Why are rooms in anime always devoided of any modern technology

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>>146539088
Because Anime isn't Japan?

They have phones for that. Less than a third of Japanese children even use PCs.

>What do kids there do with their free time?

Study.

just see for yourself.

Would this room have the same comfy vibe without the features that make us enjoy the it in the first place? Probably not.

Also >>146539192

>>146539187
But you have to have at least on PC in house for work, school etc since everything these days is done through it. When I was in high school I was forced to make Facebook account just to get all the homework etc because they always posted that on Facebook.

>>146539088
>Soviet games
Is this a sequel to that shit VN about russian summer camps?

>>146539301
Not in Japan. All assignments are handwritten, just like in anime.

http://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20151025/p2a/00m/0na/005000c
>According to a survey result published by the Cabinet Office in February [2015] on the issue of Internet use among youth, as many as 89 percent of high school students indicated that they used smartphones, while 30 percent said that they utilized laptops, and a mere 16 percent answered that they used desktop computers.

>>146539322
I don't know I find that picture while I tipped "anime rooms" in Google and that one seemed most appropriate.

>>146539088
You haven't seen a lot of anime, have you? Plenty of kids in anime have technology in their rooms.

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>>146539088
There are a lot of newer anime with characters using modern tech stuff like smartphones or the latest console games. I think technology is mostly just left out to keep the rooms simpler and easier to draw from multiple angles.

Also, can this be a comfy anime/manga room/interior topic now?

>>146539366

That seems strange for developed country like Japan although I would also prefer something like that to having everything posted on Facebook because I hate that place.

>>146539404
I watched shit ton of anime and in most of them kids don't even have TV or PC let alone console or something like that.

>>146539366
Made me remember that scene in Tanaka-kun when they were surprised because some chick knew how to use a word processor

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>>146539088

What are you talking about?

>>146539521
The idea that "computer skills" are a thing never caught on. Most ordinary Japanese households don't have a single PC. They have smartphones, gaming consoles, and hentai manga if you need porn. Offices still use fax machines.
Part of it is that Japan's economy hasn't grown since the mid-90s. Their GDP and number of workers is the same as it was then.

>>146539538
Knowing how to use a real keyboard is a talent that will impress your schoolmates in Japan.

>>146539088
More importantly, do nips actually use flip-phones?

>>146539856
Sliders >>> flip-phones, but naturally nips have shit taste even there.

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>>146539088
Must be freezing in there during winter.

>>146539856
Not any more.

>>146539856
They were the most popular until android and applel came around.

>>146539964
That's the other thing- no central heat or insulation in Japanese homes.
Now you understand why the kotatsu is so important.

>>146540120
Why waste money and electricity on a kotatsu instead of proper isolation?

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>>146539088

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Anime isn't Japan. I stayed with a family in Nagoya for a week and they had a fair bit of tech. Kid had a laptop and parents both had smartphones. I think it's more like they have their priorities straight. You can do a whole lot on a smartphone nowadays. Besides maybe typing up papers, there's nothing a non-techie needs to do that can't be done on a smartphone. I also found that there's actually interesting shit to do when going out unlike in America, so there's free time covered.

Keep in mind that this is the same country that produces $200+ turbo-enthusiast keyboards.

>>146540120
If their houses had insulation, those japs would be roasted come summer.

>>146540273
Insulation keeps your house cool in summer.

>>146539192
This
>Asians
>free time

>>146539366
>89 percent of high school students indicated that they used smartphones, while 30 percent said that they utilized laptops, and a mere 16 percent answered that they used desktop computers.
>smartphones
Normalfaggotry of the highest order, why is everyone who's not old enough to remember what they were doing on the millennium so disgusting?

>>146540560
>Normal people are normal
What an astonishing revelation!

>>146540316
>Insulation keeps your house cool in summer.
Until the heat builds up inside then it's hot as fuck and takes days to cool down.

>>146540273
>Besides maybe typing up papers, there's nothing a non-techie needs to do that can't be done on a smartphone.
How do people live with tiny screens?

>>146540211
I assume it's got to do with regular earthquakes there. Insulation would mean heavier walls and roof, often requiring outer leaf, inner leaf and a cavity.

Not to mention it's a fucking pain to keep moisture out of the insulation panels.

