July 2010
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Blog under construction (well not really but I'm...
I got lucky and received some constructive feedback these past few days. Since Posterous staff also said they were going to look into why some text colors were off, this is just a post here to say I’m temporarily thinking of re-hauling the blog as I try to improve my writing style. Good day and talk to you when all this is done.P.S. I’m still available on Twitter and the Forum ...
June 2010
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Hairpin Bend
Although this answer is talking about the culture of Libertarians in general, I’m sharing this answer because I feel this is also a good analogy to why I’m elitist towards the definition of Hikikomori but it doesn’t mean I’m trying to insist a fan club community where people who don’t fit my definition should stay away from hikikomories and why I encourage...
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(Old) Being exasperated with people who just don't...
Personally, these aren’t much help to me and I constantly break them but they are a set of good reminders nevertheless:Don’t take negative comebacks to heart. When you are faced with one of life’s more challenging personalities, the best thing to do is to not take it personally. Sometimes it is your self-assurance that is a cause of irritation for less secure people and their...
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In need of reader feedback
Copy-paste of post here: Now that there’s a forum, I’m thinking of dropping the chewables type threads on the blog as they are often copy pasted and I don’t add any extra original content to them most of the time. That said I wonder which is more preferable for the readers. Some of the core differences I can think of are: Blogs:Easier navigation and discovery - Posts are...
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Fake Smile or Real Smile?
Note picture above not from actual link. Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/surveys/smiles/ I’ve already retweeted this from Catarina’s twitter stream but I just thought of blogging this anyway to highlight the quiz. That said, I don’t know the accuracy of this quiz (I felt it needed more sincere but clearly fake smile from a personal issue perspective) but I...
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Introducing the Temporary Hikikomori StopGap Forum
Some of you may have noticed the new forum link below the blog title.Well, that’s a general forum I registered in MyBB as a Hikikomori forum. For more details, here’s the copy-paste details I’ve posted in the forum. NewsFlash, hikikomori forums exist already! Yeah…I can’t say I’ve been in every one of them but for the most part, this forum was a struggle for me....
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Copy-Paste: Building Cages and Dropping Keys
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Copy-Paste: Selling Communication
My apologies if this comes off as spammy or Capt. Obvious.The reason why I’m sharing this article isn’t so much because of the solution or the conclusion provided but because of the way the author started out with a tidbit of his initial personal struggles. I think part of the reason why marketing-related and business-tutorial blogs have high traffic is not just due to the work on the...
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Old: E-Learning and Retardness of Hikikomori
Twitter is currently down but these links are mostly share quality and I really didn’t intend to post this as a blog post but oh well…Elearning: A Possible Solution to Japan’s Growing Hikikomori Problem These Hikikomoris are web junkies, they spend most of their time surfing the internet. Some of them are gifted with great potentials as programmers and graphic artist. It is such as...
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Hackers Wanted Documentary
“Wish you luck, hope you don’t end up in a prison jail.”“Well…if I do, I’ll make sure to make an experience out of it.” - Adrian Lamo Hackers Wanted is a very basic documentary. I don’t mean this from a knowledgeable coder point of view but from an average internet surfer knowledge level. There’s really nothing in this documentary that would...
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Copy Paste: Tales of a Recovering Hikikomori
First off, even if we’re both Filipinoes, I don’t know who this blogger is nor can I confirm whether he is a Hikikomori or merely an Otaku. That said, his post got through Google Alerts so it must be notable someway.Here’s the condensed version of his posts below. Table of Contents/Landing Page: ...
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Critical Skills Quiz
I’d advise you to write down your choices as I’m just using this to test Posterous’ new PollEverywhere support.I also can’t vouch for the notability of the book. It’s not so much that the book is bad but it’s more of a series of exercises to help show you how you should approach certain issues but unfortunately as you’ll see from the number of answers I...
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Enervate
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Copy-Paste/Request: Please Share Your...
Just a copy of my post on DonationCoder for hikikomories who aren’t comfortable with creating a forum account:Link: http://www.donationcoder.com/Forums/bb/index.php?topic=22912 I don’t know how one can, in honesty, tout a prioritization scheme that says starting a blog is more important than making friends.Source: http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/1sxv8/ I think it’s...
May 2010
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Ideal
Name asked: F-man, would you post sometime on your ideal? The goal you seek for hiki? From an old post of mine: Start Quote This is an attention-whorish thread (for those who haven’t noticed). It’s basically me asking the hikikomoris here what they think of my answers to namaesukawanae’s survey.For a more neutral Advise Corner thread with the same theme, check out these...
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Copy-Paste: Dangerous Knowledge
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Visual Novels..."are" Complicated!!!
I was saving this topic so I can write my in-depth feelings for why I feel certain games of this genre deserves to be included in this blog but a recent post on anonib, made me list the titles here anyway. My apologies for not going in-depth with these choices especially since I haven’t played lots of these yet: How do you see the world itself where we live in? It truly cannot be compared...
