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Syrc, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago) to piracy in I feel like the Steam Deck is the best proof of Gabe Newell's quote that "piracy is a service issue."

What? I’ve been using iPhones with pirated songs for 10+ years and never had this happen.

Genuinely curious, I know Apple does shit like that sometimes so I wouldn’t put it past them, but I’ve never seen happen or heard about this.

Syrc, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago) to lemmyshitpost in subs > dubs

And, in most cases, they suck. The Inside Out ones I’ve seen are acceptable because they’re minimal and, as they say, “They learned that some of their content wouldn’t make sense in other countries”. But 4Kids didn’t do that. They literally turned Japanese anime for teens into American cartoons for kids.

Removing any hint of a deep message in everything and making every series a travesty is nowhere nearly comparable to what Pixar, or other modern companies did. Pixar altered things to get the same message across, 4Kids did it to remove any, and change it with one of their dumb jokes (which, albeit often funny, were slammed in serious situations and killed the mood of everything. Make an original series if you want to do that).

Syrc, 1 year ago to lemmyshitpost in subs > dubs

I mean, I wouldn’t call that sexualization, it’s intentionally framed to make you uncomfortable (you’re playing as Okabe in the VN after all).

And still, it’s two scenes with 16-year olds, pretty sure most western teen dramas do far worse. The stigma is because of stuff like SAO or Code Geass where they literally can’t let two episodes pass without a butt in your face.

Syrc, 1 year ago to lemmyshitpost in subs > dubs

Ah yes, more denaturalization of the original product = higher quality. Wonder why they didn’t have Captain Europe when localizing Marvel movies.

And then people wonder why anime dubs have a bad reputation when the biggest companies producing them were literally in a race for who could fuck more shit up.

Syrc, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago) to lemmyshitpost in subs > dubs

Not even that extreme. There’s stuff like Monogatari that they didn’t even try to dub because of the sheer amount of puns and japanese double-meanings they’d have to adapt. Unfortunately, a lot of good series can’t work in a different language without footnotes explaining stuff, and at that point I might as well watch the sub.

Syrc, 1 year ago to comicstrips in Yugioh Master Duel [MrLovenstein]

I’ll admit I never played that one, but it really doesn’t have “that handful of weapons/loadouts/whatever that are competitively viable and overshadow all the rest”?

Syrc, 1 year ago to maliciouscompliance in Trans men enter Miss Italy contest to protest anti-trans ‘women from birth’ rule

What, if I might ask? I’ve always found the requirements just a hodgepodge of random stuff with no coherent purpose whatsoever.

Syrc, 1 year ago to lemmyshitpost in If only there was a GOOD fish with a gun to save them!

…but 7 out of 8 times it’s in the US.

Syrc, 1 year ago (edited 8 months ago) to piracy in "Piracy is a service issue.." (Image is a real story btw, link in post)

I’m kinda bad at explaining but I’ll toss some more names (as well as reiterating suggestions for FMA03, Mushishi and Planetes, all 3 great shows):

-Gankutsuou: Sci-Fi reimagining of the Count of Monte Cristo. It has some weird choices but it’s overall really good.

-Kaiji: an indebted guy does gambling to try to solve his problems. Lots of mind games and suspense, way better than what it sounds like. One of my personal favorites.

-Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni: Horror/Mystery series set in a secluded village. It has some clichès and the animation… isn’t the best, but I really liked it personally. Don’t bother with the third and fourth seasons that came out recently (or do, but they’re honestly not needed at all).

-Monster: Thriller about an ex-Surgeon trying to find a past patient turned murderer. From Urasawa, if you know the name.

-Paranoia Agent: Mystery semi-episodic series about a lot of different characters, their life struggles and a mysterious boy going around beating people with a golden bat for no apparent reason. From Satoshi Kon (his movies are all really good too btw).

Syrc, 1 year ago to lemmyshitpost in Should this be in unethical life pro tips

Whoops, you’re right, my bad. I’m not a native speaker and mixed “grifter” with “griefer”.

Syrc, 1 year ago to lemmyshitpost in Should this be in unethical life pro tips

They wanted those kids to go at a concert and “spread the gospel” to people who paid to be there. Not sure about you, but I know I wouldn’t take that well.

Syrc, 1 year ago to lemmyshitpost in Merry Christmas

Well, they’re right in the sense that Internet is very unforgiving about anything that anyone ever did, no matter if they stopped or not.

Doesn’t mean it’s a good practice and they should be justified in doing it as well, though.

Syrc, 1 year ago to lemmyshitpost in I knew it all along!

In the U.S., education is mostly about being able to regurgitate what you’ve been told.

Wait, are there places where it’s not?

Syrc, 1 year ago to memes in I never learn my lesson

Iirc it finished 2/3 years ago

Syrc, 1 year ago to lemmybewholesome in Black olive birthday

Depends on what do you mean by “taste like olives”.

For example, someone saying pizzas all taste like pizzas could be right if they mean that they all have the base taste of the dough. But then the overall taste is very different based on the toppings.

Taggiasche olives have a much stronger taste, something that’s usually made with Green ones would probably suck made with them and vice versa, that’s what I mean.