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 No.66481[Reply][Last50 Posts]

i've seen dedicated drawthreads and writethreads here, but never once saw a music creation thread. considering you can post sound files here i wonder why it happens, because i did see several posters here said they made music. is it because many consider the stuffs they make have no merit to be posted? or because many have some musician profiles that they want no connection to this place...?
anyway, post some musics you made!
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 No.151600

when you hit a creative block, don't stumble forwards and force yourself into progression. instead, let yourself explore and find out new possibilities without the pressure to create anything special. then, when you finally find inspiration, you will be recharged with new ideas to add to your tried and true methods.

 No.151605

never think anything you're doing is wrong. the best type of creativity spawns from intentional deviation from the norm.

 No.151612

>>146663
That's two guitars right. I get confused sometimes wondering if it's countermelody or not

 No.152631

File:jam.mp3 (7.7 MB)

I don't play guitar as much as I used to. I think I'll make it a goal to make another one-man album this year, whatever else happens.
This was a fun experiment that came from having nobody to play with: improvise a bass track, forget it after a few minutes, then jam with yourself. You get some neat ideas you wouldn't otherwise.
If you know what song the opening lick is from, you're my friend

 No.153396

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Best of the original amateur retroish VGM-like stuff that I had been making on https://aurysystem.github.io/goldbox/


Declaration (just glockenspiel fun)
https://files.catbox.moe/ycpfm0.mp3

Altered Step
https://files.catbox.moe/r77bqw.mp3

Skirmish O'Clock
https://files.catbox.moe/owmnbq.mp3

Harro Wing
https://files.catbox.moe/sh3upy.mp3

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 No.151444[Reply]

IT'S BACK UP!
ARE YOU READY TO GO CHECK IT OUT????
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 No.152437

>>152434
>but it doesn't have streaming
I always forget that Discord does video conferences and voice. Wait, now you can stream there as if it was Twitch?
I'm pretty paranoid about people ever seeing my face or hearing my voice, so I only use text and that's probably why I can't see any plus points to defend Discord

>"Also I have to make accounts for separate servers???
I have to make a new burner account every time I am forced to use a Discord server. And god. When Discord decides it does not trust you and locks your account until you give them your phone number. And lock it again if you ever remove the phone after that. No, fuck no. Fuck Discord, from here to Megaclite.

I'm so glad for having experienced internet before it was consolidated in a few giga platforms.

 No.152449

>>152407
yes but anything can get even worse when "stockholders" get involved

 No.152451

>>152433
the trick is to not paywall it like whatsapp in your example but cause all sorts of little annoyances for those that don't pay. because they already got the gigantic userbase the tolerance for enshitification will be extremely high and they can pull off stuff that looks absurd to the outside observer

 No.153297

>>152451
Quite interesting considering normies love subscriptions.
On other hand online payments do suck. If you're lucky, you pay with prepaid cards like on Steam or Google Play, but otherwise you have to use your bank card or use the awful PayPal crap.

 No.153343

>>152419
Large built-in installbase and (important) it doesn't require dev to maintain anything so there's now a hard wall between actual valuable skills and community management.



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 No.151072[Reply][Last50 Posts]

Is /qa/ spiritual? I'm a bit spiritual in my own way. I like to create my own rituals and I read lots of books on eastern spirituality, mainly buddhism and daoism. I have my own little shrine on a wall shelf. It's just a big Buddha statue, two framed pictures of my grandparents and a couple objects to represent them. I offer them water and flowers and I sometimes meditate while facing them. Although I don't consider myself a buddhist, I try to incorporate some elements of buddhism into my life: generosity, detachment, meditation... Same thing with daoism. I study the Dao and try to live with the flow. What about you guys?
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 No.152727

>>152714
>predatory Roman Christianity subjugating other sects but this isn't the case.
Roman catholicism was the most successful version, not because of their power, but because of their willingness to accept other sects into their fold. And just as their beliefs influenced and subsumed those other sects, they were influenced by the smaller groups in turn.
katolikos is green and means all-encompassing and until the east Roman schism, it was.

