In the book snowcrash by Neil Stephenson the main character is named "Hiro Protagonist". Yes it's a real book, and one of my favorites, by a real author.
If you like techno-fantasy I highly recommend snowcrash. For years I've wanted a game of the first chapter, basically a guy is delivering pizza but gas is really expensive so all he has is a skateboard and a harpoon gun with an electromagnet. He basically shoots the harpoon at cars and gave them pull him towards the destination, it sounds like a cool video game like a race but you don't control speed only which car you are connected to.
Don't worry that didn't spoil anything. The book goes into a totally different direction with technology and science.
Wait, are you correcting me or giving social commentary? I thought the guy on the skateboard was delivering pizzas but it has been over a decade since I read it so I may be wrong
Just a slight correction that Hiro is driving the car and delivering the pizzas. He's trying to shake the skateboarder (who is a courier) loose and deliver the pizza on time.
I vaguely remember a skateboarding game from the 90s where the character could grab onto cars. But it was probably on something like Sega Mega and pretty primitive. Might've been one of the Simpsons games.
That's it! The description sounds pretty fun actually, I might need to fire the game up myself.
My nagging feeling that it was ‘Road Rash’ with a skateboard or skates didn't deceive me, as apparently the ‘RR’ engine was reused for this game.
The difference is that's trying to be stupid and funny. Rowling is just, I don't know, lazy, or uncreative, or racist. One, or multiple, of those at least.
Pretty much all anime names are stupid as hell too. Dragon Ball famously names all characters around foods (and sometimes other themes like underwear, for example). In other anime, every character has a name that just so happens to be related to their special ability or personality. Yusuke Urameshi from Yuyuhakusho basically is "Boo Ghost-boy".
In Dragon Ball's case, this is because Akira Toriyama would always write before dinner, so he would always have food on the brain. He was kinda quirky like that.
Nope, I'm not an Ai advert. I read the book and still have it. I hope you like the book. I also recommend a diamond age, also known as a primer for young girls.
Order of the Phoenix is brutal but I think Half Blood Prince from a cinematography perspective is the best in the series. Prisoner of Azkaban was also really well done.
Going to have to disagree with you on HBP. I went through a huge Potterhead phase as a teen and I fell asleep during that movie every time I tried to watch it.
At the time, the only other movie I had ever fallen asleep during while trying to watch was After Earth. So, admittedly, I kinda wrote the HBP movie off for that reason. But I've tried to go back and revisit it, and I just can't keep my eyes open!
Are you kidding? The first two films were shot in the most boring way possible, which is a bit odd considering the director Chris Columbus had previously made the two ‘Home Alones’ and ‘Mrs. Doubtfire’. I still regret that I didn't know of VLC's playback speed adjustment when I watched ‘HP’.
Then they got proper good director Alfonso Cuarón, who shown how a fantasy film could actually look and feel. After which of course he wasn't hired again, and instead in one more iteration they found David Yates, who churned out the remaining four films like it was a factory job for him.
Nope, not kidding. Clearly we disagree. It seems Mr. Cuarón's look for a good fantasy film was a washed-out blue.
That said, I still think PoA is still the best non-Columbus movie - I just enjoy the coziness of the first two. It's what Hogwarts felt like to me when reading the books, so I naturally like seeing that brought to screen.
yea same, the first two are whimsical which is completely in line with the vibe of the books they're based on. The third one is also very cool, and I think the rest are entirely forgettable
I mean, the themes of ‘PoA’ are somewhat more mature, so the noirish look was warranted. And from what I remember, it wasn't just a blue-and-orange palette, like in many modern films, but a pretty colorful one inside that noir feel.
The joke is that JK Rowling names her characters offensively.
I've seen this done before with multiple non-existent examples.
This one also uses a Japanese example.
My point is that JK Rowling already named an Asian character offensively. She also has an Irish kid named Seamus that loves blowing stuff up, and a black man named Shacklebolt.
All I'm saying is the joke is now distracting from the source, because there is a real example of using her naming conventions on Asian characters. I'll also say that we don't actually know Cho's nationality, yet I don't have faith in JK Rowling to distinguish between non-European nationalities.
