No.832243
I joined an anime society. I expected it to be autistic, instead it was boring normalfags talking about their lives. They tried talking about Berserk to me. I think Berserk is the only anime they know, they don't even read the manga. Their were a couple roasties too who just sat down letting normalfags come up to them to chat and staring at their phones. I felt like a retard.
Anyone else experience this?
No.832250
>>832243
Why did you even consider joining an anime club/society?
No.832252
>>832250
Boredom. Even if they were autistic I'd have most likely hated them, it's not that I just hate normalfags. I wanted to see what anime society is like. My brother was in his university anime society, and before I learned that everyone is awful in the real world, I couldn't wait to be just like my brother, in university, keeping up with the latest anime, meeting like-minded people. I'm not youngfag, and this was 10 years when Seto no Hanayome was still fresh, but these were the (lack of) feels going through my heart when I was there.
Anyone relate to any of that?
No.832255
>>832243
Are they really that bad? I joined an anime club many years back and it was not too bad. The club president would always shit on streaming sites to the point where once told a club member to fuck off when they reccomended the club to use one. There was a verbal policy to never show popular anime in the clubroom since anyone can watch those if they wanted to at home. From the top of my head, I can remember watching anime like BECK, GTO, and Shigofumi during my time in the club. We also had a little sharing ring where we would share doujin games and sometimes visual novels. There was even a dedicated group of touhoufags who would occasionally project their games when the pres forgets to bring anime and would take turns beating each others' score or play competitively. They all laughed at me when I couldn't beat a stage on normal. From the way you described yours, it sounds like an absolute normalfag hellhole.
No.832261
>>832243
>>832255
your's sounds much better than my attempt at joining an uni anime club. My roomie and I visitied one night to see them watching Mirai Nikkie; my roomie and I both pretty social dudes tried to make convo as hey we're new potential members. But even with fresh blood open to them we were ignored and forget-en when we left after watching an episode of normalfag shit.
No.832301
I don't remember having a conversation about anime with anyone (other than my older brother) that didn't veer into normalfag territory ("Have you heard of this anime called Boku no Hero Academia, they're all got really cool superhero powers in that show", "I'm really into this one anime called Attack on Titan", "I hate fanservicey crap", etc.).
>>832261
Sounds like they were more autistic than you, anon.
No.832302
>>832243
>I joined an anime society
There. Right there. I have pinpointed the exact moment you fucked up.
No.832306
My anime club in college was ok. It had a wide range of content, from normal fag stuff to obscure older shows. I saw things I would never have watched without prompting and about half the people were bearable so it was fun enough to burn a few hours here or there.
No.832309
>>832255
That sounds like a one in a million club.
No.832310
>>832243
I never joined, but I remember seeing their flyers around. At my school they did things like sleepovers where they would watch anime together in a community room throughout the night every other weekend or so. They also tried to feature anime movies in cinema showcases in the arts department as well. I believe one year they put up the first Madoka Magica movie.
No.832319
>>832243
Never did it, thought it would be filled with autists. I've always been a hermit.
>>832255
What's the problem with streaming sites exactly?
No.832320
I tried to join one and it turns out they had disbanded just prior, which was really bizarre. I still don't know why.
No.832322
I personally know a legitimate autist I can discuss anime and oppai with, so I never needed an anime club. Also there's this place.
No.832327
>>832319
>What's the problem with streaming sites exactly?
<Sub-par video quality
<Sometimes the specific episode you want isn't even there
<Using your computer to mine bitcoin while you're connected
<Can you please disable adblock?
<CRITICAL ALERT FROM MICROSOFT
<THERE ARE SEXY ASIAN WOMEN IN [YOUR CITY]
<YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO KEEP THE QUIET IN THIS HOT GAME
Did I miss anything?
No.832328
The eternal boring faggots only knows these shows:
>Berserk and how its so badass
>HxH and how "It's not like any other shounen its such a deconstruction bro"
>Satoshi kon movies
>Your name/Makoto shinkai movies
No.832329
No.832333
The closest thing to an anime club I've been a part of is that for the past few years me and a couple friends get together to hang out and we watch some shows. We decide on new shows by watching the first episodes of a series and then putting our ratings on the spreadsheet. I think we're over 200 first episodes at this point.
