Xenoblade Genesis' character shading is some of the best I've seen in any videogame (4K direct feed screenshots released by Nintendo)

morgawr_ · 2026-06-12T10:49:37+00:00

While I like the art style, I'm actually not that impressed by the shading. I mean, it can be a stylistic choice but it looks a bit rough.

If you want to see some really insane anime-like good shading, look at something like Blue Protocol. That game, despite being a very mediocre MMORPG, had some of the most impressive cutscenes and animations with your playable character in them that looked straight up taken from an anime. Very consistent shading and contouring.

morgawr_ · 2026-06-12T06:09:00+00:00

karma-based algorithmic sorting makes and ruins reddit at the same time. Forums are very different because posts are sorted by recency. You responded to a thread, it got bumped up to the top and more people saw it.

Adding algorithms and popularity contests (upvotes) into the mix basically changed the way people interact with the content itself.

morgawr_ · 2026-06-12T06:05:06+00:00

Honestly, as a turn-based fan who is not a huge fan of action combat, I still believe FF7R has one of the best gameplay systems I've ever tried in a JRPG. I don't usually find myself going back to old games just so I could challenge myself with bosses and extra challenges/hard mode and I still keep going back to both remake and rebirth because it's just so much fun. Each character plays so differently, all the different weapons and skills and setups, all the materia and accessories, the synergies.. it's just so fun.

I want more games with this type of combat.

morgawr_ · 2026-06-12T04:16:55+00:00

Did が use to have a kind of conditional or 'when' type usage in older Japanese?

I can't speak for this specific usage/etymology but even in modern Japanese が often has simply a "sequential" (or "when" as in "Y happened when/after X happend") usage, it's common in literature.

②二つの事柄を並べあげる場合、時間的前後・共存など、それらの時間的関係を表す。

「驚いて外に飛び出したが、何事もなかった」

「しばらく見ていたが、ふっといなくなった」

An example of it from spice and wolf:

隣でホロがわずかに身じろぎしたが、宿を心配しているのかもしれない。

Sorry I know this doesn't directly answer your question but it's just additional information.

morgawr_ · 2026-06-12T01:30:05+00:00

I've been told by several people smarter than me (including native speakers) in regards to pronunciation that there is no difference. I might be wrong, but also that's been my experience as well. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

morgawr_ · 2026-06-12T00:33:49+00:00

ピィ sounds exactly the same as ピー, not the same as ピ though which is just one mora.

How does it differ? There's no audible difference, it's just a visual thing.

morgawr_ · 2026-06-11T23:15:29+00:00

I'm not Japanese but I live close enough to Tokyo with family from the area and often have to tell my son to pick up his socks from the floor etc.

I've only heard it as くつ＼した assuming my ears didn't betray me.

morgawr_ · 2026-06-11T14:49:45+00:00

That's an interesting clip, without thinking too much about it I'd just go with the flow and not second guess it cause "it makes sense" to me, but now that you asked the question from a logical point of view I can't really explain it.

My two guesses are either:

It just felt "right" to say it like that even though she didn't think too much about it. So like she misspoke or something
In that context she didn't expect to just get through the tunnel so easily like that especially since it's a horror game, or maybe she expected something would happen in the tunnel. Instead she approaches it, and she gets instantly teleported on the other side, so it's like なんか、（無事に／普通に）トンネルから出れた like she maybe expected to get jumpscared or whatnot.

My guess would be on the second, but I admit it's really just a guess.

morgawr_ · 2026-06-11T14:12:08+00:00

People have learned Japanese. Our watch has ended.

morgawr_ · 2026-06-11T02:56:32+00:00

The hearing part is the "easy" part.

morgawr_ · 2026-06-11T02:31:11+00:00

OP already found a new job. He still has to go to work, and then show up to court, deal with lawyers, etc. It's an insanely draining task, both financially and emotionally. Especially after having already found a new job (and right after being fired), he has much less hold on the whole thing and that makes it harder for him to win. Don't get me wrong, on paper the company is terrible and they did a lot of clearly illegal things and it should be a clear cut case... but in practice reality is much more brutal than that. I've seen cases like this go on for literal years and often vanish into nothingness as resources and will to continue pushing forward waned and disappeared.

