/jp/ - Otaku Culture

[NEET lifestyle No.]

I've been having trouble sleeping lately, for some reason. Every night I wake up after only 6-7 hours, and then I feel tired the whole next day. I can't sleep during the day either for some reason.

Also yesterday I went to buy food for my cat. I had to go to a pet store where the cashier sort of knows my face. She smiled and said "Hi". Next think you know they'll be asking how I'm doing. It went fine, though.

What have you NEETs been up to lately?

[Anonymous No.]

I'm hungry but there's nothing good in the house.

I'm thinking about going to a certain fast food restaurant, but an old school friend works there. We weren't close; he was in the year below me and we just walked home together. Still, he'll want to know how I've been, what I'm doing now, etc.

How do normal people deal with this stuff?

[Anonymous No.]

I'm very cold, my fingernails are blue. I'm thinking of snuggling down in my bed and playing games.

[Anonymous No.]

Very subtle m8.

For your sleeping problem, I suggest giving melatonin a try. It's a hormone your body naturally produces before bed time and makes you feel sleepy. It's often used by people who suffer from short-term sleeping disorders and/or jet-lag. I'm pretty sure you don't even need a prescription for it if you live in America.

Personally, I'm having financial problems. I think my years of NEETdom are finally coming to an end soon.

[Anonymous No.]

I've had an eyelash in my right eye for 3 days now

[Anonymous No.]

Yesterday I stayed home all day browsing /jp/... oh and I ate a pizza which was very tasty.

I think that's about it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11530780
>How do normal people deal with this stuff?

Yeah, I wonder that as well. I mean, even if you're a normal with a job and all, I can't imagine what the appropriate response would be.

What should you give priority to?
How do you sum it up?

And perhaps most importantly, most people's lives are really static, so there's absolutely nothing going on. What do you say then?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11530801
And say they couldn't solve the problem, they just could not meet this person. Would they skip lunch? Go somewhere else? I feel like if I told someone I didn't eat somewhere for that reason, they'd think it's a big overreaction.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11530787
You should paint them black instead. It's the sexiest.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11530780
I used to play video games with a guy back in highschool and I saw him working at the grocery store. He said hey and I ignored him. Turned out ok.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11530814
Well, if we're talking normals, then yeah, I don't think they would have that problem. Seeing someone you know isn't a problem for them.

If it were me though, I'd wait until the hunger got worse than my apprehension of meeting this person. I know this won't help, but try to think of it objectively: the worst that can happen is you looking awkward in front of him. It's not worth not eating over.

If he asks something, say something like "Just the same, you?" People love talking about themselves.

[Anonymous No.]

>/jp/

[Anonymous No.]

>>11530821
>If it were me though, I'd wait until the hunger got worse than my apprehension of meeting this person.

That sounds like a good idea. I've done that with tiredness or alcohol (not a good habit, I know).

Sometimes I'm too sleepy to care what happens or what I do, so I just lumber about the streets like a zombie and I don't care what people think. I wish I could feel like that more often.

[Anonymous No.]

My mother said that if I don't find a job within 5 month she's going to evict me
Send help

[Anonymous No.]

>>11530822

That sounds much more like /v/. Specially in regards to the 16 year old part and him being an edgy fuck.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11530822
I hate my mom because by giving birth to me she is responsible for all of the bad things in my life.

I wish I was a touhou.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11530832
Call her bluff.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11530832
Has she committed any crimes?

If she evicts you, threaten to tell the police.

Otherwise, make something up. Physical/sexual abuse works well, even if you're an adult.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11530826
>Sometimes I'm too sleepy to care what happens or what I do

Yeah, I have that too, especially when I've been up for more than 13-14 hours.

