XSEED (sans Lipschultz) e-mailed Acquire asking what originally inspired the sign. Ken Berry, XSEED’s executive vice president, helped explain what the letters meant in the U.S. “Acquire immediately responded that they had no idea the sign could be taken that way in English,” Berry told me in an e-mail.

But he was the one who made the joke. The Japanese did not make the joke involving the KKK, the translator did. They’re saying “no, you can’t make that joke based on your interpretation of the translation.”

“I wanted to make a statement,” localization specialist Tom Lipschultz wrote in an e-mail. “I don’t think it’s right to make any change, no matter how minor, for the purpose of ‘sanitizing’ a game.”

This sounds less like censorship and more like a translator taking liberties that he happens to find funny. And then getting upset when other people didn’t agree with him.

I spent 13 years on active duty (2x Iraq, 1x Afghanistan), and got out last year. Seeing pictures of Fifth Avenue fuckwits like this playing war tourist eliminates any regret I have about not staying in longer - and makes me feel awful for my friends still in.

How can that officer take this guy seriously? He’s an actual major, not some jagoff who majored in Recreation Sciences or whatever.

“What advantages does this war have over, say, an ethnic cleansing, which I could also afford?”

fixed that title for you

God I remember absolutely agonising over that island when I was in middle school. Even after I got access to a gameshark and wandered my way over there (that gameshark code was absolutely massive btw, unless you were using a PC to transfer it on to the device via the serial port it took forever to input) I was sure…

That Sombra GIF isn’t really BS though. The opposing team didn’t make it to the point, the Sombra did. They outplayed their opponents and got a win for it without cheating. That’s legit.

Death Star 74?

If this guy doesn’t factor in somehow, I’m starting a damn riot:

I’m seeing at least one aim-botter per session these days. Pretty obvious when it’s happening. Hopefully blizzard can keep up and swing the hammer again soon.

Why Arcades Haven’t Died In Japan

Good article. Even the most obtuse Trump supporter should be able to rationalize that Russia didn’t seek to influence this election in order to ensure that the strongest candidate won. They wanted (and got) the naive, exploitable guy.

I’ll eat my hat if he makes it one year without getting impeached.

It was my primary console for almost 4 years.

“When Toyota announced the new $1 billion Corolla plant in April of 2015, it guaranteed that no existing U.S. manufacturing jobs would be effected.”

If it wasn’t for the government then the US Auto industry would’ve gone out of business 7 years ago, if not decades sooner.

Super Mario U needs to be on this list— ZombiU is very average.