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Nippon koku Well "Nippon" is just the japanese word FOR japan so whatever "Koku" is literally a measurement of rice (3.6 Koku is 1 cubic metre). It's a term used as part of an archaic tax system from the japanese feudal period. Why is it being used as part of a name for a country?
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Oct 2, 2014 22:10
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Anticheese posted:No one ever gives New Zealand a fair shake on maps. Don't you see? We have been spared. Be thankful.
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Oct 2, 2014 22:34
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Ninjasaurus posted:I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt here and assume you're being sarcastic. You know that thing that happens when friends introduce you to other friends in some social situation where everyone seems normal and talking about work/hobbies/etc and then one of them chimes in with something tangentally related that just blindsides you with how inappropriate it is for the situation? I want you to imagine a short, fat guy rambling about how kawaii his girlfriend looks when she's wearing her cat ears while the entire rest of the room is silent and giving him death stares.
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Oct 2, 2014 22:57
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The gently caress am I reading. Well gee Fast Eddie, you sure are upholdig the family-friendly image.
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Oct 2, 2014 23:43
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Annointed posted:The gently caress am I reading. Well gee Fast Eddie, you sure are upholdig the family-friendly image. Gonna have to be more specific there
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Oct 2, 2014 23:49
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HapiMerchant posted:Nippon koku "Koku" can also mean country, and it is sometimes used in names of countries, for example the United states of America is "Amerika gasshuukoku".
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Oct 3, 2014 00:07
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gallery posted:"Koku" can also mean country, and it is sometimes used in names of countries, for example the United states of America is "Amerika gasshuukoku". Oh, so the name was copy/pasted from Wikipedia.
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Oct 3, 2014 00:09
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Nintendo Kid posted:That's the really hosed up thing about them, they weren't something created by the malatora guy, they'd been around with creepy internet people for many years before him and continue being around now. Little known fact! Malatora guy is still around, still crazy, and thinks he's a chakat now. quote:who I really am, also named Tigerstripe. Well, that's what I feel like the most (and some people do call me "Tiger" IRL). Yeah, I'm a lifestyler: not at all happy with being human, and I'll change it in a heartbeat ASAP. The human species just doesn't fit my personality. I'm actually part of a transhumanist research project that aims to do precisely that... so someday, a few decades from now, I could actually change form and become a real chakat. Well, it's a possibility... and that's good enough for my interest.
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Oct 3, 2014 00:35
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Gimnbo posted:Oh, so the name was copy/pasted from Wikipedia. Well that and that is what the country is referred to in its own language and in a formal way. It's not technically incorrect it's just kind of dweebish.
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Oct 3, 2014 00:36
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Holy hell these are some of the worst borders I've ever seen in my life. And I've seen Tom Clancy maps.
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Tiberius Thyben posted:Little known fact! Malatora guy is still around, still crazy, and thinks he's a chakat now.
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Oct 3, 2014 01:41
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bucketmouse posted:You know that thing that happens when friends introduce you to other friends in some social situation where everyone seems normal and talking about work/hobbies/etc and then one of them chimes in with something tangentally related that just blindsides you with how inappropriate it is for the situation? I enjoy these mental exercises.
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Oct 3, 2014 01:46
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"I'm part of a transhumanist research project" is a hilarious way to describe the Malatora thing. Or masturbation.
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Oct 3, 2014 02:35
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What the gently caress is a chakat, anyways? Do I even want to know?
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Every time I look at it, it gets better. Bunch of fake countries, and then India and Pakistan.
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brocretin posted:What the gently caress is a chakat, anyways? Do I even want to know? Furry-Cat-Centaur, somehow dumber than regular centaurs
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Oct 3, 2014 05:46
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I believe I live in hickstan northamerica (hksna), I am morbidly curious what that means. Also what kind of dumbass doesn't know we would conquer mexico in an instant?
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DarkFleetOne posted:I believe I live in hickstan northamerica (hksna), I am morbidly curious what that means. Also what kind of dumbass doesn't know we would conquer mexico in an instant? I looked it up, it's the Holy Christian Kingdom of North America.
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Oct 3, 2014 05:53
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Florida: known for its holiness, and monarchy.
