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... huh. Online reader? Because if so, I do have to say it is pretty ballsy (so to speak) to (more likely than not) blatantly indulge in copyright infringement in the middle of class, on a (presumably) public campus (which is to say with every bit of bandwidth use monitored and some degree of collusion with th'gov.). Rude and criminal and stupid, at the same time, ha!

Ubiquitous privacy-invading drones recording everything and uploading it all to youtube, you say.

Rather not.

... has... has someone actually done a full conversion of that thing for statistics? Pie chart in your face you get sprung, etc.?

The actual WTF t'me in all this is this is apparently the first time Xant's noticed moelanthotep, despite that show coming up in the past multiple times on this forum*. Silly me thinking everyone knew about it already, I guess...

*E: Hell, there's someone running around here with an avatar from the show. Chaos that crawls into your heart or something like that.

No... not in the slightest. I guess child porn isn't the first thing that comes to mind for most people. Never even heard anyone make a reference to the two together. So congrats, I guess. You successfully think of child porn when a type of karate is mentioned.

... I don't think I've ever actually seen shotacon used in reference to child porn before, actually. Gag trope, art style (of a sorts), and occasionally scenario for notable sorts of art, but never in connection to actual people-person stuff.

Now I'm kinda' wondering if there's an actual name differentiation when it comes up in the original language. Not curious enough to go check, but japan being japan I'd imagine there's different words.

Quote from: Frumple on February 18, 2014, 12:54:30 pm

... I've, it's definitely an aside, but I've long wondered, Gig: Do you folks catch much flak because of the name? I mean, it's like two letters off and the pronunciation near identical...

Read my sig, and know the answer. Most people misspell it, but I don't really mind. People who know my real name always seem to call me something else as well.

So really there's no change.

... just to make sure, you did notice I was asking about shotacon karate, right?

Yeah... I've said it before, I'll say it again. What's fun at five is fun at fifty, legal and physical constraints aside. If a "kid's" show is entertaining, it is entertaining, regardless as to the age or arbitrary maturity status the person watching falls under. Looney Toons (Or apparently Tunes. Eh.) was pretty great when I was a pre-teen. It was pretty great when I was a teen. It's been pretty great when I've watched it in my twenties. It'll be pretty great when I watch it in my thirties, and forties, and fifties, and so on. Interesting enough characters, gags, jokes, scenarios, etc., so forth, so on. It's got a lot of objectively good stuff in its library of episodes*.

Denying oneself the opportunity of enjoyment or enlightenment just because one has crossed an arbitrary and meaningless age or behavioral pattern line is the silliest of things, imo. Not liking it for other reasons is fine, but just because of stuff like "I'm not a kid" is just... don't do that to yourself, people ;_;

*It would be kinda' surprising if there wasn't, considering the shows and shows spun off from them have been going pretty much continuously since the 1930s. Checking good ol' Doc Wiki, just for Looney Tunes itself there's been over a thousand animated shorts made under its banner. Sturgeon's revelation would note that means there's at least a hundred of those that are pretty good.

And all things will be wonderful except the fact that we would all be named George.