We don’t actually know whose ovaries they’re willing to give up.

Yay, thanks!

The only regret I have is not having switched sooner!

I suppose so, since I wouldn’t really have a choice.

Thankfully, I’ve said good bye to Windows a few months back already.

You’re glad this is the reality we live in?

Yep. I only got some extra SSD, RAM, and upgraded my graphics card in the last 10 years. I can’t ― nor do I care to — play modern AAA so it’s been fine. Also, even if I were to just upgrade my whole system tomorrow, it wouldn’t be for using W11.

I’m probably the same age or a bit younger than OP, but I think we ARE the target demography because many of us are willing to buy these games for our kids :(

TIL

Omg the illustrations are adorable.

I will die on that hill with you, friend.

Oh so I’m not a crazy old man? I always thought UE5 games had that weird motion blur I just thought it was my computer/eyes.

Ah gotcha. I thought they were all isolated stories!

Thanks, that’s good to know!

The intensity is what intrigued me. I’ll definitely check it out. I can pick up the series from any one of the games, right?

Thank you! I think I’ll give the series a try. I did love AI: The Somnium Files!

Are these games like a more violent Phoenix Wright? I really don’t like the illustrations in the game but I might give it a try if the gameplay/story is fun.

I don’t really get how this thing works, but I heard JCB uses their own infrastructure (network?) domestically and just piggyback off of Visa and/or MasterCard overseas. Is it as simple as JCB just saying hey we wanna let people living outside Japan apply for their cards?

Maybe you were just talking about the story and perhaps you’re right. A whole team might be able to handle it with perfect editor’s notes and zero questions, zero changes.

But I would like to also add that Hollow Knight’s story is very cryptic and the lines by all the characters are very disjointed. It’s also a fantasy so there are a lot of made up names, terminologies, ideas, and play on words that simply may not exist in the target language.

I don’t know what genre or language pairs your father used to translate, but English to Chinese, I imagine, is quite difficult.

I read an article about the Japanese localization of the game and the translator did a lot of back and forth with the devs (not just an editor), to discuss the world and tone. It wasn’t just a matter of “we want it this way by this day,” and boom, it’s done.

Furthermore, you have to consider all the extra UI stuff they have to translate when it comes to video games.

So, while I respect your opinion, I too stand by mine that 2 - 3 weeks seems too short especially if we include the UI stuff as well as review/QA.

It could be that your father was just better than me at translating lol.

Edit: I’m also wondering if the PPC needs to review the content (not the quality) before it is approved for sale in China.

As a translator, I wanna say that translation isn’t a simple conversion of words when it comes to story. It takes longer than that to translate a good story of 50 pages because you have to make sure you understand the story and even the unwritten parts of it to convey the right nuance and tone.

This is a small nitpick, but too many devs put a lot of effort to mimic Japanese anime aesthetics and cityscapes to make a super cool-looking game with a badass stylized game logo, but then use the most generic and bland Japanese font.

The game looks super fun though. I’d love to get it on the Switch if they ever release the game on it.

I’m honestly surprised because I see PC gaming sections in normie electronics shops nowadays. But at the same time, I kind of expected this because compared to NA, I felt like less families owned PCs 10 years ago — let alone each child having one of their own — and even less families bother with PC nowadays because of smartphones and tablet devices.

They did mention the tariffs, but said it could either help Intel or not because if their competitors had to pay the tariff but Intel didn’t (Intel has fabs in US) then it gives them an edge. But TSMC has a fab in the US too, so it might not matter. In fact, it might hurt Intel.

Regardless Intel has other problems beyond tariffs, according to the video.

Edit: Originally poorly written. Now it’s slightly less poorly written.

I want to buy more but I can’t seem to find any games I actually wanna play or don’t already own on Steam. This campaign did remind me that they exist and that I should try to support them more, so I think it was a net positive for me!

Yeah and honestly, whatever optimization they promise — or deliver, for that matter — won’t sway me because it’s the company itself and the country where it is based that I’m against at this point. So, there’s no way I’m ever going to buy any MS handheld.

I couldn’t get that safari one, maybe because I’m in Japan. It’s cool that a lot of these are apparently compatible with Linux too. I’ve always wanted to try adult games if I’m being completely honest so this is great.

Shareholders of game companies need to lower their expectations.

I think it might be Star Craft for me.

Yeah I was gonna say, a real game would have had at least thousands.

Not only is the video informative, this is the first time I’ve heard of invidious. Thanks op!

I get that Nintendo’s policy is fucking you and the good friends in Europe and Australia, but it still makes the title misleading. My (Japanese) government didn’t impose the tariff on Nintendo products — the Americans’ did.

What do they mean by Japan’s tariffs? It’s not ours, it’s the stupid Americans that’s imposing them.

Thanks!

Was the first one any good? I felt like it faded into obscurity fairly quickly.

Do MacBooks even have dedicated GPUs to play high end games? Or is the hardware powerful enough without one, but the games just need to be rewritten from scratch?

I used to love Macs back in the early 2000s but I’m so out of touch now.

A Shamsung.

As much as I love many Nintendo games, their business practices are so anti-consumer. The Switch is definitely the last of their console I buy for the foreseeable future.

Oh no.

Anyway.

Glad I came across this post. Thanks for the heads up.