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[-] joyjoy@lemmy.zip 102 points 6 months ago

And their cousin Naga Saki.

[-] DScratch@sh.itjust.works 44 points 6 months ago
[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 27 points 6 months ago

The stoner roommate Tokey O.

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[-] Linsensuppe@feddit.org 26 points 6 months ago

He was a fat man

[-] vrek@programming.dev 73 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

In the book snowcrash by Neil Stephenson the main character is named "Hiro Protagonist". Yes it's a real book, and one of my favorites, by a real author.

[-] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 30 points 6 months ago

I like it, as a person who doesn't really pay attention to most names in fiction, and primarily focuses on the story it's trying to tell.

Don't make it too obvious like "Busty LoveInterest" and "Villain McMustashface".

[-] semperverus@lemmy.world 41 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Die Hardman
Heartman
Fragile
Revolver Ocelott
Snake Eater

...

Kojima you beautiful bastard

[-] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 8 points 6 months ago

Haha you know I'm a kojima fan!!

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[-] vrek@programming.dev 16 points 6 months ago

If you like techno-fantasy I highly recommend snowcrash. For years I've wanted a game of the first chapter, basically a guy is delivering pizza but gas is really expensive so all he has is a skateboard and a harpoon gun with an electromagnet. He basically shoots the harpoon at cars and gave them pull him towards the destination, it sounds like a cool video game like a race but you don't control speed only which car you are connected to.

Don't worry that didn't spoil anything. The book goes into a totally different direction with technology and science.

[-] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 12 points 6 months ago

The guy in the car getting harpooned is delivering the pizza, the skateboarder is just hitching a free ride.

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[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 18 points 6 months ago

The difference is that's trying to be stupid and funny. Rowling is just, I don't know, lazy, or uncreative, or racist. One, or multiple, of those at least.

[-] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 9 points 6 months ago

Cho Chang. is so fucking wild that her editor didn't go, "Wtf?"

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

That was the age of "if you point out racism, you're the real racist".

[-] vrek@programming.dev 4 points 6 months ago

It's not a direct connection to Rowling but I was just pointing out another example.

[-] 4am@lemmy.zip 15 points 6 months ago

snowcraah

The way I imagined this being said

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Have your agent call mine

[-] vrek@programming.dev 5 points 6 months ago

Sorry, it's snowcrash and I corrected the original comment.

[-] SaraTonin@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

Snowcrash is a satire. That name is supposed to be funny

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[-] k0e3@lemmy.ca 8 points 6 months ago

The protagonist from one of the mortal Kombat was Shujinko. Which means protagonist.

[-] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 5 points 6 months ago

I just looked that up and it says Shujinko was fooled by someone named Damashi, which means trick.

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[-] VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 71 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I mean, this is one where you don't have to make up an example. The only Asian character in the books is named Cho Chang.

[-] BigDiction@lemmy.world 30 points 6 months ago

And the movie portrayal was character assassination implying she was the one who ratted out Dumbledore’s Army.

[-] VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 6 months ago

Fuck I forgot about that. Those movies kinda suck ass past the first two.

[-] BigDiction@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago

Order of the Phoenix is brutal but I think Half Blood Prince from a cinematography perspective is the best in the series. Prisoner of Azkaban was also really well done.

[-] VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 6 months ago

Oh yeah Prisoner was great.

Going to have to disagree with you on HBP. I went through a huge Potterhead phase as a teen and I fell asleep during that movie every time I tried to watch it.

At the time, the only other movie I had ever fallen asleep during while trying to watch was After Earth. So, admittedly, I kinda wrote the HBP movie off for that reason. But I've tried to go back and revisit it, and I just can't keep my eyes open!

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Order of the Phoenix took the longest book and made the shortest film.

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[-] imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 6 months ago

Wasn't she possessed or something and that was the reason she ratted out Dumbledore's Army?

[-] BigDiction@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

In the movie Dolores Umbridge had Snape administer truth serum to Cho.

[-] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 14 points 6 months ago
[-] VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The joke is that JK Rowling names her characters offensively.

I've seen this done before with multiple non-existent examples.

This one also uses a Japanese example.

My point is that JK Rowling already named an Asian character offensively. She also has an Irish kid named Seamus that loves blowing stuff up, and a black man named Shacklebolt.

All I'm saying is the joke is now distracting from the source, because there is a real example of using her naming conventions on Asian characters. I'll also say that we don't actually know Cho's nationality, yet I don't have faith in JK Rowling to distinguish between non-European nationalities.

Of course, the longer I talk about it the less funny everything becomes.

[-] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

Sergay Lovecock would make for a badass porn name though

[-] baatliwala@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

Funnily there is an actual Italian football player named Kevin Lasagna

[-] Hozerkiller@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 months ago

Rowling is a diverse writer who can make multiple offensive asian characters. Yes she has a generic asian character but get ready for hiro and their friends Walla Greataru (China), pungeen Pitt (vietnam), and Ima Eatdog (Korea) who will be diversifying the bigotry in fun new ways along with their rivals Rege Sheepfucker (Wales), Maple Beaverlodge (Canada), and Gitmo Castro (Colombia)

[-] VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Omg I didn't realize her writing had grown so much! I'll be paying much attention to the inclusion of Cheeseburger Slurman (American).

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[-] calmblue75@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 months ago

Anthony Goldstein Can someone explain this one?

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[-] alloloto@lemmy.world 21 points 6 months ago
[-] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 8 points 6 months ago

You'd think so, but in contrast it exploded within the general public.

[-] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 16 points 6 months ago

Implying she'd even attempt to resist.

[-] jeffep@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

She just butthurt for her own name

[-] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 7 points 6 months ago

Hiro Protagonist is much better.

[-] Grimy@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

I cast Fissio Infernus!

[-] gole@lemmy.zip 6 points 6 months ago

Ian Fleming 👀

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