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DoGCyN posted...

Is the way they're saying "Understood" or "I understand" one of these things? I thought it was "Wakarimashita" but I keep hearing something different whenever our british friend says it and when he was taught to say it. Same with the Gozaimasu honorific (Is that considered an honorific?).

Wondering if these are just a different modern way of saying it, or one of these "old-timey" ways that has been described. Or something else.

Not really. Things like , and are still used in modern Japanese, just not as often. The biggest one would be the negatives ending in instead of (there was no nn sound in Japanese, it entered to transcribe Chinese loanwords, over time some Japanese words that had n sounds like also started being pronounced as , but it's way more extensive than what these types of shows have where it's only done on negative verbs).

Kamil posted...

I don't need another game at the moment, but I probably eyed that one up at least several times. Undernauts was really good just the tension of that drpg was undercut by so many QoL features. I don't need a super complicated game like those Galleria games seem to be, but I want some fear if the situation is literally trapped in an underground mine, can't get out.

I really think Sword City is the game for you. Wait for a Steam sale.

Don't worry he directed Venom: Let there be Carnage. So clearly in good hands. /s

Kamil posted...

I wanted to try that SoSC game, but all the Steam reviews say don't buy it on Steam because it's a bad port. And there was a remade version too that comes with a old game they made.

Yep. Get that one here:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1363840/_/

I actually like both of them, but absolutely Sword City is better.

Oh and all of them are technically in the same universe (Wings, Sword City, and Undernauts).

Kamil posted...

Undernauts: Labyrinth of Yomi

I think they wanted to go more accessible with that one. Their stuff in general went from stupid hard to reasonable. I think Stranger of Sword City is probably a great choice if you are looking for a dark Experience DRPG that is quite challenging (assuming you play it on Hard of course).

Aren't there people on here who said they plan to vote for him?

SilvosForever posted...

I'd say 30% of his voting base just want to be agents of chaos like that and make as many people suffer as they can because they hate their own lot in life and want everyone to be as miserable as they are.

I think it's an extremely small percent, way less than 30%. You can see the demographics who voted for him last election from exit polls and it's pretty clear what groups he is appealing to and why.

Also you have a lot of subs that are rendered useless due to low effort meme posts, literally a picture of a thing they bought, and pretending to discover some hidden gem that everyone knows and loves.

WrkHrdPlayHrdr posted...

Man Fan

Bro. That's CE's UNESCO certified Intangible Cultural Heritage.

DavidZ2844 posted...

I think the biggest thing about Reddit that drives me nuts are the super cringy one liners and their chain of annoying one liner responses that usually follow. Just the absolute unfunniest cheesy shit youll ever read in your life, that gets upvoted like crazy because people think they are so clever and witty.

It's literally the same shit over and over too. Like somehow every time hundreds of people are seeing it for the first time?

Reddit unfortunately encourages echo chambers. There are very few neutral subs and they're all smaller. And it isn't just news or politics, literally a gaming sub will have certain group opinions you either share and get a bunch of upvotes or get mass downvoted for having.

The voting system is theoretically supposed to be quality of the post and not I agree/disagree. But in practice it's just the latter. I used to try to help people on the Learn Japanese subreddit, but a lot of fluent speakers would get downvoted for sharing objective stuff by people who literally studied for like a week (Dunning Kruger effect). Just not a good system unfortunately.

It's also one of the most botted sites on the internet. Fake accounts, upvote manipulation, tons of it. Moderation is also completely up to a given sub and can be completely unhinged or just automated by bots.

He is extremely consistent in quality. He also hasn't turned into an old man who bitches about his problems with modern society.

Actually I listened to some of the stuff you posted, and it wasn't all bad. The vinyl obsession though was straight hipster.

BrohammedAli posted...

I know we're all cringe as fuck in our early 20s but I was absolutely just dialing in on every mid-00s hipster dude stereotype.

Bands you've never heard of.

Tyranthraxus posted...

It's fucking stupid that you have to pay extra to play the games you already own because of nanny government.

Nanny government? You think they're doing this out of some kind of misguided paternalism? Everything is done for the benefit of the government. It has nothing to do with protecting people from dangerous games or anything. The only danger they care about is danger to the government.

