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Is anyone else scared of people finding out about your liking IM@S?
satty:
--- Quote from: SakuraMaxX on April 17, 2012, 06:39:35 am ---Oh god just remembered my worst incident involving iM@S.
I was playing iM@S Perfect Sun during lunch break at school, and I was just talking to my friends going "Damn I really can't understand Japanese." Some random girl at my table was like "Oh! I can!" and proceeds to look to see if she could help translate. She looks for a second and suddenly yells "OH GOD HE'S PLAYING ONE OF THOSE GAMES WHERE YOU RAPE GIRLS" and I'm just sitting there dumbfounded while some people at surrounding tables stare at me for a moment. There's a good reason why I don't like playing games in public.
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That's kinda messed up, actually.
--- Quote from: TTB on April 17, 2012, 12:17:47 am ---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...
You work for the government? o.o *imagines James Bond settling down to a game of IM@S after blowing up a military base.
Aha! Your saving grace when the culture censors come online for evaluation!
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?
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-That's sad, really. But then again, different cultures, different expectations. Still, I would hope that people would just at least try and find out what something is rather than react on knee-jerk thoughts.
-I've heard of soldiers that are into anime. In fact, I remember watching an Im@s 2 stream from a guy who was stationed at Misawa AFB. Also wouldn't be a big stretch if a few Special Forces operators are into anime in general.
-Yep, it's nice to have other things that you're interested at.
-As for the planes, there's another game made by Namco called Ace Combat; since Idolm@ster is also made by Namco (well, Namco Bandai), they put up Idolm@ster themed skins as a way to promote their own products. Which makes it funny to see a USAF Colonel fly a red F-22 with Haruka on it.
JNiles:
@SakuraMaxX: so which idol were you producing at the time? ;)
In general, I don't let other people influence my gaming. I turned into one of those "grownups" a long time ago, so I don't live under someone else's rules. If my friends criticized my gaming, which they don't, I would just bash their tastes mercilessly. I do generally game in public, because I don't give a rat's ass if people don't like video games, but there are a few that I leave home, because nosy people can really ruin your day. No sense in provoking people if you can avoid it. IM@S is one- also, rhythm games, because I would look like a spaz playing them.
Portables weren't too advanced during my high school days, but I probably would've left mine at home anyway- at school, you are exposing yourself to potential loss, breakage, theft, and confiscation.
I don't discuss gaming with my coworkers- who knows what will set "normal" people off? Plus, I don't want to know what they like either. But I have snuck in a few games during some especially horrible conference calls.
As long as we're discussing negative encounters... in 2000 I was driving long distance, and I needed to stop and take a break because I was sleepy. Whipped out my gameboy and started playing... a little kid sidled up to the car while I was focused on playing. He said, "Why are you playing games? Games are for kids." Fuck you, kid.
Setsuna:
--- Quote from: TTB on April 17, 2012, 05:24:05 am ---Wait a second, if this stuff is so sick and horrible, why do the police need a specialist to give it classification? Can't they themselves just add "violent beastiality" or "snuff film" or "actual gangrape film" themselves? You're writing a report? I think I've seen one of these text reports before as a court document pdf that was being shared around on 4chan for its shock value, it spells out in detail the various acts and gestures that occur in the scenes, is that the kinds of reports you mean?
As for Australians being prudes, I don't know about that, but some of the censorship laws that have been signed into place by legislators in Australia really do seem strange... like that law about no more A-cup porn permitted to be filmed? It's not difficult to kind of see the angle they were going for with that... but it doesn't seem like an effective measure to take. Seems more like grand-standing and appealing to constitutients' fears for political gain, amirite?
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Standardised reporting. Generally I annotate for a board member (Although occasionally they just get me to sign it) and basically it's mostly a full detail with full technical terms of what the material contains. We're particularly specific, and particularly if a case goes to court, being general isn't enough. You need to basically need to detail it step by step.
It's particularly important because there's a significant amount of material referred to from police which ISN'T illegal, and basically wastes 8 hours. (You have no idea how many reports of a manga go 'There is no case 8 infractions - participants are voluntary, age indeterminate, cannot be proven under 18, no fetishes restricted by Australian Law.')
The reason this happens is mostly when a police raid happens, and the police want to have extra ammunition. They almost always walk away disappointed, and although I've been asked to bend it a bit, I point out that I'm not going to write anything that I can't defend in court, and they sometimes even get free legal advice from me (Namely 'This isn't going to fly for a judge panel')
It's not even particularly shocking - it's in fact REALLY, REALLY boring to read. Basically, if you want to be turned off sex, violence or any other deviant stuff, try reading an internal classifications report. It'll bore you to tears, because we can make ANYTHING sound boring.
I've been previously asked to attend court as an expert witness (Which is a bit strange for someone without a university degree, but apparently they trust me enough to actually do it properly.) and the like. I don't do it very often, but I can.
Needless to say though, those reports I'm not going to publish.
But yeah, given that, I just sort of shrug it off. Few people know what I do, and even less know that I do im@s on the side. It's kinda refreshing if someone DOES bring it up, because it avoids the usual 'So what else do you do in your spare time?' question, which is the above.
Scotty:
Nobody cares.
Not my family. Not my friends.
S'all good.
TTB:
--- Quote from: JNiles ---But I have snuck in a few games during some especially horrible conference calls.
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Ahaha, the volume switch... I can just imagine some half-asleep conference with people trying desperately not to nod off around a brown table and a boring guy droning out in monotone pointing at a chart.... and all of a sudden from one guy's groin area comes.....
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WATASHI SHINY SMILE!!!
--- Quote from: Setsuna on April 17, 2012, 07:56:38 am ---It's particularly important because there's a significant amount of material referred to from police which ISN'T illegal, and basically wastes 8 hours. (You have no idea how many reports of a manga go 'There is no case 8 infractions - participants are voluntary, age indeterminate, cannot be proven under 18, no fetishes restricted by Australian Law.')
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Hmmm, with that A-cup law I'd thought reading any manga with any nudity of any kind would get an Australian drawn and quartered, or at least castrated... physically, not chemically that is.
Still... a fascinating line of work, I can only wonder at how de-sensitizing it might be, like those municipal body collectors in cities with high crime who sometimes make up to a dozen stops per night, I don't think anything could make some of those people cringe in the slightest...
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