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Is anyone else scared of people finding out about your liking IM@S?
NaitoNii:
--- Quote from: Yodudes0 on June 07, 2012, 06:36:29 am ---I know that Australia did something like banning porn with a-cup breasts to help stop child pornography, but Canada?
As a Canadian, I would very much like to know if you have any examples of arrests or restrictions based on any sort of activity similar to iM@S or something.
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wasn't there some Canadian lawyer arrested at an airport once for having Anime/manga images of girls on his laptop? =\
Daverost:
Scared? Not really. Kinda depends on some stuff.
At home, my family knows I'm into games. Big time. Been playing them all my life, I went to school and got a degree in game design, and for a time I worked for Electronic Arts. (Currently no longer working in the game field, but I'm hoping to transition back.) It's no surprise to them that, given my love for games, I'm into some pretty niche stuff. Imports kinda weird them out since I don't speak Japanese. My recent rush over the last few months to import a bunch of iM@S games (seven of them, as well as a few other JP games like Toradora Portable and Saki Portable) had them asking all the sarcastic questions like "Have you learned Japanese yet?" or "Do you know what they're saying yet?", or the occassional comments like "How do you even know what you're doing?" or "How did you even find out about this?", but otherwise they don't care much.
At work I'm using a generic iM@S wallpaper (black Project-iM@S logo on a white background, very basic and low-key) and so far no one's asked about it. If anyone does, I'll just say it's from a game, but I really hope they don't dig further than that. It would be really awkward to explain. Would I be scared? No. Would I be embarrassed? Probably. But that's only if it happens and I'm happy having the background in the mean time.
animagic4u:
--- Quote from: Daverost on June 07, 2012, 04:01:31 pm --- "Have you learned Japanese yet?" or "Do you know what they're saying yet?"
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Similar here. But you know what I learned a lot of Japanese from playing The iDOLM@STER.
I've learned a lot of kanji from the interface and I've actually memorized some of the prefectures by now in kanji so you shouldn't take comments like that too harshly. ^^
Yodudes0:
--- Quote from: NaitoNii on June 07, 2012, 03:01:58 pm ---wasn't there some Canadian lawyer arrested at an airport once for having Anime/manga images of girls on his laptop? =\
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I really don't know. I'm not the best at staying on top of news, so a lot of stories fly right past me.
TTB:
--- Quote from: animagic4u on June 07, 2012, 06:11:45 pm ---Similar here. But you know what I learned a lot of Japanese from playing The iDOLM@STER.
I've learned a lot of kanji from the interface and I've actually memorized some of the prefectures by now in kanji so you shouldn't take comments like that too harshly. ^^
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Really? I did this test probably a dozen times, got to about 90%, and then just gave up on it, even natives of any country will generally know only the most well-known of the provinces/state in their country so there's no point in my memorizing all of them. Besides, now that I've played Shogun 2 I keep thinking of provinces that no longer exist like Iga (-> Mie) and screwing up Echigo with modern day Niigata etc.
Try it out:
http://www.purposegames.com/game/modern-japanese-prefectures-quiz
Also, I won't ever screw up the location Niigata again now that I'm just about done reading this online book:
http://www.rcrinc.com/tanaka/index.html
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