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playing pokemon as an adult is one of those isekai reincarnation stories where you're reborn as a baby in another world and you use the full weight of your publicly educated, adult mind to cheat and dominate this world at the age of 12
Robert Pattinson got interviewed by a vtuber (La+ Darknesss) and half of it was about how he went to the toilet inside the Batman suit and how Japanese fans should try and figure out which scenes he's just finished using the toilet and which ones he needs to go real bad
I'll never forget what your father did to me...... Forcing onto me, a fresh foreigner, debt enough to buy a house many times. Indenturing me to labor under beasts. I bear no grudge with you, but by your blood ties mayhaps you'll pay for your father's sins.
"persona but everyone's an adult"
Everyday you go to work for 12 hours and then go home and sleep and once a month the gang gets together at someone's apartment to drink craft beer and play board games
Lots of people goofing on this about how Kojima should've done this with ladies in MGS but what you don't realize is that Kojima only came up with this idea after Norman Reedus punched Kojima in the face after staring at Reedus's crotch for too long
Frieren treating Fern and Stark to lunch at Costco, "I remember when Himmel the Hero bought be a costco hotdog. It's amazing that even now it is $1.50. Costco is truly steadfast just like Himmel the Hero."
apparently some people are mad some girl vtubers are beating the ac6 bosses that filtered them which is THE funniest thing that could happen out of all of this
has a realization with horror
I'm not even a persona 4 stan but I just realized the vast majority of teens encountering persona 4 now have just NEVER WATCHED CABLE TELEVISION ON A CRT TV
CRITICAL MISSING CONTEXT FOR THE ENTIRE VISUAL LANGUAGE OF THAT GAME!!!!
weirdest thing about the We Need To Retvrn to sexy video games (???) is that there's literally never been a better time than now to buy literal porn on steam and the variety is enormous
Frieren, stuck in a mimic: Help me~
Fern: lol when will you learn Frieren-sama
Frieren: "lol"? Humans still say that?
Fern: I understand it was slang once, but it's just a word now. It stands for Laughing O-
Frieren: -ut Loud. I know. I was there when Himmel came up with it
the lesson of "Chinese Virus" and people randomly harassing Russian restaurants is that huge swathes of people in the White West are just CONSTANTLY waiting for ANY excuse that might make it socially permissible to be racist and cruel
learning that the "donate to a charity at check out" thing is actually a big scam companies use to get people to donate money in their name do they can increase their tax deduction is like, some extremely "oh the dystopia was already here when I was a kid in 2000" shit
lmao Hiyama says being Link in Ocarina of Time was really hard because Nintendo told him his shouts needed to be not "Japanese" but "international" and he was like what the fuck does that mean
hololive shareholders complaining that the talents are being compensated too much for how little merchandise is being moved makes me know I've backed the right horse
Isabelle: I'll give you some Leaf Tickets so let's try using them right away!
YT: I've heard that "giving the first taste for free to get you hooked on the pleasure of a paid good" is a common tactic of drug dealers.
dangers of machine translation
for English UI, Twitter currently claims that hashtag "WeLoveRussia" is currently trending in Japan
The actual tag is #るしあだいすきだよ, roughly "We Love Rushia", in reference to vtuber Uruha Rushia, a campaign of support for her.
it's such a horrible prank of the universe that Sakurai is such a blatantly well "read" and thoughtful person re: video games, with incredible depth and breadth in titles he's played across time and genre, and then the games he made for 2 decades has the most monogame fans ever
extremely rude to put it this way but it's always wild, in kind of a charming way, to look at stuff like crunchyroll comments on an episode of anime, and be like, that's what a person's brain looks like when they're on the very first level of media literacy. that's a foreign land
very kind of "bandai namco filmworks" to "let the fans enjoy speculating about
#g_witch
without being prescriptive" about what two girls promoting honeymoon vacation spots and wearing rings on their left ring fingers and having a sister call the other one sister-in-law could be
Mangaka Hiroyuki ("Girlfriend, Girlfriend", Ahogirl, Doujin Work) who has had 4 anime adaptations announces new manga about a mangaka who has had 4 anime adaptations getting addicted to wristwatches and falling 50 million yen into debt
Since it's tiring to see misinformation:
VOMS PARK pop-up store was announced to the public on Feb 10. Per graduation statement, said VOMS PARK was planned with the knowledge that Pikamee would graduate in March, and would be part of sending her off.
HogLegs came out Feb 10.
