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 No.133986[Reply]

I'm 33 years old, and from elementary school up until now I've had a huge crush on Kinomoto Sakura and I think I will keep loving her until the day that I die.
Is there something wrong with my brain?
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 No.134010

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>>133986
Having a crush on Sakura is a sign of a healthy, working mind. She is, in a few short words, as cute as it gets.

Seriously, everything comes together perfectly with her. Cute voice, a cute, believable personality, and she's just also very cute in appearance. It's hard to describe without repeating the word cute a bunch, but you also seem to already understand in your heart anyway, so I don't need to try and get you to do so.

 No.134015

kaiju

 No.134031

File:sakura-kaiju.gif (2.6 MB,640x480)


 No.134034

>>134031
Cute stompers.

 No.134056

>>133993
I just bit this shab.




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 No.134037[Reply]

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 No.134039

5 years of hard work, huh...

 No.134040

working hard or hardly working, son?

 No.134046

They only had to do four episodes.

 No.134047

>Episode 1 was directed by Hiroshi Nagahama (Mushishi, The Flowers of Evil) and animated by studio Fugaku. However, Episode 2 was directed by Yuji Moriyama and animated by studio Akatsuki.
That kinda speaks for itself, I think

 No.134048

>The Flowers of Evil
Nice to see Mr Rotoscope has evolved to survive into the modern era by tracing 3d models instead of 3d pigs.




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 No.133940[Reply]

I'm a latin american BR working remotely "with" U.S. companies, not "at" them. Essentially, I'm a middle manager between Latin American contractors and U.S. clients. I make $50k a year in what's basically a NEET job, just doing 1:1s with developers, clients, and handling invoicing. I barely work 2 hours a day.

You’d think I have it pretty good, being from a third world country and barely working, but then I look at the FAANG managers and directors I deal with and they're making anywhere from $250k to $500k a year. With that kind of salary, I could retire in a year in my country.

How do they even get into these positions?

When I check their LinkedIn profiles, most of them started as directors or program managers right off the bat... Meanwhile, I had to start as an intern. Honestly, I feel like where I’m at now is as good as it gets if I want to keep this a NEET job. But if you think differently, enlighten me
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 No.133952

>>133947
>They're hiring foreign because you're basically making a lot more after currency exchange
I mean, yeah, 50k a year is like top 1% salaries here in BR considering 90% of brazilians make under 1k a month I'm doing pretty well for myself I would say... but I can't help but be jealous of the fortune 500 managers I work with that make up to 500k a year

 No.133953

>>133940
1. Just because it's the first thing on their profile doesn't mean that's where they started, there's no point cluttering your resume with a decade of low-level grind when you're looking for high-paying project management positions.
2. That pay is exceptional for the first world too everywhere except a handful of extremely high cost of living areas and I could retire in a few years off that, even with the government stealing half of it.
3. They are probably doing a lot more actual work than you and you're probably happier watching anime all day. Or they're lucky enough to have found a team that holds them up and hasn't collapsed under their weight yet.
4. If you get into a company early you can get an important-sounding title right away and, as long as the whole thing doesn't collapse around you, you'll be set there for life.

>>133943
Parties aren't strictly necessary, but it is key that you get people to like you socially. This is a lot easier in an office because just taking a few hours a week to chat with the people around you will impress you on them as someone who is good at their job and easy to work with. Parties do supplement this, though, and let you create those connections outside of your immediate sphere. You can also do this with friends outside of your professional sphere. Once you have some rapport with someone, just make sure they know you're looking for something more and hope they run across something you'd fit into. Or, alternatively, find something they're having a hard time with and come up with a way you could be the solution.

 No.133957

>>133952
Move to the US and you will be fucked living the way you probably do in BR because in the US you have to pay for basically everything yourself. No government subsidization of your quality of living. So not only do you need to be payed equivalent between BR vs US, you also have to make extra to compensate.
That's why you are hired in the first place compared to a local US worker.

FYI I'm CAN payed in USD so US-CA exchange rate and standard of living are fairly good. I get paid about same that a mid range dev would be payed in Canada for the price of a high-junior level. And I would not want to move to the US on my salary if I were consuming at least 60% of my month to month. Because I would have to pay for health insurance and then I have to get a car. And living in US appartments is shit so I would need to buy a house

 No.133958

>>133957
>Move to the US and you will be fucked living the way you probably do in BR because in the US you have to pay for basically everything yourself
That's already my situation here in Brazil. Government social services are shit, and the "free healthcare" is abysmal. Additionally, I’m a hikikomori and use zero (0) services provided by the government.
To be honest, I invest 90% of my salary in safe stocks and crypto with the hope of becoming financially independent and a real NEET again someday. At this rate, I’ll probably be able to retire in around ten years, by that time I'll be in my early 40s.
I also don’t want any additional responsibilities if it means commuting and putting actual effort into my work, so I guess the U.S. is off the table for me for now.