You can kind of learn to feel like that in normal circumstances, too. Just keep in mind that the only difference between those two is the state of your mind. People generally still don't give a fuck about you or what you do, within reason. Try it sometime.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11530838
My mom went digging through my things when she was drunk and claimed I stole something from her even though it wasn't even the same model as her thing.
She wouldn't listen and was making a huge deal about it and I accidentally snapped and grabbed her in a headlock and told her I wouldn't hesitate to kill her right then because I have nothing to lose.

She called the cops and when they saw she was tipsy and I said she was diagnosed with bipolar they were on my side and basically told her to fuck off. I hate dealing with cops, people should deal with their own problems.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11530844
>I stole something from her even though it wasn't even the same model as her thing.

Jesus buy your own vibrators.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11530838
No, she didn't
I think I'll wait for the five months to end and then see what to do

[Anonymous No.]

>>11530850
It's better to have some sort of plan before that happens though. If she does kick you out, whatever you were going to do is going to become twice as hard.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11530858
I'm looking for some part-time jobs (if I have to work I want to do it as less as possible), but atm is hard as heck to find a job in my country (but she's not changing her mind anyway)

[Anonymous No.]

Can't find/hold on to jobs, so I've set up my own company, make my own work.

It's been 3 months and I haven't had a single customer yet. Maybe it's time I actually started doing something.

>inb4 whatdoyoudo
I'm a software engineer with a medical condition that makes it impossible for me to work in noisy offices.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11530904
excuse me college normie why are you in the proxy neet thread

[Anonymous No.]

>>11530904
No one cares /v/irgin

[Anonymous No.]

>>11530904
>>>/b/

sage

[Anonymous No.]

>>11530844
>I accidentally snapped and grabbed her in a headlock and told her I wouldn't hesitate to kill her right then because I have nothing to lose

You are a terrible son. Your mother supports your pathetic NEET existence and you repay her by stealing her dildo/vibrator and then putting her in a fucking headlock when she tries to take it back.

Just kill yourself dude.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11530909
What's a proxy NEET thread?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11530789
fucking same, i hate this shit so much

i'm always the same tiredness regardless of whether i sleep for 6 hours or 8 hours or 10 hours. i don't get it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11530772
I ran into the same cashier at the pet store two months in a row. She recognized me and was very chatty. I stopped going there.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11530932
>i'm always the same tiredness regardless of whether i sleep for 6 hours or 8 hours or 10 hours. i don't get it.

Same here, it's fucking annoying. I've given up on trying to get more sleep. I just wake up whenever I do, and stay up for 12 hours.

Lying in bed trying to sleep really tires me out mentally, I get really agitated after 30 minutes or so.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11530932
I sleep for 12 hours. I think God wants us to sleep that long, because He made the nights that long.

I also drink a cup of coffee in the morning.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11530931
The word proxy is just there to make it seem edgy.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11530943
Oh, like "metaphysical" or "transcendental". Got it.

[Anonymous No.]

I've been awake too long, had too much caffeine, and I don't feel so good mentally.

>>11530787
Wrap up in a blanket in your chair. It's what I'm doing because it's cold.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11530932

Waking up in the middle of a sleep cycle leaves you feeling tired and groggy, but waking up in between cycles lets you wake up feeling refreshed and alert.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11530832

I wish my mom would have given me some sort of ultimatum to atleast try to jumpstart some motivation after I failed out of college but instead she started giving me an allowance, which she never did for me as a kid. Unfortunately she's also going nuts, as opposed to the regular nuts that women are, so I feel obliged to stay and find out if she goes off the deep end soon and tries to burn down the house or walk into traffic or something.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11530838
If you call the cops and tell them your mom raped you they'll laugh.

[Anonymous No.]

Neetscum can go
>>>/r9k/
>>>/soc/

[Anonymous No.]

>>11530958
Why don't you feel good? Tell us about it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11530904
>I'm a software engineer with a medical condition that makes it impossible for me to work in noisy offices.

Could you possibly sugar-coat this with more euphemisms? It's so obvious what you really mean by both of these things.

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>>11530958
Shut the fuck up faggot

[Anonymous No.]

