Board Thread:Suggestions/@comment-29858293-20170228234419/@comment-24947676-20170301134704

KuuderessioPlusvalín wrote: PISTACHIOLORD wrote: Well fuck. This game is supposed to be a "real" Japanese game and we're making ocs using god almighty Google Translate. Why? I'm not saying it racist by itself but the amount of names that have sekushi as a first or last name is just plain out depressing. People look those names up to get them. So it's not gts fault at all except that half of the time it's wrong. And Some people don't want to change that. They want to name their ocs dig farts or sexy banana. Some are only opposing because they want to continue getting google translate names. Finding a Japanese baby name site isn't that hard you know.

We are talking about a game, of course in the real life nobody will put a word as a name to their child... This is about hyphotetical histories... You talk about creativity, just browsing a Japanese name page and randomly choosing them. If some translated names sound bad to you, it's because you just don´t like it. There are many tastes here...

Just because the creator of the game does it, it does not mean we have to do the same thing.

You CAN be creative without being completely unrealistic. If you're spending all of your creativity on google translate, which 99% of the time just puts an accent on your English words, then you don't really have much creativity, yaknow? The names you get from the tool simply aren't creative and if you use them, you can be seen as a borderline weeaboo, or even racist.

Plus, there's a lot of kanji in the Japanese language that, when combined, can have hundreds of possible meanings. You can go onto sites with lists of kanji and pick kanji from there, and you can get hundreds of potential meaningful names from that.

Or you could go to the less-effort-but-still-realistic route of going to a site that lists common Japanese names. It's not exactly the most creative option, but it's still a good option.

Or you could even make your OC a different nationality, such as French or British or something, and grab names from those languages. Most OCs are Japanese, so OCs from different backgrounds are still considered highly creative.

My point is that google translate isn't really creative, and doesn't really give out meaningful names, since that isn't its purpose. It's best suited to tell you what English words sound like when you slap the accent of another language on them, nothing more. You aren't going to get creative names from it.

In your own words (with the end slightly modified): You talk about creativity, just putting English words in a translator that most of the time just gives your words an accent.