I have no skills or talent.
How does one gain a hobby?
just go with your friends and see if you like it... you don't have to have skills or talent to enjoy something you like... just do whatever you feel like and enjoy doing it;that's a hobby.
What are your interests? Perhaps you can go from there?
no need to have skills or talent for your hobby.
to write something at 4ch... is your hobby, you can say that.
the academic community has reached a general consensus that skill and talent are most frequently the results of the tens of thousands of hours spent on an activity. Don't worry about what you're good at, focus on what you like to do. After a few weeks you will certainly notice improvement. So go paint, write music, shoot at targets, or play frisbee golf with the mindset that -you will get better-
How about chess ?
It's nice for otaku to learn enthusiastically.
Go chess.com!
Let's bet horse racing!
Any photographs here??!
What equipment do you use?
Do you use photoshop?
Show your pix!!
wow, i guess there aren't too many photo geeks on here
i have the Nikon D90, and i use Photoshop for retouching/ restoring photos- would like to do more with it
I'm a photographer from germany :)
see it here - www.gest0ert.deviantart.com
and click gallery :)
I'm a photo geek. I have a lot of gear. For digital I use Canon (Rebel XS/EOS 1000D) and for film I use a Nikon FG and a Canon QL17 GIII. Multiple cameras have passed through my hands, all of them 35mm. I hope I can find a medium or large format camera one day. I don't use Photoshop very often because I feel like Lightroom can take care of most of the things.
Are there any particular books or websites that you can recommend to a noob?
You know, over the internet, for fandubs and stuff like that. What are your thoughts on it?
I think anyone can voice act if they try - even if you haven't got a large range, there must be some character out there your real voice fits!
I agree. Though, to be honest, a lot of the stuff out there is kind of painful to hear. But as long as you're cool with that (and you have to be if you want to improve, yourself), then there's no reason not to do it.
PIERCE THE HEAVENS WITH YOUR VOICE
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?
>>71
ur wrong
Again in the USA cmon, nobody knows what a real otak is besides otaks. When you lust after "ohh am I one or not" it sounds more like a cry for an attatchment to some kind of fashonable counterculture. In the us if you were at a real otak level you would be a "nerd". And I rarely see any stigma over "whats my nerd level" ect.
You're not an otaku, if you think you're an otaku that's your instant ticket to realizing you're a weeaboo. Americans are called geeks.
>>75 I agree ^^ Otaku is pretty much an insult. And due to ignorance of weeaboos, they wear the title proudly. I'm more of a "Japanese-enthusiast". :P
>>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?
I really hate it when I see girls in the gym putting 5lbs on a machine and "lift weights". You're not doing anything. Go home and come back when you are ready to exersize.
>>10 hahaha i disagree..
being sweaty and such feels good.. getting tired is awesome too.. it gives you deep awesome sleeps and u know, the soreness next day just makes you laugh.. cuz this kinky ache is just making you smile. u know you have been working hard and moving your sore legs to step stretch your face to :3 :P
yah, I gotta agree, afterwards, don't you just have to think, "man that wasn't too bad" and "wow, I was able to push myself farther today" ? That is, at least, what I think should be striven for. (unfortunately, those are my hardest days =)
Women shouldn't lift to much, then they'll get all bulky. I think they should stick with very little weight with a lot of reps and focus more on cardio and a flat stomach.
>I really hate it when I see girls in the gym putting 5lbs on a machine and "lift weights". You're not doing anything. Go home and come back when you are ready to exersize.
NO DON'T TELL THE WOMENS
If they get strong HOW WILL WE OPEN JARS FOR THEM OMG
>>14
Indeed, this is quite a good point.
>>13
Most women can't get bulky. They lack the hormones men have that help build muscle. Very, very few women can put on a lot of muscle mass no matter how much time they spend in the gym.
This is not to say they can't get toned and increase their overall level of fitness. But their arms aren't going to bulk up like Mr. Universe's.
Guys, women don't get "bulky" if they lift a lot of weight. It's a silly but common misconception started, probably by women, to keep us weak and "delicate" so that guys can still dominate us in strength. It's takes way more effort for woman's muscles to even show much less get "bulky". It doesn't take steroids to achieve, but it does take a crap-load of work, more work than really necessary, and is easily reversed if not constantly up-kept on the daily.
Sorry, I meant *probably my men.
Oh you, silly goose!
