Please not another gay ERP /soc/ thread

>>50671197
Sorry. I hope you're not mad at me.

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Everything hurts.

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Anyone wanna be friends with me??? If so please reply with your dc

Everyone's just bored and lonely, huh... Well, it can't be helped.

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I was fired on November a few weeks before my birthday, havent worked since them except for a few times in anime conventions, I'm enjoying my time playing gacha and watching anime

>>50673002
Why did they fire you?

>>50673077
He was too hot.
It's a shame how cold some companies are...

>>50673077
I was a Jr at an IT support company, here the test period is 6 months, after that it's harder to fire someone, these jews fired me a few days before I reached the sixth month.
They hired too many people and none of the positions were fixed, we'd be alternating between positions with different clients, basically HR fucked it up as always

>>50673358
Pretty bullshit, seems like it was rigged from the start.

I hope you NEET take daily showers. Nobody likes a NEET, especially a stinky NEET.

Ah yes the NEET thread, where we talk about... jobs?

>>50673392
I don't..
But I also don't do much, so it's not like I'm getting so sweaty & stuff.

>>50673002
gachas are for norms who have to balance their time playing and working. if you're unemployed you should be playing better games

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>>50673449
I believe we shouldn't give gacha the courtesy of being called games.
Call them, uh, idling software.

..I like a couple but don't play any nowadays.

>>50673486
I mean VNs can't really be called games either, but here we are.

>>50673486
>>50673505
GFL was enough of a game that they're making a standalone version of it for when the servers go offline, I'd say it gets a pass

>>50673486
Gacha are the only big games that are still holding the torch of making games and characters for otaku gamers, all the "games" that you glorify are censored shit filled with browns.

>>50673726
Really? I saw that it got on Steam but didn't know that offline was confirmed, sweet.
>>50673737
Uh-huh..

>>50673726
GFL2's awful dailies and gunsmoke system made me burn out and soured me on the entire concept of dailies and gachas. I wish they'd just make the game offline in the first place, but many otaku game studios feel obligated to release live-service games these days.
The game also only feels like a well-balanced XCOM style game early in the campaign. Once you progress, strategy becomes less important, probably due to the upgrade grinding mechanics and paytowin found in all gachas. If they rebalance the offline version and fulfill the original vision of XCOM with cute anime girls, that would seriously be amazing. But who knows how long it'll take for the gacha to dry up and get shut down.

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>>50673785
We were talking about the first one. It's not like it's a decade old or something..
I didn't like GFL2 either, though. A shame that gacha games have mostly shifted from 2D to 3D, because instead of 500 different cute JPGs to collect you now have a couple dozen 3D models. High quality as they might be, it makes things a little boring.
Especially for a GFL successsor, imagine if Kancolle 2 came out of all a sudden but you only had 10 botes to collect.
I also think the artstyle strayed far too much from the original and just isn't interesting anymore, but that's another thing.

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>>50672540
you're taking things too fast, nobody would wanna be friends that quickly aside from weirdos. Tell me something about yourself or something you did today.

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>>50676307
Yes I do!
>>79508404

>>50672540
>discord
You do have your driver's license ready for the ID verification next month, right /jp/?

>>50677932
>You do have your driver's license
NOPE!
Who the fuck drives or even leaves their home? Next you'll have a part time job and still claim to be NEET.

>>50670875
i want so much to go back to being a NEET but i can't stand to see my mother as disappointed and sad as she was

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How many of you have a side hustle to keep yourselves buying otaku idols without being homeless in addition to being unemployed and not in school?

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i have pretty much no social outlet besides imageboards and every place i like to be in has been so dead and boring lately

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>>50679745
That described me until I found my current friend group by playing Counter-Strike and TF2 with a guy I ment off the Cave Story forums.
Don't talk to him or most of the other people anymore but the two that have remained have been my two best friends for a long time now.
If directly adding people on Discord isn't your thing (and understandably so), there's still venues to find them. Though I also understand if that isn't your interest anyway and your ideal way of being social is dead.

>>50679745
I had a lot of real life friends and we’d hang out and do whatever but I’m a zoomerneet and my parents moved so I had to follow along to keep mooching.
I only talk to one of them anymore, and that’s when we get on Marvel Rivals or HOI4 or something every other week.

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>>50679850
i like talking to people directly but i just can't stay interested in most people past a week of knowing them, i suddenly get bored of talking and that makes them sour with me. it's been pretty much the same thing each time so i figure it's how it is
much like your example i think pretty much the only way of building any friendship is just playing games together but my interests have waned from multiplayer to singleplayer so that's not there for me

I know I could probably talk to anybody in this thread about Touhou and stuff, but is there anyone here that could be my /vr/ stuff friend too?

