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MEGAsoldier posted...

I feel like grimdark JRPG is a niche in a weird spot. JRPG folk tend to lean towards the more animu games (why Persona got so popular) and people that play grimdark games don't really play JRPGs.

Shin Megami Tensei is more of a DRPG and those tend to be dark even in Japan. I would say it's only recently they started making a lot of Japanese DRPGs that aren't dark, probably due to the success of Etrian Odyssey.

Grey is much better. No doubt. Some stuff is atrocious though. Like programme. Or manoeuvre.

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I was into JRPGs in the late 80s and early 90s. I knew DQV existed in Japan because my cousin was there (and informed me Dragon Warrior was called Dragon Quest there). He got me a copy of it and he didn't really play games and I didn't really understand that this game would be in Japanese (and also not fit in my SNES). Thankfully I figured out how to mod my SNES (aka take some pliers and rip off those hinges), but unfortunately the game was entirely in Japanese. However it was only kana and I using a dictionary managed to get the menus figured out. I was basically ignoring dialogue and just running around doing stuff. Learned some basic words, other people online playing helped form early guides (some of them are still on this site). Eventually got Dragon Quest VI as well. I had been reading the dictionary just learning words but still not understanding grammar really, but eventually got a grammar book that helped a lot. Then I wanted to look into other Japan only RPGs and SMT was recommended a lot. That was a massive undertaking as it has kanji (unlike DQ) and a lot of complex words (but English menus lol). I had an N64 and not a PS1, so I basically missed that generation, but I bought a PS2 with money from my first job and modded it by removing the front (it's like a disc swap technique) to play imports. After that I started basically only playing Japanese games outside computer games.

Beveren_Rabbit posted...

Realism in videogames is boring and annoying.

What if guns jammed? What if you could not reload while moving? what if reload times aren't always consistent? What if you dropped your mag? what if you could not do a tactical reload

But STALKER is like my favorite FPS ever. Even better with the Misery mod.

The US never should have been giving them money. Even if you are super pro-US, Israel has been a terrible ally for them. They maintain good relations with Russia and China, even developing with and selling weapons to them. They didn't take Ukraine's side in Russia's invasion and wouldn't take Taiwan's side either if China invaded. They are basically using the US and the US gets nothing in return. Some people will argue about them being an ally in the region, but that's nonsense. US has military bases in tons of countries around Israel, but not Israel itself. Israel actually pisses off US allies in the region like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Egypt. It really makes you wonder how it manages to keep going like this, especially now when they just blatantly ignore whatever the US says and instead get mad at them for even the slightest criticism (but are more than happy to criticize the US).

And I don't even like the US. It's just amazing how actively bad the relationship is for the US and yet they give them whatever they want.

Just to emphasize how different it is. Often when reading pieces from the time a modern translation is needed to understand it. This is not needed in shows set during the time because they speak modern Japanese for the most part.

Here is an example text from Tokugawa Ieyasu (the guy Toranaga is based on):

Original text:




Modern translation:

I would describe it as , Jidaigeki speak. It's like the fake old English as some posters have said. It's sort of this standardized way to pretend you are speaking old Japanese. It isn't always used on period pieces, but most of the time it is. It is much, much, much more similar to modern Japanese than the actual language spoken at the time.

Just to add onto other people's comments. It's not just words (like for instance not using modern loanwords and using more native Japanese words instead of Chinese-style Japanese words formed in the 1800s [using matsurigoto instead of seifu for government]), but much more so grammar. They like to use a fake old school Japanese grammar style, especially for verb conjugations. It's also not accurate to the actual style of the time, but it's the single most noticable aspect and what you mimic if you want to pretend to speak like that for comedy or role-playing.

wackyteen posted...

How did TC miss the AI generated SpongeBob and Seinfeld episodes lmao

There was actually an AI Dragon Ball one too. But now with Sora we have ones that actually look really good, but it's not available to the public yet.

Approximately one year ago.

bover_87 posted...

