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 No.152349[Reply]

I wish I paid more attention back in school when it came to literature and language arts classes. Trying to retrace the lessons I learned as a child as an adult is really annoying and there doesn't seem to be much out there in terms of easy to find resources for it like there are with math & science. Does anyone else have this problem or am I the only tard here.
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 No.152356

>>152353
Also, there is nothing wrong with being an idiot. Intellect is just a tool, it doesn't define you.

 No.152359

>>152354
>>152355
Well that's somewhat comforting to hear I don't need to know the jargon. Though it still feels helpful to have a quick word for reference rather than trying to string together the concept each time.

 No.152550

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You could check out this:
https://hyperbolit.com/2020/07/04/how-to-write-literary-analysis-well-its-not-as-hard-as-you-may-think/
You don't need to know every term or read the entirety of the example poem to get the gist of it.
I think as long as you know what a metaphor is and are familiar with basic symbolism within a culture (e. g. lilies mean lesbians when you watch yuri anime) you've got the most important basics down. Everything else comes down to what kind of media you want to analyse. (You probably won't need to know about cadence and meters outside of poetry.)
You could try to read through every literary device on this list https://literarydevices.net/ but I wouldn't recommend it. It's kinda tedious and if the devices lack context that's interesting to you, the information probably won't stick.
I don't need to know what the word alliteration means to think that it's funny that every character in OreGairu has their first and last name starting with the same letter, but it's faster and fancier (and maybe funnier) to say "alliteration names".
Often enough, historical and cultural contexts are more important to really understand a piece of fiction.
Like, it's a lot easier to understand what's going on in the anime Yuri Kuma Arashi when you understand that in the story, the space bears who cross the invisible wall and disguise themselves as humans to eat humans actually represent sexually active lesbians that want to have sex with women which is seen as inherently predatory by a system of enforced norms that ostracises them (invisible wall). Not all stories are so steeped in symbolism that they become incoherent if you lack the cultural context, but they're out there and not even that rare in spirit if you consider that memes are also hard to understand without context (I don't actually want to explain skibidi to my mum though).
Anyway, I think it can't hurt to critically engage with works you love and gain more understanding of literary analysis over the course of that.
If you want to go into writing, there are tons of resources and writing courses out there too although there are things to look out for there as well ( Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

 No.152552

>>152359
>it still feels helpful to have a quick word for reference rather than trying to string together the concept each time.
I think that'll get easier over time though, just like when you're learning a language. When I learnt English, words like "penultimate" never really came up in the beginning and I didn't need them either. When I did, I just looked them up and that was that, it's part of my vocabulary now

 No.152557

>>152349
everyone in high school used sparknotes




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 No.143818[Reply]

Porn dumps are a scourge on imageboards.
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 No.152418

>>152416
>non-pro-artist basic construction
non-pro-artist analysis on basic construction*

 No.152420

>>143818
far weirder are the people that talk about the shit they post. i guess some also call it erp

 No.152421

>>143827
this btw is why altchans tend to struggle. most people on them are not that good talkers and would do what you demonstrated and the thread would be over. it can even be stressful to try and think of something to say

 No.152424

>>152421
I should yap for ages then.

 No.152432





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 No.144910[Reply][Last50 Posts]

Hello /jp/kissu, I plan to host Sven Co-op on Sunday the 20th at around 8pm EST.
Sven Co-op is a free Half-Life multiplayer mod with a ton of custom maps. It's really chaotic and fun! Everyone is welcome to join, but please take it easy and don't be too obnoxious.
I'll have the necessary resources and instructions posted closer to when I host. If you have any questions, post em.
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>>150897
obs ffmpeg gpu-screen-recorder

 No.152343

The problem with taking the chatroom approach is you shut yourself off from the rest of the internet if there aren't people actively pushing for a space on an existing social platform to show what you do.
And this becomes harder the more entrenched your community gets with maintaining the existing social order.
The benefits of anonymous and public communities is these cliques can't form.
Just thoughts about if it's a good or bad thing and what you have to watch out for as someone running a chatroom extension of an existing platform

 No.152377

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>>144910
Are you planning on doing more cross-site game events? It was fun playing with everyone.

 No.152379

>>152377
I was considering hosting again this upcoming weekend, just to see how active things will be now that things seem to have calmed down a bit. I haven't decided yet.
I'm sure there is other fun to be had elsewhere, if I don't.

