からくりピエロ @palind - Tumblr Blog

i stopped giving a shit about "legit" purchases of digital products after i spent $80 on the entire Dark Horse collection of Trigun/Trigun Maximum ebook mangas, learning that I only got access to reading them through a proprietary website ereader function, couldn't download them, and couldn't get a refund, and then literally only a year later, getting an e-mail stating that Dark Horse was shutting down that part of their company and I wouldn't even be able to read them anymore. Fuck that

noelle-ism

Pirate shit. Don't feel bad for it. It's not "your fault" that artists, independent or otherwise, can't make a living. You downloading an album or ebook for free isn't the cause of the problem. The cause is capitalism, plain and simple, and pirating is a lucky loophole that will companies are still trying to stomp out.

ak794itomugi

corvidsyndrome

⚠️⚠️WARNING⚠️⚠️

⚠️⚠️THING SPOTTED⚠️⚠️

bunnygirlskull

Do you want your handjob crazy hand style or master hand style

bichromia

demonius-darkblade

one thing nobody has been talking about lately is how fucking badass piccolo is

goomboat

Shanghai Shanghai Shanghai Shanghai

goomboat

Hourai Hourai Hourai Hourai

crtter

As a Brazilian person, my opinion re: the whole Toby Fox thing is that I understand him wanting to preserve the double entendres and hidden meanings of his game’s text and only being able to do it to the extent he wants to when it comes to Japanese due to the fact he speaks it to a degree but like. Let’s not kid ourselves here, dude. I KNOW why you learned Japanese: it’s because you wanted to play video games in Japanese and watch untranslated anime. That’s why you can make sure your translation is coming across the way you want in Japanese: you understand their memes and pop culture references. The obvious solution to getting your game translated to the degree of precision you want is to find a nerd who learned English because they wanted to play video games in English and watch untranslated cartoons and, as a result, understands American memes and pop culture references. Completely unrelated to the topic at hand, but I’m currently out of a job and-

crtter

My resume: No degree in anything related to translation, has never lived in an English-speaking country, decided they’d understand English from then on at 13 because they wanted to watch the Fairly OddParents without subtitles and listen to “Weird Al” Yankovic songs. Fuck with me.

crtter

On a more serious note. This has probably been addressed much more eloquently by other people by now but something I feel that has been lost in the confusion is that Latin American UTDR fans didn’t bring up the lack of localization of Undertale into any languages other than Japanese out of nowhere. People started talking about it because it was revealed that the Undertale orchestra concert world tour would skip South America entirely. The fact that we also have nearly no access to official UTDR goods due to the fact Toby will only work with Fangamer and they charge a small fortune to ship to South America from their US location despite having having European and Japanese branches also contributed quite a bit to the general discontentment around the subject.

None of these things, mind you, are unique to Toby Fox’s intellectual properties. It’s just one instance of a very common pattern when it comes to the way media is distributed, and that’s why it’s so frustrating! I don’t think it’s on purpose at all or born of any sort of malice, but I DO think that the fact their work is appreciated in places other than North America, Europe and Japan sometimes will never cross the minds of creators born in “first world” countries. There’s a reason why “come to Brazil” became a meme, after all. It’s a comment you’d see a lot in music videos on YouTube and social media accounts of singers and bands because it’s not uncommon for them to just… never perform here throughout their whole careers.

So it’s not just about the localization thing (as much as I think Toby is definitely overestimating the amount of micromanaging he has to do to make sure his “vision” comes across as he wants it to in other languages). It’s about the message that, even if not intended, Latin American fans of basically anything receive over and over again: you’re not getting any nice things because we kind of, like, forgot you exist? Try being born in a more important country next time.