Myers-Briggs is not well-regarded at all scientifically. Granted, the topic of personality in psychology is a lot of unknowns (a lot of it is based on how you define things), but still.

If someone rejects you purely because of a personality test, they're probably saving you a lot of time and trouble down the road. They're just not worth the effort.

MBTI is not considered a valid personality test. And stuff like OCEAN (Big 5, whatever you want to call it) is pretty well regarded. It's just OCEAN is boring because it's a good test. You don't get a type with cool stories, instead you get told how you compare to population means on five dimensions. So the sad truth is valid tests aren't popular for the exact reasons they are valid. No one wants to do boring math, they want a label and a story.

Nukazie posted...

fall damage has been a thing since super mario, item durability is shit

Donkey Kong had fall damage, Mario did not until 64.

That chart has some strong Poe's Law stuff going on.

Unknown5uspect posted...

Speaking as someone that hasn't played a console Zelda past like Idfk TP. Is Breath of the Wild that bad with item durability that you can't pick something up during any given encounter? Because from what I've heard and seen you can make do with basically any weapon in that game.

The problem is when you get a really good weapon you don't want to use it because it will break very quickly. The best weapons come from the strongest enemies who are best fought with the best weapons, so outside of temples the best thing to do is just not fight any enemies or use shit weapons if you do.

I think item durability is fine if it's used consequentially to enhance gameplay and not as an annoyance. An example would be a lot of roguelikes and DRPGs (talking traditional ones here, not modern ones, the ones that are fairly hard and getting wiped is common). As another aspect of managing your resources and trying to survive it works well. However a lot of games with roots in these genres (like Dark Souls and DRPGs) have diverged a lot to the point that it feels tacked on and doesn't add much (exception for PvP builds based on breaking equipment, that's cool). Also for reasons people argue endlessly over durability was added to Breath of the Wild and I don't want to fight over it here, but it's interesting in that it isn't based in genre traditions.

Fall damage is an important part of gameplay if used well (and it often is), so I don't get the controversy here.

Fenriswolf posted...

The Yakuza are linked with some shadowy ultranationalists groups though, driving around loudspeaker vans broadcasting anti-immigrant shit.

That's in real life. This is talking about the video game series.

Raiden2909 posted...

You know, i saw someone try to make that point then laughed as it shows that they know nothing about politics outside their country, The actual Liberal Democratic Party of Japan is a conservative right wing nationalist party, Though to be fair.. its actual Proper right wing conservative views.. Not the American ULTRA FAR RIGHT that the U.S Republicans have devolved into

Also yes, All the protagonists would be left wing

This is basically correct. I would just add that the LDP is more like a mix of center to far right. It's a really big tent party, but that tent is for the benefit of the right and the end result is that the least popular faction (the far right) gets disproportionate power.

What's the deal with the Baltic states? Not only are they EU, but they're well in the middle income category.

LightningThief posted...

I don't actually doubt these people exist.

For example, there's videos floating around of some protestors busting a window to occupy the building.

For the record again though, I don't think they are even close to the majority. I'm speaking strictly to the minority and those upset at anyone not supporting the minority methods of destruction.

For example, Aloc who believes one must support the method of a protest regardless, or else "you support the right."

A broken window? Bro are you serious? There is video of cops literally slamming a professor into concrete and counter protestors attacking protestors with poles and you say there is a broken window?

LightningThief posted...

If this is at me, Im not saying most or all of the Palestinian college protestors are violent or damaging property for the record.

I'm only talking about protestors who are doing such things. Regardless of what type of protest it is. Since some believe such acts are justified, and if you don't support such acts, "then you must hate Palestinians, the left more than Jan6ers."

Simply put, not everyone is down for whatever method a group of people choose to protest. Regardless if they support the main thing you support, that doesnt mean by default they have to also support your methods.

It's not at you specifically no. I am asking if this is actually a thing that is happening or if it's a talking point. The news here hasn't shown violent Palestinian protestors in the US and I haven't seen any posts or anything about it online. I am open to the possibility it is happening, I realize we have a pretty pro-Palestine bubble here, but if it's really a thing that's happening I assume there is some evidence of it.

pretzelcoatl posted...