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)?
>Does that make me a weeaboo?
Yes. Yes it does.
I'm an Artist, a Musician and a Linguist. I know French, Spanish, and Italian already. I know the basics of Manga art and would like to take a course in Japan to study it further. I play Piano, and the violin. I enjoy J-pop and J-rock and pretty much Japanese music in general. Especially composers like Motoi Sakuraba and his usage of the harmony of both the instruments I play. Forgive me for enjoying a culture that pretty much touches me in all of my interests. If Anime and Manga came from France, I'd probably move to France! It's not like I'm putting Japan up as a "Utopia" or anything. I just like the culture and would like to live there for a good part of my life. So screw me for wanting to get to know a different culture, and screw you for trying to get in my way with your silly titles. The United States is just... boring to me. I want to go out and see the world from a different point of view. Because unlike you, I'm accepting of other people and their cultures/interests. So mister 94, you can call me whatever you like, it's not going to change a thing. To that a say, さようなら! Nativist pigs...
OMG I know some people who are under the perfect classification of weeaboo. Im of Chinese/Filipino/Japanese/European decent[Chinese being the dominant at 50%] and its absolutely painful when I hear them try and speak Japanese to me. I heard one of these weeaboos say that they could speak FULL Japanese. So what I did was I went up to them and started speaking "Japaniberish" to see if shed be able to figure me out. She didnt; her excuse, "You were talking too fast". OMG! I myself am learning Japanese, I have the whole Hiragana and Katakana alphabet memorised and I am now starting on kanji. I am also learning to speak it PROPERLY, no anime accents. AGH!
>>88 If I ruled Japan, I'd make it so that written Japanese only had kana and no kanji.
I didn't read this thread at all, but I want to step in to say that this idea is retarded. Do you realize how impossible it would become to read or speak Japanese? How would you differentiate between the 15 different entries in the dictionary for たいしょう? Or the 18 entries for せいそう？ Sure, you've got the pitch-based accent to help you differentiate between the words, but half of all words in Japanese have no accent, which sort of ruins your plans from the get-go. Chinese characters are necessary for determining which homophone you're talking about. It's true that the only reason they have so many goddamn homophones is because they use kanji (if they never started using kanji, then they wouldn't have had any way to differentiate between the 15 different たいしょうs, and they would have come up with different words for them), but the fact of the matter is that Japanese uses kanji -- it's just the way it works -- and so removing kanji from the language would make it horribly difficult to figure out what people are saying or writing.
Morever, kanji help to delineate word boundaries. If I write 吾輩は猫である, it's easy to tell where the word start and stop, but if I write わがはいはねこである, it's a fucking jumble. Throw in homophones or similar-sounding words and it gets fucking crazy. Even simple sentences become a pain in the ass to read:
Israelis are no asian at all -.- their middle eastern get your facts straight
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can 1 b a weaboo if he actually lived in japan but is not japanese and he really likes the culture and wishes 2 move back
I'm a weeaboo and I'm proud of it.
Fuck you all.
>>98 I find holes to most of those objections.
But before one other suggestion. If one is to reform Japanese spelling, the most sensible idea is to use roman letters, this would make Japanese more compatible with the western world to which Japan aspires to (managed to?) belong. Just imagine where Japan would be technologically if they didn't spend the better half of the last century figuring out how to write on a keyboard.
This was even proposed by Japanese scholars http://bit.ly/a4F8Ym [wikipedia] (hint: it didn't catch up)
No, my objections, first: tone is easily expressed by diacritical marks, second: in such a system words would be separated by spaces duh!
The problem of the preponderance of homophones is the big problem here but let me remind you that Japanese actually speak this language! With sounds! They don't carry around signs like Genma just so they can chat.
I have the theory that if a language lets you say something using you mouth, it would also let you say the same thing with a phonetic writing system, which is essentially a program for reproducing an uttered sentence.
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(ó_ò) <--- is completely helpless
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So guys, I'm lookin' for something. But not just any hobby, I'm looking for something that
Seriously, I've got so much free time, and I want to put it to good use, if I'm not able to do anything else.
If anyone has any suggestions, that'd be great.
Arigatou. :3
freerice.com is a scam.
They're not a non-profit and earn far more money from ads than they give out in rice.
>>18
I block ads.
And they still have funny words. Good enough for me.