>>146540560
There is literally nothing wrong with keeping a portable computer in your pocket at all times.

>>146540767
Smartphones are the very symbol of normalfaggotry though, for people who think the internet is their favorite propaganda news site, facebook, twitter and maybe reddit. Screen size, power and OS is nothing short of a compromise. Why do you even leave your computer anyway?

At least get a decent sized tablet.

>>146540985
>Why do you even leave your computer anyway?
I don't. I keep my laptop in my bag and my phone in my pocket.

>At least get a decent sized tablet.
Tablets are good for literally nothing but manga.

>>146540985
See >>146540611

>>146539088
>What do kids there do with their free time?
>free time
Hah

>>146540686
The Japanese only build for 20-30 years, generally speaking, and it's very market driven. Thin walls are standard for low-rise construction.

>>146539088
>What do kids there do with their free time?
Play outside and socialize, like kids should.

>>146539088
Because the story is being written by old people that didn't have these things. Anime from the future will for sure have them.

>>146541524
But by then you'll have another underage like OP making this same thread why current anime room isn't like his.

>>146539088
>PC
I chuckled.

>>146539187
>They have phones for that. Less than a third of Japanese children even use PCs.
this, Japanese are generally computer illiterate. They can handle email because they've done it on their clamshell keitai since forever, but thats it.

>a different culture is different from ours
Someone needs to get CNN on this.

>>146541966
>Japanese are generally computer illiterate
So like every normalfag in all country?

>>146539459
Adding a computer to that room or a desk with a device wouldn't add more complexity to it, drawing all those tiny details from different angles would cost more effort.

I did say nips do it to make it more comfy or their anti neet shit.

>>146539769
>Knowing how to use a real keyboard is a talent that will impress your schoolmates in Japan.
I'd be some sort of God there, my parents think I am some sort of Wizard because I type so fast.

>>146539088
Because old people are still on top and they decide what kids have in their room.

>>146539088
It makes me sad that even a monkey can't imagine living or having fun without a computer or a video game.

>>146542941
Uh, no. Even japanese programmers themselves are stupid and unnecessarily old-fashioned. It's definitively not like this in many western first world countries.

>>146543180
Code monkey and stupid programmer are exist in every corner of the world, what's your point.

>>146543180
western developers evolve over time because they have time to do non hamster work. Japanese devs are mostly corporate wage slaves working themselves into soulless husks only capable of showing emotion after downing a pair of beers at a nomihodai

I've worked with these guys, most of them barely have the energy to do anything but exactly whats required of them

When i lived in Tokyo a french flatmate of mine who also worked as a dev, but unfortunate enough to work at a japanese company, officially quit job at 5, but his manager told him successful people quit at 10..

>>146543125
What will you do in life if your not on internet or playing games?

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>>146539856

They do in the future

>>146539659
Ending sucked to this, best girl didn't win :/

>>146546242
>Starship Operators
fuck i miss that show

>>146539322
Aon, please, redpill me on why that VN is shit.

And yeah, that VN is supposed to be a spiritual successor or some shit.

>>146539088
Japanese people are notoriously inept at using technology. A BIG portion of Japan barely knows how to use a computer. However, they do know how to use a phone.
Most things are still written by hand.

>>146540638
>what is air conditioning?

>>146540273
>there's actually interesting shit to do when going out unlike in America

Like what? I say this as a bored burger who has nothing to do outside except spend money at a bar or restaurant.

>>146546854
Other anon, you dont even need air conditioning, just open your fucking windows man.

>>146547158

This. I fucking hate air conditioning. Everyone here spams it so you need a jacket indoors. I don't use air conditioning and am neither sweaty nor dead. Just let your body acclimate you fucking pussy ass fatasses. My summers were regularly 95 with 100% fucking humidity.

>>146546832
small wonder why their economy is stagnating then

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>>146547103
>Shop for weebshit
>Spend absurd amounts of cash on a crane machine
>Hit the arcade and play rhythm games
>Nature and shit
>Eat shit
>Show-related events

>>146548788
I'm jelly of how beautiful Japan is compared to my country

Kirino had a laptop and eroge

>>146548788

That's all stupid, except nature, we have plenty of that being that our nation is like 100 times the size of nippon.

