Polkadi~☆

Depends on the situation. The one case I say most often times yes is localisation. Especially for early games. Bad localisation can be the root cause of awful writing. 

As long as it keeps the spirit of the original, then no problem.

it's as open to being changed as anything else, i guess. if it cleans things up and works better while preserving the intent and positive aspects of the original, go for it.

It really depends.

If its fine as is then ok. If it enhances the experience then go for it.

Just please don't make lame changes like Twin Snakes did.

Seriously they ruined the weak point line by changing it to weakness for some reason.

Saw that. We’re all gonna die a horrible slow death and the wealthy probably have end of the world bunkers ready.

it helps that the govenment in control is pretty much encouraging it (fires/deforestation) and the massive amount of smoke its creating is being handwaved as smog from the cities (meanwhile people actually reporting what's actually happening are either being dismissed as "fake news" or are being blamed for the fires itself!) /s

literally the brazilian govt now:

It's been an ongoing thing for the entire year really. More fires have happened this year already than the entirety of last year. A lot of it seems to have to do with Bolsonaro's policies which lessen restrictions on deforestation I think.

It's legitimately scary and sad that a lot of us are simply in the mindset of giving up at this point. We constantly make advancements in tech that can help prevent this but then you have governments actively worsening the situation for the sake of businesses while also having idiots like Trump talk down the issue of climate change. The large amount of other idiots on this planet follow and shout down anyone who actually has facts, evidence, and possible legitimate solutions.

So we gonna ignore the fact that those are man made fires?

@Strickerx5 tbh I'm kinda in that mindset myself at this stage. It's hard to find much joy in anything when a few people with more money and power than anyone else will see in their lives are screwing the planet and damn the consequences, that there are endless hordes of people who enable and celebrate this, and that we're dangerously approaching/at the point of no return where everything will become miserable even if we don't literally start dying off.

And god forbid that in trying to recover what the dying old men stole from us, we end up becoming the old men who steal from the next generation, who themselves will screw over everyone after them because of that.

Even escapism isn't doing much for me anymore when shit like Disney's ever-growing monopoly, the Spider-Man debacle, Nintendo takedowns on YouTube, and Article 13 are all making it harder to enjoy anything anymore.

May God Bless America, a Nation Reborn

supahberry, this is brazil’s fault

I keep getting into a very mentally bad spot. I think really dark thoughts.

I heard about this yesterday and I'm like how TF is the media NOT covering this.

@Tails spin ...well that might explain the lack of media coverage.

What movie? Just curious.

It’s a movie called ‘Weathering With You’.

I’ve heard a lot of good things about it, so I wanted to see it! And there’s nothing else in theatres catching my interest for the moment, anyway.

Except J Jonah Jameson 

That old coot? Who even listen to his podcast anymore? All he ever does is bash Spider-Man for no reason.

I mean, I’m all for a takedown of Disney, but come on. There had to be better ways of doing it.

Played college ball you know?

At some cushy Ivy League school.

And to this day it's the only "Metal Gear" game I've ever actually finished

TRY UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS

COULDA GONE PRO, IF I HADN'T JOINED THE NAVY

*THROWS POLK INTO THE AIR*

you know what, same here

Short but sweet, with really fun gameplay and varied enemy types that keep things interesting from start to finish.

It is also the only Metal Gear I finished, as well as one of the few hack and slashes I really enjoy.

I've tried to get into the other entries, at least the first game, but the gameplay has just aged horrifically IMO 

It's really good but feels incomplete in a lot of ways. I wanted a sequel to really refine everything into Hack n slash perfection but it never came

Your workplace is having too much fun. That is illegal in our book.

They'll be coming for you soon.

It's those fun little things that make work all the more worth it, right?

I really hope you were singing along "I bought on EBAYY"

I didn’t know “zed” was a thing until I took a trip to the UK a couple years go. Man I was so confused the first time I heard it XD

Do they actually call DBZ "Dragon Ball Zed" over there, or does the "Zee" stick?

sometimes i wonder if we americans changed zed to zee just so the song would rhyme at the end

either way im used to zee and have said it all my life, but I'll admit that zed has this sorta imposing sound to it as it rolls off the tounge that gives off a feeling of finality and sorta fits

@SupahBerry we still say Dragon Ball Zee.

To be honest, I find english pronounciations kinda dumb in general. 

Here I find it more natural but it's also because we pronounce the words the same way we write them.

I'll worry about the pronunciation of "z" in a nursery rhyme after everyone's learned pronounce "h" correctly.

"W" makes no sense IMO.

"Double u" despite it being two V's next to eachother: VV.

But you guys mostly pronounce it like "u" in words so I guess it works. Here we just say "v".

That derives from Latin, where "V"s were used instead of "U"s in the alphabet yet they were read as "U"s.

@Ernest the Panda Speak for yourself. I like to call it Dragon Ball Zed.

Also, considering berk is a vulgar slang term here, How To Train Your Dragon sounded like a very different movie to me.

Thanks for getting it stuck in my head.

backstreet boys is kino pop music

I mean all the forced camera spots make use of 2D pre-rendered backgrounds don't they? Was probably no way around it since the decision to pre-render that area would've probably been due to some kind of limitation on memory or map size/detail etc.

This is the same policy for the West for content on the sale of copy even if it's not accessible to the end user.

