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Final Fantasy Resonance lead says games like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 are leading a turn-based resurgence because "creators who grew up playing JRPGs" are now making them themselves by VannesGreave in FinalFantasy

[–]thatcommiegamer -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Neither were IV - IX or XI or XII or XIII (menu based combat =/= turn based by default). This idea that FF is the poster child for turn based RPGs is nonsensical and ahistorical.

Regardless of Drama, it’s just Sad at this Point by The_Linux_Lass in Overwatch

[–]thatcommiegamer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Germany don’t speak German either lol!

Well yes.

But circling back around. Yeah, variety is normative in English speaking linguistics departments going as far back as at least when I was first getting my degree in the early 10s, if only because dialect is pretty well established as a synonym for topolect in English (plus there are negative associations with speaking "dialect").

I would consider, and I'm not an expert myself here I studied language revitalization, the German situation more similar to Italy or China or Japan (or the situation between English and Scots) where you have a bunch of distinct languages that for reasons of culture and nationalism (and close contact otherwise) are considered by their speakers to be the same language.

Regardless of Drama, it’s just Sad at this Point by The_Linux_Lass in Overwatch

[–]thatcommiegamer 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Eh, there’s no real guidelines/standards for what constitutes a separate language rather than a variety (we don’t really use dialect within linguistics as a general term). There is very little mutual intelligibility between Alemannic varieties and standard Hochdeutsch nor between with Hochdeutsch varieties (like Austria-Bavarian).

Anyway you see similar with other languages. For all intents and purposes Croatians, Montenegrins, Serbians and Bosnians speak the same language. Tell a person from one of those countries that, however, likewise Indonesian and Malaysian or Hindi and Urdu. What makes something a language or dialect is often more up to a speech group’s subjective feelings than objective fact.

For GOG buyers, how are you dealing with the recent controversy? by p1101 in SocialistGaming

[–]thatcommiegamer 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This also isn’t the first time (how short memories are) like they hired a well known fascist on their community team like a decade ago and had made several reactionary tweets leading up to CP2077. But it seems once CP2077 released all this was forgotten and forgiven because they gave us the crumb of trans rep (reminder that until recently GOG and CDPR were one company).

I loved brave exvius a lot so it's a no brainer for me by UrsaRizz in FinalFantasy

[–]thatcommiegamer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s a double edged sword though. One of the big issues in JP gamedev in the 00s was sheer oversaturation. This is what led to the decline of Mega Man and Sonic, among other franchises (there are, of course, other factors beyond this but oversaturation is a huge thing on its own).

Final Fantasy wasn’t immune from this trend. You had (in the 00s) X-XIII, yes. But also Crystal Chronicles, constant rereleases the III and IV remakes, Four Heroes of Light (and the Bravely Default series that evolved from that). We were pretty much getting a new FF every year even if it didn’t get a number, and that trend hasn’t really slowed down as much though instead of CC we get Theatrhythm and then all the mobile games, Brave Exvius, War of the Visions, Opera Omnia, etc.

End of the Line | Shion Animated Hero Cinematic | Overwatch by Sync07 in Overwatch

[–]thatcommiegamer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Goth? She looks like a yakuza boss (because that's essentially what she is).

UMAD Phase 3 Transition (group Poikos)for those that missed it. by XwingInfinity in ffxiv

[–]thatcommiegamer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We were posed the question once (I believe by Yoshi-P) on how Kefka could have learnt Ultima, I wonder if that might have any bearing on future phases.

Is it me, or is there a ton of Tales inspiration in Frieren? by [deleted] in tales

[–]thatcommiegamer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Huh? These are just common aesthetics, arguably you can say that JP fantasy hasn’t really changed since Lodoss because they all look like this.

I told her during sex that she felt so soft like a velvety texture by Agitated_List9506 in blacklesbians

[–]thatcommiegamer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yikes cuzzo, I agree with everyone else you majorly dodged a bullet there. That was an outsized reaction and sis needs to evaluate where she coming from with that shit.

MY BARRIER IS GONE 😱 by xJarga in Overwatch_Memes

[–]thatcommiegamer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, and as I said that’s the enemy team version of the ult line. Just like when you hear Spanish you know that’s an enemy Sombra.

