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Touhou music ranking Anonymous 04/19/25 (Sat) 03:52:56 No.146758 [Reply]

How would you rate each game based purely on their music? Side-games included. Personally, I'm of the opinion that there's not a truly "bad" soundtrack out of the lot, only mediocre ones at worst. I'd say my only particularly controversial takes are not rating EoSD and MS that highly, and putting DDC and LoLK near the top. Also, I wouldn't call myself a "Touhou is reclining" doomer, but I do think the two latest releases were disappointing on most levels, including music. Still hopeful for TH20 though!

Link if you wanna make your own: https://tiermaker.com/create/touhou-games--16215478

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Anonymous 04/19/25 (Sat) 06:46:44 No.146876

>>146871
It's not so much that they sound similar to each other, although some of the games have a pretty distinct sound to them, usually because of the instruments used. I'm moreso evaluating each soundtrack on what I perceive to be it's overall quality. Basically, how much of the soundtrack do I think fucks vs. how much of it I'm indifferent to, and how hard those tracks fuck. So, to rank highly, an album would need both consistency as well as standout tracks, which I think PCB and IN have. Something like MoF, for example, is imo just as consistently good as those two in that I like practically every track on it, but doesn't quite hit the same peaks in terms of specific tracks, so it ranks slightly lower. Obviously this is mostly personal opinion.

Anonymous 04/19/25 (Sat) 06:54:28 No.146879

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EoSD is one of the greatest achievements in modern music.
PCB and IN are consistently great.
UFO is not as consistent, but has a few of the best tracks in the series, and a really unique sound.
If I'm being honest, StB and DS are mostly not that remarkable except for one god-tier track (Retrospective Kyoto and Bell of Avici, respectively), they get bonus points because I love the games themselves.
Not much to say about the rest except that I stopped following the games after HSiFS, and I don't care much for the post-UFO games. But among them I do have a bit of a soft spot for DDC.

Anonymous 04/19/25 (Sat) 07:52:41 No.146891

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>>146879
>I stopped following the games after HSiFS, and I don't care much for the post-UFO games
I recommend you give later games a listen to at least. LoLK, AoCF, and WBaWC have some superb songs. Idolatrize world, tonight stars an easygoing egoist, star spangled pierrot, pure furies, unlocated hell, and faraway voyage of 380,000 kilometers are some. Yorimashi between dreams and reality from AoCF is a fun one since there's a version on the arrange CD (U2 Akiyama) that is cute if you consider the ZUN original to be how others see her vs the arrange being how she sees herself.

Anonymous 04/21/25 (Mon) 07:29:19 No.148624

>>146758
As an addendum, I guess I'll list my favorite tracks from each game.
1: Now, Until the Moment you Die
2: Himorogi, Burn in Violet
3: Vanishing Dream ~ Lost Dream
4: Alice Maestra
5: Alice in Wonderland
6: Shanghai Teahouse ~ Chinese Tea
7: Bloom Nobly, Ink-Black Cherry Blossom ~ Border of Life
7.5: Onigashima in the Fairyland ~ Missing Power
8: Cinderella Cage ~ Kagome-Kagome
9: Higan Retour ~ Riverside View
9.5: Sleepless Night in the Eastern Country
10: Native Faith
10.5: Catastrophe in Bhavaagra ~ Wonderful Heaven
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Anonymous 04/21/25 (Mon) 13:34:06 No.148846

>>146758
Imperishable Night is probably my favorite. Both the early stages where you're racing through the forest and the later ones in the mansion / the moon sound exactly like they should, and there's too many standout tracks to name.
I would also credit Subterranean Animism more than most people seem to. Some of the early stages and boss themes aren't great, but the title theme is one of the very best and everything starting with Heartfelt Fancy is amazing. Nuclear Fusion is my favorite final boss theme.
Last game I played was LoLK. I really hate some of the instruments he started using around DDC (although that OST itself was still good). Especially the electric guitar-type ones. They bring down even otherwise good songs like Pure Furies.

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BJD Anonymous 04/15/25 (Tue) 16:45:57 No.142615 [Reply]

Do you care for BJD?

