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Wait, so the waifu thing is actually for real?

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I just don't know how some of you do it. If I liked that shit I would never be caught with posters on my walls like that. I got weird'd out by chicks coming over and seeing this:

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It wasn't until a couple of chicks came over and loved it that I felt comfortable with it on my wall.


And because someone is going to ask.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshitomo_Nara


EDIT: god dammit why am I the first person this page... :( embarrassing post too.
 
jon bones said:
Sorry, that's not how real life works and a 30 year old man should know that. You don't get to plaster your room with pictures of half naked underage cartoon girls and expect the woman who is right for you to just "love you for it." If you can't see that, you need to take a long hard look at what you think is socially acceptable.

Also, you don't have abandon a thing. You can like comic books or magic the gathering, mmos, anime, whatever, but you have to realize there's a socially appropriate way to express those interests without being creepy.
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There are 7 billion people on this planet, half of them women. You have a very insular view of humanity if you don't think there are any that would accept someone despite having every square-inch of their walls covered in animu.
 
Devolution said:
A relationship with a pillow is always unhealthy. Come on bro.
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Dude, I have a great relationship with my pillow. I wake up in the morning and I'm like, "damn pillow, let's just stay in bed forever." And there's like this suspended moment of time when everything is perfect and we are just there, together.

And then my alarm goes off again and the moment is over.
 
heliosRAzi said:
At some point, you have to put yourself on solid ground and just say no.
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Yeah, but I'm trying not to judge the issue going by purely my own preferences. Do I find this shit creepy? Yes. Do I find many other fetishes creepy too? Yes. But if the fetish is harmless to others and the person is happier when he/she can engage on it, then it's most likely fine by me.

For example, open any porn streaming site and chances are there are material on front page that creeps me out big time. And most of it is considered perfectly normal hardcore by some people. Not me, and I consider those people creepy.
 
Arjen said:
If one of my friends would use the term Waifu in a non joking way i would punch him in the dick.
I think i need a break from GAF, between this and the pony shit, i'm getting to weirded out.
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Go be a Man. Why are you on the internet? Talking about things? That's for the womenfolk and the limp of wrist if you know what I'm saying. Real men are about action.
 
Greenhowse said:
Just like the brony thread.

There is a sort of knee-jerk response to blow up the deviance and misanthropy of an out-of-the-norm interest.

For the record--I don't have a waifu or nurture those sorts of feelings. I do however think the whole "she is my waifu she is pure and innocent she will never betray and I will not act in a lewd manner with any other 2D or 3D filth" is funny. And though the harem/romance stuff I've seen wasn't all that great (Tenchi Muyo from what I remember, Infinite Stratos) and I'm not into the genre I think it's harmless to root for a "best girl" to win. I rarely watch it myself, and never read manga, I don't like comics of any sort but I do like reading books.

But come on. Why does someone who--to take it as far as having the anime pillows and shit--have to be totally socially maladjusted? Maybe they have friends? I gave anime nerds a hard time growing up (well, I did that to a ton of people), and in college I got to know more people who were really into anime, by checking out an anime club every so often. Some of these people have lives, jobs, and can drive; there are indeed girls who are into anime figures. Sure they may take it to a level that is distasteful for some (I've found it annoying to see people wearing cat ears and saying nyaa~) but the ire is so disproportionate that I can't help but be disappointed.

To be clear--there is a decent boundary covered by the fact that some people find anime, manga, figurines and such to be a stupid hobby or not altogether interesting. What I'm against is this ease at which these people are labeled as subhumans and different from normal people. Maybe this is just the growing pains of accepting anime watching into the broader culture, but it sucks.
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I just find this thread and the reaction to it to be of interest and amusement.
that is one reason why I posted my room.
I kind of want to see other otaku rooms actually. Like that other guy who posted in this thread. Those rooms are fun to look at.
 