Getting a lot of people you don't know, who are just loosely connected by some interest in a subject doesn't seem like a great idea.
No.832335
>>832333
Here's the list in for the case anyone thinks I'm a pleb... You'd be right.
No.832342
>>832335
>Keeping stats of what you've watched
Not bad.
No.832343
>>832342
The only thing I keep track of alone is my Lupin watching. I should really get back to that. When dealing with three people you got to record, no way we're all going to remember how we felt about a show we watched six months ago.
No.832374
>>832255
Damn, son. You lived the Genshiken life. I'm sure it's the dream of many anons to have experienced that.
No.832402
>>832342
How did that bar bend like that? You can crush metal, but you can't stretch metal like that, while keeping it's width. The only way I can see that working if it's also detached below the picture where we can't see and was pulled up, but then it wouldn't be perfectly perpendicular to the floor like that, unsecured.
No.832407
>>832327
<Watermarks
<Internet cuts out, don't have a local copy
<Have to mess with uMatrix to get it to load properly
<Uses the shit subs
<Doesn't use BD source, or uses the BD source when the DVD source is better
<Having to look at gay ass sites.
Now, did I miss anything?
No.832408
>>832255
More or less my experience.
Anime clubs aren't intrinsically bad, it's just that most people willing to go out on a friday night to watch anime end up being low power level.
Reminds me that once a bunch of casuals got filtered by Hokuto no Ken of all things.
No.832409
Nip shit is not something I would want to found IRL relationships upon unless it was more for language learning, and even then it would probably still feel too autistic for me.
No.832431
>>832342
I used to keep a composition notebook library of all the shows I watched, with dates, reviews of episodes, commentary on the OST and an overall rating, but I was still living with my parents at the time and my mother threw away all of it in a spring cleaning episode. Since then I have used MAL to keep a very half hearted list of shows and scores. I hardly ever update it though, and it's never been updated with all the shows I watched before I started using it. Plus the site just sucks so I avoid it these days.
No.832436
>>832327
>Did I miss anything?
Yes, being bullied on /a/.
No.832438
>>832431
MAL just got fucked, so you better back up your list in case.
No.832454
There's a decently-sized group of /a/nons in my area that have formed a little gang of sorts. They are some of the few people I can stand due to our shared disdain for normalfags, general support of right-wing politics and other common interests. Compared to the general "anime society" I feel blessed as most anime fans are legitimate retards.
My advice to all of you is to disregard the common advice and make friends with *chan types irl. One way might be to create official or unofficial gatherings at events like conventions and either dog whistle or be an outright unsubtle faggot. You will attract some filth but overall we are an interesting bunch so it is worth the struggle.
No.832456
>>832454
All I can think of is those terribly reddit meetups where you just get the worst people and that one guy that is just there to laugh at everyone else.
No.832458
>>832456
You need to be very selective and exclusionary. The people who support you are the exact same people that keep places like this tolerable, no one is afraid to call a faggot a faggot.
No.832460
>>832438
Do you mean because of the privacy updates or something else?
No.832488
>>832402
If the bar is a hollow cylinder, the bending depicted is more believable to me than if it was a solid one. However, a hollow cylinder should deform much more in terms of its cross-section becoming elliptical, and that's not depicted in the image.
No.832503
>>832407
<Sometimes uses two or more shit subs for the same series
<Unless it's a currently airing series, good luck waiting for the site to fix any broken embeds
<Values the amount of ads the players can use rather than the actual quality of it
<"English sub" is actually English dub
<English dub has (non-english) hardsubs
<Naruto is an aesthetic, aparrently
Did *I* miss anything?
No.832510
>>832503
Sexual lobster looking good.
No.832533
One thing that always annoyed me at anime clubs were the faggots who wouldn't stop talking throughout the goddamn episode.
Every single fucking time.
There was another club in university where I made a joke involving Mami losing her head and was told not to share spoilers. For fucks sake. Everyone knows about that already. There's fucking merchandise of her losing her head.
