• @[email protected]
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      102 years ago

      Odrisamer Despaigne.
      Now check this out: he played for the San Diego Padres, and his name contains all the letters needed to spell out “San Diego Padres”.

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    This looks like what would happen if you had a real set of American names, but then played a long game of telephone with people that have increasingly thick accents.

    • @[email protected]
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      122 years ago

      Simpsons Death Note parody

      stupid question but shouldn’t this be on disney+ ? I can’t find any of the treehouse of horrors…

      • Yeather
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        It’s on Hulu rn, since it’s the newest season.

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        It’s this season, #34, episode 6. If not Disney+, it’s probably on Hulu. There’s also an excellent Westworld parody that same episode that makes it easily the best Simpsons episode made in a very long time.

        If you don’t have Hulu, you can find it on himovies.

        • Pobe
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          Newer Simpsons has actually been really good. Poorhouse Rock was a shockingly good episode about how lucky Homer was economically and how fucked Bart is nowadays.

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      192 years ago

      What a crazy deep cut of an easter egg. i’m impressed anyone even noticed this. That’s awesome!

    • @[email protected]
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      92 years ago

      Making this must have been exhausting. I have a hard enough time coming up with one name in an RPG. I want to hear the story of the guy who had to come up with all of this.

      • @[email protected]
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        52 years ago

        What I’ve found helps me is picking three or four character traits I’m going to roleplay and run them through a translator twice (ex. English -> Hawaiian-> Czech turns ‘tenacious’ into věrnost. Then I’d judge how badly I’d pronounce it and English-ify it a little to Verno or Varnost)

        It helps to pick languages that have a few language barriers between where they originated. Like English -> German doesn’t work because they share a common root language and half of German speaks English as a second language now.

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          I use a variation of this to write music rounds for quizzes. Run lyrics through a translator then back to English and get people to name the song. My last round was called Korea Change (i.e I translated it to Korean and back).

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    232 years ago

    At least some of these names have to be knockoffs of actual athletes, right? For example, he’s no “Sleve McDichael”, but Steve McMichael was a player for the Greenbay Packers football team when this game came out.

    • FacelikeapotatoOP
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      Yeah, a lot of them seem to be real names with a couple of letters switched, added or removed.