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Remembered to add something here. Most census data on the subject shows that the demographics are far more equal with gender, with males only getting a very slight majority and that getting smaller and smaller each year. It only often feels like a male dominated hobby because those are the people who most often dominate the online spaces regarding it which can create an unequal perception on who is actually playing these games most of the time. I mean if you couldn't already tell I'm not particularly unsympathetic towards communism so it was meant to be an example Nobody is saying it's great, the system as we live in it is just too much for some people and I sympathize with anybody whom the expectations of their job plus the act of doing it are destroying them from the inside. Most jobs are out of necessity. If you want to have a roof over your head and food to eat for you and your family, you have to work, it is the way of things. A poor cashier trying to make ends meet has much much more to worry about than putting all their love into each of their daily shifts.

Being told to always be professional is the hallmark of corporate driven profit. It doesn't not benefit the worker in the slightest to act professional to a tee, it only effects the company's image which is why they drive it so hard. If you think you have to sacrifice comfort for absolute professionalism despite the fact that the company does not reward you with any additional material benefit then you have fallen victim to their propaganda. Who are you trusting to say what is and isn't authentic? A fluent speaker of both? Because if not then what authority do you have in saying a certain translation is more authentic to the original version than another? Regardless, all translation is a form of interpretation because no language perfectly maps onto each other like pallet swaps, especially not Japanese and English who have evolved completely independently from each other. As an example I could say "Konnichiwa" translates to "Hello" in English and we commonly understand it as such, but it also could translate to "Good afternoon" "Good morning" "How's it going" "Hi" and so on. The word doesn't literally translate to anything because there's no such thing as a single language map that the Gods use for every language. It has always just be an interpretation from translators to connect words that have the same use cases in their respective societies. etymologically speaking the words "Hello" and "Konnichiwa" have absolutely zero relation to each other historically but are interpreted as translating into other because they are used in the same contexts. That is just one simple greeting phrase. Now imagine that nuance for the entire language and how things like different grammar functionality have to give some form of interpretation. I specified that fans aren't a monolith and that the fans I was referring to are the ones actively antagonizing the workers. That I specified that and you still went onto the defense, in effect claiming that behavior as being endemic to fandom as a whole, then that is certainly disappointing. So I ask again, who are you more willing to side with? The specific sect of fans sending death threats to a translator? Or the translator trying to push back against the harassment? Unless of course you deny that something like that is even happening and every single fan has always been acting in good faith. Perhaps, but that has nothing to do with translation or localization conceptually, it's about individual character, something that I personally would also find pretty irritable if I had a two year deadline for a localization that requires six. There's no "evil localizer" conspiracy. It is the perfect excuse if your definition of "The Fans" is really just the small demographic of a fanbase who are invested in this and not even close to representing the entire group of people who might consider themselves a fan. The people's communist party very rarely has much of "The People" actually within it if you get what I'm saying. Hey now. Don't get too political with what has been one of the core discussions in politics for the past 200 years and still going strong. If you like to work hard than good for you. Some others however try to work as hard as they can because they are told they will achieve great things and well...there's a reason the suicide rate in this country is so high.

Especially if the studio is based in the US the pay is usually never enough on it's own which is why most of these freelancers are working on multiple projects around the same time.

That's just the thing isn't it, the company isn't paying you anymore for working harder or more productive, they'd shoot you dead to make a profit. Why, as a worker, spend far more time than what is reasonably good for one's mental health to do everything perfectly when you can do good enough and the only people who will notice are those more mentally invested in the project than you could ever have time for. The vast majority of people watching these localized shows aren't particularly miffed about it, because if you are invested enough in an overseas show to want to watch in it's quote on quote "original form" then you have plenty access to it already, no official translation is depriving you of that experience, if you trust the work of machines or amateurs to make it authentic then they are there to do so. It being a complaint is what bugs me. Complaint implies a hindrance of life, of self determination. Translation differences and preferences are points of discussion, because I'll reiterate again that all translation is a form of interpretation that only a fluent speaker could ever verify the authenticity of. Then the people may send those complaints to the CEOs I mentioned earlier and not the workers trifled under them. The fans aren't monolithic and consist of a variety of different people with different views and reactions. It does not change that some fans are directing their complaints to a minimum wage worker, essentially directing all responsibility onto them and fault to them, antagonizing them, accusing them. My question for you is who are you most inclined to side with? Who do you relate to the most?