Kinda ridiculous, but if that's how it is...

Reading into it, if drugs in a game give a negative effect to the player, it's okay. If they give a positive effect, like replenishing health, no way. Same thing happened to Fallout 3, when Med-X had it's name changed to Morphine, only to have it changed back when Australia went against the implications.

Australia banned the game "We Happy Few" for similar reasons. The devs had to "censor" the game to make it suitable for Australian sale.

I agree this whole Video games cause Violence spiel is an outdated argument

yet this argument is used every time there's a tragedy

to hand wave the issue away

because why tackle the real issues and cause of said tragedy

when we have a scapegoat and that scapegoat is video games

even though there are studies that prove the contrary

so why blame Video games?

simple its so the media has a dragon to slay of course

Honestly, it's the same damn group as always. We just got two mass shootings so they're all on damage control and deflecting from the actual issue. It'll all sadly blow over, again, until the next mass shooting happens.

We are a bad joke. Always have been, and probably always will be. Most of us here are sick of this shit too.

exactly

this whole "Video Games cause Violence" argument needs to be put to rest for good

what this is can be summed up as another Moral Panic

instead of actually trying to look into the issue

they come out and say "he played Violent Video Games that's why he did it" because why bother actually trying to investigate the motive when there's a scapegoat

i'm sorry i'm really sick and tired of this whole "Video Games cause Violence" crap

As long as our country fetishes weapons and violence, and uses deliberate scapegoats like this that the ratings hungry media will willingly leap on to avoid the truth, we're not going anywhere.

Isolation and extremism cause these incidents, and access to weapons. Gun proponents like to say that a good guy with a gun can stop a rampage. Maybe true, but the shooter in Ohio was killed after 30 seconds. Firepower that can kill nine people in 30 seconds is not the same as being able to purchase a pistol.

An army of five year olds on COD ain't gonna take over a pre-school let alone take over the world

Unfortunately, all you can do is ignore them and wait for them to destroy themselves. Don't give them your time and money, then eventually they'll fall on the sword of karma.

For many companies, this isn’t possible.

The Fall of the Roman Empire is gonna look like building blocks getting knocked over compared to when these corps get their just deserts.

The conspiracy theorist in me can't help but think they're gonna try to run away from the world and get away with their crimes. Maybe use Elon Musk's Space vehicle thing once it's fully ready in the next decade or so to create an escape ship and load it with the wealthy elite, while leaving everyone else to die.

Or I've just been watching too much 2012 (the film).

no

WHOA RYAN, DON’T ACTUALLY SAY THE N WORD

No.

Nani

MRS. OBAMA GET DOWN

I better get some sleep soon if I'm gonna be making this on time lol

Nah

you bastard

you will have the powers of a god, and you will like it

You'll go back down to Knuckles

>:|

The real fear is getting close to being nothing but a chaos Emerald. 

psch look at mr popular over here

says the tails, the second best rank

... hey

Not cool

😧

Wild toxic internet culture?

Insults thrown left and right, the lawless anonymous nature of the internet allowing people to do and say whatever, and so on.

Basically, the time when most people on the internet were assholes.

Those times never ended.

Nothing, absolutely nothing.

Hoi

Did I miss something?

Board went down for an update.

That sucks. What a way for people curious about the franchise to be introduced to it. I'm not even talking about the quality in this case, but more so how it barely relates at all to the source material, and Google cutting it out just seems unfair to those who want to research it and see if it's something they want to partake of.

That’s the part that hurts the most for me. Sonic the Hedgehog is, first and foremost, a video game franchise. So the search results should reasonably be about the video game franchise. Now the first result relating to the games is several results down, and the image gallery on a search brings only one picture of the original Sonic before you have to start scrolling down.

The movie does not in any way represent the franchise... This is not the way I’d introduce someone!

Google knows what we want.

It almost seems like Google is biased or something...

I use bing to search and the official Sonic website was the first result.

If you look up Sonic the Hedgehog game the easter egg shows up

Sorta makes sense since thats the Sonic-related thing that took over the news lately even in normie circles which only fed into google's search algorithm even more, and nothing else sonic related is coming anytime soon besides the movie unless you count the olympic games.

People wear socks.

21 were on when I saw this status. Maybe it's a trend?

I have a lot of problems with Apple, but this is a new one I never heard about.

It's one I want to get into since I really liked the anime.

I haven't watched the anime. I've only been recommended the book because I was into My Hero Academia.

Was talking with someone online about manga that we collect, and they asked me, "Do you read The Promised Neverland?" I hadn't heard of it, but I said I will read it. And boy, I don't regret reading it one bit.

Good, good...the next few volumes are gonna be a trip . 

Yeah, I'd actually been seeing TCB talk about it for a few months and I caught the tail end of the season on Toonami and was hooked enough to start over. Even knowing how the season ended I loved watching all the twists in the earlier episodes and getting into the character dynamics. There was really no tension lost. How far along is the volume you finished? I'm thinking of just picking up where I left off.

edit: lol speak of the devil

Looking at the synopsis of the last episode in the season, Vol.5 has the last episode, and continues from there.

The manga also has fun side-stories (such as one in vol.5 where Isabella attempts to cut Emma's one floating strand of hair, to find it sentient and dodging every attempt), and pages that were cut from the original story.