Eventually, I just had anime nights by myself. Anime clubs suck unless you somehow end up like >>832255
No.832536
>>832533
>One thing that always annoyed me at anime clubs were the faggots who wouldn't stop talking throughout the goddamn episode.
Are you referring to them talking about random shit during the anime, or worse talking on the phone, or actually saying their prediction about what they think will happen, or making fun of a plothole/bad acting/QUALITY animation, or maybe they know something about the show, and can give a short, but insightful commentary about a certain moment in the anime?
Whenever I watch a movie/show/anime with a friend or friends, we like to talk during the viewing, especially if it's a 2 hour long movie, and make some jokes, or trying to predict what will happen.
No.832537
>>832255
That sounds like real life /a/; Sign me up!
>>832454
I actually met my best friend like that. We were both /b/tards in 2006 and we clicked instantly. That guy and I used to tear it the fuck up even though on the outside you'd think we were completely different people. We were even roommates at one point and it was fucking awesome. The crazy part is that I don't think we ever actually broke rules 1&2 during all those years.
We don't talk so much anymore because we moved far away.
Regardless, I never did manage to make friends who I could be myself with as much as with that guy and I can tell you why: Most people never grew up on chans, and never skipped the indoctrination stage of their lives. They never developed the dark humor, or the patrician tastes, or anything worthwhile and interesting. They only know how to open their mouths and swallow whatever shit is being poured on that occasion. Most people are fucking normalfaggots, and THEY SUCK.
What I'm trying to say is that having an anon as tomodachi is truly a blessing.
No.832538
>>832335
Impressive you kept the list but you should disown the friend that gave GTO a 1.
>>832301
Allowing for autism every club regardless of what it's about needs to either latch the claws on to newblood. Engage new folk and if possible send the cuties of their choosing at em. T.ex club pres.
No.832539
>>832537
>What I'm trying to say is that having an anon as tomodachi is truly a blessing.
Every single person I've met IRL who I know lurked imageboards were faggots.
>>832538
>Allowing for autism every club regardless of what it's about needs to either latch the claws on to newblood.
Holy shit, this sentence.
No.832546
>>832539
Well, for many years now the number of newfaggots, normalfaggots and underageb& who lurk "imageboards" (see: cuckchan) has soared to sky-high limits.
I don't count those types of filth as anons, and neither should you.
Not to say that oldfags can't be faggots, too. They just have a higher chance of being some cool, weird fuck that you share a lot of common ground with.
No.832549
>>832546
>the number of newfags, normalfags and underageb&'s who lurk on cuckchan has soared to sky high limits
you forgot to add redditors to that list. Go to /r/4chan and you'll actually find screenshots of people that deliberately try to falsify a "le ebin post xD" just to get internet points. The only time I browsed that I was legitimately disgusted and needed to bleach my fucking eyes.
>not to say oldfags cant be faggots too
Its surprising how many oldfags actually look back at the influence cuckchan had on them as a bad thing. There are people that genuinely believe being able to be completely honest is a net negative on the world and their own self. It's truly abhorrent to think about
No.832550
Everyone who has admitted to joining an anime club should be banned from /a/ for eternity. Fucking normalfags.
No.832560
>Anime Society
So Googling I see there are actually things called this, what a pretentious name for an "anime club", OP you should have known better than to join one from the name alone.
No.832563
>Look up "anime societies" in my area
>First one that pops up has pic related as their banner and a Naruto picture as their profile picture
>Admin/"Society President" is a nigger with a niglet
>They openly post a lot of LARPing events, D&D 3.5 meetups, and lewd photos on their public page though
I'm mentally torn here, /a/.
No.832564
>>832550
I feel as though posting on /a/ religiously, at the very least weekly, for the past number of years could possibly be viewed as "being part of an anime club."
That makes you a member too, anon-kun.
No.832566
>>832564
If we're all part of the anime club does that mean we're all friends?
No.832569
>>832564
Yeah but our anime club is better than any other anime club.
No.832570
>>832243
We aren't good enough for you OP?
No.832589
>>832539
>Holy shit, this sentence.
I think it's something like:
>Allowing for autism, every club---regardless of what it's about---needs to either latch the claws on to newblood, [missing second part of the either/or construction].