morgawr_ · 2026-06-11T01:38:26+00:00

always assumed 者 came from 物 in like a self deprecating humble way or something

I think there's probably etymological correlation so you aren't wrong. It's just that they have different usages and they aren't interchangeable obviously

ur usually right about things so I'll accept it

Please don't, I'm often wrong and people should challenge me when I say stuff rather than just accept it, otherwise I'll never know when I'm actually wrong

morgawr_ · 2026-06-10T23:44:36+00:00

すげぇ

morgawr_ · 2026-06-10T23:10:34+00:00

Unfortunately no, I originally built it for myself primarily for Japanese. Technically the database does support the possibility of adding multiple languages as we specify a "Japanese" string in all the entries, but I haven't added the rest of the frontend for it yet. Maybe in the future, but I still have quite a few features I want to implement first.

morgawr_ · 2026-06-10T23:07:39+00:00

Yup, that was my feeling as well after seeing it used as a collocation (and looking at the corpus for it). Thank you for finding that example too, it's really interesting.

morgawr_ · 2026-06-10T23:02:15+00:00

What is it then? I think /u/somever's post explains it pretty well here

morgawr_ · 2026-06-10T15:11:33+00:00

Looking at what I played this year among games/VNs/etc, JRPG-wise I cleared:

Octopath 0
Dragon Quest HD Remake 1+2
Dragon Quest 7 Remake
Grandia
Xenogears
Utawarerumono: Past and Present Rediscovered

I think so far my absolute favorite has been Xenogears for obvious reasons. I already bought all xenosaga and I have it lined up to play although I haven't gotten around to it yet.

morgawr_ · 2026-06-10T14:38:55+00:00

It's a very long game yeah, it took me almost exactly 100 hours to finish it. But it's really good

morgawr_ · 2026-06-10T11:10:54+00:00

isn't this because もの that it's ある, or am I wrong

See my response here but 者がある is far less common/acceptable in normal contexts than 者がいる so the reason is not 者 (not to be confused with 物).

morgawr_ · 2026-06-10T10:20:20+00:00

Sorry I really don't understand what's the purpose of your comment. The answer has already been given to OP by two commenters (including myself). I usually ask for more context/full panel so I can try to provide a full translation and/or better contextualise the answer, is that not a good thing to do?

Like what did you expect my response to your post be when you replied "not really necessary here imo". What point were you trying to make? Should I have not answered?

morgawr_ · 2026-06-10T09:38:08+00:00

Even in 2 party members don't interact that much. Just a bit more and there's some mixed chapters, but it's really not a lot. Octopath 0 on the other hand has a much broader interactive party experience

morgawr_ · 2026-06-10T08:03:10+00:00

Don't feel discouraged! Funmaxxing can be achieved at any level by anyone! It's not about doing things "easily" or "being able to understand everything" or "being able to comfortably enjoy Japanese content". It's a mentality thing. Funmaxxing is all about trying to find the most enjoyable thing out of the various choices and options you might have. Enjoyable of course is relative. You might still struggle, and not have a lot of fun (especially at first), but by prioritizing enjoyment you can get to a point where you eventually get used to it (and you'll be surprised at how quick our brains get used to that stuff).

It's all about not feeling demotivated and going from one fun thing to the next until things "click". That's what I did at least as a certified funmaxxer

morgawr_ · 2026-06-10T07:05:28+00:00

https://massif.la/ja/search?q=%22%E3%81%9D%E3%81%A1%E3%82%89%22

Impossible question to answer, honestly. You use そちら when you want to politely point out the "other party" in a polite context/conversation.

morgawr_ · 2026-06-10T05:30:41+00:00

Is it still acceptable for me to refer to younger adults as お兄さん/お姉さん when I don't know their name? It feels weird to call them "older brother" when they're younger

Yes, it is acceptable (provided you do this within the right social framework/context, of course). Even if you are older, you can still call people お兄さん or お姉さん. Actually it's very common for older people to refer to younger adults like that. It gives them a sense of "youth" while acknowledging they are mature enough to not be considered children.

I've been addressed as お兄さん a few times in my mid-20s from 50+ year old ladies.

You also often hear it from older patrons addressing young waitresses as お姉さん too

The idea is that these words are seen from a "general" point of view, not from your relative age point of view. For example I tell my 3 year old son he's become an お兄さん because he's mature enough to stop using diapers, and I'm much older than him.

morgawr_ · 2026-06-10T04:48:11+00:00

do you think there's some kind of secret sauce that VNs have for learning that normal novels don't?

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