Have any of you tried it? I got myself a bow and a few arrows with dummy heads on them. I've been having a lot a fun with it and I'm getting better too. How do you like it? How good are you? Why do you do it? I find it to be a great way to relax.
I will be entering college this September, and as much as I like anime and manga, I don't want to be an otaku anymore. It is not like I don't enjoy them--of course I do, but I don't want to be known as a nerd anymore, and being a freshman in college, starting anew, will give me the opportunity.
It will be too painful if I just throw away/give away my collection at once, so I want to do it slowly. I don't know how I am going to manage doing that though... it seems like such a waste!
Anyway, I hope you guys can shed some light and opinion into how I can do it in a less painful manner. There is only a month more before I head to college, so I should start doing it now!
>>126
we all wish too do it like this. but easy spoken, hard done.
lost generation.. 助けて・・お願い・・ (ノ。б、)
>>126
exactlly, you can still like anime, manga and stuff, just have to socialise a bit more and create new priorities.
make a blog
this sounds like a fun story of ur everyday life lol
>137
[post from 2007]
I was in a bookstore when I saw this book on knitting that showed how to make useful things like messenger bags, hats, scarves, cellphone socks, sweaters, even MITTENS!
I always thought knitting to be some dumb way to make couch decorations or something. But now that I know it is useful, I am going to learn it myself. Have any of you done it before?
Nope. Good luck, grey.
I've made a couple scarves and sweaters, but I mostly crochet. It's better for most of what I've made(slippers, hats, mittens, and blankets).
Knitting's a bit difficult but there are tons and tons of books and video tutorials out there, stick to it!
>>2
..how did you?
What happened to him?
OMG.
I made a mistake.
Right URL ↓
Drugs.
Lol Conan.
Sorry,if it is unsuitable for here.
I cannot speak English well.Sorry.
Please use simple words.
And,please dont use abbreviations slang etc...
If the sentence wrong,sorry
If I were to visit, would you care to help me find work?
In which town/locality do you live?
>>2
Your sentence means that Please find work for me when I visit Japan.OK?
Unfortunately,Japan is job scarcity now.
Are woman?If youre a woman,please work on the bed in my room at night.
Just kidding.
Is it hard to find a job for a former hikikomori or NEET?
What do you think of 4-ch?
why are you NEET?
I like to stalk people. Anyone, really. Whether it be in my local neighborhood or on the internet. I'm very discreet about it, too. I typically communicate with my victims my making creepy videos of myself in a dark room with only the light from my lighter showing my face.
I'm also sitting in a car outside your house, stealing your Wi-Fi. Come say hi, we can get a drink or two.
I enjoy watching people like you get frustrated and drive away when I suddenly put up a password.
>>1 you are not stealing wifi, but enjoying what is graciously shared. Please respect it. It's phony people like you that make it harder to build a willingness to share and trust each other. Think of how much more easy going things would be if people had a modicum of decency in their dealings with others...
If you need to stalk, go take pictures of birds. And if you must deal with people, at least be professional about it and remain totally invisible to them in the process.
lmao at how many weaboos in this
I used to do this just for the sake of doing it. I'm a very non-judgmental person so it was nice peering into other people's lives. Unfortunately I was very paranoid people would do this to me, though a lot more judgmentally.
Guys, come on. That's wrong.
On the other hand corps like Google, MS, Yahoo, Facebook, or the America and Chinese governments would love to have you as employees.
Does anyone here play? I've recently started playing, and it's really addictive.
I'm always fascinated by the evolution of a game playing out as if some viral swarm breeding and assimilating before itself dying by degrees, only to renew the process once more.
I've used to play it actively for ~2 years. I still play once or twice a month, but I'm not as into it as I used to be.
I spend a couple weeks learning to play it. Too hard for me to become good at it, I should have started young.
A friend of mine, well over 30, used to work at an insurance company. He wouldn't have it however, and decided to become a go professional. He would spend his free time from work in go clubs, learning from people better than him and look up professional games on the internet. Eventually, he made it.
Sure, there's something to be said about talent, and it's most certainly better to start early but it's not impossible to get good at something if you're willing to put in the effort.
I have made it my goal to learn Japanese just so I can understand 2ch's go board.
I play every now and then online. I brought a board and stones 3-4 years ago. Sadly, no one in my area even knows about the game, so i use the board to plan out moves and study games.
Anyone interested in martial arts? In general I mean. Which do you study? Why did you choose those?
Is yours practical, artistic, for sport, or what?
I've always been interested, or at least since I read Stephen Hayes books...
Unfortunately, I don't have anywhere to go to receive teachings where I live.
Anyway, I read about them and I know a few techniques from books I've read (not 100% if I'm doing them right though) so I do a sort of shadow boxing for fun/exercise(shut up I know it's lame), and I do some tai chi from time to time, which is really more of a meditation and exercise program than a martial art imo, at least what I know of it is, although I've heard some people actually use it for self-defense so I guess there must be more to it than I've seen.
I'm really interested in To Shin Do, Bujinkan Taijutsu, systema, combat sambo, marine corps martial arts program (not taught to civilians though is it?) and mag krava.
Hell the Army doesn't even have the luxury to fit its troops with body armor.
I am generally interested. Would love to learn some Aikijutsu and Jujutsu, but there aren't any classes in my neck of the woods.
Kickboxing and Greco-Roman wrestling are a good base to learn other martial arts, Kung Fu, Krav Maga, etc. I mean, even in themselves they provide a pretty decent skill-set for self defense in most situations, despite the fact that they are sports.
