What would your shadow self have to say to make you shout "YOU ARE NOT ME!"?
>>336365664
you're a risk-averse beta who'd rather spend all his time inside enjoying the zero risk zero stress 'comfort' of the internet and video games rather than go out into the world and make mistakes and live life like everybody else because you've been so sheltered and pampered you view any mistakes as fatal
>>336365924
>>336365924
Yep, that's about it for everyone in here.
First post is almost always the best.
>>336365924
why'd you have to do that anon? ;_;
>>336365664
It couldn't. I hate myself too much for a shadow version of me to have any effect. If anything we'd just be sarcastic and meme it up not-so-ironically together.
>>336365924
>you're a risk-averse
only thing correct, you tried though
>>336365924
My excuse is that video games and internet is all is genuinely want, and interacting with people is draining and so i don't see the appeal.
What's your excuse, /v/ ?
Is it a good one ?
Let's hear it.
>>336365924
It's not that I view mistakes as fatal
I'm just scared to disappoint everyone else
>>336365924
And I'd reply with
>yes? And?
>DAMN. NOT HERE
>>336365924
Nah this is me. I can admit that. I don't know about the beta part though. I can still be sociable and liked when I make the effort.
>>336365924
Does the whole shadow thing even work on people self aware of their issues with no desire to change them?
>>336365924
>stating the obvious
Easiest shadow ever.
>>336366670
Maybe a shadow of someone with already a great capacity for introspection would only result in a clone.selfcest best cest
>>336366238
I'm with you, anon. As pathetic as it is, video games is all that have really interested me besides reading so far.
>>336366670
Yeah. In Persona 2, most of the characters accepted that their Shadow selves were a reflection of their deepest feelings, and it just agitated the Shadow into a fight.
>>336366670
It's not about change but more about acceptance.
Maybe we'll see something like that in P5 though. I know I'd like to.
>>336366778
This.
What did autistic people do pre-internet?
>>336366886
I'd fuck my shadow but he's probably out of my league desu.
>>336367078
A lot less of them were around because they were forced to socialize more and couldn't feel some sense of satisfaction sitting in their house all day.
>>336366238
I don't drink beer or any sort of alcoholic beverage, I don't really care for sports minus that one world championship match between portugal and brazil back on the 2000s, hate nighclubs and most "club" music most people like to hear, my country isn't very into videogames so the chances of me finding some buds who are into the same level as me are almost 0, same with gals, and despite me being able to actually talk pretty well with people and sometimes enjoying it, I always lack context to do so, oportunity, something to talk about and many times Id just enjoy playing videogames and relaxing at home more.
Good enough anon?
>>336365664
>you're a jerk who barely has any friends and never had a girlfriend
I don't give a shit.
And 'being a jerk' and 'having anger management problems' are different.
Get it right for once, me.
>your pathetic excuse of a life is so sad that you imagine yourself in anime when spacing out 'cause you're bored and feel a little lonely
C'mon, everyone who's an introvert, and probably a weaboo, had that experience or something similar to that once or more
>you also crossdress when you we're a kid and got caught twice by your mom
>mfw
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
NOPE. NOT LISTENING TO THIS SHIT.
YOU'RE NOT ME BECAUSE FUCK YOU, YOU SHATTERED MY SELF-CONFIDENCE.
These threads are pure cringe
IM GONNA MARRY PRAXIS
>>336367473
NO THEYRE NOT
YOURE NOT ME
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>336365924
I'm pretty sure it would be more towards actually having desire to be a normie, since everything stated here is pretty obvious.
>>336367416
I'd crossdress with you anon.
>>336367416
I'd crossdress with you
>>336367416
>ywn cum into anon's shota ass while he's crossdressing
>>336367710
>>336367908
Oh,y-you guys...
>>336368028
L-lewd!
"You're a good person with something to offer."
"No matter how much you run from the past, no matter how much you hide from your problems, you'll never to be able to escape from what you're really running from, that which you loathe the most: Yourself."
>>336365924
>my shadow self would try to be a smartass with completely uncalled for observations
That's me alright
>>336365664
You tried to convince yourself that your ex was a terrible person and things could never have worked out between you because you're too different, but you know just as well as I do that you made many mistakes, lied, and acted like an immature brat, and are the real reason you both ended up hating each other.
You think that you can be happy with your video games and stand-in seasonal anime fixations but that only distracts you from the reality that you're lonely, have no friends, and long for companionship but are too scared of the possibility of your own horrible personality destroying another relationship and leaving you bitter, resentful, and alone yet again.
