This anime summed up college perfectly

I don't remember any debt sharking, usury, or bolshevik subversion of the social studies in tatami galaxy.

>>161444381
Yeah, staying alone in a small room the entire time pretty accurately described my experience.

>>161444476
Yeah, I dont remember people overdosing on adderall either

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>>161444381
OP > ED

>>161444518
I'm not a practicer but you're just trying to be miserable.

>>161444476
that only happens in burgerland

except for the bolshevik subversion, I'll give you that one

>>161444655
Wrong.

>>161444655
this is false.

This anime was depressing as fuck.

>>161444655
They're both great.

>>161444381
Am i an asshole for not making any 'life long' friends in college?
I had my friendly classmates who'd occasionally wanna do something outside the norm but otherwise I'd keep to myself.

>>161444381
A waste of time?

>>161444381
I finished college just before this started airing, and I had the most disappointed feelings of longing for a time that will never be able to be repeated so that I can do it right like Watashi.

>>161444655
True

>>161444552
Are you one of those borderline-illiterate retards who says it "goes too fast"?
Is you not reading English too good, fuckwit?

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>>161444381
It hit too close for me when the guy didn't want to lose his virginity for no reason on like episode 6. I got furious and dropped it.
I swear like 90% of that scene happened in real life for me, including the part where nothing happened and the guy ran away for some bullshit reason

Literally no anime has ever hit the mark like that. I got TRIGGERED as fuck

>>161444925
>trying this hard

>>161444925
tatami galaxy fags, everyone.

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>watched TTG and NHK my sophomore year of college
>told myself there was still time for me to turn my life around and make friends
>ended up joining no clubs and making no friends or connections whatsoever by the time I graduated

>>161444789
Same, shit like this and Kare Kano really make me want to kill myself. /end blogpost

>>161444925
Really?

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>>161444993
you know it's really easy to make friends on the internet, right?

>>161444381
>going to college

>>161445018
It's so easy. So it doesn't mean anything

>>161445018
>making friends with a bunch of ERPing faggots from /a/

>>161445045
my best friends are on the internet, I've known them for years, and I'm just as close to them as I was to irl friends as a teenager. I voice chat and watch stuff with them every day. maybe your standards are just too low and you stick to messaging and forums?

>Joining college clubs
Only a minority do that were I live, and they are either sports clubs or related to classes/research. There's no campus either.

>>161445165
I get the feeling your standards are actually lower than mine in this scenario. As I said: Internet friends are too easy. They don't mean anything.

>>161445238
if you think internet friends are "easy" and "meaningless", that's why you don't have any. I spend every day talking in voice chat with people that know me better than my own family, and from personal experience I am as close to these people as the friends I had as a teenager growing up, people I spent all day every day with for months at a time. what is this magical force that makes in-person relationships "meaningful" compared to online? being able to smell them? having to spend an hour in transit to hang out? there is no logic here.

>>161445416
You're just delusional. Fine by me. Just know that you're coming of as insecure.

>>161445441
this is how you react to people who are trying to help you. hostile cognitive dissonance shield. this is why you don't have friends.

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>>161445478
>I'm trying to help
Funny. I was just trying to help you. hostile cognitive dissonance shield. this is why you don't have friends.

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>join clubs in college
>it's filled with spergs and weirdos
>frats are filled with chads and douches
Tatami sort of got the chat and weirdo part right. But in general, college clubs a shit.
Now I constantly wonder what things would be like if I had joined a club and it was actually enjoyable.

>>161445441
You should really fix that bad attitude anon.

>>161445441
I'm reading this while scrolling through the threads and I gotta say that you sound like a massive fag:
>huhhhhhhhhh, internet friends are fake, everything is fake, anyone who has a different experience than i am is delusional, zetsuboushita.............................................................

>>161445568
Did I hurt your feelings?

I adore this series

>>161445596
Who are you quoting?

>>161445556
damn, off by one

>>161445597
No. You just have a bad attitude.

I literally only left my room to sit exams and teach classes. College life is a meme, what a waste of 3 years. The anime should have just been him as a shut-in the entire time.

>>161445556
>I don't have any friends!
>it's because I didn't try making connections in college!
>it has nothing to do with my personality!

>>161445633
I was just trying to help. Just because I was blunt to someone clearly needing help doesn't mean I have a bad attitude. You're just trying to fix my thought-crimes

>>161445675
Who are you quoting?

>>161445556
>literally "no u" the post
okay?

>>161445710
Maybe you'll see the hypocrisy that way.

>>161444476
>>>/pol/

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>>161445175
>no campus

>>161445727
but I have friends.

what anime?

>>161445175
You probably confuse college with high school bub.

>>161445026
and you are making a living by....?

>>161445641
>how dare people have fun they should be miserable like me

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>>161445826
hi-mi-zu :^)

>>161445755
He’s got friends, can you call them friends?

>>161445641
Hey! that's me!
i want to fucking die

>>161445175
>ran a club for two years during undergrad
never afucking gain thanks for reading my blog!

>>161445819
Wrong

>>161445931
You've convinced me!

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Stop blogging, you fucks.

>starting junior year in a new college literally next week
H-how do I make my rose-colored campus life happen for sure this time, /a/?

