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2 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
(Mini-thread) Vice Games has an interesting old piece about how common arachnophobia is and why games should take note: google.com/amp/s/www.vice…

I was thinking about this quite a bit playing Yakuza: Like a Dragon, where you can collect insects for various purposes —
In YLAD, you can see an image of each item while looking through your inventory. Interestingly, while spiders are displayed with no issues, the image of the cockroach is heavily mosaic’ed. So I did a little research...
Turns out, while spiders are not particularly well lived in Japan either, crippling fear of cockroaches is a LOT more common there. So the devs blurred out a cockroach image. (It’s not the only JP media to do this, either.)
One of those interesting little cultural differences, I suppose, but rather than just removing one bug I think the option to remove any sort of threatening creepy-crawly imagery for those who intensely dislike it might not be an awful idea!

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11 Sep
Hey, I reviewed @oniongames’ cult classic moon now that it’s available in English! If you need some positivity in your life right now, this is just the game for you!
I really enjoyed moon, but there is one small bit that bothered me: (CW domestic violence)
One sequence has you listening to a husband and wife argue, and it’s implied that he hits her, but apologizes and promises to be better afterwards.
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An interesting piece by @dash_director: with doujin events cancelled across Japan, artists should be making more sales through mail order. But they aren’t. Why is that? note.com/director_d/n/n…
In a survey, many recipients responded that “mail order is too expensive”, which, as the author points out doesn’t entirely make sense - travel, lodging, etc. to events like Comiket costs a lot.
But when survey responders explained their reasoning, they talked about how vital the experience of attending an event was - a fun atmosphere, meeting favorite artists, discovering new ones - and that the items bought at the event come with memories of the experience.
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