>>473747 Honestly? While 4chan has been hacked before this is bigger than any other time. Even if we do rebound the site will never be the same (then again it was always heading to become a rotting corpse made irrelevant in infamy)
>>473739 Welp, guess this is it then. Hopefully Hirohito rebuilds the site, but considering how he neglected to update it for 11 years, my hopes aren't high.
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well fuck, I don't think anyone saw that coming. and right before one of the best days, too. so, what you guys think we should do? we can wait it out, but it's uncertain if or when it will be back. I could post in another site, but I understand many of them do their own thing and I wouldn't know if starting a storytime would be cool with all of them. it's also a given that some people would probably miss it, even with the warning on /ghost/. over on wapchan they set up a board for displaced generals, maybe we could use it. or stick around here too. >>473804 I'm here, at least. last I saw enma he was going to cut hiro's head and bury it in the mountains. >>473810 I heard the mods are trying to get it working again, but who knows. it's one hell of a shakeup. >>473839 ~44 probably
>>473902 I really don't know. I only know of this place and 8kun and I don't know if they allow strorytimes. Is there anyone here more versed in 4chan clones?
>>473920 I know a couple, but most are dedicated to more specific topics and don't even have a /co/ board, it would definitely be rude to barge in. 8chan dot moe is one that allows board creation and even to make them invisible. it went down because of the sudden influx but just came back. wapchan is another with the aforementioned general board plus4chan looks ok, but I don't know if storytimes are allowed.
>>473963 Looked around a little bit here but the only story time I noticed was sonic from a while ago Not sure if that might have been a one time thing
>>473902 I vote for waiting game. At least we should take time to figure out where we are gonna start hanging out, until 4chan comes back, if it comes back. >>473945 Came as a surprise to me too. >>473963 8chan is back? Last I heard it went down for good, got replaced by 16chan, until it went down too, then got replaced with 9chan, which went down too.
>>473902 Enmanon is a good samurai. I'm glad you made it, Murderanon. Quite frustrating, I hope we didn't lose the newcomers just before the most relaxing story.
Judging by the "Unofficial Sonic Storytime" threads in the catalog that have been active up to March, finishing the storytime here might be an option. It's a tough decision, it'd help if we had an estimate on when the site will be back up. I'm not against waiting a few days, it'll give me time to finish chapter 2, but we probably don't want to wait too long and lose all steam.
>>474009 8moe is different from the other 8chan. >>474016 I also think it's wise to wait a few days. after tomorrow I'll be away from home until sunday, so that could be our limit date.
Speaking of storytimes, I have to wonder about the storytimes of /co/. Wasn't a decent number of the regular ones using Passes to make things easier? I worry.
>>474388 thanks for letting us know. will it be activated in the future, if the situation continues like this? I guess we'll hold off from doing it here meanwhile. just for context, the UY storytime is an annual event we've been doing for 8 years now, so there's a lot of people including me invested in seeing it through. >>474391 I did it a couple times, I can do it again, though it may be slow.
It's nice to contribute to these again, I haven't posted on 4chan since it stopped letting 4chanx users post.
It was a shockingly good marathon this year considering the genuine curse on the board this year. Loved all the actual japan research and that poor guy spending two years researching currency to finally realize Stan didn't. What a hero.
Nice to see that the Usagi bros know of this place. I didn't jump into the story times because I have a bunch of the books to read through but I am glad you took the time to share the comics with people.
>>473739 >Site ends up getting closed for April Fools Day >Site actually gets closed in the same month
Hopefully it`ll just be a waiting game to see if they`ll get their shit together and get the site working. If not I`ll be sad if this is how this annual storytime ends up after such a long run.
>>474398 >will it be activated in the future, if the situation continues like this?
It will have to be, the problem is that the site currently doesn't even have that functionality at all. And if I add it, it will need several layers of protections to prevent spammers from nuking all content. So I'd need to brainstorm it out first, and I'm too tired lately to do that.
>>473902 I have buried Lord Hiro's head in the mountains, along with casks of sacred salt so that the shoyu-nen yokai will not trouble his rest in Yomi. The location of his final resting place is a secret I shall take with me to the grave.
>>474388 >>474650 Thank you for the refuge you have given us. Glory to Nod
I have uploaded all the OC from the final thread to our mega.nz archives. Editfag I've included links to your catboxes in the AI Sloppa Containment folder. https://mega.nz/folder/Dsd31LiR#grnO0n2INCHplEWo4nOCYQ
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If this is our last year, then my final gift to the storytime is in the mega. A copy of "The Sakai Project," an artbook published by Dark Horse to raise money to help the Sakai's medical bills in 2014 when his first wife Sharon was battling sadly, terminal cancer. It can be found in the appropriately named zip drive.
Lastly, do not give in to despair, my friends. If this truly is the end of 4chan, then we too must exercise "the patience of the spider" as master Ikeda taught us, and wait for our time to rise again. Draw strength from one another, and from the vast world. We shall surely meet again some happy day.
>>474771 Well, at the very least we got to meet here and coordinate. If nothing else, I'm still writing Neko Ninja Mayumi so anons will have that to look forward to if the worst should happen.
