No it's not retarded.

It just helps cancer growing.

>>43060934
How so?

Sauce on OP's pic please.

Also this.

I am anon and I endorse OP's message.

>>43060947
It's like you have lung cancer, and you give people cancer air to breathe.

How about mentioning sauce in OP when dumping a manga?

>>43060985
my fucking goodness

What is "sauce"? Something tells me it's not what it literally means.

>>43060947
How does being a dick make things better?
What about the non-'newfags' who intend to watch the show, but just got spoiled because apparently newfags deserve to have things ruined?
Not everybody's power level is absolute, OP.

>>43060888
While initially I felt you were being too harsh, once I checked your trips I realized that you are correct, and that spoiling shit for people is fun.

There's a reason I don't post in threads about shows I don't care/know about.

sauce on op's pic

And that's why I changed my Facebook profile to every spoiler to the Harry Potter books when I found them on /b/. Good times.

>>43061051
Here you go bro

>>43061068
You might feel more comfortable on other websites for anime discussion.

Ohheylookitsthisthreadagain.jpg

>>43061068
Fuck off, niggertwat. You are not welcome here.

Don't spoil shit OP. Not that anybody cares, but it's against the board rules and some of us haven't seen everything. But here's an idea: HOW ABOUT NOT GIVING THE SOURCE? It's so crazy it just might work.

Oh, look!

Autism general.

>>43061085

I don't think ketchup is sauce. Well, it literally is, but when somebody wants sauce in his food, they are very rarely referring to ketchup.

>>43061159
Don't like ketchup? Here, I've got just the thing for you

>>43061120
some fucker who thinks he's being nice and helping others always gives the source. doing something like this would discourage people from asking about things that can be figured out by taking 5 seconds to read the thread or even use google

>>43060985

lol mad elitistfag is mad. protip : nobody cares about you guys anymore

>>43061157
I like how autism is becoming a generic insult and/or meme. Are you from /v/? Because you sure sound like it.

>>43061120
>but it's against the board rules
>Implying that will stop anyone.

>>43060985
>>43061037

There is a difference between someone asking for sauce in a coherent manner and someone who obviously flew in from gaia. I've personally never tolerated grammar that bad, but asking for sauce is not that big a deal to me. I don't expect people to sit on the computer all day looking for the next time someone posts something related to what they were looking for only to have the source not posted. It's really a stupid concept. Lurking only helps newfags understand the general subculture of 4chan. It's not really great for getting sauce.

>>43061157
The only reasonable post in this thread.

The only people that care are fat neckbeard faggots with semen stained Yui shirts and dirty Cheeto crumb filled fingers and neckbeard.

>>43061091
Been on others, am active on others, prefer /a/ for actual anime discussion (as rare as that is)
There's a line between the typical 'anonymous' attitude, and just being a straight up dick. OP's suggestion falls in the latter.
>>43061120
This is basically what I'm thinking and failed to add.

>>43061184

Ah, classic sauce.

>>43061252

Just like those elitist pricks, right?

>spoil porn

>>43061248
But it's totally stupid to help them when the name has been posted several times in the thread already. People being too dumb to read image names or google for a second shouldn't be helped.

I also detest everyone saying "sauce". The English on this board is bad enough already.

>>43060888
See I just can't agree with this because Spike dies.

>>43060888
>anon ask sauce
>spoil everything

BUKKAKE
BUKKAKE
BUKKAKE
BUKKAKE
BUKKAKE
BUKKAKE
BUKKAKE
BUKKAKE
BUKKAKE
BUKKAKE

>>43060985

is this true?

>>43061217
>>43061217
>>43061217

>>43061313

I totally agree with you there. If the source is in the file name or something like that, fuck them. But if there is no source in the thread then it's not that big a deal.

>>43061348
How about you check the damn archive?

I am being so counterproductive in this thread.

>>43061313
This anon speaks the truth. If the filename mentions the source, or if the source has been mentioned, then people shouldn't ask.

>>43060985

>you guys the one who changed this board into something I like, not me.

/a/ has changed.

>mfw I read this thread.

Sauce?

>>43061370
for that to be the case, it would have to be a very short thread or only have obscure art, images that don't belong to the show, and screenshots. any thread 20 posts or more with art of the show can easily be found if they want to instead of just being a fucking parasite

>>43061248
Agreed, it's not about sauce, it's about newfaggotry and general post quality. I remember when (oh god I can't believe I'm starting a sentence like this) 4chan was about user-generated content, and doing things for yourself. Then its popularity ballooned, and it turned into a place where newfags came to let other people do things for them.

If you're going to ask for sauce then at least LIE about not being able to find it on tineye. People don't even do that anymore.

Remember when other boards thinks we are the most xenophobic board in 4chan?

meh.

postcount +1

There's a huge difference between asking politely and in a nice way for the source of the content, and just saying "sauce". Of course, even the former is only acceptable after you lurked around and googled your ass off, but I can deal with someone asking like a decent poster. Honestly OP's method is too brutal but I don't see other way to deal with this problem because fucking them in the ass.

>>43061466
>Remember when other boards thinks we are the most xenophobic board in 4chan?
All of 4chan is pretty damn xenophobic, I don't think /a/ is even in the top 5.

Because this is our special secret club and we can't let anyone else know what shows we're talking about! Jesus, does it hurt if somebody's like, hey this sounds interesting, what show is this, does it hurt if you tell them? Seriously? Don't be a dick. And before you suggest Tineye, Tineye takes you right to the spoilers.

>>43061700
See >>43060985.

boku no pico

If all newfags lurked, then /a/ would have no posts on it.

It would be a vast improvement

>>43061700
>tineye takes you to the spoilers
If you don't know how to use a computer maybe.
People who can't get the sauce on their own are too stupid to use the board.

count me in.

>>43061700
A basic rule of the internet is "Lurk Before Posting". The idiots (like you, I assume) want everything on a silver platter.