"You're mom knows the soda cans you leave in that one spot are filled with your cum"
>>336367416
>>you also crossdress when you we're a kid and got caught by your mom
well that's kinda embarassing but whatever
>twice
well, aren't you fucking incompetent, this right here is really fucking shameful
Probably just that I act more accepting and open than I feel sometimes. I can be a judgemental prick but I'm working on it and I try to keep it stuffed down.
>>336365924
you were not supposed to take it this serious, anon
>>336365924
Mine would be more focused on indecision. Ive been at the age where I am capable of doing anything and since I cant decide I choose to do nothing. I've always felt a calling to politics and could honestly change my major and be fine but it seems so pointless. Everybody chooses to be idiotic and not get along and the government chooses not to fix anything. I would use my whole life and, assuming I somehow managed to change everything, are these people worth sacrificing my life for? I've worked tech support and customer service to fund my college but ive had the job for 7 years nearly and people are trash. Nobody fucking cares about anybody, everybody thinks they are always right, people dont want to make progress they want to be right, etc etc. Its all so pointless. This is the most childish thing I have ever said but growing up playing Zelda I always wanted to be the hero and help people because people were good natured and grew together. This meant a lot to me and I always wanted to pave a path my siblings could follow and be a role model that meant everything to me. Now I'm older and everybody is a piece of shit. At least in video games the fake people deserve to live better.
>>336365924
I don't think anyone here denies that though.
We'll get our Personas, but they'll be shitty as fuck. Like.... Poltergeist.
>>336371505
>>336365664
>"you will never be the hero you've always wanted to be! Just another face in the crowd of millions"
Duh. Tell me something i don't know.
>"you're weebshit trash with a disgusting robot fetish and everyone knows how much you jerk off."
Hey at least I'v got some taste
>"you know. You use to be a really likable guy. Your friends loved having you around, you had a girlfriend, did well in school, was invited to parties... Then something changed in you. People found you harder to talk to. You became nasty and hateful. You drove away your girlfriend, The only person that would ever love someone like you. Your friends don't talk to you as much. All you do is sit in your room of your apartment and play video games, pretending the world doesn't exist until you have to go back to work. You are nothing but a shadow of what you once were and you will always be the disgusting human you are."
Fuck you man. You aren't me. I can change!
>>336371743
Don't get me wrong there are other ways to be a good person and I still plan on being something. I just no longer want to put up a fight to let people believe, hope and dream anymore because the only thing people hope and dream about is greed, gluttony, and power. Its so fucking cliché i want to fucking puke for even thinking like this.
>>336371743
I've always wished I was Kamen Rider, riding sick bikes and kicking assholes in the name of freedom and justice
>>336365924
Completely right. Although I don't hate my life outside vidya.
>>336366670
Well any person can produce a shadow but you have to accept it for it to become a Persona, otherwise it either attacks again or disappears
you enjoy video games
>>336373121
DELETE THIS
>>336365664
That would require me to first have a strong sense of self.
I do not. Hell I'm not even sure I even exist and I'm not just a figment of my own ego tunnel.
>>336365924
Aside from the pampered and sheltered thing you're correct.
>>336373247
Forgot my image.
>>336373121
IT AIN'T MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>336365924
>Not taking risks is considered bad
>>336373447
>bossfight is a senator's son
Do I even need to say anything to you? All of your problems are easily fixable, the fact that I even exist is because you refuse to work even remotely hard.
Besides we both know you're gonna become another wageslave anyway, why even bother fighting it at all?
>>336365664
Nigga, I don't even wanna go there. Seems like I have a talk with my shadow self every week or so.
I don't even know what the fuck buried shit will emerge if I deal with the source of my fears, which is lack of fucking money.
>>336373447
>Helicopter music plays
>>336365664
>Hey anon, you just love little girls, don't you? All you want is an elementary school girl on your dick and you know it, you filthy pervert. And that's not all, what about your little sister? You wouldn't mind if I told her how much you want her, would you? Maybe I should tell her right now!
>>336373729
caution is the path to mediocrity
>>336365664
Considering a Shadow is supposed to be all the things you won't admit about yourself to others, it would probably take the form of some cartoonish edgelord with the personality of something between Pegasus from Yugioh and Peacock from Skullgirls.
>>336365664
Nothing because i accept all my worse things about me, so it'll have to be something i'm completely unaware of.
>Either too scared to do anything important because trying and failing hurts
OR
>You are nothing behind the mask you stick on around people and the behaviour you mimic
>>336366238
This. I have never felt "loneliness" in my entire life. And I can only assume that loneliness is some sort of anxiety people feel when they're alone for long periods of time. I can enjoy socialization/hanging out with friends but I don't feel like it's really necessary, I might be broken or something.
I do have plenty of other problems the shadow could take on though, like the fact that I'm narcissistic and hedonistic as fuck but I always put up a nice, humble image around my family.
