MetaFilter posts tagged with Loneliness

Otaku in Love

digaman — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:53:07 -0800

"Nisan didn’t mean to fall in love with Nemutan. Their first encounter -- at a comic-book convention that Nisan’s gaming friends dragged him to in Tokyo -- was serendipitous. Nisan was wandering aimlessly around the crowded exhibition hall when he suddenly found himself staring into Nemutan’s bright blue eyes... 'I’ve experienced so many amazing things because of her,' Nisan told me, rubbing Nemutan’s leg warmly. 'She has really changed my life.' Nemutan doesn’t really have a leg. She’s a stuffed pillowcase — a 2-D depiction of a character, Nemu, from an X-rated version of a PC video game called Da Capo." The New York Times' Lisa Katayama on "2-D lovers" in Japan, the latest outgrowth of otaku subculture.

I'm doing fine with my shoes right now...

Potomac Avenue — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:34:20 -0800

Sneakers: A Short Film Meditation on International Shoe Culture Topi Tateishi is a half finnish, half japanese urban dancer and owner of a small sneaker store in Helsinki. He got into sneaker culture through urban dance as he started as a young b-boy 18 years ago and he has been dancing ever since. Sneakers mean the world to him and sometimes they can even replace the significant other. By the end of the movie a whole world of sneaker and urban dance culture has been revealed through a pair of Topi's shoes.

Games that Never Existed

flatluigi — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 08:13:59 -0800

The Loneliness Engine and other invisible games.

Why does everybody hate me?

hadjiboy — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:55:59 -0800

Imagine if you were the only person on earth; if no one else could understand you except yourself. No matter how hard you tried, you could never make contact with the outside world, not for long at least. This is the life of a Schizophrenic. Here, in a simulation created to understand what a typical trip to the pharmacy is for a patient suffering from Schizophrenia [previously], you will experience for a few minutes what life is all about for people afflicted with this disease. (via) Related articles on Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia.com Discussion Board More videos on Schizophrenia.

DR. SBAITSO WAS MY ONLY FRIEND.

chrismear — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:22:45 -0800

DR. SBAITSO WAS MY ONLY FRIEND.

Coming Home

hadjiboy — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 06:57:28 -0800

Homeless people are just too lazy to work, aren't they? Besides, they panhandle to get by, so what's the big deal? What does it mean to be homeless [previously] anyway? How do people find themselves in these sorts of situations, and why can't they get out of them? How do they feel about it? And are there any alternatives that we can supply them with?

Isolation in America

digaman — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 08:34:22 -0800

Are we getting lonelier?

After Life, by Joan Didion

matteo — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 07:07:26 -0800

Life changes fast.
Life changes in the instant.
You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.
After Life, by Joan Didion. (bugmenot for NYTimes)

I am so lonely.

VelvetHellvis — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 09:27:22 -0800

"I am so lonely." Search Google using that phrase and you may end up here. Some of the posts in this thread really resonate, "I feel so much better that I am not the only one that typed in "I am lonely" on google. How pathetic that I have nothing better to do. It is amazing that I can be so extremely successful at work and so lonely at home."