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Anonymous 04/20/25 (Sun) 01:39:27 No.147692

Very cute witch!

Anonymous 04/20/25 (Sun) 01:47:58 No.147698

nice landscapes, nice oranges and greens
did you later have to clean any remainders of leaves or the like from the doll? how do you carry her around?

Anonymous 04/20/25 (Sun) 02:05:29 No.147712

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>>147698
didnt really have to clean her up or anything, just brushed her off a little bit. I carried her around in the bag that came with my softlight.

Anonymous 04/20/25 (Sun) 18:39:49 No.148260

Soooo where did all of the /jp/ thread guys go to in the end?

Anonymous 04/21/25 (Mon) 13:18:56 No.148831

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>>148260
People are probably waiting patiently for now.
I thought some anons would go to dolldreaming but I didn't see anyone new there.

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Anonymous 03/20/25 (Thu) 19:53:54 No.140993 [Reply]

Going to Japan this summer, and I really want to avoid sticking out as some obnoxious foreigner. I was wondering if there's any helpful tips for how to conduct oneself or what'd really stick out to wear around so I can avoid packing it. It seems like a country that's pretty tolerant so it's not like I'll get beat up for just being a normal tourist, but I also don't want to come off as some unkempt freak who gets judged everywhere I go. To maximize my enjoyment of the trip I've been looking to find out what is and isn't acceptable and what's social faux pas or things to avoid.

For example, I was reading up on Japanese law recently and learned that under Act No. 52 of 1999 it's actually illegal to buy JCs off the streets. Which is just an important reminder to /qajp/ that you should always check the laws of where you're going to!

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Anonymous 04/05/25 (Sat) 15:44:26 No.141607

cow*rker

Anonymous 04/06/25 (Sun) 01:21:01 No.141625

>>141597
拙者でござる

Anonymous 04/06/25 (Sun) 01:28:14 No.141626

fellow cow orker jim

Anonymous 04/06/25 (Sun) 07:24:09 No.141633

>The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) and the Canadian Snowbird Association remind Canadians who have spent the winter in warmer climates to plan ahead for a smooth return home.
>In response to U.S. tariffs on Canadian-made goods, Canada has imposed a 25 per cent counter tariff on certain U.S. products brought into Canada. The CBSA is collecting the tariffs on behalf of the Government of Canada in the form of a surtax.
Presumably the US will do the same elsewhere. I'm not sure of the minimums though

Anonymous 04/21/25 (Mon) 10:16:06 No.148713

>>141597
吾輩は猫である

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/vpzl/ Anonymous 04/19/25 (Sat) 05:05:53 No.146797[Reply]

What kind of puzzle games have you been playing, kway?

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Anonymous 04/19/25 (Sat) 05:51:06 No.146848

indeed

Anonymous 04/19/25 (Sat) 09:02:17 No.146948

The original Lemmings game. I already completed all the levels a while ago but it's fun to go back at it, especially when you don't remember most of the puzzles. I never played the expansion pack though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh_No!_More_Lemmings

Anonymous 04/21/25 (Mon) 07:48:50 No.148636

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I have been playing baba is you as well, was more active doing that 2 or so months ago and sort of fell off. This is how far I'm up to right meow.

Anonymous 04/21/25 (Mon) 08:20:37 No.148650

heh just beat a level when i realized that double negatives are valid constructions SURPRISE!!!! KISSU JUMPSCARE!!!! BOO!!!!

Anonymous ## Mod 04/23/25 (Wed) 23:26:28 No.150273

Moved to >>>/amv/4349.

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Anonymous 04/21/25 (Mon) 00:25:46 No.148417 [Reply]

What do you think the future of the anime industry will be like with Japan being in massive economic decline and everything? I do think it's time to acknowledge there's an overall decrease in the quality of productions over time that is related to that. The studios simply do not have enough money to pay the animators, voice actors, writers, etc, and the former big ones are all shadows of their former selves splintered into 500 different irrelevant ones.

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Anonymous 04/21/25 (Mon) 06:07:40 No.148587

>>148586
then go ahead and post a commercial quality prompted anime

Anonymous 04/21/25 (Mon) 06:13:32 No.148589

>>148587
I never said there was one, I said the technology already exists. Your argument is really weird, going back to the CGI comparison you're like a dude in 1990 asking "computer graphics will never revolutionize animation, where's the commercial quality full CGI movie?"

