power level

[Anonymous No.]

/jp/'s thoughts on "hiding your power level?"

[Anonymous No.]

Sounds like you're fresh off the boat from /a/.

[Anonymous No.]

>power level
>hiding
>thoughts
>/jp/'s

[Anonymous No.]

>>12512773
Who are you greening?

[Anonymous No.]

>>12512773
>>12512764
as expected of my br/a/hs!

[Anonymous No.]

>>12512764
I really like Carach Angren. Their albums all have a distinctive motive encompassing their songs, and their capability to convey that certain dream-like sense of eeriness in them reminds me of Ghost Reverie and Still Life, though these two albums are something different musically, of course.

[Anonymous No.]

Perfectly normal.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12512833
I like Carach Angren too!
Where the Corpses Sink Forever is my favorite album!!

[Anonymous No.]

I don't have anyone to hide it from?

[Anonymous No.]

>>12512764
Why should I hide mine when I'm always at home?

[Anonymous No.]

I watch anime at work and nobody gives a shit.

God bless America.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12512764
Unless you're a weeb you won't really care about wanting to show your powerlevel, for the same reason most people don't go around shoting what their favourite music/movie/book is unless they're teenagers that want attention.

[Anonymous No.]

This is not Otaku Culture.

You should have no one to "hide" it from in the first place.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12512764
If by "hiding your power level" you mean "not being an obnoxious douche in public", then yeah, you should do that. I don't really know how you could show it aside from wearing an anime t-shirt or something. If you're talking about hiding it at home, well, who gives a shit. Unless you live with your parents and they're going to disown you, stop caring.

Also OP's picture mislabels Michigan as Wisconsin.

[Anonymous No.]

I don't hide my power level and I've had some pretty good experiences because of it. I have had QT's hit on me while wearing Im@s shit, my two serious relationships started out of them noticing my Miku shit and it developing from there.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12512764
I hide my power level because I'm a failure, so it's better to blend in. When I have my shit together, maybe next semester, I will wear my anime t-shirts.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12513087
>my Miku
They were shit then

[Anonymous No.]

>>12512764
I haide my power level in my Japanese class, no one really needs to do what i do at home. The most visible power i show is a keychain, and most people dont really care about keychains

[Anonymous No.]

>>12512764

Everyone has to hide at least some of their power level, it's just a question of how much. You'd have to be stupid to reveal ALL of it. Or don't tell me you actually publicly display all of your hentai, fetishes, and fantasies to the rest of the world?

[Anonymous No.]

Do you get upset if people reveal their plevel? Not full blown shoving it down your throat reveal, but a subtle wearing japan-based apparel or accessory type thing.

Normally if you reveal you should assume people generally don't care, but what about you /jp/? Do you really care deep inside?

[Anonymous No.]

>>12513421
You think we interact with people?

[Anonymous No.]

>>12513451
It's not about interacting with others, it's about seeing people revealing. You can see people reveal in person, at a distance, in a video or in a photo. The question is if you personally get bothered by it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12513460
I'm on /jp/, if I were a person that gets bothered by stuff I would have exploded time ago while lurking here.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12513475
So if you get on your yearly bus ride to go somewhere and you saw a person wearing a 2hu otaku t-shirt you wouldn't think anything about it?

[Anonymous No.]

>>12513495
No. Or "what a fag" at best.

[Anonymous No.]

My power lvl is over 9000

[Anonymous No.]

>>12513519
So you are admitting that it bothers you. Enough to put the offender in a negative light where you see them as lesser beings compared to yourself, for you had the integrity to keep your level hidden while they use it as a desperate grab for attention, in your opinion of course.

[Anonymous No.]

im ghey

[Anonymous No.]

>>12513536
No, it's a lighthearted "what a fag" that I just think and forget about after some seconds. I don't think about the rest you said. Take your sophist speech somewhere else buddy.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12513563
Sorry dude I now see that you are cool. Cool like a dad.

[Anonymous No.]