No.832633
>>832327
>>832319
Not to mention torrenting is easy as fuck and if the streaming site is a legit one like crunchyroll or netflix you're helping the jews put their claws on anime.
No.833920
>>832503
>>832327
I switched to torrent a couple years ago because it's easier, I get to choose the subs, and no watermark, but before that I used kissanime and never had ad issues. I thought everyone used uBlock Origin. Do you guys allow ads to show on your computer?
No.833933
>>832327
>>832407
>>832503
Basically wraps it up. You forgot...
<Skipping to a certain section makes you watch ALL the ads up until then
<If you can even use the broken playback feature of the editors
<Shitty website can't properly process your stream
<Tech support tells you (as a paying customer) that it's on your end, even when half the US is experiencing the same problem at the same time
<"Our services were down for three weeks for your area for maintenance but we're still going to charge you for a full month tee hee, sorry! :^)"
<"We realize customers were upset about our decision two weeks ago, we've already charged your account, here's 10 cents towards purchasing something with an unrelated service of ours/we'll give you pre-ordering capabilities for a product that we're charging $20 more than anyone else is!"
<Audio quality is variable/some episodes require full volume to barely hear
<Audio track comes undone from video track and you have to reverse the video about 30 seconds every 6 minutes to re-sync
<When audio quality is good, video buffers for 10 minutes at the lowest settings unless you refresh the page/rewatch the ads
I fell for the stream meme at one point because I was worried about piracy laws (streaming isn't counted as downloading) and then my young brain tried to process it as "helping the producers" when I moved to CR and had adblocking of course. Fuck that shit. After realizing the wait for most torrents on airing shows/recently airing shows is only a couple hours at most/you very rarely if ever get audio-video fuckery/buffering is non-existent, I can't believe I ever used streams for as long as I did. Truly magnet links are the only way.
No.833941
>>832589
The missing second part being something about the club withering away without an influx of new members to replace old departing ones, no doubt.
No.833942
>>832327
>>832407
>>832503
>>833933
Holy shit I am glad I never watched anime via streaming sites aside from YouTube and Veoh. Why do people even bother with all this shit when torrents exist?
No.833960
Anime society at college is going to be Narutards and DBZ niggers. I don't know what the fuck you expected. All the based dudes at mine were eventually driven away by these people the same way I was.
>>832327
But if you want old or obscure shit torrenting takes 10000 years and then it just sits on my hard drive after I'm done with it. I also don't see the point in watching 4K HD on my 14 inch laptop screen its not like I'm going to appreciate the breathtaking detail of moeshit. All the other issues you're talking about are easily solved with Noscript suite and Ublock do you not know how to use ABE and all the other tools bundled with it? You can write your own filters. I defanged kiss a long time ago.
That being said I barely even use those sites anymore. I have Kodi set up on my Firestick, and just watch whatever I want from my couch. It's really comfy. Also all you niggers act like you have to choose one method when its just as easy to do both.
No.833962
>>833960
>But if you want old or obscure shit torrenting takes 10000 years
Ever heard of XDCC?
No.833971
>check out anime club on club day on the off chance that it's quietly a right wing anime squad
>guy at table is extremely jewish
No.834075
>>833960
>I also don't see the point in watching 4K HD on my 14 inch laptop screen its not like I'm going to appreciate the breathtaking detail of moeshit
But I am going to.
No.834210
>>833942
>Why do people even bother with all this shit when torrents exist?
Limited space, Testing out a show to see if its worth watching, wanting to watch a guilty pleasure show but not save it
Or at least those are my reasons, granted other than questionable video & audio quality, dead or out of order links, I haven't ran into anything those anons are complaining about. A good add & script blocker does wonders.
No.834284
>>832301
>I hate fanservicey crap
One of my friends recently started going down this route, what's the cure?
No.834296
>>833960
>4K HD on my 14 inch laptop screen
>not having a 40 inch 4K monitor
its like you hate yourself and hate all anime by not doing it justice and watching in the next standard resolution. Consider yourself in poverty or at best lower middle class.
>480 - poverty
>720 - lower middle class
>1080 - upper middle class
>1440 - nobility
>2160 - royalty
No.834297
>>834284
I remember feeling that myself. I was actually just disgusted and annoyed by common kinds of unnatural fanservice, like weird titty physics or girls fighting with 10% of their body clothed. Maybe he needs to rediscover fanservice like I did.
