2 arguments are going on at once

1. The game's translation from Japanese to English has been punched up & stylistically changed.

True

2. that this is because or an example of wokeness
which it isn't, at least as far as the game itself goes & as far as we know

https://twitter.com/zakogdo/status/1782340520670527759

Japanese to English translations being changed to "improve" has been going on since translations existed

We've seen many recent examples discussed from popular titles like FF7 Rebirth to Fire Emblem to a heap of Nintendo games (like a metric ton of them)

And of course Anime & Manga (Crunchyroll for example)

My latest review for @BoundingComics ✍️
Eiyuden Chronicles: Hundred Heroes

‘Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes’ Review – The ‘Suikoden’ Sequel We Never Got But Always Deserved🤗
@eiyuden @PlayStation #gaming #games #EiyudenChronicle

https://twitter.com/BoundingComics/status/1782107601494512052

plugged in over 80 hours, tested on Steam & PS5 & thoroughly worked it out

Overall I enjoyed the game, despite a few graphical problems & a mixture of good & terrible minigames it was a fulfilling gaming experience overall

Would recommend people play if they like JRPGs

This is newsworthy, unlike other things I've criticized for people going after low-level employees.

Not only is she the new CEO in charge of the largest US public news affiliate, but she is also the former head of Wikipedia & a leading member of the US State Department

https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1780120191034093802

You throw in everything that NPR is blaming for its reasoning to get rid of Berliner, who all of a sudden is a not real & terrible journalist according to them, and it's a fair question to ask:

Why doesn't that apply to its CEO?

https://x.com/normouspenis/status/1780301280537358660

I've said it before & I'll say it again.

Fact some journalist once tweeted something is not a news story in itself

Many do it cuz people eat it up & earn you some solid engagement.

But it's unhealthy & I think it sets up expectations in the audience that come back to bite you

https://twitter.com/TPPNewsNetwork/status/1779200827430715393

We all have stupid opinions,
every person on planet Earth that is not in a comatose state,

A news story requires ACTION, how did their tweets or worldview play into something

New Episode of CultureScape👾

EVERYONE HATES HIM!! Interviewing the Internet’s Most Controversial Comedian: Vito!🤯

@VitoComedy @dickmasterson @mjarbo @erikkain @goldenwitchfire @andysignore Appreciate the chance to talk at length w/ my bud, @VitoComedy🦾

Journalist, Comedian, YouTuber, TCG creator, Comic Writer & more!

Walk w/ me as we explore his past & winding history of the internet!🖥️

some translating for my lefty friends, when people on the right say non political they mean free from current partisan socio-politics

they have no problem with political themes more broadly, especially lessons from history but they don't want to be lectured about climate change, lgbtq, Orange man bad, etc political philosophy discussions are fine, even politics of yesteryear

it's just no one wants to be lectured why they aren't voting a certain way every November

Imagine if your game became a NRA advertisement, they don't want that in the reverse basically

In our latest thrilling episode of CultureScape:👾

We interview @kotaku journalist @xoelleslow about the site, games journalism, SBI & gamergate!🤯 Fantastic discussion that covers a lot of hot topics gamers are talking a lot about lately,

Sweet Baby Inc, Black Girl Gamers, wokeness, etc😲

Also, how journalism actually happens, what it's really like to be in games media & why companies like G/0 Media kinda suck!🗑️

2 things can be true at once

1. Piskor behaved weirdly & somewhat creepy & it got called out. As far as we know, he never crossed the DM's line, but it was weird

2. People massively overemphasized & gossiped & spread more rumors & ended up bullying him to death, a man who probably had a few more decades in him for making art The problem is everything weird ends up immediately in the "this is bad guy territory" & Piskor understood that what he loved was being taken away

That doesn't condone his suicide or his behavior, but people should have waited for more facts before saying, "lock him up."

For the next episode of CultureScape we interview @thatstarwarsgrl on the sad demise of Star Wars🤯

George Lucas, Cosplay, YouTube cliques, etc
Good Show comes out at 11am Tomorrow🕚 This is by far the best looking & most produced episode of CultureScape yet, @christofilms put a ton of effort getting it a spit-shine sheen

Great episode, to find it remember to check us out on YouTube or Spotify (Podcast)

Or just click on my profile & click the link like so👇

Thanks to everyone who watched the latest episode of CultureScape with @EndymionYT

We hit 3k views, which is decent for my little channel, got great feedback & happy people liked it so much We will feature my Twitter friend @thatstarwarsgrl for the next episode, who kindly agreed to come on the show.

We talked about the state of Star Wars and AI & complained about stupid YouTube feuds & other influencer fluff.