We hurt the general quality of the board when we stand idly tolerating shit like the morons asking "sauce pl0x", VLC, doubles, streaming shit, Yotsuba°C and the like.

sauce on this, come at me bro

SAUCE ON DIZ PLZ

>>43061700
>does it hurt if somebody's like, hey this sounds interesting
But that's not what happens. It's more like, "You posted an image that has tits in it. Tell me where to find tits."

>>43061887
sauce on this cute anime

>>43061999
sauce OMG whatisthiscutethingimanewfagjustnowplease

/a/ only changed because /jp/ was the only thing keeping some of the retardation out. That doesn't mean /a/ is really bad or anything though, I think it's fine.

>>43061700
I used to think that as well, but >>43061936
actually brings up a good point.
I mean, look how shitty /v/ has become because people are too lax. all it does is drive away decent posters

I could care less for porn.

The only sources I'd crave is anime.

I look for the filename. Filename helps. It names the anime or at least names a character.
If it only has the characters name, I'll go to google and type "(characters name) anime".

That way, that character will come up because I typed his/her name and the word anime beside it.
Or, I'll just look in the thread and see if people say names, that way I can search for myself.

As I said before, I understand why /a/ hates saucefags. It's annoying to hear that word SAUCE SAUCE SOURCE! over and over again. It's more annoying when they're looking for masturbation material.

Few weeks ago, I gave someone sauce on Yosuga No Sora because they wanted to see sex. They said the sex was shit and the show was shit. It hurt my feelings. I gave source of an anime someone was interested in. And they just wanted to masturbate at a shitty sex scene. They didn't even care about the anime.

>>43062014
She's actually the daughter of Cthulu.

>>43062124
If people really want images to fap to then they should go to /d/, /e/, /h/, /u/ or /y/. /a/ is worksafe.

>>43062214
>HE THINKS /a/ IS WORKSAFE

And this is why I like /co/ more than /a/. /co/ is always nicer about giving sauce/often provide a download link with their OP or their final post if storytiming.

/a/ just asumes that everyone should know everything about every manga and anime ever and that being nice and helping people interested in what they are posting find the source is somehow a bad thing.

Stop being /a/ssholes about such a trivial thing as someone showing interest in the things you post about.

>>43062124
>And they just wanted to masturbate at a shitty sex scene. They didn't even care about the anime.
Isn't that the idea of most hentai?

>>43062124
You miss the point.
95% of the time it is possible to get the source by reading the thread and using google/iqdb/tineye.
Teaching them to be self sufficient is better for them and shits up the board less.

>>43062214

But /a/ has proven many times to have better porn threads than these boards.

>>43062257
It's a new fad, we used to be cool too.

>>43062257
>/a/ just asumes that everyone should know everything about every manga and anime ever

If you don't, then you do not belong on /a/.

>>43062257
Go back to your ponyshit /co/.

We have too many sauce-inducing porn threads that's what.

>>43062257
>/a/ just asumes that everyone should know everything about every manga and anime ever
Missed the point. What irritates people is idiots asking for source on shit that is constantly discussed, such as Railgun. Or, just looking at the filename or using TinEye.

>>43062283
>But /a/ has proven many times to have better porn threads than these boards.
Those boards are mostly image dumpsters. There's no discussion whatsoever. Want to have a good discussion on hentai? Night time /a/.

>>43062436
>Night time /a/.
when is that supposed to be?

>>43062474
gee I wonder when

hmmm maybe NIGHT is a big hint!

>>43062474
Doesn't exist anymore.

>>43060985

Jesus Christ, I can't facepalm hard enough to convey what this makes me feel.

>>43062257
>/a/ just asumes that everyone should know everything about every manga and anime ever
like >>43062347 said, if you don't, you don't belong on /a/

and it's not even every anime and manga ever that's the problem with sauce requests; it's people asking for sauce on shows that are currently airing and wildly popular. the majority of /a/'s discussion is about currently airing shows; if you aren't following what's new this season, you probably shouldn't be here. Fuck, just looking over a chartfag chart should be able to give you enough information to identify most of what /a/ talks about.

>>43062496

>>43061700
>>43062257
You know what?

>>43060985 THIS IS YOU, only with better grammar.

>>43060888
you really have to demonstrate your social incompetence on /a/ too, don't you?

I have actually invited people IRL to /a/.

The problem is that some people are so lazy it feels like you've just stretched out on a hammock in your backyard to have a drink and read, and some homeless bum walks up and shits on you. They can't read the filename. The image says what manga it's from but they don't read that. It's something easily recognizable that's talked to death and has 8 active threads on it, but they're too lazy to move past the front page.

The biggest thing is that /a/ is not set up as a review/ recommendations site. There are other sites and forums which work much better for people who are new to anime or only watch once in a while and don't recognize any series. I could lurk here for weeks until a Planetes thread pops up, or I could go to another site, look at the popular ones, and check a summary on wikipedia to see if I want to watch it or not; all in a few minutes.

This is a place mostly to discuss anime/manga you've already seen and current airing season. Yeah we have chartfag threads about next season and speculate on what might be good, some recommendations threads. But for the most part it's easier and quicker to go somewhere else to figure out what you want to watch and then come here for the threads talking about things you've already seen.

/a/ only asks for sauce on moe moe kawaii bullshit anyways

we need another JoJo thread

>>43062436
>What irritates people is idiots asking for source on shit that is constantly discussed, such as Railgun
Seriously, this. I've never even seen an episode of Raildex, and I'm pretty sure I can identify all the major characters on sight. Know why? Because I've been here more than a couple weeks.

These threads only make giving sauce away that much more satisfying.

>>43062620
You find it amusing now, until you are one of the faggots that will get spoiled thanks to your faggotry.

>>43062124
If it makes you feel better, I like Yosuga no Sora because I'm a romancefag.

>>43062496
newsflash for you : Earth is round (well, not quite, but...)

One of the few reasons I enjoy /a/ better than other anime forums is their relatively correct use of grammar and lack of emoticons.

Don't take this away from me. Please.