>>11530985
I don't get what you're getting at.

Also, I was beginning to think the janitor is letting the thread stay. Thanks to everyone who participated.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11530985,1
He's autistic.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11530985,1
I keep saying this, make one that doesn't start out as a blog or "NEET GENERAL GET IN HERE BROS" and it wont be touched. Just try it, and try not to shit it up.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11530985,3
It's been tried more times than your IQ count.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11530985,3
I did this once: >>11427909

I would have gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for those meddling normies.

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>>11530985,3
It's not my way of doings things; I made it as obvious as possible on purpose.

I'd rather be upfront and bold about it, than hide in the shadows from the power-tripping faggot like a sewer rat.

Also, it made me think just now, maybe it's not the janitor, but actually moot telling mods and janitors to delete NEET threads? It seems like something he'd do, considering his recent visit to /jp/.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11530985,6
Have you been getting muted for making these? If not, theres your answer.

[Anonymous No.]

I honestly think that these threads wouldn't vanish if nobody bumped them.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11530985,6
It was obviously a decision from above, since "NEET lifestyle" was removed from the rules page.

I think the janitor blew a fuse after that Star Wars thread, then he went and cried to moot. moot either agreed with his opinion or just placated the janitor so he'd quit being a pest.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11530985,8
That's another thing that's made harder by the sage being invisible: seeing exactly who that prick is who bumped the thread.

I can personally say that none of my 3 posts were bumps, even though I usually use fake-sage in other threads.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11530985,9
No, the rule was removed like a week after the threads started being targetted. It was a decision by a janitor and the staff decided to back him up.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11530985,10
I wish people would stop using that fake sage. Its just really pitiful.
I mean if it actually did sage, I wouldn't mind, but it still bumping is just a complete bastardization of the reason we need visible sage back.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11530985,12
The fact that it's pitiful is part of the statement.

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>>11530985,11
I wouldn't be suprised if they had them delete shit even if it was in the rules. Seems like it takes an extreme amount of effort to get anybody to change the rules page. I can't imagine a janitor being able to make them do that.

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>>11530985,14
Maybe not a janitor alone, but remember that this was in the days of the In/q/uisition. You could get anything banned if you tried.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11530985,14
The mods had no idea what was going on and even mostly ignored it until the spam got to be really serious. The first ban I got for reposting NEET threads was like hours into the spam. It was for an "Off-topic" post and referenced the rule list that mentioned NEET threads as being allowed in the ban reason itself. The threads were being spammed on the basis that nothing had been said by anything that mattered and said as much. It would have taken a single mod or moot post to stop a lot of it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11530985,16
anyone that mattered

[Anonymous No.]

>>11530985,16
Off topic seems to be a lazy catch all, if the bans page is anything to go by.

So its the spam to blame, really. No wonder the tardsquad on /q/ got them removed.

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>>11530985,14
What you fail to realize is that moot is a /jp/ janitor and, thus, one janitor alone can get the rules changed on a whim.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11530985,14
Well it's not like moot is well-versed in /jp/ culture. He says he lurks and posts here from time to time, but he's obviously not a NEET so I doubt he understands the relevance and history of NEET threads on /jp/. If one janitor whines about how people are making NEET threads and shitposters are constantly derailing, bumping, and complaining about them, then it's easier for moot to remove two words from the Rules page than it is to actually address the issue.

A common theme lately seems to be "get rid of the 1% shitposting by making 99% of ordinary posters suffer". Too much spam? Implement CAPTCHA. One or two people are flooding? 3 hour thread limit. Idiots don't understand sage? Make it invisible. Instead of educating and moderating, moot is taking the easiest way out. He's pandering to shitposters and retards.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11530985,20
Don't even try to downplay the captcha, I really have doubts you were around before then.

The 3 hour thread limit is bullshit because it only affects legit posters. If my thread gets deleted then the timer is gone.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11530985,20
>NEET
>Otaku

Pick one, sperglord.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11530985,21
How was I downplaying the CAPTCHA?

