I can imagine a lot of heartache and contention around where one lands with this. But I gotta be honest, my favorite Japanese properties are the ones where the translators took a lot of liberties and flexed some writing chops to make the most flavorful expression of something that fit what the creator was going for.

There’s a lot of Japanese/Chinese mystery games where suspects blend together because I can’t remember which person is Yuang Ho or Ryuiki Takachi. But I’ll always remember that in Ace Attorney, I play as Phoenix Wright, and am cross examining suspicious man Frank Sahwit. The cultural relevance of the changed names improves context learning. The series has been mocked for its adjustments, but I like them.

Other weird moments of creativity came from the dubbing team that did Ghost Stories as an “abridged series”, and the Trails in the Sky localizers that found a string table that duplicated “The chest is empty” for each treasure chest in the game, and decided to make each one a ridiculous message.

On the other end, there’s moments like the infamous quote in Rhapsody. The parentheses are part of it.

This is WhiteSnow, a town filled with snow. Enjoy the world of snow. (Note: This is what happens when you do a direct translation.)

That was the Trump quote that made me horrified at anyone who still supported him. Child murderer.

Notably, he has a (adult) nephew that has stood on the side of justice and I bear no ill will to her.

Yeah, I’m lucky that my main games of interest weren’t blocked from Linux when I switched. If I had a friend group that played BF6, it likely would’ve been a harder decision

I recently learned there’s an entire fork of proton entirely for “anime” games (dwproton). They be dedicated

Shit, I think CachyOS and its gaming optimization made me jump to the end.

Yeah, this was basically my shift away. I still have my windows drive as a backup but I’ve basically moved away. CachyOS covers a lot of bases for me.

Like…at least Bush had a valid excuse initiated externally. Even if he stretched it into the wrong country. (Okay, in retrospect the claim is rooted in xenophobia. Maybe you can’t expect much better of GOP voters)

I’m not against people owning guns. God knows, we need a big crowd of hunters to thin turkey populations in New England. But by the same rules, there are some dumb absolutists against any form of gun regulation.

A child shot his brother from an unsecured firearm? We must send a pamphlet advertising gun safes to the parent sometime in the course of the year!

They were probably relying on obnoxious Windows 11 install prompts to carry most of the fight there.

Sadly, in my case it just moved me to Linux…

Fingerprinting. Age, as well as factors like IP address, can be one more data point to individually identify a user with a certain number of accounts.

There’s also potential they changeover from “Enter your DOB” to “Show your driver’s license”, which they can collect much more data from.

For much of my adult life I’ve been very careful and considered with most big purchases. I have a friend that is not though, and it worries me. He is definitely not in a life situation where he can afford random impulses, and it can take him less than a day to regret an impulse buy, even before it’s shipped to him. I keep trying to ask for reasoning, and it offends him each time.

…I mean, yes, which is why I lead with those 4 words. I’m hoping nobody is making critical stock bets based on Lemmy comments. It’s more of a “nice possibility” to make us hopeful we can buy PCs sometime.

I have REALLY gotten sick of the “git gud” crowd.

I’ve recently been playing Tormented Souls 2. It has a good number of weapons to it, but some contention about ammo scarcity. I pointed out that while using your melee weapon on enemies, and using iframes, is technically viable, even if you’re really good at it, it becomes really samey and boring.

Someone immediately jumped on me as having a “skill issue”, and copy-pasting the generic “developer shouldn’t be forced to make the game your way” argument from every Dark Souls discussion.

Somehow, difficulty has become so entwined with masculine ego that people cannot seem to judge criticism of a game that has anything to do with its specific level of challenge.

We seriously need to give up on the sarcastic, parodic pro-capitalist games, and go back to ripping heads off of virtual fascists.

And even then, you can’t talk to half the US.

“Have you considered not hand-delivering your family overseas to fight for oil?”
“I would but liberals would invade my home with electric cars and their transgenderism.”

Even if most real people would be happy, you can bet Israel, Russia, and the RSF + allies would astroturf the hell out of a “How dare America, evil world police, expansionist imperialism” campaign. And, just like how much of America is stupid, many people globally will believe it. It has happened before.

You got me, they’re actually a set of goalposts with a sheet over them - but it appears someone moved them.

One vague rumor suggested the memory pricing hill might be leveling off; sadly Valve might be paying upfront for it still, but at least it won’t get worse.

Hey, it’s rare to see someone admit they were wrong these days. Happy to see it.

Historians might say more of history is contested than we might realize. In my lifetime, I learned that Thomas Edison was a brilliant inventor who made the light bulb through perseverance; not a ruthless businessman who stole ideas from interns and sabotaged Nikola Tesla.

So, it may be best not to codify things into law if they have even the slightest chance for debate. Hence why Germany made laws against denying the holocaust specifically.