This looks more like a warrior/tank class than a rogue.
Here are some cartoon rogue-like characters, which could even be licensed for official use…
Maybe we could even commission a custom design from the artist for a more go-like theme or costume.
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A few years from now…
–So… why is the mascot of this server a rogue??
–Well, you see, there was this one ridiculous pedant that pronounced it like “ogues”…
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Wow, that’s a long con. 
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You should demand a recount
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I woke up my sister laughing, damn.
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I wonder how different this discussion would be if Weiqi or Baduk had won over Go as the term to go international.
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How can we get ourselves to that timeline… ows and obs are both so much less loathesome than ogues, not to mention the endless puns we could have avoided.
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Don’t forget the other sets of endless puns we would have created.
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Japanese Frogs 
, Chinese Cows 
and Korean Bobs 
(I guess?)
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I heard it costs millions of dollars per poll to do that. OGS team might be happy with any result after that kind of donation 
We would have as a mascot a WeiKing or a BaDuke of hazard
He seems a bit … edgy. 
(sorry, had to do it)
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I wonder how different this discussion would be if Weiqi or Baduk had won over Go as the term to go international.
I actually think the term baduk would have been better…
Weiqi is harder to pronounce, and go is already a common English word, which makes it harder to google.
Also, everyone pronounces it like the verb “go” in English (the Japanese pronunciation is different) which also adds confusion when speaking.
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I agree.
But when I went to the go club in the Korean cultural institute, the locals seemed to pronounce it “paduk”. How do the Japanese pronounce it differently?
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The Japanese “o” sound is more similar to the vowel in the (British) English word hot than to the vowel in low. Other than that, 碁 is a single mora, which means it’s short in duration, while a single English stressed vowel usually feels more like two morae in length.
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How do the Japanese pronounce it differently?
The word is actually igo, not go. And the “go” syllable sounds more like “goh” when a Japanese speaker says it (maybe it depends on the accent).
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Both 囲碁 and 碁 can be used. The former is more common, but the second isn’t uncommon, and is almost always the term used in compound words (e.g. in goban 碁盤).
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Maybe a bit of topic, but recently I entered the go puzzles of Igo Kenkyukai into the OGS puzzles section.
I already had the impression that this name Igo Kenkyukai didn’t refer to a go player, but to something abstract.
Does anyone know what Igo Kenkyukai means?
Yes, it’s not a go player, it might not even be the title of your puzzle book.
Igo 囲碁 means Go / baduk / weiqi, Kenkyuu 研究 means research and kai 会 means assembly / meeting.
Together it means something like “Go study club”.
If you have a picture of the book cover (the front is likely what usually is the back cover if you hold it like a Western book), I could try to find out who the author is, and if that’s really the title of the book 
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