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this post was submitted on 17 Nov 2025
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I saw this, so now you all get to: Alex Karp performs a stationary Gatotsu with a sabre, don’t ask me why.
E: reference explainer and visual description
The Gatotsu is a fictional swordfighting style from the manga/anime series Rurouni Kenshin wielded by Saitou Hajime, one of the main characters. It also refers to the frequent stance and movement Hajime makes when fighting.In the video, Alex Karp stands next to a young woman. One may surmise that he is trying to impress her with a display of sword mastery. In his right hand he is holding a broad, curved sword, maybe a sabre. His left arm is outstretched at shoulder height in front of him, pointing at an imaginary target, and the sword is pointing at the same target, held at the same height with the flat side parallel to the ground. He performs an awkward looking thrust, as if mimicking the Gatotsu as mentioned above. In the rest of the video he is playing around with the sword, sometimes performing the same thrust and otherwise tossing it limply around in his hand.
There is text at the top of video reading:
Your CEO: Powerpoint
Palantir CEO:
While you partied
I studied THE BLADE
Out of all of the things he did, that is one of those things.
you just activated my trap card and became a person to whom I will forward this video evaluating the usefulness of gatotsu in a real life context, because I have no one else to show it to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EITUJ1HqSCQ
The dub on that video is truly something, lmao. I counter with this:
毎日牙突、どれの式、ラララ〜
(to the tune of the mameshiba jingle)
oh is that the "autodub" feature? I can only imagine lol, even the auto-subtitles without translation are all sorts of wrong for Japanese. I'm using the "tubular" app for youtubo and it mercifully blocks the dubbings
noted! The dub was so bad i didn’t even think about whether or not it was autodubbed. Fortunately, through the combination of my rapidly fading japanese language skills, experience in code switching between english and other languages, and the spirit of aku-soku-zan, I managed to understand a lot of it beyond the premise itself.