>>130055
Will research help me not be a sperg when I try to woo a 2hu?

I was saying that, when I read a story, I imagine that it actually happened in an alternate universe and that I am reincarnated from that life and might be set to reincarnate into it again.

So I was asking for advice on how to stop this thinking, since if I'm reading a particularly gruesome story, it would make me scared of reincarnating into that.

>>130059
You have to research that part of the Charisma tech tree. Also cooking, it's very effective. So is good sake. Really just loosen them up through their stomach and the effects of sperg will be severely dampened. Hell, it can just come down to the individual 2hu. Yukari for instance would be more than happy to talk with a tree if it shared her weird interests so being a sperg might not be that big of an issue. I'm sure you'll find one to sperg out with.

>>130065
Reincarnation isn't anything to be worried about. At least if we're talking in the Buddhist sense where shit like that actually matters. It's simply a cycle of karmic debt, the shittier the person the more they have to live to learn their lesson and adjust to a better mentality. Whether it's a worse reincarnation or a trip to Hell you'll balance out and start again. Hell isn't permanent either unless you end up in the Avici (even then it technically has an end) for the select few profane sins like genocide and malicious patricide, or somehow killing a Buddha; not something the average person has to worry about.

Trying to stop yourself from thinking about something is a fools errand, you'll just think about it more like the game. Or put it this way: your past lives were just that kuso, so given you're here now reflecting on it, you're on an upward trend and can't reincarnate as anything worse then you are now. Just plod along and do one good deed a day, no matter how small.

>>129960
>On a side note, what story would you want to reincarnate into?
I made up an on-going story through the power of imagination several years ago (maybe a decade has past now). I am basically destined to re-incarnate as a cute black haired girl with long hair in some world where they have Kami's assume the identity of girls hand picked for that purpose and have their spirits forcefully pushed out of their bodies so a Kami spirit can enter it. Then the Kami's use their knowledge and powers to guide the course of humanity in that world. But there is conflict because there are multiple Kami's vying for world domination along with many imposters pretending to be Kami and fooling the general population through technology and other forms of deception.

Each large city/town has a temple within it and worships a different God. Most Gods get along or at worst hate each other but don't let their own dislike of other Gods/religions spill into all-out war. But a few want to upset the status quo and attempt to purge the lands of every other form of God/Worship but their own. A few of these are backed up by very powerful Gods that do things like introduce them to technology like firearms to make their armies more effective in the field. Gods are supposed to be banned from participating in those wars. But sometimes they sperg out or get angry and genocide an entire army to protect their own village.

Anyway, most of the time I'm chillin in the temple hanging out with my personal medios/mikos and manifesting cool stuff like stereos and music from this world as my own form of entertainment (or to show off to the King). One medio is totally devoted to me because she was best friends with the girl that used to inhabit the body I'm stuck in and I upgraded her status to full Miko when I got angry about how the Mikos were treating the medios. The other is a total tsundere that's angry that I don't enforce the class rules and make her do things that are "below her" like helping the medios cook. She's also mad that I allowed the medios to attend school instead of being forced to do slave medio labor everyday with no outside interests or hobbies. Shes _really_ mad that I won't tell the public that I'm actually a God. Instead I continued living the life of the Miko I took over and started attending school with the devoted medio. SinPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Some things really need to learn when a good end point is. Assclass knew its perfectly.

>>129433
Having read the LN, I don't remember it ending up like that. In fact, the last fight showed rudi as quite incompetent when it came to fighting 1v1. Sure, he was powerful, but it was more about his relations and things happening around him, than him being an OP MC...*
*IIRC.

>>129582
I guess that's true. The wiki doesn't paint him that godly, but all the "mushoku tier lists" put him at the top. I don't specifically mean they paint him as godly, but it seems like most of the trials from now on are about him doing amazing things.

