearing down on you. I grew up in the desert too, it's not the heat that's the problem, just the fact that it's too empty and still. Feels like nothing is changing, everything's too comfortable, makes me feel lazy and complacent. I hate that feeling. I hope to god we get some more wind this summer, even if all my neighbors are gonna piss themselves over a slight breeze.

Friend 4/18/25 (Fri) 14:10:24 No.3922

Today while out on my usual stroll I got caught in a summer storm, with hail. Fortunately the ice wasn't large but it still hurt a little.

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