What do you mean by hide? I don't go flaunting it around like a raging autist, if that's what you mean. I don't play mission impossibly with myself by going through ridiculous feats to hide it either. I also don't pretend to be hiding it when in fact I'm trying to give off hints in some deluded hope that somebody will pick up on it and talk to me.
I just treat it like a normal hobby that I'm embarrassed about and won't talk about unless somebody else brings it up. Like you should. If some ugly, annoying girl asked if I liked X hobby, I would say no to get her away from me. If some bro asked if I liked X, I would be more inclined to say yes. Same with anime.
Stop being so autistic about this. "Hiding your powerlevel" was something said in the days when people flaunted their anime hobby like it made them a special snowflake.

[Anonymous No.]

IM GHEY

[Anonymous No.]

IM GAAAAAAAAAAY

[Anonymous No.]

GUHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY

[Anonymous No.]

I was talking with my sister and she said something about ``gross perverted Japanese cartoons''. I just nodded

[Anonymous No.]

>>12513572
I dont like it when other people like what i like.

[Anonymous No.]

I don't understand it, but this special snowflake business coming out of right field really grinds my gears.
Possibly because I worked to hard to make myself different to get the autismbux and I see people spouting this vomit as if they have no idea how different people can be from each other.
Imagine humanity after space colonization. How many of us will be spread across the solar system and then the galaxy. Beyond proper-like Space Trek speech I'm sure peoples on the rim of the organism will be very different and planets would develop their own culture.
Dirty piggy white people would, of course be at an advantage when it comes to social interaction being that they can blush and I think that beak came from some need of further socialization. Niggers can, attack people at night? Or whatever. Most likely nothing.

Anyway it's just so fucking twitter and reddit, not 4chan where that's the only way you can get through to someone is being extreme sometimes. Maybe for the hardcore like myself that only have anonymous internet interaction and find such a large wall when expressing themselves.

I mean, if Moe really could change, we'd see an explosion in "special snowflakes" that I'm sure all of us would welcome. Stop being a faggot. Understand that your conservative background is exactly what it sounds like you inbred fuck.

You either aren't giving your all because you're some kind of lukewarm faggot, or you are trying so hard to just be normal that your suffocating the you that would have been there to help us all. Grow a fucking heart cracker.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12513611
ok

[Anonymous No.]

>power level
What is it? 2010?

[Anonymous No.]

>>12513626
I wish

[Anonymous No.]

>>12513565
I don't want to sound smug, but I'm very proud of my doctorate I got at the cool university.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12513611
You like Kancolle, you have no right to talk, I don't care about your tl;dr.

[Anonymous No.]

>peasants who watched less than 10 anime
>peasants who came to 4chan less than 2 years ago
>peasants who are into pedestrian otaku franchises like Fate/Stay Night

[Anonymous No.]

>>12513654
Who are you quoting?

[Anonymous No.]

>philippines
>when you watch anime first this is naruto
>if not naruto it would be bleach or wan piss
>if you say "you hate anime because it's too childish" and all hell break loose

Yep we have the worst community in the whole world

[Anonymous No.]

>>12513654
I watched naruto so i am an expert on all things anime and you are all inferior to me

[Anonymous No.]

>>12513703
Filipinos are mexicans

[Anonymous No.]

>>12513708
wont deny except that we are full of pride even though its not

[Anonymous No.]

>>12513714
#PINOYPRIDE is the fucking worst

[Anonymous No.]

I never have to hide anything that I like because they don't get recognized anyways.

[Anonymous No.]

Isn't the point of it to use things that only someone of equal powerlevel would understand?

[Anonymous No.]

>>12513735
no

[Anonymous No.]

>>12513708
Filipinos are like a weird inbreed between American niggers and poor city Mexicans.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12513745
i beg to differ

>american niggers
>plebian mexicans
>slave race of spain
>eating appetite of chinese
>perverted attitude of japanese
>bravery of asian muslims
>scent of an indian

you could say we are the most derange culture of all

[Anonymous No.]

>>12513721
>that power level

[Anonymous No.]

>>12513766
Every Fllipino I know also has the cooking skills of the average stereotyped English person

[Anonymous No.]

So /jp/, my father was yelling at me to either continue my education or get a job, so I decided to take Japanese and microeconomics at a local community college this quarter, to work towards a transfer degree to an actual university in a couple years.

