Project 1999 Naming Policy

[skarlorn]

I reported someone's name last night. Barbarian by the name of mccrackin or mcslowin or some such


Consider yourself warned

[Spyder73]

There is a monk in Akwakend named Bree Olson - after the porn star who almost contracted AIDS from Charlie Sheen. But Wu'Tang is no longer breaking immersion levels so all is well

[dbouya]

huh?
half of these names are offensive and half of them are regular and ideal!
what's going on? is this a troll?
woodfoot is a fine fantasy name...
eatz poop is not.

[Baler]

huh?
half of these names are offensive and half of them are regular and ideal!
what's going on? is this a troll?
woodfoot is a fine fantasy name...
eatz poop is not.

My posts are not a troll. All of the names I post come directly from character's names on P99 Blue. Furthermore names that anyone other than names I post are probably not real characters on blue or have been retired long ago. I am not here to point fingers, perhaps other people's posted names are real players on p99. I only want to see this blemish on Project 1999 dealt with. Some people have posted fake names. Which are vastly less creative then the names I have noticed and posted that violate the naming policy.

Woodfoot is two words lazily slapped together.

[skarlorn]

name i just petitioned....

Farter Shart the half elf ranger

:)

[Jimjam]

My posts are not a troll. All of the names I post come directly from character's names on P99 Blue. Furthermore names that anyone other than names I post are probably not real characters on blue or have been retired long ago. I am not here to point fingers, perhaps other people's posted names are real players on p99. I only want to see this blemish on Project 1999 dealt with. Some people have posted fake names. Which are vastly less creative then the names I have noticed and posted that violate the naming policy.

Woodfoot is two words lazily slapped together.

Two slapped together words is encouraged by the policy, especially for surnames.

[Swish]

While I've been a victim of the naming policy in the past I think the "Parge Lenis" type names need to go.

Sirken went on tour on red, changing a bunch of names like Squirtyvagina a couple of years back but blue never saw the same treatment...so many to change etc

[dbouya]

I think one key is that both wood and foot are words that would make sense in the fantasy setting. Whereas say twerk and kayne aren't

[maskedmelon]

Two slapped together words is encouraged by the policy, especially for surnames.

Depends on the words, but I tend to agree. Woodfoot is mediocre at best unless he has a good bit of more substantiating it. Quality compound word names that come to mind:

Twowords
Slappedtogether
Encouragedpolicy

[skarlorn]

Depends on the words, but I tend to agree. Woodfoot is mediocre at best unless he has a good bit of more substantiating it. Quality compound word names that come to mind:

Twowords
Slappedtogether
Encouragedpolicy

what about PORKLORD HAMBLASTER

[fadetree]

Woodfoot is two words lazily slapped together.

I'm with ya, Baler. I hate names like that. They should be slapped together with a lot of effort.

[fadetree]

I'm making a char named
Neighming Pahlicy

I'm hoping his head will explode with rage. I plan on following him around.

[Lhancelot]

what about PORKLORD HAMBLASTER

Is that name taken, if not I want it.

[maskedmelon]

what about PORKLORD HAMBLASTER

lol

Rikumi Naoke

[fadetree]

that one is approved due to being awesome.

[Zukan]

I got a tell from someone by the name of Fagay tonight.

[Baler]

more names as of this post:

Imbaldyo
Populus
Tinypoe
Maddog
Hatebreeder
Stonersteve
Beansized
Shadowserpent
Doomshark
Bonebrain
Frostbitten

[Erati]

more names as of this post:

Imbaldyo
Populus
Tinypoe
Maddog
Hatebreeder
Stonersteve
Beansized
Shadowserpent
Doomshark
Bonebrain
Frostbitten


Now you are getting lazy, half of these are perfectly acceptable for an MMORPG

Imbaldyo and Stonersteve somewhat ehhhh

[chrisstie]

how about circum sized

[Lhancelot]

Found some new names today.

Fuzzynuts
Dirtyboy
Kriminal
Bffgoofball
Darkens
Willytucker
Darkhain
Killherqueen
Beckoning
Honeypies
Surrenderr
Xfiles
Bojigga
Scotthall
Populus
Spacepope

[RDawg816]

Darkhain

What am I missing? Is hain a word? Sounds like this could be an acceptable name to me.

