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Originally posted by Benoit:
That's just... wrong. Throw away the nice box and manual? That you paid for? Copying the game on a CD-R to not see the original disc?What the hell?
I think you should learn to accept that you are a bishoujo gamer, instead of hiding it away. I'm not saying that you should tell everyone you are, just accept it.
What's next, deleting all the H-CGs out of the game? :/
If only I knew how...
...no, not really. [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/wink.gif[/img]
It does pain me to throw away boxes and manuals, even if I'd never look at them again. But keeping that stuff laying around just isn't my style.
I do accept that I'm a b-gamer. Am I ashamed of it? No, or else I wouldn't be posting here, would I? Did I used to be ashamed of playing b-games? You bet. There's a strong stigma in the U. S. against those interested in "anime porn," even more so than "real" porn. Even though I'm not ashamed of playing these games now, other people just wouldn't understand. People think I'm weird just for having non-suggestive posters of anime girls in my room.
I've even tried explaining my tastes to my roommate (he has posters in the room of singers that are fairly suggestive). He just doesn't understand; it's too foreign to him. To him, it's not normal to have anything approaching a sexual interest in a drawing. In fact, in his opinion, it's not even "right." In his view, thinking some anime girls are "hot" is like getting off on Lisa from the Simpsons (sorry for that horrible image).
His view pretty much typifies the view of the average American, IMO. If people are going to think badly of me if they find out I'm into b-games, then what's the point in letting them know? By nature, I'm not one to do things half-heartedly (as I'm sure many of you have noticed). Upon reaching the conclusion that it's better to keep the hobby underground, I'm nothing if not thorough. Throwing away game boxes and manuals is just part of the plan. I've got a whole system set-up that covers this stuff, ranging from renaming links to redirecting installs to directories where your typical surfer would never find them. [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/tongue.gif[/img] I even ordered Hitomi via Paypal to avoid leaving an incriminating paper trail that my parents would intercept (yes they still do my bills for me, though the money is my own).
I'm not totally paranoid though. I'm gradually revealing the world of b-gamedom to one of my friends who seems mildly interested, because I think he'll understand. I've still got to get around to forcing--err lending Hourglass of Summer to him. My parents wouldn't understand though, and my brothers are underage. So the family needn't know. [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/tongue.gif[/img]
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Originally posted by Zenigame:
But still, what's the point in playing them if you're that embarassed by doing so?
Again, I personally don't have a qualm about playing them. I just want to avoid the annoyance of being stigmatized by others. Generally, I don't even care what others think. But this is a special case, because people, even people I know well, have some rather odd ideas in their head regarding this issue. And they're not going to change them easily, no matter how hard I try to convince them.