 No.152737

>>152727
Tell that to all the gnostics and other heretics they slaughtered.

 No.152741

>>152727
That was just one tool in their toolbelt. There was just as much blood. The technique depended on the power dynamic of the individual clash of beliefs.
>>152737
Indeed, the crusade against the Cathars is the origin of the phrase "kill them all and let God sort them out." Grim stuff.

 No.152751

>>152737
gnostics are as christian as rastafari

 No.153247

>>152606
I want to continue this conversation, but it's gonna require me to read a bunch of stuff and I'm currently rather busy. I just want to say that I'm not backing out of this conversation, and that I'm still interested.



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 No.67182[Reply][Last50 Posts]

/qa/! It's time to show off your MS paint skills! Try drawing a character and seeing if others can guess at who it is. Starting off with an iconic one so that the first picture isn't impossible...
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 No.148381

>>148373
>it was a point difference in scoring between first and second
That fact still makes me feel crazy...goddamn what a tourney that was.
As for that detailing, one thing that might help with the perspective of the girls you draw is giving their head shapes a little more definition. I usually work around this by making sure my base sketches for the head/faces are already oriented just how I'd like them. It's just a matter of piecing together the final head shape from those horizontal/vertical guidelines of the face before adding any major details like the eyes and mouth. Even one thing being slightly off can upset the whole balance so it's good to know where you're placing everything beforehand, even roughly.
Stuff like texturing and proper hand anatomy are indeed whole other cans of worms so otherwise I would suggest making sure the linework has a nice flow to it as well. Your Sanae and Clownpiece are pretty good but Reimu's head looks just a little funny with no chin in comparison for example.
You got the fundamentals on clear display, it's just a matter of further practice by reasonably pushing yourself via those ambitions. Also I honestly though Koishi was just looking at leaves blowing in the wind lol, but an ant line makes sense.

 No.149668

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I believe in a sign of Zeta.

 No.153096

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hint: this shab LOVES hotdogs

 No.153198

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yuno who it is

 No.153215

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Dreww aaaime giirl in tegakki while druunhk..
>>153096
Daarker than blackk girl maaybe?
>>153198
tthe hidiamar scetch girl!



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 No.143543[Reply]

this thread is for chinese media, entertainment, 2d cultural stuff and probably information regarding the language.

a goal is to spread interest in chinese culture and media similar to how /jp/a/ and 4chan spread interest in otaku culture. i'm pretty much the only person on earth who wants this so we'll play it by ear and see what interest others have in it.

post questions or other feelings if you feel like it. i'd prefer to not have political stuff instead focus on the 2d cultural stuff so music, donghua(anime), manhua(manga), and webnovels. other chinese stuff welcome too i guess.
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 No.150051

>>149323
I enjoy their web novels more than Japanese ones. Japanese characterization is meandering in comparison.

 No.150148

>>149316
>>149317
thanks a lot again

 No.150366

Decided to keep this thread on /qa/ since it seems to heavily involve language instead of talking about specific games or whatever. Let me know if you disagree.

 No.152738

>>144088
Is this really even a genre? I don't think I've seen any game like that description outside of https://store.steampowered.com/app/955900/Amazing_Cultivation_Simulator/ And I'd call that more dwarffort or Rimworld like. If it were something widespread that'd be cool but I sincerely doubt it.

 No.153165

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>>152738
chineserpg starter pack
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1948980/Heros_Adventure_Road_to_Passion/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1876890/Wandering_Sword/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1468810/_Tale_of_Immortal/

chineserpg senior pack
https://store.steampowered.com/app/377530/Tale_of_Wuxia/
(very early re-translation: properties>en to simplified chinese>paste over game folder)
https://www.mediafire.com/file/6xbfud0yn3re7ul/Full+English+Translation+0.1.zip/file
https://store.steampowered.com/app/952860/_Ho_Tu_Lo_Shu__The_Books_of_Dragon/
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2153717415
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1189630/Path_Of_Wuxia/
https://github.com/Magxm/PoW-Loader

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 No.89870[Reply][Last50 Posts]

Whenever you see this thread go and get some exercise! You can't just laze around all day as a NEET!
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 No.152728

>>152725
Try consulting >>107644 and see if you can work your way up.

