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Heh... I've always had "not typical" interests and therefore very few friends of my age outside of my techgeek friends. In the '80s, I played D&D, wargaming, SCA .... at NASA I did realtime simulation and developed apps for the pre-Web Internet. Pretty much a typical long haired geek engineer who swings a sword...
When my older son was old enough in the late 90s, we became the "LAN party" house (I could usually get the network up, had the patches for all the games and video cards, blah blah blah). I play WoW with my older son and his girlfriend who are off at college and my younger son whose in high school (he's the other painter).
The anime schtick is somewhat my fault, I discovered anime did things other than talk loud and fight after reading Megatokyo and following some of the author's recommendations for his inspiration. My wife and I both enjoy anime. Both sons and I are taking Japanese language (wife is japanese-american and has a bit of a head start).
Sooooo we have a cultural interest in it as well... I find what the Japanese are able to do in story terms with animation exceeds the limits of live-action American tv ... which frankly after 40+ years bores the crap out of me with the recycled hash they serve up. Hell, even foreign commercials fascinate me more than "Must-See TV (tm)".
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