Well, I want to know more about the combat gods (or whatever they were called) and actual gods and the floating island thing that was shown in the first season and other loose ends. I don't much about Rudeus, but the world itself still has a lot of interesting stuff in it. Like many other stories it's the characters around the main character that are the most interesting.
But, as a whole (second to last episode of this most recent season excluded) there's been a severe lack of stakes. The Mushoku Tensei world seems to be full various factions and conflict, but the past 30 episodes didn't really show much of it. Rudeus has personal problems. Rudeus goes to school. Rudeus buys a house. It reminds me of the age of the filler episodes for manga that didn't yet have an ending.

>>129432
i read the filename as norm disgust

I think this most recent conversation is a generational thing, although calling it generational is a bit inaccurate since people usually refer to that by age when it's not necessarily the case here. Obviously I'm going to generalize about Japanese stuff since I'm not actually one of them, but I have read stuff now and then and of course see references occasionally.
Being an otaku/nerd was definitely not cool and something you would generally hide. With otaku being a pejorative, especially after the aforementioned otaku killer thing, it seemed better to hide your predilections unless you know you're among your own kin. Not only will it avoid harsh judgements from strangers, but it will prevent you from creating awkward social situations. From what I've seen Japan is great at accepting that people can be weirdos in private, but being one in public is heavily frowned upon. This is also the case outside of Japan, but I don't think it ever reaches the degrees of tolerance for fantasy in private and intolerance towards straying from the social code in public.
Sometimes it seems strange to me that people can't understand that otaku was a bad thing to be called, just like being called a nerd or a geek was a bad thing to be. I think it's a modern internet thing where such terms have been "reclaimed" (watered down) as something you can put on your status page without elaboration, so such words carrying weight is a bit unusual if not incomprehensible.
On the English imageboard side of things people called it "powerlevel" and while it sounded funny, most people had the understanding that it was a form of protection not just for the individual but for the group as well. You can see this in older internet stuff when someone shares a clip of someone violating this safety net (like on local TV news or a college presentation or something) and people have trouble watching it because they feel empathetic shame and even anger at the person for doing it. As >>129775 said restraint is a force for good and it's important to keep society functioning... probably.
Maybe this is a bit of a moot point now since the algorithm will expose and destroy everything we hold dear until it moves on to the next thing tomorrow.

>>129557
I submitted it because I was lazy. But in my defense the project was supposed to be about video editing. I didn't download someone else's shit and try to pass it off as my own. I actually sat down and took the time to edit something from VHS tapes I'd captured. But I didn't think things through and she forced me to show it to the class as punishment. She won in the end.

>>129686
That's part of the reason why she didn't like them. But the hate for Otaku was already pretty widespread by then. Plus the meaning of Otaku has kind of changed since then in the west. It's was closer to "geek" back then. Trust me geeks were hated, shamed and shit on even in the west back then. This geeky stuff becoming cool didn't happen until much later.

>>129766
Columbine wouldn't happen for another year or so at that time. We were still allowed to bring fake guns to school back then. Used to build models of them in art class for fun and shoot them at each other. The knee-jerk reaction to Columbine was fast and swift. They tried to force us all to buy new backbacks that were see through. Most fell in line but after a month or two they gave up on that. The clear plastic ones were crap and the mesh ones fell apart within a month.

Anyway, the violence in gaming thing had already been going strong for years at that point thanks to the Mortal Kombat and DOOM stuff being a hot button issue in Congress.

>>129775
>I want to add to this. Otaku were resented for other reasons too, but I think I'd be upset too if all people cared about concerning my culture was the geeky, dorky, media aspects of it.

It was exactly this. She wanted to teach us about her culture. She ended up getting every geek/otaku in the school for her two classes. She didn't get enough students to fill more than two periods. Which is why the school dropped the Japanese language classes pretty quickly. I was shocked we even had it as an option at that time.
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>>129818
Oh I also remember now she wasn't angry that I'd chosen to do an end of year project about anime/media itself. She was mostly upset because I didn't go into enough detail about the people producing and working on it. Basically, she wanted an essay about animators, seiyuus, production companies, history of them and that sort of thing. But I basically had tried to pass off a collection of fansubs and a kuso AMV because I was lazy and already had a lot of that stuff laying around anyway. I tossed that project together in 3 or 4 hours at the last minute.