>implying the stuff I need to ask sauce for has enough fans on /a/ to have idiots who'd do this

>>43062601
>The biggest thing is that /a/ is not set up as a review/ recommendations site.
Well, I made a fucking attempt: http://recommendations.wikia.com/wiki/Anime,_TV_%26_OVAs

old /a/ is dead and won't come back. Get over it

>>43062654
Same here. I'd been looking forward to it for a couple months and was actually really surprised when it turned out to have sex scenes.

The bottom line is simply this: /a/ is a board for snarky, condescending elitists who already have a vast knowledge of anime and manga and also know how to use image searches and such. Their knowledge is exclusively acquired from a long time spent lurking and doing their own research. THIS is the way we want it and this is why we don't give fucking sauce on obvious images.

This is our board and we WILL keep it that way.

The thing is, I never asked for source ever since I found this board and never will. I solved everything by lurking. Hell, it even took me 12 months to start posting regularly. The influx of newfriends here who can't do anything by themselves has reached critical levels.

I've always provided source when people have asked for it (unless they are being outright retarded with it by not looking at the file name or other posts for example) and am generally polite to people unless they are hostile towards me first.

>BAWW EVERYONE NEEDS TO BE MORE OF A DICK OR OTHERWISE WE MIGHT ACTUALLY HAVE DECENT PEOPLE HERE! GOD NO!

I've been since 2003. In the first years (even at the time there was just /b/) this place used to be way more lighthearted and fun and most of the actual series discussion threads were GOOD. The amount of haters was miniscule.

>My face when the middle generation of /a/-goers (the ones that weren't here in the first years but aren't newfags either) think /a/ should be nothing but ronery elitist fags.

>4chan elite being elite
(￣ー￣)

you know, back in the good old days of anime/random it was about having fun and not being a fucking shitface trying to claim superiority in each and every post

there may be a lot of retarded newfags spamming the board with dumb source requests but people like OP aren't any better

>>43062718
Want to combine that with the long established http://animu-mango.wikia.com/wiki//a/_Wiki ?

>>43062718
/s/ has a chart of "frequently requested bitches", /fit/ has a "healthy grocery list", /a/ has recommendations charts; all in image form. But other sites have a top 100 list for popularity, ranking, etc. etc.; with % of viewers who dropped this shit or whatever else. An imageboard is just not the right tool for the job especially when there are other sites that do a good job of this.

The idiot who is asking for sauce on Black Rock Shooter because one screenshot looks cool would be better served by going to another site, seeing that Cowboy Bebop / Bartender / Mushishi / Planetes / Dildoes is ranked higher, reading the description, and watching that instead. I love whenever we have "cool looking action .gifs" threads because I just know all the newfags are going to watch Kurokami and see 3 cool looking fight scenes and hours of shit.

>>43062805
you sir, are a scholar and gentleman.

>>43062845
Whatever happened to photoshopping happy negro into anime?

I will always provide sauce, do you want to know why?

Because even though I have over 3 TB of anime and over 400 series sometimes I come across something I don't know and after searching on TinyeEye, iqdb and saucenow, google and failing to find sauce you guys still act like assholes and don't provide sauce.
It's fucking annoying and I don't wanna do that to other people.

>>43062851
Are you the mod of that site, by any chance? Because I've seen your wiki and it's... not so good. It's motsly a dumpsite for images. No editing at all.

Well, I'd be interested in a merger.

>>43062805
>This is our board
Fuck off. I was here first (or at the same time in the unlikely even you were here from the start as well).

>>43062947
After having seen that much, you must know the more mainstream things pretty well. Almost all of the more obscure stuff has the source given, like in that "anime only you liked"-thread.

>>43062947
There's no way someone who has seen over 400 series wouldn't recognize a show being discussed on /a/. And even if it was THAT obscure, people would have no problem giving the source. It's when people ask the source for something so popular and so easy to get that's annoying.

>>43062947
YOU LIE

>>43062957
No not the mod, but it'd be nice if there was something like a merger and a clean site like /v/'s wiki. Because fuck /v/ but their recommended games wiki rocks.

>>43062844
Don't you think for a moment that because you are old, you are right. Being hostile to obvious stupidity serves them right.

>I've been since 2003. In the first years (even at the time there was just /b/) this place used to be way more lighthearted and fun and most of the actual series discussion threads were GOOD. The amount of haters was miniscule.
Read this:
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2009/3/12/33338/3000

>>43062947
Please reference the copypasta on "why doesn't /a/ talk about good shows, instead of what's currently airing/ popular?" If you came here to find something good that isn't recent, you'll have to spend so much time lurking it will be like a part-time job.

Simba becomes the next "Lion King"

>>43063003
I've seen around that many shows and a screenshot I don't recognize pops up every now and then. Why would I recognize shows I haven't watched? Fortunately most of the time I don't care about the source.

>>43062882

Umadbro?

You can say Kurokami anime is shit, many would agree. Just point them to the superior manga, it's much better and the mc isn't a typical high school harem faggot. Bro is a boss.

How about I go on Narutofan and request sauce every time someone posts a picture of Naruto?

/a/ used to be more fun

not nice, just fun

i only give sauce, when the anime/image isn´t moe/shounen flavour of the month shit, when the image is like 12859374.jpg or when saucenao etc. are failing (for example shooped or cropped images). In any other case, the requesting anon can lurk forever for all i care.

>>43062947
>1/10
>claiming to have a vast wealth of knowledge to draw upon, but best image he could find for his post was kuroko from currently airing series

Aladden gets his wish.

>>43060985
Hahaha oh wow.
This place is pretty much dead to me anyway.

>>43063070
Keita is automatically awesome for hitting his mom.

The beast turns back into a prince.

>>43062805
this

/a/ has evolved into a board for discussion of contemporary anime, and it should be expected that if you're the kind of person who reads 2chan, watches raws, and gets the newest episode the minute it's up, that you should be somewhat knowledgeable about anime.

