They seemingly tried having the series transition to new characters with Like a Dragon, but people missed the old ones so much they just continued on both series and made a third spinoff to go alongside the other spinoff called the Judgement series.
Seemingly there are so many games because they reuse a lot of the assets between games, including characters and entire towns. They’re all hilarious though. Pretty regularly they’ll have JAV stars in the games, which I only found out after googling one of the characters that I thought was pretty hot.
You’re not filming porn, but you go to a club and pay for dates with pornstars that were filmed to be on the date with you in video format. You answer questions and give gifts trying to get into their pants. All their reactions are filmed. I don’t think you unlock an actual porno if you win, but you’re still on dates with porn stars like Ai Sayama, which apparently autocorrects to AI Saiyans.
That’s how I felt when I heard about the layoffs. Most games I look forward to aren’t AAA anymore anyway. Or they’re in the weird AA space like the Yakuza series. Man with No Name let you go on cabaret dates with actual Japanese porn stars and filmed them for it. Safe to say at least that franchise isn’t going woke anytime soon.
Statistical literacy is the bane of all things trans discourse. The chances of people like her having three trans kids is less than being struck by lightning while under water and being eaten by a flaming shark.
If it makes you feel any better one of the first to off herself’s a girl.
They ruined it in exactly the same way they ruined Game of Thrones in the last two seasons, only not as bad. Great source material, good enough kick off in the beginning, then a hard fumble. Shit just happens one thing after another with little logic to the order and the way it’s presented makes no sense after a while. Characters aren’t very believable. That’s not even considering the DEI stuff.
It is pretty hilarious that people seem to exclusively pair up with people of opposite races. The Asian cop actor also gets made fun of as a fat old out of date dad, and his ungrateful son insulting him while being unemployed and playing video games is gay for no reason. It’s not even a plot point and he’s a non character, it’s just inserted for no reason. He’s basically playing Mortal Kombat and looks down on his dad that’s paying the bills and talks about his boyfriend and that his dead mother had bad taste for getting with his dad and fathering him and funding him to be a loser. There’s an authentic hatred for the dad there as a normal heterosexual father that had a kid.
Starts off well, then kind of falls flat. The novels are more towards hard science fiction and the point is to think about how the implications of many scientific theories are playing out or could play out at different levels, centered around some mystery elements like some physicists committing suicide for reasons unknown. It’s very good.
The Netflix version is a bag of skittles that mostly shuffles random elements around from the various plot points of the novels. It clearly has no idea why people liked the novels or what made them unique. It’s also not very well made or well acted in most cases. I was surprised they had the balls to show a black guy smoking too much pot and criticize him for it.
Novels are worth reading. The Netflix version had potential but they fumble pretty hard as they go. I don’t personally care about it being in the UK and merely having it start in China, but it seems like it’d have been a slam dunk for diversity quotas to just make everybody Chinese.
You don’t remember everyone being Chinese?
The word salad’s getting hilarious. They’re acting like the criminals were on their way to get their third PhD after curing cancer and a cop pulled up and physically threw them into jail because they had a tan.
The honest questioning was the funniest part. Man literally just asked him what he was about and to clarify it and he started floundering.
“What do you want?” “To end America!” “So how do we do that?” “Leave!” “To where?” “Far from Capitalism! Which is located in the capitals.”
Bro’s out there with his iPhone and swag and tattoos unknowingly lobbying people to become Amish.
It’d be fitting if this communist revolution bullshit started back with GG1, and ended with the superior sequel, GG2.
Is there something to SBI besides them ruining the narratives of many popular franchises and probably having bot farms supporting them on social media?
Pretty much is GG Part 2 at this point. Everyone was pissed that most popular game franchises suck now and this company ended up being at the heart of that on the narrative front.
I don’t think it’s a ‘changing with the times’ thing so much as social media opening up the floodgates of competition and people realizing they weren’t very funny but were just there. All of the popular web comic type things of that era were pretty similar. Penny Arcade was probably the biggest. Actual titans in the industry at one point. Never hear anybody mention them anymore and haven’t for a long time.
Reading up on what happened to the old popular game webcomics actually is kind of hilarious, like the VGCats guy. Ended up getting divorced and drawing furry porn of his characters to pay the bills and had a melt down over it or something.
The 80’s and 90’s were the last decades before that became the growing norm.
Not ninjas. Leonardo’s arm looks like some BDSM shit.
Depends on the series I guess. With Naruto, they were working with a bad situation but I can’t watch the Dub. With My Hero, the Dub’s as good or better since they’re all pretending to be super heroes and for someone like All Might he makes more sense that way. A million different series so hard to judge them all.
Worst I can recall in history is the 4Kids One Piece. Set the franchise back decades.
Generally if something seems woke or leftist in a translation from Japan, it’s not accurate. Including any attempts to put clothing on children or cover up big breasts. Japan doesn’t give a fuck.
I speak Japanese. To be fair on at least this translation, there are many nuances to Japanese being conveyed here that aren’t entirely in the translation on the left for the first one. Most of them have no literal translation because even the tenses and word choice and tone you use in Japanese, or don’t use in some contexts, conveys a great deal about the relationships between characters and emotional states. The second one is far more forceful in what they added, but it’s at least conveying something. For all I know the next line of dialog could have had the info they added, which is also common.
Stupid translations are common, but a lot of times it’s not as far off as you’d think, and they are trying. Sometimes it’s actually better, like the Dragon Ball Z Dub vs original. The Dub is what’s popular and generally what made the franchise what it is and what it became.
It’s the general ugly chick mating strategy. Poison the well for the hot ones so they have more of a chance.
People usually forget black people usually live in black areas. The cops they deal with, the cashiers that take their fake money, their shitty teachers making them fail the SATs, and the people stealing their bikes are mostly black, just like they are.
Cashiers typically get minimum wage. If you’re at a nice place, maybe marginally more. Unless it’s a family shop, they really don’t care if you did pay with counterfeit money or a stolen credit card, outside of it having been so obvious they’d get fired.
When they asked people how many unarmed black people they thought were gunned down by police in America every year, the numbers were staggering. 10k, 100k, and up. That year it was something like 7-13.
The truth is almost always simple. Lies require complex explanations.
I didn’t even know it came out or was coming out. Massive marketing failure. As bad as Morbius likely was I didn’t know that was coming out, either. Knew about both Venoms.
Most DEI in marketing and advertising targets black people. Black people on average are broke and don’t buy most things, and steal a lot. It’s an interesting marketing decision to target them and neglect the demographics that buy more things and exist in larger numbers in countries that buy things.