Jump to content

User:Hansamurai

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

About Me

[edit]

I run a website called The First Hour, a review site that reviews only the first hour of games.

My favorite type of music, by far, are Oldies.

About 飯侍 (han samurai)

[edit]

Back in 2000, when I was a junior in high school and in my fourth year of Japanese, I developed my own Japanese "nickname": HanSamurai. The two kanji that created this were:

  • ハン (han) is the ON reading for 飯, the second kanji in gohan, which means rice or meal in Japanese. However, more important at the time of its creation was Gohan from the anime Dragon Ball Z, which I was quite fond of at the time. Nowadays I reference the former definition.
  • さむらい (samurai) is the KUN reading for 侍, the kanji for the Japanese samurai. This was my favorite kanji at the time and still is my favorite to write.

HanSamurai (variations: hansamurai, hansamu) soon became my internet handle which I use on most message boards and online games.

Some interesting trivia about the name is that in its shortened version: hansamu, the Japanese would be written: ハンサム which means handsome. The remaining syllables (rai) could be translated into either lie (noun) or defeat (noun). So a different definition could be a handsome lie or a handsome defeat. This was never the original intent but has lead to a very versatile nickname.

If I were to ever develop a new nickname, it would definitely be typable with only the left hand.

Articles Created

[edit]

I haven't created an article in over two and a half years. It's interesting to look back at the articles I created and see how much they've been torn to shreds, merged, and have generally just been destroyed by Wikipedia's insane practices and policies. Ah well. Click below for the reasons I don't come here anymore to edit.

  1. Tandia
  2. Ivan Raidenovitch Raikov
  3. Robo (Chrono Trigger)
  4. Category:Chrono Trigger characters
  5. Template:Chrono Trigger Character
  6. 65,000,000 B.C. (Chrono Trigger)
  7. 12,000 B.C. (Chrono Trigger)
  8. 600 A.D. (Chrono Trigger)
  9. 1000 A.D. (Chrono Trigger)
  10. 1999 A.D. (Chrono Trigger)
  11. 2300 A.D. (Chrono Trigger)
  12. End of Time (Chrono Trigger)
  13. Kingdom of Zeal
  14. EVA (Metal Gear)
  15. Day of Lavos
  16. Other side of the pillow
  17. Ozzie, Slash, and Flea (Chrono Trigger)
  18. Bucky Badger
  19. Area code 608
  20. Area code 715
  21. Warner Park
  22. Rhythm and Booms

Projects and Other Random Doings

[edit]

Personal Wikipedia Milestones

[edit]
  • July 29, 2005 - 500th Edit

License

[edit]

I agree to multi-license all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

Multi-licensed with the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License versions 1.0, 2.0, and 2.5
I agree to multi-license my text contributions, unless otherwise stated, under Wikipedia's copyright terms and the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license version 1.0, version 2.0, and version 2.5. Please be aware that other contributors might not do the same, so if you want to use my contributions under the Creative Commons terms, please check the CC dual-license and Multi-licensing guides.
Licensing rights granted to Wikimedia Foundation
I grant non-exclusive permission for the Wikimedia Foundation Inc. to relicense my text contributions under any copyleft license that it chooses, provided it maintains the free and open spirit of the GFDL. This permission acknowledges that future licensing needs of the Wikimedia projects may need adapting in unforeseen fashions to facilitate other uses, formats, and locations. It is given for as long as this banner remains.