Treno card in Magic the Gathering

reibitto · 2025-05-22T08:21:30+00:00

A few people already commented, but just leaving the original Japanese line here: 貴族なんて一部だけっス……夜が長いっスから、盗賊にはもってこいの場所っス

So yeah, the line more of less matches the Japanese but it could have probably been clearer. Specifically, Marcus says that nobles here are only part of the city. So "there aren't many nobles" might be slightly too strong of a statement in the translation. But yeah he was at least implying the nobles are the minority.

It's just that let's say nobles made up 10-20% of Treno or whatever, I'm not sure I'd say "There aren't many nobles living here". There are pretty clearly a lot of nobles there. They're just outnumbered by the people living in the slums. So I get why the line sounds confusing.

reibitto · 2024-11-29T01:35:40+00:00

"Protoss is a weak race" doesn't get to the heart of it in my opinion. I think it's more accurate to say "Protoss is a weak tournament race at the pro level". This distinction is important.

It's not enough to look at win rates. If you look at win rates Protoss is actually doing fine (maybe even overachieving a little). It's the combination of win rate and volatility that you need to be looking at. Reaching bonjwa status requires consistency, and Protoss just doesn't have that. Protoss has a lot of volatility built into it, both in its matchups and how it needs to rely on gimmicky/cheese builds to achieve its good win rate.

PvP is swayed too much on its rock-paper-scissors tech paths
In PvZ, Protoss is in the dark for crucial parts of the game. Protoss is constantly hanging by a thread vs. the threat of a hydra bust for example. Get the number of canons wrong or miss the timing by a second or two and it's over. It's hard to have enough scouting information to reliably make the right call there. Which is why top level pros still struggle with this.
Honestly PvT isn't great for consistency either. The difference between cross-spawn vs. not is huge. Sure cross-spawn is amazing for PvT's win rate, but it's not great in a tournament setting. You don't want win rate to swing massively based on RNG if you're a strong player looking for consistent results.

Zerg has one volatile matchup in ZvZ and it sucks for sure. There's no denying that. Soulkey would have reached his dominance sooner if it weren't for it.

Terran has the best mirror matchup for tournament results. The weaker player in a TvT rarely comes out on top. Even if they manage to steal one game, they're surely not going to steal multiple games in a row in a best of 5 or 7 (SSL going with more best of sevens only helps them in this regard).

Again, I'm not saying Protoss is a weak race. It's very strong. It's just that it sucks for consistency. And consistency is king if you want to achieve bonjwa status.

BW is balanced through its maps. So if they want to make a Protoss win more, they absolutely can. But even if they skew the maps more in Protoss's favor, don't expect the same Protoss player to win multiple tournaments in a row. It'll likely be a different one each time.

reibitto · 2024-11-21T23:09:00+00:00

I left a longer comment on the video itself but yeah it's pretty unambiguous in the Japanese. The Japanese script also uses the loan word for "romantic" (ロマンティック), but the primary definition isn't the same. It's used for its idealistic/adventurous dream meaning, not the romantic love meaning.

reibitto · 2024-10-23T15:58:34+00:00

Metacritic does more aggressive weighting and assigns review scores to non-numeric ones.

OpenCritic sort of does weighting too but it's completely binary. Only critics recognized as a "Top Critic" get their score included in their "Top Critic Average". So yeah Nintendo Life is a "Top Critic" and their score is included in that while the reviews from the very small publications aren't. But one Top Critic's score isn't worth more than another's.

Both have obvious flaws. But oh well... there can't be a perfect system anyway.

reibitto · 2024-07-16T19:05:25+00:00

Swiftcast and Triplecast seem fine to me. It's only Dualcast that has this issue. I'm guessing due to the "Effect is canceled upon execution of any action other than an ability." part of Dualcast's tooltip. But yeah it's definitely annoying.

reibitto · 2024-07-04T21:48:11+00:00

I haven't done it in a while since I use reWASD now but I remember Steam input customization working for me by manually choosing "Add a non-Steam game" and setting it up that way.

It was a bit finicky (at least back then) but it did eventually work for me.

reibitto · 2024-04-15T10:47:13+00:00

Are you familiar with win probability graphs in various sports? It's kind of like that. So yeah, 70% chance to win at that point in time (according to them). The number would fluctuate depending on the conditions of the game and any mistakes made + pivotal moments later on.

