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I watched Castlevania 3 and experienced PTSD I remember that horrible loving block section, pretty sure that's where I got stuck. He was stuck for eight loving hours. Then the three form last boss. What a bunch of dicks. I love that people look back on the original CVs with nostalgia, but I have to wonder how many people just enjoyed the catchy music in the first three stages 
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Hakkesshu posted:The only good Rare game for the NES is Snake Ratte 'n' Roll. All the others are so awful. You take that back, Wizards & Warriors owns
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Bomberman is honestly a viable alternative to open warfare Throw a couple world leaders in a room with Bomberman and they can vent all their frustrations and disagreements
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zari-gani posted:The first thing you have to say upon entering someone's house is ojamashimasu, which at heart means "excuse me" but literally means "I'm going to bother you" or "I'm going to disturb you." An alternate thing to say is gomen kudasai which means "please give me pardon (for bothering you)." Those formalities alone should give you a picture on the whole host-guest culture in Japan. It's practically a ritual and not nearly as casual as North America. And when a place of business is involved, it's double the formalities and rules. Japan is a strange place: http://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/06/world/kunitachi-city-journal-japanese-trains-try-to-shed-a-gruesome-appeal.html?pagewanted=2&src=pm I'm of two minds about the cultural difference, on the one hand, I really dislike the incredibly casual nature of interactions in america. People here are too informal and too forward in some really inappropriate situations. On the other, the absurdly ritualized interactions in Japan seem like they give no room to interact on a relaxed level with people. I suppose it's 'normal' for them though.
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On a somewhat related note I've been in the offices of many american game devs, and outside some rare exceptions on the very, very high end (ie, Blizzard), most of them are... about what you'd expect from a business office. A boring business office! I can't imagine japanese dev studios are much different, much less small tv show offices.
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Nill posted:But that's like a whole 13 THOUSAND swatch.beats ago! One of my annoying artist friends picked up a swatch watch ... he's no longer using the watch, but he's still annoying
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Popping in to say thanks for the awesome work translating these, I love showing them to friends who may not even care about video games and/or strange subtitled japanese shows. They invariably find them hilarious. I even showed a few to my friends kids, reading them the subtitles, they loved them 
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Aug 2, 2012 14:37
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Caitlin posted:Music to my ears! Thanks for making a bad day much better. So much this. Gonna relax on the couch and force my SO to watch this episode with me.
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Aug 11, 2012 03:48
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Allen Wren posted:I mean, yeah, Arino's really bad, but, like, you gotta have some goddamn perspective about these things. Just because it's a thing that you can crush with both hands tied behind your back doesn't mean it's like that for everyone. People passively assume that other people are just as talented at <x> as they are. Or if not as talented, 'it's pretty easy to do <x>'. Which really isn't the case about anything, be it super mario, sports, or any creative art.
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Aug 11, 2012 21:40
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So when are you guys going to pick some other strange and wonderful japanese tv show to translate?
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Aug 11, 2012 22:44
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Oh I'm not complaining - it's just that you have set up one of the very few translation groups on the net doing non anime fetish translations, and I'm assuming there are probably other weird and whacky shows that we'd never see or hear about otherwise. Also y u guys no seed 
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Aug 11, 2012 23:07
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Trivia time: Anyone know what episode showed Arino's wedding? My SO is strangely curious about his wife, after commenting that she has to deal with him after he gets back from a 14 hour failure.
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Aug 11, 2012 23:46
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She'll love this, thanks
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Aug 12, 2012 00:02
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I'd love to see him do Karnov, I adored that game as a kid My other big favorite was Rygar... that music, that sun! The PS2 remake kinda broke my heart, it had some beautiful backdrops, but the game was meh, and it killed any hope of a real rebirth. edit: He's never tackled Wizards & Warriors or Iron Sword has he? Don't see it in the OP list. Another on my list of 'probably horrible but have fond memories' list. And Faxanadu... you know, I'm not prone to nostalgia gaming at all, wonder why I'm remembering all these now. I blame it on his SMW playthrough. victrix fucked around with this message at 09:32 on Aug 12, 2012 |
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Corridor posted:They're willing to physically beat each other and squash their genitals in each other's faces but talking outside of work is awkward You can't tell me you've never worked with someone who you wouldn't be happy to do both/either of those things to
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Aug 13, 2012 16:14
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Terrible game: That horrible shitheap 'rpg' he's playing in the call the viewers segment, holy god that game looks awful
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Aug 14, 2012 21:53
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Not clear why he's playing it, it's not even funny to watch  So many other more interesting titles they could have chosen that might require viewer input.
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Aug 14, 2012 22:14
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Cultural nostalgia for shared pain would be an interesting anthropology paper 
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Aug 14, 2012 22:57
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Aug 15, 2012 18:06
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Battletoads was unusual in that even the murderously difficult part was fun. It just got less fun the 90th time you played it. I dimly recall getting to or past the snakes stage, but I never beat it.
