See, I saw that and instantly imagined a bunch of scientists gathered around a dead body. "So we did the math, and at exactly 55 decibels this game will harmonically resonate with the dick."
well there's trying to cater to woke foreign market but also catering to ESG standards maybe someone should let them know about ESG if they dont already know
"why is it every time this happens the game's soul gets taken over completely"
Because globohomo sucks the soul out of everything.
Also i dont know why that word was censored with a bar but he was complaining about black skin.
Mass media swamps diversity. It makes every place the same. Bangkok or Tokyo or London: there's a McDonald's on one corner, a Benetton on another, a Gap across the street. Regional differences vanish. All differences vanish. In a mass-media world, there's less of everything except the top ten books, records, movies, ideas. People worry about losing species diversity in the rain forest. But what about intellectual diversity --- our most necessary resource? That's disappearing faster than trees. But we haven't figured that out, so now we're planning to put five billion people together in cyberspace. And it'll freeze the entire species. Everything will stop dead in its tracks. Everyone will think the same thing at the same time. Global uniformity.
Michael Crichton, "The Lost World (Jurassic Park)" [1995]
There have been Cassandras warning this was coming for over 30 years.
Michael Crichton also talked about the Gellmann Amnesia effect. aka how leftists read modern media, and when they see an error in reporting when the media gets it wrong about something they know about (ie video games), they kick up a fuss about how much they fucked up, but then they move to the next page about something they're not an expert on and they don't question the media they're reading. They completely forgot about how badly the media fucked up talking about some other subject.
Those two books are very good. The movies were good for movies, but they didn't try to do justice to the books, which is just as well since it would've been impossible.
It had two major points towards the end. A Panacea that cures all is worthless, because the moment you stop taking it all the things that your immune system should be getting practice against come back to a vulnerable immune system. Even minor diseases could be fatal.
Even an extremely deadly disease will eventually adapt to become less deadly, because if it doesn't it will kill itself off.
They could make her a lesbian. And an activist. Maybe make her follow the directions of a black superior in her activist org. There's tons of possibilities to keep her recognizable brand and recontextualize her into the message.
I mean, the Japanese have had a lot of pseudo LGBT people in their anime for decades now. Gurren Lagann is beloved and it has a character that outright says he's gender noncoforming. One Piece has characters like this too and its the biggest anime of all time over there.
Yeah, it's either implied through subtext (aka Cardcaptor Sakura and the main character's obviously lesbian but wont admit it friend) or it's so fucking in your face it's meant to be over the top because it's funny.
They don't fucking advertise about how lgbtbbq their anime are.
Benthram's still one of my favorite characters though, doesn't matter that he looks like a drag queen. An absolute chad of the chads who doesn't give a fuck, can be anyone with his powers and I don't know anyone who did not like him after Impel Down.
Idk, I know what you mean, but I feel like there's a big difference between when its every now and then for some sort of comic relief versus shoehorned in all the time and 100% serious not in any way meant to be comic relief.
the amount of isekai manga with some batshit insane overly muscly man with a perpetual five-o-clock shadow who "identifies as being female" (or similar) and acts "girly" is quite high
I'm fairly certain such characters are the authors poking fun at the trans lot
Different nations and cultures have considerable different notions of what crossdressers and wierd in between gender shit are. Comparing drag queens to crossplay traps in Japan, despite being arguably the same, is completely useless.
it's funny because sword and shield had characters people were finding attractive. Even the MC female character could be customized to be pretty good looking (at least not an eyesore like the people in the top right image) and plenty of people thought she looks good even at default.
Given the current political trends, I guess they decided it wasn't enough to dumb down pokemon gameplay, animations and storyline (sword and shield had pretty much non-existent villians; the danger was completely by accident) but also to destroy the graphics and character designs even further.
Sword and Shield's positive legacy is almost entirely going to be "yeah but the cast was really hot." Probably the only reason anyone will even remember it soon.
the danger was completely by accident
The danger was intentionally created by an imbecile who thought himself a "well intentioned villain" overblowing an environmental disaster a 1000 years away and turning it into a real disaster right now.
