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[Lord Zero]

Originally Posted by SudoJones

It's especially painful when she weighs 280 pounds, smells like fish, and I often catch an eyeful of Naruto yaoi whenever I'm assigned a seat within 2 computers to her left or right -_-

What the heck... does that kind of stereotype REALLY do exist IRL ?

I really made this face upon reading that.



BTW Mouchan STFO. Is true than most of the ppl here are not american at all.
But no... you had to come here and spit BS as always... heck.
Godamned troll...

[Tiexandrea]

Originally Posted by Mouchan

Me thinky youuuuuu...how you say....not in command of language question and answer written in.

Spoiler

[minato]

if you open al*xa, you will know 70% of people who visit HF is Japanese. But less than 1% post in community threads.

[Lord Zero]

Originally Posted by minato

if you open al*xa, you will know 70% of people who visit HF is Japanese. But less than 1% post in community threads.

Well, but the people which matters (and dont crash our server) are the ones over here.

[Tiexandrea]

Originally Posted by minato

70% of people who visit HF is Japanese.

woah, really!? then i wonder why the Japanese government's ninjas haven't visited HongFire's house yet.

[DarkKitsumi]

Originally Posted by Lord Zero

What the heck... does that kind of stereotype REALLY do exist IRL ?

I really made this face upon reading that.



BTW Mouchan STFO. Is true than most of the ppl here are not american at all.
But no... you had to come here and spit BS as always... heck.
Godamned troll...

Unfortunately they do exist... Mostly all of them are stereotypes over here. Yaoi fangirls, horridly obese, and completely useless, stupid, and talentless to boot.

And actually, most of HF is Japanese. We are, after all, pirating Japanese software. :3

[Corelain]

I would have to agree that a significant portion of HF users are Japanese, based on the number of hits from Japanese IP addresses I get whenever I post a torrent. US, Germany, and the rest of Asia are about tied for second place.

[rbp]

Originally Posted by Corelain

I would have to agree that a significant portion of HF users are Japanese, based on the number of hits from Japanese IP addresses I get whenever I post a torrent. US, Germany, and the rest of Asia are about tied for second place.

...I personally feel raped... and not in the good "No, no, no, OMFG I'm cumming" way.

[TSR]

Heh heh. Judging otakus only by how they behave at anime conventions and those who are highly visible elsewhere? If you go by those very narrow and highly unrepresentative samples, sure, all otakus are loud, annoying, extroverted jerks. Kind of like saying chameleons can't camouflage themselves so well you can't see them because you've never seen one that well disguised. Anyway, otakus at conventions tend to be a lot less insecure than the general otaku population, both because the most timid ones don't go, and the ones that do tend to feel a lot safer among their own kind than they do in a hostile sea of mundanes. It's the one time they can cut loose without fear, and many tend to go a bit overboard. You will see this same phenomenon at Japanese otaku events such as Comiket. However, most real otakus are much as I have described. I have a number of otaku friends and I've seen them at cons, at club meetings, and in the wilds of civilization, and the difference in behavior in those various environments is quite marked. They cosplay at cons in costumes they would never dare wear anywhere else and spend all year looking forwad to that one event where they can express their repressed interests freely without having to worry about what their boss or mother or whoever will think. Likewise, express an interest to a repressed fan in public, and all of a sudden, they've found somebody who understands them (They think, anyway.) and want to unload years of feelings all at once and are too busy to notice you really don't want to hear all that. May seem like crazy extroverts, but really, most are just desperately lonely and don't understand social dynamics very well. Well, everybody likes to be considered an expert. But expertise comes with experience, and a lot of the self styled ones are somewhat lacking.

ja ne

[Michael Means Business]

I agree largely with TSR here. If you get enough people who generally don't have a large niche in society at say, a convention, they're going to be riding pretty high and cutting loose after finally "being among their tribe."

I'd also point out, it really isn't Anime fans in particular, sure you'll probably find some similarities that seem distinct within that subculture, but none are universal. Back in the day I would judge a group entirely as "all" acting uniformly, now I've come to believe that we're all different by some degree, and similar in others.
It's generally the negative or undesirable activity which are noticed. Being an Otaku, which isn't as popular as say, sports fans, people would be more likely to look at the negatives they see within us, which, if applied to their own culture, would be looked upon as positive. While perhaps we'd be estranged by theirs, and be kind of thinking things like "wow those guys seem like idiots."

A lack of understanding can cause one to jump to a negative conclusion faster.
If we went to an Anime-con, sure we'd see many dressed up in Cosplay, and perhaps seemingly taking it way too serious, but most likely, they're just having a good time, not actually believing "Hey I'm Vash the Stampede, Cosplay is serious business and, by proxy, so am I." Some will obviously, but not all.
A sports fan may paint their body up in colors of their team, and scream "GO EAGLES," and while they obviously have a passion for the game, most of them aren't feeling like God.
Another example would be with say Star Trek fans, the documentary "Trekies" was hilarious, and while, as displayed in the film, there are some people who go to work wanting to be called "Captain of the Starship Enterprise." I'm sure most at the conventions are just having a good time finding others who share a passion for the same thing. And upon returning home to their everyday lives, will still enjoy Star Trek, and derive good times and inspiration from it, but won't be unnaturally obsessed with their interest.