No.834302
>>834284
>>834297
Fanservice is fine if it doesn't get in the way and is done sparingly. This is the only correct answer.
No.834309
>>834284
People only hate fanservice that doesn't pander to their tastes, so the answer is to find something that does. That's something he'll have to discover himself, though.
No.834310
>>834309
Objectively untrue.
No.834337
>>834297
Do you think they ran a simulation just to get the flap of her skirt right? Did they do one for airflow around her chest?
No.834346
>>834337
Japan has 3 of the top 10 supercomputers, and I'm sure some of that is dedicated to cute girl physical simulations.
No.834364
>>834310
You'll have to elaborate on that.
No.834395
>>833960
It does piss me off when people get angry at a show being blurry. It was made in the 1980's and ripped from VHS, unless you want to track down the possible laserdisc release or the original 16mm it isn't going to get better than this.
No.834397
>>832538
That was early in our run and he was the least into anime of or group. At this point in the run we'd all give GTO at least a 6.
No.834414
>>834210
>Limited space
Maybe if you're downloading 1080p upscaled videos or are 14 and don't have a job. If you're only downloading BDs and 720p during airing shows, you can store a shit ton of data for the price of not eating a hamburger once a week for a month or two. I have an (128GB) SD card with a few dozen shows on it in my tablet I use when out and about (~$60), and just cycle the shows I liked/want to keep onto my 4TB external hard drive I got for like $100. Internet bandwidth costs more than storing data these days unless you're dealing with servers/huge amounts of data.
No.834445
>>834284
>One of my friends recently started going down this route, what's the cure?
As this anon says, >>834309
>People only hate fanservice that doesn't pander to their tastes, so the answer is to find something that does. That's something he'll have to discover himself, though.
That's how it worked for me. He'll need to want to stop being a normalfag.
No.834452
>>834445
>He'll need to want to stop being a normalfag.
Thats only the first step. The second step is becoming honest with yourself and accepting your desires.
No.834462
>>834414
>Everyone's in the same boat I am, or they're underage or jobless
Shit anon why didn't I think of doing that, It's not like I'm already just scraping by living paycheck to paycheck and can barely afford to eat twice a day.
No.834476
>>834462
I can assure you that whatever financial situation you're in, my own is likely either very similar or possibly worse since I support and feed three adult children other people financially/pay about half the rent and cover food costs all on wages comparable to a Wal-Mart supervisor. I'm one week away from living out of my car/showering at the gym if I fuck up and lose my job/miss more than a day of work every month. I feel your pain, anon, but no fucking excuses for that which you love. Do you "like to watch" anime, or do you love it?
No.837314
>>832570
OP here. You're all the best community on the internet right now. 4chan's /a/ became shit years ago. The rest of 8chan became shit two years years ago. My only issues here have been down to my own ADHD and impatience, and general bad personality, and I'm glad I got banned when I deserved it.
I couldn't express how much you mean to me without sounding like a faggot.
No.837318
>>837314
It's ok, we already know OP is a faggot.
No.837349
Any club, no matter the interest, is always going to be populated by a bunch of normalfag jackasses with a surface-level knowledge of the material. This is because only normalfags feel the compulsion to group together in IRL crowds and share their interest with as many people as possible. It happens in every hobby. Video game clubs only play whatever the most popular game is at the moment. Car clubs are all retards with no real mechanical knowledge who drive pieces of shit covered in plastic chrome from Walmart. Book clubs read topical new release trash with no thought-provoking or vocabulary-building value.
A far better use of your time is just hanging out with one or two friends who are actually near your power level, and not labeling it. If you don't have friends, you won't find any at a club.
No.841818
>Never met another human being that was into anime
I'm not sure you guys are real, maybe I've been having conversations with myself hte entire time
No.841826
>>832255
That club doesn't sound bad actually. The fact that you managed to find one that disapproves of streaming makes it worth checking out.
>>833960
>But if you want old or obscure shit torrenting takes 10000 years
Hey nigger, guarantee you if an old obscure anime isn't torrented, then it sure as fuck isn't being streamed, officially or otherwise.