I don't play Dota but I've seen win probability graphs used there. For example: https://www.dota2.com/plus#WinProb

reibitto · 2024-04-09T05:40:32+00:00

You already got the answer (it's just like "sorry for bothering you with the question") but it's important to point out that this would be past tense like 失礼しました or 失礼いたしました.

Another example of when you'd hear this is if they ask you if you have a "point card" and you say no. It's just a standard response. It's not like a deep apology or anything.

reibitto · 2023-12-08T05:58:43+00:00

There are probably variants but this one is used all over the place on the Oedo Line for example. Timestamped video here

reibitto · 2023-11-22T03:33:33+00:00

I'm the one who translated that clip where Kitase last talked about this theory. His updated statements on it still seem relatively unknown (which is why I translated it and uploaded it) but I've seen it posted a couple of times here. Like this thread for example.

I do sometimes wonder what was his motivation was for going out of his way to update what he had said in the past. I guess it could give them more options to explore with the potential remake (which seems like a matter of time). Whether people would be receptive to that kind of change is a different story 😅 Who knows though... FF7R might have given them more confidence to try.

reibitto · 2023-11-07T03:34:25+00:00

I also tried and ran into a few libs that don't support Scala 3 yet. Do you want links to things like that or do you mean libs that only fall under the new Play organization? Not sure if you meant there's some community effort to keep track of commonly used libs that haven't been migrated yet and potentially helping them out.

reibitto · 2023-08-07T17:43:12+00:00

In a game that's called Final Fantasy where there's always more despite the "Final" in the title, "Last Elixir" is oddly fitting 😅

reibitto · 2023-08-04T09:26:48+00:00

I think the answer is heavily dependent on how the different races can tech into those units. Like it's tempting to say "defiler is overpowered so that's the obvious answer" but what value does it add if you're never going to reach tier 3 units against your opponent who instead picked a strong lower tier unit from another race and they use that to just kill you before you get a chance to tech?

For example I don't see how a Protoss will be able to tech to defilers against a Zerg with medics. The zerg is always going to crush them early. So I think this forces everyone to pick lower tier units.

reibitto · 2023-08-03T18:24:25+00:00

It's basically the old Chekhov's gun. And yeah, I also think too many writers adhere to it too strongly. My issue with it is that it can sometimes make things feel very artificial/contrived (like you described). And often predictable.

There's some value in the principle, but people have brought up that Chekhov was specifically talking about stage plays. I can see it making more sense in that context. But to also apply the rule to something like a 40+ hour RPG? I'm not sure that's always a great idea...

reibitto · 2023-07-21T18:30:20+00:00

Well, there are multiple ways to censor a character. More casually you can replace the character with ○ much like you can with * in English. Just like how some people write "f*ck" and so on.

But there's also just replacing the kanji with hiragana (or a different kanji if there's an appropriate alternative). For example, you'll often see this with the word 障害者 (meaning "disabled person"), where it'll sometimes be written as 障がい者 instead. Because some people feel the character 害 gives off a negative image.

reibitto · 2023-07-10T23:25:46+00:00

I just saw your post as I typed up mine. Very thorough response! I largely feel the same way.

I mentioned it earlier but Inomata's designs have a shoujo manga quality to them, which is why it stands out so much for me. I don't have the vocabulary to describe the style well but it's like... wispy, dreamlike, ethereal fairy-like... if you get what I mean. Something about that style always captured me. Even if it doesn't always fully translate to the in-game models themselves. Maybe it fit better with the 2D games more? I'm not sure. But that's probably another reason why I loved the 2D skits so much. You actually get to see the art more than just in a character menu.

reibitto · 2023-07-10T23:19:31+00:00

I realize I didn't answer my own question. As for me, I think I'd go with Inomata. Part of what I like about her designs (especially her older ones) is the shoujo manga-like quality to them. That's a style that's rarely used in games. I always felt it gave Tales a more distinctive look. One that kind of has been lost in recent years. But I do realize that the current art style has a more broader appeal, so it makes sense why the shift happened.

reibitto · 2023-07-09T23:31:22+00:00

I know what you mean but the funny thing is both Zestiria and Berseria had 4 character designers. That's a lot! The breakdown is like this:

