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I buy a bunch of recently launched Switch games and I still haven’t run into that yet. Am I just incredibly lucky, or am I not buying the right games?

The perception, at least in the US, has changed quite a bit as it got a lot more mainstream in the past decade thanks to legal streaming. It especially helped increase the variety of shows that people saw. It’s amazing the variety of shows people I meet irl know about now. So I feel vindicated for the shower I loved back then now getting their long awaited popularity.

Tbh the fansub debates were by people who just watched the shows, and not from the actual people who did the translations. It was largely people claiming they wanted accuracy, but was really a long winded argument of “the one I saw first is the canonical translation”. There’s plenty of examples of some things being translated wrong, and people were insistent for years that the wrong one was superior. Which comes off as super hypocritical when your argument was for accuracy and you find out something was wrong, but it’s totally acceptable… That’s why I mentioned the argument was by a ton of people who don’t speak the language, because they actually didn’t. I’m Japanese and know the language, and when you correct people on things that are completely wrong, and not a common misconception, it’s pretty obvious you don’t know the language. Back to my previous part about the canary and merch vs your Lara Croft example is the percentage of exposure to the lewd stuff. With Lara Croft, more people are exposed to the actual game, so there isn’t a general perception of the fans being a den of perverts. The promotional stuff is stereotypical of an action game. With the anime pervert stereotype, there are a ton of shows that don’t just have the lewd fan art, but there’ll be a ton of official posters, promotional art, and various merchandise of the female characters in scantily clad outfits. So if all you see of a series is these females in scantily clad outfits, it’s hard to not think this show is gonna be fanservice, even though it won’t be. Let’s take Pokémon and not change anything about the game/show. Instead, we’ll replace all the current merch and promotional art to primarily be about all the female characters in scantily clad outfits, people’s perception on Pokémon is going to change drastically. There’s some shows I’m a fan of, and I recommend it to people, and after a quick Google search, they think I’m getting them to watch something like To Love Ru or High School DxD because even the official stuff is a bunch of lewds.

To be fair, as anime got more popular here, the pervert stereotype did kind of disappear. Crunchyroll existing and Netflix increasing its catalog definitely changed the tide here, but before that, I really couldn’t stand the anime community. Online or offline. This is coming from someone who was/is an active anime fan. We can complain all we want about how others should be open minded about communities, but if your only exposure to a community is by seeing a bunch of perverts an/or obnoxious assholes, it makes the community off-putting for outsiders. Before legal streaming got popular, I just wanted to have a “normal” conversation about anime. Basic stuff like “hey this show is awesome!”, instead I primarily could only find people who either only cared about talking about how much they want to fuck <insert female character> or some assholes being more obsessed with the fansub wars to fan check you. I’m so glad that latter part died off. Nothing like seeing a bunch of people who don’t know Japanese argue with which translation is more accurate.

To be fair, the anime fandom itself isn’t exactly doing much to quell the pervert stereotype. When a large number of vocal fans are perverts, it’s kind of hard to shake the stereotype off. There’s quite a few series I see on a regular basis where I knew nothing about it, except for the massive amount of lewd fan art, until I saw the show myself and realized the show has nothing to do with it. The merch itself isn’t helping either… The show will be sfw, but the merch sure as hell isn’t…

I think it's a nice feature if you didn't own the previous console, or you can save that port on your TV for one console instead of using it for 2. I personally don't understand the mindset of selling all of your games to get the newest console. One reason for me is what if I still want to play those games? Then there's the lack of games on the new console. I just beat the one game I want on the new console, well fuck, I don't have any other games left...

I felt like that with Trails in the Sky. It somehow didn’t grab me at first, then I restarted the game and had a blast.

Iirc the term Latino(a) was created by the immigrants from the region in the US, whereas the English speakers never felt the need to use a unifying name outside of a largely academic use. There wouldn’t be a need for something like AngloX because English isn’t a gendered language. I don’t know the ethnicity of the creator(s) of the term Latinx, but it definitely wasn’t someone who spoke a Latin language. Though the whole political correctness and inclusivity movement does have a sizable group of people who, while have their hearts in the right places, are pushing for this stuff based out of ignorance. There’s definitely a savior complex with some of these individuals/groups. I’m a minority, and it’s always weird for me to see someone outside of my ethnicity getting offended on our behalf over things most of us really don’t care about, yet turn a blind eye to things we actually do find offensive.

Latino(a) is a regional thing, like mentioned in that article you posted: One of the controversies with Latinx has more to do with how it actually fits into Spanish. It was created by English speakers, and it's pronounced Latin Ex. Well the usage of X kind of contradicts Spanish grammar, so it ends up being a bit ironic that a term that's supposed to be inclusive is excluding the people that speak the language. Which is why it's not really gaining traction in the Spanish community. I've seen Latine being used more than Latinx by the Latin trans community more as it grammatically makes more sense to them, easier for them to pronounce, and fits the bill of inclusivity.