ForsakenHermit posted...

Are there any legal penalties for using one there?

It's illegal in China and yet the only times you ever hear of anyone getting in trouble for it is when the government was upset by their behavior. I think as long as they aren't criticizing Vietnam online the government won't care.

I think it's weird she somehow missed the way dog culture in the US evolved. I grew up in an area where people killing dogs because they felt like it wasn't really rare. But even there I noticed that things started shifting a lot. When I lived in Seattle I really saw the fill extent of dog culture and how people treated them just like kids. I am honestly surprised no one told her "hey this just isn't going to go over well in today's society".

Even if they open locally it will probably be a wasteland with no games so you need to do what Chinese people do and just use a VPN and access the international version of Steam (they do the same thing with the Switch too). Tons of friends in China playing on international Steam using VPN. Easy to do.

MEGAsoldier posted...

I feel like grimdark JRPG is a niche in a weird spot. JRPG folk tend to lean towards the more animu games (why Persona got so popular) and people that play grimdark games don't really play JRPGs.

Shin Megami Tensei is more of a DRPG and those tend to be dark even in Japan. I would say it's only recently they started making a lot of Japanese DRPGs that aren't dark, probably due to the success of Etrian Odyssey.

Grey is much better. No doubt. Some stuff is atrocious though. Like programme. Or manoeuvre.

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I was into JRPGs in the late 80s and early 90s. I knew DQV existed in Japan because my cousin was there (and informed me Dragon Warrior was called Dragon Quest there). He got me a copy of it and he didn't really play games and I didn't really understand that this game would be in Japanese (and also not fit in my SNES). Thankfully I figured out how to mod my SNES (aka take some pliers and rip off those hinges), but unfortunately the game was entirely in Japanese. However it was only kana and I using a dictionary managed to get the menus figured out. I was basically ignoring dialogue and just running around doing stuff. Learned some basic words, other people online playing helped form early guides (some of them are still on this site). Eventually got Dragon Quest VI as well. I had been reading the dictionary just learning words but still not understanding grammar really, but eventually got a grammar book that helped a lot. Then I wanted to look into other Japan only RPGs and SMT was recommended a lot. That was a massive undertaking as it has kanji (unlike DQ) and a lot of complex words (but English menus lol). I had an N64 and not a PS1, so I basically missed that generation, but I bought a PS2 with money from my first job and modded it by removing the front (it's like a disc swap technique) to play imports. After that I started basically only playing Japanese games outside computer games.

Beveren_Rabbit posted...

Realism in videogames is boring and annoying.

What if guns jammed? What if you could not reload while moving? what if reload times aren't always consistent? What if you dropped your mag? what if you could not do a tactical reload

But STALKER is like my favorite FPS ever. Even better with the Misery mod.

The US never should have been giving them money. Even if you are super pro-US, Israel has been a terrible ally for them. They maintain good relations with Russia and China, even developing with and selling weapons to them. They didn't take Ukraine's side in Russia's invasion and wouldn't take Taiwan's side either if China invaded. They are basically using the US and the US gets nothing in return. Some people will argue about them being an ally in the region, but that's nonsense. US has military bases in tons of countries around Israel, but not Israel itself. Israel actually pisses off US allies in the region like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Egypt. It really makes you wonder how it manages to keep going like this, especially now when they just blatantly ignore whatever the US says and instead get mad at them for even the slightest criticism (but are more than happy to criticize the US).

And I don't even like the US. It's just amazing how actively bad the relationship is for the US and yet they give them whatever they want.

Just to emphasize how different it is. Often when reading pieces from the time a modern translation is needed to understand it. This is not needed in shows set during the time because they speak modern Japanese for the most part.

Here is an example text from Tokugawa Ieyasu (the guy Toranaga is based on):

Original text:




Modern translation:

I would describe it as , Jidaigeki speak. It's like the fake old English as some posters have said. It's sort of this standardized way to pretend you are speaking old Japanese. It isn't always used on period pieces, but most of the time it is. It is much, much, much more similar to modern Japanese than the actual language spoken at the time.

