It can go either way, but there’s only so many works that can be published and I feel that isekais literally cannot be any more abundant

I’d watch an isekai satire about a truck. Please let it be so good that they stop making isekais for a few years afterward. I watch like 3 animes per year, none of them are isekais, and my feed is filled with them. I don’t want it. Stop

Snitches can’t afford stitches due to duplicitous economic machinations.

That’s not bad. I can finally try piefed for more than 20 seconds at a time

I just don’t like the web interface on piefed. It visually blends the posts together, and that sets off some primal fear within me.

Joker has several scenes lifted directly from black swan, completely cinematographically identical. Black swan did the same to perfect blue, which I always find funny. Their premises also aren’t as dissimilar as you might think. Watched all 3 in a row with family and we had fun noticing the similarities. Don’t watch perfect blue with your parents.

Loved black swan and the joker, so I’m bound to enjoy watching their progenitor, right?

My father used to translate books and managed about a page per hour with an editor to offer notes. I stand by 2-3 weeks to manually translate 50 pages of dialogue and exposition to a great, shippable quality. It’s more difficult when the subject matter is this disjointed, but I don’t imagine it would slow someone down by more than 4x. Particularly if there are notes on tone and premise available.

A good translation of a game with only like 50 pages of text. They could bust out a passable translation within a week. How long would a great one take? Like two, three weeks to write?

I don’t mean to disparage my favorite game, but it was absolutely luck. Everything comes down to luck, whether it’s catching the attention of the right person, settling into the store at the right time, or any number of little things. Having an excellent product is irrelevant compared to the fickleness of reality. You’ve described hundreds, if not thousands of games that failed.

Skill is an intrinsic part of the equation, but everything comes down to luck.

To play devil’s advocate, their incredible sales were absolutely up to luck. Like all things. But you’re right, people online are rarely worth listening to, unless you’d like the perspective of people who spend above average time on the internet. People without similar moorings to yours, and generally lacking the background that led you to your perspective and understanding. There are many benefits, and many downsides to polling the web.

I personally prefer using a browser, so it’s to my preference. Though I don’t like gog’s interface much.

0 drm, and you can play entirely offline. Gog’s def the better choice here. How’re you going to play silksong after gestures broadly goes to shit?

Because aaa developers are in the business of the business of making games. As in financing, shuffling money, stock appreciation, selling assets at opportune times, etc… They are no longer interested in making games, they’re trying to make infinite money through an established ecosystem.

From what I remember of a game I never played, she’s 100% robot, 0% organic. Why’s she human shaped and wearing hot goth clothes normally? Is it explained at all?

Eh, it’s just not worth the effort to get a tablet that will still run poorly even after poring over half deleted xda threads. Were there any chance that the original surface running another OS could be useful, I’d do it. But it’d be a poor experience no matter what, based on what I’ve read.

And it seems like android sucks on there as well. Damn.

You’re describing a sturdy tablet running Linux. Speaking of which, I just remembered the worst gift I have ever been given, a gen1 windows surface! The sack of shit couldn’t even run windows, the OS it was designed for, without freezing. Gonna see if I can dig it out and swap the OS!

Used enterprise minis are dirt cheap. The only downside is that they guzzle electricity compared to a low spec pi, but they can do much more, so don’t be afraid to give them additional tasks.

Kids really need to be introduced to Linux earlier. None of this iPad baby shit.