 No.133959

>>133958
You might be right then. Because Canada has a lot of benefits and I can mouche off of family if need be. If Brazil maybe only has the family benefits then dunno.

The main thing to be considering here is that you can't just blind jump into a country, especially the US, and you need a job lined up.




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 No.133650[Reply]

Just saw a

 No.133654

hadukichang kawaii

 No.133679

File:3983445.png (490.04 KB,1500x838)

I for one, am glad to be her servant

 No.133740

>>133738
saw it




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 No.133639[Reply]

Hello again. I made this request twice last year but no one had the time. I'm making it again hoping someone wants to be the hero we need.

We are working towards this year's Christmas present for anon: A "restored" version of Onimai that will have many improvement's over last years' release. A revised English translation, corrected color, many scenes that were "censored" on the BD restored to the TV version and many other things. One thing I _really_ want to include is a restored panty shot from episode 2. But so far I haven't been able to get anyone willing to edit/redraw these 30 or so frames. I am dumping these frames again with corrected colors/chroma today in the hopes that someone will rise to the challenge.

This archive has all the frames (and a few on either side) of the censored pantsu shot. It's the typical modern day "black void" pantsu shot being used in most modern anime. We would like to restore it to what it was intended to be. If you're willing please let us know. You have a chance here to insert your own little easter egg (perhaps a cute picture of a rabbit?) on the pantsu.

Link to archive: https://files.catbox.moe/c9u1al.7z

They are in uncompressed .bmp RGB32 format. I ask that you please do not change the color space and return them in the same image format if possible. If these are not workable for you let me know and I will try to dump them in whatever image format you prefer. Whatever you send back is going to have to be re-inserted into the episode itself and converted back to YV12 color space. I've attempted to properly convert them to RGB32 for you. If I fucked up do let me know. They are 123MB in .7z compressed archive and will uncompress to about 500MB. Please be mindful not to rename any of the files. As the number is linked to frame numbers on my end!

There are only about 20-30 frames total that need to be edited. The rest are duplicates or appear before or after the pantsu would.

Thanks for your attention!
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 No.133651

>>133647
>The panty shot was censored in production to appease the mass market because that's a big no-no now.
Well hopefully with how much of a sales success both it and Mahoako were we'll start to see a resurgence of those shots since obviously the market wants them and is willing to reward good productions that don't shy away from what's supposedly 'mass appeal'.

 No.133652

File:BDChroma.png (2.52 MB,1920x1080)

It occurred to me that showing the difference between the BD itself and my corrected color version might be a good idea. Pic related is straight from the BD. Next post will have the modified version.

>>133651
I am hopeful the industry might go back to its roots but I know better than to bank on it. We saw with both of these shows that the western distributors couldn't help themselves. With Onimai they censored several scenes and ruined their translation on purpose (and even went as far as bragging about doing it). With MahoAko they simply refused to carry the show at all. Which goes to show they don't give a damn about money.

The crazy thing is outside of the American market they were willing to carry both. Onimai got a proper translation in all languages but English and only mild censorship in some regions (much less than the American version at least). MahoAko was carried everywhere and even got a dub in several languages that I've heard was decent but I won't judge something in a language I can't speak. It also got very mild censorship in select regions.

What I find odd is with shows like this the people claiming to hate them and demanding censorship is the same group that insists it be involved in the western distribution. It's like asking a bunch of hardcore devout Christians to get a death metal album and a season of something like South Park ready for release. It makes no sense and the only reason such people would want anything to do with a show like this is to push an agenda.

 No.133653

File:MergedChroma.png (2.5 MB,1920x1080)

>>133652
Here is the fixed color version. Note that this isn't anywhere near what I would release. Most of the filtering I use has been displayed to allow for quick seeking to search out errors. So it isn't a perfect merge. With my usual filter chain for this show I can only process about 4fps with the CPU pegged at 100%. I need to clean up the noise and correct some minor errors in the WEB sources I'm using before taking the color from it. But this serves as a good example. In other words. All the noise, banding, blockyness etc. from the low bitrate WEB releases hasn't been corrected. It has also been overlaid on the artificial injected grain on the BD.

You may not be able to tell the difference on a monitor that hasn't been calibrated correctly. Basically, colors look less vivid due to some filtering they applied before sending the masters out for BD pressing. It's most noticeable on shades of red/pink.

 No.133655

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>>133652
When it comes to things like this, I always just hold faithful that the free market will sort things out. No matter how much investment money an agenda gets, capitalism always comes out on top. With somebody somewhere eventually asking why there's an unprofitable money sink which has no current or future monetary purpose, and with the amount of money being lost across the board I think those questions will come sooner rather than later.