 No.152729

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All this talk of pushups reminds me of a dream where I couldn't do pushups and I got in trouble. I haven't done one in like over a year. IDK I walk my dog all the time. I don't like your judgemental tone.

 No.152735

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I think I will go for a walk later today. I've barely gone outside this month.

 No.152747

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>>89870
I've gotten a bad habit of training almost daily. I feel insecure and threatened otherwise. At least there's some progress even where I don't switch up the muscle groups for days straight.
Also, martial arts spars felt so much better than trying to keep myself sharp on my own. For now I'm too busy, weak-willed, and socially anxious to break my career schedule and join a gym again.
>>141659
Manual labor didn't do more for me than powerlifting gyms did, until I started to go heavy on all kinds of supplements and exercises (even if most are customized and hyper focused, it's calisthenics, honestly).

 No.153146

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Going to start trying a military adjacent workout regimen this week. Hopefully I don't fail horribly and immediately give it up.



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 No.143346[Reply]

Are you satisfied with the current state of 4chan/the boards you browse? What are your posting habits like and how have they changed over the years? Would you post on alt-chans like this more often if they were a bit faster?
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 No.153114

I don't even know what the current state is, and I'm not interested in finding out. Last time I browsed, all I remember is zero quality content, threads being derailed all the time, idiotic mods/jannitors and too much /pol/, sharty, 'ick on 'eck spamming.

 No.153116

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I stopped browsing seriously in 2010 or so because there was absolutely no sense of fun or community anymore, just the occasional interesting post in a sea of rage-inducing crap. I checked back every once in a while, sometimes even tried to see if I could interest myself in sub-communities, but I could never connect with anyone. I developed such hatred for the site that, when I did browse a catalog, I had to actively hide threads on topics that WERE relevant to my interests, because I couldn't stand the thought of things I like getting defiled by people I hate.

Kissu is currently the only website that I browse to read other people's thoughts and share my own, mostly to help activity. I'm not sure I fit, I don't really consume anime and my otaku culture interests stagnated way over a decade ago, but the sense of community is what makes it for me and I have been having a lot of fun on here. I can even see fun in posts that would have angered me on 4chan, simply because of the calm and honest environment.
I think the anons here that said they're into extremely niche stuff should still give their own threads a try if the topic would be relevant to one of the current boards. Kissu is slow enough for some people to potentially become interested in things they weren't before, engaging with topics they otherwise wouldn't precisely because of the lack of speed. Better to have slow but meaningful conversations than to get annoyed at 500 posts and only reply to 2.

 No.153118

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>>143346
>Are you satisfied with the current state of 4chan
No when it's alive. Yes when it's dead. The only good times you can get are in "event" areas that you can find only by a trained gut instinct. It's when people of interest, topics, and trends converge into something you can gain value from whilst participating. People normally call such things "rare good threads." On 4lel, they were too rare for me.
>the boards you browse?
Hell yeah.
>What are your posting habits like and how have they changed over the years?
I don't have any stable patterns in this. But, lately, I don't kusopost or drown people in vitriol, because kissu is all I use, aside from checking in on other small imageboards' boards of my interest and seeing them inactive.
>Would you post on alt-chans like this more often if they were a bit faster?
Current kissu speed is just perfect for me. I don't want to spend too much time on internet interactions in the first place. Kissu allows me to have it short but concise, and maybe necropost a bit. I'd definitely end up posting more if certain other threads from other boards migrated here, but if it didn't happen while 4lel was down, it's not going to happen now.