>>336372352
you can always be a vigilante, save up enough dosh to last you a long time on the lamb and do whatever you want
>>336365924
A-anon...
On a topic a bit more positive, What would your persona be if you accept yourself?
>>336378534
Probably a knight with a Hammer.
I like justice and to judge people.
>>336365664
Anything nasty, really. Though considering how uncanny it might be to see your own doppelganger insult you, I'd probably end up breaking down and crying non-stop.
![32514_320[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/HzoiyaC.jpg "32514_320[1].jpg")
>>336378534
>>336365924
Y-Y-YOU'RE NOT ME, ANON
>>336379148
It could probably be named Maillotin, after a French rebel army, or Maurice, after a member of an electoral college who was posthumously depicted with a Warhammer in hand.
>>336365924
Well, fuck you too.
>>336378534
a baby with a baby rattle since I've lived a sheltered life and I'm just an immature cuck who has never felt true pain
>>336379690
Kek
>>336365664
>Life is great
>>336378534
>>336380405
Cmon Anon, I'm sure there's more to you to that.
>>336365924
Well, you got me.
>>336365924
i've come around to making the best of it. but i constantly feel like everyone but me is living a much more fulfilling life, going to work and university and fucking each other happily
but i've got a sock to jack it with, and video games, and a computer, beyond that my only real concern is what i'm going to eat.
>>336372352
you should watch Samurai Flamenco for inspiration.
>"You're worried you'll have to suffer these dumb blogposting threads for all eternity!"
YOU'RE N-actually, that's pretty accurate, yeah.
>You're a horrible person who constantly tries to befriend people online and then has a hard time talking to them, making them feel like the guilty party when it's entirely your fault for cutting contact, which you do for usually no reason. You're getting too old to live in your parent's house but you don't have any tangible, real friends to move out with or to even help you. You have no job and no resume, and no experience or connections. There are people years younger than you that you see growing wiser than you ever were or will be, growing more rich both materially and in life than you ever were or will be, and growing happier than you ever were or will be. You were raised by the internet with no supervision, and have too many fetishes that you would need to push onto any interested partner. The only hobby that you could say you have any interest or talent in, you are mediocre compared to almost anyone else, even kids, who are continually surpassing you. Instead of pushing yourself to become more than what you are, you spend most of your little free time posting on a website, on a board, that you actively hate.
>>336373729
of course it is. no pain, no gain. no risk, no reward. no effort, no results.
my family is fortunately satisfied as long as i tell them i'm safe and relatively happy. they don't ask me about jobs or schooling anymore.
>>336365924
So what? Give me my persona.
>>336380643
Thanks, anon.
I'm rich and in a damn-good school (future still ain't set in stone, I might turn things around but still) but I'm lazy as fuck at home to the point of doing fuck-all at home regarding schoolwork. It's dragging everything down.
Although I really cannot complain and I'm aware that possibly no other human might have been presented with such ample opportunity, my situation is unique in that I have no excuse WHATSOEVER for my laziness. No psychological, personal or medical problem. Nothing socioeconomic. No past event whatsoever to blame but my own laziness. I'm the sole reason I'm the asshole I am.
No character, no personality save for my love of fiction and the escapism it provides, hence why my favorite areas of interest are (story-based) vidya and fiction. (The only other notable ones are perhaps quantum/particle physics, astronomy and cosmology)
I don't deserve your sympathy, anon
>>336365664
>"You secretly resent all your friends because they're all having sex with each other and not once have they considered having sex with you. But you don't want them to try either, because you are insecure about your small dick and low stamina."
>"You tell yourself fapping to slutty doujinshi is a better alternative to real sex because of your unrealistic kinks, but still feel like it's fucking up your ability to communicate with real women after every fap."
>>336365664
>"I've never really been fond of garlic bread"
>>336366917
Poor Lisa.
>>336365924
Pretty much right.
>you view any mistakes as fatal
This line cuts especially deep. I spent a couple years after I graduated college doing contract work through agencies, because I thought that was the way to build experience and move up to something better.
What they didn't tell me is that making a single mistake in a contract job is grounds for getting shitcanned. Lost a LOT of self-esteem on that.
>>336378534
It explodes.
>"Pay attention to me, boys! I'll do ANYTHING for male attention because I'm secretly a huge slut craving more and more! One is never enough!"
S-stop it, I can settle down.. you're not me..
>"Such a little liar, and that's how you get through everything in life! You just want to be everyone's whore when they need you so you feel a little special for a passing moment!"
You're...not...mmeee!!!!
>>336378534
A clown. People keep telling me I need to get out and do stand-up, and the idea of being a famous comedian has always appealed to me, but I'm too afraid to take that first step, to get up on a stage and bomb hard for years until I git gud.
