What are some things you "should" be ashamed of, but you're PROUD of it instead?

[Dirty Hipsters]

Like you have it backed up in case the internet ceases to exist or something?!
You do not stockpile water, water purification tablets, reverse osmosis system, solar power, generators, fuel, food or medicine for the apocalypse, but damn it you have your porn!

That's a god point. We need to start printing out porn in case electricity goes away. Pront the movies frame by frame. Instead of a water or fuel-based economy, we will have a paper economy!

I keep trying to turn it into a flip-book but the pages stick together.

 

[MrCalavera_v1legacy]

I'm white, cis, and male.

The trifecta of oppression.

I'll make you a better one.


I'm... a gamer.

Serious answer: I like Tron:Legacy. Yes, it's a 90 min Daft Punk music video. And that's GREAT.

I don't know, I guess having... 142 gigs of porn... holy shit, when did I get that much? Its mostly images, how is it that big? Anyway, I guess having 142 gigs of porn saved, I don't even really look through it, I just have it and care enough about it to include it in my backups even though if I lost it, I would not care at all. Hmm.... Hrmm....

I don't have as much porn, but some time ago i did found myself spending more time neatly organizing it into categories, and folders, instead "looking" at it.
And i found it almost as satifactory too- oh wait, we supposed to talk about things we're NOT embarassed about.

 

[Worgen]

I'm white, cis, and male.

The trifecta of oppression.

.. Too real my dude. I want to laugh at this, but it's actually kind of worrisome that society feels this way towards us.

To those with privilege, equality feels like oppression.

Oppression chic

Like you have it backed up in case the internet ceases to exist or something?!
You do not stockpile water, water purification tablets, reverse osmosis system, solar power, generators, fuel, food or medicine for the apocalypse, but damn it you have your porn!

That's a god point. We need to start printing out porn in case electricity goes away. Pront the movies frame by frame. Instead of a water or fuel-based economy, we will have a paper economy!

I would have to go through too many different artist folders to tell how much was mlp related but I doubt more then 500 megs is.

Poor organisaton? Tsk, tsk.

I tend to organize it by artist for drawn since I tend to just go for a full artist archive. I only do subject for rl porn.

 

[Worgen]

Spoiler

It really depends on whose say it is that one ought be ashamed of something cause I'm sure someone thinks just about anything is something to be ashamed off.

A pretty common one I've ran across often is being a fan of kodomo no jikan and considering a very insightful coming of age story with amazing characters. I'll always tout that series's virtues when it comes up but people have a kneejerk "ew, lolis, jail, fbi" sort of generic meme reaction to it (ignoring the fact that a mangaka is a woman with daughters and that in Japan sexual humor is mainstream) which I guess indicates that at least some people think it should be something I'm ashamed of lol.


Oh yeah, on top of being full of great characters, it's also full of hilarious desk-slapping jokes too. A lot of them are JP puns so a certain degree of familiarity is useful in appreciating them all but there's all sorts of them too.



Oh and as for all the furry talk, I never got the appeal. I think Carrot from one piece is cute but it's not really something I'd ever be into and more something I'd be fine with but never actively seek out. And all those kigurumi things are just bizarre to me as well.

Yea, it goes straight to Loli's because anytime you create a character with childlike features and place them in adult situations, it is seen as normalizing the sexualization of children and is also seen as "grooming material". Part of the issue with anime is that the faces are made to look childlike with toddler like enlarged features. The other relevant issue is that it is also fairly well known that Japan ALSO has a pedophilia problem as well, so claiming it to be "mainstream in japan" isn't exactly making a case for it. According to my friends in Japan, it is a well known problem but they cannot have it addressed by government as it is seen as worse to even discuss it openly than to actually do something about it. No, not everyone in Japan thinks these cartoons are acceptable, but due to their repressive culture, not much is done about it because they view it as worse to talk about it in the first place.

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-pedophilia-common-in-Japan
http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2054271,00.html
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/57eaaf23-0cef-48c8-961f-41f2563b38aa
https://thesixfootbonsai.com/2016/12/23/no-ordinary-pedophile-japans-idolization-of-children/

I find it best to just pretend all anime characters are 25 at least since they also have a habit of making even grown looking characters younger then they look

For instance, shes supposed to be 16.