Just to add onto other people's comments. It's not just words (like for instance not using modern loanwords and using more native Japanese words instead of Chinese-style Japanese words formed in the 1800s [using matsurigoto instead of seifu for government]), but much more so grammar. They like to use a fake old school Japanese grammar style, especially for verb conjugations. It's also not accurate to the actual style of the time, but it's the single most noticable aspect and what you mimic if you want to pretend to speak like that for comedy or role-playing.

wackyteen posted...

How did TC miss the AI generated SpongeBob and Seinfeld episodes lmao

There was actually an AI Dragon Ball one too. But now with Sora we have ones that actually look really good, but it's not available to the public yet.

Approximately one year ago.

bover_87 posted...

Myers-Briggs is not well-regarded at all scientifically. Granted, the topic of personality in psychology is a lot of unknowns (a lot of it is based on how you define things), but still.

If someone rejects you purely because of a personality test, they're probably saving you a lot of time and trouble down the road. They're just not worth the effort.

MBTI is not considered a valid personality test. And stuff like OCEAN (Big 5, whatever you want to call it) is pretty well regarded. It's just OCEAN is boring because it's a good test. You don't get a type with cool stories, instead you get told how you compare to population means on five dimensions. So the sad truth is valid tests aren't popular for the exact reasons they are valid. No one wants to do boring math, they want a label and a story.

Nukazie posted...

fall damage has been a thing since super mario, item durability is shit

Donkey Kong had fall damage, Mario did not until 64.

That chart has some strong Poe's Law stuff going on.

Unknown5uspect posted...

Speaking as someone that hasn't played a console Zelda past like Idfk TP. Is Breath of the Wild that bad with item durability that you can't pick something up during any given encounter? Because from what I've heard and seen you can make do with basically any weapon in that game.

The problem is when you get a really good weapon you don't want to use it because it will break very quickly. The best weapons come from the strongest enemies who are best fought with the best weapons, so outside of temples the best thing to do is just not fight any enemies or use shit weapons if you do.

I think item durability is fine if it's used consequentially to enhance gameplay and not as an annoyance. An example would be a lot of roguelikes and DRPGs (talking traditional ones here, not modern ones, the ones that are fairly hard and getting wiped is common). As another aspect of managing your resources and trying to survive it works well. However a lot of games with roots in these genres (like Dark Souls and DRPGs) have diverged a lot to the point that it feels tacked on and doesn't add much (exception for PvP builds based on breaking equipment, that's cool). Also for reasons people argue endlessly over durability was added to Breath of the Wild and I don't want to fight over it here, but it's interesting in that it isn't based in genre traditions.

Fall damage is an important part of gameplay if used well (and it often is), so I don't get the controversy here.

Fenriswolf posted...

The Yakuza are linked with some shadowy ultranationalists groups though, driving around loudspeaker vans broadcasting anti-immigrant shit.

That's in real life. This is talking about the video game series.

Raiden2909 posted...

You know, i saw someone try to make that point then laughed as it shows that they know nothing about politics outside their country, The actual Liberal Democratic Party of Japan is a conservative right wing nationalist party, Though to be fair.. its actual Proper right wing conservative views.. Not the American ULTRA FAR RIGHT that the U.S Republicans have devolved into

Also yes, All the protagonists would be left wing

This is basically correct. I would just add that the LDP is more like a mix of center to far right. It's a really big tent party, but that tent is for the benefit of the right and the end result is that the least popular faction (the far right) gets disproportionate power.

What's the deal with the Baltic states? Not only are they EU, but they're well in the middle income category.

LightningThief posted...

I don't actually doubt these people exist.

For example, there's videos floating around of some protestors busting a window to occupy the building.

For the record again though, I don't think they are even close to the majority. I'm speaking strictly to the minority and those upset at anyone not supporting the minority methods of destruction.

For example, Aloc who believes one must support the method of a protest regardless, or else "you support the right."

A broken window? Bro are you serious? There is video of cops literally slamming a professor into concrete and counter protestors attacking protestors with poles and you say there is a broken window?

LightningThief posted...

If this is at me, Im not saying most or all of the Palestinian college protestors are violent or damaging property for the record.