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>>161445018
What most people complaining about loneliness here are actually looking for are meaningful real life friendships but with someone that they can share the same types of discussion and hobbies that they have on /a/. Except it goes without saying they don't want the person to be the stereotype that comes with those attributes, such as a disgusting manchild with a neckbeard that is socially inept. They also don't want to put any effort of their own forward to improving themselves or finding these types of people. Not that you can blame them, the type of person that they want as a friend is on /a/ but they'll be redirected to /soc/ if they want companionship. You're welcome to claim otherwise but wait until September rolls around and eventually December; you'll see these types posting with more frequency because those sorts of posts are more tolerated around then. Internet friends can only do so much for you and it's much easier for them to up and disappear at the drop of a hat.

>>161445826
Fast food

>>161446623
I've never made a friend on /a/, but friends I've made through other means post on /a/. not suggesting to people that they should, just pointing out the fact that there are lots of people that live on the internet that are easy to communicate with and open for friendship. when someone thinks they have "failed" at making friends while they live on the internet, it just seems like someone who hasn't even put their pole in the water is complaining about a lack of fish.

someone who thinks only of what their friends can do for them isn't a good friend, and someone who disappears at the drop of a hat isn't a good friend either, nor is that really exclusive to the internet in any way.

>>161446389
groom yourself, turn off your mind and be a yesman to every opportunity

As a student-teacher who has broken more friendships than I tried making them in uni, I can only say that it is better to just make-up with past friends from high school and hope you can restart anew. You're bound to have to be friendly with everyone in your workplace and public life, but you do need at least 2 physical friends to actually share time with.

>>161446623
That's because you can't make friends with people by fucking talking over the internet. You have to experience or do shit together in real life or video games or whatever. That interaction is what creates long lasting bonds. Then you have to constantly refresh them or risk drifting away -- what I'm trying to say is human interaction is a pain in the arse.

>>161446071
preach it shinji

misery is already a given condition here

get out of here with your boring lives

>>161449727
Well no shit. But that's what makes them worthwhile.

It's mediocre. The art is the best thing it has going for it.

>>161449727
your own example defeats your argument, you can play video games together with people on the internet. or watch things together. in fact these are the main two things that me and my internet friends do together, and that people in extended groups do with their internet friends. with these activities that give us an excuse to hang out, just like people do in person, we form friendships and bonds that extend to talking or helping each other out, just like in person. not sure why this concept is so difficult. I think you guys aren't using voice/video communication, aren't actually doing anything with people you're trying to make friends with(proven by you thinking video games are somehow impossible to play with people over the internet), or aren't even trying to make friends in the first place.

like just visualizing the thousands of people that make up 4chan's subcommunities that I've met over the last decade and all of their circlejerks and friendgroups, it's as though you're trying to tell me that there's no such thing as sand when I'm standing in a desert. hell, there are generals on this very board that contradict your claim that "you can't make friends with people by talking over the internet." some of those madokafags have been parroting each others retarded crap for years now.

>>161449965
I dunno, I guess I'm just not good at keeping or making friendships proactively. I've had chances, sure, with people whose tastes and personalities aligned with my own against almost impossible odds but I never felt the urge to bridge the gap with them or even keep talking with them over the internet. Even over video games and voice chat.

It's almost second nature for me to favour those in my life who happen to have been acquainted with me through pure chance, despite our personalities and opinions being so different, just because of the strength of shared experience.

Jeez, I started blogging again before I realised it.

>>161449965
It's not really real though. Many of my supposed Internet friendships of seven years ended in about the space of a few weeks when I got kicked out of a community because someone more popular got pissed I told them to fuck off and made a concerted effort to get me removed.

>>161450068
That happens in real life, too.

>>161444942
>triggered
I don't think 4chan is the place for you.

>>161449965
>>161450058

Agreeing with the former argument about making friends. Talking and playing games with people online is a good way to nip loneliness in the bud. There are certain queues you miss by not meeting face to face though but making online friends helps take the edge off, plus, if you get to know them well enough, you have the option of meeting up in the future.

Even as autistic as I am, I've managed to meet several people this way and the result is that it does boost your confidence, plus it's a good way to make fast friends.

>>161450068
you think the internet is fake? you think interactions here lie elsewhere than the umbrella of "reality"? every time you're interacting with a digital device you are somehow throwing thousands of years of metaphysics down the toilet and breaking the barrier between sincerity and falsehood?

watching anime with someone online is the same as watching anime with someone on a couch, minus transit/shared resources/forced interaction/being able to smell and touch them. some see it as superior to in person friendship for reasons like this.

don't blame others for your failures. either you're getting banned from everywhere because you're an asshole, or the communities are garbage and it's silly to be looking for friends in such circlejerks. blaming things other than yourself for any problems you have is exactly how you find a way to not feel pressured about fixing your problems.

>>161450211
It had a vagina so I was at an innate disadvantage

>>161444789
>>161444994
What the fuck? Youre trolling right? It's one of the most uplifting and inspiring anime ever. >>161444837
Watch Tatami Galaxy then realize that life is what you make it and that if wish you had more 'true' friends then you have to put in the effort. There is no "lifelong" friend that will just happen for you. The 'rose-colored campus life' doesn't exist. Thats the point of the anime.

For bourgeoisie normalfags, sure.

>>161444655
Agreed. Can't beat Asian Kung Fu Generation.

>>161445641
Maybe if you weren't a bong STEMsperg at a factory school.

>>161451577
>bourgeoisie
Fuck off commie.