Personally I think some of it comes to them acknowledging that kids start to become sexually curious when they are younger and pandering to that. So they try and make a wide age range of characters to pander to whatever age under 20 or something. But, this is just speculation based on very little research that was mainly just hearing things from youtube vids. I do know that the rounded eyes thing comes from disney though.

According the the data we have though it actually has more to do with the fact that Japan only considers children under the age of 12 to be "minors" sexually and that the only sexual offense that can really be prosecuted against children is actual penetration and even that is difficult to prosecute. They can groom, take photos of, kiss, grope, ejaculate on and do whatever else they want and get away with it there. Child porn is pretty rampant and what legislation does exist is very weak. For example, they can distribute the photos all they want it they place a removable leaf over the parts. That is part of why pedophilia is so widespread and since they wont talk about it openly, nothing is being done to stop it. If you read through some of the links above, you will see where the primary issue comes from.

I have heard that the age of consent in japan is like 12 or 13 but I also heard that is only between kids of the same age, like two 12 year olds or two 13 year olds. Is pedophilia that widespread in japan? I had actually head the opposite, like its actually pretty uncommon, I mean I know they have a lot of that loli crap but I heard that the actual practice was pretty rare.

They do not prosecute it though even when it is a grown man holding hands and kissing a 12 year old girl in public. I have heard quite the opposite, both from what I have been told by my friends in Japan and the evidence that was provided via their actual distribution of child porn. The sheer amount photos of actual children that are being distributed there is ample evidence this is happening more than they want to admit. What is rare is the actual prosecution of it, not the number of events taking place. Anyone looking at the arrest and conviction rate and using that to gauge the problem is going to think it rare when it is not. They are just refusing to discuss it or do anything about it. Claiming it is rare or it isn't happening is more of their refusal to discuss it and further attempt to bury the problem rather than address it.

Well, I can't speak on any of that. I do know that its hard to look up more mature anime ladies without it going into mother son incest, which bugs the hell out of me.

 

[Dreiko_v1legacy]

It really depends on whose say it is that one ought be ashamed of something cause I'm sure someone thinks just about anything is something to be ashamed off.

A pretty common one I've ran across often is being a fan of kodomo no jikan and considering a very insightful coming of age story with amazing characters. I'll always tout that series's virtues when it comes up but people have a kneejerk "ew, lolis, jail, fbi" sort of generic meme reaction to it (ignoring the fact that a mangaka is a woman with daughters and that in Japan sexual humor is mainstream) which I guess indicates that at least some people think it should be something I'm ashamed of lol.


Oh yeah, on top of being full of great characters, it's also full of hilarious desk-slapping jokes too. A lot of them are JP puns so a certain degree of familiarity is useful in appreciating them all but there's all sorts of them too.



Oh and as for all the furry talk, I never got the appeal. I think Carrot from one piece is cute but it's not really something I'd ever be into and more something I'd be fine with but never actively seek out. And all those kigurumi things are just bizarre to me as well.

Yea, it goes straight to Loli's because anytime you create a character with childlike features and place them in adult situations, it is seen as normalizing the sexualization of children and is also seen as "grooming material". Part of the issue with anime is that the faces are made to look childlike with toddler like enlarged features. Putting a toddler head on an adult body and giving them children actually does not make it any "better", they still have the child like head, and that is the primary issue to begin with.

The other relevant issue is that it is also fairly well known that Japan ALSO has a pedophilia problem as well, so claiming it to be "mainstream in japan" isn't exactly making a case for it. According to my friends in Japan, it is a well known problem but they cannot have it addressed by government as much as it should be because it is seen as worse to even discuss it openly than to actually do something about it. No, not everyone in Japan thinks these cartoons are acceptable, but due to their repressive culture, not much is done about it because they view it as worse to talk about it in the first place. It isn't necessarily a "knee jerk" reaction, they are really just pointing out a fairly well known issue.

