Could you please provide Japanese immersion material in this thread?

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>>5
It's not down for now but you can't access anything. Everything is archived on archive.org including downloads though.
I'm confused it's kind of limited. Most of the releases are there are old webrips, don't list their sources or are very generic, I also can't find most of the releases you're supposed to apply them to on nyaa anyway.

>>15
It's confusing seems like the index page is broken but the pages themselves work it's mirrored on subtitles.ajatt.top. Some releases are just AI-generated which you could do yourself probably though not sure how well I'd do with free models.

>>15
those posts are a tad ancient but these days sometimes kitsunekko works for me and sometimes it doesn't. I use jimaku for recent stuff though.
what anime are you having trouble finding on nyaa? it's rare to run into that issue

youtube.com @artromanck

I have been listening to Nihongo con Teppei in the car lately.
He talks in a very natural, casual way (since he is a native Japanese guy) and occasionally goes off on tangents that can be a little hard to follow as a beginner, but he keeps things pretty easy. I can mostly understand most episodes, with some being easier than others.
He also has a more advanced level podcast (at least, he has mentioned it, I can't find it right now).
The earlier episodes are easier than the later ones (that also means they're a lot more boring in my case) and might be more useful to someone starting out. Sometimes he explains terms he uses, sometimes you just need to figure it out or look it up.
I definitely recommend this podcast.

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If what we make is an accumulation of what came before, as well as curating our tastes to create eventually our own opus, then what is the secret if any to creativity ?
I believe the actual talent to creativity is enough time to create layers to our creations to the point that it's lore carries itself along for a fanbase to dig into enough to enjoy for long enough to distract themselves for a little while.
And those who repeatedly enjoy the creative works, will speak highly of the work, so then it creates a mystique around the work itself, when really its just like any other creation that started off with simple ideas made complex.
I'm very likely wrong. Because I aint that good at creativity. They say, genius is the ability to take from 30 sources and create a new form of creation from all those little pieces. Others say great artists steal, while good artists borrow. I'm in the borrow phase, as well as only taking inspiration from one or two sources.
So I aint no genius. But maybe you are ? What do you think ? Is creativity an illusion of obscure references to create something new to a different audience from the origianl media ?

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creativity to me has always been the ability to synthesize multiple sources into something capable of standing on it's own. i think people are kind of incapable of literally 'making something up', as all things in this reality come from somewhere. it's the way you mix, alter, and iterate on these things that breed creativity.

>>7
this essentially and creativity comes from being able to view these pre-existing things in a new light i think atleast part of it

>>7
I think about this a lot. I'm not willing to say there's nothing new under the sun, nothing thrown together from whole cloth, but so much of creativity stems from combining what you've seen that I would be hard pressed to actually defend that view under pressure.

>>6
The two main operations in a creative act are a) discrimination and b) taking a perspective. By discrimination I mean choosing between possibilities and discarding some in favour of others, consciously or not. By taking a perspective I mean intentionality; either assenting to the perspective you already have or changing the angle. Error occurs when you either seize on a possibility and discover later by taking a different perspective that it was the wrong one, or you miss the window for possible right action in considering the perspective(s). The application of these in human action is quite obvious but as an example of the latter in works of art think of a movie (or a novel) that goes on for too long and could’ve used editing and cutting down. The author applied intentionality to the wrong place from the wrong place and ignored the possibility of stopping, cutting, moving on. An example of the former would be simply a boring work, a compound result of seizing on many wrong possibilities. But a failure is still a creative act even if not a very compelling one for an audience and potentially disastrous for the one who took it.

A self-image should be truthful and that requires knowledge, even if it is simply the knowledge that you don’t know. Self-knowledge requires you to look at what’s inside you and distinguish between the mutable and immutable characteristics, what is there by nature and what by nurture, what can you change and what you can not, and then consider these in relation to the situation you’re faced with and the situation in relation to the entirety of your life, and your life in relation to other lives and so on. You have to take innumerable perspectives into consideration, in the situation and looking towards future to your ideal self, and choose your actions carefully if you want to realize that self. Often we’re confronted with strange new situations that require choosing possibilities that we were not even aware existed. Does it not take creativity to conceive of and then seize them? Or to withold from seizing the possibilities that are present to you in the current moment in the absence of a perspective that you can assent to in good conscience? Inquiry into certain subjects allow for more creativity because you can only grasp them at such and such a level of clarity and precision before you have to accept some ambiguity in the results and move on. There’s a creativity that goes into the taxonomy of plants but something with more ambiguity like ethical theorizing and moral action allows, and demands, more creativity and greater genius.

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This is a narrow and too contemporary view ("lore", "fanbase", "engagement") of artistic creativity. Creativity amounts to unveiling what is hidden: new possibilities, new genres, new techniques, new perspectives of the same, new assemblages of inspirations and references, and so on. Intentionality, talent and skill can help, but ultimately, it's a matter of luck and of what has been achieved before.