I would honestly prefer the AnonTalk spam and that one Suicide Girl to filling in a CAPTCHA. It was a couple of times per thread on average, and that's more than enough for a competent mod to handle.

Those spam attacks from that guy on Twitter took place on /b/, and Accelerator spam was mostly on /a/. I couldn't give a shit about those boards, and the regular user base shouldn't suffer (even have to pay money) because the mods can't keep that under control.

/prog/ didn't have a CAPTCHA until recently, and overall it was fine. I guess one or two people got butthurt by that Unicode spammer, but it was enough to ignore. And text boards are way more spammable than 4chan's image boards were.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11530985,23
Don't even try telling moot that, he's under the impression that the entire site was unusable without captcha. I mean there were times when the board just completely crashed for a few hours from spam, but still better than typing shit captchas out.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11530985,24
Well out of interest I just hit a random, popular thread from 3 years ago:
>>3516074

10 spam replies out of what, 300? This is nothing a janitor or mod can't handle.

I did see the legit flooding attacks on /b/ (with the TF2 images) but there are better alternatives than making thousands of users put in extra effort because of 1 or 2 jerks. That's far worse than spam, and I bet the spammer was laughing his ass off.

Even if you have to implement a CAPTCHA, there are better ways to do it. For example, it could set a cookie that expires after an hour. CAPTCHAs are usually used for things like registration, not for every single post you make.

Not to mention moot said it would be temporary. So did Mr VacBob in IRC, when he first implemented the Wakaba CAPTCHA (the one that nobody could read because it's too fucking tiny).

Asking for money to undo a feature added for the staff's benefit is just ridiculous. Next you'll need a paid subscription to post image replies, because some people use image replies to share child porn.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11530985,23
>>11530985,25
10 per thread is a lot of crap.

I actually bought a 4chan pass, expires december. I don't regret it even though i've been banned 3 times. Seriously not having to type in a captcha all year is worth the 15 bux I spent on it.

Warosu pass when? These stupid fucking number captchas are really pissing me off though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11530985,26
>10 per thread is a lot of crap.

3-4% of the thread really isn't a big deal. And it's not like it can't be fixed. Some of those posts were deleted, and there were recurring URLs that could easily be banned. Also note that it never detracted from the actual discussion.

I just think implementing a permanent, per-post CAPTCHA was a bad solution that feeds the trolls more than it benefits users. What better way to attack 4chan than to piss off its entire user base?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11530985,25
Did you completely miss out on cornelia? Speaking of which, I have always believed cornelia was a team4chan invention to push captcha in, since sites can make money out of it. There's a lot of dumb people on 4chan but I seriously doubt there were more than five people falling for a shitty image.

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>>11530985,27
>and there were recurring URLs that could easily be banned
The spam filter was so massive and complex you'd get banned for saying random shit. I caught a two-week auto ban for URL spam when I didn't even post a URL.

I mean theres better ways to go about a captcha. I like the tiny 4-number ones, or even keep the current system but allow like.. 5 consecutive posts before it shows up again.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11530985,28
Cornelia was unironically the greatest thing to happen to /jp/.

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>>11530985,28
I doubt more than a thousand people were running that script. That's an afternoon of moderation (ban -> purge all posts -> couple of hours -> problem solved).

What's funny is how easy it was to automate posting. Everyone knew about rape.sh but genuine flooding was pretty uncommon. Yet I'll bet if moot took away CAPTCHA today, dozens of people would start flooding. People can even get their 4chan Passes revoked for it.

It reminds me of cell phones. If those stopped working, I'm sure muggings, rapes, etc. would shoot up, even though we went without cell phones for thousands of years. Same deal with surveillance and developing/future technologies like facial recognition and mass identity schemes.

Point is, what used to be a matter of trust is now a matter of software. So that trust is now gone forever.