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Git Repo: Anime-Girls-Holding-Programming-Books
- NoOneSpecialII 3y agoWhy?
- pxue 3y agoWhy not?
- laputan_machine 3y agoThe kind of people I see with a fascination of anime girls are exactly the kind of people I expect to have one. It is creepy, and everyone thinks you are creepy.
- gregjor 3y ago“Kind of people?” Do you mean Japanese?
- eska 3y agoHate to burst your bubble, but they’re considered creepy in Japan, too.
- catboybotnet 3y agoAye, a basement dwelling nerd is a basement dwelling nerd regardless of where they are located on the planet, and are looked upon the same way. Otaku are no exception.
- gregjor 3y agoOtaku refers to men who prefer computers, games, anime, manga over forming real relationships. It includes obsession with cartoon or fictional girls, but includes more antisocial obsessions than anime girls. Anime features prominently in Japanese and other Asian cultures. Nothing wrong with that, but not healthy (or creepy, if you prefer) to fixate on fictional females rather than forming relationships with real people. The problem lies in the behavior of the anime consumer, in other words. Not a fan myself. I live in Asia and see these characters, and the anime style, everywhere. It strikes me as juvenile and sometimes fun in a marketing context. Would strike me as creepy if someone told me they were in love with an anime girl.
- eska 3y agoNo, that’s not what otaku means. Otaku can be completely disconnected from Anime, and if it is about Anime then it does not have to be connected to girls. The other way around liking the detective series conan or ghibli movies doesn’t make somebody otaku, just like enjoying a Disney movie doesn’t make you a cartoon nerd.
- gregjor 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otaku https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otaku
- gregjor 3y agoThanks for the showing off your cultural erudition. No bubble burst for me.
- eska 3y agoI couldn’t care less what you think about me, but please stop equating the “Japanese people” with “grown men obsessing over anime girls”. That’s straight up racist, disrespectful and misinformed (through foreign Anime communities I assume).
- gregjor 3y agoRead the whole thread before calling names. I asked the OP to clarify what "kind of people" who look at female anime characters refers to. I never equated Japanese people with anything.
- laputan_machine 3y agoListen, you enjoy anime, that's fine, I grew up on Guyver, Dragonball, Trigun, Ghost in the Shell, there's plenty of great anime out there. You seem very defensive. If you have images of anime girls (especially young looking) as your wallpaper... People think you are weird. Nobody is telling this to your face because they don't want to offend you, but they are judging you, and I am too. If you don't... what's the deal? Why are you defending it so much? Trying to defend it by insinuating I am predjudiced against a group of people (because all Japanese people like anime??? I've lived there, they do not.) in some way is a facile defense.
- gregjor 3y agoI don't think you read any of what I wrote.
- pcdoodle 3y agoThanks, I hate it.
- Grum9 3y ago[dead]
- gerjomarty 3y agoI will not be taking questions, but I do find it interesting to see which characters show up in which languages. Also, it made me smile that we have a Ruby reading about Ruby. [1] [1]: https://github.com/cat-milk/Anime-Girls-Holding-Programming-Books/blob/master/Ruby/Ruby_Kurosawa_Holding_Ruby_Programming_Lang.png https://github.com/cat-milk/Anime-Girls-Holding-Programming-...
- coldblues 3y agoInteresting to see this on HN, even though it was mass-flagged by everyone here. Sure, it's not a technical project, but it's a cool curiosity to see from a bunch of tech hobbyists contributing edits of anime girls holding programming books. It's a fact that a lot of people in tech have unconventional interests. Plenty of "quirky" projects like that. My only criticism is using Git to host these images. Are they even using Git LFS?
- Fire-Dragon-DoL 3y agoIn the ruby section there isn't a single one with furry ears. This has been a huge disappointment.