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"3rd ed is the game of choice for assholes"

Started by Benoist, August 14, 2012, 03:12:18 PM

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Bill

#1335
August 28, 2012, 09:02:24 AM
What is a Weeaboo, and do I even want to know?

Panzerkraken

#1336
August 28, 2012, 09:07:35 AM Last Edit: August 28, 2012, 09:10:05 AM by Panzerkraken
Quote from: Bill;577498What is a Weeaboo, and do I even want to know?

it's a japanese constructed slang word that literally means 'foreign lover', as in a paramour from a different culture.

in modern parlance it's really pretty much what the picture shows, someone with too much focus on anime instead of the culture as a whole.  It's on par with the grownup men collecting my little ponies, imo.

Orientophile is too cultured for them, Otaku implies some technical understanding, so it's pretty much stuck with the word that the whores use for their regular foreign customers.
Si vous n'opposez point aux ordres de croire l'impossible l'intelligence que Dieu a mise dans votre esprit, vous ne devez point opposer aux ordres de malfaire la justice que Dieu a mise dans votre coeur. Une faculté de votre âme étant une fois tyrannisée, toutes les autres facultés doivent l'être également.
-Voltaire

Bill

#1337
August 28, 2012, 09:09:40 AM
Quote from: Panzerkraken;577499it's a japanese constructed slang word that literally means 'foreign lover', as in a paramour from a different culture.

Ok, that's not the horror I was expecting after seeing that picture.....

Panzerkraken

#1338
August 28, 2012, 09:10:46 AM
Quote from: Bill;577501Ok, that's not the horror I was expecting after seeing that picture.....

Well, I was editing.. reread it now
Si vous n'opposez point aux ordres de croire l'impossible l'intelligence que Dieu a mise dans votre esprit, vous ne devez point opposer aux ordres de malfaire la justice que Dieu a mise dans votre coeur. Une faculté de votre âme étant une fois tyrannisée, toutes les autres facultés doivent l'être également.
-Voltaire

vytzka

#1339
August 28, 2012, 09:10:58 AM
Quote from: Sacrosanct;577015You should be banned just for having one of those stupid anime avatars.

Hey! I resemble that remark.

Wolf, Richard

#1340
August 28, 2012, 09:27:58 AM
Quote from: Panzerkraken;577499it's a japanese constructed slang word that literally means 'foreign lover', as in a paramour from a different culture.

in modern parlance it's really pretty much what the picture shows, someone with too much focus on anime instead of the culture as a whole.  It's on par with the grownup men collecting my little ponies, imo.

Orientophile is too cultured for them, Otaku implies some technical understanding, so it's pretty much stuck with the word that the whores use for their regular foreign customers.

That's interesting, because I'm pretty sure the origin of the term as a pejorative came from this Perry Bible Fellowship comic:


Unwelcome anime fans on various forums got this comic posted as a reply to anything they said.  I was unaware that there was actually any connection to an actual Japanese term.

vytzka

#1341
August 28, 2012, 09:32:59 AM
The original term was 'wapanese', as equivalent to 'wigger' in other circles (meaning white, that is 'fake'... you know what). Due to its obviously problematic nature some forum (4chan?) instituted an automatic replacement of the above term into 'weeaboo' (originating in the webcomic above) which was intended as a nonsense word with no prior connotations. However the target audience liked it so much they accepted and started using it.

Exploderwizard

#1342
August 28, 2012, 09:33:19 AM
Quote from: Wolf, Richard;577514Unwelcome anime fans on various forums got this comic posted as a reply to anything they said.  I was unaware that there was actually any connection to an actual Japanese term.

Actual term? It became popular because Wapanese (wannabe-Japanese) was considered politically incorrect.
Quote from: JonWakeGamers, as a whole, are much like primitive cavemen when confronted with a new game. Rather than \'oh, neat, what\'s this do?\', the reaction is to decide if it\'s a sex hole, then hit it with a rock.

Quote from: Old Geezer;724252At some point it seems like D&D is going to disappear up its own ass.

Quote from: Kyle Aaron;766997In the randomness of the dice lies the seed for the great oak of creativity and fun. The great virtue of the dice is that they come without boxed text.

Sacrosanct

#1343
August 28, 2012, 09:56:59 AM
Quote from: vytzka;577503Hey! I resemble that remark.

I'm not talking about all anime.  I'm talking about the school-girl with huge eyes meme.  It just screams to me of something a 12 year old thinks is cool, and is way overused.
D&D is not an "everyone gets a ribbon" game.  If you\'re stupid, your PC will die.  If you\'re an asshole, your PC will die (probably from the other PCs).  If you\'re unlucky, your PC may die.  Point?  PC\'s die.  Get over it and roll up a new one.

Panzerkraken

#1344
August 28, 2012, 10:14:23 AM
Quote from: Wolf, Richard;577514That's interesting, because I'm pretty sure the origin of the term as a pejorative came from this Perry Bible Fellowship comic:


Unwelcome anime fans on various forums got this comic posted as a reply to anything they said.  I was unaware that there was actually any connection to an actual Japanese term.

Pshaw.  Facts again.  None of that, they have no place on the internet!

Spoiler

I don't speak japanese, I was working with my korean, and there's usually overlap between a japanese constructed word (made up words using Kanji) and a korean sino-korean word (which have the same origins although koreans don't use Hanja (chinese characters) much anymore).  

So, in korean, wehgugin means 'foreigner' (literally person from a foreign country), and 'booin' is a term referring to the opposite in a relationship.

So, if you were just using the hanja, a combination could be put together for wehbooin, and japanese uses different sounds, which I thought could come together as wehaboo.

But all that's just self-justification.  I made an educated guess and I was wrong.
Si vous n'opposez point aux ordres de croire l'impossible l'intelligence que Dieu a mise dans votre esprit, vous ne devez point opposer aux ordres de malfaire la justice que Dieu a mise dans votre coeur. Une faculté de votre âme étant une fois tyrannisée, toutes les autres facultés doivent l'être également.
-Voltaire

Benoist

#1345
August 28, 2012, 10:18:19 AM
OK I, the OP, came to the conclusion the original contention behind this thread was false, Declan was a sock, and the discussion of weaboo is off topic. Let me do the honors and lock this thread.
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