Andarthiel on 22/3/2009 at 00:23
I see. Well Koki is wrong,despite the fact that I love Japanese culture and traditions I also find certain other countries fascinating too like my home country of Georgia etc.
Quote Posted by dethtoll
I know quite a few litfags who are also Britfags and they're
irritating as fuck. They get really snobby and yes, some dress in tweed. Many of them are also part of the so-called steampunk subculture, which fills me with no end of rage.
Don't diss Steampunk, Steampunk is awesome and I say that as a friend of a person who follows that trend and he is not uptight and snobby.
Jason Moyer on 22/3/2009 at 00:28
One of my best friends is steampunk!
june gloom on 22/3/2009 at 00:44
Two things:
A) You do realize that I didn't actually refer to you as a weeaboo. Koki did. You asked what it was, and so I answered. lern2reed
2) I love steampunk as an idea- obviously or I wouldn't be here, thanks to Thief- but
the movement can get cancer and die of AIDS in an apiary fire. I hate the people who think gluing a few old gears onto the side of their monitors makes it steampunk. I hate the very
idea of "steampunk bands"- what, couldn't cut it as a regular below-average indie-rock band and decided to appeal to some narrow niche to make money?
But most of all I hate the people who like to dress up like they fell out of 1850s England and declare themselves steampunk. (PROTIP: better to look like you fell out of 1910s Chicago and were employed in a machine shop) I hate the people who think wearing a tall hat and a corset and telling everyone how awesome you are is steampunk. YOU ARE NOT STEAMPUNK. YOU'RE NOT EVEN GETTING VICTORIAN RIGHT, STRAIGHTEN THAT FUCKING TOPHAT.
I'm sorry. But not even the emo scene kids are this flatout fucking annoying. Steampunk is where all the goth kids went after goth went out of fashion.
Steampunk shouldn't be a movement or a scene. It should remain what it started off as- an interesting and creative idea that can be quite wonderful when executed properly. But when I start seeing steampunk
(http://www.jerkcity.com/jerkcity3658.gif) buttplugs it is time to end humanity.
june gloom on 22/3/2009 at 01:25
What a way to ruin a perfectly good guitar.
Shadowcat on 22/3/2009 at 05:04
Quote Posted by dethtoll
And anyway it should be obvious.
Uh, not when the definition offered was "a person who is obsessed with Japan and thinks Japan can do no wrong". But never mind.
Muzman on 22/3/2009 at 05:44
I thought these guys were called Otaku (which is Japanese for nerd, as I understand it and so works a treat)?
Also, do we really need a new word for Anglophile just because the form doesn't slide neatly over to Japanophile?
(and steampunk dandy-ism is great. It came a long at the wrong time though. Decadent trends should come well before huge crashes so they can get established first.)
demagogue on 22/3/2009 at 06:23
I'd say I'm, maybe not otaku (for reasons below), but definitely a Japanophile. But then I lived in Japan, with a Japanese, for a while, and these days I speak almost as much (bad) Japanese as English in a day... So (I like to think) the weeaboo stuff doesn't really apply to me, in the sense that usually those kinds of people don't actually have any real connection to Japan itself. They're just trying to act the part because it's the big new rage, or something...
I originally went to Japan before Japan was cool, just because I didn't know anything about it so thought "why not", and became a fan of Japanese stuff much later, and even then mostly just for the language practice.
"Otaku" in Japanese literally means "house", used as an adj to describe a guy as a house-guy, or home-body who spends all day in the house (maybe his parent's basement), masterbating to anime and manga porn, eating junk food, fat, glasses ... like a perverted Simpson's comic shop guy.
In Japan it has an awful connotation, esp after a few incidents of these guys butchering some poor schoolgirl and they search their apartment and find a bunch of violent rape comics or something.
But in the West I get the idea that it's a much more positive term, just meaning a big fan of anime and manga and Japanese popular culture.
I guess dethtoll already explained where weeaboo came from. I thought it was dumb when people started using that term like that; but it does bring back the cultish-edge that otaku doesn't have (but should), if you remember the PBF comic.
Aja on 22/3/2009 at 08:05
actively oppose anything from 4chan leaking into these forums in any way
I swear I'll leave and never come back
Yakoob on 22/3/2009 at 08:15
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I swear I'll leave and never come back
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