How do you deal with the fact that you’ll never really catch up on stuff from a past era?I got into VNs and other weeb shit through jaypee around 15 years ago, and I still keep going back to that period. I want to know what I missed, all the stuff people used to talk about back then.But even if I read the works now, it’s not the same. Even reading archived threads only goes so far.It's not even that you can't participate in the discussion. It's knowing that you weren't part of that shared moment, experiencing it when it was new with everyone else.
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>>50794821are you stuck in the past or something?
>>50794821Time never waits, it delivers all to the same end. I think a lot of new shit sucks broccoli-headed donkey nuts so of course I spent most of my time with things from before 2015 as well but precisely because of that I've gotten over a lot of my hatred of the present. I could not name a single actual thing that was big from 2023 off the top of my head but I spent most of it watching CCS and Mahoro/Gunbuster and listening to old DDR/Beatmania soundtracks. Already I go through archived threads more than I do active ones, especially here, so 2023 wasn't even 2023. It was the best hits of everything before 2016. As was 2022. And 2021. And 2020. And 2019...>It's knowing that you weren't part of that shared moment, experiencing it when it was new with everyone elsesucks sure but we're otaku. We're all lonely virgins with interests no one else gives a fuck about. It's nice to be able to have that in the moment but the true otaking loves what he loves no matter what. >and I still keep going back to that periodAnd the fact of the matter is you probably have a better comprehension of the time now than anons back then did! You may want to go back but, hypothetically, an otaku in the 2000s having spent the past 20 years watching 80s and 90s anime would have seen more of either than anyone in either decade could have. Same goes for now. 2000 - 2012 was twelve years, not anywhere near enough time to be able to experience all the games, anime, movies, albums, visual novels, light novels, manga, tokusatsu, dramas, and whateverhefuckelse at what was the biggest boom of their production. And since that was the golden age of otaku culture as well, you flat out would not have been able to been involved with everything on 2/4chan as well.I mean fuck even if you were the biggest NEET to ever live and you only ever used chans you wouldn't be able to.
>>50794821I read through Tsukihime and Fate/Stay Night recentlyThey still hold up.
>>50794821I never really cared much about catching up to anyone or anything. I never cared much about being part of a thing either. I also always had an innate urge to dislike what the majority liked. I was always マイペース.That doesn't mean I don't care about culture but nowadays Otaku Culture is so disconnected I can't find the urge to be part of it. People don't even know who Haruhi is anymore. 2016 and later 2020 pretty much threw away all of the culture that was present before. Now with so many remakes they've also started erasing the past.Perhaps that's why you feel like it's not the same anymore? The people you find in the archives don't frequent these websites anymore and if they do they're getting outnumbered by people who got involved with Otaku Culture after the erasure of the past culture. Otaku from 1980s to 2016 weren't all that different in my opinion. Things have changed drastically during COVID and with the rise of VTubers, gacha, and streaming services when the number of fans doubled (or maybe way more).If you can I suggest spending time with real people who did experience those times and discuss the media with them as you catch up. It won't be the same as experiencing it back then but it doesn't have to be. You can combine that with reading the archives and get an estimation on what it probably felt like.
>>50794821FOMO is a mental disability that one must work on to actually be able to appreciate any art.Consuming media is not some retarded speedrun and single person cannot experience everything.We know about L’histoire d’avenir by Adam Mickiewicz only because this P*lish faggot in his letters mentioned it and few of his friends gave us vague description of what was there. All the writings by Diogenes of Sinope are lost, there's infinite amount of lost, forgotten and simply unavailable for you media. Losing your mind about it is just waste of time.Don't be the cultural equivalent of that one faggot that spent years trying to find his alleged hardrive with gazillion bitcoins in a scrapyard, let things go away.
>>50794821I don't know how to deal with it, so I just try to not think about it. It's a shame that we can't experience stuff as others did all the way back when, and it does pain me a lot but there's nothing to really be done about it. As far as I know the only way to experience that or this old anime or game with many people is to enter a d*scord full of teenagers and literal children trying to play themselves off as super hardcore otaku, and I don't need to try it to know that you're better off just playing or watching all by yourself.I have tried talking to select few people western or Japanese about old content but it's always awkward and fizzles out pretty quickly. When you're just 2-3 guys and not thousands, tens of thousands of people on an imageboard there's really not much to talk about, maybe like 10 paragraphs for each person. It's even worse when the people you're talking to already experienced it in the past, since anything you think they already thought years ago and likewise for anything you say about the content.When I try out an anime or game and enjoy it a lot I check for it on Niconico, Jap imageboard archives, and make casual remarks about them on the places I frequent to see if I can bait a conversation about them. That's all.
>>50794821I have this blind wishful thinking that someday, a lot of people like us, and new generation too who never had the chance to participate in Old Internet, would reminiscence or fantasize about the past, and create their own kind of otaku discussions, without any of the political western bullshit, or blatant advertising, or AI sloppa. I think imageboards like these are dying and will die, but I think something else will come up where people like us can get together and discuss and create content. And it's not discord either. I'm sorry for the use of buzzwords too.
>>50794821>How do you deal with the fact that you’ll never really catch up on stuff from a past era?Interesting. I never really thought about it that way.We have the option of enjoying things from any era, and thanks to the Internet, it's often easier than it was back in the day. I guess this is part of your problem, because there is such a tremendous amount of things to experience?I guess my advice would be to do what everyone else is doing: only go for the most influential stuff that is remembered to this day. Let time be a filter.Better yet, develop a sense of taste and be your own filter. To echo what other anons said: no one ever experienced all of culture. If you combine the filter of time with the filter of your own taste, you'll be left with some pretty nice things to enjoy. Even then, there'll probably be a lot. My advice would be to not explore too much: once you find something you like, stop searching and just enjoy it. Don't make backlogs. Don't think too hard about what to experience next. It's not meant to be work.What you may miss out on is the social aspect, especially if the things you end up enjoying don't have dedicated fandoms surviving to this day.Maybe organize something like a book club, but for random older anime/manga/games/VNs? That way, you can talk with other people experiencing the same thing that you do for the first time. You might need to use a slower board for this, though.