That doesn't really make it reasonable to be racist, though.

I experienced more racism in the US, obviously it depends on where you live but this entire topic is showing some pretty standard white privilege where you have never experienced being a minority. The racism you experience in Japan is a lot tamer than what you experience in the US if you aren't part of the majority. Cops won't kill you, random people won't attack you, etc. Racists exist, and you will experience microaggressions, but that's literally everywhere. You need to contextualize the degree of racism you experience in a place to make a meaningful comparison, because literally everywhere has racists. People treat Japan (and really any non-white country) like a monolith with a single opinion. So if you encounter a racist in Japan you assume everyone is racist. Which is the premise of this topic, that Japan as a whole is xenophobic. And it's just not how reality is.

And honestly the entire premise of what Biden said is idiotic. Russia has the third most immigrants in the world. Japan has the most immigrants in East Asia and literally cannot get enough immigrants to meet its own quotas, it actively wants more immigrants than it is getting. China has a serious problem with emigration and it's unlikely they could possibly get enough immigrants to replace them even if they wanted to. India has a very weird immigration policy centered around religion, so you could argue that has a type of xenophobic immigration policy but are a ton of people trying to immigrate to India? Probably not, so I don't know how much it's affecting their economy.

Can you post some examples of the violent pro-Palestine protesters? Because the only violence I have seen was from police and counter-protestors. Might be bias in the local news here (Japan has a massively low opinion of Israel and did even before the current situation), but I haven't seen any videos online either of the violent pro-Palestine protestors in the US.

The protests seem to be very much about Gaza and he hasn't provided any evidence otherwise. The comparison to January 6th is completely idiotic and unhinged. One group occupied some building on a campus that protestors have occupied in historic past protests and were quite peaceful. The other literally tried to overthrow the government was very violent.

HashtagSEP posted...

I mean, they absolutely can be, but you shouldn't then generalize the entire topic/board based on them.

Shouldn't generalize in a topic literally about generalizing an entire country with multiple people just saying "yep that's true".

HashtagSEP posted...

He later corrected himself and then provided a source for what he had read, though. That doesn't really seem like "basking in the superiority of white culture."

Many, many posters in here are repeating heresay or agreeing with Biden's premise even though I already showed it's wrong with raw data. Why isn't he throwing every single other ally in the region other than Australia under the bus? Shit a lot of them have negative immigration. Apparently so xenophobic they chase their own people away (I don't actually believe this, but it shows how ridiculous his premise is). Japan can't even meet its own immigration quotas. Maybe he should help get some more immigrants over here instead of calling Japan xenophobic.

HashtagSEP posted...

Has anybody in this topic actually done that?

A dude tried to claim an entire area/region bans foreigners, so yes.

And as I pointed out with the data, Japan is actually taking in more immigrants than anyone else in the region outside Australia. So the entire premise Biden presented is wrong. And as an immigrant, married to an immigrant, who work with other immigrants, no it is not hard to immigrate here. My wife had more trouble getting visas for the US and EU than Japan.

Raiden2909 posted...

and that the page in question specifically states that this is her as her body was at age 12

Looking at the page right now and not seeing anything about her age. Says . Haven't played the game but that's something like Roashieru. Just the name of the character. It doesn't look 12, but I never played the game.

I forgot Trump always follows the law and there are consequences for his actions. And the Supreme Court would never accept that he could just assassinate his political opponents if he wanted to.
/s

YellowSUV posted...

More Sony censorship and yet people will tell you companies censor stuff completely voluntarily when working with Sony.

I do think it's nuts that this stuff keeps happening and people keep insisting it isn't. Regardless of how you feel about it how are people still claiming Sony doesn't do this?

X8Azazel8X posted...

Looks like he was speaking with candor. If they dont want to hear actual solutions then that is more on them. Why have the discussion at all then.

