Team Fortress 2: よろしく
By Rodent | July 28, 2008
I happen to play Team Fortress 2 in my free time, and oftentimes I end up playing on Japanese servers. For obvious reasons, the ping tends to be quite low.
I also found it amusing when I noticed that at the beginning of most every round most of the people mic on and say 「よろしく。」 or 「よろしくお願いします。」. Those sentences are some of the first Japanese I learned way back in high school, yet sometimes I’m still hearing news ways it’s used that have never really occurred to me.
And for the record, after the initial よろしく is said most people don’t say another peep for the duration of the game.
NOTE TO THOSE WHO DON’T UNDERSTAND THIS:
よろしくお願いします (yoroshiku onegaishimasu) and the shorter version, よろしく (yoroshiku) have no real equivalent in English. It has connotations of “Nice to meet you.”, “Look forward to working with you.”, “I’m counting on you.”, and a few other phrases/usages all rolled up together.
3 Comments
Alex on July 28, 2008 at 4:32 am.
Names of servers plox.
Rodent on July 28, 2008 at 4:05 pm.
The Japanese servers I play on are:
[JP] 300YEN server @ 218.110.141.146:27016
TF2 The Orange server [JP] 01 @ 219.117.192.15:27015
TF2 The Orange server [JP] 02 @ 219.117.192.15:27016
Tim on July 29, 2008 at 1:26 am.
I’ve had a retail Orange Box sitting in my closet for the last month+ because I’m too lazy to get it running well under Wine.
Funny thing is that HL2 ran great on my really old 4400 but it sucks terribly on my slightly-less-old 6200 (inb4 shitty card; remember I don’t ordinarily give a crap about games).
I think we need to resurrect a trans-oceanic version of the Hillenbrand v. Earhart UT games of old.