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The closest thing I watch to subs, would be the Japanese subs on a broadcast. I have heard English dubs before though and especially in games am familiar with English voice acting. The quality is often worse in English, but that's because the industry isn't taken seriously for the most part. I encourage you to watch a documentary on voice acting in Japan. It isn't reading lines in a booth. You have the whole cast together in a big room reacting off each other and a director giving guidance. They do multiple takes, the actors have read the lines many times ahead of time and thought about how their character acts, they are familiar with the show and extremely engaged with the fan base. Most importantly they are paid a lot more.

So the issue with English dubs is you really need someone to naturally be good and self-motivated because the actual production is bare bones and the pay is shit. I was at an anime convention where Steve Blum had a panel. Someone asked him what he thought about Cowboy Bebop. He said he hasn't ever seen it, or any of the anime he voice acts in because he doesn't have the time. And he's a pretty good English actor. A statement like that in Japan would end your career. Fans would be outraged. It's just a totally different industry here.

I really like the gameplay and the story and characters are good enough.

A weak currency is good for exports and bad for imports. If you're an import dependent economy like the US, you want a strong currency. If you're export dependent economy like China, you want a weak currency. Back when Japan was blowing up in the late 80s and early 90s the weak yen was a huge help because they were an export dependent economy. Now though it's complicated. Japan still has a manufacturing base, but it's nothing like it was decades ago. So a weak yen is good for some companies and not for others. Nintendo is primarily based in Japan and most of their sales are overseas, so it's overall good for them.

evilpresident posted...

I distinctly recall that happening when WHF got canned.

Yeah there is an infamous video of a dude torching his entire painted army on YouTube.

mystic_belmont posted...

Has WH40K lore ever been changed?

Entire factions have had their back stories completely rewritten. Necrons, Leagues of Votann (Squats), and Tyranids (Genestealers) being the biggest ones.

Edit:
I found a list of major retcons:
https://www.belloflostsouls.net/2024/04/warhammer-40k-the-grimdarks-greatest-retcons.html

pegusus123456 posted...

Maybe I'm just naive or don't know how these things work, but my thought was that whatever Chinese studio they outsourced to outsourced it to NK.

Yes, it's really common to make use of North Korean labor in China. They even have restaurants run by North Koreans in China. They used to try to defect to South Korea, but now they get handed over to China and deported to North Korea if they try that.

There's quite a few articles about it, but here is one from NPR:
https://www.npr.org/2024/02/26/1234005107/the-north-korean-forced-labor-program-supplying-seafood-around-the-world

There are some bug fix mods for both but they aren't needed.

Sephiroth_C_Ryu posted...

I can only speak for myself, but it annoys me because of how much Fallout just perpetuates bad myths about just how bad nuclear stuff is.

Fallout is based on the 50s ideas of what the future and nuclear war would be like. It's intentionally wrong. It has crazy mutants and radiation zombies for a reason. The technology is still vacuum tube computers. The internet and cell phones never existed (even though the nukes happened farther into the future than we are now). They didn't even have color television. You also have weird 50s robots and so on. The way you get poisoned by and treat radiation is also not correct for these same reasons. It's not meant to be realistic at all.

Sufferedphoenix posted...

Still seems minor. Though I only remember dealing the enclave in 3 and then the remnants in New Vegas. Don't recall any alien tech not saying it's not there it just wasn't in your face I guess.

Enclave in 2 and Brotherhood of Steel both have Alien tech. Skynet is an NPC that tells you it was made with alien tech. New Vegas gets more alien encounters if you take the Wild Wasteland trait.

Sufferedphoenix posted...

They should remain minor/optional stuff in my humble opinion. I'm not big on alien stuff

I'm guessing they only did aliens to use what was basically common place 50s depictions of aliens and their tech.

The Enclave has alien tech. Skynet was made with alien tech (it tells you so itself). It started out minor in 1, but starting with 2 they became a pretty involved part of the universe.

Crimsoness posted...

I'm not 100% convinced aliens are canon even with Mothership DLC.

They're literally in every single mainline Fallout game. Their guns are usually the best weapons in the game.

Actually metal is a good example of gate keeping. It used to have a Nazi problem and then people started gate keeping them out of the community and that was a good thing.

SHRlKE posted...

I find is weird some of the people who hate the TV show for dumbing down fallout never had an issue with the changes fo3 bought in.