April 2010
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Word: Low Latent Inhibition
Just a word I recently found out that may lead to social withdrawal. (…or it may not, there’s no definitive study connecting the two)http://www.futurepundit.com/archives/001684.html http://psychology.wikia.com/wiki/Latent_inhibitionhttp://highlysensitive.org/64/highly-sensitive-people-latent-inhibition-and-creativity/ ...
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Dream: Legs Giving Out
Not sure if this is a Hikikomori related dream and I didn’t check any online dream dictionary nor have I read a hiki dream topic to gauge any similarity but it feels like one so I’m adding it here.I just woke up due to this dream btw so maybe it was more of “wake up” dream than a hikikomori-related one. At the time I wasn’t a Hikikomori yet, the main public...
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Olds: The Death of Phoebe Prince
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Phoebe_PrinceThis is something more along the lines of a Sankaku topic but I feel it’s somewhat notable to Hikikomories too in that it brings up the issue of bullying extending towards the internet: Following her death, many crude comments about her were posted on her Facebook memorial page, most of which were removed. Her parents chose to have Phoebe...
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How I recall meeting Preservative Woman and "..."
Google Alerts just recently linked me to a post made by either Chair/Pat Smith or a co-blogger in his HikiCulture blog:Preservative Woman: An Alter Ego of “…” of Hikikomori Forum? Personally I didn’t want to reply to the post nor do I know what difference it is for the Hikikomori community to know whether a hiki has two or more accounts unless they were causing trouble. (which the post...
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Copy-Paste: Nice Girls with Guns
I found this link via IMDB after recently watching Sugar & Spice for the first time.http://www.houstonpress.com/1999-09-16/news/nice-girls-with-guns/ Kids say growing up in Kingwood is like growing up in a bubble, an emerald-green suburban bubble to whose perimeter sticks a residue of brownish urban scum: convenience stores, auto repair shops and the two bars that serve Kingwood’s...
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Copy-Paste & Minor Edit: My Mask
*Like it says in the title, I made some minor edits because I felt the typos ruined the flow. I also omitted the last line just because I thought it gave it more impact. If that bothers you, I recommended heading straight to the source and not bothering with the text below. Source: http://www.experienceproject.com/uw.php?e=967806&ws=t I have always worn the same mask. The happy, nothing has...
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Clues on how to Interact with Hikikomories
The theme of this quote is actually somewhat obvious as far as dealing with troubled people but it’s a nice alternative image to consider even though it’s not talking about Hikikomories.10 Bizarre Rites of Passage deezinger:[…]I do have to disagree with the view that these rites are “abuse”. Rites of passage are exactly that. An event or experience that the community has...
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Comparing Yourself to Others: A Reply
Download now or preview on posterous Copy_of_Comparing_Yourself_to_Others_A_Reply.pdf (275 KB) The document is basically a black text/white background version of this. I’d upload that copy to Posterous but my color choices made my head ache. This is just a rant that got too long to post directly and there’s really nothing else here. It is...
January 2010
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Are you Weird?
Still occupied with arranging my backup files.
Meanwhile here’s a set of Hikikomori-related Subnormality comics for those wondering if this blog is abandoned or not.
P.S. For those unfamiliar with this series, the artist tend to put lots of text in the panels so you might prefer going to the permalinks one by one instead.
Here’s the list of links:
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December 2009
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There comes a time in your life...
Source: http://www.thedoghousediaries.com/?p=965 Update: Encountered PC Backup problems so meanwhile, here’s another webcomic to fill the blog. Posted via email from A Hikikomori StopGap | Comment »
November 2009
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"Traditional" Conversations
Image link: http://imgur.com/gallery/cIrNx Source: http://abstrusegoose.com/archives - Don’t know the specific link Posted via email from A Hikikomori StopGap | Comment »
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Sector 41 Webcomic
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Freeware: The Mirror Lied
Website: http://www.freebirdgames.com/mirrorlied.html Direct Download: http://www.quintessence-tbv.com/The_Mirror_Lied.exe Posted via email from A Hikikomori StopGap | Comment »
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Clearest Howto for Virtualbox that I could find
Not specifically Hikikomori related but this is top among my list of newbie frustrations when I switched to Linux. Note: These are only the basic steps and don’t really deal with troubleshooting but I found even the basic steps hard to learn when the top videos involve someone’s music playing in the background or instruction guides not really explaining how “next step”,...
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Small Worlds Flash Game
http://jayisgames.com/cgdc6/?ref=sponsors&gameID=9Review: http://jayisgames.com/archives/2009/11/small_worlds.php Posted via email from A Hikikomori StopGap | Comment »
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Minor: Hikikomori StopGap Posterous Version...
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HikiCulture Creator: "Chair" admits he is not...
Note that since I haven’t explored much of Experience Project, I’m not really sure how much Chair can edit and delete his replies. However as of this writing, the post exists. For why I am stating this: some Hikikomoris have this strange habit of editing out their posts. This holds true whether they have spammed or not.
In HikiPhpBB, Chair has edited some of his old post out so I...
October 2009
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HikiCulture Admin Strongly Suspected of Spamming
First off, my apologies for the image quality.
I’m very newbish at image editing and it was only this year that I discovered what “cropping” does.
