a friend of mine’s sister works for the company that localizes FGO and he said one of her jobs is to browse 4chan for a couple of hours a day and deliver reports on player feedback
player feedback being “what they’re talking about in FGO general on /vg/” and “what memes are popular today”
so when you post about how horny astolfo makes you, know that theres an employee from the game’s loc team writing that down as part of her report
Night elf women in WoW should be redesigned and exclusively written by lesbians from now on, their raw potential is wasted on the gaze of insecure straight guys and on that dum bouncy idle animation
Show me a good lesbian writer and I’ll…
Wait, you don’t see the distinction between animation and writing. You probably can’t even comprehend this post.
sorry dude im not going to be lectured on good writing and reading comprehension by a my little pony role playing blog who proudly refuses to know what the word ‘redesign’ means
tbh i love how everything about the legion in fallout: new vegas represents the adoration of a nonexistent(/irrelevant) history within and outside the discipline of the classics, chiefly by faux-well-read white men
“caesar” has cobbled his culture together out of what a pseudo-educated, self-professed historian imagines rome to be: it disowns the power that real roman women wielded, instead favoring a simplified version where women have no power in any sphere; it uses roman slavery as an excuse for its own very un-ancient version; it mixes clerical and classical latin pronunciation, sometimes in the same sentence, butchering words under the guise of enforcing the revival of a sad, half-remembered lingua franca
i don’t think i expected a videogame to address the co-opting of the classics, of all things, by fascism (after a fashion). certainly not in a day and age where we expect to see all sorts of delightful videogame(/movie/tv/whatever) factions dressed up with superficial roman aesthetics and ideals, almost all of these divorced from the history that created them (and created our culture’s oft-dangerous and -selective obsession with them)
and it’s particularly unsettling, if brilliant, that all this goes over the heads of so many gamers