 No.153135

>>153116
>>153118
The kissu friend site (wapchan) is decently active too if you ever want to check that out

 No.153141

>>153135
Thank you! I have seen some things on there that turned me away in the past, but I will give it a little more time.



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 No.152089[Reply]

How would you even decide the way you'd want to represent a well thought-out fictional world, given today's trends in how people enjoy media?
Assuming one would be willing to go as far as to make a whole videogame or some other multimedia project for it to include all kinds of visions one has for the exposition and the like, there has to be some starting point that you can put effort into the project in such a way where you'd be okay whether it'll end up as a successful blooming dark horse or some poor peculiarity that fades into obscurity as soon as it had appeared.

What would it be for a team of a single man?
Web novels, light novels, manga allow for plays of words and illustrations, but animation and sound are off limits.
Anime, VNs, and full-fledged complex games involve lots of commitment both from the creator and the connoisseur; it's generally more concentrated on binary fate of hit-or-miss and needs either crowdfunding or marketing probing to get certainty that the effortful passions and ideas will reach the people on launch.

Is the answer - a series of simpler web browser games?
A twitter account where you gradually give more and more exposition, including up to as much point as animations with sound?
A combination of the two?
I'd love to see anon's brainstorming on the matter.

Just don't suggest tiktok or youtube shorts formats; I'd genuinely rather cosplay and give pamphlet and booklet forms of works to strangers on the street instead.
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 No.152822

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I think the easiest way to start, and it's something I'm just now starting (although I'm keeping it private) is to create a glossary of characters/locations/species/etc. Before creating a physical representation of the world I think it's better to create the concept of it first. You can change and move things around while it's still in the idea phase without much effort.
It's fun to read through the glossaries of old games when they used to put a lot of time into this sort of thing.

 No.152856

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>>152822
I've done that too, but I found it easier to just go for it and start with a draft.
I fall more on the spectrum of pantser when it comes to my writing though and I don't mind writing out of order to stitch my frankendraft together at the end.
What helped me most was to just write summaries for scenes I didn't care about and found that more often than not, you can really just briefly summarise what isn't important to you and you'll naturally go into detail for what you actually care about.
At least that's how I approach drafts in plain writing, I haven't really worked much with other types of media.

 No.152883

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>>152856
I guess I'd be a Chaotic Pantser. I think it's far easier to write what you're interested in at the moment instead of forcefully working in order. I guess there could be a problem with having a growing hole in the story/world somewhere, but that might be easier to work with once you have so much else built up. Writing in chronological order seems so exhausting and what if you decide to change something? You'd have to re-write so many things and probably forget other stuff.

 No.152884

>>152856
Allegedly I'm a lawful pantser and I just go from there.

 No.153130

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I had read all the suggestions, but I don't have anything in particular to answer with for now, other than thanks!
For now, I have concluded that, for core content, spreading it over self-contained mobile-compatible free browser games hosted on itch.io has the most of potential. Posting on Twitter would be mostly for side fluff and sustained activity advertising. Some custom site would be more of an additional accessible structured presentation between the two extremes.

>>152856
Chaotic planster is me... Specific scenes are the core data points I ended up with after daydreaming about my stuff, the .zip archive kind that I can easily extrapolate back from whenever I need.
I love your image, because it gives good approaches I wouldn't really think about.

>>152822
I'd probably make an encyclopedia of entries with reference sheets, because I don't invent stuff that'd be easy to contain in words. Good idea nevertheless!

>>152219
I had read The War of Art recently, and, while don't agree fully with the book handles itself, it had an important point that you either commit yourself to out-pro'ing the pros, or you risk staying behind with what's both out of touch with yourself and other people. It helps that I enjoy competition over the things I like, or at least I love-hate it.



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 No.138221[Reply]

After truck'ing the gods give you another shot at life in an isekai world. It's time to make your start in a new life, /qa/. What kind of character are you willing yourself to spawn in as?