Anyways, on to the topic.
The short version:
Someone has recently been spamming the HikiPhpBB forum. (1st screenshot)
There’s strong evidence that it is the admin of another Hikikomori forum, HikiCulture.
Evidence #1 is...
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Hikikomori Media Reviews "Mother Fucked Up"
Download now or preview on posterous Hikikomori_Media_by_ ().pdf (70 KB) This isn’t a catch all thread for every review I’m going to make about Hikikomori related media but is instead based on a set a user by the name of “…” has collected in this topic (requires registration)
Basically the document above is the OP thread minus the replies…
I...
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First "Chewables" Post
This should have been a cut and dry copy paste but I don’t consider the link thought provoking nor practical.In fact, the reason I’m even posting this is because many adult couples seem to get that they need to treat their partners as equals or at least within the boundaries of their culture but when it comes to the Hikikomori phenomenon, even the so-called experts seem to be baffled...
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Yes, accepting "the negative" CAN bring positive...
Source: http://www.amazon.com/review/R2MVMEENU3Y1N4/ref=cm_cr_pr_viewpnt#R2MVMEENU3Y1N4 I think Nancy Smith is incorrect in labeling this a “negative” book that has the “wrong perspective”. But many people do not wish to face the truths about life. The truths in this book are basically from the Buddhist point of view (though it’s not a “Buddhist book” per...
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Copy-Paste: Life Lessons that Schools Rarely...
Note: This is again, another placeholder topic. (When it rains, it pours.)
This time, the reason why I am posting this is actually a combination of two things.
The first reason was that I felt bad that all I could reply in this thread (requires registration) to a person that linked to this post of mine was:
Thanks [username 1]
I just spotted this thread.
Yeah, in some ways you’re right...
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Reply to Chair/HikiCulture Admin
I recently made a topic worrying about the actions being taken on the Hikikomori Wikipedia page with regards to HikiCulture over here and two of the admins responded.
I think they are two because one named himself the HikiCulture Admin and the other named himself Chair although when I was there, Chair was the only active admin I know of since he was the creator of the forum.
Anyways, the...
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Is HikiCulture turning more and more into a spam...
This is another placeholder topic but one slightly more serious:
First off, I’ve no doubt that - for members of this forum - this could easily come off as a HikiPhpBB vs. HikiCulture vs. AnonIB /hikikomori/ thread.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t help that coincidentally I’ve made a recent return post on HikiPhpBB.
This isn’t intentional but is a result of me just being...
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Copy-Paste: Ways to Spot Talking Brick Walls
P.S. My drafts aren’t going so well and since it’s been a while since I posted anything, this is just another filler to occupy this blog for awhile.
Note that I’m not going to copy-paste the whole article so click the source here if you want the full article.
Futility:
“You make a statement and it will be turned around.”
Example:
“You forgot my...
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Copy-Paste: Ways to Spot Talking Brick Walls →
Looks like the Tumblr downtime didn’t allow for Posterous’ Autoposting to work so here’s the link.
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So in essence we come down to the same old...
I’m not sure if this is satire but it came off that way to me so I’m categorizing it as one. (Plus, it seemed easy enough to serve as a placeholder since all I need to do in this case is to just copy and paste.) So in essence we come down to the same old scenario: Due to how society has formed its constructs, those who can’t perform in the “socialization circus” are doomed to...
September 2009
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Short Attention Spans with regards to Technology -...
This is just a re-blogging of the same post I made in DC.Source: http://www.donationcoder.com/Forums/bb/index.php?topic=20106.0 At first, I didn’t post this because I felt the content I wrote (especially without any answers), was insufficient and unrelated to Hikkikomoris.Still, it’s been far too long since I blogged anything. The reason for this is the post I’m trying to write...
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Where to send donations for victims of Typhoon...
I’m not really for asking people to donate because I feel it’s a subtle manner of inducing apathy (give away money, feel good that you don’t need to think of why the problem occurred once it’s no longer over-reported) and that mass donations are often favored only after a disaster has struck rather than before it — but as I’m currently monitoring my plurk...
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Justice by Points
Justice by points essentially means they’d ignore a crazed ax wielding man walking down the street because they are buys ticketing people and trying to harass them into a half-excuse to arrest them. Then when the ax man comes back after butchering a family, they call a mini-army and take him down, then get even more “Points”. But the officer who just gives warnings and stares...
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How Mainstream Media works
People often know this at the common sense level — but I got the sense, from talking online with other Hikikomoris, that they didn’t quite realize the urgency of why we’re as vulnerable as we are in our current state. This of course not really being the first post I shared about how the media works but it still needs to be emphasized that: “Mainstream media knows how to...
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No country or population is more pure than another...
Full quote:
No country or population is more pure than another, they each have flaws, although they can be different, and the definition of a ‘flaw’ can vary depending on culture and history, it’s all the same when it comes to the victim.
Like I said in an earlier comment, you’ll enjoy your life far more if you just forget instead of discovering more of the world. I...
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Fail. Live.
Courtesy of eloisa’s plurk
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