Unfortunately, the internet has made it easy for any idiot to have access to these things, not just hardcore fans, so you get a bunch of children with entitlement complexes who think that they shouldn't have to do any work whatsoever for something; these are the people who call anybody who knows Japanese a weeaboo faggot while simultaneously complaining that their shows aren't getting fansubbed fast enough.

The only time when asking for the source is appropriate is if, and only if the anime or manga in question is (relatively) obscure. If it's somewhat mainstream, or the file name already has a hint then lurk more.

>>43063070
I'm not pointing them to anything, it's just a given that there are a lot of cool-looking fight gifs from what happen to be mediocre anime series. This is one of the pitfalls of looking at a cool image, demanding sauce, and letting that be your research tactic for finding new entertainment. Kurokami is just the one I remembered offhand.

>>43063033
>I don't think I'm right with thinking /a/ should be lighthearted. In fact I'm not. Everyone has a different idea for what /a/ should be like but being a faggot about it is just retarded. It will never happen (especially if it's something like "everyone should be an elitist").

If you want your place to discuss anime to be the sort of place for elitists OP and others are demanding then I've got news for you: There's a ton of forums that are precicely like that. Feel free to make your own which people can only join once they prove they're the type of person you are looking for.

>>43062947
sauce

They end up on a reservation.

>>43062985
>>43063003
>>43063005
>There's no way someone who has seen over 400 series wouldn't recognize a show being discussed on /a/
There's always an exception
>Almost all of the more obscure stuff has the source given
Not all

>>43063047
I know /a/ doesn't talk much about old shows, I lurk here several hours a day but it's impossible to know every single show.

>>43063159
Well how could you know if something is "obscure" or not if you've never seen/heard of it before?

This site is where people who have seen or are watching stuff discuss it with other people
If you don't know what something is, save the image and ask on MAL or wherever the fuck you came from

>>43063153
See >>43063207

Why would you complain about every random idiot being able to access your "super secret club for anime veterans" when it's a fucking ANONYMOUS IMAGEBOARD ANYONE CAN WRITE ON. Make your exclusive as hell site on your own if you want to.

>>43063056
>Why would I recognize shows I haven't watched?
I recognize lots of shows I haven't watched. Mostly just from being on /a/. If you spend any time here and aren't a complete idiot, you start to absorb things just from little glances.

>>43062844
I'm middle generation myself (2007) and find this shit depressing.

>>43061217
This.

>>43063236
If you spend several hours a day here, you would know that /a/ is primarily a place to come for new kubo images and similar things. I'm semi-retired now and am on here every couple of hours, but the bulk of threads are on current/recently aired shows.

>>43060888
>/a/ Is my speacial tree fort, no newfags allowed

>>43063338
Correct

>>43063285
Sorry if I made it sound like everyone from that time period is a faggot because of course they aren't. It's just that they (and a portion of the original visitors I'd guess) are mainly the "/a/ should be elitist as shit" generation.

If you get flamed for asking for sauce then you know you should have lurked more. Obviously the anime or manga in question is well-known enough. The correct way to proceed is: shut the fuck up, do some googling and image searching and stop being a butthurt little faggot about it.

The advantage of this way of dealing with it is that you learn a thing of two in the process.

I think I got here at the end of 08 or beginning of 09.
Either way I'm pretty new.
Don't really give a shit about sources because reading the thread or iqdb/tineye is usually enough.
If that fails I just save the picture in a folder where I will be able to know where it's from some day. Either that or if I really want to know I take it to /r/.

There's no use discussing this. Old /a/ will never come back, this board will only deteriorate.

>>43063098
Picture folder and TB download on Utorrent.

>>43063215
Railgun OVA 2

>If you spend several hours a day here, you would know that /a/ is primarily a place to come for new kubo images and similar things. I'm semi-retired now and am on here every couple of hours, but the bulk of threads are on current/recently aired shows.
I know that.

>>43063338
why yes, yes it is

The worst part is that you elitist faggots also think everyone has to know every doujin ever.

So OP and the like. Do you actually find all the threads where 10% is discussion and 90% is "THIS SERIES SUCKS!" good? 'Cause that's what elitist /a/ is all about: "My opinion is correct and fact and everyone else is a faggot."

>but it's against the board rules
so is flaming and trolling, lol

>>43063338
It's not like these people are just new to the site. They act like they are new to the fucking internet. No idea how to use basic google to find anything. There are people in here asking for sauce on Index manga, in the general thread; where the OP has links to light novels, recent manga, etc.

They're not new to 4chan they are new to the fucking internet, computers, and the whole fucking world in general it seems like. How they even wind up here is a mystery to me.

>>43060888
You sound like a newfag.

Being helpful and educating others is a good thing. People asking about the source of a picture are not always clueless people. Sometimes it's hard to find the source - even with multi-service imagesearchs etc.

I've been here for so many years now and I still don't get why people think that it's a good thing to disrespect, shame and belittle new users. Why do you want to act like an asshole this bad? I don't get it. Honestly... it destroys the atmosphere.

Believe it or not. Sometimes there are nice discussions on /a/... discussions worth following with people asking questions, voicing opinions and showing genuine interest what they like.

>>43063397
thx
any good streaming sites for it?

>>43063442
>90% is "THIS SERIES SUCKS!"
That has nothing to do with that "source" argument.
I would rather the threads weren't like that but they are going to be like that regardless

>>43063274
We're not complaining about them being able to access /a/, we're complaining about people whose initial instinct is a "me too!" attitude about things they see here. They recognize the elitists and their secret club, and want to be a part of it without having to do any of the work necessary to actually being labeled "elitist"

It's about recognizing other people's input to the community, versus those who simply leech. If someone said, "The characters in this picture are interesting; the design reminds me of Kenichi Sonoda. Do you mind telling me what it's from?" he'll probably get sauce, and likely start a glorious Sonoda-tangent.

Whereas, "what anime is this"-fag rightfully deserves to be shit on for posting like he does

for the faggot that didnt know the kiss x sis ova, they never have sex

> Implying being elitist about fucking cartoons because you suck at everything else in life isn't the epitome of fail

>>43063510
Don't stream anime.