By this point, I only knew Hiragana, Katakana, a few kanji, and had read through TaeKim for a few sections. I figured I might as well take Japanese I to start with.

When I entered the classroom for the first time yesterday, everyone seemed so... normal. Most people seemed to know absolutely nothing about Hiragana or Katakana. They didn't seem crazy about anime or manga. They were either hiding their power level very well, or I was in a class full of normies. I'm not sure whether this is a good or bad thing. I didn't really say much in class, aside from basic greetings.

It's sort of disappointing that the pace for the class is so slow though. Throughout the quarter, we're really only learning Hiragana, Katakana, and some words/grammar rules to go with them. No Kanji at all. I guess that's what I should expect for going to a community college instead of an expensive private one. I would have gone up a level, but my schedule wouldn't allow it.

At least my instructor is a cute Japanese lady in her 20's.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12513832
Can't you just study at home the next lessons and use the class as a way to remember old stuff?

[Anonymous No.]

>>12513832
wtf

[Anonymous No.]

>>12513836
I probably will try and study ahead at home. At least I can use the class for college credit points, to fulfill my graduation requirement. It's not all bad.

>>12513836
What?

>>12513726
This. Nobody I know, except for one of my friends, even knows what Touhou is.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12512764
/pol/ here.
It's generally a good idea, but you might not meet as many people who share the same interests as you.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12513866
D-Do you have a triple personality..

[Anonymous No.]

>>12513074
It's actually "Wichigan," as we Wichiganders like to all it.

[Anonymous No.]

It's no use when you already look like a fucking nerd

[Anonymous No.]

I've got figures on display in my bedroom, I gave up hiding long ago. Quite a few are lewd too.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12513908
Whoops, meant to quote >>12513842 instead of replying to the same thing twice.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12512764
I don't really care. I don't go out of my way to make sure everyone I know knows that I watch Anime nor do I even bother to impose my opinions on the matter if they know I do.

My fetishes however are a different story. Those no one must know.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12513964
That dark side that if anyone around you would ever come to discover it..

[Anonymous No.]

>>12513832
I too am hiding my power levels in my Japanese class. But the class before me is full of weebs and they are very clique-y

[Anonymous No.]

>>12513495
The mark of latter-day /jp/ is the amazing ability to truly and genuinely not give a shit about most things.u.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12514078
A bird shit on my shoulder in public once and I pretended not to notice so I wouldn't have to react in front of other people. I just put on mental blinders and blocked out whatever reactions people might have been having.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12514089
I can just imagine you with your coolface on thinking *LIKE A BOSS* while you strolled right past all those people.

[Anonymous No.]

Since I'm mexican it's not that hard

[Anonymous No.]

>>12514097
Fortunately, nobody can see the embarrassing shit you're thinking in you're head as long as you don't let it spill over.

Incidentally, this is why everyone hates Satori.

[disability-anon No.]

The most I would ever wear in public is an anime shirt. I don't see any point in telling people my hobbies or interests unless they ask.

[disability-anon No.]

I don't see any point in telling people my hobbies or interests unless they ask.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12514100
Get the fuck out of my /jp/, spic.

Go drink some sewer water.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12514104
Yeah, nobody can see how other people are reacting to the dude pretending to ignoring the shit on his shoulder either since most of them time they're just silently judging you then whipping out their phones to go "LOL THIS RETARD PRETENDED A BARD DIDn'T SHAT ON HIM LOLOL."

[Anonymous No.]

>>12514263
Pretty sure most people don't even pay attention unless you go out of your way to make a scene.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12513914
Any Michigan bros here?

[Anonymous No.]

>>12514439
Lansing here.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12514263
Most if not all people will just try to ignore and stay silent even they're probably thinking what you said.

Meanwhile if the anon just cleaned it off nobody would have though anything at all aisde "terrible luck dude"

[Anonymous No.]

>>12514104
You need to get a fucking grip, m8. Nobody hates Satori.

[Anonymous No.]

YA MAN I TELL EVERYONE AT HIGHSCHOOL! ;^]

[Anonymous No.]

