Is anyone else scared of people finding out about your liking IM@S?

[TTB]

I know there have to be some members here who feel that at least some of their friends would shun them and/or that they would lose a large measure of trust or understanding from their families if it was discovered.

Has anyone taken any unusual extra steps to hide IM@S from their friends and family?

Has anyone been bold enough to bring up the subject or even make fans out of friends or family?

Imagine if your friends or family walked into the room and saw this on the TV:



or even



Or goodness forbid, this:



I know there have to be at least some posters here who would rather be caught by their friends/family spanking it than caught with something that looks like IM@S...

It seems every single news article about Japan is either about the Tsunami Recovery/Nucler Reactorsm, BadEconomy/HowtoAvoid, or Wacky/Crazy Japan. Do the journalists and bloggers who write the Wacky/Crazy Japan articles really think that pandering to base-level philistine xenophobic ethnocentrism raises their sales in some way? I don't know if it does or not, although intuition would suggest sensationalism sells, but I wonder what they themselves think, do they feel like a dirty sellout afterwards for assuming the intellectual low-ground?

[Roba-P]

It's never been a problem for me taking into the love of iM@S.

A true friend would well respect your interests as long as it poses no harm to the others.

And yes, most of my non-otaku friends know that I'm obsess with iM@S.

As for my parents, they don't mind it as long as I fulfill my responsibility as a student and be prepare for my future.

I would say be true to yourself.

[blake307]

Not exactly scared. In fact I don't care if my family members know about me liking im@s. As long as they don't go assuming that I am obsessed with Japanese culture which I am not, it's fine with me.

[AweOfShe]

Everyone I know knows about my love for Im@s. I post about it every day on FB, at least once for whatever reason. I also like to play it on the 60 inch TV in the living room, so my family has seen it plenty of times.

I'm pretty sure my friends, family, and colleagues don't care.

[animagic4u]

Believe me,

as a girl there are games that are worse to walk into.

Various eroge...

iDOLM@STER is pretty tame.

[Setsuna]

For legal reasons, have to lock my room when conducting certain bits of work. As in "It becomes a federal offense to walk into the room" sort of lockdown. Getting government work does that from time.

In a way, I almost sort of want to see someone TRY to walk into my im@s work, since most of the time, I lock the room down even when I'm not legally required to anyway. It does mean that I tend to work alone a lot these days though, because of the lack of surprise factor.

I'm also the only person I know where it's not uncommon for people to wait outside in the lounge room for me to pack up before I will let them in, or in some cases, outside.

Then again, most people who know me well know that im@s is just a video hobby, and that I work with much more stomach churning stuff, and probably don't WANT to ever walk in...

[SakuraMaxX]

Wtf Setsuna the more you talk, the more you become interesting in a curious sense.

Anyways uh my dad called me a pedophile once when he saw the box for my Chihaya F-15E. They never saw me play iM@S yet though.

[satty]

I got both my brothers into Im@s, so they're fine. My parents don't care (or at least don't say anything) as long as I do well in school and life in general. My friends don't know at all.

It helps that I have an interest in military planes and guns, and that everyone knows that I play a lot of video games.

As for your second question: Yeah, pretty much, it's all about views. Some might feel bad, but I'm sure some don't care at all if they're perpetuating these things.

Also funny that people are still concerned about the nuclear reactor in Fukushima, even though that's been largely contained and that it wouldn't have been Chernobyl bad; Chernobyl was taking an inexperienced crew to test a nuclear reactor that had all its safety features and backups disabled before and by design did not have a containment building.

As for Setsuna: Well, that's interesting to note. Sounds fun.

[Holy_Knight]

I had no problem liking im@s and im not scared of having this kind of interest. In fact, my family doesn't really care about my liking to Japanese pop culture in general. But as for the other people, i just picked the right people who will accept for who i am.

[TTB]

A true friend would well respect your interests as long as it poses no harm to the others.

Yeah that's the thing though... I know intelligent productive helpful people who would want anyone they caught playing something that looked like pic 2 or 3 to publically register as a molester or something...

Everyone I know knows about my love for Im@s. I post about it every day on FB, at least once for whatever reason. I also like to play it on the 60 inch TV in the living room, so my family has seen it plenty of times.

I'm pretty sure my friends, family, and colleagues don't care.

Holy crap... you must be a girl right? If not... where the heck do you live!? o.0

Believe me,

as a girl there are games that are worse to walk into.

Various eroge...

iDOLM@STER is pretty tame.

My ******** can't be this perverted.

For legal reasons, have to lock my room when conducting certain bits of work. As in "It becomes a federal offense to walk into the room" sort of lockdown. Getting government work does that from time.