>>43063397
If you know that, then you know it's far easier and quicker to find quality series by going to a different site. So I stand by what I said before: anons should mostly be discussing what they've already seen here, not lurking hoping to find a needle (good series) in a haystack (shit we talk about / mostly whine+complain about)

>'Cause that's what elitist /a/ is all about: "My opinion is correct and fact and everyone else is a faggot."
Are you fucking serious?

>>43063513

Nobody wants to be an elitist, elitists fail at life.

People want to watch a show because they hear it's good. It's not about joining any kind of club.

If you think this highly of yourself because you've watched a few cartoons you seriously need to get a fucking life.

>>43063384
>The advantage of this way of dealing with it is that you learn a thing of two in the process.
Precisely. I'm in process of making a better chart: this one is too ugly.

>>43063442

I don't and I find that small threads around 30 pages or less have better discussions than 200+ page threads where everyone posts about how much of a faggot the other person is.

I also like posting random pics from series in hopes that faggots will watch it. I've watched several animes based on just pics alone.

>>43063511
Fair enough. I actually think some of the most hated series (like big 3) have the most civil discussions if you take out all the posts that are there just to hate/troll. While I don't follow any of them it's pretty painful to witness people having nothing better to do than shit up threads of series they don't like. Just hide the threads and move on, faggot.

>>43063513
There is no secret club and most of the "elitist" users don't know much about anime/manga anyway. They know some new series, but they don't know the classics.
They get mad if someone doesn't know what they like and belittle people that know more than they know. It's a sad sight.

Be nice, educate others that are interested in learning, ignore those that aren't interested in learning, ignore elitist seminewfags, help people out, tell people about what's important to you (but don't force them to agree with you)... generally... be a person that's fun to communicate with. Not some douchebag that only care about his/her status in an anonymous community.

>This thread

That's why when I need sauce, I go to other sites.

As simple as that.

Ahem. I professionally watch anime.

>>43063597
You probably typed page instead of post by mistake?

>>43063564
i don't wanna waste hard drive space on my laptop
is index the sequel to raingun? i see both on anilinkz

>>43063591
>elitists fail at life
I stopped reading here. Try again without ad hominem

>>43063651
Why should I have to be nice? When I got here, nobody was nice to me, and you know what, I became a better poster for it.

>>43063578
I'm not hoping to find anything, I don't come here to "find" good series. I come here to discuss anime.
It's just that sometimes it happens that someone posts a good obscure series.

>Lurk for hours
>Have a job and college
>IQDB, etc not working
>/a/ - LURK MOAR NEWFAG

I DON'T HAVE TIME TO LURK!

inb4 normalfag. I have to get money for figures and dakimura somehow, faggots.

>>43063591

This. If I wanted in-the-group vs out-of-the-group bullshit, if the pull was exclusivity, I wouldn't go to a fuckin' anonymous imageboard. I just want to get people's thoughts on the latest anime.

>>43063711

Also this. I'm on the grind on my thesis right now. I don't have time to be on here all day.

>>43063675
Stop that already.

>>43063591
I don't think highly of myself for watching cartoons, I think highly of myself because I know that I am capable of contributing meaningfully to a community that I am a part of.

This was more obvious when 4chan was in its infancy, and there was more original content. I bet if the guy who came up with frosted butts knew how much I still love it, he'd at least smile a little.

the ONLY thing 4chan has going for it is that it is a forum for user generated content, but newfags don't realize that and just think of it as another repository of information that they can come and get things from. They don't realize that quality participation is the only thing that makes this place good >implying 4chan is, or ever has been, good

>>43063711
>>43063744
You're too good to watch anime anyways. Get out of /jp/.

>>43063711
Browse /a/ at work.

>>43063711
>>43063744

Then fuck off. Why the fuck should we have to accommodate you normalfags?

>>43063675
>i don't wanna waste hard drive space on my laptop
Excuse. Read this.

>is index the sequel to raingun? i see both on anilinkz
I assume you're a troll.

>>43063675
Index and railgun both happen at the same time so you could watch either one.

>>43063711
>>43063744
Do your fucking homework in your free time. Don't bother us because you can't actually be assed to be a hobbyist.

>>43063767
>Would rather not get fired for browsing what is pretty much a porn site at work

Ahahahahahaha.

>>43063675
>>43063510
>>43063215
>Not knowing Railgun
>Streaming
>Asking if Index is the sequel
>Anilinkz

In b4 claiming you're not the most obvious troll ever

>>43063711
See this fucking misuse of quote?
That's what we mean by this.

>>43063769
Here we go,

TRUE NEET ARGUMENT STAATO

>>43063698
Somebody has to start being nice, right? I always try to be. At least here where it costs next to no effort. Yeah... some idiots will belittle you for telling someone who didn't know that a certain picture showed Amuro from Gundam about the series and that it's great even though it's old, but those people most likely never watched the series. They just want to be asshats... even though there is nothing to gain from that.

>>43063710
But those aren't the saucefags people are bitching about. If you ask WTF wings of honnemaise is or grave of the fireflies, nobody is going to be bothered. People asking for sauce on popular shows like Bleach (seen that happen quite a few times), and currently airing shows are what piss off other posters for the most part. Nobody is bitching that you don't have every obscure show memorized. Everybody is complaining that people ask for sauce on shit a monkey should be able to figure out.

>>43063797
>Use quote to summarize events
>Shorthand to avoid writing paragraphs on a simple matter

>>43063711
>I have to get money for figures and dakimura somehow
If that's the case, I'd assume you know a decent amount of shows and don't need someone to give it to you anyway. Or are you saying you know nothing about anime but are buying merchandise regardless?

>>43063711
>I DON'T HAVE TIME TO LURK!
and yet you still have time to post and complain about shit

>>43063769
Here's a better question: why should we normalfags accommodate to you elitistfags? We have always been here. In the beginning it was mostly us.

>>43063816
No, the thing to be gained from that is that the newfag can either leave or learn to be a self-sufficient human being and figure that shit out. Even if that just means taking it to /r/ for Christ's sake.