 No.133683

i'll help once i learn how to draw




 No.133664[Reply]

PANNY CHAN!!!!!!!!!!(USER WAS BANNED FOR FALSE ADVERTISING (NO PANTIES ON WEBSITE))
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 No.133670

spermed website

 No.133671

>>133664
I might blow my brains out because of this post, thank you!

 No.133672

File:pain.png (550.34 KB,720x720)

What did I miss?

 No.133673

>>133672
just an ad for a bread-tan site

 No.133677

>>133672
A disappointment.




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 No.133478[Reply]

Would you pick freedom over love?
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 No.133480

File:39505816_p1.png (551.62 KB,639x710)

Wihtout love it cannot be seen.

 No.133481

File:1698079587968869.jpg (1.76 MB,2480x3071)

I choose both

 No.133487

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>>133481
You cannot. Love is constriction, the only way to have it is to give up your wandering and return home.

 No.133489

File:[Serenae] Wonderful Precur….jpg (287.29 KB,1920x1080)

the love of freedom, the freedom to love
wow, I'm poetic

 No.133499

File:punch.jpg (298.22 KB,1000x1000)

Love, but first:




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 No.133452[Reply]

weensperm boson
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 No.133455

>>133454
this tenshi spermed all over me with her corndog then flew away.......

 No.133462

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 No.133463

File:flan steals tenko's corndo….jpg (236.37 KB,582x526)

>>133455
Flan has your back

 No.133475

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>>133462
Why is she making that face?

 No.133476

>>133462
what is that left hand placement, its not going to catch anything that's gonna fall off of the doggy




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 No.121436[Reply]

People have complained in the past about a catalog-centric way of viewing boards on /qa/, but is it really that bad of a thing for some people to have it as their default view? As a primary benefit, I'd say that browsing from the catalog tends to increase the use of threads past the first page and keeps new eyes on threads. I think that this really helps to promote more long lasting discussion than pure index viewing does.
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 No.121490

>>121483
>at the expense of only seeing responses if the OP image/initial text grabs you enough to make you hover over it.
That is precisely what I was referring to, implicitly.
That's why there was a "therefore" at the start of the sentence.
I omitted a comparison to indexed view because I was not sure if there was a decent generalization to make.

 No.121524

I've found that how much I feel inclined to use the catalog is an accurate indicator of a board's overall quality. On good sites I enjoy scrolling through the index, but on shitboards I'll almost always use the catalog to single out the couple of threads I'm actually interested in.

 No.121531

I read over GNUS

 No.133466

File:C-1726969140966.png (274.22 KB,1161x529)

The catalog is good and I use /all/ a lot. What I really like is the thread viewer thing above the reply box where you can tab through older threads. It's how I found this one, just wish it would show latest replies when you hover over them.

 No.133467

>>133466
That might be a neat feature to insert as well, and would probably give people more ideas for things to reply to.




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 No.133251[Reply]

How do I stop becoming jaded? Every time I find a new hobby or interest, after I spend enough time with it I inevitably encounter the "community" surrounding it and become exposed to people and ideas that make me disgusted with the thing I initially liked. I'm beginning to believe that the only correct solution is to avoid developing an attachment to anything beyond a surface level interest.
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 No.133382

>>133364
Also, why would people think that there were print works that are not cannon?

 No.133413

File:fortune teller never stood….png (2.61 MB,1400x2000)

Off topic two hoe lore sperging, gomenasai OP:
>>133381
One note villain who is notable for being one of few to die on screen. The context is a Fortune Teller believed Humans were absolutely fucked in Gensokyo and so he rejected his Humanity and turned himself into a Youkai. In his genius he manifested within earshot of the Shrine Maiden Reimu and she saw him standing behind the body of her friend. Long story short she chases him out, he gives his monologue, and tells Reimu that she should let him go because 'trust me bro' he won't hurt anyone. To his surprise she didn't buy it and exterminated him. You can read the chapter here for the fuller context: https://mangadex.org/chapter/db650e2b-d4a3-43c6-95b8-ea617f257c5c
The filename is just a funny jab at his nativity and the joke that he didn't do anything wrong is sarcasm.
>>133382
The argument is based on retcons. The portrayal in earlier printworks don't match up 1:1 to the later printworks. One example is that PMiSS (Perfect Memento in Strict Sense) mentions that there are Youkai exterminators and that Reimu is just the most notable and spellcard rules allows weak Humans to challenge Youkai, but we don't see any exterminators other than our protagonists; so 'obviously' earlier works like PMiSS must no longer be canon and Humans are no more than helpless cattle quaking in fear.

 No.133416

>>133413
I still don't get it. I don't see why that's bait or what's controversial about it.