[Baler]

I nearly missed this today. Lhancelot has been known to make up fake names to get attention on this thread. Pay no attention to the names he posts.

more names as of this post:

Fortunefinder
Bubbleparty
Scaleway
Madchill
Innercity
Mcnugget
Mindmeld
Pepperjack
Grubsnatcha
Darkmagy
Bardless

[Lhancelot]

I nearly missed this today. Lhancelot has been known to make up fake names to get attention on this thread. Pay no attention to his names he posts.


You should show appreciation when I provide you with names violating the naming policy, and not make baseless lies up. You disappoint me, Baler.

[Sporkotron]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7-51DeTRRQ

[Lhancelot]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7-51DeTRRQ

haha. :p

[StinkyGreenBud]

Lhancelot has been known to make up fake names to get attention on this thread.



oh the irony...

[kgallowaypa]

bump

[this user was banned]

Found some new names today.

Fuzzynuts
Dirtyboy
Kriminal
Bffgoofball
Darkens
Willytucker
Darkhain
Killherqueen
Beckoning
Honeypies
Surrenderr
Xfiles
Bojigga
Scotthall
Populus
Spacepope

Leave Fuzzynuts alone! He's a friendly little halfling that helped me with ports and finding my corpse in EJ when I got lost and died.

Darkhain?
What the fuck is wrong with this name? A lot of these names seem fine to me, what crawled up your ass?

[Lhancelot]

Leave Fuzzynuts alone! He's a friendly little halfling that helped me with ports and finding my corpse in EJ when I got lost and died.

Darkhain?
What the fuck is wrong with this name? A lot of these names seem fine to me, what crawled up your ass?

Calm down.

Baler made this thread purely to get attention, and nothing more (or less).

Feel free to add names you see that are immersion breaking, though. Sometimes such names are humorous and fun to see/read!

[fadetree]

Yeah, its just good clean rustling fun, no need to feel angers.

[Spyder73]

Nilbog is Goblin backwards - a clear violation of the naming policy

[Baler]

I did not make this thread for attention.

[this user was banned]

I did not make this thread for attention.

Why do assholes like you always need to shit on other people's fun?

[Lhancelot]

Why do assholes like you always need to shit on other people's fun?

rofl.

[RDawg816]

If you have a stupid name that's up to the GMs to change or not, but if you have an offensive/vulgar/etc. name then you should expect to get petitioned sooner or later. Just because you think you're clever adding extra letters or using hooked-on-phonics to circumvent the system doesn't make you special.

[Tura]

Reported:
http://wiki.project1999.com/Beef

Reported:
http://wiki.project1999.com/Axe_Broadsmith

Reported:
http://wiki.project1999.com/Bait_Masterson

Reported:
http://wiki.project1999.com/BoneCracker

Reported:
http://wiki.project1999.com/Bob_the_Painter

Reported:
http://wiki.project1999.com/Breezeboot_Swordrattler

Too lazy to go past 'B'.

[tobolamr]

OK. So IS this a troll post? Or IS this an attempt to crack down on dumb names? I'm so new, I can't tell! LOL

[CheeseRoll]

OK. So IS this a troll post? Or IS this an attempt to crack down on dumb names? I'm so new, I can't tell! LOL

Both and neither at the same time.

[justinf1000]

Reported:
http://wiki.project1999.com/Bait_Masterson




Lol

[Lhancelot]

Dawgz
Harmonicdeth
Nonessential
Duanelee Chapman
Blazeone
Jimharbaugh
Aarinsbutt
Buttox
Loststalker
Unchainedfury
Poppacap
Genetic
Willfight
Swaganometry
Needalift
Solotime

[fadetree]

Fine, goddammit-

fadetree

[fadetree]

OK. So IS this a troll post? Or IS this an attempt to crack down on dumb names? I'm so new, I can't tell! LOL

it's all meta and stuff. It's all in how you perceive it. Really a genius thread.

[CheeseRoll]

Buttox ok

Genetic ok

[justinf1000]

There's a guy named "Freebu Ttsex"

but i hope he doesn't get banned because his name is hilarious.