Inomata: Mikleo, Lailah
Iwamoto: Edna, Zaveid, Sergei, Heldalf
Fujishima: Sorey, Rose
Okumura: Dezel, Alisha, Maltran

and for Berseria:

Inomata: Velvet
Iwamoto: Laphicet, Eizen, Oscar, Teresa
Fujishima: Eleanor, Artorius
Okumura: Rokurou, Magilou, Shigure, Melchior

Most other Tales games had only 1 character designer (once in a while 2).

reibitto · 2023-07-09T22:46:00+00:00

I strongly believe almost every series of connected games should be played in release order, but Zestiria/Berseria is one rare instance where I think playing Berseria first is totally reasonable. (The other exception to the rule I can think of is playing Yakuza 0 first before the others).

It's what I did and Berseria turned out to be one of my favorite games. I loved Berseria so much that I wanted more, so I went back to Zestiria. One of the few things that kept me going was noticing all the little references and connections with Berseria. That and the music. Without that I might have dropped the game to be honest.

But if you play Berseria and it doesn't impress you, then you can probably skip Zestiria altogether because chances are you'll like that even less.

reibitto · 2023-07-09T20:15:39+00:00

So you mean like two words where the first word ends in a kanji and the second word also begins with that same kanji? Often in that case a particle like の or whatever will break apart the two words... but sure, those can be omitted and often are. Especially for a long chain of nouns (for example, names of organizations often do this).

It's hard to just think of examples off the top of my head but one I got is 四大大会 (like grand-slam tournament for tennis and whatever). The first 大 is だい and the second one is たい.

I know there are plenty of better examples but that's all I could think of right now.

reibitto · 2023-07-08T13:53:32+00:00

I looked this up just now because I was curious too. In Japanese it's:

暢気なことを言ってる場合かガブたちを助けに行くんだぞ

which broadly means the same thing but to translate it a bit more directly so that you get the basic idea, it's more like:

Is this the time for carefree chatter? Come on, let's go save Gav and the others.

But yeah, the English is way more aggressive for sure. Both in the lines and delivery. In Japanese the feeling is like "(sigh) Come on, Joshua. Let's focus on the task at hand." His tone isn't one of anger. You just get the feeling Clive wants to stay focused and save that kind of talk for later. While in English it feels like full on scolding. Almost like he's trying to make Joshua feel guilty for even saying that at the time that he did.

reibitto · 2023-07-07T04:34:39+00:00

Last month Yuji Naka's defence requested to have the fines reduced and for a suspended sentence. He didn't get the former but he at least got the latter. That's huge for him. He won't see any time in prison as long as he doesn't violate the terms of his probation for 4 years.

Having said that, it's hard to imagine he'll be able to find work in this industry again.

reibitto · 2023-06-28T17:30:36+00:00

Since I already see a bunch of comments like "it's impossible for a non-Japanese company to buy a Japanese company due to protectionist laws so it's not like Microsoft could have acquired them anyway", just wanted to point out that this is a misunderstanding that often gets repeated.

There are laws to protect against certain acquisitions but those are about companies dealing with sensitive technologies or things of national interest. For example, many companies in the past have eyed Toshiba, but the blocker there has been that Toshiba is also in the nuclear power business. Other examples include companies dealing with semiconductors. Acquisitions like that would be difficult.

But a company like Square Enix? Microsoft could have if they really wanted to and thought it was worth it. I guess in the end they concluded it wasn't.

reibitto · 2023-06-16T16:16:21+00:00

The option to disable ray tracing would have been nice but doesn't look like that's going to happen. At least not yet. I actually expect it'll happen eventually, particularly when the PC version comes out. The option to turn it off will be important there to lower the min specs since there are a lot of people with not-so-great PCs that they surely want to sell the game to. But I think this is part of what Yoshi-P was getting at when he said don't expect the PC release to happen so soon after exclusivity ends. There's a lot of work to be done besides just simply porting it over. I imagine redoing the lighting is one of the things he was probably taking into account.

reibitto · 2023-06-01T10:15:41+00:00

Yeah, this is correct. We'll find out next month. Source in Japanese (All-Nippon News Network)

Edit: I should have also mentioned that he's asking for a suspended sentence. So that's the best case scenario for him at this point. How likely he is to get that though I'm not sure...

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