This is a great post. It's a shame, because even if he was just a slave and then sword bearer for a short while as the facts seem to dictate, he's still a very interesting figure.
I wonder a lot about the experience of people like William Adams and similarly I would give a lot to be able to know and see all the things Yasuke got to know and see in that short few month span. But people need to go and try and doctor history to suit their retarded gay race communism agenda and it's really sad.
Nah, dev actually seems like a decent guy even if I wholeheartedly agree that his enlightened centrism is a huge turnoff.
On its own it isn't good. But I asked my Japanese boss one time why people in Japan mostly stick with one company. He said it's pretty much just that the company one is with is almost invariably always the one that will pay them the most money. Also job security. Once you've been there a few years you'd almost have to try to get let go.
Kind of obvious shit but it was interesting hearing it right from the horse's mouth. In America, if you are a good worker you can generally find someone willing to pay you enough to job hop every couple years if you wanted. Japan not so much, but I wonder if that will become more prevalent as population decline continues and companies are more desperate for people.
It was Charlottesville for me. I wasn't a leftoid before; just kind of apolitical and didn't take much of a side. Which is a condition that could have led to becoming NPC-lite several years later if left unchecked.
Saw so many friends having a meltdown about orange man supposedly praising Nazis and I thought that I finally had the smoking gun that would let me agree with all the people around me parroting that he was a white supremacist (I was in university at the time). Watched the speech for myself and was absolutely floored at the difference between the reality versus what was being reported and discussed.
Most egregious part of that comic isn't the bear waiting to kill the girl, but the girl not being morbidly obese, ugly, and having danger hair.
The rationale seems to be retarded. The only upside I could think of if that happened in the US is that the FBI planting CP on people's hard drives would be a less effective strategy. But then they'd probably move to planting something else so not sure if any improvement would actually occur.
I hope they do it in Nihongo, too
Fuck that is weapons grade cringe.
Every time shit like this happens, redditors scramble to proclaim how the pressure being exerted by the payment processors on Japanese sites is due to "puritanical Christian groups."
Hmm. Considering that's what he looks like, I'm not surprised.
Uhh how did she take the kids after being married several decades? How old are these kids? Were they raising their grandchildren?
Not trying to undermine the conclusion though. Divorce rape is real and women who pretend to be conservative or not feminist will not hesitate to use divorce courts to their advantage.
That shit was always so damn retarded. Even normies occasionally parrot that line. If one genuinely has a friend of a certain race, chances are they don't unduly hate that race. But leftoids define opposition to things like BLM as "you despise black people and want them genocided" or some shit. Only someone going full bloodhound mode trying to sniff out nanograms of "racism" thinks that someone with black friends is meaningfully racist against them.
And normies. Unfortunately it has penetrated into the general vernacular for young adults. But the frequency of use definitely correlates with being a retarded leftoid.
Tempted to read what the retards on reddit are saying about it but I value my sanity so I'll refrain.
Not an unfair take, I guess I am just much more lenient than most. Take Imp for an example, the sperg of all spergs. I am one of the few that actually didn't mind his sperging due to the occasional worthwhile comments and posts.
I can't profess to know what remarks you're referencing but I'm not of the whole "disregard someone completely as a retard for one or two misses" type of mindset. You also benefit from this because God knows I've seen you say retarded shit over the years but I'm not gonna completely write you off for it.
Wait RaceCreatesCulture got banned? Wtf?? That dude was awesome.
yes they are probably still going to make millions because GTA has such an established fanbase and they will buy a literal turd with a rockstar logo on it given the opportunity
You're right and this is the biggest problem. So much shit can keep going on and on purely from momentum and good will earned from several years or even a decade or two past. Normies gonna normie.
LETHN SHADOW LEGENDS!
To be fair, what they're saying is retarded.
Not money. But the point is the same.
so it's possible that the 3-4 times the Japanese temporarily defeated me are the exact same points where the translators chose to inject... flourishes, or else were defeated by the text themselves - but I doubt it
I don't know, that seems very sketchy. I've seen enough side by side comparisons, even ones done by very highly regarded translators in the VN community, where it's clear they did not understand the line they were translating.