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-pedophilia-common-in-Japan
http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2054271,00.html
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/57eaaf23-0cef-48c8-961f-41f2563b38aa
https://thesixfootbonsai.com/2016/12/23/no-ordinary-pedophile-japans-idolization-of-children/

Yeah but that's not relevant to kodomo no jikan. That series is just a coming of age story so the characters are actual kids and their adult teachers, not made to look younger for some creepy reason. People see the comedic fanservice moments and somehow are hit by fits of short term amnesia that erase all the amazing character building that occurred before and after those moments and it makes no sense.


What's mainstream in japan is what one could call sexual slapstick comedy, not pedophillia. Like for example, there's comedy shows that have skits where for example the perverted airport security guard lets a crazy looking metalhead pass through like nothing but inspects the subsequent beauty with thorough detail and makes her strip in order to ensure she's not hiding anything, all the while he's waving a beeping sensor around her, at one point waving it over his own crotch which also caused it to beep. This sort of comedy is mainstream and just something you have to understand going in as something that's fundamentally humorous and not lascivious.

Also, it's good to keep in mind that age of consent in Japan is 13 and while most prefectures raise it to 16 it's still something that's part of the laws. It's less that they don't talk about it but more of there being nothing to talk about something that's legal or at the very least not seen as that big of a problem even if techincally illegal, kinda like pot smoking in states where it's not been legalized yet over here.

 

[McElroy]

I've got the 200 Angler Quests Achievement in Terraria. Also unironically looking forward to patch 1.4.

 

[Thaluikhain]

That's a god point. We need to start printing out porn in case electricity goes away. Pront the movies frame by frame. Instead of a water or fuel-based economy, we will have a paper economy!

You know how millenials are supposedly utterly useless because of modern technology, and can't even use a rotary phone or a hard copy map? Yeah, add pornographic magazines to that list.

 

[Saelune]

I've got the 200 Angler Quests Achievement in Terraria. Also unironically looking forward to patch 1.4.

I did not know there was a new update coming. I have debated deleting my data and starting over, but now I am glad I did not, so I will be ready for it.

Terraria is great, no one should feel shame for that. (I also have that achievement as well as all the others).

 

[Nedoras]

That I have gotten the 7 Day Survivor achievement in Dead Rising 1, twice. (I eventually intend a third time too)

Fuckin' hell that brings back memories. That achievement took a stupid amount of time to get and I remember me and a friend taking shifts playing in order to get it way back when. Nabbing all of the achievements for that game took so much time, but we had a lot of fun doing so.

As for my own thing, it's that I really dig "cheesy" powermetal. It's one of those genres that gets a lot of shit for some reason, but I love listening to it and I love playing it.

 

[McElroy]

I've got the 200 Angler Quests Achievement in Terraria. Also unironically looking forward to patch 1.4.

I did not know there was a new update coming. I have debated deleting my data and starting over, but now I am glad I did not, so I will be ready for it.

Terraria is great, no one should feel shame for that. (I also have that achievement as well as all the others).

After taking down Moon Lord I spent at least a dozen hours doing nothing but Angler Quests (for those who don't know, I just waited for the game days to pass since you could only do one Quest each day).

Starting anew with a new patch or mod is my favorite thing in the game. And they are promising a new Master mode on top of Expert mode...

 

[Something Amyss]

I tend to organize it by artist for drawn since I tend to just go for a full artist archive. I only do subject for rl porn.

Sounds inefficient, but whatever works I guess.

That's a god point. We need to start printing out porn in case electricity goes away. Pront the movies frame by frame. Instead of a water or fuel-based economy, we will have a paper economy!

You know how millenials are supposedly utterly useless because of modern technology, and can't even use a rotary phone or a hard copy map? Yeah, add pornographic magazines to that list.

I wonder if any news sites have created one nof those ": how millennials are killing the ______ industry" for hard tack porn. Or porn in general.

 

[Worgen]

I tend to organize it by artist for drawn since I tend to just go for a full artist archive. I only do subject for rl porn.

Sounds inefficient, but whatever works I guess.

I suppose it would be if I really ever went through it. I feel like its just more of something to collect then for any other reason. I don't repost it, I don't look through it, if it was all deleted I don't think I would care. It just kind of exists on my storage drive.