>>161451711
>calling it as it is makes you a commie
The cunts on real lives of beverly hills or whatever that thrash is are the embodiment of bourgeoisie for their age and sex. A snooty scrawny slightly above average pseud going into medical school, law school, and the like, while 'scorin' babes WEW', wasting money, gliding by through classes, and overall trying to live the 'college life', is the embodiment of the bourgeoisie for his age and sex. For females of the same age, its studying psychology, sociology, or English and having strong yet predictable political opinions and a LOT of gay friends.

what happened in this thread

>>161451854
Angry anons that wasted their college years.

>>161451799
Do yourself a favor and read Steppenwolf

>>161450068
that just means you had shitty friends. i had a friend suddenly stop talking to me like that too. but another net friend i became roommates with for a year in college so even if youre under the odd impression that its not real if its not face-to-face, you cant deny that being real.

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>make a sticky
>blog thread is still up after 7 hours
Sasuga mods

>>161452206
yeah let's delete every single thread, that will make /a/ better!

>>161452254
Do you know what /a/ stands for?
Hint: it's not /a/-talk about whatever

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>>161452206
the /a/ blog threads are the most comfy though

>>161452206
Ronery threads are an /a/ staple, faggot

>>161444655
This. Asian Kungfu Generatiom masterrace

This is why college anime are so rare because it's the time when your life is going to shit.

>>161452292
/a/ stand for anime, and overwhelmingly the board is anime related discussion. Occasionally people veer off and discuss something else within an anime related thread, and tolerance of this is what makes /a/ a community instead of a spreadsheet of title and character opinions. This thread for example is one of the more amusing threads in the catalog and projects /a/'s culture on a couple of topics. If threads were deleted based off of the content of replies, you would see some threads on seasonals and some bait opinion threads. Even classics like asuka vs rei or sakurafish would be deleted under such a mindset. It is fortunate that there is a culture to be expressed on this board, much of the website suffers from high turnover or skeletal communities.

>>161452442
But for most people it's the highlight my life only became enjoyable in grad school

>>161444655
YOU LYING SACK OF SHIT YOU WILL PAY FOR THIS

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>>161444381
How can one enjoy one's rose colored campus life if he's too poor to live on campus?

>>161452442
Honestly college has been the only educational experience I ever truly enjoyed. Before that it was being forced to go to a place I hated to interact with people I hated.

>>161444837
>Am i an asshole for not making any 'life long' friends in college?
Dunno, but you could come off as one.
I believe I did, even though it didn't occur to me at the time. We just, like, slipped away from one another, but when I come to think about it, it was silence on my part that made it possible to happen. Ah well.
There's still time, right? RIGHT?

>>161452551
This shit right here. I studied my ass of in a third world country and managed to enter a good UK university but holy shit this place is expensive and there's like zero social support even though I'm fucking top 10% in my class. It's ridiculous.

>>161452626
It's never too late. Seize the day, carpe diem and all that jazz.

>>161444993
>>told myself there was still time for me to turn my life around
Never was a bigger lie told by one man to himself.

>>161452206

>thread critiquing the accuracy in Tatami Galaxy's interpretation of college life
>blog


Sorry that these types of subjects are too complex for you to understand, try rewatching it when you graduate highschool. Til then I'll see you on /bestgirl/


>>161445557

Every single highschool in anime features the prominence of club activities, sense of community and hobby is definitely stronger in Japan. But I don't think any of the clubs in Tatami Galaxy were that great though, I thought the point was he was starting to realize that the "rosey" bits die off in college. He was trying hard enough, but he wasn't in the right mindset. In high school clubs are amazing because HS is pretty much losing your social virginity, there's so many 'first times' which are fun. In college if you're social life is great you have a drinking problem. Clubs in college are for finding a girl/guy that will tolerate you enough to make the pain and misery of learning more enjoyable. If 'rosey' is good, then life gets worse and worse with age - but that's what makes these relationships more and more valuable. Which was the theme of the show.

>>161444381
>This anime summed up college perfectly

yeah sure
minus friends and social interactions and a gf

>>161444381
Good thing my country doesn't technically have colleges

>>161444381
Did Tatami have shitty student politics and people shouting Marxist slogans across campus?

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>>161444381

>>161452862
>thread critiquing the accuracy in Tatami Galaxy's interpretation of college life
>blog
Wouldn't it be great if you didn't have an allergy to reading posts outside of your narrow scope? This thread is filled with, and lends itself to blogshit.

>>161444381
Only the second to last episode.

>>161454229
and it's one of the greatest threads on the board right now. the absolute state of /a/

>>161452206
The sticky is not worth shit and actually would only harm the board. I guess tomboy-generals and the like are banned now.

>>161445441
You could make friends and have a good time like him anon.

>>161454733
Hello general shitter, having fun in your subreddit?

>>161445441
you are the one who's insecure here anon. This is probably the reason why you dont have any friends in the first place

>>161454892
>getting rid of out of the norm threads will make this place better
>dropping the elitism years ago when naruto threads became a 24/7 thing because "it's almost over" made this place better
I'm not really having fun in this "subreddit" anymore. And it seems that it will only get worse.