I assume that was their first Fallout game. I personally haven't been bothered by any of the games other than the shitty ones (Brotherhood of Steel), because I never thought the lore or world was very serious. I mean Fallout 1 has the telephone box from Dr. Who, Alien spaceship, whacky radiation zombies, just all kinds of crazy stuff. I don't think it's meant to be taken too seriously. Especially not after Fallout 2. That game has some really whacky stuff in it.

I think 1 is an interesting game but has pretty bad replay value. There isn't a lot to do and once you know where to go there isn't a lot of incentive to wander around. Low intelligence build for funny dialogue, a few interesting choices, but overall not a lot going on.

2 is a masterpiece.

DuuuDe14 posted...

Capcom wasn't happy with the core audience numbers of DMC so they decided to reboot the franchise to make it more appealing to a general audience. Which we know now failed and why they decided to go back to the original franchise with DMC5.

Oh. I think this was just from that black era of Capcom where they gave all there series to random Western devs to make shit games. Konami did the same thing (and still does). Capcom renaissance has been in full swing for a while now.

lolife67 posted...

When has this been true?

You could maybe argue that for From Software. There is a vocal minority that wants the games to be easier and they keep ignoring them. Whether you think that's a good thing or not is up to you, but it's possibly an example of that kind of gatekeeping.

DuuuDe14 posted...

This is what happened with Devil May Cry.

Really? I love the series from the start (excluding DMC 2 and DmC) and 5 was awesome.

Jagr_68 posted...

always high quality IP

Bruh. I hope this is sarcasm because I think everyone agrees Brotherhood of Steel was garbage. It's not even considered canon anymore.

Fallout has been a pretty casual mainstream series since 3. Definitely since 4. Do you mean because it also has a TV show now?

Foppe posted...

Lords of Shadow is liked.

Not by a lot of the Castlevania fandom.

Curse of Darkness is probably the best 3D Castlevania. Not saying a lot, but it's something.

Edit: Got my Darknesses confused. Legacy is pretty damn bad.

Yeah I think it's overall worth reading. I really like 1-3. A lot of people really enjoy 4, but I didn't care much about the backstory. 5-7 definitely get extremely whacky and want you to have read a substantial chunk of other Stephen King books, but overall I enjoyed it.

BucketCat posted...

I think there's a storyline in 3's DLC that takes you back in time and you are fighting off the initial Chinese ground invasion, meaning China likely started the war but who knows who launched the first nuke

In established lore China fired the first nuke and it happens after Alaska is retaken and the US has invaded mainland China.

Aliens have consistently been in all the games, so I do hope the show includes them in some fashion. I personally don't like the corporate conspiracy angle but if they go with it that's fine too. I feel it downplays the war never changes angle (though you could connect it with the Spanish American War and the attempt to sell more newspapers).

I mean the new lore the show seems to be setting is that VaultTec caused the war.

PowerMan5000000 posted...

As westerners, our regression of the sexual freedom movement is getting embarrassing and its super weird when its not even due to religious involvement.

Honestly one of the reasons I moved to Japan besides the election of Trump (that was the primary one), was how regressive the US was becoming around sex. Mortal Kombat could come up with increasingly gruesome fatalities with body parts flying everywhere, but the only thing people worried about is if the women were dressed appropriately. It's completely whacky and you can't talk about it without someone thinking you're a coomer or whatever the current insult is because you don't care how much clothes a character is or isn't wearing. If you are okay with someone ripping someone's intestines out and strangling them with them, but you draw the line at revealing outfits there is clearly a problem. "Cut the boob off, just don't show it." I remember someone saying that to make fun of Christian sexual puritans back when I was young (80's or 90's). Now it's still somehow applicable but the puritans might also be left wing somehow.

Honestly I am glad no one cares in Japan. Women read BL publicly in a book store. That same store might sell a manga literally called "Big Boobs" and no one will give a shit if you buy that. And there's violent stuff too, and no one cares about that either. My wife has a BL collection, we've got a 2B figure, etc. They're not hidden away, no one cares. Shit half the people who work in my lab have erotic anime figures on their desks. There's an entire shelf in there of abandoned waifus from former lab assistants.

I was just talking to my friend the other day about how it's crazy how much shit is in Embracer group. This is definitely a good thing overall as it was just way too many things under one group (and still is for Asmodee at a minimum).

Haejin posted...

I have a $50 Reddit avatar, how much is yours? don't try to step up to me like u something

This is one of the weirdest things I have ever read on this board.

MrResetti posted...