Anonymous 04/21/25 (Mon) 07:38:03 No.148632

>with Japan being in massive economic decline and everything?
What?
Not only has japan recovered from the crash a long time ago, it's been seeing great economic changes recently like the major devaluation of the yen. Japan's economy is comparable to any other developed economy, perhaps better with how comparatively industrialized it is, not "dying".
>The studios simply do not have enough money
The main problem is too much money not a lack of it. Too much Netflix, amazon, Disney+ - too many "international media products". The allure of pandering to westerners is much for the megacorporations. We need a focus on lower budget anime for a japanese, otaku, audience. If they need 20 gazillion dollar for their SnK Movie or whatever, they can go to hell and burn.

On the chinese vs western influence conversation:
My position is pretty clear above, but if you put a gun to my head then chinese censorship is better. Chinese are east-asians, with a strong positive 2d culture compared to the west's insincere, "ironic", one.
Western influence is both more subtle but also much more pervasive - there's is no outright "censorship" in the west and we are using the word in the proverbial sense; but yet the decline of a more japanese character with more cultural references and things westerners just wouldn't get is noticeable in newer anime, in favor of things more palatable to an international audience. China's censorship is for the internal market and does not really influence the creative process anywhere near as much unless your anime is about like, the sino-japanese wars. If China had the same amount of influence in anime as the west has with their netflixes and disney's, maybe you'd see more anime set in pseudo ancient china like maomao.

Anonymous 04/21/25 (Mon) 07:58:32 No.148642

AI images made by someone that knows what they're doing with current illustrious/noobAI merged models already look better than what 99.99% of human artists can do and that only takes ~6GB VRAM. What's stopping GPUs from having 512GB or more VRAM for <$5k in a few years? Scarcity of powerful GPUs is all I see standing in the way of heavily AI assisted anime production.

Anonymous 04/21/25 (Mon) 08:04:54 No.148646

>>148642
extreme techno-optimism, maybe AI is better than 99.9% of humanity at drawing, but not nearly the same level of actual artists. And there’s no real control over what it spits out. So it’s got a long way before replacing anime.

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....zenless zone? Anonymous 04/15/25 (Tue) 11:12:34 No.142261[Reply]

i'm not gonna lie. i want to post about zzz with the bwos. i know this is a slow place and you guys are true /jp/ enjoyers and probably not gachashitters but the other chans are full of clearly underage users speaking in tongues, i have nowhere else to go for now. anyone have zzz girls they enjoy? or looking forward to coming out in 2.0?

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Anonymous 04/17/25 (Thu) 00:25:37 No.144466

>>142638
>>142645
hello there, fatty.
it's been over a month since i've last logged into genshin.
i burnt out massively.
i know i'm losing primos but i just don't have the will to log in.

Anonymous 04/17/25 (Thu) 02:24:20 No.144553

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>>144466
same its very hard for me to open genshit anymore i did complete the abyss today but i dont feel like doing anything else i havent even touched the newest region because i cant stand the thought of putting up with hour long dialogueslop anymore

Anonymous 04/19/25 (Sat) 11:03:31 No.147040

ZENFULL RADIUS ONE

Anonymous 04/21/25 (Mon) 07:35:14 No.148630

i hope gachafriends get better one day and turn from their self destructive ways

Anonymous ## Mod 04/23/25 (Wed) 23:25:30 No.150271

Moved to >>>/amv/4310.

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Tegaki Feature Anonymous 11/30/23 (Thu) 22:01:46 No.116690 [Reply][Last50 Posts]

New feature just landed.
https://github.com/desuwa/tegaki
Better than paint, allows you to add another layer on top for a simple CSP style image editor.

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Anonymous 04/17/25 (Thu) 20:04:09 No.145108

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ZZ Gundam.

Anonymous 04/19/25 (Sat) 15:24:33 No.147314

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Meep

Anonymous 04/19/25 (Sat) 18:21:44 No.147406

>>147314
Cute nipper.