That's not a retcon. First of all, Akyuu is not a 100% reliable source and doesn't know everything. Secondly, Gensokyo is a big place, thirdly Reimu is of course the protagonist so naturally we will see her and not other exterminators and fourth and finally, most Youkai are not as strong as the Youkai that cause incidents and that Reimu has to fight in the ganmes so most exterminators probably aren't as strong as Reimu either and most of that kind of thing is probably fairly unremarkable. Kind of like how when Reimu(or Marissa) kills Youkai in the printworks it is fairly unremarkable.

If that's the biggest 'retcon' that people can find then I would say Touhou lore is actually fairly consistent.

 No.133417

File:ded.jpg (379.86 KB,927x891)

can't relate at all either i embrace it or let it go but i've never grown bitter or jaded from it
>>133333
was looking through all of 4chan's boards back on september 7 and on /jp/ I SAW IT and thought they wouldn't get the reference but now returning to the thread it turns out they did
>I must admit recently there's not been a lot of interesting threads
very obviously written two weeks ago
still unsure whether someone not on the know would get that pissu is a nickname
ps good number
>>133413
>notable for being one of few to die on screen

 No.133418

File:1635475467402.png (354 KB,549x1093)

We all know the real reason why the Fortune Teller got killed was because he didn't turn himself into a cute girl.




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 No.133260[Reply]

So I forgot I had a Madokami account that I hadn't logged into years but somehow something put it into my head again, and I go to login and manage to get it with the first try despite it long being out of my browsing routine. No "check your email or phone for verification" no "You must reset your password" No suspicious login blocked!" or even a "Your account has been disabled due to inactivity" even.

Why can't the rest of the web be this good still? Things should just werk.

 No.133263

i'd imagine it's because its users aren't getting phished (small pool of people that's hard to target + no monetary gain + no connection to other accounts) and they just don't give enough of a fuck to change anything
while other sites want to either prevent fuckery or add some barriers to make them less responsible for others getting hacked

 No.133285

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From what I've heard it's a site that's quite comfortable with the idea that it might disappear forever in the next 5 minutes and no one really cares. I'm not a manga guy so I never bothered signing up, but I think there's a lot of people in OP's situation as it's fallen into disuse. It's not going to have an active account help system because there's no one there to run it. My assumption is that it's just on autopilot with someone paying the bills and not paying attention, like many older sites.




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 No.133264[Reply]

"They" don't want you to divide vectors by vectors, but it's one of the easiest to understand operations you can define. We'd like a scalar q that makes qB = A, but that's not always possible, so pick the value of q that gets as close as possible, minimizing the size of the remainder R = A - qB. This happens when qB is the component of A parallel to B, and R is the component of A perpendicular to B. We'll call q the scalar quotient and write it as A/B.

 No.133265

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the world will END before +++THEY+++ get me to learn math

 No.133266

This is something "they" would like to keep a secret from you, but new research indicates there never was any demographic collapse on Easter Island. It never happened, it was a hoax.
Look up "ancient rapanui genomes", you'll find what I'm talking about.

 No.133280

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YOUR MATH TALK KILLED MITSUKI




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 No.132630[Reply]

I really like this face
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 No.132998

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fueeeh

 No.133000

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 No.133166[Reply]

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 No.133173

>>133171
i just bit this shab...

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>>133167
>>133173
Himari really needs to learn that technique for self defense.

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>>133180
Weird toes and small feet.

 No.133182

the toes and soles look like they're pressed up against glass
perfectly sized feet

 No.133188

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this is what i do to these shabs




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 No.132851[Reply]

From pointy sticks to plasma cannons, what are you favorite weapons in real life or fantasy? Weapons are more than just implements of destruction, they represent the culture and time period around them, and many cultures find certain types to be sacred or at least ceremonial. In fantasy they can similarly be an important part of worldbuilding, or more importantly just be really cool. Even wizards often need a good item in their hand to cast their magic.
Cuteness is not considered a weapon in regards to this thread!
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 No.133054

>>133050
I like the Bo as well, I actually have one and I have been trained how to use them a bit. My Karate dojo trains with the Bo instead of Nunchucks because they are easier to get and you can actually make them yourself pretty easily.

My Bo is simply a 6 foot length of Tasmanian oak that I got from a hardware store, I sanded it smooth and then oiled it and people at the dojo would say that it was better than the one they had which they brought from a proper martial arts store.

 No.133066

>>132870
>>132867
Speaking of monhun.

 No.133148

File:Goblin Slayer Atlatl.png (1.25 MB,900x1350)

Goblin Slayer of all things really took me into a hard look at primitive projectile weapons. There's also some great pages showing off the humble slingshot, but I can't find them.
I want to get a throwing senpaiang like the aborigines make and practice with it. Wish I could legally hunt with one to avoid making excessive noise.

 No.133149

File:warsteps6.mp4 (6.85 MB,1920x1080)

Do you mean guns?

 No.133150

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>>132864
>>132861
Matchlocks are cool, I especially like those stubby looking ones




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