[Lhancelot]

There's a guy named "Freebu Ttsex"

but i hope he doesn't get banned because his name is hilarious.

That sir, is what we call a "dry snitch".

[maskedmelon]

There's a guy named "Freebu Ttsex"

but i hope he doesn't get banned because his name is hilarious.

If you are looking for good experience, you need Freebu Ttsex...





Nothing brings people together like Freebu Ttsex...





Could have all kinds of fun with this one.

[Lhancelot]

If you are looking for good experience, you need Freebu Ttsex...





Nothing brings people together like Freebu Ttsex...





Could have all kinds of fun with this one.

lol quite literally, too. Good ones.

[Swish]

There's a guy named "Freebu Ttsex"

but i hope he doesn't get banned because his name is hilarious.

http://i.imgur.com/8HBmrB8.jpg

[Muggens]

Just petitioned the character Dronestrikes, first time ive done so but I find it offensive and ugly and it makes me think of innocent people being murdered by nerds and losers with a gamepad.

[maskedmelonpai]

Just petitioned the character Dronestrikes, first time ive done so but I find it offensive and ugly and it makes me think of innocent people being murdered by nerds and losers with a gamepad.

Ohhhh :c That not what came to mind when I read that. I pictured a massive airfield stretching from horizon for horizon filled with drones sitting around burn barrels, refusing to fly until they receive an acceptable vision package, a $2.00/hr wage rate increase and safer working conditions.

[Lhancelot]

Just petitioned the character Dronestrikes, first time ive done so but I find it offensive and ugly and it makes me think of innocent people being murdered by nerds and losers with a gamepad.

Was it a druid? You know druids have a spell called http://wiki.project1999.com/Drones_of_Doom

[Muggens]

a $2.00/hr wage rate increase and safer working conditions.

Yeah gotta have that 2dollar incentive and aircondition to kill

[Muggens]

Was it a druid? You know druids have a spell called http://wiki.project1999.com/Drones_of_Doom

So you mean it makes a good pun on words?

[Lhancelot]

So you mean it makes a good pun on words?

Just because the word "drone" has some evil connotation to you doesn't necessarily mean the word meant the same to him or others who read it.

I personally would think of the word as you do, but at the same time I can recognize the dual meaning behind it, the other being a play on the name of the druid spell, "Drones of Doom".

Do you think the designers created the spell name "Drones of Doom" intending it to remind people of drones used to bomb or attack people? I doubt it.

Personally I don't get upset over the name, but I can see how you might feel.

One time on EQ1 ages ago there was a guy named "Irishcarbomb" and I did not like this name, for the same reasons you don't like "Dronestrikes". I guess I am older, and less impressionable and even less offended by words so neither name phases me now.

I wouldn't be surprised if they rmeoved his name, then again I wouldn't be surprised if they did not.

[Muggens]

Yes Irishcarbomb would be the same thing, an offensive "name" especially to those who are Irish. Same with Dronestrikes, I guess that would be a reason to quit if you were a survivor. Since u seem more interested in being a kverulant Ill straighten it up for you: The word Dronestrike is a new word being used only these past years in relation to just that; bombing "targets" using drones controlled from afar in the safety of your gamepad. This is a dronestrike and there are no such things as other dronestrikes or uses of the word before.

The word drone in itself has no "evil connotation" to me, its a useful tool, just not for airstrikes.

[maskedmelon]

It is interesting how words can carry different meanings to people. Like in the US, it is not uncommon for little kids to shout "banzai!" When jumping into a pool or lake or something. Japanese people do use it as a cheer, but using it like that can be, well onjectionable? Most Americans don't even know, but many hundreds of Japanese including mothers holding their infants jumped from the Banzai cliffs at the invasion of Saipan.

Conversely, in Japan, the slang term for a Polaroid camera is bakachon kamera. Many people use it without knowing the meaning is somewhat disparaging to people of Korean ancestry (literally means a camera that even an idiot or chonseijin (Korean) can use).