>>50680094
what /vr/ vidya are you a fan of?

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>>50679918
>i just can't stay interested in most people past a week of knowing them, i suddenly get bored of talking and that makes them sour with me.
this so fucking much. I used to have a friend I was really comfortable talking with any time of the day, however there were a lot of underlying issues and it ended a few months ago.

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>>50670875
I have an intense desire to begin friendships but due to my NEEThood it's been difficult to approach. My concern is my fear of driving people away and feeling like a bother when I initiate a conversation. As someone who's always willing to respond I know that seems like I'm imposing something that isn't there but the fear that I might come off strong is always there. When I'm able to get past that though I become a chatterbox which makes me feel good in the moment but looking back sometimes I feel like I talk too much while subconsciously trying to trick others into continuing the conversation by asking questions. Is the answer to losing this fear to trust that the other person doesn't mind and have more confidence in myself? I feel like a fraud when people praise me because I don't believe in myself or my actions.

>>50683787
I feel the same way, not sure what the solution is but I force myself to talk to people saying the worst that can happen is that they stop talking to me.

>>50677979
NEETs aren't necessarily hikikomori. It just means you don't work or study. Go on a nightwalk some time, your fat ass will thank you.

>>50683787
My take on this is that people are looking to have fun, and having fun through conversation is actually pretty difficult unless you're good friends already. So what people do instead is find activities that are fun to do together and over time you'll learn enough about the other person to have longer conversations. You want to wait for people to let their guard down, essentially.

>>50682781
Shmups, fightan, and JRPGs are among my favorites, unsurprisingly for someone on /jp/. But I tend to make big lists so I can play as much stuff as possible. Currently playing Intellivision games, but will be onto a Data East list eventually for example.

I wasted my early 20s being a NEET/hikkikomori, and now I'm approaching 30 and I have no friends and haven't done anything good with my life. Now what?
The only thing that comforts me is that there are more manga about people in their 30s who wasted their lives and are starting over, so it makes me think that there's an audience going through that too so it makes me feel less alone in this

>>50670875
Wish I had me a stinky NEET girlfriend to be NEETs together with.

>>50689703
but stinky neet girls don't want a gross stinky neet bf like you?

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>>50683856
That's the thing though. I have immense insecurity when it comes to making friends that the idea of someone leaving me on read scares me. It might just be projecting because I've been on the other side of the spectrum where people only wanted to talk to me for extremely shallow reasons. I don't want to come off like those people. The last thing I would ever want is to make someone uncomfortable. It really hurts when I do I've felt it. I love meeting new people, I treasure every friendship I've gathered and want more. I want be less afraid of starting conversations it but I'm scared they'll think I'm pushy or anything of the sort. Is being brave about it the answer then? I sound like a pussy.

>>50685781
>The only thing that comforts me is that there are more manga about people in their 30s who wasted their lives and are starting over, so it makes me think that there's an audience going through that too so it makes me feel less alone in this
It feels like this happens through manga, games, and anime, and it makes me afraid that it was was just a fad and the only audience for them is growing older at the same rate and will ultimately be forgotten in a few more decades. A bunch of people whose whole lives were wasted on something their parents liked, influenced them with, and didn't catch on with anyone else. If there's any in the future it'll just be interactive movies and anime sitcoms for the masses.

On the other hand, what "comforts" me is that people who strove their whole lives and accomplished more (although I have accomplished things myself) end up in the same situation of forced NEETdom due to circumstances beyond their control (their jobs being given away) so that we are the same in the current day but I spent my time doing things I liked instead of being a constantly tired, overworked slave just to have nothing in the end anyway.

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>>50693530

I wish that were the case for me. My three years as a NEET really just left me with a bunch of illnesses. Many people in lockdown became talented by pursuing a hobby, such as programming, writing, music, or art. If you ask me, I couldn't even mention a movie I saw or something I did. It's as if I simply had three blank years
The worst part is that if I have hobbies that I can't pursue now because I'm a wage slave, where was that enthusiasm when I was a NEET/hikki?

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働けNEET

I'm a semi-NEET, am i welcome here? I'm on disabilitybux

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/jp/ IS SO DEAD AAAAAAAAAAA

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UWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>50697680
honestly with the exception of maybe really popular boards like /a/ the whole site is

>>50697703
Yeah. Jaypee is at an absolute crawl for anything that isn't 3DPD/porn game/gacha/vtumor nonsense, though. I can refresh for an hour without anything to reply to. Uwaa..