Japan has the second highest immigration rate in the East Asia Pacific region, just behind Australia.
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SM.POP.NETM?locations=Z4&most_recent_value_desc=true
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/f/f0ff15df.jpg

gbagcn posted...

topic.

My wife's grandparents lived through the Great Leap Forward. I don't think they consider their childhoods to have been spoiled.

ZMythos posted...

https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/geisha-district-kyoto-tourist-ban-b2509208.html

I understand that it's for the protection of the locals in the district, but it's pretty clearly targeting foreign visitors, which is by definition xenophobic even for a noble reason.

Tourists can be Japanese citizens too, of course, but like most tourist-heavy destinations in any country they're probably in the minority.

And while the US is unarguably racist, I can't think of a comparison in this case where a neighborhood, borough, attraction, or village/town is entirely closed off to tourists/visitors/outsiders besides government buildings or private land.

It's literally a few streets. It's not even legally enforced. And foreign tourists, despite being the problem (because rude tourists are absolutely a problem) are not being singled out, the rule says local residents are allowed to use the streets, not anyone else.

Honestly though I am sick of this shit on this board and the Western internet in general. Just make up whatever bullshit you want and bask in the superiority of your white culture. I lived in America, no thanks. You get police murdering unarmed black people, casual racism scrawled on bus stops, random attacks on people for simply being Asian, and then make some shit up about a country you've never been to. Just so sick of the bullshit.

Fenriswolf posted...

That's not the worst thing about the Japanese government though. Quite a number of politicians, including the current PM, are members of a far right nationalist group that engages in historical denial about their WW2 war crimes. Imagine what the fallout would be if a German Chancellor was secretly a member of a neo-Nazi group.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nippon_Kaigi

The LDP as a whole is shit. Gets 33% of the vote but the majority of the seats. The farthest right members get the government positions and then have approval ratings in the 20% range. It really sucks.

ZMythos posted...

And there was this article I saw a couple months ago: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/08/kyoto-geisha-district-tourist-ban-gion

That was done to prevent harassment of Geisha and isn't for foreigners only. It's all tourists.

https://www.asahi.com/sp/ajw/articles/14844573

72% of Japan wants gay marriage legalized. Take it up with the Americans who wrote a constitution that's almost impossible to amend and defines marriage as between a man and a woman. Thankfully some people are trying to make skilful legal arguments to get the current reading of the constitution reinterpreted. So there is some legal hope.

Sufferedphoenix posted...

Way he told it. It was more cause he was mixed like a dislike of a pure blood Japanese mating with another race.

I think with all the mixed celebrities this has probably changed quite a bit. One of the sports commentators on NHK right now and a Japanese women's pro basketball player is 100% black (but Japanese citizen), but another Japanese pro on the NBA Hachimura Rui is half Japanese, half black. The singer for Persona 5, Lyn, is half black and half Japanese, and two Ms. Japan's were half black. I can't think of any other specifically half black celebrities at the moment, but you see so many half white celebrities on TV that it borders on fetishism.

Sufferedphoenix posted...

I worked with a dude that was raised in Japan. He said he preferred America cause he expierenced less racism. He was half black half Japanese.

There's a YouTube channel dedicated to interviewing black people living in Japan. You hear a lot of mixed experiences. I think a lot depends on where they lived in both countries.

https://m.youtube.com/c/TheBlackExperienceJapan

Murphiroth posted...

I've lived in Japan. They absolutely can be xenophobic and there's absolutely businesses that don't allow foreigners. Whole regions though? Nah.

Business not allowing foreigners is illegal. You can sue them and win, the most famous case being literally decades ago over a hot spring. Did you see those signs? Maybe. I have never met someone in real life who actually saw a no foreigners sign, but it's possible and most people probably wouldn't want to go through the legal system just to go to some place, but the idea something like that is common is preposterous. I live in the middle of nowhere and go to lots of our of the way places and have never encountered a Japanese only place.

I suspect most of these stories are people who don't speak Japanese going somewhere, being told no one there knows English, and then posting online some racist store turned them away.

ZMythos posted...