Yeah, Latino/Latina refers to Latin Americans and Spain isn’t in Latin America. The difference between the two terms are which countries/people south of the US border (and Caribbean) are included or excluded. Hispanic = Spanish speaking, so countries like Brazil and French Guiana, etc are excluded. Latino(a) = Speaks a Latin language. The Latin languages spoken in the region are Spanish, Portuguese, and French (there are other Latin languages, but they’re irrelevant in the region). This includes a large portion of the region, but excludes any country where English is the primary language, as English isn’t a Latin language. It can be confusing in America, because the primary people we are exposed to (depending on what part of the US you’re from) are Mexican, Cuban, and Puerto Rican where Hispanic and Latino(a) are interchangeable. Brazilians are kind of rare here, and Haitians primarily live in South Florida.

That’s not what’s going on. When you pop any game in, you’re usually greeted with your console downloading the updates/patches. Well if you didn’t have internet, theoretically you’d still be able to play the game. In the case of this game, there’s no actual game on the disc, so the “update” is really just the actual game being installed. Thus rendering the point of owning a physical copy largely pointless. So there’s no third purchase. The license is basically your rights to download the game. Instead of giving you just a piece of paper with the download code, the disc is acting as the download code. Though I wouldn’t be surprised that the game requires you to have the disc to be inside to play the game, despite there not being a game on the disc.

The disc is like any other PlayStation game where it just automatically downloads the updates when you pop the disc in. It’s just that the only info on the disc is basically a launcher to download the actual game as opposed to just updates. It’s really just that the physical release is kind of pointless if the game isn’t actually on the disc. idk where your idea of a third purchase is coming from, because they’re not price gouging you if every other game that uses online features requires you to pay for the game on top of owning a PSN subscription.

Yeah, I always hear about Rule of Rose as one of the more sought after PS2 games. I know the Fatal Frames go for around $100.

I wouldn’t say most of the time, it really depends on the console and the game. There’s a large number of rare games that didn’t sell well because it wasn’t popular at the time, but it was later discovered to be good/great and the demand is higher than the number of copies out there. Another common reason is that it’s an earlier entry of a series that got popular later on, or the developer got popular afterwards. Kuon’s a survival horror game made by Fromsoftware, so you have the demand from 2 types of fans. There’s quite a few survival horror games on the PS2 that are pretty rare. JRPG’s tend to also go for a pretty penny, and a ton of Atlus games from the PS2 and earlier.

The games have to have a low print run, and have high demand for those to get to that price. Not every game being sealed will end up being worth $9000. There’s a metric ton of sealed retro games that aren’t worth that much more (some less) than their standard retail price, and it gets lower the more recent it is, because more people have sealed copies lying around.

The developers should be getting a cut if they aren't already. I don't see how it hurts game sales, it's just an alternate stream of revenue. It lets people try out games that they otherwise might not have bought, and the developer gets a cut, as opposed to piracy where they got paid zero.

The most expensive PS2 games I own are Dot Hack Quarantine, and Xenosaga 3. The PS2 was one of the consoles that skyrocketed around Covid, so I got these before the prices blew up. Xenosaga 3 was only $50 back in 2019

