i was argueing with someone who was defending the localizers of Granblue Fantasy: Relink and bad translations and the censorship of outfits. Normally people like this i know are just bad actors and agenda driven so you can never reason with them because they aren't interested with being reasoned with they just want to win and push their own agendas. . And he even tried to call people who spoke against localizations, " tourist"(deliberately stealing our word) just because we dont talk about the game on twitter.
I kept emphasizing the fact that he wasn't a real fan and that we call people like him tourists because they are fine with the original works getting butchered . He kept defending and making excuses, from saying that "the company probably oversees it and they were fine with it so its faithful" to "why dont you just learn Japanese"
I kept emphasizing that he is not a real fan and that he's a tourist if he is fine with the original works being butchered by localizers , that he's not a fan of the original works and what the original creator intended instead he wants the localizer's works and i said instead of "just learn Japanese" and instead of the localizers butchering the original works why don't the translators just do their job, properly. .
.....and something i never see on twitter happened is that he actually came around and started asking whether the German version was also mistranslated (and whether the mistranslations were intentional ) as that is what he plays and he wants to know if he's "safe" from "woke" mistranslations
So why was he defending the localizers and the censorship in the first place WTF? Was he just defending the localizers just because he wants to defend "authorities" and not out of any real personal belief or principle?. ? wtf. So not only do we have to deal with actual agenda driven communists, we also have to deal with retard NPC's that just like to defend the "authorities" for no reason other than they are "authorities"
"They know better"
"What if they don't though?"
"NPC response #2"
"You might have a censored version too"
"Oh no!"
The german versions of everything always get the short end of the stick. Censorship, skipping entire cut scenes, dialogue edits, four legged mishapen spider flag removal, etc. They should have known better, but they were too holier than thou to realize it. I've been in that mindset before. It's super tough to get out of.
After having been on the internet for awhile, I've noticed something.
There really are only 3 people on the internet.
Those you can talk to, those you can't, and those that are only here to argue with others over anything, for any reason.
It's very likely you were talking to someone that just wanted to argue over something for any reason. Even if their argument was regurgitated. They just want to argue.
They have no stake in it, they don't really care, and they'll realize too late that it's not worth it. But then there's always someone else to come at and be a jerk to for some tiny little endorphin rush about being smug and superior.
Censorship is always wrong. That and free speech are the only things I'm absolute on. There's no middle ground.