>>43063836

This. I'd argue people with, you know, lives, are the bulk of the anime/manga hobby.

>>43063663
Sauce

>>43063836
haha, nice try

>>43063836
Because you're in our hobby. You won't even care about anime in five years.

>>43063825
>But those aren't the saucefags people are bitching about. If you ask WTF wings of honnemaise is or grave of the fireflies, nobody is going to be bothered. People asking for sauce on popular shows like Bleach (seen that happen quite a few times), and currently airing shows are what piss off other posters for the most part. Nobody is bitching that you don't have every obscure show memorized. Everybody is complaining that people ask for sauce on shit a monkey should be able to figure out.

>>43063836
>in the beginning

nope.avi

Nice revisionist history. /a/, and 4chan as a whole, had a much more elitist and subversive nature back in the early days. It's fags like you who have dulled both.

>>43063867
Not in Japan. Not here either. You have mostly weeaboo losers who watch Naruto, and then you have guys like us who skulk in the shadows and keep it to ourselves. You are a minority.

Is there currently no school in AmurrriKKKa? Some holy day or something?
/a/ seems a lot shittier than usual during this time of day.
Threads like this being a huge indicator.

>>43062947
This. I just avoid the drama and list source in the file name of the shit I post. Don't like it? Well too bad.

>>43063832
What? You are afraid to miss your Bleach thread if you don't type fast enough? Get the fuck out.

>>43063873
Reported for trolling, /b/tard.

>>43063796
It's not even a troll. I just copied another couple of posts I saw this weekend, almost verbatim (shorter). Except that newfag wasn't trolling. Just showing, that's why people get pissed off about sauce requests. Because of the idiots behind half of them.

>>43063921
You're free to leave. You won't be missed.

>>43063825
>If you ask WTF wings of honnemaise is or grave of the fireflies, nobody is going to be bothered.
Most elitistfags still wouldn't provide sauce.
To be honest most of you guys don't even care about newfags, you just like to play with people for no reason(sauce? LOL NO I WONT GIVE xD). It's almost a sexual pleasure for you guys.

>implying a newfag would be obsessed with anime as much as you enough to care about some stupid "spoiler"

basement dweller detected

>>43063676

I'd hardly call it an ad hominem since elitism is generally used as a slur... Btw nice strawman, I bet you get out of plenty of mature discussions that way.

Look at all those newfriends getting mad.

>>43063861
It's much easier to help out sometimes and get some help from others sometimes. You don't really need to do everything yourself. Relying on others isn't that bad as long as you can't do it yourself, too.
It takes much more time and effort to do it yourself and it costs next to no effort for someone else to help out.

You are just scum that loves the elitist feel without even being self-sufficient yourself.

0_0 Whats going on in this thread.

>>43063963
You've really convinced yourself of that, haven't you? That's why we hate you newfags.

>>43063836
because we're the ones who actually know shit about anime. we translate your shows, we keep up to date on anime news from japan, we grab screencaps from 2chan, we scour share for dojin raws; basically, act as intermediaries that makes your hobby accessible.

and if you do any of these things, you AREN'T just a normalfag anymore.

>>43063882
Sure I will. I freaking love anime, have watched it almost every day for 7 and a half years. I also have friends and go to work but 90% of my free time is spent on anime/games. Not planning on getting a girl though as it feels like way too much work and I don't feel like cutting time out of anime/games/friends time.

sauce?

>>43063921
/b/ is unusable, so they shit up other boards.
My /tv/ went to hell too, /jp/ and /x/ are down to 3 pages or so.

>>43063895
Sorry, I greenquoted because my sausage fingers are too fat to type properly. I'm going to have to hire a midget or mexican so I can dictate my posts.

>>43063913

Color me skeptical. I'll admit the low-grade Narutards are everywhere, but I've met far more people at least at my age level who can talk Evangelion or Utena with exceptional coherency and still manage to be going somewhere in life than people who still live with their parents and buy tons of anime. I only know one chick like that, now that I think about it, and she's starting to pull her life together now because she got old enough that she started needing to pay her own way through life. On the other hand, the girls who talk Gundam Seed at the coffee shop while they type their English papers, or at weekend parties after nine to fiving it all week, I know dozens.

>>43060888
Nice trips OP
and one more thing.

Let's I am in cinema. Someone asks me about a movie that's poster is in there. Should spoil whole movie just because someone didn't googled it himself.

>>43063963
lol there's a "no sauce" thread going on right now

>>43063941
So the idiot wasn't you (kinda), but >>43063397 &
>>43063773, who did the "good guy" charade and contributed to spread the cancer of laziness and idiocy.

>>43064004
Battletoads

>>43064026
typo fuck
>let's say I am

>>43063993
I know that because it happened to me more than once. And I've been here since 4chan started.

>>43063913
So you are not a narutard, nor a normalfag? May I ask you what you are? A well educated and knowledgable person that has watched all anime series ever made?

>>43063981
But why should I care about helping some who can do it himself? There is no reason. I'm not going to be nice to someone just because, especially when I know he's just going to be gone in a year or two.

I'm not obligated, nor expected, to be anybody's friend here. Get your own sauce, you fags.

>>43063995
Listen to this man.
>>43064000
>implying you're not already becoming one of us
>>43064016
>implying eva is lolDEEP

OP, doesn't realize how hard he got troll'd.

I'm sorry, OP, but it's true. Newfag trolls ask for source to piss you off. It's obvious. Notice how within seconds the first reply to most of your Opening Posts are source requests? That's those sly little newfags watching out for new threads and attacking.

TRUST ME...

>>43063816
Well, I don't think /a/ should just be a downright dick to people who really need source. However, if the newfags just lurked a little bit they'd have the recommendation lists, and have a general idea of popular shows. What I don't approve of are retards who are too lazy/stupid to even look at a filename and Google or ask for sauce on popular shows.

We shouldn't drive away people that like anime, but we should drive away retards. Being an elitist drives away both, but I guess /a/ considers it the lesser of two evils.