In my defense my work load was pretty unbearable back then. My parents and grandparents really didn't care for the school since it was pretty useless anyway. I only got to focus on studies after I'd done all my work around the farm everyday. Which barely left me an hour or two a night if I was lucky. I couldn't stay up late that often to focus on studies because I was up at 4-5am every morning 7 days a week to do the daily chores I was assigned. I was expected to get a bunch of stuff done before the bus showed up to pick me up around 8am. I was also expected to work on Saturday and Sunday to make up for the fact that I wasn't around to help on weekdays outside of summer.

Probably why she took pity on me. Since she was aware of my home life. She took more interest in her students than any other teacher I ever had. She once showed up to our farm randomly just to check on me because I'd been out of class for a couple of days. My Grandfather would often force me to lay out of school when the work load got heavy since it was all hands on deck during those times.

>>129794
>Being a nerd who doesn't go out does have the benefits of remaining drug free for the most part and away from STD-transmitting 3DPD.
I'll certainly agree with you on that, lol.
>>129816
>Maybe this is a bit of a moot point now since the algorithm will expose and destroy everything we hold dear until it moves on to the next thing tomorrow.
I'd wish the algorithm would hurry it up dammit, I want most of these people out of my hobbies. They have invaded all of them.

>>129819
>an essay about animators, seiyuus, production companies, history of them and that sort of thing
Sounds like a lot of work to me. More evidence that kids are getting dumber each generation.

I think the last time i posted on 4/jp/ was 2019, it was before I finally gave up on the original /qa/ anyways.

>>129605
I'd think I made this post in my sleep if not for the fact I don't have this image with that filename saved with me. I didn't post in this thread yet. It's pretty much the same for me, including the fact that I played YMK back then as well. I found out about it on /v/ in 2008 I think. It was my first 'real' VN aside from some pixelated dating sims like True Love I played as a kid.

>>129670
Aside from my aforementioned reasons, for me it's also a game of evading the latest deep packet inspection censorship in my country while still using my actual IP address to post (most websites require that). I figured out a new way to post on the 4 after they nipped the eSNI/ECH trick. These are not permanent solutions however, the word gets out quick. It usually takes roughly ~6 months after I switch to a new method. I need to come up with novel tricks for personal use because they monitor our discussion forums and probably dedicate far more budget to the Firewall project that could be reused for more useful things, and I spend far more time reading RFCs and specifications for current/new communication protocols than just writing new blogposts. Usually I'm browsing with Tor, which is understandably outright banned on most websites. When I have long dry spells, I can't post anywhere at all but at least I can browse.

>>129793
It sometimes astonishes me just how sophisticated 4dev can be when it comes to creating anti features and as a less fun and appealing place to post.

>>129793
So you can't use a residential vpn then?

>>110979
I used to have around 24 monitors for work a while ago so at home I've always just liked having one

I only use one monitor. I tried two but the second was just distracting and I really don't have a need for two monitors.

>multiple displays
A fancy way of ruining your focus and attention span for sure.

>>110979
On my side monitor, half is my music player and half is whatever else: chat, music from youtube, etc.

Moved to >>>/maho/3026.

Well, I don't think it's necessary for any of them. I'm not sure why Japanese/Chinese would be an exception, though, since futaba has had them for a long time. I guess the assumption is the condensed language, but I don't think that's really relevant in this situation.

>>129753
I use the index for all imageboards. Never liked the grid layout much

>>129782
>Maybe he was younger than he let on and has finally grown up a bit. I've known people who have done that before.
when I saw the leaked chatlogs between him and lolico (the 17ish year old PHP noob webmaster of heyuri at the time) I was floored by how much it sounded like two emotional 17 year olds having a tantrum at each other.