>>336365664
I don't know, it would probaly be just as unsure about who it is on the inside.
>>336365664
>"You will never have another girlfriend as good as her, as pure as her, that's why you keep that 'peace folder' tucked away full of all the letters and drawings she sent you while you were together. You fucked up the one meaningful relationship you ever had because her best friend was a complete slut who liked cybering with you and somehow fucked every guy she knew EXCEPT you. You broke Nicole's heart because you couldn't stop thinking with your dick."
>>336365664
"Hey guys look at me! I'm so quirky! Whats that? Want me to suck your dick? Like you even have too ask, careful, there might be shit in there since i'm full of it"
>>336365664
You're not the little girl
>>336381284
I picture something akin to a prince who was crowned sooner than he should have been, due to the previous king dying suddenly, but ending up becoming a pretty damn good king in the end. Not to different from Arthur, probably, but not Arthur exactly. Someone who was real, maybe? Maybe your Persona could be "Prince of Spades," depicting a prince who has to take action, maybe inheriting a war as well as a new responsibility as a king.
>>336374125H.... how old's your sister, anon... please don't tell me she's like ten or something
>>336380623
Spooked
>>336382372
As this seems like a tragedy, You Persona would be Pagliaccio, after the main character from the famous Italian opera Pagliacci, who sang the famous "Vesti la Giubba."
>>336365924
>See this post
>Working on my law final
>IS going to go to work afterward
>Probably going to go lift after that
>Go home, play some Star Fox, have fun
>MFW this doesn't apply to me.
>>336383257
I knew somebody would make the Pagliacci connection. Yes, my second biggest fear is making it big as a comedian, but ending up pulling a Robin Williams.
>Take that P4 arcana quiz every time it pops up of /v/
>Get Devil every time
>>336383423
Hanging not pulling.
Also OP: I regularly take tremendous risks and it kicks me in the ass far more than it doesn't. I guess I have a lot of stories to tell but it doesn't help if you have nobody who fancies listening and you're not stupid enough to fail to recognise that.
I've seen the world, I've been rich, homeless, starving and obese. I have stood upon the shores of three different continents and been anal cavity searched only once. I've worked as a receptionist (male), a carnie, and for two years I was a god in a video game and got paid well enough for it. I am still me, and this is the problem: I suck.
I don't know what my shadow would say since that's the point, but it won't be fucking claiming I ran a vanilla route. Even now I'm learning to manage an equestrian yard and working as a park fucking ranger with absolutely no experience or background, or even particular interest. Don't fucking talk to me about risk-averse. Just kidding check my six.
>>336383423
Having confidence in yourself is probably the most important part of show business. And, if you do ever feel that you might resort to that, just remember:
"The Show Must Go On."also, I'd highly recommend getting professional help if you ever think you might resort to that. Believing in yourself is good, but better safe than sorry, am I right?
>>336365664
man this board is one fucked up buncha people, huh. myself included.
>>336384135
Better than hermit/moon.
>>336384196
Also Witnessed.
>>336384135
You still got a chance with devil, tower is objectively the worst card in any sort of situation, it always leads to tragedy.
And it's my card.
>>336384196
Overly elaborate gets are the best.
>>336365664
Nothing because I'm not an overly emotional dumbass teenager in a shitty overrated video game that exists to tell otaku that they are special and not worthless sacks of flesh even when its patently obvious that yes, they are worthless and deserve every single iota of hate, scorn, and rejection that comes their way
>>336366121
This unfortunately.
My shadow could go to the lengths of bringing up fucked up fetishes in front of my parents and I'd probably still sit there going "yep that's me"
>>336365924
GO FUCK YOURSELF
>>336367416I got caught as a child playing "show me yours and I'll show you mine" with my female cousin up in her treehouse since our parents could see us through the fucking open window. Somehow I never got in serious shit for it, I guess cuz we were kids, but looking back it was pretty obvious to me that I just wanted to see her pussy
>>336366176
>risk averse
>I'M N-N-NOT A BETA!!!!
>>336384804
Hey its like 60% of the entire world in one post!
>>336365664
>You won't get the true ending if you don't finish my boss fight.
>>336384996
Is it seriously that common? I always thought of it as a really fucked up incident in my childhood
>it's a "let's rip off Azure Kite's design" episode
>>336365924
Yep that's pretty accurate actually
>>336365664
I don't think it could unless it was something that was just straight up not true. I've pretty much accepted all the parts of myself, since it's not like there's anyone else that will. I don't have any friends to please.
>>336385106
Incredibly.
(you)'s up if you played some variation of "show me mine if you show me yours" or knew someone who did. Don't fucking lie.
