Which is now springboarding us into the "extreme vs extreme" domain. Where someone adding a slight amount of wordplay or adjusted to common English phrasing that effects nothing is suddenly "pozzed, garbage shitgame" and put on the same level as someone going full woke on the translation.
Everyone is allowed their own opinion on the topic, but sometimes it just completely ruins the ability to even talk about a thing because "YEAH BUT THEY CHANGED KUSO TO 'DANGIT' SO ITS WOKE" is the only thing anyone talks about.
Which then ruins any ability to actually show outrage when something is egregious, because, just like the wokies themselves, it conditions people to tune you out because you are always screaming.
Like most online arguments, the main problem is stupid shithead communists who pretend not to understand things and try to win by simply agitating us until we cede the discussion to them just to get away from them.
Everyone is allowed their own opinion on the topic, but sometimes it just completely ruins the ability to even talk about a thing because "YEAH BUT THEY CHANGED KUSO TO 'DANGIT' SO ITS WOKE" is the only thing anyone talks about.
This is why I stopped having this discussion. People would unironically claim that there are no untranslatable nuances and everything is perfectly 1:1, as if the two languages are simple substitution ciphers for one another.
They don't know the tiniest bit about Japanese yet are experts in how translation ought to be. And if you confront them about this, they just get mad and accuse you of being woke, the same way leftists respond to any heterodoxy with "you're just a white supremacist transphobe".
If you can't balance extremity and moderation when its more effective for either, especially when talking with people who agree with you to begin with and thereby don't need to be shouted at to begin with, then you are both a liability and a retard.
This isn't about optics or being an "adult." Its about not alienating yourself in a mad purity spiral to be the most seething about every little nitpicks possible so you can get your upvotes and retweets. And maybe not stressing yourself into the grave over a battlefield with no gain to be had.
Which is now springboarding us into the "extreme vs extreme" domain. Where someone adding a slight amount of wordplay or adjusted to common English phrasing that effects nothing is suddenly "pozzed, garbage shitgame" and put on the same level as someone going full woke on the translation.
Everyone is allowed their own opinion on the topic, but sometimes it just completely ruins the ability to even talk about a thing because "YEAH BUT THEY CHANGED KUSO TO 'DANGIT' SO ITS WOKE" is the only thing anyone talks about.
Which then ruins any ability to actually show outrage when something is egregious, because, just like the wokies themselves, it conditions people to tune you out because you are always screaming.
Like most online arguments, the main problem is stupid shithead communists who pretend not to understand things and try to win by simply agitating us until we cede the discussion to them just to get away from them.
This is why I stopped having this discussion. People would unironically claim that there are no untranslatable nuances and everything is perfectly 1:1, as if the two languages are simple substitution ciphers for one another.
They don't know the tiniest bit about Japanese yet are experts in how translation ought to be. And if you confront them about this, they just get mad and accuse you of being woke, the same way leftists respond to any heterodoxy with "you're just a white supremacist transphobe".
Honestly the world could do with more extremity. FUCK moderation. Why do calls for centrism and "adults in the room" always swing left?
If you can't balance extremity and moderation when its more effective for either, especially when talking with people who agree with you to begin with and thereby don't need to be shouted at to begin with, then you are both a liability and a retard.
This isn't about optics or being an "adult." Its about not alienating yourself in a mad purity spiral to be the most seething about every little nitpicks possible so you can get your upvotes and retweets. And maybe not stressing yourself into the grave over a battlefield with no gain to be had.