For me, my usual preference is female elf wizard loli, or skelly necromancer if I can.
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 No.152864

>>152796
> I love fantasy alchemy and find that it's never well implemented in most RPGs I play
The two Fullmetal Alchemist RPG games on GBA are, (un)surprisingly, good at it.

 No.152877

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>>138221
Holiest theomancy paladin saint loli.
If not, then eldritch horror black goo biomass that is primarily loli in form.
If not, then cutting edge magitech golem loli.

There's never a guarantee that the isekai world will have a deep magic system I could exploit and customize, so I'll stick to the things that will be most fun in whatever scenario.
I'm easy to manipulate because I have susceptibility to seduction, masculine competition challenges, and similar kinds of manipulation, but becoming a loli would mean I could slaughter away without worrying about anything pointless like that.

 No.153105

A helpless, defenseless, clueless little loli.

 No.153107

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>>138253
this is the correct answer

 No.153127

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>>152789
In addition to a personal army one could also raise a bunch of zombie girls, and go crazy on playing dress up. Get into costume design and maybe learn some tailoring yourself for the sake of it, just to make your collection of corpses look great!

Whether people would think my actions immoral or evil or not, they would all have to agree that my jiangshi entourage is the cutest thing they've ever seen when I'd visit a town with it.

Yeah it'd have to be a necromancer



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 No.152496[Reply]

What are some essentials we'd need to make the /qa/ mansion? Personally, I'm leaning towards a farm plot at the very least for self-sufficiency. With a chicken pen too and maybe more animals but definitely chickens because we ALL need eggs. Maybe some moo cows too for milk. But above all, we need very fluffy and soft beds for good sleep everynight.
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 No.152874

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>>152870
C-Can we choose to opt out of some of the maid services... I might be a bit too shy for this one...

 No.152899

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>>152874
There is nothing wrong with being a little shy. Rest assured, therapist will visit you for required confidence and massage training.

 No.153087

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Mandatory tea parties to boost morale

 No.153089

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>>153087
Morning tea standup…. I don’t want to be at the /qa/ mansion anymore…..

 No.153094

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>>153089
the tea parties will continue until moral improves



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 No.152529[Reply]

Crazy how modern otaku culture is just gachaslop and vtumorshit nowadays.
Remember when otaku were obsessed with cool shit like tanks and washing machines? I remember...
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 No.152568

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>>152558
So to summarize, lyrical subject was masturbating to something low-brow, when Yukari appeared. She summoned (or created out of thin air) multiple girls and then each of them proceeds to have an intercourse with lyrical subject. At some point girls vanish, but then Yukari has an intercourse as well, exhausting lyrical subject. Despite that, the guy seems to be glad, looking at eagerness of Yukari.
Is the above correct or not? And how long did it take for you to write that? It has a nice rhythm in many places.

 No.152572

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>>152568
You're precisely correct. Took me about half an hour or so. Started off as an exercise in venting out my frustrations with excessive 'slop' use and then I got carried away from there.

 No.152598

hikkis have stopped washing themselves and their clothes sadly so no more washing machine otaku are left

 No.152892

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>>152547
Yeah, I've come to this way of thinking. This is probably the inevitability of chasing the low hanging fruits that are by far the most profitable. There are still lots of people out there creating amazing things, it's just that they're crowded out by gacha and vtubers. They're there if you look.
Sometimes I think it might be a good thing, it's like a black hole that sucks up a lot of undesirable people/stuff. Sometimes the evil gacha money is used for nice anime content, too. I'd prefer for it all to disappear, but at least it's not all bad.

>>152558
Very fantastic post! Yukari really is a nice young girl, isn't she?

 No.152897

>>152559
Real doujin culture was never a thing in the west anyway so it's not like we're in a position to complain.



