It's not even just nowadays. Translations in the past were frequently very bad. Games already had some censorship in the past (a lot of it because of retarded religious shit, and also really arbitrary complete nonsense, like certain words being "violent"), but they were also translated like shit because the people doing it didn't really know Japanese, or didn't really know English, or didn't know either, and/or did not give a shit because "kids are retarded, they don't know quality, and it's just a game and games don't matter". Really, it was always pretty bad. When I see that something has a fan translation, I tend to go with that over the official because I trust random fans way more to be accurate than I trust any fucking business.
For the purpose of selling, I'd definitely pick Devuan over Artix. Though realistically, whoever buys it will probably just install Windows on it anyway.
Very good idea, actually. Basically an officially-released mod. That solves everything. Hell, they can't even ban it from being sold, in that case. The only sad thing is that the physical copies will need online patches to play as intended. Still, less sad than going to jail for importing something the government doesn't like, which can happen.
A lot of stuff doesn't get a decent release (some stuff that I have wanted to play for a long time never got translated at all), but I can just play the stuff that does. And realistically, I'll not have the time to play everything I want to play anyway. Still, knowing Japanese is optimal, because then you never have to worry about that again, you pretty much always get the best version of everything.
No, but it wouldn't matter anyway, just like it didn't then. They just paid a fine (that I'm sure the judge or some politician enjoyed), and kept doing what got them sued in the first place, with no consequences at all.
That would be great, but also pretty much impossible. Would probably not sell nearly as much, and it would only work for physical copies of games, that most people don't buy anymore. In the case of PC, I'm not even sure that they still exist. Hell, a lot of game discs are empty and the game is just downloaded from the internet anyway.
Anyway, this is a big reason why I wanted to learn Japanese. It's actually not as much of a problem for older games, because a lot of them have unofficial translations, even though an official one exists, because it's complete shit. and fans did it better. Of course, I just started leaving games like that for later, but then I ended up not playing them for years and now I can't play newer games anyway, and also, seems kinda silly to make future investments in my position, considering that I don't think I have much of a future anyway.
And there are plenty of other things I can do, like actually enjoying things that have been translated while that is still possible. Even if I do have a future, the sun will probably nuke technology out of existence anyway, so most of human culture will be wiped out. Only books can really survive, but even then, the floods will take care of most of those.
The main reason is that Devuan is at least stable, and it's less stupid than Debian itself (though actually, systemd has the advantage that all the tutorials out there assume that you're using it, which is good for beginners that don't even know what an init is). You can even read reviews, you don't see any complaints about the entire system imploding for no reason, or being slow as hell because of everything being a snappak. You see a lot of those for pretty much every "beginner" distribution, and comments about how the distribution isn't what it used to be.
I don't know what's so hard about making a distribution for beginners, but no one can pull it off. Really, all you need is XFCE (if it's the most stable) and a GUI for the package manager and that's enough. Synaptic does the job, but I guess beginners would like something with pictures so they don't have to look programs up online just to see them. But yeah, that is the only thing that has to be made. How do they manage to screw everything else up?
All that a beginner needs is a tool for installing programs with (just by being an interface for the package manager, not being its own package manager, apparently Manjaro did that, they went out of their way to work extra hard to make things not work), and a system that doesn't break, and maybe configuring the desktop environment a bit. Somehow even that is too difficult.
You can always expect things like this to be implemented earlier in Scandinavia, because not only is there zero resistance to people losing their rights, they will line up to volunteer to give them away.
The kool kidz klub list that we all aspire to be in one day. Along with being banned from Israel, those two go together for some reason. I'm sure it's just a coincidence!
I heard some pretty horrific shit about Mint in more recent times. But I guess even then, it can't be worse than base Ubuntu, right? Right?
Unfortunately, as far as I can tell from what I read, "beginner" distributions pretty much all suck. None of them are reliable, and all of them are made by retards. At least the ones I looked at had some reviews that really made me not want to recommend them.
If I was going to introduce someone to Linux right now, it would not be that simple. Would probably go with Devuan plus some explanations of how to use Synaptic, or whatever. And the dumb shit that it inherits from Debian.
Actually, there are video game accessories that end with pro for no reason, and if you own them, they instantly make you say, a professional Atari player. Those are cool.
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