>>336384135
I don't lurk the Persona threads much. What's this about?
>>336385106
We went over it in both my developmental psychology and human sexuality classes as a natural step, so yeah, it's actually expected.
>>336382975
great idea actually
thank you anon
>>336365924
>implying everyone is a brainless failed normie simply because you are
>>336385106my older cousin gave me a blowjob. It felt awful/goss.
Never felt interested in having sex after that(though that might be just an excuse)
>>336365924
How did you type this quickly enough to be the first response.
>>336385408
The thing that made it so hard for the P4 characters to accept their shadows was because they weren't alone when they appeared, there where always bystanders that saw and heard what you shadow said about you.
Doesn't that make it less easier for you?
>>336381284
You sound like a Soul Sacrifice archfiend.
>you really are just like your father, aren't you?
>>336382284
So you're literally Rise?With a dick?
>>336384196
Good lord that get
>>336386110
Oh god, I can relate to this.
I had a pretty shitty father too, and my biggest fear is becoming like him.
>>336384135
>P4 arcana quiz
Got the Fool
>>336382990
She's 17
>>336384196
I get sudden violent urges sometimes when I see affection, and I hate giving or showing any except in my imagination. When I was younger I repeatedly sexually assaulted one of my relatives before I knew what sex was. Don't know why I did any of this and I don't know my reaction if I were to find out.
>>336384135
>Judgement
Seems kinda right. I've gotten over some emotional shit before and I'm working on letting go of some bullshit that happened to me recently.
>>336365924
It took me a few reads to get this sentence since I'm dumb I guess, but the difference between the geemu and IRL is that real life is filled with people I can't control. I don't want to be part of a hivemind dear NSA cubical worker.
>>336386297
It's the one thing I don't think I could accept
I can learn to deal with my shittiness, but the idea that the circumstances of my birth have predestined me into being the same kind of abusive, negligent piece of shit as the man who spawned me gets to me on a whole new level
>>336386781
well that's nowhere near as fucked up as you made it sound man.
still fucked up but not "i want to fuck my middle school sister" level
>>336386946
You should probably seek help with that before something bad happens anon.
It's been over for a long time.
>>336384135
Hate to be spoonfed, but what website is the quiz on?
>>336386946
Sounds like repressed sexual desire and loneliness turning into rage. That's not healthy.
How do I know I'm not the shadow self and this is not some shadow universe?
>>336384135
>P4 arcana quiz
This one?
https://www.quotev.com/quiz/2713128/What-Persona-Arcana-Is-Yours
>>336387101
Amen. I'm a huge fuckup in a lot of ways, but I would throw everything I've ever known away if it meant I could be a kickass father to my children.
>>336387319
Because the only point of being a Shadow is to taunt and enrage your true self into denying you.
Don't know why expected more out of this faux thread full of memers fags, though.
>>336365664
Anything negative, I suppose. I know I'm a shit person, but I don't know if I really accept it.
>>336387409
That's the one I've been doing.
>first time get Judgement
>second and third time get Fortune
Both of them pretty much define me.
"She was never interested in you and you wasted your money on a friend who'd rather hideaway and play D&D with strangers than do anything with you."
>Remember that time you pushed Grant off the stairs because he stole your Rayquaza card
Yeah...and?
>>336387880
>mfw Justice
>>336381284
>rich
>managed to stay in school
>your only problem is easily fixable laziness that you could cure by throwing money at personal trainers and tutors
fuck i hate you SO MUCH
SO
MUCH
>>336387409
Just done it now, got Lovers.
I would've thought I'd be Magician, seeing as I often play sidekick to my friends, but I guess it works.
>>336387880
>Got the Fool
Meh Adachi was my favourite character anyway
>>336387880
Eh I don't like it since its full of edgy as fuck responses and while I got Justice, with a description I sort of agree, those things are always biased as fuck
>>336387409
>Magician
okay
>>336365924
>>336386164
Yeah, pretty much. She's who I connected with most. I just have a lot of love to give, th-that's all.
>>336387409
>wheel of fortune
Seems about right.
>>336381284
>No psychological, personal or medical problem. Nothing socioeconomic. No past event whatsoever to blame but my own laziness. I'm the sole reason I'm the asshole I am.
Oh I understand this so much m8, I too wish I was a better person
>>336388160
"You never know what you have until it's gone."
Am I right?
Like anons have said in the thread, what if you accept your darkness?
Or what if you accept it and try to move on?
Is it an instant persona?
>>336365664
I don't really have secrets, I'm not in denial and honesty I'd like to have people to talk to. Not everyone would have a shadow.
>>336387750
Don't need that, my inside voice does that everyday.
