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I'm gonna be so real i saw a thread about VN's and decided that i wanted to shove my favorite one down your throats :3

It's called "Return To The Portrait". No spoilers from me but play it
what are you waiting for
NOW /silly

what VNs have you played recently?
I played steins;gate, chaos;head, robotics;notes, and chaos;child recently and I'm currently playing muv-luv

almost through spring

Post anime you recently watched/started watching that disappointed you
Revy may be sexy but black lagoon is extremely boring

Hello /jp/kissu, I plan to host Sven Co-op on Sunday the 20th at around 8pm EST.
Sven Co-op is a free Half-Life multiplayer mod with a ton of custom maps. It's really chaotic and fun! Everyone is welcome to join, but please take it easy and don't be too obnoxious.
I'll have the necessary resources and instructions posted closer to when I host. If you have any questions, post em.

Come talk about why they're the best Youkai in Gensokyo.

yes i'll have a nakikan thank you very much i felt like crying for lunch today

shabs when they see my ween

Sukusuku Hakutaku

There's been a lot of chatter lately about Deepseek. In the online circles I'm in, people have a politics-colored understanding, more or less saying "American tech companies couldn't do this, but an opensource Chinese company could and American tech companies are in 'damage control'". Which... I really don't understand. If it's an open source model, like Llama was, for example, I don't see how this doesn't just cause there to be a proliferation of much more efficient and performant models -- the same way after Llama became available, sudden there was Phi from Microsoft, Gemma from Google, Mistral, and others.

What does /maho/ think?

Has Kissu found any interesting stores or picked anything up recently?

If not, I highly recommend you explore your local area! I especially recommend checking out non-chain thrift stores; they often have things you won't find elsewhere because they're not as picked over. If you need to get out of the house, it can also be fun to hit up chain thrift stores -- if you go regularly, you'll eventually come across something unique or rare that catches your interest.

Comic book stores, used bookstores, and foreign retailers are also great places to visit!

If you found something you want to share that you found or purchased online, go ahead!

Tenshi to

If a rich couple wanted to adopt you to be their child and let you NEET, but on the condition that they would take your balls and neuter you, like a cat or a dog, would you take that offer?

They're not going to abuse you, hold you captive, or demand interaction. They just want someone in the house.

For the past several years I have had a very poor view of myself.

One semester into university the COVID pandemic struck. Through years of isolation, physical separation from family, and poor guidance I found my grades had fallen to such a degree that I lost the scholarship I relied on for a significant portion of my tuition expenses. Gradually, I withdrew myself into only going outside for necessities like food and laundry. And my grades slipped further. I was put onto academic probation and when my grades had still not recovered I was expelled and given terms for reinstatement.

I felt hopeless, and guideless. At the core of things, I recognized my behavior was my own fault, but... it also stemmed from genuine, untreated mental illness. From a young age I had always been anxious, but that unease faded as I had friends and others to rely on. In a new place, all by myself, I didn't have that. When COVID struck and I began to withdraw, I fell into a spiraling depressive state and an uncaring bureaucracy was content to let me crash into the rocks.

For a semester I was in denial. I was allowed to remain on campus. The following semester I recognized the peril I was in. I applied to a community college to take the courses I was required to in order to be reinstated, but my funds ran dry and I could no longer afford transportation...

Eventually I returned home to live with family and when questioned with where I would be attending the following Fall, I chose a local community college. I felt like a failure and regularly thought about killing myself, but I persisted. Through a legal quirk I had to skip a semester and almost fell back into an unrecoverable despair. The university I had attended previously refused to issue my transcript and the community college I was attending would not allow me to register for classes until I had submitted it. Through an act that seemed of divine intervention I learned there was regulation that would go into effect starting just before the next semester began that would prevent universities from doing exactly this.

And so I was able to continue taking classes. I tried applying to some local universities, but they all rejected me. I thought very hard about killing myself at that point. If it was a matter of combined GPA, I would never recover. The amount of time it would take to reach the requirements for guaranteed admission would be enough time to earn an associate's degree. NaturallyPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

This time I'm making it early so I don't forget it. *ahem*
REMEMBER TO SAY RABBIT RABBIT WHEN YOU WAKE UP ON SUNDAY FOR A MONTH OF GOOD LUCK!