cosmicblizzard said:
There are 7 billion people on this planet, half of them women. You have a very insular view of humanity if you don't think there are any that would accept someone despite having every square-inch of their walls covered in animu.
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the truth is somewhere between my "insular view of humanity" and your naive view of dating. it's not about the 3.5 billion women on the planet, it's about the X women you will meet in your life. you don't need to change who you are, you just need to realize having every square inch of your walls covered in underage cartoon girls is super creepy and will turn off almost every woman you meet. she can grow to understand your love of anime, and grow to love you for it, but you will most likely never get there if thats what your room looks like.
 
zoukka said:
Yeah, but I'm trying not to judge the issue going by purely my own preferences. Do I find this shit creepy? Yes. Do I find many other fetishes creepy too? Yes. But if the fetish is harmless to others and the person is happier when he/she can engage on it, then it's most likely fine by me.

For example, open any porn streaming site and chances are there are material on front page that creeps me out big time. And most of it is considered perfectly normal hardcore by some people. Not me, and I consider those people creepy.
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I think we are getting confused here. Sexual fetish is alright; he can be attracted to the pillow. He can fuck the pillow (it's still weird, though, no matter what.) Having a relationship with the pillow is unhealthy. That is not a fetish. That is delusional. It's literally falling in love with an imaginary friend.
 
jon bones said:
i'm going to disagree. i don't think people in relationships with pillows are mentally healthy. i do agree that our notions of mental health have a lot of wiggle room but there is one absolute i CAN tell you: forgoing relationships with women for relationships with pillows with pictures of underage cartoon girls on them is NOT mentally sound.
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But it's not a choice for many I would believe. For some reason a person fails at socializing and dating. His needs are supressed and then projected somewhere else. Chances are that it's not healthy and a thing that could last for a long time without complications. But if a person does not engage in any activities to express their feelings, then I think we all can agree it's not a healthy state to be in.

There are happy people that are completely asexual or just choose to be alone. Some people don't need any other sexual life than masturbation. Some even prefer it to real sex (something I believe the internet porn generation will see increasing).

jon bones said:
i'm also dying to hear what needs i'm supressing
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It was a tongue in cheek remark. But it was funny to see you listing nerdy things you like and then listing out how a nerd is supposed to present these interests to other people. It really came off as an insecure attitude towards themselves.
 
cajunator said:
I just find this thread and the reaction to it to be of interest and amusement.
that is one reason why I posted my room.
I kind of want to see other otaku rooms actually. Like that other guy who posted in this thread. Those rooms are fun to look at.
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Don't know how many people are willing to post their otaku rooms after Evilore openly mocked one that one time.

I would if I had stuff, but I can't be assed to put up posters or anything. Even then, it would just be filled with shounen stuff, which is probably slightly more socially acceptable than just random moe girls.
 
heliosRAzi said:
I think we are getting confused here. Sexual fetish is alright; he can be attracted to the pillow. He can fuck the pillow (it's still weird, though, no matter what.) Having a relationship with the pillow is unhealthy. That is not a fetish. That is delusional. It's literally falling in love with an imaginary friend.
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It's role-playing to an extent. I recently saw a documentary in which they talked about infantilism. Maybe this pillow marriage can be granted a status of being a medical condition of some sort :b
 
There's really a defence force for everything on GAF.

The main issue is with the social behaviour of this people, because living in a delusional fantasy, being it manifested or hidden, is going to hinder your ability to behave in an acceptable way when confronted.

What a relationship teaches you is how to behave with people according to social and human expectations. We have a reached a point where all the "humans are animals! They are violent and selfish!" have been overlapped by what society asks and needs from us.

Yes, there are disfunctional people that have relationships, but those are the exceptions, not the general rule, so it doesn't apply as a defence for this kind of delusional thinking.

This is like the old saying "Boys being boys/kids are kids" etcetera, it doesnt work and never will.

The problem is not with the waifu, the pillow or the ponies, the problem is with the delusion keeping this people away from a big part of reality.

