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Re: A community worse then FFXI/WoW
Haha, I'll keep an eye out.
If it wasn't such a pain in my ass to remake my GH420 on my Acrotecher, I'd reroll her if only to rename her. See, I know nothing about Japanese. I am not a massive Japanophile.
Despite that I managed to make a name that is the Japanese word for ..get this.. 'name'. -_-; People are always asking me and it drives me up the fucking wall. *I* thought I'd make it up. It was the name of a character I played in a pbp RP on a forum a year or so ago. So I just used it.
Repeatedly explaining this:
"No, I don't know Japanese. No, I am not an otaku. No, I really don't want to learn Japanese for anime, if I learned it at all it would be because I'm into historical Japan, not anime all that much."
...gets real old fast.
The only character I intentionally gave a Japanese name to was my Beast, and again, it was on purpose, because it was yet another RP name. And said rp was set in an oriental-like world, so I just flipped through a Japanese dictionary we had at a bookstore and said 'Sounds feminine enough. Nar.' RP flopped, boyfriend said he'd preferred to write it as a series of novels anyway, he just thought he'd see what others would do in the world. It's something he's been working on the map and history for for probably 7 years, so yeah, it was too much for an RP in the first place. And once we start on the books, the Japanese name will go. I just haven't come up with a suitable replacement name yet. Because I do so hate people mistaking me for one of those idiots that pick up Japanese phrases from anime and abuse them.
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If it wasn't such a pain in my ass to remake my GH420 on my Acrotecher, I'd reroll her if only to rename her. See, I know nothing about Japanese. I am not a massive Japanophile.
Despite that I managed to make a name that is the Japanese word for ..get this.. 'name'. -_-; People are always asking me and it drives me up the fucking wall. *I* thought I'd make it up. It was the name of a character I played in a pbp RP on a forum a year or so ago. So I just used it.
Repeatedly explaining this:
"No, I don't know Japanese. No, I am not an otaku. No, I really don't want to learn Japanese for anime, if I learned it at all it would be because I'm into historical Japan, not anime all that much."
...gets real old fast.
The only character I intentionally gave a Japanese name to was my Beast, and again, it was on purpose, because it was yet another RP name. And said rp was set in an oriental-like world, so I just flipped through a Japanese dictionary we had at a bookstore and said 'Sounds feminine enough. Nar.' RP flopped, boyfriend said he'd preferred to write it as a series of novels anyway, he just thought he'd see what others would do in the world. It's something he's been working on the map and history for for probably 7 years, so yeah, it was too much for an RP in the first place. And once we start on the books, the Japanese name will go. I just haven't come up with a suitable replacement name yet. Because I do so hate people mistaking me for one of those idiots that pick up Japanese phrases from anime and abuse them.
Grass Assassin. Now if only they'd give me the damn GA blades back.
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