>>12514553
In Gensokyo yes.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12513866
I once played a 2hu on my laptop during my downtime in university in a hallway, and after a long while of bunch of awkward "why is this person playing an epilepsy simulator with lolis" looks, this stereotypically nerdy guy with glasses and stuttering approached me to ask if I had the latest one (at that time I think it was the DDC demo). He reminded me of /jp/ and I presume it took some effort to even approach me to ask, so afterwards I ended up talking about STGs as he professed his devotion to the Moriya Shrine. It was kind of cute in a way, so I didn't mind.

I still play 2hu once in a while during my downtime but haven't met anyone else like that.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12513739
Not him, but that's how I see it as well.
Before dialogue is established, a power level handshake takes place, where the connector transmits a subtle allusion to the level he wants to discuss on. If that allusion is being acknowledged by the connected, exchange takes place.
I'm downwards-compatible to a certain degree, but I usually refrain from talking to people with a higher power level than me so as to not annoy them.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12514666
I hope you at least put out for him.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12514803
I'm a bit of an M switch, and he never asked. I don't think he swings that way either.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12514852
>M switch
What's that?

[Anonymous No.]

>>12514864
it means he's gay

[Anonymous No.]

>>12514864
Well, that was poorly phrased but I meant that... cool, dominating attitudes flip the lewd switch for me.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12514879
>>12514880
Oooooooooooh.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12514852
Ah, well, that's disappointing.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12514666
Where did you get your 2hu games anyways?
I played 2hu in my uni library once and these people came up and just watched me play because they couldnt understand how i was able to even play because there were so many colors and stuff happening.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12515180
What do you mean where did I get them? From the usual download channels.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12515472
My source went out, so i need some new ones

[Anonymous No.]

Who would I have to hide it from?

[Anonymous No.]

>>12513611
love this pasta

[Anonymous No.]

>>12515577
if you have to ask, then you probably dont hide your power level

[Anonymous No.]

The only time I even meet people is at work and it's not so much as hiding the power level as it is extremely rare that a conversation goes that direction. The most my co-workers know about my power level is that if they have my psn name, they see I play jrpgs a lot but still play games like Destiny with them

[Anonymous No.]

>>12515563
I don't know, I've had them ever since Imperishable Night hopping from disc to disc with my PC from the Comiket threads, and the newer ones I just snatched off Nyaa.

[Anonymous No.]

I'm a big enough dude that I could get away with wearing some obscure shirt if japan ever started making them in football sizes.

The truth of it is, niche hobbies move you down a social peg, and should only be advertised if you either don't care about society, or have enough social offsets (your own family, avid sports fan etc).

[Anonymous No.]

>>12512974
Same

[Anonymous No.]

Personally I think that 4chan's culture of "powerlevel hiding" is ultimately rooted in social phobia, and self hatred. To try and make friends with fellow enthusiasts of video games, anime, visual novels, or any form that might be considered to effect your "power level" is seen as shameful. But this at complete odds with the act of spending time with others discussing these things on 4chan. What I beleive is that this shaming of exposing the fact that you enjoy certain things is a device that lets someone who is paralyzed by social phobia not feel bad about. Believing it is wrong to make friends prevents you from hating yourself when you can not. This is if you believe that there is nothing wrong with making friends with those who like power level related media. However if a person believes that making friends with these people is inherently bad, then they can only be self loathing. They believe that the only people that enjoy these things are contemptible, and thus they themselves are.

To advertise or expose that you have a high power level should not be done loudly and colourfully. This is blatantly true for all but the most socially inept. No one who likes anything, no matter how socially acceptable does not paint their entire self with that. But, when I see a 4chan poster shaming, bullying and condemning those that have found friendship at anime clubs, or those who have a sticker of an anime girl on their notebook I can only feel bad for them.

Thank you for reading.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12513654
>2 years

[Anonymous No.]

>>12516044
please don't feel so close near me, thanks for your cooperation

[Anonymous No.]

