whether or not it’s okay to own a machine that does your sexual bidding while also never saying no.

“I’m sorry Dave, but I’m afraid I can’t do that”.

“Harmony exists for no other reason than to make her owner happy.”

Does anybody know where I can buy those exploding blood-splatter packs they use on tv to simulate a gunshot wound?

The fact that it had nothing to do with the KKK is exactly why they removed it, silly.

Which is exactly why it shouldn’t be a problem that it was changed. They weren’t making some grand commentary, they made a joke that did not translate properly outside of Japan.

Precisely. Correct localization is to remove the KKK, as that wasn’t the intent. And doing so does in fact “aid the player’s comprehension,” as the player won’t get confused by subtext that isn’t intended/is irrelevant.

“I want my huge tittied 15 year olds” is a very strange hill to die on.

In the original version of the game did the developers mean to be referencing the KKK? Because if not, then a better localization would be to set up a similar pun for Western audiences. Something that would parody ABC or CBS, since the developers were originally going for a NHK reference.

Acquire wrote it as “KKK” without intending to make a reference to the American KKK, changing it from that is actually a good localization choice. To keep it “KKK” would have introduced a meaning to the phrase that wasn’t in the original language and that the original developers didn’t intend.

This isn’t censorship, this is one guy trying to defend a bad joke that has no basis in the original text. It even says outright that the original name is a pun on light switches. What in the hell do light switches have to do with a radicalized Christian terrorist group?

You can defend most crimes this way.

At Easter, my step dad actually quoted the Art of the Deal to me, and told me I should read it because it had good advice like, “always make your most outrageous demand at the beginning of the negotiation!”

“I’m not Ivanka, I’m her twin sister...Warivanka.”

I said this on another site, and i’ll say it again:

How do you feel about doing a thumbs down in front of a landmark with an unimpressed face?

Is everyone forgetting that the *Republicans* could have passed this without a single Democrat getting on board, and didn’t? Why is anyone playing into the narrative that the Democrats were the problem.

You will pardon me for laughing. I have a very funny thought.

I hate the idea of Santa. My wife won’t let me taint our children with the truth until her approval, but if it were up to me, my kids would be the ones ruining winter holiday for all their future elementary age friends.

Miss Kelly. You are mistaken. Santa Claus is not white. Because Santa Claus is not real. There is no Santa Claus.