HOSHIKAWA LILY IS GOING TO BE IN THE GIRLS FRONTLINE COLLABORATION EVENT
HOSHIKAWA LILY IS GOING TO GET A GUN AND SHOOT PEOPLE IN AN OFFICIAL GAME APPEARANCE
does it make it better or worse that a female emperor would definitely become a tourism marketing gimmick and the empress will absolutely have extremely humiliating chibi characters of her for keychains and acrylic stands
This man is campaigning for female emperors. The Japanese government holds annual crisis meetings about how to solve the issue of the shrinking imperial family but they're steadfastly opposed to empresses, even though there were six in the past, two of whom ruled twice.
Land of the Lustrous is about having everyone tell you you're useless for being unemployed so you're sad and then you get a well paid, high stress, high overtime tech job and end up becoming far more miserable and sad than you ever were
the protagonist has a fitbit and you have to plan their meals and their stats decrease if you don't make them eat enough fiber or too much carbs or fat or sodium but also they take a debuff when the meals are too boring and also they take a debuff if you forget to take medication
hallway through the game just as the player gets a handle on an efficient rotation of meals that keeps the protagonist happy and healthy they develop IBS that completely changes the meta
people who aren't multilingual just should not talk about translation
literally impossible to have an informed opinion
3 years of language class in HS isn't multilingual
if you hate games discourse you just have to learn Japanese and then play random pornographic indie games from dlsite you will find basically no one talking about them ever
"Frieren-sama, have you heard about the results of the Crunchyroll Anime Awards?"
"Crunchyroll? Sorry, Fern, but I don't want to generate ad revenue for people who are merely hosting the free work of fansubbers. I get all of my anime through IRC using xdcc."
"Frieren-sama, crun
Frieren, mimic'd: Help me~
Himmel: lol Frieren, you sure do love mimics
F: lol? what's lol? Please help
H: I just made it up. It stands for Laughing Out Loud
F: But you didn't laugh out loud
H: Frieren, what matters isn't whether I laugh out loud, but that you imagine I do.
@ZhugeEX
framing it as a multigenerational family falling apart fighting over the inheritance has helped me understand the story of Elden Ring better than anything else
occasionally thinking about how much of anti-localization is folks with only a functional grasp of English mad that non-literal English is hard for them to understand
Frieren takes Fern and Stark to the movies. "The last time I watched a movie in theaters was during the journey to defeat the demon king. I remember it just like yesterday. Back then theaters had DDR machines. Do you know what DDR is? Himmel the Hero loved DDR."
everyone old who's handwringing about bocchi the rock not coming down hard enough on alcoholism forgot the crucial fact that the bad people making terrible life decisions are the coolest people to teenagers who want to be a rock band
there's this weird throughline too where the desire isn't actually for something actually sexy per se but specifically a desire to return to the juvenile horniness of a 14 year old looking for a nipple in a pg13 movie
Reliving My Life a Second Time and Crushing All Obstacles With My Future Knowledge ~This Time I'll Make Sure I Get Diagnosed for ADHD During Elementary School~
@Papapishu
I like all the replies that just assume this guy will happily cooperate and become white hat if the government just asked nicely enough and offered enough money lol
poster child of shinzo abe era, natalist, family planning propaganda that implies the way to rebel against the oppressive dystopia is to be straight and make babies
frankly streamers have the benefit of chat in a game like armored core where they can consult for better loadouts for an encounter but truly I cannot imagine having the brainworms that would make someone mad an anime girl online being better at a game is a problem
all things considered, I think there's something inherently very silly about Bandai Namco doing this whole "up to interpretation" thing when they literally spent a whole month posting little audio dramas of Suletta and Miorine going to famous international honeymoon landmarks
btw cover's response to this was basically "we believe what we're paying the talents matches their hard work" so this isn't like a total doomer thing
it's more just a slightly nice thing to hear everyone's being paid an amount that apparently the evil people think is "very high"
hating gacha games when you're a fan of seiyuu from the 00's is so hard because gacha games are basically the retirement home for Japanese voice actors in their 40's and older because those games are all developed by people who grew up on 00's anime and the casting reflects that
@PunishedHag
god, wait, is this some big joke at Britain's expense about bad fossil identification and making up fake dinosaurs by combining bones from different dinos
oh god I just realized Frieren would try to get in with her costco membership but she hasn't renewed it in like 50 years so Fern signs up for a membership to get them inside
Important: this ep would feature a montage crosscutting between Frieren's old party eating hotdogs at Costco and going on a sidequest to make sure Costco hotdogs stayed $1.50, and Frieren's current party which is Frieren and Fern going ham on hotdogs while Stark buys groceries
so many people talking about the gohands staircase, it's made me think about the OG of noticeably labor intensive establishing sequence shots in high school anime from over 10 years ago
watch anime and read manga for boys to become very informed about the full, rich nuance of differences that exists between writers who hate women and writers who forget women exist
Which completely unrelated this proves that you shouldn't allow children to meet elves it'll fuck them up don't let them meet elves until their brain is fully developed and puberty is over
While waiting in the delivery room for the preparations for her delivery to be finished, this man's wife passed the time watching the new Gundam. And it was when they were just about ready to give birth that the Happy Birthday scene began. This is the picture he received.