>>50697703
so where did /jp/ users go? Is there anything remotely similar to what this board used to be but alive?

>>50697711
>so where did /jp/ users go
Discord or Twitter.
>Is there anything remotely similar to what this board used to be but alive?
No. Just altchans that are at similar slow speed and don't even fully consist of /jp/ content.

I used to be. Then realised that any kind of pain I could experience by trying to be normal was far less than I was currently feeling as a NEET. That's what pushed me to sort myself out.

>>50697713
What are some /jp/ discord servers?

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>>50699702
I don't think you'll find anything public that isn't a garbage dump. People are just in private circles and all.

>>50699718
Sucks i'm not there. Anyway, have a nice day anon.

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I've been a hikikomori for 14 years now, 9 of which I spent as a NEET and had a very rough time, financially speaking. Not a NEET anymore, but it's hard to do away with my hikky ways after being a recluse for so long.

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Erm would anyone like to try and be friends? I'm not a NEET and I do enjoy traveling to conventions and such, but it feels like it's so hard to find others into old anime or shmups/arcade games these days. I can blend in with the gacha crowd well enough but the otaku types are slowly dying off and its tough to come to terms with

>>50699857
It is sad. What we'd do back in the day was create a server on some app and invite like-minded people to it. I wouldn't recommend using Discord anymore though. If you guys create a server on Matrix/Element (what /g/ recommends to use these days) I'll gladly join.

>>50699841-Ojisan

>>50699841
I'm genuinely jealous of you. I'm on disabilitybux but i go outside everyday for work reasons. I wish i could stay all day home and watch anime and play vidya. I love being indoors.

>>50671289
I am, stop LARPING

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I'm basically not allowed to have a job because I would be "betraying" my mother to try to leave my abusive father, she doesn't want to leave even though she knows she needs to. I'm trying to leave ASAP. I need a job I can do at home or something.

>>50685781
>there are more manga about people in their 30s who wasted their lives and are starting over
Any recs?

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>>50699878
My job is kind of stressful. It's comfy, but also mentally taxing, and at this point I can feel a pretty serious burnout set in and slowly consume me from within. The only reason I haven't quit yet is because I keep reminding myself that the alternative is going outside and breaking my back digging dirt 12 hours a day or stacking shelves or doing other menial labor like that. Back in the day I was so poor, I couldn't even afford a bed, I'd just sleep on a mattress on the ground. Remembering that kind of stuff motivates me to keep working. That and looking forward to a nice good long vacation helps keep me going.

I think as a NEET/hikki, you have a unique opportunity and plenty of free time to develop a marketable, in-demand skill set that you can leverage to get a remote job. No one cares whether you have a higher education or not if you work as a freelancer, out there in the "real" world people care only about results, and I think anyone can teach themselves and get good at one specific thing if they commit to it. I realize that this is very vague, but I think what you want to do for a living is specific to each person. It didn't click for me until I sat down and started trying to think of things that I'm good at/things I'm interested in, and how I could use them to earn a dignified living.

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I need to die.

>>50701115
if you die can i have your figure and plush collection?

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I like being a neet.

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>>50701138
I'm no buyfag. But I can't even make fun of them since I've wasted money on some horrible stuff myself..

>>50700180
anon, i am in a similar situation to where I am trapped at home (I am able to have a job miraculously, but can't ride with other people or do anything because of my mother, even as an adult)
my advice is to possibly do commissions if your an artist or find mutual aid. Im sorry u have to live in shit

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>>50699857
I'm looking for a friend too. 26 year old American up in New England so take that as you will. It's been a decade of searching and no one permanent. I'm not a NEET either so apologies for (Touhou) hijacking this thread

>>50701202
I'm sorry you're going through similar.

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>>50699841
You have me beat, 13 years hikikomori, out of which 7 were pure neeting.
Tho couple years ago, few things converged:
>realized, no matter how skilled I may be, I am utterly unemployable and completely estranged from society
>economy rugpull, we've become the least employed nation in EU, if my employability was bad already, this is the nail in the coffin
>can't accept freelance work or I'll lose my neetbux
>a hikikomori fujoshi fell for me, while this relationship ultimately didn't work out, perhaps I shouldn't throw away this life
>the unemployment agency offered me to study 2 years on neetbux
>receding hairline
So now I am attending university in my mid 20s. Second year, tho now we have classes 3 days a week and attendance isn't mandatory. So practically I'm neeting again. I can't escape this lifestyle huh.
The first year tho was a ton of fun. Our class was somehow completely packed with fascinating personalities. They were reshuffled for majors though, and this new class isn't anywhere near as entertaining.