>>43064056
How long you've been here doesn't stop you from being a newfag. If you don't get why we don't give you the source like all your best buds on MAL, then you need to get out.

>>43064026
>Nice trips OP
/b/tard. GTFO.

>Let's I am in cinema. Someone asks me about a movie that's poster is in there. Should spoil whole movie just because someone didn't googled it himself.
My brain is full of fuck.

>>43064034
>, who did the "good guy" charade and contributed to spread the cancer of laziness and idiocy.

It was me and i will alway's do the "good guy charade" since thats what you call it now.

>>43063995
I'm still a normalfag. Nobody would ever think that I'm involved in this stuff. BTW - if someone asks online about a show I'm happy to help out. Just don't ask me in real life... I will pretend that I don't know anything about anime/manga.

>>43064090
The overlap of people that like anime and retards is so overwhelmingly great that it's definitely the lesser of 2 evils.

As a bit of an animu newfag and /a/ lurker, everyone bitching about not getting sauce can suck a bag of AIDS-infested dicks. /a/ isn't the only site on the internet; go find something more useful for sauce.

>>43064016
Your personal anecdotes are worthless. Besides, watching even a few series doesn't make you an anime fan. It makes you a person who happens to like a few anime series. Utena and Eva are a couple of these series that almost anyone within their target demographics has seen, and don't get me started on Gundam SEED. Shit is a travesty.

>>43064026
You should spend two seconds taking a closer look at the poster, as the name of the movie is usually on it.

>>43064094
haha I don't go to MAL or animesuki or whatever.
The reason you don't give sauce is >>43063963

>>43064136
hey bro i saw this pic where this guy was wearing a robe or some shit and he had a big sword XD
sauce pl0x ^_^

>>43064090
>people who really need source
NOBODY really needs source. they just really want it.

>>43064034
I can understand his viewpoint, that it doesn't cost him anything to provide a source. That it's just good karma. I don't believe in elitism/ memorizing every series out there. But I don't think this should be babby's first stop on the internet. This is mostly a place to discuss things you've already seen; the format (quickly expiring pages mostly about recent shows) lends itself to that. Not getting a ranked list of "good/quality" shows. We've had an explosion of newfags who haven't really watched any anime at all and are starting from here, with nothing to contribute but an overabundance of ignorance.

>>43064168
>he doesn't understand what standards are

>>43064059
I've been the same all my life. I've always kept to my hobbies a lot but never have thought about giving up on social life.

>>43063995
I do a number of those things but /a/ has claimed numerous times that anyone who has social life / work / school is a normalfag and doesn't belong here.

>>43064057
I'm an anime fan. I like anime in general and have seen at least 100 series. I am the bare minimum for what should be expected on /a/

>>43064112
>implying noticing trips = being a /b/tard
anyways...

Maybe I worded it wrong.
I was relating to OP's picture.
Spoiling just because someone asks is faggotry

>>43064125
Look, retard. Help people with things that really do deserve source, like >>43063825 said.

But for stuff that is constantly posted here (eg. Railgun), don't. Why do you help lazy fucks not do their own fucking search? Why do you help idiocy, by giving everything to idiots on a silver platter?

>>43064094
You don't give source because you love the feeling of superiority... however artificial and pathetic it may be. There is nothing to gain from that behavior. It won't drive people away. It won't stop anyone from asking. You either ignore the question or you answer it properly. Everything else is utter bullshit and plain stupid.

>>43060888

I don't understand your question.

>>43064230
>not planning on getting a 3DPD because he'd have less time for anime
>have never thought about giving up on social life

It's just a matter of time, /a/non. You can't resist the introjection.

>>43064158
That's what I've noticed and that's why I support any /a/ elitism. It doesn't bother me if retards don't get sauce and in a way it helps clean up the place.

Of course, not really, because there's always that one asshole that gives it out anyway.

>>43064230
If you have a social life, you're not watching nearly enough anime. Even if you like anime, you're treating it as a minor interest rather than a full blown hobby.

>>43063963
>Most elitistfags still wouldn't provide sauce.
Bullshit.
>To be honest most of you guys don't even care about newfags, you just like to play with people for no reason(sauce? LOL NO I WONT GIVE xD). It's almost a sexual pleasure for you guys.
Even bigger bullshit. Stop playing the good guy here, moron.

lol sauce??

>>43063963
Bullshit. There was a 90's thread earlier today where I was handing out sauce left and right. People can be expected to not know something from 15 years ago. If they're going to be participating on /a/, they should be able to recognize OreImo or Star Driver by now.

>>43064016
>girls who talk Gundam Seed at the coffee shop while they type their English papers, or at weekend parties after nine to fiving it all week, I know dozens.
Seriously dude? I know I shouldn't even respond to this. But you think anons know so little about women that we'd actually believe young women would have any interest in isolated activities rather than social ones? Guys have hobbies. Girls have socializing. I've listened to girls talk at a coffeeshop for hours on nothing but the relationships etc. between all their dumbass friends. Sigh... there's a reason why most girls who are really into computers/anime/vidya are fat, gross, or otherwise terrible.

>>43064269
STOP fucking projecting.

>>43064203
Yeah, that's true I guess. In all my time here I haven't asked for sauce once. Then again, I lurked for a bit before I started posting.

But I see no problem if they've actually exhausted their resources and are genuinely interested. The problem isn't sauce, it's newfaggotry and laziness. If they aren't even willing to do some work on their own, they probably don't give a fuck about the show or respect anime in general and this I can't stand.

>>43064346
Your words hurt me ;_;

But it's true, I don't give a fuck about anything.

>>43064305
Bullshit, there aren't enough good anime to watch.

You'd have to watch every shitty garbage to fill out so much time over the course of years.
That doesn't make you a fan, it makes you a retard with bad taste.

>>43064336
>giving out sauce left and right

God damn it. You're the problem. Newfags need to feel that they're not up to our level. Then, they either get intimidated and leave, or rise up to the challenge. Mollycoddling these fags just results in a horde of retards who can easily fit right on.

