/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Talk to a psychiatrist about it. You are substituting your desire for human contact onto fictional characters.

>>3712736
But, You can't tell anyone something like that on /jp/.

>>3712736
>implying all people have a desire for human contact

>>3712745
...I just did?

>>3712747
No, I'm just implying that if you have a desire for physical contact with fictional characters it is likely derived from a repressed desire for physical contact with real humans.

>>3712752
But anime/VN characters do really exist in another dimension.

>>3712752
Okay, Mr. Internet Psychologist.

What are your credentials?

>>3712752
But real people are (ry

>>3712758

>>3712756
Authority does not exist on anonymous internet forums, it would be futile to establish my authority as a psychologist. If anything I say interests you I suggest you address it with a professional in a setting that allows you to verify his credentials.

>>3712752
>still implying

>>3712755
So does every imaginable being, but I assume you do not experience urges to hug formless beings of inhuman personality and physical appearance, it is the human-like nature of the fictional beings (fictional in /this/ universe) that attracts you to them.

>>3712782
Some people do NOT have an innate desire for human contact, but they are not likely to experience a desire for physical contact with fictional characters.

>>3712784
>you do not experience urges to hug formless beings of inhuman personality and physical appearance

Sure is secondary in here.

>>3712790
>implying people cannot fall in love with 2D characters.

>>3712728
>I want to hug her.

She wants to kill you slowly and painfully.

>>3712799
They definitely can, but they are likely to find these relationships hollow and unfulfilling, these desires for a relationship could be much better satiated by physical human companionship.

>>3712808
>implying someone cannot be happy with 2D

>>3712813
I said they weren't likely to be happy with it, some people may be happy to live out their lives with only fictional characters to satiate their desires for human contact.

>>3712820
>still implying

>>3712808
>implying nearly every relationship out there isn't a hollow, unfulfilling, meaningless exercise in futility, an attempt to acquire a mere sexual partner, or an attempt to fulfill a real or imagined societal norm.

>>3712836

That's a bit dramatic for a proper girl in a fancy hat

>>3712822
Even if /most/ people even if the /great majority/ were very happy experiencing human contact through an charecter with no physical presence, would those happy fulfilled people be the ones starting threads with "I want to hug her ;_;"? If I understand the emoticon correctly it expresses sadness and loneliness.

>>3712836
Finally, this is an argument much more difficult to grapple with.

>>3712843
>implying
>an charecter

I'm out of here.

>>3712861
>implying that people are implying when their post doesn't contain the word imply nor is it green text

YOU KEEP USING THAT WORD
I DO NOT THINK IT MEANS WHAT YOU THINK IT MEANS.

>>3712873
You are the one who doesn't know what it means. Your post implies that you do not know the meaning of the word imply.

>>3712884
No, it's an implication if they're implying something. In the case of >>3712843 he doesn't imply anything.

He just outright explicates it.

>>3712893
That is true, but you don't need to use the word "imply" nor use green text to imply something in your post, which makes >>3712873 incorrect.

While it's true not anyone needs "physical" contact, everyone needs at least some human "interaction".
That's the main reason we're here.

>>3712935
>That's the main reason we're here.
There's no "reason" for us being here except the ones we make up. If that's the main reason YOU'RE here then fine, but leave me out of it.

>>3712935
I'm here because I like Type-Moon and Touhou.
Don't lump me up with your pseudo-social reasons.

>>3712959
Uhhh this is a discussion board, thus you came here to discuss and share your opinion with others. That's human interaction.
Unless you came for the porn, but in that case you'd be lurking in the nsfw boards instead of being here.

>>3712974

But I hate human interaction, that's why I'm on /jp/.

>>3712975
Then why aren't you ignoring me ?

>>3712974
There's no eye contact, physical contact facial expression or body language, though. Just text and pixels. There's no hidden meanings to miss. Also, there's no identity or reputation to uphold. No one will be sending hidden signals to one another about you that you don't notice. This is an intellectual paradise.

>>3712728

>>3713020
>Also, there's no identity or reputation to uphold.
Trips.
Trips everywhere.

Even though /jp/ wouldn't be half as enjoyable without them.

>>3712974
I would fuck you so hard.

>>3712975
I would rape you so hard.

>>3713360
Trip and namefags are like flies on shit.
They aren't part of it, just let them fly.

>>3713360

Even without the pollution of trips, people still have a tendency to simply forget they are allowed to change their opinion here without looking like a pussy. The anonymity doesn't work as well as it should because people forget they are anonymous in a heated argument.