>>146548864
Clean too. You would think Tokyo would be dirty as shit but it's probably the cleanest I've ever seen a city.

>>146548951
You say that about rythem games again and I'll fuck you up m8.

>>146548966
>You would think Tokyo would be dirty as shit but it's probably the cleanest I've ever seen a city.
That's because of the old people who are out 5 in the morning picking up litter

>>146547158
Enjoy your bugs.

>>146548951
thats the problem. you have to drive everywhere for hours, compared to countries in europe and japan where it is all very condensed.

>>146547158
I mean, if you stay in your room all day fucking loser. And even then, only hot air will come in and not enough breeze you fat fuck

>>146549300

I walk and bike commute, and if I need to go further there's a rail. I can even reach hiking spots with a combo of that. Sure it's cager oriented but it isn't some apocalyptic nightmare. I live a one mile walk from downtown. Maybe you're forgetting how sprawling tokyo is? Or that europe has height limits preventing condensing too much.

Compared to europe that doesn't even have woods.

>>146539088
That room looks like it gets super fucking cold in the winter.

>>146540560
PC ownership has never been overly common in Japan. It's why VNs exist, they're designed to run on toasters.

>>146543180
Are you saying that the Japanese are Pajeet-tier?

>>146546832
>A BIG portion of Japan barely knows how to use a computer.
A BIG portion of Japan is also over 60 years old.

>>146539088
>The Japnoos secretly are and have always been a backward, primitive people with a really good attitude

>>146539088
Why would you want PC in this day and age when you can do everything on your smartphone and tablet?

>it's a DUUUDE I JUST WATCHED THIS VICE DOCUMENTARY thread

>>146539088
>>146546832

This is true, and not because the country is full of old people but because of how good Japanese phones were. Youngsters are rarely given computer classes. I read blogs of people who works as teachers in Japan and they had PCs abandoned in storages because they dropped the classes due to lack of interest and they had some students ask what the hell were those.

Mobile phones in Japan have always been way ahead of west and many things smartphones just recently picked up have been available in Japanese-only phone brands for ages already, like internet connection and payment methods, so people just learned how to use a phone and called it a day.

Now that foreigner smartphones are widely available in Japan and they do the same stuff in a sleek looking phone with a cool brand plastered on it Japanese brands are having a hard time surviving (even if they cost a lot more, Japanese brands are super cheap). Funny how you see this trend even in anime, all anime produced the last 3 or 4 years shows foreigner smartphones more often than Japanese ones.

>All these fags berating others for using smartphones

I don't get it. All I ever do is read manga online when Im on the go and shitpost on 4chan. Why do I need a desktop for that? I only need that for research papers, essays, and interactive assignments for university. Explain you elitist niggers.

>>146552428

I use multiple word documents and excel sheets on the daily, many of those documents are the size of a novel. Try running art software or torrents on a phone. There's the fact I currently have twenty tabs open and it helps to see images in something like 800x800, not fucking phone res. Sometimes I run multiple browsers at once for different purposes. I have six different programs running at the moment.

Yeah, tell me what a phone can do.

God damn I can barely post on 4chan using a phone, the keyboard is ass and even browing websites is a pain in the fucking ass.

>>146552546
>even browsing websites is a pain in the fucking ass.
To be fair, a lot of that is due to unimaginably shitty web design. My 3 year old smartphone can't load modern websites for shit because of their awful bloat.

>>146552831
>bloat.

Don't I know it. And that's why my laptop browser is equipped with multiple kills for extraneous garbage. Ads and scripts and referrals and oh my.

Of course I'm a filthy casual laptop user, but you know fuck desktops, can't move 'em and they spew a ton of heat and eat a ton of room. Laptop is like the golden area between mobile and useful.

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>>146540669
>How do people live with tiny screens?
by having tiny eyes

>>146552546
>word documents
>Excel
>Art Software
>Torrents

Do you not know how to read? I only ever use the internet for 4chan, porn and manga. I don't need that so it makes no sense to berate me for not using it. Also I can run multiple apps and have 30 tabs open all at once with few problems on my phone. Im not saying smartphones are better at all but you're shitting on others with the assumption that they do the same things you do.

