The owning of a fan-boy

[Schlep]

Hey, nothing wrong with a little Equal Opporunity Dating...

[Mr-K]

That's a girl in that photo?

No.

[kabuki]

Maybe this year at Otakon I will get my entire finger in the picture.

Hahaha
I went to Iceland with some friends, and one of the guys had his black-gloved finger in at least thirty photos. D'oh!

Nice custom status, btw

[CynicalSphere]

Here's some of my RL experience with these maniacs...

I was recently at a poetry reading where I and others read some of the stuff we had recently had published. Some students from the local university were there for course credit, and this one girl came up and introduced herself. One of the first things she mentioned was that she was a huge fan of sci-fi and anime, to which I grumbled "holy fuck" and tried to stuff my ears with tablecloth. It's my experience that almost every anime/sci-fi nut that attempts poetry on the subject writes horrible crap. This was no exception. It was a poem about how this grown woman (she was like 20) rambling about how she'd like to be a magical girl. For 50 lines. Obscure Sailor Moon references and everything. It was so fruity that I farted a rainbow after hearing it.

Nobody clapped. It was the only unapplauded poem of the evening. It got a lot of horrified expressions, though.

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I was at Hollywood Video, looking for a copy of Metropolis. My friend made the mistake of asking one of the people there where it was, and he ended up talking our ears off about Cowboy Bebop. He was trying to sound deep with critical analysis on the show, but even a retarded two-year-old could have done the same level of analysis that he did. My friend ended up hoisting Mr. Maniac onto me (thanks, you turd) and he just wouldn't shut up or go away, even after I had deliberately farted in his direction (at close range) twice.

He then started telling me that he knew a lot about anime, so I started asking him really elementary-level questions (because I thought he was full of shit). He couldn't answer any of them. Here's a sample:

CS: "Okay, chief, what's shoujo anime?"
Otaku: "I don't know, what's that?"
CS: "Er, well, it's girls' anime."
Otaku: "Oh, you mean like hentai?" (I had to herniate myself to keep from howling in laughter at that one. My friend couldn't keep from it.)
CS: "Pfftt...er, no..heh...I mean, it's stuff for young girls, like teen romance and shit."
Otaku: "Oh, that stuff's for girls and fags."
CS: (To himself) "Man, billions of sperm cells and THAT one had to swim the fastest?"

We finally got out of that store, but not before half my brain cells had died screaming, gruesome deaths.

[Tain]

That was brilliant. And I didn't know that you could now browse SA forums without being a member. Or was it always like that and I'm just an idiot?

[SearchManX]

That's a girl in that photo?

My thoughts exactly. If she was even mildly attractive I might've put up with her.

My friend ended up hoisting Mr. Maniac onto me (thanks, you turd) and he just wouldn't shut up or go away, even after I had deliberately farted in his direction (at close range) twice.

Oh, and I forgot to mention that one of the guys I met from the anime club not only fit my description from above... but he was a linux zealot and traveled around campus on his razor scooter. Yep, that was his primary mode of transportation anywhere.

[MVS]

My god... it's so true.

I've been exposed to WAY TOO MANY of those people.


I want them to die.

!

Jesus, I almost peed myself.

Glass houses, glass houses.

[680x0]

That's nothing, one of my asian cinema TAs translated this:

http://38.192.22.17/manga/translated/luck2/0003.jpg

[Kenshin]

Oh Matt, you're so clever!

You're my real-life bishounen hero! "Tuxedo Matt"!


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[Kenshin]

ANYWAYS...

Last time I went to an anime club, the one Reno runs, there were otaku dork guys in front of me DANCING in their seats in relation to characters dancing on screen during the opening theme song.

I wanted to throw things at them, but restrained myself.

Then there's the 30-something balding 300lb white guy who's a member of every club in the city. He gets furious at anyone making noise during the shows because he's trying to "listen to the language" instead of read subtitles. He's especially surly during shows meant for teenage girls, as those are the ones he pays strongest attention to.

Everyone hates him. He's known, behind his back, as "mofo".