[Muggens]

So youre saying Dronestrikes have another meaning in Japan? Im in Europe and it means the same here as everywhere else. Exactly like Irishcarbomb. Banzai is not really relatable here as its a japanese expression/exclamation unique to Japan, equivolent in the west could be something like "live well" or "live long and prosper"(from star trek). Were I am we have no specific expression for this. But when the americans are boming around with their drones we all say dronestrikes.

Conversely, do all americans(I assume you are) compare dronestrikes with polaroid cameras and druid spells? If so you seem desentized to violence.

[Lhancelot]

Yes Irishcarbomb would be the same thing, an offensive "name" especially to those who are Irish. Same with Dronestrikes, I guess that would be a reason to quit if you were a survivor. Since u seem more interested in being a kverulant Ill straighten it up for you: The word Dronestrike is a new word being used only these past years in relation to just that; bombing "targets" using drones controlled from afar in the safety of your gamepad. This is a dronestrike and there are no such things as other dronestrikes or uses of the word before.

The word drone in itself has no "evil connotation" to me, its a useful tool, just not for airstrikes.

You initiated this discussion by entering a public forum. Because I don't concur immediately with your take on the name I am a nitpicker?

I just felt like chatting about it with you, to see your perspective.

Also, just fyi, your forum name "Muggens" could be found to be offensive to anyone who has been robbed or mugged.

"Muggens" easily can be interpreted as "muggings" which is plural for "mugging".

mugging
n
an act of robbery with violence, esp in the street

Imo the name "Dronestrikes" is in poor taste.

I just want to point out that what is offensive to some is not always offensive to others, and that his name could actually be 100% in the spirit of the druid spell too.

[Lhancelot]

It is interesting how words can carry different meanings to people. Like in the US, it is not uncommon for little kids to shout "banzai!" When jumping into a pool or lake or something. Japanese people do use it as a cheer, but using it like that can be, well onjectionable? Most Americans don't even know, but many hundreds of Japanese including mothers holding their infants jumped from the Banzai cliffs at the invasion of Saipan.

Conversely, in Japan, the slang term for a Polaroid camera is bakachon kamera. Many people use it without knowing the meaning is somewhat disparaging to people of Korean ancestry (literally means a camera that even an idiot or chonseijin (Korean) can use).

That's why language is so fascinating to me. Even within the English language it's wild how a word can sound the same as another but be so different in spelling and meaning. Anyway I am digressing.

I think Muggens has a political perspective that is influencing his judgement of this particular name, and he is 100% ignoring the fact that there are actual ingame references to drones which have nothing to do with U.S. military drones being used to slaughter people.

[Muggens]

You initiated this discussion by entering a public forum. Because I don't concur immediately with your take on the name I am a nitpicker?

I just felt like chatting about it with you, to see your perspective.

Also, just fyi, your forum name "Muggens" could be found to be offensive to anyone who has been robbed or mugged.

"Muggens" easily can be interpreted as "muggings" which is plural for "mugging".

mugging
n
an act of robbery with violence, esp in the street

Imo the name "Dronestrikes" is in poor taste.

I just want to point out that what is offensive to some is not always offensive to others, and that his name could actually be 100% in the spirit of the druid spell too.

Hehe you agree with me that the name is in poor taste, so yes you come off as a nitpicker in this regard. You know, someone who will argue just to argue(kverulant).

I am pretty sure there wasnt much drone murdering being used back in 99, hence the word Dronestrikes werent used, so yes I agree the devs prolly didnt think of that, but instead thought of Drones of Bees coming to insure Doom on you since its after all a Druid spell in a game from the 90s.

Drones as in multiple, not drone as in remote controlled quadthopter, and dronestrikes; remotecontrolled quadthopter dropping bombs, not Bees "coming in to strike you".

second edit: Wanting peace has nothing to do with politics.

[maskedmelon]

So youre saying Dronestrikes have another meaning in Japan? Im in Europe and it means the same here as everywhere else. Exactly like Irishcarbomb. Banzai is not really relatable here as its a japanese expression/exclamation unique to Japan, equivolent in the west could be something like "live well" or "live long and prosper"(from star trek). Were I am we have no specific expression for this. But when the americans are boming around with their drones we all say dronestrikes.

