I played a ton within the first few months...this sounds like a completely different game. Maybe a harder, more grindy/survival game?

Honest Question: what basis do monolingual fans have for comparison when saying that modern dubs are good or good-enough adaptations? If one doesn’t understand the original...

Hotter take: with all the time and effort spent watching anime, and thinking about and arguing about dub vs sub, one could just learn to understand the target language.

Hotter take: with all the time spent watching and thinking about and arguing about dub vs sub, one could just learn to understand the target language.

Agreed. It's an important, non-trivial part of the work.

Subs are the way to go if you don’t know the target language and care about some measure of fidelity to the original. You get the original actors’ delivery (a not-insignificant part of the work), plus (typically) closer-to-original dialogue. Sometimes subs are weirdly, unnecessarily wrong though, as I found out…

English is a compulsory subject in Japan too, but I wouldn't say most Japanese can actually use or understand it in a meaningful way.

I do tell Japanese fans to watch the original English versions of cartoons. Doesn’t stop anyone from watching the Japanese re-dubs, though...

Anthropomorphic*

I also watched this in 1997 and then forgot about it until a few years ago when I saw The Forbidden Kingdom and images of kangaroos and a pale villain with a shrill voice and strange sing-song speech patterns came flooding back. Then I forgot about it again until this article.

Same here.

For me it was 40 Year Old Virgin.

I’d add for Japan: coffee tends to be very bitter, and instant coffee is quite popular. Finding sweeter or milder coffee can be difficult.

I always assumed that’s what it was too. But it’s a pain if you want to leave things charging, or leave the AC on during the hot humid summers...

This system is common in “business hotels” (standard western-style hotels) in Japan. I’ll try this next time I’m in a hotel.

For me it’s that putting a little disclaimer and attribution at the beginning of your YouTube video saying “I don’t own this, all credit and rights to [X]” doesn’t mean you haven’t violated a copyright.

Happened to me too, with Graveler.

Also caught my first shiny, a Frogadier, in a friend safari. During the same game (X) I accidentally ran from a shiny encounter too. Hate when that happens.

I prefer no suspension too. Maybe “gravel” or “bikepacking” bikes are the successors to rigid MTBs...but at the recent NAHBS event, I saw that even Fox is now making a low-travel fork for gravel riding.

I understand the surprise, and I agree that this bike is overpriced. Bikes are like any equipment for a particular activity, though: there is an entire market to satisfy enthusiast/professional needs and preferences. Musical instruments have a similar pricing scale and many cost more than cars. Like instruments, bikes…