>I have Kodi set up on my Firestick, and just watch whatever I want from my couch. It's really comfy
>Also all you niggers act like you have to choose one method when its just as easy to do both
>being too stupid lazy to just play all of your torrented anime to your TV via media server software
Laugh at this dumb nigger.
We need a rule banning all streamfags.
No.841931
>>841818
Count yourself lucky. I recently finished two years at a maths sixth form, where the concentration of autists is much higher than in the general population.
It's kind of funny the first time someone uses words they've learnt from anime in normal conversation or wears attack on titan apparel, but it gets old real quick once the shock wears off. It's like being stuck in a virtual reality simulation of reddit.
Pic related, someone's locker.
No.841934
>>841931
This can't be real.
No.841941
I actually help run one. Aside from the former chair acting like a total retard I run it pretty well, actually showing off good stuff since I do everything except for manage the funds.
I mean, helps that we're all adults there and we've not really encountered anyone distasteful.
The real cringe inducing society is the science fiction and Marvel society. That's where all the entry level people go.
No.841944
>>841931
>sloppily put on around the locker without any clear vision or design
>most of the phrases aren't even written in kana or kanji
Disgraceful.
>>841941
Good on you for running a tight ship.
No.841946
>>841931
There isn't even a picture of nico on there. What a faggot.
No.841948
>>841931
Is this what youtube reactors do before dropping out of college?
No.841950
>>841818
Several years back I had a dude in college German class who browsed /m/ on his laptop in front of me. He was actually a pretty chill dude and we partnered up a lot, but I never confessed to being an /a/non. Maybe he's here?
No.841958
>>841946
There is. Doesn't make it any better though.
No.841960
>>841958
Well I'll be damned, maybe I should expand images then.
No.842070
>>841931
Jesus, I didn't want to believe people like this actually existed.
No.842345
>>841931
People like these make my blood boil because of how they do not care about any of the Japanese aspects that go into anime and they only care about anime at all because of "ebin maymays" or as a way to socialize with no passion for what they watch.
No.842672
>>832454
The only anon I've ever met in real life was a fat neckbeard who smelled like cheese. He loved /b/ and had spread it to the under 18s at the same game shop. He is not the sort of person I would want to be friends with.
>>832536
Shit talking a movie is why you watch it with friends. If you're just going to sit there in silence the entire time you may as well watch it alone.
>>832549
There is good and bad in those times. I don't doubt the "are traps gay" shit lead a lot of anons to be pro-tranny. I think I could live without seeing a glass jar explode in someone's ass myself. The original oldfags were decent people but I doubt any of us are pure and innocent considering the shit we've seen.
>>834284
I hate fan service because I don't like middle grounds. If I want anime titties I will watch a titties anime. if I want anything else I will watch something else. If you're wasting my action adventure time on titties then I'm not happy about it. There are exceptions when it's genre suitable like a horror movie has a shower scene or a topless swimming scene. Those are part of the genre's character and they need to be there.
No.842674
I tried my university anime club back when I was still a student and they seemed relatively good. They watched subbed anime together, they played video games (USFIV in particular is what I recall when I visited) and they made plans to watch Rebellion (Madoka) in theaters together as well as dinner plans and things like that. It was alright but I never saw any of the people outside of the club and hanging out infrequently wasn't as appealing as it could have been.
I did meet another group when going to watch Rebellion though, it was clear that they browsed imageboards and I made friends with them instead. Best mistake of my life.
No.843075
>>841826
>Hey nigger, guarantee you if an old obscure anime isn't torrented, then it sure as fuck isn't being streamed, officially or otherwise.
But it is.
>being too stupid lazy to just play all of your torrented anime to your TV via media server software
What the fuck do you think Kodi is you illiterate nigger?
Keep on begging the mods to justify your shit opinions. I'm sure /a/ really appreciates all the extra hoops you jump through just to watch anime.
No.843076
I got kicked out of my university anime club because I made the request that members of the club come to it having had a shower/bath, wear clean clothes and use antiperspirant. It didn't go over well.
No.843095
I wish I had friends to share my interests with in real life.