Anonymous 04/20/25 (Sun) 20:50:34 No.148310

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>>144634
Thank you kindly, my only wish is that I had easy access to a lasso feature with this. Took way longer than it should've but I'm still happy with it.
(no-hands version via the link below)
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Anonymous 04/20/25 (Sun) 21:05:53 No.148313

can someone draw a butt with poo coming out

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Question time Anonymous 04/15/25 (Tue) 22:24:27 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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Anonymous 04/20/25 (Sun) 11:59:32 No.148050

>>143346
>Are you satisfied with the current state of 4chan/the boards you browse?
No. I merely find it less bad than the alternatives.
>What are your posting habits like and how have they changed over the years?
I withdrew out of most of the site because a tide of garbage drowned out most of my interest in browsing other discussion.
>Would you post on alt-chans like this more often if they were a bit faster?
Yes, though what would make me post a lot is if I met an altchan which could sustain my irl hobby (involves a lot of going outside, talking to people, using machinery, exploring the wilderness so I am unsurprised to see no discussion, even on 4chan /trv/ and /diy/ was dead).

Anonymous 04/20/25 (Sun) 15:48:05 No.148176

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>>143346
>Are you satisfied with the current state of 4chan/the boards you browse?
I suppose I'd consider myself somewhat neutral on the topic. I think the site has definitely gotten worse though. What with the captchas needing 15 minutes before you start a posting session, or needing email confirmations for /biz/. I think in general I was a bit lucky in that I for better or worse isolated myself to a few niche generals. While that has been pretty nice, I feel like the generals themselves are bleeding out and it's possible that they will have a far less active userbase as time goes on.
>What are your posting habits like and how have they changed over the years?
I mostly lurk and I don't think that has changed. It's pretty rare for me to engage in a long discussion, but I do enjoy talking with various anons whenever I do chat with them.
>Would you post on alt-chans like this more often if they were a bit faster?
I would. Honestly this place is comfy enough that I do want to come back here even when 4chan gets back up and running. I really like this place, and also this is my first post here. Hello World! I look forward to seeing more of you all if you'll have me.

Anonymous 04/20/25 (Sun) 20:14:44 No.148300

>>148050
Do you make maple syrup

Anonymous 04/20/25 (Sun) 20:37:03 No.148306

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>>143346
Generally my experience has been decent, probably because I kept switching my main boards before they get really kuso
I started with /v/ in 2014 and switched to /int/ then /vr/ then /m/ then /an/ and then finally /jp/ over the next 11 years
I don't really hate the management team but they are incompetent, this anon outlines my gripes with /jp/'s management here >>143395
But I should also mention that their choices to add new boards were confounding, they created /bant/ for decent reasons but did nothing to protect their budding community leading to them becoming disenfranchised and forming a new altchan
They wisely created a mobile games board to offload gacha garbage but didn't strictly enforce it so no one used it
They created a vtuber board but yet again didn't strictly enforce it leading to an enclave of horrid posters shitting up /jp/ still
And /vst/ /vrpg/ seem backward in approach as while both boards are decent they are like reverse containment boards, actively taking good discussion out of /v/ and /vg/
And yet despite all of their new boards they never once thought to create a korean culture board to offload the brainless k-pop posters who had generals on like 5 different boards at once

Anonymous 04/20/25 (Sun) 22:21:20 No.148350

>>148300
No, I find rocks, and I cut them into interesting shapes. Involves a lot of amateur geological mapping out of areas and occasionally getting lucky enough to get into active mines. Plus trading interesting rocks with people.

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Kagurabachi Anonymous 04/20/25 (Sun) 17:10:27 No.148202 [Reply]

https://mangaplus.shueisha.co.jp/viewer/1024219
Kino chapter.

Anonymous 04/20/25 (Sun) 17:15:40 No.148204

Still waiting for Tafuku to come back.

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Anonymous 04/15/25 (Tue) 10:13:15 No.142227 [Reply]

WELCOME NEWFRIENDS!!!