Its one of those things were its written so badly it turns around and becomes incredibly realistic to the actual climate change activists.
I prefer that. It allows me to learn more about their culture, rather than mass white-washing it a la "are you one of those gamergate freakshows" (actual "translation" from an official sub and dub) style you get from official sources.
The fucking white supremacists at Crunchyroll are terrified of their audience seeing any Japanese culture in their lol-cow-lized works.
I hear you, mostly just playing up the meme. Though it doesn't have to be either/or - there's something in between a non-translation only marketed to weebs vs. 4kids changing sushi to hamburgers. The woke virus is a whole nother level. Anyone invoking gamergate is not a real localizer. They're a demon-possessed commie subversive agitator.
Its also important because a lot of times there is no way to actually translate it and retain anything close to the meaning, so leaving it is necessary.
Honorifics are a classic case. Because no fucking high schooler calls their class mates "Ms./Mr." which is what a lot of translaters use "san" for. So you end up with retarded shit sounding even more stilted than if you had just cut the entire word out.
For a recent example. A very emotional flashback in Xenoblade 3 involves a character screaming "MAAM MAAM" before using her actual name. Its pretty obvious in the Jap version it was likely "sensei/senpai" or one of the many other titles Japs use for their superiors, and the switch to her actual name is significant because of their culture around using names.
Whereas by trying to "translate" it you just end up making him sound like an idiot and turning an important scene into a joke.
And the most agonizing one, from Railgun which made it overtly impossible to watch, translating "Onee-sama" as "Sissy". And it is used. A lot. Because the main character is referred to as that by multiple characters. Not even an ATTEMPT at trying to convey the context behind it, and it makes the whole thing a cringefest.
Its recent for me, so late 2 or early 3. It was Taion's.
I can forgive the fake swears for at least being consistent in a fantasy world. They at some point didn't know what the word "city" meant so clearly language modified in their world. And it would almost be worse if every swear was actually there because jesus they use a lot of them. It would be 'fuck' twice a cutscene at minimum.
I'm usually fine with changes if the spirit is still there and it still feels natural. The famous blushy-crushy was made far more funny by them even attempting to try and translate moe.
Taion actually addresses her as Nami-san constantly
So even more generic bad translation, they just turned the "san" into Maam and called it a day. To think I gave them too much credit.
but now it's kind of inconsistent with the previous games, since none of them had fake swears.
I'm not far enough in the game to say for certain, but the entire gameworld feels enough like a seperate entity to have its own speaking styles. Much the same way that every Titan in 2 had a completely different English Accent randomly, whereas here they are are intermixed.
Regardless, I find it quite amusing because instead of going the full route of making absurd idioms and phrases be shouted constantly, they just word swapped. Making it very easy to substitute it back. Which works because Lanz feels like the type to actually just swear constantly, but if he did the ratings board would have a fit.
some fairly explicit things around Tora and Poppi that were changed
Considering even in this tamer version people got pissy about their relationship, I never doubted it got turned down. Keeping Poppi's naming scheme after elementary and middle school girls would have blown fuses everywhere.
Is this the actual character portraits when you start a battle or when you are in free roam as I know the graphics can only do so much. There's a HUGE difference to gym leaders in game models to battle portraits.
Besides unless they want more smash or pass with pokemon, they better have some hot gym leaders!
Yeah they seem toned down from the last time I played them years ago and they were hardly strippers then. It's weird considering this is Japan, they know that the three things that sell the most are cute, sexy or badass so you at least go for one of those three.
Eh, you're a bunch of degenerates for being into this shit in the first place. JFC men have become so neutered over time and seem to stay like an adolescent in to their late 20's or worse. A bunch of beta boys playing dress-up Barbie in their video games even.