Conversely, do all americans(I assume you are) compare dronestrikes with polaroid cameras and druid spells? If so you seem desentized to violence.

No, point is, people feel different ways about words. What about a character named Carpetbombing? Or Nuker? Or maybe Nukesalot? What about Slickblade? Pirates? How do you feel about Raiding?

[maskedmelon]

I will add though that it not a very fantasy oriented name, even if it is funny ^^

[Lhancelot]

I will add though that it not a very fantasy oriented name, even if it is funny ^^

yeah and I can see it being offensive to some. I should have just nodded my head in agreement with Muggens I suppose, but I was curious to hear more. I guess I am a kverulant, afterall.

I learned something today, so this discussion proved worthwhile, anyway. Thanks to Muggens I learned what a "kverulant" is. :p

[maskedmelon]

As did I ^^

[fadetree]

Just because the word "drone" has some evil connotation to you doesn't necessarily mean the word meant the same to him or others who read it.

I personally would think of the word as you do, but at the same time I can recognize the dual meaning behind it, the other being a play on the name of the druid spell, "Drones of Doom".

Do you think the designers created the spell name "Drones of Doom" intending it to remind people of drones used to bomb or attack people? I doubt it.

Personally I don't get upset over the name, but I can see how you might feel.

One time on EQ1 ages ago there was a guy named "Irishcarbomb" and I did not like this name, for the same reasons you don't like "Dronestrikes". I guess I am older, and less impressionable and even less offended by words so neither name phases me now.

I wouldn't be surprised if they rmeoved his name, then again I wouldn't be surprised if they did not.

Remember that it's an insect-based attack...that line of dots has attack messages about a 'swarm of insects'...so I've always thought the 'drones' reference was to bee drones, which are male bees. The designers might have thought that these were like warrior bees or whatever; what they actually do is lay around and try to have sex constantly. They don't even have stingers. Any comparison to human male behavior is coincidental.

[Lhancelot]

Remember that it's an insect-based attack...that line of dots has attack messages about a 'swarm of insects'...so I've always thought the 'drones' reference was to bee drones, which are male bees. The designers might have thought that these were like warrior bees or whatever; what they actually do is lay around and try to have sex constantly. They don't even have stingers. Any comparison to human male behavior is coincidental.

That's true, ants have drones too which are 100% males who are the weakest members of the colony. They basically are born to fly in the air, have sex with queens, then die. (NOTE: correction, according to the definition below the drones have sex with PRINCESSES!)

Drone: The drones are the male ants in the colony. They are usually even smaller than the workers. Their head and mandibles (ant's jaws) are small. One can see their genitals with the naked eye. Their complex eyes are larger than these of workers or females. Their behaiviour is inadequate. They hatch from infertilized eggs, which can be laid in special cases by workers. This happens when the queen is dead in order to keep the colony's genes. In the nest drones do not do any work at all. They even can not feed on their own, but workers feed them. The only aim in a drone's life is to fertilize a princess. After that they die.

[fadetree]

That's true, ants have drones too which are 100% males who are the weakest members of the colony. They basically are born to fly in the air, have sex with queens, then die. (NOTE: correction, according to the definition below the drones have sex with PRINCESSES!)

Drone: The drones are the male ants in the colony. They are usually even smaller than the workers. Their head and mandibles (ant's jaws) are small. One can see their genitals with the naked eye. Their complex eyes are larger than these of workers or females. Their behaiviour is inadequate. They hatch from infertilized eggs, which can be laid in special cases by workers. This happens when the queen is dead in order to keep the colony's genes. In the nest drones do not do any work at all. They even can not feed on their own, but workers feed them. The only aim in a drone's life is to fertilize a princess. After that they die.

So they are basically flying penises. That DOT keeps getting grosser.

[Lhancelot]

So they are basically flying penises. That DOT keeps getting grosser.

lol. It's funny the only thing they have worthwhile apparently is their penis.

[maskedmelonpai]

Perhaps doom is their princess and they seek to fertilize her and that spell just make them mistake the target for their princess...

[Lhancelot]

Perhaps doom is their princess and they seek to fertilize her and that spell just make them mistake the target for their princess...