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 No.151796[Reply]

What’s the current state of McDonald’s and other fast food? Realized I need to eat and nothing else is really open at midnight. I feel like if I go to McDonald’s even if I get a normal cheeseburger I’ll be sorely disappointed and regret my decision. Is that accurate?
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 No.152717

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I wish we had actual good fast food here and not just cheap-tasting burgers and kebabs. I remember ordering a katsu curry at Go Go Curry in Akihabara and it was bloody amazing, and dirt cheap as well.

 No.152720

>>152717
That's one of the things I'm really looking forwards to when I go to Japan. Even if I can't really live there seeing what could be with fast food in terms of pricing and quality could give me some hope for the future.

 No.152861

If I can I always prefer going to local places instead of big chains because big chains will always try to screw you in some way or another. My local bagel place would never do that.

 No.152875

>>152717
where do you get fast food kebabs? I've never seen one of those places

 No.152879

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>>152875
From döner joints.



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 No.152562[Reply]

I like to do all my household chores, cleaning, and other stuff on mondays so that I can avoid thinking about it at all until the next one. Helps to keep dat /jp/ dream life feel nice and organized and I think I get more stressed by letting things pile up and become a mess than having to clean it up.
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 No.152623

>>152621
Stuff anything that would attract bugs (anything food has touched) into sealed containers like bottles, and don't bother cleaning up anything else. We're all going to die eventually so if you have three years of garbage piled up in your house that's three years of cleaning you never had to do.

 No.152632

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>>152621
If you buy flour, rice, and pasta, store those bags in a freezer for a month before putting them into jars and other containers. You DO NOT want to get a flour bug infestation because a few eggs slipped through. Freezing them will break the life cycle of any eggs or larva in your food.
Keep trash bins ideally in every room. Convenience helps keep waste from piling on your work areas.
If you have a habit of drinking soda and not finishing them, make a habit of carrying them out of the room and dumping them into sinks.
Keep a recycle bucket in your main dwelling area for them too and get a habit of pitching them as soon as you're done. Bottles can be flattened to make efficient space.
For laundry I'd suggest two baskets. One basket for dirty clothes and another for clean. If you don't have a habit of putting the clean clothes away as soon as you're done then it's good to have a second basket so you're not piling dirty clothes up on the floor. If you want a good incentive then know that brown recluses like clothing piles, so watch out if you live in their range.

 No.152655

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I mostly just want stuff to be hygienic, which generally means clean. When it comes to organization, though, I'm really awful at it and over time entropy really takes over. Keeping things orderly just takes too much work. "Oh, this is A so it needs to go in Drawer C, or was that Drawer D?" blahblahblah.
Clean chaos, yeah, that works.

 No.152672

I like to let my room messy until it reaches a critical point of clutter, then I clean up because the feeling of cleaning up a filthy space is satisfying. I don't mean clutter as in piss bottles and empty pizza boxes though, I'm not THAT messy. But just enough that you would say "yeah time to tiddy up".

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>>152562
I treat cleaning like it's gameplay of an action game, both in tactics and in strategy. I mean example would be light-light-medium-light-heavy combos of cleaning across the days, the type is either like lazy jabs or full on combos or extra stages where I have to clean a greasy plate as the special finisher, for the day.
Admittedly my hallway, clothes, teas, and supplements shelves are disorganized completely all the time. Half of my large bed is just freshly dried washed towels and clothes.



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 No.113881[Reply][Last50 Posts]

Finally started my "buyfag" life; albeit not anywhere near the level I've dreamt of, with only second hand stuff so far.
What anime goods have you bought /qa/?
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 No.152682

>>151995
This seems really annoying for those looking to buy something, does it still apply in Japan?

 No.152704

>>152681
Thanks, I checked and yes I will have to pay shipping later. At least I can pay for the fumo in 3 payments thanks to Paypal with no interests. Seriously, Paypal is only good for this service.

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Oops! All Os

 No.152706

>>152704
buying from japan is really expensive when you take in VAT and shipping... For all my stuff I end up paying twice basically. I have the money, but it's still annoying as heck.

