A kids guide to internet safety

Post by **Cagliostro** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 10:55 pm

I've not heard of that videogame. Is it any fun? What console is it on? Or is it on the PC?

Post by **sgt.null** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 1:00 am

danlo wrote:For some reason this thread reminds of a teacher's quote in the paper a couple of days ago. When asked by the student's mother, "Do you know what type of video game should I buy to help improve Johnny's reading skills?" she replied, "Yeah, it's called a book!"

silly danlo. jonny kant reed no moor!

Post by **emotional leper** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 3:19 am

aliantha wrote:
Emotional Leper wrote:
James wrote:and even wikipedia.
Yeah. Just unplug the computer.
Probably safest.

I had some freeware net-nanny-type program when the kids were younger -- Prowler, I think it was called. They complained about it, which I took to mean that it was doing its job. Then Batty got her own laptop when she was in 9th grade. I didn't put any sort of nanny program on it. Didn't even think about it. BIG mistake. Pretty soon she was reading yaoi fanfiction, and it went downhill from there...

Wait, wait.

Teenage girls reading yaoi fanficcies?

I'm sorry, I don't see the problem...

Post by **CovenantJr** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 4:08 pm

sgt.null wrote:yaoi fanfiction... is that slash?

Pretty much. Yaoi is exclusively male-male though, and is technically a genre of manga/anime, so really it should be visual rather than written.

It amuses me greatly that Batsutousai is into yaoi.

I may have to mock her on sight. Where is she?

Post by **emotional leper** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 5:29 pm

I wouldn't directly compare Yaoi to Slash.

Post by **aliantha** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 10:31 pm

CovenantJr wrote:
sgt.null wrote:yaoi fanfiction... is that slash?
Pretty much. Yaoi is exclusively male-male though, and is technically a genre of manga/anime, so really it should be visual rather than written.

It amuses me greatly that Batsutousai is into yaoi. I may have to mock her on sight. Where is she?

At home, presently. I'll let her know to check in.... (And she will mock me in her turn, so it all works out.)

Is hentai girl/girl, then? I only know a few words of Japanese....

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 10:33 pm

Hentai is any pornographic anime/manga.

Um.. not that I would know anything about that, of course.

Post by **aliantha** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 10:34 pm

Murrin wrote:Hentai is any pornographic anime/manga.

Um.. not that I would know anything about that, of course.

Me neither, clearly.

Post by **Batsutousai** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 10:51 pm

aliantha wrote:
CovenantJr wrote:
sgt.null wrote:yaoi fanfiction... is that slash?
Pretty much. Yaoi is exclusively male-male though, and is technically a genre of manga/anime, so really it should be visual rather than written.

It amuses me greatly that Batsutousai is into yaoi. I may have to mock her on sight. Where is she?
At home, presently. I'll let her know to check in.... (And she will mock me in her turn, so it all works out.)

Is hentai girl/girl, then? I only know a few words of Japanese....

Bah. I'm taking care of annoying orphan children and you all want my thoughts on yaoi or something?

YURI is girl/girl. YAOI is guy/guy. HENTAI is any form of porn. Het included.
SHONEN-AI is a lighter, safer form of yaoi. So, not hentai. SHOJOU-AI is the lighter form of girl/girl.
SLASH is the word commonly used among the fandoms that aren't anime/manga/Japanese culture related. FEMSLASH is the girl/girl version of that.

Mock away, CovenantJr. I'm a proud yaoi fangirl. (Then again, if the girls in any of these series were worth pairing with the guys.... :XD)

On a somewhat related and rather amusing side-note: You won't find 'yaoi' or 'yuri' in a Japanese dictionary. They're slang terms and there's an occasionally amusing debate over where each word really came from.

Post by **Cameraman Jenn** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 11:01 pm

Wow, you can learn so much on the internet....

Post by **CovenantJr** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 11:59 pm

Batsutousai wrote:Mock away, CovenantJr.

Then I shall.

Ha! Yaoi fan! *dances, points, throws stones*

Hmm, somehow mockery isn't as effective online...

Post by **emotional leper** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 1:41 am

Personally, I don't know how I'd react to finding out that a teenage girl doesn't read Yaoi. I've never met a 'normal' person before.

Yaoi's supposed to be an acronym, I think, but I can't remember what it stands for.

In Japan, you'd practically never here it called Yaoi -- not sure about whether Yuri is used. The term my esteem Nihon-jin brothers use would be Boy Love or Boy's Love, or something like that. I don't think they'd actually use Shonen-Ai. I think that's mainly a western thing. Just like the abuse of the copula.

What we consider 'hard core' porn would be roughly analagous to henai. Softcore would be ecchi.

Dammit. Now I have to go see if I can get in touch with any of my old FFXI friends.

Post by **Batsutousai** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 4:45 am

CovenantJr wrote:
Batsutousai wrote:Mock away, CovenantJr.
Then I shall.

Ha! Yaoi fan! *dances, points, throws stones*

Hmm, somehow mockery isn't as effective online...

*points and laughs from far, far away*

Post by **sgt.null** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 5:56 am

now i know very much japanese porn. in case i ever arrive there.

Post by **aliantha** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 5:43 pm

Yeah, all this pretty much falls under the category of WTMI for me....

Post by **CovenantJr** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 5:58 pm

Emotional Leper wrote:Personally, I don't know how I'd react to finding out that a teenage girl doesn't read Yaoi. I've never met a 'normal' person before.

Yaoi's supposed to be an acronym, I think, but I can't remember what it stands for.

In Japan, you'd practically never here it called Yaoi -- not sure about whether Yuri is used. The term my esteem Nihon-jin brothers use would be Boy Love or Boy's Love, or something like that. I don't think they'd actually use Shonen-Ai. I think that's mainly a western thing. Just like the abuse of the copula.

What we consider 'hard core' porn would be roughly analagous to henai. Softcore would be ecchi.

Dammit. Now I have to go see if I can get in touch with any of my old FFXI friends.

As I understand it, hentai isn't really called hentai in Japan either. Or rather, the term hentai isn't really applied to the stuff we call hentai.

Batsutousai wrote:
CovenantJr wrote:
Batsutousai wrote:Mock away, CovenantJr.
Then I shall.

Ha! Yaoi fan! *dances, points, throws stones*

Hmm, somehow mockery isn't as effective online...
*points and laughs from far, far away*

You may laugh, but at least I'm not a yaoi fan. Though I did have a disturbing conversation with the Bangor Anime Society recently, who accused me and an acquaintance called Dan of being good yaoi material.

Most frightening of all, Dan seemed quite taken with the idea.

Post by **danlo** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 6:03 pm

Post by **Cameraman Jenn** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 6:04 pm

Laugh it up cowboy!

Post by **emotional leper** » Sat Dec 22, 2007 2:04 am

Hentai literally means 'pervert' or 'perverted,' I think. It's been a while since I studied Japanese, but I'm fairly sure that you'd be more likely to call someone hentai than to call porn hentai. The Otaku culture has really messed up learning Japanese (of course, anyone who wants to call themself a pedophile as a badge of honour doesn't really have a good grasp of a language...)

Post by **CovenantJr** » Sat Dec 22, 2007 5:08 pm

Emotional Leper wrote:Hentai literally means 'pervert' or 'perverted,' I think. It's been a while since I studied Japanese, but I'm fairly sure that you'd be more likely to call someone hentai than to call porn hentai.

Yeah, that's what I was getting at; I was just too lazy to try and explain it.

I appreciate your efforts, Emo Boy.

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