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You don't say: a painting using cubism style is a "Picasso" The author that popularized it doesn't get attribution de-facto for every paintings that uses cubis
by Kukumber 4y ago
You don't say: a painting using cubism style is a "Picasso"
The author that popularized it doesn't get attribution de-facto for every paintings that uses cubism
Slightly rotating your missile propulsion system with an auto-targeting system doesn't make it "Itano"
You don't say "Mr Smith's way of braking" because you saw him drift
There is something about the weeb culture that's very corrosive about culture in general
That's very concerning for this generation of technicians
https://llvm.moe/ https://llvm.moe/
- somethingreen 4y agoThese terms come from Sakuga scene where artist attribution and appreciation are a big part of it. See also "Yutapon Cubes", for example. Also we absolutely do identify art styles after their creators if the style is distinct enough, but doesn't necessarily establish a new branch, e.g. Escher, Warhol, Wes Anderson.
- JohnBooty 4y agoThere is something about the weeb culture that's very corrosive about culture in general That's very concerning for this generation of technicians I'd love to hear more of these thoughts.
- numpad0 4y agoTIL it’s called eponym[1]. Diesel engines, pasteurized milk, Petri dish, even mentors, … I can tell you it’s much less common in ideographic languages, as the definition can be encoded into spelling by choice of ideographs, if that is what you would appreciate :) 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eponym https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eponym
- s-lambert 4y agoJust because you see something in "weeb culture" doesn't mean it's unique to "weeb culture". Naming things after people happens everywhere, even in programming, booleans, bezier curves, Turing machines, etc.