I am a 24 year old male who is relatively fit, but has had no training in any martial arts at all. Most of the people I know who are/were in martial arts classes started very young (like 8 or so years old). Do dojo's train older people?
course they do, that's why there are adult classes. i trained in muay thai for a while. not so much hte martial art as the boxing style. most places offer adult classes. but im in north america. it could be different elsewhere.
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I practice capoeira for the fun of it
Hi I'm Cecilia and I need your help you. I'm study English and I have to do a work about hobbies and I choose Martial arts Can you help me? Tell me the reasons why I should to start to learn this dicipline
Having spent most of my days sitting down in front of a computer, I'm very, very unfit. Lately, I've been thinking about doing somehting to better it, at least a little. I’ve got no motivation to simply train using weights, but doing some kind of martial art might be a good way to go about it. I've been thinking that kendo could be fun, but I'm indecisive as fuck when it comes to these things.
I have always wondered about that. It seems like some weeaboo only wants "authentic" Japanese things, ie Japanese girls, Japanese music, and Japanese people to be friends with, while others seem like they'll take anything/anyone that is Asian. This guy I know is dating a Chinese girl, and he's weeaboo. So, does it depend on the individual weeaboo? Or will they accept all things Asian (Japanese being the best)?
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weeaboo
they eat pocky only
they dye their hair black then draw cat eyes then call themsleves asian
watch anime then decided american cartoon is shit
normal girl:OMG your so annoying shut up weeaboo
weeaboo*sobbing pretendng to be cute*stop being a baka, its so unkawaii ne!
they want to live in japan when they dont even eat simple thing like rice
they want to be a mangaka and a famous cosplayer
they say they can speak japanese when they can only count 1 to 10 and stuff like baka, kawaii, desu etc.
they tried to write in japanese, show it to their asian friends then get laugh at.
my friend is a weeaboo. when she saw my cat she was like" OMG its a neko, so sugoi!!!!
we were talking about chinese uniform,then she said that chinese uniform suck, they don't have cute big red bows and blue skirts etc.
they own a whole wardrobe of asian clothes brought from japanese website
making excuses for being a weeaboo when is weeaboo
pffft man i'm the happiest communist who ever lived let's keep it that way
I want to learn Japanese, but I also want to learn french, and german, and icelandic.
I know that i'm going off topic with this post, but i'm going to say this anyway.
I find it that weaboos are actually pretty okay if they want to be Japanese or what, as long as they keep their stuff to themselves and their fellow weaboos without annoying or insulting others in the process.
They like Anime, Hentai, J-musics and girls, fine, it's their right and freedom anyway. Plus i found it ridiculous that people that wants to be Japanese are called dumbfucks. The one who says it is a goddamn hypocrite. I do not believe that there's a person in this world who would say that he's fully content of what he is, every single one of us must have wished that we are born in a different form. It's just a matter of how they can actually accept the reality or not.
Honestly i found them having much more values as human beings than those who can only fuss and flame about others' preferences .
And this is coming from a person who likes anime and manga, who likes draw them and dreams of having it as a profession as well, but only watching and reading them once in a while, and likes Linkin Park and American Movies as well. I try to appreciate every single cultures in this world, as long as no harm is done.
I haaaaaaate these damn people who think they are Japanese when they aren't! Using nicknames with "-chan" or "-kun" is... raaaagh >_< I can't bear it! I can't bear it!
Learning 10 japanese words and repeating them all the time doesn't make you a Japanese!
>>126
Don't worry--most people feel the same way.
It saddens me that people like this exist. Hopefully it's just a phase.
Holy shit, this whole weaboo thing is hilarious!
I live in Japan, married to a Japanese woman, working as a Japanese-English translator in the finance biz, and I had never heard of a weaboo until yesterday! Of course, I don't watch anime, maybe that's why.
I just think is is hilarious that I have the kind of life that a weaboo dreams of and have never thought twice about it. Japan is just a country same as any other.
How bad do you have to be before you can be branded as an otaku? What if you only like a couple of manga titles and a couple of anime titles but don’t even own any game systems, will you still be considered an otaku?
>>75
not geeks, more like nerds. geeks are much more "harmless"
Right. Nerds sometimes end up shooting up their school. Geeks however, would not do this?
>>79
i think "geek" is attached to people who like doing something very much like "computer geek"
Nerds would be a person who excels in academia. Where as geeks are those with interests or obsession in what is outside the social "norm". Also usually geeks would classify themselves to their hobbies as traits of their personality. Just as jocks are classified by sports, geeks are classified by their interest in sci-fi, video games, comics, occult, and various other things. Otaku carries negative connotation as it implies obsession of their interest that prevents them from being functional members of society.
I'm sure that buying an anime character dakikamura or whatever they're called would be a sure-fire indicator.
An Otaku is a japanese word for a nerd. The word 'Otaku' is only used outside of japan as a self-label for weeaboos who think using a japanese word makes them cool. It doesn't.
If you do not refer to yourself as an 'Otaku', then the person who called you one is a weeaboo and needs to use english words ie. Nerd or Geek.
For some reason wapanese think being an 'Otaku' is a good think to be proud it when actually in Japan "Otakus" (english translation: Nerds) are frowned upon in the society and are seen as a burden.
TL;DR: Only you yourself can label yourself as an Otaku. Others would just call you a nerd, unless they were weeaboos who are complimenting your love on shinyshinykawaiiNippondesudesukawaii
>>84
Nerd is also "not good" in western countries. But many Nerds/Otaku don't give a fuck and are proud to be one. So who cares.
I consider myself an otaku
I like anime, manga, video games, and Japanese fashion, culture and history.
I don't go for figurines though. They serve no propose. I don't know why people buy them.