Of course, the longer I talk about it the less funny everything becomes.
I think CS Lewis employed a similar strategy, and Narnia is all the more fantastical for it. I mean what the fuck is going on in The Horse and His Boy and The Silver Chair?
JK Rowling's strategy of adding lore via halfassed Twitter replies may have a bit less thought involved, though.
I am normally used to high fantasy where the worldbuilding makes sense, but harry potter just flows like she thought of what could come next, and that’s it.
Just a quick reminder that she designed Quidditch specifically in a way that would infuriate any person even remotely familiar with how sports games work, because she wanted to "bet back at" a guy who dumped her.
Rowling is a diverse writer who can make multiple offensive asian characters. Yes she has a generic asian character but get ready for hiro and their friends Walla Greataru (China), pungeen Pitt (vietnam), and Ima Eatdog (Korea) who will be diversifying the bigotry in fun new ways along with their rivals Rege Sheepfucker (Wales), Maple Beaverlodge (Canada), and Gitmo Castro (Colombia)
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joyjoy@lemmy.zip · 103 pts · 206d
And their cousin Naga Saki.
DScratch@sh.itjust.works · 45 pts · 206d
Queer roommate Anola Gay.
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 27 pts · 206d
The stoner roommate Tokey O.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 205d
His familiar is lighter with a blackened and burnt feet
Linsensuppe@feddit.org · 25 pts · 206d
He was a fat man
vrek@programming.dev · 73 pts · 206d
In the book snowcrash by Neil Stephenson the main character is named "Hiro Protagonist". Yes it's a real book, and one of my favorites, by a real author.
VitoRobles@lemmy.today · 29 pts · 206d
I like it, as a person who doesn't really pay attention to most names in fiction, and primarily focuses on the story it's trying to tell.
Don't make it too obvious like "Busty LoveInterest" and "Villain McMustashface".
semperverus@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 206d
Die Hardman
Heartman
Fragile
Revolver Ocelott
Snake Eater
...
Kojima you beautiful bastard
VitoRobles@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 206d
Haha you know I'm a kojima fan!!
degen@midwest.social · 3 pts · 205d
You guys ever heard of JoJo's?
vrek@programming.dev · 16 pts · 206d
If you like techno-fantasy I highly recommend snowcrash. For years I've wanted a game of the first chapter, basically a guy is delivering pizza but gas is really expensive so all he has is a skateboard and a harpoon gun with an electromagnet. He basically shoots the harpoon at cars and gave them pull him towards the destination, it sounds like a cool video game like a race but you don't control speed only which car you are connected to.
Don't worry that didn't spoil anything. The book goes into a totally different direction with technology and science.
usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 206d
The guy in the car getting harpooned is delivering the pizza, the skateboarder is just hitching a free ride.
vrek@programming.dev · 3 pts · 206d
Wait, are you correcting me or giving social commentary? I thought the guy on the skateboard was delivering pizzas but it has been over a decade since I read it so I may be wrong
Goatboy@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 206d
I dont remember who was delivering the pizzas but I remember Hiro was driving the car that got harpooned.
vrek@programming.dev · 4 pts · 206d
Ok, I'm sorry I got that detail incorrect.
Goatboy@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 206d
No worries
A7thStone@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 205d
Hiro was delivering the pizzas, he's the Deliverator.
usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 206d
Just a slight correction that Hiro is driving the car and delivering the pizzas. He's trying to shake the skateboarder (who is a courier) loose and deliver the pizza on time.
vrek@programming.dev · 2 pts · 206d
Ok, it's been a decade since I read it so I remembered wrong.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 205d
I vaguely remember a skateboarding game from the 90s where the character could grab onto cars. But it was probably on something like Sega Mega and pretty primitive. Might've been one of the Simpsons games.
Lawnman23@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 205d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skitchin%27
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 205d
That's it! The description sounds pretty fun actually, I might need to fire the game up myself.
