• sheepyowl@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

      It’s less about weeb shit and more about the sounds of the words. They abbreviate it as Ligma (balls hehe got’em!)

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        1 year ago

        I meant weeb shit as in it being an English tweet with Japanese in it. It’s as if it’s such a normal thing to read Japanese nowadays or sumtin. The joke is fine though, but you have to both be familiar with league and with Japanese which is some S-tier weeb shit.

        • tonarinokanasan@lemmy.sdf.org
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          1 year ago

          I wouldn’t say you need to know anything about Splatoon/league in order to understand this, because 100% of the necessary context is in the tweet itself.

          But yes, it’s surprising to see so many upvotes for a joke that requires the ability to read some Japanese in a mostly English community. But to be fair, it’s funny as hell.

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          1 year ago

          It being fully in katakana, which anyone just looking into the language would take like 30 minutes to learn, helps.

          • stebo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            1 year ago

            it’s definitely not hard but telling them all apart without googling it takes a bit longer than 30 minutes