Japan is pretty racist and xenophobic. There are restaurants, hotels, and even entire areas/regions that don't allow foreigners (Tourists and immigrants alike) in them.

Oh really? Lived here 7 years and yet to find one. Let me know where these entire no foreigner regions are since you're the Japan expert. Honestly living in Japan makes me xenophobic against foreigners online because they talk shit constantly without knowing what they're talking about. I experienced worse racism living in the US, no one told my family to go back to China or attacked them in Japan during coronavirus. But go ahead and have your circle jerk about the place you've never been.

SMT and Dragon Quest are basically what got me to learn Japanese (the Super Famicom games didn't come out in English, so I learned Japanese to play them).

Doe posted...

Are Chinese leftists understood as communists or anticommunists? I can't tell from this topic.

In China they're usually Maoists or other people critical of Deng and the current capitalist system. There are also liberals who want a more Western capitalist system, but those aren't leftists.

The Chinese leftists usually criticize themselves, but it's not really concern of imperialism but the capitalist system implemented by Deng and especially the current Xi regime. Caring about imperialism is more something dissidants living in the West do. I never met a Chinese person who cared about imperialism. Most leftists still want Taiwan to be reunified and would never support independence for Xinjiang or Tibet.

ssb_yunglink2 posted...

Do you think Trump would not have signed that bill if it got to his desk?

Trump recently changed his mind after meeting with some TikTok investors. Trump's stances are always for sale.

Aloc posted...

@ssjevot

Still think I was exaggerating?

I want Biden to win but this shit is absolutely ridiculous.

Exaggerating about what? The government's love for Israel? Never questioned it. Like I said most of the American voting public is thoroughly indoctrinated by Israeli propaganda.

You keep ignoring what I am saying. What I am saying is that young voters are a small percent of the vote (by number of registered voters they are almost as many as boomers, but the turnout is such that boomers vote over twice as often) and the data shows they largely don't care about Israel/Palestine (it was ranked 11th out of 12 issues from that January data). The small amount of activists this affects isn't going to impact Biden. But due to the old reliable voters unwavering support for Israel Biden would hurt himself by not supporting Israel.

Again, I morally oppose aid to Israel. I don't even like the United States to begin with. The issue is you make a claim about electability that is detached from the political reality of it. It's like the people who think Putin isn't actually popular in Russia because they are morally opposed to the war in Ukraine. Politicians are not popular based on their adherence to our moral standards.

Not awkward at all. I go with friends in Japan often enough and took most of my American friends. My friends are really open people though. I can imagine it being awkward if you have a lot of religious shame or hangups on nudity.

CountCorvinus posted...

@ssjevot

You wanted an example of blue maga. Here you go.

How is that similar to MAGA? Those guys worship Trump. His argument is Biden is better than Trump. That's literally the standard argument for voting for Biden.

We know for a fact based on posting history that some of these topics are literally made by Trump supporters though. Their entire thing is to complain about Biden, mock people for trying to say Trump is worse so they have to vote for Biden, and just generally try to get people to not vote for Biden. They probably realized they can't convince us to vote Trump, so it's better to convince people to just not vote.

superbot400 posted...

We need to make ban pay low wages to overseas.

If the min wage is 12 dollars per hour. You should not be able to pay a worker overseas for less. It basically bypassing the law.

That's how first world lifestyles work. If you weren't allowed to exploit cheap labor overseas you would literally be unable to afford the lifestyle you have. You're the global 1%, but the exploitation is largely invisible you so you can ignore it. This particular thing bothers you because you can see it.

Are some of you discovering for the first time that companies outsource labor to save costs? Why do you think you can buy cheap shit everywhere? You think they paid those people a fair wage? Shit I see people brag about needing undocumented workers for farm work in America so they can pay them less as if that's a good thing.

Diceheist posted...

It refers to people perceived to promote the Democratic party with a level of bias and hostility reminiscent of how MAGA promotes Trump.

The promotion I see for the Democratic party on here is more like "the pieces of shit that are better than the Republicans so I guess I have to vote for them".