>>129782
i believe "that guy" is gone last i heard he was dying of aids and/or broke so he retired from everything and some other stuff

I always read it as hey yuri and I'm not a yurifag so I never cared about it. /u/ is cancer.

>>129800
Yuri is the cure to cancer.

>>129795
>dying of aids
It was a madeup lie he used as an excuse to "resign" from the internet after getting called out, only to return a week later. Everything you read about him, as well as his entire "backstory", is all a fabricated larp, no less.

alright... I'll transition into being southgender...

good boy

test

>>129767
successful?

it worked it seems

While learning JP to read VNs/Manga and watch anime in harmony is that what I post while doing so will be inaccessible to a fair bit of people. So seeing the advancements of AI in making translation more real time and convenient makes me happy and hopeful that we'll have on the fly OCR translations in the future people that don't know jp can use.

>>124639
Yeah, "live" OCR stuff is nothing new and people have been doing it for nearly a decade now, but having far faster stuff that's also a bit better (but still not great, contextual language and all that stuff) is really quite amazing. I didn't stop the Nosuri playthrough I was doing because of the translation, but because of the font being unreadable with OCR...
Well, maybe AI OCR stuff will progress, too. I don't think I could get away with sending GPT4-O thousands of screenshots without paying

>>124639
>>124640
I like the AI/live-OCR stuff but I worry about people using it to churn out lazy translations they don't bother to check. We're already seeing a lot of that and now some companies are trying to cash-in.

But I think it would be a very valuable tool for learning a second language. As long as it doesn't teach you bad habits. What I'm really looking forward to is live-speech translation improving. Picking up kana and some basic kanji didn't take me that long. But learning how to speak like a native speaker and being able to understand a native speaker are a very different matter. Especially when you do not have access to one IRL to practice with. Even then they're usually speaking slow and not teaching you certain words and concepts (like internet slang). No Japanese teacher in an institution of learning is going to cover subjects like common otaku slang or curse words.

Then there is the issue of dialects. You could spend years learning one dialect and be totally unable to understand someone speaking the language in a dialect common just 1 hour outside of the major cities. The main barrier I had learning how to speak basic Japanese was the fact that our teacher couldn't understand our local English dialect well and we could barely understand her Engrish. Every lesson was incredibly frustrating especially with a class room of idiots making fun of her daily.

I THINK AI SUCKS

>>129577
agreed

loli room loli room

back to waiting after a game

>>129560
>npcs can riichi

I fucking HATE cats

all skill

>>129565
lol................

>>129194
>BD bonus mini episode
Yeah...

>>129032
Does anybody care about it past R2? The story ended, trying to continue is bizarre

Train was pretty good. Anime originals always deserve recognition and this one had a nice episodic adventure thing like Kino. The short girl and brown girl carried the show, but the chubby one was nice when she had that one episode to actually do something. Good visuals and the usage of 3D complimented it quite well, especially the "first person" angles from the train.
Fun stuff.

>>129379
Greetings. Not sure if anyone here is watching Blue Archive the Animation but my friend is a big fan. He noticed no one had released good subtitles/English translation for the last episode yet. The group that was doing it fell off the map last week. He translated the episode and released the scripts a couple of days ago. He was trying to get me into the series last night (gonna check it out soon). Long story short we released episode 12 with a decent translation last night.

https://nyaa.si/view/1840656
https://nyaa.si/view/1840657

Thanks to the kind anon that uploaded the .torrent to nyaa for us. You can also grab it from our XDCC bot if you prefer direct download.

http://miyos.hydraulic-handpumps.com:8000/?g=NEWSTUFF

Four of us got together and QCed it. I took the time to add chapters since the episode doesn't have a proper OP/ED. No one else seemed to bother doing that with their releases. It uses Eari-raws as a source.

If there is enough interest we might do a proper BD batch. My friend has already ordered all of the BDs and should be getting them in from Japan as soon as they start shipping. At the very least we'll rip them for others to share/encode.

I'm pretty sure someone from kissu helped get this up on nyaa so thanks to whomever you were. Will try to get more proactive about other stuff. Life has gotten busy lately.