Well. That creates some unpleasant imagery. :eek:

[fadetree]

So the damage taken is actually embarrassment damage.

[Muggens]

yeah and I can see it being offensive to some. I should have just nodded my head in agreement with Muggens I suppose, but I was curious to hear more. I guess I am a kverulant, afterall.

I learned something today, so this discussion proved worthwhile, anyway. Thanks to Muggens I learned what a "kverulant" is. :p

Yeah i just typed it out in norwegian, pretty sure i had heard it in english use sometime ;) English is mostly derived from norwegian anyway

[Lhancelot]

Yeah i just typed it out in norwegian, pretty sure i had heard it in english use sometime ;) English is mostly derived from norwegian anyway

But, did you learn anything new about male ants being called drones? That's the important thing to take away from this whole discussion.

[Muggens]

But, did you learn anything new about male ants being called drones? That's the important thing to take away from this whole discussion.

As I said in my previous posts Drones of Doom are referring to drones of bees, so yeah I already knew that about the ants as well. They're called "worker drones".

To me the important point was that dronestrikes are terrible and that some/many/most americans seem indifferent to this, as many europeans do also. To me it was an obvious contender for most obscene name ive seen so far in this game, only Christnail or something had my eyebrows rise before now.

[fadetree]

Yeah i just typed it out in norwegian, pretty sure i had heard it in english use sometime ;) English is mostly derived from norwegian anyway

Well...certainly HAS some norwegian...but mostly? I dunno. I had always heard it was mostly bad German with some french and norwegian thrown in.

[Muggens]

It is interesting how words can carry different meanings to people. Like in the US, it is not uncommon for little kids to shout "banzai!" When jumping into a pool or lake or something. Japanese people do use it as a cheer, but using it like that can be, well onjectionable? Most Americans don't even know, but many hundreds of Japanese including mothers holding their infants jumped from the Banzai cliffs at the invasion of Saipan.

Conversely, in Japan, the slang term for a Polaroid camera is bakachon kamera. Many people use it without knowing the meaning is somewhat disparaging to people of Korean ancestry (literally means a camera that even an idiot or chonseijin (Korean) can use).

Regarding this; I myself would never yell Banzai dropping into a pool, its clearly racist and have been tricked on to unknowning kids in the US. USA used to be very racist towards Japan and might still be I dont know.
But as we shall see this stuff always goes on a merry go round since Japanese people are perhaps known as one of the most racist peoples in the world, no doubt. Ive not personally been there, but I was a japanophile during my late teens early twenties, and several of my family and friends have been there and have experienced the Gaijin term etc. I know from uni and private studies that japans treatment and stance towards China is nothing to write home about either. Considering how long they refused to open themselves up to the rest of the world its not a suprise.

[Amyas]

-_- I want a name change just so I can remake my old main with out deleting a toon in the 50s.

[Lhancelot]

Regarding this; I myself would never yell Banzai dropping into a pool, its clearly racist and have been tricked on to unknowning kids in the US. USA used to be very racist towards Japan and might still be I dont know.
But as we shall see this stuff always goes on a merry go round since Japanese people are perhaps known as one of the most racist peoples in the world, no doubt. Ive not personally been there, but I was a japanophile during my late teens early twenties, and several of my family and friends have been there and have experienced the Gaijin term etc. I know from uni and private studies that japans treatment and stance towards China is nothing to write home about either. Considering how long they refused to open themselves up to the rest of the world its not a suprise.

Well, since we generalizing I also always heard the Japanese have small peckers. I never personally seen one, but it's just what I heard.

[Salahdin]

Well, since we generalizing I also always heard the Japanese have small peckers. I never personally seen one, but it's just what I heard.

I seen many Japaneses peckers and I can confirm the have small Sushi rolls.

[Muggens]

Well, since we generalizing I also always heard the Japanese have small peckers. I never personally seen one, but it's just what I heard.

