You're welcome!

Kissu.moe?

For what? I should be thanking you, Anonymous.

>>114256
because umm... you gave me a kissu and looked very moe.

>>114258
ah, I see...

>>114256
Kissu.moe?

I liked it

>>114261
It's one of the imageboards, Snake. Imageboard is a type of Internet forum that focuses on the posting of images, often alongside text and discussion. Call Otacon for more details regarding this imageboard.

>>114269
Listen carefully Snake. Born from Cold War paranoia, ARPANET; the Pentagon's 1969 experiment in decentralized communication stitched together four university computers to survive nuclear strikes. By 1983, its protocols bled into civilian life as TCP/IP, morphing military redundancy into anarchic global communication when the Berlin Wall fell. The web's public debut in 1991 disguised its origins: a weaponized network pretending to be a library, then, using this new technology, is when the imageboard phenomenon originated in Japan's late 1990s digital underground circles, ephemeral forums where users posted raw, unfiltered content without centralized moderation. A digital Wild West where users could post images, text, anything, without identity. No registration. Users, "Anonymous" are all the same. No ranks, no badges. Only the text itself holds power, instead of who says it, unlike forums of the era or modern social media. The board is to anonymous what the katana is to the samurai. This decentralized architecture became the breeding ground for otaku subcultures to refine moe (萌え) aesthetics. Unlike traditional forums, imageboards thrived on destruction and recreation; threads would self-disappear unless actively maintained. Think of it like a honeycomb of "threads". Each one holds a self contained topic or discussion. The first major board, 2channel, became a cultural singularity. Then Futaba Channel. Then... 4chan, 8chan... This one in particular is when /qa/ board on 4chan was nuked, so Anonymous created his own alternative, like how Big Boss created Outer Heaven in the 80's. Kissu.moe is hosted in Canada, focusing on Japanese otaku culture, and with Kuon from the popular visual novel utawarerumono as a mascot....

>>114253
Thats sure is one weirdly placed and very pointy nipple.

>>114253
You're welcome!

>>114275
Kuon?

>>114275
Great post. I'm not a Metal Gear fan in particular so I can't contribute.

>>114288
I have made AI voices of the metal gear characters saying those dialogs, to make a small codec edit, but I am not an expert of utawarerumono, so I can't write an autistic dialog about Kuon to continue. I hereby call for kissu reinforcements.

>>114292
All I picked up on so far is that she is blind, a ball, likes media news and performs various testing, likely also being a scientist.

>>114293
Well... that's... partly accurate... in a way... but not really.
Also as a general FYI she's not kissu's mascot, I just really like her a lot so post her occasionally. Kissu's closest thing to a mascot would be Hazuki from Moon Phase, but even then- not really. People really just never settled on a kissu mascot. People didn't want to force it, but it never came naturally either. Maybe one day...

Interesting that it's the impression people get, though! Maybe it's just the innate power of Kuon that she takes up people's thoughts and they think she's more influentual than she actually is.

>>114295
Weren't you guys, or one of you at least I think, intending for Hazuki to be the mascot but the idea just never caught on? I remember having been surprised when I heard about her role and I believe the "issue" is that she isn't too prominent on the front page. She does appear in some featured threads and banners, but is kind of drowning between all the other images.
Of course no one minds this or seems to particularly care, but if there is ever a need or want to settle it, working on that aspect might help.

>>114302
We could always make our own kissu mascot!
< idea guy

>>114302
Something like that. But it's also kind of boring to just have an established character from 20 years ago as a mascot. There's not much you can do with her. I once made a "what traits would a kissu mascot have?" thread like 7 years ago but nothing really came of it.
Let's see... trying to remember it. Cat ears, maid outfit, uhhh a slight belly.. can't remember what else was mentioned.

>>114316
>Cat ears, maid outfit, uhhh a slight belly.
She needs cuts in the wrists for extra moé.

>>114317
That's not moe at all!

>>114319
Why not?

>>114320
Oh wait this is Welcome to the NHK isn't it?
But nooo, no wrist cutting! That's not cute! It's not happy! I guess some people like the misery stuff with the savior stuff, but nooooooooo!

>>114321
>Oh wait this is Welcome to the NHK isn't it?
Listing random features for a character reminded me of that scene.
>No wrist cutting! That's not cute!
You can like it or not, but wrist cutting is considered moé by definition, is not about the act of self harm by itself, but because emotional distress, dependence, or a character's need for protection are gap moe, the contrast between suffering and cuteness, like clumsiness or shyness. Therefore, she becomes an object of empathy precisely her flaws and suffering humanizes her. This in japan is the concept of "amae" (甘え, the desire to indulge dependence), where caregiving for broken things feels emotionally rewarding, psychoanalyst Takeo Doi, discussing about the concept of amae, he describes it as a uniquely Japanese need to be in good favor with, and be able to depend on, the people around oneself. It's also the embodiment of "mono no aware" (the pathos of impermanence), a nihonjin idiom for the aesthetic appreciation of impermanence, or transience of things, and both a transient gentle sadness at their passing as well as a longer, deeper gentle sadness about this state being the reality of life.
<The Japanese embrace the concept of Mono no Aware, which is seen in their love for cherry blossoms, as they bloom for only a week each year. Sitting beneath them, people are poignantly aware of their fleeting beauty, reminding us to cherish every moment of life.
The fact that you feel discomfort, is a part of the appeal by itself, it 's a way to safely explore despair through the representation of the symbolic.

THIS IS WHY WESTERNERS WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND OTAKU CULTURE HAHAHAHA

I wanted to write this longer, but I have to sleep. Oyasumin~

>>114316
I think I remember that thread (or maybe it was different kissu mascot thread), we came up with a lot of funny ideas, but the problem was that nobody knew how to draw.

>>114517
Yeah, I think someone even mentioned Moetron or a similar concept, just an amalgamation of different kissu-like traits. We could try again maybe...

>>114322
this anon gets it

>>114322
Fine. For the psychologically corrupt and manipulative, moe can be a disfigured, depressing abomination dependent on the viewer that wants to get a dose of torture porn instead of saccharin joy.
But it's not cute.
Not sure what all that other stuff had to do with the discussion, though.

>HIS IS WHY WESTERNERS WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND OTAKU CULTURE HAHAHAHA
I don't "understand" guro and other aspects of creative ugliness, either. I don't want to.

>>114322
While I don't recall anything resembling the psychological
>"amae" (甘え, the desire to indulge dependence)
Mono no Aware, as aesthetic sensibility, isn't exactly different from carpe diem + memento mori combo, is it?

>>114694
Something I have noticed is that a lot of "unique" Japanese concepts aren't actually unique at all, other countries just don't make a big deal out of it or/and don't have a specific term for some concepts.

>>114694
While both are about impermanence, the roman concept is more about taking action of life yourself, and the japanese is more contemplative, I think this reflects their Buddhist principles. While in the west, impermanence is something to overcome, in japan is something treated as beauty.