>>474423 Speaking of research, I feel foolish for having thought it wouldn't take that long to research what I needed regarding Buddhism. I feel like I just leapt into a rabbit hole with no bottom, and now here I am reading sutras, treatises, attempting to hunt down debates of the era between sects, criticizing Joto Shin Buddhism, etc.
I'm hoping my writing Chapter 2 is passable and not too inaccurate, but it seems like a subject one could easily spend years on.
>>474763 holy shit you're alive. you know, next time you should make sure the lord you're beheading is actually dead or things get award fast >>474769 a few I recognize, most I had never seen. what insane collection, thanks for sharing. >>474771 I see only two options: either continue on 8.moe or wait until 4chan is restored. rumor has it it will take 1 month, but I honesty doubt it if it is true. lets decide this until this sunday. >>474799 I'm looking forward to that.
I was working on this already before 4chan went down, didn't say anything because I wanted it to be a surprise. Felt kinda happy I didn't mention this before, because there might have been some anons who would have been bummed out about me being unable to deliver. Anyhow, here's my latest cyberpunk sloppa, everyones favorite cinnamon bun.
>>474423 >Stopped letting 4chanx users post. What do you mean? I was using 4chanx and actively posting in the UY threads before the hack took down the site. I was even using Oneechan to rice the site.
Any clue what Mayumi uses to tie her hair? We can see it is fully circular since we see both sides of it, so it probably isn't a ribbon. It looks like an elastic hair tie but that's a very modern invention. Most other characters with tied hair more obvious use ribbons and whatnot and I couldn't find one that wears something similar to what Mayumi uses.
And what do you think is her hair length? She might just have a shoulder length ponytail, but the consistent sort of blob-like shape makes me think the hair loops back under her tie and is longer than shoulder length.
>>475771 That did, thanks. That lead me to Geisha hairstyles, which lead to me learning what a 'kanoko' is, which is a sort of fabric tube used for hair styling which existed at the time. On the left is a homemade kanoko which I imagine would resemble what Mayumi would have, and would likely not be dyed. Dyed kanoko shibori fabrics were apparently so expensive during the Edo period that the Shogunate actually intervened and put price controls on it, I doubt a commoner would have such a luxury. I haven't found Mayumi's specific hair style, but I found this image on the right that atleast looks similar to Mayumi's hairstyle, sort of a bunned ponytail but tied a little lower than in the image.
>>475896 >here's your Internet Hate Machine bro Boy am I glad all these early modern period Japanese Buddhism and women's hair fashion posters got their toxic forum removed.
>>475729 >>475896 >>476179 Even on a different site I`m glad that they`ll be someone asking for a specific detail about fedual japan and getting a somewhat lengthy but informative answer in that same thread.
>>474816 Found this elsewhere but supposedly it’ll be about 2-3 weeks before they get the site back up and running since they’re planning on updating the code and adding security measures. This was from the 15th, so if this is accurate 4chan should be back up before May
>>477226 Nice coloring. I like how the cross is disproportionate like a mistinerpretation of it, like that bit in that Zulu movie where Shaka crusifies people on X's because the English didnt accurately tell him how crosses are shaped.
>>477226 >>477230 It is indeed that time of year. Hello, fellow Kirishitans! How might we identify each other in secret so we may celebrate the holiday together?
>>477222 >>477538 >come home after a long day >remember I can't into 4chan anymore >have to (may sweet merciful Buddha forgive me for uttering this word) go onto R*ddit for doomscrolling. Even if 4chan comes back in May, will we be able to pick up and go on as usual?
>>477557 >wake up >try going onto 4chan >it actually works and the site is back up >wake up for real >it was just a dream >try going on 4chan >site’s still down This was only 2 days in. I don’t know if i’ll make it…
>>477592 I'd love to solve crimes with upstanding pillar of honor and fellow Krishitan Inspector Ishida, but hanging out with Inazuma and preventing slippery rock related incidents averts a lot of trouble down the line. She probably wouldn't mind my use of the dishonorable foreign black powder either, she seems like a pragmatic sort of gal.
>>477557 >>477569 Man the withdrawals are hitting hard. What boards were you on besides /co/? >>477592 Is there an option to follow around a schizo gambler?
>>477592 Gen. He is literally me and i’m literally Gen. Plus the bounty-hunting stuff could be fun >>477723 Mainly /v/. Tbh I only pop into /co/ on occasion to scope threads to watch, but otherwise I don’t stick around since most of what’s on there doesn’t interest me. Was luck that I came across that usagi thread from February that spurred me to check out the storytime, especially given previous years i’ve either missed it or had no interest in checking it out. Glad I did though, nice to get into something new and have people to talk about it with
I'm curious about this, I want to read more comics but have capeshit exhaustion so Usagi looks cool. What's a good way to get into the franchise? The hardcover box set seems pretty reasonably priced for what you get in it
>>477592 Gen seems like the safest option, once I have become a proper friend with him. Until then, I guess I would be the distraction/expendable of the team.
>>477723 /vg/, mostly Civ4x general. I miss the spider poster the most, that diabetic French poster was the heart of the party there. Hope he is doing fine.