>>336387409
Lovers
Usually these things give me Devil or Tower, but they're usually longer too
>>336372352
I never saw the appeal of bikes. I'd take a car over one any time. Doesn't help that i know several people who had accidents and got badly hurt or killed on bikes
>>336388498
If we go by the original P4 Anime, then yes, since Yu accepts his own Shadow during his fight with Margaret to unlock Izanagi no-Okami.
>>336388469
$4000 would fix my entire life. I hate rich people and I hate myself for not being able to get a job or finish school.
>>336365664
>You've been blaming your mom's death as the reason for your inability to show emotion and socialize when really you just don't want to even try to
>You work the bare minimum and don't even try to improve yourself. No wonder Dad is disappointed with you.
>Speaking of, when's the last time you called him? Of course, your stepmom would never let you talk to him, not after you stole $200 from her.
>And don't blame the 3 months you spent homeless on that. We both know it's because you were out shitposting on /v/ when you should've been looking for a job.
>And don't blame you not being able to get one because of race or that bullshit. It's because you never took the effort to look good before going in to apply. Because you don't care about anything, not even yourself.
>The only reason you haven't killed yourself is because you're too afraid of dying. You're just waiting for something else to kill you because you don't have the guts to do it yourself, you selfish, lazy piece of shit.
>>336387409
I got the empress, being gay and bossy this sounds right
>>336388749
Amazing.
I'd probably tell my shadow to stop being a pussy and fight me anyway
>>336365924
>>336388271
They define me in the sense that I just go with the flow and I don't worry too much about thing. Most of my problems stem from my inability to let things from the past go, some personal things but mostly stupid bullshit I can't forget about.
I'm not really edgy. The edgiest thing about me is probably my dark sense of humor, and I mostly make fun of myself to make the bad shit not bother me as much.
>>336388749
That part was so cringe worhy.
>>336366518
Literally the only Missing Character.
Shadow with his faggot as gun or Big the Cat.
>>336387409
>Moon
Actually accurate
>>336381284
>I have no excuse WHATSOEVER for my laziness. No psychological, personal or medical problem. Nothing socioeconomic. No past event whatsoever to blame but my own laziness. I'm the sole reason I'm the asshole I am.
God damn it
>>336387409
JUSTICE BROS WW@?
>>336388469
Nah. I'm poor as fuck, can't afford a pc or tv and I'm still lazy as hell.
So chill. Trash will always be trash.
>>336365664
I'd sit here and insult you, but that'd just enforce the idea that there's no point to doing anything because people don't like you anyway, and you'd happily have something to blame aside from your own decisions for being where you are. "It's ok, no one likes you so you don't really need to to be anything", right? Fact is that tons of people like you, and all you do is disappoint them, reject their affections, because "secretly they don't care about you". You're the one who doesn't care about them.
>>336387084
That sounds entirely contradictory.
>>336380405
>cuck
not literally right?
>>336365664
>What would your shadow self have to say to make you shout "YOU ARE NOT ME!"?
Nothing, I would already accept it and tell it to shut the fuck up and not reveal anything about me so fucking loudly
>>336365924
wahh wahh cry me a river
>>336381284
I'm you except I'm not rich.
>>336389724
>I would already accept it
>and tell it to shut the fuck up and not reveal anything about me so fucking loudly
pick one fampai
>>336388780
Considering I'm just some anon who's lived a majority of his life in the middle-class, my word probably doesn't mean shit to you, but I do understand your feelings. I've personally seen the worst of both sides, the struggles of the poor vs. the greed of the rich. Let's just say there are two people I'm close to that were polar opposites of each other. One really screwed the other over, and the end result was one of them working literally to death and the other enjoying the money they saved by refusing to pay the now broke person money that they needed to survive, as well as the person's kids. Whether you care or not, I know the struggles you face and understand that I can't give you much more than my sympathy.
>>336387409
>high priestess
>>336388784
My mother passed away last year, so I know how it feels. Personally, I believe I will never be the same, but we have to keep on living. All the best to you mang, never give up. Kind of scary that you posted with my favorite cabbageman picture as well.
>>336389334
IN THE NAME OF JUSTICE!!!
>>336365924
How is this hard to accept
This is the majority of /v/ here
Also newsflash, everyone wants a zero risk zero stress life
why do nerds have the feeling to be stressed by their lazy personality?
It's all just self pity, and I've been though it
But once you're past the self pity I don't know why it's so hard to empathize with you, probably because I understand what it was like and found a shred of self worth that got me through it, but even the idea of me going back to that self pitiful level, I hope I never get back to it again
>>336387409
Chariot
>>336390109
this is pretty much the nicest thing i've ever heard on /v/
thanks man.
i'm making do with what i live on (like $200 a month or so) but goddamn, i will never understand the total lack of ambition some rich people have when even a fraction of their wealth could do a ton of good
>Shout at shadow "YOU ARE NOT ME!"