>>161444381
Luckily I was able to make some "lifelong" friends in college (In quotes because I graduated recently so who really knows), but I did have some times where I would just not leave my room and interact with people, yet still feel as if I was missing out on fundamental college experiences. Tatami Galaxy captures this incredibly well.
I think a political episode of Tatami would've been funny and somewhat true even to Japanese experience. (they've had serious campus protests in their past) So many guys get involved with politics just to get laid, or at least for reasons other than actual personal conviction. You could have the guy who ran the film club run a political club thing.
I'm kinda glad because campus politics is incredibly annoying, especially if you find yourself in the middle of some firestorm having to take sides.

I made my lifetime friends during college thanks to /a/, all it took was going to the /a/ meetup at the Madoka showings and now I have a whole gang of friends who are more than down to get drunk in public and yell at each other about shitty anime.

>>161455645
>madoka casualscum

>>161446623
It's true, but take condolences in that the people I meet personally who like anime are either redditor normalfag who seem to love it but have seen three anime or Tumblr/redditor sort of weirdo who has seen more but is entirely unrelatable and neckbeard like you say.

The funny part is all the ones I meet and visit /a/ are actually the most socially skilled for some reason, one basically a Chad who also visits /fit/ and is very relatable and some others usually just regular sort or nerdy guys, and once again easy to talk to.

The point is here if you can actually find Anon then they are usually not the neckbeard stereotype and the neckbeard you see in the University Anime Club is usually not Anon. Anon of course hide their power level but with enough power level yourself you can tell if one is anon with some casual leading "trick" questions.

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>>161445737

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Finished it an hour ago, really enjoyed the ending.

>>161447205
>Friends
>High school
Wew

>>161444476
Yeah thats because he lives in a first world country with actual welfare

>>161444381
Tatami Galaxy is a poor mans Hyouka

>>161457830
you seriously think japan subsidizes education more than the US does?

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>>161452551
>tfw had to take the bus an hour each way from my parent's house
All my friends were commuters. I don't know how someone can live on campus and not walk away having a good time, it's like you're on easy mode because you're so CLOSE to everything. I could have joined more clubs, but the buses barely worked after 7 pm.

>>161458337
It really is easy mode. The autists who can't make friends while living on campus are actively trying to not make friends. Even then, I had a friend who put up the "I'm not interested in ordinary humans" thing from Haruhi on his door, and he still wasn't a loner.

>>161452469
This man knows

I dropped it at that part where the faggot MC didn't fuck the Dentist girl in the English club timeline/multiverse

>>161444655
this

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>>161444518
lmao literally this. I only stayed in my room watched anime and played videogames. Went to college only for the exams.

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>was normie in college/uni but seen like 3 animes total and aware of weebs existence.
>Never heard of 4chan
>Acquire some weeb friends through friends of friend while expanding my social circles, but never discuss anime with them
>5 years pass
>Office job
>30+ friends who just watch anime
>I am one of them
>Chimp out 2-3 times a week in person with zero shame about who we bother or who overhears our belligerent and less than classy discussion on anime.

It's great.

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>>161459469
>animes
>Chimp out 2-3 times a week in person with zero shame about who we bother or who overhears our belligerent and less than classy discussion on anime.
The state of /a/.

>>161459469
bet your one of these people that post "ravioli ravioli don't lewd the dragon loli" on youtube comments section.

>>161455842
The hard part is actually finding them though. You might have the good fortune to find these sorts of people and get a chance to interact but the majority of anons are not going to make that conscious effort with other people on the small chance they might simply be hiding their power level. Consider that many don't have the opportunities, like college/university or work, to actually meet other people. The entire NEET thing isn't a meme, even if it's less prevalent here in recent years. Also, I can tell you with personal experience that a number of them do fit that stereotype unfortunately. Not everyone looks like your average person that's hiding their power level, many actually are the socially inept and unhygienic individuals that are made fun of.

>>161459877
I don't even want to imagine people on /a/ as real people. They're all shapeless ghosts without any pasts to me.

>>161451554
>life is what you make it
Nope. Life is grounded upon reality. Not what I make it.

>>161455039
?

>>161454876
He didn't make friends though.

>>161460069
A lot of them are your normal person, hiding their power level like they're supposed to. If you consider yourself average in everything except mental health (you wouldn't be here otherwise) and hobbies, it's the same for most everyone else.

>>161444655
tengoku

>>161455842
>you can tell if one is anon with some casual leading "trick" questions.
This really made me tip my fedora. I hope you realize the people you consider embarrassing think they're being smart about it in the same way.

>>161445416
I had internet friends of 7 years or so, same situation where we used voice chat and played games/watching anime together all day and after their real lives got busy (work, relationships, etc.), they practically disappeared. Don't expect internet friends to always be there for you. The difference with in-person relationships is that there's more of an obligation, as well as a wider network of people, to keep in contact and the likelihood that you'll be in the same geographic location means they won't be able to disappear without any way to find them.

>>161459877
>The hard part is actually finding them though.
The era of Madoka showings was truly a golden age for meeting anons as it was the perfect excuse for anons to coordinate IRL meetups in a time when the mods were willing to tolerate those threads and not deleting them on sight. Even to this day so many years later our local /a/ group is huge and still going strong, and all of us have formed some genuine friendships.

>>161444518
this

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Daily reminder that these are the kinds of people that shit up /a/ with reddit meetups

>>161460779
>2014
So they've been here longer than most people currently browsing.

>>161460779
Why do they look so creepily skinny?

>>161445737
> tankie filth is afraid of the truth that much.

>>161460959
If you're here, you're either a skeleton or obese.