Pokemon games pretty much cater to the adult man/womanchild demographic. Do you ever wonder why there is a disproportional number of idpol fucks and easily offended fucks on that platform? There are more women playing on that platform than any other mainstream gaming platform which means you have a very high chance of dealing with far leftist types.
All pokemon games since Black 2/ White 2 have been low effort cash grabs, and one could argue that the 2 version model was an egrigous form of macro-transaction from the very start.
LOL
Now I'm imagining Soul Eater ultimate attacks. "Alright, Dick Resonance, GO!"
See, I saw that and instantly imagined a bunch of scientists gathered around a dead body. "So we did the math, and at exactly 55 decibels this game will harmonically resonate with the dick."
These Japanese degenerate brothers in arms, they're no different from you or I. For we all enjoy big anime tiddies and big anime booties all the same.
Hey, you don't speak for all of us! There's the flat gang, too and don't forget that(but the big anime booty is alright with me ;) ).
Sounds like a Jojo attack. Hamon Beato Dick Resonance
Someone needs to make a band called "Dick Resonance" so it can become a stand.
well there's trying to cater to woke foreign market but also catering to ESG standards maybe someone should let them know about ESG if they dont already know
Because globohomo sucks the soul out of everything.
Also i dont know why that word was censored with a bar but he was complaining about black skin.
There have been Cassandras warning this was coming for over 30 years.
Michael Crichton also talked about the Gellmann Amnesia effect. aka how leftists read modern media, and when they see an error in reporting when the media gets it wrong about something they know about (ie video games), they kick up a fuss about how much they fucked up, but then they move to the next page about something they're not an expert on and they don't question the media they're reading. They completely forgot about how badly the media fucked up talking about some other subject.
It's fucking bizarre.
That book's title just took on a whole new meaning to me, and it seems it had to have been intentional with a paragraph like that.
Those two books are very good. The movies were good for movies, but they didn't try to do justice to the books, which is just as well since it would've been impossible.
His Andromeda Strain should be required reading.
It had two major points towards the end. A Panacea that cures all is worthless, because the moment you stop taking it all the things that your immune system should be getting practice against come back to a vulnerable immune system. Even minor diseases could be fatal.
Even an extremely deadly disease will eventually adapt to become less deadly, because if it doesn't it will kill itself off.
They really need to be told because this is pervasive and before you know it has already taken over.
even our jp bros have their own version of the term shitskin lmao
I've heard Misty will be black in the reboot.
We call that the "MJ" effect.
The letters of ginger rearranged form: n-----
igger
At this point I think the "Postal Dude" is the only red head character that isn't in danger of being turned into a nigger for pandering points.
FRIENDLY PSA, ALL OF YOU FUCKS GET POSTAL: BRAIN DAMAGED
It's good. Very good. Don't be fucking put off about the first level and seeing "Trump supporters". The game makes fun of EVERYONE, including furfags.
bruh is this actually true lol
Honestly I think Misty's outfit would be the first thing attacked, and loudly enough to stop everything else.
Just...don't show them the original manga or heads will pop.
That applies to most major series who started in the 80s/90s.
I think page 2 of the original DragonBall just has Goku's dick on full display.
They could make her a lesbian. And an activist. Maybe make her follow the directions of a black superior in her activist org. There's tons of possibilities to keep her recognizable brand and recontextualize her into the message.
It's like reading KiA posts from 2018.
I really hope these people know we hate it when they design things for the non gaming western population of feminist busybodies.
I mean, the Japanese have had a lot of pseudo LGBT people in their anime for decades now. Gurren Lagann is beloved and it has a character that outright says he's gender noncoforming. One Piece has characters like this too and its the biggest anime of all time over there.
That said, all of these designs are indeed ugly.
This reminds me of the Twisted Sister band from the 80s. Imagine the REEEing that band would cause now.
Imagine the Reee-ing that Buffalo Bill would provoke today.
Yeah, it's either implied through subtext (aka Cardcaptor Sakura and the main character's obviously lesbian but wont admit it friend) or it's so fucking in your face it's meant to be over the top because it's funny.