Sonic 06 was pretty bad

Some of the actual differences get super technical. To switch to another OS, you can either buy another computer with it pre-installed, or install the new OS on an existing computer. You can dual boot (where you can install multiple OS’s one one computer, but you can only run one at a time, so you have to select which one when you boot the computer. To swap between the two, you straight up have to shut off the computer and select another one. You can also use virtual machines. A technically not correct explanation, is that you’re basically emulating another OS on your computer. You just need enough resources (specs) to run two OS’s at once, as opposed to dual booting where you solely run one OS at a time. DOS is basically dead. It was the basis of Windows and was axed when XP came out. So outside of using legacy software on old computers (or emulating through DosBox) it’s essentially irrelevant. DOS was the “core” of Windows and was command line only, and Windows was the GUI (graphical user interface) to make it more user friendly. Part of the reason why some games have to be run in DOS mode was because Windows itself took up a lot of resources, so running in DOS boots your computer without Windows, and let you utilize more resources. Unix and Linux are different “families” of operating systems, that share similarities under the hood, or were built off of an existing version of Unix or Linux. There’s no “pure” version of either, so when people say they use either Unix or Linux, they need to be more specific. It’s the equivalent of saying “I drive a truck”, well… what kind of truck? What model truck? Since Linux is heavily inspired by Unix (hence why it’s called a Unix-like OS), the lines can get blurry. You won’t run into Unix much. Outside of MacOS, it’s pretty common as the custom operating system of enterprise hardware. So on a rack mounted server, it hosts Windows on it, but the OS to configure the hardware would be some variant of Unix. With MacOS, since it’s a completely different OS from Windows, you can’t run Windows software on it. You have to have software specifically written for MacOS. So popular software like MS Office or Google Chrome have to be ported over. With that, it has exclusive software. It’s also part of the reason why gamers don’t use Macs, the lack of games. Macs (and anything that isn’t Windows) are immune to Windows viruses, because they’re written for well… Windows. Though that’s entirely due to the overwhelming market share of Windows. (Iirc it’s like 80%). So while your chances aren’t zero, you are less likely to get viruses It is more efficient than Windows, because it only runs on a limited set of hardware variations, so you can easily optimize the operating system, as opposed to Windows or Linux where you have to make it compatible with a wide variety of hardware. Macs also heavily cater to the creativity market in the hardware/software department, so if you hang around artsy communities, your likely hood of seeing a Mac is very high. It’s because Microsoft pissed those companies off in the 90’s, so Steve Jobs swooped in. I record music as a hobby, and Macs are less of a headache to use than Windows for it. A lot of the hardware is plug and play, while I have to spend a ton of time fiddling with stuff, or downloading various things to get my hardware to run on Windows. With Linux, it has some of the benefits of MacOS (ie lack of viruses), but it’s more catered to “power users” than Windows and Mac, and is a lot more customizable. If you’re into tinkering, it’s for you. Using the command line (aka terminal) is very popular. When you asked earlier what a distro was, it’s just the jargon for “variant” of Linux, and is short for distribution. So like my truck analogy earlier, saying distro, is like saying model. “I have an F150, I have a Silverado. Well Linux users will say “I run Ubuntu, I run Gentoo”. Differences in distros will vary in a myriad of ways, and to make things more confusing, there are variations of Linux based off of an existing distro. Some differences will be the varying degrees of user friendlyness. Some versions require to do things only through command line, and others have it to where you never have to use it. Some also let you install software through their App Store, or just install it by double clicking the install file. Others have you build the installer yourself. Some of those make you wonder why do it the hard way, but some people just find it fun. The reason why people claim Linux is better is that if you’re a power user, you have full control over it, and you can customize it yourself. There is a degree of snobbery behind some users, because Linux is considered the “smart people OS”, so some people use it as a badge of “I’m smarter than you”. It also increases significantly alongside the difficulty of the distro. So a distro like Gentoo where you essentially have to program the OS yourself, and everything about it, they will let you know they use it without you asking. If you’re still confused, feel free to pick whichever portion(s) you’re confused about, and I’ll break it down further. In all honesty, there’s no “better” OS, it’s just what fits your use case.

They have distros that are beginner friendly, and have been around for years. Ubuntu, Elementary, and Mint are really easy to set up and use. Do you know how to click next a bunch of times and wait? Cool, you’re now certified in how to install those distros. If you want to install software, a lot of distros work like Windows and MacOS, where you download an installer file, double click, and do the difficult task of hitting next a bunch of times. Or if that’s too arduous, a lot of distros have app stores, and work just like it does on Windows, Mac, or your phone/tablet.

If you tell us where you’re lost, we can try to explain it in further detail.

If someone is going to be egregiously late, at least send a courtesy text. Though usually the people I have an issue with are habitually late. I knew a guy where if you told him an event starts at noon, he leaves his house at noon.

Some people don’t understand being on time. I’m not gonna bitch at someone for being 5 mins late, but there’s always that one person that’s 20-30 mins late.

I can see that. It’s really difficult to create something that pleases both fans, and people who don’t know anything about it. It can be a double edged sword. Sometimes fans also don’t know what the hell they want. It’s not uncommon to see sky high expectations that are completely unrealistic to achieve in a coherent fashion. Some of the things they want to see just come off as bad fan fiction. It can seem douchy that these studios are making the films just for the money, but sometimes you have to wonder if you’re spending that much money on making the film, are there enough fans to care to make your money back, or just take the easier route and cater to non-fans? You also might have to take off your fan glasses and gamer glasses, and sit back and think, can some of these actually make a good movie in the first place? Since it’s a game, half the appeal is the gameplay, so if you take away the gameplay, does it now just become a generic genre film? That’s something you gotta ask yourself.

I get stuff from Guitar Center, Sam Ash, Amazon, and Reverb. Amazon is nice for my guitar pedals, but for the instruments, I tend to go to the other 3. Guitar Center and Sam Ash because they’re local, and Reverb for discontinued items.