TheMightyEthan

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.

Ha! For once we get a movie before you!

Supposedly one passenger offered to switch flights for $1600, and the manager laughed at him. Minor point of clarification: they can involuntarily bump you, and if they are able to get you to your destination within one hour of your originally scheduled arrival then they don't have to compensate you; within 2 hours and they have to pay you twice the cost of the ticket, up to a max of $675; more than two hours and they have to pay you 4 times the cost of the ticket, up to a max of $1350. They are also required to give you a pamphlet explaining these requirements when they bump you. So the maximum isn't just the cost of the ticket, but I agree with the general point that there shouldn't be a max at all, they should have to keep offering more money until somebody takes it. And regardless of legal requirements, doing so would have saved them a massive PR shitstorm that is likely costing them more than $1600.

Who said anything about DLC? I'm saying I wish that was included as part of the base game.

No, but they could have done like Skyward Sword and made the enemies tougher/Link take more damage.

Yeah, the United thing is horrible, and comes hot on the heels of their last PR disaster with the girls in leggings (one of whom was 10) getting denied boarding because they weren't "appropriately dressed." The Trump thing explains why he insists his daily briefings be kept to no more than a page, and strongly prefers they be delivered orally.

I think that quote is essentially the same as what Thursday said: just saying it's unfortunate implications, not actually saying they did it maliciously. And anyway, talking about how Japanese people from Japan feel about it is completely missing the point. I can't find it now but I saw a really good post on the topic from a 2nd generation Japanese-American woman talking about how in Japan they're surrounded by media portraying Japanese people as heroes, and just including them in general, so one movie making them white doesn't matter, but in America that isn't the case at all. And since it's an American movie, that is rightly the context in which it is being judged.

Green Man Gaming is having a huge Easter sale right now. There's lots of stuff on it, but I particularly wanted to mention they have the full Hitman season for $25, or the Upgrade Pack for $21. That's the best price I've seen since Gamestop's Christmas sale, and nowhere else has ever been even close to that one.

I don't think Thursday meant that they were intentionally trying to say "they're better cause they're white," just that that is an unfortunate implication that arises when "making them better" also makes them white. So yes, Hanlon's razor, they probably didn't even think of it, but really they should be trying to be more cognizant of this stuff.

Put the spoiler-tastic character in spoiler tags when you answer dean's question, cause I haven't been spoiled yet.

Zelda isn't story-oriented per-se though. The story is really thin on the ground. 99% of what you're doing is "side stuff". And in a weird way I feel like making me go back to before I beat the final boss to continue playing diminishes it, because to me then it feels like that never really happened, because in the world it hasn't happened. That said, the save-right-before-the-boss method that they used is good enough for practical purposes. Really I just wanted a NG+ and/or Master Quest.

/hug

Yeah, my only real disappointment with that game is the lack of post-game play, and the lack of a NG+ or Master Quest. Sent from my SM-G920R4 using Tapatalk