Tobimaru had come to suspect that the boy had a very black-and-white way of seeing things
That is an inexcusably bad translation. I love that we are using Mahoyo as the example for this because I spent so much damn time scrutinizing that script that even without remembering that exact line it jumps out at me that that translation does not fit the character at all.
The one I still toy with is the possibility of putting out the world's first and only worthwhile English translation of Cross Channel
A very worthwhile endeavor. Never gotten around to reading it myself but hope to one day. Unfortunately it's such a thankless job. You'd be doing 10s of thousands of dollars of labor to produce something that the ungrateful EOP masses would never understand the value of. On the contrary, they might value the flowery translations that butcher the source material more.
Back a decade ago I would always hear people say that the English VN community was surprisingly slow to get fan translations because by the time someone got good enough to produce a translation, they realized just how pointless it is and how much the community doesn't deserve it. I didn't understand that in 2014 but I do now. I don't think it would stop me from attempting one again if I had the time on my hands, but to an extent the shitty localization companies and the EOPs that gratefully slop up everything no matter how shitty of a translation it is are a match made in heaven.
In fact I'm reasonably suspicious that Moogy himself is a tranny
Dude, don't even get me started. Like all localization fields it seems, the people who make up the more regarded echelons of the VN translation industry are retarded communists that would make Stalin blush. Like a combination of all the worst characteristics that people shit on localizers for on this board. There are only a couple that have seemed like I could get along with as people, and one of them, Conjueror, killed himself a few years back.
As an aside, I am registered with a big localizer of light novels and manga as a freelancer. It would make way less money than my real job and my side job of freelance translating technical documents, but there are a few white whales that I would love to translate myself if the opportunity ever arose so I just quietly wait for the 6 or so emails per year they send when they get new licenses.
But the point of bringing that up is, while I haven't translated for them officially yet, I was on boarded years back and am in their official discord. It's exactly what you would expect. The most radical of radical leftists, all the way up to and including the owner. I don't know what it is about this field that attracts the absolute worst of the worst of people, but either a lot more normies need to learn Japanese to make these people have less power, or there needs to be a major shift in the industry. I tend to encourage the former which is why I shill to people about learning Japanese whenever the topic comes up.
Yeah most VNs aren't translated, and of the ones that are, the English translation is often quite poor.
Mahoyo, that takes me back! I love that game. I spent a lot of time trying to translate it back in 2014 but stopped because I just had so much other stuff going on between school and work, and the job is quite thankless. Looking back it is probably for the best, because my skills at the time still needed a ton of polish. But that saddens me that you say Mahoyo got a bad translation. I had heard it finally got an official release but never looked into it myself. I wish Mcjon from Beast's Lair had finished his translation....Mahoyo deserves better. Hope Type Moon releases the sequels after the Tsukihime remake finishes....
It really is sad though. EOPs have zero idea what the original is even like sometimes that's how different the translations feel. Anyone who loves VNs needs to learn Japanese, it's as simple as that.
I really wish I had the time on my hands that I had in high school and college because I love that medium so much, but I'll be damned if the average VN isn't a huge time sink. Would love to get back to the point where I could play them a lot again.
Not tsukihime!
Seems like the Japanese version of the art book was unscathed this time. Reason number 437 why you should never be an EOP if you love VNs.
It was pretty crazy how it seemed like a switch was flipped overnight. Before Hillary beat Bernie, the site was Bernie > Trump >>>>> Hillary. Then after she won you were Satan if you didn't support her. Crazy shit. Anyone who doesn't have the memory of a goldfish knew right then and there that something odd was at play.
I love the original. One of my favorite games ever. Is there any reason whatsoever to play the remake over it? If it just has a new layer of paint that doesn't do it for me. And the shitty localization would guarantee if I bought anything at all it would be the Japanese version.