I keep coming back to this clip and it's just crazy
good reminder of the importance of opening your heart to an experience being possibly the entire difference between having a good time and not lol
saying your VP will be a woman, without saying which woman or what kind of woman, is the epitome of a tokenist perspective, and not feminist at all. Substantively, it is the same as saying women are just an interchangeable bullet point on a features list.
@zetsubouzhainu
your rival who is literally 12: "um, I like breeding pokemon as much the next person, but don't you think it's kind of wrong that you have a hundred eevees in your box? Why did you breed so many?"
you: "Let me tell you about individual values"
Unless one believes the very absurd idea that the entirety of the pop-up store was negotiated, planned, and settled with outside business interests in the scant half-a-day between Pikamee encountering resistance to streaming the wizard game and the pop-up store being announced...
the poor children finding out what a high level of advanced fan machinery and community had been necessary to provide decent speed fansubbing and how the foundation that enabled all of that is absolutely dead
the competition for worst CEO is unfortunately extremely stiff right now and I can't imagine anyone beating the current frontrunner but I wish Mister Kim JiHoon of Project Moon good luck on his incredible effort to catch up from behind
[ Statement of Facts and Plan of Action ]
Hello. This is Kim Jihoon of Project Moon.
Before I start, I would like to apologize to the worker who was harmed the most by the recent controversy.
And I would like to apologize to everyone for our belated official statement on the
7/10 is the best score because it can genuinely mean "good but flawed", "bad but AAA enough we didn't want to score it lower", or "fantastic but not AAA enough we didn't want to score it higher"
it literally just has no relevance. I wouldn't presume to speculate how long the planning and business negotiation did take, but surely at least a week? But point is she was planning to wrap it up long before the controversy ever became a thing. That's basically undeniable fact.
this reply I got is so funny
narcissism is so core to their worldview they can't even reflect on how silly this complaint is
Yes, a translator it editor can make stylistic decisions you don't like. Just like every other human involved in creating any piece of media.
the worst part about the culture war bullshit around localization et al is having to deal with dogmatic morons means the public sphere's capacity to have productive discussions about what IS good localization work, what IS too bad, got completely kneecapped and thrown off a cliff
actually the funniest thing is Uchikoshi is like the horniest motherfucker but the incels are gonna talk about him like he's trying to take their vagina bones away from them lol
@headfallsoff
says a lot about how youth is about struggling desperately to define ones own identity and place in the world, and how adulthood is just wearing the trappings of maturity and being a burn out and faking it
@kiyuri_P
personally I think it's just an instructive example of what happens when the director is disastrously gay but they get asked to adapt straight material
a porn animator I contribute to who runs simple polls to decide the next anime lady they make an adult animation of just posted an update that apparently some guy wanted a NIKKE girl to win so badly that they botted 200 Patreon accounts to make a $1 pledge each and have 200 votes
miorine lives in the world of geriatric politicians so she dresses slim fit like a millennial/gen x but Suletta is a teacher hip with the kids so she knows slim fit is out and big is in
I'm sympathetic to the idea that the standard video game cost need not stay static at $60 as some mythical Just Right number considering inflation and all that but you know what other number hasn't really changed at all in the past several decades except for the worst? Real wages
thinking about this very good tweet
Friend: why's fgo make so much money
Me: ever see terminator 2?
F: yea
M: know when arnold does the thumbs up
F: yea
M: A tearful parting
F: yea
M: and then the "Arnold Pick Up Gacha" gets released
F: I'd pull
lol you can't even say "just pirate the game" because this is what the people who crack the DRM want to use their "platform" to say
truly unhinged bullshit
tomino's comment about Disney is so painfully obvious about us animation becoming all safe blockbusters to make people feel fuzzy it's crazy to me anyone is willing to torture themselves into a pretzel to make it about culture war lol
Yo I really gotta applaud this bit of localization, holy shit. The original Japanese was like, are keyboards kii boodo, or kiiboo do? And I’m fucking amazed they not only came up with an equivalent in English, but arguably a better joke too
AI image generation is a disaster because we're gonna lose out on all the people who would get into art not for the love of it, but because they really needed to see a ship or some kind of porn really badly, and there was no choice but to draw it themselves