My nagging feeling that it was ‘Road Rash’ with a skateboard or skates didn't deceive me, as apparently the ‘RR’ engine was reused for this game.
Cethin@lemmy.zip · 18 pts · 206d
The difference is that's trying to be stupid and funny. Rowling is just, I don't know, lazy, or uncreative, or racist. One, or multiple, of those at least.
VitoRobles@lemmy.today · 9 pts · 206d
Cho Chang. is so fucking wild that her editor didn't go, "Wtf?"
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 205d
That was the age of "if you point out racism, you're the real racist".
vrek@programming.dev · 4 pts · 206d
It's not a direct connection to Rowling but I was just pointing out another example.
4am@lemmy.zip · 15 pts · 206d
The way I imagined this being said
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 206d
Have your agent call mine
vrek@programming.dev · 5 pts · 206d
Sorry, it's snowcrash and I corrected the original comment.
SaraTonin@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 206d
Snowcrash is a satire. That name is supposed to be funny
vrek@programming.dev · 2 pts · 206d
Could be, I may be wrong but still an awesome book
k0e3@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 205d
The protagonist from one of the mortal Kombat was Shujinko. Which means protagonist.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 205d
I just looked that up and it says Shujinko was fooled by someone named Damashi, which means trick.
k0e3@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 205d
Pretty much all anime names are stupid as hell too. Dragon Ball famously names all characters around foods (and sometimes other themes like underwear, for example). In other anime, every character has a name that just so happens to be related to their special ability or personality. Yusuke Urameshi from Yuyuhakusho basically is "Boo Ghost-boy".
Jomega@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 205d
In Dragon Ball's case, this is because Akira Toriyama would always write before dinner, so he would always have food on the brain. He was kinda quirky like that.
k0e3@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 204d
So he was eating bloomers, panties, briefs, and trunks (boxer briefs)?
Jomega@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 204d
What, you don't?
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 205d
Fantastic book, line a comics but in text.
He also invented "the metaverse" that moron zuckerberg just stole, poured billions into just to get legs to the avatars.
BTW The Diamond Age and Cryptonomicon are masterpieces too IMO.
Godric@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 206d
I bought this book minutes before reading this comment. The AI-captured advernet is here, and they have played me like a fiddle
vrek@programming.dev · 3 pts · 206d
Nope, I'm not an Ai advert. I read the book and still have it. I hope you like the book. I also recommend a diamond age, also known as a primer for young girls.
A7thStone@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 205d
The secondary title is; Or, A Young Ladies Illustrated Primer. The Diamond Age is one of my favorite Stephenson books.
VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 71 pts · 206d
I mean, this is one where you don't have to make up an example. The only Asian character in the books is named Cho Chang.
BigDiction@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 206d
And the movie portrayal was character assassination implying she was the one who ratted out Dumbledore’s Army.
VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 21 pts · 206d
Fuck I forgot about that. Those movies kinda suck ass past the first two.
BigDiction@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 206d
Order of the Phoenix is brutal but I think Half Blood Prince from a cinematography perspective is the best in the series. Prisoner of Azkaban was also really well done.
VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 206d
Oh yeah Prisoner was great.
Going to have to disagree with you on HBP. I went through a huge Potterhead phase as a teen and I fell asleep during that movie every time I tried to watch it.
At the time, the only other movie I had ever fallen asleep during while trying to watch was After Earth. So, admittedly, I kinda wrote the HBP movie off for that reason. But I've tried to go back and revisit it, and I just can't keep my eyes open!
chiliedogg@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 206d
Order of the Phoenix took the longest book and made the shortest film.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 205d
Are you kidding? The first two films were shot in the most boring way possible, which is a bit odd considering the director Chris Columbus had previously made the two ‘Home Alones’ and ‘Mrs. Doubtfire’. I still regret that I didn't know of VLC's playback speed adjustment when I watched ‘HP’.
Then they got proper good director Alfonso Cuarón, who shown how a fantasy film could actually look and feel. After which of course he wasn't hired again, and instead in one more iteration they found David Yates, who churned out the remaining four films like it was a factory job for him.
VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 205d
Nope, not kidding. Clearly we disagree. It seems Mr. Cuarón's look for a good fantasy film was a washed-out blue.
That said, I still think PoA is still the best non-Columbus movie - I just enjoy the coziness of the first two. It's what Hogwarts felt like to me when reading the books, so I naturally like seeing that brought to screen.
Hadriscus@jlai.lu · 3 pts · 205d
yea same, the first two are whimsical which is completely in line with the vibe of the books they're based on. The third one is also very cool, and I think the rest are entirely forgettable
VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 205d
I call the first two "unoffical Christmas movies"
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 205d
I mean, the themes of ‘PoA’ are somewhat more mature, so the noirish look was warranted. And from what I remember, it wasn't just a blue-and-orange palette, like in many modern films, but a pretty colorful one inside that noir feel.
Cuarón also doesn't do such palettes everywhere. ‘Y tu mamá también’ is very colorful, while the dystopian ‘Children of Men’ is accordingly subdued. So it was a choice appropriate to the events in the film, just like the installments later in the ‘HP’ series also get darker.
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 205d
Wasn't she possessed or something and that was the reason she ratted out Dumbledore's Army?
BigDiction@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 205d
In the movie Dolores Umbridge had Snape administer truth serum to Cho.
kilgore_trout@feddit.it · 14 pts · 205d
That's the joke.
VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 23 pts · 205d
The joke is that JK Rowling names her characters offensively.
I've seen this done before with multiple non-existent examples.
This one also uses a Japanese example.
My point is that JK Rowling already named an Asian character offensively. She also has an Irish kid named Seamus that loves blowing stuff up, and a black man named Shacklebolt.
All I'm saying is the joke is now distracting from the source, because there is a real example of using her naming conventions on Asian characters. I'll also say that we don't actually know Cho's nationality, yet I don't have faith in JK Rowling to distinguish between non-European nationalities.
Of course, the longer I talk about it the less funny everything becomes.
TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 205d
VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 205d
Some fantasy is heightened by that, though.
I think CS Lewis employed a similar strategy, and Narnia is all the more fantastical for it. I mean what the fuck is going on in The Horse and His Boy and The Silver Chair?
JK Rowling's strategy of adding lore via halfassed Twitter replies may have a bit less thought involved, though.
Alaknar@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 205d
Just a quick reminder that she designed Quidditch specifically in a way that would infuriate any person even remotely familiar with how sports games work, because she wanted to "bet back at" a guy who dumped her.
TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 205d
SethTaylor@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 205d
Sergay Lovecock would make for a badass porn name though
baatliwala@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 205d
Funnily there is an actual Italian football player named Kevin Lasagna
Hozerkiller@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 205d
Rowling is a diverse writer who can make multiple offensive asian characters. Yes she has a generic asian character but get ready for hiro and their friends Walla Greataru (China), pungeen Pitt (vietnam), and Ima Eatdog (Korea) who will be diversifying the bigotry in fun new ways along with their rivals Rege Sheepfucker (Wales), Maple Beaverlodge (Canada), and Gitmo Castro (Colombia)
VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 205d
Omg I didn't realize her writing had grown so much! I'll be paying much attention to the inclusion of Cheeseburger Slurman (American).
Hozerkiller@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 205d
Don't forget his cousin obe seschoolshooting
calmblue75@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 205d
VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 205d
Just kinda fits with the stereotypical naming convention. Like John White for an American.
yabbadabaddon@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 204d
At least he's not named Longnoz or Beageers Goldstein...
VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 204d
Torah Goldbergenstein, Jewish Wizard
calmblue75@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 204d
Thanks!
alloloto@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 206d
That would have bombed
mannycalavera@feddit.uk · 8 pts · 206d
You'd think so, but in contrast it exploded within the general public.
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip · 16 pts · 206d
Implying she'd even attempt to resist.
jeffep@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 205d
She just butthurt for her own name
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 205d
Hiro Protagonist is much better.
gole@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 205d
Ian Fleming 👀
Grimy@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 206d
I cast Fissio Infernus!