>It Ain't Me starts playing
>>336389334
>Midorifags
wwww
>I feel good about myself
>>336365664
>There's a reason you're alone, even when you're with others, isn't there?
>You hate people, you hate everyone, even if you put on a smile and say everything's ok and just walk it off.
>You're also a fucking show off, aren't you? No matter how much you try and get people's attention, you'll always be a cheap knock-off of someone else, you fraud.
>You have no originality at all, and just steal things from pop culture to create a semblance of a personality, which you don't have!
>That's also why no girl really loved you, isn't it? You're just a big ball of autism and cringe that even your own mother thinks you're a weirdo.
>Even the ones that claimed to love you just stopped talking to you eventually, and with the way things are going, you'll lose your current one as well!
>But it's not like you'll kill yourself, since you're too obsessed with knowledge and wanting to live forever, you'll just stick in your Mothers house until she dies and then move into a retirement home so you'll never work because you just want to be alone!
>>336390060
can't I just have the shadow whisper it in my ear and get my Persona already?
if not then I'll just kick his ass like Kanji did
>>336381284
My excuse is that people always told me I was the greatest and everything was easy until one day they just stopped, then things became real.
Shitty excuse, but stillI don't know how to study, no one ever taught meby the end of highschool my once amazing memory degraded to the point where I can't even remember what I just ate, if I ate at all
>>336390496
>can't I just have the shadow whisper it in my ear and get my Persona already?
No, the shadow will want to do the opposite of that.
>if not then I'll just kick his ass like Kanji did
You better have some persona-users nearby then anon
>>336365664
I would just end up trying to become friends with my Shadow, I know all of my problems and I just don't fix them and having someone or something that knows me 100% would be a blessing since I could be honest with it for once
>>336390676
It would be nice to have someone to talk to
And you'd have your own clone
>>336390653
>No, the shadow will want to do the opposite of that.
But the shadow is me, and I dont want anyone to find out about my secrets
I already acknowledge them so why does it need to clarify everything vocally?
I don't deny it like all the characters in the game facing their shadow
>>336390783
>And you'd have your own clone
"NOW NEITHER OF US WILL BE VIRGINS"
>>336387409
I got the Magician
>>336390839
The shadow wants people to find out about your secrets though, it isn't about just helping your, when they first appear they just start telling your secrets to aggravate you and empower them, telling it to shut up would just make it skip steps and murder you
>>336390980
Same, I think I accidentally lied as I'm not the most motivated person
Need to take it again
>>336391081
I did it again and got empress
That honestly makes more sense
You try to convince yourself everyday that you hate people, that you dont need friends and that youre fully okay with your life as a NEET. You always think about yourself as an edgelord but deep inside you know that its all a lie to hide the fact that you wish you were just a little bit more social, had friends and would do a bit more meaningfull things than playing videogames and fap to animegirls everyday. Plus you always think that youre smart and know how everything works despite never having experienced anything on first hand, so obviously it isnt the case at all, which you also know but supress to not feel like a piece of shit. Basically youre lying to yourself at a daily base to not jump from the next bridge.
>>336391048
I thought the shadow was just your repressed self that you do not want to accept
That's how it was presented in P4, and that repression was projected through the midnight channel
But if you were there along with your shadow, and accept it, then you would skip the step of fighting it
There is no rule that says how a shadow would act
The reason why the shadows turned into monsters were because people were to afraid to admit their insecurities to themselves
>>336391048
>The shadow wants people to find out about your secrets though
Not really, unless your repressed self is an exhibitionist
>>336391486
No, the shadows just use your repressed feelings to take a form, they are just monsters
>>336365664
Yur gay
>>336387409
High Priestess
>>336391443
>tfw this isn't you
I could be more social, but I don't find parties fun
Going to the movies, basketball in the park, hell even laser tag are all much more entertainingalso I fucking hat loud noisesroommate has a nutri bullet blender and every time he uses it I become so fucking angry, not that I'd show it so obviouslyfuck the vacuum too
>>336391625
Interesting, I never thought about it that way
But I use to think Persona were just extensions of your identity, just manifested as magical beings that fight against other shadows and demons
>>336391443
Not a NEET, but yes.
>>336365924
hahahhahahaaahahha kill me
>>336365664
"You're a closet homosexual"
>>336384135
>the moon
that's what I get for being a stupid sack of shit, I guess
>>336387409
Got the emperor, suits me I supose, though I was honestly more of a hermit. Gyuess me saying id beat the shit out of fuckers with a blunt weapon gives me a bit of assertiveness.
