You had me until “Rinoa = Ultimecia.” Girl, don’t bring that UAnon nonsense ‘round here!

Also don’t forget that Eve in PE2 looks like she’s ten or so, but is actually only two years old (or something like that). Just to make things that much more icky by the time you get to 3rd Birthday.

Without a more rigorous historical survey of gaming discourse and the distribution therein of the terms “RPG,” “JRPG” and “WRPG” and their collocations, it seems hasty (if not myopic?) to conclude that “JRPG” is itself a pejorative coinage.

Without more narrative context this is hard to judge, but one possible strategy for undertaking a translation of something like this would be to work backwards from whatever one would want to be the solution (in this case, the descriptions of the various series), and from that then derive the “rules” to be imposed on…

Spoken like someone who has never attempted to learn any skill or craft in his lifetime.

God, these conversations in the comments are depressing to read. By far most vexing are those by people who clearly have never attempted to cultivate a skill or craft in any serious matter, and thus regard all skill and craft with contempt.

Do people not use the OED? I’m baffled at how most of these erroneous etymologies (save for 420) could have gained any traction if one has any passing familiarity with, well, language. 

CVX, the Code Veronica that ruined Steve’s forehead-forward Dicaprio look.

I think “not terrible” sums up precisely why people might be less than thrilled. Many of those who esteem the original Team Silent games consider the “farming out” of subsequent entries to other creative teams — who themselves were in the difficult position of having to imitate the so-called “house style” of the…

That they couldn’t even be bothered to hire an English-fluent copyeditor to look over the script they foisted on that poor woman doesn’t inspire great confidence. Yikes.

I think you’re missing the fact that those don’t reflect by any estimation the hours of actual work for any given job or gig. If it did, no actor would live paycheck-to-paycheck or have to work other jobs to support themselves -- they’d be too busy lighting their cigars with hundred-dollar bills while flying chartered…

Actors don’t work 9-5 shifts, five days a week — most of a working actor’s time is taken up auditioning for roles, the vast majority of which they will not get, and trying to scrape by between gigs. The number of actors who work consistently without lulls or fallow periods in their employment is a statistical minority,…

Do you even metonymy?

There was also the Sega Saturn port, which is arguably the best version of the original Tactics Ogre — it included voice acting and an arranged soundtrack making use of the CD format. Riverhill Soft handled both the Saturn ports of Tactics Ogre and the original Ogre Battle (also with voice acting, a rearranged…

The writing never gets better, regardless of the language. 

How is Utena not on this list? I feel attacked. 

Minor quibble, but the verb tenses in the title are poorly coordinated, effectively inverting the sequence of action — and thus necessitating the use what would otherwise be a superfluous adverb to rectify. “Man spent X on Y, which friend sells for Z;” “Man spends X on Y, which friend sells for Z;” “Friend of man who…

I fail to see a chain store on its hands and knees, so #notliterally.

Roisin Murphy warned us.