• AeronMelon@lemmy.world
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    29 days ago

    Reminds me of the time Blizzard named an alcoholic beverage in World of Warcraft “Naga Saki.”

    Naga are a seadwelling race, so there’s the joke, but the kicker is this item was categorized as an explosive.

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    bold to assume she knows the difference between Japanese and other east Asian people. in her mind she doesn’t need a Japanese character cause she’s already got “one of those” in Ching Chong, or, sorry, Cho Chang

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      Jim Rowling must have studied at the Ching-Chong Ding-Dong Foundation for Sensitivity to Orientals or Whatever

  • inari@piefed.zip
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    Funny enough this sounds like it could be an actual name for a male, though in Japanese it’d be read in reverse (Shima Hiro)