Now now, let's not compare current Russia to communism as that would give communism a bad name

The Soviet Union was about as communist as current Russia (which is to say it wasn't) and gave itself a bad name by being just as imperialistic and brutal.

Scotty_Rogers posted...

I know it's the literal translation. My point is that it doesn't make sense to say "white paper" in English. It contextually means report, file, record, log, document, etc so it's better to just use that to get the message and nuance across. And even the article you posted says this

Strictly speaking, they are collectively known as "white documents."

It's like how the Chinese term Qi ( Ki in Japanese) literally means "air" but it's come to refer to the vital force or energy in our bodies. If you just went with the literal translation of air, most people wouldn't understand

I still don't really get what you mean here.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_paper

A white paper is a report or guide that informs readers concisely about a complex issue and presents the issuing body's philosophy on the matter. It is meant to help readers understand an issue, solve a problem, or make a decision. A white paper is the first document researchers should read to better understand a core concept or idea. Since the 1990s, this type of document has proliferated in business. Today, a business-to-business (B2B) white paper is closer to a marketing presentation, a form of content meant to persuade customers and partners and promote a certain product or viewpoint.[1][2][3] That makes B2B white papers a type of grey literature.

The term originated in the 1920s to mean a type of position paper or industry report published by a department of the UK government.

The Japanese word is just translated from English. I couldn't find that quote you posted either.

Scotty_Rogers posted...

Touche. I guess stars are basically hyphens in Japanese?

But if the stars don't mean anything, then there's no indication that the Yu's are short for anything, is there? Obviously there are ghost connotations but that doesn't mean the term ghost itself is supposed in the title. So is the title supposed to be something like Hidden Travel Files? Underworld Travel Files?

Yeah, I'll just go with Ghost Files lol

But I posted the Japanese Wikipedia excerpt explaining what it means and a brief summary in English...

I mean you can call it whatever you like, I was just trying to explain the title as per your original post.

The stars aren't blanks. They're just for style. Like in YuGiOh, . You don't need to fill them in with a character.

Alright I will break it down for you. And yeah that Google answer is pretty bad.

Hakusho is the easy part. It's literally white book, but it's the Japanese word for white paper ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_paper )

Now the Yuu star Yuu star is a little more complex. is like dark or hidden, but also the first part of Yuurei meaning ghost. is like travel or roam, but also the first part of Yuugi meaning game. So to figure out what exactly it means is open to some interpretations.

The Japanese Wikipedia page gives us the best explanation:
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Basically the was indeed meant to be for ghost. And the was chosen for it's use in Saiyuuki, commonly called Journey to the West in English. So something like Ghost Journey White Paper would probably cover it.

NV > 4 > 3 > 76

I am putting 4 above 3 because neither of them are remotely as good as NV, but 4 has better gameplay. The dialogue thing in 4 really is terrible though. But the "choices" in 3 are ridiculous.

Maze_ posted...

Yeah honestly that boob armor really isn't bad.

I was picturing way worse in my head.

Especially if this was designed in the 90s

Those are the modern sculpts. Here is the original ones from 1997:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/d/d27ecd7c.jpg

Maze_ posted...

Knowing nothing about 40k. Why do I have a feeling that the "Sisters of battle" have giant boob armor.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/5/5dc5e889.jpg

Guide posted...

They really, really should've just gone with "hey we have new bigger models now". Primaris are, at best, awkward within the lore and on the tabletop.

And that's exactly what they did with Chaos, Eldar, etc. they just made them bigger without changing the profile. It's just a stupid cash grab. Just like how now your AoS Stormcast have old armor that doesn't work anymore so you need to buy new ones. And I love Stormcast both from a design and lore perspective, but the armor lore is such a blatant excuse to just keep making new models to replace your current ones.

St0rmFury posted...

Noob question here, what's Chaos' counter to Primaris?

They fixed the scale on them without getting new profiles. Eldar did the same thing (but we really need a new Dire Avengers sculpt because they look so short next to Guardians now).

evilpresident posted...

What army do you play? My main issue with the Primaris stuff is how streamlined all the Space Marine factions are now. Death Company for Blood Angels, Grey Hunters for Space Wolves and so on. They all just look the same.

I think Primaris look a lot better. As do the Chaos resculpts, and the Eldar ones, and basically all of them. But for some reason Primaris needed to be entirely new profiles... I wonder why? (Because money)

havean776 posted...

Wait what happened here?

