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Oliver Jia (オリバー・ジア) Profile picture
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Apr 13 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Interestingly, this is what Capcom previously said about localization, which appears to be a contradiction of what they just posted here.

In fact, it’s still on their official website.
capcom.co.jp/ir/english/csr…

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The above tweet by Capcom is only going to throw more gasoline onto the fire around the localization discourse and there’s a lot there that I disagree with.

See my article from earlier this year which dives into good, bad, and controversial localizations.
foreignperspectives.net/p/ai-is-not-th…
The worst part of this discourse is people now acting like literally *all* localizations is bad when things like jokes and puns are changed to reflect other languages all the time.

But on the other hand, BS corporate phrases like “inclusive language” always make my skin crawl.
It’s impossible to translate a text without changing or simplifying things depending on the context, intended audience, etc.

Even something simple like “Nah, I’d win” isn’t a 100% literal translation from the original Japanese. People have their own preferences.
We’re now at a point where every localization change is going to be placed under intense scrutiny.

Sometimes the criticism will be warranted, other times it’ll simply be a creative choice fans disagree with and nitpick.

The nuance around this topic has been destroyed.

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Oliver Jia (オリバー・ジア) Profile picture
Apr 13
I find it funny how everyone on both sides of the culture war were tweeting last month how "GamerGate 2" was about to happen and... nothing happened.

I dunno what people were expecting. Everyone involved already hates each other and has drawn their lines in the sand.
Almost no one from the OG GamerGate days is still relevant now.

No one takes games journalists seriously anymore, so in that sense it was already long over.

The culture war stuff is a new thing every week that people quickly forget before moving on to the next thing.
Remember how Matt Walsh was talking about video games last month after trashing them for years and is once again no longer talking about them?

Surprise, surprise, HE DOESN'T ACTUALLY CARE. People like him saw a bandwagon to jump on for a day of viral content and now it's over.
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Apr 10
These anecdotal stories don’t tell the whole story of the time period they were in.

Even my dad who hated the Cultural Revolution noted that because life was simpler back then, Chinese people were generally kinder.

Doesn’t mean life was good though. Everyone was dirt poor. Image
If you showed talent for math and science, then you probably didn’t get the worst education in communist China or the Soviet Union.

Those regimes needed scientists and engineers, but everything else taught was propaganda. You’d usually never get the job you wanted anyways.
It’s also understandable why some preferred the stability of an authoritarian regime over the initial chaos its absence caused.

There’s a reason why Putin and Xi Jinping appeal to the past. They want their people to feel like they have that stability.
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Apr 9
After the mixed initial reception, I’d be wary too.

I’ll definitely see the film, but I think Francis Ford Coppola lost his touch years ago.

He’s responsible for some of the greatest works of cinema, but he peaked in the 1970s. Coppola is no Scorsese.
I’ve heard good things about The Rainmaker and Tetro, but they didn’t exactly light the world on fire.

It’s honestly a shame that Coppola has spent the last 30 years making films hardly anyone knows about or sees. This is the guy who directed The Godfather.
Some directors are like that though.

Not everyone can be Martin Scorsese and many of the New Hollywood directors had a tough time staying relevant in the 21st century.

That doesn’t take away from what they were able to achieve.
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Apr 7
That headline is fake.

-Japan expects 820,000 skilled workers over five years
-They are not “inviting” anyone
-The vast majority of these workers can only stay for a max of five years
-Staying longer requires a skills test

Better article here:
asahi.com/sp/ajw/article…
Immigration to Japan has already increased over the last 20 years.

But the Japanese government is eyeing skilled workers with specific qualifications, not any migrant who wants to come to the country.

To stay more than five years, they have to demonstrate their worth.
Japan is not the U.K. and the government knows that unchecked mass immigration is a disaster.

This country looks at the mistakes the West has made and isn’t going to repeat them. We don’t have boats of illegals coming here and immigrants who break the laws are kicked out.
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Apr 5
The people in the replies telling me Japan is the way it is specifically because it’s a homogenous country are probably the same ones who refused to wear masks or take vaccines during the pandemic.

Guess what? It’s because people follow rules that Japan is the way it is.
Japanese people are not inherently better or worse than Americans.

But the social pressures that exist here are different and few people want to rock the boat.

A gun-toting MAGA supporting Christian Republican would never want to live in Japan. And neither would a woke person.
The average American who comes to Japan, whether left or right, sees only the good parts because they’re on holiday and don’t think about what it’s like to actually live here.

During the pandemic I knew many right-leaning foreigners who hated how things were being handled.
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Apr 5
Which was the best era of Star Wars? Note: this is specifically referring to the pre-Disney era of 1977-2014.
Being born in 1997, the first Star Wars I saw in theaters was Ep. III in 2005, though I watched all the films that existed at the time beforehand.

I loved all six films, went through the phase where it was cool to hate the prequels, then went back to appreciating them all.
I grew up with Dave Filoni's Clone Wars which is why it's particularly nostalgic for my generation.

It's only in recent years though where I've gone back through the EU to read stuff like the Thrawn Trilogy. I still need to actually play KOTOR and read those comics.
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