 

[Trunkage]

That's a god point. We need to start printing out porn in case electricity goes away. Pront the movies frame by frame. Instead of a water or fuel-based economy, we will have a paper economy!

You know how millenials are supposedly utterly useless because of modern technology, and can't even use a rotary phone or a hard copy map? Yeah, add pornographic magazines to that list.

maga- what? I'm a Millenial, I don't know this word, magazines.

Wait, pornographic MAGA-zine. Make porn great again.

Now I've got it

Also, I've used a rotary phone when I was a kid and still a Millenial. Does that make me a fake Millenial?

 

[Fieldy409_v1legacy]

Porn magazines are terrible though, one accident and your favourite girl is lost forever to you between the sticky pages 5 and 6.

 

[Lil devils x_v1legacy]

It really depends on whose say it is that one ought be ashamed of something cause I'm sure someone thinks just about anything is something to be ashamed off.

A pretty common one I've ran across often is being a fan of kodomo no jikan and considering a very insightful coming of age story with amazing characters. I'll always tout that series's virtues when it comes up but people have a kneejerk "ew, lolis, jail, fbi" sort of generic meme reaction to it (ignoring the fact that a mangaka is a woman with daughters and that in Japan sexual humor is mainstream) which I guess indicates that at least some people think it should be something I'm ashamed of lol.


Oh yeah, on top of being full of great characters, it's also full of hilarious desk-slapping jokes too. A lot of them are JP puns so a certain degree of familiarity is useful in appreciating them all but there's all sorts of them too.



Oh and as for all the furry talk, I never got the appeal. I think Carrot from one piece is cute but it's not really something I'd ever be into and more something I'd be fine with but never actively seek out. And all those kigurumi things are just bizarre to me as well.

Yea, it goes straight to Loli's because anytime you create a character with childlike features and place them in adult situations, it is seen as normalizing the sexualization of children and is also seen as "grooming material". Part of the issue with anime is that the faces are made to look childlike with toddler like enlarged features. Putting a toddler head on an adult body and giving them children actually does not make it any "better", they still have the child like head, and that is the primary issue to begin with.

The other relevant issue is that it is also fairly well known that Japan ALSO has a pedophilia problem as well, so claiming it to be "mainstream in japan" isn't exactly making a case for it. According to my friends in Japan, it is a well known problem but they cannot have it addressed by government as much as it should be because it is seen as worse to even discuss it openly than to actually do something about it. No, not everyone in Japan thinks these cartoons are acceptable, but due to their repressive culture, not much is done about it because they view it as worse to talk about it in the first place. It isn't necessarily a "knee jerk" reaction, they are really just pointing out a fairly well known issue.

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-pedophilia-common-in-Japan
http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2054271,00.html
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/57eaaf23-0cef-48c8-961f-41f2563b38aa
https://thesixfootbonsai.com/2016/12/23/no-ordinary-pedophile-japans-idolization-of-children/

Yeah but that's not relevant to kodomo no jikan. That series is just a coming of age story so the characters are actual kids and their adult teachers, not made to look younger for some creepy reason. People see the comedic fanservice moments and somehow are hit by fits of short term amnesia that erase all the amazing character building that occurred before and after those moments and it makes no sense.


What's mainstream in japan is what one could call sexual slapstick comedy, not pedophillia. Like for example, there's comedy shows that have skits where for example the perverted airport security guard lets a crazy looking metalhead pass through like nothing but inspects the subsequent beauty with thorough detail and makes her strip in order to ensure she's not hiding anything, all the while he's waving a beeping sensor around her, at one point waving it over his own crotch which also caused it to beep. This sort of comedy is mainstream and just something you have to understand going in as something that's fundamentally humorous and not lascivious.

Also, it's good to keep in mind that age of consent in Japan is 13 and while most prefectures raise it to 16 it's still something that's part of the laws. It's less that they don't talk about it but more of there being nothing to talk about something that's legal or at the very least not seen as that big of a problem even if techincally illegal, kinda like pot smoking in states where it's not been legalized yet over here.

