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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kae'Yoss" data-source="post: 3366011" data-attributes="member: 4134">This is one of the topics that really baffles me.We roleplayers are a subculture, one that is often misunderstood and slandered by the broad public: To them, we're often the nerds, the satanists, the social misfits. Fat old virgins who live with their parents, don't have a proper job, dress up like fantasy characters, always speak in quotes, can't talk to non-gamers and get a heart attack if a girl says "hello" to them.Now, we roleplayers know that this isn't true. We know there are people like this, that they give the whole community a bad name, and that most roleplayers really are just like everyone else. We're no more or less religious than others (and aren't drawn to satanism or "witchcraft" at all). We're no more or less likely to have well-paying jobs, our own houses, wives/husbands and children, and all that.Then along comes the word "anime" and many roleplayers assume that it's all icky hentacle porn and annoying pocket monsters and flying guys with 30-foot-swords. The sheer amount of prejudice and ignorance is simply staggering. Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.I personally don't have too much exposure to manga/anime/whatever (I couldn't tell them apart), but I do know Record of Lodoss War, which is an awesome show. While He-man* beats up walking skeletons and chicks with cheesy names (Evil Lynn???) and tells us that stealing is wrong, that show has character development worthy of high fantasy deep immersion storytelling D&D.*Talk about disgusting: A blond guy runs around in pink clothes but sometimes secretly gets into some weird fetish outfit and oils himself? And the name He-man? Sounds like he'd be right at home at the YMCA <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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