Finally a stand up comic…for the gamers.
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Yeah I certainly wouldn’t hold this against anybody. I have been playing Witcher 3 off and on on a drip feed for like a year at this point though and I really enjoy that pacing.
Hearts of Stone’s strength is definitely its one main throughline, which is extremely well-written. Blood & Wine is more of a systems advancement, and they really filled out the quests to fully exploit all the mechanics. It’s broad where Hearts of Stone is deep.
Hey, hey, it’s not a Ron Gilbert game, come on 
I actually don’t feel that way about Ron Gilbert games at all! Those at least try to amuse you before throwing obtuse puzzle shit at you.
I could only rock “Aquatic Ambiance” on YouTube so many times before finally revisting Donkey Kong Country. It hasn’t aged well but is surprisingly still very pretty! Feels more like a Sonic game than a Mario one.
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@boojiboy7 I feel like there was some sort of importance attached to the fact that you kept running into the exact same enemy gang member models?? Like there was this ur-gangsta who couldn’t ever truly be killed that you kept running into over and over again, and he just had a Nameless One memory problem? Pretty sure there was also a huge Oedipus plotline about the protagonist being obsessed with a woman who was secretly also his mom
we detected hints of Oedipal themes, yes
the scene in front of the apartment was the key as he pined for his…girlfriend who is the same actor as his mom…
and his boss at the club is like bro, you should maybe chill on this girl because you’ve been coming in every night and you’re creepin on the talent
thanks dad, says our bro who then has to fight for his superpowers from dear ol’ da
his cop pop
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Yeah his dad was a cop and an ikea mechanic who left his mom after some domestic violence stuff (which fits with the cop thing).
There was so much in that. We were howling at it. Parker broke down at least twice. It was amazing.
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And so very much oedipal stuff, yeah.
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it was the most oedipal thing I’ve seen in years
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I’m so hype for our next play through.
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Yeah, definitely don’t write off the sounded replay guys; it’s insane. Some really unspeakable lines in there. Also there’s combat music.
Damn I guess I need to redownload it and hear what they’re saying.
The voice acting that slips into the first playthrough is…it’s a lot!
it’s just like the first five minutes of him ordering a hot dog right?
I was going in and out of sleep when Cuba played through it at Bumpass and consequently I have no idea how long it is. All I remember is a racist Swedish boy who loved his mother very much and got Samus’ hyper beam at the end
I still can’t believe there’s a second playthrough and you get to hear the dialog
it’s the most bonkers thing, that they actually bothered to record all of that for this baffling piece of shit and then made you earn it
The dialogue consists of jawdropping, ridiculous twists to subvert what you would’ve expected from the silent playthrough. It’s the proper second half of the game. It might make even less sense than the silent playthrough because it leaves no space for you to supply your own sense.
In honor of DOA 6 I’m playing DOA Venus Vacation. That’s the beach volleyball free to play game that’s only available in Japan. I’m holding the Google translate app on my phone to the screen and the translation is just so hilariously useless. It translates the text in real time through your phone’s camera but it can’t make up its mind, it keeps switching between translations. So you get some absolute random comedy gold at times. I can’t really transfer the experience through words, it’s bizarre.
Like why is Japanese such a hard language to translate into English? Automatic translation works so well for romance languages but it just all breaks down as soon as you try to translate anything Asian. The gulf between cultures has never been wider I tell you. At least back in the day you just thought, well, these people speak a different language with different words but they’re probably not all that different from us. It’s just different words and different sounds for the same things. But with broken translation like that you think what even are these people and how do they make sense of the world.
Nyotengu’s name cycles between these translations for example: food, emperor, woman braggart, log
Now I think some of those are caused by the camera picking up stuff incorrectly but that’s just hella funny to me. And you can be damn sure that I’ll pick woman braggart for my elite beach volleyball team
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No clear separator between words, kanji become harder to disambiguate from a distance than the more simple Roman alphabet (specifically for real-time photo translation), and words can/are often omitted if they can be implied from the context (a sentence can just be a verb if the subject can be implied from established context, which translation software is generally unable to keep tabs on)
There are more reasons like this, and also the machine learning approach to modern translation is dubious and doesn’t really work for CJK languages
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Thanks, that makes sense. I knew about kanji having different meanings depending on context but I thought if it just cycles through all the most likely combinations it’s gonna get it right eventually. But no, that’s seemingly not how it works. It didn’t translate a single sentence of the girls’ dialog into something that made even remote sense. Except for “excuse me” I couldn’t make out a single thing and that was a useless translation because I knew that much Japanese myself. When it came to describing game features it was slightly more helpful, I could at least figure out what the buttons do before I clicked them. It’s just shocking to me that it couldn’t translate a single line of dialog. We’ve got a long way to go.
DOA Venus Vacation is more depressing than I thought it would be. And I say that as someone who’s used to porn games. But yeah, this, this I can’t play
Been posting on Discord lately so I’ve forgotten to share some stuff!
DOA6 - Hmm it’s DOA, but maybe a less impressive package overall than the PS4 DOA5? They changed the Hold system a bit, though you can swap back to the old one.
Real fun to try to select a character on the select screen, read “you do not own the license for this character,” and find out the only way to get them is to have bought the $79 Digital Deluxe edition. A real “enjoy your physical media, sucker!” move.
Oh and there’s a $92 season pass for 62 costumes (not including all future costume packs that will come out during this season - you gotta buy those separately) and not one, but two characters. Hot damn.
I also played some Driveclub, kinda on a whim. It’s…not bad? It’s not very exciting, but holy shit, turn on a bunch of weather effects and race at night in a downpour with lighting striking, and it’s something else.
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