>>161461372
Can confirm. Genetically predisposed toward skeleton body.

>>161460779
Is secret Santa happening this year?

>>161462053
I hope not

#/a/toronto @ Rizon

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I don't get why people romanticize college/university so much when its arguably the time you learn the least and bust your ass memorizing and regurgitating information just to get a shitty piece of paper that barely even means anything anymore. Sure, it's a fun experience compared to highschool, but it's also the same time when you realize your efforts are more or less fruitless and quickly learn networking and problem solving trump them all. I'm sure I'll get a bunch of autistic STEM majors will come rushing to this post telling me I'm wrong and how they've got a portfolio so sick it'll give me polio, but that barely even fucking matters if you're a sperg who can barely hold it together through an interview. Meritocracy is fucking dead. Respec your skill tree and but all your points into Speech and Charisma or you're dead, kiddo.

>>161462448
I wish all I had to do was memorize shit
>tfw liberal arts college

>>161462448
People romanticize college/university because if you aren't a complete autist who is incapable of socializing, it's the prime time to find people that share your hobbies and do fucking whatever together since you're now adults, whereas in high school, you're mostly restricted to those in your class and unless you're doing it illegally or in your last year, you can't do things like going drinking with others or driving depending on your country's laws. No shit that the actual purpose of the institution is fucked but that's obviously not what any anime is focused on.

>>161462053
The organizers already had a thread, it'll happen this year, but they don't seem to want to continue it after this year.

>>161462497
Iktf. Recently changed over from comp sci to digital media and juggling eight different projects a semester is nuts. Pretty fun for me though since I'm usually the leader and enjoy bossing people around and being a belligerent nigger for the sake of it. Weird how you'd expect people to be more social once they're in uni, but I've come to realize people in my age group are as spergy as the average /a/non when it's down to basic conversation. I honestly think like I'm one of the more socially competent people in my class even though I was a loner most of my life and only really started becoming more outgoing in highschool. Hell, I was borderline autistic until I just one day went "okay i'm bored lets go meme on kids" and things just went from there.

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>>161462517
This. Life sucks for one born an autist.

>>161460779
I don't get it.

>>161462892
Oh. Why?

>>161462931
You can learn how not to be an autist.

>>161463676
You can't rewire the brain

>>161463109
They're butthurt at people socializing.

>>161451919
I don't read glorified self-help trash for pretentious adolescents. RAWR! ;3 IVE BECOME A WILD ANIMAL!

I've never watched this, the first couple of minutes trigger me so much with the fast speech.

>>161458567
Some people aren't as basic as you.
Furthermore, not all campuses are large and highly-populated. Mine only has 1000 students.
Get over yourself, actual normalfag.

>>161462448
You have to memorize and regurgitate if you're a STEMsperg.

>>161444655
I hate contrarians. I hate you

>>161463871
You can learn to pretend you're not one. It works pretty well for me.

>>161465511
You can pretend to be a woman too and that won't make you one

>>161444381
Well, i do know someone named Johnny in college and he's a dick.

>>161444993
Connections are basically the only reason to go to college

>>161462517


That's kinda bullshit, highschool was better for socializing and hanging out. In college I'm taking classes with people who want the same career as me, but that doesn't mean they have the same interests. But in high school I could take more interest-oriented classes like shop to meet people, and I wouldn't have to pay for it. And in high school nobody had to organize free time among their adult responsibilities. We just got out of school then hung out until we had to go home. Sure we weren't drinking or going on road trips, but we spent more time together overall because work and shit didn't get in the way.

And I'm no autist. I was a social god in high school, but I've never been able to form as good of a connection with college classmates or coworkers as I did with my high school friends. Probably because everyone is more concerned with their own adult lives. For an example, last semester I tried going shooting with some classmates, but in over a month we three couldn't get a time that we were all good to go. But in high school if my buddies and I wanted to shoot we would just do it whenever.

>>161444381
>things the anime didn't do
It started with mc daydreaming about some cringey "the college life" meme completely disconnected to the actual physical reality of going to a 3DPD college, mc met a guy who started doing crazy shit out of nowhere then I dropped because it was retarded. You might have met a fag in college but the similarities end there.

>>161466398
The crazy shit that guy was doing is in MC's imagination.

After college I met a few anons. Guys that actually play VNs and fap to doujins on sad panda. Even then, we still end up talking more about work and whatever group activities we're into, as viewing shit can be done solo. Having this kind of friendship is nice but a bit unironically overrated.

>>161465683
Maybe if you're a STEMsperg pseud just looking forward to being a wagey.

>>161466042
That post was just to get a(You), thanks for your long wall of text fag.

>>161465511
Limited success here, I have joined multiple clubs but can't relate to normals still somehow

>>161466728
Yeah it's funny to mention sad panda and show your image folders from your online drive on your phone once or twice but never makes the meat of a relationship

>>161444381
Worst part about college was how I did have two good friends in class, only I was too much to an anxious, dysfunctional fuck-up to accept the two invites I was ever given.

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>>161467337
Think this is common with people who come here desu. There doesn't necessarily have to be something "wrong", although there usually is, for people to be here. It's just that they don't click with society, everyone here is isolated.

The reason you faggots can't make friends is that you expect your friendships to be the fulfilling hyperexaggerated shit you see in anime. That's rarely how it is in real life for anyone. Lower your standards if you want friends so bad or continue pretending you don't care and that everyone else is a "disgusting normie".