>>477883 Happy Easter! Easter would be a very proper time for some meddling rabbit action. If you'd rather wait for 4chan to come back up though, I'm fine with it. Gives me more time to write more chapters.
>>477592 >>477720 >>477723 Top huek love that no one wants to hang out with Stray Dog because we all know he's eventually going to backstab you for Muh Orphans.
>>477899 He'd unironically be second worst to hang with if he were on the list only behind Jei. Noriko might be tolerable to be around provided you proved useful to her, and Kitsune is actually one of the better choices. As seen with Noodles and Kiyoko, she tries to look out for her 'permanent party members', as long as she liked you things would probably be pretty alright all things considered. You'd likely get dragged into trouble because of her schemes, but that's true of everyone on that list, and arguably Inazuma would bring way more trouble with all the bounty hunters after her (Gen and Stray Dog included).
>>477883 Honestly I wouldn’t mind waiting for 4chan to be back. Besides no doubt there would be people missing out if they aren’t aware to check things out here
>>477723 >withdrawals Look at it this way... If this was /co/ Prime, the thread woul be facing a daily struggle to keep itself above page 10. Trolls and shills would be constantly spamming the board with low-effort bait and influencer shit, and every couple of hours the LLMfags would max out the bump limit of their slop threads and start speedrunning the catalog, just so they could make more slop threads. In the background, the janitors would be sitting on their hands, letting it happen.
>>477939 Your criticisms about chan board culture is valid overall, but one of the nice things about the annual UY storytime is that our threads have never had a problem staying at least on page 2-3, consistently, in all 8 years since Dharmanon, at least until the thread hits the bump limit. Like maybe very late at night and into the early morning hours it'll dip to page 8, even 9, when the majority of the board is asleep, but there's always a handful of European anons, occasionally even a westaboo Japanese anon, that'll bump the thread with their post.
>>477994 That would be sufficient. Not a full continuation but enough for us to hold over with, and then once 4chan’s back we continue where things were left off from there so those who don’t know don’t miss out
>>477883 If you go I'll be there, but ngl, I don't think we're going to get more than a fraction of anons so either waiting or redoing it when 4chan comes back up might be better.
>>478011 yeah, that's what I decided to do, I'm just going to post some chapters and wait. whatever I dump there will be re-dumped if or when /co/ comes back.
I need your wise opinions, anons. I started working on a cyberpunk Shizukiri pic and can't quite decide whether to go for pic related Helghast inspired style or if I should just try straight up Terminator look. What do you guys think?
>>478094 Perhaps we could alternate storytimes on 8chan and wapchan until 4chan comes back up. >>478727 You should make Kanbe in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion 2: Skyrim Very Extremely Special Edition
Neko Ninja Mayumi writeanon here! Took a short break from writing Chapter 2 to write this little short story inspired by a certain story from the storytime on wapchan based on the premise "what if there was actually a nascent kami in MUH ROCK?" I hope you enjoy it!
>>480240 I noticed several glaring mistakes I somehow missed. Time to commit sudoku again. Oh well, I'll post an updated version along with Chapter 2. Speaking of that, well... It's amazing that the more I think through the healing process, the more SUFFERING poor Mayumi will have to deal with (and not just of the pain variety), at least initially. And that's even after I decided on just a mild infection rather than a serious one thanks to Chizu and her filthy foreigner alcohol application techniques.
>>480578 Pretty much waiting until it's back to dump anything or engage in discussion about Feudal Japanese Sandal Making. I appreciate the good people of Plus4Chan opening up to us, but this is a refuge, not home.
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>>480804 Not to be a doomer, but last I heard, enough jannies and mods have left that it starts seeming less like 4chan is coming back, even after Hiro has unfucked the code.
>>481004 Funnily enough there is a lora for him. https://civitai.com/models/199314/usagi-yuichi-samurai-rabbit-the-usagi-chronicles-commission But by A.I standards it's a million years old one, so I got no clue if it'll work with my modern checkpoints. Also, I'm not gonna start downloading a SD 1.5 checkpoint just to do this one, those things are multi-gigabyte files and I already have more than I should have. So, gonna give this one a try and see what sorta abomination it produces.
>>481024 I said I wouldn't download a checkpoint just for this picture (and then I went and did it). Bad news is, it didn't work at all. Oh god did it not work out at all...
>>481049 Meanwhile, using the methods I have used on my previous cyberpunk characters did give me some half-decent results. Sure he doesn't look anything at all like Yuichi from the netflix show, but at least he isn't 3 mutants.
>>481051 Honestly I like this design more than the Netflix show, but I get that it was done on a budget. >>481049 GOOD LORD WHAT MANNER OF FUCKING YOKAI IS THIS?!
>>480888 The "see you soon" message has the same energy as those permanently Under Construction websites hosted by Geocities in the late 90s-early 2000s.
Found this elsewhere, and it seems to coincide with the “see you soon!” message, but if this is accurate 4chan should be back up by sunday or monday. Reason it took so long was timezones and schedules making it difficult to coordinate Also /f/ is kill