Ps: sorry for any typo, writing from my phone.
 
cosmicblizzard said:
Don't know how many people are willing to post their otaku rooms after Evilore openly mocked one that one time.

I would if I had stuff, but I can't be assed to put up posters or anything. Even then, it would just be filled with shounen stuff, which is probably slightly more socially acceptable than just random moe girls.
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A room full of shounen stuff can be interesting too.
I love to see rooms full of transformers or voltron or mecha stuff. Can look REALLY cool.
 
I moved from loving pillows.

Now I defecate and urinate into a blender, carefully mixing (in exact, laboratory controlled amounts), asparagus, wintergreen, pepper, chamomille, shiitake mushrooms, lemon juice, and cows testicles (.264kg cows testicles, to be exact). If you would like I can provide a receipt of my daily shopping trips for these ingredients, I buy them fresh every day or two. I let it blend for 5:45 minutes on medium, at which point I test for temperature and acidity, meaning I might have to blend more(to put more heat into the mixture) or do some quick calculations to determine how much more lemon juice I need to add to bring the pH into the correct zone where certain organic compounds are broken down but a very specific type of bacteria (which I've cultivated inside my colon over many years from eating a restricted diet) is able to survive.

I test smell. The top notes should feel very light, an invigorating rush of earth and spring bloom. The body of the scent should be appropriately humid, but not too dark. The sillage should emanate throughout the house. I should be able to tell that what I ate over the previous 48 hours was healthy and fiber content of my diet should make is so that the texture of the smoothie isn't too thick or too thin. The color should approximate a Wendy's frosty.

If this criteria is not met (and after years of practice it usually is), I will discard the smoothie. I cannot deal with that which is not pure.

When the smoothie is perfect in all respects, I will wrap an ultra, ultra thin condom around my now rock hard member, and while the smoothie blends (and at this point I will turn the Kitchenaid blender to its 2nd to highest setting), I will dip just the tip into the blender carafe--into the swirling morass. At this point I will know whether or not the mixture is perfect, because I should ejaculate the very moment the condom comes in contact with the poop smoothie.
 
jon bones said:
the truth is somewhere between my "insular view of humanity" and your naive view of dating. it's not about the 3.5 billion women on the planet, it's about the X women you will meet in your life. you don't need to change who you are, you just need to realize having every square inch of your walls covered in underage cartoon girls is super creepy and will turn off almost every woman you meet. she can grow to understand your love of anime, and grow to love you for it, but you will most likely never get there if thats what your room looks like.
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I can tell you that nearly every girl in the Japan club at my college would have been impressed by that dude and cajunator's room.

Just got to know where to look. Hell, there's friggin speed dating at Comic-con now. Hardcore anime nerd girls exist, you know.
 
jon bones said:
the truth is somewhere between my "insular view of humanity" and your naive view of dating. it's not about the 3.5 billion women on the planet, it's about the X women you will meet in your life. you don't need to change who you are, you just need to realize having every square inch of your walls covered in underage cartoon girls is super creepy and will turn off almost every woman you meet. she can grow to understand your love of anime, and grow to love you for it, but you will most likely never get there if thats what your room looks like.
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I wonder how people in the thread would react to learning there are girls into seeing anime boys do each other.





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As long as people aren't a burden on society or breaking any laws why get upset about it? If they are content with their lifestyle its alright in my books.

And also leave Cajunator alone he's a cool cat :P (plus points for his floor not being cluttered with stuff though perhaps he could cut back on some of the posters, give the wall some breathing room)
 
I like cajunator's room. As I said earlier, it's way better than being surrounded by vanilla blandness.

(Bask blissfully in your rainbow-sparkle room, cajunator!)
 
RawkHawk2010 said:
I like cajunator's room. As I said earlier, it's way better than being surrounded by vanilla blandness.

(Bask blissfully in your rainbow-sparkle room, cajunator!)
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I like to be surrounded by details. Cute details are better.
My brain loves activity. I like to think. I like to problem solve. I like clutter.
Actually, this is probably why I can handle an 84 hour dispatching job for eleven years without cracking.