They don't fucking advertise about how lgbtbbq their anime are.
Benthram's still one of my favorite characters though, doesn't matter that he looks like a drag queen. An absolute chad of the chads who doesn't give a fuck, can be anyone with his powers and I don't know anyone who did not like him after Impel Down.
Idk, I know what you mean, but I feel like there's a big difference between when its every now and then for some sort of comic relief versus shoehorned in all the time and 100% serious not in any way meant to be comic relief.
the amount of isekai manga with some batshit insane overly muscly man with a perpetual five-o-clock shadow who "identifies as being female" (or similar) and acts "girly" is quite high
I'm fairly certain such characters are the authors poking fun at the trans lot
Yeah I'm aware of this trope. While I'm not really a fan of it, it doesn't grate on me if it isnt meant to be serious.
Different nations and cultures have considerable different notions of what crossdressers and wierd in between gender shit are. Comparing drag queens to crossplay traps in Japan, despite being arguably the same, is completely useless.
Which is to say the tiny percentage of the foreign market which is groomers hanging out on the pokemon subreddit all day.
it's funny because sword and shield had characters people were finding attractive. Even the MC female character could be customized to be pretty good looking (at least not an eyesore like the people in the top right image) and plenty of people thought she looks good even at default.
Given the current political trends, I guess they decided it wasn't enough to dumb down pokemon gameplay, animations and storyline (sword and shield had pretty much non-existent villians; the danger was completely by accident) but also to destroy the graphics and character designs even further.
Sword and Shield's positive legacy is almost entirely going to be "yeah but the cast was really hot." Probably the only reason anyone will even remember it soon.
The danger was intentionally created by an imbecile who thought himself a "well intentioned villain" overblowing an environmental disaster a 1000 years away and turning it into a real disaster right now.
Its one of those things were its written so badly it turns around and becomes incredibly realistic to the actual climate change activists.
How idioms are "translated" in fansubs.
(then you get a 1 second text wall explaining the meaning)
I prefer that. It allows me to learn more about their culture, rather than mass white-washing it a la "are you one of those gamergate freakshows" (actual "translation" from an official sub and dub) style you get from official sources.
The fucking white supremacists at Crunchyroll are terrified of their audience seeing any Japanese culture in their lol-cow-lized works.
I hear you, mostly just playing up the meme. Though it doesn't have to be either/or - there's something in between a non-translation only marketed to weebs vs. 4kids changing sushi to hamburgers. The woke virus is a whole nother level. Anyone invoking gamergate is not a real localizer. They're a demon-possessed commie subversive agitator.
Its also important because a lot of times there is no way to actually translate it and retain anything close to the meaning, so leaving it is necessary.
Honorifics are a classic case. Because no fucking high schooler calls their class mates "Ms./Mr." which is what a lot of translaters use "san" for. So you end up with retarded shit sounding even more stilted than if you had just cut the entire word out.
For a recent example. A very emotional flashback in Xenoblade 3 involves a character screaming "MAAM MAAM" before using her actual name. Its pretty obvious in the Jap version it was likely "sensei/senpai" or one of the many other titles Japs use for their superiors, and the switch to her actual name is significant because of their culture around using names.
Whereas by trying to "translate" it you just end up making him sound like an idiot and turning an important scene into a joke.
And the most agonizing one, from Railgun which made it overtly impossible to watch, translating "Onee-sama" as "Sissy". And it is used. A lot. Because the main character is referred to as that by multiple characters. Not even an ATTEMPT at trying to convey the context behind it, and it makes the whole thing a cringefest.
It always fails. Because Japs have a strong aversion to using names ever that English just doesn't have.
Its recent for me, so late 2 or early 3. It was Taion's.
I can forgive the fake swears for at least being consistent in a fantasy world. They at some point didn't know what the word "city" meant so clearly language modified in their world. And it would almost be worse if every swear was actually there because jesus they use a lot of them. It would be 'fuck' twice a cutscene at minimum.