 No.152671

>>152379
Could line up perfectly with the Touhou 20 demo drop




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 No.152070[Reply]

Things you do with the time freed by not visiting low quality web resources?
>exercise and train
>draw and collect references
>clean my apartment a bit
>organize my PC folders
>read manga and books
>expand and organize my music playlists
>meditate

 No.152071

I play vidyageams and jerk off.

 No.152072

>>152070
I've mostly been writing a book and drawing to pass the time. I'm enjoying the level of productivity I can sustain now that I'm not browsing the chan.

 No.152075

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Exercising and reading has been something I’ve started to do again, and I feel it’s quite improved my mental health, so too has learning to cook. Being able to relax and take your mind off of the constant noise of the online is such a refreshing experience. People say touch grass, but I think they should touch trees instead. Go to a forest and relax a little. Being outside actually does improve your health.

 No.152078

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Does not matter if the content is good or bad, anything that is on internet devours my weekends. The only thing that works for me is unplugging the modem and removing the phone's SIM card. Then suddenly the apartment is cleaner, I have advanced more with studying, all the clothes are nicely folded and I have enough spare time to go outside.

Today was going great like that, but unfortunately I had to turn on the modem because I was missing a driver and now I have wasted 3 hours in front of the PC already.




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 No.152055[Reply]

V3A EPC on the 'ssu

 No.152056

It's quite comfy here compared to most other goymageboards

 No.152059

Are there any really good trains to check out while in Japan?

 No.152060

>>152059
idk nothing about japan

 No.152077

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>>152059
Really, any that go along the sea, like the Enoshima line. It's also an undercarriage monorail, which is extremely rare. IIRC correctly only 4 in the world.
There's another in Chiba, as seen in the OP of hit anime OreImo.

It's very remote but the one man train along the sea near Amaharashi-Himi really captured my heart.




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 No.151989[Reply]

I don't know if this really can develop into a full thread, but I wanted to share the secret to great stream popcorn that I found recently and didn't really think it fit any thread. I got pure coconut oil with beta carotine and some flavacol melted and mixed into a kettle/pan and I add some popcorn kernels then heat it up. Produces a shitload of movie theater quality or better popcorn for less than it'd cost you to get a microwave pack. Absolutely love it and recommend anyone who likes popcorn try it out too.

 No.151992

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I don't eat snacks, but my Father came down with a type of kidney disease that caused him to have to cut salt down to below recommended daily values which basically changed his eating habits. Something my mother got for him were these dried corn stuff.

They're not very exciting but the texture is nice and has good crunchyness.

 No.152023

I make these really yummy 'poor man's pizzas'. Get some english muffins, pizza sauce, cheese and whatever toppings you desire. Cut muffins in half. Add sauce and cheese+toppings. Bake at 375F for 10-15 minutes.

It's cheap and tastes really good. It's how I broke my habit of buying those over prices frozen french bread pizzas. In fact, making pizza at home in general is very cheap and easy. I can't believe people pay $20+ for large pizzas when they're so easy to make at home.




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 No.147447[Reply]

Would be a shame if someone introduced
>native isekai
>forced animation
>braincrack
>panservice
to it
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 No.149048

>>149037
there's a lot of slop high fantasy novels tho, including some that pilfer from d&d. I wouldn't take quality into account with genre classification but i guess describing a particular scene something comes from does make sense

 No.149061

>>149048
I think Narou-kei is pretty much the best classification term that fits just about every single slop.

 No.149111

>>147447
¥ we adopted this as a shitposting term a while back
¥ funny way to talk about a real thing
¥ no idea what this is
¥ only a thing because of a spammer who wouldn't be able to get away with his bullshit here

 No.151988

native isekai? so just fantasy in original setting?

 No.151990

>>151988
It's a term used by people unfamiliar with Narou-kei. Because there really is a common thread that ties together all those crappy series that make your mind mush.




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 No.150363[Reply]

What is Kissu's stance on the Trudempa-Moedempa conundrum? Can a song truly be considered denpa if it's not badly sung and mindfuck-y?

 No.150368

I like Nanahira so it's hard for me to say Moedenpa can't be denpa. And I don't know what I'd say she is instead.

 No.150369

Dempa is born from the uniquely Japanese concept of 'gap'. If you don't feel like something is wrong then it's NOT dempa.

 No.150381

>>150369
Odenpa must not be denpa then because there is absolutely nothing wrong with their songs whatsoever.

 No.150427

No true denpa

 No.151963

>>150427
This is truDENPA




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 No.146569[Reply]

About 3 years ago, I had a dream that 4chan went down.
I was posting on kissu and then it went back up.
It was a premonitory dream.

