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Dragons, Ninja, Swords, Giant Robots. Researcher of Occidentals and their culture.
Orientalism, Japonisme, Chinoiserie and the making of modern western fantasy.
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![AA: Everyday after work, and during work, we'd be playing Samurai Shodown, or Street Fighter, or Mortal Kombat.
Samwise Didier: One of my claims to fame is I actually defeated Roman Kenney in Street Fighter 2 using my feet. And I would also make sure that after that game, anyone else that wanted to play me played wit the foot controller. So they got my funk on my hands, and I would defeat them too.
Seriously, SNK's fighting game Samurai Shodown was a big deal. Micky Neilson, former writer/publishing lead and 22-year veteran of Blizzard, left Blizzard earlier this year and released a book called "Lost and Found: An Autobiography About Discovering Family". While it's about his entire life, untold stories about Blizzard's early years are revealed throughout, including the following excerpt about the culture around the time of Warcraft 2's development:
"During that time period Thursday night was karaoke night. [Chris] Metzen, Sammy [Samwise Didier], and Roman [Kenney] especially had amazing voices... We all worked together, and we all partied together, and one informed the other. We forged lifetime bonds and friendships, and along with the execs, we were the core of the company. I would even go so far as to say that the foundation of what Blizzard is today was built on a bedrock of karaoke, Samurai Shodown, and Jack and Coke."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ebgc2if76vqhdtkcpneo36re/bafkreiftcgjr4f3vp7qdci754vkkqvcptkp276ejzwyulgkwoblodoc7pa@jpeg)
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