Like for decorating all the walls of my bedroom with tapestries it's probably like 600$ and I could still go further... then importing has probably been about 300$ on top of that... then you could add on accrylics, dakis and so on.

So if I wanted to do a big shopping spree of japanese stuff if I won the lottery it would be better in the end to just go to Japan and carry back 1400$ of stuff, pay the VAT as a good citizen and go on your way.
The other cost is that the government has opened my packages like 3 times now. They seem to have stopped and I think they didn't understand what tapestry rolls looked like, but if you violate local laws you could go in jail or confescates it..

 No.152707

speaking of that topic, I guess I should ask if anyone has had their personal luggage checked by transit authorities on plane trips?



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 No.132386[Reply]

How's public transport around your area? We've talked about it before several times but it was more about theory/principles rather than the tangible state of affairs.

Recently a globetrotter train ota came by and his blogging did some bazuru locally, which I found fairly fun to read. His sasuga over old Toshiba-kun still working, saying a stop is otogibanashi no you na, his empanada food blog, and the comparisons he makes to other countries or the stuff he points out, very neat. You can read it here:
https://nitter.poast.org/taisetsukuzure (he's getting accosted)
There's a noticeable difference between the 80s Japanese cars and the modern Chinese ones, not just that each has its own runic inscriptions but that there's a tech difference of thirty years, like the fancy rail line map with lights, or Nagoya 5000's having a degree of asbestos. There's a ton of different batches operated concurrently, it's all over the place and a major pain in the ass financially and technically:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buenos_Aires_Underground_rolling_stock
A subway line I usually take runs Mitsubishi Eidan alongside Spanish CAF 6000, and the most prominent difference for me is that the latter's seating consists groups of four inward plastic seats while the former has the usual long line of a single padded seat running across the side of the car that I find far more comfortable. Spanish ones also have funny doors that you have to open manually and individually by pulling a mini lever rather than all opening when stopping. It seems to be suited to something for fewer people to take compared to the typical crowded image of Japanese transport.

Stations likewise come in all shapes and sizes, like pic which is the one Taisetsu-san really liked from La Plata. Subway lines can have large tunnel walkways connecting each other and mini-malls, or even a genuinely connecting to an actual mall, and a lot of murals and paintings, very cool stuff. Though the smell can be horrible.
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I live right next to a train station, 5 minutes down the road is the tram line, where this legendary song was made
https://soundcloud.com/richard-feng-372617570/109-tram-song idk if anchor works with soundcloud
everywhere has a bus stop too, pretty much the only time i needed to use my car is when i worked outside of the city and now for my current job, PT is comfy
>idk if anchor works with soundcloud

 No.149912

>>132386
pretty limited
there's an rather marginal bus service in my town that only comes by the stops every hour or so and while there is a train station you have to drive to the edge of town to use it

 No.149913

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>>132386
It's alright, though the last time I used it I got screwed over because I missed the stop I needed as the bus's route display was broken and I didn't know the area well
I ended up having to pay like 30 euros for a 10 minute taxi ride to backtrack

Somewhat unrelated but here's a picture of a wexford bus (wexford being a specific region of ireland) that ended up in nepal for some reason

>>149909
Octopus card is funny sounding

 No.150234

Tokyo rail network is extensive but handled by multiple companies, with checkpoint between them for switching train without leaving the station. Would be a major pain to do fares if not for the contactless ic cards.
Also heard that Japanese trains would often separate mid route for different destination.
Only rode shuttle buses in Narita airport and they are awfully slow, with driver himself announcing every operation of the vehicle. I imagine other buses in the city are the same.
>>149909
Green minibuses are nothing. Try the red one at night.
Also Octopus card was very good, never knew I would miss its ability to go negative value til my pasmo card become one(1) yen short. If HKer didn't rightfully give up after '97 it would not be cannibalized by unreliable QR code reliant, slow network chink network payment system for over nearly three decade.

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There are trains from the 30s(Malaxa Class 77) that run in regular comercial service near my town



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