Did someone of your family or friends go to Japan to look at wieners? :o

[maskedmelon]

Regarding this; I myself would never yell Banzai dropping into a pool, its clearly racist and have been tricked on to unknowning kids in the US. USA used to be very racist towards Japan and might still be I dont know.
But as we shall see this stuff always goes on a merry go round since Japanese people are perhaps known as one of the most racist peoples in the world, no doubt. Ive not personally been there, but I was a japanophile during my late teens early twenties, and several of my family and friends have been there and have experienced the Gaijin term etc. I know from uni and private studies that japans treatment and stance towards China is nothing to write home about either. Considering how long they refused to open themselves up to the rest of the world its not a suprise.

Yeah, I don't think most Americans know the origin though. Outside of countryside people, not much dislike for Japanese or Asians in general in US.

Japanese are racist, but not just that. It is more about coformity in general. That why suicide rate is so high, but also why crime is so low and why Japan catapulted from semi-industrial war shattered nation to world's second largest economy in just 20 years. Japan has a highly unique culture and intolerance is a key component of success. Paradoxically it also allows Japanese to be extraordinarily open to foreigners because the rules don't apply so well to them since they cannot be expected to understand everything. Many Japanese also have strong interest in foreign things, incorporating good bits and throwing away the rest ^^

[maskedmelon]

I seen many Japaneses peckers and I can confirm the have small Sushi rolls.

Accurate. Some can certainly be thick, but almost never very long. Usually neither though.

[Muggens]

Yeah, I don't think most Americans know the origin though. Outside of countryside people, not much dislike for Japanese or Asians in general in US.

Japanese are racist, but not just that. It is more about coformity in general. That why suicide rate is so high, but also why crime is so low and why Japan catapulted from semi-industrial war shattered nation to world's second largest economy in just 20 years. Japan has a highly unique culture and intolerance is a key component of success. Paradoxically it also allows Japanese to be extraordinarily open to foreigners because the rules don't apply so well to them since they cannot be expected to understand everything. Many Japanese also have strong interest in foreign things, incorporating good bits and throwing away the rest ^^

I really hope I can go there one day and visit these interesting peoples myself. I have quite good knowledge on Japan, I even took private language classes back in the days because I was dreaming of moving there myself, I wanted to train Ninjutsu in the old country hehe. Over the years I lost some of my interest and respect for Japan but recently have become fascinated by them again, especially the Hikikomori situation as I have discovered that there are Hikikomori living right here in my town, I know these fellas but I have not talked or seen them for years. I guess theres alot of common ground between Norway and Japan, especially regarding the conformity.

My favorite music is always in 7/8 time signature, that certainly stems from japanese gaming growing up :D Looking at these games again many of them had a Western influence, but in the realm of religion(Christianity) Like my favorite games Soul Blazer and ActRaiser, and the anime show Neon Genesis Evangelion(not my fave, mine is The Guyver or Urotsukidoji Legend of the Overfiend!).

[Lhancelot]

Accurate. Some can certainly be thick, but almost never very long. Usually neither though.

rofl I was wondering if you'd come through on this, MM. ;)

[Baler]

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[A1rh3ad]

Names never bother me. I grew up around bikers and some of the biggest most badass ones had really odd nicknames.

[Lhancelot]

More names to add:

Moneyindabank
Harmshield
Babyshogun
Cappincrunkt
Funboy
Cherrykush
Eports
Suckurlife
Oneknight
Dogmatix
Savethebees
Skeetman
Stonedaf
Mobbaby
Justthetip

[Sebastionleo]

I played with hundreds of "Leeann Rimes" "Legolis" and "Aragorrn" people in my time on live, they didn't even enforce this on live with hundreds of GMs, much less on here with like 2 people to handle petitions. They even let me change my surname to "Thapirrate" when I earned the Swashbuckler title on live.

I'll take my corpse recovery, and people's IP exemptions to play with their wives over your petty "ohh this name violates the rules" garbage.

[Lhancelot]

They even let me change my surname to "Thapirrate" when I earned the Swashbuckler title on live.


What the hell is "Thapirrate", or better yet, what does it even mean?

[Sebastionleo]

What the hell is "Thapirrate", or better yet, what does it even mean?

The Pirate, it was the only way I was able to spell it to get it to work.

[Lhancelot]

The Pirate, it was the only way I was able to spell it to get it to work.

Oh ok, I see.