[BotageL]

Look, guys, I am pointing out a wacky anime fandom trend for shits and giggles and holding it up as an example of what it's all like! I am hip and cool and this has never been done before and certainly not better. Just look at them silly pedophile slanteyes! Japan is so wacky.
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This shit has been addressed. It comes up fairly often. Heck, the article you linked is perhaps my favorite description of the lol-tastic phenomenon of moe ever. You're exaggerating stupidly for shock and "look at them sick otaku" value, and I'm calling you on it. Yeah, a lot of them games are like that. So? It ain't anywhere near all of them, and you can find a bunch of non-Japanese amateur software of similar or worse "deviant" art styles. The majority of the doujin games that get passed around on the English-speaking parts of the internet aren't pornographic or typically even particularly fanservice-filled (read: panty shots). If you want to see the disgusting heights of moe, check out some of the commercial releases in Japan sometime.

Would you have preferred it if it had been a whole bunch of furry-themed amateur games? Wait, I think I know the answer to that.
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Oh yeah, in case anyone is wondering, that link James posted to the MoeMania article is not at all worksafe. It is however great reading.
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Hey guys, is this moe enough for you?
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I apologize for somewhat snapping earlier in this thread - it was late and I had a headache.

However, I will attempt to clarify my complaints with James' post here:
- He immedietly goes for the "oh those wacky animu fans and their obsession with all things Japanese being better" stereotype. Commence eye-rolling.
- Whips out the "all of these games involve prepubescent girls" stereotype in the second paragraph.
- Brings in the usual "hey guys Japan is fucked up and creates pedophiles- I MEAN 'fans', just look at all the creepy costume cafes and shit man. ISN'T THAT ZANY?!" bullshit.
- Equates all portrayal of any girl that doesn't look like an american supermodel with the lol-tastic "moe" trend, which is only sometimes (okay, usually) linked to pedophilia.

You lack tact, you do little more than trot out old stereotypes for shits 'n' giggles, you offer no insight into any of this, and don't even talk about what particular games offended you so so one could properly respond to your claims of "oh them jap doujin games are all pedo-bait except three or four stock freeware games everyone and their dog already knows about."
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Oh, okay. I see. Somewhere along the line "boring anime style" got reworded as "pedorific moe crap." That explains a lot about this post. It doesn't make it any less dumb or generally poor for a front page post (which is supposed to represent the best and most interesting topics of discussion, right?). Yeah, I'm not the biggest fan of the generic animu style, but I'm quite willing to look past it in favor of seeing what the actual games have to offer, and not make silly sweeping generalizations about all Japanese amateur computer games.
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The Internet does that to a lot of things. "Hentai" doesn't actually mean "cartoon porn," and yet that's what the Internet uses the word for.
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So you're saying moe is a religion.
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The elevator scene is legendary.

Has anyone youtubed it?
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