For a year now I've paying a lot more attention on how stories are told, be it through words or visuals. As a consequence, I am now susceptible to what could be termed cheap writing tricks. Such as, using exposition rather than actually taking the effort of narratively conveying a story, which rather diminishes the enjoyment. Being given only the crux of the plot without actually experiencing it, is on par with reading a Wikipedia summary page of a movie or a anime. Of course, not all exposition is in poor taste, it can be concealed by emotion or certain genre particularities. If a character has a gun aimed at their head, them breaking down and telling a secret feels gratifying. Alternatively, detective stories and heists are expected to have exposition, which lowers the guard for it.

Are others afflicted from the analytical thinking, encroaching on viewing of art?

One time, when I was a young pup, I got stuck on rock music sounding too much like the pentatonic scale, so I started to get annoyed whenever I heard something that sounded similar to another song I liked over it. I'm glad I got out of that phase, because I realised there's only 12 notes in the western scale, only so many chords, so it became more freeing when I decided to make my own music. That's when I realised how hard it is to even create a simple effective melody. As for chord progressions, everyone borrows them all the time, apparently. You also can't copyright a drum beat either, but if you get too samey with your own version, it can veer into plagiraism with other instruments. So yeah, been there OP

1+ hour long yt videos

Endless Haruhi Scale
https://youtu.be/rWIiDX-99DI

11 hr pkmn review :0
https://youtu.be/qVRqw5ir_pA?si=9ox_-64ghfJBCY64

learn to love our lord and savior Lu Sheng
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6lrCSEi6iE

I want this to be an anime.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6mvFYNbdaY

Cum Town is a terrible show, and possibly the greatest art project of the millenium so far. Is it denpa? Do other denpas like it? Why are we fans of such an awful podcast?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTIlvGzoyNA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lB-82YEmUQ

cumtown is annoying and i simply dont like them

I don't think it's even remotely denpa, no. It's absolute garbage, too, and also the funniest thing I've ever listened to. I'd never be able to tolerate listening to those hour-long slogs of episodes myself but those youtube highlights are legitimate comedy gold and it doesn't get any better than those. They're so fucking kino.

>>2
that norm finkelstein episode is funny as fuck too. he drops the n word unprompted like 20 minutes in and i laughed my ass off for a good few minutes because of just how surprising (but not unexpected, i mean it's norman finkelstein we're dealing with) was. Anyone remember when he tried getting some poor immigrant family evicted for being too loud, and he sent like 10 very threatening letters? We chaps have fun.

I have never seen Adam Friedland or the fat one tell a funny joke. Nick Mullen is very funny though.

Nick Mullen is a genius.

>>5
He loves it when immigrant populations get displaced!

Post incelcore media. Can be music, books, anime, manga, VNs, whatever.

I start:

- C Kara Hajimaru ABC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Sc1nisf3sE

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I wish incelcore wasnt such a dead music scene in 2026. I quite miss it.

>>12
kill yourself

>>13
you should be raped for being uncomfy, methinks

incelcore is just poseur shitcore

Didn't n0 start out as an incelcore artist?
Anyways, I like this one.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=dg9AHPmTVg8

Discuss about literature with other denpas.Yes, We finna read dat!

>>51
Just realized I already shilled him in this thread a month ago. Sorry, I legitimately forgot. Please ignore this new post. (°ー°〃)

Did you know that Dennis Cooper has a shota gif as his blog's banner? He also puts a lot of anime gifs into his gif novels!

>>54
I'm serious! 0-0
denniscooperblog(dot)com

>>5
who is this "young autist"?

Kind of curious, you can post songs or artists or topsters or whatever.

Negative XP.

>>71
I saw that he pretended to die and no one cared

>>73

Delete

>>73
that's crazy dawg

big fan of drone and doom metal

Post ASCII art you like.

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Why does he look ugly? Im humiliated kill me

>>2
Denpachan doesn't use the correct font. See the font on somewhere like world2ch.net.

>>1

"ASCII art" thread
posts Shift_JIS art

It never even began.

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theres lots of youtube gold from the old days that sadly doesn't seem to get their time of day. remembered i had that good stuff in my watch later today so heres some choice finds:

animutation with naruto music-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTRl3m1yDQs

mega man x amv set to powerman 5000-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6M2uak9QUQ&pp=ygUXbWVnYSBtYW4gYW12IHVsdHJhIG1lZ2E%3D

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Haruhi dance at akihabara and police stopped it - https://youtu.be/2Ysfrrtc-5k
Bum Life - Charley Ager, Whistler ski bum - https://youtu.be/t9xXrYcWVdM
マリオシーケンサでスケッチスイッチ (hidamari sketch op in some weird mario sequencer) - https://youtu.be/Z-5L2rPyw_w

i like to collect as many of these i see worth downloading and slap them on archive org

is anyone else a collector of favorite videos?

https://archive.org/details/cleaning-december-2024-to-march-2025

for anyone that doesn't know, you can put before:2010 after your search on youtube to find old videos, it works on any year.