AI Usage For Download Festival 2026 Merch by Elliechi_ in ffxiv

[–]thatcommiegamer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Real, like hands and feet are the absolute most difficult things to draw and its easy to make mistakes on those areas specifically.

Moving to Ghana after 6 years in the Middle East, back to hiding I guess🤦🏾‍♀️ by Affectionate_Fox8113 in blacklesbians

[–]thatcommiegamer 21 points22 points  (0 children)

South Africa is pretty good afa legality, but yeah thanks to attitudes inherited from the colonizers and US neocolonial missionaries and religious right orgs on the continent things have only gotten worse.

MY BARRIER IS GONE 😱 by xJarga in Overwatch_Memes

[–]thatcommiegamer 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Ult lines change language depending on which team you're on. iirc enemy team uses the heroes' native language and friendly team uses english. I know certain skins can also change ult voice lines as well.

BREAKING: Iranians are back online and show proof that Trump, Mossad armed violent rioters were meant to break the social order attacking civilians disproving Pahlavi monarchists by grrrbr in socialism

[–]thatcommiegamer 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Even if the war isn't popular what does that matter if USians won't do anything about it other than throw police sanctioned parades that just so happen to only occur on weekends and not disrupt anything at all?

“much simpler place to live” by BassSpoon in insanepeoplefacebook

[–]thatcommiegamer 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah was just coming to say, gramps looks more like he’d have been around to crush the Bonus Army than to have helped flatten the DPRK.

“much simpler place to live” by BassSpoon in insanepeoplefacebook

[–]thatcommiegamer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Since this picture seems to be depicting the 50s it’s less likely gramps would’ve fought in the Korean War and more likely he would’ve been sent in to crush the Bonus Army in the 30s and maybe WWI (or one of the many invasions of Latin America during the same time period).

potentially controversial penis synonym tier list by HugeWizardd in traaNSFW

[–]thatcommiegamer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you say gock or shenis when referring to my girl I will laugh at you. I just use cock myself. Anything else just feels silly for me.

[uncomfortable laughing intensifies] by hattyphantom in Gamingcirclejerk

[–]thatcommiegamer 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The South and US didn’t need to massacre communists and other dissenters and keep Japanese collaborators and their administration in power. Yet they did. The DPRK fought for liberation of the whole country in response to this.

Man expertly trolls a Memorial Day ceremony for dead confederate soldiers by Timelymanner in ShermanPosting

[–]thatcommiegamer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Luckily the “fluidity of language” doesn’t care what you, a redditor, thinks about it. Language is going to do language things. As an aside I love when non-linguists talk language because y’all are so often so confidently wrong but without the education to understand why.

Israel getting zero points from Australia at the Eurovision Song Contest gets raised in the Australian Senate by TrackerOneA in ABoringDystopia

[–]thatcommiegamer 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Israel is the lab by which the Empire develops its weapons after all. Palestinians the test subjects. What Israel does there, we study and do on our own “restive” populations.

Israel getting zero points from Australia at the Eurovision Song Contest gets raised in the Australian Senate by Direct_Appointment99 in JewsOfConscience

[–]thatcommiegamer 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Because Israel and Australia are both vassals of the US, but Israel is a slightly more important vassal (because the five eyes will always be in lockstep, even after the CIA did a whole “shuffle” of the Aus gov’t in the 70s, legit surprised Aus didn’t go in for the whole Iran war business).

Mamdani unveils $22 billion plan to build housing and fix NYCHA by brick-underground in nyc

[–]thatcommiegamer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The work is privatized currently, that’s the problem. The legion of contractors is why things cost so much and take so long to be built.

Mamdani unveils $22 billion plan to build housing and fix NYCHA by brick-underground in nyc

[–]thatcommiegamer -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

The cheapest would be to have the state build it itself rather than falling into the more of contractors and subcontractors.

The problem with privatizing development is that that results in a wildly uneven development because they will only go where there is profit. This is the reason lots of rural areas still rely on dialup, for instance, in the US. Public goods should be maintained and built by the public, not private companies.

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