It's a great conversation. I think you will also like

.@Asmongold proves why people have become frustrated with the gaming press

it's frustrating because if journalists wanted to defenestrate GG 2.0 all they needed to do was not be crazy

for some of them this was an impossible ask

https://twitter.com/loftipixels/status/1769463761071489469

there are people on gg that are doing naughty things like harassment, sending death threats etc

but these aren't official spokesman, these are just anon's whereas the people saying @Asmongold should be banned, a lot of them are journalists & these diversity game devs

Yeah, so this video by @Kneon of @ClownfishTVcom is important & though Elon will ping me to share it I think I should

People in media, both news & creators need to make alternative plans NOW; I learned this the hard way, nothing online is solid

obviously, i get a shoutout in it, but it is important

As someone who had a few days in the limelight, let me warn you that nothing online lasts

attention can go away as easily as it came

Google is okay with going 100% AI as long as they are the ones holding the reins.

So my reticence for social media things is that the hard thing I've learned is more attention does not mean something gets fixed, often just the opposite

It can mean people dig down & then stances get hardened & any compromise or improvement is impossible for a while Attention is helpful, but people make the mistake that a mass amount of attention = winning or change

problem goes both ways

it's not that low attention is good & high attention bad,

it's that attention is useful only as it's connected to useful discussion & targetted action

My review is out!😁
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
is Perfection 27 Years In The Making🎮⚔️
@SquareEnixUSA @finalfantasyvii @GenePark @TheSphereHunter @Shannon_Liao Thank you to @kabutoridermav & @BoundingComics for asking me to do this project

& of course @SquareEnix for sending the review code

great but also tragic interview by @ACSHorg with a dying cancer patient w/ about 6 months to live

She has & will harm no one, yet she is still not trusted to be given access to pain medication to dull her tremendous suffering

Evil, no other description does it justice

https://twitter.com/life_is_art___/status/1761108730639249482

Great point Josh brings up is that this is a patient w/ a long history of pain treatment & surgeries w/ no evidence of misuse

She'd undergone 25 surgeries over 27 years; so why cannot she be trusted with pain meds now?

I'll die on this hill, this is what I'm working towards a culture that can handle different points of view & where culture itself is lauded again

https://twitter.com/HappyWarriorP/status/1756551945769164969

one of my favorite things in the world would be to attend a dnd session at my local bookstore or anime convention & you would have a mix of wildly different people & we could all be friends

politics just wasn't a priority
that's what we should strive to get back to

It's been a year since I did the Frosk interview about G4TV & it's fascinating how little has changed in the discourse. To an extent, this is true whenever I interview someone the internet has marked as "bad"

Usually, unless they are in prison, what's been said about them is an exaggeration at best & slander at worst

While people can & do behave badly; they rarely act no worse than ourselves

She's right, news is being winnowed down to nothing

Most small and middle sized communities at this rate will have no coverage at all

We will mostly be left with a few independents & a boat load of influencers

But reliable news info will be gone

https://twitter.com/julesterpak/status/1750221141011030189

not a left v right thing,
Everyone in news is drowning now

We will all suffer with the removal of news, important but unpopular topics like health will become impossible to follow

yes journalism has its problems but a world without reliable fact finders is not a better place

Please watch our latest interview!📺

How Comics Died💀
Ultimate Guide With Chuck Dixon & the Rippaverse!📚
@dixonverse @EricDJuly @FayeBlackWrites @YellowFlashGuy @TheRippaverse @BoundingComics .@Dixonverse talks about his upcoming Levon Cade film w/ Sylvester Stalone

He walks us through the history & sad demise of comics, going back to DC & later as a freelance author

We finish by talking about @EricDJuly & Rippaverse🦸‍♂️

#ericjuly #comics #isom #film @TheRippaverse

I'd love to have a conversation w/ @EricDJuly or @YellowFlashGuy & @EthanVanSciver about the roles of modern media & responsibility

I know everyone feels the drama right now, but it's a good conversation to have

but perhaps if not now, later in the future The underlying tension in all of this is that the normal typical channels of media are completely eroded

the news media is dying, comics industry proper is falling apart, even streaming is sinking into a quagmire

Having chronic pancreatitis is hell, if I didn't have my faith and my dogs and my friends I would have killed myself a long time ago

These last 5 years of little pain treatment have been the hardest of my life

I don't know what I would do without some of you here I've been blessed with just enough intelligence to engage but not enough health to work full-time

So I've been in this psuedo poverty disability mode for 5 years and it's been very hard

Trying to help out family, support my friends and do good works