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Anonymous 04/16/25 (Wed) 07:34:05 No.143877

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>>142875
You should try the LaLa theme

Anonymous 04/16/25 (Wed) 07:36:25 No.143881

>>143877
Yeah, just a heads up that it really eats up the CPU. There's no such thing as efficient CSS (or is it called HTML) animation.
I was working on updating and adding more themes a couple months ago but some real life stuff came up and I got distracted after that. I guess I should get back to it soon.

Anonymous 04/16/25 (Wed) 09:11:07 No.143947

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>>143797
thanks mate

Anonymous 04/20/25 (Sun) 15:27:43 No.148172

>>143877
It's cute that it changes the curser. Reminds me of the old internet.

Anonymous 04/20/25 (Sun) 16:52:40 No.148196

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the curser

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Anonymous 02/29/24 (Thu) 22:20:20 No.120518 [Reply]

What is your proudest 2D/otaku related accomplishment? I can say I've watched Evangelion as a kid. Pretty cool eh? While everyone else was watching Pokemon, DBZ and Yugi-oh I was feeling funny looking at Shinji grab Rei's boobs by accident.

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Anonymous 04/19/25 (Sat) 03:13:17 No.146733

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>>146725
>>146730
Took a bit of time but the niwaka finally arrived.

Anonymous 04/19/25 (Sat) 03:13:58 No.146734

>>146730
You're only calling him that because he's not throwing his money away on figures or character wall scrolls or whatever consumerist crap you deem to be for "true otaku".

Anonymous 04/19/25 (Sat) 03:35:38 No.146754

I'm neither embarrassed nor proud.
I merely am.

Anonymous 04/20/25 (Sun) 14:36:54 No.148141

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>>142488
probably not going to let it get to that size.
it'll be too large to organize & sort by then.
how do you even find stuff?

Anonymous 04/20/25 (Sun) 14:38:49 No.148142

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>>148141
I used to organize everything into specific subfolders. Now I don't, and I don't find anything anymore.

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Anonymous 04/19/25 (Sat) 07:09:41 No.146882[Reply]

Why do people ignore 60's and 70's Anime so much? I've been on a kick of older Anime and Showa Era Tokusatsu, and I've always been so confused as to why people would ignore these great shows. Mazinger Z, Dororo, Ashita No Joe. and others. I feel as if this is an underrated time period for the art form.
The Real question is Why Haven't YOU Checked out something from the 60's and 70s.

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Anonymous 04/19/25 (Sat) 09:33:18 No.146993

>>146889
I tried watching that too after I had seen the 2019 version and it was confusing, it seems to assume that you had read the manga already since a lot of stuff is just not explained.

Anonymous 04/19/25 (Sat) 11:47:17 No.147057

>>146888
Yeah Ultraseven is pretty great although I did find it a bit harder to get into as Ultraman at first. Lots of forgettable episodes but when it did shine it shined real fucking hard, like alien metron, robot planet and that one ep where the aliens troll the shit out of that astronomer

Anonymous 04/20/25 (Sun) 09:19:56 No.148002

>>147057
For me what really set Seven apart was the enemies being sentient, I felt like this really shifted the focus away from kaiju battles and opened the doors for a wider range of interesting plots. There was even an episode with no fights or kaiju that turned out to be one of the best in the series. Sadly, from what I've heard from other tokufags, Seven is an anomaly in this regard. I did watch later installments like Return and Ace, and while they were good and had some standout episodes, they didn't quite capture the same magic.

Anonymous 04/20/25 (Sun) 10:22:24 No.148021

My mom grew up in Hawaii and tried to sell me on Ultraseven as a kid but I could never really get into it.
I think I like stunts more than toku, so I like older Kamen Riders and the Space Sheriffs more.

Anonymous ## Mod 04/23/25 (Wed) 23:23:21 No.150270

Moved to >>>/amv/4200.

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Dreams thread Anonymous 12/19/20 (Sat) 19:20:52 No.62191 [Reply][Last50 Posts]

What have you been dreaming recently?

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Anonymous 04/19/25 (Sat) 15:54:18 No.147335

Dreamt today that I cooked a giant lamb in the grill and let it smoke for hours and it came out just perfect and was chewy and marinated well and oohhhh god I really want to make lamb now.