Also I recently put up more wallscrolls because there were blank spots on the wall. I detest blank space. If I see an empty sheet of paper, I will probably draw on it or cover it up.
 
Pyscho_Mantis said:
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Mai waifu, she's better than yours
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Sexual cannibalism is common among mantises in captivity, and under some circumstances may also be observed in the field. The female may begin feeding by biting off the male’s head (as they do with regular prey), and if mating has begun, the male’s movements may become even more vigorous in its delivery of sperm.

The reason for sexual cannibalism has been debated, with some considering submissive males to be achieving a selective advantage in their ability to produce offspring. This theory is supported by a quantifiable increase in the duration of copulation among males who are cannibalized, in some cases doubling both the duration and the chance of fertilization. This is further supported in a study where males were seen to approach hungry females with more caution, and were shown to remain mounted on hungry females for a longer time, indicating that males actively avoiding cannibalism may mate with multiple females. The act of dismounting is one of the most dangerous times for males during copulation, for it is at this time that females most frequently cannibalize their mates. This increase in mounting duration was thought to indicate that males would be more prone to wait for an opportune time to dismount from a hungry female rather than from a satiated female that would be less likely to cannibalize her mate. Some consider this to be an indication that male submissiveness does not inherently increase male reproductive success, rather that more fit males are likely to approach a female with caution and escape.
 
It seems in recent weeks there have been some threads popping up on GAF where the seemingly same group of people examine a fringe minority and expand their actions onto a larger group of people for the apparent purpose of implying mental health issues on part of the targets while simultaneously vilifying them and mocking them for these same implied issues. Of course this is in addition to purporting the belief that any actions taken outside of societal norms are "wrong" or "harmful" while continuing to maintain that such practices are engaged in by a majority of the population under discussion despite presenting no reasonable evidence to believe so.

Even though this thread will have changed nothing, it was still enjoyable to read. Perhaps a good case study sample for the effects of hyperbole and the expansion of stereotypes over non-mainstream groups.
 
VanillaCakeIsBurning said:
It seems in recent weeks there have been some threads popping up on GAF where the seemingly same group of people examine a fringe minority and expand their actions onto a larger group of people for the apparent purpose of implying mental health issues on part of the targets while simultaneously vilifying them and mocking them for these same implied issues. Of course this is in addition to purporting the belief that any actions taken outside of societal norms are "wrong" or "harmful" while continuing to maintain that such practices are engaged in by a majority of the population under discussion despite presenting no reasonable evidence to believe so.

Even though this thread will have changed nothing, it was still enjoyable to read. Perhaps a good case study sample for the effects of hyperbole and the expansion of stereotypes over non-mainstream groups.
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Neptunia anime is going to be awesome.

Also what you described is what Gaf does on a daily basis.
 
Gurvon said:
As long as people aren't a burden on society or breaking any laws why get upset about it? If they are content with their lifestyle its alright in my books.
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This, although I do admit that this stuff is fucking hilarious to me.
 
BGBW said:
Mai Waifu is engrish for my wife. It originates from the show Azumanga Daioh. In one scene the students ask their teacher who the lady in a photo he has is, he responds with "mai waifu" (my wife). It's as simple as that.

So to answer your query OP, yes, people really do get married and have wives and husbands.
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Huh, I don't remember that episode. Refresh me?
 
Well whatever these people do I'm glad I will never run into them in real life. So long as they stay far far far from me I'm fine.

Will never go to smelly conventions either. Cheers anime weirdos
 
zoukka said:
Social standards would disagree.
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Ah, but that's precisely the standard that's being set here. "As long as they are not hurting anyone", "They really should get a real girlfriend", "Contribute something worthwhile to society, "As long as they don't breed", "Fucking Leonardo is better than Raphael" -- these are all indicative of someone's interaction with society and what it accepts as normal. People might not like it, this "conformity", but hey, it's the truth and it should be considered, for good or ill.
 
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