>>161460501
Is this the group that was in the restaurant picture with the few people who looked to be in their mid 40s? How do you even relate to them? Madoka fans are spergy but that was especially bad.

>>161464982
You can wallow in misery and self-pity for the rest of your life. I'm just trying to help.

>>161445045
Where does this "If it's easy, then it's worthless" philosophy come from? It's not like you're boasting about beating a game on very hard difficulty to /v/

>>161468293
That was LA showing or whatever, we're Toronto.

currently reading the novel translated by some anon. I appreciate reading it more than watching the series 2bh

>>161444925
Pretty sure he was just describing his typical Burgerland college experience

>>161467773
You cant think freely if you have "friends" who you need to conform with. Im really politically incorrect IRL and I cant help it cause its to natural to me

>>161467773
What's the meaning of even having "friends" like them, then? It's just better to be alone and spend time doing stuff I like.

>>161469507
>Hi Anon, how're you today?

GAS THE KIKES RACE WAR NOW

>barely any uni themes anime
I just want another Honey&Clover.

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>>161462448
>literally all I do is study, play video games and work
I can't even come up with areason why I haven't killed myself yet.
It's so empty and pointless.

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>>161470106
>becoming a normalfag is happiness

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BD release when?

>>161444789
It wasn't supposed to be.
You got hung up on the depressing parts and ignored everything else because you assumed it would never happen to you.

> don't get why people romanticize college/university so much when its arguably the time you learn the least and bust your ass memorizing and regurgitating information just to get a shitty piece of paper that barely even means anything anymore.
Japs do because it's basically the only time of their life between preschool and a possible retirement where they have some free time.

>>161462448
>Respec your skill tree and but all your points into Speech and Charisma or you're dead, kiddo.
Bullshit, if you have experience in your field (working as a student/research assistant or internships for example are good opportunities for this) and a usefull degree with good grades social skills don't matter that much. Of course you should not apply for a job that actually requires socials skills like anything with a lot of customer service.

>>161470195
2 months

>>161462448
>quickly learn networking and problem solving
In less callous words, learn how to communicate with people in a normal way and developing critical thinking skills.
STEMfag here. You're close but off the mark.
Doesn't matter how much shit you learn, if you're a total sperg autist that people hate being around.
The companies you apply to get hundreds of applications for the same position.
Imagine all of them not being spergs and you get a good picture of your competition.

College isn't about learning a trade or skill. It's about developing a knack for thinking about a problem and solving it, as well as developing a discipline to learn new fields of study without help.
A lot of people will complain about professors not really teaching, but you're supposed to have come into the class already knowing 80% of the material.

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>Had zero (0) free time back in college
>Most of my weekends were spent at the computer labs doing projects or studying for tests
>No time or energy for friends or clubs
>Graduate and get a job
>Suddenly my free time doubles, get to hang out with friends more often and have the money to go places and do things

While I miss the social aspect of classes I've replaced that with less forced-friendship and camaraderie. From what I've heard about in Japan too it seems like once you get into college you get to slack off and do jack shit. Then once you graduate you get sent to commit karoshi.

Being able to come home and not obsess about shit that's due alone makes the non-college life far more relaxing.

I'm about to graduate university and have made literally zero friends. I just want a life like Tada Banri in Golden Time.

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>>161470923
Why don't Japanese people just go to grad school?

>>161470968
Does graduating college mean I won't be able to relate to high school characters anymore?

>>161466042
>same career as you
Stop going to a factory school.

>>161469240
I'm not miserable, more likely that you are if you ever had to read that shithead Hesse. Pseudo-enlightened pseud.

>>161470887
Because STEMspergery is a fucking joke.

who /a/toronto here

>>161471590
theres a board for your shit. Try /soc/

>>161471590
Why are there so many people from fucking Toronto here? I'm from South Ontario and I'm sick of it.

>>161444655
The OP is very feely despite it's.happy sound

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>>161470887
>A lot of people will complain about professors not really teaching, but you're supposed to have come into the class already knowing 80% of the material.
Just because you're supposed to doesn't mean it's not lazy as fuck from their part. They're being paid for a supposed role of ""teaching"" and yet you do 80% of the learning.

Then no matter how shitty the classes are they can always justify them with some vague and unfalsifiable "you're learning how to learn" lines or failing that tempt you with "le college campus life", two of the ways they keep folks bluepilled so that they pay a middleman to learn for themselves.

>>161471590
Yo Jap fest this saturday

>>161461259
>implying tankies and nazis aren't basically the same

>>161471631
Only like half of /a/toronto actually live in Toronto.

>>161472333
Where's everyone else from? There's no way I'd drive 4 hours just to meet up with /a/toronto.

>>161472393
Within 2 hours of Toronto so you may be SOL.

>>161472393
>>161472393
Take your nigger shit to /soc/ faggot this isnt the board for it

>>161460284
people do that in real life too.

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>>161472477
This. I've been abandoned by my group of highschool friends who still hang out frequently without inviting me.

>>161472444
No one cares nigger.

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>>161472609
If you don't talk to them or only wait for their invitation it's inevitable that they'll stop talking to you.

>>161472788
What does this image mean?

>>161463252
There was a very bad card turnout last year.

>>161472896
That isn't why, it's because one of the hosts is quitting due to real life shit.

>>161472863
You should be a beta faggot and impose yourself on others.

