People leap to victimize themselves at any opportunity to get some lime light.

I hate the ‘looking to be offended’ thing...but holy shit this is a text book case. The only way to make it look bad is to remove the context and spacing between two separate jokes and mash them together while willfully ignoring the obvious pun and placing undo import over what amounts to an internet shitstorm that,…

[...]and you wind up with the inference by some[...]

If you look at the video you’ll see they conveniently left out the lines that are right after the “Shufflegate” part that prove the dialog was a direct reference to Watergate. Seems more like manufactured controversy.

Especially since the next two lines of dialog are quite clearly about Watergate. The judge shuffles to the side to hand Mario a bribe and immediately says: “Remember, you saw nothing,” which in itself has been used as a pop-culture punchline over the years aplenty.

It’s the job of localizers to understand the context of their translations. Yes, Watergate kicked off the “gate” phenomenon, but GamerGate is fresh in people’s minds. Though the placement of the screenshots on social media proved more provocative than what’s actually in Paper Mario, if you’re familiar with gaming’s…

I really do appreciate the stuff people are saying. Thank you!

Now I’m sad again....

Whoa, Andrew Plotkin released an IF game on Steam?

Rather buy this than Overwatch LootBoxes...

10/10 this is pretty funny.

This was pretty much me when they removed PT form existens.

When I saw the original picture, this is what I was thinking right away. Thank you for photoshoping my dreams to reality.

In all honesty, I’m expecting the baby to be revealed years later in a general Kojima interview that it WAS a metaphor for what he lost.

Go home folks, we have a winner.

No need for further entries. Let’s crown him now.

Absolute genius.

I’m sorry, but what’s the point of any other shop? This is the winner!

I’m pretty cring about this comment!

something like this? :)