Kulturkampf

[Polident]

"Many representations which were normal in Japan in the first Like a Dragon games are no longer acceptable today," says Masayoshi Yokoyama, the series' executive producer. "We ask our teams in the United States and Europe to read the game's script, and they tell us if they see things that wouldn't be acceptable in their country."

Changes often focus on "alcohol, politics or religion," Froget adds, while cultural reference points also differ.

"When there are people dressed in black boots and big leather coats, in Europe that could bring to mind a Nazi uniform," he says.

Slippery slope where it becomes homogeneous and loses the idiosyncratic quirks people liked. Dead Rising 4, basically.

[Nintex]

The problem is that most of those "localizers" are the worst fucking they/them soys in the industry these days.

The censorship regime needs to end.

[HaughtyFrank]

"Many representations which were normal in Japan in the first Like a Dragon games are no longer acceptable today," says Masayoshi Yokoyama, the series' executive producer. "We ask our teams in the United States and Europe to read the game's script, and they tell us if they see things that wouldn't be acceptable in their country."

Changes often focus on "alcohol, politics or religion," Froget adds, while cultural reference points also differ.

"When there are people dressed in black boots and big leather coats, in Europe that could bring to mind a Nazi uniform," he says.

Slippery slope where it becomes homogeneous and loses the idiosyncratic quirks people liked. Dead Rising 4, basically.

"When there are people dressed in black boots and big leather coats, in Europe that could bring to mind a Nazi uniform," he says.

What? No. That's Neo from Matrix

[TylenolJones]

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LEGO did extensive research on this. When boys play with Batman figures they play as if they are Batman, basically reenacting the movies or comics but they don't consider themselves to be Batman. When girls play with Batman figures they make him sip tea or dress him up. because they play as if they are Batman. Thus they created the 'LEGO Friends' line, so girls could play as their 'own family'. The same reason why games like The Sims and Animal Crossing are popular with women and RPG's in general.

"When there are people dressed in black boots and big leather coats, in Europe that could bring to mind a Nazi uniform," he says.

What? No. That's Neo from Matrix

Wow, you already fell for the Nazi propaganda and have been brainwashed to see them as harmless trans people.

[benji]

https://twitter.com/carlbeijer/status/1750531746675015697

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[Nintex]

They made a Soy Joker

[D3RANG3D]

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We live in a soyciety.

[HaughtyFrank]

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[Nintex]

[Potato]

That's...almost a plausible explanation.

[benji]

Former San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin on the city’s ‘hard turn to the right’

The right wing has been extremely effective at doing long-term investment in infrastructure building, and I think it’s something that folks who are committed, frankly, to democracy and to progress need to do a better job of. It’s true in the criminal justice space and really across the spectrum. And absolutely the work that I’m doing here, while nonpartisan, is designed to be part of elevating the integrity and nuance in the conversation we’re having in the public square about public safety.

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To the extent though, to your point, that conservatives had a decades-long project of creating this sort of legal, intellectual scaffolding for some of the decisions we’re now seeing out of the Supreme Court. Do you see the need for a similar type of long-term project to create legal space on a different part of the spectrum? And if so, why hasn’t that happened?

Yes, I think there’s a few reasons why it hasn’t happened.

One is probably just a resource imbalance. The right wing traditionally represents business and corporate interests, the interests of billionaires, and they have more money. So it’s easier to invest in and build the kind of organizations and projects that will do the long-term work. It’s hard to do long-term work if you have short-term funding.

San Francisco is not nearly as progressive as its reputation, and my recall was only one small piece of evidence in support of that claim. Look at the recall of the school board. Look at the fact that the city has never had a progressive mayor other than perhaps Art Agnos.

Look at the fact that the city is home to more billionaires per capita than probably any other jurisdiction in the world. Look at the fact that the city’s made a hard turn to the right in the last couple of years. Look at the fact that the politicians that have come out of San Francisco on the national stage are anything but progressive

I don’t think there is really a backlash in the traditional sense because you don’t see voters rejecting the progressive policies or candidates that they’ve endorsed except in very, very, very few cases. You can count on one hand the number of so-called progressive prosecutors who have been elected who have then been voted out in favor of someone else.

