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Toriyama did make the word up. It just also happened to be the name of a Polynesian king.

I learned of King Kamehameha when playing Civ 5 - I also thought they based the attack's name in Dragon Ball on his name.

edited 3rd Jun '17 2:31:45 PM by DrunkenNordmann

Yeah, that's how I learned of king Kamehameha first too, and was kinda like "wut?".

But it really is just a funny coincidence. From Japanese, "Kamehameha" can be translated as "Turtle School Energy Wave Attack" or something.

I remember reading that Toriyama really did get the name from the Hawaiian king (the name was already a pun in Japanese, and easy to remember).

Googling it, a few articles repeat that story, but none of them look like a reliable source, so I don't know if it's true.

Extra History on D-Day

Part 2 of Kamehameha the Great.

I can't find a source either, but I think it is worth noting that Mater Kame was themed after Hawaii, with him coming from an island in the ocean, speaking English and wearing a Hawaiian shirt. Furthermore, the word "kamehameha" doesn't actually translate to "turtle destruction wave" exactly. "Turtle" and "wave" are there, but "destruction is "hametsu", not "hame".

So, I think it is clear he named the attack after the king. Mostly as a pun, probably, as he is known to do.

edited 11th Jun '17 5:04:12 AM by Heatth

Latest video is about how games have been taking tropes usually found in hentai and ecchi works and finding ways to subvert them. Whether the games subvert them well or not is a whole different story.

When i saw the word, i immediately click it to see it.

I predict comments full of "treating people like people and demonizing abuse of consent? EC really sold out on the SJW train this week."

New Extra History series on The Great Northern War.

edited 19th Aug '17 10:57:45 AM by JamieBGood

Not gonna lie, kinda expected a Sabaton reference at some point in the video.

Capcom take some notes please

They finally did Otto von Bismarck

>Not bothering to give a name to the Ex-Holy Roman Clusterfuck

>yet still labeling Italy "Italy" on a map of late 1840s Europe

"Welcome to Lies! The part of the series where we talk about how we messed up flags and maps!"

The second part is also out now:

"Italy" the peninsula was named that way since Roman times. With the Ex-HRE, it's more difficult, because of Austria.

This is always an option.

Speaking of confusing titles, I've always been bothered with historical sources and articles using the terms "German" and "Germany" to describe migrating tribes from Central Europe. I've always preferred using the Roman terms "Germanic" or "Germania" in my head to describe those cultures prior to the German Empire's founding. Why aren't there more people who do that?

Wouldn't that be germane?

I'll see myself out.

The concept fo Germany predates the German Empire by a fair bit.

Now there an argument for using Germanic to describe tribal groups such as the Saxons that migrated to Britain and the Franks that moved into France, but once you hit the medical period you have a concept of Germany starting to emerge, one that just become stronger and stronger over time as the Holy Roman Empire shrinks and eventually falls apart.

My respect for Bismarck is a bit limited, since so far as I understand it, the myths surrounding him and his legitimization of violence as a means to political ends ended up setting a terrible precedent in german politics.

At least Bismarck at least leaned on the "legitimization" part of that statement, rather than emphasizing the "violence" part and replacing "legitimization" with "fanatical endorsement".

Man, would that come back to bite Prussia when England decided to adopt that idea themselves...

Yesterday, a new Halloween edition of "Video Games You Might Not Have Tried" got released:

The Shrouded Isle sounds pretty interesting. I might just give it a try.