>>161474037
Well he's halfway there.

>>161471631
If you weren't here for /spa/, leafs are the most common posters on /a/ besides wetbacks and other third world countries.

>>161469507
I know how it feels anon. I always feel like I have no freedom in what I say because I live in CA. I say a ton of anti PC jokes but I can't trust anyone around me.

>>161472609
That's not you being abandoned, that's you being excluded for being an unlikable faggot. These are two completely different situations.

>>161472477
If you're ignoring the entire second half, sure. Internet friends have more selectivity when choosing friends out of convenience.

>>161444381
I didn't have a dick head friend who did zany schemes for his waifu, a Chad who loved a sex doll and worse of all I didn't have a qt3.14 Dentist-chan who wanted to have drunken sex with me.

>>161444655
I love YakuEtsu to death but yeah, that OP was just so god damn perfect for the series. So god damn amazing.

>>161444789
It made me realize that no matter the various "what ifs" I might have had that I would still be the same miserable cunt and that these changes wouldn't be small and wouldn't be great impactful events. For that I thank it.

>>161475646
That sounds as though you're trying to justify why you ended up like a sad cunt.

>>161475793
Maybe. But that's what I took from it I guess. That and the typical "just live life"

Blog incoming:
>transferring from CC to a 4 year this next quarter
>find the school's anime club
>their watchlist for Fall 2017 is as follows
>The Twelve Kingdoms, Kaiba, Barakamon, Fantastic Children, Armitage III, Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita, Lupin 2015, Shirobako, Devilman OVAs, Giant Robo, Detroit Metal City, Time of Eve, and "some current anime"

Should I bit the bullet? I'm so lonely.

>>161476107
That list is pretty good. Complement them on their good taste at the very least.

>>161476107
This is quite literally patrician taste.

>>161452469
You should write a thesis

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>>161476107
>meanwhile the one at my uni watched attack on titan, fateshit, tokyo ghoul and DBS
spoiled bitch, just do it.

There's kind of an easy way of finding who is the most probably one in your class to browse /a/. Just find the fittest nigga and try to discover if it's him.

The overlap of /fit/ and /a/ is staggeringly high.

>>161476626
You're conflating people that watch anime with people that browse /a/. /fit/ people fall into the first category.

>>161476107
that's a very good japanese cartoon club. I envy you anon

Whatever happened to the map? Did anyone ever meet anyone out of that?

Why do fujos have such a hard time understanding Johnny?

>>161469340
I don't understand if I'm being honest.

>>161477355
Understand what, beating a difficult game or that things that come easily aren't worth boasting about?

>>161477374
What does boasting have to do with it?

>>161477410
The comparison is that easy things are less meaningful because any idiot can manage them. That's it. Boasting about it is just one manner of expression that validates the difficulty for some people.

>>161477480
They're meaningless because they're 'internet friends' even if those were harder to come by than regular friends. They'd still be meaningless.

>>161477499
I'm not disagreeing, I'm just pointing out what the argument anon was trying to make.

>>161476107
literally 6-7/10, the watchlist. better than I expected.

>>161477698
>6-7/10

This is how I can tell you haven't watched most of those. It would be more like 8/10.

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>>161465467
Fuck you anon. I'm not contrarian, I just really like Asian Kung-fu Generation. Also the lyrics are really fucking meaningful.
>>161476107
This is actually a pretty good list.

>>161477727
Armitage III and Barakamon are trash so that lowers it

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>>161477849
>Barakamon
>trash

>>161445826
Security is easy as fuck and requires 40 hours of training followed by a few weeks of submitting applications to go from zero to working full time. Shifts are usually long so you can get all your work done in three days, leaving you plenty of time to pursue other interests (or laze around like a neet).

>>161444743
debt sharking and usury happens in the UK to. They have a worse debt situation then us.

>>161477727
I've watched everything on that list but lupin and giant robo, and I can give you detailed reasons why many of these series fall short. the irony in your post is that if you think these series are that good, you need to watch more anime.

>>161477849
Armitage III is one of the better things on that list. Are people thinking of dual matrix when they say armitage is bad?

>>161478086
>but lupin and giant robo

Two of which that raise it to 8/10 instead of 6 or 7. If you're going to tell someone to watch more anime, at least watch the classics yourself. Granted, 2015 Lupin isn't a classic in itself but it hails from a classic and excellent series.

>>161478409
I've seen '71 lupin III. sure it's ahead of it's time but the comedy and themes are basically fossils they're so dated. not going to keep watching something when it's boring. I doubt an action shounen OVA series is enough to redeem a list of barely above average crap like juuni kokuki and eve no jikan.

calm down, your watch list is fine for normies, you don't have to change it. I'm just surprised at how consistently barely above average it is but not terrible or great.

>>161478767
No, he has to change it. He needs to weed out the normies.

>>161478767
>action shounen OVA series
Go watch Giant Robo instead of being a nigger already.

>>161478812
in that case put on moetan day one.

>>161478821
it's been on my log for ages. low priority, stuff with old hags and boys and no comedy is almost always bad. I'll give you my opinion if the thread is still up in a few years when I eventually get to it.

>>161478903
Old anime is never 'good' you just watch it because it's old

>>161478927
If it's not good then you shouldn't watch it.

>>161478954
Then you should never watch old anime.

>>161478990
No. If I followed that rule I wouldn't be able to watch any anime.

