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lolll

still one of the funniest twitter updates of all time

it's been brought to my attention that some of you aren't familiar with the water slide that fixes your lower back posture

losing my mind at how ruthless this sentence is

I suspect that a lot of the difference is just differences in how questions are being asked and how people want to answer them... Large Western studios are, I assume, riddled with people using chatGPT to summarize emails, but devs would still not say "yeah our game was made with LLMs".

I like how this news piece uses a picture of Pragmata on the headline image for social media then the article points out that Pragmata, being a single-player game, is specifically not included in this survey

Wait no I didn't see where the single quote marks ended, George does sound like he's on the AI train now, which I sadly do see him doing lmao

oh man, i was so close

solomon in 1 Kings 3

saw a creature so i hit em with the rule of thirds

Kusanagi :)

the urge is rising to watch every Saw movie and rank every trap by its game design quality

ブレミシャイン / Blemishine #アークナイツ タイムラプスはツイッター

Ouroboros

I am grabbing this opportunity to tell you to GO WATCH REDLINE IT'S GOOD It is bananas and fun and you WILL enjoy it

anon chihaya public apology for crypto rugpull: “i legit didn’t know what i was doing. thank you for interviewing me though”

Yeah this feels kinda misleading

It was a different time

ノブノブ

The real test of video game dialogue excellence isn't in how clever the quips are, or how popular the catchphrases get, or even how much characterization they can fit into barks. Instead, you know the voice lines are amazing when people start vocal stimming with them.

Princess Mononoke tells a story as old as time: One man's quest for a girl that's kind of mean to him.

That tends to be the thing with older computer nerds here: if you wanted to stay in touch with cutting edge stuff, you imported stuff and if you were importing, you had to beef up your English. A lot of Japanese PC culture started with dudes navigating western programs with a dictionary in hand.

I can't find a source for this off-hand, but in terms of his bona fides, I believe he's done E>J translation work professionally and he's perfectly conversant IIRC, so I'm personally not worried about AI usage, especially since it's meant to be reference material for a proper J>E translation later.

The third person singular pronoun in Mandarin is pronounced "tā" irregardless of gender. In the Simplified written form though, it is gendered， 他 masculine, 她 feminine，它 for inanimate objects. None of these really suited the goals we had for the character.

Obligatory

All of my siblings (and both my parents) are artists. I'm the black sheep of the family by being a writer unable to do more than a stick figure. Disaster.

A video game storytelling moment I've always loved is that in the first battle with Senator Armstrong you can actually see his HP bar going down little by little even as Armstrong pretends to be invulnerable like a Strongman always does. Not subtle at all, and yet still elegant to me

Sam Neill should have won an Oscar for this “help I’m being attacked by an invisible Chevy Chase” scene with a stupid looking plastic gun taped to the side of his head

adjacent, I'm often rotating in my head how people talk about twitter breaking down cultural barriers by defaulting to displaying exclusively the MTL of a tweet before the original language version, but the translation quality obviously hasn't improved, it's just more confidently incorrect

I can't believe it wasn't until today that I realized who starred in one of my all-time funniest filename jokes. I've had this image for 15 years minimum...

I know this has been discussed to death but MTL patches pretty consistently *discourage* human fanTL efforts and poison the well by being the first experience a lot of users will have with a game.

it has been said ad nauseum but this is because people have unmitigated, unexamined, deeply racist views about japanese culture narrowly and eastern culture more broadly

Amiya #アークナイツ #Arknights #明日方舟

Good case in point of why it's pretty important to please post the original language as well when taking screens of twitter with the auto translate on.

LRP: 5 year old me is bawling their eyes out. Jurassic Park alone meant so much to me

Vale Sam Neill. One third of the hottest throuple ever to grace the big screen, and one of the best of us down here in the Antipodes.

fun fact: i only learned months after I'd written it on the US site that this story nearly had kotaku uk (who had automatically republished it) blown into low orbit

Commission #mahoyo

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I'm really enjoying playing the older Tales games and seeing how they approached the concept of a JRPG with a real time battle system. Symphonia drawing a line between your current character and the enemy they're targeting to force a 2D playing field in a 3D arena is fascinating stuff.

he must Never be allowed to stop writing

Dear Doctor, The PC version of Arknights is coming on August 13, 2026, 04:00 (UTC-7). Please stay tuned for more details. #Arknights #Yostar

Sharing with the hungry stray #yshtola #fanart #finalfantasy #ffxiv #ff14

All those Marvel Vs. Capcom games and NONE of them let you create a team with Sodom and Gamorah, what a waste

ENCYCLOPEDIA - Your mangled brain would like you to know there is a boxer called Contact Mike. YOU - Yeah? Any news on my wife's name? How about my mother? ENCYCLOPEDIA - Nope.

LRP: I played Persona 5 on the PS3 lmao, they achieved 10 year console life cycles two consoles ago (i don't really want to count the PS2 as by the 2010s most major games had moved on). The PS4's longevity though is more of a testament to how sad the PS5 is

They’ve honestly always succeeded with consoles starting with PS2, which was getting new games into the 2010’s. PS3 got Persona 5 11 years after the console came out in the West. PS4 is STILL(!) getting games 13 years in.