And most sites have a mobile version that's easy and smooth to use. Keyboards work too, you're just used to using a mouse and the conventional keyboard. Also your phone has trouble opening 800×800 images? I have 2 of those opened right now. Man what shitty device do you use?

>>146552950
>Laptop is like the golden area between mobile and useful.
This, especially if you can afford to buy the better ones that have as much processing power as gaming desktops.

I guess the only thing with laptops is that you can't assemble them like you can with desktops.

>>146540669
Its easy and not a struggle to see things. You're just used to having a desktop with a large screen.

What I want to know is why is it that if they have a game system in their room or even in their living room it's almost always some old Nintendo or Famicom?

>>146553608
I still play Metal Gear Solid and Bully on my PS2. Why the fuck not? Although mines on the verge of falling apart.

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People say that Japs can't use computers, but when I worked in Japan every one of my coworkers had a desktop and laptop at their workstation. I never got any hint that they had difficulty using modern technology, and I never saw anyone using a fax machine.

Also, Japs love smartphones. Step onto a train and everyone under the age of 50 is fiddling with their iPhone or Android.

>>146553818
PS2 is WAY newer than Famicom.

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>>146553158
Underrated post.

>>146553917
>Step onto a train and everyone under the age of 50 is fiddling with their iPhone or Android.
Is it just my bad memory of traveling there, or do they mostly do this without earphones in? It seemed like they don't listen to music as much while on their phones, which is the norm in the west.

>>146553917
Are slutty gyaru JKs an actual thing in japan? What about lonely OLs? Do they really hate gaijins?

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>>146556467
>Are slutty gyaru JKs an actual thing in japan?
Only in the big city, you can buy anything in Tokyo. I lived out in a suburb, so the JKs were pretty tame. They do like wearing short skirts year around though.
>What about lonely OLs?
Pretty much, it's a lonely country. One of my OL coworkers was a fujoshi who would talk about Touken Ranbu and Legend of the Galactic Heroes at lunch.
>Do they really hate gaijins?
No, nobody gives a damn.

Computer is not photogenic.
That's all.

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>>146557029

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>>146557029
Here's a Jap-only case that I want.

>>146539088
Japan has arcades unlike your third world shithole.

>>146556879
>Gyarus are real

Time to move to japan. Screw college. I wont stick around paying thousands of dollars for a dumb degree when I can be over there having wild sex with slutty JKs.

>>146546819
The writing's just awful.

I don't have a TV, smartphone, or game console. The only bit of technology in my room aside from a lamp is this old laptop.

It's pretty comfy.

>>146553506
But when you want to see a bighuge image of your waifu it's all small.

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>>146553506
>Be stuck with just a smartphone to do daily tasks with
>Finally purchase and assemble computer parts after four long years
>Install Gentoo
>"Oh hey, porn exists"
>Have the best wank I've had in a while

Companies usually issue computers out to their staff, they look around 15 years old (bulky, extremely utilitarian) - and cell phones are used by most people instead.

I think those with a flip phone are more likely to own a Macbook, while those with an iPhone/Android are more likely to not really bother with a computer at all.

In my few years living here, I've never seen an actual desktop at someone's home. My girlfriend just uses her computer as a dvd player.

>>146539088
That's what drawers are for.

>>146556879
what's an OL?

>>146539088
I just wonder how they can deal with being so close to the floor all the time. It looks kinda comfy but the thought of sitting on the floor in my room is so weird. I wouldn't be able to reach my things, I'd constantly have to get up and down.

>>146566276
Orcish Lords.

>>146566276
A female wage slave

>>146539301
>When I was in high school I was forced to make Facebook account
that's illegal

but you really don't need a PC anymore. Phones have word processors and email, that's just about all they need to do school work.

>>146547158
>just open your fucking windows man
why have insulation then? also like the other anon said enjoy the bugs

Most Japanese people don't really use PCs. They spend their free time by going out, reading books, etc.

>>146547234
That's actually pretty sad. Sleeping with air conditioning feels so fucking good.

>>146568822
You do need a PC if you have to do your work at home sometimes. Good luck juggling 5 spreadsheets and 3 Word documents on your phone at the same time.

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>>146568978
>5 spreadsheets and 3 Word documents
w-what
I didn't even have that many classes in high school, let alone actually have homework in them

>>146568919
Air Con is for rich people with new houses.