I don't really want friends. I need to find another fujoshi to marry.

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>>50701256
Relatively close by, maybe we could hang out at some point if we get along. For now we can chat on discord if you're still interested. slindbergh is my tag

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>>50702820
I hate reading about people improving. AAAAAAAAfsdgfdsgsdgdsfhrasfpdsaf;lsagas;lgsal;.
Good for you though.

>>50702820
I was always kind of reclusive. Starting from around 6th grade I would spend all Summer indoors playing games or just rotting in my bed. Back in school life was hellish and I had to deal with shitbag classmates. I wouldn't call it bullying, as I'd always punch back, but I got beaten up quite often. No real friends besides another outsider weirdo loser like me that I met in the first grade and maintained a good relationship with until we ultimately went our separate ways in our late teens. At 16 I somehow managed to turn my life around and got an emo scene gf and a circle of normie friends. That didn't last very long. She was a shit human being who would abuse and beat me from time to time. Eventually she cheated on me and my circle of friends also disintegrated shortly after. I was left completely alone, demoralized and heart broken, filled with bitterness and rejection. Being around people became unbearable, so I shut myself in my room and would spend all of my days playing games and watching movies. That same year I also stumbled upon imageboards and met lots of like-minded people. This of course only contributed to my social withdrawal and helped shape me into a full blown hikky. Girls online used to show interest in me when I was younger, but at that point I was already too blackpilled to pursue relationships, and it was impossibly hard for me to leave my comfort zone. There was one girl that I liked in a sister sort of way and knew from before I became a shut in. I confessed about my hikikomori life to her and she ended up stalking me for a while. It didn't go anywhere though, as I was going through some very rough times and my mental state was seriously deteriorating. Last time we spoke (almost a decade ago), I promised to take her out and then never did. It's been very hard for me to maintain even basic interpersonal relationships. Lots of other interesting stuff and encounters happened over these years, but that's probably a tale for another time.

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>>50703291
Alright, I sent it. My name begins with i and ends in d

>>50703900
Unless I'm stupid I don't see your request. I was pretty busy tonight so I might have missed you unfortunately but if you decide to send it again I'd love to talk still

>>50704096
Resent

I-I wish I had friends and I promise I won't get obsessed with you or anything...

>>50715275
I wish I had time for friends. I barely find enough time to watch anime or game these days.

Also, it looks like some janny supersaged the thread. Or maybe threads are auto-saged after a few days without replies. Not sure how it works on here.

>>50715289
New here? Threads sage after 14 days in a failed attempt to combat the hololive thread's autistic spammer.

>>50715397
>failed attempt to combat the hololive thread's autistic spammer.
That's how they want it to look. It's very deliberate.

>>50715282
I'm certainly not going to be jealous or anything...

>>50715585
Why do you want this?

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>>50715975
because I love suffering and this is my life's description

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>>50716197
I'm in love with another boy already. I will never cheat on him, and it feels cruel to torture someone else with that. I wouldn't mind a friend. The idea of a friend who wants to be more than a friend makes me sad though.

>>50716324
I can try being your friend and then pathetically distance myself once I get rejected!...

>>50716853
But what if that makes me feel really bad?

>>50716935
Good.

>>50717009
Anon is so manipulative and evil.

>>50717013
Oh I'm sorry I read it as if it would make ME feel really bad.
Then again, I can be an evil and manipulative twink...

>>50717030
I don't really like making other people feel bad. It's why I still try to keep in touch with my ex despite being in a relationship. It's all purely platonic stuff, too. No cheating. He is a very broken person, and I just can't stop caring for someone like that.

>>50717046
Then it's okay... do you want to be friends?...

>>50717054
Okay. Do you have an email? Sorry, I'm not on discord anymore.

>>50717059
yoyoyoyoyoumu@proton.me

>>50717139
Sent.

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I will no longer be a NEET this monday, I'll be in training for 3 months. I was a NEET since 2019 and I did nothing, no learned a new skill or create something; I was on imageboard and youtube all the day long, 24/24, 7day/7day and now I kind of regret but anyway I'll not be NEET anymore

>>50717164
Ain't worth it, if you work you lose

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>>50717164
I've been a NEET since 2015.
Been working on and off for the government and privates with decent pays some months of some years since then.
Not really worth it.
Find a way to make money without going outside and without having to waste time for projects made by others.

Ideally make a videogame or make art or animations on a subscription model so you don't feel like capping yourself every day.
The ideal would be to make enough money to start a family and being able to take care of them, while also being able to figure out how to make sure your bloodline survives future doomsday scenarios (SurvivalCondo,CoG, etc.)