Anonymous 04/19/25 (Sat) 15:55:32 No.147336

Had a nightmare that there were a bunch of bears outside and I was in a rangerover or something and I had to push it.
Very kowai, the bears were coming after me.

Anonymous 04/20/25 (Sun) 10:21:45 No.148020

I had a dream that I was basically sonic but it never was like obvious. I never got a good look at myself and nobody ever said IT'S SONIC! but I was a little fast blue guy. I guess I could have been stitch or something too
there was some villainess making people fight in a raised wrestling cage, match after match, and I climbed through the top and into the cage to help one of the fighters against the fighter that I thought was the organizer plant (who coincidentally looked just like the villainess in charge of everything)
So it became 2v1.
Then I woke up.

Night before that I dreamt that my youngest brother was listing countries and listed holland and "netherland" separately and I corrected him on it in-dream by explaining that holland is a region of the netherlands. lol.

I almost always remember my dreams so I could easily post in this thread every fucking day.

Anonymous 04/20/25 (Sun) 10:43:32 No.148028

Dreamt that my testicles incredibly swollen, were completely clear and transparent. Parts of the testes(the inside part, I guess?) began to splinter and break into small bits inside the testicle sac, and then my entire nutsack began to decompose and leave traces on everything I touched. Parts of it would fall off and then begin to grow weird sac things. Mind you I was running around and they were sagging to the floor and leaving strange marks everywhere. I don't have the skill to explain such visceral body horror dreams.

Anonymous 04/22/25 (Tue) 18:05:32 No.149604

dreamt i met heidegger while shopping in france and asked him about language processing and he said it wasn't his place to answer

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Anonymous 04/20/25 (Sun) 07:18:39 No.147935 [Reply]

I don't understand how the japanese copyright system works. It simultenously appears as hyper retrictive when it comes to patents and modifications, same with copyrighted characters. But at the same time there's a big doujin/independent scene where people can create works out of copyrighted works. See Touhou for example. I know ZUN gave his consent to fan projects but I wonder if that's an exception rather than the rule. Some japanese laws seem draconian to me.

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Anonymous 04/20/25 (Sun) 07:55:40 No.147959

>>147948
>but in practice are tolerated for cultural reasons
Does this stem from an old law or something? I've heard from a guy who did a research project that the reason video game tournaments in Japan used to not offer cash prizes was because they fell under the umbrella of an old anti-gambling law that was enacted in the 70's, I think, to counter crime groups.

Anonymous 04/20/25 (Sun) 08:06:44 No.147967

>>147959
I couldn't really tell you. I was mostly thinking of e.g. the community-fostering effect that secondary works have. Also like >>147949 points out, the doujin community is often a stepping stone for artists. It would make the IP holders look terrible.

>anti-gambling law
This one's also full of loopholes (lol pachinko), but I don't want to derail the thread. Generally speaking the Japanese are masters at bullshitting their way through things using technicalities and vague wording, see also: anti-prostitution legislation.

Anonymous 04/20/25 (Sun) 08:13:47 No.147972

>>147948
>This includes doujin works and other types of secondary content, but also things like manga cafes, and I think used bookstores too.
Surely Japan has a concept of "first sale doctrine", like the United States. Otherwise libraries themselves would be illegal... No?

Anonymous 04/20/25 (Sun) 08:27:33 No.147985

how do the Japanese treat fan made animations on YouTube (not counting Touhou, I already know there's a lot of those), monetized or not?

Anonymous 04/20/25 (Sun) 08:32:00 No.147987

>>147972
I did a quick search and found this page https://libraryexpert.net/howto/whatcopyright/ which claims that since libraries do not operate for profit, they don't violate the copyright holder's exclusive rights on lending.

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Anonymous 04/20/25 (Sun) 04:25:46 No.147800 [Reply]

Anonymous 04/20/25 (Sun) 04:29:49 No.147802

what the... how did you do that

Anonymous 04/20/25 (Sun) 04:34:21 No.147804

>>147802 css styling

Anonymous 04/20/25 (Sun) 05:04:34 No.147821

I don't see anything.

Anonymous 04/20/25 (Sun) 05:06:16 No.147822

Ok, now I see it.

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