I'm only talking about protestors who are doing such things. Regardless of what type of protest it is. Since some believe such acts are justified, and if you don't support such acts, "then you must hate Palestinians, the left more than Jan6ers."

Simply put, not everyone is down for whatever method a group of people choose to protest. Regardless if they support the main thing you support, that doesnt mean by default they have to also support your methods.

It's not at you specifically no. I am asking if this is actually a thing that is happening or if it's a talking point. The news here hasn't shown violent Palestinian protestors in the US and I haven't seen any posts or anything about it online. I am open to the possibility it is happening, I realize we have a pretty pro-Palestine bubble here, but if it's really a thing that's happening I assume there is some evidence of it.

pretzelcoatl posted...

That doesn't really make it reasonable to be racist, though.

I experienced more racism in the US, obviously it depends on where you live but this entire topic is showing some pretty standard white privilege where you have never experienced being a minority. The racism you experience in Japan is a lot tamer than what you experience in the US if you aren't part of the majority. Cops won't kill you, random people won't attack you, etc. Racists exist, and you will experience microaggressions, but that's literally everywhere. You need to contextualize the degree of racism you experience in a place to make a meaningful comparison, because literally everywhere has racists. People treat Japan (and really any non-white country) like a monolith with a single opinion. So if you encounter a racist in Japan you assume everyone is racist. Which is the premise of this topic, that Japan as a whole is xenophobic. And it's just not how reality is.

And honestly the entire premise of what Biden said is idiotic. Russia has the third most immigrants in the world. Japan has the most immigrants in East Asia and literally cannot get enough immigrants to meet its own quotas, it actively wants more immigrants than it is getting. China has a serious problem with emigration and it's unlikely they could possibly get enough immigrants to replace them even if they wanted to. India has a very weird immigration policy centered around religion, so you could argue that has a type of xenophobic immigration policy but are a ton of people trying to immigrate to India? Probably not, so I don't know how much it's affecting their economy.

Can you post some examples of the violent pro-Palestine protesters? Because the only violence I have seen was from police and counter-protestors. Might be bias in the local news here (Japan has a massively low opinion of Israel and did even before the current situation), but I haven't seen any videos online either of the violent pro-Palestine protestors in the US.

The protests seem to be very much about Gaza and he hasn't provided any evidence otherwise. The comparison to January 6th is completely idiotic and unhinged. One group occupied some building on a campus that protestors have occupied in historic past protests and were quite peaceful. The other literally tried to overthrow the government was very violent.

HashtagSEP posted...

I mean, they absolutely can be, but you shouldn't then generalize the entire topic/board based on them.

Shouldn't generalize in a topic literally about generalizing an entire country with multiple people just saying "yep that's true".

HashtagSEP posted...

He later corrected himself and then provided a source for what he had read, though. That doesn't really seem like "basking in the superiority of white culture."

Many, many posters in here are repeating heresay or agreeing with Biden's premise even though I already showed it's wrong with raw data. Why isn't he throwing every single other ally in the region other than Australia under the bus? Shit a lot of them have negative immigration. Apparently so xenophobic they chase their own people away (I don't actually believe this, but it shows how ridiculous his premise is). Japan can't even meet its own immigration quotas. Maybe he should help get some more immigrants over here instead of calling Japan xenophobic.

HashtagSEP posted...

Has anybody in this topic actually done that?

A dude tried to claim an entire area/region bans foreigners, so yes.

And as I pointed out with the data, Japan is actually taking in more immigrants than anyone else in the region outside Australia. So the entire premise Biden presented is wrong. And as an immigrant, married to an immigrant, who work with other immigrants, no it is not hard to immigrate here. My wife had more trouble getting visas for the US and EU than Japan.

Raiden2909 posted...

and that the page in question specifically states that this is her as her body was at age 12

Looking at the page right now and not seeing anything about her age. Says . Haven't played the game but that's something like Roashieru. Just the name of the character. It doesn't look 12, but I never played the game.

I forgot Trump always follows the law and there are consequences for his actions. And the Supreme Court would never accept that he could just assassinate his political opponents if he wanted to.
/s