I mean complaining about the work of an underpaid individual because of the minute details of a translation not being 1 to 1 with the original language (A feat that is impossible to confirm the true authenticity of if you aren't a speaker of both) is peak consumerism towards capitalistic incentivized art, let alone harassment. Who is at fault here? Is it the company pushing harsh deadlines and inconsistent information between overseas teams? Or is it the single freelancer just trying to make a living with the little cut they get for their work?

So just throwing some ideas... Personally I think they just need to hire more bisexual artists, that would fix the issue right up. Give Ethlyn a side quest to get her daughter back so she can be in Thracia 1776 or whatever it's called.

I'd honestly have so much respect for this game if they allowed you to do that and it changed the story someway, or at least changed some dialogue.

The saddest part about this death is that I never got to see her promoted animations. Fuck it, might as well use this thing before the timeskip. I- How did you get here? The council of pony tailed gingers In either case the main problem was the writers lampshading gayness while refusing to actually add aside from two characters and only with Corrin. Personally if feel that if you're gonna make a game where the player gets to decide who marries who, you should just make everyone bisexual at that point, why limit yourself, they're gonna write fanfiction about it anyways. This is one of those games where I'm willing to bet at least a quarter of regular players never play all the way to the end.

Ehhh, lets not be Irish nationalists too early, don't want to pull a reverse UK on the Scots, Welsh, and Anglish in this timeline. This shall be a multicultural empire united by faith and region! Ignore the fact that all the English and Welsh Duchies are owned by Irish nobles because they didn't let me choose local rulers. The life of this queen was truly insane. She outlived all her daughters, defended successfully against an invasion of thrice the Empire's military size and managed to best it with the defense of all the combined Duchies and Petite Kingdoms armies from peasants to nobles on her side. And she declared the new Empire of Celtia and was crowned it's first Empress. She lived to be older than any member in her dynasty had before, pushing strong at 72 without even becoming an Infirm yet. Empress 'The Adèle Tuatha Dé Danann' of Celtia. I might call the run there honestly, I feel that's a satisfying climax to the Dimasaigh dynasty. I know there's outta be more stuff to do like keep this new Empire stable, continue trying to defend against hostile Catholic Europe, the Bubonic Plague, and whatever else but I feel ready to move onto other sections of the map. Yeah I definitely didn't save scum every time my army lost a battle. Yikes. With the new president you'd be arrested on the spot for affiliating with Gang members with that kind of talk.

This is only partially related but I have heard how there are Japanese fans of western English shows that also argue if either subs or dubs are better. But to the point I would have to imagine there's an agreement that direct translations are incomprehensible with how different the languages are.

I-It all happened so fast. Side note The OG Khan had already died before I checked the leader screen but apparently he was called Temujin 'the Feeble' which is incredibly funny.

What a coincidence.

Not even a mechanic in the game, you pay money proportional to the size of your army for ships crossing oceans into territory and that's it. Though truthfully I'm glad about that, focusing on infantry and boats during war sounds like hell. Either way any forceful attempt to grab those duchies is going to be met with the full force of the HRE plus allies and Holy Orders and whatever Catholic leaders might want to join.

Reclaiming Britannia from these three tumors may be difficult.

This is why I prefer to just let my words speak for themselves rather than make a rating that only really makes sense to myself with everyone else having to go off of their own interpretations of what the numbered rating or rank means. An 8/10 for one game could be completely different from another 8/10 game, and with thoughts and opinions on media constantly changing over time, a rating a fairly permanent mark on what is an impermanent experience.