>>129379
I finally got a chance to get through the first 6 episodes of this a couple of days ago. I really like it so far and I think the use of 3D was well done. The zombie episode was good stuff. I'm looking forward to finishing it whenever I find another 3-4 hours to zone out in front of the TV.

I haven't really gotten to watch anything from the Spring season yet. So I'm not sure how it compares to anything else that aired. But this one is probably going to be my favorite from this season for sure. I love the plot and animation. I really like the concept of the entire world going to shit because of the 7G network. Plus zombies that explode when they see pantsu is something I just can't not like.

I love shows like this. I too am also a fan of anime originals. I like shows that aren't tied down by a manga/VN/LN. That way I have no idea what I'm getting going into things. As much as I love to see a manga adapted it kind of sucks when you know most of the story going in and are constantly comparing it to what you've already read.

fo shizzle

I use big words. Sometimes I put so many big words in what I say that people get overwhelmed. This is how I win at talking

NEVER if i am trying to make a point i will explain things to a reasonable degree and buzzwords are asking for trouble

can we have mathpunk

>>129276
tbh, the only one of those bands I listen to is deafheaven.

>>129356
thank you for being honest!

What is deathmetal? And where can i mine it?

Retinal flashes caught on camera

>>129004
Wow, the lighting looks nice here

It doesn't matter what they do when they're just a featureless blob of copies. Everything about their generic, doll-like appearance tells us not to value them at all since the universe itself says they're not important or useful. So, the first step would be to humanize them by giving them identifiable visual traits, but that's a whole lot of work.
I think Konosuba is noteworthy in this way. It still has faceless knights and such, but the guild often features individuals instead of copy-paste nonsense. Because of this, events like pic-related make it seem much more meaningful.

>>126670
But in settings like Kimetsu or Kaijuu 8 the setting tells us that all of these rank-and-file soldiers are skilled enough to go through the same trials the main characters did and have more experience than them, at least at first. Designs are a meta factor for helping the audience know who they should remember, they imply relevance to the story, not competency.

shonen series are not good stories, they're good explorations in character growth, but never worldbuilding and plot

Typically, the MC has some special divine ability that separates him from everyone else in-world. So you can make your background characters strong in the usual human ways while only making them appear weak to the MC and whomever the MC is fighting at that time.

It isn't hard to write strong background characters. But most people skip on the world building now. Since it takes up far more runtime and words to flesh out background character details.

I do appreciate studios that don't copy/paste background characters and at least put some effort into them. The first couple of shows that started not to bother and use blobs/cut outs were funny. But it got much less funny as time went on.

Lately I've been trying to spot a male background character in MahoAko thinking they might have hidden one somewhere as a joke. I thought I found a couple. But on closer inspection all of them turned out to be lesbians.

>>126637
Avoiding the Redshirt concept (point 1) and screentime (point 2).
The Redshirt concept is that the characters are disposable and are there just to die. Not to say you can't have them die, but give their purpose something more before dying. Their actions and subsequent deaths push the plot along, maybe they sacrificed themselves to buy the heros time for example. Or for a more in depth example: a group of knights storm the walls while the main characters are sneaking in through tunnels. Many of them die but they succeed and the result has a knock on effect that aids the main characters, then at the end we see what remains of the mobs they had a brief interaction with earlier. While they were never the focus and we only see the before and after, it still gives us a glimpse of a wider world even if we were focused on the main characters.

Mobs are either dressing for a scene or at best they're minor characters that show up once or twice that interact with the main characters, but that's not to say they're unimportant. Their job is to do things the main characters cant do and support/hinder them in the grand scheme of things. The main characters cant exist in a vacuum and thus need mobs to hold up their share of the story, the background cast and extras exist to give contrast to the main characters and give the world some semblance of life and potential stakes to care about.

As for importance, I assume you mean to the story. The actual power of the main characters and mobs are irrelevant, what matters is how their interactions and screentime affect the story told around the main characters.