>>146568822
>that's illegal

Tell that to the teachers here. Most of them have Facebook and they always send school related materials to one student in class and he shares to the rest. Even school notifications are posted at school official Facebook page. So basically you're fucked if you don't have Facebook in my country.

>>146570855
What is your problem with Facebook anyway?

>>146553917
Most Japaneses offices don't have gaijin working in them either.
Every country has an expat bubble that can give you the impression that life is the same everywhere and that everyone speaks English.

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Moar nice rooms, pls

>>146541269
Yeah, only in Hokkaido do they actually insulate the buildings, and that's by law. A lot of Japanese building construction is actually kind of chinsy. That, and the Japanese haven't yet learned the idea that insulation can keep your house cool in the summer too.

Also, keep in mind that Japan is very humid. A lot of traditional Japanese building materials would absolutely rot away if they couldn't breathe during the summer. Newer Western-style homes don't have that issue though.

>>146570996
>What is your problem with Facebook anyway?
It's normalfag shit, are there seriously anons on this board with social media?

>>146571607
There are a lot of people on /a/ with facebook.

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http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/answerman/2016-05-23/.102406

>According to a 2015 study by the Japanese Cabinet Office, only 30% of Japanese high schoolers use laptops, and only 16% use desktop computers.

>about 50% of Japanese households have a computer, but many people don't use them, or only use them for games or web browsing. The majority of Japanese students use the internet exclusively through cell phones.

>in high school, students only learn the most basic interactions with Microsoft Word and Excel. And since there is no daily use of this technology (virtually no classes outside of college require that papers be typed), anything learned in these classes is quickly forgotten.

>Parents, unaware that computer skills are increasingly necessary for employment, don't buy computers for their kids. It's sort of like where America was in the early 90s: computers are for the nerds.

>Schools that are run by less tech-savvy faculty also tend to pass on scare stories about bad things that happen online, and warn kids against exploring too much. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) reported last September that of the 42 countries they surveyed for computer use in education, Japan was ranked second from the bottom.

>The result is that computer literacy among the youth of Japan is actually going down. One Tokyo-area government-funded tech cram school for high schoolers reported that many of their students didn't even really know how to use a physical keyboard.

>even some IT firms are reporting that new hires are unable to do simple things like compose an email or create a chart.

>Early computer systems really struggled with the difficulties of supporting the Japanese language, limiting their usefulness in the 80s and early 90s

>the computer was often seen as a solitary, antisocial activity -- something to be discouraged by parents, who lived in a world where getting ahead meant face-to-face communication and discussion.

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>>146572059
>>the computer was often seen as a solitary, antisocial activity -- something to be discouraged by parents, who lived in a world where getting ahead meant face-to-face communication and discussion.

>>146539088
How does he masturbate without anyone seeing him?

>>146572059
This is finally beginning to explain that Japanese professor I had. Here I thought Japan was such a technologically progressive society, but it turns out they can't even use a fucking computer.

>>146572547
It's true though, that's how you succeed in the workplace.

>>146540638
or you could open the windows each night to get the air to circulate

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>>146566276

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>>146570996
>What is your problem with Facebook anyway?
Facebook is 1984 incarnate

http://fusion.net/story/339018/facebook-psychiatrist-privacy-problems/

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>>146571136
i have more than would fit into the image limit, but that's more a thing that belongs /c/

>>146574568
>comic OL
Why isn't this a thing?

>>146571681
>There are a lot of people on /a/ with facebook.
kek'd

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>>146575265
More like >>>/w/
I would greatly appreciate if you will be so kind to dump some of them there.

>>146543180
>stupid and unnecessarily old-fashioned

Just because they don't enslave themselves with faddish, superfluous consumer toys which are frivolous at best and deleterious of society at worst?

They're a standard deviation above us in IQ, and their honorary Aryan instincts tell them not to clutter their lives with data pipelines direct to USFEDGOV like westerners do.

>>146539088
jap kids dont use pcs or play consoles anymore. they do everything on their god damn phone, and japanese phones are pretty much hand held pcs at this point with the same ram,storage,and processing speed.

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>>146577437
I always feel uneasy about /w/ since not all nice art is really wallpaper sized, especially if you take ever-increasing screen sizes into account

Queen size bed for life