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Aug 15, 2012 18:13
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The purpose of SA was to reach this point, so that GCCX episodes could be translated
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Aug 18, 2012 07:28
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I bust out laughing when he went underwater in the rally. and then start getting depth charges dropped on him. and then tanks.. The most hardcore dakar rally ever. I don't see how that game was anything but true to the spirit of the rally
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Aug 18, 2012 08:40
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I honestly still haven't adjusted to Arino just cracking wise at whatever - it's so... western. I'm used to japanese Decorum In All Things. Maybe comedians are given more leeway in the same way ours usually are.
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Aug 19, 2012 17:33
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I actually think the 3d mario games are on the higher end of the difficulty spectrum period. Zelda games too, to a lesser extent. Camera manipulation is _not_ a friendly or natural skill to learn with a pair of analog sticks for a new player. And that's ignoring manipulating it while dealing with crazy bullshit platforming that would be hard in 2d already.
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Orange Crush Rush posted:I got around to watching the SMW episodes, and yeah I find it kind of frustrating to watch someone be that bad at SMW. I seem to remember going through the _whole_ game actually being pretty loving exhausting. It was a long rear end game if you did every level.
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Aug 20, 2012 06:16
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DKC has the best drat music. For a game about a bunch of stupid monkies, it's one of my favorite platformers, up there with Yoshi's Island
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Aug 20, 2012 18:40
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I admire the iron restraint of their ADs to not tell him how to do something like that. It'd drive me completely nuts to watch him not use a fundamental action. Occasionally they pop in to help, but I can't recall them advising him on game mechanics/play style very often
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Aug 20, 2012 19:48
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I'm weirded out by all you 'not using spinjump' people  Also Arino's suffering is directly proportional to the entertainment value of any given episode
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Aug 21, 2012 04:33
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I suspect my life would be better in general if I had a Cameraman Abe to follow me around and set me straight in all things
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Aug 24, 2012 08:27
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Arino is enjoying Battletoads  My world is upside down Well, I guess the fact that it's easier helps. Everyone enjoyed Battletoads. Until they hated it
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Pablo Gigante posted:Eh, different people just have different skill sets. Arino seems to be really good at solving puzzles but his hand-eye coordination maybe isn't the best for action games. You would think he would improve though, after 9 years of the show He has, really. Not like 'holy crap he's actually good now', but I just couldn't see him tackling Battletoads in the first season or two. Go back and watch those episodes, he was _horrible_
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Sep 6, 2012 16:26
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He is a comedian by profession. Who says we aren't being trolled 
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Sep 7, 2012 02:53
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Wait, he did do Karnov?! So sweet. If he does that and Rygar I'll be so stoked.
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Sep 7, 2012 07:56
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Man, watching Battletoads kind of blew my mind. That game was light years beyond other nes games of the time, and a 'modern' rendition of it in terms of "drat near every stage has multiple mechanics and many of them new each level" wouldn't be the least bit dated. Too bad about the whole, you know, gently caress you difficulty part.
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If you're talking about the Lost Levels, that game is pure hell built to massacre overconfident children and make them into weeping bitter adults Or I could be misremembering, but I do recall it kicking my rear end sideways!
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The interview with the pokemon creator was extremely His games really reflect his personal whimsy, and that's a rare thing (and probably one reason they're still so popular today). It was fascinating listening to his creative process too, it was much more about experimenting with certain feelings and concepts and then seeing how to fit those within the framework of a game, rather than something so banal as 'we're going to make an rpg'. I wish I'd had the chance to meet some of that team, even through an interpreter. Many moons ago, I worked at Nintendo HQ here in the states during the early Pokemon days, but I never had the opportunity to meet with the japanese team.
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Ahahaha, holy poo poo that was great
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Mister Chief posted:Arino even mispronounces Japanese words if they're inserted into English sentences. It's like he's in a trance. I can relate to this - studying various asian languages makes reading english really weird when my brain is in 'parse these syllables completely differently' mode
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Three-Phase posted:Or he'll be speeding through a course, avoiding the cones, cornering with ease, and then at some arbitrary moment jerking the steering wheel, turning 90 degrees, and several seconds later slamming head-on into the wall at a hundred miles an hour. This sums up one of my friends who I've played multiplayer games with for many years to a T He's amazing 95% of the time, and 5% of the time performs the most spectacularly mindless fuckups that result in catastrophic failure (we made him play a healer in mmos, led to predictable hilarity in intense boss fights or raids)
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Is that outfit he wears something that Japanese employees actually have to wear at any job? Or just something suitably crappy and horrible because that's just how they roll? I was reflecting that he manages to make even an Asian temple background look completely terrible because that outfit is so drat ugly
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