>>2
I'm aware, but I have to disagree on one point, I don't think inspiration comes so easily. I say what I said so people don't get to urge to say "Get off your ass and just do something," as if a hikikomori has never heard those lines before, and expect it to have an effect.

>>4
If I didn't have so much personal reasons preventing me from doing this I would've done so. But if it'll spark the fire a little, I can answer the less significant two.

2) Roughly two years.
3) I can go out when I need to or want to, but if I otherwise have no business, which is almost all the time, I don't.