As someone who has studied Japanese culture and history, anyone who tries to make something more out of this is not only insulting, but ignorant. Just read the daily forge bounties. Paying homage to the Japanese history by killing enemies with swords? Hello? Maybe this link will help. Probably not.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izanami
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I’m so sick of people claiming to be Japanese folklore experts because they googled Izanami on Tuesday when this controversy started. Make sure you dontate to Wikipedia otherwise you won’t have somewhere to find out info like this. A perfectly good alternative would have been Inari Okami whose name doesn’t mean anything in English backwards. It’s just one of many superior alternatives that would have avoided controversy.
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Who cares about what it spells backwards, I feel the SJWs arising on the forums...
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People care about it. That’s why there was a controversy around it. It’s great I have a cyber-stalker who is also an idiot.
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A cyber stalker?.. Right got it, I was scrolling through the forums and so this BS controversy. Which many people came to be White Knights to cry about it.
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No you went through my post history and responded to 5 different posts of mine in 10 minutes.
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For the main ones I was going through the forums and saw your recent post to respond to mine since I was already in a thread.
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Except you went to different threads and found my replies to reply too. It’s okay you can stalk me and post dumb shit all day if you want, it doesn’t bother me.
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Yes after I realized you are one of the pvp players that complain about "sweat" players and good players. I realized your post could be funny.
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Except I don’t complain about them, I mock them, and the best part is they think they are good when they are just exploiting a game’s bad PvP to delude themselves into thinking they are good.
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So what if you come across someone that uses these weapons and are simply better than you by a great amount?
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It happens all the time. I top my teams leaderboard and move on to the next game.
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Oh never mind you have 198 comp games and 2,000+ QP games.. Now it makes sense for this to happen in a 6v6 since complete equal wipes are rare but in 4v4 it is practically non-existent.
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And what do you usually play QP or Comp?
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I never said I was an expert. But I have been to Japan 5 times and spent time getting to know more about the country's history. It's a beautiful place.
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Lol, you have no sense of humor.
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I have a sense of humor. I just don't see anything funny about the death of 17 million people and the group responsible.
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Ummmm this is a game. It's make believe. I get to cast Nova Bombs becaue it makes the game cool. Its not really space magic............
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I get what you mean but it's just a free use of Japanese mythological references. As long as they don't disrespect them, I am not particularly bothered or triggered. And even if they did why would we care. Ignorance is sad but not a crime. Humour is always welcomed though. But claiming the deity's name stands as an anagram for a confession of [url=http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law]-godwinslaw!-[/url] affiliation is lame.
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All true. The posts that make me cringe are the ones pointing out the backwards spelling. To suggest that is disrespectful. Since they don't teach real history in school any more, people are growing up not knowing how horrible the holocaust was, and using that reference casually points to their ignorance, of history if nothing else.
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not to mention some colleges aren't making history a mandatory study now, things will only get worse.
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No colleges make Japanese folklore mandatory.