4chan will be up within 30 minutes of this post.
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 No.151530

>>146569
you were a week off

 No.151533

>>151530
Not even exactly a week. It was still 7 hours too late.

I am disappoint, work on your divination skills OP.

 No.151562

>>148763
>I love that site, it has no name but it's super comfy and everyone is always happy to see me.
cute

 No.151695

Someone with mod powers should change the time stamps ITT to make the premonition real.

 No.151701

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>>151695
How would mod powers even do that?




 No.145679[Reply]

I don't speak nihongo
anyone know what theyre singing about in this song? Or can anyone find the lyrics somewhere? I couldnt find them
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 No.150771

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>>150768
Only lyrics I can find is from this blurry picture on this site https://www.fromjapan.co.jp/japan/jp/auction/yahoo/input/c1136073963/

It just says Aセット. Doesn't seem to imply what set A is supposed to be. Probably intentional to keep it open to interpretation.

 No.150774

>>150771
The rosetta stone...

 No.151086

>>150771
Thanks, I was able to find this by searching for the lyrics in the image on Yahoo search.
Here:
https://www.followlyrics.com/lyrics/6360099/Lolly-s

[00:00.00] 作曲 : ひろて~
[00:01.00] 作词 : ひろて~
[00:03.13] 編曲 : ひろて~
[00:06.76]
[00:14.36] いらっしゃいまちぇ!
[00:16.89] おひとりたまでちゅか?
[00:19.68] ぼっちな しんしたま だいかんげい でちゅでちゅ!
[00:24.34] さあっおきゃくたま!ごしめいのろりっこが
[00:29.84] おせきへごあんないしまちゅ!
[00:33.30]
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 No.151177

>>151086
1:36 - 1:57 is missing from the lyrics sadly

 No.151179

>>151177
ロリーズ従業員心得!

其の一 お客たまには、笑顔で、明るく、あざとく接します!
其の二 ドジっ娘アピールするときは、怪我に気をつけ、安い食器を使います!
其の三 ロリーズの一員として、思いやりとロリ心を大切にします!




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 No.150926[Reply]

Anyone feeling different after a week without 4chan? I kinda feel a lot less stressed and aggravated and I notice myself actually wanting to do stuff.
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 No.151017

>>150971
>I feel like I'm getting out of touch with gaming news
Yeah, /v/ is where I'd go to get a general feel of what games are out and what's popular. It's not the perfect way of doing it, but it's the way that worked best for me. Looking at a news site like gematsu every day is just exhausting and doesn't really say much about what people are enjoying. I don't even know where I'd look for news about Western (indie) games. /v/ has the numbers and variety of people of various ages to get a sense of what's happening at any moment. Quality discussion, though, well that happens in some niches.

 No.151020

id be happy if /v/ vanished and it increased traffic to /vst/, /vrpg/, and /vm/. i realized a few weeks before 4chan vanished that /v/ is full of no good posts and i only go there because rarely i see a real thread about video games. I dont mean a super on topic thread, id be happy if /v/ was even just a bunch of thinly veiled porn threads as long as they were actually posting video game characters - there are always a few of those, but its not even mainly that now. I want to believe im browsing /v/ to maybe find a new game ive not heard of but it never happens anymore, i have to browse those other boards for that. I actually believe /v/ is full of marketers now

 No.151083

>>150965
4chan and 8chan (now 8kun) have set the standard of what to expect from an imageboard and has poisoned the public perception of what an IB is, you say imageboard or *chan and people immediately think right-wing pol-tier shithole and point to those two examples, and automatically believe any other imageboard is the same if not worse, and ends up attracting shitters by default from that reputation it has in the gestalt.

While it would be harder to find the various resources that can be richly found on 4chan, say the stickies on /ic/ for example on any other altchan, I don't think it would be a complete tragedy and eventually the community would be able to pick up the slack and set themselves up elsewhere and gain popularity overtime.

 No.151164

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>>150957
Hello, it's tomorrow. Can you post me to the one good post of the day so I can go back to watching anime? Thanks in advance. Yours truly, Anonymous.

 No.151165

>>151164
Point me to* I make on average zero good posts a day. Humble apologies, Anonymous again.




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 No.144551[Reply][Last50 Posts]

A few months ago I was talking about altchans on /a/ and realized a big stumbling block for people is that the lists of sites that get posted around contain too many sites with not enough details and people tend to give up after the fifth or sixth utterly dead/meme shitposting site they click through. I'm hitting myself for being lazy and not making a better guide before this, but with 4chan still down I imagine it would still be good to have something easy to pass around to help the flood of refugees as we approach the weekend.