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brocretin posted:What the gently caress is a chakat, anyways? Do I even want to know? So you know what a centaur is? half man half horse from greek mythology? Well a chakat is half cat furry hald horse sized cat body, so a cat body that then as a furry feline humanoid body up from that with hands.  They make no sense
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Nintendo Kid posted:So you know what a centaur is? half man half horse from greek mythology? Well a chakat is half cat furry hald horse sized cat body, so a cat body that then as a furry feline humanoid body up from that with hands. You forgot the part where they are super smart, have psychic powers (that make everyone love them), and hermaphroditic!
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Oct 3, 2014 06:10
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Didn't TVTropes have a huge section on pokegirls?
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Tiberius Thyben posted:You forgot the part where they are super smart, have psychic powers (that make everyone love them), and hermaphroditic! And can lactate at will. The rest of that stuff is standard wish-fulfillment race stuff, but the lactation has to be the creator's specific fetish.
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Kinda weird that they don't call Japan the Dai-Nippon Teikoku. At least their conquest of east Russia would make sense, because the name implies a return to Imperial jingoism, and longer makes are more impressive, especially when they're written in glorious Japanese. But I'm probably putting in more thought into it than the author did.Anticheese posted:Didn't TVTropes have a huge section on pokegirls? No such thing as means that not only did they have a pirate for pokegirls, they also had one for that one Channel Awesome fanfic where everyone was a prostitute and that weird universe where it's like the X-men only with easy more gender changing, because  . As well as pirates for such family friendly things as panty shots and assorted fetishes.Fast Eddie's purge still left a lot of these pages intact last time I checked.
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Red Metal posted:I looked it up, it's the Holy Christian Kingdom of North America. Thank you friend. Otherwise, obviously TVtrope might draw lines based on fact, Imagine if fetishists drew lines based on confederate ambitions, we may have to respect them. New Zealand is isolated, anything could fuckin happen.
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Red Metal posted:I looked it up, it's the Holy Christian Kingdom of North America. I wanna know what the Holy Christian kingdom thinks of half-cat half-horse abominations against the Lord
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Don Gato posted:Kinda weird that they don't call Japan the Dai-Nippon Teikoku. At least their conquest of east Russia would make sense, because the name implies a return to Imperial jingoism, and longer makes are more impressive, especially when they're written in glorious Japanese. But I'm probably putting in more thought into it than the author did. I feel certain that many of the pages came to be AFTER the purge as well. He doesn't realize (or chooses to ignore) that "the purge" wasn't the one time be-all,end-all fix and that actually even beginning to repair the stupidity of the site would require near constant vigilance as well as a million other things he lacks.
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sweeperbravo posted:I feel certain that many of the pages came to be AFTER the purge as well. He doesn't realize (or chooses to ignore) that "the purge" wasn't the one time be-all,end-all fix and that actually even beginning to repair the stupidity of the site would require near constant vigilance as well as a million other things he lacks. *ahahahahahaha **ahahaHAHAhaha
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Fast Eddie wants his wiki to simultaneously be a serious informative site that people respect instead making fun of and a chill place where a bunch of friends have fun without a bunch of rules ruining their fun. He doesn't seem to see how those two goals might be in conflict.
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Runcible Cat posted:Well, duh, they got rid of rape* and pedophilia**, what more do you prudes want? if you want proof that he did get rid of some pedophiles you can just visit the offsite troper hangouts
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corn in the bible posted:if you want proof that he did get rid of some pedophiles you can just visit the offsite troper hangouts Unless someone explicitly says, on site, "I AM A PEDOPHILE", they can remain.
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Tangentially related to Tv Tropes. World Fantasy Awards is planning to remove HP Lovecraft's likeness from its trophy because the guy was a racist asshat. An understandable move considering current issues in fiction with the portrayal of women and ethnic groups. Naturally, people are upset about this, and want to invoke Death of the Author to save their precious stories. Though how that has anything to do with the likeness of Lovecraft adorning a trophy, I don't know. I pointed out to some people that they wouldn't do the same thing if it was, say, Orson Scott Card's face on a trophy, because most people nowadays know he's a homophobic jackass. But apparently being dead gives you amnesty for being a racist. I don't see people defending Ezra Pound for being a fascist anti semite who condemned America and chummed it up with Mussolini just because he's dead.
