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1. Cayhr (cayhr@varishangout.net)'s status on Saturday, 05-Aug-2023 05:35:01 JST Cayhr
   I am still laughing at the writing for the Qwib Qwib scene's penis joke in Mass Effect 2.
   
   Admiral Koris has contemplated changing his ship name to Dehfranz, or the Iktomi. The Quarians use a naming system of <First Name> Vas <Ship Name>. Dehfranz is corruption of "Vas Deferens," which is a real medical name that refers to the duct that carries sperm from the testicle in the male reproductive organ. And of course, Iktomi when read as a Quarian name sounds like vasectomy.
   
   Yknow, part of my writing process is just deep diving into literatures and archives to find names, and then recontextualizing their meanings to fit your canon. Maybe corrupt them a little bit to make the reference less obvious. It's been a lot of fun, but also really enlightening to come across ancient words and syllables used for games media I'm familiar with. For example, Chesed, a Hebrew name, is used in Blue Archive and Library of Ruina.
   • Cayhr (cayhr@varishangout.net)'s status on Saturday, 05-Aug-2023 06:09:29 JST Cayhr

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     • MashupotatoesII
     @MashpotatoesIII Yeah Decagrammaton is more Hebrew stuff, something about the 10 names or letters of god or something like that. Tree of Life as well.
     
     It's interesting to me, how do you come up with these kinds of words? Combinations of syllables to produce a unique name. Like shit, there's so much cool sounding stuff out there that has meaning.
     
     One of the chapters in Blue Archive is Rabbit of Caerbannog. What a cool name. Caladbolg is another one that I think a lot of eastern media like to use.
   • MashupotatoesII (mashpotatoesiii@varishangout.net)'s status on Saturday, 05-Aug-2023 06:09:30 JST MashupotatoesII

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     @Cayhr I think in Blue Archive the tree of life was directly mentioned during the Decagrammaton events, so all of the Decagrammaton entities are named after each node. I am not sure about Library of Runia though.
     
     Mass effect 2 was also a very good game probably the best in the series.
   • Cayhr (cayhr@varishangout.net)'s status on Saturday, 05-Aug-2023 06:23:48 JST Cayhr

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     • MashupotatoesII
     @MashpotatoesIII Ah yeah I forgot to mention the Monty Python reference. Yes. Caerbannog is indeed our lovely little bundle of friendship the albino rabbit.
     
     **Haaaallelujaah~!!**
   • MashupotatoesII (mashpotatoesiii@varishangout.net)'s status on Saturday, 05-Aug-2023 06:23:49 JST MashupotatoesII

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     @Cayhr They may be pretty good with language arts or read some kind of obscure thing. As for the Rabbit of Caerbannog the name might have been a reference to Monty python of all things.
   • MashupotatoesII (mashpotatoesiii@varishangout.net)'s status on Saturday, 05-Aug-2023 06:35:02 JST MashupotatoesII

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     @Cayhr Yes.
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   • supersid (supersid333@varishangout.net)'s status on Saturday, 05-Aug-2023 08:10:55 JST supersid

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     @Cayhr Lobotomy Corp/Library of Ruina use the idea of the Kabbalah pretty fully. Ayin changes the names of the Sephirah, the heads of the various departments of Lobotomy Corp, to that of the Sefirot and uses them as a means of manifesting a tower of light and bringing salvation to mankind.
     That plus Lobotomy Corp, and the Library after it, are formated in the shape of the Kabbalah as well in respect to where each Sephirah's department is placed(L Corp's is upside down though)
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