Every time a doubles thread gets posted, people like you should be banned.

>>43064336
That's just 1 case, smartass.
I've seen it happening dozen of times.

cant wait for moot to open up his new website (canvas)
all the newfags will leave and we finally got some peace

>>43064258
Because i like to help.
"?Post"Sauce
"Answerpost"Answer
Then that entire ordeal is taking care of you elitistfag.

Hey guys, lets have a good ol' fashioned GIF thread and then we can all experience the retardation of the saucefags together!

>>43064381
>The problem isn't sauce, it's newfaggotry and laziness. If they aren't even willing to do some work on their own, they probably don't give a fuck about the show or respect anime in general and this I can't stand.
That's half of the problem. The other half is this:

>>43064125
>It was me and i will alway's do the "good guy charade" since thats what you call it now.

Idiots who help lazy fucks such as >>43063675, who can't be bothered to do their own homework.

>>43064449
Sauce?

>Sauce is always Birdy.gif

>260 posts and 34 image replies omitted. Click Reply to view.

Are the newfags butt hurt over possibly being spoiled?

You seriously don't expect me to know all the fucking names of every doujin right?
People who can't give source are just assholes. It's not like lurking
will even get you to know those doujin's names, since noone ever gives source.

It's pretty funny that people on /a/ think that they are the top of the crop. Just take a look at the first page and reload it a few times? How many educated and thrilling discussions about anime do you see? None? I thought so.

Why? Because people just want to piss other people off. Trying to swing around massive electronic penises and being a dick to blow off some steam. That's what most people use this board for.

Once in a blue moon there is a worthwhile discussion, but that's a rare sight.

Still... there are some people on /a/ that are able to rival with my knowledge. I don't know any other community with that many people that know their shit about anime/manga. The sad thing is that they almost never ever show their knowledge.

>>43064381
>If they aren't even willing to do some work on their own, they probably don't give a fuck about the show or respect anime in general
THIS. I don't care if you watch the shows I watch, but if you seem like you're an idiot who's going to make /a/ worse than it already is, I'm going to make you have to do at least a little bit of work if you want to shit the place up.

None of us so-called "elitists" think that /a/ is our super-secret club; 99% of what we know is information that was freely available on the internet. If we learned it on our own, you can too.

But admittedly, some things I do keep secret; I won't post livestream links here, even though I really wish I could share them with people who actually care, because there are just too many assholes on /a/ who think it's fun to spam faggotry in chats and piss off the 11s.

>>43064466
but im on a mac, i dont have the same internet as you guys

>>43064536
You must be new.

By lurking, you will learn how to know the source without having to ask for it. Once you realize how simple it is, you'll also learn to look down on fags who are how you once were, yet can't bother to learn how to be like you now are.

>>43064537
Worthwhile topics have trouble staying afloat amidst all the moe, waifu, get and number threads.

Okay. It has probably been said already, but this thread is already fucking long and by the time I'm done reading it, it will be on autosage, so whatever.
I don't have a problem with giving sauce to some Anons. Providing that the anime is not a popular one, that is.
But hell, asking for source when the anime is popular or well-known (for example that thread where some guy was asking where Saber was from, or people asking for source when the source is Higurashi or Umineko) are just lazy.
Those people need to learn to lurk more. Nothing else.

>>43064294
I've never had much of an interest in women other than sexual interest. I'm completely straight but I just don't like the company of the vast majority of women and by observing every relationship ever I feel it's definitely not something I want to end up in. On the other hand I have a couple of good male friends who I love spending time with playing video games and watching anime. Both of them like me have seen hundreds upon hundreds of series and I don't see myself stopping my social life with them. My only fear is that either of them gets a girlfriend. That would seriously shit up any fun we could have.

>>43064537
>How many educated and thrilling discussions about anime do you see? None?
Well no shit, it's fucking wednesday. The only noteworthy show that airs on wednesday is TWGOK, and it's not even really that good.

4 words...
4 words that aren't said enough...

Lurk the fuck more.

>>43064537
>implying I should waste my superior knowledge on a casualfag like yourself

>>43064592
>is just laziness
I accidentally the whole sentence.

If we don't give out the source, we're helping the newfags by encouraging self-sufficiency. "Good guy charade"fags are just helping the spread of cancer. If you really want to help them, encourage lurking, it almost never fails. It hasn't failed me, yet.

Being new isn't an excuse to shit up a board, but it seems a lot of newfags don't get this. They should join a forum if they really want help.

>>43064537
Go to the Star Driver threads that pop up after subs are out. You'd be surprised.

>>43064610
>3DPD, bitches and whores, etc.

See? It's already starting. Soon, you'll be one of us. one of us, one of us.

>>43064537
>refreshing top page
Or realize the built-in behavior is shit, and install the extensions so you can just click through the top 30 threads in about 2 minutes, flagging anything interesting. Then go through those.

Dunno who you think believes they are the cream of the crop... all the oldfags who come here know it's shit. People should at least know how to use google to search for filenames.

I support this, not for every show but pretty much the blatant popular ones like GL or ones that aired in the recent seasons. I can't blame people for not knowing some of the more obscure older shows but anything that aired in toonami or was huge in its day any one should figure out by lurking, google, tiny eye etc.

However, I won't personally go out of my way to soil things simply cause I am just too lazy. I do support it though.

>>43064438
It's not the act of helping what bothers me. It's the act of enabling laziness.

>>43063675 was a troll, even the poster admitted it. The only thing you're doing is tolerating people to be stupid and lazy and have everything on a silver platter with no effort of their own.

Stop doing that, seriously. If you want to help, do it to people who deserve it, not morons who stream or don't know about a series that has permanent threads on /a/ and can't be bothered to lurk on /a/, TinEye or Danbooru for 15 minutes. The cancer isn't asking source, is you.

>is taking care of you elitistfag
Strawman. I won't bite.

late to the party, but sage, reported

everyone in this thraed needs a permaban