So, my power level.
10 years of Japanese study and work in the gaming industry.
Hard Nico-fu. Not the highest, but a 4 digit account number. Followed along a decent number of the meme from nicovideo. Watching all of Oishinbo when it was uploaded there. Witnessed supercell go from middle school boy to Sony Records superstar.
I've met with doujin artists at events telling them about the western scene. How well kemono shit sells to the furries.
I've learned French, Spanish, Italian, Mandarin Chinese, and Ithkuil.
I've traveled through the majority of Eastern Asia countries.
Heavy on Greek Philosophy, Chinese/Mongolian History, Biology.
I make 6 figures a year.
I like to pretend to be a NEET so people leave me alone.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12516152
face when you are more relevant to otaku culture than 100% of the truNEETs on /jp/

[Anonymous No.]

I got a little lucky, my friends watch anime too, but only mainstream stuff like Naruto.
They only know that I watch stuff like Evangelion or Berserk.
I don't how they would react if they found out about more moe things like OreImo or Touhou though.

They also know I'm learning japanese, and are quite supportive about that.
In short they know I like /jp/ related stuff, but not my real power level yet, and I don't know if I should let them know.

[Anonymous No.]

I don't like to let people I am not familiar with know that I like anime or games. I don't want to be that otaku stereotype. Plus if that person ends up liking that stuff and talking to me it's such a hassle, you know?

One day in class this guy I've been sitting next to and haven't spoken to in a week tied to talk to me. He asked me if I played games and I just immediately shut him down. That was a close one, I'd probably have to listen to his pleb tastes and stuff. I just prefer to save myself the trouble of wasting time with people I don't care for.

I much rather prefer to be the one to initiate conversation.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12516152
living the jaypee dreamdreamm

[Anonymous No.]

>>12516152
Can I ask what your job is?
Do you travel through Eastern Asian countries for your job, or do you develop games, or what?
And did you study Japanese/ video game design in college?

[Anonymous No.]

>>12512764
Why would you ever be around another human

[Anonymous No.]

>>12513832
From what I've heard you spend roughly 2 years at a snail's pace before it really picks up. A friend of mine said the only English his instructor used was on the first day when he said "This class will be in Japanese only."

[Anonymous No.]

hiding your powerlevel is stupid. Everyone has hobbies others don't care about. Do you think girls hide their stuffed animal collection or something? Either you have a hobby in common which is cool, or the other person doesn't give a shit. That's 99% of interactions, not that /jp/ would know about this

[Anonymous No.]

>>12520412
hiding powerlevel is an /a/ meme

[Anonymous No.]

>>12520420
hiding powerlevel is an anime meme

[Anonymous No.]

>>12512764
I don't hide it, but there aren't many chances to show it. Like I'm not going to go around and flaunt my interests, but if I see something I like, I'm doing it. Or if someone asks what I like, yeah I'll tell them.
I've gotten drunk and ranted about Touhou with people more than once. Usually blows a few minds after they've had enough drinks in them

[Anonymous No.]

``Hiding your power level'' is what any reasonable person should do. The people you are forced to interact with in life do not give one iota about the weeaboo shit you fill your life with. So, much like you probably don't want to hear about the degenerate shit normies' fill their lives with, it is only polite to keep your interests to yourself.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12520663
You don't have to go fill introvert about it. If the opportunity comes up, mention your interests. If the person you're talking to shares said interest, congrats, you may have brought a friendship a little closer.

Plus, you're only going to live once. Why live in hiding and in shame? Again, I'm not saying you should bring out the body pillows and doujin ringtones, but fuck, dude.

Besides, if nobody really gives a shit about what you like, that's even more reason to not bother keeping it away from people. Own yourself, don't let other people own you.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12513832
The pace is slow because the curriculum is meant to make you spend more time studying and consequently spend more money on education, even if you somehow don't pay at all, you're still wasting your time. It's another Jewish rort.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12520420
It was on /jp/ years as a real thing before it became an /a/ meme.

[Anonymous No.]

I lost my final friend by giving him a 30 minute infodump on the sono hana VN series in public.

I am become autism, destroyer of social status

[Anonymous No.]

Why is this shitty thread still alive...

[Anonymous No.]

power level is an /a/ me-me

[Anonymous No.]

Friendly reminder 2hufags have negative powerlevel and 2hu has nothing to do with anime and japanimation culture.

[Anonymous No.]

living a lie
>>/a/

[Anonymous No.]

>>12513783
Which is a shame when compared to that entire region. Most of the god tier cuisines comes from there.