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/04/04/whats-leaving-the-warhammer-age-of-sigmar-range/

They basically sandwiched this between other announcements and hoped few people would notice, but people definitely noticed and got super pissed.

*I should note no one cares about them discontinuing those old Skaven models, some of which are decades old. However the Stormcast ones are literally from the first edition Age of Sigmar starter. They aren't old and they're basically just being swapped for new Stormcast models in the new edition. I think they're testing out a rotation of models. This happens in card games, but it hurts way more here due to the time and money invested in making your army.

People keep saying it's due to an Amazon show, but if I was going to do a conspiracy theory it would be to distract from Age of Sigmar players having had two armies removed entirely and all the first generation Stormcast models get squatted. Arguing over lore distracts from the absolutely awful business model they use.

St0rmFury posted...

Thanks @Guide for the mini lore dump lol.

So that means female custodians are not incompatible with existing lore, right?

Not incompatible, only Space Marines are said to need to be specifically male. Though that could be retconed pretty easily if they wanted. But as has been pointed out many times in here the lore is constantly changing and being retconed, so the idea of needing to be compatible with existing lore is pretty nebulous.

Lokarin posted...

Now, ever since Cawl made the Primarus Marines all rules are out the window

It's funny this is the retcon people are up in arms about and not Primarus. You know the one designed to make your thousands of dollars of Space Marines obsolete so you have to buy new ones. They keep slowly discontinuing the old "first born" and it seems to be having a slowly boiling the frog effect since even though it's obvious what is happening I rarely see any outrage.

St0rmFury posted...

Asking as a WH40K noob here, unlike Spartans, astartes augmentations are not compatible with female biology, right?

And iirc, custodians undergo the same augmentations as astartes?

Custodes undergo a very different process and the end result is stronger. I don't think there was ever any mention of it being incompatible with women. The lore is always changing, so there isn't some consistent lore, but Custodes we're usually the sons of former nobility. So not recruited from the common people like Space Marines.

I almost think 40k needs an actual good humans faction with democracy and egalitarianism. Because currently Games Workshop keeps sending mixed signals about the horrible fascist dictatorship called the Imperium. They put out a great post a while ago saying the Imperium aren't the good guys and outlining how bad they are, but then people interpret stuff like this as the Imperium being woke or egalitarian or some nonsense. It's a shit situation. You have to balance being the most ruthless corporate force in the miniatures business and extracting maximum profit from customers with hopefully not appearing to downplay the horrors of fascism.

tl;dr: Games Workshop is a really bad company, but it's not because of female Custodes, it's because they're anti-consumer profit maximizers. Female Custodes aren't problematic because women exist, but because the Imperium is a horrible fascist system and we shouldn't think positively of it.

WingsOfGood posted...

No you didn't.

You posted that poor people tend to have more babies. That is NOT the data explaining why birth rates are declining.

I posted a literal pew research article that asked the ACTUAL FUCKING QUESTION why aren't you having kids and the people answered there reasons and the reason was found that statistically yes economics is a reason for many.

I am not explaining anything. I am posting the data, while you try to push agendas. You just keep saying what you want to believe and then ignoring data. I mean you literally made a big deal out of home ownership rates when they're literally the exact same today.

Just go ahead and push what you want to push. I posted the data for those interested. You can pretend we lived in a utopia in the 80s and everything sucks now.

WingsOfGood posted...

???

why are birth rates declining?

Are you suggesting....everyone is rich so they have less kids? The data says literally the opposite.

Why would you reject it?

I literally posted the god damn data. The less money you have, the more kids you have. I am sorry it doesn't fit your narrative but that's the data.

Birth rates are declining everywhere. I literally posted data showing the poorer you are, the more kids you have. You tried to claim people aren't having kids because they can't afford them. That's the opposite of what the data shows. You want to believe the 80s was some utopia from a propaganda movie or something. It's ridiculous. The data is there and I lived through it myself. There was a reason the US media fear mongered about Japan taking over. US median income was already behind many European countries and then Japan overtook it in the 80s and the US didn't overtake Japan in median income again until the 2000s. People literally murdered a random Chinese guy because they thought he was Japanese. This was not some utopia. People were losing their jobs and pissed off at the world.

WingsOfGood posted...

The 1989 U.S. homeownership rate was 64 percent; in 1980, 66 percent owned their own homes.

So about the same as today?

https://www.statista.com/statistics/184902/homeownership-rate-in-the-us-since-2003/

However, in 2023 the proportion of households occupied by owners declined to 65.7 percent