>>161479024
Just because you don't find modern anime good doesn't mean they're not objectively better than old anime. But maybe it's some sort of sunk-cost fallacy

>>161479056
No, I meant my earlier post where I said that if something wasn't good I shouldn't watch it. But generally I find the classics to be of little value outside of their historical significance and more modern series are much more entertaining

>>161479139
I just think that old anime have shit directing if anything that's my main issue with enjoying them. Also older anime was more meant for children whereas now you have anime aimed at adults and teens as-well.

>>161478927
what? there's tons of great older stuff. giant robo isn't even that old.

>>161479184
>older anime was more meant for children
How is that even close to the case? Anime was more of a enthusiast thing on the animator side back then whereas it's a business thing now. If anything, anime is more targeted at impressionable kids and teens because they'll get their parents to sink money into it.

>>161479184
most of the good older stuff isn't on television, the 80s OVA boom produced a lot of high quality material. some of my favorite stuff came out of that.

>>161479257
Anime was always intended for children. Children of all ages.

>>161479257
not him but televised anime used to be mainly focused on children, anime in general didn't really get much of an adult market until video rental in the 80s allowed the OVA boom to happen. this market didn't shift into television until the late 90s after evangelion happened. before evangelion, televised anime was largely or fully focused on child audiences.

>>161479257
Enthusiasm or passion alone isn't enough to write a coherent story. One also needs talent

>>161479300
Evangelion was a show for children though.

>>161479327
teens are not children anon

>>161479341
They're worse, they're children with drivers licenses.

>>161479375
Old people have driver's licenses too. It's one scary world out there.

>>161479327
regardless of it's intentions, it became the most commercially successful single series of the medium and most of this market was adult men. on top of that, the funding was cut specifically because it wasn't child-friendly enough for it's time slot. if it was for children, it failed, and accidentally busted the door open for adult oriented television in the process, because a couple decades of that is what followed.

>>161479430
All because Anno was a depressed faggot. Thanks Anno.

>>161476107
You're one lucky mother FUCKER, if that is true.

>>161479868
It's probably true but he won't work up the courage to actually attend because he's a pussy faggot.

>>161476107
Holy shit patrician officers

>>161444655
Asian Kung Fu Generation is just too good.

>>161476107
Trash, trash, trash.

What does Ozu contribute to the story?
Why is he even there? What does he do?

>>161459562
Eh i have seen worse

>>161460779
Speaking on meetups, remember back in 2012 when there was alot meetup threads?

College was the loneliest time of my entire life. Clubs are a meme that meet once a week for an hour, not exactly friend making material. Post college life has been so much better. Don't fall for the college is the best time of your life meme.

>>161482963
You sure convinced me...

>>161482979
Thankfully I'm not kidding. I was legit going to kill myself when I started my job after college, but I made friends with all my coworkers fairly quickly. I can't really explain how this happened.

>>161482963
Not to mention, any 'light-knit' campus will have jack all for clubs.

>>161483020
Sounds to me like you just didn't try hard enough

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ive got a semester left of my studies; didnt do any club shit but just made a lot of shallow friendships with classmates.
did i fugg up

>>161482963
Clubs, and anime clubs in particular, are full of antisocial faggots who will absolutely not just come up to you and start a conversation.
Like the anime says, you need to actually try something to get what you want.
Just like how a prince on a white horse will never appear, a princess trapped in a tower will also never appear.
If you care to get to know the people in your club better, it is up to you to get to know them and arrange meetups at different times of the day. Contact comes before friendship.

>>161444381
It left out the part where you're a hikki in spirit but still have the sense of pride and responsibility to attend all your lectures then fall behind and fail anyway because your inability to get close to people has crushed you before you even noticed and you couldn't keep it up anymore

>>161483220
>made a lot of shallow friendships
Once again, antisocial faggots. Trying to breach the wall of ``business relationship'' that you have with your classmates requires real charisma.
Most actual friends I've ever had have minimal coursework intersection with me. The lack of perceived ulterior motives helps.

>>161452917
fuck you

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i still dont understand tho. Why do you faggots need "friends" anyway? They are pretty much an additional baggage in your life that you need to court always. I never had any meaningful relationships in my college days but I felt free from any responsibility. I just want to avoid hurting anyone's feelings if I ever would fuck up. This is probably why I want everyone else to fuck off from me. Its better this way 2bh

>>161483627
>I don't want to try because I can't handle fucking up
More like you gave up on trying because you can't handle fucking up

>>161483627
Humans need social interaction. Its a biological necessity.

>>161483682
I have my family tho. And probably some close high school friends that I still occasionally talk to

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>>161483666
Why are you so angry satan. Projecting much?

>>161483714
Learned a new word have we.

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>>161483666
i dunno really. I am in a university where im one ot the 5 only males in my course batch with 50+ grills. I fucking failed to make my own harem and its so depressing

>>161483746
You also failed your junior-high English class.

>>161445018
Not if you're socially retarded like me.
>>161483627
Even from an anti-social perspective, two people have two lives worth of experience, resources, and connections compared to a single person's. Additionally, I doubt that anyone here would pass up an unconditional friendship where the person met on your terms and had shared interests. Problem is that a lot anons have been burned by their inherent autismo nature and adopt a once bit, twice shy mentality, making any excuse to avoid opening up. Or maybe I'm projecting who fucking knows.