I tried to cover the issues I've seen people be most interested in across the various 4chan down threads. Activity, especially in regards to specific hobbies, is probably the biggest, but a familiar UI, easy browsing of different boards/sites, and file support have all come up. I focused mostly on relevant topics to the /a/jp/ sphere here since that's what I'm more familiar with, but I'm open to suggestions on what to put in here. I think zzz, 8, 7, and sushi could fit on here too for vidya and broader topic selections. Please correct me if anything is wrong, a fair bit has to be derived from cursory inspection.

Regarding activity levels, I'm imagining 4chan as the 10/10 max level for everything so it's kind of a log scale so everything else isn't all a 1 in comparison. Basically, green means there's fresh discussion of a topic multiple times a day, yellow means once every day or three something gets kicked up about it, and red means it still lacks the critical mass to maintain regular discussion.
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 No.151031

>>150991
Wapchan filesize limit is 25MB

 No.151042

>>151029
>Kinda a pain because boards have different filesize.
Yeah, that's an issue with several fields. Like 7chan bans AI everywhere but their AI boards, but it's hard to represent that.

 No.151043

>>151042
> Like 7chan bans AI everywhere but their AI boards
Everyone else should be doing this

 No.151046

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>>151042
Forgot to add the image with size updates.

 No.151153

>>151042
>7chan bans AI everywhere but their AI boards
I wish everywhere did this




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 No.144746[Reply]

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

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

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

If you found something you want to share that you found or purchased online, go ahead!
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 No.151040

>>151039
>>150901
oh no, sorry, I meant to reply to >>150909 instead, I misclicked

 No.151048

I love it when a old person presumably dies and the family dumps their entire livelihood into the store. I mean it's sad for them yeah but I've gotten some IBM new old stock keyboards, typewriters, vintage cameras, and other antiques. My house is a museum at this point.
>>151039
To add onto that, check Facebook Marketplace. Your area might have peopel selling things there, it's normie filled but that's good because they usually don't know what they have. Unfortunately it is Facebook.

 No.151055

>>151048
Estate sales let you take out the middleman. It's how my sister furnished her apartment with real furniture instead of cheap plastic crap. The main issue is that you need to be ready to hit them at any moment, including at 6AM or the very second you hear of it so it's a very hectic way of doing things.
I should have paid more attention during covid since I think quite a few small nerd shops must have had clearance sales before closing for good.

 No.151062

>>151039
It’s pretty much furniture stores when I look those up. I know stores that sell anime figures in my area, but I tend to find them overpriced. The only thing I would consider buying from those are anime keychains and acrylic stands since it’s not worth the price to import those. But then again, I did spend like 60 to import a coaster and 80 for a Dark Magician Girl card. The only thrift stores I shop at are book stores.

 No.151063

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>>151039
Thanks but I know my city like the back of my hand. Just not much call for second-hand bookshops any more.

Oh. It's here. I'll explain later for kissu.




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 No.121772[Reply]

What is your opinion on the kuudere archetype? I'm personally attracted to them because they're similar to myself. Kuuderes are a big 'gap moe' thing. The smile of someone who doesn't smile much means a lot more than the smile of someone who smiles all the time.

Many people don't seem to realize the last two ones are kuuderes too. I don't see many people discussing archetypes these days.
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 No.150362

I like pink and blonde precure the most
kuudere aren't really represented in precure teams that much, like, you've gotta be more social than that

 No.150783

>>145252
She's actually jirai kei.

 No.150787

>>145252
Homu is a kuudere turned yandere.
Crab is a self-effacing Yamato Nadeshiko who used to larp as a tsundere to push people away and then kept up the act because Araragi likes it that way.
Frieren is just badly written.

 No.150789

>>150362
I like Lala and Kirara.
I don't know if that means I have a type or I just like the sound of ら.

 No.150831

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For me It's kamidere




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 No.144829[Reply]

This is nice board
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>>150671
it is nice board lole

 No.150679

>>150677
Why do you like it?

 No.150688

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>>150679
Its a silly nonsense board that developed it's own unique culture. Its fun to post about the bury nice girl, spikedog, yosho, venice, and other [s4s] memes. I like reading the stupid namefig drama. We have community activities like weekly skribbl, gartic phone, jiggies, and drawthreads. It is my home.

 No.150701

>>150688
Sounds like a general. I do like generals though.
>We have community activities like weekly skribbl, gartic phone, jiggies, and drawthreads
That sounds nice. I wish I am confident enough to participate in events like that.

 No.150731

always thought [s4s] frens were the nicest back on 4/qa/




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