>>336365924
/board
Holy shit this is all depressing or cross-dressing fags with mental issues
Get a fucking therapist and go outside.
>>336392962
shut up, dumb drakeposter
>>336390424
>i will never understand the total lack of ambition some rich people
It's exactly because they're rich that they may lack ambition. Why "want" for something when you don't lack anything? It's hard for you to understand because of your shitty circumstances, but when all living necessities are met, and the person in charge doesn't have any hobbies then he'll just indulge himself in idle pleasures.
>when even a fraction of their wealth could do a ton of good
Why would he give money to others only to inflict the same decadence unto them? Rejoice, for it's exactly because he keeps all his money to himself that you can muster up the ambition you have right now.
>>336365664
I think I'm self aware and self critical enough I won't deny any shit it throws at me. Although I'm sure I'd argue with it for days over it, and also the most trivial shit.
I think I just realized the MC wouldn't save me.
>>336365664
I guess the shadow would tell me that i actually hate myself and that everyone hates me as well.
I sort of live in phases of "i'm surrounded by friends who love me!" Or "i'm surrendered by fucking assholes that love to laugh at me for my patheticness"
Wouldn't be hard to break me considering that i am the kind of person that tries costantly to convince himself that he is stronger than he thinks.
We break first, that's the rule.
>>336365924
Not so much fatal, just overly stressful. I can't manage my stress, every little problem makes me want to quit and hide. At least in vidya failure has no consequences.
>>336365924
The risk-aversion is such a normal trait, but calling people who are reserved to taking big risks a "beta" is too much.
Most hobbies are risk-free too, not only video games and internet, only the most hardcore people have risky hobbies, and they usually don't live very long.
I'm curious about what you meant by going out into the world and making mistakes, did it mean harmless fun with friends? Or did it mean taking drugs? Practicing robbery? Vandalism? Or becoming a teen parents?
And viewing any mistakes as fatal would result into said person being completely unable of doing absolutely anything, and not only that, but there are indeed many mistakes that may be fatal, so a level headed person may gauge risk and notice that most"fatal" mistakes are inherent from activities that offer no reward of equal value and will only take calculated risk like investments within one's budget and such, so this is also incorrect.
Most people living in this era were pampered and sheltered by their parents, this is the norm, not the exception.
I don't know why did this post get so many replies, it is extremely generalist and overblown on the points it marks as being negative.
>>336365664
i'm basically Yosuke and also
>>336365924
>>336365664
This entire thread is completely pointless. If you can admit something, then it's clearly not part of your shadow.
>>336391443
Was this taken from an anime character bio or something?
But that bit about you believing to know everything even through you don't applies to everyone anyway so that's a moot point haha, everyone always thinks they know it better than the others, which is why everyone always has an opinion even on stuff they don't understand.
>>336391443
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQU228630Gg
>>336365924
YOURE NOT ME
Daily Diary Entry: The thread
Jesus christ, just get facebook and bore people to death with your pity stories over there.
>>336396875
This, to be honest.
Not to mention it's wrong on principle, because the shadow represents things you deny; you wouldn't be able to say exactly what it would say, because you just don't know.
>>336396875
>He says while posting a memepool picture
>>336387409
>No option for Hermit, Temperance, Tower, etc
...I don't think so, Tim
>>336393202
but like if you have the money why not use it for things
seems like a lot of rich people either waste their wealth or sit on it.
when i think about the global economy being as bad as it is, while rich suits and corporations sit on billions of dollars stuck in "dead vaults" where it'll never be touched or dented ever, it makes my fucking blood boil
there is enough dead money in this world sitting in vaults and such to solve every goddamn problem on this shitty planet. I think after a certain point of wealth where you no longer need to ever be mindful of your spending, you should have to start feeding your excess income back into the economy, not just hoarding it like scrooge mcduck with his gold coin swimming pool.
>>336387409
FOOLS
ASSEMBLE
>>336394654
Woah, that's pretty similar to me. I like to think I'd be able to believe in my friends if something like this happened, but childhood trauma makes me constantly doubt my friends.
Lately I've been in the whole "My friends like me!" phase, but I can't say I won't slip out of it. We're pretty alike, we should hang out and be constantly insecure about each other's feelings.
You're bi
>>336402204
Ha, gay
>>336387409
>Fool
>infinite potential
>but tfw have somewhat of a lack of motivation
Not completely sure how I should feel about this
>>336378534
>>336365924
>it's a critical hit!
>>336406175
Bump
>>336387409
>High Priestess
Common sense and untapped potential. That sounds about right. Basically meaning you've got a good head, but haven't applied yourself, I'm guessing.