The reality is the attacks on so-called progressive prosecutors are coming overwhelmingly from places where there’s more concentrated power rather than from voters.

A politicization, if you will, of the role, which can be helpful or harmful, but it’s not something that happens linearly or with equal application. The level of attention that the press paid to crime in San Francisco when I was D.A. is exponentially higher than the level of attention that’s paid now, that Jenkins is the D.A.

I don’t know how to explain that. But crime is up under her, it was down under me. And you wouldn’t know that if you were following local or national news about San Francisco.

Well, like I said earlier, I don’t think it’s a backlash in the traditional sense. It’s not primarily coming from voters. It’s primarily coming from other areas of government and from very, very wealthy, narrow financial interests.

In San Francisco, for example, I won 3% more votes and about 15,000 more individual votes in the recall than I did to get elected. That’s not part of the national narrative. It’s not a convenient part of the story that people like to tell about what happened in San Francisco, but the reality is, the pro-recall forces spent $10 million and they created a dynamic where I was running against myself, not against any other candidate, any other ideas, any other platforms. And despite that, we got more votes and a higher percentage of the votes.

All things that researchers, academics, policy experts, predicted and were shouting from the rooftops and the Twitterverse would happen with these policies that they implemented. It is ironic and tragic that the people who justified my recall in the name of victims of fatal overdoses are themselves responsible for more fatal overdoses in a year than had ever been imaginable in San Francisco until 2023.

This guy.

[HaughtyFrank]

They tried to mess with the queen

[HaughtyFrank]

They made a Soy Joker

This whole game seems cursed. They hired some sensitivity reading company as consultants and it sure shows.

Like it starts with Harley scoffing at her old Arkham game outfit and then picking a new, less revealing one. And Poison Ivy, usually a seductress, is now reborn as a child character (that for some reason Harley still kind of hits on)

[Uncle]

wouldn't sexy toddler ivy go against the recommendations of a sensitivity consultant

or are all of them, y'know

[Potato]

wouldn't sexy toddler ivy go against the recommendations of a sensitivity consultant

or are all of them, y'know

You know...

[Polident]

They made a Soy Joker

This whole game seems cursed. They hired some sensitivity reading company as consultants and it sure shows.

Like it starts with Harley scoffing at her old Arkham game outfit and then picking a new, less revealing one. And Poison Ivy, usually a seductress, is now reborn as a child character (that for some reason Harley still kind of hits on)

Honestly, the gameplay looks fine but completely at odds with the brand. Who thinks: Ah yes. Joker surfing on his rocket umbrella to kill waves of zombies. Like it’s Sunset Overdrive or Agents of Mayhem.

Arkham Asylum on PS3 had a Joker mode. Same concept as the Batman challenge maps, with Joker using various toys and weapons in place of Batman’s gadgets. It oddly worked.

Silver lining, maybe, is the people who started Rocksteady left during the studio and created a new studio. Hoping they go back to their Urban Chaos roots and make a Judge Dredd game.

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Like it’s Sunset Overdrive or Agents of Mayhem.

I admit I've only watched a few minutes of the gameplay, in part because that's all they've put out, but it seriously looks like Agents of Mayhem. Same weirdly dead city too.

[Nintex]

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but there's far better ways to put it

[D3RANG3D]

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[HaughtyFrank]

The Omar story shows how annoying the media can be. To have a somewhat balanced view of the situation I'd like to compare what a left and a right leaning publication wrote about it. Like maybe the translation can be interpreted differently or whatever but instead you can only find articles from right leaning publications while the other ones just completely ignore it.

[Nintex]

Big spoilers but I assume none of us will play this heap of garbage anyway

[Potato]

The Omar story shows how annoying the media can be. To have a somewhat balanced view of the situation I'd like to compare what a left and a right leaning publication wrote about it. Like maybe the translation can be interpreted differently or whatever but instead you can only find articles from right leaning publications while the other ones just completely ignore it.

I'm going to assume that if the left leaving activists journalists are trying to ignore things, them those things look bad for their side and vice versa.

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