No, age of consent laws are not like " pot laws" simply because a country legalizes pedophilia does not change that it is still actually pedophilia. Young girls being sold as brides in Saudi Arabia is legal there too, but that does not change that it is still pedophilia. You are not making a case of this as being somehow okay or "better", you are actually making a case that what they are doing is worse. The Japanese are not some superhumans that some how mature at a faster rate, they are still going to have an underdeveloped prefrontal cortex and judgement centers of their brains that are not capable of making adult decisions so to sexualize them is still "just as wrong" regardless of legality. It is not wrong because it is illegal, it is wrong because it is abusive to take advantage of a child's immature developmental stage for your sexual gratification. Legal status is irrelevant.

In addition, it isn't that pedophilia is rare in Japan, in fact, according to Interpol Japan provided 80% of the world's child porn. ( read the links provided above). Do you realize how much child porn that tiny island has to produce to provide the world with that much child pornography? That is how rampant the problem actually is. Japan being unwilling to prosecute it and then profit from it does not somehow make this more palatable.

 

[Kwak]

I'm white, cis, and male.

The trifecta of oppression.

.. Too real my dude. I want to laugh at this, but it's actually kind of worrisome that society feels this way towards us.

What way? What society?

 

[CaitSeith]

... Guess i'll use myself as an example for this topic.

Paid $2 for an erotic game that had anthropomorphic characters, and got this background when turning the cards in. Should I be ashamed that i'm displaying it? Probably, but the art is so damn good and I love the characters, I kind of don't give a shit.

Hard working artists made these, and I feel it's a better background than 88% of all the backgrounds that exist on Steam currently.
What about you guys? Got anything you aren't ashamed of despite feeling like you should?

The only thing you should be ashamed about is that it isn't an Angels With Scaly Wings background... /jk

 

[Something Amyss]

I suppose it would be if I really ever went through it. I feel like its just more of something to collect then for any other reason. I don't repost it, I don't look through it, if it was all deleted I don't think I would care. It just kind of exists on my storage drive.

This sounds like about a third of my music library.

maga- what? I'm a Millenial, I don't know this word, magazines.

Wait, pornographic MAGA-zine. Make porn great again.

Now I've got it

Also, I've used a rotary phone when I was a kid and still a Millenial. Does that make me a fake Millenial?

Make Porn Great Again I lov e it!

Also, to be fair, I'm Gen X, but because I'm on the tail end of Gen X I have more in common with most millennials. My ex, however, was greatly amused that I technically shared the same generation as their mother.

I assumed the whole thing was in jest, the same way I tell those durned kids to get off my lawn from time to time.

What way? What society?

Every society that doesn't pander directly to straight white dudes--and exclusively so--is oppressing them. Oh, how horrible it must be to only have 80% of the power!

...I should be so "cursed."

 

[Jonluw]

ew furry

Furry art looks cool, but I'm not touching the porn.

Why not?

As for myself... I'm not sure I can think of anything.

Spoiler: I did make this once upon a time

I'll let you guys be the judge of how shameful that thing is.

 

[BrawlMan]

I own this game:

<spoiler=Onechanbara Z2> http://www.fwallpaper.net/wallpapers/O/N/Onechanbara-Z2-Chaos-2_800x600.jpg

http://www.fwallpaper.net/wallpapers/O/N/Onechanbara-Z2-Chaos-4_800x600.jpg


<spoiler=Kagura vs. Juliet>http://pre15.deviantart.net/1f1e/th/pre/i/2013/258/1/6/onechanbara_z__kagura_vs_lollipop_chainsaw_by_rog_rockbe-d6mdkbi.jpg

But I don't have any shame. It's my game, I don't give a fuck what other jack-off cares. The funny thing is, I showed this game to my mom once, and she laughed her ass off. Ironically, I had a dislike for the franchise at the beginning, but when I saw the gameplay for Z1 and this. I thought I'd give it a shot. Tamsoft definitely were inspired by Bayonetta/DMC when you play both Z1 & Z2. Compared to the older games that were a weird cross between DMC and Dynasty Warriors. The Wii game is decent, but it is almost impossible to enjoy the older games on PS2 and Bikini Samurai Squad (360).

Killer Is Dead is still an awesome game. Fuck the critics, they don't know shit and were trying to score feminism point back in 2012-2015.