TheMightyEthan

Oh yeah, I must have skimmed over that part...

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Aha, this is the part I was questioning. Since you said "I guess I just bought" I figured there had to be a little bit of a story there.

I have no finished P5 yet, but I'm nearing the end and I want more. Also I'm going on a trip at the end of the month and wanted something to play on my Vita, so this seemed like a good thing for that.

Cold Steel arrived yesterday, and I look forward to contributing to this thread.

@Dean: ? @Tenshi: it's true, I am racist against anime girls, they all look the same to me ;-)

Honestly though, we've already seen from learning computers that they frequently learn the prejudices of society (just like human children!). Like that FaceApp thing, that learned that people with lighter skin are considered more attractive than people with darker skin, so when you used it to apply the hotness filter it would lighten your skin. We can try to mitigate those effects, but it's unlikely we'll be able to eliminate them altogether, especially when they're less obvious than "light skin = hot".

I want to document my guess for who the traitor is in case I turn out to be right:

Huh, I have to go quite a bit farther to get into a grey zone than I would have expected, and even then it's not a full dark zone. I'd have to go all the way to Colorado for full dark. Also, re: North Korea, the South Koreans are sharing their light with those close to the border, at least.

Yeah, the wrong diagnosis concern is the same bullshit "concern" that people have with self-driving cars. "OMG, it might get in a wreck!" Yes, because humans never ever crash their cars... People act like you can't have computers do anything unless they can do it perfectly. The point isn't whether it's perfect, it's whether it's better than a human.

Trails of Cold Steel for the Vita. I know it's coming to PC this summer, but I'm going out of town for a week next month and so I thought it would be nice to have something portable.

In my experience snot refers exclusively to the liquid variety, and booger refers to the solid.

"Booger" is the default term around here, although I agree with GOH that it's not a nice term (not like terrible, more on par with butt, just not something you say in polite conversation). There really isn't a non-childish term for it that I'm aware of. I would have called that thing in the picture a strainer if you'd asked me what it was, but I also would have known what you were talking about if you'd said sieve. Sieve is a word I would have expected everyone to know, and am astonished to learn there are adults who are unfamiliar with it.

I mean, the fact that he only takes issue with it when he finds out about the minority reports kind of makes sense. When you think the predictions are 100% accurate (a conclusion that is supported by the fact that murder has been eliminated) then it's easy to believe that people, especially cops, would prioritize stopping those crimes over the moral concern of imprisoning people who were 100% guaranteed to be about to commit murder, even though they hadn't actually done it yet. As soon as you find out about the minority reports though it throws into question how certain you can really be that they were actually going to commit the crime, and all of a sudden you're not imprisoning people who were definitely going to commit murder, you're imprisoning everyone who might have committed murder, which is much more morally problematic.

Playing last night I was paying more attention to this, and really most of the dialog is fine. That site has some of the worst examples, but it's not really representative of the game as a whole. I still think it's a little stiff, and not as good as previous games, but overall it's not as bad as those examples make it seem.

But with straight, literal translation you lose a lot of meaning that you can retain if you rephrase stuff in a way that sounds natural in your target language. Stuff like using colloquialisms, or certain kinds of slang, that can tell you a lot about characters and their relationships. That said, I don't think it's terrible, it's just not as good as it could be, and it's worse than previous entries in the series. The only part of it that actually bothers me is that they pronounce half the names incorrectly.

I wouldn't go so far as to call it terrible, but the dialog is definitely stiff, and not as good as previous Persona games. I don't know what happened here, because Atlus localized the previous ones too and they were great. This was even delayed in the West to give them more time to fix the localization. To answer your question, I don't know of any retranslations they've done, but my experience is limited to Persona 3, 4, and Catherine.

I was referring to the weird American egg rolls involving a spoon and flat ground.

Yeah, my parents always hid eggs around the yard for us to find, and we frequently did a second one at my grandma's. It's only the egg rolls that are unusual.

Then he'll be a kid. Sent from my SM-G920R4 using Tapatalk

Xenoblade Chronicles X. Showed up super cheap ($22) used on Amazon in "Very Good" condition, so I pounced. There's a decent chance I'll actually be able to turn a profit when I resell it after playing it. I'm not gonna need any new games for awhile...

Apparently Nintendo has sold more copies of Zelda on Switch in the US than they have sold Switches...

Watch Dogs 2 Gold Edition. It's 50% off on Uplay right now, bringing it down to $50, which I figure is probably less than the GOTY will cost next year anyway, and I get all the DLC with it.

I just assumed by "easter eggs" they meant what we would mean, which is a broad term encompassing both the plastic candy-filled ones and the hard-boiled painted ones.

It would have to be gated in addition to being timed, otherwise speedrunners would figure out how to beat the whole game within the time limit.