You work for the government? o.o *imagines James Bond settling down to a game of IM@S after blowing up a military base.

I'm also the only person I know where it's not uncommon for people to wait outside in the lounge room for me to pack up before I will let them in, or in some cases, outside.

...pack... up? o.o Is that like hiding figurines and posters...? Or stashing away that alien body from Area 51 before allowing guests into the room?

Then again, most people who know me well know that im@s is just a video hobby, and that I work with much more stomach churning stuff, and probably don't WANT to ever walk in...

Stomach-churning stuff....? o.o Are you an FBI serial killer profiler...? A coordinator for targetting human trafficking operations...? An intelligence agent monitoring MS-13 or a drug cartel?

Anyways uh my dad called me a pedophile once when he saw the box for my Chihaya F-15E. They never saw me play iM@S yet though.

lol does your dad not like you now or something? You mean he saw something like this?

It helps that I have an interest in military planes and guns, and that everyone knows that I play a lot of video games.

Aha! Your saving grace when the culture censors come online for evaluation!

In fact, my family doesn't really care about my liking to Japanese pop culture in general.

It seems like a lot of forumers here like the jet aircraft version of the girls? Is that like a reverse Strike Witches/Sky Girls thing or something? I thought moe girls come from objects, do girl characters get assigned to objects too now?

[SakuraMaxX]

My dad was messing around with me.  I don't think my parents really care too much, but I still find it awkward to bring up things about anime or such with them.

My friends think it's awkward as hell, but they don't really care either since I pretty much play the same stuff they play (Battlefield 3 and the sorts) too.

[TTB]

My dad was messing around with me.  I don't think my parents really care too much, but I still find it awkward to bring up things about anime or such with them.

My friends think it's awkward as hell, but they don't really care either since I pretty much play the same stuff they play (Battlefield 3 and the sorts) too.

Yeah... I don't know that any parent can call their kid a pedophile and have it just be "messing around". I know if I were a parent I might on occasion think something like... "My son's not able to make any grandkids with those girls in the tv is he... *sigh* so much for being a grandpa... Guess I better start asking co-workers if they have a daughter or niece my son's age, hopefully I can introduce him and they'll like each other... otherwise..."

[Setsuna]

I do work for the Australian Classification Board. (You know, those guys who put ratings in Australia, for their games) and from time to time, I get contracted to do some of their police work.

Namely the stuff that either State police (Victoria's strangely guilty as all hell for asking really often) or the Australian Federal Police refer on for classification.

In short, it's stuff that most people get arrested for watching, consequently the lockdown. (I might add the rules are stricter here, and I tend to talk about 'Technical RC' a lot, and not in a nice way either. Sometimes I'm convinced Australia's full of prudes.)

Among people who usually wait in the lounge room or wait outside my house for five minutes while I pack up include police officers of all types.

Most people don't like keeping impatient police officers waiting. They got the hint after the first couple of visits that I WILL make them wait, because I take my operational security seriously.

It also probably says something about me, to be able to do it for a couple of years.

[satty]

I do work for the Australian Classification Board. (You know, those guys who put ratings in Australia, for their games) and from time to time, I get contracted to do some of their police work.

Namely the stuff that either State police (Victoria's strangely guilty as all hell for asking really often) or the Australian Federal Police refer on for classification.

In short, it's stuff that most people get arrested for watching, consequently the lockdown. (I might add the rules are stricter here, and I tend to talk about 'Technical RC' a lot, and not in a nice way either. Sometimes I'm convinced Australia's full of prudes.)

Among people who usually wait in the lounge room or wait outside my house for five minutes while I pack up include police officers of all types.

Most people don't like keeping impatient police officers waiting. They got the hint after the first couple of visits that I WILL make them wait, because I take my operational security seriously.

It also probably says something about me, to be able to do it for a couple of years.

Well, sounds like I don't want to get on your bad side.

@Sakura: I wish I had a Chihaya F-15E.

[Setsuna]

Well, it's one reason why I get worried of people walking in the door. One of the others includes the fact I worry if anyone walks in during a freelance commission is the fact I can go to jail for exposing people to the material I've been commissioned to write a report on.

Then again, I don't think I've told many people what I DO as a sideline either, and I'm fairly sure that if anyone ever walked in while I work, I'd probably be seen as one of the sickest (insert string of explicitives here) individuals on the planet, who somehow can actually claim it they watch it for work.

But on a serious note, I'm more or less harmless apart from that. (And possibly if I ever go rogue, get other people arrested by putting illegal material on their computers, but that's a professional archive thing I have to maintain.)