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To be fair, it could be argued the difference between Lovecraft and OSC is that the latter lives in an age where he should really know better. "It was just a different time", and so on and so forth. I don't agree with that(especially since Lovecraft was extreme even for his day), but many probably see it that way. Now Death of the Author just does not make any sense at all, considering it wasn't ever subtext, it was straight up text. Call of Cthulhu, Lovecraft's most popular story posted:the prisoners all proved to be men of a very low, mixed-blooded, and mentally aberrant type. Most were seamen, and a sprinkling of negroes and mulattos, largely West Indians or Brava Portuguese from the Cape Verde Islands, gave a colouring of voodooism to the heterogeneous cult. But before many questions were asked it became manifest that something far deeper and older than negro fetishism was involved. Degraded and ignorant as they were, the creatures held with surprising consistency to the central idea of their loathsome faith.
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WickedHate posted:Unless someone explicitly says, on site, "I AM A PEDOPHILE", they can remain. The actually clears out a lot of them!  
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WickedHate posted:Unless someone explicitly says, on site, "I AM A PEDOPHILE", they can remain. Wasn't there one guy who wasn't banned despite hitting on a 15 year old girl, who was banned for "stirring up drama" when she called him out?
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Don Gato posted:Wasn't there one guy who wasn't banned despite hitting on a 15 year old girl, who was banned for "stirring up drama" when she called him out?  ). He was the "condom full of Crisco" in the original thread title.WickedHate posted:To be fair, it could be argued the difference between Lovecraft and OSC is that the latter lives in an age where he should really know better. "It was just a different time", and so on and so forth. I don't agree with that(especially since Lovecraft was extreme even for his day), but many probably see it that way.
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WickedHate posted:To be fair, it could be argued the difference between Lovecraft and OSC is that the latter lives in an age where he should really know better. "It was just a different time", and so on and so forth. I don't agree with that(especially since Lovecraft was extreme even for his day), but many probably see it that way. Let's see what the TVTropes page has to say here: Creator/Lovecraft posted:Lovecraft's stories featured not so much fear of people of different (non-White) skin colour, but distaste aimed at "mental, moral and physical degeneration" (a concept prevalent at the time) due to in-breeding, interbreeding with non-human creatures, or even immoral acts such as cannibalism. In his stories such degeneration could afflict the lower classes ("The Horror at Red Hook") and inbred rural communities ("The Dunwich Horror", "The Shadow over Innsmouth") as well as upper class families ("Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family", "The Rats in the Walls", "The Lurking Fear"). It's interesting —perhaps even humorous —to note that "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" was not inspired by fears of miscegenation, but by Lovecraft's own discovery that his great-grandmother was... Welsh. Not racist.  I think a lot of this stems from the modern white person viewpoint that anything less than explicit racism isn't racism at all. I mean, it's not as if Lovecraft's stories about the half-human offspring having significant moral deficiencies could be thinly-veiled allegories for race mixing, right?? IIRC in "Arthur Jermyn" that character finds out he's the great-grandchild of a white ape that lived in Africa; despite being white Lovecraft spent several paragraphs describing the "negroid" traits of the white ape and the horrible effect it had on the Jermyn family's visage. quote:On the third appendage, Lovecraft's stories, especially the Dreamland stories, featured protagonists with dark skin of which he speaks quite highly, and Lovecraft was a great admirer of the civilizations of Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, and the Roman Empire. He differentiated between people of "noble" appearance and heritage and civilized behaviour contra "degenerate" individuals or tribes, independently of ethnicity or skin-colour. Ah, he approved of the "good ones", that also makes him not racist. quote:He thought that immigrants to the U.S. should keep their original language, dress and customs, not discard them and try to become "Americanized", because this made them look vulgar. I read this, then imagined Lovecraft typing florid paragraphs on tumblr complaining about reverse cultural appropriation or something, and started laughing like crazy. Also that Lovecraft trophy looks like what I imagine the cultists in his stories would have worshipped. Does that mean that anyone defending it is a degenerate?
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Venusian Weasel posted:I think a lot of this stems from the modern white person viewpoint that anything less than explicit racism isn't racism at all. I mean, it's not as if Lovecraft's stories about the half-human offspring having significant moral deficiencies could be thinly-veiled allegories for race mixing, right?? Man, that's the thing though, Lovecraft was really, really explicit about it. On The Creation of Niggers posted:When, long ago, the gods created Earth You can't bullshit out of that. Everyone's favorite horror writer nobody actually reads was a racist. Sorry, tropers.
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