I'm usually fine with changes if the spirit is still there and it still feels natural. The famous blushy-crushy was made far more funny by them even attempting to try and translate moe.
So even more generic bad translation, they just turned the "san" into Maam and called it a day. To think I gave them too much credit.
I'm not far enough in the game to say for certain, but the entire gameworld feels enough like a seperate entity to have its own speaking styles. Much the same way that every Titan in 2 had a completely different English Accent randomly, whereas here they are are intermixed.
Regardless, I find it quite amusing because instead of going the full route of making absurd idioms and phrases be shouted constantly, they just word swapped. Making it very easy to substitute it back. Which works because Lanz feels like the type to actually just swear constantly, but if he did the ratings board would have a fit.
Considering even in this tamer version people got pissy about their relationship, I never doubted it got turned down. Keeping Poppi's naming scheme after elementary and middle school girls would have blown fuses everywhere.
Take the nihongo pill and learn to read moon runes. Forgo the need for tranny localizers or awkward translations.
At this point, literally the only character designs with fuckability is the actual Pokemon themselves. Don't fucking lie.
You forgot the Sw/Sh redhead. Her name was I think Sonia in the english version?
Probably one of the hottest character designs to date, ngl. Nessa's amazing and should be the go-to standard for water trainers at the least.
hey imma gonna have you put your dick away for a sec
Yeah, Pokemon as a franchise does a pretty good job of making its named girls hot AF but this isn't it.
For those of you who are wondering what the JP version of "woke" is - it's the term PORIKORE aka political correctness.
ポリコレ
OG GamerGate supporter Lunar Archivist put it best:
https://twitter.com/LunarArchivist/status/1284288361134465026
Some JP bros call them the Politically Correct Yakuza - I've seen some people call these fuckers the pronoun squad which also works.
Pokemon Legends Arceus had good designs. What the fuck happened?
The female characters in that game: Akari, Arezu, Mai, Irida and Palina were fine.
What the fuck are these new designs?
I think the suits at gamefreak saw that someone had somehow made a decent pokemon game post 3DS leap and decided that couldnt be allowed.
I'm learning some great Japanese vocab with this post!
私も
Is this the actual character portraits when you start a battle or when you are in free roam as I know the graphics can only do so much. There's a HUGE difference to gym leaders in game models to battle portraits.
Besides unless they want more smash or pass with pokemon, they better have some hot gym leaders!
It's a mainline game in 3D made by Gamefreak. It's going to look like shit, period.
True but like anything popular usually has some great fanart
No not the furry stuff
Coward.
I already know one of my fetishes, furry isn't one but hot women in full battle armour
Look up Zone Raiders from C&C3, that started it for me
The first and last appear to be from battles, with the middle one being in free roam.
That said, I don't think the problem people have is really the graphics. It's the character designs, and art style more generally.
Yeah they seem toned down from the last time I played them years ago and they were hardly strippers then. It's weird considering this is Japan, they know that the three things that sell the most are cute, sexy or badass so you at least go for one of those three.
So that Grusha thing was real?
Eh, you're a bunch of degenerates for being into this shit in the first place. JFC men have become so neutered over time and seem to stay like an adolescent in to their late 20's or worse. A bunch of beta boys playing dress-up Barbie in their video games even.
Would you like to sell me some PUA material and teach me how to pump iron?
Just try and work on reversing the pussification already done to you.
Digimon master race continues to win.
Pokemon Legends Arceus was on switch but it was actually good.
Pokemon games pretty much cater to the adult man/womanchild demographic. Do you ever wonder why there is a disproportional number of idpol fucks and easily offended fucks on that platform? There are more women playing on that platform than any other mainstream gaming platform which means you have a very high chance of dealing with far leftist types.
Which is a real shame because the Switch is an amazing piece of hardware. It achieved everything that the PS Vita was trying to accomplish.
All pokemon games since Black 2/ White 2 have been low effort cash grabs, and one could argue that the 2 version model was an egrigous form of macro-transaction from the very start.