2: "Something that others can benefit from and that I can make other people happy with"... it sounds that you lack some acceptance from other people, if that's the case
1:"I can do over the internet" it's a really bad choice, try activities that make you contact real people
fap, fap, fap til you bleed
Wait... what just happened?
Also, OP, you could become a computer security expert and reopen Castle cops.
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(ó_ò) <--- OP, have you considered custom ASCII art? Perhaps portraits? Because this was really cute.
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Why don't try photography? You can take any picture you want, experimenting, and if you are lucky people might hire you for their small special occasion. You can also sell your picture online too.
Pornography. Makes people happy, and can be done over the Internet.
Make life sized sculptures of former presidents with your own poop.
I have no Idea whats going on but Disney is making a 3D short movie called [Fire Ball] and this movie's main character looks just like Miku lot of people in japan talking about this and I just heard about it
and heres the picture
http://www.j-cast.com/2008/03/13017812.html
....does anybody know whats going on?
waahaha disney couldnt come up with new ideas anymore...
THIS IS MADNESS!!!!!!!
THIS! IS! SPAAAARTAAAAAA!!!!
Sorry had to say it.
Anyways, that is a rather uncanny likeness. Might just be a coincidence, but since its Disney, and Disney is evil, probably not.
They never could! I mean, Pinocchio? Come on!
haha, really? Their animation may be good but 99% of Disney movies that they're SO famous for are just interpretations of classic fairy tales. Aladdin, Snow White, etc...
Besides, their real strength lately is shitting out teeny bop music stars.
>>1
The film was produced in part by Disney, but animated by Toei Animation in Japan.
I think--people--I guess I mean otaku, are freaking out a little much. The character in question is slender, big-eyed, and has long twintail-like appendages, so her silhouette is undeniably (sometimes) reminiscent of Hatsune Miku, sure. But she's also a freaking robot, with no facial features or clothes. The long ponytail-like-things that are the source of almost 100% of the resemblance actually transform into different shapes during the show, so for much of the time she doesn't look anything like Miku.
Disney/Toei are just trying to create something that will appeal to a fanboy audience by drawing on anime archetypes. It's not as if the Hatsune Miku character's all that original-looking, either--she bears a strong resemblance to dozens if not hundreds of other popular characters. Put Vanilla H from Galaxy Angel into ponytails, for example.
Also, I think the obsessive Hatsune Miku cult is a prime example of the fundamental social sickness that plagues Japanese culture. People would rather be obsessed with fake girls--really, really fake, in this case, since she's a program designed specifically to imitate human singing--than talk to real ones.
I'm so conflicted, I like kingdom Hearts, yet every other interaction they have with japan seems to be some character designer getting lazy. (Although I suppose kingdom hearts could also be interpreted as lazy character designers but it had enough original stuff to offset the recycled characters)
No it didn't.
Model-Building..... I find that it is not just a useless and nerd-like obsession, but a burning passion that is found in anyone.....
Putting aside the corny into, I find, nonetheless, that model building is a very calming, recreational, hobby. I think that it is wrong for such hobbies to be labeled as "nerd-like" or the such (or is that just me (?_?)
On this Thread, I want to hear what you all think of model-making. what types, why, etc.
personally, I've gotten into GM (Gundam Models for those that don't know) and it's turned out incredibly fun.
I used to build Gundams as a kid for a few years, working up to Master Grades and one Perfect Grade. Soon though I lost interest in Gundams and moved on to Warhammer. I've never played the game but I love painting the models.
I find it very meditating concentrating so much on a single small thing. Painting meticulous details and everything, it's all very zen. I don't like how model building is stigmatized, but then again I don't really care what other people think. I just do what I do.
I gave up painting figurines when my hands started shaking. It's not like Parkinson's, but it was enough to make me quit building models and painting little things for no apparent reason. Come to think of it, I might be able to paint/build bigger miniatures.. but they wouldn't be miniatures now would they?
I fooled around with Tolkien figurines and airplanes. Oh, how I miss the good old days when I could disguise my glue sniffing habit as a healthy hobby.
I think I do it to be able to just know where all the parts go and have control of construction of something.
Why Japanese Bento box became so popular??
Is it because that people see Japanese anime and wonder what they are eating at lunch time??
Maybe that's some reason for that,,,
btw, i'm bring some lunchbox too when i'm going to school =P
I think it is because of it's exoticism to some people. I for one am more for Indian eatery.